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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-04
Everybody Knows Him.
A Prominent Member of the
 Maine Legislature.
What He Says Will Ring Over the Whole Land as the Trumpet Tonged Utterances of One of our Greai Men.

The word of Hon John R. Prescott, for merly prominent member of the Maine legislature is all powerful
 Mir Prescott lives at Rome, Me. Every body knows him, everybody respects him and every believes what he says.
 And it is an.interesting story which he tells and an eloquent tribute which he pays.
 ..Thirty-two years ago, he says, Il was attacked with neuralgia in my face and head, mostly confined to the right side There was not often n day or an hour that I was not suffering with that terrible SC were pain, severe great many times that for several days and nights l could not sleep or take any food except little gruel.
 My nerves were terribly affected and I grew weak and feeble as my many friends in the state of Maine, and more particularly in kennebeck County will certify to.
 About five years ago was taken with what the physicians claimed to be liver and kidney trouble. a soreness over my right kidney, so much so that l could not bear to be rubbed.
 My bowels were very much constl pated, could not urinate freely, and sut fered severe pain at such times.
 My troubles increased very much, and for the past six months I could not get up from my bed in the morning and dress me before would be in pain in my back and bowels.
 Il would often be forced to drop down and rest me and many times be i'll such pain that would cry like a child and ask why could not die.
 II have used for the neuralgia all the liniments l have ever seen advertised for the cure of that disease, and for my nerves and kidney and liver trouble have taken so many remedies that they are too nu- merOus to mention.
 Il have been treated by the leading phy- sicians of Maine. have also been to Mass achusetts to be treated by physicians in Boston, and from all I have received very little benefit. One eminent physician said that could not be cured. and many physi- clans examined me and refused to treat me.
 T had given up taking medicine.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-04
Couldn't Keep Her still.

One of the conductors on a Niagara street car tells good story about q pair of passengers he carried on his car re- gently. When the big trolley coach pulled up at Ferry street. a woman and child boarded it. The woman was sharp fca- tured, quick talking and looked as if she might belong to the woman's rights party or be professional temperance lecturer at election time. She crowded herself into seat and looked daggcrs at man with dinner pail who sat next to her. She lifted her little girl into her lap and continued looking at the wurkingman, and he finally got up and gave his scat to the little girl. The conductor walked up to her and asked for her fare. She gave him q nickel.
 You'll have to pay for the child too, ,'' said he. ''Shc is over 5.'
 ''Shc Is not" said she. My little girl won't be | until next month"
 The face of the little girl was puzzle for a moment. She was apparently 9 or 10 years old and very bright. She looked at her mother uncertainty few minutes, and then burst i'll loud enough for every body in the car to hear:
 Mister. I'll be my next birthday"
 shut up" demanded her mother.
 Well. 1 guess know how old am. ." said the cXaspcratinS younGSter. and lEc mother slowly opened her purse and handed out another cents.-ButTalo Ex- press.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-04
Consideration In n silver Mine.


 1t is very astonishing" said gentle long journeys into the interior of the country, "hOw many examples of innate refinement of feeling uus. comes across among the toughest If men. \ year Cl two ago had a survey Ia make uf solnt land belonging Ia che of tine largest sil ver mines in - territory. l had taken my wife with me. and MT. -. the su perintcndtnt. was most kind in showing and explaining everything to her. One morning We were all standing near 5 shaft. listening with great interest tc his explanations concerning prospects veins of ore, values and estimates. wheL suddenly We heard some confused sound: of falling. followed by various exclama tions and, we thought. groans.
 "'What Is the matter" exclaimed my wife as the cage came mp and q big sturdy fellow stepped out. Nothing much, lady he answered. and he whis pered something to the superintendent who turned to us with an expression oI great concern on his face. One of tht men who Is working below has had { bad fall he said. his shoulder is dis located and they fear his leg is broken Why do they not bring him up at once: he continued, addressing the great brawny, red shirted miner who hai brought the news.
 "'Tom was afraid of frightening tn, lady, and wanted me to come first, h' answered. Kew York Tribunss
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-04
Snare Moments.

Work is good. No one seriously doubt. this truth. But work is not the only gooG thing in this world. It Is not fetich tC be adored, neither is it to be judged like a sum in addition, by its outward and immediate results. Dr. Johnson haG scant sympathy with inconsistent anG arrogant industry. No man, sir, i: obliged to do as much as he can. A mar should have part of his life to himself' Leisure has a value of its own. It is moi a mere handmaid of labor, 1t Is some thing we should know how to cultivate to use and to enjoy. It has distinct and honorable place wherever nation. are released from their first rude needs their first homely toll and rise to hap pier levels of grace and intellectual re pose. ''The success of any society wortt considering is to be estimated largely by the use to which its fortunate put theis spare moments. Agnes Repplier ii Scribner's.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-04
\ Silt Knee In France.

