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sts f-
 Stafford sent upward of 25O to Will mantle camp ground Thursday morning
 Albert Fuller has, sold his new house on South-st. to Edwin P. Holt for $500.
 The Springs House boarders with in- vited guests had jolly masquerade last Friday evening.
 Rev. s. Hine of Staffordville has &C., cepted a call to the Congregational church in Higganum. Salary 5000, with par- sonage.
 Chas. .Washburn has bought a lot of the Granite mill company, on South-st-, nearly opposite the residence of J. c. Anderson, and will immediately erect a house thereon.
 Patrick Gilmartin has established a grocery store on South-st., near B. F. Taylor's picture and music rooms, and is enlarging his building to accommodate the same. This is the second grocery store established on this street.
 K. T. Converse recently sold horse which he bought for $500 less than a year ago, receiving therefor $4O0 in mon- ey and another horse we'll worth $500. The beautiful grey horse sold by MT. Converse about a year since for 5000, is held by its present owner at 5000, hav- ing made the mile in 2.40 on Long Island.
 A writer says that green corn may be kept the year around by pickling 1t with the husks on, in brine strong enough to preserve cucumbers, care being taken to keep 1t covered with brine. Boiling it in a good supply of water will freshen it suf- ficient for the table. It is worth trying.
 BoRN.-West Stafford, Aug. 23d, 1868, a daughter to Capt. T. D. Johnson.
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No Flowers Allowed at a Military Funeral.
 Flowers can play no part in mili- tary funeral, the rules of army or naval burials forbidding them," explained an army officer to a reporter. "While was down at Chickamauga recently it was rumored that one of the soldiers in a camp there had died. Indeed it was so printed ill local paper. The result was that on the following day large quantity of flowers were sent by sympa thetic ladies and others with request that they should be placed on the coffin of the dead soldier. Now, the fact was that no solder had died and the officers had the flowers sent to their quarters. If there were death in the camp, the flowers could not be used, for they are not military in any sense. The only thing allowed on the coffin of soldier or sailor is flag. That has been decid- ed to be decoration enough, and among military men have never heard the slightest objection to the custom, which has always prevailed. '- Washington Star.
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WOmen'S
 Wrappers.

Two remarkable lots at unmatchable prices:
 Fine quality real percale wrappers good patterns, first rate style, ruffled yokes, fitted backs, made to sell at $1 each, sale price 48c!
 Fine quality percale wrap pers, very best patterns, best style generous fullness every where needed, made to bring double the money 57c!
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"A LASS AM l."

A lass am I, and wait my day. To some twill be nay, but to one twill be yea. When the time comes, shall know what to say. The winter goes, and the warm wind blows, And who shall keep the color from the red,
 red rose2 aass am I, neither high nor low. MY heart is mine now, but I'd have the world know,
 When the winds right. away it will go. The brook sings below, and the birds sing | above, And sweeter in between sings the lover to his
 John Vance Cheney in Century.
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furbee j. aleaIIare's
Springfield, September. 1898.
Black Dress Silks.

Reliable goods of known worth at extraordinary prices. Special Bargains - Black Brocaded Satin, fine 75c. quail ity, in four handsome designs, 20 inches, at 55c. yd!
 Special Bargains - Black Brocaded India, fine 75c. qual- ity, only few pieces, B inch es vice, at 5Sc. yd!
 Introductory Special--Black Hindoo Silk, an entirely new plain heavy silk made espec- tally for mourning dresses or suits, 27 inches wide, at
 75c. yd!
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A Lendon curate the other day re, ceived an astonishing answer to an in- quiry after a parishioner's health. "Well, sir," said the parishioner, "sometimes feels anyhow, sometimes feels nohow and there be times when feels as stiff as himmidge."
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Linens.

