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The Press., 1893-10-19
ELLINGTON.

Crystal Lake CoErespondence.) A pleasant event ,en Wednesday ot last week was the uniting in wedlock by the writer, at Crystal Lake, of Albert l.. Watson and Miss Mary M. Baker, of Staf. ford Springs, at the home of the brides uncle, Denison Baker.
 Mrs. Mary Taft was in Somers over Sunday, visiting friends there, returning Monday.
 Preaching next Sunday in the Meth odist church at Crystal Lake at Il o'clock Friends, cheer 4s by your presence. ;. Collie Richardson started on the 16th for Chicago.
 Very fine fiowels for so late in the season.. finely arranged by Mrs. E. H Dimock, and a bouquet of dahlias by Mrs Eugene Neff, beautified the church last Sunday. These ladies deserve mention for thoughtfulness on this line.
 The first hard frost south of the lake last Monday night.
 -'Coon catching and coon suppers ars in vogue just now.
The Press., 1893-10-19
Why Fish Should Be Cared For.

Migratory fish are matched and partly matured in fresh water. They feed and grow in the sea, but they are never caught there, so that their protection and preservation should be in the hands of those who are so deeply interested in making them salable commodity. Be sides all this there must be some consid eration for the sportsman, who without question spends in the neighborhood ir which he fishes 10 times as much money as all the fish he catches, if sold, would fetch.-Fishing Gazette.
The Press., 1893-10-19
ROCKVILLE.

The new free evening school estah= lished by the town opened last evening with nearly 1O8 pupils. H. P. Topliff is the principal, and IS assisted by Miss Bertha Miller, of Hartford, who has had considerable experience in the Hartford evening school,
The Press., 1893-10-19
Slander From the Pulpit.

A preacher at Lafayette, Ind, is re
 ported to have about broken up his church the other day by saying in ser mon that ''God made the earth in si1 days, and then he rested; then he made man and rested again; then he made woman, and since that time neither Goo nor man has had rest. ."-Louisvillt Courier Journal.
The Press., 1893-10-19
.SOMERS.

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 -Somers has furnished large number of the visitors to the worlds fair this sea- son, and each one has had different yer sion of what they saw, but it remained for man whose surname. is Luman to give what seems to us to be the best. His description of what he saw makes us feel as though we had been there. Perhaps the reason for his approaching the beau ties of the fair is that after driving a tin cart for nearly forty years, and seeing the same familiar objects and faces, change was hailed with joy.
 The Kickapoo medicine troupe have gone to Rockville. Charles Inman, ST., was awarded the prize for being the home- Hest man in Somers, and Miss Laura Field as the handsomest lady. Miss Lucy Tiff fany received the prize in the nail driving contest.
 -C. M. Needham has the frame raised for the addition to new store.
 -Vashni Pease and wife are visiting his brother and friends in this vicinity.
 W. H. Burdick was in Hartford Tues day, attending the state council O. U. A. Ms. ..~s. s
 A man employed on the farm of Mrs. Oliver Pease decamped few nights ago, taking with him a number of articles be- longing to. Charles 1nman, Jr., employed on the same farm
 Mrs. w. Phillips and son, Irving, were out of town last Sunday, the former at Willimantic, and the latter at Mt. Her. mon.
 Hunters are more plenty than game this fall
 Farmers are offered from $1.50 to $1.75 per barrel for their winter apples.
The Press., 1893-10-19

It has been calculated that the snnua1 income of the London Hebrews is nearly e5,00O, ,000, which means that they are 24 timea richer than the Gentiles
The Press., 1893-10-19

JUDGE JOHN M. HALL, of Willimantic
 has been chosen first ce-president of the Consolidated railroad at salary of $15,. 900, and has resigned his seat on the su. perior court bench to take the new posi-. tion. A we'll equipped man of business
 an able lawyer, an energetic and pushing
 man in the prime of life, the services oi Judge Hall is great acquisition to it's management of this great corporation.
The Press., 1893-10-19

There is tribe in central Africa among whom speakers in public debates are required to stand on one leg while speaking and to speak only as long as they can so stand.
The Press., 1893-10-19

The air we live in is gaseous at and near the surface of the globe, but if M. de Fouvielle is right at an elevation of a few miles above the ground air is either liquid or solid or both.
The Press., 1893-10-19

The use of the flannel shroud dates back to acts of parliament IS and 19, Charles II, which, to toencourage the wool en trade in England, compelled that all bodies should be so protected.
The Press., 1893-10-19
1urbes j. aieauafe's

