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WIIIIIIIS III IIIII.
Lots of Hope, but Mighty Little Actual
Business In Sight.
CONSESSIONS roe TRADE.
The Recuperative .Power of the Nation
Exemplified—In the Iron Market.
Undervaluation of Imports.
Failures For the Week.
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NEW YORK, March 14. —-R. G. Dun &
Co.’ E weekly review of trade says:
Waiting' 1s still the rule. Large hope, but
little actual business, explains the strength
, of some markets and the weakness of oth-
era. The feeling that the spring of 1896
uht to bring larger business will not
09 to meet expenses all the season if
the larger business does not come. Thus
far there is decided increase in .the de-
mand for boots and shoes, secured by con-
siderable concessions in price, but in othel
branches of business concessions are made
in vain or are not made. Meanwhile it is
encouraging to know that one of the most
important business interests has realized
definite improvement. The insurance com-
panies show a larger business and largel
income than ever before, and also a most
remarkable soundness of mortgage loans
and other investments. The comparison
of reports for two years is in the highest
degree interesting to investors and con-
stitutes strong evidence of the wonderful
recuperative power of the nation in spite
of the general depression in business.
As prices about Feb. 21 were on the
whole the lowest ever known in this coun-
try, considerable space is given this week
to comparison of quotations in the most
1 important branches of manufacture, which
show the extent of reaction since the rise
last fall. It is especially noteworthy that
prices of materials have varied quite dif-
ferently from prices of manufactured prod-
ucts, although in most cases the advance
last fall was commenced by extraordinary
uplifting of prices for materials. Thus cot-
ton is 27.9 per cent higher than a year ago,
but cotton goods average only 10.7 psi
cent. Wool is but 5.3 per cent higher than
a year ago, but woolen goods are on the
whole about 4 per cent lower. Pig iron is
only 17 per cent higher than a year ago,
while finished products of iron and steel
average 45 per cent higher. Boots and
shoes are practically not higher than a
year ago, while leather has risen 11.5 per
cent, and hides at the moment are only
2.2 per cent higher. These comparisons
are important because they disclose some-
thing of the grave dislocation of prices
which inadequate consumption and com—
blnations have produced.
The Iron hlarket.
The output of 'pig iron March 1 was
189,583 tons weekly against 198, 599 Feb. 1,
but the unsold stocks have risen 69,764
tons during the past month, or 17,441
weekly, and the unsold stocks of the great
steel companies are not included. There
is reason to believe that actual consump-
tion is still at least 10 .per cent smaller
than the production of pig, and the price
of bessemer at Pittsburg has again de-
clined slightly to $12.25, with exception-
ally large sales even below that figure.
Prices of finished products are not quota-
bly lower, although all markets are weak
in tone. The industry is waiting for a
' larger demand, which it is hoped may
soon come to clear away the accumulation
of surplus stocks. Of the minor metals
copper is in moderate demand at 11.12
cents, and there is more movement in tin
at 13.4 cents, while lead is slightly weak-
er at 3.15 cents. Tin plates are weak, in
part because of light demand, but Ameri-
can bessemer I. 0., 14 by 20, full weight,
are quoted at $8.75 against $3.85 for sim-
ilar foreign brands. Aluminium rolling
ingots are now ofl’ered at 6 cents per
pound in ton lots, the harnessing of Nia-
gara having already reduced the cost of
this metal for the world.
The boot and shoe manufacturers have
gone. out for business during the past
week, and by dint of reducing prices much
below the parity of leather have secured
quite large contract-s, so that many estab-
lishments are resuming work. , It is not
supposed that the manufacture can be
"profitable at such prices, and there are
many producers who do not care to get
business on terms so undesirable. The
competition of the greater number to se-
cure ccntracts has put prices down about
to the level of a year ago. Shipments
from Boston are smaller than for the cor-
responding week in either of the past four
. years. Cotton goods sell but slowly not-
withstanding recent reductions in price,
and the enormous accumulation of unsold
stocks causes apprehension in many quar-
ters. .
For Import Valuation.
In woolens the demand is very largely
for low grade goods. and fierce competition
affects the prices of the better grades ma-
terially. In clay worsteds the manufac-
ture has been so far overdone that stop-
page of some most important works is
considered not improbable. The great
need of a more effective law to prevent un-
dervaluations of imports is now realized
by all parties, and one has been unani-
mously recommended by the committee.
