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The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1901-05-02
RIGHT UP TO DATE.
(Bsnson's Plaster Is Palms Master.)

These are days of records and of the beat
ing of records. Benson's Porous Plaster, for
quickness of action and thoroughness OF
cure, has no records to beat except its own.
Benson's Plaster, always the best, always
the leader, is to-day better than eoer. 1t
sticks to the skin but never sticks in ita
tracks. It marches on.
The people not only want to be cured
but cured Q1ickly-and Benson's Plaster
does it. Coughs, colds, lumbago, asthma,
bronchitis, liver and kidney complaints,
and other ills approachable by an external
remedy, yield to Benson's as ice does to heat.
Neither Belladonna, Strengthening or
Capsicum plasters are to be compared with
Benson's. People who have once tested
the merits of Benson's Plaster have no use
for any other external remedy.
More than 5000 physicians and drug
gists land thousand times as many nom
professional persons) have called Benson's
Plasters one of the few q home remedies
that can be trusted
Fifty-fve highest awards have been made
to it in competition with the best known
plasters of Europe and America. Better
proof of its merits is inconceivable. Be
sure to get the genuine.
For sale by all druggists, or we will pre-
pay postage on any number ordered in the
United States, on receipt of Csc. each.
Seabury d Johnson, Mfg. Chemists, NY.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1901-05-02
.OnSuIIlD DtfOIl

is, by no means, the dreadful
disease it is thought to be-
in the beginning.
It can always be stopped
in the beginning. The trouble
is: you don't know you've got
it; you don't believe it; you
won't believe it till you are
forced to. Then it is danger
Gus.
Don't be afraid but attend
to it quick-you can do it your
self and at home.
Take SCOTS Emulsion ol
Cod Liver Oil, and live cafe.
fully every way.
This is sound doctrine
whatever you may think or
be told; and, if needed, will
save life.
If you have not tried II. send for
free sample: its agreeable taste will
ssc3Tf : BOVINE. Chemists,
SOC. ana $1.oio; all druggists> ~
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1901-05-02
Letter to John Foster.

Stafford Springs, Conn,
Dear Sir: If you want your paint tc
last as long as that of other house-owners
in your town is going to last, you should
use lead and zinc.
You can mix your own, or buy Devoe
as you like. The results will not be the
same, however. Devoe lead and zinc is
ground in oil and thoroughly mixed. Ma
chinery does it. Hand-work can't com
pete with machine-work, either in cost OF
thoroughness. Mixing by hand is imper
feet mixing; and zinc Is peculiarly hare
to mix; wants grinding.
Lead and oil Is honest paint, but less
durable. Lead Is tender and zinc IL
tough. The proper mixture ground to-
gether is better than either alone. French
painters use zinc alone; but American
painters think 1t Is too hard, and mix il
with lead.
Yours truly,
46 F. W. DEvoR & Co.
P. S.-Chicago Grocery sells our paint
in your town.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1901-05-02

"Our little girl was unconscious from
strangulation during sudden and terri
BILE attack of Group. quickly secured q
bottle of One Minute Cough Cure, giving
her three doses. The Group was mastered
and our little darling speedily recovered ~
So writes A. L. Spafford, Chester, Mich.
w, D. Heald.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1901-05-02
2! 9 Shoes You Want
ARE THE
Shoes We Sell

This is not store of make believes
and misfits, but store where Shoes of
good quality may be had in all seasons at
moderate prices.
We reach out In every direction for the
trade of intelligent people. We provide,
first of all, reliable makes of footwear.
We provide this footwear in large va
riety Of styles and qualities, always Sc
lecting those styles we think will please
you best, and confining our purchases to
Shoes made of best feathers and finished
to perfection. Then we cap the climax
by making the prices as low as you are
frequently asked for inferior grades in
common place shoe stores.
Are these reasons sufficient to COM
mand your trade?
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1901-05-02

Il suppose you take a great deal Of
pride in your business"
"No." eawe, ed Mr.. Cumrox. 81 used
to take pride in my business, but ma
and the girls don't approve of it. The
only thing we take pride in now is my
daughters husbands pedigree. Wash
ington Star.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1901-05-02

Mr.. w. J. Baxter OF North Brook, N.
g.. says he suffered with piles for fifteen
years. He tried many remedies with no
results until he used DeWitt's Witch Hazel
Salve and that quickly cured him. w.
D. Heald,
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1901-05-02

