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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-24
FRANK DANIELS IS COMING.
Will Come Here Direct From the Vic
 toria.


 toria.
 Immediately following his nine weeks run at the Victoria theater, New York, Frank Daniels will come to Poli's theater in this city for sin gle performance of .'The Office Boy" The New York run will close on Sat urday evening, January 2, and the per forniance here will be given on Mon- day evening, January 4, the entire New York cast and production being presented complete. "The Office Boy'' is by Harry B. Smith, the fertile li- brettist, who has probably more sue cessful comic operas to his credit than is spoken of as being particularly me- lodious and fascinating. is the compo- sition of the we'll known. composer Ludwig Englander. There is no CO., median on the stage to-day with more unique and comical personality than Frank Daniels. He seems to exude fun at every pore: Tn his pres ent play the author is said to have pro- vided him with character that ex- actly suits his peculiar individuality. As a -trodden. four4dollar- office boy he is said to be irresistibly funny and to have one of the most Imaginable roles that has ever been as- signed to him. MT Daniels company is a very large one, numbering nearly 100 people, and his supporting cast includes many familiar and popular names,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-24
SALT LAKE EVAPORATION.
Artificial Means Necessary to Pre-
 serve Utah's Natural Wonder.

Artificial Means Necessary to Pre-
 serve Utah's Natural Wonder.
 An interesting question has been talk en up of late by the photographic bu- reau of the United States geological survey in connection with the appar- ent drying up of Salt lake in Utah, says Washington dispatch. The lev el of the lake is gradually falling be- cause of the evaporation and the dimin- ishing supply of drainage water, due either to change of climate or the de- mutation of the mountains by the lum- bering industry.
 The level of the water in the lake has fallen six feet in the last decade, and the rate of fall seems to be grad ually increasing. The building by the Southern Pacific of the Lucin cutoff has suggested that the area of the lake might be reduced and the smaller body of water preserved at it's former level for the next half century at least. That the lake can be saved from ultimate evaporation to very small body of water seems to be impossible unless some artificial means is resorted to.
 The Lucin cutoff would return to desert one-third the area of the lake, or about 1000 square miles. This part of the lake receives no important streams, and no question of injury to climate or to private interests would stand in the way of putting the plan into execution. If the water in the further one-third of the lake is turned into the part of the lake south and east of the cutoff the added volume of wa ter would raise the level of the smaller lake about i've feet. This would assure the people of the region of the benefi- cial influence of the lake on the climate and continue its enjoyment as a wa tering place. The receding of the wa ter has of late made it necessary to move large buildings used by visitors half a. mile into the edge of the lake The Lucin cutoff is practically dam as now constructed. The cost of com pleting it for the purpose of draining the north end of the lake would not be great.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-24
CHEAP LIVING SCHEME.
Wide Interest In Major Bean's Five
 Cent Meals.


 .'Show us how to live for 15 cents day.
 Hundreds of letters containing the plea pour into the office at Omaha of The chief commissary at the army headquarters in every mail.
 A few days ago Major William H. Bean of the United States army put to test pet theory of his that an able bodied man by economy can make 5 cents cover the cost of a meal that will completely satisfy the demands of his taste and his work
 The experiments were successful. The newspapers printed stories about the results. Householders in Omaha adopt ed the Bean system. Then the letters of inquiry began to come. Everywhere where the problem of providing funds for the butcher, the grocer and the milkman taxes the. ingenuity and effort of workers letters were written to the commissary to ask for details of his cheap living scheme.
 Major Bean was at first amused at the enthusiasm which his ingenious ideas occasioned. When the communi- cations became so numerous that the office force, if it had nothing else to do could not attend to the replies amuse- ment changed to, perplexity. To fur nish the desired information it was found necessary to print circular le.- ters, and the department of the Mis- souri of Uncle Sam's army has gone into the school of correspondence busi- ness, giving a course of instruction how to provide food for the household at the rate of 15 cents day per per son.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-24
YOUNG CULINARY ARTIST.
Girl of Five Makes Her Grandmothe CT
 Bow to Her Superiority.

