Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-29
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Some Stray Leaves From Reporters
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 The postoffice department has issued a fraud order against H. o. Franks, who rented postottice box at Bay 0nne. N. J., to receive mail for mat rimonial bureau. Franks scheme was to send out circular letters stating that he was a widow with $67, ,0OO who de, sired to get married. If the man who got her letter cared to meet her he was told to send half her travelling ex- penses. The postmaster at Omaha, Neb, forwarded copies of FNranks's let ters to Inspector Mayer of the New S York postoffice, which resulted in the Issuance of the fraud order.
 James Whitcomb Riley was fond of telling the following story: "A certain young mother was striving to bring up her small son in proper Christian manner. His day ended with the usual short prayer at his mothers knee before going to bed. One night she was called away, and returned to ina him siuggled under the warm blan' kets. Did you say your prayers, dearp she inquired. Nope was the answer. Are you not going to say themT T didn't say 'em last night. nor tonight said the small heathen cheerfully, 'an', then, if nothin' hap pens tomorrow night, won't say 'em any more at all
 If you are a breakfast food fiend the following may be of interest to you Recently about fifty of the most wide ly advertised breakfast foods have been tested for food value by Prof Boyd W. Robinson of the Michigan state agricultural experiment station, with the following conclusions: l. The breakfast foods are legitimate and valu- ble foods. 2. Predigestion has been carried on in the majority of them to limited degree only. 8. The price for which they are sold is as rule excessive and not in keeping with their nutritive values. 4. They contain as rule considerable fiber, which, while probably rendering them less digesti- ble, at the same time may render them more wholesome to the average per son. s. The claims made for many of them are not warranted by the facts. g. The claim that they are far more nutritious than the wheat and grains from which they are made is not sub stantiated. z. They are pa1atable as a rule and pleasing to the eye. 8. The digestibllity of these products, as com pared with highly milled foods, while probably favorable to the latter, does not give due credit to the former, be- cause of the healthful influence of the fiber and mineral matter in the break fast foods.
 The hearing before the aldermen last night did not please some of the city officials and the dissatisfied parties blame the Democrat for such OppoSl- tion as developed to the bond issue. One of them said to-day that carloads of the paper containing an article showing the evil of such legislation were distributed about town free yes { terday, the fellows having the work in hand performing their mission so we'll that they stopped to hand them out among city employees on Crown street. There must have been some mistake about this. Nothing was said in the Democrat as to whether the bond ought or ought not be asked for, and no free papers were sent out from the office the press register showing that only the usual edition was run off To be sure, good deal was said with rs.fer; nee to municipal affairs durinH the past few weeks and an, eff fort was made to get up a good meet ing but the paper understood that that was exactly what the city fathers wanted Tn one sense, perhaps, the gentleman was right. The paper was very muCQ HI SVIu0uCC HI dli HCCUlOiS of the city last night, but not any more so than usual, and probably the reason / for the excitement it stirred up was due to the fact that some folks didn't care to have the thing made town talk. But the paper understood that the city fathers wanted good meet ing and it tried to help them out, with very satisfactory results, it would seem. Anyway, the Democrat appears to be everywhere, and the manage ment does not have to send it out free. Citizens in all walks of life buy 1t and consider it a good investment. It did nothing on this matter beyond telling the people what was under considera- tion and advised taxpayers who want ed to be heard in the premises when and where the hearing would be held, and if it failed to do this 1t would have neglected to perform an important fea- ture of the legitimate work of a news paper that claims to keep the public posted on what is going on in Water bury as well as in other parts of the world.