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The Nome daily nugget., 1908-09-02

Lemp's Extra Pale Imported Draft Beer at the Board of Trade
The Nome daily nugget., 1908-09-02
Danger to Everyone.

This wireless system once in general use, the people. not only ef I.oHduu. hu' of all England. will be continually sub. jccted to these mysterious and Hul, understood ether disturbances. witt poss ibly salamitoGs results in the shape of some fearful and obscure diseas. akin to that now uua1ppily known to be caused bv N-raye.
The Nome daily nugget., 1908-09-02

LONDON, Aug - Is thr rurrausul e-e of wireless teIe eraplg 9 menace [. tho human Hce7
 las tp town worker. ,tEo =t4udz s. many hf- or,u atf mum#rt- u atafd- ing the obvious pcfaa of m" sfraefs tp face nea. sssr.t and powerful dan srra
 The following .etter aeeat- som, such possibility
 n is stated that the admiralty is now sending messages tl rhe n..ts ut sea bv mean, II wireless f,leeraphx.
 "As is well known, this means ta3t ether waves are being Ict loose in one of Inc deHso-t parts of London. iu my opinion. a most dangerous experiments considering tho fearful and at first totally unexpected. results produced ty N-rass, which are only auother form of ether waves. upon people camHe into frequent contact with them
The Nome daily nugget., 1908-09-02
NOTICE OF FoRFeITuRe.

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The Nome daily nugget., 1908-09-02
Eva- -EHeets Iena pellxed.

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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-06

be he fit or unfit in other respects, will ing or unwilling.
 Our Six Ambassadors.
 The salary of an American ambassa- dor-we now have six of them-is s17, 7,50O. whether he is at Paris, London, Berlin. Vienna, St. Petersburg or Rome. In addition he is allowed something for office rent. fuel and light, furniture, sta tionery. postage telegraph service and numerous other incidentals. His total income. however is not more than S2O.- GOO in any case.
 At first sight this seems to be large sum, an income indeed that most Amer ican citizens would be glad 10 enjoy. but cannot. It is sum which repre- sents a host of creature comforts which the average American must do without. Possibly he would even be willing to become an ambassador to obtain them. Before he proceeds too far in this d. rection let him pause and consider.
 First of all. every ambassador must provide and furnish his own embassy. Uncle Sam makes no provision for the housing of his representatives except in Tokyo. Seoul, Constantinople, Tan gier. Pekin and Bangkok. Every man who represents this government abroad is obliged to provide quarters for him self and his family. and he is expected to select a residence that will be a cred it to his government. If he be mil Iionaire he may emulate Mir. Whitelaw Reid and take a palace like Dorchester House in London at an annual rental of s4O.Oo0 and a country house at t2O.000 additional. If he he less abundantly provided with private means he may possibly obtain a suitable house for half or two-thirds of his salary. In any case the worst is still to come.
 On arriving officially at his post and after he has presented his credentials to the head of the government he must give a reception to the diplomatic corps. This is really a very important requi- site. for it enables the newcomer to get somewhat acquainted with those with whom he is 10 be associated. and it is also necessary to make as good an inn presSfoT1 as possible. A modest ssti- mate of the cost of such preliminary is q. s00. and it may easily be expanded to double that sum
 Then it is expected of him that he will give a dinner to each Of his smbas- sadoriaI colleagues. In some places he must include even the ministers of ser ond class powers in this soCisl extrav- szauce. The guests on all of these OC- casions frrIude men and women of the highest soeial rank. and nothing iueN- pensive must be set before them Take the French mission. for example. There
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-06
MAY JOIN FEDERATION. Knights of Columbus Appoints
 Committee to Investigate.

