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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-24
Copyright, 1903, by c. B. Lewts.l

Copyright, 1903 by c. B. Lewis.]
 TY WAS looking out of the front win @ dow when MT. Bowser came home G from the office. expected to see
 him kick the gate open with his usual vim and look around the front yard for lost clothespin to find fault over, but he handled the gate in the gentlest manner and opened the front door as carefully as an old maid.
 To my surprise, as I met him in the hall he kissed me and wanted to know if I was tired, I gave him a sharp look, thinking the heat might have af fected his head, but he appeared to be in his normal condition. As the day had been excessively sul- try I only had a picked up dinner. I expected he would pound on the table and ask if I thought he was some two dollar a week boarder, but he ate heartily and did not utter one com plaint. reE
 The cook burned her hand and broke several dishes with a crash just as din- ner was over, but MT. Bowser didn't take on and declare that he would stop $10 out of her wages and S5 out of my
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-24
Vegetable Chowder.

Chop one can of corn, pare and cut into small dice enough potato to fill two cups. Chop large onion and fry until brown in one-half pound of bacon, cut into very small pieces. Put a layer of potatoes into saucepan, put on this layer of corn and some of the onion and bacon; season with salt and pepper. Repeat the layers. Add two cups of hot milk, one-quarter cup of butter rubbed smooth with the same amount of flour. Cook five min utes. Lay split crackers over the top, cover and the chowder is ready to serve.-Detroit Free Press.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-24

70 cents shook all over, and the cat sneaked into the house. But there was no tragedy. MT. Bowser glanced at the bill and felt for change and paid it and didn't even speak of it. 'e
 Ten minutes later the cook told me that we must have an extra piece of ice to keep things through the night, and | had to ask MT. BOwser for a dime. He handed it out without a word On two OF three previous occa- sions he had charged me with wheeling the refrigerator before the kitchen range in order to melt the ice faster and send him to the poorhouse.
 A hoodlu1n passing on the other side of the street threw potato at us and narrowly missed Mir. Bowser's head. fully expected a. tragedy that would fill columns of the newspapers for days and days, and I believe I lost con- sciousness for a. moment. When I came to Mir. Bowser was simply sauntering around the front yard.
 When the cook returned. from order ing the ice she spoke of MT. Bowser' S strange attitude and asked if I were not alarmed. She said that her hus- band had acted just that way two or three days before he went insane and killed three men and had to be sent to q lunatic asylum. It was her opinion that 1 ought to make great effort tC arouse him. ...
 A few minutes later I hinted to him that 1 was expecting mother down al most any day. As usual thing wher Y hiyNf I, ri Eos hind legs and gets red in the face and claws the air, but on this occasion he replied that she was dear old thing and that he would meet her at the de. pot with a carriage. The cat looked al me and I looked at the cat, but we Wege too amazed for words.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-24
DYsENTERY CURED WITHOUT
 THE AID OF A DOCTOR.

'SI am just up from a hard spell of the Aux" (dysentery), says MT T. A. Primer. well known merchant of Drumnond, Tenn. "1 used one small bottle of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoed Remedy and was cured without having a doctor I consider it the best cholera medicine in the WorId.'' There is no need of employ ing a doctor when this remedy Is used, fer no doctor can prescribe better medicine for bowel complaint in any form, either for children or adults It never fails and is pleasant to take. For sale by all druggists.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-24
LEARN TO DANCE.

Miss NeHye Reeds select school for dancing and department will reopen September 9, 1903, in Knights of Go. lumbus hall. Saturday evening of each week for advanced pupils, beginning Saturday, September 12. Wednesday evening of each week for beginners, beginning Wednesday, September 16. Best of order and attention, If you wish to learn Glide waltz. two- step, schottische, the popular half time and waltz-quadrille, this is. the academy to attend. Positively nA failures.'
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-24
Mrs. BoWSer'S Diary
Her Better Half Becomes Peaceful Suddery to the Alarm of the Household @ Cook Suspects Her Employer Is ln First Stages of Insanity and Leaves the Premises

