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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22
WOMAN AND THE HOME LIFE.
Happiness of Every Member O
 Family Depends on Her.

Family Depends on Her. 1nez Snyder stansfieId in Chicago chron-
 icle.
 'She rocks the cradle and she rules the world" is a very old saying and although cradles are out of date in these times still the meaning that the saying conveys remains unchanged. Wo- man is the power behind the throne. though the lords of creation are unwil- ling to admit the fact
 No matter how humble her station in life perhaps there is no place where her influence is more felt than in the home.
 Housekeeping is woman's business. It Is properly an annex to home-keep- ing. but, while all women are not home keepers, housekeeping is a business which requires more talent than any other vocation in this busy world of ours The happiness of every member of the family is in the hands of the home-keeper.
 Science has furnished no weight or measure for such wisdom as the success full homekeeper possesses. What little compensation she receives except the in- ner consciousness of having done her dutyl
 We women sometimes are defeated in our attempts to make home cheerful and happy because we weary ourselves so much in the endeavor to collect the material for enjoyment that they can give us but little pleasure when they are collected. It is not a beautiful house, nlled with rare and costly ornaments, but gentle manners. cheerful dispositions and loving words that make the home.
 The first lesson to learn in this happy art of home-making is to be content with simple things. This principle every true woman knows who seeks to make her home the dearest place in all the earth.
 The more simple our domestic life. the better 1t will be. Neatness and order are most excellent virtues, but they may be carried to such an excess as to be a daily torment to everyone in the house,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22
Old Tonquin's RetOrt.
Detroit News-Tribune.

"old Tonquin," the Indian after whom the village of Tonquin, Van Buren Coun- ty, was named. has passed to the hunt ing grounds, where there is no game warden and 1t is the open season the year around. Tonqin was we'll up in the ntneties. He was religious. but not to the extent of joining others of his people and mortgaglng his land for means to aid the building of a church. and it Is stated that he is one of the few who retained his land, In respect to suportlng the cause of religion Tonquin seems to have been of a current mind with an Isabella mem her of his race to whom a missionary conplained that though the Indian attend ance at his meetings was large the pay was very poor. Lo shrugged his should arn and rsnlid; '5eap pcor-preach, too"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22
Music of American Trdiens

A student of music of the aborlgines, MT. Farwell, states that the Indians have innumerable songs which conform to a definite melodic system, These melodies are all indissolubly linked to legends, myths. ceremonials or religious rituals of the greatest poetic and dramatic beauty.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22

ny Mysterious Compound Startles ths World With Its Wonderful Oures-With this Marvslous Secret No Har Can Grow Old and It Is ny Mission on Earth Henceforth to Bring All Jaded, Worn-out Men to this Fountain of Youth.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22
DUFFY'S PURE

makes the weak strong and the strong young rooust. It is an absolutely pure, tones and nourishes at the same time.
 of the body, drives out disease. gives culation, soothes the nerves, strengthen system to @ condition of perfect health.
 Duny's Pure Malt Whiskey cures co bronchitis. pleurisy, pneumonia and all tion, dyspepsia and every form of stor malaria and all low levers. It is inval children. Duffy's contains no fusel oil the Government as a medicine. This is
 1000 doctors use Duffys Pure M II and recommend it exclusively. It is use the United States. A leading doctor c1 Whiskey is a form of food already diges
 CAUTION.-When you ask for Duffy genuine. Interruptions dealers mindful try to sell you cheap limitations and malt the market for profit only. and which ly harmful. Demand "Duffy's" and be pure Malt Whiskey which contains med Pure Malt Whiskey Is sold in sealed be for the trademark, the "Old Chemist, VI the cork is unbroken. Beware of refille
 Sold by all druggists and grocers. Q booklet free to any address. Duffy Malt -. D c. FOWLER Wholesale Agent.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22
! Save
 Weak Men.

