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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-12
VACCINATIONS LIMITS

When it comes to the four seasons give me the autumn for mine," ob- served the man who was sitting di- rectly in front of the conductor. i've heard that before," replied his matter of-fact neighbor on the end. There's wine in the air, I believe, and tang that's borne in with the early suspi- cion of frost, and there's soft, hay, dreamy, golden glow resting on the face of nature, while the gorgeously painted leaves that are falling and si- lently drifting away, like our hopes and ambitions and aspirations, give d melancholy touch to the canvas that invites retrospection and harmonizesi with it. The outer, shells of the nuts are cracking, the squirrels are chatter ing and laying in their stores and the shrivelled stacks of cornstalks stand like yellow. wornout sentinels in the brown fields that have yielded their harvests. All that's been written. Eyerything's been written and writ ten pretty badly if the truth must be told. Autumn. is great theoretically. You're roaming the woods with dog and a gun-and drinking in its beau, ties-in your mind. When you heU to the line and foot up the column, the whole business is in your mind What difference does it make to you whether it's autumn or spring or win ter or summer? What do you get oul of the changes? A ride in a trolley to business, short walk to a restaurant at noon and a car ride home The only gun you see is in the window ot a hardware store. Could you load and fire one if you had one-honest! Probably not. A few people that is. comparatively few people, are free to take advantage of the seasons; but for the most of us who enthuse over them it's the same old grind, whether the weather conditions are one thing or another.''
 ''Well, I'm not sorry to have a little imagination, anyway" said the first speaker.
 "The imagination is all right" con ciuded the matter -of-fact person, t''but it won't clothe and feed ysu and pay rent even if you overwork it."-Prov- idence Journal. ..
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-12
THE zAMBEzI BRIDGE.

The Zambesi bridge, or the Victoria Falls bridge, as it is variously called, is a record bridge in many respects. It is the highest-420 feet-in the world, and it was built in the shortest time recorded for such a work, viz, nineteen weeks. Sir Charles Metcalf also claimed that no other bridge of its size and capacity had eyer been built so cheaply. The total length of the bridge is $50 feet, of which the central span accounts for 500 feet between the pin centers on the two banks, the bal ance being made up of the two short spans. The great center span rises in graceful parabolic arch to the center, the spring of which starts from the bases of the main booms. The vertical rise to the crown is ninety feet. The main span is made of twenty bays each twenty-five feet long; and lateral stability was secured by wide spread at the feet of the bridge. At the rail level the distance between girder cen ters is twenty-seven feet, six inches, whereas at the bases the width be- tween pin centers is fifty feet. The roadway projects beyond the side gird- CTS so as to allow a clear thirty feet between parapets. The bridge is of steel. and as it is coated with gray paint it is rendered as invisible as pos sible against the cloud of spray-"the smoke that sounds" as the natives call it-that rises from the falls and the undue Obtrusion on the landscape which so many feared has thus been obviated.-J. Hartley Knight in the Engineering Magazine for October.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-12
AMERICAS FIRST COMPOSER
An Uncouth and Eccentric Tanner Wrote Patriotic Music
 Century Ago.

Music scarcely had a voice before the time of William Billings, born in Boston. October 2, 1764. Yet, by trade, this man was tanner, an eccentric and uncouth character, easily ridiculed even in his own days, says the Ma tional Magazine.
 He is said to have chalked down his earliest compositions upon sides of leather. He was deformed in per son, blind in one eye, untidy in dress, with one leg shorter than the other. A tremendous snuff taker, he carried tobacco as well around him in his coat, the pocket of which was purposely made of leather. But his music always had spice of patriotism in it Ca quality much prized at the time of the revolution), and so greatly did the colonists like his work that the strains of his inspiring tunes were heard from every pipe in the New England ranks, and led the way to victory on many a hard-fought field.
 Billings is said to have been the first to introduce the violoncello into New England churches. great step toward the ventful introduction of the organ. He also was probably the first to use the pitch pipe to "set the tune" He died in Boston, September 26, 1900, and published almost to the last. His is probably one of the unmarked graves on Boston Common
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-12
HEARD IN PASSING

