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The Newtown bee., 1907-03-29
Ready for Spring
 Business

OPENING WEEK usually gives the business of the It's real start then Easter week fully under
 In department of this store, occupying feet of floor space the latest styles and best val ues that the market affords will be found.
 In fact many retail price less than the pres the advances most kinds of goods hav ing been quite extensive
 Our advance purchases against paying the ad and thru for while stocks will maintain the old low prices.
 In some few have been obliged to mark ad- already but these few when with the hundreds of items that have not advanced.
 Cotton, Wool Silk Lnen Leather, Lumber Copper and on the material all the highest prices known the Civil methods of manufacture have kept the manufactured articles from advancing proportion
The Newtown bee., 1907-03-29
PLATTSVILLE.
HOYDEN'S HILL

HOYDEN'S HILL. E. B. Sherwood and Walter Jennings spent few days at Rockaway Beach, N. Y. The former, last week, accompanied his mother home, who has been spending the winter with him.
 A number from this place attended the Farmers Institute at Greenfield Hill, last week. and found it very enjoyable. Miss Jennie Perkins has returned home from Bridgeport
 William Relyea is painting in StratReld. s. H. Wtsner has 8 new hired man, also L.. A. Jennings.
The Newtown bee., 1907-03-29
FAIRFIELD COUNTY
TRUMBULL.
CHURCH NOTES.

CHURCH NOTES.
 Easter services will be held at. the Congregational church on next Sun day morning. There will be special music and the sermon will be appro. priate to the day.
 The pastor will take his vacation during April and the church will be closed the first two Sundays of April. On the last two Sundays, the regular services will be held morning and evening.
 The attendance of the Sunday school has improved both in numbers and regularity since the honor roll went into effect, last fall. The names o1 those who will receive badges and whose names will go on for faithful at tendance last quarter, will be read, next Sunday.
 The total amount raised at the bene. fit concert, given short time ago, was $40.
The Newtown bee., 1907-03-29
LITCHFIELD COUNTY.
WEST CORNWALL.
EASTER oBsERvANCEs.

The Easter exercises arranged by by the local Sunday school will be held at the chapel, Easter evening at 7.3O. A very nice program has been pre- pared which is well worth the effort to be present and enjoy. The child ren have practiced faithfully and have something little different this year in the line of banner drill entitled, "VictorYO
The Newtown bee., 1907-03-29
MARBLEDALE.
ST ANDREWS CHURCH.

Service each day during Holy Week. Good Friday, 1O.45 a. m., 7.30 p. m. Saturday, Easter Even, 3 p: m.
 Easter day: Morning service, with Holy Communion. and sermon, 10.45. Evening Prayer, o'clock.
The Newtown bee., 1907-03-29

0. B. Burton and daughter, Miss for the South, where they will visit friends and recuperate in health. They will visit Charleston, Savannah, Jacksonville, Washington, and other points of interest during their month s stay.
The Newtown bee., 1907-03-29
ICE BREAKs,UP WITHOUT FUSS.

ICE BREAKsiUP WITHOUT FUSS.
 The ice went out of the river on Thursday of last week with no damage whatever and no excitement, as 1t had melted away to such an extent that the ice cakes were not of formidable thickness.
The Newtown bee., 1907-03-29
gRIDGEWATER.

A LINEN SHOWER. A linen shower was given by Miss
The Newtown bee., 1907-03-29

Leading Washing ton Business
 Houses.
The Newtown bee., 1907-03-29
WEDDINGS NUMEROUS.

Mrs A. V. Coons is sewing, this week, at the home of one of her GUS toners near Falls Village. Since Mrs Coons' return from the West, last No vember, she has made three wedding gowns for three of Cornwall's young 1ol
The Newtown bee., 1907-03-29
Ready-to-Wear
 Garments.

with the Ready  lent of York and
  sidered that show better values. To noten o article good money. we rang
 Ladies' Tailored Suits
  a special the styles, and a < hat are higher,
 Ladies' and, Misses Jackets In sn the prevailing shapes and materials.
 Ladies' Shirt Waists and handsomely waists at bout
 Ladies' Under Musns variety the city in this Try visit stores, this spring If do not find
The Newtown bee., 1907-03-29

DoWltYs XX..:ss XX..s.:sss 8alvO Eor P1soo, 0Ur00, 00e00al
The Newtown bee., 1907-03-29

Try visit stores this spring. you do not find anything suits you there will certainly be much interest you you find what you will pay your fare on purchases of $5 and over.
The Newtown bee., 1907-03-29
THE

THE Howard & Barber Co.,, 76S to 77o Main St., Derby.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-05-02
ONE CAUSE OF HIGH PRICES.

