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Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-29
WATERT0WN J0TTIN GS
Father O'Donnel's Transformers Gave
 ITin, S,lhcta ntia1 Ramemharancp

Father O'Donnells Transformers Gave
 Him Substantial Rememberance.
 Last Thursday evening committee consisting of prominent members of St John's parish and the missions at Oak vile and Woodbury called on Father O'Donne11 and presented to him on be- half of the parishoners purse of $500. The members of St Johns parish feel keenly the loss sustained by them in Father O'Donnells removal. Still they feel that their loss is his gain.
 Tomorrow is Easter Sunday and as usual we expect to see the usual num- Der of Easter bonnets. Easter comes early this year, but we are willing to wager that it is not too early to keep the ladies from turning out with their new spring styles. Easter Sunday, without new Easter bonnets, would be a failure of the worst kind To-mor- row and Monday the women folks will get together and talk about the sermon, nit. The burden of the conversation will be what others wore to the church in the morning.
 At Christ church tomorrow Holy communion will be celebrated at 7:30 q. m., also after morning prayer and >a Oakyille at 9:15. Morning prayer will be at l0:45 in order to give the rector time to get back from Oakville There will De no noon session of the Sunday school, but the special Easter service for that institution will be at D. m.
 The annual parish meeting of Christ church will be held Monday evening at 30. peWs will be rented during the afternoon at the church and in the evening at the parish rooms.
 John Conway, who had the nisfor- tune to break his leg while moving some stones q few days ago. was re moved to the Waterbury hospital yes terday i'll Lunnys ambulance.
 4. c. Plants moving pictures show Thursday evening.
 Monday evening the Watertown Ath- letic club will give an entertainment and dance at the Town hall. Taft school base ball team are nrac. tlcing daily. Indications point to fhe fact that a good team will be deyel- | oped during the coming season. The date of the first game has been changed to April II, when Hopkins grammar school will play on the local grounds. April 15 the Yale freshmen will be here and the local boys expect to give a good account of themselves.
 Several families from Canada have moved here during the past week. They are occupying some of the NJ. Hemn- way X Sons tenements and are work ling in that factory.
 NJ. F. Brahen has taken the contract to do the trucking at new tenement block. which is to be erected near Bar ton < store.
 Wilson of the Boston Tech is home for the Easter vacation.
 Selectman Lockwood is confined to the house with an attack of quinsy.
 Yesterday being Fast day the shops were shut down and stores closed dur 1 ing the afternoon.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-29
SUBURBAN DEPARTMENT

care of them' (referring to the town poor). MT Mills: II would like to ask MT Culver what chance of escape the inmates of the town farm would have if the building took fre'' MT Culver: T would not risk my life by staying there over night. The room where the men sleep is reached only by small, narrow, crooked and rickety stairway, and they have to go the whole length of the room to reach it' Burgess Smith: What makes the board of charities come to the board of warden and burgesses when they have the right to go ahead and do the work ?' Burgess Freeman: ''They were right in coming before the board.' Burgess smith: 'The board has the right and It has the power and should act wisely. and the members should be wise men. and ii they are not they should not be there" Some more discussion took place between Burgesses Westbrook and Ranslow referring frequently to 1 the borough charter, and after some flme the board voted itself as agree able to the proposed changes and the meeting adjourned
 l Officer Malone happened to be at the I depot last night when the GAS train pulled i'll and he had not been there long when he discovered q man in an intoxicated condition begging money rom the conductor. He promptly took the offender to the station house. Tine i prisoner was brought before Judge Hungerford this morning, to whom he l stated that he was railroad man and q telegraph operator and that he was on his way to New Haven to look for work. He was sentenced to thirty days i'll jail with costs.
 A young man well known about town was arrested last night by Officer Ma lone for intoXication. He put up q $1O bond and forfeited itfby his non-appear- ance ill court this morning. Another unfortunate was arrested this morning, but as he was in such a condition from 1 his tussle with drink that his case was continued until Monday morning. Yesterday turned out to be a rainy day, and the rain also fell heavily to- day, but to make matters worse the horrid old weather man has predicted q severe storm for tomorrow, Easter Sunday If this is so there will be a scarcity of Easter bonnets tomorrow
 
