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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-29
PASSING OUT OR LIFE.

There is something sublime in the effort to die bravely. It was Vespa- sian, the Roman emperor, who said "A king should die standing" This has been the thought of the Roman pontiff. The, world is familiar with the wonderful boise of the pope, who even tested with the surgeons as they were about to operate upon him.
 Tn order to withstand the conditions of a last illness. the proper mental condition must have been reached through antecedent thoughts and acts of a right character. Only right ac- tions in life can supply the necessary courage to face death. No time can be lost in this preparation.
 1t is useless to complain that people die before their time. Nature said Cicero. "has lent us life as we lend a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment; what reason, then, to complain if she demands 1t at pleas ure. since it was on this condition that you received it?"
 Youth quickly passes, age natures and soon all must resign themselves to growing old. Old men must give way to young, and these to still younger
 
 that a man has lived too long, but finite beings are not the judges of that; besides, "A wise man lives but so long as his life is worth more than his death" -.,...
 The most beautiful death is that of one who is leaving behind him the re- membrance of good deeds, one who has sacrificed self for the benefit of others. Pericles, at the last moment of his life, said that while those about him were commenting him for things that others might have done as well as him. self, they took no notice of the greatest and most honorable part of his char acter, 'that no Athenian, through his means, ever went into mourning
 Kant, at eighty, when mortally i'll, said he did not fear death, but the case would be different if he ''had ever caused the misery of any of my fellow creatures" It is this having done something for others that will bring the best consolation at the last day. It alone banishes the fear of death.
 There Is nothing terrible in death;,
 Iris but to cast our robes away,
 And sleep at night without breath To break repose till dawn of day.
 sBoston Globe.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-29
THE DEMAND FOR FICTION.

Not So Widespread as Is Commonly
 Thought Librarian Concludes. With the world becoming fuller of Carnegie libraries every day and with the number of books on library shelves multiplying as the leaves on the trees in spring. librarians are inquiring more and more into the attitude of the public toward the libraries. By means of h- brary statistics the librarians feels the pulse of the book-loving public ana tries to keep in touch with the charac- ter of the reading done so that he may keep such goods on his counters as are desired.
 The fiction read by public library borrowers in this country, for instance. ruins from 65 to 85 per cent of the total number of volumes taken out. But, having ascertained the fiction percent age, the librarian has only begun his examination of the reading taste.
 John c. Dana, librarian of the New ark public library, recently took fifteen working days, from June to June 20, and had the circulation analysed down to the finest point possible, with inter esting results. He finds that only 4O per cent of library borrowers continue to take books frequently after the first eighteen months. He has discovered that the borrowers who call constantly for fiction are comparatively few. Tn an article covering his researches, which will appear in the Library Jour nal for August, he says:
 "The total number of novels which were borrowed during the fifteen days was SIS The total number of per- sons who borrowed these novels was 4,1S1. Half of these took only one novel. The other half, or 2,O00 persons took out 6,OO0 different novels in fif- teen days; 1,122 drew two novels each in that period. About 600 took ont three novels each; 276 four novels each 100 persons drew 800 different novels, or 5 each, in fifteen days; 50 others took out 6 novels each; P borrowed ' novels each; persons took out each; 1 took outs, and l drew 10.
 'The persistent novel borrower at a public library is not, then. by the showing of these figures entitled to the name legion. Librarians generally have long been of the opinion that 1t is necessary for them to keep on hand a large supply of the most recent fiction, without much regard for it's quality, and even at some loss of fullness as regards the nbrary's list of books in other departments. ... "They have thought it was necessary thus to stock their shelves with recent popular novels because they have SUD- posed that the general public, the mass of their book borrowers, were all of one mind as to such books. They have been inclined to think that all their card holders wished the library to keep on hand a good supply of the latest novels. =r
 Our figures. based on an investiga- tion of only fifteen days, are of course, not conclusive. but they point very strongly to the conclusion that out of the total number of persons who make use of the library to the extent of talk ing out cards very small percentage are making frequent inquiry for recent novels or even fiction at all.''
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-29
HEARD IN PASSING

