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WATERBUET EVENING DEMOCRAT, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER ; 20? 1897. r TWO OPEN LETTERS. That Should be of Great Interest to American Women. RESULT OF A PROMPT REPLY. Mrs. Parker Considers Her Cure So Wonderful That She Desires Mrs, Pinkham to Still Pub Iish the Facts, Feeling That Other Women Should be Influenced by Her Experience. ft fs quite unusual for Mrs. Pinkham to publish a testimon: al from any one person more than two or three times, 'largely on account of respect for the woman who gives the testimonial, as well as for the' reason that she wishes her testimonial letters to be varied and numerous, thus rep resenting the wide territory over which her influence for good among he sex is being- felt; but by the special request of Mrs. Chas. Parker, of JAtr- tleFalls.Minn., Sfe we again pub lish the two letters which 'Bhe wrote to Mrs. Pinkham, the relief which she received in such a short period 'after commencing to use Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound seems to her most remarkable, and although about eighteen months have gone by since she recovered her health she never forgets to write to Mrs. Pinkham periodically expressing her gratitude and wishing to do all she can to- spread the good news among ether suffering women. May she wrota the following letter to Mrs. Pinkham: ' I am suffering and need your aid. I have terrible pains in both sides of my womb, extending down the front of d fijL PfmPin the all-'mportaiit fact that in addressing nrs. Pink- tyCI A Jwill Ur ham you are communicating your private ills to a i Bi mm -- . wornan a yroman whose experience is greater than any mala physician in America. You can talk freely to a woman when it is revolting t relate your private troubles to a man. firs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Haas., is more than ready and willing to have you write her if you are in I doubt. She will gladly answer every Tho Cat ami the I.Iz:irl. We have all heard of the odd powei ft lizard has of throwing off his tail when frightened or excited. We wit nessed a. curious instince of this when sitting at tea on the flowery terrace of one of S. Eemo's pre.tiest villas. The cat of the house appeared, returning from a hunting excursion, with a still wriggling lizard . hanging from . her mouth, and the cat's mistress at once made a humane eLort .to rescue it, with this success, that the lizard was next seen running away to a neigh boring tree quite uninjured, but with out its tail. Then a queer scene occur red. The ownerless tail, still retain ing its vitality, spun round and round upon the flagged teirace, at intervals executing a nimble skip up into the air, while the cat, disappointed of her original prey, returned to play with It aa eh would have done with a mouse. She sat do"vn to watch the pranks of the playful tail, occasionally giving It a gentle pat with her paw, or starting back as it made one of its higher eklps, as if half afraid of the uncanny power of the thing, which was now neither an animal nor really klive. Finally, as the mechanical vi tality died out gradually, the cat swal lowed the tail and returned to the tree to look for its owner, which, let OS hope, she did not find. London Spectator, ' , ;a Next to th Oldsst Railrond. ; The Ponchartrain railroad, although now occupying a very humble position among the railways of the world, yet enjoys the distinction of being the sec ond road that was completed in the United States. Its . line extends be tween New Orleans and the lake shore t Mllneburg,- and the cost of building It was ? 200,000. In its palmy days it prielded an income of eight per cent., all of which was used In improvements pt the harbor of Milneburg. etc. . For twenty years it carried the greater number of passengers and most of the freight coming to New Orleans, Pensa cola and the Fast. The Age of Stone. Recent study of the remains of stone and flint implements found near Ab beville, France, has strengthened the belief that, when those implements were made by pre-Mstoric men, ele phants belonging to two species were abundant in that part of Kurope. But, of course, the date in centuries, or even in thousand-year periods, cannot be as certained. 4 u OUR ULUSTRATEcTPAMPniEf Be m tVEftY H6USCHOLD. my limbs and lower part of my back, attended by headache and pains in the back of the neck and ears. The doctors have given me opiates to quiet the pain. I have a very high fever near all the time. I am nervous and cannot stand. My doctor says I must keep in bed. Now I place myself under your care. 1 am only 21 years old and too young to suffer so much." The above let ter was received by Mrs. Pink ham, at Lynn, Mass., May 15, which re ceived a prompt reply. The following letter reached Mrs. . Pink ham about five months later; note the re sult : " Little Falls, Minn., Sept. .21 I deem it my ,duty to announce' the fact to my fellow sufferers of all female com plaints, that Lydia E. Pinkham's treats ment and Vegetable Compound have entirely cured me of all the pains and suffering I was enduring when I wrote you last May. I followed