The question of the affiliation of the Knights of Columbus with the Federation of Catholic societies has been before the order for some years Various councils throughout the country have earnestly debated the subject and some of them have voted in favor of the proposition. Repeat ed efforts of the friends of the move ment to secure the endorsement oi the national council have, however failed of success.
 The matter came before the last national convention in the form oi several resolutions recommending that permission be granted to indi- vidual councils to join the federation all of which were referred to the committee on the good of the order.
 In it's report, made through Chair man W. D. Dwyer, the committee rec commended that commission of three be appointed by the supreme knight to investigate as to the ex- pediency of joining the federation and report at the next annual meeting.
 The following committee was ap- pointed: Lawrence M. Pagan, Pitts. burg. Pa, chairman; George w Young, vice-president -Canal-Louisia- na Bank & Trust Go, New Orleans La; NJ. E. Buckley, state deputy o Texas. San Antonio, Tex.
 s The members of the commission selected by Supreme Knight Hearn
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-06

raid. which resulted in the landing at Compo Beach, Wheeler was old enough to act as one of the guards which for the rest of the summer patrolled the coast. Shortly after that he entered Yale college and few students ever committed more gossip to paper than did William Wheeler. TT. B." evidently another student, burned hay, made a solu- ton of the ashes and tattooed ms initials on the back of his hand so that the blood came. Not being saI- isfied with the work, he tried 10 wash off the result but it did not wash. A blister was applied to one initial, which brought it of, but the other remained despite the heroic treatment.
 Upon Wheeler's entrance he com plained bitterly of the tasks Whlch the upper classmen imposed upon the freshmen, but there were some compensating features which ap- peared later. Among these was three rounds of punch three tlmes d day, and here is another which ap- pears under date of September 10, 17SS: Connecticut. The night pe- fore the scholars had quarrel with ye Sailors X of ym were knocked down but they son turned and fol- lowed some of them upon the com mons where they took and be- labored ym with their canes.
 After college Wheeler went back to Fairfield and taught school for a season and the events of that town appear once more in his journal as the following witnesses: February 2-Died of ye small pox, ye natural way; Captain David Wheelers wife & was buried in ye home lot Sub- seuuent entries show that Mrs Wheeler had not been inoculated and therefore died '.ye natural way
 On October II, 1792, Fairfield had a visit from that renowned revolu- tionary hero, John Hancock, and Wheeler writes: Governor Han cock came to town to-day to take up ye bones of his aunt & carry ym to Boston agreeable to her desire but found the coffin rotten" In Decem- Der of this same year he recounts the following tragedy 'Dimon Hill. Aetat A, after dancing, waiting on a famale home wet his feet & not drying them before he left her he was taken vomiting. He lived only ' days!"
 Mir Wheeler himself made his last entry in the Fairfield journal in the spring of 1874, but an entry in a different handwriting shows that he lived until sunrise of February 13, 1S43, when he died in his S7th year. It was a fortunate chance that the journal upon which he had spent many hours survived to reach the state library, where its chances of receiving harm are reduced to the minimum.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-06
What 4 Costs to Be an American Ambassador

paid most cheerfully by inc ambassa. dor's employer. The governments of Austria, France, Germany, England, Italy and Russia own both summer and winter residences at Constantinopie.
 In addition to all this, almost all gov- ernments except the United States pay their ambassadors substantial pension on retirement. With this certain pro- vision in view they are thus enabled to spend their salaries during their terms of offce. The pensions paid to retired foreign ambassadors and ministers are in many cases as large as the salaries received by their fellows from the United States during their period of activity.
 For . Liberal Policy.
 Congressman Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, son-in-law of President Roose- welt. has long been an outspoken cham pion of the proposition to purchase em. bassies in every foreign country in which a mission is maintained. In . report written during the last session of congress he expressed himself as fol. lows:
 "The underlying purpose of a bill  which introduced is to remove the ons at present absolutely necessary dualln- cation, that of great wealth. for the holding of high diplomatic office under the United States. It is an open and notorious fact and one which cannot be and is not disputed that with the very small salaries paid to our diplomatic envoys in comparison with those oe other countries. none but very rich men can aspire to these offices: that no man of however great learning. experience or ability can represent this country abroad unless he be a man of great wealth. No matter how much salaries might be increased. thers would always be an evidence of the kealth of each particular incumbent according to the style of the residence he occupied. Tf. however. a suitable and dignifed ofh- cial residence be given to each of our diplomatic envoys. then. at least ss far as external appearances are con- cerned. the rich man and the poor uiIi be alike" CHARLES ?. BROWN.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-06
SCHOOL CHANGES.
Teachers Will Have New Places for
 Fall ODening,


