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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-21

She rings off and then rings up cen tral again. Hello hello! Give me 6,017 Broad. Hello! Is this Judge Blanks office? I want to speak to MT. Jack Bender. Oh, howdy do, howdy do! Oh, Jack, want to see you about some thing special. What evening can you Oh, only Wednesday. You have an en-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-21
Booked For a Week.

right, then; Thursday at half past G. I'll be all ready with my hat on -
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-21
A C6nceited Minister.

Odd. isn't it?" remarked one of this species as she turned over and
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-08-09
Coffin Souvenirs.


A Chicago woman brought home two
coffin plates as mementoes of childhood
days and souvenirs of a summer vaca-
tion.
West have a fad of seeking something to
bring home as a souvenir not only of
their outing but of the country where
their childhood was spent. Thousands of
people choose the vicinity of their birth
places as localities for summer visits.
A Polo man makes frequent pilgrimages
to a farm near Bellows Falls, VT, where,
he says, his father worked himself to
death in building q stone fence, which re-
mains to tell the story. His wife was born
near Kitte1y, Me-, and the two are aecus-
toned to spend a summer visiting these
two places. They have a room half filed
with things used long ago. Many residents
of Illinois who grew to manhood in New
England carry from the East keepsakes
of like character.
Mrs. Charles Zimmerman, 1873 Rokeby
street, Chicago, had queer experience of
this kind. She was born and partly raised
near Abingdon, Mass, and remembered
there was in the neighborhood quaint
little place belonging to relative. In
the house was a room which no one SEEM
ed privileged to enter, and from her
childhood days she had wondered what it
contained.
She went to her old home not long ago
and went to the house with the mysterious
room. 1t was now abandoned but inside
were the furnishings there years ago. She
entered with her brother. Now was a
chance to explore the enclosed apartment
and in few moments they crossed the
threshold 1t would require page to de-
scribe the many old things stored in that
room. Mrs. Kinnerman's hands fell on a
fiat package resting on the mantel shelf
1t was wrapped in brown paper and con
tanned two cofh plates. One bore the
name of Marilla Pratt and the other came
from the coffin of Abial Orcutt Each
gave the date Of birth and death of Mrs.
Kinnerman's relatives, and she now dis
plays them to friends as souvenirs of a
summer yacation.-Ch Chicago Tribune.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-08-09
STRANGE TRAITS OF HATHAMITEI

| it, that atmospheric changes do not al-
| ter it, that it has no terrors in the
magazine on shipbOard or near army
quarters. When we think of the lives
that are yearly lost on our Warships
like the recent accident on the Iowa
for instance-and By the premature ex-
plosion of other substances used in
ordnance experiments, we are almost
forced to believe that the millennium of
safety in big explosives has been
reached in the perfecting of Hatha mite.
Mr.. Hathaway told me before he
died, that in all the years he had ex-
perimented with the compound he
demonstrated that it could be handled
as safely as corn meal.
1T seems to be just what govern
ments have been looking for and just
what is most desired for use in war
fare, both on sea and land, for it's
safety to those who handle it,
Greatest Destructive Force.
"If its destructive force is greater
or even as great-as other forms of
high explosives, and if Hathamite
tends to make war more terrible to an
enemy, its use by the United States
should be one step nearer the time
when nations will stand aghast at the
suggestion of war and its attendant
destruction.
Under these conditions the life or
the Pennsylvania genius will not have
been spent in vain, even though death
deprived him of the honor of seeing
the results of his life work perfected"
While he was putting the last touches
to his invention Mr.. Hathaway was
sanguine over the benefits it would
confer upon mankind apart from. it's
terrible efficacy as an instrument Of
war.
He planned it's use for commercial
purposes as well.
Gold mining, oil well blasting, coal
mining, in fact every form of practi-
cal work performed with more or less
danger by other explosives he destined
his invention for.
He believed that it would be the only
explosive used in the Alaskan mining
regions when it's virtues became known.
for its energy was absolutely intact
under all weather conditions and the
workers could mine all the year round.
The government is taking an active
interest in the new element and it is
said that a commission of experts from
appointed to examine into it's merits.
The inventor believed that Hathamite
would revolutionize warfare and said
that as patriotic American he would
first offer it to the government at
Washington.
AT any rate Hathamite seems to have
overcome the main objections to all
high explosives-their terrible risk in
handling-while preserving astonishing
power under the most difficult tests.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-08-09
THIS DARLING. OF
THE GODS !. LIKES
NEW YORK l|l'A| CITY
Little Nine. Chrysanthemum
Ii Thinks the Metropolis
Beautiful and the Shops
Fine, but Denies That She
Will Buy Her Froeks Here.

