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The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-11-06
Books She Admired Most,

When Tolstoi was in the Crimea recent
" a rich American arrived in his yacht
With q party of friends and asked permis-
sion to call on the great Russian. Leave
who was quite weak from illness, should
not be troubled with talk. One woman
visitor could not restrain her converse
tional propensity, but said in gushing
tones: LEO Tolstoi, all your noble writ
ings have influenced my life, but the one
which taught me most was"
Here she forgot the name OF the book
and 1,olstoi asked, insinuatingly: WAS it
"rhe Dead Souls?'"
eyes, yes" was the eager reply.
"Ah," observed Tolstoi, "Gogol wrote
that book, not J."
There are people who seem to think they
o,D toach aynarienne N v Times
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-11-06

DEAR Mrs PTNKHAM.- II cannot tell you with pen and ink what good
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did for me, suffering from
the ills peculiar to the sex, extreme lasstude and that all gone feeling. I
would rise from M bedi in the morning feeling more tired than when / went
to bed. but before L had ud two bottles of Lydia e. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound, I began tt feel the buoyancy Of my younger days return
ing, became regular, could do more work. and not feel tired than 1 had W
been able ito do before, so continued to usei it until I was restored to perfect
health, 1t is indeed q boon to sick women and I heartily recommend it,
Yours very truly, Mrs. EosA ADAMS, $40 10th St, Louisville, KY
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-11-06

Money in Shoes.-Shoe Dealer-'It won't
pay me to handle these shoes on such a small
margin" Drummer-"I know the profits
are small; but, my dear sir, just look at the
shoes, and see how they are made"
':Humph! They are made very badly, mis-
cradle stuff, too-won'tlast a week. y That's
it. that it. You'll sell five pairs of these
shoes TO one Of any others."-N. Y. Weekly.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-11-06
Concessfon On Moth sides.

Knippe-Yes. BY making mutual con-
cessions, my wife and I get along very
smoothly For instance, gave up
smoking cigars the other day,
Tucqne--Whet did your wife give
upss
.Oh. she gavesup scolding me for In
(5dulging IN the habit.n-Syracuse Her
aid.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-11-06
Artist.

Friend-How did you ever get thai
beautiful red snnrise2
Artist sketched a tomato.-ghi
cago Daily News
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-11-06

There are people who seem to think they
can teach experience.-N. Y. Times.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-25
PASTORAL ''SHORE ACRES
Best of Rural Plays at Turner
Theatre Dec. LIST.
Quaint Characters, Realistic Seen
cry and Competent Cast.
Will Undoubtedly Draw One OF
Best Audiences of Season.

ashore Acres,'' produced by COM
petent company Of twenty-five people
and supplied with stage scenery that
is entirely new, promises a treat for
the people Of New Ulm that's some
thing out of the ordinary. The play
will be given at the Turner Theatre on
next Tuesday evening and the advance
sale which opens at the City Drug
Store this morning ought to be rec
ord breaker. When the piece was Civ
en- in Mankato a year ago there was
not seat to be had three hours after
the sale was commenced.
ashore Aeres'' is a phase Of Ameri-
can life transferred to the stage. 1t
is not a conceptions; not what men and
women might be, but what they are in
a certain locality.
American life has many phases and
it is questionable whether any one
play or book could embody them all.
One need never have lived in Maine to
feel that the types presented in this
play are peculiarly American. Amer
leans are much the same the country
over, whether at dress functions or on
the farm. One is merely the polished
and the other she unpublished. Between
the two there are the various grades
OF intellectual development, but in all
the classes there are the same indefn-
able qualities that stamp them thor
oughly American.
1t may be said in support of the
statement that ashore Acres is the
most representative American play, if
not the best, that the ancestors of the
class Of people represented in this
play were the builders of the nation
and the same spirit of these New Eng
landers exists in all Americans.
The average playgoer has seen
ashore Acres" once at least, and
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-25
History of Sioux Outbreak,

Judge Daniel Buck of Mankato, is
preparing history of the Sioux Indian
uprising of 1862 which he intends to
make one of the most complete works
of its kind ever published. Regard
ing his plans the Mankato Free Press
says, Judge Buck expects to have the
history completed by Christmas, as he
is now giving almost his entire time
to it. He has written about forty
pages and expects that the volume will
contain about three hundred pages.
1t will be we'll Illustrated, the picture
of the hanging of the thirty EIGHT
Indians being used as a frontispiece,
and portraits of Indian chiefs and
leading characters of the times, as we'll
as striking scenes of the war, being
prepared in half-tones.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-25

