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paper which came in with butter and eggs security.
 Some produce men enlarge this specu- lation by making contracts with their customers by the year. They agree on a price from month to month, and at those prices they agree to furnish fixed quantity. The market quotations may be higher or lower than the agreement. The produce mans profits come in the difference between the prices at which house bill and interest charges, and the price he gets.
 So far no one seems to have taken ad- vantage of the possibility of getting up corner in chickens, butter or eggs, though there is an exchange at which there is extensive speculation. A man can contract for 1000 pounds of February butter, just as he can go to the Produce Exchange and contract for February wheat, or to the Consolidated Exchange and buy February petroleum. However, there is little selling short, and until the professional produce men take to selling short there is slight danger of corners. Occasionally one man tries to carry too much and fails, but where he agrees to deliver future eggs and chickens he usually has them in this cold storage warehouse at the time, and makes the price based on the market quotations of that day and the storage charge.
 The banks look more favorable from year to year on this kind of collateral. for they have had few losses. The mar ket quotations are usually toward the in- crease of the value of the security, as the prices always rise from summer un- til spring. There is no danger of a bear raid which will smash prices and make the collateral worth less than the face of the notes. The products are easier to sell than real estate, and practically al road securities.
 It may be well for some one to point out to the farmers who are in the habit of railing at New York banks and capi- tali=ts that if no one would loan money on butter, eggs, chickens and small farm products, only so much of these could be carried as the individual capital of the produce men would permit, and prices in the summer would be much lower. The fact that the New York banks will loan money on these products prevents the low drops in price that used to come every su mmer at the expense of the farmer. It also lowers the price paid by the consumers in the city during the winter, for all the farm products stored in the summer and fall have to be sold during the winter, to prevent their running into the lower prices of the next summer.-[ New York Sun.
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have them understood. Be earnest and prompt but not harsh.

have them understood. Be earnest and prompt but not harsh.
 Axle, 2.l5 II, is an inbred wfks.
 Vim is an essential quality in a brood mare.
 Poor feeding in colthood is the chief cause of runts.
 Everything being equal the best bred horses make the best sires.
 Match horses with reference to size and motion particularly, to color if you can and have the other requisites.
 Never check horse if you wish to have him last long, except while training.
 Never jump from a wagon when your horse is running away. More lives and limbs are lost in that way than by re- maining in the wagon.
 The man who is breeding high and has the nerve and patience to wait for the return of sunshine will reach the harvest.
 The owner who sees his colts come in from pasture this fall fat and rugged has a pleasant''r picture pre- esented than does the mntt i2n leads home drove of thin half fed animals whose growth has been stunted, and who will in very many in- stances amount to nothing more than to help swell the big list of unmarketable little horses called runts. There is more profit and quicker re- turns in one good foal well cared for than q half dozen that are left to shift for themselves. David B., 2.l2 l-2. the champion four year-old gelding, is Wilks.
 Ben Franklin has 29 in the list, four new ones having come in this season.
 In free-fOr-all race in ChIllicothe there were five starters and all by son of George Wilks.
 The farmer-breeder who cut short the food supply of his colts is taking money from his own pockets.
 Plenty of time should be taken in halt CT education and the instructor should never let his passion get the better of his deliberate judge ment. The colt must te made to understand what is wanted of him and then he is perfectly willing to do as he iS wanted by his master.
 There is no better time, remarks the Breeder Gazette, to engage in any branch of farming than when others are going out of it. A few years hence will probably see the horse market back again to its former position. The de- mand for young horses will be good five years hence, then it will be lucky man who has some good ones to sell. Not everyone can afford to go into this busi- ness on large scale and it is not desira- ble that they should, but every farmer can if he chooses raise one or more colts each year and they need not be scrubs either
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HoTCHKIssVILLE.
A SPACIOUS COUNTRY STORE.


