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14 THE IIAKTFOTiD DAILY COUItANT: WEDNESDAY. APRIL 18, 1900. 1 FIEE INSURANCE. FIRE INSURANCE. THE "COURANT'S" GALLERY OF HARTFORD CHURCH CHOIRS.

New Singers Engaged At Unity Church. i i 1 'r v4 if 1 '1 i I a- I ml 1 1 'ml I i I If" 'f I p- j. -a kmm- thh mima -J Thomas Couch, Bass. I I William L. Sorter, Tenor.

I D. P. Wentworth, Organist. Silas General Insurance Agent, E8 TRUMBULL. HARTFORD.

Strnnft and reliable Hartford, New York and English companies represented. Bust nep? solicited for first-class companies. F. F. STREET, Fire Insurance Agency, Established Assets of Companies represented.

114.647,533.71. Room 3. 118 Asylum Hartrora. conn. Telephone K6-5.

P. O. Box 137. Baker Son, I INSURE DWELLING? and Contents, for tnree or Ave years. AT LOW RATES.

INSURE against Firs, Lightning, and Cyclones. INSURE every description of property In Tne strongest companies. ICall at our office. OAS COMPANY'S NEW BUILDING, 700 Main treet Kimball Parker, Fire and Marine Insurance. Every dfscriptlon of Fire, Marine, Lightning and Tornado policies written at this office.

Strong Companies. Fair Rates. Call at our office before insuring elsewhere. Telephone Connection. First National Bank Building, 60 State st C.

C. KIMBALL. CHAS. E. PHOENIX INSURANCE COMPANY, OF HARTFORD.

CONN. Statement, January 1, 1900. Cash Capital Of) Reserve for Outstanding Losses 271.196 69 Reserve for Re-Insurance 2,029.575 53 Net Surplus 1.222,877.58 Total Assets. Jan. 1.

1900 $5,523,649 70 DIRECTORS: Charles M. Beach, Henry C. Dwight, Pliny Jewell, Ward W. Jacobs, Henry A. Redfleld.

D. W. C. Pkllton. Henrv K.

Morgan. J. H. Mitchell, Charles H. Smith, Charles H.

Northam, Lyman B. Jewell, John H. HalL D. W. C.

SKILTON, President. J. H. MITCHELL, Vice-President EDWARD MILLIGAN. Secretary.

JOHN B. KNOX, Assistant Secretary. DICKINSON. BEARDSLEY BEARDS-LEY, Local Agents. Offices, 66 Pearl st and Main St.

HARTFORD FIRE INSUARNCE COMPANY. OF HARTFORD, CONN. Cash cspital $1,250,000.00 Reserve for re-insurance 6.2S6.799 All outstanding claims 655,683 .90 Net surplus over all Total assets. Jan. 1.

1900 Office: Hartford Fire Insurance building, corner of Pearl and Trumbull streets. DIRECTORS: George Chase, Jacob L. Greene, Jonathan B. Bunce, Theodore Lyman. James J.

Goodwin, George Roberts, William C. Skinner, Meigs H. Whaples. James M. Tho: ison.

GEORGE L. CHASE. President P. C. ROYCE, Secretary.

THOS. TURNBTLL. Ass't Secretary. CHAS. E.

CHASE. Ass't Secretary. SILAS CHAPMAN. Resident Agent INS. CO.

OF HARTFORD. Capital Stock, All Cash. $1,000,000.00 Funds reserved to meet all liabilities Net surplus over capital and all liabilities 1,472,964.97 Total assets. Jan. 1900 $4,551,283.55 DIRECTORS: Homer Blanchard, Henry C.

Judd, James Bolter, Francis T. Maxwell. Wm. B. Franklin, Byron A.

Simmons, Frank W. Cheney, Charles H. Briscoe. James Nichols, Ralph H. Ensign, John R.

Buck, JAMES NICHOLS. President B. R. STILLMAN. Secretary.

H. A. SMITH, Assistant Secretary. F. F.

SMALL Sole Agents for Hartford and vicinity. Office 92 Pearl St. HARTFORD COUNTY MUTUAL FIRE INS. CO. OF HARTFORD, CONN.

Incorporated 1831. Office 793 Main St. State Bank Building. PAYS DAMAGE BY LIGHTNING. "Whether fire ensues or not DWELLINGS A SPECIALTY.

Cash Assets January 1. 1900 $671,650.00 DIRECTORS: Wm. A. Ervin'g, Samuel L. Way, James L.

