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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-21
MT Benson is Travelling
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The F. B. Newton Stock being con- siderably broken, on account of the enor- nous sales of the past 10 days, leaving many odd lots, MT. Benson found place where it may be possible to close deal for 7 car loads of furniture which will fill the gaps in this vast stock He Is out of town at present looking this matter up, and will return "Wednesday. In the meantime, the balance of the goods will be on sale at the same prices which has caused so much excitement in this city. Watch the Sales Each Day, and .uhen he returns next Wednesday, look for the Greatest of
 all Sales euer knoOn in Furniture
 History!
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-21
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PITTsBURG. July z1 = Mss Ella F.rnarie. aged eighteen. one of the head dre~smakers empioyed In the de psrn>nf store Of Mccrse-y q Co- ws1kei into ffse e;erstor shsff and feIl fweIre storses to dezfh
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-21
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BoGoTA. Colombia. July 1.-The people of Colombia celebrated the an niverssry of their iDdepeudence. and b honor of the occasion t5e gsvennenf released all political prisooe-1 Peace rerus tnrsughout the rep1nlic.
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thing does not deserve recognition in a civilized community.

ClVllZ6Q c0muunIty.
 Tt doesn't do to say that this man Hooe is a negro-God knows there's many an intelligent woman who has sinned as we say this woman has sin ned. History Is full of it. I repeat many a woman high in life socially and in this community has sinned as this woman has done"
 On all sides can be heard expressions of indignation at the sweeping state ment of Attorney Ferguson in be- smirsching the name of Pittsburg be- fore the country in this manner
 What are apparently a series of le- gal victories for Mrs. Hartje marked the session and culminated in the ad- mission of the confessions of Clifford Hooe. the colored coGchman. fin which he is said to have declared that he lied when he swore that he had improp- CT relations with the respondent This most important point was not gained until after a bitterly contested strug gle between opposing counsel. which lasted for over an hour and half and during which Attorney Ferguson made many sensational threats.
 Alderman King also was called and testified that Hooe was not drunk when he made his confession. but made 1t freely and of his own free will.
 There was a terrific battle of argu- ment when counsel fer Augustus Hart je tried to get stricken from the case the evidence concerning Hooe given by John L. welshons. Hartje's close friend. and the witnesses who follow ed him.
 At the close Judge Fraser said that the four statements made by the ne- gro eoachmsn would not be read in open court.
 The judge said it would not be web to have them made public at this time and corrected an intimation that be was acting solely in the interests of public nornls.
 With the unexpected throwing open of sII the doors in the celebrated case sensations even bigger than these here tofore promised are expected.
 Ksfser-s sea Coming ts America
 BERLIN. July 2l-The ksiser's fourth son. Prime August William. will be q student iH sa American uni versity in due course of time. Prince August William is developing into the true philosopher Of the HohensolIern family. snd his pro1d father fs deter mined te give him the most thorough educational training tie vorId affords
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-21
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-21

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LOST STUDS AND BUTTONS
Left in shirts Sent to the Lamdry-A
Valuable diamond Recovered.

l. "Plenty e people leave collar buttons and
cuff buttons and shirt studs in shirts when
they send them to the laundry said n
laundryman. AS a rule these are not
of much value; but we do sometimes
find fire buttons, and sometimes costly
sparklers.
"A customer of ours sent rs once In this
way, in one of a bundle of shirts sent to the
laundry, a $3.50 diamond, which came pretty
near to being finally lost.
This diamond was set in a shirt stud,
and he had used this stud to fasten together
the front of a dress shirt through the holes
in the shirt bosom Mt the bottom, out Of
sight, below the top edge of the low waist
coat. He had wanted an ordinary button
TO put there, but failing to find one when
he was dressing he just picked up this
diamond stud. Then he forgot it, and in
the next bundle of shirts he sent US he sent
along that $3.50 diamond stud.
o course we inspect the shirts as they
come in for just such things, looking over
the bosoms particularly, but we handle
many shirts, and that stud was down in
an unusual place, and very likely folded
under. out of sight, in the rumpling Of the
shirt. and it got by. Next morning
the owner himself discovered his loss and
notified us and of course we promptly
began a search for 1t.
