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The Newtown bee., 1900-11-30
Bridgeport, ,||05 MainSt.
OUR NE1GHBORS.
BROORFIELD.
RAISING POTATOES ON SCIENTIFIC PRIN.
 CIPLES.

RAISING POTATOES ON SCIENTIFIC PRIN.
 CIPLES.
 A certain farmers daughter, working in New York, took 1t into her head to raise . crop of potatoes on scientific prin- ciples. The plan In use as the Cornell Agricultural college was adopted. The fall details were not carried out late In the season, the tops being too large to admit the spray ting wagon otherwise the Cornell methods were used. Al re. suit good crop entirely free from scab and of marketable sizs were harvested. The plan required much more work than farmers usually give theIr crop and the writer doubts whether It would pay to do 90 much work. The hardest work is spraying to prevent blight when tho vines are large. It is slow, heavy work but results showed in this case it did prevent 1t, as other potatoes planted and treated in the ordinary methods side by side with this crop were badly blighted, there being but few fair sizsd tubers. The ex- perimenter managed the crop, employing 1aborers to do the work. As the crop has not been fold it Is not known whether there was any money in it or not.
The Newtown bee., 1900-11-30
Waists.

Waists. We are receiving daily new and dainty styles and designs in Ladies' and Misses' Flannel Waists. All made we'll and good fit ting. Prices from SLIGO, e1 50, e?0o tc $46o. Irish Point Bureau scarfs and Pillow @ @shams, scol'oped edges end m mhemstitched. at
 PetticOats.
 Black Sateen and Mercerized Petticoats, lined and unlined, founce and corded bottom All fast colors. Prices. e1C0 $l.z6. 41.60. $l75 to $6 %
 Sale of s2. .75. Q. .oo and e4.oo hats. All the latest styles. Sale price, &l 9S. E- s IT c N E.
 2s9 Main St., Danbury.
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:! Buy the SUCCESS Tread Pow. CT. Ittakes the ] @ 8 d everyW here as do all the Appleton M. F. o. Co. Of RatPv1a.Tl., implements They make
The Newtown bee., 1900-11-30
Have You It?

Now. old. or canvass covered floors can be given . perfect dancing surface with Powder ed Wax only. It should be sprinEled lightly over the surface of the floors and immediate' ly perfect polish is made py the feet of the dancers. Our Wax will not soil the most del- lcate fabrics. does not ball under tho feet nor can 1. be carried in the air by the motion of dancing. It Is entirely different from any oth- or wax on the market and highly recommend cd by Prof W G. Newell. Put up in quarters. halves and pound boxes.
 HARRY RIDER
 New No. e12 WAT1R sTs BRIDG ePCRT.
 Telephone be-2.
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BETHLEHEM.
SILVER WEDDING OF MIR AND MRS J. E..
 THOMPSON.

SILVER WEDDING OF MIR AND MRS J. E.
 THOMPSON.
 On Monday, November 19, occurred the 25ih anniversary of the marriage of MT and Mrs Jarvis K. Thompson and they opened the IF new house to welcome their friends. They had reception in the afternoon for their friends that could not come in the evening. Ex- Senator B.. H. Mattoon, wife and daughter of Water town and MT and Mrs Harmon Judson of Woodbury, parents of Mrs Thompson, were among the guests. In the evening about 100 gathered from Waterbury, Wa terto VII, Ans0nia, Morris and Woodbury to congratulate them on their 25sh anni- versary. MT and Mrs Zenas P. Candee of Waterbury, Mr and Mrs Flank Jud- son, MT and Mrs Bradley and Mrs J. G.. Curtiss of Ansonia, MT and Mrs F. H. Thomson and Ar and Mrs A. K. Judson of Woodbury were among the people from out of town. The Federal lodge of Masons, of which MT Thompson Is a member, were we'll represented and pre- sented Mr Thomas with very nice roll top writing desk and 10 silver dollars. Other friends presented them with 34 sil' yer dollars. Music was provided for those that wished to dance,and bounti- full supply of sandwiches, coffee and cake was provided for all. No doubt there would have been many more there if the evening had been pleasant, as Mr and Mrs Thompson have host of friends.
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by members of the Easton Grange Male quartet.
The Newtown bee., 1900-11-30