Howard, Ralph H.EnsIgn, Wm. E. Sugden, Samuel E. Elmore, Thomas Slsson, Francis P. Cooley, James Bolter, John R.

Buck. WM. E. SUGDEN, Pres't and Treas. JAMES L.

HOWARD, Vice-President WM. A. ERVING. Secretary. F.

F. SMALL CO. Agents for Hartford and vicinity. Office, 95 Pearl Street i The tenor of the Unity Church quartet is William L. Porter.

He has a very pleasing and powerful voice, true in its intonation and full of color qualities. He was for several years connected with the choir of the Pearl Street Congregational Church, and its successor, the Farmington Avenue Church, and previous to that he sang at the First Baptist Church. He has also entered upon his fourth year as tenor at the Congregation Beth Israel. His studies have been with the late A. L.

King and with Professor Anderson. CHAFF. There Are Others. "Anything new in 'Harper's' this month?" asked the man In the mackintosh. "Yes," replied the man who had his feet on the table.

"He has raised the $2,000,000. Hadn't you heard?" Not Quite. "Darling, do you love me as well as you did yesterday?" "Not quite as well, Harry. "You haven't said anything about my new shirt waist." (Chicago Record.) Life. His view, proves man is man' best friend.

The pessimist pretends to soe That man is man's worst enemy; The optimist, keen to defend. Scarce. His Father "Jimmy, I want to give Cousin Elizabeth one of the pups." Jimmy "Naw, pa, don' le's give them pups away; we've only got six." A Conventional Hermit. "Don't you observe any social duties whatever?" "Certainly; I decline all my Invitations." Mysteries of Life. Dlbbs "A man ought to know when he's got enough." Jibbs "Well.

I know when I've got enough work, but I never know when I've got enough recreation." It Cost Him. "George, dear "Don't bother me. Laura. I am reading, and I'd rather read than talk Just now." An hour dragged Its way Into the dim, misty past, and the voice of Mr. Ferguson was heard calling loudly: "Laura, how much Innser have I got to wait for dinner? It ought to have been ready an hour ago!" "It was, George," responded Mrs.

Ferguson, from the dining-room. "That was what I went in to teil you, but you didn't want to hear me talk. We have an finished, and everything is cold, but you needn't wait another minute if you want your dinner." That Would Be Terrible. "Wen I think of a man payin twenty-five hundred good plunks fur a dawg," remarked TufTold Knutt. "and then listen to a man like you tellin me I ain't wuth powder 'nufT to hlnw me up, I tell you, mister, it comes purty blamed near mak-in' a Anarchist of me!" With the Cliff-Dwellers.

"How's your new apartments?" "Oh. It's all right; we are just good walking distance from the elevator." The Thankless Task. In early spring, when life is sweet When days are fair and nights are fleet; Still comes some one with doleful phiz To tell us where the mercury is. Edith M. Aab.

Contralto. Miss Edith M. Aab, the contralto, is well and favorably known in local musical circles. She has a rich, full contralto voice, of great range and purity. She has sung for the past two years in the Prospect Methodist Church at Bristol and was much liked there.

Her studies have been purued mostly with Alfred Barrington and Mrs. V. P. Mar-wick. She has been invited to sing at the coming musical festival at New Haven.

A COUNSEL. Never sav that you can't? or you shan't. To a woman who's pretty and witty; You mav know It Is wrong to consent To the scheme upon which she's intent. But when she Is pretty and witty What she wants she will have In theend; Your heart may misgive you, but still You will fashion excuses and bend Your reason around to her will-When a woman is witty and pretty. Never foolishly say, "Not to-day" To a woman who's pretty and witty.

For ere she Is through she will win A word and a smile you give in. When she's dainty and pretty and witty. And I fancy that up in the sky 'i he recorder is fain to o'erlook, With a wink or a shrug or a sigh The sins that should stand in the book For her who is witty and pretty. S. E.

Kiser in Chicago Times-Herald. A Park Tragedy. (Indianapolis News.) Dogs got Into the deer park at Elver-side Park, last night, and killed the eight deer that were purchased by the park board last fall. The slaughter was not discovered until this morning, when a telephone message was at once sent to J. Clyde Power, superintendent of parks.

