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Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1901-04-04
Easter Music.

The following program will be sung
by the choir of Christ church at the
forenoon service on Sunday,
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1901-04-04
Pair Black Horses

2 sets heavy double harness, mans saddle,
three-seated Cortland platform wagon, two
seated spring wagon, Sin. tire heavy wagon,
Gin. tire truck, feed cutter. heavy bob sleigh
with box and seats. 2 wood riggings, 2 brakes,
moving machine, wheel horse rake, wheel
harrow. smoothing harrow. roller, stone
boat (newl Hillsdale pillow, reversible pillow,
tobacco ridger and potato coverer, six-foot
road scraper. Eclipse corn planter in good
condition, Farmers Friend corn planter In
good condition, two-lever Planet, Jr. Guilt
vator. hay rigging, horse hoe, Bryant fam
ming mill large size) two-horse sled, black
smith bellows, several swarms OF bees and a
n lumber OF patent bee hives. lawn mower, a
quantity OF white and yellow pine lumber. 8
Morgan grain cradles. scythes and snaths,
several hundred tobacco lath, hatchets and
needles, forty-gallon iron kettle, scalding
Tub, stake chains, log chains, 2 pair ice tongs,
shovels, hoes. potato hooks, forks, corn cut
tors and many other articles too numerous to
mention.
TERMs-All sums under $40, cash; all
over $40, will take approved notes payable at
the National Mahaiwe Bank for six months
at per cent interest.
Also i offer at Private Sale my Farm
One Of the most productive farms In South
ern Berkshire; has been In the Benton
family for over 100 years.
A.E. BENTON.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1901-04-04
NOTICE,

Whereas my wife, Fontana Antonio, having
left my bed and board without just cause or
provocation, I hereby forbid all persons
harboring or trusting her on my account as
shall pay no debts OF her contracting after
this date.
DELMoLIso DoMKsIco,
East Canaan, Conn.
March Is, 1901.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1901-04-04
TAX NOTICE.

All persons liable to pay taxes laid on list
OF 1900, In the Town of Canaan, are hereby
notified that will meet them on Tuesday,
April 8, 1901, at 81. r. Whitford's store, South
Canaan, from a. m. until Ia M; also the
same day at Huntsville from pm. to 8 D. M;
Wednesday, April 10, at the Iron Bank, from
a. m. until II m, for the purpose OF receiv-
ing said taxes. Ioterest at the rate Of 9 per
cent. will be charged after May /. 1901.
a. r. GIBBS, Collector.
Falls Village, Conn.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1901-04-04
HOLY WEEK.
THE Young Churchman.


Palm Sunday ushers in the most sci
emn week of the year. 1t is the begin
ming of Holy Week, when from the glad
and triumphant journey of our blessed
Lord, we at once turn to the cruel
events which follow, eliminating in the
awful scene on Calvary's Hill-the cru
cifxion.
Would that the world would pause a
moment on Good Friday, and remem-
Der the day and the scene, in humble
worship; but no, all goes on as before,
and the world halts nor cares for none
Of these things II only all who call
themselves Christians would but OBJ
serve the day; but alasl only those
taught in the Catholic faith, have any
regard for the holiness of the day; and
oh, how fewl
"Oh come and mourn with me awhilel
See, Mary calls us to her side;
Oh come and let US mourn with her;
Jesus, our Love. is Orucihedl
"Come, take thy stand beneath the Gross,
And let the Blood from out that Side
Fall gently on thee, drop by drop;
Jesus, our Love, is orucihedp
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1901-04-04
April /, 1901,
FOR SALE.

One team horse, weight about 1900. cheap.
j. n. i G. A. 6KLLECK,
Salisbury, Conn.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1901-04-04

In 1900 there was not cooking stove
in the United States. Now we are be-
ginning to cook without fire by the aid
Of electricity,
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1901-04-04

Unless you have faith in your ability
ron osn never win battle.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1901-04-04

Job printing 1t the NEWS of1ios.
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1901-04-04
DID YOU EVER
See that coIored man
with red hair
eating Ice cream
from a wash tub ?

