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The Cost of Living.

While many skilled mechanics can command from $1 200 to &1, 800 year, working from seven to nine hours daily, clerks and accountants seldom reach that income, and many young professional men, ministers and doctors, pass some of their best years in attaining 1t. The as- sertion is all very well that person can not live on such sum as @ week, for instance; the cold fact remains that peo- pie do just that, and live well, too. Of course 8 number associated can fare better than two or three persons, for every housewife knows the advantage of relying upon the appetite or dietetic pe- culiarities of many Individuals to strike a balance in table accounts. Chicago News
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Ayers Pills
prove effective.

prove effective.
 "In the summer of 1864 I was sent to the Annapolis hospital, suffering with chronic diarrhea. While there, became so re- duced in strength that could not speak and was compelled to write everything I wanted to say. I was then having some 25 or 30 stools per day. The doctors ordered medi- cine that was satisfied would be of no benefit to me. did not take it, but per- suaded my nurse to get me some of Dr. Ayers Pills. About two o'clock in the after noon took six of these pills, and by mid night began to feel better. In the morning the doctors came again, and after deciding that my symptoms were more favorable, gave me different medicine, which did not use, but took four more of the pills instead. The next day the doctors came to see me, and thought was doing nicely, (and so did D. I then took one pill day for week. At the end of that time, considered myself cured and that Ayers Pills had saved my life. I was then weak, but had no return of the disease, and gained in strength as fast as could be expected."-F. C. Luce, Late Lieut.. 56th Regt. Mass. Vol. Infantry.
 0Ayer's Pills are
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satisfactory, as thousands of despairing pa tents can testify. A. trustworthy medical writer says: Proper local treatment is pos itively necessary to success, but most of the remedies in general use by physicians afford but temporary benefit. A cure cannot be ex.
 pected from snufs, powders, douches and
 washes" Ely's Cream Balm is remedy which combines the important requisites of quick action, specific curative power with perfect safety and pleasantness to the patient.
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By All Odds

The most generally useful medicine is Ayers Pills. As remedy for the various diseases of the stomach, liver, and bowels, these Pills have no equal. Their Sugar-coating causes them not only to be easy and pleasant to take, but preserves their medi- cinal integrity in all climates and for any reasonable length of time. The best family medicine, Ayers Pills are, also, unsurpassed for the use of travellers, soldiers, sailors, campers, and pioneers. In some of the most critical cases, when all other remedies have failed
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A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer has been looking up statistics and making some estimates. He finds that dogs in that state have "tortured to death or injured" more than one million sheep in the last twenty two years, and that at the present time they kill, on an average, sheep every twenty minutes, the year around.
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Any one who passes by the great Edi- son's laboratory at Orange, N. J., by night is apt to find the lights burning, no mat ter what the hour. Edison is an inde- fatigable worker, and he pays little heed to the passage of time when occupied with a new experiment or some fresh investiga- ton. To this sririt of perseverance he owes much of his success. A day or two ago gentleman who was visiting his lab oratory, and whose son was about to enter upon his first employment, asked Edison to give him motto for the boy, so that he might have if asa stimulus and guide. Mir. Edison laughed little at the novel request and then said "Well, I'll give him this Never look at the clock
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Second Yhoughts.

