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Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-10

out and twist up s few E Brake sd wheels when, ca-smashl we went into some thing.
 Some darned kind of a rubbery blanket enveloped my cheese box cab and came down over the windows, just as if some one had lassooed us with a big rubber bag. l made a frantic jerk at the whistle valve, but, instead of the sonorous sound it usually handed of, the noise it gave out then was like the shriek of a penny horn. You eouldn't hear it for a car length.
 sI was getting mighty scared, be. cause I didn't know what kind of game we'd butted into. The rubber covering had settled down over the cab windows and was shutting off the outside atmosphere from me so that could hardly breathe, and I surely thought would suffocate unless I got relief somehow. No one on the train, not even my fireman, knew what dire straits I was in. T made several in- effectual attempts to get out of the cab, but the rubber blanket had me completely cut off.
 sI tried the whistle again, but it was smothered so by it's covering that it hardly gave forth any sound at all. I had about given up hope when l heard the pop valve on the dome com mence to blow off steam. At first this added greatly to my discontinue, but realized that my only hope would be in having the safety valve blow of steam with sufficient pressure to lift the rubber covering.
 After two or three minutes had elapsed, during which time steam had been blowing off steadily with heavy pressure, the rubber bag began to lift and finally tore itself away, although it took with it a large section of the cab roof. I Twas pretty nearly exhaust ed, but managed to reverse the en- zine and call for brakes. With the assistance of the brakemen the train was brought speedily under control and stopped. We made an investiga- tion, but it was so dark we could not find out what had hit the cab and chung so tightly to it.
 seIn reading the newspaper adver- fisements the next morning saw an advertisement which stated that the proprietors of big wagon circus would pay liberal reward for in- formation concerning their balloon, which had been lost, strayed or stolen from a little village in the vicinity of which had my queer experience the night before. Their swell parachute Jumper had let the balloon get away from him. It flashed through my mind right away that it must have been the descending balloon had run into, and on my next trip out saw the battered remains of a big balloon living at the foot of the embanlment where it had been loosened from the cab"
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-10

ly by Pennington Brush where, it would be likely to have the greatest effect.
 The next instant Rose Brewster was sobbing hysterically in Pennington's arms.
 "Oh, I couldn't have stood it an- other minute. should have gone crazy if you hadn't come as you did, because I couldn't have kept him there much longer. Don't leave me, don't leave me, Penningto ton"
 'sNo, darling, never again. Keep still, dearie, and get me something to tie this pretty bird with before he comes to-
 No, no; let him go, Pennington. Remember, he was once my hus- band"
 Indeed I'll not let him go-except to jail. We'll put him where his fu- neral will do some good next time he has one. Maybe it isn't the man who was your bus band at all.''
 "Oh, yes. it. is. walled Mrs. Brew ster. Ut must be. No other man could be so mean!"
 After it was all over and there had been a trial instead of funeral, Mrs. Brewster told how it happened. When she stopped to set the cover of the coffin down she heard the man breathe, and knew that he was liv- ing. In moment it hashed over her what the rascal .intended doing. The men who brought him were undoubt- edly accomp1ices. Hearing of her it- tie fortune, and knowing her to be lone woman, they had come to frighten her to death and rob her. With superb presence of mind she brought the pistol from her bed room, and none too soon, for when she returned the scoundrel was sit ting up in his coffin, making ready to get out. There she had held him with an unloaded pistol-while he begged and threatened When the strain became unbearable she began calling for Pennington, with little hope that he would hear, and when he crashed through the window, his eyes blazing with fury, he seemed to Rose Brewster like an angel from Heaven.
 The neighbors said it served her right; she should have married Pen ,nington Brush ten years before. And Pennington was in the habit of talk ing them out to the barn and show ing them coffin, which he said he would sell cheap, because it was sec ond-hand.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-10
AFLOAT ON ICE CAKE.
Terrible Experience of a Party of
 Cape Nome Prospectors.
Details of the Adventure Related by One of Two Women in the Conn.,
 pany-A Hair-Raisfng Strug- gle for Existence.

