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Connecticut western news., 1872-03-22

her bosom, thurst it under, drawing the quilt we'll about the bed afterward.
 "I hardly think you'll marry Sam. Spencer after all, Miss Lilly" she said aloud, with a wicked toss of her head. "1've outwitted you.'
 "Not quite," said I. Margaret Ann, there are two words to that matter.'' walked out of my closet, and stood with my back against the outer door. She knew herself trapped, but her wicked tongue had its way still.
 "So, you're in the habit of coming here p she said. "Nice young ladies, cer- tainly,"
 "l never came here before" said I, "and you know that; but I've been here all day waiting for you. I saw Lillys key in youl basket last night, and began to guess the truth. Bring me that pocket book" Margaret Ann did it. She was as pale as death, and almost as cold. I looked al her, and felt sorry for her, after all.
 "You're my brothers widow" I said s'and poor, foolish, jealous creature. haven't told any one of my suspicious yet and never will on two conditions"
 "Name them," said she 1 can't helI myself"
 "You'll retire from the business, "said I
 "Glad to do it," said she.
 "And you'll give that thousand dollar note to Lilly as wedding present"
 She looked at me and gave great gulp
 "Nasty little cat," she said; "I won't ?
 But she did, and only I ever knew why the Widow Wood was so generous to Lilly Rathbone on her wedding day, or why sh' started for Europe on the very next steam CT that sailed from New York, and still rs i mains there
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-22
At the Bottom of a Lake.

MT. Samuel Jones, near New Amster- dam, Harrison county, Ind, gives an account of having drained lake on his place covering over seventy acres, which has probably existed there for hundreds of years. The work was one of great labor and considerable expense, but re- stores to use 8 fine body of land. He says that after the draining had been completed he found evidences that the bed of the lake had at one time been oc- cupied as an Indian camping ground, probably the site of one of their villages.
 As evidence of this, he states that in digging cellar large quantities of bear and deer bones were thrown up. At other points on the place, when digging holes to set potatoes, bones of Indians were found. Several Indian graves have been discovered on the place, which appear to have been covered with muscle shells, taken from the bed of some of the neighboring creeks, or the Ohio Riv- CT. Indian implements of various kinds have also been found on the place, and in the immediate neighborhood. From the statement of MT. Jones there can be no doubt that the locality, at one time, has been the home of large tribe of North American Indians, every trace of which has disappeared, except the relics thus accidentally discovered. This is an interesting field for the Investigations of archaologlsts, and may enable them to gather some valuable information in re- gard to the aboriginies of the country.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-22
About Locomotive Engines.

About sixty days are occupied in build ing an engine from the time the iron plates go into the boiler-shop till it is completed and ready for active service. An engine varies in weight from 50, GOO to 75,O0O pounds, and, if it be a large one, with it's tender, not less than 125, ; GOO pounds. The weight of single driving wheel is 1,s00 pounds. They cost from $1O,OO0 to $13,O00. The pro gress in engine building may, to cer- tain extent, be judged of from their pro- gressivo cost. Of the cost of the earlier locomotives it would be idle to make a comparison but thirty years ago the building of locomotives had come to years of discretion, though far from maturity. In 1842 the average cost of a locomotive was $9, 500; in 1852, $7 ,500 in 1862, $8, 800 and in 1872 it is about $11, ,50O. An engine with fair wear and tear will last ten to eleven years. This makes every engine cost company ST.. 900 year. Strange to say the parts of the engine which last longest are the very parts which would be ordinarily supposed to wear out before any other the tires of the wheels. They are mostly made from Prlssian steel, and often, when the engine is thrown into the scrap heap, show little sign of the tremendous work they have dcne.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-22
Fashion Notes.

