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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-28
The Betting Men

of our city (and there are quite few of them) are filled with irasci- bility on account of their incapabil- ity to pick the winner in the race for sergeant on the police force, TOT there's big poodle for the person who can pick the lucky one. There are eight patrolmen who think me it." but on account of the indefatiga- bleness or procrastination of the board they must wait, as. the live patrolmen and one sergeant will De elected contemporaneously und when the board settles the question they'll be fit subjects for phan- tasmagoria at the 5-cent picture gal lery. Yes, all the "cops" seem to De living in somewhat of a pusilianl- nous condition, but they should be calm, for when it's over they will all live Gas it were) genealogically af the Harrison avenue hotel, and the defeated candidates with their mag unanimous minds can hire an air. ship and take sail to Wolcott fair grounds and partake of the air that knows no politics. Now if the read CTS pronunciatory ability is equal to our ad writer's vocabulary, we Will be much pleased, otherwise charge up your anger to the policemen. But if you're angry because you haven't had good tea or coffee to drink lately, tell the housekeeper to cut it out and come down to our store and get the nice tasting q"dl- ity at the same price you are paying for what you don't like, and also tell all the boys in town we've got marbles by the million, and also our base ball goods are ready, at
 PHELAN'S Y STORE
 42 East Main St. Telephone.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-28
Dewey Will No. Welcome Flee.

Washington, March 2s. - Admiral Dewey has decided not to go to San Francisco to welcome the battleship feet. He has so informed intimate friends.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-28
Jersey Democratic Convention.

Trenton, N. J., March 2S.-The Demo cratic state convention to choose dele. gates to the national convention will be held in the State Street theater, this city, on Thursday, April 8.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-28

DEMOCRAT SELLS FOR 42 CENTS
 A MONTH
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-28
Gets s2,ooo For Loss of Thumb.

New York, March 2s.-A jury award ed S2,000 to Charles Thomsen for the loss of thumb. It had been crushed in a collision between New York and Queens county car and wagon.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-28
eoni No, comino to Am.rics,

Paris, March 2S.-Count Boni de Gas. rellane, divorced husband of Mime. Anna Gould, Is in Paris, and so far as known he Is not going to the United States.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-28
MEETINGS TONIGHT.

Boys club.
 National Association Stationary Engineers.
 Friendly league, Penny Prevalent bank, 3:30 to 4:30.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1908-03-06

was satisfactory to both contending
parties
Mr.. Mathews thereupon reported
the condition of the DunnellOn bridge
and the said Commissioner was con-
tinued upon the said committee and
authorized to contract for the repair
of said bridge.
Ocala, Fla, March 3rd, 1908.
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Board
AS your committee appointed to act
with Commissioner Barnes of Citrus
County relative to repairing the
Bridge across the Withlacoochee river
at Dunnellon, I beg leave to report
as follows
! On the 18th of February I met Mr..
Barnes at DunnellOn. We examined
said bridge and find the approaches
badly rotted. The piling is composed
Of pine logs with the bark left on
! them and it is now necessary to re-
| place it with new wood. The cross
stills that rest upon this piling and
upon which the floor sleepers are sup
ported have decayed and will not last
through another season. The floor is
badly rotted but is being kept patched
by the City Of Dunnellon, and must
in the near future be ref1OOred. The
peresel BIO limit pneta shrd
sleepers under the floor Of the bridge
proper, are apparently in good shape
but those under the approaches will
have to be supplied with new timber.
| The Registration officer presented a
bill to the Board for extra cOmpensa-
ton in work preparing election mat
ters with reference to his office and
asked for extra compensation. The
Board feels that the contract with the
Registration officer was for $12.5O
per month, it was therefor ordered
/ that the claim for extra cOmpenSa-
ton be refused
1t was ordered that q warrant be
drawn in payment for cabinet in the
Commissioners Room, to Mr.. SIAM
ford.
| A petition was filed. signed by ]. L.
/ Miller and others, petitiOning the
Board to restore the charter of the
road commonly known as the Cribbet
Road, from Cotton Plant School
house to Martel the same to be a
public neighborhood road. This petit
ton was laid over until the next regu-
lar meeting of the Board.
| 1t was ordered that a recommended
ton be made to the Comptroller to
authorize the redemption of the fol-
flowing lands. viz:
Commencing 339 feet South of
Northwest corner of South y of
Southwest Il, Section 2, Township
Is, Range %, being the center of
r. r., thence South 90 chains East
10 chains. North chains. West to D.
o. b.. upon payment Of the face value
IOf certificates and omitted years
takes without interest.
Mr. John w. SmOak was granted a
Production on Lots /, >, 3 and 4, block
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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1908-03-06
Plumbing and
Plumbers Supplies

