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The Story of t Courtship That Hung Fire, but Was Brought
to Satisfactory Conclusion on Washington's Eirthday
By JEROME SPRAGUE
Copyright. 1009. by American run AMoclstian
LL the world was white, and
the snow was still com
ing down. The wind
drifted it into corners
and piled it up on the
bare branches of the
trees.
Virginia stood at the window and
watched it disconsolately.
"Of course 1 shall hare to have a
cab," she said, "or I'll spoil my gown."
"Of course," said the young man
who reclined comfortably in a big
brown leather chair by the fireplace.
"Of course, if you insist on going out"
Virginia whirled around and looked
at him scornfully. "Why should I
stay at home?" she demanded.
"Because life is too short to risk get
ting your feet wet and your chiffons
damp when you might sit here and
talk to me," was the lazy reply.
Virginia, with all her rosy ruffles
a-flutter, crossed the room and stood
In front of him.
"Would you really want me to stay.
Dob," she demanded, "when it Is my
duty to go? It Isn't as if it were an
everyday affair,
but a Continen
tal dinner to cel
ebrate the birth
day of the Fa
ther of His
Country Is a dif
ferent thins."
"Certainly." her
fiance agreed,
"but It isn't
worth going out
in all this
storm."
Virginia sur- "stay hebx ajo
veyed him with- talk to job."
eringly. "And your great-grandfather
was almost frozen at Valley Forge for
this."
The young man smiled. "Well, not
exactly," he said, "but whafs the use,
Virginia? Stay here and talk to me
nnd let the world go by."
Her eyes flashed, and at her sharp
look Cunningham flushed a little.
"Please telephone for my cab," was
her command, and then, as be rose to
do her bidding, she came back at him
with the announcement: "You can sit
by the fire and dream, if you wish. I
don't want you to go with me."
He turned and looked at her. "Do
you really mean that, Virginia?"
"Yes," she said, "I really mean it"
He telephoned and came back, then
In silence they sat, one on each side of
the fireplace, waiting.
When at last the cab drove up, he
helped her into her fur lined wrap and
knelt to put on her carriage boots.
When he rose to his feet he asked,
"Shall I come for you?"
"No," she informed him. "Mrs. Fre
llnghuyseh will let me come home with
her. I need not trouble you to leave
the fire."
He laughed a little. "Oh, don't rub
It in," he said as he preceded her to
the cab.
He stood bareheaded in the snow as
the cab drove away, and Virginia's
heart gave a little throb of admira
tion. How very good looking he was,
and how lazy! He needed a lesson.
Later she thought of him when the
devoted D. A. R.'s, having read pa
pers and sung songs expressive of
their patriotism and of their desire
to perpetuate the name and fame of
their heroic forbears, listened to tne
speaker of the evening.
Dinner followed, and in a glitter of
gorgeousness the daughters trailed up
stairs to the dining room. Flags dec
orated the long hall, rosettes of buff
and blue were everywhere, and In the
center of the huge table was a cherry
tree, at the foot of which lay a shining
hatchet tied with red ribbons.
Virginia, with Mrs. Frelinghuysen
opposite, and with a famous old ad
miral on one side and a callow cadet
on the other, was bored to extinction.
Her thoughts crept back somewhat
longingly to Cunningham, to the bright
fire on the hearth and to the big
brown leather chair, which since their
engagement haa come to be cailea
"Bob's own." Her own low wicker
one sat close to it.
Mrs. Frelinghuysen and the admiral
argued.
"Did you agree with the speaker,"
asked the stately dame, "that there are
few men now like the ones of Wash
ington's time?"
"No," he said somewhat gruffly.
"There's nothing to bring it out now,
nothing to bring it out. But let the
reason come and
you'd find that
some of our lazi
est men would be
the best fighters."
Virginia leaned
forward eagerly.
"Do you really
think that?" she
asked.
The old man
nodded.
