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Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-19
HOMAGE TO MORGAN.
Everybody in Europe, from Royalty
 Down, Anxious for q Look at the Great Financier.

Kings and merchant princes and nations are marveling at the ability of America to give and pay for the large orders recently executed in Eu- rope. American individual ability and American power in the money market have been personified in the person of MT. J. Pierpont Morgan, the most observed and talked about person in Europe for several weeks. His coming was heralded by the news of his successful formation of the $1.0o0,0oo,oO0 steel trust. He stopped panic in the stock ex- change in London by arriving just when rumors of Wall street specula- tion were widest; he took up $5O,- 0O0,Oo6 of the British war loan;
 bought up controlling interest in three great steamship lines and he realized the old dream of the Geo. graphical society of Lisbon for steamship line to New York.
 The appearance of this man has caused public demonstrations. At the Guild Hall banquet he said not word, yet he was the center of ob- servation. At Windsor the king con- fessed his curiosity to see the great reorganizer" and hoped he would not take fancy to England's historic palace on the Thames and buy it. At Paris mob thronged the square about the Care due Nord when it was learned that Morgan. was to leave on the Calais-London Rapide. When he appeared at the station the crowd saw stingufshed-loolxinp man above the middle height, with gray mustache and hair, in light gray business suit and raglan, and with the rosette of the Legion of Honor in his buttonhole. There was curt ] nod to the reporters who tried to get a word with him, and the ssAtlantic Transport King" Steel Magnate" and "Great Reorganizer" was gone.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-19
oAKv1LLE HAPPENINGS

The fete under the auspices of St Mary AIagdaIene parish will be given Thursday. August 1, in Timothy Kel- ly's meadow. It will be held all day and evening. The Rev Father O'Don- nell was in this place yesterday mak- ing arrangements for it.
 Gerald Cunningham, son of the Rev Mir Cunningham of Watertown. has ex- cepted a position in the box depart ment of the Pin factory.
 Mrs Denis Shanahan had the mis- fortune to cut one of her hands very badly with a piece of glass. It is fear ed that particle of the glass remains in the wound causing it to be very painful.
 Mrs Agnew of New Haven, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs Graham, returned home yesterday.
 A large crowd attended the dance given at Mir Erwfn's park last evening. Cams orchestra furnished music
 A trolley party passed through this place last evening It was given by the Daughters of Liberty
 Miss Laura Paul of Waterbury was In this place Wednesday evening and took tea with her grandparents at Ma pie Grove farm.
 1lr and Mrs William Babin of Wa ferbury were in this place last evening calling on friends.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-19
French Etiquette About Hats.

The manners of Paris to-day are said to be those of London to-mor- row. But in one particular we may hope that the custom of Partisan theatergoers will not be imported. The emphatic and instantaneous man ner in which the contemporary Frenchman seizes his hat when the curtain falls and wears it between the acts, talking the while to his woman kind, is restless and odd enough, one may hope, to evade imitation. Whence the habit comes no man quite knows. A quarter of a century ago the Frenchman blushed when he saw the Englishman enter club smoking room with his hat on. Some people say that this time the French have taken a hint from the English, and given it an accent of exaggeration.- London Chronicle.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-19
KNOWN IN OTHER LANDS.

The new prime minister of Japan, Viscount Katsura, distinguished him. self in the Chinese war by winning one of the greatest fights, the battle of Kangwasai.
 The duke of Cornwall, though born and bred in England, speaks the lam guage with as decidedly German an accent as does his mother, while the king burrs his r's very oddly.
 M. Paul Revolt, the new governor of Algeria, is 45 years of age and is a brother of the late George Revolt, the explorer of the Somali country. Originally he was a journalist.
 Lord Dufferin, who has recently completed his. seventy-fifth year, once referred to himself, on account of the numerous offices he has held, as 'maid-of-all-work to, British govern ments."
 In lawsuit now pending in Scot land to determine whether the late Sir W. Cunliffe Brooks, millionaire banker, was domiciled in England or Scotland, a lawyer testified that in the last few years Sir William has made 200 wills
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-19
MAY LEAD TO CRISIS.
Pension Law for Workers Agitates
 French Legislators.
Government PrODoses WorIxman's Superannuation BflI-Nfeasure Is Not Pleasing to Conservatives
 and Roya1ists.

