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The advocate., 1897-06-30
The Presidents Message to Queen Victoria.

The Presidents Message to Queen Victoria.
President Mckinley sent the following
personal letter to Queen Victoria, which
was delivered to her by Mr., Whitelaw
Reid, special envoy
'Great and Good Friend: In the name
and on behalf Of the people ofthe United
States, l present their sincere felicits-
tions upon the sixtieth anniversary of
Your Msjesty's accession to the crown
Of Great Britain.
~ express the sentiments of my fellow
citizens in wishing for your people, the
prolongation Of a reign illustrious and
marked by advance in science, arts and
popular we'll being. On behalf Of my
countrymen, wish particularly to recog-
nizeyour friendship for the United States
and your love Of peace, exemplifed upon
important occasions.
"It is pleasing to acknowledge the debt
Of gratitude and respect due to your per.
sOnal virtues, May your life be prolonged
and peace, honor and prosperity bless
the people over whom you have been
called to rule. May liberty flourish
throughout your empire, under just and
equal laws, and your government con-
tinue strong in the affections of all who
live under it, And pray God to have
Your Majesty in his holy keeping"
The advocate., 1897-06-30
p1owimg Prevents Drought.

1t will be found THAT where the soil is
kept loose by plowing and cultivation
it's capacity for absorbing and holding
water is much greater than where it is
neglected, Thus every. weed and sur
The advocate., 1897-06-30
JUBILEE BEACONS FLASH.
British Signals Answered From All Quarters
Of the Globe.

The cable gives us some idea OF the
magnitude of the celebration in honor Of
Victoria's sixtieth anniversary as Queen
Of England
at Is midnight and the greatest day
of the Queens jubilee is over. With the
coming Of the night the crowds which
had filtered out of the procession streets
after the show wedged back again to
view London alight.
"The illuminRtions we're achieved
more Rrtistically than the decorations by
day. The symbols Of loyalty and
affection, Of imperial grandeur and the
growth Of the empire, that had met the
eye in painted and giIded notices,
devices of paper and bunting and span
gled cloth during the day were now re-
hected for miles in lines of flaring gas,
glow worm oil lamps, opal globes, paper
lanterns and transparencies, incandes-
cent lamps, flowers and hundreds Of
devices in thousands of crystals. Every
house showed light in some way, and
where it was sufficiently brilliant the
effect was decidedly enhanced by the
day draperies, though the empty stands
added rather q weird effect.
"Nothing in all London or elsewhere
exceeded in artistic beauty and brilliancy
Of display the scene from the Wellington
statue, with the bank of England on one
side and the Mansion House on the
other. The official home Of the Lord
Mayor was bathed in so much light that
all the beauties Of the day seemed to fit
in and charmingly miDgle with that Of
the night.
"Father Thames tonight furnished an
impressionist color scene. The sweep
seswRrd from the pool-myriad lights
here and there just touching into ghostly
form the shipping, the Tower, the heavy
lines beyond the long necklace of SHIN
mering gems away toward Westminster,
with st. Paups shadows on the silent
waters, the small string Of colOred lamps
on some wandering tug or cumbrous
barge, lines of lucent color on nearby
bridges, the streaming rays darting sky
ward from the dazzling streets-msde
more marked the gloomy warehouses,
dark patches Of almost impenetrable
shadow that on the rivers edge seemed
to fringe the glory Of it ALL
"Victoria Street was notable for theil
Illumination Of the United States embassy
and the Offices of the colonial agents
generally,
"With illuminations universal in every
town and hamlet of England, Wales and
Scotland and in some parts Of Ireland,
with fireworks in countless places, with
illuminations following the fall Of night
in every part of the empire where the
Queen has sway, there yet remains to be
mentioned the final touch-the lighting
Of the empires torch-the ancient form
Of giving warning or sending JOY, the
beacon fires.
"As 10 o'clock struck at the Greenwich
Observatory tongue Of fame shot up.
ward from Great Malvern, the backbone
of the midlands.' 1t was the jubilee
beacon fire. Hardly had the spectator
time to look on it before another fRred
in the distance on the right, then again
on,the left, on the north, south, east and
The advocate., 1897-06-30

II Ess THAN IS AN ACRE WILL BUY FINE
IL farm, fruit and stock land In county OF 49,
900 inhabitants and near railroad. GOOD
schools and churches. Address Jonas Davis,
Waukomis, Oklahoma.
The advocate., 1897-06-30

