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The Newtown bee., 1901-03-29

THE IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CHURCH
 EDIFICE.
 Services were held at the church last Sunday for the first time since November The church has been very prettily decorated and looks very nice with it's new organ, carpet, stoves etc. Chairs have taken the place of the old seats, and room has been done off up stairs for the Sunday school.
 B. Osborne and family are now iv. ing with MT and Mrs Charles Gilbert. MT Osborne attends to the large flock of white chickens, and to the farm work.
 John Downs has been home from the hospital for some time, but his hand still troubles him requiring the attention of a trained nurse.
 Mrs Nancy French visited a few days, last week, with MT and Mrs Will liam Jordan.
 Miss Jennie Morse of Orange spen1 last week with Mrs F. J. French.
 Mrs Sarah Stillson is visiting at c B. French's. Miss Mattie Wooster is home iron Orange for few weeks vacation.
 A family by the name of Spence moved into the Barlow place, las week.
The Newtown bee., 1901-03-29

Little Miss Virginia Houlihan has been on the sick list but is now conva- leScent.
The Newtown bee., 1901-03-29

Miss Marion Peck has returned from a visit with Mrs w. s. .Tomlinson in Danbury.
The Newtown bee., 1901-03-29

Michael Culhane of Sandy Hook ha passed few days in New Haven, thi week,
The Newtown bee., 1901-03-29

William Tomlin spent several days in Bridgeport, this week.
The Newtown bee., 1901-03-29

Genessee Pure Food Co.,, Le Roy, ",
 much from the use of Grain-O that feel I must say word to induce others to use it.. If people are interested in their health and the welfare of their children they will use no other bever- age. 1 have used them all, but Grain o have found superior to any, for the reason that it is solid grain. Yours for health, c. K. Myers, Washington,
The Newtown bee., 1901-03-29

MT and Mrs Arthur Peck of Sugar street entertained their son, A. l., Peck, on Sunday. MT Peck is now firing on the Shore line division of the Consolidated,
The Newtown bee., 1901-03-29

M. A. Todd passed Sunday at Tay lor's hotel at Sandy Hook.
The Newtown bee., 1901-03-29
DO YOU GET UP
 WITH A LAME BACK
Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable

Almost everybody who reads the news papers Is, sure to know of the wonderful
The Newtown bee., 1901-03-29
GEORGETOWN.
THE VILLAGE AND VICINITY.

THE VILLAGE AND VICINITY.
 Mrs A. J. Partridge is spending some time with the Misses Keeler of Ridge field.
 Miss Jennie Nash attended the fin neral of Miss Jennie Avery of South Britain. The deceased was sister of Ebert Avery.
 Albert Keeler and Willie Halliwell are ill with measles.
 Four of the children of F. P. Bouton are measles patients
 The family of Andrew O'Neill of New York, have arrived at their coun- try home, for the coming summer.
 There will be a cottage prayer meeting held at the residence feMrs Nettie Beers, of Branchville, Friday evening.
 John w. Ferris is very ill with rheu- matism.
 Mrs Charles Abbott visited friends Tn DdnDury, tuesday.
 John w. Ferris is confined to his bed with an acute attack of rheuma. tism.
 Charles Patterson has been on the sick list for few days.
 METHODIST CHURCH INTERESTS.
 A very pleasant evening was passed at the home of Wallace Williams or March p. A fine musical and literary entertainment was given. The pro. ceeds, about $16, are to be devoted tC the library fund of the Methodist church.
 A cottage prayer meeting will be held at the home of Mrs Frank Beers of Branchville, on Friday evening. March 29.
The Newtown bee., 1901-03-29
The NewtOWn Bee
CIRCULATION |:

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The Newtown bee., 1901-03-29

There was no service at the Congre- gational church, Sunday evening, on account of the bad weather.
 Next Sunday evening, March 31, will be the monthly conservation meeting of the Endeavor society. All members will please make an effort to be present and answer to their names
 The topic of the Endeavor society for the cOnsecration meeting will be "Missions, love of souls, J Romans, 10: l.
The Newtown bee., 1901-03-29
FAIRFIELD COUNTY.
EASTON.
BAPTIST CHURCH INTERESTS.