"The shirt supposed to contain the missing
diamond, along with the rest of this GUS
toner's shirts, and others, had already
gone into a washing machine. but we stopped
this machine and took everything out OF it.
The stud was not in any of this Co.'S
TONER'S shirts, nor was 1t, washed out OF its
original place. as 1t might have been by
the softening of the linen in the water
and the motion OF the machine, TO be found
anywhere in the folds Of any of the other
shirts. No diamond. But then-a modern
washing machine, you know, is half as big
as a hogshead-a man got into the machine.
and in the water, on the bottom, he found it.
$50 buttons discovered on the first in
s~pection are of course saved, and buttons
remaining in the shirts through the washing
are likely to be discovered by the starohers,
but buttons WASHED out of the shirts in
machines. and of which we have no knowl-
edge, are likely to be drawn of with the
water when the machines are emptied,
and in that way some may. first apd Last,
be lost.s l.
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he will do more thar look in on us at the
opera or concerts or the theatre or at house
entertainments. At the latter he comes in
near the close and treats the hostess to some
cooked up story about being detained with
business friends, and |, of course, never give
him away
He likes a good dinrer az well as any
one, but hates having to make himself
agreeable to the lady he k in, unless
she happens to be an old friend, and It bores
him to chat for three, hours about things he
isn't Interested in. He prefers stag affairs
every time, and would rather play cards at
the club than in a private drawing room.
FL humor him and save him all | can, and
1 suppose l have really spoiled him 10y not
insisting that he shall escort me whenever
70 out. | go of to the opera night after
night in a carria ge with a guest or to meet
guests invited to sit with Us and leave my
husband smoking placidly in the library.
Maybe two hours later he will .~saunter
in and escort me home, maybe he won't come
at all. And yet we are called a devoted
pair"
"A friend of mine was talking about this
very thing the other day, the youngest OF
the three women remarked, apropos of the
fact that her sister, a widow of nearly 40,
is engaged to a man of 80.
s'Mv sister she said, is about 30 Oh less
in looks and equally young in her feelings,
and she has always declared that a woman
of lively temperament who doesn't mean to
take to caps and wrinkles or to live in a
village after she gets to he middle aged
must, in order to protect herself against
$500. - -.,,,n 4 - la-.,1F -Y,NA 1,..,,,
at so, marry a man considerably younger
than herself. Naturally a woman who
marries at 20 can't do this, and the chances
are that unless she gets an opportunity to
marry n second time at 60 she will have to
get along without an escort to social affairs
if she depends on her hus band.
with women of 80 or 40 it is different.
Let them by all means marry men younger
than themselves If they get a chance.
Things will even up before the fifty year
milestone is passed; they will be better
matched than with a mai Of their own age,
and the man will be just as well off, too.
ain fact l never heard of a New York
man who was handicapped in his social
ambitions because his wife wanted to stay
around home and sit with her feet up on a
chair by a library table lamp. That sort Of
thing may happen in a village, but not in
New York's prosperous circles"
'Yes, it does seem to me that as COM
cared with woman tho New York man just
galops toward old age agreed the other
women.
at is certainly true that when a disparity
in years exists between a bride and bride
groom it is not always the man who is the
IL l-Al al-n-n
find that the tendency is toward an equality
Of age rather than a disparity. 1 have
fewer cases OF May and December mating
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another little fellow, scarcely moro than
a baby in years. earns enough by his work
to help his mother and to carry home every
month the price of the rent
The little girls are allowed to help, when
able, at light household work, and are
taught millinery, sewing, basket weaving
and many kinds of decorative work. The
work done in the pleasant sewing room is
remarkable, and gives many Of the more
advanced pupils a little income.
At noon every day the little cripples fall
into line and march down to the dining
room singing Marching Through Georgia
at the top of their voices. There they
have a warm lunch, with cake and Joe
cream every Saturday. After luncheon
there is a half hours frolic in the bit Of
back yard behind the house, then lessons
again until 4 o'clock. when the bus drives
up and carries them away to their homes.
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STORIES OF DR.. G. A. PETERS.