"Certainly, Miss
Cary. Been my
experience. I
haven't a bit of
use for the man
who brags. Just
get one of those
THE 8PLINTEIUNQ
OF WOOD.
fellows with good blood In him and In
times of peace he'll act as if it was an
xertion to cross the room, but let war
come and he's the one that does the
big things."
Virginia began to wonder If she had
been hasty in her condemnation of
Bob. She wished that she had let him
come with her. She wishedand, as
If the fairies had heard, she saw Cun
ningham's fair head in the doorway.
He came straight toward her, and
even as she watched him Virginia was
aware of a strange commotion In the
room. Women were rising from the
seats and men were shouting; then
chairs crashed as their occupants
moved them back in haste and made
for the stairway, and over and above
all wavered a thin blue banner of
smoke.
Mrs. Frelinghuysen,' said Cunning
ham as he came up, "the building is on
fire. I have turned in an alarm, but
we must get out at once."
The old officer and the young cadet.
each trained to act quickly, sprang to
their feet.
You look out for the other women,"
Cunningham directed. "I'll take care
of Miss Cary."
As they hurried toward the doors a
man came running to meet them. "Go
to the back stairway," he panted, i
"There's a perfect utajoiDeda on the
atchet
Me Us
t
front. It won't do for another person
to pack against that crowd."
The back stairway was long and nar
row and at the foot the door was shut
and locked.
Cunningham wrenched at the lock,
but it held. Then the strong young
cadet tried it, and then the old admiral
exerted all his force, but still the lock
held, and all the time the smoke was
growing denser, and they knew that at
the head of the stairway the fire was
raging, cutting off retreat.
Virginia, overtaken by panic, scream
ed, but Mrs. Frelinghuysen, stanch
even in that moment of great danger,
said: "They'll get us out, my dear.
Don't worry."
But though Cunningham and the
callow cadet and the strong old ad
miral burled themselves against the
door it held.
"There's a window up there," said
the cadet, "we men could climb"
Cunningham shook bis head.
"But the women couldn't," he said,
and turned this way and that rest
lessly. Then suddenly, like a flash,
he flew back up the stairway and dis
appeared Into the smoke.
"Oh, coward, coward." Virginia's
thoughts condemned, and, as If In an
swer of her doubt of him, she saw
him coming back. In his hand was a
shining weapon the hatchet that had
been laid at the foot of the little cher
ry tree on the table.
"Stand back!" be shouted, and she
heard the old admiral say. "Thank
God!" She was conscious of the
splintering of wood, a rush of outside
air, a babel of voices, and then she
famted. When she came to herself
she was in a carralge. and Cunning
ham was bending over her.
"I got you out of that crowd as
soon as I could," he said as she open
ed her eyes. "There were dozens of
carriages, and I simply took one."
Virginia clung to him. sobbing, "Oh,
Bob, Bob, are you hurt?"
"Nothing that a bandage or two
wont help," he said, but his face was
drawn with pain. "We'll go back to
your house, and
in an hour we'll
never know the
difference."
"Yes, we will
know the differ
ence." Virginia
sat up and wiped
her eyes. "Oh.
how brave you
are. Bob. and
how unjust I
was"-
"Oh, cut it
out," he said
"with my little slangily. "No
hatchet." man would hesi
tate to do a thing like that when a lot
of women were In danger, especially
the one that he loves better than his
life."
Virginia looked at him wistfully.
"Do you really love me." she asked,
"after I was so so hateful this after
noon?" His answer was so satisfactory that
she was all rosy with blushes when
she asked her next question.
"Tell me -just how you opened the
door."
His eyes twinkled, and then he gave
his answer in one immortal sentence:
"I cannot teil a lie, Virginia. I did
It with my little hatchet!"
Washington Was a Dandy.
"There can be little doubt that he
was in early life a good deal of a dan
dy," writes the author of "The True
George Washington," and he adds that
this liking for fine feathers never quite
ieft the great man. Washington's dia
ries fairly bristle with notes about the
fine clothes he frequently ordered.