ed to require . change in climate. His congregation part with him with very much regret.
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IN GRANGE CIRCLES. Four candidates took the first and sec- ond degrees at the special meeting of the Grange on Monday evening.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-12-21
BRIEF NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Influenza is again raging in Berlin,
Germany.
There are more than 40 cases of small
pox in Kansas City, Mo.
Several churches in indianapolis are
accused of stealing gas.
Seven new eases of smallpox devel-
oped in New York on the 18th.
The U. S. hospital ship Solace arrived
at Cavite on the 18th from San Francisco.
Gov. Becl<ham, of Kentucky, was in
augurated for term of three years on
the 18th.
, One man was killed and three in
jured by a cave-in on the 1,5O0-foot
level of the Pennsylvania mine near
Marysville, Cal, on the 18th.
Two men killed outright and boy
injured SO severely that he will probably
die, is the result of q wreck on the
Western New York 81 Pennsylvania
railroad at clean, N. V, on the 18th.
A detachment of the 5th cavalry had
a fight with 100 insurgents south of
Santa Cruz on the 9th. The insurgents
were chased four miles. Fourteen of
them were found dead. There were no
American casualties
Six masked burglars on the night of
the 10th seized the town marshal of
Seville, o., and after binding and gag
ging him, robbed Highs bank. They
secured about 81 600 and succeeded in
making good their escape.
Sydney Samuel, wealthy English
man of New York. shielded at Port
land, Me-, on the 10th. He was He
brew and was in love with a Catholic
girl, but yielding to his fathers OPP
position broke up the match and re-
suited in the young man taking his
own life.
An epidemic of measles and other di-
seases among the children attending
school in the Uintah agency, Utah, has
caused much dissatisfaction among the
parents of the children, because they
were not allowed to return home.
Government troops were ordered to the
scene of the trouble.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-12-21
December Crop Report.

The Michigan crop report for Deem
Der, issued on the 10th, says: The
weather has been variable during the
last month, in fact just what could be
expected during November. The tenn
perature has been just about normal,
while the precipitation has been one
and one-half inches above the normal.
This wet weather has not been favor
able to harvesting sugar beets and husk-
ing corn. About the usual amount of
stock is being fed in the state. Many
correspondents continue to report that
much damage has been done by the
Hessian fly. The condition of wheat,
as compared with an average, is 50 in
the state, ~ in the southern counties,
50 in the central counties and 95 in
the northern counties. The reports
vary as to the damage done by the
Hcssian fly. Some fields look well,
while many show plainly the damage
that has been done.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-12-21
NEWSY BREVITIES.

England's supplementary estimates
for the army is placed at $50, 10000
Cornelius l.. Alvord, Jr., note teller
of the First National bank in New
York, charged with having embezzled
$500, 900 from that institution, was in
dicted on the 18th by the y. S. grand
jury.
The first train will be run through
the Great Northern tunnel in the Cas-
cade mountains on the 18th. The tun-
mel is 10, 200 feet long and the thickness
of the roof at the thickest place is
$500 feet
News was received from Svanilte, a
town on the Island of Bornholm, in
the Baltic sea, on the 18th, to the eff
feet that six members of the crew of
the Russia schooner Jata had persisted
by drowning.
-Four masked men, discovered in the
act of dynamiting the vaults of John
DoerschuclI's private band, at Shanes-
vile, o., on the 18th, drove off all who
attempted to interfere and got away
with between SO 900 and 81, 200.
Hon. Edmund w. Pettus, of Ala
bama, bears the distinction of being
the oldest y. ). senator at the present
session of congress. lie is 10 years old.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-12-21
CHINA WAR NEWS.

