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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-13

igan and Canada, than goes through the Suez, and we don't howl about 1t very much.
 We'll, sir, l have studied Gibraltar in my geography, and read about it in the papers, and seen it's pictures in advertisements, but never realized what big thing it was. Now, who ever thought of putting that enormous rock right there on that prairie, but God. suppose the English, when they saw that rock, thought the good Lord had put it there for the English to drill holes in, for guns, and when the Lord was busy somewhere else the English smouged the rock away from Spain, by playing a game with loaded dice, and when England got it, that country decided to arm it like train robber and hold up the other nations of the earth.
 When vessel passes that rock it has to hold up it's hands and salute the British flag, or get a mess of hard ware fired into it's vital parts, but that is all 1t amounts to, cause it couldn't win any battle for England, and could only sink trading vessels The walls of the rock are perforated from top to bottom, with holes big enough for guns to squirt smoke and shells, but if the enemy should stay away from right in front of the holes, they might shoot till doomsday, and never hit anything but fishing smacks and ped dlers of oranges.
 Gibraltar is like white elephant in a geological garden. It just eats, and keeps off flies with it's short tail, and visitors feed it peanuts, and wonder. what it was made for, and how much hay 1t eats. Gibraltar Is like a S2O gold piece that a man carries in his watch pocket for an emergency, which he never intends to spend until he gets in the tightest place in his life, and 1t wears out one pocket after another, and some day drops through on the sidewalk, and tramp finds 1t and goes on a bat and gets the worth of his money, and has a good time, If he saves enough to buy a bromo-seltzer the next morning after. It is like the Russian war chest, that is never to be opened as long as they can borrow money. ..s. .-..
 If Gibraltar could be put on castors and rolled around from one country to another. England could whip all Eu- rope and Asia. It would be a Trojan horse on larger scale, and be a ter TOT, but, say, if it got to America, we wouldn't do a thing to it. We would run a standpipe up the side, and connect 1t with an oil pipe line, fill Gibraltar's tunnels and avenues, and magazines and barracks with crude oil, and touch a match to it. and not an Englishman would live to tell about it. Gee, but would be sorry for the
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-13

been married had I desired, for have refused score of offers"
 DeWitt's reason for never marrying Is disappointment in love affair In his youth T loved once" he sa.c, "and was deceived. T could never love another woman Although false to me, have carried the love of that first love in my heart to this day"
 In speaking of this event in his early life Dewitt said to me. during a visit at the soldiers home, that 1t oc- cured just after the close of the Mexi- can war. He was a member of an h. diana regiment in that struggle and when the war was over went to the gold fields of California in search of d fortune. Like so many others. bis hopes of securing wealth were shat tered, and he was on his way back to the States. He stopped in Colorado for awhile, and there he met the daughter of rancher, who had emil grated to Colorado from the east.
 It appeared to be case of love at first sight, at least 1t was so on the part of Dewitt, and. after a few weeks courtship, they were engaged to be married The preliminaries of the marriage were all arranged and 1t was to take place as soon as the. license could be secured This in that early day in Colorado was a hard matter to secure and there was considerable de- lay in getting it. Tn the meantime De- Witt was called to St Louis on some inn portant business matter to him, and when in several weeks be returned he found that the girl had married another man.
 After that he wandered aimlessly about, working as a carpenter and at other trades, and finally settling down to a hermit's life in Indiana, living on a pension received from the government. for his service during the Mexican war. Some years ago he went to the soldiers home at Lafayette. He is now regarded as one of the most eccentric inmates there, is pointed out to the visitor as the man who has built his own coffin and his own tomb, giving as his reasons that he has no relatives to care for him and that if he dies without the work being
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-13
INCIDENT OF A SEA FIGHT.
Captain of Chinese warship Drowned by His Dog, Ferocious
 Brute,S

