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The Newtown bee., 1896-03-06
ATTENTION ]!
Southbury, Ct,
they will make their home, as MT Free born is employed there.

As Horace Wheeler was driving tow ards the house of Ambrose Marsh, his horse fell in going over a washout, throw ing MT Wheeler over his head. Foru nately no great damage was done.
 Miss Annie Staples was the guest Of her sister, Hrs William B. Mallett, last week.
 Mrs Sylvester Wheeler is visiting friends in Bethel.
 Mir and Mrs J. c. Moore of Bath Beach have been recent guests at J. W. Sher- woods.
 Joshua Kent drives a new low down milk wagon.
 Mrs George B. Beers is improving from an attack of the grip.
 Mrs Myrtle Gould is the guest of Miss Annie Staples.
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Dana's sarsaparilla is not on'y the bes If all remedies for the nerves, liver, kid nevs, stomach and blood; but if no ben eft, you can get your money back. The same guarantee applies to Dana's pills, cough syrup and plasters. For sale by Edgar F. Hawley, agent.
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TASHUA,

Mrs Mary E. Clark has visited her son, Arthur J. Clark, in Bridgeport.
 Miss Jennie Downs attended the con- cert at Newtown, given by the Wesleyan Glee club.
 Mrs Elizabeth Nichols visited friends in Bridgeport and Newtown, the past week.
The Newtown bee., 1896-03-06

this line. Are you going to paint this spring? If you are just drop 8 postal for one of our sample cards of Johns Asbestos Paints. The best mixed paints in the world. We shall be glad to mail you one anytime. Then pick out the colors you want and tell us the size of your building and we can tell you to a dot what it will cost to paint them all up in good shape. We also carry a full line of Leads and Oil Colors, Gin oil and Japans) and Carriage Paints.
 Let us hear from you at your convenience. Our teleThone call is 3735 our stopping place is at 452 Main or 85 Middle St.. both doors open easy.
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A Friend In Need

is d good umbrella. We say good adviscdIy for q poor umbrella which drips color on your back, and leaks skylight at the ribs, is indeed d dcIu1ionan q snare.
 ,Iir,' Nr.h C,lura,~ 70 inch rib with ..- .' fig .1tud wood .haudlc Uoopo and .np.,-D ,,' ~umd,> list at $I.a5 5c.uh- ....o,H 9s.'
 I.Itr~ -:.> union umbrellas vith
 ~a'lI'l jnc~.Iru handle, uc>crcut- ....Nou like wor, selling now at S1 DO .cl,h
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z; Bridgeport and Danbury, August IS and l9 If intended to teach I should try for state certificate; and if I was district committee l should prefer the teacher who has state certificate.-[O. o. Wright.
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Some Men Try

to save money by spelling a S5o.oo suit of clothes on the first rainy day.
 .Ciyn'lymcn's :Nackiur,,hc> in plain ... .Colprs-grcy and y--dctachahlc .capcs-scwn scamS-aheoIutcly valcr- ..... proof and wear proof Prices were ,..oaturdly Last SIu.oo, SS. co and E.. co
 rlrh-u,y @gDS
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LONG HILL

Elliot Nj. Beardsley had shepherd dog come to his place about three weeks ago with the name Marion Williams or Wilson on the collar; also the name Major.
The Newtown bee., 1896-03-06