ONCE SUCCEEDED IN HUMBUG-
GING p. T. BARNEM.
A New York Physician OF q Dozen Years Ago
Got Back to New York Once by Sheer
Assurance-Had a Part I'm a Famous
Duei-Some OF His Ret0rts to Patients.

Ftbstta INV tIau - aiN ~ ="
Duei-Some OF His Retorts to Patients.
No physician and surgeon held a warmer
pace in the hearts of those who knew him
taan DIR. George A.. Peters, who was for
forty years prior to his death in 1894 a
leader of the profession in New York city,
Physician and surgeon both he was.
believing that one who undertook to be a
family practitioner should be able to minis
ter to any ailment. He had little regard for
the specialist.
His early life was a struggle, He did not
take up the study Of his profession until he
had arrived at mature years. One of his
earliest attempts to made a living took him
abroad. He was not successful and found
himself stranded in Liverpool without
money or friends. That was in the days Of
sailing ships and how he obtained his pas
sage nome on a first class packet may be
told in the words of her captain, who after
ward commanded a C%unarder, with whom
the doctor always sailed, If he could, on
subsequent trips to Europe.
This captain used to tell it about as fol-
lows. "The ship was lying in dock at LIVER
pool and | was very busy in my room when
my boy Informed me that a young man
tllt w = iIC'
What does he want?' said I.
.'He says he wants to engage passage to
New York, sir
Tell him to go to the %company's Office.
That is the place to engage passage
IL did tell him that, sir, but he insists
upon seeing you personally
''Well.' said l, show him down II you
can't get rid Of him any other way
He came in, a very young looking man
with a quick step, apparently not very
prosperous, and he put me through a cross
examination about the ship and her ao-
commodations which was thorough and
exhaustive and 30 searching that l have
often wondered since that ! did not show
him the door, As a final question he asked
II I carried a COW and expressed himself
as much gratifcd when | answeed in the
affirmative. He said he couldn't possibly
sail on a ship that did not carry a COW.
THAT point settled to his satisfaction, he
began a general conversation and | was so
fascinated by him that before | knew it
l had agreed to carry hin to New York as
a first class passenger and to trust him for
his passage money. In thinking since what
it was that induced me to do such an I'M
heard of thing / am inclined to believe that
it was his superb assurance in insisting
upon q COW
- al DR.. PetArs'a ooIlnn1halnnnaan Ans
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And we always hate to see them CO."
said Mrs. NJ. F.. Billiard. for many of them
go back to dark, fit by, unhappy homes,
where, in many inst ances, the work we
have done through the day is undone at
night by bad food. bad ventilation and
unsanitary conditions.
I'VE provide the children who need them
with braces, crutches and artificial limbs,
and often when our little ones 90 from
us at night these are taken from them
and sold or pawned for drink.
AT our summer home at Claverack
they are all our own for three months.
Each child has his or her own bed, especially
ada pied to the suffering little body, and
every night they are bathed and their
backs and limbs rubbed with alcohol.
There we can see to their spiritual as
well as their physical growth, and with the
aid of our corps of physicians can give
them the medical care and sanitary over
sight which their condition requires. We
make them live outdoors, give them all the
fresh milk, eggs and butter they can eat,
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but one leg, and those who had no legs at
all. There we're deformed limbs, crooked
backs and little heads supported in cruel
looking braces. kut there were bright
smiles on the pale little faces, and laughter
and childish happiness in the hollHw eyes.
They were the pupils Of the William H.
Davis Free School for Crippled Children,
and they were off for their three months
vacation at their summer home at Claw
crack. They were accompanied by their
president and the founder Of the institu-
ton, Mrs. Arthur Elliot Fish, and by their
superintendent and teachers, and some
of the weakest and most helpless Of the little
cripples were carried in the arms of attend
ants.
