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ELLSWORTH.
GRANGE AFFAIRS,

The second meeting of the Union Oranges was held at the Congregational church, Wednesday, August 2S. and was we'll attended, about 125 being present, representing eight Oranges. Worthy State Overseer Orson s. Wood of Filing ton was present. The following is the lecturers program, which was given in the afternoon and open to the public:
 Song. Taghannuck Grange, "A farmers life give me-"
 Speech by State Overseer Wood. Paper, Sister Anna Morehouse of Webotuek, "Grange Influence."
 Speech by Rev Herbert woodin of Amenia, "Crutches or wings.'' | Song, Miss Fannie Reed ot webotuck Grange, "Loves own sweet song." | Recitation, Sister Patterson ot Amenia, I ''Two pilgrims" | Paper. Sister Mary Woodward, Webotuck | Grange.
 Song by Sister J. H. Everett ot Galva. Ill.,, | Bleeding the nations." Recitation, Jennie Rundell, Amenia, "Britches or.brains." | Paper, "Shoddy," Henry Rundall, Amenia. Chorus by choir "The cid home ain't what it used to be-"
 l
 Paper by H. V. Reed, Webotuck Grange.
 "The bicycle" duet, Ida NJ. Chapman, Julis Griswold-"
 Taghannuck Grange, "Whispering Hope"
 The schools in both Upper and Lower districts begun Tuesday, September g.
 Miss Mary Sabine teaching the Upper and Miss Minnie Connor the Lower. James Fahey has gone to Torringtor for few days. Master Hattie Fahey re turned home. pr F. $. Ski and wife of Falls Vii
 lage visited at his fathers, last week.
 Rev E. Evans and bride arrived her, Saturday evening, from Hamburg, Iowa
 and are. boarding at s. E. Everett's unti
 the parsonage is ready for occupancy.
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In Litchfield County.
w0oDBURY.
THE wOODBURY FAIR.


 The farmers play days have arrived. They were ushered in at Woodbury on Monday when the first agricultural fair and horse trot of the season took place. Pleasant Valley Grange and the Wood- bury Horse Association joined hands, this year, to make g Woodbury cattle show and fair success.
 What an ideal day for fair! All day long Old Sol showed his beaming face from cloudless sky, though he was not uncomfortable, for, for the first time this season, a slight premonition of the chill which accompanies the beautiful autumn day, was in the air. Debarring little dust a ore perfect day could not have been imagined. The people appreciated and took advantage of the occasion and turned out in large numbers from Wood bury, but more especially from the sur rounding towns. Representative mer could be singled out of the crowd iron Roxbury, Bethlehem, Morris, Washing ton, Watertown, Oxford, Southbury anc goodly delegation went over from New town. The receipts at the gate showed that 600 or 700 people were on thu grounds, to say nothing about those tha climbed up some other way, for the1 don't count as they are chased witt thieves and robbers. It was 8 good na tured crowd and now and then peals o merry laughter rang out across the fiel' from carriage loads of young people ou to enjoy the day. It was purely
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MORRIS.
TWENTY BEAUTIFUL YEARS

TWENTY BEAUTIFUL YEARS.
 After months of decline, Arthur Bab- bitt, aged 20, died at the home of his grandfather, George Camp, August 2S. About three years ago he went to Bridgeport, took course 1t business
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THE CHRISTIAN ENDEAvoRERs.

Thetopics and leaders of the Endeavol society of the Congregational church fol September are as follows: l, "Enthusiasm and what it will accom- plish," II Chron. 29 II :; 21 20, 2I; Amy Net tleton.
 8, Teachings Of Caleb's life," Mum. IS; 8 B; IA 20 24 30; Josh IA IA, North Clark.
 15, "How may we help the Sunday schoo and get help from it, Neh. 8: 1-2 Wilbur Fenr P Our Christian Endeavor pledge-its joys it's requirements, Feel 5;1-7 Mariette Seeley. % Progress in Christian lite." II Pet l II Clarence Nettleton.
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A SOCIAL GATHERING AT BANTAM.

