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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-05

While it is true that the average democrat in congress shies at the name of a ship subsidy bill simply. because the last two bills before the congress were great grabs and nothing else, they have no right to shy at the one now before the congress and which re- gently passed the senate and now is before the house, says a Washington writer. It ought to pass in the inter- est of the merchants and manufactur- CTS and the farmers of the country. It has no politics in 1t and 1t has been indorsed by almost every trade organ iZation in the country. notably by the cotton growers associations of the southern states. We now are depend ing on foreign ships to carry 95 per cent of our transatlantic business be- cause those countries are ship-owning and ship-building countries and they have built up their shipping interests by the use of subsidies. Those coun- tries require our cotton, wheat. corn. cattle and provisions and they send their ships to our ports for the goods they need, thus incidentally providing facilities for our European import traf- fic, but when We turn to our traue with Asia, Africa, Central and South Ameri- ca and Australasia we find that condi- tions are radically different. Unlike the chief European nations. they are not ship-owning lands. We require from them great quantity of im- ports, especially articles of food and raw materials for our manufacturers. and the great bulk of these goods are on the tariff free list. But these coun- tIies, unlike Europe. have no ships of their own to deliver all this needful merchandise in our own ports, and, of course, they do not supply the ships that are required for the proper ex- pansion of our export commerce t0 their own ports. For this service both ways the United States is now de- pendent almost altogether on the sur plus or inferior shipping of Europe. The European powers grant liberal subsidies to maintain great steam lines from their own ports to Asia. Ar rica. Central and South America and Australasia. but they do not. if they can help 1t. allow any of their sub sidies to be utilized for the main tenance of steam lines to those com petftive markets out of the ports of the United States.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-05

2 Speaking on the merits of the pure food bill one writer says that preser- 5vatives are never added to food to .adulterate it, nor to keep it while it is canned or bottled, as the case may be. Their sole use is to keep the. food
 from developing germs after the pack age has been exposed to the air, and if this were not done everything would become dangerous to health un- less used immediately upon opening.
 A bottle of catsup will often be on a table for a month after opening be- fore being used up. Without q trifle of benzoate of soda it would soon be- come germ infected and spoil. Nature realizes this for in every fruit and
 berry will be found either benzoic or salicylic acid, and we have been eat
 ing them for centuries without harm.
 There is no more reason why we should object to ordinary preserva-
 tives than there is for us to object ito common salt, for that is just what salt is, and exactly what it is used
 for, and there is not the slightest scientific evidence in the world that preservatives in the quantities used injure our health or bodies in the slightest degree while science has de monstrated that properly used they save numberless lives each year.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-05

auger and inserts metal or wooden spout. The sap drips slowly into the pail placed for that purpose; it is col lected in a large wooden tank and taken to the sugar house by sled drawn either by horses or oxen; there emptied into a reservoir and thence passed into the evaporator. Put up in cans and properly sealed it will keep indefinitely. If sugar is desired 1t takes person well skilled to know to just what degree of density the sap shall be brought; when this point has been reached 1t is poured, in semi- fluid state, into molds.
 At the Vermont experiment station very interesting problems have been worked out. It has been proved that the pressure comes from above and not from below. and in testing the pres sure very ingenious instruments are used, these placed at different heights, from the roots all the way up the tree Dials are attached to the instruments, and the observer can easily read the amount of pressure. The pressure is greatest on sunshiny day, the sap in leaves and twigs then most expanded. We recently came across an article that referred to the maple tree as a natural sugar factory; the maple leaf starch maker, later the stored-away starch converted into sugar; the best sap maker tree we'll provided with leaves and most exposed to sunshine. "In fact serious attack by caterpil- lars in maple woods will materially diminish the sap flow the following spring-a circumstance which shows how much the leaves have to do with the business"
 HENRY ALLEN
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-05

ma. It says: ."Learn your exact weight for one nt."-Kansas City Times. N ..'
 A bill has been introduced into the Rhode Island legislature making it impossible for any person to secure q divorce in that state on any ground whatever. If it becomes law a citi- zen of Little Rhody will find it neces- sary to step outside of the state to change his wife just as he now does to change his shirt.-LOuisville Cour- ier-Journal.
 The groom has asked his rich bride for million. Not on your blessed life,'' she responded blithely, as though this did not mean the sunder- ing of sacred ties, but if carfare will do you any good I'll stake you to a nice ride" Thus they parted and the public press, issued for the uplifting of the masses, made appropriate chronicle.-Philadelphia Ledger.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-05
MAPLE TREE NECTAR
THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF
 "sUGARING-oFF."
Then One Did Not Mind a Smoky Taste-Evaporators Are in Use To-Day-Six States Large
 Producers.

