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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-17
Shsrp Retorts.

A man who was offering gratuitous information at a country fair was dis paraging the show of cattle.
 "Call these here prize cattleT he scornfuIly said. "why, they ain't noth- in to what our folks raised. You may not think 1t, but my father raised the biggest calf of any man round our parts"
 "I can very well believe it." ob- served a bystander, surveying him from head to foot
 It is not every one who enjoys joke at his own expense The judge who pointed with his cane and exclaimed. There is a great rogue at the end of my ezne.- was intensely enraged when the man looked hard at him and asked c0oI1y.
 aAt which end. your ho1OrT
 A friend of Currxnrs was brzxxinx of his att2ehment to the jury system and said:
 with trial by juT I have lived and by the bleSzinz of God with trial by jury I viii de-
 ~Oh.- said C1rTza ia uuch zEzze- nslt. then yU've made gp y0ar nEzd to be hzzged Dfcky Lozdoa Tt
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-17

nls point, ana presently he was behind the scenes shaking hands with bent and withered little man who nervously paced the stage while he waited for his daughter. Hart was introduced as an interviewer, and at his suggestion the party, including the manager, ad- journed to a restaurant, where they could chat in greater freedom.
 To his surprise, the girl (he now knew her to be Mona Munth) seemed to avoid talk of music, turning help lessly to her father as Hart repeatedly brought the conversation around to that topic. A girl who could play so beautifully should be able to talk well upon her beloved art.
 The supper was but the first of many. Hart could make himself very entertaining when he so wished, and the old man seemed to find in him a kindred spirit.
 The end of their engagement was drawing near before Hart found the courage to speak of his love. Mona grew white as he told her how her music had enslaved his heart, and Her man Munth, walking behind, hurried up as she turned gaspingly to call him. For a moment he listened; then he turned to Hart.
 'Is it that you love her or her mu- sic?" he demanded.
 Both" was the prompt response, "It was the music that first attracted me-"
 And without the muster
 "Without it?" Hart was puzzled.
 "we had to do it." explained the old man. T could not make much eeach. ing, and me, old and worn, they would not have on the concert stage. So conceived the idea that in vaudeville a beautiful girl would be accepted where I would be turned away. Very we'll It is who play. not Mona. She does but initiate my lowing. while I, behind q screen, make the music. You saw her practice-hOw to bow so they would not know. She is tone deaf. She cannot play a note"
 And to think" cried Hart as he reached out his hand for hers, ''that thought it was her music all the time Now know that it is she and not the musicg'
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-17
Fleet For Salvation Army.

A fleet of Salvation" Atlantic liners is a possibility of the near future, says a London cablegram to the New York American. The latest scheme of the Salvation Army is to carry emi- grants in its own vessels to Canada and other British colonies and so to develop still further it's emigration traffic, which has recently grown to very large dimensions. All that is wanted to start the new line of steam CTS is financial assistance. The ships would be manned entirely by Salva- tionists.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-17
TEST 0F CACTUS DIET
California Project to Prove the
 Plants Nutritiousness.
HARD WORK IS DONE ON IT.

Dr. L. E. Landone Thinks Eighteen
 Hours e Day Can 5s Put In With
 Proper Diet-ThornIess Variety Soon
 to Rs Common Article of Food, He
 Says, Like Banana, Celery, Etc.
 Cactus for breakfast, cactus and eel cry for lunch and cactus with a few nuts and little celery for dinner.
 To the uninitiated this diet appears uninviting er~ugh, but to Dr. Leon FL bert Landone of Los Angeles, Cal, who is determined to prove the nutritive properties of the cactus, the menu pre- sents no unpleasant aspect, says Los Angeles (Cal) special dispatch to the New York Times.
 Dr. Landone, a stenographer and a secretary recently began two weeks endurance test" on cactus. They have eaten nothing but the fruit and leaves of this plant with a little celery, let tuce and a few nuts. The leaves are eaten as greens or fried much in the same manner as eggplant, while. the fruit is eaten either raw or cooked.
 Dr. Landone declares the diet con- tains everything which is needed to enable a man to work eighteen hours a day. He disclaims being food fad dist and says he has no sympathy with those who declare that this or that kind of food should never be eaten. He frankly admits that he would not care to confne himself to cactus the rest of his days, but says that he has little doubt he would be no worse off were he compelled to do SO.
 "I am attempting to prove" he said, "that the body and brain can do more than the usual amount of work If enough of the organic salts are taken into the system. These foods prevent the destruction of the tissues and neu- traIize the fatigue poisons produced by activity.
 ~Take cactus, lettuce, celery, spinach and asparagus if you do not wish to become tired out by an ordinary days work. Meats, nuts, cereals, beans and peas help to repair wasted tissues and are of value as foods. but the scientific man and woman learns that the best way is to preserve the body as far as possible, so that as little repair as possible becomes necessary. It Is the simple application of the old axiom. An ounce of prevention Is worth q pound of cure'"
 Dr. Landone and his assistants ex- pect to have several others join them Dr. r. NJ. DOud- who Is interested with pr. Landone ia exploiting Professor Burhankis thornless cactus. purposes to 70 oa a strict dist of this plant eliminating even the celery. lettuce and nuts
 Dr. LaRdo1e took kis last ordinsry neal On a Friday ct nooa He worked aH afternoon and dfzed la the evening a cactus leaves and lsttucs and vo<k- ed ca till 2 oicSock the nsrt Saturday EazzzE- He vzs ID axzHn at ss<o szd
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-17
Harf's
 Genfus.
By COLIN s. COLLINS.
Copyright, 1907. by M. M. Cunningham.