A French scientific journal gives par ticulars of n stilt race (course d'echas- siers) at Bordeaux, i'll which Aime Mar tin. young man under 20, beat the rec ord by covering 40 kilometers (about 275 miles) in 76 hours and 35 minutes. His stilts were about feet long and weighed over 16 pounds. His bare feet were not injured by the friction, and he suffered no inconvenience. Another race of portanieres-th women who car " burdens on their heads-was won by Margaret Pujol, 36 years of age. Her burden consisted of basket laden with 45 pounds. and the course was 9 kilome- ters (about 5s miles,, which she covered in hour and 5 minutes.-Exchange.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-04
MT. schurz Is Scared.

Apparently Carl Schurz fears the United States is on the point of annex ing Mexico and all the Central and South American republics and the outlying is- lands, revolutions and all. One judges this to be the case from his paper on Manifest Destiny" in Harper's Nigga zine. He begins by supposing that we annex Cuba, since it is near the Florida toast, very fertile and a menace to our possession of, what is to hinder annexing the Haytian islands for the same reason, and that being done, why should we not take in Mexico and all the rest of the Spanish Americans and incorporate them in our republic?
 Then, having already annexed all these in his mind, MT. Schurz goes on to predict the dire train of evils that would follow. No republic ever prospered and endured lolg in tropical climate, says he. The reason is that in warm eli mate people are too lazy to work stead lily, being able to supply their bodily needs without it. The permanency of republicanism depends on the being com pelled to work steadily for living, ac- eording to the Schurzian logic. Perhaps it is true
 If we annex all South America to us. we shall have to admit on an equal foot ing with ourselves in government and in the various states all the mongrel population south of us-part negro, part Spanish, part Indian-and, in Mir. Schurz's estimation, wholly heather. What will then become of us? he asks triumphantly. The Lord knows. We ourselves wouldn't like to live to see it. But who wants the Spanish American republics to become part of this Union? Did Mir. Schurz ever hear any manifest destiny" AInoricap hint that he han kered to take to his bosom as a man and brother any of the citizens named? It is bad enough to be forced thus to take and the average American will not do it except at election time.
 At the close of Carrs paper we find 1 the real motive. Its sting is in the tail, so to speak. He has fired off all these heavy guns against the proposed annexa- ton of poor httl2 Hawaii. He will in deed permit Canada to come in and be one of us if she wants to, because her people are similar to our own, but there he draws the line Hawaii, never! But we would like to ease Mir. Schurz's mind Therefore we will recall to him the fact that the heather native popu- lation of Hawaii is dying off at q rate 1 that will soon leave some white nation i to take peaccable possession. And if not the Americans who shall it be?
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-04
Victoria snuhhet the nuks.

The late Duke Ernest of Saxe-Cobur- and Gutha was on cold terms with his relatives in England long before the death of the prince con~nrt. The duke was offended because his brothers con fidential correspondents were the late king of the Bclgiaus and the late Euper- or William instead of himself
 He was iudcfaIigablc i'll addressing prolix dissertations upon political affairs to Prince Albert. who had no disposition to receive instruction either from his elder brother or from any one else. Tn, duke expected to be regarded as the head of the family and wished 10 play that part de facto, but his attempts al inter ference were dextcrously haffi,4l by Prince Albert, who aJ an earli,r lz-iyri had succeeded, but not without difficulty. in putting q stop 10 the metldlius of King Leopold, who had intended Ia act as his nephew's PrOSpcro.
 When Prince Albert died. the duke fully expected that the queen would constitute him her principal advlS,r and that he would be able Ia play an i'm portant part i'll our court. but her mai esty did not consult him about any thing. and when he volunteered his views she paid no attention h his letters London Truth.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-04
Future American Litcra,urc.

