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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-14
HEARD IN PASSING

Millionaire Addicks, by disputtng over a flve-cent fare. deadlocked street car traffic in Wilmington, Del, the other day for fifteen minutes. It is doubtful if tjhis man is quite happy in the next world unless he can dead lock the pearly gates. -Ansonia Sen- tinel.
 Mir Carnegie's difficulty in dying poor in order not to die rich is increasing daily. He is hard put to it to invest new means of scattering his money. He would have less difficulty If he should seek better advice, though We withhold what that advice would be- New Haven Register.
 It is going to cost $50o,Ooo, according to the estimates, to repair the battle ship Iowa. These explosions on ship board are costly affairs, even when the unagazine does not blow up. as happen ed In the case of the original Maine. Incidentally 1t should be mentioned that the new bahtleship Maine was bad ly damaged on her maiden voyage and will be sent to the Brooklyn navy yard for repairs, Hartford Times.
 1t is up to President Roosevelt and his postmaster general to make the in- vestdgation into the alleged post office Irregularities and scandals as searching and comprehensive as the law allows. Under present conditions the reputation of the whole departm ment Is smirched and all are under suspicion for the err TOTS of few. Such conditions should be allowed to prevail only long enough to run down the crime and punish the criminals Britain Herald.
 A traveller has made the observation that coffee drinking people are very seldom given to drunkenness In Brazil for instance, where coffee is grown ex- tensively and allathe inhabitants drink it nlany times day, intoxication is rarely seen The effect is not only mo- ticeable among the natives, but the foreigner who sett1es there though pos- sessed of even such a passion for stro1 2 drink, gradually loses his liking for al- cohol as he acquires coffee drinking habit of the Brazilian-Hartford Post
 An amusing instance of q minister stumbling on q text of a humorous per sonal application Is that related of a widower, who had remarried within a year after his wlfe's death. His friends and congregation thought him very ex- peditious, and on the next Sunday. when his text was announced, they could scarcely control themselves. He rose in his place in his pu1pit and said: My beloved brethren You will find my text in the seventeenth verse of the fourth chapter of Second Corinthians, Our light affliction, which is for the moment."-San Francisco Argonaut.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-14

his keys to them every time they feel like running into his office for a story. The department has passed through trying tinne, such a one as will probably never come again. Let us hope so at least. In all the time of the strike there was only one mistake made, If indeed there was one, and that was on the night of the riot. Many people even now typhoid the chief of police ill the stand he took that night. There are others who wanted to see the police use club and pistol. If they had what would have been the result. There would surely have been lives lost. It is very easy to stand on the street corner or sit in ones office and tell what should be done. Again the police have been criticized for not bringing the as- sailants of the trolley crews and the murderers of Officer Paul Mendelssohn to justice. The men who planned these outrages must have made some efforts to cover up their tracks. And why, we ask, in all sincei ity have not the import ed detectives and deputies accomplish ed something In this lime. True 1t Is that number of men were before the court, and these men are now awaiting trial before the superior court. These out of town sleuths 1t must be remembered had a much better oppor- tmity to run down the culprits than the local men had. Not being known they could get into clubs and perhaps into labor union meetings and mingle with men where local officers would be barred. They had all the advantage in this respect, and yet what did they ac- complish. Without the assistance given them by the local detectives, police of ficers, sheriffs and others they would sttll be looking for some clue to the men who performed the several acts of lawlessness, assault and murder com mitted since the strike began. Mayor Kilduff and the board of public safety, we imagine, have been too long identi- fed with city and municipal affairs to be dragged around by the noses by sensational newspaper articles, and We hope to see them uphold the good name of the city and the efficiency of the police department.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-14
DANGER OF COLDS AND GRIP.