We probably never had at this stage of the season so many desirable. dress fabrics as now; neither so good, nor so many, nor so much below, Navy blue or black storm serges, worth a5
 Enough for dress, $l.52
 1rdescents esS1aa ssutiPPgs Pr,ce ten handsome eects
 worth sS and $s cents price is. '''
 Enough for dress, $lb2
 Whip cord sa with P PiittIe raised figures @ si relief
 twelve 6E,aN ex choice colors' worth aS cents'
 Enough for dress, ss9o
 1ridescents diagoShais, ss inches wide, worth
 Enough for dress, ss.OO
 Awoo stng 90 inches wide in six os6s s, Enough for dress $500 .. 70 Awoo feSlaF eSGeRioERs RsiGs s inches wSs sC0 fin ve plain coiors worth si, price 5o cents. Enough for dress, sS0o All-wool flannel, 50 inches wide, in twenty colors worth 75 cents, price 50: Enough for dress, $3.00
 Ar-wool hop sack, eight stylish erects,wortn 75 cents, price 50. sAouSh uOcos StsU
 An.wool Bengaline, seven plain coiors,worth 75 centS price 5S. Enough for a dress A.& Regular price, 600 The cloak section is full every fair day, as if there was a spectacle to be enjoyed there. There is. We have not only rich coats and capes, but very low-priced ones hundreds of them. Here are three new styles that were sold to us for so little that we haven't the heart to put a fair price on them. Fine beaver coat, half-lined, full plaited back, new sleeves and wide reverses. Well worth E.0
 Heavy chev1ot cape, 40 inches long, hand- somely braided.
 Ss'ts SsEtsinly worth '5:sS SsS
 lar, new sleeves; cape, collar, front and sleeves edged with fur. Well Mell worth s1s00 50O North side of rear, second floor. Chenille portieres, soft and rich and beautiful, never be- fore under $4.So, price $3.8S a pair. Wish we had enough to last week, but that is inn possible at the price.
 Moquette rugs ofeven, sky ey sottnesS, for less than panic prices.
 Isxse inches, s0s5
 ssxsa %xSa sss ss ~" Second floor, Main street front. Double damask table linen, white as the virgin snow; four sorts with napkins to match, twenty-five per cent. under any other store.
 66 inches wide, 75 cents yard.
 Napkins to match $1.75 dozen.
 72 inches wide, $1 yard. .' Napkins to match g a dozen. 72 inches w1de $1 25 yard, .. g.:
 Napkins to match s4 a dozen. .r l 72 inches wide $1.50 a dozen, | Napkins to match, $6 0 dozen. '' Right aisle. ....
 Thirty patterns of black chantilly and bourbon faces, 4 k to 20 inches wide, all at one price, 2o cents a yard; some of them are worth so cents, some 75, and some even a dollar.
 Take left aisle at main entrance. | 200 trimmed hats will como from our work rooms this week to be sold for $2.5o a piece. They are such as us- ually bring from $4 to $7.5o. South side of second floor in rear building. | FORBES & WALLACE. Main and Vernon streets.
The Press., 1893-10-19

Stamford to work. He is now at his father'sin Norwich, recuperating. | Frank Preston, of Willimantic, form- | erly of this place, is one of the workmen on Selectman Korper's house. Miss Lizzie Hall, from Wilbraham academy, spent Sunday at home. Quite an excitement was created at the schoolhouse here last Thursday by the appeara nee of Chas. Young, of Willi- mantle, accompanied by Officer Hastings of that place, in quest of his daughter, Carrie, aged il, who was attending school here and living with her mother, Mrs. O. L. Westcott, but not having the necessary papers, returned without the girl. MT. Young came again Friday with Chief-of- Police Hillhouse, and took the girl home.
 Moose Meadow correspondence.)
 Rev. Eben Terrell, the presiding el- der, will preach in the M. E. church next Sunday at 3 o'clock. Rev. H. D. Adams is absent on his vacation.
 WALES. (Correspondence.) pr. E. w. Royce has been danger ously i'll for the past few days, but is re- ported better at present,
 A. D. Needham, of Woonsocket, R. l., spent last week with relatives in Wales and Stafford.
 Mrs. Albert Rice and daughter, Ada, left last Wednesday, for A weeks visit with Mrs. R's. brother in New Haven.
 Any one in need of optical goods will find at H. A. Eaton's stock just receiv- ed to select from.
 --Messrs. Ransom Brewer, s. Mellen and Clarence Ormsby, of Stafford, were f in town last Sabbath.
 George Works, of Fiskdale, and Geo. Lynn, of Holland, spent last Sunday at Pine Hill as guests of MT. and Mrs. All bert Rice. -r+ Joseph Loudon, superintendent of he Excelsior Woolen Co.,, has moved in to the house owned by the late Mrs. War ren Shaw. >
 HI. E. Shaw and wife are at the worlds fair.
 B. s. Baker has gone into the oyster business.
 John H. Storrs and sister, of Ware, Mass, visited at J. N. Bissell's last week.
The Press., 1893-10-19
COME HENS LAY EGGS,