 Last week was "opening week. at the new store of G. F. Morris in the 'Ville, and scores of his friends and old custo- mers dropped in to offer congratulations. The building he occupies was formerly occupied by Mir Allen, but for year or more 1t has stood vacant. The visitor of old days would scarcely recognize the store interior, so extensive and marked have been the changes. The old posts through the store center have been re- moved and the building strung up by great bolts. The rather dark interior which existed before has been changed into light and attractive room by the means of light wall paper and paint. In the rear the old shed has been turned round and has been connected with the store building, giving a light and attract i've room. In the store above Mir Morris intends later to put in stock of cloth ing, etc.. In fact he says he will keep everything the people call for in the le-
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KEEPING MALES WITH LAYING STOCK.

The following is from bulletin No. 57 :, New Series, New York Agricultural Experiment Station, N. Y.:
 "Although among experienced poul- trymen hardly any recommendation seems to be more generally accepted than that of keeping no male birds ex- cept in tbe breeding pens, the question is very often asked whether hens will lay we'll when kept away from males. Occasional letters from men who have kept and raised fowls for many years, calling attention with some surprise to the fact that pens of hens without cock had laid as well as those with one, show also that there is considerable belief in the necessity of keeping male birds with laying hens. It is common to find, small yards and no eggs used for hatch ing, one or more cncks, and some owners have expressed their great annoyance at the growing of cock kept with hens near the dwelling, but which was en- dured for the sake of having fresh eggs.
 III OEuGF LO luTHlSH SO1S in regard to this question of the relative egg production of hens kept without and with male birds, it is thought worth while to give in bulletin form some re- suits obtained in feeding four pens of laying bullets during eight and nine months. The pens for convenience were numbered 5, 6, :, and S.. Pen 5 contained during most of the time seven bullets and cockerel; and pen :, most of the time, eight bullets without male. Pens and s each contained eight pull lets part of the time, and 10 bullets most of the time; and with pen cockerel was also kept.
 The bullets in pens and z were h. dian Game-Buff Cochin cross, and in pens and were Black Minorcas and Light Brahmas. The Light Brahmas and the bullets of Indian Game-B. Coch- in cross were selected from lot of chicks hatched and grown to supply cockerels for caponizing The Minorcas and Light Brahmas were from high grade stock so far as Standard" requirements are concerned, but were not very good layers. The egg yields, however, are only con parable among these four pens of fowls which were in the same hou C, and received similar rations an trsat- ment. The somewhat close confinement necessary in any trial where careful account of the food is kept, of course al- ways makes the conditions more or less unfavorable for tho largest egg produc- tion. No attempt was made to force lay
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EVANSVILLE.

Miss Cora and Lottie Knowles of Mary land have visited their aunt, Mrs Jane Manville on Pumpkin Hill.
 Mrs Charles Planz of New Milford called upon friends on Pumpkin Hill ,one day last week.
 Fred Disbrow is employed by Ed ward Northrop on the meat peddling route through this place.
 Mrs Almira Burr has decided to re- main in her old home this winter, in- stead of going to reside in Seymour.
 Fred Warner spent a portion of last week in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
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gitimate channels of trade. MT Morris is no new man to the business, as Wood- bury people well know. For the last lu years he has been member of the firm of Morris & Dawson at North Woodbury, and previous to that he was with Allen in the store building he now occupies. Years ago this used to be called one Of the best country stores in the county and doubtless it is ''all right" now. With host of friends and thorough knowl- edge of the business, his friends prophe- sy great success. Here's hoping it may be so.
 Nelson Buckingham, hale and hearty at S5, was doing his best to demolish a wood pile, when seen by your cores pondent, the other day. He is enjoying good health.
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EASTON.

Thomas Cassidy was married, Monday, November 6, to lady in Canada and ex- poets to be in Easton, some time next week.
 T. W. Turney is painting saw and grist mill for Theodore Beard of Hunt ington.
 NJ. E. Bates spent few days of the past week with friends in Seratfield.
 John MacNee, of medical school in New York city. is spending few days at his grandmother's. Mrs Eliza Silli- mans.
 Mr Jacobs and family have vacated the Oakley place and gone to Plattsville into
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LONG HILL.
 A PERTINENT QUESTION.

