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Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-21
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA.
Soon to Pass from Control of Britfsh Military Authorities Into
 Naval Station.

Halifax will soon cease to be a military station and pass exclusively under the csntral of the British ad- mirAlty. Tkis statanant was lately saAde in oaasial ssArtars, says tho Ottawa (0at.) Gtispn.
 Halifax has been . military station since 174s, and it is new proposed ts mako the city one of tho greatest naval stations in the world Tn Adai- tion to tho mcn of the Acct thers will be reserve censas ting sf about 3,oG0 soldiers a2a marines, of which COG will be marine ar silleryMoa. This naval reserve force will retained here. Information states also that royal engineers will be retained and con- tinue under and in charge of the submarine department. The royal marine artillery belonging to the re- serve force will be required to man the forts, and will, when necessary, be assisted by sailors. It is the in- tention to station in Halifax a regi- ment known as the royal garrison regiment. This will be recruited from time-expired men, who will be required to serve four years before going on regular service. The gar rison will, of course, be under com mand of the admiralty, and the Brit ish admiral will replace the army general, who has hitherto command ed the station.
 It is also stated that the works at Esquimault will also be transferred wholly to the admiralty department.
 A military officer stated in conver- sation the other morning that he would not be surprised should an. nouncement be made that the impe- rial government had decids6 10 com struct and operate Q factory near Halifax for the manufacture of small arms and ammunition.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-21
Spider Time fn Maniin.

The Filipino boy does not know much about marbles, but when spider time arrives, just after the rainy sea. son begins, he knows that he is to have sport.
 There are two harmless spiders, green and yellow, that mature in June. They are as large as com. mon black spider. The Filipino boy catches these and keeps them in a box. A small rod like knitting needle is procured. A spider is placed on tho rod. sAnothsr boy bets cent that his spider will whip. The challenger produces his spider and places 1t on the rod with the other, Both spiders make rush for each other and a battle PhiladeL phia Press.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-21

General John c. Bates, who was in command of the department of south ern Luzon and who has just returned. from the Philippine states, in pub lished interview states that there is no immediate prospect of the Filipino war being ended. When Aguinaldo was captured 1t was taken for granted at Washington that the trouble was over and all that remained was to settle the terms of peace. General Bates, who is thoroughly conversant with the sit uation, is authority for the statement that when he left the Philippines ''it was not safe for an American to leave a garrison without an escort. Aguin- aldo's hold upon his people had been much weakened before he was cap tured, and the insurgents were look ing to other leaders for direction" ," This does not look as if the Filipinos had abandoned their liberty by keeping up a species of guerilla warfare simi- lar to that waged by the Boers. How much trouble they may be able to give this country may be judgedtfrom Gen. eral Bates's answer to the question as to how long will it be before United States troops can be recalled from the Philippines, Hereis his reply: Many years. I should not advise reducing the force below 50,000. There Is a very strong desire among the Filipinos for complete independence. They wish to have the hope of independence in the future. That is, think, the senti- ment of a large majority of the people; they wish at least that much
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-21
FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1901.

A writer who has given the subject considerable attention gives the fol lowing pointers about ship building: A considerable amount of time and ex- pense in ship building may often be saved by making as many parts as pos sible exactly similar. Carefully pre- pared templates of any special part can easily be made in the earlier stages or construction, which will allow these parts to be proceeded with concurrent ly with some of the earlier operations, instead of, as has often been the case, waiting until the construction had ad- vanced to a later stage and then mak- ing a template from the vessel herself. The former system-of making as many parts as possible to one template, and using templates obtained from the mould loft for various elements-has reached high pitch in the ship-build- ing yards on the Great Lakes in Ameri- ca. In many cases the whole of the shell plating, deck plating, transverse frames, the checks, keelsons, and in- ner- bottom framing which constitute the longitudinal framing for nearly three-fourths of the vessels length, are prepared from a few templates, so that the process Of building becomes one of bolting the various parts together. And if the work has been carefully perform ed no anxiety need be felt as to any parts not fitting properly.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-21
Ice shock for 1I,ccourhs.

