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 for an inactive liver to do its work, oxpcaas himself to all the diseases that colne from tainted blood: Don't wait Languor and loss Of appetite warn you that graver lis aco close behind. You can keep them from coming you can cure them if they've come with Dr. Picrce's Golden Medical Discovery. It's the only blood and liver medi- cine that's gaaraaeteed, III every case, to benefit Or cure. Your money back # 1t doesn't. Thus, you only pay for the good you get. Can you ask more? It cleanses the system and cures pinples, blotches, erup- tions and all skin and scalp dis eases. Scrofulous affections, as fever sores, hip joint disease, svellings and tumors yield to is superior alteratiye properties.
The Newtown bee., 1892-03-18

Col Stevenson says that there will be no change in the shipment of milk to Harlem and Brooklyn, April l, but it will be as it is now.
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TO INVESTORS: {:

and 10 per cent Debenturss issued by Building and Loan Association of Dakota, fully secured and guaranteed; 5000 of mortgages deposited with the trustee to protect each $1ooo invested. Gao be had in any amounts of Sl00 and up. Also their installment stock, on which there has been declared 24 psr cent. dividend per annum since it's organization Illustration showing estimat- ed cost and profit 10 shares of installment stock:
 Admission fee, $10 Monthly payments, S6 per month for 83
 months, s4ss
 s60s Amount of shares at maturity, 5000 For further particulars enquire or write,
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FOR SALE CHEAP !:

Good house and barn with 50 acres of land, well watered; first class well of water at house; situated miles from Botsford depot and 1-4 miles from Monroe center, known as the William Beardsley Homestead.
 J. ". MERRITT, Monroe, Ct.
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NUMBER 12.

Rev Mir Linsley preached at South Norwalk, last week Thursday evening, his only outside appointment during Lent.
The Newtown bee., 1892-03-18

Somers Croffutt is. reported gradually improving in health. He hopes to re- sume his position at the Rubber in the course of week or two.
The Newtown bee., 1892-03-18
SPECIAL OFFERS
 FOR ONE WEEK
MEMS DEPARTMENT.

MEMS DEPARTMENT. 3 Four-ply Linen Collars for 25c. 3 Four-ply Linen Cuffs for 25c. 2 Teck or Four in hand Ties for 25c. All Linen Bosom Unlaundered Shirts
 39c.
 3 Pairs Cotton Mixed 1-2 Hose for 25c. Wool Underwear, extra value, soc. Suspenders at 10c, 15c, 25c per pair.
 LADIES' DEPARTMENT. 33c each, Plain Cotton Night Robes. 200 Lace Trimmed Night Robes soc each.
 Muslin Drawers and Chemises Ham burg Trimmed at 39c, soc each. Corset Covers, 20 dozen regular 25c quality, at 15c each. 400 Corsets. Loomer's Patent Steam Moulded Corsets in three grades at soc, 75, S1 each. They are guaran- teed a perfect fitting Corset and will retain their shape as long as worn. Fancy Colored Silk Ruch- ings 1Oc per yard in nine different shades. Bargains in Dress Trimmings and Gloves at
The Newtown bee., 1892-03-18

R. H. Beers, after his visit at Oil City, Penn., went to Chicago, the Worlds Fair metropolis.
The Newtown bee., 1892-03-18

Miss Bertha Cook of Bridgeport spent week with k. M. Peck of Hunting town.
The Newtown bee., 1892-03-18

Friday night, March II, little strang- CT came to gladden. the home of Mir ana Mrs William E. Gilbert.
The Newtown bee., 1892-03-18

Joseph Stewart was home, over Sun day, from Greenwich, where he is at work, this Winter.
The Newtown bee., 1892-03-18

Charles B. Glover has been roofing and repairing the house of Barber John Schu- macher at the Hook
The Newtown bee., 1892-03-18

Robert D. Smith and family were in Bridgeport, over Sunday.
The Newtown bee., 1892-03-18

Miss Mary Ann Kelly has been home from Bridgeport; her sister, Miss Jennie, is at George Beerss.
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Leader

s"That gracious hollow, which God made In every human shoulder, Wherein He meant some tired head should
 rest"
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 MoCORD.