Bow to Her Superiority.
 In happy home.in Chicago the re- gretful phrase about "the pies mother used to make never is heard, says a recent dispatch from the western me- tropolis. The mother of the head of this household is living at seventy, and she has not lost particle of skill in turn ing out the finest of pastry. Her daugh- ter-in-law has profited through exam pie, and her pies, too, would fill a New England housewife with envy. But both these skilled cooks bow in ad- miration to the daughter of the house. At five little Nanette Mercier can turn out pie that is just the most tooth some comestibIe that ever graced din ner table
 Under crust? It's as light as a deli cately welded mass of snowf1akes! Up- per crust3 Just the proper degree of solidity, yet with perfect fakinass. Fill ing? Such soft, smooth apple, such AsE- cately tart gooseberry, such fragrant compound of spice and brandy and meat in the ne plus ultra mince!
 Nor are pies little Nanette's only works of art. She bakes bread that would make even the most rabid advo- cate of health foods forsake his narrow path, and she can broil a steak with just the right degree of inward redness and outward carbonization. And all this at five years No wonder her grandmother beams upon her and says that in a couple of years more Nanette will sweep all the prizes in culinary contests.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-24
sHEPARD1s MOVING PICTURES.

A special Sunday evening entertain ment has been arranged in the pre- sentation of Shepard's moving pictures next Sunday evening at Polfs. The exhibition will include many special pictures, among them being one long and very complete film showing the Paterson firemen responding to an alarm in the great confagration of a year ago. There is another showing a contest between veteran fireIhen, and many others of unique character. Other features appropriate to Sun day evening will be introduced.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-24
MILITARY BAND PROGRAM.

The following is the promenade program which will be rendered by the Waterbury Military band at City hall Saturday night.
 Two-step-' John Harvard". Rodman Waltz" -"Ring Down the Curtain
 ........,- Arranged by Dewitt Schottische-"G Garden of Roses Pratt Three-step-"G Golden Arrow.
 hretscnmef Two-step-"Do on the Farm" Waltz Rose of Killarney. .....
 .................... Lee Johnson Two-step-"G "Good-be, Liza Jane"
 .......... Arranged by Lallier Schottische-"If That Gal Was
 Mine" "......... ....... Arr De Witt Waltz-"My Pauline. Lee Johnson Two-step-.A Anona" ......... Grey Three-step-. Comforts of Home'
 Peterson Two-step-'s 'sBedelia" ...... Arr Lallier Schottische-"B My Huckleberry
 Do' .-..-..-..--. ........ .......-.. Dewitt Waltz-''Rose McNally" Lee Johnson Two-step-" -"Dinah Jones'. Won Tilzer Waltz" "Unforgotten" ....... Dewitt Two-step-''Paul Reyere's Ride''
 .A...... Hanella
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-24
MEETINGS TONIGHT.
.1ard Lafayette.

Guard Lafayette.
 Court Acme, F. of A. Women's Relief corps. Polishers and Buffers. Court Linden, F. of \. Court Oregon, F. of A. North End Wheel club. Wadhams post, G. A. R. Tunxis tribe. I. O. R. NJ Fourth division, A. O. H. America lodge, A. O. U. W Brass City lodge, I. 4. of M. St Francis Xavier drum corps. Mary Lincoln council. P. D. of A. Court Martin Hellmann, H. of A. Friedrich Wilhelm lodge. K. of F. AnsantaWae encampment, I. O. 0. T Butchers union. Brass Workers union. No lS6.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-24

There is no use beating about the bush, but advertise in the Democrat for what you want.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-24
Miss NelIye Reeds SeIs ct School
 fnr Dancing and Depoftment