NEW YORK, Aug. 8.-The most
honorable little Nine. Chrysanthemum
Lii came pattering down the hallway
of the Hotel Griffou. A band was
playing "Hiawatha" somewhere. and 1T
seemed exactly like an opera when the
Most Honorable Ii family came into
the parlor.
The most honorable little madame is
plump and pretty, olive complexioned,
with big seal-like eyes and a vel
vety laugh. She has tiny hands and
feet, has not fan or joss stick in her
hair.
She was dressed in soft grayish blue
silk, a jacket and a skirt very cool and
graceful and so artistic that she SEEM
ed like lady who had stepped off
fan.
After her came toddling zee Shaw, a
Chinese edition of Buster Brown" in
Russian blouse suit and banged hair,
black as night. Yee Shaw is hosplt.
able, but his English is just bit
twisted.
"Goo'by!' he said, in friendly greet
ing. And this he repeated several
times during the call. Hfwas trifie
embarrassing, but it fittedoin with the
funny feeling that it was all happening
on the label of tea chest.
The Most Honorable Mill came IN
last-the very handsomestJ Chinan1an
that has ever been imagined, SO stun
ming that he is almost shewy.
He is more than six feet high, with
the shoulders of a football man and the
smile of matinee idol. He carries
himself with the same majestic stride
and dignity that marked the carriage
of his late great uncle, Ii Hung
Chang.
Then there is the Most Honorable
Mr.. Wing. who is the chaperon. Mr..
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-08-09

BANTAM LAKE, Litchfield County,
N. Y, Aug. SIT has been notorious
that summer resorts, both seaside and
mountain, are Adamless Edens. Girls
girls there are in plenty, but of desir-
able young summer men there are sell
dom any. Such has been the dearth
of young bachelors at vacation places
since the days the first vacations were
taken that it. is a well known fact that
summer hotel proprietors will make all
sorts of enticing concessions to secure
nice young men at their girl-full re-
sorts.
Think, then, of the happy fate of
Miss Lillian Jones. of No. 106 West
Eighty sixth street, New York. She
is the only summer girl at the South
View inn, on Bantam lake-the only
young girl visitor within a. radius of
six miles. and this radius contains a
hundred young men from Columbia
college, New York.
While Bantam Lake has long been a
faVorite summer resort, yet for some
strange reason the visitors this season
have consisted exclusively of young
and old married couples and their chill
dren.
Miss Jones, issthe only young unmar-
ried girl between here and Richfield.
The Columbia students in question
are all members of the summer school
of engineering and surveying. Column
bia college, has 500 acres of hill and
forest near Bantam Lake. and here, in
charge of professors the class in en-
gineering and Surveying has been
camped since July /.
Miss Jones is accompanied by her
mother. She is one of the strikingly
beautiful girls New York can boast of.
A tall Gibsonesque blonde of seventeen,
and the poSSeSSor of a sweet soprano
voice. it is small wonder that she has
driven all thoughts of transit work and
estimating from the minds of the sus-
ceptible college youth.
By night they infest the piazzas of
the South View inn with guitar and
mandolin and, sing serenades until they
| are threatened with all sorts of bodily
harm by the other guests. who think
the Raines law should apply to singing
students and make them shut up at
l a. m.
BY day Miss Jones grants permission
to a favored fifty to take her boating,
driving. gofffng and laWn-tennis play
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-08-09

