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The Press., 1891-02-26
HOME NEWS.
Locaa Notices.


 (Matter under this head cents per lne0 A CARD.-H s. Stevenson, deputy of the Nor-Secret Endowment Order, is in town for the purpose of organizing a local assembly. $500 year, $20 week, $250 in case of per mant disability. Cost of membership, $6. Mt I'd extended notice will be issued next week. A. w. Walker offers this week lot of Ladies' Garments in Newmarkets and Wraps at $3. .OO each.
 Bed blankets marked down at E. L. Burr's.
 A W. Walker will open on Saturday the largest stock of Single Shawls for the spring trade that was ever shown in town, and prices from 75 cts. to $4 each. -... A complete line of Ladies' Cotton Under wear at M ss Russelps.
 Ladies' Night Robes, Corset Covers, Chemise, Drawers and Skirts at M ss Russel's. Mems Working Gloves and Mitens. Will close them out at bargain at E |. Burr's. Stationery of all kinds at The Press office. Fresh premium butter from the Filing ton creamery, at Ellis.
 A few barrels of choice hickory nuts at Ellis.' Plain oh ese, sage cheese, Eng Dairy, Roquefort and Neufchatel cheese at Ellis Extra choice Northern Apples at lis' Read ad.
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ANDOVER Ro

The entertainment given by the Con. gational society last week passed off very pleasantly, and proved quite 8 success financially.
 George Lathrop, who fills position in wholesale packing house in New York city, has been spending few days in town at his grandparents, MT. and Mrs. W. M. Cleaveland.
 Eddie Yeomans is quite sick with measles.
 Sherman Lathrop, who has been very i'll, is able to be out again. Mrs. 0 N. Nichols, who was suddenly called to Providence on account of the sickness and death of friend, still remains with the afflicted family.
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The late Charles McLaren had not SC far as is known any living relative. He made no will so far as known. and there have already came to light ten United States bonds of $1,000 each and bank deposit of $2, 800. After settling the es- tate thls property will probably go into the state treasury for the benefit of the commonwealth of Connecticut. An inter. esting incident of such result is inst Mir. McLaren, through his long residence in the south, was in full sympathy with that section during the war, and never changed his views. He kept them up vigorously in talk as long as he lived, conforming the northern states and the general govern. ment, and yet now he dies, and it appears that his money was invested in the bonds of the government that he professed to condemn, and this property will go to g state that he professed not to like.-Hart ford COur02at
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ELLINGTON.

, Mrs. Annette Leach, whose death, apparently from hydrophobia, is allnded to by the Crystal Lake correspondent, was last November bitten by a cat which had come to the home of Henry Kimball, for whom Mrs. Leach was housekeeper. Mrs. Leach was feeding the cat when it seized her hand, biting her badly. The wound soon healed and after few weeks Mrs. Leach experienced no pain. Last week Tuesday, however, she was seized with spasms and until she died, on Friday, suf- fered great agony. She showed all the symptoms of hydrophobia, frothing at the mouth and snapping and biting like a rabid animal. Mrs. Leach was 48 years of age The cat left the house soon after biting the woman. .
 ' Crystal Lake Correspondence3
 Never befoFe has onr annual "dona. tion" been more successful than it was last week. The long storm was over just at the right time, and MT. and Mrs. Gold did everything to make the gathering delight. full. Eighty friends were present, all in pleasant mood, and the pastor realized $50. At the suggestion of Mrs. E. D. Dimock. and by the giving of many "mites" by many friends, the gift of beautiful cup and saucer and decorated fruit plate was receiged by the pastor. A very pleasant feature of the occasion was the presence of. Deacon Dimock of Vest Stafford, ac. companied by his daughter, Mrs. F. W. Preston, and her little son. This house was the deacon's home for forty four years and Mrs. Preston was born here. Sick ness, which is with us still at Crystal Lake kept some away.
 The writer has been suffering from severe burn for week or two, but tho handsome "donation" just received, acting as an oil of consolation, causes him to al most forget the pain.
 Mrs James Pierce of Willington hal spent a few days in taking care of her aunt Mrs. Parkii Aborn, who is slowly recover ing her strength.
 Mrs. Angenette Leach died on th, Both inst at Mr. Kimbalps, Ellington Street, from hydrophobia, as is supposed She formerly lived in this neighborhood and was brought here to be buried las Sunday, the funeral being held in tn Methodist church, the writer officiating.
 Let me thank the Willington core spondent for that kind and courteous re sponse. ':.., :s".:. -,>.*.
 The eleventh term of A. l.. Adams school in the 18th district, West Stafford closed last Friday with an excellent exam nation. The recitations in arithmetic ana reading were especially good. Several fin declamations were given. The followin, scholars were neither absent nor tardy Winfords E. Slater, Clinton A. Slater Charles w. Slater, Norman A. Gold, Alic Cunningham. One of these, Charles Slater has made (assisted by suggestions from hi teacher) nice little bookcase for tn schoolroom. MT. Adams continues to en joy full favor with both parents and chil dren in this district.
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The Connecticut river has become nav igable, the ice having broken up below Hartford. The Hartford steamers will re- sume their New York trips Saturday.
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ROCKVILLE.

