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The Newtown bee., 1908-09-04

Mir and Mrs Allison P. Smith and Miss Hazel Simth were entertained at luncheon, Sunday evening, by Mir and Mrs F. w. Wheeler.in Monroe.
The Newtown bee., 1908-09-04

K. H. Beers took an auto ride, Sun day, to Danbury and Lake Kenosia, returning home via Palestine.
The Newtown bee., 1908-09-04

Henry Johnson, who has been spend- ing a few weeks at his place in Zoar, left, last Saturday, for the Soldiers Home at Noroton.
The Newtown bee., 1908-09-04

Jean Loutour and family from out of town have moved into one of the va cant tenements near the Sandy Hook depot.
The Newtown bee., 1908-09-04

For Conkey's guaranteed Poultry remedies and valuable poultry book which they give away free, call at TheHindle Pharmacy, 9S7 Main street, Bridgeport, Conn.
The Newtown bee., 1908-09-04

Ezra M. Young is having a new ve randa built across the front of his house.
The Newtown bee., 1908-09-04

Mrs Edwin T. Lake of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, was a caller at The Bee office, Thursday.
The Newtown bee., 1908-09-04

Mir and Mrs H. G. Gilbert spent Sunday in Easton, the guests of MT and Mrs Wallace Davis.
The Newtown bee., 1908-09-04

Miss Charlotte Thornhill of Brook field was guest, last week, of Mr and Mrs George w. Stuart in New town Street.
The Newtown bee., 1908-09-04

Miss Watkins returned to Bridge port after two weeks stay at the home of Mir and Mrs Lawrence Tay- 1or
The Newtown bee., 1908-09-04

Mrs Ida Hambm ger of New York has been the guest of Mrs J. T. Sheehan and other friends.
The Newtown bee., 1908-09-04

Harry Barnum of Constantinople. Turkey, has been the guest of Birdsey Sniffen at Sandy Hook.
The Newtown bee., 1908-09-04

Mrs w. s. Walsh is having her house on Walnut Tree Hill painted. Michael Carroll is doing the work.
The Newtown bee., 1908-09-04

DeWitt's Early Risers safe, easy, pleasant, sure. little liver pills. Sold by H. Rupf, Newtown, Conn.
The Newtown bee., 1908-09-04

Mrs Collard and daughter of Bridge port are enjoying stay with MT and Mrs Lawrence Taylor.
The Newtown bee., 1908-09-04

Birdsey Sniffen returned on Tuesday to resume his studies at Lancaster, Pa.
The Newtown bee., 1908-09-04

Miss Jennie Ruffells has been spend- ing several days in Danbury, the guest of her sister, Mrs Robert Knapp.
The Newtown bee., 1908-09-04
TELEPHONE, 47-.

Reading notices, brevier type. l0c line. Small nonpsrei ais ir word Der week.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31
His Dream of Buried Wealth.

For a week past Thomas Wade. a
prosperous farmer in Tuckahoe dis
trict, Henrico County, dreamed each
night of a buried box bulging with
gold in ingots and ancient coins. The
spot where this treasure was sscreted
was indicated unvaryingly in his
dreams by an old stump, which he
recognized as being on his farm.
Yesterday, with the assistance o.
Constable l. H. Henley, he went to
the place indicated in his dream, and
after digging for several hours his
shovel struck the traditional hard
metallic substance.
Believing his dream of wealth real
lied Wade tainted from emotion, but
the constable nursed him back to
consciousness and Their! the box was
unearthed and examined. II con-
tanned three big copper cents of ar.
cient date and four fishhooks. Rich
mond Correspondence. Washington
Post
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31
A Nevada Verdict.

A Chicago lawyer tells how the
most popular man in a Nevada town
got into difficulty with disreputable
tough-for long time the terror of
the place-and proceeded to do him
up" in manner entirely satisfactory
to the community at large. 1t becom.
ing necessary, however, to vindicate
the majesty of the law, the offender
was brought up for trial on the
charge of assault with intent to kill
The case soon went to the jury. When
they had been out for about two
minutes they returned
well, gentlemen of the jury"
asked the judge, in familiar, off,
hand way, what have you to say?"
IF it please the court" responded
the foreman, 1--WE. the jury, find that
the prisoner is not guilty of strikin'
with intent to kill, but simply to par
alyze, an he done it."
So the prisoner was acquitted amid
applause.-Chicago News.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31
KeenS to the Front.

