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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-03
BEGINNING OF A FLORIDA FEUD.
Farm Floated Away in the Night and
 Neighbor Caught It.

Speaking about feuds.' said John l.. Humphries of Tampa, Fla, sI think that the strangest, in its inception at least, is one between two families in Marion county in our state.
 Tt came about in this way. You know, in our state sometimes land dis appears during the night, and man wakes up to find his garden a great sink-hole. This is. of course, due to the fact that Florida is built of coral. and not very substantially built at that. especially in some of the interior coun- ties. Harry Bedding had a nice patch of Irish potatoes. ana Oliver Vance. his neighbor. had what he called farm and near the house was a sink-hole.
 "One night Redding's potato patch disappeared and the next morning he had nice large sink-hole filled with water where the garden was. The same night Vance, who had a sink-hole when he went to bed. woke up to find that the hole was filled with dirt, In which there seemed to be lot of peb- bles about the size of a mans list. Naturally he was surprised. He exam lned the pebbles to find them potatoes. and after calling the family up they got to work and gathered in six bush- els or potatoes ready for market.
 That's where the trouble began. Bedding claimed that under the law where mans stock wanders on to the premises of another without his fault, he can go after it. He argued that the same doctrine applied 10 potatoes which had wandering habits. For he was very sure that the potatoes on the Vance farm belonged to him. Vance and his friends invoked another princi- pie of law that man owns his land from heaven to hades, and he refused to dig up the potatoes for the benefit of his neighbor. .-.
 '"All that happened ten years ago." continued MT Humphries, "and the Readings and the Vances are still armed against each other. Two or three skirmishes have taken place be- tween the parties and one of the Vance boys, IS years old. was wounded by fire from the enemy.
 ''They have never spoken to each other since that eventful night ten years ago. Lawyers and politicians have gone out to help them settle their difficulties, but they were obdurate, and if the feud grows for twenty years as it has already, Florida and Marion county will have feud equal to the best that Kentucky has ever pro- duced. d."-Denver Repubmllcan.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-03

The Navy department is getting busy over the preparations for the reception of Prince Louis of Batten- berg who will arrive in this coun- try about November l. The announce ment of he princes coming was made by the British minister. Sir Mortimer Durand, and everything will be done that is possible to make his serene highness has a good time while he is here, says Washington correspondent. The British squadron is now in Canadian waters and will be at Annapolis from about the first till the eighth of November About the second or third the prince will come to Washington where he will be received by the president. The blue jackets of the north Atlantic squad ron are also arranging in their own way to show the British tars a good time. The American and English fleets have met at different times in all quarters of the globe and some times they have cracked heads. But while the English sailors are fin this country everything will be done to make pleasant the stay of both the officers and the men. The English squadron will sail from Annapolis to New York about the ninth of Novem- Der and the prince will be received by a special committee of the municipali- ty. From New York the squadron will proceed to Gibraltar.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-03

After nearly two years of republican rule from top to bottom, Waterbury has very emphatically said, We want a change. The business administration did the best 1t knew how. but 1t was not good enough for hustling city like Waterbury. and the republican party has been given leave of absence for a long time. The vote shows conclusive ly, notwithstanding the great populari- ty of the candidates, that the city is still in the democratic column. It belongs there by right, and should be kept there hereafter. Mayor-elect Thoms by his majority of nearly 500 shows that he has lost none of his vote getting power. The election was a foregOE. conclusion from the start, although it was pretty hard to convince some over enthusiastic admirers of the present administration of 1t until the votes were counted. While looking around for a reason for their defeat. the repub- licans no doubt will put forward many excuses. but the two principal causes can be attributed to the efforts to take away home government, and the foist- ing on the people of alleged improve ments which they do not want. The tenure of office bill and the making of life positions in other departments is something the people do not want. and the vote yesterday was very emphatic on this point. The people want their moneys worth in the way of public Improvements, and this they know they have not been getting. Our streets were never in such wretched condition as they have been since the business administration has been con- ducting affairs. in fact. everywhere aI- most there has been a tendency to take care of the corporation and let the people pay the bills Our Independent and republican contemporaries have lei of a lot of guSh the past two or three weeks. that. now that the election is over. and the people have spoken. is IaughabIe All talk about the city going backward and pubic improve
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-03

