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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-03
TIMELY TOPICS.

Holczer is offering some tempting shoe bargains at prices that are with in the reach of everyone.
 J.B. Mullings & Son says their line of summer clothing is the best they have shown yet.
 The Spearo Clothing Co have the newest designs in men's and women's spring and summer clothing.
 Jones, Morgan & Co have the kind of clothes that you will like to be seen in, $10 to $40.
 Wednesday bargains in four and groceries at the Public market. Shoul- der steak at 10c a pound.
 Miller & Peck have nice line of white goods for graduation dresses, at low prices.
 Reid & Hughes will have a sale for the rest of this week on household necessities of all kinds.
 June sale of mems and boys OK lords at Connecticut Boot and Shoe store. Prices from s1.2O up.
 Low prices on millinery at Freed mans bargain store on the latest styles in hats.
 Everything in furniture, carpets, ranges and all household goods at the Boston Furniture companys.
 Buy piano from the makers. the Hallet & Davis company in Bucking- ham building. Bank and Grand streets.
 Bring your grocery order to the Model market this week if you want to save money.
 Grieve. Bisset & Holland will have a final clearance sale on ladies' spring garments commencing to-mor- row.
 NO more trouble with corns if you use Nugent's pharmacy dead sure corn cure. 15c and 25c.
 Mailhiot is having a 2Ic sale. Read over the list of goods offered at that price.
 The Arnold Print works goods are going fast at Currans. Wash fabrics of every kind among them.
 You can be we'll dressed and make your payments when you can if you trade at Union Clothing Co.'S.
 Special price on -four al the Hub Grocery company's. the store that gives gold and green stamps.
 June mornings and evenings will feel better if you have Browns charcoal h the house.
 Quality straw hats al C. r. Will sons They have them in all prices from tt up.
 The Fulton fish market sells soft crabs al soc dozen. lobster 1se a pound.
 Fenner has . big line of oil stoves st prices from sSe up
 ]. c. Jackie < Sons are selling uomen's ss shoes al s7.Is. Rad elife and La France
 Gsseiy 4 Brennan wfIl give suit czs. worth s4 or t5 to anyone pur- chasing SIG worth. Easy terms
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-03
FREES ONE MAN.
Ex-Governor Waller Makes Plea for
 More Mercy.

Despite an eloquent plea made hy ex-Governor Thomas N. Walle' be- fore the board pa.l yesterday for Dwight F. STee-e. who has been in prison since 1876. the board alter d long hearing yesterday granted TO paroles. Representative NoOne called as witnesses Rev W. F. Davis Of Man chester. L. T. Tingier. clerk Of the su- perior court for Holland county. Pete- C. Berard. James Cocks and Michael Seofield, all of Webster. whO testified to the good character that Steere had enjoyed prior to the crime. It rs- mained for ex-GoveTnor Waller 10 make the plea of th. day for the man. He said he dii not believe in eternal punishment either in thss or the 1ex. world and :old the board thu, while legislatures had sinned by granting too many par ions the sin was lesser one than ths. of granting too few. He prayed God. he said. n lead the board further toward mercy and said that Steere should have been con- victed of manslaughter.
 The fortunate man to he pardoned is Frank E. Lewis of New Haven. who vas sentenced in April. 1907. to from two to five years for embekzle- ment from the Benton Ar IustrOng Co. where he vas bOOkkeeper. Ills wife had been sick for lcng time and he used money he secured hy altering the payrolls to pay Tor medical st- tendance for her. lt came out that he succeeded another man who prae- ticed the same tactics with the pay rolls. but to a larger exteat and he got oH with a term in jail.
 At the hearing yesterday Lewis made a statement to the board whseh was corroboratei by States Attorney w. Fl. Williams. who said the rase had many distressing features and he commented it tO the careful consfd- sratfon of the board. His wife also spoke for him
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-03
HOW TO FORECAST WEATHER.
All You Have to Do is to Ascertain
 Planets Influence on Sun.

