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The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27
London Globe.
English For French Tongues


Persons who have worried through
"French Manual may get some sat
isfaction from the thought that with
their own language they are revenged
upon the Partisan. Methods Avec
Pronunciation is a little book which
makes straight the way of the Eng
lish language for French tongues.
Does one wish to say, "How is 1t, miss;
one so charming and pretty walking
aloneY' (Which of course, would be
one of the first remarks French trav-
eler would have occasion to make) 1t
is only necessary to consult the ''Nou-
velles Methods" "Aou isite, miss:
oueune SO tcharminngue annde pretti
ouakiDngue alauneY' If the traveller
goes to the theater the man at the box
office may say, "Oui have onli orches-
tire stalls laifte, beute allow me tou
rimarque sat Sc are Sc best sitce for
sinngeule dgeentlemene." Evidently
9TH" is given up as bad job, and ~
Is as difficult for the Frenchman as for
the German. though German manual
gives John Bull as "Dschonn Bool."
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27
Native Gods as Church Bells.

A missionary in Travancore, India,
saw one morning a native coming to
his house with a heavy burden. On
reaching it he laid ON the ground a
sack. christening it, he emptied it
of it's contents-a number of idols.
what have you brought these here
fer?' asked the missionary. 81 don't
want them"
you have taught us that we do not
want them, SIR" said the native, ''but
we think they might be put to some
good use. Could they not be melted
down and formed into bell to call us
to church"
The hint was taken. They were sent
to a bell founder and made into bell,
which now summons the native con-
verts to praise and prayer.-London
Globe.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27
HERE LIES BELINDA.


Justice Two Centuries Too Late.
In October, 1876, Roger Williams be-
cause of his inspiring pleas for individ-
ual liberty was ordered by the general
court of Massachusetts to leave the
colony forever. He went to Rhode Is
land, where he lived for nearly fifty
years. But the official conscience grew
a little restless, and some years ago
in April, Massachusetts actually
made atOnement for it's rash act. The
original papers, yellow, faded and
crumbling, were taken from their pi-
geonhole tomb and "by an ordinary
motion, made, seconded and adopted"
the order of Punishment was solemnly
"annulled and repealed and made of no
effect whatever"
The ban under which Roger Williams
had lain for over 26O years was lifted.
And there is no reason now, according
to law, why Roger Williams cannot en-
ter the state of Massachusetts and re-
side therein. The action was to the
credit and honor of the state; it was
right in it's spirit, and Roger, being in
the spirit for more than two centuries,
may have smiled gently and under
stood. But the reparation was really
neutrality-suspicious. 1.-THE Power Of
TRUTH" by. William George Jordan,
Published by Brentanos.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27
A Poser.

An inspector of schools on one occa-
sion told a class that they were the
dullest set of boys he had ever met.
A few days later he received through
the post an effusion addressed "To the
Examiner What Goes to - School"
1t was a long letter, in which the
writer complained of the gentleman's
smartness and wound up as follows:
If we're the du1lest set of boys you
ever met, why do you set SIGH posers7
Why don't you give US chance? You
ak us questshuns as men couldn't anser.
Any fule can ak questshuns Til AK you
one of feyther's. 'If it takes three hun
nerd and forty-f1ve and half yards of
white codderoy corduroy to mex hele-
FAINT black waistcoat, how long would
1t TEX lame black bette to crawl
through barril Of treakle?' There, an
ser that!
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27
READY
FORTHE
FRAY.

There may be no question what
ever about your courage, but well
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 q fray.
Trousers and tatters don't make
just the kind of a combination
that you are laundering after, do
theyi 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. Ii our Suits give
you any hankering at all, they
will give you an ungovernable
hankerning for another one Just
like it.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27
THIRTY YEARS AGO.
items OF local interest taken from the columns
OF The Press, thirty years ago.I
August 90. 1878.