[ After I had managed to draw long
 breath and shake off my lethargy I oh. served to MT. Bowser that had spent | two hours that afternoon looking over his love letters. This has been sore i point with him for years. Before we
 were married he wrote me two or three of the most gushing letters every day, but any reference to them a year | afterward always started row. On this occasion I mentioned that he had called me his "dear, darling, angel pet'' l thirty-one times in the same letter, but he smiled and patted me on the shoul- der and said that was all of that. At 10 o'clock we entered the house to go to bed There was a caster from one of the chairs lying loose on the floor, and I actually called MT. Bow ser's attention to 1t, hoping he would raise a row On several occasions when such things have caught his no- tfce he has charged me with taking the ax or the crowbar and deliberately smashing up the furniture in order to send him into bankruptcy the sooner. This time he picked the caster up, wound piece of paper round the shank and placed it back in the chair leg. The cat looked at me in mean ing way and crawled under the lounge. Intuition warned her that something must soon break loose.
 While MT. Bowser was wandering , about the sitting room and softly hum ming to himself the cook beckoned me out into the hall She was dressed for the street and had a bundle under her arm. She hated to leave me alone in the house, but she feared for her own safety and would go to her sisters to stay all night. Her poor husband had hummed and walked around in just such way few hours before he went mad and suddenly rushed for. the ax. I tried to quiet her fears, but in vain. The most she would do was to promise to be back at o'clock in the morning, and in case the police had removed MT. Bowser, to an asylum she would get breakfast for me and give me all her sympathy.
 As MT. Bowser stood looking out of the back window for fully five min utes expected he would declare he was going to sleep on the grass that night to try the moon cure, but he finally turned away with a smile and said he thought the weather would be cooler next day asked him if his head ached or he had a pain in the back of his neck or felt chilly, but he assured me that he never felt better in his life.
 It is now II o'clock. MT. Bowser has gone up to bed, and the cat and are looking at each other and wondering about 1t. Mir. Bowser has had thou sand different fads and have written them up, but can't understand this one. Is it the precursor of insanity, or is he only being good9 have been told that now and then every husband does have good" spell and that it never results in a calamity, but cannot re press my anxiety. had rather have BoWser as BoWser.
 Have just telephoned the family doc tor. He says there is no danger and that had better go to bed, but unless MT. Bowser gets out of bed tomorrow
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-24
The Crieve, Bisset & Holland Black
 Taffeta.

We have made arrangements with of the leading silk manufacturers make for Black Tafeta at popular price, which can fully guarantee in every respect
 The quality which sold in most places for 85c yard is bit better good, this which shall run as our 75c guaranteed Taffeta Our the se- wedge every yard you be of getting the genuine and isn't alive say about it. your money will be willingly handed back.
 To Introduce T his Silk we have made an Extra Special for This Week Only of O4C yard.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-24
New Fall Dress Goods.

The first showing of the D:es5 Goods here ready for your examination purchase There snot full line tob sure enough that you'll get the trend of the favorte Weaves for the coming season.
 / The following some of the showing:
 New Mixed Suitings New Tweed effects, New Caneps Hair Metons New Zibenes in solid coors, New Zibenes in dark colors with silver hair effects Zbeines in plaid ef fecs Striped Zibeines and New Broadcots Therel be something for you here in this deparmentfom now on and we'll be only glad show the arrivals as last they're put out
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-24
BARGAINS IN HOUSES.

in any part of the city. Lots on easy terms. convenient to factory; also a fine property in Norwalk city to ex- change for Waterbury real estate. Rents cared for J. B. SANDIFORD,
 Real Estate, Loan and Insurance
 Agent, 1O9 Bank street, Room 4. I
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-24

s:ee-rn1ng to yen around for his necKue, socks and. collar button and to declare that I have hidden them to spite him I shall break windows or something to recall him to himself. M. QUAD.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-24

The Absurd Lower Classes. We've had to dismiss our coach man."
 "For what reasonY' "Oh, he got too ambitious. He want ed to be paid regularly Life.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-24
New to Him

New to Him. X
 Pat - How does yez loike codfish balls? Mike-Faith, an niver tended one, but it's big toimes I've had Sdown at the firemen's shop.-Lippincott's.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-29
Reflections Of a Bachelor.

