The Newtown bee., 1904-04-22
feet or so, before the application of

feet or so, before the application of the brakes worked, but it did no harm to the horse and worked little excite ment in the crowd. The sun passed below the mountain peak long before we reached home and we had the beau tiful California twilight, shorter but grander than ours at home. Just be- fore leaving the range, we passed a prospector, who had rig and six bur ros. He was tethering the animals for the night and getting ready to stretch a typical pioneer, and factor of the advance guard of nation builders.
 Speaking of typical pioneer re- minds me of an interview had short time since. While walking through park l met man who looked neither like native nor hardly like tourist. He sat in the shade of grove and I said: "Well, my friend, what part of the country do you hail from?" His manner was very positive, and in a shrill voice he said: "Wa-al, I haint had peg to hang my hat on in fifty year. I'm a forty-niner. I've been Rockies nd have had all sorts O. luck In one sense I'm poor, fur I haint Il relative as l knows on in all God s world. But I've got all the money l want, md when it's gone kin go intu the mountingS nd git more. I've been East once fur ez Moo York nd stayed two weeks nd thet wuz 'nough fur me. Last year went up to 'Laska nd found a feller hard up nd grub staked him, furnished money md he did the work, but it didn't pan out good nd lost all I put in. Then l went scrapin' fur dust in the river nd n and was told I'd git rid uv my cough. So drifted down the coast and the other day turned in here nd like it we'll huff tn stay here spell. When summer cums I'm goin' back to- tAe mountings nd dig fur 'nuther pile." He was a regular mountaineer. Be- fore we parted said: ''Of course you will go to the St Louis exposition next summer" At that he braced up and said: "No siree, yu don't ketch me thar. went to the Chicago 'sposition hours nd did more cussin' in them four hours (to myself than I ever did in any four days before or after. Every gOl-darned woman and man that weighed two hunderd nd fifteen pound Ter more stepped on my feet, nd when got out Q thar I'd lost, four O my toe nails. No siree, wouldn't go to that 'spOSitiOn if they'd give me four hunderd thousan' dollars. LIE. | L.. Johnson.
 The special Easter offering for cur rent expenses at the Congregational church amounted to $l34.
 Austin B. Rlakeman will install a Tirrell gas machine in his residence at
 A. D. Fairchild has fine new step per, bought of Edgar T. Andrews of Bethel.
 J. Botsford Fairchild has added g new horse to his stables.
 F. w. Platt of Hopewell had horse wagon and harness stolen from hls barn, last week Thursday night. The burglars were tracked as far as Brew sters, N. Y., but no further trace could be found of them.
 Last week Wednesday evening there bert Platt. Beck and Ferry furnished the music.
 George Peck of Hopewell, one of tn wood choppers, moved to Hanover into the Quinlivan place, last Friday.
 E. H. Beers of Bedding was guest Sunday, of his father, c. B. Beers.
 Ira Wildman has been suffering witt
 the grip.
 F.J. Beeman will soon occupy Wi
 liam N. NorthrOp's tenement house.
 The democratic caucus to nominat
 delegates to the state convention [
 be held in Hartford, May and 6, too
 place on Saturday evening but wa
 not largely attended. Thomas F
 Bradley was chosen chairman and E>
 Senator Houlihan clerk. A committe
 of seven, consisting of Selectman San
 uel A. Blackman, M. J. White, Charlt
 H. Northrop, Asa H. Hawley, Austi
 B. Blakeman, John F. Heating an
 Patrick Bradley, was appointed to r fire and bring in a list of Candidatl