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Morris tribune., 1891-10-21
Private Ownership of Land.
The Subject of Compensation.

On the subject of compensation Mr..
George says: $50 far from there being
anything unjust in taking the full value
of land ownership for the use of the
community the real injustice is in leav-
ing it in private hands-an injustice
that amounts to robbery and murder.
+ \ And when your holiness shall
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-03

almost precisely resembling the one which he had burned that evening. Whatever trick of calligraphy he had used in initiating the superscription at which he now gazed, his adroitnoss of touch had been quite perfect enough to deceive the agitated eye that met 1t. Satisfied of this fact, he replaced the envelope, closing and locking the drawer. After having done this, he be- came conscious of a sharp discontent, whose object was Lucia. How strange that the only real discord which had ever risen between them should have concerned his religious faith-an ele- ment in him with which he connected all peaceful and kindly longings. He now told himself that he must repair with all acts of Christian gentleness the injury to his wife's feelings which a needful course of severity had inflicted. His heart literally brimmed with good will as he soon passed from his study and went to find Lucia. His love for her, always ardent, had never more en- thralled him than then. It was blent with self-reproach for the distress he had caused her, though remorse had no real part in the poignancy of his regret.
 He entered her dressing-room and saw that it was vacant. Giving it only a careless glance here and there, he went into other chambers. Not finding her anywhere, he summoned servant. The answers to his questions were quite unsatisfactory. Mrs. Maynard had not been seen to quit the house. But where, then, was she? Whither had she been spirited? Sylvan almost reeled with 8 dread that he could ill have explained, and yet that stabbed him like a spear of fire. He hurried back to Lucia's dressing-room. He stood in the center of it and called her name twice or thrice.
 Suddenly his eye lighted on a paper pinned conspicuously against the rim of mirror. He seized it, read his own name, and soon read something more.
 She had gone. With a few fierce words she told him that she would never willingly meet him again.
 "You have made me hate you," a clause of the letter ran. 'I have often tried to love you, and always failed. Now, since your brutality has shown me your true nature, can only pray that you will leave me unmolested, to | live or to die as choose"
 The letter trembled in Sylvan's grasp. ''I have often tried to love you" ap- pealed to old slumbering suspicious with frightful rehabilitated force. He sank into chair, sweating coldly with anguish and dismay.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-03
A ..DoS Nrodiste" in Paris.

Lovers of pet dogs will be interested in the visit of an American lady to the store of ''dog modiste" in Paris. The sights were very amusing. The place was not so much store as an establish ment, with halls and rooms richly fur nished. Ladies tripped in and out all day long, most of the visitors having with them pugs or terriers. The pet dogs were scattered through the rooms, each awaiting its turn. Many small mats and rugs were around the waSed floors, and every bit of carpeting of the kind was occupied by some pretty little creature. These dogs have va rious dresses. The robe used in the morning is garment of dark blue cloth. It is called a paletot, and is lined with red flannel. From leather collar little bells jingle as it's wearer walks along. Sometimes n bunch of violets is fastened on the left shoulder of dog. On very cold days the pet is clad in sealskin of the same pattern, the collar being of fur, mounted in silver.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-03
BROTHER, YOU KNOW ME, DON'T YoUP"

might have prepared him to receive. At first the whole idea of an ''elixir'' tinged the memory of his father with sad dismay. Georgina Maynard had never succeeded in casting about the mind of her younger son that spell of horror for his fathers nonconformist views which clearly had affected Sylvan. Gerald had long delighted to think of his father as the intellectual rebel he was darkly hinted to have been. At Cambridge the almost boyish aspirant for future medical excellence had drawn joyously on those wells of egotism which youth finds furnished with such easy buckets and smooth-running cord age, and had told himself that his own love for scientific inquiry sprang wholly from the scope and acumen of that van- ished paternal mind. But now, at Syl- vans bidding, to look upon Egbert May nard in the light of a mere thaumaturg- ist, dabbler in those follies of pseudo chemistry which science drowned down as himsy sensationalism-this point of regard brought with it disappointment chill and keen.
 But soon Gerald's feelings markedly changed. Sylvan, throughout his narration, had spoken as if all the old morbid forces of his morality were now in dismal state of rout. "I'm willing to grant," he said, 'sthat I've acted with fatal self-trust. I deceived Lucia in the burning of that counterfeit paper because it seemed to me that by so doing might scar away the sinful lungings that clutched her soul. But
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-03

