The Newtown bee., 1904-09-09

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 he would go on with his story. One night he suffered with tOOthache and the next morning he went to Derby and had it extracted. This is the way he told the boys about it: "And, but 1 do declare ont, anyhow: My tooth ached so last night couldn t stand it any longer. This mornin' went to Derby and got it pulled out. l went to the dentists and I told him about it and he said, MT Gilbert, sit down in that chair.' And sat down in the chair. Then he said, MT Gilbert open your mouth.' And opened my mouth, and he said, MT Gilbert Lin tend to stand outside to draw your tooth.' And he stood on the outside. He used to wear a pair of buckskln sneak shoes the boys wear now, and It made no difference whether it was hot or cold, wet or dry, whether the sum- mer sun shone or the snow of winter lay on the ground. He came to church with the left one neatly tied up and the right one with the back broken down and slip shod. He talked loud enough to be heard across the street. I shall have to tell you about some shirts that were made for me while ] lived here. It was just before the close of the war when everything was at the highest point. Gold was quoted from $2 50 to S2 80, and the poorest kind Of cotton cloth was 65c per yard:
 Nv shirts were about worn out and the a uest1on was how to replace them at the least expense. It did not seem to MT and Mrs Nichols that ttey could pay 65c a yard for boys shirt and It was discussed pro and con for days.
 Before the war there was man Tn Stratford who made fertilizer and put it up in coarse cotton cloth bags and sold it to the farmers. MT Nichols bought a number of them and when emptied had them washed and ia1d away. One side of the bag was marked like this: ''J. H. Stagg, Super r-phos- phate of lime, Stratford, Conn.," One day MT Nichols said to his wife:
 "Mother there are those cotton sacks in the woodhouse chambers. Could
 YOU not take the part of them that is not lettered and make Henry some shirts?'' She thought she could.' The shirts commenced, but 1t seemed too had when cotton cloth was so high to waste so much of it. So like the good economical woman that she was she used the lettered part for the back, thinking it would all come out ID the
 wash, but the more they were washed
 the winter grew the white part ano
 the blacker grew the letters. Wher the spring came and was out in tho field it was all right, but when on the road or where 1 was likely to be seen wore my vest,nO matter how hot 1t was One day in midsummer l was at wOrh near the barn, and not thinking that any one would see, laid off my vest
 when suddenly hand came down upol
 nv back and voice said to me: Gee
 Hen, what have you got oD your back
 Abe Lincoln's Platform?" l turned around and it was friend Iron Brideeport He had come to make
 visit and had caught me. l wore m,
 vest after that until the shirts Wer worn out. But my time is limited an
 must bring my remarks to a close.
 am glad that ever lived in Hunting ton and have known the people. Som
 of my best friends have been mad
 right here among you, and the men ory of them will go with me to th
 grave. It was here that l was taugn
 habits of industry and economy tha
 have been helpful to me all my lift The lives of many of the older Ont , have made me to believe that thel was reality in the religion that the
 professed and it guided them in the daily walk, and my earnest wish IS tns the young who are growing up may D their places in such . manner tns they will be a credit to their preo ceSSorS, and blessing and honor ; the community in which they reside.