As soon as the statue of George Washington is put up in London, nego@ tiations should be opened for locating one of George Dewey in Madrid Washington Post. ..,,
 The important society announce ment is made in the New York papers that Bob Fitzsimmons is to marry again! In the technical phraseology of the profession of which he is shining ornament, Bob always was greedy of punishment. ."-Bridgepor Standard. We are creditably informed that Camp Chamberlain is not to be drug store or distillery this year, either in whole or in part, We hazard the pre- diction, however, that occasionally some of the boys will smile, even if they do not snicker.-New Haven Leader. A person who will rise early and weed garden before breakfast is en- titled to almost anything that he or she may claim from the more indolent and the less conscientious. Neverthe- less we maintain that there is danger of the matter going too far. The flower garden is becoming a fetich, and it's worship threatens to absorb other devotions and to leave their ad- herents to the cold comfort of an un- popular heresy.-Hartford Courant.
 The movement which has taken shape all over the country to expose the nature and extent of the blackmail- ing operations which have been prac- ticed in many trades, notably those connected with building, by the agents of the unions, promises to lead to very instructive revelations. It is becoming perfectly evident why the labor leaders have put every possible obstacle in the way of agreements between the en- ployers and the unions, looking to the amfcable settlement of differences by boards of arbitration. No man who has entered systematically upon the practice of the graft voluntarily re- linquishes the opportunity to work it, New York Times.
 Yesterday must have been the hot. test day of the season." remarked Mrs Tipperton, glancing over the morning paper. ''Tut! Yesterday was compar- atively pleasant" replied MT Tipperton. Tt was here, but it wasn't in other places. Nearly a hundred people were killed by the heat in Omaha" What's that? Why, that can't be true, Mrs Hyperion" "Oh, well, that's what these headlines say. Read for your self" MT Tipperton took the paper and read: Deadly Heat-High Tenn peratures Prevail in the East and Mid dle West-Three Fatal Prostrations in Chicago-Ninety-six at Omaha" And then MT Tipperton laid down the paper and grinned broadly, but said nothing Kansas City Journal.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-29

"The life of the law" says Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, "has not been logic. It has been experience" Its foundation on experience is what has made the common law, under which English-speaking nations live, so ade- quate to the needs of free people. At first the laws were only the local cus- toms. Time gave them form and force. AS centuries passed, so many prece- dents became established that most human concerns were covered by them, and law became mainly the adaptation of old principles to new cases. The American colonists brought this body of common law with them, but local ideas affected it, and the various state courts have created doctrines unknown
 in England, to say nothing of statute laws. We are just now entering po-
 sition where public opinion seems to
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-29
ANSWER YOUR PHONE.

One of the small, but very curious
 mysteries of the day is the existence in the mind of almost everybody who uses the telephone of feeling that he has a special claim upon the time and attention of anybody whom, for his own interest or convenience, he chooses to .call up." The man who seeks an interview in the .old-fash- toned way has no such feeling. He sends in ihs card, usually with an ex- plantation of his~-business, and then with more or less patience waits until the person he wants to see is ready to receive him. The man at one end of a telephone wire, however, demands that he be treated on a favored nation basis,' and if he is kept waiting more than a few seconds by man at the other end he resents it as discount esy, if not an actual wrong. And the telephone companies themselves seem to assume that each subscriber has entered into a tacit. contract to leap promptly to his instrument every time the bell rings, and they scold him when he doesn't do 1t, on the ground that he ''hurts' the service" This assumption of the companies is seriously--and therefore amusingly-expressed by the American Telephone Journal, which, after telling how much better the telephone service is now than it used to be, proceeds to lecture the so called subscriber for not doing his part to make it still more prompt. "The average time" it says, taken by the subscriber to answer the telephone bell is still much greater than it should be, and it still lies in the power of the subscriber greatly to increase the eff ficiency of the telephone service by cutting this time down. It represents at present the larger proportion of the total time occupied in getting two subscribers together on the telephone, and as long as that is so it will remain a standing reproach to telephone sub- scribers in 0eneral.--New York Times.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-29

