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Connecticut western news., 1906-09-13
PREVENTS A STORM TIE-UP.
A Chicago Man Has Solved the Prob
 lem '.How to Conquor sleet."

lem '"How to Conquer sleet."
 A protected third rail for electric. elevated, surface or subway rail- roads, which will finally overcome the most annoying problem to the elevated rauroAds-the sleet-is claimed to have been perfected by E. Wilson Farnham, Chicago. The tie-up of elevated roads, and the sur face lines with the third rail attach ment, which occurs during sleet storms, brought from the officials of the lines the announcement that they had found no method by which the elevated service could be safe guarded.
Connecticut western news., 1906-09-13
Commercial Printing

Noteheads, Envelopes. Statements, Tags, Lists, Cards, etc., for the business man, farmer. etc. Up-to-date type, stock and workmanship. f-
 CANAAN PRINTING CO,
 Canaan, Conn.
The Washington times., 1906-12-27
THE TIME TABLE.

Oh, dear me, no, Children, this
is not Yid-dish poem, nor is it a
Cross Section of the live Under
ground Wires, it is a Time Table
Do you not know what a Time Ia
bic is? Why it is Marvellous
Ming-Iing of Words and Figures
which tells us about the Trains in
Oshkosh when we are Anxious to
Find Out what time the 9:4O gets
into Hy-atts-Yille. If we Sturdy a
Time Table carefully for an Hour
and a Half, they will come and take
US to the Asylum. If it were not
for Time Tables, Little Ones, we
could not tell whether our Train
was Two or Three Hours Late.
The Washington times., 1906-12-27
THURSDAY. DECEMBER p. 900.
In the Life-Saylng Service.

Another phase of the salary prob
lem is presented in Secretary Shaw's
comment on the life-saying service,
set forth in his annual report:
'While it is gratifying TO note bet
terments in the wreeking equip
ment, and the generally effective
condition of the material of the ser
vice." he says. 4 am compelled to
admit a steady decline in the eff
ficiency of the personnel during re-
cent years in consequence of the in
ability to offer adequate induce
ments to proved veterans to remain
in the service. or to promising re
cruits to fill the places of those who
leave.
Owing TO the great advance in
wages in outside and less dangerous
employment. and the increased cost
of living, this decline has been con-
slant, and has now become a matter
of serious concern. As a rule, the
most capable men now in the crews
are those who have passed the vig-
orous period of life, while the best
brawn and muscle have quit, and the
vacancies have had to be filed by
inferior men"
There is expressed tersely and
vigorously about all there is to be
said about the deterioration of this
highly important service. No rem
edy offers except that potent one of
higher wages Even the proposed
pension bill for life savers viii not
accomplish much. Present pay is
worth a great deal more than any
future pittance.
The Washington times., 1906-12-27
coz CORNFP cor.

Conducted by Aunt Dotty.
Dainty lunches for receptions,
teas, entertainments and the like are
always TO be desired. For the bene-
Mt Of my many dear admirers viii
give you the following valuable hints
today.
Something novel in the way Of FROST
ing for cake may be achieved by cover
ing the surface OF the cake with fish
glue and sprinkling over that a guam
tity OF pulVeriZed mica. Jab a brass
headed tack here and there IN the cake
and the effect will certainly create COM
ment.
Cream puffs will be more attractive If
the pastry Is painted in green stripes 70
represent watermelon. Color the cream
red Wild cut glass dyes and add a few
shoe buttons to represent seeds. This
Will increase the general effect of orig
cocoanut cakes are easily made by
secreting a medium-sized unopened CO.
coanut inside a loaf OF breas- Serve
with a garnishing OF leaves from the
cOcOanut palm and have the walters
make monkey faces while serving
To make a birthday cake cheap chop
one pound, pink candles. one almanac,
one calendar and one diary fine. cover
with cracker crumbs. and when baked
sprinkle with sand from an hour glass.
Always remove the collars from dog
biscuit before serving.
The Washington times., 1906-12-27
INF ANT PERISHES..
MOTHER NOT HOME
Burned to Death by Brother
Playing with Burn
ing Paper.

