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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-29
A COAT OF MAIL
The Modern Kind Saves the Wearer
 From Electric Shock. <%..

The Modern Kind Saves the Wearer
 From Electric Shock.
 Professor Artemiev, Russian phy- sicist, has invented coat of mail for electricity, which is thus described The object of this garment is to avoid all the inconveniences and dangers which accompany the use of protecl- ing gloves. A glove protects but small part of the body, So that other parts of the body may come into ac- cidental contact with high-renslon conductors. The protection afforded is therefore inadequate Furthermore the thickness of the rubber of Whlcn gloves are made may give but an lllu- freedom is not possible, Invisible de- fects in the material of which the gloves is made may give but an lllu- sory protection. The tests which were made at the time of the open contest in France two years ago fully demon strated the inadequacy of the rubber glove.
 Artemiev proposes to protect not simply the hands, but the entire body. He has devised an envelope, 1mpene- tralble to electric masses, capable or producing electrostatic discharges By means of this garment it is possible to conduct to the earth any high ten sion current with which the person who wears the garment may nave come in contact. The garment also places in short circuit two parts of the body which may be in contact with high but different potentials These results are obtained by Artem1ev by very pliant coat of chain, mail. some what similar to that worn by the knights of the middle ages.
 A series of experiments were made in Berlin electrical works to ascer- tain the amount of heat developed by passing a current of high tension through the garment. 1t was thought that If too great a heat were develop ed the consequences might be serious for the person who happened to wear the coat and might result even In burning him alive It was found as matter of fact that some heat was developed. The results obtained dur ing the experiments are most valuable. 1t was found when the coats re sistance between the two hands was 2-1,O00 w.. a current of $50 arnperes would not augment the temperature to any appreciaIble extent. With coat d was possible, but only for 8 few iTl- stants, to send through the coat a cur rent of 1000 amperes, without any danger. How is the protective action of this peculiar garment to be ex- plained? Two theories can be offered. The electrical coat of mail may be compared with a Franklin cage, the in- terior of which, containing the body, cannot be penetrated by any electro static charge By virtue of the law of derived currents, and as conse- quence of this law. the second theory holds that the current will pass almost entirely through the metallic links. negligible part passing throug the hu- man body, of which the resistance is very high compared with that of the garment Tn other words the cur rent follows the path of least resist Scientific American.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-29
KEEP STREETS CLEAN.

Habits of mind are responsible for civic slothfulness. When the Ameri- can shall have become educated to a proper standard of streets the way will be open to easy accomplishment of reform which. in material way lies closest to urban life. Indirectly operates to a large extent upon civil morality and intimately affects national facili- ties. Our old condition of mind, our old traditional conception and mental images, while they last. forbid any considerable progress. Street" to the average imagination calls upon an un- couth opening between houses for traf- fic: a composite of streets pictured in the memory. .Unseemly accessories fur nish the Dicture-one of crude upkeDt-- ness, dating back to pioneer times. but with added ugliness of detail and more not to associate mud with the idea of street, and the suggestion of the word gutter is one of filth. Our ideas of civic cleanliess must undergo renova- tion before much municiple improve ment'' can be accomplished. Street appearances do not shock the imagina- tion. and until it is shocked and stimu- lated we shall permit matters to re- main as they are. The eye which is not offended by dirty gutters demands no clean ones.--St Louis Republic
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-29
speakitlg of tl,e agitahion now ani,

Speaking of the agitaBion now going on against Russia, an exchange says this country is in no position to lecture another about the necessity of remov- ing the mote from the eye whilst we have large sized beam, Of our own on which we could proftably begin opera tions forthwith. It was only a few years ago that Rock Springs, Wyo. gave the world ah exhibition of bar parity as bad if not worse than that exhibited the other day at Kishineff. There was a general massacre of resi- dent Chinese, who were hunted down as if they were so many mad dogs A published account of this man hunt gives us this picture: They were shot down. They were hacked to pieces. Their property was destroyed by fire, and not until after tardy action on the part of the United States authorities did their slaughter cease. Troops finally came; and they and others gath cred up the bodies of several hundred. In all it was estimated that 1000 were wounded or killed.' It will be noted that the number of the victims of the Rock Springs massacre outnumbered the victims of the Kishineff mob. It is also well to bear in mind that no official was punished for not exercising a surveillance which might have pre- vented the killing and wounding of q thousand persons entitled to protection.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-29

There is too much nonsense preached to advertisers about the necessity of daily changes of. their advertisements, usually by men who have never ex- pended a dollar in advertising. If you have written good advertisement, re- peat it until you have impressed it on every mind. Do you change your hat every day? Or your window display If your advertisement is poor one, you can't change it too quickly. If it's a good one you might easily change it too quickly.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-29
THOMAS FENTON, PROP'R.
l PROF H0ILFY

Teaches every pupil 10 write "A ms Rapid, business hand. in course of Ia pfivate lessons and no failures. All kinds of pen work executed h the Highest degree of art
 187 BANK STREET.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-29

One great merchant in Gotham makes it rule never to allow his ap- propriation for advertising to fall be- low his total expense for wages of em- ployes. He argues that the expense of serving customers should not be greater than the expense of bringing them to the store with a well defined idea of what they want to buy. Be low this mark is the line of danger in any business he says. How does the rule apply to your business2
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-29
CARY FOR CLEVELAND.

