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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-19

The Japanese masses live on so little In the best of times that famine in the island means a state of suffering unknown in this country In ordinary times millions of the country people of Japan live in the midst of snow and ice with insufficient clothing for adults and children. Their diet would be called starvation diet in America or even in Europe. Since the famine came on in the poor districts of Japan the people involved have had to come down to scant portions of rice four mixed with wild plants and boiled with few beans. Even this is not always obtainable, and in some cases parents have abandoned their children to go in search of enough to keep themselves alive. Wealthy Japanese contribute to the famine funds and the government is giving employment to thousands who are in distress. But the whole country is impoverished by a war which drained the land of re- sources to dissipate elsewhere. s.l.,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-19

Notwithstanding all the white man. through the means of the In- dian bureau Of the government. has done for the red man of this eoun- try, there still fingers In he'breast of the Indian a suspicion toward the "palefaces." Speaking of the In- disn's suspicion of the white man. Comnissionsr of Indian Affairs Lsup2 says: "In actual life the In- dian is suspicious of the white race and wants nothing to do with us. He clings to the ways of his ancestors. insisting that they. are better than ogrs. and heNresents every effort Of the government either to educsts his children or to show him how he can turn an honest dollar for himself bT Ahsr means than his grzndfzthsT usst-or sz appToprfstion from the trsfarf- Strive ss ve may to zloss It tEsr with poetic faaciss o hide it unsS statistical rsports of progress that the pzzfa truth We must win ovsN Nthe Indian children by syz- pzfhssie Nntsrss1 sua unobtrusEre suizsnos It k a nisssks to stzrt tns little oiss fa the ssth of e5vfIi-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-19

The snuffing out of hundreds of lives in an instant, and the destruc- tion of millions of dollars worth of property in the twinkling of an eye. such as happened in San Francisco, shows how frail man is and how in- significant is the work which it took him years to build up, when the ele- ments break loose. The terrible af- fliction which has befallen the peo- pie of San Francisco calls for quick and prompt work, not only from those who are left in the stricken city, but from the people every where. Every state in the union should come to the relief of the suf- ferers of San Francisco. Sympathy is good enough, but 1t will not re- build the ruined city, nor feed the starving people. Much as we may read and hear about a calamity of this kind. one cannot fully realize the enormity of 1t from this dis tanee. Let our officials. both mu- nicipal. county and state, be among the generous ones. and let them also remember that thousands of people lie dead and thousands more are homeless in the stricken city and prompt action counts.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-19
OF SHERIDAN'S PARENTS
How They Received the News of
 His Shenandoah Victory.


 One of the sweetest and most pa thetic war stories is about the Shefi- dans, father and mother of General Phil Sheridan.
 The old people were living at Son. erset, Ohio, when word came that General Sheridan had suffered great defeat in the Shenandoah valley. They slept none that night eut in the morn- ing the old gentleman said:
 Mother, have thought 1t all out. Phil wasn't there when the fight be- gan. That is what the paper said. It would not be like our boy to re- main away throughout the battle. As I make it out, Phil returned in time to save the day. I'll go to the store and wait until the paper comes, get the news and hurry back. I don't De lieve there's anything to worry about"
 q hope you are right, father but I'm afraid yesterdays news was cor rect. Phil has had so much good luck I'm afraid he's had bad turn in this battle"
 Old Mir Sheridan was sitting on the steps in front of the store when a man rode up and called out, Good news from Sheridan!"
 Then one of the bystanders caught up the morning paper and read the account of Sheridan's return to the army and of his turning the tide of the battle. of the presidents message of thanks and of Sheridan's heroic conduct and the complete rout of the enemy.
 The paper said that it was one Of the greatest victories of the war.
 That was enough for Mir Sheridan. He started on trot to tell Mrs Sher- idan the news about her sons great est battle.
 She has him coming and hurried to the gate to get the tidings from Cedar Creek.
 "Glory to God. mother. glory to God {. Phil licked 'em. The president has sent him the country's thanks and the paper says it was one of the greatest fights of the war. l knev Phil would get back in time to saTe the day"
 The old couple hugged and kissed and kissed and hugged again and again.
 After they had gone into the house the old lady suddenly became very so- Der.
 whats the matter. motherT'
 Father. did the paper say anything about John;"
 'No. hut you know Phil would have sent a dispatch if anything had hap pened to him"
 John was another son. private in Sheridan's army in the valley.-The Youths Companion.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-19
HOW CHINCHILLAS ARE CAUGHT
Little Fur Bearing Animal that is in
 ps Danger of Determination. x