Washington No Orator.
He was not a speaker, which was per
haps due to actual humility and
shyness. On one occasion he attempt
ed to read a short speech, but failed,
whereupon be remarked, "I have
grown blind as well as gray In the
ervlce of my country."
Keeping Up the Limit.
In J. Comyns Can's reminiscences
Is a characteristic anecdote of Burne
Jones, who had consulted his doctor
about certain symptoms which seemed
alarming.
"How many cigars do you smoke In
a day?" the doctor Inquired of his pa
tient, to which Burne-Jonn had care
lessly replied. "Oh. I think about six."
"Well," replied his adviser, "for the
present you had better limit yourself
to three." And in detailing the Inci
dent to me afterward Burne-Jones add
ed, with a chuckle. "You know, my
dear Carr. I never did smoke more
than three."
Women and Now Money.
The cashier, as usual, paid the loom
boss in new money crisp, sweet smell
ing bank notes that it was pleasant to
handle.
"But why is it, George," he asked,
that you insist upon new money al
ways? I know you band every cent
of it to your wife."
The loom boss chuckled.
Tf a easy to see you ain't a married
man, Will," said he. "Otherwise you'd
know woman's nature better and
wouldn't need to be told the advan
tage of taking home new money to
the wife. The explanation is, Will,
that women are so fond of new money
that they hate to part with it. It
makes them economical. They bar
gain for this, they deny themselves
that, and the upshot is that at the end
of each week they have a tidy little
sum, all brand new, put by In a stock
ing or a teapot. It pays. Will, to give
the wife new money. It pays some
thing like 20 per cent." Philadelphia
Bulletin. , ,
Sweet and Low.
A young man named Sweet engaged
to marry a young woman named Lowe
A few Sundays previous to the wed-
uing tne nappy couple attended church
together, and as they walked alonar th
aisle the choir begaq singing the.song
"Sweet and Low," entirely unconscious
of the musical pun that was being Der-
petrated.
Thrifty.
MWeIL parson. Is your flock lib'ral in
their "nevolences?"
"Liberal? Well. I should snv riov u
not that. Why, when I asted them to
sing 'Ole Hundred' dev done sum? Th
Ninety and Nine.' "Harper's.
if!
WOODCRAFT.
Methods of Canadian Indiana In Trav
ersing Forests.
A Canadian Indian, states a contem
porary, never loses his way In the
woods, being always able to find his
road over a route once followed by
him and also to penetrate forests that
he has never seen if only another In
dian shows him the general course in
a rough draft on a piece of bark.
Indians display marked ability In
communicating with one another in the
woods. They telegraph by means of
smoke, and it Is astonishing how far
off they can scent it always a long
time before they can see it or could
hear a sound from Its vicinity. If they
expect to be followed by another party
they stick a piece of wood In the
ground on a portage, slanting it in the
direction in which they are traveling.
Those who find it will know by the de
gree of Inclination whether they who
planted it are traveling hurriedly or
not
If it be in summer, a small bough or
piece of a shrub is fastened to the
stake, and by the extent to which It
has become withered those who find It
will know when it was placed there.
If a hunter, as very often happens, has
to make a detour or to remain behind
his squaw In search of game, she will
occasloaally Indicate the route she has
taken by sticks placed in the ground,
to which she has attached a small por
tion of her skirt.
THE GERMAN CENSOR.
He Was a Terror to the Dramatist a
Hundred Years Ago.
The way the censor worried the Ger
man dramatists of a century or so ago
is strikingly Illustrated by a book on
the censorship in Germany published
by Dr. Robert Heindl at Munich. The
German theater used to be terribly
moral. In 1795 the Viennese censor
laid it down that an engaged couple
ought not to quit the stage separately,
but that they should be accompanied
by an official who should be under
stood to be about to make immediate
arrangements for their marriage. Even
In 1848 misalliances were prohibited
on the Viennese stage, for, as the cen
sor sagely observed, these misfortunes
will occur In real life, but they should
not be allowed in the theater.
