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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-23
WEARS NAME ON BREAST
Travelling Man Cashes Check at Ho- tel Through Queer Means
 of Identification,

For the purpose of identifying him. self in order that he might secure money on draft novel method was employed by a travelling salesman of Detroit, at hotel in this city recently, reports the Milwaukee Sentinel The man is quite we'll known among a number of business men in this city, and he has never experienced any diff ficulty in securing the necessary iden- tification for cashing drafts. He ex- pected to reach Milwaukee on Satur- day, but did not arrive until Monday.
 When ne registered at the hotel he asked the clerk to cash check fdr him, but the clerk politely asked for identification. The man then called up number of his business acquaint- ances by telephone, but was unable to locate any of them. Finally happy thought struck him. Taking off his collar and necktie, and unbuttoning his. shirt bosom, he exclaimed
 'T guess that will identify me-"
 On the breast of the man was his name tattooed in blue letters. He stated that the name had been tattooed on his breast years ago. The draft was cashed by the clerk.
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THE PRINCESS
 WAITS
By JEAN coURTENAY
Copyright, loos, by Joseph B. Bowles.,

l Copyright, 1906, by Joseph B. Bovles.) 1 It was yellow room, her sanctum, and seemed to hold eternal sunshine.
 It was at the top of the great town house, and extended right through the building from east to west. Wide case ment windows with deep window seats opened out, on the east, to the park; so that you looked away into green ness and space, and missed the traffic that surged in the roadway beneath,
 The walls were bung with old yellow tapestries, and art treasures aboundcd
 And she who sat there in the quaint gilded chair? She was like some old world princess or fairy queen-motior- less and silent Dreaming amid beauty | herself it's very essence-yet waiting in unconscious wistfulness for the awakening of love. Pamela's father, realizing that his only child possessed unusual beauty had desired an artist to paint her in her sanctum. Pamela was now await ing she first sitting. She was 50 engrossed in thought that she did not hear him announced, and only became aware of his presence by the deep sigh of artistic pleasure that escaped him as he gazed spellbound on the picture before him.
 She moved slightly, and broke the spell.
 Don't move, please! Keep just as you are. The pose is absolutely per feet" he said, eagerly, and with cer- tain authority.
 Then you have come to paint my portrait?"
 Her voice was soft and musical, and she had slightly foreign intonation that was quaint and pretty. It cam with a touch of surprise to the artist for her father was typical English man, proud and reserved.
 4 had dared to imagine it possible till I saw you" he said. Now you frighten me-"
 But how?" Her wonderful eyes widened with surprise, and he found them deep gray.
 Because he made a ges- ture of despair, mo canvas will hold you!"
 A little smile lifted the corners of her mouth as she answered: "Is that SO? I did not know that I was so- large; you frighten me now, Mir. Er- roll!"
 The artist was rapidly making the necessary preparations for beginning his sketch. He looked up at her words and meeting her droll expression.
 "Ah, it is not your size" he said. "it is your beauty"
 His dark head was bent once more over his crayons and paints and he
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TRAVELLING ON HIS RIBS.
Russian Tramp Was Doing the Stunt Worked by the American
 Tramps.