 munity can hold their criticisms of their next door neighbours new hat foi another week
 James Haven is about. to erect 2 blacksmith shop on the Lewis property on Rubber avenue.
 James Sullivan. the popular driver for Adams Express Co, will, commenc ing tomorrow, have charge of Fred Church's lunch room on Water street It is Mir Church's intention to keep the lunch room open every Sunday in the future
 \ little daughter of Warden Schaffel had narrow escape from receiving serious injuries yesterday afternoon Men in the employ of Contractor Chat field of Waterbury who are excavatins for the new high school. were lasting and when the blast went off large fra gment of the rock went through ons of the second story windows in Nil Schaffer's house and struck q sewns l.table. completely demolishing 1t. M scnsffer's daughter. who was sitting
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-29

Two games in the second series Of the pool tournament were played OH Thursday evening, when Cushman de feated Miller, score D to II. Last evening Buckingham and Harper were the contestants. The score at the finish stood 75 to 59 in favor of Buckingham. Monday evening Suffa and Brewster will play
 Burton Black is visiting friends in town.
 Next Tuesday evening is the regular meeting of the fire department.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-29

at the table, received slight injuries from pieces of the broken table, but had the heavy rock hit her it would have surely killed her. Twelve car. tridges were used in the blast. and one thing is certain, had the men in charge used any kind of care the accident would have never happened.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28
Iowa is a Jewel.

In recent interview IN relation to
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition to
be held in st. Louis, Capt. Merry said,
"that Iowa's exhibit ought to be mag
nificent corn palace. Nothing else
would attract 30 much attention or do
the state SO much good 1t should not
be an exposition building decorated
after the corn palace style, as was the
Iowa building at Chicago. 1t ought to
be corn palace, inside and out, like
Sioux City used to build. Why, it
would be more talked about, more
written about, more known about, than
any other structure on the grounds. In
side, it should have great industrial
exhibit, that would show not merely
the agricultural, but the general re-
sources of Iowa. With its immense
coal product, its gypsum, iron, lead; It's
factories, its packing business, its great
wealth in every department, Iowa ought
to wake up and let the world know that
1t is great state in q dozen other lines
than agriculture.
Everybody knows that Iowa is the
great corn and hog state, but not every
body knows that it is one of the great
est coal states; few know of the rich.
ness of iron deposits and lead, of build
ing stone, gypsum. and the varied
mineral prodncts. The state ought to
take advantage of this opportunity to
let the world know about 1t. The posi-
bilities of Industrial development here
have not been appreciated Any kind
OF factory to handle the cereals and the
various products of Iowa soil can sue
ceed in Iowa. 1t is the greatest field in
the country today for independent
manufacturers in all lines; for men who
want to develop industries independent
of the trusts. 1t has the capital in its
banks, the raw material, the coal for
power, the market for the products.
Politically and agriculturally Iowa has
won recognition; what it needs is to let
the country know of the inviting field it
affords for industrial movements"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28
CITIES HARD TO KILL.
What Rome, Paris, constnntinopI
md London Hnxc SufYcred

What Rome, Paris, COnstnntinopIe
and London Have Suffered.
1t is n difficult thing to kill city,
and there are some well known places
that have SO much vitality that they
will survive any number of disasters.
Take Rome as first example. No
fewer than ten times has she been
swept by pestllence. She has been
burned twice and starved out on six
occasions. Seven times she has been
besieged or bombarded. But she still
llourishes. Perhaps that is why she is
called the Eternal City.
Puris has had eight sicges, ten fam.
Ines, two plaques and one fire which
devastated it. We make no reference
to the number of revolutions, as they
are too numerous to mention. But Par.
Is still tlourishes.
Constantinople has been burned out
nine times and has suffered from -four
plaques and five sieges. There are
some people who think that many OF
the sultans have been as bad for the
city as any pestilence. And yet she
goes on.
Lastly there is the English metropo-
lis. London began as kind of mound
IN swamp. In her early history she
was sacked. burned and all her inhab-
itants butchered. She has been deci-
mated by plague five times, exclusive
OF typhus. cholera and such maladies.
She has been more or less burned sew
en- times. She is thriving in spite of all.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28
GENIUS AT WORK.

