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' Truth above all things.’
Entered in the Post office as a Newspaper.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 12,1900.
Goon EVENING
A pointer. South Norwalk smokers
can buy excellentclgars in Norwalk on
Sunday.
The Whittaker letter in yesterday ’3
Sentinelshouldbe a warning to minis-
terial musical critics not to throw,_
stones.
Up to the'present time Senator Ed
Keeler for lieutenant-governor is doing
the running alone. Ed always was a
.‘E
winner. _
Mayor Bohannan- issued his Sunday -
closing order and the next day it
rained.
The ministerial musical critic ap-
peai‘s- to be‘ getting solar plexus blows
from all, directions.
How Mayor Bohannan gets authori-
ty to close one variety of stores and al-
low others to keep open is not clear to , ,
the average citizen.
Rain, rain, beautiful rain, as the
reservoir said when it got full.
Are we to have a military scandal ‘3
As a warner to McLean we would ad-
vise the latter to keep his eye on the
Litchfield county candidate.
The Jel‘fries-Sharkey ‘ fight takes
place in Stamford to-morrow night. It
is dollars to doughnuts Editor Keyes of
the Republican will be there.
The Ansonia Sentinel wants the
Horton law in New York repealed.
Why not confine yourself to home af-
fairs, neighbor, aud recommend the re-
peal of some of the bigotted nonsensi-
cal Connecticut laws?
The red line vestibules must come.
Did you bet on Dixon or McGovern?
» Norwalk’s real estate boom continues
unabated. ’
Carbolic acid suicides are becoming
too frequent.
What has become" of those new in-
du5t1‘ies that were coming to Norwalk?
Sam Ireland appears to be a thorn
in the side of South Demo-
crats.
N orwalk
Report says Bryan is to address the '
citizens of Danbury and beantown is
once more happy.
Mr. Winchester again refuses to be
pried loose from his city job by the
large salary chestnut.
Norwalk merchants want to wake u p
and turn stock else spring will find
them witha goodly supply of winter
ware ‘
It is said that one of the severely crit-
icised vocalists lS gunning fo1 the critic,
and that there is liable to be trouble
when they meet.
The decision that the physician who
prescribes whiskey for his patient must
pay a tax brings the matter very -close
to the-New Canaan drug' store soda
fountain. V
Ths sturdy old NORWALK GAZETTE,
born twins with the 19th century has
just celebrated its 100th birthday. It
doesn’t look it—neither does its senior
editor, the Hon. A. H. Byington, now
in Naples, Italy look as if he had passed
his 73rd birthday. He was born only
twentysix years later than the GAZETTE
and in the race of birthdays he has
more than held his own, \Vhen he
was one year old the paper was twenty-
six times as old as be; when he was
.twenty-six, the paper was only twice
as 0111'; and now, in his 74th year, he is
three-quarters as old as the old GA-
ZETTE. And here’s hoping that he
may live until he catches up with it.—
New Haven Palladium.
V The turning down of Col. Hendrie by
the military examining board cannot
but create a suspicion in the minds of
military men throughout the state that
,th'ere is a “nigger in the woodpile”
somewhere: Col. Hendrie is the rank-
‘ing colonel of ‘the Connecticut guard,
and has risen to his present position
from the ranks, having served faithful:
ly and with ability from private to col-h
1‘;.;‘1'
one]. That Col. Hendrie is the peer in
1military tactics of, any member of the
examining committee is‘rzcognized byi .
every military man in the ' state, and
that he cannot'pass an examination is
ridiculous even to civilians. When
the list of those Oi'iicers who the com-
mittee passed is scanned and the factis
known that Col.Hendrie :was examined
for two hours, the suspicion as above
stated becomes the stronger.
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Millions Given Away.
It is certainly very gratifying to the
public to know of one concern in the
land who are not af1 aid to be generous
to the needy and sufl’e1-ing. The p10-
prietoxs of Dr. King’s New Discovery
for Consumption, Coughs and Colds,
have given away over. ten million trial
bottles of this great medicine; and have
the satisfaction of knowing it has abso-
lutely cured thousands of hopeless cas-
es Asth ma, Bronchitis. Hoarseness and
all diseases of the Throat. Chest and
Lungs a1e surely cured by it. Call on
J. A. Riggs, Dluggist, and get a free
trial bottle Regular size 50c.- and $1.
Every bottle guaranteed or price re-
funded.
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ODD WAYS 0F TELLING TIME.
Many New Yerkern‘ Mark Its- ‘Dfal'cll
by the Progress of
Business.