And still the subject of good roads
keeps on coming to the front, first in
one district and then in another, yet
Alabama appears to be leading in the
general demands that are appearing
for good roads in the South. The
Gadsden Evening Journal has this
editorial on the subject:
Let us not forget that the matter
of good roads is one of supreme i'm
portance. We want to make the far
mers prosperous because it will add
to the prosperity of the city And to
have the Etowah County farmer get
what is coming to him he needs good
roads and ready market for his
produce. Anything raised on the
farm should find ready sale in any
quantity and for the cash. This can
only be done by providing a market
through shipment to consuming GEN.
tres. A packing and shipping plant
that will take all farm products as
cotton is taken now and pay cash to
the farmer upon delivery of the stuff
would prove a remarkable factor in
securing better times among those
who toll on the farms. 1t would put
money into circulation at all times
and allow the farmer to transact his
business on cash basis. And this
would be real prosperity. So let us
strive for good roads and a cash
market.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31
TO SPAN THE POTOMAC.

Hagerstown Especially The direc-
tors of the Washington and Berkeley
Bridge Company awarded the con-
tract for the erection OF the steel
bridge to span the Potomac River at
Williamsport to the Pennsylvania
Steel Company, Steeiton, Pa, for
100000. The contract for the con-
crete abutments, ETC., was given to
Gilmore e Hamilton, Hagerstown,
whose bid was $500. In addition
to the steel and concrete work the
flooring, grading, etc, will cost about
$4,000. The steel bridge will be
1900 feet long and "a feet wide to
accommodate a wagon road, trolley
track and foot path Sixteen bids
were submitted by firms in Baltimore,
York, New York and Roanoke. Work
will begin inside of 80 days. 1t is
expected to have the bridge finished
by January next. Mason r. Pratt is
the engineer.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31
HEALTH AND INCOME.
Both Kept Up ON Scientific Food.

Good sturdy health helps one lot
to make money.
With the loss of health ones in
come is liable to shrink, If not en-
tirely dwindle away.
When a young lady has to make
her own living, good health is her
best asset.
Il am alone in the world" writes
Chicago girl. dependent on my own
efforts for my living. am clerk, and
about two years ago through close ap-
plication to work and boarding
house diet, l became a nervous in
valid, and got so bad of it was almost
impossible for me to stay in the Office
half day at time.
"A friend suggested to me the idea
of trying Grape-Nuts, which / did,
making this food large part of at
least two meals day.
To-day l am free from brain-tire.
dyspepsia and all the ills of an over
worked and improperly nourished
brain and body. To Grape-Nuts ]
owe the recovery of my health, and
the ability to retain my position and
income" There's Reason"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road tc
MELVILLE" in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and fun Of human
interest.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31
DEPENDENCE on England.

Old-time American journalism oc-
casionally makes better reading than
the new. Witness the first issue OF
the Universal Instructor in all Arts
and Sciences and Pennsylvania Ca
zette, published in 1929. I'VE have
little news of consequence, the Eng
fish prints being stuffed with rob-
berries, cheats, murders, bankruptcies,
promotion of some and hanging of
others; nor can we expect much bet
ter till vessels arrive in the spring.
when we hope to inform our readers
what has been doing in the court and
cabinet in the Parliament house, as
well as the sessions house. In the
meantime we hope our readers will
be content with what we can give
'em, which. If it does 'em mo good,
shall do 'em no hurt. London
Chronicle.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31

4 certain John Simmons had been
twenty-year abstainer, but fell from
the ways of grace and worshiped the
yinous god with all the fervor of a
convert
Feeling the need of recuperation,
he sent his boy to an adjacent hos
telry for bottle of whisky.
But" cried the hotel keeper,
who's it for?"
For my father" said the boy.
Nonsense. Your father is total
abstainer and has been, to my knowl-
edge, for longer years than you've
lived"
We'll, at all events" he sent me
for it.
What does he want it for?"
ITO let you into secret" said
the boy, ashamed to tell the truth,
hes going fishing, and he wants the
cork to use for a float! '-Philadel-
phia Inquirer.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31
The Bundle of Sticks.
BY ELLIS o. JONES.