Ice has been used with success in a Pennsylvania hospital as remedy for hiccoughs. It is applied in small pieces to tovarious parts of the body. In the case of one patient, on whom every means to atop the hiccoughs had bssn tried, as . last resort piece of ice was placed on his stomach when he was not expecting it. It ia the application of the simple, old-fashioned cure of "scaring the hiccoughs away" The man was 90 frightened that he, stopped the spasmodio coughing at once Ledger Monthly.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-21
A Wise Precaution.

The refusal to permit single five zmongoose to be landed in this coun. try seems absurd, but when we re. member Australia's experience with the English rabbit, the destruction caused in Massachusetts by the progeny of few moths which es. capped from scientists study, ou1 own plague of English sparrows, and the ravages of this same mongoose in Jamaica, where it was originally i'm. ported from it's home in India, ii must be acknowledged that no pre- cautions against the introduction c1 foreign pests can be too stringent Philadelphia Ledger.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-21
A saafaI success.

"What kin of time did you hab at de pahty de yuthuh evenin'?' asked Miss Miami Brown
 Well" answered Erastus Pinkley, Ito tell do troof, dah was so much blackberry an gin dat I can't recall de details. But jedgin' fum de hicks in my razor it mus O been purity good."-Washington Star.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-21
A Royal EntornoIor,.s

Among illustrious personages with queer fads must be numbered Prince Luitpold of Bavaria. His collection of beetles is the most extensive and complete in the world, and the prince is skilled entomologist, deeply versed in the habits of ants, bees, moths, flies, earwigs and the insect world generally.-N. Y. Sun.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-21
Due Notice Reap,rea.

eve had fire at our house, and the servant girl was nearly burned to death."
 Lighting the fire with kerosene, eh?''
 "Eo; it was defective fue. You see, yelled to the girl to get out as soon as we discovered the fire, but she said she wouldn't leave without two weeks notice" ."-Philadelphia Record.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-21
Rreakraars aha-non u.ev,rr.

A British physician asserts that the people who live longest are those who make breakfast the chief meal of the day. In the morning the stom- ach possesses more yigor than at any other time. Nowadays the people who are most subject to ills are those who gorge themselves at night, and tumble into bed soon after hearty meal
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-21
Season Has Opened.

"Well,' said Mrs. Wifies to the tramp, T suppose you want some thing to eat this morning?"
 No, kind lady," replied the way farer, T called to see if you had Q cast-off bicycle to give a deserving man" ."-Stray Stories.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-21
A Laap Roost.

Nellie was much interested in Aunt Mary's chandelier when she went to the city to stay with her, and when she went home she exclaimed:
 ''Oh, mother, I do wish we had Q place for our lamps to roost on like Aunt Mary has!'-Cincinnati En- quirer
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-21
Ne Reason Apparent.

Mrs. Fijit-Why doesn't Mr. Smith CTS come to our house any more?
 MT. Njits-I can't imagine; I'm sure always tried to entertain him by the smart things our baby does, too.-Ohio State Journal.
Holbrook argus., 1901-11-09
.IIand to Month"; Lixers.

One of the paradoxes of waste is tRat the persons most addicted to it are not men and women of independent means who can support themselves in spite of their extravagant expenditure, but the poorer classes There is hardly an able bodied laborer who might not become financially independent if he would but carefully husband his receipts and guard against the little leaks of need less expense. But unfortunately this is the one thing which the workingman finds it the hardest to do. There are a hundred laborers who are willing to work hard to every half dozen who are willing properly to husband their earn ings. Instead of boarding a small per centage of their receipts so as to pro- vide against sickness or want of em- ployment they eat and drink up their earnings as they go, and thus in the first financial crash. when mills and factories "shut down. and capitalists lock up their cash instead of using it in great enterprises, they are ruined. Men who thus live from hand to mouth," never keeping more than a days march ahead of actual want, are little better off than slaves.-Success.
Holbrook argus., 1901-11-09
Why the Boy Was Sure,