IDEAL MERIT is the character aA istic of Hoods sarsaparilla. II cures even after other preparations fail. Get Hoods and ONLY HOODS.
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l PRICES
 -AT- PERRY !. HURD'S.
 423 Main Street, BRIDGEPORT. 3 punches Imported Tape5c. Box of 50 Mourning Pins 2c Castile Soap, large cakes, SC. Corset Steels 5c pair. Fast Black Darning Cotton 1Oc dog. Hair Pins, hand made, Sc bunch. Toilet Combs, unbreakable, sc. Collar Buttons 5c dog. Safety Pms Sc card. Curling Irons 5c, 6 large spools basting cotton for 5c. soc and 25c leather belts at sc each. Toilet paper 6 packages for 25c. Tooth brushes with rows bristles 5c Corset laces 1c each.
 Specials in white goods department. Ladies' fine scoIloped handkerchiefs 12 1-2c each.
 Ladies' white and coIored border handkerchiefs 5c each
 Mems hemstitched handkerchiefs 12 1-2c each,
 Ladies cotton drawers with 4 rows of tucks at 25c pair.
 Ladies' fine white lawn aprons 25c  each.
 Ladies niget robes soc. 75c, S1. Ladies' cotton skirts soc, 75c. S1. Infants 25c German linen bibs with drawn work at 15c each. Ladies' extra fine fast black hose at
 12 1-2c pair. Ladies 25c fast black 40 guage Hose,
 warranted absolutely stainless at
 19c 8 pair. Mems double weight fast black drab
 and brown hose at 12 1-2c pr.
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CIRCULATION:
Local Affairs.
A. r. CLARKE VISITS CUBA AND VEEEzU,
 FLA.

HE TALKS INTERESTINGLY TO A REPRE- SENTATIVE OF THE BEE ON AFFAIRS IN THOSE COUNTRIES.
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AGingham Chance

....GmAh1m- ol 52 in,h width in pirk~, .... .bInr~,flwn-,c'r -ja>t th. thinY for ( hU- ....drrn', wear. Irr,c Nt5,uD~ per yaId, .....or l- yud, no >roo If thc1c'> any '...lhiua hrrrr u Ihc market Jl I1lc. u
 t., ,L,nt L.,,,y u
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For rIeIl

...... C lu-e ro'i,I ~iH, umbrellas, steel rods natural wood handles, bulbs. ,tnoh~. ..-.rt,-,-wcrn S}.So, on Ndturday-tor a ....tcw days Sl.9N.
The Newtown bee., 1896-03-06

Beechan's pills for constr patton Ios and 25f. Get the book at your druggists and go by it.
The Newtown bee., 1896-03-06

Mealine soap cures chspped hands. %
The Newtown bee., 1896-03-06
A MOISt t, ..... ... ...... ..., Topic

And this is March !
 How it did rain Saturday
 But that wasn't d circum- stance to what this freak month has in store for Us. Ground Floor, Mantle Department ......I Ladies' double cape Macknto~hcs ....with velvet collar, double textures uud ....purc Para rubber mtrilining-col" ....nlvv and black. Price Saturday Il,r
 S-. 55-now $500.
 - Ladies double aud triple cape Crlv. ....ructte Garments, tcvprv ward ,t1mpcd| ... were Stl.75 last week -uoW S7 bO-
 ... { hlIdrcu'~ (,ne~Iusr~ and AII,Ein .Io,hc~ in, lu Il 'c.u uId little .ouc,, were 9- 5o h~t t1rll1 nov ....Sl. 50 each.
 .....pljc,tlcy Cra,rnc;tc~ of worI-Nidc ....lamc, hy the wand. no inch wjJlh for Skirts, Dresses md NID,hoJ">hc, We ...scIl at SI.25 ,l CWc make to ,ordcr)
The Newtown bee., 1896-03-06
Live Farm Topics.
A BETTER OUTLOOK FOR BUTTER.

These words clipped from the American Creamery will encourage the host of THE BEES readers who make butter.l
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Annual aalea more than 100000 bozea.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-07-17