BAPTIST CHURCH INTERESTS. Although the rain which began to fall in the early morning of Sunday, the 24th, and continued without inter- mission throughout most of the day, the regular services of the church were conducted as usual. There were F present at the Sunday school and 10 at the afternoon service.
 Repairs will soon be begun upon the two houses near the church, which are owned by the society. As the build ings are in sadly run down condition, there will be much work needed in or. der to make them inhabitable. Lime, lumber, nails, etc., are already on the ground and shingles and other neces- sarieS will soon follow. MT Beck of Bedding has been engaged to do the mason work, which was madeInecessary by the fires which occurred several years since in the interior of the Staples house.
The Newtown bee., 1901-03-29
STEVENSON,

THE IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CHURCH
 EDIFICE.
The Newtown bee., 1901-03-29

Mrs Nancy French visited a few days, last week, with Mir and Mrs Will liam Jordan
The age-herald., 1901-08-30
MAKING LEMONS SOUR.
From Beverages.

II iOih otfSio o6NS
 How often does lemon fail to live up to it's sour reputation? Until lately American lemons were more likely to thus fall than, foreign ones. The reason of this was that American growers did not know how to cure lemons. The fruit was never tart enough. There would be plenty of juice, but 1t contained high percentage of sugar and a small percent age of acid which made 1t unmarketabie. But few years ago the lemon growers clubbed together and sent experts over to Italy and Spain to learn the business, and now they are producing much better results. They pick the fruit before 1t begins to turn yellow, and put it in cur ing houses, where it is kept at even temperature of about 50 degrees for about twenty days, which ''sweats out" all the sugar, It is then removed to another temperature for sixty days more before it is ready for the market. Thus the highest degree of acid and the largest degree of juice can be obtained. One of the curious effects of this sweating process is to reduce the thickness of the skin. It originally grows thick and tough, but the acid seems to eat it up.
The age-herald., 1901-08-30
Famous TaIIadeelans.

The Talladega Mountain Home, John c. Williams most excellent newspaper sug- gests volumes of history in short story of 'The Old Bar, of Tailadega. Two or these men of the bar as it was in 1siO be- came Chief Justice of Alabama:
 William II. Campbell, Judge John White, Alexander White, Avis Q. NIX Hubbard H. Wyche, Thomas D. Clarke Felix G. Mcconnell, Eli Shortridge Thomas Chiffon, William P. Chilton George W. Stone, Samuel F. Rice, Will liam w. Rice and Franklin ". Bowdon.'
 The names of Governor. United States Senator, Congressmen and famous judges are found in this paragraph from the Mountain Home, following immedi- ately after the list of names already given:
 "A number of other names were subse- quently added to this renowned bar, in the ante-bellum period, who were distinguish ed in law and became prominent in pub lie affairs These were: Lewis b. Par sons, John T. Morgan. George F. Moore, Andrew w Bowie. Jabez L. M. Curry, George N. Shelley. George Chiffon, Abrsm J. Walker. Tlgnal w. Jones, James B.. Martin, George s. Walden, Marcus H. Cruikshank, Green T. McAfee, Charles Pelham, Taul Bradford. John W. Bishop. John Henderson, John J. Woodward, John T. Hef1in. Robert H. Chapman, G. K. Mill Ter, Nicholas s. McAfee. Micah Taul and Jacob T. Bradford"
 There is history in that list-great his- toryi
The age-herald., 1901-08-30
Two Cases of Lynch Law.

About a month ago Charley Davis was lynched at Smithville, Tenn. He was charged with the customary of fense. and it is believed he was guilty of the crime. The girls father ap- pealed to his neighbors and relatives to avenge the crime, and they did it. Six of the avengers are now in jail in Nashville charged with the crime of murder.
 They are described as typical farm CTS. All are church members, and some of the six are school directors. One says he did not take "a promi- nent part" in the lynching. One of the number is the paternal grand father of the girl on whose account the lynching took place. He was a Confederate soldier. The maternal grandfather is also present, and he, too, was a soldier of the Confederacy. He admits that he assisted at the preparations for the hanging. An un- cie is in jail, too, and he says he was led into mob violence by the talk of the father of the girl.
 Smithville is in DeKalb County, not far from Nashville. The doomed man was taken from the court house. He was a white man, and he had many friends, and these friends tried to lynch the lynchers. This division of opinion in the county has led to the arrest of six of the iynchers. and Ten nessee may also furnish an instance of the trial and conviction of lynch CTS. They will certainly be tried, and the chances are very good that they will be convicted. In one respect the case is not as notable as the one in Elmore County in this State. because the lynched man in Tennessee was a white man. But his crime was hein-
The age-herald., 1901-08-30