Mrs. John Angell, aged 60 years, re. siding on Chestnut-st., slipped on some ice in her back yard Monday evening, breaking her leg inst above the ankle.
 Editor Pratt of the Journal is expect ed home this week. In his absence his associate. w. H. Taylor, has we'll cared for all departments of the paper.
 -One has bis hands full who tries to meet and repair all the damages done by sensationalists, who seem to think it cun. ing to write down the communities in which they live, but all Holland County should feel obliged to the Leader for show ing the falsity of recent statements that this was an afflicted county, overridden with epidemics, which were breaking up schools and alarming everybody.
 . MANSFIELD.
 Notices of Collectors Fisk and Weeks will interest tax payers.
 -Col. J. D. Chaffee has removed his residence from Chaffeeville to hls elegant new residence in Willimantic.
 Evidence is secured and warrants is sued Tuesday for the arrest of the Nortt Mansfield depredators to the church ani cemetery property there, and no doub soon the villains will be in custody. l certainly was most unwarranted crime and every one of them should receive thei just deserts. at the hands of justice. "A four-tenement house belonging t' the Shell Tool Company at East Brimielt
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syrap of Flgs,

An agreeable and effective laxative to perma- nently cure habitual constipation, in large oz
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Hors rsesaaen.

~ WOrsemems Look at those Carnage Sponges that LAthror sells for 25c.s also the ChamOis Skins for 5Oc. LATHROP'S DRUG STORE
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If you would like to have your horses and cattle enjoy good health and have fine com- plexion feed them LATHROP'S Condition Powders.
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Hartford Post It is stated that Senator Dolph of Oregon recently recommended to the president for the position of secretary of the treasury MT. Fraley, prominent financier of Oregon, who is very earnest opponent of free coinage. This recom- mendation would hardly have been made unless the Oregon senator had been confi- dent that he would have been supported by the sentiment of his state. When this fact is taken with the recent action of the legislature of Wisconsin in adopting res- olution protesting against free coinage, it appears that the great west is not so pas. slonately devoted to unlimited % silver as has the most noise, but sense generally has g way of coming out ahead at the proper time. .t+
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"A four-tenement house belonging to the Shell Tool Company at East Brimfeld was recently burned. Building and furni- ture of occupants were insured.
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27. Readings will be given at their church by Hon. J. o. Booth and Mrs. Grace Newell Thompson, ,interspersed with music, under the direction of Prof w. o. Turner. commencing at 730 p. m. Admission, 10 cents. On the same evening the ladies will serve supper, consisting of oysters, clam chowder, pastry, etc, from o'clock onward, for 15 cents.
 Rev. Frank A. Warfeld will preach ill the Congregational church next Sunday, March 1st.
 STAFFORD HOLLOW.
 Stafford grange meets next Tuesday evening. Important business matters left oyer from last meeting will be considered.
 WEST STAFFORD.
 Miss Hattie Graves is visiting hel grandfather at Bowdoinham, Maine.
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Two junk dealers in Thompsonville had the misfortune to have their horse fall in. to a hatchway. A crowd of 200 men assembled, but gave no aid until an offer of $6 melted them to successful effort. Then an officer arrested the itenerant deal. CTS because they did not fork over the $6. They ought to have paid as they agreed, but what kind of town is it where crowd will stand by in such case and not volun teer assistance?
