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The Washington herald., 1907-12-29

The Hughes boom is growing. Even
this early in the game. An upstate paper
in New York has referred 10 him as "a
fake refOrmer"
The Washington herald., 1907-12-29

There is a newspaper at Eliza. Ala.
named the Clipper; but it's a very good
paper, and isn't edited by Messrs. Paste
pot and Scissors entirely.
The Washington herald., 1907-12-29

A Berlin artist Is 10 marry a widow
worth 100000" says the Baltimore Sun
Now, If the Houston Posts red headed.
dimpled darlings" can show figures ike
that we'll
The Washington herald., 1907-12-29

Fishermen near Dorset, England.
caught a skate weighing 30 pounds. saws
the Cincinnati Times-Star. He should
have been promptly turned over to the
police.
The Washington herald., 1907-12-29

Thomas w Lawson says everybody
shall have a say in the new political
party 1 propose TO form" The prospect
Of Lawson lineup wherein somebody
else gets a chance to talk is a novelty.
anyhow
The Washington herald., 1907-12-29

Financial scare is over" says the New
York Evening Telegram. On the con-
trary II Is only three days ahead
The Washington herald., 1907-12-29
Uncle Taft's BoOmIet.

Act J.
The Taft boom chased by bloodhounds.
Act IT.
The Taft boom crossing the ice.
Act III
The Taft boom IN imminent peril
Act "
Roosevelt 10 the rescue. stand back"
The Washington herald., 1907-12-29

This debate as to who discovered John
a. Johnson" is easily settled. John A.
Johnson discovered himself
The Washington herald., 1907-12-29
Thnfs Fnonrh-

New York is the place TO make
money"
Are all New Workers. rich2"
NO; but they're all easy. That's the
answer
The Washington herald., 1907-12-29

Certainly the weather man has been
trying 10 wind it up in a blaze OF glory.
anyhow
The Washington herald., 1907-12-29
Nonr Apnarrnt.

What IS breakfast worth to-day2"
'Umphsteen cents per cubic inch"
Huh, Where is all this alleged shrink
age in values2"
The Washington herald., 1907-12-29

Cheer up! Think Of the pay days to
come between this and next Christmasl
The Washington herald., 1907-12-29

county alone would make him impregna-
bic in the entire district
Fred. as he is known TO his constitu-
ents. young and old. is a biz stouter now
adays than ne has been In the past, and
his former rugged look Is giving way 20
an appearance Of fulsome prosperity. His
excellent health is largely due to the har-
dening he received as a private n the
Second Maryland Cavalry. in vi,ich he
served the South CALAMITY throughout the
civil war
z He has aspirations 10 the Senatorial
togd, and recently made a campaign for
the Senate before the Democratic pri-
maries, but was defeated BY ex-GOv.
Smith
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-03-10
ByH. c. Williams