With low explanation Of pity the crowd
in the station parted and drew back to let
the party pass through, and the eyes of
many a woman filled with tears as with an
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during the latter part of his life the wife
had to sit up nights nursing her husband
and spend her evenings in company with
an easy chair and the govt or rheumatism
when she secretly longed for the sewing
bee. that was lust as thing should be.
at was the place of every wife to nurse
her husband; that was one reason why
middle aged men married young girls,
thought the community. So far as know
the same belief still holds in almost every
small community. Naturally, in New York
it is quite life mt"
aIdon't see why locality has so much to do
with it," put Ia the second speaker
why. to my mlnu, that is easily ex-
planned" rejoined the other. Take New
York, for instance
The women here look, act, think and
live differently from wom.n in n coun-
try villa ge. Their idea OF the plea sures
of married womel is altogether different
from that of the country woman, as different
as their views on the clothes question.
an we'll to do New York circles the time
honorcd theory that woman grows old
aster thar man is defunct, fer the rea o
that the evidence is against it. In rural
dom old age gets in its fne work on men
and women pretty equally. The theory
referred to can easily be substantlated IN
any New England town.
80 far as appearances go, it GER
tainly can't be proved in the prosperous
circles of New York; and all the world
nprees that a woman is no older than she
looks, that a man is as young as he feels.
The reason man is Judge by his feelings,
a friend of mine recently pointed out, is
that at 40 or thereabouts few MN have
any looks worth speak king about.
That may be. of course, because man
doesn't know how TO brir 6 art to the as
s~istance of nature-but never mind the
reason. Thu fact remains that at 90 the
modern man is in looks, if not in feelings,
practically a copy Of what his foroears of
a century back were at his age.
THE modern woman of 90, or the con-
trary, judged by her looks is practically a
in comparison with an old time
American woman of 80, and / believe 1t
is this change in womln's appearance which
had led to the change in the marriage rules.
Not to look old means that one does not care
to act old OF TO be laid on the shelf, and a
New York woman of 90 with q husband Of
like age finds herself handicapped, par
tioularly II she looks young enough to be
his daughter, which Is apt to be the case.
ITO be sure, she is allowed to go as often
az she pleases, out alone, to the opera, the
theatre, to concerts, to dinners even; for
IL may az we'll be admitted that the ordinary
society dinner ia a bore to most elderly men
Of the type who are quite willing to shelve
every social duty on their wife and daugh-
ters, who in turn are generally quite willing
to assume them all"
sQuite true sighed the elderly lady.
my husband 10 just %. and IL 10 seldom
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The outgoingS summer crowds that
thronged the Grand Central Station laden
with golf sticks, ennis racquets, fishing
tackle and showing joyous ant;oipations
Of a summer vacation at the sea shore or
IN the country suddenly fell silent one day
last week, and some eyes filled, as through
the big double doors on Forty-second street
there entered a Grove Of children.
They. too, were bound on a vacation.
They were of for n summer in the oun
try, to which they had looked forward for
nine long months. But in all that crowd
of little boys and girls-sxty-nine of them
there was not one eolnd pair of legs with
which to run races o. jump bitches or climb
trees, and there were many little backs
that were only strong enough to lie quietly
: on the sweet green grass or rest in ham,
Knocks under shady trees.
There were those in the party who had
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hetwcon thor homes and the school
Th,- hu ml'tet 4. roundr at y
O'Clock IN the morning every week day
Of the year, excepting the months he
tween June and Scrtemh"". when the
children are IN the country and In the
care 81 one " the teachers carries the
pupils to and from the school
The school IL graded to correspond to
the grades ~ the public schools from
kindergarten 90 grammar school, 40 that
If, 10y the aid Of good care ard medi-
cal skill, the pupils are restored TO a
normal condition OF health, they can.
without loss of time, go IN with their
EDUCATION in the public schools.
The foundation plan of the school il
not only to relieve the sufierings and
improve the physical conditions Of the
pupils, but 70 so train and educate
them that, even though permanently
crippled, they may become self-sup-
porting. For this reason the work done
at the school is entirely different from
that done in ordinary schools, and lis
most important department is that OF
manual training.
From the kindergarten up the chill
dren are taught manual deXterity. The
pupils, many Of them encased in plas-
ter jackets, some with braces on their
limbs, others with their beads supported
by jury masts. chatter and laugh and
sing about their low tables as they
make bright colored crepe paper candle
shades, photograph holders, card racks
and many other things.
