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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-19
ON THE GRIDIRoN.
Every Seat Sold for Yale and Harvard ss@r~ Game r @1 g


 New Haven, Nov 19.-Ralph Bloom CT, Yale's giant right guard, is out of the game for the season, and the loss has cast a gloom over Old Ellis foot ball squad. Little was accomplished by an X-ray examination of the dam- aged ankle, which was made Tuesday. beyond ascertaining that it is too bad ly wrenched to let Bloomer play again. The team in general looks better for the three days vacation given it after its disastrous clash with Princeton last Saturday, and all of the regular eleven save Bloomer and Shevlin reported for practice Tuesday. Shevlin's bruise is severe, ana he Is still confined to ms roaNA but he will be out to-day. The bruises received by the other players are healing rapidly and satisfactorily Hogan will be in the game with liar yard. as his shoulder which was damned has come around all right ana he is much stronger. Another such knock. however, would put him out or the game, and at an early stage. RocK- well has returned from Ardsley in per feet condition, and feels fully able to reel off some new and startling con- binattons when the Blue meets the Crimson on Saturday. The blow he received in the head last Saturday dazed him, and he was unable 10 run the eleven as intelligently as he might otherwise have done.
 In Wall street yesterday some small bets were made in the Broad street curb market at odds of to l that Yale will beat Harvard next Saturday. At the close of the day money was offer ing to the amount of $1 900 to $500 on Yale and $250 to $1,OoO on Harvard. A bet of $500 even was made that Har- yard would not score.
 SEATS ALL SOLD.
 Cambridge. Nov 19.--From 10000 to 15,0O0 persons will be disappointed in their, hopes to see the Harvard Yale game next Saturday afternoon. Thou sands of applicants have had their money returned and thousands more are still clamoring for 8 chance to get inside the Stadium. Harvard men want more seats, Yale men have not half enough, and the general public has none at all All told there will be seats for 87,975. Of these 4,475 are in the Stadium and $500 in the temporary stand across the open end of the new structure Yale's allotment was 1O,50O seats, while 27.375 were distributed among Harvard men. For the Harr yard seats there were more than B. GOO applicants The Harvard club of New York, the class of '79 and the cheering delegation from Harvard have the seats in the middle of the field. Each Of the players on the ewarsity squad was allowed to apply for ten seats the men on the second eleven for five, ten coaches for ten seats and six oth- CTS for five. These are all choice seats. Miss Alice Roosevelt will be the guest Of Miss Eleanora Sears, daughter of Frederick R. Sears. Jr. for the game She will arriEe in Boston on Saturday morning, and will leave on Monday. :.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-19
The Going saads n Dlnersnes.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 10.-Upsets were frequent at Oakland The most surprising victory was that of Meeha- nus In the third race at six furlongs. Tn former race he was a pronounced faverite, but made very poor show ing. The judges called the owner, Frank Dosa, and jockey, Lee Jackson, before them for explanation. Doss thought the going made a difference. The officials were satisfied and dis missed the matter.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-19
Hobn-t. a4. A1fraa. 6.

GENEVA, N. Y., Nov. 10-Hobart defeated Alfred here in a one sided football game by tine scofe of 24 to 8.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-19

Willie Fitzgerald, the Brooklyn light weight, won another fight in Philadel- phia last Tuesday night by outpointing Kid Williams in six-round bout. The mill was fast throughout and both showed excellent judgment in leading and hitting. It looked as if the com bat would end in hurry. In the first round Fitzgerald ruched at Williams and planted heavy left on the body. Williams was staggered. but pulled himself together and by clinching man. aged to stick the round out. After this round it was nip and tuck. Williams got home a couple Of stfngers, but there was not sufficient force behind his blows to hurt the Brooklyn man.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-06-17
when Lnnge Stole Home.

Connie Mack has an endless fund OF
baseball stories. One of these he tells
about Bill Lange, the old Chicago
player asserting that Bills play in o
certain Pittsburg game was the most
daring bit of work he ever saw pulled
Off.
Bill had reached first The pitcher
threw to that sack, as Bill had taken
a big lead. The ball rolled away from
the first baseman only few feet. Few
players would have dared take theiI
feet off the sack, but Bill cut for sec
ond. The bail went bit wild there,
rolling toward short.
Never stopping at second, Bill tore
for third and then turned for the plate.
The ball was fielded to Denny Lyons
at third, but he was so surprised upon
receiving it and finding no man to
touch at the sack, he failed to throw to
the plate to get Lange. The game was
won by that one run.-Detroit News
Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-06-17
Two Child Stories.