1t is now dawning upon the German
press and public that Mr.. Hay, the
American secretary of state, has Sc
cured an out and out diplomatic vic
tory in obliging the powers, Germany
included, TO yield to his arguments in
favor of more moderate terms in the
preliminary joint note to the Chinese
peace plenipotentiaries. This clearly
defined defeat is especially bitter at
Berlin, because Emperor William had
set his heart on imposing the most
humiliating conditions upon upon the
Chinese and thus emphasizing Ger
many's pwer in their eyes.
Definite instructions supplementing
a communication from London on the
18th, have been received by Sir Ernest
Mason Satow, the British minister.
and he now demands modification of
n point in the joint note which the
foreign ENJOYS generally regard as inn
portant. This means further delay, as
all the ministers must communicate
anew with their respective govern
ments Just what is the nature of the
objection raised by Great Britain the
ministers decline to say, but they adj
NIT that the new demand will involve
good deal more diplomatic procedure
The negotiations of the powers in
regard to the joint China note were
concluded satisfactorily on the 18th,
all agreeing to to the conditions iden-
tically as outlined by Count Won Bue-
low, the imperial chancellor of Ger
many, Nov. 10, with the exception of
the Introductory clause saying the de-
mands are irrevocable, which is elm
mated.
The empress of China has finally
agreed to accept the terms of peace,
and will pay the $500, 900, 900 indemnity
asked, but hopes to evade it through
the quarrel between the powers which
is almost certain to follow.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-12-21
FROM ALL OVER MICHIGAN
Happenings of the Week Briefly
Related.
1ICKINGS OF THE TELEGRAPH.
The Expenditure of the Half Million
War Loan Fund by tho Military
Board VIII be Investigated as Soon
as an Appropriation Is Made.
pingree on Capitol Punishment.


Gov. Stanley, of Kansas, has received
N letter from Gov. Pingree In response
60 a letter that he sent to the governor
of all states in which capital punish
snent has been abolished in which the
governor of Kansas inquired whether
there is tendency to mob law in
those states. Pingree says:
''No state which has capital pun
ishment law has any right to boast of
intelligence of its people. 1t is a relic
of barbarism. There has been little,
If any, mob violence in the state of
Michigan, but do not think this has
been so because of either the existence
OF a capital punishment law or the alb
sence of it. Whether there is mob vio-
lence or not depends upon the intel
ligence and temper of the people. l
think that the people of Michigan have
been less liable to commit rash acts as
a result of excitement than the people
in the south, where the Negro ques-
ton is such serious and disturbing
one A number of cases have been
brought to my own knowledge and L
have issued pardons where the prison
ers were sentenced to life imprison-
ment and it was afterward learned
that they were innocent.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-12-21
Negro Murderers Lynched.

Two Negroes. Jim Henderson and
Bud Rowlands, who waylaid, brutally
murdered and robbed Hollie Simons, a
white barber, on the 10th, were
lynched in the Jail yard at indianapolis
by mob of 1000 frenzied citizens in
the evening The Negroes were ar
rested early and although Rowlands'
clothing had blood stains on it, the
men claimed they were innocent of the
crime. In the meantime Sheriff Glenn
ems, of Union county, KY, arrived with
a trained bloodhound in response to u
Geographic summons.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-12-21
OVER 100 PERSONS DROWNED
As a Result of the German Fri
gate Foundering.
IT WAS A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.
Some Dispatches Say That not Less Than
140 Perished-The Boat was Used
as Training Ship for Boys-Fun
Complement Consisted OF 4G1.
100 Persons Drowned.

The German training frigate Gneise-
nau foundered off Malaga, 65 miles
northeast of Gibraltar on the 10th.
Private dispatches say that 40 persons
were drowned. According to the naval
pocketbool1 the Gneisenau, which was
built at Dantzie in 1879, was an irok
vessel, sheathed with wood, and had a
displacement of 1856 tons. She was
242 feet 9 inches in length and as feet
IL inches in beam, having a mean
draught of 10 feet inches and coal
capacity of 400 tons. Her speed was
10 knots. Her armament consisted of
five 9-inch Krupp breech leaders, two
M-inch quick firers, one boat or field
gun, and seven torpedo tubes. Her
complement was 461 and she was used
for training boys.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-12-21
France After Braz,rs Territory.

A special from Washington, dated
the 18th, says that the territory until
recently in dispute between Brazil
and France, and which has been
decreed to belong to Brazil may shortly
become the subject of a dispute be-
tween France and the U. S. under the
Monroe doctrine. This territory, ly-
ing south of French Guiana in the
Brazilian state of Para, and contain.
ing 100000 square miles, was claimed
by Brazil and France, and Switzerland
was made arbitrator. Her decision was
in favor of Brazil.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-12-21
Omctal Vote In Michigan.

The canvass of the election returns
I'm the state was recently completed.
The work has been delayed on account
OF errors in the returns which had to
he corrected. In some of the counties.
there were also errors in the names of
candidates as they were printed on the
official ballot, resulting in large
number of votes being canvassed as
scattering which were intended for
regular party nominees. The canvass
shows that President Mckinley re-
ceived 104, 5s4 plurality in the state
The Populist candidate for President
received 1913, the Prohibition candidate
1859, the Social democratic candidate
2,s26, and the Socialist Labor 003. The
plurality of Gov.-elcct Bliss was TO-
1884
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-12-21
Wants Satisfaction From the State.

