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EASTON.

ceIeDrateu memorial DAY. Inc thought
originated with Mr. Gallup, principal of
the Academy. Great credit is due to him
for the plan and for Its efficient execut-
Ion. He was cordially and ably second
ed by all whose aid he asked, the schol-
ars of the Academy, the speakers, the
Easton orchestra and the ladies who fur
nlshed the entertainment. The Congre-
gatlonal church was filed, with the ex-
ception only of the back seats in the gal.
leries. A large and beautiful national
flag was extended over the pulpit and the
speakers platform was tastefully decor
ated with flowers. The exercises occu
pied an hour and a half. Program:
Song, alag OF the Free, "school and orches
ira.
Prayer, Rev w. j. jennings.
Reading, "Tho American Flag" Edith +
Sherwood.
Reading, "Union and Liberty" Agnes L
Kent.
Reading. "Tho flower of Liberty" Fannie L
Disbrow.
Reading, "our flag" Emily J. Roberts.
Music, "Star spangled banner" orchestra.
Address, Rev w. j. Jennings.
Address, Rev ID. j. Ogden.
Song, american hymn" school and orches
ira.
Address, Rev Thomas E. Gilbert.
Address, Rev W. NJ. Weeks.
Address, J. w. Johnson.
Song, "America," school, orchestra, congre
cation.
Benediction, Rev ID. j. Ogden.
At the conclusion of the program, the
audience adjourned to the green and wit
messed the raising of the stars and stripes
over the Academy by the scholars, the
orchestra playing a national air. A col
lation was provided in the Academy hall
for all who took part in the exercises. 1t
Is to be hoped that this patriotic cele-
bration, so successfully carried out, will
be kept up In Easton in future years.
Children's day will be observed at the
Congregational church, Sunday after
noon, June s.
Mrs Charles Silliman, Misses Minnie
Wheeler and Maud Silliman and Fred
Silliman attended the fifth anniversary of
the wedding of Mr. and Mrs Zina Beard
of stratfard, June 3.
Eugene Pattison of Norwich visited his
father, Nelson Pattison, who is quite
feeble.
At the Union service, Sunday evening,
Rev Mr. Weeks preached telling sermon
to large and appreciative audience from
these words, "0nly believe"
The monthly union meeting of neigh
boring ministers at Rev Mr. Gilberts, next
Monday, June o.
william Burr of Bridgeport has visited
his daughter, Mrs Osborn.
Mrs NJ. Il. Bates has returned from a
months visit In Redding.
N. b. johnson of Weston was guest at
William Wards, Memorial day.
Rev George Benedict has visited his
mother, Mrs DIR Benedict.
Rev Mr. Davies of New Haven has Wis
tied Charles Powell.
Mrs William Sherman visits Mrs
George Freeborn.
Isaac Wells recently spent few days
with his brother in Waterbury.
Clarence Sears has called on his grand
mother, Mrs Maria Knapp. Clarenc,
owns safety bicycle and manages hi
machine with great experiences.
II. Il. Wheeler of Bridgeport spent
Memorial day with ID. w. Edwards.
Max Schwartz of Brooklyn and Miss
Meta Schwartz of Bridgeport have beer
home.
Through the efforts of william anC
Harry Garfield, a 35-foot pole, surmount
ed by nice flag, was raised, Memorial
day, on the green between the judo
school house and Mrs Harriet Canfield's
We hope the example win be followed
by others.
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BRIDGEPORT.