G Hsve Discovered the Marvellous Secret of Perpetual Youth and Un. dying Manly Vigor and I Give II
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22

Send no Money-simply Send Your
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 vicious Compound Will Be Sent You
 by Return Mail, Prepaid and Alb
 sol tely Free.
 I have discovered the marvellous secret of perpetual life and vigor in men. To me # has been given to bring to the fall Dn. weary, worn-out brothers the knowl- pdge of this priceless boon. and even to The uttermost ends of the earth send my message of love and peace and hope and heIp. Unbelievers may scoff and cry flake" but heed them not. My work has just begun and I am saving men.
 The secret of this mighty healing power. Bhis vital spark. this marvellous tonic
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22
MALT WHISKEY

stronger. It keeps the old young and the gentle ana inWgorating stimulant that It brings into action ali the vital forces richness to the blood, stimulates the cir the hearts action and restores the whole ghs, colds, catarrh. consumption, grip, diseases of the throat and lungs; indiges- acn trouble; nervousness, OoweL troubles, able Tor weak men and women and sickly and is the only whiskey recognized by Whiskey in their families and prescribe Tn 2,OOO prominent hospitals throughout New York says "Duffy's Pure Malt s Pure Malt Whlskey be sure you get the or the excellence of this preparation. will whiskey substitutes. which are put on far from relieving the sick, are positive sure, to get it. It is the only absolutely cinal' health-giving qualities. Dufry's ties only; never in flask or bulk Look on the label, and be certain the seal over bottles.
 direct. $.0O a bottle. Interesting medical Whiskey O., Rochester. New York.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-19
OLDEST MAN LIVING.
Vas Born 157 Years Ago and Is
 Lively Still.
Haas Docume ntary Evidence to Prove His Remarkable Statements - His Three Rules of Living
 Are Simple.

Undoubtedly the oldest man in the world, and probably the oldest human being, is Manuel del Valle, Of Menlo Park, Cal. He has reached the age of 157 years.
 According to the New York World he has legal proof of his age. In many cases of persons living beyond the hun dred mark who have attracted public attention there has been grave doubt as to the year of their birth. Belief in their age is based upon their own stories or on hearsay.
 Manuel del Valle's proof is docu- mentary. He has in his possession the certificate of his birth, signed by the iefe politico, or chief magistrate of Zacatecas, Mexico. The certificate, which shows that del Valle was born in Zacatecas on November "A, 1745, is supplemented by the records of the Mexican customs service. in which he served for many years.
 Were. it not for these indisputab ble proofs it would scarce be believable that human being could have reached the age of 157.
 At the time Del Valle was born George Washington was only Is years old. This living man was ten years old when the French and Indian war began.
 He was a grown man of 20 when the battle of Bunker Hill was fought.
 He was already an old man when Ma poleon was defeated at Waterloo, be- ing then 65 years old.
 Del Valle was 1o1 years old at the beginning of the Mexican war.
 He retired from active business 19 years before that, having then reached the age of ss.
 He was 20 years a customs official at Ensenada, Lower California. From 1874 to 1s45 he acted as ssupernumerary in the Franciscan mission at San Quentin, Lower California, the first
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-19
HEARD IN PASSING

When the new office building for members of congress is completed there will be an electric car service to carry the members to and from the house and senate chambers.
 The Standard Oil Co paid the largest dividends last year of any of the big trusts. It is not surprising that it's officers oppose the publicity feature of the department of commerce bill.
 1t is now suggested that as a delicate return of Emperor Williams compli- ment in sending us statue of Freder- ick the Great, the United States send Germany statue of President Mon roe.
 A Chicago college professor has the temerrity to say that every human sys- tenn is miniature distillery. We sus- pect that the professor will be quite still" when Mrs Nation gets through with him.
 The United States bureau of soils has devised instruments so delicate that they will determine within a few pounds the exact amount of the lead ing plant foods on an acre of ground to depth of one foot.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-19

