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Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-11
MONDAY, MARCH Il, 1901.

Senate Patterson of Colorado. Du- bois and Heitfeld of Idaho. Harris Of Kansas. and Turner of Washington attended the caucus of democrats held last week to consider ways and means of dealing with the republican scheme for Introducing the Reed rules ill the senate and making that body. like the house. merely a machine to record the will of one man. Senators Jones of Nevada. Wellington of Maryland. Tel Ter of Colorado. and Allen of Nebrasga -Mr Allen will retain his seat in the senate under the governors appoint ment until his successor is elected or the legislature adjourns without elect ing q senator-who now call them selves independents, did not attend the caucus. but it is believed that they will join the democrats in opposing clOture rule in the senate. Senator Teller says that whatever may be done at the regular session. he is certain that no cloture rule will be adopted by the senate at the extra session. It is difficult to See how one can be adopt ed at any session without the con- sent of the minority, as the proposi- ton can be indefinitely debated under the present rules.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-11
WHY INDIANS PAINT FACES.

The fact of the matter is that every paint mark on an Indians face is sign with a definite meaning which other Indians may read. When an Indian puts on his full war paint he decks himself not only with his own individual honors and distinctions won by his own bravery, but also with the special honors of his family or tribe He may possess one mark of disctinc- tion or many; in fact, he may be so well off in this respect that. like some English noblemen, he is able to don q new distinction for every oc- casion. Sometimes he will wear all his honors at one time.
 Among the Indian tribes is one designated by the symbol of the dog fish, painted in red on his face. The various parts of the fish are scattered heterogeneously on the surface of the face; the peculiarly long snout is painted on the forehead, the gills are represented by two curved lines be- low the eyes, while the tail is shown as cut in two and hanging from either nostril. When only one or two parts of an animal are painted on mans face it is an indication of infeliority: when the whole animal appears, even though in many oddly assorted parts, the sign is one of great value and in- dicates high rank.
 Very peculiar are some of the hon. opnble symbols painted on the Indians faces. There are fish, flesh and fowl of all kinds-dog, salmon, devil fish, starfish, .woodpeckers, eagles, ravens, wolfs, bears, sea lions and sea mon- stera mO0QuitOes, frogs xn<,unfa11. goats and all manner of foot, claw or bear marks each with . special mean Ing df if own, Pearsen,s N4eaxiuA.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-11
BUILDING NOTES.

T. r. Bittner has completed work on his new house on North Willow street.
 Work is progressing rapidly on the new house which J. A. Hitchcock is erecting at Warren park.
 D. A. Streeter has contract for plumbing in the factory of the Water bury Manufacturing Co on North Main street.
 The Charles Thatcher Go are install ing new plumbing fixtures in the en- zine house on Scovill street.
 Charles A. Jackson & Co have opened an office at No PIP Bank street and will conduct a mantel, tile and cut stone business.
 Architect B. E. Benedict has pre- pared sketches for the proposed new stables to be built by the Hellmann Brewing Go. The details have not yet been fully decided upon.
 The new three-family house which J. r. Bittner is building on Hospital avenue for o. T. Norton is now ready for the clustering. the contract for which was let to W. H. Knibbs.
 The contract has been let to H. l.. Roberts for the mason work in con tection with the two new houses which the Seeley X Upham Co will build in Waterville for George l.. Jenks. The other sub-contracts have not been let.
 Plans are in preparation by Archi- tect Thomas NJ. Freney for store and tenement building to be erected on Mill street by Edward NIcMahon. It will be frame structure, 22X62 feet. The ground floor will provide for a store, with tenements above.
 The Brenner Bros Manufacturing Co have secured the contract for fire es- capes to be placed in connection with a hospital at Danbury. They are also furnishing some wrought iron hinges for Edgar Van Winkel at Torrington and chandeliers for a house on Divis- ion street for w. II. Hine.
 Plans have been completed by Arch itect F. F. Benedict for a residence to be erected in Waterville by A. w. Cutts. It will be of wood irregular in its dimensions. The rooms will be finished in hard woods and provided with hot air heat, mantels and fire places.
 NJ. J. McEvoy has plans for the erection of a new store and tenement block. It will be a, four-story frame structure. 41X62 feet. with tin roof. auu Will pEUNlGc lNo SlOISS oL 'iiS ground floor with tenementS above. Plate glass store fronts, etc, will be required The cost will be in the neighborhood of 5000. Joseph A. Jackson is the architect.
 Bids were received as follows for the heating and ventilating systems of the new school house to be erected on West Side hill: Donnelly, Merritt X Co. S3,269; Baldwin Engineering Go, S3.19O: A. A. Sanborn, $2,S95; Barlow Bros Go. S2,675; Waterbury Steam and Gas Pipe works, $2,6O0 Off tenn perature controlling system is used, 3.OSO: four additional rooms without latter. $2,9OO). For heating and ven- tilating the proposed new Ashley street building the following estimates were received: Wills Warming and Ventilating Co. S6.522: Barlow Bros Co. SG,42O.-Commercial Record.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-11
Sources of Silk SupDly.

