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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-24
HEARD IN PASSING

If 1t should now turn out that Repre- sentative Banks has been what 1t calls ''buncoed'' in the matter of Judge Com ley's resignation in advance of his ap- pointment, the New Haven Leader thinks surprise about the state will not be very great. as there are politicians in Fairfield county said to have formed the bunco habit rather strongly. As the politicians in question are all re publicans it is to be presumed that our esteemed republican contemporary does no injustice to their reputation Bridgeport Farmer
 pr Patton was delivering a lecture recently in his course on ethics at the Theological seminary and experienced much annoyance because some of the students ate peanuts, instead of attend ing to him. Finally he administered this rebuke: 'Gentlemen, have de- layed starting the most important part of to-day's lecture hoping that the stock of. peanuts would be consumed and q restful quiet be restored. As the quan- tity seems ample to meet the demands and the supply appears inexhaustfble, feel constrained until the conclusion of this. lecture. I would be greatly pleased if in the. future anyone wish ing to conduct a 5 o'clock tea in the classroom would cenfine the refresh ments to sponge cake" ."-Princeton Let ter.
 The suicide of the lieutenant-colonel of the First United States cavalry i'll the Philippines ends the life of an off cer who was graduated at West Point in 1869 and had seen thirty-four years of service. Temporary insanity is given as the probable cause of his death and the conditions of life in some parts of those islands are we'll known to be.such as to develop insani- ty among Europeans and Americans whenever there is any tendency in that direction. It can hardly be a good thing for the army to lose it's expert enced officers in this way, and unless our army is being benefited, by the eff forts that are being made to rule the Filipinos, the advantages derived from that business are small, indeed. Hart ford Times.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-24
QUEER THINGS ABOUT SONGS.
Some WeIl-KnOwn and Even Popular Now Date Back to Tlaae of F
 Crusades. t4

Martin Luther was not the first to ob- ject to letting the devil have all the good tnnes." The bishop of Ossory in the fourteenth century used such tunes as Do. Do, Nightingale, Sing Full Merry" in compiling book of hymns
 MT. L. c. Elson, in the Intern ationaI Quarterly, states that the song of De- borah and Barak. in the Scriptures, with it's xtemporization, it's clapping of hands to mark the rhythm. it's al formation of solo and chorus, would not be unlike the singing at a camp meet ing on a southern plantation"
 The drum major of a military band is Q survival Of the champion who strode, twirling his sword, at the head of an army in the old days. challenging the champion of the other side to com bat.
 We Won't Go Home Tfll Morning has a more interesting history than any other song. Itwas first sung in the Holy Land in honor of French cru soder named Mambron The melody was caught by the Saracens, and is stillsun in the east. In France the name "Mam bron" was centuries afterwards
 
 altered to "Malbrooke." derisively ap- piled to the duke of Marlborough. "Mal- brooke he went to war''-the words fit ted well enough The further state ment, true of the old crusader, "he's dead and buried" was applied in the spirit of hope to the victor of Blen- helm.
 "Du Maurier in "Trilby" makes great use of 'sMalbrooke," as he does of Ben Bolt" Beethoven used the theme in an orchestral score, "The Battle of Wit toria.' In England the song is often est fitted to the words, For He's a Jolly Good, Fellow.''' - -,
 Scottish folk songs are most dificult to initiate. Mendelssohn did it so sue cessfuliy, however. that most people who sing "Oh, Vert Thou in the Cauld Biast?" take it for an old native air.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-24

Speaking of the shake-up in the pos tai department at Washington, and the charges laid at the door of Super intendent Beavers, of hte salary and allowances division, one writer says that we do not yet know all that Bea- vers has been doings but we do know that he got out as soon as fhe fire was started in his rear. It is believed that one of the charges against him will be that he was at the head of syndi- cate that was selling increases in sal aries. When a man designated as en- titled to an increase in his salary was sent in to Beavers it is charged that he was notified that he must plank down not less than s25 or the increase did not go.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-24
GHOSTS LACK ORIGINALITY.
All Spooks Have Fixed Habits and Adhere to Time-Worn Tra-
 ditfons.

