f i . WATERBmt'EtNING DEMOCRAT! MONDAY, NOVEMBER , 26, 1900. X NAUGATUCK HEWS - . Basket Ball league May Be Forpiea ."T in Town. It is hoped that a local basket hall ';. league will be formed in town, aa the ' people like to see the game and all the managers of last year's teams say that V it- paid them and that there is no rea son why it should not do so now. Every club which had a team last year : Ias one practicing now and every one " of the teams are confident, that they can beat any other team in town. Trolley cars will leave for Nauga . tuck at the close of the sociable to be . given by the Brooklyn Athletic club ' In Waterbury Thanksgiving afternoon and evening. Miss Margaret Deegan. who attends the state nor-na! school at Xew Haven, Is home for a short visit. Mr and ins William Donahue re luned home fiom their honeymoon fc'ntiv day night. John McErtle of Ilartford spent Sunday with friends in town. Some of the sports from up the road must have pulled some money from the foot ball game Saturday, as quite a party of them passed through here in ' rubber tired hacks yesterday morn ing. They all looked as though they were enjoying themselves. The firemen expect to have a large crowd at their dance "Wednesday night. The firemen depend upon the receipts for their relief fund and the people should turn out and help swell the same. John Driscoll of Seymour spent Sun day with friends in town. Forty hours' devotion opened yester day at St Francis's church. The at tendance was very large, considering 1he ftormy day. A number from here expect to go to Waterbury to-night to see Hi Hen ry's minstrels. There was no session in any of the rooms in the public schools to-day on account of the stormy weather. Miss Jennie Cronin spent Saturday witli friends in Hartford. Miss Jennie 0"Loughlin has returned from a short visit with friends in Ilartford. The train which is due here at 7:3." Sunday evenings was about one hour late last evening. A derailed baggage car at Derby was the cause. Martin Mulcahy. the young man who was sent to the hospital some time ago, is improving rapidly. There was no session of the bor ough court this morning. The companion court of the I. O. F. was organized Friday ' evening, with thirty-six charter members. This is a good beginning and the court looks forward to a prosperous future. David City, Neb, April 1, 1000. Genese Pure Food Co, Le Roy, X. Y.: Gentlemen: I must say in regard to GItAIX-O that there is nothing better or healthier. We have used it for years. My brother was a great coffee drinker. He was taken sick and the doctor said coffee was the cause of it, and told us to use GK.AIX-O. We got a package but did not like it at first, but now would not be without it. My brother has been well ever since we started to use it. Yours truly.- LITTLE SOCHOR. POISON IN A "WEARY BODY. Baman Beings Are Sulject to a. Spe cies of Self-Poisoning by tlie Cat in sr of Game. The eating1 of "high" game is un doubtedly attended with risks and the poisonous effects, are probably due to the toxins produced in the earliei stages of the putrefactive process, says the London Lancet. The advan tage, of course, of hanging game is that the flesh becomes tender and decidedly more digestible than when it is quite fresh. The ripening proc ess, however, may mean the elabora tion of toxins. It has been stated that the production of the character istic flavors of game is related direct-: ly to the amount of sulphuretted hy drogen or sulphur-alcohol set free, but it is rather repulsive to think I that the delicate flavors of game is .dependent upon that invariable prod luce of decomposition of rotten eggs Isulphuretted hydrogen. The smell ervolved during cooking of "high" !game is even more disgusting. , i Fresh game sometimes sets up inys iterious "poisoning symptoms, which jhave been attributed to the face of ithe game having been overhurried iand fatigued. Fatigue products, in deed, have been separated from over I bunted game which when injected ;into a healthy animal have produced ; marked poisonous effects. There is BO doubt that fatigue products undei certain circumstances are, also elab orated in the human body and give (rise to a species of self-poisoning, . characteristic symptoms of which ire iheadache, stupor and gastric and in ltestinal pains. The flesli of over driven cattle may prove poisonous from the same cause. j This curious formation of poisonous products