Rogues are always found out in some
way. Whoever is a wolf will act as a
wolf; that is the most certain of all
things.-Fontaine.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1901-05-02

The United States has a lower per-
centage Of blind people than any other
country in the world.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1901-05-02

Varnish Makes Deyoe's varnish
Floor Paint cost &c. more quart makes
it look brighter and wear fully twice as
long as cheaper floor paints. Sold at
Chicago Grocery. 5-4m
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1901-05-02

Has 1t occurred to you that Grover
Cleaveland Is the only "only" now in tie
United States?
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1901-05-02

Pope Leo XIIIhas now outlived al the
distinguished persons who few years
ago were his contemporaries.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1901-05-02

Carter Harrison of Chicago is the only
person except his father elected for three
years successfully as mayor Of that city.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1901-05-02
1t Saved His Leg.

P. A. Danforth, of LAGRANGE, Ga, suf
fered for six months with frightful run
ming sore on his leg, but writes thai
Bucklen's Arnica Salve wholly cured Il
In five days. For Ulcers, Wounds, Piles
it's the best salve in the world. Cure
guaranteed. Only 25c. Sold by A. G.
Eaton.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1901-05-02

Sponge fishing is now done by aid of
electric arc lights beneath the water.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1901-05-02
Paint Your Buggy for 75c.

with Devoe's Gloss Carriage Paint, ready
for use; 10 colors. Gives high gloss
equal to new. Sold at Chicago Grocery.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1901-05-02

Do you need pair of Portieres Couch Cover, Table
Cover piece of Tapestry uphoser soa piece of Dra-
perry material for Spring reurnshing? If you
do better than attend this
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-08-21
RISE OF THE BEER HABIT.


The New York Sun has recently
compiled some interesting facts. based
upon internal-revenue statistics. with
reference to beer. 1t seems from the
Suns compilation that the consump.
ion of lager beer in the United States,
which increased year by year from
$50, the year of its first popularity
@ 1897. fell of in the latter year from
L111.000.000 gallons to 1867 ,0O0, 600,
but in 1898, Notwithstanding the
1ouble internal-revenue tax on beer
FOR extraordinary war expenses, it in
reased to 1852 100000. Since then
: has been increasing steadily, and
was 1,22O.tJ0OOO gallons in 1900.
The consumption of beer in Chicago
md New York is on the increase.
New York, Chicago, Toledo. Milwau.
kee. st. Louis. Newark, and Philadel-
phia are the seven great beer-produc.
ng cities of the country. They also
figure among the greatest beer-eon-
'uming cities. The Sun discovers that
the increase in the revenue tax from
81 to 81 barrel was burden which
the brewers shifted to the shoulders
OF the retailers This diminished the
revenues OF the latter. and counled
with an increase in license taxes
which has been general throughout
the Northern states. has had the effect
OF reducing the number of saloons in
which chiefly beer is sold.
From the Suns summary il dexeI.
ops that, while the popularity of lager
beer is decreasing in some places
there is an increase of it in other
localities. particularly in the South in
which section heretofore there has
been little demand for it. 1t is essen
tally summer drink in the United
states. and its popularity In the South
IS, therefore. easily explained n Is
also mentioned as an important and
interesting fact that the South is now
brewing good deal of its own beer
There are eleven breweries in Texas
four in Tennessee, seven In Virginia
ave in Alabama. one in Florida and
Eve in Georgia.
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-08-21

