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' Truth above all things.’
Entered in the Post oflice as a Newspaper.
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F‘RIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1900.
GOOD EVENING
Now how would you like to be the ice-
man? .
A city of nearly 10,000 people and no
hotel. Shamel
It is hoped Ithat Mayor Bohannan
will not follow the example of the-illus-‘
trious “Fitz” and claim that he was
drugged when he sprung his last Snn-
day closing Order.
Now that 'Ed'i't‘Or Keyes has joined
the Waterbury Republican’s forces we
may expect some bright sayings from
the brass city.
The effort to organize a stock com-
pan y to build a hotel and opera house
in this citydeserves success, but a few
more manufacturies would prove a bet-
ter investuient. .
The Ansonia Sentinel is booming ex-
chief clerk 5R. S. Hinman as a candi-
date for secretary of state. Mr. Hin -
man’s experience as clerk in the secre-
tary’s olfice should doubly qualify him
for the office.
Says theBmdgeport Farmer :
Bohannan of South Norwalk, has evi-
dently scented the inconsistencies of
his original position upon the Sunday
question. Instead of discriminating
between different lines of trade and
drawing exceedingly fine distinctions,
he has decreed that all places of busi-
ness shall be closed, and he thus stands
upon the law, instead of upon his owu
Mayor
,judgment as to which lines of business
are proper for Sunday and which are
not. It now remains to be seen wheth-
er he will extend the prohibition to
trolley lines, livery stables, milk wag-
,Ons, etc, and also whether his position
will be sustained by the courts.
Says the Courant:—-Reading of mys-
terious disappearanses makes every-
Why may not
the same fate meet some of our own
friends and break up happy family cir-
cles? The. stories go abouz. The po-
lice and newspapers are appealed to,
and then, after the. public have been
worried and fretted by the tragedy , the
affair slips out of sight and memory and
the only impressmn left is of the inse-
curity of life. Perhaps a wiser conclu
sion would be as to the uncertainty of
appearances.
Here newcomes a clergyman, who
went overboardvfrom a Sound steamer
some months ago, and was generally
mourned. He turns up in Troy. _ A
lady friend, “of the highest character”
has joined him there and “to avoid
scandal” she has been taking his name
The scandal does
avoided by this
Now that
with a Mrs. to it.
not seem altoocthex
childlike and novel device.
the dead and disappeared man has been
detected, he tells calmly of hisgwander-
ings since he went overboard and he
remarks that, as for his wife w hcm he
deserted, he does not care what she
thinks about it. Whether such a man
can be punished for running away by
the law We do. not know, but evidently
he could be p1 osecuted for something
and he ought to be.-
Nobody has any business to stir up
public sympathy=as he did and then let
it all go to waste. It has come about
that the first thought at any dis-.1 ppear-
ance is coming to be of distrust. Peo-
pie in real lroublelare the sufferers by
all this, for the search for them is not
begun in time.- As every fraudulent
beggar is a menace-to the fideserving
poor, so every fraud, who uses the mys-
terious disappearance act to cheat his
friends with, does a direct harm to
those who are unfortunate enough to
get. into real trouble.
A ‘
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Says the Courant:~h1ver y body knows
‘ or ought to have gumption enough to
know, that the direct election of Unit-
ed States senators by the people will
mean the nomination of sen store by' the
party state conventions.
the old questions: Is a state cenven-
tion a more “dependable” body for wis-
dom and. virtue than a General Alsem-
bly? Will it be any harder for ambi-
tions and unscrupulous plutoerats~1l.
'such there be———to buy venal delegates
than to buy venal legislators?
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lidulcet“manner:
We repeat i
u . 'p‘
DID NOT KNOW HIS BRAND.
And the Result “’33 Th at the Mav-
erick Got In the \‘Vrong
‘ Corral.
It all happened in a church not over
a mile from the city post oflice, says
the Washington Star. There was a
young people’s reception afoot, and
there was a programme upon which
appeared the name of a tenor soloist
who is givento scrambled hair, som-
breros and neckties that are vocifer-
ous. It was getting well along in the
evening and the sOloist had failed to
appear.
there knew him, and the lady ,who
had engaged him had also failed to ap-,
pear. Presently one of the men active
in greeting the guests notified a large,
picturesque-appearing man enter the
church parlor, and after leaking care-
fully around him slide into a seat, be-
side which he deposited a big som-
brero. It then appeared. that his hair
quite answered the description also
his tie, which was a. screaming scar-
"net. The young manager approached
the stranger, sure of his prey, and,
bending over him, said, in his most
"’I‘je audience has
been expressing regret. at your non-
appearance. Will you now favor us
with oneof your songs?”
