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SOM ERS.

sOMERs.
Miss Ruby Kibbe has been visiting
friends in Orcuttville.
Mrs. Emma J. Griffin of Meriden is
visiting at G.. G. Woods.
Mr.. and Mrs. Luman Emo spent Sunday
with relatives in Manchester.
Hiram Hunt of Saybrook is visiting his
brother, John Hunt, on Main street.
Mrs. Marilda I'll. Fuller is visiting her
niece, Miss Elsie Hyde, of Norwich.
Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Phillips have moved
into the tenement lately vacated by Mrs.
Maloney.
Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Pomeroy of Wilt
mantle have been guests of Mr. and Mrs
E. L. Hurlburt.
Miss Elsie Russell of Mashapaug and
Miss Gertrude Avery of Union were home
over the Sabbath
Mrs. Jennie Adams, who has been car
ing for her sister, Miss Ada Walcott, in
Broadbrook, has returned to Somers.
The foundations are laid for $1,000
monument to be erected on the family lot
in the West cemetery, recently purchased
by HI. r. Kibbe.
Mr.. Doyle of Hall Hill had $50 stolen
from him last week, it is alleged by his
hired man, Herbert Fox, who suddenly
left the place during the absence Of Mr..
Doyle.
Ground Is broken for the electric rail-
road to the public library. Rails are laid
nearly to s. II. Perry's driveway The
wires are strung only to the Scantic bridge.
1t is expected the cars will be running to
the bridge before many days.
| Last winter an infant child of mine
had Group In violent FORM" says Elder
John w. Rogers, Christian Evangelist,
Of Filley, Mo. Il gave her few doses
Of Chamberlaln's Cough Remedy, and In
a short time all danger was past and the
child recovered" This remedy not only
cures Group, but when given as soon as
the fret symptoms appear, will prevent
the attack. 1t contains no opium or 9th.
or harmful substance, and may be given
as confidently to q baby as to an adult.
| For sale by e. K. Taft, Ell. T. Cady,
Stafford; Gardiner Hall, Jr., Il Co., South
Wellington.
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Born.
Married.

Stafford (Hydeville), 18th daughter t.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter WEIGH.
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Married.
Wales, 10th, by Rev. E. B. Dolan,
Nelson L. Curtis of Ellington and Miss
Inez L. Burr of East Wilmington.
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Died.

Died.
Sacramento, Cal, October Goth, Theo-
dore Brockbank, 6 months, infant son of
DIR. p. r. and Alice B. Watts.
Stafford Springs, 18th. Nelson Gilman,
70
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Asked and Answered.

Asked and Answered.
Female Lawyer-How old are you?
Female Witness-You know as well
as do that I'm just week younger
than you are; but, if necessary
Female Lawyer (hastily)-Never mind;
1t isn't necessary.-Chicago News.
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There may be no question what
ever about your courage, but we'll
undertake to say that, though
you are as brave as a lion, you
won't want to have anything to
do with that kind of fray.
Trousers and tatters don't make
just the kind of combination
that you are hankering after, do
they? Purchasers of Suits or
Trousers will have the advantage
of our Mark Down Prices, and
will not be bothered with any
thing of the sort. They are just
as safe from it as though they
had paid-up policy of insurance
against any such kind of un-
pleasantness. IF our Suits give
you any hankering at all, they
will : give you an ungovernable
hankerning for another one just
like it.
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@lqe 3Rre<x.

LEWIS MCLAUGHLIN, PUBLISHER.
$50 year. II paid strictly In advance. ~
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The Chicago Grocery,

Which will be fought to the bitter end.
It has already lasted several years, and
still the end Is not In sight. The object
of this strike it to sell the best obtainable
Groceries for less money than inferior
goods are sold for elsewhere. We quote /:
20 lbs. G. Sugar, $1.0O
/ Dbl. Best Bread Flour, $475
1 10. Pure Lard, 13c
Id. package prep. Buckwheat Flour, 25c
full qt. Maple Syrup, 25c
full pit. bottle Pickles, 12c
Just received, fifteen cases of Cereal
Prime Coffee. This Coffee Is as fine
as Postum, and was put up to sell for
25c-our price, 13c
IL lbs. Sweet Potatoes. 25c
Just received, the largest stock of Candy
we have ever carried, all TO be sold
for 1Oc per Id.
Yours,
The Press., 1902-11-13
8 M#r1