r. L. YOnge e. Son, the original and
reliable plumbers, having gone entire
Iy out Of the bicycle business, are now
devoting all of their time with a COM
petent force Of men to the plumbing
and timing business and are better
prepared than ever to do first class
work in quick time and at living
prices. The company has just receiv-
ed q big shipment of the Standard
goods i'm enameled bath tubs, one piece
sinks, lavatOries, toilet sets, etc and
have also a big line Of medium priced
goods as well as a cheaper line, in tin
and galvanized iron for customers who
desire them. The company has a
complete stock OF fittings, faucets and
fixtures Of all kinds and will be pleas
ed to show the stock to you and give
you an estimate on the cost Of your
work. An experience Of a quarter of
century gives this company many
advantages. See r. f. Yonge & Son IL
you need their services.
r. E. YONGE & SON.
W.
The citizen., 1908-01-03
The Pitijess "Eohn."

On winters night of 1861 half the
town of Glarus. in the Alps, went roar
ing up In flame to heaven, while the
pitiless fohn ragged and ragged and
Knocked at the efforts of salvors sum-
moned from half the cantons of Swift
zerland, and the glow Of the burning
town was seen a hundred miles away
In the Black forest. The bells were
rung for help till the ropes were burn
ed away, and, most grewsome of all,
the countless wooden crosses of the
churchyard graves furnished almost
the last fuel to revive the dying flames.
The fOhn is hot south wind-a kind
Of Swiss khamseen-which was long
supposed to originate in the Sahara
and to cross the Mediterranean, find
Ing no height to break upon till 1t came
to the st. Gothard, where 1t was
forced through the pass with concen-
trated violence. What really causes 1t
is still matter of doubt, but 1t can do
great mischief still and could do more
in the days Of wooden houses.-Black-
woods Magazine.
The citizen., 1908-01-03
CORNMEAL.
Varied Joys of This Rich and Yer.
satiIe Product.

Varied Joys of This Rich and Yer.
satile Product.
But cornmeal Is such a rich and
versatile product that 1t lends itself
to all days and all meals. For break
fast 1t can be turned into batter cakes
light and luscious, or into waflles that
melt in ones mouth, or into mullins
which take on new sweetness in their
tin boundaries, or you can have your
corn in the shape of grits, yellow with
butter and of happy digestibility.
Then for dinner there is the corn
pone, large, brown and hot from the
oven. ready to be seasoned with
sauce of butter and washed down with
freshly churned buttermilk, with an
accompaniment OF cabbage or collards
or turnip salad or new snap beans. If
for any reason the corn pone is not de-
sirable, though the farmer cannot i'm
agine anything that can take its place
with healthy and an expectant appe-
tite, there are the dumplings to fall
back on, the dumplings boiled with a
mess of green's. This dish is a time
and space saver, and there is also a
butter saver. The dumplings should
never by any chance be allowed to
grow cold before serving. For supper
there Is the hoecake, which should be
of a generous thickness, and it should
be eaten with gravy distilled from the
juices of country cured ham, or. if
you please, dish of mush and milk.
And then, the days work being over
and done with. the tired man or wom-
an and the children. weary with play,
may fall on their couches and forget
In sweet and dreamless slumber the
grisly troubles of the word.-Joel
Chandler Harris in Uncle Remus' Mag
aZine.
The citizen., 1908-01-03
Reforming Her Vocabulary.

A young woman of Quaker descent,
according to the New York Sun, Is
now making an attempt to eliminate
from her vocabulary the forms of
speech peculiar to that sect.
'All my life" she said, II have used
my 'thees' and 'thous' as my father
and mother and my grandfathers and
grandmo,hers did before me. | was
80 accustomed to those expressions
that Ii never occurred to me that there
"oald be any disadvantage III their pc
cu!iarity. But when ! went 10 work
in Il dry COOS sto.e | was disilusion-
ed. found t,len that Quaker speech
especially heaiIi The counter, makes
a mark OF the speaker In our store
| met other clerks with every mag
Unable kinl Of foreign accent, but
nobody pays any attention to them
1t is only l-poor with my Quaker
theeing and thouing that catches the
ear of the multitude.
why, you use the Quaker dialect,
don't you? How funnyv says one per-
son after another, with suddenly
aroused interest.
"This curiosity concerning me and
my dialect has become very annoy
ing, and ! am trying to stick to
straight English"
The citizen., 1908-01-03
A NEST HARD TO FIND.
Remarkable and Artistic Home of tho
Humming Bird.