She had never loved him; now her in- difference had turned loathing intense.
 He had killed that splendid hope. She had witnessed with her own eyes it's hateful holocaust. Live with him after this? Not if he could lodge her in a house of gold and give her gear that ! would outshine the sun.
 She must get away from him. Her head felt hot as the flame she had just despairingly looked on, and her hands were ice. A horror of ever again seeing him or being near him insanely beset her. She might kill him-she wanted to go back to him now and kill him. She shranlx with a wild dread from staying under his roof that night.
 There was her Aunt Janet-her mothers only sister. Aunt Janet was poor and lived in a meager way, streets and streets uptown; but she would be kind and give shelter for a few nights and days to come. ..
 After Lucia had slipped out of his study Sylvan flung himself into chair and sat for a long time with folded arms and gazed on the floor.
 He loved his wife deeply, in his way of loving. He was thinking all this while, whether the fraud that he had conceived and carried out would not bravely succeed. Naturally, she might at first show harsh revolt; but soon all that must change; every storm raves it. self into peace. And as for this deceit about burning false envelope for a true one, how could he help justifying any course that might lull in Lucia this profane frenzy?
 After awhile (the lapse of time was longer than he realized) Sylvan rose, went to the open drawer of his cabinet like desk, and drew from it an envelope
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-03
CHAPTER VI

Brother, you know me, don't youP'
 Gerald Maynard spoke that sentence, standing at the bedside of Sylvan, who had been i'll, who had partially recov- cred, who had gone out into the world, and who now again had been smitten with a drowsy inertia which bore the semblance of brain paralysis, though not the real symptoms or portents of that disease.
 "Know you, Gerald? Yes, indeed" And Sylvan stretched out hand whose cancellation suited the sad change in his face.
 "There, that's right" said Gerald, sunny as ever of eye and smile, with the same debonair speech and easy gest- ure. He seated himself close by the bed. "You mustn't give way to this horrid melancholia. You must fight it. Clyde says you must, and I echo him."
 'This Clyde and you are great friends already" said Sylvan, in a voice that piteously betrayed the sick man he was ''isn't that true, Gerald?''
 "Yes," was the answer. Crawford Clyde is wonder in his way. He's really famous here, you know. as q
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-03
BEATING A RAILROAD.
How a Dishonest Travelling Man Tried t.
 Swell His Pocketbook.

How Dishonest Travelling Man Tried to
 Swell His Pocketbook.
 A drummer for St. Louis clothing house tried to play a iow-down trick on the Alton road at Dwight one day re- gently, and but for the chance observa- ton of a female passenger who was awaiting her tram his scheme would undoubtedly have succeeded.
 The fellow, says the Chicago Herald, held checks for two pieces of baggage, q trunk and a satchel. Obtaining per mission from the baggageman. who was at work on the platform, to go in- side and place an extra sample in his trunk the travelling man shortly emerged from the baggage-room protest l ing that he was unable to find his satchel. Search was at once instituted, but to no effect; the missing grip for which he held a check was nowhere to be found. As it was not forthcoming when the train arrived the drummer -ade formal complaint to the station agent and put in a claim of one hundred dollars against the road to reimburse him for his loss.
 l After the man had left, a lady who sat in the waiting-room, and who had been a quiet but interested observer of the proceedings, walked toward the ticket window and inquired of the agent if the drummer had actually claimed that his valise had been stolen. She was told such was the case. ''Well," said the woman, "I am con- vinced that the fellow is a fraud, for 1 from where sat I had a clear view of the baggage-room, ssnd distinctly saw that man go in there, unlock his trunk 1 and place his satchel inside. Then after | pretending to hunt around the room he rushed out and began abusing the bag l gageman."
 The agent whistled thoughtfully. It was a new dodge on him. Then he sent a dispatch to the operator at the F., P. and N. junction, to which place the drummer had checked his trunk, in which he outlined the circumstances and urged that the agent call two or three reputable citizens and in their presence open the trunk.
 The St. Louis man was uptown when the telegram arrived, but his baggage was at the station. Hastily calling in the city marshal and the nearest black smith, the lock of the trunk was skillful- ly picked, and there, just beneath the tray, lay the missing satchel
 The entire particulars have just been sent in to the general office of the AL ton, together with the very saucy let ter demanding one hundred dollars. In reply an answer was sent the St. Louis drummer to the effect that if he ever dared press his claim any further he would be vigorously prosecuted and punished to the full extent of the law. Since the exposure of this well-laid scheme to raise the wind 1t transpires that the artful dodger has been work ing the plan on other roads, but as the mans claims had not been paid, owing to the usual red tape that obtains in such cases, the chances are that he will never press any of them for final settlement.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-03
DEATH STOPS THE CLOCK.
At Least That Is the Supposition of Sl
 perstitious People.