and that they have instructed Mark Hanna to see that the Exclusion act Is not re-enacted.
 And there are other strong interests in New England, in Hawaii, and even in the South, that are opposed to fur ther exclusion of the Chinese. These interests want cheap labor, and in the South some check is wanted upon ne- gro labor.
 The cotton states sould consider the case very carefully before they decide to favor a flood of Chinese labor. The addition of another race would neither remove friction nor lessen race troubles, and we have suff1ciency of both. The bringing of Chinese, who are not skilled laborers, means a like number of idle negroes. The more Chinese the more idle negroes. Would this better the situation. Labor is abundant and low-priced in the South, and an addition of Asiatic pauper la bor would aggravate every feature of the situation.
 The South should not join the trusts in an attempt to flood the country with Chinese labor. The trusts de- sire to break down trade unions, and the South cannot afford to fight against white men. It should not do so at any rate. Let us hope every southern vote in Congress will be cast in favor of a re-enactment of the Ex- clusion law. Let the trusts look to the party they put in power for legis- lation directed against trade unions. No Southern man can afford to fight white men.
The age-herald., 1901-08-30
Gano Grlssam,

Gano c. Grissam of the Nashville News IS in Birmingham, the guest of his uncle, Maj. Charles Button. He is on his way to New Orleans to meet his sister, who Is pleasantly remembered in Birmingham as beautiful young girl, when she was here some ten years ago, and who is now married and residing in Louisiana
 MT. Grissam was cordially greeted here by old friends yesterday. He had a great number of friends In Birmingham society and out of 1t when he dwelt here, in his early manhood, from 1890 to 1892. No young man in Birmingham was more popular than he, and none brighter. Hc came here to join the staff of the Birm> ingham News and subsequently was very popular as a member of the staff of the Age-Herald. For this newspaper he did much good work.
 Until very recently MT. Grissam was on the staff of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, resigning his position there to join the News, the new daily in Nash, vile. MT. Grissam is one of the most ac- complished of young southern newspaper workers.
The age-herald., 1901-08-30
About Persons,

Paul Greene, who has been III of fever in his home in Elyton for several weeks, is slowly improving. His brother, Judge Samuel E. Greene, is constantly with him.
 Dr. Shirley Bragg of Montgomery, the states physician inspector of convicts, is at the Metropolitan. W. S. oglesby of Russellville is at the Metropolitan.
 John Bass Sheito and H. L. Simon of Montgomery are at the Metropolitan. J. s. Brannon of Scale, the historic county seat of Russell, Is at the Morris.
 
 John Bonesch of vinemont is at the Metropolitan.
 William Ryan is spending a few days as the guest of the Benedictine monks in the monastery of St. Bernard. Gull man.
 T. A. Lanier A. c. Longston. E. B. Johnson, Roy Barrett, M. J. Bluer and B. A. Jacobs, JrA of New York are at the Morris.
 W. M Chenshaw of Richmond, Va, Is at the Morris.
 Hon. C. W. Ashcraft of Florence is at the Norris "
 S. J. Fearing of Tecumseh, M. B. Neece of Huntsville, Henry Fondi of Mobile and Walter G. Cleveland of St. Louis are at the Morris.
 John W. Durr of Montgomery, one of the best known, most successful and most honored of Alabama business men, is at the Morris. MT. Durr has large property interests in Birmingham and the district. Circuit Judge John c. Anderson of Lin den is at the Morris.
 Leonard Noel of Richmond, Va.., repre- senting the new Celery -Caffein of tho Chelf Chemical Company of that city, is at the Florence.
 R. W. Horn of Mobile is at the Florence. w. E. Brigham of Tuscaloosa is at the Florence.
 Luther N. Duncan of wetumpka is at the Florence.
 R. E. Reeves of Greensboro is at the Florence.
 D. W. Day of Huntsville is at the Flor ence.
 Aaron Johnston of Savannah is at the
The age-herald., 1901-08-30
Law is Triumphant in EImore.

