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Connecticut western news., 1900-03-29
FITCH LANDON.

Fitch Landon died at his home in Sharon Valley last Friday morning after an illness of several weeks.
 He was born in the town of Salisbury, September A, 1921. He taught school for some years before his marriage, which took place, March 27, 1844, his wife being Olivia Eggleston of Spen- cers Corners, N. Y. His married life therefore extended over period of a few days less than 56 years He lived in Salisbury on Town Hill and in its vicinity for about three years, when he removed to Sharon Valley where he continued to side until his decease He entered the employ of Horace Lan- don who was at the time conducting an iron furnace there. Fitch continued in the iron business there, eventually &C., quiring an interest therein having diff ferent partners at various times, among others the late John A. Beckley of Ca- naan and Robert Bostwick of Salisbury, until about 1871 when the furnace was sold to the Sharon Valley Iron Con- pany. This was practically the end of his business career except venture in the iron business with the late Knee land J. Munson of Millerton in the eighties at Chatham, N. Y, as he de- voted the remainder of his life to farm ing in Sharon Valley.
 He was converted in the winter of 186s-69 and joined the Methodist Church at Sharon. ..of which he was ever after faithful and consistent member, being for many years member of the Official Board and liberal and earnest supporter of it's spiritual and financial interests.
 His life was saddened by the death of five children; three in early childhood, and two after reaching maturity. His family relations were delightful. His love and kindness as a husband and thoughtfulness and care as parent. and his example as devout and faith ful christian making heritage winch his family can never forget or fail to be thankful for. He is survived by his widow and two children, Mrs Frank W. Dakiu of Sharon, and Attorney Howard F. Landon of Salisbury.
 Socially Mir Landon was an except. ionally genial and cordial man, and was never known to say an unkind word to or about any one. If he could say nothing pleasant about a person he re- trained from expression.
 His funeral was held at the M. E ', church, Sharon, Sunday afternoon, the 25th inst, when large conc urse of his friends, neighbors and acquaintances assembled to pay the last tribute of re. gard to one who was universally esteem. | ed and respected,
Connecticut western news., 1900-03-29
DIED

CHAPMAN At East Canaan, March 26,
 William Chapman, aged 3S. PHELPS At Norfolk. March 24, Miss
 Mary Phelps, aged AS. HEADY At Norfolk. March 26, Eugene
 c. Heady, aged 46.
 RIeas At Norfolk, March 26, Norman
 Riggs. aged 83
 CANF1ELD-At Norfolk. March 26, Sam
 uel D. Garfield, aged 9l. REED-At Falls Village, March 25,
 Clara B., daughter of Frank Reed
 aged 2t years.
 SMITH At Falls Village. March 25
 Michael Smith, aged 35. WETHrRELL-A Chicago. H., March
 20. Dr George F. Wetherell, aged 66
 years. native of East Canaan, Conn. HAYs-At Pine Meadow. March 27, W
 k Hays, aged about TO, BEEoHER At Winsted, March 27. Mir.
 Margaret N. Beeoher, widow of the late Rollin l.. Beecher, aged 82 years and II months. PIERPoNT-At New Haven. March 21, Cornelius Pierpont. aged nearly 80 years. He was a native of South Farms now Morris, and was brother of the late Capt. James H. Pierpont of the Eleventh Regiment, Conn. Vols. BRAGa-At Pine Meadow, March 21,
 John H. Bragg, aged TT.
 WELLs-At Sharon, March 19, Mrs
 Flora A. Wells, aged 81. Burial at Cornwall Bridge. March 2l LANDoN-At sharon. March 23, Fitch Landon, aged 78 years and months. GRFFN-At Kent, March 20, Simeon Griffin, aged 73. WINEaAR-At Kent, March 23, Mrs Maria Vinegar, aged 89. JoB-At Kent, March 23, Katherine,
 infant daughter of Rev and Mrs H K. Job, aged 8 days.
 NoBLE-At New Preston, March 20, al | the residence of E. Fl Beardsley
 Miss Lucy Noble, aged S5 years and | months.
 GAFFANEY-At New Milford. March 21
 John J. Gaffney, aged 73 years. ELLIs-At Winsted, March 20. Mir,
 Sarah Ellis, aged TT.
Connecticut western news., 1900-03-29
HIM E ROCK.

