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The Newtown bee., 1897-12-03

Selectman Simon G. Bradley, who has
been South for the past three weeks, re-
turned home last Friday. Mr. Bradley
| was in Newton, North Carolina, acting
as Judge in the Eastern field trials club
Earlier ia the season he went to Eastern
ohio and judged the trials there. A
ate edition aof The Forest, Field and
Stream speaks at myth Of Mr. Bradley E
qualities as Judge and says that he has
40 superior in America in this capacity.
There is some talk of having class in
dancing at the Grange hall, this winter
There are prospects of class Of over
| a dozen at the next Initiation meeting OF
| the Grange here.
Owing to the success that has attended
| the singing classes in the Academy, an
agitation is on foot to have music taught
ia all the schools in the town. 1t could
| be accomplished at verv little cost to the
town, and it is hoped that the selectmen
can see their way clear to provide the
| schools with this necessary department.
| Morris l.. Wilson of Bridgeport spent
Sunday in Greenfield with bis mother.
| The many friends of A. B. Wakeman
| will be glad to learn that he is recovering
from his recent Illness.
| Mrs A. D. Wilson has returned from
Bridgeport.
c. Fl. Banks attends the Union business
college in Bridgeport.
| Miss Fannie Conklin led the Y. P. S. G.
e. meeting, Sunday evening.
| Mrs Epson of New Haven was the guest
Of her mother, Mrs Julia Wilson, over
| Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs George Fl. Merwin anG
| daughter were guests of Mrs MerWin's
parents at Purdy, N. Y, last week.
The Newtown bee., 1897-12-03

Mems Slippers for Holiday gifts here, in all kinds and
zes made of Russian Calf Goat Skin and K both high and
low CUT black and coors. Best time select while assert
ment is a its best.
The Newtown bee., 1897-12-03

We have ceved the largest and most attractive stock of
Handkerchief for Christmas Embroidered hemstch caoped
and with lace edge 25c $780, 45c and soc each Nice assert
ment Of embroidered s. TO- II H. Is and 25c each.
The Newtown bee., 1897-12-03

AT THE METHODIST CHURCH.
On Thursday evening December q, the Ia
The Newtown bee., 1897-12-03
DEATH OF THOMAS BULKLEY.

Thomas Buckley, hat fnisher by
trade, died at his home in Elmwood dis
trict, last Sunday, after q long illness
The funeral was attended on Wednesday
The Newtown bee., 1897-12-03

METHODIST CHURCH AFFAIRS.
The Ladies' Aid society are planning /
social to be held about the middle OF d.
cember, during the full of the moon.
The Newtown bee., 1897-12-03

Second Sunday in Advent, December
5: AT 1890 a. M, Mornir G Prayer, ser
mon and Holy Communion. Sunday
school after morning service.
The many friends OF Mrs Boylstoa will
be glad o know that she is convalescir Q
from her lopg and serious illness and Is
once more abe to be about the house.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-01-02

At the annual meeting of the
Lake Carriers association, to be
held in Detroit on Jan. II, the
International association Of
Longshoremen will endeavor to
bring about the adoption of
their cooperative contract plan
and the abolition of the steve
dore system in the loading and
unloading of vessels. The officers
of the union will wait upon the
lake carriers with facts and
arguments of a change in the
method Of awarding this labor
by which it will go direct to the
unions at the several ports. The
Longshoremen's unions of Super
ior will send delegates to the
meeting who will urge in every
possible way the carrying out of
of the contract plan direct with
the longshoremen.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-01-02
Ambition.

Aspire not too high.
Although the lark scars to the sky,
TO utter forth it's most melodious sound
Still, It is confessed,
1t comes to earth to build it's nest
Low on the ground
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-01-02
One of nany.
BY SARAH e. GANNETT.

BY SARAH e. GANNETT.
The hot sun pours rem orselessly
through seventh story window in
the Census Office in Washington.
At one of the long rows of tables
women sits, young still, and bear
ing traces of lost beauty and vivac-
ity, but tired and old before her
time, and disheartened by many
things.
Her pen flies rapidly over the
paper, for she is obliged to accom-
plish a certain amount every day
or lose her place; and home, food
and clothes for five little children
depend on her unaided efforts. Her
thoughts fly backward along the
past to her careless girlhood; to
her early married life, when she
was the idolized pet of wealthy,
successful man; to her later years,
when children came fast, and with
them came the dread awakening to
the fact that her husband Was
roue, a drunkard and gambler; to
the gradual loss of all the comforts,
and even the necessaries, of life
even the love of her husband gone;
to her long journey from her home
in New Mexico to Washington, the
five little children in her care alone,
her husband left behind to work
out his own veal or woe; to the
daily toll and struggle both in
office and at home to care for and
support her family on sixty dollars
a month, with the fear of dismis sal
continually hanging, like the
sword of Damocles, over her head.
She thinks of the letter received
that morning from her husband-a
letter filled with remorse for the
past and promises for the future
ending in a determination to join
her in Washington in a few days
and lead better life.
She wonders vaguely as she writes
whether she is glad to hear that.
Will his coming be joy and re-
lief, or will it be an added burden?
Too often, alas! had she listened to
his promises of reform to trust
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-01-02

