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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-19
Boston Clothing Store,
Old No 0, New No 118 East Main st,
St pairiCk's Block.
Waterbury, 'onn.


BOSTON-2:50,7:30, a, m; LOO. $40 4:05 pm. Re-
turn-s:3o a. M 200 m, 3:o 1l:OO p. m.
PROVIDENCE $50, $50 a m; 100, 4:O5 p. m
Return-9:10 -. m.; i2:15. 2:45, 4:3U p. m.
NEW YORK via Brewsters-S:OO a. NJ; 2:10 p. N
Return $50 a, m; 400 p. "a.
NEW LONDON-1o:15, 7:3o a m: 100, 4o5 p. m.
Return-7:45, 9:45 a. m 2:30, p. III.
PCTNUM $50, 7:3O a. m; 1:o1. sos p. m. Re-
turn 1888, Sis, 1o:45 am; 1887, 4:95 p. N.
WILL MANTICs $50. 80 am 90 *a:l5 4:05 pm.
Return *7:15, 1:l5 0;1o 1875 m; 2:l7, 5:15
sPRINGFIELD-9:os q, M; 4:o5 D. m Re
turn-7:40 a M; 3:2o p IN
NEW HAVEN via Piainville -7:30 1920 a, m. Re-
t"r' 7:22, 1904 Il. NJ; 555 p. u
HAfTFnRD- ESQ, 7:so, ao:, 1913 a. NJ: r1", 4o5,
los5 '71 n ,a'5o. zoe S5" a4o 81 IT. ;m ''0'
NEW si Btl ia DO 40 g; s 1o;soa r 100
s:5s So, io So m ~ los Hs sc e45 ~ 8''
FLAINVILl E-7:3o, sos, 1922, a.u. l,n, *3:45,
90 SIP ;;s p 1 n, 7:o' SO, li:C5
BRISTOL-@:5O 7:3O. 9:Cs, 'o;3C a. NJ; CO *3:45,
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$50, 11:15a. n; 80. a." &c : n. '-''
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UNION CITY-f6:o5 M; f5:15 p. m. Re-
tuin--ts:4S a. m fo:05 p.
roy. AN1IGmfS:OO a.. NJ; f5:15 p. Re-
tGrn- fS:39 Il. m: fS02 p 10.
PoMPERAUG VALLEY $40 a. M; 2IO
BIS pm Retmn-e;25. q M. 1870, AZ p. m.
EANlEl VII Ii Bis, h n :; A:1U BIB D. NJ
Return s;pU. S:Q2 d n, 1902, 7:23 p. m.
DANBUKY-S:0O d. M; 2:1O, 5l5, p M Return
747, l14S a. NJ; 7:10 D. n
Brew STEERS $40 a. H.; 2:1U, 5151 m
Return-725 Hasa. N t42 D. NJ.
LL-oN-HlDSON--S:0 d. H.: 2:t0, 5:15: T..
N Return 500. 1000 a. m, $50 y. m.
BUFFAl o, Ell RtI'H- CIEN CI\CJN
MATT, ST. LOUIS, uliiCA Go aud western
points, e9oa M; 2:10, 515 =.
Sunday Mai.
R B. Williams, Sup't, East Hartford,
A. G. Kendall G p Boston
Sept. 20, 1891.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-19
Hume Without IA Mother.
The rooms in disorder,

The cats on the table,
The ilowcr-stand upset and the mischief
to pay;
And Johnny is screaming
AS loud as he's able,
For nothing goes right when mamma $
away.
What is II scene of discomfort and
confusion home would be if mamma did
not return. If your wife is slowly break
ing down, from combination of
domestic cares and female disorders,
make it your first business to restore her
health. DR. Pierce's Favorite Perscrip-
ton Is without peer IS a remedy tor
feeble and debilitated women. and is the
only medicine for the class of maIadies
known as female diseases which is sold
under a positive guarantee from the
manufacturers that it will give satisfac.
ton, or the money will be refunded. 1t
Is positive cure for the NEST rompli-
Gated cases of womb troubles.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-19
working Women Want the Ballot.