-OMETS always have been objects
OF terror in the popular mind.
Their sudden appearance, their
Naming appendages. or tails. their
erratic and rapid movements have all
raised the question, "whot would hap
pen were one 10 strike the earth?"
The statement given through the
chette's comet, on the authority OF
Professor Alatteucci OF the vesuvius
observatory. would encounter the earth
some time IN March and might cause
a tremendous catastrophe was prob
ably the practical Joke Of some italian
news reporter, as the professor himself
has denied &C. II caused, however, the
usual excitement and alarm. and to us
IN san Francisco. who have not yet
recovered from the nervous shock due
70 the catastrophe OF last April there
came a vision OF a new vial OF wrath
and a feeling that In the popular slang
Is known as "leary."
II is very certain that the earth has
several times passed through the tail
OF q comet, but there was nothing do
ing" and only the mathematicians were
aware Of the event. The telespectro-
scope, together with mathematical anal
ysis, has disclosed considerable about
them, and II is now known that they
contain so little mass or weight that at
the very worst only brilliant meteoric
display would happen We're the earth
20 encounter one Of them. With many
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not even this would occur and people
would observe nothing out OF the or
binary.
IT is now generally believed by as
tronomers that comets are generated or
thrown out by the sun. Many appear
from the depths OF space as If gen
Grated from some star which really IL
a sun 20 some distant planetary sys-
TEN. Their trajectory OF motion some
times varies little from a straight line.
and their velocity is often many times
greater than the suns power Of gravi-
tation alone could produce. The comet
of 1843 was first observed at a great
distance from the sun. and IL was
headed directly for it. and astronomers
thought 1t would certainly fall into IL.
1t approached with the highest veioc-
ity ever observed OF q body in the solar
system, OF $50 miles a second, and ac-
tually grRzed the solar upper atmos-
phere. 1t described 2s2 degrees OF its
vast orbit. when near the sun. IN a lit
tie more than twelve hours, and then
seemed TO be hurled away from II with
the same amazing velocity It had ap-
preached Its tail was twenty millions
of miles long. pointed opposite to the
sun hothincoming and outgoing (which
is true OF all comets) and its extremity
swept over the vast circle of 2e2 de-
grees with an apparent velocity of
$500 miles second--a velocity OF
translation OF material substance en-
tirely uncomfortable and only 20 be ex-
planned by assuming that these ap-
pendages OF comets are eiectro-mag-
netic discharges upon the efher-a con-
clusion which the phenomena OF the
spark gap" in wireless telegraphy
renders probable, for IL seems that
sufficiently powerful and rapid electric
discharges have capacity to overcome
the inertia OF this strange fluid and
render IL visible in the smallest OF all
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ity of mutual repulsion. like the X
ray. Often the tails OF comets are
seen to corruscate like an aurora,
where the corruscation seems to begin
at the head and to flash along through
the millions of miles of tail in couple
of seconds. So 1t is quite possible that
these bodies, instead of being In
state OF high incandescence. are COM
paratively cool. even cold--for the ac-
tivity of radlum is actually increased
at a temperature close to 46s below
the zero of Fahrenheit.
The real solar comets. which have a
regular period OF revolution around the
sun. are seen slowly to disintegrate
after a few revolutions, and the me-
teoric matter becomes strewn along its
orbit Several of our periodic meteor
showers are thought to be from such
wreckage. and the examination or the
meteoric matter discloses large guam
titles of gases. usually hydrogen I'M
prisoned within the metallic matter as
IL it had been put there under great
pressure. and this is one of the condi-
tions that have led up to solar origin
both OF comets and meteors-
Therefore It is known that comets
are veritable ghosts. Their gauzy brill
liancy may terrify by their fiery sug-
gestions. but 1t is nre one could
walk through and not know 1t, for a
man would be more hurt II hit by a
handful of feathers than he would
by the tail OF the largest comet The
atmosphere affords protection even
against the heavier meteors. for they
strike IT with such amazing velocity
that our apparently filmy air becomes
rigid as steel, and either burns the
meteors UP by the heat of friction or
smashes them into harmless dust, and
a meteor shower is the very worst that
the most vicious comet can do to tho
earth and its living FORMS
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assumed particles-tle electron.
But there is other evidence that the
tails and even the nuclei. or bodies, OF
comets are Of the most fiimsy and
ethereal structure. The writer, while
viewing Rordame's comet in 1903. with
an eight and a half inch telescope.
saw star of the eighth magnitude
through the entire body of the tall
about $4,000 miles in diameter-appar-
entity undimmed. AS the sixth magni-
tude Is the smallest that can be seen
with the sharpest naked eye vision.
this little blinker would have been
obscured by a hatful of cloud vapor.
and therefore the comets tail was
nothing at all in the form of real mat
ter with whick we are acquainted.
stars have been seen through the cen
trail body, or nucleus, which, IL COM
posed OF solid particles, must have
been so loosely arranged as to be less
than the most gauzy dust cloud.
The mass. or weight. of the densest
comets is so trivial that they produce
no Improbable effect upon the bodies
Of the solar system near which they
have passed. The comet of 1870 ira
versed the system of Jupiter's moons
without causing the slightest perturba-
ton to these comparatively small
bodies, and the same comet passed very
close TO the earth with an altogether
insensible effect.
But while some comets seem COM
posed OF small meteorio particles in a
condition of loose diffusion, others are
entirely gaseous, OF which a hydro
carbon similar to marsh gas IS the
principal constituent The spectroscope
,discloses lines usually visible in the
aurora borealis. the solar corona. and
some nebula- Matter IN this form
seems 10 be radioactive. like radsum.
and to be endowed with a strong quail
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me REIR SECTION

