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The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1901-10-18

N. H. Jones of Bridgeport has gotten
out circular and map advertising his
property on Sunset hill, which is most
desirable for sites for residences for
city people. Mr. Jones says in his Gil
cular describing the property: '"The
land is located $40 feet above the sea
level. Eight minutes walk from cen
ter of Newtown village, to the
churches, stores, hotels, etc. Within
the limit of ice, grocery and meat de-
liveries. Twenty minutes walk from
| the N. Y, N. H. & II. r. r. depot;
less than ten minutes ride; % miles
from New Haven; 43 miles from Hart
ford: 18 miles from Bridgeport; two
hours from New York City. From the
summit of the hill the view is pictur-
esque and charming in the extreme.
But of far more Importance than the
aesthetic, is the purity and health1ul'
ness of the air. Many persons suffer
ing from malarial and bronchial diff
culties have been completely cured by
a few weeks stay in Newtown. Names
and particulars can be given. or
account of it's many attractions, New
town is fast becoming popular sum
mer resort. The hill comprises l;
acres of land, with many fine building
sites for summer cottages, and is offer
ed for sale either entire or in any de
sired quantity"
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1901-10-18

J. L. Mitchell of South Britain has
been on the sick list, requiring the at
tention of DIR J. w. Gordon of Sandy
Hook.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1901-10-18

Mrs James Farrell has been on the
sick list, requiring the attention of a
DhVSician
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1901-10-18

Master Arthur Beardsley was in
Shelton, last week, the guest of his
grandmother, Mrs James Edwards.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1901-10-18

Rev G.. A. Robson of Bird geport has
supplied very accepta bly, at Trinity
church, the last two Sundays. Next
Sunday Rev Everett..B. Sniffen will be
the preacher.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1901-10-18

Mrs j. T. Mason, Miss M arion Mason
and Miss Jennie Wooden of New Haven
passed Saturday and Sunday at L. S.
MaSOn'S
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1901-10-18

Ruffles & Nichols are completing the
task, this week, of painting the resi-
dence of Thomas Farrell in South Cen.
ter
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1901-10-18

Miss Matte Ruffles of Bridgeport
was the guest over Sunday of her par
ents, Dea and Mrs George Ruffles, of
Hawleyville.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1901-10-18

Miss Julia WentSch of the Purchase
has been spending week as guest Of
Mr. and Mrs Robert S. Wheeler at
Gray's Plain. ~~~
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1901-10-18

Jerome Northrop has been unfOrtu-
nate enough to lose valuable Jersey
COW.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1901-10-18

Ruffles & Nichols have taken the
contract to paint the new barn of Mrs
George Ferris and the residence of
Lauren SkidmOre.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1901-10-18

Mr. and Mrs S. A. Blackman passed
Sunday in New Milford, guests of
their son, DR. Claude Blackman, a
popular and successful dentist in that
town.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1901-10-18

w. G. Minor and his friend, Vance
Roberts, of Bridgeport. spent Sunday
at Charles Minor S i n Berkshire.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1901-10-18

Mrs Julius w. Knowlton of Bridge
port has been the recent guest of her
sister, Mrs Andrew G. Moore.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1901-10-18

Friend E. Brooks of New Haven has
a new advertisement in this week.
Look it up.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1901-10-18

Arthur Day of New York passed
Sunday with his mother, Mrs George
P. Sanford.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1901-10-18

J. A. Northrop of New Milford was
in town, Monday.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1901-10-18

in town, one day last week, and formal
ly accepted the state road work on the
road from the Street to Mrs Terrill's
place.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1901-10-18
THE LATEST I'm
Young mems suits.