Pouitney Bigelow, who knows Rus. sia we'll, was describing the Russian muzhik.
 The muzhik is naive," he said. Here is story that they told about him.
 "A muzhik of Moscow boarded the Petersburg train and in due time the conductor came and asked for his ticket.
 "T have no ticket said the musAik, naively.
 No ticket7' cried the conductor Then off you go. you scoundrel, at the very next station.'
 And at the next station, according ly. the muzhik was put on with . half dozen thumps in the ribs.
 He waited till another Petersburg train came along, he boarded thls train, too, and at the next station, with more thumps in the ribs, he was again put oil.
 "Undaunted. he boarded the third train and a third time he was beaten and put on.
 A passenger who aligtted ct ths same place was interested in the muz. hik. and said sympathetically:
 Where is it you are going, my friendl"
 The muzhfk with . patient smiis replied:
 To St Petersburg. if my ribs VIII stand it."
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TT was a little after sunset on May
 30. 1885, when young Duncan went
 ashore from the towboat at Cairo.
 A The town was ablaze with fire works, for 6 local celebration of the close of the war was in progress as he made hts way up the slope of the levee through narrow passageway that ran between two mountainous piles of cot ton bales. At other points there were equally great piles of corn and oats in sacks, pork fin barrels, hams and bacon in boxes and finer goods of every kind in bales and packing cases. for Cairo was just at that time the busiest en- trepot in all the Mississippi valley.
 The town was small, but It's business was larger than that of many great cities. The little city lay at the point where tine Ohio river runs into the Mis- sissippi. From up and down the Mis- sissippi, from the Ohio, from the Ten nessec and the Cumberland and even from far up the Missouri great fleets of steambOats were landing at Cairo every day to load and unload cargOes representing a wealth as great as that of the Indies. A double headed rail road from the north carrying the prod uce of half a dozen states and con necting by other roads with all the great cities of the land made it's terTni- nus at Cairo. Two railroads from the south - traversing five states - ended their lines at Columbus. a little farther down the river. and were connected with the northern lines by stesmboets from Cairo.
 Cairo was the meeting place of com merce between the north and the south Out of the upper rivers came light draft steamers Plying the river below were steamers of far different oon- struction by reason of the easier con ditions of navizztio1- At Cairo every whether from north os south. unIoadei it's freight for reship- ment up or down the river. as the case might be. upon steznb0ats of a differ eut type or by rail And all the freight brought north CT south by rail must also be transferred at Csiro. efther ts rfrer steamers CT to railroad cars
 The south was stTII thrOnsed vtth northern troops. numbering hundreds of who must be fei and cl0th- q and otherwise sEppIied- and % tbe own trafsc thro1zh the torn vzs in ftsslf . trade of vast pro portions But thst vss the smallest pzrt o< the Eztte-. Now that the var rss st s1 ed ths sgzz1 vas seftlg
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missed the rose-red that warmed her clear pallor; and perhaps it was as well, for it would but have deepened his despair. .. Her smile grew.
 Beauty is but skin deep, they say. Your canvas should be strong enough to hold me even sol"
 Erroil strengthened himself from his stopping position an. looked at his fair sitter. Then he laughed frankly and said:
 "Ah, the beauty is not all. There is the spirit behind that is more difficult to capture; and behind yet again is the woman's heart that will waken only at the coming ot her prince. Isn't that so?"
 TT think 1t is." she said, wonder. ingly, and once more the rare roses bloomed in her cheeks. "But-how did you knowf"
 He was standing now before his easel busy at work, watching each sub- tie change of expression fit across her face with the artist side of him upper most. and therefore unhampered by the self-conseiousness of the man. | q read it in your eyes, I think" he replied.
 Just then the door opened and a trim maid crossed the spacious room and seated herself with her work at the farther window.
 When Erroll left that morning he carried away with him in his heart, . picture that would never grow dim, and an ache that would never be cured till he had won fame, and might dare to awaken the princess.
 The sittings took place regularly, and the portrait grew, and so did their friendship.
 Panela's deep eyes gained a glad ness-and an added vistfulness of which she knev not. but which en- hanced her beauty in the eyes of Er- roll
 His pictured Pamela had found her soul. IL looked out Of her glorious eyes and startled the beholder by it's pouer and lovsliness. and to ErroII it prophe- sled fame The real Pamela vss not quite 50 confidential after time. She vas gentle and gracious always: that sss her nature. but at times she would become shy and the acne grew and grew la the artists heart
 He kner that the princess vzs ready to awaken but alas, the poor prince vzs delayed In his coming
 He called her pIsyfulIy princess fin memory q his srst fnprzsssoz ssoaf Der. Ess had zzde hsr promise sst ts
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CHAPTER ".

TT was q truly terrible tramp that
 the young man had before him but he did not shrink So long as k his provisions lasted he pushed forward stopping only in the wood lands or by tie vayside for sleep and for eating By the tine that his pro visions were exhausted he had passed the vaIIey and had crossed the crest Of the AISeEkanies-
 He was now in a e0s8try that had not been vzste1 by var. q country h vtsck men o< every class seemed to be rezso7zbty prospero1s and hard at wEk
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H Captain In tbe Ranks
By...
 GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON
copyht lso4 by Barnes Avenue

