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Thomas County cat., 1889-09-12

a good working rule-smelling a
little, perhaps, so to SPEAK. of the
shop or of legal tape-but if our
patrons are satisfied. our patients
made happy. our regulations ad-
vanced. can we wisely permit so triv-
ial matter as departure from slavish
adherence to what is miscalled prin-
ciple to stand between us and success?"
..Well." admitted l. a little sadly,
perhaps you are right
'NOf course l am, my dear young
friend. am a cynic, but l succeed.
1 have been, for instance, beseeched
to meet you here to-day. And now for
treatment"
A little delicate counter-irritation
was sug -ested and agreed on; then
the fashionable physician stepped into
his elegant turnout before the door of
Mount Aureo, amid the profuse thanks
of Mrs. Midas Contango. a hundred
guineas richer for his haif-hour s
visit. As he shook hands with me, on
throwing himself back among the
cushions OF his brougham, the famous
expert smilingly whispered: You
are too modest my ingenious young
friend; you have already the science
OF medicine at your fnger-ends; why
not acquire the art also? Adieu!'
One rarely takes part in consulta-
tion without learning something; but
l never obtained such valuable practi-
cal knowledge from any meeting with
brother professional as l did in that
inglorious scene in the drawing-room
of Mount Aureo, in which / was SO
sadly let down, for q time at least IN
Thomas County cat., 1889-09-12
ThE EARIH.s MopEl


Ono o1 too most Interesting EXh1bteD ~
the Paris Exposition.
One of the novel and interesting
exhibits at the Paris Exposition is q
model of the earth accurately made'
to a scale of one millimeter to the
kilometer. or the one-millionth part
of its natural size. 1t is sphere H.
732 M. or nearly AZ feet in
diameter, having painted on its sur
face all the details of the earth's sur
face. This globe is built up on q
skeleton of wrought iron, with the
outside surface covered with wood; to
which are affixed the cardboard
panels covered with hard varnish.
This great work was conceived and
elaborated by NJ Thomas Willard and
NJ. Charles Cotard, and it was carried
ont by NJ. T. Seyrig (engineer) and
NJ. Albert Tissandier (architecD. A
twelve-sided iron and glass structure
with dome covers the globe; in this
building an elevator lifts the visitor
to platform, near the top, and from
this point he descends by spira!
gallery of almost imperceptible slope,
which reaches the ground after a
great many turns. Though the globe
weighs nearly thirteen tons. it can be
easily rotated by a hand-wheel.
The surface is so great (525 square
feeD that very considerable detail can
be shown, and large cities. like Paris.
even show a few OF the main thorough
fares. As an educational feature it is
especially useful in permitting the eye
to more accurately estimate the rela-
tive position and size of seas and con-
tinents than is possible with any
interesting series of statistical and
geographical information is also
painted on the panels in the shape of
the population of continents. cities.
ETC.; sections of the earth's crust; the
comparative heights of mountains;
lengths of rivers, railways, telegraph
lines, etc.
In the matter of kilograms received
per 100 of inhabitants. it seems that
Australia comes first (250 per 1907,
and Belgium and Switzerland next,
with $50 per 100. The United States
comes in with 80, Great Britain with
80, and Germany ends the list with 40.
The number of letters passing
through the post-offices of the different
countries per inhabitant is given as
follows in Engineering in describing
the globe:
Thomas County cat., 1889-09-12

Miss Anna w. Williams. who sat
for the picture Of liberty On the silver
dollar, was recently appointed in
structor in philosophy and kindergar-
ten methods in the Philadelphia Girls
Normal School
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-15