1t is the long roll double brested sack suit;
about as nobby and stylish suit ever came
out Unlike most attempts at novelty, it does
not strain good taste in the least
Becoming, very, to most young men Of slen-
der medium build. (By the way, slim men
should know that the double breasted sack
makes them look stouter and is the most becom-
ing style for them.)
The new style comes in fine line of fancy
fabrics mostly dark effects, and in blacks. $15.
AS much as you want of military style suits
wide shoulders, close fitting in moderation,
coats rather longer than last season, and moder-
ate peg toppish trousers. From $125 to $50.
Good and stylish hats, furnishings, top coats
and rain coats.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1901-10-18

Charles Warner of New Milford has
been the guest, this week, at Mr. Dan
ielS' in South Center.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1901-10-18

The November Century-in many
respects an unusally striking number
will begin the magazines 32d year,
which is to be Year of American
humor. A group of humorous Stories
poems, etc., including "Two Little
Tales" by Mark Twain, ''More Ami
mals' by Oliver Herford, and prose
and verse by Carolyn Wells, Paul Dun
bar and other well-known humorists,
will be preceded by "a Retrospect OF
American Humor,' by Prof W. p.
Trent, with more than 80 portraits OF
famous humorists of the past and
present, from Benjamin Franklin tt
"Mr Dooley."
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1901-10-18

Road Commissioner Mcdonald was
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-22
THE sHIp-sUBsIDY STEAL.
Defeat of Mark Hanna i'm 1904 VIII
Settle the Ubiquitous
Scheme.

The s%hipbuilding plants have about
a wears work ahead, running at fuH
capacity, and yet Mark Hanna declares
that his ship subsidy steal is needed to
build up the merchant marine. Com
menting on this, the Philadelphia Rec
ord SAYS: 'If it were not for the linz
gering expectation of receiving large
steamship subsidies out of the pockets
of taxpayers there would be no dis
paragement of the prosperity OF Amer
lean s~hipbuilding interests. Although
this industry has undergone a new de-
yelopment under the most favorable
conditions without public aid, there il
no doubt that the subsidy scheme OPP
crates as an obstruction to it's march,
More yards would be opened and more
ships built for the ocean service at fair
profits but for the prospect of h
larger gains from subsidy. Apart
from the iniquity of this subsidy
scheme, its removal from congress by
the defeat of the Hanna bill at h
next session would be promotive of the
ocean transportation interests of the
country"
And as further evidence of how little
a subsidy is needed. a statement is
sued by the bureau of navigation
treasury department, shows that dur
ing the last month liz new ships, OF
1920 gross tons, were added to the
American merchant marine. OF these
IS, of s.278 gross tons, were built on
the Atlantic and gulf coasts; 10, of
1854 gross tons, on the Pacific coast;
%, of LIPS gross tons, on western
rivers, and IA, of 1868 gross tons. on
the great lakes. The largest steam.
vessel built on the great lakes during
the month was the Pere Marquette No
IT at Cleveland, by the American Ship
bnilding company.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-22
SLOW PAYERS MAKE JOB.
One Delinquent shows Collector That
Prompt Liquidation Would BE
Disastrous.

A collector of bad accounts received
a lesson from a delinquent debtor a
few days ago that has started him
Tribune. The collector had beer
chasing this delinquent for about six
months and had become tired of
"Call Tomorrow Il haven't it just
now and other excuses of a similar
dilatory nature and thought it was
time to become SASSY"
"See here" he said the last time
he called. ARE you yer going to pay
this bill?"
why, yes" replied the delinquent,
SIT suppose l viii pay it some day Or
other. But look here yourself, young
man. l think I a show you a thing
or two. How many bills have you in
that bundle?"
About 40, I guess"
"How long does it take you to visit
these people,"
Generally 1 can get over my route
in a day"
Suppose everyone of them should
pay up?"
THAT would be fine
"Oh, it would, would it? What
would you do for a living if every
body paid promptly?"
The collector turned the thought
over in his mind for a moment or
two and looked blank.
"Gracious!" he said, I'D be out of
a job"
That's exactly my point. Don't,
therefore, be so internally anxious
to collect every cen due to your peo-
pie at one time. A few collections
a day are enough. AS for my ac-
count, come around some day next
week and I may help you out of bust
ness by paying it. Good-day."
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-22
SPEECH MADE GOLDEN.
New Process for PerpetustinE the
Words of NOtables on PhOnO-
graph Cylinders.

