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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-13

them clear O. weeds with the noe, al- though. as he will tell you over and over and over again. your father had no bother when he was boy of your size in doing the same work i'll a garden twice as big as the one you toll in. If he were not your own father, you might be inclined to think him a prevaricator, to put it mildly, and it may be possible that this talk on his part will SOW in your youthful mind the first seeds of distrust of humanity that may become general.
 After the garden is safely planted and weeded once or twice the worst of the work therein is done. By that time it will be summer, and the weather will be hot and dry, and it will be yours to water the things night and morning It will happen regularly that the watering will have to be done just when you want to go "in swimming" or playing ball or fishing, and O: course sooner or later some day you will forget all about the garden, and some of the plants or vege- tables will wither and die. Then if your father be addicted to physical arguments you will wish that the man who invent ed gardens had never been born.
 Another thing that you will have to attend to carefully, in the spring espe- cially and to a less extent in the au- tumn, is the protection of the beans, the cabbages, the turnips and the tomatoes
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-13

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 up the debris of last year. That is an easy job, and the burning of the weeds, and the dead sweet cornstalks, and the potato vines that comes after the raking is thoroughly enjoyed by every true boy. For did not the red men of the forest, who lived ill this land before the whites ever heard of it. burn open air fires un- der the same skies? And is it not possi ble that the Indians may have lighted more than one councils blaze on the very same spot of ground as that on which you are burning up the remains of last years kitchen garden? And if your fla ther does not object and your mother is not troubled with nerves, can you not prance about the garden while you are at work and whoop as near like an abo- rigine as you know how and have no end of fun?
 It doesn't matter if your whoop does bear about the same relation to that of | the son of the forest as the willow whistles blast does to the hoarse screech of the foghorn. You don't know the difference, and you may add to your de- | light by imagining that the hatchet with which you may be instructed to cut up some old boards into kindling wood is a tomahawk If your grandfa- ther is like some grandfathers I have met, he may declare that the smoke of the burning weeds has made you ''smell like an Indian," and for that reason he desires you to keep away from him. He may think it annoys you to be spoken to ill that manner, but if you are the gen uine article of boy you will be delighted with it.
 It is the next day that your troubles begin. Then your father will direct you | to spade up the carrot bed. If you have never spaded up bed before, don't be- gin too vigorously. Before the day is over you may wish you hadn't, for this work will break your spine square ill two, even if you go at it with delibera- tion and stop often to rest. If you work as hard as you can at first, you won't | last half an hour, and when you do stop to rest it will be for so long time that your father will think you are soldier ing" and if there is anything, you will find that he hates it is that very thing. | Nobody can get along ill this world, he will explain, who once falls into that habit. Besides, if you do too much work the first half hour, he will gauge your capacity thereby and will assume that in | 10 half hours you ought to do 10 times as much, and you will find it very dis agreeable and inconvenient to fulfill his desires, The raking of the spaded carrot bed and the clearing it of little stones and clods is not a hard job, but you will find it one that will require sharp eyes, and your father will go over the bed and discover dozens of pebbles and hard Jumps of dirt after you have told him ill perfect good faith that you have got them all out. He will sow the carrots while you get the onion bed in order, and after that Is done you will be di- rected to attack the ground where the turnips arc to grow while he puts out
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-13
A Pernetnal Soloist

He always talked in solo on the works of Mar co Polo, Duns Scotus and Aquinas and all the school men set. He would range from Greece to Guinea, from Pythagoras to Pliny, But his sempiternal solo never laused to a duet, He would burst into ecstatcs on the early Ele atics, And his flood of erudition maundered like the river Rhone. He would quote you from Lucretius, Horace, Humboldt and Helvetius, But he brooked no interruption, and he always talked alone. He would pour as from a bottle gurglins floods from Aristotle And enlarge upon the ethics of the prehistoric Picts. Your attention he'd inveigle onto Hume or Hobbs or Hegel, Or cuneiform inscriptions on old Baby lonion bricks. He would talk of AnaXagoras, Plato Pindar and Protagoras And range from old Thucydides to Gbbon or GuZot. He would make the air grow denSer with long words from Herbert Spencer And talk of bards and heroes from Pelopidas to Poe. But the tones of fellow mortals never passed his aural portals, And no glad companion voices ever made his soul rejoice, For he focused his attention without pause or intervention On the sweet celestial music of his own perpet ual voice.
 New York World.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-13
In Every Line.