NEW YORK, Oct. BIT is just mad g
public that the working Womens So
ciety," the central body representing the
organized working women of New York
last week pronounced for the first time
i'll favor of suffrage for women, passing
unanimously and heartily resolutions
suggested by Mr. Hamilton Wilcox of
New YORK making this demand The So
ciety also endorsed Mr.. Wilcox's bill
enabling all self-supporting women to
VOTE which has heretofore been approved
by several central labor organizations.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-19
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N. H. 4 d. Railroad Time Table,
Trains leave Waterbury for

Trans leave Waterbury for
NE" IOhK sos, $50, 1915 a. m 1925. 1925 COY
pm. Return-5H1, 500, 1890 a. H., 100, 4:O2,
NEW RAVEN $50. H. NJ. la5 e,7 ~ m
Return -12:0U,m.
IpGEPOkT-6:O5 3 2V 0:45, "a IL. i IS :s5.6O7
Return-7:o0, 9:5a, a, m, 12:lo,283 $50, 7:47
ANSON1A--6o5 $40 IO:45a m. 1:a5. s;a5. Go7 6.t6
p Returp--7:3h, 1928 a M 12.44 3.iO
wATERTo UFN~e:i4 s:a5, 1l:s= a NJ, DOS e.15.
1O1 9 49,: p no No last 9 train SATURDAY only. Re
THOMASTON-82O, 11i7 a 10 400, 6:5e. u. m
~, Returnm1:5o, 1919, a, M, 2:b5, 5:39 p M
WINSTED- $50, 11:17 a. M, 400 6:56. u. m.
Return-7:05, 9:35, a. M, a;O5, 4:52 p m 81.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
00,g norr; 1926 a. m.
I"''G stn'U,. 4;15 p. IN.
t Ne, " and points ON the Shore Line
uiv'si"T' via Naigatuck Junction at4:15 D. m
lUCICS FUTILE. General Manager
T. >-MPSTFAn Gesarsi pase - 0auk
VI kRIDEn. "ATERBUhY q CONNECTICUT
ASA RIVER "AIJI:OAE
lM FPrECT APRu- 3, 1891
FR1F "ATGkItIRY TO CROMWELL
cav" WATERBURY Dublin street, 500 and 500
am, 1870, 5:1, 7D1 p. m.
'aV- ride, 7'4, $40 .yi.; 2:17 5.45 n. m
Fm'" NlbN" t'AL To WATERBURY.
L. we Cromwell. 6:sn, s:0b A. M, 1918 500 n n,
cave Meritltl., West Main street 7.Oh o.oO
m.; 1881, 5:45, $50 7 IN.
Arrive at Dublin street, f7:4o, 1911 a, M. l:3b
$685. 1855 p. m.
eHAs n. CRAWFORD, sups
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-19

BUTTE, Mont, Oct. 1).-Mrs. Ann A.
Dodge, an inmate of the poorhouse of
of this city, and who is so years of
age, received notice yesterday that she is
the heir to an estate worth 81, 900, COO in
England. The story dates back two
centuries, at which time her great
grandfather on her mothers side owned
a vast estate near London. Mrs Dodge
has received letters confirming her right
to the es tate and has forwarded docu-
ments to prove her claim.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-19
NEW YORK NEWS IN BRIEF.

DR.. John Hall has resigned from the
direct crate of Union Theological Semin-
airy.
A six DAYS bicvcle tournament is in
progress at Madison Square Garden,
New York city.
A statement from John Hocy, the de
posed president of the Adams Express
Company, is daily expected.
The b"irkmaking season a! N, the
Hudson has closed and hlIntrels of
Southern negroes ami CanniiAns who
have been employed in the yards ha'
arted for their homes The season h,
heen unusually dull.
In the fire in tine mill of the Lawrence
Cement Company at Binnewa5er, ma
chinery of the value of $500, 900 was de-
stroyed.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-19
Queer Epitaphs.

