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Of beauty. ana Was consequently more OF q
hoodoo than anything else. This alleged
mascot was a pretty little pony that accom-
panied Lamplighter as running mate when
the great horse was given his exercise As
every one knows, LAmphghter was the fzy-
orite in the Brooklyn and Suburban hsndi-
caps and in his match race with TammAny,
but in all three Of these events he Was in
gloriously beaten. Race track sages says
the pretty pony surely hoodooed him
This season the St. Louis baseball club Sc
cured homely bull calf to officiAte as mas
cot and dragged him around the bases be-
fore each game. The club won game after
game, and the calf was looked upon as such
dangerous factor in the pennAnt contest
that some enemy of the team spirited It
away.
The Nalkyrie had two alleged mascots, a
pigeon and Miss Rachael Dunraven, but
both were so good looking they proved
hoodoos, and the English yacht was easily
beaten in the race for the Americas cup.
Mascot authorities allege that despite her
two pretty hoodoOs the Valkyrie might
have won the final and decisive race had il
not been sailed on Friday and on the 18th
of October, but that with such a combina-
ton Of pretty maseots, unlucky Friday and
luckless IS, Lord Dunraven ought to be
thankful that he and his crew finished the
race alive. EARLE II. EATON.
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lieve they will surely pick a winner If they
only see a hunchbacE on their way to the
track, or, better still, IL they get near
enough to gently touch his deformity
Others are firmly convinced that II they
can rub the wool on blind darky's head
tickle fortune will lead them to place their
money on a 10 to / shot or on some horse
against which even larger odds are offered
by the bookmakers. Still other race track
habitues believe that they will surely be
hoodooed if they fail TO drop dime or
quarter into the hat of every beggar they
pass while on their way to the races. These
superstitions cause hordes of beggars to
throng the approaches to the large tracks,
and many II bunch backs hump has been
rubbed as enthusiastically by turf gam
blers as the wonderful lamp was rubbed
by Aladdin.
Although many bettors who industrious
ly fondle the wool on blind darky's head
or touch the deformity between a bunch
backs shoulders find il necessary to walk
home from the track now and then, they
do not lose confidence in the efficiency of
their pet mascots. Frequently they are
hoodooed after the mascot has begun to ex-
ercise its charm, and what mascot can with
stand the baleful effect of a genuine hoo
doos
Many a turf plunger has run into a YER
races and entered the track prepared to
wager his very shoes on any horse in the
first race only to meet the baleful glance
of a cross eyed woman in the grand stand
and feel himself so thoroughly hoodooed
that he dares not risk n nickel on even 8
lead pipe cipch." The cross eyed woman
hoodoo is bad enough, but walking under
ladder is a dire act filled with the double
distilled quintessence of Jonahism and is
inN-a mi hlU f,llpxxa6 nv xxalk-iper h0raa
Probably the most popular mascot in
America today is the rabbits foot. 4 great
many people believe that any rabbits foot
is all powerful in routing hoodoos, horse,
foot and dragons, but this is a grave
error. To be n genuine mascot a rabbits
foot must be taken from the left hind leg
of a graveyard rabbit caught in said grave
yard at the very witchinG time Of night
when churchyards yawn, etc. This is one
definition of potent rabbits foot, but
other mascot authorities declare that the
foot to be truly efficacious must be taken
from the left hind leg of graveyard rab-
bit caught in the dark Of the moon at mid
night by cross eyed colored man who first
crawled into the graveyard backward. To
this conflict of authorities and failure to
carry out the entire programme is doubt
less due the occasional failure of rabbit :
foot to waul of hoodoos.
The experience of the Louisville baseball
club this season plainly demonstrated that
Il rabbits feet could make the strongest
kind of an uphill fight against overwhelm-
ing hoodoos As every student of baseball
history knows Sinhad the sailor had an easy
time unseatinG the Old Man of the Sea com
pared with the time the Louisville club had
in shaking the hoodoo that got astride its
neck early in the season and chung there
with legs and arms of steel. Fourteen rab
bits feet, however, kicked the hoodoo loose
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Robert ], the bay son Of Hartford. Is
looked upon as one of the most promising
PAGERS on the turf. He is years old
and his dam Y as Geraldine, by Jay Gould.