Elmore is just over the river from the Black Belt. It contains 14,048 whites and 12,051 blacks, and Is there fore one of the white counties of the State. The blacks are, however, so nearly one-half of the entire popula- tion that there seems to be a good deal of friction between the races.
 In the case under review difficulty over trespassing chickens arose be- tween a white man and black man, the two living side by side. The con troversy became so acute that the two men shot at each other, but each one's bullet went wide of the mark. The negro was arrested by the local con- stabulary, and while he was being carried to the county jail he was seized by mob and hung.
 Judge Denson promptly convened a special term of the Circuit Court and grand jury was sworn in, and in- dictments were returned against ten of the lynchers.
 On Wednesday George Howard, one of the indicted, and who is described in the Associated Press report as ''one of the most prominent men in Fillmore County" was placed on trial and after the evidence of the State had been submitted, he asked permission to make a confession. He related all the details of the crime in which he took part. The mob numbered thir. teen. Seven are in jail, and the other six have left the country"
 The jury stayed out two hours, and then brought in verdict declaring the prisoner guilty of murder, naming as his punishment imprisonment for life.
 This case, let us hope, will at least deprive Judge Lynch of jurisdiction in chicken cases. It will also shake the jurisdiction of the esteemed judge in all other cases. The Elmore case will be entered not only in the coun tvs docket. but also in the history oi the State, and if every circuit had g judge as capable and courageous as Judge Denson is, it would lead on tc complete restoration of law in the State, and an equivalent overthrow of anarchy, brutality and disorder.
The age-herald., 1901-08-30
Jim Tanners Jest On WIIIett.

"Last summer the Hon. Joseph J. Will lett of Anniston and Col. James l.. Tan ner of Birmingham, old college chums, were chumming together in New York;" said an old chum of both these distn- guished young Alabamians.
 'Willett was the political hero of the on him on account of his really great speech before Tammany and his elo- quent advocacy of Judge Augustus Van Wyck for the PreSidential nomination of the Democratic party. The politics man of every newspaper in New York was watching Willett and seeking inter views with him upon political issues Harry Walker was there, backing up Willett and trying to help out the news paper fellows. Harry Walker is not only one of the ablest newspaper men in America-within a few months he has made The New Yorker one of the most successful, influential and widely quoted journals in this country-but he Is one of the best fellows between the seas "One day, when wNlett was out and Tanner was in charge of his reception room in the Hoffman House, Darry Sem pie called. Tanner and Semple devised scheme to worry Willett. It was the clever work of Tanners bright wit. It was a conspiracy. Semple concealed himself under big leather-covered lounge a moment before the hour when it was known that Willett would re- turn. Willett's time was then regulated by the clock. like King Edwards so greatly was he in demand.
 When Wil1ett came bustling in Tan ner was sitting by a table with his face in his hands, apparently in great dis tress.
 Hello. Jimv
 "'Joe'
 Whats the matters? willett de- manded.
 "'Joe,' said Tanner, with watery eyes, T have got mighty sad news for you, old man.
 "'Great Scott. Jim. what's the mat ter? said willett, with sudden and grave concern-semple listening under the lounge.
 "'Darry's dead
 My Lord! cried Willett.
 "'Yes,' said Tanner. and you and I have to escort the remains to Alabama
 Impossible' ejacuiated Willett, and continuing. he halfway pleaded.
 ",Why. Jim, you know can't get away from New York. I'm mighty sorry about poor Darry, but it's particularly awkward time for him to have died.'
 "'But you must go with me to see his remains properly taken to his old home in Alabama Tanner persisted
 ''Willett was silent for few seconds,
The age-herald., 1901-08-30
sHERiFFS WITH NERVE.

From the Pittsburg Chroincle-Teiegrapn.
 Sheriff North has shown again that the commission of the crime if lynchins can be committed if the victim Is already in the hands of the law. only through their connivance No mob will make the sec ond rush against a sheriff whom It nnds prepared and determined to do his duty Some months ago another Southern sher- in demonstrated the effectiveness of le- gal force against mob violence. He was praised throughout the country To Sheriff North the. same degree of praise is due.--Albany Evening Journal.
 If few more Southern sherirs should initiate the example of Sheriff North at Ashville, Ala, and should put bullets into a mob of woud-be lynchers, the sport would grow less common in the South. Most of these iynching parties seem to be made up of thugs and crimi-
The age-herald., 1901-08-30
Rev. Samuel Jordan.