 Superintendent of Schools B. w. Tinker and the members of the board of education are evidently of the opinion that Thomas F. Deyine. for the past fourteen years princi- pal of the Bank street school, in tends to resign at the end of the present term. They are already planning several changes which Will be necessary in the event of MT De- vine severing his connection with the Brooklyn school, and there is no doubt but what he will do so.
 The fact that MT Deyine will not be principal of the Bank street school next term was indirectly announced yesterday when the teachers of tpe Barnard and Clay street schools were informed their principals would be transferred at the opening of the fall term. Thomas J. Condon, princi- pal of the Barnard school, will sue ceed MT Deyine as the head of the Bank street building, and Miss Mary A. Cass, principal of the Clay street school, will be Mir Condons suc- cessor at Barnard. Although the changes have not been acted upon by the members Of the board of education as yet, it is understood that the committee on teachers have so decided. Although the recommendations of the commit tee generally go through, the board may not follow precedent in this in- stance
 It is understood that the new rooms, the addition to the Bank, will be opened in the fall and that the school will have two circuits of the upper grades, that is, the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth. The plan is to take the high grades out of the Barnard and send the upper grade teachers to the Bank. The depart mental system will be inaugurated at the Bank and the entire twenty rooms will in all probability be used.
 Superintendent Tinker when asked about the proposed changes to-day said that he had nothing to say. Mi Devine has been principal of the Bank street school the past fourteen years, succeeding Principal NJ. J. Nell ligan. In addition to being a teacher he is lawyer, having passed the bal few years ago. In case he decides to give up school work he will in all probability devote his time to law. Thomas Condon has been principa of Barnard the past six years, going there after he had taught few years in the high school. While at high school he was instructor of Latin and Mathematics.
 Miss Cass has been principal of the Clay street school for the past ten years. Her successor has not been definitely settled as yet.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-06
CAPTAIN BANNoN WILL GO.
Will Represent Safety Board at New
 York Saturday.

The department of public safety will be represented in New York Sat urday at the great police parade and exhibition, which it is understood will be the biggest demonstration of the kind ever held in this country. The idea in view is an excellent one and shows that the board is right ur to the times. The workings of the new diamond formation will be eX- emplified in public for the first time and Mayor Thoms, the board of safety and Superintendent Beach want tc know all about it, and decided, wise ly, too, as everybody will say, that Captain Ramon is unquestionably the best man in town to send to get onto the curves, bring them home and then drill the men into the intri- cacies of them. The diamond forma- tion is intended for use in emergen- cies, such as riots and troubles of an unusual order, which are likely to crop out any time in the United States from now on, and it is said to be far ahead of the hollow square movement, which is almost as old as humanity and is not considered bad plan even now, although modern tao ticians say it isn't in it with the dia- mond formation which enables a body of officers to go right through a crowd and at the same time give the men a chance to continue to do ef- fective work from every direction. Ii is understood that police departments from every town in the county will have men on hand Saturday to catch on. Captain Ramon is a graduate of West Point, veteran of the civil war and is considered the ablest drill master in Connecticut
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-06

