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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-06
THE HARD-woRKING ,PLowNlAN.

That's it" said man who had stopped in the corner grocery store to get three and one-half pounds of granulated sugar. I'm going home tired. l remind myself of the line:
 "The plowman homeward wends his
 weary way"
 You mean plods his weary way" said the schoolmaster. as he went out of the door with a can of kerosene. He meant to quote the line that reads: "Homeward the plowman plods his
 weary way" remarked the village lawyer.
 T meantsto quote just what I did quote," said the first speaker, stern- ly: "The weary plowman homeward plods his way" -...
 T understand your quotation" :" said a man who was sitting on a sugar barrel, ito be:
 Weary the homeward plowman
 plods his way"
 You are wrong," said neighbor, who was inquiring the price of hams. He said:
 Weary the plowman homeward
 plods his way" .'.-
 Pardon me-" broke in travelling salesman for a sausage house. "If the gentleman intended to quote from Gray's Elegy. the quotation should read:
 "Homeward the weary plowman
 plods his way"
 Please understand" said the man with the three and one-half pounds of granulated sugar. that I do not make mistakes in quotation. have twice said that the line is: The weary plowman plods his home
 ward way"
 'T understand you to say" ob- served another neighbor: 'Homeward the plowman weary
 plods his way"
 We may easily have been mistak- en as to what he said" remarked an elderly man. but what he undoubt- edly wished to say was: The plowman weary homeward
 plods his way"
 That Is not what l wished to say and not what did say," retorted the man with three and one-half fol seventeen cents. ''I said, and | will stand by if: s.s rF-- Weary the plowman plods hii
 homeward way"
 Pardon me for putting in again gents" said the sausage drummer but I must insist, as before that il you would accurately quote the i'm mortal EIegy the line must read: The plovman weary plods his home
 ward way"
 'Gem'm'm." said the village good for-nothing. getting up from a keg O nails behind the stove. you're TO oEg-'euse me, you're all wrong. Th' 1 quotation is:
 The weary plOdman homevarC blows his way" Thereupon they vent their ways every one, even to the last speaker believing he was right-Youtht Companion.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-06
CHEW FOOD MORE.
Advice Given to Dyspeptics on the
 Food Question, by an Expert.

Eat less and chew more" IS ex- cellent advice for dyspeptics on the food question. It Is, for that mat ter, good advice for everybody. It is a prescription that without doubt is worth more than the whole phar, macopoeia of drugs. The reason why most s,omachs break down is that they have to do their own work and. in addition, that which should be done by the mouth. It does not pay in the long run for any man to hurry over his meals. Proper eating lies at the foundation of good health.
 Activity is conducive to longevity. Statistics show that as a rule great mental workers are long lived. Man needs plenty of work, plenty of oc- cupation for mind as well as body something 10 plan, something to look forward to all the time. in or. der to be in good health and enjoy long life. There are thousands of cases of men pensiOned of or re- tired from business after 70 years of incessant and active work. who instead of being able to rest quietly and enjoy life for a good quarter ot a century or more, have suddenly sickened and died. Man Is really like a piece of machinery. To be in perfect running order both mind and body must be kept in condi. tion. Let machinery stand idle for a few weeks, and see how rusty fl will get.
 Health depends a great deal or fexibility. The suggestion may bs called novel; still, l. is scientifically true. Fruit eating makes for health because it makes for fiexibility. The primal cause of death is ossifica. tion. and 1t can be stayed consider. ably if the arterial and muscula, systems are kept flexible. Heavy meat eaters exhibi; early in life stiffness in the joints-unmistak able signs of the system being toS heavily loaded with earthly matter
 FIexibility is assured by th. juices of fresh. ripe fruits, vhiel impede the ossification process FIeXibility represents in the anil mai and vegetable kingdoms Rigid ily and infexibiIity. typical of resist anee 10 change of form. the basis oi all vital processes. represents death Nov, meat eating makes for rigid fry and inHexiblIity more quickly than fruit foods and brings abou premature interference with th' vital pEoeesses upon which hszltl and life depend
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-06
HEARD IN PASSING.

