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who went to New Haven and HaFtfords last week, to visit friends. will rsturn, this week.
 Mrs o. F, Haakells and familys who have been spending number of months at the old homestead, will return to Brooklyn, this week, for the winter.
 A committee was chosen in Sunday school, Sunday, to prepare for Christ. mas entertainmenti in the chapel. May 1t prove to be an occasion of ssPeace or earth good will to men'' to all who par. ticspate in the pleasant exercises.
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Fairfield County News.
STEVENSON.


 THE OLD MILL HALL CLUB.
 Stevenson promises to be more inter. esting place this winter, lthan formerly, for on last week Wednesday night, des- pite the disagreeable weather, party of enthusiastic young people met at Old Mill Hall and formed themselves into club, choosing for their name .Old Mill Hall Club" The object of the club is for the promotion of an enjoyable social re- lation among the people, young and old, and whatever the pecuinary benefit may be derived will be devoted to the support of the church. There were 20 signers the first evening as charter members of the club and about 60 members more are expected to join at the next meeting. The officers chosen to serve the club were: President, Wallace Tomlinson lst vice president, Charles French; 2d vice president, Mrs Frank Stanley; 3d vice president, Miss Florence Wheeler secretary, Lewis Goulette; treasurer, Mrs Charles French; committee on pub. lie entertainments, Mrs J. P. Scott and Mrs R. s. Hinman; committee on home entertainments, Mrs Lewis Goulette Miss Florence Wheeler and Edward French. The meetings will be held. ir the hall which has been made very comfortable and attractive looking place and entertainments, both by outside anG local talent, will be held during the win ter evenings. The young people are an ticipating much pleasure from the pres ence of the club. There is to be social dance given in the hall on Thanks giving night.
 A daughter was welconed at the hom of MT and Mrs John Sherwood on las week Wednesday.
 Warren Stowe had . load sof charcoa burn up, Monday evening. It woul, have burned the wagon had they no turned it over.
 Mrs Munson Clark visited her daugh ter at Mount Carmel, this week.
 Mrs Edwin Booth is caring for tn sick in Danbury.
 Station Agent Goulett has put up a ice house for his convenience in the fu ture.
 Stiles Loveland was called to Bridge port on jury duty, last week.
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cutting of another tract of timber on Mount Tom.
 The string bend that meets at Throop's hall, still continues its inspiring music,s at stated intervals.
 Q. H. DWy took one of kis dapa lters to an oculist In Waterbury and had her eyes examined. The trouble lay in . membrane in her throat that affected the eyes. We trust 1t may be removed.
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BANTAM.
4 SHOT AT PEN DEACON.

E
 Hurrah! At last the celebrated Pen Dragon is employed on task worthy of his attention. Too long has he frittered away his great talents on the trivial do. ings of New Preston. His quaint humor, his piercing yet delicate wit, his almost Shakespearian vocabulary, his acquain- tance with cyclopedias and books of quo tation second only to that of the great Cleveland. and. withal, his knack of say ing great deal about nothing, shall no longer be wasted dchronicling small items. With yeoman worthy of his steel, the Ansonia Sentinel, he is in deadly conflict, maintaining with all his learning, logic and literary skill that the world (mark it is not New Preston but the whole worid) is sadly and steadily deteriorating from what it was in the good old times. No one around here doubts what the issue o1 this great argument will be. From his vantage point of New Preston P. D. will undoubtedly prove with ease that the de cline of public morals, or of anything else, has been as swift as constant an6 pitiable.
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BRIDGEWATER.
PERSONAL AND CHURCH NOTES.

PERSONAL AND CHURCH NOTES.
 Rev MT Jones gave an interesting lec- ture, Sunday evening, Illustrated by about 50 stereopticon views, showing an- cient monuments, corroborating Scrip ture, and some ancient manuscripts. A large audience was present including a good delegation from Roxbury. Rev Mr Vaughan assisted MT Jones with the sterecpticon.
 !. c. sWelton haa been putting up 4 | s1slI x X woxsa VII zsn1s for whieh hls
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sHEPAUG RAILROAD.