Now that universal" old-age pen- nions are no longer considered prac- tical politics in England, the most CO., lossal and comprehensive scheme for the protection and insurance of ad- vanced age is that embodied in the French workman's superannuatio bill, now under discussion in the cham Der of deputies. It is of course, a gov ernment measure. Premier WaldecE- Rousseau and Millerand, the minister of commerce (the avowed socialist member of the cabinet), are it's strong advocates. Critics allege that it is part of the price paid by the moderate and left republicans for the neces- sary support of the socialist deputies, without whose votes the present min istry of republican defense'' could not remain in power single day.
 There is no doubt some truth in this, but, says the Chicago Post, the French republicans are not rabid in- dividualists, and many of them may sincerely favor old-age pensions for the industrial army of the state. The bill will certainly pass the chamber, and the senate,. though more conserv- ative, is ardently republican and may do what the ministry regards as es- sential to the preservation of the ex- isting government. The chief objec- tion urged against the measure is not moral, but economic. Paternalism is admitted in principle, but the burden the scheme would entail is, it is feared, too heavy for the resources of over taxed France.
 According to official computations, the beneficiaries of the scheme num- Der s,900,000. The charge on the budget will be 7,Ooo, ,oOo francs the first year. It will steadily increase there ter, reaching maximum of 9o,0O0,- 900 francs in the eighteenth year, and
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-19
amntenr oarsmen Meet.

PHILADELPHIA, July 19.-All the amateur oarsmen of the United States and Canada that are entered for the several events in the national regatta to be held on the. Schuyllkill river today and tomorrow are now on the scene of the coming contests. Nothing remains to be done ill the way of preparing for the races, and all the contestants have completed their training. The regatta, judging from the quality of the entries and the large number of ~oi.s of town contestants, promises to be sue of the best ever held by the National AsSoc;a- ton of Amateur Oarsmen. Among the last crews to arrive were the Canadians.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-19
DOG LOCKED UP.
Stray Animal Which Has Been Chas-
 ing Trolley Cars at Hartford

About one week ago the Hartford papers published an article about a dog following trolley cars and stating that it had followed cars to New Brit ain and Plainville twice, and also cars to Burnside, coming back to Hartford each time after a car. The dog was finally caught early yesterday morn ing, after it had continued to follow the cars for nearly ten days. A few nights ago Policeman Weltner suggest ed to some of the conductors to lasso the dog.
 About o'clock yesterday morning Officer Weltner found the dog tied to the trolley company's repair wagon, which was doing some work on Main street. The policeman was told that a conductor had lassoed it early in the morning as it was chasing his car. The policeman called the patrol wagon and took the animal to the police sta ton. It was horribly emaciated, it's bones sticking out as if they would protrude through the flesh, and 1t looked as if it had had but very little, if anything, to eat since it began it's chase after cars. It was placed in a cell and given something to eat.
 The Humane society will be notified to take care of the animal. The dog had probably lost it's master, who was on a car, and it was keeping up a chase after cars to try to find him. And it is said that this is only one of three or four dogs that are chasing cars.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-19

for four years on Tit-Bits he resigned his position to start Pearson's Week. ly, which, owing to the novel meth ods of it's publisher, was a success from the beginning. Then the young man branched cut and established Home Notes, Pearson's Magazine, Short Stories, the Royal Magazine, Home Cookery, the Lady's Magazine, Dress Making at Home, Mainly About People and d score of other periodi
 calls, all of which are paying their owner a hands ome sincome. MT. Pear sons most important effort is the Daily Express, q one-cent London morning paper, which began publica- ton in April, 1900. 1t is in connec- tion with this new daily and with his intention of establishingoa chain of newspapers throughout the world that MT. Pearson is now visiting this country. go sb
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-19
THE SAME OLD STORY.

