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The Newtown bee., 1891-02-06
EASTON.

Mrs Thomas Turney is slowly recover ing from the effects of sprained ankle, caused by fall.
 Miss Hattie Perry gave a birthday par ty to few friends, Saturday afternoon, 31st.
 The Spring term of Staples academy began, Monday, February ?.
 Miss Bertha silliman of Norwalk visits her aunt, Mrs J. M. Edwards.
 Miss Linda Thorpe of Stepney is with Mrs Eliza Silliman.
 Mrs Pyra Freeborn and daughter have returned from Hartford.
 Mrs James B-Turney expects to visit in Manchester, N. H., soon, where her hus- band has been during the Winter.
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STAMFORD.

An interesting program was followed at the meeting of the Y. P. s. c. E. at the Congregational church, Sunday even- ing. It was in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the institution of the Y. F. s. c. E. at Portland, Me-, and the exercises were led by President Frank Curtis, who made brief address, speak ing of the history and growth of this so- ciety. The program:
 Song, Calling tor Thee;" responsive read ing; recitation, "The advancing host" Miss Mamie Judson;" Bible reading on the pledge prayer for the conversion of associate mem bers, Rev J. s. Ives; song, "Our pledge;" rec itation, "The sweetest gift, Miss Catherine Bennett Scripture verses; responsive exer cises, "The reasons why young people should join our Christian Endeavor society as active members;" song, Christian Endeavor hymn short talk by pastor; song, "Keep the banner fying;" song, "God be with you;" Mizpat benediction.
 April 20, 1890, officers of the Union saying that the funds raised by the as- sessments of September 20, 1887, had been exhausted in the purchase of paths, rights of way and unoccupied ground in the cemetery, in clearing up, grading, fencing the entrance and other perma- nent improvements and in the general care of the grounds during the two years just ended. The work done was univer- sally approved and the association con- graduated because so much had been ac- complished with so little money. To provide means, however, for the contin- ued care and further improvement of the cemetery, ,.the association voted, at it's an- nual meeting in April, 1889, that an as- sessment of $1 per square rod be levied upon owners of lots ill the cemetery and that it be payable April 20, 1890. Ofthe total, over $500, to be raised in this man. ner, only little over $400 has been re- ceived by the collector, John w. Thomp- son, and further and more urgent re- quest for the remaining $100 and more has been issued. It is hoped that cheerful and generous response may be forthcoming. The union cemetery asso- citation was organized June 2, 1870 and is governed by board of directors, from whom are chosen president, secretary and treasurer.
 It is proposed to aid the reducsion of the debt of the Congregational church by establishing women's exchange in the lecture room, to be open every Sat urday. Articles brought there for sale would be given to the managers at cost and the profit from the sale put into the cofiers of the church, or, if the giver felt so disposed, the goods might be given outright. The matter was to receive fur ther attention at a meeting, Thursday.
 X direct result of the flood of water in the Housatonic and of the vast quanti- ties of ice carried down the river and floating out to sea was the sinking of the schooner Henry Wolcott at the mouth of tho Housatonic, last week. Capt John 1Gulcahy says that the schooner was so
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transfer would be necessary. Rev c. l.. Pardee has been rector of Christ church, Stratford, for about two years, succeed ing Rev MT Walker, now of Dubuque, Iowa. MT Pardee had formerly been To- cated at the Church of the Nativity, North Bridgeport, and later at East End. Since coming to Stratford, he has done excellent work in the church and has made scores of firm sriends, all of whom will be sorry to lose him, if he decides to accept the Norwalk call.
 The children's choral service at Christ church, Sunday afternoon at 30, was an interesting occasion.
 The Ram family who have occupied the tenement at Main street crossing have moved to New Jersey.
 Perry Beardsley is to lease about six acres of the Johnson property, for farm ing purposes, of J. W. Thompson, who still has about 30 acres to let
 A valuable Newfoundland dog, owned by Constable Stagg, was struck by the cars, Saturday afternoon.
 Morgan J. Freeman is painting his house, using bronze green for trimmings and yellow for gable peaks. Philip Lew is is doing the work.
 Al Burt is putting up couple of new houses on Egypt lane, uptown, after the plan of the house he recently sold.
 An attractively painted house is the uptown residence of Freeman Curtis. The body has been painted a light yellow, and the trimmings are white. The paint was applied by Charles R. Hill.
 Washington bridge is again open for travel, repairs having been completed, Sunday.
 Nichols of Bridgeport is building a barn for Lewis Wells, about 24x30. It was raised and covered, last week.
 Mrs Richard Gorham has lost her pet dog.
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Slopes of Sunset.