MONEY TO LOAN ON WELL IMPROVED
IYA Farms I'm eastern Kansas aud western
Missouri Borrowers write directly to J. II.
Noble sol Jackson ST., Topeka, Kas. Also good
farms for sale.
The advocate., 1897-06-30

XXTANTED.---A FIRST CLASS CAEVASSER
wv TO work a prosperous county for sub
scrlptions and 10 collect on delinquents for
O thoroughly Up.to-date Populist county seat
paper. Kgood fob for the right kind OK man.
Address y w. HoFphy, care ADVOCATE, To-
peltR, Kansas.
The advocate., 1897-06-30

A GOOD NEWSPAPER PLANT IN COUNTY
N Of 10000 inhabitants, At county seat Of
5000. Only Populist paper In county, Address,
the ADVOCATE, Topeka, Kas.
The Press., 1897-03-11
Marchs Sth, 1867.


 The Universalist fair last week yielded the society $240 above expenses.
 The house of Mahlon Rockwell, caught fire about o'clock on Sunday morning, and the roof was nearly consumed. The fire originated from defective chimney.
 A horse belonging to E. E. Butterfield, and long known in Stafford by the sou briquet of "Old Prince," died on Sudnay last. He has served in MT. B's teams for nearly 16 years, and was 26 years old.
 The woolen manufacturers in town have under considerations the expedlency of temporary suspension. The matter is to be decided at meeting to be held on Saturday, The suspension is not ex- pected to exceed sixty days if it does thirty.
 J. H. Goodell, who has for some time had charge of the repairing department of l.. H. Dennis jeweIry store, has bought up the watch ,olock, jewelry and spectacle part of the business and will remove it back to MT. Dennis old store, adjoining Small X Heald's, while MT. Dennis will retain the confectionery, stationery and fancy goods, at his prerent location in Pages block.
 Fourteen new members were taken into the Congregational church at Wilmington last Sabbath and eight by letter. Rev. MT. House has accepted a call from the Congregational church.-Rev. MT. Barden is supplying the pulpit of the Baptist church.-John B. Whitfield has sold his farm to MT. C.. Green of Stafford, section master of the N. l.. N. road. The farm is situated one-half mile southeast from the depot, and the price paid was $1875.
 WEsTFoRD.-Rev. P. B. Hopkins, who has been pastor of the ssFree-will Baptist church in Westford for the past three years, preached his farewell discourse last Sabbath. He has had call from a Free-will Baptist church in Farnums- vile, Mass An effort is being made by the citizens of Westford and MooseMeadow to extend to Westford the mail now run ming from Holland and Willington.-The glass works stopped at Willington Feb. 9th. Although the glass business since Jan. 1st has been very dull, the glass works at Westford are running with good prospec' of being continued for some time to come. Both Westford and Wilmington companies have accumulated quite large stocks of glass.
 Born - Wilmington, Feb. 27, 1867, a daughter to G. H. Brink.
 Married -StaffordSprings Feb. 2S, 1867, by Rev. A. w. Ide, H. A. Eastman and Emeline Chapman, both of Ashford.
 Somers,-Feb. 28, 1867, by Rev. Chas. A. Merrild, Erastus H. Stebbins and Mrs. Miranda TrueSdall.
The Press., 1897-03-11

been less storm. People do not move about much, the women keep to the house, and the men attend to the chores. There is not much else to do. A good number of the people spend the season in visiting their former homes in other states, or in Canada. They get very rea- sonable rates on ninety-days tickets. Many of our people are Canadians.
 1 date this letter the day it is written, but when it will go out it is hard to say. The storm is abating. There was Hull in the wind in the night, but towards morning it began again, having changed to the north west, and started afresh with greater velocity. The storms interest us, for they affect bodily comfort, pleasure, and business. O. P. CHAMPLIN.
The Press., 1897-03-11

