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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-24
CONN LEAGUE SATURDAY.

The tailenders gave the league lead CTS hard tussle at Holyoke. Not a run was scored until the eleventh in- ming. Hartley and Tuckey both pitched splendidly. The only run of the game was made by three success siye singles. The score: '@a ta-s'=a
 R.H.E. Holyoke ... O00000O00O1-1 10 0 New Haven OO0000OO000-0 : 2 Batteries-Hartley and Schincel: Tuckey and Bunyan attendance, 1892.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-24
ANOTHER ELEVEN INNINGS.

It took eleven innings for Springfield to win out from Meriden. Meriden led up to the eighth. when theo Ponies made three runs. The final score was 6 to 5. Bowler and Karns being the op- posing twirlers. The score:
 R.H.E. Springfield .O0O020O3OO1-6 s 2 Meriden .. 1001000015 10 Batteries-Bowler and O'Connor: Karns and Thackera: attendance, 1.2s0.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-24
OTHER INDEPENDENT GAMES

At EsseX-Deep River IF. Essex 5. At Ivoryton-Ivoryton 16, U. s. En- celope l.
 At Chester-Chester II, Saybrook 5.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-24
MANCHESTER THE WINNER

Manchester made 1t two straight from wIlIimsntic by winning the base ball game Saturday B to 1 at Man chester. The score
 RHE Manchester 2o0e5s0os-13 F 2 w1IIimantfc .- o00201o114 2 Batteries-Bronkiea and Scanisn. Ed wards. Alfred Nichols and Arthur Nichols. Attendance s2
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-24
KFT HANDLE CONTEsT-

ne Rockv1LIe boosba1 nine defeafed = An91ea1 oGvsr eeuuanJ n1ns 0
The Washington times., 1905-09-10
Experiences of a Rube Who Hit the Streets
of New York So Thoroughly Rural in
Appearance That the Bunco Men
Passed Him Up" as One
Vino Had OVerdone
His Makeup.

task: Boston man would not have
carried his lunch and law books to
his Office in it And above one ear, in
his hair, was a wisp of hay-the rus
tics letter of credit, his badge of in
nocence, the last clinging touch of the
Garden of Eden lingering to shame
the gold-brick men
knowingly. smilingly, the city
crowds passed him by. They saw the
raw stranger stand in the gutter and
stretch his neck at the tall buildings.
At this they ceased TO smile. and even
to look at him. 1t had been done so
often. A few glanced at the antique
valise to see what Coney attraction"
or brand CT chewing gum he might be
thus DINING into his memory. But
for the most part he was ignored
Even the newsboys looked bored when
he scampered like a circus clown out
Of the way of cabs and street cars.
At Eighth avenue stood 'Bunco
Harry" with his dyed mustache and
shiny, good-natured eyes. Harry was
too good an artist not to be panied
at the sight of an actor OVERRIDING his
part. He edged up to the country
man, who had stopped to open his
mouth at jewelry store window, and
shook his head.
TOO thick, pal," he said, critically
too thick by couple of inches.
don't know what your lay is; but
you've got the properties on too thick.
That hay, now-why, they don't even
allow that on Proctor's circuit any
more"
I don't understand you: mister"
said the green one. I'm not lookin'
for any circus. I've just run down
from Ulster county to look at the
town, bein' that the hayin's over with.
Gosh. but it's a whopper. I thought
Poughkeepsie was some punkins; but
this here town is five times as big
"Oh, WELL" said Bunco Harry, rails
ing his eyebrows, 81 didn't mean to
butt in You don't have to tell. /
thought you ought to tone down a
little, So tried to put you wise Wish
you success at your graft, whatever it
is. Come and have drink, anyhow. -
Il wouldn't mind having a glass of
lager beer" acknowledged the other.
They went to a cafe freuuented by
men with smooth faces and shifty
eyes, and sat at their drinks.
I'm glad l come across you, mis-
ter" said Haylocks. How'd you
The Washington times., 1905-09-10

