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The Newtown bee., 1908-12-04

George Milo has moved from near the New England station to Blanket Meadow. Michael Xii brides team did the work.
The Newtown bee., 1908-12-04

C. H. Finch. the merchant, expects to resume business in few days.
The Newtown bee., 1908-12-04

Eagle Rock Circle, Companions of The Forest will hold a regular meet ing, Friday night. -z-a'
The Newtown bee., 1908-12-04

Mrs T. s. Judson of Matteawan and Mrs A. H, Wells of Waterbury were guests of Mrs J. L. Sanford, last week.
The Newtown bee., 1908-12-04

Mrs John Carroll, Miss Mary Carroll and Miss Mary Harrigan passed Thurs day in Danbury.
The Newtown bee., 1908-12-04
Stepney.
NOTES OF BAPTIST CHURCH OF
 STEpNEY.

oIEFNEI.
 The Bible school is rehearsing for the Christmas exercises. The musical selections make happy those who sing and those who listen. The recitations promise to be of unusual merit.
 The choir is already lreparing for it's part in the services of Christmas Sun day.
 Next Sunday at l0:30 a. m., the monthly Covenant meeting will take place. At 10 :45 a. m. the regular morning worship. Subject of sermon. "0ur Church and Our Community.
 At l2 m., Bible school.
 At 2 D. m., Evening service. Is life worth living? The subject will be "The Flag of the World" Come and sing away your cares. If you haven't any, come and help others to get rid of theirs.
 Let's blossom for the world That wants loves color in the gray of
 time."
The Newtown bee., 1908-12-04

HOLIDAY STATIONARY at Garvin's. Eaton, Crane and Pike's papers in full array. 15c to S1.50 box.
The Newtown bee., 1908-12-04
HIGH TOP SHOES

For men and boys at French's, Beth
The Newtown bee., 1908-12-04
METHODIST CHURCH NOTES.

 Sunday last, large congregation were present to hear the last of the series of sermons, given by the pastor, on important places in Stepney. The series of seven sermons are as follows:
 Sanctuary of the Lord or the place
 of worship.
 The street of the city or the place of
 travel.
 Educational institutions or place of
 learning.
 Pleasure resort or place of recreation. Numerous homes or place of fellow
 ship.
 Eternal hills or place of vision. Your silent city or place of rest.
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with your own game or you won 10
able to finish before dark -.
Brayton, though mystified, TOOK MS
congo like a thoroughbred.
For a few eloQuently silent secCno.
Ella and Lyndon looked at each otneI
Lyndon with the air Of q man WIN
has been the victim of a practicai 5Une
and Ella with an expression ha1-mhs
chievous, half-embarrassed.
Perhaps you can explain, susses
ed Lyndon at length.
''Um. hum! I cam" Ella assenteo,
DO YOU mind going back to where we
were sitting? I think left sometnine
there"
Lyondon went on the errand. He
soon returned. carrying Elias tan ooot
dangling by its lacings. ~,
''If the beautiful Cinderella VIII
TT isn't a cinder at ALL" smiled Ely
scornfully. Its a nail"
While Lyndon, with the aid OF .
stone or two pounded down the refrac-
tory nail, Ella made clear to him the
The boot finished. Lyndon again
begged the privilege Of putting II ON
the lady's dainty foot.
The lacing process was executed with
great precision, but when 1t came 10
tying the knot Lyndon hesitateo.
Shall it be true lovers knot, dear
est?" he asked, looking up at her with
Ella laughed. shec ouldn't help it
Lyndon was so serious and she was SO
happy.
rs that the same as a beau-knot!
she asked him archly.
And somehow. both helping, the KNOT
was tied.-(Copyrighted, 1908, by the
Associated Press)
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AYHlWKER J0Ty