At Stuttgart the "Iphigenia in Tau
rls" of Goethe was nearly prohibited
because the Greek dress allowed the
actors' bare legs to be seen. There
was a long dispute over this point, but
at last the censor permitted the play
on condition that the actors wore yel
low tights.
Few would have imagined that the
Viennese censor was so careful of the
morals of the population a hundred
years ago, but Dr. Heindl shows that
not merely political allusions were cen
sored, but that the strictest decorum
of word and of thought was insisted
upon.
Counting Postal Cards.
Of the many interesting machines
employed by the government in its
daily work there may be mentioned
those used for counting and tying
postal cards into small bundles. These
machines are capable of counting 500,
000 cards in ten hours and wrapping
and tying them in packages of twenty-five
each. In this operation the pa
per is pulled off a drum by two long
fingers which emerge from below, and
another finger dips in a vat of mu
cilage and applies itself to the wrap
ping paper in precisely the right spot.
Other parts of the machine twine the
paper round the pack of cards, and
then a thumb presses over the spot
whereon the mucilage has been ap
plied, whereupon the package is
thrown on a carrying belt ready for
delivery. Minneapolis Journal.
Then He Subsided.
"I have made it a rule through life,"
he said at the table the other day to a
man at his left, "never to meddle with
another man's business."
"That's right perfectly right," was
the reply.
"But I see you have a new confiden
tial clerk."
"Yes, sir, yes."
"He's a hard looking case. I have
seen him intoxicated a dozen times,
and I wouldn't trust him out of my
sight with a sixpence. Took him out
of charity, eh?"
"Well, not altogether, you know. He
happens to be my eldest son." Lon
don Mail,
The Gingerbread Tree.
There is a species of palm, growing
to a height of from twenty-five to thir
ty feet, in Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia
and Nubia which produces its fruit In
long clusters, eath containing from
100 to 200. These fruits are of an
Irregular form, of a rich yellowish
brown color and are beautifully pol
ished. In upper Egypt they form part
of the food of the poorer classes of in
habitants, the part eaten being the
fibrous, mealy husk, which tastes al
most exactly like gingerbread, whence
the popular name of gingerbread tree
In Egypt. Hyphoene tbebaica Is the
botanical name of this palm.
ALL TIRED OUT.
Hundreds More in Stafford Springs
in the Same Plight.
Tired all the lime ;
Weary and wcrn ont niglit aud day ;
Back aoheg ; s.de acl es,
A on act-cunt of the Kidneys.
Must help ttuni at their wotk
A Stafford Springs citizen shows
you how :
Michael Mullins, living on H cks
avenue, Stafford Springs, Genu , says:
"My wife had been in poor I ealth
for some time, and I now think her
trouble was caused by weakened and
disordered kidnejs She oom plained
a great deal of backache and pains in
her sides She was very nervona and
subject- to sick headaches and dizz
spells. I I ad oiten heard of the
merits of D.an's Kidney Pills, and
finally procured a box of this remedy
at Eaton's drug store. My wife began
Its use and I am glad to say that this
preparation did her worlds of good,
and she is now in better health tl an
she was iu a long time I consider
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Tot Infants and Children.
Ha Jkti Yon Bi3 ilbays Bst
Bears the
Signature of
OLD TIMETURKEY EAT
A Once Popular Feast In the
Pennsylvania Mountains.
GONE WITH THE WOODSMEN.
The People, Traditions and Associa
tions That Made It Possible Are No
More, and It Joins In Oblivion the
Apple Cut and Quilting Bee.
"It isn't because there is no more
material in the Blue mountain region
of Pennsylvania to provide a turkey
eat that we have had the last of those
famous festivities," said a former
dweller of the district described, "for
there are still wild turkeys a-plenty.
"The turkey eat has gone out with
the passing of the people whose homes,
traditions and manner of life made it
possible and with the occupation that
was once theirs.