C. L. Beardsley, Jr, is making plans
for four-tenement frame house to be
built on George street by E. Edwards.
1t will be 42x42 Ia, and each tenement
will contain five rooms.-[Record.
A. B. Fairchild has moved his office to
No. Warner building.
Edward Brannagh, an iron molder,
was fatally injured by being struck by a
train at the depot, Saturday night.
Fairfield county Woman's Christian
Temperance Union will hold conven-
ton in North Main Street Methodist
church, Bridgeport. Tuesday. June 10.
convention at 10 10 and l 45; children's
meeting at 4; Bible reading in the even
ing by Mrs E. A. Chapman of Meriden.
All are cordially invited.
Charles Rohrbach, Louis Kutscher and
family will sail for trip to Germany
on the 18th.
Mrs Chauncey Ward, who died this
week at Boston at the age of &c years,
was one of the original members of the
South church.
II. N. Ayres, the hustling boot and
shoe merchant, had the drawing for his
piano and two sewing machines, Monday
evening. No. 16,s46 took the piano, No.
1888 one sewing machine and No. PIP the
other. If not claimed sooner, there will
be another drawing in two weeks.
The Waterbury Sunday Herald, which
has been so filthy for some weeks as to
disgust all decent people, struck snag
in Bridgeport, where its circulation was
prohibited. A few were sold and two
newsboys who were arrested for selling
them were each fined $40 and costs.
Judge Lockwood appealed the cases.
The railroad commissioners met at
Bridgeport, Tuesday. to hear parties for
and against the proposed New York,
Bridgeport and Eastern railroad. The
Consolidated, whose line the new road
intends to parallel, alleges that it is sim
ply regeneration of the Olmstead par
allel, whose layout it follows closely.
The commissioners will have something
to say on the subject at their meeting at
| Greenwich.
The horse railroad has received 81 new
horses and is breaking them in for the
five-minute schedule.
Patrick Harty, for more than a score
of years member of the Bridgeport
police force, died suddenly at his home,
| Wednesday morning, of heart disease.
lie has been doorman at the central
station for nearly four years. He was
a faithful, popular policeman.
| Contracts for the construction of the
| new Seaside club house have been
awarded, w. S. Hurlburt securing the
carpenter work for about S29, 600. IL. M.
Purdy will do the mason work.
Miss Jennie w. Lent and Charles b.
Gabriel, formerly of this city, were
married at Peekskill, Thursday. They
will live in Brooklyn.
The first number of the Kirmess Rec
ord, an eight-page, three-column paper,
made its initial bow to the public, June l.
geographically, it is very well gotten
up, has large advertising patronage and
the reading is devoted principally to
pointers on the great kirmess and pardon
to be given by the Associated Charities
at Proctor's, Bridgeport, next week.
Bridgeport beauties in the race for the
Journals diamond earrings are Misses
Katie Love, Katie Lowe, Mamie Reagan,
Mary Pearson, Florence Rapp, Christine
Miller, Nancy Gibbs.
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HUNTINGTON.

Jurors chosen:
David 7. Beecher, Stephen Il. Palmer, L. v.
b. Hubbard, James II. Brakeman, Almon B.
Ruggles, Edward S. Hawley, Warren c. Hub
bell, Charles Beard, S. Byron Brownson. SIG.
Brakeman, Clark S. Beardsley, Joseph Tom
-linson, Daniel A. Nichols, Alex j. Burgess.
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sTRATFIELD.

The cutting away of the hill in front of
the Seeley property the Nichols property
and the road and other improvements
now being made on Stratfield avenue will
make it one of the finest thoroughfares
leading out of the city.
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PLATTsvILLE.

No hair pins are made at present by
the Crown Hair Pin Co.
Mr. Seeley's house Is progressing rap
idly and viii be ready for the masons
soon.
The Newtown bee., 1890-06-06
TRUMBULL.

Quite large number of friends from
Bridgeport gathered at the pleasant home
of Mr. and Mrs Peter F. Ferris. Sunday.
The Newtown bee., 1890-06-06

mans by E. Sherwood and r. Jennings.
Mrs Laura Nichols is in Bridgeport.
Elihu Burr's store has been visited by
| thieves.
Mrs Emma Carr has visited her aunt in
Black Rock.
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NoRFIELp.

Mrs r. e. Sturges Of Danbury has vis-
tied friends in this vicinity.
The Newtown bee., 1890-06-06

Il. Ii. Dana and Mrs Thorpe, have built
houses adjoining the old estate.
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SOUTHPORT.

Miss Annie Buckley has returned from
New York, where she has been at Miss
Reeds school.
The Newtown bee., 1890-06-06