The methods employed by our gov ernment in dealing with this important matter do not compare favorably with those of other nations. Until within recent years the general estimate in this country of our foreign service was that it was a necessary but rather or namental appendix to the government. We had a comparatively small trade and little money to invest outside or this country Our foreign relations were not especially critical. There has been a great change in the last decade. The increased power and significance of the United States among the nations of the world have created a vast expan- sion in our foreign relations. The im- portance of our embassies and legations has increased enormously, and the in- crease has involved a corresponding growth in the necessary expenditure. There is a very distinct impression in official circles that Uncle Sam is in- cIined to be parsImonious in the matter of his foreign agencies and that he should not only provide all embassy buildings but also contribute more hb- orally to their support. In comparison with the present policy of the leading European powers. for instance, his practice seems to be almost niggardly.
 The British ambassador at Paris re- ceives yi5,000 per annum. This Is the largest salary paid to any official of the kind but Russia is not far behind with her yearly wage of 0.o0o to her repre- sentatives at London. Berlin. Paris and Vienna. with only s32. 900 to her agent At Rome. The British missions 10 Ber- lin and Vienna cost sfo 900 each In sala- rIes to the respective ambassadors. St Petersburg sss.ooo. Rome ssS.ooo. Ger many is almost as liberal. with s5I.5oo for London and St. Petersburg and t5o.- 900 for Paris and Vienna.
 France pays all ambassadors a fixed salary of $500. but she allows them pocket money as follows: At Berlin. szo. coo: at London. s32.ooo: at Rome. sls. .Ooo; at St. Petersburg. t52eoo: al Vienna, s25.ooo Austria allows her agents only s5.eoo but furnishes them .pendinR money as follows. At Berlin. ,.s GOO. at Paris. sso GOO. at London. s2s. oOo: at Rome. s2s.o0o: al St. Peters burg SsoO0o. Even Italy Is more gem .rous than free America in her treat ment of her ambassadors. She gives them only tlooo as regular salary. but she adds a larger sum for local indem- nifty than the entire sum paid to our representatives.
 None of these European nfiicials has house rent 10 pay. Tn most instances their governments own ofncial resi- dences in the European capitals. and when this Is not the case the rent Is
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-06
QUAINT RECORDS.
State Library Gets a Prize From
 Town of Fairfield.

Mrs Elizabeth Hubbell Schenck of Washington, D. O., who has written a history of the town of Fairfield, has given to the state library several manuscript volumes relating to the town. One of them is one of the most interesting records in the H. brary and is entitled Journal for the town of Fairfield, or an exact and impartial account of the most material transactions from the first settlement thereof till the present ttme."
 The author of this journal with Wheeler, who was a young man at the time the British landed at Com DO Beach and made the raid on Danbury. Before the war was fair ly over he entered Yale college and the entries for the next four years are certainly interesting and poss1- bly, impartial Later he taught school, still later married and re- corded the cost of his new house, and became more staid and digni7 fled member of society than he was when ln New Haven.
 Pretty much everything was grist that came to his mill and though, despite his college education, he would charge madly upon group of inoffensive pronouns and scatter them in confusion, his meaning can generally be grasped. His events covered wide range of subjects, for he would tell of fierce thunder showers, of dead sailors washed up on the beach after the line storm, of the ravages of bloody f1ux, scar let fever and smallpox. and even a greater pest, the British. Mixed in with these are accounts of weddings bits of scandal and stories of student life. The following bit of romance comes early in the journal:
 My grandfather had, q learn from tradition, there being no Journals left of those times) many brothers and sisters, fourteen in all. Hannah the youngest died. She was very intelligent person about Is years of age, she was courted and expected to be married to King field, captain of ship who gave her gold ring, 3 pairs of green silk stockings, cts, but he being gone so long she was courted and married by Sam Wheeler. On the day of their marriage a ship appearing taken for Kingfeld's by the bride she burst into tears and declared she would not be married and half dressed hid in hole in back kitchen of my grandfather's who with horsewhir in hand dragged her out but she ran round him as he attempted to strike, They finally concluded to dispatch a boat to see who commanded said ship finding it was not kingfeld (who was lost) she was married but never could the captain be erased from her memory as, q am told by person who was an eye witness) she used frequently at 75 years of age to weep over his presents. My grandfather was very religious"
 Another visitation of Providence is recited in this manner: "1771 the lightning struck Stratfield meet. ing house and killed Uncle John Burr and ripped off the shoes of his brother Ozias that stood near him and killed likewise David Sher- man" At the time of the British
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-06
DAVID JAYNE HILL, AMBASSADOR TO GERMANY.

