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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-14

cessful ending, and the young woman pocketed the money entirely satisfied.
 Another case in illustration is that of the young Minneapolis physician who had proposed to a waitress at a lakeside watering resort. After he had been accepted he reconsidered. His social position made the affair quite impossible, as he saw it in second thought. The waitress, however, de- clined the financial remedy unless something more accompanied it. She felt that she had been humiliated and that he should undergo some displeas- ing personal experience before the matter would be entirely squared. She demanded that he appear for a week as negro minstrel and entertain the folks at the resort.
 AS there was no other way out of itawithout a full airing of the matter in court he accepted. He told his friends that he was doing it on a bet, She promptly gave the real reason for his black face performances. and he found that the proceedings were about as full of woe as a public hearing of the CdSC 1A GOulU WOuAo AuFC bCODs
 It has not been long ago that a mid dle aged gentleman surprised a gather ing at an animal show by entering the lions cage and drinking a bottle of wine there while the beast eyed him with suspicion and disapproyal. His friends thought he was paying rash and foolish bet or carrying out dan gerous dare. When the truth was dis covered it was found that he had rashly become engaged to restaurant keep CTS daughter and had wished to break the engagement. The girl consented to release him only on condition that he accomplish the feat which had caused the wonder of his friends.
 l Not long ago an English curate sur | Irised his parishioners by marrying a | widow considerably older than himself i The astonishment was still greater when the cause was known. The curate had become engaged to a young girl whose frivolous conduct soon led him to regret the step. He offered set. clement for his release, but it was re. fused. He endeavored in every way to break the engagement, but without success. t.
 "Is there nothing can do to escape this?" he exclaimed one day in despair | "Yes," remarked the girls mother who was present and who had been the prime mover in the marriage nego. tiations, "by marrying me"
 The curate decided if he had to marry one of the two he preferred the mother l and acceDted her Theyoun pirl soou married wealthy stock broker-
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Attempted suicide on a Train.

CHARLESTON, S. C., March 14.- Giuseppina Capitano, aged forty six years, attempted to commit suicide on an Atlantic Coast line train near this city. With an ordinary penknife she jabbed her throat six times and but for the Interpretation of the conductor would have killed herself. The doc. tor reports her condition as very seri- ous, but not hopeless. She was en route from Jersey City to Tampa Fla, and told an interpreter here that she had two sons working at the Charleston waterworks, but efforts to locate them have been futile so far She was accompanied by nfne-year- old boy. After being carried to the City hospital she made further efforts to commit suicide, and the. physicians resorted to the straitjacket.'
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LOST IN A BLIZZARD.
Erawled Six Miles Through Snow
 on Hands and Knees.
Terrible Experience of ElIis Hughes, a Wyoming Sheep Man-Rescued
 Just When He Had Given
 Up Struggle.

Six miles through the snow on hands and knees was the journey made by Ellis Hughes, an employe in the sheep camps of John Mahoney, during one of the terrific blizzards in Wyoming. As the result of the terrible trip he Is badly frozen and probably will die.
 Hughes was csmp mover and his duties required him to make long and solitary trips, He set forth on one of these when there was every indication khat a snow storm would sweep over the country The indications were made gas6d when he had gone about six EnilepF from the sheep camp.
 Snow began falling rapidly, but the sEormwas not of an intensity to arouse This alarm at first. Suddenly it in creased in fury and the man was beaten an tempest of snow. Becoming alarmed he attempted to find his way to habitation and became lost.
 The fury of the storm increased and the snow began drifting before high wind. Presently the sheep man was stumbling through drifts knee high and then waist high. Seeing that he was lost beyond possibility of getting his bearing he endeavored to protect himseh by building fire.
 With the storm whirling around him he managed to collect small pile of twigs and get fire started. Then, protecting himself behind a drift, he managed to keep warm while the sup ply of fuel lasted. Thatwas exhausted presently and he was left to face the approaching night without protection.
 As resort he dug hole in the snow bank and crawled in it for warmth. There be spent the night. The day kound him nearly exhausted and in kuch condition that he could not walk. 10 stay in his snow cave meant slow
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Heath either from the cold or from starvation.
 The storm having subsided he was able to ascertain his bearings and he started for the sheep camp, crawling on his hands and knees. For six miles he dragged himself over the snow. His movements, painful at the start, be- game more and more so as he pro- gressed. His hands and feet had been frosted before he started and with the Increasing severity of the cold after the storm his tortures increased. Painfully he crawled ahead, encoun- Herdng snow drifts which threatened to smother him as he crawled through them, almost fainting from pain and exhaustion at times.
 At the sheep camp his condition had been a cause of anxiety. Itwas known that he had been exposed to the storm Huring the night, as the sheep men knew that it was extremely improbable he had been able to find shelter.
 Searching parties were out securing the plains without much hope of find- ing the man in the waste of snow, when one of the few men left in the camp saw & dark figure on the white surface in the distance. It did not seem pos sible that it could be that of man, but acting on the theory that it might be a sheep which had been lost in the storm the sheep man went to it's rescue. As he came near the moving figure stopped and toppled over. Running up the rescuer found that it was Hugh es. Help was summoned quickly and the seemingly dead man was carried to the ramp, where he revived. His feet and hands were found to be badly frozen and there seemed to be little hope that he would recover As soon as spossible he was taken to Rawlins for medical treatment.
 The weather in that state has been the coldest experienced in many years. At Medicine Bow, in the center of the sheep grazing country, the tempera- ture has registered from 2s to 32 de- grees below zero for four nights. Tn Encampment county it has fallen to 40 degrees below and all mining opera fions have ceased. The fall of snow in the mountains averages from 20 to 60 feet and many of the mining camps will be snowbound for weeks.
 Cattlemen in the Shoshone district of Idaho have been compelled to shoot their stock in order to prevent total 1nS1
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Another Typhoid victim.

