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Sheep and Swine.

1t costs no more to feed, shelter and
shear good sheep than poor one
TO fatten sheep for market rapidly
very little exercise should be allowed.
When land is valuable, mutton should
be the first and wool the second consid-
] Grafton.
! With good shelter and plenty of good
fodder sheep will need very little grain
in winter.
/ As yet there is not as much wool raised
as is needed for manufacturing in this
country.
! If any of the wheat or oats stubble
land is not to be plowed now, turn the
sheep upon it.
! A little bran fed to the lambs daily be-
fore weaving will help keep them in
good, thrifty condition.
| change of pasture and feed is as
much relished by sheep as any other
class of stock on the farm.
! Don't allow the sheep to fail off in flesh
as the feed fails. If they come to the
barn poor in the fall, they are likely to
remain so through the winter.
| While sheep will eat down many kinds
of weeds and sprouts, it is not good econ
omy to compel them to live upon them.
Generally spring lambs should be
weaned not later than the first of Aug
ust. Put the ewes in field out of hear
ing of the lambs.
Good wool is the farm product that
brings the most money in proportion
to what it takes from the farm and with
the least labor.
With the ranchman the wool may be>
IN ade The principal source of income from
sheep, but on the farm every item must
bring its proportion.
so far as it is possible to avoid it, sheep
should never be allowed to drink large
quantities of water at one Time Give
them little and often.
Hog disorders usually come from a
disarrangement of stomach and bowels.
If sick animal have all food removed
from sight for two or three days it will
frequently recover without further doc
toring.- American Farm.
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Gems of Thoughts.

viii say of the Lord He is my refug,
and my fortress.-[ Psalmst.
Beware of the man who brags. Act
ions need no trumpet to announce them
A good conscience is mighty ally il
a desperate undertaking.
Please God first and your fellowmar
afterWard.
The man who keeps his temper keeps
also out of many troubles.
Quarrels never pay big profits either
for this world or the next.
# you want to be happy make some
one else happy also.
One of the men most TO be pitied in
town is the man who is rich in money
and poor in good deeds Karl Hugh.
The best thing in the world is to be a
Christian Philip Brooks.
Do not keep in the middle Of the road,
brother, unless you belong to the pro-
cession.
TO an honest mind the best perquisites
Of place are the advantages ii gives a
man of doing good Addison.
Those who speak well are not eager to
speak much. -[C. Fl. Sturgeon.
When the law of God is ia our hearts,
our duty will be our delight. Henry.
A judicious silence is always better
than truth spoken without charity.
[ Francis de Sales.
Repentance is sorrow converted into
action, into movement to q new and
better life. Nc. r. Vincent.
Love cannot be hid any more than
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1892-11-11
ON THE WING.
From Newtown, Ct to Riverside, Cal.-Graphic
Account of the Journey by r. H. Smith.-Per-
sonal Impressions.

From Newtown, Ct, to Riverside, Gal.-Graphi.
Account of thsJourney by R. H. smith.-Per
sonal Impressions.
The longest way round is sometimes
the cheapest way home, and so it proved
for r. Ell. Smith and his little party of
seven, en- route from friendly Newtown
to the summer land at Riverside, Cal.
They embarked for Boston, where they
were Hospitality received by three men,
Emerson w. Judd of the Raymond ex-
cursions, Joseph Smith of the Boston
Globe and an agent of the Santa Fe sys-
tenn. Mr. Judd was especially kind, TAX
ing Mrs Smith and the two little girls to
his Hyde Park home, while the rest of
the family shot up the elevator in the
Ames building and viewed Boston Com
mon, Copley square and other Hub
sights.
At 7 .16 p N, Thursday, october 20, the
train pulled out of the Boston and Low
ell station for Montreal. The Smith fam
lily don't hold itself responsible for the
country it didn't view by night, but pull
ed itself together in the gray dawn of
Friday morning to witness the passage
through the famous Victoria tubular
bridge, two miles long, into Montreal.
Thursday was passage through the
STONY, BIRCH CLAD HILLsIDEs
of Connecticut, with frequent factory
villages all the way into Boston.
Friday was monotonous ride through
the st Lawrence valley, Astounding in
water, with large level fields stretching
away to timber land and here and there
a glimpse of the st Lawrence to the
south. Many Canadian farmers were
blowing for grain. They seem to have
few orchards, to grow little corn and
have large barns, with houses that are
but not as bright as Yam
|zee farm houses.
Saturday morning, the pilgrims passed
through the st Clair tunnel at the outlet /
IF Lake Huron and ratified across Michi-
gan and Indiana for Chicago. Michigan
4 land Of fertile, rolling acres, album
liant water and frequent pine stumps, |
lotting the farms or turned on edge for
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logues vocal and Instrumental music, re-
citations, ETC., comprised the program.
The proceeds will be used to repair the
school house in Upper White Hills dis
trict.
Charles johnson, who has preached to
US so earnestly and faithfully the past
summer and fall. closed his labor here on
Sunday last to take up his studies at
Hamilton university N. Y, where he ex-
poets to spend five years of hard study.
We are sorry to have Mr. johnson leave
us.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1892-11-11