It would seem that Long Hill people are to be well supplied with liquor, as result of the recent vote on the license question, the town having voted for license by nine majority. There are four applications for license within radius of a mile. The village has enjoyed CD the elevating and refining influence of two saloons within it's borders for the past summer, and now there is the pro- spect of the addition of two more. This is not very encouraging for property owners and residents of the vicinity. It would seem that the argument so strong ly advanced by the Ium element, name
 y "that the license fees help to reduce taxation" has had it's effect with good many short sighted people, who only look at one side of the account. If they would only take the time and trouble to investigate the other side of the account they would find for every dollar received for license fees, at least two if not more are paid out in the long run for support of paupers, criminal expenses and direct ly traceable to the saloon. The saloon, therefore, instead of lessening taxation, is an expensive not luxury, but annoy ance. So much for the financial part of the business; by some it is thought to be the most important. Ought it to be so? Admitting, for the arguments sake, that the license fees help to reduce taxation, is not the influence of a saloon in will lage too degrading and low to be purchas- ed by the few paltry dollars which the town receives for it's share and how much would it reduce the tax of any one in- dividual tax payer. The sum is too small and insignificant to be worthy of notice. Should licenses be granted to he four applicants now applying, what families are there among us willing to sacrifice from among it's members one, or more recruits to join the number of those who now stagger through our streets, occasionally ornament the roadside gut
 CT, or drive off an embankment and cap size, as was the case with one individual lately. What parents are there among us who can look around upon their boys and select which they will give up to the greedy saloon, for if saloons are al- lowed to exist they will surely find new victims. The old topers will not live forever and the saloon keepers know too we'll how to entice the young. How long! Oh! How long will the American people meekly submit to the burden and annoyance of the saloon?-CTaxpayer.
 Miss Annie k. Bennett of Velvet street is caring for Mrs Munson Mallett, who has been quite poorly for some time.
 Mrs Jordan of East Main street, Bridgeport, was the guest of Mrs Hor- ace Wedge, over Sunday.
 Mrs F. Andrews, widow of the late Frank c. Andrews of Bridgeport, and two boys have visited her father, John w. Tvrrell
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Lorenzo Gregory's house and Mr Jacobs is to take George Gregory's milk route.
 George Guernsey leaves, this week, with his family for some place West.
 Mrs Abigal Turnev is to spend the winter with Mrs 1.avinia Nichols at Rock House.
 The Jabez Banks place has a new own CT, who is recovering the house and fix ing it up ready to be occupied.
 The first term at the academy closes, this week Friday, the second commence ing Monday, November B, with num- Der of new scholars. The Literary Meeting will be held at Academy hall, this week Thursday even- ing. Subject, o. W. Holmes.
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Hear Elm CackIe?
THE AMERICAN HEN.

Major Mckinley's very good friend Ot the modest American hen. With genuine kindness he offers to lend Her the loan of a tariff and then He expects that her product will boom up in
 price, And scare foreign hens of the nest, While poultry1nens pockets will fill In trice, And every hen roost will be blessed. But Major Mckinley, just listen to me; If people would only take hoes And scrape out the hen house, and keep the
 place free From lice, and the combs and the toes Away from the frost, they would find that
 their hens Could make all the tariff they need And fill the egg ba slet and cackle "amens," As they billed up their duty on feed.
 - Rural New Yorker.
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ROXBURY.

The contract for the three iron bridges has been let to the Berlin Bridge Co.,, and R. Blades is to build the abutments
 Rev A. lsham preached in the Con- gregational church, last Sunday. The annual society meeting of the same church was held on Monday afternoon.
 Several relatives of the Miner family attended the funeral of Curtiss Miner, aged SC, in Bridgewater, last week.
 Mrs Mary Mallory, Mir and Mrs J. Hamln are all in feeble health.
 Henry Cooper of New Haven is at II II. Warmers.
 The Methodist society has erected a tasty iron fence in front of the parson- age.
 Whitehead G Son have built fine market wagon for Ellis Thomas.
 The county health officer has appoint ed Dr Pons as health officer for this town for four years.
 Mrs F. A. Squires is convalescing.
 A. NJ. Booth is failing.
 w. B. Seward and wife have returned from the West.
 Frank Booth brought home lis bride a few days ago, and has taken job in the blacksmit shop.
 A. l.. Hodge & Son have erected a new coal shed.
 Peter Leary of Naugatuck is visiting at his daughters, Mrs J. Farren.
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BLOOMFIELD.
ON THE ILL HATED TRAIN.

