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MANU FACTURERS 0F
HIGH-GRADE
OVER FORTE YEARS PR AGTIGAL EXPERIENCE
THE EINETT TTNE AND MUST ENTEREEITNT
AT
The Lowest Possible Price.
Sold on Easy Terms and Rented.
01d Pianos Taken in Exchange.
cassTHEY ARE THE BRETT/4.
SEND-FUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE Tll WARERUIIMS:
NEW YORK CITY,
9 WEST FOURTEENTH STREET.
MOUNT VERNON, N. Y.
'52 WEST FIRST STREET
FACTO RY,
STAMFORD. CONN.
BRIDGEPORT.
THE
.. 11*. M. Read
COMPANY.
GUSTOMEFS
ARE
SAYING
That the new Silks and
Dress Fabrics are in better
keeping with the merits and
prospects of the coming sea-
son than for quite a while
past—fewer faults from an
artistic point of view. ' The
commercial side presents two
very important elements—
excellent quality and de-
cidedly reasonable prices—
good reasons why lively buy-
ing should be the regular
order of proceedings.
“ Witchcloth ” has Witched
its way into popular favor.
It only takes a minute to sat-
isfy anyone that it is the best
cleaning process ever intro-
duced; and the quickest.
Some of its patrons have
lugged away enough for a
lifetime.
The special sale of ladies’
Muslin Drawers, trimmed,
for 29 cents, was enough to
draw a crowd. It did. To-
morrow will finish up the
lot, probably; ought to at
that price. .
“Monday and Tuesday were
g0 0d Jacket days. You
must have thought of those
good warm sorts that were
selling at such little prices.
Strange, but never-the-less
true. Some 200 pieces fine
quality Outing Flannel, light
celors, that have been 100. a
yard we are now selling for
Bic. .
50 pieces Robe Flannel,
stripes and figures woven in
the cloth, heavy and wide,
were 17 and 250. a yard, now
100. the yard.
Batiste, full 40-in. wide,
colors strictly fast, small fig-
ures and checks, 12tc. a yd.
The coming and going of
Carpets makes busy days for
the carpet , room. There’s
every quality and every sort
of pattern that anyone can.
wish for. And our easy plan
makes easy l..~.-§..Q~ if yofi
care to take a: :Ttage of it;
a good many do.
UNKNOWN RAILROADS.
Sections of the 'South Which the Iron
Horse Has Not Invaded. '
The most attractive field for rail-
road investment remaining undevel-
oped in the United States lies between
the Missouri and Arkansas rivers and
between the east and west lines of the
states of Missouri and Arkansas. It em
braces the southern half of Arkansas.
If a wall was built around it the people
within would want for nothing that
goes to make life comfortable. Barring
the precious metals, more natural
wealth is within these boundaries than
within any other region of like size in
this country. All of the metals, all oi
the woods, all of the stones and clays.
are there. To these are added climate
and soil which furnish the most success-
ful conditions for all of the fruits of
the temperate zone. Water powers in
number- and strength exist beyond the
comprehension of those who have not
seen them. Draw a line from St. Louis
to Little Rock, from Little Rock to
Fort Smith, from Fort Smith to Kansas
City, from Kansas City back to St.
Louis. You have described an area
which is capable of supporting more
people in comfort than any part of the
United States of like size. And you
have a region in which more people
are living to-day without railroads
than anywhere else in this country.
Trunk lines of the Gould system
traverse the Missouri and Arkansas
valleys and skirt the eastern edge of this
regign. The Frieso and the. Gulf sys-
tems cross it diagonally. The Cape
Girardeau road penetrates it on the
east far enough to demonstrate its pos‘
sibilities. The Missouri, Kansas 6';
Texas cuts through the northwest cor-
ner. TA new Kansas City road, the
Pittsburgh & Gulf, is being built south-
ward through the western edge of it
The Gould system has gridironed the
Kansas City corner. It taps the eastern
edge with branches to Doniphan in Mis-
souri and to Batesville' in Arkansas.
