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Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20
Deafness Can't be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by con stitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets infamed you have rumbling sound or i'm perfect hearing. and wlen it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to it's normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine a,es out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucuous sur- faces.
 We will give one hundred dollars for any case of deafness (caused by catarrh) that we cannot cure by taking Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars free.
 F.J. CHENEY & CO.,, Toledo, Ohio. Sold by druggists, 75 cents.
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20
LITCHF7ELD SOLDIERS IN NEW YORK
 pRIQlN0

THISONS.
 Andersonville, Salisbury and the Lib by rrisors were places of ease comp .red with the British prisons in New York in the Revolution. Colonel (then Cap tain) Beebe took company of thirty six picked men from this country to aid in the defense of Fort Washington in the fall of 1776. They were captured there on the 16th of November and taken to the Sugar House and the other prisons in New York. They were ex- changed within less than six weeks, on December 27, 1776. Eleven of Col Beebe's company started on their re- turn, six of whom died before reaching home. One more returned afterward, making total of about six out of thirty-s six who survived that terrible ordeal All the rest died of small pox, dysentery, cold, hunger, thirst or bar barous treatment in prison. -Litchtield Enqulrer.
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20
LA GRIPPE AGAIN.

During the epidemic of Ia grippe last season Dr. Kings New Discovery for consumption, coughs and colds, proved to be the best remedy. Reports from the many who used it confirm this state ment. They were not only quickly re- lieved, but the disease left no bad re suits. We ask you to give this remedy a trial and we guarantee that you will be satisfied with results, or the purchase price will be refunded. It has no equal in Ia grippe, or any throat, chest or lung trouble. Trial bottles free at W. H. Camps drug store. Large bottles, 5Oc. and $1.OO.
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20
The Lesson of Litchfield County.

The chief agricultural county of Connecticut is Litchfeld It contains only four towns which can really be called "factory" in character, and it is locally called the Mountain county" of the state. Outside of the four manu- featuring towns of Torrington, Win chester, Thomaston and Watertown, the county lost 2,743 during the decade just closed, Its 22 farm towns had had in 1880 population of 3s. .453, and it's loss during the decade, therefore, has been little more than per cent. The county contains no cities. While then, 37 farm towns nearest the )2 Con- necticut cities lost about 10 per cent in population, the 9 farm towns of Litch- field county away from cities and, as a whole, from factory towns also, have lost but per cent. Thus by the popula- tion test the Connecticut farm towns near the cities are worse off than those that are remote, the "drain" of the ad- jacent cities being more powerful b. exerted upon them. York Evening Post
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20
A Big Stone.

QUINCY, MASS. May 13.-What is be- lieved to be the largest single piece of granite ever started at one blast in Quincy was moved yesterday. It is 25 feet wide. 20 feet thick and seventy feet long. The company has been five years clearing the front of the stone, which is of the finest quality.
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20
The Matter With John James Ingalls,. -.. Lawrence (Kan.) Journal.

.+
 The Journal does not know from whence came the following story, but that is no reason why it should be lost; The parrot sat on g perch in g corner of the room. A bulldog, a new conner in the family, lay in another corner. ''S- s-sick 'em," said the parrot, ''s-s-sick 'em. Tige." The new dog bounded to his feet and looked for something to ''sick," but finding nothing he lay down again. The parrot clambered down from, his perch and waddled across to where the dog was lying. 'S-s-sick 'em, Tige. he said again. This time Tige found something to "sick." He bounced upon the parrot, tore him, shook him and boxed him about until the poor bird was we'll nigh dead. When the dog had been called off the parrot labored up to his perch, looked about the floor where his beauti- fnl feathers lay scattered, scanned him self minutely, noted his one remaining tail feather and said; 1T know what's the matter with me: I talk too d-d much. "~ And that's what's the matter with John James Ingalls.
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20
For THE CONNECTICUT WESTERN NEWS.
 LOVES DEMAND.

Unveiled, the shade that confronts me As alone pray at my knee. Beside me voice imperious calls A face close searching me. o soul of my lost one and I, What secret between to impart? Dumb are the lips that beseech me Cold the blood at the heart. Rising above is q sum- warned love: BetWixt it and me Is the dust; But love demands until that die Keep to the solem trust.
 Ms /. ". .h0rpe.
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20

II heal that Mrs Barlow is disputing her late husbands will" "Why thought he left everything to her. D ''So he did, but she never let the old man have his own way. It's matter of principle with her. "-New York Sun.
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20
A Marvellous City of tho Dead.