MT. Hamlin Garland drops into proph- ecy in The Forum. He writes of the future of American literature, and a cur rent of enthusiasm like the sweep of a prairie wind runs through his thoughts. The east is to hold no longer its supre- macy in literary authority and criticism, he says. It cannot, for the Atlantic coast model of literature and criticism Is English. not American. Already the commercial supremacy has been wrested from New York ty the northwest. Artistic supremacy will shortly be, for following the Columbian exposition the rise of Chicago as literary and art cen ter is only question of time. "Maga- zines and publishing houses are to come. The writers have already risen"
 "Henceforth when men of the old world speak of America they will not think of Boston and New York and Philadelphia. they will mean Chicago and the Mississippi valley" Mir. Gar land quotes this as the estimate already put on his part of the country by the man of the middle section of the Un- ion, and it is plain MT. Garland more than half agrees with the valuation. He shocks the Atlantic coast as with an earthquake when he patronizingly tells it that the New England literary group wrote gentle and polite poems on books and events" But the real American literature, that which is springing up in the west and south, is literature not of books, but of life. 1t draws its in spiration from contact with men and nature. It has the rough hewn quality of first hand work. It has few limita- tions. It is free"
 It is enough to make the very stones of Boston pavements cry out when Mir. Garland goes on and says, Culture is not creative power" He believes, too, that today, in spite of its foreign popu- lation, Chicago is really the most repre- sentative American city. Not even Chi cago, however. can permanently arro- gate to itself the authority in artistic and literary criticism. With cities of half a million inhabitants scattered from Pittsburg to Seattle, New York and Chi cago will alike be made humble" Then MT. Garland delivers the following ex- i hortation:
 stand up, young man and woman of the 1 "est stand erectl Face the future with . | song on your lips and the light of n broader | u1S m your eyes Turn Yuuf back on the past
 not in scorn, but in justice to the future. Re
 !ect the scholasticisrn of the cast. Cease try.
 ts our day.
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-04
HOW Not to Grnw Old.

The Spanish wit and philosopher. Quevedo, who in his time gained a repu. tation for knowing everything, was asked if he knew of a means whereby 8 person could avoid growing old Most certainly" said he; II know of certain rules which will surely prevent you growing old"
 What are they:'
 Keep in the sun in summer and in the wet in winter; that is one rule. Never give yourself rest; that is another. Fret at everything that happens; that is another. And then if you take card always to eat meat cold and drink plenty of cold water when you are hot you may be perfectly sure that you will never grow oldr'-Isondon Tit-Bits.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-04
RAILRuAD ACCIDENTS.

Has the spirit of utter reckleSsncss seizel the railroads? Does death sit on the engine? During the last three months ending last Saturday there were I33 per sons killed outright and 3SO mangled and injured in railroad accidents in the United States. Nor does this frightful record ln- cludc run-over accidents or the coupling clr deaths among yard men. How large is the death record among railroad employees is shown by statistics collected by Dr Ed ward A. Mosely, secretary of the inter state commerce commission. Mir MoSely found that during the year ending June 20 last there were the appalling number of ,. .6G0 railroad employees killed and 26, 15u injured. This gave Il proportion of one killed in every 29G men employed and one injured in every thirty employed. Most of th,S,. deaths of employees were caused by car couplings, which were different on every railroad. After strenuous and long sustained efforts MT Mosely succeeded in having .l bill passed in congress i'll March Inst providing that all railroads must use the same car-coupling apparatus and, since this, the killings from this cause have been greatly diminished. The slaughter now seems to fall upon the passengers.
 It may be the overcrowded condition of several of the western railways, or it may be ignorance or neglect on the part of con ductor~, trainmen and telegraphcrs. or il muv b, all of them combined, to bring about many dreadful disasters as hav, occurred on them within d month. One i principal cause has been the failure of tn, railroad companies to have telegraph l operator at every station. There k no GA. cu~c for such n narrnw-nindrd policy Several of the recent disasters have re. suited from the lack of means of conmu
 nication between stations. It is penn, wise and pound SSfoolish economy. hot tC speak of the dreadful loss es of human life and the mangling of hundreds O people.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-04
as follows

Gladstone becomes more and more of a terror ill his savcasl:: and eloquence the older he grows. His language be- comes less scholastic ard more Anglo Saxon. An American stump orator could not be more plain and direct than he was ill the speech in which he chas- tised the house of lords for its claim that it had the right to force n dissolu- tion of parliament by obstinately hold ing out against home rule. The minis try had the right to recommend disso- lution of parliament, said Gladstone, and the house of commons had the right by its vote to force a dissolution. But" continues he, mo such thing has been recorded at any period of our history as a dissolution brought about by a vote of the house of lords. Such a contention is a gross, q monstrous innovation, an odious new fangled doctrine, and no men are fonder of these doctrines than the modern Tories, except it be the mod ern Unionists. But in addition to being new. tangled doctrine hold that it is nothing less than high treason if this is to continue to be a self governing coun- 1rV"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-04
A GOLDEN HOUR.

Amid field Of golden flowers she stood Blithe buttercups that met the wooing breeze With mods and beCks and swaying courtesies. Where the broad river flowed beside the wood, The sun made golden laughter with the flood, And airy whispers rustled from the trees,
 ease;
 Love and tho year were young. and life was
 good With daisies in the shining fields were rife- White pctaled daisies with rich hearts were
 they,
 And in each simple flower l could behold An image of the empress of my life, Whose beauty lent new brightness to the
 day
 A snow white maiden with heart of gold. Alice $. Blackwell in New Orleans Times Democrat
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-04
The Great Yacht Race.

