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The Press., 1894-12-13
UNION. (COrreSDOndence.'


 Rev. J. Richardson, pastor of the M. B. church at Mashapaug, will preach next Sunday, at ii 8. m., on the subject, "From the ballroom to he'll" Providential cir cnmstances prevented preaching on this subject last Sunday which will be explain ed in the pulpit next Sabbath. All are cordially invited to attend. A Sabbath school temperance concert will be held at o'clock. All are welcome. 4 D. P. Cor bin post, No. "A, last Sat- urday evening elected the following off, COTS: Commander, J: B. Winch; s. V. C., s. H. Broadway; J. V. O., G. w.. Thayer; surgeon, W. H. Scranton; chap lain, E. w. Upham; o. D., R. B. Horton O. o., E. W. Brown; Q. M., L. P. Car penter; adjutant, J. w. Winch.
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Hartford Courant: A correspondent writes to ask the figurative meaning of "fln de siecle." It is used to characterize the last and faddish phases of art, itera- ture and society at the flag end of the 18th century. A fin de siecle girl is 8 very much up-to-date young person with lear- ings toward slang, cigarette smoking, and extreme clothes. etc.
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At Massachusetts city elections on Tuesday, Boston, Worcester, Medford, Lynn, also Keene, N. H., elected republi- can mayors; Lowell democratic, and Sa- lem, Newbryport, Everett, Chelsea, Cam- bridge and Beverley non-partisan tickets.
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 SnrinpflaId December 13Qd

S~S~S~S~S~S~S-SS Springfield, December, 1894.
 THIS week will be the best time for choosing that pres ent. Take a hint broadly giv- en. Don't put off your Christ mas shopping and bother your self on the last day. BOOKS.
 The most complimentary gift at Christmas is a book, un- less the book is stupid. A we'll chosen book tells what the giver has read in the re- ceiver. It is a faithful envoy; it carries your very words. What are your words? Be careful. Words are the weightiest, the dearest, the most precious of all commodi- ties.
 You will pick out your gift book, then, where you have the best facilities for consider ing upon the thoughts that are to spring out of them; where you will be sure of con- veying the words that are on your tongue. Let us send you our book catalogue for 1895; it will help you.
 Main floor of vernon-street Building. IHANDKERCHIEFS.
 Everybody gives them they're the most acceptable of gifts. Look down that long stretch of handkerchief trim ming. Not a wanted thing missing! And there are thous- ands and thousands of them! Europe, Asia and America are represented.
 Fancy colored borders, , and 10 cents. Swiss embroidered, 10 cents to $1. Hand embroidered, 50 cents to 8. Womens initial, 1219 to 50 cents. | WOmenS all linen, 10 to 50 cents. Womens Japanese silk, 10 cents to $1.2j. Mems colored border, to 121I cents. Mems tape border, 10 to 25 cents. l Mems fancy colored border, 121a to 9 cents. Mems silk initial, 30 cents to $1. Mems Japanese silk, 25 cents to $1.
 Mems linen hemstitched, 12k cents to$. | |NECKWEAR for Women.
 Pretty new things of the season that will carry mes sages of kindness or affection from giver to receiver.
 Japanese liberty silk scarfs, thirteen shades, l $125 each. | Fancy novelties, 25 cents to $1.50 l Lace collars, 75 cents to $450 l South store. FORBES & WALLACE, Main, Vernon and Pynchon streets, | Springfield, Mass.
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One of the proposed plans for the en-