Robert Kent has newly sided a portion
of his house, putting in new windows.
He has also made other repairs.
The people at the dam are driving bus
mess. With the aid of powerful lights
they work all night and the wakeful onss
in town can hear the steam whistle which
signals the men to stop for their midnight
meal. The young people who enjoy
moonlight drives should give the works
a call. 1t is strange, weird sight.
October 3lst was duly remembered by
the young people on the hill, door bells
rang at unseemly hours, beggars swarm
ed the streets, gates dropped off hinges
in fact the hill was quite lively for a
time.
Miss Libbie Stearns was at Edward
Secley's, recently.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1892-11-11
AROUND THE PRESIDE
THE YEARS.


o, the first years, fairy -nursed years, when
happy, childish eyes
See but the blossoms underfoot, the waving
~boughs o'erhead,
dor of the skies,
The apples ripe for gathering, the rose tree
bushing red!
o, the bright years, the diligent years, when
the earth seems fairy fraught,
When wandering songs and perfumes fill
the enchanted air,
And following rainbow visions, still pursued
and still uncaught,
We see the flying shape of Love about us
everywhere.
o, the long years and the strong years, when
the tide of life brims high
And bears rushing onward with a fierce,
impetuous thrill,
And in desperate, drowning efforts the crowd
ed days go by,
And we strengthen notwithstanding to the
manly heart and will.
o, the feet years are the sweet years, when
the sunrise shadows kind,
Fit lightly OH before us we pass along
our way,
But the rest years are the best years, when
the shadows fall behind
As we press on toward the sunset and the
perfect end of day.
-[Susan Coolidge in Congregationalist.
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funeral took place from the chapel at 2
h'clock, Wednesday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs William Lockwood moved
to South Wilton on Monday.
Miss Hattie Crawford has returned
from visiting friends at City Island, ac-
companied by her brother John, and also
by Misses Lizzie and Phoebe Smith.
Mrs Carrie Budd and son Oscar of Wes-
ton spent Sunday with her daughter, Mrs
Charles Gregory. Mr. and Mrs Dayton
Bouton visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs
John Bedientin Weston on Sunday.
Wallace Sherwood and wife rejoice over
the birth of a son.
Mrs John EvanetzlSi is very sick.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1892-11-11
ASPETUCK.

Mrs Charles Jennings and daughter has
visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs Will
liam Wakeman.
Mrs FL. NJ. Osborne and Mrs Robert
Scholley have visited Mrs Catharine Os-
borne.
The new mill is about ready for the
machinery.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1892-11-11
BROOKFIELD.

Mrs Willis II. Wanzer of Sherman has
visited Mrs Charles Stuart.
Mrs William Haight and family return
ed to Bridgeport on Wednesday.
Mrs David Meeker is visiting relatives
in Bridgeport.
Judge Griffen is holding the office of
assistant town clerk, temporarily.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1892-11-11
THE SECULAR PULPIT.
TWO SERMONS IN VERSE.

Be sure that He who paints the flowers
Thy secret thought will see,
He'll bless thy toll, thy deeds of love,
Thy tender charity.
Then follow Christ and aid mankind
In meek humility,
And at the last thy soul shall hear,
Heavens benedicite .-[C. III. s.
oh! do not think that ii matters not
Ifyour life be good i'll,
For the angel throng from the heavenly hight:
Look down to watch you still
And the world around will better grow,
For the Christ light in your face,
And perhaps that light may lead some soul,
To chose the heavenly place.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1892-11-11
REDDING.

