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Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1903-08-19
HEARD IN PASSING

That complete victory Of the Doherty
brothers at Longwood, which means
that the international tennis trophy
goes to England, evens up the Ameri-
can capture of the Bisley honors-
Providence Journal.
Poor fellow. His doctor tells him
the only thing that will cure him is a
course of mud baths. and he can't af-
ford to go TO the mud springs" "But
surely he can go into politics and let
the mud come to him. "-Philadelphia
Press.
John Wyman, clerk Of the court in
Reno county, is spending a season in
Boston. Il was in swimming with b.
600 women this afternoon he writes.
Solomon in all his glory was not ar
rayed like one of these kansas City
Journal.
Economists have a century old habit
OF calculating the circulating medium
of country on a per capita basis.
Would it not be more sensible to calcu-
late it on basis of the volume of bust
ness transacted? The enterprisne
American business man has need of a
considerably greater volume of cur
rency than the Russian peasant or the
Sioux Indian.-Indianap Journal.
An important question is soon to be
settled in New London. 1t is whether
a much worn and battered coin can be
passed off on trolley car conductor
or whether the passenger who refuses
to give better coin can be arrested
Some way must be provided for people
to get rid of mutilated coins-and not
all of us patroniZe the contribution
plates at the churches. dgefeld
Press.
Prof Thompson. who is statisticfar
OF reputation. has discovered that In
the city of New York each family OF
FIVE persons consumes on an average
four eggs day. In Chicago. if If is
accepted that the city has reached
population of 100000 the ratio OF
egg consuming is higher and every per
son in the city manages to consume
one whole egg each day in the year
New Haven Union.
There are few men in congress wht
still think that there Is need for legis
lation to insure the negro his rights In
the south as citizen, but the great
majority of that body have given the
race question enough study to know
that the south is more patient with thu
negro and is more kindly disposed to,
Uard him than the north would be I'M
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1903-08-19
Pontafrs Once wore Red.

There are many people who will
doubtless be interested to know that
it is only since the thirteenth century
that the popes have been accustomed
to wear white. Until that time they
were always arrsiyed in the red robes
now affected by the cardinals Boni-
! face Will, in 1894, however, realizing
that the red was no longer a. distinctive
color of the papacy since his predeces-
sors had accorded to their legates abroad
the right to wear 1t, issued decree
granting to all the members OF the sa-
cred college the red robes which they
now wear, and decided thatwhite should
henceforth be the hue Of the raiment OF
himself and of his successors. The
popes, however, still retain from these
ancient days the red hat which they
wear out of doors, and the red mantle
as well as the red shoes. Detroit Free
Press.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1903-08-19
SECURITY IN OCEAN TRAVEL.
The Death Rate of Sailors Has DeA
creased One-HaIf In the
Last Decade.

Within ten years, thanks to better
ships and better navigation, the death
rate of sailors has decreased one-half,
and is now only Ii per 1000, or 40 or so
per cent below the rate for all inhabi-
tants of such cities as Boston, New York
or Chicago, says the National Magazine,
though, OF course, such comparison
must not be pursued to its last analysis
of why or wherefore, but taken for what
it is worth as a sufficiently surprising
statement of an actual fact. Out of
10000 accidents reported to the Tray
elers' Insurance company, 2,4l3 oc-
Cured to pedestrians and 1880 to per-
sons who were comfortably at home
indoors. No fewer than 1916 accidents
were due to riding or driving, $50 to
various sports, 4O6 to bicycling, and ATT
to railway travel, while only 70 of these
10000 accidents occurred upon the
ocean. Making all due allowance for the
obvious fact that there are always many
more persons walking, or indoors, or
engaged In pastimes, or railway jour-
neying than there are at sea, these fig-
ures are still significant
One great steamship company, with
40 vessels, lost only one seaman in a
year, and it was recorded of the cele-
brated Inman line some years ago that
it had conveyed, without one death,
million passengers. In the year 1890 the
transatlantic liners made nearly 1000
voyages from New York to the various
ports of the united kingdom and the
continent. carrying 100000 cabin and
$4,000 Storage passengers across 5000
miles of boisterous ocean. And yet In.
this entire year there was not one acct
dent costing the life of q single one of
, these more than half a million people.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1903-08-19
conditions. Savannah

