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Connecticut western news., 1907-10-17

take the thing up on the mountain and use It as trap for the bear which they say IS prowling around up there.
 HOTEL WILL REMAIN OPEN ..a
 The rumor has been in circulation to the effect that D. H. Casey proposes to close his hotel "The Inn" because the no-hcense people carried the day at last week s election. MT. Casey informs us that such is not the case and he tells the public so in his advertisement in to-day's s paper. He announces that the hotel will remain open and that every effort i'll the way of attractive cuisine, clean and well-furnished rooms and obliging service, will be made to accommodate the travelling public. But read the adv It tells the whole story. The Inn was well patronized the past summer by summer people and every indication points to a large patronage next year.
 DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
 On the 27th day of September Isaac F. and Bison J. Hornbeck, doing busi- ness under the firm name of Hornbeck Brothers, dissolved partnership in the conduct of the dry goods business ill the Citizens Hall building. The business is to be continued by Bison J. Hornbeck The partnership was formed in 1898 The brothers purchased the G. w.. Hall stock of goods and did business in the old Citizens Hall until the fire after which they moved to a portion of the building now occupied by I. P. Hornbeck and when the new Citizens Hall was erected in 1903 the stock was moved to the quarters now occupied. It is one of the best lighted, most modernfy ap- pointed and attractively finished stores ill Litchfield county. MT. Hornbeck carries only women's and children's s goods and lays claim to having the best store and the largest stock of goods of this sort between Great Harrington and New Milford if not in a larger area. Just now the store is stocked with ladies' and children's cloaks, suits, skirts ready to-wear garments, Waldorf waists, gloves, sweaters, certain materials, cottons, wooiens, ginghams, calicoes, parasols, umbrellas, belts, sofa pillows and pillow covers. ladies' and children 6 shoes, post cards. combs. patterns, stationery, hand bags, purses, post card albums and the thousand and one little decorative articles 30 dear to the heart of womankind for use in making the home~ more pleasant and attractive. The store has large and growing patronage from all the villages surround ing Falls Village and MT. Hornbeck has several plans in contemplation for still further increasing it's attractiveness for ladies in search of up-to-date, durable and reasonable apparel.
Connecticut western news., 1907-10-17
FALLS VILLAGE ADVERTISEMENTS
yaII and Winter
 Announcement.

Our line of Ladies', Mems and Children's clothing of the latest styles is complete. Our prices-are lower than any house in this state. Our expense is small so we can afford to sell at low price. Come and inspect our goods aud you will be convinced that we mean what we say.
Connecticut western news., 1907-10-17
FALLS VILLAGE
FORESTS FALL DECORATIONS

Shoemaker Comes to Town - Jews Want Farms but Don't Want to Pay the Price New Dog Warden Gets Busy Early in the Morning-Hotel will Not Close--Ths Jail Arrives-Mod- ern Woodmen Organizer is Hopeful Up Before the Judge.
Connecticut western news., 1907-10-17

Emil Heinz has been spending few days in Danbury.
 Edward Howe has resigned his posi- tion at ''The Inn.'
 Rev. Lee M. Dean of Westbrook. Me. is visiting in town.
 Falls Village sent the usual contingent to the Danbury fair.
 Nearly all the summer people have returned to their city homes.
 MT. and Mrs. A. A. Roth have boen spending few days in Danbury.
 The net receipts of the supper held in the Methodist church were $28.0O.
 w. H. Chapin of Orange, N. J.. has been spending few days in town. George Capron and family have moved to the house on the Hornbeck place.
 MT. and Mrs. J. Lee Ensign are visit ing Mrs. Ensign's sister in Sayre, Pa.
 Eggs 35 cents per dozen, butter 38 cents per pound and almost everything else in proportion. Wow!
 Miss Emma Belle Wolfe of New Haven is visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Henry Wolfe, at Amesville. l Stone has been delivered near the
 