Miss Olde- Second thoughts are best, MT. Starr, and I've concluded to give . different answer to your proposal of last night. I am willing to become your wife.
 Starr-I agree with you in thinking second thoughts are best, and am sorry asked you to marry me. shall not repeat the uuestion.-Yankee Blade.
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Queen Victoria has remarkable fine head of hair, for lady of her age but her son. the Prince of Wales, is quite bald. Had he used Ayers Hair Vigor earlier in life, his head might, to-day, have been as well cover ed as that of his royal mother. It's not too late yet
 Dr. George Austin Bowen of Wood stock, the republican candidate for lieu tenant governor, was born in Woodstock, July 7th 1341. The town has been the family home since its first settlement, sev- en generations ago. At 10 years of age young Bowen removed with his parents to Brooklyn, N. r., where his education was mainly received, graduating from the university of New York with the degree of M. D., in 1862. He improved the excel lent facilities offered him in the practice of his profession, was soon made secretary of the county medical society and became connected prominently with hospital and pelled him in the spring of 1878 to retire to his farm at Woodstock for a vacation. Health returned slowly and in the mean time his agricultural tastes gained an as- tendency. and he never returned to the city to live. His farm is conducted as a dairy and stock farm; cranberries are also made a speciality. He was mainly instru. mental in establishing the Woodstock Farmers club, and was it's secretary dur ing the twelve years of it's existence and when recognized as Senexet grange was made master thereof. He was twice elect ed president of the Woodstock agricultu- ral society and is president of the Connee- tlcut Dairymen's association, director of the Connecticut Jersey Breeders associa- tion; master of the state grange and presi- dent of the Patrons Mutual Fire Insur- ance company of this city.
 Dr. Bowen earned great distinction dur ing the two years he held the office of lec- turer in the state grange. This officer has charge of the educational department. He brought it into an excellent state of or- ganization and showed the understanding of political economy and of national and state questions and their application to the conditions of the people that has resulted in his present prominence.
 In every tWn where SAYEN AIis intrndnced the sale
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MILES NERVE & LIVER PILLs-An important dis covery. They act on the liver, stomach and bowels thu through the nerves new principle They speed, constipation. Splendid for men, women and chil- dren Smallest mildest surest. 30 doses for 25 cts Samples free at w. D. REALD'S Drug Store
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It is not known exactly who is to blame for it, but the general impression through out the country is that the New York mon. ument to General Grant is one on paper only, and that if it should ever have the luck to become materialized into stone or brick or whatever it is intended to be built from, that it will be far from a graceful or dignified structure. The idea that it is to be built piece at time, while money is to be gathered for the successive browning structures, is one that initiates against the monument ever being exactly what it should be. The movement of the remains of the general to Arlington cemetery, there to be inclosed in a monument erected by the government itself, is one that is rapid ly finding friends in all sections of the country.
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Every dog has his day and the cats seem to be quarreling over the nights.
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NOTICE.--An soldiers who wish their pen
 sion claims to receive prompt and faithful aten- don shoud place their claim at in the hands of Joseph H. Hunter, Pension Attorney, Washington, DC, as know from experience that he is the proper party to handle such cases.
 26s4ws JAMES D. GRAHAM, So Wilmington. NNHE Legislature of Connecticut says :- Trustees Conservators, Administrators, Exec utors or Guardians may purchase with trust funds the Middlesex Banking Company's per cent. De- benture Bond free from taxation (upon the payment Of mills year), the amount of issue limited by aw. For sale by J. F. CHAMBERLAIN, A FULL LINE of Rubber Goods, A. such as Syrimges, H Ot Water Bottles, Rubber Bath Mfttems, Hand BruShe, i, and Tooth Brushes, Rubber Cloths New Bottle Ftxings. At HEALD'S. EHOR SALE-The Brady Property in West I Stafford, Conn., consisting of one Frame House, 1K story, and garden. Rich meadow land adjoining, in grass, about acres One Frame House, k story, double tenement, and garden. One Frame Barn, stone cellar. One Frame Store House. Water Pow CT, stone dam 16 feet fall with mill site and founda- ton, tail race, &c. Sold as 8 whole or separately Price reasonable. Terms to suit.
 J.W. CHANDLER, Stafford Springs, Conn. A E. CONVERSE, Carpenter and As Bnilder New buildings and jobbing promptly attended to-. Estimates furnished on application. Stafford Springs, Conn.
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 The colors are concert for the eye. Over a hundred of the latest tints! .- Front, main entrance.
 For the rest of this month we will sell at $1.5o yard, the best Black Dress Silk ever of fered at that price. We never heard of this silk under $2. We don't expect to hear of it again under $2.25. Left aisle.
 ''Properly Gloved" is the title of a neat little primer pub lished in the interests of our Glove Department. Sent free to those who write for it.
 FORBES & WALLACE.
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fnrbes & aieaHare's
Springfield, September, 1890.

