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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-05
WHERE WOMEN PROPOSE.

Ill one part of "all the Russias,' the province of Ukraine, it is always leap year as far as the female privilege of proposing is concerned. 1t is said to be customary there, when young wo- man falls in love with man, for her to go to his fathers house, and in the most tender and pathetic manner plead with the young man to take her as hls wife. She promises the most sulAp.is- siye obedience to his will if he will but accept her. If the young man says T beg that you will excuse me from this" she tells him that she is resolved not to depart until lie shall promise tc take her for better or worse. She ac- cordingly takes up her abode there and remains until he is wooed and won, ol until lie ends the siege by fleeing to parts unknown.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-05
CARING FOR WOUNDED
HOSPITAL ARRANGEMENTS OF
 RUSSIANS AND JAPANESE.
Both Are Striving to Alleviate the Suf- ferings of the Soldiers at the Front-Lnterest of
 Royalty.

Even those who most lament "the good old times are bound to admit that as regards sanitary science and especially all that concerns surgery and the ambulance service generally, an amazing change for the better has taken place even during the last 90 years.
 Thanks in measure to the adn1ira- bly, organized international Red Cross societies, both the Japanese and Rus sian wounded may look to be splendid ly cared for, and the fortunate Japs will have the highly trained aid of a large contingent of American nurses and doctors; while Admiral Sir $. Cy- brian Bridges has offered the use of the British naval hospital at YolSo- hama to the Japanese minister of na- rine.
 The Japanese people are showing ex- traordinary interest in this humane side of war. Enormous sums are being freely subscribed to the various ambu- lance funds, and the Empress of the Spring" is busying herself with the preparations which are still being ac- lively carried forward in connection with the base hospitals. Her Japanese majesty, Harru Ko, long before there was any thought of war, used to visit regularly the Women and Children's hospital in Tokio, and from time to time the other houses of healing.
 Japanese doctors are noted for their skill in surgery, and many of those who are now at the front studied in the great American medical schools, as we'll as in Paris and Berlin It is a curious and rather deplorable fact that of the two great French Red Cross so. cieties, both admirably equipped with every kind of ambulance requisite, only one has consented to distribute its fa- vors impartially between the Russians and the Japs; the other will place it.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-05

Nothing is wanting to make the Japanese army a dangerous fighting machine, says an exchange. It has been charged that these soldiers are exceptionally cruel, because of the aw- ful massacre at Port Arthur during the Chinese war. This may prove to be true, but the apologists for that mas sacre excuse it by saying that when the Japanese entered the town and were met by the sight Of hundreds of their countrymen, done to death by ey- cry revolting method of torture which Chinese ingenuity could devise, they broke all bounds In the fury of their revenge. It is just such terrible incl dents that make war what General Sherman said it was.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-05
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1904.

Politics is queer business surely, and it do make strange bedfellows. Here are the Hearst fellows claiming our own Senator Kennedy as one of their very own and also talk of mak- ing him the chairman of the conven- tton. It is only few weeks ago that the senator was outspoken for Parker, if we are not mistaken, and unless all signs fail, or unless Editor Troup has hypnotized him he will be looking af- ter Parker's interests in Hartford to- night and tomorrow.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-05
A TURKISH BOOKSELLER.

A writer who spent much of his early life i'll Turkey observed that Turkish books and booksellers were among the curious features of .44e country. @Ihe Turkish bookseller" he said, .'has Il soul above trade. He rarely or never attempts to push his wares, and treas ures some of his more valuable books so greatly that lie can hardly be in duced to sell them, although they form part of his stock in trade. Many of the books displayed by the bookseller are in manuscript, which the old-fash- toned Turks esteem more highly than print The Koran he may not sell. lie gives it away--iH return for q present of it's value in money. .'--London Globe.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-05
LITTLE ONE ANXIOUS TO KNOW.

