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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-10

''1S IT DEAD, FATHER?" HE SAID. He stalked up to where we were and held the child before the chief "Is it dead, father?'' he said
 Now, as could we'll see, the child was not dead, but had been hidden away, and tainted with fear.
 The chief glanced at it carelessly and said:
 ''Find out with your kerrie."
 Acting on this hint the black devil held up the child and was about to kill 1t with his knob-stick. This was moro than could bear. sprang at him and struck him with all my force in the face. little caring if l was speared or not. He dropped Tota on tho ground.
 "OhV' he said, putting his hand to his nose, "the white spirit has a hard fist. Come, spirit, l will fight you for the child"
 The soldiers cheered and laughed 'Yes! yes!' they said; "let Bombyane fight the white spirit for the child. Let them fight with assegais."
 For moment I hesitated. What chance had I against the black giant? But had promised poor Hans to save the child if I could; and what did it matter? As well die now as later. How ever, I had wit enough left to make a favor of it, and intimated to the chief through Indaba-zimbi that I was quite willing to condescend to kill Bom byane on condition that if did so the child's fife should be given to me. 1ndaba-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-10
TARTAN GARMENTS.
Cloaks and Gowns in Scottish
 Plaids Are the Craze.
Pretty Girl" and Modlsh Matrons Go About Looking as If They Were Chiet- tainesses of Highland CIans-Au
 Sorts of Novelties for January.
COPYRIGHT 1889.

COPYRIGHT 1SS9
 The sudden popularity of tartan gar ments of every sort and description is traced of course to the Fife marriage. The fashion which began in London in the summer was quickly taken up on the other side of the channel, and all through the autumn and early winter French women have been wearing tar an gowns and cloaks, both in wool for daytime and in silk or poplin for even- ing. This being the case, it was to be exnacted that the whim would cross
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-10

But while the cloak was made entirely of the plaided material, the dress had a bodice of plain dark blue cloth, with cuffs and vest of the tartan. The vest was fastened by silver thistle buttons in diamond shape, and the plain full skirt was crossed picturesquely by a wido tartan scarf knotted loosely on one side. I wondered why she chose the Mackenzie, or what reason women who have no Scotch connections would assign for preferring one above another clan.
 That there arc preferences is certain and the Douglas is about as popular as any tartan. I saw a highly successful gown at the theater the other evening in it's mingled dark blues and greens with relief of white lines eros sing this ground. In the tight-fitting bodice the stripes and checks were wonderfully we'll matched, though it is to be doubted if the most carefully cross cut bodice, which little while ago nobody would have tolerated, can ever satisfy the eye, as well as little plain waist However, the way in which this corsage was arranged to button over on one
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-10

figure. The skirt was cut in a severely simple style, but one which suited ad. mirably the design of the tartan.
 Some New York houses, I notice, are sending out so-called "fancy' tartans which represent no clan whatever, and have been evolved from the brain Of some enterprising latter day designer, while others who stand as purists, treat with scorn all such 'barbarities.' The fancy tartans come often in pretty little s4--ls for calling gowns, and their soft blue and rose pink tints are quite as pleasing if not as well authorized as the genuine stuff of the Scotsmen Agnes Booth wore a pretty house gown of this description one day lasS week while she was laid up with ia g1ippe, ' and tho Madison Square Theater had a new Aunt Jack" in the person of Maude Harrison. Mrs. Booth-Schoeffel wore in her boudoir a com bination of shaded old pink and black, cut bias throughout. with a round waist of the broad p!aids larped in front, and an old pink velvet girdle nine inches wide folded across the police. The sleeves, also cut with the stripes running di- Rgonally, were very wide at the top but tight from the elbow down, with eight small buttons of old rose velvet fasten- ing them on the inner seam. The skirt was plain and round, with little velvet diamonds dotted about the bottom just above the hem in an irregular pattern.
 For the street I have seen a mum Der of tartan gowns in poplins with tartan mutfs to correspond. A very smart ono stopped Fifth avenue stage one morn ing and showed fur edged boots as it was climbing in. The colors were a new moss green plaid with blue and brown cross bars. The straight front and princesse back opened over side plaited skirt of dull rose poplin, edged with a woven i,oarder of lynx fur. The bodice had a vest Of rose velvet and was draped with a soft rose silk not wholly hidden under the short jacket whose fronts lad not been closed in the warmth of the winter day. A Directory hat was wori of moss green velvet trimmed with pink ribbon and brown feathers.
 A well known singer wore a costume which was a very good type of another variety of plaid gown at a f o'clock a few days ago The black and white plaid was laid in wide deep plaits at tho back. The front was quito plain
 