Special for this movement:
 Ten pieces of heavy un- bleached damask, extraordi- nary quality, 64 inches wide, at soc. yd!
 One bale of heavy all linen brown crash, extraordinary quality, at sc. yd!
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its packing houses and stockyards.
 FREE PILLs.-Send your address to H. E. Bucklen & Co.,, Chicago, and get a free sample box of Dr. Kings New Life Pills. A trial will convince you of their merits. These pills are easy in action and partic- ularly effective in the cure of Constipa- tion and Sick Headache. For Malaria and Liver troubles they have been proved invaluable. They are guaranteed to be perfectly free from every deleterious sub stance and to be purely vegetable. They do not weaken by their action, but by giv- ing tone to stomach and bowels greatly invigorate the system. Regular size, 25c. per box. Sold by FIX. Taft, druggist. 9
 WHEN GENERAL GREELY FACED DEATH. The true story of those fearful two hun dred and seventy eight days in the Arctic regions when Greely's little band of dar- ing explorers stood face to face with death, is to be told, for the first time, by General Greedy himself in the October Ladies' Home Journal. For years has General Greedy kept rigid silence as to his terrible experiences in the icy regions, and only after months of persuasion was he finally induced to write out the story. BUoKLEN's ARNICA SALvE.-The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, letter, chapped hands. chilblains, cc'ns, and al 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.
 II was once speaking at a temperance
 meeting in Green Bay," says ex-Gov-
 ernor Peck of Milwaukee, ''and in the
 course of my remarks looked about for
 some water. A mug had been placed be- side me, and how it could have happen ed at temperance convention do not know, but it was beer mug filled with
 water. We'll, it was a warm day and where there is convention food spread out on a warm day there are likely to be flies.
 'There were flies, and one had light | ed trustingly on the surface of the wa ter in that mug. l saw him as lifted it, and did the most natural and hu- mane thing could think of-blew him off the water. Well they cheered for r five minutes. And to this day suppose you can't persuade a Green Bay man
 that anybody from Milwaukee can drink | glass of water, even at 8 temperance
 convention, without first blowing of
 the foam"
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The largest gold coin in the world is the British sovereign piece; the small est is coined in Persia and has value of only A cents.
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We hand folks over to Gods mercy and show none ourselves. George Eliot.
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The first sermon in Maine was deliv- cred at Monhegan Aug. g, 1907.
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THIRTY YEARS AGO.
August 2S, 1888.

(Items Of local interest taken from the column Of The Press, thirty years ago.l -
The Press., 1898-09-01

Kansas City has 5000 employees in it's packing houses and stockyards.
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E PngSKY YOUNG
 e.B D.
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Put up in small bales, from s1O to s14 per ton. A bargain for those who buy in small quantities.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-03-27

The sultan he sat by the Golden Horn and looked
DER the Southern SEA;
But the ships OF the powers afar were borne and
never sail saw he
And he heard no more OF the Concerts Notes,
which they played round the Isle OF Crete,
For the First Violin had gone back 10 Berlin and
the second 70 Downing Street!
"Now what has become of the Frankish hosts Che
said 10 his Grand Nizierl,
'.ThUse AdIuiral> all with their cruisers tall and
the guns that used 10 hear?
Are the Special Commissioners all on strike who
wrote of the deeds We done,
While the Concert en- maSse has gone to hlondlke
and sails on the far Yukon!
rs Greece from her burden OF debt released by
the Great Pan-Frankish fleet?
Have they settled the crux Of the Purple East and
a governor found for Crete2
Have they fixed the shares 10 which each shall be
heirs in the Turkish Empire wide?
What the German and Slav shall respectively have
when the plumber they come to divide!'
'Oh, the Eastern Question IS much the same as it
For hey mean to adhere (said the Grand yizier)
Ito the glorious Status Quo
And hear that IL Greece there is still the deuce
(aud the army as Weld 10 pay,
And the Cretans are cooking each others goose in
the cid accustomed way.
but Kaiser and Gar have sailed afar. with differ
cnt fish to Try,
And the powers are now away in Kiao-ChOu, or
1t is Chinas turn to fall today meath Civilizations
ban.
And the grand old game of grab they play for the
general good Of Man.
what deeds OF dread tthe Sultan said ''has the
monarch Celestial done?
And have | twin in tar Pesin, on another In
ferna Throne?
Does he rule by a Bashi- Bazouk regime, which
moraistS strict condemn.
Or drown the Lights OF his novel harem when he IS
not pleased with thcmF
"a virtuous man Is the son OF Heaven, with n
strict regard for Law,
And 3andarins have none Of the sins Of regular
bad BiShaw-
But the way that they spoke 20 q German priest.
as il grieyes much 60 near,
II has aucered the Lord OF the Mailed Fist.' re-
Piled the Grand NizieT-
''AIas and aIaca," the Sultan said and he rent his
reverend heard
''Now this is the most outrageous crime that ever
a Sultan heard
Oh the Brother august Of the Sun and the Moon,
il is only too plain to see.
/ For his tyrannous wavs viii be Damned very soon
il he doesn't take pattern by me!
''For Z wight who's reEcnerate quite, and the
way Of Salvation have found
I And more they avow I'm JnSpeakable now,
nor affirm I'm a reprohate crowned;
/ For though IN YOUR time you've been guilty Of
crime and slave to original SIN
You will never he enid t1r the things that you did
/ if you only make friends with Berlin.
st James Gazette.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-03-27
Pat KaIen's Revenge.

