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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-10
CITY NEWS

Toantick tribe, I. O. R. M. will en- joy q clambake in shady nook on the Pearl lakes road tomorrow after noon.
 There may come a time to you when things bought will go wrong, then the make good'' plan of Upson, Singleton & Go will fit the case exactly.
 Mrs Courtney. of Sperry street fell down stairs at her home yesterday, breaking the forearm above the wrist. Dr Callaghan reduced the fracture
 Contractor McManus has secured the contract for constructing section of road in Hop swamp for I. H. Whittemore of Naugatuck. Operations will be commenced Monday and the job will last until the SHOWS flies.
 Orthodox Jews observed the Hebrew New Year to-day at the Auditorium, where three or four services were held in charge of Rabbi Bernstein. Re- formed Hebrews met in K. of F. hall, where the Rev Dr Veldt of New York conducted service. The attendance at both places was large.
 An automobile owned by man named Stevens, of Naugatuck, and a trolley car came together on South Main street near the Auditorium about 12:15 today. The front axle of the automobile was broken and an express wagon had to be called to take the auto to Naugatuck.
 Thomas M Martone, real estate agent, has sold for MT and Mrs Da- larue their four-family and two- store block at POS, 21O and PIP North Main street to Bernard and Margaret McNellis. MT Martone has also sold for MT and Mrs McNellis their two family house on Kingsbury street to Carmane and Rose Carlo.
 A package of newspapers was re- ceived at the Democrat office to-day from some thoughtful friend of the paper in the old world The office clerk says he recognizes the hand writing as that of Peter F. Coughlan of this city, who, with his son, is spending vacation in Ireland and England. The papers were mailed August 30 and contain a lot of valuable information on current topics in Flu rope. There are also a few cuts of Iioayang and other scenes of the great conflict between Japan and Russia.
 Mrs Keough, 194 Baldwin street, Specials for this evening and Monday: Children's canton flannel night draw. CTS, were 29c, sale price 22c; canton flannel night drawers with feet, in ex- tra heavy, r45e; Yehil ildFen's white aprons, two for 25c; misses domet flannel night gowns, were soc, sale price 39c; ladies' domet flannel night gowns, 49c; ladies' black mercerized skirts, from 98c up to $2.98; one lot ladies' house dresses, very pretty coIors, were SIPS, sale price 75c; ladies' shoes, were $2.25, sale price $1.95; misses shoes, were SIPS, sale price 98c; boys never rip shoes, $1.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-10
PARLIAMENTARY UNION.
We1egates From Many Countries For
 St. Louis Peace Conference.

Welegates From Many Countries For
 St. Louis Peace Conference.
 SIT. LOUIS, Sept 1O.-The Interpar- hamentary union, composed of 22d delegates from America, Austria, Bel. gium, Denmark, England, France, Ger many, Hungary, Italy, the Neither lands, Norway, Portugal, Roumania, Sweden and Switzerland, has arrived here on two special trains and on Mon day will open their twelfth annual ses- sion at the fair grounds. This body is composed of the members of the diff. erent national legislatures.
 The organization was perfected at Paris in 1888, having grown out of the conference of ten English and thirty French parliamentarians who had as- eembled to discuss the execution of an arbitration treaty between England and France. With the exception of one year annual sessions have since been held, including the meeting in Paris in 1900 and the peace conference at The Hague.
 At this session questions which were discussed at The Hague congress will be taken up probably for final decision, and the St. Louis session promises to be the most importanC assemEASge ever held.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-10
NOT FOR TAnn ANY.
Property Bought at Litch field for
 Country Club Has Been Sold.

Ldtchfield, Sept 1O.-It is understood that the hotel property at Ldtchfield Springs which was being developed by a corporation composed of New York men, and which in the spring was her aided as a prospective country club for Tammany Hall, has been sold. The company was capitalized for million dollars and had quarter of a million dollars in bonds outstanding. Legal difficulties were encountered early in the summer and it is understood that a very large number of suits were brought against the company, many of which were settled by compromise outside of court. The prospectus ot the company indicated that the object was to make the property summer watering place in the Litchfield hills.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-10
Bold Robber. Got s14.ooo.

