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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-28
nRWHIrE OF WATERBURY
This Asteist Stepped All RiSht-1hs
 0meer NowWishes He Hadn't

William Rhodes, borough official, is receiving congratulations upon his reappearance at Gays Corner, Farm ington, after two weeks indisposition. MT Rhodes is a great stickler for Sab bath observance.
 Two weeks ago last Sunday he was with a party of friends on Main street when he saw an automobile coming, as he said, ''hell bent for election"
 He stepped out in the road and or dered the driver to halt. From all ac- counts he ordered the driver to do other things also. The autoist. who is said to be MT White of Waterbury. halted all right. He did more. He got out of his car and gave the borough of- ficial punching.
 When Rhodes had been revived he asked his friends if they had got the monkey wrench with which he had been hit. Rhodes's friends said they had not seen a monkey wrench. The autoist had used his fist.
 Rhodes is minus several teeth. but he is still determined that scOrching must cease.-New Britain Herald.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-28
A1osquitoc. All E-aaicated.

NEWARK, N. J., April 2S.-State Entomologist Smith has brought glad tidings to the city health board. He declares. with his professional reputa. tion as the stake, that. with the ex. ception of little patch, the Newark meadows will be entirely free from the mosquito larvae during the coming summer. The ditching done by the board of health, he says, has eradicated all the mosquito breeding places on the meadows, with the exception of what is known as the Ebbling tract.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-28
CRIBBAGE TOURNAMENT. The Winning Teams Raced to Victory
 at Iast Nfght's Session.

The second of the cribbage tourna- ments being conducted at the St Jos eph's T. A. rooms came to close last evening and the first team in the end was composed of Kerwin and Hayden. That the contest was a close one is evidenced from the nearness of the teams to each other. The first team was but one game ahead of the second team. which WAS made up of Lydor and Pierce. while the third team. Car ney and Bolger. was but one game be- hind the second team. The three fol- lowing teams. while some games be- hind the leaders. were within one game of each other, then strung down the line were the others. all fighting eact other closely for positions The fol- lowing are the number of games won and the standing of the teams ana the prizes given to each are combina- ton books for the May festival:
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-28
Mckinley House Destroyed.

CATSKILL, N. Y., April 2S.-The Mckinley House, at the entrance to Kaaterskill clove at Palenville, has been destroyed by fire, and 200 men fought a forest fire to save the Hotel Kaaterskill and the Catskill Mountain House. The fire started on the grounds of the Mckinley House from some burning leaves, and soon the whole mountain side was ablaZe. The Kaa- terskill Glove House was saved by be- roic efforts of the fire fighters.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-28
,car.eeie's First Gift to a Hospital.

i5 PITTSBURG. April 2S.---Andrew Carnegie has donated $16.OCO to the Co., lumbia hospital, now building at Will kinsburg. The money is for the fur nishing and endowment of two rooms in the hospital to be named respective ly for Mrs. Andgew Carnegie and for Miss Margaret Carnegie, his daughter. This gift to the Women's association of the United Presbyterian church is the first given to any hospital by Mir. Carnegie. ...
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-28
Mr.. Noble Promptly Acauitted.

FLUSHING, \. r.. April 2S-Mrs. Josephine Leighton Noble, who was ac- cused of having shot and killed, her husband, Patton Noble, a clerk in the Long Island City court, at their home, 152 Twelfth street, Long Island City, was acquitted here after brief trial before Judge Gaynor The jury was absent only twelve minutes and re- turned with a verdict of not guilty. Judge Gaynor complimented the jury upon its prompt decision. ...
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-28
New York Markets.


