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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16
HE TRIED HARD.
G.,.; trs AIways Difficult For n Man to
 Eind Anything.

Etnd Anything.
 "Gcorsr, dear" said Mrs NcwIywed the othrr evening just as they were about tn leave the h"u>" tur the Uprra. T vr left my fan up on Ihr dressing case in my room. and cant go without it Won't you run up and get it. that's a dear.
 Gcorgv RurS up thr,r steps at a tiu" A moment later his voice comes down awfully sharp for man who has hccn married but six months.
 It isn't on the drrsScr hc says.
 Why, yes, it must bo, dear. Look in the upper drawer in that long blue box in the left hand corner. Don't muss things all up, Is it thcrc:'
 No, it isn L.
 "Oh, it must be. Look good. Found it2"
 No, havon't."
 Well, don't got cross about it. Maybe left it on the bed Is it thsreg"
 No. I'll bo''-
 George! If you can't do littlo favor for your wifo without swearing about it, you needn't do it at all. Look in the sec ond drawer of the dresser in shat pink hox- ls it thUrr!'
 No, it isn't, and l knew it wasn't be- fore luokCd!'
 You didn't know anything of the sortl Do lind it some placU. We're late now. Mayh it's on tho mantCl know laid it down somo place while l tied my bon net Is it on the mantClg''
 No. it is not on the mantel. I'll just be eternllly'-
 "GVurge! If you swear again, I'll take of my things and stay at home. If you'd look for tho fan instead of pranCinS around and swearing like a trooper, you d find it. See if it is in my bonnet box. Sometimes I drop it in thoru. Found it:"
 ''Found ity' " snarls George jecrinSly. "Tslk about needle in a haystack! It's nothing compared to a''-
 George Newlywcu! Just as sure as you speak that way again I'll stay at home. Lock on the chairs and the table and-what arc you doing up theref Up setting chairs and kicking over things and growling like some wild animal. 1'd be ashamed. suppose I'll have to como and look for the fan myself. tired as l am, Can't you fiIAd iL'' Find nothing! \ man might as we'll hunt for tho north pole or Captain kidd's treasure or particular grain of sand i'll the bottom of the sea as to look for "Thera, there! Stop making quite such pitiful spectacle of yourself. If wsre man. Id ba n man! Look in the closet | Oh, here's tho fan. I declare if 1t hash t been lying here on tho hall rack all the | time. l rcmembor now that laid it down when I-George Newlywed! I'd be serv- ing you right if I didn't go step with you. Swearing like thatl Come on wretch! l suppose you'll snarl and sulk | all the way down town"' A prediction that was fully verified.-Detroit Free p-osS
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16
Hundred Years Hence.

We've read in old books of Calamities dire, Where buildings and b,ll,s in flames would expire, For they didn't know how to put out n fire,
 Oh, ever 50 long ago And people who wanted to ri,l,, few blocks Paid ''strest car fare to ride in box That was dragged through the street at the
 Oh. ever so long ago. Human beings, they say. never sailed in the Except in balloons let loosc at some fair, And away went the things only heaven knows where,
 oh. ever so long ago. It took six days for a first class ship To make a two days very easy trip, From an old world dock to q New York slip.
 Oh. ever so long ago. Most cities were lighted by gas at night, marvellous thing was electric lghs- Oh. people wero awfully. wondrOusly brighti
 Oh, ever 50 long ago. For eight or uino hours work a day, Two dollars, or two and a half, we'll say. Was considered by many 0s real good pay
 Oh. ever so long ago Men of intelligence worked on the streets, While silly. soft headed political cheats Who could buy the most votes held the law
 Oh. ever so long ago. The railroads wero owned by few million
 airtS, Who divided the profits according to shares, And whose pockets were fat with the railrOad
 fares.
 Oh, ever so long ago. The working class lab>Ced six days out of
 seven, And they stood poor chance for their tickets
 to heaven Ii they had a good time on the holiday given,
 oh ever so long ago.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16

and a lawyer of high standing. He cx- celled as an organizer and was very in strumental in making tho order thu great organization that 1t is.
 Thomas Wildey was born i'll London in 17SI and became a wagon makers apprentice at the ago of II. While still bound to his employer ho became an Odd Fellow. and with few associates instituted lodge ill n remote part of London. The order was started ill Eng land over a century and a half ago much the same as Wildey started the American order. \ number of congrnial spirits got together of a Saturday night, swapped stories and had good time. From this beginning camc Manchester Unity, the English Order of Odd Eel lows and the prototype of tho Ameri- can order The Rebekah deSroc for women was instituted i'll 1850 and was tho creation of Schuyler Colfax. after ward viC,. president of the United States.
 The prv>,nt officers of the sovereign grand lodSu uf Odd Fellows ill America are the following: I. B. StUbbinS of Albion. N Y. grand sire; Fred Carle- ton of Te<aS, deputy grand sire: T. A. Ross of Baltimore. grand secretary, and Isaac shepard of Philadelphia, grand treasurer.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16