He is owned by c. J. Hamlin of Buffalo,
and is trained and driven by Ed Geers.
Previous to the present season Robert
did not possess much of a reputation, but
his work early in the year was so good that
he was considered Hamlin's most formula
BILE representative in the great IS 600 free
for all pace at the Northwestern Breeders
meeting in Chicago in September. Robert
J was declared ineligible, and Hal Pointer,
q mere shadow of his former greatness,
was substituted as the Village Farm eandi-
date. The Printer boss" was easily dis
tanced, and Flying Jib won the race.
The result might have been different had
Robert been allowed to start, for short
time later At ST. Joseph he attempted TO
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beat the worlds recori, 2.O4, and covered a
mile in the wonderful time of $685.. the
fastest mile ever made up To that time by a
5-year-old PAGER. At Lexington, Oct u,
Robert ! won the 81 600 free for all pace
against Flying Jib, Manager, J II L and
Will Kerr in straight heats, the first of
which was paced in the heart breaking
time of 2:05S4, and the others in 2.O75G and
2:05I4 respectively. Every heat was faster
than the best heat in the free for all in
Chicago.
At Nashville, Oct 10 Robert J again de
feated Flying Jib in three even more re-
markable straight heats. He captured the
first two in less. and the last in 2:10I{
The first two heats were the fastest consec-
utive heats ever trotted or paced. In view
OF his recent performances Robert may
truly be declared the greatest racing PAGER
living today.
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of future distinc- MURAT HAIsTEAD AT II.
ton had crossed that somebody's mind.
People like TO study these pictures just
as they like to read details of the early
life of the subjects of biographies, with
some latent idea that 1.-the child is father
of the man and that in the youthful
features, as in the early traits, they can
discover the budding promise of future
greatness.
1t is easier 10 discover this promise,
however, after the subject of the picture
or biography has become well known,
for even the expert physiognomist,
though he may detect the innate great
ness in the youthful countenance, cannot
be certain of the direction in which it
will manifest itself in after years. Murat
Halstead, the great journalist, for in
stance, judged by a picture of him taken
during his early college days, should
have been poet rather than a man of
affairs. Yet his genius did not manifest
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UNFAMILIAR FACES.
HOW CERTAIN WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
LOOKED IN THEIR YOUTH.

PhysioEnomists VIII lie Interested In
These Pictures of SIurat HAlstead. Mrs.
Cleveland, William l. Wilson and Miss
Frances willard Taken In Early Life.
The interest that people manifest in
the happenings of the childhood and
youth of famous men and women is the
same in kind, if not in degree, as that
which leads to the treasuring in many
an old fashioned bureau drawer of prim-
tive daguerreotypes and old tintypes
kept as mementos of vanished days.
The photographer was not necessarily an
artist then, and the pose of his subjects
was frequently an awkward If not an
ungainly one, but there is generally
some one who, gazing on the well re-
membered lineaments, can see in the
picture beauty not patent to other eyes
and who would not exchange the picture
for the work of any artist of eminence
depicting some other woman's child.
Ont of just such treasures come Just
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ture was taken W. L. WILSON AT 3.
five years before the famous wedding in
the White House, and no one could then
have foreseen the outcome of the next
II years, within which she was to be-
come twice mistress of the presidential
mansion and twice a happy mother.
\ picture of William L. Wilson of West
Virginia at the age of 0 years should
have been indicative of his future great
ness. for he confesses that his earliest
ambition was to be a lawyer and mem
Der of congress. That his membership
should include five successive terms and
the craftsmanship of the ways and means
committee probably was not specified
in boyish dreams. nor is it likely that his
ambition then considered the possibility
of the presidency of the West Virginia
university or tho regency of the Smith
sonian, which have since fallen to his
lot. Yet his boyish presentment looked
ambitious enough, though few would
have thought so at the timo it was taken.
Miss Frances E. Willard, famous wom-
an that she is, must smile at tho figure
she cut when the ACCOMMODATING childish
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SPORTING NOTES.

Tom Connors, the English wrestler now
in this country, has challenged all corners
to meeth him at catch weights
Frank H. BOlen of the Philadelphia
cricket team recently scored lis before be
ing retired in a game against the Austria
lians-
Charm, the Palo Alto filly, is looked upon
as a coming world heater in the 3-year-old
class.