 .- VI. wHEAT-Dull; contract grade. April
 coRN-Quiet; April. sodsolsc.
 OATS-steady: No. 2 white. natural. 8 G36Ac.; No. 2 white clipped, 36daslzc.
 TkLLow-Dull:c city. 4ssc-; country. 4S SWOoL-Firm; domestic fleece. 3eassc.
 POTATOES-Easy: Florida. new, 50 s.5o: state and western. n: Jersey sweets
 sTRAw-o Quiet; long rye. ssasec.
 BEANS-Steady; marrow. Rso medi. um. Szleaai2'.; pea. a.'a: red kidney. HoPs.steady: state. common to choice, 1904. 2sq2ec; lsa. 22a2sc.: olds. 114l3c.: Pa- cific coast. 1904. SaSc.; 1905. la2ic.; olds.
 sasras a,s ssT SSa9s ton. extras. alc): firsts. 20 1sizc.;, sec onds. Zd1sc; thirds. 3aasc.: state dairy. extras. 8irq1ac.; irsts. EdSc.. seconds.
 e eeHEEsE"siaie. HE SITS t- full cream. small col- ored and white. fancy. lrSc-: hne. isrc.; late made. colored and white. choice, 13hc; fair to good l2kq11Ac-: poor, loss9 srfs sISssd isie nae ads nss cOioTs lanSs and white. choice. 13c-: fair to good nh9 IAc.: poor, 10hd1lc.: light skins. small, choice. 10h6loi4c.: prime. 9114e.sc.s : part mon noun to fair. Ta.Hc.: full skins. 4sG5Xc.
 EGGS-state. Pennsylvania and nearby. selected. white. fancy. aoazIc-: choice. iac.; mixed. extra. ls1tc-: frsts: illtaisc; dirties. I5Aa1sc.: checks. Hl1f1c-. duck egEs. scaz goose eggs. Sq5ec-
 LIVE POULTRY = Fowls. per pound, 1,izc.: chickens per pound. 1zc-: roosters old per pound. Sc: turkeys. old per pound. 1se-. ducks. average. per pair; od iur.: reese. average. per pair G-Sdl-G.
 DREsSED POtLTRY-Turkeys aver age best. per pound 1sc.: mixed fair to rood. lsGIsc-: poor. 14al5c- chickens. Phil Sdelphfa- broilers. sH to pounds to pair per pound. 56Snc-: mixed sizes hd1c. etate and Pennsylvania mixed si1es lsd Irc. western coarse and sfaggy. 1e1l1c- fovis. dry picked and scalded. medium sire. 14c-: keavy weights. 1311c-. pcor ts fair. 1eGl3c.: cocks. old per pound 1cQ N1Sc-: squabs. prime. large white. pei dozen szscazs: mixed. sz1zGz5: dark DREssED NEATS-Beef dull at sf1sc uer ro-sr,d with d little extra beef selling af leEc-; country dressed veals at sfs4c. mutton at 7e1ec. per pound. lambs et nS ix3Sc-. ccunfry dressed spring lambs q S1i<6- hoxs af G GSDf Der 10o pound4L
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-28
Big Drop

in the price of coal. Take advantage of it and place your order for some of our nice, clean LEHIGH COAL while the price is low. The Lehigh Coal which is sold by us is the hard est and best coal in the market.
 "A bin full of satisfaction"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-28
Harding s
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 PLATE
 MIRRORS.

There are no mirrors made that equal the French Plate in durability and quality, being without blemish and made of glass fully one-eight of an inch thick, they will stand consider able hard usage. We handle none but the best and those we have in stock at present are the kind and quality that will go into "The Hotel Elton" and come from the same factory. This fact would seem to be endorsement enough. Prices from 25c up, according to size.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-28
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-28

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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-28
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

Closing Stock Quotations.
 Money on call per cent: time money and mercantile paper unchanged in rates.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-17
CORN IN THE CRIB
Farmers With z Plenty of Money and
No Poor Kin.

1t is good to hear Lawyer Bill Smith
us today and in response to the in
quiry as to how things are wagging
along over there said, with a good
deal of emphasis: Fine. Everybody
has plenty Of money and no poor kim"
Mr.. Smith says that three new fac
tories are being built in Concord
practically four with the enlargement
of an old one-and that the town is
hard up against the labor problem.
There is work in that place now, he
says, for three thousand labOrers.
those already engaged in building i'm
provements there at the present time,
cal get employment the day they land
in town. But the prosperity wave
does not stop in town. 1t sweeps out
over the country. The farmers who,
five OF six years ago, had the hardest
of work to make both ends meet, are
among the best depositors in the banks
of Concord. Where then they had no
credit, they now have individual bank
accounts ranging from $1,000 to &c.
o {. Formerly they We're forced to sell
their cotton To meet the mortgage.
Now they simply store their cotton
bales away as an asset whenever they
may see fit to realize upon it. Their
lands, too, have gone up in value. Es-
pecially is this the a S i'm the territory
west of town. The new mills are
building out hat way, and -four miles
in the country is the Bella Mills. All
between and around, farm values are
increasing at a rapid rate. One farm
that was bought three months ago for
$1,000. changed hands a few days ago
for 5000. Mr.. Smith has a reputa-
ton as a money lender. Formerly
the people begged him for loans. Now
he is the begger and he states il as a
fact that the matter of finding people
who van to borrow Ii giving him o n
Germ. Truly. it can be said at the
present time. that there is corn in the
crib.-Charloffe Chronicle.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-17
Now. Mr.. President. Now.

