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Connecticut western news., 1901-12-05
SOUTH CANAAN.

The Rev. Mir Starr of South Cornwall preached a fine sermon from the text: ''The Lord Hath Need of It." He ex- changed with Rev. MT Evans who re- pested his Thanksgiving sermon in the Huntsville school house in the evening
 It Is said that Mir Weed has been obliged to submit to a surgical opera tion in the hospital at Hartford and that he is very feeble.
 Sunday and Monday were ideal h. dian summer days.
 The Misses Thompson of Litchfield, with their little adopted daughter, Ohrlstins, are spending few days at R. P. Pendleton's.
 Wm. Yale of Lime Rock spent Sum- day with his parents.
 A party of ten men and six dogs went to Cornwall Hollow and vicinity fox hunting Saturday. They saw one fox but did not get it. Poor little fox,
 THANKSGIVING GUESTS.
 Mir and Mrs Walter I. Kellogg and son, and Mir and Miss Belden were in- vited to share tue Thanksgiving turkey at John H. Belden's. M 0. Dean and family returned to the old home on the Barrack for the day. Lyman Howe and family were the guests of Mir and Mrs Frank Nichols. Mrs Henry Brinton entertained Robert Merriman and family. Miss Mary Gillette was the guest of relatives in Canaan, Mir and Mrs Frederick Gillette.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-05
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 5, 1901.
Local News.
TIME SLIPS AWAY RAPIDLY.

TIME SLIPS AWAY RAPIDLY.
 Almost before one realizes it a new ysar has come and gone. In this way it happens that people get in arrears witt their newspapers. THE NEWS seeks to obviate the unnoticed slipping away of time by printing with the subscrib- CTS name the date showing expiration of subscription. Look at it now.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-05
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 a 25 cent bottle to prove satisfactory or money refunded.
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Connecticut western news., 1901-12-05

Mistress--M ary, you had man in the kitchen last evening. Was he a relative. of yours or friendP
 Maid-Neither, marm; he was only just my husband.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-05

yVAGE BANNERS, DO NOT OVERLOOK
 " the fact that your savings can earn for you IF per cent. per annum, guaranteed investment at that. For particulars address Box 43l, Hartford, Conn.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-05
BOR V.

FUNERAL New Milford. Nov. 2S, a son to Mir and Mrs o. D. Pulver. CoNNoLE-At Winsted. Dec. 2, daueh- ter to Mir and Mrs John Connole. MILLARD-At Cornwall Bridge. Nov. 27, daughter to ,Mr and Mrs Rollin B. Willard.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-05
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Rules of Publication.

Until further notice Business Advertise ments will not be published among local tems, nor among correspondence. Such ad- vertisements must appear either in the reg ular advertising columns or under the head Ing of SPECIAL NOTICES" in the best po- sition we are able to assign.
 Free puffs about the business or persons who are not patrons of this paper, either in it's advertising columns, subscription list or lob printing department will be consigned to the waste basket.
 Notices of entertainments where money IS to be made, taken in, or collected are adver- tiseme..ts and will not be published gratis.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-05
MAR RIED.

EAGAN- McCoRMIcK-At St. Joseph's church, Canaan, Thursday, Nov. 2S. at 30 p. m., by the Rev. Fr. Ban- non, Mir John Esgan and Miss Mar garet Mccormick, both of Can aan.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-05
Prof. M. V. MEADE
Dancing Class
at the Town Hall, Canaan, Thursday evening,
 DECEMBER 12th.

This meeting will be for the pur- pose of organizing the class and in- troducing new dances. The term will consist of I2 lessons for Ss.oo.
 Class for children will be formed on Thursday afternoon, December I2th at 4 o'clock. Terms e4.oo for I2 lessons.
 All are invited to attend the open ing receptions on the above date whether they wish to join the class or not. Programs for said date will be arranged to interest all who attend.
 Admission to Opening Reception
 soc Couple.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1901-05-31

The plea for correct attitudes is
overlooked during the summers eau
tions against cold drinks. draughts,
etc. Physicians who teach physical
culture. however. assert that it is not
the ice water or the similar cold
things we take into our stomachs that
causes US 70 be a nation of dyspeptics,
but the bad postures which we adopt
when sitting.
A correct attitude in sitting re-
quires proper height and width of seat,
desk or table Of the proper height
when desk work is required. and a
proportlonate amount of care to sit
upon the seat in the proper position.
The relation of the person to the
seat should be such that, while the
hips and shoulders touch the back of
the seat, the other portions of the
back remain clear The centre of the
back cannot touch the back Of the seat
without relaxation of the muscles and
resulting flatness of the chest. and
perhaps of the stomach. provided. of
course. the seat back has the usual
backward curvatures. il may take
some practice and welI-trained mem
ory to keep in mind the correct pos
ture when at the daily work, espe-
cially If the greater part of the day is
spent at a lcsk or table or in the sew
ing chair; but with a little effort it
will not be a difficult matter to form
habit of sitting correctly. and the
results are well worth the effort
Philadelphia Record.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1901-05-31