J. A. Kelly relates an experience sim- liar to that which has happened in all most every neighborhood in the United States and has been told and re-told by thousands of others. He says: Hast summer I had an attack of dysentery and purchased a bottle of Chamber lain's Collie. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy; which I used according to di- rections and with entirely satisfactory results. The trouble was controlled much quicker than former attacks when I used other remedies" MT Kel- 1y is a well known citizen of Tender son, N. O., For sale by all druggists.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-19
CYRIL ARTHUR PEARSON.
Famous London Editor Who Is Now Engaged in studying American
 JournaIfsra.

Cyril Arthur Pearson, who is now visiting this country for the pur- pose of studying American journal ism and it's methods, is only 35 years old, but has already made several millions by his enterprise and inge- nuity in the newspaper line. He be- gan his career few years ago as a writer on the staff of London Tit Bits. He had just cosne out of Win chester school with nothing behind him save his fathers blessing and nothing before him but the severest kind of competition. After working
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-19
HUNTING EXPEDITION.
Organized by Arizona's Game War den for the Purpose of Extermin-
 ating Mountain Lions.

John McCarty, territorial game warden of Arizona, has left Phoenix at the head of a party, equipped for a big roundup of California lions in the San Francisco mountains, about 150 miles north of Flagstaff.
 In that country the big cats are to be found in larger numbers than in any other locality in Arizona, and the party expects to bag several hundred of them. At one time. the California lion was to be found in all parts of Arizona, but large territorial and
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-19
HEARTBURN.

When the quantity of food taken is too large or the quality too rich, heart burn is likely to follow, and especially so if the digestion has been weakened by constipation. Eat slowly. and not too freely of easily digested food. Mas ticate the food thoroughly. Let six hours elapse between meals and when you feel q fullness and weight in the region of the stomach after eating, in dicating that you have eaten too much take one of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and the heartburn may be avoided For sale by all druggists.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-19
decreasing after that to an average of


 decreasing after that to an average of 45,000,000 francs. The act, it should be understood, applies to workmen alone, including agricultural laborers. It does not provide for 'universaP' old age pensions, and in that respect is less radical than the Denmark or New Zealand old-age pension law
 The details are somewhat obscure and involved. Every workman under 65 is to be required to pay cent a day if he is under IS and earns less than ? francs. For those above IS the compulsory deduction will be ? cents a day on wages between 2 and francs, and cents on higher daily wages. The employers will be re- quired to contribute an equal sum in each case. Whether he will try to re- duce wages the state does not care to ask or determine. The money will be paid to and invested by the govern ment in national or local securities. After the age of 65 any workman can demand pension based on these pay ments. To workmen disabled before the age of 65 the state will pay bonus not exceeding 100 francs year. WorlSmen who are 65 at the time the law goes into effect will receive pension not exceeding 100 francs year if they have worked for 30 years. Those under 65 will be similarly dealt with on reaching that age.
 To many this scheme will seem be- neficent, humane and in harmony with the spirit of our sympathetic age. It is highly significant that so great nation as France should undertake it. The objections are many, of course, especially from an individua1ist point of view. But, conditions being what they are, there is a great deal to be said in favor of insuring honest and faithful workers against want, suffer ing and pauperism in old age.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-19
All That Is NeedfuI.

"Yes, sir,' remarked the impecuni- ous man, eff it were not for one thing could square up with everybody and start real nice bank account."
 What's the one thing?'
 T can't stop living long enough. Any minute I can figure what's due me and what I owe and see tidy balance to my credit, and if could only stop liy- ing while made the collections would be in position shortly 10 start cut on firm financial basis, Chicago Post.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-19
NO BUSINESS TO NOTICE IT.

.sYou don't care to have the trousers made in the extreme of fashion, sup poser said the tailor who was taking nIs measure
 Xes sir. I d0." sharply responded Archibald eI know Pm bow-legged as we'll as you do. but I don't care to be reminded of It You go ahead and Uake those trousers as tight in the Iotz as anybody eISets. sir Iu as- zI:1.8 oll the responsibility Chicago
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-19
A Telcphonic Joke.

First Telephone Girl (passing the regular morning joke over the wire to the nearest "Central") Halloo, Gen. tral Say, two men went into res taurant and ate a spring chicken What call is that?
 "Central'' Girl-Give it up.
 sWhy, 2-s-1-Spring .'-N. r. Times.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-19
An Anurecfatfve Visitor.