Not mindless of the growing years, Of care and loss and pain, My eyes are wet with thankful tears For bles sings which remain. Love watches OCT my quiet ways,
 Kind voices speak my name And lips, that find it hard to praise, Are slow, at least, to blame. How softly ebb the tides of will;
 How fields, once lost or won, Now lie behind me green and still
 Beneath a level sun! And if the eye must fail of light,
 The ear forget to hear, Make clearer still the spirits sight.
 More fine the inward ear. Be near me in my hour ofneed
 To soothe, or cheer or warn, And down these slopes of sunset lead, As up the hills ofmorn !-[ Whittier.
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badly battered by floating ice that hole was stove in her below the water line and she sank off Milford Point. She was tons of manure consigned to David Fitz- gerald.
 Fully three score people were present at the party given by John P. Wheeler, Friday evening. Enlvening music was provided and an old fashioned and thor oughly enjoyable dance was had by all. A bountiful collation. was served, fea- ture of which was quantities of great, old fashioned doughnuts, such as our grandmothers used to make. It was one of the most pleasant parties of the seas on.
 Friends of Selectman Daniel c. Wood, sympathizing deeply with him in series of heavy losses within short time, cul- minating in the destruction of barns and contents by fire, have circulated papers for subscriptions to aid him. Several hundred dollars have already been sub scribed and it is hoped that $500 may be obtained.
 A fair audience greeted Rev Beverly B. Warner of Christ church, Bridgeport, when he gave the second lecture of the popular course in the Town hall, last week Thursday evening. The speaker gave the interpretation of the character of King John, as given in the standard hiSfnriQa md thap ua wa onniouc aytractc from the writings of Shakespeare to show the great playwright's conception of the kings character. The lecture was we'll delivered and was listened to with inter- est. The proceeds of this lecture were for the benefit of Stratford library. Fri day evening, February 6, David Pell Se- cor of Bridgeport will give the next lee ture on ssPrehistoric Arizona
 For want of other cause to which to attribute the fire which destroyed the barns of Daniel c. Wood, last week, some began quickly to say that the fire must have been set by tramps who had crawl ed into the hay. As soon as the ashes cooled, search was begun and at last, Sunday, calcined fragments of what were believed to be human bones were found. It is thought that only one man was burned, but the bits of bone are so frag- mentary that it was impossible to deter mine their exact character.
 Rev c. l.. Pardee officiated at the fun eral in Milford, last week, of Mrs Maria A. Wheeler, who died at oston.
 Mrs Lewis Barnum of Bethel has visit ed the families of Seymour Wells and D. w. Judson. MT Barnum is in Florida en deayorine, to sell his farm there. Should he do so, it probable that they will move to Stratford and occupy rent uptown.
 Christ church was visited, Sunday morning, by committee from new church in Norwalk. The committee lis- tened with attention to the sermon, noted the manner in which Rev Mir Pardee con- ducted service and, after communion, called upon Mr Pardee at the rectory and extended cali to him. MT Pardee has the matter under consideration. The which consisted of two ward- ems and three yestrymen, represent par ish in upper Norwalk, where a new church has been built, but is not yet ready for consecration or services. Should MT Pardee accept the call there, it ls hardly probable that an immediate
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Thompson, Wednesday afternoon.
 A son was born to Mir and Mrs Eugene Banks, last Friday.
 Mrs Kate Barr of Danbury spent Sun day with her mother, Mrs McIlwain.
 Miss Emma Hurlbutt spent Sunday with her father.
 Mrs James Jellilf has returned from Westport.
 RepresentativeEdwin Gilbert and wife will spend the remainder of the Winter in Hartford.
The Newtown bee., 1891-02-06
Mothers Influence On Posterity.