Sales of wool at the three chief markets
are the smallest in five years, and for two
weeks have been only 6,683,900 pounds,
of which 3,339,200 were domestic against
9,541,500 last year, of which 5,180,800
were domestic and 12,017,676 in 1892, of
which 8,369,426 Were domestic. Prices are
still maintained, with decrease in Austra-
lian supplies.
The market for wheat is weaker, with
no better reason than the government re-
port of wheat in farmers' hands, which is
altogether out of keeping with the govern
ment estimate a year ago and yet is prob-
ably more nearly correct. There is little
to make corn stronger, but with better
prices for wheat it rose a shade. The cat-
ton market rose an eighth without definite
reason, and the prospect of yield this year
is at least as good as it has been at any
time. The stock market has not been
much changed, and railroad earnings for
February show 12.08 per cent increase over
last year and 4.0 per cent decrease com-
pared with 1893.
Failures for the week have been 300 in
the United States against 266 last year
and 60 in Canada against 57 last year.
No Purse For the Fight.
LONDON, March 14. —The officials of the
National Sporting club say they have not
yet offered a purse for a match between
Robert Fitzsimmons and James J. Cor-
bett and that no articles have been sent by
this club to the United States for their
signature?
. Allsa Beats Britannia.
CANNES, March 14.—Ailsa won the
yacht race today, crossing the finish line
five minutes ahead of Britannia. Satanic:
was far in the rear.
Advertise in the GAZETTE.
’POLITICAL IIIIIIII.
Gossip Preliminary to th 0 Great Pres-
idential Race.
SAMPBL "LL GIVES HIS VIEWS
He Declares That Any Good Democrat
“’ho Wants It Can Have the Nomi-
nation—Pettigrew Comes Off Vic.-
torious—Other Chitchat.
CINCINNATI, March 14.—“I want inter-
national free coinage of silver at a ratio
of 15}; to 1, ” said ex-Governor James E.
Campbell today. “I consider single gold
standard advocates as much wrong on one
side as single silver standard men on the
other. I am opposed to our country going
ahead alone and coining silver free. No
one nation can do it and survive, but the
United States, Germany and France could
do so without England's co-operation.
With an international agreement all trou-
bles‘with the money question would van-
ish, and I expect to live to see such an ar-
rangement effected.”
The ex-governor was talking with sev-
eral local politicians when he made this
statement. The conversation then switched
and Mr. Campbell said:
“Any good man who wants it can have
the Democratic nomination for president
this year. ”
“Do you want it?” was asked.
“I am not a candidate,” was the reply.
“Would you accept it?”
“The possibility of having a chance to
do so seems so remote that I don't think
it .worth considering. but just now I
should refuse. Whitney and Matthews
Would make a splendid team if they would
accept. . New York and Indiana is a good
old Democratic combination, and I don’t
know how we would feel if the two states
were not both represented on the ticket.
“But I believe,” he continued, “that
the next president will be elected by the
house of representatives. There will be a
fight in both the national conventions be-
tween the extreme gold men and the ex-
treme silver men. Both are cranks. The
two parties as Democrats and Republic-
ans have really no difference on the money
question. The silver men will not he sat-
isfied with the Republican platform, and
they will bolt and lose the party enough
states to throw the election of the presi—
dent into the house.”
“What sort of money planks will the
national platform contain?"
“That I cannot say, but this is the day
of straddles. The Republican party claims
to favor a gold standard, yet none of the
leaders will come out and declare for it in
so many words. If McKinley has done it,
I have not heard of it. Therefore a com-
promise plank with the Republicans will
be a straddle."
“What about the Republican nomina-
tion for president?”
“Well, they don’t seem to have arrived
at any understanding yet."
“How about McKinley?” .
”Oh, nothing. only he’ll find a great
deal of green goods in his grip when he
unpacks it in St. Louis.”
As to Dark Horses.
WASHINGTON, March 14.—Senatcr Hoar,
the chairman of the senate judiciary com-
mittee, called attention today to some
facts in American history bearing on the
present canvass among presidential candi-
dates. Said tho venerable Massachusetts
senator: ,
“Take the history of presidential candi-
dates as far back as 1840 and you will find
that the candidate discussed at Washing-
ton have been over brown by the subse—
quent political conventions—that is to
say, men who were known here and who
had the start as leading candidates failed
to secure the nomination. -
“Webster and Clay were set aside for
William Henry Harrison.
“In 1844 Cass, Calhoun, Silas Wright
and Van Buren Were set aside, and Polk
was elected.
“In 1848 the same thing happened.
