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Connecticut western news., 1889-10-30
A Sure Sign.

Yabsley-'tWho was that old fellow with you at the play the other night2"
 "Mudge-ssMy uncle from Pump vile. First time he ever was in . theatre."
 Yabsley-'I thought so."
 Mudge-'I don't see why you should think so. I thought he be- haved all right"
 Yabsley = "Oh, he behaved well enough, but I heard you ask him to go out and take a drink at the end of the first act, and he said that he was afraid he might miss the music if he did aoO
Connecticut western news., 1889-10-30
TRADE AND IMMIGRATION.
Statistics for September Furnished by tho
 TreaAurY Department.

Statistics for September Furnfshed by tho
 Treasury Department.
 During September past 38,544 immigrants came to this country, against 39,S56 in Sep tember, 1888. Germany furnished S43O, Eng land and Wales 65S1, Ireland 5293, Sweden and Norway 3s3O, Russia, 1869, Scotland 1875, Italy 1776, France 76S.
 Merchandise exports from the United States during September past aggregated in value $65, 5,074,371, against $51 ,934 ,584 in Sep tember, 1888. Imports for the past month were valued at $53 612, TAO, against $54 103 ,215 in September, 1888.
Connecticut western news., 1889-10-30
THE NAVAL ESTIMATES.
About Three Millions More Will Be Needed
 Than Last Year.

Secretary Tracy has concluded work on the estimates for the naval establishment for the year 1S90-91. The appropriations for the naval establishment for the year 1S99-9O were in round numbers, $22, ,45O 1000. This included several millions for construction of new yes- sells now under way or projected. It is un- derstood that the estimates as finally passed by Secretary Tracy show an increase of about $3,000 ,000 over those of last year, chiefly for new work on vessels and improvements and additions to navy yards.
Connecticut western news., 1889-10-30
TOLINIIT LICENSES.

Petition Signed By the Professional and
 Business Men{ Hartford, Ct.
 Two hundred of the leading professional men and merchants of Hartford signed pc tttion to the county commissioners asking that the number of liquor licenses granted in Hartford be limited to 100, instead of the 235 now in operation. The petitioners also ask that no licenses be granted under any cir cumstances for saloons near factories, or where other goods are sold, or to any saloon where women will be employed to sell liquor. The commissioners have appointed special hearing. There will be an earnest opposition fppm tke grocexs.
Connecticut western news., 1889-10-30
Foreign.

The second Egyptian cotton crop is being gathered. The yield is poor, and will not ex- ceed the estimates already made.
 The Berliner Nachrichten says the Bundles rath will consider bill granting a subven- tion of goo, 900 marks for steamship line be. tween Hamburg and Delagoa Bay.
 At meetings of miners at Drecourt, Couvi- CTS, Bourges, Lievin and Ostricourt in Pas de Calais, it was unanimously resolved to con- tinue the strike now in progress.
 The elections in Portugal for the members of the Chamber of Deputies resulted in the return of 1O2 supporters of the government and 38 members of the opposition.
 It Is stated that arrangements have been made with the Rothschilds for new Russian loan, which will be offered to the public about the middle of December. The CZar and his family have donated 400, 900 roubles for the sufferers by famine in Montenegro.
 King Alexander on Tuesday received the members of the Skuptschina. M. Pachitch read an address. The young King, in his reply, declared his adherence to the national traditions.
 The cholera is still raging in the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates. During the past three months there have been 1000 deaths from the disease.
 The Zanzibar agent of the London mission reports that the Jesuit missionaries have been expelled from Unjamjemb, and their mission destroyed. The Nyassa and Tanjan- yika missions have not thus far been molest- ed. The missionaries, although in a trying position, are in good spirits.
 A company has been formed in London for the purpose of erecting tower in Lon- don on the Eiffel plan. The tower is to be 125O feet high. Five hundred pounds is offered as prize for the best design for the proposed tower, and f25O for the second best design. The competition is open to the | world.
 There are at present in Brazil 62 cotton factories, of which were established in 1860, between 1862 and 1868, IS between 1870 and | 1879, 20 between 1880 and 1885, and IA after | 1885. The provinces in which most factories are located are: Minas Gerdes, IA; San Paulo, 13; Bahia, 12; Rio Janeiro, g; and Corte, 6.
 The Jute Spinning and Weaving Co. of | Hamburg -Harburg has declared 10 per cent. dividend for the fiscal year 1SS8-1SS9, , as against 8 per cent. for the present fiscal year.
 | In the Province of Kiangsu, near temple, | is boys school. While the teacher was called away one day, six of the boys, with the | intention of playing joke on the teacher, | hid in empty collins that were in the temple. | The boy who was to act as sentinel had hardly | closed down the lids over the other five boys when the teacher appeared. Answering the | teachers question, the sentinel said his com rades had gone to heaven, their bodies being now in the collins. The teacher, fearing the | joke might have been carried too far, raised | the lids of the cofins and found in reality all | five boys had died from suffocation. The sixth boy, now thoroughly scared, started to | run, when the teacher overlook him and whipped him to death.
Connecticut western news., 1889-10-30