ments being stifed, is ridiculous, and the editors that penned these lines are very we'll aware of it. All their talk was for political purposes only, but it. falled to work. We look for an ad- mln1stration of affairs during the next two years that will not only boom our city and it's affairs, but one that will be credit to the men whom the demo- crats yesterday honored with an cleo tion. They are men who have the wei fare of our city at heart. Most of them nave held office before and no flaw has. ever been found in their work. It IS regretted by the men who managed. the campaign and democrats generally that the democratic candidate for city clerk did not go in with the rest of the ticket. MT Crary deserved an cleo t1on, and if all reports are true he was defeated by the men whom he most relied on for his election. It Is too. pad also that more of a special effort was not made in the first ward to elect the aldermen. It would have been a hitting climax to the days work if an- other alderman had been captured in that ward, and then Mayor-elect Thoms would have democratic board to back him up in his recommendations and suggestions during his term. Taken altogether it was big day for the democrats and while the personal popu- larity of the candidates had much to do with the result, the democratic city committee that handled and managed the affair is deserving of much praise.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-03
HEARD IN PASSING

j. P. Morgan's anger against bis man Perkins" is truly histrionic.
 If the president has not been way ing the big stick" at Cuba, who has
 M. Witte appears to be like a good many other men. Prosperity and sue cess have robbed a considerable DOT tlon Of his Judgment and dignity.
 State Treasurer Sherrick of Indi- | ana has been removed for gambling With the state funds. Several insur- ance directors appear to have had their salaries increased for gambling with the policy holders funds.
 We presume Attorney General Moody did not insist on imprison- ment for those beef trust directors for fear it would hurt their feelings. Moreover they can easily recover their fines by raising the price of beef.
 Thomas Taggart says that insurz ance companies never contributed one penny to the democratic campaign fund. We don't believe that the con tributers to the democratic fund were sufficiently numerous for Tom to have forgotten any.
 The president has transferred his unsavory consul general to Aix-la- Chappelle to New Zealand When we reflect how unsavory the individ- ual really was we cannot but be thankful to the president for sending him farther away.
 Chairman Shonts of the Isthmian canal commission awarded a $1,000,- GOO contract for feeding the laborers along the canal, according to his own judgment, to the second from the highest bidder. The onfy'' point we cannot understand is why Mir Sionts advertised for bids at all.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-03
A HALT ON THE LIMITED.

We were twenty-five miles west of Syracuse when the brakes went on. Conductor and brakeman were up in an instant-I after them-and on the platform and hanging out from the yestibule steps. Slower and slower ran the train and finally stopped. Something had gone wrong with the engine. For the time all hands, con- ductor. engineer. fireman and brake man. turned mechanics and tinkered up one cylinder. Then we went back to the train to try her again.
 Go ahead"' shouted Snyder.
 We went ahead but by leaps and bounds.
 What's the matter7"
 She's running on one cylinder. The engineer says he can make the next telegraph station"
 It was like driving a bicycle with one pedal. When we should get up a little speed the jerks would be less no- ticeable So we pounded along.
 When it does come" said l T sup pose it comes like this"
 Rarely twice alike" Snyder re. piled. but" We were slowing down again and he was all business, as he should be- 4 dark station lay ahead.
 Operators gone home" cried the brakeman: T was afraid of it."
 "we'l try to get to Clyde then" said Snyder to the engineer moment later. "Can you make it:"
 "Of course" replied the dark figure in the cab window.
 Again came the jerks and bumps while we were starting up.
 What can you do now?" l asked.
 "Oh. it's up to the dispatcher as soon as we can get in touch with him. don't know what he'll do."
 But how can he know anything about yOu?"
 "He knows all about us. We should have been reported as passing the next tower a good while ago. The fact that the tower man hasn't re- ported US as passing tells him some things the matter and he'll know it's probably the engine"
 So here we were in the hands of the beardIess young man who sits over teIegraph instrument in Buffalo, one hundred and eleven miles away! The fIF&FfHHfLlbF hllFA HAA ANNAt N1 A@A-. der was sure of that. Why? Because if was the dispatcher's business to know all about us. There you have a glimpse of the system.
 We came limping into Clyde on one leg and Snvder's confidence was justi- fed A freight had been held against inc emergency. The dispatcher took in OFT story in few crisp telegTaphie svIJabIes and instantly orderUd the freight engine to abandon it's train rpd take ours. It needed but short r7ornent-a few flashes back and forth and the big decapod was hurrying cl,,raSfIv over: we could see hpT lights . hundred yards away Nobody ask ed questions. nobody explained any thing. simply the lame engine hopped away and the big fellow came ciank-
 60 ahead-' cried Snyder. what's tfle matter with youT And ahead we went. snvders words came baek to me. Somehow or other she's got TO go through"
 At Rochester another passengrT eil- zine was waiting for us-the dispatch CTS work again. We had drVPped an hour and thfFfy minutes but we were going thrOuxh.-Samuei MeTvin ln Success
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-03
P. H. GARRITY. 221 Bank. Phone 403-A
FIRE ALARM.