SOMETHING TO DEFEND ON.-Mr. J. Jones, of the drug firm of Jones & Son, Cowden, H., in speaking of Dr. Kings New Discovery, says that last winter his wife was attacked with La Grippe, and her case grew so serious that physicians at Cowden and Pana could do nothing for her. It seemed to develop into Nasty Consumption. Having Dr. Kings New Discovery in store, and selling lots..of it he took bottle home, and, to the sur. prise of all, she began 10 get better from first dose, and half a dozen dollar bottles cured her sound and we'll. Dr. Kings New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds is guaranteed to do this good work. Try it. Free trial bottles at FIX. Taft's Drug Store. 5
 Be honest. Dishonesty seldom makes one rich, and when it does riches are q curse. There is no such thing as dis. honest success.
 GREAT TRIUMPH.-Instant relief and a permanent cure by the great remedy, Ot' o's Cure for Lung and throat diseases. Why will you irritate your throat and lungs with 8 hacking cough when E. K. Taft, Stafford Springs, w. P. Fuller SOmerS, Odell G Jones, StanOrdv1lle, sole agents, will furnish you a free sample bottle of this guaranteed remedy? Its success is simply wonderful, as your druggist will tell you. Sample free, Large bottles soc and 25c.
 VIoK's FLORAL GUIDE, 1S97.-For near. ly half century this Catalogue of Flower and Vegetable Seeds, Plants, Bulbs Roses, Grains, Potatoes, etc. has come as regularly as spring time. Here 1t is again to remind us that it's time to think about our gardens. This issue contains half dozen full page half-tone illustra. tions of Roses, Asters, Gold Flowers Carnations and Tomatoes. It seems full of the necessary information for either amateur or professional. Send 15 cents to James Vick's Sons. Rochester, N. Y. for packet of either Vick's Branching Aster, New Japan Morning Glory or ex tra choice Pansy and 8 copy of Vick's Floral Guide. If you state where 70, saw this you will receive a package o l flower seeds free.
The Press., 1897-03-11

There is a Class of People
 Who are inured by the use of coffee. Recently there has been placed in all the grocery stores a new preparation called GRAND, made of pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over k as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15 cts and g cts. per pack age. Try 1t. Ask for GRAIN-O.
The Press., 1897-03-11
STATE OF OHIO. CITY OF To1Epol

LUCAS COUNTY, BE-
 FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm Of F. J. CHENEY & Co.,. doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of HALLS CATARRH CURE.
 FRANK J. CHENEY. . Sworn to before me and subscribed in my pres ence, this 9th day Of December, A. D. 1886.
The Press., 1897-03-11

BUoKLEN's ARNIoA SALvE.-The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, letter chapped hands. chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and positively cures piles or no pay required. Guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded
 Price 25c per box. Sold by E. K. Taft
The Press., 1897-03-11

Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free.
 IF Sold by Druggists, 75c.
The Press., 1897-03-11
The Chicago Grocery's
 WEEKLY PRICES.

E9rI It will pay you to read them if you have't got money to burn.
 21 lbs. ::Fine Granulated Sugar, $1.OO % lbs. Coffee Sugar, 100 lb. Good Coffee, 2Oc bbl. Best Haxall Flour, 5.25 A few 3-gal. Pump Oil Cans, each, 60c dog. 3-lb. cans Fine Table Peaches, 1.2O 3 2-lb. cans Corned Beef, soc 1 can Finest Marrow Peas, 1Oc Best Flint Lamp Chimneys, No. A, 5c Best Flint Lamp Chimneys, No. B, Sc cans Clans, Little Necks, 25c Greens, Dandelion and Spinach, 2Oc 30 bars Star Soap, LOO "A bars Welcome Soap, 100 30 bars Lenox Soap, 100 2S bars Oak Leaf Soap, LOO 1 dog. Shore Mackerel, fine, 19c Salmon Trout, fine, per lb., Sc Best Cucumber Pickles, per gal, 23c cans Condensed Milk, 25c packages Best Mince Meat, 25c II lbs. Tody Tobacco, 25c 1 bottle Prime Worcestershire Sauce, 10c 100 lbs. Oyster Shells, 95c Pure Fruit Jams, per lb., Sc 1 gal. Fine Light Molasses, 35c package Soapine Washing Powder, Sc CHICAGO GROCERY,
The Press., 1897-03-11
I897 CARRIAGES I897


 | shall show after March 1st the largest stock of Single Carri- ages, Surreys, COncOrds, and Light Vehicles of every descrip- tiOn, I have ever carried, and at lower prices. Carriages from $45 to $15O-Surreys form $7O to 75-COncOrds from $40 to 300. The work is built to my or der, sold under my guarantee. and will be just as represented. Having sold from 60 to 200 jobs per year for the last 20 years, I will meet any ones prices. I am also prepared to do repairing in all it's branches and at lowest rates.
 JOHN G. WIGHTMAN. Stafford Hollow, Feb. 25, 1897.
The Press., 1897-03-11

Be honest. Dishonesty seldom makes one rich, and when it does riches are q curse. There is no such thing as dis honest success.
The Press., 1897-03-11
The Social Position of Actors.