Hart stirred uneasily as the tones floated out, now round and full, now the merest whisper of divine melody. No mere amateur it was who tenderly bowed the violin. Hart had heard the best of those who had come to America on tour, and he knew that this was the playing of master.
 Even as a child Morris Hart had been strangely moved by music, and now his soul thrilled as the almost l human notes pierced the air. For a time he could not locate the player, but at last he caught glimpse of a girl as lovely as the music she made.
 She stood at the window of squalld tenement that faced the building in which Hart had his office and, all un- conscious of the notice she attracted, played on and on. The same airs she played over and over again, but the trial balance waited while Hart drank in the melody. At last, with a sigh, she laid down the instrument and, carefully putting it away, busied her self with the preparation of her sim pie meal.
 II Hart turned again to the trial bal ance which the boollkeeper had laid upon his desk, but he could not banish from his thoughts the fair musician and the picture she made framed in the opening in the rough brick of the rear wall
 She was fair with the fairness of the north, but her eyes were the lustrous black of the Latins, and in her face was an odd mixture of the cold repres- sion of the north born with the pas sion of the sunnier south. Even in the poor dress she wore she did not lose her queenly stateliness of bearing, and the collarless, shabby waist betrayed the round fullness of the neck and the dazzling whiteness of her shoulders.
 For man who had hitherto account ed women things of little importance the girl of the violin occupied much of Hart's attention that afternoon, and in the evening she absorbed his thoughts to the exclusion of all else.
 Hart was early at his office in the morning. He had passed an almost sleepless night and had come to the office in the hope of finding forgetful ness of the girl in the absorption Of work. He gathered up the mail from the floor in front of the letter drop and mechanically busted himself in opening the envelopes.
 But scarcely had he begun when from across the yards came the sound of the violin. Today she stood slightly more in the shadow, and he could bare ly discern her face, though his memory needed no refreshing, and he could set her as plainly as he had the day be fore, when she had stood just in from of the window. Over and over agaiI she played the same airs. The head clerk came in for the mail, and liar waved him away. It was not until tht violin was put away and the girl sa at the window with some sewing tha Hart could give his attention to hi! affairs.
 Late in the afternoon the violin wal l taken up again. and once more Har
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-17