dsrelopnent il farming was nAde
along tie Grand Ritter and It's tribz-
tzyies- The nrsx beet sugar factory
Il the state wzs erected a. Grand
Juzctfoz ard turned on IT'S frxt sack
q sugar IN 1855 The Rocky Ford
melon has been famous for the Izzs
half dozen years as the 9nest melon
n the World Rocky Ford and Sugar
City in the Arkansas VALLEY both nov
have sugar beet factories in addition
70 other agricultural development and
similar factories are building 81 Gree
ley and at Fort Collins in the north
eTn part Of the State
Meantime came the discovery OF
gold IN the Cripple Greek district and
the consequent revival Of mining
throughout the state The Cripple
Creek district is now the greatest
mining district In the world. its pro
inction Of gold and silver for the last
three years reaching the enormous
total Of s9o,000.O00 a year And yet
as great as is the production OF the
precious metals in the state they do
not aggregate as much in value as the
products OF her farms.
And what OF the cattle industry
which was so all important only ten
years ago. II has been almost swept
aside Excepting a limited district
down along the New Mexico line there
is no extensive grazing in the State
today The cattle industry was not
wiped out at one fell swoop any more
than the sugar industry OF these Isl
ands viii be wiped out at one grand
sweep. if ever wiped out at all. But
gradually it gave way to a new order
Il things which has increased the
population of the State, has brought
in thousands of industrious and thrift
" farmers and has made the state
greater and richer than before and
greater and richer than it ever could
have been with only mining and cat
tie raising as it's industries.
And so too could a similar change
.ake place in Hawaii, gradually and
slowly, but none the less surely, and
At the end OF this gradual change
avery one would recognize that the
Territory was richer and greater than
it ever could have hoped to be with
/ ,nly one industry.
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-08-21
SECRETARY WILSON'S GREAT
WORK.

Secretary Wilson OF the department
Of agriculture is receiving much well
merited praise for what he is doing
to promote the agricultural interests
Of the country. Under his direction
the department is splendidly organic.
ed. aud it is covering practically every
branch OF effort and investigation that
gives promise Of good for agriculture
whether in the production OF crops Or
IN the development OF markets
The naturalization Of plants of var,-
Gus species from other countries 70
the United States. regard being had
70 climatic conditions, is one Of the
most valuable and important works IN
which the department is engaged Nv
this means much has been gained for
agriculture in different parts Of the
country, and much is hoped from the
introduction especially or the macs-
roni wheat OF Russia. which il Is he.
heved win grow on the semi.arid
plains without irrigation. The use Of
this wheat is somewhat restricted
Il being available chiefly for making
maeSroui. but even for that use a pro-
htaole market can be found.
The Introduction Of japanese r,ee
In Texas and Louisiana Is revolution
hing rice growing in those states !,
Is thought that in course OF time the
United States viii produce all the rice
& consumes and thus cut OF one com.
modify from the list Of large imports.
Secretary Wilson takes greAt inter
est in the beet sugar industry. He
has encouraged it to the best OF his
ability, and he sees great possibilities
IL its development He hopes the day
win come when the United States viii
produce all the beet sugar II con-
sames. and the Importance OF this
consideration Is seen In the fact that
the United States uses about two mil
lion tons Of sugar every year. and
thar this amount Is increasing rapidly
both from the growth OF the country
in population and from the relatively
larger quantity Of sugar consumed per
capita
The agricultural department has be
come great scieatae institution for
the study Of plant growth and other
matters connected With the improve
meni aud development OF agriculture.
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-08-21
CONFERENCE OF PLANTERS
CLOSES EARLY SECOND DAY
Cross Purposes Given Their Finish
and Japanese Labor Deposed
From its Tyrannous Sway.


The conference of district planters
associations which met IN Honolulu
on Monday morning closed at IL a
N. yesterday
II was decided that the results
should be published at an early day.
The wages schedules for the different
islands. the adoption of which vas
exclusively reported in The Republic
can yesterday. viii be printed in
English. Hawaiian. Portuguese. Span
ish. Chinese and Japanese and posted
at every sugar mill and in public
places. together with the cognate reg
ulations against the hiring OF one
plantations labor by another.
Il is learned that future sources OF
labor supply outside were not dis
cussed. Neither did the planters take
up the question of petitioning Con-
gress for a modification Of Chinese
exclusion to their advantage.
Evidently the entire purpose of the
conference was to adjust matters be-
tween the different plantations with
regard to peripatetic or shifting labor
which had caused much friction be
tween different plantations and no
little injustice to some of them.
II is believed that the agreement
OF the planters TO act as a unit and
abandon cross purposes will have the
effect of depriving the Japanese of
the whiphand they have held over the
sugar industry ever since the aboli-
ton of labor contracts by the COM
ing into operation of United States
laws.
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-08-21

It employs q large number OF experts.
and there Is hardly 3 the a research
o. investigates connected srfth agrf-
esltzrs which Is not embraced withia
the scope Of mis- rork Forestry. ths
custivzfiou Of grasses. the improve
nent Of cotton and the cereals. as
weH as the naturalization Of foreign
varieties already referred to. al cone
within the scope OF the departments
~oTk under the able administration
OF Secretary Wilson.
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-08-21