John Hurlburt of New Haven spent Sunday visiting friends in the village,
 Mrs August Mortenson spent few days in Bridgeport last week.
 Dr Mary Goodwin is at her home for a vacation.
 MT and Mrs O. T. Wilson of New York are visiting at s. W Brsdley's.
 A very enjoyable surprise party wss given to Miss Leola Raymond Thursday evening to celebrate her birthday
 Miss Lucy Richardson is ill with topslliiis.
 Mrs Charles Miller of Lakeville called on friends in the village Friday.
 M. B, Richardson, Jr., of Yale, came home to be vaccinated by Dr Bissell.
Connecticut western news., 1900-03-29
FOR SALE,

A most desirable village residence at Palls Village, Conn, situated on Prospect street within a few rods of stores, post office railway station, churches, schools and library. Large two story house with base ment. IA rooms. good cellar large lawn and shade trees, piazza on three sides, good well carriage house. wood house, ice house, good garden and an excellent orchard. The house mas recently been fitted up to accomno odate two families if desired. For terms and full particulars, call on or address
 SAMUEL o. BEcKLEY. Executor. Post 0ffiee Address, Canaan, Conn,
Connecticut western news., 1900-03-29
TAX NOTICE,

All persons liable to pay taxes laid on list notified that will meet them on Tuesday, April 8, 1900 at H. R. Whitford's store, South Canaan from a. m until 12 m. Also at Huntsville from D. m until 8 p. m. Also April 4 at Falls Village Savings Bank from a. m. until 12 m., for the purpose of re- ceiving said taxes. Three-fourths ot one per cent. per month will be added to all taxes remaining unpaid after May 1, 1900.
 ARTHUR F GIBBS, Collector, Dated at Canaan, March 19, 1900.
Connecticut western news., 1900-03-29
TAX NOTICE,

All persons liable to pay taxes laid on list of 1899 in the town of North Canaan are here- by notified that I will meet them on Thurs day, March 29. 1900. at the Post once in East Canaan from a. m. until l2 m. Also on Tuesday, April Sd. at Fuller & Peet,s store, Canaan, from a. m. until 8 p. m for the purpose of receiving said taxes. Three fourths of one per cent. per month will be added to all taxes remaining unpaid after May l, 1900.
 JOHN 0. RICHMOND. Collector. Dated al North Canaan, March l2, 1900.
Connecticut western news., 1900-03-29
For Sale at West Cornwall

The place now owned and occupied by John Wood. The property has good house and barn with about one acre of land with fruits of all kinds, strawberries, raspberries blackberries, gooseberries, entrants. cherries, pears. pluus peaches. apples and grapes {; and adjoins the depot grounds. Apply to or address JOHN WooD,
 West Cornwall, Conn.
Connecticut western news., 1900-03-29
A Card.

We, the undersigned. do hereby agree to refund the money on 50-cent bottle of Greene's Warranted Syrup of Tar if it fails to cure your cough or cold. We also guarantee 25cent bottle to prove satisfactory or money refunded. H. D. HUMPHREY
Connecticut western news., 1900-03-29
CARD OF THANKS.

We extend our heartfelt thanks to the many good friends and neighbors of the vicinity who kindly extended their assist ance and sympathy during our late bersav- msnt.
 Mas, nAnAx Losa AND DAuaxTEH.
 west cSrnwGilt oenn,
Connecticut western news., 1900-03-29
For Sale or Rent.

Farm of about 100 acres in village of Ca- naan. in good state of cultivation. Good buildings, new house with running water hne racing track; 10 minutes walk from school. churches, post office and station, Fine location Address
 MINNIE A DEMINa, Canaan, Conn.
Connecticut western news., 1900-03-29
Theatrical Notes.

Sir Henry Irving will appear in one of his strongest chsracterizations, that of Matthias in "The Bells" at Parsons Thsatrs, Hartford, tomorrow night.
Connecticut western news., 1900-03-29

GEED POTATOES FOR 190o-"UNcLK SAM ' O EARLY THOROUGHBRED" and EARLY GRAPEVINE. Am booking orders now for spring elivery for these potatoes. No bet ter varieties grown large seed at s per bbl fob. at New Milford, Ct. J. E. Watson, Mar bledale, Ct.
Connecticut western news., 1900-03-29
AUCTION.

The personal property belonging to the es- tate of Michael Madden, deceased. consisting of horses, cows, wagons. harness and farm ing tools will be sold at auction at Madden's stables, Saturday March 3lst, at ten o'clock,
 GEO. s. FULLER, Administrator
Connecticut western news., 1900-03-29
w Wanted.

woman for general housework. Willing to pay wages of S3 per week. Address
 NEWS EMPLOYMENT BUREAU.
Connecticut western news., 1900-03-29
Potatoes For Sale,

Both for seed and for family use. 50 cents per bushel.
 THoMAs BONNER.
Connecticut western news., 1900-03-29
For Rent.