SEnslzndl church bells for three eoro nations He began at the age of ten
 The Victoria cross carries a pension of ss1 a year for privssez and nonoon- rlsssonsi omcers- The cross Is worn on the left breast. suspended by a red ribbon for the army. a blue for the navy
 In order to save distance the ter
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-06

- VOW that the difficulties in the
 MI way of the appointment of
 Dr. David Jayne Hill to the
 German mission have all been snoothed over it is interesting to find that the chief objection on the part of Germany has been his comparative lack of good American dollars. The genial doctor is by no means a poor man even from an American viewpoint, but in or der to fulfill all of the requirements of an ambassador a man must be very well to do indeed.
 MT. Charlemagne Tower. the retiring American ambassador. was an official of that ideal sort. He could afford to lodge the American embassy in build ing for which he paid s20.oOO year, and he did it, although it took all Of his salary of s17.500 and s2,5oo besides. He could also afford 10 astonish Berlin by the magnificence of his entertainments. and he did so. He gave series Of such splendid balls and dinners that he ac- tually made for himself unique place in the life of the German capital He was distinguished by the Berlinese with the title of the first ambassador, a decided novelty as applied to an Amer tcan. The kaiser did him the exception al honor to single him out on various occasions and even to dine with him at the grand American embassy. The kali serin. too. paid similar attention to Mrs. Tower. and the four German princes made it a point to be exceedingly polite to the Americans, and all the court cir cle did likewise.
 All this was good policy on the part of MT. Tower and an excellent thing for Uncle Sam. who was actually getting great deal for comparatively nothing. Iii made possible an intimacy between the American ambassador and the Ger man emperor which would have been quite out of the question for poor man. It enabled the ambassador to establish relations which were of i'm mense service in the transaction of pub lie business. It was the realization of the difference that would come with the new and poorer appointee that inspired the hostility of the German court to the idea of losing Mfr Tower. For long time it has been an admitted fact that a poor man cannot support the role of ambassador with credit either to him self or to the nation he represents. No salary paid by any government under frs sun is large enough to cover the expenses entailed by an official ambas- sadcrisl residence at foreign capital Even the oriental nations understand that perfectly. and in those countries the choice 9t foreign representative falls unfsfIiugly on the richest subject.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-06

CT. who had saved tzNoa. hid the money in hsnknotes in her fireplace Her daughter recently lit a fire there and destroyed all of them.
 It is estimated that the longest lived animals are the uhzls ssqa ysarsl. ca gIss tz99 ysarsB. zIIieztors fsse yesrsb and elephants gfrorn 1ss years upNssril-
 The largest cigars come from the
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-06
Two Men Dropped.

New Haven, May 6.-lntense indig- nation prevails among many of the students of the Yale Law school in the action yesterday, of Dean Henry Wade Rogers in the expulsion of two more members of tho junior class for troubles in scholarship. The kick is ever the lateness in the year that the action is taken. The men who went yesterday are the eighth and ninth to go on this grounds in the last few months. The men expelled yesterday were NJ. C. Smith and 4. La Cava.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-06

Philippine Islands. sunle Of them being eighteen inches long
 The Duke uf Perffsnd's estates com prfs- Iss co acres Fu C-aithnsss. 1-.es9 in Ayrshire. iz co in Northuuosriand-i ia-- s9s in Nottinghsmshirs and s.es9 in the Sftlzrds
 Iohu NsedhzFa- Who is Hineiy-nve years uf age has rurg the Barweil
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-06

miles often construct bridges from one gallery to another smeAsanan found one such built with a Enfhic arch half an inch brad. a quarter Of an inch thick and ten inches long
 SuEzr exists not only Ia the cane. beet root and maple. but slso in the sap Of nearly 1ss ether plants and trees
 The Weed Green GI-on5cnl district
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-06

council have decided to set apart ons room in their new central library for conversations on books. etc.
 Joseph Philips. aged eighty-thres. rs gently died at Fsrnhau. EngizDd- in the room fn which he uas born He nTsf In the szH1s house all his life
 The wheat area of India is sstimafs< at q. GO ess acre&