them now. So her head droOps
lower over her work, and she writes
drearily on, not even needing the
little stir caused by the entrance of
a messenger with a telegram for
one of the clerks. The name is
common one Harris. Several
women in this one room have that
name, and the messenger carries it
to one and another, and at last lays
it under her eyes.
us this your name, madam ?'
With a cry she snatches it, and
tears it open with shaking hands.
A brutal message, but telling all:
St. Louis, Mo.
"Charles Harris dead. Suicide
after killing another man in a
drunken brawl. What shall be done
with body?"
Then she faints-an ordinary &C.
curence. Women frequently do
that in the Census office. Heart
aches and troubled minds are COM
mon there.
They carry her out and send her
home, and the work of the day
goes on.
A week passes by and she comes
back, paler, sadder and more hol-
lowed-eyed than ever, for now che
is the widow of murderer and a
suicide. She shrinks from the sight
of all. How people must desPise
her! But work she must for the
sake of her little ones.
At noon she cannot eat, but sits
alone among the throng of merry
clerks, white, still and silent. Her
very heart seems dead within her.
A kindly woman brings her a cup
of tea, but she shakes her head with
dumb, beseeching eyes. Oh, if she
could only crawl away by herself
to cry! The woman understands;
she needs no words to tell her OF
her friends suffering. She gently
presses her hand, and turns away
as the signal is given to resume
work. The hour of closing comes
at last. Pens are wiped and put
away; work is collected by the mes
senger to be stored for the night;
tables are cleared, and clerks sit
quietly waiting for the signal for
dismissal from their days work,
when another messenger appears,
bearing a package of long white
envelopes.
Ominious sight! All know it's
meaning, and in an instant the
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IOO1u LIDS luc S11cuCC VI uCdIu. RACES
pale and hands tremble nervOus1y
as the messenger goes around,
dropping his white missives here
and there among the clerks. Each
clerk who receives one knows that
the hour has come, that this paper
is Uncle Sans official notification
that their services are no longer
required by the government. Some
receive them in stolid silence, some
laugh Historically, many cry or
even scream, and the lately silent
room is moved to grief and sorrow
If not for oneself, for a neighbor.
At length the messenger reaches
our suffering friend. He is behind
her chair. He passes by, and her
firmly compressed lips part in a
sigh of relief. He stops, hesitates,
turns back, and the Hateful en-
velope lies before her:
MRS. HELEN HARRIS"
AS in a dream she picks it up, and
staggers to her feet as the electric
bell jangles out the hour of dis
missal. Silently she puts on her
hat and joins the throng at the ele-
vator. Friends speak to her in love
and pity, but she cannot answer.
In her stunned heart she DULY Won
ders if God still lives, or if he has
forgotten her.
And so she wanders home and
sits down among her helpless
babes.-Cosmopolitan.
The record-union., 1897-09-02
To Bribe the Court.

