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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-19

The girl had determined that KentOn
 should be brought to the house.
 none of the vehicles had been taken, and she argued that it would be easy for the two men to get Kenton down to the road and then convey him to the house in one of the carriages. He looked upon the plan favorably, but when she turned to Steve Brayton be said:
 Beg pardon, miss, but can't agree with yo'. YeIe ar the situation: Over thar on the other road yisterday mawn- in we uns was tooken fur Yankee spies. He un s a Yank straight huff, but not a spy, while I'm purity good rebel, as the t'other side calls us. We uns had fuss with a fool of a Confederate, and he got help and tried to run us down. It wasn't over two miles away that I dropped one and winged another. Is that plain to yo', Miss Percyf"
 Yes"
 "Waal, them critters hain't goin to give it up without knowin who we ar and all about us. We uns will hear from them today fur shore. Then thar is Ike Baxter to look out fur. Pity yo'r ulBScI uluu ' OIlAAO q lCCLAO AdANC4 anu finish him, but it seems that Ike got away. He un was probably sent to spy on yo', and yo' kin bet that Captain Wyle and his critter company hain't fur eff. We shall also hear from them beto' the days over"
 Well. suppose we do7" asked Ma rian. "Mr. Kenton has been true and loyal to Virginia and the south. He is here in Confederate uniform and has only escaped from the Federals after be- ing taken prisoner in another battle. Suppose ths Confederates do come7"
 That's yo'r way of lookin at it, Miss Percy" said Steve as he twirled his hat in his hands. My way Is leetle differ ent. Captain Wyle, Ike Baxter and the rest of the crowd want revenge. If they find MT. Kenton In yo'r house, they Il take him out and carry him off to some camp. They II use him rough. They'll make charges. They'll stick right to
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: night, but I'll make it leetIe easier if

night, but I Fl make 1t leetle easier if yo'll tell whar they all is hid away"
 "I has nuthin to say," quietly re- piled the old man as he looked about him.
 ''Whatl Yo' won't tell mep''
 "Give it to him! Cut his hide into stringsl" yelled the crowd.
 Ike responded by striking Uncle Ben about 20 blows across the bare back. Each blow raised a welt, and as each one fell the victim strained and tugged at his lashings. Uncle Ben had been whipped the night before, but that was more in the nature of an assault or an attack by armed men. For the first time in his life he had been tied up and his back barred. He felt the shame and indignity almost as much as the blows.
 "Yo' kin see what brung on this yere war" said Ike as he paused for breath. "Them air Yankees was tellin our nig- gers that they was jest as good as thar masters. Yeres a case of it right yere. If he'd bin my nigger, he'd hev bin as humble as pumpkin pie, but the Percys, who hev allus bin half Yankee them selves, brung him up to think he un was as good as anybody!'
 Hurry up. Give he un some more!" yelled the crowd.
 Thar hain't no rush about it, re- piled Ike as he flourished the whip. II want to make it last as long as kin. It's dod gasted pity we hain't got 15 or 20 other niggers yere to look on and take warnin by his fate. I've allus itched to lick a nig9er, but never had the chance befo'. Ar yo' goin to tell me, yo' internal old imp, whar that Yankee is hidin out?" Uncle Ben sim ply shook his head. "Yo' hain't, eh?" screamed Ike. Then everybody stand back, fur I'm goin-I'm goin to make the blood fly all over the yard!"