Cheese ii, old man." he murmured,
reproachfully. THE Central Office
must be bughouse to send you out
looking like such gillie. You couldn't
get within two blocks of sidewalk
crap game in them Tony Pastor
props. The recent Mr.. Seotty from
Death Valley has sot you beat cross
town block in the way of Elizabethan
scenery and mechanical accessories.
Let it be skiddoo for yours. Nay,
know no gilded balls where one may
bet patrol wagon on the ace"
Rebuffed again by the great city
that is so swift to detect artificialities,
Haylocks sat upon the curb and pre-
sented his thoughts to hold a confer
ence
Its my clothes" said he: burned
if it amt They think I'm a hayseed
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like that since they run free delivery
to Providence, Rhode Island II he's
got nine-fifty in that valise it's a
ninety-eight cent Waterbury that's
stopped at ten minutes to ten"
When Haylocks had exhausted the
resources of Mr.. Edison TO amuse he
returned for his valise And then
down Broadway he gallivanted. Gull
ing the sights with his eager blue
eyes. But still and evermore Broad
way rejected him with curt glances
and sardonic smiles. He was the
oldest of the gags" that the city
must endure. He was SO flagrantly
impossible, SO ultra rustic. so exag-
gerated beyond the most freakish
products OF the barnyard, the hay
field and the vaudeville stage. that he
excited only WEAKNESS and suspicion.
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Got that for my share of grand
mothers farm" he announced.
There's $3.50 in that roll Thought
I'd come TO the city and look around
for likely business to go into"
fBunco Harry took up the roll of
money and looked at it with almost
respect in his smiling eyes
I've seen worse" he said, critically.
But you'll never do it in them
clothes. You want TO get light tan
shoes and black suit and a straw
hat with a colored band, and talk
a good deal about Pittsburg and
freight differentials, and drink sherry
for breakfast in order TO work off
phony stuff like that"
What's his line?" asked two or
three shifty-eyed men of Bunco Harry
after Haylocks had gathered up his
impugned money and departed.
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amt no farm clothes yer got on.
G'wan wit yer stage money"
On a corner lounged a keen-eyed
steerer for a gambling house. He
saw Haylocks and his expression sud-
denly grew cold and virtuous.
Mister" said the rural one, i've
heard of places in this here town
where a fellow could have d good
game of old sledge or peg a card at
keno. / got $3.50 in this vaiise, and |
come down from old Ulster to see the
sights. Know where a fellow could
get action on about 50 or SIC? I'm
goin' to have some sport, and then
maybe, I'll buy out business of some
kind"
The steerer looked panied. and in
vestigated a white speck on his left
forefinger nail.
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And the wisp OF hay in his hair was
SO genuine, so fresh and redolent of
the meadows, SO DANGEROUSLY rural
that even d shell-game man would
have put up his peas and folded his
table at the sight of ii.
Haylocks seated himself upon a
fight of stone. steps and once more
exhumed his roll of yellowbacks from
the valise- The outer one, twenty.
he shucked off and beckoned to a
newsboy.
Son" said he, run somewhere and
get this changed for me. I'm mighty
nigh out Of chicken feed. l guess
you'll get nickel If you'll hurry up"
A hurt look appeared through the
dirt on the newsy's face.
law, watchertinki G'wan and git
yer funny bill changed yerself. Dey
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The queer, guess" said Harry.
"Or else he's one of Jerome's men.
Or some guy with a new graft. He's
too much hayseed Maybe that his
| wonder now-oh, no, it couldn't
have been real money"
Haylocks wandered on. Thirst prob
ably assailed him again, for he dived
into a dark groggery on side street
and bought beer Several sinister fell
lows hung upon one end of the bar.
At first sight of him their eyes brighN
ened; but when his insistent and ex-
aggerated rusticity became apparent
their expressions changed to wary
suspicion.
Haylocks swung his yalise across
the bar.
Keep that while for me, mister"
he said. chewing at the end of viru-
The Washington times., 1905-09-10

lent claybank cigar. ''I'll be back
after l knock around a spell. And
keep your eye on it. for there's $3.50
inside OF 1t, though maybe you would
not think so to look at me-"
Somewhere outside a monograph
struck up band piece, and Haylocks
was off for it. his coattail buttons
topping in the middle of his back
''Divvy, Nike said the men hang
ing upon the bar, winking openly at
one another.
Honest now," said the bartender,
kicking the valise to one side.
You don't think I'd fall to that, do
you? Anybody can see he amt no
jay. One of McAdoo's come-on squad,
guess. He's shine if he makes
himself up. There amt no parts of
the country now where they dress
The Washington times., 1905-09-10
6NYUSIN EI MER C)N BRAVE MEN

that sets around and never done any
harm has KEEP good becaws he is big
and braiv and strong enough to say
no? Don't you beleave that about
haf the nice, quiet harmlus boys you
know would get out and be Tracies
if thare mothers wud let them or if
they wasent afrade their paws would
whip EN-? Don't you know that hat
the harmlus streat-corner loferS that
you feal sorry for and wunder that a
hard-luck victim can so preserve his
vurtue and onner-dont you know hat
The Washington times., 1905-09-10