No one knew how many dogs there were, nor to whom they belonged. The lnclosure for the deer is about 300 by 400 feet In dimensions, and is surrounded by a high picket fence. The dogs tunneled under the fence, and did their bloody work well, lacerating the throat of every deer. Four of the deer were bucks and four were does. It Is thought that the dogs must have been numerous and extremely fierce, or the bucks would have succeeded In defending themselves and the females.

The Substitute for Plain Duty. (Buffalo Express.) The time for criticism, at least by Republicans, Is past. There will be criticism enough from the other side as the campaign develops, and we hope the Republican representatives and senators who are responsible for this act are better prepared to defend it on the Btump than they have shown themselves to be on the floor of Congress. Certainly it has need of defense very able defense and there are few republican newspapers which are in position to furnish the argument, for the great majority of them from one end of the country to the other have been protesting, threatening, pleading that this bill should not pass. ORIENT INSURANCE COMPANY.

OF HARTFORD. CONN. Capital stcck. paid up in Reserve for re-Insurance 1.003.141.04 Outstanding; losses and all other liabilities 224,147.33 Net surplus 753,869.81 Total Cash Assets.Jan. 1, 1900 $2,481,158.18 Surplus to policy-holders 11,253,869.81 DIRECTORS: Daniel Phillips, J.

M. Allen, Leverett Bralnard, P. H. Woodward. Win.

H. Pulkeley, B. W. French. Johr R.Hills.

George Pope. John Root. M. 8. Chapman, B.

Whiting, James tt. Talntor Arthur W. Allyn, Wm. Waldo Hyde. rHARLES B.

WHITING. President JAMES U. TAINTOR, Secretary HOWARD W. COOK. Ass't Secretary 8 ifcAS CHAPMAN.

Agent, I Tram, bull street. Hartford. xrum. THE CONNECTICUT MUTUAL LIFE INS. COMPANY.

1846-190(7. In the fifty-four years of Its work al most 9S per cent, of the premiums paid by policy-holders have been paid over: to 'heir beneficiaries or returned to them. What has been so returned and what Is held for the protection of present policy-holders as net or ledger assets a Kit re-gates $263,602,899.67: 127.57 per cent, ci the total premiums received. These results have been accomplished at an average expense rate of only per cent. unmatched record; and THHJ CONNECTICUT MUTUAL Is aa thori oughly prepared for the good work of the 'utu as It has at any tim been for that of Its unequaled past.

President. JOHN M. TAYLOR. Vice-President. HERBERT H.

WHITE, Secretary: DANIEL H. WELLS, Actuary. Beardsley Bsardsley, Fire Underwriters. OFFICE Si 664 Main Telephone connections. 65 Pearl St.

ETNA INSURANCE COMPANY. OF HARTFORD, CONN. (Incorporated IF.i. Charter Perpetual.) Cash Capital Reserve, Re-Insurance, Fire 202 547 5J do do 7 ,307.29 do unpaid losses. Fire 320 Vti a do do 91,0327 Other claims 171.307 Net surplus B.157,615.07 Total assets, Jan.

1. 1900 13,018, 4U. 20 DIRECTORS: Drayton Hlllyer, Atwood Collins. Francis B. Cooley.

William B. Clark, Nathaniel Shlpman, Francis Goodwin, A. C. Dunham. Charles E.

Gross, Morgan G. Bulkeley, James H. Knight' J. Plerpont Morgan, George H. Day, E.

O. Weeks. I WM. B. CLARK, President 1 E.

O. WEEKS. Vice-President WM. H. KING, Secretary.

A. ADAMS, Assistant Secretary. BJJBIaS REEa- Anslstant Secretarr. DICKINSON. BEARDSLrY BEARDS LEY.

Local Agents. Offices. 664 Main st and 65 Pearl st I LIFE INSURANCE. CONNECTICUT GENERAr LIFE INSURANCE OF HARTFORD, CONN. Assets, January 1, 1900....

Surplus. January 1, 1900.... (00,932.21 OFFICERS. THOMAS W. RUSSELL, President' P.

H. WOODWARD, Vice-President R. W. HUNTINGTON. Secretary and Actuary E.

B. PECK. Assistant Secretary. MELANCTHON STORRS, Med. Advlier.

F. C. GRISWOLD, Sup't of Agencies. DIRECTORS: Thomas W. Russell, Theodore Lyman, Leverett Bralnard, Henry E.

Melancthon Storrs, Dwlght Loomis, P. H. Woodward, R.W. Huntington, Jf J. B.