 "Stop!'
 Ike had his arm raised for a blow when a figure passed him and halted beside Uncle Ben. That figure had pushed its way into the circle uaheard and unseen. Everybody stared in as-
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l FINER, MISTER, YOU PLUMB FORGOT ME" kers. They were just in bud. By and by he will need trellis for them to climb up on, but not-not yet. His hair hung down over his collar, and every little while he would scoop it back and hang it over his ears to keep it from con- cealing his dough colored features. | The two sat just ahead of me, and he kept his arm around her waist all the time and looked happy. When the con- ductor asked for his ticket, he tried to get it out of his pocket without using his engaged arm, but it was so difficult the conductor saw the situation and said: | "Never mind. I will get it for you. Which pocket is it in?" And as mat ter of fact the groom showed the official where the ticket was, and the latter got l it and punched it, returning it to the place where it was. Talk about polite railroad officials! Here's where you find | them.
 The groom looked drea1nily out of the car window, and she rested her large pink sunbonnet against his hickory shirt. His coat hung up in the car rack, for he had been taught to take his coat off and save it when indoors. She wore as 8 wrap little shoulder shawl of red, blue and green. It was no bigger than ta- l ble napkin, though it was February and | the air rather cool. Their joint luggage consisted of little toy valise made of snameled paper, with 8 rupture on one side, through which could be seen a twist of dog leg tobacco and big red apple. As we neared Memphis and the con- ductor began to gather up our checks the groom, seeing that he was going to be overlooked and being anxious to show his honesty, unlocked his half paralyzed arm from Roseanna and said:
 "Hyer, mister, you plumb forgot me, ! reckon. Hyer's your ticket. 1 won't take no advantage CT tell the feller that owns the kyars. I could use her over again, but I ain't that kind of feller." "No," said the conductor, you'd bet ter keep that to ride on the Iron Noun tain road with, so that you won't have to pay again. The conductor on that road is an awfully particular man, and likely as not he'd make you buy two more tickets"
 And so, with flush of shame, crushed in the presence of his new wife while he | was in the act of being honest in order to impress her, he slid back in his seat, gave the little ruptured satchel a kick, and putting his arm back around her waist he spat out of the window in time to leave small washout for the next train and said nothing.
 But the way these railroad men kindly piloted these babes in the wood to their train and showed them how to check their joint trunk, a little tin affair con- taining bed quilt and a gourd to begin housekeeping with, showed that there is big lot of kindness and humanity left among the hustling brakemen and bag gage smashers that will show themselves when occasion requires.
 During our ride through Kentucky d good natured old colonel pointed out to me an English younger son who came to the blue grass region two years ago togo into the mule industry. He could not make any money in England, so he pack
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A Woman's Trust.

