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Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-21

ceived as students into the medical mission, whether to prepare them selves as physicians or nurses, are ex- pected to devote themselves to mis- sionary work. No others are re- ceived. During the first year work is given them sufficient to pay for their board and tuition. After that time small allowance is made them for their services. The study of the Bible is a leading feature in the train ing, for soul and body are to be treat ed at the same time. In the maternity ward, in the wing of the building, many an unfortunate little one has first seen the light, the mother, in the meantime, beginning life anew and soon joining in the work of aid 2 ing others. The mission has also a home-finding department, by means of which orphans and mothers with young children are placed in homes. At 240S South Park avenue is the Children's Christian home, where lit tic ones under eight years old, rescued from want by mission workers, re- ceive care and training. A day school and kindergarten are maintained There is a branch of this home at Ber- lin, Wis.,, under charge of a corps of workers from the Chicago home. Not only orphaned children are welcomed here, but those with mothers for whom work is found among those who are unable to receive the child also. Often the mother may require hos pital treatment, and her cure is has tened by the assurance that her chill dren are in kind hands,,
 Another branch of the work. the latest, having been started but lit tie over a year ago, is so great that it's demands for self-denial of every description. it's almost incomprehen- sible dangers, render it impossible to describe the self-sacrifice of the grand, noble women who are in charge of the Life Boat Rest, on South Clark street, near Polk, said to be the worst district in Chicago. Here home. medical treatment and loving care are freely given to any young girl of the neighborhood who desires to ac- cept them. No service is required of them; nothing, in fact, but that they remain indoors unless accompanied by one of the nurses, who do all the work, maintain the home and pay the eXorbitant rent by the sale of the Life Boat and contributions from we'll wishers. The whole building has been furnished by donations from friends of the work. When asked what was most needed at the present time, the matron replied: "Soap and under clothing" This brave litle woman re- ceives no remuneration whatever for her Sa1.vioeS An entira1v Sa1f-SnT,- porting, steam-heated, electric-light- ed hotel is conducted by the mission workers at 1851 State street, where men may board at low rates.
 EDWARD JULIAN.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-21
Williams Idea of q bIonarchs

Not long ago an American professor attended a reception in the royal pal ace given by the Kaiser to an associa- tion of scientists. at which William ap- peared in the gorgeous robes of roy alty, preceded by liveried cha m ber- lains bearing the crown and insignia. It was a most impressive display, and when the professor came away he said to a friend: ''I am republican to the backbone, but I believe that if monarchs are necessary they should be monarchs to the last bit of gold lace. just as William is kaiser" The next day his friend had an audience with the kaiser, and in the course of the conversation told him what the Amer ican professor had said. The kaiser laughed heartily. That is exactly what l believe" he said; "Dom Pedro of Brazil illustrated the folly of try ing to be republican on throne."- Chicago Times-Herald.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-21
4 BUNDLE OF SPLINTERS.

The Dakota river is the longest un- navigab ble stream in the world-orer 1000 miles.
 II requires more than 100 gallons of oil year to keep the largest locomo- tiyes in smooth running order.
 The average age of bachelors who marry spinsters is 26; but of widow CTS who marry widows just under 50.
 The biggest and most costly hotel In Boston is to go up this season. It is to be in elegance a rival of New York's Waldorf-Astoria.
 Paper dress material masquerading as silk threatens to drive the silk worm out of business. Spruce saw dust, cotton or jute waste and alco- hol make good silk nowadays.
 In 1900 there were constructed in Chicago buildings to the value of SEQ, ,000 900. This was during all of the lnbor troubles, when conditions were such that they would not warrant the careful investor proceeding with much work. The conditions now in the labor market and the reduction of the cost of material lead persons qualified to judge to predict that buildings to the value of $50, ,OOO, ,OO0 will be cons tructed this year.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-21
HELP FUK OUTCASTS,
Grand Work Accomplished by the
 Chicago Medical Mission.
In It's Charitable EndeAvOrs Physf- cal Health Is Considered Quite as Carefully as Moral and Spiritual Regeneration.
Especial Chicago Letter.1