Then Martin ud come back agin, un they'd have the same theng over agin.
 ''That was good while ago. I hain't ben with Polly so much the last yur, becaise she didn't lack the way IT. L."
 understand Fan. Go on," said, pressing her hand and holding it on my knee, and, believe whimpering a lit tie after boyish fashion.
 ''l was down town when thattair fcl- Ter como the last time. An I h-yurn Judge Barks say to Bogus:
 Martin hain't gut ut, Bogus. Un SO he won't git Polly, will 'e?'
 "' He won't git CT of he hain't gut ut,' sez Bogus, as vigurce as a tagger.
 "'Thc feller at gifts ut fur you. Bo- gus-he's to git Polly, hain't 'e-ef he wawnts er?'
 "'Y You kin have 'er eff you glt ut, Judge,' sez Bogus, kline grinnun lack.
 "'I kin--kin lp' sez the Judge, a grinnun.
 "'Yes, sur,' sez Bogus. >s'
 "'Then she's mine, Bogus H-yurs the dock 'munt' und he drawed out a paper folded all up and tied uth lot little marry blue ribbons, un uth picters uv big yaller eagles on ut. Bogus han shuck so, at he could scaisely hole ut.
 "'Read CT fur mo, Judge,' ize 9 settun down.
 "'I cain't read Fraincb,' sez the Judge: But you kin read ut whom you come to yurseff. But reckleleck bout Polly
 "'She's yourn, Judge,' sez Bogus, gitten up.
 "'But thenk she lacks that young stripper uv Silkut,' sez the Judge, kine whislun to hisseff.
 "'No deffurnce aUhut she lacks. She'll have any body at say,' sez Bogus, stompun his foot. Un 'en they both kine a sanchurd of talkun, un didn't hy-year nuthun more tell hit wair tole roun this evenun at they was married. Judge Barks looked as please'n us"
 ''The scoundrel! He deserves hang- un! I'll kill i'm before sundown to- morrow eff it's the last theng l do" said l. springing up and feeling for the long pistols that Buck had armed me with.
 ''Set down." said Fan, pulling me down again and holding me firmly by the hand. They'll be time enough tom-morry fur all sich as that. Seems to me if had all the chaincte that Polly Ann Leatherwood had I'd a ben about as find as her, un ud a knowed as much UT more. We continued talking there until it was beginning to be light and every body had gone back to their homes,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-15
PUBLIC DlSClPLlNARIAN.

The Queer Profession Carved Out by an
 EntorprasinE English Woman.
 Absolutely the latest importation from England established herself yesterday on Upper Broadway, says the New York Herald. She is Q tall and rather hard featured woman from Manchester, who dis plays the extraordinary sign on the door of her Hat: "Disciplinarian of Children" Her sister established the particular .'profes- sion" which she follows in London nearly two years ago, and it is now transplanted to New York. The mothers and fathers of families will probably be able to judge whether the idea is worth encouraging or not.
 My sister," said the Manchester woman who has established herself here, ''reaiz- ing that the majority of mothers love their children too much to punish them severely, conceived the Idea of setting herself up as 3 public disciplinarian. She is woman of great force of character and unerring judgment in all matters concerning children, and she had extensive ex- perience as visiting nurse before adopting her present business. It is her idea that children are more severely pun ished when they are frightened than through any physical means. To slap a child in the heat of passion while the child is excited and unruly does not have half as salutary an effect as the more mature and considered punishment in a dark wardrobe or sending the little one to bed without supper. Better than this is to threaten the child with visit from the bugaboo. The dread of the arrival of this awful per- sonage will act as an incentive to good con- duct with the most fractious children in the world. My sister is bugaboo, and that is about what am. The fee in England for visiting a house and disciplining the chil- dren is two shillings. This involves medi- cal advice drawn from the fund of consid- erable experience in the world, besides whatever suggestions the condition of things may naturally lead up to. Besides this part of my business hope to teach, doctor and nurse the little ones. Of course there are points of antagonism between these different functions, but the effect is good upon the children"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-15

ngin! Wl.ur you spose Bogus could a gut that theng from? How tho na- ton could he git ut up there un nobody know nuthun about ut?'
 could have thrown some lightupon Mis point. And certain inherent and universal desire for distinction above our fellows impelled mo strongly to tell the marvellous story of the great wooden tool-chest and it's odd con- tents. But before I could frame a proper beginning some one else had begun to tell about the steamer that had come up the river and landed an illimitable supply of arms and mu- nitions of war, among which three can- non had been seen to a certainty!
 "Some sez at Bogus LIZ ben a snug gler, UT uvver whut you call ut, before he come h-yur to San-town un set- tled," continued the squire, with the same suggestive intonation and ex- pression that said he asked for infor- nation.
 "Thcy tell a blame sight harder yarns un that on 'im." rctorted the Major, with laugh. " couldn't say, myself Eve h'yurn a goodeel-a goodeel. But you nuvver know whut to bleeve tell hits proved en court,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-15
AN HOTEL CLERKS TALE,

