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The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1902-02-20
!. P. Broadway has taken the agency for the
BEST KNOWN" FLOUR

Along the line of the Central Vermont railroad.
He has handled this four In small way for the
past year, and finds it what its name implies
He has Just received two cars of IT. and will sell
to any family one barrel. as an advert 1sement
for "a so. The regular price, $5.0b per barrel
Every barrel is warranted to be satiSfa Glory or
money refunded ssSay that -four is all RIGHT
ia the expression OF one OF the merchants who
has commenced selling this flour. postal card
will receive our prompt attention.
You don't have 10 go to the city to get prices
on Grain and Feeds. Go to West STAFFORD to the
Broadway Mill and get prices that will make you
Meal, Bran, Mixed Feed, in fact anything In the
grain and feed line.
q. p. BRADW Az.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1902-02-20

Gen. Charles Dick, Of Ohio the eminent Congressman
from the Garfield District believes there remedy
hoient for headache as DIR. Miles Pain Pills.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1902-02-20

Windsor Locks has three cases of small
pox and two Of varioloid.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1902-02-20

James P. Plat Of Meriden, son of Sem
ator o. 81. Pratt, has been nominated by
President Roosevelt to be United States
district Judge for the district of Connecti-
cut, to fill the vacancy caused by the pro-
motion of Judge W. K. Townsend to be
circuit Judge. f..e +" II
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1902-02-20
They Secured First Premiums.

In effect November "a, 1901.
z. Fl. FlTZHUGH, Vice Pres. and Genl Manager
=. W. CUAMINaa. General Passenger Agent.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1902-02-20

The cracker factory Of Frank Goetz of
Manchester was destroyed by fire early
Monday morning. The loss will be over
$50, 600, nearly covered by insurance.
The factory was one erected In 1899 to
take the place of the one burned In Octo-
Der 1898, when two bakers lost their lives.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1902-02-20

The revenue bill, which sweeps away
all the remaining taxes imposed at the
outbreak Of the Spanish war, was passed
by the house at Washington, Monday.
The senate on the same. day passed the
bill establishing permanent census Of
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1902-02-20
@lse 1Rrex.
Resoluttons. obituaries or cards Of thanks in

LEWIS MCLAUGHLIN, PUBLISHER.
$3.50 year. If paid strictly in advance, .s5
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1902-02-20

~ by Improved Tailor Square system and
teaching the same. Harwood block. next door
west of Rays market. MRS. A. ~. GRAY. avs
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1902-02-20

IT OST-Between Maahapaug and Stat
Il 4 ford Springs. soldiers blue military cape
The finder will please give the same to the NASH
apaug stage driver and be suitably rewarded
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1902-02-20

Two thousand persons, mostly women
and children, persisted as result of the
earthquake at Shamaka, Russia, last
week, and 5000 houses we're destroyed.
Thirty four villages of the country sur
rounding Shamaka also suffered. To add
to the terrors of the neighborhood VOL
cano near the village Of Marasy, east
ward of Shamaka, has broken out into
active orunfiOn
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1902-02-20

VIM M Bell, Genl Sec'y Home. Frontier and Foreign
missionary Society Of the United Dayton
Ohio writes as follows During nay trips
was subject to the most upon
tenn fortunately was without a supply of DR..
Miles Pain Pills and received excellent results from
their use This remedy is standard In has
been specially helpful during the past pleas
ure to recommend to suffering humanity these
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1902-02-20

Quite large amount Of business will
come before the April session OF the
superior court. The SANDER suit OF Mrs
Anna Hoffman, wife of Samuel Hoffman
of Tolland, against William Hoffherr of
Rockville for $40, 900 damages. and the
divorce suit of Mrs. Henry Stephan
against Henry Stephan, in which the
plaintiff asks for $4,000 alimony, are
among the cases, ~.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1902-02-20
Bslrm.

