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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-17
HEARD IN PASSING

Prof Langley says that he got the idea of his flying machine from the pterodactyl If he did there's no doubt the pterodactyl swindled him.-sunaer- vile Journal.
 This report that Madame Melba re- fuses to sing at the White House De cause she doesn't know MT Roosevelt, reads as if the singer were a Maryland democrat.-North American Transcript
 When J. P. Morgan lost his horse show ticket and could not gain admittance, the small boy who hangs around on the outside concluded that not such a great gulf divided them after all.- Lewiston Journal.
 Young Mir Rockefeller declares that a man is a good Christian in proportion as he is a good business man; but we suspect that Mir Rockefeller will ex- perfenee more difficulty in getting re bates from the recording angel than from the railroads.-Detroit Free Press.
 One New York paper informs it's readers that among the marriage gifts to Miss Goelet was "a hushel of small articles of ,jewelry." This expression conjures up golden vision of 3 jewel bin, with jewel teams emptying jewels into it down chute.-Boston Tran script.
 The employment of light, pneumatic tire vehicles behind 8 fleet trotter or pacer is not to be criticized. Lessen the burden which he draws along with reasonable concern for his relative ab1l- ity in comparison with other fast ones. But no one is silly enough to propose that running horses shall move over the tracks behind the shelter of huge sails borne onward by mile minute automonailes. What good reason is there for providing wind shields for trotters and pacers and not for thor oushbred ra cers New York Times.
 Most of our esteemed state contempo- raries in their discussion of the Hart ford convention held by the members of the Farmers alliance take the same view of it that has already been ex- pressed in our columns. It is con- spiracy against the inherent rights of the freeman of Connecticut, a declara- ton of war on the part of the represen- tatixes of the rural towns against the cities. The alliance Is opposed to in creased representation in the general assembly for the great majority of voters in the state or to any change that will diminish the power of the minority of the voters to rule the ma jority and tax them for the benefit of the minority. It announces that it will support no man for office who does not indorse its platform.-Bridgeport Farmer.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-17
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1903.
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Our stock market Is not only paying the penalty for past excesses but it Is also discounting in advance the effects of business reaction, says Banker Clews, so that when the latter actually arrives security values are likely to show greater stability than now. AS for the artificial influences, they are chiefly speculative and the result of the efforts of powerful operators to take advantage Of or protect them selves from consequences of the larger movements which are altogether be- yond their control. Personal contro- Eersles do not create such fluctuations as the market has lately witnessed, yet one party or the other may and usually does seize upon just such opportunities to intensity depression in order to carry out long contemplated plans. Big men wait patiently for such crises, hence the belief that recent market
 movements will later on show impor- tant changes of balance of power in the financial world
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-17
ADELINA PATTI.

was born fiji Madrid and speaks Spanish so well; the Italians claim her most reasonably because she was born of Italian parents; the French consider her French, and the wife of a Frenchman and because of her perfect French ac- cent; the Americans say she came to their country as 8 child, was educated there, developed there, became great singer there-so it seems we can lay pretty good claim to calling Patti an American.
 Tn the supposedly usual American manner we certainly can make boast that in the matter of financial support we have not been behindhand in our ap- preciation! Patti has received larger sums of money here for single perform ance than any other star has yet at tained to. When the Auditorium was opened in Chicago, Patti's price for singing Home, Sweet Home" was $4 ,o00 At Saturday matinee in Boston she sang to an audience of 5000 people, and her share of that days receipts was $S,395. In three performances in Boston, I think it was, she added to her posses sions the neat sum of S209oO Her earlier contracts with Col. Mapleson gave her S5o00 for each nights work
 Patti has thrice taken unto herself a husband. The first time she essayed matrimoney she had cause to repent her choice; the husband, 8 Frenchman, Marquis de Caux, was a spendthrift and very dissipated. Her second marriage (1896) was very happy one, her choice this lime falling on Ernest Nircc1ini q famous tenor singer. He died in 1898, and some little time afterward she mar ried Baron Cedarstron, Swedish noble man.
 Patti's voice is a marvellously pure and rich soprano. Engel says of her that she sings like a thrush, lark, night ingale, and apparently as easily.
 THE ASTROT oGER
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-17

