Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-08-18

| the big bargain sales in this city a
 few weeks ago, well known woman says that half of her money was gone
 in just thirty minutes. so that she
 had pennies where she had dollars
 before, and but half as many dollars
 as before she had pennies. Now how
 much did she spend? Has any read- l CT solved this problem? If so the As You Like It man would be pleased to
 receive the answer.
 Tn the death of John Dederick
 Strasburg, a clerk in the postoffice at Louisville, Ky, the oldest postal enn- ploye In the United States and prob
 ably in the world, has been removed. Strasburg had just passed the Sand
 milestone in life, having been born in Hanover, Germany, June 2, 1918. He came to America in 1881 and on March 6, 1S43, was appointed to a clerkship in the Louisville postoffice by President Taylor Since that time
 up to the day of his death he had
 been employed in the Louisville post
 office without Interruption, having
 served under sixteen different presi-
 dents. Owing to his long term of
 service in the postal department his
 picture has been exhibited in the dis
 play of the department at some of
 the large expositions.
 People who sell liquor dread the state police, and as result many of
 them prefer to settle even though
 they have not the remotest knowl- edge of when and in what manner
 they left themselves liable. This has
 been demonstrated in many ways,
 but in none more forcibly than in the presence of fifteen or twenty dealers at the office of the prosecutor the day the announcement of so many cases being on hand appeared in the papers, who wanted to settle, all though they hadn't been even poti- fled that they were among the all legged offenders. A similar instance occurred here years ago when the gentleman who was then acting as prosecuting agent on the day after a circus issued warrants for the arrest of number of saloon keepers about the center on charge of selling to minors and allowing minors to loiter, and all called in and settled, although there was not particle of evidence against them and If they had shown fight every one of them would have been nolled.
 SSs
 All requirements were recently met in official tests of the adaptabil- ity of automobiles to the rural deliv- cry service. Buckboards of four horse power were. used in these tests, with wheel gauge of forty-two inch ,es, propelled by a single cylinder, air cooled gasoline engine, the cars weighing about 620 pounds. The tests were made on some of the toughest roads on the outskirts of Washington and the motors nego- tiated them with little difficulty. de- lay or diaster. During the trials the operator had perfect control of the machine. it reached the properly placed rural boxes with precision, climbed and descended steep, rough and dangerous hills with apparent ease. and waded through mud holes in heavy rain storms without dam- aging the mail collected on the trip. During the trial of these motors three routes which by ordinary horse conveyance would have taken some- thing near day of twenty-four hours to serve were covered in less than nine hours by the machine. The cost of fuel consumed in operating the machines in these tests was con- puted to be less than 1 cent and 1-10 per mile.
 The rising generation doesn't ap- pear to be s0' much afraid of death | as their fathers were and as a con- sequence may. regard it as a special | favor from Providence to be carried l away without moments warning. | That's just the way I want to go," said very good citizen the other | day to few friends who were talk | Ing about an esteemed member of | this community who passed out of | Ihe flesh very suddenly. "Yes," he | "when my day comes I want to lie down and wake up no | more; no doctors, ministers or medi- line for me. keep my affairs out right along so that n case l should be called away any my family wouldn't have a ,it of trouble fixing up my estate. Who wants to be sick and suffer for 'ears before he dies, burden to him. elf and everyone about him." This s all right, provided there is no fu- ure state of existence beyond the rave and 1t might be all we'll nough. too. if everybody needed the to be always prepared to nswer to God for his stewardship in hts life. But there appears to be SO luch uncertainty about the here fter in the minds of doubting 'h0mases and it is so hard to find lan who walks with God all the ime it would seem by far the safer Ian to be apprised of the great hange from this world to the other Q that those who are not even on he alert might have an opportunity Q fit themselves for the long jour- ey. Most Christian people pray ay fin and day out to be spared from l
 sudden and unprovided death, but would appear that this is getting 9 be regarded as an evidence of owardiee in some quarters and to be
 real hero you want to tell the ! I rim reaper to come on any day at | Il and he'll find you ready. This is he way some take 1t, but it is safe ; , predict that the great mass of 1; hope for sufficient time to I lake their peace wi.h God before (