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Connecticut western news., 1909-08-26

ly, the engines were set in motion, and everything seemed to work to perfec- tion. Then it's head was turned north. and it set out at speed of twenty-five miles an hour.
 After an hours flight the leather guide rope, to which was attached thousand pounds of provisions, parted. The balloon ascended, and it was with great difficulty that Wellman managed to get rope aboard the Tram, which was following the explorers.
 AS the vessel steamed away the gas in the bag exploded, damaging the air ship so badly as to preclude any fur ther attempt to fly to the pole this year
 MT. Wellman will return to Norway next week. He insists that the airship was not seriously damaged, but can be repaired. He is enlarging the balloon house to accommodate a longer and more powerful ship for future use.
Connecticut western news., 1909-08-26
TWELVE DEAD FROM
 RIOT AT CAR WORKS
State Troopers and Strikers
 Clash at SChOenViIIe.

Pittsburg, Aug. 25.-Rioting broke out again at the plant of the Pressed Steel Car company at Schoenville, in which three state troopers, one deputy sheriff, eight strikers and a strike sym pathizer were killed and at least six were mortally wounded.
 A mob of 1000 strikers gathered in front of the swinging gates of the stockade and began a concerted attack The state troopers resisted, and in the melee Harry Exter. a deputy sheriff, fifty years old, was shot and killed by a supposed strike sympathizer.
 In an effort to arrest a man picked out of the crowd as the one who did the shooting State Trooper Smith was killed by revolver bullet. Two other troopers on foot were also shot and killed. falling into the arms of their comrades.
 The state troopers then opened fire on the mob in a volley for the first time since the inception of the strike Six strikers fell to the ground at the first round, three of them fatally wounded.
 Members of the mob then opened fire with rifles in return. Several troopers were wounded. An ambulance which was carrying the wounded troopers to a. hospital was later attacked, and the driver was forced to fee.
 It is conceded that the fight is lost to the strikers. The Pressed Steel Car company plant is in operation with over 1000 men at work. These men, while not all skilled or finished work men, are turning out steel cars which are placed on view just outside the car plant gates. In a measure President Frank Hoffstot of the car company made good his word given at the in- ception of the labor trouble that he would never give in to the strikers.
Connecticut western news., 1909-08-26
AVIAT0RS MAKE MANY
 MARVELLOUS FLIGHTS
PauIham AsCends 300 Feet,
 Setting New Record.

Betheny Aviation Field, Rheims, Aug. 25.-A marvellous prolonged high flight of thirty kilometers in a twenty knot breeze by Paulham and the es- tablishment of a new worlds record for ten k1ometers at the rate of forty seven miles an hour by Bleriot were among the sensational features of the aerial race meeting.
 President Fallieres and the members of his cabinet visited the field, and his presence stimulated the sky pilots to a display of prowess despite the high wind.
 Young Bunau-Varilla, with his ma chine reeling and plunging like a ship ill stormy sea, managed to navigate the turbulent air currents for one round.
 Then Paulham who already had won a reputation for courage and en- durance, began his thrilling flight. He made the first two rounds at an alti- tude of 250 feet; but, ascending in front of the tribunes as he entered the third circuit, he reached a height of between 400 and 800 feet
 Then came the unprecedented sight of six flying machines in the air si-
 simultaneously. Latham, Count de Lam- bert, SOmmer, G. B. COckburn, Leon Delagrange and Fournier ci"ylcl the course the motors of their Ia.c,lines working faultlesSly. They covered all most twenty miles before descending. HOnOrs were divided between Glenn H. CurtisS, the American aviator, and
 M. Paulham, representing France, the former making a thrilling flight at the rate of fOrty-thrGe miles an hour, ill
 which he lowered the speed record for the course. which measures six and One-ffth miles, to minutes 35 2-5 sec Onds, the latter making two impressive high altitude flights of fOrty-nine and | One-half and fifty-six kilometers re spectively i'll the endurance test for
 the PriX de la Champagne. With a preliminary run along the
 ground of hundred yards Curtiss' | machine rose lightly and shot by the tribunes at 8 height of sixty feet It
 was going at terrific pace, with the wing level as a plain. He descended so close to earth that many thought he touched; but, perceiving his error, he mounted quickly and easily, crossing the line majestically. An instant later
 the signal was hOisted that he had made a record.
Connecticut western news., 1909-08-26
TREATMENTS TOURNAMENT
LakeYiIe Making Great Preparations
 to Entertain a Big Crowd.

