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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-03
THE AGRICULTURAL SCIENTIST.

When the average farmer few years ago was asked to express an opinion concerning the application of scientific knowledge to the raising of crops. he ordinarily waxed scornful at the expense of agricultural scientists. whom he held 10 be of no more ac- count than the proverbial cipher with the rim removed. Especially was he intolerant of the entomologists. to whom he usually referred as ''bugolo- gists.'' and whom he regarded as being 10 be classed with the milder form of lunatics-harmless. perhaps. but certainly of no practical use. He and his brethren. he would have told you. had you asked his reasons for such hostile attitude toward the ex- pPrts. were tired of being bothered by persons anxious to tell them how to attend tO their own affairs. All We ask he would probably have said. in effect, "is to he let alone. Workers in other lines are not overloaded with gratuitOus advice. as we are. and we don't like it. for we feel that We are as capable of minding our own busi. ness as anybody else. Let Us go our own way. and We will be content to have our wOuld-be mentors go theirs"
 This was the position generally as sumed. even by the more advanced among the tiIlers of the soil. and. in view 0f the vast amount of suggestion and counsel furnished by the press and the public generaily-the ideas ad- vanced having been. in many cases. worse than wortbleSS-it Is not sur pTising that feeling almost akin to resentment grew up among the farm CTS. and that they viewed with sus- pici0n all attempts te induce them to deviate from the practisee and meth Dsfs that had been theirs for years. and their fathers before them.
 \ material change. for which the UnitesI States department of azricul- ture is largely responsible. has been brought about in the last few years. With each succeesiiuz season there has been an increasing number of evil dences that the department is not only desirOus Of helping farmers. but also that 1t Is competent tS do 90. Gradu- ally the men who raise the big crops have learned ts have more respect for the agricultural scientists at Washing ton. eSperially for those who have told them how to egntrol the insect pests that menace the5r pruiucts and cause large losses. annually. and how to grow things Of whieh they have beretofore known little or nothing These se5en- tfSts- as farmers are beginning to real fze. are not mere dresmerS- fortified
 
 information zziBef from tsoks bu- leveI-hezded- reS1it-achierinz persons whose knovIedre fs PrzcficzE and wh0 k1oE kOr to devote il tO good psr rose<-C- ArIhu- WiIIizus ia SuccezzL
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-03

withstanding all efforts of his enc mics in the republican party and the democrats to dislodge him. Being the only man in Maryland who is ab- solutely dictator in his own district, Mr Mudd has been formidable power in state politics. It was there fore no surprise when Senator Me Comas having being eliminated, Mudd reached out for the state organiza- ton and won his fight for an early state convention by a vote of 16 to Tn the face of the opposition of Representative Wachter, of Balti- more, the city chairman of the repub- lcan committee and Collector of Gus toms Stone, the city leader of Balti- more. Mir Mudd is quite as much practical politician as Senator Cor man and should he be chosen state leader of the republican organization, will undoubtedly give the astute sen ator a hard contest over the Poe amendment, pet measure designed by the democratic leader to disfran- chise the colored vote and make Mary land solidly democratic. In view of the recent pronunciamento concern ing the activity of federal office hold CTS in politics it is interesting 10 note that both the Collector of Gus toms, MT Stone, and the Collector of Internal Revenue, Mir Goldsborough, are quite active in this fight.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-03

In considering the question of the admission of Oklahoma and Indian Territory into the union as one state, it is interesting to note that sucn a new state would be entitled to not less than seven members in the lower house. Under the present allotment a state is allowed one representative for each 194,1S2 persons and it is es- timated that Indian Territory and Oklahoma will have, by the time the state is admitted. at least 1,5OO,OOO people and probably more The tact that so many people are denied repre- sentation in congress and in the sen ate other than, one delegate-from Oklahoma-is responsible for much of the sympathy extended to residents of those territories.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-03

The reformers who were beaten when the Congregationalists agreed to take Mir Rockefeller's S10O.OOO and spent 1t to convert the heathen-pre- sumably to Mir Rockefeller's kind of religion-have by no means given up the fight, says an exchange. They have appointed permanent commit tee of twenty and have begun sending out documents to prove that Mir Rock efeller's money is tainted" Among the documents is a sermon on "1he Issue Before the Church" If that sermon sets forth that the business of the church is to investigate the sources of all gifts offered to it. and not to accept any in cases in which the church cannot give certificate of good moral character to the donots. then the committee is laying out quite programme. Incidentally. it may be making ground for closing about half the churches which are now open on Sunday in the full odor of sane tity.
 lt is only a few years ago since the trustees of the funds of Old Trinity in New York were prosecuted for violating the laws in not keeping some of the churchs slum tenements in proper sanitary condition. If mem ory serves. the church made it's ten ants draw water from faucets iD the yard so as to save the price of plumb ing is buildings. Exposure quickly righted that abuse. and now no doubt Trinity-s rentals are drawn only from model tenements.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-03
HEARD IN PASSING