Miss Lucille Eaton Hill, director of physical training at Wellesley, has made protest against competitive ath- letics for women, and her warning voice Is both timely and rational. She recently expressed her disapproval of basketball for girls, as a reugh-and- tumble game, likely to do more harm than physical good. There may be two sides to this question, and many physi- cal directors do not agree with Miss Hill about basketball as an aid to feminine culture. But it is undeniably dangerous for young women in their teens to struggle to the limit of their nerve, and stregnth in track and held programs which include most of the features of masculine competition, such as the broad and high jumps, shot putting and hurdling, says the editor Of the Sporting News. The opinions of Miss Hill, as made public in the, in troduction of volume on athletics for women, are far more sensible than some of the text, especially that writ ten by Dr John Blake on cross-eountFy walking. Here is the other extreme, and if his advice is to be followed, all apostles of the strenuous life must take off their hats to the healthy girl of 10 years old or over, who, if they are brought up to 1t, can easily cover on fair roads number of miles equal to their age, or the equivalent of the dis tance. Ye1lng women from IS to 30 or 35 should be able to do much more under favorable conditions, even thirty miles a day"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-17

without warning from the unfinished roof of the New York Rapid Transit tunnel recently, and the lives of ten men were snuffed out. In almost the same place two years ago a similar ae- cident happened with almost as fear runs far underground; there are don keys and tramcars there, and the steady throb of water pumps. The rock is a treacherous schist-'bastard granite the men call it. The cleavage is almest vertical, and an excess of rain or some other simple cause will drop a huge slice of it as neatly and as quickly as you would let fall one card from a pack. In the Park avenue section Of the subway in 1901 an acci- dental explosion of dynamite killed five persons. injured, more or less, hun dreds Of others, and destroyed several hundred thousand dollars worth of property. A few blocks away the roof of the tunnel caved in one day and the front walls of a whole block of brown stone houses crashed after it. The tunnel company was finally compelled to buy up the damaged block for about a million dollars. In the same section Major Ira shaler, the ill-starred con tractor, who was held responsible for the accident, was himself killed by a similar fall of rock. These spectacular tragedies are part of the price which must be paid for the completion of any such feat of engineering through the very heart of a crowded city. Al most every day a few lines of newspa- per type chronicle a mishap in some part of the long length of the subway. If every case of fractured skull or in ternal injuries were run down to the hospital bed, where some Italian la borer dies, unidentified, perhaps, and unknown, the list would be one that would seem to the casual nearer to be appalling. It proba bly, would run well up into the hundreds"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-17

Speaking of the scenes at the open ing of congress, our Washington Cor respondent says that there is one little piece of red tape that each new house goes through with that gives the spec tators in the gallery and the members on the floor an opportunity to give vent to their enthusiasm for any particular man they believe in or whom they think Is a popular hero, That is the time1honored function of drawing seats for the session. A page is blindfolded and he pulls out of a box a marble with 8 number on 1t, and there is a members name oposite this number. Both are called out and the member then goes down and selects his seat. There was much applause when cer- tain men were called out. For in stance, there was resolution adopted that gave the floor leader of the repub- hcan side, the Hon Serene Payne of New York, and the oldest member on that side Of the house, the Hon Harry Bingham of Pennsylvania, the, floor leader of the democratic side, the Hon John Sharp Williams of Tennessee, the right to choose their seats without drawing for them. There was much applause when they went forward and chose their seats. Then the names of prominent men on both sides of the house were called out, and as they went down the adsles to get their seats there went up the pEaudits of their friends. Among the number on the democratic side who were recognized in this manner were Hon George B. Mcclellan, lately elected democratic mayor Of Greater New York. and the Hon William Randolph Hearst of New York. who has done so much for the cause of democracy and the common people of the country. He received an ! ovation that must have warmed the cookies in his heart, for 1t is the uni yersal opinion here that he and his ! papers, with himself as the directing democratic head, won the recent cleo ton tn the city of New York. The democrats all feel very kindly to him | for his work for the party, and they improved the opportunity to show him their marked appreciation of his bril- liant work in behalf of democracy.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-17
KAISER NO FOE TO coRsETs.
He Encourages His Wife to Lace a, Tightly as Possible Empress
 Inclined to COrpuIence.

