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E. L. AND A. L. GOLDEN,
PROPRIETORS.
TUESDAY, MAY 11, 19:5
MINIATURE ALMANAC FOR
TOMORROW.
High tide 10:34 a. [1].;10338 p. in.
Sun rises 4:37; sets 7:01.
, EVENING SENTINEL TELE-
. PHONE CALLS.
. Editorial Rooms-93.
Em Offices-93." . i
‘ Norwalk Bunch Office—1388.
' Editor’s Residencea-rsas-s.
'City Editor's Wee—1521.
._ Business Manager's Residence——
I 13-: z.
. Publisher’s Residence—890.
masomc NOTICE.
out Well Lodge, No. 103, F. and A. M.
Meets in Masonic Building, South
Main street, 1st and 3rd Tuesday of
each month—duly and August, ex-
cepted—Ail 8 o'clock. A" Master
Masons cordially in'llited. Sylvester
P. Decker, W. M. Robert M. Wilcox.
Sec.
A Stated Convocation of Butler Chap-
ter, No. 38, R. A. M., will be held at
its rooms, Tuesday evening, May 11th.
1015, at 8 o'clock. Installation of of-
ficers and P. M. degree. All R. A. Ma-
sons cordially and fraternally invited.
Fraternally Yours,
CHARLES A. TUCK, H. P.
Affect:—
' F. s. LYON ,
Secretary.
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PROPOSED POLICE PENSlONs
iNorwalk, ‘Conn.
May 10th, 1915. ’
Editor sentinel,
Dear Sir: —
isn't there anything to be said about ,
the proposed polit’e pension ordinance?
Are the taxpayers going to be saddl-
ed with its perpetual burdens, without
a word as to the why or wherefore;
tlie reason or necessity of its passage?
‘1 have been told that the present-
law allows pensions not only to those
injured in the se'rvlce.‘ but to those
retiring after twenty years service and
to exepolicemen.
How many are at present eligible
and how many more will come in und-ldmon of “we“ in "9'1“" every Panlcouservation of water supplies accent-
er; a pension in' five, ten, or fiftecniof the country is so good. uild thereiplished by the forest service through
years. Will it pension for policemen be‘ is so 3113111 :1 chance of deterioration'llessened fire damage and regulated
soon followed by one for firemen.lbemre harvest time, that the grainlgrazlng. in southern (‘aliforniu the in-
schoolteachors and members of the
street department?
if have also been told" that ‘ the
city will be obliged to set aside 82,000
license money each year and the policeI
department $200. Are these figures cor-
rect?
Has this matter been considered by
the recently formed tax-payers asso-
ciation, pledged to reduce taxation and
does the association approve of it?
isn‘t this one of the matters includ-.
ed in the new “Home Rule" act which .
requires a referendum vote of the el-
ectors? If so, why not a referendum on
this at the next election? '
Can‘t you print a synopsis of thel
law or ordinance. so that it may be
known in advance what is going to
the acted on at the special Council
meeting Thursday night?
Even if town meetings have been
practically eliminated, the people still
retain some interest in their local gov-
ernment and ought tc know and have
something to say in matters of as
much importance as this.’
951:2». INQUISlTlVE TAXPAYER
The above communication received
from one of our prominent and infin-
ential citizens, is sufficiently timely
and important to give it the widest
publicity. The points raised by the
writer would have considerably more
weight were we authorized to divulge
the name of the correspondent. But
as we have no such-authority we
’publiob the letter in hopes that what-
ever is done in the matter of police
pensioning, notion will be taken only
after most thorough consideration. it
it a. pretty safe rule to.aliow the peo-
' pie to decide these questions and
Should there bé a doubt in the minds
”of the city fathers as to the wisdom
‘ at this time of adopting the pension
system for city employees, the forth
Coming bills to be passed presumably
thy the General Assembly will empower
‘ municipalities to submit such meas-
‘ pros as is proposed to the people for
their approval. Few citizens will be
found who are opposed to the principle
of pensions in deserving ones, but
whether the present iii the Who'll!”
time for the enactment‘of such an on
, alliance will, we militiamen the
. more carom Ttiioiisht m solicit --is
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was-rests cHan-Laaoa l
A Child Labor Conferenbe will ne‘.
held at San Francisco May 28-31, all
which one whole session will be given‘
over to the discussion of “Child Labor
in the West.” Labor Commissioner
Clary of Arkansas, Commission Olson
of Oregon and various oflcialll of the
California Child Labor Committee and
San Francisco Juvenile Protective As-
sociation will be among the speakers.