A map by Padre Marchi shows that one of the Roman catacombs occupies an area of nine furlongs in greatest length by seven in greatest width. A recent calculation from this map places the area of the entire series of cata- combs at sixty times this amount, and the total length of the subterranean streets at not less than 900 miles, This agrees very closely with Padre Marchi's estimate by a different method. He conjectured that there may have been
 twenty confraternities of diggers, and that these might have excavated about seventy feet of road and 100 graves every day; and this, taking two com plete centuries as the time which the catacombs continued to be used as Christian cemeteries, gives a total of 720 miles and 6,000, 900 graves-f1gures,
 however, that Padre Marchi considered much too small. n.-Arkansaw Traveller.
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20
SHE WANTED TO SEE.

"So this is the barn?" exclaimed the fair young girl who was visiting her country cousins.
 Yes"
 "Then do please show me the dear little barnacles. Judge.
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20

Why is a defeated candidate like the earth? Because he is fattened at the polls. Texas Siftings.
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20
, OBJECTIONS OVERCOME.

May-A girl doesn't like to be grab bed and hugged against her will.
 Frank-No; but my shirt front isn't any girls will
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20

was cheerin to see that gigantic intel leck among lem onct more. That's what he called me. Hike the skoolmaster, and allers send him tobacker when Pm off on a travelin campane. Besides, he is a very sensible man. Such men must be encouraged.
 They don't git news very fast is Bald insville, as nothin but plank road runs in there twice a week, and thats.very much out of repair. So my nabers wasn't much posted up in regard to the wars. Squire Baxter sed he'd voted the dimi- cratic ticket for goin on forty year, and the war was a dam black republican lie. 10. Stackpole, who kills hogs for the Squire, and has got powerful muscle into his arms, sed he'd bet $5 he could lick the Crisis in fair stand up fight, if he wouldn't draw a knife on him. So it went-sum was for war and sum was for peace.
 The newspapers got along at last, chock full of war, and the patriotic fever fairly bust out in Baldinsville. Squire Baxter sed he didn't b'ieve in Coercion, not one of 'em, and could prove by a file of Eagles of Liberty in his garrit, that it was all a Whig lie, got up to raise the price ot whisky and destroy our other liberties. But the old Squire got putty riley when he heard how the rebels was cuttin up, and he sed he reckoned he should skou1 up his old muskit and do little square fitin for the Old Flag, which had allera bin on the ticket he'd voted, and he wa too old to Bolt now.
 The next mornin 1 rose with the lark (N. B.-I don't sleep with the lark, tho. A goak.)
 My little dawter was execootin ballids, accompanyin herself with the Akordeon, and she wisht me to finger and hear her sing, .'Hark, hear angel singin, a angel now is onto the wing
 'Let him fly, my childr' sed I, a. bucklin on my armer, 'sI must forth to my Biz. J
 had seris time gittin into my mili- tary harness, as it was bilt for me many years ago; but I finally got inside of it, tho it fitted me putty clost. Howsever, onct into it, lookt fne-in fact, aw-in. spirin. Do you know me, Mrs. Ward?' sed I, walkin into the kitchin.
 "Know you, you old fool? Of course do.''
 saw at once she did.
 We air progressin pretty well with ou, drill. AS all air commandin ofissers, there ain't no jelusy, and as we air all exceedin smart it t'aint worth while tc try to outstrip each other. The idee of a company composed exclusively of Com. manders-in-C Chiefs, orriggernated, spose skurcely need say, in these Brane. Con. sidered as idee, I fatter myself it is putty hefty. We've got all the tacktick at our tongs' ends, but what we particly excel in is restin muskits
 Our corpse will do its dooty. We gc to the aid of Columby-we fight for the stars!
 We'll be chopt into sassige meat before 1 we'll exhibit our cote tales to the foe.
 We'll fight till there's nothin left of us but our little toes, and even they shall defantly wiggle! "Ever of thee," A. WARD.
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20
DR. CIDMAN, lONGOPlTHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.

