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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-21
HEARD IN PASSING

There is a warning in the Annapolis affair for NIT Roosevelt. If he is not very careful some of the upper-class senators may take him out and haze him-New York World.
 The packers are now asking wheth- spr young Mir Garfield promised 3the'.. immunity. Young Mir Roosevelt is the man they should approach to get official information from Atlanta Journal.
 If the Colorado cowboy who roped a wildcat will drop postal card 10 T. R.. Washington. D. C.. ne will no doubt be put in line for something bet ter than punching cows.-Denver Re publican.
 Mir Lawson of Boston admits that if he goes broke he will deserve no sympathy but in the same breath he announces that he will go on fighting with his pen. It will be the public that deserves sympathy.-St Louis Republican.
 Congressman LOngworth. of Cincin- natl. is a member of the house con- mittee on foreign affairs and last weeks social announcement at the White House indicates that he is like wise a member of the unofficial con- mittee on domestic affairs.-Hartford Times.
 If we had parcels post. mail order business would increase by leaps and bounds. This would tend to the pros Derity of business men. The carrying charges would be lessened and. conse- quently the cost of many articles would be cheapened. This advantage would reduce cost to purchasers and would of itself. as price cuts always do. increase sales. The parcels post is sane and reasonable improvement and enlargement of the postOffice sphere that must come.-New London Day.
 The committee assignments of Sen ators PIatt and Depew show that ras- cality is still at a premium in the United States senate. Think of Depew on the privilege and elections. decid- ing such a question as the honest CT corrupt election of a member: on re- vision of the laws. perhaps to pass on new insurance measures. and on the new judiciary. And NIr Platt. the of life insurance grafterS. on the finance committee. naval af- fairs and the Panama canal.-New York Press
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-21

We are sorry to observe a revival of the social entertainment which fourished some ten years ago, and was known as the mock marriage. e says one writer. Sorry an institution which means so much to the nation should be trsvestied in this manner. and sorry there are apparently a large number of persons. who have hitherto given every evidence of sanity. who delight in such an entertainment. When the mock marriage" takes place under the auspices of church society and for the benefit of charity. it is especially objectionable. While the participators in the mock mar riage" are generally thoughtless mere ly, and without serious intention of casting ridicule upon the sacred insti- tuition, they are aiding indirectly the cause of those carping critics. of wbam George Bernard Shaw is a conspicuous example, who profess to believe the world has outgrown marriage. but are unable to suggest a satisfactory sub sttute. Many assaults have been made upon marriage as an institution. but. somehow or other. it seems to find favor still with the vast majority of persons.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-21
By William cowper

The railroad stations at St. Peters burg are occupied by troops, and the government has made an attempt, with the aid of the railroad battalions, to maintain some sort of train service especially to the German frontier, and also to keep open cable communication with points abroad.
 At Sevastopol new mutinies have oc. cured. Sixteen hundred soldiers have been disarmed and are under guard.
 At Warsaw the employees of the fire department struck last night. They demand an increase of salary and re. fuse to take out the fire engines unless it is granted.
 The Polish National party has order. cd the shopkeepers to remove their Russian signs in order to Polonize the city.
 It is believed that the railway men on the Warsaw roads will join the strike.
 It is reported from Nicolaieff, in the government of Kherson, that two in- fantry regiments revolted and that a sanguinary fight ensued.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-21
THE LAME MILLER.

Framed in an elaborate mosaic pat tern this command appears in the Nashville papers:
 Vote for John J. McCann. the lame miller. for county trustee"
 Sandwicbed amid this command is the Lame MilleT's portrait. He is handsome. with a kind of Roman c8uHtenanre. clear as a cameo. keen eyed. reverend of hair Without know ing his other qualifications for the post he seeks. we applaud the frsnknsss of his appeal and the beauty of his line aments. The Lame Miller. Has he a golden thumb: Is he really lame ar merely in a Byronic wayE Not foo lame to run well we'll be b0und- Lame McCanu is the man.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-21
THURSDAY, DEC q. 1905.