Springfield, September, 1890.
 Gazing at the New Millinery cannot be enough. The hun ger of the eyes grows by feed ing. It's no half feast we ask you to in Jackets and Wraps either. We've had many no- table gatherings before, but never before anything so com pletely good, or so moderate in price. Even the rarest things are here at small prices, consid- ering the cost of getting them.
 Surprise in Ribbons-a big surprise!
 The demand for Moire Rib bons has been most extraordi- nary this season; nothing like it ever known before. The very enthusiasm of the business car ried one manufacturer far be- yond the point of prudence in quantity. Here comes our opportunity. We are not glad that he must lose, but, if a loss as to be made, we want to bring our great buying power into the case and make an operation so big and so marked as to produce phenomenal bargains for you. The Ribbons give this chance. They are the eel ebrated "J. E." Brand, best quality, all silk, crown edge. We took the entire stock on hand -1o,9o4 pieces. The prices are half the regular fig ures.
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In every town where SAyENAfs introduced the sale is larger than all other washing compounds. 17j1yy
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EOR SALE+CHEAP. 50 s. 0. Brown I Leghorn Pullets, 50 s. c. Brown Leghorn Cock erelR, Black Min0rca C0ckerels, and White P. R. Cockerels. A. J. TlLDEN, Stafford Springs, Conn.
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"ANTED-2 House Painters, first-class w Hard Wood Finisher.
 Stafford Springs, Conn. FRANK K. CONVERSE.
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NOR SALE CHEAP. A Lamb Family l Knitting Machine in good order, with all appli- ances. Apply Box 595, P.O.
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A Useful Present in every package SAvENA, the best Washing powder. Sold by grocers. l7jy1y
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-06-06
Mending a Dogs Broken leg.

s'The most curious accident that
ever happened to u dog, so far as !
ever heard, !" said Nicc-Ptesident Rosen
baum of the Delaware Game Pro
tective Association, was the breaking
of the leg of my pointer, Bilboa. |
and friend went ont 10 shoot quail.
and started III 90 beat wheat field
after putting the hor.e and bu gy in a
barnyard There was pretty still
wind from the north, and Biboa was
running square across it at the top Of
his speed, when all at once he S ruck
the scent of "A c-vcy about ten yards
away up wind. The instant he st uck
the scent he whirlcd toward the game,
and then over he rolled on his side
He got up and tried to run, but fell
again. | supposed he was in tit, but
when / got to him found he had
somehow broken hi, right foreleg near
the shoulder as he whrled TO tn, left
"I was so much excited that !
dropped my gun in the grass and had
an awful time finding it again, but |
got the dog into the buggy and back
to town. The doctor said I'd better
kill the dog, but coudr' It do that
| After a talk on the subject, we fixed
mp bed, that some reader of the sun
may be glad to make for a dog some
time. We took a shoe box and cut
four holes through the bottom of it in
Just the right places, so that when we
put the dog in it his legs would hang
down through the holes.
"We padded the holes with rags and
the body of the box with clean straw
and then when we had put the
dog into the box we hung it up so thai
his legs dangled in the air. The posi-
ton of the dog was such that the broll
en- leg was held immovably in abou
the right place. There we kept hin
fol six weeks. That saved the dog
but his leg was little crooked, because
we were not skilful enough to get thu
hole in the precise place needed Ill
served me well for several years there
after and then some scoundrel poisoned
him New York Sun.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-06-06

al received it yesterday" said
Charles.
.sIndeed"
"Here it is" said the young man,
and he produced battered silver
watch.
"Do you mean TO say this is all she
left vou?" asked his father-in-law,
stupefcd
'.Yes, sir"
Ezekiel Brooks whistled in sheer
amazement, and his countenance fell.
For moment he regretted his daugh-
ters marriage, but then came the
thought that his son-in-law, through a
lucky mistake, was really the posses
sor of quite a comfortable property,
which under his management might
be increased. So he submitted with a
good grace, and is on the best of terms
with his daughters husband, who IS
now in Italy with his wife, pursuing
a course of artistic study. lie treas
ure3 carefully the old watch, which he
regards as the foundation Of his pros
perity - Yankee Blade.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-06-06
An Old lInck Maker.