Evelyn Buss, one of the victims car- ried out on the ice off Bluff City, has kindly consented to give her impress sions of the terrible experience for the Nome Gold Digger. She is frail little woman, who looks incapable of endur- ing such privations and hardships as she was called upon to endure, but like the rest of the party she faced the danger with the utmost coolness and courage.
 "It was four nights before Christ mas eve that Audrey Bell, Charles Hag- elin, Eric Johnston and myself round ed the point at Bluff City and found open water barring the trail Miss Bell and I were tied to the sleds, for the way was rough, and we did not pay much attention to the water, the men telling us there was often a crack at that point. Eric Johnston jumped across and ran uptown for ropes and then we realized that we were gradual ly drifting away from the shore. Peo- pie in Nome seem to think that we were carried away on little patch of ice, but our floating prison was many miles in extent.
 "As the crack grew wider Erie Johns ton and w. F. Austin, the man he had asked to assist at Bluff City, rowed out to us in boat. They succeeded in scrambling on the ice, but Austin was drenched, for it was a wild and stormy night. We had robe and two pieces of canvas, and we wrapped him in one of the sleds, and let the dogs lie around him to keep him from freez- ing. He had no hat and his clothes were wet through, so I opened my trunk and got out an eiderdown mati- nee for his head and tore up flannel skirt for his feet; the rest of the things in the trunk we used to keep ourselves warm.
 Everyone in the. party seemed anx-, ious to pretend that there was no dam
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-10

with his straight nose and long. blond mustache. She resolutely set the lamp down and removed the up per part of the coffin lid. His face app peared to her suddenly and so fright fully near. He was old now-like her self; his face was pinched by the reckless years, and his long mustache was gray, but he was Henry Brewster, the same who had broken her heart in her young womanhood. She stopped to put the cover on the floor, then rose quickly and stood gazing on the motionless features. Sudden ly she turned as though struck with an unbearahle horror and went out of the room. Her eyes were dilated and her face was more deathlike in it's frozen pallor thap the face of the man in the coffin.
 Pennington Brush went to his room about 12 He had blown out his light and removed his coat when he heard cry or call. He listened, and imagined he heard a woman's voice calling his name. He hurried out of doors and sped swiftly up the path towards Mrs. Brewster's. He stepped lightly upon the porch, determined not to frighten her by knocking, if it had been but trick of his imag- nation, she asleep and everything quiet within. He peeped cautiously through the parlor window, and the sight which met his gaze froze the blood in his veins. Rose Brewster sat in the middle of the room, point ing pistol at the man who was sit ting bolt upright in his coffin. As Brush gazed, almost doubting his senses, Rose called with all her might and main:
 Pennington, Pennington Brush!"
 The window went in with a crash, the broken glass falling upon the car pet in showers. The coffin was upset, and the supposed dead man lay un- conscious from blow,planted hearti-
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-10

s E
 He was present at the operations in Bajaur, including the actions of Sep tember 16 and 30, and returned with a medal and mention in dispatches.
 The literary fruit of his campaign in Malakand was the best book on the expedition that has been written. The next year he went out to Tirah as orderly officer to w. Lockhart, and hardly had he returned to Europe when he went up the Nile with the 1898 expedition, under the sirdar, and was in the one bit of hand-to-hand fighting of the battle of Omdurman -+the charge of the Twenty-frst Lancers, the regiment to which he was attached. He wrote a book on that campaign.
 When the South African war broke out Churchill went to the front as correspondent of the London Morn ing Post. He was captured and held a prisoner in Pretoria until he made his escape in woman's clothes. Upon his return from thetwar he was elect ed member of parliament.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-10