Remarkable and Artistic Home of tho
Humming Bird.
The home of the humming bird is
one of the most remarkable and artistic
creations of all bird architecture. 1t is
a tiny, delicate cup, made of the soft
est plant down, saddled upon some
rather slender branch so deftly that it
seems a part thereof The saliva of
the birds is used to compact and secure
the material and likewise to coat the
exterior with the gray green lichens
80 generally found upon trees. This
makes it so assimilate with the sur
roundings that it is very difficult OBJ
ject to discover. And thereby hangs a
tale. A gentleman had told me that
if would call upon him he would
show me an occupied nest of a hum
ming bird in his orchard When /
came, he was out of town, but |
thought l would see if could not find
the nest myself. So | made inspection
from tree to tree, and presently the fe-
male hummer began to fly about me
anxiously. We played a game of hot
and cold until it became evident that
the nest must be in a certain low apple
tree which had many dead, lichen COW
cred branches. Some of these came
down nearly to the ground, and for
quite awhile l stood by the tree, run
ming my eyes along each branch in or
der, trying to make out the nest, while
the female kept darting frantically at
my head 1t must have been nearly a
quarter Of an hour before / discovered
that | was standing almost touching
the nest with my hands, having been
looking right over it all the time. 1t
contained two fresh eggs, this being In
the e,rly part of June. The branch
upon which it was built was complete
" oyergrown with lichens, and the
nest, being covered with them, too, was
disguised, though there
were no leaves to hide it-From "Ex-
periences With Humming Birds" by
II. IL. Job, ia Outing Magazine.
The citizen., 1908-01-03
The Araa's .Fs.-o Of E,ood.

or the Arabs pride u Traveller writes:
lie is proud of his own blood and OF
MS mares blood for its ov II sake. He
Will show you broken Gown little
crock and inform you. with perfect
truth, that she is of the best blood in
the Jazirah; he will also show f;e
stallion of his own and tell you he is n
gdish,' or underbred animal. ana there
Is no doubt it is the bad thoroughbred
ne admires and prefers to the ljnest
made cross breed AS regards his
shaykh and tribal leader, he discrimi
mates In an equal degree between the
clever warrior, astute diplomatist and
good business man of low extraction
and the shaykh of high lineage, who
may be a miserable epileptical crea-
ture, and always to the disadvantage
of the low born man."
The citizen., 1908-01-03
SPURIOUS ANTIQUES.
Many Forgeries Clever Enough to De-
ceive the Experts.

Many ForgerieS Clever Enough TO De-
ceive the Experts.
In the manufacture of antiquities the
forger shows an ingenuity that is un-
limited. Furniture, prints, china, pic
lures, plate, armor, ivory, bronze,
tapestry-all are most successfully imi-
tated. Many such limitations are, it
is true, clumsy enough, but great
many deceive even the initiated. The
experts of national museums have been
imposed upon more than once.
The British museum bought Pals
sy plate for $3.50. While an attendant
was handling it one of the seals at
tached to its back, attesting its genu-
lneness, became detached, disclosing
the mark of a modern French potter
Terra Gotta figures of Isis and Osiris,
bought by the same institution for
thousands of dollars, were discovered
to be composed of modern clay. There
is one forger of antiquities whose spe-
cialty is old leather jacks; another pro-
duces horn books; still another turns
out medieval manuscripts; a fourth,
clerical vestments of the middle ages,
and so on.
An expert of the Smithsonian insti-
tuition was called upon not long ago to
pass upon a specimen Of a mummy
servant, an effigy, in plastic material,
such as the Egyptians buried with
their dead. Close examination proved
it to be made of putty. 1t was a very
clever forgery.
Count Tyskiewiez, a noted Judge and
collector of antiquities, gives some in
teresting details of the forgeries that
have been attempted from the earliest
times. No metal lent itself so easily
to this work as gold Etruscan jewelry
has been largely manufactured in
Italy, but Syria has carried on the
most extensive forgery of gold works
of art. Forgeries in silver have been
less successful
A good story is told of forged sill
yer cup in Rome that purported to
have come from some secret excava-
tion in Sicily. This ancient cup was
ornamented with a circular bas-relief
representing the frieZe of the Parthe-
non. In the height of his innocence the
forger had given the frieZe in its pres
ent ruined condition. The cup obtained
an immediate success-shouts of laugh
ter.-St Louis Republic.
The citizen., 1908-01-03