So regular 1s the progress of business
in a great city like this that many per
sons mark the march of time without"
referring to a clock. They merely note
pas'sin g occurrences; says the New York
Mail andExpress. No matter in what
sectionof the city one may live he will,
after a moment’s thought, recall some
daily occurrence that Will acquaint him
with the time of day.
The people on Washington Heights
have for years been able to tell to a 1101
when it is 11 p. m. on week days and ten
o’clock on Sunday nights by the tooling
of a familiar tugboat whistle. This lug
whistles for a watchman. A cashier in
one of the biggest banks near Wall
street never looks at Trinity as he ap-
proaches his oflice. He knows to a cer-
tainty whether he is on time by the lo-
cation in which he meets a shoestring
peddler. If the latter be on the south
side of Pine street and Broadway the
cashier knows he is on time. Should
he be to the north of that point the
cashier is late. A woman on “’esi
Twenty-fifth street begins to cook
breakfast every morning at the mo-
ment that a certain police oflicer goes
by. It' 15 her way of telling time. and
the bluecoat’ s approach ne1c1 varies a
.inute. Alon<r Third avenue some of
the shopkeepers tell the time by sim-
ply glancing at the familiar face of
some passing motorman. It is a most
interesting study, this telling of time
without watch or clock.
scnoots'" 1’11 ' CITIES.
Kansas City and Milwaukee Spend
the Least Per Capital—Eastern
Cities Higher.
A shortage in the school fund in‘Sl.
Paul has caused the superintendent- oi
the school system in that city to make
a. comparison of the cost per pupil with
the similar cost. in 14 cities, says the
Buffalo Express. On the basis of the
figures of attendance the cost in St.
Paul is $22.08. - Only two other cities
show a smaller cost — Kansas City,
where the school year is only nine
months long and where the cost is $20.07,
and Milwaukee, where the salary ac-
count alone makes the cost $21.87. Sev-
eral cities run frOm $24 to $28, while
the cost amounts to $37.80 in Pitts-
burgh and to $410.77 in Denver. The
eastern cities have a much higher rate
than those in the West, Denver except-
ed, and there the cost of labor and,
fuel is excessive. The figures given
have to do with the entire school sys-
tem, but the difference is wider when
high sch-001s alone are considered. Bos-
ton. with its suburbs, has 12 high
schools, for which it pays a per capita
rate of $85.40; on a. salary basis alone
it amounts to $62.19. In St. Paul th-
total per capital cost in high schools
on the basis of" average daily attend-
ance is $44.36, and out of this $34.91is
expended for ieachcis’ salaries.
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COST OF LIVING IN PARIS.
For Two Dollars a Day One Can Live
\Vell in the Exposition City
of France. .
To prove that we are. economical
young women shall I tell you how much
we pay at the pension? writes a girl in
Ladies’ Home J0111‘nal,"who, with a girl
companion, is traveling in France and
giving the benefit of her experience to
girls who may gorto the Paris exposi-
tion next year. The tarifi card, tacked
on the wall of my rose-twined Marie
Antoinette room, says the price is
nine francs. Then, how do I come to
be paying only seven? One leans over
here 10 n1.1rch:1nde.1——“lo baggie, to
aiynin.“ If mudnmcs prices read
“from seven from-sf? and you write to
her asking il’ she can let you have :1
room and at that price. she will prob-
ablv reply that the onlv rooms she has
unrculed cost to" 1 iruncs. But if you
are wise enough to ask her if she has
a room for seven francs the answer will
be “yes.” \Ve are, of course, beyond
the pole of the bathtub, electric lights
and big tips; the maid who cares for
our room is Satisfied to receive amodest
fee, and it is with alhrill of delight
that we pick up our candlesticks and
say “good-night” just'as they do in
novels. We are comfortable and happy
on two dollars per day. The fact that
we are alone does not bring us a mo—
ment’s annoyance, nor subject us to
any unreasonable restraints.
Good. Oar-smell.
Seven Japanese fishermen left Sanll
Monica. Cal., in open flat- bottomed
ski t‘r's' and rowed 150 miles. in five days
" without a mishap. ‘* - .
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LEAKS on THE FARM. ‘
vagu- Some Tillers of the Soil' Fail
‘i-‘tllzilc Their Neighbors Get
Rich and Prosperous.