Fantasy, 2.Oesl, the champion S-year-old
is one OF the turf wonders of 1898. Suct
speed in trotter at her age is decided in
noyation.
The crack rough coated ST. Bernard, Sin
Bedivere, has again changed hands. Mr.. C.
\. Pratt, proprietor OF the Argyle kennel:
at Little Rock, has purchased the cham
pion of his sex from the New York St
Bernard kennels.
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Since the worldwide diffusion of the
tobacco habit its earliest and perhaps
original use has been in great meas
ure overlooked. With the aborigines of
America smoking and its kindred prac-
tees were not mere sensual gratifca-
tons, but tobacco was regarded as an
herb of peculiar and mysterious sancti-
ty, and its use was deeply and intimately
interviewer with native rights and cere-
monies.
With reasonable certainty the pipe
may be considered as an implement the
use of which was originally confined TO
the priest, medicine man. or sorcerer, In
whose hands it was means of commu-
nication between savage man and the
unseen spirits with which his universal
doc-'ine of animism invested every OBJ
ject that came under his observation.
Similar to this use of the pipe was its
employment in the treatment of disease,
which in savage philosophy is thought
to be the work of evil spirits.-John
Hawkins in Popular Science Monthly.
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the lake. They are all over feet in
height, and they wear no clothing. Mrs
Swami was always carried in front of
the caravan by eight men in w ar
chair. These African coolies, with
exception of two, deserted her at the
sight of the Nasal, who were just re-
turning from war and consequently
looked as ferocious as possible. Fortu-
nately their intentions were amicable,
and after exchanging branches of trees,
which is the signal of peace, and accept
ing some beads and cloth from 1.-The big
man." as they called Mr.. Swami, they
allowed the white lady" and her escort
to pass on.
The missionaries built mud house and
a church at Kinyamkolo. The house was
erected inside n stockade where 800 peo-
pie lived. Mrs. Swami felt greatly inter
ested in the women and girls, and taught
them many useful things. Her servants
were children from to Is years old.
After that age the girls marry and will
do no more domestic work. With coffee
from the Sheri islands and supplies from
England once a year it was not imposSi-
BILE for Mrs. Swami to cater acceptably
for her household.
Mrs. Swami gives some amusing de-
tails of the value of certain goods among
these tribes, needles and cloth ranking
highest. She always kept large supply
of these, for they absolutely became cur
rent coin of the realm. Three needles
would procure one fowl; one needle, two
eggs. Old tins and empty bottles were
also in much request, condensed milk
tins taking the place of drinking gourds
for the natives. y fowl could also be
had for two yards of cotton or small
piece of cloth.
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WaterburyFire Alarm
LOCATION OF BOXES.

The following are the Fire Alarm Signals
under the new system:
IL Rogers Bro
Is Cor East Main and Niagara streets.
II Cor East Main and Wolcott road.
Is Cor High and Walnut streets.
Ia Cor Fast Main and Cherry streets.
II Cor East Main and Cole streets
y, Cor North Elm and KinEsbury streets.
"a Cor North Elm. North Main and Grove
streets.
"a Waterbury Manufacturing company
- Cor North Main and North streets.
90 Cor Buckingham and Cooke streets
- Cor Grove and Prospect streets.
IS Cor Hillside avenue and Pine street
"a Cor Johnson and Waterville streets.
Ala The Plat Bros Il CO..
a-I-4 Waterbury Clock company movement
ment factoryl,'
3 Exchange place.
30 Cor West Main and Willow streets
a. Cor West Main and Watort"wn roadl
s-5 Horse Car Railroad stable'
SO Waterbury Brass company
81 Cor Cedar and Meadow Streets
3-s Cor Grand and Field streets
s-1-a Cor Bank and Meadow streets.
3-1-s Randolph & Cloves
s-1-4 Plume Il Atwood Manufacturing COM
pany.F
a-a-a Holmes. Booth X Haydens.'