Justice Brewer of the United States
Supreme Court while in Kansas City
a few days ago, told this anecdote:
Several years ago a cigarmaker in
Washington named Scott got UP a brand
of cigars which he called the Supreme
Court The labels on the inside of the
boxes were pictures of the entire court,
and the cigar was a good one. L know
this, because one day each of the JUS
tees received two boxes of them with
the compliments of Mr.. Scott. Nothing
was thought of this fact at the time,
and it was taken as a slight courtesy in
return for the use of our pictures But
several weeks later we learned the ci-
gars had been sent to soothe our anger.
One of the clerks had gone to Scott and
told him that the members of the court
were very much provoked at him and
intended prosecuting him for taking
such liberties with their pictures. Scott
was frightened, and he hit upon the idea
of bribing the Justices, and | suppose
he thought he succeeded, for he was
never prosecuted, nor had such a thing
been thought of"-Detroit Free Press.
The record-union., 1897-09-02
FATAL RUNAWAY
ACCIDENT.
A San Francisco Money Lender
Meets With Death.
Thrown From a Buggy While Out for a
Drive and Instantly Killed.
A Young Man Commits Suicide at
P1atvi1le, Plumas County, by
Shooting HimseIf-New Trial in
The Parker Will Contest.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. Henry
Windel, an eccentric money lander and
furniture broker, whose life for the
past many years has been one long
chapter of trouble with pretty women.
was this afternoon thrown from his
buggy and instantly killed.
Windel lived all alone at Burritt
Place in a house jealously protected
from intrusion by a trellis fence and
barbed wire. He was a bachelor, over
6O years of age, and reputed to be very
wealthy
Windel went for a drive to-day with
young lady, Miss Constance Kohl, a
musician living at 1872 Bush street,
who claims to be an adopted daughter
of the deceased. When opposite the
Almshouse the horse ran away, and
the occupants We're thrown out, Win
del being instantly killed.
Wfndel was accused in 1893 of being
the cause of the death of the wife of
DR.. King. Miss Conradt went to
Seattle, where, on March 81, 1893, she
married Harry King, a young man
nearer her own age. Windel followed
Miss Conradt north, but arrived at
Port Townsend the day after she had
married King in Seattle.
The record-union., 1897-09-02
Corns and Bunions.

The feet are surely plant members
when they can endure the variformed
shoes that from time to time compel
them into new habits with each new
pair put on; yet they rarely rebel or
give real trouble unless barbarously
neglected. Corns and bunions are morei
often the result of wearing old shoes
than in a wrong selection of new ones.
A constant change of footgear inures
the foot to variety, and even those who
confine themselves wholly to the ready
made article need suffer no i'll effects if
they will keep their shoe-supply as
carefully replenished as is the rest of
the wardrobe.
1t is one of the most fallacious of
practices to attempt to economize by
wearing old shoes about the house, un-
less they posses all their buttons, have
straight heels and soles, and are daily
brushed and aired, as are their newer
fellows. Only in this way may the an
kles be continually braced into straight
ness and the toes allowed to move gen.
tly in an almost straight direction.
When the foot is thrown out of balance
by worn-down heels, the toes, attempt
Ills ~ lCNalh a ACFCA PCSlAAClt, pCi1Vi
prehensile feats which resemble the
action of the forebears some scientists
have ascribed to us. Moreover, the
combined heat and moisture of the nor
NAL foot hardens the leather of the con-
tinuously worn shoe into permanent
creases, which in turn render the foot
extremely sensitive, and struggling
against it's hard environment enlarges.
the joints and causes local Distress
Harper's Bazaar.
The record-union., 1897-09-02
A Finland Love Story.

Mrs Alec Tweedle has recently
brought out a book entitled Through
Finland in Carts full of racy chat of
travel She speaks of Finland as being
like Norway, ''riddled with telephones" ."
and tells the following little story to il
lustrate the excessive use of the tele-
phone by Finnish folk:
"Pekka was madly in love with lima,
wondrously pretty maiden. He heard
rumors that she was trifiing with an
other. He could not stand the torture,
even for a few hours, and so rang up
the mansion of the family Heikkila.
Joy. He heard the voice of lima in
answer, and said: Is it you, dear one?
I, Pekka. am here
"a soft sigh replied.
Are you glad to hear Pekka? Do
you care for him just a little?'
Yes sighed the fair maid.
" Darling, it is not true that you care
for ArTnas Merikanto?'
" No, no. she cried.
'' You like me-you love me?'
Yes she softly murmured.
Will you be my wife?'
"1 will. Pekka-'
"Overjoyed, Pekka almost hugged the
wooden box that brought him such glad
tidings.
when may come to see you, darl-
ing-my little wife,
" Come, Pekka, come for dinner at 3
o'clock A few more sweet nothings,
and, quite enraptured. Pekka returned
to his office routine. At 3 o'clock, spick
and span, with a golden ring in his
pocket, he presented himself at the
home of the Heikkilas.
I'm the salon stood the mother. He
went toward her to receive her mother
Iy congratulations. She rushed forward
to meet him, as all good mothers-in-law
should, and, throwing herself into his
arms, she cried
Take me, Pekka, dearest Pekka; 1
am yours till death
4" 'Minel'
"'Yes 1 have loved you long. darling
Pekka, and / am ready whenever you
can fix a day for our marriage
"Tableau. Moral: Beware of tele-
phones"
AS there are, according to Mrs.
Tweedle, some 10000 more women than
men in Finland. the action of Pekka' s
intended mother-in-law is explainable.-
Electrical Engineer.
The record-union., 1897-09-02
MURDER OF CONSTABLE PYLE.
Trial of McCamish, Charged With
the Crime, Begun.