der similar condftions.-Savannah
News.
While our esteemed contemporary,
the New Haven Leader, has no "ofti-
cial authority for announcing that
Lieutenant Governor Roberts Is in
training as a candidate-for governor, it
is confident that he is laying pipe" for
it and has been doing something in
that line for several months. AS be
tween him and New Ravens vaude-
vile candidate the choice ought to be
easy if the party must take~one OF the
two.-Bridgepor Farmer.
We observe that young Reginald
Vanderbilt and his bride on returning
from Europe had their meals served
to them ian a private dining room and
held aloof from the other passengers
throughout the voyage. You see how
this caste feeling grows with succeed
ing generations Such excluSiveneSS
could not have been understood by the
old Commodore, who brought garden
truck to New York in his little scow
almost within the memory of living
men, and it only amuses sensible
Observation-Disclosures Commercial.
1.-The safe and sensible thing to do
is to consider the Panama incident
closed and to proceed at once to make
the required arrangement with Mica
ragua and Costa Rica." says the New
York Herald. But the Herald must
be aware that the Nicaragua route is
regarded by those who have traversed
it to be impractica'ble. Indeed, it is
necessary to go further and to say
that the idea of pushing big ocean
steamships through crooked water
way over $50 miles in length and with
many locks has never been other than
preposterous 1t will never be done.
Hartford Times
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1903-08-19

A naval officer tells of conversation
he once overheard between two marines
who were arguing as to who had the
least work to do on board man-of- vu@~>
war.
TITS the chaplain" said one
How do you make that out?" asked
the second.
Because he amt got any work to do
and all day to do it in"
The second marine snorted his disgust.
You're wrong, Jack" said he. tits
the cap'n of marines"
"How's that?"
We'll, me boy, as you say, the chap
lain's nothing to do and all day to do it
in; but the cap'n Of marines has nothing
to do and all day to do it, and a lieu
tenant OF marines to help him do it,
". 7. Times.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1903-08-19
THOMAS FENT0N. PROP'R.
.PENMANSHIPI PROF HoIIEY

Teaches every pHpll "a write a ana
rapid. business hand, In COURSE OF l@
private lesSons and no faiIures. All
kiisds OF pen work executed Ia sha
EiGhesS degree OF art
16T BANK STREET.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1903-08-19
THE WINE SAMPLERS JOB.


there's only one job at the ST. Louis
exposition that would hike to get, -
said a wen-known man about town at
his club, relates the Albany Journal,
land that is wine sampler"
'FYou would soon get sick of your
Job" replied fellow clubman There
will be between 10000 and 10000 sam
pies in the wine exhibit, and If you
would be allowed to taste it in the ordi-
nary way your finish would be rapid.
II have heard the business de-
scribed, and as matter Of fact it is not
customary in this operation to permit
the wine tester to sip from each bottle
and pronounce his judgment until his
mind begins to wander and his tongue
thicken. He does not swallow the wine
at all. It is tasted, but never swallowed.
After five or six samples have been ex-
amined the jurors will rest few min
utes, then eat bit OF cheese and bis
cult, after which they rinse their
mouths with mineral water and pro-
coed as before. This is kept UP from
nine in the morning until noon, Per-
sons who can thus refrain from real in
diligence in the wine cup presented in
this tantalizing manner are examples
of abstinence which ought to inspire
admiration for the race
'1It is not every one who can thus
tread near the danger and step back
from the brink. With a mans nose In
the cup that inebriates he is generally
a goner. It is as good as settled when
he gets SO far as to lay his hand upon
the wicker door. The exhilarating eff
feet of suffering stream of some so or
100 different kinds of wine to pass be-
tween ones lips even IL refused admit
lance at the inner portal, must be con-
siderable; and layer of cheese, a layer
of biscuit and layer of mineral water
continued for three hours, 1t would
seem, would be a. distressing ordeal.
After the bouquet of the cheese, what
becomes of the bouquet of the wine?
There are cheeses that make one quite
oblivious Of every other thing set on
the table before one. would have no
confidence at all in the Judgment OF a
jury after the sixteenth round OF
cheese"
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1903-08-19

