“lfyessgwriteupointolitseshrsto
makesliving,tl1eydeservetobeeneonr-
aged,” says Mr. William D. Howellsin
aeonversationreportedforTheOntlcck
by Clinton Johnson. In that respect
Ir. Howellwliilersmstarlsllyfrcm tin
hisAnthony’l‘rollope, whodeclaredthst
literaturewasaprowon. lfnotstrsde.
andthst it could belesrnedlikesuy
other trade or profusion: it could be
adoptedsssconvenlentmeausof livell~
hood-wits art and science studied and
piacliced sndwriterstumsdout toor—
der. There were, he declared further,
octets rules of fiction writing to be
learned and followed brslbsnd they
would generally make the writer ancv
cessful.
Host people, however, will prefer Row.
ells’ viewthat literature is not a busi-
ness,hntthe expression of thought, eb-
eervstion and eelbg Thecnltivsticn
ofesprasionisalwaysagoodtbiugaud
shouldhe encouraged, whether the out
comeofitispaidforornet. According
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Nerwalk's Birthday Celebration.
, The celebration of the two hundred
and forty-fourth anniversary . of the
. founding of Norwalk will unquestionably
he the event of the year. Norwalk has a
history ante-dating the Revolution, and
simulations connected with that event
that the present generation know httle
about. Being one of the oldest toer in
the country, it is very becoming that an
anniversary be celebrated, and celebrated
in the most elaborate and becoming mau-
' nor. Thecommittecshaving itin charge,
Sons and Daughterl of the Revolution,
: have entered upon their duties with com-
mendable energy, and nothing will he
to make it an event creditable to
the'good old town. The plans thus far
ornnpieted embrace a two days' celebra-
tion,with parade, ball, colonial tea, his-
torical addresses, etc. and naetherpb-
ssrvancee are suggested they will hefully
considered and,if deemed proper, woptsd.
Webmpeakfor the society the full and
hearty cooperation of the people of Nor-
_“ walk
The South Norwslk pecans, at the re-
ception given Rev. A. S. Kavanagh, at
the First Methodist church, last night,
exhibited a must coma-endahle spirit,
sndlfr. Kavsnegh must feel that heis
welcome to Norwalk,snd that he has
comeamong a Christian people actuated
by aharmouions purpose. The remarks
were most felicitoue in exproulul.
kindly in sentiment,and yet emphatic
' astetbe necessity for energetic pastoral
work. The brethren comprise astrong
body of young men,and arebacked by
, numerous and working organizations.
The new Methodist pastor unquestion-
shly'ispomesssd of hieshare or ability,
andenorgynmd when begets the new
church that his society ought to build
in order to keep pace with the others in
this direction. the only obstacle to the
mosteflective work by him will here-
moved. It seemeto usthat Mr. Kara
"(his just the kind of pastor under
which the church ought to tackle this
enterprlse. .
The Hour has discovered that A. Bian-
chudnuperintendent of evening schools.
isvielatingthelawin sdedantmauner.
Those who know llr. Blanchard. if they
believe the Hour. would be astonished
at ml! information. But Ir. Blanchard
is not a defiant man. 0n the conarnry,
hair a most conscientious fellow, with
plenty of determination, but not of the
thoebtrusive kind. Furthermore. he is
unusually well Informed, and has aelsar
conception of his duty with full courage
to perform it. Mr. Blanchard 11on
tic-ably understands the school law well
enough not to vielatelt. and is altogether
”conscientious to evade it. We met
the opinion that Mr. Blanchard is fully
within the law in every particular. and
that he will never exceed his lawful
suthcrlty as superintendent of evening
schools, or in any other pmitlon
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Thessergy displayed by the Tramway
cumpaayln building its road to Retail
Noland Five Mile River is almmt an
mthatthepeoplewillhesble to
fit to Baton on opening day by this
read. But thiswillnotbethe principal
lieu.“ of theenterprise, for it must have
heelsctofdeveloplogtheeoutheru and
waters section ofthe town. and it will
nothslonghsforetheroad willbelinrd
with delightfully located hem. The
roadwlllprsctiesllydestroythedbtases
to the centre, where employment h
obtainedsudthefutars whilst
therewhoobtslusliveflhoodlnfiorwslk
willalsoresidewitbinitslimlte
The report comes from Washington
um morning. that Cleveland is shalom
bhantheimwmetaxriderloihe tariff
lillrlrlcken oil. lfhehas at has the
csrsudlightonthiseubiect, therein
Min hope that ensign of his party
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peopled! notrepveb
Whyflwhpulistconthgsutincen
to flowella, writing is a very poor busi-
nessatwhich to make a living unless
onecanheajournallstorediwr. Itmay Pu”
beremsrked in en aside, however, that
fonunes are notslwsys made’even’by
journalists and editors.
