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Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-17
STOLE MICH REEH..

Philadelphia, May 17.-George B. Whitney, former manager in this city for the Morris Beef company of Chi cago, has been arrested, charged with the embezzlement of stock amounting g to $5O,000 pounds, valued at over $1O,- 900. Whitney made full confession and was sent to jail in default of $4,000 bail.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-17
Ladies Suits,

Ladies Suits, Ladies' Handsome Double Breast ed Eton Homespun Suits, were $S5O, clearing sale price S3.9S Ladies' All Wool Handsome Serge Suits, flare founce, silk lined sale sale price $e.5o Ladies fine All Wool Venetian Cloth Suits, finely tailored, lat
 est Eton jackets, silk lined, and flare skirts, value Sl2.5O, clearing sale price $7.9s Ladies' very fine Venetian and Broad Cloth Suits, silk lined. Eton ~pd flare skirts, neatly tailored, real value $145O, clearing sale price $9.es Ladies very stylish Venetian and Broad Cloth Suits, neatly trim med with taffeta silk strapping. black and coiors, all silk lined Eton jackets and latest flare skirts, made to sell for $1S.50, clearing sale price $11.5O Ladies fine All Wool Cheyiot, Ve- netian and Broad Cloth Reefer fly front and Eton Jacket Suits, in plain, taffeta strapped and braid trimmed, latest flare and founce skirts, finely tailored, value $22.00, clearing sale price
 $1239 Ladies All Wool Pebble Cheviot Suits, stylish fly front jackets, lined silk flare skirts, real value S20, clearing sale price $13.50 Ladies' fine Colored and Black Pebble Cheviot Suit, finely tai lored, taffeta silk lined Eton and fly front jackets, flare and founce skirts, made to sell at $25OO, clearing sale price $15.0O Ladies' very fine French Broad Cloth Suits. several designs, Etons, Boleros, vest fronts and tight fitting jackets, tucked taffeta silk and neat gold braid and button trimmed, real value S29.00, clearing sale price $16.5O There are some imported Pattern Costumes, one of a size; if they it you, take them for half price.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-17
EMREzzLED TOWN FUNDS.

Cambridge, Mass, May 17.-Roland A. Swan, who was arrested at Airing ton few weeks ago on the charge of misappro propriating $5,000 of the funds of the town. being arraigned to-day, waived examination and was held for the grand jury in the sum of $10,000. In default of bail he was remanded to jail.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-17
Phe1an's T Store,

fl BROADWAY. Telephone
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-17
Kelly Says

the way to defeat this bill is for every man, woman and child to write to the Hon Senator Kennedy to use his influ- ence against this measure.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-17
M. Der gin Sons
 UNDER

First class Funeral Goods always kept in stock. Prompt attention day or night. Night calls answered by Thomas F. Bergin, 75 South Elm street; John J. Bergin. 275 South Main street, house 102 Walnut street, or District Messenger office, 5 East Main street.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-17
Ladies' Wash Waists,

Ladies' Handsome lPercale and
 fine Gingham Waists, several
 styles, cheap for 9Sc, clearing
 sale price soc Ladies fine polka dot Percale
 Waists, braid trimmed collar,
 value $1.25, special 75c Ladies Stylish Dewey Waists.
 plain colors and striped, braid
 trimmed reveres, value S1.5O
 clearing sale price 9Sc Ladies' V shaped tucked front
 Irish Dimities and Percale
 Waists, value $1.75, special S1.o5 Ladies' Handsome French .Ratiste
 waists, pinks and blues. very
 stylish, cheap for $2.5O, clearing
 sale price S1 R0 Ladies' Rich Striped Crepe Elf
 feet Stylish Waists, value $3.
 clearing sale price $19s Ladies Handsome Satin Stripe
 Wash Grenadine, all colors.
 value $4.oo, sale price s25o
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-03-15
Americans Keeping the Lead.