adobe to build their houses. Iut now
they tnl it more convenient to hire
the McNicans to make the bricks for
them. They say the McNicans can
make them better. II is a simple
process. Water from ono of the irri-
eating bitches. which run in almost
every direction through the fields. is
turned OF to a small piece Of land.
with spade and hoe the earth and
water are thoroughly mixed until a
loose mud is made. Then fine straw is
brought from Il thrcshing place near
by and miXcd with the mud. The
raw material is ready. II is put into
molds, carried a few feet and dumped
on the ground in the form OF bricks
to dry in the sun. These bricks are
left for two days and then are ready
for use. \ Mexican is paid 81 for
making 1000 bricks. each fifteen by
ten by four inches.
In building a house these bricks arc
ccmentcd together with adobe. The
walls are smoothcd outside and inside.
and within are covered with n wash
OF white or light drab color. This
wash is made Of earth found in the
hills, and when fresh II gives the walls
a neat appearance. For the root large
poles are first laid on. then smaller
ones. then a layer OF weeds. and lastly
adobe. This makes u roof which may
let through Il few drops when the first
rain Of the season comes. but after
that IL is water tight.
Just outside the house are the ovens
In which the bread is baked. They
are ~odd-looking, domc-shapcd things
from four to six feet in diameter made
Of adobe. One small opening is let
AT the bottom for building the fire and
putting in the bread, and another
smaller one neal the top for the smoke
TO come out. In this oven a fire is
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built and kept burning until the walls
are heated through and through. The
fire is then drawn out, and the fine
ashes are removed with "A wet rag on
the end of IA stick. The bread Is put
in with a wooden shovel, and both
openings carefully closed. As the walls
retain the heat for a long time the
bread bakes quickly and well.
! have seen dogs sleeping in these
ovens, fortunately not in the one in
which the bread which | eat is baked.
But perhaps | have not yet caught the
dog which sleeps in that particular
W
The stumpy Title chimneys which
are seen all over the houses are IT
adobe, too, but they are often topped
with a broken pottery vessel. At the
fireplace below the cooking Is done.
A little iron stand, a frying-pan and a
few black pots, with a knife or two.
are all the cooking utensils. But they
are enough for such simple cooking;
some OF the poor families OF Indians
have only tortillas and coffee three
times "A day. Mix -four with water.
put in a little salt, cook the mixture
over the fire and you have the tortil-
las. The coffee, Of course, has neither
milk nor sugar.
But ! am living with one of the first
families in town. Here | get fat
pork and one fried egg three times a
day; frijoles, canned tomatoes, bread
and even butter and chow chow. Some
Of thes things, to be sure, are bought
especially for mt and are not shared
by the family. II Is all right, since |
eat alone, sitting at a table, while the
family Is in another room sitting on
the floor.
The ordinary bed is the floor. or pos
sibly a platform raised a foot from the
floor. Rawhides are laid down and on
these the Indians sleep, rolled up in
blankets. But there are at least two
beds at this pueblo and one cot. In
winter time the fire gives the light in
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the sights. II was not summing.
The neighborhood is a respectable,
even desirable" in the language Of
house agents. II was nine O'Clock in
the evening when we called for the
first lemon squash, and got n glass Of
"four-ale.' They were too busy to
mix drinks. In our compartment
there were nine women, or fifteen, If
YOU count two baby girls in arms and
-four little misses brought by their
mammas. One was being treated.
The mother. quite a decent body. with
a silk mantle and kid gloves, called
for a half-quartern OF Irish warm, and.
swallowing three parts OF IL. handed
the glass to the child with a here
sou are, Martha as though II wer"
so much water. Three nm were
talking about their husbands. That's
all he brought me home. as I'm a liv-
ing woman, Fourteen bob and five of
us to keep. Oh. l.or'! oh. dear, Well.
drink up. III be fourpsnce to your
tuppence this time. Mrs. Walters"
A saloon is a pub" so called be-
u it is not public. Instead of Il
long room. with a long bar. the space
is cut up into compartments, rcsem-
bling stalls in a stable. Where the
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DU MAURIER'S IN REAL LIFE.
trough would be is the bar. The beer
is pumped from various kegs under
the bar as wanted. by means of a sys-
TEN of levers resembling the brakes of
Il locomotive engine. by means of
continually pulling on these. barmaids
get a good muscle and a reliable thirst.
The barmaids all drink: and this is
what one Of them said, because We
were a cheerful. coy family party all
complaining of bad luck.
MY father began life as "A draper,
and made "A little money. And then
took a little public house. and. unfor-
tunately. lost II through the cup.
When ! was IA | went to take a situ-
alton in a public house. | have been
in the trade six or seven years. | be-
gan 10 drink because ! was so tired in
the morning. | felt the need of spir-
its before breakfast. The hours were
late and we had to get up early. We
were allowed to have anything to
drink mt our lunch and dinner time.
ana sometimes in the evening before
going to bed. AS a rule. brandy is
what we begin on. ! never knew a
barmaid who did not drink it,
The talk turned TO the subject of
women frequenting the bars. II was
agreed they had as much right TO do
so as men. The presence of the bar
maids makes il coy and homelike for
the women drinkers.
IL was quite a domestic circle.
Some were sitting down and some were
standing up. There were only four
men OF us, and the ladies' tongues
waxed eloquent. Some fabricated with
four-ale, some with Scotch cold or Irish
warm, and some with gin. The theme
was the ~villainy Of husbands.
He comes home boosy every night.
and I'm left without a brown to buy
a bloater! I'm that worrit that my art
sinks and the spasm is that bad | have
to take "a drop of s%omethink. Heaven
knows I've been "a true wife to him.
and he beat me last night for popping
his Sunday trousers
The next house wat not so busy.
could count but eleven women Gus
toners. One of them was drinking
under peculiar circumstances. | no.
ticed her as | entered. talking with "a
man, presumably her husband, who
seemed to be crippled, and who was in
an invalid chair which she had drawn
up to a side door. ] followed her in
and she ordered three penn'orth of
warm rum for him. and while il was
preparing she had half a quartern of
gin fpr herself and drank IL. The
last house was an exceptionally large
place, employing seven barmaids and
three men. | counted a hundred and
twenty customers present. Among
them there were thirty-siX women. one
a proud young mother, with twin
babies In long clothes. Carrying one
in each arm, she would have found II
difficult to raise her gin glass TO her
lips had not "A kind neighbor or two
been present to assist her. We walked
out. There is nothing of the pretty
enticement Of the Partisan cafe in tho
London pub
STERLING HELLO.
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DOCTOR SUPPLANTs MINISTER.
The Confidential Intimate and Adviser
81 Country People.