-One of the. proposed plans for the en- largement of Storrs' colleges is the pur- chase of the Augustus Storrs farm, the ample buildings which can be easily adapt ed for use-.the mansion for dormitories, and the barns for farm purposes. Opposi- tion comes from some of the Mansfield people on the ground that the Storrs farm is big item to be taken from the towns tax list. The objection, aside from it's selfishness, loses its force when consider ed that the farm is hardly likely to long retain it's present high valuation. Its re- cent owner did not farm for profit, but kept the old family homestead from love of it's associations with his own boyhood, and expended upon it much more than he took from it. In the natural course of events, with 8 change of ownership, its value will attain the level of average farm property in it's vicinity. There are few towns that would not gladly surrender such property from its taxable list to have the honor, profit and convenience of the location of such state institution. It may be as well to build more dormi- tories on the present farm limits, but the good of the school should in any case be held above any such picayune objection as the loss of the Storrs farm to the taxable list of the town of Mansfield.
 General James B. Colt, of Norwich, who was major of the 14th regiment, be- cause of gallantry at Gettysburg, died last Saturday of heart disease. Gen. Colt enlisted on May 7, 1861, in the Sec- ond regiment, and with Frank s. Chester received the credit of raising the first company of volunteers in Norwich. He went through the three months service and later joined the Fourteenth" as first lieutenant. He was specially mentioned for his gallantry at the battle of Gettys- burg, where he was severely wounded and forced to resign, having been pro- noted for gallantry to be major, and later brevetted brigadier general. Gen. Colt was at one time judge of the police court. He was & lawyer by profession, but was little known in the courts. He was a courteous, genial gentleman, which made him many friends.
 Compte Ferdinand de Lesseps, who has been called the grand Frenchman, and who died last Friday, completed his S9th years three weeks before. For what he succeeded in doing-the building of the Suez canal-he will be reckoned as one of the greatest men of the century. For what he failed to do he will be counted as one of the most unfortunate. The expe- rience concerning the Panama case broke down strong man and doubtless hurried his death.
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If you have not yet decided what you will give your son or daughter for 8 Christmas gift, 8 scholarship in the New London Business College, New London, Conn.,, may be suggestive. The training offered by this institution puts young man or woman in position to earn 8 good livelihood, and paves the way to success. The curriculum of study en- braces bookkeeping, shorthand, type writing, penmanship and telegraphy. The mid-winter term of this school began Monday, Dec. 1st. Copy of handsome illustrated catalogue will be sent free on application to N. A. Brubeck, principal.
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A late gleaner of Biblical curios says that Solomon's famous temple was only 107 feet long, 36 feet wide and 54 feet ill height.
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The land of Mexico is held in feudal tenure by about 2, 1000 families. Patents are issued to all who ask for them, and the government leaves the question of priority to be fought out in the courts
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ROCKVILLE.

-Conlin Brothers of Waterbury, who have been conducting bankrupt boot and shoe sale at Rockville nealy three weeks, have packed up their goods and left. After the trial at Holland, when they were convicted of keeping 8 tempo rary store without first procuring a li- oense, they were informed by Prosecuting Attorney Phelps that they must take out license or they would be arrested every day. Rather than comply with the wish es of the attorney they decided to get out. They were given until Saturday night to do SO
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President Hvde of Bowdoin,

Bowdoin college, the first college es- tablished in Maine, celebrated it's one hundredth anniversary June 24. Rev.
 Dr. William De Witt Hyde, the present president, was elected to that office in 1885, when he was only 27 years of age. He is graduate of Harvard. Be.
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.SOMERS. (COrreSDOndenCe.