The stranger. looked up at the
young man with rather a. startled air
and then blurted out: “Song! Mister,
you‘ve rounded up the wrong critter.
I don’t know G flat from gewhiz. I’m
off the reservation, you see, and was
wondering what'kind of a. game was
on in here, and came in sociable-like.
I—I reckon, mister, these folks ain’t
got my brand," and he fled into the
outer darkness.
RED TAPE IN WASHINGTON.
So Strictly Observed the Carpenter
Could Not Clear. the
Glass Door.
A 'correspondnt passing hurriedly
intothe room of the committee on rivers
and harbors to see Representative Bur-
ton pulled the knob off the door. says
the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
“How can I get that fixed, do you
think?” asked Burton. “Shall I get the
carpenter or the locksmith?”
“The locksmith, I suppose.”
“No, sir. Were I to send for the lock-
smithhe would tell me to consult the
architect of the capitol. He has no au—
thé‘rity to fix doorknobs. Doorknobs
are permanent fixtures and are solely
within the jurisdiction of the architec‘
of the capitol.”
“Do you see that bookcase 111erc?",
said Secretary Ellis. “1 caused the car-
penter to paste some cloth on the inside
of the glass doors in order that the
books might not show. He did the
work, but when he had finished I no—
ted that he had not cleaned the glass
before he put thecloth on. The thing
looked so disreputable that I asked
him why he had not cleaned the glass.
"‘He told me that the glass wasa per-
manent fixture and that he had no'au-
thority to touch it, but that the placing
Of the cloth upon it was a temporary
matter and was entirely within the
province of his'labors. The whole
thing's got to be done all over again.”
SAMGAN BELLE’S GOWNS.
They Grow on Trch and Are Almost
Ready for Use When
Gat’ Herod.
Party gowns for Samoan girls grow
on the tropical trees and almost ready .
for wear, says the Indianapolis News.
When a native beauty of Samoa decides
to go to a special entertainement she
enters the forest to look for her gala
attire. The native kiki, or kilt, is the
only addition to her ordinary costume
that the Samoan girl provides for spe-
cial parties. The material for the kiki
grows on the tree. It consists of a rib-
bon of bark a few inches wide that is
stripped from the tree easily. While
dump the bark, which is very thin, is
crinkled so as to form wavy outlines,
andcthe..ribbons are colored all sorts
of bright hues. The Samoan girl then
plaits a waistband from the same kind
of bark and hangs the ribbons on it.
Handmade flowers of the same material
are often added also.
When the kiki is completed the dusky
belle puts it on over her scanty inval-
ava, or waist cloth, and goes to the
dance or other entertainment. The
girls thus make their own party
dresses, and some of them show great
taste and skill in fashioning the old
garments, although the captions might
allege that they might, without being
overdressed. have Samoaon.
FOND 0F DUST BATES.
Blrds Like to Play in Attire: Left them
a Bonfire—Partridge: ’Prcfer
FPCIII Loam.
Some birds use water only, some wa~
ter and dust, while others prefer dust
and no water in their toilet. Birds are.
not only nice in the choice of bath wa-
ter, but also very particular about the
quality of their toilet dust.
Wild ducks, though feeding by salt
water, prefer to bathe in fresh-water
pools, and will 135* long distances inland
to running brooks and ponds, where
they preen and dress their feathers in
the early hours of the morning. Spar-
rows bathe often, both in water and in
dust. They are not so particular about
the quality of the dust. The city spar-
row must take a. water bath where he
can get it. Road dust, the driest and
'finest possible, suits him best. Par-
tridges prefer dry loam. They like to
scratch out the soil from under the
grass. and fill their feathers with cool
earth. Most birds are fond of ashes.
Take a walk some early morning across
a field where bonfires have burned, and
see. the numbers of winged creatures:
that rise suddenly from the ash heaps.
A darting form, a small cloud flashes,
and the bathersldisappear.
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It so happened that nobody '
,businessm—I. N. Cowdrey. in
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LARGT. LOADS A SAVING.
This 1:. a More Imperial! Subject
T111111 Most Farmers Are Pre- --
‘ pared to Admit.