Mexico has made too good a record to lose it all in the revolution trade.
 It doesn't help matters any to speak of the heated term in heated terms.
 One cant help admiring the man or woman who is good natured during hot waves as we'll as between them.
 We should welcome heartily each new star in the flag, for when the material for state making runs out no new stars will appear.
 Russia's douma sanctions an outlay of s300,000,000 on military schemes in the far east. Maybe Japan would settle for half that amount cash down.
 Useless to try to work up sym pathy for those idle freight cars that were put to work just as vacation days came around, for they have had theirs"
 Several soldiers were really killed in the recent revolution in Paraguay. Even in South America this revolu- tionary habit sometimes leads to bloodshed. z. sf- ..--~. .......... ..-..s
 The appearance of an expert swim mer in the role of rescuer and not as the victim of his own inexpertness now and then adds variety to the news from the seashore.
 One wife secured a divorce on the ground that her husband had sixty five shirts. The job of keeping track of sixty-five collar buttons would in itself constitute unbearable cruelty.
 The sharp decline in the price of horses in Canada is attributed to the fact that in very recent years prices have gone to an abnormally high pitch. Now they are getting back tc normal.
 French genius has invented a gun that will shoot 1900 times a minute With a repeater of that kind in action any number of innocent bystanders could "get theirs' without a waste of time.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-06
THINGS TO EAT.
Meats Should Be Summed or But Sparingly Partaken Of.

There are days when meats should be eaten in dainty bits-not great chunks or slabs, or roasts, or fries, or boils-but little sugges- tions of the great meat world, with out laundering in it.
 Possibly suggestion. of such dainty bits might not be amiss. Get some boiled ham from your grocer -broil it moderately, and eat. There Is a summer meat meal. Or if you don't object to box of sar, dines-get a good one-garnish with little lemon, and this with a few slices of ripe tomato and a baked potato rivals the dinner the kaiser will get tonight.
 Tn these days, when a zephyr is a joy and a butterfly is a, landscape, one doesn't need to sit down to a loaded table-with meats, and pud- dings, and soups, and salads-why, it is enough to make the blue skies look mad. In the winter time, when the winds are. bowling, and the ici- cles are hanging from the caves, a man wants magnitude in his eat ing, but when the June solstice has passed. he sighs for the grace of it,
 Even an egg or lamb chop seems too warm these days, and one naturally looks around for the cot tage cheese, and even suspects there is enough meat in a doughnut to answer all practical purposes. The old-fashioned pie seems too heavy for these days of crystal sunshine but If the filling were appropriate
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-06

of their families-a total tax of about $60 for each average family of fke persons. During the last four years of republican extrava- gance there has been appropriated $3,42S, 100000 or $33,900,000 more than the vast expenditures during four years of civil war, so that during that period each head of a family has paid in national taxes over $200 and what has he got for it? Under republican pol icies the tax paid by the poor man
 is as great as the tax paid by the rich man. In fact, in some cases the tax paid by the poor man is greater For instance, when MT
 Rockefeller or any other rich man, buys flannel for underwear valued above 70 cents per pound, he pays tariff tax of S6.39 per cent, but
 when a poor man buys a cheaper grade of flannel for his underwear, valued at not more than 40 cents per pound, he pays tariff tax of 143.67 per cent. These figures are the actual duties paid on flannel
 for underwear" as officially re- ported by the government for the year 1907. As the present repub- lican congress refused to consider any revision of this unequal tax, or the many other like taxes on fan nels and everything else that is in cluded in the tariff law still con
 tinues. Yet many business men, farmers, and those who have to re- ly upon wages still vote the repub- lican ticket, which is virtually to endorse the republican policy of taxing those with small incomes
 more than those with large in comes. Surely it is time for re-
 trenchment or reform, and experi- ence shows that neither can be ex- pected from republican politicians.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-06