You may have seen that colored
man with red hair, or you may have
seen him eating ice cream; al
together you didn't see him.
You have seen some stores selling
poor article for a low price, or you
have seen some stores selling good
article for a high price, Good
article and cheap yon have not seen
yet. Go to M. Warner; he sells the
best goods for a low price. He
sells all kinds Of
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1901-04-04

Ahead of All Dealers
in Styles anu Prices.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-17

found it lying some six seven feet below the
surface Of the ground. Dr. Thode purchased it
from them, and slipped it his finger Scruti-
nfZinS the inscription. he saw that il read "NIit
Wyllen dyn Eygen''- Willingly thine own, Some
thing about this inscription appealed TO his ro-
mantle instincts. Being that the ring had
been made in Germany, he paused 10 speculate
as to what Germans had perhaps been in Friuli
at about the time when such design as that of
the ring was common. The 'Diario" of Sanuto
flashed across his mind. He delved in that. and
in other contemporary writings. The name of
Frangipani arrested him. he hit upon the record
of that loss Of a relic when Christoph had his
horse shot under him. and then there was moth
ing TO do but dig and dig in every manuscript
that promised news of the counts doings Is
the reader surprised that when DR.. Thode came
upon that passage in Apoonia's letter which we
have quoted he experienced a certain thrill?
For ourselves, must confess that so well
has he manipulated his material so deity has
he dOveti lied into it the specuations which be
long TO the earlier part of his narrative. that
little by little share his excitement as though
engaged in a chase, and experience the pleasure
that he feels as one veil after another is torn
from the past and the golden band dug up by
Italian peasants centuries after its loss the
highway serves as a talisman TO make plain
the sufferinSs and adventures of man and a
woman long since dead. Forever their story
might have lain in the oblivion of dusty archives
if turn of the spade had not brought a clew to
light, and if an extraordinary coincidence had
not placed that clew in the hands of fitted
by taste and training, and invited by crcum-
stance. 10 follow it through seemingly dense OBJ
security. "Frangipanis Ring has profound
significance historical work, but the
facts which it relates are, said at the out
set artic in hey
extremely interesting, and, obviously, DR..
Thodes good fortune and his skill in improving
it have quadrupled the interest. The book is
companied by ali necessary documents. 1t has
been well translated, and has been printed in
handsome form, with numerous opposite illus
trations. artstically reproduced. Altogether. it
is a delightful illustration of the entertainment
which may lie derived from sagacious excursions
into the byways of history.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-17

well. And all this it seems, has not only
brought industrial peace, but has checked cut
throat competition among business men and
trade dishonesty. In granting old age pensions
NewZealand forgives the sins Of the thriftless,
the vicious and even the criminal, provided
there is evidence of certain reform. though
pensions are forfeited by drunkenness. convic-
tion of msdemoanor, or even waste of the pen
sion money, when it NAV be paid to the wife
or some other member Of the recipients family,
under that large discretion which seems in
variaby to fnd-in New Zealand kind hearts,
sound Judgment and unswerving honesty in the
public officials who exercise 1t.
Some of the clouds in this southern sky We
have alluded to. We greve to note, scattered
through Mr.. Loyd's book. that there still
things in the social order of New-Zealand to be
desired. There are still unemployed men, still
distress that comes from enforced ideness, and
Mr.. Lloyd is compelled to admit that
Evidently the New-ZeaIand methods do not
fully meet the great modern problem of how to
save the gold n stream of human energy that
is running away between our fingers every
day. All that New-Zealand can claim and
does claim is that it has done more than others,
and that its efforts are i'm the right direction.
But manfestly they are only beginning
Mr. IIoyd's book is interesting throughout
and his generous enthusiasms cannot leave any
reader wholly cold.
Mr.. Hugh LCSk is a pcSSlmStlC observer Oh
American conditions where. he believes,
great evils exist, threatening the freedom of the
people and the existence of the commonwealth.
These dangers are summed up in the words. the
supremacy of riches, the rule of capital He
breaches the dscouragcmcnt by legal enactment
of the accumulation of great and preponderatnG
wealth, that it Will become practically I'M
possible. Mr.. Lusk. having been a member OF
the New-Zealand parliament is firmly convinced
of the excellence of the methods Mr.. Lloyd has
described ana they are the remedies that he
urges for the United States.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-17

