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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-25
AN ECHO DOCTOR.
Expert tm Washington Who Guaran. tees t~ Repair Acoustics of
 Amy Building.

An echo physician is the latest addi-
 tion to the ranks of professional men in
 Washington. Some time ago a young college graduate hung out sign that
 bore, beneath his name, the inscription,
 Expert Acoustician. ..
 That this doesn't convey much to the average mind Is evinced by the number
 of strangers who call at the young mans office just to find out what an ex- pert acoustician may be, says report from that city.
 Recently the owners or managers of
 every theater and hall of any size in
 Washington received an advertising booklet from the expert acoustician, a portion of which read as follows: Echoes removed. No reconstruction involved. Sound volumes strengthened, sOftened or altered to suit without in- convenience or Interruption of business. Quick work and accurate results guar anteed. Reasonable rates" 4.t To anybody who ever owned thea ter or music hall with acoustics that wouldn't behave the above announce ment is considered sufficient to explain what the young man proposes to do; but the expert had been called upon more than once to explain that his business does not include the extermination of echoes from mountains, caverns and the 1 like, and in fact that he doesn't propose ! to bother with any outdoor echoes. But he says that he can doctor the acoustics of any room, hall or theater and that the result can be accomplished without so much as scraping the 1 paint.
 l He accomplishes his results by the 1 application to different parts of the hall whose acoustics he had been called l upon to doctor of padding, rugs, car pets, draperies, hangings and the like 1 According to his statements a hall can 1 be filled with all sorts of upholstery without remedying it's acoustics in the
 least, while the proper location of sound l assimilators, buffers and the like will 1 accomplish wonders. 1 The usual duration of an echo in 6 properly constructed theater or hall i.
 between 11a and 21a seconds. Some halls that the expert acoustfeian cured by his sound assimilators had six, sev en and eight-minute echoes
 'The doctors keep the undertakers
 busy" he remarked, "and I'm sure the
 architects will leave enough sick acous
 tics in their wake to make my business
 as an echo physician a profitable one
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-25
MONDAY, JANUARY ,25, 1904.

A print shop' built of honey, will be one of the things to be seen at the worlds fair. H. F. Staple, editor of the Rockport Mail, is the architect and his beesare the builders. A year or two ago MT Staple erected a handsome office building. Last summer he con- cefved the idea Of reproducing, in n,in- iature his building in honey. He placed q hive in exact imitation of the Staple block and then got his bees busy. Tn a few months every facade and every nook and corner was GOV cred with thick coating of pure Missouri honey. This odd exhibit will be housed in the Missouri display in the palace of agriculture.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-25
FURNITURE AT JUST l-2
 PRICE.

4 quartered, golden oak Combina,
 ton Buffet and China Closet, good
 value at $36; cut that in two ana the price is but SIS. --... A very solid, rich, handsome
 framed Davenport Sofa, regular
 price is SIS. We wonder who Will
 get this bargain for SIS.
 A rare opportunity for those who take to the popular fad for mission furniture. A Bradley" Desk i'll weathered oak for $S; price mas been $16. A revolving top Costume Pole at g: from $4. Don't think we have duplicates ol these.
 ]. Fl. Burrall & Co. 60 BANK ST. .- Undertaking calls attended to <hv George T. Perry, 26 State sixeet. Tel 227-5; Charles E. sey- apour. 184 Maple street. Tel 2B6-12.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-25
Ralph N. Blakeslee

will act as agent for Waterbury. and will be glad to furnish all Information regarding rates, etc.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-25

Horses, cattle, sheep and hogs, Turkeys, chickens, ducks and dogs; Feed 'em, faften 'en. make em thrive Agricuiture--1e--5
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-25

by law that such officials shall pay into the city treasury any royalties that may receive from the sale of thefr books to the city. There is a good real or wise precautiOn in this action. While teachers are allowed to select from an approved list is it quite prob able that their choice will fall on those prepared by their superior off cers, whether the books are actually teh best for the purpose or not.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-25
THE PHILOSOPHERS STONE.
May Have Been Found i'm Radiun, the Wonder of the Che snieai, s! a~-& World.