ITHACA, N. Y., March 14.-Mrs. H. G. Smith of University avenue is dead of typhoid fever. Drilling has been started on two more artesian wells in the valley to the southeast of the city at the instance of Ithaca's committee of one hundred. These wells are being drilled to determine whether or not a sufficient supply of artesian water is available. A plan for burning all the garbage of the city, which pr. Soper has had under consideration for some time, is announced, and an incineration plant will be located at the base of West hill.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-14
ARE AFTER REVENGE
tilted Girls Not Always Satisfied
 with Financial Relief.
Some Force Recreant Lovers to Make Themselves Ridiculous as Rep aration for IndignIty, Real
 or Inna Elnary.

Financial remedies are not always sufficient for the injured affections of young women to whom fond lovers have proposed and from whom they afterwards desire release instead of matrimony. Frequently it is the case that the young woman feels an in- dignity has been put upon her which can be removed only by the young man making public spectacle of himself.
 It will be admitted, says the Chicago Tribune, that cases are more numerous where the young woman has been com tent to prove to a jury that her affec- tionS have been damaged to the extent of certain number of thousands. The exceptions, however, are enough to show 8 peculiar desire for unique re- venge on the part of many.
 There is the case of the young New Yorker, who proposed to circus rider and was accepted by her. Possibly her daring flights in short skirts attracted him for the moment, and that on more sober thought the attraction waned. 1t had led him to got into the difficulty, however, and he had to get out the best he could.
 AS a public exposure of his love affair was the last thing he desired, he had his attorneys make the young woman & substantial offer in settlement, and secure his release thus. It was not adequate. The young woman wanted more-not more money, but more in the way of reparation. She demanded that he supplement his financial offer by appearing one night as @ bareback rider in the ring with her.
 There was nothing for the young man to do but agree. He an athlete and expert rider. With much prelim- mary practice he managed to become sufficiently expert to bring his first and only appe arance on bareback to suc-
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al and company commanders concerh- ing the efficiency of the new weapon and its adaptabihty to our service.
 The Twelfth Ohio gvolunteer infan- try was one of the regiments thus fa- vored, and Col. White, it's commander, promptly began series of expert ments with the view of complying with the instructions he had received.
 s'The rife came to my regiment, said the colonel one day in conversa- tion with the officers of neighboring command, "as weapon possessing marvellous qualities. Its initial veloc- ity was said to exceed that of any known shoulder weapon. Its range was given at 400 yards, and it's pene- tration, as double that of any rifle car- ried by our troops"
 The colonel paused for moment, as though he feared he had possibly omit | ted to mention all the wonderful quail 1 ties which the newweapon possessed. "We went about the tests required | by the war department" he continued, "and fired the gun at all possible ranges, making careful observations as we proceeded"
 "And you were pleased, doubtless, with the results" ventured one of the colonePs auditors.
 ''Well, partially so,'sa drawled the colonel, in reply. ''We found, for in stance, that the range of the rife had not been exaggerated. Having estab- lished target 200 yards from the fir l ing point, we invariably found the marksman 400 yards from it after he had fired.
 However, the immense rear energy displayed by the piece constituted 8 serious objection, we soon discovered to it's use by troops advancing to the l attack, as a single volley sometimes oc. l casioned the loss of ground that had been gained.
 'But for a retreating force," con l tinued the colonel, mo more desirable l small arm could have been devised Our experiments demonstrated beyond question: that for every shot fired at | the enemy bye retreating soldier using the Belgian rifle, a projectile was sci afeld to retard his pursuers, while al the same time the firer himself was hurriedly assisted to the rear.
 T suggested to the war department in concluding my report continued the colonel sthat notwithstanding the great range of the piece, as shown by our experience in firing at 200 yards the peculiar value of the gun wher used by retiring force, and other pc culiar qualities that 1t possessed, in cluding remarkable length of barrel and superabundance of brass bands the weapon was hardly suitable fol American troops"
 Whether the coloneTs laconic repor- influenced the action of the war depart ment, is not known, but it is matter of record that the Belgian rifles were soon thereafter called in.
 H. R. BRINKERHOFF,
 Lieut.. Col, U. s, A.. Retired.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-14
wesfern Cities Lively.

