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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-07
RAIN AND THE TELEPHONE. Bad Weather Means Trouble for the Operators at Central.

The chief operator of an uptown telephone exchange imparts the i'm formation that telephone girls read the weather forecasts as matter of duty and regard rainy day as a calamity. It isn't the annoyances of wet skirts that makes rainy weather unpopular with them, but the fact that their labors at the switchboard are doubled.
 Directly traceable to the state of the weather is the increase in tele- hone calls on unpleasant days. When the sun comes out brightly the army of shoppers visit the stores, argue with the grocer and reproach the butcher When the rain begins to come down the women folk pro- ceed to order over the telephone.
 Occasionally tie girls finds mo- ments of rest on ordinary days, but when the board is clicking it's calls in rainy weather arms and bodies are always busy from one end of the line to the. other. It wouldn't be quite so wearing, one of the girls explain ed if the users of the line would be more gentle with their sisters in the exchange, but it is an accepted be- lief among telephone girls that wo- men shoppers lack a great deal in courtesy and generally voice their demands gruftiy, impatiently and with little consideration for the oper- ators of their troubles.
 That men are invariably easier to get along with is another tradition among the exchange girls. Men are frequently gruff when cali is delay ed, but they often say they are sorry and they display sympathy which in women telephone users seems to be missing.
 The most talkative days of the week from the exchange girls stand point are Mondays and Saturdays. The busiest hours of these days are from 9 to II in the morning and to , in the afternoon.
 The telephone girl expects to put in q hard day or two every week, but when it happens to rain on Mon- day or Saturday and thus add to her burden it seems like a represensible conspiracy. Under such conditions a telephone exchange in New York city is no safe place for, a journeyman weather observer who values his life.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-07
COMMUNICATION FROM
 HREnAH LUXE CoHHELL

Luke Cornell. volunteer fireman and prominent In New Milford. Conn. Catholic circles. writes under date of February 22:
 "I had been fighting heavy cold for nearly a month-seemed as though I couldn't find anything to give me relief. My lungs were all choked up and I was in daily fear of
 pneumonia Every time I took full
 breath a choking cough would rack
 me for i've minutes or 90. was in
 very bad shape About a week ago
 a friend recommended LiHonine to me and spoke 90 highly of it that I pro cured a bottle and began to take it. The result vas gratifying and sur ,prisingfy quick It caused my cough to cease almost immediately and cleared my lungs Of the congestion. In short, 1t cured me 90 thoroughly
 that all traces of the disease were gone in three days time It is a
 wonderful medicine and I urge every
 body su1ering from coughs or eoldz Ito take it."
 All drussists ss. 50, q.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-07
New York Markefa.

WHEAT = May. s4c.: July. S is-lsc. {;
 coRNNMsy. sss.c.; July. sp.e.: Sep temter. s3a,c.
 BUTTER.Creamery. extras. per pound: s3l.Qs4c. CMercaniile Exchange official quotations, extras. 8c.D; firsts. 2sd32c. {: seconds. Sc Sc.; thirds. sidz3c.; held. ex- tras, 51Iuisc.. iirsts, z9nSoc.; seconds. 23d.5c: thirds zil.2c.: state, dairy. tubs. fresh. finest. 5ic.; good f0 prime. z5E2oc. i: common 70 fair. sou.5c.
 CHEEsE-siste. full cream. small, col- colored. October. best. small. ityl4i1c!: white. 15A.alIl.c.: good 10 prime: lsG lslxc: winter made, average best. 12irc-: 1: large. September. fancy. I4a.c.. October best. I5s.Tlii.c.: good 10 prime. IA I5i.c.: inferior. ui1qi2c-: light skins lii[c.; half skins. best. 9isulOisc.: par, skins. prime, sIsasc.; fair t0 good. 76sc- I.
 EGGS-Nearbv, selected white. fancy. zsc.: choice. edzic.. brown and mixed. extra ssc. firsts Co extra fI-sts. lsHisc- 1. dirties. isaITc.. cheeks. lsa1si1c-; duck
 P0TAToEs-Firna and in fair demand: 1: Pennxy Ivsnia- choice. per basheL ssdsoe- : New York and western. do. 5sns5c-: do-.
 LIVE POULTRY = Firm and higher. fowls I40l5c-: old roosters. 1oc-: chick eus IT1I5c-. ducks. isc-. geese. l17l3c-s winter chickens. seazc-
 DRESSED POULTRY Firm and in fair demand: fosls. choice. 1pzc-. do-- nearby chicsers- i511sc-. western. do-- 13 aI5c-. turkeys. Hszrby. choice to fancy. iSaac-. do. western. do. lsfIsc-. fair to good turkeys. is9Isc., ducks- nearby. 14u isc: western do. izTI.c-. geese. nearby. 1VTI.e-. western io- sallc-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-07
oper y.rdict m Guerip Case,