Those Japanese peace envoys will feel mighty envious when they read | of the way President Roosevelt was received on his return home.
 President Cleevland is reserving his 1 decision about that Hague appoint, ment till he finds out whether duck hunting is good on the Holland canals.
 Willard Merrill is dead. like the late | Colonel Jacob Green of Hartford. Are all the life insurance leaders of their austere school in the other world?- Springfield Republican,
 It is now explained that the New York bank forger held onto $59,00O of the securities that he stole. The $300,000 worth that he returned were probably the dummies! 8q Ga 1f stuH7
 It is stated by the agricultural de partment that the farmers object to automobiles on account of the dust they raise. The most people are pre- judiced against them on account of the dust it takes to raise one.
 A Missouri school boy has given the best definition of friend we have heard. ''A friend is a person who knows all about you and likes you just the same" Fortunate is he who has such friends.-Nashville American.
 si An English physician wants to ,;n- oculate convicted murderers with tu- bercle, cancer, leprosy and other con tagious diseases in order to study effects. AS between these and the gal lows he will have the convicts with him.
 It has been found that three pay masters in the Japanese navy have em- bezzled $165, 5,000 of government bonds, and that their peculations extended over a year without discovery. The disclosure seems to give assurance that the Japanese, after. all, are part of the great brotherhood of. mankind.- Louisville Courier IonrnaL ,.s..
 Add the city tax to the town tax and the total is 241s mills. It's the largest yet, but then there's no getting away from 1t with our increased expendi- lures. Wonder what the saving would be if town and city governments were consolidated? Then there would be a board of apportionment and taxation to pass upon the appropriations or es- inmates, and fix the rate.-Meriden Journal.
 A young Wilkesbarre clergyman was married and his wife interested him in a charity for ministers orphans, and when a subscription reached him he would acknowledge it the next Sunday in church. It happened (that last June there came to this minister on the same day a subscription for $25 and a young son. A good deal of laughter was ex- cited the following Sunday when, ris- ing in the pulpit, the minister said that he felt very grateful for the small sue cor that had arrived last week.-New York Tribune.
 The father who puts aside his dear est ambition for his country's sake; the mother who takes in washing to help out her husband or to educate her children; the chorus girl who incurs the gibes of her set to provide com forts for her widowed mother, all make the drudgery that is commonly called 'damnable" divine. They are transfgured by their renunciation and their drudgery is transhgured with them. Blessed by drudgeryl Desplse 1t not! Of it and by 1t are saints and heroes made.-New Haven Palladium.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-12
PROTECTION OF FISHES.
Various Ways in Which the Pinned h Creatures Defend Themselves -N
 from Foes.

The Australian leatherjacket will swim up with the hook in its lip and with its sharp teeth sever the slack line above. The pollack will plunge headlong to the rocks and fray the line against some handy shell of mus sel or oyster. The blue shark twists in the water with such rapidity as to test the bravest gear.
 The sharks and rays have obviously less to fear than the herring or mack erel. The fishes which live on the bottom can clearly disregard the at- tacks of such marauding fowl as the gull and gunnet, while even the cor morant and diver do not, as a rule, seek their prey far beneath the sur face water. The typical ground-dwell- CTS of our seas, moreover, the fiatfsh, are so formed, that, save when ex- tremely small, they would in all prob- ability choke any fowl so ill-adyised as to try to swallow them whole. The scales of fishes are of little use as armor. In the case of crabs, Holsters and other shell fish" however, their coverings are sure defenders, and they would seldom die except from old age.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-12
A HINDOO PRINCESS.

| In "The Romance of a Hindoo Prin-
 cess.v to be produced shortly at the
 New York Hippodrome, in, lieu of, The Raiders" will be witnessed the most gorgeous and brilliant spectacle ever
 conceived on any stage in the world
 The scenic effects are beautiful and
 the illusion is so perfect that the en- tranced spectator is spirited away to
 distant India amid whose wild jungles
 the scene of the drama is laid. In action rather than words is told the
 stirring plot. A naughty Indian prince is a suitor for the hand of the beauti- full daughter of the ruler of an ad- joining province He is rejected in favor of another suitor. fingered by her refusal the prince determines to storm her fathers castle and carry her off by force to his own country. At the head of his army and accom-
 panied by a great herd of elephants. he succeeds in accomplishing his puf-
 pose in a midnight attack on the for tress and dashes off with his captive.
 He is pursued by the enraged father
 and his followers on horse back and overtaken. Then follows most ex- citing and realistic fight, possible only
 on the Hippodrome stage, the largest lin ffBsaNorld.=@Yle climax eemes with rsscue aafaSthe prlpcess and the
 maddened elephants planglng terror
 ized into the great water tank. The
 other half of the Hippodrome pro
 gram. including the ballet and the musical numbers incidental to "A
 Yankee Circus on Mars" remains in- tact. In the circus are seen the Cot trell-Powells in their wonderful bare back riding; Mile. Renz, the droll Mar ceIine; the Kaufman bicycle troupe; and score of other European. spec ialists. New attractions are being constantly added to the greatest pro- gram ever arranged.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-12
Signs in Japan.