Blaisdell. with a laugh. Look here;
it's only fair to tell you that I'm going
to try my hardest to make you Mrs.
Blaisdell before next Thanksgiving.
This is not proposal. 1t would not
be polite to propose to you so soon, but
l want you to know that I'm going to
do my best to win you before another
year passes"
Blanche wondered that her heart
should beat so rapidly at the frank
speech. She liked Blaisdell the better
for his honesty, and for an instant her
hand lay over the muscular one that
was inserting the key in the lock.
ut will not be very hard" she whis-
pered. "Have you not enrolled me In
the Society For Making People Thank
ful9
The citizen., 1908-01-03

happy and useful, not to
" dreaming. You are going
- the world presently yourself"
THAT is different. l am a man, and
mans place is in the busy world.
Yen are only dear little loving child,
Margie. and you should be protected.
Let me take care of you, Margie, and
let me begin now. viii you be my
wife, sweetheart? You know how
| love YOU
Margie shook her head regretfully,
but with no show of yielding.
''If l were like other women, Frank,
would put my arms around your
neck and say yes so happily-oh, so
happily-but l should be a drawback
to you always, boy. In after years
you will thank me for hurting you
now"
l pleaded, but pleading was no use
with Margie. Back of the gentleness
was firmness of will which admitted
no weakening. So in few days Mar
gle went to her work in Salem and
to mine In Los Angeles. She would
write to me-she would grant me that
consolation.
There came day long months after
Ell Rosa was only a memory when a
northbound train was taking me with
maddening slowness to Margie was
not going as had always planned that
sometimes I should go-with happy
thoughts and joyful anticipation. l
was going to Margie seriously hurt;
will die"
That's what the cold print of the
morning paper had said, and, oh, the
precious hours wasted when l did not
know! She had been taking her week
| ly walk from the school to the city
when, as she was passing the rock
| quarry, an explosion had occurred.
Seriously hurt; will die" How the
diabolical words burned themselves
into my aching eyes as the train crawl.
ed on!
After an eternity of misery l found
myself at Margie's bed, but before !
had reached her had found the news
| paper story was false in that she
would not die-she would live! Some
thing else was in the nurses face tC
tell me, but couldn't wait to hear it.
l bent over my darling, and my
heart jumped as 1 saw the joy In hel
face at sight of me. Even as / noted
that, voice sweet as the gentle spiri
of her came to my wondering ears:
Prank am-like"-
NJ ho1 IN 10, 10 IL -
the weak, eager fingers took up til,
sentence
Il am as other women now, Frank
The explosion hurt me, but see what i
did can hear you speak, and l cal
talk, though my hands are still. l toll
you that some day should turn
corner
The little hands were forced to rest
My overpowering joy and the lump
was trying to swallow made me foo
iSh.
1--WE been standing around the col
ner all the time," reproached my sill
tongue, "but you wouldn't open you
eyes and see me-
She laughed, and her mouth forme
word, Frank Oh, the sweetnes
Of it! Then the little fluttering finger
again.
"You are very conceited, and som
day am going to rumple your hal
dreadfully, but just now l want to G
to sleep. When l wake up
The dear eyes closed, and the smll
| ing nurse beckOned me away till Sh
should wake up.
The citizen., 1908-01-03
BlAiSdell'C
S. M. p. T.
BV GOrbdm Ref
BY GOrbam Bell.
Copyright, 1907, by P. c. Eastment.


Blanche paused for moment in the
doorway and looked hopelessly about
her. She h,>gsd the apartment with its
shabby carpet, its stuffy atmosphere
and the cheap small talk of the me-
dunn priced boarding house, but it
was at least better than the cheerless
little room that even her feminine in
genuity could not transform into the
semblance of home.
Over at the piano the young wom-
an who had charge of the millinery
department of big store picked out
Love Me and the World Is Mine"
with one finger, the yellow keyed piano
responding occasionally with the right
note. A floorwalker from the same
store looked adoringly down upon her,
and Mrs. Castleton, the landlady,
smiled approvingly upon both of them.
Already they had told her that after
the first of the year they should need
The citizen., 1908-01-03
Where He Would Haxe shons.

Cardinal Mezzofanti, who died in
1S49, at the age of seventy-five years,
knew and could speak more than fifty
languages. And he knew them thor
oughly. He could entertain his English
friends with specimens of Yorkshire
dialect and his French or German WIS.,
itors with the patois of their respec-
tive countries. "Wnat a fine Job he
could have had as universal interpret
er should he have lived in the times
Of the tower of Babelv' was one Of
Lord Byron's caustic remarks.-Argo.
naut.
The citizen., 1908-01-03
8A5aa ee'rgH> >Hans0n.