like to play a game or two Of seven
up? I've got the keerds."
He shed them out of Noah's valise
"a rare, inimitable deck, greasy with
bacon suppers and grimy with the
soil of cornfields.
Bunco Harry laughed loud and
briefly.
Not for me, sport" he said. firm
ly. 81 don't go against that makeup
of yours for a cent. But l still say
you've overdone it. The Reubs
haven't dressed like that since 49,
l doubt if you could work Brooklyn
for a key-winding watch with that
layout
ooh, you needn't think / amt got
the money" boosted Haylocks. He
drew forth a tightly rolled mass of
bills as large as a teacup and laid it
on the table.
The Washington times., 1905-09-10

friend of mine, who has
NfSX lived in close commun
XSN&TSS4 ion with nature all his
1SHSd life, wrote a poem and
took il to an edi-
tor. 1t was living pastoral, full of
the genuine breath of the fields. the
song of birds and the pleasant chatter
of trickling streams.
When the poet called again to see
about it, with hopes of a beefsteak
dinner in his heart. it was handed
back to him with the comment:
TOO artificial"
Several of us met over spaghetti
and Duchess county chianti, and
swallowed indignation with the slip
perry forkfuls.
And there we dug pit for the edi-
tor. With us was Conant, a well-ar-
rived writer of fiction-a man who
had trod on asphalt all his life, and
who had never looked upon bucolic
scenes except with sensations of dis
gust from the windows of express
trains
Conant wrote poem and called it
1.-THE Doe and the Brook" 1t was a
fine specimen of the kind Of work you
would expect from a poet who had
strayed with Amarylis only as far as
the florists windows, and whose sole
pathological discussion had been
carried On with a waiter. Conant
signed this poem, and We sent it to
the same editor
But this has very little to do with
the story.
Just as the editor was reading the
first line of the poem, on the next
morning. being stumbled off the
West Shore ferryboat. and loped slow
ly up Forty-second street.
The invader was young man with
light blue eyes, a hanging lip and hair
the exact color of the little orphans
(afterward discovered to be the earl's
daughter) in one of Mr.. Blaney's
plays. His trousers were corduroy,
his coat short-sleeved, with buttons
In the middle Of his back. One boot
leg was outside the corduroys. You
looked expectantly, though in vain, at
his straw hat for ear holes, its shape
inaugurating the suspicion that it had
been ravaged from a former equine
possessor. In his hand was a yalise
description Of 1t is an impossible
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7 and won't have nothin' to do with
me. Nobody never made fun of this
hat in Ulster county / guess if you
want folks to notice you in New York
you must dress up like they do
So Haylocks went shopping in the
bazaars where men spake through
their noses and rubbed their hands
and ran the tape line ecstatically over
the bulge in his inside pocket where
reposed a red nubbin of corn with
an even number of rows, And mes
sengers bearing parcels and boxes
streamed to his hotel on Broadway
within the lights of Long Acre
At o'clock in the evening one de-
scended to the sidewalk whom Ulster
county would have foresworn- Bright
tan were his shoes; his hat the latest
block. His light gray trousers were
deeply creased; gay blue silk hand
kerchief tapped from the breast pock-
ct of his elegant English walking
coat. His collar might have graced
laundry window; his blond hair was
trimmed close; the wisp of hay was
gone.
For an instant he stood, respien-
dent, with the leisureiy air of bouie-
Warbler concocting in his mird the
route for his evening pleasures And
then ne turned down the gay, bright
street with the easy and graceful
tread OF a millionaire.
But IN the instant that he had
paused the wisest and keenest eyes in
the city had envelcped him in their
field of vision A stout man with
gray eyes picked two of his friends
with his eyebrows from the row OF
Ioungers in front of the hotel
The juiciest jay I've seen in six
months" said the man with gray
eyes. Come along
II was half past II when man gal
loped into the West Forty-seyentn
street police station with the story
of his wrongs
Mine hundred and fifty dollars,
he gasped, "all my share OF grand
mothers farm"
Tsn sesk sergeant wrung from hlin
the e Jabez Builtongue, OF Lo-
c;,st Valley farm, Ulster county, ana
then began to take descriptions OF
the strong-arm gentlemen
When Conant went to see the edi-
tor about the fate of his poem, he
I, was received over the head OF the
ONCE boy into the inner once tnat
is decorated with the sta.uettes Dy
/ Rodin and J. G. Brown
when | read the first line OF me
Doe and the Brook said the editor,
| Il knew 1T to be the work OF one
whose life has been heart TO heart
with Nature The finished art OF the
lines did not blind me to that fact
/ To use a somewhat hOmely COMPARE
| son. il was as if a wild, free child OF
| the woods and fields were to don the
garb of fashion and walk down
Broadway. Beneath the apparel the
man would show"
Thanks said Conant. Il suppose
! the check will be round on Thurs
I day, as usual
The morals of this story have some
how gotten mixed You can take
your choice of Stay on the Farm"
or Don't Write Poetry"
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cherry bounts or anything they is
that will maik him a bigger fool than
he Is II possible-wud he been the
nice, soaber boy he IS newer tutch-
Ing drop Of ennything when he gose
to town If he had been rased WHARF
the stuff was comoner and he sean
a drunk man or wumman every day
or mite?
Thare's Sis Williams that's alwaZe
The Washington times., 1905-09-10