in the flesh of animals through a' state of terror or exhaus tion is a question well, worth consid ering in relation to the wholesomEness of animal foods and emphasizes the .importance of slas-ing animals intend ed for food in the most humane way. V CURIOUS INFORMATION. A racehorse galloping at full speed clears from 20 feet to 24 feet at every bound. : Champagne to the value of $3,307,000 was imported into this country last year. - There are 300,000 French-Canadians, of whom 25,000 are voters, in Massa chusetts. - The children of different countries have different tastes, but tin swords re wanted all over the world. t In the last 6i years the speed of the ocean, steamers has been increased from 8 to 23 knots an hour. -- - -4 Mr. Whvmper thus describes the commencement of an eruption of the rolcano Cotopaxi: ; "A puff of steam was emitted, and-'.then-a brief, pause. Five minutes liter. tt column of inky blackness -began" to - issue, and rose Bp'itraig'ht in-the'tiir -wi tin-snefc pro digious', velocity - that--in leas -than three minutes it 'was 2d,0o6 feet above the rim of the crater. The tofi , of the column was about '40,000 feet Cot the level of the sea." . , WATjEBTOWlT JOTTINGS - k ; - ; k'lfi-t . ' Services as- iTsbal in the Churches, Yesterday. j The -services at the various church es yesterday were rather slimly "'at tended, owing to the inclemency of the weather: nevertheless the evening ser vices were well attended. At St John's church mass was celebrated at 8:30 by a priest from La Salle college, Hartford, who said mass instead of the regular pastor. During the sermon he spoke, for a short time, to the French of the church. At the Congregational church yesterday union services were held with tiic McthocWst people. Dur ing tlie services the Rev Mr Pcgrum gave his farewell sermon On next Tuesday he will be at the chapel to bid good bye to his friends. About the middle of the week he will leave for Nova Scotia, his future place Tf residence. Firemen's Ball. As the eve for the coming, ball cf thhe Watertown fire department draws near the more busy are the various committees. The committees who were named in this paper some time ago are doing everything in their pow er to make it surpass the one of last year. William Beers the jimsio com mittee, has secured the same orchestra as the one secured last year, that of Haulon's, while A. E. Blakeslee will prompt. Oakville Fair. The third night of the Oakville fail was finite as successful as the two nights preceding it. Those who wero in charge of the canvassing books worked hard and did a thriving busi ness. The stage performance afford ed bv the entertainment committee was gcod. Mrs John Keiley of Oakville lias written a short play, which will be gnen by herself and husband to uight. Notes. F. M. Painter. It. X. Magee and E. P. MeOowan attended the Yale- Har vard game in Xew Haven on Saturday. Burton Forter has accepted a posi tion in the Waterbury Clock factory. The regular meeting of the I. O. G. C. will be held this evening. The rain of yesterday and to-day is doing a world of good. The brooks are running to the overflowing of their banks. The regular meeting of the Poultry association will be held this evening in Waterbury. Bridget Hope sprained her ankl'. quite badly on Saturday afternoon. Dr Variell is attending her. ; The entire play of Roderick De-land's is now completed and will soon be ready for rehearsals. The play will probably be given some time in Feb ruary. M. E. Brahan and James Hanning caught a coon weighing twenty-six and one-half pounds. It gave the cog ome exercise before it killed him. OAKVILLE HAPPENINGS There were the usual services at the Union church yesterday and services in All Saints' in the evening. The morning service was omitted so that all who desired could attend the ser vices at Watertown. A special trolley car will leave Wa terbury at S o'clock to-night and will bring a party of Waterbury people to the fair. Mrs Frederick Main is on the sick list. Miss Xellie Shanahan is entertain ing out of town guests. Mrs Frank Hubbard was in this place Saturday visiting her mother, Mrs Hickox. Mrs Frank Ball was taken to the Waterbury hospital Friday. Her health has been poor for some time past. Charles Babin was in this place .Sat urday. The following lines were composed by Natalie Smith, 10 years, old. young est daughter of Mr and Mrs C. A. Smith, Oakville: WHAT THE FEX SAID. The