LakeYille Waking Great Preparatons
 to Entertain Big Crowd.
 All roads will lead to Lakeville, Labor Day, Sept. 9th, the day of the Harlem Valley .Flremen's Tournament. The big parade starts at ten o'clock and from that time there will be something doing every minute. District Attorney Wm. Travers Jerome of New York and Hon. Geo. P. Mclean, former governor of Connecticut, will make addresses. The sports will consist of Hook and Ladder, Hose, Hub and Hub and running races, following by a baseball game between the fast Lime Rock and Lakeville teams of The Housatonic Valley League. Dinner at 25c will be served on the grounds. There will be many things to interest visitors. Between 300 and 400 flremen with bands will to in line, and ID effort Is being spared to make thIs the biggest day Lakeville has ever seen. Admission to grounds, which includes all events, only % cents. Through cars from Chatham, Pawling and inter mediate stations will arrive at LakeI ille at ten a. m. and returning, leave athletic field at 5,20 p. m., traIns from the east arrive at s 43 and II a. m. Returning leave Lakeville at 3. Al and 6.20 D. m.
Connecticut western news., 1909-08-26
FOWLER MAKES FIERCE
 ATTACK ON CANNON
Congressman Calls Speakers
 Record "ROtten,"

Washington, Aug. 25.-Representative Charles N. Fowler of Elizabeth, N. J., former chairman of the house commit tee of banking and finance, who was one of the leading insurgents in the last session of congress. issued in an open letter a scathing attack upon Speaker Cannon, in which he de- nounces the speaker for his hostility to financial legislation and downward tariff revision.
 Following is a part of the Fowler ar raignment directed against Uncle Joe:
 Do you suppose, sir, that l did not appreciate fully the probable conse-
Connecticut western news., 1909-08-26
BALLOON EXPLODES;
 WELLMAN'S TRIP OFF
32 Miles Toward North
 Pole Before Accident.

Camp Wellman, Spitzbergen, Aug. %. Walter Weiimans second attempt to reach the north pole in balloon failed when the gas bag exploded after carry ing the explorer and his three compan- ions about thirty-two miles. The trip was postponed until next year, as it will take several months to repair the damages.
 After long preparation and waiting for favorable weather the opportunity came. When the anchors were cast loose the airship ascended beautiful
Connecticut western news., 1909-08-26
Choose Your Words

A lady who was very plain looking called on friend.
 This friends little girl came into the room and her mother introduced her. 'tBut, mamma, isn't she awful homely T said the young hopeful"
 "Why, Laura, you mustn't say such things; it isn't polite"
 "I meant it only as a joke"
 "But. dear, how much more of joke it would have been if you had said how pretty she is. "-Success Magazine
Connecticut western news., 1909-08-26
Woman s License Objected To.

