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The Newtown bee., 1909-09-24
SOuthburv.
PERSONAL CHAT.

EIDOINAb SI1h |.
 Mrs Atwood is spending a few days in Waterbury. Miss Baldwin is with MT Derby.
 B. M Futile, who cut his hand and was threatened with blood poison, went to Danbury to consult a doctor. He is now able to be in his shop.
 Mrs Perry, and Charles and Frederick Perry, went to Waterbury, Derby and West Haven on Wednesday.
 Frank Harrison is doing carpenter work for Charles Stone at Oakville MT Stone is to engage in the lumber and feed business.
 Mrs Shelton has had tree experts from New Haven at work for several days on the large elm near her place en- deavoring to preserve it. This tree was set by Ebenezer Strong, greatgrand- father of Josiah Strong, the speaker and writer, who lived in the old red house on the opposite side of the road. in April. 17SS the. same day that H. Futile, was born. Inc naples and the large basswood near the Episcopal church was set the same day. In 1S4O heavy bolt of lightning struck it and it was then thought it would die but it recovered and few years ago was again struck. This, with the elm beetles, have nearly ruined this noble tree. Iney nave dlSO been at WOrk on the Green opposite her house. The large elm on the corner was set out by Dea- con Benjamin Hicock, who built the old house about the year 1750. This was a land mark, being just 20 miles to the old state house on the green in New Haven and just 10 miles to Mosher's old tavern in Seymour. The larger ones around the corner were set by Charles and Andrew Perry and Dr Abraham L. Hzl., .x naples near the pond were set about the same time and by the same persons, be- ing a dry summer not all of them lived. In the year 1S45 the neighbors around the green filled the vacancies. Now g scheme is on to destroy this green and convert it to private uses. The claim is made that the road formerly ran north of this row of trees and was changed tc accommodate the store which stood or
The Newtown bee., 1909-09-24
Georgetown.

THE VILLAGE AND VICINITY.
 MT and Mrs Floyd Bouton entertained friends at their camp, Wildwood Knoll,' over Sunday.
 Mrs Eggleston has been visiting friends in town.
 MT and Mrs Irving Bradley ana son of Norwalk were the guests of F. Bou- ton over Sunday.
 Mrs Fairbanks is entertaining her mother this week.
 Mrs Charlotte Parketon was visiting her friends in numerous places, last week.
 Miss Margaret Dooley, the Little Bos- ton school teacher is boarding with Mrs George Hazen.
 Orrin Platt has accepted a position in the Crofut & Knapp hat shop in Norwalk.
 Miss Ella Northrop was the guest of her mother over Sunday. Mrs Robert Still has been entertain ing friends from out of town.
The Newtown bee., 1909-09-24
Bethel.
WINS THE MONEY, BUT AT GREAT
 PERIL

PERIL.
 There is a small pond south of the Judd-Andrews Co.'S, hat shop on Mill waukee avenue, which is about waist deep and is badly discolored with the dye from the shop. One day last week a number of the employees dared one of the finishers, who is hale and hearty fellow, to wade through the pond and raised a purse of $4.50 to tempt him to to the stunt, which after few minutes he accepted and proceeded to the pond to do the act. When about halfway across the pond his foot caught or some obstacle and he was thrown down, being completely submerged. He was well covered with the dye and unfortunately swallowed quite little of the water which made him pretty sick man for the rest of the afternoon. He threw I. Jonah at lively rate. Bue he fully re- covered by night so he was able to go home washed up and clad in his right mind, but he thinks the next time his fellow workers want a stunt of that kind done he will let the other fellow do it.
The Newtown bee., 1909-09-24
The NewtoWn Bee.
 Newtown, Fr.~ay, Sept. si, 1909,
South Britain.
MIRR pRASE-MR COLL.