st. John is bit unlucky. The town
has had two disastrous fires within the
last two years.
An unusually large pelican was kill
ed not long ago in Lincoln county by
George F. Agin.
Miss Ida M. Case, a Norton school
teacher, will spend her summer vaca-
ton studying in Europe.
Norton's postoffice is being rearrang-
ed so as to give more room both to the
patrons and the Office force. These i'm
provements were needed.
Waverly is somewhat excited these
days. DR.. Longwood has purchased an
automobile. This makes five motor cars
that are owned in that vicinity now.
An advertised letter in the Garden
City postofdce is addressed to Frank
bareback. Charley Blakesly thinks
there ought to be quite q scramble for
that letter.
1t has been suggested that a carload
of beer be placed on sale in Salina and
street railway company for the i'm
provements 1t is making.
Says the Hutchinson News: It takes
a real live town to support a baseball
team: Emporia. Lawrence. Atchison
and Leavenworth have no ball teams.
Draw your own conclusions.
According to the young folks of Nc
Pherson the meanest man alive is
resident of that town. He has secured
an injunction against the skating rink
because so much noise was made there.
A Rocks county boy carried a gun
while listing corn last week and shot
himself through the hand and the bull
let then went into his head. A Jewell
county boy did the same trick last
Friday, only the bullet went through
his lung. Work and hunting do not
seem to mix very we'll.
French Oliver, the evangelist who
makes a good living saving souls, is
busy at Solomon these days. Dispatch
es from that burg state that Oliver Is
convincing the Solomonites that they
are the wickedest people in the world.
Heretofore the people of Solomon
thought they averaged up pretty well
with the other folks in the state but
it seems that they have been indu1g-
ing in fond and futile dreams. How
ever, they are probably as good as Mr..
Oliver at that.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.

[From the Atchison Globe
AS a man grows older, he wants his
own way more.
Every man defines cowardice in his
own case as discretion.
The man who amounts to the most,
took the least time to hope.
What has become of the married
woman who looked in a superior way
at the old maids?
Nearly every man who never had
chance" wastes a great Of time
telling about it.
Some men have an idea that they
must stand and let drunken man
bore them to death.
The happiest moments in our lives
are not those we plan for. but those
that come entirely by chance.
People are willing to buy their ber-
ries and roasting ears, but they in
sist on catching their own fish.
We have noticed that when the peo-
pie in a congregation begin picking
at the preacher, they always get him.
Loan a baby to neighbor for an
afternoon, and it will come back sick.
The neighbor will feed it too much.
A woman might as well propose;
her husband never admits after mar
riage that he was the one who did it,
The young man who is not going
to school learns good many things
that the young man in school misses.
The man who has a motto is also
apt to take up some of your time by
quoting poetry you aren't anxious to
hear.
A girl will cry with a loud, bawling
noise until she is ten years old, when
she begins to cultivate the art of
weeping.
There is no excuse for profanity.
of course, and a good many men use
it freely without attempting to find
an excuse for it.
There are too many people who sit
idle, thinking to become known to
fame when their Columbus shall come
along and discover them.
Ever bothered with insomnia ?
Piano players and dogs seem most
frequently afflicted in this way. And
the poor things make an awful fuss
about it.
| When the children of a family are
| named "Arabella," "Gwendolin,'' "Ru-
pert" etc. it is sign that the
mothers favorite reading is not the
Bible.
Most men will not agree to fix up
| their houses until their girls begin ia
| grow up. A man reserves the best
| he has for his daughter. who SO often
| rewards him by following some
worthless fellow Off
| There is said to be a man in Atchi-
son who never kissed the girl he was
| engaged to, and one evening the girl
kissed him. The young-nan thought
the action SO rude that he went AWAY
and never came back.
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and Germany are now using oil on
their fast torpedo boats and torpedo
boat destroyers. and it Is expected that
liquid fuel will soon be used in driving
battleships and cruisers.
Two agents of the British admiralty
have gone to Canada for the purpose
of investigating the oil resources of the
Dominion. as the admiralty woufd Ike
to use colonial fuel in the event OF a
general adoption of oil fuel. One OF
these agents predicts that in three
months large passenger-carry1ng
Transatlantic liner will begin the use
of oil fuel for the purpose Of increas-
ing her speed. With these develop
ments in view, such accidents as that
reported from Clarendon. should re-
ceive serious consideration in naval
and merchant marine circles and also
in the manufacture of pleasure craft
where liquid fuel is used.
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AN INTENSIFIED oP11M1sT.

