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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-13
FOR HIGH LIQUOR TAX.

Bill Introduced in New York SenAIe-
 Increase of 50 Per Cent Proposed
 ALBANY, N. Y., March 13--Senator Raines yesterday introduced the higher license bill, increasing the liquor tax 50 per cent in every part of the state. 1t was immediately referred to the ex- else committee, and joint hearing will be given by the senate and assem- bly, committees next Wednesday.
 The introduction of the measure by Senator Raines was the signal for the beginning of the fight by the liquor dealers and allied interests against 1t.
 Although practically every Republic an in both houses of the legislature has, with the exception of Assembly, man Evans of Oneida, been pledged by Governor Odell to support the measure, the liquor men say it is not sure of passage.
 It has been stated by some legisla tors that if the excise bill is passed it will be unnecessary to enact mort gage tax bill for two or three years, as the canal improvement project will not be in operation before that time. The governor does not agree with
 
 a large part of the revenue derived from the mortgage tax bill will be needed to meet an appropriation of $1 ,50O, GOO for a new insane hospital building and for good roads. For the latter projects $2,O00,000 will be re- quired to meet the states share of the improvement work for which the boards of supervisors have petidoned this year.
 Governor Odell in discussing the higher license measure said:
 "Every decent, lawabiding citizen in the state is aware by this time that the present liquor law, if 1t has done noth- ing else, has at least succeeded in re- ducing greatly the number of places where liquor is sold, has driven out of business thousands of places that were menaces to public morals and has sue ceeded in reducing our prison popula- ton and diminishing crime.
 ssIt is often stated, without figures to prove it, that the so called Raines law hotels have increased in number yearly. That is absolutely untrue, for here are the actual figures In three Of the boroughs of Greater New York:
 'sOn June 1, 1900, there were 1910 declared hotels in the boroughs of Man. haitian ard the Bronx. On the same date in 1901 there were only 1885, a reduction of 30 per cent. On the same date In 1902 there were 1860, an in- crease of only % over 1901, but still decrease of % per cent from the num- Der in 1900 Tn June, 1900, there were 1864 declared hotels in the borough of Brooklyn, and on June 1, 1901, there were S32, reduction of 50 per cent. On June 1, 1902, there were 726 re- duction of 56 per cent from the num- Der of 1900. aF
 "Now take the criminal statistics since the present law went into effect, and it will be found that the number of commitments for drunkenness has fallen from 58,200 in 1897 to 83,2O3 in 1901, a reduction of nearly 40 per cent, and 1t further appears that the commit l ments for assa ults, Robberies and bur | glaries have materially diminished"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-13
Run on Montana savings Bank.

BUTTE, Mont, March 13.-A run on the State Savings bank caused no little sensation in financial circles. The run was caused by report to the effect that John A. Creighton, an Omaha mill ionaire, president of the bank, had withdrawn his support. He is said to have sent $50O,000 to the bank. In ad- dition local men of wealth rushed in deposits of from $5,OO0 to $5o,O0o, and at this the excitement subsided. The bank is one of the strongest in the state
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-13
Sixty Miles of Ice E1oes

ST. JOHNS, N F., March 13.-The British steamer Bruce has arrived here from Sydney, O. B., and reports having met with an unusual stretch of ice foes. She went outside Sable island, yet ran through sixty miles of heavy foe ice ten feet thick. The steamer had her bows injured and will dock for re-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-13
OTTER TO PALMA

New>York, March 13-Sir William Van Horne, while visiting President Palma, offered to purchase the state penitentiary property valued at $5O0,- 900, says the Tribune's correspondent at Havanna, his purpose being the erection of $1.O00000 hotel with New York and Canadian capital. The presi- dent promised to take the matter to congress and use his influence to secure the sale.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-13
Mtnars neo1de to strike.

MAssILLON, O., March 13.-The 2,0oo miners of this district have de- cided to strike April l. The decision was the result of joint conference be- tween the miners and operators, which split on the demand of the miners that a four foot standard vein of coal should be established. The operators refpsed to accede to the dena nd
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-13
a1ississippi Levees In Great Danser

JACKSON, Miss, March 13.-The levee board, in session at Clarksdale, has asked that forces of convicts be rushed to the levee section in Issa- quena county, where the entertainments are reported to be in great danger. Off, cials of Sharkey county have requested a supply of tents, as breaks in the levees above will render hundreds of families homeless {
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-13
Trainmen Plan Concerted .A.so..