I have, at times, as doubtless mos
 mothers have, been deeply impressed
 with sense of my responsibilities as ;
 mother. have thought of my childrel
 as being, in a very few years, the busy
 active men and women of the day, help
 ing forward the cause of right and jus tice and goodness, or taking their stand on the side of the enemy, and dragging themselves and others down to wreck and ruin. And I have trembled at the thought that I have now say az to which it shall be. But 1 confess that
 until lately my vision stopped there. thought not of my influence on my pos terity of succeeding generations. l will ask you, mothers, to come and make a few calculations with me. ..
 Suppose one of you to have five chil- dren, and that they in their turn will each be the parent of five children. Sup pose these p grandchildren also to be each the parent of five children. You have 125 great-grandchildren. Now that is not far-off thing. It lies in the near future; yes, you might almost say in the present, for many of you will probably live to see your great-grand- children. I know, and doubtless you do too, many hale, hearty great-grand- mothers. But let us proceed in our cal- culations one step further and there are 625 human beings-immOrtals, who, in form, in complexion, in vivacity, in in- telligence, in morality, in religion. in destiny, are, in a great degree, shaped, colored, moulded. propelled by the infiu- ence which you, mother, are now, at this time, exerting.
 You are familiar with the story of Rip Van Wrinkle, who slept for 2S years, and walked up to find such marvellous chan ges. Let us, mothers, close our eyes and take a long, long sleep-longer than his. Let us sleep for several genera tions-sleep till these multitudes, which we have been computing, are treading with busy feet the tortuous mazes of life.
 An angel, with dark-lantern in hand. Slues inlO tHc slcHI IoOiu. Al HIS Sch- tie touch, sleeper awakes to conscious ness, though the body sleeps on. On the wings of the light, your guide has transported you far hence. You stand with hiln all unseen at the entrance of a bar-room. It is blazing with light, and the clatter of glasses and the din of an- gry voices reach your ear. The door opens and man staggers out and falls heavily on the pavement, and the gush- ing blood reaches to your feet. Instinct lively, you stoop down to help the fallen, but recoil with shudder as the angel flashes his mystic tore1 falI oA his face
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GEORGETOWN.