President Roosevelt is not liked in
the south, there is no getting around
that fact and if he is nominated the
south will be democratic to man,
except the Office holders. The senti-
ment is as bitter against him as it was
against Sherman after he made his
famous march to the sea. On top OF
his treatment of the negroes some SEN
timentalist has seen fit to announce
that Booker Washington ranks with
George Washington and Abe Lincoln.
Roosevelt couldn't be elected justice of
the peace anywhere in the south.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-25
New 0lm Review
Wednesday, November rs, 1908.
ThankS6ivin8.

The return of this day to the people
of the United States brings mingled
feelings of Joy and sadness. Joy, that
in the contemplation of the greatness
of the country the past year has added
to the territory at one time so circum-
scribed, the unlimited boundary of
greatness that excells the most won
derful ambition Of the sagest of those
great men who builded the foundation
of a structure of whose heights and
breath they had no possible conception
and the limitations of whose boundar-
les they could not define with the most
extrava gant anticipation. ~
Sadness, because upon this founda-
ton structure is being reared that
overhangs the base and brings to
thoughtful men the serious question
whether or not the found alton is broad
enough to support the many sided
structure that is being reared upon it.
Recent years have demonstrated that
the American people are not content to
dwell within the coast limits of their
own possessions and that they are too
susceptible to the allurements of power
and the advantage of possessions to
realize that danger turks in the glory
they are counting and an adder is be-
ing nursed in the bosom of prosperity
that will eventually poison the hand
that feeds it.
Tomorrow the sun will light up a
nation apparently as happy and thank
full as it has been at any previous time
but like the banquet which Darius sur
prised at Babylon, time is coming
when the forces of disintegration,
which are mastering under the policy
of the acquisition Of territory, will
cause CONSERVATION to the idle and
contented banquetors.
No nation or people can endure
whose self satisfaction leads them to
dissipate their power in the prodigality
that has marked the United States in
the past five or six years. Power lies
in concentration, not in expansion and
the nation that sets out to dominate
soon becomes the jealous prey of all
aspiring powers.
Let us hope that the same wisdom
that has marked the past actions of
this nation, will dictate policy suffi-
GENTLY broad to unravel the tangle,
that seems to have Melted itself within
the lines of our national legislation,
then will the "islands of the sea clap
their hands, and thanksgiving become
universal day of rejoicing.
It is unfair to Mr.. Rockefeller to say
that the recent rise in oil is due to the
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-25
Leases Lafayette Elevator.

The Eagle mill has extended it's ele-
vator line by acquiring building at
Lafayette. One of the elevators in
that village is owned by J.~ Braun Of
Sacred Heart, well known in New Ulm,
and he has leased his building to the
local mill for term of five years.
This addition gives the Eagle mill a
line of so elevators, distributed along
the Chicago & Northwestern and Min
neapolis & St. Louis and covering
Southern Minnesota and South Dako-
ta.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-25

Financial conditions are better the
farther. south you go. It seems that
the depression in trade is over the
north and west and may be attributed
to the epidemic of land speculation
that has taken hold of so many of the
people in that section. That the coun-
try will soon recover from it there is
no doubt for an impending crisis
would affect all localities alike, and
this is not so. 4&*
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-25

A correspondent in one Of the South
ern papers recently compared the ac-
ton Of Roosevelt in recognizing the
right of Panama, one of the states of
Columbia, to secede with the action of
Lincoln in denying the confederacy the
right to secede and holds that the re-
cognition of this treason of Panama
is contrary to the policy the United
States has established for itself.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-25

, According to the terms of the treaty
with the new republic of Panama this
country comes pretty near being the
whole thing down there. It begins to
look as though game of poker had
been played down there with wet
deck of cards. For shrewd diplomacy
it takes precedence over anything in
recent years. S..
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-25

fact that he chose to donate more
money to some philanthropy. The
supply of oil has been running short
for the past three years and the shorter
it gets the more costly it becomes.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-25

Many farmers in this state will not
have their threshing done by Thanks
giving, and consequently will not know
in what degree they are thankful.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-25