Did you have good time at the worlds fair?''
 II should say so. Never ate better sausage than I got there. AIcggen. dorfer Blaetter.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-19
BEST LINIMENT FOR STRAINS.

F. F. Wells, the merchant at Deer Park. Long Island. N. Y., says: T al- ways recommended Chamberlain's Pain Balm as the best liniment for strains used it last winter for se- we're Iamencss in the side, resulting from a strain. and was greatly pleas ed with the quick relief and cure it af- rected.p For sale by all druggists
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-19
Texas Drought unbroken.

DALLAS, July 19.-The drought in Texas is still unbroken The heat is as intense as the average for the last three weeks. No rain has fallen in the state, and there are no signs of any.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-19
His Desire-

Hungry Man Cat lunch counter)- Gimme ham sandwich.
 Waiter-WAl you eat it now or take it with you?
 Both, if it's all the same price.''- Judge.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-19
Ground for snsnfcion.

Tanks What led you to suspect last night that I had been drinking?
 Mrs. IT can't imagine; unless possibly it was the fact .-.at you were drunk.-Harlem Life.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-19

When you want a modern, up-to-date physic, try Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. They are easy to take and pleasant in effect Price, 25 cents. For sale by all druggists.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-19
An Icy Smile.

The smile of diversity is rather icy Chicago Daily News.
The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1901-09-12
WAR ON THE HOPPERS
THE GOVERNMENT PREPARES TO
FIGHT THE INSECTS.
Pest of the Great Farming Regions of
the West ani Southwest to BE Bat
tied Against by Plague--~ause Great
Annual Damage.

That the United States great farm
Ing regions in the West and Southwest
may be rid of a pest which annually
threatens the crops with destruction
and causes an enormous financial loss.
the government has adopted Il new and
extraordinary means. Grasshoppers
exist in untold numbers in New MeXi-
co, Colorado, Wyoming ana Nebraska.
but the situation in Southern Texas
seems to be worse than anywhere else.
To relieve the distress occasiunei by
the grasshoppers. government cntomol-
ogists are putting up in bottles disease
germs of fungous kind, deadly to
grasshoppers, and is sending them to
parts of the country where the damage
threatens to be particularly severe
The fungus is obtained from South
| Africa. where it has been used with
great success recently. vast armies of
grasshoppers being literally wiped out
by it. 1t is propagated artificially by
applying bit of it to n sterlized prep
aration Of gelatine and blood serum,
on which the germs multiply rapidly.
Thus prepared. the cultures" are sent
out in glass tubes. corked with absorb.
| ent cotton and sealed with red wax
each one being enclosed in a pasteboard
cylinder. Directions for use accompany
the package.
| In Colorado last summer there was
an outbreak of fungus disease among
grasshoppers, and quantities of the
dead insects were shipped to Washing
ton and utilized here for making "cul
lures" A whitish, threadlike growth
The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1901-09-12
In q Smoking Car.

A lady of a truly masculine spirit, ac-
companied by small poodle, Is said to
have failed sadly the other day in an
attempted reformatory movement. She
entered the smoking car of suburban
train and sternly refused, when ap-
preached by the conductor, to 60 into
another car. observing that her pres
ence would keep the other occupants
from smoking.
One thick-skinned wretch, however,
insensible to the claims Of refinement
and reform, began to enjoy his accus-
toned cigar, which was suddenly
snatched from his lips, with the remark
in a high treble:
III there is anything I do hate It ID
tobacco sm0king!'
For a time the offender was motion
less. then, gravely rising, amid the curl.
osity Of the assembled smokers. he took
that little poodle out of the lady's hap
and gently threw him through the win.
dow, signing: III there 10 anything
do hate 1t 10 poodle"
The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1901-09-12
Situation at Guam.