Of them would be burglars oanly they
haven't the nurye TO brake into a
house WHARF they might get shot at
or ketched? Eth?
Took about the bennyfits of outrage
but currage amt everything by a
dumsite no. Evry day we OF to neal
down and give thanks that hat the
no-count peepl in the wurld with no
bad as thare lack of prinsipul wud let
them be and never bat eye. Sum
body Sed once that "conshense maiks
courds Of us ALL" but he mite most
as wei hav sed that courd-ice passes
for conshens with a gud menny of us.
The Washington times., 1905-09-10
Grafters Are Brave Men.

Took too about them fellers week
enin" and taking graft when II was
throwed in thare way. wy it talks
outrage of the wrecklessest sort to
talk graft, speshully nowadays when
theys a man for president that amt
afrade to make his party mad by fill
ing the pennytenchurries with the
apointees of congressman. 1t talks
currage to talk chanses and emmy man
that steels or murders or robs a bank
or slaps his muther-in-law talks his
lyfe in his hand and nose It as well
as ennybody.
Haf of the morrill, discipline of
the rural deestricks is nothing moar
or less than bashfulHess that a Teller
amt been able to overcum. The match
eral born rube-one of whom I have
TO class myself ass horned with the
feer that he will maik some town
Teller or worse yet some town wuman
Ian at him. That fact Heaps more
rubes from getting drunk and doing
other things the 10 commandments
don't approve of than all the morrill,
prinsipuls and backboan in the wurld.
Thares unkle Eek Sanders that jest
natcherally cant talk his eyes off a
sircus pitcher of a purity girl Or off the
girl herself if shese going apast and
she don't know hese looking. Cant
ro,, con HE fiDp{cb If hoda haap hruno,
up mormon or If hede been rased in
The Washington times., 1905-09-10
NJ lie declares that
all the c0Uz,a9ezn the wo1'H Us
not used Up IN merely hel1as good

All the outrage in the world assent
required to be good, by a DUN site.
Do you suppose any rite-minded man
can be made to beleaye that evry dub
The Washington times., 1905-09-10
Takes Courage to Be Bad.

What ! have to say ON that sub
1ecked may be right much out of the
ordinary, but CESS the way shaks-
peare and the rest of them fellers got
a reputation for branes was bi say
ing lot of things all the rest had
thot and dident hav the nurve to sa-y-
- bear gose:
The Washington times., 1905-09-10

September 8.
Dear Cussin:
motifs that the newspapers is crow
ing around part of the time and part
OF the time grouling about the wreck
lessness of Teddy Roswell, cause
when he amt sprinkling solt on the
tales OF grizley bares and choking
them to death with his bare hands,
he is going down in submareen botes
that sends up bubels like turtle
They accuse him of having acute and
ingro-ing outrage that is bad for him
and likely to leev the cuntry orfan
most any time.
Now while | don't want TO be cold
q uocker, / no a Teller that l think
has showde the kind of currage that
can give mister Roswell cards and
spaids and beat him out and that Is
the man Witzoff that is said to of
marble fifty (5o) weemen which re-
mindes me that good deal of unjus-
tus is did in use-ing that expreshun
morrill, currage," which is unjust be-
cos 1t intinidates that they amt no
sich thing as immorrill currage.
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town or at Nooport WHARF nobody
cares whose wife? Wud be a been
the strate and clean old Teller that
he is? Not in Elmer's way of think
ing.
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Copyright 1906 by the Press Publishing
Company, New York WORLDLY
The Washington times., 1905-09-10
Knows He's a Eatural-Bcrn Ruhe