p:. Danger of Determination. g
 The chincilla is one of the very few really valuable fur bearing animals found in South America. Its range is extremely limited, the little burrow- ing animal being discernible ill num- bers only along the higher attitudes of the Andes mountains in Chile and Peru where it has hitherto fairly abounded but is now in danger of eX- tinction owing to the fashionable fa- vor accorded the fur and the conse- quent high price of the skins.
 As the officials in Chile and Bolivia realize the importance to those coun- tries of perpetuating the chinchilla, laws for it's protection are being pass- ed. As the little creature inhabits wild and rugged districts in instances almost inaccessible to any save those familiar with the Rocky mountain trails. the chinchilla hunter conducts lNs operations quite fearless of the game warden.
 Unless the demands of the fur wear CT and values decline materially we may expect to witness the externina- ton within a brief period, says the Fur News. Should this undesirable result be approximated the demand would cease for lack of supply and the chinchilla would doubtless again multiply rapidly.
 During the season of 1905 the collec- tion reached the total, fin round num- bers. of 2lS,O0O skins. of which all but about 5SOO0 skins secured for Paris were shipped to New York for local consumption or distribution abroad.
 The season for catching the chin- chilla runs from January to June and is industriously conducted. The chin chilla hunters go out in parties of three and four accompanied by about half dozen well trained dogs and nothing else, no guns or traps being used. as trapping Is an industry as yet unknown in that part of the coun- try. The dogs, resembling our fox terrier. catch and deftly kill them. These dogs are so well trained in this work of destruction that they rarely injure the fur to an appreciable ex- tent.
 As soon as the chinchillas have been dispatched by the dogs the men re- move the skins and rather crudely stretch them to dry. After a hunt of from four to six weeks hunters and dogs make their way back tO the coast with their catch and the men dis pose of the skins. from three to fif- teen dozen. according to luck. and af- ter a few days spent in town. the hunters go off on another expedition.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-19
BACHELOR GIRLS BUTTONS.
Desperate Measures to Get Rrelease 1. From New Dinner Gown.

The present style of fastening. wO- | mems dresses down the back, al- though pretty and very becoming to
 the fair wearers, has decided disad-
 vantages. Comparatively few women
 have maids, and many are the sole
 representatives of their sex in their
 own households.
 Nowadays exclusively feminine
 convocations are wont to exchange curious tales relating the shifts to which lone woman must resort in
 order to get in and out of her
 clothes. Even their best young men, provided they were already proved
 trustworthy and discreet, have been
 pressed into service by enterprislng
 girls, who, faring home from some
 evening festivity, and foreseeipg
 battle and defeat awaiting them,
 have permitted their escorts respect
 fully to undo the central-always
 the most obduratebutton in the
 back of the bodice.
 Even more desperate measures were resorted to by bachelor maid who, after a recent social occasion, having returned to her bachelor flat after wearing with much satisfaction a brand new dinner gown, discovered to her dismay when she endeavOred to undo its posterior fastenings that one or two of them positively re- fused to unfasten. The bachelor girl lived alone, there was on janitor, and her sole maid had left in huE the previous day. What to do? She could not go to bed in Her best gown, and 1t looked as if she would have to sit up all night,
 After some moments of horrible reflection the distressed woman re- solved to brave the terrors of the street and accost the first feminine wayfarer. She therefore let herself out and interrogated the midnight horizon for sail. At that moment a passing car stopped and a couple alighted. The too firmly buttoned up woman approached the pair and, with a humble apology, preferred her request. An irrepressible grunt was heard to issue from the otherwise si- lent lips of the man-the grunt Of one who had acquired through ex- perience cynical disdain of feml- nine follies-the grunt of one who had served his time in doing and un- doing recalcitrant bodices.
 The woman, however, waved aside all apologies and granted the request with ready warmth and hospitality that indicated past sufferings of similar nature, and the bachelor maid, with light heart and an open bodice, was enabled to return to her home and bed.-San Francisco Ar gonaut.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-19
HEARD IN PASSING.

If somebody had given Maxim Gorky few lessons m the require ments of American morals and civili- zation before he came here it might have saved him the unpleasant ex- perience of learning about those things in the way he has. Russia is not the United States.-Bridgepor Standard. '
 It is cabled from Dublin that Mi chael Davitt, the we'll known jour nalist and agitator for the indepen- dence of Ireland, is seriously ill., He is suffering from blood poisoning, following an attack of influenza. Mir Davitt was born March 25, 1864. He was prominent member of the Fenian Brotherhood and was one of the organizers of the Irish Land league.-Meriden Journal.
 Sir William Harcourt was enter taining Joseph Chamberlain at Nal wood while the home rule contro versy was on in the house of parlia- ment. A cynical humorist comment ed on the fact as pleasing phase of political controversy. "0h," replied Sir William, Joe and l are almost like brothers" "Yes," responded the cynical one. ESQ were Cain and Abel."-South Norwalk Sentinel. Massachusetts is enforcing a new school law to the effect that no per- son under sixteen years of age who is unable to read at sight and who cannot write legibly simple sentences in the English language shall be em- ployed in any factory, workshop or mercantile establishment. but shall attend the public school until so equipped. A potent factor in the en- fOrcement of this law is that ignor ance cannot be offered as an excuse for breaking it.-Ansonia Sentinel.
 Mir Hearst mas at last undertaken to show by quo warranto proceedings that Mr Mcclellan is not legally mayor of New York. This course was open to him from the first. but he preferred to accomplish his end by ex post facto legislation at AL bany. Having failed in that. he now turns to the courts again. If there was any reason to believe him sim oere public sympathy might go with him. But he doubtless knows as we'll as anybody that any frauds in the last election quite as probably benefited him as his rival.-Proyi- dence Bulletin
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-19
THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1908.

