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The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1905-07-28
GREENFIELD HILL.

COUNTRY CLUB IMPROVEMENTS.
The Country club is soon to begin
work on some new buildings and to
make repairs on the old barn and are
to make other improvements on the
grounds, to get things in readiness for
the annual fair, which is to be held
September IL, ID and IA. The old barn
is to be remodeled and be used for
showing machinery, wagons and car
riages. A new building for keeping
the premium cattle and other stock in
during the three days of the fair is to
be erected and one or two small build
ings where soft drinks, sandwiches,
ETC., will be for sale, are also to be
built. The club aim to have better
fair than ever before and are anxious
to have all the accommodations on
the grounds for the comfort of all
those who attend the fair.
Miss Adelia w. Hubbell and Miss
Sally Hubbell were guests, last week
Wednesday, of Mrs B. Wesley Burr, in
Banks North district.
William L. Metcalf and family of
New Fairfield spent week, recently,
here, with Mrs Metcalf's parents, Mr.
and Mrs Isaac E. Smith.
Miss Sally Hubbell spent the day
with her sister, Mrs Fred Downes, on
Osborn Hill, Fairfield, last week
Thursday.
Jacob Rush is anticipating visit to
his old home in New York state in
the near future. He will be absent
about two weeks.
w. 3. Hodge, who is on Commission
er Pease's farm, this year, has very
fine half acre of onions. They are
hard to beat and give promise Of a
large yield.
Mrs John Bradley of Bridgeport and
Mrs Eli Wakeman of Lyons Plains
were guests, last week, of Mr. and Mrs
Clarence H. Bradley.
Miss Agnes Murray is making a
number of repairs and improvements
on her houses and grounds, which
greatly add to the looks of her place
New York parties are doing the work
Misses G.. A. and M. E. Banks are
to have telephone placed in theil
store on the Fairfield Division for the
accommodation of the public.
The entertainment given at thu
Country club by the Congregations
church, on Tuesday, July II, was quite
a success and was enjoyed by large
number Of people. In the tableaus
married and Happy" little Mis-!
Marion E. Whitaker did her par
very nicely.
Milton Hackett and family, VIII
have been stopping with Mr. and Mr.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1905-07-28
GEORGETOWN.

piness is that which comes through
seeking God.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1905-07-28
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FAIRFIELD COUNTY.
SHERMAN.
SUMMER VISITORS.

SUMMER VISITORS.
Some Of the recent guests in town
were from Danbury, Mrs Cree and
Mrs Odel Peck, Mrs Charles Merrick
and Miss Grace Knox, at w. B. Hunger
ford's, and from Brooklyn, Amasa
Rogers and family are visiting at Mrs
Carrie Rogers.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-18
AFTER A LONG WAIT.
London Express.

A romantic wedding, which for many
years had been delayed owing to a
woman's promise, took place at Sewer.
by near Thirsk in the North Riding Of
Yorkshire the other day. For nearly a
quarter OF century the bride had act
ed as conidante and housekeeper to a
maiden lady who possessed considerable
means. Many years ago the housekeep-
en- met gardener, and was wooed by
him with success. But the housekeeper
had promised her mistress to stay with
her until she died, and so the love
story became one OF patient waiting
Three or four weeks ago the mistress
died In her ninetieth year, leaving to
her faithful housekeeper her house,
plate and furniture, as we'll as $1,000 in
money. Many messages of congratula-
ton reached the bride and groom froa
friends who knew the story OF their
Courtship,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-18