(Correspondence.) Officers of Somers grange elected Dec. 9th, are: M., Erwin D. Avery; O., L. W. Russell; L., Mrs. Ellen Sheldon S., Allison Havens; A. S., Irving Phil. lips; C., A. D. Noble; T., Loren w, Pelcival; secretary, Chas. J. Stephen. son; G. K., Chas. Billings; Ceres Bertha Davis; Pomona, Clara P. Rus. sell; Flora, Mary Morrison; l.. A. s., Sadie J. Gilbert. Installation of officers, Jan. 17.
 The Ladies' Aid Society will give g dime supper, together with a sale of fancy a'ticles, Friday evening, Dec. 14th.
 Miss Laura s. Kibbe returned tc New Britain last week. Her mother Ms. Wm. Kibbe, accom- panied her for 6 weeks visit
 - Mrs. Julius Converse, of Stafford Springs, was the guest of Mrs. H. R Kibbe at "Piedmont" a couple of days last week.
 Julian Pomeroy, of Springfield, ac. companied by his brother, Marshall Pom eroy, of San Jose, Cal, called on friends in town last Monday. .. Miss Carrie Sellew, of East Long meadow, has been visiting friends in town -Wm. Pease and family are at Dr. Wm. B. Woods. They will not visit friends until after the holidays. Mr. Pease is the son of Col. Amos Pease, an6 resides in Downington, Penn.
 -Mr. and Mrs. Ebert Hyde, of Filing ton, were in town Tuesday.
 Miss Steele, of East Hartford, is this week making her annual visit, soliciting funds for the Connecticut Temperance Union.
 The Congregational Sabbath schoo is to have Christmas tree and entertain ment Christmas eve, Dec. 24th.
 Mrs. F. l.. French, who has been un der treatment at Hartford for two months past, has been brought home, friends hoping her mental condition to be SC much improved as to make it possible tt care for her themselves. W. W. Kenworthy, of North Somers is seriously i'll, and fears are entertained as to his recovery. -. -..e
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pleasantly. Although the weather threat ened so much during the day and evening, the church was we'll filled. Every mem- Der of the choir was present. The church and people of Staffordville take this op- portunity to express their thanks for the kindness of the singers and musicians in furnishing such we'll rendered program. After the concert an hour or more was passed in the vestry, the chief object of interest being the bountiful supper fur nished by the Ladies' Aid Society.
 West Stafford.
 (Correspondence)
 The Ladies' Industrial Circle will meet next Tuesday afternoon and evening in the vestry. A full attendance is de- sired as Christmas box will be filled for a missionary family. Any articles con- tributed for the same will be gladly re- eeived. Mrs. Augustus Holmes and Miss Josie Newell will serve as hostesses. Supper from to 6. 30 p. m. Five cents to those who furnish, to others 10 cents. All are cordially invited.
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The sudden death of the widow Of the late Dr. Hiram Weirs of Hartford is like ly to result in & contested will case. Dr. Weirs left an estate valued at over $13,- 900. This was willed to his wife, but it now appears that at the time the will was made he was not married to the woman who wBs then his housekeeper, though they were afterwards married. It is a question, therefore, if the will is valid, in which case only widows portion would go to the deceased and the residue to, the lawful heirs of the doctor-his brothers, Ralph of Stafford, William ot Somers, and the children of Charles Weirs of Rockville. The Hartford Times says Louis Weirs of Rockville, 8 nephew, who was a minor when the will was probated is the only person who has any right to make contest, the other heirs-at-law being debarred by reason of the fact that they have allowed the time limited by the statutes to expire without giving notice to judge of probate that they would con. test the will. The section under which Louis Weirs can contest the will is No. 642, and it reads: "All appeals by per. sons who are minors at the time of ma king the order, denial or decree appealed from, shall be taken within twelve months after they shall arrive at full age."
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An Economical Father.

Smith-No,. I never take the newspa- pers home. I've family of grownup daughters, you know.
 Jones-Papers too full of crimes, eh?
 Smith-No. Too full of bargain sales. No man or woman is altogether ad- vertisement proof f-Art In Advertising.
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WoUIDN'Tsk "A SxLARY CoME' HANDY ?- See advertisement of "Chance to earn
 money" on this page, if you want @ posi- ClO0. .~I j'..-:
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A suitable Christmas gift for an artist friend is the December number of the Art Amateur, treasury of art, both for the art student-to whom 1t is necessity and the general reader. We find two charming color plates-absolute facsimi- les of costly paintings: "A Summer Even ing" by E. Sanchez -Perrier, and ''Purpfe and. Gold" (Pansies) by Maud Stumm !; a very large life study in charcoal, printed on gray blue paper, and eight pages of working designs for china and glass paint ing, embroidery wood carving, etc. Spec ial attention is paid to the needs of those learning to become illustrators. The practical articles also include "Drapery upon the Human Figure" "Pen Studies of Heads" "Flower Painting in Pen-and- Ink ,' "Flower Painting in Oil, Flower Painting in Water Colors.' Portrait Painting" "Landscape Painting" and Designing for photographers, ,"-exeel- lent field. China painting is covered by such expert writers as Mrs. s. s. Track elton, Mrs. Anna B. Leonard, Charles Volkmar and c. E. Brady; and the pages overflow with pretty designs and artistic fa$ciess,: For the house, illustrated ...Sag. geSfions for Library" and papers on II n1 sAAnuSiAS OA OCoAoot AOWSA1 and Plants in Home Decoration" "Em- broidery," "Light Wrought Iron Work J and Designs for Chip Carving-just sim l pie enough for our manual training class es.aJ, i-srThe Decoration of Churches at Christmas" and Christian Iconography and Symbolism" are also treated of. Be- sides all there is an article on the late Albert Moore, with illustrations of his work, and one on The Art Institute o1 Chicago, with splendid double page
 wood engraving. The illustrations, in.
 deed, are well worthy of the text, includ.
 ingarepreductions from masterpieces oi
 painting and drawing, by such artists as Jules Breton, Boulanger, Alma -Tadema
 Delaunay, Jacque, Albert Moore and Isi'
 dore Pills. Price, 25 cents. Montague
 Marks, Publisher. 2S Union Square, New York.
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The concert held in the Con2rega- tional church by the choir of West Staf- ford, on Tuesday evening, passed of very
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-08-23
NOTES ABOUT HORSES.