Talcott. Henry 9. Robinson. Charles P. Cooley.

PHENIX MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. OF HARTFORD, CONN. ASSETS, JAN. 1, 1900.. DIRECTORS: Jonathan B.

Bunce, Silas W. Bobbins, James Nichols, C. H. Lawrence, 1 Nathaniel Shlpman, Charles B. Gross, John M.

Holcombe, John D. Browne, Isaac W. Brooks. John H. Hall, Francis B.

Cooley, E. D. Robblns. George H. Lay, David S.

Plume. JONATHAN B. BtTNCE, President. JOHN M. HOLCOMBE.

Vlce-Pres CHARLES H. LAWRENCE. Secretary. THE HARTFORD LIFE INSURANCE CO. OF HARTFORD.

CONN. Assets, Jan. 1. 1900 $2,973,607.89 Capital and surplus. Jan 1, 1900.

884,136 43 Issues all the desirable forms of Life. Term and Endowment Insurance. DIRECTORS: Hon. Dwlght Loomis Hon. A.

F. F.ggleston. Hon. Lewis Sperry, Rockwell Keener. James H.

Knight. R. B. Parker. C.

Hllllard, R. G. Keenejr, Hon. Geo. E.Keeney.E.

C. Linn, Charles H. Bacall. KEENEY, President E. C.

HILLIARD, Vice-President. CHARLES H. BACALL, Secretary. E. MCKNIGHT, Medical Director.

S. F. BRONSON, General Agent of Connecticut. 0 Thomas Couch, the bass of the quartet. Is winning for himself a prominent place in the estimation of musical people.

He has a broad, rich baritone voice, and he sings with feeling and artistic interpretation. He had been singing for some time, previous to his present engagement, in the Prospect Methodist Church in Bristol. He has also sung in choirs in Holyoke and Northampton, Mass. He has had for teachers Alvln K. Reed of Boston and Mrs.

Virginia P. Marwick of this city, and he comes of a musical family, being a brother of Elbert Couch, the well-known bass singer. FIEE INSURANCE. Cross Morley, FIRE INSURANCE, HARTFORD LIFE BUILDING. 252 Asylum street.

Hartford, Conn. Telephone 27S. STATE MUTUAL FIRE INS. CO. HARTFORD, CONN.

Office. Hartford Life Building, 262 Asylum street. DIRECTORS. Aner Sperry, Isaac Cross, Franklin A. Morley, Louis E.

Parkhurst, Richard Latimer, Fred'k F. Street, Dwlght E. Lyman, Alva H. Tillinghast. ISAAC CROSS, President.

FRANKLIN A. MORLEY, Secretary. Wakefield, Fire Insurance Agent, fPflrta 780 Main Street, WIIICC, Times Hulldlntr. Strongest Companies. Lowest Eatea.

All Kinds of property insured. Webster Baker Represent tne best I and Foreign Fire Insurai.cn Companies, and offer reasonable rates. Promptness and liberality a specialty in adjustment of losses. H. W.

Conklin Co. 9 CENTRAL ROW, Fire Insurance. Telephone 770. CONNECTICUT Fire Insurance Co. of Hartford.

Office: Company's Building, corner of Prospect and Grove Streets. cash capital Jl.ono.onn 00 Reserve for re-insurance 1.599.S97.14 Unpaid losses 2' f0 714 90 Net surplus l.Ot&Jtfa;?! Total assets Jan. 1. 1900 $3,869,451.75 DIRECTORS. John R.

Redfleld, Daniel R. Howe, Iran'k G.Whltmore, Henry P. Stearns, Thomas W. Russell, John M. Holcombe.

John D. Browne, w. O. Burr, Lucius F. Robinson, J.

D. BROWNE. President. CHARLES R. BURT, Sec'y.

W. CLARKE. Ass't Bec'y. W. E.

BAKER SON. Local Agents. 700 Main Street I. LEWIS, 177 ASYLUM STREET. JUST received a nice line of SPRING GOODS.

Gents' suits made to order from $15.00 up, will save you 25 per cent. sea and the hills, combined. There is Lillian Cline The choir at Unity Church, as at present organized, is composed of talented young singers, with fresh voices, and the quartet promises to take a prominent position among the choirs of the city. Its first work has already elicited much favorable comment. The organist, D.