upon the witnessing Of that spark the
! hills shock with a tremendous shock.
Then they tried some tests at which
there was an. over abundance of skep-
tical opinion on the outcome expressed
| when the workers had outlined them
before proceeding to the proof.
Inside of aelarge steel chamber were
placed a one-pound, a three pound
and six-pound steel shell, new Unit
ed States standard. with a solid turn
ed butt filled with Hathamite and con-
nected withet the Illuminating cap.
Beside these were placed three shells
of thesssame size, that were also load
ed with the explosive.
The object of the test was to shatter
the loaded shells that were connected
with the battery and preserve the other
loaded shells.
When the test was applied the con-
nected shells were blown to pieces.
The disconnected shells were not even
scathed.
Marvellous said the experts.
Shots Have No Effect.
"Wait a bit for the next one,'' said
young Hathaway.
Then he took a god-sized quantity
of Hathamite and melted it over an
oil stove until it assumed the consis-
ISi1Cy VI IIIlCk IIlOldSSGS.
He poured the-sticky liquid into shall
low tin boxes and when it hardened
one of them was set UP as target
and a steel rifle ball was shot through
it without exploding the Hathamite.
The experts threw up their hands.
This was considered the supreme
test of Hathamite's safety.
Then the young man took some of
the material that had been through all
the experiments and putting 1t into a
mortar, pulveriZed it with pestle. Aft
er being subjected to hammering and
grinding it was again given the boiler
plate test and the same kind of a hole
was punched into the steel; showing
that the energy of the Hathamite had
not been impaired by melting, casting,
shooting into or by any of the attempts
to explode it.
Five ounces of the explosive were
placed in 26-inch hole in a rocky
limestone ledge and exploded without
tamping and carload of rock flew in
to the air.
One of the experts in speaking of the
tests, said:
"It is all very remarkable and an
unusual object lesson for either the
novice or the expert in high explosives.
IT have witnessed many experiments
along these lines, and never saw
anything like it. Such absolute safety
under all conditions has never been
accomplished.
II am told, too, that time does not
affect its quality; that it does not cor
rode the shells or packages containing
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-08-09

Wing introduced US ann we made the
.sThe city-you like it, yes2" inquired
your most honorable representative
I "Oh, yes-yes-very skfaptiful!" said
Nine. Ii. "The Riverside! Yes, yes!"
"And the shops-very fine-what?"
ooh, yes, yes!" smiled Nine. Ii, and
Mr.. Lii laughed sorrowfully, exactly
like an American husband might who
thought of the bills that he had to
pay.
You will buy Ameriean frocks-
eh ?" zaaisss 'sff-ss
sNo, no, mol" said Mrs. Ii. almost in
alright
"You have brought some pretty
gowns. with you ~
| YeS,syes, yes!'
Such as you would wear to ball? p"
| "Oh, yes--indeed ,zyesl'
What sort of a gown does a Chi
nese lady wear to a baH.?"
| Nine. Lii laughed most honorable
laugh and looked at Mr.sLi, who snlif-
ed and. looked at the Most Honorable
Wing. ~
.gt Is what you would say - said the
Honorable Wing, thinking hard. be
yond description!1
II Embroidery, suppose, with storks
and apple blossoms and things 2? We
know a little. about China, you know.
Most Honorable Madan1e: We have
| had The Darling of theSG Gods, .
yes, yes. yes. smiled Mime. FL.
aPowder?s-'.J Little.
When Chinese lady Nresses she
makes her. face look witt SO ?'s ask
| ed your most honorable ere kresentative
lextracting a most hon6rabl e powder
puff from her bag ami dabbing her
lnose
Just a little powder, 81 said the Hon
lorable Wing, and we all laughed hon
iorable laughs. Not bah that. Quite
New Yerhy. Just a Hftie powder!''
Just as If any women Oh any national
tity ever used anything Hlore than gust
la little powderi Il
and you like THE dinners-the
Things you eat--eh-yesH- -what?"
+ "Oh, yes,s yes, yesi'' Eeoed Nine Ii.
"Goo'by!D said the T3on. zee Shaw,
Eentering at this momentS
| when the Hon. Ii Hing Chang was
Lin New York he gave Your most un-
worthy visitor the Lychke nuts and the
ttea-which is so much better than our
Itea-yes ?o
"oh, no. no. no, noip laughed the
little Nine. Ii politely.
And the very pretty gowns you have
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-08-09
NEW IN SPOONS.
several Kinds for-speeiaf Purposes Sell
.Ssass.-tsz Ing IN he Shops.

