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The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-15

Twill be consoling to Americans of sensitive
consciences to learn that sort of reciprocity in
swindling schemes has at last been established
between this country and Europe, and that all
the swindling is no longer done by Yankee rail-
road and mine enterprise boomers on their Brit
ish cousins. The latter have of late, it appears
by reports from the American Legation in Lon
don, gone extensively into the business Of work
ing gullible Americans for considerable sums of
money by representing that they are heirs to
immense estates in England and all that is nee
essary to make good their claims is an advance
OF funds. The fourishing condition of this new
British industry may be judged from the fact
that two hundred claims to large estates in Eng
land were filed at the American Legation in
London last year, not one of which had any
foundation.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-15
THOMAS BOWLING, Auotioneer.
SPEED,

TROTTING, SADDLE, AND FAMILY HORSES.
COMPRISED IN THE
SPECIAL SALE OF TEN FINE YOUNG KEN
TUCKY BRED HORSES, BEING THE
PROPERTY OF MIR. B. CROSSAN. OF
BOWLING GREEN. KENTUCKY
TROTTERS. GENTLEMENS RoADSTERs.
GATED SADDLERS, AND FAMILY CAR
RIAGE HORSES
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-15

One of the most gratifying features of the
long Illinois Senatorial contest which ended on
Wednesday was the way in which the Demo-
Gratis stood together from first to last in support
of Gen. Palmer. Palmer is man of the peo-
pie, and in his selection there was no suspicion
OF influences other than those which should pre-
vail in the choice of United States Senator.
The people of Illinois know and trust him, and
his example in stumping the State as candi-
date for Senator in the legislative campaign is
likely to strengthen the movement for the cleo
tion of Senators by the people. Already the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette has taken the
idea up and advises Senator Sherman to follow
Palmer's example in his candidacy for reelec-
tion to the Senate.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-15
Suction &mlHm.
DUNcANsoN BROS, Auotioneers.
SPECIAL SALE OF
Fine Household Furniture and
Effects,

ON TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH IL. COM
MENCING AT 10 O'CLOCK.
COMPRISING
one Rosewood Square Piano, (wiiam Miler.)
rarlor suites in Rug and Plush One Fine
Eoony Cabinet, Fancy Rockers M n Tables
Easy Chairs, Oak and Brentwood Cane Seat
Snairs, walnut and Other Extension Tables
Sideooards IN Walnut, Oak. and Sixteenth Cen.
Jury Finish, Walnut Oak. and Ash Bedroom
suites, suites, ODD Bedsteads, Bureaux aud WASH
stands, New Hair and Husk Mattresses Feather
Pillows and Bolsters. Walnut and Oak Ward
ropes' Set Kitchen Requisites, Etc. Etc.
ALSO
Several Fine illustrated Family Bhles prot
estant and CathoicO Suitable for Momeuto of
the Easter Season. VI
ALSO
Lot Mosler. Detroit and Other Office Safes.
,-, DUNCANSON BROS,
muIo-lO Aurtioneers.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-15

Now that Great Britain and the United States
have agreed to submit the Bering Sea contro-
versy to arbitration, and France and Great
Britain have come to a similar understanding
regarding the Newfoundland fisheries dispute.
couldn't Governor Hill and Editor Watterson
be induced to follow the example of these other
great powers and arbitrate their differences?
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-15

The peach-growers of New Jersey are plainly
simple and unsophisticated lot, with
little of the guile which distinguishes their
brethren of Delaware. The New Jersey
peach orchards promise for the coming
season one of the biggest crops on record,
and the Jerseymen in their simplicity are
owning up to and rejoicing over it. Meanwhile
the willy Delawareans are no doubt pronounc-
ing left-handed benedictions on the simple
souled Jerseyites and preparing to get out their
regular spring bulletin declaring that the
peach-buds have been almost totally destroyed
by frost
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-15

The American hog is not yet clean enough for
the Germans and they refuse to raise the en-
barge on him. 1t would seem before anything
can be done with Germany in this matter every
American hog-pen will have to be supplied with
Turkish bath and Government Inspector ap-
pointed to see that the hogs are steamed and
scrubbed and massaged and thumped at least
once week.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-05-02
OPPOSED TO PENSIONS.