On the banks of the Susquehanna is a
grave with this epitaph; Charles Lew
is He voted for Abraham Lincoln"
In Baton Rouge is the following cpl
taph: Here lies the body of David
Jones. His last words were: Il die a
Christian and a democrat And
there is grave at Stonington, VT,
which has the following epitaph:
''When Rhode Island, by her legisla-
ton from 1s43 to 1850, repudiated her
revolutionary debt, DR.. Richmond re-
moved from that state to this borough
and selected this as his family burial
place, unwilling that the remains of
himself and family should be disgraced
by forming part of a repudiating state"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-19
License Application.

Town Clerks Office, Waterbury Conn,
October 10, 1891. This is to certify that
John R. Corbett has filed an application
to sell spirituous and Intoxicating liquors
at 467 West Main street in said town, and
is endorsed by P. J. Phelan, A. J. Sher-
man, John Ennis, John Made igan, Mat
thew Lilly, electors and taxpayers in said
town. JAMES J, MADDEN, Town Clerk.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-19
THE EARTH.S BALANCE.
epeculations as to the Distribution Of II
Weight.

e2eculations as to the Distribution Of It's
Weight.
The map of the world, as geograph-
ers have outlined it, shows that there
is vast preponderance of land north of
the equator. HUNT oldt estimated that
Asia stands at an average height of 1,150
feet above the level of the ocean; South
America, 1,130; North America, $50;
Europe, G70 feet. The average height
of all the land above sea-level-omitting
Africa and Australia, which are mostly
south OF the equator-is about 800 feet.
Tho landed surface of the northern
hemisphere is about 100000 square
miles; that of the southern hemisphere
about $4,000, 900 to 100000 square
mites, leaving a difference of, say 2S,-
100000 square miles of land of an aver
age height of 900 feet above sea-level.
But as there is the same visible ex-
cess of water on the southern side that
there is of land on the northern, and as
the depth of the seas is about the same,
it follows that the weight of the excess
of submerged land in the northern hem
isphere must be added to the %, 900, 900
square miles, doubling the height of it,
making the landed surface of the north
ern at least 1,S40 feet above the average
surface of the southern hemisphere,
both it's continents and ocean depths.
What is there south of the equator to
balance this enormous weight? There
must be something or the earth would
not maintain it's poise. If there was
nothing, water level in that region
would be impossible.
Prof. Merriman believed that the bal
ancing weight might be found in that
100000 square miles of unexplored re-
gion lying within the Antarctic circle.
If it does exist there in the shape of ice,
as all scientists believe it does, these
immense mountains of ice must neces.
sarily be of an average of over two and
half miles to make the southern hem.
isphere equal in weight to the north
ern.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-19

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Oct. 1o.-Catarino
f. Garza, the Mexican revolutionary
leader, is in the neigh borhood of Piedras
Negras, Mexico, at the head of an armed
force of 800 men He is commi tin q
many out"ages on the citizens who will
not Join his standard. The Mexican
government i sending regiment after
regiment of soldiers to that section, and
will make every effort to quell the up
rising.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-19
License Application.

Town Clerks Office, Waterbury, Conn,
October Is, 1891. This is to certify that
Henry Duggan has filed an application to
sell spiriuous and intoxicating liquors at
173 Dublin street, in said town, and is en-
dorsed by James Quincy, William Der
win, Dennis Slavin, James Doran, Mat
thew Wallace, electors and taxpayers in
said town.
JAMES J. MADDEN, Town Clerk.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-19

BOsToV, Oct. 19.-WTilliam Madden,
He Il bert Chase. Thomas f. Murphy and
l-eorarl Spry, four prisoners at the Con-
corl iieformatory, escaped from that in
Stjtution Saturday night. The mann r
oil their escape is unknown.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-19
Job Printing

ry.i'l, u u ri It'll e, from
visiting card 70 three sheet poster,
printed with nsatnsss and dispatch.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-19
THE EVENING DEMOCRAT
A FAMILY NEWSPAPER.