Sarti, the musician. composed only II
darkness.
Bossuet worked in cold room. with
his head warmly enveloped.
1t is said that Schiller, before com.
posing, put his feet in cold water.
Gretry, to animate himself when com.
posing, breakfasted and took coffee and
then applied himself day and night to
his piano.
Guido REM painted with much pomp
He dressed himself magnifcently and
had his pupils attend him In silence
ranged around him.
The historian Mezeray would work
only with candle. even Mt midday and
in midsummer. He never failed to wait
OH his visitors, even to the street. with
candle in his hand.
Jeremy Bcntham jotted his ideas or
little squares of paper. which he piled
upon each other, and this pile of little
papers stitched together was the first
forms of his manuscripts.
Michael Angelo. Leonardo da Vinci
Titan, Rubens. passed from the chisel
to the pen or the brush. The change
rested them from the preceding work
and thus during long life they accom-.
plished marvellous works. = Literary
Era
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28
THE PHALANx.
yts Formation In the Military Meth.
DDS of Ancient Greece.

Xts Formation In the Military Moth.
DDS of Ancient Greece.
A phalanx in the military affairs Of
Greece was square battalion or body
Of soldiers formed in ranks and files
compact and deep with their shields
Joined and pixies crossing each other so
as to render 1t almost impossible to
break 1t. At first the phalunx consisted
Of 1000 men, but this number was aft
erward doubled by Philip of Macedon,
and the double phalanx is hence often
called the Macedonian phalanx. Poly
bius describes it thus:
ut was squire of pikemen, con-
sisting Of 10 In fink and 800 In front.
The soldiers stood so close together
that the pixies of the fifth rank extend
ed three feet beyond the front. The
rest, whose pixies We're not serviceable
owing to their distance from the front,
couched them upon the shoulders of
those who stood before them and, so
locking them together In file. pressed
forward to support and push on the
former rank. by which means the as
sault was rendered more violent and
Irresistible" The spears of those be-
hind also stopped the missiles of the
enemy. Each mans pike was twenty
three feet long. The word phalanx is
also used for any combination of peo-
pie distinguished for solidity and firm
ness. A grand phalanX consisted of
1884 men.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28
MAMMOTH BlRDCAGE
One of the Little Known Attraction
of the National Cnpitpl

one OF the Little Known Attrncttona
of the National Capital.
Washington, in addition to its other
attractions, possesses the largest bird.
cage IN the United States, perhaps in
the world. 1t is 40 by 22O feet ground
dimensions and 130 feet high and is
located in the very heart of the CITY
at the busiest point in busy section.
1t Is. In fact, the court of the post.
Office building, and at times it is filed
with sparrows, their twittering filling
the air and lending strange incon.
gruity to the otherwise solemn sur
roundings of the great building.
The birds enter the glass covered
court through the ventilating Stats at
the north and south ends near the peak
OF the roof, and only by accident do
they ind their way again to the omen
air. at times there are scores of them
Tying about within the Enclosure; then
q few disappear and others enter. Over
tle mailroom, on The ground floor.
there Is fiat, glass covered roof, par-
tttioned off with p!anks. and on these
latter are arranged many palms from
the botanical gardens.
Among these the birds disport them
selves rs In tropical freedom, and were
food supplied them thercts small doubt
that they would engage to remain in
definitely in such comfortable quarters,
FOR after the first fright at seeming
capture of a new bird the little crea.
lures seem to adapt themselves happily
to their new quarters, and only when
the pangs Of hunger attack them do
they make any attempt to find their
way again to the open.-Washington
Times.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28
The Digestion of Manure.