 over me nightly, and I declare that if this house were great ship, and you all were passengers on board it, and one hand could launch that ship into the glories of heaven, I should be tempted to take the responsibility and launch you all into glory with one stroke, holding on to the side of the boat until l could get in myself. And yet there are peo- pie here to whom this world is brighter than heaven. Well, dear souls, I do not blame you. It is natural. But after while you will be ready to go. It was not until Job had been worn out with bereavements and carbunces and pest of wife that he wanted to see God. It was not until the prodigal got tired of living anon ng the hogs that he wanted to go to his Fathers house. It IS the ministry of trouble to make this world worth less and heaven worth more.
 Again it is the use of trouble to make us feel our complete dependence upon God. King Alphonso said that if he had been pres- ent at the creation he could have made bet ter world than this. What pity he was not present! do not know what God will can do anything until God shows them they can do nothing at all. We lay our great plans and we like to execute them. It looks big. God comes and takes us down. As Prometheus was assaulted by his enemy, when the lance struck him it opened great he got well. So it is the arrow of trouble that lets out great swellings of pride. We never feel our dependence upon God until we get trouble. was riding with my. little child along the road, and she asked if she might drive. I said, Certainly"
 handed over the reins to her, and had to admire the glee with which she drove. But after while we met team and we had to turn out. The road was narrow, and it was sheer down on both sides. She handed the reins over to me, and said: 'I think you had better take charge of the horse." So we are all children and on this road of life we like to drive. It gives one such an appear ance of superiority and power. It looks big: But after while we meet some obstacle, and we have to turn out, and the road is narrow, and it is sheer down on both sides; and then we are willing that God should take the reins and drive. Ahl my friends, we get upset so often because we do not hand over the reins soon enough.
Connecticut western news., 1889-10-30

cept as I myself have been troubled. God make me the son of consolation to the peo- ing one perturbed spirit today, than to play tune that would set all the sons of mirth reeling in the dance. am an herb doctor. put into the caldron the Root out of dry ground without form or comeliness. Then put in the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. Then put into the caldron some of the leaves from the Tree of Life, and the Branch that was thrown into the wilderness Marah. Then pour in the tears of Bethany and Golgotha; then l stir them up. Then l kindle under the caldron fire made out of the wood of the cross, and one drop of that potion will cure the worst sickness that ever afflicted human soul. Mary and Martha shall receive their Lazarus from the tomb. The damsel shall rise. And on the darkness shall break the morning, and God will wipe | all tears from their eyes.
 You know on 8 well spread table the food becomes more delicate at the last. I have fed you to-day with the bread of consolation. Let the table now be cleared, and let us set on the chalice of heaven. Let the Kings cup
 bearers come in. Good morning, Heaven I!
 con-" says some critic in the audience, "the Bible contradicts itself. It intimates again ard again and there are to be no tears in heaven, and if there be no tears in heaven
 how is 1t possible that God will wipe any awayT' I answer, have you never seen a child crying one moment and laughing the next; ana While sne was laugnlng. you saw the tears still on her face? And perhaps you stopped her in the very midst of her re- stunned glee, and wiped off those delayed tears. So think, after the heavenly rapt- ures have come upon us, there may be the mark of some earthly grief, and while those tears are glittering in the light of the jasper sea, God will wipe them away. How we'll he can do that.
 Jesus had enough trial to make him sym pathetic with all trial. The shortest verse in the bible tells the story: "Jesus wept." The scar on the back of either hand, the scar on the arch of either foot, the row of scars along the line of the hair, will keep all heaven thinking. Oh, that great weeper is just the one to silence all earthly trouble, wipe out all stains of earthly grief. Gentle {! Why, his step is softer than the step of the dead. It will not be tyrant bidding
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-18
HUMOROUS.

