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Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-01

He afterwards went to the Metropoh- tan NJ. E. church, where his wife be- ,ongad.
 Hayes was Methodist. He was brought up Presbyterian, but his wife was pronounced in her belief, and with her he attended Foundry M. E. church. do not think he was a member of that denomination, but he always went to services there with Mrs. Hayes. !
 Garfield was a member of the Dis ciples' church, having during the ear- fer days of his life occupied the pull pit of that denoInina tion as a preach CT on numerous occasions. ;
 "Arthur was an Episcopalian, and attended St. Johns. church, corner Sixteenth and First streets.
 ''Cleveland was 3 Presbyterian, and during his entire residence in this city was an attendant at the First Presbyterian church. He did not par take of the Lord s Supper, but his wife did. Perhaps you have heard of the man with kodak, who stationed himself in the gallery, then, watching his chance. pushed the button just S to her lips. The people in the gallery were surprised at the perforpance, but they did not know whetlier he had any right to use the instrument there, and so did notIing. You may be sure he made his way out of the building>as soon as the picture had been secured.
 Benjamin Harrison was a Presby- terian, and is an elder in church in Indianapolis.
 'William Mckinley is a Methodist, and goes to church with his wife every Sunday morning. He has al- ways been a good church man, and is to-day. He attended Foundry church when he was a member of congress. Now he attends the Metro po,itan M. F. church, although he partly promised the Foundry church people that he would attend there. After his inauguration he received a call from Bishop Newman. who urged him to attend the Metropolitan church, of which church the bishop had been pastor when Grant attend ed there. The Metropolitan people invoked the influence of Bishop New man, and he succeeded in persuading the president to attend there. This has caused 8 rather peculiar coldness between the two churches, which will probably wear away in time.
 President Lincoln used to walk down Pennsylvania avenue and along New York avenue with his wife and children to the Presbyterian church, which is only about three blocks away from the white house. The entire fam 1 fly went together. Although those !! were war times, MT. Lincoln was not afraid to walk to church. Of course he was carefully guarded, although he | proba bly did not realize that fact.
 President Arthur was a widower. He used to walk alone and unattend- ad across La Fayette square, opposite the white house, to St. Johns Episco- pal church. He placed there a beau- i tiful memorial window in memory of his wife.
 From my observations of them, I think that all of our presidents have been God-fearing men. Our people have chosen good men as occupants of the white house."
 l SMITH n FPv
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-01
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
REFORMED BY SURGERY.
California Man Who Was SinEularly
 Affected by Blow and
 Operation.

Frank Ludwig Rickenberg, who by blow from the butt of rife neal the base of the skull was made I burglar, and who was operated upol by corps of physicians at the Ala, ueda county infirn2ary, will recover and will be ar honest man again. saya an Oakland (Cal.) special to the New York World.
 He says himself he will be a mora, man again, and Dr. Clark, chiei SUI. geon at the hospital, is inclined td take the same view. For the first time since he was hurt, nine years ago, Rickenberg was able to give tha story of his life to-day.
 "My first experience as a soldier was in an Indian war on the Pine Ridge reservation in 1891. I was in the Seventh cavalry and was in every little skirmish. It was while there, in a hand-to-hand encounter with savage, that 1 sustained the fracture of the skull. remember struggling with one Indian for the possession O. 6 gun. when another came up from behind and with rifle butt dealt me 8 blow that laid me out. For nine months l was paralyzed, and was then discharged from the service.
 'I have no recollection of wha1 happened liter I was struck. but my papers tell me that in April. 1898. reenlisted at Leavenworth, Kan.,S San6 was made a quartermaster's sergeant, land was afterward made a sergeant by act of congress. In May. 1898, ] went to Cuba, and was in the battles of San Juan and Fl Laney.
 When l came back to California they tell me l committed burglary but I knew absolutely nothing abont it until the surgeon here operated on me.''
 ''We read of such cases.'' said Dr Frank Sure. "but seldom is one brought to surgeons personal no. tice. Here we have man with 8 splendid military record, who, after years of suffering with fracture or the skull suddenly becomes vicious common thief and comes near going to the penitentiary. Now he is or the road to recovery and complete reformation.'
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-01
HUMOR IN THE AMBULANCE.
Doctors Story of the Ride of a Man nhds Woman with Broken
 Legs.