CHICAGO. March GA coroner's ju- " was unable to determine whether Webster Guerin. the artist, who was found dead in his studio here, came to his death from shot fired by himself or by Mrs. Michael Mcdonald, who was in the studio at the time of the shooting and Is now under arrest charged with killing Guerin. The jury was out tight hours and returned an open verdict. Guerin's friends assert that he and Mrs. Mcdonald had been lovers for many years and that the wo- man, fearing that she was losing her hold on Guerin, shot him.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-07
BInsh.m rIa,. In.pec,of wsI.h.

ALBANY. \. Y.. March 6.-Facing Inspector Richard Walsh before the assembly cities committee here. Police Commissioner Bingham publicly lash. ed him for coming to Albany to oppose the police reform bill while charges were hanging over his head. During the three minutes oral whipping the commissioner pointed his finger go straight at the inspector that not one of the hundreds of persons crowded ir to the room could mistake the subject of his attack.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-07
iRNY CHIEF GOES ABOUT DOING GOOD
Great Salvationist at New York Says He Will Accept Any Kind of Money For Their Work to Save
 Those Who Are Down.

Those Who Are Down.
 NEW YORK, March 6.--En route to Japan to try to convert the Japanese emperor and with the avowed inten- tion of telling the mikado that his re- ligious beliefs are all wrong, General William Booth, commander in chief of the Salvation Army, was interviewed here.
 One of the first things that the vet eran soul saver said was that he was on his farewell trip and that he never again expected to leave England when he returned to London in July.
 He explained that he was approach. ing his seventy-eighth birthday and that he thought that the strenuosity of the Salvation Army life required him to slow down.
 But I am not going to retire. added the general, with wave of his hand. There is a great deal of work left in me, can assure you"
 ''I want $5.O0O,O00 for my work, but am not going to beg for it." General Booth said. Il am looking for man to come along and take me by the hand and say. Look here, general, take me Into partnership in this good work"
 T want to complete experiments of placing the people in possession of small holdings and to prove that the ,lwn ho toL olr k< t1,n In n and made to support themselves. My plan Is this: Give a man five or nix acres near market town and I am satisfied that the average man can support himself and family from the product of that land. I have tract of land at Colchester. England. and il has been glorious success. Recently we were given $500,000 to go on with the work.
 "I have in view a plan for coloniza. ton on giant scale, say in Rhodesia central South Africa. No more immi grants are required in the United States, and we expect to divert emigra' ton from the old country into the heart of Africa"
 Would you accept any money from John D. Rockefeller some one asked the general, ''or do you regard it as tainted money?'
 | q would take anything, and would wash 1t in the tears of the widows and orphans. would lay it on the altar of benevolent effort for the good of the | cause.
 T have never seen Mir. Carnegie. l have never approached him in any way. I should have thought that the work of the Salvation Army would have commended itself to Mir. Carnegie But Mfr. Carnegie says: T cannot spend my money on people who are down. will help those who want 10 get up.' l hold that the time to help man is when he Is going down. You would be surprised at the beautiful people who are down."
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-07
Farmer smothered In s.wd..t.