 structed at the point where the tracks OLD RESIDENT COMES BACK
 Michael Meahan, and sister, Mrs. Julia Norton, of San Francisco, Cal. are visiting Miss Kate Smith, Barney Smith and other relatives here. MT. Meehan was resident here many years ago, leaving for the west during the Civil war.
 ENCOURAGING OUTLOOK
 l.. B. Koopman, the Modern Wood man District Deputy who was in town last week, feels encouraged at the out look for organizing 8 Camp here. Only 15 members are necessary to procure a charter Several persons have signifled their willingness to join.
 LOOKING FOR FARMS
 A few days ago 8 Jewish real estate agent from New York, with three New York Jews in tow, visited Falls Village in search ot farm property. They looked at several but went back to the metropo- lis without writing any checks as the farm owners would not consider the offers made.
 DEATH OF FORMER RESIDENT | l u6 T6ulhluS Ol EuWdTu luuluR W0It brought here from Bridgeport Friday and inferred in the local cemetery. He was about 33 years of age and was for merly Q Falls Villager. moving from here about 10 years ago. He had been ill about six months. Death was due to consumption.
 !. WILL ATTEND DANCE l A few Falls Village young people will probably go to Lime Rock to-mor. row evening to attend the dance to be given by the Weataug Tribe of Red l Men at the Casino. It is understood optics on that five plunk prize offered for the best imitation of cake walk. | GRADED ABUSE Simon Williams and George Brewster were arrested by Sheriff Hornbeck few days ago and brought before Judge Blodgett for using loud and abusive language. Brewster paid $500 and costs. Williams language was evident ly spoken in a lower tone and said thingl only one-third as abusive as he was called upon to produce only one plunl and costs.
 AT ITS BEST
 If photography could faithfully re produce the splendor of the forests be tween Falls Village and Canaan, il their autumnal hues and tints, it woult form one of the prettiest pictures eve looked upon. This section is now at it prettiest and calls forth many remark of admiration. particularly from the cit, people who have fingered to enjoy al ! autumn in the country. INN FOLKS The following people registered a
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BRIDE OF THE CAUCASUS.
Escorted to Wedding With Music
and .Merrymakine.

Henry Nevinson, in Harper's Magazine.
The sound of low music in heard along
the valley. Here comes the bridal pro-
cession itself. crowd on foot bearing it
company. In front walks a merryman
holding out a long wooden skewer in
either hand. On one skewer are slabs of
bread transfxed; on the other, fragments
Of cooked meat, cooling in the autumn air
At his side trots friend with dripping
wineskin under his arm-a bagpipe full OF
mir.h
One foot of the skin is united. and only
held together by finger and thumb. For
every passerby upon the road must drink
and each must take his bit of bread and
meat from the skewers, that, having en-
joyed the kindly fruits of the earth. he
may wish the bride fertility and 60 upon
his way in pleasant mood.
Behind the hosoitable food and drink
comes music, most lavish of the arts,
pouring itself out, as the birds sing. to
all who are near enough to hear Usu-
ally the musicians go on foot before the
brides carriage, but If they can borrow
an extra cart. it Is certainly easier to keep
time together when one has not to watch
the rocks upon the road. or wade knee
deep across the river bedsJ
Last comes the bride in bullock cart or
two-horSe phaeton, shaken but glorified.
Her head is dressed in Georgian fashion.
Round the top of her head is shining
black ring, much the same in effect as
the ring that Zulu chiefs enweave in their
hair. On each side Of the face long curls
hang down, usually false, for they are
frankly attached to the ring, and form a
large article of commerce in all Georgian
towns. Over rings and curls and all
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OESTROYERS OF PROPERTY
MISCHIEF AND CRIME CHIEF
CAUSES OF FIRES.
Big Fire Losses Are Traced to Bur.
glars, Tramps, Lunatics and
Drunkards.