1t was stated recently that the pres
ent year would witness most import
ant experiments over the German Mill
tary line between Berlin and Zosser
with an electric railway engine run
ming at speed of 200 kilometeri
(about ia miles) an hour. But Ger
man electric railway enterprise doei
not propose to stop at this. A project
is under discussion for service from
Berlin to Hamburg, with connections
to various other great towns, in one
hour and a quarter. The promoters
want to run a train every six minutes
with a time table as follows: Berlin to
Cologne in two and quarter hours;
to Breslau in one and a-half; to Ham,
burg in one and a quarter; to Munich
in two and half: to Vienna in four
and to Paris in five horrs.-London
Exnress
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1901-05-31
LA PLATA. MARYLAND, MAY 81. 1901.


Perhaps the aost useful gift a bride
can give to her fiance is a horse hair.
or better still, a human hair rope.
That is II they live on the lonely is
land of st. Kilda. The rock scalers
there consider themselves rich II their
prospective brides are able to furnish
to them rope Of this nature. The
ropes vary in length, really good one
OF forty or fifty feet being especially
priced. According to woman traveller
who has spent much time in st. Kilda
the usual rope is a stout hempen cord
wrapped round and round with Sleeps
wool; over this is a lining OF horse
hair; finally brands OF human hair.
To manufacture such a rope is the
work Of years; but the St Kildean
girl saves her hair combings religious
ly. also drying and bleaching the fbres
OF rough grasses that grow on the
wind-swept island. These fbres
strengthen the cable. while the elias
ticity OF the hair prevents chatting
against the rude cliffs during the rock
scaler's descent.
A curiosity collector wished to buy
a fine specimen OF hair rope, but The
800 offered was refused calmly by the
professional egg-gatherer. The cord
in question was veneered with auburn
hair-the thirty years collection from
heads Of parents. aunts. cousins and
remarkable to those who know little
about St. Kilda, but when It is said
that the population is about 200, and
that a good walker could circle the Is
land in two hours, a different notion
must be entertained.
Occasionally an incident will hap
pen to the best rope. Fancy yourself
dangling in midair, the rope held By
two or three men on the top OF the
cliff. far out OF sight. laundering wa
ters below. and thousands OF sea birds
wheeling in frightened confusion above
about and all around you. Then, when
sharp corner of the cliff interrupts,
there is the sickening cutting OF the
slender string, for slender 1t seems un-
der existing circumstances. IL the
climber is agile he will swing toward a
ledge. where. companion Of the guile
mots and bills. he must wait un-
til second rope is lowered for his de-
liverance. II no ledge is approaehable.
the angry foam hides him forever. No
wonder the rock scaler values his hair
rope. charitable woman saved
trunkful of hair to send to the climb
ers Of the Hebrides. but. unfortunate
ly, the house caught fire, and her three
years collection was Destroyed. An
advertisement appeared in an Irish
paper some time ago. offering $3.50 for
a genuine St Kildean hair rope.-New
York Press.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1901-05-31
.1llI131ll9(