Mrs James Carson and family have
visited friends in Derby.
Mr. and Mrs G. w. Brown, in company
with Mrs Gerritson of Somers, N. Y,
have visited at j. l.. Blackman's.
Mrs Austin is spending some weeks
with friends in South East.
j. H. Meeker and Miss Knapp have
visited at BreWsters.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1892-11-11
SPORT HILL.
A FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.

An Italian boy, working on the dam as
water boy, was standing on a pile of
wood, last week Tuesday, filling the
lamps, when the wood gave way beneath
him. He was thrown on to buzz saw,
cutting his leg completely off below the
knee. He was taken at once to the
Bridgeport hospital and cared for. A
remarkable fact was that the amputated
limb did not bleed till after arriving at
the hospital.
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FAIRFIELD.

Mrs John NJ. Brothwell has been visit
ing her brother, George B. Middlebrook
of New Haven.
j. Frank Brothwell and his bride will
soon commence housekeeping in their
cosy little home in New Haven. He is
still in the employ of the Adams express
company there.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1892-11-11
WESTON.

Mrs John Lockwood has been in Wilton
caring for her father who has been dan
gerously i'll.
Mrs G. B. sturges spent last week IN
New Haven.
Charles Godfrey has sold his valuable
bird dog "Trip and the animal was taken
to Virginia on Monday for the hunting
season.
Henry S. Hamilton returned to New
Haven, last week.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1892-11-11

The frame work for the new residence
of Simon Banks is up and boarded in
Mr. Banks secured his lumber direct by
rail from IIermonsville, Mich.
The next attraction in the course of
the Y. p. S. G. E. of the Congregational
church will be the concert of the Yale
glee and banjo club on the Both. There
will be 30 performers. The hall will be
hardly large enough to accommodate all
who will go.
Rev DR. Guilbert was in New York, the
first of the week.
On Tuesday evening, the Epworth
league of the Methodist church held an
enjoyable sociable at w. C. Jennings.
The Kings Daughters of the Metho-
dist church will hold a cake and candy
sale at the parsonage, on Saturday af =
ternoon, from 3 until 4. The proceeds
will be devoted to the benefit of the
church.
The ladies' aid society of the Metho-
dist church met yesterday with Miss
Grace Jennings.
The George Edwin" Simon Banks
boat, sailed on Wednesday night with a
full cargo of produce.
Miss Jennings and Mr. Hotchkiss sang
at Trinity church, last Sunday for the
first time.
No evening service was held at the
Congregational church, last sunday, on
account of the non-arrival of the gas ma
chine. 1t is hoped it will arrive here in
time for next Sunday.
Mrs Grape and Miss Hattie Jessup are
having the Wakeman cottage thoroughly
overhauled and reprinted.
Spicer Brothers are doing the plumb
ing and timing on the three new cot
tages being built by j. d. Toomey at
Fairfield.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1892-11-11
PLATTSVILLE.

Mrs Carrie Perry of New York is the
guest of her father, Madison Wakeman.
Mrs T. b. Wakeman has had a de-
lightful two weeks visit with her sister,
Mrs Roswell B. Glover of Danbury.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1892-11-11
TALES OF TWO COUNTIES.
SOUTHPORT.

THE WEEKLY PRODUCE QUOTATIONS..
The market has been little slow, ex.
cept on potatoes, which are in demand
The quotations are as follows. No. ]
white onions, So so per barrel; medium
whites,$2 80; No. ! reds, ~ so; medium
reds, 80; No. yellows, 80 rs; medium
yellows, 50; white pickles, SO so; red
pickles,$l %; yellow pickles, So; carrots
70 a soc per barrel; apples, 81 %.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1892-11-11

showing them to everybody interested
in bee culture Connecticut Farmer,
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light, and least of all when it shines forth
in action, when We exercise yourselves in
the labor of love, in beneficence of every
kind John Wesley.
Self-knowledge is that acquaintance
with ourselves which shows us what We
are, and what we ought to be, in order to
onr living comfortably and usefully here,
and happily hereafter.-[ Mason.
1t is blessed to breathe after God, to
hunger and thirst after righteousness,
and to long for the communication OF His
Spirit. 1t is blessed to feel with the
Psalmist that the soul thirsteth for God,
thrice blessed to cry out, "As the heart
panteth after the water brook, so pant
eth my soul after thee, God ~
re- gorge B. Cheever.
Find work; but find thy Master first,
Or all thy toll may be accused;
If thou would'st free thyself from doubt,
Find God within and work without.
Here is my heart; in Christ its longings end !:
Near to His cross it draws.
1t says, "Thou art my portion, my Friend.
Thy blood my ransom was"
And in thy Saviour it has found
What blessedness and peace abound.
What want with the world
And all its treasures?
In Thee alone, Lord Jesus,
Are my true pleasures.
Thou art my souls delight,
My joy l find in Thee.
My rest and peace art Thou,
My hearts tranquility.
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DEERFIELD.