One of the first things the Central Labor union should do Is to weed out the traitors in the camp. The organiza- tion can do better work if the business is kept where 1t belongs. If there are men acting as delegates to the Central Labor body who run to the newspapers the moment they get out of the meet ing, or who confide the doings to the factory bosses, it goes without saying that the organization would be better off without them. Within a short time a matter that was to be kept in, the strictest secrecy was given out by some member who was present when the subject was under discussion. It was not only given out, but published in the columns of local paper. The man that will give away the doings of so- ciety meeting in that way is not worth having. The organization that sent sent him should be asked to recall him.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-29

Unusual methods are being pursued by contractors on the worlds fair grounds at St Louis to obtain the de. livery of building materials. Repre- sentatives are sent east on passenger trains and return on the freight trains carrying the coveted material. The function of these agents is to shorten as much as possible the time consumed in transferring cars between connecting lines. As soon as a car reaches the terminus of one road the proper officials are asked to obtain the speedy handling of the car. In all cases these cars con. tain material the lack of which pre- vents the use of large quantities o1 other materials. '."
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-29
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1903.

Another of Mayor Mulvihilrs moves in the political checker game at Bridge port the decapitation of Charles T. Williams as director of public works, has been pronounced by the supreme court as perfectly regular. MT Will Hams is out and stays out while the mayors appointee is in and stays i'll. The supreme court is somewhat less sympathetic than the legislature.-New Britain Herald.
 The supreme court follows the law, and gives Judgment in accordance with the facts, but the legislature Is horse of another color. Mayor Mulvihill could hardly expect much from that body. He is g. democrat.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-29

bear more directly upon legal decisions than it ever has done since those early days when public opinion actually made the common law, says an exchange. The theory of jurists is that the legis- lature is the proper department for legal changes which are demanded by public opinion. Often, however, the courts declare that statutes are uncon- statutes, are with difficulty applied to the shades of new conditions and the public's wishes. Every popular whim should not be put into effect and our constitution was so constructed as to make the people think we'll before abandoning an old principle for new. But fundamental and lasting changes of opinion must, in one way or the other, affect the law. They affect statutes obviously, but they also affect the spirit of supreme courts. In the great settlement of human rights which we are now facing, in the questions of capital and labor, black face and white face, American citizen and subject col ony, the courts may hold public opinion in check, but they will also be guided by it. The new member of the supreme court, Judge Holmes, fits aptly into this situation, for probably no stronger and more practical philosopher has been upon that bench since the death of Chief Justice Marshall.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-29

The diplomatic mix-up of the repub lican administration on the Russian and Manchurian question is causing 8 good deal of hilarity among demo crats' and some uneasy wondermeut among republicans as to the final out. come, says our Washington correspond ent. It is known there that the re- rnarkable statement lately given out by Assistant Secretary of State Loomis during the absence of Secretary Hay to the effect that the Kishineff affair and the Manchurian question concern. ing the open door policy were inter twined and interdependent, and must therefore, be considered together, was inspired by no less parsonage than President Roosevelt himself. When Secretary Hay hurried to Oyster Bay and informed the president that he had played "the dickens" in giving Loomis any such instructions, the president quickly ''side-stepped' and left poor Loomis with the bag to hold. The veriest tyro in diplomacy would have known that the two questions had nc more to do with each other than the Alaskan boundary dispute has to dc with the Breathitt county feuds, an6 Assistant Secretary Loomis probably knew it when he was promulgating the remarkable statement that went out tc the country, but he was obeying the instructions of his chief, who was sim ply trying to play some politics and get his ''gee' leg over the "haw' traces. Secretary Hays recent state ment to the effect that he had obtained Russia's consent to the open door ir several important ports in Manchuris has stiu further complicated matters He made the unqualified statement that he had things 'ffixed.' Now Count Cassini, the Russian ambassador to this country, comes out in a state. ment and says it isn't so, and that Sec retary Hay said nothing to hina abou
 the matter, and there you are.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-29
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-29
AN AIR SHIP FOR BOSTON