Howells' “Venetian Life" was first
printed in a Boston paper at a price
which in our depreciated currency of 80
yearsagcgavehhningoldonlywacol
own. The Atlantic Monthly editor had
rejected the manacript of it before that.
Finally Howells found a London pub
lishsr who brought the sketches out in
book form, and they made a hit at once.
’ The wisest editor cannot always tell.
Even Howells remarks mmleetly "I
have rejected things myself as an editor
that I am sorry now ldid reject."
He believes that a time is coming when
the contractions that we use in speech,
such as “don't," “haven't," “won’t," etc.,
will be printed just as they are spoken,
and very properly so. “They do it in
French and Italian new." Finally, it
writers and likrsry people could only
spend a part of each day in vigorous phys
ical labor, farm or garden work prefer
ably, as recommended by Tolstoi, they
would be far better ofl mentally and
phyically. "If everybody did hisorhet
share of the work of the world, there
would be leisure and comfort for nll. I
think it's a great pity we don't all work
with our hands.”
lldp Wanted on Far-me.
Amid all the dearth of employment in
cities mil in the manufacturing districtr
theword still comes from the country
that any number almost of both men
and women can secure employment
there. Farmers and dairymcn {recircul-
ly leave an urgent request for help at the
United States barge ofllce in New York
city. A free labor bureau is maintained
there by two organizations—«the Irish
Emigrant DIM] and the Harman 1-111
ciety of the City of New York. All we
tionalitiee are, however.accou1modatal
at the china, and help in any language
can be secured. Mr. W. ll. Menrs hue
charge of the labor bureau. and there it
no fee to be paid by anyhow—employer
or the immigrant seeking work.
The bureau aims to provide fat the
poorer class of immigrate-thine doing
manual labor only. such as domestics,
farmhands, day laborers and mechanics.
0! course the chief drawback is that the
employer is obliged to teach the new
servant everything, often even the lan-
guage. But, on the other ha111l,lhe new
help works for lower wages than would
have to be paid to the employee already
broken in, so the chances are-shout even.
These new immigrants are usually full
of ambition and eagerness to learn. and
the employer tan get more work out at
them than he will ever be apt to again.
The American League of Architects
has had an inuiortaui discussion. Itwas
on the subject of tall buildings. Presio
dent Georgi. Post declares it archi-
tecturally ble to construct build-
ings 40 and iii! ptories high. The ques—
tron is, Is it desirable to do so? It lanot
for metal reams. one is that the
streets on which thene lofty structures
stand would thereby be made dark and
damp. The high lumees decmw the
light and the rental value of null houses
next them. The chief art 1.11:1 of the
World's fair buildings, Mr. D. ll. llurn
ham, said that the question of the height
of hrmson would he finally determined
by the elevator and «lei/slur splice. Ila
declared there iii to rule of «la-valor “M
beyond which people will not and «uncut
go, This is probably true. Archim'ln
may make the 40 story house as safe as it
rock, yet smnehow than will always he
a feeling in the human mind that the
nearer the ground one is the safer in- is.
Some cattlcmm of Oklsim‘na drove
their herds upon the Cheyenne Indian
reservation and began pestering them
there. The ludians did mtllkeitud
showed light. Therewasshsttle. The
result was the anal one-more ludlans
than white men kllkd. Wintwlcksd
creatures Indians are to try to defend
their rights against white men!
lteesmstobesfsdcd maswsllss
women letterlynol to tell their ages.