BINGHAMTON, N. Y.. March G. Juvenal Griswold, a prosperous farmer of Coventry, Chenango county, was smothered to death in pile of saw dust. Mir. Griswold went for load of sawdust from large pile where Pierce's sawmill stood until year ago. A little later another farmer went for a load from the same place. He found Mir. Griswold's team and wagon. but no trace of the man. Digging was at once begun, and soon Mir. Griswold's s dead body was found buried several feet beneath the surface. where he had been caught in a cave-in and smothered to death.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-07
CANALS NEW BOSS.
Colonel Goethals to Have Supreme
 Command on Isthmus.


 Command on Isthmus.
 WASHINGTON, March 6.-The for maj announcement of the appointment of Lieutenant Colonel George w. GOethals to be member of the isth- milan canal commission was made at the White House. Colonel GOethals and Major D. D. GaiAard. who also is to be appointed member of the commission upon its reorganization, will sail from New York for the isth- mus. A party of fifty members of con gress also will go to Panama, includ. ing Speaker Cannon, to witness the progress on the isthmus. The party will visit the West Indies and other points in the south and will spend two days at Colon.
 Those who accompany Speaker Can non are his secretary. Colonel l.. White Busby: Senator Curtis of Kansas, Rep resentatives James s. sherman, Lucius
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-07
n. H.r.,s P,ess. evusy,

NEW YORK. March 6 = Through counsel the New York Herald compa ny pleaded guilty to violating the ses tiou of the United States statute= | reference 10 the sending of improfr matter through the maiIsl Judge Houg of the United States court announce. thst be would paa sentence oa April 2
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-07
J.dse Take. No Chances.

LEXINGTON. Ky. March 6-wher court convened for the Hargis tria Judge Carnes ordered all present t leave the courtroom and he searche, for concealed weapons as they re-en tered the courthouse The court i, guarded by miIItiamen- Hargis refuse to request a change of venue. and ths trial was resumed
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-07
Mrs. ID. n. Hanna Ash. Divorce.

CLEVELAND. O.. March s-suit for divorce was fled here by Mrs. Eliza beth Gordon Hanna. wife of Daniel R. Hams. son of the late Senator Han na. who is accused of gross neglect of duty. abandonment and extreme cruel ty. Mrs. Hanna asks for divorce sde- ouate alimony and the custody of her daughter, Elizabeth. ssed Eve.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-07
He sans u.der Operation.

NEW YORK. March 7.-The inhala. ton of ether affects persons variously. Some fight, some pray. some swear, some weep. Samuel warrock. under ether, broke into song so sweet that the two surgeons who were cutting off his fingers were stirred and four wo- men in the next room were moved to fearR
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-07
THURSDAY, MARCH ., 1907.

A number of the leading English journals have sent special correspond ents to the Thaw trial so as not to miss any of the disgusting details that they are anxious to lecture us about.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-07
Helen Caldwell De.s at Havsrs.

HAVANA. March 6--Helen Caldweil. only daughter of John k. Caldwell. manager of the Associated Press bu- reau. died here last night from typhoid fever snd was buried today. Mrs. Caldwell and Miss Helen. who was nineteen years old joined Mir. Cah- well two months ago. Mr. Caldwell had been in charge of the Havana bu- reau for eight months
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-07
Ham. win Not oppo.e Divorce.

Hama win Not Oppose Divorce.
 CLEVELAND, O., March z.-It is said that Dan R. Hanna will offer nc defense to the charges of gross neg lect, abandonment and extreme cruelty laid against him in his wife's suit fol divorce filed here.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-07
IIxe sfork Markets.