HSOrn.
rWestford, 18th, son to Mr.. and Mrs
Herbert Towne
New london. 10th, son to Mr.. and
Mrs. James D. Walcott, and grandson to
Mr.. and Mrs. George Ell. Barber.
.r. .... Married.
Ware, Mass, 18th, by Rev. John Nee
han, Arthur Remmert and Miss Lilly
Daily of Warren, Mass.
Died. u
Bellingham, Mass, 10Th. DIR. William
H. Clarke, 55, formerly OF Tolland.
Blackstone. Mass, 18th, Mrs. James
H. Williams, 30, formerly Of Stafford
Springs.
South Coventry, 18th, Joseph Coleman,
49,
South Coventry, 10th, Eunice, wife of
Henry equiers.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1902-02-20

Shinzaka Machi, Akasaka Tokyo Japan.
With this am ordering more of the Pain Pills Both
and foreign have used the Pills and they
all tell write too much In their favor We have
here where called Japanese Headache" which is
posed to ncurable while remain In this country but
the Pain Pills always cure the severest attacks
Sincerely MAY 3. HOWARD.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1902-02-20
Cure All Kinds

Speaking OF DR. Miles Pain Pills, ]. r. w. Mcbride
I the Indiana Supreme Court, says "They simply
omarvelous In their instantaneous relief"
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1902-02-20

During many years could not ride in a street car,
steam car take buggy ride without suffering with
sick headache many different remedies with but lit
tie help; for if medicine relieved me once or twice. it
soon lost the power help Dr. Miles Pain Pills only
relieve every tme but If take in mouth
before starting it will prevent slight attack.
MRS. j. 8. SPAULDING, g..
1929 Day Street. Des Moines, Iowa.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1902-02-20

In intense suffering from chronic neuralgia, found
DR.. Miles Pain Pills better than the gold of Ophir
EVERETT WAGNER
Vice Pres. G. III. Wagner Co..
Plow Mfgrs., Indianapolis.
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Central Vermont Railway (southern

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GOING SOUTH. ;
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1902-02-20

To cure cold in one day take Laxative
Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists
refund the money II ii fails to cure. E.
W. Groves signature Is on each box. 25c.
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FREE TOBACCO TAGS
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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-05-02

dinners, pink teas. so-called literary
lectures. receptions, balls and theaters.
You spend your time in gossip which Is
stupid when it is not wicked.
"You shrk motherhood, ana when
you have children they are mostly III
trusted to mercenary hands. You
grovel with astonishing alacrity to
gain admittance into social circles
above your own, and cannot conceal
your asinine contempt for people sup
posedly below yourselves. You reduce
your reluctant duty of charity to paltry
offerings for few famous institutions.
This Is the sort of life society woman
leads What right have you to NEEDLE
in philosophy, literature and politics!
ut is a mere accident of birth that
you are not factory girls or dry goods
saleswomen. And, were you such, can
you feel certain that you would have
the courage to prefer honest, laborious
misery to blameworthy easeT
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-05-02
HOW PERKINS SAW THE KING.
California Senator Tells of His Meet
ing with Oscar of Sweden.

Senator Perkins of California, who,
TO quote his own words, is sailor by
profession. a merchant by necessity
and politician by accident, has had in
his life more adventures than fall with
in the experience Of an ordinary man.
Perhaps this IS because Senator Per
kins followed the sea for so many
years. One of Mr.. Perkins most inter-
esting adventures was his meeting
with King Oscar Of Sweden and Nor
way.
Il was quite boy then" said the
Senator, telling the story recently. Il
had sailed in the good ship Luna from
New Orleans TO Sweden with cargo
of cotton and while the ship was In
port | thought | would like to see the
royal palace in Stockholm. One Sunday
afternoon, in company with sailor
named Harry Branscombe, an English
man, we went up TO the palace. Boy
like, we wanted to get into the grounds,
and so we crawled through waste
pipe, which ran through the walls
around the palace park. AS soon as we
got inside, however, we were arrested
by the gendarmes. and as we did not
know word of Swedish we were In a
sad plight
Presently" continued the Senator,
"a party of distinguished people came
along and seemed Interested IN our
trouble. One person In the party spoke
English. He asked us what we were
doing in the Kings park. | told MN
that / was an American boy, who want
ed to see the king and how the king
lived.
but, don't you know he said, that
you might be put into prison for tres
passing?
"'Oh, said, 4 don't want to hurt
the king; | only want to see him.
81 am King Oscar was his reply.
"and them" added Senator Perkins, 81
learned that | was really in the pres
ence of the monarch"
What happened to you then?" ask
ed his listener.
The king" he replied, "sent a soldier
with us to show us the palace, and we
had a splendid time. But that wasn't
the sequel to the story. Thirty years
later, when | was governor of Califor-
MIA, | went off on little cruise on a
yacht, and who should be sailor on
the yacht but Harry Branscombe. lie
knew me and knew him, although we
had not seen each other for thirty
years. | took him up to San Francisco
and gave him place on one Of my
ships. ashington Post.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-05-02
The Earth's Crust.