Omcs J. K. Bhepard's Residence,
 Opposite the park, Norfolk, tt. Residence on Maple Avenue. Hou1s :l7 to a. m., 80 to 2:S0 and to
 8:S0 p. m. Chronic Diseases Speciality.
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20
FRANcis BlSsELL, E General insurance

Effected In the strongest Mutual and Stock Compenies. Also represents the Fitchburg Mutual, surplus $106, 900. Covers against damned by lightning. Discounts 20 per ct. on one year policy; 40 per ct. on two years; 50 per ct. on five years. Call on or address me It BANTAM, CONN.
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20
'hicaro, Rock Island X paclie' 'Ry,

he Direct Route to and from Chicago Joliet Ottawa 'eoria La S,ll'. Nolin flock Island. in ILLINOIS ,avcnpnrt, NLG scat Ottuuwa. Oskaoosa, De.
 IoinCs, Winters t. Audubon tIali II and Counc ;luffs in IOWA; Minneal,ol and St. Paul, in MIN. -ESOTA; Watcr'own and Sioux ala, in DAKOTA ame:or, St. Joseph an I fsps C;i'. i'll MIrEOCRI Omaha, Lincolr Fait! urT N !aoii, i:, NEBRASKA .tchison, lcavrnw' 'rtl l. rt.h. p,k, liut' hinson Wichita Eecville, Abile '. i-olge Cit ell, r Kin.iisher, Ei i,tIlu q incn, ii INDIAN TERRITORY; Denver, plora 'o Sp ngs n.l Pueblo COI.N2Abt Trlver~s uf rich farming nd grazing lands atr.i th. best lities or inter. JmnlUnirtIiun io ai. t,"hS sl,.I c tNst and west .ortlwcs: and southwest of Chi ai:d t3 acfc and 3"e.c ealmrts
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20
WAR FEELING AT HOME.
SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS
 OF ARTEMUS WARD.

The Snowman Becomes Captain of . Volunteer Company, and Breathes Forth Threats and Slaughter-He Att tends Q Public Meeting. Copyrighted and published by special arrange ment with G. W. Dillingham;, New York; pub fisher.
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20
A WAR MEETING.

WAR MEETING.
 Our complaint just now is war meet in's. They've bin havin 'em bad in varis parts of our cheerful Republic, and naturally we caught 'en here in Baldins- vile. They broke out all over us
 Posey County is aroused. may say, indeed, that the pra-hay-ories of h. jianny is on fire.
 Our big meetin came off the other night, and our old friend of the Bs1qle was elected Cheerman.
 The Bugle-Horn of Liberty is one of Baldvinsvine's most eminentest institoo- tions. The advertisements are we'll written, and the deaths and marriages are conducted with signal ability. The editor, MT. Slinkers, is polished, skar- castle writer. Folks in these parts will not soon forget how he used up the Eagle of Freedom, a family journal pub lished at Snootville, near here The controversy was about a plank road. "The road may be, as our contemporary says, a humbug; but our aunt isn't bald headed, and ave haven't got one-eyed sister Sal! Wonder if the Editer of the Eagle of Freedom sees it?" This used up the Eagle of Freedom feller, be. cause his aunt's head does present a skinned appearance, and his sister SARAH is very much one-eyed, For a genteel home-thrust, MT. SINNERS has few ekals.
 was fxin' myself up to attend the great war neetin', when my daughter entered with young nan who was evi. jently from the city, and who wore long hair, and had wild expression into hla eye. In one hand he carried a port folio, and in his other paw claspt 8 bunch of small brushes. My daughter introduced him as Mir. SwE1B1ER, tho distinguished landscape painter from Philadelphy.
 "He is artist, papa. Here is one of his masterpieces young mother gaz- in admirin1y upon her first born," and my daughter showed me really pretty plcter done in ile. '1s it not beautiful, papa? He throws so much soul into his work"
 "Does he? does he?'' said I-.sweu, reckon I'd better hire him to whitewash our fence. It needs it. What will you charge, sir," continued, "to throw some soul into my fence?''
 My daughter went out of the room in very short meeter, takin' the artist with her, and from the emphatical manner in which the door slam'd I concluded she was summat disgusted at my remarks. She closed the door, may say. in italics. l went into the closet and larfed all alone by myself for over half an hour. Ilarfed s0 vi'1ent1v th at the yrocorvo io ro ~c++1o5 like a cavalry o6sser's sword and things, which it aroused my BETSY, who came and opened the door pretty student. She seized me by the few lonely hairs that still finger sadly upon my bare-footed he'd, and dragged me out of the Closet, incidentally ohsarvin1 tlaAt she didnsl
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-07