CATTLE-Suppiy Iiests market steady choice k7sas. prime EssdSSs veal calves e<-7sl
 HOGsRece5sts light: msrxet steady. prime Eez-ies- ESs. medig1s and heavy Workers E-A. light To-kers and piGs. E461E- rouEls. SdSN
 SHEEP AND LAMBS = Supply fair. market steady prime uethefsl 6. .S 1&l&- suIIs ana common. tz15; lznbs G77&
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-07

ture repealed 1t and so there Is an end to Pennypacker's war.-Bridge- port Standard.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-07
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Closing Stock Quotations.

Money on call steady at 5 per cent: prime mercantile paper. 5S1s per cent: exchanges sss9 SIS. .4Ss; balances, s1o, ,ele. .7i1. Closing prices:
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-07
COLONEL GEORGE ". GoETHALs

COIsUNLL UEoItUL VT. uVLI i.fh1S x. Littauer and ]. Van yechten Olcott, New York: James A. Tawney. Minne- sota; Henry C. Loudenslager. New Jersey: William B. Mckinley. Illinois; ]. c. Evcrsham and Dr. C. F. Hough of Champaign. III.
 Colonel Goethals will be chairman of the commission and in supreme command of the working force.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-07
DIRECTORY Of RELIABLE SPECIALISTS IN WATERBURY FUNERAL DIRECTORS. J. H. GRAY ( co.
 335 North Main street. Funeral Undertakers. Telephoae
 Dey or Night.
 ARCHITECTS LEONARD ASHEIM Corner Bank St and Harrison Ave J. B. DUHAIME, Room 5, 95 BANK ST. LOUIS A. WALSH. ARCHITECT 51 Leavenworth St (. JEROME BAILEY, A"chiteci Apothecaries' Hall Building.
 EDWY E. tENEDICr.
 s1 Leavenworth Street.
 FRENZY & JACKSON.
 q Lsavenworth streer. JOSEPH I. SMITH. rchitect. 36 North Main n.
LOUIS A. WALSH. ARCHITECT 61 Leavenworth st

 PAINTING AND DECORATING. Get your Painting done by exper- fenced workmen. THE CONN. DEC. GRATING co. has had IS years ex- perience. Give us trial. Rooms, including paper. from s2.0O up. JO ABBOTT AVE-. NEAR ARM0RY. 1R AND MRS c. R. BAILEY. SPECIALisIS. Room n. 27 W Main Permanently renove superuu0us hair. moles. warts and all blemishss by electrolysis. Hours s.12. 1-t. 1VN0VhAnk EnxsAvAss THE IMPERIAL. the finest In New England. S5 Bank Street.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-10-05

The moment set eyes on this man
1 recognized him. It's not fair to you
or to him that you should not know
him for what he is. Let me introduce
an old friend, Walter Creighton; he
was a student at Dublin when was
there, poor boy with nobody to help
him; but 1 remember him as one of
the best fellows in the world"
For Gods sake-no!" pleaded
Bates. He was deeply moved and
turned his face away from us.
"But, like me- Larry went on, t'he
mixed in politics. One night in riot
at Dublin a constable was killed. No
one knew who was guilty, but a
youngster was suspected,-the son of
one of the richest and best-known
men in Ireland, who happened to get
mixed in the row. To draw attention
from the boy, Creighton let suspicion
attach to his own name, and, to help
the boys case further, ran away. 1
had not heard from or of him until
the night / came here and found him
the defender of this house. By God;
that was no servants trick,-it was
the act of a royal gentleman"
They clasped hands, and with a
new light in his face, with a new man
ner, as though he resumed, as famil-
lar garment, an old disused person
atty, Bates stood TRANSPORTED in the
twilight, a man and a gentleman. /
think we were all drawn to him; /
know that a sob c1utched my throat
and tears filled my eyes as I grasped
his hand.
But what in the devil did you do it
for?" blurted my grandfather, excited
ly twirling his glasses.
Bates q still call him Bates,-he in
sists on it, laughed. For the first tirle
he thrust his hands into his pockets
and stood at his ease, one of US.
Larry, you may remember that j
showed fondness for the stage in our
university days. When got to Amer
lea 1 had little money and found it
necessary to find employment without
delay. I saw Mr.. Glenarm's advertise
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CHAPTER XVI.
Shorter vistas.