ldDuCu tL iuoHUlI ios bACiSAo4S,
one of the oldest. The first primitive
church building, put up in 1910, was al
lowed to remain until 1915, when it was
replaced by second and that in turn
was supplanted in 1747. This was burn
ed by the British in 1879 and the build
ing which arose from the ashes stood till
1919, when the structure just burned was
built. The society has membership of
about 200 and is strong and wealthy.
After the disposition of routine BUSH
uess at the regular monthly meeting of
the selectmen, Monda y morning, DIR Dom
aldson presented the following petition
and spoke earnestly in support of the inn
provement. Selectman Hawkins asked
if special town meeting would not be
required to attend to the matter; but
Judge Glover explained that it was sim
ply an incompleted part of the macadam-
lied road expense and that it ought to
have been finished long ago. F. B.
Wakeley and Harry Flint also spoke in
favor Of the measure, showing that the
water collecting at the corner by Mr.
Flint's was nuisance which should be
abated at once. The expense Of drain
ling, it was thought, might not exceed
$3.50 and, as Mr. Rowland said, it was at
present q detriment to the popularity and
progress Of the village; for nearly all
who came to the village from the depot
pass that corner and pedestrians are
| ,,,.,.,t Aforementioned The aa1nnfn1an
have taken the matter under considers
tion and, as Judge Glover expresses it,
are sspreparing to cover themselves with
glory BY enabling pedestrians to refrain
from covering themselves with mud. z
The petition and signers
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instruments used were knife and Ale,
his model existing only in his keen i'm
agination. Il is dignified aud indig-
nant fish, on whose back a sausy =,
clutchlng turtle is taking an unlimited
ride through the water with evident en-
joyment to the fisb's discomfort.
Thus the buffalo robe, the tepee with
its outside pictures, the issue house, and
the old pipe-stoue man are the only in
structors in the fine arts most of the chill
dren ever have, so we may safely say
they are natural born artists.
Some of the boys and girls go to church,
or government schools at the agency, for
few years, but they are taught to draw
only such simple things as are in elemen-
tary drawing books. Indians learn much
more easily than their white brothers and
sisters, for after few lessons in penman-
ship they write very nicely, while in
arithmetic they are so quick that it is a
clever teacher who can add long column
as rapidly and correctly as a fifteen-year-
old pupil.
In the loneliest part of great reserVa-
ton, where few white people tread and
the whistle of locomotive never pene-
trates, is broad stream called the
Little White river, on whose banks stands
a solitary hut with dirt roof and floor. 1t
is the home of family of full-blooded
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and the policeman that is, they first dis
cover the criminal and then they arrest
him.
INDIAN CHILDREN AS ARTISTS.
copyrighted 1860 by S. S. Mcclure.