He was glib of speech and good look. ing, and when did these ever fail to win when the winning was woman? There is but one answer to this conun. drum. Send in your answers early. The girl loved him with that foolish infatuation which passeth understand ing. The less worthy he became the more her devotion grew.
 The young man didn't do anything to encourage it either. He simply appeared on the scene. It was ever thus. In time stories came to her ears, and she told him how she disbelieved every one of them.
 They said he wouldn't pay his debts, but she knew better, for had she not di- vided her allowance with him for this very purpose?
 Indeed she had, and she told her papa a story about it.
 One day he had a long talk with her over his troubles, and she did what she could to brace him up.
 "It's enough" he said, Eff you trust mel"
 II do, Reginald; do," she murmured, land will always trust you"
 "Would to heaven" he cried, "that you were my landlady," and he folded her to his throbbing bosom.
 Half an hour later he was trying to sneak his trunk out of the back window of his boarding house.-Detroit Free Press.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-19
TOBACCO.
WaterburyFire Alarm
LOCATION OF BOXES.


 The following are the Fire Alarm Signals Inder the new system: I-2 Rogers t Bro" l-s Cor East Main and Niagara streets. r.. Cor East Main and wOlcot' road. Is Cor High and Walnut streets i5 Cor East Main and Cherry streets. IT Cor East Main and Cole streets .-I Cor North Elm and Kingsbury streets. a-s Cor North Elm North Main and Grove
 streets sI Waterbury Manufacturing company Is Cor North Main and North streets. 2s Cor Buckingham and Cooke streets - Cor Grove and Prospect streets. a-s Cor Hillside avenue and Pine street l-9 Cor Johnson and WateTville streets. 1-9 The Piatt Bros < Co.,
 -, Waterbury Clock company movement
 ment tactoryl-'
 Exchange place. a Cor West Main and Willow streets s4 Cor West Main and Watertown roadi s-5 Horse Car Railroad stable" ,s Waterbury Brass company ST Cor Cedar and Meadow streets. s-s Cor Grand and Field streets s-I-l Cor Bank and Meadow streets ,-1-s Randolph X Gloves s-l. Plume < Atwood Manufacturing com
 pany!' s-a-a Holmes Booth < Hsydens.' sa4 Cor Charles and Porter streets -75 Cor Simons street and Washington ave Cor South Main and Grand streets 1-a Cor South Main and Clay streets. 4s Waterbury Watch company t1 Benedict < Burnham Manufacturing
 company G-s Waterbury Buckle company
 kTrNerF FFNT1 EN ScOvin Manufacturing company s-9 Cor Franklin and Union streets +s Waterbury Clock Co. lease factory. s-4 Cor Clay and Mill streets. s-s Cor Liberty and River streets ST No. Hose House. ss Cor Baldwin aud Stonesstreets-
 Cor Bridge and MasIM streets s9 Ger DDOlittle alley and Dublin street - Rrfrafa
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cd up lot of his elder brothers second hand clothes, which, of course, did not fit him, and came to a far country to grow mules for the market. He bought a place at very high price and built 8 house to live in. It consisted of show CT bath, with kitchen attachment. give drawing of him as drew it on the cars. He called himself Archie some thing or other, but in Kentucky they call him the Earl of Tinktum. Of course could not make very good picture of him, for the cars bobbed around so, but I have given him the aristocratic e1- precision and boise of head very accu- rately.
 He got some guns-elephant guns-to use in case he should be attacked by In- dians and had compass to use in dis tracting the attention of the savages iii case he should be captured, for he had read at home about Captain John Smith and how he worked it. He also had a lot of taxidermy tools and things to stuff the buffalo and grizzly bear that he hoped to kill in case they came to attack his young mules and carry them of.
 He had read that the cost of raising a mule in Kentucky was comparatively nothing, but when grown $250 to $500 per pair was very common price. He wondered why no one had seen that be- fore and taken advantage of it.
 So he went to Spain and bought a beautiful jack called Ferdinand II. and the two came over together, the Earl of Tinktum and Ferdinand IL
 Both of them were seasick most of the way over. The earl suffered most, for he did not have the mental resources that Ferdinand did to occupy himself with.
 They landed in Kentucky year ago and began to sit up and take notice.
 The earl bought % jennies and moved
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FLOWER AND TREE.

Olive trees bud in May, flower in June end yield crop every two years
 Over 50 species of plants are included among the breadfruit trees, and over 200 species of palms are known to the botanist.
 A single plant of wheat will often pro- duce 2, 900 seeds in one season; a sunflower will yield 4.000; poppy. 320O0; tobacco plant, 360, 900; spleen wort, 1,000,000
 The leaves of the double cocoanut palm are often 30 feet long, while those of the Inaja palm on the banks of the rivers of Brazil are sometimes 50 feet long and 10 to 12 feet wide.
 Many plants are sensitive to other infiu- ences than light. Some will close their leaves on being carried in cart. The jolt ing seems to disturb their equansmity, though after time they become appsrent. ly Unconscious nf and inaannihla kn is
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According to His Exnerience.

MT. McSwat was kindling the fire in the cook stove the other morning when an early tramp made his appearance at the kitchen door and asked for some thing to eat.
 "I haven't anything for you, my friend" was the reply he got, except a doughnut that seems to have been left over from yesterday"
 "A doughnut," said the tramp, "aint much fur hungry man."
 "One of my wife's doughnuts," replied MT. McSwat, with the frmness and de- cision of 8 man who knew what he was talking of, twill be about all you will want to tackle. ."-Chicago Tribune.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-19
PRETTY TEA cOzlES.
Useful and Ornamental Adjuncts to t
 Cup That Cheers.