It was in December, 1892, that the challenge was received from Lord Dun raven to race for the famous cup which had been won II years before from Eng land by the yacht America and has never been got back again by any Eng fish boat. The challenge was accepted, and now the best racing yacht in Eng land, the V ..kyrie, meets the Vigilant, the best racing yacht in the United States. These boats are, like race horses, absolutely of no value except to bet on and show how fast they can be made to go. Their quarters are too cramped for anybody to stow himself away comfort ably, even for a few days outing. But they each carry sail enough, if it were all spread out, to cover several city lots, and We shall find out when the race is done whether tho American or British way of building racing yachts makes them go the faster. The Vigilant is of the favorite Yankee centerboard pattern.
 The dimensions of the two boats are as follows:
 Nalkyric, length over all, l9G; length water line, Sj.5O; beam, aO-O6; draft, ld.6.
 Nigilant, length over all. l2i; length water line. sj.l2; beam, 26; draft, l4.
 Ii will be seen the English cutter has more length over all and more draft. Her bow is m improvement on the bow of tho Queen Nab. She has the good points of . cutter and center bOardCr. Her counter measures 0 feet. The body of the hull runs aft. The lines are fine. All in all she is a very powerful boat.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-04
AOnc NnIurnc NInn.

\ curious example of generous obsti- macy was stout countryuan who in quired for nice book To read-'.one with q story in." On several being placed before him. he examined them attentively and picked out the middle volume of ''three decker with the re mark, This 'erc's my sort. What's the price::"
 .Oh,' was the reply. this Is only the second volume. The story goes through three The set Is half q crown"
 "Hauvc q crown! Well, III gie ye that for that one book. Its a pretty un enough
 But won't you have the other two as well? You'd better"
 "NawI don't like tn beginnin of a story; cant get forrud wi it. An I don't like tn endin; don't know as 'ow it's comed about. But in tn middle un I'm into t thick of it right of. No, I'll only talk tn middle un; it'll set me up for a month" And. examining the book into his pocket he put down his half crown and disappeared with good night" before the other volumes could be given to him.--Chambers' Journal.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-04
sho closed her eyes wearilv.

Sho closed her eyes wearily.
 "Mollier' The sergeant major was bending over her "I have come to say good night, Mollie One of the men who is down with the fever has sent for me. 7" But you needn't goy''
 "I must; he is dying"
 As he leaned over the chair his hand lightly touched her hair. One of the roses had fallen from her breast and lay on the folds of her gown.
 May have this:" he asked, taking it up gently.
 If you like" The freshness had gone from her voice. But the other man gave it to me, Jack"
 Never mind; you have worn it."
 He passed out of her sight as Travers came into it bearing the ice.
 Take it away" she said to him, pet ulantly; ''I don't want it."
 Sergeant Major Boyne was down with the fever. His comrades talked serious ly together. Some of the men hung round the hospital to which he had been removed and begged constantly for the latest bulletin.
 Near the group of soldiers stood Mollie Henderson. Every day she gathered news of her cousin from their fragmen- ary conversation.
 Hes mortal bad, remarked one.
 'Aye. Sinking fast, heard"
 Hes sticking to his colors to the last, :" spoke another. They say he's calling out her name often"
 And she don't care rap for him."
 'She ain't good enough for our ser .l.
 ''P'raps she'll be sorry when''-
 Some one pushed through the group Each man fell aside as Mollic. her face white and strained, passed by them and obtained admittance into the hospital.
 Presently one of the men looked up at the sergeant majors window.
 Let's hope she'll be in time, mates, :" he said huskily.
 The sergeant major was convalescent
 In the little back yard he practiced a broadsword exercise in the presence of Mollie Henderson.
 o-three-four; right! One twO-three-four;l left"
 The girl sitting on the wall called out to him:
 That will do. Come here and rest a minute.
 You must be obeyed, Cousin Mollie, '' he said, gliding one hand into her huff.
 "Of course. Haven't 1 sworn 10 take care of you, Cousin Jack"
 Their fingers interlaccd inside the huff. She counted the branches of th- skeleton tree; he reckoned up the notches in the wooden post.
 Cousin Molhe:"
 Cousin Jack:'
 Don't you think we might begin the new year.
 Tine two little dangling feet moved restlessly against the wall: the hand within the serSeant's frightened its clasp. He looked mp at the face above his own.
 "Mollie. Mollie!" he cried softly. may I hoist my cOlors in the new year
 Yes, Jack, yes The boy in the next yard looked ur from spinning his top and remarked, upon the sudden disappearance of Molle into the serscan, majors arms. Il thought she wouldn't want showing of the wall this time London Tit-Bits.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-04
N.H.&H. Railroad Time Table
June II. lS.ES. NAUGNTUCK DIVISION.

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