At Least That Is the Supposition of Su-
 perstitious People.
 The sentimental and superstitious who are given to tracing the laws of coincidence, says the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Times, will find an interesting subject for their attention in the recent death of Q jeweler in Bucyrus, O. For many years it has been the office of slzillful German matchmaker whose name is Frank Kehrer, to attend to the town clock. During the last few months the health of Mir. Kehrer has been poor, and the clock, deprived of his careful attention, has been keeping indifferent time.
 One Monday morning recently the timepiece struck five o'clock and a few moments later it stopped. Early risers who heard the chime say there was something indescribably weird and pe- culiar about it. Later risers noticed that the clock hands pointed to 5:O5, commenting upon the subject and its aged guardian. Later in the day the news spread that MT. Kehrers condi- tion had suddenly become worse, and that he had died at 5:05 that morning.
 When the late State Senator J. B. Smith, of Hancock county, w. Va., passed away, his family looked at his watch to see the time. The hands pointed to 1909. When S. G. Smith, son of the late senator, began house. keeping in Wheeling, his father gave him a family clock which he had all ways attended to himself. After the funeral MT. Smith returned to Wheel ing. As soon as he saw the clock MT. Smith turned to his mother and sister and asked them if anything in the room had attracted their attention. ''The clock" said the sister, and the mother nodded assent. The clock had stopped at 1o.O9
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-03
Tea Drinking Increaslng.

A New York tea dealer says that in 8 few years coffee will not be in the race with tea, and that the number of tea drinkers is increasing greatly. Now in England the people drink tea as much, if not more than coffee-while here we have a nation of coffee drinkers. Look at the big tea houses now prospering in this country. The demand for the seductive weed Is becoming greater, especially in large cities. Fashionable afternoon teas and the habit of handing tea around at receptions show just how it is being drunk. The fine Ceylon tea now in vogue is a healthy drink and has splendid flavor. All through the west coffee is becoming less popular and tea is the popular drink.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-03

 to the oblivion it deserves" Already it's frail paper edges had begun to flame, blackening and curling. She darted to him with outstretched hands and for lorn cry:
 "Oh, Sylvan, don't burn it like thatl Don't! I'll promise"
 Then she paused. It was now fiery mass, and it so lit his angered, defiant face that she realized how hopeless would be any effort her feeble strength might make to wrest it from his hold.
 He lifted it on a level with his head, letting it redly fare until there was but a scrap of it left, and that scrap gave threat of suddenly scorching his fore finger and thumb. Then he flung its charred remnant on the floor and cov- cred 1t with his foot.
 "There," he said, in his throat, ''the things done. Now I hope your folly has ended with it."
 She made him no answer. She quilted the study with staggering limbs. Her torment seemed to her like that of a mother who had seen the massacre of a child.
 She got into her own private room and closed the door. Her head was whirling; she wondered why she did not swoon. But something appeared to keep her from that. What was it? An, she knew, she realized, in very surge of eognition.
 It was her unspealxable hatred of hin, newborn and yet born as they said malign beings were, with all it's teeth.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-03
-. 2 MAY PROVE A MURDER.
Suspicious Circumstances Connected With
 Fred Titcomb,s Death.