Mrs Leslie NJ. Shaw, with her daugh- ters, Miss Erma and Miss Enid, visited San Francisco last month, and many social functions were given there in honor of the secretary Of the treasury's s family
 At | tea one afternoon Mrs Shaw, smiling toward her daughters. safd:.
 When Enid was 4 or years old she used to repeat at night the little prayer Now 1 lay me
 T suppose that millions of children have said: Now lay me millions of times, but I doubt if the simple and charming words of the prayer ever suggested question So unusual as they did to Enid.
 ''She one night repeated the prayer reverently and then asked me, with a puzzled frown:
 Mother, if I should die before I wake. how would I know I was dead?' New Orleans States.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-05
WHITE STAR LINER
 SAILS WITH '. B LSFfAY.

New York, May 4.-The White Star line steamship Oceanic sailed for Liver pool today with large number ot passengers, among them J. Bruce IS may, the new head of the International Mercantile Marine Go. MT lsmay sald that he expected to remain in England until the last part of August. Among the theatrical people on the Oceanic were Ted Marks, MT and Mrs Gordon Lennox Marie TempesD, who has been appearing here in "The Marriage of Kitty, Mir and Mrs Walter de Frece the latter known on the stage as Vesta Tilly, and James sullivan who has just closed in "A Red Feath- CT"
 His grace the Duke of Sutherland, who came over two months ago to ln- spect the Canadian Pacific railroad, Ill which he is interested. also sailed.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-05
With its white labor being graduall

With dts white labor being gradually
 drained from the farms to the factory
 centers and an increasing proportion
 of dts colored population migrating to the cities, the south finds itself con fronted with scarcity of farm workers,
 says an exchange. South Carolina has undertaken to meet this very apparent want by creating state department of agriculture, commerce and immi- grafton. Its first commissioner is about to visit Denmark, Norway, Swe- den and Germany in the hope of at tracting class of desirable emigrants from these centers to fill the places of the whites who have been induced to exchange farm work for employment in the cotton mills and other manufac- tories of the south. The marvellous natural resources of the south.are still in great measure undeveloped. Capi- tai and intelligent labor are needed for their development. The north has both to spare, and if more cordial re Iations were cultivated and main tained. both sections would greatly profit. Public spirited leaders in the development Of southern industrial re sources should not need to go faI
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-05
USED BY JAPANESE CENSOR.

Inclosed in a peculiar double enve- and realism. It introduces quaint and received in Louisville from Miss Fred erica Straeffer, who is doing mission ary work in Korea, bears the marks of the Japanese press censor, and shows how carefully the Japanese are protecting their information and throwing every safeguard around the inside facts which might tend to as- sist the Russians.
 1t is really two envelopes skillfully fastened into one, both sealed, so that it is hard to get into it. The inner en- velope is made of rice paper, and on this account cannot be written on with ink. The outer envelope is of a diff ferent grade paper, thicker and stiffer, and on this is the address. All Miss Straeffer's letters pass through the hands of the censor and are read care fully before they are allowed to be sent.
 The Louisville missionary is near Seoul, and her letters are sent through that city. They are received by the censor, are opened and read. and then sealed again in the envelopes of the Japanese government. If there is nothing i'll the letter to which tho Japanese could object, it is marked by the censor with number Of letters which mean nothing to the American, but which show the postal authorities of Korea that the letter has been off. cially passed by the censor. After this preliminary it Is allowed to come on it's way across the water. arriving about two months after it was posted. Miss Straeffer writes that for sew eral months just before the war be | n. did not receive any letters, even from her relatives at home. She then made complaint to the American minister, who took if up with the representative of the Japanese government, and in a few days q boat landed at her station and large bundle of letters was brought to her. All of them had been read by the censor--LouisvilIe Cour. ier-Journal.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-05
TOOK ADVANTAGE.