And others de not. All hens fed with our egg food lay eggs right along every day in the week Sunday not excepted. The daily egg, you know.
 SMITH & LATHRoP.
The Press., 1893-10-19

Price $375 pair, every day price s5.
 The Nottingham Lace Curtains at the prices we are selling them are interesting lots of housekeepers, and there would be others interested did they know it.
The Press., 1893-10-19
SMITH & MURRAY.

SMITH & MURRAY. Chenille Portieres.
 Another lot has come our way for cash at fourth less than the regular prices. There's eight of the best colorings repre- sented.
 Price $3.75 pair, every day price s.
 The Nottingham Lace Curtains at the prices we are selling them are interesting lots of housekeepers, and there would be others interested did they know it.
 Nottingham Lace
 Curtains. 39c. pair. soc. a pair. s2.O0 pair. 47c. pair. $1.20 pair. 800 pair 75c. pair. 1.65 a pair. 500 pair S5c. pair. 2.75 a pair. 5.90 pair Irish Point Curtains. ..
 400 pair. 300 pair. 500 pair. 9.75 pair. 6.75 pair. 11.75 a pair Drapery Dept. 3d floor. Take elevator. Ladies' Pantella Hose.
 We carry full line of these goods. In Cotton. $1.25. Lisle Thread, $2.OO. | Cashmere, $2.5O. | 30, 33 and 36 inches long, Lisle Tights. Cotton, $1.S7H. | <Lisle Thread, 1925.
 Silk Plated, $3.5O. | All Silk, $4.90. In sizes 9, 3 and 4. Hosiery, main store, left.
 Think of tho good qualities and mod crate prices of the Springfield Underwea when you think of purchasing. | Take look at the window display ant judge for yourselves if the product is no worthy of Springfield.
The Press., 1893-10-19
Chenille Portieres.

Another lot has come our way for cash at fourth less than the regular prices. There's eight of the best colorings repre- sented.
The Press., 1893-10-19
A TRUSS SOLD

A
 Here very seldom comes back. But you may bring it back if it doesn't Tt. There's no use talking, doctor oan 1t better than one who has never studied anatomy sure-
 SMITH LATHRoP.
The Press., 1893-10-19
Stafford Hollow. (Correspondence.)

dates the P. o. boxes, but also gives more room and better appearance to the store.
 The dwelling house and buildings, for 50 many years owned and occupied by Loren Bugbee, now the residence of Mrs. Brathwaite, have peen receiving some re- pairs, The .outbuildings have been ex. tensiyeiy repaired and painted. Modern windows have been put in the house, re- placing the old fashioned small sash and small lights, which, of course, much i'm proves it's appearance. The removal of the P. O. now leaves the entire lower part of the building for merly occupied by it vacant. The Grange owns the building, using the upper rooms for their meetings.
 George R. Kingsbury and family hav' moved from the Street into the west tene ment of the house owned by MT. Cum mings.
 Harry Taylor has moved in the Ger ould house, which is arranged for twt tenements, MT. Brown occupying the other
 We were treated to fine open ai concert on Tuesday evening. The ban, from Staffordyille came down and playe' a number of airs. They certainly hay reason to feel pleased with their pro ficiency.
 -Wolcott Lodge, F. A. M., meets thi evening.
 Y. P. S. c. E. of the Baptist churcl and friends will hold social with Mrs Henry Thresher Wednesday evening, Oci 25th. Buses will start at six o'clock.
 -W. B. BatcheIder, late postmaster g Stafford, having made the final transfer his successor, H, F. 'Cady, left town tc
The Press., 1893-10-19

Take look at the window display and judge for yourselves if the product is not worthy of Springfield.
The Press., 1893-10-19

LNOR SALE-A Good Work Horse, or T will trade tor good Cow. 1t MRS. H. KEENS, Wilmington.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-08-10
The Cigarette Abroad.