! This strange incident of a great naval battle is told by Commander McGifin of one of the Chinese war 1 ships in the battle of the Yalu, between the Chinese and Japanese fleets in 1894, says the Chicago Daily News. "Aboutth time the Chih Yuen boldly, If some- what foolhardiIy, bore down on the Japanese squadron's line. Just what happened no one seems to know, but apparently she was struck below the water line by heavy shell-either a ten-inch or a 13-inch. Be that as it may, she took g heavy list, and thus fatally injured, her commander, Tang Shi Chen, a most courageous, albeit a most obstinate officer, resolved at least to avenge himself and charged one of the largest of the enemy's ships, in tending to ram.
 "A hurricane of projectiles from both heavy and machine guns swept down upon his ship. The list became more pronounced, and just before getting home to his intended victim his ship rolled over and then plunged, bows first, into the depths. She righted her self as she sunk, her screws whirling in the air, and carrying down all hands including her chief engineer, Mir. Pur- wis, shut up in the engine room. Seven of her crew clung to one of the circu- lar life buoys kept on the bridge and were drifted by the tide toward the coast, where they were rescued by a junk.
 Stories told by these men vary so much as to be unreliable, but all agree on one incident: Capt. Tang had a large dog of most vicious temper. Hn- ruly at times even with his master. After the ship sunk, Capt Tang. who could not swim. managed to get an oar or some small piece of wood. This would have been enough to support him had not his dog swum to him, and, climbing on him, forced him to re- lease his grasp. Thus he miserably drowned and the brute shared his fate-perhaps the only case on record of a man being drowned by his dog"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-13

done mere friends and scqusintances will not carry out his wishes
 He has been at work on his tombstone for five years. It is in the cemetery at Battle Ground. eight miles from LAfsy. cite. The marble shaft is si1 feet high and two feet square. standing beneath 4 spreading tree to escape the suns rsys. On it. carved by Dewitt's own hands. are his name and the date of his birth and the following epitaph:
 "A bachelor lies bereath this soa
 Who eisobeysd the laws of God.
 Advice 10 others thus rive
 Don't I've bach az 1i5 I've
 The marble stands on a mound and beneath it the veteran has almost com plstsd his grave It is unlike any other grave in the cemetery and occupies more space. ~I want plenty cf room to
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-13

because I never loved in the lovers sense, or. as perhaps you would express 1t, never met my fate. It was better thus. have always been happy. be- lieve in looking on the bright side of life. Although I am growing very old, l try to feel young. I love to be in the company of the young. In many re- spects, try to make their ways my ways. Us old people ought to cultivate the spirit of feeling young even if our life's pendulum is rapidly approaching the time when it will cease to swing"
 FRANK DILDINE.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-13

English ensign is just as different from Turkish unique as you can imagine. Every man to his place. You couldn't teach Turkish unique how to show visitors around an Eng fish fortress, and an English ensign in Turkish harem would bring on a worlds war, they are so different. We'll, we went through tunnels In the rock, and up and down elevators, and all was light as day from electric lights, and we saw ammunition enough to sink all the ships in the world, if it could be exploded in the right place, and they have provisions enough stored in the holes in the rock to keep an army for 40 years, if they didn't get ptomaine poison from eating canned stuff.
 It was all a revelation to dad, and when we got all through, and got out into the sunlight, we breathed free and when dad got his second wind he broke up the English officers by taking out a pencil and piece of paper, and asked them what they would take for the rock and it's contents. and move out and let the American flag float over it.
 Well, say, they were hot, and they told dad to go plum to, but dad wouldn't do it. He said America didn't want the old stone quarry, anyway, and if it did, it could come and take it. I guess they would have had dad arrested for treason, only when we got out into the town there was the whole British Atlantic squadron lined up. with men up in the rigging like monkeys, and every vessel was firing salute, as 8 yacht came steaming by.
 Dad thought war had surely broke out, or that some rich American owned the yacht, but it turned out to be Queen Alexandria and party of tourists, and when the bank played God Save the Queen" dad got up on his hind legs and sang so loud you would think he would split hisself, and fellow went up and threw his arms around dad, and began to weep, and the tears came into dads eyes, and another fellow pinched dads watch, and the celebration closed with everybody getting drunk, and the queen sailed away.
 Say, we are going to Spain on the next boat, and you watch the papers. We will probably be hung for taking Cuba and the Philippines. Yours,
 HENNERY.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-13


 Among the two oldest living persons in Indiana to-day are Miss Eliza Will Hams, of Anderson. and Hugh Dewitt, who is an inmate of the soldiers home at Lafayette. Miss Williams has passed the century mark. now nearing the age of 101 years, and Dewitt is 96. and both are yet in the enjoyment or reasonably good health. A peculiarisy about the lives of both is that neither was ever married. although their req sons for remaining single are widely different. Miss Williams gives as her reasons for remaining c spinster:
 God never intended that l should marry. never cared for men, that is in lover's way. and have never had any mind for matrimony. could have
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-13
PURIFIED BY ELECTRICITY.
Noisome Waters of the Schuylkill River Cleansed by the Use
 of Ozone.