your advice to the letter, and the result is simply wonderful. May Heaven bless you and the good work you are doing for your sex." letter. Her advice Is free. j Insects on the Apple. Prof. Stedman of the Missouri Ex periment Stations reports the results of elaborate experiments with two in sects very injurious to apple trees. The insect known as the apple-leat folder may be readily killed by thoroughly spraying infested trees or nursery astock just as soon a3 the young Insects begin to hatch, and before they have had time to fold the leaves to any considerable extent. This spraying should be done just as the apple-tree leaves are unfolding. The spraying mixture should be made as follows; One pound of Paris green, three prmndsof fresh lime, 150 gallons of water. Since there are three broods of this Insect each year, there : are three periods during which spraying can be most successfully done. f The leaf 'crumpler, another insect very injurious to apple trees, may be readily killed by thoroughly spraying the infested trees while the leaves are unfolding and before the blossoms open, with the same mixture as recom mended above. If necessary, the trees may be spray ed again immediately after all blos soms have fallen, but in this case the water in the mixture should be increas ed to 175 gallons. Never spray a fruit tree while it is in blossom; serious injury to the blos son and imperfect pollination may re- Bult, and in many instances honey bees will be killed. Never omit the fresh lime, and al ways use two or three times as much lime by weight as Paris green. This will lessen the chances of burning the leaves and injuring the trees. Spray with a mixture of "the strength just given. To make It weaker is to render it less effective in killing insects; to make it stronger is to injure the fol iage of the trees. Always see that the mixture - is kept constantly stirred while spraying. Apply with as much force as possible, and use as fine a spray as can be made. Spray thor. oughly. Hold the spray on the trees long enough to saturate it and to reach all parts, and always spray from at least two sides. The Japanese language is said to con tain 60,000 words, every one of which requires a different symbol. It is quite Impossible for one man to learn the entire language, and a well-educated Japanese i3 familiar with only about 10.000 wodrs. Eagle bran Condensed Milk. ENTITlED Babies 5houh Sent on nAP!i.icatjon THE FOOTBALL PLAYER He is brave bey ona a. doubt. Though he never boasts about ' Valiant deeds. And lusty college yell ' Is the quaint admiring knell Of his meeds. Prom his shoulders broad and square To his merry flaunting hair He's a man. And he takes a "humming" knocls Like a stalwart wooden block T In the van. , He "tackles" and he falls, t As he guards the precious ball For his life. And his courage brifthtly glo-n-s r ,' When he meets his sturdy foes,. In the strife. Then honor to the lad As he plaj s. V ,My he win a victor's plac. from the heated jostling race - Of these days. Elizabeth Alden Curtis In Hartford Courant. IN THAT BLACK BAG. "1 want you," said our superintend ent one day, "to go down to Strandon hall. Some mysterious thefts are tak ing place and the local police can make neither head nor tail of the affair." I found that I had besn announced as a hew tutor to a boy of thirteen years of age, who, however, was not to commence studies at once,, as his hol idays were not yet concluded, The thefts had been going on f oi some time, and only three days after 1 arrived the superintendent's wife"s gold watch had disappeared. She had wound it up the last thing before she had gone to bed, and when she and Mr. Stanton had gone down stairs to breakfast they had both observed that It lay' upon the dressing table. The chambermaid, too, who had gone in immediately after, had also, seen it lying there. I had no suspicion of the chamber maid. I did not like the butler, but that perhaps was because he did not betray' any great partiality for me, though he was forced to show me some respect aa the new tutor who had come to educate and look after Master Reg inald. I discovered that he was not above opening a bottle of wine and inbibing its contents, and that occasionally he might be found at a public house in the town. Yet I did not on this account jump at conclusions. The man who would steal bottles of wine and drink them was not the thief of watches, rings, plates and valuable ornaments, of which things quite a large number had disappeared. In two more days two valuable ornaments had 'been taken from the drawing room. "Mrs. Stanton," I said, "I think it will be necessary to make a thorough search through the place and into evr ery servant's box in the house." "What really struck me was that on neither of these occasions had any servant apparently left the house, or been visited by anybody from the out side: "Of course, to allay suspicion, my boxes shall be searched as well," I said. "As you will," she replied; "perhaps, however, I ought to tell you that this has again and - again been done, and that the servants have themselves so frequently urged it, and almost forced it to be done, that at last I