The eastern visitor finds the cities of the northwestern coast brimful of life, color, significance, picturesque in terest; and though the forces which have combined in their making are somewhat similar, each has distinct character and individuality. Lively" :" word of the west, may we'll be applied to them--a sort of brisk activity, youthfulness, ozone. They have the rather unusual capacity of doing big things and talking about them lustily at the same time. It is the cryof the street corners: "Just watch us grow. See us getting to the front. Ray Stannard Baker, in Century.
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k&6SA&1a5ORMERLY all competition consisted E1d muscle or brain against muscle Today competition EN is between brain and brain skill and skill There E who cannot withstand the requirements of skill
 @7 They naturally fall in the they become what
 as has been called left men, they keep up the largely because their younger they did the advantage of the mental training which everywhere today, and training allied been found the sounds method of preserving sound body
 Boys and in the of the country triumph of architecture of the world of They and discontented perhaps yet divine dconten broadening all the attributes of fitting him for better and greater and bringing him out of contenent which simply nertness Life really things the ul taran point of iew for they stimulate industry industry poverty seldom yoke fellows They stimulate employment nd which essential good morals They foster elements of moral community by awakening desire for the kind of employmenttha requiring the application the intellectual effort If 1t continued crude muscular labor would be the best for mankind which will defend Something spiritual every day life revert to savage conditions.
 industry today nothing than the furnishing the simple necessities of human @ would have little expansion and would offer eagr opportunity employment would be burden dull and would Trade understand would and thing tay unknown But industry fouhes because limited the production of things that needed for food and she
 
 that trade and flourish Art industry actual wants and calls to supply those things which make for social The future of industry and the elevation the character of the employment cses the of their earning capacity the opportunity standard their depend large upon cultivation of the industrial ar depends upon the adequacy of the training which institutions of learning shall furnish.
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Good Reports From Day's Bedside.
 WASHINGTON, March 14.-The re- ports from the bedside of Justice Day of the supreme court, who has an attack of pneumonia, are encouraging, and the family are hopeful that despite his frail health he will recover. His physi- clan is endeavoring to confine the limit of infection ter She locality where it now exists, and the fact that no unfa- vorable symptoms have developed. is considered encouraging.
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TIME TABLE.
HIGHLAND DIv1sI0N.

Trains leave Meadow street station for Boston, Hartford and way stations at TOO and s:3S a m; 12:3s, 3.30, S:07 D. m.
 Trains arrive at Meadow street sta ton from Boston, Hartford and way stations at S:05, 11:4O a. m.; 1:45, 6:20 and TBS D. m.
 Trains leave Meadow street station for New York, Fishlxill Landing, Dan- bury and way stations at S:13 d: m. and 1:6O and 6:24 D. m.
 Trains arrive at Meadow street sta ton from New York, Fishkill Landing, Danbury and way stations at S:36 n. m.; 12,34 and S:04 p. m. SUNDAY TRAINS.
 Leave Meadow street station at S3O 1O:Ob a. m.; 200, 5:O5 and TOO D. III.
 Arrive at Meadow street station at 9:50, 11:30 a. m.; 4:50 6:b0 and S:b0 p. m.
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NAUGATUCK DIVISION.