”VIDBWALK In-
Muchtime, is lost by drawing small '
loads. Many times have Iseen farmers
geing to. town with a load of'wheatbf -
I Can remember -
1nly‘ 30 or 40 bushels.
when a boy we had to draw our wheat
and cats to, market. a. distance of .16
miles. Even on good roads we consid—
ered 30 bushels of wheat and 60 bushels
Of oats a good load. Now we draw 80
bushels of wheat, and don’ t consider it
any too much. Where there' 1s a large
quantity. of stufi to market, a' third
horse pays well. You .can- then put- on
100 bushels Of wheat and 200 bushels of .»
of oats. one man can do the wOrk, an
extra trip is saved, and the third horse
does nothing but draw grain.- It will
. take one horse to draw the wagon, and
the other two horses to draw grain.
A great many loads of logs and bolts
are drawn past our house every day in
the winter time. It is interesting to
’notice the difference in the size of
loads. Some, with a good team and a
lung distance to haul, will have on a,
epuple of, small logs, while a neighbor
with no better team will pile on ten or
twelve logs as large.
time is wasted here 1' Frequently large
loading is overdone, but more frequents ,
ly small loading. is overdone.
One of 'the handiest. things we have
on our farm is a large flat rack, 7%. feet
wide and 16'feet long, with a. tight,
smooth 'floor laid over it. We use this
What a. lot ' of ’-
on our low wheeled, wide-tire wagon. .'
It stays on all the time, and we use it-
£01 neaily everything. it has a- two by
three stiip nailed around the outer
edge to keep loads fiom slipping off.
It is the best- thing for drawing in hay
or grain that I ever saw. We can put-
on .some monstrous loads of hay, and it
is no trouble to put. on 60 dozen of
wheat, or all that a large team can
handle. It looks like a flat. car while
empty. and the old—fashioned irack
looks like a toy beside it. Large loads
of hay pay well. They save extra drives
to and from the field; besides, it does
not take any longer to clean up the bot-
tom of the load from a large one than
it does from a small one. So time is
saved in two ways here. Saving time
means lots of money sometimes in
drawing hay. It may mean the saving
of large quantities from being spoiled
by getting wet. I have often wished
for an extra day to finish 11p the hay.
Had I used large leads, I might have
saved a good deal from getting wet.
These things mean business to every
farmer. The time is here when the
farmer must use more business in his ~
Country
Gentleman.
FARM GRINDSTONES.
\thn Properly “Tuned," They Should ,
Show :1 Slightly Beveled Surface
as in the Picture.
The, grindstone on the farm sees
pretty hard usage. The softer the
stone, the harder usage it receives. Its
lot-is almost as hard as that Of the-“boy
on the farm,” who has to turn it by the
bout
stone is more likely to be shown at the
left, than it is to have an even face, or
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UNTRUE AND TRUE GRINDSTONES."
slightly beveled surface, as at the
right in the same picture. The former
condition comes from grinding axes,
scythes, machine knives, etc., with
their edges lengthwise of the stone in-
stead of across-it. This cannot be
helped in grinding some tools. But
whenthe stone does assume this shape,
making it impossible to grind it chisel
or any flat-edged tool decently, it is a
good time to get. a spade—spades are
usually dull—and hold it on the stone
until it is sharp, when the irregular-:
ities of the surface of the stone
will have disappeared. A grindstone,
by the way, should never be left ex-
posed to the sun. The weight Of the
handle will always cause one portion of
the stone to remain uppermost, and
this, from exposure, will assume a dif- .
ferent degree of hardness from the
under side, so that after awhile the
stone will be ground out of a circle. If,
the stone has to stand in the open, a flat
box can easily be abtained to serve as
a cove r. —Rural New Yorker.
Good “’ork o! a Woman. ,.
A year or two ago a vast amount of”
practical good-roads work was done 1n
Missouri by forming country organiza:
tions, and the person chiefly instrumen-
ml in forming them was a woman—.
Miss Bell a C. Harber. That lady trav-
eled through the stale, and in the
course of a yea1 organized 66 assOcia-
tions. An interstate road convention
was subsequently held' 1n St. Louis, and
there was formed an “Interstate Good-
Roads and Public—Improvement associ-
ation,” and Miss Haber was made its
secretary and organizer. She has this
year been engaged in similar work in
Illinois, dividing the state into “good-
roads districts,” each having a. large
city as a center, and holding conven-
tions in these cities, as a basis of build-
ing up a healthy good-«roads sentiment.