The greater part Of the earth's crust,
the water and the air, consists of but
few elements. Oxygen forms one-half
by weight, silicon quarter, aluminium,
potassium combined form twenty three
per cent. leaving about two per cent
for all the other elements. Chemical
compounds rarely contain many ele-
ments. Various groupings of the same
elements produce new substances. Car
bon signalizes itself by a peculiar adap-
liability of Elasticity. 1t forms nu-
cleli for aggregation. and these nuclei
are bonded together to form compli-
Gated molecules.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-05-02
The jams Kindness to Animals.

Prof. Morse has borne convincing tes-
timony to the free and happy relations
existing between the human and the
brute creation IN Japan, where Soci-
ETY. for the Prevention OF Cruelty to
Animals would find no raison detre.
There he says:
Birds build their nests in the city
houses, wild fowl, geese and ducks
aiight in the public parks. wild deer
trot about the street. | have actually
been followed 10y wild deer in the
streets, nihbling melon rind out of my
hand, as tame as calves and lambs on
farms. A dog goes to sleep in the bust
est streets; men turn aside so rs not
to disturb him. One day beautiful
heron alighted on the limb OF tree.
and the busy jostlIng throng stopped.
Every mans hand went into his pocket,
and out came pencil and sketehlng pa
per
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-05-02

light shining out of the darkness. and
1t is this fact that William Hill Morgan
of Kentucky, makes Use of in his trap,
which consists of light inclosed in a
metallic hood and provided with re-
Hector and glass face, the latter being
set in a slanting position. The lamp is
attached to one edge of the tray con
tanning a mixture of kerosene oil and
water, and the angle Of the glass in
front of the light causes the insects to
fall into the liquid when they strike
against the smooth surface. With a
number of these traps set at the sides
of a field n short distance above the
plants the inventor claims that the
injurious moths and other insects will
exterminate themselves without the
trouble of searching for them.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-05-02
SAD FATE OF HINDU GIRLS.
Tho Natives Rid Themselves of Too
Many Daughters.


A Capuchin monk engaged in mis-.
sionary work In Nepaul, writing of
Hindu family life, remarks that it is
very difficult for parents to make adj
yantageous matches for their daugh-
ters The Hndus therefore find means
of Kidding themselves of too many
daughters by numbering them. 1t Is a
well-known fact that Hindus of high
birth, says the Pail Mall Gazette-those
who are called Rajputs-caused their
daughters to be put to death after their
birth by men specially engaged to do
So This criminal custom had become
so universal that In 1910 in the seventy
three villages of the Allahabad district
there were only three girls under Il
years of age, and three years later In
the town of Agra there was not one to
be found under that age. All had been
put to DEATH
The English government have very
naturally passed very severe laws
against this abominable crime, but to
eyade them the Hindus allow their
girls to live until the age of u, after
which they do away with them by adj
ministering poison in small doses. Ori-
entails are past masters in the art of
poisoning, and after some minute In
quiries it transpires that in many dis
tricts twenty-five out of every 100 girls
have been got rid of In this manner
Those girls who have been spared the!
marry very early, generally between
IA and 10 years, and that not according
to their own choice, but by the will of
their parents, which is decisive. An In
dian family of good rank could not
keep an unmarried daughter. 1t would
not only be public shame, but also
crime against religion. To procure hus-
bands for those who have not already
found them, there are a number OF
Rrahmins, old and decrepit, called
Kulin Brahmins, who go about with
the one object of going through the
cermony of the "seyen steps with as
many young girls as they can upon re
ceipt of n large sum Of money, but af
forward to leave the country and per
haps never to see them again.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-05-02
DESERTERS FROM THE ARMY.