 of Sultana red cloth. The bodice was long basque of the pla;ded goods cut on the straight way, as was the skirt also. It was cut away on the hips and had a short slashed back, with folded iron ts of ecru armuro and plastron and revers Of red velvet The sleeves were tight to the elbow, the upper part consisting of 9 jockey of ecru silk, puffed high upon the shoulders and banded with red velvet. The black felt hat was faced with velvet and trimmed with ecru os- trich tips
 At some of the holiday gatherings in country houses a fine old clanish ai1 was given to some families by having the little boys wear kits in the plaids affected by their mothers and bringing out the small girls in silk sashes and handkerchiefs to correspond. One
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-10
WATERBURY pOsT OFFICE

WATERBURY pOsT OFFICE
 Mails Close. New York City-7."o 1oao a m; a.1o: 5.so, 7scp p Boston 1.CO, 7.5O a m; 12.3 30, 2.10, 730 Ill. ~outhern-7.5O, l0.2U m: 2.1O, 5.30, 7.30 p m Western-7.50 i02O m; 21' 5.:'O, 1.30 ID. Canada West-1.3U. 102 m; 2 10, 5.3O, 7.30 D m Eastern n-1 CO., 7.5u M; 12.3o, 2lO, 7.3O m. Canada East-7.00, 7.5o m; 1230, 2.10, 730pm. Albany. 50. 1920 m 10, 5.3O, 80 p m Northern N Y.-7.5o. 1920 n; 9 TO- 5.30, 7.3O D. Providence-7.GO, 7.5O m; 12 3O a.lO, 7.3O p Ill. Springtied7.O CO., 7.5O am; 123O, ;. 1O 5.3O, 73O pm Worcester.7O 100, 50 am 12. 80. 2.1o, 5so, 80 pm Pitts6eld Mass-7.5e m; 2.1O, 5.3O, 7.3O m. tIartford-7.0O, 750 m; 12.3O, 2.1O, 7.3O pm. Bridgeport-7.5O, 1O20 m; , 10, 5.30, 80 m. New Haven-.7 30 20 am; F. 30; 1o 5.se, 73o pm Ansonia--7.50, 1O.2O m; 1230, 2.1O. 530, 7.30 m Birmingham-7% 10 2Oam: F 30, 2.1O, 53O 30 pm Union City-7.50 a m; 2.10, 80 m. Nauga uck--i 50 am 2 10, 5.30 m. Seymour-7.5O m; 2.1O, 53O pm. Winsted-10.55 m; 30 p m. stations on Naugatuck R.R. north Waterbury
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 Meriden-7.5O, 102o am; 123o, 40, 5.3O, 7.3O m Danbury-7.56 m; 1.25, ,; 12,5.3O, 7.30 p m. New Lsndon-7 CO., 7.50 am. 10.3 210, 5.30 80 DID Watertown-i0.45 .45 m 630 p m Oakvile--1O.45 m; 6.3O D m. WOodbury-730, 10. .45 m; 1 25 m. Southbury-73Oa m; 1.35 m. Niddlebury-12.3 30 m. Wolcott Cru. Tn, Sat.) 12.3Oa
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-10
,,TaVon Portraits and Picture Framing

CNINEsT WORK AT THE VERY LOWEST | PRICES. K. A. DICKSON,
 Rink Building.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-27
An Old SANDER Refuted.

There is an old SANDER, now happily
nearly extinct, to the effect that minis
ters' sons are, as rule, more lavish
sewers of wild oats than the sons of
laymen. The subject of the clergyman's
son in journalism has never yet been re.
garded as an issue, and yet the profu-
sion with which some of the newspaper
offices of Boston are sprinkled with the
sons of ministers might well lead to
discussion of the topic. In the office of
one of the Boston dailies recently a
group of six attaches of the staff were in
conversation, when it became known
that of the six five were sons of minis
ters. Still another member of the staff,
himself clergyman, is the son of
clergyman. From this same Office, with
in the last year or two, three members
Of the staff have gone, one by one, to
swell the staff of another great Boston
daily, and all three are sons of clergy
men. All of these nine men are of good
repute, and are all rather proud that
they are able to refute the saying, once
80 frequently heard, but now rapidly
falling into disuse.-Boston Advertiser
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-27
More Than He Bargained For.