3-a-4 Cor Charles and Porter streets
s-a-5 Cor Simons street and Washington ave
Cor South Main and Grand streets
Al Cor South Main and Clay streets
4-s Waterbury Watch company
- Benedict 4 Durham Manufacturing
company
4-6 Waterbury Buckle company
A. Cor South Main and Washington SIS
5 Scovill Manufacturing company
I-niap
"a Waterbury Clock CO. lease factory
81 Cor Clay and Mill streets.
So Cor Liberty and River streets.
81 Nos Hose House.
IS Cor Baldwin and Stone.strert>
Cor Bridge and Magill streets.
O. Cor Doolittle alley and Dublin street.
-" Private.
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FRANCES FOLSOM AT II. reer that has
made him famous. 1t may be that he is
poet anyway. Who can tell?
He has certainly left the impress of his
genius on the journalism of his time,
and mainly through the exercise of those
very qualities. He was a farmers son,
and work before play" was the watch
word of his childhood and youth, as it
has been of his mature years. He has
had no time to WOO the muses., however
successful his courtship might have been.
He might not have wooed them if he
could.
\ picture of Frances Folsom at Il. on
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BALLROOM NOVELTIES.

Two New and Pretty Figures For the Ger
man Described.
Two pretty new figures for the german
are called Living Tenpins" and The
Target Shoot" For the first the favors
are miniature gilded tenpins for the gen
tlemen and tiny blackboards for the la
dies. Ten couples dance and at a signal
receive favors, which they present to
new partners and go on dancing. At a
second signal the gentlemen all kneel,
facing the ladies in the following form:
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Then the leader hands large, soft
rubber ball to the first lady, who stands
some feet away and bowls toward the
living pins, trying of course to roll it to
her favorite partner. Whichever of the
gentlemen it reaches, however, picks the
ball up and dances with the bowler,
handing the ball to the second lady, who
repeats the movements of the first, as do
all the rest until each has secured a part
ner. The gentlemen are prohibited from
reaching for the ball. 1t must come to
them.
The Target Shoot" requires a straw
filed target, hung upon an easel three
feet or more from the floor; 10 feather
arrows and 10 bamboo tubes to blow the
arrows through. After dancing, chang
ing partners and dancing again, at a
signal the ladies stand IN a line back of
the target, about five feet from it. and
the gentlemen line up in front of it,
thus:
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CHAPTER XVII.
THE SIGNAL Is GIVEN

Its all right" said Kavanagh. "See
there they come. Let us go on. They
cannot overtake US until we are at the
top of the stairs, and have something of
the utmost importance to tell you. The
preparations are all made We only wait
now for a favorable opportunity to take the
last step. That opportunity may present
itself at any moment after tonight. Some
time tomorrow, probably In the EVENING"
cannot fix the hour-or the next evening,
certainly not later than the ntRht follow
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A WOMAN IN AFRICA.
Experiences of q NIissionary's wife on the
shores of Lake Tanganyika


shores of Lake TAnganyikA.
The life of missionary's wife in the
heart of the dark continent is not entire
" without its compensations, according
to the account of Mrs. A. ]. Swami, who
has Just returned to England after a
five years residence on the shores of
Lake Tangany1ka. Yet it is scarcely
probable that there will be any great
rush of English society girls to try it. for
though Mrs. Swami says she was never
lonely and never afraid, yet she admits
that outside the stockade the lions were
always bowling at night, and there was
constant danger of being attacked by
cannibals.
Mrs. Swami is the wife of the mission
airy who brought to England the sad
news of Emin Pasha's tragic fate. She
is the only white woman who ever made
the journey from Sedani to Ujiji, and
her presence excited great curiosity
among the natives. On the way the
small caravan encountered company,
400 strong, of the Nasal, the strongest
and the most formidable of the tribes on
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such pictures of
the peoples dar-
lings, or of those
who have won
eminence among
them with on I
evoking much af-
pictures
boarded from a
time when their
subjects were en-
tirely somebody
else's darlin & 5
and no thought
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MASCOTS And HOODOOS
Strange Superstitions Prevalent
Among Sporting Men.
THE COLONIES RABBITS FEET.

How Fourteen Of Them Temporarily Rout-
ed the Louisville Clubs Hoodoo-sseInx
Cross Eyed Woman and Walking Under
Ladder Are Very Dangerous HoOdoos.