Thslstel’reaties Inlfordhadathsory
thetif pecpiaforgm and ignoredthsir
birthdsysthsywouldgrowoldlessrsp-
Idly Perhapsthstiswhattbeold“
ssddsndiesauslsshgat.
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”Nicodemus”
The rural may now ex-
slsini.wlththe ofGloster, “New
3
thewinterofenrdisccptwit,” and
sddenltsownscoountthatthi'
wagons and broken down horses. Be
like the manwho couldn't mend.
roof of his cabin when it was
snd.wouldn't when the sun shone
cause it didn't leak.
To a disinterested observer the atti-
tudeef the average tanner toward the
3‘
movement forbetterrosds is inexpliea. 1
hie. Year after year he goes on in the
sameoldrut, ruininghistcmperandin-
curring needless expense in wagons and
horses‘simply because he won't stop to
think. Experience has proved that
uough money is annually expended in
uselesstlnkering by ignorant roadmas-
tsrstokeep the roadaef the oonutryln
ble if not first classcondltion. In-
stead of passively submitting to exist-
ing conditions the farmers ehenld oom-
hlne with a view of having the time and
money now wasted judiciously and in-
telligently expended.
The roadmaster. as we knowhim. is
usually wholly incompetent. His knowl-
edge of road building and repairing has
been acquired by wdrking out his taxes
probably, and his prime object late iln-
ish the work assigned to him with the
least outlay of labor consistent with
drawing his salary. 4 His method of pro-
cedure consists in dumping washings
from the roadside into the middle of the
highway—which is the very material
most injurious to the road—there to re-
main in stifling dust or sticky mud until
kindly rains have again swept it to the
ditch, if there be one, or it has been
transported to other scenes in the lungs
and clothing of passing travelers. I have
in mind just such a road and an equally
capable rosdmsster. In a town on Long
Island a stretch of the sandy roads of
that region had, through the action of
the rain, been rendered hardand smiloth,
with a corresponding clogging of the so
called ditch. Instead of clearing the
ditches and carting away the powdery
earth, which had produced a luxuriant
growth of grass and weeds, he plowed it
up and dumped it, weeds and all. into
the middle of the road, wholly destroy-
ing whnt had grown of itself to he a fair- '
ly good highway.
What is necessary is to er‘nploy a man .
'who has haderpsrience 1n scientificroad
making. Such a one can do much to-
ward making perfect roads and keeping
them in repair at little more expense to
the community than the incompetent tax
worker.
Farmers. stop and think! (let together
and take steps to get some return for
money expended. Hire a com
to supervise road construction a
pairing, and soon you will rejoice in 1:53h
ways that will keep hard and smooth de-
spite wiuter'e frost and ruins of spring.
W.ll.B.11.1.1Nunn. ;
for Farmers to Consider. :
Many farmers today send their prod-
uce to arket by railroad becauseflle
roadsare so muddy and bad. Therein
more wear and tear on horseflesh and
wagons than could be paid for bythe’
saving on transportation charges. It
would he a delight and pleasure tomany l
farmers in the winter and spring to car-
ry their farm products to market by,
wagon 1f the roads were hard and smooth.
Good roads can be obtained better by the
farmers taking an interest in the matter
than by state legislation. The latter
never accomplishes an object so well as
local boards and improvement mmmit- ‘:
tees. When farmers have the same
amount of local pride that some subur-
ban nllagers have they will make the
roads along their farms humanize with
theappearame of their well 1nltivsted
fields.
There is a lack of interest in the mat-
ter when we see thrifty burnysrda. build-
ings. fields and fences. but wrotehedly.
had roads. And yet this is the case in 1
many parts of the country. The great
ementisl thing is toilevote more atten-
tion tonne part of the road until it is]
finished and not spread out the work
over several miles. doing no part any
Mtparticular good. The labor is then gen-
erslly lost for the first winter will de-
stroy all of the improvements. If every
farmer would take a piece of read 100
yards in length in front of his house and
fix it up into the right shape. finishing it
completely before turning his atwntien
to anything else. he would do a lasting
benefit to his country The follovrlnB
year it will need some slight remiss, an
111111 another 11111 31111111111111 he finished;
In the worse of a few years we would
have the finest. roads in the rursl districts 7
thatran be found in any partoi' the“
country. uAmerlcsn ( tiltlvslor
linu- and Bonds.