A laty vho lad beeA nakfnz nnr
chases in = cozsegttc1ers stare IN
asTesteakiy len her praFer hook %
TIE cozHzer. An enRloye picked 4
gp TO see whether il contained The
name q the owner. To his zstonish-
ueaT be found that TIE prayer book
was in reality box ings1iozsfy d.
vided into to Compartments One
Contained chocolate hozbozs. the 9th
e brandy The knob Of the bogus
clasp serTed as stopper 70 the bot
tie side Of the contTiTznce-
few moments later = servant IN
livery hurried in and asked for the
prayer book He refused 70 give
the name Of the lady who had sent
him for Il. saying she desired ~ pre-
serve her incognito.
The incident got noiscd abroad
found its way into print. and al Bsr-
lin began asking the question which
has nov outworu It's hunor and be
come 3 popular nuisance.
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-08-21
Az IDEAL CHEAP
LABOR COMMUNITY

A Ponderous Morning contemporary
which shows much more real than II
does good Judgment. says; The hope
% the tropical countries Is in some
great staple. produced by cheap labor.
II that be true we would ike to ask
our contemporary to tell Us why the
British West Indies are not prosper
Gus. They are tropical islands with
one great staple and an abundance OF
cheap labor. A magazine writer in
speaking Of the latter said:
TO produce revenue for allen plan
tiers the world is secured for cheaper
labor than that already procurable
upon the Islands. thereby reducing the
standard OF living, keeping wages
down 10 the merest pittance. and fore
ing thousands TO idieness. At Trini-
dad I saw landing a motley crowd OF
Hindu Immigrants, whose sole pos
sessions were the flthy pugrees ana
loin- clothes which they wore. They
had been imported under the same
contract labor system as that which n
our colonial days brought the low
whites 20 Virginia. asked a high
Official OF Trinidad why a humane
government permitted further addition
10 the seventy thousand Hindus al
ready oyersupplying the labor market
OF the Island. He replied that from
his residence he could see five hun
dred huts inhabited by idle people
who would be willing 10 work for a
shilling a day
Here is cheap labor for you. far
cheaper than any ever imported 10
Hawaii This description is of an
island in the tropics that has one great
staple and cheap labor and yet with
these requirements is there any hope
for the future OF the Island OF Trini-
dad or any OF its neighborsg Far from
IT, The picture they present is a
black one. q most discouraging and
distressing one. Here Is what the
Colonial Secretary said of it in his
annual report for 1893:
The year has been uneyentfuI in
commerce. unremunerative in aerieuI-
ture and socially depressing"
What blacker picture Of the benefits
OF the hope of tropical countries in
some great staple produced by cheap
labor" could be drawn
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-08-21

From the New York Times.
Have zen forgotten your PRAYER
book was the question a number
OF joyial passengers on q German
liner that arrived this week were ask
Ing each other. The person address,
ed would answer. NO. I have il
right here. and. producing a pocket
lash. would hand the whisky around.
Have you forgotten your prayer
book IS the question OF the day in
Berlin. and Is asked almost invari~
ably By acqnaintances Of the steiner
sex when they chance 70 meet
Il originated in this way.
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-08-21

HONOLULU, H. T., AUG. 81, 1901
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-08-21

u II be true that white laborers
won't come here to compete with ORR
entails as some claim. then shall we
continue TO import the orientals so as
70 keep out the whites permanentlr :
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-08-21

Chief Justice Frear seems to have
lost a cog somewhere in PROMISING
70 have that Supreme Court decision
on the habeas corpus cases ready to
hand down YESTERDAY
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-08-21

The Ponderous Morning Organ
which measures its news by the inch
instead of by its quality must be
losing rapidly judged by its drop TO
fourteen pages.
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-08-21
| New Lot Of Good Tools

IA ISSrON 4 SONS SAWS, FILES
and Trowels, Fray's Ratchet Bra
ces, Birch Bros Chisels and Gou-
~ ges, Clark's Expansion Bits, Rua-
sci, Jennings, Anger 4 Co.'S Bits.
Bailey's Iron Planes, Stanley Rules
and Levels, Steel Squares, Goes
Monkey-wrenches, Engineers', Ma
chinists, BlRcksmiths', Carpenters and
Plumbers Tools, Steel and Metallic
Measuring Tapes. Surveyors Chains,
Morrili's Saw Sets. Bench Stops and
Cutting Pliers, Grindstones and Fix
lures, Washita Oil Stones and Razor
Stones, Screw Drivers, Nail Pullers
Nail Sets, Coppering Punches, Hunfs
Axes and Hatchets, Butchers Cleavers
and Steels, Drills, Chucks, Steel Let
tiers and Figures, Post-hole Diggers, etc
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1901-09-13
Aeres of Snakes.