way than for patriots TO sacrifice
themselves, break the bonds by which
the people are deprived OF their In
herent rights, take the consequences.
and rely on the vlndication of impartial
history, which Is sure 10 be given.
That the Russians have Just cause,
no one can deny. The entire guilty.
able soil Is In the hands of few own
ers. The crown holds nearly 81 per
cent and another large portion IL
owned by the nobility and the landed
proprletors. The car has private
estates OF more than 100000 square
miles of cultivated lands and forests
with gold ana other mines IN Siberia,
the annual income OF which is estimat-
ed at si2,O00OO0 The Grand Duke
Michael has % immense estates ana a
score OF palaces and castles. Other
grand dukes are similarly provided for,
In addition to holding the highest off,
ces IN army and navy. The public
debt is nearly A0OOOO0o0o, and out Of
total annual expenditures approximate
ing 5000. 900, 900 but s2O,0o0.0OO is spent
for education. Every able-bodied man
IL liable TO IS years military service, Of
which four years must be with the coli
ors. And yet the people 80 burdened
has been denied representation, denied
u voice In the management OF the gov
eminent.
How superior do the institutions
Of our own country appear when COM
pared to those Of unfortunate Russia!
Here, revolutions are never necessary.
When laws become obsolete, or new
laws are needed TO meet new condi-
lions, the people have the means In
their hands to effect the desired re-
form. by lawful means, without violence,
1t Is a lamentable fact that even here,
at times. mobs I'm mad fury become RI
oters and law-breakers, This, we be-
lleve, has IN every instance been with
out Justification, For under our sys-
tenn of government there Is no wrong
that cannot be righted by peaceful
means, II the disposition to fairness ana
justice is there. That Is one OF the
blessings Of popular representation. 1t
IL safeguard against the accumu-
lation OF evils which, IN the absence
OF vigilance, continues until a terrific
explosion takes place, as was the case
when the French revolution made the
world tremble. and as is the case In
Russia today.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-18
A COMPARISON.

The dispatches from Russia give but
an inadequate idea Of the depth OF
misery into which that empire has
been plunged. II Is vast country.
stretching almost from the Atlantic 10
the Pacific, across two continents. and
all over this area anarchy prevails.
with strikes, riots, robbery and muir
der. Though the season Of peace and
good Will is at hand, many Russians
seem to be bent only on violence and
destruction. without any definite plan,
or clear understanding Of the final out.
come.
Many a crime has been committed in
Russia since the fatal bunder Of tho
Gar In permitting his troops to fro
upon peaceful petitioners Revolutions
are generally accompanied By such
crimes, and the Russian uprising Is no
exception. But the world freely gives
the Russian people their warm SYN.
pathy, notwithstanding the course they
have taken. For, there seemed to be
no other remedy for the chronic Ills Of
the commonwealth They simply rea
llSed that endurance Of oppression had
reached It's limit. and they resolved,
like Samson OF old, TO overturn the
pillars of the house OF Dagon,
even II that would prove their
last act Of vengeance. They had
come TO a condition in which llber-
~ and death, II one was to be the
price OF the other, seemed preferable
10 continuous existence in slavery And
for that reason, all the world that has
advanced beyond the Russian stage OF
civilization, extends sympathy to the
Russian patriots, though the bureau
Gratis OF that country OF course. brand
them as rebels, assassins. robbers. ana
violators OF law.
IL has been the curse OF nations yn-
der tyrannical forms OF government.
that needed changes In the admnistra-
ton, or the lnws--such changes as de.
yelopment and new circumstances from
time to time demand are hardly ever
made in time 20 prevent disaster. The
citizens have no voice in the govern
ment and can only submit In silence
The tyrants do not know the needs Of
the people, and sometimes do not care
to know. II their subjects complain.
they are considered rebels and are shot
down. How can wrongs be rlghted un-
der snch systems of governments What
can be done, when even free speech is
= crime? There seems to be no other
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-18
A GREAT PROJECT ASSURED.