 Our new Tapestry Brussels Carpetings are arriving daily. Perhaps we have just what you've been looking for. The Spring rush will come just as soon as the weather settles and knowing customers are already taking their pick, When we say that our Tapestries surpass all former efforts of the weaver and designer, we are not saying too much.
 As usual, our prices are right.
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tered unmolested. Seeing no one they
rushed at once to the sleeping-room
above. They found the window open
and the floor covered with snow, but
nothing appeared to have been dis
turbed.
Suddenly one of the men gave an ex-
clamation of horror, and everybody ran
to his side as he stood by the window.
The cause was apparent at once.
The robber was still there in the top
of the old apple tree. In some way his
feet had slipped among the snowy
branches and as he fell his neck had
been tightly wedged into the crotch be-
tween two limbs.
All his efforts to release himself had
evidently been unavailing; but during
his struggles the mask had slipped off,
and his horror-stricken neighbors were
gazing full upon his features. No
wonder the man had cried out on first
beholding theml
It was the face of Lewis lakewood
indeed, but it was now a cold and icy
one. Justice, swift and sure, had
overtaken him in his nefarious attempt;
for he had been caught and strangled
between the combining branches of the
old apple tree, to hang there all through
the long and freezing night only to be
discovered in the morning. frozen and
dead %. E. Young, in Goodalps Sun
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bered downward, determined to keep
the pocketbook in her own possession
or die in its defense.
Hanged if she isn't too plucky to
shoot" muttered the robber. I'm
have to follow her. or she'll slip me,
money and all, before l can go down
stairs and round the house. So here
goes"
A great crashing in the branches in
formed Mrs. Nettie of his movements,
and spurred her TO yet greater efforts.
Reaching the bottom limbs she grasped
one firmly, SWING herself downward,
and dropped unhurt into the drift be-
meath. There was only one thing to
think of-fight Bareheaded as she
was, she stumbled on out into the road
and started after her husband.
There was no sound of pursuit as she
ded, but as her tensely strung nerves
.-4<s
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WON'T "cRoss A EUNERAL.-
A Funny Notion OF Some superstitious
People.

Funny Notion OF Some superstitious
People.
You may get some idea of how wide
spread is the superstitious belief that
Crossing funeral procession" brings
bad luck if you will stand any day at
the New York or Brooklyn entrance
to the East river bridge and wait until
a hearse and long line of carriages
appear. You won't have to wait very
long. So many mourners pass over
the bridge that it is almost entitled to
be called 1.-THE Bridge of Signs"
And when your patience is rewarded
by the arrival of the cortegc, if you are
on either the New York or the Brook
lyn side You will observe that, though
the horses are moving slowly and
though there is plenty of room to pass
between the carriages, many men and
women who have been walking rapid
ly halt suddenly and wait until the
last carriage has gone by. Some do
not stop, but hurry on. They are the
Indifferent or the ignorant or. the reck-
less ones.
On the Brooklyn side one day l saw
a crowd of certainly two hundred
superstitious persons awaiting the
passing of a procession. A number of
those who waited We're evidently an
noyed at the delay, and when the rear
vehicle had passed they ran to make
up the time which superstition had
caused them to lose.
docs that always occur when
funeral procession is passing?" asked
of bridge policeman
''Oh, yes" he answered. "Some-
times there's more and sometimes less,
but / don't believe q funeral ever
crossed the bridge without somebody
stopping.
when first came on the BRIDGE"
he went on, II didn't understand it,. I
used to stop the carriages and motion
to the people to cross over. But they
wouldn't. They'd stand as If they were
glued. don't bother about 'em now.
One day as funeral procession was
leaving the roadway q couple of girls
came up One of them stopped. Tho
other ran across.
"'Oh, Mamier shouted the one who
had stopped, you have crossed funer.
al
Goodness, me- says Mamie,
'what'll do?'
Come back quick before it gets by
says the other one, and Mamie ran
over in front of the last carriage.
Il suppose" said the policeman.
they thought that would put the
kibosh oa the hoodoo IN, Y. Hsrsld,
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What IL
It For7