TTatnmen Plan Concerted AA<SOtz.
 CHICAGO, March 13.-The Record Herald says that early in May con- certed demand will be made by the trainmen of all railroads centering in Chicago for a raise in wages amount ing to between F and 15 per cent Preceding their visit to Chicago the trainmen's committees are to make a similar demand upon the Northern Pa cific and the Great Northern railroads.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-13
rr1sTTcp DAVIS coNDITTON,I

Washington, March 13.- Justice Days physician this morning an- nounced that his patient is slightly bet ter; that he rested fairly well last night.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-13
MARCH
 Clearance SALE.

We are preparing for the greatest spring season ever had and in order to have all fresh and new goods we will dispose of all our HEAVY WEIGHTS. regardless of cost of productions The best opportunities to cloths the entire family are now of fered and we advise all our pats rons and friends to avail them- selves of th >-~aesnce on our B z terms.
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holding hundreds of little envelopes, each
Containing the name of the seed placed In
the funnel and each containing fun olrec-
tions as to its planting. AS the big funnel
feeds the machine a series OF little scoops
gather the grains, pass them under rub
her scraper which smooths them off at the
them in a small funnel. The envelopes pass
under this funnel and are grasped singly
by a set of steel fingers which nimbly hold
them open while the funnel, rapidly de-
scendinc fills each i'll turn. These ringers
hand each package over to contrivance
which 'daubs each flap with four drops OF
glue kept hot by small bunsen burner.
Then they are passed to a roller, which
seals the flaps snugly and spreads the glue,
The little scoops which measure out the
seed for each envelope vary in size, hold
ing anywhere from a fraction of a grain
of pansy seed to quarter of pound OF
beans.
government inspector goes about. from
one machine to another, draws out an en-
yelope now and then, and weighs it. If it
be too light regulator on each little scoop
is turned until it is enlarged to give the re-
o,,ired weight. An automatic counter upon
each machine is always ready to state the
humber of envelopes filled. In less than a
second each envelope is grasped by the me-
chanical fingers, filed by the descending
funnel gunmed, sealed, pressed and shot
down a trough which conducts it to bin
on the floor below. All the machines work
ing together can fill eighteen bags per
second.
On the floor below are seen long rows of
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Competitive Chemistry.
ON the London Chronicle.


The British consul at Stuttgart has at
forded food for thought once again on the
subject of technical education as applied
to the development of commercial in
dustries. DR.. Roses remarks are noted in
Nature, quoting from his report for 1901 2
1t seems that the German chemists, act
ing on the order for the prohibition of ex-
port of carbolic acid from Britain, dated
January, 1900, bethought themselves of the
possibility of making carbolic acid by the
process of building 1t up from its elements,
or in other words of making it Synthetical-
ly. Necessity, it is said, knows no law,
but here it evidently spurred the investi-
cation of chemical laws, with the result
that Germany is now independent of us,
our export trade is in danger, and carbolic
acid is made in Germany from benZol,
which is extremely cheap in the kaiser
empire. A heavy fall in the price of car
boic acid Is thus brought about. see in
these facts another proof of the wisdom
exhibited by the German nation in making
the chemical studies of her schools and
Prof. James Stuart might well say in his
Andrews University in pleading for our
seats of learning to adapt themselves to
modern life, that 1t was a significant fact
that when a competent chemist was needed
in a British manufa Glory the proprietors
had to go to the continent for him. Things
may have improved since DR.. Stuart spoke
but I fear we have yet much Roadway to
make before we can come level with our
rivals
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MANY PRIZE PACKAGES
Uncle Sans Present of Seeds
to the People.
HOW THEY ARE SENT
WONDERFUL MACHINERY FOR
FILLING AND SEALING BAGS.
Work Of Hundred Girls-What Each
Congressman Has for His
Constituents.