P0MEROY, O., Sept. 10.--Two mask ed men entered the county treasurer's s office at half past 5 oriocn in the morning, and while one held revolver in the face of Treasurer Chase the other robbed the safe of all the money in sight, amounting to about $14OO0. The robbers then locked the treasurer in the vault, where his cries could not be heard, and disappeared, leaving no clew behind. They sprinkled the floor with pepper to disconcert the blood hounds, which they evidently feared.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-10
TIMELY TOPICS

Read over the list of sheet music that goes at 15c tonight at Currans, also other specials on third floor.
 The City Lumber X Coal Go say if you buy their coal once you will come again.
 Talcum powder at 1Oc jar at Reid & Hughes tonight. Stamped pillow tops 1Oc.
 Agate paint at $130 gallon at Austin X Woodruff's.
 You will nead rain coat for this changeable weather. Sec lings x Sons line.
 This is the seventh year of busi- ness success of the Hampson-Sellew Furniture Go.
 United Gas Improvement Go tells you how to roast meat in their gas ranges. #>@5
 If your clothing comes fronf Jones, Morgan x Go you will be stylish and up to date. .n.
 Monday will be a good day to be- gin studies at Waterbury Business college.
 Special display of millinery at Chase's for the coming week will be Feady-to-wear hats.
 There are several styles of $2 hats, but Upson, Singleton & Go say theirs are the ones.
 Mems $1.50 union suits go at 59c a suit tonight at Grieve, Bisset & Hol- lands. Not every size.
 D. J. Finn's footwear goes by the old name, "Shoes," but they are the right wearing kind.
 Finnegan-Ph Phillips have fine line of boys and children's clothing. See window.
 Look over the list of D. l.. Dickin- sons ad tonight, for low prices and variety in stock feed.
 Fancy waisting silk for 49c yard at Miller & Peck's. Note paper 7c a box.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-10
Electrle storm. at Port Jervl..

PORT JERVlS, N. T., Sept. 1O.-The most terrific electric storm of the sea- son has passed vvor 1san. pvvTion and
 was accompanied by hail. Lightning struck in many places. At Hardwood, Sullivan county, Miss Mccormick was ironing clothes, and the lightning struck the iron and followed her arm. Her mother was also struck, and both are in critical condition. The resi- dence was set on fire, but Mrs. Me Cormick's son extinguished the flames.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-10
senator FaIrbanI. campaIsning.

NEW YORK, Sept. 10.-Senator Fair banks, vice presidential candidate on the Republican ticket, will visit Presi- dent Roosevelt on Monday and spend the night at Sagamore Hill. The sena- tor speaks in Jersey City this evening. He will not speak again until Wednes- day evening at Saratoga After that he will campaign in West Virginia Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania and will then go to the Pacific coast Senator Fairbanks was at the Manhat tan hotel and saw Senator Scott and otheE national leaders.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-10
COTTAGE BURNED
 AT BANTAM LAKE

Litchfeld, Sept. 1o.-The fine sum- mer cottage of John Brooks of Tor rington, on the shore of Bantam lake, was burned eearly today, the family having narrow escape from injury In leaving the house. The fire ap- parently started near the chimney. The cottage was built in the spring. Its value was about $2,000.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-10
Russian Derertsxs at oedensbura.

OGDENSBURG. \. Y, Sept. 1o.-- Three Russian army deserters arrived here without funds or passports and were sent back to Canada. Several others who entered here and who are now working as farm hands came well supplied with morey. One Russian who is still wearing part of his army uniform, said that he deserted with an entire outpost of fifty mey
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-10
Croker Buy. Irish Home.

