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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-19

FOUND-At 315 Bank st, F. w Lu- cas's cigar store, one of the largest and best selected stocks of pipes and smokers articles and all the favor ite brands of cigars and tobacco. Cigars by the box a speciality. Call and see us and you will surely come again. 12-7-1y.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-19
FOR SALE

FOR SALE--A Knabe square piano. Inquire y237 North Willow st.
 8-17-3
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-19

COLLECTOR-If you have any claims you cannot collect, let me have them, and guarantee results. am here on the ground and know the ropes. I have agents in all states, and can handle cases. any, where. Frank J. Rametti. the col lector who collects. 16 East Main st. (room 3. Waterbury. Conn.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-19

WANTED-The people to know if they have not s7 for ton of coal.
 they can get big bag of Otto Coke
 from their grocer for a dime. 12-1-tf
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-19
TO RENT

TO RENT-Tenements of i've rooms
 each, SIG and $1T; new brick house. 9S1 North Main st; all modern i'm ! provements. Inquire at 963 North
 Main st, or 33 East Main st. 7-26tf
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
STREET MOVING
TOWARD CUT
LANDSLIDE SPREADS coNsTERN-
ALTON IN SUBURB or
PITTs5uRG

PITTSBURG. Aug. 2s.-with their
houses ereaking, windows breaking
and chimneys sinking deep into the
earth. several hundred foreigners have
fed from their homes in Port Vue, a
South Side suburb, fearing death in a
landslide which threatens to bury
Scott streets twenty-five dwellings.
One hundred yards below, the Pitts
burg & Lake Erie Railroad Company
recently started to make cut for
additional tracks. The earth between
the cut and the hillside on which the
houses stand is undertake with soft
shade and soap-stone. The whole
mass is slowly slipping toward the cut.
During the past twenty-four hours the
street for 100 yards, with its houses,
dropped 800 feet below its original
level, bursting gas and water mains
and leaving hale the village without
light or fire protection Three hun
dred men were at work today vainly
endeavoring to check the landslide,
while crowds of hysterical women and
children watched the widening fis-
sures.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
POOR FARMER IN
BIGGEST OF LUCK
ONE or THE HElRs TO HALF A
MILLION ESTATE LEFT BY
BACHELOR UNCLE.

TUSCUMBIA, Ala, Aug. 29.-David
Davis, a poor, hard working farmer Of
this county, who has hardly been able
to make both ends meet for many
years. has recently come into posses
sion of fortune, by the death of an
uncle at Pine Blum. Ark, who died
some time ago, leaving an estate val
ued at several hundred thousand dol
lars. David Davis is one of six heirs
who inherit the fortune, consisting of
fine farming lands. near Pine Bluff,
city property and large sum of mon
ey in bank. The decendent was an
only brother of Davis father, was I'M
married and his, estate goes to his
nephews and nieces, six in number.
Davis left today for Pine Bluff, after
stating to your correspondent that the
estate was probably worth 100000.
Several weeks ago a large syndicate
purchased a big tract of valuable land
belonging to the estate, and Davis Sc
cured $4,000 as his distributive share,
which he has placed to his credit in a
Florence, Ala, bank. He says he has
not yet decided whether he will con-
tinue working his little farm in Col
bert County, or will invest his money |
in a larger farm. He is welded to
his home in this county, and would
abandon it. Davis is a ty-
pical "countryman." He left this
wearing pair of jean trous-
ars, hickory shirt, no collar and
'sun-burned" cheap straw hat.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
NAMES BABE GIVES IT
PRESENT OF $4,000
CUBA IN. " WOMAN MISSES
TRAIN AND MEETS HER
NEW WARD.