! What is becoming of our science of chemistry? Our century-old atomic conceptions have received rude shock; the law of the conservation of energy, to which everything in this universe was supposed to be subservient, is at tackled; and now we seem to be revert ing to the dream of the medieval al- chemist-actually thinking of the trans mutation of metals, says the Scientific American, . ..
 This, at least, is what we have come to, after the announcement made by Sir William Ramsay that radium ap- parently changes to helium. In con- Junction with Lord Rayleigh he carried on a series of experiments which ended in the discovery of argon and helium "a discovery which deserves to be con- sidered one of the most noteworthy achievements in chemical physics of the nineteenth century.
 Sir William Ramsay caught the heavy gas which radium emanates, gas so evanescent that it disappears after a time; he found that gradually it's spec trum, entirely different from any hither- to recorded, displayed the characteris-
 tic yellow line Of heliurn. Day by day the helium line grew brighter. Tn & word, one element seemed to have changed to another
 Are we not perhaps on the verge of 1 some great generalization, which will 1 ultimately prove that just as we have l many kinds of forces, all manifestations of one great force, so We may have 70 1 odd clements hitherto regarded as sim pie forms of matter distinct from each other, but in reality mere manifesto 1 tions of but one, matter?
 What is this?" asked Sir William Ramsay, "but an actual case of that
 transmutation of one element into an@ other in which the ancient alchemists
 believed when they painfully sought 10 change lead into gold and incidentally
 founded the modern science of chem
 istry?"
 ] Clearly, there are more things be- l tween heaven and earth than are
 dreamed of in our chemical philosophy.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-25
We Have Been Surprised

at the large number of orders for mon- lment and cemetery work that we have already received. It is none too early to order work in this line which may be wanted for spring, and with the stock work We are making up our men are pretty busy.
 Call at the works on Beaver street and N. Y, N. H. and H. R. R. and see how stone is worked by the most i'm proved and up to date machinery. ThOS r. Jackson
 312-318 BANK STREET.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-25
Wise ForExers,

The hog is not usually given much credit for knowledge, but the Maine woodsman tells this story to show that there are exceptions in the hog family It seems that mill company raises and has on hand nearly all the time pigs and hogs around their wood comps. Last season several families of pigs first saw daylight at Redmond's camp, but before they were many weeks old they were moved with their mothers some two miles down to the landing camp. Here they were kept until this fall, the old ones having gone the way that fat hogs generally go. A few days since these pigs of the past, the hogs of to-day, got out of their pens and started eff. A man might easily miss the way to Redmond's, as there are many roads but this boar brigade in solemn array went directly to their old home at Red- nond's camp-Bangor (Me.) Conner cial
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-25

CALL AND SEE our display of Poultry, best in the city, to be sold at lowest cash prices. A full line of first class Turkeys, Chickens, Fowl, Geese and Ducks. We also have a full line of Sea Food. Large Escallops 40c quart. HILTON MEAT AND FISH MAR KET, 25S-6062 Cherry st; phone, PISA.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-25
Reversed.

. h@V&T&GWs Stubb--No. haven't an umbrella to my name.
 penn--How is that?
 Why. didn't have my name to my umbrella. "-Chicago Daily News.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-25
FARMING THEIR FAD.
Missouri University Students
 Make It a Social Feature.
AGRICULTURAL PARTIES THE RAGE

The "shorthorns," Composed of old Students. Gave One Recently to the Nevcomers-Co-eds From St. Louis to Learn Butter and Cheese Mak- ing, and Orientals Come to Stady Scientific Husbandry. -eE .sD .@4
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-30
APPENDICITIS NOT CONTAGIOUS.
Prof. j. Austin Larson Takes Issue
With the Berlin Physician.

