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The Press., 1891-08-20
MANSFIELD.

s. o. BARRows' SILK MILL BURNED"
 The silk mill of s. o. Barrows, near Storrs, was burned early on Tuesday morning. The fire is believed to have been incendiary. The total loss is $8, 900 to 5000, with full insurance. Twep= ty=fiye hands lose employment by the dis. aster.
 Professor Rooms of the Storrs Agri- cultural school returns this week from a trip of several weeks to the Yellowstone Park region.
 -Seventy-two thousand cans for Coney Rock farm, Mansfield, to be used in can- ming tomatoes, have arrived for Colonel J. D. Chaffee.
 "A barn on the Gurley place, situated about one mile south of Storrs school in Mansfield, belonging to Geo. w. Merrow, was struck by lightning during the thun- der shower last week Wednesday after. noon and burned, together with farm tools and about thirty five tons of hay
The Press., 1891-08-20

One of the latest infections of the Bel lamy idea is reported from the vicinity of Reading, Pa., where an experimental con- munity is to take up a residence on a small plateau overlooking the village. About twenty five families are each to have segment of the land, which is in -the form of a circle, and in the center is toIbe the general cooking and dining room, litlrary and reading rooms and places of amusement. .1rz1
The Press., 1891-08-20

Child's Business College of Springfield has issued q most artistic publication, which, in addition to setting forth the advantages of the Institute, gives fine half tone illustrations of the rooms and portraits of some it's graduates, with let ters setting forth the advantages they have gained by having availed of the col lege. Every one who gets one of these books will prize it for it's fine make up. Short hand is special study at this col. leDn
The Press., 1891-08-20
Are You Sick?

word about prescriptions Everyone knows there are several grades of drugs and that cheap drugs are adulterated, making them almost worthless. Again medicines made from cheap drugs are very inactive and the patient using them wonders why he doesn't get we'll. Pre- scriptions should be compounded from nothing but the purest drugs obtainable and from med 1cines that are up to the standard in strength. We make it a point to buy our drugs from relia- ble houses, thus giving our customers the assur= ance that they can depend on medicines bought
 LATHROP,s DRUG STORE,
The Press., 1891-08-20
TnF.T.ANn.

William .Dwyer, who escaped from the Holland county jail some time ago in company with McGuane, returned to the institution on Monday and gave himself tip to serve the remainder of his sentence. He said he had enjoyed a nice vacation and was ready to return and rest for awhile. It will be remembered that McGuane was recaptured short time ago.
 z (Correspondence)
 Rev D. B. Lord of East Hartford was in town one day last week, working in behalf of the Conn. Temperance Union. s..,-Mr. Overman and family of Boston are boarding at the Mansion House. c. l.. Whiton and daughter were out of town over Sunday. ...-
 Mrs. Essex and daughter, Florence, are visiting friends in Roston.
 The ladies of the Congregational church will hold social in the parlors of the church on Friday evening.
 The boiler at the belt factory is be- ing reset, and repairs are being made in other parts.
 Radcliffe Hicks has just returned from Paris, where he has been spending some months.
 Mrs. w. R. Baker and family move Ito Boston this week.
 Miss Christine Essex has returned from visiting friends in Ellington. [ James Babcock, formerly of this place, but now from Penn, is visiting friends here.
 F. --E. M. Hawkins of Boston is in town flor a few days. ...... [ A we'll is just completed at White school house.
 Miss Jennie Loomis of Rockville, daughter of ex-Judge Dwight Loomis, is the guest of Miss Daisy Whiton for few days. FLORA.
The Press., 1891-08-20
ROCKVILLE.

Chester D. Fiske, editor of the Rock vile Journal, has lost the second of his pair of twins, aged six months. The first died about four weeks ago, the sec ond on the 11th inst, after an illness oi only two days. The afflicted parents have the heartfelt sympathy of wide cir cle of acouaintances, .f
The Press., 1891-08-20
MONSON.

Cards are out for the wedding of Prof. James H. Tufts, of the university of Michigan, former resident of Mon son, and Miss Whitaker, of Leverett, to take place Tuesday. They will sail for Europe, Sept. 2d, where they will remain A year
The Press., 1891-08-20
ASHFORD,
 Westf0rd. FCOntrihuted.1

Henry Barlow and family visited last week in Rockville and Holland. Frank R. Church of New York wis., tied at his sisters, Mrs. N. R. Clapp, last week
The Press., 1891-08-20
ELLINGTON.
Crystal Lake Correspondence.)