"N1other, am tired; can't the bishop
go to heaven now?" said little girl,
during one OF DR.. Wilmington Ingram's
sermons. The authority for this beau
tiful legend is the bishop OF London
himself. If bishops are allowed such
anecdotal license, the mere layman can
hardly resist the temptation to report
or even to invent-storles Of the kind.
For instance, there is the story OF
the little boy who desired in his soul
to be devoured by lion. When asked
why, he retorted, Because, dear
mother, the lion would think he
had me in his inside, while really I
should be in heaven" The exalted no.
tion of deceiving the king of beasts
was quite sufficiently alluring to coun.
terbalance the trifing inconvenience
of martyrdom by mastication.-London
News. .s4.i.Y
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-06-17
Composition OF Old Bricks.

Some of the white bricks of Nippur,
in their black ebony cases, engaged the
other day the attention of a group of
students at the University Museum.
"These bricks, thousands of years old,
ought to be studied through the micro.
scope" one of them said. ''The micro,
scope might reveal strange secrets in
them. l once examined microscopic.
ally brick from the pyramid of
Dashour. 1t contained Nile mud,
chopped straw and sand. There were
also in it bits of shell, some fish bone
and some fragments of dead insects.
A shred of string was interesting-it
showed that these people had used
string just like ours. There was also
a shred of cloth, as finely woven as our
best hand looms can produce to-day.
Altogether, the microscope brought to
bear upon relics of the past brings to
light much that is of interest, and
might If more widely employed, occa.
sion some important discoveries. -
Philadelphia Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-06-17
WISE WORDS.

Dishonesty Is n forsaking of perma-
nent for temporary advantages,-Bo-
wee
No man was ever discontented with
the world If he did his duty in it,
Southey.
1t is never other peoples opinions
that displease us. but only the desire
they sometimes show to impose them
upon us. against our will.-Joubert.
Every manner Of living, each of our
actions, has a particular end in view,
and all these ends have general aim
IN the choice of means that we deceive
Observation-Disclosures
1t Is easy in the world to live after
the worlds opinion; 1t Is easy in soli-
tude to live after our own, but the
great man is he who in the midst of
the crowd keeps with perfect sweet
ness the independence of solitude
Emerson.
1t IS certain that there is great deal
bf good in us that does not know itself,
and that habit of union and competi-
ton brings people up and keeps them
up to their highest point; that life
would be twice or ten times life if
spent with wise or fruitful companions,
Emerson.
How to live?-that is the essential
question for us. Not how to live in the
mere material sense only, but in the
widest sense. The general problem
which comprehends every special prob
lem is-the right ruling of conduct in
all directions under all circumstances.
Spencer.
The man who prospers too easily is
not likely thereby to develop the finest
type of character. In spiritual work
Immediate and abundant reaping tends
sometimes to be productive of spiritual
pride, to a mans own undoing and to
the undoing probably, of the work it.
self.-J. S. Mayer.
Most people go through life with
closed eyes and minds. They do not
notice what goes on about them they
have no curiosity about trees. birds,
stars, the mechanism of locomotives,
the art of sailing, the wonders of elec.
tricity, the endless variety and move
ment of things in the world in which
they live. They do not learn as they go
on in life, because they have not
formed habit of learning.-Success.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-06-17
Importance of Accurate Watches.

"That time is money is an old adage.
but it has been brought strictly up
to date by the railroad men, who say
that time is life and money said a
jeweler of Boston at the New Willard.
81 do large railroad trade in watches,
and from statistics kept it is shown
that since 1898 the railroad wrecks
have been reduced one-third because
the men were equipped with accurate
timepieces. In other words, one-third
Of the wrecks before 1898 were caused
by variation in the time OF watches
carried by the different men in the SER
vice of the companies. Under the sys-
tenn low in force on practically every
railroad in the country the engineer,
the train crew, including the brake
man, baggageman and fagman, as
well as the train dispatchers and train
masters, must be provided one and all
with watches that will not vary thirty
seconds from standard time. Every
week every man in the service carrying
watch must have it inspected in or
der that it may be known that it is ac-
curate and in good condition, under
penalty of discharge" - Washington
Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-06-17
DRlF TING. AWAY.