There will also be a “Children’s Char.
ter Session" at which the educational
'and constructive sides of the child lar‘
bol' situation will be talked over by
Dr. Jessica Peixotto, E. B. DeGroot,
Prof. Albert 1C. 'Whittaker and other
Californians. I
congested population and large
California have excellent child
ging a little behind. The difficulty,
law will help, it is hoped. Such a law
lost in the Senate.
atingly. Too many people are ignorant
the adult citizenship of the Children
thus employed. The San Francisco con-
ference may help jog th~ public up to
a point where it will not tolerate its
present penny-wise-pound-i'oolish waste
of juvenile strength.
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ANOTHER BIG WHEAT CROP
1n the midst of distressing war news
comes prophesy of the great wheat
crop in the history of the country.
mates that the _winter wheat, which
will be ready for the reaper in many
sections in another month, will reach
the immense total of 693,000,000 bush-
els, surpassing last year's record by
8,000,000 bushels. This figure is admit-
tedly conservative. Chicago grain ex-
perts predict a winter wheat crop of
’700,000,000 to 725,000,000 bushels. Con?
l
men see no cause for conservatism.
At current prices this output will be
i worth nearly a billion dollars. And the
price is more likely to go up than
down, because of the lessened pro.
duction in Europe.
Thus, if rest of the crop. the spring
.03 more than that, because several
million more acres have been sown in
wheat than last year—we may expect
a total output for the year of nearly
1,000,000,000 bushels, nearly 100,000,-
5000 more than the great crop of 1914.
I It begins to look like a special dis»
pensation of providence, to compen-
sate for our war troubles, and to an-
able as to provide for feeding the na—
tions that are too busy fighting to feed
themselves.
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Rosin, having banished vodka, finds
that some of her people are drinking
morwood alcohol and other forms of
commercial alcohol. She wants to en-
courage the legitimate use of spirits
and is offering prizes for processes
that will make alcohol so nauseous as
to deprive it of all temptation. Iit is
much the same plan as our govern-
ment had in mind when “denatured"
alcohol was freed atom the internal
revenue tax. The commercial develop-
ment here has been by no means what
the public was led to expect, but there
isn’t any doubt, as to the effective-
ness with which the alcohol has been
spoiled for American palates.
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lit may not be altogether surprising
that a representative of the Pullman
Company should have boasted of the
uplifting of the colored race through
their oinpldyment as porters at $27.-
50 a month. But you’d hardly expect
that, sort of thing from the family of
Abraham Lincoln. The chairman o:
took this interesting attitude toward
the.de mo hi testifying-before
“1" WWW ”W” with“?
coin. son of the Great Manolo-to .
Child labor is less evil in the West
than in the Eas‘tand South, whore
pr0~
portion of manufactures combine to
cheat the child of \youth. Arizona and
labor
laws, with Oregon and Washington lag-
here as elsewhere, is in the enforce-
ment of them. Passage of a federal
passed the House last session, but was
To obtain results with any benefic-
ial legislation, public opinion must sup-
port it overwhelmingly and unhesitv
of the vast spread of the child labor
evil and of its devastating results upon
The department of agriculture esti-ib'. dry and inflammable conform the
wheat, is merely up to the averilge~ '
and with any sort of a chance it willI
‘ the public since 1905, granting free‘or
the Tubman board of directors who
, courts, brainwave. tunnels. Wm‘powe
ton unauthorised Wu .r. we
Northwesteramewapaper seems lut'
titled for jumping onto the New York
Evening Post for saying that the Bal-
lesCelilo canal maxilla Columbus
river navigable “for 500 miles into the
wilderness." Orchards and grain fields
in endless succession are not usually
associated with a “wilderness." The
mournful fact is, that there’s mighty
little wilderness left in the Li. a}
Judging from the way the decision
of the arbitration board has been
jumped on by both sides in the west-
ern railroads strike dispute, it must
have been tolerably fair!