A similar plan might be profitably tried
in other states.
Roads in Puerto Rico.
It. is said that .there'ar'e 15,000 men’ A
on the payrolls of the department of
'public works in Puerto Rico 'who are
engaged in road-building.
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Prisoners on Road Builderl.‘ , .
A Pennsylvania law makes it possi-
ble to employ county prisoners in road-
building.
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The grinding surface of the ., *
{Selves to the grapes.
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has:
WINE FROM ‘h’rp‘LEs.
it Is Made So Cleverly as to Deceit:
Even the Most Knowing
Experts.
Science has lately made it possible to
obtain good wine from the apple, which
has always been devoted. to sparkling
cider. Experts have been deceived in
sherry, madeira and sauterne which
came‘from apple juice instead of grapes.
Juice from'the apple is fermented
with yeasts of different kinds brought .
from the grape-grOWing districtsiof En~ -
rope to this country; For instance, the
flavor of sherry is this not to the grape,
=-bu't to the infinitesimal fungus germs
-that cause its fermentation. The Amer-
ican companies import these gems
from the district in Spain where they
flourish, inoculate the apple juice and
obtain a fine wine.‘ The same process
is ‘follc'1wed with other varieties of wine.
These' yeasts are obtained from the
sediment-in the vets of Europe. They
are easily propagated, and the only
difficulty is to separate the different
kinds. As the quality of wine depends
on these fungi winemakers have usual-
--ly left? to chance. thehudofwinothcy
produce, depending on the‘org-anisms
which float . in the air and attach them-
Thegyeasts are
sold bottled, and are much in, demand.
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Mother undSon at the Zoo.‘
I once watched a monkey (not an
orang-outang, this time), which had a
baby in arms. being fed withigrapes.
The youngster was most anxious to
have a grape, but his mother, being
either too selfish to allow him to share
her treat or afraid the fruit might not
be good for her son’s juvenile digestive
organs, would not allow him to have
any, and boxed his cars soundly for be-
ing rude enough to. attempt to take 11
grape out of her mouth. The keeper' 1n
charge said she did not “spare the rdd
and spoil the child” when he became
“obstreperous.’.’ As his parent would
not give him'any fruit, the littlefellow
endeavored to obtain some on his own
account, and several times escaped
from her arms and began to climb the
wire netting in the front of his cage,
but was promptly hauled back by the
tail. At length he managed to get
free,- and, running up to the top of .'
his: cage, put one hand through the
meshes of the galvanized wire and
pleaded eloquently with his upturned
dark little eyes for a “taster," whilst his
mother actually hit herself in sheer
rage over her naughty boy’ s bad he-
havinr.—»Caeet.‘. ’3 Little Folks.
. flute-rial: lo a Piano.
There are 48 difierent materials
‘used in constructing a plane, from.
no’fewer than 16 different counu'iel.
employing 45 different hands.‘
YOUR, PROPER wsiénr.
Prof. Huxley Tells How the Normal
Man’s Avolrdupoin Should
Be Distributed.
Prof Huxley gave the. following
table of what a. full-grown man should
weigh, and how his weight should be
divided:
Weight, 154 pounds, made up thus:
Muscles and their appurtenances, 65
pounds; skeleton, 24 pounds; $1111.10”
pounds; fat, 28 pounds: brain, 8.
pounds; thoracic viscera, 31/2 pounds:
blood which would drain from body,7
pounds. ,
This man ought to consume per
diem: Lean beefsteak, 5,000 grains;
bread, 6, 000 grains; milk 7,000 grains;
pbtatoes, 3, 000 grains;
'Igrains; water, 22,900 grains.
butter, 600
His heart? should beat 75 time's amin-
_’ute, and'hc should breathe 15 times a
minute. In 24 hours he Would vitiate
1,750 cubic feet of pure air to the extent _
Of 1 per cent, 1 a man, therefore, of the
weight mentioned ought to have 800
feet of well ventilated space.
He would throw of! by the skin 18 .;
ounces of water, 300 grains of solid
_. matters-an d. Mongolian. of-corhonieraeid
every 24 hours, and his total-lossd‘un'
ing the 24 hours would be six pounds of
water,'and a littlerover two pounds of
other matter.
11159.1. Lumen. tnocens.
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50 Children’s Roofers, regular value,
$1. 50. Our price to close out,
980- '
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50 Men’ 5 Jersey Coats, fleece-lined reg
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Our price this week, 980.
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