A remonstrance has been filed with the Hartford county commissioners by George W. Hull of Bristol, against the transfer of the liquor license issued to O. F. Michael for the Commercial House, in Bristol, to Mrs Margaret L. Wheeler, who formerly conducted hotel at Win sted before the town went no-license.
 MT. Hull is temperance worker and he has a special objection to a liquor li- cense being issued to woman. A hear ing will be given on the remonstrance by the county commissioners on Friday at 10 a. m.
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 quences of my act when undertook to play my part in securing this reform (of the banking laws)? Do you suppose that I was not aware of your igno- rance, prejudice, inOrdinate conceft, fla voritism, putrid preferences, and that, like all such characters possessing ab- solute power, malice is the handspring of your action under such circum- stances?
 This is your record upon our finan- cial and currency legislation. I chal- lenge you to find q single living man with so rotten a one. It is a record of ignorance or political cowardice or disgraceful hybrid of the two"
 After accusing Cannon of cOnspiring with Senator Aldrich to pack the con- ference committee on the tariff bill against the house bill Fowler charges:
 "I have gone into these details to lay bare your miserable. cOntemptible false pretenses and to expose your duplicity treacnery and perfidy to that legisla- tive body over which you preside, whose bill you were bound to defend and not to destroy"
 Concluding, Representative Bowler speaks of Uncle Joes cOntemptible trickery and traitOrous treachery," "fa- voritism and venSeful malice," brutal despotism and daringly desperate methods"
 If the Republican party wins the next congressional election it will be only upon the grave of 'Cannonis4n,' " says the congressman.
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search for unintelligible. profound. mean
ingless, cultivated words that would make
his story read like an extract from a med
ical journal and kill it's reliability deader
than a door nail. And instead of calling
the hookworm by it's high-browed bac-
THEOLOGICAL title Of Uncinaria Americana,
he christened ii 1.-The germ of lazfness."
1t Is unnecessary at this time to narrate
how that particular child grew to a large
adult proposition on the strength of that
name, for everybody knows. But 1t is
wearisome to pick up newspapers and
magazines and read the pleasant COM
ments Of bone-headed writer's on the sub
ject OF the hookworm disease: that DR..
Stiles was ridiculed off the map; that so
much fun was made of him that his heart
nearly busted In twain; that the disease
was permitted to gain great Roadway
while cartoonists and newspaper funny
men were having their fling at 'the germ
of laziness," and a lot more truck to the
same effect.
Fact is that the germ of lazness story
made the story of the hookworm familiar
to people In the east and west north and
south. Confronted with the germ of lazi-
ness. they Immediately demanded an ex-
PLANTATION. Not forthcoming, they sought
1t themselves. As a result people of all
classes know more today about the hook
worm, a recent discovery. than they do
about the great white plague. that has
ravaged lands. ancient and modern. since
the beginning. That germ Of laziness
story was educational and valuable. and
yet all the enlightened members Of the
Solemn-as-Death Club, the Ancient and
Honorable Society Of Stone Heads and
the Amalgamated Order of Concrete
Conks are elevating their pious hands and
bleating into the unresisting air to the
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looked the dame over and she was there
with the goods She had hair the color
Of ripe butterscotch and every time she
threw her lamps on me / had that Oh
MISUNDERSTANDING feeling. But. being
a respectable married man who hasn
worked in the oat patch for a consider
able spell, I shed the cable car, the coal
hod and the ironing board. tipped my lid
and scooted for the shop door. This time
I made the rifle but as there wasn't any
body inside struggling to wait on me, 1t
must have been all of half an hour later
when I ran the rapids again and looked
around for the lady with the lamps and
the accommodating disposition"
and, Of course" 1 suggested gleefully.
shed skipped with the packages.
knew just how that would be. 1 had an
exper-
solo. AS I was saying. I looked around
for the dame with the lamps, but she
wasn't in sight. My wife was. though,
and the cable car, the coal bod and the
ironing board were in her possession"
But" I protested feebly, Il don't see
Don't your cried my friend. well.
yiu will in a minute. Wife was peev-
ish. I may say without exaggeration
that wife was irritated. Every time she
looked at me got neuralgia in the face.
and when she spoke my name my coat
collar turned up automatically.
81 observe said Wife in a minute or
SO, that these packages bear your name.
Sure I said. I'll explain as we walk
along You see-1
THE matter has already been ex-