They knew Pete Daley in nearly
every land where theaters are known,
but the home of his love-and the love
was mutual-was little old New York.
They who go the pace must have some
relaxation. or something will snap.
No where does the pace exceed that OF
New York, and New York thought,
and with reason, that there was not a
brand of relaxation to surpass that
furnished by Pete Daley. And SO
there is grief where once there was
laughter, and the grief is as real as
was the laughter. For Peter F.
Daley, premier comedian, is no more.
1t has been before this remarked
that he who makes two laughs-reai
laughs, mind you-to grow where only
one or even none before existed is as
truly a benefactor as he who multi
plies the blades of grass. There are
some persons who radiate laughs
Wherever they go. They are inten-
sified optimists. The joy of living fills
and overflows them. They are the
worlds greatest blessings. Sometimes
they have other business. and attend to
it well, but one likes to think of them
that their principal occupation is to
make the world brighter. Sometimes
they like this business 50 we'll that
they give their whole time up TO It..
We call them comedians and great is
their reward in ducats.
This is not on the assumption that
every person called a comedian is of
that sort. There are socalled COM
edians whose laughter is artificial.
whose inducement to laughter is due
to mere skill. They succeed in a way,
but they are no substitute for the real
thing. Peter Daley was the real
thing. He stood at the top of his Jolly
profession because he was inwardly
and really jolly. There are those who
affect to look down on his profession.
but in these days when life Is so IN
tense, we need more like him who,
though for the money there is in it for
them. will induce real laughs. No new
school of medicine has succeeded In
discrediting the ancient assertion that
laughter "doeth good like medicine. :"
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THE DANGERS OF FUEL OIL.

The loss of seven prominent young
people of Clarendon, Arkansas, by the
sudden explosion of the fuel tank of
gasoline launch in which they were
enjoying an excursion on White river,
will renew consideration of the i'm
portant matter of safeguarding life
against such occurrences wherever
liquid fuel Is used for the operation of
Internal combustion engines. The
tanks of motor cars sometimes blow
up as result of slight leaks, and ac-
cidents of this kind are occurring too
frequently on the water.
The danger of fire and explosion is
doubtless the main reason why LIQUID
fuel is not more generally used on
MERCHANT vessels. Oil, naphtha, gaso-
line and other petroleum products are
sent across the sea in large quantities,
but there seems to be an aversion to
the use of oil for fuel on shipboard,
probably because all sailors dread FIRE
Few merchant vessels are now using
oil for fuel, although in the Atlantic
coast trade, steamers could be oper-
ated more cheaply by the utilization OF
liquid fuel
However, there will probably be a
change in this regard very soon, as
naval experts are inclined to resor, to
the use of liquid fuel in the develop
ment of speed. The element of danger
receives less consideration on fighting
ships than among masters and crews
of merchantmen, as everything goes
that will give a ship an advantage over
. rival or an enemy. Great Britain
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Real downright sympathy goes out
to the people of Kansas City. Mo, OF
more properly speaking to that great
horde of travellers who. perforce, are
compelled to go through and change
cars in that big railroad gateway. A
new and union depot is but a dream
of the dim, dim. distant future, just as
II was a dozen years ago. This Is made
apparent by the announcement that
plans have been adopted by the rail-
ways for the enlargement of the pres
emit depot both as to trackage and 9TH
er facilities. This determination on
the part of the railroads to pass up the
new union depot project for the time
being is not an act for them to be
Y,roiid of
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

gFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
The straw hat always gets ahead.
The foxy man lets others do his
kicking for him.
The gas bill can hardly be said to
brighten the home.
Hoax-"Time flies" Joax-"XsA:
it'll soon be fly time"
You don't know what you can do
till you try-or whom.
Money will buy anything but happi-'
and few people.
that most of US find 1t easier to for
give than to forget.
Even when a man hopes for the
best he begins to wish he had hoped
for sometime better.
The minute a woman joins church
she begins to wonder II she will be
able to keep her halo on straight.
No, Maude. dear: the fellow who IL
most successful at matching ribbons
doesn't always make a brilliant
match. --s
When an old man and q young wo-
man take each other for better or
worse It's hard to tell which will get
the worst of it.
Muggins-"I don't believe in pun
ishing my children" Buggins-"Well,
I don't believe in severe punishment.
but find that spanking takes the
palm"
Nell-"She admits that she is ter-
ribly disappointed In her husband"
Belle-"How is that?" NelI-sShe
him to reform him, and now
she finds he doesn't need it."
There is nothing new under the
sum-" quoted the Wise Guy. IF YOU
should spring that on a druggist he
would tell you he could give Won
just as good" said the Sim
pie Mug.
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HUAOR or THE DAY

