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cw Ink herald Weather Forecast.
,fidaspartly cloudy warmer weather and
1m mthwestariy to southerly winds will
Mwlthraln arenas in the bake mien.
Imus eastward to New England and pos-
, . to the Middle Atlantic coast, followed by
Wu. 0n 'iuesday fair weather will prob-
prevail. with slight changes of tempera.
We. and westerly winds; on Wednesday.
coolanfalr weather. .
Thermometer Record.
h'e lowest point of the thermometer for the
«titty-four hours ending at noon today was
. 9 above aero: highest. 41° above zero.
' .fltalataro Almanac for To-morrow._
anal..- sense. a hl‘id 1 no
. are.“ l ate-ml h...“ 39.1“
Tunneling a Flooded Mine. .
The tunneling of the flooded mine at
Jeddc mountain in Pennsylvania is a
‘ magnificent triumph of mechanical cu~
shearing. in 1887 a creek that flowed
through the valley at the foot of Jeddo
mountain poured over its banks in a
What and flooded the whole basin of a
magnificent coal deposit. The miners
M for their lives before the rising tor~
rent, barely escaping From then till
1 now the rich mine has remained full of
water as it was left that unlucky day.
l'lrat it was thought to pump the water
out But there were 500,000,000 gallons
. Hit. The pumping would cost so much
that it could not be undertaken.
Finally it occurred to one of the Jed~
do coal operators, Mr. J. B. Markie.
that a tunnel under the mountain, from
a point below the mine, low enough to
drain all the water out, Would relieve
the basin and leave the mine once more
free to be worked. In 1891 this great
tunnel was begun. it was completed the
lat of February, 1805. it is 51.6 miles
W Shafts were sunk in two different
slopes, and work began. The surveyor's
task was performed wit
' " at Simplon tunnel in
. the Alps, the cent 1 point of the two
lbaltl did not vary 'oro than an inch
when they came together underground.
Three months will be required to drain
d the 500,000,000 gallons of water,
We have received a burning appeal
'0, pull ourselves together, rouse our
faculties and help oppose ”the uphold
. not a slothfnl conventionaiism who
would maintain unjust conditions, pro~
.Vent the spread of free inquiry and lull
thopublic CUlli‘l’lt‘llCU to sleep. ” With
all our heart. if there is anything we
let our face dud" against, it is slothful
mventionalism. We will hunt it to
its lair and smoke it out. We will set
the (logs of War upon it. We go in for
free inquiry with all our soul, the
heat hind. People may inquire into
any subject in this universe, and we
will encourage them in it. They may
liar talk all night if they want to for
aliwe care. And if anybody wants a
dose of partagoric for the purpose of
lailing the public conscienc. to sleep he
won’t get it in this office, “'0 can tell
him.
Japan has a. public school system
modeled on ourii, and it is as good. in
Amino many people of the old hunks
order moot understand that they owe
anything to the community in which
they made their wealth or that it is
right to tax them to educate other poo-
ple’s children when they have none of
" " Mt own. But in Japan the mikado
4 promulgated an order establishing flee
' “(roll for all the children. Of their
'4 own accord rich Japs contributed liltiiit
y gifts to act the schools go-
l ht. Thepoor lavished their little hoards
“ {It the same noble undertaking, gave of
”his own accord and did not grudge a
i ”of the school tax. What a people!
”Miler they have whipped the Chi-
fla. who are ten times their number.
. We labor unions want a law for-
Hddlnl in factories the employment of
ho esu support them. it won’t do.
a lawyould be against the Unit-
ccnstitntiou. it would abridge
30““ m a me: to make a living in an
.ng. way. Besides that, who would
u W hat judge of whether a has—
” W’ tint support his wife or not? Nu-
m&: . am an. to judge of on than
‘m-llvslrst him.
: uncle the sect-Iii very high authority, no
',_ w, 7 of Senator German him-
] | “I“ ‘. so cloned the present tariff
“EM“ pperhouse.that tariff
“that. the. pt guesses " Aha. if
M'wm or with"
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Review. ,'_,‘flast cue ch
in of his condition financiallprflt
precisely to the extent that itwillwork
for or against his material welfare.
Small blame to him. too, if his political
ideas have crystallized around this cen-
ter. it shows he is at last learning the
doctrines so long practiced with more
or less success by his masters. the pol-
iticiaua.
. Live stock, implements and other
farm property amount to ueariy018,-
600,000, 000 apart from the land itself.
Including the value of the land, agricul.
tare represents 66 per cent of the entire
wealth of the nation. To increase this
individually and collectively through
legislation and through private effort
the Farmers' National congress was
organized It is strictly nonpolitical in
character, except as by working in a
body it seeks to influence national leg-
islation for the good of its members. it
has the same number of members as
the United States congress, and its del-
egates hold oiiice two years.