eeHlia dssd.', This mainons must hafe@i hare been
 the compelling thought of Dr.J. H. Kellogg, of Battle Creek, Mich, which caused him so earnestly to desire to help the unfortunate in Chicago. So fully was the idea of this work formed in his mind that, when two brothers from the Kimberley mining district of fered him ,ooO with question as to how he would use it, his reply was: ~VVe will go down to Chicago and un- dertake work for the submerged peo- pie of that great city" They have never had cause to regret the investment. The money was used for sanitarium at 2S Thirt y-third place, the earnings of which institution formed a nucleus of sum with which the mission work was begun in a little basement under No. 40 Custom House place, near Van Buren street. After the old basement was cleaned and whitewashed, some little stalls were made, shower baths and laundry tubs installed and small room partitioned off in one corner for dressing wounds; for these intensely practical people believed that, in or der to efficiently minister to the needs of the soul, the wants of the body must often be first considered Work was begun one Sunday. Soon 30 and 40 people per day received free treatment in a locality where no pro- vision had heretofore been made for such as they. The frequenters of the neighborhood soon came to know the workers and many touching incidents are told of their appreciation of the most real Christian help and sym pathy that had ever been extended to them.
 During the first winter relief was given to over 100000 people. Over 75,OOO garments were distributed. A
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-21
BOSSY'S EXPLOSIVE CUD.
Cow Swallowed Bunch of E1reA crackers and Matches and Made
 a Show of Herself.

"A peculiar circumstance happened near Rochester, N. 4., not long ago, where a gentleman was spending a few days with his family. The fences were down so that the cattle could roam at will along the lake shore, and in doing so one COW came across a small package which she began tu devour with relish.
 Suddenly there was noticed by tha occupants of the cottage flash ana then a loud report. Fire flashed out of the mouth of the COW, which made desperate attempt to get rid o4 something unusual to her as a diet. The onlookers were established an we'll as the COW. and the latter, wftk a great gulp, swallowed what had created the rumpus in her moukh; and all was quiet again. The ssolu- tion of the matter was that the axl1A' nal had gathered in her mouth whi1 browsing a small package of 6N{ crackers and parlor matches mix< which had been thrown down by vi6 itors, and in chewing the stu6 A6E set one of the matches abla1e. X in turn fired firecracker, and
 the explosion which astonishe
 people and the coN...,
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-21
wATERTowN JorTINas
News Trim the Trolley slen-salvation
 Army Lecture Last Night.

Now that summer is approaching rapidly the trolley men are becoming more urgent in their efforts to have the trolley line run through here be- fore the summer is at end- One Of the members of the Thomaston corpor- ation went over the proposed route between ThomaSton and WatertoWn yesterday and found everything to be satisfactory. The proposed line from that town runs along the direct road from there until it reaches the Nova Scotia school house. From there they propose cutting through the farms of s. H. Peck and Edward Fitzpatrick, coming out at the Greenville bridge. As can be easily seen this would be a first rate route. as it takes ln more territory and saves expense. The Thomaston corporation hope to have their line connect with the present Oakville line. Illustrated Lecture. An Illustrated lecture. entitled "The Salvation Army and Their Work,' was given at the Congregational chapel last evening. Ensign Morris of the Waterbury department explained the illustrations. A small, but apprecia- tive audience was in attendance. Notes.
 One of our local boarding houses was 'fhung up' for board bill of a considerable amount a short time ago. The young fellow who was so forget full was picture agent.
 The funeral of the late Mrs Elmer Hotchkiss was held yesterday after noon from her late residence in West bury park. Mrs Hotchkiss had been sick but a few days. Her case was tn ha anvfhinp Sapin1lS and her death was a surprise to many. She leaves a husband.
 The funeral of the late Burnham Atwood was held from his late resi- dence yesterday afternoon at ? o'clock. Interment took place at the Evergreen cemetery. Mir Atwood was a highly respected citizen of Watertown for many years.
 Another family from Pennsylvania immigrated last week. They have taken up residence in one of Homer HeminwayS tenementS on the East Side.
 The rain storm which commenced yesterday and continued during the night, did much to fill up the streams, and wash the roads. The valley be- tween here and Waterbury is well filled with water.
 The center school will give an en- tertainment in the town hall in the near future. The pupils of the school will give comic sketch entitled Mystic Nidgets." under the super vision of Principal Working. The play will be enacted by about sixty girls and thirty of the the boys. The proceeds of this entertainment win go toward the purchasing of text books for the various rooms of the school Just at present the treasury, from which the money is taken is very low. and MT Working takes this means of replenishing it.
 Miss Anna Moore of the East Side is quite sick.
 Jim Sing. the laundryman. will oc- cupy one of the apartments in At woods new block
 Louis Storm of Waterbury has taken a position on one of Charles Mat toon's milk teams.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-21
The Cluck in Speech.

