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The Newtown bee., 1897-09-17
Bridgeport Steamboat
Company.
STEAMER NUTMEG STATE.
Are those by the fast handsome
steamships OF the

STEAMER NUTMEG STATE.
Leaves Bridgeport every night Except sGtur-
day. IL o'clock, from foot Of South Avenue.
Leaves Few Ynrk sVsry day Except Sunday
II a. m, from Pier SO, East River.
STEAMER R0SEDALE.
Leaves Bridgeport at 7.z5 g. m, on arrival Of
Berkshire Division morning train Rsturning
leaves New York, Pier 80, East River, tot q Aar
ket street.. at y. n, foot Of East 3lst strssf.
East River. at sis .. m. On Saturday, Pier SO.
D. m, East S1gt Street, ais.
PARE. so Cents
EYCupsroH TICKET. IS Cents
1 (Gcod Until Ussd.l
E.E. WEDGE, Agt. r. Il. CoEEELLf. supt'
a
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THE TRAVELLERS GUIDE.
BoTsFoRD TO BRIDGEPORT.

Sunday, g-55 a. m. South. SIS a. NJ, : IS p.
m. Sunday, $50 p N.
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AT CHRIST CHURCH.

There was special music at Christ
church, 10 st Sunday evening, as follows:
Processional-s9s, "Hark, Hark, My Soul"
Choral service.
Magnihcat-Tone VII.
Nunc Dimittis-Tonus regius.
Hymn-646 Through the Day Thy Love Has
Spared U.s."
solo-"One sweetly Solemn Thought"
Solo Sand He Shall Feed His Flock
Anthem-'The Sun Shall be No More Thy
Light"
Woodward
| Observation-Disclosures %.
Our day of praise is done.
The evening shadows fall,
| But pass not from us with the sun,
True Light that lightenest all.
JAMES LovELAND THROWN FROM HIS
CARRIAGE.
James Loveland had rather serious
runaway one day last week. While turn
ing around near the residence of f. B.
Hand, the horse came around so quickly
that the carriage WIS upset, throwing
MIR Loveland out. In the fall he wrencheG
his ankle so badly that he will be con
fined to the house for some time. The
horse ran into the yard at Woolson'
factory where he was caught. The car
rage was considerably damaged.
The Newtown bee., 1897-09-17
DEATH OF FRANK DAGNoN.

Frank Dagnon died last week. The fu-
neral was on Thursday and the remains
were taken to New Milford. He was a
good citizen. A wife and two daugh-
tiers survive him.
The Newtown bee., 1897-09-17
ATTHE GRANGE

On Tuesday evening the lecturers
hour was occupied by Mrs Barnes of
The Newtown bee., 1897-09-17
Der. MIR Doolittle has a fine picnic
grounds and it is being well patronized.

THE SCHOOL TEACHERS FOR THE YEAR.
Those who will teach school In Water
town for the coming year are as follows :
Center district. Principal, r. J. Working;
Sd room, Miss Emma Coe; 4th room,
Miss Hattie Atwood; Sd room, Miss
Storrs; 81 room Miss Wakeman; LIST
room or primary department, Miss May
Lewis; Guernseytown, Wilbur Tolles :;
Polk, Miss Lucy Woodward; East Side
district, Miss Dora DANES; Poverty
Street district, Miss Nellie B. Smith !;
French Mountain, Miss Jessie Weeks I;
South district, Highest grade, Francis
w. Fletcher; Primary grade, Miss Ida
Hablitzel; Nova Scotia, Miss May
Wheeler. In some of the districts school
opened Tuesday September 7,but most of
them opened last Monday.
The Newtown bee., 1897-09-17

The chances come and the chances go
Not all the opportunities tor money saving
every day. But there are no barren days:
Women's Black Dongola button and lace
shoes at 81 rs a pair Elsewhere 50.
Woman's Black Dongola Button and Lace
Shoes at 81 80 a pair. Elsewhere $3.50.
Womans Black Dongoia Button and Lace
Shoes at 81 rs a pair. Elsewhere 81.
The Newtown bee., 1897-09-17

&B~Return Railroad Ticket given to
Purchasers OF $1,000 worth of goods
The Newtown bee., 1897-09-17

Miss Hattie Perry returned, Sunday,
The Newtown bee., 1897-09-17
EVEN
MCINTYRE
& co.
McIntyre'S
Encouraging News
For Buyers.

