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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-10

monstrance at my impracticability, nations and infections. "You'n rile the worter hathaway! Gimmy thattair tin, un femme fill tham buckets.''
 Then for the double purpose of re- venging myself upon Fan by teasing her to my hearts content and by de- taining her away from Polly, possibly revenge myself upon Mat perversc but beautiful and tantalizing young woman, upset the half-filled bucket by stumbling over it. And then when Fan had recovered sufficiently from the spasms of laughter, into which the blunder immediately threw her, and the spring had "cleared'' sufficiently to begin the refilling of the buckets, l managed to slip very naturally in passing above it, and threw a shower of sand and loam into the water.
 All these thing. appear childish, and rude, and trifling, and not worth the recounting here. But then these were childish and rude people, perhaps. And should I tell of those sayings and incidents belonging only to the polished and mature? And then, too, they served their purpose. They were sa- gacious prophecies having their fulfill ment treading upon their heels, and thus deserve perpetuation.
 All the afternoon leased Fan un- mercifully-nay, rudely; very rudcly. I hid some of her little glass dishes with their invaluable contents of candied honey, pear preserves and spiced peaches, and had her running here and there, turning over tais, and looking through hat, and frantic over her mis- haps. But with an even good-nature in it all that at last made me relent. After the dinner was over and while Liz was reading chapter in that woe full story of my youth, the Children of the Abbey, and Polly was trying to listen, I set about helping Fan serious ly with the clearing up'' of the remains of the feast, and the washing and packing of dishes.
 Here I displayed boys usual lack of knowledge and method, and Fan | displayed an inexhaustible fund of ac- doing and doing over of every thing | that l attempted. At last all these things being finished to the satisfaction 1 of Fan, and the fearful consideration of tho Children of the Abbey, on the part of the two girls having no appear ance of break or cessation, readily induced Fan to stroll with me, hand in hand, as was and is the Sandtown fashion in lovers. Up and down and round about the grove we went, always
 careful to avoid the crest of the little
 knoll on account of the irrepressible
 tendency of the Sandtown fellows to
 'joke" a precocious gallant unmerci. 1 To be contlnueu,
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conveying the idea of ''embarrass- ment" along with the smile. But it is something more than mere embarrass- ment And therefore adhere to the homely Sandtown phrase. Liz saw the expression in her bosom-compan- ions face, and looked at Polly with her brows drawn little and very grave and thoughtful studiousness in her phenomenally honest gray eyes. Pol ly's refuge was plainly an honest, in dignant resentment, and she promptly availed herself of this old, old subter- fuge which, like the other old plans aforementioned, are none the less po- tent because of advanced senility.
 ''You two look at me as if I'd done something dreadful" she burst out, with a perceptible liquidity of the brown eyes threatening an immediate inundation of the delicate little hollows along the sides of her shapely nose. "1 haven't done any thing, have IF What are you both mad at me about. And jist when we were goun to have sich a nice time. too. It's real mean, so it is." Then she hid her face in the depths of her chintz sun-bonnet and sobbed until her little figure undulated in the strange throes of an anguish altogether disproportioned, in my mind at least, to the alleged cause. A keen suspicion kept mo from pros- trating myself and abjectly praying for pardon. The sympathetic Fan was there in a moment.
 "Why. goodness gracious me, Jim Silket! What uv you been do-un ts Polly? I'd lack to know. Whut's the matter, Polly? Awn-tie her bonnet strings. why don't you! Gimmy that tin a water, she's about tainted, uh!''
 But Polly was laughing little hys- terically, and declaring that she was all right. And I, giving her look of cool indifference. got up and went with Fan, saying. as I started, that l had better ''git away thrum yuh, if that s the way!' And at once assuming that that was the way, took one of Fans water-buckets and went with her to the spring, down almost at the brink of the river.
 Don't dip the bucket in, uh!" Fan said, with what should asoU regard as the most comical and absurd ex- pression of smiling surprise and re-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-10