Bob Dunn may be thankful that his
chances are no worse than they are,
and Frank Eddy may rejoice that the
worst has apparently been told about
him TO-
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-25
nANAdER WANTED,

age business in this County and adjoin-
ing territory for well and favOrably known
House Of solid financial standing. $50. 90
each Monday by check direct from head
quarters. Expense money advanced:
position permanent. Address Manper, $40
Monon Bldg, Chicago, Ill. - 5 AZ
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-25

"Eckstein's Town and Country Alma
nae" is the title of very useful
pamphlet which is being distributed
by Andrew J. Eckstein, proprietor of
the Pioneer drug store. It is an 'sold-
fashioned" almanac, the kind which
have always been popular, and gives
the forecasts of the seasons for 1904,
the positions of the planets and a
great quantity of other valuable in
formation.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-25

MFRS. COL. E. J. GRESHAM, Treas
NXx urer Daughters Of the Confederacy,
and President Hernden Village Improve
ment Society, writes the following letter
from Herndon, Fairfax county, Va:
..:..s~.# Herndon, Va.
The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O.:
Gentlemen-"1 cannot speak too high
" OF the value OF Peruna. I believe
that I owe my Life to It's wonderful
merits. suffered with catarrh of the
head and lungs in It's worst form, until
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-25

the doctors fairly. gave mo up, and I de-
SPARED Of ever getting well again.
II noticed your advertisement and the
splendid testimonials given by people
who had been cured by Peruna, and de-
termined to try bottle. Ifelt but little
better, but used . second and . third
bottle and kept on Improving slowly.
"f took SIX bottles to cure me. but
they were worth q kings ransom to
me. talk Peruna to al my friends
and am q true believer in its worth"
..-Mrs. COL &. j. Gresham.
Thousands Of women owe their lives
to Peruna. Tens Of thousands owe their
health to Peruna. Hundreds Of thou
sands are praising Peruna in every state
in the Union. We have on file great
multitude Of letters, with written per-
mission for use in public print, which
can never be used for want Of space.
Address The Peruna Medicine Co..
Columbus, o., for q book written espe-
cially for women, instructively 1llustra-
ted, entitled "Health and Beauty" Sent
free to women.
e Peruna Almanac for 1904.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-25

Robert Grau claims that the receipts
for every concert given by Adelina
Patti thus far have been in excess of
$4,000.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-25

It is unfair to Mr.. Rockefeller to say
that the recent rise in oil is due to the
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-25

ASK your druggist for free Peruna Almanac 1904
The Newtown bee., 1903-05-08
THE WASTES OF THE BODY.

Every seven days the blood, muscles and bones of man of average size los es two pounds of wornout tissue. This waste cannot be replenished and the health and strength kept up without perfect digestion. When the stomach and digestive organs fail to perform their functions, the strength lets down, health gives way, and disease sets up. KOdol Dyspepsia Cure enables the stomach and digestive organs to digest and assimilate all of the wholesome food that may be eaten into the kind of blood that rebuilds the tissues and protects the health and strength of the mind and body. KodOlcureS indigest . ion, dyspepsia and all stomach trou- ble. It is an ideal spring tonic. Sold by s. J. Parks, Trumbull: w. N. Hurd, Long Hill: B. Hawley X Co.,. Stepney: A. B. Blakeman, Bots ford: Betts & Betts, Sandy Hook; M. Beach, Monroe; w. J. Beehler. Brooktield; R. H. Beers & Co.,, New town.
The Newtown bee., 1903-05-08
SENSATION.

There was big sensation in Lees vile, Ind, when w. H. Brown of that place, who was expected to die, had his life saved by Dr Kings New Dis covery for consumption. He writes: enduredinsufferable agonies from Asth- ma but your "New Discovery" gave me immediate relief and soon there after effected complete cure. Simi- lar cures of consumption, pneumonia. bronchitis and grip are numerous. It's the peerless remedy for all throat and lung troubles. Prices soc and $1. guaranteed by R. H. Beers & Co.,, New town; w. B. Hawley, Sherman; Fay Tor Curtis & Co.,, Sandy Hook; A. w. Twiss, Bethel; w. N. Noble and Albert Evitts, New Milford: Connery Bros., Georgetown; Allel Joyce, Roxbury Station; George D. O'Dell, Cornwall Bridge; R. F. Smith, West Cornwall. druggists. Trill Lottle free.
The Newtown bee., 1903-05-08
SHERMAN.
LOCAL NEWS JOTTINGS.