ger, the boys made light of every thing, and Mir. Austin was full of fun. did not realize till the next morning that we might drift out on the ice till we were Starved or frozen, and then did not see. any use making fuss about it
 That day we kept travelling to keep land in sight, as the position of the ice was continually shifting. All the time we were af,oat we must have gone 20 or 30 miles. I had been i'll and could not walk fast enough to keep warm, so they let me lie in one of the sleds with dogs round me. Miss Bell, Johnston and Hagelin kept walking all the time to prevent them from freezing. As the days went on they sometimes fell asleep on their feet.
 s.All our provisions consisted of some fish for dog feed, and little cornmeal, when we began to travel a strange thing happened. We found some wood that Austin had thrown from his sled a few days before. With this the boys were able to light fire and cook, but it was not till the third day out that I could eat a little cornmeal mush, and it revived me wonderfully.
 s'We saw a bonfire on the coast the third night, one of those, we afterward heard, that were lighted as signals to us. The fourth night it showed, and we were soaked through. If we had been forced to stay on the ice another night we should probably have frozen, for we were very wet and exhausted
 "But on the morning of the fourth day our ice field drifted in shore, and we were only separated from the beach by six miles, of rubber ice. This was our one chance, and we determined to risk it. The sleds were put side by side, and with a rush we started, the ice cracking and breaking all the way. The l4 dogs dashed on, urged by the men. I did not dare to look, but GOV cred my head, expecting every moment to go through, till some one called out we are on the beach,! and then threw off the wrap and saw one of the boys break down and sob with joy, and MT. Chisman, the roadhouse keeper at Chooloook, with an Indian, was stand ing on the shore welcoming us.'
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-10
UGLIEsT WOMAN ALIVE.
She Is an Indian, Known as "Zeeke,' 12O Years old, and a Resident
 of Washington.

A unique double distinction belongs to ""Zeeke," an Indian woman who lives at Neah Bay, Wash. SheNis said to be not only the oldest. but also the ugliest person of her ownN@r any oth- CT race on the Pacific coast, if not in the world. AS to her great age. there are hozpo4tive preofs, but Ns ~!e glance at her photogFaph s lent to estab'sh her rightful title to the second distinction.
 She was born at Neah Bay, where she has lived ever since, and Indians who are now more than 70 years old say that when they were born '.Zeeke'' was already an elderly wom-
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-10
GateIy G Brennan 3z-4z Centerst. Naterbury
il. ' Il 9 . zllo allI B3
 PURELY PERSONAL.

,Ag 3li y 2BI4 9-- . @ts l. sssss ' -SskA ! ,Fs Wu Ting Fangss 14-gsar-oi sonIi is q pupil at the Washington high school and a member of the cadet corps of that institution.
 Fourteen prelates of the Church of England are total abstainers. The archbishop of Canterbury is one of them, the new bishop of London is an other. A majority of the bishops still take their wine-temperately, of course.
 pr. Josiah Oldfield, author of new book on sThe Death Penalty" says that he wrote to all the bishops of the Church of England for their opinions on the subject, and not one of them favored the abolition of capital pun ishment.
 Col. Charles Denby, former minis ter to China, is said to have knowl- edge of the Chinese language and lit erature equaled by but few persons in this country. He speaks the high CT sort of Chinese dialects almost as native and reads the language quite as well as he does English.
 Prosper D'Epinay, the Parisian sculptor, who for years past has done most of his work at Rome, has just completed plaster model of John Paul Jones, who is represented stand ing beside an anchor, with drawn sword, as if about to leap upon the deck of an enemy's ship at the head of boarding party.
 When asked the other day as to the question he raised concerning the sym tactical number of the United States, ex-Secretary John w. Foster said: q think, after all, the best answer is that of the cartoonist: Between ourselves the United States are plural, but be- tween ourselves and any other nation the United States is singular
 Fairfax Court House, Va, has re- gently been presented with the DOT traits of distinguished men associated with the place in it's early history, in cluding one of Washington, presented by Prof. R. F. Andrews, of the Cor coran art gallery, and one of George Mason, author of the "Bill of Rights" presented by Carl Guntheurz, of Wash ington.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-10

