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The morning call., 1893-06-28
A Jolly Honeymoon.

She-This horrid article implies that you
married me for money.
He-Well, don't contradict it. I don't
care to be taken for fool.-Life.
The morning call., 1893-06-28
union LUMBER CO.

w Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Lumber Rail-
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Piles, Sp2rs. Wood, etc General Once and Yard,
Sixth aud Channel streets Telephone No. 1882.
Downtown Once % Market st, room 8; tee-
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The morning call., 1893-06-28
DO YOU KNOW

A sewing machine is only so
strong as itA weakest part,
hence the Singer Manufacture
ing Co. use only the very best
material in every part. The
minutest piece is tested for
its correctness to the mil
lionth part of an inch before
it can pass to the construction
and adjusting rooms. The
very best machine, unless
properly understood n d
cared for, is useless, therefore
only our own salaried en-
ployees handle Singer Sewing
Machines.
THE SINGER MANIC. co.
OFFICES IN EVERY CITY OF
THE CIVU IZED WORLD.
San Francisco Office,
~ POST STREET.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-08-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST
IN
Summer Hosiery

Ladies' medium weight fast
black cotton hose, full regular
made, I9c per pair.
Ladies' fine quality drop
stitch rib fast black hose, cool
tor summer, CSC per pair.
Ladies Isle color balbriggan
hose, deep ecru, will not bleach
out like ordinary goods sold,
in drop stitch and plain goods,
summer weight, 25c per pair;
finer goods, with double soles,
splendid for service, 81 1-2c
per pair.
Gauze isles, thin as cob
web, just the thing for hot
days; ecru, 81 lac; black, soc.
Plated silk hose for ladies',
black, and tan to match shoes,
soc per pair; regular 75c goods.
Beautiful fancy Richelieu
rib silk hose for ladies', regular
SI.25 goods, SOC per pair.
Navy blue hose, absolutely
fast and stainless, to match
Elton suits; also navy blue
grounds with white polka dots.
Richelieu rib Isle thread hose
in the popular tan shades,
81 I-2c per pair; regular soc
goods.
Misses soc quality of Xxi
rib tan and russell hose, double
soles and knees, handsome as
silk and excellent for wear, now
81 I-2c per pair.
Good vacation stockings, for
boys and girls, with strong
double knees, fast black, 25c
per pair.
Fast black seamless stock
ings for children, good for
wear, two pairs for 25c.
Babies cashmere hose, in
black, tan, red, grey, white,
pink and blue.
For tender feet, fast black
hose with white feet are a
comfort.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-08-23
Barnard, Sumner & Putnam Co.
Worcester. Mass.
GrOtOn Items.

Mr.. and Mrs. j. r. Darling were in Barre
last week.
L. d. Hazen is taking out the machinery
at Groton Pond.
A. II. Kicker is running his logs down
from the long pond.
Timothy Emery has bought Ora Thurs
tons place, Consideration, $3.50.
j. X. Darling is soon to convert the Jack
Carpenter hall into store house.
Ansel Foster has sold his interest in the
home place to Charles Foster, his son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Galley of Ark
ansas visited at j. r. Darling's last week.
James Patterson, who recently died in
Cabot, was a brother-in-law of James
Whitehill of this place, Mr.. Patterson's first
wife being Mr.. Whitehil's sister. The
woman with whom he had been living of
late came from Newbury.
William Cassidy remains about the same.
- Ebenezer Paul and son, who have
been stopping at A. NJ. Heath's, have re-
and Edward Kicker returned from Boston
last week. - Mrs. Walter Heath and
son are visiting relatives in town. -
Mr.. Brown of Wells River was in town last
week soliciting subscriptions for the tele-
phone. - III. l.. Gilman is at the beach
for his health. John Page Of Topsham is
running the mill. - Ada MCGOWAN has
returned to Montreal. - T. b. Hall has
lately been in St. Johnsbury. - Robert
Patten returned from Maine, last Wednes-
day, where he has been at work in mill.
- Kim Rhodes of Manchester, n. H.,
is visiting at Jack Morrson's. - Mr..
and Mrs. o. n. Nourse went to Laconia last
Thursday to attend the funeral of Mrs.
Nourse's brother. - Grace Chalmers
visited at Hon L. B. Halls last week.
- Mrs. Alex. Cochran returned from
the Worlds Fair last Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. X. ID. Sherry returned from
their vacation last Wednesday. - Mrs.
Herbert Eastman, who has been visiting
relatives, returned home last week. -
Mr.. and Mrs l. NJ. Kicker returned from
the Worlds Fair last Saturday. - Mrs.
Is. f. Heath returned from Lakeport, n H.,
last Saturday, where she has been visiting
her son Walter.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-08-23