This week wen make display of Dry
Goods and Trimmings that will interest ev-
cry buyer In Connecticut. Equal assortment
has never been seen In this city.
And the most substantial part OF this mann.
moth com bination OF values is in the fact OF
our taking advantage OF dull times last Spring
and In purchasing previous to the new tariff
our entire stock OF
The Newtown bee., 1897-09-17
ADVERTISING
RATES.

Local Notices in Brevier.ryps' 1oo Lins.
The herald., 1897-01-24
THE vIv1sEcToR's DEArz-BnD.

("Sfmilar were the reflections Of that dis
tinguished vivisector, the late John Reid,
when stretched upon his couch ant writh-
added by the torments of the mind. AZ
death came nearer and nearer during the
silent hours of the night therle5reams Of
agony inflicted by him on helpless animals
were repeated, and. amidst the terrors
OF a remorse which all the honors IN the
world could not alleviate In the least ho
exclaimed: I thought 1t no harm at that
Berghs lecture on Vivisecti6n before the
New York legislature at Albany)
Upon the couch of death he lies,
Who soon must breathe his last;
While through his wildly throbbihg brain
Dread, awesome shapes fit fast.
And, ever and anon, he starts,
AS some wronged wrath Of Worth
Were there to blast, with baleful CURSE
His latest hour of earth.
And, ever and anon, he waves
Some viewless thing away,
That glides. in pale. reproachful guise,
Betwixt him and the day.
Fast. fast they come!-Grim CORY shapes!-.
They swarm about his bed
Beseamed by many a. ghastly wound
Through which their dumb souls fed!
Nearer, and nearer yet, they press!-
They peer into his face
With eyes his own roll, mad to meet
Like molten suns in space!
And many a deed of horror foul
Committed years agone
In bloody cerements, bursts its shroutf
: Like soul on Judgment morn!
But hark!-From out the ambient air
Break means of direful pain
Shrill awful cries, that rend, like steel.
Ills conscience-stricken brain.
Was this a dog-this mangled thing.
Stretched, stark, along the floor
Its lank jaws bathed with bloody foam,
And bare its true hearts core?
Poor, piteous beast! thine end was swift!
But here another lies
From which yor wolnsh miscreant's hand
Once plucked the kind, brown eyes!
And now a fiercer tremor shakes
The vivisectors framei
Perhaps he views %, meet rewardN
HelPs never dying flame!
Q, horrible!-Yon eyeless hound
Crawls to the monsters side,
And rears to lick that awful hand
By which it, guiltless died!
But when the vivisector's gaze
Fell on that poor, blind face,
With one mad Shrek his guilty souo
= = wa
The herald., 1897-01-24
The Natural Beauties Of Bombay
a Scene of Misery
RAvAGED BY pESTILENCE
Formerly Known % the Cleansst City In
India
Supposed to Be Invulnerable Against
the Bubonio Fever-Its Vast
Maritime Interests.

Cable advices from India state that
within the past few weeks the popula-
ton of Bombay has been cut in two by
the ravages of the bubonic plague. If
this be correct over 100000 lives have
been sacrificed, as the population of
Bombay, at the 1891 census, was $3.50, 1000,
and 1t Undoubtedly increased since those
statistics were gathered, probably to
100000. The weekly mortality, averag-
ing 200 to the thousand, shows that the
deaths during the first seven days of the
height of the plague amounted to the
stupendous figures of about 10000, or
one-f1fth Of the total population.
Yet Bombay has all along been ap-
plauded by the Anglo-Indian press as
the first city of India owing to its san
itary advantages. East Indians like
Rudyard Kipling have held Bombay up
as an example of cleanliness to her rival
sister city Calcutta. In Kipling's story
of Calcutta, called the City of Dreadful
Night he makes prominent feature
OF what he bluntly terms the big CAL
cutta Stink" Yet the plague wipes out
20 per cent weekly of Bombay's popula-
ton and the natural conjecture is,
What would be the mortality in Calcut-
The herald., 1897-01-24