About 400 tickets for camp station
have been sold at Stafford station dur.
ing the week.
Charles Hobby has nearly complet.
ed tenement house on East Main
street, next east of the residence OF
Wakeman Sibley.
Nelson Towne is building a well
finished 24x36 barn in the rear of his
warehouse ON Railroad Row.
The room in Central hall block va
Gated by Hamilton, the barber, has
been taken by Z. Puffer, the shoe
merchant.
A Frenchman named Tatro left a
pair of team horses unhitched and
alone near f. A. Harwood's store last
Saturday, and the horses commenced
backing, and leaving the road backed
across an intervening space of forty
feet and off from % foot bank wall
upon the railroad track. One horse
was fatally injured, and the other
horse slightly. The wagon was little
damaged.
Schools will commence in district
No. next week, the teachers being
the same as last term-Miss Lay in
the grammar department, Miss Stone
in the intermediate, and Miss Cady in
the primary. The intermediate de-
partment will again occupy a room i'm
S. Newton's building on Westford ave
nue.. Schools in district No. will
commence on Monday, Sept Sth.
Miss Jennie Watson will teach the
higher department, with Matte r.
Beckwith assistant, and the primary
will be taught by Mary
l.. Beckwith, all of these also being
teachers of last term.
Births. Stafford, July 25th, 1878,
a son to Frank J. Weston.
Stafford Springs, 18th, son to John
Fisher.
Married Stafford, 23d, by Rev.
f. L. Batchelder, Merrick Bemis and
Mrs Hannah Curnan, both of Stafford
Springs.
Died Drowned i'll Ashford, 25th,
Bonnie A., IL years, II months, only
son of Rev. Theron Brown of Nor
wood, Mass, and grandson of Hon. s.
L. Preston
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27

OF DooToR.-''I am just up from hard
spell Of the fux" (dysentery), says Mr..
T. A. Primer, a we'll known merchant of
Drummond, Tenn. 81 used one small
bottle of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrh9a Remedy and was cured
without having a doctor. consider 1t
the best cholera medicine In the world. 1"
There Is no need Of employing a doctor
when this remedy Is used, for no doctor
can prescribe better medicine for bowel
complaint In any form, either for children
or adults. 1t never falls, and is pleasant
to take.
For sale by E. K. Taft, III. F. Cady,
Stafford; g. Hall, Jr., d Co., South VIII
lington.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27
End Of Bitter Fight.

"Two PHYSICIANS had long and stub
born fight with an ahcess on my right
lung" writes j. F. Hughes Of DUPONT,
Ga, land gave me- up Everybody
thought my time had come. AS last
resort l tried DR.. Kings New Discovery
for Consnm ton. The benefit I received
was striking and | was on my feet In a
few days. Now I've intirely regained my
health" 1t conquers all Coughs. Colds
and Lung troubles. Guaranteed by A. G..
Eaton's Drug Store. Price SOC, and 81. CO.
Trial bottles free.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27

appeared at once, leading his donkey
to court. The opposition when called
upon to prove that the animal produced
was not the donkey heiress failed sig
nally.
Belinda was confusingly versatile
and changeable in character. For an
entire year after circus had passed
through the town she exhibited tricks
and talents that no one would ever
have suspected. The following spring
she lost her cleverness and suddenly
developed temper that brooked no
approach within six feet Of her heels.
Her girth, too. varied marvelously.
One summer she waxed fat and large.
By winter time she had become meager
and scrawny. The decline was tenn
porary; when the sun came out and
painted the apple trees she resumed
her former sickness. Tickle was Be
linda, even to her tail. That interest
ing member f1uctuated between hirsute
length and bony brevity in a manner
that created no little establishment.
So matters went for five years,
during which Belinda earned a tre-
AhChNAOuo % DIOl1OuuCCO
was local pride that no less than ten
men were ready to make oath that
Belinda was born upon their farms.
Blythe Dunton basked in the light of
and literally denied the pre-
tensions of no one.
The following winter he died. His
last words were, "Take care of Miss
Belinda" That was impossible, for
his administrator reported that all of
the barley fortune had been spent. AS
he crossed the Dunton garden patch a
queer sight met his eyes. He saw be-
fore him nineteen mounds of brown
earth. and over each of them a wooden
slab. The slabs were all alike except
their dates and each of them bore the
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27