CORDELE, Ga, Aug. 26.-In return
for kindness shown her, Mrs. J. R
Mckay, of Cuba, n Y, has sent q
check for $4,000 to Mr. and Mrs
Homer Powell, of this place, the mon
ey to be used for their youngest child
who is only few weeks old
Mrs. Mckay was returning to her
home from Florida when she missed
her train and was obliged to lay over
short while in this city. BY accident
she met the Powell family. When
she heard of the birth of the child
she asked permission to name it,
which was granted.
The letter received today bore the
name of the child, James Edward
Powell, and contained the check for
100000, drawing per. cent, to be paid
annually. When the boy is twenty
one year old the entire amount will
be paid to him. The father of the
child is carpenter.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
ASKS $500 DAMAGES
FOR LOSS IF WHISPERS
BALTIMORE BROKER WANTS Ho.
TEL GAYoSA AT MEMPHIS TO
REIMBURSE HIM TO
THAT AMOUNT.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Aug 90.-Be.
cause he could not retain the services
of one of the leading law firms in the
city to prosecute his case, A. A. Mar.
shall, banker of Baltimore, Md, may
decide not to institute suit against the
Hotel Gayosa Company for $500, the
amount of damage he claims for hav.
ing been deprived of close bunch OF
whiskers that he was proud of for sew.
eral years. Marshall claims he asked
the barber in the hotel shop for a
"whiskeps-trim" He was patient
while the barber worked, but when he
looked in the glass after the job was
completed he few into rage and rushed
to the law firm Of Major E. e. Wright,
son of the retiring Japanese ambassa-
dor, and former Philippine governor.
Major Wright referred him to mem
Der of the firm who agreed on re-
tainer, but after making personal IN.
yestigation he returned the fee to the
Baltimore man, declaring the suit ito
for basis for a suit"
Marshall has not yet found an at
torney to take up his troubles in
court.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
CHINESE ES-
CHEW LIQUOR

X officer Edward Frawley is authority
for the statement that a Chinamar
never gets drunk Frawley's beat
takes in one of the liveliest sections
of the local Chinatown, in the vicinity
of Third avenue and Grant street and
he says he has never yet seen one of
the Orientals intoxicated.
Their chief dissipation seems to be
the smoking of opium. but as the po-
lice prevent the conducting Of any
"dens" in this city the Cinnamon have
to go about this indulgence on the
quiet 2 Nevertheless, it is cinch
that the kind of tobacco they smoke
generally has an odor very different
from that of the American brand.
Why is 1t the Cinnamon never drink
to excess, if they drink at all, Is con-
sidered remarkable Officer Frawley
says he has heard OF but one Pitts
burg Chinaman who seems to have a
fondness for liquor, and when this
man starts to drink, it is asserted, his
friends keep him hidden They claim
they would rather hide him than have
the law do 1t.
! Ben Lee, one of the proprietors of
the establishment at Third avenue and
Grant street, is suffering at present
with the hay fever.
Better take good, big drink of
whisky" someone suggested.
at would heat up my blood" was
his reply.
Which shows that Cinnamon know
a thing or two about liquor Anything
that heats up the blood is not consid-
cred good for the hay fever 1t may
be that the Cinnamon believe that
liquor heats up the blood generally,
and are therefore afraid OF It.
At any rate, 1t is declared to be
TACT that a drunken Chinaman was
never seen on the streets of Pitts ,
burg.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
MUCH BOSSING
IS NEEDED
BUT WHO IS THE FINAL POWER
BEHIND THE BUNCH"

1T is remarkable how much money
big corporations and business men
generally have to spend to see that
their work is done properly" said a
builder Of houses recently, according
to the Cleveland Plaindealer Take
NY own business, for example In the
first place, we put gang to work and
over the gang we put a foreman,
whose sole duty is to see that the
work of the men is properly DONE
Then over number OF foremen we
have an inspector to see that the fore
man is doing his work, and over the
inspectors we have a superintendent
who duty 1t Is to see that the inspec'
tors and the foremen are really doing
the work for which they have been
hired And not content with this the
president of the company insists on
visits to the work once in SO
often to see that the superintendent
inspectors and foremen are actually
doing the work they say they are. NO
Dne keeps tab on the old man, but l
guess he has to account for his time
o his wife"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
A GIANT RESERVOIR
(London Telegraph