Thinks Ex- President and David R.
 Francis Would Make Good Team.
 Buffalo. May 29. -'.Wouldn't Cleve- land and Francis make a pretty good team?" asked Melbert. B. Gary, the de feated democratic candidate for gov ernor of Connecticut last fall, when interviewed yesterday on the political situation
 ''We are a united party in Connecti- cut" continued MT Cary, land with good candidates am convinced that we can put the old state back into the democratic column next year"
 Mir Cary is here on business. He is on his way to st. Louis. where he ex- poets to meet former Governor David R. Francis, whom he 7favors as candi- date for the vice-presidency
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-29

On the thirty-seven acres of ground devoted to the live stock department at the worlds fair at St Louis are being built 2,800 stalls. Two thousand four hundred of these are open stalls, five by ten feet The remaining 400 are box stalls, ten by ten feet. Tn addition four octagonal dairy barns will provide 40 open stalls and twenty eight box stalls.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-29
The Barlow Bros. Co
 e3-65 GRAND STREET.
NOTICE.

Having purchased the cafe of NJ. J. Colloty, 327 Bank street. shall be pleased to see all my friends and the public generally, where they will find all the popular brands of cigars and choice wines, liquors, ales, lager, etc, and a hearty welcome
 CAL O'BRIEN, Manager,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-20
District of New Haven. ss. Probate Court

District of New Haven. ss. Probate Court.
 Juna IS. 1903. ESTATE of JULIA NJ. WILLIAMS, late of
 New Haven, in said District, deceased, The Administrator of said Estate having made written application praying this Court to ascertain the heirs and distributes of said Estate, as by said application on file ORDERED, That said application be heard and determined at Court of Probate to be held at New Haven. in said District, on the 24th day of June, 1903, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. and that public notice of the pendency of said application, and of the time and place of the hearing thereon, be given by publishing this order three times in some newspaper having a circulation in said District,
 By order of Court,
 JAMES KINGSLEY BLAKE, j19 3t Clerk.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-20
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEVIS
CLUB AND SOCIAL ITEMS OF
 INTEREST--CHURCH NOTES.

Rev. Charles E. BayIts, of Brooklyn, 60
 Preach at Grand Avenue cOngrsga.
 tionaI chuTch-Other Items.
 The Rev. Charles E. Baylis, pastor of the Bushwick avenue Congregational church. Brooklyn. N. Y., will preach in the Grand avenue Congregational church tomorrow.
 The Rev. Mir. Hunt of New Rochelle, N. r., will preach in Pilgrim church to- morrow. He is to supply the pulpit through the remainder of the month.
 Grace P. E. church. June 21, second Sunday after Trinity: Holy communion at 7:30 a. m.: morning prayer. litany and sermon at 1O:2O a. m.: Sunday school at 1915 D. m.; evening prayer, 5 2. III.
 Myrtle chapter. O. D. S., held its last meeting for the season in Masonic hall, Grand avenue, Thursday evening. There was large attendance and the grand officers were present. Twelve caEdi- dates took the degrees. The grand mat ron received a gift of handsome cut glass dish and to the assistant was pre- sented a large basket of flowers. After the lodge work banquet was served. The meeting was very largely attended and was great success.
 The Dayton Hook and Ladder com- pany will on Sunday decorate the graves Of deceased members in Fair Haven and East Haven cemeteries. In the evening the company will attend a memorial service at St. Andrews church. Four Corners.
 c. Clifford Foote of Lenox street, who has been on vacation trip covering Washington, Richmond and Old Point Comfort, is expected to return soon.
 Comforting circle, of Kings Daugh- ters of the First Baptist church, had its first summer outing Thursday afternoon and evening. They were entertained at the home of MT. and Mrs. John F. Shep- ard, 203 Fairmount avenue. Games and a social time were enjoyed. Every year in June the circle is invited to the de- lightful home of MT. and Mrs. Shepard, and when pleasant the supper is served on the lawn. but owing to the cool weather of Thursday the repast was served indoors. About twenty-five mem- bers of the circle were present.
 Willis s. oviatt of Milford visited relatives on Houston street yesterday.
 The members os the chorus choir of the Sunday school of the Grand avenue Baptist church were given social by S. J. Latta and H. J. Lane at the home of MT. and Mrs. l.. J. Latta, 79 Pine street, on Thursday evening. About twenty were present and enjoyed the music and games which formed the diversions of the evening. Refreshments of cake, wafers and ice cream were served, and punch bowl os fruited lemonade did duty during the evening. The young people spent very pleasant evening, an all appreciated the efforts of Messrs. Latta and Lane to entertain them.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-20
SAP and s4e CHAPEL STREET.