When the ~phonograph first made its
appearance it appealed very strongly
to the popular imagination, and N
of the dreams entertained regarding
it was that it might render practicable
the preservation of the spoken words
of great personages for centuries; so
as to repeat, for example, sayings OF
Queen Victoria to people who will
dwell on the earth 500 years from
now. The notion of perpetuating the
actual voices of individuals, so as to
enable them to address, as if from the
tomb, human beings belonging to a
acknowledgement epoch, was both weird
and fascinating, and an intense senti-
mental interest was inspired when the
idea was suggested as being applicable
to communications from the long dead
to their own descendants, says the
Saturday Evening Post.
Up to now this dream has not been
fulfilled, because of the nonperma-
nency of photographic records. Wax
is easily destroyed, celluloid cylinders
alter structurally, and metal c~orrodes.
The problem of durability seemed
hopeless, but it is said to have been
solved at last by Mr.. Edison, who has
found a way of producing record-cyl-
inders of gold backed with silver,
which he hopes will last for thousands
of years.
The method adopted is to take an or
binary wax record-eylinder and put it
into a receiver between two gold cleo
trodes. Their the air is exhausted
from the receiver, and between the
electrodes is passed a spark, which
produces a fine vapor of gold in the
acuum The gold is deposited from
the vapor in a film of infinitesimal
thinness all over the record. The next
step is to put over the golden film
a coat of copper by electroplating.
Then the wax cylinder is softened
and gently removed, so that there re-
mains a thing cylindrical tube of cop
per with the gold record in relief on
the inside of it. The gold film is only
about one-millionth of an inch in thick
ness, but it reproduces perfectly the
original record made on the wax.
Next, parafin is smeared over the cop
per, and the tube is plated with sill
yer, which is deposited only upon the
gold, owing to the protection given to
the copper by the paraffin. The cop
per is then dissolved with hydro
chloric acid, which does not affect
either silver or gold, and as a result
there is a silver rec~ord-cylinder thinly
coated with gold on the outside.
This gcl6-plated cylinder of silver
is not only an absolutely faithful copy
of the original wax cylinder, but is i'm
nerishable. The gold will not tarnish,
and the spoken words traced upon it
will last uhsltered practically forever.
BY the ordinary duplicating process,
copies in metal or wax can be made
from 1t at any time.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-22
P~ARAGRAPHIc POINTERS.

If Hanna is elected president the
monogram-initials of the United States
will more fifty than ever constitute the
dollar mark.-St. Louis Republic.
a Terre Haute man is %prosecut-
ing two fellow workmen for provoke.
Thev called him Mark Hanna. The
plaintiff ought to make out his case.
indianapolis News Qnd.).
The kind of reciprocity the farm
ers and manufacturers need is some
thing real and practical. They are
tired of paper promises and orator
ical fustian and bombast.-Philadel-
phia Times.
The American Tin Plate COM
pany has advanced the wages of its
employees two per cent, while the men
asked for ten. Why did not the COM
pany advance the wages to the amount
Of the protective" tariff? The tariff
is for the benefit of American labor,
you ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS News (Ind.).
Within the republican organiza-
ton and acting as a strict partisan, no
man can strike a really effective blow
at the trusts, which have the support
IF the administration, of nearly all
the recognized leaders of the party
and of perhaps not less than 90 per
sent. of all the republicans in public
life. On the other hand, the demo-
.ratic party is practically a unit in
opposition to the Observation-Disclosures
Times.
THE republican leaders know
that they have good cause to fear the
resentment of organized labor. They
cannot point to one instance in which
ganized labor as against the exactions
and expressions of the trusts. The
steel strike is logically injurious to
the republican party. It is so because
organized labor is fighting the trusts
in that conflict, and the republican
party is the creator and defender Of
the trusts.-St. Louis Republic.
So long as the political complex
ion of the senate remains as it is now
it will be a perfectly safe proposition
for the high protectionists to have reci-
procity dangled before the eyes of
the people. Commissioner Kasson was
so Disguised with the transparent
fraud in the reciprocity game that he
threw up his JOHN disgust. Reciproci-
ty has proven t % be a barren make
shift, and this is why Congressman
Babcock and a number of republican
leaders and newspapers are pushing
tariff reform to the front.-Kansas
City Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-22
EVERYDAY PHILOSOPHY.