the madder l got 1 didn't sec him this mornin'. Now you mind whut I tell yuh, and put somebody on his track. Put Buck on his track. He's smart enough. And don't you make a move till Buck finds out all about i'm. All about i'm, sir. AN about 'imr'
 ''Buck's away thrum home jist now," Bogus Lcathcrwood said, in the near est approach to an apologetic whimpcr stopped far down and pulled up a sprig of dead goose-grass. The judge faced round upon him fercely.
 Bogus Leatherwood, you find Jim Silkut right away and send him after Buck. Have i'm back h-yur as quick as four feet ull bring i'm. Do you h-yuh me? Do you h-yuh?" In the identical tone, manner and words in which the judge had ordered the sheriff to search the two antagon- ists before the combat of last night al- most upon this ground.
 "Whut of I can't git i'm back en time?" said Bogus, still chewing upon the tough spear of goose-grass and keeping his heavy brows down upon his eyes.
 "Thcnr' said the judge, in a burst of fierce wrath utterly unaccountable in view of the weak and inconsequen- tial alternative threatened in retalia- tion. ''Then I'll adjourn court to- morrow and go plum to the lower end uv the circuit, sir! Far away as kin git, sir. lar away as I kin git! I never have done sich thing with you. But will this time. Do you h-yuh me?'
 "Well. s'pose you wait day UT two, judge," Bogus said, laughing and slapping him upon the shoulder. "May be you're right. I'm little afeard nv ut myself, to tell the truth. think l feel better to take your view uv ut You think they won't be no big raist thcn?"
 Mot with the Red Lion and the Tun- nycliff hoss, sir! No, sir! Not with them. I don't k-year whut Dary says. They won't be no race, sirr' Then the two men walked farther away, and directly saw them in the little grove of naples and walnuts and walking together on and on to the very door of the courthouse. Well" muttercd, Eff Buck S away thrum home and won't be back soon, I might as we'll go and carry tho news to the two girls.'' And cutting Q few bright yellow shoots of gold-twig willows out of the great greenish-gray plume that fut- tered now in a slight, soft, fitful west wind on the very crest of the river, I took my way through the dry jungle of jimson weed and so on through the grove across the big hollow and up on the hill where my fathers little house stood.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-10

To be contlnuea,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-10
AN ANCIENT FORT.

Discovery of One of La Sal1e's Defensive
 Works in Illinois.
 What has always been a disputed point in the early history of the State of Illinois has at last been practically settled by the definite discovery of the site of Fort Creve Coeur, the Fort of the Broken Heart, built by La Sale in the year 1880. The chronicles made by Father Hennepin, writes a Peoria Ql) correspondent of the St. Louis Repub- lie, state that the fort was erected on Lake Peoria. Hut the exact spot has always been in dispute by eminent authorities. Ban croft says it was four days jour ney below Peoria, Parkham says it was but three or four miles below, another de- clares it was up the river, and still another maintains that it was located on the west bank. In the two maps made by Hennepin the fort Is located on the east side of the river in what is now Tazewell County. As to it's location, Hennepin says:
 "After having reviewed the country we pitched upon an eminence on the bank of the river, defended on that side by the river and on the other by ditches the rains had made very deep by succession of time, so that it was accessible by only one way; therefore we cast a line to join these two natural ditches and made the eminence steep on every side, supporting the earth with great pieces of timber. x x Our fort was very nearly finished and we named 1t the fort of Creve Occur, because the de- sertion of our men and the other difficulties we labored under had almost broke our hearts,"
 City Engineer Wightman became inter- ested in the controversies and investiga- tions brought out in the search for the site of the fort, and to him is due the discovery of the real site. It is directly opposite the upper portion of the city of Peoria and on top of the bluff, which commands view of the river. There yet remain the artificial trenches that lined the stockade trans versely from the ravines, broken only by the spaces where stood the gates. No tim Der, great or small, is found in them, and so accurately are they drawn across the highest peak of the Tazewell bluff as to | leave no doubt of their artificial origin. On
 winters day, as that on which La Sale | selected the site, and when the trees are l divested of their obstructing foliage the view up and down the river is unbroken l for miles. It is at once point of observa- tion and defense. Just the point that would be instinctively selected by so astute a l man as La Sale. The discovery has created l good deal of discussion, and a number of people have visited the spot.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-10
CHAPTER v, SuNNyNn