stopped work that he might drink in to the full the sweet strains that seem ed to gain an added beauty from their environment.
 For week or so Hart enjoyed the daily concert; then there came day when the windows were closed and the violin did not sound. In some way Hart worried through the day, but when evening fell, instead of going direct to his club, as was his custom, he hunted up the little house on the back street It was with difficulty that he located the apartment but at last he found the right one and made eager inquiry of the slatternly woman who announced herself as the jani- tress.
 They were gone, she told him, the little old professor and his daughter. She did not know where they had gone. They were annoying the other tenants with their everlasting playing and had been asked to move on that account.
 Great heavensw gasped Hart. "You would probably turn out Paderewski himself"
 we don't take thim Hungarians," explained the janitress. ''The little Dutch professor was bad enough. Divil another wan av thim comes in here" couraged. Now that the girl was gone he felt that he had let pass out of his life the one woman who would have made him happy. All the evening he moped at the club, and in the days to come the employees at the office asked each other anxiously if the depression in stocks had impaired the capital of the business. Only business worries could account to them for Hart's irri- tability.
 Then came a night when one of his associates at the club insisted upon carrying him off to vaudeville house.
 There's musical act on that you will like. You can't afford to miss it," he urged, and Hart went for com pany's sake, though he detested the musical offerings of vaudeville.
 The seats were easy, smoking was permitted, and Hart found himself comfortably bored until the next to the last number was announced.
 '"This is great; something new" ex- plained his companion, and Hart re- garded curiously the black void of the stage.
 Nothing could be seen save the black curtains with which the stage was hung. The music was playing weird ly fantastic introduction. A flash of binding light ran across the front of the stage, sending to the flies cloud of smoke, which cleared to disclose woman garbed in white.
 Hart started forward in his seat, then fell back again. It was the girl of across the way. Now changing robe of white fell in graceful folds from her shoulders, and her masses of golden hair were left unbound. She looked out at the audience with inscru- table eyes and raised the violin to her chin.
 She played the same selections that he had heard in his office, and when at last the curtain fell and whir an nounced the commencement of the mo- tion pictures Hart sought out the man. ager, whom he knew slightly.
 No mashing there," declared the manager, with laugh, when Hart begged for an introduction. Her fa- ther is with her all the time."
 q want to meet them both" explain ed Hart. "The playing is wonderful. ! have never heard the like"
 Something in his earnestness carried
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-17
A Freak Stamp,

A Kansas City stamp collector re' gently came into a rare freak in. the stamp line, says the Kansas City Star.
 It is an albino two cent envelope of the present issue and was mailed to Kansas City from Los Angeles, Cal. An albino envelope is one on which the stamp is embossed without ink and it is very seldom that one of them gets past the factory inspector.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-17
A Morkinu MaioritY.

~You can fool all of the people som of the time and some of the peopl all of the time. But7-
 ~why go further" interrupted Sena tor Snifkins. The two classes yoi have named constitute a safe vorkini najoriu.--Philadelphia Bulletin
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-17
Tennis Champion to B. Flower Queen

Miss May Sutton, the popular tennii champion, has been unanimously chosen queen of the tournament of roses to be held in Pasadena, Cal, ou
 the coming New Years day, says thd Los Angeles Examiner. Miss Sutton has accepted the honor. and in thd course of 6 few days she will select \ dozen charming young girls to be he'd maids of honor.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-17
The ps.ps Are Dumb.

The greatest golfers seldom taIl sbo1t their golf any more than th greatest cricketers talk about ~tsS1 cricket It s the e1thusissti4 vho ezjoys convsrzing ah nuas-I1udca Truth
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-08-16
GIRLS SCULLTNG CLUB.
Origin of DR.. FurniUalPs Famous
f"Efckt- Hrs. Grandy Costume.

/ Dr = ! Ftgrnivau Of England. is eigfty-rwo
years Of age and noted ShakespeaT1an schoidI
BUT ~ any one should deduce from these facts that
ne IS dry as dust she would be vastly ms
kaken Or F1lrnirall enthusiastic oaTsnlan,
tr7d no SUNDAY in winter is TOO cold. no weather
koc bad TO keep him from sculling up the lhafnes
hrcm Hammersmith To Richmond and back. ne
doctor's heart. moreover. seems not only 10 De
cTounE but fun of the milk Of human kindness
As well and If he Is fond OF scholarly seclusioh
Ht Is only in moderation. When he makes his
aran I'D the Thames on Sunday afternoons he does
mot 20 alone. Unless the weather is so bad as
20 keep every but him away the members OF
she Furnvan Scullng Club for Girls go with him
( About eleven years ago Or. FuTnivaH came 10
Hhe conclusion that n il good for him 10 get
bout on the river 1t would be equally good, If not
fhetler. for working girls who had no opportunity
Iso get exercise and air in the week So he c.
tkaEized the F1rnival scullng Club for Girls. and
E7as ever since deToted much time and enthusiasm
ITO fits training He claims To have trained the
kfrst girls sc,'IiIng eight in world. while
erowng eights enough sculling is not
Eopving Nor is a sculi an oar The doctor"
las the girls cell him. is very keen on scullng IS
opposed rowing. for sculling develops both sides
fnf the body evenly The exercise and the pleasure
ffhat goes with which the girls probably need
s much as they do the exercise are certainly very
beneficial. Girls who into the club pale and
fsnarnic soon begin 10 put on flesh and TO get a
rolor.
The club is a pleasure one entirely ard the boat
ting. with the annual regatta in June is only part
tafammeTsmith. and there many opportunities
FOR teas and social intercourse. The boats accom-
.1nodste over hundred The fleet includes a
couple Of haf-rigged double scullers with sliding
seats. the gift Of George Bernard Shaw.
AS the girls cannot manoeuvre the boats entirely
lelone a contingent of men from the Workingmen 5
.Coliege has drafted into service, and doubt
81 helps 20 add 70 the interest Of the club man
railways acts as cozswain. and new girl is never
put into a boat with other girls hut makes the
Fourth with three men. They put her through her
PAGES quickly than girls would, II is said.
Miss Kate A Lock, the stroke Of the scullng
eight. writes THE Sketch that after sculng
with her and scung with she has
no hesitation in saying that the boat always seems
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-08-16
HERRESHOFF'S ESCAPE.
Nearly Beaten IN Ek1canOk Tourney
-I'rauers az Easy Winner.
rBy Telegraph TO The Tribune. ]

