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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-09
Babies on the Stage.

Mrs. Fernandez, of New York, is the prin- cipal agent to whom managers look for their supply of stage children. She lately ex- pressed the opinion that baby is the most important factor in stage belongings It is absolutely necessary to have good baby-one that will not cry, and good babies are ex- tremely rare; therefore they bring a good price. A we'll behaved baby in long clothes commands $10 a week if only to be rried across the stage. Of this class it is difficult to keep up the supply, for the reason that a baby doesn't long remain baby. 5.
 Mrs. Fernandez is one of the most motherly and lovable of women, and her family of hundred or more children cling to her with beautiful affection. She said to an inquirer last week that persons not in the business can have little or no idea how good and tractable the children of the stage are They are far easier to teach than men and women; they do not complain, and they create no disagreeable scenes. Their kind ness and sympathy is noteworthy. "When one is sick" said Mrs. Fernandez, ssthe sister or brother will come and take the place of the invalid, or they will double up the parts, or do any possible thing to keep the place open for the absent. The salaries of children for mobs range from s to $ week, and for parts from $1O to $20 week. Hundreds of children are employed in the theatres of the country They are totally free from the iealousies and heart burnings which disturb r their older associates in art, and they think when once they take part in play they themselves are the pivot on which the whole affair turns.-Detroit Free Press.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-09
THE HUMANITARIAN STANDPOINT.

The Rights of Children-Our Debts to the
 Little Ones-A Needed Lesson.
 In undertaking this work, let us not feel too compiacent, too virtuous, too generous To pay our debts is not to be generous Children, all children, come into the world our creditors, and they remain sour creditors as long as they remain children. The task of living seventy years in this world of ours is thrust upon them. That alone makes them our creditors. What we owe, what society owes to the children, to all children, is gentle ness, tenderness, compassion, protection, nur- ture. Every child born in this world, in my view of the matter, has right to food, cloth ing, shelter, education, kind words, gentle courtesies, careful protection.
 But what poor paymasters we are. Instead of what is due them, how often do they get blows, cruel words and cruel neglect have seen in New York 400 children from to 10 years old crowded into an unwholesome gas lighted, poor ventilated room, and kept at work twelve hours day corking and labelling bottles-twelve hours a day, six days a week, and ffty-two weeks in the year. But I believe the worlds eyes are opening. We are coming to see that we owe more to the children than they to us. Our ambition to get glory and honor from our descendants rather than our ancestors, is growing. We are approaching our debts to the children more clearly. If children are ill treated they-hecome cruel. And why should we beso shocked at this or that crime committed7 Is It not natural that they should pay in kind; that they should say we owe society nothing but just thisa
 Ill treatment of children is something hid eous, The brute world is not cruel in the sense in which men are. We need another word for many of these human passions com monly called brutal When we designate them as brutal we are unfair to the brute world. Cruelty, like the other selfish pas sions, is binding. The more we practice it the less we are aware of it; or if we are dimly aware of it, it no longer seems hid eous. Cruelty is a universal passion. We are all subject to it at times, for we are all towards. It is in the air of the world we live in. The selfish struggles of life blind our eyes, deaden our sensibilities, benumb us A stronger strikes us and we strike weaker. Our hearts grow less easily touched We harden and petrify. The thin, dirty, de prayed faces of ragged and neglected chil- dren, which we see to-day, do not startle and haunt us as they once did. And may it not be that we need a new lesson even more than dumb brutess-Willis Gleed in Topeka Kan.) Capital.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-09
IF. E. BENHAM,
 f@ North Main Street,

Has received a car load of the best horses ever received in Waterbury, and any one wanting a business or driving horse would do we'll to see him. They are as follows:
 Pair bay geldings, six and seven years old; weight of team , 2575 lbs. The pair when driven together make showy team. Pair gray geldngs, nve and seven years old, weight 2. 800 lbs. This team ts; have been driven some time by Mir Gray on team for fire engine or like Pair bay geldings, nine years old weight 2,a00 lbs. Pair black geld ings. five years old, weight 2.300 lbs. Five year old dapple gray gelding, I6 hands high, weight l,400 lbs; good draft horse and at the same time good heavy harness horse, as he is long necked and quite stylish. Pair black geldinge. five years old, weight 2'3O0 lbs; a good blocky work team. seldfng. five year old. weight 1000 lbs. Dark brown gelding. nine years old. weight 1000 lbs Brown Magma Charta gelding, eight year old. weight 1025 lbs. Black gelding, nine year old weight 115o lbs. Bay gelding, six year old weight 1,OoO lbs; blocky little chunk of ahorse. Brown mare seven year old, weight 9S0 lbs: the George Miller mare. er. e
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-09
CHAPTER XIV.