''Well," said the merchant to the
young clerk whom he had sent out col
lecting, 'did you have any luck?"
"Some."
Il suppose you got the amount Mr..
Fatherington owes. You said he was a
personal friend of yours"
"No. didn't get the money; the fact
is, don't exactly know what to make
Of my experience there"
"How was it?"
81 went in and said; Mr.. Gathering
ton, called to speak about a mat
Ter / didn't get any further, when
ne put in with; That's all right, my
BOY; she is yours; take her and be
happy "-Washington Post
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-27
A Terror to Plagiarists.

l know young woman in New YORK.
the daughter of well-known editor,
whose marvellous memory is literally
her fortune. She is an omniverous
reader. No book escapes her, and, once
read, is never forgotten. This extra
ordinary girl is as familiar with the
literature of past ages as with the two.
penny novels of to-day, and is employed
by one of the leading publishers for the
sole purpose of reading manuscript and
pronouncing upon its originality. Not
only borrowed plots, but borrowed
styles. borrowed phrases, are instantly
detected, and their original source IS
noted down. She occupies a position
which is unique in the history OF great
publishing houses. She is the real
Nemesis of the plagiarist-Epoch.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-27
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

| The Provisional Government of Bra
zil has issued decree suppressing re-
| ligious instruction in the State schools.
"A British clergyman of note esti-
mates that the Professionals have in
creased the last hundred years nearly
| fourfold, the Roman Catholics and the
Greek church each two fold.
The Italians of Boston have just
held meeting to take steps to establish
an industrial school for young men and
women of their race, in which also they
| can learn to read and write the English
language.
The success of Moravian missions
has been wonderful. It is said that the
| secret lies in the fact that many of it's
members adopt the simple precept that
each Christian should seek daily the
conversion of some other soul.
The traveller and ethnologist, Tush-
kuroff, points out the fact that there are
400, 900 heathens and $4,000 Mohamme-
dams in the Russian army, the latter
forming rs per cent. of the Cossack reg
iments, and also declares that Chris
tianity is dying out in Southeastern
Russia.
Several of the Southern States, not
ably Virginia, Florida and Arkansas,
are developing good school systems, and
the newspapers of North Carolina-a
State which has not been as progressive
in this respect as others-calls upon the
people to make an increase of at least
$3.50, 600 year in the appropriation for
educational institutions.
The Illinois Supreme Court recent
ly rendered decision that will interest
members of the Y. M. C. A. The court
holds that the Y. M. G. A. is not wholly
religious body, but is largely Chris
tian and benevolent organization, and
therefore the law restricting the amount
of property to be held by religious
corporations does not govern the Y. M.
C. A.
In Odessa recent decision of the
authorities prohibits Jewish teachers
from teaching in Christian schools.
Furthermore, adherents of the Jewish
faith are not allowed to give private les
sons in Christian homes. The general
public is warned against Jewish teach
ers in large posters on the bulletin
boards, which allege that Jewish teach
ers endanger morals and religion.
School statistics for Paris state that
there are 147,5 children attending the
municipal or State schools; 81, 1894 at
tending schools directed by religious
orders, and $4,000 attending free Law
schools where religious instruction is
given. 1t is also stated that attendance
at municipal schools has increased BY
only about 700 in the last three years.
The annual expenditures for the munic-
ipal schools is 26,5oo, 600 francs.-N 7.
Independent.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-27
THE VALUE OF LISTS.
An Excellent System Devised by . Pro
gressive HOusekeeper.