Clarence Ludlow Brownell, in his jook. "The Heart of Japan" tells musingly of some signs he saw in 'apan on the shops of merchants who we're bidding for English and Amerf- au trade: Barber to Shave Beard or Q Dress Hairs Away" The Genuine y Bier Buy the Health for Drink, "Of rmokes our tobacco Is pressure to Our ongue and give the hsalthinsss tc Hers and Hesl Also All People by It. !" 'Covmeat and Pigmeat and Rsmune souda Sasupre Ziusinbiya Jiniyael." :" This last means lemon coda. sarsapz- fila. ginger beer and ginger ale.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-12
Armada Relies.

Queer relics of the Spanish armada are being brought up from the bottom of Tobermory bay, on the coast of Scot land, during the present search for sunken treasure. Among the articles brought up by the divers the other day were two masses of powder. weighing about five pounds each. one with the im- pression of musket barrel marked dis tinctly upon it. Other discoveries in- clude the lid of copper pan, fossils. a bullet, a human rib and an attractive piece of copper plate. The bullet, which is cylindrical in shape and two inches in diameter. weighs about two pounds, and was evidently cut on a bar wbsn ann intuition for weapons of that calIber had run short The rib was that of q spanisrd of powerful build. and the cop per plate, which was gilt. had engraved upon it a monogram and lines somewhat resembling Masonic emblems.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-12

While actual work on the Panama canal has been tagging woefully there have been numerous complaints from shippers that 1t Is almost impossible to get freight across the isthmus be- cause the Panama railway is tied up with the transportation of canal sup piles. Secretary Taft was asked about this and said that it was intended to expediate the moving of freight as much as possible but that much of the fault lay with the steamship compan- ies which did not make good use of their opportunities. The railway is of course the only short route from the United States to the west side of South America but the steamer service is bad and according to Secretary Taft the west side steamers will ire quently sail for down the coast ports when by waiting a few hours they might easily make connection with the sIHautEb IEUlu NtN 1OIh anu sdNt d delay of eight or twelve days for pass engers and freight When asked whether the government would ar range the running of the road so that better connections could be made, Sec retary Taft replied that the schedule matter was entirely with the steam ship companies and that the railway would be used primarily to appellate the work of the canal In effect, the freight and passenger business would have to look out for itself. It was d. so suggested that enormous freight rates were charged across the isthmus, amounting to as much as six cents a pound. The Secretary was asked what steps would be taken to remedy this. He replied that nothing was eOntem- plated at present, that the freight rates were a matter that had to be balanced with the actual running ex- penses of the road and it was impos- sfble to say just now whether the ex- isting rates were too high.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-12

As showing the type of men who now enter shipbuilding and other in- dustrial works in Japan. 1t is worthy Of mention here to note that the pres fdeut of the Kawasaki DOckyard Co, Ltd. which is tine largest establish ment Of its kind at Kobe. near the en- trance to the Inland sea, and next tO the largest in all Japan, is K Matsu- kats. a son of e1-Premier Count Mat sukzta- who is the father of Japan's present financial system and is still one of the miksdo's trusted advisers. says a writer in the Engineering Mag azine- To find a many of this type engaged in business enterprise pnly xoes to slow the immense change that has taken place in Japan within the last forty years Previous 10 that tine the better class Japanese Eould have nothlng to do with business and
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-12

The revelations last week of the as- founding degree to which nepotism has been carried in the administration of the affairs of the Mutual Life Insur- ance Go of New York has given im- petus to the movement favoring federal control, says our Washington cor respondent. The situation is very diff cult to understand. On the one hand it is urged as means of ridding the insurance companies of the evils with which they have been afflicted, that they be subjected to federal control. The natural presumption would be that this would be in the interest Of the policy-holders, but on the other hand the fact that the Mutual Life was the prime mover in the direction of fed eral control, seems to give the case an- other complexion. That MT McCurdy would delegate Special Counsel Beck to urge federal control for life insur- ance companies if it were to be accom- panied by such revision of methods as would shake loose the various sons, sons.in-law, cousins, nephews and other relatives who barnacle-like .ercrusted the Mutual, does not sound reasonable. Snaps that pay one family in salaries and commissions some five million dol lars in twenty years, to say nothing of reduced house rent travelling expenses and the like, are not deliberately thrown away. We must therefore look further for an actuating cause to which the strong desire on the part of these companies for control by the federal government may be properly ascribed. Is 1t possible Mccall, McCurdy aand. the others believe 1t easier to deal with the federal government than with the leg islatures and insurance departments of the states and territories? And in this case does "easier" mean "cheaperT"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-12
SEEING Is BELIEVING
 Extraordinary Offerings. Sl.IO-UmbreIIaS -SI.IO