The boom of Editor Hearst Of the
New York Journal, whether taken seri-
ously or not, is being pushed right
along just at present, which shows that
MS press agent is not idle. Among
otner things this indefatigable worker
Tor Hearst says that his friends adj
vance the claim that he is the very
apotheosis of antitrust, the only man
I'm the country who has ever gone after
the trusts with his own money and
made them remble, and that the trust
question will be uppermost in the next
campaign hence their man is a demo
cratic platform in himself That he is
the very embodiment of Jeffersonian
and Jacksonian democracy That he is
man who can hold all the vote that
Bryan got and add to it the vote of
labor regardless of past political aff1lia-
ton, also the vote Of thousands of men
who are in business and whose bust
ness is jeopardized by the cormorant
trusts of the country. That he is abb
solutely independent Of the trusts and
the money interests of the country, and
that he possesses the money personally
to give the party the greatest campaign
ever waged in the nation and can duplf-
cate every dollar of fat fried out of the
trusts by the republican campaign
managers. That he is young, an able
executive, philanthropist, a humani-
tartan, an honest lover of justice to the
people. In short, they claim he can
win if nominated
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1903-08-19
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10. 1903.


They are getting out a new city di-
rectory over in New Britain and the
Herald Of that city is going into costa
cies over the increase in population
1t is figured out that the town now has
a population Of over thirty-six thou.
sand. The Herald says the directory
is so large it used up nearly all the
type in a well furnished printing Of.
fee,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-01-10

charity are alsoe daughters Of the old
Bay State-Mary a. Livermore, who is
now IN her eighty-third year, and Clara
Barton, president OF the Red Cross
society since its organization, who was
born q decade later.
Mrs. Livernore, beginning life as a
sch%oolteacher, first became known to
the world through her labors with the
sanitary commission In the dark years
Of the civil war. She identified herself
also with the temperance and antislav-
cry movements and worked hard to
further the of women's clubs.
Clara Barton, who also began life as
a teacher, is identified as is no other
ia the world with the work OF
caring for the sick and wounded. Her
work in Cuba won for her the title OF
The Adopted Daughter from the lat
est republic to take its sea al the coun-
Gil of nations.
Mrs. Bette cambridge, the niece Of
Zachary Taylor, who In 1919, a mere
girl Of tWenty-four years, was mistress
Of the White House, resides at Win.
chester. Va. Few womea approaching
their eightieth birthday retain such
splendid health as is vouchsafed the
mistress Of this old time center of
southern hospitality.
The blessing Of continued health Is
denied Mrs. Jefferson Davis In her lat
er years. She has never quite recovered
from the shock of the death of her
daughter Varlna a few years ago. She
is well past her seventy-sixth year.
In Los Angeles lives Mrs. John 0.
Fremont, a charming old lady of seven
ty-eight. When as Jessie Benton she ran
away to marryt the young Neutenap
who was to become "ths Pathfinder
she was renowned for her wit and
beauty.
Among the actresses who have earned
/ place among the "grand Old women
Il Mrs. George II. Gilbert. Although
horn In England she has adorned the
American stage for more than half a
century. Hale and strong. In her eighty
seco-d year, she still appears before
the footlights.
There are others who by their works
are entitled to the title grand" but,
though fall Of years, might still object
20 being called grand "eld" women.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-01-10
vretehea Jalls In venenuela.

Fene0uela's prisons seem modelled on
the Black Hole Of Calcutta, according
TO the description Of Captain Davidson,
who says THAT more than a score Of
persons were crowded into a room six
teen feet square, with nothing 10 sit on.
This would be bad treatment Cor the
worst type of local ~scoundrels. gays the
New YORK. Tribune, but when applied
to Innocent victims Of politics and rev
olEGon nothing 10 Dahomey or any
province OF Jumbo Land was ever more
abomiuable.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-01-10
GRAND OLD WOMEN.
SOME AMERICANS WHO HAVE LEFT
THEIR IMPRESS ON HISTORY.

