Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-09-28

of his whiSkcrs had been burned off, giving him a dejcctcd and lopsided ap- pearanCe.
 Alas my friend, you are indeed in a sad plight!' said bloody but ener- gctic Anarchist who had just escaped from threatened employment, and who sat by the roadside administering kero- sene oil to his gun. Pray, what has betid you, gentle friend, that you should look so rocky while all nature is SO gay? Who could have given you such T jnlt:"
 ''AIack!' quoth the Increment, "good stranger. 1 was on my way to tho busy mart. where I had an appointment to declare q dividend, when was set upon by party calling himself Organized La bor and beaten most shamefully. 1 have but just escaped with my life and a valuable diamond, which swallowed. 1 am indeed most fortunate to find you here, for feel quite faint from loss of blood, and you look like one who would not stir abroad without having about him what Is called a North American nip"
 Tn good sooth, " said the Anarchist, removing a burdock bur from his beard l thoughtfully and then putting it back again. II fear that liquor might raise your temperature at this time and bring on py;pnia, or blood poisoning But let me ask you, Did you not cry out Justify for the police when you were attacked?"
 "Marry, but did, insomuch that the wood rang again with the outcry' And did you not renew your alarm | and cry out again and again?" ''VOila, Mon Dieu, good wight, but i did shriek encore! Plenty, heap encorel Then I did SO yet again, but the park seemed deserted even by the nursegirls, and the police, too, were down town | holding pantata reunion, so that me voice came back tome mere wailing echo.
 And you got no response whatever?" queried the Anarchist as he reached up inside the sleeve of his coat for the sleeve of an imaginary shirt. None whatever, alas! good varlet. |" said the Increment sadly, and it was thus that they done me III" And Was there no wayfarcr to hear your outcry:'
 | None, alaSv'
 Well" said the Anarchist, arising with some emotion and taking q draft of reddish wassail from a concealed re- ceptaclc, that being the case. methinks I will disturb you moment for what | clothing you have about your person. l Clean linen iS an offenSe against free dom, so will trouble you to hand it over to me, and I will soon take of that glaring air of whiteness that is so trying to the eye"
 Whereupon he smote the Unearned Increment by means of a pant leg filled with geology.
 A week later police captain, while on his way to look at a $3S, 900 resi- deuce which he was about to buy for his wife, it being the anniversary of his first year as captain, he noticed that some one in the park was seeking to at- tract his gaze silently by throwing out little hints upon the summer air to the effect that he was dead and desired at tentiOn.
 He stepped aside to look.
 Lying beneath q small shrub, exposed to the merciless sun, bruised, beaten and discolored, lay the remains of the Cnearned Increment.
 MOral-Wealth has in this life 6 rocky road to travel, and ye who vainly yearn for crowded and overfiowing cof- fers should remember that the day will come when there will be a grand reck. oning also with the rich and when ye shall surely have the laugh on Dives.
 Lazarus may have his sad and hope less days and disagreeable nights treat ing his eczema, but what is a short life time of toil and sorrow compared witt eternal dog days barefooted on the ho | pavements of the bad place? 1.-Two Little Boys In Blue," From tenac, write: We have a debating clul here, and recently we have taken ul the question, Resolved, That it is no iustifiable to dock the tails of horses What is your own opinion?'
 My own opinion is that it is not jus tifiable. but more honored in the breacl than in the observance, if you will per init delicate pun caused by hot weathe and overwork.
 It is fashion which is feebly defend ed by fashionable people only. My owI stud is free from docked horses and m. stables from the overdraw check. Tn overfraw check is as injurious to tn comfort and beauty of the horse as 1t to one's equilibrium at the bank.
 A high authority says recently in Tn Country Gentleman that the only ex cuse offered for docking horses-viz that it prevents their getting their tail over the line and keeping them there is entirely exploded by recent experi ments
 l The docking process .hesides. .assza