hill, i1
If you try.
lou can make Of yourself whatsoever
You will,
If you try.
a faith you must have. rooted deem In
your soul,
a purpose mistaken, a firm self-control:
SdfVe on, without ceasing; you'll reach
TO the goal,
If you try.
You can be of some good to yourself and
If you work.
\ name and a place In the world you can
If you work.
Mherever you turn, there is plenty to do.
me harvest Is great, but the reapers are
few.
Youn find opportunities waiting for you,
If you work.
You a reach any standard at which you
may aim,
If you viii.
You can find the right road to the Temple
OF Fame,
If you will.
II lies through Endeavor by day and by
Through Patience that never abandons a
By infinite toll you can climb to the
height,
If you will.
You must meet all reverses and never
give in,
If you win.
You must spend little time planning how
to begin,
If you win.
But take off your coat and go into the
fray
And stay by your task; there is no other
You must wait for no future, but labor
to-day,
If you win.
You win find that the tide of misfortune
is swift,
If you drift.
Don't expect other people to give you q
lift,
If you drift.
The adage is old. that the world gives its
To the man who keeps striving. whatever
befall.
You viii find that a wreck is the end OF
il all,
If you drift.
You win learn that the palsy of life is
delay,
If you wait;
That Fortune viii beckon and then flee
If you wait.
For this is the mystical edict of Fate:
But once Opportunity knocks on youl
And after that call tbs forever too late
If you wait.
j. A. EGgerton, in Banner of Gold.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-22
DIAMONDS ssSELF-FLAME."
Remarkable PhOsphOrescent Prop
erty of the Precious stone Dis
played i'm the Dark.

A traveller for a diamond house
was talking shop the other evening,
and, speaking of gems, said, reports
the New Orleans Times-Democrat:
''The most overworked expression
used by the unsophisticated and
deeply impressed diamond purchaser
is: 1T actually looks as if it glows
of itself Now, it is not generally
known hat such is actually the case,
although not, of course, in the way
the public intends. The beauty of
the gem in light is, of course, in its
remarkable retroactive power, but I'M
der certain conditions the diamond
has more, for it may CLEAN even in
the night with a pale but extremely
beautiful light. In short, it becomes
phosphorescent. Heated to a GER
tain temperature, the internal light
shows itself, and under pressure the
same is true. Some years ago / went
to Amsterdam to purchase some spe-
cial stones for a California million
aire. who had ordered them through
our New York house, and while there
I was shown the inside workings of
the famous diamond-cutting estab-
hshments of that city. OF all that |
saw. however, the 'self-fiame' of the
stones under pressure most surprised
me. The manager placed a large
rose-cut gem between the jaws Of a
wise and carefully applied a certain
amount of pressure. He then ex-
tinguished all the light in the shop.
and as soon as my eyes had become
accustomed to the darkness / saw
the diamond emitting a soft radiance
of its own like a very pale glow
worm. As / remember it, he said
that the yellow diamonds were slight
" more phosphorescent than the
frst-water stones
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-22
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


In Great Britain Is out OF every
1000 people keep a carriage as
against a proportion of five per 1000
in 1880.
The inhabitants of the mining dis
tricts of South Africa import 80 per
cent. of their food, a worlds record
Cor so large q district.
Of large islands Nippon, the main
island of Japan, has for its size far
the heaviest population. On $4,000
square miles, about half the area of
Great Britain, there are 27,ooo,ooo
people.
Berlin has an Association of In
dependent Tailors." At a recent
meeting, the painter, Hermann Wild
mer, delivered an address in which he
utterly condemned the modern attire
of men, especially evening dress, and
urged a return to the close-ftting cos
tunes of early periods, Spain being
pronounced a good model.
London has a colonial institute cona-
posed OF hundreds Of ex-colonial om-
Gals, which has a library of $4,000 vol
umes. France has a colonial organlZa-
ton at Paris with 5000 members. Ger
many has an association of over 10000
members scattered throughout the
empire, all aiming to further the COM
mercial and agricultural development
of the colonies. The Netherlands gov
conducts a commercial train
.ng school to the same end.
The following placard is exposed in
an Oxford street (London) store:
"Americans will please take notice
tina this place is not a museum. 1t is
a shop" The appearance of the pla-
card led to Investigations by the
newspapers. which are filled with
amusing comments on what is called
the gall of American shoppers, who,
it is alleged, spent hours in the great
stores examining and pricing every
thing but buying nothing. 1t is
charged hat the valuable time of
high-priced statesmen is thus wasted.
Paris has learned the art of trans
planting large trees successfully, so
that at the earliest signs of decay a
street tree may be removed and the
symmetry of the vista not spoiled by
| its successor. For these trees alone
the expenses of Paris amount to
about 500 900 a year. The municipal
nurseries include a ''hospital," or
"cure'' for the tired trt es, where they
are restored, if possible, to health and
strength in soil that is richer than the
citv's. In spring and fall these trees
on their way to and from the hospital
are no uncommon feature in the stree:
scenes of Paris.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-22
GENIUS AND HIGH LINEAGE.
Many of the raves and Most Tall
ented of Earth's Men Were of
LOvly Origin.

