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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-03-14
New Lime netwesn Detroit and Toledo.

DETROIT, March 14.-A new air limo rail, road from Detroit to Toledo is assured to be built this year and connect with the Pennsylvania system. It will probably come into the new Fort street Union depot. Surveys have already been made.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-03-14
KaiuIani Received at the White House.

WASHINGTON March 14.-The Hawaiin ex-heir apparent, Kiulani, with MT. and Mrs. Davies, were received by President and Mrs. Cleveland in the blue parlor of the White House yesterday. The-Princess was charmed with the cordiality of Mrs. Cleve land
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-03-14
The Steamer Wells city's Position Better

STARLIGHT, N. J., March 14.-The con
 dition of the stranded steamer Wells City. from Bristol, Eng, which came ashore here on Saturday night, is much improved ant. there is every promise of the vessel beinz early released from her perilous position.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-03-14
The Adirondaok Pioneer Sold.

SARANAc LAKE, N Y., March 14.--Wm F. Mannix has sold the Adirondack Pion- eer, the only paper published in the Adj rondack region, to . syndicate 0S newps paper men,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-03-14
DISTRICT OF WATERBURY, ss, Probat, \ y C0urt March 12. 1SQ3.

Estate of George E. Sheridan of Waterbury in said district, insolvert assigning debtor.
 The court of probate for the edistrict of Water bury hath limited and allowed three months, from the date hereof, for the creditors of said hibit their claims thereto; and has ap- pointed James Duncan and William J. Rigney commissioners to receive and examine said claims; and has ordered that said commssion- CTS meet at probate office in said also on the i4th day of June, A. D, 1893, at o'clock in the forenoon of each of said days for the purpose of attending on the business of said appointment.
 Certified from record, JAMEs4 CAss1N Clerk. All persons indebted to said estate are re
 [, r. HokoffANi Trustee.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-03-14
You Can See For Yourself

W wv VI SSAs~~ss
 That it pays to buy our reliable clothing; it costs no more to start with and it will wear longer and keep its shape better than the poor CT kinds. Our complete stock is now ready. Complete in every de- partment, Tailoring, Hat and Fur nishings, Clothing. Clothing is di- vided into two departments, mems and boys, and we have such stock as was never seen in this city before. The immense business we have had in these departments has given us the courage to offer this season stock you would not ex- pect to see except in New York, and we have marked our prices on a closer margin than they have ever been marked in this city. You make mistake if you don't look this stock over this season.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-03-14
A high class Commercial College will be opened
 Tuesday, March ', 1898,

Affording complete equipment for busi- ness life, offers to the student choice of three courses of studies:
 BUSINESS DEPARTMENT-Tw di- visions, Theory and Actual Business Prac- tice. Thorough and complete instruction in Penmanship, Bookkeeping, Commercial Arithmetic, Rapid Calculations, Spelling, Glossary, Commercial Law, Business Forms, Business Correspondence and Grammar.
 STENO GRAPHIC DEPARTMENT - Includes Shorthand, Typewriting, Spell ing, Penmanship, Rapid Addition. Rusi- ness Correspondence and Grammar.
 TELEGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT - In- cludes Te!egraphy, Penmanship and Spell ing.
 Experienced and competent teachers in each department. Business writing taught on principles to keep pace with the times. Individual instruction. This institution gives thorough Business Education or a practical training in Shorthand and Type writing. Day and evening sessions.
 B For further information call. or address, -and-send for catalogue. ,,,5.,,..
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-03-14

Something Worth Looking At. Tells the story of our Shirts to T. They do take the eye and they'll make you worth looking at, when you wear them. Although after election is a little late for politicians to put on collars, it's just the season for you to don the latest accessories SC correct dress. We also have rare as- ointment of novel ties, which are the proper ties for wear this winter. Without them, you will have no tie to connect you with the current of fashion and can't stay in the swim any more than stone. You're in fair way to having your name changed to HANDSOME, if you buy your outfit from our stock; it's cure for weak eyes just to look at what we are offering in Holiday Furnighing Goods. Call and see our Boys Winter Eaton Caps which we are selling at 50 cents.
 DanbuY Hat Store,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-03-14
INFANTS
 SHOES.