Salina, Kas., July 30.-The attention
of Prof. ]. Austin. Larson, the natural
magnetic healer. now making head
quarters in Topeka was directed last
evening to the statement of. the Ber-
lin physician, Hr. Hoppe, that appen-
dicitiS is contagious, which appeared
in Friday evenings State Journal I'M
der New York date line. Questioned
regarding the germ theory of this dis
ease, Prof. Larson positively and en-
phatically assailed the German special
lists position.
Appendicitis is not contagious" he
replied to reporters question, land
it isn't caused by a germ. OF this
am sure from my personal obServa-
lions in treating and curing hundreds
of cases of appendicitis in all stages
of development. The question is Of
ten asked, Why is it we have appen-
dlc1tls now when the disease was prac-
ucally unknown twenty years ago?'
Il claim that appendicitis in nearly
all cases is caused by the constant
use of physic. and the physic habit to
great extent is the product of the
last twenty years My experience is
that in nearly every case the sufferer
fIom appendicitis is a sufferer from
chronic constipation and an inveter-
ate user of physic. What is the eff
feet of physic on the bowels? Any
physician, any druggist any school
child will tell you that a physic is an
1rritant and constant local irritation
Will cause Inflammation. When that
stage is reached we have appendicitis.
ANY physician or anyone acQuaint-
ed with my mode of treatment knows
that can cure chronic constipation
in ninety-nine cases out of every hum
dred and in just the same proportion
L can cure appendicitis. If appendf-
c1tis was caused by a germ, it could
not be cured under my treatment
DIR Hoppe speaks of several mem
bers in family having appendicitis
which he thinks establishes his theory
of contagion. Habit is CONTAGIOUS and
the habit of taking physic may easily
run through a family or group of peo-
pie closely associated, with the result
that the same penalty, appendicitis.
may be visited on all"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-30
AT LANSING PRISON.
Interesting Facts About Some of the
Noted Inmates.

| Lansing, Kan, July 30.-The peniten-
tiary now contains 1,137 convicts, of
whom 374 are from Oklahoma. OF the
! total, LII are men and 81 women.
There are in the prison 1913 white men
and $50 negro men; Is white wonderland
10 negro women; IL Indian men and 3
Mexican men. Fifty-two men are
hang" prisoners and As men and two
women are life" prisoners. The hang
prisoners are, of course, in for life and
will never be hanged. Capital punish
ment in Kansas is a statutory fiction.
In the fiscal year just closed, the pris-
oners sent 37,712 letters and received
49, 30S In the same time they sent to
friends outside S6,079.61 and received
$40. 122.33.
John Henry Collins, the young uni
versity student who in 1883 shot his
father to death in Topeka to hasten the
maturity of some life insurance of
which he was a beneficiary, is cell
clerk and also has charge of the prison
band. He is model prisoner and a
good bandmaSter. If one of his men
breaks the rules Collins not only puts
the stripes" on him, but in addition
depriveS him of his practice hours and
the solace of his instrument. Collins
sister and step-mother visit him once a
month and invariably bring him a
Sunday dinner.
Jessie Morrison of Butler county, who
is in for twenty-five years for killing
rival, is resigned to her fate and says
her friends are making no effort to get
her out she has a comfortable room in
the women's ward and does drawn
work. Another notorious woman in the
prison is Mrs New of Greenwood coun-
ty, in whose behalf friends outside still
are working. Another is Mrs. Staffle-
back of Cherokee county. Mrs. Staffle-
back is trying to get out. She was sent
here with her husband and three sons
for murders on the order of the Ben
der slaughters. One of ner sons has
since been discharged and another has
died.
Clyde Maddox, a notorious killer
who will be out in a few years, is the
prison photographer, and his studio is
one of the attractions of the institution.
Maddox is peaceably disposed except
when he is in liquor, and then he is a
mailman. He could make a success in
the art of photography if he would let
whisky alone.
One of the regular visitors In the in
stitution is the venerable mother of
Emmett Dalton. Dalton is in for life.
He is the only survivor of the Coffey-
Vile raid. She comes once a month and
stays two or three days. She still is
Iaboring for her sons pardon, but the
people of Coffeyville are not yet ready
for that and they fight every applica-
ton. Dalton is a good prisoner and the
finest specimen of physical manhood in
the institution
willie" Sell of Neosho county, who
is in for killing his mother, father.
brother and sister in 1887. is employed
in the prison pharmacy, and wants to
talk with all visitors. He insists that
he is innocent, and lately Judge
a pamphlet to prove it. Two women of
Ottawa have undertaken his cause. He
was sent here when he was II years old
and he looks little older than that now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-30
BIG IRRIGATION CONGRESS.
At FL Paso, in Its Own Building,
Next November.