and fill it pretty nearly full, making an
almost even surface with the neck One
should breathe deeply and, fully, other
wise the lungs apex imprisons stag
nant pool of air, soon filled with dust
and organisms of all kinds and forms
an excellent germ breeder. Most cases
of phthisis begin in the apex of the
lungs. Women, though closer housed
and more away from the fresh air, do
not have consumption as much as men.
The lessened liability to consumption
enjoyed by women is due partly to their
lose e-throated dresses, allowing full ex-
pansion of the lungs at the apex, which
most men do not use. The blood OF a
person getting a. sufiiciencysof pure air
tingles to the tips of the fingers and
toes. and the elimination Of waste ma
terial in the food is much nearer perfec.
tion.-Boston Evening TRANSCRIPT
The herald., 1897-01-24

tion 1t may be stated that the divinity
of the amethyst is Neptune. The ques-
tion whether the selection is merely
coincidence or based on the gods asso-
citation with the waters or kindred af-
fairs is one of the enigmas whose answer
is lost in the gloom of antiquity. The
mere coincidence, if such it be, is GER
tainly felicitous.
Sincerity is the attribute which senti-
ment attaches to the amethyst, the
thought doubtless being inspired by the
stones pure and delicate hue.
The month to which the stone is dedi-
Gated Is February.
THE bishop stone" Is one of the terms
by which the amethyst is fancifully
known; 1t is said that the official ring
of ecclesiastical authorities has an am
ethyst setting.
So much for superstition and senti-
ment. Regardless of questions as to
whether the gift of an amethyst will
have the desired effect upon your ine-
briate friend certain it is that the recent
whim of fashion has revived the popu-
larity of an article of pure beauty The
deep, liquid purple, the mysterious, vel
vety appearance of good specimen, and
the stones effectiveness In combination
with other jewels commend it to all
jewelry lovers. Indications are that the
reintroduction of the stone is not a
compliance with a mere fad, but a de-
mand for a genuine revival of the stones
use. An amethyst is not an expensive
luxury as jewels go; it is one of the
small class of things of beauty found
in quantities sufficiently plentiful to
hold their price down to moderation
Siberia supplies the specimens whose
clearness and richness and color give
them the position as the best of their
kind. Vast quantities of an inferior
grade of the crystal are found in the
Lake Superior region. Ceylon, India,
Brazil, the mines in the Rocky noun
tains, and a score of other localities have
been found to be storehouses from which
the stone has been taken in varying
quantities and qualities. A great many
of the finds are useless for ornamental
purposes, on account of opaqueness or
deficiency or unevenness in color Bra
lillian amethysts are not infrequently
white. In composition the stone is al
most Identical with the topaz; the sim
ilarity, therefore, existing between the
latter and the white amethyst is said
oftentimes to be turned to good account.
1t Is difficult to account for the de-
cree Of social banishment from which
the amethyst is just now emerging.
Were the stone less beautiful or extrav-
agantly costly the explanation would be
less hidden. However, 1t appears to
have returned to the boudoir of beauty
FOR long stav 50 T.c-,ss Re~,-hrsc
The herald., 1897-01-24