"A New Jersey man has made a
ballot-box which can not be stuffed.
Now all the country wants is voter
built in the same way.-Yo nkers
Statesman.
The girl who went to service for
the first time wrote to her. mother
that her master and mistress were
very dirty, for they washed their
hands ever so many times day.
We do not know very much about
the ancient Egyptians, perhaps, but
the grand old Sphinx with its silent
woman's head shows that they were a
very sarcastic people. Journal Of
Education.
First Little Girl-..What does
your papa do?' Second Little Girl
Ties got a position under the city
government. !" well, but what does
he do?'' II don't know; he never
said. Guess he don't know hisself.'
Philadelphia Record.
Affidavit Editor Dearest Ma
thilde, can you doubt the strength
and sincerity Of my lovep' Mathilde
Swear it, Alonzo, swear it!''
Affidavit Editor Extraordinarily -
Il swear-we havesthe largest circu-
lation in the West. and it is rapidly
increasing. America.
There is no excuse for the use Of
profane language says an exchange;
and this is no doubt correct, but if
there were any the drug clerk who is
aroused at three O o'clock IN the morn
ing. by a drunken man who wants to
look in the directory to find out where
he lives would seem to possess it.
a gentleman said to one Of his
friends that for some years his wife
had persisted in saying that she was
only twenty years old. ..Mine is
more reasonable, : replied his friend.
II have succeeded in making her enter
her thirties, but have failed to make
her come out OF them. Y.
Ledger.
In a Bookstore. Have YOU got
the Blue bookp'' The blue bookp
We've got 'Burton's Anatomy Of
Melancholy. That Dug BIT to be blue
enough. " No, no. That ism it. /
mean the book with the list Of Offices. =
.'We haven't got it. But if you are
after an II, Office, you had better take the
book on melancholy. s Chicago Her
aid.
The noise Of a man stumbling
recklessly against distractions in the
hall and making hasty remarks in a
general way that sounded like Mis-
slssippi river steamboat mate making
a landing at II o'clock at night to
take on a lot Of pork barrels was dis
tinctly heard in the sitting, room.
.ssChild ren, exclaimed Mrs. Rambo
hastily. run up stairs and 90 to bad
Your father, I judge, has been paving
e gas bill. - Chicago Tribune.
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-18
The GAIN OF LOSS.