The day had advanced to evening. Lord Montbarry and the bridal party had gone to the opera. Agnes alone, pleading the excuse of fatigue, remained at the hotel. Having kept up appearances by accompanying his friends to the theatre, Henry Westwick slipped away after the first act and joined Agnes in the drawing room.
 "Have you thought of what I said to you earlier in the daya' he asked, taking chair at her side. Do you agree with me that one dreadful doubt which oppressed us both is at least set at rest7"
 Agnes shook her head sadly. T wish could agree with you, Henry-I wish could honestly say that my mind is at ease"
 The answer would have discouraged most men,. Henry's patience twbere Agnes was concerned was equal to any demands on it
 ssIf you will only look back at the eventa of the day, he said, ''you musb surely admit that we have not been completely bsd.st Remsrnlzer how Dr. Bruno dispQsI sM or dSdbtz1 sAkfx4 t1str vsnrst1 me1ittA rt41
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-09
Announced Too Early

The secretary of the Lime Kiln Club an- nounced communication from Terre Haute, Ind, forwarding series of resolutions passed by the s. O. Q. club on the death of Rev. Penstock.
 "rd like to ask the char de meanin' of dis!" exclaimed Penstock as he sprang to his feet.
 "Why, de report of your death has prob ably reached Terre Haute," replied the pres ident
 "But ain't dead, sahl'
 ssWe ar not to blame fur dat, Brudder Penstock."
 'But tell you ain't dead, an dats a islander on mep'
 ssNo, you doan' seem to be dead, but dis club can't help what other people resolve. We shall return our thanks to de s. O. O. club, an dat's as fur as we kin go. Please sot down, Brudder Penstock."
 Penstock sat down, and the only way he could get even was by sticking a brad awl, which he carried in the toe of his boot, into Elder Toot's calf with such effect that the Elder awoke and shouted "police!" at the top of his voice, and was fined s1 500 on the spot-Detroit Free Press. N
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-09
The Keeper of the Harem.

A conspicuous person about the sultan's palace is the Bairam Aga, keeper of the maidens, jet black Nubian, probably from the Soudan. He wears 0 gorgeous uniform of scarlet and gold, has the air of authority, and on his ample breast displays dozen inn perial, royal and Christian orders of which he is knight. He ranks with prime ministers and field marshals, disputes precedence with ambassadors, and is courted for his influence A genuine African, he loves jewels, and on the hand graciously extended for the kisses of the faithful there glitters a ruby second only to the one for which Kubla Kahn offered a city, and was refused. From the savings of his income the guardian of the lilies has built a mosque for his lordly sepulcher when his term of vigilant service is ended.
 The true Oriental is unsurpassed in secrecy, and there is a fascination in his silence which moves the gossip to insatiate curiosity. The foreigner must stop at the carved and gilded portal of the consecrated place. Even Bairam Aga does not pass it.. Ambassadors have petitioned and princesses sued in vain for entrance into the Gate of Felicity. The out side world hears not the faintest echo of the strange, adventurous life of women whose loves, hates, spites, intrigues, are plays played out with neither audience nor specta- tators to report. If Bairam Aga knows more than we do, he makes no sign; he is secret as the grave.
 1t is said that harem etiquette was regu- lated ages ago by laws that change not, and is observed with rigid exactness and minute observance of detail The mothers of chil- dren have apartments separate, as families iil fats and visit with the grave ceremonials by which Orientals salute strangers. What jealousies may flash in the languishing dark eyes whose witchery has made their fortune, who knows may tell.-Susan E. Wallace in New York Sun.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-09
FROM AN. UNPUBLISHED soNAEr.a

There are three things beneath the blessed skiee For which ive-black eyes and brown and blue; l hold them all most dear; but o black eyesi live and die and only die for youi
 -Tennyson
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-09

A pan of sliced raw onions, placed in . room where there Is diphtheria. will absorb the poison and prevent the disease from spreading. The onions should be buried every morning and fresh ones cut up
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-09
Love and Triendship.