LOCAL NE " JOIIlN0S.
 A. D. Giddings and the pastor at tended the Sunday school convention in New Preston, last week.
 Mrs Charlotte Northrop of Michigan and Mrs Baldwin of New Milford have been visiting at the Gelston home.
 We understand that our former pas tor, Rev H. c. Mcknight, has resignt d his pastorate at East Long Meadow, where he has been five years.
 Mrs E. P. Herrick leaves Cuba the middle of May, to meet her children in their Sherman cottage. The Joyce farm was not sold at the auction, last week.
 All members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and any others who are interested in the cause are invited to meet next Sunday di- rectly after the service, in the gallery of the church, to transact some import. ant business.
 N. T. Hungerford is agent for a to bacco setter, which parties who have used it say will plant potatoes as vel as set tobacco: it cln be used on side hill as we'll as on level ground. Price S35. Some of those who have purchas ed are Dr J. N. Woodruff, G. A. Barne and Frank Hungerford.
 Mrs Charles Merrick of Danbury 1 visiting her daughter.
The Newtown bee., 1903-05-08

"A man living on farm near here came in short time ago completely doubled up with rheumatism. handed him a bottle of Chamberlain $ Pain Balm and told him to use it freely and ifnot satisfied after using it he need not pay cent for it," says c. P. Rayder, of Patten's Mills, N. Y. "A few days later he walked into the store as straight as string and handed me dollar saying, give me another bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. 1 want it in the house all the time for it cured me-" For sale by R. H. Beers & Co.,, Newtowr; Taylor, Curtis & Co.,, San- dy Hook; w. N. Hurd, Long Hill; The B. c. Platt G.. Ha~l.yviIle; A. B. Blakeman, Botsford.
The Newtown bee., 1903-05-08
HUNTINGTON.
A SOCIAL EVENT.

Jollity was the keynote of the even- ing Wednesday, April 29, when the Farmill River Whist club were guests of the Clover Leaf Whist club. River side Hall was we'll filled, 50 being pre- sent. Miss Gertrude Buckingham won lady's first prize, a drawn work handkerchief, F. E. Beard received the gentlemen's first, a burnt wood photo holder. Much laughter and ap- plause was heard when Miss Mae Bronson received a candle with the inscription "A little more light on the subject," and c. H. Jennings received little shoe with the words At the foot.'' T. F. s. Bartlett, secretary of the Farmill River club, in few we'll chosen words thanked the Clover L eat club for their hospitality, to which
 Miss Beardsley responded. The play CTS left at late hour after many ex
 pressions of pleasure, and wishes fo1 like happy meetings next winter.
The Newtown bee., 1903-05-08

painted and his barn shingled and otherwise improved.
 Master Sheron Johnson has been sick and under the doctors care.
 Mrs Betts of Walnut Tree Hill spent last week with her friend, Miss Louise Nichols.
 Mrs Walter Hubbell and son, Mas ter George, go to their home in Scars dale, N. Y., this week.
 Mrs Hattie Wheeler and Master HermOn were with Mrs Nicholas Wakely, last week; also Mrs Stone of Ansonia.
 Mrs WillougLby and daughter, M s Stone of Ansonia, are to spend July and August at their former home on the Hill.
 The many friends of Rev G. c. Sauer will be surprised to learn he sailed for Germany, last week. He remains abroad two months and will visit France, Switzerland and returns by way of England.
 The family in Wheeler's tenement expect to lmove to New York City soon.
 The repair of the broken reservoir is ifl progress. There are several teams at work.
 Mir and Mrs William F. Hilton of Hartford are guests of MT and Mrs George Drew a few days, this week.
 The roads that were washed out have been put in good shape again. MI Perley, the selectman, seems to under stand his business.
 Miss Helen Blackman is expected home for a portion of the summer al least.
 Miss Louise Nichols is the guest O a cousin in Shelton, this week.
The Newtown bee., 1903-05-08
MONROE.