to hold the disease In check but In the
middle of December 1t began to spread
with awful rapidity. In the cabled re-
ports which say the population has been
cut in two no reference Is made to the
numbers who have fled from the city.
but these doubtless form a considerable
part Of the 450, 900.
Bombay, like Calcutta has a practi-
cally inexhaustible water supply.
brought by engineering works from dis
tant points to the city. Bombay relied
upon her complete system of water
works to fight the plague. but seeming
ly with small success. The water sys-
tenn is SO arranged that the sewers are
thoroughly flushed and all noxious pro-
ducts are rapidly disposed of by scien-
tific drainage.
Every few years the plague breaks out
In the east In 1857 and 1873 1t appeared
on the banks of the Euphrates, in 1871
1t devastated Persian Kurdistan, in 1877
in Bagdad and few years ago in Hong
Kong. In 1880 1t visited Bag gdad, killing
off the inhabitants at the average rate
Of 1000 per day, and one day, the 21st Of
April, 80, 900 people died of the scourge
1t is the same plague which visited
London in 1865 and Marseilles in 1920
1t last visited Europe in 1S41, but was
speedily controlled.
ROBERT MILLER.
The herald., 1897-01-24

Prinsep's career was his visit to Bud
rum the ancient Halicadnassus, where
he stayed six months. He and his mas
ter, Watts, got attached, through Lord
Lansdowne's influence, to Sir Charles
Newton's expedition, which was sent in
HI. M. S. Gorgon to Asia Minor to dis
cover the site of the mausoleum which
was one of the Seven Wonders of the
World. The dignified Turks in those
parts thought the whole expedition mad
enough, but the young artists they
viewed with special admration--for him
they named "Tolos," meaning the ''hail-
storm" Why, at Budrum, he once took
donkey by the scruff of it's neck and
pitched it into the water, just to see if
it could swim.
Rossetti was one of Mr.. Prinsep's most
intimate friends He loved his London,
and would roam the streets at o'clock
in the morning. "He and 1 were one
morning walking through Seven Dials,
when rough looking fellow was sud-
denly roticed walking level with us. 1
stopped and asked our friend If he want
ed to fight. No. was the reply, you're
too big for me; but I'll take on the little
'un'-meaning Rossetti. After a mo-
ments pause, the man continued: AM
I dessay you could be- accommodated
rahnd the corner For Gods sake, let
US get out of this muttered Rossetti,
hurriedly."
After returning from Paris Mr.. Prin-
sep took studio in Charlotte street,
F'itzroy square, and there settled down
to work. Here he painted his first pic
ture-"The Queen was in the Parlor
Dating Bread and Honey''-which was
exhibited in 1860 at the Hogarth gallery.
Mr.. Frank d. Millett now owns that pic
ture. About this time, too, he went to
Italy with Sir Edward then Mr. Burne-
Jones. 1--WE called on Browning at
Siena," he said to me, "for we had a let
ter of introduction to him from Rossetti.
We came upon his villa about dusk, and
1 remember he was just seeing off into
their carriage William Story, the Amer
ican sculptor, and his wife. While we
were waiting for him. Landor, came in to
the hall and accosted us with the remark
about the glorious sunset"
In 1861 we find Mr.. Prinsep back again
in England and soon after this he paint
ed his first academy picture, Blanca Ca
pello. In 1854 he commenced building
his present superb ersidence, / Holland
Park road, but was in Venice most of
the time.
We now come to one of the most i'm
portant episodes in Mr.. Prinseps car
eer. In 1876 he was officially approached
and asked if he would paint great his
torical picture, which was to be pre-
sented to the queen empress by the ra-
tahe of Tr1sn TTA aooa~taS ~
The herald., 1897-01-24
SCENES IN BOMBAY. WHERE The PLAGUE IS RAGING