''No-that was but a fancy--to-day. He
died-he died more than two years ago"
She bent her head. II was but 4 poor at
tempt at truth. u miserable, lying truth, to
deceive herself with, but it seemed better
than TO lie the whole truth outright. and
say that her father-Beatrice's father-had
been dead but just q week. The blood
burned in her face. Brave natures. good
and bad alike, hate falsehood, not for its
wickedneSs, perhaps, but for its cowardice.
She could do things as bad, far worse. She
could lay her hand upon the forehead of 4
sleeping man and inspire in him Deep I'M
changeable belief in something utterly un-
true: but now, as it was. she was ashamed
and hid her face.
ut is strange" he said, chow little men
know OF each others lives or deaths. They
told me he was alive last year. But it has
hurt you to speak of it. Forgive me, dear, it
was thoughtless of me-
He tried TO lift her head, but she held it
obstinately down.
Have panied you, Beatrice" he asked.
forgetting to call her by the other name
that was so new to him.
''No-oh, no,n she exclaimed, without
looking up.
What is it then,''
''Nothing-it is nothing-no, | Will not
look at you'll am ashamed" That at least
was true.
ASndnet- uedF HedfJ. vi WnaIf'
He had seen her face in spite of herself.
Lie. or lose all, said voice within
Ashamed OF being giad-thatI am free
she stammered, struggling on the very
verge of the preciplce.
you may b. glad of that, and yet be
very sorry he is dead" the Wanderer said,
stroking her hair.
1t was true, and seemed very simple She
wondered that she had not thought of that
Yet she felt that the man she loved. i'll all
his nobility ard honesty, was playing the
temper TO her, though he could not know
it. Deeper anu deeper she sank, yet ever
more conscious that she was sinking Be
fore him she felt no longer as loving woman
to loving Inar-she was beginning TO feel as
a guilty prisoner before his Judge
He thought to turn the subject to lighter
strain. BY chance he glanced al his own
hand.
ssDo you know this ring?'' he asked, hold
ing it before her, with smile.
Indeed, l know it, she answered,
trembling again.
You gave it TO me, love, do you remem-
Der? And I gave you likeness of myself
because you asked for it, though I would
rather have given You something better.
Have you ii Stitl!i
She was silent. Something was rising
in her throat. Then she choked it down.
i had it in my hand last night
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mensity OF his faith and trust in that other
woman were made clear by the simple heart
felt words ii she had been indeed Beatrice.
would he have loved her so? If it had all
been true, the parting, the seven years
separation. the utter loneliness, the hope
lessnesS, the despair, could she have been
as true as he. In the stiffness that followed
she asked herself the question which was
so near greater and deadiier one. But
The answer came quickly. That, at least,
she could have done. She could have been
true 10 HIM even 10 death. It must be SO
easy to be faithful when life was but one
faith In that chord, 1t least, no note rang
false.
Change in love--indifference to youi; she
cried. all al once, hiding her lovely face in
his breast and twining her arms around his
neck. No, mo- never meant that such
things could De-they are but empty words,
words one hears spoken lightly by lips that
never spoke the truth, b. men and women
who never had such truth to speak as you
and ]"
And rs for old age he said, dwelling
upon her speech, what is that 10 u.s. Let
1t come, since come it must. It is good 10
be young, and fair, and strong. but would
not you or ! give up all that for loves sake,
each of us of our own free will. rather than
lose the others love-"
Indeed indeed | would" Unorna an
swered
Then, what of age, What is it. after
all2 4 few gray hairs, a wrinkle here and
there, :; slower step. perhaps Il DINNER
glance. That is all il is-the quiet, sunny
channel between the sea of earthly Joy and
the ocean of earthly happiness. The
breeze of love still fills the sails. waiting US
softly onward through the narrows, never
failing, though it be softer and softer, till
we glide out. scarce knowing it, upon the
broader water and are borne swiftly away
from the lost land by the first breath of
heaven"
His words brought peace and the mirage
of far off rest that soothed again the little
half-born doubt.
Yes she said, sit is better to think of
ii so. Then we need think of no other
change
There IS no other possible he an
swered gently pressing the shoulder upon
which his hand was resting. I'VE have
not waited and believed, and trusted and
loved, for seven years, 10 wake at last
face to face as we are tO-day-and to find
that we have trusted vainly and loved two
shadows, yours and YOU mine: TO find at
the great moment of all that we are not
ourselves, the selves we knew, but others
OF Ike passions, but of less endurance
Have we beloved. And if we could love,
and trust, and believe without each other
each alone. is it not all the more sure that
we shall be unchanging tczetherl 1t
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-07