planned to my understandings said wife.
I was standing in this doorway waiting
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for a car. when a melasses-haired woman.
with a couple OF green eyes in her face
and near diamonds scattered all over her
system, pranced up to me and said In
her hard. cold voice: Say. ] got to drift
along now. and IL you'n hold these bun
dies and give them to my friend-a big.
nice-looking stout person-when he comes
out, I'll be much obliged. And. say. Just
tell him that I'll meet him tomorrow
morning at IL on this corner
My fat friend wiped his brow and
breathed heavily.
what happened?" inquired with a
fugitive grin.
Most everything" he replied. wife
didn't believe my story, and says that as
a liar I'm even more Of a dub than I am
other ways, which Is going some. But
after a while I got her feeling better. and
some days later everything was going
fine. when got in bad again.
THE same way?" ] inquired.
mo. you fool" replied my fat friend.
rudely; I'm a rube. all right. but not that
kind This time it was a bunch Of mis-
tletoe. MY wife got the Christmas spirit
in her head and she put mistletoe all over
the house. Told me all the time that 1
was too matter of fact; that I didn't en-
ter into the spirit of the season.
well, Just a few days after the nrst
calamity was sitting home reading. wnen
there came a ring at the bell and drtfted
out to see what was what. There was a
lady at the door-a nice young thing all
fixed I'D. regardless-and she wanted to
stick me for a couple OF tickets for a
Christmas charity bazaar.
81 invited her into the parlor to talk II
over, and she was sitting in chair right
In the middle Of the room when the light
ming struck. Anyhow. 1t was something
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like that This ticket-seiling lady glanced
up and saw this mistletoe.
"'Gracious.' she said. with one or those
naughty little looks, one OF those you're
so-big- q nd-I'm- sc-little giances-'afnt I
tho careless thing. Here l sat right nm
der that mistletoe and never noticed II.
But suppose now I've done II I've got TO
be game around this season OF the year.
What did you dor" I Inquired with
breathiess curiosity.
You ham" gurgled my friend. fero-
ciousiy. what do you suppose did! Took
the lady by the nesk and threw her out
OF the window? Doubled up my fist and
hit her between the ewes? Grabbed n
chair and beat her over the head? Picked
up the piano stool and played the wedding
march on her topknot? Why. YOU blith-
ering idiot, / did the only thing left for a
large male person to do. / toed the
scratch and gave her a kiss you could
hear at the Center market"
and then
and then" resumed my fat friend.
dropping his voice to a mournful cadence
''it happened. II happened just theni
Wife had come drifting down the hall to
see who had called and got there Just In
time for the climax OF the first act
And then" I suggested again.
"That'll be about all" said my friend.
'.just about all. That was nearly year
ago. and / amt entirely square yet. I'm
a marked man. I'm suspected. She's got
IL fixed In her mind that I'm real devil
dame get my manners going.
so this Christmas said my fat friend
in conclusion. yours truly is certainly
going to spend in quiet and seclnsion on q
business trip out of town"
IRVING c. NORWOOD.
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proof OF the road work, in the bright
sunlight. which he did around Carlsbad.
The bunch inspecting him paved him
over, while JEFF continued to gaze at the
ceiling or professed to be interested In
things that nobody else saw out of the
window. The fighters flesh felt like an
automobile tire to the touch.
One Of the bunch slipped up behind
JEFF and gave him a pretty hard pinch on
the calf of his right leg, as If the fighter
were posing as a tattooed man. and the
pincher wanted to see II the tattooing
was faxed or on the level JEFF gave a
grunt. and then. wheeling. he grabbed
hold Of the pincher, lifted him from the
ground as IL he had been a sack of table
salt. and strolled over to a window with
him, as If he intended to toss him into
Broadway. The man JEFF thus lifted up
and carried around like a baby weighs
1s5 pounds. JEFF set him down at the
window with a grin and resumed his
embarrassed position on the Persian rug
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the Amalgamated Order or Cohcreee
Conks. are much disturbed nowadays over
the levity with which they insist the nook
worm disease has been treated for the
past seven years. Taking as their cue the
fund of 81 100000 set aside by Mr.. Rookie
Teller as the motive power Of an educa-
tionaI and medical campaign against the
malady. these people bemoan the fact
that DR.. Charles Wardell Stiles. discov-
erer OF the American hookworm. Is just
coming into his own.
Shucks! Also rats and piff1e. when
DR. Stiles made his announcement or the
hookworm proposition seven years ago, a
New York reporter, who happened 10 De
the only newspaper man in attendance on