William R. Marden OF Liberty, Me-.
got so tired Of answering questions
about his long and wavy beard that.
the other day he seized a pair OF
shears. cut off the flowing hirsute ap-
pendage. and thrust 1t into the kitchen
stove. Thus perished the longest and
most remarkable set of whiskers in
Maine. II not in the country. When Mr..
Marden was boy his beard grew rap
idly, and he had to shave more fire.
quently than other young men. After
awhile he got tired OF shaving. and al
lowed the beard to grow with the re-
suit that It soon became so long as to
attract attention, no only in Liberty
and Waldo county, but all over New
England. Managers Of dime museums
sent agents to Liberty to get Mr.. Mar
den and his beard for a curiosity. but.
although they offered good pay. he
would not listen to the proposition,
saying that he had always made a
good living on his farm, and didn't
propose to make an object OF himself
oh thC pidtloi III VI dus ShO".
Two years ago the beard was eight
feet six inches long and still growing.
1t was heavy and cumbersome so that
when he worked or went any distance
Mr.. Marden was obliged to tie or braid
it up. He could toss it over his should
ers and drag the end on the ground ba-
hind him, and he is tall man. Last
week the beard measured len feet
four inches. and Mr.. Marden decided it
was time to get rid of the sweeping
mass of reddish brown hair. So the
growth of thirty years went up the
Marden chimney. and Mr.. Marden is
a changed man-so changed that even
the next door neighbors hardly know
him.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1901-05-31
DAwKINs. W. A. DUKE.
'WkINS h DUNE,
GENERAL.
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railway were two other companies, and
four miles In the other direction were
two companies more. Sixteen miles OF
railway were held and guarded by these
two battalions. Beyond them were
troops of other regiments. scattered
here and there along 60 miles of road,
until the railway reached the waters of
the broad Ohio.
Night and day sentinels paced the
track and squads OF guards watched
the bridges. the coal tipples and the
mine buildings. Night and day watch
full pickets along the hills waited with
loaded rifles.
When the troops had reached the
narrow valley three days before.
bridges and tipples were burning;
loaded cars had been overturned and
wrecked, and not a train was running
on this section of one Of the great rail
ways of the country. All this was the
work of rioters who found opportuni
ties for mischief in a strike of coal
miners. The majority of the rioters
were alleged. by the coal miners, To
be ignorant foreigners. deluded and
misled by mistaken men.
But the great danger of this strike,
which has now been a matter of his
tory for some years, were at an end.
Now the bridges and buildings were
safe; long trains thundered over the
rails. and the men who had brought
about order painted in the sweltering
heat by day and shivered in the misty,
chill air by night By night, too. the
rioters from the foreign settlement
came across the hill and fired into tho
camp and at the sentries.
The first night this was done the
bugle blew ''To arms" and the whole
camp reused itself to repel the attack:
now. even the pickets did not notice
the firing unless the men came too
near. or tried to cross the lines.
Then 1t was: Halt. Who goes
there?" Halt Halt, Who goes there?"
Halt, or I'll fire," followed by the re-
port of rife, and then the crashing
Of bushes as the intruder fed.
81 wish we had been detailed for the
upper postip growled Sergeant Bob
who had got rid of his blouse and his
leggins. and was now meditatively re-
garding his dusty shoes.
why? You don't hear any news
up there; this is headquarters" said
the other sergeant
Headquarters indeed. You can get
passed up there to go into thetown and
get a bath. You don't have to loaf
around in an atmosphere of coal dnss
all the time. And they have barrel
of ice water In the camp"
What. Ice waterl You don't mean
IT."
"Yes. do" grumbled Bob "The
majors orderly told me SO when he
came down here. He had bath yes
terday, regular swim. with plenty
Of water, We have to tramp quar-
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1901-05-31

When Mr.. Patterson. the Australian
war correspondent, was at the Maori
land Hot Lakes. the locaL.Maoris w.re
very anxious to hear all about the war,
so by special request he lectured ia
them. At the end of the discourse the
Maoris all began to jabber at once.
and the translator turned to Paterson
with a beamins smile. and said:
There is one ting none OF us UNDER
STAN" What is that?" III te troops
an hungry why not eat te Boer7"
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1901-05-31

Because they are quiet. many numb
skulls acquire a reputation for erudi-
ton
, 1901-06-25

Hon. Otto Gramm, director general
of the Elks' street fair, returned this
morning from Denver, where he has
been to get an idea of the quality of
the attractions booked for the street
fair here mex week, and came home
manifestly satisfied with the outlook.
He witnessed most of the perform
ances, which began in Denver yester-
day, under the auspices of the Eagles,
a secret order somewhat similar to
the Elks, and which has undertaken
a street fair on much the same lines
as the ones the Elks are bending
every mercy to make a phenomenal
success.
He did not see the electrical foun-
tain, having left Denver at s clock
yesterday afternoon, but had the as
surance of those no had witnessed
the complimentary performance to
the executive committee and news
paper men that it was worthy of
every SOOu "oEu lndl Hdu DetH Sdiu
of it.
The various shows. filling eleven
cars, will reach Laramie next Sun
day evening, and it is promised that
everything will be in working order
for Monday evening. The men at
work on the enclosure here are max
ing good Roadway, and it is given out
that everything will be ready here
when Oppenheimer's outfit reaches
the city, and the opening will occur
promptly on time.
Mr.. Furguson. Mr.. Oppenheimer's
| representative here, spent yesterday
in Denver. to watch the Inauguration
of the Eagles street fair, and return
ed to Laramie on one Of the early
morning trains He says the wheels
went round with a smooth e that
would do credit to a chronometer, and
that the Eagles were unable to care
for the crowds that thronged for ad-
mission at the gates.
, 1901-06-25
Corner End
& Grand Ave.
Laramie,Wyo.