(The New York Evening Post.)
1t may be treason to say it, but the
fact seems to be that in the English
market, which is open to the competi-
ton of the world, prices cannot ad-
vance so rapidly as in our own favored
land of tariffs and trusts. Our pres
ent method Of manufacturing pros
perity is to have the Federal govern
ment, through the Dingley tariff, bind
the consumer hand and foot, and then
invite the trusts to rifle the victims
pockets, not overlooking his scarf pin
and other valuables. Meanwhile, our
President extols the square deal, and
proves to you that there is no possible
connection between the tariff and the
trusts. The result is prosperity-for
the trusts and the campaign committee
but the process is undeniably expen-
sive.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-05-02
BRYAN'S CURE FOR TRUSTS.
(The Reader for Junel

(The Reader for June.)
The states exercise the right to
create corporations, but the federal
government is supreme in the sphere
of interstate commerce. A federal
statute of few lines will provide for
an interstate license and forbid a
State corporation to do business out
side of the State of it's origin without
securing such a license. A few more
lines will set forth the conditions upon
which the license may be secured
conditions which will make a private
monopoly impossible. If congress can
withdraw from a lottery company the
right to use the mails or forbid ex-
press lines from carrying lottery tick
cts, it can withdraw from a would-be
monopoly the right to employ the rail-
roads, the mails, or the telegraph lines
to aid it's conspiracy against the peo-
pie.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-05-02
BACON FOR THE NATIONS.
(The Boston Globe.)

From Birmingham, England, the Ca
madam government has received from
it's commercial agent an interesting
reoprt of description of the worlds
bacon supply, in which it is shown
that the nations are dependent on
America to very large extent for
their supply of this product. Only two
countries in Europe today, Ireland and
Denmark, export hogs and bacon. If
the Canadian population goes on in
creasing at it's present rate, Canada's
export of bacon to England will cease
in a few years, because she will have
only enough to supply her own re-
quirements.
To the United States alone then. i'm
porting nations will look for their ba-
con. Some countries supply their own
requirements, but how long that condi-
tion will last is uncertain. Meanwhile,
this country regulates the price of
bacon in the worlds market, and if
it happened that, for any cause, there
should be a shortage here, millions of
people, to a greater or less extent,
would have to give up animal food
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-05-02
THE WRONG LABEL,
(The Washington Herald.)

(The Washington Herald.)
A Washingtonian, recently returned
from visit to relatives in rural Geor-
gia, brings back a strange story. He
visited country school in the Goober
state, and was astonished to see a
large-sized photograph of President
Roosevelt labeled "Hon. Hoke Smith"
There is no more resemblance between
the president and Georgia's governor
elect than there is between George
Bruce Cortelyou and William Jennings
Bryan, and how the mistake was made
is not known. Inquiry by the Washing
tonian developed the fact that some of
the school children found the photo
graph in the road, and realizing it
to be the picture Of some mighty man,
and Hoke Smith about that time just
having been elected governor, his
name was written under the counter
felt presentment of the president.
Neither man has ever been seen by
anybody living in that part of Georgia.
The Washingtonian, with rare delica-
cy, did not destroy the happy illusion
Of the children or their teacher
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-05-02
HISTORY OF JERRY SIMPSON.
(The Washington Herald.)

(The Washington Herald)
The widow of the late Jerry Simpson
is preparing for early publication
history of the life of Kansas famous
"sockless statesman" She is being
aided in the work by Mrs. Annie L.
Diggs, who followed the example set
by Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease and other
Kansas women statesmen a few years
ago. 1t is believed that a biography of
Jerry Simpson, properly treated, will
have a large sale. His public career
more nearly typified Populism than
that of any of the hosts of exponents
of that peculiar and frenzied political
cult. His life during the several years
in which he held public attention was
full Of stirring incidents. Mr.. Simp-
son had hard, common sense, as we'll
as brilliant wit. No man Of his day
entertained Washington more than he.
He made few set speeches while in
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-05-02
BRYAN AND BEvERIDGE ON
TRUSTS,
(The Columbia State }