That Florida will have good roads in the near future and plenty of them, is shown by the completion of the 9O- mile road between Palm Beach and Miami on the east coast, says an Au- tomobile writer. This road was built by the county of Dade and Henry NJ. Flagler, and the Palm Beach resorter can now drive in his automobile to Miami and back, which will make an ideal two days trip. The time is not far distant when the automobilist will be able to drive from Jacksonville to Miami, large portion of the way be ing along the unrivalled sea beaches. and only requires a moderate outlay to connect the beaches with good coun- try roads
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-21
MOSCOW IS TIED UP
General Strike In Russia Opens
 at Ancient Capital.
FACTORIES IDLE ASDTRlISS STOPPED
Railway Stations at St. Petersburg Held by Troops-Governmen Try-
 ing to Keep Train and Cable Service Open,

ST. PETERSBURG. Dec. 21.-Ths general strike, which has been approv cd by the Councils of Workmen of St Petersburg and Moscow, the Union of Unions, Union of Peasants and Gen eral Railway union, has opened here and at Moscow.
 The general strike was decided upon at joint conference of the Council of Workmen's delegates and representa-. tives of the railway unions and various revolutionary parties. Twenty-two rail- ways are taking part in it. r. The conference drew up a manifesto addressed to the workmen afid- the troops, calling on them to rise and es. tablish a democratic republic. All the railways radiating out of Moscow are involved.
 The strike promises to be on far more extensive scale than any previous movement of the kind. Many of the largest works here. including the Putt. loff and Nobel iron works, will cease operations today.
 The Railway union at Moscow has resolved to run troop trains from Man churia and to convey grain to the fam inc stricken districts.
 A Berlin dispatch says that the Brit ish cruiser Sapphire has passed through the Kiel canal on her way to Riga.
 The strike at Moscow was inaugurat- ed promptly at noon. All the men walked out of the factories and mills, and the trains on the six railroads were left standing in the stations.
 Shortly afterward an incoming train on the Kursk road was fired into by armed strikers. The engineer and sev- eral passengers were wounded.
 The strikers generally seem to be pro- vided with arms There is great ex- citement in this city.
 All the electric light plants are clos cd. Governor General Doubassof has declared the city to be in partial state of siege. which gives the civil suthori- ties exceptional powers of arrest, etc.
 The next move will be to declare a state of siege in which the military supersedes the civil power
 The provincial authorities have al- ready been empowered in anticipation of the contingency of their being cut oil from the capital to act on their own responsibility even to the extent of the proclamation of martial law.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-21

c. M. Mcfarland, who raises To-
 bscco in Florida under canvas and
 without, told the ways and means
 committee at a recent sitting that
 they were trying 10 stretch their con science by degrees; that if the Fili-
 pinos were Americans they ought to
 he treated as Americans and every
 vestige of the tarif removed: if thsy
 were foreigners they should be treated as such and the tariff bars kept up. Florida had ten million dollars invest cd in the industry of growing tobacco and 10000 people were engaged in it. The committee now proposed 10 iujure if not destroy this industry for the benefit. not of men of their equal. but of low. cheap and worthless labor. Mr Mcfarland gave an interesting resume of the conditions of the tobacco indus try in the southern states and said if they were left alone they could do very well but unless the committee permitted them to remain as thsy were, they could do nothing. Repre- sentative Payne sarcasticaIly inquired if there was not a good profit in the business as it was conducted now. Why. certainly. would not be in it if there was not. was the reply. T would 20 into your business" at which there was laughter. during which Representative GrosvenOr said- Net from the state of Florida with rour prctecticnist views D- A. Shaw. the Florida TohaccO Co. reviewed the history Of totaceo grow Ing in Alabama. Georgia and FSorida.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-21
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

TIke LAXATIVE PROMO Quinine Tablets Druggists refund nancy if IL fails 10 cure. R. ". GROVES sig nature IS on each box. 25e.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-21
PUBLIC CONFIDENCE.

A most essential factor in business h 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 . 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. as- member. the low winter prices stin prevail. Fireplacs goods and plumb. ers' supplies.
 CHARLES 4. JACKSON & GO
 x7o-zT4 Bank strssl
 gsnufsc cfurer~ and rmporSSr&
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-21
Christmas Will See Reconciliation.

PITTSBURG, Dec. 21.-An unusually large Christmas tree is being arranged at the home of Alfred J. Corey of Brad dock, father of William Ellis Corey, president of the United States Steel corporation, and from the extreme him. its of the American continent the son and daughter-in-law are hurrying to Pittsburg for the Christmas season. which will mean so much or so little to both. That a reconciliation between Mir. Corey and his wife is now in view is the opinion held by the host of friends of both.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-21

and vigorously maintained that if the Philippines contained quantities of iron ore and coal so that steel rails could be produced there more cheaply than in the United States, certain members of the committee who were willing to have free trade with the Philippines at the expense of the su- gar and tobacco industries would be violently opposing bill to admit steel rails from the islands free of duty.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-21
Cowboy Mine Owner Missing.