British railway manufacturers are in
lignant at the manner in which they
nave lost the contracts for rebuilding
he South African railways. 1t seems
hat America has ousted the British
contractors. Major Girouard, an Amer
can. who has absolute charge of the
reconstruction and direction of the
rransvaal railways, is responsible for
his, seeing that he has invited Ameri-
an firms only to submit estimates, etc,
or the work. 1t was American firms
llso who supplied most of the material
or the Soudan railway, which was also
nder the direction Of Major Giroard.
nd built the Atbara bridge.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-03-15


There is saline sOlace for persons
with feeble heart action in the discOv-
cry announced by Profs. Loeb and
Lingle of the University of Chicago If
these discoveries prove to be all that
is claimed for them pinch of salt
will be all that is necessary to stir a
sluggish heart to action. AS a result
of a years experimentation, these pro-
fessors have discovered that salt in the
blood in certain proportions is the
cause of the heart beat They have
found that certain electric currents
caused by the salt solution furnish the
life-prolonging principle which works
upon the auricular and ventricular
muscles and keep the heart in motion.
1t is easy to see that such a discovery.
If based upon scientific eXactitude,
must reveal the secret of the prolonga-
ton of life. Indeed 1t Is claimed by
Profs. Loeb and Lingle that the salt
solution, injected into blood, win re-
new suspended heart action. What
causes the heart to pulsate has been
the subject of investigation and spec
ulation on the part of scientists for
centuries. We know that the life prin-
clple is centered in the rhythmic ac-
ton" of the heart. 1t follows that if
the causes Of this rhythmic action can
be discovered, man will get very near
to the secret that has puzzled the phil
osOphers of the ages. 1t satisfies the
average mind to say that the blood
causes the heart to beat" but the
scientist goes further than this. He
desires to know what is in the blood
that causes the heart rhythm. In his
experiments Prof. Loeb found that
rhythmic contraction can be produced
at will in the stripped muscle of the
frog by the action of a single salt solu-
ton. The scientific something that
causes the heart to pulsate is believed
to be n sort of electrical current which
is set up between two elements in salt
sodium and chlorine. One carries
positive charge OF electricity, while the
other carries a negative charge. With
salt at a dollar barrel delivered
T. o. b. no man ought to sit up nights
worrying about his heart action. 1t is
well known that chloride of sodium.
or common salt, is the greatest of all
preservatives given by nature to man.
1t is absolutely essential to human ex-
istence. 1t would not be at all strange.
therefore, If It should be found to bear
some vital relation to the pulsations of
the human heart.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-03-15

covered that something was killing her
hens, often on the nest. She watched
for the culprit, and at last caught Il
weasel in the act. 1t had seized the
hen, and refused to let go when she
tried to scare it away. Then the wOm
an laid hold of 1t and tried choking it.
when the weasel released its hold upon
the hen and fastened its teeth into her
hand between the thumb and foretin-
ger. She could not choke it off, and ran
to neighbor for help; but no one could
remove it without tearing the flesh
from the woman's hand. Then some
one suggested pail of water; into this
the hand and weasel were plunged. but
the creature would not let go even
then, and did not until it was drown
ed.
A farmer one day heard a queer
growing sound in the grass; on ap-
preaching the spot he saw two weasels
contending over a mouse; both held
the mouse, pulling in opposite direc-
tons, and they were so absorbed i'm
the struggle that the farmer cautiously
put his hands down and grabbed them
both by the back of the neck. He put
them in a cage and offered them bread
and other food. This they refused to
eat but in few days one of them had
eaten the other up, picking his bones
clean. and leaving nothing but the
skeleton.
The same farmer was one day in his
cellar when two rats came out of a hole
near him in great haste. and ran up
the cellar wall and along its top until
they came to a floor timber that stop
ned their progress, when they turned
Mt bay and looked excitedly back along
the course they had come. In moment
4 weasel, evidently in hot pursuit of
them, came out Of the hole, but, seeing
the farmer, checked his course and
darted back. The rats had doubtless
turned to give him fight. and would
probably have been a match for him.
Iohn Burroughs.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-03-15

