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Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-02
THE LITTLE MAN WAS THERE.

''I don't suppose you'11 think it's true, , The story that tell you here, But it's the solemn, through and through, However wild it may appear. Twas in an Oklahoma town,
 Where men were rough in speech and
 dress,
 And every man was loaded down
 With a dozen weapons, more or less wed gathered in the sittin' room Of Badgers boardin' house one night When Broncho Bob began to fume And fret and banker for fight He stood somewhere round six foot three, And, Moses! what a fist he had!- He'd killed man or two, and he
 Was what in commons known as Baol "He rose up there before the crowd
 And sassed the landlord for awhile, Because the latter had' allowed
 He didn't like the formers style, And when the landlord run away
 Tho big chap shook his fists and swore: He said he'd lick the crowd if they
 Would kindly step out on the floor. 'Now all this time little chap
 Sat tippin' back against the walrs His hands were folded in his lap,
 He hadn't said a word at all His face was kind of pale and thin, His eyes were sort of soft and sad- He sat there quiet takn' in
 The brawny bully who was Bad. Pm Broncho Bob,' the bruiser said; Volcanoes shut up when l roar; It thunders when I shake my head, Bears look at me and breathe no more! I'm jagged lightning on the go,
 I'm hurricanes and cataracts!- Don't think I say 1t boastin', though. I'm merely givin' you the facts "And so he he rante6 fit to kill,
 Insultin' everybody there The little, paIe-faced fel1er still
 Was tipped back quiet in his chair He stamped the floor and ragged around
 And got so rippin' bad at last You couldn't have made out the sound
 Of seven freight trains goin' past. "About the next thing that we knew
 He'd pulled a gun, and then and there "A Gozen men or so withdrew,
 Not carin' how nor lookin' where. Some left by goin' out the door, And some took window sash along; Some tried to crawl down through tho
 floor,
 A thing that insist was wrong. ''T7ight here the part that's strange comes I've told you of the little chap Who looked so sad, whose face was thin Whose hands were folded in his lap Well, when we'd run a mile or so
 And stopped at last to get our breath, We found him with us there, and oh,
 I swear 1t, nearly scared to death" ~-S. E. Riser, in Chicago Record-Herald.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-02

ing the soft kernels at the roots, would take the corn on the surface. As he was engaged in the work he saw a cock chasing crow across the field The crow, he said, would fly a little way and the cock, which was a brownie horn, would rush after it with wings spread out, neck extended, and feath- CTS ruff1ed. The crow would wait un- til the cock, got close and then would take to it's wings again. Each time, as it sailed off, the rooster would stop and crow, and each time also the crow would answer in the cocks own language.
 It is, according to a professor in the school of science at Princeton, not. at all impossible for crows to crow
 'In my opinion,'' said the professor, sthe song of a bird is not entirely the result of inherited characteris- tics. It is partly the result of inita-s tion. A bird inherits it's call note and strong tendency to sing, but it builds up its song by imitation. Tn the case of the crow the call note is it's regular cav. To acquire, in addition to. this, the cry of the cock, it would probably have to have an environments especially adapted to the cultivation of the sounds embodied in the cry. The Rock hill crows, if they are growing, undoubt- edly learned the cry originally in con- f.nement. Whether their offspring F. CT natural conditions also would i: re the cock cry ' imitation is ( on that is ha, Tfinswer."
 -ofessor cit ral instances that ....d raT,te under i..s observa ton, where birds had learned their songs and calls by imitation, one instance being that of two orioles from. the same brood that sang entirely differ ent tunes; another of @ blueiay that sang like cardinal; another of duck that initiated the call of the tur. Esy, and a fourth of a blackbird that crowed like bantam cock. The black- bird was matched under q hen. and when young was shut up in a barn.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-02
t... El4 2>.aft4A 1Glf ~} Is 'fst,# l. A DOCTORS POINT OF VIEW.
Physician Says the Carpet Is the Most Unsanftary Thing In the
 -r1 . Modern Home. flasz