' One serious leak on a great many
farms is the buying of machinery and 1
then leaving it exposed in all kinds of
weather. I have in mind a farmer who
has a self— binder, corn planter, sulky
plow, walking plow, two cultivators,
two top buggies and two wagons, and
he leaves them standing out' in all kinds
of weather. I consider this a serious
leak and there are many farmers who
do the same thing. Another leakbn
many farms is a. lack of proper shelter
for stock. I know men who let their
'milch cows stand out in- .all kinds of
Weather and then feed 30 per cent. corn
to warm them up. Another leak is
; the very prevalent one of feeding young
,jstoek a ration that will simply‘main-
tain them during the. winter. Many
times .we see calves and colts that are
not ten pounds heavier in‘ the spring
than they were at the beginning of
‘ winter, and practically: all the feed they
consumed during the winter was lost.
I once asked a farmer 'who- follows
this. plan how much he;,thought his
calves had gained during .the winter.
He replied that they had not gained
anything except “age, but theywere .
five months older. I fail to see where
months’
seven months} calf of the same weight.
To feed five months withoutany gain
is a- ,seriouo leakiand one that istoc
common with many farmers... Another -
leak that isso common that it. isthc ,
rule rather than the exception (is the
wasting of manure.
on the farm should be spread on.the
fields, especially on the poor spots. Still
another leak is to try to farm too much
land, and consequently grow j more
weeds than corn. I know one man
w ho. grew less than 25 bushels of corn
per here this 3' car on account of under-
taking too much; the w eeds took the
corn. The same man has 40 acres of
rough land that has a good bluegrass
sod. He is going to break it up for
corn in the spring, and that w ill be a'
serious leak on his farm, fer he has
more land under plow now than he can
attend 10, and he will onlyt3 Grow more,
weeds and lose the 40 acres of grass be-
sides. Then another leak is t:keeping
any kindof stock after they have passed
their prime and begin to go down.—
C. L.,Ha1‘dman, in Prairie Farmer.
CRIMSON CLOVERSEED.
How to Makes! .Germinator by Means
of \\ hicll Its Vitality Is
Tasted Easily.
The germination of crimson 'clo'ver-
seed even when the seed is comparative-
ly pure Often. leaves much to be de-
sired. The seed deteriorates rapidly
with age. There is, however, a simple
quality test within the reach of any
HOME}. ADE SEED GERMINATOR.
buyer, as shown in a homemade germ-
inalor illustrated in a circular of the
department of agriculture.
A piece of moist flannel is laid upon
a plate, and a certain number of seeds
are counted out and laid upon the flan—
nel, a second fold of which is placed
over them. Then another plate is in-
verted over the whole. The seeds are
removed and counted as fast as they
germinate. Good crimson clover will
sprout 80 to 90 per cent. of the seed
within, three days—Cincinnati Farmer.
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
Good stalk, good corn.
A farmer’s children ought to be the
finest in the wo1l.d Some of them are.
Begin a bank account. It will en-
courage you can nest egg does the hen.
The keep-out-of-deht doctrine is
‘1‘eached‘ by most but practiced by very
few.
Heavy money bags often pull ayoung
‘man down; an. education usually lifts
him up.
“I can’t boom the market,”
F armor I-Iardhead,
cost of the crop.’
If half the hedges and walls on half
the farms weie fences,,and if half the
fences were taken d'own‘ the farms
would be improved in appearance and
convenience.
Cautious John heals new ideas like
a new kind of c11l11.11e watches his
neighboxs when they try it and then
a bit at ound the edge .—Orange
Judd Farmer.
said
“but I can lower the
‘ Wheat Farming in Nebraska.
A Nebraska paper tells of a man who
' bought ‘11 form there, upon which there
was a mortgage of $700. He did not
make much money thefirst year, but-he
Bowed 80 acres of wheat the next year.
‘1‘ was a poor year for wheat and the
stand was so poor that he thought he
would not harvest it. He returned to
his old homei and left the farm and
the mmtgage to fight it out as they
fleased. The wheat ripened, fell-to the
ground and seeded it well. There. was
a 11111: crop, and as some one was kind
enough to write about it to him, he
‘wcnt back. harvested it and soldit for
gcuough 'to pay the mortgage and .11] his
cunt-1‘ debts. "if at first 3°“ don“t SW"
men. lrv_ try again? . ' 11"
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All manure made.
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SPEC IALS FOR THIS WEEK:
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calf that will weigh:
‘500 pounds has any advantage over the
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OUR FAMOUS ELGIN CREAMERY BUTTER, ........................ . . . . . .. . . .. . . .29c lb
00R FAMOUS WHITE‘ROSE FLOUR. ..-.(none better at any price.)-...55c bag, $4.30 Bb-I. .