Philadelphia's notoriously bad water Is now washed and made clean by ozone. Water from the Schuylkill river con- tains as much as 2,500,000 bacteria per cubic centimeter; but after prelimi- nary straining this noisome populace is reduced to 100000, and after the ozone treatment to fromA5 to 55, and these few survivors are said to be innocents. The water is also deodorized and freed from color It is all done in this wise,
 A motor generator, producing current of 100 alternations, Is operated by cur rent taken from the city supply. The current from the generator is raised by
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-13

transformers and condensers to' voltage of 10000. voltaic arcs are D vented and sparks are limited by mea of resistance coils and condensers, a the current in form of pencil of bl light passes from each of some millic of metallic discharge points across short air gap to nickel receivers.
 means of pump air is drawn across u gap, and in it's passage is partially cd verted into ozone; it is then forc through stand pipe in which 1t me, current of water flowing in an oppos direction. The bacteria contained in { water are instantly destroyed by { ozone and the water is purified.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-13
The Bad Boy Describes Trip on the Suez Canal-He Goes Up Through Gibraltar in an Elevator-He Out ! lines Gigantic Plan for the Cap ture of the British Fortress.
BY HON. GEORGE W. PECK


 Ex-Governor of Wisconsin. Former Ed
 itor of "Peck's Sun" Author of
 Peck's Bad Boy" Etc)
 Copyright, 1905, by Joseph B, Bowles.) E Gibraltar, in Spain and England \ My Dear Foster Uncle: It seems good z to get somewhere that you can hear the English language spoken by the Irish, and the English soldiers are nearly all Irish. When you think of the way the British government treats the Irish, and then you look on while an orderly sergeant calls the roll of a company, and find that nine out of ten answer to Irish names, and only one out of ten has the cockney accent, you feel that the Irish ought to rule Eng 5 land, and an 0'Rourke or an 0'Shan- messy should take the place of King Edward. It makes boy who was ! brought up in an Irish ward in Amer
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-13
Woman's Way

Henpeck-I tell you. my Henrietta slwsys means what she says.
 Jenkins-Gee Whiz! wish my wife did.
 Why, that's strange Doesn't she alwsys?"
 NC. at all Whenever she says she says she wants a little money she means much money '"-Philadel- phia Ledger.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-13
Difficult Task

"Hov can get the ladies of my congregation more interested fin heaven7" sighed the earnest youns rector of the fashionable church.
 You might intimate that things viii be exclusive there" replied the old preacher. sadly. By such means you may be able to arouse a mild interest. - --Pittsburg Post
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-13
Economy.

You told him to diet himself" saio the young doctors wife.
 Yes" replied the young doctor, q told him to eat only the very plainest food and very little of that"
 Do you think that will help him?"
 'It will help him to pay my bilI."- Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-13
Nh Weddfna RI,1

4 wedding without a ring seems fn- oongruous. but in CsdIz. Spain. DO ring ls used. After the ceremony the bridegroom moves the flower in his brides hair from left to right. for in various parts of Spain 10 wear a rose above your right ear is to proclaim yourself q wife
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-13
Durable Wheels.

Paper car wheels made by pressure from rye straw paper are usually good enough to take a second set of steel tires after the first set has been worn out by a run of 3O0.OOO miles.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-13
His Early Tnin;ns

Where in the world did that psr. rot learn to swear so7-
 T brought him up On a golf links. ra'su- Life.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-13

soak into the sand and the steam boats will lay in the mud, and be cov- cred with sandstorm, and future ages will be discovering full-rigged ships down deep on the desert Dad says we better sell our stock in the canal and buy airship stock. And talk about business, there is more tonnage goes through the Soo canal, between Mich
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-13
Rolled Agaiu

Rolled Again. yillain-If I should kiss you s' pose you'd go tell your mother. Modern Shepherdess No; I shol go tell my lawyer.-Judge.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-13

(Ex-Governor of Wisconsin. Former Ed itor of "Peck's Sun" Author of
 peck,s Rad Rny Ftc1
, 1905-04-10
North Star and the Dipper.