Nor OVER WIsE.-There Is an old ale
gorical picture Of a girl scared at grass
hopper, but in the act of heedlessly tread
ing on snake. This is paralleled by
the man who spends large sum Of money
building cyclone cellar, but neglects to
provide his family with bottle of Cham
berlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrh@a
Remedy as a safeguard against bowel
complaints, whose victims outnumber
those of the cyclone hundred to one.
This remedy Is everywhere recognized as
the most prompt and reliable medicine In
use for these diseases. {
For sale BY e. K. Taft, Fl. f. Cady,
Stafford; G. Hall, Jr., & Co., South VIII
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27

Shopkeeper-What can I show you,
sir?
Absent Minded Professor want
let ME see, what do / want? Dear me!
l can't for the life of me remember
what it is. Well. well, it doesn't mat
ter. Give me the nearest thing you
have to it.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27
The Snittle ElH.

The spittla fly is an insect which en-
compasses itself In Il white froth COM
posed Of the juice it has sucked out of
the plant on which 1t is bred 1t Sc
riously Injuries pinks. carnations and
picotees If not checked in the early
stages of its progress. 1t Is very ten
der when young but develops into a
hard skinned hopper. 1t can be pinch
ed and rubbed off with the fingers, or
good Swinging with something bit
ter, like connection of quassia chips,
will drive the creatures away.-Lon-
don Times.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27
a Letter to Mother,

you promised mother letter. Write
1t now" is one of the notices on the
walls of the Nagasaki Home For Sea-
men, motto that, it is asserted, has
restrained more men from going wrong
than almost any other influence of the
place. Wanderers over the globe are
not the only ones who need such re-
minder. Indeed they might be able to
give lessons in filiai duty to many who
have never realized how fortunate they
are that home and mother are not far
away, but near at hand.-Youth's Com
paniOn.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27

The chairs OF the dark ages modelled
party on -" of the Romans. were i'm
keeping Will TO comfort!rss dwellings
in wl::ch IT, people Of the north Of
Europe then PASSED their lives. The
Saxon king; of England are REPRESENT
ed as seated OF thrones i'm the form of
box. tic ends slightly raised. the bot
tom advanced to form sort of foot
stool. There is always Il cushion to
add degree of comfort. and some
times back in the form of cross
piece or remotely resembling the backs
of modern chairs.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27
A Physician Healed.

DR.. Geo. Ewing, q practicing physician
of Smiths Grove, KY, for over thirty
years, writes his personal experience with
Foley's Kidney Cure: For years had
been greatly bothered with kidney and
bladder trouble and enlarged PROSTATE
gland. / used everything known to the
profession without relief, until / COM
menced to use Foley's Kidney Cure. Az
ter taking three bottles was entirely re-
lieved and cured. prescribe IL now daily
In my practice and heartily recommend
Its use to all physicians for such troubles.
have prescribed 1t In hundreds OF cases
with perfect success" Sold by Z. K.
Taft
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27

Amateur Critic lin the studio of D.,
the great painter)-Splcndid picture,
really! Allow me to compliment you
But why did you choose such an ugly
model?
"She's my sister,"
"Oh, pardon! How foolish of me!
ought of course to have noticed the
resemblance"
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27

@. Unger, gil Maple street, Champaign,
ILL.,, writes: 81 was troubled with hack
ing cough for year and thought had
consumption. tried great many rem
edies and was under the care of physicians
for several months. / used one bottle Of
Foley's Honey and Tar. 1t cured me,
and l have not been troubled since" Sold
by K. K. Taft.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27
Suicide Prevented.