| Among the Geckos of Asia and the clucking sand lizards of the South African veldt the (linguaD suctionh note is probably a sex cali. On the other hand, the ."clocking" of Q "broody hen," as John Ray, the sev- enteenth century naturalist, termed the sound by which fowls, both cocks and hens, summon their families to a feast, osuensibly- signifies bidding to come to selected trysting place. It is in many respects the antithesis of the sibilant. Although banished for centuries from European speech, yet just as the hiss of an old-time language fingers on the lips of an English mother, while she soothes a fractious child to sleep, or can be heard from the mouth of 0 hostler when he is grooming a restless steed; so, too, the click of the driver still rouses the dormant energy cf the English hack, as it doubtless did for generations before English was spoken. The short, sharp note, best represented, perhaps, by the letters elk, gl-k, cr-ls (and vocalized as E. clacs, click, G., glucken, E. cluck, CIdCh, cCC, WHICH dIC UIle out breathed equivalents of certain lin gual clicks), is almost as widely, all though not so generally distributed throughout the animal kingdom as the explosive hiss. Owing to it's mode of production, the click Cor cl-k) is, believe, only uttered by ami. mals possessing feshy tongues Humanitarian.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-21

may work Tor his board and lodging. Thua none are turned away as long as any room remains for an applicant. Physicians are in attendance, and mans physical condition is easily de- termined. If he be ill, he is at once sent to the mission dispensary, 1926 Wabash avenue.
 Here is the great headquarters of the work, in a large building, the two upper stories of which are used as medical school, the two lower as a nurses training school, with a free dispensary in a wing opening on Twentieth street. Below these are the kitchen, dining-room, laundry and printing offices. In the latter job printing for the various establish ments is done and type set for the Life Boat, a 16-page magazine, which, from an issue of less than 800 in 1898, has increased to circulation of 1000. In it is only printed such mat ter as may be comprehended by the most ignorant in the city's slums, and many a simple Gospel story of trans formation in the lives of mission vis- itors is told in it's pages. A few pages are devoted to prisons and prisoners. An OccaSlOnal Speclal prisoners number is issued. Many pathetic let ters come into the hands of the ed- itors from different jails and peni- tentiaries. The mission finds em- ployment for as many paroled and discharged prisoners as possible, but the number of those who are willing to employ them is limited. At the dispensary are given not only free prescriptions, but baths, massage and electric treatments. In the reg ular hospital wards charges are made according to the circumstances of the patient. The mission nurses visit the poor and sick all over the city and render them such aid as is possible. Many victims of the morphine habit have been cured here. While, occasion ally, members of wealthy families ap- ply for treatment, the greater number of opium patients have spent all their money, either for the drug or some bogus remedy.
 The nurses live on the community plan. An allowance, according to the needs of her work, is made to each one. Those who receive pay give it. over to the institution and it is ap- piled to the use of those who are nursing destitute patients. Those re-
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-21
Too Far Away.