Mr. and Mrs Minott A. Smith and son
have returned to their bone in Stanley,
NJ Y.
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The frame work for the new residence
of Simon Banks is up and boarded in.
Mr. Banks secured his lumber direct by
rail from IIermonsville, Mich.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-02-10
Eli Sports with a Democratic Editor.

Eli Perkins went South to lecture a
short time ago. While in Nashville he
was interviewed by the Nashville
American, and related the following in
cident: 'Well, the best political joke
of the season happened at Charleston.
trade editor of the old tree trade
News and Courier, writing editorials in
favor Of protective tariff on rice and
sea island cotton.
Why said he, the Egyptians
shipped 10000 bales of long staple cot
ton over here last year and sold it for u
cents pound. They knocked down the
price of our South Carolina long staple
cotton. And those cheap-labor Chinese
sent thousands Of bushels of rice. made
by low-priced 5 cents per day labor, to
break down our well-paid labor in
South Carolina. Now continued Mr..
Hemphill, you Yankees have tariff
against corn, wool, rye, barley and
wheat coming from Canada, and why
can't we Rebs have tariff against the
Egyptians and Chinese ?"
'Being a high protective tariff man
myself felt like hugging Mr. Hemphill.
AT last [ said, the protective tariff
Yank and the free trade Reb stand on
the same platform. Arise and sing.''
To show how the protection leaven is
doing its perfect work in the South, the
following comment on the Eli Perkins
interview, made by the Augusta (Ga.)
Chronicle, Democratic paper, will
make it very clear:
Had this story been told year or so ago
Editor Hemphill would no doubt have APP
pealed to the reputation which the genial
Eli enjoys for unacquaintance with the
truth as his surest defence, but he will not
do so now. Editor HemphiIl has taken
the practical view that while protection is
the policy of the country he had better try
to get some of the benefits of it for his sec
ton and people, He wants to investigate
in practical way the question: ''Does
PrOtectlen Protect ?''
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-02-10
The South aud Protection.

Some time ago the Charleston News
and Courier, commenting on the prog
ress and development Of the cotton in
dustry of the South, made this state
ment:
There is one class of stock that has not
been III the least affected by the financial
troubles of the past summer, and that is
the stock of Southern cotton factories.
The New York brokers are anxious TO
gObble up all the stock in the leading
Southern mills that they can lay their
hands on. No class of investments has
paid better returns or been less influenced
by the general stagnation of business All
the South Carolina stocks are in active de-
mand at good figures above par.
There is good deal of significance in
that paragraph. Without the upbuilding
influence Of protection does the News
and Courier suppose for moment that
the industries of the South would have
been in such q prosperous condition?
The cotton mills of the South have been
established under protection, and not
under free trade. During all the years
of free trade the manufacturing indus
tries of the South slumbered and slept.
1t took protection to bring them into
activity; and 80 successful has their
progress been that the News and Cour-
Ter in September last stated that during
the business year then closed the num-
Der of manufacturing enterprises in
Charleston had increased from $50 to
900
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-02-10
Senator Hale to Senator Hill.

If David B. Hill would withdraw his
gaze for few minutes from his presi-
Dental boom he might find a passage in
the recent speech of Senator Hale which
is calculated to interest him. To inter
est but not to please him. This is the
passage:
Evidences appeared showing clearly that
the leaders of the Democratic party had
become alarmed at the growing popularity
with the people OF the reciprocity plan,
born of distinguished Republican parent
age, and adopted, at last, by the Repub-
lican party in general, and were deter
mined to belittle it and deride and to drive
IL from its Judgment in the good will of the
people. Democratic newspapers de-
nounced it everywhere as an impracticable
sham, and wherever Democratic authority
was heard from it carried with it a sheer
against the measure.
The Senator from New York, who has
lately entered this chamber as a mem
Der of this body, and who has brought
to his party as his credential Of leader
ship upon the other side the trophy of a
great state, chained and gagged and
despoiled of her political rights, paused
for moment in his work of spoliation
to declare in the Democratic state con-
ventiOn of New York, which assembled
in Saratoga on the 10th of September
last to do his will and to register his de-
cree, that the Democratic party of the
state of New York, in convention as
sembled, renews the pledges of its fidei-
ity to Democratic faith, and to denounce
in terms give the words of the plat
form 1.-The Blaine reciprocity numbug."
There you have it, Senator Hill. The
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-02-10

