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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-03-21
OBJ Matfbman anu Sout|non,
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 81, 1894.
A vlLLAGsR.

There Was no lad handsornerth than Willie WA
The day that he came % father's house.
There was none had an eye as SOFT an blue
AS Wilie,s was when be came to woo.
To a Iaboring life though bound thee be,
An I on Ey fathers ground live free,
I'll take thee, I said, for thy manly grace,
Thy gentle voice an thy loving face.
IT'S forty years now since we were wed.
We are ailingan gray needs not to be said,
But Wilhe,sey y is az blue and soft
As the day when he wooed me in fathers
croft
Yet changed am Z in body an mind.
For Willie to me has ne'er been kind
MerTily drinking an singing with the men.
He ,ud come home late six nights Of these'en
An since the children begrown an gone
He las stunned the house an left me lone.
Anlesan less he brings me in
o. the little he now has strength to win.
The roof lets through the wind an the wet,
An master won't mend It with us in 'sdebt,
I'm all looks every day more worn,
An the best Of my gowns be shabby an torn.
No wonder Il words had a-grown to blows.
That mattersnot while nobody knows,
For love him I shall to the end Of life,
An be. as I swore, his own true wife.
An when Pm gone he'll turn an see
His follya an wrong an be sorry for me,
An come to me there in the land O. bliss,
To give me the love looked for in this.
Robert Bridges.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-03-21
AN AUTOMATIC LIGHTHOUSE.

There Is No Keeper, but h Bright Light
Blazes Perpetually.
a remarkable lighthouse is the one
which sheds It's warningrayshom an es-
tuaryo Of the Gironde, in France, where it
ssands upon an isolated rock n the midst
Of ~freacherous reef. The popularity Of
this lighthouse is that it is ~unoecupied,
and yet its lamp is burning perpetually.
The famous Eddystonei Light on the coast
OF England, rising from a rock that is
only large enough to afford foundation
for the structure, is remarkable because
the men having it in charge are able to
leave their confined quarters only once
IN three months, when a vessel comes to
them with supplies, letters, papers and q
new detachment of watchers.
Hwas to do away with this exacting
and lonesome life that the French engi-
neerss set themselves about the task Of
deyising q method by which the useful
ness of the lighthouse could be main
tanned without so much personal atten-
ton. Hthus happened that a lamp was
invented that would burn continuously
fox two months without being trimmed
or replenished.
The burning fluid used in this lamp is
IN ordinary mineral oil The tubein the
interiorof the lamp is furnished with a
wick having q thickness three times as
great as those employed generally in
lighthouses. Around the burning sur
face of the wick is a cake made of q pat
ented preparation consisting largely Of
carbonized tar. This protection assures
the duration anu the uniformity of the
fame. A chimney made Of mica is
placed around the flame. and this in
suses an increase in the power of the
light. The supply of oil is assured by
means Of a reservoir containing 100
quarts, the lamp consuming 50 grams
each hour. To provide always for the
reservoir being furnished with sufficient
fuel a gauge is fixed at its side that gov
ems the supply flowing in from another
reservoir at a distance, and this gauge
permits just so grams per hour to perco-
late through the little supply pipe into
the supply reservoir.
The diameter of the lantern 56inches
and it cost 81 400. The intensity of the
light keeps eqnableuntn the expiration
Of two months, wien1t is sneeessary4 to
visit the lighthouse and replenish the
wick. The light can be seen more than
Il miles at sea. The wick is cleansed
and drawn up gradually by the action
Of the tar cake at its mouth. The French
government is arranging toputupothers
Of these houses, and it is also perfecting
an invention by which a perpetual cleo
tric light can be controlled by wires run
ming through a submarine cable to the
the land.-Exchange.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-03-21

Some women are awfuljy touchy. A
widow has brought an action against a
paper which said that her husband had
gone to a happier home.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-03-21
For Over Fifty Years.