No PART of breeders time is more
proftably spent than that employed in
looking after young foals.
KING WILLIAM, the largest horse in
the world. being 2719 hands high and
weighing 3 ,027 pounds, died recently in
Indiana.
The only Derby winners in twenty
years which have done really well as
four-yearolds are Ben Or, St Gatien,
Ormonde and Ayrshire.
The present low prices have discour'
aged production so that it seems plain
that by the time the foals of '94 and '9j
are marketable the supply will be
much reduced.
ANIMALS must show speed nowadays
or they will bring but little money. 1t
is useless to tell man that horse is
fast. He won't believe it unless it is
demonstrated to him.
In England, in old times, when wet
ground covered with moss was being
drained and worked before it was
thoroughly dry the pillow horses were
shOd with boards ten inches square to
prevent their sinking into the drains,
which were covered with turf.
AT a recent sale in England good
driving horses sold briskly at $3.50 each,
good hunters and saddle horses sold
for 81 900 dollars each, while fine, we'll
matched carriage horses sold for 81, 00G
to $1,000 a pair. England has plenty
of horses and uses electricity. yet there
is demand for good horses which are
bred for special purposes.
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where. She has watched with mother
ly care the tender years of chick.
guided its toddling footsteps, carried it
to places of safety when danger mem
aced, and coddled it in her warm furry
coat. What more could an old hen do?
Beauty is a spaniel, Welsh cocker,
about four years old. 1t is long while
since she had family. She has black,
glossy coat, with white underwriting,
and white paws and white streak
down the middle of the head. When
the farm show was in progress in Madi-
son Square garden DR.. Lyons children
visited it and one of the boys was given
a chick from the incubator. The chick
died. but DR.. Lyons got another, also
Matched by artificial means.
Bcauty's protage, therefore was
brought into the world without father
or mother. The fact that it was an
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under one roof feasible. bank
twenty feet high adjacent to the pro-
posed site of the building can be so
utilized as to aid greatly in reaching
the desired end
An illustration is given herewith
that shows how building may be con-
structed against bank in way to
give entrance at grade to three differ
ent floors, and that, too, without hav-
ing very much of any floor under
ground. A floor-plan is given of the
main or feeding floor. Here are To-
Gated the horse and COW stalls, colt
pens for young calves, feed room, a
granary. hay bay and a silo. Scatfolds
and floors above the feeding floor afford
room for the stirring of additional hay,
straw and grain, horse fork and car
rier raising these materials and placing
them in any desired position. At one
end of the manure gutter on this floor
is trap door covering chute that
conveys the manure to the lowest
basement. Communication can be hSal
with the same chute on the floor be-
low the main feeding floor, which is
devoted to the use of young cattle,
sheep, pigs and fowls, feeding chutes
coming down to this floor from beside
the managers in the horse and COW
stalls This floor should be eXcavated
back the full size of the barn, and the
excavation lined with rock-wOrk laid
in mortar of lime. cement and sand.
To insure perfect dryness, a tile drain
should be laid outside the base of this
rock-work when the wall is built.
The lowest floor of all extends back
under about one-third of the barn, and
SO requires but little excavation. This
floor has manure pit upon one side,
while the remaining space is devoted
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-08-23
PIGEONS FOR PROFIT.
Experience of a Man Who Has Made tho
Business a Success.