Useful and Ornamental Adjuncts to the
 Cup That Cheers.
 Every housekeeper wants at least one cozy, and if she be lady of leisure and artistic tastes with means to gratify her inclinations she will have one to match each tea service. According to Modern Priscilla, for her gold and white china she will fashion cozy of creamy silk embroidered with japanese gold thread, and If the china have any especial dec- oration she will copy the same design on the cozy. For dainty set of Sevres or Limoges she will make cozy of ex- quisite brocade, here also as far as possi- ble matching the design. For the simple blue and white ware of American or Chinese manufacture there will be one in blue and white china silk or crape and for the Japanese set one of japanese silk, with bands of velvet of a harmo- nizing color across the bottom.
 As for the form of the cozy, the sim plest is the most popular and might be briefly described as being exactly like the larger half of an egg ill shape. Conic- al cozies composed of from four to eight sections are more troublesome to make, ana, except III Vl1e CtSo OI d leapot ol tlu- usual size and shape, not so pretty.
 Creamy white satin sheeting worked with Dresden pattern of small flowers, edged with band of gold colored vel vet and finished with 8 gold cord makes about as splendid cozy as can be de- sired Old blue india silk, painted with cloudy gold band of gold about the bot tom and seams, or finished at the bottom with velvet band and lined with silk of any neutral tint, Is extremely pretty and serviceable as well. Silkoline makes a pretty cover for the outside and can be taken off and washed. If one of these is made with puff of silk over the top, matching in shade the flower ill the silk oIine and laced across with baby ribbon, it is charming indeed.
 One of the most serviceable of cozies is made from chamois of a soft, medi- um brown tone. It is embroidered with daffodils and across the lower edge is a band of untarnishable gold braid sewed on with fancy stitches in brown silk. It is lined with silk of the same color as the skin, and the cord is also of brown.
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board, a little less than inches one way and 24 the other, with piece of the rib bon, laying cotton wool wadding on one side, for greater convenience in sticking the needles through. Fasten to it small bow of baby ribbon for draw ing it out.
 Eem the ends of the ribbon and feather stitch across both ends, which form the needle holder Run ribbons through one of the hems at the end, for drawing it up like bag, and use it for boot but tons and thimble. In the open end of the case put spool of linen thread and suspend the case by means of ribbon tied in bow with ends at the top.
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Consolation.

Jinkins wouldn't pay. Forty people had tried him on various amounts, with the invariable result. One day he fell into the river, and creditor fished him out.
 My dear fellow," he said as he stood shivering on the shore, 'I owe you my life."
 "That's all right, old man," was the reassuring reply. "You1l never pay it" Exchange.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-19
Co.OperatiVeTailoring
 Company. l50 South Main St.,

With the opening of the Spring Season We Would call attention to one of the finest selections of Imported and Domestic Woolens ever placed be- fore the public.
 Determined to merit a continuance of the pat. ronaoe so literally bestow. ed on US in the past, We shall continue to lead in the making of Garments in Excellence of Quality, and Moderation of Price.
 For instance, our 2O44l is a fine Clay Diagonal in deep black or blue black, of which We will make Suits to order in the most approved style and perfect workmanship for $25.
 Our 2O38 and 2O2o are respectively a fine i'm. ported Yale Diagonal and Birds Eye Worsted, of which We shall make up suits in, same manner, and for the same price.
 Our 2187, 2177, 2O8o 2OoO, and a great many others, are strictI Iy all wool black Tidbits, Chev. tot or fancy Cassimeres of which we'll make up Suits to order from SIS to PLO.
 Realizing that We have just passed through a serious business depres. sion, and that it would therefore be inconsistent for some of our patrons to pay for a suit of Clothes all at one time, We will in the future, as in the past Deliver Garments on small weekly payments.
 ES~By request of great many of our patrons we have arranged for department where we will do Repairing, Cleaning and Pressing of Garments at the Lowest Prices onI ot tba
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A Shoe Button Case.

Schoolgirls will find the case for shoe buttons as described in The Household a very useful article, which if hung on the wall will always be in readiness for use.
 To make it, take two pieces of ribbon inches long and 9 inches wide. Over hand the sides, leaving 8 space of two inches in the middle for the needle case. Make this by covering piece of card
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Senper Idem.