ed boys. Lie is an interrogation
point. What IS it for?" we con-
tinually cry from the cradle to the
grave. So with this little introduc-
tory sermon we turn and ask: What
is AUcUsr FLOWER FoRT AS easily
answered as asked: It is for Dys-
pepsia. 1t is a special remedy for
the Stomach and Liver. Nothing
more than this; but this brimful.
We believe August Flower cures
Dyspepsia. We know it will. We
have reasons forknowing it. Twenty
years ago it started in a small country
town. To-day it has an honored
place in every city and country store,
possesses one of the largest manu-
featuring plants in the country and
sells everywhere. Why is this 7 The
reason is as simple as a child's
thought. 1t is honest, does one
thing, and does it right along-it
cures Dyspepsia. Q
G. G. GREEN, Sole Man'fr, Woodbury,NJ
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began to relax she grew nearly frantic
with terror. Blindly she staggered on.
ward against the storm At first She
scarcely noticed the cold or the drifting
snow, but her waning strength and
failing breath soon brought her to a
sense of her danger, alone at midnight
in the snowy highway, bareheaded and
thiniy dressed, with the pitiless wind
of smothering storm buffeting her
with all its fury and q masked and
bloodthirsty robber behind her.
On and on she struggled thr ough the
storm and cold in the despe rate eh-
deavor to find assistance. Still on she
staggered with sinking heart and
shortening breath, while the numbing
cold crept into her very vita.s. On and
onward yet.
just as she felt she could go no
farther, but must sink down and die in
the snowy highway, her tired feet
stuck In the clogging drifts and she
STUN bled and fell fairly into the arms
of a man approaching in the opposite
direction. Then her hus bands voice
rang above the bowling of the wind.
and she felt that both she and the
pocketbook were safe at last. And then
the brave but exhausted little woman
tainted dead away.
When she came to herself again it
was daylight and she was safely in bed
at neighbours house, while her hus-
band was bending ove:' her with pale
face and anxious eyes. A few words
told him everything.
A party of armed men was hastily
gotten together and started immediate.
~ for the Gibbs homestead. Every.
thing seemed still and peaceful when
they arrived. and the whole party en-.
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Taxes Rest at the Bottom.

If the late campaign in New York
served no other useful purpose. it at
least gave us the benefit of very brief
and exact statement of the incidence
of tsxatien from no less distinguished
snadvccste Of protection than Chauu.
cey NJ. lDepew. At Brooklyn, on the
10th of October, he said:
"A popular fallacy II that taxes affect
only those who [hrst] pay them. There
never was more fatal belief II IL the
peculiarly Of taxes that they ultimate
" rest at the bottom. II the taxes are
on the house. the landlord puts them
on the rent"
1t is noticeable that Mr. Depew care
fully refrains from saying that taxes
on land values are paid ultimately by
the tenant When speaking of land
lord and tenant It is taxes on the
house. not on the. land value. that he
says are shifted from the first payer tc
the user. Ard Row psrticulaFly good
= his remark that taxes ultimately
rest It the bottom." That is precisely
where they do resi-. and the bottom is
land. values High taxes on land val
ues tend to make land values low; low
taxis tend to make them high
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THE FARMERS SONG BIRD.