One of the Many Novelties of Merch-
 ants and Manufacturers Exposition. Boston bids fair to vie with Paris, and American genius with that of France. In other words, negotiations gre under way whereby a veritable air ship may be one of the features of
 the second triennial exposition next October. This American air ship, the invention of Pittsburg mechanic, is
 of the regulation Santos Dumont pat tern though differing from it in certain essentials as regards mechanism and
 motive power. The inventor has made the subject of balloon ascensions and
 aerial locomotion life study. He
 claims that he solved the problem long before Santos Dumont's first public ex-
 periments with his air ship in Paris l were attempted, and that his only
 reason for withholding his invention 1 was the lack of sufficient capital iwherewith to properly exploit 1t. His ! air ship, he says, is even smaller than 1 the one in which the Frenchman made ! his flying trip a few days ago above i the boulevards in Paris, and made it so successfully as to leave no doubt of the extraordinary merit of his ma chine.
 While the credit of the American in- vention goes to Pittsburg, Boston seems likely to get the benefit of the l first actual experiment, and the Mer- chants and Manufacturers Exhibition ] association whatever honor and glory may accompany it.
 Tn addition to the air ship proper in which the inventor proposes to attempt his perilous ascension, there will be q perfect working model of it on exhibi-
 tioa in mechanics hall during the big fair.
 The name of the inventor and all the 1 important details of the invention it. self are purposely withheld. but both he promises, will be forthcoming weeks before the opening of the exposition.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-29
THIS IS WHAT STANDARD
 REMEDY DID.

September 27, 1901. T. $. Carroll, Agent for Our Stand ard Remedy"
 Dear Sir-Having used Our Stand ard Remedy cannot speak too high ly about it in my case, as it helped me greatly for blood, liver and kidney trouble. (Signed)
 MICHAEL T. HAYES,
 Torrington, Conn. Waterbury, Ct, February IS, 1901. T. S. Carroll, Agent for ''Our Stand ard Remedy
 You may say for me in regard to the virtues of Our Standard Remedy" that I am greatly pleased with its ef- feet on me. My stomach was in bad condition, my bowels very constipated, I had feeling of fulness after eating even moderately. Had not been able to strike any remedy for above trou- bles until took above remedy. Had taken but few days when I noted great change and no trouble since. It is worthy the confidence, of all that have trouble from constipation, bdi- ious spells or dyspepsia. tsigneO
 J. N. ADDISON.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-02-20
ALMOND FLAMMERY.

Soak half a box of gelatine in cup
of cold milk for half an hour. Take
TWO ounces of almonds, one of sweet
and one of bitter, bIanch and pound
them to paste, adding gradually three
cups Of milk. When the gelatine is
soft add the milk and almonds and put
the whole into a double boiler and
heat slowly Then boil for ten min
utes and strain through a fine sieve or
piece Of cheesecloth. Sweeten to
taste and flavor with teaspoonful of
orange-hower water. Turn into a mold
wet with cold water and set in cold
place to stiffen. Serve with sweeten-
ed cream, custard or Devonshire
cream. Fresh fruit may be served in
stead of the sauces. Mash the fruit
and sweeten to taste and pour around
the cream.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-02-20
MARINATE OF MILTON