Ell Paso, Texas, July 30.-Ground
has been broken for the construction
of the convention hall to be used in
November by the National Irrigation
congress. The structure will be COM
pleted by October 1, after which it
will be decorated and furnished.
Exhibits from California, Arizona,
New Mexico, west Texas, Utah and
other sections of the arid regions, will
be placed therein to show what has
been accomplished by means of irri-
cation in the raising of fruit and crops
of various kinds
Arizona and other localities of the
mining region will send mineral ex-
hibits and many of the young and
prosperous towns like Douglas will be
extensively advertised at the conven-
ton that the attention of eastern cap
italiStS may be attracted.
People and newspapers in all parts
of the southwest, where irrigation is
in vogue, are evincing much interest
in the convention, and are lending
their aid to make it a success. Sena-
tor Clark, of Montana, president of
the congress, writes that he will be in
attendance and that he is now do
ing everything possible to stir up en-
thusiasm in the northwest. Arrange
mediation of 5000 delegates, as well
as thousands of other visitors, and for
their entertainment the sum of $15,-
900 will be expended by the citizens.
The routine work of the convention
will be interspersed with Mexican
music, bull fights, miners drilling con-
tests, balls, receptions, pigeon shoot
ing contests, baseball matches, Smok-
ers and banquetS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-30
HEWIS'SlNGEEFBINDER
STRAIGHT SIS CIGAR
s anN eSla So
AMATEUR oARsNrEN.
National Association Has Interesting
Meet at Creve Occur Lake.

,Creve Occur Lake, Mo- July 3D.
The events in the Olympic National
regatta of the National Association of
Amateur Oarsmen were decided today
before the largest crowds that ever
attended boat race in this vicinity.
The feature was the championship
single SOULS with the following en-
tries:
Constance S. Titus, Atlanta B. c.,
New York city; Frank Wesley, first
Bob emian B. c., New York; Frank
Juvenal, Pennsylvania Barge club,
Philadelphia; Frank B. Greer. East
Boston A. A. B. c., Boston, Mass, the
champion in 1908, and Edward Cath
erton, Hartford, B. c.. Hartford,
Conn.
The first heats of the intermediate
SOULS and the association single sculis
also were decided. The spectacular
event was the race for eight cared
sh ellis, for which the Vesper Boat club
of Philadelphia and the Argonaut
Rowing club of Toronto, Canada,
fought a hard race over one and one
half miles of straight back-breaking
pulling.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-30
WORK ON THE KANSAS.
BattIeship Has Reached II Per Cent.
Degree of Completion

Washington, July S0.-The navy de-
partment has received from the con-
structor in. charge of work on the bat
tie snip, Kansas, a report that the snip
had reached a IA per cent degree OF
completion and that the contractors
We're planning to complete it within the
time limit specified in the contract.
/ The Kansas is being built at the
yards of the New York Ship Building
company in Camden, N J., where the
armored cruiser Washington is also I'M
The work on the Kansas is under the
supervision of William ]. Baxter, naval
constructor, VINO has directed the work
on some of the finest battle ships in
the navy.
Officials of the navy department say
that barring unexpected delays the
Kansas ought to be ready for launching
by next summer and finished and in
commission by January, 1906. The
officials here have not yet taken up
the selection of a sponsor for the new
ship, although some one is usually Sc
lected for that agreeable duty far in
advance of the launching. The sponsor
is selected by the secretary of the navy
and a representative of the contractors
and it is probable that a Kansas girl
will be designated.
Miss Alice Roosevelt has been in
vited to christen the new training
ship, Cumberland, at Boston, and in
a few other instances the sponsor has
been selected from sentimental reaS-
honor of a state is chriStened by
young woman of the state, frequently
the daughter of. the governor. Off
Gals at the navy department said that
the selection of the sponsor for the
Kansas would soon be announced.
1t is expected here that the Wom-
ems Christian Temperance union will
make an effort to prevent the christen-
ing of the Kansas with champagne,
as has been in the case of every war
ship launched in recent years These
efforts have been unsuccessful, be-
cause the navy department has in
variably refused to interfere. A not
able exception to the time honored
custom of christening a battle ship
with wine was in the case of the Ken
lucky, whose sponsor was Miss Brad
ley, the daughter of the governor of
the state. Miss Bradley used as the
baptismal fluid water from a spring CD
the Kentucky farm on which Abraham
Lincoln was born. However, the ship
was christened right, from the Ken
lucky viewpoint, as scores of bottles
she slid into the water.
Work on the Kansas was started
about a year ago, and, according to
the terms of the contract, it must be
completed by December 16, 1906. 1t
will be ready for launching when it
has reached a so per cent degree of
completion. The Vermont and the
Minnesota, which are also first-class
battle ships, will be launched about
the same time as the Kansas. The
Vermont is being built at Quincy
Mass, and the Minnesota at Newport
News, Va.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-30
WON'T HONOR vARDAMAN.
Rejection of Postoffice Bearing That
| Name Ascribed to President.