VIII L. White may be called upon to
throw some light on the transactions
of the military board of which he was
"a member, with John Henry Blake, the
rifle manufacturer, who was at one
time under contract to the state to
furnish arms for the Michigan troops
for the Spanish war, and whose con-
Eract was transferred from him to the
Remington Arms Co. by the military
board. Blake has written Gov. Pingres
.rehearsing his troubles, stating the
amount of his damage, as he figures it,
and intimating that the governor
ought to aid him in an appeal to the
Legislature. The total amount of dam
age Blake claims he lost by sale of his
claimed patents, loss of business, etc,
+. is 81, 124, 900. The governor only laughs
at Blake's proposition.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-12-21
A Sian at pingree and Marsh.

Atty Gen. Oren has filed demurrer
in the supreme court to the plea of Gen.
Marsh for an order directing the cir
cult Judge to dismiss the case against
Marsh, claiming that the plea based
on a pardon is insufficient; that the
pardon is void because the pardon
board was not consulted and that the
condition in the pardon is impossible,
no machinery being provided for car
rying it out No penalty is attached if
Marsh refuses TO comply.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-12-21
wies. and futile Upheld.

At meeting of the Ingham county
bar on the 18th, called for the purpose
of consideration the attacks of Gov
Pingrce upon Judge West and Prose-
cutor futile, there was large atten-
dance and the subject was very freely
discussed. The result of the meeting
was that both the judge and the pros
ecutor were sustained for their action
in connection with the recent White
and Marsh episode.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-12-21

Warrcn's canning factory mas been
completed and accepted by the stock
holders
Wildcats are again becoming quite
numerous in the northern part of the
state, and in many cases are exceed
ingly bold.
The Paw Paw council has granted
The Kalamazoo Valley Traction Co a
franchise 10 operate a line through
Chat village.
Grayling again lost her best hotel by
fire on the 10th. Loss, $4,000. This
makes the fourth time it has been de-
stroycd l,y drc.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-12-21
A Very Hold Deed.

A bold robbery on the Cotton Belt
railway occurred at Bassetts, Tex, 80
miles south of Texarkana, on the 18th,
on the train coming north, in which
Postal Clerk John n. Dennis was al
most killed and the mail pouches of
his car rifed of their contents The
amount stolen is not known.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-12-21

The Methodists of Belleville dedi-
Gated handsome new $1,000 brick-ve-
neered church on the 9th.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-12-21

Another contingent of Canadian
troops embarked at Cape Town on the
13th, en- route for home.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-12-21

"Detroit--Hay, No. Timothy, $40 90 per ton.
Potatoes, iJc per bu Live Poultry. spring
chickens, 7Isc per n; fowls csc; turkeys &c;
ducks, &C. Eggs, strictly fresh, PC per dozen.
Butter. best dairy 1sc per b; creamery. 26c
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-05-11
The Sign Painters.

The question has been asked of sign
painters hundreds of times, (Which
letter of the alphabet do you consider
the hardest or most difficult to makeg"
1t is but natural to make the in
quiry, for to the novice some particu-
lar letters are more perplexing than
others. 1t is most generally conceded
by some experts that the Roman capt.
tai letter r. is the most. difficult.
Others will say that an IS" is very
hard to make, and many strongly con-
tend that the character rs" is the
hardest and most difficult of any in
the entire alphabet. Practically speak
ing, all of these letters are somewhat
difficult, and to the young beginner
they are not easily mastered.
1t has frequently been supposed that
an artist of ability on account of his
great talent in drawing would OF
course naturally make a good sign
painter. but the experiment has been
tried and given up with unsatisfactory
results.
An artist may draw and paint q
most beautiful picture. but when il
comes to forming perfect letter he is
entirely out of the race. About Al
years ago there We're five well known
artists of this city who were also ex
perts at lettering. they having learned
and worked at this branch previously
| New York Times.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-05-11
Cheap Cats.

