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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-09
BRITISH ENvoY's CLIMB.

Incident of Sticking Elevator Car In
 a Washington Building.
 There is a special reason for having efficient elevator service in the state, war and navy building at Washington because of the number of important personages who go from floor to floor in it, says the New York Posts corre- spondent. On one recent occasion, for instance, when the car stuck fast in the shaft, it contained Sir Henry Nor timer Durand, the British ambassador, and Speaker Cannon. The two men, as it happened, were not then acquaint- ed and stood silent in the elevator wedged in with a dozen government clerks who had gone to the lower story to draw their salaries. The car had sired floor, and all the elevator mans manipulation of the machinery was unable to budge it.
 After a few minutes in situation like that, which furnishes the principal motive of one of MT. Howells' plays, MT. Cannon's direct and impatient mind asserted itself. Young man, he said to the elevator, lit seems to me
 'f.7[I can get up to that floor by myself quicker than you can carry me-" And he forthwith proceeded to chamber up to the floor level, leaving the gate open behind him, brushed off his clothes and went on about his business.
 None of the other passengers in the elevator ventured to follow at once, but all drew back to see what the ambas- sador would do Being not only man of resource, but also one of athletic build, he promptly climbed out after the speaker. There is a dreadful pos sibility of diplomatic complications should European soFereigns ever be in formed that our government, by means of it's elevator service, compelled the personal representative of friendly monarch to approach the secretary of state from distance of a hundred feet or more on hands and knees.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-09
How to Make . Campfire.

An absurd and reprehensibly destruc- tive practice is the building of fires be- heath tree .'in order to get the draft 7 says writer in the Springfield Repub- lican. The fools that do this kill great trees for nothing but campfire. There Is no sense in that wretched practice. A fire for camp cooking should be built in the open, and nothing is easier. A bare rock is the best place, and If you are to cook by 1t put up barrier of loose stone just extensive enough to make fire as large as kitchen stove would hold, put flat stone over these walls, and you have all you want You can fry bacon and your corn cakes and boil your coffee on that stone. This is as good for winter as for summer. And if you want hot old campfire clear a space of all combustibles and begin small, gradually adding stick or two, and the heat beneath will soon grow so strong that you can keep it up for as many hours as you please. But be sure that you let 1t get down to the ashes before you leave. Nobody knows what may happen after you leave blazing fire.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-09
Fair Haired Tribe Tn Mexico.


 Dr. William Bauer, the German eth nologist who has been studying the southern tribes in the interior of Meu. co for the Royal Museum of Ethnology of Berlin, has compiled an interesting and remarkably complete vocabulary of languages spoken by the different tribes, says City of Mexico dispatch to the New York Press. The Zanotecan vocabulary is 5000 words, the fullest yet obtained. One of the most inter- esting tribes is the Miseres, composing some 10000 persons, among whom are many fair haired and light skinned people. Tradition recounts that they are descended from the Teutons of Eu- rope. The race is quite distinct from any other of the Mexican Indians and is noted for it's physical strength.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-09
NOVEL FIRE ExPER lMENT
Russian Theater Will Be Burn ed to Solve Safety Problem.
SHEEP AND RABBITS THEAUDIENOE
A Comm mission In St. Petersburg Will Build aH Experimental Modern FireproOf Theater-Escapes of the Animals to Re Computed and Filed With Other Data Obtained.