Trains leave Bank street station for New York, Bridgeport New Haven and other places at 6:35, 7:55, 11:13 a. m.; TAO, 3:05, 4:40, 6:15 and 500 p.m.
 M Trains arrive at Bank street station from New, York Bridgeport, New Ha- ven and way stations at TIA. 8:28, 9O5. 1O:55 a. m.; i :24, $40, 6:30, GAS D. m.; 12:39 a. m.
 Trains leave Bank street station for Winsted and way stations at S:23. 1O:55 a. m.; $40, 5:20, GAS and 8:4S D. m.
 Trains arrive at Bank street station from Winsted and way stations at 6:3B. 7:55, 11:13 a. m.; 3:05, 5:46, 6:15 p. m.
 Trains leave Bank street station for Watertown and way stations at 645, S:2S, 11:17 a. n.; l 80, 3:45, 500, 6:12, 6:53, S:53 and 11:20 p. m.
 Trains arrive at Bank street station from Watertown and way stations at GAO, 7:45, 1O:42 a. m.; 100, 2:56, 4.30, 5:51, 6:45, 7:45, 11:16 D. m.
 SUNDAY TRAINS.
 Leave Bank street station for New York. Bridgeport and New Haven at 7-o5 a m.; 5:1O and 500 p. m.
 Arrive at Bank street station from New York, Bridgeport and New Haven at 9:4S a. m.: 7:52 p. m.
 Leave Bank street station for Water. town and way stations at 9:53 n. m. and S:03 D. m.
 Arrive at Bank street station from Watertown and way stations at 6:53 2. m, aad M N 4;ss ls m,
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Eiva Hurt rn WreclZ.

FORT DODGE, Ia., March 14.-In the wreck of the Chicago nrnited, westbound, on the Illinois Central rail- way at P0meroy five passengers were injured. The chair car and one, sleep CT left the track, the former being overturned. The train was trimming at high speed wlsen the accident oc, cured. The cause of the wreck is un. knnMa-
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FIRE ALARM.

4-Cor South Main and Grand sts.
 5-Scovill Manufacturing Go P.)
 6-Cor Bridge and Magill sts.
 7--Exchange Place.
 12-Rogers & Bro (P.)
 13-Cor East Main and Niagara sts. 14-Cor East Main and Wolcott road. 15-Cor Cor High and Walnut sts. 16-Cor Fact Main and Cherry sts. 17--Cor East Main and Cole sts. 21-Cor North E.n and Kingsbury sts 23-Burton street engine house. M-Waterbury Manufacturing Go (P) 25-Cor North Main and North sts. 26-Cor Buckingham and Cooke sts. 27--Cor Grove and Prospect sts. 2S--Cor Hillside avenue and Pine sts. 29-Cor Ludlow and N. Willow sts. 31--Cor Bank and Grand sts. 32-Cor Riverside and Bank sts. 34-Cor w. Main and Watertown rd. S5-Conn By X L't'g Co, car h'se (P) 36-Waterbury Brass Go P) 37--Cor Cedar and Meadow sts. 3S-Cor Grand and Field sts. 42--Cor South Main and Clay sts 43-New England Watch Go (P) 4B-Benedict & Burnham Mfg Go. fP1 46- Waterbury Buckle Go. (P) 47--Cor s. Main and Washington sts. 51--Cor Baldwin and River stk. 52-Cor Franklin and Union sts. oo- Waterbury Clock O. case fac.(P b4--Cor Clay and Mill sts.
 o8-Cor Liberty and River sts. o7--No hose house.
 5S--Cor Baldwin and Stone sts. 62--Cor Doolittle alley and Dublin sts 72--Cor West Main and Willow ste, 73--North Willow st. cor HiIlside.
 4-Cor Johnson and Waterville sts. l42-Wolcott st, beyond Howard. I62-Cor East Main and welton sts. 2l2-The Platt Bros Go. (P) 1lS--Hammond Buckle Go. (P) 1I4- W Waterbury Clock Co,m'v't fac (P, 1I6--Cor North Main and Grove sts. 1ol--Cor Round Hill and Ward sts. 26I--Junction Cooke and N. Main sts. 272--Grove. bet Central & Holmes avs. Sll-S. N. B. Telephone Go building (P) 5I2--Cor Bank and Meadow sts. 3l3-RRndolph & Gloves (P) 314-Plume & Atwood (P) 315--American Ring Go (P) 316- Electric Light Station (P, 31s- Holmes, Booth x Haydens TY 321--No 4 Hose House. 323-Cor Washington ave & Porter sts. S24-Cor Charles and Porter sts. 325--Cer Simons st 6 Washington ave 371-City Lumber SS Coal Go. (p) 412-Tracy Bros P) 432-Cor Liberty and s. Main sts. 461-Steele x Johnson Mfg Go. (P) oS2-Cor Baldwin and Rye sts.
 P) Private.
 SIGNALS.
 1. One stroke calls superintendent to the City hall.
 II. Two strokes, fire ont. recall Ill. Three strokes, 12 m, 9 D. m.
 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1. Ten strokes quick will indicate general alarm and will call the entire force into service.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-14
Rax Took HiaSLafe.