Lying in a little wooden bed near ths
kitchen stove. watching her brother and
sister play with their Christmas toys.
Lille Manuel, the fourteen-months-old
daughter OF Richard and Gertrude Man
burned 20 death last evening.
Mrs. Manuel was away from home at
the time the tragedy occurred. Attract
ed by the frantic cries OF her son and
daughter. she reached the kitchen IN
time 10 see the infant enVel8ped in a
mass of fame. Without a thought for
her own life. she caught the child IN
her arms in q heroic effort to save its
life. and was so severely burned that
she fell IN q faint.
When Mrs Manuel went out. about )
O'Clock yesterday afternoon, she left Lii
lie IL charge of her other two children.
William. six years old. and Clara. four
years OF age. a bed had been impro-
vised near the kitchen stove, and in Il
the child was watching her brother and
sister playing.
William had rolled up pieces OF paper
and, after lighting them in the stove,
waved the burning torches above his
head. One OF the burning papers dropped
from his hand, falling on his sisters
bed. The bedding and clothing were of
light material and instantly took fire.
A certificate OF accidental death was
issued by the coroner this morning. A
year ago the family came to Washing
ton from Prince William county. Va,
where the body viii be taken for burial
tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1906-12-27
Columbia-Burton Holmes Lectures.

Burton Holmes is soon TO be heard
at the Columbia Theater, in three paral-
lei courses. Course \ TO be given on
hve successive Sunday evenings at $50
O'Clock, Course B on five successive
Monday afternoons at 40. and Course
c on five successive Tuesday afternoons
at 4:S5 For Courses A and B the sub
jects will be Cairo The Nile;
Athens and the New Olympic Games
Naples" and "Vesuvius, "a course
which has done such a large business
where il has been given this winter as
to necessitate return engagements,
Course win be made up of those
lectures which have proven the most
popular in several form er seasons,
Japan" Port Arthur" ireland"
.Tyrolean Alps" and Switzerland" p"
All of these viii be splendidly iiustra-
ted with cOlored views and motion pic
lures taken by Mr.. Holmes and his as
sistant and fellow traveller, Oscar B.
Dcpue The sale of seats for all three
courses viii begin at the Columbia
Theater on Monday. December 81
The Washington times., 1906-12-27
EASY At OMAHA
TO GET DIVORCES
DEGREES Granted in Nearly
All Suits Filed in the
City of Late.

OMAHA. Neb., Dec. Approximate
ly one divorce suit for every three mar
riages is the startling record disclosed
by a compilation of statistics at the
courthouse in Omaha for the first eleven
months Of this year
Up 10 December /. 1.54s marriage IL
Censes had been Issued in 1906 nd in the
same period 4S4 divorce suits had been
filed in the district court. In nearly all
the suits filed DEGREES were granted
very large perez ntage OF the appIi-
cants FOR divorce were residents Of
Eastern States, who. In order 10 obtain
DEGREES Of divorce. came here, and tenn
poraTiIy established residences after
ward returning 10 their Eastern homes.
The laXiJy OF the law which permits
a legal residence to be established in six
months is primarily responsible for the
very rapid growth OF the divorce busi-
ness here, and IL is said that a strenu-
Gus effort VIII be made at the next
session Of the Legislature 10 obtain a
revision of the law on The basis of the
model law recommended by the divorce
congress, which met IN Philadelphia
last fall.
The Washington times., 1906-12-27
PARISIANS REVEL
IN LAST SCANDAL
Divorce of Madame Lebargy
duplicates Son of Cast
mir-PeIier.