Mr.. Roosevelt is said to be studying
the results of the election with the
keenest interest.
If his is true he must already have
observed that Lodges stand-pat pro-
tege Draper ran thousands of votes
behind his ticket in Massachusetts.
The Massachusetts, Republicans have
demanded present action" in the way
of tariff revision, and that is the way
they voted.
The president must have observed
that Shaw's stand-pat speeches pro-
duced nc effect upon the result in liz
Neither did Fairbanks.
He must ave noticed that the Penn
sylvania Republicans are not worry
ing about tariff revision.
He must have seen hat the three
Cabinet officers who welded a real in
1uence in the campaign were Taft.
Root and Bonaparte. who helped the
people in the battle against bossism.
Let Mr.. Roosevelt do likewise and
challenge Aldrich, Lodge and the 9TH
err stand-pat bosses in Congress.
IF he has real convictions on the
matter of tariff revision the time to
act is now. The election returns fur
nish him all the encouragement he
needs.-New York World.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-17
REAL MAKERS OF PEACE
Financiers Were the Power Behind
Conference at Portsmouth.

Christian Russia, lusting for con
quest, laid her hands on China-as
other Christian nations had done. says
Tom Watson in his magazine for &C.
tober. Russia OVERRIDING the thing.
and thereby %arousing the jealousy OF
other Christian nations. he pagan
Japanese were given a free hand and
much encouragement in ihrashing the
aggressive Slavs out of their boots.
Japan wins wnat she started in 10
get. and the time m for peace.
Roosevelt hits the iron at the right
time, in the right way: the commits
sioners come to Portsmouth and Deree
is made.
The Russian diplomat, White. boasts
loudly and vulgarly of the matter In
which he beats the japanese at the
conference.
To IN outsider this Boosting and
Dragging seems In s~ingularly bad
taste.
Just as the Jdpg gave lessons TO Rus
STA in the battlefield, In the hospitals
on tee high seas and In the treatment
of prisoners, so they rose superior to
the Russians at the council board.
The Japs knew that they were lean
ing upon the broken reed of European
forbearance, and they wisely made the
future safe by present moderation
And they do not brag. The war o
out of Russian aggression: Russia loses
everything that she fouAht for. bu' n
does not have IN buy peace after hav-
ing Deen whipped in the field.
The fact that she does not have tn
buy off the JaIs with money Is the
glorious victory which Witte says he
o By his poker face" at the confer
ence.
Bosh.
Ii was from 81 Petersburg that me
/ message continued TO come: Not a
kopeck of indemnity"
Back of "Poker-face' White. back OF
the weskling car. were the kings of
European finance. These powers be
hind the throne a lent money 10
Russia TO the comfortable limit of her
credit. Suppose Russia had yielded 10
the demand for indemnity and .has
Russia had beer compelled TO issue d
new loan Of nearly a billion doars-
what would have been the effect on the
market value Of the former loans:
These would have slumped.
Hence the kirgs OF European finance
probably had Lore TO do with the at
titude Of both Russia and Japan Fhaf.
the average citizen has supposed
Times-Dispatch.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-17
He Tests 1t

lie IcStS III.
Somebody had told Mr.. Finkerbinder
that a tallow candle, placed in the
barrel Of a shotgun, could be fired
through a barn door as easily as if it
were { bolt of steel, says the Chicago
Tribune.
Having a little leisure on his hands
he determined to put the matter to the
test.
Procuring, win some difficulty, a tai
low candle-the kind your grandmoth-
err used to make-he brought down
from the attic of his dwelling an old,
single barreled. muzzle loading shot
gun that had descended to him from
a former generation. He poured a
generous charge of powder into it, ad-
ded a paper wad, and carefully slipped
the candle into the barrel, blunt end
downward. 1t only remained to put a
&c. D. percussion cap on the tube,
and the old gun was ready for ousi-
ness.
Then he went u to the backyard.
Taking a position q few feet from his
barn he cooked the gun, aimed at the
center of the pine door, pulled the
trigger and the gun went off with 4
deafen-ng o.
The result was startling.
1t is painful to have to record The
fact that the candle did not pierce the
door.
All it did was to make a horrible
smear of tallow yer the door ana
everything else in the immediately
neighborhood, Mr.. Finkenbinder in
Guided.
How his wife came screaming out Of
the house to learn what d~readfulls
thing had happened, how he told her
sulkily, while scraping the soft talloT
off his clothing, to go back and attend
to her owl business, and how she IN
sisted on helping him-a-ll this, per.
haps, should be left TO the imagiua-
ton, as belonging TO the domain Of the
home, whose sacred precincts no man
has a right to invade for the purpost
of dragging the intimate details Of ITS
daily life into the cold, pitiless .igli
of publicity.
1t remains true, nevertheless, tia
you can shoot a tallow candle through
a barn door.
II you keep the door open.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-17
TooTHPrCks AND CULTURE
Crusade n Chicago that Holds Much
Promise for Western Civilization