 BETHEL-Leave 737 a. m., 6.13 D. m. Sunday SIP a. m. Arrive 9.57 a. m., 4.3O, p.m. Sunday 6.l5 D. m. HAWLEYVILLE--North s.45 a. m., 532 D. m. Sunday, s.35 a. m. Leave for Bethel 9.42 a. m., 4.30 P. m. Sunday, p. m. SHEPAUG-North, t9.o3 a. m., t5.44 p. m. Sunday, ts.4s am. South. 1928 a.m..t 3-57 p. m: Sunday. 596 D. m. RoxBURY FALLS-North, ts36 a. m., t5.52 pm. Sunday, ts.67 am. South,t9 a.m., t3.45 p. m. sunday, t5.26 p. m. ROXBURf-North, l012 a. m., 6 D. m. Sun. day. 910 q. m. South, 9.l1 a. m., 3.32 p. m. Sunday, 5.l5 p. m. JUDD,s sBRIDGE-North, t1022 a. m., t6.0e p. m. Sunday, t9.l7 a. m. South, t9.05 a. m., 1908 ?. m. Sunday, t5.03 D. m. WASHINGTON-North, HOT a. m., GIT p. m. Sunday, 9.37 a. m. South, S.5S a. m, 2 50 p. m. Sunday, 4.6l P. m. NEW PRESTON-North II IT &. m., 6.21 D. m sunday, 9.48 q. m. South, s.49 a. m., 219 pm. Sunday, 4.3S p. m. ROMFORD-North, l.3l a. m., 1880 pm. Sun. day, 964 Q. m. South, tS40 Q. m., f2 .03 p. m. Sunday, 4.26 p. m. MoRRIs-North, 1l.4o, t6.s5 p. m. Sun. day, lo.o2 a. m. South, ts.35 Q m., Il .53 D. m Sunday, 4.lS D. m. BANTAM-North, I2.O5, m. ,s44 D. m Sunday 1920 a. m. South, s.27 a. m.. .39 p. m. Sun. LAKE-North, fl2. .os pm, te.47 p. m. Sunday tl0.24 a. m. South, fs.25 a. m., fl .23 p p.m Sun. day, 3.56 p. m.
 LITCHFIELD-Arrive 12.l5 D. m, 6.52 D. m Sunday, l030 a. m. South, $40 a. m., l15 D. Sunday. $50 D. m.
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NEWTCN N. CONN. BEE.
 FRIDAY. sov 50, 1894
 CIRCULATION. TANDARY ; 1882, .- 61O LAST WEEK. s..-.-... 84O0
In I4itchfield County.
WASHINGTON.
SOME TOBACCO MOVING.

V. B. Sterling was in town, last week Wednesday, looking at tobacco and bought w. T. O'Dell's in the bundle for l5 cents per pound. He is expected again this week to look at some other crops.
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 whom pimples, boils, carbancles and like manifestations of impure blood appear. They wouldn't appear if your blood were pure and your sys- tenn in the right condition. They show you what you need-a good blood-purifier that's what you get when you take Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
 It carries health with it. All Blood, Skin, and Scalp Diseases, from . common blotch or eruption to the worst Scrofula, are cured by it. It invigorates the liver, purifies and enriches the blood, and rouses every organ into healthful action. In the most stubborn forms of Skin Diseases, such as Salt rheum, Eczema, Tetter, Erysipelas, Car. buncles, and kindred ailments, and with Scrofula, in every shape, and all blood -taints, if it fails to benefit or cure, you have your money back. It is the cheapest blood purifier sold.
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SHERMAN.

Miss Lena Woodruff has been visiting Miss Myrtle Ingersoll.
 James c. Stuart has been appointed administrator on the ee.a.e of the late John Lyke.
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LAllESvniLE.

Oantei Briggd former resident Of thla plaee, hss basni in town.
 \ large p&rty xatherei II the residence of TIT ma MrsS 6crge Cumminga, last syednsfd nieht There wsre II oouples m sses besl6 nnmber that dld
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EVERYTHING o. K.

