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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-20
Great pamane Done.

New York, Oct. 19.-The Western
Union Telegraph company announces
that their cables to Havana are in
tact and that communication with it's
office has been had, but no details
as to any storm damage has been
received. The opinion is expressed
that no great damage has occurred g,
or information to that effect would
have been forthcoming. A man who
arrived Friday morning at Fort
Pierce, $50 miles north of Miami
Fla, says that there has been great
damage to houses and buildings
along the east coast, but no loss OF
life is reported.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-20
Indictments Aoainst pharr.

McRae, Ga, Oct. 19.-The grand
jury of Telfair county found seven
indictments against Olin Pharr, ex-
cashier of the Citizens bank of this
city, who was arrested a short time
since on a warrant sworn out by a
special agent of the American Surety
company of New York, which con-
Germ is on his bond. In five Of the
indictments the defendant Is charged
with the crime of forgery, while the
other indictments cover the alleged
em.bezzlement Of large sum of mon
ey. The accused will be tried here
in the superior court on Oct. "a.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-20
Insurance. Aqents viii Meet

New York, Oct. 19.-Life insur-
ance agents from all over this coun-
try and Canada will gather in St.
Louis, Mo-, Oct. %, "a and 25 to
attend the seventeenth annual con-
vention Of the National Association
of Life Underwriters. This associa-
tion is made up of over so local as
sociations of agents and solicitors in
the principal cities of the two coun-
tries. Prominent public men will
deliver addresses.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-20
ArnnId,a Comment.

AS school inspector Matthew Arnold
was examining a class in geography
one day, and, holding up the poker
with which he was about to stir the
fire, he asked if any child could tell
him where it was manufactured.
There was long silence, broken by
the schoolmistress, who remarked nerv-
Ously that such information was not
mentioned in Cornwelrs geography.
NO" said Arnold; "CornwelPs an
ASST
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-20
Brothe rhood Of Ct Ardr.,.,

Memphis, Tenn, Oct. 19.-Dele-
gates to the convention of the Broth
erhood Of st. Andrew, in session
here, held business meeting Friday
morning. Committee reports were
read and discussed. Frank V. Viii
ting Of Cleveland, o., was named as
permanent chairman of the conven-
ton. Several addresses were on the
program for Friday.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-20
Fire In Cotton Carnn

Wilmington, N. c., Oct. 19.-As
the British steamer Marthara was
preparing to clear for Liverpool, fire
was discovered under the third hatch
among IS 100 bales of cotton. With
the aid of the local fire department
and the pumps of the compress, the
fire was extinguished.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-20
Rrioadier General Bell Dead

Denver, Colo. Oct. 19.-Briga-
dier General William Hemphill Bell,
U. S. N, died at Arvada, near this
city, Thursday night of pneumonia.
General Bell was born at Westches-
ter, Pa, in 1884. He graduated
from West Point in 1858.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-20
French Ministry Resinns

Paris, Oct. 49, AT the cabinet
meeting Friday morning, Premier
Sarrien officially informed his COL
leagues that he had transmitted his
resignation to President Fallieres,
whereupon the ministers resigned in
a body.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-20
Trust Connanu Closed

Washington, Oct. 19-The Aetna
Banking and Trust company (branch)
of Washington, D. c., has been
closed by direction of the acting
comptroller Of the currency, and
Robert Lyons has been appointed
receiver
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-20

Everything here for your boys to wear and in big
variety Prices always the lowest consistent with good
quatV We wapt to sell evrY boy In Ameucus h1 outfit
this season. We will sell HIM It he will come and bring
his parents to see us.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-20
STORM HEADED
TO THE SEA
Floodtides Caused by Northeast.
er at New York.
AND ALSO At coNEY ISLAND
Waters of Hudson Roll Over Thir-
teenth Street-coney Is Pounded
by Highest Tide in Thirty Years.
Railroads Are Inundated.

New York. Oct 19.-The Evenin ;
Telegram prints a dispatch from Ha-
vana reporting more than 100 per-
sons dead from the cyclone there.
The cruiser Brooklyn was torn from
her mooriIgs and thrown on the
shore
The Breckenridge news., 1906-02-14
A TWOsFOOt Rat.