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lt isn’t likely that. the killing of
several hundred Americans on the
Lusitania will make Americans any
less disposed to manufacture war mun-
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itlons.
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SECRETARY HOUSTON lNSPECTS
NATIONAL FOREST.
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VII in the West to Find Out for Him-
self How Public Resources
are Being Developed.
WASHINGTON, May 11.~«Seeretary
of Agriculture Houston has begun an
extensive tour of the national forests
to find out for himself to what extent
their timber, forage, water powerlre-
creational and agricultural resources
are being developed for the pubiiofun-
der present methods and to math a
study of the administrative pro'bléms
of the forest service. During Maybe
will visit the forests in several'of
the western states, spending almost
the entire time of his trip in the wilds.
seeking first—hand impresions of the
forest
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{conditions under which the
iservice works.
i Conditions during the spring and
summer are likely to be unusually ar—
,duous, according to forest earvlce of-
ficials, in that a dangerous fire 3911- W
,aon is indicated for many of the for-
Qests by the abnormay alight preci-
ipltatloa of the winter. Unless the de-
l
.ficlency is made up, the forests‘wiil
iseason than usual and the water sup
,ply of many extensivo‘resions will be
llow. ,'
Numerous irrigation. reservoir, and
power projects are wholly or in part
’dapeudent on national forest protec-'
tion of watersheds, and it is beginning
'to be generally understood that, aside
girom actual farming on national for-
est land, the agricultural interests of
the west are much concerned in the
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Iitet‘ost ill maintaining a forest cover
ion-tho mountains from which local
iwater supplies are derived is so keen
that for a num'ber of years local funds
ihave been raised and paid over to the
department of agriculture in order to!
provide for more intensive protection
than the federal appropriations make
possible.‘
Under the methods employed in
handling the livestock grazing bual~
ness of the national forests, agricul-
tural development is benefited not
only through the prevention of injury
to watersheds but also through the
opportunities opened for ranch devel-
opment. As new settlers locate near
the forests mom is made for their
stock 'by cutting down, if necessary.
the number of stock allowed the larg-
er permittoes. Mow than 16,000,000 cat
tie, sheep, and hogs, including young
stock, will find forage this year on
the national forests. The revenue
from this scource is expected to ex-
ccod $1,200,000 in 1915.
One of the difficult administrative
problems, now being rapidly worked
vout, is that of> agricultural develop-
ment of lands valuable for farm than
for forest purposes Extensive land
classification has been made possible
by a special appropriation of Congress-
for this purpose, renewed each year
since 1912. Up toavdate, about 16,000
agricultural homesteads have been
listed within the national forests, op
ening to agricultural development
nearly 1,700,000 acres of forest land. in
addition acortnin amount of agrlcltur-
at development is provided for under
special use permits, where for any
special reason listing does not word
a practicable means of meeting settl-
er’s needs. ‘
Moro.thau 37,000 specialluse por-‘
mits Of all kinds have been issuedfto
for a reasonable charge permission'to
conduct all sorts of enterprises an na-
tional forest land. They include splur-
lea, barns, boat houses, botanical gar-
dens, cemeteries, chumhea. cottages)”
golf links. hotels. mines mineral
. sprlm..obacrvstorios. orchnrdm‘qunr- .
lea, railroads, nachos. "stances,”s-
tsurants. rifle ranges. roads. shutteri-
niiiii. sawmills, slaughter house‘s, bole.
graph and telephone lines, tennis
or plants, wells, waits. .aadwba‘rvell
m . mm mm “WWW”
permits inlaid w‘asover $131,000.... “ .
rill-mud. ominous“ local act- I
regulations have just been promulga-=
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"leu'oi'aliclum,’ estimation»; .