The Frisco sends a short prong into a
couple of counties from Cuba to Salem
and, further down, from Springfield to
Chadwick. The Gulf road has run out
a feeder to Current river. The Eureka
Springs road enters from the west just
far enough to reveal what a promising
land it is. But the heart remains un-
touched. South of the Frisco and the
gulf lies a territory more than twice
as large as Massachusetts without a
mile of railroad. North of the gulf,
south of the Frisco and west of the
Iron Mountain is the, Current river
country, larger than Connecticut, and
an ideal manufacturing region, if ever
there was one. North of the Frisco.
south of the Missouri Pacific and east
of the Clinton division of the Gulf sys-
tem is a third great section of the
Ozark country, with the same charact er—
istics as to soil and climate as the others,
and the same magnificent water pov."
ers. It has less mineral wealth and less
forest than the other two, sections, but
more rich farming land.
Twenty counties in Arkansas and 30
counties in Missouri lie within the
boundaries of this undeveloped region.
Eighteen of them have not a mile of
railroad. Twelve others are but little
better off, with a single railroad cutting
oil‘ a corner or striking the border or
penetrating to the county seat. Yet-
the 50 counties each contain, by the last
census, a population ranging from 8,000
to 15,000. There are living in this ter-
ritory 200,000 people who are more than
ten miles from a railroad station, and
25,000 of them never rode on the cars—-
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Tabby’s Love of Home.
The difficulty of taking cats about
makes this exclusive attachment often
a source of mutual pain. A pet dog, be-
ing generally taken on the journeys of
the family, is delighted at the sight of
trunks and signs of departure, but the
cat, who learns to know that she is to
be left behind, grows melancholy and
restless when she sees them. Mine
give me so much trouble by their im-
portunity when I am about to leave
home that I have the packing done in
an unoccupied room and keep the door
shut. In this way I once kept Princess
from knowing my plans until the car-
riage was at the- door and the luggage
was being put on; she was up a tree
before the house when this happened,
and, taking in what was going on as
she saw me come out in my bonnet, she
rushed down to the ground with a
howl of anguish like a cry of physical
distress. In my absence she bestowed
her society on her master much more
than at other times, but when we were
both away she remained alone, as she
never associated with the servants.
She had her preferences among them,
and would at long intervals pay a short
visit to one whom she liked in the serv-
ants’ hall, and the sewing room, but
never staid more than a few minutes,
and this has been more or less the case
with them all.—Temple Bar.
Absent-Minded, Indeed.
A Scottish farmer who was a little ab-
sent-minded was one day going into
Perth with a load of hay. He led the
horse out of the stable, but instead of
backing it up into the shafts of the
wagon, he absent-mindedly led the ani-
mal along the road, and never as much
as looked behind him until he walked
into the yard, leading the horse where
the hay was to be delivered. ‘
“Where will I back it into?” he cried
to the stableman standing by.
“Back in what?” asked the man.
“The hay, you stupid idiot.”
f‘What hay ‘2 Ye’ve nae hay, ye daft
govvl;.”
Turning round to his consternation
the farmer for the first time appre-
hended the fact that he had left the
wagon at home and brought the horse
alone. In his hurry to repair the error
he started off at a trot, and was half
way back to the farm before he realized
the fact that he had left the horse be-
hind—Glasgow Herald.
-—“Why did you break off your en-
gagement with Miss Bertha?” “Be-
cause her parrot was always saying:
‘StOp that, George.’ ” “But what dif-
ference did that make? Your engage-
ment was not a secret.” But my name
is not George.”_—Fliegende Blotter.
—. Advertise in the “Gazette.”
‘ home testimony, the statement of a
LIKE AN ccToPUs.
And Just as Bad. You c... Find
Them In Norwalk as Well
as Florida.
Ever see an octopus?- All arms, you
known;
Has eight of them—and all bad.
Tilt GAZETTE
Do you know how it catches its vie-i
tims? '
M
Then, the cemetery.
Throws out an arm, then another, and,
another. ‘8; 433:,
And vou’re in the toils.
Then it drugs you down to death. '
Just like Kidney diocese. ‘
Seizes you with backache first. ‘ ~
Then acute pains.
'l'hen urinary disorders.
Then sediment of gravel. '
Then Diabetes, or Bright’s Disease.
- Not pleasant reading, is it?
_ Well, the disease isn’t pleasant either. .. ...-. r “:21? ‘
We knowyvhat will kill this octopus.
Dean’s Kidney Pills do it every time.
Norwalk people know it too, now.
You read about it every day—and it’s
80.
Here is Norwalk testimony..‘:1Miss
Hanna Cline resides at No. 58 Belden
. 1‘ 2‘.
avenue. Her mother says: My daugh-
ter has had a weak back. Has been
troubled with backache. Went to
Hale’s drug store. Got a box of Dean’s
Kidney Pills. The Pills cured her.