There are little shoes of big quality, and big shoes of little quality. There are shoes which it is a pleasure to buy, a pleasure to look at, anda pleasure to wear. That is one side of the case. The other side isn't quite as pleasant, for there are shoes which it is a mistake to buy, exasperation to look at and torture at wear
 Our infants shoes are hand sewed, cor rect lasts and pat terms. Prices mod crate.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-09-29
A sto,x Abont a story.

Mrs. e. p. Terhune marion Harland)
tells curious bit of fact in connection
with one of her earlier novels, "Ruby's
Husband" The novelist was living in
Newark at the time of its writing, and
on her frequent trips over the Jersey
flats to New York her attention was Of
ten conferred upon long, low rooted
white house visible in the far distance
from the cars. She knew nothing of it
nor of its inmates but it's isolation, and
on late winter afternoons its single eye
of light streaming eerily across the
stretch of marshland attracted her story
telling instinct, and she wove the tale
about 1t.
Long afterward she found that it was
occupied by sporting character very
similar to the horsy Nick Sloane and
actually having his initials, and he had,
too, young daughter, whose beauty
was as remarkable for her environment
as was that Of the brilliant and unscru-
pulous Ruby. In the story Nick Sloane
: is killed in a runaway accident, and out
of it the tenant of the meadow house
came to violent death by the cars, sew
eral years after ''Ruby's Husband" be-
came popular.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-09-29

Bravest and shrewdest Of all the relief
force at the Ford's theater disaster was
black man named Basil Lockwood. He
fastened q ladder to his back and climbed
like cat to telegraph pole close to the
tumbling building. He thought to ex-
tend the ladder from the pole to the win
dows of the theater and make bridge Of
it while he held it, SO that the imprisoned
clerks on the highest floor could escape.
But the ladder was too short to reach.
Basil Lockwood's brain was equal even
to that emergency. He inserted the pow
erful muscles Of his foot and ankle be-
meath the last round Of the ladder,
stretched out his leg and thus made the
other end Of the ladder reach the window
sill. Then be told the clerks to come
over. He was actually strong and steady
enough to hold the ladder in its position
till 20 men had crossed on it-all that
were in need. They slipped past him
and down the telegraph pole. Then Basil
Lockwood Skinned down after them with
his ladder and disappeared, asking no
gold medal, not even an honorable men
ton. But heroes and statesmen are
made of that kind Of material.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-09-29
Summer HeaIth Seekers.

The Philadelphia Ledger gives useful
information to persons seeking health at
summer resorts. Some invalids getmost
gain at the seashore, others in the noun
tains. The following paragraph shows
what class of ailments is helped by the
sea and what class by the mountain air:
Pleasure seekers need no advice. Open air
sports, delightful communion with nature,
rest, or the change from everyday life, are Of
fered to them ON every side They may choose
for themselves. 1t is little different with
those whose summer holiday is spent In the
search for health. Every specific case requires
specific direction, but there are few general
facts which should be iterated and reiterated.
The seashorois is not the place for very weak
people, except under certain conditions. The
freshness and wholesomeness of the air are not
sufficient compensation for the increase in
atmospheric density. On the other hand, 1t is
precisely the place for rconvalescents-for those
who are slowly struggling up to health and
only need the added filip Of pure air and sun
shine to restore them to the normal condition
of health and strength.
The mountains are hardly ever suitable for
those whose circulatory system is out of order.
The lessened pressure of the atmosphere pro-
vokes such quickened action of tile heart that
the danger of accident is seriously increased.
On the other hand, it is the ideal place for
those who for any reason fail to absorb and
utilize the oxygen Of the air. Careful expert
ments have shown that under the reduced
pressure of the atmosphere at high attitudes
more oxygen is absorbed and more carbon con-
sumed than in the lowlands. This indicates
with certainty the generation Of force, for 1t
Is by the burning up of the tissues through the
action of oxygen that all animal force Is gen.
Grated. In brief, it may be put (but very
roughly and dinadequately) that to grow fat one
should go to the seashore; to grow strong, to the
mountains. The one furnishes the tissue, the
other the means to burn 1t up.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-09-29
Thank oHerings.