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Miss Muriel
forth into the trenches under the
her. This photograph shows lie
for their own use in the construction of
houses, barns, fences, and the
were given free more than 120.000
feet of national forest timber during
1914, while about 14,000,000 was sold
to settlers, ranchers, and others at
of the national forests amounts
about $1,250,000 annually, more than?
1,500,000,000 'board feet of stumpage:
having been sold to lumber operators?
last year.
The forests contain most of the plc'l
turesquo wilderness in the country...|
and their recreational resources are:
practically unlimited. More titan two?
thousand cottages have been built on.
the forests by summer residents under
the permit system, which has .beenl
supplemented ‘by a law providing that?
tracts of five acres or loss may be?
leased for periods not to exceed thirty ;
years. This law. under which leasing?
ted by the secretary of agriculture, lsl
expected to stimulate recreational de-:
velopment of the forests. Already a
large number of applications to lease.
national forest land for summer rest-l
deuce sites has been received, and ev-1
en communities are beginning to tnltol
advantage of the forests situated nearl
them “by obtaining tructs for use as
picnic, camping, and playgrounds.
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l0 0l8lfliMEN
(Continued from First Page.)
as all the natural beds from Roton
Point to Strutford would be crowded
with the oyster-men from the western
part. ‘ a» ’
The state of Connecticut only has
some 5,000 acres of natural beds, and
those are all west of New Haven. All
the remainder of the oyster beds have
been sold. and now this bill is trying
to have five of the natural beds. The
original bill was to lease all the beds,
and after a hot fight in the committee,
the substitute bill was reported on. it
has been reported that one member in
the committee said that. those beds to
be leased were no good and an oyster-
man could not make his salt on them-
but still concussions in its report.
say its the choicest oyster producing
ground. ,
It is a question that has been much
talked of as to one member of com-
mittee voting and acting on such mat-
ters. due to the position that he has.
The oyster men have requested the
oyster police to be abbllshed, a saving
of 7,715.32 a year, and their position
seems to be a fair one and reasonable.
There are forty-five ‘vosselsjicenaed
to work upon the natural beds from
the town of Norwalk, so lithe pro-
posed bill mil; would idiom-local
natural bed draconian, and some of
the small dealers hard.
it will. at rememberedthilt Rent-cc
rounding (0.. 0'. , y .
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BRITISH HEROINE DECORATED FOR BRAVERY UNDER
' ' FIRE.
All England is ringing with the namc’oi Miss Muriel Thomp-
son. British nurse with the Belgian soldiers. who has just been
decorated by King Albert with the Order of Leopold. She went
carriedout wounded Belgian soldiers.
like. .
cost prices. The timber sale business.
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“Hr own Wm;
mammoth
m" milled nebulous.
Thompson.
fire of the German guns and
Bullets did not frighten
r in her field costume.
If you are thinking of a
_ particular new hat come here
and watch your thought
materialize. You'll see just
the material and the kind
of hat you have in mind if
it’s in style. Straws $2 to
5.
Soft hats $2 to $5.
Derllics $2 to $3.50.
Caps 50c to $1.50.
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NORWALK SO. NORWALK
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termen.. The oyster growers are op-
posed to this bill and are assisting the
natural oystermen to defeat such an1
unlust measure.
. The bill follows:
An act concerning the leasing oi
shell-fish grounds.
General assembly, January session,
A. D. 1910.
Belt enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section l.-—The shell-fish conimla-
sioners may lease in the name of the
state, under such rules and regulations
as they'may prescribe, and fora. pe-
riod of not longer than ten years. any
undeoignated grounds, within the ex-
clusive jurisdiction of the state, for
the purpose of planting and cultivating
shell-fish. The,authorlty hereby con-
fered shall include the territory de-
scribed in seciton 8214 of the general
statutes, except such beds as are men-
tioned in section 3231 of the general
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great. Birthday Celebration.
continue all week, will!) new
It is not a surprise to us we ex '
. pected it because w
could not see “how anyone could fall e
wonderful merchandise values we ha
Remember, this unprecedented mac
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V3 Planned for this
y-saving eventwill ‘
surprises each day. Here is
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blanks to be furnished by the shell-fish
commission and approved by the at.