- sv-,..-ss:s Ing IN the Shops.
Despite The many styles of individual
spoons now in use; inventors are con
tinuallys on the alert Ito supply some
particular need or convenience A novel
housewife assistant is the measuring
spoon like the ordinary teaspoon in size,
but marked in the bottom of the bowl with
lines and figures to guide her in proper
tioning ingredients for. cooking mixtures.
TffessMarning labels, one-half, one-auar-
ter, one-eighth spoonful, are affixed just
sas on a, measuring glass. The spoon is Of
sterling use In the making of grayies, OF
spaddings, cakes, salads or any dishes Of a
nature requiring exactness in the season.
siBgs.~4-
The measuring spoon, is to be had in
grades to suit allsspurses. This is the
case, too with thef newly devised baby S
spoon, which is a veryspractical improve
ment on the original The bowl of the
baby sfspoons is shaped (as usual, but the
handle is curved backward and welded to
Sthe end of the bowl. forming loop like
the loop in the handle of a ring. The loop
sed handle is just big enough for five small
fingers to grasp, and a little fellow max
ing first attempts to feed himself can get
sort than one of the ordinary pattern.
spoon.,a a special ice cream spoon and an
egg spoon for lifting poached or fried
eggs from the dish They fill manifest
need. Showing the possibilities for addi-
tiors ..tes the spoon family, notwithstand-
ing the enormous variety of styles and
shapes already in use.-New York. Sun.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-08-09

pIAN0I The standard piano the world
AlAtsVLA from it
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-08-09
AEOLIAN SELF=PLAYlNG ORGAN

brought from China In the most honor
able trunks, you will show me-yes ?"
"Goo'by!" said zee Shaw. at the
door.
cit would be-" said the Hon. Wing,
thinking harder than ever. "as you
say, what might be called asking too
much!'
"Oh, very well!''
Nine. Lii has been driving, and she
is very tired went on the Hon. Wing,
who is, as it were, you might say, a
damper on any party, "and to show the
costumes is to a lady tiresome."
"Oh. don't know. There are things
more tiresome that could mention.
You are going away. from here, you
were saying, Nine. LIP"
a In a few weeks said the Honorable
Mr.. Fl, saving dangerous point in
the conversation by his tact. We
have been here before
YGoo'by!'' said the Honorable Yee
II pUhildren are Just the same every
biwhere,'' E9lnarked your honorable rep
resentative. cleverly.
y'Yes-yes-yes!" smiled little Nine.
sI.i. t.5ii
Yes-yes-yes!" said the Honorable
rrWiftig.
apssi And your little boy is quite Amer
ican!,
fis,"Ffet has been abroad a great deal"
ra.. salai4Ml r. Il, VIII prlae. ne WIZ kaloW
,,,uei ~, ,,'l u every country "iieii ne grows
I UP: up
fssss MIR. Ii Likes American Women.
'fYoh like the American ladies, Most
.Honerable2'' .ssss1 1
Oh, yes yes, indeed, yes-they are
very charning-butx different from
ours.'
esIittle Mime. Lii lifted her .sealskin
eyes to her husbands. One could i'm
agine her giving him a most honorable
talking stasif he We're disposed to stray
into .gllded palaces where roulette and
'spoker tenipt the Most Honorable, even
aSutheY did; Minister WI on one occa-
sion here in town.
>SstI'afea stfUst onorabie had not heard
Of this SO Your honorable, representa-
tive told them of it. We all laughed
{ si1a1asor ak3ie agelss Really should have
gottela:on beautifully with the Lis if it
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-08-09
70 Be Considered.