A warehouseman at the Oriental
dock, in Baltimore, had the distinc
tion the other day of killing the larg
est rat ever seen along the local water
front. The rodent yeighed nearly
seven pounds. and from the tip of his
nose to the end of his tail he measured
two feet.
1t was only after a desperate fight,
lasting twenty minutes, that the i'm
mense rat was killed. For some time
scraps of paper and wood in the tool
room of the warehouse indicated that
a swarm of rodents was at work. Then
one morning the warehouseman en-
countered the big fellow. With a
broom handle he attempted to put an
end to the rodents life, but the rat
showed fight. Back and forth he
scampered, and when cornered he
rushed at his assailant. Once he hid be-
hind a coil of rope overhead, and then
he dashed at the mans head. The
latter dodged but the rodents sharp
teeth grazed his face. At last the rat
was killed and measurements proved
that he was the biggest ever seen in
port.
The animal is supposed to be a spe-
cies found in South America and it is
believed he came here IN a ship, all OF
which carry many rodents.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-02-14
OUR SUGAR CONSUMPTION.
Beet Sugar Nov More Than half the
Worlds 1 otal Production.

OF the more than 1000 million dol
lars worth of merchandise brought in
to the United States during the last
year more than $50 million dollars
worth was sugar. Sugar formed by
far the largest single item in this larg
est importation which the United
States has ever made in any single
year.
The T. tied States Is increasing
steadily and rapidly its consumption
of sugar. The sugar producers at
home are increasing their output of
both cane and beet sugar, but even
their rapid increase in production is
not keeping pace with the increasing
home demand, and as a consequence
the quantity of sugar brought into the
country increases from year to year.
1t has doubled in the last twenty years,
while population meantime increased
but 80 per cent. The annual average
importation during the five-year period
ending with 1885 was 1,031,149 tons,
and Diving the five-year period ending
with 1906 the annual average was 2,106,
043 tons, despite the fact that the sugar
production at home had grown from
176.035 tons in 1885 to approximately
100000 tons in 1905.
The United States Is the largest
sugar-consuming country in the world,
though the per capita consumption In
this country is not as great as in the
United Kingdom. The total consump-
The Breckenridge news., 1906-02-14
IN IPONICAL VEIN

prominent citizens recommended by
Legislators should accept paltry places
at the foot of the list was intensely
repugnant to the Senatorial sense. AS
statesmen representing watchful and ex.
pectant constituents, many of whom ex
ercise valuable influence In behalf of
their party, they could not consent to
closing the door Of hope. Every Con.
gressional di"trict has its share of
elderly and highminded students of the
worlds affairs, men who may have been
rudely buffeted by fortune and who
cherish the hope of lodging further
cruel strokes by landing in a pleasant
consulate. They are men who have
done yeoman service for their party.
and often they retain connections that
can not be ignored. Are these to be
superseded and thrust aside by pop
injays? Are the oxen that tread out
the corn to be muZzled? Is the accurs.
ed thirst for gold to commercialize the
honorable office Of consul, so long the
haven of ancient mariners tempest
tossed on chartless political seas. the
ASYLUM Of indieence, the badge of de-
caved gentility?
The Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations will not have IL so. That
committee, consulting its bowels OF
romnassion. insists that Congress shall
share with the President the pleasures
Of rewarding the faithful with the fat.
test consular places.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-02-14
Famous for ArfifciaI Noses.

The city Of Indore is modern and
ugly and uninteresting Apart from
being the prosperous capital of a rich
native state, its chief claim to motor
iety rests upon it's hospital, which has
won universal fame by the manufac-
ture of artificial noses. That may
seem a very limited industry on which
to build a name. But in India there
are several ways of promoting this in
dustry. When a woman comes to the
hospital carrying her nose in napkin
you may fairly assume that her bus.
band suspects breach Of the Seventh
Commandment. When man appears
The Breckenridge news., 1906-02-14