Private sheds in the rear of the Clemans building to rent for one year from April 1st. Apply to DR. J. D. CLEaANs.
Connecticut western news., 1900-03-29
United States Improved
 Snnarator.

The undersigned, having been appointed agent for the above Separators within the towns of Norfolk, Canaan, Salisbury and North Canaan, is ready to furnish all dairy mon with the safest, neatest, simplest and the best Separator made. Easy to run, easy to clean and just what you want. Write for information and will call and see you.
 Truly Yours,
 E. R, BERTs, Agent.
Connecticut western news., 1900-03-29
OPENED THIS WEEK

IUPENED 1HlS WEEK A case of Ladies' Muslin Under wear, bought before the rise in value and will be sold at the old prices. Night Dresses, Chemises. Drawers, Corset Covers, Long and Short Skirts.
 Will also open a lot of ladies' and mIsses'
 SPRING SHIRT WAISTS From Soc. up.
 Large line of ladies, misses and gents HOSIERY For summer wear.
 Ladies' Muslin and Calico Wrap pers for spring. Spring Plaids for misses and children. Royal Worcester Corsets In many styles and prices. Sash Curtains and Curtain Rods.
 New stock of Wall Paper. Overalls for men and Little Johnnies" for the children. Fresh assortment of Garden Seeds. Usual up-to-date line of Groceries, Hardware, Crockery, Boots and Shoes.
 Always pleased to show goods. F. H. SMITH C. CO.,, Ashley Falls, Mass.
Connecticut western news., 1900-03-29

Jsb pr,nsias as the Nsys s1Iss.
Connecticut western news., 1900-03-29
Buttermilk For Sale.

We will now receive bids for the butter. milk at our creamery after April I, from on, or more parties desiring the buttermilk fol the coming year.
 EAST CANAAN COOPERATIVE CREAMERY.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-09-13
Europe in The
Pacific.
HOLLAND COMES
NEXT TO ENGLAND
IN THE VALUE
OF HER POSSESSIONS

unhappy suzerainted position of the
Transvaal in South Africa.
If all the islands could be put into
a continuous body of land they would
form a most heterogeneous empire.
They would include, in addition to Eu-
ropean peoples with their various po-
litical and social systems, tangle of
aborigines, a confusion of savages and
semi-civilized cultivators of the soil
and commonwealth; an emporium of
products more diversified than a bazaar
on a midway plaisance, mystery of
traditions as inexplicable as the origin
of the American Indians. Profoundly
forested in the Dutch West Indies, the
islands become in western Australia
more barren than the lava beds OF
eastern Oregon, and more irredeema-
BILE than the uppermost wilds of Brit
ish Columbia. Fertile, balmy and
luxurious in the beautiful lands of
New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa and Tahiti,
they are transformed into uninhabited
coral reefs or into hot and malar1al
beds of struggle in the guano-covere
or copra-producing dots on the m ,
north and east of the line drawn fro j
the Philippines to New Guinea and
through Samoa to the Society islands.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-09-13

The Pacific ocean, westward of Ha-
wall and the Marquesas, is like fed
GRAFTON of European nations on Asia
tic soil, united by the free commerce Of
the seas, says Ainslee's Magazine. The
nations vary in size, strength and i'm
portance, as the states of Europe or
of the American Union. Great Britain
commands the field with landed area
of nearly 3,250,000 square miles. Poor
Spain's once magnificent empire is
shrunk to less than SO square miles, a
smaller total than belongs to black
King George of the Tongas. Holland,
the country from which emanated the
doughty Beers, owns over $4,000
square miles, settled with nearly eight
times as many people as inhabit the
larger area owned by Great Britain.
Germany, the new civilizer among the
nations, has dominance over more
than 100000 square miles, and about
as many people as there are miles.
France, with less than one-tenth of
Germany's land, is at some of the
most important points of strategy and
at the point of greatest travel. Sew
eral Independent states lie in the
midst of the federation, as Switzerland
does in Europe; several others in the
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-09-13
AGED PERsoNs.s
Lives That Stretched Over Longer Terms
Than Seventy Years.

