The Press., 1891-07-30
bought the Dwight Bicknell place, and taken possession.
 Miss Addie Simmons spent last week n BroOkfield. aa fsE l..
Ting-a-Ling.

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 Miss Addie Simmons spent last week n Brookfield. a -
 Ting-a-Ling.
 How solemn is Saturday night
 When I've tried all the week to do and
 to dare
 To meet all the folks on level
 And part with them right on the square, And failed. Now some people have to fail in order to succeed, but the word isn't used in that sense, and no one supposes that the writer would use it in @ sense of insolvency, however in its flat-most mean ing and employed as substantive. Noth- ing fails like failure in this world, wheth- CT it be in marriage, metaphysics or liter ature, or health, and so on with a score of etceteres. And not wholly irrelevant to this is the fact that if one person un- dertakes to please everybody else it is necessary to have the wisdom of Solo, mon, the tact of French diplomat, and the piety of whole Presbyterian congre- gation, and even then she had better be one of the thousands of Gods worms, who creep and crawl and live and die in day in New York or London, than to un- dertake to be all things to all women.
 In a recent letter from 8 contributor in Marion Harland's "Home Maker Maga- zine, "St. Nicholas, ,""Y Youth's Compan- ion" and other high class publications, the writer declares that she isn't particu- lar whether all people like her writings or not, so as she averages an hundred dol lars per month for her work. And who shall say that she isn't wise? O, this snob- bery, ostracism and scare are things to shoot on the wing. Taking up the New York Witness see that ambition Is neith- CT dead or sleeping. There's George R.. Scott, one of it's editors, becoming desir- ous of owning farm and Poland China silk pigs, spraying them twice day with Florida water, keeping them within such an esthetic news that some fellow will come along and say, '"Hello, Scott, who designed these roomy appointments for your pigs? How much are they going to net you when dressed off in the fall Scott makes an estimate and then pulls down his vest with settled air, answer ing, "Well, this elegant sty cost me $80, the pigs $12, the apple custard and canned goods $35. The pork, after paying the butcher, will probably amount to about $40 or $5O." The neighbor smiles. 70, but you see Pm only just getting started in the pursuit of agriculture" See the ambitions of the men of our times But sans faeetiousness. The "Witness' wouldn't be quite the organ it now is with. out MT. Scott's brandishing the double edged sword among the liquor dealers and drinkers, without his pathetic sketches with h. syh moral lessons, without his ad. monitors to all to respect the old watch. men on the walls of zion. And even if he hasn't had much experience in ploughing thro' the geological ruts and wrinkles oi the earth's surface, the farmers all say that he makes good farm editor, and for the sake of its pungent flavor I ever turn first to his department of the paper
 Our farmers report an average crop O hay. It has been pushing development of grass and rye, and just made them hus tle. Still the farmer has many hindrances to success. The codling moth and its parasites have destroyed about all th' fruition of his orchards, and although a present this insect is lost to sight, it is b, no means to memory dear. It is an ex asperating study in entomology to trac' the evolution of these little sinners, wh' at present having emerged from thei chrysalids, have entered the apple setting from which in few weeks it makes it exit through a channel in the cheek o the ripened apple, all 8 crawling, cranky full grown larva. This second brood o "moths" have oviposited the fruit. Now inasmuch as many of these apples ar picked in the fall before the worms hav emerged, of course they weave their co coons in or near the bins in which tn apples are stored for the winter, an' therefore the moths must issue in the sprin, right there in the cellars or store room where the fruit is kept. Then they fl, out thro' the open doors and windows making their way to the orchards to star their progeny, and the only way to check mate this game of exit is to screen tn doors and windows and captule the moths for which there are many plans one migh suggest if the average farmer had time t. bother with the business
 One of our neighbors doesn't think tha fire cracker contains anything but mean ness, and there are some remarks tha will not smother anyway. This gentle man has been reading the recent discus sions going on among the noted divine as to what disposal the Lord is going t make of the heathen who have died an have never heard of the plan of redemI tion; but he declares that he shouldn
 have to ask any of the big theologian where he was going if he had been tn heathen who invented the little red fir cracker, for he should know.
 But its ;s'Ho, for ride in the steam ers!" Wangumbaug dotted with row an sail boats and dignified with steamers Nathan Hale, gather thy bones togethe and exclaim something. That if you'
 another life to lose you'd as lief lose it i the old pleasaunce lake as anywhere But in truth these steamers are safe an
 natty little structures, with good spec
 for cruising or carrying passengers, an
 are so well patronized that a good interes upon the money invested by their owner will soon be realized, and everybody
 becoming glib in nautical lore, and wha with boats and elegant turnouts and lag
 afternoons summer happiness is no about 5000 feet above the level of ennt and disgust and toll. Trust that non
 will criticise my penchant for noting tn , pretty vehicles owned by our village pet pie. The craze has been growing until Loc hooonoo c ax,ocoiov,f with mngt Qf Ol