The empress of Germany, although che Is 8 very handsome woman is nevertheless inclined to corpulence, says the New York Journal.
 Through the indiscretion of one ot the imperial household, it is learned that the emperor wishes her to lace tightly, and that she should go in for riding, walking and other outdoor ex- ercises, that she may regain her tor mer slim and graceful figure.
 Not long ago one of her intimate friends suggested to the empress that an empire froeil would set off her fine figure to advantage The empress re- piled:
 My imperial husband strongly ob- jects to my wearing such dress; his majesty wishes me to have my waist as slim as is compatible with my health
 As she is very much in love with her husband and anxious to please kim in every respect, she accordingly wears dresses of the tightest possible pat tern.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-17
STEPPED AGAINST A HOT STOVE

STEPPED AGAINST A HOT STOVE
 A child of Mrs George T. Benson, when getting his usual Saturday night bath. stepped back against hot stove which burned him severely. The child was in great agony and his mother could do nothing to pacify him. Re membering that she had a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm in the house, she thought she would try it. In less than half an hour after applying it the child was quiet and asleep, and in less than two weeks was well Mrs Ben son is a we'll known resident of Kel- lar, Va. Pain Balm is an antiseptic lininent and especially valuable for burns. cuts, bruises and sprains. For sale by all druggists.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-17
Mattresses

We make a speciality of Mattresses of every kind and quality and of such materials as hair, cotton, wool, fibre and excelsior and in any combination demanded by the trade. We beat the state on Feather Pillows and we make Fine Pillows of other materials as we'll. We have fine line of Spring Beds and Comfortables and all other accessories of ease and contentment in sleeping. You make the mistake of your life if you don't examine our stock before buying any thing.
 Boston Mattress Co.,, 260 East Main St
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-17

New York's big subway one of the most gigantic undertakings this eoun- try ever saw, is claiming it's victims daily almost. 4 writer in Golfers, in speaking of the most recent loss Of life, has this bit of interesting reading about the work now being done in the greatest city of the world: "A huge mass of rock. 200 tons ar more. dronped
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-17
BY THE WAY

have you seen our largest line of Trunks and Bags, Dress Suit Gases? 1t will be ito your advantage to look over our line and prices before buying elsewhere. Umbrellas recovered and repaired while you wait in best man her. Remember the place, 153 Bank street, opposite Waterbury National bank, formerly corner Bank and Grand streets. ...N
 Waterbury Umbrella and Trunk Mfr.
 Telephone 119-2. Trunks and Bags repaired.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-17
Tn Rmaaia.

Nearly all the industrial schools of Russia are connected with large fac tories and the students receive wages.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-17
Good Values FALL AND WINTER SHIRTS

As regards winter aundered bosom present  eudes Shirts
 
  Our neff includes Newport Shirts styles patterns in this tive
  quality
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-17
The New York Tailoring Co

Have opened their new store at 13o North Main street, and beg to call your attention to their fine and large stock of domestic and imported woolens. We are making up gentlemen's suits. civ- ing a perfect fit and first-class work manship. Suits are made from $15 up. Fine Trousers are made from S5 up.
 We make a speciality of cleanins nressing and repairing,renovating every sui+ and making it look like new. snit, -,ressed. soc; suits cleaned and pressed 7sc: suits secured and pressed, S1,50. +rousers pressed, 15c.
 We also make Ladies' Suits and gar nents in the latest styles and perfectiv tailor made. Pressing. repairing ana d-eing any ladies' garments, suits skirts. is also one of our leading sna' cia1ties. Repairing done at half-price
 Send a postal and we will immediate ly send a boy to bring and return your clothes. done in first-class condition.
 Remember the address.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-17
A WhuIe's Deeuest I1ive,

Because of the pressure, whale can hot dive to a greater depth than ROO feet.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-17
THOMAS FENTON, PROP'R.
PENMANSHIPI 1 PROF HoLIFY