@ Because President Roosevelt once sailed in United States battleship more than three miles from the Amer 5ican shore and the country didn't col lapse in consequence German savalit argues that he might cross the ocean
 on one of our pieces of floating terri
 tory and hold confab with the kais- CT. Really there is no statutory law
 against his making the sail if he
 wants to, but there is all unwritten
 law in the mind of the president and
 of every other sound American that this secret confab business, so popu-
 lar with foreign potentates, doesn't go down with us. ...
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-19
TO WEIGH THE EARTH AGAIN
American Scientists Will Use the
 Great Pyramid in the Job.

Twentieth century science Is dis satisfied with the accepted figures of the earth's weight. says The World To-Day. and Americans are planning to weigh it again.
 The last time 1t was done was more than half a century ago. when. under AiTyis direction. pendulums were swung at the top and the bot tom Of an English coal pit
 The comparison of their times of swing showed how heavy the whole earth vas compared with the outer most thin shell. a she'll of the thick ness of the depth of the coal pit. Since Keologists were able tO give a fair estimate of the weight of this surface shell the weight Of the en- tire earth became a mere matter of multiplication
 The sane experiment. is to be re- pezfed by a scientific expedition from the survey department at Washing trn- Peudulurns are to be swung at the zps1 Of the great pyramid of Exypt and Ia the chambers at it's center and bzse-
 From the swing of these pendu- Iuuls the co1parztive weights Of the earth and of the pyramid can ke learned and the usizht of tne pyrs- mid hsrinf been estimated. the vsfxat uf the earth wiEI again be a zers natter of zultipIicztio1-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-19

l "The Americans of the future will | be as black haired as the Indians
 whom our ancestors found here on their arrival" says Dr Robert w.
 Rogers, professor of Drew Theological
 seminary, Madison N. J. Dr Rogers thinks the climate of America acts
 slowly on the human hair through the
 generations, turning the blondest locks
 darker and darker, until absolute
 blackness is reached. However, the red head will survive, he believes A thousand years from to-day, Dr Rog-
 CTS foresees an occasional red head
 in the crowded population of straight
 black haired people. Dr Rogers made
 the assertion that American hair is
 turning black while he was talking on how the human races may be dis
 tinguished from one another and he said that, although thousand years may pass before black becomes the universal color of American heads of. hair, the tendency today ill this coun- try is toward black. He says that men of. science are to-day following the opinion of Charles Darwin, from whom they obtained it, that mankindi goes back to one pair of human be- ings--that the white, black, brown and all colors and races of men came from this pair. Of the many ways of pointing out the race a person came from, he said, the structure arrange
 ment and color of the hair enters into the classification, but the color is about the least important. Going back to the early people of the earth, Dr Rogers said the Hebrews nearly all had dark or black hair. Occasionally there was a head of auburn hair to be found in the Hebrew race and the Hebrews thought this a beautiful col or. David, Dr Rogers said, had au- burn hair and ruddy skin, although he came from dark-haired, brownish red-skinned people. In studying the colors of hair among the races from ancient times down through the ages he found that in its cOlors hair sports" as does flower. There is no way for science to account for it, he said, and one cannot account for the auburn hair of child which some times comes to a family, as the grand father, grandmother, or any of the ancestors may not have had auburn hair. Dr Rogers says that the land in which man lives often has a good deal to do with the color of the hair. When the white men first came to this country they found the Indians had black hair. The white men have been in this land long enough for the color of their hair to take a turn towards black, r -.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-19
sNowsLTDEs OF THE ROCKIES.
Peril of Mountains that Has Caused
 Great Loss of Life and Property.