'torney-generai, stating his name, resi-
dence, post office address, and such
other information as may be required
by said commission. and said clerk.
upon payment of a fee of five dollars.
shall issue to such person a license
for such purposes. All licenses so is-
sued hall be revocable at any time by
the shell-fish commissioners, and shall
expire on the twentieth day of July'in
each year. The shell-fish commission-
ers shall account, annually, on or be.
fore September thirtieth, to treas-
urer for all money received for licen-
ses under the provisions of this act.
Section 4.—'Any person who shall
violate any provision of section three
of this act shall be fined not more
than fifty dollars, or imprisoned not
more than thirty days or both. ,
Section 5.—Chlipter 66 of the public
acts of 1907 and chapter 157 of the
public actsof 1913 are hereby repealed
and so much of section, 3,232 of the
general statutes as is inconsistent
herewith is hereby repealed. The pro-
statutes. Any person desiring to lease.
grounds for, such purpose shall makel
application in writing to the shell-iisbl
commissioners and all grounds leased'
by authority of the provisions of this
act shall be leased: to the highest res-
ponsible bidder, and every such lease
shall be nouassignablo. The form of
such application and lease shall be ap-
proved .by the attorney-general and all
such leases shall be recorded in the
records of the shell-fish commission-
ers. The commissioners shall grant
such lease to uonresldents upon the
same terms and conditions as to resi-
dents of the state. J
«Section 2.-Any person who shall in-
terfere with. annoy, or molest another
in the enjoyment of any lease author-
ized by the provisions of this act, shall
he‘subject to the penaltiies provided in
section 3259 of, the general statutes.
Section 8,—No person shall be per-
mitted upon any boat, licensed par--
silent to the provisions of chapter 182
of the public acts of 1907, While the
same is being used for dredging until:
he shall have been licensed in the man-
ner herein untitled: Aaron-on dour
bummer.» upon any bouzor "tr
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.ilorty years this famous .iootgsnd her
{coastal [in controlling ta »lilaeaaos .
visions of chapter 128 of the public
acts of 1903. chapters 103 and 250 of
tlu public acts of 1905. chapterqlaz of
the public acts shall not apply to any
the provisions of section one.
Section iii—Section 8,256 of the gen-
eral statutes is hereby amended to
read as follows: Every person, other
than the owner, lessee, said commis-
sioners, the authorized committee, or
selectmen. who.shall stake out or eii~
close any gi'ounds_in navigable waters,
for the purp ‘3 of, planting or cultlc
voting oysters thereon, shall be fined
not more than fifty‘ ‘ollars.
Section 7,—Thls act ‘ all take effect
from its passage. '
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_—GlR-L8 iN BAD HEAL
Hundreds of girls go to we
after day, afflicted with some at
peculiar-to their 'aax, dragging cup
foot wearily after theother, w king
always with one eye on the clue and
Wishing for closing time to come.
cry each girl should rely on Lydia
‘Plnkham'a Vegetable-Compound to
tore her to a normal healthy con
tion than work will he a pleasure. ll‘
medicine has been 3 may
inhumanity-twenties:
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112 PIECE SEMJ-PORCE- 25c TABLE OIL C 4'
o LOTH.
LAIN DINNER SETS. 45 inches wide, all colors 0.
Floral decorations, your and white. Anniversary 0:.
. chOlce of three patterns; va- Sale Price, yard 15¢ 3
{: lue $13.? per set. Anniver- $ 3:
. sary -a C Price $9.89 2-00 MARQUISETTE
O:— CURTAINS. . ’3‘
f $1.25 TEA KETTLES In white, drab and colors, '.'.'
0‘0 ‘0' ‘ 8 d ll ' 2 1-2 yards long. Anniver- .3.