A portion of the excavations of Herculaneum thus far made are what a miner would call an "open-cut," where all the superincumbent earth, or volcanic material, has been remov- ed, and the buried remains laid bare to the day, as in the Roman forum and Pompeii, says writer in the En- gineering Magazine. Another DOT tion has been excavated underground by means of shafts and galleries, as in a rock mine; and still another DOT tion, by means of short tunnels run in from the seaside, as in a drift mine. All of this work, except the open-cut (which though very expen- sive was mechanically simple) was done, from a miners point of view, unscientifically, and from an archae- ologist's, as Lanciani observes, van dalically. Some years ago, Prof Charles Waldstein of Kings college, Cambridge, attempted to enlist the aid of a number of eminent and veal thy persons in England, Italy and the United States in raising a fund to purchase the lands of Resina and re- move the entire mass of volcanic ma terial which covers the city of Her culaneum, but without success. The enterprise was deemed too vast and the plan too expensive. An American company now proposes a different plan-that of exploring the Hercu- laneum as a rock mine and with all the mechanical appliances and de- vices which have elevated the art of mining in America to the dignity of a scientific industry. The outline of the plan proposed has already secured the appreciation of Prof Spinazzola of the San MartirO museum of Naples, Prof DalrOsso. inspector of excava- tions at Pompeii, Prof Cosentini of the University of Naples. and Prof Lanciani, University of Rome. and other eminent scientists in Italy. be- sides many distinguished persons in England, France. Germany and America.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-06

The United States treasury is paying out nearly one million a day more than it is receiving. that is the deficit for the first T. days of July was s16,157.61s. The last ses- sion of congress appropriated the enormous sum of s1,0Os,3s7.543.- 556 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1908, and the session of congress beginning next December may be expected to appropriate as much for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1909. That would give our present republican congress the unique record of being 8 two billion dollar congress Every dollar the government exxpends is paid in some way by the people. and voters should
 remember that this year they win pay SIP fn taxes for each member
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-06
HIGHWAY TO GETTYSBURG.
Congress to Consider Bill for Re. markable Road.

Representative Daniel Lafean of Pennsylvania hopes to get congress to make an appropriation next ses- sion for a remarkable memorial, one that is certain to attract nation al notice. He has a bill prepared for introduction early the coming session to appropriate s7,000,000 for highway from the city ofWash- ington to the Battlefield of Gettys- burg, says the Boston Transcript, The bill has strong backing from distinguished men all over the United States. It seems likely 1t will become a law. President Roosevelt Is friendly to 1t and so Is Senator Knox
 Every member of house of senate who fought in the civil war, at least on the northern side will support 1t, and doubtless many of the southern members. Representative Lafean lives near the battlefield, and he Is | deeply interested in the project. He has had much assistance in get ting the movement under way by ex-Representative J. T. McCleary, of Minnesota, now second assistant postmaster general and leading member of the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Association.
 It is the plan to introduce the bill in the house first and push It through that body. In the senate, Senator Knox will take charge of It. It is hoped to have the bill signed ! and a law by February 12 next, which will be the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abraham I Lincoln. It this Is found impossible | 1t is hoped to have the president sign the bill on that day. If the project of Mir Lafean goes through, the proposed memorial highway will be one of greatest throughfares In lthe world. It will be over one hun dred miles long and 150 feet wide and will go straight from here to | Westminster. Md, and thence straight to the battlefield.
 In the center will be space fifty feet wide reserved for flowers. and on either side a roadway of fifty feet lit is expected the road will be pecu' liarly suited to autos and horseback l, riding.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-06

The personal organ of the Taft family, the Cincinnati Times-Star, acts very much like the boy whis- tling to keep up his courage while passing by a grave yard when 1t says: ''The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and William Jen- nings Bryan has again received the democratic nomination for president of the United States. Why shouldn't republicans be happy? e.'
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-06
to the shortcake form, it would not