The greatest danger from colds and grip is their resulting in pneumonia. If reasonable care is used, however, and Chamberlain's Cough Remedy ta- ken, all danger will be avoided. Among the tens of thousands who have used this remedy for these diseases we have yet to learn of single case having resulted in pneumonia, which shows exclusively that 1t Is a certain pre- ventive of that dangerous disease. It will cure d cold or an attack of the grip in less time than any other treat ment. It Is pleasant and safe to take. For sale by all druggists.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-14

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
 Take the genuine Laxative Bromo- Quinlne. Gall for the full name and insist the box which bears the sig nature of F. V. Grove. 25c.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-14

Things are very dull politically in Washington, but once in awhile some member of congress drops in to do some work before the departments and talks politics to the newspaper men at T. ,ht in the corridors of the hotels. Some of the leaders of the democratic party while there recently discussed the probabilities and possibilities of the future of the party and possible or probable candidates for the presidency on the democratic ticket. >, It Is the con- sensus of opinion among those who have offered an opinion that no man can or ought to be nominated who did not Loyalty support the party and the ticket in '96 and 1900, and that will eliminate several names that have been mentioned in this connection. Among them is the name of David R. Francis of Missouri. There is no doubt that some of the friends of the latter are quietly starting boom for him as a sort of feeler. They figure that he will acquire great prestige as the head or the worlds fair, and that the conven- ton will be held in St Louis on account of the fair. They seem to forget that the people won't forget that he was a bolter in 1896, and that he cannot carry his own state delegation in the conven- tion. Senator German has his friends among those who have talked recently, and so has Judge Parker of New York. They nearly all agree that the man should come from the east, and one man who is a leader of the party on the floor of the house said the other day that there was a man In the east who would have to be reckoned with as potent factor before the next con- vention, and who, he said, was the real hero of the masses of the people in this country, and that man is William Ran- dolph Hearsr.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-14
Pianos Pianos

We are representatives for the fol- lowing well known makes: hnape' Steck, IyeTs & Pond, Poole, NewDy l& Evans, Monroe, Howard and Btdole. High and medium grade goods. Low prices. Easy terms. Good Second hand and slightly used Pianos always on hand. Musical Instruments of all kinds. Classic and Popular Sheet Mu- sic. Also Instruction Books for all instruments.
 THE DRIGGS < SW1TH CO.
 49 Center St. Telephone 633-3.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-14

The local police force is having a hard time of 1t just at present. Not even the head of the department Is free from criticism, neither is the board of public safety. Criticism, however, Is not proof, and We are somewhat sur prlsed that journal of such standing ill the community as our evening con- temporary enjoys takes the advantage of swabting the department through the columns of what has always been considered a sensational paper. If there are charges to be preferred let us have them, but what is the use of publishing broadcast that our police officers are lacking in efficiency with out the proof to substantiate the claim. already charges are hanging over the heads of two officers for doing their duty, and the deputy judge of the city court as the paid attorney, and per- haps of some sorehead or, discredit ed politician is preparing documents to show that other officers are not do- ing their duty. Perhaps these same officers will be found on both lists when the eat is finally let out of the bag. Truly the lot of police officer
 Is not a very happy one just at pres ent. But the people of Waterbury, the paying citlzens, will not believe the department Is as inefficient as rep resented Neither will they believe every sensational story emanating from
 the pens of newspapermen at home and abroad because Chief of Police Egan does not give up his desk and hand over
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-14
Court ccnxenes Vt san .yuan.

C0MNG COMwGm@M NV SM@ IW&Ms
 SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, April 14.-- The federal court has opened here. The hearing of the so called smuggling cases In which Lieutenant Commander c. W. Mentz, U. s. N, and Supervisor Of Elections Benjamin Butler are in- volved will not be held this term Gov ernor Hunt has ordered the insular po- lice to take possession of Mayaguez and supplant the municipal police at noon April 15 for the greater security of the interests of good government Extensive frauds in the expenditure of the Mayaguez $2oo, ,o0o loan have been discovered. Superintendent of Public Works Baez was arrested at Mayaguez April 8, charged with frauds amount ing to between $1o,000 and $2o,00o.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-14
Investigating Mining outrawea.