Each generation which has Witness
ed the end of a century may have felt
as we feel, that Its own period was
the grandest in the history of the
world Succeeding ages, with the adj
vantage of a longer perspective, have
sometimes modified the verdict, as time
may alter our own estimate Of the
century just closed. in the light of
the present. however, no period of the
Christian era except the first seems
worthy even to be compared with the
last hsndred years in the richness Of
its iruitlon and the extent of its inhu
ence on human life. The material pro
gress of the century has been amply
set forth There Is not room even to
summarize it here All the modern
wonders of electricity the railroad,
the steamship, the daily paper as we
lightens labor, the discovery Of anaes-
thesia, with the miracles of surgery
these and a host of other things occur
to every reader But it is in another
direction that we must look for the real
significance of the age. 1t lies in things
moral and spiritual and intellectual,
rather than in things material. 1t is in
the feeling OF pity for the suffering Of
animals, the growing opposition to war,
the better care of the sick and the in.
sane, the changed attitude of the State
toward criminals, and the more general
feeling of fellowship and brotherhood
between man and man. The nineteenth
century might well be called the age
of compassion Therein lies its true
glory. This is the thing to keep in
mind as we step forward into the new
year: To remember the Towards and
Judsons and Peabodys, the Florence
Nightingales and Father Damiens
whose work is the noblest legacy of
the age, and to strive to carry into the
new century, and to intensity, the
spirit with which they blessed the old.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-03-15
FORM OF WINTER SPORT THAT Is BEING ABANDONED

their awful flights with breathless in
terest. Stamped in the mind of every
reader is the picture of the long snow
and ice embankment with torches
down the sides and in the middle of the
slide the big toboggan filled with boys
and girls flying down the declivity at
the rate of a mile a minute. When the
reader saw this time-honored old pic
ture for the first time he always held
his breath and calculated in low,
smothered tones, MY. isn't that just
awful" and at the same time he had
a secret longing to be ON the spot and
try one whirl down the chute.
1t used tc be said that it required
long persuasion to induce the extreme
ly timid to ever board a toboggan.
but after they had once taken a trip
they hungered for more of 1.-THE same
with greater avidity than anyone else
on the hill. When the sport was at the
height of its popularity in st. Paul
and Minneapolis it was well worth a
trip to the gopher cities to see the
amusement in full blast on a cold win
ter's night. Everybody owned a to-
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-03-15

The establishment Of an American
bank at Calcutta backed by abundant
capital and able business men, is a
suggestive incident in the history of
India and America. AS an illustration
of our rapidly growing trade with the
East, II is stated that one American
house alone, interested in this enter
prise, has more than one hundred
agents In India, and has at all times
merchandise to the value of almost one
million dollars in transit Americas
part in the business Of all oriental coun-
tries seems destined henceforth to he
leading one. and to meet the require
ments of these new conditions, Ameri.
can banking houses will inevitably fol
low the cargo and the flag.
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A Brutal Plcture-tnker.

The photographer had just completed
IL arrangements for the sale of his
tudio. when the pretty young miss of
summers tripped in.
Il want my picture taken" she sim
lered. DO you think my face will
freak the cameraY'
Not this camera" said the photog-
apher just as simperingly. lit is pro-
ided with double extra strong lenses. -
OF course the miss of II summers i'm
nediately founces out and goes 10 the
ival photographer, who, when she
prlngs the joke about her face and the
'amera. joins with her in a hearty
augh.--Indianapolis Sun.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-03-15

The many thousands Of busses which
travel London's highways are nearing
the line of extinction. The American
syndicate headed by Charles T. Yerkes,
which has projected an underground
and surface system Of railways for
that city. has, it is claimed. succeeded
IN financing the scheme. American en-
ergy viii do the rest. With London
captured by the American street rail
way kings 1t can be set down for GER
tain that the transit system of that
city will be greatly improved. After
London realizes the benefits OF the
push and progressiveness of American
transportation methods. it will wonder
how It endured its numbering omni-
buses so long. The Americanizing Of
London is bound to come.
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boggan or belonged to a toboggan club.
At night the frozen hills and snow and
Recovered embellishments, built some
times especially for the sport, were
lighted up with great torcheF until
they were as bright as day and swarm
ing about on every hand were men and
women. young and middle aged, dress
ed in their fantastic red, white and
blue blanket costumes and streaming
from their heads were the long points
of the knitted caps that were pulled
down over their ears like nightcaps.
Long, Steep Slides.
And the great slides prepared for
the use of the tobogganers meant a
mile minute ride down steep in
cline every foot of which was fraught
with peril Many wild tumbles ensued,
many ears and noses were frozen in
the pursuit of this captivating sport.
and yet the toboggan dropped in popu-
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The EERocIous wsAsE.