.. Crystal Lake COrreSpOndence.) The Crystal Lake farmers picnic in Bowler's grove on the 18th was largely attended and well enjoyed. We there met MT. and Mrs. Henry Lewis of Hart ford, and with them was a great-grand- daughter of Ira H. Lewis, Esq, who, with her mother, has just returned from the far west.
 Attending eWillimantic camp meet ing last week we there met that veteran soldier of the cross, Rev. Ezra Withey, Ca former Crystal Lake pastor) who has arrived at the age of 83 years. Listening to a-zealous exhortation which he gave in the Stafford Springs house, we said, apples of gold in pictures of silver"
 -Alburtus Baker is home from Addi- son for few days.
 Miss Fife Slater has just returned to the Street, having spent few days with her sister, Mrs. George Aborn. Miss L. B. Brown is now spending some time at home. . Miss Fannie Carroll is visiting now at the Lake. ai Rig
 l. Several spent last Sunday in Spring. field, yet goodly number attended church here. Mrs. c. O. Smith gladdened us by her presence.
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SOMERS. lCOrreSpOndence.l

- H
 i-Mr. and Mrs. c. W. Baker from North Leverett, Mass, have been visiting at Mrs. Geo. H. Glover's. During their visit they took a carriage drive to Hartford by way of Mapping, returning through the Windsors. MT. B. had 8 good opportun- ity to see what the farmers raise; the large fields of tobacco and other crops made him wish he could exchange his farm for one more level and free from rocks and stones. asT -F The attractions of somers are being appreciated by a few strangers.
 Rev. l.. l.. Potter from Hartford oc- cupies the desk at the center church next Sunday.
 The farmers of Somers, Ellington and Stafford had days outing at Crystal Lake on Wednesday of last week. Tables were set in the pavilion, which were soon laden with the good things brought by the visitors. After lunch the tables were removed and an opportunity given for the younger portion of the gathering to keep step to music, while their elders renewed old aoquaintances. These gatherings might be held oftener to a good advan- tage, for, as farmers from different DOT tions of the country or state meet, many new ideas relative to farm work can be learned.
 Benjamin Kelley, class and room mate of Irving w. Phillips at Mount Hermon, has been visiting in town the past week.
 Geo. F. Chapin of Thompsonville, having repaired the old needle factory near Shaker Station, will begin to convert apples into cider about the 1st of Septem. Der. With this mill to take the fruit from North Somers and Thompson at Mel. rose, we can see no reason for farmers tc complain thatthere is no way to dispose of their apples.
The Press., 1891-08-20

The barn was very fine and substantial one. The loss is about &3, GOO, partly in sured
 Alfred l.. Whitehouse, % years of age, single, was drowned in Akwoodville pond while in bathing Sunday afternoon. The body was not recovered until several hours later.
The Press., 1891-08-20

To advertise Eastman's ArbutHs Soap will present to every customer purchasing cake an elegant hand mirror. Remember the place.
 LATHRoP's DRUG STORE.
The Press., 1891-08-20
Hartford courant: This Wednesday,

HarbIOrQ COuranC: ms w oOnoSQay) is very great day for Bennington, Vt., the greatest day (save one) in the towns life. It has assembled there all the Yer monters who could get there; and it has centered there the thoughts and sympa- thies of all the other Vermonters whom hard necessity, in one shape or another, has kept away; and it has drawn thither the president of the United States and half his cabinet, with governors, senators, congressman, judges and generals galore, to help Vermont celebrate.
 What are the Vermonters celebrating A battle fought over hundred years ago, in which fewer troops were engaged than in any one of hundred already forgotten skirmishes of 1S61-'65, and in which our side whipped. .:-.....
 That's one way of putting it. But SUD- pose our side h0ez't whipped in that stub- born and sanguinary little battle of Aug ust 16, TIT? Suppose Molly Stark had been widowed. Suppose Burgoyne's ex- petition had turned out the triumphant success he and his superiors at London expected it to turn out. What would have become of the continental army and of the cause of American independence?
 The victory at Bennington begat the victory at Saratoga, as the victory at Saratoga begat the victory at Yorktown. It crippled Burgoyne, and passed him along to the fate appointed for him. If you want 8 glimpse, across the interven- ing century, of the incredulous bewilder- ment and stupefaction with which Lon- don received the news of the surrender of an entire, well-appointed English army, read Horace Wapole's letters.
 Vermont isn't so big state in acres as Texas, or Pennsylvania, or Virginia, or New York, or even neighbor Massachu- monwealths, stretching away to the Pa cific,-but she can match records for pluck and patriotism with the very big gest of them. Another little Yankee state, equally fortunate in that particular, tenders Vermont to-day, through her old est and most representative newspaper, her cordial felicitations.
 A Maine man who has been working in New Brunswick and sending money to his wife has been made to pay tax oi some $4 on "money sent out of the coun. try" He now sases his money to carry home, as he lives just over the border from where he worked.
 Here is very singular illustration oi the optical delusion which 8 change o position will sometimes effect.
 Take row of ordinary capital letters and figures.
 SSSSSSXXXXXX333333ses8SS
 They are such as are made Up of twt parts of equal shapes. Look carefully a these and you will perceive that the up per halves of the characters are a yer, little smaller than the lower halves-st little that an ordinary eye declares then to be of equal size. Now turn the pape upside down and, without any carefu looking, you will see that this difference in size is very much exaggerated; tha the real top half of the letter is very mucl smaller than the bottom half.
The Press., 1891-08-20