ECor South Main gnd Grand sta
 CScovill Manufacturing Co Pl 6-Cor Bridge and Magill stA
 7-Exchange Place.
 12-Rogers & Bro P)
 14-Cor East Main and Wolcott road N-Cor High and Walnut sta. 16-Oor East Main and Cherry Etk 17-Cor East Main and Cole sts. 21-Cor N. Elm and Kingsbury sta 23-Burton steet engine house. 24-Waterbury Mfg Co Pl 26-COr North Main and North sta 26-Cor Buckingham and Cooke stk 2T-Cor Grove and Prospect sts. 2S-Cor Hillside avenue and Pine st 2e-Cor Ludlow and N. Willow sta S1-Cor Bank and Grand sts. S2-Cof Riverside and Bank sts. e4-Cok ". Main and Watertown I'd e5-Conn By 6 L'rg Co car hss PJ S6-Waterbury Brass Go (P.)
 s7-Cor Cedar and Meadow sts- S6-Cor Grand and Field stS
 42-Cor South Main and Clay sta 43-New Englald Watch Co P.l G5-Benedict & Burnham Mfg Co PJ <6-WatEbwy Buckle Co P.)
 47-Oor s. Main and Washington sta b1-Cor Baldwin and River sts Ea-Cor Franklin and Union stz. b3-waterbury Clock Go. case lac PJ 6LCor Clay and NH sts.
 b6-Cor Liberty and River sta
 67-No 6 Hose house.
 bS-Cor Baldwin and Stone sts.
 62-Cor Doolittle alley and Dublin e. 76Cor West Main and Willow sts. f5-North Willow st, cor Hillside 74-Cor Johnson and WaterviIle sta 142-wolcott st, beyond Howard 161-Cor East Main ard welton st2 i71East Main st, opposite PoliA 212-The Platt Bros Co P1 21B-Hammond Buckle Co Pl 214-waterbuy CI'k O, mfv't fsc pl a16-Co North Main and Grove sta e51-Cor Round HiIl and Ward sta 2s-Farm street 2s4-Cornr Rina ssnd North Maan stR. a81-Junct5on Cooke and N Main stA 25s-Cor Abbott and Pboenix avenues. fT2-Groya, bet Central 6 Holmes ave s11-S. \. E. Telephone Co bldg< IPg s12-Cor Bank and Meadow gtA e13-Randolph & Clowes Pl e1-Piume 6 Atwood Pl e11AmeT1ean Ring Co PN s1e-E1ecfrfc Light Station Pl s1s-Holmes. Booth q Hsydens R1 a21-No 4 Hose houR. s22-Cor Green and V. Leonard Etz sz3-Cor Washington sv 4 Porter sG e24-Cor Charles and Porter sts. s2-Cor Simons q q Washington ~. e71-Cty Lumber & Coal Co PJ &12-Trzcy Brus Pl G3-Cor IGberty and s Main sta {Sf-sfeeie 6 Johnson Mfg Go Pl Es2-CU Baldwin and Rye sta
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-03
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1905.