Pat Kslen thought il iunnin'
For an office to he nInnn.
An sen he: The legislature is my bid
He thought his head woT liyil,
But they bate him loike the divil,
But he whipped the man that whipped him
go he did,
Thin. he made the race for sheriff
On the platform ay the tariff;
An another nail Wur in his coffin lid!
An he rested from his labors.
With the laugh av all his ncgnhors,
But he whupped the that whipped him
so he did,
Thin, sen Pat: '.The saints defnd me,
It's TO Congress they shall sind me.
IN its for the vote az labor that ON bld!'
But he had no skill about him,
An the house wur null without him,
But he whipped the man that whipped him
so ne did.
atlanta Constitution.
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SUrSuIi1.

The Alpine pasture stirs
With rafting gTasshQpPcrs,
Some green, some gold, some gray with crimson
Antic or grim or fair
They glitter everywhere,
Without path aim, like foolish sentient things
On stiff legs issuing forth.
They fling 10 greet the North.
But yeer by South in air, and perch by West;
Nor DER those horny eyes
Floats shadow cf surprise
To find the impelling hope 50 instantly represzed
Thus with no goal OF plan.
The headcng race Of man
Bounds in the void at each uncertain sign,
Takes grass-fowers for the stars,
Ants holes for hell's black bars,
The lustrOus eyes OF mice for Providence Divine.
Yet. with a knotted scourge,
The instructive forces urge
Their helpless slaves TO leap IN hollow AIR;
No matter what the fight,
Nor where the feet alight,
To leap and pause and leap is all our human care
Nor at this fate would I,
Shrill insect, vail and cry,
Demand goal and shake the blades with rage,
Claim that cur iretiul race
Should know their hour and place.
Should fling with idutless aim across their grassy
stage.
Rather for spurs that prick
Our dizziness to the quick
Whittier we know not forcing upward flight
For blind desires 20 rise
Toward blank piIantdsInal skies,
To vault in fruitIcss curve beneath larger light
For instincts vague and wide
80 humbiiug 10 my pride
thank the viii feel not, yet adore;
Content TO leap astgay,
Content to lose my way,
While still l hold in Joy the mastering wish to
Edmund Gosse, in Literature
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-03-27

Spun Yarns" by Morgan Robertson, is
a small collection of stories Of the sea,
showing originality in conception and
cleverness in handling. Not the least
interesting part of 1t is the preface, which
recounts how the writer, once sailor,
became a landsman, and describes in
way as quaint and original as the stories
themselves, the inspiration which he re-
ceived to begin and to keep on writing
This inspiration came, as he acknowl-
edges, from the work of Kipling, and the
tales show to some extent Kipling's influ-
ence in the concise and direct language
in which they are told, and in the vivid
ness of their originality. Some of them
have appeared in current magazines. The
most noteworthy thing about them is that
they are so surely written by man who
knows his subject. In no case does the
writer permit himself to write as a tyro;
in no case does he stray from fields which
he knows as the palm of his hand. And
this in itself is rather wonderful, in these
DAYS of dilettante handling of many
themes.
The stories are but five in number
THE Slumber of a Soul The SurvlVal
of the Fittest." "a Creature of Circum-
stance" THE Derelict," Neptune and
Honor Among Thieves" They are
evenly matched as to merit, but very
different in subject. Some of them
are tragic; all are more or less marvel
Gus; two or three would be improbable
but for the evident fact that the author
knows what he is talking about. They
are uncommon possibilities, that is all;
and the man who has followed the sea
knows that there are places where the
improbable is the thing most likely to
happen. The interest of this little
book is undeniable, and the author should,
If he continues to write these virile
and dramatic maritime stories, take his
place one of these days among the best
of the short-story writers.
New York: Harper & Bros. Wash
ington: All booksellers.)
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He's the Hired Hand.