W's nolloWed the bed for our darling S rest
Anu Hhedl IL with roses white and red
AND the sod above it we softly pressed,
oleep Well, through our gathering tears,
we said.
But, oh ! the desoiate hours we spent
IN the silent home from which baby went
We missed the patter OF little feet,
T ana the broken music OF baby talk;
s we We're lost for the cares that had been 10
sweet
When The fearless laddie began to walk,
ana scarce could feel that another Hand
vas guiding HIM in the better land
The lonely days, and the lonely nights;
Had they ever a gain our fond hearts knew?
All, yes for oft. from the Heavenly heights.
came echoes floating our darkness through;
Ana the land beyond grew near and bright
Where our beautiful baby lived in light.
And our lives were touched by holier grace,
And each to each was bound the more,
For the dream in our souls OF little face,
Waiting for US on the farther shore;
And day by day we heard the chime
VI bells beyond this passing time.
There came to us too, from the baby's grave
A tender thought Tor those who weep,
Ana our hands were swifter to bless and save,
Our hearts in yearning love were kept;
We were fain to cure each bitter ache
Or ease its smart for baby's sake.
And so we have learned to count the gain,
Where o1.ce we counted alone the loss;
And SO, through the bitter-sweet Of PAIN,
Have found the blessing within the cross.
taThank God, we cry with reverent breath,
''For the life that Is quickened but through
death!'
Margaret e. Sangster, in Congregationalist
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-18
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Prof James Bryce, author Of The
American Commonwealth, s attained
great eminence, years ago, by making
the ascent of Mount Ararat.
--Chauncey M. Depew never writes
a speech, but usually spends a few
moments in rejecting on his subject,
joJting down a few headings in the
process.
The short-story writer. Octave
Thanet, whose real name is Alice
French, is a hard literary worker, not
unfrequently writing ten hours at a
stretch. She is pretty girl, with.
soft, Wavy brown hair.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes com
plains of the prosecutions inflicted
upon him by volunteer correspo ndents.
Twenty or twenty-five letters in his
mornings mail is considered a light
delivery, and nearly all are upon sub
jects of interest to the writer's alone.
Hans Won Burlow, the famous
pianist, is noted for his eccentricity as
well as for his musical talent. When
he has done any thing to shock his
friends and enrage his enemies he
makes no apologies, but simply shrugs
his shoulders and says: Its a way /
have"
"A New York bookseller says he
never has any trouble clearing his.
angling book stock in the spring and
the shooting and hunting book stock
in the fall. He ahirms that books on
field sports and angling are the safest
things in the book line; they always
have market no matter how old they
are. Their value increases with age.
Toward the end OF his life, it is
said, Charles Reade was accustomed
to dictate his compositions to a secre-
tary while he paced the room, suiting
his actions to his words. In Love and
Money the remark occurs in the dia-
logue. "There's a smut on your nose. .
The dramatist gave the original excla-
nation with such perfect information
and gesture that his secretary was for
once deceived. He rose and went to
the mirror, handkerchief in hand,
only to be laughed at by his employer.
Miss Will Allen Dromgoole, says
report, is a literary lady who has cut
her official throat with her little pen.
Some of her recent magazine sketches
of life in the Tennessee Mountains
carried a sting to the denizens of that
section, and when Miss Dromgoole re-
Gently sought an election to Senate
clerkship, big, rough bearded Scion
from an up county arose and roared
out: "She wrote agin the mount'ns!
war be known'st ter it, an I'm agin
her!' The Senate sat petrified and
Miss Dromgoole incautiously giggled.
1t sealed her fate. Another hill-coun-
try legislator was hoisted to his feet by
his indignant colleagues to second the
objection. He did it tersely and effect
ually. ''She lowed the wimmen folks
went b'arfoot an ther men talked a
diurlec. I'm agin anybody as is agin
the mount'ns.' The issue was joined.
and on the ballot being taken, Miss
Dr0mgOole was beaten.
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-18
CHEATING THE PUBLIC.
why " Doesn't Pay to Engage in Que
finn a u - 80 =

way ~ Doesn't Pay to Engage In Ques-
tionable Enterprises.
Inc Public is d credulous fellow.
but, Tor all that it does not pay to cheat
MN, Some tradesmen have an idea
That that q they can only wheedle him into
tnelr establishments by plausible adj
Veftlsements, it is the easiest thing in
the world to pick his multitudinous
pockets. But, although exaggeration
and falsehood, with the aid Of startling
typographical effects, may induce a
rush OF customers, they will not secure
ia steady run. Capitalized offers of
fashionable dry goods at fifty per cent.
under the current rates may lure the
many headed mass to the proffered
feast OF cheap things (for man is nat
urally a bargain-loving animal, and
women more SOY, but if Cheap johns
merchandise bellies his printed boast
ings, the visit will not be repeated.
The Public, being of magnanimous
disposition, and unwilling to give
trouble without rendering a quid pro
quo, will lug out his numerous wallets,
dlsburse without murmur, and carry
off for the nonce quite a load of bogus
bargains, !" the mendacious merchant
meanwhile rubbing his hands and con-
graduating himself on the success Of
his advertising dodge. But he will
Z lookssi in vain for the return in force of
our vietimized friend. Day by day his
business will fall off, and he will be
pretty sure to learn in the end. by sad
experience, that the community, credu-
lous as it is, can not be beguiled time
after time into the same trap, baited
with the same chaff.
Hundreds Of Cheap Johns of this
class have 1ourished and faded in New
York within our recollection, while the
honorable houses with whom they
hoped to compete by bidding for custom
with false pretenses, grow stronger,
wealthier and more popular every year
AS a rule, never expect to get s'bar-
gains from merchants who advertise
to sell goods below auction prices. IN.
& Y. Ledger.
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-18
Stricken With Apoplexy.

