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The Press., 1908-08-26
A New One For Him.

'"The climate here is salubrious, lsn't itT' remarked the tourist.
 "Say, friend" replied the native, jest write that there word down fur me, will yer? git tired O ,swearin' at this climate in the same old way. That's a new one."-PhHadelphia Presa
 A Long Walt.
 "Did you and your wife take a long trip on your honeymoonT
 'It seemed long to me. Her father had promised to settle a snug sum of money on us as soon as we got back" Chicago Record Herald.
 Soothes itching skin. Heals cuts or burns without a scar Cures piles, ec- zema, salt rheum, any itching. Doan's Ointment. Your druggist sells it.
The Press., 1908-08-26

Lanes Family Medicine is tonic laxa- tive. It does not depress or weaken, but imparts feeling of buoyancy and strength that is delightful At all druggists 25c. 1
The Press., 1908-08-26
THIRTY YEARS AGO.
rItems of local interest taken from the columns
 of The Press, thirty years agO.l
August go. 1878.

O J. Standish of this village has Etraded his cider distiliery just east of Holland street. to Lemuel Bradley of Hartford for 900 acres Of Gee rRia pine lands and $1 1000
 Schools in the third district begin next Monday. Miss Huling Of Will linton, in care of the grammar depart ment, and Miss Hattie Elilthorpe be- ing again engaged for the primary de- pa tment.
 The gams on the fair grounds last Thursday between the Stars and Comets was all that fancy had paint ed it in prospective. Seven innings were played, and the display of fly ing heels, fine playing strategy and earnestness vas lovely. It was no boys play. either. When a side makes 14 runs to an inning 1t Is easy to guess that it is because of some thing or other And as the sun went down on the first Monday in April no. that aim't it: that's gone by-as the seventh inning ended a record was made for the page of history, which ;o 0;v.n ha1OW
The Press., 1908-08-26

Gifts from the hand are silver and gold. but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy.- BeecheG.
The Press., 1908-08-26

When the doctor Is called he asks
 'How are the bowels ?" They are gener' ally wrong. His visit might have been saved by timely dose of Lanes Family Medicine
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Advising Is easier than helping RDchefoucauld.
The Press., 1908-08-26

Never forget the advice of Themis- tOcles. Said that ancient. 'F would be stow my daughter upon man without money. but not upon money without a man." Just change money for title and see the different reading: "I would bestow my daughter upon a man with cut title. but not upon title without q man."-New York Press. .-1.,..;
The Press., 1908-08-26
ATTENTION. ASTHMA sUFFERERs.

Foley's Honey and Tar will give imme- diate relief to asthma sufferers, and has cured many cases that had refused to yield to other treatment. Foley's Honey and Tar is the best remedy for coughe, colds and all throat and lung trouble. Contains no harmful drugs. A. Jacobsen
The Press., 1908-08-26
Central Vermont RV
Corrected to July 1, 1908.

Subject to change without notice. Trains leave Stafford week days only as follows
 NORTH BOUND. 6.45 a. m., Mail for Palmer Spring
 field, Boston, Bfattleboro and
 points north. q 1.36 a. m, Fast train for Brattleboro,
 Montreal and all points north. 4.65 p. m, Express for Brattleboro,
 Montreal and northern points. 7.1O p m,, Local for Palmer, Spring
 field and Boston.
 SOUTH BOUND, 7.57 a. m., Express for New London. 1O.26 a. m., Mall for New London. 2.O2 ?. m., Local for New London. 7.2S p. m, Express for New London
 and New York via Norwich Line Subject to change without notice. j. w. HAKLEE GsnI Passenger Agent
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SUNDAYS

Lv. Stafford Springs 7.15 a. m. and ev- cry hour until l2.1 p. m. On Sunday af- ternoons a half hour schedule is main- tained when the traffic demands.
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FOley's Kidney Remedy will cure any case of kidney or bladder trouble that is not beyond the reach of medicine. No medicine can do more A. Jacobsen.
 AOErON will break up a Cod in ont tight.
The Press., 1908-08-26
Trolley Lines,
WEEK DAYS.