Ms. W1sslow's Soo1H1se SYRUP has been
used for children teething. 1t soothes the
child, softensthe gums, ailays all pain, cures
wind collie, and is the best remedy for Diar.
rhea. Twenty-Five cents a bottle.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-03-21

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria-
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she cl1ng to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-03-21

A fountain that stood for many years
on the Main street square in Pawtuck-
cit, r. I. has been removed and set up
in a cemetery. Its base bears in big
letters the touchingly appropriate word
Welcome"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-03-21
CnauRoaOlo.

C~nangeable.
Fragment of a conversation overheard
ON Chestnut street:
FIRST Girl-He's sort of changeable,
lint be?
Second Girl should say 70. He
wouldn't know his own mind if it came
ND to him and said, "How-de-do?'-
Philadelphia Record.
The Newtown bee., 1894-03-30
In Litchfield County.
CORN WALL BRIDGE.
PERSONAL CAAT.

Miss Eva Prayer has given up her occupation as operator at the telegraph office. Fred Doty of Sharon is in charge of the office at present.
 Amos Waterbury had busy time ex- tinguishing fire, which burned over quite tract of woodland, one day, last week.
 Frank LaBrague will move to Els wood, this spring. He is engaged as farmer, by William Everett.
 The winter term of the district school closed, last Friday.
 Rev MT and Mrs Birkin's were guests at Charles w. Everett's over Sunday.
 The frost is out and the roads are in a settled condition through this part of the Housatonic valley,
 Miss Grace Robinson is spending Easter week in New York city. MT and Mrs George Winchell spent the day, Tuesday, with friends in Falls Village.
 August Hoffman has received a car load of lumber, and is making prepara- tiou to build a barn, this spring.
 Andrew Cahill has accepted position under Foreman Driscoll, of the Consoli- dated road, at Port Chester.
 Mrs John Manvel of Sheffield, Mass, is visiting with Mrs Theodore Swift.
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The Horse.
DOWN THE RACE TRACK.

A good horse is liable to become ex- cited, either from fear of some unusual object or just because he feels his oats, as the saying is. It does not matter what the cause may be, the danger is as great unless you have bit strong enough to stand the strain put upon it in order to prevent a runaway. Look out for your bits and reins.
 In the wild rush for speed, too little attention has been paid to individuality. This should be corrected in the future. Do not ignore speed, but at the same time do not forget that the fast horse that is also sound and handsome is worth good deal more money than he would be without these qualities and will con- mand much readier market.
 Editor Parlin of The Horse Beeder tells it all right here Farmers who have sound, good size young horses that are free, cheerful roadsters, and can pull wagon with two men in it from eight to 12 miles an hour, need not lose any sleep worrying for fear that the bottom has fallen out of the horse market. Those who have trotters with speed and race horse qualities will find market for them, too, at fair prices, just as soon as they can prove on some good track, un- der the watch, that they possess these qualities"
 "One great mistake that the average New England farmer makes is in not having his horses thoroughly broken or educated before offering them for sale," says The Horse Breeder. ''It will pay most farmers to give some thorough horseman $25 apiece to educate their colts to harness. As rule they would sell for from $25 to $50 more and there would be six customers for them to one ! to those broken in the ordinary way" | An error too frequently made by trot- ] ting managers is in proceeding on the principle that the public has no rights which the association and horseman are bound to respect, but the shrewder man. agers recognize where the money to SUD- | port the sport comes from and are on the alert for any little point through which the grand stand can be more thor oughly entertained.
 When men read pedigree that is pleasing they generally picture in theil mind sound well proportioned gooc gaited trotter. There is where they of
 ten meke mistake especially in those
 offered at public sales. If they could set
 the animals with their evident lack of al
 the qualities that give value to trotte
 or roadster their curby spavined hooks
 imfirmities they would be surprised tha
 any one wanted them at any price.
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ROXBURY.
JUDD'S BRIDGE.