Every year the life of a miner in the high mountain ranges is men,
 aced by the avalanche or snowslide,
 and every year brings its list of casu- alties and of heairbreadth escapes.
 The story of snowslides would fill a
 book and would be thrilling, tragic
 and in some cases a gruesome one.
 Men have ridden hundreds of feet
 on the back of snowslide and have
 escaped unhurt. Others have been
 caught and buried so deep and in
 such uncertain spots that their
 bodies have not been discovered un-
 til the melting of the snow in the
 following spring. Men have been overwhelmed as they slept in their
 hunks unconscious of danger, others have been crushed and killed out right or have been found after sew eral days alive in their cabins and dug out by searching party.
 Some have been caught as they were walking but few steps from their boarding house to the mine or while emptying a car on the mine dump. Not infrequently men have found themselves temporarily inl- prisoned by the entrance of the mine being closed by a slide while they were at work and have had to dig their way out. A Chinese cook at one of the Idaho mines stepped out side his kitchen door for a moment and was caught and hurled with the slide thousand feet down the hill- side and his body was not recovered till the following spring.
 Such incidents denote the extreme power and velocity of the slide. Little or no warning is given, roar, a cloud of snow ob- scuring the sight of the real slide, and in moment thousands of tons of snow, mingled with trees and de- bris, are shot down the gulch or the slope of a mountain as from the mouth of cannon. In few sec onds all is over and the scenery of the little valley is completely changed.
 The deadly character of the danger Is, like the earthquake, its strength and its appalling uncertainty.
 All may be smiling and pleasant and in a few seconds the same is overwhelmed and changed by the white peril. In few minutes tho sun may shine out again on a peace full, glistening landscape-houses, works and dead men lying buried deep under white, glittering shroud Snowslides are common to all Rocky mountain regions.-Mines and Minerals.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-19
"MR HOTsTUFF,'

rerpStked Mrs Knipp, "has been called away suda knlv on Important business" "He hadn't rot 3way any too sudden" replied the man Witkhhe copper nose. "Mr. Coleman sent tons of 8al and a load ot wood to the North end Thd8rlver requested Young Hotstur to show hiufMhe place Hotstuff brought him into q vac2ht cellar and instructed the driver to put in tHe wood and coal very carefully in the bins buiM for them. After putting the coal and wod& as ne had been told, the drlver looked for sor1g one to sign the receipt Everybody seemed irn1 1kant regarding the fuel; in fact, It be- ion "a to person half mile further on. MT. Coluhnn had to send up five teams and ten selfso the other tenant 2" inquired Mrs Knipp. ..TNs other tenant told MT. Coleman he used Brd1n's Oulckfre Charcoal and Otto Coke and wouSin't be bothered carrying up wood and coalS' replied MT. Knipp
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-19
English Jam from France.

While English jams have a large and enthusiastic following the world over. much of the manufacturing is done in France. where tAe fruit pBlps eoEstiut- ing the base of many Of these sweets are prepared and shipped to England fn bulk. where they are conpoanded- Among the contributions Of France 10 particular are bIaek entrants. cherries. rszsherrisz. aprScots pluns and similar snail fruits.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-19
Ex-er<srrsl Fslsor.

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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-19

ration by snapping all the ties of affection between them and their parents and teach them to despise the aged and progressive members of their families. The sensible plan is to nourish their love of father, moth CT and home, and then to utilize this affection as means of reaching through them the hearts of the el- ders,'
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-19
MAKE AN EFFORT

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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-02-09
Party Platforms and Legislation.

lis the dominant party in Congress
in the present or any other Congress
in honor bound to carry out the policies
and fulfill the promises of the latest
national platform of that partyT' is a
question submitted to The Post by a
Republican Congressman who has a
confirmed habit of consulting his own
judgment in the discharge of his duties
to his constituents and to the country.
This statesman says that although his
district heartily approves of his indie
pendence, he has been severely criti-
cised by distinguished leaders of his
party, in his own and other States, for
number of votes he has cast in the
House. Recognizing in The Post an in
dependent newspaper, a paper that ex-
presses its own views frankly and fear
lessly, he asks for an opinion on this
question of duty. We think that query
was well answered by Senator Hanna in
the debate on Statehood bill, year or
two prior to his death. His party, in its
platform of 1900, had promised State
hood to the Territories. The Senate
showed an insuperable reluctance to re-
deem that pledge. Senator Hanna took
the bull by the horns in bold declara-
ton that campaign platforms were not
binding on members of either House of
Congress; that it was the duty of each
Senator and Representative to deter
mine for himself, with due regard to
the interests of his party, and with a
higher regard for the interests of his
country, his course of action on every
legislative proposition. 1t has always
seemed to The Post that Senator Han
mas statement was incontrovertible. A
party conventions views could not, with
safety, be recognized as authentic COM
meet to register the will of a party
convention. 1t has broader, higher
mission than that Of a mere tool of a
convention bound to carry out all that
is pat into the cunningly devised
planks of a platform designed to catch
votes. That idea of Congress is as far
from the correct theory as is the notion,
prevalent in some quarters, that the
present Congress was elected to carry
out the views of the President.
And there is certainly no objection,
outside of established party usage, to
the majority of this Congress, under
the guidance of the President, taking a
plank of the Democratic platform of
1904 and putting it into the statutes.-
Washington Post.