The Newtown bee., 1894-07-06

IuSAs-ho IS ds GoOu Il piac0 10 own tArIn | any. West or South. We nave schools and | breezes, and as the southerner says, Them ankees always have money.''
 There are two things that I want to tell l young farmers not to do. One is, never go to | law Better pay twice over, because you are | sure to do It ii you go to law, and get no sat | 1sfaction at last. Set down your foot that you will starve every lawyer, for if you don't l they may rob you, for that is their farm. One l other thing is never run in debt, for interest | gnaWs worse than any canker worm It eats when we lie down and when we rise up, when We work and when we are idle, when we 1 sleep and when we are at church. It is as re lentiess as the sword. And there is one oth- CT thing nearly as bad. That is, draining swamp land. Nine times out of ten, it is burying money in the mud. Better use it to buy upland
 II farmers of the present day would attend to their farms as close as the olden time farm CTS did, and let everything else alone, farm ing would be 8 much better business than it was then, in tact, think there never was a time except in war time, that farming could be turned To so good advantage as at the present day. There is q demand tor every, thing that we can raise, and still about one- halt our farmers would sell their farms to-
 
 except the foreign element, and that is des- | lined to own and control this country, not a very bright picture. But there is one thing that will save us, and that is retrenchment; l go back as tar practible to the W ell -trodden l paths of our worthy ancestors, "then shall we sit under our own vine and fig tree with 1 none to molest, or make afraid" My advice | to one and all is, stick to your farms and be content.
 l The farm on which Capt Scott was born and died has been n the family for generations. Capt Scott's mothers peo- 1 pie, the Frisbies, came here from old 1 Branford. There were three brothers, l but Capt Scott's ancestor was Levi Fris- bic. It is tradition that the reason they settled in this valley was, that the open low meadows above Capt Scott's house, were then covered by water, there being a beaver dam at this point. They broke away the dam and thus had. ground they conld now at once. Levi Frisbie's son
 was Jacob Frisbie, ,and his son was known as 'Master" Jacob Frisbie, from the fact that he was school teacher. He was in New York at the time the British entered that port. He fell from a building ,whi' e
 sightseeing and was permanently lamed,
 which caused him to follow the profes- sion of school teacher. Capt Scott had
 in his possession many letters written
 about Revolutionary times by this Mas | ter Jacob and his father, Jacob Frisbie,
 while "Master' Jacob was in the army.
 The following letters, by the father and son, will be perused with interest, be- cause of their historic interest:
 l Bethlehem, August 3, 1T6.
 Dear son-I set down to write with the ten l der affection Of a father and kind regards of q mother. We want greatly to hear from you 1 tor we hant heard from you sens our Bethlem peopel came home. We hear the camp des- | temper is among the army and we greatly | want to hear wheather you are well and have l been. Remember your breth is in the hand of | the God that maid you. Don't forgit among l all tumults that you may be in that you have | a presious soul to save or luse. 0 how 1nsur- | pOrtabel to hear that you was fallen by sick | ness or in batteI and no reson to think you l have any mtrest in the Great Redeemer. number of your friends in the northern army are fallen before the King ot Terrors. Leut 1 Hurd, Sergt Speary, Corpl Weller, Danniel | Dudley, Josiah Churchman, Noah Turel, Dan- 1 niel Warner; thes you will never SC more in this world. Thertore may these maIlancolly | tidings and your own exposednes to Death an niruat you to seek after the Divine faver and 1 ii you may but have the G cd that maid you for your friend and can put your trust under the | shadow ot his wings, then if you fall by sick ness in battel you will have gardian angels | to convai your pressious immortal part to a world of inexpresable joy and eternal peas
 but if you should be cald to apear sudinly be- fore the great judg of the world before you have maid your peace with him, too dreadful | for affectinate father @ tender mother to think on, but must conclude. only reminding | you that we have givin you to God in your in. fansi and sence trust and you are bound to | give yourself to the God that made you. We are all wei as l hope thes lines will find you. Nc more but to subscribe ourselves your low ing and afecttinate parents,-[Jacob and Ruth Frisbie.
 P. want to writ sumthing to you about your pretty 1ittel He runs about the hous barfoot, is churk and well, begins to talk and | ses pa, grandfather open the dore. I know you l want to SC him and your wife and your other | friends. hope you may live to return and | see your friends rejoycing in the Divine good. nes.-GJ. F.
 P. S. We have sent you sum Indian hemp l Ii your stummuck should be out of order or ii you should be afraid you hay a fit of sicknes cumin on it would be good to bile sum of it and drink to carre it Of. Also we have sent l sum tosset root that if you should have any 1 thing ot the camp disstemper you must boyl l sum ot it and drink. Your dady and mamlne Charmon sais that it is remarkable good tor | that disorder. Thankful wants to have you send her alittel tea if yon have good oppor tunity.