The editor of Golfers Weekly has
 been looking into the question of strikes
 of recent date and he finds that
 strikes have made some successes dur
 ing February that lie snug up to the
 goals for which the laboring interests
 are struggling; in other cases they have set machinery free that touches in ac-
 tive fashion the question of popular control of any tendency toward dis
 order. Beginning in Canada, the street car employees of Montreal, after strike of almost record briefness, secured both
 recognition of the union and an in- crease of wages. It was all effected without physical fare-up or battle
 gauging of any sort other than mu- tual show of numerical strength and power of unity in action. Further south, in Connecticut, on the other hand, the disorders of the Waterbury
 street car strike, although less than
 Ave score of men altogether are in- volved, have been renewed, and the leg islature has been resorted to with a bill to render personally liable every person participating in any rioting or disturbance of the public order. In the
 west, the South Bend, Ind, street car strikers have ceased to provoke or to be the cause of outbreaks, but the ends of the strike remain ungained, and 1 those who look for encouragement must jump from Montreal to the still further west before they sec the things that please the ambition of the men of wages and foreshadow something bet ter than strife as means of making mutual progress for employe and en- ployer. In and about and beyond the Missouri river railroad workers have been threatening walk-outs for nearly year-not fragfnentary and local
 walk-outs, but affairs that might in- volve the entire scope of western trans portation facilities. The long-pendine strike of the boilermakers on the Union Pacific had almost toyerflowed to the Southern Pacific, and latterly demands Aoi 1hSiSdS0 VI pay uhu DeSH pdSS0u5 up to headquarters i'll the Missouri Pacific and the Katy (dissouri, Kansas and ] Texas) Dimes. It seemed to require only the making of such positive re. 1 fusals by the two latter roads as have been continuously given by the presi, dent of the Union Pacific to precipitate
 a tie-up throughout the west. For tunately, however, after a series of con. ferences, participated in by the heads
 of the railroads and of the employees
 unions, the Katy road yielded, giving the men their proposed increase of +
 per cent Hostile elements, also, had
 been seeking to make it seem unlikely that the United Mine Workers and tht
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-19

mission building to be established on the Pacific coast, and which is now in ruins.
 In 1s45, when he was just 100 years old, Del Valle came with relatives to what is now San Francisco in a ves- sel that sailed around Cape Horn. He has lived in Menlo Park since then and has occupied the same room, his at-grandnephew, Jose del Valle, looking after the truck farm that supp ports the family
 Manuel del Valle looks his great age. He is a little, dried-up, frail man, scarcely five feet tall and weighing not more than 90 pounds. He is still takes a daily stroll about his house. He has not been more than two blocks away from it in 30 years. He can see but little, but he hears fairly well.
 He speaks English brokenly, but un- derstands it we'll. He never was much interested in the big events of the world. He says he has never used liquor nor tobacco. Furthermore he declares that he never has wet his feet nor been out in a frost, appar- ently holding these things to be equal 1y abominable. He never eats solid food, his only nourishment being bean broth, and all day long he sits in the sunshine in front of his adobe home.
 He has his own rules for the attain ment of great age, and they are sim pie ones. They are:
 Pray regularly to God.
 Attend mass when you are able.
 Sit in the sun.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-19

The republican leaders In congress are just now enjoying the heartiest kind of a laugh at the manner in which they are fooling the democrats and the remainder of the country anent the so- called antitrust legislation they are now engaged in showing through the congress of the United States. They are entitled to the laugh People usu> ally laugh at farce, and if ever there was a farce enacted on the legislative stage in the history of this country, 1t is being done now in the capital of the nation. While all this is going on ur1- der the lime light of publicity, the only people who see the fun are those be- hind the scenes and the dear people on the outside and in front of the stage are made to see an entirely different performance. The deluded people think they are witnessing a real antitrust performance. They seem to see the trusts crawling into the outer darkness and shivering in terror lest republican legislation should wipe them from the face of the earth, rob them of their special privileges, and return to the people that of which they have been robbed. This gives the people hope for the future and that the republican party at last Is trying to keep it's ante election promises. 1t lulls them into restful peace and they close their eyes while the trusts continue to pick their pockets. That is the real truth of the situation. The real vampire of the tropics fans his victim to sleep with the cooling swish of his wings and then calmly proceed to suck his life blood. The human vampire in this country as exemplified by the trusts feeds it's victims on legislative taffy and then robs them in the same old way under the monopoly breeding privileges vouchsafed them by the tariff and the failure of the executive department of the government to execute the criminal clauses of existing law.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-19
WHEN COLUMBUS CAME ASHORE.
Historical Event in Nassau That Was We'll remembered by the
 .sMan and Brother"