Published every afternoon, Sunday ex-
cepted, at No 267 South Main street,
Waterbury.
SIN6LE COPIES Two CENTS
Br delivered by carriers to any part of
tie city for AZ cents MONTH slips for
three months, IS 90 year!
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-19

L'OR SALE-Placards Of "To Rem
I FURNISHED Room To Rent" '.To
a'e," and many other designs, 100 each
At the DzNoCRAz once
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-19
a q 8

EfOUND-A cheap way of advertising by
I paying bat one cent 10 word Tor each
nrertiI,f II this column.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-19
Headquarters Ice Cream,
l.. BERTOLI

l.. BERTOLI,
286 COR CHERRY & NORTH MAIN.
1 guarantee to keep the best Cream In the
city both on the cart and in the store. Try 1t
I not good don't buy it,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-19

How fierce the lottery fight in
Louisiana is can be inferred from the
statement of Colonel Ross that, while
there will be much bitterness, he hopes
there will be no bl0odshed.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-19

Entered Us second class m alter at the Water
bury PustOtiice
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-19
The DEMOCRAT,
WATERBURY. CONN,


WATERBURY, CoNN'
hnrv p,stoflce. ''''> " ''''' az ''io
------
How fierce the lottery fpht in
Louisiana j. can bo inferred from the
there will be much bitterness. he hopes
there will be no bloodshed.
~ tue o'0oo'0oo le''SiS iiiioSeut "
TIC "e'u ie'''r once unuer Nr '''"-
i'l"Nol management curing 'I'e ldo'
'i~c"l year. lh'f' We're S%o,of| IN cash
mcrcial PAPER.
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caro- ''''i' - '''o'''',7' ~, ~ ''i
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III '''''l IN i'' 81 over H''''"'''o' against
inns year. Inns SHOWS "''"I 'Ile NlCh'h-
icy 'I'' can "' VIII" u" '''" l''"h '"'i''''e
~ pam ''' "''I '".' '"I' 81 us '''57'' - AC9
'57'''>' 'i3''I' WIN E"'''i'
THE L,tr(' Charities Stewart PtrneH left
no formal viii. hat had made 4 ;, ries
of memoranda found among his papers,
CONVEYING suggestions. ms to how his
prnlo.rtv uushl to L, r,aliI ii upon and
dismissed of. and now his documents
should be dealt with. His wife holds
absolute rlght to the DISPOSAL of every
thing. Many of the paper, are of much
value an Illuminating Mr. Parnell's rela-
lions with his own followers. and with,
at various times, John Morley. Joseph
Chamberlain, Earl Spencer, Sir George
Otto Trevelyan, Lord Randolph Church
Ill, and Sir John f. GOrat.
VIZ ""'o reeO'' "'''>'' WV
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-19
TAKES.

All persons liable to pay taxes in the
town of Waterbury are requested to bring
in list, printed or written, of all the tax
able property owned by them on October
L, 1891. All lists must be handed in by
November 1, 1891, or ten per cent will be
added Office opens Tuesday, October 10,
1891, in the common council room in City
hall, hours, 10 to 10 a. NJ, and 2 to and
Z to p. m. G. B. LAWRENCE,
ALBERT MOTHER,
JOSEPH CULLEN, Sr,
Assessors
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-19

IL the 100000 letters "missent" to
the dead letter Office under Mr. Waua-
makers management during the last
fiscal year, there We're $26,612 in cash
and $1.141 81 in checks and other COM
mcrrial paper.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-08-25
A Queer Institution.

Who would suppose that the wealthy
members of the chamber of commerce
ever relapsed into poverty? Yet the
fact that such is the case is demon
strated by the existence of the "cham-
Der of commerce charity fund" This
fund is limited under the charter of the
organization to its members. Secretary
Wilson said the other day that the old
saying that merchants usually die poor
has been demonstrated over and over
again. He said that this was especially
true in the present day. Transactions
which an old-time prosperous merchant
would never have dared to enter into
are now of the most common occur
renee, and speculation is as frequent in
mercantile circles as among the stock
brokers' A number of the members Of
the chamber of commerce, who were
wealthy men when they entered the or
ganization, have had to call upon the
charity fund for relief, One member,
in particular, for long time received a
stipend of five hundred dollars a year
from the fund The latter now amounts
to one hundred thousand dollars, and
although none of it can be given to out
siders, the trustees are empowered to
give as large proportion of it TO any
unfortunate member as they desire.
The only other restriction is that it
shall not be given to any member ac-
cused of dishonorable acts.-N. Y. Sun.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-08-25
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
STATE OF MIS- iOURD