Basr I"D.AN CEYLON TEA oooooooooooooo a .................... .........‘......'.....h.‘v‘..".":‘co‘f'c pound
“.6" GRADE-T_EAs.a|lkind3' .noo....-o~-n ------- a ...... onan{anu-oo-oo-urn...aooouoctDoc-veoc Lb
.. GROCERIES. selected New Teas. . . . 50c . SPECIALS-
Pure Fruit Jams, Strawberry,Rasp- Var Fine Teas 30c and 35° One quart bottle Salad Oi1.. ....... 120
berry and Peach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100 y ' ' . Sweet, tender early June Peas, 13c
Prunes, SantaClara Valley. . . . . . .5c’ 1b Our Very Best Java and "0- quality. . . ...... . . '. . . ....... . .100
Good new Carolina- Rice _________ 50,11) cha coffee. . ~ . . - - . - .32c lb. ' New Stringless Beans. . . . . .. . . . .6c can >
Best .coarse Barley. . .- ..... . . .4c 1b ' ‘ ‘ ' ‘ 4 (Superior orand Cleaned Currants "4°
Best'Farina . , Sc K v.9” Fine Ja'a and - Mocha Three lb. can White Cherries. ...:.12c
........... .. . . . . . .. p .9: coffee, . . . ..25c, 27c, 30c1b. Fairbanks’ Tar Soap. . . . .. 41:
Best newTapioca,flakedor pearl 6c “ Fancy Mesina Lemons. . . . . . . ”13c 1102."
Extra quality Mixed Crackers“ .10c lb Good Coffee, I 50, I 7c, 200 lb ' Fresh baked Lemon Soda and Gin-
Evaporated Apples ....... . . . . . .91: pkg ger Sna . . . . ’ lb
Twp pounds Eyaporated Peaches. . .25c 7 "33- 300d Coffee, Ground Three lb. can GreenGage Plums 12c
R. I‘. Babbitt s B. PovMer--.‘ ....... 2c or Beans, . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 I .00, Thr'ee lb. can pure Leaf Lard. . . ......25c
"With one pound of Cofiee, beans or ground, at 25c, 27c, 30c and 32c per lb. or 1-2 lb. best Tea, or 1-2 lb. Lynch’s ..
Snowflake Baking Powder,a beautiful CHINA CUP and SAUCER, or your choice of 100 other difierent articles.
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PLACE YOUR ADVERTISE-
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SPECIAL BARGAINS FOR THIS WEEK ONLY '
‘ 50 doz. Men’s Colored Shirts, regular 750 and 980 Quality. Our price
lnr this sale,
486-
25 doz. Men’s and Boy’s Caps, at 190-
50 Boy’s 2- piece Suits,
Great Reductions in Suits and Overcoats.
(8 to 16) regular $200,132 50 and 3.00 Suits,
Our price, $1. '79
Sl Nouw ALK
TWO STORES and
2 1 SOUTH NORWALK.
Masonic Building,
Norwalk, 0111111.
~ Close at 6 p. m. Mondays and Saturdays excepted.
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1H Hal From Th Gun'
Was the ball that hit G. B. Steadman
of Newark, Mich, in the Civil War.
It caused horrible Ulcc1s that no t1 eat-
ment helped for 20 veal s. Then Buck-
len s Arnica Salve ctued him. Cures
Cuts, Biuises, l.‘ urns, Boils, Felons,
Corns, Skin Eruptions. Rest Pile cure
on earth. :25 cts. a box. Cure guaran-
teed. Sold by J. A. Riggs, Druggist.
Bond- of the F uture.
'1 his nation must sooner or later turn
its thought seriously to the problem of .
road building. The antiquated and
stupid methods which now prevail will .
Those who undertake '
no longer do.
10 build our roads must have the neces-
any understanding of the work before
them. '1111: primitive plan of having
the farmer work out his tax by doing
his share of work for which he has as
little fitness as he has for doing any
other form of skilled labor outside of
his own calling must give way—St.
Paul Globe. '
Some Foolish People
Allow a cough to run until it gets be-
vond the re each of medicine. They
often say,’ Oh, it will wear away, “but
in most cases it will wear them away.
Could they be induced to try the suc-
cessful medicine called Kemp’ s Balsam,
which is sold on a positive gumantee
to cure, they would ilnniediatelv see
the excellent elfect afte1 tating the
5151, dose. Price 251: and 500. , T1ial
size free. At all dtugulsts. _ "
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From Maker to Wearar.
”bu. ....-
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We have to give away lots of CLOAKS and
FURS for little money. - Stock so large you know. ‘ Al-
- leralions free of charge. _ . , :
Norwalk Chronicler