The government insurance business in New
Zealand is good-its policies number forty-fve
million out Of the ninety-eight million written
in the entire country. The people are said to be
the most fully insured of any in the world.
The government railroad business, on the other
hand, a business is not good. As a philan-
thropy it appears to have many attractive
qualities The railroads. learn, are not run
in the dividend spirit In other words, ma
tional ownership does not make them pay, and
with directors whose chief concern is to reduce
rates is apparently not speedily anxious to. In
1895 the roads earned : per cent over every
thing but the interest charge-a somewhat i'm
portant but" in the calculations of financiers
in less favored spots. The bond interest is too
high; if it were not for this the surplus would
have been 029 per cent. This if Mr.. Lloyd
represents correctly the NeW-Zealand opinion, is
distinctly encouraging" in view Of the unfayor-
able conditions Of sparse population, long dis
tancos and little diversified industry. The rules
as TO rates look queer this side of the
looking glass there are no preferences to large
shippers: rather. the small shipper is favored.
The minister fixes rates. and looks carefully for
opportunities for reductions which he may sub
init to the cabinet each year. Yet rates are not
low in comparison with ours. Passenger traffic
is encouraged by many cheap excursions; but
accommodations are inferior as to speed and
New-York tribune., 1901-03-17

comfort. There are no air brakes on the trains:
there were, at the time of Mr.. Lloyd's visit. no
dining cars: there insufficient connections
that betray a lack Of initiative and local jcal-
ouses Over alleged favoritism Yet this system
is what suits the New Zralandcr best:
The New -ZcaIander thinks the incorvcuienccs
h. suffers part Of the education OF the de-
mocrary. teaching IL to consider the common
good instead Of individual and local self interest
and he thinks this lesson worth all ii has
ana is still To cost.
The reclamation of the land from ownership
in vast private estates is one of the most cvi-
IDENTIFY useful reforms that Zealand has
accomplished This has been done by govern
mcnt compulsory purchase. stimulated by an
eXactinE system Of graduated taxation, intended
10 bear hardest upon the rich, and upon large
estates of unused land, and doubly pcnaliZing
absentee landlords-al this being the result
of the political uprising of 1880. to overthrow
"A system by which immense areas had been Sc
cured by so-called "squatters." The possibility
Of revcrsion To that system is blocked 10y a per
rctuaI lcasehold tenure for the small tenants
and various legal provisions attached to it. An
elaborate machinery exists for the parcelling out
Of these lands and Mr. Lloyd gives "A pict-
uresque account of one Of the functions in which
he was invited to act as the "scrutnccr' to
draw the applicants by lot whose eligibility was
subsequently to be passed upon by the land
board
The government avoids the intermediary con
tractor in it's public works, carrying them on 10y
a kind of cooperative arrangement with the
workmen. Mr. Lloyd draws pleasing com
parison between the fleXibility of this system
developed. with the inneXibility of the con
tract system displayed in the sacrifice of
the trees the boulevard by the rapid tran
sit work in New-York. If the city were build
ing the tunnel he thinks, these priceless values
would be rescued. But fear that Mr.. Lloyd
has failed to consider here elsewhere, the
possibilities of q government like Tammany,
which is entirely devoid of regard for a heri
tage of beauty it is of even more important
qualities.
Compulsory arbitration in Mr.. LOyd's view,
is the most important addition which New
Zealand has made to the art of society. 1t is
thoroughGOing. The compulsiOn includes the
reference of all disputes to arbitration, and pub
lefty with power to compel attendance of wit
nesses and the production of books. The half
holiday is another compulsion; ii must be taken
by both employers and employees. and failure
to do so is severely punished. Minimum wages
are determined and enforced. not only by the
decisions Of the arbitration courts, but by law
New-York tribune., 1901-03-17
THE QUEEN. DISRAELl AND GLADSTONE.
From Tho London Daily News.