You may talk about the music of the thrush
Singing from shady nook In June,
You may tell me how In early mornings hush
Robins throats their melodies attunc;
You may even praise the chatter of the wren,
But TO me the sweetest warbling in the world
Is the co.. cut cut cutdawcut,
Cut cut cut cutdawcut
Cut cut cut cut
Cut cut cut cut
OF the ordinary heni
have naught against the bobolink TO say,
Nor the blackbrd's crazy quiverings;
I can listen quite enchanted all II day
II the oriole above me sings.
'Gainst the nightingale I've not single word,
hut claim there Is no singing in the world
Like cut cut cut cutdawcut
Cut cut cut cutdawcut
Cut cut cut cut
Cut cut cut cut
OF our gallinaceous bird
It's pean and promise all In one,
IT'S an invitation to feast
IT'S an honest boast OF useful labor DONE
And IL tells Of capital increased
oh. praise no fancy bird with tongue or pen,
For to me the noblest music in the world
Is the cut cut cut cutdawcut
Cut cut cut cutdawcut
Cut cut cut cut
Cut cut cut cut -.
dawcut
OF the common barnyard heni
True It's not cultured operate song
Like the Gagged canary shouts and trills,
But II often makes city fellow long
For his boyhood back among the hills
While he dreams he's barefoot, hunting eggs
again
To that most pathetic music In the world,
To the cut cut cut cutdawcut
Cut cut cut cutdawcut
Cut cut cut cut
Cut cut cut cut
dawcut
OF his mothers speckled hen.
George Horton, IN Chicago Herald.
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found out the topmost crack where the
smoke came out He climbed on the
roof and looked down, but he only got
a cinder in his eye and saw nothing. It
must be in the elbow-joint of the pipe
He would get at that thing. IL he
brought all the SCOT west Of the Rocky
mountains into his cabin. He twisted
the joint out Down came the SCOT,
over the floor and over his overalls but
he stuck to the job. He put in his arm
He felt something. He pulled it out
1t was big chunk of dirt and broken
sticks and feathers. He looked it over
carefully and then he chuckled He
went. outside and looked into the old
pine tree over the cabin. Sure enough,
the old crows nest had come down ct
last and part of it had fallen plumb
down the pipe. ~ ~
Old Silence guffawed, and then snick-
cred. He laid the crows nest care
fully by the stove. knocked the SCOT out
of the pipe. hammered out Mad Toms
dent, put the pipe up, swept the floor,
lsindled roaring fire, and got glori-
GUS dinner for Jim and Tom. .Boys,"
he said, pointing to the nest, the
Lord made fires to draw, and when
they don't draw, look for the crows
nest" I
Dearly beloved reader, let me entrap
you into swallowing moral This
earth is pretty nice place to live in,
and we can fix it up so that it will be
nicer all the time But of late the fire
doesn't seem to draw any more, and
there's so much smoke that IL has
made the eyes.ofsa goodmsny.wDmen
water badly. yes, and of some men,
too
There are hard times off and on; it's
hard to get job; you've laid off eyegy
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re an insssIs
70 your intelligence, but some un-
scrupulous dealers try it. For in
stance: you're suffering from some
Skin, Scalp or Scrofulous affection,
or are feeling "run down" and
" used-up." There's a torpid liver,
impure blood, and all that may come
from it. You've decided, wisely,
that DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery is the medicine to help
you. You know that it's gstaross-
teed to do 90, as no other blood
purifier ID.
If it doesn't benefit or cure, you
get your money back.
But what is best for you to take
isn't always best for the dealer
to sell. He offers something else
that's just as good" Is it likely?
If the makers Of medicine cant
trust it, can yous
One of two things has to happen
You're cured of Catarrh, or you're
paid $500 cash. That's what il
promised by the proprietors of DR..
Sage's Catarrh Remedy. By its
mild, soothing, cleansing, and heal
ing properties, it cures the worst
cases.
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R. AND MRS.
FIR E E NJ A N
G b BIS had
just married
and s e It'll e d
d o.w n in a
pleasant but
lonely little
house a mile
and q h alf
fro m t h G
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The Land Question and its soIuti