Lv Stafford Springs 15 a. m. and ev. cry hour until 12.l5 p. m, arriving al Rockville on the hour. Last car to Hart. ford 10. 15 p. m.
 The Interurban service cars, with a change at East Hartford. leave Hartford for Stafford Springs at 6.30 a. m. and ev- cry hour until 10.30 p. m.
 Surface trolley cars leave Rockville for Hartford at 6.3O a. m. and every hour at 30 until 030 p. m., and leave Hartford for Rockville at m. and every hour until TOT m. Connects for Stafford at Rockville.
The Press., 1908-08-26
aIaan,..aIkinn.

Women and children are more apt t0 Uufrer from somnambulism than men, possibly because their brain Is more delicately poised and therefore more easily influenced by dreams. A som- nambulist nearly always walks with his eyes wide open, the pupils being much dilated. He is dreamer able to act his dreams, and in this state the timid become fearless, the weak strong and the stupid brilliant. Their som- nambulistic condition presents many curious anomalies. The somnambulists sense of hearing Is not often suspend ed. for. generally speaking, he will an swer questions even if whispered, but often the sasne ear is deaf to loud noises. The sense of smell Is frequent ly altered. Birthstone and phosphorus are said to be pleasant scents to the somnambulist. and many cannot tell wine from water, as the sense of taste becomes perverted or entirely suspend ed. Some people walk periodically in their sleep. while others do it spasmod- ically. One German doctor goes to the extreme of asserting that sOmnam- bulists are attracted by the moon. and thus they walk on roofs of houses and at great heights because they derive a peculiar pleasure from contemplating the moon
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The Life Plant.

Everything unknown is taken f0e magniflcent.--Greek Proverb.
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Priza Monax ln 1762.

To the English victOrs of Havana belonged the spells. and very rich and important these were.
 Besides the nine Spanish men-of-waH found intact in the harbor, which added to the three sunk at the en- trance and to one or two others cap tured outside in the course of the op- erations formed about one-flfth of the naval power of Spain and seriously crippled her for the rest of the war, no less an amount than E3,OOO,OOO was realized in prize money by the cap ture of this wealthy city. Of this great sum we are told that AlbemarIe and Pocock as commanding respective ly the land and sea forces received no less than 9122y697 each, while CommO-. dOre Keppel's share amounted to as much as f24,539. and doubtless his brother, Major General Keppel. receiv- cd an almost equal sum. Thus the Keppel family benefited by this expe- dit1on to the tune of considerably over E16OOOO, and 1t is recorded that Gen. eral Elliott with his share of the prize money purchased the estate of Heath UG1Up HI OubSSAs AKUm WHICH uS 0AIGE- ward took his title. Such were the solid rewards obtainable in war in the eighteenth century, when the profes- sIOn of arms was for the successful solder considerably more lucrative than 1t is today.
 The Life Plant.
 There is strange wild plant in Qua. del0upe called the life plant" If a leaf be broken off and pinned by the stem to the wall of warm room, each of the angles between the curves of the leaf margin soon throws out a number of very white tentacles, or roots, and soon tiny new plant begins to sprout and in the course of week or two at tains height of two or three inches. When the old leaf shrivels, the new plant Is cut of and planted When carefully cultivated, the life plant pro. duces curious red and yellow. blossoms. As a plant freak 1t certainly is as in- teresting as the everlasting plant O4 Mexico.
 Everything unknown is taken f0R
The Press., 1908-08-26

4 Kemp's Balsam will stop any cough that can be stnpped by any medicine and cure coughs that cannot be cured by any other medicine It is always the best Ough cure.
The Press., 1908-08-26
BItuL HtIbHIa UtNduSt IuVy UOAI uliar pleasure from contesnpla moon.
 At the Opera.
At the opera

Al fne OPeras
 What was the matter with Signor TenorI? He sang the drinking soug wretchedly."
 "Yes. think he had been drinking. New Orleans Tilnes- Democrat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-31