"The puppies fight well!" exclaimed
! wellington, as he saw the tops ard
handles of the guards Drawing the
French fire and dying like men. blood
will tell" exclaimed the British nation
when the names of the noble and com
missioned dead appeared in the Ga
zette after Waterloo. Their meaning
was that noble ancestry begets a noble
brood; hat a line of gentlemen for
~forefathers gives a man a certain spir-
it, stamina and courage which the yeo-
man and the shopmen lack; that the
thoroughbred man, like the thorough
bred horse, is superior to the common
mustang or cart horse, says h San
Francisco Bulletin.
1t is true that the traditions of a
noble family have a certain influence
on the scions thereof and keep them
up to certain ideals, especially in the
matter of physical courage. Moreover,
wealth, education and generous hab-
its of living, with which most men of
good blood are familiar from birth,
have a tendency to create a keen sense
of honor and a personal pride hat
have a strong influence upon conduct.
Lev ADASSP nav oAooo
tie advantages over the base-born,
either in the matter of intellectual or
physical qualities.
The greatest men W been the Off
spring of lowly people. The most rug
ged intellects seem to have come from
the tillers of the soil and to have de-
rived therefrom a certain natural
strength that men born in castles and
manor houses do not inherit. Of all
kings and rulers the strongest were
the founders of dynasties. The first
holder of a hereditary title nearly al
ways is the greatest. h fact was
known to the French wit who said:
"We cannot all be mobiles. Some of us
must be ancestors" In literature and
all departments of learning the major
ity of the masters were plebeians.
Shakespeare was the son of a wool
comber, johnson of a bookseller, Hor-
ace of a freedman, Socrates of a mid
wife-but the list would be too long
If it ere completed here.
On the point of physical courage the
cadet of the oldest family in Europe
and the commonest kind of a plebeian
are equal. The well-born puppies"
fought bravely at Waterloo, but no
more bravely than the common sol
diers, the sons of tenants on the pup
pies" estates. AS reckless and dar-
ing a body of men as ever faced blaz-
ing gunpowder was a regiment in the
civil war recruited in the lowest slums
! of the Bowery. The STRIPPING rough in
the cities of the United States is one
of the finest fighting animals on two
legs.
After all. physical courage is a very
common and not a very lofty attribute
When the six Hundred made that
charge at Balaklava the horses went
where the men rode them and SIX
more horses than men we're killed, but
the horses are not celebrated. Yet
physical courage will be admired unit
the end of time, and nine philosophers
out of ten would rather have their NOR
ais impugned than their courage, ant
nineteen philosophers out of twenty
would rather be the grandsons o.
great men than be the famous found
orc of families
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-22
As a Last Resort.

The new minister of a small town
in Invernesshire was walking home
from morning service recently when
he CHANGED to overtake one of his
parishioners, an old shoemaker.
"Good morning, Mr.. Bain," said the
minister. "How is it your good wife
is not out to-day"
she's no. but poorly" was the re-
ply. cts nae wink of sleep she's had
for the last three NIGHTS"
The minister was sorry to hear such
a poor account of Mrs. Bain's health,
and expressed a wish for a speedy inn
provement.
"rm thinking if she could get a
guild Sleep" said the shoemaker.
"she'd soon be on the mend. Maybe
if we're passing the hoose tomorrow
ven noe object to ca in an just give
her frae lastly to the end OF your
discoorse this morning. I'm no say
in it wadna be very helpful
tish American.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-22

The new French duel code, which is
the work of Prince Bibesco, provides
that in the future nc duel can end with
out the shedding of blood, and no ac-
count of the proceedings shall be pub
lshed if the insult causing the duel
was no! made public.-N. Y. Sun.