The people of Nettleton Hollow and vicinity held delightful picnic on the 27th at Westover's grove at Bantam. There was sumptuous dinner, and the afternoon was pleasantly passed in So cial converse, boating, etc. Among those present were MT and Mrs Edward Logan and son, Franklin Hollister, John B. Hollister and family, Charles Hollis ter and family, Lloyd Nettleton and family, Mrs Walter Brown, Mrs Samuel Hollister and children, Clarence Nettle- ton, Miss Helen Nettleton, Willis Nettle- ton and Misses Celia, Julia and Lucy Nettleton, Robert Hollister.
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GUNNERY TOPICS.

oO4N1NA1AAA ioi lSos John c. Brinsmade is suffering from trouble with his eyes. Hubert Simes, former Gunnery boy, with his brother, visited his friends here for a short time, last week. A Methodist picnic will be held at the grove near Frank Coles residence on Tuesday.
 Miss Jessie Lyons of Quaker Hill, N. I., is the guest of Miss Annie Gibson.
 Mrs Robert Watts mother and aunt are staying with her for few days.
 Thomas Conerty and family went to Ansonia on Sunday to attend the funeral of Mrs Conerty's brother.
 The ball game on last Saturday, be- tween married men and single men, re- suited in the score of 21 to in favor of the single men.
 Rev Dr Spencer, who has had vaca- tion of four weeks from his Town hall services, expected to resume them again, September l, but was taken seriously ill
 Mrs Marietta and Miss Fannie Gibson attended the funeral of their cousin Ar thur Rabbit, of Morris, who died with consumption, last week.
 MT and Mrs s. D. Platt of Torrington were in town, last week.
 | I
 Dr and Mrs McLaren of Litchfield spent the day with Hon George A. Hickox, last Friday.
 Mrs E. c. Clark spent part of last week in Lit.hfield.
 Miss Florence Fodlois, who has been in Hartford for several weeks, returned home, last Wednesday.
 Miss Marietta seeley, daughter of Benjamin Seeley, was given surprise party, last week Tuesday, in honor of her birthday. A large number were present and the affair was in every way enjoyable
 Benjanaln Seeley, with his accustomed
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Scott's Emulsion

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A HORSE AND CATTLE SHOW,

no industrial exhibits being made. A few vendors of peanuts and refreshments were on the grounds and with commend able enterprise William Dakin, ,the Hotch- kissville wagon dealer, brought to the grounds some handsome vehicles to show. It would have been interesting if other local merchants had followed his example.
 The real pleasure for the farmers be- gan with the arrival of the cattle. There were something over 50 pair of cattle on the ground and good cattle they were, too, not scrawny pair in the lot. Woodbury has long enjoyed an enviable reputation as one of the best cattle pro- ducing towns in this part of the state and the showing on Monday fully justified cattle, and no wonder, such noble, intel. ligent animals they seemed. A list ot those who exhibited cattle as near as could be ascertained was as follows
 From Woodbury H. s. Marsh 2pairs, H k. Judson 4, William Strong l, E. B.
 Hinman ?, T. Quick l, Harmon Judson 3. lG. Bacon l, R. G. Benjamin 1, John De- fancy l, B. J. Atwood l, T. B. Terrill 4
 from Roxbury N. P. Beardsley pair
 cattle and Devon bull; Herman boards.
 ley II pair of cattle, c. Isham 3; from
 Brookfield s. B. Warner pair, E. N
 Somers 3; from Watertown s. H. Peck
 pair. W. V. Shelton exhibited stag.
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cutting the brush on the roadside from the mill to the bridge.
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IN GLASS ONE FOR CATTLE