General Sir Herbert Chermside was
formerly consul in Asia Minor Once,
in weak moment, he sent couple Of
beautiful Angora cats as a present to
lady in Constantinople. The lady
was so pleased that she asked him to
send some more. Sir Herbert gave his
native servant some money and told
him to go and buy two or three. Then
came demand for more cats from the
consul's friends, and he gave his serv-
ant more money with which to buy
cats.
This went on for two or three
months, and the native servant waAed
exceeding fat. One morning, however
the general, on coming out of the con
sulate, was surrounded by host OF
Infatuated yelled women, who besought
Mohammed to curse him because he
had stolen all their cats. 1t appears
that the native servant had pocketeG
the money for himself and gone rounG
with a sack and confscated every ca1
in the place.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-05-11
Venice without Water.

Venice without water would hardly
be Venice at all, but we are assured
there is a possibility that the pictur-
esque Venice of today may become a
city of the past. and eventually Venice
may be waterless.
According to Professor Marinelli, the
regular increase in the delta Of the
river Pc is such that in process Of
time the northern Adriatic will be dry,
and Venice will no more be upon the
sea. The annual surveys show that
the mean annual increase Of the delta
during 10 years has been three tenths
Of square mile.
An encroachment upon the sea Of
three-tenths of mile in year means
large increase in a century. 1t APP
pears that the total increase in six
centuries has been about 1913 square
miles. The increase is continuing, and
the gulf of Venice is doomed to dis
appear
No immediate alarm need be felt, and
it will not be necessary to hurry off
to Venice to take a farewell look at
the city in it's present picturesqueness.
Professor Marinelli calculates that be-
tween 100 and 100 centuries will elapse
| before the entire northern Adriatic will
have become dry land.-Youth's Com
panion.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-05-11
THE sERGEANT's GOLD.
1t Never Reached the could Folks at
Enunn

Surgeon General Sternberg told a
had in the civil war. He said that
whom he was going into the battle Of
Bull Run the Irish sergeant major Of
his regiment came to him with big
bag of gold coin weighing three or
four pounds and said:
doctor, l know that I'm to be kilt
entirely, an ! want you to take care
of this money an see that it gets to
the ould folks at home.''
There was no time to demonstrate or
to make any other arrangement, and,
! dropping the bag into the surgeons
lap, the Irishman hurried away to his
| place at the head of the column. All
| through two bloody days DIR. Stern
| berg carried that bag of gold with his
| surgical instruments, and it was bur-
| den and an embarrassment to him. He
tried to get rid of it, but couldn't find
| any one willing to accept or even to
share the responsibility, and he
| couldn't throw itfaway for the sake Of
| the ''ould folks at home"
| Toward the close of the second day
| lne surgeon was taken prisoner. lie
| lost his surgical instruments and his
medicine case, but clung to the gold,
! and, making a belt of his necktie and
| handkerchief tied it around his waist
| next to his skin to prevent it's confisca-
/ ton by his captors. During the long,
hot and weary march that followed the
! goldpfeces chafed his flesh, and his
| waist became so sore and blistered as
| to cause him intense suffering, but he
| was bound that the 'ould folks at
home' should have the benefit of that
money and by the exercise Of great
caution and patience managed to keep
1t until he was exchanged with other
prisoners and got back to Washington.
| There he found his regiment in camp,
and one of the first men to welcome
| him was the Irish sergeant major, who
was so delighted to learn that the doc
| tor had saved his money that he got
drunk and gambled it all away the
first night-Chicago Record
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-05-11


How Peary Retrieved Wild Ducks.
lieutenant r. q. Peary, the arctic
explorer, was born in Maine. He pre-
pared himself for entering Bowdoin
college at Fryeburg academy in Frye
burg, in the western part Of the state.
The following story Of Peary's early
days shows his method of overcoming
obstacles:
One of his fellow townsmen while
out hunting one day in November dis
covered flock of ducks in pond
about two miles from the village. The
man wanted the birds, but knew no
way of getting them, even if his shot
were effective, for he had no dog, and
there was no boat in the pond. On his
way home he met Peary and told him
| about the ducks and why he had not
| fired at them
Nov" said Peary, lets go back to
the pond, and if the ducks are still
there l promise to retrieve all you
| kill"
| They returned to the pond; the ducks
were undisturbed. The weather had
| been cold for several days, ice had
formed around the shore Of the pond,
and the ducks We're punched out in
open water, but within range Merrill
fired and killed two. Without more
ado than if he were about to take q
| dip in the old swimming hole on hot
July day Peary removed his clothing,
broke the ice with heavy stick and
swan out, picked up the dead birds
and brought them to land.-Saturday
Evening Post.