Senator Lodges bill providing for
the reorganization of the consular SER
vice has been shorn by the Committee
on Foreign Relations of its most in
cendiary and detestable features-the
provision for examining candidates
for appointment, and this still more
Objectionable section:
That whenever vacancy shall
occur in the Office OF consul general,
or consul above the sixth (S4,000) class.
members of the two classes next below
that in which the vacancy occurred
shall be deemed eligible to be selecte
to fill such vacancy"
This was a palDable attempt to en-
graft the merit and promotion system
-nor the consular service. and thereby
to deprive national lawmakers OF their
'ncient sacred right to assist the Presi
'ent In selecting consuls general and
Nigh-Salaried consuls. A majority Of
the committee regard it as the sordid
injection of commercialism into a pure
w roiitical matter. on the fiimsy pre-
fence that the consular service Is
business institution.
IF the Committee on FOREIGN 2ela-
tfons had permitted this section TO
stand II would have been an abject can
'triat'on TO tho force that are sur
rentitiously rohbing Congress OF its
patronage powers. The idea that
voung corsu1s that have made good re-
cords should be promoted and that
The Breckenridge news., 1906-02-14
INTERIOR OF A MAIL CAR.

don their dear-bought fame as models
of industry and hilariously devote to
sport or idleness all of their time eX-
cept just enough in each day to satisfy
that days hunger. No doubt this tale
will shock and grieye a large number
of estimable people, but for our own
part, says the Times, it very consider
ably increases such little affection as
we previously had for these tiresomely
virtuous fowl and ther yfore will we
do our best to believe it. There are
some difficulties in the way Of doing
that Bees, despite their reputation for
intelligence, are evidently about the
stupidest things with wings-merely
animated acQuisitiveness, indeed work
ing as hard as an American million.
aire to pile up wealth fa~ beyond any
possible needs, without a single talent
except to get, get, get.
AS fighters, while bees are brave
enough, they are unable to strike more
than a single blow against any OF their
more dangerous foes, dying themselves
as a result of 1t, while the foes, after
lowling with pain for bit, calm down
and hunt more honey. 1t is almost
incredible, therefore, that q creature
incapable of seeing the futility of work
carried to an absurd extreme only for
he profit Of human robbers should be
able so quickly to draw an inference
from the failure Of winter to appear
when expected Almost" is not
quite" however, and we. too, can be-
lieve what we want to believe. So we
will not question the story from Aus
= 20 1io--yKybn nva avaryvtbinp is nOgSihle
acyhow-and we hope that somebody
will take a few of our ants down there
and prove that they, also, are indus.
trious only because they have to be
that they are not bit fonder Of indus.
try than are the butterflies or any Of the
who have always had the
sense to see that between toll to-day
and hunger tomorrow there is so little
10 choose that differences of opinion
on the subject are entirely permissible.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-02-14

When you buy Wing Piano, you buy atwhoie,-
sale. YCu pay the actual cost Of making It with
only our wholesale profit added. When you buy
a piano, as many still do-at retai-you pay the
retail dealers store rent and other expenses.
You pay his profit and the commission or salary
OF the agents or salesmen he emp,oys-al these
on top Of what the dealer himself has to pay to
the manufacturer. The retail profit on piano
is from SIS to $500. Isn't this worth sayingf
The Breckenridge news., 1906-02-14

ton in 1904 aggregated S,767,00o tons,
making an average consumption for
each individual for the year of about
IS pounds.
During the half century prior to 1890
beet sugar formed a small proportion,
of the worlds sugar production,
the percentage which beets supplied
of the worlds sugar product being in
1910 but 4.3 per cent, in 1850 14.3 per
cent, in 1890 63.7 per cent, while 1900
showed for beets the highest proper
ton in the worlds production of sugar,
67.7 per cent
The Breckenridge news., 1906-02-14
GhOsuY Ashes.

They had just moved in the house
and, as is usually the case. the former
tenants had left much rubbish behind
them.
"Just look" complained the little
woman, "here are three horrid pals
of ashes in the yard"
"Ah," laughed the big husband,
speak of them with more reverence" "
Reverence. Why should I?
"Why, they are the ashes OF the de-
parted"
The Breckenridge news., 1906-02-14
"TOO MUCH LAW-MAKING. "
REPRESENTATIVE BOWERSOCK,
OF KANSAS CITY, [RITICLSES
BILL MAKERS.
Says SeIfishness and Ambition Lead
them through a Wilderness of Folly
end Buncomb and Valuable Time
il Wasted.