said it should not be repeated. "I think, perhaps, madam," I mod estly urged "that, my knowledge of boxes and their sometimes secret ways may be of service." The examination was made. No se cret places were found. A few articles were taken to Mrs. Stanton to see if she would lay claim to them, but they were not hers. I had never before so utterly failed. In the course of as many weeks two other thefts had taken place, and as I never could detect the culprit nor make the least suggestion, in order to get away from the place, I thought it was time to go back to London. One day soon after my return to town whom should I see pass into a well-known pawnbroker's shop in the west end but Mr. Stanton! I followed him in and spoke to him but he seem ed in no way to know me. "My name is Trevelyan of Scotland yard and I have been in your house at "Winchester, striving to detect thefts that are taking place there." "I have no house at Winchester and I do not know you," he rather curtly eaid. "Well, this is a funny go," I involun tarily exclaimed. In no way discon certed, however, the gentleman un fastened his bag a ag I well knew and offered in pledge two or three ar ticles that to me were perfectly fa miliar." "Why, sir, you are Mr. Stanton of Strandon hall, Winchester, and these are things I know to have been in youi house." "Yes, and you have pledged many such things," the pawnbroker, who knew me, said, "b".t always in the name of George Suff aid." "Certainly," he replied, "and I live at Cumberland place," mentioning a number. I went to Cumberland place, but no such name a Sufiield was there known, and though I lingered about till late at night, the gentleman whom I knew to be Mr. Stanton never appeared. The next morning I was off to Win chester, and, of course, went straight to Stanton hall. Mr. Stanton, as usual, had left for business. "Did Mr. Stanton tell you that he saw me in London yesterday?" I asked Mrs. Stanton. "I am not aware that he was in London yesterday. He has not said anything about It." "Well, at any rate, I have discovered how your property goes, and where some and the whole of it is." "And you have caught the thief?" j "It is not a thief who takes it." 1 "What do you mean?" "Your goods; are taken from this house and disposed of, though not sold, by Mr. Stanton." Mrs, Stanton was astonished, and could hardly believe her own ears. "But how can it be accounted for?" she asked. "Only, I think, in two ways either he needs to raise money for business -0. Ms y A IF YOU HAVE BEEN PAYING TOO MUCH Qflght happen you know) If you did not receive satisfac tion in the style or wear of your clothes, make a note ab U. S, & Co's Window. OYERCOATS. OVERCOATS. OYERCOATS $8, $10. $12 SDITS. SUITS. SUITS. OYERCOATS. OYERCOATS. OYERCOATS- $14. $16. $19. SUITS, SUITS. SUITS. It is possible to make your selection of an Overcoat & fuit at a price that will fit your pocket book, aud get the full limit of Talue combined with the newest and most popular styles. In fact every customer gets a profit and goods straight from the factory when dealing with $ ETON, HH0i Main Entrance, 89-91 Bank St EIEVATOH ENTRANCE, e-i-86 South Main Street. purposes, or he has an hallucination. "He is not short of money, for he certainly is very wealthy, and his busi ness is exceedingly prosperous. As ts an hallucination, he once did suffer from a very peculiar one indeed. He thought that his right arm was off; but he was cured of that." "I think," I said, "you had bettei consult the doctor again." The doctor was immediately sent for and he advised that nothing should at present be said, but that first of all the black bag day by day should be ex amined to eee if any articles from home could be found in it, and per haps it would be better for that to be done by the head clerk at the office, who, of course, must be let into the se cret. That was done, and many arti cles supposed to' be stolen were recov ered in that way. London News. Queer Rjttlwity KcouomlcB. Railway economy has taken somf uriou3 forms: "Every line its own manufacjpirer," isays the London and Northwestern Railway, and hardly a thing that it needs, whether a locomo tive or a printed label, is made for It by people not belonging to the com pany. It is its own artificial leg maker When an employe has had the mis fortune to lose a limb on the line a wooden leg or arm, as the case maj be, is sent to him from the carpenter's shop at Crewe. The leg making de partment of the Northwestern employs a couple of expert instrument makers working continually to supply the de mand. At Wolverton, On the same system, you will see in the carriage works a man engaged in etching fancy designs upon the plates of the ground glass used in flrst-class compartments and saloons. The Midland Company has found it advantageous to have a "photographer-in-ordinary." If a bridge shows signs of decay or an embankment is likely to slip, the engineer-in-chief, on re port, sends him to photograph the the "accident" (they call everything accident on the railway), thus saving a personal visit. ' In the case of a "smashup" the pho tographer immediately takes eeveral photos of the train or trains from