The Press., 1893-06-15
{HartfOrd COurant.) A PIECE OF PIE.

the New Britain Herald and the Water bury Republican, which, it is to be hoped, may yet be adjusted without the loss of anything more valuable than time in two hustling manufacturing cities.
 The New Britain Herald invites the editor of the Waterbury Republican to drink. Unlimited, or with the option vested in the invited party, this has baen reckoned an act of amity. Since the good work of MT. Murphy hereabouts, that was soon followed by one of the big gest freshets ever recorded in the state, the attitude of the public may be some- what altered regarding such invitations, but at all events truth demands that the fact of this one be recorded.
 But, doubting the wisdom of Brother Wells's possible selection, Labor Com missioner Vance doesn't offer him any lib erty of choice as to what he will take. h. stead, he lays down his restrictions with an almost discourteous definiteness. He bids his friend to. drink of the Hesrerian spring" "or not at all." Editor Wells isn't very dry Che never is), and he doesn't know where to look for the Hesperian spring, aEd hence the trouble. He turned to his Familiar Quotations" where no doubt he has looked successfully for a good many things, and all he found there was the familiar couplet about the "Pie- rian spring." Then he proceeded to call down hic crifio comoubot oc O ,oon of spirit might be expected to, who was of 1 fered the choice between "not at alp and something that couldn't be found.
 | On the surface it does look as if Broth
 teemed contemporary, but that may only
 be a result of unfortunate appearances.
 There is one way out, at least, which of
 fers an honorable settlement for both.
 Through etymology to peace their path
 ways lead.
 "Hesperian," as will be found by those
 who consult the authorities, is kindred to
 'vespers" to the setting sun, to eventide.
 "Pierian," as is evident without consult
 ing any other authority than human eyes
 and common sense is kindred to "pie. J
 These facts granted, it is necessary only
 to put them together.
 ! Brother Vance takes his pie at his eve
 ming meal. To him Pierian means sun set-time and Hesperian means pie-time
 They are interchangeable terms for tht same daily event. And what the gentle I tar hoe ;o . construed is really hospitable invitation
 to come over to New Britain and eat pie l We have no room here to discuss tn, pie question in it's broad relation to hu
 man health and right thinking; bu Brother Wells is not the clear-headed to
 tai abstainer we take him for if he an, longer harbors wrath at an invitation t. , drink nothing, which so easily and natur
 ally translates itself into request to wit
 ness the glories of New Britain sunse
 across the row of pie plates that clatte Q nightly upon Editor Vance's generou : board.
 :, We who live in the republic of to-da do not realize how weak and unassertiv t in Septemper, 1776, was the idea of ne, s and forever independent nation, in tn 2 minds of the masses of the people who's ,, settlements fringed this Atlantic coas g Nathan Hale, scarcely more than bo, It stood pinioned before his hangmen an r declared: "I only regret that have b, :" one life to lose for my country" IT <; sublimity of his selfiessness on the sea
 fold and the grandeur of his devotion ,'s country as yet scarcely born, thrille IS the hearts of his people, and helped y kindle the passion of patriotism amor
 them. Every American heard the dyir i words and understood their deeper mea It ing. There was country to fight fo Tt The rebellion against tax had become It war for independence. The statue. |, Nathan Hale deserves to stand in Il " heart of New York forever and eve
 Every nation, it H3d, must have D. heroes, and we hll properly enous y made Nathan Hale one of ours.
 ut DESERVING PRAIsE.-We desire to s n- to our citizens, that for years we ha Id been selling Dr. Kings New Discove r. for Consumption, Dr. Kings New Li
 Pills, Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and Ele :" tric Bitters, and have never handled rel tt, edies that sell as we'll, or that have giv he such universal satisfaction. We do n
 hesitate to guarantee them every tin n- and we stand ready to refund the purcha Is. price, if satisfactory results do not follt od their use. These remedies have W on their great popularity purely on tn as merits. E. K. Taft, Druggist.