COUNTY OF PErrIs.
In the circuit court of Pettis county. Octo-
Der term, 1891, Anna Lansing, plaintiff,
VS.. Isaac Lansing, defendant.
Now. at this day comes the plaintiff
herein and files her petition aud affidavit,
alleging among other things, that defend
ut, Isaac Lansing, is a non resident OF TIE
state o. Missouri: Whereupon it is Or
Tered by the clerk in vacation that said
leiendent be notified by publication that
plaintiff has commenced q suit against
MIN in this court, the object and general
nature Of which is to dissolve the bonds Of
tnatrimony heretofore contracted and row
xisting between the plaintiff and the de-
'endant and to be restored to her maiden
,ame Of Anna Wheeler, and unless the
aid I=aac Lansing be and appear at this
court, at the next term there
Of to be begun and hold
n at the court house in the city of S.Ja-
ia, in said county. on the first Monday Of
October next, and on or before the third
lay of aid term, If the term shall so long
,ontinue-and If not, then on or before the
asst day Of said term-answer or plead to
he petition 10 said cause, the same will be
AIKEN as MESSED, and judgement will be
endered accordingly. And it is further
'rdered that copy hereof
ne published, according to law
in the Sedalia w ekly Bszoo. newspaper
printed and published in sedalia, Pettis
county. Missouri-for thirty days Success
sively, the last insertion whereof shall be
It least four weeks before the commeuc-
meut Of the said October term of court.
T. A. FOWLER, Circuit Clerk.
By E. r Marvin, D. C. Sllw4t
II 6. Evans, Plaintiffs Attorney.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-08-25
OPPOSITION TO CARRIAGES.

Prohibition Of Their Use I'm Medieval
Times.
In the feudal days carriages fell into
disrepute. So strong was the prejudice
against them that edicts were from
time to time published prohibiting
their general use, though in some cases
they were allowed by special favor to
women of the highest rank and inva-
lids.
The men in power in those times con-
sidered them enervating, and regarded
them with as hostile an eve as many
people do the deadly cigarette to-day.
Philip the Fair, king Of France, issued
an ordinance in 1894 for suppressing
luxury. and in it expressly forbade the
wives of the citizens of Paris to use car.
riages
It may be that the shoemakers of the
city had a political pull" at court. and
induced his Majesty to insert this clause
In the ordinance.
The feeling against carriages lasted .
long time. and in the first half of the
sixteenth century we find a law was
passed in Hungary prohibiting their
use At the end of that century Duke
Julius of Brunswick forbade his vassals
to use them, because, as he says:
"We know from ancient historians,
from the annals of heroic, honorable
and glorious achievements, and even
by our own experience, that the reput-
able, steady. courageous and spirited
Germans were heretofore so much cele-
brated among all na.ions on account Of
their manly virtue, sincerity. boldness
and resolution, that their assistance
was courted in war" etc.
Then, after paying a lot of similar
compliments to the ancestors of his sub
iects, he goes on II say that he has for
some time past found, with great pain
and uneasiness, that their descendants
have degenerated, and finds the princi-
pal cause is that our vassals, servants,
and kinsmcn. young and old, have
dared to give themselves up to indo-
lence and to ride in coaches"
So the good Brunswickers are COM
manded that ''when we order them to
assemble, either all together or in part,
in times of turbulence, or to receive
their fiefs, or on other occasions when
they visit our court, they shall not
travel or appear in coaches, but on their
riding horses"
But the coach had come to stay. Il
refused to be stamped out even by
royal edicts, and royal edicts in those
days meant a good deal more than they
do now. By the beginning of the
seventeenth century emperors, kings
and princes had become so degenerated
that they, too, had taken to using
covered carriages in journeys and in
public solemnities. Naturally their
subjects, feeling that imitation was the
best form of flattery. followed in the
wake of their masters, although it was
a long time before men ceased to con-
slider the use of carriages effeminate -
Illustrated American
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-08-25
HER REASON.
a Woman Usually Says "Its So Because II
Is So"