A Maine man who has been working in New Brunswick and sending money to some $4 on money sent out of the coun- try" He now sa<es his money to carry home, as he lives just over the border from where he worked.
The Press., 1891-08-20

Here is very singular illustration of the optical delusion which a change of position will sometimes effect.
 Take a row of ordinary capital letters and figures.
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-06-18
Stelacobs0d
BaekA &
bssds@e a!sachs
md all ACHES
RoMPTLY
/. August
Flower"

I had been troubled Eve months
with Dyspepsia. The aoctors-told
me 1t was chronic. / had fullness
after eating and a heavy load In the
pit Of my stomach. I suffered FIRE.
quently from Water Brash Of clear
matter. Sometimes deathly Sick.
ness at the Stomach would overtake
me. Then again I would have the
terrible pains Of Wind Collie. Al
such times would try to belch and
could not. ] was working then for
Thomas McHenry, Druggist, Cor.
Irwin and Western Ave, Allegheny
City Pa. in whose etnployIhads
been for seven years. Finally fused
August Flower, and after using Just
one bottle for two weeks, was en-.
tirely relieved of all the trouble. I
can now eat things dared not touch
before. Iwou1d like to refer you to
Mr.. McHenry, for whom l worked
who knows ali about my condition.
and from whom I bought the med!.
cine. live with my wife and family
at SO James St., Allegheny City, Pa.
Signed, JOHN D. Cox. O.
G. G. GREEN Sole Manufacturer,
Woodbury., New Jersey, U. S. l.
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FRAUD IN TRADE.
Spurious Articles Palmed on BY Con
scienceless Dealers.

F. r
Spurious Articles Palmed on BY Con-
scienceless Dealers.
The extent to which fraud prevails in
trade and business is something sur
prising and melancholy to contemplate
Adulteration is practiced in numberless
articles With milk, we have water,
when we have nothing worse; with tea,
we have aagreat variety of foreign and
American leaves; with coffee, peanuts,
chickory and beans; with sugar, sand
and other substances, with flour, plaster
of Paris, and so on.
In the drug line it seems to be con-
coded that the chief skill to be attained
is the skill of artfully mixing spurious
substances which closely resemble the
genuine drug. 1t has become matter
of chance whether the poor and desper-
ate suicide who resorts to opium or
arsenic finds strength enough in what
he buys for either of these articles to
put an end to his unhappy existence.
So far as he is concerned this is very
well, hut it is not SO when such sub
stances are relied upon as remedial
agents. NJ
!. In articles which do not admit Of
adulteration You fare but little better.
You get the genuine thing, but the
chances are that you get it OF very in
ferior quality. Take the great staple,
iron, for example. Thousands and
millions of tons of 1t are sold, of
such inferior quality, as to be unfit
for the purposes for which it is used.
You can hardly buy ready-made chain
trace, imported or of domestic manu-
facture, in the city of New York,
strong enough to be certain to with
stand the pull of single horse. They
are heavy enough, but the iron is weak
or brittle.
In the nse of a single keg of nails,
hundreds will often be found-some-
times a large proportion of the whole
keg-which cannot be driven into a
pine board without breaking. Free
quently, If you bore half dozen holes
with new auger, you will find it is
unfit for further use. Chisels, saws
and other carpenters tools of like in
ferior quality supply the market.
Why is this so? 1t is anywise con-
sistent with the character of a Chris
tian community? u.
Many of the manufacturers of spuri-
GUS and adulterated goods, and many OF
the dealers who grow rich from the
traffic in them. profess to be moral and
religious men; but we are unable to
see how dishonesty can consist with
true Christianity.
Is the pulpit wholly faultless in this
matter? Ought not its anathemas to
be hurled against those who, in the
ordinary walks Of commerce and trade,
lead life of constant fraud and cheat
ing?s We need the religious teaching
which shall make men more conscien-
tious, fair and scrupulous in their every.
day transactions with each other.-N.
Y. Ledger.
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THE AGE OF VENEER.
Desire for Display tho Leading Spirit of
the Day.