00 r 05- , an 9. a C0998“ sarv Sale Price pair ‘
3. finely nickeled plated. An— ' ’ $1 69 ”
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. 905 53.00 CLOTHES eo
0: WRINGERS. 96
.f. 33-50 WASH BOILERS. Hiardwood frame, nicely ,,
0: Nos. 8 and 9’ all solid "OllIITh‘ed’v 10 inch rubber ..
.3: copper. Anniversary Sale {23:5, “irranted .for “£er ..
9: Price, each ....... $2.39 'p - ,hniiiiersar) ‘ a c 09
.3. l'lt‘t‘, eac ....... $1.98 z
M $1.25 CURTAIN - ' 4 ”
: $2.00 CROQUET SETS. e
0:0 STRETCHERS, _ 8 balls and niallcts, llartl- 3:
’0 Hardwood frame. well Wood. nicely finished. All—
.i. braced to prevent sagging, niversary Sale Price, set
.. full 6 x 12 feet. nickel plated -------------- $1.39 "
,3. pieces that will not rust. ”
0 Anniversary Sale Price, 50 IVORY SOAP“ 3’
each ......... Famous the world over. 3.
0 Anniversary Sale Price .8.
.. $25.00 AXMIN- ......... 7 cakes 24¢ .8.
0:0 STER RUGS. 15c SWISS 3.
u 9 x :2, floraland Oriental CURTAIN MUS‘LINS. .3
{t patterns. Anniversary Sale For sash curtains. large 8.
. Price. each $16.98 varieté' of designs. Anniver- :3:
53 ' . l P'
$2.00 AX-MINSTER RUGS ry n me' yard '9¢ N
27 x 54 inches, Oriental
and floral designsAnnivcr- 75‘: SINGLE CURTAINS' ..
sary Sale Price. each militia 30f31?:('].s long, large 3:
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.3! 51'49 sary Sale Price, each .36¢ 30
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Y $1.50 CRE_X RUGS. $1.25 COUCH COVERS, ..
2 36- x 72'lnchcs, all colors. 3 yards long, Bagdail :
. Anniversary Sale Price, stripes. Anniversary Sale .
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STRAW FOR HATS.
The greater part of the straw em-
ployed for making summer hats comes
from Italy. To obtain suitable straw
for this purpose the wheat is sown as
thickly as possible in order that the
growth of the plant may be impover-
ished as well as to produce a thin
stalk.
The ltallau wheat blooms at the be
ginning of June and is pulled up by
the roots when the grain is half de-
veloped. Should it be allowed to re-
main in the ground a longer time the
straw would become too brittle for
its purpose. ,
Uprooted straws to the number of
about five dozen, the size of the com;
pass of the two hands, are firmly
tied together in little sheaves and
stowed away in barns. After that
the straw is again spread out to
catch the heavy. summer down and
i0 bleach in the sun. When the pro-
duct has been sufilciently bleached
it ‘13 put into small bundles and
classified.
The last step is to cut it close
above the first joint from the top.
when‘it is again tied up in small
bundles containing sixty stalks each
and is then ready for the markets-r
shell-fish grounds leased pursuant to,0hicago Herald,
THE BOY TOLD THEM.
“An odd incident happened in Al“
bany a number of years ago, when I
was a member of the legislature,"
said a judge.
son a member wanted to verify a can
tain passage from the Ten Com-
,mandments, but when a Bible was
handed him he did not know where
to 1001:. Neither did any of his col-
leaguesgknow. Nearly everybody was 3
aware that the divine law's were"
somewhere hidden away in the Old
Testament, but this was" the end of
the combined knowledge of the as-
sembly. At this juncture a meal:
twelve summers, piped up that if the
gentlemen would look -in,‘the' twain. -'
tleth chapter" of Exodus he would"
ilnd the commandments. it was a .
rather disconcerting thing that a
chamber of grown insulin! to solo
nuclease the superior-informational
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faced little page; a youngster of some ,.;;,
"One day for some rea- ' ”L
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