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 21-Be- lief that Walter Scott, a cowboy mine owner, has been murdered in Death valley has become so strong that scott's manager offers s1,OO0 reward for the recovery of Scott's body. On Dec. 1 Scott left his mine in Death valley. riding a mule and carrying ST. 800 and two rifles.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-21
Mrr. cnrter Wa. rna cnla.

NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-At the thea ter trust investigation Julius Calm. agent for Charles Frohman, said the reason Mrs. Leslie Carter was not booked in certain cities was because ''she was too cold for them"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-21
Minister Lei.hman,. Mother Dead.

PITTSBURG, Dec. 21.-Mrs. Amelia Batson. mother of John c. A. Leish- man. minister to Turkey. is dead at the home of a relative here She was seventy years old and had been an invalid for twelve years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-26
THE ASH SITTER.
Used Today by More People Than
 Ever, Though Forgotten by Some.

From the New York Sun.
 Ash sifters? Ash sifters?" a man said to himself, as he passed along by city Der of sifters were displayed. Ash sift- CTS? Why I thought ash sifters had quite gone out of use"
 He remembered time when an ash sift- CT was part of the household equipment of about every family. but now he lived In a, house that was heated by steam and lighted by electricity. and for fuel he burned gas. He hadn't bought an ounce of coal for years and he had forgotten there was such a thing as an ash sitter
 Were people still buying them? He went in and inquired.
 More sold today than ever" said the salesman. There are more people in the country and 1t takes more ash sifters to supply them.
 But ash sifters have changed since the day when the only kind consisted of a shallow wooden box with a wire screen in the bottom and long handle stuck through the sides, by which you shook it over the ash pile in the yard.
 Improvements have been made in ash sifters, just as in everything else, and there are now various sorts of sifters that are enclosed so that the dust won't fly, as for example, this one here, which, as you see, Is built of galvanized iron, with a hopper at one end and spout at the other.
 You put the ashes into the hopper and turn a crank, and the dust drops through into the barrel and the sifted coal runs out of the spout. Truly great change that from the old sitter that you used to hold out and shake over the ash pile
 And plenty of ash sifters of all sorts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-26
Books That Pay,

Warren Cheney. in Sunset Magazine.
 It has been gospel for so many years that the man who writes the book must as a matter of course, surrender to the man who publishes 1t abnormal share of the profit resulting from it's sale, that it is interesting today to find that ap- parently the tables have been turned, and that it is the author who is out in the limelight as the one of the two concerned who is greedy in the proportion of the common spells which he demands. Ger tainly. at no previous time has the suc- eessful book brought to the author such large and immediate returns Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" netted it's creator clean hundred thousand in hard gold. The announced pront on When Knighthood was In Flower was close to sixty-five thousand dollars. David Harum'' made the man who wrote it in dependently rich for no books except the Bible has ever sold so many copies And the number of lesser titles which have netted comfortable returns seems at first glance as numerous as the sands of the sea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-26
FAMOUS WITCH
Who Exercised Satan for Gold Takes
 Life in Jail.

Berlin Cor. New York Herald.
 Frau Doplebb, the famous witch of Langensalza, has committed suicide by hanging herself in jail where she was confined on a charge of obtaining S0,OO0 marks from a famous family by means of fraud and false pretenses. This was only very small fraction of the sums she is said to have acquired These are put variously at 500000 marks.
 This Doplebb woman was no ordinary swindler. She was a woman of education and refined in her tastes. From her youth she had had a predilection for works about magic and the black art, and as her worldly affairs and prospects were not brilliant she set up as a witch in a private way. giving out that she was possessed of old madiaeval charms and incantations. which had power in exorcis- ing the devil and his angels.
 She selected an agricultural district as her residence, where the inhabitants were more than usually superstitious and unen- frightened. This was Langensalza. She had not long to wait for her main victim, a farmer named Vogt who was what his neighbors called "Sheepshead." a silly. weak man. Years of i'll luck had attended his farming operations. His cattle died so did his children. Everything went wrong, So he went to the witch who N'it iihi iliehb tit btNi WAS at lilt DOitoill of 1t all. but that she would settle him. He must be quiet and tell no one.
 At dead of night Vogt repaired to rem dezvous with Frau Doplebb He took his wife with him. In accordance with in- structions he carried a new clay jar in which were several gold pieces. Frau Doplebb told him where to bury these. and then sent him home, she must re- main on the spot to meant. Vogt had hardly gone 30 wards when. looking back. he saw green lights burning and squibs and fireworks flying jbout in the air. Trembling with fear, he reached home.
 Next day he was visited by the witch, who told him that the fieworks were the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-26

result of her incantations, and that the devil was so mad at being disturbed that he spit fire.
 These proceedings, or varieties of them for Frau Doplebb was never monotonous went on for more than two years, and after several other clay pots with gold in them had been buried Vogt came reluc- tantly to the conclusion that as i'll luck still dogged his steps he was a dupe, a fool, and told the police, confessing ev- erythng.
 The state of affairs revealed by the po- lice investigations was comic enough if if had not thrown so somber a light on the intelligence of countless men and wo- men in the heart of modern educated Ger many.
 Frau Doplebb was arrested, and when she learned that the evidence against her was complete and that the trial was inn minent, she hanged herself with her gar ters
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-26