iting her sister, Mrs. Heman Averill. g.
Miss G. Goss of Moretown is visiting Mvra
Butterfeld. - Mrs. Helen Ellis and Lo-
renzo Parmenter of Pittsfeld who have
been visiting Mrs. Nellie Ellis, returned to
their home last week. - Mrs. Charles
Houghton of Northampton, Mass, is spend
ing few weeks here and at Mortified.
- Mrs. Melvin Chase spent last week
at Queen City Park. - Mary Ellis is at
Pike Station, for two weeks, taking the
place of the head stenographer while she
enioys a vacation
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-08-23

Maud Harris. - Horace w. Bailey was
in town last week. - Fred Kemp was at
muster last week. 80 Bert Sleeper of
Lexington, Mass, returned home last
Wednesday. - Misses Louise and Flor
ence Garfield are visiting friends at Little.
ton, N. H., and will visit the White Noun
tains before their return. - James Tar
box has been i'll, but is so much improved
that he is able to be back at his old work.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-08-23

Alec. Stevens has moved into the Colby
house.
All the schools in town are to commence
the fall term September 4.
Nellie Dewey is spending few days will
friends in East Montpelier.
James Wooster has bought piece o.
land of Don b. Celley for $500.
e. S. Berry is making one OF his i'm
proved waterwheels for person in Water
bury.
Mrs. Hascall mother of W. f. Hascall
who has been spending the summer at th'
Mountain View House, returns to Boston
this morning.
AS the local passenger train No. 90 wa
rounding the curve near the Scovill bridge
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-13

were in bright gray harmony with both;
that the frock of Indian muslin, albeit
homemade, fitted Miss Sally's figure
perfectly-from the azure bows on her
shoulders to the ribbon around her
waist-and that the hem of its billowy
skirt showed a foot which everybody
knew was the smallest foot south of
Mason and DiXon's line But it was
something more intangible that this
which kept CORTLAND breathless and
silent.
I'm not Miss Miranda Dows," SAID
the vision, with frankness that was
half childlille and half practical. as she
extended a little hand. but can talk
'fahm' with yo' about as we'll as aunty.
and reckon from what Mai. Reed says
heah," holding up the letter between
her fingers, ''ae long as yo' got per,
~imums yo' don't mind what kind o
pole yo knock en- down with
The voice that carried this speech
was SO fresh, so clear and sweet that
am afraid CORTLAND thought little of
ITS Oddity or its dialectical transgres-
SiOnS. But it brought him his own
tongue quite Internationally and quiet
~ Il don't know what was in that
note, Miss Bows, but can hardly be-
lieve that Maj, Reed ever put my pres
ent good fortune quite in that way"
Miss Sally laughed. Then with a
charming eXaggeration she waved her
little hand toward the sofa: ''Therel
Yo' naturally wanted little room for
that, connie, but now that yo've got it
off-and mighty pootY it was. togo
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-13
MUST TELL THEIR AGES.
A Law That Is Not Likely to Prove Popr
lar with Most Women.

Law That Is Not Likely to Prove Popu-
lar with Most Women.
According to recent decree Of the
Austrian courts of law, concealment of
age on the part of the bride is sufficient
to invalidate the marriage. An Aus
trian baron has succeeded In obtaining
an annulment of his union in conse-
quence of his wife's having pretended
at the time of its celebration that she
was fifteen years younger than her real
age.
Hitherto concealment Of age by
women has always been considered as
to a certain extent defensible and Gus
tomary, and no one has ever dreamed
of regarding these departures from the
strict truth in the light of a legal
fraud. 1t is, however, well in any case
to remember the old adage according
to which woman is as old as she looks,
says the New York Tribune, and If she
be passe in appearance it is useless for
her to claim a fctitiously youthful age
There is an attractiveness attaching
to each period of life, and the veteran
is often in her way quite as charming
as the debutante.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-13