Ook SOAAOSPOuACn0 OOSCIfC6 buhb TIE BEE wishes to express it's gratitude to the correspondent of West Morris and emphasized the word correspondent by the letter TX, 7 and as your correspond ent has not written much of late, he would not blame the BEE man if he did kick. But your correspondent takes it in good part, supposing the K to mean 70. K." Anyhow, K is a very handy letter to have in the family.
 Mrs F. A. Powers Is in Warren visit ing Mrs Arden Tanner.
 w.. s. Burgess has recently been build- ing woodhouse and also henhouse, near his residence.
 Dr Richardson is putting an addition onto his barn for a wagonhouse.
 Jacob Zeigler has been on the sick list for some time; Charles Zeigler is doing his chores and caring for him.
 The farmers are getting in thelr corn that was covered with snow in our first big snowIstorm.
 F. F. Clark is expecting to get about 1000 cords of wood cut this winter; he is shipping about three carloads week to Bethel and Kedding.
 Will Throop is running George Throop's mill for the winter. He is do- ing some very fine grinding, but Dwy thinks he will not take the back seat yet.
 Q. H. Dwy has ordered car of Will Hams & Clark fertilizer, to be on hand in early spring. He has sold this brand for several years and 1t gives good satisfac- tion.
 Mrs Mary Smith has gone visiting her sons, George and Virgil lSmith, in Indiana and Illinois, where she expects to remain this winter. Ralph Smith was home from Nashville, Tenn, and accompanied his mother as far as New York on her western trip.
 .. Dalber has returned from Hard scrable, and is aG.in running buzz sAws. for c. H. Dwy.
 Q. H, Dwy has had quits . frosty time If t, byigettlng ont U 900 froatblocks for the shepang railroad.
 2. ". NobleIha, I'll hosse nsarly cons pleted, understhe nm en. IT of Ceotke Mobiles, builder II Nashing gton. < " Tnreop is putl mn ai ' telsphone N ccnnsct fsou Si Ie ysist. nIlNand LIT M 0 '.
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come of at their hospitable residence you may be assured of royal good time.
 A barn raising took place at Daniel Lynch's, last Tuesday. \ nics collation was served to which all did ample justice1
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MERRYALL.

Rev MT Keep from Gaylordsville, will preach here, Sunday, December 2 It 3 p. nj.
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GOOD HARNESS i!

of both leather and steel are . nec- essity to tho progressive farmer. In leather l have . fine stock, dou- ble and singls, light and heavy, hand-sewsd, made of the best ms terials. Prices from S4.5O up. I also have the Deerfield Steel Har- ness, which is unequalled for farm and truck work.
 also wish to impress you with the idea that Sipperley's mill is the place to go to for all kinds of Wagons and Carriages. You will not find better goods nor lower prices elsewhere and very seldom can you do as well.
 As usual have . large assort- ment of articles too numerous to specify, but all meritorious and I extend you m invitation to come and look them over.
 In particular I,wish to say thatI have . large stock Of Champion Lumber Wagons in all sizes. You cannot buy . better wagon than these, the draft is light, the price low and tho pole never whips.
 shall be happy to increase your supply of pure and abundant wst-s CT, by drilling m artesian well, and will answer any particular ques- tions you may be interested to ask in regard to this system of obtain ing water and plenty of it.
 E. N. SIPPERLEY
 sippsrlsy's Mill. wsstport. coan.
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AT THE CREAMERY.


 About 1900 quarts of milk are now re- lceiyed daily at the creamery, most of which is bottled and shipped to New York. W. H. Palmer, the efficient super intendent, is still in charge, assisted by Frank Moore, Alfred Watson, Robert Waugh, James McKeeman, Enos Bene- dict and Miss Eliza McKeeman. A part of the milk goes into cream and is shipped to Brooklyn. The balance of the cream goes to Litchfield to the Echo Farm and is made into butter.
 Mrs Samuel Crosman and daughter are in>Ansonia.
 Miss Alice Mannering is in Waterbury attending her sick mother. Mrs Frederick Landon and Mrs R. L. Rochfort are improving. A. P, Bartholomew is lame. He iniur. ed his foot, which injury SO aggravated the varicnse veins in his leg that he gets about with difficulty. Clarence Ramsey entertained number of schoolmates with dancing and feastinR at his home, last Thursday evening. A number of similar entertainments may be expected shortly.
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WEST MORRIS.
BE THANKFUL.

suppose you all know what spell of weather we have had of late, and there were some folks that had to sputter just little bit, because they had some corn, potatoes and turnips out. But I tell you what it is, such weather does heap of good, especially at this season of the year. It educates farmers to ssget gait on," and hire all the unemployed labor CTS that want to work and earn living that will stave off hard times. And we will all be thereby better prepared to en- joy good old fashioned Thanksgiving when our crops are secured.
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very sick, is able to sit up and is slowly improving.
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The Travellers Guide.
NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD
 RAILROAD.
BERKsHTRE DIVISION.