Mir and Mrs NJ. l.. Hartwell has re- turned from weeks visit out of town.
 George W. Lendeveg has been hauling 200 ties to the depot for the Shepaug railroad.
 The roof to the saw mill of c. s. and F. E. WetmOre caught fire from a spark that fell from the smoke stack, but was discovered by F. K. Wetnprn and with the help of some of his wOrkmen it was put out without doing much damage.
 M. Costigan is moving from the Thom- as Costigan place to the H. Frisbv place.
 There was wooden wedding, Wednes- day evening, at Mir and Mrs c. H. Hart wells. The presents were quite numer- ous and useful. The evening was spent with dancing to the music of Whitney and Munson of New Milford.
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from the leaves are woven mattresses and sandals Indeed it is almost true that the palm tree gives to the natives of the lands in which it grows their entire subsistence, furnishing shelter, food and clothes. With the aid of the palm the native need never be unfed, unhoused or unclothed. It is, therefore, one of mans very best friends in the vegetable king dom.
 ssThe righteous shall flourish like the palm tree.
 IF USEFULNESS IS THE CHIEF GIFT
 of the palm, that quality certainly has it's place in the life of the righteous, those who, in Gods strength, try to do right. Nature has little use for things that simply take up room, that serve no really good purpose. The fishes in the Mam- moth cave of Kentucky started with eyes the same as in fishes that swim the waters of the sea; but, in those dark caverns where rays of sunlight never pierce, no use was found for eyes, so | they gradually lost their power of seeing 1 and now only useless sockets remain. An ornament in your home, a pretty vase upon the mantel-piece, a picture on the wall, jar of roses on the table, is by no means a useless thing. It is a liberal | education for the children every day; it | teaches them to love beauty and so to | love God, for He made beautiful world {; | it teaches them to love home, to find some attraction in it, to be held there rather than to be drawn almost anywhere else to search for amusement; it teaches them tLat mother loves them and that father loves them, since such things are only one of the many expressions of their l love. But things that merely take up space, and good deal of it, wi, bout doing their proportionate amount of | good, are eyesores rather than objects of attractive delight. For this reason 1 dislike to see load of bandboxes; they are necessary, but then you can hardly keep away the thought, there is so much empty space enclosed within the covers that
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Safe Investment.

Seven per cent debentures, interest paid semi-annually by New York draft of the Build ing and Loan A Association of Dakota. 5000 of first and non transferable mortgages deposit ed with the trustee to protect each 5000 sold, trustees endorsement of this tact on each bond sold, issue limited by law to 50 per cent Of their assets. Debentures are q preferred stock, and all the assets arc holden for the payment of them; in any event there will be S} Ot assets behind every dollar ot outstand- ing debentures. With judicious manage ment, which enabled them 10 pay matured principal and interest promptly during the past year. as ever, and make a gain in assets Ot S74 000, the outlook tor the future is prOmis- ing. I believe an investment here to be as sate as anything offered and one which will prove satisfactory in its results. Bonds run three or seven years optional with the hold CT. l would request intending investors to write to the present bank commissioners of Connecticut for their opinion of this compa- ny; also to the eX commissioners, who have all thoroughly examined the company. Their judgement in the case we should like you to have. We court the strictest investigation of condition, standing and management. For sale by
 JAMES c. JOHNSON,
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the edge of this the tree had sent root that had taken firm hold in the rich loam on the other side of the brook, and thus the new life came to the tree. Take a lesson, my dear nearer, from this tree. Your spiritual life may be wthered and sapless and apparently dead. Send out root over the bridge and fasten in the rich loam on the other side of the stream. That root is faith, that bridge is Jesus Christ.
The Newtown bee., 1894-03-30
WEST GOSHEN.
AN EXCITING INCIDENT.