A sensational and novel fire test to determine the actual amount of pro- lection afforded by "freproof" thea ter is to be made in St. Petersburg by the commission appointed some time ago to investigate and report on the protection of audiences from fire in theaters, says the New York Journal.
 In order to gain the knowledge 1t seeks the commission will build an experimental modern flreproef theater, install an audience of sheep and rab- bits and as the climax of series of fire tests burn the entire structure down.
 The government is bearing the ex- pense of the experiments.
 The theater is to have it's due pro- portion of in1ammable furniture, gall leries seats, scenery, drop curtains, etc., and is to be provided with an as- bestus curtain.
 Fires will be started on the stage, in the wings and in the flies, and an ef- fort will be made to initiate the great theater fires of the world, including the recent Chicago disaster A large fire department will be in attendance to in- sure the confagration goes no further than is necessary for the purpose of each experiment until the last, when the structure will be allowed to burn with all the animals that do not es- cape by the regular exits.
 The proportion of such escapes will be computed and filed with the rest of the statistics and data that will be ob- tained
 To the objection that the animals will not give true parallel to hu- man audience the scientists on the com mission reply that they will approach the desired condition more closely than laymen think, as an audience in panic is oblivious to printed signs, call lous to injuries or the rights of others and intent only on rushing out of the theater-in other words, that human audience untrained to emergencies, un- der the influence of fear and in the presence of deadly danger, does not act with human intelligence.
 The results of the investigation are to be embodied in a volume and made public, and a code for the government of theaters and other buildings in which many persons are gathered is to be drawn up, the provisions of which are to be based on the findings of the commission
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-09
WHERE JAPAN IS STRONGER
J. SIoat Fassett Says Japanese Can
 Heat Russians Man For Man.

J. SIoat Fasaett Says Japanese Cam
 Beat Russians Man For Man.
 J. Sloat Fassett of Elmira, who has interested in mining properties there, speaking recently in regard to Russian and Japanese facilities for getting to strategic points, said:
 tHThe Russians at present have 200,- 900 troops scattered about railroads connecting with Manchuria and about S0,000 in the territory covered by the railroads leading from Vladivostok. Japan, with her reserve forces, has an available army of 100000. Japan's or ganization for moving and sustaining troops, as was illustrated in the march on Picking, is vastly superior to the Russian organization. Japan could place 100000 troops at any point in Korea, and for that matter at any point in Manchuria not contiguous to the railroad, more quickly and in bet ter condition than could Russia.
 "So far as naval strength is con- cerned, the Japanese navy is of about the same tonnage and strength as that part of the Russian navy in oriental waters, but the discipline and general condition of the Japanese navy are con- sidered superior to the Russian navy. The Japanese soldiers and sailors, man for man, can do harder work on less food and under more trying circuln- stances than can the Russians.
 Ut is question of life and death with Japan. She cannot afford, with long glances toward the future, to have Russia in possession or control of I<o- req. On the other hand, Russia, hav- ing expended a billion dollars on her Siberian railroad for the purpose of getting an outlet by water, will never rest content until she has terminus to that railroad or more than one terminus free from ice all the year. Though she has constructed a port at Dalny, the breakwaters to protect it have result ed in blocking the port with ice during part of the year. Russia must go farther south, and in order to gain her object must take possession of Ko- req or of China as far south as Chefu, which would bring her dangerously near the English at Weihaiwei and the Germans at Kiaochou.
 '"The situation is not one in which Japan and Russia only are parties in interest England, France, Germany and the United States have vital inter ests, for the whole question is one of the mastery of the Pacific and control of future commercial positions"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-09
THE PRESIDENT AT HOME.
Glimpses of Roosevelt's Life at the
 White House.

Gaimpses of Roosevelt's Life at the
 White House.
 The day at the White House begins shortly after ' o'clock, says A. Maurice Low in Harper's Weekly At that hour the president is up, and at s o'clock he and Mrs Roosevelt and some. of the children, frequently with guests, men whose time is as valuable as his own and who begin their days early, are at breakfast. As with any other man en- gagged in active affairs, the president goes to his work immediately after breakfast and spends from until half past l o'clock in his office, returning to the house to lunch. It is rare that he is without guests, except on Sunday, which he always tries to have strict ly family day
 The president regards a horse as necessity rather than a luxury. A good horse is essential for his comfort, horse that can gallop over rough country and take hurdle or brook when put to it. When at Oyster Bay he knocks about in a small rowboat, and he has all of MT. Gladstone's fond ness for cutting down trees, He is really passionately devoted to hunting, but to enjoy hunting he must rough it. He has no patience with those effem- mate hunters who go out into the woods with cook and half a dozen servants, who carry with them their wine and their whisky, which the president never touches, and who bring civilization into the forest. A horse, companion, an open fire, rocking chair and book are the modest re- quirements to. satisfy the presidents demands
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-09
The esDog wagon'' In London


 London by night is shortly to have unique attraction in the shape of an elegant travelling restaurant, which will perambulate the street for the benefit of those who desire refreshment better than that provided at the ordinary cof- fee stall, says the London Mail. The travelling restaurant consists of lav- ishly ornamented van some twenty feet long by six in width, with a doorway at the side, to which the GUS toner ascends from the street by a miniature flight of steps. Colored glass panels bearing allegorical designs form the windows round the sides, and the back of the car bears in large letters the announcement, Might lunch" ]" which gives sufficient indication of the American origin of the new departure.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-09
A Wight With Jack Frost.

