Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-05-22

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 giving, and so he spent the winter on the main truck of tall slippery elm tree which grows just between the port CulliS and the henhOuse of my baronial dugout.
 Well, he developed somnambulism during the winter without pausing to consider that those who sleep on the apex of l50 foot tree ought not to get too restless, and so he woke me this morning by falling off his perch with n dull thud that seemed to knock about lS yards of song out of him
 Farm life brings person next to na- tuTe'S heart ciuStcr than most any other thing. Yesterday friend came on from Heidelberg to visit me flow weeks. as he had read in the papers of how I wal lowed around in wealth and gave a house party on Tuesdays and Fridays, and how did nothing but lie all day ill n gaudy hammock picking the banGo or n woodtick now and then, drinking one Tom Collins after another and creat- Ing witticiSms until 0vcrhaulel by the police
 He came thinking that the entire place was lighted by electricity, where ,,s l rely almost entirely on the heaven, lv hu,llVS and tin lAuthorn, which we also uSt at times tu strain plum butter through.
 Fora guest who comes here for fort night $ outing there arc two very pleas ant methods of relaxation One is to go down to the barn and look at the house, while the other consists i'll remaining 1 ut the house and looking at the barn
 We also play ut skittles.
 The friend from Heidelberg said Let us go to the all-the- while moving river to see it, for everything else hero seems to be all the while yet remaining hato everything to always be remain ing. He does not speak very good Eng fish, but we have trained him so that if he does not care for the potato top greens at table he can ask some one to pass the jell. At our house you can have jell or greens
 So we went down 10 the river It is a beautiful opaque stream. and if you | watch it kcenly for a few days you may see sawlog come down.
 We sat down and lighted our pipes to watch the river By and by large. fat man. dressed in cardigan jacket, came floating down the stream. Some ono had rifled him of his pants. also of his fair young life (with n shotgun).
 "Ah!" thought I aloud. but still to myself, they have started up the fcud again He told me. only last Monday is week ago, that they had scalt the back of his best hound pup Probably he went there to see about it. and they saw him ] first This is awful. continued. "Soon we will have to rely entirely on colorei help '
 Whether temperance or female suf frage is to free us from this condition of things cannot say. know one thing, and that is that if my watermelons act the way they did one year there will be another feud right here, and it won, be entirely q vegetable feud eyether Last year I poisoned nino of my best water melons. but the gent who took them. Do ing full of blockade whisky at the timo rather enjoyed the poison that I put ir and was up betimes the next morning singing like blue jay with his tail iI the door. (The blue jays, mean.)
 Speaking of female suffrage and Ad vanced rights, I attended a meeting iH Washington last winter held for th' purpose of passing law to ameliorat, woman.
 It was q collection of very brigh minds and high. intellectual shoulders
 I walked down through the beautiful room. which was ill a private house. ana moved so still in my new arctics tha no ono heard mo approach After haG tsated myself down in the pompadou
 tow a tall. sweet lady came to me ana
 Iaid softly and ill the most faultlesS Ian guage that she wished I would oblig
 her by removing my overShoes. as tn
 floor had been recently waxed. 1 colore'
 up good deal, of course. hut took of
 my arctics, revealing my new blue socks with white toes, for had omitted m shoes in my haste at home After tn ! meeting was over was asked to com up and meet several of the prominen
 movers ill the woman's emancipatio
 matter. met Susan B Anthony in III
 sock feet on the stage; also quite q nun , Der of other bright women in goo l clothes I'm glad that female suffras doesn't mean faded gingham umbrell
 any more nor pathetic poverty. Goo
 clothes look just as we'll on an intelle< tual woman as they do on a salesladv. Miss Anthony is bright and ready as steel tran She said to me. "Mr. Ny these ladies make you toe the mark whe [ they get n chance, don't they?" Yes" said instantly, but } thought perhaps that might drop [ and sort of help you sock home some ( your great truths "
 With that all laughed heartily. an ? taking my arctics in one hand and son a manuscript. that l had thought tho L might call for mo to read. in the oshe . I stepped into the loarGiIg room aa . put on my overshoes.
 . Men who belong in congress in IaS . l ~ill probably have to wipe their feet a