COOPERSTOWN, N. Y., March 14.-- Homer WaIrath, the seventeen-year-old son of Mir. and Mrs. Robert Walfath of East Springfield, near here, committed suicide by shooting himself twice in the stomach with a rifle. Young Wal rath imagined his sweetheart had tilted him, and he became Respondent. He died almost instantly.
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Hagnman,s Body Exhumed.
A. ROBSON, Lecturer of the London s
 of University Teaching

POUGHKEEPSIE, N. T., March IA. -The body of Theodore Hagaman, who died under peculiar circumstances at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, New York city, two years ago, has been disin- for chemical examination to ascertain if possible whether his death resulted from the causes set forth In the death certificate. There is suspicion that be man haYa been painNnadv
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An Arti-Notue Conference.

!, Fifty mutes, representatives or va. ,rious deaf and dumb societies, recently
 held a conference in Chartiers, France. The chairman called the assemblage
 to order by pretending to ring a bell,
 and speeches were made in the deafand
 dumb alphabety
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MERIpEN BRANCH.

Trains leave Dublin street ation for Middletown and way stations at 9O5 a. m. and 6:15 D. m.
 Trains arrive at Dublin stret station from Middletown and way stations at 7:50 a. m. and 3:5s D. m.
 Trains leave Dublin street station for New Haven by way of Cheshire at 700, S:43, 11:10 a. m.; 1:50, 4:04 D. m. Trains arrive at Dublin street sta ton from New Haven by way of Cheshire at 9:33 a. m; :05, 3:2O, 600. 7:45 p. m.
 SUNDAY TRAINS.
 Leave Dublin street station for New Haven by way of Cheshire at 7:50 a. m.; 5:50 p. m.
 Arrive at Dublin street station from New Haven by way of Cheshire at 0:50 a. m.; S:50 p. m.
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------ ----~----- --- -~---------s-~ NIicrObe of LOckjavv.

Kitasato, a Japanese microscopist, t, first showed that the pin-shaped mi crobe of lockjaw lives in the earth. In order that it may multiply and poison the blood it must be deep in wound so that air does not reach It. ,,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-14
OUR BELGIAN RIFLES
They Were an Experiment Tried
 in the Civil War.
As a Retreating Force They Were an Exceptional Success, But Were Not
 of Much Value i'm Other Ways

zen or the UnlIeu DIaIeS, then travelling abroad, took upon him self the sponsibility of a provisional agent" of the American government, and promptly began negotiations to se- cure options upon arms and munitions of war in the hands of foreign manu- facturers.
 The American arsenals in the north ern states had been stripped of their stores of arms and military supplies before the inauguration of the seces- sion movement, and the government at this time was greatly in need of arms and accoutrements with which to equip the volunteer forces called out by the president in his proclamation. of April 12, and promptly approved the pro- visional contracts entered into by it's self-constituted agent.
 Among the purchases made in this manner were several thousand Belgian rifles, reputed at the time to possess marvellous rangeandpenetration. They were ungainly looking weapons, even when compared with the clumsy Harper's Ferry musket, with,which the regular United States infantry was armed at the time, and had been con- structed, apparently, with view for use in the melee, rather than for desir- able ballistic properties.
 Upon the arrival of these arms in the United States, they were distributed among the volunteer forces in the field and reports were required of regiment
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srhe e;reeeaiest aIrd Known.

The adjutant, or marabout, a tall bird of India, of the stork species, 3wi1l swallow hare or cat whole. ( 1t stands five feet high and the ex- Ranse of wings is nearly IS feet
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Pardon For Roer sympathIzers.

PIETERMARITZBURG, South Afr,
 ca, March 14.-The governor of Natal has proclaimed the kings pardon for all persons who are awaiting trial for treason or other offenses committed during Qg arising Qut of the recent YaIlg,