"NEsQ was an ambulance sur- geon," shAtsffe young family physi- elan to New York Sun reporter. 1T used to start like a fire horse at the sound of the call. was just as much interested in the work at the end of two years as I was the day I began, It was the excitement of the life that made me so fond of it. I had all sorts of experiences at all sorts of hours. There was an element of danger in tt too, but that only added to the charm.
 One night I had a call from the West side in the neigh hborhood of Chelsea square. It was for a drunken man who fell down and broke his leg. On the way back to the hospital with him l picked up a drunken wom- an to whom a similar accident had happened. There was nothing to do but put her in the ambulance along with the man. .,s- ..
 After that the ride across town was exciting enough for a cowboy. At first the patients sympathized with each other. Then they began to cry in chorus. At Broadway they fell to kissing each other. At Third avenue they were fighting like pair of Kilkenny cats, and had my hands full in keeping them apart The woman had scratched the mans face dreadfully and he had nearly closed her eye with a punch. When we struck the asphalt in Twenty-sixth street they were singing: We have all been there before, many time.' and such singing! The uproar at tracted a crowd who evidently thought I had an ambulance full of lunatics. When we reached the gate they swore eternal friendship and at the office they parted in tears.'
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-01

Mrs. Chas. Freitoy, Moosup. Conn.,. says: II have taken two bot ties of Burdock Blood Bitters and am feeling better than I ever did in my life. For many years suffered with severe sick headaches and general debility. Lost all ambition and went about my duties in an aimless manner. Had a tired, worn out feeling all the time, but before I had taken half bottle of B. B. B., felt relieved and am now. feeling like a new woman.'
 Mrs. A: w.. Ham, Cambridge. Me, says: II was in poor health for. long time. was unable to be around or attend to my work, was troubled with constipation. neural gia and poor appetite, in fact, every trouble that attends a rundown condition of the system, and have taken two bottles of BuTdock Blood Bitters and the Pills The first dose set the machinery of life to work, and can say never took any medicine that gave such immediate relief and set 11ie gaining, for which l am truly thankful.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-01
FATHER OF THE SKYSCRAPER.
DesiEne1 0f the Modern Steel Struc- ture-The Latter's End Still
 Unknown.

Where land is so valuable that every square inch represents a dollar or more, business blocks must go into the air instead of spreading over the ground. By the old methods of build ing it would be hard to carry struc- ture higher than five or six stories. unless the walls were made as thick as fortress. So a man with an imag ination struck out new method, en- bodying in steel an idea that is working a revolution in the business centerS of cities.
 Like other wonderful development of recent years, the sky-scraper has become so common that to some it may seem commonplace, says the Youths Companion. Yet George A. Fuller, the designer of it, was only 49 years old when he died in Chicago the other day. Indeed, it is only a few years, since the improvement. in ele- yators made it possible to rent offices ten or more stories above the street; and almost simultaneous was the de- sline in the price of structural steel to a point which enabled builders everywhere to gain the advantages of fered by the steel-frame construction.
 Chief of these is the fact that a sky scraper may be carried to almost any altitude, like the St. Paul building in New York, which ts 26 stories high, and rises more than 300 feet above the street level. Such a building yields an enormous rental. There are no mass i've walls to reduce the rental space. Tenants willingly pay high rates for the light and airy offices. The struc- rure shelters as many persons as a whole township, and ii provides facil- ities and conyeniences few towns could afford.
 Whether the steel skeletons will ul- timately corrode and crumble, time will tell. At present we know the sky scrapers are practically fre-proof, and seem beyond the power of any recog- nized agency of destruction. If it shall prove that the designer of them did not build for the twenty-frst century. it must at least be admitted that he served his own generation we'll
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-01