Fires started through crime or mischief
have cost the people of the United States
$40 So, 546 in twenty-one years. accord
ing to official fire insurance tables. To
these causes the fire insurance experts at
tribute about $1,000 Of the 369, 29S fires
which have happened in twenty-one years.
Incendiarism, or, as E. r. Hardy, lee
turer on fire insurance of New York Uni
versity, described 1t, 1.-The friction of
thousand dollar policy on 500 worth of
goods" explained about 0 per cent or
s199,755, 504 of the total loss of over two
billions. Tramps, burglars, drunken men
and lunatics are responsible for about
eight and one-half millions>0f the loss in
1.S46 fires. Mischievous children, playing
with matches or starting bonfires, in the
period covered by the computation. prob
ably did over 81 ,OOO, 900 worth of damage
rather tidy sum to pay for this form
Of amusement.
The fire bill for crime and mischief.
however. Is far less than the bill for
carelessness in handling heating and
lighting apparatus. matches, cigarettes
and firecrackers. For it's carelessness in
playing with fire in the twenty-one years
people of the United States have paid
bill of $266. 340.00s. or II per cent of the
total loss, II the itemized percentages for
the years given hold for the entire pc
Rod. This source of fires is over double
the total fire bill for electric wires. light
Ming cyclones and earthquakes prior to
the San Francisco disaster. Even forest
and prairie fires can be added in without
equahng the loss through carelessness.
Fires Through Carelessness.
The losses iT twenty-one years in the
United States due to different kinds Of
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floats the characteristic white gauze veil.
trimmed with lace along the edge for the
happy, but shorn of all beauty for widows
or for the mother whose baby is dead.
So the bride comes, and at her side sits
the next prettiest girl of the village, to
keep her in countenance and divide the
gaze of inconsiderate or too ad1niring
males.
While the ancient ceremony Is cele-
brated inside the church the music con-
tinues, and boys keep up a dancing at
the door. Then the procession is re-
formed. the bridegroom mounts the cart
himself beside the bride, the simple house
of wood or stone is reached and he car
ries her over the Threshold into the scene
Of her new life. There she will winnovv
and dry the maize, hang the tobacco
leaves in the loft, help with the vintage
and the beasts. work the wooden loom,
give her husband food. and rear children
to repeat the way of life with little
change.
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Priest q Famous Climber.
n the Tondou ExnreRa


The Able Gorret. who climbed every
important peak in the Swiss and Italian
Alps and who was the first to ascend
the Matterhorn from the Italian side. has
died at Aosta, aged seventy-three.
He taught Alpinism to the present King
of Italy and was we'll acquainted with
the late King Humbert, who called him
1.-The mountain bear
Able Gorret. who was born OF humble
parents, began life as guide. He was
a man of superb physique. and was noted
in his younger days for his feats of
strength.
By studying at night he passed his ex-
animation as a clerical student and be-
came a priest. He soon reltnquished
parochial duties, however, and retired to
cottage in the mountains, where he
spent his time writing books on the Alps
and climbing
He was an intimate friend Of Tyndall
and many other well-known English AL
pinists of the old school.
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The Sundial at Yale.
From the Bohemian,

About the time of the Yale bi-centennial
celebration in 1901 some wag presented the
university with perfectly good sundial
which was deliberately advertised in the
New York papers and with due solemnity
set up in a conspicuous place on Berkeley
Oval. The blamed thing never did take
very we'll" the Record explained apropos
of the trouble sundry undergraduates got
into in trying to run off with the main
spring of it. and the grostesque grandeur
of this expensive and beautiful piece of
architecture set the Owl off into
paroxysms of laughter in which the
campus followed with will SHAY
old fell this damned sundiars stopped"
And, Hey, Fresh. out there by the sun
dial, strike a match and see If it isn't
bed timer are typical.
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An LNrRAgcE fRon Orr M 5TRgET

Robert Gordon, who was created Premier
Baronet of Nova Scotia in 1924, and as
sisted in the plantation of the colony:
There is only one other record of copy
sold in London. This was at the Auchin-
loch sale in 1893 and it brought $3.50.
r. Budd's Good Order Established in
Pennsylvania and New Jersey, in Amer
ica' was sold for sos. This Is generally
America by William Bradford, who is
sued it at Philadelphia in 1855. Bradford
learned his trade under Andrew Sowles,
whose daughter Elizabeth he married, and
he accompanied Penn on his first voyage
to Pennsylvania.
A small quarto volume, "a PLANE Path
way of Plantations" printed In 1924. which
is written in the form of dialogue be-
tween "Respire, Farmer and "Enrubie,
a Merchant" was sold for $3.50. Its rarity
may be judged from the fact that there Is
no copy in the British Museum, while only
one. an imperfect copy, in the Barlow
collection, has appeared for sale in recent
years.
The sum of $3.50 was given for Daniel
.Horsmanden's "A Journal of the proceed
ings in the Detection of the Conspiracy
formed for the Burning of New
York, in America, and Numbering the In
habitants," printed in 1744. No copy of
this work appears to have been sold in
London in recent years, but at the Barlow
sale in America in 1890 one fetched $40.
"Pietas ct Gratulatio Collegii Canta-
bragensis apud Novanglos,' a collection
of poems on the death of George II and
the accession of George III, was sold for
500. 1t was published in 1861 and con-
tains the first specimen of printing with
Greek type executed in America. -
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The New French Machine Cum