Down in Nassau, New Providence, that quaint town which favored Americans visit in the winter months, there stands a statue of Columbus. 1t isn't much of a statue, being after the swashbuckler order of architec- ture; but, anyway, it serves to re- mind visitors to the Bahamas that it's original first landed on an island in that chain. Being the only statue of account in the island, it is known of all men and is of special impor- tance in the eyes of the negroes, who point to it with pride aud date oc- currences relatively recent from the time of its erection, says the New York Times.
 The knowledge of historical events displayed by the man and brother" is pretty accurately indicated in the tale they tell in Nassau respecting the occasion, few years ago, that Columbus appeared in court. The lawyer for the defense, attempting to impeach the veracity of plaintiffs witness, an old colored man of doubt full antecedents, asked:
 "So you say you've lived here many years?"
 ''Yes, boss, I has"
 "Then I suppose you remember clearly when Columbus landed here?"
 "Oh, yis, boss, l does member dat. 'stinckly.'
 .'Oh, you do?''
 "Yis, sah; suttenly, boss"
 '4That will do, your honor, this witt ness memory is evidently defective, and I claim verdict for my client"
 The judge seemed inclined that way, too, when the plaintiffs law yer interposed: ''Wait moment, gentlemen. perhaps my witness is not so far wrong, after all. Now, Cuffie. tell us when was it you saw Colum- bus land, and how did he come ashore?''
 Well, boss, I t'ink twas bout 20 year ago. an C'lumbus he come asho' in de big boxes!"
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-19
The odor of sanctitv.

The sexton of an Episcopal church in Boston has many stories to tell of the remarks and comments made by visitors. One Christmas, when the church was beautifully decorated with evergreens and frs, an old lady walked up the aisle to the chancel and stood snifing the air after every one else had left the church. Don't it smell solemn?" she said at last to the sexton, as she turned away with evident reluctance. "I don't know as I ever realized just what the 'odor of sanctity' meant before to-day. We don't have any such trimmings in the church I attend up in the country"
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-19
Case of Literal Obedience.

An English country vicar discovered not long ago that one of his male servants was in the habit of steal ing his potatoes. He mentioned the fact to his curate, and asked ad- vice. "Well,' replied the curate, "of course, you must remember what the Bible says: If any man take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak, also.'" 'I see," unused the vicar. s'Well, in this case, as the man takes my potatoes, I'd better give him tha esoclrfD
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-19


 Total 8, 794,4 ,479 S447.7OO S145 22a
 The remarkable showing of little more than 32 per cent in the ratio of operating expenses to earnings be- comes more so in contrast with the ratio of 64.76 per cent of operating ex penses returned for all Connecticut trolley roads in the last report of the state railroad commission. But the operating expense of the third-raiI line is subject to some important modifi- cations, which apply to all of the Con- solidated company's electrified roads. Electric lights used at all stations on the line are deducted from operating expense: cost of maintaining electric roadWavs and stations is charged to the steam railroad account. Nor is any interest or depreciation on, first cost included in the electric operations; and at all the power houses of the cleo trified roads locomotive "sparks" are largely used at a saving officially stat ed at 90 per cent on fuel "Mainten- ance of way and structures cost last year, on the 4,0O5 single track miles of the Consolidated company, $6,157, ,9O2 included in which such an item as dock and wharf expense of S114.601. and large part of S1,1O0O31 charged to repair and renewal of building and fixtures. manifestdv do not apply to an electrified line. Allowing, however, the average annual charge on the sys- tenn of about $1.5OO a mile for main tenance of way and structures, the op- eration of the IS miles of third-rail Hartford Bristol track would rise, even then, for the three years to only about 50 per cent of passenger receipts and this during period of some losses from experimentation and not includ- ing early novelty travel On the connecting East Berlin branch of three miles there are returns at hand only for the year ending September 30. 1902. They show 339921 passengers carried, receipts of $16.915 and operat- ing expenses of $9,67s, or about 57 per cent which with the addition for maintenance of way. would rise to al- most 84 per cent-a showing much less favorable. It should be added that it has lately been found necessary to equip anew the power house operating the whole of the foregoing system of 21 miles: but, on the other hand, the new power house may be used Before long to operate important projected ex- tensions.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-19
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1s, 1903.

Some indication of the report of the coal strike commission Is furnished by Judge Grays statement that when 100000 men are employed doing the work that could be done by 75 1000 there is bound to be trouble"
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-19
Small Sport for Both.

Two lads of the street, West side street, wandered across the Bowery a few days ago on tour of exploration of the crowded East side. They dis covered among other things the city's bathing establishment in Rivington street. They read the signs with as much difficulty as interest, both being great.
 You ever had a bath, Billy?' asked the taller one.
 sNo. but I had me neck washed once," was the answer.-N. Y. Tribune.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-19
Fallure of Afrshirs.