MISS PEAsE=MR COLE,
 Miss Pease of Ohio and Harry Cole of New Rochelle, x, Y,, were married Rt "camp Rest-a.While," "Wednesday morning, by Rev Frederick Taylor, On- ly the mother and sister of the groom were present Mr and Mrs Cole are spending c few days co the camp, and will return Co New Rochelle where q beautiful new house awaits them They have the e0rtv congratulations of their friends in this place.
 Mrs C. T, DOWnes of Brooklyn is yls' iting friends in town,
 MT Demmlng entertained Captain Sprngue of Hartford Inst week,
 Mir and Mrs George cNss have re- turned from < months vacation in Maine,
 Miss Juds0n and Miss Allen of stmt' ford nFe visiting Mrs Arthur MunsOn,
 Mrs John Mitchell entertained tht Bridge whist club, Wednesday after noon,
 Mrs Charles Bradley spent n few days in Milford last week,
 Mir and Mrs Robert lllnman of ZOal spent Sunday at F. AVerllis,
The Newtown bee., 1909-09-24
Lyons Plains.

BISHOP BREWSTER AT EMMANUEL
 Bishop Brewster will visit Emmanuel church, October g. The rite of confirm alton will be conferred at ! o'clock D m., to a large class
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-09
The worlds Wheat Crop.

For every $4,000 pounds of wheat
back to the farmer one pound of gold,
says Herbert n. Carson in Harper's
Weekly. For every loaf of bread upon
a Londoners table there will go
cent and half to the man behind the
reaper. And so the sale of every
wheat crop means that the gold will
come throbbing out into the arteries
OF business. like the blood from the
heart, and on its way back and forth
nourish the whole body of the nation.
More wheat and more efficient or
ganization of wheat agencies-that is
the program of the future. Already
one unsuccessful effort has been made
TO hold an international wheat con-
gress, and the second attempt may end
more happily. Not that the world has
become so small that a cable dispatch
flashes completely around it in twelve
minutes; now that there are forty-four
nations united by The Hague confer
ences AID fifty-eight by the Postal
Union, now that war has grown to be
so expensive that one cannon shot may
cost as much as a college education
and one battle ship as much as a first
class university, it is quite probable
that the march of cooperation will
continue until there is a congress, and
a central headquarters and tribunal,
which will represent nothing less than
an international fellowship of the
wheat
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-09
Pot.,oe, Grown I'm n barrel.

A sensation in potato growing has
been created in the neighborhood of
Ridgley, Md, or at Richardson, a sub
arb, by the discovery that potatoes
grown in a barrel yield enormously.
The experiment was put to local
Jest there this year, and during this
week the experimental, Oscar Needs,
invited his friends and neighbors 10
.ome in and see what the barrel con-
aimed Needs, early in the spring.
aad planted the eyes of one whole po-
.ato in a barrel which had contained
tilted earth. AS the vines grew.
Needs added dirt, and occasionally
added water when the lack of natural
substance of the mother earth caused
the dirt to appear dry. Potato bugs
could not reach ii. and the paris green
men, it is said, were gloomy as the
experiment progressed. When his
neighbors arrived to see what the old
barrel contained on digging day"
Needs carefully removed the earth
from the dead vines. and there, sure
enough, and al connected to the vines
by Dame Nature and not by a trick,
were 125 prime potatoes, or enough
10 fill peach basket, and leave half
peck of small unmarketable potatoes
in the barrel Now 1t Is claimed at
Ridgely that one man has given an
order for 5000 barrels to be made for
him next season.-The Delawarean.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-09
Profits in Dairying.

The man who is carrying on diver
sified farming can not keep one COW
for each acre of land he tills, but
dairyman can do so, and many OF
them do. They do not raise all the
grain used, but let their neighbors do
it for them. They know that they can
purchase grain for 100 cents on the
dollar and that their good dairy cows
will return 50 in product for every dol
lars worth of feed. They can better
afford to spend their time in caring
for the cows than in raising the grain.
In alfalfa sections the man with forty
good dairy COWS on forty acres of land
can furnish all the roughage required
the year around. He can not afford TO
give his COWS pasturage. but this is
the most expensive feed anyway un-
less a fellow has open range close by,
and such things have become mighty
scarce around where civilization pre-
walls. We will assume that five acres
of a good forty are used for the build
ings, yards, roads, line fences, etc.
This leaves thirty-fve acres of land for
actual tillage, and by having a silo
and soiling in the summer time the
question solves itself-Agricultura
Epitomist.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-09
His "BOys.v