The Farmers'bongress does not con-
sider that agriculturists are at all ade~
quately represented in congress. "The
heart of the great agricultural region—
Indinna, Illinois and Iowa—has no
farmer in either branch of congress,"
and the other states fare not much bet-
ter. Mr. Clayton blames the farmer
himself for this, since he does not take
enough interest in elections to see that
candidates friendly to lhs interests are
chosen. Among measures already ac-
complished in the way of legislation by
the Farmers' National congress are the
interstate commerce law, the elevation
of the secretary of agriculture to be a
cabinet oilieer. the recent movement for
irrigation of the arid districts, the pure
food law and the laws against conta-
gious diseases among live stock. t
The great mistake the farmer makes ~
is in not going to the primaries. Mr.
Clayton says.
A Cable to Honolulu.
The Review of Reviews has this to
say about an ocean telegraph to connect
the United States with Hawaii:
Long before the plan ‘of a cable lino from
Canada across the Pacific was ever thought of
there had been much discussion of a line con.
nearing the Sandwich islands with California.
The United States government has made ex-
tensive surveys and soundings in order to die-
cover the best route. Ninety per cent of the
actual business to be transmrtcd overacabla
lino confronting the islands with North Amor-
ica Would probably pertain to the United
States. The Japanese guvl~rnnu~nt has shown
sonny interest in the establishment of acable
ling‘to the United States by way of Hawaii.
In inu’skpe‘w prominence and expapsicn
of polity-«in unhuce‘tiourfllly’ddd very mfixh
to this inter-(mt. There would seem to be no
Will, than, for the sudden abandonment of
the long consider-Ml plan of a Pnelflu cable from
California to Hunoiuiu and thence to Japan.
where it Would have connection With all parts
of Asia. But if the United Hutton should too
eagerly nlwt the plan for a cable from New
chlund to the modern terminus of the North-
ern Pacific railroad the result‘might be very
greatly to diminish the prospects of an Amer
ican line that Would probably sort-o our our
poms more completely. it is quite true that
We should derive much commercial lit-unfit
from any lllll'. regardless of its precise land
ing plum: on the North American Mn'lllmlll'tl-
But imwmu-h as our government has nirvndy I
incurred (hillh‘lllt‘mlllt'ollllily in locating a cabin; ‘
route from (torturous it Would sum pi't'ullilr, 1
tosny the h .irb, if we should Without discus '
nion illillllllnll that idea, and not only give our
commi-rrini u-nv:.m'ugr-nuvnt to tho proposed
lino nmlvr l'ui'illrill nnspivw. but. also go at. far ,
as to notice on r in liroat lirmun an Miami in l
the Hlnbdllull group ;
France is wise enough to take plontv ‘
of time for her great exposition of 1000 i
It will be on the site of the one held in
1889, but will take in more groundl
Franco's first move in the matter was to
offer largo prizes to architects for do- :
signing suitable buildinga There were}
108 competitors for the prizes This
shows how Well France is supplied with
architects of the first class. in allAmer-
ica there are not so many native born
architects capable of furnishing plans
for a World‘s fair buildings and.
grounds. The largest prizes wore of the
amount of “.200 each, and there 0
four of these. in all 750 designs w e.
offered, showing again how rich in ur-
tistic skill France is. Well, success to
the Froneh exposition of i000. May .
all be well enough and rich enough to
go to it. Probably by the time it comes
of! ships will cross the Atlantic in four
days.
it is a pleasant sign of prosperity these
hard times to learn that the Match trust
has increased its capital and that its
dividaids are immense. Of course the
public that buys its matches has noth-
ing to say one way or the other and
has not a thought give to it in the
midst of this magnificent piling up of
dividends. If, howaver. it were allowed
a word, if it did have a single right in
the premises. the public would like to
say meeldy to the Match trust that it
would be eternally grateful if the trust
would make at leastonc match in three
that would light and burn The trust
might have the other two and welcome
for its additional trouble in the case.
it was blackmail money that was the
matter with the police department of
New York city. It is automatic telephone
stock that is the matter with the coun-
cilman of Philadelphia A considerable
amount of it disappeared in their dine
tics. and uowlt seems to be calling
hello
Thrillers-nemesis thalamus
“Misconduct-esteem
s
. “the cart at Ion-wet. 1m may
douaotmfer paliticsasmhlntbe W
.r-psrtissu sense. lie is tolerated in it
tigers perched upon a sort of acids ,
fragile looking timber lockout, ovarhail’~
in: the hard. A Week later, or a moat ,
as you an stain. rm ma! In that lonely
figure. nis eyes always bent upon the dead
beneath him, still keeping his watch.