them through a Wilderness of Folly
and Buncomb and Valuable Time
il Wasted.
81 have long criticised and seriously
objected to the making of so many
laws, and l have long contended that
men are not made good and honest by
statute" remarked Representative
Justin D. Bowersock, of Kansas, re-
Gently.
"The comparatively indiscriminate
enactment of legislation on all subjects
general, special and personals a
great evil and a greater folly. l nave
insisted that selfshness and prejudice
are at the basis of too many enact
ments, and that human nature and
the settled principles of business and
commerce, honorable competition, and
the results of supply and demand can
hardly be changed by law to any ben
efcial extent.
Corporate greed, cupidity, and cor:
ruption can be, ought to be, and VIII
be modified, curtailed, and brought
within decent limits, to say the least
No man desires this ore earnestly
than / do; no man will go further
along any reasonable lines in any le-
gitimate and practicable effort to
bring this about, whether 1t be In con.
nection with railroad rates, Standard
Oil rebates, beef trust. unlawful COM
bination, watered stocks, or whatever
or whoever may burden the consumer
or producer, unduly or unjustly, for
extortionate gain.
"'Equal rights to all, special privil-
eyes to none will not come through
impracticable, non-enforceable laws
drawn on the theory that we have
reached the millennium.
"The ordinary legislator, and his
name is legion. has a legal panacea for
every i'll. If he had as much honesty
as assurance, the title of his bills
would be:
"'An act to make men do business
on earth as it is done in heaven a
consummation devoutly to be wished;
but let us not forget the effect of the
Pope's bull against a comet and the
beating of tom-toms by the aborigines
on an eclipse"
The Breckenridge news., 1906-02-14
Bees Natural Spendfhrifs.

The New York Times reprinted from
a Montreal paper-which doubtless
lifted ii from one in London-a most
amiable story to the effect that when
bees are taken to Australia they learn
in single year the uselessness of stor-
ing honey for a winter that never
comes and that they thereafter aban-
The Breckenridge news., 1906-02-14

tie wide. The comparatively light
tender and mail car responded instant.
ly, while the heavy baggage and
passenger coaches constituted a drag
that broke the coupling. Relieved OF
this burden the engine, nder and
mail car shot ahead and leaped the
twenty-foot draw, landing on the 9th
CT side in safety. he engine ca ened
and side-wiped the iron bridge We Y.
tearing its jacket 70 tatt"rs and
knocking the cab into the riv" The
rest of the train, with brakes set au-
tomatically, came to stop without a
foot to spare.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-01-31
NUTMEG CRAVINGS
Interesting Items Boiled Down Fa'
 the Benefit of Our Readers.

Samuel Horowitz of Hartford. Who | drank an ounce of carbolic acid Satur,
 day night, died at the Hartford hos. I pital early this morning. He was 20
 years old and is survived by his wife l and three children.
 The valuable bird dog owned by William Spies of Winsted went mad Monday afternoon. biting and snap ping at several persons. Mir Spies had
 taken the muzzle off the animal and it ran out of the house.
 Burchard Matterson of Woodland
 was held up, gagged and robbed of S5.60. gold watch and chain and a fountain pen by two masked men about II o'clock Monday night. between sta tions , and on the Manchester line in Burnside.
 Clinton Holcomb. West Sufield farmer. aged Il years. was instantly killed yesterday morning by fall at his barn. He was throwing corn stalks from a hay loft and fell to the floor. distance of about twelve feet. He died instantly.
 President Fred Enos of the Bridge port board of trade. returned from Washington yesterday. where he se- cured the consent of the Russian am- bassadOr. Baron Rosen. to visit Bridge port in the near future. as the guest of the board of trade.
 Haddam Neck is without grocery store. owing to q fire which destroyed store and contents about o'clock yes terday morning. The building was owned by Edward D. Stryker of New York. whose son-in-law. Sterling Gil lette. had conducted the grocery busi- ness. selling out three weeks ago to John l.. Johnson.
 While waiting in his carriage at the Litchfield street railroad at go o'clock yesterday afternoon for freight train on the east track to pass. Edward Kir- by. a farmer of East Litchfield. aged about ;J years. was struck by a Switcher which was backing down from the station. and received injuries which will probably prove fatal.
 Two weeks ago it was reported that Calvin D. Bromley. the Lisbon town treasurer, was short in his accounts. and that a shortage was also reported in the accounts of the church of which he was also treasurer. An investiga- ton has been going on and the result bears out the rumors and Bromley has finally confessed that his accounts are short. hut how much he is unable to say. Bromley makes no statement to account for the shortage. He has never dissipated and did not appear to
 H.. is said. however. that he lived better than his circumstances warranted and that ordinary living expenses were what caused him io draw on the towns money. He has already sent his resignation to the selectmen and this will probably he formally acted upon next week and his successor sp- pointed
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-01-31
WATERBURY WEDNESDAY, JANUARY a1 19oe
BROOKLYN BRIEFS.