Lady Mcdonald, while that superb quar- tet of saddlers, champion Durham. Lord Kitchener, Corotoman and St. Agnes, will again be shown by Rufus L. Peterson, who made his debut In the show ring last year, signalizing his advent by sweep ing all before him.
 The initial show of the season of '0S was that of Durland's in New York, ter minating on April 23. This was closely followed by the Brooklyn show which Is second only in importance to the national show held in New York in November. The next show of importance was that It Brookline, Mass, May 21 and 23, and from then on there will be an endless chain oS shows until the final appearance of the thoroughbreds in Madison Square Garden on November 1921, and the great internal tional show at Chicago November 2S to December < Chief interest centers this year in the sNddle classes, and while vast sums have been expended for har- ness horses of various types 1t is gener- ally conceded that competition in the sad dle classes Is so keen thiA year that horse is well worth its weight in gold. Less than a year ago l predicted that when the saddle horses were called into the show ring this season the Kentucky-bred horse would not only hold its own but would relegate the illgaited, docktail park hack to the rear. While the Mack
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Is still popular and is liable to continue so, nevertheless the Kentucky horse is the horse of the year, as glance at the catalogues where the breeding of the con testants is given. will prove. The mating of Kentucky thoroughbreds. bred along saddle and trotting lines with the hack ney type, has produced a horse incom- parable for show, road and park pur- poses He is matchless, supreme, and already many ribbons have fallen to his lot. The gaited horse of Kentucky is un- like any saddle-bred horse in the world. Flash and sensational in his outstanding beauty, his extremely heavy, high-carried tail and chargerlike presence never fails to impress those lovers of the horse in the full flush of his God-given beauty. The remarkable versatility of the Ken lucky -gaited horse Is demonstrated by the fact that under a different course of edu- cation the breed has produced some of the most finished specimens of the walk trot" variety. In conformation and beau tlful finish, and in action and mode of going, the Kentucky strains of gaited- bred horses produce more good ones for the Eastern market and show rings than all other breeds of horse combined. Among the different families of saddle horse in Kentucky the sensation of the past decade has been the forging to the front of the progeny of Harrison Chief,
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tiful son of Matchless of Londesboro.
 c. W. Watson, who headed the list of winning owners at the last National Horse Show, Is forming a stud of prize winning harness mares at Fairmont Farms, in West Virginia. He be- gan his breeding operations last year by sending his beautiful pair of chestnut high steppers Maizie and Sue Kearsley to the court of Fred Pabst's Meanwood Majesty, son of the famous Forest King, that has twice won the championship for stallions at the na- tional show, Mir. Watson also bred his unbeaten pony mares Chiffon and Ruf1es to MT. Pabst's Dillham Prime Minister, sire of the wonderful little pony champion Lady Dillham. This year he will add to his list of brood mares the pony four-in- hand team Norena, Kitty Gray, Ringing Bells and Chatterbox, all royalty bred hackneys and blue-ribbon winners. Alfred G. Vanderbilt has retired Rustling Silk, Portia, Primrose and other well-known show ring winners to the stud at Oakland Farm, and before leaving for England, where he is tooling the Brighton coach, he negotiated with J. Hobart Moore to breed them to that gallant old gig horse Bur lingham. MT. Vanderbilt who Is doing so much to bring the American harness horse into prominence In England, is loyal to the native trotting-bred coachers, even
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introducing the valuable bird to this country Is due to Mir. Edwin Cawston. About 20 years ago he realized mat II the birds could be safely brought 10 America large profit would result ron the venture, for the duty on the featn- CTS was high. Southern California seemed to offer ideal conditions TOT os- trich farming, and Mr. Cawston deter- mined to make the effort to import some select birds for breeding. It was bold and decidedly risky undertaking, for 1t involved number of quite uncertain factors and heavy expense.
 vessel was chartered ands especially fitted up for its purpose. Padded inelos- ures and other provisions were made, for at that time the seafarlng ability of the ostrich was an unknown quantity. On its arrival In Capetown the ship was laden with vast amount of food, Tor the ostrich is an enormous eater, and several tons of sand and gravel were taken on board to make the conditions as comfortable as possible to those to which the birds were accustomed. The next step was to secure the birds and this proved to be not so easy as had been anticipated. Expert agents were employed to fHd and purchase the best specimens procurable, but the expedition aroused the immediate alarm of the os- trich farmers. They feared the threat ened competition and put every obstacle possible in the way of the Americans. The government was invoked to prevent the exportation of the birds and eggs, and did, in fact, place an export duty of $500 on each of the former and SIPS on each of the latter.
 But by this time the American vessel was on the sea with 50 nne ostriches, for which fancy prices had been paid. number or men accustomed to the care of ostriches ware brought back with the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-31
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trotting bred stallion only recently recog- nized by the American Saddle Horse Reg istry Association. Denmark blood had been, until the advent of champion per formers of the Chief family, the fashion able and universally recognized fountain head of the greatest Kentucky saddle horses. General John B. Castleman was one of the leading opponents of the Den mark, and General Castleman's name Is synonomous with blue ribbons where his saddle horses are shown.