1t appears that the smoking of cigar,
cites has of late years spread almost as
rapidly in Persia as in countries nearer
home, Our consul at Resht says that
cigarette tobacco was first introduced
as an agricultural product into the
province of Ghilan in 1876. The seed
was imported from Samsoun, in Tur-
key, and the introduction of the plant
into the northern provinces of Persia
has had the effect of introducing the
general practice of cigarette smoking
into the country. 1t has become so
general that even the lowest peasant
now goes about with cigarette case
and cigarette paper. Until quite re-
cent years only kalians or hubble bub-
bles and chibouks, or long wooden
pipes with red clay bowels, were used;
the former generally by the higher
classes, and the latter by the peasantry,
laborers, mule-drivers, and people con.
stantly on the move and requiring a
more portable apparatus. The chi.
bouk has now been to a very large ex.
tent replaced by cigarettes, the tobacco
for this purpose being cheaper than the
Shiraz tumbekao, which is required for
kalian and chibouk. London Times.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-08-10
HER ADAPTABlLITY.
American Women submit TO Annoyanoes
without Effort or bitterness,

American Women submit TO AnnOyanceA
without Effort or bitterness
Wherever we meet the American
woman-and we meet her everywhere,
in tie ranks of the English peerage
and of the highest European aristocra
cy, as well as in more modest condi'
tions-we are struck with that marvel
GUS adaptability in which wise men see
the sign of the superiority of a race or
of species, says the Popular Science
Monthly. 1t is revealed notably by
that good humor with which she ac'
cepts the numerous petty annoyances
that every change of medium implies
and which put the best characters on
trial
She submits to them without effort
and criticises them without bitterness;
she is, further, prepared for them by
her education, and does not expect to
find everything easy. Then the neces-
sity of manual labor does not seem to
her like a degrading condition; at
most only one or two generations sep
arated from the time when her grand
mother kneaded the family bread in
the primitive settlements These sto-
ries are familiar to her, and the lessons
deduced from them are not discourag-
ing or humiliating, She is the daugh-
ter of race of emigrants who have be-
come great people through work,
energy and determination.
She has in this at her command
whole treasury of traditions from which
she draws, not without pride. We
might say, in listening to these stories,
that we were hearing one of those
grandes danes Of the last century, emi-
grants and poor, telling with pride in
their memoirs how, to supply their
wants, they worked in London or in
Germany, utilizing their accomplish
ments and their correct taste and maxi
ing trimming and embroidering robes
with their own aristocratic hands.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-08-10
An Immense Dining Table.

The largest dining table in New York
is the one that fills the main private
dining-room on the upper floor of the
Union League club. 1t is SO large that
thirty-five men have been seated at it
without discomfort, and thirty men
find plenty of elbow-room around its
edge. The custom is to heap the mid
die of it with flowers and then to trail
sprigs of smilax out from the floral
mound towards the various seats. This
enormous table has a top surface of
about two hundred and eighty square
feet and is nearly twenty feet long by
fifteen and half feet broad. 1t is in
reality too large. No conversation can
be carried on from one side to the other,
and when party is seated around it
the men break up into number of
local groups and communicate with
distant friends by pantomimic signs
and approving mods when they fail to
hear what is shouted to them. st
Louis Globe Democrat.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-08-10
SAVANNAH HARDIN COUNTY, TENNESSEE THURSDAY, AUGUST

mosi pitiful language. II was tale
which wouIG make the sympathciic
heart well nigh break with its pathos
1t was a tale Of the deepest poverty and
want On the few rags which served
for bed he laid the inanimate form
he held in his arms. His heart was sore
within him as he beheld the sight
around him. and sending the child for
some food and coal he set about his
task of restoring to life the unfortunate
being he held in his arms. The process
was a long and tedious one, and it was
some time before he could restore ami
nation. Ultimately he succeeded, and
he found a pair of eyes which seemed
familiar to him glancing vacantly up at
him. Slowly they appeared to begin
to understand what was going on about
Then, all at once as it seemed, the
woman gave little gasp, and started
up from her rough couch with cry.
''IIubertr' she whispered.
The artist glanced quickly at her He
had been too much occupied before TO
pay too close attention to her features,
though they had appeared familiar to
him. Now he was in turn startled. lie
breathed name, the name of woman
he had loved years ago-Mona, Now
his knew why he had been so struck by
the child's looks. She was the child of
the darling of his heart, of her whom
he had not seen since that dark and
dreary day, eight years before, when
he had seen her married to another
after promising to love only him.
In those early days Hubert had been
great sufferer. Then he was poor
struggler unknown to fame He had
already done some clever things but
nobody knew about them. Now all was
different. Then he could scarcely make
an existence at all; now he had more
than enough to suffice for all his not very
cxtravagant, though cultured, tastes.
Then, however, love was his and he
was content to wait; now he had lived
fer years without love, but as love left
him, fortune, that tickle jade, smiled
upon him.
Then he loved, but his fair one had
proved false. A suitor with less merit,
but more wealth, had come forward
and his qualifications had proved too
strong to be withstood His betrothed
married his rival with scarcely strug-
gle-at least, so he thought
Henceforth all was dark and gloomy.
He struggled on because he could not
help himself. The only solace that re-
fnained to him was hard work, and like
many another discarded lover he sought
to kill his love and to wipe her image
from his heart by hard toll. At last he
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-08-10
A Cruel Injustice.