writing pen said, "I wish 1 were dead; Of this weary world I've had enough. I am running and working from morn- ing to night, And every one treats me so rough. The school boys they treat me so very unkind. I am scratched and pointless and poor; And, oh, such -a life as a pen holder A pencil could never endure. The minhitar lakes me, his sermon to write. While thinking, he falls in a d&zo; I have all I can do while, he holds mo so t'ght, To keep then from scratching his nose." RAT SHOWED HIM THE MINE. Gold Ore Discovered to Mr. coldmby by a Rodent's Cari ous Habit. The actions of a rat led N. It. In goldsby to the discovery of a rich gold mine in Arizona. ,He named the property the Rat Hole mine. Mr. Ingoldsby had been . spending several months, near Mammoth, on the San Pedro river, in "Arizona. His pur pose was to enjoy '.the hnnting and make a collection of the' animals and minerals of the southwest. He pitched his tent in the canyon of the San Pedro, in the Santa. Catarina moun- ' tains, says a Zios Angeles exchange. He had no neighbors, and was for a long time unable to account for- the disappearance of .small., articles that he left lying about his cainp. At last he noticed that' when anything was : taken something was Teft' in its place. This was usually, a bit of stone or wood. The culprit "he found to be a rodent of the species known as the trading rat. The habits of the 'animal made an interesting study for Mr. Ingoldsby, and he .often1 lay awake at night to watch for his visitor. . A silver ? spoon -w?s ; missing one: morning, . and 'in, its' place was a. piece of quartz carrying free ' gold.; This1 still more excited r. Ingoldsfey s cu riosity, and after several attempts . he : succeeded tn following the animal to its home, s Near by 'was the ledge from which 'the gold-bearing1 quartz' had been taken. ' -Mr. Tngoidsby made an examination , .thorough ' enough ' to prove thai his discovery was of consid erable value '"",' r " - - .- , . j ISm elcrpthf ,, Hour of .Eastern Grid iron s ASK the gridiron followers who are the men most in the public eye in football in the east and- they will be quick with the retort: "Little Harold Weekes, the left half back of Columbia, who has twice scored touch downs against mighty Yale; Coach Sanford, the old son of Eli who is di recting the Columbia team, and whose strategy gave Weekes the opportunity to humiliate Mr. Sanford's alma mater eleven; Coach Percy Haughton, of Cornell, who took his disheartened Ithacans to the Nassau Tigers' field, coached them to use a few plays that the newspapers had said were dis carded and treated Princeton to a sec ond humiliation, this time to the tune of 12 to 0." Individual cases of great gridiron prowess are coexistent with every big game. Xone will ever care to de tract one whit from the magnificent play of Capt. Truxton Hare, the giant guard of the Pennsy team, when, ex hausted but net vanquished, the coura geous young man fought the crimson team almost single-handed, refusing to acknowledge that the red and blue was beaten by Harvard until the whistle blew for the call of time. His was the greatest individual work of the season, even though the results of his work were diminished by the futility of his team's work. So, too, it might be argued that the desperate work of Capt. Morley, of Columbia, against Princeton and the humiliation for the second time this season of Old Nassau's eleven should entitle him to a big place in the resume of the sea son. "Bill," as tlie Columbia captain is called, is a New Mexico ranchman. Beginning to play football at the Pennsylvania military academy, he played at Michigan, and this is his sixth season on the gridiron. Believ ing in the strenuous life, ft is con jectural what the great halfback will do when he returns to the sun-baked plains of his New Mexico establish ment. Percy Haughton is too good a stu dent of human nature to be turned by "any of the compliments hurled at him for his work with Cornell. He reads the men 'who praise him, feels sorry for some of them and "jollies" the others. When he played on the crimson team he was the best punter Harvard had ever had. The Ithacans H. WEEKS. are just now jubilant because of a fortunate circumstance that gave them Haughton's services as a coach. Without Haughton Cornell never would have triumphed for two succes sive seasons over the mighty Tigers under Capt. Pell. "Billy" Barnard, the former