 The Social Position of Actors.
 The time was ill France when the ac. tor had no social position, and certainly no spiritual one Special dispensation was necessary when the Catholic church allowed a mass to be said for the repose of an actor's soul. In The Chautauquan Professor Warren, describing the Mo Here period, writes:
 The social position of actors ill Mo- Here's time was a low one. Not from any prejudice against the stage evil dently, since dramatists like Corneille and Scarron were on the same footing other salons of Paris as poets and essay ists and were elected to the French Academy as readily. Indeed, it would seem as though the composition of plays was the shortest road to distinction in the Paris of Moliere, as it is today. But | with the actors it was another question. | Their wandering, unsettled modes of life had evidently told against them. They were not admitted to society | whether their conduct was good or bad. | They were not even considered in the | light of literary persons Moliere met his friends. Boileau, La Fontaine, Flu | retiere, at public cafes. As writer of comedy he was either not taken serious | ly or had incurred too much hostility on the part of influential sets, the clergy through "Tartuffe," the salons through Lies Femmes Savantes. As an actor be was considered an outcast with his class, and when, on his deathbed, he asked for spiritual consolation his ap- peal fell on deaf ears till it was too late So that it was with the greatest difficult ty that his widow procured bit of con- secrated ground ill which to lay the re- | mains of the unshrived comedian.
 While no physician or pharmacist can conscientiously warrant a cure, the J. c. Aver Co. guarantee the purity, strength, and medicinal virtues of Ayers Sarsa- parilla. It was the only blood-purifier ad. mitteed at the great World'sFair in Chica. | go, 1893.
 | He who rules his temper conquers his greatest enemy.
 |
The Press., 1897-03-11

Behold, sower went forth to sow"
 In the spring of the century-long ago. Flood and ten1pest, and fire and frost, Swept the field, but no seed was lost What of the harvest? The old Maine seed
 Is growing bread for the great world'e need. -1Mary 4. Lgt1bury
The Press., 1897-03-11
ITEMS FROM THE STAFFORD
 NEWS LETTER.

1t is our intention to print under this head from week to week, items of interest from the old Stafford News Letter
The Press., 1897-03-11
WAS IN CONSTANT MISERY.
A Carpenters Life Saved by
 the Puritana Treatment.

| | ]. }. ,. = . ' B
 "A M R. George H. Denny is
 A MI carpenter who has wN always worked in the vicin- H ity of South Northfield. Vt EHMN MNW He is about 35, bright, ener- bU Getic and favorably known. He lives near the head P quarters of Dog River, on
 the high land that divides
 the waters of the Connecti-
 cut and Winoosh rivers. 1are is his statement: About a wear ago I was taken with kidney trouble in one of the worst forms was pasSiux from four to six quarts of water every 24 hours. and my trouble finally ran into diabetes. 1 had had kidney trouble before, and had some what recovered when the second attack e&me last fall. I employed a doctor all last winter with no favorable results I worked ali the time, but was in con- stant misery, and if had kept on I would not now have been alive The dis case reduced my weight from 180 to 14s pounds, and during all the time I got no relief until 1 began to use Puritana I commenced the Puritana treatment last April, and used three or four bot ties. The rst results were felt in my stomach, which improved rapi sly, 50 that could rat and digest my food com eertably. .e next result was that my bladder was restored to its normal con- aition. Lave been well all summer, although I left off using Puritana in June. l think Puritana is the best rem @dy that l have ever known, and un- hssitatingly recommend it to others, for whose good publish this letter.
 (Signed) George H. Denny"
 This is only one example of what Puritana can do and is doing every day for suffering men and women. Puri- tmna is the prize formula of Prof. Dixi Crosby of Dartmouth College. and by tts action on the stomach it cures trou- bles of the blood, nerves, heart, liver, kidneys and other vital organs.
The Press., 1897-03-11
There is a Class of People

He who rules his temper conquers his greatest enemy.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-30
THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.

The sacraLent of the Lords Supper will be observed in the church next Sun. day morning, May 2, at the usual hour ot service. Two persons will be admitted into church membership, one by letter, one on profession of faith.
 The May meeting of the Ladies' Mis-. sionary Society is to be next Tuesday afternoon, the 4th, at o'clock. The subject will be "HOme Missions" instead of the one suggested in Life and Light. :"
 The pastor will speak next Tuesday evening on "The Characteristics of Luke's Gospel"
 Rev Otis W. Barker and George R. Wilson represented the church at the Fairfield East Consolation, Tuesday, which installed William O. Berckmann as pastor of the New Fairfield Congrega- tional church.
 The missionary" potatoes will be dis tributed among the children in the Sum day school, next Sunday, that they may be.planted and the yield brought in at the harvest festival to go to worthy institu- tiOns.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-30
THE MUSICAL FESTIVAL.