Some Instances of Its Bloodthirst
Disposition.
The weasel is the boldest and most
bloodthirsty of our small mammals; in
deed, none of our larger beasts are NOR
so. There is something devilish and
uncanny about it. 1t persists like fate.
it eludes. but cannot be eluded The
terror it inspires in the smaller crea-
tures-rats, rabbits, chipmunks-is pitt
full to behold. A rat pursued by a
weasel has been known to rush into a
room. utter dismal cries. and seek tht
protection of man in bed.
A woman in northern Vermont dis
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-03-15
TOBOGGAN IS DEAD.
SPORT WHICH HAS FALLEN INTO
INNOCUOUS DESUETUDE.
Society Has Forsaken the Once Popu-
ular Amusement - Few Runnerless
sleds Now Seen Once Great Cold
Wealth Recreation.

Reliable reports come from far north
States where they have hills and
things that they can slide on when
there is enough snow that the toboggan
is a dead oner' The long fiat board
with the turned-up nose which used to
fly down the steep frozen declivlties
with the speed of a cannon ball will fly
no more, at least for the present. 1t
has been relegated to the walls of dens
and clubrooms, where it sticks silently,
an alleged article of decoration of the
relic pattern.
Society went back on the toboggan,
and when society goes back on bit of
sporting goods the goods might as well
hunt for its sarcophagus and crawl in
and let society seal on the capstone.
Time was when the erstwhile tobcggan
was the warmest winter favorite that
ever cavorted among the frozen hills
OF the Northern States, but it has gone
the way of all other favorites that have
reigned with too much popularity. But
a few short years ago winter without
the toboggan in the billy country would
have been like a Fourth of July with
out fireworks. The season would have
been naught but bitter patch of mel
ancholy. In those days the young
folks would have gone into spasms of
Indignation and vexation if they had
been deprived of the privilege of to-
bogganing. But now the 'boggan has
gone down the slide and there is no
evidence that it is going to come back
up.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-03-15

Some idea Of the diversity of condi-
tons in the State of Texas may be
gained from the fact that there was
held within its borders a few years
ago, at nearly the same date drain
age conference and an irrigation con
vention. One was at Galveston and
the other at San Antonio. Some per-
sons were thus studying means of les
sening the amount of water over a
large area, while others sought to in
crease 1t, or rather to make its supply
for agricultural purposes more regu-
lar.
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Attracted Much Attention.

a few winters ago the toboggan Juror
that reigned in the parts where the
sport had any show whatever attracted
the attention of the entire country.
The daily newspapers, the weekles
and the magazines displayed long pro
fusely illustrated articles on the sport
and the popular indulgence in it time
and again and people who had no more
prospect of ever seeing a toboggan
than they have of seeing the north
pole talked of the runnerless sleds and
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-03-15

Prof. T. ]. ]. See. the well-known
at the naval observatory in Washing
ton. has been making calculations to
ascertain how long 1t viii take the sun
to be extinguished and wander vacant
In the rayless space" which, of course,
must involve the destruction of man
kind by the painless process of freez-
ing to death. That is the professors
theory. which he prefers TO the one
maintained by some other scientists
that the earth's population will be de-
strOyed by fire or collision. Having
established the manner of destruction.
Prof. See next calculates how long
mankind viii exist on the earth, and
finds it to be 100000 years. after
which a darkened. frozen earth will
continue to go through the useless
routine of revolving around the dark
ened sun, and the whole solar system
twill be bathed in perpetual night"
The only cheerful phase of the profess
sor's prediction is the generous limit
he allows mankind. and himself for
no one can contradict him now. 1t is
always wise in making predictions OF
disaster to assign time as far away
as possible. 1t is comforting to those
who are contemporaries Of the prophet,
and it is safe for him. And yet who
shall say that in 1901 ,9O1 A. d. there
may not be professors calculating the
time when human beings will cease to
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-03-15

larity with as sudden and hard a thud
as the roller skate. Just as IN the
case of the roller skates, when the to
boggan was at its height. the sale,
made by sporting goods houses Were
enormous considering the size Of the
cities. One firm alone in the city of st
Paul sold in few months in the neigh
borhood of $1,000 worth of toboggans.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-03-15
Up Boston Way.