Teaches every pnpil to write a fips kapid. business hand. in a course of le private lessons and no failures. All kinds of pen work executed in the Highest degree of art
 1G7 BANK STREEE
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-17
s Reward 1

We will give $500 Silk Umbrella as reward if anyone can show Us a nicer and stronger umbrella than ours of our own make for the little price We sell for the holiday trade. Remem- Der our guarantee, all umbrellas pur- chased from us, We will keep in repair free. We have the largest and hand somest variety in gold, silver and pearl handles and they are made up with the best Lyons silk. 8 paragon ribs, close roll, warranted for best wear
 Initials engraved free. Select now. We can and We will save you money if you buy direct from the manufac- tory.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-17

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Promo Quinine Tab lets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. ". Groves sig nature is on each box.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-17

FRESH SALMON. 2oe lb.
 Long Island scallops, Green smelts. Native Rickerel, Harb< / Blues, Perch Pike, Finnan Haddie Kippered Her. rings, Smoked Stur. con, Maine ana Long Island Clans; Native spring Chicken, 20c ID; Native Fowl, 16c lb, this week at FULTON FISH MARKET.
 o62 Cherry street Phone 213A.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-02-25
FOR BETTER A
Men Of Wealth Interested In High
way Improvement.

Men Of Wealth Interested In High
way Improvement.
Men Of wealth are evincing a prac-
deal interest in road improvement for
the benefit Of their fellow men. George
Gould has offered to bear one-third OF
the entire cost Of the improvement OF
the public highways in the vicinity OF
Lakewood, N. J.. and Colonel J. J. As
tor has spent large sums on the roads
heal Poughkeepsie. N. Y.
Recently Harley T. Proctor. a sum-
mer resident Of Williamstown, Mass.
offered to give the town $4,000 for
the Improvement Of the roads, provid-
Ing the latter raises $4,000 Tor the
same purpose. Mr.. Proctor makes the
gift because he believes that better
roads would Increase the popularity or
Williamstown as a summer resort He
recently had the stone bill road put
In excellent condition ut q cost Of $500.
The town furnished the drainage pipes
and permitted Mr.. Proctor to use the
road scraper.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-02-25

that she met a stout, handsome man
covered with. orders, who eagerly ex.
claimed l"Qui est-ceS Qui est-ce2"
"Laprefniere femme de Jerome Bona.
parte,n replied the Princess Gallitzin.
II was Duke William Of WurtembergI
uncle Of Jerome's second wife. He re-
quested n presentation. took both;
hands afieciionateIy, and after con-
versing half an hour led her to his
duchess, To whom he said afterward
'.Muis, mon Dieu ! que Jerome q mau.
''que son coup. Quelle grace, queile
"beaute. quel esprit Et ma pauvfe
'niece II fault etre juste; jamais ne
"p~0urrait-elle regner CONNIE cette belle
"Americaine, qui par tout droit est vfa-
"iment In refine. Jerome o etc bette De
ia gutter" "Ah," said BonstetteD,
Isl ellie nest pas refine de Westphalie,
ellie est au moins refine des cGurs."
Since her reiuIn from the scene OF
her European conquests she has lived
In great retirement In Baltimore. She
has written an autobiography, which,
it 10 said, will be some time printed.
But her magnum opus, entitled "Dia-
logues OF the Dead" It Is feared will
die with her. Tho scene Is laid In.
Hades, where her father. the sharp,
eccentric old Baltimore, merchant, and
King Jerome, her husband, rehearse
her story.
Elizabeth Patterson was the daught.
er of one Of the richest merchants Of
Baltimore. She was the belle Of the
city a.. that time-intellectual and am
bilious. When It became known that
Jerome Bonaparte, brother Of Napole-
on would visit America, his cousin
was a~nxiously looked for, ID an even
In aristocratic circles. Miss Patterson,
in order that she might make herself
more agreeable to him, at once devot-
ed herself to the study iof the French
language, and ut the time Of bis arrival
she was able to speak 10 the foreigner
In his own language more nuentiy
than could any other American LADY
whom he had met OF the continent.
This gave Miss Patterson . wonderful
advantage owe rival ladies, and Jerome
was 20 much fascinated that he sought
her hand in marriage. During his stay
In Baltimore he learned Miss Pntterson
to dance the round dance and 1t Ii said
that she Is the first American lady
who ever engaged In that dance 10
this country. His brother Napoleon
l., the first emperor Of France refused
to acknowledge Elizabeth Patterson az
the wife Of bis brother, but declared
the marriage illegal, aud while Jerome
and the American bride were on their
way to France. at the bidding Of Ma
poleon, his mother entered protest
against the marriage, because he was 2
minor and that without her consent
he could contract no legal marriage.
The feeling was 30 great against her
that Jerome and his wife were forbid
den to enter France At that time. Ma
poleon would not become r~econciled to
the marriage OF Of his brother and he
discarded his American wife.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-02-25