he was more than sixty years old. He had been killed in the trenches before Petersburg, leaving his only son, Gull ford, not only without a patrimony and without home, but also without any family connection closer than some distant half theoretical cousinships. The young mans mother had gently passed from earth 50 long ago that he only dimly remembered the sweet no bility of her character, and he had never had either brother or sister.
 He was thus absolutely alone in the world, and he was penniless, too, as he rode down the mountain steeps. But the impulse of work had come to him, and he joyfully welcomed it as some thing vastly better and worthier of his strong young manhood than any brood ing over misfortune could be or any leading Of the old aristocratic, half idle planter life, if that had been possible.
 In connection with this thought came another. He had recently read Owen Meredith's "Lucile,' and as he jour- neyed he recalled the case there de scribed of the French nobleman who for time wasted his life and neglect ed his splendid opportunities in brood ing over the downfall of the Bourbon dynasty and in an obstinate refusal to reconcile himself to the new order of things. Duncan remembered how, aft ter awhile, when the new France be- came involved in the Crimean war, the Frenchman saw clearer light; how he learned to feel that, under one regime or another, it was still France that he loved and to France that his best serv- ice was due.
 That" thought Guilford Duncan, twas a new birth of patriotism. Why should not a similar new birth come to those of us who have fought in the
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 surrendered and when the Colfeie-acy ceased to be. the event was scarcely less shocking and depressing to their minds than if it had been an unfore- seen and unexpected one.
 The melancholy that instantly took possession of such minds amounted to scarcely less than insanity. and for a prolonged period it paralyzed energy and made worse the ruin that war had wrought in the south.
 Fortunately Gullford Duncan. thrown at once and absolutely upon his own resources, thus quickly escaped from Ae overshadOwing cloud.
 And yet his case seemed worse than shat of most of his comrades. They at feast had homes of some sort to go to-: be hsd none. There was for them. debt burdened as their plantations were. at least q hope that some way out might ultimately be found For him there was no inch of ground upon which he night rest even a hope
 Born of an old family. he had been tred and elneated as o1e to whom abureance was to come by inheritance. q man destined from birth to become h tine the master of a great patrimo- nal estate.
 But that estate wss honevcombed uSh hereditary debt the result of g-n- e-fii1Es Of Iarisb livirE vastsfuI F.e.1ris of sg-irultEre and overzs1e-- or hes7ztaiity. Ahsut the tine vhe7 var e1ze tlsere ezrre sTso a crisis in tie lTairs St Ga-fcSsi Dz1czn-s fzfhs-- I.o1z l1Fo~e tks var srled the ekier Tan kzd -u-Tz1lezci svesTthing he sd IE tts E0rzl ts 1.5s r-eEftors- He a..l tstn cllzse,1 "a s5s sElSs tSEzh
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 LOOK at her plct~fo ..II ls j. ..s ..-..sneu
 Do grow quickly?" she asked on
 day. T wait with impatience to se
 myself"
 You must not grow too fast, prin cess, or you will not have strength t, live. Do l tire you with the sittings. 1 he added, wistfully.
 "Oh, no, MT. Erroll," was the cage reply. 'They are my Sne hesitated
 Your what, my princess?" His darl eyes questioned eagerly. They make me very happy" was tn, shy answer, and the roses that only bloomed for Erroll crowded into hel face.
 You will spoil me for any other sit ter, Princess Pamela" said the artist wondering how much longer he would be able to crush down the longing tc gather her close to his heart. Hel naive confession made the temptation almost irresistible.
 Her father was delighted with the portrait and anxious for it to appear in the Royal Academy that year.
 You have succeeded wonderfully Mir. Erroll," he said, with more enthu- siasm in his manner than it often showed. My little daughter is before me in all her winsomeness; and"-his voice softened-"her mother looks at me out of her eyes! This picture will make you famous, hope" he added kindly.
 T hope so, sir. And, if it does, may come back and ask you for a far greater favor."
 "Indeed!" The Englishman retired hastily into his shell. q hope 1t may lie in my power to grant 1t, if so. But there will be time enough to discuss that when the picture is accepted"
 The picture was hung on the line.
 It represented Pamela as the artist had first seen her, sitting in the giIaed chair, with her great dark eyes gazing out into space. And in painting her eyes Erroll had succeeded wonderfully, for they were as evasive in color as the living counterparts. But instead of the dreamy, far-off look, there was a dawning recognition in their soft, tender depths, as if she. already saw her prince in the far distance, and was longing to welcome him. Her droop- ing mouth was shaped for a kiss, and her lap was full of violets.
 It was called The Princess Waits" and was proclaimed tie crowning tri- umph Of art in the exhibition.
 Erroll found himself famous and be- sieged with orders So he asked that greater favor," which was not denied him.
 Then he persuaded Pamela to let him take her to see the picture. She was quickly ready, and In clinging woolen gown of creamy tint with violets in her belt and a dropping white hat, she looked to him fairer than ever.
 It was early in the day, and the room was empty-blessedly empty when they arrived there. And when Pamela had gazed at her pictured self for some minutes, she turned to the artf< and said:
 You said you saw 1t in my eyes Is it there novf"
 Look at me and I will tell you" was his reply.
 She raised her eyes to his face, but what she saw there startled her, for after . fee;ing glance, her white lids fell
 Then Erroll drew her close and closer. and stooping his dark head. laid ! tender kiss on the curved lips. while he whispered: Wake up. princess. Tour prince has come"
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Nv rrploave