jackson, Miss, July 30.-A sensa-
ton has been caused by the govern
ments refusal to allow a new post
office in Chickasaw county to be
named Vardaman in honor of the
present governor of Mississippi. Sew
eraI weeks ago the petition for the
establishment of a postoffice there
was sent to the postmaster general,
the name "Vardaman" being offered.
The petition was delayed for an IN
usual length of time, and finally word
was sent back that the office would
not be established, with the intima-
ton that the name was Objectionable.
1t is believed by the governors friends
that the petition was referred to Pres
ident Roosevelt, together with a clip
ping from one of the editorial utter
anceS of Governor Vardaman while
editor of the Greenwood Common
wealth, in which he made a disre-
spectful criticism of President Roose-
VeltS mother.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-30
MOSQUITOES TAKE TOWN.
Village Practically DepopuIated Be-
cause of Insect Pests.

Bivalve. Nd, July 3O.-A village of 400
inhabitants 80 miles from here is prac-
tically depopulated on account of mos
quitoes. They are so thick that over
two-thirds of the inhabitants have left
their homes, going to the bay on steam
ers to -be-rid of the pests.
Cattle in the marshes are dying by
the score, and many are driven into the
river to get relief and are drowned.
George Phillips, a. travelling salesman
for a wholesale tobacco firm of New
York city, was attacked by a swarm
of the pests. His horses became frantic,
throwing him out of his carriage, and
breaking both his legs and three ribs.
A camp meeting which was in prog
ress had to be postponed. The steamers
plying between here and Baltimore run
at top speed between Bivalve and
Deals island, and do not stop at these
landings on account of the mosquitoes.
Deals island is one of the largest ship
ping points for soft shell crabs, and all
shipments go to New York city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-30
RINGLINGs ARE FAIR.
Give Parsons Boy Who Was Chewed
by a Bear SIS.

Parsons. Kas-. July 30.-Aden Gal
yon, the lad who experienced the SEN
sation of having his arm partially
amputated by a huge polar bear, was
the recipient of a nice present from
the show company.
without solicitation or request, C.
H. Davis, the manager of the Ringing
Bros circus, found his way to the
Galyon home, and there gave to the
suffering boy SIS in cash, vouched
for the expenses incurred by reason
of surgeons services, and furnished
the family with free tickets to the
circus. This act was not performed
because Mr.. Davis believed that his
company was IN any way to blame for
the accident, but rather because of
an inclination of fairness on the part
of the manager.
1t appears from various statements
that the lad was wholly to blame for
his unfortunate experience. 1t is said
by two or three witnesses that the
show attendants took Alden from his
position on the cage wheel more than
once prior to the time the bear got in
his work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-30
POPE IS POLITE.
But Indicates That Relations With
France Are at an End.

Paris, July 30.-Although no official
announcement has yet been made it can
be positively affirmed that the rupture
between France and the vatican is
complete The holy sees lengthy reply
TO the French note, though most cour-
teously worded. merely amounts to a
polite statement that the pope does not
intend to infringe the stipulations of
the concoTdat and will not withdraw
the letters calling the bishops of Dion
and Laval to Rome.
Diplomatic courtesy forbids the pub
Hcation of the French answer until the
pope is notified but foreign Minister
Delcasse last night sent NJ. De Courcel,
vatican, two notes. One for the papal
secretary of state announcing the rup-
ture and the second a personal note in
structing the charge d'affaires, and the
others of the staff of the embassy, to
return to Paris Immediately after his
mission is accomplished, which proba-
bly, Will be this morning When NJ. De
CourcelS adviceS reach Foreign Minis
ter DelcaSSe the latter will Immediate
" request the papal nuncio to leave
France 1t is not expected that the
rupture will have any immediate con-
sequences beyond the mutual with
drawal of the representatives of France
and the vatican and the suppression of
the embassy and nunicature as the de-
nunciation of the concordaf requires
preliminary sanction. Consequently
fresh developments are improbable I'M
til the appointment of the new bishops
come up. Well informed persons do
not believe that the vatican will retail
ate by Withdrawing Frances protector
ate over the eastern Catholics.