Los ANGELES, Sept. 1.-The trial
of Ed McCamish, charged with having
murdered Mccoy Pyle at Castaic, Los
Angeles County, on the 9th of April.
1884, was this morning begun before
Judge Smith.
At the time of the alleged murder
McCamish was acting in the capacity
of Deputy under Pyle, who was serving
term as Constable in that township.
MECHANISM and Pyle went in search of
parties said by the former to have COM
mitted certain robberies in the neigh
borhood. McCamish came back alone.
and told how they had met two thieves.
one of whom shot and killed Pyle.
His story was not believed, as it was
alleged that McCamish was intimate
with the Constable's wife, and the men
had often quarreled.
Coroner Campbell to-day testified as
to the evidence brought out at the in
quest, which was of such a nature as
to throw doubt upon the story told by
McCamish.
The record-union., 1897-09-02
PARKER WILL CONTEST.
A New Trial Granted by Judge Hy-
land of San Jose.

SAN JOSE, Sept. Judge Hyland
this morning granted a new trial in the
contest of the will of George H. Parker,
deceased. The estate is worth about
$500,000.
Parker's son, Edward, married a
woman against the wishes of his par
ents, and she was called an adventur-
ess. George Parker in his will cut the
son off with only a life estate. The
son died first, and after George Park
er's death, Emma Parker, widow of
Edward, sued to break the will, alleg-
ing insanity and undue influence.
In the first trial the jury was unable
to agree. In the second trial the jury
found for the contestant, Emma Parker,
and broke the will. The court now
grants new trial to the proponents.
The case occupied eight to twelve
weeks at each trial.
The record-union., 1897-09-02
MARGHERITA ON MOUNTAINS.
The Queen of Ita1y's Prowess as an
Alpine Climber

Queen Margherita, the delicate wo-
man of fashion, the somewhat indolent
beauty of the Quirinal where the strict
and severe etiquette of the house of Sa-
voy surrounds her as with a cloak, has
left Rome, and has arrived at Gres-
soney, in the midst of the Alps, where
a metamorphosis takes place and the
admired sovereign becomes an Alpine
climber in the real meaning of the
word. She dresses in the peasant cos
tune with short skirt, good stout boots
and Tyrolese hat, and, alpenstock in
hand, does her climbing either on foot
or riding a favorite donkey. During
a famous ascent in 1888 of the Peak
of the Giant, 2,4000 feet above the
level of the sea, the Queen was over
taken by a severe spowstorm, which
obliged her and her few attendants to
take refuge in a hut belonging to the
, Alpine Club, which was soon full of
climbers of all nationalities. who. when
they knew who she was, at once offered
to leave the humble quarters entirely
at her disposal. "On no account" ex-
claimed the Queen, ''the hut must do
for all. I am the hostess, and we will
spend the night as comfortably as we
can" After this the Italian Alpine
Club presented their sovereign with a
, magnificent diploma, of which she is
very proud, and replaced the hut with
a refuge to which they gave the name
of Regina Margherita.''
The Italian sovereign during her STAY
at Gressoney stops at the villa of the
Barons de Peccoz. In the Peccoz fam
lily the duty of accompanying the
Princes of the house of Savoy in their
Alpine climbs seems almost hereditary
The late Baron, who in his youth ac-
companed the Duke of Genoa and
Prince Thomas. father and brother of
the Queen, in all their mountain excur-
sions, was the faithful guide of Queen
Margherita. until in the summer Of
1895, when, while ascending a mount
ain at her side, he suddenly fell at her
feet and died in a few moments. Now
his sons have taken his place.
The sturdy mountaineers of this mart
of the Alps tramp many miles to see
her, and when she enters any of their
villages they receive her with flowers
and enthusiastic manifestations of do
votion-her climbing powers. added to
her kindness and personal attractions
making her come next to the Madonna
in their hearts. One might ask. where
Margherita feels more a sovereign IN
the Quirinal, or on the Aims. = Poroo
correspondence Pail Mall Gazette
The record-union., 1897-09-02
WATER SUIT.
Action Brought Against a San
Diego Land and Town Company.