What better proof than this of merit,
Norwalk citizen. “ ’Tis easy to endorse
it, and there are many more just like
this, which render doubt out of the
question. Ask your neighbors if they
have used Doan’s Kidney Pills, and it
they have you are not forced to take
our recommendation; take theirs and
we are satisfied. ‘
Dean’s Kidney Pills are 101' sale by
all dealers, price 50 cents, mailed by
hoster-Mxlburn Co., Buflalc, N. Y"
sole agents for the United States.
All those creeping, crawling, stinging
sensations that combine to make up the
tortures of any itching disease 01' the
skin are instantly relieved and perma-
nently cured by Doan’s Ointment.
‘l‘ake no substitute. Dean’s never tails.
wash
in
TEE
WISE.
Merchants, Manufacture.
J. I). Jennings.
U NDEk'l‘A K. E 5i
4 Knight street. opposite
Street hallway Depot
NIGHTBELL AT OFFICE. -
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Piano Lessons.
RS._GEORGE W. {BRADLEY d u ht
M of the lateWm. B. Nash.) Riveis ueilficegi;
and satisfactory instructions on the Piano at
her home Ive. 193 Main street
DAVlD . w. amnion—s
ers, Lodges and Societies
will consult their own inter-
ests by giving us a call.
Funeral Director flllll Elllllfllllltl‘.
.
new?!" ‘ also;
REMEMBER—Ifyou hay}.
39 Washington Street_'Souih;l’orwalk WOI‘II to do write to US i
, .
RcSidence. Mahackemo Hotel
an Easiness in February.
is only possible by selling at prices below competition.
We intend to keep busy, and this is how we’ll accomplish
it-- by continuing our great sale ot shoes during the
month.
. We have purchased of Lounsbury, Mathewson & C0., all their La-
dies FineShoes, made for the insolvent firm of Harding & 00., of Brook
lyn, and Will close them out at about 7} their Actual Value. '
120 pair Ladies’ 20th Century Enamel Shoes, worth $6.00, at - $3 7 9
150 pair Ladies’ Razor Toe Kid Shoes, worth $5.00, at - 2 98
150 pair Ladies’ Razor Toe Cloth Top Shoes, worth $5.00, at - 2 98
90 pair Ladies’ Calf Opera and Bazor Toe Shoes, worth $5.00, at 2 98
60 pair Ladies’ 20th Century Russia, Lace, worth $5.00, at - 2 98
All of Harding & Co’s $4.00 Shoes, at - - - - - 2 50
All of Harding & Co’s $3.00 Shoes, at - - . - ' - .1 98
All of Harding & Co’s $2.50 Shoes, at - - - 1 '74:
200 pair Ladies’ Opera Toe, Pat. Tip, Shoes, worth $1.50, at 890 all sizes
150 pair Ladies’ fine 0. S. Shoes, worth $1.50, at - y - 890 all sizes
MEN’S Firsl uualily Hip Rubber Boots.
" 275......
90 pair Men’s $3.00 Patent Lace Shoes, at . . $1 95 a pan
120 pair Men’s $2.00 Invisible Cork Sole Ba]. and Congress, I 48 “
140 pair Men’s Lace and Congress Shoes at _ 98c, worth;$l.25
120 pair Men’s Invisible Cork Sole" Shoes, worth $3.50 at $2 29 a pair
5 Cases of Men’s Tap Sole Split Boots, worth $2.00, at l 48 a pair
Boys 511068, - — - 9 880, 986, and $1 23 a pair
This is positively the best chance ever offered to buy
HIGH-CLASS SHOE at less than the cost of manufacture.
We want you to come and see this lot of goods. They
are worthy your inspection. These shoes can only be found at
OLSEN ,BROS.’
WHITE SHOE STORE
3 GAZETTE BUILDING, NORWALK.
YOUR SHOES SHINED FREE
STORE OPENED EVENINGS
THIS IS WORTH READING.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla, . . . . . . 65 Cents
Greene’s Nervura, . . . . '. f 75 “
William'sAPink Pills, . . . . . . 40 “
Castoria, . . . . - . . 3 25 “
Allcock’s Plasters, . . . . , , 10 c.
Pears’ Unscented Soap, . . . . . . 10 u
100 two-grain Quinine Pills, . . . . 25 v
R. H. Plaisted, 43 Washington Street, So. Norwalk.
Norwalk Chronicler