Human Nature as Seon in Ono of New
 York's Large Caravansarios.
 "Human nature, as seen in a big hotel, is rather envious, isn't it!" New York Sun man queried of the day clerk as he leaned on the counter.
 ''Y-e-s," he slowly and dryly replied.
 ''For instance" the reporter continued, II have chandelier with five burners in my room, but three of the burners are plugged up and can't be lighted. The soap Is cheap and poor, the looking-glass is cracked, the handicapped stand is stained with ink and one leg of the lounge Is broken. How's that for hotel nature?'
 My dear sir," he replied, as he paused for moment from his work of pigeonhol- ing the noon mail, 'I was obliged to put yoa in room just vacated by Western merchant and his wife. He got drunk and broke the lounge and cracked the glass. She took away with her two towels and two cakes of fine soap He is responsible for the ink-stains, and he stuffed two table nap kins into his pocket and carried them of, and she broke dollar pitcher and seven ty-cent pane of glass. We plugged up the burners because they lighted the whole five and went off to the theater. think he car ried of one of the keys to the door, and I know she cribbed a bouquet holder from the parlor. How'a that for travelling hu- man nature?"
 The newspaper an was silent for the want of argument, and the clerk presently continued:
 "Here are half dc-en telegrams and a score of letters from men who will call around in due season and inquire for them, or want them forwarded to points m Maine or Texas, and glve me ny trouble for the profits. And perhaps you'd like to buy some of these dozen worthless checks for ten cents on the dollar, or take some of the score of trunks in the store-room and settle the bills for which they are held. Oh, yes .oh, yes' This human ,! nature is a big will be convinced that all the advantage is not on the hotel mans side.''
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-15

leaving the town to a few men who galloped about from place to place with guns across their saddles. Then Fan, telling mo to lie down and sleep. in her own room in her own bed, until she should call me to breakfast, and admonishing me to remember what l might happen to dream, for it would be sure to come true, she left mo to a sound sleep concluding with an elab- crate dream in which I married Fan Go-uns, iA the belief that she was the queenly and fascinating daughter of the French smuggler, or Buccaneer, or whatever he was
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-15
LEiTHERWOuD HUUyE.
A Romance of the Early Days
 iu Hoosierdom.

Bx FL w. TAYLOR
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-15
How to Prevent Accidents.

The Builder and Wood-Worker remarks that many of the losses of fingers and hands sustained by operatives of small saws in factories could be obviated by following what is called the golden rule; "Never put your hand back of 9 running saw." The temptation to reach back to remove or straighten something's natural and difficult to resist. But a man can never afford to get careless around saw or any cutting tool.
 Precautions against accidents could be taken to much greater extent than they arc.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-15
A MODEST DRUMMER.
Tho Annoying Pretlicament in Which He
 Was Placed by 8 Sneak-ThieE

Tho Annoying Predicament in Which He
 Was Placed by Sneak-Thief
 Will Hansard, Q travelling salesman of Louisville, was once upon a time pursuing his calling in Bell and Harlan counties, Ky. These two counties are the most mountainous and thinly inhabited in the State Just before starting back to Louis vile he passed the night at farmhouse in Harlan. When he went to bed he hung his trousers on a chair near the window. Next morning the trousers were gone and no one knew where. Some one passing in the night had reached in at the window and taken them, for his host was above sus. picion.
 MT. Hansard called loudly for the farmer, expecting to borrow pair of trousers from him, His wife came to the door and said that her husband had gone hunting an hour before, and, as he had only one pair of trousers, he had very naturally worn them. Here was dilemma, but his hostess, who was woman of expedients, solved it. She came to the door with one of her Mother put it on. He consented. She tossed the garment to him and closed the door. He got into the Mother Hubbard, went out to the stable, hitched up his team, and climbed into his buggy. Here he took the garment of and handed it back to the lady, who was full of sympathy for him. The buggy con- cealed his lower extremities, and he wrapped his linen duster around them to keep them warm.
 Mr. Hansard drove quickly te the near est store, about four mi1es away, expecting to buy pair. of trousers there, for all the country stores kept ready-made clothing. When he got there he found numerous ladies who had congregated to see the opening of some new goods. He could not leave the buggy, but he yelled for the proprietor to come out, and to him he made known his predioament. The merchant brought to him five or six pairs of trousers. He drove down into Q neighboring hollow, tried them on, found pair to fit him, and thus his tribulations were ended.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-15
To be cOntlnue. :,
J. F, FLOOD,