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 Another of those double numbers which the publishers of "The Youths Compan. ion" seem to delight in offering as pleas. ant surprise to it's readers comes to us this week. A careful reading of one of these special numbers makes it easy to nnder stand why this favorite paper rarely loses an old friend and gains so many thousands of new admirers every year. Half mil lion copies of this, the March double mum Der, are published. In the United States court last Saturday Judge Shipman sentenced the New Yorb architects, Paliser & Paliser, who got { number of Connecticut postmasters inte trouble for mailing circulars before tho stamps has been paid for. The sentence was one day in jail and fine of $500 anG costs.
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The will of Emeline H. Fay, late of Holland, Mass, has been filed for probate and leaves all her property to her cousin, Isaiah Hiscock, and gives her son and his children not a cent, "for reasons best known to myseH''
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of Rev R Mr NeTeII. i from m 1 hia Sils,s WilIinatos appointment, visited him on Tuesday af- ternoon laden with products of the farm and kitchen sufficient for theirimmediate wants, with large surplus for the days to come. The afternoon was pleasantly spent in so- cial converse and singing.
 We are indebted to the friends of the Methodist church for the prospect of an evening of rare enjoyment on Friday, Feb.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-31
LIKE TO BE HUMBUGGED.
What Woman Physician Says About the
Wants of Patients.

What a Woman Physician Says About the
Wants of Patients.
New York Evening SUM-
A woman physician in the city told a
most remarkable thing a day or two ago.
s'It takes deal of conscientiousness to keep
physician from becoming a quack, " she
said. cts such an easy thing to quack
when you know your patient wants you to,
and that because the patient wants it, ii
would perhaps be beneficial in the end. By
quacking L mean resorting to clap-trap and
unscientifc methods, such as the faith-cure
and its like. No one but a physician has
any idea how great demand there is for
this among intelligent people.
''They don't want the honest, straight.
forward exhibition of the action of drugs on
the body. They. want mystery about it,
an exhibition of healing as divine force
something that appeals to the imagination.
And because it's subject for the imagina-
tion the demand comes not from the ignorant
and unthinking, but from the most intelli-
gent and best-informed people.
81 have known some of the most logical
and clear-headed people in this city to offer
such resistance to scientific rational meas
ures in medical treatment and insist so
strongly upon some illegitimate and made
guate course, as to put the honest physi-
clans patience to its last resort.
SIT isn't quite that they like to be hum
bugged. They don't know it by that,
though the physician does. They want some
thing for the Imagination to work on. And
ahat's the stronghold of the quack practi-
toner 1t takes an honest man or woman
to practice medicine honestly"
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THE BEAUTIES AND THE BUTTON.
Two Washington Girls and the Electric
Accommodation.

Two Washington Girls and the Electric
Accommodation.
Seattle Press-Times.I
Two young ladies from the northern dis
trict who had evidently come into the city
for the purpose of seeing the President,
created considerable mirth at the Hinckley
block on Saturday afternoon. They wished
to go up in the elevator, but after they had
stood for minute and no elevator came to
take them up, one of them said: "Hadn't {
we ought to do something?"
''Oh, yesI'' replied the other, and at the
same time she clasped her hand over the
electric button, but failed to ring it.
''Guess you have to blow in it, +" said the
first speaker.
''Guess so, too," said the other, and down
she went on her knees and commenced
blowing. After she had kept this up for
about 80 seconds a gentleman who wit
ressed their unsuccessful efforts to bring
the elevator down, stepped up and ex-
planned the modus operandi. With heart
felt thanks and blushing cheeks the ladies'
assembled.
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TRIED TO HAVE FUN WITH HIM.
A Little Incident That Cured a Smart ohioau
for Life.