great Princeton player, had been engaged by Cornell to coach, but after he had got the team together he was compelled to cancel his con tract because of illness at heme. Cor nell aimed high. She made a great offer to Lewis, the greatest center Harvard had ever had, and one of the best defense strategists that ever donned a gridiron suit, .harvard could not think of letting Lewis go. Haugh ton would not see the Ithacans left without a coach, and took the con tract. Few will charge up to Haugh ton the defeat of Capt. Starbucks eleven by the Maroons at Marshall field. The head coach had had his men but one day before starting to Chicago to play. Yet football history will ever record the progress the Itha cans made when the big, good-natured Harvard man got his stride in coach ing the latter part of that season. In defeating Trinceton this season Cornell used Houghton's ideas, exe cuted them nicely in spite of a driz zling rain and fumbled the ball but ence. A precedent was established, for that was the first defeat that had ever been given to proud Nassau on her own gridiron. Otherwise. Haugh ton's men did not offend the coach. "I baffled the Tigers," said, Haugh ton, "by ordering a combination of heavy line players and delayed passes for Cornell's offense. At that I do not consider the score a criterion of the- comparative strength of the teams. After our team had scored twice on the Tigers it was content to play on the defense; Warner was a tower cf strength on offense, failing at no time to gain his distance. Star- buck showed great speed on tackle plays. Some of the critics, are talk ing of him for a place on the All America team. The defense of Cornell was so satisfactory that Lewis would have found no fault. Every time a Tiger back hit the line he was invari ably hurled back for ' a loss. .. How 6trcng that defense was is shown by a glance at a diagram of the contest Five times did Princeton have the ball inside Cornell's 15-yard line, yet she failed to score The Tigers had much to learn in handling punts.'' . .inn mil,--'- : ..... .V';:-' --'ValiWWWJBtV .JPUBE'-:'v "--. Makes the food more delicious and wholesome I .- ' ' IIOYAL 0AK1NO POWOCR CO., HBW VOftK. ' H e ro e s p F t K e Haughton was under a handicap when he sent his men on to Princeton field. His star tackle, Alexander, was not in the game, and that Was a de cided advantage to the opposing team. Besides, he knew, if his team players did not realize it, that Princeton had never bowed to defeat at home. As to Coach George F. Sanford, of Columbia, it might be said that while Yale has never been enthusiastic about inviting the old Eli player to her coaching bee, the coach has forgotten the scoring Weekes did against his alma mater and has shown that he can visit New Haven and make the candidates for positions on the team feel that, they are being dTiven by an efficient man. Once last year Sanford gave up his position for a week to help out his alma mater in coaching. San- COACH GEORGE FOSTER SAN.-ORD. ford was a wonderful center. Be sides, years ago. when he was promi nent in Y'ale athletics, he was a speedy distance man in track athletics. Suc cess tells Columbia thought that San ford would be the right man for her material and gathered him in for $5,XK). While : it is true that the Princeton coaches throughout the country have been generally more successful than the men from other 'varsities, it is a remark able fact that no school can show such an able group of men active at the same time in gridiron teaching as the sons of old Yale, A. A. Stagg, O. F. Sanford. Coach George Woodruff and Dr. Wiljiains. Jt may be a ques tion in the minds cf many followers of football whether j.bese strategists could maintain victory over such g"rcat conches as Cochrane and "King" Kelly, but the fact remains that the football world is almost daily discussing the work of this Yale group. Woodruff, with a persistence that knows no bounds, has stuck to his "guards back" formation'even after a strong team ha shown- him. how easily a past master in defense like Lewis can easily give a combination which will stop it. Yet when Pennsy was good under the direct teaching of Dr. Woodruff there were many men who began to' think that pernaps, after all, the guards back was a most effective play. Harvard threw the formation off like water rolling off the back of a duck. Then Dr. Willams is widely discussed in football because his