ihe 'obhdchtiai Intimate and Adviser
~ Country People.
IL Is now the country doctor. no, the
country minister, who is the confdcn-
tial intimate and adviser OF the people.
says the Boston Transcript. He alone
IT Is who now knows the ~anteccdents
OF men and women, the history of their
families, their inherited qualities. their
record OF trials and temptations, the
skeletons in their closets. The clergy
man, however able, has usually beer
for a year or two only in his parish;
he has not yet got really behind the
scenes: he knows nothing of the hered-
itary traits, the traditional obstacles.
He has not the key to mems struggles:
with the utmOst official Difference he liz
left la a great degree outside OF their
lives, They do not turn to him, after
all, as they do to the family physician
who assisted some OF them into the
world, who tided the perplexed house
hold through that long siege of fevers,
weU remembers grandfather in his
prime and knew the long tragedy of
Aunt Eunice's desolate life. Even the
sympathetic stranger soon finds out to
whom he must go to learn the social
ties and traditions of the community:
certainly not TO the clergyman, who is
apt 20 be but Of yesterday. Fortunate
ly this position OF confidence into which
the country physician is now lifted is
In itself a liberal education: he learns
to prescribe for the sick soul as for the
invalid body. Perhaps he does IL Us
well, On the whole, as his predecessor,
the clergyman, did before him; but It
is nevertheless an essential change ef
dynasty. and every added breaking up
OF a strong and prosperous clerical in
fiuence makes the transformation mor
noticeable. In place of the country
solicitor. the "Tulkinghorn Of the Eng
lish novels-the man who held in his
strong box the mysteries of every fam
ily-we had for a long time in New
England the semi-oficial class of coun-
try ministers. Now, with the multi
plication Of sects and the abbreviation
of past0rates, the minister practically
abdicates and the physician takes his
place as the confidential adviser Of the
community at l:fsS
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-07-17