copyrighted 1860 by S. S. Mcclure
The first picture book an Indian child
sees is a remarkable one, being nothing
less than his fathers buffalo robe, the
under side of which Is covered with won
derful representations of fierce battles
with their hereditary enemy, some anita
gonistic tribe. It is only too true that
there is an occasional one showing a con-
dict between Indians and white men, the
artist never forgetting to depict his par
tloular nation or himself as VICTORIOUS.
Indians who have never received a
single lesson in either drawing or paint
ing STAN and dye these gorgeous pictures
into the tanned hides of wild animals,
which are fashioned into robes, piotur-
esque shields, and, by joining the neces-
sary number together, into enough ma
terlal from which to construct their tepee
or home.
Very curious dreams the little savages
must have as they cuddle themselves
sleeplIy beneath robes thus ornemented
the last glance of their slumbrous dark
eyes resting upon the strange figures of
man and beast painted upon their smoke
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speak English, and you would think his
voice very soft and musical, for he is an
excellent singer.
Like many Indians, his father is
strongly opposed to education, so that
Charles has been allowed to attend
school for a year only. Now he says not
a day passes but his heart feels bad ar
not going to school for longer time
when he was young boy.
His pictures, few of them are here,
are all original, most Of them showing
some every day occurrence on the reser-
walton. am sorry they are in black
and white, for they lose much of their
strangeness when robbed of their original
reds, yellows and blues, for the Indian
without his war paint is not half SO fas-
cinating.
No. is mounted warrior of the pres
ent time. The stripes on his horse "a legs
indicate that medicine has been rubbed
there as an invaluable charm ia prevent
ing bullets from striking him.
No. 2 shows how the warrior arrayed
himself in those good old days when
there were plenty of buffalo to hunt. He
would approach the herd slSly on his
hands and knees and kill numbers of
them without in the least disturbing the
game.
A powerful Indian chief, John Jaun-
draw, has a strong bow, six feet long
which no man in his tribe could ever
string, so strong and unyielding is it.
With this bow he once sent an arrow
through two buffalo bulls at a single
shot. It is moat extraordinary thing
TO have done, and the Indians consider it
the greatest feat bow aud arrow have
ever accomplished. 1t happened years
ago, at a famous hunt, and Jaundraw is
now an old man, quietly engaged in
farming, but his tribe still talk of his
mighty deed, many of them having wit
messed it.
After the day g hunt there was always
dance where the hunters clothed them
selves in the skins Of various animals,
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it those two Williams in front will be near
enough for us to have a sure shot, and
then don't care how soon they know
we're here. "Now, Jim,'' he whis-
pered, ''watoh your manl-recollect-
you aim at that tall fellow on your own
side ,-I'H take the little skinny ouss-
the one who is just turning towards US
now. They are not more than seventy
five yards away. Aim low!'' There
was a nome t of breathIess silence.
care you ready, Jim!' whispered
Pike.
eyes, all ready, corporal. -
CAN right ,-one minute now-get you
a good aim !-draw your bead on him!-
wedge your rifle in the rock, if neees-
saryI Got it?''
81 think so, corporal. -
can right then; fire!"
Bang! bang! rang out almost simulta-
neously the reports of two rifles. The
smoke floated upward. Pike and Jim
had the good sense not to attempt to lift
their heads or peep over the barriers, but
to content themselves with looking
through the loop-holes. One look re-
vealed the scene. ''The little skinny
cuss, as Pike had called him, elasping
his hands to his breast, had fallen head
foremost among the rocks upon which he
was climbing. But the tall Indian, Civ
ing spring like that of cat, had leaped
behind boulder full ten feet away from
him, and the next instant ,-bangI went
his rife, and a bullet whizzed overhead
and struck, fattening itself upon the
rocks.
''Oh, you've missed him, Jim, "
said Pike, reproachfully. 'Now, look
out for the others!''
The rest of the Apaches, hearing the
shots, with the quickness of thought, had
sprung for shelter behind the neighbour
ing trees and rocks. Not one of their
number, by this time, failed to know
just where these shots had come from;
and in minute more, from all over the
hillside below, thick and fast, the re-
ports OF the rifles were ringing on the
morning air and the bullets came singing
about the stone parapet, some of them
chipping off little fragments from the
top Of the parapet itself, but most of
them striking the great mass of rocks
overhead and doing no harm whatever,
except to spatter little fragments OF lead
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stained buffalo carpet. Pictures as fan
tastio as any they will see when they
wander through mysterious dream land E.
Once a week every mother places her
babe in a hood or bucksin bag deliberately
embroidered with porcupine quilts, and
carries him off to the issue house, where
there are other strange pictures. Baby s
papa remains at home and sleeps or
stretches himself lazily upon some high
bluff, where he smokes his long
pipe with other fathers, for one
never sees an Indian smoking
lone. When the mother returns she
bears on her bent back more than her
bright-eyed, nodding papoose, for there
are the rations-beef, flour and baking
powder, or pork, coffee and sugar, which
must furnish her family, however large,
with food for whole week.
The walls of the chalk stone or adobe
issue house, where the food is kept, are
ornamented with rudely carved pictures,
from which the childre min their scarlet
dresses, usually of flannel, even if the
day be of the hottest, get much amuse-
ment. So for them the building is an
other remarkable book, quite as attrac-
tive as our own ''Moother Goose, - whose
covers contain many comical characters;
udiu6lS lu0II DIllIlduliJ pdluLou mdIu-
mas, who talk, laugh, and, 1 am sorry
to say, frequently quarrel as the clerk
weighs their beef and flour.
Then there is always an old Indian
whom the children can see any pleasant
day sitting on the grass before his ii
yopa door making queer ornaments and
trinkets from stone which comes from
the great red pIpestone quarry Longfel-