Order the mutton two or three days
in advance, letting it hang meanwhile
in the butchers ice box. Have it
skinned and the fat cut off and out be-
fore it is sent home. With a fork
make small holes all over the meat and
rub well with salt and pepper. Make
marinate as follows and use it cold:
Crate six onions of medium size. and
add juice of two lemons, a tablespoon.
full salad oil, with four tablespoonfuls
of any kind of sweet picked small
fruit with two tablespoonfuls currant
jelly. Pour this mixture slowly over
the meat and set in the ice box. bast-
ing with the liquid whenever it is ne
cessary to go to the refrigerator
through the day. Roast the mutton.
allowing ten minutes to the pound.
When the meat is put in the pan there
is enough liquid to haste with, and
the jelly soon melts on the meat. The
same marinate used in basting serves
also for the gravy.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-02-20
Creeds and Doctrines.

Creeds and doctrines are the ATTEMPTS to
explain existing facts. Creeds do not pro-
duee the life; The creeds and opinions
are interchangeable. They are the phenomena
to be. explained. The creeds and doctrines
are. the varying explanations. The events
and active forces are the evidences of fbe
life force. It is an intelligent personal
agency. He lives. He is the life of His
cause; By Him any man may come into q
new life. Through Him millions have
brought their lives into tune with the mi.
verse. II we are wise we shall paw more
regard to him, to His teaching. to His
work and His personal fsliavs. - = y
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-02-20

born In Kew Hampshire. educated AZ
Brown university and who Joined the
army while rs years old and who lost
an eye at Petersburg. AS an educator
he rose rapidly IN his profession and
became president OF his alma mater.
Next he was called 10 Chicago to take
charge Of her public schools and later
on was chosen as chancellor OF the
University Of Nebraska. where he now
is' Since the war he has frequently
championed the cause OF the south
and became unpopular with our ma.
llgnant enemies. or course as he
Joined the army so young and lost an
eye, we must let him keep his convlc.
lions, but he Is a big-hearted. brain,
man or he would not have dared 10
have written that tribute. I wonder
how It happened that such men as An.
drews and away back, such men as
Webster and Hawthorne and Emerson
and Story and Choate, could grow I'd
and mature among the noxlous weeds
OF New England. l still recall with
much pleasure a good speech heard
in 1914, at Amherst college, com
mencement Grafton by Rufus Choate.
who was regarded as the most bril-
liant, eloquent and impassIoned orato.
Of America. had a schoolmate there
and my Boston uncle said he would
so with me, for he had to look after
Mr.. Choate, for he was an intimate
friend. l didn't know exactly what
that meant but found out later.
The great hall was crowded with the
best people Of New England. Ny I'm.
Gle was with others seated upon the
platform. Mr. Choate's face was all
nerves and muscles, his large eyes and
mouth conspicuous. For half an hour
his voice was almost a monotone with
every word carefully and distinctly
uttered, but this was but the breathing
Of a gentle wind before the storm.
Soon he seemed to lose control of his
own emotions and scared away among
the stars, and his features took on an
unearthly glow, his arms responded
to every sentence, his frail body sway
ed to and fro and his audience I'M
consciously swayed with him and held
their breath for fear they would lose a
word or a motion.
No, will never forget that speech.
He stopped because he had to stop,
for with the last eloquent sentence he
became exhausted and was bodily lift
ed up by my uncle and others to the
ante room, where he was stripped and
rubbed down like an exhausted race
horse. In an hour or so Ae was re-
newed and revived. This was Rufus
Choate-a bundle of quivering pas.
sionate nerves-whose eloquence no
audience could calmly listen to and no
jury withstand.-BILL ARP, in Allan
ia Constitution.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-02-20

Doctor of Engineering will be the
highest degree granted in the new
graduate school for engineering re-
search to be established by the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology.
German schools confer this degree.
Special research work will be begun at
the institute within a year. Civil,
sanitary, mechanical, electrical and
marine engineering, architecture, min
ing and metallurgy will be included in
the advanced courses.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-02-20
Eranehls Tax law Void.

The appellate division Of the New
York supreme court third department
handed down a decision Tuesday de-
claring the special franchise tax law
unconstitutional.