They build their houses of adobe
just as they always have. but the -four
and five story buildings have in most
places disappeared. Most of them. too,
now have doors. In former times
when the danger from marauding In
dams was great a town had very few
houses, often only two OF them. These
houses were very large and every fam
lily had it's own rooms in the common
house. The. only entrance to these
rooms was by means Of a ladder
through a trap door in the roof. In
case OF attack the women and children
were all shut up in the innermost
rooms. while men remained on the roof
TO fight.
The pueblo of Taos is one of the best
reminders of the old times. II lies
about eight miles from the Rio
Grande. just AT the foot of mountains
1900 feet high. Through the mid
die of the town runs Pueblo creek. "A
mountain stream which fails not
oftener than ice in half a century.
There are 400 Indians here. about equ.
any Wv Iutu Ol tHt lNO SUES Vi tut
creek. The higher of the two princi-
pal houses have five stories, the other
has four. They have the appearance
OF irregular. stepped pyramids. OF
course there are many rooms in the
first story and a fewer number in the
stories above, which can have neither
sunlight nor air. These dark rooms
are used for storage, principally of
corn, wheat, oats and beans.
Occasionally one can still find a
house which has no door, but they arc
not common. Most Of the houses have
a low door hung IN iron hinges. 4
piece OF rawhide serves as a handle.
The rooms are about nine feet high
and vary in size. A room fifteen feet
square will serve very well as kitchen,
sleeping-rOom and general living-room
for four persons. Many families have
houses in addition to the town
houses" This second house is a mere
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-07-17
BhBV DID 1T.
Tho Little Thing Was sunshine In That
bIngy street Car.

blngv street Tar.
On ono Of tho cold, rainy DAYS Is me
past week n Washington Star reporter
was on a ear on the Pennsylvania ave
nue. line coming down Capitol hill.
There was a pretty good load of pdsscn-
gers. II was cold. wet and uncomfort-
able inside Of the car. and the rain beat
a tattoo on the windows without that
brought anything but pleasant %fofec-
lions to the passengers who would have
to face II. At the Peace monument
there was n big reinforcement of pas
scngcrs. They piled in very uncorc-
~moniously. bringing with them a rush
OF cold air and scattering showers Of
spray from their soaked garments. In
the crowd which got aboard WIS n
woman with u baby in her arms. The
woman was rather poorly and thinly
'lad and had no umbrella. Their, was
som delay In her getting a seat and
she looked decidedly forlorn and help
less trying to maintain her balance and
AZ the same time look out for her child.
But with all the environment calcd-
lated TO make men mean and surly
some one had enough gallantry in spite
OF the weather To offer her a seat. but
mother ana child got many u ~tcproying
look from The other passengers. Those
VINO were In an ugly mood on account
OF their unpleasant surroundings found
u very soothing to their RULED ic ling
TO think, We'll, there's a bigger fool
mar ] am" II one lady whispered
I'm hHr t.InIIAr I,,,l ,r,,h A.. .,..h
the ear OF the writer: The very idea Of
taxing a baby out in such a Storm"
ant finished her sentence with n shtug
of her shoulders which meant more
than she said. hut baby was wrapped
up snug and warm in n blanket and
It's mother, needless OF what her neigh
bors might think. began to unroll
the quaint covering to see how his
diminutivc majesty was getting IN.
Everybody In the car was watching
her with looks of mingled disapproval
and curiosity. She finally got the roll
undone so that Mr.. Baby's face became
visible. AND such a face as II was!
There was probably never a more com
pletely surprised set of people in that
'''''' WI p''ol's bdDy was a lVdi
beauty OF the sort that Is apparent to
somebody else besides the mother. Such
eyes. such dimples and. withal, such a
bright, healthy, smiling face in all
probability will never light up a SINH
lar occasion. Baby's appearance
worked like a magic charm on the rest
or the passengers. AS soon as his face
was uncovered he took a survey OF the
passengers about him with owlish
gravity. Then. as If struck by some
highly ludicrous idea in the contcm-
plation Of the scene, he burst into "A
great iii OF baby laughter. He CHR
ruped and chucklcd and kicked up his
heels in such glec that inside Of a
minute he had the entire car on his
side. The scowling looks had all dis
appeared as II by magic and people for
got all about the disagreeable weather
outside and their uncomfortable sur
roundings within and Joined with baby
In "A broad smile at the novel situation.
Somehow that baby's genuine, healthy
and spontaneous good spirits had for
the time put an entirely new phase on
lifc FOR all who saw him.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-07-17