s
Var to the very knife-and fork
has besn declared in the dining hal
or the Chicago University over The
department of students, the corfio>
centering around the use OF toothpicks
in public. According TO Miss Frances
Yeomans, who mas charge OF the din
Ing hall, the Use OF toothpicks IL a
relic of barbar.sm and Incompatible
with higher education and art Sai1
Miss Yeomans: The habit of using
toothpicks is most vulgar and unbe-
coming to students. | nave noticed the
students leaving the dining room, an
the spectacle they present with the
toothpicks in action is most annoying.
Cultivated people do not do It."
Has something really good come Out
Of the Chicago University? Is IL 10 be
the mission of Mr.. Rockefeller's muls!-
million-dollar academy to wrest The
hateful toothpick from the intimate
place it occupies in the American life
The tocsin has been sounded and IS
thetics is arrayed against a custom that
has its roots deep In our system OF or
ganized society. 1t may be expected
that champions from all classes of pao-
pie will take one side or the other and
that the fight will be long and en3en-
der bitter animosities.
The public use of the toothpick is
Enthusiastically American. In no otn-
er nation is the vulgar habit OF its
promiscuous manipulation tolerated by
decent people. Not long ago a party
of refined Americans who had dinea
of a fa yanrrc oH1nn hnfaI uara stand
ing in conversation when a fellow
countryman strolled by, chewing a
toothpick. A Frenchman accosted nm.
EEglishman, | believe" No pom
pously retorted he of the toothpick. Il
am an American born anI bred
WhereIpon the Frenchman ~sarcas-i-
cally remarked, ut is very evident that
you are American bred" The burning
cheeks of the o-her Americans p.o-
claimed their indignation, but they had
to acknowledge the truth Of the in
dictment.
The toothpick habit is so common IN
h United States that ever in homes
of otherwise cultured and wellbred
people n observes it's practice. The
very best of cafes and hotels make os-
tentatious displays of toothpicks, and
at meal time ore may see a whole lob
byful of people industriously digging
at their teeth. We are not fully aware
of the disgust and aversion such a
scene arouses In the cultured stranger
within u gates. This is one custom
that fully justiies the unfavorable
meaning implied in the term, "Ameri-
a manners. kansas City Journal.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-17
ON POLITICS
Saws Municipal Ownership is a Ger
tainty-InSurance Scandals Have
Made Profound Impression in Eu-
rope.

New York. November 1O.-Andrew
Carnegie, upon disembarking today
from the steamer Baltic on which he
arrived here last night, talked on
American politics. OF the New York
election Mr.. Carnegie said:
"Of all things we should have an
honest count. What we want is az
honest election and Il pure ballot
Il do not believe in the socialist idea
of municipal ownership, but municipal
ownership is a certainty, as sure as /
am alive. The line seems clear to me.
The increase in value made by an in
creasing population should belong to
the city. No city should give way a
franchise that belong to the people.
The people seemingly wan municipal
ownership and they should get it.
1.-The insurance scandals" said Mr..
Carnegie have made a profound i'm
preston throughout Europe. The root
of the trouble is that there are so many
men in America who lend their names
to financial institutions and assume
duties which they have not time to per-
form"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-17
Especial to The Messenger.)