Every time person loses his temper he
finds a lot of trouble.
It's funny how little right married men
have to the money they earn.
Being a financier is being able to bag
tor yourself somebody elses iinancies.
A girl ought to be careful to dress so as
not to have any pins about her waist
1t is as hard for man to remember an
old love affair as for woman to forget
it.
a woman would laugh at section of
the Constitution if you told it to her as
the latest joke.
A woman always has an idea that if
her husband parted his hair differently
maybe he would have more brains.
A woman can get up as much sorrow
over the death of a relative she never saw
as a man can over the loss of the last
jackpot.
When the average man sets out to
economiZe and saves q nickel he feels so
elated over it that he celebrates it by
spending two dollars and a quarter
New York Press.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-29

party policies to be voted mon ON cleo.
ton day, but unfortunately there is II
tendency among the better classes of
men IN every community to avoid the
primaries. If the best citizens do not
take an active part in the caucuses, it
can be easily seen that when they vote
on election day they are liable to have
to make a choice among evils instead of
choosing the best among several good
sets OF candidates and policies. 1t is a
seif-evldent fact that good municipal,
State and national officers cannot be
elected unless good candidates are pre-
Flously nominated. and the rabble can
no more be trusted to nominate than to
elect good men.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-29
MARKET REPORTS.
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.
Features of the Days Dealings in All
the Leading Stocks.

New York Sept. 2S.-Another days
liquidation in the stock market kept APP
prehcnSion alive and was as much with
out specific explanation as that which
had gone before. There was a consider
able accumulation Of these selling orders
over Sunday and there seemed to be con-
siderable selling out by commission houses
whose notifications to customers for add
tonal margins had been ignored over Sun
day. All the foreign centerS which hold
any appreciable quantity of American Sc
curities also figured in the selling. All
news of a favorable tenor was ignored and
the demand was practically paralyzed
Except for occasional buying by uncov-
cred shorts at periods of pause in the
liquidat ton there was no demand dlStln-
9ulSha BILE All three United States Steel
securities lowered their record prices by
wide margins, the common touching l5
the preferred 594 and the bonds 6r4. The
pressure upon the last named was eSrec-
tally urgent and volumnous, the only at
tempt to explain this selling was by ru
NOR that it came from that part of the
membership of the syndicate underwrit-
ing the stock conversion plan which deslr-
ed to avoid the germs of extension of the
syndicate. The local traction stocks We're
another center of weakness led by Metro
poltan Street Railway. which fell to with
in a shade of par. This weakness was
variously explained as due to liquidation
forced by over-extension in other quar-
ters and by unfavorable internal develop
ments. Part of the selling in this stock
was said to come from Philadelphla,
which also was an enormous seller of
Pennsylvania. The pressure from Penn
sylvania carried it down Az at the last
and was the factor unsettlng the close
Previous to this last slump in Pennsyl
vania there had been quite an effective
all around to the relief felt by the ap-
parent cessation of the urgent liquidation
in the United States Steel issues. Anal
gamated Copper was another stock which
was severely handled and it was suspect
ed that the abandonment of plan for an
upward campaign by pool was the
cause of this selling. The news of the
day was not an influence. A batch of
favorable railroad net earnings for August
was entirely ignored. Money rates hard
ened both on call and on time, but gave
no indica ton of stringency in any case
The closing was active and irregular
Bonds were weak in sympathy with
stocks Total sales, par value. 81, sos, 900.
United States IS declined a per cent. and
the IS and new As ,. per cent. on the last
call.
Before the close the pressure against
the Steel issues relaxed and except where
declines had been violent. prices recovered
to within a fraction of Saturdays low
level. Pennsylvania and Amalgamated
Copper led closing decline which was
checked at some points.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-29