In the course of her address at the
dedication of the womans building at
the Worlds fair Mrs Potter Palmer
said "Of all existing forms of injus-
tce there is none so cruel and incon-
sistent as the position in which women
are placed with regard to self'mainte-
nance; the calm ignoring of their rights
and responsibilities which has gone on
for centuries.
Would you have women step down
from their pedestals| some men ask.
Yes, if we can find any women on pc
dcstals, let them step down Freedom
and Justice for all are infinitely better
than pedestals for few. lalways sus-
pect the motives of any one advancing
the pedestal theory. 1t is not the nat
ural and fine relation between husband
and wife, or between friends. They
should stand side by side, the fine quail
tiles of each supplemensing and assist
ing those of the other
The women of to-day have no de-
sire to be helpless and dependent. Hav-
ing the full use of their faculties, they
rejoice in exercising them. Ignorance
is too wasteful and too expensive to DO
tolerated.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-08-10
AN UNKNOWN GRAVE.
The Little Emlgrant's Last Resting Pla
ON the Platte.

.
ON the Platte.
On the north fork of the Platte river,
with the blue mountains of Colorado in
sight TO the west, we made camp one
afternoon at an earlier hour than usu-
al. by and by, in our knocking around
for tirewood, one of the men brought
in piece of board which was rotted at
one end, as it had been in the ground,
Wizard ye git it?" queried Old Bill,
who was by all odds the toughest,
toughest and most uncouth man in the
party, and who no man had ever heard
speak kind word to any living thing.
Over there" was the reply, as the
man addressed pointed over his shoul-
der.
Some of us followed Old Bill 10 the
spot There was a grave there-the
grave of child. We found il
only after the dead grass and weeds
of dozen winters, perhaps, had
been cleared away. The board had
stood at its head once-how long ago
II was placed there no one could say.
NpolilC CuliE Idnu uIdln ildu hdlOCo Juop
here, and here some emigrant's child
had breathed its last. They had dug
grave for it in this desolate spot, heaped
stones over the fresh earth that the
wolves might not uncover the little
form, and the grlef-stricken father had
marked the spot as best he could.
No knife had touched the board The
emigrant train would not wait for
that. We looked it over and over and
brushed away the stains and the mil
dew but there was neither date nor
name, Ofwhat use? For every mile of
the old trails to the far west there is
nameless and forgotten grave, remem
bered only by God.
What are you going to do?'
SO we asked of the rough old man as
he returned to the wagon for shovel
He made no reply, but used the
shovel to heap up the sunken grave and
pat down the earth. There were vines
and flowers growing near. He trans
planted until the fresh earth was al
most hidden from sight, and he carried
water from the river to give them root.
After supper, as we smoked and talked,
he brought from his wagon thick
board and spent his hours in cutting
the epitaph:
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-08-10
INTERESTING ITEMS.

THE first public appointment held by
a woman in Ireland was bestowed re-
Gently on Mrs. Fleury, NJ. d, She was
made clinical assistant to the Richmond
Asylum.
Miss KATE LEvAN, Of Bucks county,
Pa. girl of sixteen, drives the daily
mail stage between Princeton and
Fleetwood, and can manage four,
horse team with as much skill as any
man in the county.
MISS ANNA MONICA DUNN, an English
girl, has taken the medical degree at
Brussels, with brilliant success, and has
set out at once for India, where she will
practice in one of the hospitals founded
by Lady Dufferin.
Miss ELLA KNOWLES, who was the
poplllist candidate for attorney-general
at TIE last election in Montana, has
been selected by the republicans in
that state as counsel in their effort 10
secure control of the legislature.
PRESIDENT HELEN A. SHAFER, of We'll
lesley College, is the second woman in
America to receive the honorary de-
gree of LII d., Maria Mitchell being the
first. 1t was conferred on Miss ShaIcr
this year by 0berlin. her alma mater.
THE queen of the Belgians is very
fond of music, a good pianist, and a
performer on the harp. She has com.
posed one opera, called Wanda. > Tho
king hates music and when the piano
is opened he vanishes from the room.
o ELLEN TERRY lives IN a brick house
at Earle's Court, with her son and
daughter. Pretty surroundings are
necessaries of life to Mrs. Terry, and
her home is full of quaint hooks and
corners, soft harmonies OF color. and
the delicate fragrance OF flowers