Goa. LIpERTE AND MILL SPIRITS. Choice LiquOrp, Alea and Wines. Fine Brands Foreign and Domestic Cigars.
 Pool Table connected. ~ GIVE ME A CALI.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-15
CHAPTER K,

CHAPTER IE
 SOME STRANGE COURT PROCEEDINGS.
 Awaking with the incubus of this dream expressing me, from an in' terminahlo period of the immeasurable cycles of sleep. I came slowly to com prehend the significance of the occur. rences of the previous day and the night, only to exchange the leeting incubus of the night for a more per. manent one of the day: Where was PollyP She had wanted to tell me something of great importance some secret not to be whispered within the possible hearing of other people. True, Fan had supplemented this with the story of the marriage, But was not this & mere rumore The idle gos- @ip of an envious and back-biting vil- lageR And should accept such fimsy and unreliable rumors for full under standing of all the facts? Such an understanding as I could get only from herp No; must see her. Only from her in person ought to accept an ex- planation as authentic and complete. 1 owed 1t as a duty to myself and to her to see her and hear from her own lips her own version uninfuenced by tho presence of others. In short, l must see her, and alone.
 E. Iknow 1oa0 that what thought then the perfect philosophy of generous and manly argument for the pura and sim ple truth was in fact a spacious and shallow plea for the present gratifica- ton of my longing to see her, the daughter of the horse-thief! An! said it is only for the present and for the last time And she can not te held responsible in any WAY for her fathers crimes whatever they may have been. And perhaps these are the mere ground
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-15
Wine Room

T. F. Kelly, Proprietor, 180 Bank Street, Waterbury, Conn. Wines and Alea. Ch0tee hFende Of CigaJs. l
 fhilip AestsG Warranted Milwaukee Beer on drau9hk speciality.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-15
Paint for ShInslo Roofs.

To make . good pant for shingle roofs that can be applied cold and dries quickly: Take one bar1el of coal tar, ten pounds of asphaltum, ten pounds of ground slate; mix by the aid of heat, and add two gallons of dead oil.
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New Text Books.

The State Board of Education met
at Baton Rouge on the 25th of June
and adopted a new set of books for use
in the public schools throughout the
State, as follows: MEG uffey's Readers,
McGuffey's Primer, Reeds Word Les
son. Mitchelrs intermediate Geogra-
ply, Worcester's Dictionary, Webb's
Manual Of Etymology, Mason's Music
Charts and Readers, Harris Compost
ton and Rhetoric, Kellogg's English
Geography, Anderson's New Manual Of
General History, steele's Popular Sci
ence, Bryant & Stratton's Book-keep-
ing, Chartenal's First and Second
French Books, Chartenals Exercise
Book, Super's French Reader, Glider
sleeves Latin Primer, Gil~dersleeve's
Latin Reader, Gildersleeve's Latin
Grammar, Gildersleeve's Latin Exer-
else Book, Wentw6rth's Complete AL
zebra, Wentworth's Geometry and Nj
cholson's Elementary Algebra.
A resolution was adopted requiring
the use of text books adopted by the
board. A resolution was also adopted
appointing a committee Of three, com
posed Of Governor Nichols, Superin-
tendent Breaux and Col. Franklin
Garrett, with power to select any
books in the grades contractors may
fail to furnish. Monroe, Shreveport,
Natchitoehes, New Orleans, New Iberia.
Baton Rouge and Alexandria we're Sc
lected as repositories. In nearly all
cases the board secured reductions i'll
prices.
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As most of our readers are already
aware, the great prize fight came off
at the appointed time-the 9Th instant
at Richburg, Miss, a small town los
miles distant from New Orleans. Kill
rains friends threw up the sponge after
twenty-five rounds had been fought.
and the big Bostonian was declared
the champion. The contest demon
strated two things: that Kilrain is an
accomplished boxer, with great cour-
age and an indomitable will, and that
Sullivan is a marvel OF physical
strength and endurance and towers as a
giant over pigmies above all the other
stars in the pugilistic fraternity.
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Abraham LincOln'S Views.