transpianted antiquity. It's incom-
pleteness and it's emptiness bring up
thoughts of ruin and desolation and
pillage and fire and earthquake,
though none of these have anything to
do with II.
The windows and doors have been
removed, the knotted ends OF the win
dow cords dangling idly from tho
easements The interior is open to the
vulgar gaze. There is none who may
not see the cruel decorations. tho
splintered laths. the crumbling plaster.
the torn paper that gave way before
the saws edge.
Week day seclusion is no longer
known. The great nave no longer
echoes to the lightest football of the
sections tread The wind whistles
through unchecked. the noises of the
thoroughfare are the portion OF st.
Paurs
The passerby laughs scornfully at
its discontinue. It's old age is no
protection from insult. Transfers
turn aside where IL blocks the way
with no indefinite tones of disapproval.
When day closes and the calm Of
night settles down upon IL the moon
comes out and lights up all its misery.
But better. that than the drenching
rains that assailed its unprotected
ness in the early stages of the jour
ney. And the snow one night and
the hail and the high winds that
threatened 1t with complete demoli-
ton. But no doubt ST Paufs has
learned long since to count it's bless
ings. 1t has been literally stepped
with religious discourse. For thirty
FIVE years St Paul's has never failed
to attend services.
Nevertheless. in times OF affiiction
there is comfort in unity The church
should stand for unity And yet st.
Pauls, held In the strong clutch of cir
cumsfances is all against il
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sions were made And TIE wounds are
still gaping wounds even now. two
months and a half afterward-
ST. Paurs is a caurch OF parts The
first part reached the place where
Twenty second street meets Lake Mer-
rift. and ii stopped there TO wait for
tho other parts TO catch up: part two
arrived at the junction OF Twentieth
street with the lake, when IL became
necessary for the moving squad TO di-
vert its attention TO the affairs OF the
third part: the latter. gaining with
quite unseenly rapidity on its brethren
the excuse was a week of fair
weather-was brought to a stand until
they gave place before it,
II a stranger stops you and asks.
Where is ST. PauIs?" YOU say to him
(which piece, sir?' II ne does not
understand. you explain TO him St
Paurs present most distressing cut-up
state. Then IL he says. musing on the
three parts. "Assuredly. ST Psul's
should be called Trinity" you say Yea.
verify. for the three parts could not be
assumed TO stand for the world. the
flesh and the devil But IL the rever-
end rector OF ST. Paurs is standing by
he viii say. Not SO. but for the high.
the lew, and the broad terms OF some
significance in the ears Of the Church
OF England churchman.
At any rate. St Paul's is divided
against itself. it's very self torn asun-
der and its congregation forsaking it,
Presumably II were better wisdom 70
forsake IL even ia it's great adversely.
Service Sunday mornings at the church
would have it's distractions its incon-
Veniences, its unsatisfactory features.
doubtless The choristers would start
serenely up the diverging stairways TO
the nave above singing their nrocee
sional, and ali would go well until the
unpleasant hiatus that would come in
their singing as well as their progress
from the front part 20 the middle and
from the middle to the rear There
could but be dif6culties-one might AL
most say insurmountable difficulties
The church is literally in q disman-
tied condition. Its front elevation was
formerly garmented in a becoming
dress OF green ivy whose tendrfls had
mounted even 10 the clere story. II
was easy TO forget how plain the big
building was I'm contemplation of its
artistic covering
But now st. Paul's is barred to the
world. The marks Of the ivy are still
there, but none Of the greenness A
strayed brown twig has chung TO a
door knob. A branch of ivy geranium
hanging to the rear wall of the church
half way 10 the top. planted against
1T by some sexton many years ago.
'keeps green in spite of everything and
will not let go.
There is picturesqueness about this
ungainly building in fits fragmental con-
dition. With the gums in the fore
ground and the lake, the green earth
and beautiful homes in the back
ground. there is something decidedly
enchanting about so huge a piece OF
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-03-10
By Ida L. Brooks