The i. lrd had welded California
plain t. in, binding them with its
golden ..,.-.s, when Margie came to Ell
Rosa.
YOU "a better go after her,
Frank. d her aunt, Mrs. Graham,
mis.fe cf Ell Rosa. You are the
pnly c..a "a us who can talk with fin
gers 10 poor, afflicted child"
Hav." nothing to do but idle away
my vac N, 1 very gladly took the
ten nj; rive from El Rosa, in the
hills. a. he little board station on
the tn There I was to meet Margie
conlinc of the north. AS / drove
along viewed the signs one uses
in the =. f and dumb language, glad
that I learned them on a certain
othe. il vacation.
No q alighted from the long train,
but S. g, slender woman with hair
colorc le the fields of mustard
throue. hich / had passed. She
came t. tly to me, somewhat timid-
ly, bu. no indication of nervous
ness caught up a tiny book fas-
tened her chatelaine and penciled
rapidly.
care 4 from Ell Rosa?"
IuStsa my fingers went into COM
missioa nd the lighting up of her
Aecate ce was well worth seeing.
II lot very rapid talker," l
ID Vl we were driving toward
hills Fortunately the horses were
aud 1zy and needed no particular
Nnton, "but with hctice l shall
dc bstte:"
"Yoa Go beautiful she flashed
back. am so gladW do not have to
do the ting; it is so slow. l have
the pro lrbial woman's tongue, only
multiplied by ten. That's dreadful,
isn't it:"
Terrific! l see my finish," l an
swered mournfully, or it would have
been moarnful if my fingers could
have shown expression Il wonder
why l thought you were a child. ]
supposed you would bring your dollie
with yoa."
Mary laughed. "You mean my Teddy
bear. Dolls aren't fashionable nova
The citizen., 1908-01-03
Curved Smokes.

There is no doubt that an iron wheel
with curved spokes is much more at
|tractive to the eye than the ordinary
Nriety, but 1t is not on account of its
appearance that it is constructed IL
this manner. Wheels that are cast In
variablS contract little in the process
OF cooling, and those made with
straight spokes are always liable to
crack. The curved variety, by allow
Ing certain give and take in the
metal, avoid this danger.
The citizen., 1908-01-03
But II Went.

Prisoner at the bar" said the magis-
trate, for the crime Of Noverspeeding
you viii pay fine of $40 or be took
to jail for ten days"
That's not correct sentenceY mur-
mured the prisoner. PhiladeSphia
Ledger.
The citizen., 1908-01-03
A New Leaf.

give just been thinking" said Will
lieboy.
Thinking whatp demanded Sill
man, to whom the idea of Willieboy's
thinking was somewhat disconcerting.
"That in Adams case 1t must have
been real re-leaf to change his
Clothes" said Willieboy. = Harper's
Waeklv
The citizen., 1908-01-03
The Way to Draw an Elenh.n.

Little Gladys-Granny, 20 down on
your hands and knees minute, please
Fond Grandmother-What am n do
tnat Tor my petf Gladys-'Cause /
News. aeo
The citizen., 1908-01-03

the front room on the first floor instead
of the rear hall rooms on the third and
fourth floors.
Colonel McGregor was studying q
chess problem over in one corner and
various little groups were formed
about the room. Blanche had lust de-
cided that the hall room was prefera-
BILE to the piano when Mrs. Castleton
transferred her attention from the
amorous pair at the piano to the new
conner.
"Oh, Miss PhiIbrick," she cailed.
May speak with you a nom. nt?'
Blanche came forward, wondering
what Mrs. Castleton r.llght have to
say. Evidently from tne fat smile that
adorned the landleIy's face she was
about to ask p iavor.
rAre yea to be here for dinner
Thnrsday?" went on Mrs. Castleton.
"It'sA Thanksgiving" continued the
matron,. seeing from Blanche's face
that sheAdid not understand. "All the
rest of the folks are going home for
the day or will spend it with friends"
II have no friends here in the city,"
said Blanche frankly, "and home is so
far Away"
Home had never Seemed so far away
as at that moment. She had left her
home when her father married again
There was no place be might call
home, not even the gtcNe room up
stairs.
/ MRS. Castletons face fell at the an
puncement. II was thinking that Il
was going out, toon she explained,
kight let the>seryaSs have ths. day
hen We could have the turkey
80 on sunday she added as
per motives were not Tor
n6ted the girls embae
The citizen., 1908-01-03
For Ones Own Comfort.

Half the sting of poverty or small
means is gone when one keeps house
for ones own comfort and not for the
>comment of ones neighbors.-Dinah
Maria Mulock.
The citizen., 1908-01-03
FooIinu the Cook.

Your cook Is telling that your hus-
band getsNa very small salary"
I'VE just Ntell her that to keep her
from demanding large one."-Hous-
ton Post.