Bertie Camp and Adelbert Wildman have returned from the Worlds fair. They were on the i'll fated train going, where so many were killed, but luckily escaped by not being in the cars that were smashed.
 Ernest Blackman has visited friends in Bridgeport.
 Miss Arleen Leslie, Miss Ethel Watts and sister Labina, ::who have boarded at the Foster homestead, the past summer have returned to their city home.
 George O'Dell, after visiting his grand father for several weeks, has returned to his home in Bridgeport.
 Will Weller and bride will begin house. keeping in Starr's Lane at Beaver Brook.
 Miss Arleen Leslie visited her friend, Miss Lima Tappan, at the American house, before her.return to New York.
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STEPNEY.

On Wednesday evening, October D, a cottage prayer meeting was held at the residence of Caroline Dayton. It was conducted by Rev MT Gurney, pastor of the Long Hill Methodist church.
 Charles A. Hubbell and brother, Perry Hubbell, have caught iG racoons, this season.
 Levi French killed a. large pure white squirrel with stone, last week, and is having it mounted by Orman Morgan, taXidermist.
 B. II. Peet's daughter and children from Norwalk, have paid him a visit.
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GREENS FARMS.
DEATH OF JOHN N. BECKER.

DEA1d Of JOhN N. BECkER.
 John N. Becker retired in his usual health, last week Wednesday night. As he did not rise at his usual hour for breakfast, Thursday morning, but little was thought of it till at o'clock. On going to his room he was found dead in bed. The coroner was called and an in- quest was held. Death was caused by an apoplectic stroke. With his family he moved here about five years ago from Hoboken, N. J., where he had been con- ductng the furniture and upholstering business. He bought the Meeker place and two years ago he sold his house and part of the land to the railroad com pany, building new house on remain ing land. He was about GO years of age and leaves wife and three children, Mrs Charles Oehmichen, Miss Gussie Becker and Theodore Becker. The fu- neral was held from his late residence p. m., Sunday, Rev MT Freund of Ho- boken officiating.
 Nelson Alvord, Jr., has gone to his home in New York and will start for his Florida home in few days to dwell among the orange blossoms for the win- ter.
 Mrs c. A. Rapallo and family left for their city home, last week. Thomas H. Quigley started, Monday, for Philadelphia, where he lis travelling for the Pennsylvania Globe Gas Light Go.
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FAIRFIELD WOODS.

Born, Monday, October 30, daughter to Mir and Mrs Thomas W. Reid.
 Services will be resumed at the Hope chapel on next Sunday evening, stu dent from Yale conducting the services.
 John Reid, the Bridgeport jeweler, who has undergone successful surgical operation at a New York hospital, is expected to return home, soon.
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Litchfeld County News,
NEW PRESTON.
FOXES GALORE.

Friday of last week was great day here, for fox hunters. At 7.30 a. m., 9 men and seven dogs from TerryVille, rhomaston, Bantam and this place had gone out from here in different directions, all we'll armed, to wait for the hounds to catch the scent of ''poor Reynard." A.. c. Caskey of Detroit, brought down the first fox from tree on Pinnacle Hill. Later in the morning, Joseph B. Stillson was most lucky in shooting two, which is the best record of the day. The bay ing of the hounds and the occasional shots at different points by the hunters made the hills resound with echoes, and we hope the successful result may intlu- ence the same band of jolly marksmen, with their friends, to come again.
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HUNTINGTON.
DEATH or A FORMER RESIDENT.