An Excellent System Devised by q Pro-
gressive Housekeeper.
There is nothing in my own expert
ence which l have found of more value
than lists-shopping lists, marketing
lists, lists for meals, calling lists, cor
respondence lists, lists of every sort and
variety to aid the memory and help
toward the realization of the Scripture
injuncture: "Let every thing be done
decently and in order.''
First, let me speak of the list for
meals, which, with the marketing list.
has become with me daily habit. AS
soon as convenient after breakfast every
morning, having made short inspec-
ton of the larder, and, if necessary.
having consulted the cook, I sit down
and prepare a list for the next three
meals.
For this and the marketing list 1
keep on hand small blocks of paper
(21a inches by inches 1 find large
enough), and tear off the lists as write
them. The lists for meals l hang on
tack in the kitchen, by the side of the
sink where the cook can consult it, and
1HuS, IL SIG HdppeHS 10 nave short
memory. need not run to ask what was
ordered for any meal. For the mar
keting list consult the meal list to see
what will be needed for the next twen-
ty-four hours, adding to these articles
any thing we happen to be out of, or
any other errand l wish to remember.
In this way, by giving not more than
fifteen minutes care and thought to the
matter each morning, 1 am able to
dismiss the question of food from my
mind for the rest of the day. / do nv
own marketing, taking my list with me,
aud starting as early as 1 conveniently
can every morning, in. order that the
butcher and grocer may deliver my or
ders before dinner time. Ny afternoons
are always free for calling, reading or
sewing, and / have invariably found
that the cook likes the list system, and
that l give up the practice for few
days she will feel lost without it and
ask for the receipt" as one girl invari-
ably called it.-Cor. Christian at Work.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-27

In all things throughout the world
the men who look for the crooked will
see the crooked. and the men who look
for the straight will see the straight.
The innermost, unexpressed thought
of every man is about this: If every
other man had been created as nearly
right as l am, the millennium might
come almost any day.
Weak minds make treaties with the
passions they can not overcome, and try
to purchase happiness at the expense of
principle. But the resolute will of
strong man scorns such means, and
struggles nobly with his foe to achieve
great deeds.
He possesses dominion over himself
and is happy, who can every day say, 81
have lived" Tomorrow the heavenly
Father may either invade the world in
dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sun
shine. He will not, however, render in
effectual the things which have already
taken place.-Horace.
Even the wild flowers that you
gather in your long ram bles on the sum-
mers day, though they will die before
tomorrow, have still their use, in their
beauty and their fragrance, while they
last. And if you do but get out of them
the good that God has put into them,
though they perish. they perish in the
using. christian Union.
TO be true men and women, we must
be self-poised, self-directing and self-re-
specting. We must never hang our
opinions upon another's thoughts or
party dictum; we must never indolently
shift responsibility or sink into mental
captivity to stronger nature. The
most modest of us all, however lightly
he hay hold his own powers, must re-
member that they are his own, and on
that account are of priceless value to
him.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-27
WIT AND WISDOM.

He that accuses all mankind of cor
ruption ought to remember that he is
sure to convict only one.
When a Soung man is running down
In health he should wind up some of his
bad habits.-N. o. Picayune.
Often the man who does not know
his own mind has escaped a very disrep-
utable acquaintance.-Terr Haute Ex-
press.
Goodness, and absence of heat and
haste, indicate fine qualities. A gentle-
man makes no noise; lady is serene
Emerson.
1t takes small boy to see the i'm
projections in an old man, and an old
man to see the faults in boy.-Atchi-
son Globe.
There is no surer mark of the abb
sence of the highest moral and intellec-
tual qualities than cold reception of
excellence.
Reason can not show itself more
reasonable than to cease reasoning on
things that are above reasoning
Philip Sidney.
1t may be remarked. for the COM
fort of honest poverty, that avarice
reigns most in those who have but few
good qualities to recommend them.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-27
The Usual Description

us the fellow what you would call q
fast man?'
"He certainly is fast in every respect
but one."
"What is the exception?"
THE matter of paying his debts."-
Chicago Times.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-27

The last block of stock of the River.
Harbor and Canal Land and Dredging
Company of San Francisco, amounting
to 1000 shares, hae been taken. This
company has for its object the making of
Alviso slough navigable and to give San
Jose harbor. Work is expected to be-
gin as early as practicable.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-27
A PASSIONATE PIG.
His Singular Affection for q Man and RI
venge Upon Her Slayer.