 Jack Frost ran away down the meadows, Through the valleys and over the hills, And he chanted chilly "Good ev'ning.
 old friends!" As he kissed the cold rivers and rills. He co1ored the oaks and the naples With pencil most rare and divine Till hues iridescent he gave them to wear And etchings too quaint to define. He chuclsled with ghoulish expression, striding swift OCT the flower fringed
 path; He nipped all the blossoms with merciless
 hand
 And seeming unsuitable wrath He cast OCT the green sumach bushes A sense of unspeakable dread, But when they awoke to the bright morn-
 ing sun Their leaves were beautiful red. He sang to the bogs and the sedges In a frozen and guttural tone; He spoke to the pool with his frigid white
 lips
 And heart as cold as a stone. He blared through his long hoary wT1is- A disoordant and rasping refrain; He shook out his locks to the fierce north
 ern blast
 As he whitened the mist and the rain.
 ~ He skipped OCT the panes of the win-
 dows,
 Leaving pictures unique in his trail: He breathed on the lake till it's surface
 grew hard,
 Then rattled his showers of hail. He 1eaped to the caves and the trickles Transformed into pendulous spires, Then sent the soft snowfiakes to blanket
 the earth,
 While Holus thrummed on his Tyres. He came to the cheeks of the lassie And smacked them glorious pink: He told her of sledges and tinkle of bells. With a sly and significant wink. He returned to his home in the morning, Where he stroked his great whiskers
 with glee. For the marvels he'd wrought in Luna's
 pale light
 Were wonderful truly to see. -C. S. Whittern in Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-09
SAGE TAKING IT EASY.
Why the Financier Seldom Wis., it's His Wall Street Office.
aoT BOTHERED WITH DETAILS.

Aged Eighty-seven, He Yarns Busi-
 ness Cares Over to Others-F1nan- cxal Matters De Not Seem to Inter-
 est Him, and He Spends Most of His Time af Home.
 Russell Sage has departed from his lifelong habit of visiting his office with clocklike regularity regardless of weather conditions or the temperature of the elevated cars in which he rides and is now seen in Wall street at in- frequent intervals. He has gradually withdrawn from participation in the affairs of the financial district and is now no longer an active figure in Wall street, says the New York Herald.
 Heeding the advice of friends and in response to the earnest entreaties of Mrs. Sage. the aged financier now spends most of his time in his new home in Fifth avenue.
 When Uncle Russell, as he is Ia miIiarly called in the street, does go downtown, he is accompanied by an attendant.
 Instead of arriving at his office early and remaining until late, as has al- ways been his custom, MT. Sage drops in during the forenoon, looks over his mail and returns home early in the day. He seldom attends meetings of di- rectors of the corporations in which he As interested
 MT. Sage's co 1ition has given con- siderable concern to those who are near him. He did not appear at his office at all recently, and at his house Mrs. Sage, in response to 8 note of i'm Quiry, asked to be excused from being seen. She sent word that Mir. Sage was not i'll.
 Mfr. Sage's office work has been trans ferred to others. Loans are made by MT. Menzies, his managing clerk, who uses his own Judgment as to the value of the collateral and does not bother Mr. Sage with the details
 MT. Osborne, who has been cashier in the office so long that the memory of Wall street men runneth not to the contrary. attends to most of the routine business.
 MT. Sage still insists upon visiting his office once or twice a week and sur prised his employees by going down town during the recent cold snap. He was eighty-seven years old last August Up to his illness one year ago he was n man Of unusual vigor for his age.
 He recovered his health, but since his illness business affairs. which for merly absorbed his entire attention, have ceased to interest him.
 Tn his passing Wall street has lost one of its most interesting characters.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-09
Georgia as a Marble State.