French infdel- Of slavery he said: When I think of human slavery in this country and think that God is just I tremble for my country His two daughters were educated in a Catholic convent in France.
 James Madison. was an Episcopal ian, although educated at Princeton, the great Presbyterian stronghold.
 Monroe was also an Episcopalian.
 John Quincy Adams was a Unitari- an, although he attended the Second Presbyterian church during the time of his stay in Washington.
 '!Jac acllson was a Scotch Presbyterian When he came to. Washington he at tended the Second Presbyteria n church, but got mad because Campbell the minister, objected to Mrs. Eaton, and left the congregation. Jackson took up the cause of the wife of his old friend, Gen. Ea;ton,- and defended her who in former days had had pc. culiar stories circulated detrimental to her good name.
 Martin Van Buren. who was from the Dutch Reformed church. while here attended an Episcopalian congre. 1tlOl. DSCduSc llSIe W dS lO ton of the former sect in the city
 William Henry Harrison was a Presbyterian, though during his short life in Washington he was never identi- fled with any church.
 Tyler was Virginia Episcopahan
 ''Polk was a. Presbyterian and at. tended the First Presby tsrian church During communion he used to sit in the back part of the church, while his wife, nearer the front ,-partook of the Lords Supper.
 Taylor appeared to lean rather to the Episcopal church. He was an army man. and not much given to church at- tendance.
 Fillmore was pronounced Unitari- an and regularly attended a Unitarian n church here.
 "Pierce went +o the First Presbyteri-
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-01

SnuQe lower.
 ''Well,' said Miss Read, pleasantly. and with due regard for the pro. prietieS. II am here now, and so you needn't wait any longer. Thank you very much for your kindness
 "Oh, don't mention it, please,'' said the burglar; II guess I will go, them In order to gain the door he had to pass close to the young woman, and as he stepped into the full glare of the light in the hall she caught her first full sight of his face. He was the toughest-looking brute I ever saw in ward. His countenance was such that she screamed at sight of it, and the burglar went down the stairs by leap. and bounds as the owner and tenants of the fve-story building dashed out into the railways after him. He gained the street, two flights below, before he was intercepted, and the last they saw of him he was sprinting up Amsterdam avenue.
 Not a thing in the house was touched, and the doors and windows were all in good order, showing that the intruder had used a skeleton kew The Oliver babies slept all through the turmoil. There was a burglary in the house a few days ago, when consider able property was stolen. The story of Miss Reads caller was reported to the police, though, she can give no detailed description Of the visitor
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-01
QUEER FIRE STORY
Flames Extinguished with Fine ' Old California Claret.
When the Water Gave Out a Re. eourceful Winery Owner Attached the Hose to Great vats of
 Rare ZlnfandeL.

"A great fire was put out with wine in southern California recently. It hap pened that the water had given out, but there was plenty of the fluid usually held in higher esteem. Strange to say, the wine proved very effective fire ex- tinguisher.
 This incident is described in an inter- <sting article in the Scientific Ameri- cah.
 The fire recently occurred near the town of Wrights, in the Santa Cruz mountains, south of San Francisco. Here the fire was started. as in many instances, by an irresponsible rancher who was burning brush. The wind sprang up suddenly and swept the flames into the forest, and in very short time a fierce wall of flame was rushing up the west slopes of the coast range, carrying destruction before it. The mountains were covered with fine growth of old oaks. mazanits and mandrones-landma in the country which fell like straw before the de- stroyer. The walls of flame swept to the summit and descended into the canyons, following these rivers of yer dure in and out, rushing on in an ever increasing volume.
 ! In the pathway of the fire were the ranch and Mare Vista winery of E. E.. Meyer, one of the largest winemaking tablishments and vineyards in Santa Clara county. To protect it and the homes in the vicinity the people of the surrounding country assembled en masse, organized themselves into an ef- fcient body of fire fighters and began . campaign in which striking acts of valor were performed. It was impos- sible to stay the flames, and as they went rushng down the canyon toward the winery destruction of the valuable property seemed inevitable.
 : Trees in advance were cut down, ,ditches of earth dug, and every ex-
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-01
A POLITE BURGLAR,
Entertained by a Young Lady al
 the House of Her Friends.
The Visit Was Brief, But Not So Very Unpleasant While 1t Lasted Gentleman of the Jimmy
 Makes Graceful Exit.