From the London Globe.
Although the French army remains un-
shaken in the belief that its new machine
gun. firing $50 balls minute, is the most
formidable in the world, certain important
defects have been pointed out in all the
gunnery camps where 1t has been tested.
Owing to its practically unceasing IRE
gases generate, which throw 1t out of
gear, though in some cases 1000 shots
have been fired without revealing any
fault The arsenal at st. Etienne has
been furnished with designs for modifica-
tions which will remedy the defect allow
ing for which officers be lieve that no reg
iment could advance 500 yards without
most of the men and horses being hit,
owing to the guns differential actton.
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Fighting It Out.
From Pucl

Clear the decks for action"
The big guns were now in position and
the eyes of the combatants sparkled.
Clear the decks for action"'
The order had rung out clear and disc
tinct beyond a possibility of misunder-
standing.
my God" cried a man trembling, my
wife is here!
"Clear the decks for actionr'
The order came with a grim relentless.
ness It was followed by an anticipatory
shuttle and one minute later the Ninth
Ward Ladies' Bridge Club had swung into
full session
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In contrast with this loss of over VS.
100000 through carelessnese may be cited
the fact that. excluding San Francisco,
cyclones, floods, earthquakes and suns
rays caused not more than thirty-six fires
and led to fire loss of only $443,9 in
twenty-ons years. Lightning in a like
period did only $4,5 395 Of fire damage
and started only 5.919 fires. To forest
fires and prairie fires, with their disas-
trous sweep a fire loss of only $92 600
Is attributable, or less than the bill FOR
defective fiues, which little forethought
would have saved. for which carelessness
was responsible.
Fire Specialists Work.
In addition to figures such as these, the
insurance people have kept such accurate
account of all fires in this period that
they answer offhand such question as
these:
How many human hair stores burned
in fourteen years?'
Answer-"Forty-t hree."
"Hew many bird stores went up in
smoke in ten years."
Answer-"Twelve." --a-- 80 e.
They also know how many dwellings.
boarding houses and hotels had fires in
them; what the tendency of cider mills
Is 10 burn, and have actually recorded
such queer facts as thirty-t1ve jails
burned in 1885," ''23O police and fire sta
lions burned in twenty-one years" and
that in eleven years. seventy-two water
tanks, which seem to be incombustible
enough. have needed the attendance of
firemen.
Such exhaustive Information as this is
collected by fire experts who have been
especially trained to analyze fires and
their causes and to detect what changes
in buildings would have prevented fire
or stopped it's spread. On this information
and the figures showing just how many
buildings of businesses of a certain sort
may be expected to burn per thousand,
the companies fix their rates for the
classes of structures and kinds Of occu-
pants. If a building has in it elements
which make it less likely to burn lower
rate may be granted.
The insurance people even need men
who are expert psychologists and trained
character readers to arrive at eXDlana-
tions for mysterious fires which may or
may not be due to the policy's friction on
small stock of goods. These experts
naturally are paid good salaries and yet
the insurance companies cannot find
enough of them fitted for this delicate
work.
The demand for such men. however is
| now being supplied in some degree by the
School of Commerce. Accounts and FIJI
nance of New York University. which,
| ance men. started course to train fire
experts under the direction of an expert
| of the Fire Insurance Exchange. About
| fifty men are studying in the course this
| year learning how to find insurance data,
| inspect buildings and fires and to use this
| information as experts in arriving at sta
tistical and financial conclusions. For
! fire inspection today. II is found requires
q great deal more than a nose for kero-
| sene.
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RARE AMERICANA SOLD.
Early Pamphlets Disposed of at Auc-
ton.

I1Ou.
From the New York Sun.
Some unusually rare and interesting
pieces of Americana have recently been
sold in London.
"A copy of announcements for Such as
Shall Have Intention to Bee Under-takers
in the New Plantation of Cape Briton.
Now New Galloway. in America" printed
in Edinburgh by John Wreittoun, 1925.
fetched STOO. This scarce little anonymous
pamphlet of seventeen pages was dedi-
Gated TO Sir William Alexander. Earl OF
Stirling. the poet and statesman who in
1921 obtained the grant of Nova Scotia
and practically of Canada
The author of the pamphlet was Sir
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The Limit.

Stella: Two is company"
Bella: Yes. Bridget never let's US ask
more than that"
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Through Carelessness.

The losses iT twenty-one years in the
United States due to different kinds Of
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The total weight of the flag pole on
top Of New York's tallest building is
$500 pounds. 1t is sixty feet high and
612 feet above the ground.
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