and working oxen in the Hereford, Dur ham and Holstein grade, K. L. HoadleY of Seymour, John s. Thornhill of Brook field and F. w. Hubbell of Oxford were the judges. The successful contestants were for the best pair five years old and over, Herman Beardsley, Roxbury, first premium $3; s. B. Warner, second, $2 ; best pair three years old, s. B. Warner, 1st, $3; N. P. Beardsley, ,Roxbury, ,2d ,$2 /; best two pair of three year olds, Her. man Beardsley, 1st and 2d premiums best pair two years old, N. P. Beardsley 1st $2, Herman Beardsley 2d $1; best pair one year old. N. P. Beardsley 1st and 2d; best pair calves, N. P. Boards ley 1st, $1, Herman Beardsley 2d, $1.
 In class two for cattle and working OK. en in the Devon, Jersey and Ayershire grades Warren H. Taylor of Bethlehem, James Curtiss, Woodbury, and R. c. French of Thomaston were the judges. The successful contestants were for the best pair five years old or over, A. E. Judson 1st and 2d premiums; best pair four years old, William Strong 1st, s. H. Peck, Watertown, 2d, best pair three years old, A. E. Judson 1st, Ezra Som- CTS second; best pair two years old, Har- mon Judson 1st, T. B. Terrin 2d; best pair yearlings, Bonnie M. Peck 1st, Har- mon Judson 2d; best calves, T. B. Terrill 1st, E. B. Hinman 2d. But the most in- teresting time came when class three for draught oxen was called. The contests in drawing were
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The schools in both Upper and Lower districts begun Tuesday, September 3, Miss Mary Sabine teaching the Upper and Miss Minnie Connor the Lower.
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WATCHED WITH GREAT INTEREST
 out many exclamations of approval There were many who wished that tht whips might not be cracked over the cat tie quite so often, but debarring this lit sle annoyance the contest was very ex citing. The judges for this class were T. E. Wheeler, Amos Culver, ,Naugatuck and Heman Beardsley, Roxbury. The successful contestants were for the best pair five years old, s. H. Peck 1st, s. B Warner 2d; best four years old, s. H, Peck 1st, T. B. Terrill 2d; best three years old, s. B. Warner 1st, N. P, Beardsley 2d. This finished the exhibi tion of cattle, but while the cattle men had been busy the exhibition and judging of horses had been going on near the grand stand but did not seem to attract so much attention. The judges were George F. Smith, Sheldon Smith of Rox- bury and H. A. Rider of Seymour. There were no entries in class four for the best pair matched family horses, but in class five, for best single family horse there were five entries. A. A. Root was given lst premium and Charles Mallett 2d. The other exhibitors were Charles Whitlock, David Ward and Frank Stoughtor, all of whom had good horses but not exactly family horses, as they were more roadsters. In class six for the best pair of working horses there was but one entry,
 D. R. WILSON OF WASHINGTON
 showing noble pair Q: team horses and he was given 1st premium. In class seven for the best foal of 1895, there were some very nice colts shown. Frank Stoughton of Bethlehem had g lively well bred youngster with him that secured 1st premium and Peter Carroll 2d. George Rowe and R. c. Benjamin were the other exhibitors. There was
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James Fahey has gone to Torrington for few days. Master Mattie Fahey re- turned home.
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tin coffee cup after dinner in "the good old
days" strain it and drain it through your
teeth as you might, grit and dirt that cost
Just even its weight in gold sin the good
old days"
No reproach on Colonel Short now; no
reproach of Senator Jones. They loved
their joke, their gold dust, too, but they in
iured no man. In truth, they helped
many miner when he could not help him
self-''staked" him, sent him forth. and
also, too frequently, if, like the dove, he
found no place for the sole of his foot, he
came back, and Colonel Short put forth
his hand and received him again into the
ark; and if, on the other side, he found
"the waters abated from off the earth, or,
in other words, he ''struck it," he, too fire.
quently for the upbuilding of faith in man,
never came back till time, convenience or
old age made him "ante up"
There was Frenchman and the French
man had wife, and the wife had garden
all full Of old ospect-holes-holes as deep
and dark as sin. The two didn't get on
very well, and one dark and stormy night
the man, hall drunk at the time, Colonel
Short said, disappeared. He had been last
seen IN the garden of dark and deep holes.
The water was booming over the whole
place by morning, and as it abated the
poor, lorn French widow went from one
prospect-hole to another and wept and
wept.
She could not decide in which one of the
three deepest holes her husband was
buried, and so she planted flowers and
shed tears on each one copiously each day.
This touched the heart of Colonel Short;
and as she, like all good Frenchwomen,
was good cook, he furnished supplies
and she set up little resort, or restaurant
which soon became the very heart of boom
ing and beautiful Trinity Center 1t was
there that all the high-toned and frst-class
poker games were played. 1t was there
that Sheriff Jones and Colonel Short told
their most brilliant tales and "were wont
to set the table in roar" And SO it was
that the widow prospered amazingly; but
she did not forget her buried lord in the
vegetable garden or neglect the triangle of
possible or probable graves. So far from
that she went to Shasta City with her verv
first money and ordered three marble
tom mbstones. 1t looked odd, this triangle
of fearful tombs, to Sheriff Jones in that
pretty garden down the sloping hill be-
yond the festive door, and he told the
widow so in the gentlest terms possible.
There were likewise many other men in
Trinity Center, mischievous persons, and
clearly not of the aristocIacy, but voters,
who did not like this profuse display of
tom bstones, and Jones threw himself at
their head and once more made solemn
protest with the widow.
"This three-cornered grief, madam" be
said one day as he stirred spoonful of
sand and Kanaka sugar in bis ~. "may be
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teller and most popular liar in the mines.
Handsome, too, was Jones, and proud.
Give him full credit for all that. He needs
it now, the poor, rich United States
Senator.
Jones could cinch mule. He says he
could work. swing a pick or ply the shovel
Maybe he could, but we never saw him try.
Perhaps this was only one. of his many
little stories. But cinch mule! You
should have seen Senator Jones of Nevada
cinch a mule, the big bell mule.
The big canvas cinch-oand that goes un-
der the mules belly and almost cuts the
creature in two has long cinch-rope on
one end; the other has big oaken hook.
You gather the whole long rope IN your
right hand, throw it away, away out full
Alength back past the mule tail ana heels,
throw the hook and canvas glrth under
the mules belly to the man on the other
side, throw fold of the rope over the
pack, lay the diamond hitch" across and
about the top of the pack as the other man
makes fast in the hook, and then pull,
pull and haul and haul and pull as the
mule sets her four feet wide out takes IN
her breath till her girtb is like unto the
g1rth of Saturn, and then she grunts, an ana
grunts, once, twice. and then rip! Inc
third grunt you do not hear, you feel; the
long neck and head sweep around with
the sWiftness and velocity of 1OOO-Volted
electrode. and while you don't so much
mind the wear and tear in the rear OF your
overalls you really don't ike to sleep on
your face or stand up at a stump to eat
your beans for month or two at Time
when it can be avoided.
Senator Jones always wore '"Iomrlm,
that is a great fiat sheet of perforated stove
piping. after his first experience with that
Old beIl-mue He would lash it on the
lower end of his back with rope when he
went to cinch her-a sort of breastplate, as
it were. :,
Sometimes fresh young packer would
come from some other camp and want
scan you throw the diamond hitch ?
Train gofn' out soon as we pack up-might
give YOU a job Start in on old Billy
there, YOU and Bell Boy"
And Jones would bite an inch off his
cigar, wink at his Bell Boy and the crowd
and then begin to shake and shake away
down 10 his boot-tops.
Well, to cut it short, the new man
wouldn't stay long enough In Trinity
Center to sit down as rule.
Ah, these were the good old days when
Red Bluffs was the head of navigation and
the one single narrow Gttle pack trail to
Trinity Center was simply an endless, tor
tuous, tiresome, braying, yelling, curslng,
moving corkscrew of mules and Mexican
packers, all knee-deep in dust. Dust on
the mules and Mexican drivers till all were |
Of the same color OF clay; dust on the
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acute, a sort of acute triangle as it were,
but one don't like it spread all over crea-
tion for breakfast and dinner and supper. J"
She did not quite comprehend, and to
make himself clear he said, still more sol
emnly and slowly, as he stirred up the
sand and took a swallow:
Madam, the square described on the
hypothenuse of rightangled triangle is
equal to the sum of the squares described
on the other two sides; therefore, why not
focus?"
These terrible and mysterious new words
convinced her. In the dim poetical and
dreamful twilight of that same afternoon
she and the obese, obtuse and rotund part
ner of Sheriff Jones, Colonel Short silently
and solemnly carried two of the tomb
stones into the little restaurant.
Fancy the dismay and horror of Jones
on discovering, after a hurried breakfast
next morning, that he had taken his meal
on a marble table-a tombstone upside
down!
He simply roared at the obese, obtuse
Short when he got back to the store and
told him he could have the widow, tomb
stones and all, entirely to himself there
after and forever. The tombstones were
carried back into an old shed, but they had
already created GOODNESS between the two
that never to this day has quite thawed
out.
Some of the custom fell off, too, and
there were those who limited that the
spouse was not dead at all, Notwithstanding
this profusion of tombstones, but had
picked up big nugget in China Camp
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Gulch while prowling through the chapar-
raj with his shotgun in quest of jackrab-
bits and had gone to Frisco to have good
time.
Years on years rolled gently and swiftly
along. Jones and many good men went
away, the pack trains went; stages, freight
wagons, immigrant wagons, women, all
these things came, and still the platonic
and obtuse colonel and the pretty widow
stayed.
The colonel had become doctor, doctor
of both law and medicine, for he was now
"the magistrate, with fat, round belly"
He performed all the marriages, and in
cases when he thought the tie not quite so
fast as the Gordian knot he kindly decreed
an occasional divorce, just to oblige.
In medicine he never lost case. This,
perhaps, was due to the good French cook
ing, the pure water and the fine air as
much as anything else, for he rarely ad-
ministered medicines. Stop a minute.
Let it be explained that there was, most
likely, one death; but hear the facts and
you will hardly blame his want of skill,
but rather his want of memory, for this
one fatal termination.
The patient was a poor leprous loafer,
repulsive from sores and want of soap,
and also sadly in love with the widow.
Colonel Doctor Judge Short believed in
simple remedies. He nearly always, for
example, applied moist, clean earth to all
sorts of bruises and broken limbs, and
with marvellous results. And to show how
nearly right he was in this primitive
method let it be mentioned that the
French surgeons of the army used this
same simple remedy continually in their
late great war. This most remarkable
Judge of Trinity reasoned that if a little
earth will heal little bruise or break, a
lot of earth ought to heal lot of big sores
as well; and so he had pit dug away up
on the hillside, and one pleasant twilight
stood the man in there with the dirt
packed tightly in about him up to his very
chin.
He wanted drink then, the poor leprous
and soapless loafer, and so the generous
widow went to her restaurant, returned,
got down to him on her hands ana knees
and filled him half full of gin. 1t had been
hot work in the sun, and so the men drank
heartily all around of what was left, drank
twice three to his good health. Then they
filled his mouth with tobacco, put lighted
CLAW pipe in his teeth, and, as the long, dark
shadows of the lordly pine trees came down
over the kindly and humane group of
sympathizers with the poor fellow, they,
one BY one, melted away down to the COM
mon center, the widows tables.
The doctor was the last to leave. He
could not feel the patients pulse, but he
got down on his hands and knees, as the
widow had done, and took good look at
his tongue. As he arose and brushed the
pine quills and fresh, sweet earth from his
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A SALVATION WEDDING.
The Army Also Celebrates Its Twelfth
Anniversary.