Hiram Camp, president of the New
Haven Conn Clock Company, has
been in the clock-making business for
over sixty years, all the time with one
concern. He probably knows more
about the history of clock manufacture
in this country than any other man in
the Nutmeg State, which gave birth to
the business a hundred years ago, and
has monopolized it to great extent
ever since. In the days of wooden
clocks the manufacturers made up q
few at a time and pcddled them through
the country, and the filling of an order
for hundred clocks would have been
considered the work of an ordinary
lifetime. Now the companies in Con-
neetieut and other parts Of the country
turn out over two million clocks year.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-06-06

Commenting on the gambling in
farm products the New York News
says: Over "A ,00o, 900 bushels of
wheat were sold on the floor of the
New York Stock Exchange on a recent
Monday, or about ninth of the en-
tire crop of the United States. In adj
dition several million bushels of corn
and a considerable amount of oats and
lard were sold. The articles traded in
represented money value of nearly
$50, 900, 900, and yet all the margins
deposited with the superin endent of
the exchange to secure this speculative
business of the day aggregated only
81 900, 600.
A business of nearly $50, 900, 900
was done in oae day on capital of
81 600, 900, which will give some idea
of the enormous speculations in op-
tions and futures in this one exchange
But the business is still greater in Chi
cago, to say nothing of the exchanges
in st. Louis and other cites, where a
large proportion of the speculative
business is transacted.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-06-06
NO. Z.
The Mnn Who nenrd II BEFORE.

you tell him Joke you relied on a. new
He smi es in a wesrisome way.
From comedy new you reclte him pt'
lie saws he saw that at the play.
You give him story that never yet taileu
TO set all who heard in roari
lie mods half approval and turns him away
And murmurs "l'ye heard it before"
The girl whom YOU WOO in your tenderes'
tone,
Whose heart YOU are seeking to gain
Listens coldly to all you may have TO pro
test.
Seeming only to wish you'd refrain.
You seek for some phrase not totally trl'e'
And cen the thcsaurus explore,
Its all of no use, and you bid her good-py-
You see she has heard it before.
How sad il must be to go onward IKE tlS''
With nothing on earth to enjoy,
And never make anyone happy yourseI
And only find things to annoy.
| Ills life like an orange whose juices are gone
lis a dry, empty shell, and no more
! Alas he is much to be pitied. not blamed
| The man who has heard il before
Washington Post.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-06-06

Fashions mandate that purses. reti-
cules, travelling bags and footwear
must be made of alligator hide has
made alligator hunting an industry in
Louisiana and Florida, and the mon
slers are rapidly being exterminated.
SO marked has been this destruction
that the Police Jury of Plaquemines
Parish, La, have been compelled to
prohioit the farther killing. 1t seems
that alligators feed largely on musk
rats, and since the lessening of tho
number Of the former the rats have
increased enormously, and have Sc
riously damaged crops. The jury pro.
hibits the killing of alligators in the
bayous, marshes, canals or on apv
portion of the land or body of water
under the penalty of S25 fine and i'm
prisonment of not more than one
month for each ofiense.-[New York
Times.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-06-06
Woods that Sink in Water.

There are AIS species of trees found
within the limits of the United States
and territories, sixteen of which, when
perfectly seasoned, will sink in water.
The heaviest of these is the black iron
wood found only in southern Florida,
which is more than 30 per cent. heavier
than water. OF the other fifteen, the
best known is the lignum vite, and the
mangrove. Texas and New Mexico,
lands full of queer creeping, crawling,
walking and inanimate things, are the
homes of species of oak which is
about one and one fourth times heavier
than water, and which, when green,
will sink almost as quick as bar of
iron. 1t grows only in mountain re-
gions, and has been found westward
as far as the Colorado desert, where il
grows at an elevation of 10000 feet
All the species heavier than water be-
long TO tropical Florida, or in sl,e~se-t t
and southwest Commercial Adver-
tiser.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-06-06
A Diamnnd. Set Tooth.