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 Fred Titcomb's Death.
 RAYMOND, N. H., April 3.-owing to suspicious circumstances connected with the death of Fred. w. Titcomb the police have arrested Wayland Smart, whom Titcomb accused of being too intimate with his wife.
 Last evening pistol shot was heard in the room occupied by the Titcombs and soon after Mrs. Titcomb came down stairs with her little daughter and told the other occupants of the house that her husband had shot himself. Smart and Mrs Titcomb then drove to Hampstead, where they left the child.
 As soon as the child, who is supposed to have witnessed the shooting, can be brought back hearing will be had by the coroner's jury. ,,
 Mrs. Ttcomb, who is 23 years old, has been separated from two husbands and gained considerable notoriety by her ac- tionS
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-03
Bryan Arcswyny Arrested.

NEW YORK, April 3.-Bryan McSwyny, the we'll known shoemaker, and Bella Malone, his alleged mistress, have been arrested on a warrant sworn out by Mrs. McSwyny charging them with conspiracy. It is charged by Mrs. McSwyny that her husband had induced her to sign several blank deeds, which he used, with the as- sistance of Bella Malone, in disposing of real estate valued at $5,000. In default of bail the prisoners were locked up.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-03
Samoan Cattle.

A pair of curious Samoan cattle Were exhibited at Kansas City a few days ago. They are exceedingly small, the male weighing only about one hundred and fifty pounds, while the female weighed two hundred and fifty pounds. Both are fully developed and have very large heads and long horns. These it- tic cattle are only about two and one half feet in height, and are of reddish mouse color marked with white. They are destined for Columbus, O.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-03
Anti-Parnellltes Elected in Cork.

DUBLIN, April 3. It is claimed that the poor law elections at Northeast Cork show majorities of two to one in favor of candidates not friendly to Parnell, and as Northwest Cork has been considered a Parnellite stronghold, it is said to be probable that Parnel will now decide not to risk his seat. The Parnellites, on the other hand, claim that the ques- tion of Parnell's ascendency had nothing whatever to do with the election.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-03
Oil Refinery Burned.

P1TTsBURG, April S.-The Waverly oil refinery, corner of 52d and Butler streets, was totally destroyed by fire last night. Loss, about $116,OOO. The refinery was owned by S. M. Willock, of Allegheny. and 415 barrels of oil were destroyed. The origin of the fire is a mystery. The 15 employees had narrow escapes.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-03
Indictments for Bribery.

NEW ORLEANS, April 3.-The grand jury has found three indictments in blank, bribery, and three against O'Malley for conspiring to bribe. Seligman is in Gin cinnati, Borsen is here and O'Malley's whereabouts is mystery, though it is un- derstood he is in Christina Lake Shore, within 100 miles of New Orleans, sur rounded by heavy guard, which he has had since the killing of the Italian pris- OnerS
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-03
An Aged Elephant.

The king of Siam celebrated the one hundred and forty-eighth anniversary of one of his elephants the other day, and the animal was as coltish as some of the herd only fifteen years old. This tic record of his age, and the only signs of decay appear in his ears. He can't flop them quite so brissly as of yore.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-03
England,s War Preparations.

LONDON, April 3,-In speech at Grims- by MT. Stanhope, Secretary of War, an nounced that the government had de- termined that every new vessel built in England which was big enough for the purpose and the owner of which was will ing to accept the conditions should be fitted to receive armament at the shortest notice.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-03
A Divided Town.