railway between Valdez and Eagle
City on the Yukon. The road will be
completed within three years at a cost
of eight million dollars.
Mike Carrigan, a laborer in the Old
Sherman gravel pits, had a wound of
the head and one of the arm dressed
by DR.. S. b. Miller here today. A
block fell from the rigging Of the
steam shovel II inflicted the wounds.
He returned to Sherman.
Oscar A. Breisch, who resigned
about two months ago as foreman of
the round house in Cheyenne. and
moved to Denver with his family to
open up a contract shop for the hand
ling of mining machinery. was honored
on Saturday evening by the presenta-
ton of a fine silver set by his fellow
employees at Cheyenne.
, 1901-06-25

The following ladies have been pro
posed and are being voted for for
queen of the carnival:
By the Order of the Eastern Star
Mrs. Annie DeLario.
By the G. 1. A. to the B. of l.. E.
Mrs. Frank Meyerle.
By the Women of Woodcraft-Miss
Maggie Brebner.
The voting will be fast and furious
termined whether the fire department
will have a candidate, but it is believ-
ed a decision will be made at the meet
ing of the department tonight.
, 1901-06-25
RAILROAD NOTES AND
PERSONALS OE INTEREST

Claim Agent w. C. Hussey of the
Union Pacific was here today.
Assistant Superintendent Whitney
Eel west on train No. 3 this morning.
Assistant Roadmaster Fredericks
was an east-bound passenger on train
No. 4 at noon.
Train No. 5 was two hours and TWEEN
ty minutes late today, on account Of
delay On the Nebraska division.
A carload of melons from Texas is
expected this afternoon. 1t left Den
yer for Wyoming points last night.
Sam Cristofo, a Greek working in
the Union Pacific gravel gang, was
thrown from a handcar Sunday night
and fatally injured.
Conductor Cummings watch was
found in the river at Howell and
brought to the city yesterday after,
noo by Mr.. Sage.
The board of equalization will sit as
a board Of appeals on the 22d of July
and remain in session at least three
days but not longer than six.
The dance given in A. o. U. w. hall
at Cheyenne Saturday night by the I'm
ion Pacific base ball team was quite
a success and will enable the boys to
purchase their new uniforms.
Mike Colvey arrived from Fort
Steele today where last week he was
struck in the eye by another section
man In a fight and lost the sight OF
that MISUNDERSTANDING Leader.
Work has been started on the four
hundred miles Of a standard gauge
, 1901-06-25

The Verde Consolidated Mining Co,
was Incorporated here at 4 o'clock
yesterday afternoon, when articles OF
incorporation were filed in the office
of County Clerk James McGibbon by
Bailey Cornwall. A. l.. Tate and Dr.. A.
B. Hamilton.
The property of this company is
near the famous Rambler mine, in the
Douglas creek district, and is looked
upon as a worthy successor in popu-
larity of that copper chieftain.
The company acquires the right, I'M
der the laws of the state, to carry on
a general mining business-to &C
quire by purchase. lease or otherwise,
mines, mining claims, lands and i'm
provements, as well as personal pro
perty; to have, improve, work, de-
lvelop, mortgage, sell, lease and other.
| wise dispose of the same, and in gen
eral to do all things needful or proper
in the prosecution of such enterprises,
The capital stock of the company
has been fixed at 500, 900, divided in,
to 100, 900 shares of the par value OF
81 each, and its corporate existence
will be fifty years.
The business of the company will
be carried on at Laramie by a board
Of three trustees, who have power to
make all needful rules and regulations
and the trustees for the first year be,
ing Bailey Cornwall, A. l.. Tate and
DR.. A. b. Hamilton.
, 1901-06-25

At last nights meeting of Custer
post, Grand Army of the Republic,
the invitation of the Elks to partici.
pate in the street parade or the 4th
of July was accepted with enthusiasm,
and the adjutant of the post. Com
rade Fitch, was directed to report
the post to Director Gramm for as
signment in the line of march.
The boys" begin to W up to ad'
vancing years, and while they are
willing to take part in the parade,
they say they should not be expected
TO march all over town. 1t is certain
that the marshal of the day will Sc
orange his line of march that the
, 1901-06-25