jim Thompson, he's the hired hand,
He's with us clean from Spring 10 Fall,
And through the winter. understand,
Them cold days when the woods TO haul:
He roustS out early, bitches up
Them clay-bank mules, and makes 'em stanC
Till he climbs in an boilers 'lIup"'-
Jim Thompson, he's the hired hand.
jim Thompson he don't say much
As some folks do-he's sOrtcr SLOW
An vii he's got an awful clutch
In them air hands o. his, you know:
Pears like they're iron, say, or steel
An come right down on you kerslapi
An when they grip you, seems they feel
Some tighter than a muskrat trap.
Jim Thompsons this wav-can't be drove
An don't set much on clothes or style;
He gifts round by the kitchen stove
An smokes his old cob pipe Il pile;
When anyone talks politics
Or how the 'lection's going to go,
An how the country's in fix,
Jim Thompson says: Dye reckon so?'
jim Thompson, he's the hired hand,
An he can husk an pitch, an pillow,
Er tell you what ; the best of land,
Er drive team milk a COW;
And ii you'd asst him here some day
Jist keerlcss-like You understand
Bout who he was, he'd up and say,
Jim Thompson. I'm the hired hand
Ernest McGafFcy, in Chicago Evening Post.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-03-27
Ends of the Earth.

What cordial part in YOU rs ours,
Who in the ancient isle had birth;
You. OF strange stars and other flowers,
Ends OF the endless earth!
You fire Us to imperial thought:
Proud passion kindlcs at your names,
O, other EHgland-. vastly wrought
Fashioned from out great flames.
But some across the worlds Of waves
Gaze with more iutiwatc intent;
To lifelong homes and death.ong graves
Half Of our hearts we lent:
Hall OF our hearts! On. worlds away
Beat they or sleep, where many a friend
Through luminous night and burning day
Waits, or has found, his end.
Our Wavrs OF fame no more they sec.
Our memoried winds they may not hear;
Their worlds 10 us Will ever be
Alien yet near and dear!
Through Oxford Summers. London DAYS,
Who walked with us, now set their feet,
Ends Of the earth, on your far WAYS,
That ours Will never meet.
We bide within the English seas
Among the fields OF home; but vet
Far realms and marvellous distaUcesl
On you our eyes are set.
You prison us in loving chains,
You bind US fast with treasured bands;
Our hearts are on your vastly plains,
Afric and Austral Iandsl
London OutlOol
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-03-27
CURRENT VERSE.


Not in the hour Of peril. throngcd with foes
Painting to set their heel upon my head,
Or when alone from many wounds bled
Unfiinchiug beneath Fortunes random blows;
Not when my shuddering hands were doomed 10
close
The uushrinking eyeIids Of the stony dead;
Not then ! missed my God, not thCn--but SAID;
LET me not burden God with all mans WOES
But when rcsurgcut from the womb OF night
Springs Ofhamme OF flowers waves from the
sod
When peak on flashing Alpine peak Is trod
BY sunbeams on their missionary flight;
When heaveu-kissed earth laughs, garmented IN
light;
That is the hour in which I miss my God,
MaJhilde Blind.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-03-27
Gomez.

To that high plane whore Love onshrines his name
who gave this nation life,
Unerrins Times decree assigns the hero OF newer
strife.
His fight is That undyins fight, whose martyr roll
is ages long
The eoascle-- battle wascd by Right against the
sway Of cruel Wrong,
His arms are few his purse is lean. the woods his
tempted cities are;
end shines Freedoms star
OF dauntlcss courage splendid skill, unvearied
purpose, noble mind.
His final years arc Freedom still; youths rOscate
dreams are lett behind.
One dear desire is his alonc-vhose fruit pray God
ne lives TO
TIE hated arms of Spain oefthrown, the land Of
his affection free.
Prank Putnam, in the Chicago Journal.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-03-27
Coquettish Belle.

Belle wouldn't hurt fly, no,
But Belle can't help coquettiug;
And in her eyes and on her lips,
Fresh snares Loves ever setting.
She doesn't care for hearts to keep
Her pleasures in the winning;
Yet who'd convict a butterfly
Like Belle OF conscious SHINING?
So long as Belle is Belle she must
Coquet with all who meet her;
Zen at the gate of Heaven she d try
Her arts upon Saint Peter.
And-did Saint r-ter pass her on
In Paradise, beg / with
The seraphim and chcrubim,
She'd find someone to flirt with.
But should she stay on earth, unchanged
In nature till she's getting
GRAY headed o how CHASTITY then
VIII be poor Bellies coquetting,
Boston Globe.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-03-27