4 certain officious head nurse in the accident ward of a local hospital re- ceived an unexpected "call down" re gently. An unfortunate young man of the age of 10 had been practicing with q cartridge pistol several sizes too large for him, and the result was unpleasant. The doctors and nurses had cleansed and dressed the wound, and he was resting easily.
 Then the nurse, who had not been present and who hated to miss a trick, walked over to the little boys bed, around which the attendants were still standing. and asked him solicitously:
 Are you sure that the bullet isn't sticking there still?'
 "Sure''
 "What makes you think so?"
 "It was blank cartridge"
 There was a sharp decline in that nurses stock of pride, and the laugh ter failed of unanimity by one dissent ing voice.-New York Commercial Ad- vertiser-
Holbrook argus., 1901-11-09

A swarm of these insects stopped the advance of Russian army. They filled the air and blinded both officers and men. so that the former could give no orders. and even if they had done so the men could not have ODeyed them. The horses would not face them, and they lay on the ground many inches thick. Every man and horse in the army was incrustCd with the insects. and their clothing was literally eaten off the men as they stood helpless and blinded. The railways were useless, as the locuStS covered the rails, and the oil which exuded from their bodies when crushed prevented the driving wheels from biting" After they had settled whole regiments were detached for the purpose of trampling them to death. Trenches were dug across their path and filled with burning coalS, but the crowding swarms actually smother ed the fire. so vast were their numbers.
 Even in a little island like Cyprus in one year one-fifth of tue entire revenue was spent in destroying the locusts. and especially their eggs. When these eggs are laid. they are inclosed in a horny envelope called a pod" each pod containing 35 eggs. In seven months 1.330 tons of pods were de stroyed. Now. single ton of pods contains G0000.000 eggs, and yet, in spite of this almost incredible deStruc- ton. the locusts are still q dreadful plague and show little if any symptoms of dimiuutiOn in numbers
Holbrook argus., 1901-11-09
Pnid For Mailing

A lawyer who lives on Washington heights had occasion one night recently to go to Connecticut by the first train he could catch. When he reached the Grand Central station. he found that he had just missed the midnight train and that the next one did not leave until o'clock in the morning. It was not worth while for him to go home to wait. so he went to a nearby hotel. After sitting in the hall for few minutes one of the hotel en- ployees asked him if he was registered
 "Why, mo-" said the lawyer. ''I don't want room. I am waiting for a train that leaves at , a. m."
 "I'm sorry. sir" said the employee. "but you can't wait here. It is against the rules"
 The lawyer told the clerk at the desk who he was and explained his reason for being there. He said that he did not want to retire to a room. The clerk told him that it was contrary to the rules of the house for him to sit in the halls at that time unless he was guest There upon the lawyer registered, paid for a room and was permitted to sit in the hall. New York Sun.
Holbrook argus., 1901-11-09
The Act of Dying.

The popular idea that the act of dying is a painful process often causes a fear of death. But death from even the most painful mortal diseases Is usually preceded by a period of cessation from suffering and partial or complete insen- sibility resembling falling asleep or the pleasant gradual unconsciousness caus- ed by an anasthetic.
 The common phrase "death agony" Is not warranted by what occurs in natu- ral death, which is complete relief from all pain. When death is owing to heart failure or syncope. 1t Is sudden and painless-perhaps pleasant Death by hanging, there is reason to believe. is attended by a voluptuous spasm- Death by decapitation or electricity is only momentary shock, hardly felt. Death by poisoning varies in painful ness according to the poison employed. Opium and other narcotics probably give a painless. perhaps a pleasant. from the account of the death of So- crates, causes gradual insensibility from below upward. On the other hand, arsenic. strychnine. carbolic and mineral acids, corrosive sublimate. tar tar emetlc and other metallic poisons infiict slow and torturing death- -Prus- sic acid and cyanide of potassium cause quick and painful death--Humanita- rian
Holbrook argus., 1901-11-09
LIKE 70 GO TO FUNERALS.
Women Who Attend All the Mortu-
 ary Services They Can.