0pNN1Nd.
 There are few incidents of this aft ,ernoon that I remembered wildly a long time afterward- that in fact l have never entirely forgotten. First, that brief meeting in the Leatherwood House in the presence of Hunter Smith and the dog and the four newly-ar- rived, full-grown, spring house-aies. Then, not so fully, the ambuscade n which the good-hearted judge had la- bored so hard to prevent his friend, the landlord, from entering upon some undetined but disastrous speculation.
 Third, the. But had better tell this in detail. and as nearly consecu- lively as may.
 In the sparse grove of black oaks and beeches that reached their bare, ragged branches from the summit of tho very little knoll that passed for "the hill" with the citizens of Sand town, down to within a stone's throw of the river, saw, even while yet at some distance, the two girls in lively movement here and there. A thin and wavering band of blue smoke struggled up among the gray branches of the beeches and the sturdy black limbs o1 the oaks and elms, and occasionally could see little tongues of flame dart. ing up and falling back. In fact, look. ing around me, l observed that this
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-10
An Interesting Impromptu.

This rare bit of inspiration was written at Bellows Falls, Vt, in the summer of 1852 by the then well-known poet, John G.. Saxe. A beautiful young lady asked him for a line in his autograph for remembrance sake, when, tearing off the blank half of 8 note he had just read, he wrote:
 My dearest Sarah,
 Sometimes tax
 Your sack of thoughts
 With thoughts of
 SAKE"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-10
Beyond His Jurisdiction.

When Lucy Whitaker, colored, of Vicks. burg, died the other day she said she would haunt Frank Jones, arecreant lover of hers, all his life He has appealed to the courts for an injunction to restrain her from going into the haunting business, but the judge ia inclined to regard the case as beyond his jurisdiction.
Evening journal., 1889-06-04
EIGHTY sleHTsEERs DROWNED.
swept From a Bridge at. Wiliiamsport
While Watching the Flood.

LRwIsBURG, Pa, June 3.-The food on
the west branch of the Suequehanna
river is unprecedented, and has never
been equalled before. Already the water
is feur feet above the high water mark
of the great flood of 1865 Every bridge
on the Susquehanna river from Sunbury
in Northumberland county TO Clearfeld,
In Clearfield county, has been swept
away by the raging waters. Williams
port and Lock Haven are the greatest
sufferers. IL is, and has been since Fri
day, impossible to get any communica.
tion with the latter city.
Williamsport was the scene day of a
frightful disaster. From fifty 10 eighty
persons were standing on the bridge at
Market street, which spans the Susque-
hanna river. when with sudden and
mighty surge the angry waters, checked
with logs, the ruins OF houses and all
sorts OF driftwood, swept the
bridge away on its bosom. The sight
seers were thrown into the rushing river.
Their attempts TO save themselves were
desperate and pitiful, and few, II any,
were successful. Almost in the twink.
ling Of an eye the crowd OF sight seers,
who few minutes before had watched
with so much interest the tempestous
rush Of the waters, was swept out OF
sight and vanished in the muddy depths
OF the Susquehanna
Both at Williamsport and at Lock
Haven the enormous booms holding mil
lions Of feet Of TIMBER were broken, and
nine-tenths OF the lumber was lost.
At Milton the water was five feet high
in the streets At this place FIVE spans
Of the railroad bridge were swept away.
The gas-works. water-works, and the va
rlous mills OF the town were flooded out.
The loss will reach $75, 900.
Every town along the west branch OF
the Susquehanna is isolated from every
other town, and communication Is diff.
cult. and in places impossible No rail.
road stations or post Offices are open.
Evening journal., 1889-06-04
Tho Oriental Woman.