A short time ago a lady with a bad
ly decayed upper lateral incisor en-
tered a St. Paul (Minn.) dentists
office, and, after examination, the doc
tor informed her tnat the only means
of saving the tooth would be to sub
atiti 49, z u 9 iolSipg way
: a. a,
laughingly suggested that there was
an excellent opportunity to try the OK
pertinent in her case. To his surprise
his patient, who proved to be an ac-
trcss, asscntcd. DR. Ellis procured a
small-sized brilliant, and embedded it
in the gold crown which he built on
the remains of the natural predecessor.
The actress is delighted with the re-
sult, and declares that the next gem
inserted shall be a carat in weight.
The stone is not conspicuous, and
might escape notice altogether, al
though ray of artificial light makes it
sparkle in a way likely to arouse
curiosity. The actress is the nearest
actual approach to the little girl in the
fairy story from whose mouth gems
dropped whenever she spoke. 1t is
hardly probable that any such fashion
will become general, although an in
- 7ction Of the iewelled ineisos. shows
that the effect is far less startling than
would be expected Pioneer Press.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-06-06
An Emperor Shoots Cauercai,z,o

Emperor Frarcis Joseph of Austria
has been capercailzie shooting. He
began to shoot capercailzie forty years
ago, and since that time His Majesty
has killed 645 of them. He has bagged
tifty-six woodcock during his sporting
career. Most American citizens know
what woodcock is, but nine out of ten
of them will have TO plunge into the
dictionary to ascertain what kind of a
creature caperCail2ie is,-rNew York
World,
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-06-06
Ten Ccnta 2 nay Without Roard.

California miners who have returned
from China declare that the Lig Hi
mines, of the richness of which many
surprising stories have been told, are
ordinary quartz mines. They are all
operated by Chinese, who have learned
from foreign miners how TO run
stamp-mills. The ore runs from S25
to $50. The price paid for labor is
ten cents per day without board
- New York Tribune.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-06-06
HUMOROUS.
An American biz-mark-S.
A walking match-The living skele-

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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-06-06
A Uniaue Barometer.

An old Belfast (Me.) sea captain
is credited with deyising a unique ba-
rometer. 1t consists Of a thin strip of
white pine with number of cross
pieces upon it. This is hung on the
side of the building, and when damp
weather is approaching the barometer
bulges ont in the centre, while in dry
weather the centre s'pks in aud the
ends conc eAt.
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A Fnmnns Gnnse.

An interesting relic is preserved in
glass case in the Coldstream Guards
orderly room at Whitehall. 1t consists
of the head aud neck of a goose,
around which is golden collar with
the inscription "Jacob-Second Battal-
ion Coldstream Guards Beneath 1t
are the words: "Died on Duty" In
1888 rebellion broke out in our
Canadian possessions and two battal-
ions of the Guards were sent thither TO
assist in quelling it, the battalion
already mentioned being one of them.
Both corps occupied the citadel OF
Quebec, and in their turn supplied the
guards which were ordered to be
mounted in different parts of the town
neighborhood. Near one of these
guards was a farmyard which had
suffered much from the ravages of
foxes-animals were at that period
grcao pest to the colonists; and as the
farm in question had been suspected
of being the meeting place of rebels.
a chain of sentries was placed around
it.
One day the sentry whose duty it
was to watch the entrance to the farm
had his attention attracted by an un-
usual noise, aud on looking toward
the spot whence it proceeded, he be-
held a fine goose fleeing toward him,
.usss.s..sgsA pursued by a fox Ills tirst i'm
pulse was to have SzzE vS'gs'77 V reT
but this would have alarmed th
guard and brought condign punish
ment on himself for giving a falls
alarm. He was compelled, therefore
to remain n silent spectator of tin
scene, while every step brought tn
Reynard nearer to his prey.
In the height of its despair the poo
bird ran its head and neck between
the legs of the soldier in its frantic en-
dcavor to reach the refuge which tn
sentry-box could afford, and at th
same moment the willy fox made
desperate grab at the goo e, but to'
late, for ere he could get feather be
tween his teeth, the ready bayonct o
the sentinel had passed through it
body.
The poor goose, by way of showing
its gratitude to its preserver, rubbe,
its head against his legs, and mad
..s..e4aus,ss
of Joy; nor could il ever be prevailed
upon to quit the post, but walked vi
and down day after day with each sue
cessive sentry that was placed Their
until the battalion left Canada, whel
the goose was brought away with it a
a regimental pet, to England. ~ Cham
ber's Journal