Manchester. VI. Aug. 15-The days play in the
tournament for the first Presidents cup here on
the Ekwanok links replete with brilliant golf
and close matches. although only of the crack
golfers obliged to extend himself hold his
place That one was Fred HerreshOn. OF Garden
city. who escaped defeat at the hands OF James L.
Taylor of Dyker Meadow. by hairs breadth.
Going out. the Brooklyn man took advantage of
every mistake made by his opponent and with the
aid OF q . the sixth hole. where he hoed out
a 50-yard Isashie shot. up at the turn.
Herreshoff then redoubled his efforts square the
match. He negotiated dead StymIe on the
eleventh green. but the hole was lost on the
succeeding green by a short approach put. After
halving the three holes Taylor seized with
very poor putting streak which cost him the six
tenth and seventeenth holes.
The pair started for the nome tee terms.
The Brooklyn golfer. however, spoiled his chance
by driving into the sand trap going to the eigh-
tenth. giving Herrsshoff the hole and match by
up The Garden City man had a medal OF
40-Ss-7s, while his opponent recorded SS-4i-79
Jerome Il. Travers had but little opposition I'm his
march to the final lie disposed OF r. p. worraIl
of Nassau this morning. by up and TO play and
of L. w. Clark. Sd. this afternoon by up and
TO play. John NJ. Ward. or Fox Hills, got away
with both of his matches in easy style and will
meet Merrill X. Waters who is at his best i'm the
morning. G West Taintor. of Richmond County
who qualified in third place yesterday surprised
close followers OF the game by succumbing to c. :
Erswell. of Portland. by up and play. The
results of tho first and second rounds at match play
follow.
First First thir'Y,tro {nrst round; match p,ayl-C
up and to PLAY; J NJ Ward Fox Huls beat walter
Island Golf club heat + Snare. E.ngIewocd & p and
to play: NJ X. Waters. Midland. heat q Durham.
nyker Meadow, up and play; l. TnyI0r pVksr
Meadow. beat II. S HubbeII Nassau. up and to
play; p Herreshon. Garden city. beat r. Tpton N
Balt9srol up and - play; g West Taintor. F,ich
s. Erswe. Portland beat 4 J. Mcclure Albany. q
and to play; +. q Robertson Dyser Meadow.
beat W. r. Smith,, Toronto. . up: F. T. Clark beat J.
c. Patterson Hills. w and 10 play: j. D. Tray
ers Montclar. beat r. T. WOrraIi. Nassau. sp and
play: r. w. Clark. 81. beat n. woodfn Rutland
up play: II. c. Fownes. Oakmont beat IT. u
shue. rittsburg. up Ca holesl; G. b. Fownes Oakmout
New Haven beat Anthony Deal up a s h5@P
J. &. Jones u. r. I
Second -. NJ =. t-ro,k fr
up and play: NJ. X. Waters II. FIartweI
I'M and 70 play: Frederick James L,
Taylor. I IN: c. s. ErsweI heat c. West Tantor. up
and play. F. c. Robertson beat +. T. Clark. S up
and TO play: Jerome D. Travers beat F. W CLARK. 3D.
r play: H. @. b Fioxvns
up end play; George Borup beat jay S Jones.
up.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-08-16
STEAL STORE AND HOUSE.
Small Boy Bandits Make Big Hauls
Police 1Yrest Then.