and stopped to take up his bulldog. He set the
brute upon his knees and fondled his head with
his two great knucky hands
There's a pretty pair for ye,' said Mrs. Cutler
calmly emerging from behind the chair, and sig
nalizng her husband and the dog by wave Of the
hand. They re as like each other as two peas OUT
o the same pod. They re both OF a nature MIR.
Richard. THEY'LL sit and blink i the sunshine
for hours on end, and nothn' ii wake EN- up but
the expectations OF a fight. Aythcr OF EN- d sooii
er fight than eat the best dinner as was set afore
en-
Listen to YOU" growled George "there'd be
no such thing fun i the world"
Calls it fun, said Mrs. Cutler. why, would
you believe il, Master Richard, we've been mar,
ried thirtytwo ears, and in that time ne fought
forty-siyen times i the ring, an he's niYer Won
a fight i his life. That's his idea o fun.
''Pooh!' said George. ''Who'd expect woman
you sec Mr. Richard pursued Mrs. Cutler,
with unrutiied placidity Of demean9r, the WoiLen I
folk don't much o. the sport. No' may reckon
rs George here has spent three months III Tram
in fer every fight he's fowt, an you may reGAoIl
/ as he's spent on the havcrage a month 1 lyin up
after it. Ii you're good at figures Mr.. Richard,
you'll mex out that's four months less than SIX
teen ears rs that mans wasted ~, IN
gettin ready to fight and layin' by when INT. IT
been over. Theirs half our married life, Master
Richard, gone by j. that way.
eff he was a quarrelsome man, I could under
stand ii: but / nver heard OF his liftin a finger
agen anybody outside the ring. II he was
drnkin' man could understand it; but he's ms so,
Der as a Judge. If he was a crueI-minded
/ man could understand II; puJ l,iVSS S'uI,
heart, a child might play with him. II S beyond
me altogether I'm Christian woman, Mr.. Ken
ard, an / wish no man any harm, but II George
/ had only won much single fight should
nver ha' felt so bitter about it."
Il did my best, Miriam, George Interpolated'
/ humbly.
Your hest! We poor misguided infant his
| wife retorted. with a tone of pity. ooh George
/ George Theirs been no mendin' thee. But do
4 try an get a bit o. sense, now you're DRAWN
! toward old age.
! Old George, though scarcely one Of the
principal characters, is one more likely TO
be remembered than the somewhat shad-
owy heroine. or the surly, Independent.
yet likeable hero Other village charac-
ters-Waddel. the puffed up vain and
| mean-souled magnate; Whitehouse, the
gentle recluse and bookworm; the genial
rector, and the little group of cronies at
/ the alehouse. are drawn with a distinct
ness and skill which are delightful. The
pictures of London life are not quite so
happy but the book as a whole is a pleas
ant one with which to while away an idle
hour.
New York: D. Appleton e Co. Wash
ington: All booksellers. 81
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-03-27

T. W. McN.-Write to the Commits
sioner OF Patents for a copy Of the rules
of practice OF the Patent Office 1t is
supplied free. The regulations concern
ing drawings and diagrams must be fol-
lowed very strictly.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-03-27

Who were the electors from New York State in
the first and second elections If Washington.
T. l. r.
There were no electors from New
York in 1889 when Washington was
elected for the first time. New York
had not accepted the Constitution aud
so took no part in the election. II took
part in the second election. bit the
names Of the electors are not preserved
in any history that we have been able
10 find.
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NOTES AND QUERIES.

Does zinc melt Ike lead? A. f.
Zinc melts with al degrees of heat,
lead with %
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LITERARY NOTES.

There are people who haye been Won
dering why in the world Heine's
birth should have been celebrated
at this time, when as matter Of
fact he was born in December, 1888, and
used to say that he Just escaped being
one of the first men of this century.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-03-27

What Is the area. population, principal prod
ufst' dominant religion, and present form OF
government Of the Hawaiian Islands W. A. B.
Area, $50 square miles. population,
Isy.OJ1; sugar is the chief product though
rice bananas. coffee ana hides are also
exported There are Church OF England
and Roman Catholic bishops az Honolulu,
and clergymen Of many other denomina-
tons The islands are now a republic.
but were formerly a kingdom
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-03-27

\ postmaster told me recently that he was not
allowed 70 give me any more information than
that ne had some second-class matter for me. I
had asked il il was a catalogue or 4 newspaper.
which did not want. Was lie Tigbt2
IN THE DARK.
We think so. The instructions to post
masters require them to be very care
ful in giving information about the mail
10 anyone other than the postal in
spectors. You could have taken il out,
and if it had proved TO be the paper.
you could have marked it refused and
handed it back