Many farmers in applying manure to
their land do not stop to think that be-
fore this manure can be utilized 1t must
be digested. Digestion is just as essen
tial to plants as to animals; in fact,
plants receive their food in more thor.
oughly digested way than do even ami
mails themselves.
Nothing grows on the railway, or
highway, covered with burnt clay. This
clay may have heat and moisture, may
have in it all the essential elements of
fertility, and yet no plsnt will grow on
1t because it is dead soil. 1t is dead
soil because there is no germ life in it,
and there is no germ life in it because
there is no decaying vegetable matter of
any kind on which germs can feed.
These germs are so exceedingly minute
that they can be observed only by the
most powerful microscopes. A drop of
water may contain whole regiments of
them, varying In size from one twenty.
liye-hundredth to one twenty five thou
sandth of an inch in length. A handful
Of dirt from any field containing yege-
table matter will have millions on mil
lions of them.
A plant can take its nourishment
only in a liquid form and the elements of
fertility must, therefore, be in the form
of o very thin solution il water which
can pass through the substance of the
minute cells which we call hair roots
1t will, therefore, be easily seen how
thorough the digestion must be.
There are three different kinds of
these minute germs which deal with the
nitrogen in manure, roots, or other de-
caying vegetable matter. The first pro.
duces ammonia in the soil, precisely the
same thing, only in very diluted form,
which escapes from the pile of decay
ing horse manure or that is SO rank in
| the sheep barn. Another class COM
bines this ammonia with the oxygen of
the air and forms what is called nitrous
acid, which in combination with earthly
matters forms salt called nitrite. A
third class of these germs converts
these nitrites into nitrates, which is the
only form in which the plant can use
nitrogen, This is soluble and can be
easily washed out; hence, the necessity
of having the coil as full as possible of
growing plants so as to prevent tho
waste of nitrates by heavy rains.
| All this may seem too scientific for
the ordinary reader, who will ask:
"What have to do in this business 2"
We answer him briefly: Drain your wet
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28
The United States and Cuba.

The Unit ed States have fairly dis
charged the obligations toward Cuba
which they assumed by the treaty of
peace with Spain. After compare.
lively brief period of tutelage the peo-
pie of the island have assumed the sd
ministration of the government formed
by themselves.
1t Is probable that the thoughtful peo-
pie of both countries do not anticipate
that the independent existence of Cuba
as nation will be maintained for a
prolonged period of years. Its people
will enjoy their newly found indepen-
dence until the burdens of its cost and
the weight of its cares become too
great for their endurance.
Their interests will bring them wear
by year into closer and closer intimacy
with the United States. Atsome time
not far remote greedy tariff legislation
by the American congress will cease to
repel their desire for the closest com
merciel relations with this country.
In the not very distant future con
gressional legislation in the United
States will move out from under the
shadow and slavery of the cane and
beet sugar trusts. The people will be-
come tired of paying tax on their
sugar which doubles its cost while an
opportunity to buy untsxed sugar is
open at their DOORS
With the amelioration OF our tariff
laws, which is sure to come, our trade
intercourse with Cuba will become
more intimate. AS time elapses the
people of this country will be educated
up to the sublime fact that 1t is the
height of folly for them always to pay
double prices for the necesssries of life
In order to swell the profits of monop
olies and trusts.
With this movement of progress
among Americans voters Cuba will
naturally drift into the union. Within
decade, perhaps sooner, its people will
be fitted for American citizenship.
Cuba and Porto Rico would make a
single state with population of nearly
2,5OO,0OO, which is more than that of
many states now in the union.
The enactment of honest laws repu-
lating the commerce between the
United States and Cuba would be of
the greatest benefit to both countries
1t would draw them insensibly together
and bind them in chains of mutual
interest. Before they realized the fact
they would become one people in all
but name.
The final merger of Cuba with The
union would be but legal form accom-.
plished without causing jar in the
harmonious course of national events
Chicago Chronicle.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28


Advices from Washington indicate
that the majority members of the ways
and means committee are to revive for
the coming campaign:the roaring old re-
publican farce "Tariff Revision by Its
Friends If the republicans really wish
to satisfy the voters of their disposition
to do away with protection for monop
oily only let them now, while they have
the power and when the beef trusts ex-
tortions have given the poor meatless
dinner pail, repeal the duties on cattle
and on meat that are needed neither for
protection nor for revenue, but serve
the trust alone. Farcial investigation
will fool nobody. New York World.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28
HE HAD A BIG HEART.
An Old Miner Who Was Mark
Twuin's Ideal Gentleman,