F. Wentworth, has had a wide experience and carried into his work an artistic taste which is well known to the muBical people of Hartford. He Is now In his seventeenth year in his present position, and before that he was for eight years organist at RESURRECTION. Arise! arise! Soul, and sing! The Lord of Life hath come in might; And all the world is blossoming Beneath his kiss of love and light! The hills doff robes of rusty brown. And, draped in living tapestries.

With sunshine for a golden crown, Return the smiles of cloudless skies. The air is full of winged delifent, A-thrill with joy the dullest clod. The trees, all hung with garlands white, Breathe smokeless incense unto God. And thou. Soul, with eyes to see, And ears that like fine harpsarestrung, With heart that thrones Divinity And knows Love's universal tongue, Shouldst voice a rapture all divine, And fair as any flower be The garments that about thee shine, Thou heir of Immortality! Elizabeth L.

Watson in Christian Register. WHY HE HAS QUIT. Dr. mills') Kensoiis for Renouncing Presbyterian Ihhi. (From His Letter to the Chicago Presbytery.) Hitherto I have encouraged myself in the hope and belief that nine-tenths of our members and most of our pastors rejected this chapter In the Confession.

In uniting with the Presbytery I subscribed to the Confession, containing the system of doctrine," a phrase unfortunately omitted in my sermon last Sunday. It seems that this qualification "as containing the system of doctrine, does not permit one to deny this doctrine of reprobation. One of my former professors says I have "coldly, clearly, and insolently denounced the doctrines of the faith," and therefore "cannot consistently remain in the church." For years, in common with manyotherpreachers.I have been apologizing for our creed, and saying that, while our Confession of B'aith says "that some men and angels are foreordained to everlasting death." nobody believed It. Nevertheless, during these years I have been disturbed by the thought that nothing lowers the moral sense of the community like the keeping on statute books laws that are daily disobeyed and laughed at, and what shall be said of the Injury to our children and youth of preserving intact a creed that is accepted by our clerical Instructors one day and denied by our ministers the next? During past years I labored in season and out of season with voice and pen to secure a revision of the confession that we might be clear before the world. But it now seems that some teachers in our theological seminaries noia to tne aoctrine oi reprooation, teach it, love it, count it an integral part of our system, and urge that If I cannot accept It I must withdraw from the church.

In fulfilling their request I now dis cern that I have for years been in a false position, and desire to set myself right. My forefathers were Puritans of the old rock and granite stamp. My father was a disciple of Lyman Beecher and later of Albert Barnes. From childhood I have been drilled in all arguments of the new school theology. I entered college when the teachings of science were coming like a flood.

During my junior years In college I passed under the Influence of the seminal theory of evolution. While In the seminary I was in a state of constant rebellion against the type of Calvinism there taught. Side by side with the lectures on theology received the works of Scottish theologians and philosophers and of German writers and passed under the influence of such preachers as Robert-Ward Beecher. During my last year in the seminary and my first years in the ministry I became convinced that the foundations of the old theological systems were dissolving, and that a new basis must be found, and after several years of mental doubt and distress I found that new basis in Christianity as interpreted from the view point of Thelstie evolution. The views I now hold and teach I have held and taught during my pastorates of the First Presbyterian Church at Kvanston and the Central Church of Chicago.

What little light I have had has not been under a bushel. I have not believed one thing secretly and taueht another openly. Holding back nothing. I have tried to give the light as the liirht has gone Play! Any game yoa cboos ynq cn kep your blood coot and your nerves steady by drinking plenty ot HIRES Rootbeer The Favorite Temperance Drink. A 25 eeat pctf miu 6 giion.

Write for iln of prrrr: umi eSered free tot CKARUS HIRES MALVERN.H. I a the South Baptist Church and for five years at the First Methodist Church. His early studies were with Octave Pelletier, a widely known organist and composer, and he has also studied abroad. Miss Lillian Cline, the soprano of the quartet, possesses a remarkably even and true voice, of good range and much warmth of color, with a strong dramatic quality. She has studied with B.

F. McGurk and is at present a pupil of N. H. Allen. She sang for two years in the Center Church choir.

forth from God's Word to me. But I now see that I have grieved and disturbed my brethren. The happiness and welfare of no one man should weigh for a moment against the welfare of all. As I am no longer aCalvin-ist in the old sense of the term and could not to-day accept the unrevised Confession of Faith. I have decided to demit my ministry in the Presbyterian church.

and, beginning anew, to unite with some other body on the statement of my present belief. A Comlnsr Millionaire. (Boston Evening Trancript.) The New England small boy generally shows business capabilities at a tender age, if he Is ever going to have them. I have heard of a certain small Boston boy who got into the habit of teasing his mother for pennies, until at last she said to him: "Now, Willie, I don't like to give you pennies; if you want money you should go to work and earn it." The boy remained thoughtful for for some time. Then, within a few days, the mother perceived that Willie had plenty of pennies.