in Knights of Columbus hall. We'd nesday evenings, beginners ciasss Saturday evenings, advanced class The following dances taught perfect- ly in F lessons, $4.O0: Glide waltz two-step, schottische and three-step- New beginners class starting Wednes- day. December 2. Private lessons by appointment.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-07
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Charleston Post (Dem.) says:
while the Democrats have made no
numerical gain in the Senate for the
Fifty-cigh Congress- they have add
ed to their forces and available to their
leadership the sagacity and experience
of Arthur Pue German, who returns
to the Senate after six years absence.
German is probably the most astute
Democrat in the Senate and his party
will do wen to entrust to him the d.
rection of Democratic strategy in the
Upper House of Congress"
The Montgomery Advertiser Dem.)
says: 1T is encouraging to note that
some, at least, of our intelligent North
ern contemporaries are learning to dis
cuss this race question with an ap~
proach to fairness, even though they
are not in all eases as we'll informed as
we could wish. They must bear in
mind that we of the South understand
this question better than others can,
that NC propose to settle it for our
selves, and that we viii settle 1t to the
best interest of alls concerned, If we
are left without pernicious interference.
And we will give the negro a better
showing than he can get in many Sec
tions of the North
The Hartford Comm Times (Dem. J
says: Had the regular Republicans of
Delaware been willing to combine with
the Democrats. two anti-Addicks Re-
publicans might have been sent to the
Senate, and the venal power of the
gas man would have been seriously
weakened. But the National RepublI-
can machine. directed by Hanna and
Dick of Ohio. interviewed to save Ad-
dicks from this defeat. and the ''regu-
lar" Republicans bowed to their COM
mand and gained only the short term
senatorship. for Mr.. Ball. We can see
no substantial gain for the cause OF
decent and honest government In the
Delaware result The anti-Addickses
might as well have capitulated 70 Ad-
dicks and his machine two years ago.
as TO have carried on their contest with
50 little PRACTICAL result 20 themselves
or 10 the IDEAS which they pretend TO
REPRESENT
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-07
Raising the wind.

Here is Eugene Fields best poem,
because it was his most effective one,
says the New York Press. When in the
pangs of impecuniosfty he appealed to
the cashier of the Daily News in way
that seldom failed to secure the for
hidden salary advance:
Sweet Shekelsford, the week is near its
end,
And, as my custom is, come to thee;
There is no other who has pelf to lend,
At least, no pelf to lend to hapless
me;
Nay. gentle shekelsford, turn not
away.
must have wealth. for this is satur-
day.
All, now thou smil'st a soft, relenting
smile
Thy precious frown was but pass
ing joke.
knew thy heart would melt with rity
while
Thou heard'st me pleading / was
very broke
Nay, ask me not IL I've a note from
Stone,
When / approach thee. Q. best Of
bring no notes, but boldly ana
alone
woo sweet hope ana strike thee Tor
= ten.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-07
INDEX To NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Special Notices-Articles Left Over
To Be Disposed of. Hussars' Bazaar:
Ship Notice, w. j. Traylor, Master; At
Gardeners; At Joyce's To-day; Dissolu-
ton Notice, Cad D. Bryan & Co.
business Notices-Pure Terrapin
Meat, A. NJ. & C. w. West; For Sale,
G. W. Thomas.
Saturday Observation-Disclosures Eek
stein & Co.
Perfection Without Practice-McAr-
thur & Sons Co.
Red Valentine Bush Beans-Alexan-
der Seed Company, Augusta. Ga.
Don't Delay-Wm. & H. H. Latti-
more. &4M
We Guarantee Our Titles-Savannah
Investment Company.
Bank Standardization of the
Condition of the Commercial Bank;
Statement of the Condition of the Sa-
vannah Bank and Trust Company;
Statement of the Condition of the
Southern Bank of the State Of Geor-
gia. Ia AsAkkAs
Pens-Esterbrook Pens.
Foods-Baker Cocoa; Grape-Nuts;
Force.
Auction Sales-Household and Kitch-
en- Furniture.
Watches-Waltham Watches.
Legal Notices-In the Matter of Jesse
A. Moore and Edw. E. Jones of Chat
ham, and Charles Lafitte of Screven,
Bankrupts.
Whisky-Hayner's Rye.
Savannah Theater-'The Governors
Son. To-day Matinee and Night.
observation-disclosures; Pinkham's REM
edies; Hyomei; Paine's Celery Com
pound. ara
Publications-Town Topics.
Silverware-The Gorham Company.
Cheap Column Advertisements
Help Wanted; Employment Wanted;
For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal;
Miscellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-07
AIMED AT .sCoRcHERs.n