Men of every nation, with ths 1<ception, perhaps, of France, go to men fur fnis1teutalai synpathy, for exofangs Of sasnese as!s2gs' fot contpnnsonsaip. Lnve, " ho61 rn.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-09

There gre in the Sunday schools of the Christian world 16, Al, ,990 scholars, 1,a5o, 167 taachsrs, raaEing : sraDd totaiu 1s,4oo,l5E
 The philosophy of mannsrs is bult upon atteuti0n to trifies 1sel t-- s--<9
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-09

has convinced us that the peo- pie O Waterbury appreciate good goods at low prices. The people who have attended our GREAT SALE have been our best advertisers, as the bargains which they have purchased have invariably brought more custo- mers, the value obtained having more than answered our adver.
 tiSemcnt.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-09

Low Prices will dot Every Time. These SUITS AND OVER COATS are made from the best American and Foreign Fla brics, manufactured Tn a style fully equal to custom and at a saving of 50 per cent. in price. We guarantee a PERFECT FIT. While this sale contin
 ues you can buy any $l4.Oo, $l3.5O, $12, $11, $10 or $9 OVERCOAT in the Store fo1
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-09

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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-09

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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-09

:ong to be away from this horrible place.
 Btt you know how am situated-you heard
 wi.at Lord Montbarry said at dinner time?" Suppose he has altered his plans since dinner tine?" Henry suggested. Agnes looked surprised. "I thought he had received letters from England which
 obliged him to leave Venice tomorrow" she said
 Quite true," Henry admitted. "He had
 arranged to start for England tomorrow,
 and to leave you and Lady Montbarry and
 the children to enjoy your holiday in Venice
 under my care. Circumstances have oc
 cured, however, which have forced him to
 alter his plans. He must take you all back
 with him tomorrow, because I am not able
 to assume charge of you. am obliged to
 give up my holiday in Italy, and return to England too"
 Agnes looked at him in some little perplex. ity; she was not quite sure whether she under. stood him or not *Are you really obliged to go back?' she asked
 Heury smiled as he answered her. "Keep
 the secret" he said, tor Montbarry will never
 forgive mel"
 She read tue rest in his face. "Oh," she ex-
 claimed, blushing brightly, "you have not given up your pleasant holiday in Italy on my account7"
 II shall go back with you to England, Az l nes. That will be holiday enough for me.r She took his hand in an irrepressible out,
 burst of gratitude. "How good you are to nleI' she murmured 'tenderly. "What l should have done in the troubles that have 1 come to me. without your sympathyf can't
 tell you, Henry, how feel your Kindness" She tried impulsively to lift his hand to her lips He gently stopped her. aAgnes," lie said, Faro you beginning to understand how 1 truly love yous"
 That simple question found its own way to her heark She owned the whole truth, with cus saying word. She looked at hlu-and taap hebsa away again. V s.si'''- 10 ii Colx1fN JED.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-01
A Second National Anti Saloon Re-
publican Conference