Double capes are to be worn next sea- son, instead of rounded as formerly.
 A celebrated writer says that one good mother is worth hundred schoolmas- ters.
 The most popular Spring costumes are of foulard silks trimmed with velvet and fringe.
 A new style of ruf1e for the neck is very full and wide, and is called the 'Medici frill."
 Large coral beads worn around the neck are said to be preventive against rheumatism, asthma, and the neuralgia.
 Fichus of crepe chine, edged with wide lace, are worn with dark silk dinner dresses, and are very stylish and becom- ing.
 Imitation lace is more used for trim. ming this season than the rest, as it is much more durable and not half so ex pensive.
 A new style of material for mourning dresses for Summer wear is called batiste, and is a light tan color, striped with white or colored satin stripes.
 The newest style of veils are of plain net, made square in front, and pointed al the back, the point being thrown over the bonnet, and edged with wide Span ish lace.
 A lady appeared at ball in New Yorl recently in dress of black crape ovel silk, trimmed with founces of old vene. tian lace century old, and worth its weight in gold. The ornaments were supurb diamonds set in silver.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-22

THE UNITED STATES PRINTING Or F1oE.-In the House of Representatives, MT. Garfield said the Committee on Appropriations had just been looking over the accounts for the public print ing. This Government had at present much the largest printing-house on the globe, where there were over thou sand men and women employed and paid by the year to carry on the business, where enough printing ink was bought every year to float the biggest man-of- war in the navy. A train of army wagons reaching three-fourths of the way from Washington to Baltimore, and loaded with one ton a piece packed as closely on the road as six mule teams can be packed, would not be able to haul the mass of public documents print ed every year in that printing house. Congress was now asked to appropriate more than two millions to run that establishment for the next fiscal year. With all that before the House, and re- membering the fact that there had just been erected an addition to that building four hundred feet long and seventy feet wide, he wished to call the attention of the House to the fact that unless it put the brakes on that enormous outlay, it would became scandal in the eye of the nation.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-22
Col. Fisk and the Erie.

A New York paper gives the following incident. It may be true, and it may not It is not generally known that Fisk was not the vice president of the Erie road at the time of his death. Hearing of the combination of English stock holders against him, Gould saw the ne cessity of making desperate attempt to put his house in order, and Fisk was to be the scapegoat. Accordingly he sent third party to sound Fisk about offering his resignation as vice-presi- dent. Fisk replied ''The only man who can speak to me about such mat ter is Jay Gould; but let him come him. self to me like man." After this rebuff Gould delayed for few days, and finally as a last resort determined to make a direct proposition to Fisk. It is well Opera House adjoined each other. A few days after his first attempt Gould enter ed Fisk's room in @ nervous manner, tearing up pieces of paper, as he is ac- customed to do when he IS violently agitated, and approaching Fisk's desk, said in stammering manner, "Fisk, l have got to say the most painful thing ] ever had to say in my life" Here he paused for moment, as If uncertain how to make his proposition. At this, Fisk looked up and said in his hearty way, "Weu, Gould, go on, you know I've got no feeling" To this, Gould, still stammering, replied, "Well, Fisk, it's this I've come to the conclusion, in view of this combination of English stockholders, that our future, and even our personal safety, depends upon oul separating, and I've come to ask you fol your resignation"
 Having said this, Gould backed nerv' ously to the door leading to his owr room. But Fisk looked up and said witt broken voice and great emotion "Gould, can you ask me to do that, whe1 I've stood mp all along for you, and talk en everything on my shoulders to save you ?" "Well, that's just how th' thing stands" replied Gould, in a lov voice. At this, Fisk burst into tears ant dropped his head upon his desk. Final. Fisk raised his head, and, as if ashamed of his weakness, brushed the tears ava. and said ferce1y, "Gould, if you cal hand me my resignation, I can sign it. Gould at once stepped into his ow1 room, took up the resignation which h. had already prepared, and handed it t. Fisk. The latter at once took up his pen signed the resignation, and plotted i with his clenched fist.
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Advertising.