The poet Bryant, while editor of the New York Post, insisted that young poets should be sympathetically noticed in the book columns of the paper. Once subeditor handed him thin volume of poems saying that they were worth sass. MT. Bryant looked through the book and then said, You might say that it is prettily bound and clearly printed"
 The editor of whom tLis story is told also had soft side for young men who would write poetry.
 "Give me your candid judgment of these lines" said the young man of lit erary aspirations. Do they convey the idea of poetry at all!"
 "Yes, sir," replied the editor, look ing them over, they do. There is some thing in every line that conveys the idea. Every line," continued the kind hearted man, letting him down as gen. tly as he could, "begins with capital letter. "-Youth's Companion.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-13
HE MERMAID.

Uruguay is watered by 16 rivers. the chief one being the Rio de la Plata.
 Research shows that there is not parti- cle of vegetation in the eastern part of the North sea. It is one great watery waste.
 At Hot Springs. Esmeralda county, Nev., B new spring of cold water has made its ap- pearance at the base of large rock which separates two hot springs.
 A river is said to be sluggish when it flows at the rate of about one mile an hour; ordinarily swift, two miles an hour; very rapid. five miles an hour; a torrent, six miles an hour.
 A remarkable body of water is Reelfoot lake, in western Tennessee. It is supposed to have subterranean source from the Mississippi river, not having, it Is said, any visible outlet or inlet. The lake was formed during the earthquake of 1911.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-13
THE INVENTOR.

A running machine is the latest French Invention.
 Sandwiches made by machinery are the result of a labor saving device just in- vented.
 Oxygen gas is being used in glassmak- ing, and when passed into the melted ma terial is said to give clearer and more uni form product.
 A composition for hardening steel named durol, has been tried for two years by such firms as krupp, Names, Manns and others in Germany, and is said to give entire satis- faction.
 A Chicago genius has invented method of street lamp lighting whereby it is only necessary to open valve connecting one of the large holders at the gas works to light the lamps of the city.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-13
THE WRITER.

Thomas Hardy has given up smoking and his habit of walking 20 miles a day. He says that he feels better because of both of these changes and does better work.
 The English author Stevenson, noted for originality. says he was surprised to find in Irying's Tales of Traveller" the very pro- totype of one of his own most striking char acters
 Mir. William D. Howells asserts that ev- hands every day and says that he knows it would do him more good to chop wood or dig potatoes for two hours every afternoon than to walk in Central park.
 Thomas Hardy tells how he once went with J. M Barrie to see Walker, London v Tt was most awkward" ," he says. II would laugh at some line or other and say, 'Ah, now, that's good Oh, that's not mine; that's Toole's.' Barrie would mournfully reply"
 Conan Doyle is a London physician whose readers have forbidden him to heal people that he may write books for them to read. He might be called the one English writer of stirring adventure and quick incident who tells & story in fashion which pleases all classes.
 Baron Haller, a German poet, when a young man risked his life to save his man. uscript poems from a burning building He laid them away, and a few years later, sit ting down to read them over, was so dis gusted with them that he threw them all into the fire
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from the frost Baskets and pans and blankets and papers must be brought out and the things covered at sunset or a little later ill the evening whenever there is the least indication of a frost, and you will derive infinite joy from the occasional discovery by your father, just as you are slipping away into the land of Morpheus, that that boy has not yet learned to tell by the sky when these things ought to be done"
 The cabbage plants, the cucumbers and the tomatoes, all of which were start ed'' ill sheltered angle of the house, fence or barn and transplanted to the open garden, must be carefully shaded from tho hot sun for awhile. A good way to do this is to drive a shingle into the ground on the sunny side of each plant. In the morning the shingle must be to the southeast of the plant By noon it must be shifted to the southwest, and a lax memory in this matter will be of great detriment both to the plant and your personal feelings. There is nothing in the world that will more decidedly add to the fatigue of your father than forgetfulness on this point, and anything more easily forgotten cannot well be imagined by the human mind.
 In the fall you must destroy the garden you created in-the spring and have all summer tended with such assiduous la bor. The potatoes must be dug, the pop corn picked, the cabbages, the turnips and the carrots pulled and buried or housed and all the other products har- vested, each in its own way. You will find pulling roots'' on a frosty day great fun-that is, If you are not per sonally engaged in the pulling, as you will be. The fingers get red and numb the hands chap, and the world takes on a cerulean hue to whoever engages ill this occupation. There is one satisfaction, however, in gathering the things-they won't bother you any more till the fol- lowing spring. All you need have to do with them ill the winter is to help eat them, and if you are a healthy boy you will do that with great joy.
 Maybe you arc not a boy at all, but a father, and maybe you have a boy of your own of the garden making age. If so, how would it do to remember that when you were a boy you used to think that if you ever got to be man you would try some other method as to the garden, your boy and the work ill the garden than the one have indicated?
 I. D. MARSHALL
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-13
THE SCIENTIST.