A good story is told of a domestic in an east end family. who had been a long time in her situation, and who 'seaye notice because she was going to be married The girl who was en- gagged to take her place sent word 10 her mistress-to-be that she would not be able to begin her duties for at least a fortnight after the date on which her predecessor was to be married. The maid was asked by her mistress whether she would agree to. postpone the date of the wedding, but she de clined to do so, bearing in mind the old adage, "Chd4ge the date, change the fate" She said. however, that she didn't mind getting married and coming back for a time. until the oth- CT girl could assume her duties, and this was finally agreed upon, as the youno, man offered no objection. Half an hour after the ceremony the girl was performing her customary duties, and her mistress said to her, smiling:
 And I suppose your husband has gone back to his work, too, Mdtilda?'
 "Oh no, indeed, ma'am," replied the girl He bane gone on his honey moon Duluth News Tribune.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-05
RUSSIAN AMBULANCE AT WORK IN

self only at the disposal of Frances great ally.
 The prime mover in all Russia's am bulance work and Red Cross societies is the Grand Duchess Vladimir, who at her own expense is organizing and equipping hospital train. Her inn perial highness is an excellent organ izer, and the state rooms of her palace are now daily filled with members of Russian society, who work hard from one D. m. till Il o'clock. There, in these splendid apartments, where little more than a year ago the wedding re- ception of the only daughter of the house took place. the making of gar ments, the repairing of lint, and the writing and answering of letters to vol- unteer nurses, go on at huge wooden tables, set up on trestles placed be- tween the great pillars and the long windows, which are a feature of many of the rooms of the Vladimir palace.
 Thanks perhaps to their terrible ex- perience in the Russo-Turkish war the Russian military authorities are in this one matter of the ambulance work ready for emergencies, and that this is so is also owing to the Grand Duchess Constantine.
 The whole ambulance service is un- der q man who is known as President of the Central Medical Military Staff" There is also an Inspector of Hos pitals" when campaign is actually in progress. He has vast powers for un- der him are all the surgeon majors and regimental doctors. Each of these, when On active service. disposes of g assistants, who are at the present mo- ment being drawn from the medical students at the Kieff university, 12S bearers, as many nurses as he asks for, one medicine chest for each battalion, and four ambulance carriages. Every military train carries some 2,000 dress ings, and each Moujik has a small quantity of wadding antiseptic gauze and bandages in his knapsack.
 Tn addition the Russian army will have the invaluable assistance afforded by the French Red Cross society, which provides both the Russian and the Jap anese with two field hospitals. each containing 50 beds: and that of Les Danes de France.
 The amateur nurse is held in high honor at St. Petersburg Many women of rank have started for the front, and the czar's youngest sister, the Grand Duchess Olga, is said to be going at once
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-05
THE GIFT or GRoWLING.

'.Yes. sir said tue ancient philoso- pher, T have come to the conclusion that growlin' is q gift an necessity with some folks. who jest can't git along without it. Why.I knowed q man who had the rheumatism seven years or better. an when it left him he jest didn't know what to do with him self He sot rolln' an moped ali day, like he'd lost the last friend he dad in the world; an one day. when he Wu2 growlin' nore'n usual, somebody said
 Ole man. what air you a-stormin Ioun' so ferg
 :. '..Consarn it" he says, Eve done lost my crutehes an my rheumatism. 'r- atlanta Constitution.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-05
HOW PROPHECY PAYS.

Somebody is going to make money out of the palmistry business, and why shouldn't be that person?" said the Egyptian sorceress who came from Alaska, and who supported her sick husband and her poor children by the proceeds of her Coney Island stand. '1 said to myself, T'll go into this as serious business, and I'll go into it the right sort of way. I'll be the executive and I'll hire experienced people to do the rest started with only three hundred dollars, and I've got five thousand dollars worth of fit tings alone now. don't know any, thing else that I'd have been able to get along so we'll at. Pm able to pay my people good wages, too. which couldn't have done if I'd taken up dressmaking or anything else I'd have to employ girls in. start them in at eight dollars a week and I raise them as high as fifteen dollars when they prove to be quick and clever at read ing character. .'-Leslie's Monthly.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-05