But" cried Miss Woody, Indignantly.
''since I declare to you that the joke is
original with me, isn't it impudent OF you
Not at ALL replied Mr.. Chesterfield;
II should be still more impudent and I'M
gallant to believe you that old."-Philadel-
'T can promise you that If you take
service with me you will be treated as one
That's what the lady at the las place
told me. ma am:-an' lost e pounds an
ma; am."-cleveland Plain Dealer.
"I's been a sinnah" vouchsafed re-
Gently converted brother, during an ex-
perience meeting in Ebenezer Chapel a
for 10 desc many yeahs. and never knowed
Don let dat molsst yo, REudHsr New NV
c ciined deacon aeon aDe resi- Il US EnoWed it
all de Puck.
Growing old is often merely a waste Of
Record.
1T had to leave my last situation be-
cause the missus said they were going to
lead the sinful life. and they wouldn't
want any servants about the place.
Punch.
I'm Egypt the priesthood was held re-
yes" answered Senator Sorghum I'VE
have changed all that. Now the leaders of
the people merely take credit for prosper
ity on general nciples.'-Washingto
Star.
Joakley-Yes,. Samson. Don't you know
Samson? That's the little Skye terrier my
wife has
Coakley-what! that tiny little purp?
Isn't that rather silly?
Joakley-Oh, I don't know; you see he'd
be nothing without hts Observation-Disclosures
Press.
| Editor (of Rubetown Weekly Intelligen-
cer)-Here's a letter from our correspon-
dent at Hikes Corners striking for a raise
of salary.
Proprietor-what? These hard times?
What are we giving him now?
| Editor-Stamps and paper, but he
threatens to resign unless he gets pencil
| a month raise.-Puck.
| Miss Peyteet-How do look in this hat?
Elder Brother-Under it, you mean, don't
you. sis? You look pretty small.-Chicago
| Tribune.
| Rear Admiral Evans rose from his chair
and called for his dress uniform. I'm
going on duty" he said. "Never shall his
tory record that Bob Evans Quailed in tho
face of danger" With face set stern, he
gave the order for an advance upon the
banquet halls of San Francisco.-Philadel-
phia Public Ledger.
ct has been toll" said Brother Diokey,
OATS all right. Dey amt dom any harm
whilst dey is a-sleepin', and deyIl wake
UP fast enough wen de devil bulls q ffre
under 'um!'-Atlanta Constitution.
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Time hanging bit heavy on his hands
c. v. Hamlin. member of the house
of representatives from Missouri, took
out his pad and pencil and did a little
interesting figuring as to what the
money appropriated by congress would
look like If it was gathered together in
the form of $40 gold pieces. He figured
that there would be 1851 tons of them
and loading twenty tons to car 1t
would take 921a freight cars, or five or
binary trains, to haul them. TIE peo-
pie should be much obliged to the
mathematical Mr.. Hamlin. They have
faint idea now as to just how much
billion dollars is.
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A FLEDGILNG PARLIAMENT.

In the case of the Russian Duma
there is a pleasing truth in the old
saying that mo news is good news"
n year and more ago we were hear
ing a great deal of the doings and
suxebbles of this inchoate Russian
legislative assembly, and the opinion
of many was that there was little i'm
mediate probability of it's amounting
to much as factor in actual govern
ment. Now we rarely hear anything
of it, and perhaps the common
opinion of it has not changed.
Happily, however, this present alb
sence of news from the Duma does
a failure or has lost its Importance in
Russia itself.
On the contrary in quiet way and
by healthy normal evolution, the
Duma as now constituted is fast be-
coming a practical legislative as
sembly and, although it is not called
a parliament and lacks some of the
conventional features of a responsible
lawmaking body, it possesses all the
essentials, is actually doing good work
and controlling such important
legislation as the budget of receipts
and expenditures, the raising of re-
cruits for the army, the rehabilitation
of the navy and the rebuilding of the
railroads. This is a great change, in
deed, for the better.
When the present or third Duma
assembled it was freely predicted that
it would be nothing more than a
figurehead, permitted to exist only so
long as it did the autocracy's bidding
and destined to be summarily snuffed
out as soon as it attempted to oppose
the ministerial plans. But in reality
it has gone practically to work per-
forming the proper duties of a
legislative assembly. Its members
have avoided the political polemics
which characterized, and hampered,
the preceding Dumas and have ap-
piled themselves assiduously to prac-
teal legislation. A working arrange
ment has been effected with the gov
eminent, and the latter's plans, when
lawful and reasonable, are supported.
That the Duma does not surrender
all independence to the government is
shown by the freedom with which it
rejects some measures and amends
others. Notwithstanding the protests
of the ministers. In this way and by
attention to practical work this third
popular approval in Russia and bids
fair to become before very long full
fledged parliament.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