There Is sDothsr new explosive for the destruction of navfes and armies. It is named -visOrst" Fire does no; explode 1t. but burns up It is safe sszfns- both friction and concsszion- It can se fired only by an electric cur. rent. Is Eot affected by water or air. and therefore ts safe for trznsporsz- tIozL It is a Gerzan inFs1tsoa-
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police officers to whom he could turn them over he adopted new plan. He secured heavy stick from a bale of hay. and with that he clubbed every cotton thief he could catch. As 6 sol dier 1t was his habit to adapt means to ends. so he hit hard at heads and seiz- ed upon all the stolen goods. Thus passed Gullford Duncan's first night as a common soldier in the great army of industry.
 In the morning at the hour appointed be presented himself to Captain VIII Hallam and was taken into that per sons private office for an interview.
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MeasurinE Hsindrope.

The largest rsinarops are about one fin of an inch in diameter. They ar, measured by allowing them to fall h four Eseh drop forms c pellet oi dough- These pellets are compared -ith others ostsined from drops oi known size
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from the lower Mississippi, from tn, Arkansas, the Yazoo, the Red river the White, the St. Francis and all tn, rest Of the waterways of the south en ergetc men of broken fortune wer, hurrying to market all the cotton tha they had managed to grow and to say, during the war, in order that the, might get money with which to bu, the supplies needed for the cultivation of new crops.
 Pretty nearly all this cotton came t, Cairo, either for sale to eager buyers there or for shipment to the east an6 a market.
 In return the planters and the south ern merchants through whom they dit business were clamorous for suct goods as they needed. Grain, hay pork, bacon, agricultural implements seed potatoes, lime, plaster, lumber and everything else necessary to the rebuilding of southern homes and in. dustries was pouring into Cairo and out again by train loads and steam D0aC cdrgOeS night and day.
 As Guilford Duncan emerged from the alleyway between the cotton bales and reached the street at top of the levee a still burning fragment of the fireworks fell upon bale of which the bagging was badly torn, exposing the lint cotton in way very tempting to fire. With the instinct of the soldier he instantly climbed to the top of the pile, tore away the burning punches of lint cotton and threw them to the ground, thus preventing further harm.
 As he climbed down again a man confronted him.
 Are you a watchman?' asked the man.
 "No; Pm only man in search of work"
 "Why did you do that, then?" queried the stranger, pointing to the still burn ing cotton scattered on the ground.
 "On general principles, suppose" answered Duncan. "There would have been terrible fire if hadn't"
 What's your name?''
 "Guilford Duncan"
 "Want work"
 "Yes."
 What sort"
 Any sort-for good wages" That last phrase was the result of his stoker experience.
 "Well, do you want to watch this cotton tonight and see that no harm comes to 1t, either from fire or-what's worse-the cotton thieves that go down the alleys, pulling out all the lint they can from the torn bales?" ...- Yes, if I can have fair wages"
 twill s for the night be fair wages?'
 "Yes-ample. How far does your freight extend up and down the levee?" "It's pretty yearly all mine, but I have other watchmen on other parts of 1t. This Is a new cargo. Your beat will extend"- And he gave the young man his boundaries.
 You'll be off duty at sunrise. Come
  to me at o'clock for your pay. rm Captain Will Hallam. Anybody in Cairo will tell you where my office is. Good night"
 The night passed without event of There were two or three little fires born of the holiday celebra. lion, but Guilford Duncan managed to suppress them without difficulty. Later in the night the swarm of cot. on thieves, mainly boys and girls, in. 7aded the levee, with bags convenient. y slung over their shoulders. As there were practically no policemen in the own and as his beat was a large one, 'oung Duncan for time had difficulty n dealing with these marauders. But liter he had arrested half a dozen of hem only to find that there were no
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CHAPTER III.
ALE an hour later the young man resumed his journey west ward, passing down the farther