Judge Daniels, of New York, Says the
Constitutional Provision is a Fraud.
BUFFALO, May at has been rumored
that Judge Daniels, whose term on the
Supreme Court bench will expire next
Fall, would decline a denomination.
Judge Daniels said to-day that he has
made no such statement.
His position, he said, was this: He
would not seek the nomination but would
leave the matter entirely to the people.
If reelected Judge Daniels can serve four
years before he would be retired by the
constitutional age limit. After retire.
ment he would be entitled to full pay for
the remaining ten years, amounting to
$4,000. Judge Daniels was asked his
views on this pension matter.
'I will state my position" he answered.
II believe this constitutional provision is
a fraud, an imposition. The people never
approved of it, consequently if accepted
this pension should feel that was do
ing a very dishonorable thing. The Judges
of the Supreme Court should not be paid
after their term Of service any more than
the incumbents of other public offices"
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-05-02
woMEN's SHOULDER cAPEs.

Beauty and Comfort Go For Much, but
These Things are Straitjackets.
The capes, fur and imitation, which
are so fashionable with women nova
days, are doubtless very comfortable on
moderately cold days, but, at least from
a man-point of view, they are beyond
description burdensome and inconven-
lent. A woman who has put herself
into one, has practically no use of her
arms above the elbows. There are un-
yielding straps around the biceps, which
allow that part of the arm very little
play. To be sure, few women, after
they leave home, have much use for
their arms above the elbows.
While shopping the clerks take the
goods from the shelves and place them
upon the counters. In all the shops,
however, there are many attractive
articles hung on wires level with tho
eyes of the purchasers. Many amusing
sights are to be seen, when women for
get the limitations imposed by their
capes, and attempt to reach up to try
the quality of goods which attract their
office.
The other afternoon a richly-dressed
young woman was placed, through the
eccentricities of her cape, in a predica-
ment which brought depth of red to
her cheeks. She attempted to mail a
letter in one of those new-fashioned
letter-boxes which open at the top. The
girl stood on her toes, got the slide open
and placed the letter partly within.
Then she shut the slide, but it caught
the letter by corner, and refused to
drop it inside. She made every effort
to push it in or to open the slide again,
but the tightness of her cape prevented
her raising her arm sufficiently. She
| jumped from her feet several times, and
tried to poke the letter down on the
| fly, but it would not go. A crowd OF
small boys gathered and looked at her
sympathetically, but they were not tall
enough to help her. Several women
stopped and looked at her curiously,
but did not offer to render aid. Some
battered corner loafers drew near and
leered at her. The girls cheeks began
to burn, and she made efforts to get the
letter out But 1t was caught fast, and
refused to move one way or the other.
One of the small boys suggested that
she stake off her cloak" and the other
small boys laughed. The girl began to
| cry, and ran up to Sun reporter who
was passing and said:
''Sir, will you be kind enough to put
that letter in the box for me, or else
pull it out and give it to me?"
p The reporter hurried to the box and
thrust the letter inside.
"Oh, thank you so much" said the
girl. cts my cape, you know-but
maybe you don't know-you see it-but
thank you, sir, so much" And she de
parted almost running.-N. Y. Sun.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-05-02
GOING TO COURT.
Some Of the Qualifications Necessary TO
Get Presented In saxony.