The startling announcement that p pre-
ventive of suicide has been discovered
will interest many. A run down system,
or dependency invariably precede suicide
and something has been found that will
prevent that condition which makes sui
eide likely. At the first thought Of self
destruction take Electric Bitters. II
being a great tonic ard nervine will
str engthen the nerves and build up the
system. It's also great Stomach, Liver
and Kidney regulator. Only SOC. Salts
faction guaranteed by A. G. Eaton, Drug
gist.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27
Hers the Credit

"There is one thing like about your
husband-he never hurries you when
getting ready to go out with him."
Every little credit is due to him for
that, my dear. Whenever see that /
am not likely to be ready in time
simply hide his hat or his gloves and
let him hunt for them up and down
until ! have finished dressing"
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27

"Our colleges turn out some pretty
good men nowadays" remarked the
elderly gentleman.
YES" replied his son gIoomiIy. .'our
college turned out the man who was
sure to have won the hundred yard
dash for us next year Just because he
didn't pass any OF his examinations."-
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27
The whole Thing.

'Then you've been to NiagaraT'
eyes. ! was quietly married last
Tuesday week. and the next day we
reached Niagara. Soon as we got there
l started out to see the falls with my
WIFE"
Magnificent. ehP
you bet! You should have seen all
the other men turning around to look
at her as she passed. Philadelphia
Press,
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27

Coupon is a good fellow. but his con-
versational abilities are remarkably
limited. He has IL few stock phrases.
and that's ALL"
well. what else can you expect7
He's q NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Com
mercial Tribune
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27

A .grevious wall oftimes comes as a
result of unbearable pain from over taxed
organs. Dizziness, Backache, Liver CON-
plant and Constipation. But thanks to
DIR. Kings New Life Pills they put an end
to 1t all. They are gentle but thorough.
Try them. Only CSC. Guaranteed by A.
G. Eatofl's Drug Store.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27

Medical science has reached the
point" boosted the optimistic young
doctor, that for patient to die we
must take out his heart and kill it with
club"
On his way home he caught a. cold
and for the next three weeks made ev-
cry one miserable listening to his symp-
toms
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27

The Father What! You want to
marry that puppy? I never heard of
such thing.
The Dear Girl-Well. you know, IA
ther, dogs are very fashionable lust
now.-San Antonio Express.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27

ITS shame the way those Squallop
children are growing up without any
parental restraint whatever"
Eyes; when their mother Joined the
Woman's Literary society and began
attending all the meetings Mr.. Squat
lop got sort of reckless and Joined a
Don't Worry club."-Exchange
Foley's Kidney Cure is medicine free
from poisons, and will cure any case of
kidney disease that Is not beyond the
reach of medicine. Sold by E. Kaft.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27

Customer Ito printer,-You promised
you haven't touched 1t yet
Printer-My dear sir. we've been so
busy in this office that you ought to be
very thankful that we took the time to
make you a promise.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27

Hobson-l understand your daughter
10 taking great pains with her singing?
The Poor Father-"Taking" is not the
word; giving is more like 1t,
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27

Mrs. Mollie Allen, Of South Fork, KY. !,
says she has prevented attacks OF cholera
morbus by taking Chamberlain's Stomach
and Liver Tablets when she felt an attack
coming on. Such attacks are usually
caused by indigestion, and these Tablets
are just what is needed to cleanse the
stomach and ward of the approaching at
tack. Attacks OF bilious collie may be
prevented In the same way.
For sale by e. K. Taft, Fl. F. Cady,
Stafford; g. Hall, Jr., & Co., South VIII
lington.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27

A.-Let me see! Somewhere l read
of book entitled "A Young Girls
Heart" Do you know anything of it?
B.-Yes; it came out just after "a
Young Mans Purse"
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27

Did universal charity prevail earth
would be a heaven and hell n fable
Cotton
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27

Foley's Kidney Cure will cure all dis
eases arising from disordered kidneys or
bladder. Sold by e. z. Taft.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27

II had diabetes In it's worst form, %
writes Marion Lee of Dunreath, Ind. 81
tried eight physicians without relief. Only
three bottles Of Foley's Kidney Cure made
me we'll man." Sold by E. K. Taft.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27