I read in your bright eyes the dreams of
lifcs day;
But Tn drifting away from you-drifting
away!
] am drifting afar
From ife's storm and its star
And | would | could answer the prayers
that You pray!
But I'm drifting away, dear-Pm drifting
away!
l would strike from your life road the
thorns that would slay;
But I'm drifting away from you-drifting
awayi
The sorrow-the pain
You may strive with in vain,
| worid bear: But | go: and I come not
again
I'm drifting away, dear I'm drifting
away!
You must reap for yourself in life's winter
and May;
For I'm drifting away, dear-Pm drifting
away!
/ have given you bread
And shelter o'erhead:
And may God light the lonely, long way
you must tread
For I'm drifting away, dear-Tm drifting
away!
F. L. Stanton, in the Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-06-17
ABOUT AMERICAN RAILWAYS.
They Would GirdIe the Earth Eight
Times at the Equator.

Times at the Equator.
1t has occurred to the Booklover's
Magazine to calcufate, among other
things about our American railways,
that ION an average a passenger trav-
els three and a half millions of miles
before he is injured and sixty-one and
half millions Of miles before he is
killed The average traveller could
journey sixty miles an hour, twenty
four hours a day, three hundred and
sixty-five days in the year for 120 years
before, according to the law of prob
abilities, he would be killed in an
accident on an American railway"
In view of the lamentable yearly re-
turns of railway wrecks, the comfort
in these calculations is largely theoreu-
cal, where it is not confined to the
accident-insurance companies.
Others of the magazines items are
more impressive.
The 100000 miles of railways in the
United States would girdle the eaNh
eight times at the equator.
There are two miles of railroad in
this Republic for every three in the
rest of America, Europe, Asia, Africa
and Australasia combined.
The United States has six times as
great q railway system, in mileage, rs
Germany or Russia. seven times rs
great as the United Kingdom or Aus
tria- a-Hungary, twenty times as great
as Italy, twenty-three times as great
as Spain.
The present capital Of American
railroads, including stocks, bonds and
floating Indebtedness amounts to about
S12. 900. 00,000-about $3.50 per capita
Of population or $3.50 per family.
The average citizen made eight rail-
way trips in 1901 and pays about 500
per year in fares.
The railways Of the country en-
ployed in 1901 an average of 1.071 900,
representing about 100000 persons,
or one-fifteenth OF the population.
Wages Of these employees for 1901
amounted to S610,OO0, ,OO0-more than
half the operating expenses of the
roads-and averaged, roughly, $570 per
man.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-06-17

In the nineties a wave of popula ton
flowed westward over the great plains
of the Missouri Valley. 1t was COM
posed of farmers Who tried to raise
crops by natural rainfall in the old
fashioned way. The attempt was n
failure west Of the middle Of Kansas,
Nebraska and the Dakotas, and the
wave receded, leaving ruin in its track.
Now, as Mr.. Charles Moreau Herger
shows in the Review of Reviews, there
is hopeful attempt to push back the
arid line by scientific methods. or
course irrigation will permanently con-
quer the desert, but even without irri.
CATION it has been shown that new
methods of cultivation will turn semi
arid into a productive region.
A South Dakota farmer, Mr.. H. w.
Campbell, has introduced the plan Of
very deep plowing, packing the bottom
of the furrow with specially construct.
ed implements and thoroughly cult.
waiting the surface. In this way the
moisture that falls is preserved just
where the roots of the plant can get
at it. Mr.. Campbell has raised 142
bushels of potatoes an acre where the
crops Of his neighbors were failures.
There are certain crops, moreover,
such as alfalfa, sorghum and Kaf(ir
corn, which do not require much rain.
fall. By the use Of these and the new
methods of cultivation this arid land is
being steadily pushed back, and every
mile it recedes means the addition Of
640,000 acres to the fertile land OF the
West
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-06-17
"Silk" That is Really Tin.