 Frank Griswold, our undertaken, was called to pass through very peculiar and trying experience, one day last week. He had gone with his wife and others to spend few days in Waterbury and New Haven. While absent he was noti- fled to return and attend the funeral of neighbor. By some strange freak, the message sent by telephone and tele- graph, made it appear that his own father, whose health is feeble, had pass ed away, and for number of hours, as he hastened homeward he supposed it actually was the funeral of his father which he was summoned home to attend. We can readily imagine his sad sensa- tions when the startling message reached him, and so, on the other hand we can, easily surmise the great relief he experienced when the unfortunate mis- take was corrected.
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BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE.

The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns and all skin eruptions, and posi- lively cures piles or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25c per box. For sale by E. F. Hawley, Newtown and s. c. Bull, Sandy Hnol.
The Newtown bee., 1894-03-30
NEW PRESTON HILL.

Mrs A. H. Ackley has returned home from a visit to her daughters.
 Mrs A. Peet was called away to Lanesville, last week, to her daughters.
 Mrs H. G. Sperry, Jr., of Calhan. Col, is quite sick at the home of her parents, MT and Mrs John Hatch.
 Perry Newton, late of Torrington, is staying now with his mother Mrs Frank Newton.
 ~ The w. c. T. U. has purchased new Cornish organ for their rooms here.
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WARREN.

Mir and Mrs Michael Barrett are visit ing friends in Bridgeport and Waterbury. Miss Kate Meagher has returned to Long Hill.
 Isaac Pitcher has moved to East hent. W. c. Welton lost a young horse, last week.
 William Forestelle has bought an- other crop of tobacco.
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CIRCULATION.
Around The Preside.
LESSONS FROM THE PALM TREE.

IT IS UsEFUL.-IT IS EvERGREEN.-IT IS NOURIsHED BY HIDDEN sPRINGs.-A SERMON PREACHED ON MARCH 16, 1894, BY REV OTIS W. BARKER, AT THE BY REQUEST.
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MIGHT BE FILLED

with something that would do somebody some good.
 Of course, we can at once apply this thought to men; the temptation is very strong to apply it in too literal and too exact a way and to say that the member of church who simply fills seat in his church pew, or whose name simply occu- pies a line upon the church regivter-and that is all-is in some danger of being brought within the compass of this illus tration, you can hardly help wishing that the space was occupied by somebody who was doing some good to some one. But I will not make my comparison too literally; l am not one of those who be- lieve in wholesale condemnation right and left. 1 believe that most Christians in our churches are proving themselves not as useful as they might be, no, we always see an ideal above the point where
 we are-but they are not drones. l But, my friends, did you ever fall in with persons in any other community or
 in this community upon whose career, when it was done, you could not put your finger in any instance and say:- How useful that life was to me. How l shall miss him. How his church will
 miss him. What can we do without him l 1 have known persons, 1 will not say
 where, whose lives were busy, they were | always pressed for time,
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FUNERAL SERVICE.

The funeral of Mrs Mary A. Bragg was held in the church here, last Sunday afternoon. She had been feeble for some time, and yet her decease was rather un- expected. She passed away very quiet using as text the last clause of Sam uel 20 B.
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ever trod the earth and be followed to my last resting-place only by the hard mutterings and unuttered curses of those from whose long hours and wretched pittances for wages had squeezed my big fortune out. God help you, my brother, to do something that shall cause you to be missed when you are gone i; God help you to put your time, your strength, your money, yourself, now into something that shall endure long after the little mound has begun to sink and your name to grow illegible on the headstone in the cemetery over yonder.
 "The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree" The palm is an evergreen. Throughout the year, the winters cold as in the summers heat, the palm con- tinues green; that is, the palm takes no notice of the weather. If I could inn agine my palm tree for the moment to be an individual before me in these pews, I think that should indulge in some generous praise aud say to this individ. ual: 'You have some qualities that thoroughly admire, I wish the churches were filled with people of your sort
 Then we ministers should not have tc look out of the window on Sunday morn
 ings to see how many clouds were in the sky, nor at any season of the year say
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A Bright Lad,

wedding of a niece in Merryall, last week.
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The Art Room