The old man called his son to him
to explain the mysteries of business.
MY son." said he, you have fin
ished college and you must now make
a show at least of getting busy. Let
me explain to you few fundamen-
tails. Here / have bundle of sticks.
See If you can break them"
The young man had been absent
from school with appendicitis at the
time his class read the old story of
the bundle of sticks, and so he was
not next. He tried and tried to
break the sticks, but could not.
See how easy it is" said the old
man, taking the sticks, cutting the
cord and breaking them one by one
Gee, that's bum joke" said the
young man, as he pulled his cigarette
and tried to look interested.
ITS no joke" said the old man.
1t is a parable. The bundle Of sticks
taken together represent organiza-
ton, which is very desirable in the
case of capital. If, however, we look
upon the sticks as representing la
Dor, it is criminal and immoral for
them to be tied together. They would
then represent union. Always keep
your capital sticks tied together and
your labor sticks separate"
Il should think what's sauce for
the goose is sauce for the gander,"
said the son, whose point of view
was still blunt.
1T depends on how big a goose
you are" replied the old man.
From Life.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31
To Recover the Costs.

On the boundary line of two farms
in an Austrian village there is large
gooseberry bush, from which the two
farmers have for years gathered the
product What grows on my side is
mine, and you may have the rest"
was the agreement.
Three years ago the neighbors had
a misunderstanding. and this came to
a climax when the gooseberries be-
came ripe. A lawsuit followed, and
appeals were made to higher judicial
bodies. The final decision has Just
been recorded in an Austrian paper.
Each party is to have the right to
pick the berries which grow en- his
side of the line, just as it was origin
ally, but neither may destroy the
bush. The costs are charged half to
each litigant. Each farmer had to
pay 225 krone. The yearly yield of
the bush is worth about one-half
krone, and the Judge told tie fighting
farmers:
With good luck, it will take you
only 500 years to make the bush pay.
Take good care of 1t. Youths Cor
panion.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31
DustIess Roads Coming.

Dustless thoroughfares would. of
course, promote the comfort of urban,
suburban and rural life. Up to the
present day of the motorcar, roads
made of broken stone have solved
best the dust problem Rock dust
crushed under iron-tired wheels is
packed firmly into the broken rock,
binding it smoothly and compactly.
John Louden Macadam, of Ayr, Scot
land, perfected the method and gave
his name to a process But motor
cars, with the propelling force of
their broad. soft-tired wheels, are
now at work all over the world tear
ing Macadam's pavemeuts to pieces.
They crush no rock, they hurl the
surface dust "binder" into neighbor-
ing fields, and they revel and loosen
the roads. Clearly, if civilization
is to maintain its advances 1t must
find new way of laying the dust.
or of making its road surfacings CO.
hesive.
Highway Commissioner MacDon-
aid, of Connecticut, chose dry, clear
days in the hot season last year to
build rock roads about the State
Capitol in Hartford, flooding them
with combination of pitch and coal
tar, and rolling into this composition
a top dressing of trap rock splinters.
The French engineers who had al
ready concluded that coal tar is the
best means of making roads with
stand the wear of automobile traffic,
have asked Mr.. Macdonald to tell the
International Road Congress in Paris
next fall why his roads in Hartford
are to-day apparently in as good con-
dition as when laid. Boston will try
the new method, and Highway Com
missioners in other States are about
to put it in practice
Dust is controlled in the fruit belts
of California by spraying with oils
possessing asphaltic bases. Drench-
ings with calcium chloride have also
been found temporarily effective.
The Office of Public Roads at Wash
ington is investigating the problem,
and has ordered many experiments.
Prizes are offered by the Paris Con-
gress for scientific road surfacings,
and inventors in many countries are
striving for these prizes When an
adequate surfacing is found, one
that makes no dust and needs no
dust to preserve its integrity, it will
have achieved more than its primary
purpose. 1t will ward off disease
from millions of civilized nostrils and
beautify and make more valuable
property worth countless millions OF
dollars, that abuts the worlds high
ways.-New York Times.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31
State OF Maryland
NO BOND ISSUE.