OF course British critics say that the
practice of adulterating silk with tin
originated in Germany. At any rate it
is common enough now.
All silk Is mixed with more or less
foreign matter to give it weight and
stability. Vegetable substances were
formerly used for the purpose. In dye
ing silk the necessary boiling reduces
Its weight about one-fourth taking out
the natural gummy substances. The
weight is sometimes restored with tam
mic acid; tin Is more common-most Of
all in cheap black silks.
Very soft "wash" silks are apt to be
pure. Burn o scrap and nothing re-
mains but ash. A tin-weighted scrap,
when carefully burned, leaves q resi-
dunn like excessively fine wire gauze.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-06-17
Russian Commercial Schools.

Commercial schools in Russia are
founded by the state wherever they
are thought to be necessary. The in
itiative is always taken by commercial
organlzations-that is. chambers of
commerce and similar bodies-the
members Of which have previously ex-
amined the question. Russian csm-
mercial schools are state institutions
and are under the control of the Min
lister of Finance. There are forty-three
commercial schools in the Russian en-
pire under the control of the state, and
twenty private schools, similarly or
ganized, with state supervision.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-06-17
HOW TO START A PHEASANTRy,
These Pretty Birds Can Be Raised in
Small Places.

Small Places.
The impression has prevailed for
many years that the beautiful pleas
ants OF the old world would not thrive
in a email place. and that it was diff
cult in this country to breed them even
on large estate, but in recent years
this theory has been disproved. Pheas-
ants of the most beautiful type have
been raised on village lots with scarce
ly any Of the natural environments
which formerly We're considered essen
tial to their welfare.
In starting pleasantly on a coun-
| try place only the breeds which have
proved that they can be easily reared
should be purchased at first. A pleas
antry must be supplied with outdoor
and indoor quarters for the birds. A
yard forty by fifty feet for pair of
the birds and a warm house fifteen feet
square should be ample, although the
larger the roaming ground the better
the birds will enjoy ii. The outdoor
inclosure must have fence ten to
twenty feet in height to prevent the
birds from hopping over it, and a top
covering of wire should be provided
as a precaution.
Many Of the ordinary varieties of
pheasants are no more difficult to raise
than fancy breeds of chickens. Their
quarters are about the same and their
food not much different. A home
pleasantly and pigeon loft combined
furnish greater amount of profit
and pleasure than where either one is
built separately. The upper part Of the
house for the winter quarters should
be built with pigeon lofts where only
the fancy pigeons are kept
The combination of the two in near
by but separate Enclosures yields no
end Of qualification. The pigeons often
will fly through the wires Of the pleas
antry and invade the quarters Of the
beautiful wild fowls, but neither will
in any way interfere with or injure
the other. Their nesting and indoor
winter quarters, however, must be
partitioned off, so that they can never
disturb each others peaceful home
life.-Chicago Record Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-06-17

of Proyidence; before I had begun to
see that there are other and higher
claims imposed upon us than those of
mere dissatisfaction, should unhes
itatingly have replied in the affirma.
tive. But now paused. Was juStb
fed? Was 1t right for me to accept
the bliss for which my soul yearned. in
that dear little jasmine-woodbine-c
cred cottage with the dear, congenial
partner whom 1 so truly loved? Ali
how hard was 1t to resist the attrac.
tlons of that rural Eden!
Then followed for me the most trying
week I have ever spent.
1t resolved itself into a long, q hard,
bitter struggle between my own
selfish longings as a woman, and the
higher, larger, wider claims imposed
upon me as q Christian.
1t was 4.45 on q Sunday afternoon,
How well 1 remember the fateful day
and hour! Mr.. Blobbsworth had called
and was drinking his second cup Of tea.
Just then Jessie, our parlor maid, came
and summoned mamma from the draw.
ing room on some domestic matter. !
know not to this day what it was
whether the kitchen boiler had burst,
whether the Goals had suddenly run
short; whether the cook had had mis-.
fortune and upset the afternoons sup.
ply of milk, or what. 1t can have been
nothing very momentous, else I should
have heard all about it afterwards,
which l never did. But the moment
mamma had left the room, Mr.. Blobbs.
worth put down his second cup of tea,
half-finished, and, coming across, sat
upon the sofa at my side. He said
something which surprised, startled,
amazed me.
"Indeedv cried, astonlshed and con.
fused. II have never thought Of you
in that-that-way, Mr.. Blobbsworth-"
because you have not done so in the
past, there is no reason why you
should not in the future" he insisted.
taking my hand and holding 1t so fast
that 1t was impossible, without gross
rudeness, to withdraw 1t. "Wiil your
he added, gazing into my eyes with
earnest entreaty.
AS 1 saw that appealing look, light
in an instant broke upon me. The
eyes were a mans eyes. But the call
was the call of Providence, who, see
ing this poor fellow in distress-seeing,
moreover, that 1t was impossible for him
to aspire to those attitudes alone-was
commanding me to help him.
I sighed as I thought Of that sweet
little cottage, for which my heart
pIned, with Jack-beloved, congenial
Jack-for my helpmeet; which now,
alas! l was never to see.
I shuddered as l thought Of that
luxurious mansion, with all its perfect
appointments, its lawns, gardens,
Strawberries. greenhouses. stables,
with its obsequious menials, butler.
footmen, gardeners, coachmen and
grooms; with that gorgeous billiard
room, and that electric dynamo-all
those material obstacles to the higher
life, against which it was to be my
lifelong task to contend and to help
my husband contend.
But Providence had spoken with such
clearness-had indicated so plainly the
observation-disclosures district to which 1
was to carry my coals-that to shut
my ears to her voice would have been
sheer impiety.
So when Mr., Blobbsworth. repeating
the question. said again:
"Will you?"
"Yes," was my humble answer, and
I bowed my head-upon his shoulder
in meek acqulescence. - Philadelphia
Telegraph.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-06-17
puell,ng Encouraged in Austria.