Some hearts go huugering through the
world, .
And never find the love they seek;
Some lips with pride or scorn are
curled,
To hide the pain they may not
speak.
The eyes may flash, the lips may smile,
The voice in giddiest mirth may
thrill,
And yet beneath them all the while
The hungry heart 10 pining still.
Those know their doom and walk
their way.
With level steps and steadfast eyes,
Nor strive with fate, o weep nor
While others, not SO sadly wise,
Are Knocked by phantoms everm0re,
And hured by seemings Of delight,
| Fair ut the eye, but at the core
Holding the bitter dust and blight.
I see them gaze from wistful eyes,
I mark their sign on wistfui cheeks,
I hear them breathe In smothered
signs, -
And note the grief that never speaks.
For them no might TedresseS wrong,
No eye with pity Is impearled- .
Oh, misconstrued and suffering long,
Oh, hears that hunger through the
world!
For you does life,s dull desert hold
No fountains shade, no date grove
fair,
| Nor gush of waters clear and cold,
But sandy reaches wide and bare.
The loot may fall, the soul may faint,
And weigh to earth the weary
frame,
Yet still We make no weak complaint,
And speak no more OF grief Or
blame.
Oh, eager eyes which gaze afar!
Oh, rams which clasp the empty air!
Not all unmarked your sorrows are,
Not all implied your dispair.
Smile, patient lips so proudly dumb
When LIES frail tent at last Is furled
Your glorious recompense shall come,
Oh, hearts that hunger through the
world!
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-02-25
stop Prsting About Eosuseepttbility
10 vaccipation. -

Chief Medical Inspector Of the Chi
cago Health department. DR.. Spauid-
ing, forcibly calls attention to the
false impression concerning insuscept-
ibili:y to vaccination held by many
per-ons, and even by some medical
men. They argue thai because o child
cination without Its taking" the
child Is insusceptible, and often ask
permission for such q child to go to
school without the required certificate.
1t should be clearly understood that
no Que Is ~insusceptible to vaccination
any more than TO small pOx. "One
successful vaccination can be secured
In every person to This, there is no
exception" Recently q reputable ply
sicians wrote that he and two other
physicians had vaccinatad his little
child seven times without result, and
asked the Chicago Health Department
for permission to enter the girl at
school without certificate, as he be-
lieved she was not susceptible. The
Department advised him to try again
with vaccine lymph furnished by the
department. He did 50 and has since
written that child has q typical vacci-
nation, which insures her immunity
from smallpox. II this eighth tris
had not been made the story would
have gone out that II was a case Of JIM
susceptibility-a condition that does
not eXist-and II she had been subse-
uuently attacked with smallpox IL
would be claimed that she had been
v~accinated. and the case cited by the
anti-vaccinists as proof Of the inutility
of vaccination rs n preventative Of
smallpox.
"A striking and bideous illustration
of the evils Of teaching insusceptibility
to vaccination was furnished during
the week in the neighboring town OF
Hammond, in which q cashier In the
bank was stricken with smallpox In
its worse form. He died on the sey.
enth day Of the attack with hemmor.
rhagic smallpox. He had had four
attempts at vaccination, and because
1T did not take was told he was In.
%susceptib TO vaccinations bit O,
medical advice that cost him his 'lifs
at the age OF san utterly needless
loss Of n life useful to q community
, and n priceless value to his family
Stop prating about insusceptibility it
J vaccination"