People who own automobiles are not
going to have everything their own
way on the public roads in New Jersey
in future. A bill was passed unani-
mously by the lower house of the Leg
/ islature of that state on Wednesday
providing for licensing and limiting the
speed of automobiles. 1t is said that
It win be passed by the Senate next
week, and will be signed by the Gov
ernor, as the sentiment is entirely in
accord with the provisions of it.
The aim of the bill is not to inter-
fere with the proper use of the auto
mobile. 1t is to keep the "scorcher"
within reasonable bounds. The bill
provides that automobiles shall not be
run faster than twenty miles an hour
on the roads of the open country, a
mile in seven minutes on the streets
Of cities and a mile in six minutes in
going around curves and over cross
roads.
There is no doubt that many of the
autOmobilists abuse the privilege they
have of running their machines on the
streets of cities. They think only of
their own pleasure. They have no
consideration for the rights of the rest
of the public and therefore they bring
the automobile into disrepute. They
create a public sentiment against it,
and open the way for harsh legisla-
ton. There is no doubt that the au-
tomobile is a very useful and desirable
machine. and in the hands of consid-
crate and competent people no fault
can be found with it. Because some
operators of them are neither consid-
crate nor competent it is necessary to
license automobiles and regulate their
speed. There Is no doubt they have
come to stay. and it is better therefore
that they be subjected to mild regu-
lations before the "scorcher" creates
a public sentiment against them that
will demand drastic legislation.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-07

C. w. Russell, general counsel for
the Michigan Central Railroad, who
lives in Detroit, is in the city. His
presence reminded Representative
Hank" Smith of a story, writes a COR
respondent of the New York World.
Some years ago there was a man in
Detroit who was the original Pro
Bono Publico' He wrotes letters to
the newspapers, to railways, to the
municipal officials, and to about every
body else on all sorts of topics. He
had a remedy for everything and con-
sidered it his mission to write to peo-
pie and tell them what was what on
every public question. One day Pres
ident Ledyard sent for Mr.. Russell and
said:
Russell, I'll raise your salary $1,000
writing to me for a year 80
Russell accepted. He hunted up the
letter writer and said:
II want to make a business pfopo-
sition to you. If you will stop writing
letters to Mr.. Ledyard for a year /
can get raise in salary of $4,000 a
year. If you will quit Til split with
you and give you $1,000 of it." :
A bargain was made. The arrange
ment went along all right for seven
months. Then the Michigan Central
pulled off wreck somewhere in Mich
igan that was a wonder. Next morn
ing Mr.. Ledyard got a ten-page letter
from his old friend protesting against
the loose management of his railroad
That letter was referred to Russell and
he didn't get his raise. The tempta-
ton was too strong for the writer to
resist, even for a thousand dollars.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-07
GORMAN AT THE FRONT.

There is much significance in the
hearty welcome which Senator Cor
man received from Democratic sena-
| tors on his return to the Senate
] Among the prominent men of the DEM
ocratic party there is great confidence
| in him as n leader There is feeling
| that he will assist greatly in bringing
the two factions OF the party together.
in healing whatever differences there
stil exist i'm the party. He was given
his old seat in the Senate and was
elected chairman of the caucus of the
Democratic senators. He is, therefore,
the leader of the minority in the Sen
ate.
Senator German is not an old man
yet by any means. being only about 81
years of age He is i'm the enjoyment
of good health. and if necessary could
conduct another great political cam
paign. 1t is not known. of course,
what his plans are or what his ambi-
ton is in respect to the national cam
paign i'm 1904, but it is certain that he
will play a prominent part in it. He
may be the manager of II or he may be
the nominee for President. In whatever
position he is placed he will give a
good account of himself.
He has many admirers. particularly
in the South, and a strong effort will
no doubt be made to make him the
party's standard bearer next year 1t.
is too soon to venture a prediction as
to the result of this effort, but If il
should not be successful he will be
found working as earnestly for the
party's success as if he were the nom
inee
Senator German is not a great ora
tor. He has never made pretensions
in that direction, but as a political
manager he has few equals and no
superiors. He is able to grasp the
whole situation in a political cam
paign and to see at glance the weak
and the strong points. His party as
sociates have learned to rely upon his
judgment. They know that he makes
very few mistakes, and that explains,
in measure, their joy on his return
to the Senate.
He will be the party adviser in that
body, and it is a safe statement that
his opinion on any bill or policy af-
fecting the interests of the Democratic
party will be accepted without ques-
ton. 1t is not too much to say that
Senator Germans temperance in the
Senate on March was an important
event in the presidential campaign of
1904.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-07
PARKER AND HILL NOT IN SYM
PATHY.