1 Prof Ferriana declared that 75 per
 cent of the criminals perpetrate crimes in ignorance of their consequences
 Many criminals, he also says, not only
 boast of their crimes, but exaggerate them, even in court, and, to their own detriment, from perverse sort of van-
 ity.-Norwich Record.
 Miss Cannon, daughter of Speaker
 Cannon. is at Lucerne, Switzerland,
 where she is being handsomely enter
 tained. Mrs Elkins, wife of Senator
 Elkins, with her daughter, have also
 been at Lucerne where they were en-
 tertained by Mir and Mrs Edwin Gould, |. S. Consul H. H. Morgan and Mrs Morgan.
 Secretary Wilson says he won't re- sign, but as he will not be. so obliging his dismissal is in order. The scan dals in his department grow fouler. He says that during the past eight years he got rid of some 300 dishonest employees, ITO having been discharged and the remainder compelled to resign. But he allowed the worst offenders to remain.-Bridgeport Farmer.
 It would be amazing, remarks a con. temporary, that the estate of the late Frank Croker, young man only a few years out of college, who never did stroke of work, should amount to more than half million dollars. were it not for the general knowledge of how easily fortunes are piled up in this country of grand opportunities. especially when one has the right kind of father.-Meriden Journal.
 The movement by well meaning citizen of Huntington to stop the use of the presidents picture in advertis. ing is not made from any suggestion of President Roosevelt himself, and he has no claim of les majeste against those thus using it. Doubtless he feels that he will take no harm in this use of his counterfeit presentment, but if it WI do any good to anyone else he has no objection whatever to the use of it.-Bridgeport Standard.
 An emergency meeting" has been deemed necessary by ''the committed of the Internatio tional Cotton congress iI order that an opportunity might be af- forded to urge upon spinners in Europe and the United States the wisdom of buying cotton during the next three months only as it is wanted for i'm use, so that the spectators in cotton may find themselves unable to profit at the expense of manufacturers The spectators are regarded as enc. mics by the manufacturers-Prov 1ence Telegram.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-03
ORIGIN OF PIE.

Usage alone must decide the issue between pie and tart which has returned to us with the gooseberries PhiIology. at any rate. draws no clear distinction. It only traces back tart to the Latin ''tOTtus.- twisted-the pas try being the twisted part. of course: while it is very doubtful about pie - On the whole. Skeat's conjecture that this expresses the miscellaneous nature of the contents is persuasive All the
 pies seem to % back to the original one the magpie-in Latin --pica a-from whose black and white aspect comes pied and -piebald-- The old orCiinaI or service book was called .'pica- or pie becauSe of the appearance of the bIaek-letter type on the white page: and the. edible pie having equally mixed contents may have been chris tened after this by ure,lisevaI hurnor Printers language retains both '-pics' for a Kind of type and --pi7 for type all iumbled up-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-03
SEALED GROCER IN BARREL.
Revenge of Brothers Because Rush.

New York. Aug. 3.-Oh. sad the day. oh evil the hohr. V, en tnn stars in their courses exe.,,d their most malefic influence and impelled Herr mann Ruchmeyer into strife with Francisco and DomenicO Messina, barbieri illustrissimi. whose tonsorial parlor adOrns No. 164S Lexington av- enue.
 Hermann is a thriving grocer at No. 16I6. His barrels of potatoes and i bushels of cabbage and crates of fruit have formed the habit of spread ing themselves all over the adjacent sidewalk. Surely. that was not his fault. But the high-spirited fratelli Messina held him to blame.
 So when they found a large crate of ripe. rosy-red tomatoes in front of their shop at . D. ID. yesterday. they raised 8 Calabrian battle cry. Forth rushed bold Hermann to defend bis own. And then the air was full of language like this:
 ''P':i..'.. m: zZZ amhcdf adh:.: ar."
 Policeman Barlow. passing the gro cery ten minutes later. noticed tall sugar barrel trying to dance a break down in front of the grocery. As he stood contemplating the phenomenon of the dancing barrel. he was astound- e,I to hear it give forth sounds.
 '-Goorgl gOOrgI gcorgl gloo % % O." it groaned.
 Barlow. with hair standing on en.l. tried to look into the barrel but found the id on and very tight. He borrow e,i hatchet and pried it of. Two eS- cited feet danced in air above a pair of tremendous legs
 Barlow pulled the legs and extTact- ei-Herrmann Rushmeyer. choking with wrath. purple-faced from rush of blood to the head. and dripping with tomato puIp-
 Dem tam Ginnies- he spIutterei- T Kill dem for dis You watch a mInufe.-
 But Barlow arrested the brothers Me<sins and took them to the liar lem police court where Hermann tod Magistrate Mayo how they dump eI him head first into his own sugar lsarTel buried eratefuI of ripe to- nlgtoes on top of him and left him io rerf,h with the Iid jsmmed down o1 hiS heels
 His Ho8ors eyes zIezmed and he coGzhed nIuch during the recital
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-03