The worlds product of silk is l3s,- .2S,s2S pounds annually. Of this enormous output western Europe produces S,s29,0 pounds, the Levant and central Asia 3,e33, ,s2s pounds, and the far east, which includes China, Japan and most of India, 25, 566, ,s2s pounds. China is still, as it always has been, the chief producer of silk, yielding nearly onethird of the. en- tire product. The leading countries in this industry are China, with 12,- O26,O93 pounds; Japan, with 7.96O, ,530 pounds, and Italy, with 6,s14,O7O pounds. Since 1897 the increase in the silk product has been nearly one- third, the yield for that year having been 14,769,GOo pounds, as against 3s,- 92s, ,s2s pounds in 1se9.-N. Y. Post.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-11
The Neceaaitiea of Life.

There are really four necessaris of life-air, water, food and clothes, in
 the order named. To the first, and by long odds the most important, we pay no attention. It is the most plentiful! substance in nature, yet the most ab- solutely indispensable, and we never think of it until man or beast renders 1t disagreeable. Without it we can live a few minutes, without water a few days, without food a. few months, and without clothes forever and day. Death by suffocation is horrible, but quick; by thirst it is appalling and long drawn out. To find substitute for water is to offset. and, indeed, to con- trol nature. My old friend, Lieut.. Ed ward s. Farrow. when scouting for the Neg Perces in Idaho in 1878, suffered intensely because of lack of water
 until the friendly Indians taught him to peel the bark from a pine and suck the moisture cut of the velvety white inner skin. In a short time he and his soldiers were quite independent of aqua pura. With a pocketful of pine bark they could go for days without drinking. Perhaps this is small con- tribution to science, or, at least, to the economy of nations.-N. Y. Press
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-11

While the highest official authorities still prefer. to maintain reticence as to the relative performances of the American engines, says a writer in the New England Engineering Maga- zine, it has been possible to glean a good deal elsewhere as to their work ing. After collating much independ- ent information. I gather that they do cept that they burn more coal than the British locomotives employed on sim liar work The question of repairs is still in the future, but as to the mat ter of coal consumption there is. l think. little doubt that that of the American engines is somewhat higher than that of the British machine. And the excess. if it really does exist. may probably he attributable in large measure. if not wholly. to the fact touched upon just now that these en- zines do not represent the matured result of American experiences as ap- piled to this particular type of locomo- tive designing. I may at once say frankly that even were the details of coal consumption accessible they would not impress or even interest me. The experience of that memorable dis cuSsion or rather dispute, before the institution of civil engineers at the conference of 1899, constituted an amusing object lesson as to the value of coal consumption returns even when presented by some of the most eminent living mechanical engineers. The discrepancies were so hopelessly irreconcilable as to amount to absolute contradictions.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-11