When there came to the household of
the Duke and Duchess of Portland a baby
daughter some years ago, the duchess in
sisted on the dukes converting the gift
Of diamonds he contemplated purchasing
for her into an hospital where the tenants
on his estate might be cared for. Now
that son has come to inherit the name
and title, the duke has remitted 20 per
cent of the rents Of the tenants on the
Welbeck estate and has directed his
agent to prevent the carrying out of the
proposed baptismal present from the ten
ants to the infant marquis, because in
these times such gift would be serious
tax on the resources of his friends. -Ex-
change.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-09-29

An Income Tar.

1t is reported that the next congress
will pass an income tax bill, This idea
Is opposed by the influential press of the
east and favored by many Of the news
papers and statesmen of the west. The
idea of graduated income tax is also
popular in the south.
Those who oppose this idea claim that
It would impose burden only upon the
comparatively few whohave themselves,
by their greater ability, energy and en-
terprise, gained wealth, while at the
same time contributing to the riches,
power ana dignity of the nation. They
claim that it is an unfair tax and can
not be successfully defended on any
ground. Further objections urged are
that it would be a most fruitful source
of lying, as the untruthful would avoid
payment by making false statements of
their income.
But there is another side to the ques-
ton. An income tax can be defended
on the ground that it will secure wider
diffusion OF moderate welfare, and it
will act as leveler, smoothing off the
extremes of poverty and wealth In all
questions of this kind the feelings and
the rights of individuals must be sub
servient to the general welfare. We
make laws forbidding the shooting Of
game and catching of fish at certain sea-
sons; they may be unjust to the individ-
ual, but they are benefit to the mass.
So likewise we grant franchises and
often benefit individuals, although it is
not done for this purpose, but to sub
serve the welfare of the many.
The question of an income tax must
be considered from the same standpoint
mot as to its effect upon the individual,
but its effect upon the people at large
An income tax has been levied by the
United States but once in its history,
and then 1t was established because Of
the necessity for revenue caused by the
civil war, An act passed in 1861 created
8 per cent tax on incomes of $500 per
annum and over. The rates of taxation,
the amounts Of the incomes taxed, and
the proportion of the income exempt
from taxation, were averaged by various
acts, till in 1872 it was abolished.
During the 10 years the law was in
operation nearly $s5o,0OO,OOO were col
lected. There is no particular need Of
such law at the present time to raise 9
revenue, but 1t is the right and the duty
of the government to do everything thai
lies in its power for the general wei
being even to the extent Of sacrificing
the individual.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-09-29
Noah's Ark Leads.

They are turning out some large
wooden sailing vessels in our home ship
yards this season. Some of them are
four-masters. But after all some OF the
wooden ships of olden times were larger
even than the steel steamships of the
present day. One Of Ptolemy Philo-
paters carried 1900 rowers, 400 sailors
and 5000 soldiers. But this even was
nothing to ship constructed by Hero,
that old Syracuse tyrant. This is re-
ported to have had all the variety Of
apartments of palace banqueting
rooms, galleries, gardens, fishponds las
If there were not fish enough just out
side), stables, mills and bathrooms. 1t
had eight towers with walls and bull
warks ana one machine of war which
threw stone Of 800 pounds half mile.
1t seems that there was no port in Sici-
ly capable Of containing this vessel in
safety, so Hiero had to give it away.
Such vessels as this will compare very
favorably with the leviathans of the big
ocean steamship companies of the pres
ent day
Ii, however, larger ocean steamers yet
appear, as is reported, there will be
nothing tc compare with them If we ac-
cept Noah's ark, which still has the lead
as to SIZE
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-09-29
LifeIike Death.