this particular session Of the pan-Ameri-
can medical congress. or whatever body IT
was that was meeting in Washington at
the time, wrote the story or the nook
worm and its ravages in words OF one
SYLLABLE He didn't strike his brow ana
destroy an unabridged dictionary In his
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effect that Dr. Stiles has at last come into
his own and that, the dreadful effects OF
newspaper ridicule having died away. the
hookworm plague may at last be COM
bated on a scientific basis.
Once more and all together. "Pihie"
HAVE a friend who loathes and hates
1 Christmas, and I never knew why till
just the other day. I was aware that
every time the joyous yuletide season was
mentioned he'd squirm as though clad in
new wooden underwear with the fuzz turn
ed in-but 1 didn't know his story. So
'tother day, when I saw him climb aboard
a car bound out our way with a couple
OF packages clutched to his bosom.
thought I'd try for a rise.
"Um," / said. looks to me as II you're
starting Christmas shopping pretty early
this year. Thought you didn't like the
festive season."
Ouch! He turned on me look that was
like a 2O.OOO-volt current. 1t scorched.
So / got sympathetic and confidential.
Whats the matter with you and
Christmas?' I suggested. Ever have
trouble around that season.
Trouble" rumbled my friend-who is
a large and portly citizen-"trouble? Why,
land. overcome by his emotions, he
breathed vaporized alcohol in my direc-
ton.
TELL me-" I commanded.
Say" said my fat friend. 81 don't like
this Christmas thing because last year at
that season / nearly lost my happy home.
had seventeen kinds Of trouble. II any
thing like 1t ever happens again I'll bet q
dollar and a half to q string Of pink pop
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personally responsible for the SUITS
against them. But I never mind that
particularly: it's all a part Of the days
work." he said quite chirpily. you know.
LAS for that. i don't blame 'em for past
ing me sometimes, for I have to do some
mighty mean. underhanded things occa-
sionally In order to serve papers, espe-
cially when I'm up against dodgers.
Now. / wouldn't have blamed a man
that I served about two weeks ago w-.h
a suit summons for handing me one. but
he didn't do 1t. He was too much aston
ished over the way the thing was worked
on him. guess. At that, / didn't waste
any time getting out Of his way. The
main thing about being process server,
you know, consists in understanding the
art of beating what's called a mastery
retreat. / don't know how mastery my
retreats may be. but / do know that
they're quick ones. I've made study Of
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has labored in so many widely strewn
vineyards that he can't remember the
names Of some OF them.
The runty man with the big spectacles
looked just about as unhappy as a new
reporter usually looks when he's sitting
around a city room waiting for his first
assignment.
I'D tell you the name Of the city editor.
only I'm going to call him a crouch and
a crab, and so I won't be personal. He
was a fne city editor all proper enough,
but he had one awful soreness on the
world and everybody in 1t. including him
self. He was just an old-fashioned two
handed city editor with a kick in each
hand, that's all; so let it go at that.
'The Chronicle had a pretty big city
staff then, as 1t always has had. The
city editor called the reporters up in turn
and dished out their assignments. He
had a growl for each Of 'em about the
stuff they had in the paper that morning.
The stuff was inadequate. idiotic, incom-
plete or something-that city editor had a
wallop for each Of them as they lounged
up to his desk: and one man. who had
been beat on an incOnsequential feature
Of the previous days sizeable story by
one of the other papers. got sure-enough
jolting from the Grabbed city editor. But
the jolted one only grinned. We were all
used to the old man and his rawlings
didn't scar very deeply.
1.-THE little new man with the large
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THE SERVER OF LEGAL PAPERS.

1 could. considering my real nervousness,
and she commanded me not to serve the
summons on John l.. She was in dead
earnest, too.
Do you want to get yourself killed? =
she demanded of me in terrified voice
over the phone. DO you want to leave
me a widow sand your children orphans
That boxfighter will murder you! Are you
crazy? You come right home here this
minute. 1 want to see you. Don't you
dare try to serve any paper on that wild
man.
Il told her that / wouldn't. then. II
she said not to. and that I'd be right up
to the fiat. But 1 said that Of course.
only to get her to ring off. / knew I'd
have to serve the paper. I wasn't going
to be disgraced with my boss after the
bluff I'd made.
Il walked into John LIS saloon along
toward the middle Of the afternoon. and
there he was. sitting at q table with a
bunch Of cronies He was drinking min
eral water. l was sorry to see that.
Somebody had told me that John L. was