The man its salmon" catches in .his
gods are a couple of long ropes, connect
with a net in flint star below him. and
day after day he site up there intently
watching until he sees a salmon pass into
his net The instant this great event ap-
pone he hauls sharply upon the
close; the mouth of the net, and then. got-
ting into his boat, proceeds to pick up the
salmon at his leisure.
The salmon thus caught are sold to
some hotel upon the flord. or sent with
others in ice to liorgcn by the next stonin-
"J The fisherman gets from tlneepcncc
to slxpcnce per pound for his catch—four
pence is an average price—and oven the
hnrd earned captors of three or four sol.
men sweet: procured at the expense of
long, weary days of w tchiug means a
good deal to those poor; meant farmers,
with whom ready inane; is a scarce com,-
modity, . .1
The Xerwegian imminent farmer is a poor.
man indeed, or he Would not iwtnko him-
self to so precarious and so monotonous a
method of adding to his scanty moans.
Usually he been sinall‘pntchof lanthn
few acres only-vii infirm garden spot;-
wbcre a little soil lies on the foot of the
rocky mountains that inclose the ilord, or
--wberc the soil. is always the richest—-
upon some old moraine, or in moo open
valley formed by glaciers in ages of the
past. Here he sows and reaps his tiny
crops and cuts his grass in August, malt-
ing bay of it by hanging it upon full bar-
dles. ills row cows and goats are in the
hymn during the long winter-who" starved,
poor creaturosionml fed, more often than
not, upon dried liougim of the abundant
birch tree. in June the little flocks and
herds emerge and are driven unto the
Sectors, mountain pastures, where the
girls or the tiny hamlet settle down in
rude buts quite alone, make cheese and
live an idyllic maternl life until Soptcm
her. The (owner always malice his own
boats—you can buy in Norway a good.
rmnny, pine built bout fowl, shilling! or
L‘s—end is as much a fishermen and best:
man as a former, as indeed are all his
faintly.
The farmers out little or no meat; flat
brad (a sort of very inferior coarse eat
cake, made of grain and potatoes). milk,
cheese and fish anflicc for the Norwegian
and his family throughout the year. .» The
catching of a tow salmon each week. there-
foro, during the summer is a matter of
much iinportanco to the poorer of the
peasant proprietors of t is picturesque but
excessively barren con try. Norway in-
deed is nothing he a country of great
mountains, piercodmy the vast sea water
flords, and one “filliltlflfl a few scanty
patches of good lend, its cameos, perhaps
the hardicst, aifnpicst, kindiicst and turret
honest follcnow in Europe, taro hard in:
deed. and their wants are few and scanty
-l'all Mall Gazette.
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A NEW DEPARTURE.
Why Not Let the! Men no “'telltlrrwrni’va'
trifle (lawn.
A new ritl‘l‘ll idea lilei iu-MI mlvuncml,
and as it. isnrntimml one it. is to be
hoped that itwili luwvwnnrugi-d. This
now! propmillnu iw that girls should he
onoonrugml iuumw tum iiwrnt bulls. The
flaming rem-ml) in with no. and lllt'l'u is
the on domnrv prupnrihm of girls who go
to domes and urwr harpnpnrim-r. if
only, it is supgwuod, a few among the
new popular of young married ladies
lllft. trims omvy. ,
would hmugnruin c act of "indoors" for
indies only, and ow-nslnmdly have a waltz
with ilwlr ulri friends, the idea would
take. TM” is a plan for wunwn to consid-
or seriously. 'l‘hum are now-r own enough
to “gordnnd” at a hall, and it is therefore
a mathematical rortninl y that during each
dance a number of ynmig wmncn must be
more onlookers. h‘ot only is this an no-
satisfactory mrt of mmm-mvnt for girls
who have lOflltL‘fl fmwcnl in an evening of
plmmnre and activity, but it has imbued
the young dancing than, who nsirnliy
wear-i his brains in his patent leather
slim-a. with the feeling that he muffle an
lmuwnse honor on a young women by in-
viting her to waltz. living mmparntiveiy
scarco, he puts a high vnluenn himself. it
earths like a reversal of the prutm rules
when the wish rather than the woman
minim llw luvurui it damn. it girls danced
number. the ”latter would mm present a
different lisp-rt. 'i'lwre is no mttof mean
why they almiil'l not thus display their
“m and tiwiv pretty gowns, tamed of
sitting comm; along the wall watching
other girls dance who are quite likely not
as spillini in the scmmipliahmentsa thala-
acivos. l'lnlr cluclis, bright eyes and the
poetry of micron. even with snothcryoun‘
woman for n tmrtner, are better than lice
ing a wnliiluwer.