s.saseeWhat do you think of the idea of
sending the colored people back to
Africa
Deed. sub, answered Mr.. Erastus
Pinkiey, unless you kin show us dat
! chickens an watermelons is as easy to
git an dat votes is bringin' as high a
price as dey IS in dis country, ! reckon
you all is gwinter hab a mighty hand
JOB O persuade w Washingten Star.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-08-09
A Hundred Boys Court One Girl

ing in rotation. She is. fair. very fair,
and impartial and plays no favorites.
This all sounds like a fairy tale of
the sylvan dell. but 1t all true as told.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-08-09
It All Depends.

Mrs. Bore-This paper advertises fool
iish powders for. women. Don't you think
they are bad things to take?
Mr.. -Crusty-W Which. the powders or the
Wanen ?-Chelsea Gazette.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-08-09
Its officers

Gen. Irving Hale, the president of
the national society, received his mill
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-04-27
A Mexican Paradise.

People at the federal capital have
been groaning about what they are
pleased to call the "calor excessive. "
or tremendous heat. Here in happy
Tabasca we have a constant heat. get
used to it, and live as merrily as the
gamooling monkeys in the Jungle.
And we are healthicr here than peo-
pie are UP in the City OF Mexico.
where man chase the rolling peso to
keep In funus to meet the demands of
a society which worries them while
pretending to amuse Here full dress
is a neglige shirt. as neslige as yon
please. pair of light trousers Garter
is wearing yellow nankeen this sum
mer), and smile Of contentment
The up-country plantations report
good times, salaries are on the far
Aast schedule, champagne is no lux
ury. but deiiy comfort. and mission
Ary effort is Lnknown.-Tabasco
(MexicoI Tageblatt.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-04-27
ram or the Sea.

1t needs not Lord. that thy full hand
should pour
This bounty of the sweet and coolinA
rain
Upon the brimming oceans sterile
plain
When for one little portion of this store
Somewhere the famshed earth prays
Ger and Ger:
Why shouldst thou cast this largess
thus in vain
Te melt into the wide and barren main
When the long drought lays waste the
teenlinS shore?
Forgive us. Lord, that in thine ear IL
The futile challenge Of eur CHILDISH
why
Haply the clouds thy mercy has dis
titled
On the great deep that. whore wreck
ed seamen lie,
HaEgard and spent and with night
watches chilled,
OF thirst on their frafl raft they sheull
not die.
james r. Kenyon In Christian AAvs-
cate.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-04-27
Our Bic Universities.

Colleges aud universities grow fast.
Or than ever. The growth was shown
chiefly by the larger and Weather
ones, the smaller ones remaining sta,
tionar', or falling away. Columbia
passed Harvard in students and now
leads the list, the figures being 5,865
and 6,782. Chicago made another leap
and is third with 4,723. California
with 3.s4S is running almost neck and
neck with Michigan with S,843 Min.
nesota's count is 1866 and Cornell has
reached 3.469. Pratt holds eighth
place with 3,1S3. and Yale has jumped
to the ninth from the eleventh with
S,154. Then comes 4 close race Of
1855; Northwest.
ern. 1921 and Illinois, 2,905. Pennsyl-
vsnia is thirteenth WITH 2.73e, Nebras.
k&, fourteenth with 1898, New York
fifteenth with 1900 and Syracuse six.
teenth with 2.065.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-04-27
COTTON BELT ROUTE.