Cndertakers say that hundreds of peo- pie make practice of going around from church to church to attend the various funeral services. It is a notion of recent growth, but is becoming very popular.
 The special attraction in the case of Catholic churches is said to be the fine music which usually attends the celebra- ton of a solemn high mass for the repose of the soul of the dead. Where the serv- ices of more than two clergymen are e1l- ployed the attraction is all the greater, the undertakers say.
 "It is rapidly becoming the popular thing" said one of the latter. ''I thought it odd at first and wondered how it was that the same faces were to be seen at SC many church funerals. l made inquiries and learned that a number of women make it a rule to scan the death columns every morning to pick out what promises to be fashionable funeral service.
 Some of them go over to Brooklyn and Jersey even to satisfy their craving for romp and sweet music. The mere fact that in many church funerals a card of admission is required does not seem to keep them away either. The sexton of one of the biggest churches on Fifth ave nue told me that he knew more than 800
 
 ing church funerals. He added that it would be impossible almost to drag these same women to chlrch wedding. There is something so magnetic in church funer- als as to be simply irresistible to them. Why it is so can't say"
 The pastor of one of the biggest church es in Brooklyn was asked to give an opin- ion as to the influence which induces wo- men to attend church funerals indiscrimi- nately. and he replied that it was weak ness to see and be seen rather than any desire to listen to the organ and the choir during service.
 "I have noticed" said this clergyman. that some of these women attire them selves in mourning whenever they attend services of this kind, regardless of the fact that they may have had no acquaint- ance with the deceased or his family. l have seen these women in the most gaudy frocks in the afternoon after the funeral services in the morning. It is just wo- mans idea about keeping her mind anus ed, I suppose, though I must say it is stretching the imagination a long way. Hundreds now go to church funerals five or more times week, and it is my candid opinion that they could not be dragged to church for any other purpose. New York Sun.
Holbrook argus., 1901-11-09
Strange Behavior.

A mirth provoking scene once took place in the palace of a former Duke of Hamilton.
 The duke had invited one of his neigh bors, plain spoken laird, to stop at the palace for luncheon after the conclusion of business transaction.
 The laird was not used to the luxuries of life and watched with an impatient eye the fittings about of a liveried serv- ant, who seemed to be everywhere at once, anticipating the laird's wants in a way that struck the rustic as positively uncanny.
 At last the guest turned deliberately about in his chair and addressed the serv- ant in tone of considerable irritation.
 What are ye dance, dance, dancing about the room for, man" he demanded. "Can ye no draw in your chair and sit doom? I'm sure there's enough on the table for three"
Holbrook argus., 1901-11-09
Omce-SeeEers.

A pathetic but pessimistic picture of brilliant men who have met with re- verse of fortune, or have broken down under the strain of public life, is pre- sented by Moses K. Armstrong among the sketches of Congressional life in ''The Early Empire-Builders of the Great West"
 Many ex-Senators can be seen around Washington having apparently nothing to do, and but little to live upon. Some of them pick up small fees as claim agents or lawyers; others are anxious ly waiting for some job or fine open ing for business particularly adapted to their tastes.
 Some of them were prominent and able representatives of their respective States while in Congress, but their terms deprived them so long of their former business and so alienated them from the people that they could not again step back into the home pursuits which they had abandoned for office. They drift back to Washington where every profession is overcrowded.
 When once out of office, no one thinks or cares for them above the common level of mankind. No one stops to in- quire whether another man has ever been Senator, Cabinet officer or Pres ident of the United States; neither does he care. If he has business he simply wants to know what the man is now.
Holbrook argus., 1901-11-09
sIe-p the Best Rest.