The town of TexarlSana is on the line between Texas and Arkansas, with a street-car track dividing the two. This was thought to be very funny at first, but now it has to have two sets of city officers, has lost the county seat and criminals escape from one state to another by going six feet. The man who stalSed out the town is dead, how ever, and nothing can be done.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-03

Everybody asking how it is possible for us to make the fine, stylish and handsome Suit, Ove'coat and Trousers at prices which are so far below those charged by other tailors.
 We have the finest assort. ment of Woolens to be found In town, and if you have any doubt about our ability to please you, call at our store, and we will refer you to hun. dreds of patrons who are an. xious and willing to give testi- mony to the very satisfactory manner they were treated by us. We not only CUT your garments to order, but we also MAKE THEM TO ORDER. which, by the way, makes a difference to the initiated. All our work Is made and cut right on our premises, by the best of workmen.
 SUITS t. order from $15 up
 PANTS " |" $3.5O up
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-03
PENM MANSHIP. Prof. HOIIey

Teaches every pupil to write fine rapid huniness hand in course of 16 private lessons a NO FAILURES.
 All kin ls of pen work executed in the higheat degree of the art 131 Bank @t
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-03
Job Printing

Everything in. the line of printing, from . visiting card to a three sheet poster, printed with neatness and dispatch.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-11-14
The Rumor of the Intended Seizure Q
the Hawaiian Islands Unfounded.
BIG FooT's BAND OUT AGAIN
They Want to Live at Pine Ridge---Fined
Fifty DoiIars---seattle Wants
Convention.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.-Senor Montt,
the Chilian minister was formally pre-
sented to the president this morning by
the secretary of state. In his address
Senior Montt said, "The object of the
mission which the government of Chill
confided to me is to cultivate and main
tain the relations of peace and friend
ship between the United States and
Chill which have ever been close and
cordially
In reponse President Harrison said ::
"The presence of representative of the
government of Chill at this capital will
l hope, tend to promote good under
standing between the two governments
and an early settlement upon terms
just and honorable to both of the diplo-
matte questions now somewhat urgently
awaiting adjustment. The government
of the United States as we'll as its
people particularly desire and rejoice in
the property of our neighbors in this
hemisphere. We hear with sorrow
every fresh tale of internal strife and
are always ready to give our friendly
offices to the promotion of peace. If
these are not acceptable it is our policy
to preserve honorable and strict neut-
rality, as done during the recent war in
Chilli
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-11-14
NAME OF THE VESSEL UNKNOWN.
The Other Steamer in Collision Puts
Into Port for Repairs.
VIOLATING THE INTERSTATE LAW.
Reciprocity with the British w est Indies
Spanish Anarchists Celebrate
The Worlds Fair.

New York, Nov. ia cable was re-
ceiyed here late yesterday that the
steamer Ciudad Condal, of the Spanish
trans atlantic line, had come into col
lision with a Mexican coasting steamer
The coaster sank with all on board and
the Ciudad Condal put into Progress for
repairs. The agents of the steamer in
this city, J. NJ. Cimballis & Co., said
they knew nothing of the collision until
told about it by a reporter. They were
very much surprised to hear of the dis
aster. Consul-General of Spain Topete
received q cablegram from Havana in
which the above facts were corroborated.
Ramon V. Williams, the Mexican vice
consul, said such an accident had hap
jened. After consulting several lists
and books he concluded that the coaster
reported sunk was one of these three
vessels: Tabasco, Phoenix, or the Con-
ception. The report of the accident
spread in Spanish-American business
| circles, and many persons who have
frie L ds or relatives ON board the vessel,
we're busy telegraphing for information.
The general belief is that the night was
foggy. The Ciudad is of English build,
| and carries crew of seventy men.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-11-14
The Resigned MinIsters.

New York. Nov. 13.-The Hefalds
Valparaiso special says the complica-
tions that have arisen in the provincial
government of Chill on account of the
designations of Minister of the Interior
Irrazabal and Minister of Agriculture
Walker Martinez seem in fair way to
be Strengthened out. AS 1 cabled you
yesterday they surrendered their offices
because the dominant liberal party failed
to elect conservative counsellors of the
state as, it is alleged, they had agreed to
do. 1t is now reported that two of the
members of the council of state intend
to resign, rather than cause any political
i'll feeling, if this action is taken. 1t
will create vacancies in the council for
two conservatives. 1t is expected, in
view of the concessions made to their
party, that Irrazabal and Walker Mar
tinez will resume their portfolios.