A lot of republican red fire will be packed away in moth balls for future use. It was all ready to touch off last night but the good people said out with the business administration, it was a failure.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-03

What about the business administra- tion that has been doing things and saying things the past two years? The people had their say yesterday, and the rebuke administered to the present administration was emphatic. Waterbury is still a democratic city.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-03
PUBLIC CONFIDENCE.

A most essential factor in business Is to gain first and hold firm after wards, the confidence of the public. By giving the purchaser full value you cement a general good feeling which is everlasting. If advanced orcers are a criterion we certainly have gained the sought for goal. We take your monument order now and set the job in the cemetery in early spring. Re member, the low winter prices stu prevail. Fireplace goods and plumb CTS supplies.
 CHARLES A. JACKSON & GO
 xTo-z74 Bank Street
 Manufacturer and Importer
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-03
Ladies' TaiIOr-madG Costumes and
 Coats.

A perfectly fitting gown is much ad- mired by everybody.
 THAT IS THE KIND I MAKE.
 My Skirts are cut properly, are per fectly tailored, and therefore hang gracefully. Walking or lnstep Length Costumes are deservedly growing in popularity every day. Each order is under my personal supervision, which enables me to guarantee entire satis- faction in every respect My great success in the past is due to the fact that patrons are always assured of Best Quality, Correct Styles, Artistic Workmanship, Perfect Fit.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-03
P E NM A ~ SHIP
 Prof. HOIlev.

Tesebes every pupn to urits q nns rnpsd. business hand. h . course of 1e private lessons and DO failureA An kinds ef pea work executed in the kisbest dexres Of sr1
 fs7 BANK sTREEE
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-03
MORE 

than cleaning up your back yard is to .see that the PLUMBING in your house is in sanitary condition, IL doesn't cost much to have it right and save doctor bills; also 1t will add great ly to your comfort We will cheerfully give you an estimate on plumbing and heating, and can sell you a first class Stamford Range. Phone 4Os+
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-16
Has Reclamation Problem.

All of the reclamation problems now being considered by the federal govern ment are not located in the sage brush desert country. Right at the very doors of Chicago is a vast area of land of in- exhaustible fertility, but now rendered of little value by the perversity of the Nankakee river. Year after year ehe rich bottom land of this stream is sub merged during the flood periods, and on 100000 acres agriculture Is restricted largely to the production of hay.
 This is no new problem. Thousands of dollars have been expended in investi- gating 1t and numserous attempts have been made to solve it. In this portion of the Kankakee valley the stream flows through a broad aluvial plain, varying in width from one to twenty miles, and sloping westward with an almost uni form gradient of a little over one foot to the mile. Across this great marsh the river winds a slow and devious way, it's rate of fall being only four inches to the mile. It's crooked channel lengthens out to 240 miles in 2o00 bends to travel a distance of about seVenty-one miles. The remarkable richness of the soil and the great quantity of the land lying unused in swamps situated so near the great market of Chicago have resulted in many investigations by the state authorities and private citizens.
 From 1879 to 1885 many schemes of re- clamation were considered and several thousand dollars were expended on the engineering work. The drainage area of the Kankakee obove the Indiana Illinois state line, including Yellow river, IS about 1900 square miles, or 100000 acres This valley is an elevated marsh lying some ninety feet above Lake Michigan
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-16

is mainly dependent upon the situation at Momence, H., and that the most feas- ible and economical method of draining the kankakee wet lands is by directing improvements of the channel within the valleys It is thought that this can best be done by devating boldly from the old channel, thereby shortening the length and increasing the grade of the river.
 Before presenting definite plans for consideration the geological survey will make a careful study of the flow. espe- cially the flood discharge of the Kanka- lSee river. The amount oi lands benefit ed by the proposed drainage and the commercial value of that benefit will be ascertained. It is believed that a care ful topographic survey will be made of the Kankakee river bed and banks at and above Momence and a study of the action of tine waters during floods at that point. A line of precise levels will be run from some suitable point on Yel- low river near Ober to some suitable point on Tippecanoe river near Ora to as- certain If the fall is sufficient to war rant further work, in which case topo- graphic sheet will be made covering the surveyed route. In the event that obsta- cles are met with in carrying out the latter suggestion it is then proposed to run lines of precise levels over the Kan kakee-Lake Michigan, and possibly the fIankakee-T -Tippecanoe route.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-16
WHY THE NEGROES
 SKIN IS BLACK Major Woodruff Thinks He Has
 Solved Problem FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS Country Is Becoming Aroused as Never Before Against the Raw ages of What Is Known
 as "White Plague"