/ hadent never intended 10 tell this.
butt not very long ago l tribe this
on mi own self. You no, deer Gus
sin, that If ever there was a rube
without manners borned," as the
port seq, I'm it. You no that il ever
they was chap that belonged among
the tawl weads and barn litter its
your cuSsin Elmer. Nobody in all
our naberhoOd nose emmy harm of me
cause why, they amt none to no.
But whilst l mite strut around and
be prowd about it | amt going to
for several reasons. Instid | feel
a good deal honuster just TO scringe
down and thank my lucky stars that
circumstances kept be out Of trou-
BILE just like other circumstances gets
other fellers that's rased different
into it If / Had been brung up like
some other fellers has and went thru
what l did without getting smurched,
/ would be prowd. But | cant say |
feel very cocky about what | done.
lie tell you:
When cussin Art got the raleroad
job he gave me Pass to Chicago and
return. | went. On the way I'D
thare l SGT TO thinking a good deal
like l have rote you, and | thot here
| am several hundred miles from
Continued on Page Seven. this Sectionl
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Afraid to Drink in Town.
Thare's Solly Merkle that newer
misses a chanst to get nasty loded
on hard slider or elderbry wine or
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been kind flip and giggly an Is
purifier than duran caff-would she
been perfected and people licked for
even limiting ennything about her and
wud she a been worth licking emmy
body fur by this time if shede ben
rased summers else WHARF tuff VIM
men was comoner? Is it prinsipul
and currage that has KEEP Sis saiff?
Of cease this may sound like mock
on currage and prinsipul but it amt
1t is simply to show that a lot Of
things is tagged 'prinsipul" and eur
rage" that had ort to be named eau
shun and habit and timidity. / don't
beleave in nothing getting the hot end
of it, not even courd-ice and natchereI
and cultivated bashfulness.
The Washington times., 1905-09-10
BY STRICKLAND w. GILLILAND.

PPENDED, without any
apology, is the --latest
communication l had
from my Cousin Elmer:
Poke Root, Ind,
September 8.
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Continued on Page Seven. this section-l
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He other day a poet
friend of mine, who has
lived in close commun-
ion with nature all his
life, wrote a poem and
The Dolores star., 1905-01-20
Cliffs Fall Into the Sea.

London, Jan. 15.-England has not
quite the same coast line as it had a
week ago, for several landslides have
occurred between Dover and st. Mar
garet's bay.
The largest Of these. indeed the
largest, It is said. which has occurred
on the southwest coast for more than
half a century, took place at st. Mar
garet's Bay Monday, when an enor-
NOUS slice of the Cliff, estimated by
the coast guard at about 250,000 tons.
fell into the sea.
Every day this week there have been
further falls Of several thousand tons,
at a time, and numerous ominous
cracks are appearing on the top of the
cliffs, widening almost every hour.
They involve a mass Of chalk esti-
mated at more than 1,OOO,O 900 tons. the
South Foreland lighthouse stands just
eighty yards from the edge of the clin
where one fall took place, and great
anxiety is felt over its safety.
The Dolores star., 1905-01-20
GAUGE AND CURE
OF RHEUMATISM.

Shown by numerous cures made by
podd's Kidney Pills. They cure the
Kidneys and the Rheumatism cures
itself-Remarkabie case Of Maggie
e. Deekert.
Eagle River. Wis, Jan. 1e.-(Spe-
cial)-That rheumatism is caused by
disordered kidneys is proved by the
cures Dodd's Kidney Pills are making
in every state in the Union. They
cure the Kidneys and the Rheumatism
cures itself. A cure that has caused
deep interest in this neighborhood is
that Of Maggie E. Deckert. In speak
ing Of 1t she says:
Il had kidney trouble and rheuma-
Gsm and was SO lame could not walk.
I could not sleep for ached all over.
was in a terrible state and firmly
believe that II had not used Dodd's
Kidney Pills would be dead. I took
nine boxes Of them and they have
done me more good than all the other
medicines ever took. Now my aches
are all gone, I can eat and sleep and
I am feeling good. want all tho
world to know that Dodd's Kidney
Pills cured me"
The Dolores star., 1905-01-20
Great Awakening Predicted.

That the golden age Of religious en-
thusiasm and activity Is about to
sweep over this country and that an
unequaled spiritual revival is to be e1-
perienced, is the prediction made by
Rev. DR.. Newell Dwight Hills, in .
sermon at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn.
Society has passed through the era
Of criticism and analysis and 10 now
becoming creative" he said. I'VE have
been in a dollhouse condition for
tweny years. We have analysed the
Bible and dogmatized the Bible. and
have had heresy trials that were more
dangerous than Chicago fires, and we
have asked questions and answered
them. We have passed from the old
thought that the world was created in
six days to the new thought that God
is making a new world every moment.
At length we understand that God is
not far of, that he is not to interrupt
our laws with miracles, but that he is
close to man and is living with him
all the time. All this is the result Of
science. We are at the beginning of
one Of the greatest church-going
epochs in all history"