the first whom the early Spaniards
saw in permanent settlements.
Most Of tho pueblOs are in the Rio
Grande valley there ar, Il few farther
west along the lin, of the Santa Fe
railroad and n group Of seven in
northeastern Arizona. Here they
nave been. too. for $50 years at least.
Tor here the Spaniards found them
when they first came mp into this
country from Mexico IN the first half
of th, sixteenth century. Many of
the pueblos have been moved a few
miles to new sites, from some. of these
the people have disappeared and left
no trace or record of themselves.
Others have as large Il population as
they ever had and retain to a large eX-
tent their old customs in spite of zoo
years Of influence from the whites.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-07-17

Washington Evening Star: In iron
ing the lace frills on underwear or
lawn dresses you can make the lace
look almost like new after this fash
ion; Iron all the rest of the garment,
then have a clean, wet cloth at hand,
with which spat the lace till 1t Is pretty
damp, then rub il over with a moder-
ately warm iron. DO the smoothing
of the lace rapidly and leave It quite
damp. As soon as you have finished
4 ruffie or a sleeve lay down and gen
tly pull the lace out to it fullest width,
smoothing and patting every fine
stitch at the edge into shape. When
you once get used to it you will not
have 10 spend much time, and 1t i'm
proves lace wonderfully to treat II that
way.
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charged with simple drunkenness and
447 more with being drunk and disor-
derby. OF 2,554 women appearing ut
Clerkenwell Ia much poorer district)
IS per cent were the victims Of drink.
One Of the missionaries said: "One
woman, aged SO, and twelve over so
years Of Z were charged with
drunkenness. The youngest drunken
case was that OF a girl Is years Of age.
There have been as many as five girls
in n day charged with being drunk,
who were only II years of < In
one day forty-sevcn women have
passed the bar, charged with drunken
ness"
Il have been dealing with a large
number Of drunken women in my dis
%trict," says another missionary. "One
class Is composed Of low women. but
there are many of what may be called
the lower order of working people.
We often have the wives of respecta-
BILE mechanics and of men employed
IA the city. 1t is easiest to handle the
younger women, of whom we have a
number from II to 20 years of age. |
think drinking is increasing among
young married women from Is to "a,
some of them having very good hus-
bands. We have a number of young
girls. One girl of IL was found one
morning in the street senseless. She
had been drinking with organ grind
ers. The mother was in court and was
terribly put about"
In dealing with these girls and WON
en- the London magistrates are puzzled
what to do. They say ii is no Use
eending them to prison or reformatcry
homes, because 1t only hardens the n.
One magistrate will impose a fine of
half a crown $50 cents for the first OF
tense, while another, sitting on the
same bench, will let the lady" go with
"a caution. Circumstances alter cases,
and Oh the second offense the fine may
be made five ~shillings. a woman who
has been arrested several times may
be imprisoned for several days, and
the more incorrigible she becomes, the
seyerer is the punishme.t, until the
maximum OF IL rs.onth is reached.
At the northern end of Hollaway
rog. there is a lively highway branch
ing to the right, with eight large and
thriving taverns within the space OF q
\ short quarter of n mile. We though.
we would go In and ont Of them TO see