The city young man staying in the country for week thought he would go for hunt.
 "I say, landlord" he remarked one morning, "are there any game laws in force around here2'
 "Yes." replied the landlord lazily. cts purity much here as it is most every where else. Nobody but a durn fools goin to trump his pardner's ace."-De- troit Free Press.
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faye, he un's the man!' growled three or four others.
 And you call him Yankee-you, Ike Baxter!'' she replied as she stepped forward to face hlm. He enlisted when you did. He fought when you ran away. He has encountered score of dangers to your one. He has done more for the cause of the south than all of you combined. When you call him Yankee spy, call you cur, and coward, and disgrace to the uniform wear!"
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A Word About Veils.

The new veils, which are not quite new, by the way, are becoming and have fine net ground of the Russian order, closely powdered, with a raised chenille spot, and are edged with thick cream colored applique lace design. They are made for the most part shaped so that they sit well over the toque.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-19
MEANDERING ME.
WHAT WILLIAM SEES ON THE CARS
 TO AMuSE HIM.

A Brief Account of the Earl of Tinktum, With Picture Drawn From Nature to Match-The Romance of an Oyster-Nye's New Smoking Jacket.
 Copyright, 1894. by Edgar w. Nye.l
 STILL VoYAGING DER THE PERARAH.
 Last week we were in the Tennessee mountains, so often referred to by Charles Egbert Craddock. Surely Charles has a wonderful field in which to work. A bride and groom rode in our car all the forenoon from the extreme east of the state to Memphis. He had Titan hair and fire cut chewing tobacco for whis-
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The Height of Gallantry.

At ball gentleman found a garter lying on the floor. Picking it up, he walked toward 8 group of ladies not far from the spot and said, (Which of you ladies has lost her waist beltg'-Liberal.
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Further investigation discloses irregu- larity of periods, dizziness and faintness at times, and perhaps leucorrh9a.
 Then surely the evidence is all-sufficient.
 An American woman has discovered that the cause of all this lies in derangcd and diseased uterus or womb.
 Lydia x. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound is the most marvellous cure for this trouble ever discovered.
 purely vegetable remedy, it is at once an absolutely safe and natural cure for this crushing trouble.
 It has cured thousands and will cure you as sure as truth is truth.
 Here is letter from one of them which she wants us to publish: h:---
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out to the ranch. There they have all been for over year, growing up with the country.
 No change has taken place on the ranch, so the colonel told me, except that Ferdinand II last October one day, when the gum tree was ablaze with col or and the blue grass 8 soft emerald un- der the beautiful shade of the reckoning oak, curled up in fence corner and died.
 Some said it was homesickness, but generally it was agreed that Ferdinand died because he had been disappointed and deceived by the Earl of Tinktum.
 The colonel got to speaking of the cal umny against Kentucky regarding the matter of whisky.
 "We don't consume any more whisky than Maine does," he said, "but we want it good. Now, my neighbor, Judge FL der, wanted some of the same kind of whisky as mine-it is years old. which is plenty old enough, think, and about as old as we allow it to get here-so he went up to Louisville and bought bar rel of it for medicinal purposes. He asked me to come down to his place after he got home and sample it. I told him it was the same thing as mine, only that I thought could detect flavor of iron just trace-in it.
 "He was sorry to hear that. and a week afterward he got Colonel Dilling ham to come down and pass his opinion
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!" For years I have been al- most a constant sufferer from fe- male trouble in all its dreadful forms: shooting pains all over my body, sick headache, spinal weakness, faint ness, dizziness, depression. and everything that
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-19

)w. S he 8 droop, and air of deep Onl seems to 'verwllelnn m. Press your .st;ons a little ser, and you
 find avoid } ancc of all } society, re- { luc;ance to
 make the s slightest ef- ! fort, all ac- $ conpanied ' with a
 crushing sense of
 bearing
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PECULIAR TO AMERICAN WOVEN. Some of the Causes which Appear upcE
 Investigation.

ESPECIAL TO OUR LADY REApERs1 Ask them "What can be the matter ?n and the invariable answer is, "I dent