PARIS. Dec. 27.-Not since the trial
OF the CasteIane divorce suit has 50
much interest been manifested in a do
nestle scandal as is shown in the hear
ing whereby Madame Lebargy. noted as
one Of the most beautiful women Of
Paris and often hailed as the successor
of Sarah Bernhardt as an actress. has
been divorced from her husband
That a son OF former President Cast
mir-Perier Is involved Ia the scandal
has not lessened the interest. The
chief charge on which the decree was
granted was that the actress had de-
serted her husband and gone 70 London
with young Perier- Boulevard gOssips
have il she will marry him,
Lebargy is also well known as an
actor. and has shared with BOni Castel-
lane the distinction Of setting the
fashions for Paris.
The Washington times., 1906-12-27
THINK MAN MURDERED;
BODY PLACED ON TRACK

TREvORTON. Pa. Dee. 27.-What IS
supposed to have been a fatal accident
on the TreYorton extension of the
Shamokin and Edgewood Electric Rail-
way line at the corner of Shamokin and
First streets. developed in a sensational
manner. when it was found that the vic
tim. Matthias Shaschek. was alive nd
well at a fair in progress here about
twenty minutes before his mangled body
was found under the street car. InVes-
tfgation shows that certain portions of
clothing had been removed from his
body. Il is now thought that he was
murdered. and that his body was placed
on the tracks.
The Washington times., 1906-12-27

when he said that sIt is a sad but
indisputable fact that luxury and
social distinction as the result of
money are growing more and more
apparent at Yale, Harvard, Prince
ton, and Columbia Universities every
year"
Yet it can be accounted but natu-
raj that the power and glitter of
enormous wealth shall be reflected
to some extent in the institutions to
which rich mems sons repair. Col
lege boys are the last persons in the
world to fall victims to the worship
of the golden calf. yet even they are
human. and even they feel some
times like smashing the tablets of
the commandments and dancing
around some particularly impressive
idol.
Admitting with the wealthy re-
former that "all the big Eastern
universities are becoming less and
less democratic" I" it is hard to follow
him in his statement that this ten
dency is bound to continue uneeas-
ingly as long as aggregations of
great wealth in the hands of the few
continue" Deplorable a. that may
be, it is not the cause of increased
financial ostentation in colleges. 1t
is rather the wider distribution of
wealth, the greater number of rich
men that furnish more funds to a
larger proportion of boys to waste
III their academic courses. The in
stitution that contains only one or
two plutocrats' sons-and there are
many such; minor" they are called
by the men of the larger Ones-is in
no danger whatever of being
spoiled. 1t is only when several
rich fellows invade a college that
money cliques are formed and the
trouble begins.
We are assured by those who
know that colleges of the rank of
George Washington, Georgetown,
Virginia, Dartmouth. and the like
are in no degree growing less demo
cratic or more ruled by wealth
This peculiar atmosphere still re-
mains the chief glory of the smaller
Institutions, and it is TO be hoped
that not one of them will ever grow
so big or so attractive to the sons
of rich parents as 10 lose its ancient
SAVIOR.
The Washington times., 1906-12-27
MRS. REED TO LECTURE
ABOUT MEDITERRANE EAN

Mrs. NJ. Landon Reed will deliver
lecture entitled Cruising IN the Mediter-
ranean" in the lecture hall of the Wash
ington Public Library on January at
5 p. m The lecture will be illustrated
by the stereopticon with views By S. r.
StOddart
Scenes viii be shown OF the art. archi-
lecture, life and customs OF Spain, Italy,
Greece Turkey. Syria and Palestine.
The lecture will be especially addressed
10 those who are thinking OF taking the
tour o. the countries TO be described,
but will also be equally Interesting TO
those who can only indulge in 'tarry
at home travels"
The Washington times., 1906-12-27
NO HAT AS GIFT,
WIFE TAKES ACID
Woman Quanels With Hus-
band Over Christmas
Present.