POpular LOug lSldll~ SouHu AAoute-fs Between New York, Bridgeport and all Stations on Naugatuck Division of N. Y, N. H. and H. R. R. Steamer Rosedale-I.eaves Bridge~ port daily Sunday excepted at [: :45 a. m, on arrival of train leaving Wa~ terbury 6:45 a. m. from all stations on Naugatuck division, arriving New
 York II a. m.
 Steamer Allan Joy-Leaves Bridge
 port daily Saturday excepted 12
 o'clock midnight, arriving New York
 in early morning, giving passengers
 ample time to connect with trains for
 the west and south. Passengers can
 remain aboard boat until 9 q. m.
 RETURNING FROM NEW YORK. ?
 Steamer Allan Joy-Leaves from
 Pier 31 (new) East river daily (Sun-
 day excepted) at II a. ln., arriving
 Bridgeport 3 D. m., connecting with
 afternoon trains for the east and sta-
 tions on Naugatuck division.
 Steamer Rosedale-Leaves from Pier 31 (new) East River daily (Sun- day excepted at 3 D. m., and from foot East 31st street, 3: 15 D. m., con- meeting with TAO p. m. train for all stations on Naugatuck division. Sat urdays this steamer leaves New York one hour earlier from both landings Special excursion rates, every Tues day and Friday via steamer Rosedale, round trip 50c, other days regular rates.
 SUNDAY SERVICE. Commencing Sunday, June 23, steamer Rosedale leaves Bridgeport | at a. rn, on arrival of Sunday morn- ing train from all stations on Nauga- tuck division, for New York and York at 5 p. m., arriving at Bridgeport 9 D. m.
 Tickets sold and baggage checked 1 to all stations on N. Y, N. H. and H R. R. Baggage transferred to and from railroad depot free.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-10
MAN OF THE FUTURE.
Winston Spencer Churchill Who May Some Day Be Prime Minister
 of Grent Britain.

The London Daily News predicts that Winston Spencer Churchill will one day be premier of Great Britain. The young parliamentarian has crowded much into his 26 years. He went into the army ap21, and in the same year spent his leave with the Spanish forces in Cuba. His impress sions of the fighting there were con- tributed in a series of picturesque let ters to the London Daily Graphic
 Two years later qs97 he became at tached to. the Thirty-first Punjab in fantry with the Malakand field force.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-10
The Great World.

The great world-the great world, with
 loveliness and light Ad who would change 1t for a dream of
 other worlds as bright? We know its every pathway--its hopes,
 it's joys, it's fears, And dear to us its sunshine that glim-
 mers through our tears. The great world-the great world, the
 only world we know! And can the high gods wonder we're cling
 ing to 1t so? We love it's dust and daisies with all an off
 springs love. And shiver at the shadows around the
 worlds above. The great world--the great world, its
 winter and its spring. The flowers that rim and wreath it-the
 buds-the winds that sing! Faith frames world above us-beyond an
 azure dome; But here are hearts that love us. and here
 is home-sweer home! IF. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-10
Clothing on Credit
Take Advantage Of the Reduction in Ladies I aiIor- Made Suits.

The reductions in department of Ladies Tailor Made Suits are ofuniversal importance.
 When is taken into consideration what fine line of these garments carry, and the depth of the reductions we have made you cannot help but realize that you haven't purchased yet, this is your exceptional opportunity
 These garments all coors, they tailored in the height of the fashion, perfect fit is guaranteed and the prices show in every instance decided saving to the purcaser
 Sometimes there advantages to be gained by putting off this is one instance of it.
 We think 1t is not necessary for us to say more
 Just in and let your eyes show you the rest
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-10
The Second Neea

Stockman-You remember that pointer" you gave me on the street yesterday?
 Bonds-Yes; what about it?
 Stockman--Why, tried it, and as consequence I've come around to see if you couldn't let me have a retriever. Richmond Dispatch..
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-10
Usually the Case.

She-What became of your cousin who met man one day and married him the next?
 He-She's in St. Louis, believe.
 ''She certainly married in haste-1 wonder if she is repenting at leisure ?"
 ''No; understand it keeps her so busy trying to support her husband that she has no time for repentance."- Chicago Daily News.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-10
No Money Down
Summer Clothing, for
 Particular Men.