This signature e on every boz Of the genuine
Laxative Bron1O. Quinine Tablet.
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HAME To my premises last Saturday
~ female Setter Dog. Has a collar without
name. Owner can have same by paying charges.
1919 j. REGAIN StanOrdvilie
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GOING SOUTH,

In effect Oct. ~, 1909.
| z. ii. FITZHUGH, Vice Pres. and GenI Manager.
| 9. w. CUMMINGS. General Passenger Agent.
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IL apron, such as used by blacksmiths. Own
er can have same by calling at The Press ONCE
and paying for this ad. LYMAN CUSHMAN.
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Keep a Registered Short-Horn Bull !;
u also, but not from choice, ten or twelve Pigs,
six weeks old q j. L. EMO, Moose Meadow.
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DOR SALE-Pair of Team Horses, or
i will exchange for horned stock.
32-2s w. j. BOWLER, West Wilmington.
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with fish. They have a fishing camp
near the wharf, and there dry and
prepare their catch of shrimp for
the market. They run their craft
I'D into the lagoons and islets and
fish out of season, where it is diff
cult for officers of the law to find
them. In this they are as shrewd as
the Chinese and are about as trou-
blesome to the fish commissioners.
The Ghetto is the oldest settled
portion of San Francisco. The town
was located at the base of the hill
near the shipping, while the Latin
element swarmed upon the hill. No
traces of the early town remain, but
the Ghetto is about as it was then,
only much more extensive. Here are
seen antiquated cottages, with high
pitched roofs, and overhanging caves
that nearly meet across the narrow
alleys and almost shut out the sun
light, doors below the level of the
streets, and others that are reached
by narrow rickety stairways, filthy
streets into which everything is
thrown, regardless of the menaces
of the superintendent of streets, and
tenement houses with little or no
ventilation, reeking with the odor of
garlic, onions and decayed fish, and
whose occupants resist all attempts
Of the health officer to purify the
surroundings. From a distance the
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the Chinese quarter, where it is again
stopped, for the Chinese wall is too
strong even for the Italians. On
the northwest the Ghetto creeps
along the shores of the bay to North
Beach and under the brow of Rus
sian hill. This is their only outlet,
but they are crowding the older set
tiers further outward, for no other
peoples will live where the Ghetto
extends it's lines. The Italians most
ly are engaged in the fruit and fish
canneries and in fishing in the bays
and rivers. Also in the manufac-
ture of their favorite macaroni and
kindred dishes. In the canneries,
gardening, and fishing for salm-
on and shrimp, the Ghettoites
are strongly competing with the
Chinese and have practically monop-
olized these branches of industry.
Like the Chinese, the Ghettoites
do not assimilate with other races,
and hence are not as desirable citi-
zens, especially as comparatively lit
tie of the money they earn is invest
ed in this country. About 1000 of
these people are engaged in the fish
cry business in this city. From Fish
erman's wharf they sail out each
morning in their square-rigged yes
sells, flying a lateen sail from a sin
gle spar, and at night return laden
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GROW FAT ON FILTH.
Foreigners Who Oppose Ali Health
Office Edicts.
Latin Settlement of San Francisco Is
RepuIsive in DiIapidation and
Moral and Physical Deg
radiation.
Especial San Francisco Letter.