6Gtlu nO.
 Then, there is that Porto Rican combination of rice and beans-the latter red, boiled with mere slip of pork. These are served separ- ately on the table, but there mixed in the plate of the eater. No Porto Rican meal of any consequence is served without this combination There is more strength in 10 pounds of this mixture than there is. in 10 pounds of sirloin roast; and it Is a torrid food that makes a fellow plump and glorious. Not as dain' ty as some things we mentioned. but full of vigor and good con science.
 We are speaking only of summer meats, and the borderland thereof not of the fruits, the melons, the berries, the corn, the squashes-- these are a beautiful world all tc themselves.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-06

When it is all over and President Roosevelt leaves the White House Blame Taker Loeb can say, as Sieyes said when Napoleon asked him what part he had played in the strenuous days of the French revolution, q survived"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-06

If you take Kodol in the beginning the bad attacks of Dyspepsia will be avoided. but if you alIow these little attacks to go unheeded it will take Kodol a longer time to put your stomach In good condition again. Get bottle of Kodol today Sold by Buckingham Pharmacy.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-06
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.

Sun sets 7:06, rises 4:5S, moon sets 12.o6 a. m.; moons age, 10 days; PA today, three-ffths of leap year gone.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-06

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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-06

< minister in TITO and Lord North precipitated the trouble with the j. colonies which led to the Revolu- tion. The result was disastrous to his fame.
 1se9EAlfred Tennyson. British poet laureate, born; died 1892. '19O7-Ffeneh and Spanish troops land ed at Casablanea under fire from the Meers. French cruiser shelled the town.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-06
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
 June 10, 1908.

Wu1C AOf AW1os
 Going South. FOR BRIDGEPORT AND NEW YoRK-e:30, 7:56, $40, 1l:og q m.; 2:44, 4:i5, SOS D. m.; SUNDAYS. 7:oQ. s:05 a. m-; i:05. 5:i0 p. m.
 FOR ANSONIA AND NEW HAVEN -s:30. 7:5e. $40, Ii:os a. m. (yia Naugatuck Jel: s:44. i:1s. 6:0s. 7:60 p. m.; SUNDAYS, 7:o0. s:os a. m.; 1:o5. s:fo ?. m-
 Going North FOR THosfAsToy, ToRRINGros AND wINsTED-ssI1, s:a7,1 io:ss a. m-; s:SS. 7:0o. s:se D. m; SUNDAYS, s:ss a. m-s s;isl D. m.
 FOR wATERTOwN-s:i7, s:aS] ii:1s a m; 6;15. 7:05 p. m.
 Going East. F FOR HARTFORD, STRENGTHEN. WIIlLIMANTIC, WORCESTER, PROVIDENCE. PUTNAM AND DOSA01taANr esN3 a. W-e i1:i5, 3;1s. 1884 Ito Hartford aEi springneldl. ?. m.
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 SUNDAY TRATEa FOR BRTsToL-lConnee;lng wiu suburban trainsl-ss:se. slettf a n: 1:7s. s4:33. s:ss D. m- sConneeting for Springfield, Yer cester and Bostons
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-06
THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1908.
Aud. 6 In History.

1775A Daniel o'Conneil, Irish orator and pa
 triot, born; died 1S47. 1792- Frederick North,
 Britis h statesman
 known as Lord North, {, die d; born 1T33. X North became prime
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-06

For of all the sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: Tt might have been!"-Whittier ST Maud Muller.
 That is what the man felt when he tried to kindle fire with damp wood. "If I only had a bag of Browns Quickfire Charcoal.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-06

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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-06
SUNDAY TRAMs
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-06
Going North

FOR DASBrRY-s:ss .. n; i:os, 1900 D. m- FOR PoUGHKEEPsTE-s:ss a n. 2.os D. m-
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-10-17

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The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-19
TT IS TO FELICITATE.