An aged gentleman of our acquaintance
went out after hearty meal to remove the
Ice from the sidewalk. He worked as an
old man naturally would with his head and
shoulders bent low. He suddenly fell, be-
came unconscious and soon died.
What was the cause Of his deaths
Apoplexy- physician would say apo
plexy Of the brain.
In persons of good health, the coats of the
arteries throughout the entire body are
tough and elastic. In unhealthy persons,
particularly those whose kidneys are dis
eased, the walls Of the arteries undergo
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to the action of the
impurities in the blood which the kidneys
have been unable to remove.
In these cases, when the action of the
heart is intensified by vigorous exercise,
or excitement, the pressure upon some
artery becomes too strong for it in it's
weakened state--a rupture occurs and a
stroke Of apoplexy follows as matter Of
course.
Derangements Of the kidneys are COM
mon cause Of apoplexy.
Whenever they fail in the complete re-
moval of the waste matterin the blood, the
| deadly poison known as uric acid ac-
cumulates, and creeps through all the
blood channels where it rapidly causes de-
cay.
The primary cause Of all organic disea Sc
such as paralysis, consumption, heart dis
ease and nervous disorders, is directly at
tributable to a failure Of the kidneys in
their special function Of purifying the
blood. Kidney arrangement is without
doubt the most aggravating as well as the
| most prevalent of all ills of the present day,
| and unless kidney disease is taken in time
and prompt restorative, such as Warmers
Safe Cure, applied-death will inevitably
result.
Advanced kidney disease has bafled the
nited efforts of the best physicians for
years and it is solely due to Warmers Safe
Cure, simple vegetable discovery, that
| modern science has been able to success
fully cope with it.
Life insurance companies make sure of
It's non-existence before issuing their poll
cies and the learned and careful physician
will not attempt to prescribe for patient
afflicted with serious illness before first
ascertaining if this disease is present.
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-18
The F aith Is Lacking.

doctor, if there is no such thing as
hydrophobia how does it happen SO
many persons who have been bitten by
rabid dogs die afterward in convul-
slons?n
They die of fright, sir. They are
scared to death. The imagination
sometimes exerts a power sufficient
to kill. =
Then why can't a patient who
thinks tl he has hydrophobia be cured in
the same way by making him imagine
he is going to get we'll Pr
Because we can inspire him with
any-er-faith in our medicines. =
Chicago Tribune.
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-18
Rocked ON the Crest Of the wsves.

The landsman, tourist or commercial
speedily begins, and not only be-
human misery during the transit across the
tempestuous Atlantic. But if, with wise
he has provided himself with a
supply of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, his
pangs are promptly mitigated, and then
cease ere the good ship again drops ner
anchor. This is worth knowing, and thou
sands of our yachtmen, summer voyagers,
tourists and business men do know it.
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-18

who forwarded ST. each for q Emusic box
capable Of playing twenty three tunes'' re-
celved large package on which sixty
cents express was charged containing
three Gve-cent Harmonious. 2
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-18

THERE is tide in the affairs of men
which if taken at the food leads or to fort
une." # Your affairs are at a low ebb now,
don't fail to write to B. r. johnson & Co,
1909 Main street, Richmond, Va, who have
RAPIDLY -.
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-18

MACHINERY is driving out hand labor at
lastill the nail-worklng trade in England.
The machines have had a monopoly of the
bus iness in this country for many years.