senator from Maine appreciates you;
he knows just what style of Estates
man" you are; he places the proper
value upon your credentials of leader
ship. In fact, Senator Hill, you have
rarely been so hard hit by a passing
reference. Don't you wish that Brother
Hale had stuck closer to his reciprocity
text and let you alone?
Chained and gagged and despoiled
OF her political rights" that is the way
Senator Hale speaks Of the great state
of New York. The language is strong,
but not too strong. For the outrage
which was inflicted upon government
OF the people when such indecent
interlopers as Osborne. Walker
and Nichols were awarded seats
IN the Senate cannot be depicted in
terms unduly severe. 1t was an out
rage subversive of our form Of govern
h>ent. If the will of the majority plain
ly declared at the ballot-box is to be
overriden, then obviously our repub-
lican systeso is failure. Every inte,li-
gent man know VS. this, and every Ameri-
can who has drop of patriotic blood in
his veins cannot buS eXecrate David B.
Till, who organized md pushed to
Its consummation the seat-stealing in
fanny. Perhaps the Senator, when not
chIuhiug VI LIS DOOM, mas De6n natLer-
ing himself that the thing was going to
blow over, that getting to Washington
he would get out of the range Of crit
cism. If SO, he will find he is mistaken
when turning from his boom he reads
Senator Hale's drastic reference to his
villainy.
In your rage, Senator Hill, you may
be tempted to answer Senator Hale.
Don't. Considering who and what you
are, your best card is silence.-NeW
York Tribune.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-02-10

the second quarter of 1891.

MIR. Cleveland is not Sagacious pollti-
clan. He is not a wise and well instructed
statesman. Nobody pretends that he pos
sesses these Indispensable qualities. He
may happen to stand by a good cause, but
he is VIGOROUSLY incapable of making
friends for any cause or policy he takes in
hanG.-Ne1O York Herald.
What has come over the dreams of the
Mugwump, when he can give expression
to such sentiments? Mr.. Cleveland not
statesman! This is treason to mug
wumpery, and treason of the worst kind,
And it comes from Mugwump of Mug
wumps. The Republican who expressed
such sentiments four years ago was pro-
nounced incapable of rising above the
politician to appreciate craftsmanship.
President Cleveland sent a free trade
message to Congress and destroyed all
hope of his reelection. That was not
political sagacity, but the free traders in
sisted that it was craftsmanship of the
highest order. 1t is sad, indeed, that
Mr.. Cleveland should now find that not
only Democrats but Mugwumps should
have come to adopt the Republican esti-
mate of his services to the country
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-02-10
Two Unprejudiced Foreign Views of the
Tariff.

This is English, and from the Shelf
field telegraph: "The promoters of the
Mckinley tariff meant it to push for
ward the policy of America for the
Americans. One method of realizing it
was to keep all work within their own
dominions. The country was to be
made self-supplying; what could be
produced at home was not to be bought
abroad. That was the keynote of the
Mckinley scheme, and it is working
out the idea of its designers with the
precision and effectiveness of a ma
chine"
This is German, and from the Frank
fort Zeitung: owe hear triumphant
shouts coming from the United States.
our transatlantic rival. The documents
signed at Saratoga by the German and
American representatives, which we
publish this morning, represent great
victory for the American Union, vic
tory which costs the victor nothing,
conquest without blow. 1t is an ex-
preston of the superior natural condi-
tons of natural life and of the superior
commercial diplomacy of the trans
Atlantic state Of the future over effete
Europe, poor alike in blood and
thought" The Sheffield paper is emf
nently right in suggesting that the Nc
kinney tariff means the pushing for
ward the policy of America for Ameri-
cans. That is what makes America
strong, and it is this that makes Ameri-
can working people the most prosper
Gus Of any people in the world.