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Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-10-31
He Objected.

A worthy man who was very SEN
itive and retiring, having lost his
wife, privately requested that he
might be remembered in the minis
ter's morning prayer from the pull
pit, but asked that his name might
not be mentioned. On Sunday
morning the good minister prayed
most eloquently for "our aged
brother upon whom the heavy hand
Of sore affection has so lately fall
en-"
At this point an elderly man,
whom the minister had married to
a very young wife during the week,
rose with a bounce and stamped
down the aisle, muttering loud
enough to be heard all over the
chapel, at may be an affection, but
Pm blest if / want to be prayed
for in that fashionl" -Pearson's
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Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-10-31
X. OF p. Bars Liquor Dealers

A sweeping anti-liquor statute
was psssed last week IN New Orle-
ans by the Supreme Lodge, Knights
of Pythias. The new statute is ex-
pected to bar from entry all whole
sale liquor dealers and hotel keep
ers who run bars in connection with
their hotels. With the exception
of these classes, all other liquor
dealers were excluded by the old
statute, which was superseded.
The new statute includes "pro-
fessional gamblers. saloon keepers,
bar tenders or dealers in spiritu-
Gus, vinous or malt liquors.
The most important changes in
the new reading are the substitu-
tion of the word "dealers," where
formerly "retail dealers" stood. and
the dropping Of the classes "bona-
fids hotel keepers, which the old
law specifically mentioned as
eligible.
The new statute does not affect
any who are already members OF
the order.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-10-31
THE SMALL TOWN.
Wherein II Has the Advantage Over
the Larger City.

Wherein II Has the Advantage Over
the Larger City.
Small towns have their draw
backs. No man need try in these
vigilant little centers to lead a dou-
BILE life. There are faithful, sleep
less watchers at each end Of the
line, with several sentinels along
the way, to report on his doings, his
failures to do and his misdoings.
Everything else failing, his very
thoughts are searched. The faith
full vedettes conclude from his
smallest movement or lack of move
ment what must he have in every
circumstance meant. On his return
home after every absence his
friends and neighbors cross exam
inc him as to every detail. He had
better tell the truth, because some
one will in due course turn up to
point out the inaccuracies in a
faulty narrative. In large cities
very few, if indeed any, of your
neighborS will worry much or at
length about your mornings or out
goings. Few if any outside your
own immediate circle Of home and
business life care for your doings
while away. They are all too busy
too many people moving back and
forward to be kept track of.
The small town has not, it is
true, the sanitariums and the pro-
fessional nurses of city life nor the
freedom Of the latter from neigh
borly vigilance, but it has the big
city beaten to a whisper when it
comes to the food supply. If Brown,
the butcher, for instance, were to
kill Smiths lump jawed COW or
Green's black leg bull or Johnson's
steer that had been a-failin' ever
since spring, or did he refuse to
keep his shop neat and clean, every
one in town would be notified of his
misdeeds and negligences and his
business soon come to a standstill.
He might as well, in fact, quit the
town, for the dark deeds Of which
he had been guilty would be recited
week in and week out as regularly
as the psalms of David. With each
succeeding season his criminality
would assume increasing blackness.
louisville Herald.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-10-31
A Rooted Lake.

A rooted lake exists in Siberia
near Obdorsk. This lake is nine
miles wide and seventeen miles long.
It's roof, a natural one, is made OF
salt. Biologists say that long ago
a great part of the water of the lake
of Obdorsk must have suddenly
evaporated, leaving huge salt crys-
tails ahoat on the surface. These
crystals in time caked together.
Thus the water was entirely covered
over with them as though frozen.
The lake in 1878 dropped three feet.
1t found an underground outlet into
the Obi river, but the salt crust was
so thick upon it that it retained its
own level. Not dropping at all, it
formed roof of salt three feet high
over the whole body of water.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-10-31
National In.trum.nts Of Music.

"As nations have flowers" said a
musician, $50 also they have musical
instruments. Thus the Scots, whose
flower is the thistle, have for their
instrument the bagpipe-a harsh,
uncouth people.
France, the land of the lily, has
for its instrument the French horn.
"Spain's instrument is the guitar.
Italy's is the mandolin. Wales and
Ireland share the harp between
them. Germany has the cornet.
America has the banjo."-St. Louis
Globe. Democrat.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-10-31
First Matrimonial AGENCY.