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 1.-The controv-
ersy between the Chula Vista ranchers
under the Sweetwater irrigation system
and the Land and Town Company, the
owner of that system, assumed new
phase to-day.
The litigation over the water rates
between these ranchers and the Land
and Town Company was recently de-
cided by Judge Ross at Los Angeles
in favor Of the latter, and from this de-
cision an appeal was taken. Then the
company issued a circular, notifying
ranchers that unless they paid the 81
rate, which it had fixed, the water
would be entirely shut off, none being
furnished for either domestic or irri-
cation purposes.
To-day Judge A. Haines, who owns a
tract of land at Chula Vista, brought
suit in the Superior Court here to en-
join the Land and Town Company
from cutting off water from his ranch.
A temporary injunction was ordered to
issue as prayed
Other suits of like character will
probably be brought.
The record-union., 1897-09-02
BERGER'S RECORD.
Known to be One Of the Shrewdest
of Confidence Men

WALNUT CREEK, Sept. 1.-C. A.
Berger, arrested in San Francisco, is
well known here as one of the shrewd-
est of confidence men. He came here
about two years ago, and went TO
work on the Naphthaly ranch as
cook. He met Peter Crena, the wine
maker, and succeeded in selling to that
gentleman four lots IN the town of AL
viso, in Santa Clara County, for which
he received 500. When Crena sent
the deeds to San Jose to be recorded
he was informed that the lots had al
ready teen sold to other parties, and
that there were claimants for the prop
erty in all parts of the State victims
of Berger's duplicity.
Berger went from here to Los An
geles, where he lived at 369 North
Main street He is reported to have
robbed a church at San Diego, stealing
a priests clothes. He had his photo
The record-union., 1897-09-02

grieved because he had given up his
position to see one of them through and
the crowd would not let him back. TO
fight through it was impossible, ana
though, when the mass was in motion
anywhere, there was a good deal or
rough jostling, it represented merely
the exertions of an nl-conditioned few.
In three or four hours I did not see a
blow struck or hear a single angry
word spoken.
There was a good deal of good-hu-
mored chaff, of course, and very severe
structures on any who attempted to
take an unfair advantage. One big
chap-not an artisan or laborer, but a
well-dressed, educated man-had edged
his way in. Nobody interfered active
ly, but there were remarks. Now,
then, hope you see better now. You'll
be more comfortable there" Some
people have no thought for any but
themselves. Selfish, that's what it is. :"
Then some one struck in with what
really showed a fine sense of courtesy.
Two men just beside US had a little
woman with them, and they had man
euvered pretty energetically to get her
to the front. Obviously it was thought
that they might take these structures
to themselves, so the comments were
duly qualified. "Of course if any one
has ladies with them, that's another
story They're bound to do the best
they can for them; that's only right. !"
without they leave them at home, ,"
some one else chimed in. "And that's
the best way" a good many voices
replied. That ended the matter. The
big man, I may say, made efforts at
ironic retort; but after he had salts
fed his dignity by retaining his emf
nence a few moments, he fell unob-
trusively to the rear and shifted a lit
tie way Off Public opinion was too
strong for him
The record-union., 1897-09-02
MARGARET CRAVEN Welded
Now the Wife of Henry KoehIer,
Jr., of ST. Louis

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. Martha
Margaret Craven, the daughter of the
woman who is fighting for a million
dollars of the Fair estate, was quietly
married this morning to Henry Koehler,
Jr.. a rich brewer of St. Louis.
The ceremony took place at the First
United PRESBYTERIAN Church. Rev. NJ.
M. Gibson officiating. There were no
bridesmaids, nor was the groom at
tended by best man. but Mrs. Cra-
ven's attorneys and several intimate
friends witnessed the ceremony. and
afterward participated in the wedding
breakfast at the Cliff House. Mr.. and
Mrs. Koehler left Immediately after re-
ceiving the CONGRATULATIONS of their
friends for Monterey. where they will
spend the honeymoon.
The record-union., 1897-09-02
NEW MORTGAGE LAW.
A Test Case Before the Alameda
Superior Court.

OAKLAND, Sept. 1.-At test case is
to be made in the Superior Court that
will interest all persons who are con-
cerned in the mortgaging of property
to secure debts.
Mary Gooby, who has been sued un-
der foreclosure by Perry H. Stubbs,
filed suit to-day to restrain Sheriff
White from serving writ to said
Stubbs to secure possession of her prop
erty. She claims that under the law
passed by the last Legislature she has
twelve months in which to redeem
whereas Stubs claims that the old
law granting six months to redeem gov
erns the case in question.
The court will be asked to pass upon
the question whether the new law is
retrOact