NEW YORK. Dec. 27.-Annie Caring
ton. twenty-one years. tried 10 kin her
SELF in the hallway Of her home. AT %
West Twenty seventh street, Icy taking
creosCte. Her husband knocked the bot
tie out OF her hand. She swallowed a
little of the acid. She was locked up
on q charge OF attempted suicide.
Darlington told the police that he and
his wife had been married year and
Yesterday was their first Christmas
since their marriage. She mad expected
her that he had not money enough 10
INV her one They quarrelled and when
he started 10 leave and refused 10 kiss
her she threatened TO kill herself.
The woman went TO a drug store and
got the creosote. saying that she wanted
il for a toOthache.
The Washington times., 1906-12-27
Disowns Eloping Heiress;
She Married Army Clerk
Father Beside Himself When Schoolgirl Becomes
Bride of Young Man Drawing SIS Month
as Employe of Army PaymaSter

PORTLAND Me. Dec. 27.-It Is now
known that Miss Helen Sterling, the
probable heiress of large property has
eloped with Edward w Carter, a pay
masters clerk in the United States
army. who draws SIS a month salary.
Quincy Sterling. her father was al
most beside himself with anger when
he received the news and says he will
dfsOwn and disinherit his daughter
Miss Sterling. who is yet schoolgirl,
met Carter last summer. when she was
visiting Cape Cottage with an aunt. The
coast artillery station Fort Preble. Is
near, and Carter seemed to fasciHate
her. Her parents made her return home
and forbade her seeing the youth.
Miss Sterling's home is on Peaks
island, a suburb Of Portland, Soldiers
on furlough often visit tho island and
The Washington times., 1906-12-27
Our Ages
Up.To.Ootel
A NEAR-FABIE.

There Was once a young couple VINO
thoroughly believed in President HOose-
velt's Anti-Race Suicide doctrine Tney
had been married a number OF years,
but there was no visible PROOF about
their home of their thorough BELIEF In
ROoseVelt's views, and they grieYed
sorely. The fairies were finally good 10
them. however. ard healthy younSster
filed their hearts with joy and their
home with noise. What, with doctors
and walking the floor nights and advice
from old maids and such things. II
didn't all seem quite SO grand, and they
devoted much time TO inducing baby 10
close his eyes and mouth and give his
lungs a rest
Moral-Just as soon as couple nave
a baby they try 10 hush II up.
The Washington times., 1906-12-27
As to Cabinet Changes.

The United States of America is
rather sizeable business establish
ment Its operations involve the
collection and expenditure of about
a billion "a year. 1t is not "a very
good paymaster, but for men of
real ability who get started in the
right places, it frequently affords
handsome opportunities TO better
their condition. They better it,
however, not by remaining in Gov
ernment service, but by leaving it.
1t is impossible TO contemplate
the Government outbidding private
employers, especially when it seeks
men of large capacity for executive
positions. 1t gets first-class men in
many of its great executive depart
ments, despite underPaying them,
and it ought to make the best use
of them.
Just now one of those periodical
shifts is going on, which could hard
ly take place in any other than a
governmental establishment. Heads
of departments are being pushed
around in a circle. The man who
has equipped himself by years of
work for the duties of one position
is taken out OF il and showed into
another. Along with him, more than
likely, goes his personal encourage
of confidential men, secretaries and
assistants.
All must be broken in'' TO the
duties of a new sort. The expert
ence gained in one position is lost.
It is difficult to figure how service
at the head of the Department of
Commerce and Labor, for instance,
qualities for effective duty at the
Navy, or why the Postoffice Depart
ment should be esteemed as in line
Of promotion 20 the Treasury. The
men involved in all these reorganiza-
tions are good men; they are giving
the Government more than it paws
them for. But the fact remains that
the Bureau of Corporations loses the
experience Mr.. Garfield has gained
there; that the Postoffice Depart
ment loses the benefit of the special
knowledge Mr.. Cortelyou and Mr..
Hitchcock have acquired there; that
the Navy, for many years peculiarly
fated 10 such sudden shiftings, gets
a new and inexperienced executive
IL is true that a Cabinet officer
has another relation than that OF
executive of his department. He
must also be the trusted and conf
Dental counselor and adviser of his
chief, the President. There is thus
a large personal equation in the
problem of his selection. But once
selected for the Cabinet, it would
seem that the ends of efficient ad,
ministration would be served by
keeping men in one line of work
and that below Cabinet grade the
subordinate executive positions
ought certainly to be marked by
such a policy.
The Washington times., 1906-12-27
cOlumbia-"The Man From Now"