The title Matrimonial agencies
and advertisements" ought to at
tract attention in our time, when re-
quests for marriage I'LL the journals
in the form of gross or jocular and
sometimes serious announcements.
That may seem to be a new phe-
nomenon of modern life, yet NJ.
Henri d'Almeras in La Revue Heb
domadaire says the real originator
of this industry was one Villiaume.
In the last days of the empire he
set up in Paris a sort Of universal
agency which would supply furnish
ed apartments, domestics, wives and
husbands.-Journal de st. Peters
bourP.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-10-31
NO THINKING HERE.
A Sensible Motto to Hang Up In Your
Bedchamber.

A prominent business man told
me recently that his great weakness
was his inability to stop thinking
after retiring. In this way he is
robbed Of SO much sleep that he
feels all used up the next day.
/ advised him to cultivate the
habit of closing the door of his
business brain at the same time
that he closed the door of his bust
ness Office. "You should" / said,
"insist on changing the current of
your thoughts when you leave your
business for the day just as you
change your environment or as you
change your dress for dinner when
you 60 home in the evening. Turn
your thoughts to your wife and chill
dren, to your joys and cares. Talk
to them, play games with them.
Read some humorous or entertain
ing story or some strong, interest
ing book that will lift you in spite
of yourself out of your business rut.
Go out for long walk or ride.
Fill your lungs with strong, sweet,
fresh air. Look about you and OBJ
serve the beauties of nature or have
a hobby Of some kind to which you
can turn for recreation and refresh
ment when you quit your regular
business. Be master of your mind.
Learn to control it instead Of al
lowing it to control you and tyran-
nize over you.
Hang up in your bedchamber in
conspicuous place where you can
always see it a card bearing in bold,
illuminated characters this motto.
mo Thinking Here"
Shut of all thinking process Of
every kind when you retire for the
night, relax every muscle, let there
be no tension of mind or body, and
in a short time you will find that
sleep will come to you as easily and
naturally as to little child.
The habit of thinking after going
to bed is fatal to all freshness OF
brain work. These men have not
learned to lock their business in
their Offices or factories when they
quit for the night, so they drag it
home, bring it up at the dinner ia
BILE and depress the whole family,
or if they do not talk about their
problems their anxiety and absent
mindedness totally unfit them for
the pleasant companionship Of their
families. They are so absorbed In
the problems of their vacations that
they do not know what is going on
around them. They do not know
how to relax, 10 unbend, to rest, so
they lie down to sleep with all their
burden, just as a tired camel lies
down in the desert with It's great
burden still on its back.
1t is a great art to be able to
shut the gates in the great mental
power house on retiring, to control
oneself, to put oneself in tune with
the infinite, to put oneself in sym
pathy with those about him, in har-
mony with the world, to expel from
the mind everything which jars, If
all malice, envy and jeal-
ousy, the enemies of our peace and
happiness, before we go to sleep
o. S. Marden in Success Magazine.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-10-31
Only a Little Cold

In tho head may be the beginning Of
an obstinate case OF Nasal Catarrh.
Drive out the invader with Ely's Cream
Balm applied straight to the iuhamed
stuffed up air-passages. Price SOC. II
vou urefer to use an atomizer, esk for
LIQUID Cream Balm. 1t has all the
good qualities Of the remedy in solid
form and will rid you OF catarrh or hay
fever. No cocaine to breed a dreadful
habit. No mercury TO dry out the Sc
cretIon, Price 75c., with spraying tube.
All druggists, or mailed by Ely Bros.
30 Warren Street. New York.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-10-31
Scared His Speech Back.

A remarkable case of the recov-
cry of speech and hearing is report
ed in the London Lancet from the
canton of Ticino, in Switzerland.
An Italian, aged forty-one years,
who five years ago became deaf
mute in consequence Of serious
disease, was startled by the sudden
appearance Of a runaway horse. AS
he jumped aside to avoid the animal
he uttered loud scream and after
it had gone by found that he was
able to talk and .heary --saae,~s- =
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-10-31
Fraternal Orders.

