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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-02
GREGORY KITS PLAN.
Put Some People Back Eight Years i'm Celehrating Natal Anniversaries

There were lots of happy little boys and girls, or there should have been, Monday, throughout the whole land. For it was the 29th Of February-the first in eight years-and those chil- dren lucky, or unlucky, enough to be born on Saturday February 20, 1896 celebrated the first anniversary of their birth, although they are 8 years old
 In the natural course of events, folks born on February 20 ill leap year would have a birth day every four years, but the result of the jug gling of the calendar by Caesar and his astronomers away back in 45 B. O., and the reshuffie in 15S2 has been to leave them very shy on birthdays.
 Julius Caesar began it when he i'll. troduced his reformed Roman calen- dar, adopting the suns course of 365 days and hours to the year. His calendar was defective inasmuch as the astronomers based their caleula- tions on the supposition that tne solar year consisted of 365 days and 6hours, leaving nil Il minutes and 12 seconds. So in 1582 there was a difference of ten days made up of the accumula- ton of odd minutes.
 Gregory then established the pres ent calendar. Ten days were omitted, and 1t was ordered that every year whose number was divisible by four should be leap year, except the full centuries, which to be leap years must be diyisible by 400 without remain der. If not so divisible, they should be common years.
 Nineteen hundred therefore was not leap year, but 2,000 will be. So chil- dren will not have to worry much about waiting another eight-year inter- val for a long time.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-02
TYPES OF WOhANHOOD.
Formerly Her Sphere was Limited to Domestic Drudgery; Now Her
 HMnld ia RnllnGlRSS.

Formerly Her Sphere was Limited to Domestic Drudgery; Now Her ] Field is Boundless.
 1 St Louis. March 2.-Wonaen's in- dustlies will be widely exploited at the Louisiana Purchase disposition. Eleven years have rolled by since tue close of the Columbian Exposition, Since that time woman has exploret many fields of endeavor. formerly closed to her. At the present. Worlds Fair her work will be classified with that of men, and on every jury of , awards a feminine juror will De ap- 1 pointed.
 Much of the handicraft of women will be exhibited in the Palace of Varied Industries. The exquisite 1 statue entitled "The Industry of Women" by kotif. typtfying woman in her primitive state is placed in a conspicious position on this magn1fl- cent structure. It depicts the fadth- ful housewife. who with distaff ill l hand, spins the thread from which the garments of the family are woven l From this state where woman scarce ly rose above the position of slave, l by. slow and painful graduations she
 
 she is the guiding spirit of not only her home but is an important factor l i'll business, politics, religion and art. In fact, she has taken up almost eve ry ayocatiO once usuTped by man. Between the women of an early age and those Of the 18th century there Is gulf wide and deep. Education has done everything for woman. It hO 1for1s as well as having developed her brain. Contrast the classic but un- intellectual face of the Greek house mother with that of the woman of to- day. The artistic evolution is fitting ly expressed in Miss Enid Yandell, the distinguished sculptures. Her face is not perhaps as classically cor rect as that Of the exquisite Of In dusty. but the thoughtful expres- sion, the sweet decision of the mouth and the contour Of the face, all de monstrate the improvement of "a race. While perhaps a loser as to mere phy sdcal beauty woman is 8 gainer dn the higher attributes of existence.
 Here is another and distinctive type-the woman of business as en- bodied dn Mrs Margaret F. Daily of Anaconda, Montana. Mrs Daly is known as one of the wealthiest wo- men in the world. Such was the confidence of her husband in her bus mess acumen that he left her unre- stricted control of his property rated at S60,OOOOO0. which this enterprising lady has managed with rare tact and efficiency Mrs Daly dispenses great deal of her fortune in philan- thropy and exercises a generous hos pitality. Her magnificent. ranch at Bitter Root Montana, is the scene of much gaiety, and in her palatial home at Anaconda many strangers have been entertained. Mrs Daily represents Montana on the board of worlds fair lady mana gers
 In our day and generation what woman would be satisfied to retro. gade? The question is. who was the happier. the primitive woman who never dreamed of the club, the law yer's gown. the doctors prescription blank. or the woman's suffrage. or she of the 20th century-restless. am- bilious and forever reaching up after the unattainable?
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-02

The French government has ar ranged with the promoters of the st Louis exposition for space, measuring 500 square meters, which will be occu pied by exhibits from the French-Afri. can colonies, including Algeria and Tunis. The French planters, mer, chants, traders, etc, hope that in mak- ing the Americans more familiar with their export products it will tend to strengthen the commercial bonds which already exist with the United States. and that it will probably be the means of finding new outlet for certain articles of production that are at present very little known in the American markets.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-02
FAMOUS CHARACTER DEAD
Henry Hurd, Quack Doctor for Fifty Years, Succumbs to Old Age.