who now remember when it occurred or why it occurred. As for the reasons al- legged for it at the time by the men who did it, I have forgotten them myself. The number of reasons given for differ ent lynchings are so overwhelming that I have ceased to attempt to remember them in any case, and hence have for gotten them in this case. They have nothing to do in any case with the real cause of the lynching. In that case and every other the cause comes after the effect. The lynching is caused by the intense quiet which is certain to follow it.
 This may seem extraordinary as a mere opinion. but as 8 fact 1t is very or- dinary indeed. It is virtually the inva- riable fact of every lynching. No mat ter what differences there may be in the mere details of the lynchings the quiet which follows is invariable The coun- ty coroner is quiet; the sheriff is quiet, the local weekly editor is quiet, the correspondent of the metropolitan dai- lies is very quiet, quieter than any one else, except the local preachers, who 4diCtiy ASpiO4C ilS dkAdlI dHu ulNGEl their attention to the sad condition of the heather who are daily perishing in their blindness without the elevating influences of Caucasian civilization.
 This is what occurred, of course, af- ter the affair at that quiet bridge. If any sheriff, editor, correspondent, preacher or any other public instructor wishes to accompany me to that placid spot to enjoy the beauties of nature I can assist him in collecting variety of the most interesting specimens used in teaching botany in the public schools which in presence of the prevailing qui- etness we rely on to uphold civilization.
 When, however, public school teacher shoots a public school superin- tendent and is lynched in the public square, the quiet which follows is not of the kind in which the moral lesson of the difference between an obovate leaf and a cordate are likely to sink deep. What does sink very deep is that ill the intense calm which follows crime there will be no punishment for it.
 If more botany in the public schools will help this. I am earnestly in favor of more botany. It is not my opinion that caoable botanists usually engage in lynchings, but unless it becomes pos sible to make capable botanists of at least ninety-nine per" cent of the com-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-20
DIR FAUNCE ON CORRUPTION.

Now as you college graduates go out into life, you find a generation strange ly lenient toward political venality and civic corruption. From several of the most honored commonwealths of the unions have come this last year @ re- velation of how public office is used for
 private gain. We have seen great cities held in the grasp of self-appointed bos- ses and rural regions bought and sold in unblushing defiance of law. We see men living under two codes of morals; exemplifying the virtues of private life and undermining the foundations of public morality; paying private debts with scrupulous honor, and paying political debts by deeds of dishonor and
 disgrace. Worst of all, we see educated cynicism declaring that things have al- ways been so and always must be so and asking what we propose to do about it. The first thing we propose to do is to send forth each year a stream of young men from our colleges who will not despair of the republic; men who hate bribery and dare expose it: men who will not palter with double tongue
 men who love their. generation enough to hold it relentlessly to the ideals of the founders of our nation and the word
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-20

ing generation, it is not easy to see how botany or anything else taught in the public schools will change a situation under which as 1t exists at present, the most apabie botanists are as quiet after lynching as the rest of us.
 The only people who are not quiet af- ter it are those who committed 1t. They will spend the rest of their lives in learning that there are punishments mere dreadful than the punishments Of the courts. They will find that there are lives far more dreadfulst ito live than the dreadful death of the man who. bound and gagged. is choked to death, shot to death, or burned to death. They will find before they die that the law operates quietly, regardless of the nullification of the statutes. They will live the victims of slowly working in- sanity, eating into their brains, un- stringing their nerves, passing on through their own acts which they will not be able to control. the curse Of blood to those who are nearest and dearest to them, to their wives. to their children, to their grandchildren. Those they love best they have condemned to constant daily association with a mur- derer, man who lawlessIy took upon himself the responsibility that was not his of sending another man suddenly to death, and as far as he could to hell, The insanity which did this win never be cured after 1t. Insanity is the pos- session of one mans brain by some will, some spirit other than his own. The man whose brain has been possessed once by the will and spirit of a mob which made him a murderer, will never own his own brain or his own soul af- rewards. That insanity will grow on him in every act of his life, public and private. It is the insanity of the guilt of blood. It is the insanity of murder that will out whether 1t is murder com mitted by one man or a thousand. It will work quietly until he sees it pass ing from his own life to the lives of his children and sees that nothing he can dc can prevent them from inheriting the curse of having such father.
 This law is dreadful law, and any one who sees 1t at work knows that its work is not a matter of opinion. 1t works regardless os the sheriff and the courts. It can not be defeated. It is the law which will save this country from barbarism in spite of the quiet which follows the complete nullification of all other law whenever it seems con- venient. It is despot;sm worse than the despotism Of the worst human ty- rant, but it will save the country which appeals to 1t from chaos and anarchy. But the purpose of all the honest laws on the statute books is to prevent the necessity for that last appeal. The su- preme duty of every man. especially of every man who loves quiet, is to do his utmost to keep the statute against blood-guiltiness between his country and the law which punishes 1t most when it is least punished by the ourts. HI. Flack in the St. Louis Globe Dem ocrat.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-20