shorter V1StaS.
Larry had assembled his effects in
the library. and to my surprise, Stod
s1ard appeared with his own handbag
I'm going to see Donovan well on
his way" said the clergyman
Its pity our party must break
up" exclaimed my grandfather MY
obligations to MT. Donovan are very
great-and to you. too. Stoddard-
Jacks friends are mine hereafter, and
when we get new doors for =Glenarm
House you shall honor me by accept
ing duplicate keys"
Where's Bates2" asked Larry. and
the man came in. respectfully. imper-
turbably as always. and began gather
ing up the bags.
-'Stop-one momenti Mr.. Glenarm,'
said Larry. Before I go 1 want to
congratulate you on the splendid
courage of this man VINO has served
YOU and your house with SO much
1aithfulness and tact And I want to
tell you something else. that you prob
ably would never learn from him"
-Donovani" There was a sharp cry
An Bates voice, and he sprang forward
with his hands outstretched entreat-
knsly. But Larry did not heed him.
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CHAPTER XVII.


He had been to see Sister Theresa,
and Marian was walking with him to
the gate. I saw her quite plainly in
the light that fell from the lamp over
head. A long cloak covered her, and
a fur toque capped her graceful head
My grandfather and his guide were
apparently in high spirits and their
laughter smote harshly upon me. 1t
seemed to shut me QUITO lift bar
Ter against me. The world lay there
within the radius of that swaying
light, and I hung aloof, hearing her
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ised Larry asylum and no questions

asked.
As my two friends waved farewell
to me from the rear platform of their
train a mood of depression seized me,
had lost much that day, and what I
had gained,-my restoration to the re-
gard of the kind old man of my own
blood, who had appealed for my COM
partnership in terms hard to deny
seemed trifing as L tramped back
over the ice. Perhaps Pickering, after
all, was the real gamer by the days
eventsi
/ tramped on back toward the Glen
arm shore, and leaving the lake. half
unconsciously struck into the wood be-
yond the dividing wall. The melted
snow of midday was now crisp ice
that ratified and broke under my tread.
I came out into an open space beyond
st. Agatha's, found the walk and
turned toward home in the gathering
night.
AS I neared the main entrance to
the school the door opened and a wom-
an came out under the overhanging
lamp. She carried lantern, and
turned with hand outstretched to
some one who followed her with care
full steps.
"Ah, Marian" cried my grandfather.
tits ever the task of youth to light
the way for age.'
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ment for a valet. Just as lark 1 an
swered it to see what an American
gentleman seeking valet looked like.
1 fell in love with Mr.. G1enarm at
sight
And 1 with you!" declared my
grandfather. 81 never believed your
story at all,-you were too perfect in
the part."
well, I didn't greatly mind the
valet business; it helped 20 hide my
identity; and did like the humor and
whims of Mr.. Glenarm. The house
keeping, after we came out here,
wasn't so pleasant"Ahe 1nol1ed at his
hands ruefully-"but this joke of Mr..
Glenarm's making will and then go
ing to Egypt to see what would hap
pen,-that was too good to miss. And
when the heir arrived / found new OPP
portunities of practising amateur the
atricals: and chickering's efforts to en-
list me in his scheme for finding the
money and making me rich gave me
still greater opportunities There
were times when 1 was strongly tempt
ed to blurt the whole thing; 1 got
tired of being suspected, and of play
ing ghost in the wall; and if Mr.. Glen
arm hadn't got here just as he did
SuOulQ nave SlOppSO tut uSul duu pIO-
claimed the truth I bope,"-h said.
turning to me,--you have no hard
feelings, sir And he threw into the
"sir" just a touch of i-ony that made
US all roar
I'm certainly glad I'm not dead"
declared my grandfather, staring at
Bates Life is more fun than 1 ever
thought possible. Bless my soul, he
said. If it isn't shame that Bates
can never cook another omelette for
met
We sent Bates back with my grand
father from the boat-house.~ and Stod-
dard, Larry and / started across the
ice; the light coating of snow made
=~->sng comparatively easy We
strobe on silently, Stoddard leading.
| Their plan was to take IN accommoda-
| ton train at the first station beyond
Annandale, leave it ut > town 10 miles
away. and then hurry east to an OBJ
scure place in the mountains of Mary
land where . religious order main
tanned house. There Stoddard prom
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THE WAY IT DIDN'T HAPPEN.