surprise were entirely new in structure
and design. There was no "Reminiscences
of the usual southern portirocd gable
or columns and vrranda. Yet it was not
northern either. The factory-lillc out
lines of facade were partly hidden in
Cherokee rose and icSsaminr. A long,
rooted gallery connected the buildings
and became vrranda to one. y broad,
wcll-rollrd gravel drive led from the
open gate to the newest building which
seemed to he an cNitirc; n smaller path
divCrgCd from it to the corner house,
which, despite its severe simplicity, had
n more residential appearance. Unlike
Reeds house there were no lOunging
servants or field hands to br seen; they
were evidently attending to their re-
spcctivo duties. Dismounting, Court
land tied his horse to post at the Office
door and took the smaller path to the
corner house.
The door was open to the fragrant
afternoon breeze waited through the
rose and icssaminc. So was a sidc-dOor
opening from the hall into a long par
lor or sitting-room that ran the whole
width of the house. CORTLAND entered
it. 1t was prcttiy furnished, but every.
thing had the air of freshness and of
being uncharactcristirally now. 1t was
empty, but faint hammcring was
audible on the rear wall of the house,
through the two open French windows
at the back, curtaincd with trailing
vines which gazed upon a sunlit court
yard. CORTLAND walked to the window
Just before it, on the ground, stood a
small light ladder which he gently put
aside to gain better view of the court
yard, as he stood at the open window
In this attitude he suddenly felt his
hat tipped from his head, followed al
most instantaneously by falling slip
per, and the distinct impression of a
very small foot on the crown of his
head. An iudcscribable sensation
passed over him. He hurricdly stepped
back in the room. just as small striped
stockingcd foot was as hastily drawn up
above the top of the window with the
feminine exclamation: Good gracious
me-
Lingering for an instant, only to as
sure himself hat the fair speaker had
y, cured her fuuthnId and was in no dan
ger of falling CORTLAND snatrhcd up
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-13
BITTEN BYNUuu
'Twas . Fearful Bite, But the Head
Didn't Pour from His BooN.

twas . Fearful Bite, hut the !B1e0d
Didn't Pour from His Boot.
"A Lewiston man was bitten by a dog
the other day, says the Lewiston Jour
nal. He felt the dog bite into his leg,
close its teeth upon each other, and just
scrape the bone. He kicked the dog
over the Pine Street church steeple "a
hyperbole,) and limped home. Half
way there the blood began to run into
his boots. He could hear It swash!
swash! swash, he says.
Every now and then he began to look
back to see where his trail, like that of
his ancestor at Valley Forge, should be
marked by blood. When he reached
home he took every precaution against
ensanguined tapestry and bloody door
mats. He took his person to the Sleep
ing-room, held his foot over the cuspi-
dor, and gently took off his boot.
His sight wavered and vision fed.
Was that his blood? Then things
cleared and he saw no blood. There
was none in his boots, none in his
socks, none on his tourserloons, none
anywhere, and he has been hunting to
this day to see where the dog bit him.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-13

shoulders dropped 0 cape that wa
really no cape, but two shoulder caps.
big and ambitious, coming round to the
back and meeting there. From the
cape dropped heavy plum and gold
gallon. Up about the throat was fur
ruff. high and spreading, and carrying
the eye naturally to the big globe OF
hair at which looked and gasped, and
muttered: The chignon" 1t was the
first one had seen, and the boldness OF
its temperance astonished me. The
woman had pretty hair; pale yellow it
was and curly in front, and the chignon
had gold net spangled with beads
over it, but it was a ehignon unmis.
talably.
I've seen good many since. There
was a woman at table d'hote restau-
rant recently. She was blonde, too,
curiously. Are blondes quicker at fol-
lowing new lead, good or bad, than
their darker sisters? She wore a seal
skin jacket with a shoulder cape in
large, loose plaits and with full and
high sleeves. She wore mite of a bon
net with two feathers curling up from
1t, and she wore-this is the tragic part
ofit-the biggest chignon yet of the new
regime, fattish, oval one, that had
camped out on the back of her head in
the fashion that all of us know who are
old enough to have had practice as
ladies' maids, combing our mothers
tresses over the cushions under them
Well l remember how hard it used to
be to get the hair to cover, and yet my
mother had thicker locks than nineteen
women in any average twenty. Nice
prospect, isn't it, for the present GEN
Grafton of little fingers?
The chignon with the empire dress is
queer, but so are most fashions. The
empire is adapted for the street now
with few of the most necessary modi
tications. It's made of black when
worn abroad, black satin or black cloth
If you choose. The cut of the bodice is
something it's almost impossible to tell
you about intelligently. 1t fits tight
behind without any seams. In front it
is draped and pulled very full over the
bust and at the top it often borrows the
directory rcvers and turns them back
as saucily as if they belonged to it and
embroiders them with jet beads and
gold. Sometimes it ventures upon red
and white beads on the revers and then
with all these details arranged to its
satisfaction it goes and buries them I'm.
der a mountain of black satin mantle,
which hangs in full folds from neck to
hem. This mantle 1t is the proper
thing to face inside with pearl colored
satin, but not everybody adheres to the
proprietics in every detail
The modes of 1880 are a good deal
talked about, but wise is the woman
who knows them when she sees them
These hints may help YOU a bit in grop.
ing towards recognition. The skirts OF
our grandmothers of that epoch were
hounced to the knee The waists had
full belts, sometimes crossing in front
Big pulled sleeves came down Ovel
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-13
TWO NOVEL BoDICEs.