We are told we get very little real maple syrup and sugar these days, that there is such wholesale arbitration of l this favorite American sweet, little of the good old-fashioned article in its purity reaches our table. But let us find out if anywhere the real thing is to be found and how it is made ready | for use.
 We learn that half dozen states produce 95 per cent. of the total yield of sugar and over 80 per cent. of the syrup; these states, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Michi- gan and Pennsylvania. AS so many ancestors" come from these states, no matter where our homes may be To- cated most of us probably have learn ca at our fathers knee stories a-many of the good old days when maple sugar was maple sugar, or "sugarings-off," maple wax, and all the merriment and childish bliss attendant on tapping the. trees and boiling the sap. Every farm CT, it would seem, used to have sugar bush,s and each household was able to make provision for its sugar-the best sugar, in it's pure state, to be found in the world. In the late winter or early spring the trees were tapped, and the precious sweet coaxed forth. The liquid was boiled in big kettle, the smoke and fire, pleasant accom- paniment in those days, considered no detriment to the flavor. But we are bit finicky to-day, and now not few make use of evaporatofs, which reduce the juice to the required density. However, there's many grown man and woman of to-day would give deal for a chance to get out in the woods and take part in an old-time sugaring- on, would give deal to taste the old time maple syrup, smoky flavor thrown in.
 A good-sized tree will yield six pounds of sugar. It takes not less than 400 gallons of sap to furnish 100 pounds of sugar. And we are inform ed that yearly about 15,000,0Q0 trees are tapped in this country, that over 40,000,O00 pounds of sugar are sold. One wonders who the fortunate folk are that get the real thing, how the discrimination is made. It may be but poor comfort to know that adultera- ton and imitation are easily detected; melt a bit of the sugar and if it have a smell like brown sugar it Is not pure maple; if pure. it will have the deliei- ous maple aroma combined with noth- ing else.
 It has long been question why the sap runs as it does. Scientists give this explanation-"the syrup travelling
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-05
HEARD IN PASSING

My brother mace ugly faces al your brother yesterday and he didn't darest ter fight He prpfepfed he disin't notice -em-- He didn't neith- CT He thought they uuz natursL-- Cleveland Leader.
 An East OFanSe- N- T. year olI uhs1 toIi ft was wsshinxtoHIs birth day wasn't murh impressed but iIs- quirpd eagerly -WKen is Mir Long vOr1hTs birtbdarT She evidently coasiderrd tie living hero moEe in V-ortauf than any dead ones
 T voaier boE long we VIII have te wait fer eur trzzn.- remarkesi tls@ Iiftle boys marker zf tbe depoL 1lse Iftfl~ boy. wbgse esesr syes say every fhizE replieI Put a peu1y in tat Nschzae and yoz cam End cut nam
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-05
sAEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PReM !
SUBSCRIPTION RATES. oas ysar. $500 Is Six months 2Sl thsss neathA l.25 Ss One month <1l
 Delivered to any part sf CiI.
MONDAY, MARCH ,, 1906.

Senator Iillman has been selected by the senate committee to report the railway rate bill. This necessitates numerous conferences with. the presi- dent, and as the wielder of pitchforks and lightning, and the strenuous man, have the same regard for one anoth- CT that an aggressive cat has for a succulent mouse, interesting times are to be expected. So if you are awak- ened by a strange noise, accompanied by violent tremblings of the United States, don't get scared. It will only be the first conference.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-05
Pleasant Name.