They cannot be obtained in these times without untiring efforts, backed by money and experience.
 After months of work in studying style and selecting ma terial for the manufacture of good clothes, we arc prepared with a selection that will do credit to all our Five Depart mcnts; will benefit every per son who patronizes |. s. X Co during the Spring and Summer of 1895.
 We are prepared to fit all ages, from the smallest child to great big man.
 We will help you make the right selection. and better, if a mistake Is made, come to us and we will gladly make it right. Even our cheap suits and pants are all finished on the premises, the same as the better ones. Our guarantee goes, and goes with every gar mrnt. You can purchase of | $. X Goa suit the same as your friend has, or you eau get one that no one else in Water, bury hasOr can get. If you leave the order for it.
 In prices. as we do strictl, casM business. we cannot charge you quite as much for sam, quality aN our competitors do. 
 But your money k safely in vested with |. $. & Co, for you can get it again or satisfaction in every case when we are 1T the wrong. Our regular pa irons know this, but we wan you to try our clothes thi. season.
 Remember! None of the cheap ones are so good. Non, of the good ones :are so cheal as those sold by
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16
THE SOLID SOUTH.

Southwest Georgia is hurrahing over the prospect of big peach crop. All right; north Georgia will come to time and fur nish the brandy.-Atlanta Constitution.
 Florida products are valued at s15, ooo, 900 annually, about, S, oQ0, 900 of which ik represented by the fruit product and $7,- 900, OOe by field erops.-Orlando Reporter.
 It is only a question of about tive months when GaITsstSn will have 20 feet of water eR the bar. All Taxas and the southwest can O0Rgrstnlats the 4slapd city on securing dssp watsr.-bRnisOR Herald
 The eslerod sehssls of Texas have besn invited ts praparS educational exhibits for the state fair at Dafias and a ooIamittee of eolored educators is new at work with that object in ytsw.-Esrt Worth Gazette.
 Professor James D. Dana, . gsologist of wide reputation, died at his rssidsacs in New Haven from heart failure, aged about Ss ys0rA
 The United States supreme ssurt denied the petition for habsas corpus of TheOdore Lambert under sentence of death in Cam den county, N. J., fer murder.
 The Paris Figaro gives currency to rumor that Dr. Eanscn, the arctic explor- CT. has found the aorsh pols. and that 1t is situAted on . chain sf mountaina
 The ease of Inspector William ". Me Laughlin, chief of the New York city de- tective bureau, who has boon indicted for bribery on five separate charges, was be. Oun.
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 influential. He is not a very wealthy man, but he devotes considerable part of his income to charitable work, and his wide acquaintance and eloquence make him powerful advocate of any scheme for bettering the condition of his fellow men. Four or five years ago he spent winter in Thomasville and while there learned that there was no free school in the vicinity where colored boys could learn trade or where girls could be taught sewing, cooking or other domestic arts.
 Believing that the best solution of tho negro problem is education, he made it his business to seek funds from the rich winter residents for a proposed school and was so successful that the institution was soon established. The school is now n flourishing institution and has l50 pupils, who are taught trades and useful occupations and are given the rudimentS of a regular cOm- mon school education. The school is supported entirely by voluntary contri- buttons which MT. Wyman secures dur ing the year while travelling about the country, and when tho funds run low he thrusts his hand into his own philan- thropiC pocket.
 The school is in charge of Charles Rice. cOlOred graduate of tho Atlanta university, and he has ono assistant who teaches the boys trades, another who inStructs the girls in needlework and cooking. a third who looks after the musical education of tho pupils and fourth who runs sort of kindergar- ten for the pickaninnios.
 It is said that arithmetic is tho most difficult study for negro children whose parents arc illitcratc. Grammar is an- other poser, but geography, history, reading and spelling. which arc more interesting to the immature mind. arc moro easily acquired. Mir. Wyman is about 73 years of age, is veteran of tho late war and was Rhode Island's V. 'l's fair commissioner
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16
ssvENTY-slx YEARS OLD.