Taylor was taken up and Webster and
Clay dropped.
“In 1852 the Democratic leaders Were
set aside and Franklin Pierce of New
Haven elected. Among the Whigs, Web-
ster and Fillmore were set aside, and Scott
taken up, only to be defeated.
“In 1856 Judge McLean, the leading
candidate of the Republicans, was set
aside.
“In 1860 Seward was overthrown and
Lincoln taken up.
“In 1868 Grant was a general candidate
for everybody. In 1876 Conkling, Simon
Cameron, Sherman and Blaine were over-
thrown and Hayes nominated.
“In 1880 Garfield. was hardly heard of
when he was nominated, and Grant,
Blaine, Sherman and Edmunds were
thrown overboard.
“In 1884 there was strife between
Arthur and Blaine. The latter was taken
up as a candidate and beaten by Cleve-
land, who was little heard of.
“In none of these instances has a candi-
date been taken up who was in the na-
tional service, except Garfield.”
The idea is growing among careful poli-
ticians here that a “dark horse” or “sec-
ond choice” candidate will be the winner
at St. Louis. The signs all point in this
direction. The list of “favorite sons” is
now so formidable that no one can safely
predict the presidential candidate that
will be selected. ,
Hence the “dark horses” are being trot-
ted out in fine fettle. There are crimina—
tions and recriminations on all sides as to
cash being used to secure delegates.
Tarifl‘ or Silver?
NASHVILLE, March 14.—In an interview
today H. Clay Evans, probable nominee
by the Republicans for governor of Ten-
nessee and prominently spoken of as nom-
inee for the vice presidency, said relative
to the national campaign: “Reciprocity
and protection will be the watch words 0!
the national Republican campaign in 1896
I do not think the financial question wili
cut a great figure.”
Quay Will Retire.
PHILADELPHIA, March 14.—The Repub-
lican state convention meets next month.
Senator Quay will retire from the position
of state chairman. It is not expected by
any of his friends that he will care to con-
tinue longer as the official head of the or-
ganization; in fact, it is said by his inti-
mates, it is his purpose to give up the
chairmanship.
Pettigrew Wins at Home.
SIOUX FALLS, March 14.—After the
hardest campaign ever fought in this city
or state, Senator Pettigrew carried the
caucuses in every ward of the city and
nearly every precinct in the county by
majorities of two to one. The combina-
tion which had been formed to prevent
his going as a delegate to St. Louis is
killed.
I.
Advertise in the GAZETTE.
WHAT A STENOGRAPHER‘ EATS.
Sumptuous Lunches or- Rolls, Coffee and
' Ginger Snaps.
The price of the lunch that the New
York girl eats varies from five cents to
two or three dollars, says the New York
Sun. It seems hardly crédoible to the up-
town girl who drops into a;fa.shionable
restaurant and eats dainty nothings at
50 cents a. swallow that she could sat-
isfy her hunger fer a nickel. But that
is the way the downtown stenographer
manages to live on he five or six dollars
a week. '
Five cents will buy a good sandwich
anywhere, but that is not quite enough
for even a typewriter’s lunch and this
economical person has found it better
to eat three penny rolls spread with
two cents’ worth of butter, as they are
more “filling.” There are several dif-
ferent kinds of penny rolls, but the most
common are milk rolls, “long buns”
and “horns.” “Three horns'and butter”
is a favorite lunch which sounds heavy
and indigestible, but the “horns” are
only cres'cent- -shaped rolls which are
as wholesome as toast.
The ten-cent lunch offers more varie-
ty of choice. For a dime one can add
coffee or tea or cocoa. to the above-men-
tioned five-cent meal. Beans furnish a.
large proportion of the typewriting
population with lunch. The New York
girl varies her bean diet by having them
baked in Boston style one day and in
New York style the next, but no regu~
lar downtown luncher ever Stops to
dignify the dish with its _full name.
It is either “ham and Boston” on “ham
and New York” and it can be had for
ten cents,
Between the five and ten—cent lunches
there are a. few alternatives, but it- is
possible to get- two “long buns” or two
“horns" and coffee for seven cents and
1'01 :11‘1<:.1.l c .1 cent a couple of ginger
5: cs \. 11: d 3 up quite a. sumptuous
lunch. '
RESCUED FROM Cl-ilNA PIRATES.