III n antique and venerable frame
structure IN the city OF Oakland,
known as St Paui's Church. is
making a pilgrimage. It Is do
ing this in the face OF precedent and
convention and regardless OF old age
and the rigors OF an unusual Califor-
MIA winter.
Big St Paul's is nearly fifty years OF
age. mighty active for it's years. and
as good a traveller as ever. For it must
be known that this is not the only Jour
ney the church has ever taken. In the
first place II wasn't a church; It was
one OF q group OF buildings known as
Brayton Hall. or California College.
Those were the days OF its unregen-
eracy. When St Pauls was organized
ss an Episcopal parish IN the early '7o's
the building took orders. as IL were.
entered the ministry, accepted the faith.
Incidentally. IL was moved TO the south
west corner OF Twelfth and Webster
streets, where Il was allowed to remain
until June. 1880. Business had come
closer and closer. st. Pauls pulled up
sts stakes. took another trip, this time
two blocks east and one north, and
drove them-the stakes-in again on
Harrison street. opposite Fourteenth.
Within the last few years ST. Paul's
has given promise Of becoming a land
mark. But more recently IL has de-
veloped that becoming a landmark has
been no part OF its scheme Of things.
st. Paul's prefers travel Any building
can be landmark, just as any girl can
be an old maid, II she prefers that sort
OF thing.
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Part one, having stood for so long 9
time-a month, almost-by the lake.
and having shown a decided leaning
toward 1t, limited at seeking watery
grave. But the balm OF death was not
to be it's need. Just in the nick of time
the movers. the horses, capstans, bars.
chains, pins and all the rest Of the NOV
ing paraphernalia hove in sight and the
last stage of the journey began
The distance from the site on Harrf-
son street to the new site at the corner
of Webster street and Grand avenue is
approximately three quarters of mile.
Three-quarters of a mile in. let US say.
three months, giving the movers the
benefit of the doubt; 1920 feet In a
month, a. feet day. Think OF travel
ing three months and covering three
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On the other hand, st. PauTs was
really evicted, turned out on the street.
left TO shift for itself. hotel was des-
tined TO take its place. IL is in the van
3n the exodus OF downtown churches
that now threatens with the increase of
business IN Oakland and the rearrange-
ment OF residence and business districts.
But their affairs are another story.
Their woes win be treated OF by an
other historian.
The picture OF churchly unrest and
misery that cOnfronts US today Is st.
Paul's trekking decrepitly UP the way
that leads 10 the end Of its journey
the end, OF course, being merely hypo-
theticai as yet. Only for its wooden
insusceptibility St Paurs would have
succumbed long before the present
stage OF the journey
Perhaps the most painful part OF the
whole affair was the capital operation
10 which the poor church had TO sub
NIT before it could even so much as be
Jed off tho land. IL was too large TO be
moved as q whole. Two hideous inci-
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the rollers, releasing the last one 20
slowly as to be almost unobserved and
moving on to the one IN front in like
fashion. Although hurry up" Is the
motto OF the century, possibly It would
be a little unseerly for st. PauFs 10
have gone sprintfng up the street with
the velocity OF an electric car. Per-
haps even today public opinion would
be against innovation IN such a case
So Tom. the veteran house-movinB
horse, and his companions conttnue to
step carefully across the ropes and
wind them inch by inch around the
capstans, turning them by means or
the capstan bars TO which they are
harnessed And idlers along the way
watch the shade trees strusging with
the sections Of the big building So
they pass and losing leaves. perchanees
in the struggle. For each section ~
80 large that it reaches from gutter
to gutter. thus completely blocking
the way.
None OF the residents past whose
homes the church has been vending
have evinced any pleasure at the ar
rival Of the ecclesiastical visitor. But
one in particular has risen in his wrath
upon the approach OF each section and
into the innocent ears OF the workmen
thrice he has peited his epithets. He
Is a man without poiSe. without self
repression. without patience and resig-
nation. These are virtues that the
church teaches. Here was the church
coming to his very door and he would
not accept it's teachings
Fortunately for the moving. long
blocks and other considerations have
necessitated the cutting OF but few
wires The crossing of the one car line
on the route has been observed by
night providers alone. For buildings
are permitted to cross car tracks only
after the owl cars have been run into
their barns for the night. So, after
2 o'clock In the morning, the crossing
has been effected
When ST Pauls gets settled on its
new brick foundation facing Grand
avenue and the carpenters stitches are
taken that viii make of part I and
part > and part 3 a unity once more.
the whole is TO be clothed In shingles
10 initiate the modern architectural
idea. and the old church will look chip
per and youthful again
The real significance of this uprOot-
ing and transplanting of St Pauls is
that the church has gone TO its people.
The usual idea Is that people go
10 the church. However. the church
must seek a location convenient to
the residences Of its members. 1t must
go halfway, 80 to speak. And St.
Paul's parishioners are scattered from
the water front TO the Piedmont hills.
If the expectations of the vestry are
realized there will have been COM
pleted within the next three years
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N n antique and venerable frame
structure IN the city OF Oakland,
known as st. Pauis Church. is
making q nilrrinape- IL o. Do
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-23
THE DERWIN CONCERT.
We'll Known Music Teacher Assisted By Others at Leavenworth Hall.