Copyright, 1908, by John Elfreth Watkins, tr)
Written for The Evening Star.
Two hundred and seventy thousand dol
lars Is being expended from the national
treasury for the free distribution among the
people of 100000 packages of flower and
vegetable seeds before May. Each member
of Congress-senator or representative
will have received IL, 500 packages by the
end of the season.
Quite wonderful indeed is the labor-sav-
ing machinery which Uncle Sam is employ
ing to fill this years tremendous order. The
big seed warehouse which the government
leases here is now filing often as many as
100000 envelopes of the much desired grains
per day. A hundred girls do this work I'M
der the eyes of government inspectors, the
output, at this rate, being 1900 envelopes
per girl per day. So great is the economy of
the Improved equipment of this establish
ment that each girl does the work which
ten performed a decade ago. In other words
it would require a thousand of these fair
operatives to fill this years order If the
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It Is not the fault Of the English. It L.
just as bad when Spanish is spoken. 1t
seems to be race characteristic, explained
only on the theory that 1t is the easiest
way to end a conversation suggesting men
tai or physical exertion.
Hard to Get Information.
The effort to get accurate information is
exasperating. The stranger Is compelled
to draw his own conclusions from a dozen
different bits of vehement assertion all
contradictory and inconsistent. This care
lessness as to detail exists in such simple
matters as the time of day and the de-
parture or arrival of trains. AS to the ar
rival Of a steamer in the port of Salina
Cruz no one thinks Of coming within ten
days of the facts. It is the land Of tomor-
row and tomorrow never comes.
At the rear Of the government building
an addition is being erected. It has been
in course of erection for twenty years. 1t
is not half completed. but that does not
cause any urgency measures. 1t Will be
ready for occupancy some time. An
American. a guest of the hotel, had re-
mitted his taxes regularly on his finca or
plantation. He called at this government
building to pay his taxes for the current
year. His tax receipts were at home In
the states. He was informed that no taxes
had been paid for three years. There was
no record of any payment. He has at least
a year of correspondence before him to
straighten the matter The isthmuS Will
probably become a great commercial CEN
ter. The Indians a rule are agricultur-
lists in small way, and they are peace
able, except the tribe occupying Yucatan
American goods are largely used IN the
smaller stores, and there will in time be
great distributing center. Neither Salina
Cruz on the south nor Coatzacoalcos on the
north, the two terminals of the Tehuan-
tepec railroad, give promise of great
future.
1t would seem more probable that the
middle of the isthmus with its elevation and
splendid climate would produce the great
city Of the future. Santa Lucrec.a is at the
junction of the two lines and is in direct
connection with the two terminal coast
towns on the Tehuantepec railroad and with
Mexico City and Vera Cruz. The Pan
American line connects at San Geronimo
just below. The commerce of this section
Is likely to spring up either at the village
Of Santa Lucrecia or at Ubero, eleven miles
below, the exact center of the Tehuantepec
railroad and the probable division point for
freight. This latter town, a town only In
name is the center of American agricul-
tural interests on the isthmus. If the
Americans make the town it will not be
far removed from this station. Boston, New
York, ST. Louis, Indianapolis, La Crosse,
Kansas City, Chicago and other plantations
called by the cities their owners repre-
sent-are in this immediate locality. The
climate here Is suitable for a winter resort
and there is little danger of the fevers
which make life uncertain in the ports. The
subject is problematical. In any event Te-
huantepec will not be benefited by the new
conditions, but will always remain the
quaint old Indian town it now Is.
w. S. WRIGHT.
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old style equipment of 1893 were in vogue.
Sixteen varieties of garden vegetable seed
and about fifty of flower seeds are being
distributed among the people this season.
The preparat ton of the packages is one OF
the great sights of Washington.
In the first place the seeds come into the
big brick warehouse in huge bags, after
having been purchased in the open market
by agents of the Department of Agriculture
This wear Uncle Sam is his own seed
broker, whereas last season contract for
furnishing the millions of packages was let
to one firm at a fiat rate per thousand.
A government inspector opens the bags
when they reach the warehouse. He marks
each bag with big blue number, denoting
the variety, and takes out samples which
are sent to the seed laboratory in the De-
partment Of Agriculture, nearby. Here the
sample seeds are counted, labeled and
planted. In short while they are dug up
and If a proper percentage have terminated
according to the strict specification, all or
the bags bearing the corresponding variety
number are passed If they are condemned
the seed dealer must pay the freight If he
desires them returned. All accepted bags
bearing the same number are piled up In a
separate stack ready for the interesting
processes now to be described.
Machines Almost Think.
Seventeen machines which almost think
are lined up in a large hall extending the
length of the third floor of the building.
Each is operated by young girl who has
little manual labor to perform, although
considerable intelligence is required of her.
Above each machine is a large funnel, con-
stantly fed by big bags of the accepted
seed The neck of the funnel has the diam
eter of stove pipe and in its center Is a
small glass window through which the