II Is very gratifying 10 learn that the
needful appropriation for the Straw
berry Valley irrigation project viii be
made by the government. and that we
may consider the matter as settled so
far as that part Of It Is concerned
There has been much Misrepresentation
concerning the action OF the senators
from Utah, who have been accused of
delaying affairs untll IL was too late to
receive government aid, because the
funds available had all been appropri-
ated.
The truth IL, that the delay was
caused by the hesitation OF number
OF the farmers and others in Titan
county who held prior water rights
and we're very reluctant about signing
them over TO the government. This
proceeding. however, was necessary
Every effort possible was made to bring
about an agreement among the water
users Of that county. and up TO recent
date II had not been accomplished.
The Deseret News repeatedly urged
the holders OF water rights to get to-
gether and formally comply With the
requirements OF the law, in order to OBJ
tain It's benefits. This paper has dilat-
cd upon the matter for q couple OF years
or more. a large number of the peo-
pie directly interested took steps to
follow the advice given. But there
were a number who were hard to con-
vince and difficult TO persuade, and 1t
was they who hindered the consumma-
tlon of the project, and not the Sena-
done their utmost to bring about the
desired end. But now the obstacles
have been removed and It win be plain
sailing FOR the future,
The benefits which will be derived
from the prosecution OF this work do
not all appear at present. But II will
be found that they WIN not only nure
10 the good OF the people In the south
end Of Utah county. but the waters of
Utah lake will be increased IN volume,
particularly after the lands that will
be newly watered are saturated and
seepage takes place, and the result viii
be that Salt Lake county and city will
also reap some Of tho advantages
We congratulate Senators Smoot and
Sutherland on the success of their la
boris at the seat of government, and
the people of Utah county on being In
position to enjoy the wealth that will
How from the great undertaking. which
VIII be conducted under the direction of
United States officials. wilt water lands
that previously were arid. and increase
The supply to areas heretofore insult
ficiently irrigat I'd, We should all rejoice
IN the prospective success of this grand
enterprise
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-18
USEFUL PRESENTS.


Yet, let us confess II, the most sensi-
bic of us do not take quite the amount
OF pleasure out of thoroughly useful
present that we derive from a present
that is more ornamental. From the boy
of 10 that bawls because his aunt In the
country sends him wooden underwear
Instead of the rifle which he needs for
his lfe- work OF killing Indians and big
game, TO the old woman of seventy
that delights In the gift OF a silk shawl.
which she won't wear. and would be Of
Tended IL some one were to give her a
dozen dish towels, we look upon the
eminently useful articles as things that
come in the course of nature and are,
therefore, to be despised: but the pure
ly ornamental, the extravagant, the use
less, are things that we never would
buy for ourselves, and are received,
therefore, by us with very pleasing
sense of pure gain. Indeed, not an
inapt definition of Christmas presents
would be things that no sane man
would buy for himself, but that we all
buy for friends
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-18

ton is teaching. The old French ac-
claim was right: Liberty, fraternity,
equality" Europe is In fair way TO
learn--and strange that Russia, even
Russia, should teach the lesson, that
20 claim the right OF birth 70 rule over
subjects Is u crime. Is robbery, \
robbery which the people robbed OF
their rights VIII some day resist--and
how soon? There Is handwriting on
the wall, and It says; Pores, thy king
dom Is taken from thee and given to
mujilSs and artisans" The day OF the
French revolution seems 20 have come
70 Russia. when kings lied from their
thrones. and Tor few days the peo-
pie were supreme? Can European
thrones still rest on the points OF bay
onets2 THAI Is the question,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-18
DO NOT PRETEND.
From the New. York Amerlcan.

From the NeMA York American,
The woman who gave you the ex-
pensive present last year-who was
she? Some one you really love, and
who loves you? If she was give her OF
your best In loves name, and have an
end to IL; but II you don't care any
thing about her and she doesn't care
anything about you. take the money
you have thought Of spending for her
and buy doll for the janitors baby
III you don't want TO do that, buy a
collar for the pug dog, and II you don't
approve of that tear your money into
thousand pieces and scatterit to the four
winds of heaven You'll be putting 1t
TO better use than you do when you
dare to desecrate the holy spirit OF
Christmas day with your mean little
hypocrltcal pretences. Christmas day
its the childrens day, the mothers
day. the heart day, the real day. Don't
make It simply a day for adding up
your credit and debit accounts,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-18
HE COULDN'T BE FOOLED
From an Exchange.


A shop assistant had arrived In Lon
don to help corn chandler He had
been warned against the people who
would try and take rise out of
his ignorance, so was perpetually on
guard, A customer entered the shop
one morning. and said; II want 6-pen-
ny worth of bird seed, please" The as
sistant only smiled The customer re-
pcated his request, but the assistant
only responded with broad grin on his
face Finally, the customer, losing pa
tience, asked him In forclble language
why he did not serve him with the bird
seed ITS no manner OF use your try
ing to take me in said the assistant.
"Tha knows tina cannot catch me-"
What on earth do you mean?" said
the angry customer, why, | know
that birds grow from eggs, not from,
seedl"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-18
PEOPLE COMING TO THEIR OWN
The Independient.

one cannot help seeing that the peo-
Pile are coming 10 their own. What
right has q cZar. or any other ruler or
lordlng depending on his birth for his
superior claim TO pretend 20 rule over
any one else2 Are We not all born
equalf Is there any one really born to
the purple? There are those who teach.
even In this country, that suffrage Is n
privilege and not right We do not
agree with them. We are told that the
right to rule belongs 90 birth, or caste
or culture. Another lesson this revolu-
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-18
WHO WOMB
Springfield Republican.