An illustration is given of a Mill);
gown for dressmmimns. The ample black
velvet skirt opens on each sideof the front
toslmw nqrillicof ml moire frontal by
lengthwise hands of sable. on which for
heads eppmr at regular intervals. Geld
newsroom the ammo! tin-blast
velvet tactics fl‘ios b velvet bellies is
ummdf. no“ it.“ ”as“:
D . ‘
gases staircase any“ at that
' con. Mllllillil mu strum
svsuv one THAT Hassasn oun arose ,AND “if
«some
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001. NOVELTl y
colored Brass Goods. Domestics.
l
Agree with us that there has never been anything like it. or has even approached it, in thil
80-inch ail-wool Henrietta, all colors, used to enlist 50c,
In this department you will always find specially g . .
DISPLAY or
29 cents a yard. values
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Cities. We feel proud of this fact and are satisfied that our efforts are fully appreciated. l
as inch'i’iaids, just the thing for missee' and children's
SILK AND w-......._. “5
sumo, FEB. 15, n and mi Rlllllllll
IV
Brown Muslin, 36 inches wide, licent quality. at 4‘
Marine Serge, 50 inches wide, warranted in every par- can“, '
tleuler. best wearingcloth made, Blue and Navy, 01 per yd. “
y i > e .
150 styles Fancy Sills, in Stripes, Checks and Figures, cm‘:'leached Muslin, 36 inches "(18' 8 cent quaiily, at
for Trimmings and Waists, from 39 cents to 01 50.
Black Dress Goods.
Never was such values offered by us or any other house.
Just think of it: Aline French Henrietta, made to sell at
69 seats, at 50 cents a yard.
45inch "Henrietta, superior quality, the same as is
usually retailed at 0i; our price, 69 cents a yard.
.. to pieces (all new) Figured Dsmaese, very stylish, value
Sliceam, 00 cents a yard.
Wash liress loads.
Best imported French Dimlty, styles exclusively our
own. very best quality, can’t be duplicated, 15 cents a yard.
Best American Gingham, an immense variety, last
season's price, 17 seats; 12; cents a yard.
Scotch Giughams, Zi-cent quality, 19 cents a yard.
imported Japonettea, Zephyr: and Fancy Ducts, ai ways
sold at 157i cents, 500 styles from 15 cents to 25 cents.
THE Blll'l'flli SEE, BUB. Milli All] Will. STS, Null?
lSN’T
Bleached Muslin, 42 inches wide, ll-cent quality, ’ll
centl.
Checked Nsinsooks, li-cent quality, at 9 cents.
Red Table Damask, 25 cent quality, at 15 cents.
German Damask, extra quality, at 25 cents.
Toilet Crash, tie a yard.
Men’s Furnishings.
Quite a few men believe that dry goods stores keep ope,
simply to please the ladies. We can assure our men frieu '
that we are equally as solicitor» to their well-being,
During this sale we will offer 50 dozen Men’s Outi
Shirts. regular .50 cent quality, at 25 cents each.
100 dozen Men's Fine Cashmere Hose, some as you p}
39 cents for, 21 cents a pair, six pairs for 01. ‘
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“THERE * 1
REAL
advantage in trading where there is a BIG STORE, a BIG STOCK and a BIG BUSINESS?
Doesn't a big selling mean a big buying, and doesn't a big buying mean buying low? We buy
largely, .lnd buy low. Why shouldn’t we sell low?
.we no x;
'We have purchased today another lot-Two Thousand Pounds (2,000 lbs,)~of our liar Fern: l
COFFEEB, Which we buy Green and have it Roasted fresh to order twice each week. This
ables us to give you the lust article in this line that the market affords.
0Ml lMlHd (MET BE BUN}
We never buy an article just because it is cheap, if the quality is not there then it is no
bargain for us. Economy consists of buying the most of the best for the least money; that’s the
bargain we believe in, and that's what we give you every time. .
We have a car load of the Famous Angelou Flour on the way, which has been snow bound.
Uur mmy ordvra will be delivered from the car on arriVel. [rave your order for a barrel. Get
the best. -
Gallon Apples, fancy goods, title can.
Gallon Tomatoes, fancy goods, 25c can.
New Bermuda Onions
Extra fine Sweet Potatoes. ,
A big drive in Canned Good, Dried Fruits and all reasonable goods.
There is a good deal of truth in the clothier’s advertisement we read not long ago. W
or you wear the wool upon your back or over your eyes.
Gilt Edge Butter, Ferris llama and Bacon, and all first class goods at lowest prices. 5.
in your orders.
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lllilllLES E. ‘ SEYMOUR
lillllllfl Bliliillli.
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Norwalk Chronicler