Rev Samuel Jordan of Highland Home, Crenshaw County. one of the ablest and most widely known ministers of the Christian church in Alabama, Is spending several days in and around Birmingham. He is holding a revival meeting in og tent in Pratt City.
 MT. Jordan Is the principal of the noted and remarkably successful school for young men and young women at High land Home. a school which was founded a quarter of century ago by himself and his brother-in-law the Rev. J. M. Barnes, now of Montgomery. Perhaps no other school In Alabama, with the possible ex- ceptioh of the States Normal School in Florence, has trained so many teachers as the Highland Home school. The ser vice done by MT. Jordan and MT. Barnes to the cause of education probably ex- ceeds that of any other two educators in Alabama.
 MT. Jordan Is a man of ripe scholarship, rare ability and eloquence.. Withal he is a Nathaniel in his modesty and his faith fulnessl
The age-herald., 1901-08-30
Death of a Worklnaman.

Good John Harkins-there wasn't in Jefferson County or any county a better fellowi' said a man last night when he was told that the Hon. John Harkins, assistant mine inspector, former mem- Der of the Legislature, and, perhaps. the best known workingman in the mineral district of Alabama. This man knew John Harkins well and had known him for many years, and he felt for him something of affection. together with un- qualified respect.
 Tn years gone by John Harkins was one of the sturdiest and stoutest min CTS in all the district. Whilst he was small in stature he was well rounded out and was a mass of muscle, so to speak He was by common consent ac- cepted as a moral and physical leader of the workingmen, and in 1894 he was elected to represent the empire county in the Legislature. Some three or four years ago his health began to fail. and he was never himself any more, except in his great goodheartedness and unfail- ing geniality. He was one of those strong men who smile always, who are brave enough to be not downcast by physical or mental pain.
 Some months ago he informed his bet ter friends that he'd like to be appointed assistant mine inspector, a position he had held years before, and those of us who felt at liberty to address the Governor by personal letter asked that John Harkins be appointed. He was gwen the appoint ment by the Governor, and the honor cheered and comforted him, seemed to give him renewed strength in his failing health.
 John Harkins' death is the passing of a good man. More than that, 1t is the passing of an abundantly good-hearted man. And, after all, good-heartedness Is the supreme test of the real and practical goodness of women and men in the world.
 MT. Harkins was a Northumbrian by birth a North Country Englishman. and there was ever about him something of the breeziness of wold and fell In that en- chanted North Country, which is domi- hated by the grass-covered rocky summit of Shapfell. famed in history song and story. He was a blue-eyed, sunny-faced, sunny-haired, sunny-hearted-, sunny voiced soul, this workinman of Jefferson, and he never spoke ought against any mortal. As was spoken of another, there never lived braver, truer man.
 Those of us who knew John Harkins, workingman, best, and loved him best be- cause we did know him best, pay to him something more than the tribute of a sigh. We uncover in sorrow to an honest man. dead before his time"
The age-herald., 1901-08-30
PrgE .90sebh Le C0nte Gi1es
 Sclentgfc Dehnstso~ 0t Lye

his words, What, then, is the necessary condition of 1ife-or. to put it clearly what is the difference between dead pro- toplasm and living protoplasm2 Evident ly." he replies 'it is not a difference in chemical composition, for no change in this regard takes place in the act of death" and concludes that 1t must be a difference fin molecular arrangement; that as the necessary condition of chemical properties is certain equivalent compost tion so the necessary condition of vital properties is, In addition, molecular con- stitution, which,. as is the case with chem ical properties. may remain, even though life, that Is. active life, Is absent. So that, according to him, life may be destroyed and then again revived, provided that a certain molecular arrangement remains.
 This he makes more clear in referring to an article by Horace Brown, In which that author says, "Spencer's definition of life viz, a continuous adjustment of in- ternal to external conditions. must be re- vised, since 1t applies only to active life and not to suspended life" by stating that life in It's true sense must be active, activity being it's essential nature, but that there Is a necessary underlying con- dition, which may be called potential life, death being not merely an extinction of actual life but also the destruction of the necessary conditions of life; that is. the characteristic molecular structure of pro- toplasm, and that. therefore, there are three coaditions of protoplasm: 70 Liv- ing, a condition in which life is actual; @ potential living, in which the neces- sary molecular constitution or vital con- stitution Is present, and (S) dead, in which the vital constitution is also wanting"