Washington, April 15.-(Special)-Ae- cording to London, England. correspond ence to local paper, surgeon-Major Charles Woodruff of the United States army has solved the interesting puzzle Why is the negro black?'
 The answer. roughly summarized, is that his blackness is his defense against the dangers of the sun. The entire ques- tion is treated by Major Woodruff in an exhaustive treatise published by Messrs. Robman Qimited), under the title of "The Effects of Tropical Light on White Men"
 Sun rays are divided into two classes long and short The latter are dangerous to all persons who are not defended from them; the former make no heat. To avoid these dangers the pure negro has evolved a black skin and nocturnal habits.
 The defensive skin is an armor of pig ment just under the outer skin. 1t Va ries in intensity of color from the coal black negro of the tropics to the whits man of northern attitudes.
 The pigment Is always there-iust sdf- ficient in strength to resist the danger in different climes This accounts for the varying coors of different races-blae!k, red yellow, copper and white. It is only absent in Albinos-a sign of degeneration. explains Major Woodruff.
 An extreme Illustration of the danger of rays is provided by radium It Is stat l that single pound of radum in a room would kill every one present by the blasting forces of it's rays The negro s nocturnal habits are rendered necessary by the conversion of dangerous sun rays into harmless but uncomfortable sun rays into harmless but uncomfortable heat rays. This is how Major Woodruff states the facts of the case in this re- spect
 "rhe negro is really a nocturnal ani- mall like the other black animals of the tropics. Left to himself he behaves like the cat-inclined to sleep all day, hiding away somewhere, and becomes livel 7, energetic and active at night In tho southern states the plantation negroes can be heard all night long prowling about, shouting, singing, courtng and chicken stealing.
 "'rheir dances, camp meetings and household habits are based on this noe turnal instinct to hide from the light. even if they are better protected than we'
 The negro's natural armor Is only ef- fcaeious against natural heat. When ex- posed to artificial heat in a dark atmos- phere the black skin ceases to throw off heat and the negro suffers In a stoke hole, for instance, he is usually the first man to collapse, even when white men are unaffected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-16

erroneously regarded as safe if they have wings to fly. Even in England there are spiders which run so swiftly and leap with such precision that, apart from the aid of webs, few but the largest insects are secure from their attacks. In Aus tralia there are parachuting spiders which sail obliquely down from the tree tops, ard these must be deadly to en- counter. Let us give the spider its due Even those who willingly concede it's aii- igence grudge it the undeniable attribute of cleanliness.
 Few created animals are more loath- some than the scorpion. There Is graceful beauty in the deadliest snake. in the fierce tiger, even in the banded wasps and hornets; but in the scorpion there is nothing but foulness. The erea- lures bite varies in it's results, possibly according to the condition of the SCOT pion itself. but more probably according to that of the person bitten. I know of one case of a man. an American, who was repeatedly bitten by scorpions with out on any occasion suffering more than a few hours of discomfort. In Morocco have seen lads handle scorpions without a sign of fear, letting them crawl on the palms of their hands, even laying them on their eyes, and all for a quarter of a dollar I was told at the time that the skin of the open hand. stretched tight. gave the scorpion no purchase with which to get it's weapons in play.
 What was. however, more remarkable was the patent indifference with which a gang of Moorish masons went to work barefooted to pull down an old building in the full knowledge that every blow of their picks on the falling walls set fresh scorpions free to writhe over their feet and legs for they were buried in the ac- cumulatng rubbish almost up to the knees. To their way of thinking the creatures reputation was more evil than its bite"