descending grains may be seen. The va
riety number upon each bag fed to this
funnel is noted. Inside the bag is a label
which doubly insures the identity of the
particular variety.
To the right Of the machine is a clasp
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tinually move over the bottoms Of long
troughs. When a new series of large outer
envelopes is to be filled the five varieties
of inside envelopes printed upon the corner
are noted and five large red cards are hung
upon the five bins containing these varie-
ties. Under each red card a girl takes her
place. the endless belt running In the
trough before her. Three other girls have
meanwhile taken their places at the upper
end of the trough. When the work begins
the end girls feed the belt with the newly
franked envelopes which, one after the
other, in close procession. hasten to the
first of the five girls sitting under the red
cards. From an opening in the bottom of
the bin she rapidly takes out the little en-
velopes and inserts one in each Of the rapid
ly arriving large ones The moving belt
the other four ''fillers," each of whom
places little package from her bin into the
big one. An eagle-eyed inspector watches
the belt and makes sure that the prescribed
number is placed in each. Seventeen girls
at this work fill 1900 packages per hour.
Nine big sewing machines grouped at the
ends Of the belts receive the large pack
ages after they have passed the hands OF
eighteen girls who fold down the flaps.
The .'stitcher' at each machine places the
envelopes, in rapid succession. into pair
of steel jaws which bite three wire stitches
into the flaps, thus sealing them securely.
Until this year the outer envelopes of these
free seed packages were gummed. in cons
sequence of which many stuck together and
gave the mall clerks no end OF annoyance
Ready for the Citizen.
Leaving the stitchers, the envelopes are
carried upon another moving belt, which
dumps them, one by one, into baskets.
They are Immediately taken up by men,
who count them carefully and turn them
over to others, who distribute them among
large, yawning mail sacks arranged upon
a rack. Each mail sack is then sealed and
a q
the district in which it is to be opened for
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distribution by the railway mail clerks. The
sealed mail bags are then placed upon a
chute which dumps them upon a two-horse
mail wagon. One congressmans quota OF
seeds fills more than half of this big We
hicle.
Mr. Joseph c. Brown who has charge OF
the preparation of Uncle Sans prize pack
ages, is the inventor of the wonderful filling
machines which effect a labor saving of 80
per cent, suggested.
Constituents who apply to their congress-
men for the packages will be disappointed
If they make requests for particular kinds
of seeds. Uncle Sam endeavors to supply
his legislators with the best staple seeds
which the market affords and to distribute
these in varieties best suited to the re-
spective aphical sections in which the
congressman live.
j. ELFRETH WATKINS, Jr.
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we are to get that eastbound train Have
you the licenseT
"Jlm," said elisabeth sharply. who gave
zone OBJ de gemmen upstairs, ma'am,"
answered Jim uneasily.
Mr.. Norton" said Elizabeth, turning to
him, maybe you can tell me VINO Is up
stairs now?
"Why, nobody but Thompkins and the
preacher" answered Norton.
do you mean to say that Wilbur Thomp-
kins is upstairs sure enough?' asked Ellza-
beth, a flush rising to her cheek.
Where else should he be?' replied the
surprised Norton. You don't know how
awfully cut up we all feel about running
in on you tonight. AS soon as Thompkins
told me, 1 advised the crowd to scatter
without stopping for leave-takings.
do you mean to tell me, Mr.. Norton
that Wilbur Thompkins had the impudence
to bring preacher out here and tel! you
that he and 1 were to marry tonight!
Norton backed a step away from the
indignant girl. Il may be mistaken. ne
said weakly, but that's what l understood
him to say
..Of all the outrageous things" exclaimed
the girl. Upon my word, this caro- IS
the first I've heard of my own wedding.
Do you think he's gone crazy?'
Norton thought to himself that 1t looked
very much that way, but he said aloud:
Hadn't you better see him."
See him, indeedv' she answered. HUI
riedly slipping OFT diamond rlns' sHe
i handed 1t to Jim. Give this to MT.
| Thompkins with my compliments, sne
said, land tell him that / am very wen
aware that this is April FOOLS night. III
| go upstairs and telephone for papa and
mamma, and you can see Mr.. Thompkins
off," she said to Norton.
Now Jim was good servant, put, as
we have already noted, he had his faiiings.
Elizabeth's message reached Thompkins in
this form:
..Baig pahdon, sub. but Miss Liz buth
suppresses her compliments to you, SUM-
and baigs to return dis hyar, an she Done
tole me to reform you dat she Is puffeckly
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blage, owing to the shortness Of the notice.
He was surprised when the big front doors
swung open to admit the minister and him
self, by the sight of gay groups of young
people. The butler Jim ushered them
through the hall and up the stairs.
Some one at the plano downstairs struck
up two step. WELL" thought Thomp-
kins, they've come to dance at my we'd
ding, to be sure, but never heard Of the
dancing beginning before the ceremony"
His bewilderment increased no member
Of the family appeared to do the honors in
any manner. He had supposed, of course,
that Judge Everett would have a little
fatherly talk with him before he went down
stairs. He didn't know, you see, that Judge
and Mrs. Everett, ignorant Of Elizabeth 8
surprise party, were even then enjoying the
first act of a very good play.
The butler left the two men In a bed
room, which had been called into service as
a mems dressing room. The Rev. Mr..
Stivers proceeded to take his priestly vest