Some geologists hold that mountains have | roots.
 A certain sign of death is when the tem- perature of the body ill the armpit is 6S de- greeS
 It is only recently that the science of
 medicine has reluctantly admitted as true
 the phenomenon of hypnotism. Dr. Fletcher of Cincinnati in proof of his
 theories of tooth grafting," implanted
 some dog teeth firmly ill the leg bone of a goat and caused them to grow there. The Chrysorrhoas canal in the planet os Mars is 3,335ls miles long and over 400 miles wide. It exceeds all the labor that man has ever performed on the earth. By the devic5 of an Italian seismologist an earthquake shock is made to light an electric lamp for q quarter of a second, causing the face of chronometer to be photographed and thus registering the pre- else time.
 In the western deserts spot of ground becomes excessively heated, causing the air
 above to descend. This produces an influx
 of the atmosphere from all sides, but un- equally, the result being gyratory motion
 and sandstorm.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-13
Pulled Up the Tracks.

An army veteran, in the custom house not long since was fighting his battles over again to number of interested listeners.
 Among the narratives was one that told of the capture and subsequent release of a prisoner during one of the spring campaigns in Virginia.
 It was simple enough story, and the old soldier in terminating it said, And so we told him to git, and he got"
 "He made tracks, did he?" remarked one of his auditors.
 Made. tracksr' replied the veteran. Well, guess you never campaigned in Virginia in the spring. Why, sir, the mud was so sticky that every time he raised a foot he pulled the track up after him. ."- New York Herald
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-13
H.&H. Railroad Table
June II. 1898. NAUGATUCK DIVISION.
Trains leave Waterbury AS foIlowt

Trains leave Waterbury AS follow For NEW YORK-6O6. 7.sn. s.2e lOB0 a m: l. 2s 3.2s. b.53 D m. Sunday. 4.l5 m.
 pm. Sunday. 6.o1 a m. For NEW HAvEN via Naugatuck Junction 7.3o s.26 m; l.2s, 3.2H. B.63 D m. Via Derby Junction, sos. s.28, 1OhO a m: l2s 3.25 E.53 D m.
 Return via NaugatGck Junction at I 4S pm Sunday BOO a m. Via Derby Junction 700. a.i2 a. m; l2.OO. 2.9O b.S0. TAO D. m. Sunday. BIO a m. For BRIDGEPORT-6'O ' 80. sa6. lOBO a m l.2a, s,2H, B.bs p m. Sunday AIS p m. Return at 2. T.Oh. 0.40 m {: 1900, 2.0S. 5 80. TAT nm. Sunday 8. .15 m. For ANSONIA-6.O6. 2. 80, 8.26, 10.b0 a m l.2a. 3.25. S.5s, TOO tmixed) D m. Sunday. AIS Return at TAO. l0.21. a m l2.S1 3.0l. 8.lO. S.. pm. Sunday S.46 a m. F.. .WATERTOWN-6.44. e.87, 1I.17 a m S.B0 6.l?, 7.O4 D m. Saturday 91B m. Return at 6 25. 76H. 10.s0 m 2b0. t.S5. 0sO pm. Saturday 7an m. Pof THOMASTON-8.S2. 1112 m: SEA 0RO 600 D m. Sunday 9.26 6 m. Retorn at T.0s, 7b6., o2S m ASS S.ae D m. Sunday SAT m. For TORRINGTON-s.s2 lt.l2 Q m SEA eEo 9Ot p m. Sunday 9.2S m. Return at 6.47. .S1. 1920 . m: 2.s0 BOa n m :. Sunday . .23 D m. For wINSTED--s.s2. lia . m: s.sa. eea aoo pm. Sunday eSS n.
 Returp at s&a s.ia- s.4b m sna. a.Aan m Sundays D m.
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-13
THE NATURALIST.