Representative McNary of Boston
 proposes to go after the joint high
 commission of which Vice President
 Fairbanks is chairman with sharp stick as soon as congress meets. The
 vice president was made chairman of this commission when he was a sena- tor seven years ago. It was organized to settle a number of disputes be- tween the United States and Canada. but it has never done anything more than expend something like $5O,0O0. One of the great questions before it for some years was the boundary between Canada and Alaska and that was set tied by taking it out of the hands of the commission and referring to special tribunal agreed upon by this country and Great Britain. Mir Me Nary wants to know what. the com mission has done and the manner in which the appropriation has been ex- pended, especially as New England is greatly interested in the fishery ques- ton which was before the commis- sion. Other questions submitted to the commission were reciprocity between the United States and Canada and the abrogation of the treaty which prohib its more than one armed vessel on the great lakes. The Massachusetts rep resentative tried to get up a resolution Of inquiry late in the last session. but he was denied recognition by the speaker.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-03
HENRY MILLER'S AUTO UPSET
Joseph H. Hoadley Hurt as Machint
 Tries to Climb a Tree.

Narragansett Pier, Aug 3.-Henry Miller, the actor. and Joseph H. Hoad- ley of New York, were speeding over Boston Neck road, near here. in a for ty horse power auto. when 1t became unmanageable and attempted to climb q tree, after jumping ditch on a sharp curve. Actor Miller made prob ably the quickest exit in his career. He and Mir Hoadley were thrown to the ground and the chauffeur was hurled high in the air.
 Mir Hoadley sustained a sprained an- kle and severe bruises and cuts on his limbs and abrasions on bis feet. Mir Miller was not hurt The machine was badly damaged. In it's wild break it moved down bushes and saplings and took off corner of farmhouse.
 Mr and Mrs Miller gave a dinne- party at the Casino Monday night. and Mir and Mrs Hoadley and Charles Frohman were among the guests. Af- ter midnight Mir Miller proposed the fateful auto run down Boston Neck road. NIT Hoadley was resting quietly last night.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-03

The case of the republican rown on in Maryland may be cited as showing that President Roosevelt prefers to keep him hands of rows in state or ganizatiOns. Several years ago Sen ator NcComas and Representative Mudd Lad a bitter fight Mr 1fcComas did not endorse the tactics suggest ei by Mir NUdd. with the result that Senator German regained control If the state and retired both Senators Wellington and McCOmas The latter was given a place on the District If Columbia Court cf Appeals and the entrance Of Mir Bo1apsrte into the cabinet was taken as an indication thzt the latter was to bs regarded ss the successor of NeComss ss ibe le2ier- This did net suit Nr NBfd
 wts for years has heid Lis seat Tn the House of Representatives. not-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-03

The weather bureau has good deal of assurance, handing out 100 degrees temperature in the city where it draws its wages.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-03
SUBSCRIPTION RATES, Vae yea. $500 & Six months 0.s3 1hses months. L25 .& One month, I2s Delivered to gay part of City.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1905.

The chief Russian peace envoy is said to be Witte. Senator Depew ought to make an effort to meet him.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-03

Then he held the Messina brothers in $500 bail to keep the peace and ad- yised the bold Hermann to keep his tomatoes at home hereafter
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-03
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The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19
Gave Son Permission to Set.

zone of the odd things that l saw
in the trip up the east coast of Africa
was the permission given each day by
one vt the kings for the sun to set,"
said man who recently made a trip
to South Africa. "At one of the ports
where we stopped the soldiers were
drawn up on the parade ground be-
fore the royal palace as the sun was
setting. With pomp and ceremony the
ruler advanced to the front of the bal
cony on the second floor and males
ucally waved his hand toward the
sun. @y=s& -. az
"One Of his subjects explained to me
that it was the royal sanction for the
sun to set. When asked as to wheth.
er the ruler gave his permission for
the sun to rise in the morning the
man replied that the sun must always
rise before the ruler, but that 1t could
never go down unless the royal hand
waved approval. The king who did
this was the Sultan Of Zanzibar.
ST hardly believed that he himself
was sincere In thinking his permis.
sion necessary, for he was educated
for four years at Harrow College in
England, but the performance was to
increase the belief among the subjects
In his divine origin"
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19
A Sabbath-Keeper.