New York, Sept. 8.-A United States
soldier now serving on the island of Guam
writes friend in this city, enclosing the
copy Of an order issued by Governor Seaton
Schroeder. The order reads in part as fol-
lows:
"The attention Of the commander Of this
station is directed to the hoodlumism and
lawlessness which are rampant. It is not
necessary to mention all the instances Of
terrorism. theft, gambling and drunken.
ness which have brought the United States
forces into disrepute among the people OF
the island, but there is reason for abiding
to the theft few weeks ago of a barrel
Of whisky from the naval hospital, which
was the sole supply Of the medical depart
ment for medical purposes. There are
many who know who the thieves are, but
they apparently have not the courage Ia
denounce them"
The order continues, calling upon the
men to assist the officers in relieving the
command from the charges.
The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1901-09-12

have been changed, 1t being announced
that she will be taken to Bristol, where
her spars will be taken out and the
yacht will then be towed to New Lon
don. Thirty of her crew have been
discharged.
An Indignation meeting, attended by
about 500 Poles. Of whom it is esti-
mated there are $4,000 in New York
City, was held Sunday at the Church
of St. Stanislaus. and bitter words of
denunciation Of Czolgosz and his crime
were uttered, while the expression OF
sympathy for the president and those
belonging to him was warm and uni
versal.
The dead body of Tmm PAIL was
found near Pendleton, Ore, recently in
a position to indicate peculiar method
of suicide. PAIL had tied window
cord around his neck and threw the
other end over the limb of cotton
wood tree, standing on the top of a
stone levee quarter mile below town.
He then pumped off the top of the le-
wee, 50 that as he fel Ito the base the
rope frightened, causing death by stran-
gulation.
At jamestown, n. D., five men were
killed and six others seriously injured,
two of whom have since died, in a COL
lision. A mixed train on the Northern
Pacific came in from Cakes, carrying
seventeen men on a fatcar. AS the
train passed the station road engine
was struck and the force Of the COL
lision caused the flatcar to collapse.
The names of the dead and injured
could not be learned. They were har-
vest hands who had boarded the car at
Lamoure.
Colonel Myron T. Herrick, one of the
presidents most intimate friends, says:
I'm view of the general feeling aroused
among the people of the country
against anarchists. as a result of the
shooting of President Mckinley, it
seems to me that the time is most OPP
Fortune to demand a change in the
laws so that any attempt on the life of
the chief executive may be punished by
death. There is a strong sentiment in
favor Of congress taking action during
the coming session in reference to the
matter.
What is supposed to have been a de
liberate attempt to murder an entire
family occurred in the Lilly hopyard
at Corballis, Ore, Sunday. Mrs. Wish.
nofske, with her son, aged 10, and
daughter, aged Is, were encamped near
the drier. Shortly after midnight a
terrible explosion aroused the neigh
borhood, the report being heard miles
away. 1t was caused by dynamite, a
stick Of which had been fired in the
tent near the head Of the two beds oc
cupied by the mother and her children
The tent was wrecked and big hole
torn in the ground by the dynamite
| but strange to say, the family escaped
with only temporary shock from thu
heavy conclusion.
The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1901-09-12
President Operated Upon.

The operation upon the president lasted
almost an hour. Ether was administered.
A five inch incision was made where the
ball entered the abdomen and its course
was followed until the physicians became
satisfied that the kidney had not been
touched or the intestines perforated and
that it had lodged probably in the mus
c,es of the back, where it could do no harm
for the present. The intestines were
fully examined and the utmost confidence
exists that there was no injury. The
physicians were exceedingly gratified at the
result and pronounced the operation a
complete success.
In response to request from the Asso-
ciated Press for an opinion as to the prob
able result of the presidents wounds Sur
geon General Wyman Of the Marine hos
pital service said:
1.-The fact that the president was in such
good health; that skilled surgical assist
ance was Immediately available; that the
necessary operation was not postponed. and
the fact that the percentage of recoveries
in similar cases is ,,~oe all WV" ~~,7l
ground for anticipating favorable re.
suit.
1.-The fact that the wound was received
as late as 80 p. m, probably some hours
after luncheon and before dinner, the
stomach being comparatively empty, is in
his favor. 1t is difficult to find statistics
based on large number OF cases with
wounds of this character, but in a general
way it may be said that recoveries aver
age about so per cent. With a man like
President Mckinley it is safe to say that
/ the percentage of chances in his favor i.
much greater than this. Cases with nu
merous perforations of the stomach and in
testines, accompanied by wounds of the
liver and kidneys have recovered"