Manufacturers pleasantly name shod- dy manufactured wool" The term is speciously descriptive, for the mate rial is made from wools which have passed through the process of manu- facture. Soft worsted rags of any kind-old stockings, or soft cloths made from long-stapled wools-are cleansed and torn into soft fun in a machine resembling somewhat the or- dinary willow machine.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-05
Too High for Sleep,

Loss of sleep proves to be the curious effect that may limit mans mountain climbing. Dr. Bullock Workman men, tions that in his camp in the sHima- layas at 1s.35s feet, members of his party were kept awake by lack of breath, and on dozing of would sud denly awake gasping. He concludes that inability to sleep may itself be sufficient to keep climbers from going beyond 23.0o0 to 25,OO0 feet.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-05
GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES Itching, Blind, Bleeding, Frotruding Piles. Druggists are authorized to re- fund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure in 6 to IA days. 50c.
His Fame Is Safe.

Admirers of Edgar Allan Poe are preparing to wage vigorous cam paign for the reconsideration of his name by the hall of fame judges. Why do it? asks the Pittsburg Ga zette. Poes memory doesn't need a tablet fin the hall of fame any more than true heroism is exalted by re- ceiving a medal. ... r
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-05
Of Ancient Date.

Holland has just celebrated an unusu- al journalistic festival. Haarlem has the distinction of possessing one of the oldest newspapers in the world, the Haarlemsche Courant, founded 250 years ago. A copy of the first issue was exhibited.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-05
Gypsy King.

''King" Thomas Costello, chief of a noted tribe of gypsies. died in New ark. N. J., recently. For seven gen. erations a Costello has been on the throne" Thomas succeeded his brother three years ago. He will be succeeded by his three-year-old son, but the affairs of the tribe will be managed by a regency till he reaches his majority.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-05
Schoolboys Use Tobacco.

Principal Thomas. of the Burlington tytD high school. and his teachers. finding that 40 per cent of the boys used tobacco habitually. and desiring 10 reduce the practice, have agreed that no pupil who uses tobacco can hold a school office or be a member of any organization. including ath- letie and social clubs
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-05
Thackeray's Courtesy.

When William Makepeace Thack- cray was running for seat in parlia- ment he chanced to meet his oppo- nent few days before the polling be- gan. After few minutes friendly conversation, the obvious remark was made: Well, may the best man win" "Oh, hope not" was Thack- eray's courteous reply as they shook hands and parted.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-05
Turtle $50 Years Old.

About the time the Galapagos 4s- lands were. discovered a young turtle was born there. He died the other day in the geological gardens, London. He was at least $50 years old. When he was feeling we'll he would eat as much grass as an average COW.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-05
American. in Mexico.

Ten years ago there were 55s Amer jeans in the City of Mexico. The di- rectory printed last December shows GAS Prohibition has in some meas ure struck the town A law vas re- gently passed closing saloons at nine o'clock. and --pulque joints' at six in the evening
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-05

outward to the tvizs and leaves. un- dergOes expansion by the heat of the sun thus sxsrting pressure down ward When a hole is bored in the trunk. therefore. the juice is forced out
 If the trees are tapped properly the process dOes not inture them The farmer taps the tree with sort of
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-05
Hard on the Old Man.

The children are always glad that fa- ther didn't marry his first love, be- ing perfectly satisfied with their moth CT, but they always have a notion they would have been better on if mother had married hers.-Atchison Globe.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-05
Terrible Revolution.

Speaking of revolutions" began the loquacious man, "I was the cen tral figure in one myself once" Somewhere in South America?" NO. in Massachusetts. I got caught in the shafting of a woolen mill"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-05
Aged Pugilist.

Bill Benjamin. who twice fought Tom Savers. being defeated each time. died recently at Shire Newton, England. He was s4 years old, a remarkable age for a former prize fighter to attain.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-05
Money in Bors.

Experts calculate that Irish bogs arc capable of turning out 50.0OO.0O tons of fuel year for a thousand years, and, at the present prices. this would realize se0. .eO0 ,0o0 a year.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-05
Two Extremes.

Water freezes every night of the year in Alto Crucsro. in Bolivia: while at monday the sun is hot enough 10 blister the flesh.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-05
An Appalling Po.sibilitr.

q will Rsysr marry any but a rich girl
 But suppose she won't marry a poor uanr--Baltimore American.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-05
Queeu on s.snr.