Members of the society of engi
neers paid an interesting visit yester.
day afternoon to the new reservoir I'M
der construction for the Metropolitan
Water Board at Honor Oak. These
immense works have been building
for long time, and are very noticea-
BILE from the railway, which runs close
by Above ground only the crowns
of innumerable concrete arches are
seen, with large pumping station in
the distance. Underneath the sur
face, however, the arches prove to be
the roofing of spacious and lofty cav
erns extending in every direction and
destined when completed to be filed
to the keystones with subterranean
lake, which will be continually replen-
ished from deep wells in the chalk and
the Thames above Hampton Court.
The reservoirs will contain 10000, 600
gallons of water, and will be the largest
of their kind in the world. The con-
struction generally is of brick work
and concrete, the bricks having been
made on the spot from clay dug dur
ing the excavations. But non of
these spacious underground halls,
cool and palatial, will ever be seen
by the public, for as soon as ready
they will be filled 'to the brim the
roofing arches covered with earth,
grass sown and possibly municipal
garden established upon it
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
"SMART ALECK"
ON THE ROAD
FORCED TO PAY THE FULL PEN
Atty OF HIS SHARPNESS.

All of us are pleased when we see a
smart Aleck" get his come-uppance, .
says the Woman's National Daily, but
when the smart Aleck happens to be a
man clad in authority, and he runs in
to snag in the unnecessary exercise
of that authority, then certainly with
all OF us it is to laugh. This is just
what happened to an official of a rail-
road running out of Milwaukee, the
other day, and it must have been as
good as circus for everybody in that
particular car at that particular time
This official of course rides on a pass,
notwithstanding the law. He is a reg
ular rider on one particular train, and
of course the conductor knows him
We'll 1t had come to be the custom of
the conductor to simply nod when he
noted the official on his train, and af-
forwards make note of the number
of the pass he knew he carried Now
this official is what might be called
spasmodic stickler for strict obedience
to orders. The other day when the
conductor nodded the official stopped
him and sternly called attention to the
rule requiring all conductors to ex-
anime all passes. The conductor ac- !,
knowledged the censure and called for
the officials pass. The official put his
hand in one pocket and then another,
and still another, and after he had
searched himself thoroughly he was
obliged to explain that he had left his
pass at home, and casually remarked,
That's all right this time, but you
must observe the rule" "That is just
what I'm going to do, and Pm going
10 begin right now" And he did. He
made that official pay his fare, and of
course all the other passengers
aughed rudely, as the conductor
5ravely passed on with the officials n
money.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
HE WAS SUCH
A WASHER
(san Francisco star

(San Francisco Start
A young woman went to the station
to meet her father. AS the train came
in she saw a middle-aged man who
resembled her parental relatives, and
she rushed into his arms, huddled
down on his bosom, kissed him on the
cheek, the ear, the chin and all over
his patent celluloid 1t was not her
father, but middle-aged traveller for
tobacco house. He took a long
breath and looked around at some
other travellers and winked, as much
as to say, "Oh, I'm such a masher."
OF course, the scene could not last f6r-
ever, though he wished 1t could.
After spasmodic hug she looked up
in his face and shriekeG, You are not
my pal"
He said she was right. 4
She asked his pardon and he told
her not to mention 1t.
I'VE public men should always hold
ourselves in readiness to support those
who need It."
She smiled a sweet, sad, blushing
smile and went out into the wide
world, while the traveller walked to the
lotel with the others. They asked
him II it didn't make him ashamed to
lave such mistake made, and he said
10, it was all right. He said, of
course, it might look queer, but those
Kings occasionally occur very often
With him, as they would occur with
ny ine-looking man, Besides, the
irl probably enjoyed It.
Then they asked him why he did
OF wear his diamond breastpin on
UGH trying occasions. He looked at
is shirt front and 1t was gone. While
e had been allowing her to play the
aughter she had stolen his diamond {
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
FLOWERS THAT
HAVE EYES

The night hath thousand eyes
but a nasturtium leaf has more. Hold
ing up his hand in front of a desert
shrub, an experimenter recently has
taken a microphotograph showing half
dozen distinct images of his fingers
formed by the eyes of the plant.
Many common garden and wild flow
.ers-the nasturtium, begonia, clover,
wood sorrel, and bluebell among 9TH
ers-possess eyes situated on their
leaves. They are minute protuber-
ances filled with transparent gum
my matter which focuses the rays of
light on to a sensitive patch of tissue
at the back of it in similar manner
that that in which the eyes of an ami
NAL do their work. A common mas
turtium plant has thousands of such
eyeiets on its leaves, forming thou
sands OF minute images of the objects
around them. But though a plant |
may Nave eyes IT does hot fo-fI
low that it sees. 1t isNnot yet known
If the sense impressions are tele-
graphed to some central nerve ex-
change corresponding to the brain Of
he animal. In addition to these light
sense organs many plants possess
ouch of sensitiveness and a response
o electric stimuli that show further rel
to the animal world, whileI
erns. MOSES, and seaweeds in anil
arly stage of their existence are capa.
lie of actually swimming through wa. I
Tribune.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
SAW GRANT AT
CHATTANOOGA
HOW CARL SHURZ "SIZED UP"
THE UNION GENERAL.

