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The weekly examiner., 1901-03-16
A cta.cs to Own Part of the Eartn.

The management of Ben Mohr, : the elegant building site on the top of Town Plot, have about thirty lots left, of the several hundred originally possessed, which they are anxious to dispose of as soon as possible in order to be able to devote more attention to their tracts of land through the Naugatuck valley. And these lots will be sold at sacrifice during the next few days. Now is the tune to procure a site for a future home, remembering that money invested in advancing real estate pays many fold the interest drawn from investments in mortgages, bonds or funds laid away in a savings bank.
The weekly examiner., 1901-03-16
The Waterbury Grocery Co.

The fact that the Waterbury Grocery companyssis in the hands of a trustee in United States. bankruptcy, might lead many people enormously to infer that such EresultSWas due to the insolvency of the company, or to suppose that such an unfortunate condition of affairs had arisen from the inability of the Water bury public to support an establishment of so high and choice a grade as this company was admitted to be.
 Neither of these differences are true as accounting sIfor the ' present unhappy condition of it's affairs THE EXAMINER man is informed that this corporation has always had an extensive and re- muneratiye patronage. TEIt has made money, not lost money. Lack of pat ronage from ssthe Waterbury public was not and is not the cause of it's present embarrassment One only has to stop and reflect moment on the fact that that this city is also able to support successfully such high grade grocery stores. as the Hewitt Go, White 6 Sim mons, sIadd's, etc., in order to see that the trouble with the Waterbury Grocery
The weekly examiner., 1901-03-16
The Big Pig.

After all Waterbury still retains, as Mayor Kilduf once elassically remarked in reference to the old water tank, ssmany of the characteristics of a jay town. "A It looks as if it would take sew eral generations yet, before this charac- terization will become either false hood or libel It certainly is true now and the mayor hit the nail straight on the head.
 The latest ..jay "sspiece of evidence, and q pnblie nuisance as wei, is the permission given by the city fathers to turn the main business thoroug ghfare of the city, Exchange Place, into piggery and to license one of it's most prominent stores for a pig sty for mammoth porker, whose filth and manure and stench is in full proportion to his enor- nous size. This pig is on exhibition at the store lately occupied by Cutler as a harness dealer No one within two blocks need to be told where the mann moth pig is to be seen. He has only literally to .sfollow his nose.' The great hog perfumes the whole center. This licensed quintessence of manure and swill is a public outrage. It illus trates the way we do business in this city under our present officials. The board of health ran off three or four miles to Dr...Ward's a few years since to abolish his piggery. Today this board permits pig nuisance thousand times more menacing to public health right in the heart of the business portion of the city. Will the board of health investi- gate and abate this horrible and beastly pig nuisance There was no excuse for it in the beginning and the city officials who at the outset licensed or allowed it ou ght, every one of them, to be prose cuted in the police court and fined smartly. The entire public has been for days up in arms about it and full of justifable complaint. We fine man if in ankhour or two he has not hiss side walk clear of snow, but we let our best stores in ssthe center of the city be dedi- cated to maintaining dirty pigs and to become presidential by their food and offal yet call no one to Eaccount Great city
The weekly examiner., 1901-03-16
The Board of Public Safety.