In the whirligig debate in the pages
OF The Reader magazine, William Jen-
nings Bryan and Senator Albert J.
Beveridge have got around to the
trusts. But recent events and ten
dencies have robbed Mr.. Beveridge Of
much of his ammunition, and he car
ries on his guerrilla warfare at some
disadvantage. He can no longer fall
back upon the ancient defense that
there are no trusts" or upon that
other antiquary, eff there are trusts,
the protective tariff is not responsible
for them; Or upon that other hoary
decoy, "The so-called trusts are moth
ing more than a manifestation of mod
ern business methods, and it is idle to
talk Of checking the process of evo-
luton" All these darts and bombs
have been removed from the armory
of the stalwart Republican. The par
ty that made it possible and profitable
for these parasites of the public to
develop has been forced to acknowl-
edge their offspring, and to admit,
also, the necessity of curbing the pred
atory instincts of it's progeny. All
this it has been driven into by the
assaults of the Democracy.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-05-02
GREAT DAY FOR SAMBO,
(The Chattanooga Times.l

Its going to be a great day in
Ohio for the negro" says the Philadel-
phia Press, when Foraker and Taft
get going in earnest" Let us all hope
the Press is right. The only regret
there is in the situation is that there
are not more negroes up there to en-
joy it. If, for instance, Ohio had Geor-
gia's negro population how long after
the coming campaign would it take
the legislature to get busy with
grandfather clauses?
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-05-02
COST OF EUROPEAN ARMIES.
(The Review Of Reviews.)

zine review or ReV1eWS.)
Europe spent in round numbers
&20O,000,O0O On it's army and $780,
100000 on it's navy in 1906, as against
3146, 100000 and G60,O00,OOO respect
lively in 1898. That is to say, Europe
spends today 92SO,OOO,OOO on it's army
and navy as against 92O6,00O,OO0 in
1898, total increase of 974,O00,0OO,
or, say, 26 per cent. Seventy-four mil
lions year is equivalent to per cent
interest upon a capital sum of 91,-
S5O,O00,OOO. That is the fine in which
the governments have mulcted their
peoples by their refusal to act upon
the standstill proposition of the Gar
in 1899, and to adopt the peace-making
methods recommended by The Hague
convention.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-05-02
SENATOR TILLMAN.
(The Birmingham News.)

IIne birmingham NeWS.J
The editor of the Mobile Register
has just had a close look at Senator
Tillman, has heard him deliver his
famous race problem lecture, and has
talked with him and concludes that
the South Carolina senator is not as
wild and woolly' as he is painted
He says that Tillman's words sound
worse in print than they do fresh from
his lips, but he concludes that the
senator is honest and deeply in ear
nest. Many others who have come to
know Tillman better have modified, If
not completely changed, their views
regarding him. He is a man of force
and conviction and is certainly beyond
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-05-02
A CANADIAN WARNING.
(The Toronto Glohe.l

(The Toronto Globe.)
The authorities of the United
States would not be justified in max
Ing light of the alleged plot to murder
President Roosevelt. He would not
be justified in ignoring 1t himself.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-05-02

congress, but whenever it was known
that he was to participate in debate
the house galleries were invariably
crowded.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-05-02
THE REV. CHARLES F. AKED NEW PASTOR OF "ROCKEFE1-
LERS CHURCH"

AIHED the athletic Engshman
America become the
institution
Rockefeller
church miOnires
and wOngman
caed with it all the 1t
mission here the ministry
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-05-02

the reach of grafters. And he speaks
out in the meeting" too.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-22

entail jewel work Is carried out In rich
colors on the green Mission leather. and
a very decorative design of galleys Is
developed on both the pigskin and the
imitation of burlap, in rich browns and
yellows. The term imitation naturally
prejudices one until one sees how beau
tiful these things are Of themselves, and
how successfully the initiating is done.
The topic of friezes has become an in
teresting one. They now form the prin-
cipal feature of the decoration of the
room, and are no longer mere border.
In the forest papers the crown frieze,
growing imperceptible from the design
below, has been shown, where the foliage
opens out naturally at the top. There is
a fascinating collection of Art Nouveau
friezes to be used In combination with
plain side wall; the Dutch canal scenes.
both In Delft tones and In many other
colorings, the many landscape frieEes, the
dark trees contrasting sharply to the
richly colored sky, the peacock friezes,
the one of dancing nymphs, the gray and
red and white Pierrot frieze, the nurs-
cry mother Goose frieze, ana so on with
out end side wall paper is often made
to unite with these, harmonious In de-
sign and equally attractive and interest
Ing.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-22
New Underwear and Negligees.
BY DOROTHY DALE.