St Louis, June 3.-The Rev Irle L. Hicks was not surprised when he learned that Jim O'Leary, the race horse gambler, had won 5000 by backing his weather forecasts. He said he had hundreds of letters from men in business life saying they had profited by following the forecasts which he sends broadcast through his publications.
 At his home in Wellston he .ex- plained in part his methods and his success during thirty years. He was originally Methodist Episcopal min ister. but the rules of the church made 1t necessary for him to move every three years, and as this inter- fered with his astronomical work he abandoned that church and joined the Congregational. He is now a member of the Congregational As sociation of St Louis
 All of Hick's forecasts are based on the position of the planets, he says, and they are as scientific and simple as the calculation of an eclipse. With out the planets influencing the sun the summers year by year would not vary, neither would the winters. Mir Hicks has circulated, he says, just how much influence each planet CT combination of planets has on the sun.
 OIeary, according to MT Hicks. won his wager by playing a combina- ti0n of Mars and Venus Mars exerted influence on the sun from April : to May 31 and Venus from April k to May 20. The two planets, working to- gether during that period, caused al- most continuous rain. Mars and Ven us ill combination perturbed the con ditions surrounding the sun and rain resulted. This period is just now fad ing.
 Every tornado and storm which during April and May caused great loss of life was forecasted in the Hicks almanac. and the forecast which made OLeary S1O.000 richer was written year ago.
 To show how little he thinks of money, Hicks says that Boston syn dicate. with S1OO0OO00 capital sent an agent 10 him to tender him Il share in its grain business if he would give it his exclusive service. He declined.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-03

Yale must have had "Stick-To- gether-club" some time or other judging from the way the men of that famous institution are rushing to the defense of Candidate Taft on that Memorial day speech about General Grant. IL was a bad break coming jus: at this time and the Hartford Times hit it pretty nearly correct when 1t said: Tn view of all the facts in the case it might have been quite as well for Grants fame and for the truth of history if MT Taft had not mentioned this side of Grants character in his Me morial day address.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-03

The bill which the president signed last week to promote the ef- ficiency of the militia of the states, the territories and the District ot Columbia makes the organized mili- tia reserve force for the regular army, and places it under the con- trol of the federal government. It provides, also, that all male citizens between the ages of IS and 45 years, who are not members of the organ ized militia, shall be liable to mili- tary service when needed, making them constitute the reserve mili- tia"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-03

the time. In spite of the Johnson and is doing some effective work, Bryan is the candidate who calls forth the enthusiasm of the people in this part of the counLry.-Wash- ington Exchange.
 There can be no surprise when one of the hourly chances which the autoI mobile racer takes proves fatal one. The man who drives car around q limited track at the rate of eighty eight miles an hour is performing q miracle at every circuit he makes alive, and when he dashes out his hrains, that Is only the happening or the expected And tears, if there are any to shed, may better be reserved for those who do not invite their own fate.-New Haven Register.
 The suggestion has been made here and there that if the democrats of the senate had had any sand, they would have embraced the great op- genuine campaign publicity bill the price of their consent to the passage Of the currency, bill. But democrats no longer know an opportunity when they see it; and their sand is nowa- days all gravel. Besides, who knows that the senate democrats really wanted a publicity bill ?-Springheld Republican .+
 Did you get wet Saturday? The World estimates that the owners of amusement places around New York lost S7775,000 as a result of the storm. That makes no provision for gowns spoiled by the water and hopes for Memorial Day outing blighted What would the figures be for New Haven? It seems not impossible that some body could have made fortune or two with carload of umbrellas for sale at Yaie field. And MT Tarr only prophesied showers" Does he know no stronger language? - Morning Journal Courier.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-03

Judging by the frequent reference to the subject in both houses of con- gross, the extravagant appropria- tions of the present session will be a fertile topic of campaign oratory this fall. Democrats and republicans alike deplore the tremendous ex- penditure authorized in the appropri- ation bills and they are endeavoring to point out a way by which the budget may be more effectively con- trolled.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-03
ArieIrs of Association.