BAKER CITY. Ore, April 14.-Un- der instructions from Attorney General Knox, United States District Attorney Hall has been Investigating the out rage committed upon number of Chi nese miners at Mormon Basin last summer by white men. The Chinese were beaten and robbed and their cab ins burned. 1t Is understood that the Chinese made demand upon the United States government for $1o0,O00 indemnity. It is said that the Chinese allege they were robbed of $45, 5,ooo worth of gold dust.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-14
The MissIswrppa suns,arnr.

NEW ORLEANS, April 14.-The riv- CT here has fallen one-tenth to 19.9 feet. Work on the Hymelia crevasse has been resumed. If the present rate of decline continues at Hollybrook it is expected that within the next ten days or two weeks water will practically cease running through the break there. In that event planters will have ample tune in which to SOW their crops.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-14
Clook Workers Made Happy.

TWISTED, Conn.,, April 14.-Nine hundred employees of the Seth Thomas Clock company fin Thomaston were sur prised when notices {. were posted throughout the mills that from June, Il till Oct. l fifty-flve hours shall consti tute weeks work, with sixty hours pay. The advance was voluntary on the part of the company.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-12-08

the silence and indecision of the constitution, as
to the nature of this Union. To our minds, cleared
of the hot temper of the time, that age seems an
unhappy, cropping age, but it was a good age In
which to be born, for men were in earnest about
deep, vital things. It was indeed an age OF pas
sion, but of passion based on principles, and en-
thusiasm, and deep Royalties. The cynic, the poht-
ical idler, the self-seeker, fed before these fiery
eyed men, who were probing into governmental
theories and constitutional interpretations, and
who counted their ideas as of more value than
their lives. The time had it's obvious faults, and
was doomed to fall before the avatar of progress;
but there lived in it beauty and force and a great
central note of exaltation of personality above
social progress. Around the Preside the talk did
not fall so much upon the kim of man who forms
the syndicate or corners the stock market or who
wages the warfare of trade around the world, but
rather simple, old questions were asked which
might have been asked in the Homeric age: Is
he free from sordiness or stain? Has he borne
himself bravely in battle? Has he suffered some
where with courage and dignity7 Has he kept
faith with his ideals
We have no desire to m~oralize further. To COM
ment on DR.. Alderman's words would but mar
their forceand beauty. We have only to repeat
that what we have said and reported is given in
no pessimistic spirit. We have given no warning,
but only a word of caution-caution that the New
South with its thrift and enterprise lose not its
hold on the lofty idealism of the fathers; caution
that we sacrifice not the chivalry and honor of
other days on the affairs of that modern idol, the
Great God Success.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-12-08

pardon me for saying that I consider the intro
duction of Domestic Science into our nnbl;o
school curriculum is a vital necessity to the wo1
fare of our homes. But this can only be sncooar
fully accomplished when there are sufRo;on+
teachers who are competent to teach the diFor
ent branches which go to make up the course of
domestic science. The fitting of these teachers !.
where the great good of these scholarships como
in. We have a course IN domestic science N
Downer College of Milwaukee, and we also have .
very fine agricultural school with a domestic
science course at Menomonee, Wis.
"a course in domestic science includes evprv-
thing needful for successful, up-to-date house,
keeping and homemaking. It includes chemistry
as concerning all kinds of food stufs, cooking in
all it's branches, the why as well as the wherefore
the principles of nutrition, food values and in fact
everything pertaining to the requirements of the
human body and the value of different kinds of
foods. It also takes up other branches of house
work quite as thoroughly and thus you will see
how useful a course in domestic science would be
to one who expects to become a homemaker, for
in the homes of our people lie the safety of our
Commonwealth"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-12-08
A VALUABLE BOOK OF STATE HISTORY.