The Uole-star is really the most i'm
portant Of the stars in Jul sky, says
Country Life in America. 1t marks
the north at all times; it alone is
fixed in the heavens; all the other
stars seem to swing around it once in
twonty-four hours. But the pole.star
or Polaris is not a very bright one,
and it would be hard to identify If it
we're not for the help OF the so-called
pointers in the big dipper" or great
bear
The outer rim Of the dipper points
nearly to Polaris, at a distance equal
to three times the space that sepa-
rates the two stars of the %dipper's
outer side. Various Indians call the
pole-star the home star and the
star that never moves and the dip
per they call the broken back" The
great zeal is also TO be remembered
as the pointers for another reason.
1t is the hour hand Of the wood
mans clock. 1t goes once around the
north star in about tw~enty-four hours,
the reverse way of the hands of a
watch; that is, it goes the same way
as the sun, and for the same
that it is the earth that is going and
leaving them behind.
, 1905-04-10
MINER LOST IN A
MOUNTAIN STORM
n. v. LANE MANY HOURS IN eLIZ.
lard AROUND DOUG
LAS CAMP.
Neighbors Started Out When He Was
Missed and Unfortunate Man over
hauled by Jack MacIntyre-Post-
master Marsh Gone to Pueblo on
Business.


Holmes, Wyo., April 9.-H. V. Lane
one OF the laborers at the Cuprite tun
mel, on his way home got lost in a
severe snow storm and travelled many
miles. All his neighbors started out at
a late hour to search for him, and he
was found by Jack M%aclntyre and
Grant Harnden many miles from home.
Charles Marsh and his father left
for Pueblo, Colo, a day or two ago,
where they are to attend to some bust.
ness. Judge Carlin will attend 10 the
p%ostofIice while they are absent.
Mr.. Sawyer arrived al his home last
night, almost SNOW blind.
The quartz mill at Douglas is rap
idly growing.
They are working two shifts on the
Gold Orator II the work is progress.
sing nicely. NAVAJO.
, 1905-04-10
SECTION DIRECTOR
LECTURES At LANDER.

Prof. Buffum, of Laramie, who, since
the adjourning of the legislature, has
been holding farmers Institutes over
the state, the past legislature having
made provisions therefor, arrived in
Lander from Big Horn county on We'd
nesday mornings coach, says the Ian
der Mountaineer. The Horticultural
association and Fremont club took up
this public enterprise and arranged
for a lecture to be given by Prof. Buff
fun at Armory Hall that evening at
8 o'clock. Notices we're sent out in
all directions and as many of the farm
ers of the section as could be reached
in this short space of time were noti-
fed to be present On this occasion.
Prof. Buffum has been teacher along
these lines for many years past, and
before his connection with the univer.
sity of this state was a professor in
the college located at Fort Collins, Col.
orado.
, 1905-04-10
SILVER JUBILEE FOR
KNIGHTS OE PYTHIAS

Yesterday was the twenty-ffth ami
versary of the organization OF Damon
lodge, Knights of Pythias, and on Fri
day evening of this week the event
will be properly celebrated at the cas-.
tie hall by Damon lodge, Hermion ten,
pie, Rathbone Sisters, all members OF
the two orders and their families, in
Guiding the lovers and s~weethearts OF
those fortunate members who are not
possessed of husbands or wives. Vet,
eran jewels, indicating twenty-five
years of continuous membership, will
be presented to a dozen members OF
the lodge by Supreme Representative
w. E. Chaplin and past excellent
chiefs jewels to the veteran members
of Hermion temple by Mrs. E. f. Gil,
man. A banquet will be served and
there will be dancing and cards. An
interesting meeting and a jolly good
time is looked for.
, 1905-04-10
WHY GLASSES AXE NEEDED.
Do the Focusing for the Tired Muscles
OF the Eye.