Rockblidge Lodge, No. So. 10. o. F.
meets every Thursday night, at Odd Eel
lows Hail.
Lexington Lodge, No. Sc, K. Of P,
meets every Tuesday night, at Odd Eel
lows Hall.
Liberty Lodge, No, 2, Daughters OF
Rebekah, meets every Monday night, at
Odd Fellows Hall.
Mountain City Lodge, No. 81, Ancient
York Masons, meets LIST and Bird Mon
day rights at Masonic Hall
Natural Bridge Council, 1920 Royal
Arcanum, meets LIST and 5rd Friday
nights in each month, at Odd Fellows
Hall.
Lee jackson Council, No. 81, Junior
Order American Mechanics, meets every
End and 4th Friday nights at Odd Fellows
Hall.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-10-31
Infant With Two Bodies

A dispatch from Wheeling, w.
Va, says: Mrs. John Cullom, wife
of Noundsville glass worker, has
given birth to a male infant with
two heads, two shoulders, four
arms, and two bodies, joined at
the waist. The baby weighs ter
and one half pounds and is alive
and bids fair to survive. The brains
work independently. At times one
head will cry, the other remaining
silent. The mother is eighteen
years of age and the father twenty
four. The case is attracting much
attention from the medical pro-
fsssion. \
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-10-31
An Old Story Of Niagara.

A hundred yards above the brink
Of the American fall rock ten feet
square projects for a foot above the
water in midstream. One morning
the inhabitants awoke and saw a
man sitting on it. The noise of the
rapids prevented verbal communi-
cation. They did not, do not and
never will know how he got there.
He stayed there thirty-six hours.
The people telegraphed to Buffalo,
and the railway company sent one
excursion train after another for
thirty-six hours to see the man on
the rock. They painted signs and
stuck them up for the man to read,
saying, 1--WE will save you" Two
hundred yards above there is a
bridge. From this by ropes they
fOated RATS with provisions to him.
At the end of his stay a big one
came for him to get on. What they
were going to do with him if they
got him in this seething rapid is not
known. He tried and failed and
went over the fall, and that is all.
-Blackwood's Magazine.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-10-31
Sens In Verse

''hSH SHe 0StUCe FfeUlSs
When she comes home again. A thou
sand ways
fashion to myself the tenderness
OF my glad welcome; trembie-yes,
And touch her as when first In the old
days
touched her girlish hand, nor dared up
raise
Mine eyes, such was my faint hearts
sweet distress
The room will sway a little, and a haze
Cloy eyesight - soul sight even = for a
space,
And tears-yes. and the ache here In the
throat,
To know that 80 III deserve the place
Her arms make for me. and the sobbing
note
! stay with kisses ere the fearful face
Again Is hidden In the old embrace.
James Whitcomb Riley.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-29
LONDON TOWN.

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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-29
WATERFOWL JOTTINGS

Henry L. Rowland has closed his summer residence and returned to Waterbury.
 Both of our milk peddlers were short of milk on Saturday and many of their customers had to go without their usual supply.
 Mir and Mrs Howard Wintermute of Waterbury spent Sunday at Will liam Burton's.'
 The dates for the coming fair un- der the auspices of St Johns church are November 23, 24, 26 and 27th. The tickets for the fair have already been put in circulation and all in- dications point to success. A handsome prize will be given to the society of the church selling the greatest number of tickets.
 The Misses Burns of Waterbury were guests at the home of Thomas Higgins over. Sunday.
 James B. Woolson is erecting picket fence around his factory in Greenville.
 The new dwelling house of R. N. Deland's is nearly completed and will be ready for occupancy within a few weeks.
 George Rigglemeyer of this place has been made a member of the band in Waterbury.
 Conductor Cook, formerly on the local branch. now of Winsted, was in town yesterday.
 The dance given under the aus plces of the Center school on last Friday evening was well attended by the young people.
 The Taft school football team added another victory to their list on Saturday. The team to go down before the husky team from Taft's was the Hopkins Grammar school team of New Haven. Score 1S-O.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-29
NAUGATUCK NUGGETS