The Hartford Sehool cf Music fled articles of association in the office of the secretary of the state Monday. the fnrorporators being Mrs Chsrlss DuFter Warner. Mrs ArchibsId A- WeEck and Mrs A c. Conk-
 Articles of zssocisticn were also fled hT the MEdsls Hz1dsn LibTsrT zSz- ztSoz.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-03
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1908.
June 3 In History,

1soS-Jefferson Davis born; died 1889. 1S61-Stephen Arnold Douglas, poiti
 cal rival of Abraham Lincoln be
 fore the civil war, died; born 1S13 190T-General Thomas Ruger, U. S. A.,
 retired, died: born 1883.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-03
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS,

Sun sets 7:22, rises 4:26; moon sets 11:1e p. m.; S:4s p. m., moon in con. junction with Jupiter. passing from west to east of the planet. 2A degrees north thereof: suns declination 22 de, grees r minutes 34 seconds north of celestial equator.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-03
Connecticut Patents.

R. \. Beard. Shelton. road and making same. C. Cook. New Britain. clothes hanger. J. NJ. Drake. West Hartford. grfndstone attachment F.
 H. Richards. Hartford. carving ma chine: K. E. Rogers. South Manchss- ter. tobacco product and manufsetuF- ing the same For copy of snT above patents send ten cents n post age stamps with date of this paper to .C. A. Snow 6 Co. Washington. D. (.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-03

Dewiu.s KIdnsy and Bladder Pills are prompt and thorough and viIl in a very short time strengthen the weakened Kidneys. Sold hy Bucking- ham pharmacy.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-03
THE oAKvuLE COMPANY.
 makers of WIRE AND METAL GOODS.

20. Freight and Express AddresA oakville. Conn. Telegraph AddreeS Waterbury, Conn. New York ones ts Howard Street
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-03
A Compromise and Why.

A compromise. however, was ef- fected in the senate whereby the measure was passed but vas not to so into effect until July 1. 1908. This vas said to have been advocated to protect all the investors from being pinched. but it developed after the measure had passed and as an after math Of the fight. that crowd not a thousand miles from Harrington had pretty close to s50s0o0 tied up in operations with one system of bucket shops controlled by a Propri- etor whose headquarters were in New Haven. It is said he operated twen- [, shops in various parts of tine state. and it was largely to protect this crowd of investors that the lobby vas formed and fought the measure tooth and nail. as well as to protect the interests Of the bucket shop pro- prief0rs. vho worked. IL Is under stood. from New Jersey.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-03
The Need for a Rally.

The proprietor of the shop in which the TorrinEtou money is said to have been tied ID, agreed. it is alleged. to deposit in 2 bank o- hanks. in trust. all the nIoney he re- csirsd to cover the marxlns- If the market had rallied by the time or be- fore the iau vent into effect. this rronsy fn trust vss tn he rstETnsa -o the investors. If the market dis not rally they were to loss their mar gins representing tidE sum Ihs market has rallied. and it is pre-
Oxford Democrat., 1908-02-18
When Temperance Was q Crime

Temperance In India at the begin
ming of the English occupation was ;
crime" said a clergyman. "Medica
men believed In those days that ;
white man could not live In Indl;
without drinking. They thought h'
needed half pint Of whisky or tt
equivalent every day. and they insist
ed OH his taking 1t. Temperance sOci
etles, total abstinence and the signin-
Of the pledge were things forbidden II
India. Such things were thought In
furious. to the white mans health ou
there: hence to 20 In for them was t
be arrested. fined, imprisoned, Danish
ed. But today In India total abstl
nence is encouraged, for 1t has beer
found that the abstainer stands the
heat far better than does the man who
drinks s"-PhiladelDhla Bulletin
Oxford Democrat., 1908-02-18
SOUTH PARIS PEOPLE WITH WEAK
LUNGS NEED vlNOL.

Many people inherit weak lungs which
are likely to be attacked BY comsump.
tion. So also are lungs weakened by dis
ease or by stubborn hacking cough.
No matter what the cause, Vinol
strengthens weak lungs and gives one
the power to throw of wasting diseases.
The reason that Vinol has such power
to heal and strengthen is because 1t con.
tains in highly concentrated form all
Of the curative, medicinal and strength
creating elements Of cod liver oil, actual.
ly taken from fresh Gods livers, with the
useless, nauseating oil eliminated and
tonic iron added.
So sure are We Of what Vinol will do
that we ask every person In South Paris
suffering from weak lungs, stubborn,
hacking coughs or any wasting disease
to try Vinol on our offer to return money
II It fails. r. A. Shurtlef q Co., Drug.
gists, South Paris, Maine.
Oxford Democrat., 1908-02-18
SURGEONS CHARGES.
Method by Which, It Is Said, tho Fees
Are Regulated.