In the course of the next morning
says the war article by the late Carl
Schultz in McClures, l saw General
Grant for the first time, Unexpect.
eddy he had come over with General
Thomas to inspect our lines. AS his
coming had not been announced, his
appearance among us was surprise,
and there was no demonstration, no
cheering among the soldiers, be-
cause they did not know this modest
looking gentleman was the hero Of
many battles. There was absolute
ly nothing of the fuss and feather
style, nothing of the stage and picture
general about him. His head was
covered with the regulation black
felt hat. He wore major generals
coat, but it was unbuttoned and I'M
belted. He carried no sword. On his
hands he had a pair of brilliant white
cotton gloves, and on his feet low
shoes which permitted pair of white
socks to be seen, all the more as his
had perceptibly slipped up.
He smoked a large black cigar with
great energy and looked about him in
/ business-like way with an impassi-
Die face. | had no opportunity for
coming into personal contact with
lin at this time, as the cavalcade
,assed by at brisk gait.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
ITARGETSFOR
ANGLERS
Forest and stream.)


Not long ago several wood disc, one
foot IN diameter, painted white, and
each provided with, a line and a lead
weight, were placed in the pool in
Central Park. this city. by the Anglers
Club. for targets for fy and bait-cast-
ing. AS a granitoid walk adjoins the
eastern, end Of the pool. and the tar
gets furthest from the casting plat
form are near this walk. thousands OF
park visitors worry the lives out Of
the policemen and park employees
with questions relative to the purpose
of the white disc. They have been
asked il the strange things are early
lilypads and everything under the sun
an idle lounger can imagine. One OF
the patrolmen told me the other day
that his naturally sweet temper had
been ruined since the appearance of
them things" But the most curious
question of all was fired at me one
day as watched the anglers practic-
ing.
Are those tin cans used in fish
breeding?" asked the visitor.
What cans?" / queried, not grasp
ing his meaning.
Why those tin cans in the lake?
oh. No. those are targets"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
LANDLADY MADE
A MISTAKE

On her first night at the seaside
lodgings, says the London church, the
visitor found 1t. Incredible it seemed,
for the landlady had appeared neat,
clearly, cautious body. But as the
lady visitor knew little of her land
lady and nothing of her predecessor in
the apartment, she decided to mention
the matter Ht breakfast Il found
something In my bed ROOM" she be-
gan, and the landIady interrupted.
Then you must have brought 1t with
you!" Il am quite sure / didn't" said
the visitor, FOR L counted all mine be-
fore left home. But II you insist
that this sovereign is mine, Of
COURSE"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
''PRETTY WARM,
ISN'T IT?"
ONE YOUTH WHO WILL NOT USE
EXPRESSION AGAIN.

One hot day last week. says tbs
Reader, a young man dressed in thin
clothes entered a Liverpool tramcar
and, seating himself opposite a stou
old gentleman. said pleasantly:
Pretty warm, isn't il?
What's pretty warm
why, this weather"
We'll, bows this different from
any other weather."
We'll, it is warmer"
How do you know it is?"
Il suppose it is"
Isn't the weather the same every
where?"
why, mono; it's warmer in some
places and colder in others"
What makes it warmer in some
places and colder in others?"
why the sun; the effect of the
suns heat"
Makes it colder in some places than
it's warmer in others? Never heard
of such thing"
mo, no. no! l didn't mean that.
The sun makes it warmer"
Then what makes 1t colder?"
Il believe it's the ice."
What ice?"
why, the ice-the ice-the ice that
was frozen by-by-by the frost"
Have you ever seen any ice that
wasn't frozen?
"No-that is, don't believe have"
"Then what are you talking about?"
81 was just trying to talk about the
weather"
And what do you know about 1t?
What do you know about the wealth
err"
"No, sir; l should say you didn't.
Yet you come into this tramcar and
force yourself upon the attention of
stranger and begin to talk about the
weather as though you owned it."
The old gentleman addressed him
self once more to his newspaper, and |
he young man thought it would be
cooler on top.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
A MUCH USED
q
WEDDING GIFT
Providence Journal.)