worth $1.75, $1.9S and $2.25. 500 Um- brellas, guaranteed best Gloria silks, with 8 ribs, steel frame, sliding run her, best design handles, for ladies and gents, all sizes; most in the lot worth $2.25, SPECIAL SALE $1.19. Remember, if you buy from us, you buy direct from the manufacturer and we guarantee to keep in repair free of charge for one year. It will be to your advantage to see our exclusive line of UMBRELLAS, TRUNKS, BAGS and all kinds of LEATHER GOODS; larg- est assortment, prices the lowest.
 FREE OF CHARGE TO EVERY BODY-This is bona fide offer. The Waterbury Trunk and Umbrella Mfr, 153 Bank street, have decided to repair Umbrellas free Of charge until Oct |, to prove that we are the original and old established Umbrella and Trunk Mfr in the city. We undersell all competitors. Cut this ad out and bring it with your umbrella; we will repair free of charge. We are doing this to advertise our establishment. 153 BANK ST, THE WATERBURY TRUNK & UMBRELLA MFR, tele- phone 46-3. Trunks, Bags and Um- brellas recovered and repaired.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-12
wy.n of +b. ntkado

when the miksdo Is seen in public 1e msnifests no interest in his sub iecss. neither smiling TOT lowing as he masses along He sits seemingly pas siosless. the secentustsd type of the Japanese. lndsed. he hardly seems 70 hear the applause of the erovds- This manner Is to some extent perhaps q matter of etiquette. for the nika5o must show that hs remembers the di- trinity of his ancestors. vho were Eods s.o0o ysars ago.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-12
BARS IN ENGLISH THEATERs.

The touring theatrical managers. whose headquarters are in London, are practically unanimous that the system of giving drink on credit to members of travelling companies at provincial theaters is pernicious and one that ought to be stopped. The best companies in the first class towns. however, are not affected by the sys- tenn.
 "On the stage" said a touring man. ager yesterday, 'thnre is, as there is in every walk of life. a certain per centage of people who will drink too much. On the other hand. think you will find on the stage a larger percen- tage of temperate men and women than in any other class of the cOmmu- nity. There would he much less drink ing if the stan bars were abolished, and with it the system Of giving credit"
 In many of the theaters in the Uni ted Kingdom holding an excise license credit Is given. if required. to members of traveIing companies. Some local managers encourage it. others leave it to the discretion of their employees
 Instead. however. of discoura ging drinking on credit in theaters. the ma f0Ffry of the owners. according 10 sew praI touring managers. facilitate It. Any member of their company or stan while playing at most provincial the aters. canl obtain drink during the week by filling ID docket In seknOw- Iesiznent and the amounts are collect pd when salaries are paid on Friday nfeht or Saturday morning In nearly every theater In the provinces there is a special service of drinks required behfpf the curtain and some lesSees eo so far as to provide bar beneath fhe starp-London Mall
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-12
THURSDAY, OCT 12, 1905.

Now that the president has returned his attention will be called to the de layed condition of work in the U. s. patent office and it is thought that he will apply the remedy of requiring the patent office examiners to. work over time until they shall bring their work up to date. His plan has that advan- tage that it also induces work during regular office hours.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-12
old Salt Mines.

The famous salt deposits of Petite Anse. La, are known to have been mined by the aboriginal Americans, ss Is testinsf by the stone hammer and other tools found when the de posits were rediscoYered in 1874 by John Marsh
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-12
Tn. Ms-ssv 1.r.

To keep the channels and the bar of the river Mersey al Liverpool al q depth of z7 feet at low water. 5000 Oo9 tons of sand were dredgs1 from the estuary last year Since 1890 about ss s.soC GO tons have been removed in this way
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-12
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 ryaiue you cement a general good feeling which is everlasting. If advanced orcers are q 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 stil prevail. Fireplace goods and plumb. ers' supplies.
 CHARLES A. JACKSON & GO
 xTo-z74 Bank strssk
 Manufaeturers and ImpoffsrA
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-12
To the Public.

During the three years we have been in business in the city we have proved to the citizens in Waterbury and vicinity that we do the finest work in the Naugatuck valley in FUR GARMENTS. MUFFs, BOAs.
 ETC. and notwithstanding this our prices gre low. We cary a fine line of Furs of all descriptions.
 Now is the time to have your furs re- mOdeled or repaired before the rush begins.
 We win be glad 10 furnish refer ences from well known patrons if de sired
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1905-02-25
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