As marble producing state Georgia may rival Vermont. The marble belt is about sixty miles ifl length, extend ing in southWesterly direction from the North Carolina line through Pick ems county. The supply is practically inexhaustibie, as the depth of the de posit in many places is over 100 feet. Both white and colored varieties are found The characteristics of the Geor- gia marble are purity of chemical com position, uniform texture and peculiar crystalline structure, rendering it re- markedly durable because of it's slow absorption of water.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-09
GrieVe, BiSSet & Holland.
BLOWS TO CURE HYsTERlA.

Husband Says Physician Ordered
 Such Treatment For Wife.
 Whenever Howard D. Flint of Syra- cuse, N. Y., struck his handsome young wife he did 1t solely for the purpose of bringing her out of spell of mysteries.
 This is the defense to charge of cruelty outlined by Flint's attorney at the hearing before Referee A. J. North rup in the separation and alimony suit brought by Alice Molineux Flint against Howard D. Flint, her husband.
 The striking treatment, Flint de- ciares, was ordered by a physician, whose advice he followed. The Flints have been married three years.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-09
The New Years Question. f will fbo r,oD vaar hrin~ of vvea

The New Years Question. What will the new year bring of veal or woe? Will 1t be blest or curst. O Fate benign? Shall we see nations drawn in battle line, Or shall sweet Peace her gifts bestow? Shall Fortune smile or frown on this fair land? Who shall be called her people to com mand? Would it were given us this opening year to know Our country's tide of grace, will t ebb or flow? These are the questions that men ask to- day And for some answer meeikly beg and pray, Not witting that, could art of wizard show The future as we clearly see the past, Perchance we might look forward with dfsmay Or, happier, wish the months to speed too fast.
 New York Herald
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-09
CREEPING MOUNTAIN.
1t Cuts a Caper That Costs a Rail-
 road Company $1 ,OOO,OO

4 SuIS A OApGE 4HdG OO@IB 6 E&a14-
 road Company $1,OOO,OOO.
 California has a creeping mountain, says the Los Angeles Times. 1t has cost something like $1,OOO,O00 to find it out Santa Susana mountain has been tunneled by the Southern Pacific rail- way for a cutoff line between Los An geles and San Francisco, and traffic was expected to open Jan. 1, but the opening is indefinitely postponed.
 Several weeks ago the engineers in charge of the work announced that the tunnel was completed, so far as their work was concerned. It remained for the railway company to lay and bal last its tracks, light the tunnel and complete the work of that character. Then it was discovered that the sides of the tunnel were bulging, and the engineers were recalled.
 Concrete braces, huge timbers IA by 16, well braced, were set, but the creep ing monster crumbled the concrete and snapped the timbers and continued to thrust it's bulky sides into the opening
 A portion of the mountain is com posed of shale, and it is this portion that Is causing the trouble. It has been discovered by careful observation that this shale section is slowly but steadily moving westward. 1t is, in fact, mighty stone river moving to- ward the Pacific.
 The strata dips oceanward, and the movement is doubtless what is known as "slide," caused by displacement somewhere in the depths of the earth. Whether or not the engineers will de wise way to stay its progress and make the tunnel usable remains to be seen.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-09
A YEAR OF HORRORS.
Calamities Predicted by AstroIoEer
 

CaIamfties Predicted by AstroIogers
 For 19O4
 The papers in Paris are commenting gravely on the unanimity of the astrol- ogers, magicians, clairvoyants and trance mediums in predicting year of horrors for 1904, says the New York World. A leading astrologer named Jacob sizes up the situation as follows, and the others agree more or less as to detail:
 "Here is the horoscope for 1904, made at the moment the sun entered the sign of Capricorn. It indicates a year of great immortality in London The vice roy of India abdicates; the United States has grave quarrels with Russia and Germany; Roosevelt falls sick, and a conspiracy is matched against him; 1; serious financial disasters in America. 'The emperor of Japan has a grave accident
 ':An attempt on the life of the em- peror of China.
 Volcanic shocks in Constantinople, ohAAC dA0 t4S A1lippIuCS.
 "A year of unhealthy literature and unlimited materialism
 'sThe French cabinet falls between April and 19.
 A panic in a music hall, grave acci- dents and popular disturbances in Rus sia; an attempt to poison the czar; se- rious dissensions between Russia and Austria
 England loses prestige; the cam paign in Tibet falls through.
 Tremendous failures in Calcutta and the Transvaal.
 Anarchist troubles in Spain; the government threatened
 Tn China women massacred. C Everywhere crimes of passion, mys- terious deaths and strange phenomena The year 1904 is an anagram of 14O9, the date of the birth of Jean of Arc. This year a wonderful child will be born with high destiny, showing its power in 1924, an anagram of 1429, the date of the apogee of Joan of Arc.'
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-09
An Exnlanatton.