Five Thousand Soldiers Last Year OMIT
Uncle Sans Service.
There were 5000 assertions from the
United States army in 1901. The War
Department is therefore turning its at
tention to solving the problem thus
presented.
An army officer who has given the
situation his best attention announces
that there is no cause for 1t in the
men receive or lack of privileges or
anything else we can alter. It's just
pure cussedness; that's my conclusion
after years of experience"
He goes on to state that these men
who desert are of a rowing disposition,
anyhow. They have always been ac-
customed to roam. They have been
wont to take n new boss, and, after
trying him a while to discharge him
and get another. Uncle Sam can't be
discharged, as the men who try it find
out.
For the deserters are nearly all
caught. AS some one has put it. it's
no trouble to get away. The trouble
Is to stay away In spite of the great
number of desertions the number of
successful ones is on the decrease. A
man usually makes at once for home,
and the local officials have been in
formed of the desertion. and are on the
lookout for him when he arrives, for
there is $50 reward out for his cap
ture.
Then again a deserter has n curious
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-05-02
The Eirst shook OF s.attle.

Men even of the strongest nerves
and the most undoubted pluck do not
feel quite comfortable when, for the
first time, under fire. 1t Is no dishonor
to his manhood II the heart of the
young soldier beats double quick II
his maiden battle This feeling soon
wears off.
During the war in Crimea the men
in the allied army We're often heard
specializing on the eve of the conflict
upon the probability OF obtaining GER
tain articles of clothing, OF which they
stood in need. from the bodies of thu
Russians they expected to Stay. They
never seemed to take into considela-
ton their own chances OF being knock
ed over and stripped by the Russians.
The cool and systematic manner in
which they provided themselves with
footgear Is worthy of note. When 4
French or English soldier, on the look
out for ''unconsidered tribes" after a
battle. deserted ON the field corpse of
an enemy whose boots seemed likely
to suit him, down he lay on his back.
and putting his soles against those OF
the dead man. ascertained by that
mode the measurement whether the ar
tIcles were near enough TO a fit to be
worthy the trouble of rcmoval.-New
York Ledger
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-05-02
Age of Giant Trees,

An age as great as five thousand
years has sometimes been ascribed to
the giant trees of California. Prof
Charles Il. Bessey of the University
of Nebraska regards this estimate as
very much exaggerated. He says that
he once counted with great care the
rings of growth of tree felled in
to twenty-five feet in diameter. so that
its stump served as the floor of a dane
Ing pavilion. The rings numbered
t.i47, and that number would repre-
sent the age of tile tree in years Prof.
Bessey adds that he gravely doubts
whether any of the existing trees ap.
proach the age of two thousand years.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-05-02
MYSTERIES OF DYNAMITE.
No One Can Tell When the Explosive
Is Perfectly Safe.

Is Perfectly Safe.
OF dynamite which asserted itself So
disastrously in the subway tunnel ex-
plosion. New York City, mt present
with vast constructive works in pro-
gress. is consuming 1000 pounds
day.
No other commodity in general COM
mercial use is probably so little under
stood as dynamite 1t is regarded by
the majority of people with abiect fear.
Anyone accustomed to handling dyna-
mite will tell you that the actual dan
ger Is slight. The death rate among
dynamite workers is low.
Dynamite is packed without special
precautions, like SO much soap. 1t is
shipped in CARROTS Of $4,000 pounds at
a time, to all parts of the country, and
usually survives even railroad coils
ions without mishap. Ii may he cut mp
or broken, frozen and thawed out and
even burnt almost with impunity.
1t is not difficult to find men TO work
in dynamite factories. The number
of deaths in such factories is not START
ling. The hours are short and the pay
is high.
The dynamite commonly used Is
formed of about 40 per cent of nitrogly-
cerine mixed with some solid absorb
ent, usually some kind Of earth, anu
with about per cent OF carnphor add
ed as a preseryative. The most power
full dynamite contains nearly 80 per
cent of ntroglyeerine.
1t is very unusual to lose dynamite
during transportation. The cartridges.
as a rule measure an inch and half
in diameter and from six to eight
inches In length. These are nailed up
in ordinary soap boxes and are literal
ly thrown about by baggage snashers
with impunity. The cars are marked
Explosive, with care" and are sup
posed to be placed in the middle of the
trains, but the rule is often ignored.
There have been only two serious ae-
cidents Of late to dynamite cars while
in transit In one instance n car carry
ing some fifteen tons of dynamite was
attached to the end of long freight
train, against all rules. A locomotive
crashed into the dynamite car and bur-
led itself half way in dynamite and set
1t on fire. This was more than dyna-
mite could stand. incidentally the ex-
plosion cleared the track of all wreck
age for considerable distance. N
the other case the dynamite car caught
fire from a burning hot box, and the
train men, noticing it, scorned to put
out the fire, but retreated to hill near
by. The explosion threw nearby
turntable about a quarter of mile
and completely demolished a large en-
CINE house.
The exact properties of dynamite are
still more or less of Il mystery. even to
those most familiar with it.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-05-02