/ Henry Hurd, colored quack doc. tor, who has been well-known Ham den character for nearly 50 years, died Monday at the New Haven hos pital. He was taken to the institution last Tuesday suffering from a general
 breaking down. He was over s71 years of age.
 "Dr" Hurd lived on Arch street. Highwood, in a tumble-down old house covered with unique inscrip- tions aimed at suffering humanity, The most famous of these is one read ing "scarlet fever, throat troubles, diphtheria, bronchitis and consump- ton cured in 12 hours, and no ques- tions asked" When not healing the doctor cultivated his little farm. He claimed to have cured patients whom regular physicians had given up, and was at one time highly regarded by the more ignorant of his colored neighbors.
 "Dr" Hurd's cure-all was an oint- ment, the secret of which he guarded jealously for years, declaring that he would not disclose the formula for less than $5,OO0 Tn the past few months he grew very hard up, and took his prescription to William H. Wood, the Dixwell avenue druggist. As he was destitute, Mir Wood made him several smah loans on the won- derful formula.
 The method of treatment employed by the old doctor was unusual. A man who once accompanied a sick friend to pr Hurd's told the follow ing story: The doctor was found in the field working with hoe. Lean ing on the hoe he declared that he re- quired $5 "to take facts on the case" A little dickering brought the ante down to $1. The doctor then left ag- riculture for medicine, and going into the kitchen he put a fiatiron on the Sre. He smeared the patients chest thoroughly with she ointment, placed two newspapers over it and then wig orously ironed the patient out. The patient died two weeks after.
 .'Dr" Hurd lived alone on Arch street. He has a daughter, whose horne is in New York, and she has been with him in his last sickness, and will arrange for the burial.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-02

The working women Of Chicago have long since passed through that prelirn- mary and almost inevitable phase of their social and economic develop ment, says a writer in Leslie's Month ly. From the emotiona1ism of a few weak 4.auxiliaries" they have evolved, step by step, the cool sanity of com. plex,S splendidly organized system Of individual trades unions, recruited ex- clusively by feminine wage-earners, and controlled by ''lady" bosses and lady" walking delegates, As direct result of these organizations the wages of women have increased from mimi mum of 10 to a nidmum of 40 per cent Their working day has been re- dueed from a basis of sixty hours per week and upwards to maximum limit of fifty-three hours per week, with ample pay for overtime. Child labor has been totally abolished in those industries where it has long been fragrant. and in the few instances where it yet remains 1t Is doomed to an early death so unremitting is the war now being waged against 1t. Along with these have come radical sanitary Improvements, larger and better ventilated shops, and, not least important, a generous and we'll regu- lated allotment of holidays and half holidays The internationally Of employer and employe has been re- duced to a complex system of rules and agreements mutually binding and reciprocally effective, which the mil lionaire proprietor cannot disregard with less impunity than may the young girl toiler in his shop or' mill.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-02