NEW HAvEN-North, $40 a. m.. 4.2s p. m.' sHELToN-North. lO.l0 a. m., 4.5l p. m. South, sTGTESsoS-Sorth. HsI x; % e Ri 1928 B. m.. 5os p. m MoSRoE~North, tio.25 a. m.. t5.os p. m BoTsf3k6North fsin i. % 4ss, icss S a. m., 122o so 5.l4 7.05 p. m. Sunday, s.1o a. m. South, 10ll NEEW%ToWNrNorth, E % T A, lO47 a. m., l2s5, 5l2 705 Si7, lo.oa, Ii P a. m., 4.ss, e.so, e.5sp m HaWLE4iSIIREMNorth. S0VfGyi Sif 7.5a. 1O.Ss a. m. @ sasS S p5e ssa 9S s sunday , ss1 S5 a. s5 % BRo6kFHIBy @ snnahy JGNdfioNNortn, 1is; sOs. lo
 am S s3StS So s S' sS s B. B % s Sunday! % m !S sss 5.55, 642 D. m. sunday 6.43 p. m. BRooKFIi1LD-Sorth, SOS 1l;IS 55n,i a m3 Js2 s2 LhNEsviiLLE LIE @ and STILL RTvER-North, slO a:m1 l4S, o56 p; m. south, e4O' S1o a. mr NEW fSStN MIIFoRb@North, 9 Ri G s2s llq7 a. m., a1s, 5.56, 6lO, p. m. Sunday, sbe a, m. South, MERW s.a5, Il .ss a. m.. 2.45 ASA, sos D. m. sunday, 4.57 p. m. KENT-North, s.49, Il .5l a. m., BPS, 6.36 p. m Sunday 9.24 a. m. South, 10 23 a. m., BPS, 4.l4, aoRN&XiL BRiDGE-SoTth, sO5 a. m:, l2oa 4.s0. 6.52 D. m. Sunday, 9.39 &. m. South 1O.1i SEsT E sdS SSV f R % si a. m la 4S0, 7.0l ?. m. Sunday ,94I a. m. South, l003 Q. m., sos, s.3S, 5.82 D. m. sunday,4.Ol p. m
 BorsFoRp TO BRIDGEPORT. BoTsFoRD-North, 7.36, l0.S9 a. m 1920, 5yo4, s.65, ll.36 am, 4.s7. TOT pm. Sunday, 6.26 sfRPNEY-North, 7.2s. lo.94 a, m,, l2 m., 4s5 656 D, m. Sunday, a. m South, 7.2S, 903 LONG HILI@North, f.as, iois, m.4l a. m m, ,i4s, sos Scs Pi % a. 9ns %, as, & 7sl p D. m Sunday ; ta s1s TRUMBULL-North, 7.I6, lO12, u.2S a. m 7.8s, 9l4 fl.54, a. m., AS. 7.26 p. m. Sunday, BRIiDdEPoRT-North, IS +; Pc 7.O5, 10, LILO a. m 42o 6.sO p. m. sunday, 7-35 a. m. Arrive, 75O, s.25 a. m., l2O6, 5.10. TAO p. m. Sunday 70o p.m.
 DANBURY DIVISION. DANBuRY-North, $40, 745 s.2o, 9:2o, 1o57, a. m., $50, o.ls, GEO, 6.55 ?. m South, 61o, 73O, 9I57 q, m., l2 4O, f.2S, 65I ?. m Sunday, SOS a. m., 5,o5 p, m.
 2.s4, 5.0s, 5.i9, 6.46 P. m, Sunday. l0I7 a. m, s,2op: m. South, 6I7, 7.a5 10 oi. a. m., l247, REDbiNG North. 726 a. m, 5.2s, $40 5.al a; m, i2.Oi 7lO p. m. Sunday. sis sANFoRD-North, 7.2O a. m., PA, 6.36 p. m. Sunday, lO.06 a. m, s.09 D. m. South, 6.29 a. m., 12.59. 7I5 D. m. Sunday, s.22 a. m., 5.22 p. 
 RANCHYILLE-North,7 7ls, 10.s5 p. m., 2.1T 5.37, 6.30 P. IF. Sunday, 10 &. m.r SOP p. m. South, 63, 75S, l0ls a. m., los. 443, 7.21 p. m. Sunday, 25 n m., 5. 2S D. m.
 EoRGETOWN-North 7.09 a. m., 2 13, 6.26 p. m. sunday, 9.57 a. m., 7.5s D. m. south, 6.3s D. D., l.09, T25 D. m. Sunday, 53l 8. m., 5.3l p.m.
 NEW oRK & NEW ENGLAND R.R.
 October 2S, 1894. HAWLEYYILLE-East l2.o2, 7l5 p. m. West Q n. m, 8 D. m.
 NEWTOWN-East f7.20 D. m. West 1853 @. m, E.5S p. m.
 SANDY HooK-East l2.12, 727 D. m. West s.AS a. m PAS P. m.
 soUTHBURY-Ea i22l. 7.37 p m. West
 s.3S am, 2.39 p. m.
 tTrains stop when signaled only
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nANRIrRY nIyIsInN