Gophers have, under his Y'ale methods, so puzzled the coaches of 'Other western universi ties that many a leader lost sleep planning to counteract Williams' strategy. It would be queer if the coaches like Stagg, Woodruff, Sanford and Williams should insist upon resur recting some of the strategy that was in vogue a decade ago to teach it to their charges to-day. Football, as a matter of fact, has developed wonder fully in a decade, but it has developed systematically, and the old stars see little in the plaj' of to-day that com- COACH PERCY HAUGHTON. mends it to them. Because some one has hit iipon a particularly efficient play, the coach ers have had to work overtime -in devising defense to meet thj requirements. Now and then a wriggling, twisting, hopping, speedy", erratic and sensa tional little bundle of energy lika Richardson, the former half back of Brown university, or Weekes, of Co lumbia, will set at naught all of the problems of defense framed by the coachers. Then it is said that the player who gets in the necessary touchdowns is in a class by himself. It will never be known, however, how much of the element of luck there has been in the work of both these men. E. G. WESTLAKB. . - ' limitation. - Xo clergyman of the Church of Eng land may' engage in trade unless it shall be on behalf of any number of partners exceeding six. or where the business devolves upon him "by wilL RUSSIA WANTS Her Principal National Scheme ta the Development of Her ' - .r Renonre-es. :" The present ' czar has been some thing of a puzzls to the world. Much was expected of him by the friends ol Bussian progress because of his known inclination toward, liberalism. His course has been somewhat, but not wholly, disappointing. A considerable influence has bee-n retained by Pobe donostzeff. The Hussion national par ty has grown in strength until revolu tion and socialism, if .they exist, are lost-in greater movements and are heard of noniore. The good understad ing with France continues, being based on the solid ground of financial self interest. The general peace policy inaugu rated by Alexander III. has been em phasized by an attempt to reach a ba sis of universal peace through the peace congress at The Hague, says 8 writer in the Chautauquan. The ini tiation of this movement by Russia has been the subject of heated contro versy as to the Bussian motive. It may have been due in part to the enlight ened views of the czar, but its promo tion by Russia was unquestionably dic tated in self -interest. It is to be noted that Russia is now at the highest point of prosperity that she has yet attained, and is putting forth strenuous efforts to extend and consolidate her vast em pire. Peace is the need of the Russion na tionalista pence that will enable them to negotiate with China for Man churia, and to utilize their wealth in the building of railroads and in pro moting unity in other ways. They do not wish to be disturbed in the Russi fication of Finland and the other prov inces, which is an important part of the national scheme. KANSAS CITY HEROINE. How a Plucky Girl Gave Her Pocliet. book to a Burly and Impolite Ilolil-l i Man. The Kansas City Journal says that the incident here related happened out on a suburban boulevard last Sat urday night. The heroine is an ath letic girl out of high school only a year. The girl was returning to hei home a little later than is customary for young women to be on the streets and when she was within a block oi her house a man sprang out from be hind a tree and demanded her pocket book. Upon the girl's hesitation to give up her money the man stepped nearer and growled: "Haffd me your pocketbook, and b "HANDED" IT TO HIM. I quick about it and don't make anj fuss." When the man made a second de mand for the pocketbook the girl stepped close to him and "handed" it to him, but not in the manner ex pected. She just landed one on the jaw with the hand that carried the pocketbook. The leather- spread out over the little fist, and, as there was considerable silver in it, the blow was vicious. The robber went down in a heap. He was on his feet in a second and came back at the girl with a look oi the greatest surprise on his face. "Hand me that pocketbook," he growled. "All right," answered the girl, strik ing him again on the side of the jaw This time the man. did not get up sc quickly, but lay a moment groaning on the ground. This was the advan tage the