Mr.. Marshall De Lancey Haywood, of Raleigh,
has just brought out an important historical
work, Governor William Tryon and His Admin
~istration in the Province of North Carolina, T65-
1771." The first impression one gets from the
book is quite favorable. It is a handsome BOOK
one of the handsomest ever sent out by a North
Carolina publisher. The binding is excellent, the
type large and clear, the margins broad, ana LILO
index unusually complete. .no
Nor are we less impressed by the style OF 10
author. Very few of US have much interest," IL
Gov. Tryon as an individual, but it is a mistake
to regard Mr.. Haywood's book as a mere Dlogt@
ply of the Royal Governor. It is rather a SUI,
ring story of North Carolina history during LS
on's service as Chief Magistrate. OF course H. Ts
all of us are going to agree with Mr.. HayT"Oouo
jealous attempts to defend his hero-pernaPS .
natural reaction, however, from no less zearouo
attempts to besmirch that hero's record-ngr a.
we willing to see the Regulators so scathlngy liz IL
tackled; but the book is nevertheless a "I"T The
contribution to our historical literature Jar.
freedom from "dry-as-dust" methods tnG n nu4
current of humor and satire, are especla4y a4tbe
flying. Mr.. r. F.. Beasley's assertion tnaS If
operation of calculating a set of figures n II bc-
writing a present-day North Carolina DoGh y will
tory are not far removed from each QUIZ Iauuood
not apply to this work. All in all, Mi. tL@J" and
has made a promising beginning as an n a Luz hat of
we hope that his next biography Will 70
some native North Carolinian. from
The book contains 223 large pages, com Id from
the press of E. N. Uzzell, and may Dc 20
Alfred Williams & Co, Raleigh. Frlc0 %"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-12-08
TEACHING DOMESTIC SCIENCE.

A lady correspondent of The Progressive
Farmer, whose letter was printed on page Z of
our last number, makes an able plea for the in
PRODUCTION of domestic science into our girls
schools and colleges. We are glad to have this
suggestion, made editorially some months ago,
so effectively supported by an intelligent and far
seeing woman. Hand in hand with the teaching
of agriculture to the boys in the public schools
must go the teaching of domestic science to the
girls. And our high schools and colleges through
out North Carolina ought to recognize the wise
drift of public sentiment and institute courses
in these practical SUBJECTS. They are to furnish
the teachers for the schools, and these teachers
should be prepared to meet the new conditions
that confront them. What institutions will be
the first to offer these advantagesR
Out in Illinois, as we have said before, a regu-
larly organized association of women is working
Systematically to bring about the needed change
in our educational methods. An inquiry recently
sent to a Wisconsin woman brought the following
information in regard to the Hawkeye movement:
"Mr. Clarence Fl. Poe, Raleigh, N. G..
"Dear Sir:-Your letter of recent date is at
hand, and I hasten to reply. The object of the
Illinois Association of Domestic Science is to
stimulate an interest in all that pertains to home
making and to induce the organization of domes-
tic science associations, and to introduce the
study of domestic science into our public schools.
every county that has a branch organization
has the privilege of a free scholarship for one girl,
to be selected by the President of the county asso-
citation. These scholarships entitle the holder to
a course in Domestic Science in the State Uni
versity.
Il do not know how successful this association
has been in e~ffecting the introduction of a course
in Domestic Science in the public schools of the
State of Illinois, but it must certainly stir up an
interest in this most needed branch of education.
81 am afraid you have started me off on one of
my hobbies, but as you are interested you will
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-12-08
A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.

This is well to be weighed, that boldness is
ever blind, for it seeth not dangers and inconve-
niences. Therefore it is i'll in counsel, good in
execution. So that the right use of bold persons
is, that they never command in chief, but be sec
onds, and under the direction of others. For in
counsel it is good to see dangers, and in execu-
ton not to see them, except they be very great
From Lord Bacon's Essay on "Boldness."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-12-08
h GREAT GOD SUCCESS.