Hardships of a Frenchman Whom the
(18111131321118 ”01.1 for Ransom
S'lctm C1111 rero was leccntly rescued
by a (crunchy of 171 ench soldiers from a
band of Chinese photos 11110 11 .d kept
him captive for 14 months, says the
New York World. Soon after he was
taken captive by the Chinese ho was
placed in a. cave in the mountainside,
and there lay for two months, so loaded
with chains that even crawling about
was difficult and escape was impossible.
1‘0 add to the horrors of his imprison-
ment the cave was toirjiy dark.
The pirates were 1;..able to secure the
ransom which they demanded, and so
they took him with them, always as a
captive, on some of their forays by land
and sea in southern China: His chains
were taken'ofi“, but he was always care-
fully guarded. His captors treated
}him kindly, but he had to undergo
many great hardships. His Only gar-
ment was a pair of thin silk trousers
and his head and feet were here. One
forced march which he made lasted 27
cling night and day, with only Tthe
briefest intervals for sleep; 1 The weath-
er was cold, but their journey was made
without tents or blankets. ‘ ‘
The robbers were proceeding toward
a small town, which they intended to
pillage, when they were fired upon from
ambush and those who were uninjured
ran away. The attacking parity proved
to be a small body of French soldiers
who had long been searching for their
lost compatriot.
‘ NOVEL EXERCISE.
How an Eccentric Literary Man Took His
Daily Constitutional.
Poor Harry Shelman, the long-haired
poet who dressed 'his entire person to
resemble Buffalo Bill, and who was, in
fact, startlingly like the greatest of
scouts, .used to tell me of a literary
friend of his who heads. novel method
of taking exercise, says a. writer in the
New York Press. His workshop was
on the top floor of his house, for from
ihe noise Of the street, and he used to
write about 15 hours a day. He was
not a Howells or a Bronson Howard,
whose working hours never exceed
four in any one day. He worked, he
labored, he toiled. He had no time for
a. bicycle and could not afford a. horse.
He hated walking. Run he could not.
Swimming was out of the question.
Still he must have exercise. He kept
thesaurus in the kitchen. As he used
both very often it was necessary to
make many trips downstairs and up
itor once saw him dashing- downstairs
like a. madman and soaring up again
days, he and the restbf the band trav- ‘
his dictionary in the basement and his -
again, and 1n that way he kept himself l
in splendid physical condition. A vis- 3
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NORWALK.
New York Office. 442' Broadway.
Our Spring Opening of DRESS Goons, SlLKS, WAISTS and SEPARATE SKIRTS was a complete soccer-.91.
No need of going outside of your own city to shop. llere' Is a comparison of low York Mites.
LOOK at our DRESS GOODé
56 Inch Black Sicil' 13.1.1, N. Y. plice. $2 00, our price, SI. 50.
54 Inch Brown and Cray Mohair, N. Y. price, $2 50, our price. $2.00.
38 Inch Novelt1es, N. Y. price 500, our price, 393.
52 Inch Matelaise, 1n Navy. Black and Green; lilo best goods on the market: N. Y. price $1 50, our price.
SI. 25.
52 Inch Mohair Diagonals, N. Y. price, $1 00, our price, 15c.
36 Inch Crepons, N. Y. price, 69c, our price, 50c
- 43 Inch Black Henrietta; the finest; N. Y. price, $1 00, our price, 15c.
36 Inch all wool Serge, N Y. price, 340, our price,
OIL-OAK and SUIT ROOM...
The advance shipment of ladies’ Shirt“Waists have arrived. Before our opening we shall sell a beautif _
line at 50¢. each. The first warm day the price will advance 25c. Secure three or four of them now.
SEPARATE SKIRTS.
Black Mohair, $ 1 7 5
Back Brilliantines, 3.75
Black Silk. 6.00
Novelties, 4.98
Grepons. 5.00
Mohair C repons, 12.00
SiLK WAISTS.
Surahs,~- $4.50
DOMESTICS AND LINENS.
Heavy weight unbleached cotton, 21
yards for $1.
42 Inch bleached cotton. Sc yard
Dark and light outing, 7c
52 Inch half bJeached damask, 25c.
9 4 bleached cotton, 250 quality for
4 Button G ace, 75c.
4 Button Glace, White with Black Embroilery, 1&1 prr pair:
4 Button Glace, Lemon, with Black Embroidery, $1 per pair
4 Button Glace, Pearl, with B' ack Embroidery, $1 per pair,
lH .IBUSlflN SlWW . CHI.
1 Toilets, ° 4.98
PerSian, 4 98
Figured Taffeta. , 6.75
Irridescent \Varp, 1’ 7,50
25o.