Queen Isabella of Spain rzs the nrss woman to bs konorsd with a place oa United States postage stamps.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-05
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n. nost valuable book in the Brit ish Nussan is The CodeT of AIex.n- srfnas.- said to be uOrth slJ5seca
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-05
IF IRAvEIrNeN IN JAPAN

sr say citiI71ed oS1ztry. yOa can DO cure Laxative Bro1S Q1lnine from zny drTe-fst- AT n1tiozs use it L. w. GrvEe-s signature on bsI-
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News of the Week.

Miss Helen Gould has subscribed $4,000
toward a new Y. NJ. c. A. building at larry
town, N. Y.
Citizens of Core Sound, N. c., have burned
Mormon mission and threaten to tar and
Gather the missionaries.
Typhoid fever, in mali grant form, has
become epidemic in Frederick county, Vir-
ginia. Many deaths have occurred.
Nearly $50 revolutionists in the Baltic re.
gion have been shot, several thousand are
under arrest and 5000 rifles have been cap
tured. The revolutionists have burned 200
castles, with an aggregate value of 81, 600, 600.
Fire of an incendiary origin destroyed the
large barn on the farm of 0. f. Asper, near
York Springs, Pa All the contents of the
| barn, including considerable live stock, were
| burned. The loss is partly covered by insuf-
ance.
Comparative value of farm products: Corn,
81 ,2l6 600 600; milk and butter, 1865, OOO. 900;
hay, $605, 600, 600; cotton, 1915, 900;
wheat $50, 900, 900; eggs, $500, 600, 600; oats,
1892, 900, 900; potatoes, Sl8S, ooo, 900, and to-
bacco, S52, 00O, 900.
To further its desire 10 secure double track
for the Cleveland and Pittsburg division from
Steubenville to Bellaire, o., the Pennsylvania
Company has completed deal which transfers
to it every house and highway in the town of
Burlington, Ohio. The town, an ancient
country one, has about $50 houses and stretch
es from the river to the hills. The company
will efface it this summer and establish large
yards The amount involved was about 500,
600.
J. w. Mccullough, of Friendsville, Md,
and H. j. Wilmoth, of Meyersdale, Pa, have
purchased 5000 acres of fine timber land,
three sawmills, 10 miles of standard gauge
railroad and its equipments, cultivated farm
of GOO acres, a store with stock of $4,000
aud about % houses, which make up the town
of Boyer, all in Pocahontas county, West
Virginia. The property is along the main
line of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad and
the timber land will cut almost 100, 900, 600
feet Of lumber
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A Few Stray Thoughts.

Better meet failure in making worthy
effort than to make no effort whatever.
The captain of finance Is the man who
uses his brains to secure $40 81 in labor
for 81 40
Many towns have failed to prosper be-
cause of the bad condition of the roads
leading to them.
The man who always keeps on the
ground cannot well know the sensation Of
falling from height
1t Is not always that the man Of the
hour is the man that Is going to stand the
shafts of public criticism.
The man who uses self as n standard by
which to judge other men, Is generally
wrong in his measurements
Some men are forced up to positions
that nature never equipped them to oe-
cupy, and as natural result when props
are knocked away, they take swift tumble.
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RELIGIOUS NOTICES.

Ascension Church-5th Sunday after .iphnuy-
7sO a IN, Holy Communion 10 - a. IN Holy
Communion and sermon, 40 p. m, Evening
Prayer and Lecture p. m. Service aud sermon
in Chapel
Rev Frank NJ. Gibson. IN. D. Rector
salem Lutheran Charge Bcnjamin's- Preaching
p m. ST. Johns tLeisteT's) sunday school al 9
II. IN. Preaching at 70 IA. m
Rw Doty. Pastor
St PauPs Reformed Church.-Sundsy school at
30 a. IN. Divine service ut 1880 a, m.
c. 5 saglc, Pastor.
Carroll Charge Reformed Church-Divine service
at Bentamin's at 10 a. m. AT Pleasant Valley nj ?
p. IN. James b. Stonesiter, Pastor.
Grace Lutheran Church.-sunday School ut . a.
m. Divine service at 1890 IA. IN. and 80 p. IN.
by Rev. DIR. C. +, Hay, pastor Of the Deaconess
Mother House, Baltimore. I. 7. :. G. f. at 6l5 p.
+. H. Miller. ID. D., Pastor.
Methodist Protestant Church, Rev. L. f. Warner
Pastor-Sabbath Services at 10S a. m
and 7.S0 p. IN. Y. p. 5. c. K. at $50 p m. sunday
school 9l5 a. m. Mid week Service in the lecture
room Wednesday evening at 7.s0 O'Clock.
l.. f. Warner, Pastor,
Centenary N. Z. Church.-sunday school at 9l5
a. IN. Preaching at 1890 a. m. and 80 ?. m. Ep
Rev D. e. Miller Pastor.
St Johns Church-Sundays-Low Mass at IT'S
aud High Mass at 10 a. M. During the week.-Mrs.
at a. IN. Joseph IL cassidy fesLor
Reformed Church, Silver Run-Serviee 1870 Il
m, every other Sunday, and at p. m; Sunday
school at $50 d. m and p m. Preaching every
two weeks at p. IN.
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Should Be Repealed.
From the Centeryille observer.