We don't recommend advertising as the best way to get a wife but we know that it is the best way to get good trade.
 You can't eat enough in one week to last whole year, and you can't advertise on that plan either.
 Iniudicious advertising is like fishing where there is no fish. You need to let the lines fall in the right places.
 A constant dropping will wear a rock. Keep dropping your advertisements on the public and they will soon melt under it like rock salt.
 Large type is not necessary in adver- Using. Blind folks don't read news papers.
 If you can arouse curiosity by an ad- vertisement it is a great point gained. The fair sex don't hold all the curiosity in the world.
 Don't be afraid to invest in printers ink, lest your sands of life be nearly run out.
 When you advertise, see that you do it on the same principle that you buy goods. Get the most you can for the money.
 People who advertise only once in three months forget that most folks can't remember anything longer than about seven days.
 When people sec @ man advertise they know he is business man, and hls ad- vertising proclaims that he is not above business, but anxious to do it.
 "Dull times," it is said, "are the best for advertisers. Because when money is tight and people are forced to econo- mize, they always read the advertisements to ascertain who sells the cheapest. and where they can trade to the best advan- tage.
 Some say that it is no use to advertise they have been in the place in business all their lives, and every body knows them. Such people forget to take into consideration that our country is increas- ing in population nearly forty per cent. every ten years, and no matter how old the place may be there are constant changes taking place !; some move to other parts, and strangers fill their places. In this age of the world, unless the name of business firm IS kept constantly before the public, some new firm may start up, and by iberally advertising, in very short time take the place of the older ones, and the latter rust out, as 1t were, and be forgotten.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-22
See Both Sides.

A boy was trying to catch blue-bot- tie to add to his collection, and was in- disposed to give up the chase but he presently saw that the school master had taken out small coin and laid it on the table, and felt himself drawn in that di- rection.
 "'Read that,' said the master.
 "U-n-i-ni-United States of America 5 cents.
 "The master turned the coin over. Now read that
 "'In God is our t-r-u-s-t-trust. 1869. as the other one 2
 "sThere ain't any other one, said the boy, there ain't but one, but it's got two sides to it with different reading.'
 'That's it, that's it, said the master, two sides to everybody, as there are to that piece of money. I've seen an old woman that wouldn't fetch five cents if you should put her up for sale at public auction and yet come to read the other side of her, she had trust in God Al mighty, that was like the bow anchor o1 three-decker. It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth looking at. don't think your anteating specialist, with his sharr nose and pin-head eyes, is the best every day companion but any man who knows one thing we'll is worth listening to fol once and if you are the large-brainec variety of the race, and want to fill out your programme of the order of things in systematic and exhaustive way, an6 get all the half-notes and flats and sharpl of humanity into your scale, you'd { great deal better shut your front dool and open your two side ones when you come across fellow that has made @ req business of doing anything
 "That boy stood all this time looking hard at the five-cent piece.
 "'Take it., said the master, with { good-natured smile.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-22
DESTRUCTION OF SHEEP BY Docs.

DESTRUCTION OF SHEEP BY Doas.- The Spirit ef Jefersom, Charlestown, W. Va, gives the following cases of the destruction of sheep by dogs: MT. H. w. Crittendon, living in the neighbor- hood of Ripon, informs us of raid made on his sheep by dogs. It seems that MT. Crittendon, hearing disturb ance among his sheep, seized double barreled shotgun and hastened to the pen. On arriving there he found three voracious canines engaged in the work of slaughter, and although one barrel of the gun missed fire, killed one of the dogs with the other, and despatched 6 second with fence rail, the third mak- ing his escape. On the examination of his flock six sheep were found killed out right, and the remainder so injured that his loss is estimated at at least $1O0-but one sheep remained uninjured. Surely such losses as these deserve some con sideration at the hands of our Legisla- ture, and as we have heretofore ex- pressed, we trust the remedy will be ap- piled, and that speedily, in the way of an onerous tax upon dogs. MT. 0. in forms us that he has made a summary calculation, and finds that on eight farms within small radius, in his immediate neighborhood, there are forty dogs. At this rate dogs will be more plentiful than sheep. Let the remedy be applied.
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Ever.