A spiders eyes are not in his head. but in the upper part of the thorax.
 In proportion to their size spiders are seven times stronger than lions.
 A South African snake, known to science as Dasypeltis scabra, subsists solely on birds eggs.
 Before storing honey in trees bees will clean the tree of all rotten wood and refuse. They never do anything by halves
 Lobsters travel in regiments, seeking new feeding grounds. The migration is led by the big and strong ones. The maimed and weakly struggle along behind.
 An immense fish haunts the waters of Hopkins lake, near Owosso, Mich, and has done so for at least 50 years, according to the stories of the oldest inhabitant. The creature is l5 feet long and dearly loves to upset boats.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-13
WORK KTNTHEGARD
VEGETABLE RAISING FROM THE VIEW
 POINT OF "THAT 5OY."

There Is Some Fun In Burning Up Vines
 and Weeds, but Spsding and Fitting Beds
 and Needing and Hoeing and Watering
 All Have Their Drawbacks.
 Did you ever help make garden when you were boy? No? Then you don't know the cost of table vegetables in aching backs and split finger nails and lame arms and broken knees, and it will do you good to read about it. If, as a boy, you have made garden, you may go on to the next column. You have noth- ing to learn here.
 The first thing you are ordered to do, if you arc boy and your father thinks it time to begin on the garden, is to rake
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-13
NOTICE

hereby notify all persons liable to pa, taxes in the Center school district, of Waterbury, that have received rate bill and warrant to collect a Center school district tax of ten QW mills on the dollar on list of 1898, ,and will be at my law office 15 Platt building, A East Main stre f,on and after May 1, 1894, when said tax is due
 P. s. The law provides that percen- tage at rate of 3-4 of one per cent pc, month must be added from May 1, 1891 if any tax remains unpaid June l. 1894.
 CHARLES J. GRIGGS, Collector
 Wsterbury April T 1894
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-13
The Power of Song.

The power of song is illustrated in a custom on the railroads of northern Florida. Whenever train crosses the Swanee river the conductor announces the fact in each car. If any passenger has never heard Way Down Upon the Swanee Rive1," this standardization of the stream must seem peculiar, and the Suwanee is like dozen other rivers in the same region, and these are passed without comment from the conductor. Philadelphia Press.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-13
Lord Rosebery'S Derby Bet.

It is said that Lord Rosebery, whose fam lily name is Primrose, made a bet when a boy at school that he would marry the heiress of her year, be prime minister of England and win the Derby. The first he accomplished by marrying Baroness Han nah de Rothschild, the second by succeed ing Mir. Gladstone, and the third he has yet to do. His horse Ladas is the favor ite candidate for the blue ribbon of the English turf, so it is not such very long odds that the present premier of England will not win his boyish bet in 1894. From the above it would seem that one of the hardest things to accomplish by an English man is to win the Derby.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-13

testines. so that their help iuSts. They pre- ness, Indigestion, Constipation, Sick or Bll- ious Headaches, Sour Stomach, Dizziness, and every liver, stomach, and bowel dis order.
 They're guaranteed to give satisfaction, or your money is reformed
 One of the most difficult diseases to deal with is Catarrh. Perhaps the only medicine that will cure it, root and branch, is Dr. Sages Catarrh Remedy. So small is the chance of failure that the makers guarantee 1t in the worst cases.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-13
THE ELECTRICIAN.

The Postal Telegraph company is to put its St. Louis lines underground The Sut- ter conduits will be used in the form of ce- ment lined iron pipe.
 In a somewhat speculative conclusion of a recent paper Mir. Preece mentioned the ef- fleets of an aurora on telephone circuits and stated that it was not a wild dream to say that we may hear on this earth a thunder storm in the sun.
 An English paper tells of a woman who appeared at a recent fancy ball resplendent with small electric lights, supplied with a current from battery concealed in a mock hand organ her husband carried as 8 part of his disguise as an organ grinder
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-13
His Trial.

'why do you look so bluef' she said s'Why not be gay like me? Havo you lost friend, or is life so hard That nothing looks bright to thee? We all have our griefs and trials and pains These we must share together. Today 1t rains, tomorrow it shines. Why should we think of the weather?" "Ah, dear" he said, "you do not know The trial that bear. You have no pang so great as mine. Such things you do not wear. I buy my collars three ply thick. And cuffs-pray do not scoff- They come back from the laundry With every ply skinned off.
 Brooklyn Life.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-13
THE ODDITY.