 Several prominent exhibitors have lately gone In for breeding by mating their re- tired show mares with hackney or trotting stallions of the same type. Among them Is William H. Moore, whose stable of heavy harness horses has for years held the leading place In the list of prize-win- ners at the national and other horse shows. Practically every show mare, ex- cepting vennella, that MT. Moore owns was bred last season to Whitewall Fash ion, an imported English hackney. himself a prize winner in the show ring. This horse recently died, whereupon MT. Moore shipped his mares to Virginia to be bred to Matchless Dane, a noted prize-winning hackney stallion owned by Henry Fairfax. Fakenham Princess, Empress, Actress, Lady Gray. La Belle Chose, Bussie, White wall Ariel and Grande Dame are among the prize winners to be bred to the beau
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and long, snakelike neck give it bizarre appearance, which is enhanced by it's awkward movements. The neck, which, when stretched to the utmost, will en- able 1t to reach an object 10 feet from the ground, terminates In small, fiat head with large eyes and short, broad beak. The wings are but rudimentary and enable the bird to rise from the earth only few feet. Despite thls, it can move with surprising swiftness It's stride of % feet is camel-like, but it covers the ground so fast as to outpace any horse. The ostrich resembles the camel, too, in the nastiness of it's tenn per- It is easily irritated and ever rendy for a fight. Two birds will approach each other with the maneuvers of catch as-catch-can wrestlers, in crouching position, the head waving from side 10 side and the wings outstretched. The actual onslaught Is much like that of a fighting cock, the stroke being delivered with the two-toed foot. When thorough ly aroused the bird is a formidable foe. In South Africa it has several times been known to kill men and horses. There the ostriches are herded much as cattle are on our Western plains, being allowed to wander during the day over the farm and at night being rounded up and corraled. It Is then that the herder is most frequently attacked and often very pretty fight ensues between the bird, with its pistonlike legs, and the mounted man. with his cutting whip
 It was In the latter part of the nine teenth century that an Englishman con- ceived the idea of trapping and preserv- ing ostriches The first ostrich farm was established in South Africa, which re- mains the principal center of the indus try, but large quantity of feathers are now shipped from Australia, South America and California The credit of
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precious cargo and the birds were tended with the close care bestowed upon incu- bator babies. Despite all the precautions number of them died on the voyage and some after landing as the erect or 1t, but more than half the original ship ment was finally installed on the farm at Pasadena and formed the nucleus or the American ostrich farming industry The breed has been much improved since then by the introduction of many me Nubian specimens.
 The first farm established Is the larg- est at present in the country, with up- ward of 400 ostriches upon 1t. The in- closures are perfectly appointed with everything that can add to the comfort of the creatures. The surroundings are beautiful in the extreme. A large DOT ton of the space Is covered by grove of live oaks, in contrast with which are orange trees, rosebushes and tropical yer dure of numerous descriptions The ap- proach to the farm gives the impression of great conservatory of varicoiored flowers.
 The keepers have bestowed the most grandolinquent names upon the nnest birds. There Is an Admiral Dewey, Teddy" Roosevelt, an Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Webster and so on, the most appropriately named of all being 'Fight- Ing Bob Evans" an old cockbird who, as hls keeper says, '.is always itching for scrap" The ostrches are ex- tremely fond of oranges which they swai, low whole. The keeper takes handful of the fruit and throws 1t in different di- rections, the birds running after the or anges and catching them on the ny With the expertness of ballplayer. AS the solid fruit Is gulped down It's course along the bare neck may be plainly seen until 1t Is lost in the mass Of leatners. Those who are familiar with US naoiS
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in his breeding operations, Birmingham and all the mares above mentioned being of this stock. He has never owned more than two -Witcham- Elgitha, daughter of Forest King, which he re- gently sold to W. R. H. Martin. and Stamford Queen, a mare he is breeding to his own trotting-br coach horse Mackay Wilkes, the full brother to Oak land Baron, 2:09A.
 When coaching men of the Old World come to recognize the trotting breed har- ness horses of America as the fastest and stoutest of them all thanks alone will be due to Mr. Vanderbilt. MT. Wander bilt, in order to conduct his coaching tour from London to Brighton, purchased 80 picked trotters last winter to horse the Venture coach. Early in March these horses were shipped to England. and when the initial trip of the coach was made the latter part of April every horse had become thoroughly acclimated and thoroughly seasoned for the work cut out. Other American amateurs have put public coaches on the roads of England and the Continent and have demonstrated their skill as whips by making some of the fastest runs on record, but always with foreign-bred horses. It remained for the owner of the Venture to buy his horses here and ship them to England, there to show British coaching men what Ameri-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-31
Railroad Opens Brand
 New Country.