law has told us of IN "Hiawatha. - AS
he carves he talks to the littls ones, tell
ing them that the stone in his hands
came from place where once, centuries
ago, terrible battle was fought, that
their enemies blood, soaking deep
through the ground, turned the stone
into the pretty red they see it.
The haze Of every autumn finds many
Dakotas going to this quarry, where they
get enough stone to keep them busy dur
ing the cold winter.
They loYe to take this trip, for, with
its weird face turned toward the quarry,
looking down upon it is the image of the
Great Spirit, who came during that
dreadful war and helped them STAY their
enemies.
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vigorously and at the same time placing
his other hand over his mouth so that he
might make no cutlery. awake up.
Jim! Wake upl and see what your
fairhlessuess has brought upon us! Look
down the hill here! Look through that
Ioophole and see what you We dOne!'
Terrified, with his eyes starting from
their sockets, Jim Obeyed, and his black
face showed in an instant the full reali-
zatlon of the scene before him.
Now, IS your rifle readY?' whis-
pered Pike. ''Dou't rouse those poor
little people in there until we have to.
Now observe strictly what l tell you:
want you to aim at the taller of those
two Indians, who are the leaders. Do
not fire until l give the word; but be
sure you hit. Recollect now, you we
got to fire down hill, and the bullets fly
high Aim below his waistband, then
you'll probably strike him either
through the heart or the upper chest.
Now, go to your lOOp-hOle and stay
there. Are you ready, Jim?'
"I'm ready, boss. Just wait one
minute until I get my rifle through
here. -
Kneeling beside his own loop-hole,
Pike once more looked down the hill.
Not over a hundred yards away-crouch-
ing along, following step by step the trail
that he and Jim had made-pOinting with
their long bOny fingers at every mark on
the ground or upon the trees-twO lean,
keen eyed, sineWy Apaches were slowly
and silently moving up the mountain
side in direction that would take them
diagOnally across the foot of the hill.
Behind them, among the trees and bOuld-
ers, aud spread out to the right and
left, came others all wary, watchful,
silent - as noiselass and as steaIthY in
their movements as any panther could
possibly be- Pike could see that thew were
armed mostly with rifles. He knew that
very few of them had breech-loaders at
that time; but still that there were some
among them which they had obtained by
numbering and robbing helpless settlers
or mail messengers.
With abundant ammunition close at
hand; with the advantage of position,
and the fact that he meant to have the
first fire, Pike calculated that the moral
effect would be such that he could drive
them back, and they would not resume
the attack until after a consultation
among themselves. The two who were
so far in front of the others were steadily
approaching the little baTricade, only
the top of which could readily be seen
from below, and was hardly distinguish
able from the general mass of rocks and
boulders by which it was surrounded.
He knew it could not be long, how
ever, before the quick eyes of the
Apaches detected It, and that they would
know at once what it meant. 'HOw-
ever, - thought Pike, "before they see
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care to expose themselves to the chance
of further loss Two Indians lying dead,
and one over behind q rock possibly
wounded, was enough to discourage even
an Apache.
''They IL show again in a minute,
though, Jim. Keep watch! They won :
go away and leave those two bodies there
if they can possibly help themselves.
Some of them will stay. OF course
they III have a consultation and then see
if they can't get at US from the flank or
from the rear. They can It, but they
don't know it. That III be their next
game.
And so for the next FIVE or ten minutes
the siege was carried on, Jim and the OLD
corporal watching the hillside, but mean
time there was CONSERVATION back in the
cave. Poor old Kate mingled moaning
with prayers and tears, little Nellie,
frightened, of course, as any child WOulu
be, lay sobbing with her head buried ii
Kate's lap. But Ned, brave little man
that he was, had grasped his rife, the
Ballard, of which so much has ALREADY
been said, and, crouchinZ eagerly Tor
ward, before Pike knew il, the boy was
close beside him at the stone wall anu
had placed his hand upon his arm.
Corporal, let me come in here beslas
you, there's room for another. DO let
me have one shot at them? Papa
would if he were here, and 1 know Il.
This was altogether too much lot
Kate to bear. She dare not come toI-
ward, but from the dark recess in when
she and Nellie were hidden, Der cries
and prayers broke forth again:
''For the love of all the saints, cor,
porsl, don t let that boy stay out there.
Bring him back here to me! His father
would kill me if anything happened -
him! Oh, listen TO me, Pike! Send tn'
boy back again! Make him come!
But so far from paying any sttentioh
TO Kate's admonition, Pike turned WIN
kindling eyes and patted the little fellow
on the shoulder: ''You re your father
own boy, Ned, and you shall stay heI .,
with me for the present at least, anu i
there should be a chance of a shot-ou0
l can give you without exposing you
I'm going to ret you have it. Kneel low
down there, snd don't lift your heSo
above the parapet whatever you do! SIS!
just where you are.
With that the old trooper. whose Tin'
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The old Indian himself cannot tell who
shaped this granite man, fifteen feet
high. He firmly believes in their old
tradition, that il was not made by
earthly hands, but came bodily from
heaven, bringing them aid and peace.
am weary Of your quarrels,
Weary of your wars and bloodshed,
Weary of your prayers for vengeance,
Therefore be at peace henceforward
And as brothers live together.
The statue stands boldly alone. Mys-
terious and unexplainable as the Sphinx,
and the red men say: "we have but to
look upon its face and peace and plenty
will be ours.
On some of the reservations mission
aries have read Hiawaths to the Indians,
who admire il so much that MANY of
them can repeat great parts of it from
memory. Very beautiful the poem is
when so lovingly recited in their musical
tongue by this child-like people.
There is before me now a quaint cigar
holder made by an old pipe stone man.
1t is very accurate work. and the only