There are times when the so-called
red tape" OF the army gives way un-
der the stress of circumstances. At
the battle of Chickamauga, Gen. VIII
Itch. who was commanding a brigade.
incurred the displeasure of General
Rosecrans, the commanding general,
by some very slight omission. General
Which was sent for, and informed by
the general commanding that he must
consider himself under arrest for the
present.
General" said Rosecrans. sternly,
consider yourself under arrest. and
leave your sword here until your case
is tried"
Yes, general, l will consider myself
under arrest" was the reply, land
shust so zoon as dis fights over I'll
come and fix him up
But, SIR said the astounded Rose
Grams, II want you to consider yourself
under arrest nOlr.'
"Of course l do responded Which,
promptly, land so zoon as l get off dis
fight. III be up and settle him."
But, SIR" expostulated the COM
handing general, Il can't let you go
into this fight. You are under arrest.
l will assign an officer to your brig
ade."
You send an officer to fight my
boys." cried Which. Indignantly. He
can't do it: they don't know him. Me
they know; teach them. 1 fight them.
and none of the boys would know how
TO fight or what to do, only when | go
with them. My boys belong to me.
yes. me, General Which. l command
the brigade, and l must fight the brig
ade,"
General Rosecrans gave 1t up. Gen
eral Which was requested to return
and fight his boys" which he did
most successfully. And that was the
end of the matter.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-09

Look out. HI" shouted the farm
er's wife as the big balloon scared
over the farm with a trailing anchor.
Them thar arynaughts will hook yeou
up like fish If yeou don't watch out. +"
Gosh, Mandy" gasped the old
farmer as he dropped his rake. "Yeou
don't think they'd try to do sech a
thing purposely, do yeou?"
Wouldn't trust them, Hi. That tall
chap looking down here with the eye
glass is one of them thar Indiana
writer folks and he's working on a
book called The Uplifting of the Farm
err Reckon yeou better keep yeour eye
on that anchor"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-09
TIE
optional
Eqzsfpr7enf

of the California Fig Syrup Co. and the
scientific attainments of its chemists have
rendered Possible the production of Syrup
of Figs and Elixir of SIENNA, in all of its
excellence, by obtaining the pure medic.
inal principles of plants known to act most
bene6cially and combining them most
skillfully, in the right proportions, with
its wholesome and refreshing Syrup of
California Figs.
As there is only one genuine Syrup of
Figs and Elixir of SIENNA and as the gen.
uine is manufactured by an original
method known to the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, it is always necessary to buy the
genuine to get its beneficial effects.
A knowledge of the above facts enables
one to decline limitations or to return them
if, upon viewing the package, the full name
of the California Fig Syrup Co. is not found
printed On the front thereof.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-09
was repulsed as indeed was the whole

was repplsed. as indeed was the whole
Army Of the Potomac. After our re-
pulse We were ordered to fortify.
A battery of artillery in our rear
was firing over our heads, its obJec-
tive being a point of the enemy's
works. Suddenly an explosion occur
red, enveloping our whole right with
powder smoke, hurting iron, and
dust. AS the air cleared we know that
a shell from the battery in our rear
had burst just over us, either by mis-
take or faulty manufacture.
Some one said it had killed a man in
the next company. Passing along into
and among the next company, | saw q
fine-looking young may lying partly
against the breastwork, apparently I'M
conscious. His uniform was torn from
his left breast and left arm, and his
flesh, lacerated and torn, hung in
noting the pulsations of his heart as
seen between the bare ribs.
The surgeon was quickly called. He
came reluctantly, looked an instant,
and turned on his heel and retired.
The murmuring of the men became
decidedly emphatic over his apparently
brutal conduct. Soon the hospital
steward appeared with a sponge and
a bottle OF colorless liquid. Saturating
the sponge he held it to the uncon-
scious soldiers nostrils. The brave
heart soon ceased beating forever. a
sheet of paper was in his hand, head
ed: Gold Harbor Va, June 5, 1864
Dear Mother" His comrades said they
would send his unfinished letter to his
mother, of whom he was thinking at
the instant he was snitten down.
Imagine her reception of that last
letter, accompanied by the explanation
of its unfinished state.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-09
Civil War Stories
AIIltOona.