Girls in bevies and pretty ones, too
quite the prettiest girls on the Amer
lean eontc opera stage, some critics
say. fern the framework for some eX-
ceedingly stunning stage pictures, which
viii be shown at the Columbia Theatef
AN OF next week, with special matinee
an Tuesdav. New Year Day, when Henry
". savage will offer for the first ume
in this city, Harry Bulger, In that sons
show success. The Man From Now,
nv Jobp Kendrick Bangs. Vincent BTy-
an. and Manuel Klein \ novel ldea
forms the basis Of construction toT Inc
Man From Now" and in Mr.. Bulgef
Mr. Savage has a deservedty popular
star. and the authors have equipped nm,
well with "A part that nts. The cast
Includes IsObel Hall, Helen Haze, fiAt
tie Arnold. Lucy TOnGe, Bertha Johh-
stone Walter Lawrence, EDWARD MAI. NiaI-
tindel +. II. O'Connor, Fhl bIaiisoH,
80 ibe chorus Regular matne6S
Thursday and Saturday, and speclai
holiday matinee, Tuesday
The Washington times., 1906-12-27
.HINDOO LEADER ASKS
HOME RULE FOR INDIA

CALCUTTA, Dec. 27.-At the opening
of the Indian National Congress the
president. Dababhai Naoroji formerly
a member Of the house of commons. de
hvered an address, insisting upon the
rights of the HindOOs, as British sub
jects. TO govern themselves
The speaker pointed out that the
Poers, whom the Indians helped to sub
Jf-gate. had been given self-government
while India was still without it, and
urged the raising of a large patriotic
fund 20 educate the Indians as to their
rights and for the carrying on of the
campaign in England.
Upward of 1000 delegates We're pres
ent, and the speech of Dababhai Naoroji
was received with "A tumult Of applause
The Washington times., 1906-12-27
chase's-Polite Vaudeville.

Chase's New Year bill of polite vaude-
Vile will be composed of Joseph Hart $
..Ten Crickets" production, said 10 De
the most pretentious tabloid musleai
comedy ever submitted IN vaudeviile'
the Ouiclev Brothers, The Quartet.
Harry I.aden and Rosa Crouch. the
E'o,,r DUnbars, Zena Keife and her
+coy, Austin Walsh, and The Merry
Froiics of satan motion pictures The
..-Ten Crickets" include ten pretty girls
i'm the ballet, Norma seymour pTiina
donna. and ". n Cripps. tenor. Qulg-
lev BrOthers viii present their original
satfrical farce Election Day, Chase
never raises prices holiday matlnees.
The Washington times., 1906-12-27

they carried letters between the lovers,
a soldier and girl friend of Miss Ster-
ling acting as Intermediates
Then the girl and her Lover arranged
meetings in Portland, the girl ostensibly
going on shopping trips Her father
discovered this and as a precautiOn the
schoolgirls older sister was sent With
her on ner trips.
Helen gave her sister the slip IN big
department store and met her lover.
They went 10 the Rev. William Ross
and we're married. The sister waited
an hour in the store and then searched.
No word was received from the couple
until the arrival OF a letter. after the
family had feared the girl had met with
an accident. Mr.. Sterling was so over
come when the news was broken that he
fell 20 the floor in a faint
The young people took a little apart
ment in town and there the bride lives.
while the bridegroom comes over when
ever ne can get away from ms post.
The Washington times., 1906-12-27
eelagco-"The Ear and the Girl"

4 brilliant dialogue, two score OF tune
fuI musical numbers. a most stupendous
scenic production, a vast array OF slikeh
6nerv from the millinery kings OF the
two continents. and an imposing assem-
bIage of grace ana beauty, are a Few OF
the salient features OF the magIll1iCsSilitt ~ = y
which the Shuberts will present at the
Relasco next week, with EDDIE roy N m
the leading comedy role The EarI anu anu
~ CSirI" is an English musical sue
caCo having been played at the Lyric
Tbealtre Re in London. for more than two
Years. wheIr the Aicssrs, Shubert gave gave
the opera more magnlnceIlt .s Set1lils IN,
ti,,,si ttii,,1,,,ssiastfc audience at the Casino The
afer in New York city
The Washington times., 1906-12-27
SCRAMBLED THOUGHTS.