THERE are about $4,000 Italians
in San Francisco, and about
$4,000 in the state. They are
the most numerous OF the Latin
races, the immigration to California
averaging 1000 year. They strong
Iy compete with the Chinese and jap
anese, work as cheaply live as eco
nomically and, like the orientals,
send their surplus earnings to their
homes. Orientals are prohibited
from coming except in specified in
stances, while there is no restriction
to Italian immigration. During the
last fiscal year 178,O0O Italian immi-
grants arrived in the United States
exceeding those of any other race.
The Ghetto of San Francisco is the
most extensive Latin settlement in
the United States, and the most
compact. The Ghetto is inhabited by
Italians, Mexicans, Spaniards, Sicil-
ians, Manila men, and small sprink-
ling of French and Portuguese.
These Portuguese are from the Azore
islands, and the other classes of the
Ghetto draw a line of social distinc-
ton, which is undesirable to all save
the jewellers in the Ghetto The
races of this Latin quarter live prac-
tically apart, each nationality having
it's separate section, yet all are
crowded within it's narrow limits
and economic space about as much
as do the Chinese: The Ghetto COW
ers Telegraph hill, an eminence in
the northeastern portion of the city,
overlooking the bay of San Francisco,
extending westerly. On the north
ern, southern and western slopes of
the hill is the Ghetto. On the east
is the bay. On the south the Ghetto
is stopped from spreading by the
business houses of the city, and
further southwark it runs against
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more crowded districts, nearly all Of
them of the very lowest class, and
some of them are criminals, or mem
bers of the Malta, Carbonari and other
unlawful societies. Very few of them
can read or write, and they show no
disposition even to learn English. A
few of the more intelligent among
them build tenement houses and cot
tages and soon become rich-for Ital-
ians. These Fnabobs" then move out
of the Ghetto, or upon it's borders,
where they occupy cottages and live
after the manner of their ancestors
in their villas. They lend money to
their poor brethren at illegal usurious
interest. They have their own gov
eminent, or unwritten laws, like the
Chinese have, and manage their affairs
independently of our local laws.
Occasionally, an Italian or Mexican
is found dead from stab in the back,
in 'Murderer's alley" which appro-
prlately is in the rear of the county
jail. The police know that it is the
result of a vendetta, and they go to
some one of the ''padronesi' for in
formation, or to the king of the
Italian colony. This king, always a
rich man, is informally elected by
common consent, because of his finan-
cial influence and his liberality in adj
Vanclng money, frequently on slender
security. When he becomes too op-
pressive in demanding his own he is
6Pt hrnnpH onH
lected. To him many of the disputes
over wages and debts are referred, and
settled without a lawsuit, just as the
Chinese court of high justice settles
disputes among it's own people.
The houses in the Ghetto are built
on irregular lines, without regard to
architectural beauty or convenience.
Some extend into the street and 9TH
ers are pushed back as if attempting
to hide from public view. Most of
them were put up before street lines
were run, and zig-zag up and down hill,
blocking streets and alleys, and the
owners refuse to permit streets to be
opened by tearing down the rookeries.
The Ghettoites resist all attemnts to
improve that part Of the city. A park
was laid out on the summit of the hill
and an incline railway built, but the
inhabitants resisted the innovation
and this, together with the ''Barbary
coast" dance houses and thugs who
waylay people in the dark alleys, dis
couraged visitors and no further at
tempts to open the Ghetto to improve
ments have been made. The Ghetto
has no architecture, the ruins are
not interesting nor picturesque. but
are grotesque-even repulsive, in their
dilapidation and dirt. But they are
in harmony with the uncouth, lazy,
superstitious people who inhabit them.
It has no ambition for the future and
it has no memories worth remember
ing. From its earliest settlement it
was the most immoral and criminal
portion of the city, and it so remains.
J. NJ. SCANLAND.
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Ghetto is picturesque, but o near