Senator Morgan is determined to
 keep before the people the fact that
 it is British influence that has caused
 and is causing republican opposition
 to Nicaragua canal legislation. In
 view of the fact that the 1Iay-Paunce-
 fote treaty lapsed by limitation March
 1. and in line with that determination
 Senator Morgan has introduced q reso-
 lution declaring the Clayton-Bulwer
 treaty abrogated. The republicans
 have met this by declaring that the
 senate cannot alone abrogate a treaty,
 and have gone away back to 1908 to
 find precedent showing that the
 house must also act and the president
 sign to bring about the abrogation of
 a treaty. This is because they do not
 wish to have Senator Morgan's resolu-
 ton considered at the present extra
 session of the senate. Senator Morgan
 made a speech ill support of his resO-
 luton that was one of the warmesr
 heard on the floor of the senate for long time, in which he said of the ,
 no compromise with Great Britain on that subject. We, will make no con- cessior to Great Britain in relation to that treaty. What we shall do with 1t (and some of our people are opposed even to that, is that we shall declare it abroga ted. If the yote~Dn my reso- lution could be taken to-day it would inform the president that he has no aWo-thirds vote in the senate to adopt any compromise he may make with Great Britain. If it is the purpose of Great Britain still to look for delay she will not get it. If it be her deter imitation to pick quarrel with Us about it she will find the United States can muster at least half of the num- Der of men who voted for president in the last election-fighting men. And she will find. when the war terminates, that the steel band which binds the throne in London with Australia and India and passes through Canada will have been rent in twain; and with its severance down will go the empire"
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-11
The Library,

"Yes, this is Daniels library. You know man like him must have a place where he can get alone and think and cultivate himself How much do you s'pose it cost to fix up this room? Nine thousand dollars! 1 could show the bills if had time. But, after all, it's worth it. We mustn't forget that we owe something to art and literachoor. Just look at all the books Daniel has gathered. sometimes wonder how he ever do1.e it, him being, such busy man-and every one of them just exactly as good as it was the day it. como out of the store, too!"-Chicago Times Herald.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-11
No Chm Lc.

In a Sheffield workshop, when the men absented themselves, they were expected to produce a doctors certif. icate.
 An Irishman. absent, however, on a second occasion, and told to bring his certificate, gave in the one used be fore The manager. looking at it, said:
 Why, Mcguire, this is an old cer- tificate!"
 'Sure, I know that, your honor,'' said Maguire. calmly. And isn't it the same ou1d complaint ?'-London Spare Moments.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-11
WATERBURY FIRE ALARM.

4--Cor South Main ana 0rand sts.
 5--Scovill Manufacturing Co. (P).
 C--Cor Bridge and Iagill StS.
 7--EXchange Place.
 12--Rogers x Bro. (P).
 l3 Cor East Main and Niagara sts. 14--Cor East Main and Wolcott I'd. 15--Cor High and Walnut sts.
 l6--Cor East Main and Cherry sts. 17-Cor East Main and Cole sts, 21--Cor North Elm and kingsbury sts 23-Burton Street engine house. 24-Waterbury Manufacturing Co. P 25--Cor North Main and North sts. 26--Cor Buckingham and Cooke sts. 21--Cor Grove x Prospect Sts.
 2S--Cor Hillside avenue and Pine st. 29.-N. Willow bet. RidseWood and
 Hillside avenue.
 s1-Cor Bank and Grand sts.
 So--Cor Riverside and Bank sts. 35--Conn. Lightg & Pow. Co, car 36,-Waterbury Brass Co. (P).
 31-Cor Cedar and Meadow sts. 3S-Cor Grand and Field sts.
 4o-Cor South Main and Clay sts. 43-New England Watch Go. (P). 4ErBenedict & Burnham Mfg Co. (P) 46-Waterbury Buckle Go. (P. 47-Cor s. Main and Washinton sts. E1-COr BaiuWlu duu 1llFeF SIS. 52-Cor Franklin and Union sts. 53-Wat'b'y Clock Go. case fact'y (P). 54-Cor Clay and Mill sts.
 56-Cor Liberty and River sts. 5I-No Hose House.
 5S-Cor Baldwin and Stone sts. 62-Cor Doolittle alley and Dublin st. 7o-Cor West Main and Willow sts. 74-Cor Johnson and Wateryille sts. 212-The Platt Bros & Go. (P). Buckle Co. (P). 21+Wat'b'y Clock Co. mvt fact'y (P). o16-Cor North Main and Grove sts. o51-Cor Round Hill and Ward sts. cf1-Junction Cooke and N. Main sts. 272-Grove. bet. Central & Hclmes avs. S11-S. N. D. Telephone Go bldg. Pl. 31o-Cor Bank and Meadow sts. 313-Randolph &s Cloves. (p) 914-Plume and Atwood P). 315-American Ring Go P). 216-F.lectric Light Station (P). 31e-Holmes. Booth & Haydens (P). 921-No Hose House. 2o3-Cor Wash'g'n ave and Porter stS. 3o4-Cor Charles and Porter sts. 3ob-Cor Simons st and Wash'g'n ave. 371-City Lumber and Coal Co P). 412-Tracy Bros (P).
 451-Steele & Johnson A1f. Co PA kS2-Cor Baldwin and Rye sts-
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-11
HEARD IN PASSING