Chicago is noted, among other pc culiarities, for the gigantic police men that guard the crossings in its downtown district.
 Several of these men exceed six feet four inches in height, and one a colossal Irishman usually stationed at the intersection of State and Washington streets, stands six feet seven inches in his stockings, and is we'll proportioned.
 ssWhy do you let your streets get so awfully dirty?" complained a wis itor in the city one windy day, rub ping his eyes. % s1I think" replied the friend who wsa showing him around, '.the. rea- son is that our policemen are 50 high up above the dirt thex never ueA ftsYGnth'a Companlon
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-21

more horrible monsters, sending fa down through generation after genr eration of his children.
 China-the dragon kingdom-seems to be the only land where this much- abused beast is looked upon with any sort of tolerance, all other folk giving it credit for being fre- breathing devourer of men and plac. ing it upon the same moral plane aa the snake, another well-disposed rep character indeed. St. George, Eng lands patron saint, was a killer o1 dragons.
 Richard 1T. Geoghegan, acting Brit~ ish vice consul at Tacoma, and . scholar who has lived in China many years, has recently been at sonaa pains to redeem the dragons reputa- tion. The beast is reverenced in his own slant-eyed land, and tradition says that one day 2.sOO years aga while Emperor Fu-hsi was walking beside the River Lo a yellow dragon rose from the water and taught him the art of writing, giving him an al- phabet by which the Chinese could record their history. If the monster had turned the River Lo into gold he could hardly have given so price- less gift to Fu-hsi and his descend- ants, and that the Chinese hold him in grateful remembrance is much to their credit. The phoenix, tortoise and unicorn are likewise sacred, but the dragon is chief. To this day, tho emperor's throne is called lung wei,' while his sublime presence is referred to as "the dragon counteA nance," "lung-yen."
 The monster in our picture was drawn for Mir. Geoghegan by Chi- nese artist in Tacoma, and is proa- ably as near the real beast as it is possible to come. It is shown rising from the waves of the River LQ amid flames. and the round object be- tween it's claws is ''the pearl of mys- tic virtues"-a thing so mystic that none but Chinaman can fathom it. Chicago Record
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-21

her showers down upon them at pleas ure.
 But finally there was q man who thought differently, and in those days it took a good deal of character to come out and oppose the old beliefs and do contrary to public opinion. Jonas Ham way was strong enough to do this, and, knowing that he would be greatly ridi- culed for attempting to do such an unheardof thing, he dared on this rainy day to walk out in the streets car rying an umbrella over him.
 People stared at him in astonish- ment. rude boys laughed and children called after him, and some of the rudest threw stones at him. The idea of trying to protect ones self from rain! Why, no one had thought of such a thing in all these years! Some of the wealthiest people had umbrellas in their houses, and servants some times held them over the heads of ''my lord and lady, as they stepped out to their carriages in heavy rain, but no fur ther use was made of them. ButJonas Hanway bore the ridicule and still car ried his umbrella until by and by peo- ple began to think it was not such a bad idea after all, and to-day people think no more of carrying an um brella than they do of walking down the street.
 Umbrellas have been used in Asia from the earliest times we know of, but only as a sign of royalty or rank. The king of Siam is called "the supreme owner of the umbrelia>" meaning the umbrella of state, which is a very hand some affair, being made of crimson or purple silk, : with precious stones, trimmed with gold fringe and lined with white satin beautifully worked with silver flowers. An umbrella just like this is carried over the kings head wherever he goes, but if anyone else should dare carry one like it he would lose his head for doing so. On great occasions the umbrellas are built up into several stories-one on top of an- other-and bells are attached to them.
 In China and Japan umbrellas are made of silk and waterproof paper, beautifully painted and glazed. In China the rank of a person is shown by the number of umbrellas that are car- ried in front of him. The emperor has 24 the heir to the throne ten and those of lower rank must carry less num- ber.-Chicago Record.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-21
OAKVILLE HAPPENINGS

William Blackburn of Waterbury was in this place yesterday.
 Louis Atwood. who came home to attend the funeral of his father. Burn ham Atwood, returned to Derby last night.
 Frederick Slade is able to be out again.
 Miss Bellville, who is ill with ty- phoid fever, is doing as we'll as can be expected.
 Charles Graf of Waterbury was in this place last evening.
 Perry Morris is making some re- pairs around his property, filling in and improving the appearance greatly.
 At the last meeting of the Pequot club the following officers were elected President l. Stillson; vice-president, Howard Neil: secretary, Frank Wells; trea Surer, F. H. Oyiatt.
 Mir Day is very sick with spinal meningitis.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-21

policeman who from curiosity entered this place one day when it was full of crooks, the ''most dangerous and wicked men in Chicago" said: ''I see you don't need any clubs down there." He further remarked that if all those men were in the street to- gether it would take dozen police men to keep them in order.
 The work has progressed until now it includes six institutions, all coop erating in a manner which seems truly wonderful to an outsider to whom it is first explained. One of the first to respond to the call for volunteers was the present secretary, who does not wish his name used, as he says none of the workers desire to be per
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-21
A FEW DoN,rs FOR WOMEN