The building Of the new West
Branch railroad between karthaus
and Clearfeld, Pa, has chased from
their haunts hundreds upon hun
dreds of rattlesnakes and copper
heads. Until the work on the new
road began that section of the coun
try was overrun with snakes. 1t is
so rocky that forest fires could not
disturb the reptiles, so that the
cliffs and lodges became the home
and breeding pieces of countless
numbers of them.
One gang of laborers in one day
| killed fort two copperhead snakes
and eleven rattlers. In traversing
a path Jess than a mile long Bert
Gressmeyer killed seven copper
heads. They appeared all to be
/ going in the same direction. The
/ laborers on the new work are al
most terrorized through fear of the
poisonous reptiles, for nearly every
blast brings a snake or two rolling
down among them with the dirt.
Some of the gangs have employed
men whose sole s4aty is to patrol q
prescribed area Ind kill the snakes
4 found therein. The men are afraid
to 90 to bed lest they find asnake as
bedfellow.
I One of the men employed to Kill
snakes in two days slaughtered lOa
copperheads and rattlers. He put
them all on a pile, and the heap was
large enough to ill four barrels
This man discovered one of the dens
and inside of two hours be had slair
nearly sixty snakes. Exchange.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1901-09-13
A Prolific Mother.

Johann Steiner, farmer from the
environs of Salzburg, married in
1892 (when residing in the same
town.. In nineteen successive con-
finemer is his wife bore, first of all,
twins eight times running, then
three times triplets, again four
times twins, and finally four times a
single child, which makes in all
thirty seven children-that is, If
we can count properly.
The last child was born last week
on the same day-curious fact-that
papa celebrated his seventy fourth
birthday. Thirty-four children, OF
whom twenty-s six are girls, are still
iiving.-Brassels La Chronioue.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1901-09-13
strenrth in Simnle Diet.

The Roman soldier who built such
wonderful roads and carried a
weight of armor that would crush
the average farm hand, lived on
coarse brown bread and sour wine.
They were temperate in habit and
regular and constant in exercise,
The Spanish peasant works every
day and dances half the night, yet
eats only his black bread, onion and
watermelon. The Smyrna porter
eats only little fruit anu sour
olives, yet he walks off with his
load of 100 pounds. The coolie, fed
on rice, is more sctive and can en-
dure more than negro fed on TAT
Fnpaf
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1901-09-13

Geo. w. Lane, Pewamo, Mich,
writes: "Your Kodol Dyspepsia Cure
is the best remedy for indigestion and
stomach trouble that I ever used. For
years I suffered from dyspepsia, at
times compelling me TO stay in bed aud
causing me untold agony. / am COM
pletely cured by Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure. In recommending it to friends
who suffer from Indigestion, l always
offer to pay for it If it fails. Thus
far I have never paid" McNeely &
Company.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1901-09-13
InokI A stiteh in Time

Saves nine. Hughes Tonic taste
pleasantly, taken il early spring and
fall prevents chills, .dengue and mala-
rial fevers. Acts on the liver, tones
up the system. Bitter than calomel
and quinine. Contains no arsenic.
Guaranteed, try 1t. At druggists.
soc and 81 bottles.t
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1901-09-13

Thousands suffer with torpid liver,
producing great depression of spirits,
Indigestion, constipation, headache.
etc Herbine will stimulate the liver,
keep the bowels regular, and restore a
healthful Fuoyancy of Spirits. Price,
SOC McNeeIV & Co.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1901-09-13

HI. G. Watkins, sexkOn of the Meth
odist church, Springfield, Pa. says:
ssMy wife has beer very bad with kid
ney trouble and tried several doctors
without benefit. After taking one bot
tie OF Foley's Kidney Cure, was much
better, and was completely cured after
taking four bottles" ]. L. MeNeely