"And what" asked the caller in his
most ingratiating tones, what did San
ia Claus put in your stocking, my little
girl?"
For moment she looked at him
through her diminutive spectacles:
then. in voice Of mingled pity and in
dignation. she said; I'VE no longer put
credence in obsolete tradition; nor was
it delicate Of you to mention that arti-
Gle of feminine apparel" Gathering
up her copy of Ibsen, she hurriedly left
the rOom.-New Lippincott
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-03-15

Emperor william of Germany has
sent to Queen Wilhelmina a bottle of
water from the River Jordan with
which to baptize her future heirs. Will
lam has some failures, but no one can
accuse him OF being late at baptism.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-03-15

The dealers testify that Count Cas-
tellane got a rake-on on all the bric-a-
brac purchased by his wife's money.
This undoubtedly accounts for the ex-
Orbitant prices. People who dance with
titles must pay the bric-a-brac dealers.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-03-15

exist; or that 'star-eyed science" will
not have advanced so rapidly that our
remote posterity, who will never have
heard of us, big as we think we are,
will not have all the artificial light and
heat they need, and thus dispense With
the sun entirely except as IA centeT to
reYolye around?
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-03-15

1t is pretty hard to get away with the
average American youth. n fact, how
ever. that does not make kidnapping him
any the less reprehensible.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-03-15

If Mark Twaln's theory that lying is
the resource of primitive intelligence is
true the world is not so far from prl-
meval times ms 1t is generally sup
nOsnd
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-03-15

The man who advertised for a wife
fright OFF, must have received appli-
cauts who didn't have time to get their
hats on straight.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-03-15

There may, after all, have been an
excuse for those West Point cadets VINO
went into the hazing business. They
say they were fed on prunes.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-03-15

One Of the sutan's greatest troubles
Is that he cant marry a rich American
girl.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-03-15

Marie Corelli got $40, 500 for her lat
est book. so she can't be blamed so
much, after all, for writing It.
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Full of Water

How do you feel now?" asked his
rescuers.
Like Jersey trust" gasped the
lalf-drowned man, family.
Then they rolled him on the barrel
ONE more, for they, too, were finan-
ciers.-Harper's Bazaar.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-03-15

Any woman can keep an expense ac-
count, but only about one woman in a
hundred can make it tally with her
cash.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-03-15

1t is an easy matter to distinguish
friends from relatives at weddings and
funerals.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-03-15

1t is remarkable fact that only SEN
sible persons ever agree with us.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-03-15

Afiluence is the dream Of every man
who is in the employ Of others.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-05-03
BeIpre Items.

Mr.. ThOs. Herod, who has been on
the sick list for the last two weeks, is
cOnvalescing.
Messrs. Laird and Bulge each ship
ped car of hogs to Kansas City this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. B. Weber went to
Larned last Saturday, returning Sun
day.
MIR. Stafford, of Columbia, Mo-.
was in town last Friday and Saturday
looking for land.
Mr.. Lee Anthony went to Ellinw God
last Saturday and returned Wednes-
day.
Mr.. S. B. Webber took a trip to
Macksville Wednesday.
Mr.. Anthony is making extensive
repairs on his ranch, south OF town.
by putting up a new barn, windmill
and remodeling the house.
Mrs. Bulge went to ST. j Ohm last
Friday, returning Sunday evening.
We received the sad news of Mrs.
Grace Brindell Kings sudden death
She was laid to rest Thursday in the
Pratt cemetery.
Mr.. Helfresh, OF Ellinwood, has
moved his family onto the farm he re-
Gently purchased here. They arrived
Saturday.
Three new barns and one house is
the building record for Belpre during
April.
| MIR. Joseph Liggett returned to Kan
sas City last week after Two week ;:
visit with his brothers, James and
George.
The machinery for D. G. Donavan'!
j new elevator has arrived.