Anniversary.
Friday night the Salvation Army cele-
breted its twelfth anniversary on this coast
by rousing meeting at their headquarters
on Market street, the event of the evening
being the wedding of Captain Thompson
and Lieutenant Rosa Harrington.
The bride, a very prepossessing young
lady, 10 years of age, is native of San
Francisco, and has been stenographer to
Brigadier Keppel of the army for some
time past.
Her father is gentleman of some means,
and she also has two brothers living here,
one of whom is bookkeeper for the Produce
Exchange and the other an employe of
Mr.. Kaufman, the grain-b broker.
The groom, who recently had charge of
the army's work at Fresno, is a fne-look-
ing young man of 27 years.
The hall was filled to suffocatlon. When
the bridal procession marched UP the aisle
to the air of ''rhe Secret Is His Love" the
hallelujahs were impressive. Numerous
songs set to popular music were rendered
with piano and trumpet accompaniment,
and one set to the tune of whoa, Emma"
and sung by Captain Gardiner of San
Jose, with a banjo accompaniment, was
applauded to the echo. The marriage
service is very original and differs from the
orthodox form greatly, ,fealty and allegiance
to the Salvation Army being exacted.
After the ceremony and congratulations
the meeting continued until late hour.
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THE CALIFORNIA REGATTA
A Yacht Race OFF the Narrow-Gauge
Wharf-Movementso of the
Clubs.