The following extract from a speech
by Abraham Lincoln, delivered at
Charleston, ILL.,, September 1S, 1864,
will be Read with interest, just at this
time, when there is so much being said
about restriction of suffrage. Mr.. Lin
coin said:
~ am not now, nor ever have been,
in favor of bringing about in any way
the social and political equality Of the
white and black race. / am not nor
ever have been in favor Of making
voters or jurors of negroes, nor Of
qualifying them to hold office nor to
intermarry them with white people ;
and l will say in addition to this, that
there is a physical difference between
the white and black race living to-
gether ON any social or political equal
ity. And inasmuch rs they cannot SO
live, while they remain together there
must be the position of superior and
inferior, and l, as much as any other
man, am in favor of having the super
ior position assigned to the white
race"
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The Alta (San Francisco) California,
in an excellent article on the Fourth
of July, lays down these just PROPOSE
tons:
Let us have it understood that the
law which all have made is the bOunda-
~ line and limit of authority, and
that he who sets up Or combines with
others to establish an extra-legal au-
thority over men affecting their per-
sons, estates or conditions, barring
their way to the earning of bread in
amy honest way, is guilty Of treason
to our free institutions.
This land is not u parade ground for
organizations which assume the right
to prevent a citizen acquiring an hon
est calling as a means of self-suppOrt,
nor is it a slaughter house, to be re-
sorted to for assassination in the in
terest of foreign conspiracy.
Our homes and hearts are open to
all corners who come in the spirit OF
freemen, to be of us aud with us, to
receive without pomp the gifts of for
tune, and to endure al we'll with pa
thence the hardships Inherent in the
differing individualities Of men and
in the frictions and competitions Of
life.
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Il GOOD MOKE.

AT a recent meeting Of the Bsard Of
Education at Baton Rongesthe State.
Superindent of Education presented.
to the Board copy of resolution
adopted blythe Convention Of Parish
Superintendent in regard to the emu
meration Of youth, and offered the
following resolution:
Whereas, it is of the utmost impOr-
lance that a legal appOrtionment of
the youth of educable age be made;
Be it resolved, That the Governor be
respectfully requested to order the par
ish assessors in the several parishes
to make a house-to-house enumeration
of the youth, as required by law, and
that in event of noncompliance the
penalties of the law be enforced.
1t is u good idea. Such Il course,
faithfully pursued, would put an end
to the charges and counter charges of
inflated enumeration brought against
certain parishes. AS the apportion-
ment of the school funds is made on
the basis of the enumeration of the
several parishes, it is evident to all
that justice and fair dealing require
that the enumeration in each parish
be true, just and correct.
An inflated enumeration in any par
ish secures to it more than its just
proportion Of the common funds and
operates great injustice to its sister
parishes !; whereas an under-eRumer-
alton i'll any parish is all injustice to
its elucable population.
Let us have fair play, free from the
faint of every suspicion, in this bust
ness. We owe it to one another let
us accord it in the true spirit Of JUS
tice and patriotism. No parish can
afford to he for one instant under the
cloud of suspicion.
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Here is a capital illustration of the
power of prejudice: A disreputable
woman in North Carolina was once
visited by a number of young blOOds,
who maltreated her and ducked her in
a horse-pond till she vas nearly
drowned. The old woman sued them
for assault. The last was tried before
Judge Dick. The astute counsel for
the defense introduced testimony to
prove that the old woman was a witch.
Judge Dick in his charge to the jury
said: Gentlemen, you have nothing
to do with the question whether the
plaintiff is n witch. You have simply
to decide whether she has suffered an
assault from the defendants. Now
just throw out as irrevalant everything
that has been said about her being a
witch, and conine yourselves to the
question of assault" The jury, thus
charged, retired for consultation.
Very oon they returned and reported
that they had agreed upon a verdict;
and upon being asked what the yer
dict was, the foreman said, "Our ver-
dict is that the old woman is q WITCH"