Small boys busy yesterday trying to find
something while away the vacation afternoons.
and as result four OF them prisoners. two for
having carried away the stock of a confectionery
store and the others for trying steal whole
house.
When Mrs Anna Weiss. who keeps a candy store
at No $50 Washington street returned from a
shopping expedition she found that her stock in
trade had been removed during her absence. De
tectIve Harrison. of the Leonard street station.
who investigated the case. noticed that Belle
Stevens eight years old. of No. 4Oi Greenwich
with the genius of "A Sherlock Holmes, he made
her confess 1t had been given 10 her by her
steady company" Eddie Lynch. who lives In the
same house Eddie arrested also
James Sullivan, thirteen years old, of No. 30 Beach
street They later confessed
David l.. Van Nostraud, former County Clerk Of
Queens recently bought house at Rockaway
Road and Bates avenue. and furnished II. When
hs went down there tho other day he found that
the furniture had been removed. and he notified
the police He went down to look at tho house
Yesterday afternoon. and found 10 his surprise
that thieves had started to demolish the house.
While he looked no Victor Boscher. eleven
years old, of No So Pulaski street, and Joseph
Bakowski, twelve years Old of No. % Pulaski
street making off with a load OF boards lie held
them until the arrival of Detective Prendegast
who took them to ths Jamaica police station
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-08-16

First Prisoner to Escape arrested
and SCOTS at Stronghold.

Frank SNYDER the first prisoner to escape from
the new Tombs prison, was arrested yesterday a'
tTe corner of 9Th and Lewis streets by Patroiffah
Thomas MuIligan of the Union Market ponce sta
.fon SNYDER has been at large three weeks ne
worked at odd jobs. and seeking another posi-
tion when the patrolnan recognized him.
IT am willing go back. because m urea OF
hiding" SNYDER said Il was never arrested De-
fore and expected to be paroled the day AFTER
escaned I'm sorry / didn't wait, but just coudn l.
The Tombs is easy. 1 could do ii again want 10
DENY the stories about the guards helping me.
Going into detail about his escape, Snyder sald'
lyon see there's always lots of rope lying ABOUT
inside the prison and the prison yard. got piece
and went to the wall the Franklin street size
and got I'D 20 the iron and tin roof of the stairs
near the Bridge OF Signs. Then tied tho rope 10
the iron fence and slid down. And talk about holse
The guards are never awake there why, made
noise enough 10 awaken dozen dead ones 1t was
about O'Clock a night when slid into the street
That was an easy getaway for me. 1t would De
cream in the for old timer
Magistrate Walsh ordered Snyder recommtted to
the Tornbs TO finish his sentence. He is twenty
FIVE years old and lives at No 623 East 18th street
He was sent the island for six months for disor
derby conduct end transferred to the Tonbs TO
work He 'trusty," and had access to the
prison yard.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-08-16
CAPTAIN ASKED EMBALMERS FEE.

Captain F. Won Letten-P Petersen OF the North
German Lloyd liner Prinzesse Irene, In yester-
day from Naples. greatly annoyed over
report that several passengers had accused him
of demanding of them S425 for embalmlng the
body of Miss Mary Shoyer. a school teacher of
Chicago, who died on the passage from the
Mediterranean
The young woman was alone on the steamer,
and when she died n number OF passengers who
had made her acquaintance asked that the body
be brought port. The captain declared that
il would cost $500, the customary price for such
work This is all he asked for, and IL was
freely given.
subscription was made up among the pas
sengers and the embalming was done promptly
without further question. The ships surgeon
received 500 and the remainder was paid for
the metallic box in Which the body WIFI be sent
70 Chicago
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-08-16
NOT CENTRAL'S FAULT.
Nezc Haven Road Is Delaying
Terminal and Electrifcation.

The many complaints to the New York Central
officials the delay in the installation of electric
trains reveal the fact that it has been caused by
the New York. New Haven & Hartford road which
hopes obtain better terms in its share OF the cost
OF the station and of the roads identification
Since the agreement between the two roads was
made. It is said. the Pennsylvania has offered the
New Haven road the of its big terminal and
tubes. So the latter is proceeding slowly with the
eleCtrfcation OF its tracks in anticipation of pos
sible change in plans. which includes station OF
its
In consequence the steam from the New Haven
locomotives obscures the track signals. that II
is safe adopt the and shorter block
automatic system. II also makes it impossible TO
increase the speed OF the trains An obstacle to the
completion OF the terminal yard is the New Haven $
roundhouse whose presence prevents the excava-
ton to the lower track levels.