The rarest tongues are those that are
never raw.
More fiction in libraries and less in
business would be a great help 10 the
community.
If all good COOKS We're also GOOD
cooks. how happy we would be.
Drinking to a friend health too fire.
duently proved siCkly business
The average matrimonial team con
sists OF a leading lady and q general
utility man.
Jast as soon as a person loses his rep
utatiOn he fiuds ne has made smother.
The Washington times., 1906-12-27
TENT OF RECHABITES
ELECTS NEW OFFICERS

Harmony Tent, No. lO2O. held a meet
ing in Rechabite Temple, 64S Louisiana
avenue northwest. Tuesday evening with
about fifty members present. One can
didate was admitted To membership and
officers for the ensuing term elected as
follows: Shepherd Lambert d. Lyles
chief ruler William NJ. Hall: deputy
ruler, David Mockabee; recording secre-
tary, ]. II. Bartlett; treasurer, James
T. Rolf; levite, George Roth. inside
guard. John I. Mockabee; outside guard
Edward ClementsOn; trustees, Eovt 4
Holton and J. B. Hughes.
The Washington times., 1906-12-27
With Mouth Foaming,
She Snaps and SnarlS
Like Dog.

NEW ROCHELLE. \. Y. Dec. r.
Mrs. Charles Weeks. sixty years o!d,
died at her home. the result OF having
been bitten by pet dog. She was so
violent that fl required the efforts OF
several of her family to hold her In
bed, as she frothed at the mouth, and
snapped at the attendants
The Washington times., 1906-12-27
WOMAN RABIES VICTIM

About three months ago Mrs. Weeks
husband found q small fox terrier in the
street II was bright and playful lit
tie animal. and ne took il home with
him.
A few days later Mrs Weeks was
playing with the dog. when il became
excited and snapped at her. finally sink
ing its teeth in her ankle. She thought
nothing OF the wound at the time. IS
the dogs teeth scarcely pierced her
stocking. About four days ago. she
began to show signs Of rabies, ans
The family physician. Dr. Raymond, was
caaled IN.
He found her in great agony. When
he attempted 10 give her water, she
fought and baIked at him like a dog.
The Washington times., 1906-12-27
Maiestic-aA Jolly Baron"

"A Jolly B.-ron." with Billy 5. clifford
in the title role, win be the New Year
Offering at the Majestic next week. 1t
~ said to be an amusing as well as
agreeable. musical diversity. Few ser
ious moments are encountered, me
authors evident purpose being 10 pro
vide an entertainment. diverting yet not
making any great demand on one,s
thinking apparatus. The production Is
above the average, handsome chorus
in striking costumes being a feature.
There Is to be an extra matinee given
New Year Day.
The Washington times., 1906-12-27

Natioual-Richard Carle in "The Spring
Chicken"
This season, Richard earle, wilt
present himself IN The Spring
Chicken" which viii appear at the
National during New Year week.
The Spring Chicken" ran for two years
In London on the strength Of capital
story. adapted from the French, and
because of the excellent score supplied
by Ivan CaryIl and Lionel Monckton,
MIR Carrie mas written six new mum
bers. he viii have In his support Emma
Janvier. Bessie Mccoy, Adele Rowland
Nav Bout0n, Amy Dale. Victor Morley,
Arthur Conrad, Sylvan Langlois. Rich
ard Ridgeiey, and Tony Sullivan
Miss JaaVier was one OF the nlts oI
last season as the wardrobe mistress
of a stranded opera company, IN the
Mayor of TOkio,' and everybody VINO
went to the New York Hippodrome III
the last two years, Will remember bes-
Sic McCOy's dancing. Maunees Iues-
day (New Year Day, Wednesday ahc
Saturday.