Makes Graceful Exit.
 Entertaining burglar unawares If the unusual experience of Miss Mahala Read, young English student, living at 412 West One Hundred and Fifteenth street, on Cathedral Heights, New York. The brief visit was pleasant to both sides while it lasted, and ter minated in manner fairly satisfac' tory to both persons. for Miss Reac didn't get hurt and the burglar got away. Miss Read recently became member of the household of Owen Oliver, a newspaper man of Chicago now representing the Times-Heraid ol that city as it's eastern correspondent, The occupants of the fiat, besides Miss Read, are MT. and Mrs. Oliver, and their little boys, Owen, Jr., and Frederic, six and five years old, respectively. Mrs Oliver had gone to the theater with neighbor, and had arranged with the latter's colored maid to come in from time to time during the evening anc see that no harm came to the little boys, who had been put to sleep ir their different rooms. Miss Read wa: out, and NIT. Oliver was at his office Miss Read came home at about nine o'clock and saw the burglar sitting 1T the parlor in the big easy chair.
 She was surprised only because he wore his hat, for there are number of Columbia students in the building and they frequently visit the Oliver apartment. She has not yet made the acquaintance of all these callers, so as she passed into her own room she said. '.GooG evening" to which the burgla politely responded, and she remembers now that his voice was soft and his ac cent gentle.
 Are you locking out for the babies?' she inquired, and he replied: 'Oh, yes but they're all right. They haven't made bit of trouble.' She laid off her wraps in her room and stepped out again into the parlor.
 What time did Mrs. Oliver gc away?" she asked.
 Really, I couldn't tell you," the bur. glar replieds having risen to his feet iZ
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-01
Corner in Polar Dogs.

Aceording to Sir Clements Markham, president of the Royal Geographical al society, Americans are responsible for
 forming such a successful cofner in polar dogs that the pending British and other arctic expeditions are confronted
 with difficulty nearly as great as the ice fields, It appears that E. B. Bald twin, the Aaerican explorer, has bought ID such f large supply of dogs that ffeir price haA risen from SIS to S3o and tl ' are hard to secure even at that
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-01
FLORIDA AND ATLANTA FAST
 MAIL"
By the Seaboard Air Line Railway, 'Flm ida and West India Short Line" to the Winter Resorts of the South-The Only Line Operating Daily
 Limited Trains
 
to Florida.

The 'Florida and Atlanta Fast Air Line railways splendidly equipped trains, leaves New York daily at l2:1O q. m., 23rd street station, Pennsylvania railroad. with Pullman drawing room sleeping car and day Columbia, Savannah. Jacksonville. where connections are made for St Augustine, Tampa and all Florida points. Connections are also made at Hamlet. N. C., with Pullman drawing room sleeping car to Atlanta, Ga, with connections at Atlanta for New Or leans and Mexico and Texas and Pacific coast points. This train connects at Washing ton with train leaving Boston 700 D. m. Leaves Philadelphia 3:50 a. m. Baltimore 6:22 q. m.; Washington S:35 .. m.. Richmond 12:33 p. IT,, arriving Southern Pines 6:o1 P. m., Columbia 11:oO a. m.. Savannah 2:50 d. m., Jack sonville 80 a. m.. St Augustine Il 10 a. m., Tampa 5:30 D. ID. Through Pullman drawing room sleeper New York to Jacksonville. Through vesti- buled passenger coaches and perfect service.
 For information call on or write to all, Pennsylvania railroad offices, or Seaboard Air Line railway representa- tives at BOG Washington, street, Bos- ton. Mass; 1906 and s371 Broadway. New York: 30 South Third street. Phil adelphia: POT East German street. Bal timore; 1434 New York avenue, Wash ington, or to R. B. L. Bunch. general passenger agent. Portsmouth. Va.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-01
A LUCKY TRAIN BOY.
He Is the Only One in Alaska and Hai Chance to Become q Mil-
 lfonaire.