Pennsylvania and New Jersey are two
roads movement, and though the for
mer state proposes to pay two-thirds of
the cost out of the state treasury and
the latter only one-third, New Jersey is
nevertheless getting better roads. while
Pennsylvania is not. The reason is
found in the different sources from
which the appeal for improved roads
comes. In Pennsylvania the request
for road Improvement must come from
the county or township authorities, and
when the roads are completed the
county and township each bear one
sixth of the expense. This looks like
an extremely favorable proposal on the
part of the state which has appropria-
ted sG.5OO,OOO and created Il special
state highway department. But no APP
plications for good roads are coming in.
and it appears now that the law will
prove failure. The difficulty is that
in any township or county only Il few
miles of permanent roads can be built
at best. and SO all taxpayers are includ-
ed in the expense. while only few are
directly benefited, no county or town.
ship officials can be found who have the
courage to suggest a beginning. In
New Jersey, on the other hand. one
tenth of the expense of the improved
roads is put upon the abutting owners.
who may petition for the work. And
although nearly two-thirds of the cost
falls on the county and township there
has been no opposition to good roads
asked for by property owners who were
willing to~Nbear one-tenth of the
expense. The experience of the two
states shows that the initiative in the
good roads work should not be left with
officials of any kind, but with property
owners who are willing to be at some
expense to secure good roads.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-29

The growth of Catholicism in New
England is made prominent by the eel
ebration in Boston, Sunday. of the cen
tennial of the first church of that de-
nomination in New England. The Pill
grims and their children had been
spreading over New England for 1873
years before there We're enough Catho-
lies here to organize Il single church,
and for that first church edifice on
Franklin street, Boston. Protestants
contributed largely.-and now there
are almost 100000 Catholics in New
England, with 1000 priests and with
churches. schools, hospitals and asy-
lums in every section. 1t is the re-
markable development characteristic of
American institutions, and is a centen-
airy significant to all our people, re-
gardlesS of creed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-29
The Shipment of Appies.

Fruit growers in New England have
done we'll with their apples, so far as
the crop is concerned. When it comes
to their profits, that will be a different
matter. When barrels were cheap, it
was possible to sell apples in barrels
and still make money; but now the
barrels cost is a good part of what the
average shipment sells for. Long ago
peaches We're sold by the box or crate.
Why would it not be a good idea to sell
apples i'll the same way? The cost of
crates is not much. Besides many n
man would buy a box of apples who
cannot spare the money to buy a bar
refull at a time.-Boston Advertiser.
The suggestion of the Advertiser will
appeal to many farmers in this section
where the problem of barrels for their
apples is one of serious proportions.
The orchardists have secured the cities
for flour barrels, paying as high as -
and 80 cents for them in many cases, a
figure that cuts in heavily on the profits
on barrel of fruit. But not at any
price can enough flour barrels be OBJ
tanned, and the numerous establish
ments for the making of barrels which
have sprung up are crowded with or
ders many weeks ahead. Some farmers
in this county have had their fall fruit
spoil on their hands because barrels to
ship it in could not be procured.
But it is not certain that the use of
crates would wholly relieve such a
situation as exists, this fall. 1t might
be as difficult to get crates and boxes.
or the material to make them. as it now
is to get barrels. and then there would
be the difficulties of measurement if
they We're sold that way. Moreover, q
large part of Names winter apples are
shipped to England, and open crates
would hardly be practical. Closed
crates or boxes would serve the pur-
pose, but they would be harder tc
handle than barrels. The barrel is the
ideal method of shipping apples. anc it
is a great pity that our farmers should
suffer the inconvenience and loss which
Il shortage of barrels involves.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-29

Who wants to buy a university? The
University of New Mexico is offered Tor
sale to satisfy bill of $4,000 held
against it. Unless the institution
is much superior to many of those
in the West which call themselves
universities while doing work much in
ferior to that of New England
academy, the man who buys 1t
at the price of the claim will be badly
stuck. The offer of it's chief educa-
tional institution for sale isn't particu-
larly helpful to the statehood prospects
of New Mexico.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-29