Frequently laymen who have had oc.
rasion to settle the bills Of surgeons
upon whom they have called In ex-
tremities to use the knife are heard
to complain against what they call
the exorbitant charges Of surgeons"
A skilled surgeon may charge $3.50
for simple appendicitis operation.
The patient. who never thinks Of COM
planning until he Is convalesceut, ub
jects oftentimes to paying the bill.
He says, 1T is outrageous for a sur
geon to charge $3.50 for half an hours
work"
The question Of surgeons fees often
puzzles a patient He knows Of one
man upon whom surgeon OF wide
reputation has operated and charged
only SIS. He may know Of another
who has paid $1,000 for the same op-
Grafton. He cannot figure 1t out.
Yet surgeons Of known ability and
national. perhaps international, fame
have a general plan In charging for
operations. Their prices range from
nothing to $1,000. They will operate
without any question Of willingness or
ability to pay in any case where the
situation is Imperative. Afterward
they will present the bill. The general
public does not understand how a sur
geon will charge one man $50, another
$3.50 and another $1,000.
Surgeons have a fixed price scheme.
They aim to charge the patient about
one months income. They figure that
any person who is In such bad condi-
ton as to be forced to submit to a
surgical operation surely can afford to
give one months income. They ascer-
tain roughly what man makes per
month and send In bill for that
amount. The man whose Income Is
but $50 a month pays $50. The man
who gets $1,000 is asked to pay $1,000
and generally objects. even though
he should know that his life Is worth
us much proportionately as that OF his
poorer fellow.-Chlcago Tribune.
Oxford Democrat., 1908-02-18
Maine News Notes.

That new stone crushing plant at the
Rockland Jail makes the winter especial
ly hard for those tramps who wander in
to Knox County.
Thomas S. Laughlin, president of the
Thomas Laughlin Co., prominent
manufacturer OF Portland, was accident
ally killed Saturday night by falling into
tank of water used for cooling iron in
the blacksmith shop of the company.
An indictment has been found by the
grand jury of Penobscot County against
Percy W. Lyon of Waterville, train dis
patcher on the Maine Central, for in
voluntary manslaughter In connection
with the recent train wreck at Carmel,
in which Firemen Harry Simonds OF
Waterville was killed.
Bath will soon have the honor OF send
ing overheard the biggest schooner
afoat. 1t will be the six-master now
building at the Percy & Small yard for j..
S. Winslow g. Co. of Portland. The
Thomas w. Lawson was the largest
ahoat but her recent loss will make the
one now building stand at the head OF
vessels of the schooner rig.
While standing between the cars of a
freight train, Charles Day and James
Blenn, two hostlers in Lewiston, were
knocked down and run over In the lower
Maine Central yard at Lewiston Wednes-
day and both died at the hospital soon
after. For some reason not known they
had stepped between the cars of q
freight train which was being made up.
Both were single.
Reported compilations of figures at
Lewiston postofice show that the sale of
one cent stamps for use in mailing
picture postal cards reaches an average
of 800 day for the working days in the
week or an aggregate of $4,000 revenue
annually, from this source alone. When
proportional sale is reckoned in the
cities and towns of the state and the
country over-for the picture card habit
knows no state and scarcely national
boundary lines-the aggregate revenue
to the Post Office Department from this
source is of an importance not generally
suspected. In like ratio the cards
themselves, reckoned on good margin
of profit basis, represent commercial
item of no mean magnitude.
Oxford Democrat., 1908-02-18
East Brownfield,