A Providence girl who has beer
married about six months had weddins
cards short time ago from an old
school friend who had given her a
wedding present, which of course, de.
tffanded one in return. Among her
wedding presents the Providence girl
had duplicates in the shape of two
silver card trays. and m a Spirit OF
economy she decided to give one Of
these to her friend. It was marked
with her own initials, but it would
only be matter of few minutes to
have them removed and the proper
monogram cut.
She took 1t to the jeweler and ex.
planned what was to be done. He
picked up the tray, looked at 1t closely
and smiled.
Madame, said he, 1T will be i'm
possible. I have already changed the
initials on this same tray five times,
and 1t has worn so thin that l cannot
do it again without cutting through
the bottom"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
ITALY'S NAVY
NEW BATTLESHIPS OF THE
DREADNAUGHT TYPE.
(London Chronicle.l

(London Chronicle.)
The Italian admiralty has drawn vi
bill asking for credit to the extern
of GS,0O0,OO0 for the construction o.
four new battleships, loosely described
as Dreadnaughts There Is good
reason, however, to believe that the
vessels about to be commenced will
be considerable advance on the Brit.
ish ship.
Their design is due to the famous
chief constructor of the Italian navy,
! Col. Cuniberti.
The calibre of the guns is believed
to be 1876 inches, the weight of the
shot fired from such guns being 1900
pounds, as compared with $50 pounds
of the Dreadnaught's weapons. The
The Italian vessel is to carry eight of
these guns, $50 arranged as to obtain
the fullest efficiency possible from
them"
The main armament will be ar
ranged in the same way as that of
the new British cruisers of the Infiex-
ible class. There will be four tur-
rets, one at each corner of rhombus,
two being on the center line of the
ship, and one on either broadside,
one near the fore and near the after
center line turret In this way It'll
is possible for all the guns to be
brought to bear on either broadside, |
and six ahead or astern.
The gun efficiency, with eight weap-
ons arranged In this way, is the same
as that obtained with ten mounted, as
In the Dreadnought, apart altogether
from the superior power of the 1851
nch weapon over the 12-fnch.
The speed OF the new ships is to be |
n excess of that of the latest Italian
now building, which is 20
tnots, and they are to- have a. com
'lete belt or nearly uniform thickness.
n each Of these respects they will
mark considerable improvement on
he Dreadnought, and they will cost
e25O,OOO more than that ship.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
WISE euLLs.

Gulls are especially fond of the Ions
clans, and many gulls spend theil
feeding time on the sand fats at low
tide getting the clans. The gull
takes the clam in it's bill, then flies high
up In the air, over rock, and drops
the clam so that the she'll will smash
upon the rock. The gull then de.
scends and enjoys the dainty. In
Winter a gull will drop olaf on an
Icy place, IL convenient, instead of a
rock. The gull seems wiser than his
name implies.--Hartsford courant.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
MatrImony.

A census taker made HIS rounds In
an isolated village. He gave one Of
his official papers to woman that
she might Ill in the required an.
swers. One Of the questions, instead
OF reading Married or single" had It
Condition as to marriage" The wo-
fan filled in the answer thus: Jaw
full hard up before. wuss after
Argonaut.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
The Compelling Cause.

Little Millie-Grandad, what makes
man always give a woman dlS
mond engagement ring?
Grandfather The woman.-Pick'
Me-Upt
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06

Most disfguring skin eruptionS'
scrofula. pimples, rashes, etc, are due
to impure blood. Burdock Blood Bit
tiers Is cleansing blood tonic. Makes
you cIearieyed.i clsarlbfaihsa, clear
skinned.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06

Itching piles provoke profanity, but
profanity won't cure them. Doan's
Ointment cures itching. bleeding or
protruding piles after years OF suffer
ing. At any drug store.