When you read one of these sto- ries you have read them all. All though the behavior of ghosts may appear eccentric when judged by the standard of conduct prevailing among the living, their habits are, in fact, more regular, they seem to possess little character or original ity, and probably their ideas are very limited, says London Truth. Some of them walk along the passage or up the stairs; others knock on the walls or furniture, ring bells, slam doors or break crockery; now, and then you come across one who shriekes; and there seem to be a few stray specimens who appear (and disap- pearl But their faculties do not go beyond this. A very remarkable proof of their limitations. < or their slavish adherence to tradition, Is that, though have before me at the present moment dozen authenti- cated ghosts who have been heard walking upstairs, there seems to be no case on record in which ghost has been heard walking down. Why anybody should think it worth while to chronicle the movements of such uninteresting creatures l cannot un- 7derstand. An account of the days doings of a flock of sheep would be very much more exciting.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-24

The strike on the government rail ways ill Holland raises a question which we may have to face when the isthmian canal is begun, says Golfers Weekly. Holland has taken the posi- tion that strikes are inadmlssible, that is to say illegal, when the em- ployer is the government, and when the national business would be inter- rupted to the discomfort of the people and the possible danger of the state. The United States government has thus far had little serious experience in conflicts with its employees. The mild attempts of the walking delegate to delay work on a battleship now building are suppressed with hardly murmur. If MT Cleveland's interven- tion in local Chicago strike because it iInpeded the national mails was cor rect, naturally no more direct inter ference with government works would be tolerated, and no strike would be allowed to complicate or delay the greatest mechanical undertaking in our history. The labor interests in volyed in this task are so great that the unions will be under strong temp tation to seek control of the work. It is hardly likely that any of the kind we have thus far had would recognize organized labor in such ah undertak- ing. to the exclusion of all independ ent labor. Ii is possible, therefore
 that the canal may be the occasion of bringing the labor question for the first time directly to a political issue. If one party should assert in it's platform the right of union labor to build the canal. an issue would be raised much more stirring than the ordinary party difference. one which would affect the foundations of society. This ought to be one of the results most carefully considered by those who seek to ex- tend the sphere of government owner ship. Labor has been wrenching from capital a constantly greater share of the produce, and it has now the posi- tion of an equal and Independent pow CT. If extended government owner ship ever led to q conflict of force, these steady gains of peace would
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-24
Home voyage of the GIaefer.

WASHINGTON, April 23.-The navy department is informed that the sup ply ship Glacier has left Cavite for Go lombo on her way through the Suez canal to New York. The Glacier has been used in the transportation of re- frigerated meat and other supplies from Australia to the troops and sail ors in the Philippines Being no longer required for service, she has been or dered home. She will be assigned to the north Atlantic fleet. which is in great need of a supply ship.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-24
THE OCEANS. DEEPEST HOLE.
Spot in the Pacific Which Well De- serves the Name of '.Davy
 Jones' LOcker.0

The private retreat. of Davy Jones' has been at last discovered, and this fact is noted as triumph for Amer lcan geographical science, says the Brooklyn Eagle The deepest hole in the oceans bottom is found 100 miles from Guam, recently acquired American territorial possession. It is about five miles deep, 2s,87s feet, practically the height of Mount Ever est. This hole should not be con- founded with Davy Jones' locker gen. orally The sailorman recognizes the entire salt sea expanse as the Lock er," Davy standing for the evil spirit presiding over the demons of the vastly deep, visible to the eye of superstitious imagination as a mon- ster of gigantic mein, having an enormous mouth, three rows of sharp teeth, huge eyes and nostrils emit ting blue flashes. His particular headquarters have been unknown un- til the Albatross discovered and fath- omed it, amid great professional and lay excitement. The place where the sounding was made is called the Tonga deep of the Moser basin. Sailormen, supposed to have the greatest fear of shallows and rocks near the surface, will, on the contrary, very likely feel like giving this locality wide berth. If a hu- man body could be lowered to the bottom of this stupendous hole it would probably be pressed by the bil- lions of tons of weight into the pro- portions of child's doll, and the consistency of open hearth steel.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-24