makes a very dainty finish set into the
seams or about the armholes Of fine under
wear, and delicately colored ribbons
threaded through beading or hand en-
broidered eyelets are usually added some
where as finish.
Valenciennes and Cluny laces trim q
great many OF the machine-made under
garments seen, but the majority Of the
very finest French models show very littlS
lace, unless It is worked in along with q
design in hand embroidery. For instance,
the corset cover shown IN the sketch
shows curved insets of German val. lace,
over which little sprays Of hand embroid-
cry are worked. The decolletage and arm
holes are done in tiny embroidered seal
lop, and tiny eyelets are embroidered In
which to thread the ribbon.
The night gown illustrated shows no lace
except a tiny frill about the edges Of the
open neck and sleeves, the trimming con-
sisting Of graceful sprays done in padded
French embroidery. The long petticoat
and drawers shown In the sketch are ex-
cellent examples of French hand embroid-
cry, but could be copied by using fine ma
chine-made embroidery douncing In place
of the hand embroidered ones.
The little chemise depicts a novel way
in which to insert eyelets for the ribbon
about the neck. This Is to set In tiny
diamonds Of sheer linen In which eyelets
are embroidered along the strip Of Valen-
ciennes lace used as neck finish, cut
ting the lace away from underneath.
As to negligees, the majority follow
kimono lines, while the more elaborate
tea gowns incline toward Empire and
flowing coat effects. Various materials
can be used for these garments, and some-
times very dainty little morning jackets
or other negligees may be fashioned sue
cessfully from last seasons evening gowns
or house frocks, of voile, crepe or silk.
White or light-colored, soft woolen mate
rials, such as cashmere, wool, crepe, etc.,
make very pretty morning robes or jack
cts, while surah, crepe de chine. and wash
silks are used for tea gowns or shaped
wrappers. Especially practical are the
robes of wash silk, plain or corded, fitted
at the back and sides and made with
Vatican pleat. These are SO cut that
broad collar edged with lace, and with
pensive as we'll aa smart-looking, and are
quite different from the od-time wrapper,
as they look more like fitted gown
Kimonos are usually made of lowered
or plain silk or OF the much less ex-
pensive cotton crepe. Kimono Jackets,
especially those that are thoroughly Chi
nese lin style, are new and pretty, and are
seen in various materials and combina-
tons. The one illustrated was of light
blue China silk with buttons and cord
loops of the same shade, and bands OF
white, embroidered with pink roses.
DOROTHY DALE.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-22
A Musical Nuisance
Made Valuable.

The young man will find that the trusts
may have cornered every thing In sight,
but they cannot control things at present
out Of the worlds sight-in short they
cannot coerce mans imagination. Here's
the story Of how young man evolved
q musical nuisance into one Of the most
artistic and valuable aids known to
musician invention which takes up the
energies of seventy FIVE manufacturers
in America-the mechanical piano player.
Fifteen years ago. Harry B. Tremaine
was at the age of twenty FIVE a clerk In
a paper house. His old father conducted
a tiny music store, and manufactured
hurdy -gurdies which he sold to blind
men and aged beggars who ground them
on corners. These music boxes had few
organ reeds and the notes were played
through the action of roll of perforated
paper.
Tremaine thought the perforated paper
roll could be made into something more
artistic. He adapted 1t to the old fash
ioned parlor organ with success, but tha
piano offered the greatest field. After
further experiments the mechanical plano
player was brought forth,
Later, 1t was developed and condensed
80 as to be placed inside the piano case.
The Importance OF an industry sug-
gested by the beggar's hurdy- -gurdie may
be gauged by the fact last year 10000
Of these instruments were produced and
sold throughout the known world at a
value Of about $7,000,0O0.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-22
A COLONIAL DESIGN.
Designed By
Chas S. Sedgwick, Architect, Minneapolis.
Designed BY