"In the days when the turkey eat
was the great winter festivity in the
mountain districts between the Schuyl
kill and the Juniata watersheds the
sparse population was chiefly of rude
and rugged woodmen and their fami
lies, many of them descendants of
pure Pennsylvania Dutch stock. Scores
of them depended almost entirely on
their skill with gun and trap for their
food supply.
"The cabins of these mountaineers
were built of logs, the chinks between
which were filled in with clay. A
huge stone chimney rose at one end
of the cabin outside, covering that en
tire end, while on the inside it opened
on a broad fireplace across that end
of the room.
"The cabin was banked all around
with earth, against which hemlock and
pine boughs were heaped. Sometimes
rows of cord wood were piled up al
most to the eaves, the better to keep
out the cold, which is always intense
during winter on those wind swept
hills.
"There was rarely a cabin with more
than one room. The walls were dark
and smoky, and from rafter or beam
hung plentifully strips of jerked veni
son and chunks of smoked bear meat,
along with hams and bacon from the
family pigs fattened in the woods and
almost as wild as the bear and the
deer. But the choicest and best be
loved thing of the cabin's larder was
the fat and well frozen wild turkey.
"While the woodsman's cabin was al
ways prepared for a turkey eat. it
never knew when it was coming. A
turkey eat began with the making up
of a party In a neighboring village or
settlement. Taking along a fiddler,
they would appear at this, that or the
other woodsman's cabin of a winter
evening, and the woodsman and his
family did the rest.
"Instantly the birch wood pail of ci
der came forth. While the cabin's
guests drank cider the host prepared
and spitted the turkey over the hick
ory coals in the fireplace to roast for
the feast. When it was ready for the
table It was placed before the guests
on a big tin platter. Each one carved
for himself, the plates being squares
of birch bark.
"The turkey eat was not complete,
though, without a liberal supply of
'paan haas' and head cheese, and with
It went the sweetest of rye bread and
butter. Paan haas Is a strictly Penn
sylvania Dutch creation.
"It Is made from the rich juices left
after boiling the ingredients for head
cheese, these being thickened to a stiff
paste with buckwheat flour. This paste
is pressed In forms until cold and Is
served in slices. It is a dull blue in
color, very rich and very good.
"After the feast the turkey eat was
rounded out by a night of jollity super
Induced by the fiddle and maintained
by it in Its music for the old fashioned
cotillon figures and reels, which were
danced until the gray of morning.
"But most of those old time woods
men have passed away, and on those
who are still dwellers in the mountains
the game laws have forced a situation
that leaves them with their ancient oc
cupation gone, and the hunt being no
longer a source of maintenance Its tra
ditions have departed with it. Th
newer generation of these people is of
other tastes and associations, so while
the wild turkey is yet in proximity in
that Blue mountain region to supply
the material for the festive turkey eat
the traditions and associations that
made it possible are no more, and it Is
gone, like the apple cut, the quilting
bee, the pig killing frolic and others of
the old time, rural pastimes that are
now but a memory." New York Sun.
Hot Stuff.
The great editor looked up Impa
tiently. "Boy," he said, "what is that rus
tling In the wastebasket a mouse?"
The boy after examining the basket
answered:
"No, sir: it's one o' them poems o"
passion throbbin'."
"Well, pour some water on it and
then drop it out of the window." said
the editor. "The building isn't insured."-
-KjjnsjisliTdependent.
As the Twig Is Bent.
"I hope you were a good little boy
while at you aunt's and didn't tell any
stories," said his mother.
"Only the one you put me up to, raa,"
replied her young hopeful.
"Why, what do you mean, child?"
"When she asked me if I'd like to
have a second piece of cake I said, 'No,
thank you; I've had enough.' "-
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Dr. Thomas Ecleetric Oil, monarch over
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Economy.
Economy is always admirable. A
Cheyenne hatter, though, was disgust
ed the other day with the economical
spirit of a visitor to his shop. The
visitor, a tall man with gray hair,
entered with a soft felt hat. wrapped
In paper, in his hand.