A physician says the cry Of rest has always been louder than the cry for food; not that it is important, but il is often harder to obtain. The best rest comes from sound sleep. Of two men or wo- men. otherwise equal. the one who sleeps the best will be the most moral. healthy and efficient. Sleep will do much to cure irritability of temper. peevishness and un- easiness It will restore to vigor an overworked brain. It will build up and make strong a weary body. It will cure a headache It will help broken spirit. It will assuage sorrow. Indeed, we might make a long list of nervous and other maladies that sleep will cure. The cure of sleeplessness requires clean. good bed, sufficient exercise to produce weari- ness, pleasant occupation. good air and not too warm a room, clear conscience and avoidance of stimulants and nar- cotics-
Holbrook argus., 1901-11-09
THE STEAMSHIP CELTIC.

full cargoes when she once sets out on her ocean going career.
 Imagination fairly reels at the enor- nous quantity of provisions the Celtic will carry. The total amount of flour stored for bread and pastry will be POO barrels, or 1715 tons. Then there will be 50,OO0 pounds of fresh beef and nut ton, and 12,00O pounds of lamb, pork and veal, and poultry and game to the number of 5000. Besides 2,00O pounds of salt fish and fifty boxes of smoked fish, there will be 5000 pounds of fresh fish of various kinds and 800 pounds of Holsters, 500 pounds of turtle, 30,00O oysters and 400 tins of sardines. It is estimated that at least 25,O00 eggs will be consumed during each voyage. They will weigh a ton, and if rolled into one would make a colossal egg 5 feet ? inches high.
 A ton and half of oatmeal will be used for each voyage, besides two tons and a half of ham and bacon, that is, about fifty pigs will be sacrificed for each trip), two and half tons of but ter Sufficient to cover 1,500,O00 square inches of bread), two and half tons of jam, jellies and marmalade; ten tons of sugar, and ton and quarter of coffee and three-quarters of a ton of tea, to say nothing of 800 gallons of milk, 100 gallons of cream and 100 gallons of condensed milk.
 Then the Celtic will carry forty-six tons of potatoes (the product of about fourteen acres of average soiD, 500 caulifowers, 1,2OO cabbages, 800 pounds of tomatoes, one ton of carrots, two tons of turnips, 600 bundles of as- paragus.
 A veritable fleet of lifeboats will be carried on the Celtic's boat deck, each one large enough to be called a sloop yacht.
 The monster liner, however, will only consume between POO and 300 tons of coal day, as against 45O to 500 used by the Oceanic. This is because she is an eight-day boat and not a record breaker in the matter of time.
Holbrook argus., 1901-11-09
The SundoMn Gun.

"The sundown gun which is fired at, all army garrisons and forts is figurative at times, though now and then it actually indicates the time when the sun is sup posed to go down." said an army officer in explaining the matter; ''but it is not safe to set your watches or clocks by it. The firing of the sundown gun is intend ed as an incident in the ceremony of the salute to the flag, which is military per- formance strictly and is not to inform the immediate or even distant localities that the sun has gone down, though it does so in way. Less attention is given to the exact second. according to the watch. in the garrisons and forts about cities than on the frontiers, where it is one of the events of the day; but it is safe to say, approximately, the gun is fired near sun down."-New Orleans Times Democrat.
Holbrook argus., 1901-11-09
CHINESE ECONOMY
Court Can Still Find Money-Naushty
 Legation Soldiers Import Taxes

Eastern magnifcence is again dis played in the journey of the Chinese court. Temporary palaces at Kai Feng Fu and fao Ting Flu are being pre- pared like permanent dwellings, al though they will be occupied only for a few days.
 The acquisitions for the travelling ex- penses already amount to 13,000, ,00O taels, in spite of the edict enjoining economy in this respect. Several local officials along the route have resigned because they are unable to meet the expenses of entertaining the court
 The Chinese officials are considering the. desirability of protesting to the foreign ministers against the conduct of the legation guards. Groups of soldiers roam about the city wearing their side arms, often intoxicated, mal- treating the natives and committing petty robberies. Notwithstanding the ministers policy of moderation in erecting defenses, the legation quar- ter presents the appearance of a for tified city. The defenses opposite the Imperial City are particularly formid- able, the Italian defenses, adjoining the British, have embrasures for can non, a deep moat protects the German section, and across the city wall the Germans have erected a stone fort foI artillery.
 Prince Su, the collector of taxes, has adopted the policy of taxing goods brought into Peking for foreign mer- chants. Heretofore such goods have not been taxed, and the mer- chants have protested to the ministers who held that the goods should remain untaxed, on the ground that they are intended for the use of the legations