'sWhen the American housewife be- comes thoroughly educated in domes- tic sanitation she will never have a carpet in her home," remarked a De- troit doctor, who has. made a deep the Free Press.
 'Why?' Simply because it is the most unsanitary thing in the house. No matter how careful the inmates may be in the matter .ofzclea ming their shoes before entering the house-un- less they were to adopt the oriental practice of taking them off and leav- ing them outside-they are bound to carry in some dirt from the street. This dirt settles in the carpets, and when sweepinga day comes it is s1stirred up and the air. of, the room Becomes filled with it. It may not always be impure, but as nearly all of it comes from the street the chances are that it it, and when the sweeper, or whoever passes through the room during the sweeping process, inhales it whatever dangers may turk in it pass into the lungs and perform their work of mis- chief. If you want to test this theory go yourself into a carpeted room that has just been swept and notice how quickly you can become choked with the dust that is in the air.
 "What would I substitute for car pets? Rugs. And not large, heavy rugs, either, but small and light ones that may easily be lifted up and taken out doors for cleaning Rugs, however cheap, on hard wood floors are better than the most expensive carpet you can buy, if you have re- gard for your health. They should be cleaned frequently, too, aud al- ways out doors.
 "If this simple method were unf- versally adopted you may sc sure that we doctors would in time have fewer patients to take care of, and this fact should give yoa sufficient evidence that my suggestion is not made for selfish purpose"
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-02
A CURIOUS MEAL.
Troop of British Soldiers i'm Sexfk
 Africa Reduced to a Diet a1 Jam and Monkey.

During the South African war, says London Tit-Bits, our soldiers have had some very queer meals. such as mealie cobs straight, jappa tties cooked with dublin, horse flesh, mule steaks, etc., but the most curious meal have ever eaten was down on the Portu- guese border while on the march with Gen. Butler.
 Any soldier who was with Gen. Butler at Lydenburg will remember that after the occupation of that place we were short of rations, and had it not been for the guides .(who were instrumental in finding cache in the ,mountains) we should have fared badly. indeed.
 About three days after we had oc- cupied Lydenburg I was told off with my troop to escort convoy to Nieel Spruit Ca small station on the Portuguese border, about 20 miles distant) to bring back rations and forage. On the way down we met many natives, who, as usual, clamored for some small trifles, such as matches, etc. Having nothing else but my rations, which consisted of four biscuits, and one tin of beef, l gave them away, thinking that l should be able to get plenty at the end of the journey, but I was to be disappointed, and found to my sor. row that the convoy was to be for age and tobacco only, as the rations had not arrived. Of course, was left without food, which was an aw- l full predicament to be placed in, es- pecially as we had two days jour | ney in front of us, for, though it only took one day to go down, it takes longer to return with the wagons loaded.
 On the journey down (being on the right fank) I noticed lots of mon- keys and troops of balloons, who ran | off as we approached, chattering and grunting, into the woods. Suddenly it struck me, why not shoot one of these monkeys? I have heard of 1 people eating them in some parts of the world, so why not me? I must tell you that the men, like myself, : had been foolish enough to give their rations away, and so were l placed in the same situation as my self, so I suggested that we should shoot a monkey, to which they agreed. We'll, we soor shot one, a big fellow, and it was ;tiful to see the others, who, inst< of running away (as we thought v would) l gathered round the C creature and cried like human rs, but as we came up, they madt ', jabber- ing and crying out pit . ". s..s l We carried the monk 70 our bivouac, and soon had it = Aned. We then made 8 fire, there being plenty of wood about, and in about an hours time MT. Monkey was ready for din. ner, frizzling and cracking like a sucking pig. I have tasted a good many dishes in all parts of the globe but this one took the cake; for, tc our dismay we had not get one bis. cult. among the lot of us, the only thing we had being a tin of jam, SC i that there was nothing else to dc but sit down and make the best o1 1 it. I must say that it was not bac at all, and I think most of us made 1 a, hearty meal, but I should not care to eat it too often, and don't think I shall forget in a hurry the time feasted on jam and monkey.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-02
1zassnntlnne md Color of Hntr.

Dr. Bedloe has said that there is a distinct relation between mans pursuits and the color of his hair. An unusual proportion of men with dark, straight hair enter the minis try; red-whiskered men are apt to be given to, sporting and horsefesh; while the tall, vigorous, blonde man, Hneal descendant of the Vikings, still contributes a large contingent to travellers and e1nigrants. - Detroit News-Tribune.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-02
A Queer Clock.

A naturalist, while visiting one of the Celebes islands. found curious time recorder lodged at the house of rajah. Two bottles were frm- ly lashed together and fixed in a wooden frame. Some black sand ran from one bottle into the other in just half an hour, and when the up- per bottle was empty the frame was reversed Twelve short sticks, marked with notches from one to 12, were hung upon a string. A hook was placed between the stick bear ing the number of notches core spending to the hour last struck, and the one to be struck next. The sen- try announced the time by striking the hour on a large gong.-London Globe.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-02
GENUINE OLD MAINLY
As Vigorous at 83 as Most People B.. .>>-.. Are at SO.
Still Works in the Field, and as a Laundress Aunt Rachel Lay Kec- ognizes No Superior in Old
 Kentucky.