Especial to The Messenger.)
Fayetteville, November 11.-Mrs. Eff
fie Taylor, the white woman Of Hope
Mills, who charged Moses Britt with
burglary, in entering her residence.
was brought rp with a round turn in
the magistrates court, when she vas
sent ID Jail in default of payment OF
the cost in the case. Britt suffered
two months Of unmerited imprison-
ment for alleged crime and now the
plaintiff takes his place.
Mr.. -. l.. Rens5urg, the well-klown
marble cutter, corner of Hay and Bur
CESS streets, has taken the contract to
furnish the stone trimmings for the
new First Baptist church. Those for
the caps and window stills will be OF
steel gap Ohio freestOne, while the
door sl!ls and columns will be of mar
bic. MI. Remsburg is an expert in
stone work and he says that these
trimmings will make the church a
very handsome structure.
The older people of Fayetteville have
a real affection. dating many years
back, 1or the steamer A. P. Hurt, with
her long lifetime Of fine service on the
river. Many will doubtless walk down
to see her while Overhauling in Camp
Bolton. Newly christened and newly
dressed may she have a long career of
good fortune.
Last evening A pleasant german was
given IN Mcclellan Hall, compliment
airy to Miss Lucille Vardell, of New Or
leans. Taking part in the dance were
Mr.. j. u. Mcclellan and Miss Vardell;
Mr.. S.. r. Horne and Miss Mary Nc
Neill; Mr.. G.. l.. Pemberton and MSS
Mary Norcott Broadfoot; Mr.. D. H.
Hef1in and Miss Laura Allen; Mr.. e. w
Rankin and Miss Mary F. Robson,
Mr.. A. A. Armfield, Jr., and Miss Alice
Matthews; Mr.. Ben Mcmillan and Miss
Mary Slocumb; Mr.. Dan Mcmillan ani
Miss Lillian Slocomb; Mr.. Addison
lambeth and Mss Isabelle Glover; Mr..
Murphy and Mss Ida White; Mrs
Eva Dodson, chaperon.
Mr.. E. B. Borden, Jr., district mana
ger, and c.. F. Taylor, district engi-
neer, of the Southern Cotton Oil Com
pany are here 20 take steps for the
erection of the fertilizer plant in con-
nection with the oil mill here.
Captain Alexander Campbell, conduc-
tor on The Atlantic Coast Line, is 2on-
fined to his bed from injuries received
by the tripping over a piece of iron
on his train.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-17
CALLED TO DOOR AND SHOT
Two Negro Men Fall Out About a
Woman and One Is Shot.

Jnm Burton. Il Charlotte negro who
is well known in police circles, went
to the home of Tom BILLINGS. in Duls-
town at 2 O'clock this morning call
ed him to the door and shot him three
times. One Of the bullets entered his
leg, another his hand and the third
few wild.
Billings wife. a buxom mulatto,
the neighborhood and tie police were
summoned by telephone. Sergeant
Pitts and Patrolman Mccall went out
in the patrol and brought Billings to
the police station, where his wounds
We're dressed by a physician. His
wounds were not considered serious
and he vas removed To his home.
Billings wife. a buxom mulatto.
is at the bottom of the trouble. She
favored Burton with some attention,
which caused the men TO fall put
The two were in the police court a few
days ago for an ARRAY.
Burton escaped the police and it IS
thought he made his way north
Charlotte Chronicle.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-17
BRANCH RESENTED INSULT
The Midshipmen's Version of the Re-
cent Fatal Fight at the Naval Acad-
envy.

Annapolis, Nd, November 1O.-A
statement, coming from within the
naval academy, and believed to repre-
sent the midshicmen's version of he
fight between Midshipmen Meriweath-
er and Branch and the death of the
latter, is as follows:
1.-The fight between Midshipnlen
Branch and Meriweather vas because
of personal dislike and trouble between
the two midshipmen, which eliminated
in the latter personally insulting the
former. Midshipman Branch did not
report Midshipman M~eriweather for
any vocation of regulations, and he
did not incur this fight because of
discharging his duty. M~idshipllaa
Branch challenged Meriweather, on the
result of insulting remarks addressed
to him by the latter, and it was decid-
ed that their difference be decided in
the usual manly American fashion.
This way of settling their personal diff
ficulties may have been a mistaken one
but as far as can be said about al
affair of this description, it vas free
from brutality and any u~nfairness, ard
the tragic ending is a most lamentable
accident
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-17
Change In the
Limekiln Club
Constitution and Bylaws Altered by
Brother Gardner and Ratified
by Members

copyright. 49,. by K. NJ. Whitehe4d-1
Il T was known TO the first members
who arrived at Paradise hall for
the regular Saturday night meet
ing hat something unusual was
sfoot, and the news spread az other
members continued to arrive. but moth
ing definite could be learned until the
meeting opened.
The rumor that Brother Gardner was
and that Giyeadam Jones was
planning to seize the reins of govern
'ment was the last one started, but that
was set at rest by the appearance Of
the president in person and seemingly
In the best of health. He appeared to