Some Of the Qualifications Necessary TO
Get Presented In Saxony.
Going to court Is privilege which
many desire in Saxony, but few attain.
No man can be presented who Is not a
'von," or the member of an official
family, or 'hoffahig," an untranslatable
expression meaning that the person to
whom it is applied has inherited right
to appear before the sovereign, because
of some service rendered to royalty.
The lines are rigidly drawn. If an
officer marries a young woman not
"hoffahig," as his wife she Is received,
but her family is still excluded. An
American who takes German hus-
band accepts his position as her own,
and If he is not entitled to appear at
court, neither can she, though beauty
and refinement and great wealth are
hers. No one who has ever been in
business in Germany can hope to set
foot in a royal palace. The king and
queen would faint in a row at the
merest glimpse of such a contaminat-
ing presence. 49,.
A tale is still told of some charming
American girls who were spending q
winter in Dresden, and just for the fun
The preliminaries were arranged, and
it was on the eve of the drawing-room
that somehow the awful discovery was
made that fifty years before their father
had been in the counting-room of IA
nous banker in Berlin. Crossing to
America shortly afterward, he had piled
up an enormous fortune and earned for
himself a name well recognized all
through the u nited States. He was a
natura1ized citizen of New York, having
broken every bond that held him to the
land of his birth. But that did not alter
the case in the least. He had once been
actually engaged in business in Ger.
many, and nothing more was to be said.
The two brilliant, beautiful daugh'
tiers, heiresses to fortune before which
the contents Of the royal treasury
dwindled into a mere pittance, were as
| hopelessly excluded from court as il
they had been miserable little rag
pickers in the streets of Dresden. II
seems strange that bankers, who IL
America are considered the aristocrats
of business, should be refused posi-
ton in society by the older civilization
But so it is. ''La haute finance" as the
circle of financiers is called, can never
be received at the Saxon court. They
have their own magnificent palaces
where they entertain and are enter
tanned by aristocrats who have the en-
tree at court. Yet beyond that they
may not aspire.-Chicago News.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-05-02
Her Horne-NIatIo Bread.

Young Man-Doctor, you have been
attending me for week, and am
worse than was at the start.
Physician-I will be frank with you,
sir. Being unable to discover what was
the matter with you; and being unwill.
ing to risk interfering with the curative
powers of nature, I have given you nc
medicine at all. In fact, my treatment
has not commenced yet.
But you have given me pills right
along"
'They were only sham; they were
made IF bread"
''Where did you get the 6read?'
''Your young and charming wife made
it.''
''No wonder I'm worse. Light.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-05-02
NOTICE.

Iheteby notify all persons liable to pay
taxes ia. the town of Waterbury that have
received rate bill and warrant to sollect
town tar of four az mills on the dollar
on list of 1890 and will be at somnon
council room, City hall building, on and
10 to IA m, 2 to and from z TO 8 pm,
toreceive said tax.
p s. The law provides percentage at a
rate Of "a of per cent per month Dsust
be added from May l, 1891, If not paid
before June ], 1891.
JAMES CoUGHLAN, Collector.
Waterbury, April 8, 1891.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-05-02
NOTICE.

1 hereby notify all persons liable to pay
taxes in the Center school district, town
of Waterbury, that have received rate
bill and warrant to collect a Center school
district tax of eight ~ mills on the dollar
on list of 1890, and will be at common
council room, City hall building, on and
after May 1, 1891, when same is due, from
10 to 10 a m, to and from to pm,
to receive said tax.
P. S. The law provides that percen-
tage at rate of "a of one per cent per
month must be added from May 1, 1891,
if not paid before June 1891.
Waterbury, April 8, 1891.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-05-02
NoTrGE-

/ hereby notify all persons liable to pay
taxes in the city Of Waterbury that have
received rate bill and warrant to collect
q tax of eighteen (16) mills on q dollar on
list Of 1890, and will be at common eoun'
Gil room. City hall building, on and eftel
May l, 1891, when same is due, from 10 tc
said tax.
p. s. The law provides that percentage
&C rate Of "a of one per cent per month
must be added after May /, 1891, If moi
paid before June 1, 1891.
JAMES CoUGHLAN, Collector.
Waterbury, April 8, 1891.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-05-02
Roth Sides Are Stubborn.

DU QUo1N, ILL.,, May 2.--What promises
to be the most stubbornly contested coal
miners strike ever had in this district has
been inaugurated here. The contest is
to enforce the eight-hour-day and pay
every Saturday. The men say they will
stay out until the law is upheld and their
demands granted. The operators say the
law is unjust and that they will fight it
to the United States Supreme Court
Fully 1000 men will be directly inter
cited in the strike, which, with their fam
lilies, swells the total number affected to
800 souls.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-05-02
Dog and Cat Hunt Birds Together.