dif ferent points of view, so that, when the Board of Trade inquiry comes on thera can be no dispute as to how the en gines and carriages were lying. This is the age of things pneumatic A St. Louis man has invented a rub ber cloak which can be transformed in to a mattress by blowing it up. .Ev erything is blown up nowadays. A pat ent has been granted for a kind of cap which, being blown up, may be made to serve as a pillow at night, or es & life-preserver in case of shipwreck. This Is a most convenient thing to travel with on the ocean. There is al so a aife-preserving corset. Better than any of these, however, is a pecu liar buoyant fabric, devised by a Ger man. It is Interwoven with the quills of geese or other birds, and Is intend ed for wearing apparel or for linings. So light is it that a person on a voy age, if clad in a suit or dress of it, may be sure of floating in case o disaster or failing over board. . WATERBURY FURNITURE QW FOR TH IS Sale The New Opera House is almost completed and Moriarty's New Block is in pfb cess of construction. The Waterbury Furniture Co's Warerooms are to be remowfad and improved immediately WE ARE in order to make room for engaged in tearing down arid RIGHT ROYALLY -:- THE -:- PEOPLE -:- RESPONDED , to tne magmncent f LOWEST it you question tne trutn or our assertion, come ana oe convinced, it you are I not a judge of goods and their value, bring a friend. who, is.. It- will pay youtQu come fifty miles to share in the magnificent values which we are , now distributing. Why, even the "I never believe in advertisements,'' the "It can't be dones," the "Know Alls," the "Doubting Thomases' and "Wiseacres" are converted to the belief that this is the greatest sale ever known in Connecticut, where y-oi; can purchase medium and high class goods for the Parlor, Drawing Roam, LK -brary, Hall, Bed Room and Kitchen at 1 FIFTY CENTS ON THE DOLLAR. V That is to say, during this sale the goods' will be sold at one-half the regular price at which they are marked 5. ' , prices m THE DEAD cared for as well as the living. Night Telegraph Office, 5 East Main THE WATERBURY FURNITURE GO BTanttfactiire of Tacks. In describing the manufacture of racks, nsed in the shoe trade, the Wor cester, Mass., Gazette says: A tack usually differs from a nail in that It has a sharp point, while the paint of a nail la blunt, or at Jeast this is true as regards cut , nails as distinguished from wire nails. While tacks are, as a rule, smaller than hails, they can be larger and still remain tacks, because Of their sharp point Tacks and cut nails are made, except for the finishing process, on a single machine, and the size of a tack fac tory is designated by the number o machines It contains. , The great bulk of shoe tacks are made of steel, yet brass tacks are made to a considerable extent. Chan nel and corrugated coolers' nails also make quite a large item for the fac tory's product. The material for steel tacks conies in Bheet3 thirty-six inches long by eigh teen inches in width. It is first treated to a chemical bath to remove all scales and rust. It is then cut into strips of a desired width by a powerful cutting machine. The strips are then taken to the tack making machine r'oper, and fed Into the machine, one after the other. Each strip Is placed in a tube by the machine operator, after which the further feeding of the strip and the cutting of the tack is automatic. The cutting of the tack is diagonally across the strip, and as each tack is Clipped off an automatic attachment turns the strip over and thus it works over and back on the instant, all the while moving into the machine. As a point Is clipped off, it is held in a vice like attachment, while a hammer, called the header, puts a flat or round bead upon It. When it is desired to mane a tai- with corrugated sides, a pair of dies are set in the machines, which make the corrugations automatically and form a part of the work of making a tack in a single operation.4-15 As the tacks are cut and headed they fall into a box, from w:hence they are" taken to a sifting or sorting machine. This machine is in effect a revolving sieve placed on an Incline. All defective tacks, like those too short or having a one-sided head, fall through the perforations, while the perfect ones slide out of the sieve into1 the box. All tacks designed for last ing machine use, however, are first taken to a rattling or polishing ma chine that they may be made , smooth and clean. They are then run through the sorting machine, and to further make sure that every tack is a perfect one they are looked over by an exam iner, who, by practice, has become ex ceedingly expert at the work. Very few tacks are shipped in bulk, but are put in paper boxes, and these in turn put In wooden boxes, each made to contain 100 pounds. Every paper of tacks Is weighed, and when closed a label giving the size and style is Attached. A humorist leaps galy upon the steps of an omnibus, and criee cheerfully to the conductor: . "la the ark full?" "No, sir," replies the jovial conductor, "we have kept a eeat for yoUiV What ho! within there! Room for the monkey." WFFK WE SHALL CONTINUE OUR GREAT ; Half - Price of Furniture. FORCED TO THIS SALE the army df workmen, wha, building up in the new. urniture .Bargains onereu oy PRICES EVER cut nsr AN IDLE MOMENT. "The new revenue cutter is a Record utter, too. N - Wigsby was asked what mine was the beat to invest in, and replied, "Mine own." Boys will be -boys. This is nonsense. Boys will be men it they live long enough. Everjr man is of the opinion that ha paid a terrible price for his experience, while others got theirs at a bargain Counted. The late Princess Alice of Hesse did maich for thft progress of women, and her memory is fondly cherished by those who were benefited -by her kind ness. Tar and feathers do not seem to be an antiquated mode of punishment, at least in Nebraska, where a man wa3 recently tortured for cruelty to hiz ctep-daughter. The Machias, Me., Union tells of an Auburn man, who has been confined -to a sickbed seven weeks now, and who wrote a book three years ago on "Hot not to be sick." Husband Why ar you so anxious for me to insure ray life? Devoted Wife Well, darling, what chance should I have of marrying again if you left me pehiless? 1 , "I have proposed to seven girls thi3 Summer already," said Timmihs,. "and I haven't been able to get accepted once. Dinged if I am not beginning to feel like orfe of my poems." A French gentleman, who had heard Turn called spirits, went into a hotel and called for a glass of punch, re questing at the same time that it Should be made of "ghosts from tho Vest Indies." There Is a wealth of subtle logic In the epitaph inscribed on the tomb of a North Carolina moonshiner: "Killed by the government for making whiskey out of corn grown from seed furnish ed by a congressman." Miss Madeline Pollard, who disap- peared from public view after her' sen sational suit against Congressman Breckinridge, is living quietly In Lon don, and ia understood to be studying with a view to engaging in literary work. A watchful and eloquent parrot hung in the saioon of John Stadler, in Muncie,. Ind. The proprietor and his family slept up stairs. A fire broke out while the occupants were in deep slumber, and they were alarmed in time to save their lives by the parrot constantly shouting: "Fire! Fire! Get me out!" Stanley Writing. Tipnn Stanley was one" of th tintvM. ously illegible writers. It is told that a man who had received from him a note utterly unintelligible, sent It In his des peration to a friend- a chemist to invoke his aid In unravelling the mys tery. Great was his astonisnment to receive in reply a bottle of medicine, with the following letter: "I send you the mixture. It was rather a poser to mskfl out the doctor's writfnsr. but r ' tih.inir fhat I have nf If oil rlht " Tho ! chemist had made it up as a prescrip tion; - V FA in a few short days, will ine isig store ' at NAMED! hlajl Calls answered from District! St. " The English idea is that twisting tho lion's tail is crooked work; Chicago Tribune. . - , ' : As might have been expected, noth--. log at all has come of Mr. ChamDerrX Iain's fine jubilee scheme for federat- ing the British empire. Buffalo Ex- " press. If England gets into a row with this country over tho seals and the boun dary line, we will not let her have anylt of our big wheat 5rop. Pittsburg Times. We learn that Europe is going. to .; combine against the United States. , -Then we'll have a chance to hear tho '. Concert of the Powers. Buffalo Eo , quirer. " , .. ,t . Forty thousand more boys and 14; t men are wanted in Spain to,. go anUivr fight that handful of insurgents that were about to be demolished two years . ago. Syracuse Post.- ; As Europe's wheat crop in 1897 will- he from 100,000,000 to 120,000,000 bush- Z els' smaller than that of 1896,,-and the reserves of wheat on hand: at tha re present time are lower than they, wetfo. at this season in the past eight or ten'" years, the wheat market for the. neXi;v six or eight months Is likely to . to s Strong. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. u--tv , "v .'.' ; It CASTOHIA. signature of starviimg:; : r There are thousands of children- who are actually starving. Starving '4 for a kind of food not furnished in their regular diet. Starving not for. milk or cream, but for - ln ETROLEUKt ; EMULSION The oil in this Emulsion is already par . tially digested, so the digestive 'organs are saved a great amount of ' work. ). It is readily absorbed and sd legins upon its mission of good at once. ; - The hypophosphites also build .up . the nerves and put force into "all the : activities of the little body. Delicate ' children readily gain strength from it. SoM by all druggists. SOc. and $loo. Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained and all Fat-1 ent business conducted for Moderate Jrrit OUR OFFICE IS OPPOSITE U, S. PATCRf QrFldT and we cansecure natent in lea time ta&4 tMM' remote from Washington. ... . . J Send model, drawing or photo., with descrip tion. We advise, if patentable rrt net. trrn of1 cnarge. v'iii ice not uuc nu patent is secured, i A PAMPHLET, " How to Obtain Fatbits," with cost of same in the U. S. and foreign countncsJ sent free. 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