There is only one railroad to Alaska the White Pass and Yukon railroad and on that railroad there is trair called the klondike limited. Isn't tn. sound of that name enough to con jurt up visions of red-shirted miners bear ing huge stacks of gold; picturesque big bearded men coming home after amassing fortunes, which they ars eager, to spend? On this train ther. is train-boy, the only one in Alaska and he is a favored mortal. Like his brethren elsewhere, he deals in cigars peanuts, fruit, candy, books, maga. zines and papers, and he also sells shirts and collars and bright red, neck ties. Being an autocrat as well as 2 monopoList, the prices this train-boy charges for his wares are so high that he will soon be ranked with the mil. ionaires, unless he has competition pretty soon. Fifty cents each for ci. gars that cost him two cents each. and SEQ for q '.boiled" shirt, will give an idea of his profits. Nearly all the miners have recently been poor men and they have very little idea of the true value of money, therefore they indulge in the most reckless expendi lures. That is the reason why some ei them have to go back to the mines after g few months of dissipation. and re. sume their hard work. Meanwhile this lucky train-boy is actually making a fortune out of their ignorance and gen. erositY combined. @
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-01
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THROWING WINE ON THE FLAMES. pedient known to fire fighting of to- day was tried; but so fierce were the flames that they seemed to leap hun 'dreds of feet into the air, bounding in lurid sheets over the breaks, and in an incredibly short time swept down to the winery. as shown in the accompanying illustration. and sur- rounded it. Under ordinary circum- stances it would have seemed impos- 'sible to save the building, but the band of workers rallied under the in- telligent lead of the Meyers, and men were posted on the roof who poured streams of water upon every portion. Young MT. Meyer was held by ropes from window while he used the hose, upon the flames which were licking up the timbers at the base of the building, the heat being so in- tense that a stream had to be played upon his body.
 It was believed that the winery could be saved, when, without warn ing, the water gave out. Some large trees, which were dropping in every direction, had fallen upon the supply pipes, crushing them in and clogging the reservoir. This was an unexpect- ed catastrophe, but the resources of the fire fighters were by no means ex- ,hausted, though a desperate expedient was resorted to.
 The owner of the winery gave the order to attach the hose to the great ,yats of Zinfandel wine which were stored in the cellar, and man the wine pumps. This was promptly done.
 Four thousand gallons of this wine was thrown upon the flames in this way before the building was safe, probably one of the most remarkable and successful methods of fighting fire known. The method was some what, expensive, as the wine retailed at 50 cents per quart when bottled, and Ss.OOO in wine was used, yet it saved buildings and machinery worth many thousand dollars and demon strated that winery has protective against fire in its vats if the owner &as the courage to use it.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-01
Cotton Growing in okIah ma.

It is believed b,- many that the dry climate of southern Oklahoma and the sodthern district of the Indian Terri tory is going to make that section the home for the finest grades of cotton. rAn item from Dennison, Tex, says: During the season it has developed that the cotton grown in the Choctaw nation was of an extra good fiber, grad 1ng above the average and in great demand for export. A great deal has been shipped to Germany and England. Indian cotton hereafter will command 3hs top price"
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-01
Hi. Dinnsr.zook vvise..

A Delaware miner lost his dinner in a peculiar way. The articles which were to form the substantials of his monday meal were steaming merrily in the oven and on the stove. He had a stick of dynamite which was frozen, and to thaw it he laid it carefully on the range In q few. minutes the dinner and the stoFe were flying in all directions of the compass.