LADIES’ UNDERWEAR.
Night Dress, square yoke. insertion
a1dtucks.93c.
Night Dress, Empire Style—Ham-
bulg, 98c; Vaiencieunes laccs, $1. 25.
19c.
72 Inch double satin damask,
for $1.49
One case heavy I‘omet Flannel, 10c
per yard; for” a run. 50‘ per yard; 10
yards to a customer.
$172 00
GLOVES.
,Corset Covers, Vneck; with Ham.1
Every pair we :ranted.
Fvery pill‘ warranted.
Every pair w..1111anied.
aiII ant Wall 8
“I
Drawers Hamburg, with four tucksfi
39c and 49c
burg 25c. _ p l
Coiset Covers, high neck, 19c.
Corset Covers, V neck, with 111.025,
490.
Skirts, umbrella pattern, 75c.
TO WELR
All linen hack, We 1
'lurkish Int-h. 101.1
45x22 knotted fringe Damask, 250.
Curtain Swiss, 10, 121- Ind 15c per?
yard
Curtin Scrim, 5, 8 and 10c 136! yd
like a kite and was distressed till in-
formed by John’s wife‘ that John was
simply hunting for a. word and had
found it.
An oddity in Toes and Digits.
There is one curious fact respecting
the animal creation with which you
will never become acquainted if you
depend on your text books for informa-
tion. It is this: NO living representa-
tive of the animal kingdom has more
than five toes, digits or claws to each
foot, hand or limb. The horse is the
type of one-"coed creation; the came] of
the two-toed; the rhinoceros of the
three-teed and the hippopotamus of
four-teed animal life. The elephant
and hundreds of other animals belong-
ing to different orders belong to the
great five-toed tribe.
- No Dust.
The disposition to see a. pleasant side
to everything is often commented upon
as a most desirable possession; but it
is possible to ex.- '1 aerate and imagine
a benefit which does not exist. A party
of tourists were detained at a. hotel
near a. lake by a. severe rainstorm.
Finally it was decided to cross the‘lake,
and one lady of the party agreed to the
plan cheerfully. “Oh, it will be much
better to take the boat even if it does
rain,” she said, “and one thing, we
sha’n’t have any dust on the boat this
morning."
Use for Horse Chestnuts.
It is popularly supposed that horse
chestnuts are very unwholesome.
Nevertheless in Turkey they are roast-
ed for coffee, fermented for liquOr and
utilized for horse medicine.
TESTING THE DOCTORS. {
Chinese. Like Other Physicians,_ Reserve
the Right to‘nnsagree. '
The emperor of China has lately h:1l
so much trouble with his functionarn-s
Of every kind that he has grown dis—
trustful of them all. He had noticed
that, While his statesmen seemed to be
widely at variance, the court physi-
cians agreed beautifully whenever they
were called together. But a test that
he might make of their skill and sin-
cerity occurred to him.
Feeling somewhat indisposed, the
emperor sent for one of his court doc-
tors. These physicians are paid public
functionaries and are learned pI'OfeS“
sors. One of them came, listened to his
majesty’s account of his trouble, diag-
nosed it, prescribed and took his leave.
Then the emperor sent for another
court doctor and gave him exactly the
same account of his difficulty. This
doctor then made his own diagnosis,
which was quite different from his
brother physicians, prescribed a. dif-
ferent remedy and went his way.
A third and fourth physician were.
called and each found a different dis-
ease and each prescribed a. different
medicine. ‘Then the emperor became
angry and also sarcaistic, and begged to
know how he could have so many things
the matter with him and live, and q
whether he should continue to live if he
took all the diverse sorts of medicine
that had that day been prescribed for
him.
The doctors could give him no satiS~
factory answer to these questions, but
each insisted that he was right and all
the others wrong. But the emperor dc-
cl'aréd that this could'not be true, and
condemned every one of the physicians
to lose a month’s salary.
Of course the moral of this story has
no occidental application. Though the
doctors of our western countries re-
serve the right to disagree, such a case
of radical divergence probably could
not occur under the practice of our per-
l fectcd science—Youths Companion.
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The Old Veteran Shoe Dealer, 0 H.
Harvey Will POSitively Close Out
His Business Regardless of Cost.
The Fixtures will be Sold
Store Leased.
Nowis the Time to Buy Boots
And the
and
Shoes at a Bargain.
"70. NORTH MAIN eraser,
0 Close Out
HARVEY’S SHOE STORE
SOUTH NORWALIK"
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