TuToN, Ca, May 2-Mr. William Will
Jams, who resides near Mud Turtle Lake,
has pointer dog and large brown cat.
They go out hunting together. The dog
points the birds and attracts their atten-
ton, while the cat, with flank move
ment in the rear, never fails to secure a
bird. They never banquet until they
have secured four birds, when each Of
them dimes on two birds apiece.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-05-02
IRON Works Sold.

IRoNToN, O., May 2.-The Etna Iron
Works have been sold to John 8. Clark
and John n. Barnes, of Philadelphia, by
Marshal Simmons. The price realized Is
$3.50, 887, only half Of the appraised
value.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-05-02
SAMPLE ROOM.

JOHN NOLAN, 30 East Main ST.,
Choice liquors, wines, ales and lager,
foreign and domestic cigars. Give me a
call.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-05-02
| LOU N GES.

We are showing fine. assortment of
Lounges, in Cretonne, Carpet, Moquette,
Plush and Rugs, which we bought during
the dull season, when prices were low, and
can now give you the benefit of those
prices. No shoddy goods, all frst-class.
Come in and see them, the Old Reliable
House of
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-05-02

2 The widow Of Count Andrassy has
lent her late husband correspondence
to Prince Bismarck for use in the prepa-
ration of his memoirs.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-05-02
PENMANSHIP.
Prof HoIley

Teaches every pupil to write fne rapid
business hand in . course of Is private
lessons \ d NO FAILURES.
All kin 10 of pen work executed In the
highest degree of the art 167 HankEst
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-05-02

the square, Fowler was lifted bodily
into the sled and four men held the
struggling, begging man down, and
one of them had him by the throat to
still his awful cries.
o, it was cruel beyond all language!
Salvo Popp, begging for the prisoner.
and dashed about in that vortex of
passion, will never forget the glimmer-
ing, sweating, snow-bleared flood OF
angry faces that pressed and shifted
onward. John ~Earling sprang upon
the sled as it started, and getting hold
of the mans arm tore his hand away
from the prisoners throat, begging in
the name of manhood, of God, of mer-
CIV, that they would be less cruel with
the prisoner. There he lay under the
painting men, CHASTITY, and with his
horror-gleaming eyes protruding, and
prayed to John EARRING to save him.
''I'm not fit to die!' he cried, 80, I'm
not fit to die! Save me! save me! save
mer' But the long. misty, shifting,
and up the slope, and at the crest,
where Maun's blood had wet the grass
when balmier days were there, the
white shrieking wretch was dragged
| from the sled and a rope thrown over
his head. John Earring, in a passion
of horror at the deed which was to be
| done, got in front of him and the two,
| begging and pleading, and clutched to-
| gether, were swept under a tree and
torn apart, and John Earring, blind
and sick, turned away and staggered
toward the town, hearing Fowler
shrieking under the tree: ''Joh1 Ear
ling, see IUyL Snaer! see IUyI SnGer.'
&c IUyL SnGer"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-06-05

FIG. 2.-''DEEP" sCAB, INDUCED BY IN
oCULATIoN, IN FORM OF MONOGRAM R. T.
dipped in the diseased substance OBJ
tanned from scabby tubers. In every
case, within three days, the point
touched by the needle showed symp-
toms of the disease, and subsequently
developed into scabs-
This was not considered fair test,
as potatoes in neighboring hills were
afterwards found diseased, SO another
test was made with potatoes growing
in a greenhouse. One or moro potatoes
in each of Is small hills were inoculated
with the disease. In every case but
one they became ''scabby." At Fig. ?
is shown a photograph of one of these
potatoes The letters "R. T." were
traced with the needle bearing the dis
ease. See how closely the scab has fol-
lowed it. There were sc tubcrs left unaf-
fected. Of these 81 were quite clean,
while five showed one to several scab
mariSs-only three of which were af-
fected in the soil.
The substance of the matter is that
DIR. Thaxter concludes that the ''scab"
disease is always accompanied by a
particular fungus. What it Is and how
to prerent it are matters that have not
yet been determined. We are just be-
ginning to understand the disease. Let
us remember that for centuries doctors
were in the dark respecting human dis
eases which are now perfectly well un-
derstood Let US hope that this scab
disease will be accurately determined,
and that remedy for it may be found
at least that we may know how to
avoid the conditions most favorable for
its development. Rural New Yorker.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-06-05