used to be called the esplanade, are some
of the chief edifices of the city. Among
these are the Secretariat,a a pile of build
ings devoted to the services of the pres
idency of Bombay, province which
comprises twenty-four British districts
and nineteen native vassal states. The
last namesd states occupy about one
third of the whole territory.
THE FASHIONABLE QUARTER
Most of the private residences of Eu-
ropeans are at some distance both from
the native and commercial quarters Of
the city. AS a general thing each resi-
dence stands in a large garden. The
fashionable suburbs are Malabar Hill
and Breach Candy, the latter built on
the beach on the western side of the
island.
This seclusion of the Europeans ex-
plains in large measure their escape
from the ravages of the plague, and even
when attacked by the bubonic fever the
mortality rate is comparatively light.
Cleanliness Is the great enemy of the
scourge, especially when supported by
a we'll nourished body. The natives for
the most part live under filthy conditions
and, for the most part, are under-fed
1t is the weak and the dirty whom the
plague makes such short work Of
In the business portion of the city
there are several spacious streets lined
with splendid buildings devoted to Eu-
ropean commerce. Some of the hotels
and the great mercantile warehouses
are unusually large-such as are hard
ly paralleled in any other part of Asia.
The native bazaars, which extend from
the fort toward Mazagon. are traversed
by fairly wide streets, extensive lines of
tramways passing through even the
most crowded parts.
PICTURESQUE STREET SCENES.
The scene here is, as is usual in the
Orient, full of quaint color and form.
The green (worn by the descendants of
the prophet only) and gold turban of the
Mahommedans, the large red or white
head dress worn by the Maratha, the
curious pointed turban of the Guzera
thi, the brown or black brimless hat of
the Parsee, and many other varieties of
dress give life and brilliance to the ma
tive quarters.
In the fort itself there are many native
houses adorned with pillars, porticos
and verandahs and ornamental wood
work
1t seems that Lord Sandhurst, the gov
ernor of Bombay, and his official assist
ants have placed unbounded reliance
upon the sanitary arrangements of the
city to crush the plague. The first cases
occurred In November last but the Eng
fish presspaid scarcely any attention to
them. For time the authorities seemed
The herald., 1897-01-24