Senator MitchelFs advance notice of the shedding of his partisanship is probably all the evidence in that line the Oregon democrats will ger.
 There is a growing suspicion that the conditions imposed upon Cuba were intended to continue American occupation of the island, and not to be accepted by the Cubans..
 Little Billy Chandler was given q loving cup by the, naval committee, upon his retirement from the senate, and some "niggers'' gave him caneJ and there were doubtless others who would have given him a. cAning had they followed their natural incllna- tiOus.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-11
His Time Limit.

Senator Beveridge tells good story on an Indiana lawyer who was some thing of q wag. Leaving his office one afternoon, this man stopped in res- taurant and took a drink of whisky. On the ear he met prohibition friend.
 q have quit drinking and feel splen- did, remarked the lawyer.
 Quit drinking:' queried the pro- hibitionist, ting the liquor on the lawyers breath. How long since?,'
 The lawyer took out his watch and looked at it. "Three minutes ago." he replied. Washing on Post.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-11

Yes, republics, especially those tinged with aristocratic imperialism, are un- grateful. Spain has promoted AG- hao done nothing for Schley, except 4o IT to bsliti1e nh achieye
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-11
The IA dica tions.

The indications are that great many teachers who have taught the young idea how to shoot didn't know it was loaded.-Chicago Daily News.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-11
Oh. HRSe HuulicitY.

Angeline-He says he's goin ter give me suthin' ''real swell' fer me birth day.
 Daisy-Uv course you know he's got de humps ?-Judge.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-11
Never Too Old.

Men never get too old to acquire perience.-Chicago Daily News.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-11
The Last Chance

I am authorized to sell premises No POP Bank street, for the sum of $1S,- GOO. The property Is next south of the rink, that being the property, it is said, q syndicate has formed to pur- chase. This offer is good for the first conner.
 Inquire at D. Fl. Tierney's Real Els tate, Fire and Plate Glass Insurance, Contract. Court and Fidelity Bonds. Office No 1G1 Bank street.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-11
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 Free admission to Recitals. Concerts and Lectures.
 So for term of ten private piano lessons.
 Register now for all departments.
 Students received daily.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-07-11

Reporters sometimes report speeches
they do not hear and bad work they
make of it. An enthusiastic Irishman
was once hoaxed by a wag to reporting
a speech in parliament by Edmund
Burke on the merits Of the potato as an
article of diet. The wag reported the
speech apparently from his notes, and
the reporter, never doubling his good
faith, handed in a report. The next
morning all London was laughing over
the speech, which made Mr.. Burke at
tribute the superior virtue Of the Irish
people to the fact that they eat so
many potatoes.
Another reporter Jared better who
made up speech from his own imagi-
nation. It was a bold act, for the
speech was from the throne, George III
being the monarch. The minister's were
indignant at his impudence and were
eager to punish him with the severest
penalties of the law. But the good ma
tured monarch interposed with quiet
joke at the expense of the minister
who had prepared the speech read by
the king. II hope the mans punish
ment will be Of the mildest Sort" said
King George, "because I have read
both, and, so far as can understand
either of them, I like the reporters
speech better than my own
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-07-11