arms that descended from slopino
shoulders, and the sleeves in their turn
were overshadOwed by capes, deep
pointed and fanciful.
A pretty girl wore q clever adaptation
of the 1880 dress at New Years dance
the other night. 1t was holly green in
color with petunia pink broideries
shorter than the present mode, and fan
tastic enough to make her a mark for
observation all the evening. An 1886
cloak was simpler in black and blue
stripe and of an all-round cut, with a
jet-covercd cape and dark blue velvet
sleeves.
Would you rather hear about simple
day dresses of shaded stripes of brown
and black with q little tartan set in in
front for Frightening and quickening,
or shall l tell you about bathrooms,
where the garden comes in and makes
itself at home; where the shining floor
seems hardly touched by the dancers
flying feet, and where in the medley OF
the fin de steele period beauties of the
days of Lely and Van Dyck severely
criticise their fair nineteenth century
sisters?
A costume prepared for one of the
youngest Of the debutantes is of gobelin
blue velvet with three shoulder capes
edged with seal. The skirt is quite
plain and the bodice is laced in front up
to the throat and sashed with white
satin ribbon. You wouldn't take that
for dancing froclz, and it isn't, but
rather for an evening Reception.
Another evening dress for girl but
little older is bold pattern of black
lace over white silk and looped with
little bows of pale silver green ribbons
A pink silk empire gown was draped in
front from bust to slippers with white
tulle, set with pearls and looped with
white ribbons. The feature of white
silk evening frock was a big Charles L.
collar, with white satin leaves, white in
silver thread, and spangles on net
foundation. Huge puffed sleeves were
in keeping with this beginning.
Suppose we compromise a little and
finish with course red serge frock
very striking and effective. A slim
dark girl wears it and she has it EN-
broidered on bodice and skirt, wher
ever there is room to place them, witt
flying birds in black and gold Sh
doesn't suggest n bird herself, becaus
red birds aren't SO easily suggested t,
us soberhued northerners, but tn,
gown is quaint and striking
ELLEN OSBORN
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-13

can Sit down" Ana wit n that she Sam
down at one end Of u Ie sofa, prettily
arranged a white bi1lo' " of skirt SO as
to leave ampl g room for CORTLAND, and,
locking her fingers 1over her knees,
looked demur, lily expec tant-
But let m C hope hat I am not dis
turbing you III iseasona bly," said Court
land, catching sight OF the fateful little
slipper beneat h her skirt and remem-
boring the win, 1ow. "'I was so preoccu-
pied in Think ng OF your aunt as the
business manas ger of these estates that
quite forgot that she might have a
lady's hours for receiving"
1--WE haven't G, IT any company hours, )"
said Miss Sally, land we haven't Just
now any servan Is for company man
ners, for we're sh Orthanded in the fields
and barns Whel yo' cstme 1 was nail
ing up the laths for the vines outside
because we coult Knit spare carpenters
from the factory = But" she added,
with faint access Eonof mischief in her
voice, ''yo' came to talk about the farm?''
Yes" said Cou rtland, rising, "but
not to interrupt t. ne work on it. Will
you let me help you nail up the laths on
the WALTZ have h. i'd some experience
that way-and we C, IN talk as we work.
Do oblige me-"
The young girl lool ted at,him brightly.
"Well, now, Their, is nothing mean
about that. Yo' meal it for sure?"
Perfectly. shall feel SO much less
as If I was enjoying : your company
uuder false pretenses.
''Yo' inst wait here then"
PLOT TO KIDNAIa A PRINCE.
-rhIr+vsix corsDirators Kiuad ana N,..4.
Wounded by Troops.
BUDA PEST, Jan. 13.-Despite official
denials the ''Pesti HirlAp'' insists upon
the truth of reports concerning plot to
kidnap the Prince of Montenegro. The
plot was concocted in Cettinge, the CAPT.
tai of Montenegro and was of clerical
origin.
1t was discovered just before its matur.
fly, but desperate effort was made bv
the conspirators to carry it into execution.
About 200 men started for the palace to
seize the Prince.
Warming was received at the palace,
already d oubly guarded, and all the mill.
tary in the city were called out The
soldiers met the conspirators a lort dis.
tance from the palace and began firing at
once.
The conspirators, who were we'll armed,
returned the fire and tried to charge
the troops, but were repulsed.
After SO conspirators had been killed
and 90 had been wounded the attempt to
seize the Prince was abandoned.
Some 80 of the uninjured were arrested;
the rest fed.
Subsequently 29 priests were arrested
for having led in the formation and at
tempted execution of the plot.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-13
An American Institution.