a Woman Usually Says 'It's So Because II
Is SO."
ats so cause it is sou
This was her reason. 1t is needless
TO say that she was-a woman. Her
answer suggested something to by
stander, who said:
That is woman over and over
again When she comes to conclu-
sion she seldom knows how she has at
tanned thereto, and if you should ask
her why she thinks thus and so. she
will usually say: Oh, it is so cause it
is So
SIS woman superior to man! That
nv dear fellow, is what Aristotle would
call blind question; if you only looked
you could judge foryourself. However,
the analysis ought not to consider su-
periority or inferiority, but rather
equality; and from this standard Ia fair
one to the men at least, l should con-
clude: That women are different than
men. That is all. Simply different. Diff
ferent, too. in many ways, especially in
qualities of mind Men think. Women
act. As the gifted Arsene Houssaye
has it: All men are philosophers. all
women actresses Men worry them
selves with judgments. reasons, causes.
considerations. propositions, stir up the
whole mass-logical and illogical-and
then make many wrong conclusions.
On the other hand, woman, poor, I'M
thinking, b,inl. adpring Woman this
time with a capital w throws reason
and Judgment to the wind, ditto consid-
erations, ditto logical and illogical
propositions, then brings that wonder
full, battling instinct of hers into move
ment-and nine times out of ten reaches
a conclusion that is simply the essence
of truth and logic. How does she do it?
How do you supposed mere pigmy man
can say? He holds up both his hands
and says wonderful. wonderful. while
she, unconscious that she is such an
intellectual marvel. merely smiles de-
murely-accepting without hesitation
the plaudits of the main guy. Isn't this
SO, Ezette? Why, of course. 1t is-'it's
10 cause it is so""-Detroit Free Press
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-08-25
A CUNNING BIRD.
How She Defended Her Nest Against m
Intruder.


How She Defended Her Nest Against IN
Intruder.
As was tramping across a piece OF
marshy land in Pennsylvania last
spring, says a writer, q female wood
cock fiuttered out of thicket almost
directly ahead of me, ran along on the
ground only q few feet beyond my
reach, and tapped her wings as though
they were too weak for her to use in
flight. The bird appeared to be hurt so
badly that she could not rise more than
foot or so, and tried to catch her.
Very limp and par tally disabled as she
apparently was. the bird kept just far
enough in front of me not to let me
touch her with my fingers, and when
ever made dash at her she fiuttered
over the tops of the bushes and dropped
to the ground few yards away, SEEM
ing to have hardly strength enough left
to take her another foot l thought
was surely going to catch her, but when
my hand was within a few inches of
her tail she appeared to make a great
effort to fly and managed to flutter out
Of reach.
She did this four or FIVE times, and
became encouraged and continued to
follow her. There were plenty of hid
ing-places all along, but the woodcock
did not attempt To secrete herself After
had followed her in vain for several
rods the dreadfully i'll bird became well
in an instant, gathered herself together
in no time, and shot out of sight like an
. 90 hat n
had heard of birds pretending to be
lame and nearly ready to die, in order
to lead persons away from their nests
or brood, and came to the conclusion
that the mother woodcock had fooled
me in this way.
l had been very much interested in
the birds movements up to the time she
darted ont of sight SO suddenly, and
desiring to see whether she had flown
back to the spot from which had
scared her up. 1 cautiously retraced my
steps and looked around for her. For
two or three minutes nothing was seen
OF the gentle mother, but all at once
she appeared on the ground, and /
couldn't tell which way she had come.
Immediately she again acted as II she
was all played ont, and again I chased
her and tried to catch her. This time
she led me a little to the right Of the
former course and took good care not
to let me get any nearer than before.
Suddenly the bird disappeared, and /
ran back to the spot with the deter
mination of finding the watchful wood
cocks nest If possible.
But she wasn't to be seen anywhere,
and / lay down behind a log and peered
over it, when suddenly there was
dark object flashing in 'front.' of me and
something struck me in the corner of
my left eye. 1t was the woodcock's
pointed bill that struck me. and when
1 arose the angry bird darted at my
face again. She was protecting her
little home to the best of her ability,
and quickly made up my mind that il
was none Of my business where her
nest was and hastened away.-The
Weeks Sport