YALF an hour later the young
 man resumed his journey west
 ward, passing down the farther
 = \ slopes of the mountain.
 Wonder why wrote Cairo as my address" he thought as his trusty horse carefully picked his way among tho rocks and down the steeps. 'I hadn't thought of Cairo before as even a pos sible destination. know nobody there. I know absolutely nothing about the town or the opportunities it may offer" |"
 Then he began more practical train of thought.
 I've food enough now," he reflected, ito last me scantily for a few days. During that time must make my way as far as can toward the Ohio river at Pittsburg or Wheeling or Parkersburg When I reach the river I must have money enough to pay steamboat fare to Cairo. There is no money in these parts, but West Virginia is practically . northern state, and there are green backs there. I'll sell my remaining pis- fols, there. A little later I'll sell my horse, my saddle and my bridle. The horse is good one, and so is the sad dle. Surely ought to get enough for them to pay my way to Cairo"
 Then came another and questioning thought:
 And when I get to Cairo-what fhsni I've good university educa- tion, but I doubt that there is a ready market for education in any bustling Missouri river town just now. I'm graduate in law, but heaven knows I know very little about the; profession aside from the broad underlying prin- ciples. Beside, I shall have no money with which to open an office, and who is going to employ wandering and utterly destitute stranger to take charge of his legal businessT'
 For the moment Encouragement dominated the young mans mind, but presently there came to him a reflection that gave new birth to his courage.
 I'm six feet high" he thought, land broad in proportion. I'm in perfect physical health. I have muscles that nothing has ever yet tired. Between the Wilderness and Appomattox have had an extensive experience in shovel ing earth and other hard work. I'm in exceedingly good training, trife un- derfed, perhaps, but at any rate carry not one ounce of superfuous fat on my person. I am perfectly equipped for the hardest kind of physical work. and in busy western town there is sure to be work enough of that kind for strong and willing man to do. can at the very least earn enough as aiaborer to feed me better than I've been fed for the four years of war"
 Curiously enough, this prospect of work as day laborer greatly cheered the young man. Instead of depressing his spirits it for the first time lifted from his soul that incubus of melan- choly with which every Confederate soldier of his class was at first op- pressed. Ever since Grant had refused in the Wilderness a year before to re- tire beyond the river after receiving Lees tremendous blows Guilford Dun can and all Confederates of like intel | ligence had foreseen the end and had | recognized its coming as inevitable. | when it came in fact. | when the Army of Northern Virginia |
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CTo be continued.)
Plant InteIliveucs

Plants sometimes display what might oe called intelligence. If. during . dry season. a bueSst Of water be placed near a growing pumpkin or melon. ir the course of fes days the plant viii turn from it's oourse. and get at Isasi one of It's leaves in the water.
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Woman rsvuD.D.r rouns~.

The death has occurred at Derby of Mrs- D. N Fike head of the firm of E M Pike. Limited. Mrs. Prks, who vas 70 years of ase. vls the widow of the late Mir. J. B. Pike. and is believed to have been the first of her ser in the world te found daily nsvspapsr.
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Barhs fin pup~.

Mere than % kinds of bark are nsa used h the nsnufactare of pzeer. B. na1a skins. pea vfnes. cccoanuf feex. hay. arar, vatsr veeds lsare<. shsv- ing. eorn huskx and hop plsrts sss sssi for ths sa1s rzrposA f
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churh srric. ,n n.rh

A series of -social Sunday night ser. vices for working people, s announced in . Norwich parish The whole ssr- vice will be conducted in the sark -so that the poorest and shabbfsst rAy not feel ost ef 1t because ef their clotnss..