This is what we've always been strong in. We carr very fine clothing. well the medium priced If your taste runs to the fastidious we can cater to it.
 Unbroken lines in fine Cassmees, Serges Worsteds and French Flannel Suits await your and just because heyr finely tailored and made of elegant material don't think the prices high Suits selling here from $1o to $16 are surprising values-you think them cheap when you ook them over
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-10

an with grown children. She is a good-natured old person, and always attempts to kiss and hug people of both sexes who strike her fancy. Whenever she meets a stranger she immediately asks for tobacco, and, if it is forthcoming, she at once eats it greediIy, thus setting at defiance all known rules of health. She is nearly blind, and she has never seen herself in mirror, so that she has never had an idea of how striking is her ap- .pearance. She is supported by the
 government, and in excellent ''chi- nook" announces that she intends to live 30 years longer, or. until she reaches the ripe old age of 15o years.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-10
The Driest Spot on Earth.

The driest place on earth is the little town of Payta, on the coast of Peru, where seven years is the aver age interval between two rains In old times the water supply of Payta was brought down from the noun tains every night by herd of little donkeys, who returned in the cool Of the eveaing.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-10
Nation of Tea Drinkers.

The tea-drinking capacity of the British people is alluded to in Tea, the new monthly paper of the trade, which states that in the United Kingdom nearly six pounds of tea per head of population is consumed. Sixteen years ago the per capita consumption amounted approximately to five pounds. There is no other European country where such per capita con sumption is approached; there is no other European country, with the ex- ception of Holland, where the con- sumption of tea exceeds one pound a head. In Russia and in the United States also, which are the other two large tea-consuming countries, the consumption amounts to under one pound a head.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-10
Not a Proof of Love.

He-I point out your faults because love you.
 She-Nonsense! If you really loved me you would think my faults were ex- cellences.-Stray Stories.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-10
Hard on Amateur Nimrods.

Inexperienced hunters, who are in the habit of mistaking human beings for game, and occasionally wounding or killing the former, will do well to avoid Maine. The legislature of that state has just passed a law making it a crime, while hunting, to saccidental- 1y'' shoot human being. The penalty is ten years imprisonment or fine of S1 900
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-10
An Al Enemy.

Casey-Whoi don't ye pay Cassidy tn tin cints ye owe himo
 Costigan Faith, Cassidyputs up such a good foight Oi wudn't be friends wid him fer anythin Judge
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-10

Pietro Mascagni, the composer, iz writing life of Giuseppe Verdi.
 Walter Scotland not Marie Corel- 1i--was Queen Victoria's favorite au- thor, and she was partial to Jane
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-10
A Warning Note.

Sir Alfred Miner says the Boers are gaining ground in South Africa. If Sir Ali. doesn't watch out, says the Chicago Record-Herald, Kitchener will brand him with scorn for firing in the rear.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-10
Proof of Genuineness.

There can be no further doubt that the Gainsborough portrai. is genuine, says the Chicago Record-Herald, as J. Pierpont is not the man to be gold bricked.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-10
A CRY IN THE NIGHT
By Florence Roney Weir.

5S57FSzT STFS7FS 7ST zT 7T 7S 7N 7N7TS From the Peoples Home Journal. Reprinted by
 PerInission.)
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-10
FOR SAIE.
BRIDGEPORT STEAMBOAT 60.
II SOUTH MAIN STREE1

Popular Long Islanu Sound Route Between New York, Bridgeport and all Stations on Naugatuck Division {
 of N. Y, N. H. and H. R. R.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-04-20
WEST yIRGlNIA FACTS.
Interesting Information About West
Virginia I'm Census Bulletin.

The Census bureau has issued a
bulletin showing the subdivision OF
this country in square miles, from
which we extract some very fnteres-
ting information.
The area OF West Virginia ia square
miles is "a, 780.
The largest county in this state is
Randolph with ,086 square miles.
and Greenbrler close after with ,051.
Hancock Is the smallest county 10 the
state with 81 square miles and Brooke
Is the next smallest with 81. The
average per county is $50 3-5 square
miles. Ohio county the most popnlous
in the state, is content with ILL., and
is the third smallest Of our counties.
Custer county Montana, is the
largest county in the United States
having 20, 400 square miles, aud being
more than ten times larger than the
state OF Delaware, and nearly twenty
times as large as Rhode Island.
There are several counties in
Nevada, Montana, California, and
Idaho that are larger than either Of
the states Of New Hampshire Con-
necticut, Delaware, Maryland, Mas
sachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island
or Vermont. Certainly we have a
magnificent country.