Desire for Display tho Leading Spirit of
the Day.
The kinds of fish that leap eagerly
at gaudy artificial fly, or rainbow
tinted make-believe minnow, are the
types of a very large class of society
in this our day and generation. In
dress, in furniture, in equipages, in
all the externals Of everyday life,
there is strong tendency toward
meretricious show. Veneer is in the
ascendant-gilded lath-and-plaster is
more esteemed than granite masonry
without the shining trimmings. The
amount'of fiimsy splendor one sees in
New York is prodigious, Durability is
a secondary consideration; in fact, with
a large proportion of the community no
consideration at all.
Our grandfathers and grandmothers
were in the habit of asking whether
things would wear well before they
bought them, but their dashing de-
scendants seem to care only for OUT
side appearances. To this taste for
mere glitter our manufacturers, me-
chanics and ornamental artists assidu-
ouSly cater, ana the rcsult 10 thdt IL Ii
next to impossible to obtain anything
solid and substantial at the establish
ments where the show-enamored
throngs make their purchases. Perta-
bic articles, which were formerly trans
mitted as heirlooms from generation to
generation, now only last year or two.
Within that time the dazzling surface
wears off, and the substratum of shod.
dy crops out, 1t would add greatly t.
our comfort to abandon the filigres
fashions of the day, and live more
after the manner of our less ambitious
progenitors. Y. Ledger.
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TRUCK FARMING.
Figures Showing the Magnitude OF That
Industry.


Figures Showing the Magnitude OF That
Industry.
Truck farming is distinct from mar.
ket gardening. It is carried on at a
distance from market, water and rail
transportation being necessary.
Upward of 500, 900 900 is invested in
this industry, the products reaching a
value of SIG, 507, 1855 on farms after pay
ing freights and commissions, and real
lied upon 534, $40 acres of land. There
are employed in this industry 2l6, 765
men. 1884 women, and 14,S74 children,
aided by 1886 horses and mules and
So, OH, 206. 10 worth of implements The
Norfolk district, embracing As, 375 acres,
shipped products valued at 1902, $50;
south Atlantic district, 111,741 acres,
products $13, 1881 Mississippi valley,
SO, 1870 acres, products S4,979, 1888.
Nearly 10 per cent Of the tuck pro-
duced in the United States comes from
belt of country along the Atlantic
coast lying east of line drawn from
Augusta. Me-, to Macon, Ca; from
southern Georgia, Alabama and Flori-
da;~aleng the north and south lines OF
railroad in the Mississippi valley from
the Gnlf to Chicago, St Louis and Kan
sas City, and from the celery districts
of Michigan and Ohio. More or less of
thestruck however, is produced in all
the states The following figures show
the total acreage of the leading vegeta-
bles grown upon truck farms of the
United States: Asparagus, 37,979; beans
(string or snap), 12,607; cabbage, n, 094;
kale, 1909; spinach. 30, 1876; Irish pota-
toes, 2s,046; beets, 2,42o; celery, 1881;
sucumbers, 4.72l; watermelons, ia, 381;
other melons, 2s, 477; peas, 5e, 1862: sweet
potatoes, 2s,621; tomatoes, 2,S02; mis-
cellaneous vegetables, s2,6O1. Atlanta
Constitution.
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!, An ingenious burglars, Tool.

Over one hundred tools and processes,
which are marvels Of ingenuity and
scientific knowledge, have been invent
ed by safe burglars. A recent burglars
outfit captured by the police consisted
Of little giant knob-breaker, giant
drill and high expfosive-of the nature
Of dynamite, but put up in the form Of
a powder. 1t would open the strongest
bank safe in a half hour, and without
noise enough to disturb people in the
next house, while the entire outfit could
be carried in the pockets Of an ordinary
coat.
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$685. u ~ Ezeeiisnt 0sazlsiss Whieh
They Possess.