No airship as yet launched has been successful in long voyages. Some rad ical defect in every one of these cloud. encompassed vessels has limited the extent of their sailings. The attempts desert of Sahara, and to soar from Stockholm to London, have been fail- ures. This is the epoch of the auto rather than the galley which floats above the earth IN. Y. Tribune.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-19
FO R SALE.
I. E. GUEST, 95 South Main St.
.AVeRY,s ResIAURANI.
WATERBURY FIRE ALARM

WATERBURY FIRE ALARM
 4-Cor south MaIn ana Grand srs-
 g. -Scovill Manufacturing Co. (Ph
 6-Cor Bridge and Magill sts.
 7-Exchange Place.
 12-Rogers & Bra. tP).
 13-Cor East Main and Niagara sts 14-Cor Hast Main and Wolcott stA 15-Cor High and Walnut sss.
 16-Cor East Main and Cherry stA 17-Cor East Main and Cole sts
 21--Cor North Elm and Kingsbury sta. 23-Burton street engine house. M-Waterbury Manufacturing Go. CPL 2b-Cor North Main and North sts- 26-Cor Buckingham and Cooke sts. 27-Cor Grove and Prospect sts.
 2S-Cor Hillside avenue and Pine sk 29-Cor Ludlow and N. Willow sts. 31-Cor Bank ana Grand sts.
 32-Cor riverside and Bank sts.
 34-Cor West Main and Watertown rd ' 36-W Waterbury Brass Co. (P).
 87-Cor Cedar and Meadow sts
 3S-Cor Grand and Field sts
 42--Cor South Main and Clay sts. ;3-New England Watch Co. (P). 4b-Benedict SS Burnbam Mfg Co. (Pls 48-Waterbury Buckle Go. p).
 47-Cor s. Main ana Washington str 51-Cor Baldwin and River sts.
 E2-Cor Franklin and Union Ets. 6S-Watb'y Clock Co case fact'y. (P). 54--Cor Clay and Mill sts. 56-Cor Liberty and River sts.
 57-No 6 hose house.
 SS--Cor Baldwin and Stone sts. 62-Cor Doolittle alley and Dublin sE 72--Cor West Main and Willow sts. T3-North Willowst.
 74-eCor Johnson and Waterville stE. l42-wolcott st. beyond Howard. 162-Cor East Main and Welton ssA 212-The Platt Bros x Co. (Pj. 213-Shoe Hardware Go. (P), 2I4-Wat'b'y Clock Go mv't fact'y. (P)s 216-Cor North Main ana Grove sts. 2oI-Cor Round Hill and Ward sts 261-Junction Cooke and N Main sta. 272- Grove. bet. Central X Holmes avk s11-S. N. E. Teephone Co bd'g. (P). 312-Cor Bank and Meadow sts. S13-Rando1ph x Gloves (P1. SI4-plume x Atwood. (P1. S15-American Ring Go. (P). 316--Conn R. x L. power house. (P1. Sl Holmes, Booth 6 HAydens. (PL 32l--No hose house 323-Cor Wash'g'n ave and Porter st 324-C Cor Charles and Porter sta 825 Cor SImons st and Wast'g'n avo. 3T1- City Lumber and Coal Ccs {F3. 412-- Traah Bros. (Pl. 432- C0l nerty and South Nfayn sfo, 451- Stei Johnson Mfx Co. {E). 662 Cor Cin and ByS nts s~4 2S's a.<a " }s3s zz% lE <
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-19

bituminous coal operators would be able to agree upon wage schedule for the succeeding year, but, as if in keep ing with the spirit of compromise, ex7 hibited by the western railways, the agreement was reached and there is no longer apprehension of strike in the soft coal fields.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-19

A prominent scientist says that the greatest obstacle to the success of the efforts put forth by such spirited men as Andrew Carnegie to develop science lies in the scarcity of men, not means. At the same time MT Carnegie's scien- tific plan contemplates the develop ment of men for scientific research.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-19

The best physic. "Once tried and you will always use Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets says Will jam A. Girard, Pease, Va. These tab- lets are the most prompt, most pleas ant and most reliable cathartic in use. For sale by all druggists.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-19
What He WAs Coming IT.

Anxious Patient-Do you weally think, doctah, that I shall have gween old age?
 Bruff Doctor-Unless you die young or acquire little common gumption. you have before you prospect of the greenest old age possible to human ity.--Baltimore American.