The Land Question and Its Solution.
The Belfast Qreland) Star has come
out for the single tax, as will be seen
from the following, taken from late
editorial:
Irish tenant farmers are apt to fancy
that the land question is: How arc
they most conveniently to become
owners of re land they till? But sup
pose that this little question were once
practically settled to their satisfaction
that their landlords were somehow
got rid of-that every farmer were
made proprietor of his farm-how long
would such a settlement be allowed to
last in peace?
The agricultural laborcrs would soon
find out, as indeed some of them have
found out already, that they too have
land question. They would ask, with
sound reason on their side: WAS it
then just for farmers that the Almighty
made this green island? Are we to
have no part or lot in it, save to work
for subsistence wages on others land?"
There would then arise labor league,
and new land war would rage.
Suppose next that the laborers got
their little land question settled some
what to their satisfaction-that the
farmers were compelled to divide their
land with them or take them into part.
nership-that thus every agricultural
laborer had at least his three acres
and q cow" Not that there is any
likelihood of things taking such turn;
but still suppose it for the sake of ar
gument What would happen then?
There would still be a land question.
for farmers and farm laborers are not
the whole people.
Our townspeople, shopkeepers trades
men, factory and millworkers. etc.
would ask in their turn. with equal
reason: Are we then to have no prop
erty or interest whatever in the soil of
onr native country? What right have
farmers and agricultural laborers more
than we to share the earth that God
made, who is no respecter of persons?"
So long as there remains asingIe citi-
zen who can not say: II, too, am joint
owner of the land OF this country. I
have right and interest in the land
equal to the right and interest Of any
fello w-citizen," there will still be
burning land question. for there will
be stillsan injustice underlying our so
cial organization.
The land question. therefore, is: How
is every citizen-no matter what his
particular department. of service is
to obtain an equal interest with every
other citizen in the land of his country?
The answer to this vital questionable
only answer suitable to the complicat-
ed conditions of our century is: The
naturalization or multiplication of
the land. Let everyone pay a fair rent
to the community. Let all rent for
land-apart from improvements, which,
of course, are justly the property of
those who make them--all rent for land
alike in town, in mining districts and
rural districts-from a public revenue
Let this revenue be spent for public
purposes, relieving the people from all
other taxation, imperial and local, and
providing benefits equally free to all.
Such plan. If it were wisely carried
out. would have beneficial consequences
beyond the grandest dreams of our
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now and then; coal Is high, and 80 Il
sugar, rents are getting worse and
worse. We all agree that there Is
something the matter, but we don't all
act alike about it. Some of us like
GrinningiJ Jim, try to be patient, and to
hope that somehow, we don't know ex-
actly how, but somehow. it will be bet
ter by and by And some OF us like
Mad Tom, try to stop the cracks where
the smoke comes out Te get bills
passed forbidding all sorts Of things,
forbiddinG prisoners to work, forbid
ding workingmeu to come to this coun-
try. forbidding foreign goods to be
brought in, forbidding men to combine
their capital, forbidding this and for
bidding that Hut whenever one crack
is stopped, the smoke comes ont Of an.
other. And finally Tom gets mad, and
leans over. the saloon bar and sweara
and goes on strike, and smashes
things up generally. But that doesn't
help things, either.
Now wouldn't It be better to do like
Old Silence, and find what stops the
flue?
s Things don't need. to be:that way.
The Lord Almighty didn't make the
earth So. 1t isn't his fault If the fire
don't draw. There's some crows
nest stopping things up. What is it
and where is it and how can we get it
out? Suppose we find that out and
go to work at it. Very likely there
viii be some SCOT flying around. If we
do. Perhaps we may get some our
selves But it is better to suffer lit
tie while than to suffer forever. Where
is the crows nest? Suppose you send
in your answer to the editor Of For the
Right
Let us put our heads together, and
then get to work.-[Walter Rauschen-
busch in For the Right
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August.
Flower

This is the query per-
petually on your little
boys lips. And he il
no worse than the big
GER older balder-head.
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FACED DEATH.
The Crew of the Woodruff Stood BY Un-
til She Was Sinking.

Boston, Mass, November 16.-A tel
egram from Harwich, on Cape Cod, this
morning, says that news has been re-
ceived at that place of the total de-
struction of the schooner Phebe j. Wood
ruff, plying between Harwich and Port
land and other Maine ports.
The Woodruff sailed from Harwich
only few days ago, with Capt. Watts in
charge, for Portland.
From what can be learned at the pres
ent time she struck a gale off the Maine
coast. The storm came up very sudden
ly, and the schooner was taken unawares.
The sails were torn from the masts and
the jibs and one mast snapped.
After being driven before the gale for
several hours she sprung aleak and the
hold rapidly filled. The pumps were at
once put to work, but as most of the sea-
men were required to manage the YES
sci, the cabin and forecastle were soon
submerged. The crew stood by the ship
to the last, and death stared them in the
face all day.
Later in the day they were rescued by
a vessel whose name cannot now be
learned. Hardly had they left the
schooner when she sunk.
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THEY CARRIED THE ELECTION.
Edmunds Talks of the For
eign Born Vote and Its Influence.

WASHINGTON. November 16.-Ex-Sen-
ator Edmunds, talking to Kate Field on
the question of immigration, said:
''Do you read the lesson of this presi-
dental election? Here in New York.
Clevelands majority of $4,000 is made
of voters not born in the United States.
I do not say whether this is good or an
evil; it is fact that the government of
New York is actually controlled by the
foreign vote.
''This foreign vote is controlled by as
sociations of foreign born citizens who
keep up separate nationalities in classes,
and operate on the government of the
UnitedStates as if they had a special and
separate interest from those born in this
country. Thus we have Irish-Ameri-
cans, French-Americans, German-Amer-
leans, and so on, In consequence, the
people act and are taught to act in po-
litical affairs in their foreign national
character.
''Such reason for acting is, of course,
utterly absurd, if not wicked, as there
is no possible reason that any one can
suggest why, in their political character,
these people should be other than Amer
lean.
allowing for all phases and phantas-
les of the money, tariff, prohibition,
Farmers Alliance and other questions.
if the elections had been controlled by
citizens who call themselves merely
Americans, Mr.. Harrison would have
been elected"