From Tho London Daily News.
\ story ono. very widely circulated was that
Mr.. Gladstone hahitually treated Her Majesty
with rud,u,Ss. This probably arose from the
fact that Mr. Gladstone had not the art o trivial
and easy conversation He was, says g. W.
r.. Russell. so consumed 10y zeal ana great sub
JcCtS that he left out OF account the possibility
that they may not interest other people. lie
paid to every one. and not least To ladies, the
own intellectual level enGrossed in the subjects
that cnErossed him. Mr.. Gladstone had manners,
but small talk. He speaks To me- the Queen
is supposed To have remarked. as though We're
public meeting, and as he is said To have
harangucd her about the polity of the lIittiteS
or the harmony between the Athanasian Creed
and the poetry of Homer, there would appear to
have been some truth in it. The Queen. per-
picked and unComfurtable tried To make a di-
gression- addressed remark to daughter, or
gave biscuits to hegGing tcrricr-whie the
the Princess had answered or the dog had sat
down. and then promptly resumed: AS |
about to say Even royalty Quailcd before
this flood of Verhiagc."
Lord BcaconStield's method different. In
early days he disliked and diStrusted but
10y his address and social diplomacy managed TO
convert this dislike into a friendship hetWeen
himself and the Queen unparalleled before
since in the relations of sovereign and states
man. As astutc hatterer. he is reported to
have said in his last days that to nattery he
royalty you must lay it with a trowel.'
His conversation with the Queen was, it is said,
led by him into discussions about water color
drawing and the third cousinshipS of German
Princes. this last, of course subject which
Her Majesty was an expert.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-17
THE COLLECTORS MAMA.
3 London Daily News.

From The London Daily News.
At sale of pictures some little time ago an
original water color drawing, by a famous artist,
and a colored print from that very drawing were
put up at auction. The print fetched a little
more than the O~lginal. That was due to the
deyelopnent of ne collectors mania, but 1t is
impossible to avoid thu suspicion that the beauty
oT old prints, old furniture and old china mas
something TO do with the high prices they now
command and your true collector does not con-
Germ himself in any way with the beauty OF the
thing he collects. a postage stamp once can
criIed has no intrinsic value whatever. The
largest collection made would not fetch
The value of a bundle OF dunning letters if sold
AZ taste paper, and the rarest gem in the col
lec:or's hoard would not carry a letter from Pie
Lane 10 Pudding Corner if il had already been
ol,!iterated by a postmark, and this IN spite OF
The fact that the late Mr.. Tapling, NJ. p, be-
aIeathed a collection TO the British Museum
which WAS valued 10000.
Books perhaps, conform more to the first rule
for collectors than pictures or articles OF
Iertu' Books meant to be read but the last
hing collector thinks Of is to read his valuable
books You could buy all the books that mo
gentIeman's library should be without. and
many more besides, for the price of first edition
Of IZaak Walton. which was originally published
at "A shilling, and you could furnish a country
house out Of the proceeds Of the sale of a first
folio Of Shakespeare, which you would probably
be able to lead if you kept /.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-17
ROMlNCES or DESCENT.
From The London Chronicle.


Mr. Hardy has shown in "TcSs of the Dur
bervilleS' that in his faVorite WesseX there
living simple peasant people who are descended
from some of the best families in the country.
The same conditions are no doubt to be found all
over the country and the latest Illustration adds
one more romance to the history of the Stuart
house. In Cardiff there is living. quietly and
simply, gentleman who claims t. he a linea1
descendant of the line of Charles |. Charles
Stuart is his name, and he is the inventor of
many ingenious mechanical ContrVanCeS. The
family faith in their descent is very strong. and
in vndcation of it the eldest son is always
named Charles.
In it's way this case is as interesting that of
the SObieski StuartS, who buried in the
Catholic churchyard of Eskadale seventeen
miles from Inverness, with Celtic cross over
their heads, setting forth their union in life and
in death. They claimed To be the sons of the
only of Prince Charles Edward Stuart and
the Countess of Albany. This son. according
to the story, brought up Lieutenant
Thomas Allen. of the royal navy. and in 1I32
married a daughter of the vicar of Godalming-
The two young men both married into good
Scotch families.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-17
"REMINISCENCES OF ROBERT BURNS.