When it prints good. 1t is good cut The Gawk Engraving C0.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-26
for all legislative acts for the promotion

for all legislative acts for the promotion of good roads.
 On every hand there remain traces and signs of the buffalo. We see their heads mounted In the meat markets, we md their bones bleaching on the prairies, we stumble into their wallows on the plains and we run across their trails leading through passes in the mountains or lead- ing to lakes and streams of water. Buff falo when going to water and some- times when going from one place to an- other. would walk in single file thereby wearing trails into the ground to depth of two or three feet We fre- quently find ten or dozen Of these traiis running along parallel to each other.
 Destruction Served Good Purpose. When we think of the reckless laughter of this noble animal we are apt to de- plore 1t, yet their destruction has served some good purposes. The Indians could not be kept in their reservations So long as these immense herds of buffalo were on the plains, from which they could so easily secure living It was very nec- essary. too, that the Indians be kept in their reservations. for when out hunting they would often scalp American settlers as a sort of side-line business, so the de- struction of these rumigants helped the government officials to solve the Indian problem. l}
 Then, too, their destruction paved the
 way for the coming of the cattleman and the agriculturist. for as many cattle could be sustained on a given area of land as could buffalo.
 Have all the buffaloes been extermi- mated?
 There are still a few herds in geological
 gardens and public parks, as well as
 number of herds belonging to private in
 dividuals in different parts of the coun- try. Major G. w. Lillie, who has herd
 Of fifty-fve at Pawnee, Oklahoma Terri
 tory says in recent issue of the Cos
 mopolitan:
 .'There are now fewer than one thou
 sand pure-blooded animals in the United
 States" There are also quite number
 of catloes-crosses between buffalo and domestic cattle.
 Major Lilue proposes to have bill in- troduced in Congress at an early date
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-26
Another Faux Pas.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 MT. Makinbrakes. who was strolling through the dime museum, stopped in front of the platform on which sat a gen. tlemanly- looking person, wearing suit of faded black and bored look. Tt must be internally tiresome to sit here all day for people to stare att he remarked. in sympathetic tone.
 ''Yes, sir, 1t is.
 May l ask if smoking Is permitted in here?"
 "Oh. yes, anybody can smoke who likes"
 MT. Makinbrakes opened his cigar case and extracted fine Havana.
 Then smoke this one on me-" he said, with genial smile.
 Sir" indignantly exclaimed the gem tlemanly looking person, T am the beard ed lady"
 When it prints good, 1t is Q good cut The Gawk Engraving On
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-26
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-26
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-26
Begged Leave to Differ.
,rorn the Chicago Tribune

From the Chicago Tribune
 Instructor (at night sehooD-ft may be set down as an axiom that nobody can succeed in any line of business unless hs has either . natural aptitude in that di- rection or has had . course of training for It.
 shaggy-haired Youth-Maybe If used ia be that way. but 1t aint So now, know three or four blamed foois that's got rich by being dummy directors in big brew- cry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-26
Expenses Heavy.

Whom one considers that no fewer than eight hundred people. exclusive Of men who have charge of the wine cellars are employed in the palace at St. Petersburg. and that S5ooo per day does not begin to cover the expense of the kitchen there. he will realize how extravagant the royal housekeeping is. Eight hundred men to feed one man. one woman and little girls! If seems R great army for 90 few.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-26

are sold right here in New York. as we'll as in smaller towns and the country You don't need one-steam heat, electric ity and gas? But another man who lights his house with electricity and burns gaa In his kitchen range may heat his house by means of a furnace in the cellar, and there he instals one of those rotary sifters in which to sift his ashes."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-26

providing for the establishment and maintenance of buffalo reservation, where, under natural conditions. or as near natural as possible. the effort will be made to save this one-ttme monarch of the plains from destruction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-26
Shoes You Must Have.

It is only a question of choice If your decision is in favor of Chali foux Shoes you can rest secure In the conviction that your feet will be properly shod, no matter what price you pay.
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