The editor Of the Springfield Repub- iican. delivers the following we'll de- served whack on the cranium of the editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Time was when Edw lrd M. Shepard was a special favorite of the Brooklyn Eagle. but since MT Shepard undertook to be a regular party man the year around he has lost the Eagle sympathy and ad- mirationS We're the Eagle q ml1gwump or independent paper there would be nothing surprising x this, but it Is SUD- posed that that exponent of party principles, as it interprets them, al though it is some ten years since the Eagle supported democratic candl- date for governor or president. What ever the position of Editor Nickel ways newspaper pla5 D bess gWever, on party regularity, it is too harsh in its treatment of MT Shepard when 1t charges him with condoning lawless- ness, even murder, in labor conflicts. If MT Shepard's development the past feW years nus mauS HAAl AAoAC SJ AAAE
 thetic with labor against capital, 1t IS equally true no doubt that -lr Nickel way and his paper have at the same time become more hostile to< labor and more ill sympathy with the capitalism which centers in New York. Judging the attitudes of the two men, the law yer and the journalist, by Jefferson s democracy, it would have to be said that MT Shepard has grown to be more of democrat, while MT MckelWay has grown to be less of one.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-24
TOURISTS AND THEIR MONEY
Ehe Amount Left by Them in Mexico Is Said to Be Very .... x.
 Great. &$ @,4as. <.

Every year tourist travel to this country grows in volume, and the season tends to begin earlier. Just how much money tourists leave in the country it is impossible to say
 with any approach to exactitude, but it must be great, says the Mexican Herald. This money is just so much. clear gain to the country, and serves to increase the prevailing prosper 1ty, for if the great sums sent here
 by investors make business good and oil the machinery of trade and finance, the smaller amounts brought
 by travellers, swelling into very re- spectable aggregate, stimulate trade, give profits to the hotel keepers, transportation companies, and 8 small army of people who thrive dur- ing the tourist season. It is said that Italian cities take in from European and American tourist travel $60,O00,- 900 year. This seems exaggerated, but notoriously many famous old
 cities are kept alive by the money spent by sightseers. Those ancient 1 cities, filled with monuments of art and enjoying relatively mild winter climate, keenly realize the need of preserving every bit of antiquity, for
 no one may destroy. a noteworthy I facade without permission from the authorities, nor may works of art go
 out of the country if the government
 decides in the negative. Switzerland 1 with it's literally thousands of hotels,
 big and little, exists on tourist travel,
 and curious enough has to buy a
 large part of the food the travellers
 consume from Belgium, Denmark, l etc. Yet Switzerland makes a hand some profit, for Swiss thrift is pro- verbal
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-24
Gold In QuIII.

A French explorer, Le Roux, informs us that the natives of Abyssirla have a peculiar way of carrying the gold which they find in the beds of streams to market. They find it in the shape of dust, and tiny nuggets, which they put into large quills as,transparent as glass tubes. The brokers who buy it work it up into the form of circles of the size of an ordinary finger ring, but without closing the circle, for the pur- chaser always insists on twisting it to see that it does not contain any adul- iteration. Experienced fingers can tell at once whether the yielding metal has the exact malleability of pure gold.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-24
THURSDAY, APRIL 2s, 1903.