The Swedish National Dancers will give an entertainment at Columbus hall tonight.
 James P. Sweeney of Yale is visit ing his parents, MT and Mrs James D. Sweeney of Central avenue.
 The wedding of Miss Helen R. Saunders of Fairview avenue and Burton R. Ward will occur on No vember s. Chief of Police Schmidt is off duty on account of the death of his moth CT. Policeman John Fruin is doing patrol duty. The Meriden High school football team defeated the Naugatuck High school Saturday at Meriden by a score of to 0. Both teams strug- gled fiercely, but the Silver City boys finally came out the yictors.
 Harold Healy, aged IA, son of John Healy of German street. caught his foot in the chain gear of an auto truck which he tried to board on the street Saturday. His left foot was mangled and had to be amputated.
 A number of friends called upon Mir and Mrs Charles Lines, who cele- brated their twenty-fifth anniversary of their marriage Friday night at their home on North Main street. MT and Mrs Lines received many pres ents.
 Wednesday evening at Columbus hall the ushers and stage hands of Columbus hail will give another of their popular promenades. There has been a large sale of tickets and a large number of guests from Derby and Ansonia are expected to be pres ent.
 At the parish house Wednesday af- ternoon at o'clock Mrs Butler, wife of the treasurer of Piedmont college, Demarest, Ga, will tell of the boys and girls being educated and cared for by the institution and will bring tidings of the two girls who are pro teges of the Ladies Aid society of Naugatuck.
 Mrs Catherine Schmidt, widow of the late John B. Schmidt, died Sat urday at the home of her son, Chief of Police John B. Schmidt, on City Hill street. She leaves five sons, Jo- seph of Bristol, John B., Fredolin and George of Naugatuck and Fred erick of Brooklyn, N. Y., also three daughters, Mrs Jackson Miller of Thomaston, Mrs William Spiers of Waterbury and Mrs Charles Wood- bridge of West Haven She had been a resident of Naugatuck for more than thirty-five years. The funeral was held this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at her late residence on Lo- cust street.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-29
OAKVILlE HAPPENINGS

Master Francis Geoghegan. of New ton Heights is confined to his home with a sore foot, the result of step ping on a nail one day recently.
 There will be mass at St Mary's Magdelene's church, on Thursday morning at eight o'clock.
 Mir and Mrs William Dwyer, of wis street and Newton Heights yes terday.
 { Miss Mary Mulvahill, has given up her position here and entered the en- ploy of the Scovill Mfg Co. H. r. Shade of Falls avenue, visited relatives in TorringtOn, over Sunday. William Hogan, and son Matthew, of Torrington visited with relatives on Newton Heights yesterday. { Over $1OO was neted at the supper recently given by the ladies of St Mary Magdalene's parish.
 Miss Leonia Duhaime, has given up her position at the pin factory.
 A gang of men worked all day yes terday. spreading gravel on the road leading from the depot to Main street This will be an improvement until We get a heavy rain storm and the gravel is washed down the hill again. This is hard piece of road to keep in repair and first class job done on 1t in the first place would save expense.
 Among those attending the Water tewn-New York excursion from here this morning were: Mir and Mrs w. C. Hungerford. A. H. Mattoon, F. H. Bassett, Mrs w. D. Place. Mrs F. S. R. Douglas, Nellie Murphy and Mir and Mrs George Stanley.
 The bans of marriage between Miss Leonia Duhaime and Louis Lanvil. were published for the first time yes terday in St Mary Magdalene's church. The ceremony will be per formed by the Rev NJ. J. Traynor, on Thanksgiving day.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-29
WATERVlLLE.

Regular meeting of Good Will lodge. K. of P. tonight at o'clock.
 Miss Mary Hardigan of Spring. field Is the guest of relatives in town.
 George Jaskson attended the Yale Amherst game in New Haven Satur- day.
 F.. ". Beebe has returned from a visit with relatives in Huntsville.
 Arthur Van Alstyne of Seymour was the guest of his parents on Shelf field street yesterday.
 Edward Barker of Thomaston was the guest of relatives in town yes- terday.
 C. II. Barnes has returned from a visit with friends fin Bristol.
 Mir and Mrs Albert Bradstreet spent Sunday with relatives in Thomaston.
 Frank and Edward Cookson have rerturned from a visit to New Or leans.
 Charles MerkIe has resigned his position with the American Pin Co.
 John Nraz has been awarded inc cGHirart for . new residence tp h.. erertef in Waterviile for Walter Feld- The plans call for frame h"usa. 2sfyS1 feet. arranged for one tenement OF seven rooms. The usual cp8veDienCes will To provided. John Emmouz will do thp stone work and the other contracts will be Iet soon
 l.. F. Patterson has taken ont permit to buiI a new house in Water vile All fhe work will he done Isy the day IL will be a frame house. 22xy4 nest. containing seven rooms sni will I-e provided with all im- p7oTemsnfS.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-29
and I have nobody to help me Ind my