Less than eighteen months ago the Anti
Saloon movement within the Republican party
was organized, at the National Conference,
held at Chicago, September 18th, 1886. That
conference was a gathering of loyal lifelong
and representative Republicans, who believed
that in the providence of God, the hour had
come for the Republican party TO face unit
eddy its next great duty and to enter upon its
next great battle and victory They remem-
bered its heroic origin. for many of them had
stood by its cradle With the civil war tr-
umphantly ended with slavery uprooted :;
with the Union forever restored; with the
Nations honor and credit everywhere vindi-
Gated, and the Nations defenders fifty re-
warded with American industry buttressed
by wise laws, and started on icourse of I'M
exampled prosperity with a sweeping reform
in the civil service inaugurated the field
seemed clear, and the time ripe for another
advance, which should be the greatest of
them all.
The purpose of the Anti-Saloon movement
is to place the Republican party where it be-
lougs-positively and finally on the side of
the home and the public safety. as against the
saloon system and its destructive work. This
task is being accomplished more widely and
promptly than even the sangune expected
troll, where saloons had not already been
abolished or outlawed, stringent repressive
laws have recently been enacted in response
TO the unmistakablc demand of the people.
e As the national Republican platforms of
the past have ring with denunciations of
American slavery and polygamy, both of
which. within the States, were subject to
State control, it is now practically assured
that the next national Republican platform
will contain clear and uneQuivocal express
sion in opposition to that other bulwark of
barbarism, the American saloon powe err.
While the warfare against this incendary
system must be mainly waged through the
exercise of the police power of the State, yet
the saloon is in national, as well as in State
aud local politics, and the nation, within its
proper sphere, as in the cases of slavery and
polygamy, touches this ubiquitous curse at
thousand points of contact.
To assure and signaize the complete with
drawal of the national Republican party from
all completely with the saloon infamy, and to
emphasize its positive antagonism thereto, a
National Anti-Saloon Republican Conference
is hereby called, to assemble in New York
City, at II O'Clock, A. NJ, April Is, 1883 and
continue in session two days. This invitation
IS addressed to all Republicans in the United
States who sympathize with this movement
and purpose. and to all members of other
parties and unattached voters who are willing
10 act with the Republican organization so
long as it shall honestly stand for the homes
of the people as against the saloon system and
its criminal aggressions.
ANrI-SALooN REPUBLICAN NAT. Cox.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-01
Daily Kfunebtf 3onrnal.
AUeus1A, THURSDAY, MARCH I. 1888.
4 Republican State Convention
will be held Ia
N0RONBEGA HALL, BANGOR,
Thursday, April 26, 1888,
At II O'Clock, A. NJ,

For the purpose Of selecting two candidates for
Electors Of President and Vice President Of the
United States and four delegates large, and four
alfernates attend the National Convention TO be
held at Chicago, Illinois, Tuesday, June 10Th,
1855 and uansscting any other business that may
properly come before II.
The basis Of representation viii be az follows
Each city. town, and plantation will be entitled to
one deegaS and for each seventy five vote. cast for
the Republican candidate for Governor In is-4 an
additional delegate and for fraction Of forty votes
in excess Of seyenty-nye votes, additional dele
gate.
The STATE Committee will be In session in the
eeptOn room Of the Hall nine O'Clock the
Ing Of the Convention for the purpose Of receiving
the credentials Of delegates.
AL electors Of Maine, without regard TO past poiiti
cal differences who are In sympathy with the senti
nests expressed In the call Of the Republican
National Committee for the Republican National
Convention are cordially invited TO unite with the
Republicans Of the state In selecting delegates to
this Convention.
Per order Republican State Committee.
JOSEPH II. MANLEY, Chairman,
WILLIS II. WING, Secretary.
Augusta, MAINE. February II, IRIS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-01

We publish in another column the call
for the second Anti-Saloon Republican
Conference, to be held in New York city.
April Is. II is worthy of the attention of
these who have II lively interest in all
practical movements for the promotion of
aud destructive influence of the liquor
saloons. Ii is another evidence of the
strong and widespread determination
among the best citizens of the land to
make war against an evil which is sapping
the life blood of the Nation, corrupting
its morals its business its manners Its poll
tics, spreading broadcast poverty, misery
and crime, and vastly augmeuling taXa-
ton. Wisely those in the direction of this
anti-saloon organization do not seek to con
nne Temperance work toany one line or form
of action, but leave to each community, to
every sincere body of citizens, to strike
against the saloon in the way they think
most likely 10 prove successful. Hence,
In some States prohibition Is favored in
others high license, in others a heavy tax
on the liquor traffic. The object of the
proposed conference is to stimulate and
encourage the Republican party to occupy
and maintain a high plane of duty on the
great question of public morality and
national Importance. To make ii useful
and not an obstruction, there is needed a
blending Of deliberate courage with prac-
teal wisdom. on line of action AT the
level of the actual situation, and care
full avoidance of merely rhetorical mani
fcstoes which bursts harmlessly in the
air, the sport Of the saloonists and their
allies
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-01
Good Horses and How to Feed Them.