The American Odd Fellow, His StrnnSe
 Creation and His Phenomenal Growth.
 American Odd Fellowship will soon be a veteran of "a years. and on April e6 the anniversary of the foundation of the popular order will be celebrated by nearly 1000, 900 members of tho society in America. Seventy-six years ago Thomas Wildey, an Englishman who had located in Baltimore and was lone ly because Englishmen were not popu- lar then on account of the recent war, proposed to John Welch, John Duncan, John Cheatham and Richard Rushworth that they relieve the mOnotony of life by organizing an Odd Fellows lodge resembling the one he had belonged to in England. On April 26, 1919. these five men met at the Seven Stars tavern and instituted the first lodge, which they called Washington lodge, No. l. The five men were not well educated or particularly refined. and they had little influence in Baltimore, but Wildey was born leader of men, and before he died, in 1861, the order he had founded had a membership of 200, 900.
 In his great work he ;lad the able as sistance of James l.. Ridgely, a native American who was educated and refined
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16
CATTLE FROM MEXICO.
Secretary Morton Issues an Order Allowing
 Them to Come In.

Secretary Morton Issues an Order Allowing
 Them to Come In.
 WASHINGTON, April 16.-In view of the great rise in the price of boef and tho re- ported scarcity of cattle, the chief of the bureau of animal industry. Dr. Salmon, has recommended to the secretary of az riculturo the admission of Mexican cattle into the United States under stringent regulations calculated to insure a rigid in spection of all cattle admitted. Dr. Sal mon believes such course may be safely pursued with tho exercise of due vigil lance, and that under the circumstances 1t is judicious.
 It is hoped by this means to check the tendency to excessive prices to the consum- or without injuriously affecting the inter ests of the beef producers In accordance with these recommendations Secretary Morton issued an order allowing Mexican cattle to como in.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16
WIND, RAIN AND SAND.
A Peculiar Storm Visits the Western and
 Southwestern States.


 KANSAS CITY. April 16.-The entirc southwest and part of the west, including southern Kansas, Oklahoma and the pan handlo of Texas, was afflicted with terri ble sand and rainstorm. At places in Oklahoma there was a veritable shower of mud, and in western Oklahoma and tho panhandle of Texas Egyptian darkness prevailed Crops were badly damaged. wires prostratod and much other damage Aona
 All day long but one struggling wire was in working order west to Denver and last night that hope had gono out, and the west was completely shut off from communication from this city. Electric flashes pieroed tho inky darkness with ter rible rapidity and seomed to charge every thing with its clement Suoh a peculiar storm has seldom boon soen, and Ssho su perstitions thought the astronomical condi- tions, which. 1t Is said, are nov repeating themselves for tho first time since the death of Christ had something to do with tho storm.
 It Is still raining hard in most direc- tions. but the worst of the storm is thought to have passed. As far as can be heard nobody was injured. although scores of horses were stricken. In eastern Kansas the storm was less severe, and in that locality will greatly benefit crops.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16
PEN. CAtSEL AND CRUSH.

Henry Na~)11G, aathor of The Yoke of tho Thorah, wa. st ere time clerk in the surrogate court of New York.
 William Watson. the reet, has heeA granted ren-ion of 5000 a year, The Gladstone government had already given him enc of $l eAo.
 The h~.; S'ckins done hE Whistler was a series uf NaI.. f4r the UEitsd States coast EurNoF They were ESt Publishsd, the artiNt and the aukloriGiss diHSrSd aS to how d tNH ought tS hs rsErsSSRtod iR a map.
 The we'll know ScWlptsr. Giuseppe Gran di, ,iird rhe sthsr day in Milan. His first acaI!,miral prize was Ecsived fer a statue of Odye>cuk Among his nest celebrated works is his staeue of the philosopher, Bee CH-1
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16
To spoil a wife-Find fault.

To spoil wife-Find fault.
 To spoil tea or coffee-Boil 1t.
 To spoil custard-Bake it too long. To spoil house plants-Water them toe much.
 To spoil butter-Do not work out all the milk.
 To spoil a carpet-Sweep it with a stiff half worn broom.
 To spoil scissors-Cut everything from a sheet of paper to a bar of cast iron.
 To spoil ohildrcn-Humor them in every thing they happen to think they want. To spoil garments in the making-Cut them out carclcSSly and run all the Soams. To spoil a school-Change teachers ev- sry time some one in tine district finds fault
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16
He Was Mixed.