Laramie parties e out to Wyo-
ming today to locate oil lands. They
express the belief that there is much
in the well being bored in the Haley
ranch. east of Wyoming. and they pur-
pose to see how close to the bulls eye
they can plant a shot. They were
very quiet in their movements, and it
vas like pulling teeth to get anything
from them. but when they dropped a
hint their faces did not look like their
owners had just come from a funeral.
, 1901-06-25

The air is full of railroad talk today.
and some of it has gone almost beyond
the point of probability.
1t is given out that the contract has
been awarded to a Laramie man for
the grading of hat portion of the Lar
annie, Hahn's Peak and Pacific railroad
between the West Side school house
and the Laramie river. and that work
will begin within the next few days.
True, the distance is short, but it is
the entering wedge, and the contracts
for the balance of the grading to Nc
Cune's ranch will be let and work be-
gun not later than the middle of July.
This is almost official.
Engineers were sent this morning to
begin a preliminary survey from Nc
Cune's ranch to the Rambler mines
with instruction to make the prelimin-
airy as rapidly as possible and as per-
fectly as possible, Sc that the final sur.
veys will no more time than
necessary.
The travelling representative of the
Western Steel Scraper company, who
sells largely to railroad contractors,
says the railroad building in this sec
ton is mo- near Over-just beginning,
cur within the next ten days or two
weeks that will make Wyoming people
feel glad they are living. His idea is
that the B. & NJ. has not abandoned
the field, but that it intends to build
across the state.
A citizen of Laramie. who has kept
his eye on the movements of events in
this section lately. expresses precisely
the same sentiment. and believes the
roadbed of the Utah and Wyoming
means tn rehabilitation of the Bur
lington and Missouri River line in a
new form and its ultimate and speedy
building across the state.
81 am led to this belief" he says.
by a combination of circumstances
small as individual happenings but
large taken as a whole and connected
ly, as they easily can be by anyone
who has given the matter ordinarily
careful study.
The current of events is shaping
itself toward the building of this line
across the state. and it is a question
not so much just now when as by
whom. as a good deal of secrecy sur
rounds the movements of some of those
down close to the ground in B. & NJ.
affairs. | do not believe the engineers
of that line have been pulled perma,
nently from their surveys, but the
head of the concern has something up
its sleeve"
, 1901-06-25
Offer for Cash.
Special Attention.


Call early and examine our new
stock Of spring and farm wagons.
We have just received one large car
of celebrated Western Cooper wagons
and one car Of Racine spring wagons,
buggies pheaton, surveys and buck
board. Also rubber tired English
traps and buggies with rubber tires
All the above offered for less money
than eve before in Laramie, Denver
or Omaha. We have a few farming
implements left which we offer at &C.
tual cost, n John Deere sulky plow.
n flying Dutchman sulky pillow. one
sixty tooth steel harrow, one Osborn
disk harrow, two Deere Wells hay
leaders, n steel eclipse hay press,
one Keystone side delivery hay rake
and one steel road scraper and to be
seen at the mammoth warehouse Of
the above named firm.
, 1901-06-25
WANTED.

a couple to be married at Elks
street fair. Valuable presents amount
ing to several hundred dollars will be
given the contracting parties Royal
reception furnished by Elks Freedom
of fair and midway. For full informa
ton apply to Street Fair Headquarters
Miller block 26Oti
, 1901-06-25

IF you want a moving machine, hay
rake. hay stacker, sickle grinder or
anything in the way Of an agricultural
implement call on the Laramie Coal
company, for prices. d-Wtf
, 1901-06-25

post car drop out when the comrades
legs begin to fail them.
]. C. Corey, now an inmate OF the
Soldiers Home at Cheyenne, was
voted to membership in the post, and
will be mustered whenever he pre-
sents himself.
, 1901-06-25
AM |ENT
ATMOSPHERE LADEN WITH ALL
SORTS OF RUMORS ABOUT
RAILROAD SCHEMES.

Engineers Ordered to Make a Careful
Preliminary Survey for the Lara
mic Hahn's Peak and Pacific from
McCune's Ranch to the Rambler
Mine-Part of the Grading Con-
tract Already Let.
, 1901-06-25
GRAMM
SAW THE ATTRACTION AT DEN.
YER THAT WILL VISIT LAR
ANNIE NEXT WEEK.

Director General of EIks' Street Fair
Returns from His Tour Of SIGHT
Seeing at the Capital of Colorado
Outfit Will Reach This City
Sunday Evening-Grand Army
Will Parade.