It's hard work for a man to tell q
story in his own way when he Is I'M
der oath.
X X
Because you can't buy happiness that
fact doesn't imply that your comfort
is enhanced by being broke.
e X X
Conservatism and rheumatism are
two things that will make a person
move slowly and with caution.
It's conducive to a happy married
life if man will let his wife select
his neckties and stenographers
\ y
There's one kind OF a girl that it is
not pleasure to sit up with q few hours
each night. That's one about three
months old.
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KANSAS COMAENT

A NEW ATTEMPT TO GOUGE.
Through the efforts of the grain
shippers Of Kansas, assisted by the
state board of railroad commissioners,
a reduction in the rates of wheat from
the Kansas wheat belt to Galveston
was secured from the interstate COM
merce commission. In handing down
its decision the interstate commerce
commission expressed the opinion that
the rates should be lowered still more
but hesitated to make them lower lest
they injure the Kansas milling indus
try. whose prosperity depended on
rates In another direction. The lnfer-
ence was plain that if the commission
succeeded in adjusting the rates APP
plying to the millers, so that it could
be done, the wheat rates to the gulf
would be lowered still more. How
ever, the reduction was very gratifying
and meant several cents more 1or
wheat to the Kansas grower.
But the effect Of the reduction was
to defect much of the wheat grown
in central and western Kansas from
the Kansas City gateway and this was
not pleasing to the commission men at
the Kaw's mouth. So they have lodged
a complaint with the interstate COM
merce commission and will seek to
have the old rates restored. The Kan
sas board of railroad commissioners,
checkmate it, if possible and will in
tervene in the case in behalf OF the
Kansas growers. It will be the pur-
pose of the board either to maintain
the rates as they are or to get tnem
lowered even more, and to protest
vehemently against any proposition to
restore the old rates or raise the pres
ent schedule even fractionally.
It can hardly be doubted that Kan
sas will win this case and the Kansas
the Kansas railroad board the issue
would be far different. Nothing could
better illustrate the beneficent features
Of the Kansas railroad law or the as
position of the state board to look
after Kansas interests. With the leg
islature enacting such law and the
officials standing SO firmly for Kansas
interests, it is not to be wondered at
that the Kansas people refuse to get
excited by the bowls of calamity OF
how Jealous. could not accomplish
more than is being accomplished now
in the interests of all the people
Hutchinson News.
THE CAR STRIKE.
The street car strike in Cleveland Is
another instance of where disorderly
characters take advantage Of the sit
uation to carry out their work OF de-
struction. Disorderly characters some
of them probably among the strikers,
but more Of whom have long waited
for the opportunity for acts of law
lessness, are now shooting defenseless
men, blowing up street cars, and do
ing other things which will reflect dis
credit upon the union men. Such ac-
lions give the unions enemies an OPP
portunity they are always seeking, to
call attention to the disorderly acts OF
the strikers. s.'"-S
While a strike Is all right and is the
only weapon Of the workers, acts OF
lawlessness should not be counten-
anced The leaders Of the strikers
should assist the police in running
down the disorderly characters and.
even If they be members of the union.
should assist in the prosecution OF
such persons They owe this to the
union men of America.-Salina Union.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.1

[From the New York Press.1
People can fall into most any habit
except being sincere.
A woman never wants a butler
nearly as much as she wants to sav
she has him.
Nearly every girl gets engaged In
a man 30 a. to make ND her mind
whether to marry him.
One Of the great pleasures OF maxi
ing money seems to be having peo-
pie think 1t is more than it is.
A man who can stay out all night
playing poker and grow fat at A.
simply ruins his health being Tacs
awake nftssn minutes hx- tho ~.