THE GREAT GOD SUCCESS.
The writer is net a pessimist-on the contrary,
he hates pessimism. Earnestly, and wholeheart-
eddy do we say with Bishop Fitzgerald: "The best
things are ahead of us, not behind us. Only an
atheist can logically be a p~essimist. The move
ment of humanity under the rule of an al-wise,
aTl-gracious, almighty God, is forward, not back
ward" But our optimism is not of the idle, let
things-alone variety We do not believe that the
good will triumph without a struggle, but only
by our. facing the bad squarely and fighting
abuses earnestly.
We wonder, for example, if even our optimists
should not more seriously consider the American
tendency to glorify wealth, regardless of how it
is obtained, the worship of the Golden Calf, the
servile ~cringing before "the Great God Success"
A writer in the November Everybody's brings the
matter forcibly before us. Thirty years ago, he
reminds us, the ordinary man of intelligence could
not have named a half dozen of our richest men,
while to-day every newspaper reader talks glibly
of Morgan and Rockefeller, Schwab and Carnegie,
Gould and Whitney, the Vanderbilts and the Ar
mours, etc., etc.
owe have fallen under a universal withcraft,"
says Mr.. Bellamy. "a sense of the power and
luxury in money, beyond all the wonder-tales, has
suddenly come to us. 1t has turned our fashion
able society into a materialism which is no longer
ashamed of it's poverty of ideals. It is hard and
merciless of heart; it is ~sceptical of unworldly
motives; its smartest relish is for the strokes and
ruses of the manipulators of finance. In times
like these, it is good to remember Agassiz, who
refused to lecture at $500 a night because he was
too busy to make money; Charles Sumner, who
declined to lecture at any price because, he said,
as Senator all his time belonged to Massachusetts,
Spurgeon, who refused to come to America to de-
liver fifty lectures at $1,000 a night, saying he
could do better-he could stay in London and
try to save fifty souls; and Emerson, who stead
tasty declined to increase his income beyond
$1,000 because he wanted his time to think. Such
stories of fine haughtiness did not seem q%uixotic
to the young men in college thirty years ago. A
generous idealism was abroad, and it was un-
ashamed.0
This utterance of Mr.. BeIlamy's at once re-
minded US of a notable paragraph in the memo
rial address on DR.. j. L. M. Curry delivered by
DR.. Edwin A. Alderman in Richmond last April
reminded us so impressively that we looked up the
speech and re-read it.
"The intense, rich life of our leader and friend"
said Dr.. Alderman, covered an equally intense
and rich period of his c~ountry's history. Born in
1925 in the rural, agricultural, isolated lower
South, his thoughtful boyhood looked out upon a
crude, healthy, boastful nation, drunk with a kind
of democratic passion and getting used, in rough
ways, to the shrewd air of popular government,
and yet clinging to the concept of orderly nation
atty. His young manhood was passed amid the
storm of a great argument, made necessary by
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-12-08
White Pop. 1850.

In view of Judge Christians recent attempt to
show that Virginia furnished a larger number Of
soldiers than did North Carolina, these statistics
are decidedly interesting. If the Tar Heel boys,
with a smaller enrolment, furnished twice as
many victims of Yankee bullets, it is a striking
commentary on the fearlessness Of our soldiers
and the persistence with which they pushed to the
post of danger and bore the brunt of battle.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-12-08
A POINTER FOR JUDGE CHRISTIAN.

Looking over some old papers last week we quite
accidentally came across the following official
statement of the number Of soldiers from each
Southern State killed in battle during the Civil
War, 1876, with the white population of each
State according to the census of 1860:
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-02-07
LICENSE IN VERMONT.
Prohibition IL Abandoned nj Special
Election, the state Adopting
Local Option Law.

Montpelier, VT, Feb. A. Vermont
on Tuesday, al special election, went
out of the list of prohibition states,
the majority for the acceptance Of
the recently enacted local option high
license law being about 1000. OF the
2i6 cities and towns in the state 237
give a vote of 3O,20i TO 29,2S3 in favor
of the change The places heard from
include all the cities and large villages.
and the remaining nine are small rural
communities, mostly i'm Rutland
county, which will not materially alter
the figures given. The result, while
gratifying TO the license workers, is
not up to their expectations. Some
had predicted an affirmative majority
Of $4,000.
The prohibition law which has been
repealed was adopted in 1852. Since
that time its retention has kept Yer
mont in the position of the foremost
prohibition state, and this fact, il IS
believed, will exert considerable in
huence upon Vermont's neighboring
states Of Maine and New Hampshire.
which are now hesitating as TO the
of dry laws.