LONDON, Sept 1o.-Mr. Richard Croker has bought Glencairn Stillor- gan, County Dublin, formerly the resi- dence of Judge Murphy. A marble staircase, magnificent suits, reception rooms and baronial oak paneled hall are to be added. The work is to be in trusted to Mir. Fuller of Dublin, the architect who carried out the altera- tions at Kylemore castle.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-10
Darkness From solar Eclipse.

GUAYAQUII, Ecuador, Sept. 1o.- Guayaqrlil was almost in complete darkness from to o'clock yesterday afternoon on account of solar eclipse which was preceded by a slig earth quate shock. At a few minutes before 5 the sun rnar'eearnd
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-10
Saved by n Pretty Woman,

NEW YORK, Sept. 10.-Gerard Fitz. gerald, son of Judge Fitzgerald of this city, was saved from dFv77 7ss7is by. a
 pretty young woman at Asbury Park, N. J., when he was seized with cramps while enjoying his morning bath. His fair rescuer was Miss Blanche Levien of $40 Madison avenue and patron of the Columbia hotel at ASbMxx Park.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-03-17

cognac, for instance, could fairly be
set against an edition of 100000 of a
new novel by Hall Caine? How much
beer would equal in sOdden conse-
quences the seasons output of fiction
lied history? Good books, whether
OF the imagination or or information.
surpass in inspiration the finest bev-
erage ever quaffed and celebrated by
Omar or John Keats, but ordinary
books cannot comptre in efficiency as
evils with the common abuse of wills
ky. Therefore, we take the drink ex-
pense to be misfortune more than
five times as great as the misfortune
caused by the sum wasted upon what
our esteemed contemporaries cheer
fully describe as literature. Where
drink makes criminals, novels make
nothing worse than idiots.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-03-17

pass its untimely and deplorable end!
"Ah, little bug" l fancy the apostle
of the new nature" saying, as he
gazes at it with plying eye, when he
has at last accomplished his fiendish
purpose, "Ah, little bug, have pur-
sued thee long and relentlessly, and
now at last you, or thou, are in my
power. But the pleading look in your,
or thy eyes unnerves my hand Go! 1
cannot STAY thee!" Tears now fall on
both sides.
l think that a good story could be
worked up along those lines, and have
no doubt that it would SELL 1t would
he quite as sound in sentiment and
quite as accurate in facts" as a great
deal of the product of the so-called
new nature" school which in the
providence of publishers has recently
afflicted us.-Emerson Hough in Field
and Stream.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-03-17
"PeopIeu His Weakness.

Mr.. Hanna was almost without
fads. woman of his acquaintance
had the following conversation with
him recently:
What do you do for amusement =?
Do you have a yacht on the lakes?'
asked the woman
No; don't care for it," he replied.
DO you go in for horses and rae
ing?"
mo; don't care for that"
DO you like fast horses for driv-
ing?"
NO"
DO you collect rare books?"
mo"
DO you wrap yourself up in fine
paintings and sculpture?'
No"
Rare plants or orchids?"
No"
"China?"
NO"
"Theater?"
Yes, like it,"
'Dogs?"
Only for the service they can rem
DER
We'll, what is your weakness,
them"
People" he replied. 81 like to
make new acquaintance. l like to
take them to my home. l have fine
place five miles out, and | like to en-
terrain well known men and women
there and get acquainted with them"
Kansas City Times.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-03-17
LIFE OF THE HUNTED.

There is one story which has not
yet been written by any preacher or
apostle of the new nature" school. 1
might write it myself if | were full of
coffee. or if | needed the money. |
have no doubt whatever that | could
sell it at a good figure, for this sort of
thing seems to go. 1t pains me that
the whole new nature school has al
lowed this story to go unwritten. 1t
grieves me to see that one humble
and much prosecuted animal has never
had its human attributes properly set
forth in song or story.
Some time when / get fun OF coffee,
or need the money. shall undertake
to write the story Of Craig, the Koote-
mai Bedbug.
Surely this innocent wild animal has
been perseented and all too little un-
de rstocd. 1t has lived life of terror,
pursued from place to place, with none
to pity It, From peak to peak it has
been trailed remorselessly. relentless
". with no professional pitier to pity
it, Think of the feelings which this
poor creature must have had in an
these generations of pursuit by It's
great enemy. Man. Day after day,
from one refuge to another, followed
by relentless hunter who, with a lit
tie chocolate in his pocket and blan-
ket on his back. has brayed all the ell
ements to run it down and 70 encom
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-03-17
ONLY A LITTLE WOMAN.