Mrs Charity Morse, an aged and re- spected lady, and widow of the late Orville c. Morse, died on November |, at Potomac, Illinois, after an illness of only few days, with pneumonia, at the advanced age of 90 years. Her remains were brought east and laid at rest in the Derby cemetery, on last Sunday. Mrs Morse was born in Huntington and lived here until after her marriage, when she
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GEPoRT.

Charles k. Ford of Trumbull drew the $20 in gold offered by H. A. Dupee, having the key which fitted the box, having only eight keys. About 5000 keys have been returned, out of the 5000 given out.
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removed to Derby and made it her home for nearly 30 years. Mrs Morse leaves three children, N. T. Morse, the photog- rapher at Birmingham and Charles T. and Sarah J. Morse, a son and daughter living at Potomac, III.
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Out of a little more shov- ing and shifting and saving and pounding has come the shapely shelving under the great skylight for popular priced Dress fabrics. Mon- day will express what we mean, on this wise.
 One lot of Ramsey plails at 10 cents, worth
 35 cents . One lot of Matte Worsteds
 ut 10 cents. worth 3O cents.
 One .lut of Novelty Basket Weaves at 25
 cents, worth 10 cents. . One lot of 10
 inch all wool Priscilla Suiting at 25 cents,
 worth so cents.
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KENT.

The store of T. E. Woodruff has been in the hands of the sheriff since last Fri day. Bridgeport parties have put on an attachment; assets about $400; liabili- ties between $500 and $200O.
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NEw.uAvFN.

We can certainly produce no better witness to the safe ty and satisfaction of out-of- town shopping than is set forth in the following repro duction of an original letter in our possession.
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NORTH WOODBURY.

F. k. Ford anticipates putting on meat cart about town, and purposes to put prices within the reach of all.
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Are the Dishes good enough for Thanksgiving? Will there be enough to go around? ? At this rate you could easily treat the com pany to an entire new set. Decorated Dinner Sets, best English ware Gc5 picccs), $-.0z.
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Early in this month l bought miscellaneous lot of goods amounting to S22 SS and left them to be packed and sent to me here. Everything came safely packed, not thing was forgotten or broken, from the 5fUOt tin bath tub to the little glass cups and candle sticks have had the same experience two or three times before and want to flank you for the satis- factory way in which am served. l shall sure ly come again.
 Very Sincerely Yours,
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Coughing Leads to Consumption. Kemp's Balsam stops Ghe "oagh Ut once.
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A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION.

George Kinney celebrated his 25th birthday on Wednesday evening of last week. On his arrival home to late supper, he found several of his friends awaiting him there, by previous invita- tion of his wife. A right merry party was enjoyed until the small hours of Thurs day morning. Supper was served at Il and then dancing continued till a. m. Alfred Cable violinist and prompter.
 At the auction sale at Prof k. A. Hayes, Thursday of last week, Jerome E. Granniss was fortunate in getting the oldest horse, Hon C. F. Lyman the younger one, J. B. Stillson a fine pair of carriage harnesses, Herbert Bailey d new single harness.
 Clarence Wells of RoXbury is now in the employ of B. Gordon as clerk here in GOrdon's store.
 F. E. IIolcomb is being afflicted with so many of "JObs cOmfOrters,' as to in capactatc him from physical labor
 Dr R. A. Marcy was called suddenly on Thursday morning of last week to the bedside of his grandmother, Mrs Marvin Todd of Bethlehem. She was thought to be dying, but by latest re- ports her condition has seemed to be slightly improved.
 D. Burnham and wife passed three days of last week in New Y Iork City and Brooklyn.
 Mrs Horace Curtis left here on We'd ncsday morning of last week, enroute for her winter home in Merden. MT and Mrs sherman Cogswell accompanied her as far as Bridgeport, where all attended the Christian EndcavOr assem- bly, there.
 F. NJ. Williams, Esq, of New Milford, was the guest of F.. II. Beardsley, over Thursday night of last week.
 Durwood F.. Granniss is confined to his bed with the grip.