The morning of October 3, 1863,
dawned brightly The Confederate
army under Hood had advanced 20 the
picket lines. and firing along the out
posts warned AllatoOna's defenders
that deadly work was in store for
them. The guards around tho rail-
road shed had been withdrawn to the
forts on the hilltop. at the right and
LEFT of the railroad. The first artillery
practice from the fort on the left Of
the railroad. facing Atlanta, resulted
in dismounting a Confederate battery
man and battery planted near the
railroad by the Johnnies: then the
bloody work of the day began.
l do not wonder why the battle of
Allatoona has not been written up by
some one of the survivors of that
dreadful carnage which lasted from
dawn till four o'clock in the afternoon.
The great mistake of General Hood in
attacking Allatoona is this: The Con-
federate scouts reported TO Hood that
there were but two or three regiments
guarding the place and the million
rations stored there, whereas there
were two brigades of the best troops
in the field that had quietly arrived
in the night before the battle, and
nobly did they resist the onward
charges of the Southern hosts and
storming parties, until the leading
Confederate officers were fully con-
WINGED that instead of two or three
regiments whole army of Union
troops had in some mysterious man.
ner. suddenly come to the rescue Of
Allatoona and the rations. The fact
was that the troops coming from
Rome. by order of General Sherman,
for the defense of Allatoona just fool
ed Hood and the officers under him,
and it was another George Washing
ton military movement. The fore
sight of General Sherman in ordering
plenty of men TO defend Allatoona
proved ole of the greatest gains to his
success through Georgia.
And though the people of this age
may never realize the Importance of
the, defense of Allatoona, Ga. l am
sure the troops engaged in that de-
Tense will fully sustain me in the
statement that had General Corse sur
rendered on account of the useless
effusion of blood as General Hood ex.
pressed it, the march through Geor-
gia'' would have been delayed many
moons.
I always admired General Sherman,
and saw at once as l gazed at him for
the first time that he meant business:
and what little of a warrior I ever
had in my makeup was inspired in
me by General W. T. Sherman; for |
considered him all that man could de-
sire as a soldier. and a man desper-
ately determined to do all in his DOW
er to show to the world that the
American army was not pack of
bloodhounds. but gentle and kind in
peace, and, in war. furious and unre-
vengeful That the whole Southern
army. navy and Confederate States
were deceived in fighting the Govern
ment of the United States is exempli-
fed in the terrible carnage of Ala
toona. The troops under Hood were
shamefully deceived. for there were
too many troops defending the place,
as they bitterly realized at the time.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-09
a Warning.

I warn my countrymen that the
great recent progress made in city life
is not full measure of our civiliza-
ton; for our civilization rests at bot
tom on the wholesomeness. the attrac-
tiveness and the completeness, as well
as the prosperity, of life in the coun-
try. The men and women on the
farms stand for what is fundamentally
best and most needed In our American
life.
Upon the development of country life
rests ultimately our ability, by meth
DDS of farming requiring the highest
intelligence, to continue to feed and
clothe the hungry nations; to supply
the city with fresh blood, clean bodies
and clear brains that can endure the
terrific strain of modern life; we need
the development of men in the open
country, who will be in the future,
as in the past, the stay and strength
of the nation in time of war and its
guiding and controlling spirit in time
of peace.-Theodore Roosevelt in Out
look.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-09
A whistler story.

Charles L. Freer of Detroit is Amer
ica's leading collector of Whistler's
paintings, among Mr.. Freer's treas
upes being the famous Peacock room
decorations from the dining rooom of
the Leyland house in London.
Mr.. Freer is also a collector of
Whistler anecdotes, one of which he
told me at recent dinner.
Whistler" he said, 'once under
took to get a fellow painters work in
to the autumn Salon. He succeeded,
and the picture was hung.
''But the painter, going to see his
masterpiece with Whistler on varnish-
ing day, uttered a terrible oath when
he beheld it.
"'Good gracious,' he groaned,
you're exhibiting my picture upside
down.
Hush said Whistler The COM
nlittee refused it the other way"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-09
Barred Plymouth Rocks