Why should coal in Hartford, oh the line of navigation, sell for a dollar more a, ton than in New Haven and Bridgeport? Hartford is charging just as much for coal as Waterbury, and the Naugatuck river, on whose banks Waterbury is situated, isn't navigable for any thing bigger than ducks Nat urally the local price tags are causing a great many interrogation points to be used.--Hartford Post.
 For the same reason, probably, that it is selling in Waterville, a suburb of Waterbury, for fifty cents ton less than it costs here.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-24
Killed by Fall From a Horse.

MIDDLETOWN, N. Y, April 24.- Mrs. Abbie l.. Brown of New Bedford, Mass, a guest at the Mitchell House in Ellenville, was instantly killed here by being thrown from a saddle horse. The horse became frightened at the approach of team and started to run. Mrs Brown dropped the bridle and fell to the ground.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-24
..er.e nnusamas.

The canton of Geneva recently passed law which makes it conn pulsory that butchers who sell horse sa1lsages must wrap them up in blue paper, so as to avoid confusion The butchers are in high dudgeon. and have complained to the federal an- thorities that the new law interferes with the freedom of commerca.---Cin- ninnati Enaineer.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-24
Fire sweenx ratrburv Nsr

FAIRBURY, Neb., April 24.-The business part of the town was threat ened with entire destruction by fire last evening which was not checked until fifteen business firms had been burned out besides several residences. The loss is more than $1OO,OO0.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-24

come to sudden end. and none would
 suffer more heavily than the laborer.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-24
Conclusive Evidence.

"They weren't playing golf,'' said the wise caddy; "they were making love. '' ''They did stay at the other end of the links a pretty long time"
 "Oh, 1t ain't that
 What is it. then?"
 "They wouldn't take caddy along, an they never lost, a ball. ."-C Chicago Post. x
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-18
W. R. BENKERT RECEIVES
NOTICE IN DENVER PRESS

William Randolph Benkert, nation
al chairman of the united christian
party, and Il familiar figure in this
vicinity, has been heard of at Denver
where his labors moved the Denver
Times to give him the following no.
tice:
"A local gentleman of a serious turn
of mind who has issued a call for a
conference in this city of earnest re-
formers, and who will be the means of
bringing together a gathering Of more
than ordinary Importance. has a note
worthy rival in the person of William
Rudolph Benkert. of Davenport Ia
who declares himself the chairman of
the national executive committee Of
the united christian party.
Mr.. Benkert plunges into the maeI-
strom of politics determined to infiict
merited wallopping on the demo-
cratic, republican. prohibition, popu-
list, socialist and any and all other
parties of every kind and description
heretofore cavorting at large in the
national arena. Mr.. Benkert has deter
mined to hold his convention on MAY
l and >. 1904. in St. Louis. during the
worlds fair, unmindful of the fleshy
attractions of that enterprise and of
the adjacent brewerics. He demands
that each and every person in this
broad land who is prepared to join am
organization that will be guided solely
by the golden rule, shall there meet
and nominate candidates for prcSi-
dent and vice president of the United
States. This invitation is extended
color or previous politics.
I'VE fear that Mr.. Benkert has not
the faith in the numerical strength of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-18

east. For time the only communi-
cation with Chicago was had by way
of Omaha and Minneapolis. +gSSi
The dance given by the Emanon
club at the Watch Tower Thursday
evening was very well attended, a
large number of Moline and Daven-
port people being present in addition
to a representative gathering of Rock
Island folk. The number of out of
town guests was unusually large.
Thursday, July 10, requests came to
Browns Rock Island Business college
for eight young men bookkeepers and
stenographers. These we were I'M
able to fill, as all our young men who
are capable are already in positions,
but Principal Read wrote at once to
the other twelve principals of Browns
schools calling for graduates. Can you
see the advantage to your attending
school that cooperates in this way
with dozen others?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-18