About as indolent and incompetent a set of men as could be collected for pub- lie service of any and every kind is the present board of public safety in this city. Its indolence in it's public work is almost criminal, it's discussions are
 puerile, ignorant, and bigoted, and it's average intelligence is on the minus
 side of zero. At the time of the ap- pointment of it's members it was said that the mayor selected from the city
 directory twenty five of the most noted
 numbskulls to be hit upon, and that, out of this carefully selected lot of twenty five, his honor selected a. still choice lot of twelve of the most deuce, and that of these twelve so selected he finally picked out for appointment to the pres ent board the five whose talents reached zero or below it. These men meet in the city hall, go to sleep (as a journal pictured them last Sunday and, on waking, they look around each other,
 nlutter ssMr. Mayor, ; and go to sleep again. In their sessions, if his honor. happens to be absent, they are power
 less to transact the most trivial public
 routine business, and they baw1 after.
 s'the mayor as a one year child bawls
 after it's mamma when she has gone down town after paregoric and beef
 steak. One, Kleinecke, a member, did
 club what intelligence he had into a
 somewhat compact shape the other night
 as to suggest to THE EXAMINER man as
 the reason why he for one was willing
 to do nothing, go to sleep with his col leagues, and join in the ery-as kittens cry after the old cat who has left them to sleep-after the mayor, that ''he must stand by his party" What party, the people are asking, do these mutton heads stand by, in their senseless delay in appointing our needed policeman, un- til they get permission or the proper nod from his honor? Are they an inde- pendent, self-acting board, acting upon their own judgment for the best inter ests of the city, or are they Punch and
 Judy puppets, who appear awake and alive only when the mayor pulls the in visible wires?
The weekly examiner., 1901-03-16
A Money-savIng Opportunity.

Now that it is getting towards spring time and E. G. Kildnf & Go. are anx- ious to get rid of their winter stock, clothing that could not be bought three weeks ago for $20 a suit can now be secured for $10. It's the chance of a lifetime to lay in a stock of undercloth- ing for next fall. Styles in this line never change and money invested this way is always well invested. Have you yet tried the Monarch shirt and pro claimed it the best in the market :
The weekly examiner., 1901-03-16
w A TER B u R Y.
The Colonial Trust Company.

Tuesday the Colonial Trust company broke ground, at the corner of Leaven- worth and West Main streets, for their new banking house, which, it is said, will be a beauty. This is the choice lot which this company bought about a year since for $25, 5,0O0 of the Martha Kendrick estate, as part of her fine home lot-the old family residence. Now that beginning has been made, it is not unlikely that in the not remote future all of this old and valuable home lot of the late Miss Kendrick will, by demands and necessities of business, find its way into the real estate market
 The only feature of this lot upon it's West Main street front which is at all an objection-and that is easily reme- died-is that it's grade is lower than that of the properties of the east or west of it. We hope, therefore, that in their building she Colonial Trust company will not make the mistake of placing it upon an underpining which is too low. The Green has been raised in the past thirty years fully six feet in it's level. The city has again and again filled up West Main street on the south side aided of late years by the material thrown out by the Traction company until even the sidewalk in front of these premises has been thus made lower at this point than in the center of the street. When, in 1870, the present St. John s church was built, as THE EXAM INER man well remembers, it was placed so high upon it's then foundations that the public regarded it as a grave error and it was subject of universal lament. But now, owing to the filing in by the city of the Green and the street as alluded to, it's present position is de cidedly low and squatty,. and the fine proportions of the church would be. in finitely improved, If St. Johns founda- tionss were at least six or seven, feet higher than at present. If the Colonial Trustl company, with their new and handsome $6O. 900 structure, do not wish to depreciate heavily the value of their building in the next ten or twenty years they will avoid the mistake of setting it too low upon it's foundations.
The weekly examiner., 1901-03-16

Are YAu About to Furnish a Home.
 The Boston Furniture company is this week offering special bargains in cham Der, parlor and dining room sets. Easter is approaching and with it will be the numerous marriages which always fol- low Lent. It will be to the advantage keeping to inspect the go goods D at this store and ascertain the return they can receive for their money
The weekly examiner., 1901-03-16
School Contracts.