II is a question who won. the sultan
or the concert. The sultan certainly
gained notifications in the demands Of
the powers before he yielded and, be-
sides, curious spectacle--a mass-meet-
ing Of Mohammedans was held IN Lon
don TO protest against this everlasting
nugging VI Turkey by the British gov
eminent II is possible finally, that
the downfall OF the Rnlfour ministry
and the early retirement Of Lord fans.
downc moved the mowers to make terms
or q modified basis. The Turkish prob
lem. Mt least, remains,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-18

Thomas A. Edison prophesles that
electric automobiles will drive out the
horse. Mr.. Edison has made so many
rash prophecies about the automobile
that the people have come to regard
them as simply a cry Of wolf
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-18

Secretary Bonaparte and Rear Admit
raj Converse have had conference
and mapped out plan Of campaign
for stamping out hasing at Annapolis.
Why didn't they call in consultation
the board OF strategy?
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-18

The Sultan, consciously or uncon-
sciously, is becoming the funny man Of
Europe. He has directed the Turkish
ambassadors at st. Petersburg to call
Russias attention to the condition Of
affairs at Tins, Trans Caucasia.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-18

Mr.. Hartman told Mr.. Ryan that il
he was satisfied that in buying Hyde's
Equitable stock his motives were pure
and unselfsh, he would help him. What
pity that such care was not always
exercised In Equitable affairs!
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-18

II begins 10 look ~ though the re-
port OF the life insurance Investigating
committee would MI "a many volumes
ns the naval ana military records Of
the rebellion
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-18

II Santa Claus wants TO make Mayor
Dunno The happlest man In the Windy
cry, be viii put into his stocking on
Christmas eve feasible municipal
ownership plan.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-18

It's up TO Mr., Ryan to prove that
his motives were pure and unselhsh,'
and II he can't prove It, let him hold his
peace for eyermore.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-18

Mr. Hearst stlll has confidence that
he will win out In the mayoralty fight
He Is so certain because he feels that
the election was a confidence game.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-18

Could The Preacher have had q copy OF
'Fads and Fancles" he would have
known something about the real vanity
OF vanities.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-18

Russian refugees are swarmlng over
the country like Kansas grasshoppar
sufferers did two decades ago.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-18

The railroads are finding II as peril
Gus and expensive to give rebates as
the people Of Hooslerdom are to give
cigarettes
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-18
sFRrT EVENING NEWS. MONDAY DECEMBER IS 1905.

phla that has been investigating the
granting Of rebates by the railroads.
has taken to the Woods.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-18
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