To be s3 years old and the mother of 24 children is to be somewhat dis tinguished from other women, but when, in addition to this, one is as viz orous as most people are at 50 and can do days work that would tax man, there is something of the remarka ble in the case.
 This is the claim that Aunt Rachel Lay, living on one of the Kentucky farms, in Mercer county, has for pub lie attention. In her own phrase, she ''came mighty near being Christmas tree," for her eighty-third birthday was on December 23, 1902. Aunt Rachel is genuine ,'befo' de wah" darly, and she has decided cont empt for the peo- pie who are so mo count" these days. She is as upright as one of the forest trees that shade the little cabin which she helped Uncle Lay to build.
 There never was a richer, clearer chocolate hue than her healthy skin shows, and the only sign of age to be seen, says the Cincinnati Commercial, l, is the gray of her wool.
 If anyone desires to know just how things were, done before the civil war, he has only to get Aunt Rachel started, and she will make a graphic account of her own experience. She was born in Lincoln county and was taken from her mother at the age of II, when she was hired out as a nurse girl. She had charge of two tiny lads, both of whom are dead, and after this became a house girl. =.
 She saw two of her brothers sold, and then came the time when she her. self was sold. This was according to her own decision, for the question came up of going away from her Ken lucky home to new one in Texas,
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-02
Plants as Travellers.

Plants travel to astonishing dis tances. The seeds stick to this or that article and are carried by ships, and by those that go down to the
 sea in ships, from one end of the world to the other. Sir Joseph Hooker relates a striking instance of this seed-carrying, which is perpet- ually going on. ''On one occasion" he says, Handing on a small unin- habited island nearly at the antip- odes, the first evidence I met with of it's having been previously visited by man was the English chickweed, and this I traced to a mound that marked the grave of a British sailor, and that was covered with the plant. doubtless the offspring of seed that had adhered to the spade or mattock with which the grave had been dua-''
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-02
Military ConAcription.

The compulsory enrollment of citi- zcns for military or naval service is unknown i'll this country as 8 parTna- nent institution; and twice only in the history of the United States were drafts temporarily resofted to by the government for She purpose of raising and increasing the armdes 5n cases ot special urgency, once in 1914 during oux war with Great Britain. and once on May 3, 1863, when bill passed both houses calling every able bodied citi' zen of military age to enter the feds eral service. or pay g communication fec of $500 for exemption, under penalty of being treated as de&ertcr.-D De- troit Free Press.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-02
RnrAerry rrcaerYe.

New England housekeepers make C. delicious preserve from barberries. These berries are offered in New York markets i'll the autumn, and few jars of the sweet lend an agreeable variety to the list of put-up fruits. Stem, wash and measure the barber ries, allowing pint of sugar to pint of berries. Cook together t;ii they are boiled to sirup and the fruit is ten der. Add a quarter of pound Of raisins to every pound of fruit. Seal while hot in jars. Defer the prcsery- ing of barberries till after the first frost has touched the fruit.--N. Y. Post -'.s.r.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-02
Seem on the Trolley Lime.

.- It is, "a rather interesting sight to watch the efforts of a short motor man when he attempts to hold in the circuit breaker with one hand, and manipulate his controller and ring the gong, all at the same time. The fact that the circuit-breaker is installed to prevent excessive cur rents from passing through the mo- tors adds zest to the exhibition.- Electric Review.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-02
TO Be Well Spoken ok.

Uncle George-If. you would have men speak we'll of you after you are dead, cultivate a sunny disposition and be kind and sympathetic with all.
 Tom-Yes; and if you would have men speak well of you while you are alive, be rich and prosperous.-Bos- ton Transcript.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-02
WIFI Send More.

"Your wife," began the reporter, "and the young man with whom she eloped have just been caught in New York, where they lost their money and were stranded just as they were starting for Europe. We thought you'd want to hear the news, and"
 '.That isn't the news," replied the man. "The news is that I've sent them enough money to see them throuRia. .''--PhiladeIph Press.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-02
Too Trivial to Be Noticed.

Too Trivial to Be Noticed. Rooney-Were yez iver shtruck be loightning, Pat?
 Casey-Oi don't reminder. Don't remimber?"
 "No A mon thot's bin married tin years don't reminder sich troifes as Judge.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-02
No Cause to Complain.