A bill has been introduced in the House Of
Delegates repeating the law Of pensioning
Judges, which was enacted two years ago.
Delegate Brown, of Somerset county, is the
father of the bill, and it is said, will fight bard
for its passage. Fully ninety per cent. ofthe
taxpayers of the State will, without doubt, up,
hold Mr.. Brown in his course, yet the bill j.
likely to be strongly contested in both the
House and Senate.
To man the members of the bar in boil
branches of the Legislature will oppose the
bill, hoping that some time or other Judge
ship may fall their lot Others advance the
argument that the prospect of pension after
retirement attracts as candidates men of the
highest qualities and ettainments, who Nigh
not otherwise be induced such positions. i
this be their motive it is questionable whether
they possess the higher attainments and thii
argument, therefore, losses its force, in that i
is reflection upon the character which We
always invested the Judiciary with, and The
Observer cannot, therefore, accept the argu
ment as tenable.
Be that as it may, wherever there is va
cancy on the bench there is never a dearth o
available candidate ready and willing to &C
cept the honor.
There can be no convincing argument ad
vanced why judges should be pensoned aftel
their retirement from the bench any mort
than other State officials, and the bestowing o
pension upon ex,judges is a species of graf
upon the public exchequer which the people
have to meet, and one which the public q
large will not approve of.
1t should be repealed.
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From me oakland INal pemocrat.


1t is She manifest duty Of every editor in
the State of Maryland to impart to their NJ
spective representative In the Legislature the
fact that for thirty three years The State OF
Maryland bias been losing at least ST., III. p
annually. as State taxes, on the unassessed
belt of coal lands, right in the heart Of the
Georges Greek coal region. According 10
the reports Of Hiram p. Tasker, Special
Agent, for Garrett and Allegzny counties,
recently published for the first time Ia the
Tri.State Herald. which publication Mr..
Tasker was forced 70 suspend on account OF
not being able to secure newspaper rates
through the mails, there is q zone eighteen
miles long and il places nearly two miles
wide that is not assessed at al because Of the
disputed boundary between Garrett aud ALE
gany counties. There is probably over fifty
million dollars invested IN coal lands in this
region, where the coal alone sells for upwards
of s., 600 per acre. According to the valua-
ton Of local assessors, etc, there are in both
counties $9,6s9, S95 worth of lands which pay
no taxes at all, either to the counties or TO
the State.
The recent decision Of the circuit court
wiped out the Bauer line, which was sur
veyed and marked under an act of the Legs
lature of 1898, and now there Is no recognized
line between the counties. Until this line IS
definitely established there can be no complete
assessment made in this wealthy region. Gar
rett county was organized in 1872, under a
pretense of a survey of this line. The ques-
ton has been agitated at every session Of the
Legislature since that time, but the coal com
panies, owners Of these lands, had their ennis
saries in the lobby to defeat every bill that has
been introduced looking to a fair and Just as
sessment Of their lands. Thus far they have
succeeded and they will probably have their
agents in Annapolis this winter. they find
this method cheaper than paying their taxes.
Take the foregoing amount-$9, $50, 500
and multiply by 233 cents, the present State
tax rate, and you get S12, 77l.25, as the exact
amount the State has been losing annually
since l872-thir!y.three years. This fact
justifes US, in behalf of the outraged taxpay,
ers, in appealing to all the editors in the State,
TO add their influence to the cause of common
justice to every individual taxpayer in the
Stale Of Maryland