! On account of the Spring Race Meet.
ing at Little Rock, the Cotton Belt
route will sell round trip tickets to
tnat point at rate of one fare for tn
26, and 81. Return limit, March 90.
Oh account of the Spring Meeting
New Memphis Jockey club, at Mem.
phis, Tenn, the Cotton Belt route
will sell round trip tickets to that
point at rate of one fare for the round
trip. Tickets on sale for trains arriv-
Ing at Memphis March 20. April 7,
il, IL and 20. Return limit. five days
. from date of sale
On account Of the International Con-
vention United States Society of Chris
zion Endeavor, at Denver Col. the
Cotton Belt route will sell round trip
tickets to that point at rate OF $25 for
the round trip. Tickets on sale from
July | to 10, inclusive, 1903. Return
limit, August 81. 1903.
Cotton Belt Cheap Rates.
General Assembly of the Presbyter
ian Church in the United States OF
America, at Los Angeles, Cal. May 21
to June ., 1903
National Association OF Master
Plumbers of the United States OF
America San Francisco, Cal, Nav 10
to - 1903.
For the above occasions the follow
lowing round trip rates and arrange
ments are authorized to Los Angeles
and San Francisco, California:
Rate $i750 for the round trip.
Dates Of sale-May ., II, IA, =. 1G
II and Is, 1903.
For further information apply to
II. B. Mizell. agent, Cotton Belt route.
Account National Conference of
Charities and Corrections at Atlanta
Ga, May to II, the Cotton Belt route
will sell round-trip tickets to that
point at rate of one fare, plus 81.
Tickets on sale May f. Return limit
May 16
Account meeting American Medical
association at New Orleans, La, May
5 to 8. the Cotton Belt route will sell
round-trip tickets to that point att
rate of one fare. plus 81. Tickets on
sale May I. 2 and 3, 1903 Return linn
it ten days from date Of sale
H. B. MlZELL, Agt.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-04-27
$4,000 TO BE DIs.....v.x
The st. Louis Republic Offers Four
teen Splendid Reward to Sub
acrihera

Inc u. LOUIS Republic OncF8 Four
teen Splendid Reward to Sub
scribers.
An interesting announcement ap-
pears in that great metropolitan news
paper, the st. Louis Republic, in the
form of a proft-sharing offer to any
one now a subscriber or willing ia
A big sum OF $4,000 is to be paid in
rewards for good judgment and skill
1t is possible to earn all the way from
SO up to $4,000
The Republics subscribers are in
vited to estimate upon the number of
upon the occasion of the grand dedi-
catory ceremonies, April 80, 1903, of
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
The subscriber whose estimate comes
nearest the official record will receive
$4,000; the next one will get $4,000,
and and additional sum of $2,50O will
be divided in rewards ranging from
81, 900 down to $40 among those whose
estimates most nearly approximate
the offiial record of admissions. A pay
ment of $3.50 will provide for the de-
livery Of the Daily and Sunday Re-
public for not less than one year. or
Sc will pay for six annual subscrip-
tions to the Twicea-week Republic.
and if the remittance is received on
or before 4 p. m. OF April 20, 1903, the
person sending it can make six esti-
mates. More estimates maye be made
by extending a subscription beyond
one year, or by organizing clubs and
inducing others to subscribe.
Complete information as to the con.
ditions of this contest, together with
blanks will be found in the Daily. Sun
day and Twice-a-week editions Of the
Republic from April until April 30,
1903, or will be mailed to any one upon
application. All communications and
estimates should be addressed to The
Republic Profit-Sharing Bureau, Call
Box POI, st. Louis. Mo.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-04-27
Justice in New York,

Some time ago New York magis-
ate committed a girl to the state re.
ormatory for "disorderly conduct" !"
ustice Gayncr has released the pris.
'rer. holding that "disorderly coli.
'uct" is too vague an offense to war.
ant depriving person of his or her
iberty. He declares that this conviction
appears to have been without any
vidence. thing which appears to oc-
IL very often in this city, as incredi.
lie as it may SEEM"