Lives That Stretched Over Longer Terms
Than Seventy Years.
A generation is commonly reckoned
as thirty-three and one-third years,
but sometimes two or three lives will
stretch over several ordinary genera
tons. A andmother of c. ]. Monk,
a member OF parliament, was born 1853
years ago, that Isl n l747,: the eyeaf
after the battle of Culloden, and the
very year in which Garrick and Lacey
took a lease of Drury Lane theater.
Gen. Francis Vinton Greene's grand
father was born 1923 years ago, when
Napoleon was baby entering upon
his third year. and Sir Walter Scott
was entering upon his second. He
was year old when Watt built his
steam engine and the tea was thrown
overheard in Boston Harbor. The
generals father, Gen. George Sears
Greene, died last year at an advanced
age. Therefore the lives of General
George Sears Greene and his father
caleb extended for an interval of 127
years nearly four ordinary generations.
A relative of the general, Mary Ann
Greene of Rhode Island, died a few
years ago at the age of 1O5, having in
her single life bridged more than three
generations. Sir Stephen Fox, grand
father of Charles James Fox, the dis
tlngulshed statesman. was married in
1854, and in the following year his
wife bore him daughter, who died in
infancy. Sir Stephen marrying Sec
ond time late in life, another daughter
was born to him in 1927. She died in
1920 at the age of SO years, no fewer
than ITO years after the death of her
elder sister! In other words, a lady
who might have seen Queen Victoria
had sister whom Oliver Cromwell
might have looked upon! The fact
that seventy-two years elapsed be-
tween the birth of Sir Stephens first
and last daughter proves that he must
have been married very early for the
first time, and that he became father
for the last time remarkably late in
life. Indeed, perhaps, this is the most
wonderful part of the story. The
grandfather of the present British Sec
rotary of state for Wharf.-The old Marquis
of Landsdowne, who died in 1857 at the
age of 80 years, told Lord John Russell
(who relates the incident in his life of
the poet Moore), that he was intimate
with Sir Henry Baytun, who knew the
before mentioned Sir Stephen Fox. AS
Sir Stephen was the page in attendance
on Charles I. when he was executed in
1649, the three lives named-Fox,
Baytun, Observation-Disclosures over
a period considerably over two CEN
turtles.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-09-13
A Gift from Thackeray.

At dinner party at the Baden
Powells when he was not yet 8 years
old, the guests being all learned and
distinguished men, such as Buckle
and Whowell, Thackeray was handing
Mrs. Baden-Powell in to dinner when
he noticed that one of the little chill
dren was following behind. This was
the future scout, and the young gen
tleman, as was his wont, was just
scrambling into chair, when Thack-
cray, fumbling in his pocket, produced
a new shilling and said in his caress-
ing voice: There, little one, you shall
have this shilling if you are good
and run away" He carried that shil-
ling with him, and it is now one of his
most treasured possessions.-London
Star.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-09-13
"Norrn caaxtf Limited" Engines.

"North Gaastf Limited" Ensines,n
The tyo sensipes use9 to haul the
North Coast Iamited"s Grains of the
Northerh Padifie out Of and intosst.
Paul and Minneapolis. were built by
the, Schenectady Locomotive Works.
They are each IA liz feet high. weigh
160, 900 pounds, have driving wheels 70
inches in diameter. and carry steam
pressure Of 200 pounds.
The. tehders, before startinA are load
ed ~ithfs tors bf GOAL and 1850 gallons
of water.
Each Of these engines, numbered 230
Ind 232, pulls the train between st. Paul
and Fargo, N, d. a distance Of PSI
! miles, daily. running in opposite direc-
tions.
That means 1880 miles per month for
each one, or $1,000 miles every 30 days
for both.
These engines have tremendous pow
er and are capable of making a speed
of IS or so miles an hour on favorable
track, If necessary, with this train.
The steam that heats the train and
supplies the dynamos that light them,
Is taken from the great boiler Of the
machine, which is more than feet in
diameter at its smallest part.
1.-THE North Coast Limited" leaflet Of
the Northern Pacific, sent free by Chas.
s. Fee, st. Paul, Mimi, gives full de-
scription of the train itself. -x
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-09-13
SCENES AT
CAPE NOME

Widest, f1ercest gambling is going
on these days in the wind-swept camp
of 10000 men and 700 women on Cape
Nome, writes correspondent. Vet
eran miners who have followed the
ftful beckonings OF fortune among all
the gold and silver camps from Chi
huahua, Mexico, to Alaska, during more
than 40 years, say they never knew a
duplicate Of Monies saturnalia of gam
bling. =.
Virginia City's reckless gaming a
generation ago was decorous in COM
parlson; Tombstone's and Leadville's
plunges into faro and keno were puny
by the side of Nome's; Cripple Creeks
hottest and most dissolute era of
gambling was temperate alongside
that OF Nome, and even Dawson never
mad anywhere near the capital invest
ed in big gambling halls and all man
ner OF games to seduce miuer's gold.
No such large assemblage of gamblers
OF many nations and all degrees of
proficiency was ever seen, at least UP
and down the Pacific coast, like that
row gathered in Alaska's newest gold
camp.
No other class of men is at all like
gold miners for mad, incessant gam
bling. The grim, primitive life among
the rugged hills and blasted gulches,
the hard manual labor, the absence of
:softening influences of home and civil
ization, lead miners to seek recrea-
ton in hard excuses and desperate
gaming. What most men do at Nome
may be summed up in three words
mining, gambling and drinking.
A multitude of the miners work in
the beach sands and gulches like
fends, live in dirty frayed tents and
vile huts, and gamble their every
speck of gold dust at a sitting. Day
and night, week after week and month
after month, with never pause, the
Nome miners are CHANGING the dearly
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-09-13
GAMBLING RUNS
RIOT IN THE
MINING GAMP.....