The temperance people, the liquor
dealers and the citizens of Maine gem
orally are recognizing the fact that
Kennebec county is leading in the rigid
enforcement of the prohibitory law.
There are now 10 persistent offenders
in the Augusta Jail serving the sem
fences which Judge Hall has imposed
Only one is for less than 60
days and all have fines in addition to
the term in Jail. There has been no
favor shown, and no discrimination of
any kind. Every dealer remaining in
business after the general warning of
last December. and against whom any
evidence could be secured. has been
given term in Jail in addition to his
fine. The law is being given it's fairest
and most complete test in this county.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-29
The Hot Weather Test

Makes people better acquainted with
their resources of strength and endur-
ance.
Many find that they are not so well
off as they thought and that they are
easily enervated and depressed by the
heat.
Wha- they need is the tonic effect
of Hoods saparilla which strength
ems the blood, promotes refreshing
sleep, overcomes that tired feeling,
creates appetite.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-29
Prohibition Sentiment in Europe.

1t has been common for those opposed
to any interference with the liquor
traffic to refer to European countries,
except Great Britain, as giving proof to
their arguments that the drinking
habit. if let alone, begets moderation
and safety. 1t may surprise these peo-
ple. therefore, to learn that even in Ger
MANY. where they drink more beer than
water, and in the Latin countries where
wine is used as commonly as air, the
government and the higher classes of
society are actively at work on tenn
perance crusades which aim at nothing
less than absolute tetotalism.
\ European correspondent tells of a
pamphlet which the imperial health
office in Berlin has just issued 1t deals
with the use of alcoholic drinks in Ger
many and expresses alarm for the
health of the empire. The liquor habit
last year cost that nation $625, 900, OCO or
s35 for every inhabitant over Is years
of age. The impairment of bodily and
mental vigor and working ability of the
people, directly traceable to the use of
liquor, is distressingly noticeable, and
so the government health office has in
dorsed total abstinence. A prohibition
bill has been proposed. One feature for
bids the extension of credit by saloon
keepers to their customers; another re-
quires soft drinks and cold foods to be
sold ut all saloons. This legislation ac-
cording to American standards is crude
but it shows that in that nation which
is longest habituated to beer drinking
its evils are most pronounced and
feared.
The French government has awak-
ened TO the realization that the use of
liquors is one of the greatest curses Of
France. TWo-thrds of the inmates of
the insane asylum and large percent
age of the patients in the hospitals in
that nation are the victims of absinthe
anu olHGl populdl vi HihS' hDs'tiiCii't
through moral suasion and restriction
of the liquor traffic by creating q state
monopoly of alcohol are the remedies
suggested to avert the danger which
threatens to sink that nation into a
state of degeneracy
These two countries have been the
most advanced in Europe in the reform
movement, which seem to be becoming
continental in it's scope. Switzerland
arrests everybody showing the slight
est evidence of intoxication, and each
canton in that little government APP
propriates 10 per cent. of the liquor
revenues to agencies employed in COM
batting the drink evil. In Belgium the
tax on spirits has been increased. In
Holland q league has been formed to
fight the use of spirits. Austria is con-
sidering Il law to send drunkards. after
ten convictions, to the reformatory,
Willie Norway already has such a law
in force The sentiment is now pretty
well formed throughout the civilized
world that the use of Intoxicating
drinks is practice which legally and
officially can and should be placed I'M
der governmental control or restraint.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-29

1t is brought out at the irrigation
congress now in session at Ogden, Utah,
that there now remain about 100000
600 acres of vacant public land in the
arid and semi-arid zone. Probably un-
der the storage system there is sufii-
cient water available to irriSate one
sixteenth of it. The area already oc-
cupied irrigated is 100000 acres. Ac-
cording to a conservative estimate, the
government could provide reservoirs
within the next so years sufficient to
reclaim 2O,O00,0OO acres at an annual
expense of 100000 This irrigation
movement means as much to the great