Loaves larger than formerly, ccnse-
quently price is no higher. Five cents
loaf.
Learn ballroom dancing at Ora
hams school Tuesday and Friday ev-
enings. Third and Gaines streets,
Davenport.
Clemann d SalZmann will save you
money on furniture, carpets, rugs and
mattings. See their lines and get
their prices.
A big lot of new wash goods from
an overstocl<ed maker, bought at half
and some at less than half price; will
go like wild-fire next week at Nc
Cabe's. Read the ad. Many kinds,
but some lots are small.
Do you know that the Carse & Oil
weller company make the finest gin
ger ale in the country? All our goods
are the standard in regard to quality
and flavor. Orders delivered to all
parts of the city.
The will of the late George l..
Groth, of Hampton, was admitted to
probate in the county court yestcr-
day afternoon. All the property is
left to the wife, Anna GrOth, who is
named as eXccutriN.
Rev. J. 4. Reynolds, of Putnam. y.
Y, who is in the city visiting on his
way west, will fill the pulpit morning
and evening tomorrow at the United
Presbyterian church, of which he was
pastor Is years ago.
Miss Cora McKown this morning en-
tertained the members of the l.. +. c.
club at breakfast in honor of Miss
Maude Breckenridge, of Sioux City.
Iowa. Miss breckenridge left for
home late this afternoon.
Announcement has been made in
Rock Island society circles of two
prominent engagements, one of
much admired young couple here and
the other of an accomplished Rock
Island lady to gentleman in Des
Moines.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Horton and Ar
thur Mcneil, who were burned in the
explosion at Horizons store this week
were reported today as making sat
isfactory progress toward recovery.
though the danger has not entirely
passed.
y slight blaze in the rear of J. T.
Noftsker's store at 1911 Second ave
nue. brought out the department at
6:3O this morning. The fire was start
ed by charcoal embers and the only
damage was the burning of Il small
hole in the floor
This city felt no Ill effects of the
storm that last evening swept through
the central portion of the state be
yond the paralyzing for time of all
Geographic communication to the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-18
The Weather.
CITY CHAT.

Zazaro. Union cigar.
Lawn swings at Wilcher's.
For insurance, E. J. Burns.
Buy home of Reidy Bros.
Tri-City Towel Supply company.
For real estate and insurance, L. j.
Burns.
Automatic refrigerators at Clemann
& Salzmann's.
Dressed spring and old chickens at
Hess Bros. this evening.
Sh cents for ~ and 45 inch pillow
castings next week at McCabe's.
Now is the time to get nice sum
mer suit at reduced prices at Emig's.
For tin and furnace work see II. r.
Siemon, 1926 Fourth avenue, Union 2Sa-
Those So black and white Jap. silk
week at McCabe's.
The automatic refrigerator has
stood the test. Only Il few more left
at Clemann d Salzmann's.
Have YOU been thinking of refur-
nishing your parlors? See Clcmann
q SaIzmanns elegant line.
McCabe's buyers struck some rich
picking for next weeks selling. See
adj, and be as prompt as possible.
You can still make a good selection
of the summer suitings that are being
made up at reduced prices at Emig's.
We have as complete a line of porch
furniture as YOU can find in the tri-
cities. Prices right. Clemann a Salz-
mann.
y chance purchase, just 100 pairs
mems So vici kid oXfords, Goodyear
welts, new lasts, $l.75 per pair, at Nc
Cabc's.
Plenty of red and black raspbcrrics,
blackberries, Strawberries. dewber-
ries and cherries at Hess Bros. this
evening.
Ice consumers will find it to their
advantage to patronize Theo. Holdorf
at antitrust prices. Old phone 943,
suburban.
Try Ranges home made bread.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-18
BIG ENGINE SHOWS A
TOUCH OF SUICIDE MANIA

One of the big 1900 engines tried
to commit suicide at Natick last
night. While no one was around and
when ii was supposed to he dead" it
quietly backed out of the stall and
tumbled into the open pit of the turn
table. The damages, while consider
able. are not considered fatal. but a
great deal of trouble was had in get
ting it out. and the roundhouse men
will probably put shaclles upon it
hereafter when it * resting.
All the news all the time - The
Argus.