railroad which, though only 275 miles long, has been 35 years In building has just been completed. It Is the Guate- mala railroad, and though it has cost more than many roads 10 times as long, because of the engineering difficulties pre- sented, its main business for the pres ent will be hauling coffee and bananas. The chief importance of the railroad Is in making accessible to Europe and the eastern part of the United States the attractive city of Guatemala, with It's 100000 inhabitants, which previously was as distant, commercially, as the Ha- waiian Islands
 This city, which Is the center of almost the entire trade of the republic, could be reached easily from the Pacific Ocean side, on which coast Guatemala has no harbors, and passengers and freight have had to be lightered from vessels some distance out. With the completion of the new railroad Guatemala's coffee crop can be delivered in New York with ease.
 Heretofore it was necessary to lighter the coffee to steamers, then carry 1t 1000 miles to Panama, thence across the Panama railroad to Colon, about month being required for this trip alone.
 The government of Guatemala, in or der to bring the country within easier reach of the world, took steps about 35 years ago toward the conetruction Of 2
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aver that the ostrich can eat any quan- tity of food and digest any substance. An old keeper stated that lady's veil is the only thing that he ever knew to be too much for an ostrich, while he de- clared that he had known birds to swal- low without bad effect nails, gimlets, lighted pipes, tennis balls and various articles of jewelry.
 The chicks are striped. and at four years the males grow the glossy black feathers, with white wings and tails, which in the females are dirty gray. They pair with deliberation, for, once mated, the captive ostrich is married for life. There are no divorces nor elope- ments among them. and should one die the other remains in perpetual mourning and never remarries permanent nest is made by the male by squatting and rounding out shallow place in fla vorite spot, though how the birds can make themselves comfortable in 1t is matter known only to themselves. The eggs are laid at the rate of one every other day or so until about 15 have been deposited. They weigh three pounds each, and are said to be very delicious but only millionaires could afford to indulge in them frequently. The sun in Califor- mia being less powerful than on their udClVe DtalQb, DOtu pal APutS ii the matching, the female sitting during the day and the male taking the night spell
 The chick begins to hatch after 40 days, and is about 12 inches high when 1t emerges from the shell. looking not un- like a ball of excelsior. During the first four days Is seems to be too much taken up with it's strange surroundings to eat, but after that it devours everything that i,, ifc and At a derful rate, rising foot In month, until 1t is six months old and full grown. The parents seem to lose interest in the young ones as soon as they are out of the shell, and in the wild state ire quently trample them to death. On the farms the chicks need the greatest care and attention during the first month, after which they display the hardness of the adults.
 At the age of nine months the bird is Arst plucked, if the process may 50 be described, for as a matter of fact the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-31
Black Roses from Russia

Flowers have always been used can blems. Away back in England there was the War of the Roses. the red and the white Mir. Chamberlain will go down in history associated with the orchid.
 The Earl of Beaconsfield's love for the rose has been perpetuated by the founda tion of the Primrose League. And now there is another chance for some great man, statesman or other, to appropriate to himself the latest improvement upon nature and to hand it down to postefi.y as the emblem of party or a policy.
 M. Seraphimoff, master gardener liv ing at voronezh, in Russia, has arrived at St. Petersburg with several specimens of black roses. which he claims to have produced, thereby solving the great prob lem that has puzzled gardeners for many years.