IL is rather a curious reflection that In
those countries where womens rights are
most completely nOn-existent, there the
specially womanly duties of women are
the most grossly neglected Travellers
in Egypt, for instance, tell us that when
the bells call the hour of prayer every
man stops whatever work he is engaged
in and prostrates himself to Allah. No
woman takes any notice Of the sound
She is too low IN the scale of humanity
to make her tribute to the Almighty
worthy of acceptance. She ranks in this
respect almost with the brute creation
She is not withdrawn from her domestic
duties by the claimsof religion upon her
time and thoughts. And yet the same
travellers tell us that one OF the horrors
Of Egyptian life is the fearful neglect
from which the children suffer. The
poor little creatures are incrusted by
dirt and sores, and are swarming with
vermin. Children are frequently
seen lying in their mothers
arms with six or eight flies in each eve
Ophthalmia and various kinds of blindness
are Of course, very prevalent although
death releases an enormously large pro-
portion of the children from their suffer
ings. Three out of every five children
who are born die during infancy, and Of
those who survive one in every twenty is
blind. This is being "thoroughly mas
/ culine" with a vengeance, and points an
instructive moral as to the conseq
upon the character Of women of the
denial Of liberty, education and response
bility. The harem life of Oriental ladies'
OF high rank is duh and vaeuous to the
last degree. They play with their
jewels, eat sweetmeats, and smoke
pipes, and thus their day
passes. IL their children are i'll
they are hopelessly bewildered and ut
terly unable to take care Of them. They
cling, with touching reverence. to any
average English or American woman who
may happen to visit them, and implore
her aid in doing the simplest kind OF
nursing and mothering for the ailinp
children. Nothing astonishes Orientais
more than Che position Of women in Eng.
land. A Chinese mandarin has lately pub
lished his views on this subject Women
he says, are even helped at meals befor,
men in his own country the men eat first
and when they have quite finished, If any
thing is left, the women are allowed t
{ have II. Another Eastern, Seyd Ahme
Khan, was amazed to find that the sci
5 want girl who waited upon him in hi
lodgings in London could read and write
a and he recorded his deliberate opinio
D that the little scrub in London lodging
: compelled to work as maid servant fo
, her living" was in reality superior
d nearly all respects to Indian ladies Of th
!. highest rank "Such, " he adds solemnly
e lis the effect of education. The For
9 nightly Review.
Evening journal., 1889-06-04
LOCK HAvEN's FATE IN DOUBT
No News Received From That City Since
Last Friday.


No News Received From That City Since
Last Friday.
PHILADELPHIA, June 3-No direct in
telligence Of any sort has been received
from Lock Haven. Penn, since o'clock
last Friday night. The dispatch received
at that time stated that the timber boom
at that city had been swept away by the
angry flood, and that the town was sub
merged. Rumors of the widest descrip-
tion, alleging great loss OF life and enor
nous damage to property in the vicinity
OF Lock Haven and along the banks of
the Susquehanna. are received, but they
lack confirmation. II is impossible, in
view OF the lack OF communication with
Lock Haven, to hazard even guess at
the condition Of affairs in that city.
The chief telegraph operator at Harris.
burg telegraphs tonight that it is impos-
sible to get message through to Lock
Haven.
Lock Haven is the capital Of Clinton
county. and Is beautifully situated on
the right bank OF the west branch Of the
Susquehanna river, at the mouth of
Bald Eagle creek, on the West Branch
canal Here the Philadelphia and Erie
railroad joins the Bald Eagle Valley
Branch of the Pennsylvania railroad.
The city is twenty-five miles west OF
Williamsport, and sixty-nine miles to the
northeast of Altoona. It's site Is described
as a triangular valley formed by three
mountain ridges Lock Havens popula.
tion is about ~, 000
Evening journal., 1889-06-04
weather.