My management to get the most
profit at the least outlay has been as
foAows: L aim to have only mated
pairs and never to break them up.
There should only be as many pairs as
can have two nesting places each, safe
from disturbance by the others. Those
that have chosen nests and have used
them for breeding will generally de-
fend and hold them for life They
often have eggs in one nest while
feeding squads in the other. Young
pigeons can be sold as squads as long
as any yellow down shows on the
head, but the best time to kill them is
when they are feathered out, and Just
before they are ready to leave the nest.
If too young, they are soft; if they fly
any, they get thin. They should be
collected every week, or two weeks at
least. If eggs are broken in the
spring, all may be brought to lay at
about the same time, and squads will
be nearly the same in age.
If it is desirable to increase the num-
Der of old birds, the late reared ones,
If allowed to remain, cause less dis
turbance, as they are not likely to
mate before spring. Early reared
birds may be more hardy, but they
soon mate and fight for nests at a
TIME when there is the most breed
sng; several may demoralize the whole
lot and cause much loss of eggs and
young. They are also more apt to
seek home elsewhere. If near stores
and mills where much grain is spilled,
but little feed will be needed, but feed
given them makes them attached to
their home, and is as well invested as
when fed to chickens for market.
Taxidermists use many white pigeons,
but of late pay so little for them that
it is more profitable to sell tAem as
squads
Dry pigeon manure may be sold at
tanneries for sixty to seventy-fve
cents per bushel delivered, if free
from straw and grit. The loft need
not be cleansed of this but once in
several years. The time to cleanse it
is in winter, when the birds have
ceased to breed.
Keep your loft clear of all but mated
birds, have double compartments well
secluded for each pair of nests. and
market all the squads before they fly.
Samuel Cushman, in Farm and Home.
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The census report for 1890 shows the
value of eggs produced annually to be
over 500, 900, 900, willie the value of
poultry chickens, turkeys, ducks and
geese amount to about the same. Or,
to make it plain. the total annual pro-
duction of poultry and eggs amounts
to 5000, 10000 AT the present prices
of wheat, the poultry and eggs are the
more valuable, and the market is here
at home. 1t is safe to say that the re-
port does not include all, as large
number of persons were not visited
during the enumeration OF poultry and
eggs, but the figures are sufficient to
enable those interested to arrive at a
partial knowledge of the poultry and
egg production. In single decade
the poultry and eggs of the United
States amount to enough to pay off
our national debt, and the money in
vested in that direction finds its way
into all other business channels.
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THE DRUM-MAJOR'S DUTY.

Gaudy Parsonage Who Is Useful az
Well as Ornamental.
When | was d boy in New York. as
many of us youngsters walked in front
of a procession as there were soldiers in
1t. The platoon of mounted police
which now clears the street for blocks
ahead, was then-and it was not so
many years ago, eithcr-unlSnown; for
there were no mounted police, To us
the real drum-maior seemed little
more than an ornament and harle-
quin, soldier acrobat who would have
been as much in place in a circus as at
the head of a regiment. The drum
majors were fine-looking fellows then
as now: tall and shapely, their natural
height increased by their great bear
skin caps, SO that they all seemed
sprung from race of giants. When
ever the drum-corps had been playing
for some time, we would look back i'm
patient for the drum-major signal to
the band. How it thrilled US to see
his stick flourish in the air: and when.
as he brought it down. the band broke
in upon the drums with a crashing
chord, our forms Strengthened up and
our steps became more buoyant, In
those days, l thought the duties Of the
drum-major We're limited to squelch-
ing alternately the drum-corps. and
the band, and between times looking
as large and handsome as possible.
But, while the drum-major cannot.
under any circumstances, be said to
have been born to blush unseen. he
performs many duties of which the
1ool1er-on ut u street-parade knows
nothing. 1t requires visit TO state
camp or D United States army post to
learn yhGt the tall man in the bear
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pail and set the three-pound pail in the
center, soldering the two together in
two or three places, SO as to leave a
space of three-quarters of an inch all
around the bottom of the pail for
water (see Fig. p The water will
come to about three fourths OF the dis
lance to the top of the rim, but viii
not run over. 1t can be filed by put
ting it in pail of water, upside down.
The chicks can drink, but cannot get
wet The same may be made of a
tomato can and small deep tin plate,
Or even with tin cup and plate. The
whole thing need not cost more than
five or ten cents, according to its size
and if it is too light, it may be held in
place by using a piece of brick on the
top of the can. Fig. l shows a three
pound lard pail with the holes cut
near the bottom. Fig. . shows the top
of fve-pouno pail soldered to the
bottom of three-pound pail-the ar
rangement ready for use.-Farm and
FireSide.