The current number Of The Popular
Science Monthly contains paper timely
to the memorial season, and which will
be received with interest not alone by
veterans, but by men of science. Writing
of the phenomena of Death In Battle"
Mr.. George L. Kilmer deals at length
with the mooted question, "Do men
sometimes retain in death the last atti-
tudes Of life?" Citing the opinions of
Grant, Sherman and Sheridan-G Grant in
the negative and Sherman and Sheridan
IN the afirmative-the writer refers to
cases at Belmont, Antietam, Williams
burg and other fields of the civil war re-
ported by army surgeons, and also from
cases in the Crimean and Italian wars.
Soldiers were found dead from battle
wounds with various parts of the body
in the last attitudes of life and held so
by severe rigidity, the onset of which
seemed to have been simultaneous with
the coming of death.
The conservative view is that death is
in all cases followed by relaxation Of
muscles; hence the attitude held when
the body becomes rigid must be new
one caused by the contractions of rigid
ity. The surgeons whose records are
given, however, found the rigidity and
the warlike attitudes upon bodies still
warm and similar appearances upon
Others where death had taken place from
a few hours to "a. 4S and even go hours
before. The cause, the writer believes,
is 'heat stiffening" Of the juices of the
muscles. He finds that in all cases re-
ported the circumstances of the action
favored great bodily heat combined with
excessive muscular action that would
create acid in the muscles and invite
early rigidity. He finds also an analogy
in the action of lethal currents of elec-
tricity, which produce an instantaneous
and firm, although transient, rigidity.
Cases of rigidity In lifelike attitudes
from lightning stroke have been fire.
quently reported, but in common with
those found in the literature of the bat
.lefeld, have been attributed to the inn
agination of descriptive writers. The
records of men who stake professional
honor upon their statements contain
cases as startling and as remarkable as
any that have been brought into play to
adorn tales of the battlefield
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-09-29
NUMBER 46

Rut on XE0u6er9 ana saw the oiEuk8s
Miss Emma Wood, who claims to be
the daughter Of wealthy Colorado
ranchman, was arrested in company
with young man who said his name
was Frank Patton, and both were dressed
in masculine attire. The story of the
couple is that they both reside short
distance from Denver and for the last
two years have kept company. When
Patton, who is employed on a neighbor
ing ranch, was sent to South Omaha in
charge of consignment of cattle. thty
thought it an excellent opportunity 70
give the old folks a surprise pss;' "
making the journey an elopenels. rs
WELL The girl declares that they were
married by Lutheran clergyman be-
fore they left Denver.
They arrived in Omaha Thursday night
and devoted the next day to seeing the
sights. The girl had often worn her
brothers clothes out ON the ranch dur
ing roundup and helped the men drive
up the cattle, and last night she declared
her intention Of putting on one of her
husbands suits and going out to SEQ the
town by gaslight. She assumed the
trousers, and the pair started down
Dedge street and visited one or two swell
resorts, after which the woman con-
cluded she had enough, and they started
to the hotel, but were arrested. They
were released today without being fined.
Omaha Cor. Chicago Tribune.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-09-29
New Ruling on railroad Liability.

A drummer for firm of jewellers lost
checked trunk in an Illinois railroad
accident. 1t was the kind of a trunk in
which jewelry drummers carry their
samples, and its contents were worth
$1,000. He brought suit and recovered
Judgment for the full amountof the loss.
The railroad company carried the case
up. Now the supreme court of the
United States ''reverses" the court be-
low, sets aside the Judgment and lays 1t
down as law that the railroad compa-
nys check and liability cover only the
personal effects Of the drummer his
shirts, collars, cuffs, etc. AS for the de-
stroyed jewelry, he and his employers
must arrange that matter between them
selves It is no concern Of the common
carriers. Hartford Courant.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-09-29
A Large Group of Sun spots visible.

Professor Holden Of the Lick observa-
tory says that large group Of spots is
now clearly visible on the sun, which
by the use of smoked glass can be seen
with the naked eye. twill be extreme
ly interesting to note what. If any, ex-
traordinary change in the weather Of the
present period may occur.
In any case experience shows that as q
rule when the suns activity is increased
remarkable meteorological changes very
soon take place on the earth. The pres
ent Indications from the large group Of
spots telescoped by Professor Holden
are that we may shortly look for an in
creased movement Of the trade winds on
our gulf and south Atlantic coasts, and
consequently warm waves" in the in
terror Of the country. New York Her
a1d
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-09-29