For Delaware and Maryland, a. m.-
Slight rains, with warmer weather I;
southerly winds.
New York Herald weather forecasts /.
A small depression, now central on Lake
Hulon, will probably move to east-north-
eastward, preceded by showers on the
seaboard and followed by slight fall Of
temperature in this section tomorrow.
Temperature rose slightly in the United
States Yesterday. The chief minimum
reported was 80 degrees, at st. Vincent,
MINI. the chief maximum, 92, at FL Paso
In the Middle States fair weather will
prevail, with slight thermal changes and
fresh southerly to westerly winds, pre-
ceded by slight rain near the coast in the
morning; in New England slightly
warmer, partly cloudy weather preceded
by rain. On Wednesday in New England
fair, slightly cooler weather will proba-
bly, prevail, with fresh southwesterly
to westerly winds. preceded by light,
local rain in the northern part Of these
sections, followed by higher tempera.
ture; and on Thursday warmer, fair
weather. A depression now in Texas
will move northeastwardly, followed
by rain in this section on Friday.
Baynards Thermometer, IA. m, 70;
a. m, TAI; II a. m, 50; p. M, 50.
Evening journal., 1889-06-04
EXAMINING BOARD
Organized Yestsrday-A Visit 20 the N.
a. ID. CRmpinr Grcand.

The Military Examining Board of the
state met In the Clayton House yester.
day, and elected General Theodore F.
Armstrong president, and Surgeon Rob
inson secretary. In the afternoon
the members Of the board and
others went to Brandywine Springs.
The party comprised Adjutant
General r. r. Kenny, Colonel George
". Marshall, General T. f. Armstrong,
Colonel G. j. Hart, Lieutenant Colonel
John M. Newell, Admiral Cody Anfenger,
President Of Council John C. Farra,
Lieutenant A d. Chaytor, Judge j.
Frank Ball and Lieutenant o. d. Robin.
son. The party dined at the
Brandywine Springs Hotel. The visitors
were pleased with the location and facili.
ties OF the springs and the next encamp-
ment will be held there.
The militia liked the place last year
because Of the pure air and the absence
of mosquitoes. which often bother the
life Of the national guardsman.
This year the quarters of the COVER
nors staff will be nearer the hotel A
large shed will be built for the stabline
Of the officers horses.
Evening journal., 1889-06-04

good jumper could cross the river on
the dry stones. Below Johnstown,
after Stony creek has Joined the Cone
maugh creek, the volume of water in
creases, but the Conemaugh throughout
its whole length is nothing but noun
tain stream, dry In the summer and roar
ing in the spring. 1t runs down into the
kishiminitas river and into the Allie
gheny river and then on TO Pittsburg. 1t
is over 100 miles from Johnstown to
Pittsburg following the windings of the
river, twice as far as the straight line.
Evening journal., 1889-06-04
Ribbons.

We ask the public to call and ex-
anime our stock of Ribbons before
purchasing elsewhere.
Satin Ribbons, all shades, 4c a
yard upwards.
Satin Ribbons, all silk, warranted,
SC yard upwards.
We also have a full line of Fancy
Ribbons for trimmings.
Evening journal., 1889-06-04
DIED.

YARROW.-0n the morning OF the 4th In
slant, In this city, Francis Arthur YRrrow,
the only beloved infant OF Robert and Clara
Yarrow, after q long and painful Illness.
Baltimore and New Orleans papers please
copy.
BAILEY AT No. re West Fourth street,
on June 3, Alice Helena, infant daughter OF
Frank and Ella May Bailey, aged months.
MITCHELL.-In this city, on the LIST instant.
Cora, daughter of James and Ellen Mitchell,
in her 23d year.
Evening journal., 1889-06-04
Hosiery.