Ma. what's romance in real lifeT'
 You listen to your pa when he com plains of having a terrible headache the next time I ask him to go to church. That Fl be one."-Chicago Record Herald
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-09
His Reward.

'T thought he said, that I knew how to make love"
 sAnd don't youY'
 Well, 1t didn't seem to work right when told Rose she was the only girl \ had ever loved"
 ssWhat did she say ?''
 s.She said she'd never marry a liar" ~Chicago Post
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-09
In the Boo1x.tore.

Jones' new book won't set the river on fire"
 No; but dozen of lem in the grate will keep the room warm!"-Atlanta Constitution.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-09
How to Take Iron Mold Out of Linen

Oxalic acid is universally used by manufacturers. The stained part is stretched over bowl of hot water, into which it is allowed to dip. A few crystals of the acid are placed on the stain and rubbed with small bone i'm plement. The stain disappears, and the fabric must then be thoroughly washed in clean water to remove the acid.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-09
Trouble Ahead,

He-I am in love and am engaged. She-You ought to be very happy. s'I don't think so. It isn't the same girl. Set.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1904-01-27
VESTA

Cal Draper has returned from an ex-
tended trip through the county.
Hereafter o. A. Drews will instruct
the band meeting every Tuesday and
Thursday evenings at s o'clock.
The school has made arrangements
for the playing of hand ball which Is
greatly enjoyed by its participants.
The Good Fellowship league of Vesta
Is to entertain their many friends to-
night and good time is expected by
all.
The great question the Vestaites are
cracking their brains over is what to
do about street lights. We have had
two on exhibition. Either kind gives
ample light. Which will you have?
The officers of the Royal Neighbors
were installed by Mrs. DeLaun of Mar
shall last Friday morning, and after
the installation they, the M. w. A.,
and a few friends who had been invit-
ed with them in social program, and
had a very enjoyable time.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1904-01-27

me WIG or quarryman was bathing
her three-month-o babe, when she was
thunderstruck to hear the child say
plainly in Welsh: Next year will be a
terrible year, mother"
The mother rushed in terror to the
next door and told what she had heard
to neighbor, who ran Immediately
back, picked up the infant, and, as she
soothed and caressed it. coaxingly asked
it If 1t had told its mother that next year
would be terrible year. To her aston
ishment, the child looked at her, said
eyes" and fell back dead
The story has been discussed far and
wide, and the two women have been
cross-questioned without shaking their
story At Penrhyn, where the people are
rather primitive and religious, there is
much forebodfng.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1904-01-27

Or messages press wires can, by the
use of the shortest code, with the most
expert operators, carry only an av-
erage of $500 words an hour. The
record is $500 at present.
The inventor, p. H. Delaney, who
devised the multiplex system, has been
working on his device for ten years
in South Orange. Stripped of all tech
nicality, the new automatic telegraph
system may be described as follows:
A typewriter keyboard, when manip-
ulated, causes two rows of perfora-
tons to be made upon narrow tape
of paper which unwinds itself auto
matically over the type faces and re-
winds after being perforated.
This contains the message in a
Morse cipher, the dots being read
when two holes are at a close angle
Or nearly in perpendicular alignment,
and the dashes when the angle is
greater. This tape, reeled as it is fin
lshed, is put upon the transmitter,
which sends the same dashes and dots
to the receiving Office.
The perforator is an adjunct Of the
keyboard and is controlled by power
full and very rapid electric motor.