There is sometimes room for honest
differences of opinion concerning the
making of improvements that must
needs destroy historic spots, but there
seems to be little chance for two views
regarding the project of those who would
deface the field of Gettysburg by the con-
structicn of trolley railroad through
the grounds, The preservation of Get
tysburg in the same condition as it was
when the awful struggle took place Is as
important to the defeated as to the vic
torious, and it is an encouraging sign Of
etimes that the proposed improvement
is generally regarded with indignation.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-09-29
just as q Dracer For the Fish season,

While large pine log was being work
ed up at the Brown & Hall sawmill,
Acton, Ontario, wonderful discovery
was made. After the outside "slabp
had been cut off large toad was seen
to poke his head out Of hole in which
he was imbedded, and where he had
barely escaped being cut In two by the
saw.
How the creature ever got there Is a
mystery, as he was perfectly incased II
the wood with no possible means Of 4
gress or egress. Asthelog was the fourth
or fifth up from the butt of the tree his
position must have been at least 90 or go
feet up from the ground. There is but
one way Of accounting for the fact that
he was found in the situation mentioned.
He had grown up with the tree from in
fancy and was probably hundreds Of
years old when The saw awakened him
from his long nap. Naturalists Of Acton
say that he is Of an unknown species Of
the rcptilia, and that the cavity in which
he was found was perfectly sound and
as smooth as though chiseled out by q
carpenter. He was surrounded ON all
sides with solid wood from Al inches to
81 feet thick.--St. Louis Republic.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-09-29
The ratefal onal.

Miss Gizzelle Sikay, 10 years old,
daughter Of John Silkay Of Bridgeport,
died Sunday. She was to have been mar
ried to Henry Callopee. Miss Silxay hal
just been trying on her wedding dress,
and displaying an opal pin intended for
the veil remarked to her bridemaids;
"Some girls think opals bring i'll luck. /
am sure this will bring Henry and me
nothing but happiness
She deposited the pin in its case and
turned to rearrange the display Of her
wedding gifts. when the muscles Of her
face contracted and she was seized witha
convulsion, during which she sank to the
floor unconscious. Her heart ceased to
beat in 40 minutes. New Haven Regis
Ter.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-09-29
"Ahiect " Fear.d

A witness at the inquest ON the bodies
Of those who lost their livesin the Ford's
theater disaster in Washington stated
under oath that the attitude of the gov
ernment clerks toward their chief in
that building was one of 'abject fear"
They had long known the i'll starred old
trap was unsafe, but darednot complain
for fear of discharge.
An admission more shameful for both
the superior officer and those under him
was never made. 1t is likewise suffi-
cient comment on the state to which
he at length becomes reduced who ac-
cepts what SO many hundred thousands
of republican citizens this moment
would almost break their necks to get
a government clerlship. The hundreds
of clerks In the Ford building had pre-
cisely the feeling toward their chief that
the negro slave had to the overseer who
stood above him with the lash. The
lash in this case was the fear of dis
charge, potent as an evil terror where
the clerk had a family depending on him
| for support. For himself, he could have
asserted all the manhood that had not
yet been reduced by the machine and
rebelled-got out of the slave gang
but where would be the bread for those
dependent on him? One must not blame
! too much the clerks who submitted to
sink all the manly spirit within them
and cover under the frown of their over
seer.
But the overseer himself-the chief of
division in that old Ford's theaterp The
use of unlimited power in time makes
average men crazy or despots Man
hood ground into the dust is bound to
sprout anew. The person toward whom
those under him have only the feeling of
"abject fear" is bound to be overtaken
by retribution. When the long crushed
spirit reasserts itself, it breaks violently
out. Every malediction that has been
uttered under the breath against the ty-
rant finds voice at last in the cry, Hang
himw "Lynch himl" Undoubtedly in
the grief and despair of the moment the
feeling against the superior officer in the
Ford building was heightened to ex-
travagance in the breasts of those who
looked only on the mangled bodies of
those who gave them bread. But dan
ger turks always where the mental at
titude Of an employee to his superintend-
ent is that of a victim toward tyrant.