CONGREIATIONAL CHURCH NOTES.
 Last Sunday large audience was in and the following children were baptized, Lawrence Miles Burr, Merwin Stanley Burr, Herbert Hurd Johnson, Sadie Elsie Burr, Evelyn Wales Seeley, Dorothy May Seeley, ArveSta Jane CurtiSS.
 Next Sunday Rev MT Johnson s morning subject will be "A Plea for the Individual Communion Cup.' In the evening he will speak on 'Hyms That Have Helped Humanity" /"
 The Ladies' Aid society help their annual business meeting, Wednesday afternoon.
The Newtown bee., 1903-05-08

ed and the tooth penetrated his foot, making a very bad cut. Dr Wales WIS called and dressed the wound.
 Miss R. A. Beach and Alice Cornell Beach at Maple Shade.
 Miss Agnes Smith of Yonkers, N. Y., is visiting at Hobart E. Beardsley's.
 Miss Gertrude Beardsley is with her sister, Mrs B. NJ. Beardsley, in Long Hill
 R. Frederick of Stepney and F. w. Wheeler of Monroe appraised the es- tate of the late Joseph Clarke of Step- ney, on Monday of this week.
 The Masonic Lodge horse sheds are nearly completed.
 F. W. Wheeler'S fine seed potatoes of various popular varieties are being called for every day, keeping him very busy
 Mrs Flora $. Godfrey of Danbury has passed few days at'her mothers, Mrs Lucinda JOhnsOn'S.
 Mir and Mrs Eli Bradley ot Sauga- tuck are visiting MT and Mrs Frank P. CrutiSs.
 Miss Martha Beach and Will Curtiss passed last Friday at Charles Beach's, at Rock House, Easton. | Miss Della E. Curtiss is with Miss Eliza Stevens of Stevenson.
 Mrs l.. J. Lane and Mrs F. s. God frey's have visited MT and Mrs Willis O. Brotherton of Bridgeport.
The Newtown bee., 1903-05-08
NEWS HEREABOUTS.

MT and Mrs M. F. Foley passed Sun day with Bridget Gamman.
 Mrs Frank Curtiss has visited friends in Derby and New Haven and on her return home her daughter, Mrs Morris D. Beers, accompanied her.
 While narrowing, Saturday, Frank Curtiss met with quite mishap. The harrow caught on stone and as he went to remove it the horse start
The Newtown bee., 1903-05-08
WHITE HILLS AND VICINITY.

Miss Carrie French has returned home after an extended visit with friends in New Haven.
 The people of White Hills and vicin- ity have had their houses photograph ed by travelling photographer. Most of them turned out satisfactory.
 M. M. Dimon, is having his house
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-01-31

average boys that were to be found
fifty years ago and don't match well
with the race of young goddesses who
are developing.
Pesche1 makes some interesting
statements in regard to the stature of
people in this country. One is that
the descendants of European emf
grants have perceptibly increased in
stature in the United States and that
men here do not obtain their full
growth until their thirtieth year. He
thinks that this is probably caused
by the change of locality, as the abor-
iginal race is also very tall and Lire
wise does not attain full growth until
so, but it seems that this explanation
cannot apply to American women as
their increase of height is of recent
manifestation.
When all is said no one knows ex-
actly why this wonderful tall race OF
girls has sprung so suddenly into ex-
istence nor why they threaten already
to leave the men behind them. Has it
some subtle connection with the per-
feet freedom and independence OF
thought and deed? And if this strange
luXuriance of growth makes the same
swift progress in the next thirty years.
that it has in the past, where, oh,
where, will man be then!
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-01-31

inferior physically to the men, he has
discovered in America that the
physique of the women, particularly
the young ones, is superb and that it
makes the physique of the American
man seem Insignificant in proportion
At this point it is time to stop and
consider whether this fact, SO plain
to all who see, is matter for patriotic
congratulation or not
Poor American mani Does he real
ly need sympathy on this score? Is
it necessary to inquire where is this
wonderful increase in feminine
physique to stop?
From an aesthetic standpoint the
great stature to which most of the
young women attain may be regarded
as a mistake. No poet, no artist, no
sentimentalist can readjust in a hurry
the tradition handed down through
countless generations that their hero
ines should be about head shorter
than their heroes.
To arrange this nowadays the he
roes would have to approach seven
feet in height, thing which seems
not at all likely to happen, for the
boys aren't keeping pace with the girls
at all. And there's the difficulty.
A race of giants would be endurab1e
aesthetically, but a race of amazons
who could look straight over the heads
of the masculine half of humanity so
upsets all the good old cherished no.
lions that it would take few hundred
years with an entirely new literature
and art before the old traditions could
be blotted out. But without borrow
ing trouble there's no Disgusting the
fact that the las high as my heart
days" have vanished from this land.
Elderly women who are only little