The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-27
BUILT 4 CENTURY AGO.
The House on the Hopkins Farm-one Of
 inc Historic Landmarks of tho State.

| The House on the Hopkins Farm-one Of inc Historic Landmarks of the State. The Hopkins homestead in Naugatuck built 100 years ago, is one of the his l toric landmarks of the state. With the exception of the siGls just beginning to
 decay, it is still in sound condition, a
 proof of the substantial way in which they built houses years ago. There
 are six large sugar maple trees i'm front,
 which have been freely tapped in years
 gone by. They are yet good for some
 years, but the signs of age are just be- ginning to appear. In these days of close stove-heated rooms it would be
 refreshing on a stormy night to sit by
 one of these old fashioned open fire places, the blaze cheerfuEy cracking up the chimney, the cat and the dqS peacefully snooZing in front, the family
 chatting or amusing themselves, and in
 the pot, perhaps quart or so of cider, simmering with baked apples, sugar
 and ginger--an excellent narcotic just l before bed time. The farm has made vast quantities of cider in it's time, and there is now over 500 gallons of i vinegar in it.s cellars. The house com mands a varied and extensive prospect, and in summer is an eminently cool
 and healthful spot, while berries and | wild grapes grow abundantly near by,
 The old school house, which. during the half century has turned out some | bright and substantial men, still exists, | but is somewhat the worse for wear. | Among those are the late Prof. F.. E. Johnson of Trinity college, Dr. F. B. | Futile, H. D. Patterson, H. c. Bald
 win, H. H. Johnson, H. H. Hines and others. The farm is about 260 acres, and is now beginning to go into fruit | cultivation. A large number of peach trees of late and early varieties were
 set out two years ago. They bloomed | for the first time last spring and yielded | a few good peaches, and are now prom i.sing well. A quantity of red and l black raspberries will also come into l good bearing next summer, and a | fruit canning house is to be built close | by. There is an excellent wind mill on the top of the barn, which with moderate wind will thresh, saw wood and pump water thus obviating the necessity of a steam engine, with its at | terdant expenses and risk from fire. | The Hopkins pond close by is ire
 quented by numbers of boys in the skating season. The family like to see
 them racing around and enjoying them selves, but of late some of the boys have I1 I, 1I,a the ice, and those fences have to be re- placed at some labor and expense. As | the boys generally belong to fairly | weN-to-do families and will probably some day have property of their own, they ought to know enough to respect l the property of others. Still, however,
 the boys are not solely to blame. There is evidently something defective in mod
 ern training and modern education. If the kindergarten, az F'roebel designed 1t, horticulture and forestry were made
 parts of public education, as in Ger
 many, the surplus energy of boys
 would often flow through new and prof itable channels where now it only runs
 to waste, mischief or to worse. The lit tie girl on his farm who had scarlet fever is better. The case is an interest ing one from the fact that it cannot be accounted for. The situation is very healthy, there was no scarlet fever in the neighborhood, and no one can tell
 how the child contracted the disease.
 Il appears to have been self-developed.
 Possibly the germs Of this and other
 sicknesses are latent in some children,
 but only stimulated into active growth
 by the presence of favorable conditions,
 such as ill-assimilated food, etc, which
 are not always discernable, and hence
 are not uspected.-Waierbu Ameri- can.