Full Of Years and Honor, some Are
Resting after Lifeis gtrua@Te-A
Few stfiI Wcar sae Harness and
keep En Toach with rhc world.
OF the brave little company Of wo-
men WHO have laaored for the uplifting
of masind curing the last century but
few are LEFT. but when they are count
ed and their deeds recalled no one VIII
question their right 70 TIA title Ct
grand old women"
Trained according to the lights OF
the earlier years u the last century.
these grand old women are not d
ployed in the pursuits Of business, but
they figure In the politics Of the time,
l~nGuentially, though indirectly. They
are playing a large part Ii phllanthro-
py, and certain ~ them stand forward
prominently IN art aud literature.
In the realms OF literature the name
Of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe comes first.
She is distinctly the "grand old woman
Of American literature" In age, too,
the venerable poet Of patriotism ranks
highest Of all. If she lives until the
24th Of next May, she win be eighty
four.
For so many years his Mrs. Howe
been identified with the literary life of
Boston that few know she IL a native
Of New York. Before she was twelva
years old She had begun her writing.
She published essays at seventeen; but.
creditable as all her work has been,
her fame rests upon her Battle Hymn
Of the Republic, written In 1861.
Susan 3. Anthony, who has stood
prominently forward IN the woman
suffrage movement, is but a few
months the Junior Of Mrs. Howe. She
claims Massachusetts, as her birth
place. and on Feb. Is next she viii be
eighty-three.
Miss Anthony experienced in h9r cr-
case the commercial inequaH b-
tween the sexes when in her earlier
years she was teaching school for SIS
a month, while a man Ia the other
school Of the village was receiving $45.
From that day she has been a worker
for woman's rights. though her interest
in that cause did not prevent her la
boring with Philips and Garrison for
nine years against slavery, nor has it
weakened in later times her interest In
the cause Of temperance.
Miss Anthony for the past two
years has been engaged with her
friend, Mrs. Ida Hustled Harper, In pre-
pairing the fourth volume of the His
tory of Woman Suffrage" For nearly
twenty years she has beer gathering
material for this work, which will
shortly appear.
Two other American women known
ell over the world for their work In
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-01-10
SUICIDES LUCK

Tonic was the LATEST Of all the beggara
In Naples, where such gentry are very many
and very lazy. There is a kind of rogue
commonwealth among them, and Tonic
had often been within an ace OF expulsion
from that.
One morning, when the winter was com
ing the stock in trade Of his profession. He
"a front Of the cathedral. Ills leg was
swathed in bandages, and there was a
crutch beside him, but all the same for that,
he was not lame. He was merely exhibit
ing the stock in trade of his profession. He
was bewailing his bad luck and mis- empty
pockets. And the season was nearly over.
Presently his crafty black eyes glistened.
He rose laboriously to bis feet, for people
were passing, and hobbled along on bis
crutch towards q young man who was cross
ing the road,
tBeppo," said the beggar, you VIII give
me the price Of a dinner
Beppo shook the grimy hand from bis
shoulder.
you are wrong, he replied. = shall
give you nothing"
'You are a pretty brother, to see me
starye."
you disgraced your relatives many years
since. Leave me. am in haste.
Tonic looked vicious. But the steady
young workman was strong and well set
up.
"Tell me where you. are going in such a
hurry"
81 am going 10 the hotel An Englishman
committed suicide there last night. ! 60 to
measure him for-you know
"Ah, know. a suicide" Ionio's in
.-1A NO. awg~aaI ffN4.4 4@o - Ala he
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-01-10

4 murderer in Canada waiting exc
eution insisted on a game of pingpong
just preceding death and also for a
view Of the scuGcld, both Of which
wishes were gratihed.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-01-10

KEEDS OF TIE FlLIpIR0S
Some Peculiar Ones Described
by an American Official.
GREAT VALUE OF TIE CARABAos