A native of Hawaii, seeing man riding a bicycle, said that 1t must be very nice to walk sitting down."
 Several of the ancient nations considered that she disembodied spirit was a tangible substance of & bluish color
 An English provincial paper concludes a long obituary with the following strange notification, Several deaths are unavoida- bly deferred"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-13
New York & New England
Passenger Train Service January ', 1894.
 Trains leave Waterbury for /

taSSehRer Tram service. January ', lSsA. Trains leave Waterbury for / BOSTON-3.4b 30 a m 100. 3.5b m PRONlDENCIl-3t t5 7.30 m loo 8 30 P m NEW YORK via Brewstar-2.l 10 m WORCFSTER-3,4 45 80 a m 100 r NEW LONDON-7.30a a m LOO S.h5 T. m PUTNAM-3.45 7.3O a m 1 .OO. 3.65 r m WILLIMANTIC-3.4b 80 a m LOO 3 66 nm SPRINGFIELD 9.05 a m 3.55 pm. HARTFORD-3,45 7.30. 906 lO:4S a m. loo NEW BRITAIE1s.4s ! 7sO, OSCOA0 m 100 pIAIN%Xy pIAINXfLGEE 1T @: 7so, eOsJ,s.4s m ,.Os BRIsToICs4S T.aO. soS, lO4S a m loo rERRYviiLtE-7s sob. lO.4Ss m 100 ss0 HArfRI1IILE-7.so iis ' n os. 10 4samsss. SIS D m WEST OH HESHIRE 4,S0. s.3O a m. 4.So MERIpEN 4.3o. $50 | m, 43O pm CkOMWFI l. s.30 m. 1 30 p m. UNION CITY f sos a m :. 2lO pm. TOWANTIC-fs O6 2 m f2lO, SD m. S0uTHFoRD sos m 2lo. pm. HtNRi HNMG rE3ffif E3nkIs n a-aoi sid % m. BREWSTERS-sIS a m 21O, .i.bo D m. FISHKIIL-OSHHUD UDSON-s.1O a m 2.lO p m aS- -BinRhampton Elmira Jamestown Cleve- land, Akron and Chicago s.O6 m 2lOp m POUGHKEEPSIL, via Hopewell sos a m Ill b0 ?. m.
 Sunday trains Hartford and Boston
 W.R. HANCOCK.
 Gen Pass Agent. Post,n.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-13
Apuearances Are Deceptive

Customer (to restaurant keeper at the pay desk)-Just look at that waiter, how high he holds his head. Probably Ger man baron or count in disguise, eh9
 Landlord Not precisely. The reason he carries his head so high is because he is taking plate of Limburg cheese to that gentleman in the corner.-Basler Nachrich- ion
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-13
Confidence.

Do you think that woman is flckle9" said Kiddins.
 Certainly not" replied Kaddins. You can always depend on her. She announces that she will do as she pleases and keeps her word religiously. y."-Washington Star.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-13
A State Arboretum.

The state of Washington is taking the lead in the education of its citizens in the study and cultivation of trees and shrubs. Three hundred and fifty acres of land in the university grounds at Seattle have been set apart as an arboretum.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-13
THE SEAT

THE SEAT of Sick Headache is in the stomach and the bowels. Dr. Pierce'S Pleasant Pellets cure it perfectly. They regrt- late the stomach and bowels-mildly, gently, naturally.
 With these tiny Pel- lets, the smallest made and the pleasantest to take, there's q peculiar strengthening aNd tonic effect on the lining
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-13
A Benefactor of His Race.

He has joined suicide club, has he?'' "He has,"
 II am not surprised. 1 have always said he was willing to do his utmost for the welfare of his fellow creatures. "- New York Press.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-13

SENATOR WoLCoTT's resolution, which was passed by the senate, requesting the president to open negotiations with Mexico, for the purpose of obtaining the consent of that government to the coining bv our hints of standard Mexican silver dollars for export to China and other east ern countries. is generally regarded as a bit of buncombe on the part of Mir Vol colt. intended to please the friends of silver. Few people believe that Mexico will grant such a request. If, as asserted by Mir Wolcott. the mint capacity of Mexi- co isn't sufficient to supply the demand for these silver dollars in the east, the ques- ton naturally arises. why not increase it? The mlnting of these dollars is very profitable to Mexico and it seems little short of ridiculous to expect that the Mexi- cans would be willing to surrender any of that profit to a foreign nation. It would be no surprise if President Cleveland should ignore the resolution entirely. as he may very properly do in the exercise of the discretion vested in him by the con- stitution.