gotten gold. The faro dealers chips
are always clicking, the little balls
ceaselessly rattle in the revolving rou-
lette wheels, the craps men are ever
throwing huge dice and shouting the
results, the stud poker tables shuttle
and deal at the little round, green
tables, and the policy men hold hourly
drawings.
Sometimes the great, barn-like
gambling halls are each crowded with
400 and 500 absorbed, anxious and
desperate men and women toying with
capricious luck. Several times the
restless, eager crowds have fought
mortal fights for chances at the gam
ing tables. Time and again a miner
has lost all his gatherings of gold
through a whole season by whirl Of
roulette wheel, and men have wag-
cred pounds of gold upon the turn of
a card. Sometimes murders occur
among the frenzied players, and half
the rows of the crazy camp start in
the gambling halls.
Roughly estimated, some 600 men
are at Nome solely TO conduct gam
bling, and to concoct schemes for al
Turing gold dust and money from the
swarming miners. The gambling fra
ternity has been recruited from every
city in America, from cities in Eu-
rope, from Australia and South AM
erica. Lucky" Baldwin is installed
there with twenty salaried gamblers
in the employ of syndicate of men
who have made thousands Of dollars
in other western mining fields. Jacob
Westfall of New York, is running a
fashy place, equipped with almost
every sort of popular gambling game
and device. Chicago, Buffalo, Pitts
burg, st. Louis and New Orleans each
has quota of gamesters at Nome,
while every community on the Pacific
coast has some representation among
the fraternity gathered to feed upon
the gold diggers in the Alaskan camp.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-09-13
HOW TO BE HAPPY.
Make Note of Only the Cheerful Things
In Life.

In Life.
Happy is the man who forms. early
in life Cor if not early, then late), the
habit of taking all the light and
warmth and cheer he can get with a
fine glow of appreciation, looking,
meanwhile, somewhat sideway at those
opposite experiences he cannot escape.
Let him squint a little or look the
other way. He will be happier man,
as we'll as more popular, writes Daniel
Gregory Mason in Scribner's Maya
zine, than the self-appointed DEVILS
advocate who sedulously notes the
mugginess of the weather, the feeble
ness of his pulse. or the fact that he
is tired" (Which, God help us, we are
all-until we get rested). He will be
a happier man, moreover, for two rea-
sons and by virtue of two distinct
forces that his act of attention en-
lists in his behalf. In the first place,
by removing the constant irritation to
his mere body his viscera and nerves
and muscles, that has resulted from his
morbid attention. he leaves a clear
stage for the benign action Of the ten
dency to health. A mans body is not
the normal object of his attention.
Just as the normal focus of a sense
organ is an external object (of the eye,
sight; of the ear. a sound), so the
normal focus of the mind as a whole
is the breathing, colored world out
side itself, and particularly the absorb
ing world of other people. The very
insidiousness of sickness is that it
tends to seclude the mind from this
wholesome outlook, and concentrate it
upon inner sensations. The process,
once begun, proceeds apace, and soon
the healthy activity of the body is still
further deranged by the meddling at
tention, precisely as clearness of exc
cution on the piano, for example, is
deranged by particularized notice Of
lingering or other mechanical pro-
cesses that should be automatic Con-
scious thought always bungles the del
icate acts properly cared by the SUBJ
conscious mind. The remedy is in
both cases to direct the attention else
where.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-09-13
Fishing an Art in China.

Nowhere in the world is the art of
fishing SO highly developed as in Chi
ma. Rivers, creeks, stagnant pools,
the great ocean, and the little tank,
lakes and garden ponds, all furnish
their quota to the sustenance OF man.
Even rice grounds are turned into fish
ponds in winter. The inhabitants of
the waters are killed with the spear,
caught with the hook, scraped up by
the dredge and captured by nets. They
are even dived for by birds trained for
the purpose. Eels are fed in tubs and
jars until customers carry them Off
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