Speaking of the war in the east and the part China will play in it, should the occasion arise, a writer in New York paper says that all mercantile Europe stands ready to supply rifles and cannon to the Asiatics on cash terms, no matter what use they may make Of them. Nor is Asia going to be long dependent upon Europe for the supply. These Japanese have come to make their own cannon, build their own ships, and manufac- ture. torpedoes of such superior merritt that Russia is beginning to initiate them. Nor are the Chinese going to be long behind them. Tn 1886 Cap tain Younghusband found at Kirin
 "An arsenal recently set up by China men, and managed by them without any European guidance or supervision whatever. Here we found magazine a'ides, Calling guns, and field guns be- ing turned out in very creditable fash ion. We called upon the manager.
 who himself conducted us round the workshops. 1t was he who had start cd the place., and We were fairly as- tonished to find such a really credit able tabhshnlent many hundreds of miles from the coast, and dn n country where there were neither railways nor waterways, nor even good roads, for the carriage Of the heavy and del icate machinery. Mr. Sung, the man. ager, had something more than mere initiative genius; he had also some notion of dnyenting and adapting. Having brought up an initial plant of machinery, he had with that made more; and he had himself invented a
 magazine rifle. @ Coal he obtained .in the neighborhood. and a. certain
 amount of iron, too, but most of the latter had to ba imported. Quite a significant phenomenon for European amperiahsts, this MT Sung working
 away at and turning out the latest styles of destructive weapons, paoduce ing his machinery for the most part,
 dmproving on his models, and getting ready to fight ''ciVihzation'' with its own weapons. He is the advanced g,1ard Of much that is coming in Asia.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-02
Homa- nara~1os+ 4

Homer Davenport turns out some pretty fierce cartoons, but there are others, and the republican papers that are now cufiing Davenport might turn their attention to them. The cartoon business has been overdone, and all because the party workers on both sides want something to beat the other fellows. The great majority of news paper readers seldom look at these car toons and If they do it is to give them only passing glance not knowing or caring what the author intended to convey.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-02
A RaiIroad Accident.

-l A Railroad Accident. Johnny had a train and engine That would steam across the floor With a chatter, shriek and whistle {, And roar. ..s.. +. ..-. Many cargoes did they carry Round the perils of the bend Now misplaced switch has sent them To their end.
 @a For one day they made a journey While his father stormed in vain, And the switch was used on Johnny. Not the train.
 New YofE Times.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-02
A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES

Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protrud- ing Piles. Your druggist will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT faiIs to cure you in to IA days. DOC.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-02

The head table at the endless chain series of midwinter Connecticut ban quets will feel good deal more 1oviai as soon as Governor Chamberlain fully recovers from his recent shindy with the grip microbe. Hartford Post.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-02
New England Watches

The coming Of Radium has open. ed the field of imagination to a ho. rizon unlimited. It extends to the beyond, and the phantasies of the mind are eiouded therefrom. Had the methods of theapresent day in matchmaking been explained twen- ty-five years ago they would not have been believed, and the actual productions that we now make would have then bordered on the marvellous.
 For sale by all jewellers.
The Jersey City news., 1904-02-27
DIDN'T WANT TO HEAR ''R0T."
Youthful Couple Asked Justice to
Divorce Them Silently.

Justice of the Peace Robert Miller, of
Oakland avenue, Jersey City, was called
upon yesterday by a young couple, who
said they were Mr.. and Mrs. John AL
lers, of No. &c Broad street, Newark
They said they were tired of married life
and wanted to be divorced.
Mr.. Alters said he was nineteen years
old and that his wife was seventeen. He
said she insisted on still playing with
dolls and pictures, and she accused him
of spending all his $6 week salary on
cigarettes.
The Justice told the young couple he
had no jurisdiction in the matter and adj
vised them to go home to their parents.
He was giving them some other advise
when the youth interrupted With
What do you take me for? Do you
think I'm kid because she's one? If
you can't divorce us, you needn't give a
lot of rot.'
The Jersey City news., 1904-02-27
SUICIDE IDENTIFIED.
Man Found in the Hackensack
was Clifford L. Burrows, of
Passaic-His Mind was
Unbalanced.

The body of the young man found dead
with bullet hole in his head and frozen
fast to the Sce on the Hackensack River,
near the Newark and New York Bridge
at noon Thursday, was identified at
Hughes's morgue last night as Clifford
L. Burrows by his mother, Mrs. Flor
ence Burns, of No. Ga Grove street, Pas
sale. He was twenty-four years old and
had been employed as clerk in the Dun
dee Savings Bank in Passaic, but had re-
Gently lost his position through becoming
demented. He left home Wednesday af-
ternoon and was traced as far as the
Newark Plank road bridge, over the Pas
sale. coming in the direction of this city.
This was about ten O'Clock Wednesday
night.
At about midnight watchman on the
Newark and New York Railroad trestle
met him and talked with him near the
foot of the trestle.
The man had been dead about twelve
hours when found and dug out of the ice.
A revolver and a bottle about half filed
with carbolic acid was found near the
body
The Jersey City news., 1904-02-27
The WRONG BOARD
Cooley's Bid for South Cove
Should Have Gone to
the s. & W. Board
Captain Sven
sen Enraged.