An Englishman who has now learned
two or three things about America in
general and New York in particular,
admits that he did very amusing and
British thing when he first crossed
New York ferry. 1t seems that the fer
ryboats of this town are famed abroad
for their size aud steadiness, and this
particular Briton had been assured that
he would never know he'was afloat when
on one of these boats by means of any
motion perez ptible in the cabin Re
membering all this, the Englishman
seated himself in one of the ferry
houses on first coming to the city and
patiently waited until the usual Ameri-
can rush for the wharf should proclaim
his arrival at the opposite shore. No
rush occurred, however, and after sew
eral boats had come and gone the Briton
made the humiliating discovery that he
had been thinking better of an Ameri-
can institution than it deserved.
AN American who has recently be.
come converted to Northumberland is
said to be collecting money in India to
send missionaries to this country to
turn the people from Christianity.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-13

the throat quantity and almost touched
scarlet feather dropping from black
velvet hat topping an old fashioned
chignon.
You wouldn't have believed the CHG
non could have come back, would you?
Yet it is here in all sizes and degrees of
popularity. Now, who shall defend us
from the hoopskirt, since it's attacks
are reinforced by those of its old-time
aLyP 1 saw woman in a chignon at
the theater the other evening. She stood
up In her box with hef back to me-
First saw her trained evening cloak of
'penitential violet" as it is the fashion
to call it, though where penance comes
in in wearing such rich robes Of any
color it would take an expert to deter
mine. The cloak was trained, and it's
double border of marten fur lay in
stately folds along the floor From its
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-13
JERSEY CENTRAL REcEIvERsHIP.
President Maxwell Thinks the Company
Can Prove Its Sincerity.

New YoRK, Jan. 13.-In relation to
the decision of the Chancellor of New
Jersey sustaining all the points made by
the Attorney General in his application
for receiver of the Central Railroad of
New Jersey, but delaying the appoint
ment thereof in order that an oppor-
tunity may be afforded to the defendant
company to submit proof before Master
in Chancery that they have honestly COM
piled with the order of the court, and
that, therefore, it is not necessary for a
receiver to be appointed, j. Rogers Max
we'll, President of the Jersey Central
railroad company, said to a reporter this
morning:
1--WE think we shall be able to prove to
the satisfaction Of the Chancellor that we
have obeyed his order, and that the lease
to the Port Reading railroad company has
been cancelled, and also that the con-
tracts between the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre
Coal company, and the Philadelphia s,
Reading Coal and Iron company have been
cancelled and that both the Central rail-
road company and the Lehigh 81 Wilkes
barre company are being operated indie
pendently.'
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-13
THE GIRL IN A CLOAK.
Shes Quaint, Picturesque and
Heavily Befurred.
Her Mautle Is of Bright and Daring
CoIors and She Emphasizes Her
Oddly by Doing Her Hair In a
Chignon-January Fashions.
COPYRIGHT, 1891

The streets are full and the stores,
for the holiday lull is over and Broad
way is packed almost solid with horses,
wheels, women and nm, moving up,
down, threading across, living the hur-
rled, busting life of the busiest street
OF the worlds busiest city.
Crossing Madison square 1 passed a
girl in long red cloak that stood out
warm and bright against the snow, and
was as good to look at as her pink
tinted checks and heavy masses of rip
ping yellow hair. 1t was cloak of
new and original pattern, and this, with
the smile on her fresh lips and the
strawberries in her buttonhole, is nv
warrant for talking at some length
about it-and her. 1t came to her
knees just and it was not fitted to her
figure either in front or behind Its
iooseness was made more conspicuous