patrick mill. That President Lincoln so
wildly remembered the old mill was
due probably 10 the fact that he came
near losing his life one day while play
ing about the stream which runs by the
place.
The accident occurred on Sunday.
Lincoln and companion, Austin Gal
lagher. tried to cross the stream on Il
log. The stream was in food at the
time and Abe fell off the log. Gallagher
had the presence Of mind TO reach him
pole. and the future President was
hauled to shore more dead than alive.
1t was n considerable time before
young Lincoln recovered consciousness.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-05-02
Before his election Is the United
States Senate Dietrich was Governor
of \pbra ska
CHILDHOOD oE sEMeRIcH.
How the Poor Little Polish Girl Spen
Her Savings TO Hear Patti.

Her Savings to Hear Patti.
Many years ago poor little Polish
girl, i'll clad i'll fed cold and weary,
was deyoured by desire to hear the
singing OF .Adellna Patti. the greatest
soprano Of her time. The poor little
Polish girl could not afford to buy n
reserved seat for the performance, yet
somehow she must hear it, for perhaps
never again would the radiant queen
Of song come to shine upon that far
away little city. And so the poor little
Polish girl gathered up the savings of
many months. which SHE had earned
by sleepless nights and pitiable drudg-
cry. hammering her little fingers TO
numbness playing dance music for
well-to-do people, and with the mcager
hoard she clutched in those same tired
fingers. she stood for five hours in The
bitter cold with the line of people wait
ing for the gallery entrance to OPEN
Then with the crowd, pushing and
painting. she was thrown. trampled
beaten NJ, the stairs her little savings
gone. and the precious ticket given uP,
Till she fonnd herself huddled away in
n corner of the gallery.
And then she heard Patti and for
two brief hours the sordid earth be
came n paradise. such paradise as
the poor little Polish girl hoped to
reach, perchance, beyond the portals Of
death
To-day Adelina Patti is growing old
and has left the operate stage and the
poor little Polish girl Is everywhere ac-
claimed as the greatest woman singer
| OF the time; for the cold, tired, hungry,
eager, little Marcella Kokhansky Is
now the famous Marcela Sembrich,
the queen of song. The once cold and
tired fingers now sparkle with dla-
monds and the weary little feet no
longer stand waiting at the gates Of
the halls of music.
The child who once could barely save
the price OF admission to a Patti per-
Torrance, says the Pilgrim, now re-
ceiyes 81 800 for each appearance In
opera, and has been paid as much as
81 900 to sing two songs in concert
And when she gives n song recital, In
which she stands alone on platform
and sings TO piano accompaniment
songs of Schubert. Schumann, and
Brahms, people go miles to hear her
and hundreds are turned away, unable
to gain entrance to the hall.
Once Nine. Sembrich told Nine. Patti
how she had waited in the line before
that memorable appearance, and Nine
Patti said:
"Oh, you poor girl, why didn't you
write to ME and ask me for ticket? |
would have given you one gladly"
But" said Nine. Sembrieh, after
telling ME of this, II am afraid she
would not have thought second time
of my letter. You see, no one knew
me then"