Mother, said little Willie Jones.
IF there's no work to do.
I'd like to join the other boys
And go in swimming, too"
There's not bit of work to day.,
Said Willie's mother kind:
IT'S useful to know how to swim,
So go-I do not mind
Father said Willie to his pa
When he had older grown:
I'D like to smoke and wish that I
A bFfar pipe might own"
And SO you SHALL" said Willie's pa.
Proud of his manly son:
And to the store he went to buy
A real expensive one.
Dear folks" said Willie to them all
When he was twenty-three,
II love Marie, and we're engaged
And married soon will be-
I'VE love her so.' '-She's just the girl!''
1.-The only girl for you we'd choose?
Which goes to prove these lines are false
And writ but to amuSe.
Clifford Trembly, in Puck.
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Would Run No Risk.

Darling" said the young man as he
bent fondly over her chair. Il would
die for you"
WELL rejoined the practical but
otherwise fair maid. s-the rates of in
surance are pretty low Suppose you
get your life insured in my favor for
5000 and then die for me?
.And let some other fellow lux
uriate on the insurance.? exclaimed
the wise young man. We'll, guess
not
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voice and jealous of the very com
partnership and sympathy between
them.
But the light led me. 1 remembered
with bitterness that had always fol
lowed her,-whether as Olivia, trail
ing in her girlish grace across the
snow, or as the girl in gray, whom ]
had followed on that night journey al
Christmas eve; and I followed now.
The distrust, my shattered faith, my
utter loneliness, could not weigh
against the joy of hearing that laugh
of hers breaking mellowiy on the
night.
1 paused to allow the two figures tic
widen the distance between US as they
traversed the path thai curved away
toward the chapel. 1 could still hear
their voices, and see the lantern flash
and disappear I felt an impulse to
turn back, or plunge into the wood
land; but 1 was carried on uncontroIl-
ably. The light glimmered and her
voice still f1oated back to me. 1t stole
through the keen winter dark like a
and the light led me.
Then 1 heard an exclamation of dis
may followed by laughter, in which
JOluCQ
"Oh, never mind; we're not afraid, "
she exclaimed
1 had rounded the curve in the path
where / should have seen the light;
but the darkness was unbroken- There
was silence for a moment, in which
drew quite near to them
Then my grandfather's voice brokf
out cheerily-
Now 1 must go back with youi A
fine person you are to guide an old
\ man. A foolish virgin. indeed. with
no oil in her lamp."
/ Please do not, Oh course I'm go
| ing to see you quite to your own door!
I don't intend to put my hand to the
lantern and then turn back,
/ This walk isn't whas 1t should be.
| said my grandfather, wen have tc
make a better enc in the spring
eTO BE CONTINUED-l
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Mrs. Hobson,s Choice.

Mrs. Hobson-I wish had some
thing to read. Did you get only one
Sunday paper?
Mr.. Hobson-Yes, my dear, but it is
in two parts.
well, let me have one while you
are reading the other
Certainly, my love. Which half
would you prefer, the political half
or the sporting half?"-N. Y. Weekly.