"How much will it cost," he said,
"to dye this hat gray to match my
hair?"
"About a dollar," the hatter an
swered. The tall man wrapped the hat up
again.
"I won't pay it," he said. "I can
get my hair dyed to match the hat
for a quarter." Household Journal.
Stats of Ohio. Ci' v op Tolkdo,
LrcAS County. j Hn-
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is senior
garrner of tbe fl-m of J. Cheney & Co.. doing
uslness in the City of Toledo, County and State
aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of
ONE HUNOKKD DOLLAK for fach and every
case of atairh that cannot be cured ry the use
of Hall's Catarrh cure, FHANK J CHfNEY.
Sworn to before me and subscrlb d In my
pretence, this 6th day of December, a. I. 1886.
,o.t . A. W. GLRAS N,
(obai.; Notaht Public.
Ball's catarrh Cure Is taken . Internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. Send for test Imonlals free.
F. J. OTIENEY A CO., Toledo, O.
sold by all druggists, 75c
Take Hall's Family Puis for constipation.
MONSON.
Miss Ada Welden bat resigned her
position, as teaober at the East hill
school, and Miss Lucy P. Johnson of
Springfield has been secured to fill
her position.
A B. O. Deming, Jr., has resigned
his position as cashier of tbe Monson
National bank, to take a similar
position in Hopkinton. Mr. Deming
has many local frienda who will
regret his departure. Mr. Deming
has been with the bank about three
years, coming here In Maroh, 1906
He came here from the Palmer Na
tional bank, where he had worked ten
yearn, being teller at the time. He
wishes to leave his present position
March Gth.
Mrs. David H. Rees, CO, for 18
years a resident of Monson, died at
her home on Main street early Thurs
day morning, after a brief illnesb with
pneumonia. She was born and spent
her early life in New Brunswick,
coming to Monson in 1891. In Aug
ust, 1872, she married David H.
Rees. She leaves a husband, one
son, D. Evau Rees, both of Monson,
and one sister, Mrs. Mary Wins low,
of Lynn She was an estimable and
capable woman, and her loss will be
keenly felt by those who knew her
best. The funeral was held from her
late home this forenoon at 10 o'clock,
R-v O W. Will ami) of Palmer offici
ating, assisted by Rev. J. M. Gage.
The burial was in the No. 1 ceme
tery. Lorenzo Hntchinson, 65, one of the
best known of Monson business men.
died Wednesday night, ue was a
genial companion, a pqnare business
man and had many frienda who regret
his death. One of his most admirable
characteristics was his courage. Ever
since the shock which he experienced
some time ago he had kept right on
with his business in the same old
clieeifnl inat'iitr He Uhtd his fellow
men as he wanted tlxm to use him,
ami when I i time came to go he met
the emergency bravely, as he had met
all the t-mei eenri s of his life. M-.
Hutc hiupou l ad lived I ere about 30
yearn. Ha wan born and brought op
iu Ware, u hi re he received his edu-
cati n lie t-oou learned the carriage
malei's tred, whirh he followed suc
c sslolly until his last illness. Mr
Hntf-hinsou conducted a lusineis ol
i Ins kind in Kiskdale fur several years,
until in 1881 he came 'o Monson.
Here he started in a small way, but
strad ly increased his business up to
its prtsut state In 1881 he married
Mrs. Eliza Robiut-on, who survives
him; he also leaves two sisters, Mrs.
William Thayer of Springfield and
Mrs. L Snow of Feeding Hills; also
one brother, Georu" Hutchinson, of
Ware. The funeral will be held at
the home this afternoon at 2 30, Rev.
U A. Andrews officiating. The
burial will be in the No. 1 cemetery.