The Journal-Courier may be prop erly encouraged in felicitating itself upon the fact that 1t was the one newspaper in the city to announce ac- curately the line of parade for the Barnum X Bailey circus. Those who accepted the route as printed in the news columns of this newspaper cas- fly found a place of vantage for the enjoyment of the display; those who fell to questioning its accuracy wan dered far and near in uncertain search for the parade.
 lt may perhaps be said that 1t Is not a very great achievement to state with accuracy the route of circus parade, but 1t Is nevertheless a very decided achievement. Every man. woman and child in the city of New Haven and in the surrounding towns wanted to know yesterday morning more than they wanted to know any other thing just where the circus pa rade was to pass. To inform them inaccurately was to deeply disappoint them all and vex them all. Realizing that the Journal-Courier sought the desired information at first hand and conspicuously printed it on the first page.
 It is by just such newspaper achievements as this that public print comes to be known as a news paper in fact as well as in name. It is just such achievements as this which makes friends for newspaper, without which the art of printing the news of the day finds no feet upon which to stand.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-19
Friday, June 10, 10Os.
THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION..

The Journal-Courier can add noth- Ing to what 1t has said upon various occasions and for many reasons with regard to the eligibility of William Howard Taft for the republican nom- ination for President of the United States. No man in the political hls- tory of the country has been more carefully prepared in the school of experience for the duties which may await him. No man surpasses him in love of country or in faith in It's mission as the guardian of free in- stitutions,
 The outlook for the future is but half completed. There yet remains the choice of the democratic conven- ton to be recorded, an event of more than passing importance. The repub- lican party has lived up to It's best traditions in selecting Mir. Taft as its standard bearer, q republican in par tisan affiliation but a man of demo- cratic feelings and leanings in the sense that this is country in which the voice of the people governs and in which the will of the people should control.
 The Journal-Courier awaits the yer dict of tho democratic convention. which Is soon to meet at Denver, with but one desire, namely. that 1t may zee its great opportunity to add It's influence to the consideration of is- sues in which a hopeful and buoyant people are intensely interested and which to be effective must not be ap- preached from the point of view of caste but from the point of view of the welfare of the greatest number. The republican party has made 1t easy, If the democratic party senses clearly the popular view of political responsibility, to put It's best foot for ward and by living up to It's honor able traditions do it's part to recover the industrial prosperity which for no economic reason was Interrupted. The country is greater than any man in 1t or any party in it. Common prosperity is better than exclusive control.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-19

to provoke an outburst, It takes a theater audience evcn at the most charming of plays full act to get it's bearings and loosen its emotions A convention audience Is equally human and equally sensitive,
 It is Inconceivable that such a dem onstration should have taken place had the convention hall been occupied only by delegates. There would have been demonstration, but not a rec ord breaking ono, for the reason that the great majority of the delegates have been from the first determined in their mind as to the choice to be made. The vast crowd of spectators present furnished Senator Lodge with the material with which to provoke the outburst at time when 1t might with safety be left to spend itself, both from the point of view of the Taft movement and the presidents reputa- ton for sincerity, It will not do, however, to deny President Roosevelt the reference implied to his personal popularity. No matter to what an ex- tent the demonstration may have been manufactured and continued by artificial methods, 1t could not have been prolonged had the beneficiary of 1t not enjoyed in q singular degree the affection of the American masses, who do believe, his critics to the con- trary that he has employed his un- usual powers to better their condition and to overthrow the forces which make for the oppression of the many Doubtless the vast audience of demon- strants soon felt the intoxication or their own emotional fury and gave way to 1t, but there still remained. ever pressing them on. the vivid rec ollection of personality which they have convinced themselves is demo- cratic in intent and act. President Roosevelt may we'll be content to re- tire from office with the noise of that outburst ringing in his ears. For him the psychology of the convention spells popular approval for things done and things undertaken.