The Ladies' Circle held box-suppel
ut Bradbury Hall last Friday evening.
Several from this village attended
Pomona Grange in Kezar Falls last week
Beatrix McLucas is quite i'll. 1t IL
thought that she worked too hard il
school.
Howard Colby is visiting his mother
Mrs. Zilpha Colby.
1t is reported that Cora Giles Haley i:
on her way home, hsving sailed from
Japan February s.
Mrs. L. A. Cole is recovering mos
satisfactorily.
Mr.. A. F. Johnson and daughter
Marion, also Walter Boynton, attended
the drama given in Hiram last Friday
night by the senior class of Fryebure
Academy.
A Frances E. Willard memorial meet
ing was held at the home of Mrs. julia
Bean last Friday afternoon.
F. r. Bradbury has returned from
few days vacation in Boston.
Charles Cole spent several days a
home recently.
Oxford Democrat., 1908-02-18
Hlrann,

Rev. Mr.. Smith, pastor Of the Uni.
versalist church, IL rapidly winning the
esteem of our citizens by bis genial
social qualities, and his pulpit ministra-
tious are of high order.
Mr.. Marshall Spring is regaining his
health.
Mr.. Fred G. Spring Is engaged In a
numbering Job at Passaconaway, N. d.
Miss Annie Spring has finished her
work as stenographer at Island Pond,
Vt, and returned home.
Our venerable neighbor, Capt. Thomas
o. Spring, was 80 years old on Feb. 9th.
He was q selectman in Hiram, also cap
tain in the militia about 1858. In 1853
he was one of a party of twenty-five
men who left Hiram for California, and
II is, perhaps, the last survivor. he re.
sided some years In Chicago, and gained
an ample estate, and has wisely decided
to settle It during his life. He is
worthy and respected citizen. He has
been blind some years. He is kindly
cared for by Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel L.
ClomOns,
Oxford Democrat., 1908-02-18
Not Gainina ANY.

Long division, writer In the New
York Sun declares, Is the Waterloo o.
most of the middle aged women wht
apply for city positions. One woman
took some time Off from work to learn
how to do long division. The teacher
told her million times, more or less
that when the divisor would not &c
into the dividend she must put a ci
pher In the answer.
One day the teacher came along and
looked over her shoulder and saw four
teen or fifteen ciphers In the result
while the correct answer could moi
have more than three figures In 1t
The teacher was patient with her and
asked her where she got all those
ciphers.
why" she said, looking slightly
worried, "you told me that when the
divisor wouldn't go to put down 6
cipher, and 1t wouldn't 60 all these
times, and haven't got to the end yel
and don't see as I'm gaining on 1t q
hitD
Oxford Democrat., 1908-02-18
CHARMS FOR LUCK.
fhe Sort Of superstitions Some Wall
Street Men Harbor.

fhe Sort Of superstitions Some Wab
Street Men Harbor.
Let all the dear renders. feminine
gender, take cognizance Of what fol-
lows, for surely the falrer sex Is, after
all, the stronger sex. Women know no
such abject obedience to superstitlous
fears and signs as do the men. With
a view to eliciting something OF inter-
est. the writer had chance to put q
certain question to a captain of Indus
try. "Tut, tut" he replied suspicious
", you'd be getting me into trouble,
would you?" With q promise that no
names would be mentioned, he finally
agreed to tell thing or two.
The question was, Aren't men In
Wall street carrying all sorts Of queer
things to try to change their luckT
In answer to this the writer heard
some curious stories. One man OF
worldwide fame, for example, carries
a cane in the center Of which there Is
slender steel rod. Circling the rod
there are rings made Of leather and OF
hard rubber, like the washers that
plumbers use. Each seventh ring Is
made Of leather from the s0les OF the
shoes worn by the Millionaire during
what he considered his luckiest year.
Elephants and pigs as lucky charms
there are of course in plenty, but the
proper caper is to wear the animal
pinned inside on the watch fob pocket.
Then there is another great financier
who carries with him gold Ink well
and would never sign document with
fluid from another receptacle. Once
upon q time, when he had, say, only
picayune million or two. he signed
paper In deal that doubled, then tre-
bled his wealth. The ink used that
day was emptied into q long gold tube
or well that he now carries. The Ink
was used up, but to the well, so he
thinks, the good luck power has been
translated. Lucky coins pass from "a
ther to son In several Of the multimil-
lionaire families, and the man who In
herits them would never be without
them. We have few secret drawers In
desks or doors In houses. as they had
in olden times, but there are many Sc
cret pockets In the suits made by
smart Enthusiastically Life.