Captain John Swenson, who runs a
dry dock in South Cove, at the foot of
Warren street, is very mad over a pub
lished statement in connection with the
offer of r. Nj. Cooley, representing con-
cern the name of which he has not yet
divulged, to lease the dock now occupied
by Captain Swenson for a term of fifteen
or twenty years at an annual rental of
$1,000. Cooley's offer was made to the
Finance Board The Captain is repre-
sented in the published article as paying
but SAG year for the privilege of using
the property and that his payments are
irregular. The, Captain denies all this
and says that while he pays but mode
rate sum annually he has nominal super
vision of the Cove property. looking after
it for the city. He says he has also spent
thousands of dollars in dredging and
keeping the dock in shape all of which
is to the City's advantage.
That Mr.. Cooley should make his Of
fer to the Finance Board instead of to
the Street and Water Board is regarded
unfavorably by others besides the Cap
tain. The Street and Water Board has
control of the matter and Mr.. Cooley,
it is claimed, might as well have made
his offer to the Chicago Board of Trade
as to the local Finance Board.
The Street and Water Board some
time ago had plans and specifications
drawn for the construction of system
of piers at the Cove, but the Finance
did not appropriate the necessary money.
The Jersey City news., 1904-02-27
EMMET'S BIRTHDAY.

The Wolf Tone Circle, Clan-na-Gael,
is making elaborate preparations for the
celebration of Robert Emmet's one hum
dred and twenty-sixth birthday at the
Academy of Music, on Sunday evening
March 6. The committee in charge has
prevailed upon Congressman M. f. Con-
cry, of Scranton, Pa, to deliver the ora
tion, and Rev. J. A. Sullivan, of st.
Aloysius r. G. Church, will deliver an
address on Irish Freedom. " Assem-
blynlan James A Hamill will speak on
the life of Emmett, and Thomas f. A.
Griffin will recite Emmet's speech in the
dock. Irish melodies will be discoursed
by first class orchestra. Promiaent
singers viii render songs dear to Irish
hearts.
The committee in charge of the cele-
bration consists of Thomas Reynolds,
chairman: james T. Fallon, secretary
James McGovern, Henry Hanley, Ter
renee McGrath and James f. Brennan.
The Jersey City news., 1904-02-27

liceInen should also protect pedestrians
crossing streets at corners in congested
districts as they do in other cities He
said he favored the proposed improve
ment if it could be carried out for a
reasonable sum, say $25O,O0O.
Counsellor ]. w. Heck said the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company should estab-
lish ferry for truck traffic alone from
the foot of Grand street.
Former Director of the Board of Edu-
cation John ]. Voorhees, spoke in favor of
the measure, as did also Henry " Con-
dict, both of whom hoped for good results
from it, such as the improvements that
followed in the wake of the construction
of the Hudson Boulevard. Mr.. Condict
also cited improvements that followed
his purchase of 80 acres of meadow land
beyond West Side avenue. and, opening
up the property, and Mr.. Nelson asked
what that had to do with the widening
of Montgomery street. He asked Mr..
Condict if he was merely trying to adj
vertise his property.
Former President Mount argued the
matter pro and con.
The committee asked for further time
in which to gather data, stating that it
hardly had sufficient as yet to insure the
passage of the pending bill. 1t will re-
port at another special meeting to be call
ed by President DAILY
The members of the Board present
were urged to go down to Trenton and
attend the hearing of the pending Equal
Taxation bill before the Assembly Com
mittee on Railroads and Canals next
Wednesday afternoon.
The Jersey City news., 1904-02-27
HELD ON A CHARGE
OF B|CAMY.
Mrs. Lena Smith Who Mar
ried John Baker a
Month Ago Must
Face the Grand
Jury.
COMPLAINANT HER MOTHER-IN-LAW
Accused Says She Thought
First Husband Dead and
the Evidence Is In
Her Favor.
COMPLAINANT HER MOTHER-IH-LAW