"Old age doesn't affect the sight
exactly" said an oculist. at affects
certain sight muscles.
AN old man, for instance, can sit
down the same as a young man, but
he sits down slowly and stiifly, be-
cause his sitting-down muscles are no
longer supple. So It is with an old
mans eyes. They see quite as well
as a young mans, but the muscles that
do the focusing-the muscles, that is
to say, that alter the degree Of con
veXity of the crystalline lcns-are
hardened and don't work well. The
strain that the managing of these mus
cles demands of an old man gives him
a headache. Hence he adopts glasses,
which do his focusing for him-one
pair focusing for reading, another pair
focusing for long distances.
Old age glasses don't actually inn
prove the sight. They only take the
place of certain muscles that age has
stiffened. They don't even do that,
though, unless they are cleaned fire.
%quently. Glasses should be kept per-
fectly clean-should be cleaned. when
in use, once an hour. with a silk hand
kerchief, never with a linen one"
, 1905-04-10
A LARAMIE CASE.
Many More Like 1t in Laramie.

The following case is but n OF
many similar occurring daily in Lara
mic. 1t is an easy matter to verify its
correctness. Surely you cannot ask
for better proof than such a conclu-
sive evidence.
John E. burke, carpenter, of 166
Front street, says: IF sharp pain
across the loins especially after stoop-
ing or lifting. added to ar annoying
difficulty with the kidney secretions.
are positive signs that a mans kid
neys require the use Of medicine to
correct their action then mine did. No
ticing Doan's Kidney Pills advertised
al a specific for the kidneys and
knowing that they were highly recon-
mended induced me to go to the Lar
annie Drug Co.'s store for a box. This
remedy acts directly upon the kidneys
as stated. It washes. puriies and gent
.ly purges those organs until either ov
e~rexcitement or weakness disappears.
When the kidneys are brought to a
normal condition the backache ceases"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo.
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and
take no other.
, 1905-04-10
PICTURESQUE Senator Stewart.

With his flowing patriarchal beard,
white as a snow bank, and massive
figure, but little ben in spite of his
three score years and seventeen, Sen
ator Stewart of Nevada is a mar
whom visitors in the senate galleries
look at more than once. Generally he
is en~veloped in a capacious frock coat
that falls to his knees and adds to his
stately appearance. But of late the
senator has adopted a more conspicu-
GUS attire. He wears d dinky little
blue coat, not half as long as his
coats of former days, and a waistCoat
white as his linen shirt front or his
abundant beard. The ~doorkeepers
have been on the point Of stopping the
Nevadan more than once, thinking it
altogether a different man.
, 1905-04-10
500 Reward, $500.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dread disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages, and
that is catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is
the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being a
constitutional disease requires a con-
stitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally acting directly
from the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system thereby destroying the
foundation Of the disease and giving
the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in
doing Its work. The p%roprietors have
80 much faith in it's curative powers
that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any Ease that it fails to cure. Send
for list Of testimonials.
Address: F. ]. CHENEY & CO.,
Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by druggists. 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
, 1905-04-10
WYOMING STUDENTS IN
UNIVERSITY oE MISSOURI.

There are six Wyoming students in
the University of Missouri at Columbia
and the school Oh mines at Rolla. One
is in the summer course at Columbia,
three in the regular course and the
other two at the school of mines.
Among the students are Joseph Alden
Mcknight of Buffalo, summer session.;
Clyde Rex Wood of Sheridan, school
Of mines; Albert Rabbit Bartlett OF
Cheyenne, school of mines, and Mark
Albert Chapman Of Cheyenne, special
student.
, 1905-04-10
Promptitude.

Clement w. Andrews, of Chicago,
during the convention Of the Ameri-
can Library association at st. Louis,
visited a number of St. Louis fac
tories.
In one of these inspections noon
struck in the cardroom of a certain
mill, and all the cardroom boys put
by their work and disappeared as if
by magic.
DO all the boys" said Mr.. Andrews.
smiling, drop their tools the instant
the whistle blows?"
"Oh. no, not all of Them" said the
cardroom boss. The more orderly
ones have their tools put away before
that time"