Twain's Ideal Gentleman.
"rhe finest gentleman 1 ever knew"
said Mark Twain in chat with a re-
porter one day, was an old California
miner wso could barely write his own
name. He was forty-niner, and he
and his partner had struck it rich in
the early days. The old man had nei-
ther chick nor child. and he had work
ed hard all his life, and when he did
get his money he hardly knew what to
do with 1t.
He did not try to jump into society
or to push his way with the big fel-
lows there. He continued to live with
the people whom he had associated
with all his life, and many an act of
Kindness was done, many wandering
son and father saved, many sorrow
ing woman's burden lightened and. her
home frightened by an unknown dom
or whose identity with the old man
was only known to n few.
ut was different with the partner,
he had wife and two daughters with
social aspirations, and after a whole
lot Of pushing and hauling and showing
they landed in society. The expense
was too much of drain on the hus-
bands purse, and he speculated. with
the inevitable outcome. He lost his ell
tire fortune and then shot himself.
Then 1t was that the true gentleness of
the old man showed itself. The Wild
ow and her daughters had no one to
turn to but him. and he did not dIsap-
point them. He saved their home for
them when everything else went un-
der the hammer. and he maintained
them in all tYe regal style to which
they We're accustomed. although he
still lived in las old lodgings. He lived
5ng enough to-see both Of the girls
u married and the
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28
sUPERsTlTloNs AT SEA.
Qanint Notions still Prevail Among
the Older Mariners,

| shS oAuSG UAAElACEQs
1t is a mistake. according to we'll
known young naval officer, to suppose
that the sailors of our present navy are
free from superstition. II remember"
he said, "only five years ago when l
was In the training ship that the old
salts there We're as full of old super
stitious beliefs rs any of their ancestors
could have been.
When at sea in dead calm, the
swaying of the masts in the motionless
atmosphere sometimes causes a pecul-
lar wailing sound like distant cries.
This, the old seamen assured us, was
the moaning Of the souls of sailors lost
Mt sea.
Another one of their pet beliefs is
that all sailors that die by drowning
are at once transformed into Cape
Horn pigeons, or, as they are also call
cd, Mother Carey's chickens. Officers
are supposed to find their reincarna.
tons in sea gulls and news, while the
big, solitary albatrosses. following the
wake of passing vessels. are the souls
Of captains who have gone down with
their ships. These are the reasons why
sailors never kill these birds.
Il remember that these tales i'm
pressed me great deal in those days
when was still mere boy. On one
occasion was sitting in the forecastle
on my watch below, chatting with the
boatswain's mate, real old timer;
when our conversation was interrupted
by a low wall of agony. louder than
that usually produced by the wind. We
listened in deep. awed silence.
Boy said the boatswain's mate, we
hear that? That's seaman's call wot's
been drownded.'
again the wall disturbed the silence.
Yes said the old sailor in an anx.
ious whisper; that's some old salt
wot's lost his life on board this vessel.
Likely he's come for something he's
forgot
"After awhile ventured out on deck.
The walls We're coming from the roof
of the forecastle. climbed up and
there found the captains little son
tugging away at the cats tnil, which
the poor animal was rcsenting with the
full power Of its lungs"-New York
Tribune.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28

lands, aerate the land thoroughly by
tillage, and give 1t thorough cultivation
Why? Because these germs require
darkness, moisture, air, and heat. They
are not active under 40 degrees Fshren.
heit; they are most active about 98 or go
and they cease to be active after the
temperature reaches over 100. There
fore, the best thing you can do is to stir
your ground as early in the spring as
possible and thus warm it up. BY stir
ring frequently we redistribute these
germs and bring them into contact with
continual supply of fresh food and at
the same time preserve the moisture
without which they cannot thrive.
When the scientist after all his pains
gets down to the bottom of things, he
furnishes a reason why the farmer
should do good farming along the lines
which the experience of farmers of all
ages have found to be correct. The sci.
entist cannot tell US when and how to
do things, but he can tell us why, and
having told US why we can easily find
out for ourselves how and when.-Wal.
laces Farmer.