1t was up in one Of those little tlsh-
ing villages of the far north, where
DR.. Grenfell ministers to the bodies
and spirits Of the men who 'go down
to the sea in ships"
There was a fisherman who was but
lately come to Christ, and he had a
new fishing-net which he had set out
in the sea to catch fish. 1t was a
brand-new, f1ve-hundred-dolla net. 1t
was that flsherman's little fortunee.
And on Sunday morning there came
up great wind, with the promise of
a storm. And DR.. Grenfell, who has
the welfare of his fisherfolk at heart,
bethought him of that net. He knew
that it would be torn to pieces be-
fore the day was over; he knew that
the loss Of 1t meant poverty for the
fisherman, months of hunger and dep
riyation for his children.
So the doctor went out and found
the fisherman, and said to him:
AREN'T you going to take in your
metz"
And the fisherman said, at is Sun
day"
But DR.. Grenfell, who is a wise and
sensible man, remembering how the
disciples plucked the ears of corn on
the Sabbath, and how Christ said
'What man shall there be among you
that shall have one sheep, and if II
fall into a pit on the Sabbath day, will
he not lay hold of it, and lift it out? ?'
pleaded with the fisherman, saying:
| II think under the circumstances II
is right for you to bring in the net"
But the fisherman answered him, All
might be right for you, doctor, but Il
wouldn't be right for me. I've only
| been a Christian a little while, ane
! this is the first time I've had a chance
to do anything for the Lord. If 4 gt
i under at the first temptation do yor
think the rest OF the folks will eve
believe in my kind of Christianity?
said was ready to give up eVerythin,
for Christ, and He took me at my wort
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19
GUARDING MILLIONS.
How the Contents of Uncle Sans Great
Vaults Are Watched.

How the Contents of Uncle Sans Great
Vaults Are Watched.
The last thing which the treasury
employees do before going home each
day is to set the tlmelocks, which pre-
vent any human being getting into the
vaults until the hour fixed for opening
next morning.
The treasurer himself, the man who
Is responsible for the millions Of Sc
curlties and money, could not get in.
AS a further protection what is called
1.-The electric protection" Is set upon
each door. This is nothing but a
wooden door that Is attached to the
entrance Of every vault 1t Is so full
oc electrical devices that a single
touch upon it will set the automatic
burglar alarm to ringing in the regis
ters at the main door and In the offices
Of the company furnishing the system.
The whole device Is so sensitive
that in the dead of the night there is
likely to be an alarm when no one has
touched part Of the machinery. One
night not long ago there were three
alarms, all of which were promptly In
vestigated, but no one could be found
who had set the wires to buzzina
their messages Of warnings.
The doors Of the vaults are not the
only parts that are filed with these
delicate but wonderful sensitive cleo
tric wires. The insldes of the vaults
are covered and touch anywhere
would tell just what part Of a vault
was being handled. The officials can
not explain the false alarms. It f.
believed that mice or cockroaches o.
the heavy jar of a watchmun's ster
starts the alarm.
The alarm gives the location, so tha
no time Is lost in getting to the place
The watchman situated near the spo
knows nothing of what has happened
He has seen nothing, heard nothins
to start the clang Of the alarm in tn,
center of the floor above.
| In the last few years some new
vaults, modern in every wav. hav,
been installed in the treasury, bu
Uncle Sam never puts his faith in tn,
statement Of any vault manufacturer
that he has sure thing. These mod
ern vaults are surrounded through tn
night by faithful watchmen. and I,
the day are looked after by homes
and honored employees. The latest O
the safes are in the cash room, wher
much money Is paid out in the dali
transactions Of business with the Dc
partments Of the government and III
banks Of Washington. No watchma
has ever proven unfaithful to hi
trust.
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19
4 preshvterian CathcdraI,

Not for many years have so many
important matters confronted Presby-
terians, or been in the public mind to
interest them. The thing that startles
them most is the proposition of Asso-
ciate Justice Harlan of the United
States Supreme Court, and one of the
most prominent Of evangelical leaders,
that a Presbyterian cathedral be erect
ed in the national capital. While
Justice Harlan is responsible for the
suggestion, 1t is known that others
share his Views and knew in advance
that he was to make them public. A
considerable proportion Of Presbyteri-
ans feel that as Roman Catholics,
Episcopalians, Methodists and to some
extent Lutherans have made Wash
ington a center Of their work, some Of
it national in scope, so Presbyterians
ought to make it. The capital is a
strong Presbyterian center, but 1t Is as
the capital and not as city that it Is
proposed to erect in it place Of public
worship that will attract attention. 1t