He had not been in a city for number of years and was not prepared for all the progress that had been made in tho world since his last appearance On the scene, When passing ono of tho corners of the Union market. ho gazcd with undiSSuiSCd expression of satisfaction and pleasure at what he considered pleasing innovation in city lifo,
 What a hospitablo city it was, to be sure, and yet no ono soumed to bo accept ing the courtesy!
 Why, yes thank you" he said to the man who held out half a dozen oranges.
 You arc real kind. I'll take two for myself. being as no ono else scems t0 want any, and thrco for the old woman at homo. What nice city this isl Drop in on us at tho farm some day" It took the trader and two policemen to explain the situation tn the bewildcred visitOr.-St Louis Republic.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16
PEACE TREATY SIGNED.
The War Between China and
 Japan Officially Ended.
JAPANESE DRIVE A HARD BARGAIN

Besides CedIng to Japan FOrmosa and All
 the Territory Already Captured, China
 Must Acknowledge Korea's Independence
 and Fay an Indemnity of SIOO,OOO.OOO.
 LONDON. April l6.-A dispatch to The Times from Shanghai says that Ii Hung Uhang's son ,in-law telographs that a peace convention was signed at SimonOseki on Monday by tho plonipOtontiarieS of China and Japan. Following arc the torIns of tho convention:
 First the independence of Koru0; Seo- ond. that Japan retains tho places she has oonquered; third. that Japan shall also retain tho territory east of tho lIiao river; fourth, that the island of Formosa be ced- cd permanently to Japan; fifth, the pay ment of an indemnity, and, sixth, an of fonsive and defensive alliance.
 SIMoNosEKI, April l6-The conference Monday of tho peace commissioners lasted five hours. All the plenipotcntiaries at tended tho meeting except Viscount Mutt su. It is believed that this conference was the final one. It is stated that the Chinese plonipOtontiaricS arc preparing to return to their homcs
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16
GRoWLs AT GOTHAM.

After New York has abolished tights it may And that its politics aro still too de collste.-ChicagO Post.
 If Now York is in earnest in prohibiting tights on ths stage, we can understand its tasssning interest in suppresSing the big thsatsr haa.-Philadelphia Times.
 There gre Elx political parties in New York city by actual count, the chief point sf difference being disagreement as to which set of rascals should be turned out --Chlcngo Herald.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16
TAY NOTIGE

hereby notify all persons liable to pay taxes in the town of Waterbury, that I have received a rate-bill and warrant to co lect a town tax of two (2l mills on the dollar on tbe list of 1891, and will be at my law office, T. Bohl building, G5 Bank street, on and after May l, 1895, when said tax is due. from 9 a. III. to l2:3O p. m. and 10 p. m.. to receive said tax. The law provides that percentage of three fourths of one per cent per month shall be added from May 1, 1895, to any tax re- maining unpaid June I, 1895.
 CHARLES J. GRIGGS, Collector.
 Waterbury ADril 5 lS05
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16
Major Ercrhurn DenGl.

JERSEY CIIh. April 16.-Majur Archi- bald B. FrNelurn a retired United States army officer. (! Uu aI his residence in this city of Bright ds,nsH Major Froeburn was descendant uf EIhan Allen nf Revo- lutionary fame. He was major in an Arkansas voluntcUr regiment during the war and served in the regular army against the InGians after the rebellion.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16
Could Not Break the Delaware Deadlock.

DOVER. Dol. April l6.-Tho senatorial conference last night for the purpose of trying to get tho Republican members of tho legislature to unite upon some candi- date for the United States senatOrship was productive of no results. Thcro wero but two abscntces-Mr. Wilson. Higgins ad- hercnt and MT. Robbins who pins his faith to Addicks-but mono of those prcs- ent showed the slightest disposition to de sort the standard he has followed up to the present timo
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16
WaterburyFire Alarm

LOCATION OF BOXES. The following are the Fire Alarm siensL 4ndeE the new system: "a Rogers t Bro!' l-s Cor East Main and NiaeHza streets. l-4 Cor East Main and woIoott rood. l-s Cor High and walnut streets. Is CT kAst Main and Cherry streets. T.? Cor East Main and Cole streets. Fl Cor North Elm and KinRsbury strsesa 2-s Cor North Elm. North Main and aroy
 streets
 7-4 Waterbury Manufacturing sompanvs 9-s Cor North Main and North streets. T. Cor Buckingham and Cooke stresta 9-7 Cor Gr1ve and Prospect streets. 2-s Cor Hillside avc7ue and Pine street 7S Cor Johnson and W4teTviIle streets I-9 The Platt Brss Or" |. Taberb.ry CIvcE company novsnsE
 ment factoryl!'
 Exchange place. s-7 Cor West Main and Willow streets sg Cor West Main and Watertown road s-s Horse Gar Railroad stable.s s-s Waterbury Brass company" ST Cor Cedar and Meadow streets- s-s Or GranJ and Field streets. @I-3 Car Bank and Meadow streets ~l-s Randolph & Gowes' HiN Plume Atwood hAnutAetsrit q eon
 pany.s sal No Hose -ouse. -9-S Holmes Bo th HAydeRss A7-< Cor Charles and Porter streets. 5 7-s Cor Simons street and WasAinxruaI Cor South Main and Grand streets. - Cor South Main and Clay strsses- t-S Waterbury Watch company E-s Benedict a Rnrnhan Manutastnrau
 ennpany' t-e WaterhurF Buckle conpanys GT Cor South Main and WsshIngscn Se scovill Manufacturing cnmpanT Ss Or Franklin and Union streets ES Waterbury Clock Go. tease factory sS Cor Clay and NIn streeta- ES Cor LIserty and River ssrsesR S-T No. Hose House. s+s Cor Baldwin and Stone ssress.-
 Cor Bridge and Magf1 Etreeen. s-1 Ger Dooaitt1s aIlsS end p1hlm s9s@ -PriMs
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16
An Alleged Royal Romance