The Improvement Era for December
~ entirely devoted TO the memory or
the Prophet Joseph. The frontispiece
Is portrait of the Prophet and the
opening article Is eulogy by WIN, A..
Hyde, This Is followed By a bograph-
lcal sketch, and papers ON his boyhood,
his characteristics as man, Il philoso-
pher, his literary attachments and
prophetic gifts. There Is also hlther-
70 unpublished letter by the Prophet,
and paper on what he aid for Wom-
anhooa, by Susa Young Gates The ar
ticle on Joseph Smith as a Boy Is by
President Joseph r Smith, and Is an
exceedingly interesting contribution to
the biographical literature that centers
around the latter-day Seev. Among
other contributors to this number are,
Willard Done. John a. Wldtsoe, Orson
i, Whitney and James Il. Talmage. IL
is one OF the most interesting numbers
of this excellent magazine -Temp let0n
Building, Salt Lake City.
Success Magazine for December con-
tans a timely and interesting article
on How Roosevelt Is Regarded
Abroad" Vance Thompson, who has
gained repute as the greatest American
interviewer, has found everywhere on
for our strenuous President. Turning
Children Into Dollars, by Juliet VIII
Dor Tompkins. Is an extremely enlight-
ening description by this wel-known
writer Of the way in which the child
labor law Is evaded in the New York
tenements, with the inevitable result
of the stunning of mental and moral
growth and the placing of a tremend-
Gus handicap on the coming generation.
David Belasco contributes a sketch of
THE Beginnings OF the Drama In
America" and Nine. Schumann-H enE,
In studying for Grand OPERA" gives
some suggestions, drawn from her own
experience, for those whose aspirations
lead toward the operate stage. The
fiction Is strong, and the number gen.
orally Is one of the best ever published
by this magazine. Washington Square,
New York,
The December number Of Men and
Women magazine is perVaded through
out with the spirit of Christmas Not
able among the articles are Judge Ed
ward j. Dempsey's "The Knell OF Po-
litical Bossism," and VIII j. Donoyan's
article on the Extravaganza OF Con-
gress. The fiction particularly breathes
the spirit of Christmas, although In no
sense the ordinary christmas sto-
ries. The department pages are rich
in good things: Christmas games,
Christmas magic, Christmas humor,
Christmas cooking, Christmas gifts,
Christmas candies, Christmas music,
Cincinnati. Ohio.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-18

At Annapolis the unwritten code"
ovcrrIdes the written law.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-18

The federal grand jury in phnadel-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-11
HAS SECRET
CONSISTORY
Pope Plus Holds Second
Ceremony of His
Pontificate.
FOUR new CARDINALS
Shows Desire to Reconcile the
Foreign and italian
Elements.
FOUR new CARDINALS

Rome, Dec 1.-THE pope today held
secret consistory. the second of his
pontificate, in which he created four
new cardinals and apparently showed a
tendency To have better equilibrium be
tween the foreign and Italian elements
in the sacred college, as three of the
four cardinals are foreigners. The Ger
emony was performed with the usual
pOmp.
The New Cardinals.
The following cardinals were crea-
ted: Rev. Joseph Samassa. archbishop
of Erlau Hungary; Mgr. Spinola, arch
bishop of Seville; Mgr. j. A. Dearcho-
verde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti.
archbishop of Rio Janeiro; Mgr Gag
aino de Azevedo, majordomo of the
vatican
American HOnOred.
Later the pope appointed a number
of bishops, including Rev. A. Schin-
ner. vicar general of Milwaukee, and
bishop of Superior, Wis.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-11
TALE OF DISTRESS
brought by Wireless Message
From Nantucket Shoals
Lightship.
HAD SPRUNG A LEAK
Fourteen Men Aboaro-Help Sent and
Officials Believe All Will
Be Saved.

Newport. r. l., Dec. 1.-THE follow
ing half of an unfinished message
timed at a. m. sent just before the
batteries are supposed TO have become
exhausted came here by wireless early
today:
Nantucket shoals iightship in dis
tresS. Send help from anywhere"
The gunboat Hist left here for the
lightship at 6. The wind is west Of
northwest and moderate. and the sea
is SubSding
Believe She Cannot Sink.
AS the lightship's design includes
watertight compartments. intended to
save her in just such a stress as she
is in now, lighthous officials declare
there will be no difficulty on the part of
the crew in keeping her alloat until aid
can reach her. The lighthouse tender
Azalea should reach the vicinity of the
lightship during the morning
Fourteen on Hoard.
On board the lightship are Captain
Jorgenson, two engineers. three naval
electricians and eight seamen
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-11
JOLIET SITUATION
LIKE ROCK ISLANDS
Lid on Tight and Is Expected to Re
main So for Long
Period.

Joliet. ILL.,. Dec 1I.-For the first
time since the law and order crusade
began in Joliet the saloons OF this city
were closed, front and back doors yes
terday and many of the saloon-k keep
ers fear the lid is to be kept OIL perma-
nently. One ofgthe interesting results
OF this new policy will be the reduction
in the number of saloons Jan. l. At
present Joliet has 1873 saloons each
paying 81 900 license II is estimated
at least 90 per cent of the saloon-keep-
ers will refuse TO renew their licenses.
as they claim that the loss OF Sunday
business would destroy their profits