| DS otliSTs dt IICdNcuWOTtiI I1dH. | A large assembly gathered last ev- ening to greet Prof J. Derwin and l the HotchkiSS Musical associations at Leavenworth hall.
 It is only short time ago that Prof Derwin disbanded most of his classes in this city to give his time and ability to the pupils of Hotch- kiss and Taft schools The concert I of last evening was the first rendered since he assumed his new duties, and | it was more pleasing than any other that has been given under the direc- tion of MT Derwin in long time. | Many fine selections were render ed by the banjo and mandolin clubs and also by the Hotchkiss Glee club the singers of which made a decid- 1 ed hit. A special feature of the pro gram was Professor Derwin's l manipulation of the banjo and of these instruments and his selec- tions were so well rendered that he | was obliged to respond to encores. Miss Anna Byrne, most capable | pianist as well as mandolinist of more than ordinary ability. accom- panied Prof Derwin on the piano.
 The program was as follows: La Marseillaise" .... .... ....
 Glee Club.
 Cherry" .... .... ...... Albert Mandolin Club.
 At Colored Tea Party .... Enc
 Banjo Club. | ssRncEiu' in NNin't' NciI lin
 Glee Club.
 Mandolin solos:
 (a) "Reverie" .... .... Derwin (b) "The Charge of the Ma rines" .... ...... Derwin J. J. Derwin. .... .... The Colored Guards" ...... Weidt
 Banjo Club.
 "The Owl and the Pussy Cat.
 Glee Club.
 "Iternelle Ivresse" arr by Austin
 Mandolin Club.
 Banjo solos:
 (a) 'Massa's in the Cold, Cold Ground (fantasia) ....
 ......... Foster-Derwir (b) The Crazy Darkey' (hu-
 morous) ....... Derwir MT Derwin. Fair Hotchkiss' .. w. l.. Dix, '9t Glee Club.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-23
GREATNESS
 IN PRICE ONLY. EXCELLENCE IN QUALITY SURE.

The above is what will happen when you purchase tea, coffee, cocoa or butter at our store. Both quality and price are here for everyone, in fact, we are always pleased to know our patrons are pleased. Now, If your tea or coffee is not giving you the very best of satisfaction we want you to try the quality we sell--Just one trial. You know it's good, in fact, lucky sometimes to make change in your place of buying. NOW If you have never purchased at our store who knows but it would be one of the most agreeable surprises you have ever had in all your life. We've had lots of people tell us so and we expect others to admit the same thing. We've just received one more lot of those clothes racks which we give with one pound of our warrant ed good Baking Powder. 45 cents per pound, and if you want we'll made meat roaster you can have one when you purchase a pound of our nice tasting tea, 50 cents per pound. This week we give splendid one quart flour sitter with pound of our nice fresh first quality coffee at
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-23
James Moriarty of South Norwalk, father of Dr Moriarty, is visiting in

James Moriarty of South Norwalk father of Dr Moriarty, is visiting in town.
 Charles Belfit of the Charles Thatcher Co is seriously i'll at his home on Arch street.
 The Waterbury girls attending the Willimantic normal school are home for the Easter yaaction, as the school closed yesterday.
 James Cassidy, who formerly lived on East Main street, but who has been residing in South Norwalk the past four years, has taken up resi- dence on North street. MT Cassid! is still in the insurance business.
 John O'Dell, who had at one time fondness of getting into mix-ups with the police and who even now pays an occasional visit to the sta tion, was brought in this afternoon by Officer Stevens. John was charged with drunkenness, but after Terry Lynch had placed him in one of the cells the prisoner loudly proclaimed that he was not at all harmful ant there was no reason why he should have been arrested.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-23

Here's to the who won't 50 to church - On account of the looks of his clothes We overcome that with suit and hat q And furnishinrs down to his toes
 "Our store poet"