 The men interested in the present labor trouble in Waterbury, both bosses and workmen, should remember the old adage about stitch in time saving nine. Don't, for pity's sake, let this af- fair grow until it leads to riot and bloodshed, or to the calling out of state troops. Get after it at once and make some sort of settlement. Delays are dangerous, and every day that the present condition of affairs is allowed to exist but adds to the fuel that will keep the fire burning. Settle it up at once, gentlemen, today, now The people of Waterbury are heartily sick Of strikes and labor troubles, and after the experience of the past few years no one can blame them The present strike is bound to suffer in consequence of what happened during the last strike, no matter how just the cause of the workers. This thing, should have been stayed off for another year or longer if 1t were possible to do it. The wise heads of the union, the prop erty owners, should have insisted on holding the radical fellows in check, for there are always q few that are hot headed and more impulsive than their fellow men and very often the more conservative ones follow the lead of those men without fully realizing the consequences. Get together, gen tlemen, we say, and let this turmoil cease, and let business go on interrupt ed.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-05
THE 4ooTH PART or. X SECOND.

You know how short one second is. Can you realize how short the 400th part Of it is? At any rate, it is long enough for good camera to catch some remarkable photographs of base balls flying through the air These photo graphs are reproduced i'll next Sun days New York World, There are also the best night photographs ever taken of the St Louis Worlds fair. There $ a page about the Paris styles for l9Oo that every woman will read with inter- est. There are a dozen other equally striking features ill next Sundays New York World.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-05
Worth Good Pay Anywhere.

Tn a divorce petition at lola the hus- band sets up that he had to pay his wife regular wages in order to get her to ''cook and wash the dishes" And there isn't wife in Kansas who will not cheerfully agree to the proposition that 1t is worth wages to cook and wash dishes, particularly if the dishes are tough and hard to ook.--Kansas City Journal.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-05

from home to secure an enlarged white population If they will turn their eyes in the right direction and assure north ern settlers of warm welcome and the unrestricted right to the enjoy ment of their own convictions on southern soil.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-05
Removing scorch Marks.

To remove scorch marks bake an onion, then squeeze out the juice and mix it with an ounce o6 fuller's earth wineglass of vinegar and a small quan- tity of shredded soap. Heat together till the soap has melted, leave till cold and then apply to the Scorched linen. Let 1t dry on and then wash in the usual way.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-05
LULLABY OF A HIMALAYA BABY.

Tn certain parts of the Hirnalaya mountains the native women have a singular way of putting their children to sleep in the middle of the day. The child is put near a stream of water, and by means of palm leaf or a tin scoop the water is defiected so as to run over the back of the child's head, The water pouring on the child's head apparently sends 1t to sleep and keeps it so, while the mother proceeds with her work in the fields. No one seems ever to fear that baby may be drowned. Chicago Journal.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-05
MEMORIAL DAY

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 CHARLES A JACKSON & CO.,,
 Manufacturers and Importers.
 27O-274 Bank Street.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-05

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Arizona republican., 1904-08-12