with enlarged facilities and territory on the second floor, has become a permanent sue cess. Stamped Doylies and Center Pieces. Extra quality silk in all choicest colors and styles for embroidery pur- poses.
 A new dennrture for Bureau Scarfs and Pillow Tops Fast color Linen for stamping and working,
 Crepe Paper is now wrought into Lamp
 Shades Cushions Doll Dresses Match
 Best quality paper 80 cents roll or
 10 cents yard. Tinted edges 40 cents
 aroll. From l5O to 300 rolls always OH
 hand.
 Sun Fast Holland Shades hold an acknowledged pre- eminence in the Window Shade World. Prices have been as fast as the color. Here we deba1~I again from the beaten path. New prices for guaranteed goods and work.
 Making and hanging with best IIarts
 horn fixtures all complete, for ordin ny
 windows, a cents each. Charges for
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PERSONALS.

E. c. Sterling moves from our village in a few days. from the place and will be in the employ of O. Hammond.
 J. Osborn has conquered his cruel cold
 w. Wadhams is now able to visit his mills and superintend the work.
 Rev MT Birkins and wife attended the
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JAMES c. JOHNSON,

Gensral Agent for Connecticut STEPNEY DEPOT, CT.
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THEY WERE DRIVING BARGAINS,

driving cattle, they had no time for friendly conversation; but yet those lives did not help any one but themselves, you could really say that. Was any reform to be started in the community that needed the support of every man who hates sin and loves righteousness, you could not count on them, they had some- thing else-of their own-on hand too important to be neglected.
 It is a noble thing for any young man to prove himself so useful to his employ CT that his employer would rather double his pay than lose him; and it is noble thing for any man or woman to become so useful to a church that everybody turns once in while to his neighbor and says, What shall we do when So-and-So is gone? An example II usually make it point rigidly to refrain from person alities, but this example so truly illus trates my meaning that I must bring it in here. The good brother and sister who so lately passed away in our neigh boring church-the husband seeming not able long to bear the separation-how everybody misses them! Why? Be- cause they made themselves so useful in their home life, in their community life, in their church life, that they have left a place in the hearts of all who knew and loved them that simply
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NOW COMES WINTER,

we'll have to shut down steam a little, contract our energies and not expect too much. That is really an excellent point in the palm tree; I wonder if before, as I have looked upon the plant, ever ap- preciated it. I am afraid that I have not. It illustrates an all-the-year-round Christian, 365-days-in-the-year Chris tian, a -the-year Christian, a rainy day and deep-mud and biting-wind as well as June-sunshine Christian. God bless this lesson from the palm tree.
 If there are any days in the whole year when even the most lugubrious man can stoutly affirm that life is worth living, they are the days when we feel the first clear breath of spring. Oh, how re- freshing they are When we can safely throw off the fur-lined tippet and change the heavy overcoat that has weighed us down for the one of lighter texture, when it really feels good to let the sum- shine fall full upon us, when we find 8 White Mountain daisy peeking up from it's hiding-place on the southern side of our veranda, and when the first bright notes of the returned warbler greet our ears on the early morning walk. Those are golden days. I admit that nothing is so rare as a glorious day in June; but you expect the perfection of weather then, while in March or April you have had your full surfeit of long, dreary win ter. Well, this is my point, it is easy to be good in such weather. The man who cannot join his voice with the song-birds in giving praise to the sender of the warm sunshine would better
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SUPPLY OF SOUL REFREsHMENT.

I do not know of anything else in this life So precious. l wish I had it, my heart open to God, the secret springs of my life touching His life, so that might never get weary of carrying my burden, never droop under the burning heat of the day, but be like the palm tree ever freshened because of my unfailing aup- ply.
 A Seotchman planted tree by the side of brook amid the highlands of his country. The tree withered, dropped and seemed ready to die. But, on sudden, as if by magic, it revived, put forth new branches, covered itself with thick foli- age and became an altogether changed tree. How was that? What mystic pow- CT had been at work? An investigation revealed the facts.s There was small foot bridge over the stream, and along