$685. q ~ ExeelIsnt Qunllttss Which
Thsy Possess.
1 cannot speak gratefully enough Of
orir faithful zanzibaris. On them NO
were entirely dependent for such food
ns We were able to scrape together.
The Zanxibari, 1t Is true, VIII lie and
thieve-most untaught negroes will
but with the white man with whom be
has worked, whom he respects and has
confidence in, though starving himself,
he will share his last crust, writes Jeph-
son ia Scrfbner.
II was often pitifu1 to see q man who
was scarcely more than skin and bone.
and who wxs half mad with hunger
himself. bringing us little store OF
toadstools and laying It before rs, say:
Master. take your share, God il
good"
There was something childlilfe and
simple about these Zanzibaris which
always appealed strongly to our sympa-
thy. At work you may be as severe as
you please; you may fog him when he
does wrong, SO long as when the work
is done you relax, and gossip and talk
with him. His quaint remarks upon
people and things are always entertain
ing and often instructive.
You listen to his stories about his
wife or mother, his sister or friend,
about his home In Zanzibar, and his
little plot Of land, in fact you make
him feel that though you will force
him to do his full share Of work, at
the same time You sympathize
with him in his troubles, and are really
his friend. If you do this he win work
for you and follow yon with q dog-1ike
fidelity.
/ have often seen Zanzibar who
had laid himself open to punishment
lie down and take his fifteen or twenty
strokes of the cane, and after he has re-
ceived them get up and raising his
hands above his head, say: Hand Ell
Allah THANK God), by which he
means he has done wrong, he has 70
ceived his punishment, and now he and
the world are even.
If punished justly, this child Of M
ture never bears malice; but injustice,
want Of sympathy or cruelty will
transform him into a sullen, mutinous
devil, with whom nothing can be done.
OF course there are times when the
Zanzibar is most troublesome and has
to be treated with great severity, but
when once he understands that a
man is his friend and master, these
ebullitions are not of frequent occur
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hair about his head, wooden leg and
a history. Portions Of this history he
gave me at different times and in jerky
intervals between the first and sixth
floors, after l had become well ac-
quainted with him by reason of fire.
quent and regular daily trips up and
down his vertical railway and had
wormed my way sufficiently into his
confidence.
He had a proper pride in his calling
He was member of an elevator
Conductors Association Of some kind
or other, and no horizontal railway
conductor or brakeman next in line of
promotion to conductorship ever had
a more assured, perpendicular and
authoritative way of announcing sta
ton than this old man had of making
official proclamation when he stopped
to let passenger off: Third floor!
Jones & Snapper, second door on the
right" sixth floor! Office of Williams
Fertilizer Company straight down the
hall"
Yet his was not dignity that was
sensitively jealous or fearful of being
infringed upon.
You Needn't apologize, sir, /" he said
once, spontaneously, to passenger
who had inadvertently called him an
elevator boy and shown signs OF imme-
diate penitcnce therefor. II am far
enough toward my second childhood to
be called a boy, sir Fifth floor! Sec
o1d door to the left!'
"How does 1t happen" ! asked him
one morning when ! CHANGED to be his
! only passenger, that man OF your
age and5and good habits, who ought
TO be taking his ease, isis"
SIS on the lift at last?" he said, COM
ing to my relief. That's one of the
regular jokes you know" he explained,
that go with the job. You needn't
laugh. Up and downs in life is an
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HE WAS ABSENT A LONG TIME.

said 81 have knocked about the coun-
try good deal since that time, but I've
never traded on my misfortune. They
may have given me this job partly
through sympathy, but earn my SAL
airy. every cent Of it. and don't you for
get it lean run an elevator with my
one leg and q half as well as any man
can with two legs. looked about for
. job Of this kind to get rid Of pension
shark. aSmuch as for any other rea-
son. They can't do much confidential
talking with me between stations on
this line. Blister pension shark If
! had1 boy and wanted to give him
'first-class send-off on the road to the
devil I'd apprentice him to a--going
upi''
The passenger this time was an Inn.
patient man who had rung the bell two
81 three times and waited for the ele-
vator to 90 from the third floor 10 the
top md clear down nfnin rather than
a'|aas ~ aIeht q ~ ~ wss -