girl was looking for, and she took to her heels and was soon with in her own home. And here follows another queer-part of this true tale: When she flew throiigh the doors oi her hpme and was met by her mother and sisters this strange girl didn'i faint, but she just sat down ano laughed a loud, ringing laugh, ant made light of her adventure. THEY SUFFER NO PENALTY. Scores of Yen Wbo Rot) Banks Are Never Drought to the Bar of Justice. "Alvord's theft . of $700,000 and Sehreiber's of $106. COO," said an expert accountant, accordirg to the Philadel phia Kecox'd, "go to show that in al! business it is impossible to prevent dis honest men from stealing. No matter how thprough the auditing may be, no matter how Closely the heads watch those under them, every man who handles money can steal, with a reason able chance of escaping detection That more such men don't steal speaks well for human nature, but I must qual ify this statement with the additional one that many do steal and are caught, but their employers, while discharging them, do not make public their crimes. It isn't charity which impels the em ployers to db this, though; it is a fear of hurting the credit cf the firm. "You can safely say that 00 per cent, of the thieving employes of Philadel phia are not brought to justice. Usual ly they arrange to payback their defal cations on the installment plan. I know a bachelor of 43 who in his youth robbed the bank, that entployed -him- of $4,800; with which he speculated, .hoping to make enough to marry.-,, He lost all, was discovered' and is 'still paying off, out of a pa-try salary,, that . debt . of shame. I know, the histories of scores ol defaulters; and in. every. ,ase - the thefts were, in a way, innocently begun. The money was tak'en with the 'deter mination that it would be replaced." i if 1 1 NEW INVASION OF INDIA; I American.' Clgartte;i Are Carrying AH Before Them In the t ' Orient. The idea that the native Indian es chews all but his . native tobacco,' w4iich he takes mostly in the form of cheroots, receives a hard r shock from the newly issued official Review of the Trade of India. It appears that in 1S98-99 the imports of manufactured tobacco, especially in the shape of cigarettes, underwent much expan sion., . ' It is. no longer true that the con sumption of imported tobacco is prac tically confined to the Anglo-Indian population. Cigarettes made in Amer ica are being extensively imported now with special reference to the re quirements of the native smoker, says the London Mail. They are greatly in evidence in and about CaL-utta and other large cities, where they are be ginning to supersede the unclean and unsavory compounds smoked in na tive apparatus. Imported cottons have largely su perseded the production of the native handloom; imported mineral oil and dyes have superseded the inferior ar ticles produced in the country, to the great advantage of the consumer; im ported sugar is also gradually begin ning to thrust back the inferior and dirty sugar hitherto offered to the Indian consumer: and now it seems that Indian tobacco is to recoil be fore the invasion of foreign tobacco made up in neatly packed cigarettes. Another turn of the wheel, and when the people have bcccne accustomed j to the better article the capitalist , will arise and make it cn the spot of Indian tobacco, to the advantage of both producer and consumer, os has been done wirh cotton goods and will be dene with sugar. THERE WAS A MISTAKE. Case of Gennine Honesty Thai Took an Iuercunloas Scoffer Off Ills Feet. "I think," he began, as he halted a pedestrian on a back bay street in Boston. "I think I made a mistake with the cabman who drove me to the art gallery. I am quite sure I gave him a ten dollar bill, but he must have mis taken it for a two dollar bill." "And you hope to find him again?" asked the man, who was a stranger in the city, relates an eastern exchange. "Why, yes, I have hopes." "Well, you are about as green as they make 'em. That cabman delib erately swindled you out of many dol lars." "I can't hardly believe it. He looked so honest and truthful that I I " "That you ought to have asked him to hold your watch and the rest cf your money! My dear old Josh from the cornfields, let me say " At that minute a cab rattled up, and the driver dismounted and said: "See here, olil man, there is a mis take. Y'ou probably meant to give me a two dollar bill, and I thought it was