The city is to be congratulated that the heating contract for the new Ashley school was given to M. J. Daly, this city, and of the West Side Hill to the Barlow Bros. Go. Such firms as the above as well as that of TOucey 6 Co., are A. l., and cannot be excelled by outsiders. The public is, too, to be con- cases, the board for once was indepen- dent and acted upon it's own judgment, without regard to the objections of Architect Jackson or his favor towards certain outside firms and people. Though Jackson has made his money in his bus mess from the Waterbury public, he is forever and eternally favoring contract ors from abroad to the injury of those at home. He allowed the Smead system of heating to be put into the Clay street and Bank street schools, at great ex- pense to taxpayers, which is now con demned by the board of health, must be torn out in both schools, go to the rub bish heap, and be replaced by new heat service He allowed the Sanborn
 
 system of Boston in the new Driggs school, and in cold weather, it can bare ly heat eight out of fourteen rooms, and because of it's inefficiency school there has this winter been repeatedly dis missed. In our magnificent High school building, of immense cost, he advocated and permitted a system which, running at the high pressure of thirty pounds in the boilers, fails to heat at all four large rooms and he knows it. He won't and he can't deny any of these cases and in each one he was the architect in full control.
 No wonder, with such an experience, such men as Judge CoweH, Dr. Hayes, Kilmartin, Mr. Mcdonald and MT. Chapman, made a break for something different from what Jackson would dic- tate. No system could work worse or more expensive1y than have these sys- tems which under his authority have been heretofore adopted, and any sys- tenn would probably work to better sat- isfaetion than the least objectionable one of his selection.
The weekly examiner., 1901-03-16
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Duncan. Adds Another speciaity.

Duncan Adds Another Speciality.
 Duncan, the druggist, has secured the local agency for the Hess famous grease paints for theatrical people, and carries one of the best lines in the state. This article is a newproduct and guaran- teed not to become rancid, which is the trouble found with most paints. Pre- scriptions are carefully compounded of pure drugs and always by experienced registered clerks.
The weekly examiner., 1901-03-16
A Wanamaker Brancl,.

John Wanamaker, he of national fame as the leading department store mag nate of the United States, has opened a sample store at 276 South Main street in this city, with G. w. Gray as manager, one of his most trusted and experienced employees. Samples of every thing in the big New York store are shown and will first fast express. So it will be needless in future for those accustomed to go to New York every two or three months to trade and to expend money for railroad fare, only to return all tired out from the journey.
The weekly examiner., 1901-03-16
company was not insolvency or lack of

company was not insolvency or lack of public patronage.
 The real difficulty was move on the part of certain interested parties in New York to change. in their own interests, the official management of the concern. Failing in this, they preferred to with draw their capital which represented a part of it's stock and so wind up it's affairs. The bankruptcy proceedings were the only means to legally effect such results.
 HE EXAMINER man, however, is glad to announce that there is at present every probability that, in the course of week or two, the Waterbury Grocery company will reopen, at the same stand and with the same variety of high grade goods as before, and the same manage ment of it's former head, MT. Woodruff AS a business institution of the city, we feel that our citizens will welcome it's reopening, and appreciate and sustain it generously.
 Dr. O. Art Ward, president of Mad River Sanitatum, Waterbury, Conn.,, cures cases of gall stones by painless method-the Spatient passing the stones without pain-and prevents their forma- tion. Treatment at the sanitarum or by mail. Consultation free.
The weekly examiner., 1901-03-16
Boxing Exhibition.


 The boxing contest to be held at the Auditorium, Thursday evening next, under the auspices of the National Ath letic club, managed by Moe" Harris, it's matchmaker, is promised to be the best exhibition of the kind ever given in New England. Every precaution against any hitch in the program is said to have been taken, and the management would show it's good faith in the announce ment that if the program isn't carried out as advertised, the money will be re- turned to all who so desire it. E
 Four bouts on the program, and all the contestants are said to have clean records and are known all over the sporting circles. The ststar" event will be between Charlie McKeever and Joe WoIcott, both of whom have reputa- tions on two continents.
 Dr. c. Art Ward, president of Mad River Sanitarium, Waterbury, Conn.,, treats diseased bones, necrosis and carries, shin-bone, ulcers, tumours and cancers, without the use of the knife Treatment at the sanitarium or by mail. Cnosul- tation free.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-03-19