Annapolis Especially. An ordi-
nance for the purpose of bonding the
city of Annapolis to the extent of
$4,000 for the purpose of accom-
plishing certain municipal improve
ments was decisively defeated by a
vote of the taxpayers of the city,
the election lasting two days.
The proposition to bond the city
for $4,000 to pay for a new build
ing for the Rescue Hose Company
and for paving and other street i'm
provements was defeated by a vote
of 1877 to II. The proposition to
issue $4,000 worth of bonds to re-
construct the city assembly rooms
and council chamber was defeated
by vote of 200 to 81. Two hum
dred and eighty-four out of the l.
100 qualified voters participated in
the election. There was only one
defective ballot.
The election was of special inter-
est on account of the fact that wom-
en- were eligible to vote as well as
men. About so women availed them
selves of this right, and their votes
were almost solidly against the is
sue. Among those who voted were
number of colored women.
The bonds were generally opposed
on the ground that the present
amount of bonds ($165,00O) is suf-
ficient and that the municipality
would be unable to bear a further
increase. 1t is held that Annapolis
is now one of the most highly i'm
proved municipalities of its size ard
wealth in the United States and that
a number of the proposed improve
ments were unnecessary Mayor Cor
don H. Claude and members of the
City Council strongly advocated both
propositions.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31


A learned Italian doctor says that
giantism is morbid process--a dis.
ease due to an enlargement Of a part
of the brain which is endowed with
growth-regulated functions. Whea
that part of the brain enlarged, the
limbs grew to an abnormal extent and
other physical changes occurred, the
excess of growth being chiefly in the
lower jaw. the arms and legs. The
average life is only fraction over
twenty years. Ireland has produced
at least four giants McGrath, born
in Tipperary, in 1876 The was feet
s inches in height Malone, Z feet 6
inches; Murphy. feet inches. and
Charles Byrne, Z feet inches. None
of them ever reached great mental
development.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31
Cement Plant Inspected.

Hagerstown (SpeciaD. = Officials
and stockholders of the Maryland
Portland Cement Company, with a
number of invited guests. inspected
the big plant of the company located
at Security, two miles from Hagers-
town, and saw taken from the plant
the first Portland cement ever man
ufactured in the State of Maryland.
The plant has a capacity of 500 bar
rels of cement daily and will give
employment to about $50 men. The
plant, which is practically a $1,000
900 proposition, was established
largely by Baltimore capitalists.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31
THE RAID OF THE rusKER.

I'VE were all seated under the sha-
miana, a sort of fringed canopy I'M
der which East Indians sit in the cool
Of the evening"" says Mr.. Inglis, in
TENT Life in Tiger Land" Our
hunting toys were discarded and our
guns were being cleaned" AS they
sat thus, unprepared for any emer-
gency, piercing screams were sudden
ly heard.
Run, sahibs, run! The tusker
has gone mad. Hehas broken loose,"
All started to their feet, and the
terror-stricken servants flew in every
direction. The great elephant made
a run for the cook, who was bending
> over stewpan. With admirable pre-
cision of mind the man delivered the
kissing pan full in the gaping mouth
of the furious beast.
Our first impulse was to run for
our guns, but they were all taken to
pieces. Not one in the camp was
ready for use.
The elephant next made rush for
the shamiana; the ropes snapped like
burnt flax, the lacquered bamboo
poles broke like pipe-stems. Like
the collapsing bulk of punctured
balloon, the canopy crashed to the
ground, while we made our escape in
all directions.
One of the party, Mac by name,
a man of great strength, who kept a
small meerschaum pipe continually
between his lips, tumbled over, and
could not rise before the brute was
on him.
The rest of us stumbled over the
tent ropes, dashed to the river,
plunged in and. swan across. Then
we paused, and missed Mac. From
the servants came the frightened
wall, "Oh, the sahib is dead! Alas."
From the river bank We could see
the brute in perfect fury of rage,
trampling on the shapeless heap Of
cloth, furniture and poles, digging
his tusks into the canvas in an aban-
don of uncomfortable madness. There
was little doubt that Mac lay crushed
to death, mangled out of all likeness
by those terrible tusks. We waited
an age, it seemed, in an agony OF
suspense. BY the clear moonlight
everything was as plain as by day.
The elephant tossed the strong
canvas canopy as if it were door
mat, giving thrust after thrust, and
screaming in frenzy of wrath. FL
nally it shook its massive bulk, made
for the dining-tent, and after de-
molishing that, made for the
jungle.
There was an awful silence, broken
only by stified sob. Then some one
said, Poor old Mac,'
After a time we ventured to the
spot. From the shapeless mound of
canvas there proceeded something
like groan. Then a voice said.
Look alive, fellows, and get me
out of this or I'll be smotheredn'
20 Mac!" we blubbered. rs it
really your"
who did you think it was?" was
the answer.
We set to work to extricate our
friend. Tables and chairs were on
top OF him so that he could breathe
but not stir. 1t was narrow escape.
One thrust of the tusks had passed
between his arm and his side. The
tension of nerve was so great that at
one time he lost consciousness.
Macs first care, when he was once
free from the tangle, was to search
for his pipe.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31
A Good Argument.