A few days ago the nome of "Mrs.
Lena Smith, of No y Morris street,
appeared on the First Criminal Court
returns as defendant on a charge of
bigamy, preferred by Mrs. Mary Finn,
of Black Tom. AS Mrs. Lena Smith
she had married John Baker, son of
Mrs. Finn. Mrs Finn heard rumor to
the effect that the first husband of the
supposed wife of her son was alive and
that neither had been divorced from the
other
Mrs. Finn, after making some in
qures, was so thoroughly convinced
that rumor was correct that she had
"Mrs. Smith arrested for bigamy, as
she wanted the marriage between her
son and Mrs. Smith annulled.
Mrs. Smith admitted that she was
married to one William Smith about
three years ago, but said that he left
her and she had been told by number
of people that he died of smallpox dur
ing the epidemic of that disease in Pat
erson two years ago. She said she felt
sure this was true when she married
John Baker.
When the case first came up in the
First Criminal Court it was laid over in
order to give the accused woman time to
secure witnesses to substantiate her
statement concerning her former hus-
rolled in the custody of her counsel, Law
year Patrick Dooley. Meanwhile Detec-
tives Clark and Bennett, while investiga-
ting the case, in police parlance, dug
up William Smith, the real husband
and he was not found in a cemetery,
ticent about his movements since he left
his wife, but he convinced the police that
he was really the accused wOman's hus-
band. Miss Annie Florence in court this
morning testified that she witnessed the
first marriage.
Smiths face was deeply pitted with
smallpox when he appeared in court this
morning to testify to his marriage, fact
which gave some weight to Mrs. Smith S
story concerning her belief that he had
died of smallpox. He testified merely to
their marriage ceremony. Baker merely
testified to the ceremony performed for
him and the woman by Justice of the
Peace Markley about a month ago. He
refused in the present status of the case
to sign complaint against his wife.
She was held, however, for the Grand
Jury in $500 bail She is quite a good
looking young woman of the brunette
type, of refined appearance, and showed
plainly that she keenly felt her present
awkward predicament.
The Jersey City news., 1904-02-27
ON The HOME TRAIL.
Red Men Complete Their An
nuaI Convention and
Break Camp,
Especial to 'rhe Jersey city News.9l

Especial to ''The Jersey City News."l
TRENTON, Feb. 27, 1904.-The
great council of the Improved Order of
Red Men of New Jersey came to an
end yesterday when the campfire and
the powwow was finished.
Special services were held at the
morning session in honor of the mem
ory of Past Grand Incohonee Thomas j.
Francis and Past Grand Sachems
Charles c. Gordon and Thomas McDon-
ough.
A resolution was adopted increasing
the salary of Chief of Records Daniel
NJ. Stevens of Camden from $1,000 to
$1,000. The per capita tax was fixed
at 35 cents for the year 1904
OF this, FIVE cents will be placed in
the orphans fund, managed by the Su-
preme Council of the United States.
The ceremony of raising up the new
chiefs was performed by Great Tocakan
the Rev r. K. Stevenson of the great
council of the United States, assisted by
Past Grand Icohonee James A. Parsons
of Philadelphia.
A resolution was passed asking the
great council to appropriate 5000 for a
loving cup as a prize to incite rivalry
among the tribes in the adoption work.
The cup is to be held in trust by the
tribes winning it from time to time.
| The committee appointed last year to
provide entertainment and pay other ex-
penses incident to the session of the SUI
preme council of the United States in
Atlantic City, made report returning
$500 out of the $500 originally granted.
This is in the nature of tribute to the
generosity of the members of the order
and the people of Atlantic City.
The afternoon session was taken up
with addresses by prominent visitors.
The following committees were ap-
pointed by Great Sachem Fred P. Rees:
Finance Committee-Fred P. Rees;
Henry J. stepler, Woodstown; John
Thompson, Avon.
Board of Appeals - Thomas A.
Sprague Burlington; William J. For
syth, Jersey City; Arthur Sites, Allan
tie City. -
Law Committee Harry J. Rathbone,
Trenton; Herman ]. Rellstab, Trenton;
John Y. Dater, Ramsey.
The council adjourned to meet in As
sociation Hall here the last Thursday in
February, 1905.