worms. This idea is based upon the
fact that scab spots form an attractive
feeding ground for variety of insects,
especially wire-worms, myriapods and
mites; the common occurrence OF which,
especially in the deeper scab spots,
has led to tho belief that the two were
directly associated. That this Is not
the case has been shown by careful
observation, the only connection be-
tween the two resting on the fact that
the injury already existing from quite
different cause is often extended by
them very considerably.
The earliest botanical explanation
of the cause of scab was in 1912 when
DR.. Nallroth attributed it to the action
of certain fungus. 1t has since been
shown that this was another disease
entirely, and only in recent years has
the true disease been carefully studied.
Without going into detailed account
of DIR. Thaxter's expcriments-of in
terest mainly to botanists--or giving
description of the disease, which is IA
miliar to all who cat potatoes, we may
say that experiments were made to
learn if the disease could be transmitted
by infection, like smallpox or measles
in human subject. 1t has been
proved that it can. At Fig. is pho.
tograph of scabby potato as 1t was
taken from the soil AS these scabby
potatoes grew in the field. the micro
scope detected a grayish film in connec-
ton with scab spots, and this sub
stance was taken for incubation Po-
tatoes in half dozen or more hills
were infected with the disease The
tubers were uncovered and lightly
touched with needle that had been
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-06-05
ROAD IMPROVEMENT.

A GOOD road is permanent structure
built for all time and largely for the
benefit of future generations; hence, il
is just and proper that the law should
east upon the next generation part OF
the burden of the cost.
From some data which / have gath
cred in my experience with roads, am
inclined to think that the cost to the
public, arising from ineffective road
ways, as well B from the waste OF
money expended upon them, amounts
to not less than ten dollars a year on
each household Prof. Shaler, in Scrib-
ner's Magazine.
If the farmer lives by the side of a
road by which he can reach u good
market without a wear and tear upon
his team that overbalances the profit
realized upon his load. he has finan-
cial advantage over his neighbor who
does not have the benefit of such a
road, and therefore has means to lay
up money open TO him that is denied to
his ncighbor. st. Gainesville iO.) Ga
Zettc.
A GOOD road should cost more to build
than poor one, bat it is often the case
that poor road costs as much as q
good one would But even when a good
one is more expensive, it will be easier
and cheaper to keep in good repair, and
will last many years longer; while its
advantages, and the saving to those
who daily use it, win very much more
than compensate them for the extra ex-
pense they have been put to in the
building.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-06-05

II low If you cut across the medder
you can make It."
The young girl drew her waterproof
about her. shivering apprehensively.
"Now. II I were in Boston, | should
have only to step on to the car and be
set down at the schoolhouse door. But
all of this comes from listening to
the doctors fine theories about invig-
Grating walks and country air." she
added, complainingly.
81 s'pose, too, they give right smart
more pay in Boston?"
Eyes, but it costs more to live there.
Six dollars a week for board"
'Six dollars a week." removing her
hands from the bread she was knead-
ing. Land o. lovel | reckon there
amt many that'd pay it."
~ think there were sixteen at our
boarding house last winter"
six times six is thirty-six, six ones
Is six an three Is nine"-then aloud:
''Why, that's well onto hundred dol
lars a week"
20, yes, with the transient boarders,
It amounted to quite that"
'She laid up considerable at them
rates, s'pose3" Nancy Kalometer's
eyes had grown very sharp, and there
was an eager note in her voice as she
asked the question
"On the contrary. don't think the
poor woman even made living" Miss
Hall reioined. as she raised her UNI
brella and stepped out into the pelting
rain.
Mrs Kalometer stood watching the
little school ma'am as she picked her
way daintily across the lot
"a hundred dollars a weekw she
muttered, drawing her breath sharply.
"a shiftless, good-for-nothin' creetur