Louis Stowell, 92, one of the oldest
residents of Monson, met bis death by
falling down stairs at the Monson
town farm about 7. p. m. Tuesday,
the 6th He had been in remark
ably gocd I ealth for one of his ad
vanced Bge, and was about as usnal
uutil t lie accident. He had finished
li is supper and wsb passing through
a long' hall on the way to his room,
but instead of passing by the cellar
door, opened it, and evidently fell
down the whole flight of stairs to the
bottom, landing where be was found
dead. Mr. Stowell was one of the
oldest residents of Monson and well
known in this section. He was born
in South Hadley in January, 1817,
of good Puritan stock, and after some
education learned the trade of a shoe
maker, which he followed all the
active years of his life. At one time
he had a laige business of that kind
and sold his own goods all through
Massachusetts and Connecticut. Dur
ing his career he had lived in East
Hartford, Wilbraham, Windsor, Lud
low, Somers and other surrounding
villages He had also lived in Kausas
and Nebraska for several years. The
last part of his lite was spent in Mon
eou, where he was known as an un
usually bright old man, and he re
tained all his faculties until his un
timely death. He leaves two daugh
ters, Mrs. Dwight Squier of Monson
and Mrs. A S. Hendriok of Salisbury,
Ct. The burial was in Granby.
.
Value of the Architect.
The members of a country club, the
building and decoration of whose club
bouse hiul been placed entirely in the
hands of the architect, even to the mi
nutest furnishings, found themselves
in need of new window shades and a
few other small household necessities.
Instead of buying the things them
selves, they sent for the architect to
come out and look things over and
order appropriate fittings.
"That Is not at all an unusual case,"
said the nr.-hltect. "I can show you
houses that I planned more than twenty-five
years ago that have never been
furnished with so much as a new
chair without my being consulted first
Having deferred entirely to my judg
ment In the first place, those confiding
patrons are afraid to trust their own
taste In the smallest matter, and they
will probably continue to ask my ad
vice In every little detail of decoration
is long as they occupy the house."
New York Globe.
The Cell of Companionship. ' -
Yon often henr a lonesome child
say. "I want some one to play with!"
Elderly people often become lonesome
vid Wiint s.):i! one to play with ln
- afraid to say so. Atchison OlolH
Itching piles provoke profanity, but
profanity won't cure them. DoanV Olnt
ment cures itching, b eeding or protruding
piles after years of sufiVing, At any
drug store.
v rhe Contrast.
The elderly bride regarded in the
mirror her wreath of orange bios- ;
soms. her gown of ivory satin and old '
Valenciennes and her long rope of per
fect pearls. .
"There's only one trouble about fine
clothes," she murmured. "They make
one's face look so shabby." New York
Press. ;
If you haven't the time to exercise reg
ularly. Doan's Regulets will prevent con
stipation. They induce a mild, easy,
healthful action of the bowels without
griping Ask your druggist for them. 25c.
-
Many Children Are Sickly. .
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for children,
used by Mother Gray, a nurse In Children's
Borne, New York, Break np Colds In 84 hours,
cure Fevetl hness, Headache, Stomach Trou
bles, Teething Disorders, and Destroy Worms.
At all druggists, 25c. sample matted FREE.
Address, Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. T.
THIRTY TEARS AGO.
(Items of local late rest taken from the oolumna
ot The Press, thirty yean ao.)
rbrnry ST. 1879.
Lyman Oolburn died February 18th
at Staffardville, at the age of 86
years.
Landlord Wood of the Springs
House is recovering from an illnossof
some weeks' duration
One of the prized flood relics of the
Congregational church is the marble
top of the old communion table, which
was picked op down the stream, un
broken.
Changes This week J M Leach,
manager of Bruner & Souu's clothing
store in this village, removes to the
east store in Dr. Eaton's (late John
Brown'i) block. E. A Buck's hard
ware fctue is to be removed Apiil lat
to tiie two north store iu Bakttr's new
block, aud W. D. Heairi' drag Bti re
and 'ih impsou & Whltoii gncery
tore are to do rem Ved to the came
block Miltou Wilson, now with L
W. Orane, will take the store vacated
by Thompson & Whiton, aud put iu a
lock of grocer its.