approach dispels the romance, espe-
cially when one sees the weeks wash
strung along a community line
across dark alley, the torn, tattered
and patched apparel of all colo-s and
nationalities futtering in the wind,
and two old hays in opposite door
WAYS hurting vile epithets at each
other. The women seem to be ALWAYS
washing, and one wonders why
Gbe+toites never wear clean clothes.
But the Garden of Eden was like
wise invaded; and the descendants Of
Adam in some ways are not much bet
ter than their ancestor, who stole the
apple. and then made faces at his wife.
However. their appearance on the
streets is cleanliness personifed, COM
pared to the novels in which most of
them yepetate. A family of half
dozen live in an ordinary size single
room. And in this they do their cook
ing. Passing along the streets at
night. one hears an Italian woman
drumming al TrOvatore" on a harp,
and a Mexican senorita singing ''La
Paloma" (The Pigeon), while her
sweetheart accompanies her on the
guitar. They are seated in a box-like
front room called parlor, or more
likely on the front stoop. This looks
romantic. and the visitor is charmed
with what he terms bohemian local
color" The local color is less pictur-
esque if one gets an inner view, where
he sees numerous unwashed, ragged
children, the old dame, fat and greasy
looking. smoking a cigarette, and her
law husband eating tortillas and
drinking sour wine. And as for the
young Mexican beau who is thrum-
ming the guitar, he has not, perhaps,
two pairs of pantalcons to his name,
nor a dollar in his pocket. So long
as he can get money for cigarettes
and an occasional drink of mescal, he
is content to pass his indolent life in
drumming on the guitar. Mexican
life is here seen as in the primitive
Californian days, and the Italians and
Portuguese live after the fashion of
their ancestors in their native land.
A visit to the Ghetto is like stepping
into Italy, Mexico, the Azores, or into
Breton. from which district the
French mainly come. These classes,
like the Chinese and japanese, are not
of the better element, which does not
emigrate The Italians come from the
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were then undiscovered. Coal had
only been found on the Summit hill
and at the Beaver meadows, but even
there they had no occupation of any
continuous strata for miles. Indeed,
the coal company had offered bonus
of 5000 to anyone who should discoy-
er coal on their lands nearer to the
Lehigh than the Summit mine; but
there were no claims for discovery.
In the meantime, however, coal was
used for the forge fires of the black
smiths ia the neighborhood, and also
in some of the bar-rooms in the tav-
erns along the roads not distant.
In 1907 the company, for the pur-
pose of bringing their coal into notice,
gave a lease of 81 years of one of their
coal veins to Rowland and Butland,
gratis, for the manufacture of iron,
from the ore and coal to be dug. 1t
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was about to abandon the coal and re-
turn home, Messrs. Mellon and Bishop,
of Delaware county, made an expert
ment with some of the coal in their
rolling mill, and found it to succeed
beyond expectation, and to be a high
" valuable and useful fuel. The re-
suit of their experiments was pub
lished at the time in all the Philadel-
phia papers. Some experiments with
the coal were made in the works at the
falls of Schuyllill. but without sue
cess. Mr.. Wernwag, the manager of
the Phoenix works, at French Creek,
also made a trial of the coal, and
found it eminentIy useful. From that
time forward the use of the coal
spread rapidly, and it became most
important and valuable branch of
trade"
The history of the Lehigh Coal
company-which appears to have been
the first corporation to traffic in the
newly-discovered fuels a singular
exempIifcation of the wonderful
growth and the small beginning of
what is now the basis of the chief in
dustries of our country. 1t was orig
mated in 1878, on very small scale,
and began its career by purchasing
tract of land from one Jacob Weiss,
on Summit hill, nine miles beyond
Mauch Chunk, where the company
made large opening. The difficulty and
expense of transportation, however,
disheartened the stockholders, and
the property was permitted to lie idle
for some years. What are now known
as the first and second coal regions
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