BERLIN, April l6.-A singular rumor is current hero tO the effect that Field Marshal Count YamaGata. tho slapancse minister uf war. iS the long missing Arch duke John of -eustria, who went abroad somo years agu under tho namo of John Orth.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

The empress of Germany is suffering from a severe cold.
 Fire at Plattsburg, Mo, destroyed the courthouse and ten business houses; esti- mated loss about $300. 900. A letter has been received from Justice Jackson saying ho would not be able to come to Washington this term
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16
SaYa He Ia A Eirehmr.

ALBION. N. Y., April Is. Joseph Jef ferson, q farm laborer surrendered him. self to the police and confessed to having set fire to tho barns of John Bachellor, which were burned to the ground. He asked to be jailed before ho carried out his purpese te Are three other barns He is believed to bs insane
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16
No Trouble.

Briggs-I heard of a travelling man the other day wko had such fine memory that he didn't have to carry around m or der rbook-remembered all his orders.
 Griggs-Quite n phenomenon. What's his line?
 Briggs-Bridges. and Fur nisher.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16
Believed at Washington,

WAsHINGToN, April l6.-There was no information Obtainable on the subject at the Japanese legation. The official to whom the dispatch was shown was in clined to credit the report that q treaty of peace had been signed, as in view of the near approach of the termination of the armistice some action was probable. Still up to n late hour nothing had been recciv ed at the legation to confirm the state ments contained in tho dispatch
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16

tnvI are taught Sb work with the hand and eye aS W, II as with the brain, was found ed by John c.
 WynIan, a phil anthropio citizen of Providence.
 MT. w y III q Il
 looks like Henry
 Ward Beecher and has tho same broad, ral views that made the great preach
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16
An Hx-Pestra.ter Drop. Bead.

NEW LONDON, Coma, April l6.-Gaorge NJ Whittlcsey, postmaster sf this city uR- der President CleVeland's first administra ton, dropped dead from heart disease while walking up State strosk He was 6S years of aga. director sf the City National bank aud enc of the best known citizens Sf New LsRtiap
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16
Auditor Mccain Resigns.

WASHINGTON, April 16.-Mr. 0. c. Mo Cain auditor of the interstate commerce commission. has resigned to accept the position of commissioner of the Assooia- tion of Lake Lines Mir. MoCain's office will be in Buffalo
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16
News of the Fate of Frank Lenr.

LONDON, April l6.-The Daily News publishes an Armenian letter giving tho result of the inquiries made to aSoert ain the fate of Frank Lenz, tho American bi- cycliSt who disappeared in Armenia while engaged in making a tour of the world. Tho writer sf the lottor says he hears that Lenz was shot dead on tho road between Kourtali and Zahar He adds that he has, however, promised the villagers 8 reward for information, and that this is likely to elicit fuller detailE
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16
The F4shsng Lion Kills His Keeper.

LAREDO. Tex. April le.-George Rooko. keeper of the lion Parnell. died at the Mercy hospital in this city from blood poi soning as a result of wounds received last Friday while standing near the lions cage.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16
Eatal End of n Buggy Ride,

FORT WAYNE. April 16.-A Pennsylva- mia engine running light struck buggy at Naples. ten miles east of hero. and in- stantly killed Charles Smiley, a young farmer, and seriously injured Miss Van RnSkirk
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-16
To Start the Mines With Negroes

PIrTsRURG, April 16.-Nearly all the mines on the Wheeling division of the Baltimore and Ohio will start up today with negroes under tho protection of dep uty Sheriffa