The second regatta of the California
Yacht Club for the season of 1895 will be
run to-day off the Alameda mole. The
course is across an imaginary line out
from the southerly pierhead of the mar
row-gauge wharf, thence to and around
Blossom Rock buoy, thence to and around
a stakeboat four and a sixteenth miles to
the southeast and across the line of finish
ing. There will be three classes of boats,
and it is expected that all the craft in the
club will be in the race. Prizes will be
offered for each class and the Walter cup
will be awarded to the yacht making the
fastest time over the course. The prepara-
tory gun will be fired at 1855 P. NJ. and the
smallest class will be started five minutes
later Glasses B and A will be sent off ten
and twenty minutes later respectively.
The San Francisco Club will take an
outside sail to-day, starting by signal
from the flagship.
The Corinthians and Encinals will have
open dates to-day, and the rule for both
clubs will be 'go-as-you-please."
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bacon, dust in the beans, ;olu 4 =. - ..-.e
some dust got into the sugar mats too.
You see, we used Kanaka sugar-put up
in mats-entirelv in those dear "good old
days" and surely the wind must have been
blowing always very hard in the sandy
Sandwich Islands when the good mission
ary sugar merchants out there were put
ting the sugar up in the mats. And per-
haps they united the mats in San Fran
cisco to dry the sugar with the most
honest intentions toward the honest miner
before sending it up to us; and maybe the
wind in sandy San Francisco was blowing
awfully at the time.
This sugar was then sent up by boat to
Sacramento, another sandy place. Maybe
the sugar got damp on the boat and had to
be opened and dried there, too. Anyhow
what with the sand of all these sandy
places, sand and dirt and dust, dust and
dirt and sand, there was never less than
half an inch of grit on the bottom of the