From the Notebook Of DR.. Chambers quoted in
Chanbers's Journal.
Mr.. Tenant, Of Ayr, whom | visited to-day,
has a perfect recollection of Burns. He is
wealthy man, without cultivated intellect, but
able to convey clear and correct impressions of
what has fallen under his observation. He first
knew Burns when attending Mr.. Murdochs
school Ayr he then fifteen. Burns about
year and half older. Mr.. Tenant used to
visit Burns Mount Oliphant. and stay over
night with him. sleeping in the same bed. The
father OF the poet WAS intelligent, and, having
acquainted himself with some scientific prin-
cpeS of farming. attempted improvements but
without success When he died Burns, his
brother and his sisters saved themselves from
utter ruin by making up claims for their SER
vices. which, being preferable left scarcely any
thing for the creditors. This enabled the fam
ilX to begin on their own account in Mossglel,
hut injured their character in the country. Gil
bert Burns refused by Miss Ronald. liv
irg at BennalS. near TarboltOn' in consequence
Of her disapproyal Of the action and the talk
which il Gccasioned. Mr.. Tenant afterWard
lived in the neighborhood of Mauchline and
from his twentieth 10 his tWenty-fifth year his
most intimate friend was Robert Burns.
Mr. Tenant speaks in enthusiastic terms Of
the wonderful intellectual gifts Of the poet
Robert had read much. borrowing books from
many. He read quickly, but remembered all
that was interesting in what he read Mr.. Ten
nant was more impressed in his youth by the
powers Of discourse shown by Burns than alter
ward by his poetry. His elocution, he says, was
like that Of Kean-SO deep, Sc thoughtful in
tones so emphatic. Whenever he entered into
controversy he carried everything before him.
Mr. Tenant says that Burns never could en-
iure business. If Mr.. Tennant spoke of any
such thing to him he would say, oh. talk TO my
brother about that" Neither, however, was Gill
bert good business He did not succeed in
any farm he ever had. Mr.. Alexander, Of Bal
lochmVle said he a man Of words and not
u deeds meaning that he could talk well, but
not act well up to his ideas. He also said
he was a good farmer in his armchair.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-17
NEW -ZE AL AND.
a ROSE COLORED PICTURE OF GOVERN
MENT AT THE ANTIPODES.

NEWEST ENGLAND. Notes of Democratic
traveller in Ncw/caland with Some Australian
Conparisons. Iy Henry pemarest Lloyd. Oc-
taN", PIP. SS1 Doubleday, Page x co.
OUR FOES AT HOME. BY Hugh H. Lusk for
mery member of the New-Zcalaud Parliament.
I-fho PIP -9" Doubleday, Page X Co.
Mr.. Lloyd. who is well known as vehement
critic of the present social order and an ardent
advocate of its reform in many points, went to
NeW-Zealand to the experiment station of
advanced legislation" New-Zealand democracy
he says, is the talk of the world to-day: reforms
that others have been only talking about New
Zealand has accomplished; and it has antici-
pated the others in some tLey have not even
begun to talk about. Needless to say that al
though Mr.. Lloyd IS careful to premise that this
newest England is Utopia, he started on his
journey thither with a more than friendly dis
position toward it. and that his book is coored
with the glow of a kindly enthusiasm. All the
experiments at this experiment station have
success in full view, and the New-Zealand way
is beyond peradventure the way out of all our
latter day social troubles. True, he occasion
New-York tribune., 1901-03-17
Mr.. f.. ". KEHBLE.

Mr. L. w. Kemble has afforded much amuse-
ment by his drawings of the humorous side of
negro life. in which he has an inmtahle touch
Of his own. Some Of the best of these drawings
have been preserved in books published by Mr..
r. II. Russell that have had considerable
vogue. Among thes" are "kemblcs Coons
"A Coon Alphabet" "Comical Coons and The
Blackberries." That Mr.. Kcmbie's eye is open
To- other comcaI features OF life than pre-
scntcd 10y the negro character is shown by the
"Kcmblo Sketch Book" also published by Mir
Russell in which the artist has depicted types
OF Cape Cod folk and of southern white people
Mr. Russell has also recently published three
prints executed by Mr. Kemble-"A Virginia
Crc.per." Rosemary" and "A Dusky Smile"