zone of the most desirable posts at
Windsor CASTLE" says correspondent
of the Chicago Record, sis that of the
kings INNER who in ancient times
decorated books and manuscripts with
initial letters and who now prepares
the parchment commissions when his
majesty is pleased to confer knight
hood or some other honor upon one of
his subjects The man who now fills
the post has extraordinary skill with
the pen and brush, and his diplomas
and certificates were greatly admired
for their exquisite taste and skillful
execution. He receives a salary of
$500 a year. The clockmaker at
Windsor castle receives the same COM
pensation, and it is his business to keep
all the timepieces In repair. The his
Photographer, who is supposed to keep
q record of events, holds hereditary
office, with a salary Of $4,000 a year.
The master of music receives $1,000
and arranges concerts for his majesty's
diversion. The surveyor of pictures is
paid $1,000, the librarian receives So
800, the examiner of plays $1,000, the
keeper of the swans is paid $500, and
the bargemaster, who looks after the
boats used by the royal family at
Windsor, has a similar compensation"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-03-19
PecuIiarities of Crime.

One of the strangest peculiarities Of
human nature is it's inclination to
initiate the misdeeds Of others. Crime
is epidemical A particularly dreadful
murder, the details of which are set
forth In all the newspapers, often has
the effect of inducing similar crimes.
One of the reasons, and probably the
chief reason, why public executions
were abolished in England, was that
instead Of acting as deterrent the
execution had the contrary effect Of
melting to murder.
In 1886 a woman of Geneva, named
Lombardi, killed her four children.
She admitted that she had been read
ing of a woman who killed her hus-
band, and the very circumstantial ac-
count had made her wish to initiate the
crime, but as her husband was dead
she killed the children. This is only
one instance out of hundreds which
have come to our notice.
The infectious nature of self murder
receives a striking testimony in the
following incident: DR.. Oppenheim of
Hamburg had to examine the body of a
man who had cut his throat and had
died after some days Of suffering. The
medico told his assistant that death
would have been immediate If the man
had made the cut in a way which he
illustrated, and he was startled two
days later to learn that his assistant
had attempted to commit suicide by
decorating himself in that very manner.
The man admitted that he had never
thought of suicide until the day of the
examination and the doctors remark
London Globe.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-03-19
Verdi and the Critics.

No outsiders, not even members OF
the press, were allowed to be present
at rehearsals of Verdi's operas. "a
production of a work Of mine," said
Verdi, lis an affair between that work
and the public. l do not write for the
press, but for the public, who will sup
port me If my work is good or who will
execute me if it is not. do not care
for aught else" M. de Nevers thus de-
scribes Verdi's attitude at dress re-
hearsaI of "Otello" in Paris, when the
press was present against his wishes:
1.-THE critics were all placed in the
eorbeille of the amphitheater, some ten
rows of stalls having been cleared
away to make room for table and
chairs for Verdi, Boito and the direct
ors. NM Sardou, Meilhac, Halevy,
Obin, the director of fine arts, and
two or three dignitaries and officials Of
the Opera sat behind in the remaining
rows of stalls. Among the critics were
NM. Reyer, Bruneau, Joncieres, Bel
laigue, Pessard Corneau and Sarcey.
The foreign press was represented by
NJ. de Blowitz and myself, and as Yer
li came in all stood up, with hats off,
and cheered the wonderful man. The
orchestra joined, of course, in the ova-
ton, and it was to the musicians that
the master went, and, bowling his ven
cradle head very low, he thanked them
for the kind demonstration and shook
hands with the nearest, but never once
did he turn our way except for one mo-
ment, when he took us all in with a
side glance-an ugly one-and then for
the rest Of the evening, some five hours,
Ignored our presence completely"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-03-19
Something which He Learned.