A Little Incident That Cured Smart ohioan
for Life.
Cincinnati Times-Star.]
81 remember a friend of mine" said
Squire johnson, "who considered himself
funny. He went to prominent jeweler on
Fourth street, and purchased watch for
$50, receiving written guarantee that the
watch would keep good time for a year. II
the watch failed the purchase money was to
be refunded.
"Well, my friend was called to Europe
soon after that, and spent several months
travelling about various parts of the earth,
and it happened that he returned to Gin
cinnati on the very day the guarantee of his
watch expired.
Asking me to accompany him, we went to
the jewelry store, and, calling out the pro-
prietor, my friend laid down the guarantee,
which the ieweler read, and then expressed
himself ready TO fulfill his contract.
'"The watch was placed upon the counter,
and was found to be just one-half minnte
too fast. The jeweler placed it carefully in
a drawer, and going to his safe, counted out
five crisp SO bills and passed them to my
friend, with smile.
"'Yes, but don't want the money he
stammered; give me back my watch. It
was only meant as q little pleasantly I
have complied with my contract replied
the jeweler, and L only meant a little busi-
ness But must have that watch said
the thoroughly Disconnected funny man.
We'll, replied the jeweler, proceeding with
his work, 4 consider a watch that varies
only one-half minute in year worth more
than $50. will sell you the watch for $780,
$50 chagrined that he hardly knew what
he was doing, my facetious friend paid over
the 500 and pocketed the watch.
"'When you need another good watch
give me call, said the jeweler, merrily,
as we took our departure. Well, do you
know never heard of that fellow doing q
funny thing since?"
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HOW TO REED A DOLLAR.
Putting the Corrugations on the Edge of the
Round Silver Piece.