The question of the right of county
courts to appropriate and expend twout
thirds of the tax derived from the sale
of dramshop “mm for the improve-
ment ofcounty roads wss brought from
Jackson county. lilo.
court at Jeflersou (‘11,?
Kansas City wanied to retain the
moneys thus arising from the sale of
licenses for the use of the city and peti-
tioned for a writ mtrslning the county
court from so using the said moneys.
flotilla superior court holds that the
lswmskingthis provision wagoodmnd
t the county courts were on
apprwrlats and expend moneythus
raised for the irnprcvsmeni of county
reads. This settlers reconvened
non, ssuveral citiesof that state
heldthatths revenues arising fromihe
sslaoflicsnsesshould be used onlyfor
thshslisltef the city wherein were lo-
cated the drunhope wiltohange.
lay the read out perfectly straight
sndlntheernteroflhssllcwsnce, where
smtraadlsthsprowthing. lake
shdlrernemlsnmslmseym
,h-
Sizes from two to twelve, 98 cents each; worth $1.50,
50 ”Dozen Men’s Black Cotton Hose, regular made and war-
10 the supreme
NORWALK, CONN.
IMMENSE'; VALUES
Dry Goods and Carpets.
EEESEKEEEEE E00118.
100 dozen very heavy all-linen huck towels, extra. size, never
sold less than 20 cents. A hummert .
10 pieces 54- inch half bleached Germol damask, cost 374;
cents to land; at 9
(15 dozen, the balance of a big iobber’s stock of quilts, goods
that were made to sell at 75 cents, 98 cents, $1. 25 and
$1 50 to close at 49s., 7911., 9911., Si .09
4- 4 Chennille Covels, 1ogularo 75 -Cent goods; excellent value
491:
--CARPETS--
Wfilavejustpurchased at a price away under market value
20 pieces best Tapestry Will place on sale Saturday at
69 cents. Regular price, 90 cents.
-CLOAKS AND CAPES-
111 this department we are showing an emmense variety of
well-selected styles, all this season’s manufacture. If you need
anything 1n this line, it will pay you to look through our stock.
we MENTION A FEW SPECIALS:
--Children’s Jackets--
1251:
251:
981:
--Misses’ Jackets--
Sizes from fOlll teen to eighteen, $2. 69; Our regular price
$3.98
_ $1.11 ~
-Lad1es’ Jackets-
\ Leadelu 25 dozen in blues and tans, at $2. 9:8 Former
Price, $4.110.
CAPES.
10 Dozen made of fine Broadcloth, trimmed with the latest
Novelties in Laces and rufilings, at $4.98. Would be
good value at $7 .00.
MEN’S FURNISHINGS.
50 Dozen Ties, Tucker. and li‘our-in-Iland Ties; this season’s
I100111;: big value 1‘01 25 cents: choice at 190
1‘10 Dozen li‘our— Ply Linen Collars, all desirable shapes; regu-
1111 price, 124 cents each: Four for 25¢
100 Dozen Negligoo Outing Shirts, 2,16 inches long, yoke
hack, made 01 line Choviots 111111 liannels: 11 very good
Shirt at 75 cents; ()111' price, 50 cents.
$2.98
$4.98
501: .
1211:
noted last block; worth 25 0111118,:
DRESS GOODS.
A few choice things 111 silk and wools that we havejust open~
ed at very low prices:
Broadcloths for tailor- made Gowns and Capes, 1n .111 colors, 98
cents; worth $1.25.
986
THE NilllWAlK 308W“ SHIRE,
corner Main and Wall Streets ,Norwall.
Telephone. 67-4.
Norwalk Chronicler