of the island and fronts upon harbor
which has no peer the world over, not
excepting the famed bay Of Naples,
the harbors Of Rio Janeiro or New
York. 1t was this harbor that caused
the East India company to change its
base, and the wisdom of the move has
been abundIantly proved.
Approaching the city from the sea on
the western side, on the left is Malabar
point, high ridge running out into the
sea and terraced to the top by many
splendid villas, which command a mag
nif1cent view. Southwark is Kolaba
point. and across the Intervening waters
konwn as Black bay. rises the city
Rounding Kolaba point Is the wonder
full harbor, studded with craggy islands,
great and small, and crowded with ship
ping. the water space being fourteen
miles inslength by five in breadth. Some
distance across the harbor is the island
of Elephanta, with many strange and
uncauny caves.
The most curious part of the city is
that section called 1.-THE Fort" which is
not. strictly speaking, fortified place at
ALL and It's area is now occupied chiefly
by government buildings and mercantile
offices. In this neighborhood are the
town hall, the mint, the cathedral and the
custom house.
A s15OO,Ooo DEPOT
Just outside the fort is the Victoria
terminus Of the Great Indian Peninsula
railway, said to be one Of the finest, IL not
actually the finest, structures of the
kind in the world, its erection having
cost upward Of 81 500, 900.
Passing up the harbor there is an ex-
tensive system of quays and docks, one
OF which, Princes dock, is reputed to
have cost over $5,000,000. Next comes
Mazagon bay, which commands the har-
Dor, and is the chief center of the ship
ping interest Everywhere are the sails
of numerous craft, while in the docks
themselves are the steamers of dozen
steamship lines that ply between Brit
ain and the east, to say nothing of fop-
eign vessels. And here it may be men,
toned that Bombay is the central post
office for the whole of India, letters being
dispatched from it by rail to all parts of
the continent" as India proper is called
by the natives.
On the other side of the island, on what
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ia should it gain foothold in that city?
Bombay is usually considered the
most European of the Oriental cities
principally because of it's numerous
manufactures. The city Is situated, on
an island of the same name, the island
having an area of fifty-five square kilo-
meters. Originally it belonged to the
Portuguese. they having occupied it in
1882. When the Infanta Catharina mar
ried Charles ii it passed into the pos
session of Great Britain, it being part
of the dowry of the royal bride.
PRACTICALLY GIVEN AWAY.
At this time the Island was regarded
as worthless, and in consequence was
transferred to the East India company
for an annual payment of s1O sterling
or $50. But appreciating its marine ad
vantages the East India company with
drew its head office from Surat and
made Bombay its principal seat.
From that time the fortunes of the
place have grown prodigiously. The in
PRODUCTION of steam navigation and the
opening Of the Suez canal marked epochs
In its developments, and today in many
respects 1t outranks Calcutta in i'm
portance, and UP to the beginning of
the plague was almost the equal of the
older city in population.
Bombay doomed tremendously as
result of our civil war. Shut out from
the cotton markets of the southern
states, the Dnglish manufacturers turn
ed to Bombay for their supplies. This
caused the city to grow and flourish in
an unprecedented way, and of course
there were much speculation and over
trading. Then. when our war ended and
the cotton states Of the south resumed
their normal relations with England
the commerce of Bombay suffered re-
action and panic. but it speedily recoy-
cred from these disasters.
ITS COTTON INDUSTRY.
In turn the southern cotton growers
will probably benefit by the plague in
Bombay just as the western grain grow
ers are benefiting by the famine in Ben
gal The cotton growing country around,
Bombay has probably been decma ted
by the plague in the same proportion
as the population of the city. Then
the mills of Bombay, of which there
are seventy, must have been forced to
close their doors by the general sick
ness. The first of these mills was estab-
lished in 1854, and was paying venture
from the outset. Now there are thous
ards of looms and millions of spindles.
giving employment to $1,000 workmen.
From this 1t can be seen that Bombay's
Importance as a manufacturing center
ID of the first magnitude.
THE WONDERFUL HARBoR.
The city occupies the southern portion
The herald., 1897-01-24
t. THE ADVENTURES f;
OF AN A. r. A. ;
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Tn stature. a burly giant of nearly s
feet 3 inches; in worldly wealth, rich; in
reputation, a painter OF distinction. Mr..
Val Prinsep Is one of the most conspic-
uous figures in contemporary artistic
and literary circles-to say nothing of
lie monde ou Pon samuse.
The Prinsep family is Intimately asso-
ciated with India. Young Valentine was
horn in Calcutta in 1888, his father (who
had been a member of the Indian coun-
Gill returning to England when the boy
was years old. After living for some
time in Hyde Park gardens, Mr.. Prin-
sep, ST., migrated to Little Holland
house, a sweet, old-world, red-tiled
manor house, long cince demolished; it
had four acres of garden.
From this time onward the home of
the Prinseps became the resort Of art
and literature as typified by such men
as Tennyson, Thackeray, Tom Taylor,
"Dickey" Doyle, Millais, Leighton, Hol-
man Hunt, Browning, Watts, Burne-
Jones, and a host of others. No wonder,
then, that young Prinsep early evinced
a love for art, and distaste for the In
dian civil service, for which he studied
at Haileybury and was originally in
tended.
At this time his father was growing
old, and, doubtless, reasoned within
himself that it would be a good thing to
have at least one son at home. Said he.
well, If you really want to be an artist.
I'll give you so much a year for ten
years." and the thing was done.
Watts, who was very intimate with
the family, was the lads first master.
Later came the usual sojournings
abroad, on which account are artists
the envy of the less-favored professions.
when 1 was 21'' said Mr.. Prinsep, "I
went over to Paris to study drawing
under Gleyre." Poynter, Du Maurier,
and the inimitable Whistler had just
left the atelier of the same master.
One of the earliest events in young
The herald., 1897-01-24
THE SKIN PORES.

Each square inch Of the human skin
contain no less than.S5O0 sweating tubes
or perspiratfon pores. Each of thes(
tubes. although wonderfully minute, ii
about one-fourth of an inch in length
Each of these sweat tubes may be liken.
ed to a tiny drain tile. We find that the
average adult has about 1000 square
inches of skin ON the surface of his body
Each square inch of this outer cuticls
is, as we have said, literally permeated
with it's $500 quarter-inch PRECIPITATION
bitches. If we could put each Of these
little tubes end to end, we would find that
they would extend to a distance,of no less
than POI, ,166 feet.