The Y. F. s. c. E. of the M. E. church observed Endeavor day, Monday night.
 Miss Carrie Lockwood has returned from Bridgeport.
 Miss Bridget Walsh spent Sunday with her brother, J. J. Walsh.
 Ark lodge visited Jerusalem lodge of Ridgefield, Monday evening.
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and reveals to your spirits ken that your
 Ere you have time to collect your be-
 wildered thoughts, your guide has trans
 ported you back three generations, and
 you are in small, comfortable house in
 your native town. The door of the pan
 try stands open, and you see inside a
 young, pale-faeed woman. She leans
 her head on her hands and sighs as
 though her head ached. She opens a
 private press in the pantry and, taking
 down a bottle of spirits, pours out a
 half glass and drinks and, as she re-
 sumes her seat, with frightened step and
 enlivened eye. the angels light falls up-
 on her and illumines that countenance,
 and you recognize your own self of for
 mer days-and immediately the mystic
 torch is turned around and the hidden
 cord that binds these two scenes is
 lighted up with lurid glare. Now the
 angel is at your side, mother. Arise in
 spirit and follow him. One sweep of his wing and you are in the streets of great city. It is late at night. The sober, respectable citizens are in their homes. retired to rest. Who are those women walking the streets at this hour of the night? What gaudy attire for such time and place! There comes meeting them simple young man, now proceeding to his place of abode. With bold effrontery they accost him and, as they turn with him and pass you by. the painted cheek and brazen brow, and shameless talk, tell you that you are in near proximity to pair of the abandon ed women of the town. With natural reyulsion you gather yourself together, lest the hem of their garments should graze your feet; but in that instant the revealing light of the angel envelops them, and in dismay you hide your face from your own posterity.
 Snatching you from the humiliatfng scene, the angel seats you in your-own happy home of early wifehood and moth- erhood. A fair young woman reclines on sofa, dressed in loose morning robe, with hair dishevelled and dime novel in her hand. The cheeks are fev- cred and the eyelashes sometimes wet as she pores over the alluring page. The hours of night are passing, but she needs them not. She fears not disturbance, for her husbands business takes him from home many days at time. At length the book drops from her hands and she lies fly gazing at the dying embers, voluptuously revelling in the details of the lieentious story.
 Curiosity tempts you to pick up the book and learn it's name, for it has fa- miliar look.As you: do Sc, the angel holds; his lantern so that you may read the ti- sle, and in it's light ruby on the finger of the dreamer flashes in your eye, and 10! it is your own wedding ring! Turn ng your gaze down Times pathway, the 'lectric light of your guide sparkles along he invisible but indissofuble cord that oins the woman on the sofa with the women on the street.
 Mothers! mothers. mothers! stWhat manner of persons ought ye to be in all loly conversation and godItness. .H Peter III, II.
 Oh that there were such heart in hem that they would fear me and keep i'll my conlmandments alwaye. chat it night be we'll. with them and with their children forever. Deut. ", 29.-TMrs 7, R. M'Cartney.
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The Brave Engineer.

When the golden gleams ot sunlight
 Slowly faded from the west And the soft and silvery moonlight
 Calmly crept across the crest When the dew was on the heather
 And the Autumn leaves were sere, Fastening to home and mother,
 Dashed the daring engineer. See the headlight shake and shiver
 As she wrestles with the rail; Every sinew seems to quiver,
 As she trembles OCT the trail Two brave hearts are proudly beating,
 Keeping time to the machine That through the moonlight swiftly fieeting
 Bears her burden on to Keene, Where the misty mountain ranges
 Lift alott their polished peaks; Every curve her course now changes,
 While the whistle loudly shrieks And the bell that's in the bracket
 Rung with every rock and reel Echoes through the crags and canons
 With a wild and weird peal. Now the agent at the station
 Looks with awe and holds his breath, While a proud hearts quick pulsation
 Makes it's meeting point with death; DUG tllo uIC ny IIoIH ucI udISCS-
 Straining every iron nerve And a moment more she plunges-
 Madly leaps across the curve. Now the fireman, bruised and bleeding,
 Climbs the rough and rugged hill; Through the steam to where his mate
 Lies, ,pinioned meath the engine still. "Jim," he whispered, "telI my mother
 Go and tell her how died; Tell her, had lived to see her,
 All my hopes were satisfied. How the cruel monster scalds me;
 Oh my time is coming now; I must go, my Master calls me,
 See the death dew on my brow" Soon strong hands with pick and shovel Moved the wreck and ruin back; Soon they freed him-gently borehim To seat beside the track. The pale, still moon seemed more than ten
 der, As it kissed his face so fair, And the gentle Autumn zephyrs
 Faintly famed his auburn hair; Then he put his two great hands in mine, And a tear was in his eye, As stopped to hear him whisper "Can't you take me home to die?" As we laid him on the cushion In the car that bore him home, We could hear the dying requiem Of the steam from out the dome. But another hour found him In 8 mothers tender care; At his home with friends around him. God had heard his simple prayer. Then we stood and stared in silence, Counting every fieeting breath, And upon his marble forehead Came again the dew of death; Oh, how peaceful, pale and patient, While in agony he lay; Then he smiled and kissed his mother And his spirit passed away.-[Charles E. Baglin, Woodbury.
The Newtown bee., 1891-02-06