jury in the circuit court in Oshkosh
decided that three of Miss Ida Zach
sers' kisses were worth $500. Miss
Zachsers was employed as a. servant in
the family of Miner H. Ballou, a we'll
known paper mill man of Menasha.
The girl started a suit for $1,000 dam
ages against Mr.. Ballou, alleging that
he went into the kitchen and throw
ing his arms about her kissed her three
times. Mr.. Ballou did not deny that he
kissed the girl, but claimed he meant
no harm.
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The state legislature will be called
upon to decide who shall be seated for
member of the assembly from the Sec
Ond district of Racine county John
Hamper, of Raymond, republican, or
Edward Rakow, of Burlington, demo
crat. At the last election the two men
were tied for the position. 1t is claimed
that it was the first time in the his
tory of politics in the state that tie
had occurred between two legislative
candidates.
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The News Condensed.

A. DupOnSe, a well known WiscOn-
sin civil war veteran, died at Kenosha.
James G. Miller, once circuit justice
in India under Queen Victoria, died in
La Crosse.
Anton Nelson, a farmer at Windon,
committed suicide, while in fit of in
sanity. He jumped head foremost nto
we'll.
The tobacco warehouse of Joseph
Grundy, one of the largest in James
vile, was practically destroyed by fire,
the loss being nearly 100000.
The Mississippi river closed at La
Crosse three days earlier than last
year.
The total lumber cut of the head of
the lakes sawmills in this state for the
season of 1902 up to December 1 was
AL ,984, 900 feet, or an excess of Is, 49,
900 feet over the cut of 1901.
The contract for the erection of the
new public library building at Fond du
Lac has been let to George Georgens on,
of Green Bay. The bid was $4,000.
Prof. c.. o. Merica, president of the
dered his resignation to that body to
take effect Immediately. This action is
necessitated by the fact that he will
leave the city on January 1, when his
term of office at the state industrial
school expires.
Hiram Lockwood, aged 60, is dead at
his home near Pardeville. after a sleep
of several days, from which he could
not be aroused. He was a prominent
farmer and leaves a widow and one
son.
In the circuit court at Oshkosh jury
returned a verdict for the plaintiff of
81, 500 in the case of Catharine Hogan,
a minor, against the Winnebago Trac-
tion company. Miss Hogan was run
down by car and received injuries
which have rendered her an invalid.
Mayor Charles H. Pfennig, of Keno
sha, has named Fred Reinold as chief
of police to succeed Henry H. Timme,
resigned The new chief of the depart
ment is at present under sheriff of the
county.
The Philalathean Literary society of
Lawrence university at Appleton will
celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of it's
organization the first week in January.
James G. Miller, aged So years, an
old and prominent attorney, died at
La Crosse, the result of a stroke of
paralysis.
Fred ElIsbury, % years old, was
killed in a logging camp near Crandon
while loading logs on cars. His home
was at Clintonville.
The annual debate between Law
renee university and the upper Iowa
university of Lafayette will take place
at Appleton in April. Iowa has chosen
the subject: Resolved, That the gov
eminent should own and operate the
railways in the United States"
William Yonker was found guilty at
Wausau of committing an assault upon
his wife with the intent Of doing her
great bodily harm. He was sentenced
to serve three years at Waupon.
Ed. L. Peet, of Grantsburg, secre-
tary of the Burnett county board of i'm
migra ton, has issued 150-page book
with 200 half-tone cuts, descriptive of
Burnett county.
j. Z. Doolittle, a prominent business
man of Brodhead, is dead of apoplexy.
He was nearly 81 years old and had
been a resident of this city for abou!
20 years.
Three lighthouses containing two
boats and a quantity of fishing tackle
were burned on the river bank
near Appleton. The loss will reach
several hundred dollars, with no i'll.
suraEce.
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Gives His Views.

Deputy Sheriff Eugene Cornell has
made known the results of his investi-
cation into the Wickingson mystery
at Whitewater, and his theories and
facts have led him to the belief that
murder and suicide were committed
in the Wickingson home before the
fire destroyed the building. He believes
these crimes to have been committed
by one of those who lived in the house
and who was DESTROYED.
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Quite ATectfonnte.

The following is an extremely af-
fectionate epistle addressed to an
Irish maiden:
I'm yours to command, both In weepin
and laughter;
I'm awake all the night, that of you
may dhrame;
I'd hang meself now if you'd marry me
afther;
And though I may change I'll be ever the
same"
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Admirable Scheme.

Jorkins- There's Perkins you
know ns?-entered into an
agreement with his wife soon after
their marriage, 20 years ago, that
whenever either lost temper, or
stormed, the other was to keep silence.
Bob-And the scheme worked?
Observation-Disclosures Jenkins has
kept silence for 20 years.-Tit-B
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Kill $500 Deer.

According to reports so far made to
the state game warden 1913 deer were
shipped from the northern part of the
state during the season just ended. OF
this number 275 went out of the state.
1t is estimated that about 600 of
the deer killed were not shipped, bring
ing the total number killed during the
season up to about $500. Last year
the total number killed was $500.
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Room for Sorrow.

Mistress-Poor, darling, little
Topsy! I'm afraid she will never re-
cover. Do you know, Bridget, l think
the kindest thing would be to have her
shot and put out of her misery!
Bridget-'Deed, mann, / wouldn't
do that. Sure, she might get better,
after all, an then ye'd be sorry ye'd
had her kilIed!-Punch.
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Woman Plays sh erin.

Handcuffed to two convicts, Burt
Holmes and George Fredericks, and
with a 38-caliber revolver handy in
her coat pocket, Mrs. Ernest F. Bur
meister, wife of the sheriff of Dane
county, took her prisoners safely to
the state prison at Waupun. 1t is the
first time in the history of the state
that woman has performed such a
HIT
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WIFI Visit Milwaukee.

Postmaster General Payne accom-
panied E. A. Wadhams, president of
the Milwaukee Merchants association
to the white house in Washington,
where Mr.. Wadhams formally invited
the president to visit Milwaukee. The
president assured him that when he
takes his western trip Milwaukee will
be one of the first cities in the itin-
arorv
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A Grateful Wife.

Husband-You and the girls pass
your summers in Europe and your
winters in Florida, and all this comes
of my making SO much money
Wife-You're a dear boy! Why, if
we were poor think of it, we would
have to stay at home with you!-N.
Y. Herald.