one when I gave you one dollar change." "But I think it was a ten, my friend." "Xo, it was a twenty, and I have been driving about for half an hour to find you and restore the monej-. Here it is." "And what was H you were goin to say to your dear old Josh from the cornfields?" asked the old man, as he turned to the stranger. But the stranger was there no long- j cr. He "was flying for a subway car I as if ruaning for his life. Fiahins Industry of Lake Erie. In the Lake Erie fisheries 3,728 men are employed and 2,710,654 capital. Last year's catch is valued at $1,150,890. SEASON i The Greater New York Fur Co.; Watch this space for the The extreme mild weather of the mouth of October cut off the purchases and the re orders down to half the normal trade, conse quently .we have a great line of our own manu factured FUR JACK ETS, CAPES, COL LARETTES, XECK SCAttFS, STALLS, MUFFS and 'j: RIM MING S, of which you can save money by buy ing this month any of these garments above. We also have an Near seal Skin Jacket, lined with ,( Skinner's best quality satin, guaran teed to wear for two years. Regular price 50.00, for month of November only 35.00. latest styles. STYLE NO. I 14-. Fur Garments that may be slight ly out of style will be carefully alter ed to fit the wearer perfectly and couf orm fully to the. prevailing fashions.. We are dyeing and dressing all kinds of Fur. -, ALL OUR WORK REPAIRED FRE E FOR ONE YEAR. The Greater New York Fur Co! A. ICatz & Co, Props. -M-M M4H.i.. he Smith V Premier Typewriter 06., New York Office 3$j Broadway; - Ilartford Office ' ? L I F S A V IN G S T A 0 N . " One Jr Ieias -prected - VT faulted K" States (jovcrn mcnt. ' Work was. 'recently begua? onthe United States life saving station upon the grounds of the Pan-American Ks position at Buffalo, Y. The site oi .. the- sSation is on the north side of the lake in Delaware park, in one of 'th ' mosti beautiful portions of the- Ex position grounds. , The life saving station will be fully equipped with apparatus and men and will be a most attractive as well as novel exhibit. Life saving exhibitions will be given every day during the progress of the Exposition. The appa ratus in use by tlie government for this purpbss will be shown and a crew -of ten picked men will be employed In giving the exhibitions. The station ia to be modeled after one of the regular stations along the coast of the United States. HE KILLED HIMSELF. Boencse His W ife Had Said "ItTToald Be Better for the Children It . Von Were Dead." J ' ' George Oliver James Palmer, former chief clerk of the invoice department of the United States army building in Xew York, is dead, with t?ie horrible, scarifying marks of carbolic acid on his lips and chin. His widow is at the home, 513 West One Hundred and Sixty-first street, repenting of a hasty speech, and at her knees are two iH-etty children, fatherless because of a word rashly spoken. :, There had been a misundrstar.d';ng j one of those slight, things that may tccoms a stone barrier between feus- -j band . and wife, while each r.t heart would break it do-vn. He spoke in some heat. She had retorted: "Perhaps it would be better for the children if you were dead." - i It had been an idle speech; she had regretted it the moment she nokc. i But he was gone and she could not r.ll it. back. All day the speech luzzed in iK-r ears; a vague sense of evil to come oppressed her. As for him, he went away dazecl. lie VICTIM OP A CRUEL, TONGUE. , knew that she did not mean it; knew that she could not have felt it. But: it had stung him before he knew it and it rankled in him and would not ease. He worked all day in silence. His fellow men noticed that he was pre occupied, but nothing more. When evening came he did not go home, but wandered in the streets till after mid night. A little after six o'clock next morning Policeman Yosburg found him lying in a maple grove near One Hundred and Sixty-fourth street and Broadway. In his pocket was a note addressed to his wife and ending: . "You v.-ill never, know, dear, what a day of agony this has been for me. But I am going to my execution with a stout heart and a clear conscience, for in doing so I am making the happiness of. my children sure." , 1900-1901 Watch this space fop the latest styles. ' STYLE NO. 112 40 Center St, Waterbury, Conn. A DIPLOMA OF THE GRAND, PBIX, (HIGHEST TOSSIBLE AWARD). 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