A soft answer has not only the effect
of turning away wrath. 1t may serve to
avenge an injury. Years ago the Rev.
J. II. Jones was making visit in Bos-
ton and attended a biweekly confer
ence at Divinity hall. Just at that
time he was out of sorts with the east,
and his address reflected an acrid
mood. Especially did he insist that
''They didn't know everything down in JUDGE
or even in Cambridge"
When he sat down, there was mo-
mentary hush, and then the late Dean
Everett slowly rose. He began in his
usual soft and hesitating tone, ''There
are doubtless a great many things
which Mr.. Jones knows and we do not
know, but there are also a few things
which we know and he does not"
Then followed pause, during which
each man held his breath, for the dean
was known to carry on his lips dag
ger which sometimes found it's unerr-
ing way to the hearts of men and
things, but after due pause he contin-
ued gently:
"And chief among them is how glad
we always are to see him. youths
Companion.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-03-19
selecting cigar. By Color.

One of the most absurd fads Of the
Cigar trade is that of color in reference
to havanas. The idea prevails that color
is indicative of strength. 1t is no such
thing. A light or medium colored cigar
is not necessarily mild or medium in
favor, for the simple reason that the
color refers to the outside wrapper only,
which in itself is of very thin substance,
and in quantity is Of very small proper
ton to the other materials that make
up the cigar. AS matter of fact, the
filters and bunch wrappers will deter
mine the body or strength of the cigar.
The actual strength or otherwise of the
inner body of the cigar-viz, filters and
bunch wrappers-is too often. an un-
known quantity. 1t is quite true that
statement may be made that these
parts are so-and- so or mixture Of this
and that and give certain ash, ETC.,
but this explains nothing. Not only are
there various grades of the same tobacco
in relation to quality, but there are also
a variety of grades that determine
strength. With the exception that GER
tain tobaccos have varying degrees of
body or otherwise, mild, medium or
full cigar is largely matter of chance.
London Grocer
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-03-19
Ancient varieties of Dogs.

The first demesticated mammal seems
to have been the dog. In the Swiss So
ciety of Natural History last year Pro-
fessor Studer read paper on ancient
European dogs. The Oldest variety was
the SO called peat dog. 1t belongs to the
neolithic period. There were four other
varieties known in the bronze period
and in that of the lake dwellings Di-
rect descendants of these are the Ger
man hunting hounds, the shepherd dog
and the poodle.
In America there is little evidence
that any dog was trained for hunting.
In the far north the Eskimo dog was a
beast of draft, the only one known to
the red race. The dogs of Mexico and
Central America seem to have been
principally raised for food or ceremonial
sacrifices. In Peru there were several
varieties under domestication, two of
which have been clearly distinguished.
1t is noteworthy that although in
many American tribes the dog was
sacred or mythical animal in the le-
gends he was not regarded with affec-
ton, but with dislike and aversion, a
fact strongly brought out by Won Tschu-
DID. G.. Brinton in Science.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-03-19

his words tremb1ed so on the verge OF
weeping that Adriana looked at him
for an instant and stammered in a
broken voice:
"You do not any longer love mel''
Enrico Gained himself as if by magic.
He regained control of himself, kneeled
again at her feet and said with caress-
ing voice:
"And why do you say do not love
you any more?"
At this seeming show of hypocrisy
Adriana felt her heart filed with dis
dain at thought of her lost calmness
and love and hapT less. She sprang up
and drew away finn him as from an
impure object, looked at him with eyes
full of tears, exclaiming, in a voice
trembling with despair:
Perhaps another woman than me-
perhaps woman whom you call your
adored Amelia her voice broke
into Sob waited for you today in
the garden at O'Clock under the third
poplar to the leftl"
A ripping laugh, shrill and irresisti-
BILE, interrupted Adriana's words. En-
rico laughed like a Inadman. He en-
braced her in spite of herself, drew her
into his study, covering her with kisses
and, pointing to the scattered pages still
lying on his writing desk, said:
''But do you not see? Do you not see
that this note belongs to story that
your Enrico is writing?"
Adriana looked at him with amaze
ment. Her eyes filed with joy.
elbow have suffered r. she said in a
trembling voice, in which a few sobs
still remained, then sank exhausted on
the sofa, covered with Enrieo's kisses
and caresses. From the Italian For
Short Stories.