Born. lu Stafford, 27th, a daogh
ttr to J. N Benjxmiu.
Iu Stafford, 26t!i, a daughter to
Miner R. Kuuwltou
In Willingtou, 21ih, a daughter to
George Knight
In taff irdill , luth, a sou to
Step'ieu Ford.
In M umou, 17th, a daughter to
John Brockbank.
MI-O-NA.
REMOVES STOMACH MISERY AL
MOST IMMEDIATELY.
If the food you ate at our lust
meal did not digest, but laid for a
long time like lead ou your stomach,
then you have iudigettiou and must
act quickly.
Of course there are many other
symptoms of indigestion, such a
belching up of sour food, heartburn,
dizzinesit, shortness ot breath aud fool
breath, and if you have any of thetu,
your stomach Is out of order and
alien Id be corrected
Mi-o-na tablets have cored thous
ands of cases of Indigestion and stom
ach trouble. If yoo have any stomach
distress, Mi-o-na will relieve instant-
ly.
But Mi-o-na, unlike most so-called
dyspepsia remedies, does more than
relieve ; it permanently cures djspeptJa
or any stomaob trouble by putting
energy and strength into the walls
of the stomaoh.
A large box of Mi-o-na tablets costs
but 50 cents at Anders Jacobean 's,
and are guaranteed to cute or money
back. When others fail, Mi-o na
cures. It is a producer of flesh when
the body is thin; it cleanses the
stomach and bowels; purifies the
blood and makes rich red blood.
mm
CURES CATARRH, ASTHMA,
Bronchitis, Croup, Coughs and Colds, ot
money back. Sold and guaranteed by
AN1EKS JACOBSEK
THE NURSE and the DOCTOR
Will tell you that the success of a prescription depends on the purity of It In
gredients. There Is as much variety In medicine as In other morohaudlse. In our
prescription-filling
QUALITY
Is always our first consideration. You can Implicitly trust your prescription
to us. Quality, accuracy and the right price are the nev r falling trio upon which
we think we have a right to appeal for your patronage. This same trio has don
wonders to Increase our business we're still growli g.
JACOBSEN8 PHARMACY,
Telephone Oa'l. 2 4
II. E. GRUTTEMEYER,.
Dealer in Pianos. ::::: Piano Tunini ad ffyairi&i.
18 years experience. Complete stock Kdson Phonographs and Records.
KOOKVIhLE, CONN. Tel. llt.
EXCHANGE BLOCK, - - Corner of Market and West-Main Stteeta.
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II You Want the
BEST COUGH CURE
you will ask for
(etnpls Balsam
and if you pet it you will
have a remedy for coujjha
that will be sat-sfactory in
every respect. If you accept
Bomethiiifr else we do not
know what you will et, but
it will not be the Best Cough
Cure.
At all druggists', 25c, 50c.
and $1.
Don't accept anything !.
NOW IS THIS
VI MR TO
Just Arrived Two Car
loads Choice 16-in. full
count Vancouver Red Ce
dar Shingles, Ala pie
Leaf brand. We guar
antee these to be second
to none. Examine before
buying.
GARY BROS.
Central Vermont Ry
Ctmttid tt Oct. I, till.
Subject to change without notice.
Trains leave Stafford week days only as
follows :
NOKT11 BOUND.
Ct.45 a. m., Mall for Palmer, Spring
field, BoHton, Brattleboro and
points north.
1 1 ilH a. m., Fast train for Brattleboro,
Montreal and all points north.
4. lili p. m., Express for Brattleboro
Montreal and northern points.
7.10 p. m., Local for Palmer, Spring,
field and Boston.
SOUTH BOUND
8.05 a. m., Express for New London.
10.155 a. m., Mail for New London.
tS 02 p. m., Local for New London.
7.JJU p. in., Express for New London
and New York via Norwich Line
Subject to change without notice.
J. W. HANLEY, Gcn'l Ps&seitger Agent.
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