Many persons In this community are
suffering from kidney complaint who
could avoid fatal results by using Foley's
Kidney Cure. Sold by e. K. Taft.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27

FOley's Kidney Cure
Will cure Bright's Disease.
Will cure Diabetes.
VIII cure Stone In Bladder.
Will cure Kidney and Bladder Diseases.
Sold by E. K. Taft.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27

One brave step makes the next one
easier. True. the road seems more
piled up with obstacles as one goes
along: but then. one is made stronger
and more capable with every step. 50
that relatively we have an easy road
always before us. At least If not ex-
actly easy it becomes more interesting
One feels less inclined to grumble
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27
DYsRNTRRY CURED

The greatest of faults, l should say.
ID to be conscious OF none.-Carlyle.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27

Quick Relief for Asthma Sufferers.
Foley's Honey and Tar affords immedi-
ate relief to asthma sufferers in the worst
stages, and II taken In time will effect a
cure. Sold by e. K. Taft.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-08-27
Details of Another Case.

enjoying grateful only
too pleased endorse such great EDWARDS
604 ii st, N. w, Washington, d. c.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-10-09
WATER IN TRUST SECURITIES.

In the suit that has been brought against Charles
in with the failure the United Shpbudng
pany grave allegations made 1t charged
loaded the company the Bethlehem plant price hreefod
greater than already inflated value by grossly exaggeratng
earnings surplus and later wrecked spbudng corpora
for the purpose of gaining control of 1t
doubtful whether charges o>v be proven
enough revealed show reckless
which reputed the OF gigantic
The shipbulding company unsubstania bubble
other giant mergers will prove equally
lacking stability subjected squeezing process
complainants the that Mr. Schwab
eved for the Bethlehem steel plant Sooooooo securities the
hpbudng corporation each bonds preferred and
stock For engineering the deal p Morgan Co received
$soooooo of Mr. Schwabs $ooooooo amazing would
doing nothing holding the hose while the
being injected into the capital" of the
Perhaps the development the suit nst
ud the assertion that while received by Schwab
apparently reality comparatively small in actual
value Indeed when the stock market quotations examined
ouho tha this assertion is The bonds of the shpbudng
company are now rated about thus reducing the $Iooooooo
noe securities held by Schwab actual market value of
f4 only rarely OF the the corporation
ana he last made 81 per share for both
ano preferred IL IS obvious that reckoning
Siooo IN common received by represented aggre
gate an actual value OF only s2oo other words although he
received an apparent payment OF $3ooooo his Bethlehem steel
plant ne as matter OF fact obtained 81 100000 in real value
the other S2Soooo representing nothing more substantial than
Exposures of this the merit Of warning the o,
against investing in inflated even when they have
been financed by apparently sound banking institutions There
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-10-09

Disquietng indeed is the situation in the far and the
that hoses had begun Russia Japan
would not be surprising The of Japan
is disposed haste pecpitatng conflict public sen
in the of the mado aroused and tated and
be sufficiently powerful force the into declaration
OF Russia certainly playing highhanded game both in
China and Corea and the hostile public opinion prevailing Japan
has both provocaion and justification.
Yesterday fixed for the of Manchuria
found the Russians strongly entenched there More
Russia makes the declaration that she will Withdraw
until China has agreed make concessions the
which has been disclosed This attitude Russia greatly
nmed the Japanese who realize that only the cars
determined retain control of Manchr that
time it is planning absorb Corea-
The Corean bank of Yau fortified by Russia
indicating her purpose hold Yongampho Notwithstanding the
pledges she made both Coea and Japan Corean independence
and integrity of territory have been joint
entered into by Russia and Japan but Russia has shown that
will stand in her way when she
her territorial holdings Indeed reported
recently proposed division of Japan
refused to consider the proposition
Should only possible but probable
Japan will be forced contend single handed against Russia Her
alliance with Great Britain is of value doubt but it will
Japan only in the that second
tons against her. From China little help could be expected
be actually entered contingencies unforeseen
might develop which would involve only Great Britain
other powers in the conflict.