spirit, beautiful even in its sorrow, sad, de-
spairing, saying ever" and yet signing
never" tasting and knowing all the bitter
ness of both. The kiss without the glance
The body without the soul1 The mortal
thing without the undying thought Draw
down the thick veil and hide the sight. lest
devils sicken at it. and lest man should
loathe himself for what man can be.
Truth or untruth, their love was real
hers as much as his. She remembered only
what her heart had been without it. What
her goal might be, now that il had come,
she guessed even then, but she would not
ask. Was there never a martyr in old
times more human than the rest, who
turned back, for love perhaps, if not for
fear, ard said that for loves sake life still
was sweet. and brought milE-white dove
10 Aphrodites altar, OF dropped rose be-
fore Demeter's feet. There must have
been, for man IS man, and woman. woman
And If, in the next month, or even the next
year, or after many years, that youth or
maid took heart to bear a Christian death,
was there then no forgiveness. no sign OF
holy cross upon the sandstone in the deep
labyrinth of gra Ses, no crown. no saint
hood, and no reverent memory of his name
or hers among those of men and women
worthier, perhaps. but net more suffering
No one can kill Self. No one can be alto
gether another, save in the passing passion
OF a moments acting lin that syllable
lies the whole history Of each human life.
IN that history lies the individuality. in the
clear and true conception of that individual
ity, dwells such joint forellnowledge Of the
future as we can have. such vague solution
as 10 us is possible of that vast equation in
which all quantities are unknown save that
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-07

alone, that l which we know as we can
know nothing else
Bury it, she said. :.Bury that part
ing-the thing. the word and the thought
bury it with all others of its kind, with
change, and Old age, and stealing indiffer-
ence, and growing codness, and all that
canhers love-bUry them all together, in
one wide, deep grave-then build on it the
house of what we are"
Change, Indifference? l do not know
those words" the Wanderer said Have
they been in your dreams, love. They have
never been III nine
He spoke tenderly, but with the faintest
echo Of sadness in his voice. The mere sug-
gestion that such thoughts could have been
near her was enough to pain him She was
silent, and again her head lay upon his
shoulder She found there stilIthe rest and
the peace. Knowing her own life, the i'm
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-07
PuaIana.

If hops are sedative why don't frogs
sleep better.
The largest room in the world-The ruom
for irprov sment.
A man always in on time-A convict
Bullets can whistle, but It takes = brave
MN to listen % them.
A cooper ought 10 be- able to stave off
disaster
Always played or the square-Chess and
checkers.
1t takes a photographer to throw light
upon subject.
A man OF Eighty disposition should
never be made the cashier OF L bank.
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Ely TO the Puzsser.
No. 1l5.-A Riddle: Scissors
No. 1I6.-The San Pl1zle:
Iunec Circle-C II L 5 I 9
IunG Cir

\
Outer Circle-B l. EE ZE
The small words are Cab, Roar, Idle,
Sole. Inez and Sale.
No ll7.-A Geographic Proposal: Caro-
sias Rochester fed her Canary, while her
friend A1Lgasto Raleigh lazily piled the
needle In her Ber,i,, work. Feeling CisiIlg
Chilli, the former went to chose the EoF.a
window. "Ahar' she cried; "a Syaoky
odor, Whit from an Hcv0E1, he comesr'
And ere she oo,dd turn, Sydney Carsaa, a
Non OF StCTstng qualities, entered the
room. Dinner YVES served, and the Hrsgyy
HunEsrJ, THO sat down to a tan.e, tbs
AGs1 features of whick were the rsrsst
DTes5en China, Oyster pates, Turkey,
Goldfish and Orange ice. UnfortunaheIy,
tie Cork OF the Champagne hostle vkira
Carson was opening aew to the ceifing.
and the Whfte Gress of AoSusta was
ruined WAecatno around she Rounced
from the room, muttering something
which soundcd hke-"Grsdt Bedrp'
my MGfs.e reason for calling, said Car
sou to Miss Rochester, as they sipped their
Jcpo in the tese-atete, was 90 2fve you this
Penri ring"
None Of your Ftottery. sir; l have No
Conception OF what you mean"
"You gave me Good Hope, and
thought"-
"a wonan can Alter (Altar, her mindr'
md tho SroanaTd coquetGe Left the room
withcu. saying FaTeceu, and leaving only
q faint odpr of Cologne beslind her, with
Sydney Ccrson, who eiecutased, "O
heisAop tohso.}
10 lls-Les.er Rebns: D-aBe,e.
no. 1io-Hfdtssn Fievsrs: Iris, Lilac,
Lotus, Orchis, Aster, Harebeli.
No. l2a.-Words Cenneoteefvith ve~esu
I. Cat-a-mocnt- 2. Bar-oseope Bay-o.
net.