Of God. It may seem to an obscure and ignorant voter a small offense to barter his little manhood for days wage. It Is We who are the chief offenders-we teachers. so absorbed in our libraries and laboratories that we have no con- cern in civic freedom; we manufac- turers. so busy improving the quality of goods that We care not for the degra- dation of our men: We professional men. whose steady apathy furnishes aid and comfort. to the enemies Of liberty, de- mocracy and religion. To believe in the possibility of better things is the first step in betterment. And that belief is natural to young and generous man. hood. Let no pessimist dishearten you. Let no cynical sheer deprive you of your native faith in man and God. Let no majorities overawe your judgment or paralyze your endeavor. Quietly and steadfastly stand for honestly and pur- ity in public and in private, and you shall serve your generation more than by steamship or railways or all material wealth.-Baccalaureate Sermon at Brown.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-20
THE QUIET AFTER A LYNCHING.

THE QUIET AFTER A LYNCHING.
 The reports that Bel1eville is 'very quiet" are in my opinion accurate. I have not visited Belleville recently, but one of the quietest spots reach in my holiday excursions westward from St. Louis is 8 certain bridge, over a quiet stream, in quiet landscape. Flowers grow along the stream. The landscape on clear Sabbath in June. when ser- mons are being preached in all the churches, is full of poetic beauty and subtle calmness. Yet it was from this bridge several years ago that quiet man, who, having rope tied both to his neck and beam of the bridge, qui- etly strangled to death.
 He remained hanging there quietly, and next day the coroner held a quiet inquest and quietly pronounced him dead. Then he was quietly buried, and every one of the quiet mob was allowed to go on undisturbed by Jaw and order, to do very much as they please in the matter Of governing me, regardless of my opinion on law and order or any other subject.
 It is to this quiet proceeding which occurred several years ago that in- tend to devote this expression of opin- ion, chiefly because 1t concerns me most nearly. The quiet men in that mob are the most active men in selecting sher- if and others who can do the most ef-. fective work in disquieting me, by req son of my opinions, or for any other reason.
 Since this lynching occurred there have been so many others of the same kind, generally so quiet and followed by such intense quiet, that perhaps I am one of only a comparatively few people
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-20
THE END-SEAT
HOG.

This Juicy and Effective Lesson Was Administered. ''I saw an end seat hog get his'n the
 other afternoon in a way that gave me
 much surcease of sorrow for the re-
 mainder of the day" said the man with
 the punky Porto Rican breva. "fIe was one of these long, rakish crafts with knobby knees that pressed against the
 back of the seat in front of him when he was sitting up straight. know, for I'd been compelled to squeeze past those knees myself, and even when he scroonched himself a little bit sideways to let me by, those knees of his bored dents in me that haven't filled out yet. "At Fourteenth and K street the car stopped for little girl and her mother. As myself and the end seat hog were the only occupants of that
 seat, all of the others being pretty well filled, the little girl pointed it out to her
 mother and very politely motioned to
 her to get on first, which she did The
 mother had troubles of her own in squeezing by the end seat hog, but she didn't do any murmuring.
 Hen It was lfle ILlle SlTl $ tuTH. The little girl grasped the brass hand clutch with her right hand and swung herself aboard. In her left hand she had 8 nice, large, juicy cream-puff that {her mother had just given her out of a bagful of them. The little girl was try | ing to get past the end seat hog, when the car suddenly started with. jerk. | The little girls left hand, the one hold l ing the cream puff, shot out, in her | instinctive effort to find something to
 lean against or grab hold of. The hand found something. It came kerplunk! cream-puff and all, right against the
 map of the end seat hog. The cream puff mashed all over his face, and the yallery cream rolled in rivulets down his chops and on to his collar and neck l tie and coat and vest. Sense me-" said the little girl, polite- ly, and the end seat hog glared at her 1 through eyes half-closed with punches
 of sweet zepia-hued stuff. He tried to
 police himelf with his handkerchief, but
 it was no go, and he soon left the car
 scowing. to get rerigged somewhere. "- 1 Washington Post.