htS singular AnectlOn Tor q Man ana R0-
venge Upon Her Slayer.
The large, blooded Poland China boar
Rob Roy I'LL, owned in the town of
Wayne, east of Lake Keuka, has more
than local reputation, not only for his
breeding but for the ferceness of his
nature. He is of enormous size. With
the exception of his owner he will per-
nit no one to come near him, and the
only other living thing on the farm that
he ever had any friendship for was
domlnlck hen, which has been his al
most 1nseparable companion and at
tendant for more than year. The big
hog has the run of half an acre of
ground, and he has rooted that over and
over again, for apparently no other pur-
pose than to provide the hen with
worms and other insects, without her
having to take the trouble to scratch for
them herself
The hog and the hen could be seen
any day in good weather making the
rounds OF the Enclosure, the hog turning
up the ground with his great snout, and
the hen standing ready to seize the
worm or bug the roofing revealed. The
hog would watch the hen as she scratched
In the upturned dirt for insects, the old
FELLOW grunting contentedly the while,
and apparently having no object in life
out to root for the hen When she had
gone through one roofing of soil the
boar would pillow up another one, and
keep on until the hens appetite was
satisfied. Then Rob Roy III. would
stret;h himself in the sun for a nap, and
the hen would either wallow in the dust
by his side or perch on his body some
where and wait for her big admirer to
wake up.
The hen always took her place on the
edge OF the boar's swill trough when his
feed was poured in, and picked out such
morsels as his nosing about the trough
brought to the surface.
A week ago another pig was turned
into Rob Roy's Enclosure, and the big
hog tolerated her presence. She fed at
the same trough with him, and all went
we'll until Saturday. The dominick hen
perched herself as usual on the edge of
the trough at feed time. The new pig
did not approve of this, and with quick
and savage movement caught the hen by
the neck and bit it in two before she
could squawk. For a moment Rob Row
turned his head and gazed at the flut-
tering and piroutting of the bleeding
and headless body of his friend. Then
he made one rush upon the dominick's
slayer, and before his owner, who had
been witness of the hens taking off,
could interfere, Rob Roy had torn the
other pig SO frightfully with his long
tusks that she died in few minutes
Hammondsport Cor. N. Y. Sun.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-27

Senior Modesto Darrios has resigned
his post as Minister of the Interior of
Nicaragua and has been replaced by
Senior Panaigua, late Chancellor of the
Exchequer. The Government has ap-
pointed the former as Minister for Mica
ragua in London.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-27

The value of pack of hounds is re-.
vealed by the sale of one recognized as
among the finest in England for three
thousand guineas.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-27
NAMES OF THE STATES.
Some Are of Indian Origin, and Others Are
English French.

English or French.
Maine was so called as early as 1888,
from Maine, in France, of which Hen
rietta Maria, Queen of England, was at
that time proprietor. New Hampshire
was the name given to the territory
given by the Plymouth Company to
Captain John Mason, by patent, Novem-
Der z, 1889, with reference to the
patentee, who was Governor of Ports
mouth, in Hampshire, England. Yer
mont was so called by the inhabitants in
their declaration ofindependence. Janu-
airy 16, 1777, from the French 0erd, green,
and mont mountain. Massachusetts,,
from tribe of Indians in the neighbor-
hood of Boston-the tribe is thought to
have derived it's name from the Blue
Hills of Milton.
81 have learned" says Roger Will
iams, 'that Massachusetts was so called
from the Blue Hills"
Rhode Island was named in 1914. in
reference to the Island of Rhodes, in
the Mediterranean. Connecticut was so
called from the Indian name of it's prin-
cipal river; New York in reference to
the Duke of York and Albany, to whom
this territory was granted. Pennsyl-
vania was named in 1851, after William
Penn; Delaware in 17O3, from Delaware
Bay, on which it lies, and which received
it's name from Lord de la War, who died
in this bay; Maryland, in honor of Hen
tietta Maria, Queen of Charles l., in his
patent to Lord Baltimore, June 80, 1852;
Virginia was named in 1884, after Eliza
beth, the virgin Queen of England; Caro-
lima by the French in 1854, in honor
of King Charles TX. of France; Georgia
in 1772, in honor of King George Ill;
Alabama in 1917, from the principal
river; Mississippi in 1900, from its west
ern boundary. Mississippi is said to
denote Kie, whole river; that is, the
river formed by the union of many.
Louisiana, so called in honor of Louis
XVI. of France; Tennessee, in 1896, from
it's principal river. The word Tennessee
is said to signify curved spoon. Ken
lucky in 1882, from it's principal river;
Illinois in 1909, from it's principal river.
The word is said to signify the river of
men. Indiana in 1902, from American
Indians; Ohio in 1902, from it's southern
boundary; Missouri in 1921, from it's prin.
cipal river. Michigan was named in
1905 from the lake on it's borders: Ar
kansas in 1919, from it's principal river
Florida was so called by Juan Ponse le
Leon in 1852, because it was discovered
on Easter Sunday. In Spanish, Pascus
Florida at Work.