The Asheyille IN. c. Citizen swells
the number of those Southern news
papers that are coming out for good
roads. This is what it has to say for
this cause in recent editorial:
AS has often been stated, free and
easy intercourse between farm and
city means better prices for farm pro-
ducts and better training facilities
for the farmers boys and girls.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31
Tolerant Orientals.

Both the Chinese and the Japanese
have shown throughout their history
great liberation in matters of religion.
Even the persecution of Christians in
the seventeenth century had its origin
purely in political reasons.-JapaH
Chronicle.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31
e. Nj. Seihert A Suicide,

Hagerstown fSpeciaD Edwin NJ.
Seibert committed suicide at his
home, at MerceIsburg, by shooting
himself in the head with a 3S-caliber
revolver. He was engaged in the
drug business for a number of years,
retiring ON account of his failing
health, which is believed to have
prompted him to take his life.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31

The British naval authorities have
girdled the Isle of Wight with tele-
phone service, the Needles, the wire
less telegraphy station at Culver Cliff
and other points have been put in
direct communication with the sig
nal station at Portland dockyard.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31
Nurse Broke Her Neck.

Hagerstown Especial Miss Kate
Clark, who had been nursing Mrs.
Nancy Heintzelman, who is i'll at her
residence at Scotland, fell down the
cellar steps and her neck was bro
ken. She died almost instantly. She
was found lying at the foot of the
stairway soon after taking the fatal
nlungp
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31

so bad with kidney
trouble that | could
not straighten up at
ter STOPPING without
sharp pains shooting
through my back. |
had dizzy spells. was
nervous and my eye
sight affected. The
kidney secretions
were irregular and
too frequent. | was
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31
DUBIOUS PRAISE.

Grey, the art critic, came along
just as ! was looking at your new
painting"
You mean my AT Work in the
Fields. And what did Grey think of
it,"
Commended its realism highly.
Said even to look at 1t made him
tired. Boston Transcript.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31
The Laundry Check.

Customer (pointing to the hero
glyphics on his check)-Is that my
name in Chinese?
Go Long tChinese laundryman) -
No; 'scliption. Means iii ole man:
crosseyed; no teet'."
Er-thank you.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31
Ladies' Can XYear Shoes

One size smaller after using Aliens Foot
Ease, a powder. Itmakes tight or new shoes
easy. Cures swollen, tot, sweating aching
feet, ingrowing nails, corns and bunions. At
all druggists and shoe stores. Csc. Don't ac-
cept any substitute. Trial package FREE by
mail. Address Allen S Olmsted, Leroy, NY.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31

Under President DiaZ the railroads.
of Mexico have reached 10000 miles.
and the government revenues have
grown from 100000 to sl15..
100000.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31

1t has been stated on British au-
thority that American immigrants
into Canada are taking $4,000, 900
worth of property into that country
each year.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31
THE SPRING DELUGE.

81 had delightful talk with the
Governor of the State"
Enjoyed it, eh?"
Yes; he didn't want to sell meUa
ticket for anything" - Washingtos
Herald.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31

FITS, ST. Ttus Dance: Nervous Diseases per-
manently cured by DR.. Kline's Great Nerve
Restorer. s. trial bottle and treatise free.
DR.. II. r. Kline, Id, 1881 Arch ST.. Phila., Pa.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31

More than 100000 railway EN-
ployes in England are working at a
wage of less than So a week. Only
about IL per cent. get more than
$3.50 a week
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-31
Force of Habit.

There is certain Western Con-
gresham whose boundless affability
and habitual Observation-Disclosures have
occasionally led him into absurd mis-
takes. One day, during his last cam
paign, as he stepped from the train
ut the station of his home town after
an arduous two weeks of stumping
and "glad-handing," his little daugh-
ter rushed up to him and kissed him.
The Congressman beamed upon her
with proud and tender parental eye.
well, WE'LL" he exclaimed, "if 1t
isn't my little Alberta!" Then he
added mechanically: And how is
your dear old ?"-Success.