She was only HUE woman, tits true,
And hers was a common story;
She never had dreamed of thing to do
That would lead to fame or glory.
She could not paint, and she could not
sing,
And she could not write sonnet;
She had not a face that could lend
grace
To a stylish love of bonnet
She had not wealth, and she knew not
ease;
She never had Travelled for pleasure;
She knew not the art to charm and
please
In the realm of social leisure.
And yet she deemed that her life was
blest
In its humble sphere of duty,
Though only those who knew her
best
Guessed half of its hidden beauty.
For hers was a genius for little things,
The realm Of home to brighten.
And she scorned not the humblest work
that brings
Some force to cheer and tighten.
For comfort and order were hers to
command,
And the joys of life seemed longer,
While childhood chung to her loving
hand
And manhood, through her, grew
stronger,
And some who loved here were halr
afraid
That her sphere was far too small;
But, oh, the happy home she made
Was a great thing, after all,
And when her beauteous spirit shall /
fee
From its realms OF loving and giving I
Her stainless monument shall be
The lives that were blessed by her
living
-Woman's Life.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-03-17
Polly Lee, how could YOU .,

Polly Lee, how could your"
"Oh, it was awfully easy. Imogen
says you can't get past the office boy
half the time, but il was just as easy
as picking up violets. | think the ed
itor tells them what kind of girls to
let in. And when he read my
mean ImOgen's-article"-
''Who-the office boy?"
The editor, Mr.. Heavyfeather
When he'd read just a few sentences
he began asking me questions about
my theories and what thought OF
Ibsen and Carlyle"
And what did you say?"
ooh. asked MIN if they were edit
ors, and told him how / had always
longed TO meet a real live editor, and
how | had always imagined they were
horrid, and that | had never thought
it possible that they could be
young
Polly, you didn't"
And Courteous
Polly Lee!'
"And-good looking-before.
Polly, you imp"
and he bought it, Mr.. Heavy.
feather, and here it is in print. with
lmogen's name in great black letters
at the top. and here's a check for $40"
Polly, you're a brick" | declared.
catching both her hands and peeping
down under her picture hat. You're
jolly little brick! And I'm going to
kiss yos on the nose" and | did.
oh, | thought you were going to
say you would take me to luncheon"
said Polly, looking up at me with in
fantile guilelessness, and wiping her
nose with the end of her lace hand
kerchief.
You deserve it, | declared.
"Oh, no, | don't" broke in Polly Il
didn't do anything"
Who sold that article for Imogen
then?'
The hat" said Polly.
Then, Wen take the hat
And the chiffon dress
And the chiffon dress
And the bangles
And the dangles'-
And the frills"- =.
And the frills"-
ITO Du Points for luncheon -
Helen Rowland, in Washington Post.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-03-17
The Women Stood by Him.

That beater of wife beaters, Alder
has been reelected for another term
of five years. He has already served
twenty-eight years. There was some
talk of opposition but the women
quickly suppressed it by letting it be
known. as they have done before,
that they wanted every man to vote
for Donohue or there would be trou-
BILE. Donohue's fame first came when
he thrashed a chronic wife-beater and
found it had such a good effect that
he has thrashed many others, He is
noted for his novel decisions and his
boast that justice and not law reigns
in his Office.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-03-17
OUR VALUED CONTEMPORARIES.
Newspapers in Small Towns Worry
over Beats" and Scoops"