John simon of Lawrence street Is
 on the sick list. l Chris Dunphy is a welcome figure
 along Bank street once more. --In the handball games at the B. | X. C. rooms last night Reese and Law
 son defeated Cronan and J. kloski. Last evening there was a meet 1 ing of the committees that have charge of the coming whist party to be given at the Lyceum.
 John Lekavage. Lithuanian en- ployed at Randolph X Gloves severe
 ly burned himself yesterday by falling
 against some steam pipes.
 Saturday will be the feast of St
 Blaise and according to custom
 threats will be blessed in the morning
 and evening at St Patrick's.
 -Rev Father Mitchell. who was or.
 dained in Baltimore on Saturday, re,
 turned home last evning and received
 many of his old friends at the Lyceum where he favored goodly number with his blessing.
 iahh NQOu NOuNu llluke a good captain for the firemen's bowling. team. By the way. why doesn't sorae enterprising resident of Brooklyn ore. sent the boys of No 3 with pool tabls such as is now in the Leavenworth street house.
 There will be meeting of the con gregation of the Third Congregational church on Friday evening to take ac- tion on the resignation of Rev Benia- min r. Root and it promises to be an interesting session. It is said that MT Root will receive the drgrea c: doctor of divinity next June from his alnls mater in Kansas.
 At a meeting of the executive of the St Thomas CaGets last evening. Andrew Stein was elect ed manager of the baseball team for the coming year. It is doubtful if a more popular or competent selection could have been made as he is well liked and knows enough about base ball players to get q good nine to- sether Stein is perhaps better known in football circles than any other line | of sport. For years he was consid- 1 cred the best tackle in the city and | was a terror to opponents. He uas l been coach for the Cadet Juniors the | past two years and his work has been | excellent. He is member of Co c l and is fairly good basketball player. holding down the position of guard. Some years ago he was right at home Dn the diamond. being one of the best that could be found in Brook. yn. He expects to make fast hint: ut of the Cadet material and his friends are confident that he will be ID to snuff.
 Medicine buying is different from he buying of other goods-your health depends upon what you purchase. You ret what you ask for in its best quail. ' at our store. A. C. Walker, the ruggist.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-01-31
roNSHTTUT PATENTS

Peter w < A- A- ArlHino- Stam- foFsI. cEettrIe IampIis8ter: EI.enezrr Hill NorwaIk. valve fo- sprsPouui air rgmT,rcs<ors- For copy of sHy of above TE1fe8ss ~rBi tea ssnts in post. age stamps with date of sbi~ paper to C. A. snow & Co. Washington. D. C
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-01-31
WIInM AT HEARIN,;

Bridgeport. Jan 3l.-Mrs William <. SchreibeT. widow of tie late town clerk who committed suicide. made no contest in the probate court yesterday when her husbands estate came up for a hearing. James H. O'Rourke lawyer and baseball manager was named as administrator.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-01-31
BIG SEVEN SOCIAL.

The Big Seven Social club will give their fifth annual promenade this evening af Eagles hall. I.alIier-s or chestra will furnish the music for the concert and dancing Tine following is the program for this evening: March - Under the American
 Eagle" ............... Ellis Selection-''Isir of Bong Bong
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-01-31
hEN'S FURNISHINGS.

SJ00 BATHROBES S29S-Ony 16 in the lot Mems flannel Bathrobes. deep borders cord tasSelS, SJUU to $500 values. Tonight and Bargain day ............. At 19c-Our regular line of fine webs Police FrcnlenS Braces with bull dog ends. 25 39 values. To-
 night and Bargain day y............................ At Jac-Mens Genuine Camels Hair Shirts and BraW Wers
 and Scarlet Wool Shirts sizes Fl X. and cent
 values. Tonight and Bargain Day ................. At SDc-Nens Natural Wool Camels' Hair shirts anI Drawers, Roots TivOl Norfolk Mills
 all Sl.U0 and Si2J values Tonight and Bargain tav.