The breed of chickens one keeps is
a matter of pers nal choice, for any
of the standard breeds we'll cared for
will return good profits. Among the
American breeds, usually termed gen
eral purpose fowls, the barred Ply
mouth rocks are very popular.
The barred Plymouth rock chicken
has many good qualities for making
ii an ideal farm fowl Ii is a fairly
good layer and the eggs are large and
of beautiful light brown color. In
dividual members of this breed, under
expert care at the Maine experiment
station, have beat the worlds record
for egg laying. The hens are excellen.
settlers and good mothers. Young
barred Plymouth rock chicks develop
rapidly, mature early, are of beautiful
appearance; their meat is of the finest
texture and flavor and they command
the highest price on the market for
broilers and roasters. Capons Of the
breed are unexcelled and are preferred
on some markets to all other breeds.
Cockerels from 10 to IL months old
are of the fine flavor and make ex-
cellent roasters. Both sexes weigh
heavy for their size, hence the breed
is one of the best market fowls. The
breed is popular among fanciers and
eggs and stock of high scoring birds
bring high prices for breeding pur-
poses.
All of the rocks take on fat readily
when given fat forming feeds, which
makes them ideal for market purposes.
but hens for laying should be given
plenty of range and their grain feed
should be scattered in litter to induce
them to exercise for the promotion Of
egg laying
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-09
Was Poor Tom A-CoId.

Vets" and those who like good word
painting will enjoy this from the San
Francisco Examiner:
The night of Dec. 81. 1868. was az
ceedingly cold in the vicinity of Muir
freesboro, Tenn. The first days battle
at Stone River had been fought, result
ing in disaster to the Federal army.
which had been driven from its orig
inal ground at every point except its
extreme left. The weary troops at
that point lay behind railway en-
bankment. which had served them dur
ing the last hours of the fight as a
breastwork to repel repeated charges
of the enemy. Behind the line OF
ground was open and rocky. Great
powders lay about everywhere, and
among them lay many of the Federal
dead, where they had been carried out
of the way. Before the embankment
the dead of both armies lay greatly
thicker, but they were not mOlasted.
1t was not a dark night, being clear.
Among the dead in the powders Law
one whom nobody knew-a Federal
sergeant, shot directly in the center OF
tie forehead. One Of our surgeons.
from idle curiosity, or possibly with a
view to the amusement of a group of
officers during a lull in the engage
ment 1--WE needed something to divert
our minds, had dropped his proDe
clean through the head. The body Law
on its back, its chin IN the air, and
with Strengthened limbs as rigid as
steel; frost on its white face, and its
beard and hair. Some Christian soul
had covered it with a blanket. but
when the night became pretty sharp a
companion of the writer removed III 5.
and we lay beneath it ourselves.
With the exception of our pickets.
who had been posted we'll in front of
the embankment, every man lay silent.
Conversation was forbidden; to have
made a fire or even struck a match TO
light a pipe would have been a grave
offense. Stamping horses, moaning
wounded-everything that made a
noise had been sent to the rear; the
silence was absolute. Those whom the
chill prevented from sleeping, never
theless, reclined as they shivered. n
sat with their heads on their arms.
suffering, but making no sign. Every
one had lost friends and all expected
death on the morrow. These matters
are mentioned to show the improbable
ity of any one going about during
those solemn hours to commit ghas.-
ly practical joke.
When the dawn broke the sky was
still clear. I'VE shall have a warm
day" the writer's companion whispered
as we rose in the gray light; lets
give back the poor devil his blanket -
The sergeant's body lay in the same
place, two yards away. But not in the
same attitude. 1t was upon its right
side. The knees were drawn up nearly
to the breast, both hands thrust to the
wrists between the buttons of the
jacket. the collar of which was turned
up, concealing the ears. The Shout
ders were elevated. the head was re-
tracted, the chin rested on the collar
3one, the posture was that of one suf-
fering from intense cold.
But for what had been previously OBJ
served-but for the CHASTITY evidence of
the bullet-hole-one would have sworn
the man had frozen to death.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-09
Fattening Chickens.

Fat is worth enough on market poul
try that some men are making a bust
ness of buying fowls from the farmers
and fattening them for market. 1t
is an indisputable fact that the aver
age lot of fowls marketed frcm the
farms has received little or no atten-
tion to fattening The farmer simply
picks them out from the main flock
when the huckster comes around In
his wagon. and the birds are weighed