"see here,' remarked the guest to the new waiter, "there doesn't seem to be any soup on this menu card"
 "Oh, no, sir" replied the waiter, nerv- ously. "I didn't spill it at this table Lit was the one on the other side of the room. ''-Cincinnati Commercial Tribune -.'
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-02
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Don't attempt to drown sorrow in drink; you will only discover that sor. row is m expert swimmer.-C Chicago Daily News.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-02

A Wise Idiot. A silent idiot is wiser than babbhng simDletOn,-Ram' Horn.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-02

Afraid to Make a Mfstnke. He-It is reported that you and are engaged.
 She Didn't you deny it? ''No; I was afraid to do so with out first seeing you" ."-Stray Storiea
The Newtown bee., 1903-09-11
PLATTSVILLE.

HOYDEN's HILL AND VICINITY.
 Master Clinton Sherwood is spend- ing week with friends at Rockaway Beach, Greater New York.
 Miss Ethel Wisner has entertained her schoolmate, Miss Maud Wilson.
 The LadiesrSocial club met, Wednes- day, with Mrs Mary Osborne. The semi-annual election of officers oc- cured.
 Mrs l.. Clark and daughter have re- turned from weeks visit with friends.
 Mrs Edward Downs of New Haven is visiting her cousin, Mrs L. A. Jen- nings.
 L. A. Jennings and E. B. Sh erwood attended the republican clam bake at Pine Creek, last Saturday afternoon.
The Newtown bee., 1903-09-11
NEWS IN BRIEF,

Miss Florence Coe spent last week in Riverside with her friend, Miss Chris tine BoylstOn.
 Mrs F. H. Coe has been spending a few days in Fair Haven.
 Misses Olive and Helen Radcliffe of Shelton are visiting their grandmother Mrs M. Radcliffe.
 MT and Mrs s. A. Libby have moved to Milford.
 Miss Charlotte Plumb is visiting Mir and Mrs George Bennett.
 Miss Fanny Walker is visiting in StratfOrd.
 F. L. Turney and family are spend ing the week in their cottage at Fair field Beach.
 Miss Maud Gabler has returned to
The Newtown bee., 1903-09-11
FAIRFIELD COUNTY
LONG HILL.

TWO CLIPPINGS ABOUT MRS KUHNE.
 The following written for the Bos
 ton Traveller, and appraising in a late issue of that paper, will in- terest the many friends of the late Mrs Kuhne in Long Hill and vicinity. "On Thursday, August g; at the home of her son, B. J. Kuhne, 21 Fletcher street, Roslindale, Mrs Christian J. Kuhne passed away from this world of pain to the land of peace. After pa tientlY suffering for many months from a disease that was necessarily fa tai she bade farewell to things of earth with the same peaceful grace that had characterized her illness. Ever bright and cheerful in the day of health, she was none the less so when the shadows of eventide are casting their dark mantle about her and the light of day was being dimmed by the dark ness of night. "She knew in whom she had trusted' and that none evil could befall her even in the dark 'val
 ley and shadow of dea tn" for One had said Because live ye shall live also." To Him she committed herself in the perfect confidence of firm faith. At an early hour on Saturday service
 was conducted at the house by Rev J. Wynne Jones, rector of the Church of Our Saviour, who had been constant in his ministration to Mrs Kuhne, and all that was mortal of a kind friend and gentle mother was borne away to be laid to rest among friends and kin dred gone before, and as the declining sun was slowly dipping toward the horizen her body was tenderly placed by the side of her husband in the lit-
 tie village church yard at Long Hill, services being conducted by Rev c. w. Doupe, rector of Grace church, Long Hill."
 In the recent death of Mrs Kuhne at the home of her son, B. J. Kuhne, 2l Fletcher street, ROSlindale, the
 people of that district lose a singular ly charming presence. Altogether too few of her 65 years of life were passed
 in their presence, yet during her con-
 paratively brief residence among them she had won place in their hearts vouchSafed to but few. In illness, as
 in health, she was ever bright and cheerful, and passed away full of that confidence that comes from life de- voted to others. s.-[ Roslindale News.
The Newtown bee., 1903-09-11
New Milford and her grandfather, James Shannon, in Bridgeport.