The help you give with cheery word
 Is double help to your neighbor, For it puts song in the weary heart
 That knoweth no rest from labor. For little you'll know of real delight If you work for yourself from morn till night, And never have a penny to spend. Or loving thought for a needy friend; The thread ot life will longer wear,
 Ifwith song you spin it; So whatever you do, do cheerfu1ly,
 As if your heart was in it.
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Think it no excuse, boys, Merging into men, That you do a wrong act Only now and then. Better to be careful,
 As you go along, Ityou would be manly,
 Capable and strong. When you have a habit That is wrong, you kuow, Knock it off at once, lads, With a sudden blow. Think it no excuse, boys, Merging into men, That you do & wrong act, Only now and then.
The Newtown bee., 1891-02-06

Life! we nave been long together, Through pleasant and thro' cloudy weather; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear; Perhaps twill cost sigh, a tear; Then steal away, give little warning,
 Choose thine own time. Say not good night--buti in some brighter
 cline
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NEwTowN, FEBRUARY 6, 1891.

A little bit of Hope
 Makes rainy day look gay, And a little bit of Charity Makes glad weary way. A little bit of Patience Often makes the sunshine come, And little bit of Love Makes very happy home.
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The morning news., 1891-12-21

taxes as may be required OF him by the said
mayor and finance COMMITTEES. And such per-
son shall continue In the performances OF his
duties only 50 long as his services shall be con
sioered necessary by the said mayor and fnauca
committee, and snail receive such ornpensation
as they shall specify
SIC H. That the clerk OF council Be and he
ls hereby directed 20 report to council at the
hrst meeting IN every quarter the amount of
money expended by each COMMITTEES up 10 date
OF report. and as soon a. any committee making
any disbursements shall have reached the limits
provided In the budget, the clerk OF coupcil
soali at once notify the chairman OF such com
mittee. S'A
SEC. IS This ordinance shall be subject 10
alteration and repeal. IN whole or i'm part al any
time during the year lSe2 should it be deemed
advisable; and no such amendment or rspeaI in
any particular shall be construed to impair the
right OF council to assess and levy A tax Tor tbe
whole or said year 1892. whenever made
SEC. -. All ordinances and parts OF ordiu-
anoes conflicting with the provisions OF this
ordinance are hereby repealed; provided.
nevertheless. that SO much and such narts III
ordinances heretofore passed as provided FOR
the Issuing and enforcement OF arec,tiona Tor
any tax or assessment or part Of tax or assess
ment required by any such ordinance and now
remaining unpaid, shall continue and remain
OF force so as TO authorize the treasurer 10 h.
sue such executions. and the marshal To collect
the same. until such taxes or assessment shall be
fully paid. 'A''-' W
Ordinance read 10 council for the first tIrna
Dec. 9, 1891. and published for Information.
FRANK Y. RIBARER
Clerk OF Council
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.,Tnrer of the Toncnes.n

Our story of the Tower OF Babel Is
known in Chaldean and Armenian ira
dition as 1.-The Story of the Tower of
Tongues" 1t is one of the earliest recol-
lections of the Tigro-Euphrateo basin,
and is related by Berosus in the follow
ing manner:
''The first inhabitants of the earth,
glorying in their own strength and size,
and despising the gods, undertook to
raise tower whose top should reach the
skies. This tower they erected in the
place where Babylon's ruins now lay
thickly strewn over the ground. In
erecting this monster roadway TO heaven
they toiled necessarily. But when it
had approached near unto heaven the
wind assisted the gods and overthrow
the work upon its contrivers; and its
ruins are said to be still at Babylon.
And at about the same time the geds
introduced a diversity of tongues among
mer, who till that time had all spoken
TIE one language. The place in which
they attempted to build the tower is now
called Babylon, on account of the con-
fusion of tongues, for confusion is by the
Hebrews called bable."-St. Louis Re
public.