UCIUDtT 70, IoJF. HAWLEYvILLE-East 12.02, 715 p. m. West Q n. m, D. m. NEwTowN-Eas f7.20 p. m. West 1858 6. m, t2.5S p. m. SANDY H0OK-East l2l2, 7.27 D. m. West s.iS a. m PAS D. m. SOUTHBURY-Ea 1921. 7-37 p, m. West
 s.3S am; 2-39 p. m.
 tTrains stop when signaled onlv
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-01-26
Removing Glass Stnnners.

Sometimes it is very difficult to re-
move a glass stopper from bottle. A
cloth wet in hot water generally is
sufficient. but if this fails, remember
the principle is to expand the neck Of
the bottle by heat and not the stopper.
With hot water the latter is often heat
ed equally with the neck, and thus the
desired effect is not produced. BY hold
ing the neck of the bottle about half an
inch above the fame of lamp or can
die, however, in a few seconds the most
obstinate cork will generally come out.
Care must he taken to turn the bottle
rapidly and not allow the flames to
touch the glass, as it might crack it.
When the glass is thoroughly heated, a
steady pull and twist will almost al
ways bring out the stopper.-Exchange
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-01-26
A Smuggling Scheme.

Passing through Hudson street with
friend, CHANGED to pass the establish
ment of firm of folders and repack-
ers'' of dry goods Before the door were
a hundred or more little bales of goods,
bearing odd markings, but showing that
they were destined tor firm in Texas,
doing business in town near the Mex
lean line.
DO you know, asked my compan-
ion, why those goods are Put up in
such small packages?'
Upon replying in the negative he CON
tinued: They are to be Struggled across
the Mexican line. The goods are pur-
chased in their original packages and
delivered here. The wooden boxes are
discarded, and the goods subjected to
hydraulic pressure and baled. Each
bale contains about 80 pieces, or half the
number of an ordinary dry goods case.
The goods are then shipped to Tex
as, and all marks removed. When all
is arranged, some night the little bales
are slung across the backs of mules,
two bales to each animal, and with an
armed escort the train proceeds over the
border to some distributing point in
Mexico, where the goods are sold to Mex.
lean traders at good profit.
Smuggling in this manner is quite
extensively carried on between this
country and Mexico, the United States
getting in return for it's dry goods,
which are the most easily handled, cheap
Mexican coffee and cigars. New York
Herald.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-01-26
TRAINING BOTH HANDS ALIKE.
y" Good Reason Yet Advanced Why 1t
Should Not Be Done.