ITO the country newspaper a
scoop may not mean as much as to
a metropolitan daily said the editor
of small weekly to a reporter re
Gently, ''but we have our beats, new
ertheless.
g, have a correspondent at Green's
burg The paper in a neighboring
town also has man there Last
week my correspondent did not send
NE line, and the rival paper appear
ed with the following news from
Greensburg:
John Warren shot himself in the
wrist with a pistol
Jerry Stillwell shot himself in
the foot with a shotgun
Thomas Johnson's wife was out
and a tree fell on her and mashed
her head. She is not expected to live.
(She died)'
Alfred Bruner and three others
were cutting tree and it fell on Al
fred and broke his leg, mashed his
shoulder, and broke some ribs. Gle
died)
Neal Warren was working at a
bucking machine and the chain broke
and struck him over the eyes. 1t is
reported that he is blind lie died)
you see, we are beaten. In that
column were three fatal accidents. |
fired my correspondent. of course,
but as his only pay was subscr1p-
ton to the paper ! don't know that
it hurt him much.
by the way, do you observe the
brevity of those items? Three VIC
lent deaths told in less than a dozen
| lines. The New York Sun wouldn't
| have been more terse, although il
would have told great deal more.
1 Iss another proof that extremes meet
although the reasons for the meager-
ness of the stories is not the same in
! both cases.
! "Of course, the country weekly
prints a great deal of stuff which
would, in a city, be considered an
cient history rather than news. But
we have to do that. And we have tC
place a differecent value on cur news
/ The countryman don't want to read
| three columns about a double muir
der. But if his neighbor paints his
barn red. or sows the old corn field il
oats, he wants to know sill abou
why and when and how he did it
/ And he is interested in the prices 9th
er farmers get for their products. Al
though you may hardly believe it, h
is extremely observant of exclusive
news. Beats rarely escape him, i
/ he takes both papers. "-Louisvill,
Herald
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-03-17
What Women Are Doing.

The two vacancies in the women's
advisory committee of the University
of New York have been filled by the
election of Mrs. Richard H. Liggett and
Miss Emily H. Coddington.
AT Rochester University DR.. Eliza
beth DEMO. a graduate of the Univer,
sity of Heidelberg, who gave a course
of lectures on art last winter, will give
another series this winter. The course
is provided for by the generosity OF
George d. Hale of New York City.
Mrs James S. Watson, a sister of
Hiram w. Sibley, has just had the
chapel handsomely decorated.
Last year. when the plague threat.
ened Lucknow, an appeal was made to
friends in America to pipe clean water
to all the buildings of the Isabella Tho
burg College for Girls, so that the dam
ger of contagion from water brought in
goatskins might be avoided. Mr.. Brown
of ST Louis cabled the necessary
amount, and though there were 100
deaths a day from the plague in Luck
now, not a case occurred in the college.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-03-17
japanese Traits.

In no country is William Morriss
golden rule, Have nothing about you
but what you know TO be useful and
believe to be beautiful, so scrupu-
lousy followed as in Japan. The po-
likeness of the Japanese sign of
equality politeness of this hier-
archial East, is in surprising contrast
with the aggressive rudeness of our
democratic communities. Gentleness,
cordially, are the japanese rule. No
scenes of violence. The readiness with
which Europeans fly into passion
stupefies the Japanese, appears to
them to be a sign of innate coarse
ness. In his consideration for Others
"a Japanese habitually refra MS from
making any show of his personal sor-
rows. Only her vanity has led E,.rope
to fancy that the Japanese regard
Western civilization as superior to
their own, and that therefore they
are "Europeanizing" themselves pur-
posely. The Western diplomatist who
described modern Japan as "bad
translation" of Europe merely shared
the delusion and conceit of foreigners
generally. Challaye in Revue de
Paris.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-03-17
Novels and lntoxieants.

Golfers Weekly.--Five times as
much money in 1903. it is estimated,
was spent for literature as for
booze Under this slang term for
drink is doubtless included all kinds
of intoXicants from cider to absinthe.
and under literature every grade of
type in binding from reprints of
Shakespeare to the latest novel of
Marie Corelli 1t would be amusing,
were it possible to see if the drink
did five times the harm. How much