Ever and ever the world gees round, Bearing it's burdens and crosses; Ever and ever the years roll on,
 With their tide of sorrows and losses. Ever and ever the book of life
 Bears upon it's pages The weary, weary lay of the heart. Sung through all the ages. Ever and ever with outstretched hands We grasp for golden morrow; Ever and ever the pillows of time
 Are lighted with bitter sorrow. Ever and ever tho lips smile on,
 That the world may walk in blindness Little they know of the hearts wild woe, When the face looks but with kindness ]; Ever and ever the shadows fall
 Over the golden mosses; Ever gleam from Paradise
 Lightens our cares and crosses. Ever and ever the morning dawns
 On hopes that are breathed in gladness Ever and ever the night brings in
 Its tide of bitter sadness. Ever and ever the eye of God
 Looketh upon us with pity; And ever the light is shown to us,
 That gleams from the Golden City.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-22
NO. 36.
Popular Preiudice.

There is no market in London at which horses for killing may be purchas- ed as bullocks are. Indeed, it is 8 sin gular fact that the horse-slaughterer is v1lgarly regarded as an individual very inferior, as regards social status, to the ox-slaughterer. No one sees anything in the least repulsive ill the trade of the ordinary butcher. It is as we'll known as possible that sirloins and ribs and beef-steaks could never be obtained with out the use of the poleaxe and the gleam- ing knife. Inpoor neighborhoods it is nothing uncommon to encounter Mr. Brisket's man with his thigh-boots hid eously stained, and his blue smock speckled with color that matches, bear ing huge smoking "quarters" on his broad back, or, more sanguinary still, with his head and shoulders concealed by the newly-dressed sheep he carries, and which, still limp and worm, wags it's dead head in ghastly time-keeping with the mans footsteps. Yet nobody turns away with shudder of horror or wonder how any one can be so barbar- ous as to apprentice his son to the trade of Q butcher. Popular prejudice, how ever, is decidedly against the horse slayer. He is stigmatised "knacker, '' and the meaningless term is applied to him in spirit of disgust and aversion By common consent he is banished to the bottommost round of the social lad der and scavengers and sifters at the dust-yard assert their right to look down on him. Possibly, mans affection fol the horse may account for thls. He lives with, and helps us, and shares our perils as well as our prosperity. With the poor he is one of the family almost
 and the care taken of him is commensur ate with the calamity of his falling sick and being unable to perform his share of the money earning. But when it i attempted to explain the anomaly o1 the score of sentiment; the feecy laml rises in accusing against us. Is not thu lamb emblematic of all that is gentle and innocent, and guileless Do no painters paint it as symbol of purit, and peace ? and have not poets emu lated its plaintive baa-ing over quire and reams of gilt-edged paper. Yet w
 all eat lamb We view it's naked, deli cate carcase without pang or sigh fo l its departed fleece. We are haunted b. no feelings of remorse as we pour pun gent mint sauce over that cut from it leg-that playful one of four that friske, and gamboled over the grassy mead
 We have its neck and it's innocent scra
 stewed--that scrag that felt the butch CTS fatal knife-and express our admi ration of it because it is nice and ligh and easy to digest, and regret its en-
 only when there remain bones in tn
 dish.-London Society.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-22
How to Commence Business,