The Socialist paper, Arbeit Zeitung,
Of Vienna, publishes secret decree
of the Austrian minister of war di-
rected against the Anti-Duel League.
The decree is to the effect that officers
and cadets in the army on service or
otherwise must not join the league.
Those who are already members must
leave it. The army in Austria is de-
cidedly in favor Of preserving the duel.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-06-17
BUSINESS.

Merchant-"Did you find out what
that gentleman wantedT"
New Cldrk-"No, but I found out
what he didn't want"
Merchant-What? How dare you"
New CIerk-"And sold 1t to him.
CathoMc Standard and Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-06-17
CAN'T HELP THAT.

Street Car Magnate-"You patrons
are a mighty narrow lot, 1 must say"
Patrbn-"How can we help it? We
were broad enough until we We're
pressed into our present width by being
jammed into those human sardineries."
Baltimore American.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-06-17
BOUND TO DISCOVER POLE.
American Expedition Hopes to Plant
Our Flaq There.

Our RAG lnere.
Another American expedition is
about to start in search of the mac.
cessible North Pole Anthony Fala,
a young Brooklyn explorer, Is In
charge of the party, Capt. Edwin COT.
fin will go as skipper, while Ziegler Is
backing the attempt. The party will
shortly sail from Norway on the good
ship America. Every effort will be
made to plant the Stars and Stripes
in the frozen North. a
The discovery by Capt. Scott, the
leader of the British Antarctic expe
dition, of mountain ranges with
points rising to height Of from 12,.
900 to $4,000 feet above the sea level,
farther south than ever before known,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-06-17

The Amir of Afghanistan having de-
termined that the postage stamps man
ufactured during the reign Of his IA
ther should be used up, no new ones
have as yet been issued. The entire
stock has now been exhausted, and,
pending the acceptance of new de
sign, sealing-wax, impressed with the
official stamp, is being used.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-06-17
The Age of Pompeii.

Prof. Dali Osso, inspector of the
Museum of Naples, has just published
an article in which he affirms that re-
searches and excavations prove that
there existed Pompeii nine centuries
before our era.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-06-17
A DRAW.

diplomacy is curious game" said
one statesman.
"It is" answered the other; at is one
In which the most satisfactory results
are achieved when both sides can go
home and claim victory. y."-Washing-
ton Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-06-17
HIS RIGHT TO A MEAL.

"Don't you think it's unwise," said
the first partisan, ito be SO sanguine
about your candidate?"
"All right" retorted the other, Gust
wait till after election and then I'll
have right to crow"
That's what you will, but don't
think you'll care to eat all you'll have
q right to."-Philadelphia Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-06-17

Is a question whether Mt. Terror is
volcano, but Mt. Erebus was smoking
in February, 1901.
Both Capt. Scott's and Borchgre.
vink's expeditions confirm Ross re-
port Of open water during the sum-
mer months in Ross Sea when once
the ice on the parallel of Cape Adare
Is passed.