Putting the Corrugations on the Edge of the
Round Silver Piece.
San Francisco Chronicle.l
What is the "milling" on dollar or other
coin? Probably not one person in 800 would
answer this simple question correctly. There
is popular belief that the corrugations on
the rim of a dollar are the milling. A
Chronicle reporter thought so too until the
point happened to arise in conversation
with c. NJ. Gorham, coiner at the mint, the
other day.
Mr.. Gorham went into the coming room
and picked up 'blank, a round piece of
plain silver cut out of silver bar. 1t had
gone through one machine, which had
Slightly rounded the edges. The blank was
dropped in milling machine, and when it
came out minute or two later the rim was
fiat and the edges of the rim were raised a
little above the level of the sides. The verb
nmilling'' used in this connection is this
raising of the rim of blank piece of money,
and the noun ''milling" is the plain raised
rim without reference to any cOrrugations
anywhere. The purpose of the milling is
TO protect the surface of the sides from
wear.
The milled blank was dropped into a
stamping machine, from which it dropped q
perfect dollar. While in the machine the
piece dropped into corrugated collar, and
the piece expanding under great pressure
the rim was forced into the corrugations and
became similarly corrugated. These paral-
lei notches or corrugations, generally called
the milling, constitute the ''reeding." The
term is adapted from its architectural use to
express small convex molding, especially
when such holdings are multiplied, parallel
to each other.
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and impressive view stretches away. The
island appears to be perfect tumble of
peaks, the original range being cut by in
Vulnerable canyons, worn away by the
rains of centuries. their sides in turn
divided and rent by smaller gulches or
canyons.
A Near Approach to Paradise.
1t is habit of the enthusiast to label
every attractive place paradise, but if the
term should be attached to this western
island one would hardly gainsay it from a
climatic standpoint. The breezes from the
blue ocean come laden with the odor of a
thousand flowers. From the deep canyons
and the bits of mesa land the musical notes
of the plumed quail call to its mate in the
chaparral, while the melody of the lark
and other birds add to the charm of the
surroundings. Descending into the center
of the island, its charm increased. The air
was soft, balmy and clear as bell; subtle
something suggesting the perfection of
climatic conditions which is here almost at
tanned.
The trail led down canyon lined with
Towering shrubs, at the bottom of which q
clear stream ran tumbling into the sea. /
followed it until my horse could move no
further; then crept down the brook bed
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In certain part of the world, not clearly
stated OH the map, is a curious school, which
L was fortunate enough to be enabled
to visit. One fine dly presented
the author of '.Hail Columbia" "a. The
United States Government ~, who sat at
the teachers desk, greeted me cordially and
ordered the Little Giant" (2) to hand me a
chair. The class in history had just been
called, and was about to proceed, when the
Wizard of the North" (10 came shutting
ing on one foot for tardiness, as was also the
first white child born in America" (ls) and
the "Iron Duke" l9), who followed close
after.
"Who discovered American" was asked.
The "King-maker" (6), who stood first,
thought it might have been Davy Crockett,
but was quickly told by the next pupil-the
founder of the Grand Army of the Republic
(Sl-that George washington did The ones.
tion was passed to the "Hero of the Dark
Continent a., who had some idea that hehad
done the feat himself, and then to the First
Postmaster General of the United States (5),
without being correctly answered. They
were sent to their seats in disgrace
The class in music was then called and the
inventor of the Merrimac ts) caroled annie
Rooney very creditably, the author of 'I
Came, l Saw, L Conquered (9) and the
Master of the House of Gold" (20) coming
in very strong on the chorus. The. e."Heroinc
Lucknow" (lS) performed on the comb while
the Finder oil the True Cross (l5) hummed
an alto. Tho Father of History (l4) rose
and sung "Home, Sweet Home" !" and the
class in geography was called. The author
of some Tongue Enough for Woman" (l6)
proceeded to talk for himself and all the rest
about the earth's rotundity, and, time press
ing, took my departure, leaving him and
the "Seourge of Godn (2I) in hot debate
with the "Sage of Monticello" (l2) Bluff
Hal (l0l and the author of Liberty and
Union" now and forever, one and INSOFAR
able. Mrs. c. R. S.
1566-RIDDLE.
You often see us resting under table, sofa,
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money he said: srNo, am not hungry, and
this gold is better than food"
He then started on his way home, and as
he travelled over the long, lonely road, he
became weak and weary, and wished for
bread with which to satisfy his hunger.
Finally, overcome from fatigue and lack of
food, he sank to. the ground and died Then
came the dwarfs in great numbers, and
buried him deep under the snow and COW
cred him with the gold which had cost him
his life
In the little cottage at the foot of the hill,
Adele waited in vain for the return of her
father. Many times she looked out into the
stormy night thinking to see him plodding
through the snow. She MIXED the COW,
and being very hungry, she ate her own
supper and that which she had prepared for
her father. Then fearing lest the peasant
would return and punish her she crept into
bed were she soon fell fast asleep, and did
not waken until morning. But the peasant
did not come the next day nor the next, and
during the remainder of the winter Adele
lived alone and was really happier than
when her father had been with her; for he
had always been unkind, and never
seemed to love her. Yet the little girl
always expected him to return, and did
not dare to touch the gold which he had
left. One day she said to herself: "When
spring comes, if father is not here, I shall
wait no longer. 1 shall take the money and
go to some city; for L am lonely here, and
this cottage is a very uncomfortable home. "
So the spring came; but the peasant did not
return, and Adele decided that she would
leave the home, where she had so little
pleasure, to seek new one.
On the night when she thought to sleep in
the cottage for the last time, as she was
making ready for her journey the next day,
suddenly she heard sounds of music and
singing. The walls of the old house creaked
and groaned. And few moments later
Adele found herself in the hall of large
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and bearing fine head with massive curv-

and bearing fine head with massive cury-
ing horns.
The island at this point was the sports
mans ideal; valley shut in by mouptains,
covered with carpet of green and flowers
of every tint; focks of plumed quail were on
every side, and so tame that they could be
killed with rifle. There was an element
of excitement in roaming through these can
yons. A number of years ago some cattle
were placed upon the island, and the in
creasing descendants had become wild and
vicious, gradually developing all the caution
of their ancestors in allowing themselves to
be rarely seen. A friend had once seen
them. and while sitting on his horse had