One of the finest Young horses seen on
our streets is the beautiful Cushnoc
filly owned by Mr.. Asa ID. Townsend.
This is Victoria by Cushnoc. (2.34 IL,
by Victor, (2.23, by Gen. Knox; dam by
the Old Eaton horse. Go. l22, Wallace,
VOL p. 10 who has three in the $50
class, viz, Gray Stranger, Village Girl
and Shepherd Knapp, Jr. Victoria is an
almost perfectly proportioned horse. four
years old, weighs 975 lbs.
Mr.. viii H. Fogg of this city is the
fortunate owner of Il 8 months old colt
that promises TO be horse which
will be heard from again after
he natures, if no accident befalls
him. He is by kennebec-the well known
Capt. Mitchell horse formerly owned in
this city-by Independence. (2.2l Il, by
Gen. Knox, dam a cro>s-bred Knox and
Hambletonian mare. This colt is Jet
black in color. with small blaze in fore
head, is stocky. well proportioned, of fine
action and promises to make a IL hands.
eleven hundred horse.
DIR. George II. Bailey of Portland has
returned from Kentucky, bringing with
him "a far a Boston the noted stallion
Lumps Cpd. Rachel c.. and the filly
Annie Metiregor, by Joe Downing, dam
! Sally Beamer. The price paid for this
| last named filly, which is only yearling
coming two in June was $1,000. and she
is for Dr. Bailey's private stable.
| Oats are the best food ever vet dis
covered for the growing of young colts.
| Our farmers used to have an idea that in
order to raise tough, hardy, strong colts
| it was necessary TO let them shift for
! themselves, almost. when they were Young
things, aud so neglect was the rule of
treatment until they were old enough to
''break at about three years. Thus all
winter long farmers would let them run
rough hay, giving no grain and only an
| occasional mess of potatoes or carrots. This
treatment would be continued during the
first and second winters under the inn
tough and "hardy. A greater mistake
was never made. How could a colt be ex-
pected to grow, to make muscle. develope
good limbs, or have a particle of spirit
under such bringing up = This was one
of the old notions chung to tenaciously by
even some of the best farmers. and it has
taken "A great while to educate them to a
more rational and more sensible course OF
management. More young colts have
been injured, and dwarfed. and stunted
from the want of feed than have been in
jured by too much feed. Feed literally
of oats, good farmers, all young colts
which you expect to make good horses
They must be grown and matured-oats
are the best feed known for colt ration
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-01
British Encroach ment on Venezuela

II the facts DC "a they are reported as to
ties on Venezuelan territory, the United
States Government should make prompt
and vigorous remembrance against this
invasion Of sister republic, clear viola
ton Of the spirit and purport Of the Monroe
Doctrine. The territory which Great
Britain assumes to make her own by the
strength Of her armed force il along the
western frontier Of British Guiana, and il
In area az large as the State Of New ! ork III
1870 gold and copper were discovered in the
disputed region, and since 1919 the yield Of
the mines, whose stock is principally
owned in England, has been very large
These mines were outside the limits of the
territory claimed by the English, and were
separated by great tracts Of forest and
swamp from British Guiana. Venezuela
exercised her authority over the regior
where the mines are, and granted :
charter last year for "A railroad from tho
the mines to The Orinoco River. There
the value Of the mines, whose product Is
said to amount to l0,00O,0 900 per annum
set up new claim, demanding NJ her own
all the territory up to the Oronoc'
River. On any score of right OF
common sense, the British officials
of Canada might just a. properly TAKE
possession of the territory of Maine OF
some old, baselcss claim, or on the grount
that IL would be- for the convenience ant
interest Of the British owners of Dominion
railroads to have Maine brought uude
British jurisdiction. The only diilerenc,
to the British Government Is that Venezuela
is weak, while the United States is strong
But stealing from the helpless is iustl,
considered quite "a criminal, and far NOR
contemplate than stealing from the rici
and the mighty.