When the little fingers grow stronger
they learn Indian basket weaving, Their
sloid worky then leather and wood carvin
iron and brass work, and when the pupi
reach the workshop they are qualified
turn out, and do turn out, work that won
attract favorable attention anywhere. ]
the halls and reception room and orowdir
every corner of the workshop are carve
screens. chairs, tables, footrests, tabo,
rets and boxes, and carved and burne
leather designs are piled high on wor
benches. chairs and tables.
The work in the manual training class.
has already demonstrated the fact thu
even badly and permanently cripple
children may become self supportini
Among the lads now in the school SON
are earning as much as $40 and $12 a wee
as a certain percentage on the sale Of q
articles is paid to each worker.
One boy who has lost both legs is ma
ing great progress in wood carving, ar
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As he vent up the steps a window waa
thrown open and a voice which he recog-f
nized as that of the lady in question caleds
out TO him You needn't como in, doctor. |
Fathers dead" The charg 70 for a visit,
was saved.
He accompanied a party to Canada on.l
the occasion of q duel. On their return,
no damage having been done, a half hearted
attempt was made to indict the principals
for leaving the State with intent to fight q
duel, and DIR. Peters was summoned an q
witness before the Grand jury He hadn't
been allowed to see the meeting and was not
a very willing witness anyway This story
leaked out Of the Grand Jury room. The
doctor was under examination as to whether
or not he had seen q certain boz, the I'M
plication being that there wa suoh o bon
and that it contained a pair OF PISTOLS
The examination on this subject was sons-t
Now didn't you sec aboxintha poasss-<
sion Of Mr.. -"
Il believe I { did,
.'What was it lksi Dfdn-e . ioc& NM
pistol easep oSme' now want ehars q palm
I'm sure / don't know what wa Ia b, n
remember thinking IL looked hne . fhuteFI
case. I thought perhaps there was q 0ntas
No Indictment was found ssatnst! sEyA
body. Perhaps It was never eextoualys1
Intended that there should be,
A certain wealthy man lsborine undsr pa.
oelublOu IuhU u LII . l&ul1y puyElUHh
should do anything for him, no matter whaaij
l S character, called upon him with O propo1E
sition that he should perform an tmpropedk1
operation. Tn doctor concealed bis tndigst
consent and to make an appointment TO-
see the patient. AS the man rose to 60 The
doctor said:
"of course you know that I cannot do a
thing Of this Kind for my ordinary oharges.
'oh, certainly I know that waa the
answer, al I expect to pay you hand-
somely for it-very handsomely"
Well said the doctor, 1T Is always wise
to arrange such matters beforehand, and I
want you to understand that my fee for
this operation will be IS 900 600. I cannot
afford to do it for less.' Which was this
end Of that.
He was treating a patient who was suf-
| fering from too great a devotion to social
life and who had suocumbed to q prolonged
series Of big dinners and late sittings at
his club. The treatment required a COM
plete change in his habits and what was
for him a practical total abstinence. DR..
Peters. while making morning visit, was
apparently not too comfortable himself and
and said In response to inquiry that he
was not feeling well, having been out late
at his dining club the night before.
This delighted his patient, who saroasti-
cally advised him to take a dose Of his
own medicine. After what he considered
enough Of this the doctor ell ~ectually put a
difference here is just this. You have asked
me for my advice and l have not asked
you for yours. Good morning."
He was Il Yale man and the second presi-
dent Of the University CIub Of New York.
1t was in his last years one OF his deepest
regrets that ne was not likely TO live TO zee
that organization settled in its home at
Fifty-fourth street and Fifth avenue, in
the planning for which he had taken the
greatest interest. there Eastman John
S,nIa r,ortrait Of him looka down from thA
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than when I first entered the ministry,
forty years ago,a and it happens by no means
infrequently that I am asked to marry a
woman to a man considerably her junior.
an one case Of recent date the mar was
40 and his bride SO, but the woman looked
the younger. | know Of a case where a
man of 80 married a woman Of so, and they
are apparently intensely happy,
"No, IN the whole. | don't approve OF the
relative ages of bride and bridegroom
being turned around. 1t is well. l think,
for the wife to he tie younger. but then,
you know, | ma Yc old fashioned ideas"