There are many young men who are Tn the habit of excusing their idleness and ineficiency with the plea that they can do nothing without capital The lack of means is the ready reply they make to every appeal to action. They imagine that they possess in themselves all the prerequisites to success but capital. If they only had capital, in addition to their other imagined virtues, they would do great things in the world, they would as- tonish the natives with the boldness and brilliancy of their enterprise. They would grow immensely rich, and then lay the world under perpetual obligations to their gratitude by the magnifcence of their benefactions. This is the way they think and talk, and they roll the vain glo- | rious idea over in their minds until they become to imagine that the world is an immense loser by their poverty.
 These persons forget one important fact that all capital is the product of la bor. That nearly all rich men in this country were once poor. That nearly every personal fortune they can enumer- ate is either the product of it's owners toll and skill, or the representative of his fathers toll and skill.
 How did the makers of these fortunes get along without capital ? Had they spent the vigor of their youth in idle and | foolish lamentations over their poverty, they would have lived and died poor, and left nothing but an inheritance of homes ty behind them. Capital allied to labor and skill can work wonders in the way of material enterprises, and the man who possesses money finds it easy to make money.
 But capital is not only indispensable to young men of the right stuff for all this There are other kinds of capital besides accumulated money: brains, muscle, in- dustry, honesty, diligence, truth, fideli- ty, skill, tact, education-all these are capital, and all of them have commer- cial value, which the owner will De able, sooner or later, to command in the mar ket. Provided with these, any young man in this country may make more than he needs to spend every year, and thus have something at the end of each year to invest as money capital. If he needs money let him go to work and make it. and thus give proof of his ability to use it proftably and judiclously. If we gc into any great city, or into any prosper 2 ous agricultural district, we find the cap italists are those who have made theil fortunes without any outside aid. They did not waste their time in repining II their poverty, and in silly dreams of what they could do if they had the money te do it with. They went boldly and reso lutely to work they toiled and thought and planned, and kept toiling and think ing and planning patiently, until at las
 they grasped the fortunate moment, and in nine cases out of ten they succeeded
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Facts and Fancies.
A put up job-An auction.
 A 4. Tos1 l,no o. ho

put up lob-An auction.
 An n-ovation-Tending bar.
 Song of the oyster-Keep me in my little bed.
 A man whom we can put up with-A good hotel keeper.
 If you want to give man e blowing up, get steam on first, of course.
 Why is drunkard like bad account! Because he generally overbalances.
 A Paradox.-Do you wish to get up with the lark Then go to bed without it.
 What is that which no one wishes to have and no one wishes to loose ? A bald head.
 A poetic individual who visited Mag ara not only heard the flood, "but saw its wild fierce smile"
 Two female students recently had & fencing bout in which one lost an eye and the other had the tip of her nose sliced off.
 The newest style of ornaments for the halr are gilt and silver stars, or anchors in colored velvet, or gilt leaves, or sprays of wheat fastened on one side of the front braid.
 A countryman in Savannah, Georgia, observed gang of negroes at work in the streets, each wearing ball and chain. He asked one why that ball was chained to his leg. "To keep people from steal. ing it," said the prisoner "heaps of thieves around here"
 A recently arrived English servant girl pitched cup of scalding coffee into her mistress face, at San Francisco, because the lady hoped the Prince of Wales would die. She is now looking for another place-British family preferred references sunexceptionable.
 A young lady in Massachusetts town has taken up dentistry for living. All the gentlemen patronize her. One young man has become hopelessly in- fatuated with her. Consequently he hasn't tooth in his head. She has pulled every blessed one of them; and made him two new sets and pulled them, and is now at work on his fathers jaws.
 A man in Memphis, desiring to see the Grand Duke, took off his coat and carried large Saratoga. trunk on his shoulders up stairs, thus evading the police, who had strict orders to keep all strangers out of the Peabody House. After carry ing 20O-pound trunk up two flights of stairs, he didn't see the Grand Duke, and found somebody had stolen his coat.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-22

FA1rHFULNEss TO EMP1oYERs.-The is no greater mistake young man can commit than that of being indifferent to the interest of his employer. It must be admitted that there are circumstances under which it would seem to be almost impossible to feel an interest Tn an em- ployer's business but for all that, it is worth trial. Be faithful in small things, be attentive to your duties, shirk no em- ployment that is not dishonorable, feel that your employer is fairly entitled to every minute of the time which you have agreed to give him for stipulated remu- neration. The wages may be small-too small, but if you have contracted towork for dollar week, when your work is worth ten, stick to your bargain like a man, until your term of service has ex- pired. It may seem very hard, but it will instill the great principle of being true to your word.