She wondered a bit where he got them, but did not ques tion him. But one summer day she noticed that some sort of a hullabaloo was going on in the back yard. Looking out she saw Willie surrounded by a mob of boys, who were yelling with delight. She went down into the yard to see what was going on, and, as she passed out, she saw, stuck up on the back wall of the house, this notice, quite neatly "printed" out with a pencil: WILLIE JONES WILL EAT 1 small green worm, for 1 cent 1 large green worm, for 2 cents 1 small fuzzy worm, for 3 cents 1 large fuzzy worm, for 5 cents 1 small green toad, for 25 cents Willie was apparently doing a thriving business. His mother, interrupted it at any rate in her own back yard.

I don't suppose that she had any assur ance that he wasn't still carrying it on somewhere else. Paradoxical, Anachronistic. (Poultney Bigelow In The Independent.) You must imagine violently In order to picture as they are the political conditions of the South African Republic, or rather as they were three years ago. Imagine George Washington presiding at a Tammany caucus or Henry George creating a Black Friday on the Stock Exchange. Try and think of Boss Croker arm in arm with Dr.

Parkhurst earnestly intent on the purification of New York. Go further conceive of Benjamin Franklin as a police reporter on the "World" gather together the most startling combinations from both sides of the grave and you fall short of the anachronism covered by the name of Paul Kruger. We have had in our day grand specimens of rugged manhood wielding executive power as President of these United States. In deed at one time it seemed as though the surest way to the hite House was to commence life as a rail splitter, a tanner. or a canal boatman.

The names of Gar field and Grant and Lincoln are household words throughout the world be cause they cheer the young with the thought that they, too, may achieve greatness by perseverance, courage and honesty. "Abe" Lincoln was deemed a very rough man in his day, and the caricatures of him dwelt upon his peculiarities of dress somewhat as those of our day do when depicting the president of the Transvaal: yet. compared with Paul Kruger President Lincoln was a scholarly man of fashion a very Lord Chesterfield. An Englishman is hopelessly adrift In attempting to understand the rough Boer. We Americans can come nearer, but even those of who know the cowboy country have no adequate parallel tor a Kruger.

A Second Fnyprweather. (New York Evening Post.) The discovery that Cooper Union has received a bequest of at least a quarter of a million from a retired merchant, who has never known to have manifested any Interest in the institution, Is very gratifying. John Halstead seems to have been a type of the man who makes a fortune in trade and, having no family to whom he can leave It. devotes a great deal of time and thought to the question of its wisest disposition oftentimes not taking any counsel in the matter. hen such a man dies, those who knew him are generally surprised both at the amount of his accumulations, as in the case of this retired tea merchant, and at the channel which he selects for their distribution.

The most conspicuous illustration of such surprise came upon the death of Fayer-weathor, the leather merchant, some years ago, when his most intimate acquaintances were amazed at finding that he had millions of money, and wanted it to go to educational Institutions in which they had never known him to take any interest. From Experience. Parke "They say horse has every disease that a human being has. Do you believe It?" Jane "I know it. I boueht one from a friend recently." Life.

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Springs and wells of pure, soft water. Sweet, refreshing and healthful. Bottom of our wells is above the level of the top of iy steeple in Saybrook. Cottage Piazzas, by IT. S.

Survey, level with the gilt dome of the Capitol at Hartford. Magnificent cycloramie views of sea and islands, river and lakes, hills, valleys and villages. Air fragrant with odors of bayberry, juniper and thousands of ever green cedars. No monotonous glare of sand and water that you so soon tire of, when on low, flat beaches. For sea bathing or sailing a few minutes' drive or by wheel brings you to it.

Strawberries, raspberries, cherries, pears, grapes, peaches, plums and best vegetables in our gardens. The sweetest, most spicy and most luscious breakfast melons are grown on Obed's Heights. Come up and visit us and we will "cut a melon." The ideal spot for summer residence. For proof of above statements visit Obed's Heights. For further particulars address Buckingham No.

21 Spring street, Hartford, Conn..