A dispatch from Albany, N. Y. to
the Brooklyn Eagle states that ex-Sena-
tor Hill and Judge Parker of that state
are not in sympathy in politics.
When MIR. Bryan was in New York a
| few weeks ago he gained the impress
sion that they were working together.
The truth is probably that nobody but
themselves knows what their political
relations are.
The Eagles dispatch says that Judge
Parkers friends declare that he will
not accept the presidential nomination
unless il comes to him almost unanf-
mously and the platform deals with
commercial and financial interests in
the most conservative manner. In 9TH
err words, he will not seek the nominal
ton and Will not take 1t unless it is
offered to him by a united party and in
connection with a platform that is in
every respect satisfactory to him. Is
it not a little early for candidates to
be naming conditions? 1t is by no
means certain yet that Judge Parker
will have following in the nominating
convention.
Ex-senator Hill is saying nothing,
but is working increasingly for the
nomination. 1t is alleged that power
full Democratic leaders in New York
and Indiana have promised him the DEL
egations from those states. 1t is one
thing to promise and another to fulfill
promises. OF course there are leaders
of the Democratic party in New York
who can come pretty nearly doing
| whatever they undertake to do in poll
tics-such leaders as Mclaughlin of
| Brooklyn and Murphy of Tammany-
but If there were to be general move
ment in favor of a candidate not favor
ed by them they would be swept aside.
Their efforts would be fruitless. It
might turn out that they could not de-
liver New York to Senator Hin If they
We're to undertake to do so.
| The most interesting feature of the
Albany. dispatch in the Eagle, how
ever, is the statement that there is a
| difference of opinion between Judge
Parker and ex-senator Hill as to the
way that Mr.. Bryan should be treated.
Judge Parker, 1t is said, believes that
Mr.. Bryan should be treated with every
consideration, and that he should be
! permitted to have his way as far as
1t is possible to let him have 1t without
alternating the sound money faction of
| the Democracy. On the other hand ex-
| Senator Hill believes in waging a bit
Ter war against him, for the purpose of
discrediting him and depriving of
whatever influence he still has.
A policy of that sort, Judge Parker
thinks. would have the effect of max
ing the party rally to Mr.. Bryan, and
would result in Mr.. Bryan's nomina-
ton.
II seems from the foregoing that the
campaign for the presidential nominal
ton of the Democratic party is well
under way In New York. The political
leaders there seem to have the idea
that they are going to dominate the
Democratic National Convention-are
going to make the platform and name
the ticket. In view of the fact that
the South is expected to furnish the
! electoral votes necessary to elect the
Democratic candidate IL might be well
to find out what the sentiment in the
South is in respect to candidates and
platform planks before going ahead too
rapidly.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-07

To-day Senator Pettus, who is 50
years old, and who always wears a
long, black broadcloth frock coat of
ante-bellum cut and a pair of baggy
trousers, appeared in a jaunty new
suit, says the Washington correspond
ence of the New York World.
The Senate was astounded. Sena-
tor Pettus failed to see why there was
any CONSERVATION, and rebuked Sena-
tor Depew severely for intimating he
was becoming a dude.
Fact is" said Senator Pettus, "I
have just been reelected, and 1 con-
slider it my privilege to get a new suit
of clothes. I'll get another when I am
reelected again in 1909"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-07
when senator Vest Played Soldier.

Senator Vest came into the Senate
chamber feebly; he leaned on his man
servants arm But he was in good
spirits. and there was soon gathered
about him a little group of statesmen,
says the Pittsburg Gazette. ~.
Senator Vest began to evoke memo
ries of his boyhood. ,k3Q
Once" he said, "a crowd of us-a
crowd of us boys-played soldiers.
There. We're two camps. Each camp
had a fort with high mud WALL and
when you put your head up above this
wall-bang! bang! bang!-a. volley of
stones came at you.a r
I'VE had strict military rules. and
to disobey the captains. orders was a
crime no one would have been guilty
Of Therefore, when / was told to go
outside the fort and pace off the dis
lance from our camp. to the pump close
by the enemy's lines, did so, though
1 was badly frightened. Stones fell all
about me, and, though l paced my
way to the pump correctly, l quite
forgot to count my steps. So when,
on my return, the captain asked me
what the distance was l was embar-
raised. But in a moment L had hap
py thought.
How far, captain, would you say
it was?" l asked.
" oh, about seventy-five paces,' the
captain answered.
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