Thi, summer the young people on Green have indulged in horseback rid ing to some extent. Not to be eutdone by the younger generation, the oldest lady living on Bell Hill said she would show how they did it in Eye olden time." She mounted fiery steed, forgetting to remove two pairs of eye glasses, one on her nose and one on her dress Her husband, wishing her to show off to the best advantage, ,cut tine riding whip from near by tree. The young people opened their eyes in amazement, as she dashed by and charged up the hill at breakneck pace and will never forget what they saw. They were filled with admira- tion at her youthful actions and splr- it's. When she dismounted she jumped to the ground, unaided, with her glass es still intact and appeared as fresh as a girl of l6, none the worse for her lively canter. She went back to her daily duties envied by all the young people, who never expect to be able to do what she did.
The Newtown bee., 1903-09-11
NEW PRESTON.
VISITING OLD FRIENDS.

John Taylor of WatertO Own, with his two children, were calling on his rela- tives here during Thursday of last week and they remained over Thursday night at George A. Tomlinson's in Marketable. They went from there on Friday morning to George Lynn'S in Warren and William Halls, at Wilton; expecting to reach their home again on Saturday.
 William c. Beeman attended the races at Bridgeport two days of last week.
The Newtown bee., 1903-09-11
WARREN.

GUESTS AT BROOKSIDE COTTAGE.
 New arrivals at Brookside cottage are. MT and Mrs $. Kern and son, Clarence, and MT and Mrs Leets. Those who have returned to their homes from their summer vacation at Brookside cottage are, Mrs Kurick, Miss Gussie Krah, Carl Krah, Mrs John Shaeffer and son, Willie, Misses Bertha YOungerman, Fannie Herman, Fannie KrOnish, kittie Knight, Mae Miller, Nelsie Youngerman, Mildred Nettleton, Clara Walker, Ethel Hollis, Gertrude Celestire. Marguerite Tay- Tor, Messrs Henry Spiegel, George Bes- cher, c. NJ. Swaner, J. Castignette, J. c. McGrann, Leo Wertheimer. Mrs w. c. Ray, Mrs Kronish and sons, Da- vid and Julius all of New Haven.
 Visitors from Bantam welcomed Harry 1. Garfunkle and Miss Rose German and nephew from New Ha- ven.
 Max ScnHeil, Jr., whO has return ed from the West, is still very weak from his long trip after a severe attack of typhoid fever contracted there. Many friends called to see him.
The Newtown bee., 1903-09-11

Adam Johnson of MiddletOwn was
 the guest, last week. of MT and Mrs J.
 M. Eckman.
 Mrs Mary c. Peck and children, Mrs
 Law and two children, Miss Minnie Smith, Miss Adalaide Wallace and Mrs Wallace of New Haven and Miss Odell of Branford have returned to their homes after summers sOjOurn at the pleasant home of MT and Mrs
 w. T. Odell.
 Court Concord, No. l4S, +. of A., will
 hold swell fair at the Town hall,
 Washington Depot, September 23 and "A. Terrill's orchestra of New Mil ford will furnish music and there will
 be special attractions each evening.
 The members will try to have all have
 an enjoyable time.
 Among the city guests who have l been enjoying life at the pleasant
 home of MT and Mrs Robert Irwin are
 MT and Mrs Nitons, Mrs SultZer and l father-in-law, Mrs Mielc and daughter, M OCllW al UL, NllSo l. Oy h. o
 Schlinkert, Mas ters George and Joe Schlinkert, Miss M. McGee, Misses
 Anna and Freda Siessenbyttle, all | from New York.
 Father Dagnon of kensington has
 been the recent guest of his cousins, Misses Sarah and Ellen DagnOn. Howard McGrath has been passing a | month with his grandfather, James
 Shannon, in Bridgewater. Miss Mlllie Pratt has returned to New Haven after a sojourn of several months with Mir and Mrs W. T. Odell. MT and Mrs R. C.. Day, who have | been passing a week with MT and Mrs l Theodore Bradley, returned to New | York on Saturday.
 Miss May McGrath has been visit
 ing her aunt, Mrs Agnes Duncan, in
The Newtown bee., 1903-09-11
WHAT IS LIFE?

In the last analysis nobody knows but we do know that it is under strict law. Abuse that law even slightly, pain results. Irregular living means in Constipation, Headache or Liver trouble. Dr Kings New Life Pills quickly re-adjusts this. It's gentle, yet thorough. Only p cents at R. H. Beers & Co.,, New town; w. B. Hawley, Sherman; Tay- Tor Curtis & O., Sandy Hook; A: w. TwisS, Bethel; W. N. Noble and Albert Evitts, New Milford: Connery Bros., Georgetown; Allen Joyce. Roxbury Station; George D. O'Dell, Cornwall druggists.