fhe fAnce o. norseS' lows, oxen
and MuIes-5iessing OF the Discov-
cry of a Serum to Fight the d
pest-rhe Locaes eourl
~
ate SoAe -
Are ~ "loti Inherent ~ ~c ont'eu
states ana tDat lt -
hard for AN q n to understand what
the Filipino "a and why they do
.onc thL1g ami il to DO another said
.g.pwster Ca..et,n to 4 recent visitor.
gn~.i-fpa IN We rlse,on Prom the united
a, ~ phtun
~ ,va.t,u
W
A'oh0sss o. iHe ~" 1orN EEeilas
Post 20 american IN washington
ARefe y n5eet oEtnne ana there
did net s ~ Ge 4ly way OF his ne
Aaefing il mere he you'd probably go
10 Batttaefe oF FlaaoeipiAa or New
9ora ard see WAL e@ ioShent ne
good ct In one u those cities The
ElltiLo has no sleA resource. he ~
2 s9a og the SOL ~ 4 country whose
soie interest IF Agricultural when III
@aca oter{ehe9 Blu on bis plahtauon.
there be stays ard plods away n1aking
the best q a baa matter ln tAe ape or
retrieving himself II would not enter
hiA .1ieQ t2 move away and tfG BIS
chances somewhere disc
ShaG, too. our people have very lit
Tie conception q What the cafa5ao -
10 the Filipino. Hero we use a horee for
one purpose. g cav for oi'ot.e.. ca tx
TO- q Third tt4 q tnuia for q fourth
pefaps. Bat the p~9f ono rsas
his eiFansa far Hl these p3rtcsfa soil
bla5d- lte cannot fiaw er harvest, la
caI2st take hts ailiy IN q Journey,
be cannot ca hH 'roaGcts 70 market
be cannot Asft rraa milk Tor I'D
Uael be lose hls carabao. That il
what makes the rinderpest 50 drfadfgl
q as
- kaesv ea company who owned
20,990 acres 81 land ana 1860 head Of
caraboo, and visitation - t.c peat
swept tie cattle all away, lc1ylHg the
land useless. The worst OF 81 ucel9cted
piece Of land In the Philippines s. that
with the rank growth Of vegetation
there, il quickly efous 2 70 jungle
and becomes uncuitlrsta5ie aud mast
be cleared anew, at au expense perhaps
Of $50 an acre, Whenever 1t is to -
turned to agricultural ,Jes once more.
This is reason why there is so little
cause to fear thai. ~ tne limit Of acre
age in a single ho.4lng be increased by
law. any one who acquires more lard
will let it lapse into jungle a~eain-it
viii lie Kept up as a mere matter Of
self protection, ig nothing else. for It
WIN cost mere to clear 1T t.an to Keep
il clear.
terrible scou rs In its FIRST manifesto
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1903-06-10

gentes para evitar al caos que se
nos viene encima. Es necesario ha
Ger Ago practice, y del amos de Pc
simismos por un lado, de optimismos
por ot-o, = lie ilusionss est6riles que
6 naaa conducen. Hsy que eiecutsr
y ejeeutar pronto. Hay que dar pa
SOS que resultsu benefeiosos para el
psfs, que no rskulten en- IL practices,
msras feasas sin provacho Alguno.
Hs vsniao en- toaos mis- artf-
culos danao conocsr O mi pals
10 que aquf pssa, dando q como
Ger acontecimientos, probando de
rnA mauera evidar ta que Ell poaer
de los uartiaos 20 fticos en- Puerto
Rico ES UN MITO. y las pruebas
do clio que he presenta2o han bas'
tado, para que 20 reciba fslicitscio
mes de personas de mueho valer del
pals, para que Ia prensa aplauds
mis- escritos, 6 10 cual estey sgraae'
cido. Ahf estan ell eB ,letir., ell
sH srAldo e Up, f1ol., "Ls V de 10
PAtriA", ell "Diario de Ponca" y
'E:os del Tanan&". 6 inf fioidaa de
falicitaciones, hasta N W De York.
Todo el psi, piensa como yo La ne
ceaidaa de hAcer Ago ss notoria.
Ago que rasulta provschoso para
nuestros intsreses comuues: olvi Ian.
do rencillas en- estos momsntos y
hacer los que ii snsn 10 culpA del
msl, responaAbles en- absolute de
todos los dssaciertos dc estos GIN
COsdos.
La solucion Sc impone, el probe
ma se, ,,acerca. y tenemos II obliga-
cion de hacer algo. Me aisiio to.
do Ell pals, yyA que ell partido repu-
blicano, (qus hoy atsea 81 gobierno
& sus espaldas porque el gobierno
atAca inmoralida5es db.ieag es res
ponsabla de la obra de nuestras ass
venturas, 6 les dsm&s elementos del
pals, toca tomar nuevas posiciones,
y & los senoras Palmer, Soler, Guz
man, Camanas, Larrins 90, Acufls y
otros directories polfsicos. toca pro.
ceder y cumplir CON sus dsbsras co
mo patriotas saliendo de ese letargo
en- que todos ss encuentrAn.
A resolvsf pues, y hRttR mi pro-
xima.
CAGLIOSTRO.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1903-06-10
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