Many and varied are the beautiful musical selections to be rendered at the grand musical festival at the Sandy Hook Opera house on Wednesday even
 ing, May 12. Prof c. $. Platt and Mrs J. W. Gordon, as we'll as their combined force of pupils, are straining every nerve in the preparation of grand musical treat. A full orchestra of at least 15 pieces will render the sweetest of classic music. There will be quartets, duets, and solos on both string and wiDd instru- ments, the best of vocal selections both male and female, and altogether one of the strongest musical programs ever presented to the citizens of this town. Already a very large number in town, as well as out of town, have already sig nified their intention of attending and it Is safe to say that very large audience will grace the Opera house on that even- ing. Announcement cards will be issued on Monday of next week Besides the object Is worthy one, and St Mary's Social and Literary club, toward whose benefit the proceeds will be devoted is ar instiCution which has done an untold amount of good among the young men of Sandy Hook. The program in ful will be given in next weeks BEE.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-30

The buying time of the year is at hand. House cleaning, moving, general chaos. Look around, see what you are go- ing to need; then come to the money saving sale of house keeping goods now going on here.
 Curtains,
 Rugs,
 Mattings,
 Oil Cloths
 Upholstery Goods,
 Bed Spreads,
 Comfortables,
 Sheets,
 Pillow Cases,
 Table inens,
 Kitchen Goods.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-30
Decided reductions in dre.

Decided reductions in dress goods now.
 Fifty pieces of fancies, 40 to 50 inches wide, at soc a yard <; reduced from 75c and LOO.
 Thirty pieces of high classed novelties at LOO a yard ; re- duced from I.5o and 200.
 Ten pieces of Black Bro- cades, A inches wide. at SOC a yard; reduced from 75c.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-30

John W. Futile of Botsford, who at- tempted to kill Mrs Caroline Booth, a few weeks ago, will be taken on Saturday from the jail in Bridgeport to Newtown by Sheriff Rodgers. He will be given a hearing before Justice Bradley and if the woman tells the story she has related to the authorities, Tuttle will undoubted- ly be held for trial before the Superior court on a charge of assault with intent to murder. The woman is still at the hospital, but is improving rapidly.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-30
BICYCLIsTs MUST KEEP OFF THE sIDE-
 WALKS.

It has been a common remark by peo- pie who have watched the bicycle riders on our walks, that sooner or later some child would be injured. And the expec- ted happened, Wednesday night, when Master John Bradley, who was riding at rapid rate, ran into Florence Hawley, daughter of MT and Mrs E. F. Hawley. She was knocked down and sustained some slight cuts on the face. We have A wide and excellent roadway, and it Is hoped that bicyclists will respect the law anu the rights ot pedestrians, and keep of the walks. If this is not done it is likely that the residents of the Street will unite and prosecute the offenders.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-30
THE D. M. READ COMPANY,
 BRIDGEPORT, CONN.

cents an ounce. Ed Pinaud's Roman Quadruple Essence in all the new odors cut glass bottles-for s1OO each. It
 is for your interest to know our per fumery department.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-30

J. H. Galpin of Woodbury arrived at Taylor's hotel, Sandy Hook, with eight horses and several pair of cattle on We'd nesday morning and before night had disposed of three or four horses and one pair of cattle. One pair of horses went to Bedding Ridge with W. H. Hill and William Hawley of Hawleyvi!le bought a nice horse.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-30

Refrigerators, all new, all charcoal filled, all the very best, all guaranteed. We bought them direct from the makers cheap, and we'll sell them to you the same way-cheap. You can save the profits of the middle-man-wholesale
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-30

Homer Baldwin gave an enjoyable dancing party at his new barn in Hano- yer on Friday night. It was a social success, but some of the Newtown young men went home unhappy, it is said, because the gallant young mer from Brookfield completely carried of the honOrs.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-30

Miss May Wales, expects to finish her duties at the postoffice tomorrow and will go to GlenbroOk for a tune. Miss Wales has made many friends during her stay in Newtown who would gladly welcome her back at any time.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-30

We are constantly receiv- ing new colors in plain and changeable taffetasilks ; petu- nias in pink and purple tones, reds in cerise and geranium tints, new greens, new blues, new browns, rich ambers and new watermelon shades.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-30

New things keep a coming into our cloak room new capes, new waists, new skirts, new suits. Among them silk lined coats at 3.o5, and 5 /; worth 600 and goo