spaulding to the plaintiff J. NJ. Rountree the sum of twenty one hun dred and thirty-three and O3-1O0 dol lars S2133.03) with interest thereon from said 21st day of April. 1904. qt the rate of six per cent per annum. that it was further ordered. adjudged and decreed by the said court that fer the payment of eleven hundred ani eighty-eight and 13-1OO dollars ($11SS.13) of the said indebtedness so adjudged to be due said plaintiff the real estate hereinafter first described or so much thereof as may be necessary therefor. be sold al public auction by the sheriff of said county in the man. ner prescribed by law for the sale of real estate on execution; and that it was further ordered. adtudged and de- creed by said court that for th.. nav ment of nine hundred and fOrty-four and SS-100 dollars (s944sS) Of said indebtedness so adjudged to be due said plaintiff. the real estate lastly hereinafter described or so much thereof as may be necessary therefor. be sold at public auction by the she-- fir of said county in the manner pre- scribed by law for the sale Of real estate on execution.
 Now therefore, in pursuance Of sail execution and order and decree of sale and by virtue thereof. and in accord ance with law, notice is hereby given that I, William W. Cook. sheriff Of Maricopa County. Arizona. will on the 22nd day of August. 1904. at the hour of 10 o'clock a. m. at the Court Housa door of said Maricopa County. sell st | public auction to the highest bidder | therefor those two certain tracts o- 1 parcels of land described as follows that is to say:
 lst. The west half of the east half of the southwestquarter of the south- west quarter of section ten. ToxnshIp one, North of Range Five East Of Gina and Salt River Base and Meridian In Marieopa county, Arizona, or so rnucb thereof as may be necessary 10 raise | the said sum of eleven hundred and eighty-eight dollars and 13-IOO (slrSS.- l lS) due to said plaintiff from said de- fendant, and interest thereon from the Fist day of April. 1904. at the rat,. or six per cent per annum. and all costs and also
 End. The east half of the east hal, or the southwest quarter of the sorth . west quarter and the west half Of the southeast quarter of the southwes. quarter of Section Ten. in Township one North of Range Five east Of The Giia and Salt River Base and Meridian m Maricopa county. Arizona Territory or so much thereof as may be neces- sary to raise said sum Of nine hundre and forty four dollars and Ss-1ol 'Ss44sD due to said plaintiff iron, said defendant and interest thereon rom the 21st day of April. 1904. ar th D rate of six per cent per annum. and aU costs, said costs being so far as taxe S29.40 and all accruing costs.
 Dated at Phoenix. Arizona. this Is, day of August 1904.
 WILLIAM W. COOK
 Sherin of Maricopa Co. Ark.
 First publication, Aug. l. 1904.
Arizona republican., 1904-08-12

vanced standing in the normal classes should file with us such grades credentials as they have secured a. other educational institutions. and should make arrangements to enter classes at the beginning of the school year.
 All of the railroad companies of th4 territory grant our students half fare in travelling over their lines between nome and school, but in order 10 secure the rate, application should be made to the principal at least ten days In advance, stating students name and the starting point on the railroad.
 The catalogue for the year 1904 D contains detailed information on all matters relating to the school Ind will be forwarded upon application to all who are interested in the normal
 Address all communications relaj- ing 10 entrance to normal dormitory reservation, railroad rates, catalogues etc, to A. J. Matthews. principal of the normal, Tempe. Arizona.
Arizona republican., 1904-08-12
TEMPE NORMAL SCHOOL.

The next term of the Tempe normal school will begin Monday. September 5th. and the present indications are that the attendance will greatly ex- ceed that of ony previous year.
 The dormitories have been eminent " satisfactory and everything possible has been done to make them comfort able and convenient homes for the students. In them good board and furnished rooms can be obtained for $500 per month. This includes cleo tric light, furnace heat, running water in rooms. oath. etc. The doTm!tOry also furnishes all necessary bedding towels. table linen, etc. Students desiring dorn.itory accommodations should make application at an early date as such provisions are limited to ninety students.
 Pupils are adm tied from tho seventh and eighth grades to the sub nOrn.4I classes. Applicants for ad-
Arizona republican., 1904-08-12
TEMPE
A HEAT VICTIM.

Yesterday about S:S0 D. m. pr. Moeur was summoned to Charles Bauer and his the, mome-er was at once applied and q temperature of over ll0 degrees was indicated. l. is hard to tell just how hot he was. Ice was ap- piled at once and three men were kept busy with ice and water trying to keep his temperature down.
 The condition of Mir. Bauer Is criti- cal in the extreme. MT. Bauer had done his baking for the forenoon aud in the afternoon tried to get some rest and at the same time tried to keep cool but he could not and matters went on from bad to worse until the doctor was called. He was unconscious at the time the doctor was called.
 Later he was placed in a large bath tub and ice and ice cold water were ap- piled more easily.