Don't be dashing-be dainty.
 Don't sacrifice fitness to fashion.
 Don't spoil the gown for the yard of stuff.
 Don't wear white petticoat unless it is white.
 Don't imagine that beauty will atone for untidiness.
 Don't dress your head at the expense of your hands and feet.
 Don't pinch your waist. Fat. like 1er, will ont t-somewhers. pv powder on your cheeln aQoAing in . glass afterward. ss de a1l your 1l1owxueeo ontafde. V Petttpcn 1l1lB s4ao | togt
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-21
Magnetic Scottish IsIan ds.

Recent Investigations show that the Hebrides islands possess strange mag netic properties. On the Isle of Sky is this particularly pronounced. At al- most any pointon this island compass is absolutely useless, the needle chang ing direction every few feet. pointing to widely diverging points of the com pass. The rocks of the Cuillin hills, composed mostly of gabbro and basalt, are permanently magnetized. Stone pillars set up to mark typographical survey work became magnetized in a very short time.-Chicago Chronicle.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-21

sonally considered. They have given their lives and the work speaks for itself. It was soon seen that the clothes of those who were cleaned up at the mission were again unfit for contact with man Cor beast either
 for that matter) after one night spent in the low lodging houses in the district. A mission was started at 436 State street, near Polk, where religious services are held every night, but after the men came out they had no decent place to sleep. So building was secured at 1911 State street, where clean beds are supplied for ten cents. Each man is obliged to take bath and have his clothes fumigated. When necessary, fresh clothingis given. Food is supplied at penny a dish, the cost of the raw material at wholesale. Mis- sion nurses prepare the food. A pen ny's worth of mush is large amount. A half loaf of bread costs penny.
 In order that no imposition be practiced. a rug-weaving factory has been added to the establishment, where an absolutely penniless man
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-21
THE USEFUL ul1BRELLA.
It waa IntreAueSd to: the PeoPle of England by . Brave Man, Named
 Jonas HAnway. -

About 15o years ago on a very wet, disagreeable day a man walked through London carrying an umbrella
 t'And what of that ?" some one may say. "You can see hundreds of people doing the same thing on any rainy day"
 That is true, but 6 century and 8 half ago you could not have seen sin gle person in England carrying an um- brella to protect himself from the rain. People said: "A man who cannot stand little wetting is rather weak man." and so they allowed nature to sprinkle
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-21
H Nick of Time.

Waiting doesn't always pay.
 Iis better often strike once. Doing thing in nick of time
 Is better than not doing it all.
 Marrow slaves better than failure. There many slaves in Kidney Ills It's dangerous thing to have the Kidneys blocked Keep them working neglect is serious | The blood must be filtered, the poisons taken out. line Kidneys do this when they're right. Keep them right or look out for trouble. . tEiss For Kidney trouble, for Urinary trouble. DOAN,S KIDNEY PILLS will cure any Kidney III. ~s : Many Waterbury citizen testify to this. Here IS that endorses treatment: gSas, K E
 Thomas Giern No AS North Main employed at the 70. sleep at could al As this robbed me of lot of sleep inteeed with general health
 It high something before dark red sediment in kidney showed working Kidney Pills host of remedies box H. took them and . All druggists sell DOANS Kidney Pills. >x# as s. Remember the DOAN'S and take substitute. Price per box. Foster Nbun Co.,, Buffalo, N Y, Sole Props.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-21
THE TERRIBLE DRAGON.
Except in China, Where 1t h an Object of Reverence.

It is quite probable that the drago1 little earth ball was the home of ter> ribie beasts with scientific names- dyosaurfans, ichthyosauri, pterydac. tyls and the ike-for it figures in tho myths of all nations. Very likely prehistoric man took his notion oil such a creature from real and fap