Anybody goin home ocit7, yoat, Liza?"
toad cries in the locust tree. The boy
goes to bed thrilled with an expecta-
ton. He muses., II will see somebody
tomorrow"
On the morrow the woods are full Of
music. The great soul Of day rises
with a burst of glory, and the streams,
bounding over the rocks or dreaming
among the ferns, laugh more merrily
and seem to be brighter than they
were yesterday. Horses neigh near an
old log church, and a swelling hymn is
borne away on the blossom scented air.
The plowboy, sitting near the spring,
heeds not the sacred music, but gazes
intently down the shady road. He sees
some one coming-sees the f1uttering Of
a gaudy ribbon-and is thrilled. A
young woman comes up the road, coyly
tapping an old mare with a dogwood
| switch, and, eager lest some one else
may perform the endearing Office, he
hastens to help the young woman to
alight. He tries to appear unconcern'
ed as he takes hold of the bride rein,
but he stumbles awkwardly as he
leads the animal toward the horse
block. When he has helped her down
and has tied the horse, it is his blessed
privilege to walk with the girl as far
as the church door.
''What's Jim a-doin?" he asks as
they walk along under the embarrass-
| ing gaze of a score of men.
''Plowed yistidy; amt dom nothin
today"
''Be here today, I reckon he re-
joins.
''He went to preachin at Ebeneezer. :"
"What's Tom a-doin?''
"Went to mill yistidy; amt doin
nothin today"
'Be here today, reckon"
HE flowed he mout, but I don't
know whether he will or not.''
'What's Aft a-doin?'' e..
''Cut sprouts an deadened trees yis-
tidy; amt doin nothin today"
''Be here today, reckon
eyes, flowed he was comm with Sue
Prior"
"Anybody goin home with you,
Liza?''
mot that I know off,
'Waal, if nobody else amt spoke, I'd
like to go.''
well see about it, she answers and
then enters the church. He saunters
off and sits down under tree where
a number of young men, are wallowing
on shawls spread on the grass. The
preacher becomes warm in his work,
and the plowboy hears him exclaim,
what can a man give in exchange
for his own soul % But he is not think
ing of souls or of any existence beyond
the horizon Of this life. His mind is
on the girl with the gaudy ribbon, and
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-07-11
COVE.

The graphaphone entertainment
held last week was we'll attended.
Mr.. and Mrs. Humble spent a
few days at the Simpson home last
week.
Miss Ressie Norton is in ST..
Cloud attending the summer train
ing school.
Jas. Simpson, Of Virginia, is
making his brother G.. w. S1mp-
son an extended visit.
M. S. Rutherford and party
came down to the celebration in
their gasolene launch.
Frank Daigle's little boy, who
has been SO very sick with the
measles, is recovering.
Miss Ida Brandt, who has been
in Minneapolis for the past year,
is at home for the summer.
Q VIM. Sykes and son, Jim Car
rington, A. J. Porter and H. E.
Washburn have gone to Itascs
county to look for homesteads
among the pines.
The celebration at Mossomine
Point was a success notwithstand.
ing the weather was bad, it having
rained all the forenoon. John
johnson brought quite load from
Opstead and Isle on his boat. The
ball game between Isle Harbor and
Cove was close and had the deci.
sions of the umpire been more fair
the game would have been close
all through. The score was II to
10 in favor of Isle Harbor. Dane
ing and a display of fireworks fin
ished the entertainments of the
day.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-07-11
A Backwoods
Sunday " As
..- By Opie Read
Copyright, 1901, by Opie Read.

n SUNDAY in the backwoods Of
IAl tennessee, viewed by one
f&SI whose feet rarely stray from
3 1'.aa the Worn paths of active life,
may hold nothing attractive, but to the
old men and women-the youth ana
maiden of the soil-it is a poem that
comes once a week to encourage young
love with its soft sentiment and soothe
old labor with its words of promise.
In the country where the streams are
so pure that they look like strips of
sunshine, where the trees are so ancient
that one almost stands in awe Of them,
where the moss, so old that it is gray
and, hanging from the rocks in the
ravine, looks like venerable boards
growing on faces that have been hard
ened by years Of trouble-in such a
country even the most slouching clown,
walking as though stepping over clods
when blowing where the ground breaks
up hard, has in his untutored heart
love of poetry. He may not be able to
read, may never have heard the name
of a son Of genius, but in the even
ng, when he stands on a purple ''knob'
watching the soul of day sink out of
sight in PARKWAY valley, he is a poet.
When the shadow of Saturday night
falls upon a backwoods community in
Tennessee, quiet joy seems to Turk in
the atmosphere. The whippoorwill has
sung unheeded every night during the
week, but tonight his song brings a
promise of rest. The tired boy sits in
the door and, taking off his shoes,
strikes them against the log doorstep
to knock the dirt out, and the cat that
has followed the women when they
went to milk the COWS comes and rubs
against him. The humming bird, look
Ing for late supper, buzzes among the
honsysuckle blossoms, and the tree