y" Good Reason Yet Advanced why 1t
Should Not BE Done.
III one Of his essays in a book en-.
it'd Brushwood. the late James 4.
Fields wrote: If were boy again,
think ] would learn to use my left hand
just as freely as my right one. so that
if anything happened to lame either of
them the other would be all ready to
write and handle things just as freely
as if nothing had occurred" And un-
doubleday great many of us would
learn to use both hands alike if we had
our lives to live over again. OF all the
young women who came under my in
structiOn while in charge of the School
of Domestic Economy of the Iowa Ag
ricultural college, not more than one in
twenty five could sweep properly. The
ratio in this respect of those who came
under my instruction at Purdue univer-
sity was about the same. And as far
as my observation extends this ratio
will hold in regard to women generally.
AS rule, women, old and young, do
not know how to handle broom. Their
right hands only have been trained
Their left hands have been neglected
When women L, ,les hold of broom
it is with the ri~'t hand near the top
of the handle and the left hand toward
the corn. and instead OF changing and
reversing them as occasion demands
she always keeps them in he same pO-
sition. Whether she sweeps to the right
or to the left, the position of her hands
remains unchanged. And her body is
contorted and her muscles strained in
the performance of an operation that
would exercise these organs harmonious
ly, if the hands were so trained that
they could be used at will and were
changed as demanded by the changes in
the position of the sweeper.
refer to women sweeping merely 70
illustrate my point. The same can be
said concerning the training of the
hands in numerous other branches of
womeus work that it is unnecessary to
mention, and SO far as the use of the
left hand is concerned men are in no
better condition than women. Men and
women are in this respect manned and
handicapped alike. Why should such
a state of things exlstf Why, in this
age of manual training, should we over
look and neglect the education of the
left hand and continue to train the
right hand at the expense of the left?
No physician or psychologist has ever
given a sensible reason for SO doing,
and we seem to adhere to the custom
merely because it has been carried down
to us by our ancestors. -JennesS Miller
Monthly
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-01-26
Ehe Daily Eight.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 90, 1894
JAPANESE CLANSMEN.
Sons Who Died to Avenge Their Fathers.
The Forty-seven Ronins.

Sons Who Died to AVenge Their Fathers
The Forty-seven Ronins.
No crusader of the west, no wilkins
of the north, cherished Il higher idea
of loyalty and Chivalry than the, clans,
men of old Japan; no Corsican more
ruthleSsly handed down a feud from
generation to generation or exacted from
son and brother the execution of a
sterner vendetta. The Satsuma men of
today triumph in the fact that their
own swords have avenged in this gem
Grafton the defeat inflicted on their fore
fathers in the year 1000 Ivy the Todu-
gawa clan.
Legend and drama recount every day
to eager ears the stories of sons who
died to avenge their fathers, clansmen
that they might Stay the foemen who
had caused the death of their lord. The
favorite heroes, who hold in popular
estimation the place assigned by us to
ROihn Hood and his men, are the Al rob-
ms, name given to men who have
lost their clanship.
Their lord was obliged to commit
hara kiri, or judicial suicide, for hav-
ing within royal precincts drawn his
sword on noble who had insulted him,
and these stanch vassals devoted them
selves to the destruC6na of the insult
En- knowing asSu.tdly that, having slain
hlnA' saGy would be equally condemned
''3 AXE their own lives.
Still may be seen fresh incense sticks
burning before the graves of their lead
er and his young son and visiting cards
stuck into the little tablets above them
as. tokens Of the respect in which they
are held by those who know their story
and deploTe their doom.
Mr.. Black records that at a review
of British troops in 1864 at Yokohama
a great daimio was watching with in
terest the maneuvers of their regiments
and batteries of artillery stationed there.
At the conclusion he was asked to al
low the escort of his retainers who had
accompanied him to go through their
drill and tactics, to which he readily
consented.
Turning to Sir Rutherford Alcock,
who was inspecting the troops, he proud
iy said:
My retinue is small and their tao
tics are not worthy Of notice after what
we have seen. but there is not one man
among them who, if say die. will not
rnhesitatingly sacrifice his life at my
command. '-Nineteenth Century.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-01-26
Bobby Burns and the Msxo,.

On one occasion, arriving at Carlisle
on horseback, Bobby Burns is said to
have turned his steed out to grass for a
while, and the animal strsyed on to a
meadow belonging to the corporation
an got impounded. Although the horse
was given up to him, the poet retaliated
upon the mayor, whose tenure of Office
was to expire on the very morrow Of
the incident, as follows:
Was err puir poet sac behtted1
me master QEunk-thR hnrsa "ov~-~'..-I-