and I have nobody to help me ind my dog
 "Of course. that first speech ought tc have enlightened me, but 1t didn't. I only saw the smile and heard the voice. knew nothing of whether they were deep or shallow. So I found the maid and found the dog. The first expressed gratitude, the other didn't. l extricat- cd him with enormous difnculty from the wreck of the luggage van. and this was how he marked his appreciation. 9 He held out his hand and nodded to- ward the scar.
 Chilcote glanced up. "So that's the explanationY
 "Yes. l tried to conceal the thing when restored the dog. but I was bleeding abominably and failed. Then the whole business was changed. It was who needed seeing to, my new friend insisted; who should be looked after and not she. She forgot the dog in the newer interest of my wounded finger. The maid, who was practically unhurt, was sent on to engage rooms at the little inn, and she and l followed slowly.
 That walk impressed me. There was an attractive mistiness of atmosphere in the warm night. sensation more than attractive in being made much of by a woman of ones own class and country after five years wandering"
 He laughed with a touch of irony. But won't take up your time with details. You know the progress of an ordinary love affair. Throw in a few more flowers and little more sunshine than is usual, man who is practically a hermit and woman who knows the world by heart and you have the whole thing.
 "She insisted on staying in Santasa- lare for three days in order to keep my finger bandaged. She ended by staying three weeks in the hope of smashing up my life.
 s t't (To ho Nontipuad 5
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-29
e. Me 70 MASQUERADER.
By Katherine Cecil Thurston, Author of The Circle" Etc.
Copyright, 1904, by Harper & Brothers

CHAPTER VII. IT was a little less than three weeks since Chilcote and Loder had drunk their toast and again LOder was seated at his desk.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-29
Cnnrrrs.rnan.s Hear. Cnndifinn.

Worcester. Mass. Oct 2s.-Con- zressmsn Redwood Hoar passed a fairly comfortable night. Dr Fred eriek H Baker said early today that he had not absolutely given ID hope. although the gradueI weakening of the patient vas a matter of grave concern
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-29
The Royal Tailoring Co.,,
 GA Grand St., O. A. VALENTINE, Proprietor. Phone II7-6.
FIFTY HORSES
 AUCTION WedneSday,OCt.3 3 1
 frank [. Bsah.m'S Stable 30S North Main ct Uaterhur- ro,,

will have a load of 2s Horses right from Indiana, consisting of Gentlemen's Drivers. Family Horses. some suitable for farm and grocery wagons. and heavy drafters. also have a consignment of 25 Horses that have been worked through the summer and are thoroughly sea soned. In this consignment are:
 One pair Draft Horses, weight about , 900 pounds.
 One pair Bay Horses. weight about 2.3O0 pounds.
 Single Horse. weight about 500 pounds.
 Single Horse. weight about 1900 pounds.
 or from 1900 to 1.4o0 Jhs. and the rest from HOO To 200 lbs.
 Also a number of new and second hand Wagons. and several sets of single and double Harness. Every hcrse guaranteed to be as represent ed.
 Sale to commence at | O'clock-not fifteen minutes later. but o'clock sharp SO come early and secure bargains.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-29

(To be Continued.)
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-29

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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-20
The Fish. Griffin Recital

The social event of the week will be
the song recital given by Minnie Fish
Griffin of Chicago on Friday evening
at the Christian Science church. This
talented artist has been secured by
the Thursday Musical club and the
club has been able by special arrange
ment to put prices where they will be
within the reach Of all, a general adj,
mission of fifty, cents. with no reser-
vations. Mrs. Grifins's voice, richly
endowed by nature, has been care
fully trained by both American and
European masters, and she is now in
the height of her powers. She is a
beautiful woman, charming In man
ner and temperament. The Christian
Science church, with its dainty white
and gold decorations, will make a
beautiful setting for the concert and
it will doubtless be filled to its capa-
city. Mrs. Griffin is en- route to Cali
fornia, and will spend few days with
her old-time friends, Mr.. and Mrs. e.
]. White, on Reeves avenue.