Thousands of sporting men, turf follow
ers, gamblers, pugilists, baseball players
and race track plungers are firm believers
in the efficiency of a genuine mascot and in
the blighting influence of a voodoo, or hoo
doc, as it is more commonly called. In the
opera Mascot" Lorenzo defines a mascot
briefly and rather unsatisfactory. "a
mascot" he says, 'is a mascot" To an
unparalleled observer this seems quite
self evident. Webster delves somewhat
deeper into the subject when he declares
that a mascot Is "a person who is supposed
to bring good luck to the household to
which he or she belongs; anything that
brings good luck"
One very popular idea Of a mascot Is
that 1t should be the reverse of beautiful
For this reason men who play the races be-
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BONE VERY POPULAR MAsCoTs.
/. Rubbing the blind darky's head. 9. Touch.
ing the hnnchback's hump. g. The rabbits
foot.
in trice. On Aug. "a George I. Leavy Of
Norman, o. T, and formerly of Kentucky
sent a consignment of rabbits feet to the
players, accompanied by the following not 4
Knowing of Louisville's hard luck this Sc
SON, 1 have secured a rabbits foot for cad
player. which. hope, will aid them as they q
cend the scale of L. These feet are from o
lahoma jack rabbits caught in a desolate a
ghostly Indian graveyard and possess all nc
essary charms for a mascot. l earnestly trJ
they will have the desired effect
The very next day, and of course long
fore the Louisville players knew that t
left hind legs Of il rabbits-caught in
Indian graveyard by cross eyed color
man in the dark Of the moon, presumat
were roofing" for them against tie hd
doc, the Colonies defeated the Philadelpl
club. They followed this victory with
other against the same club and then van
pushed the New Yorks and Brooklyns
thus winning four games in succession L.
fore the Oklahoma bunnie boomers lost
their grip on the hoodoo. Just before the
fifth game, however, some cross eyed WON
an in the City of Churches must have hoo
dooed the entire club again, for in this
game and the one following the Colonies
were badly beaten by the Brooklyns-
Had the Colonies been fortified with RAD
bits feet early in the season instead OF only
a month before its close, they might have
secured a better position than eleventh IN
the pennant race, but who knows that the
Il left hind feet did not prevent the hen'
lucky team from slipping back into tweiith
place and the ignominy Of being the tail
enders for 1887
Lamplighter, the great thoroughbred
had mascot that possessed the fatal gin
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district of Waterbury. s. Probate Court.
Estate II Della Hurley Of Waterbury in said
District assigning debtor.
The voluntary assignment If the said debtor
having been lodged in this office for record
and the probate thereof. and Charles W.
Atwood of Watertown Conn being in said as
siEcment as trustee for said estate therefore
ORDERED that the 3sth day Of October ls93.
at 9 O'Clock forenoon. be. and the same l.
hereby assigned for a hearing on the approval
of said proposed trustee. and that all persons
interested therein may have notice IL appear.
if they see cause. and be heard thereon. this
Court directs that this order he published
three times in newspaper having a cIrcu-
lation in said Probate District. before said
time assigned for said hearing.
By order of the Court,
JAMES .CAssIS. Clerk of Probate.
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In Japan there are now 20 public cleo
trio light companies in operation. Fur
Their companies are proposed, and there
is a considerable demand for electrical
engineers. Nearly all of the companies
are conducted by Americans,
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itself in that di-
rection, if the
popular notions
about poets are
correct ones. 1t
may be that the
fearlessness, ear
nestness, generos-
ity and specula =
tive thoughtful
ness shown in the
picture have been
more happily APP
Dlied in the ca
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the eve of gradu-
alton from Wells
college, before
the nation was
aware of the
prominence in
store for her as
the wife of its
chief magistrate,
before she was
herself aware of
it, is of especial
interest in the
light of recent
events. The pic
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picture was TAX
en-, though it was
probably as well
mp to the artistic
ideals of the time
and place as any
of the better pic
lures taken since,
with which the
public is more IA
miliar. The col
lie ge president,
temperance advo-
cate, White Cross
leader, orator and
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K K X K X x K x x


An arrow and bamboo are given to
each gentleman, and beginning at the
right they blow the arrows through the
tubes at the target, the first to make
bullseye having his choice of partners,
while those who miss must blow again
until they make a bullseye. The figure
is full of merriment.