oriel windows and a bay extension for
the stair platform that break the mo-
notony Of the plain outline The high
pitched roof stands with broad side to
the street and wide gable dormer in the
center. The house is painted In light
gray tones with dark green shingles on
the roof and the effect is very pleasing.
The main staircase Is a combination
with a section of steps leading up from
the kitchen to the main platform and
stairs to the basement underneath with
door at the grade line. The entrance
vestibule is in the center, the living
room on the right and reception room on
the left are thrown together with wide
openings There is one main central
chimney with fireplace in the living
room.
The basement Is under the entire
house. divided into laundry, vegetable
cellar. heating and fuel room. There are
many little conveniences about the house
that make up an ideal home, the coat
closet opening out Of passage way be-
tween kitchen and front hall, the dining
room finished with beamed ceiling and
side-board and conveniently arranged
pantry with refrigerator accessible from
rear porch, all of which goes to make
up a good arrangement. This house. In
many ways is a model house, in the regu-
Iarity Of its construction and outline, It
is economical to build and the treatment
of the exterior is not expensive.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-22
Making Homemade Ice Cream.
BY SARA CRAWFORD.

When giving an entertainment at which
refreshments are served 1t simplihes mat
ters greatly to have the ices prepared at
home. The following are some general
suggestions for making simple ices:
First, place the ice in a thick bag and
hammer till all the pieces are small. the
finer the better. Put three bowls of this
ice into n pail and add one bowl of
coarse salt, and so on, mixing with
long handled iron spoon. Put the covered
can into Its bucket and flll in the spaces
with the Ice and SALT press 1t down well.
Let 1t stand in a cool place with a piece
Of heavy cloth wrapped over 1t till the
inside is very cold, then~wipe Off the top
carefully so no salt can get In, and pour
in the cream, which must also be cold.
or 1t will melt the Ice. Put on the top
and turn smoothly until the cream is
stiff, which should be In FIVE minutes.
Draw Off the water from the bucket, wipe
off the top again, and take out the dasher,
pressing down the cream and scraplng 1t
from the sides. Put on the cover. and
insert a cork In the dasher hole. Pack
again with Ice and salt, using one part
salt to four of Ice. Dip the heavy cloth
in salty water, and cover the freezer
tightly, and stand in cool dark place
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-22

A change has occurred In the manufac-
ture of wall paper in this country. For
many years past, those who possessed an
artistic eye were forced to resort either
to the imported papers, or IL restrained
by the price of these, to that godsend,
the plain cartridge paper. The makers,
in the conviction that public taste had
not changed for ten years or more, held
obstinately to the old medallion or ro-
coco effects, or to the spotty all-oyer
flower patterns, until the demand for
the imported products opened their eyes,
and the notion that ugliness and cheap
ness 60 hand in hand has been dispelled.
At the present time the leaning is
toward soft rich tones, and not to glaring
colors, beautiful flowing lines are sought
for, set geometr1cal figures avoided; the
trend Is away from the small hard ana
fixed repeat, which reminds us constantly
of Its presence, to one made as imper-
ceptible as possible by innumerable de-
vices. In the plain papers most of these
troubles were escaped, but there was
small opportunity for originality and va
riety. The popular desire for individ-
uality has been recognized and fostered
by the up-to-date wallpaper makers, and
the for this reason the possibilities which
are open to the house decorator are many.
One of the first ways at command to
make q room different from others is to
divide up the wall space differently.
There may be the wainscot, the sidewall
and the frieze; or the lower two-thirds
divided by plate-rail from the upper
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-22

A good substantial square built house
full two stories In height, containing
eight rooms on the two principal floors
with all desirable modern conveniences,
treated In such a manner that the ex-
terior although plain has pleasing ap-
pearance, with roof OF good height, and
big enough for amusement and servants
rooms In the third story, such a house is
one that will meet the wants Of large
number Of people. Many houses Of this
approximate size are built but they lack
the skill Of treatment and as result are
unsightly In appearance and unstable,
remaining for many years mark OF poor
Judgment and poor taste, without credit
to the builder or owner
This house can be built at cost not
exceeding $500 exclusive Of heating and
plumbing. The size is 30x30 feet exclu-
sive' Of piazzas. The height Of stories are
Oft. Gin. and Oft. The finish throughout
the first story is in antique oak. The
second story chambers are painted In
light tints to suit the wall decorations.
The foundation above the grade line Is
built of boulders which, when well laid
in the wall and neatly pointed make a
beautiful and substantial wall. This wall
Is carried up around the piazza two feet
above the floor level and finished with
cut stone cap. The steps are built Of
cement and the floor Is laid with cement
tile on concrete. There are two pretty