Ladies' Hose, black unbleached,
&c a pair.
Ladies' Hose, black, fancy un-
bleached, 10c a pair.
Ladies' Ribbed Vests, 15c; worth
25c.
Ladies' Ribbed Vests, 25c; worth
SOC.
Ladies' Corsets at 500; real value
SOC.
Thompson's R. H. glove fitting
Corsets.
Our Erminie Woven Corsets only
75c.
Evening journal., 1889-06-04
ParaSoIS.

Gloria Silk Parasols only 99c;
worth $1.25.
Gloria Silk Parasols, gilt knobs,
$1.15; worth $1.50.
Ladies' Coaching ParaNols, all
shades, $125.
Children's Parasols for zoe, 25c
and 29c.
Evening journal., 1889-06-04
Straw Hats.

We have just received a full line
of Ladies Hats, which we will sell
at 25c.
Ladies Sun Hats only 25c.
Ladies' fancy Straw Hats at 47c
and SOC each.
Evening journal., 1889-06-04
Gloves.

Ladies' stitched back Gloves,
States and Tans, only 19c.
Ladies' Lisle Thread Gloves, all
shades, only 25c.
Ladies' black lace Mitts only 15c;
worth 25c.
Ladies' black Jersey Mitts only
25c; worth 39c.
We also have a nice line Of Ruch-
ings, Laces, Buttons, Trimmings
and Jewelry.
Evening journal., 1889-06-04
. Notions.

Goff's Dress Braid, all shades, sc
pc. worth Sc.
Large spool, 100 yards silk, Sc
spool; worth 10c.
Coates Spool Cotton, white and
black, 4c a spool.
Pins, 1c a paper. Hair Pins, 2
packages 1c. Basting Cotton, 200
yards, 2 spools for &c. Cambria
Lining, &c a yard. Drilling, 1Oc.
Silescia, 12c yard.
Evening journal., 1889-06-04
Collars.

Ladies Linen Collars, &c each.
Gents Linen Collars, 10c each
Gents Linen Cuffs, TIC a pair.
Ladies' Linen Cuffs, 10c pair.
Evening journal., 1889-06-04
Jerseys.

Ladies' fast black Jerseys only 49c.
Ladies' Blouses, all shades, $1.25.
Ladies will do well in examining
our stock of Jerseys.
Evening journal., 1889-06-04
An Indian Rorls speech.

AT meeting held at Hampton last
Indian Day" one of the Indian boys in
his speech said: Whenever we do any
thing white man don't like he call us
'lnlun; whenever we do anything Injun
don't Ike he call us white man He
also expressed his conviction that
'lnJan boy great deal smarter than white
boy, cause folks expect that Injun will
learn as much in three years as white
boy does in nine or ten years
Evening journal., 1889-06-04
FOR RENT.
SOME CHOICE
BUILDING LOTS FOR SALE

n. f. Cor. Eighth and BroOme street, 77xll5.
Washington between Thirteenth and Four
teenth. 50xl40.
Franklin between Ninth and Tenth, 60xi06.
N. w. Cor. Sixth and French, 81 .6x50.
:. r. Cor. Frank in and Oak, l40X25O.
Shallcross avenue between Lincoln and Union,
44xl50.
n. w. Cor Fourth and Rodney. 67x90.
South side Sixth between jackson and Van
Buren, 1SXi2S.
Cor. Tulip and DUPONT, T0xg0.
West side Market between Twcnty-sixth and
Twenty-seventh, l2OXl9.
Gilpin avenue near Rodney, 50xl00.
w. Fifth near Harrison s5xl2S.
w. sixth near jackson, SSXl2S.
Lowering avenue and Franklin, ,e5xi0.
Twelfth between Lombard and Pine 6SXSo.
Cor. krontand Rodney. 4SX25I.