.‘ties to Samuel B. Horne, THE EVENING GAZETTE Rmnn AT THE Pos'r OFFICE 121; Nonwam: ’ as a ansrarna. ll AIL S UBSORIPI'I ON 8; DAILY. one year. 33; sixjmonths, $1.75; three months. $1.00; one month, 30c. WnEva. one year. in Fadvance. $1.90; six months. 60s.: three months. 35c. I TUESDAYfDEoEMBER e, 1896.. THE WEATHER—Today fair to partly cloudy. On Wednesday partly cloudy and possible rain and haze or fog on the coast. Thursday partly cloudy and slightly cooler. Question of Taste. Boston’s Bacchante in the Public Li- brary seems ,to have started a fashion. 'It is now proposed to dedicate the new Congressional Library to dancing and to give the inauguration ball in that sumptuous temple of the Muses. A bronze dancing girl on a fountain is a mild piece of nnsuitableness compared with a crowd of dancing men and women in a public library. The dancing would not be objection-- able [if that were all there was to an in- auguration ball, but the dancers are the least and most innocent part of it. Usually the inauguration ball is an un- controlled and miscellaneous mob, and it is not surprising to learn that the re- sponsible officials look with horror upon the proposal to let this mob loose in the beautiful new building. In truth, it probably affords no fit accommodationsfor dancing, though it would be a sumptuous place for a pub- lic function. Still, this is scarcely the purpose for which it was built, and it will be interesting to observe the re- sult of the controversy thatis beginning to enliven Washington. Sweat Shop Discussion. Those evils that lie farthest under the crust of society are usually the hardest to eradicate. For this reason the sweat shop system thrives even at the cost of health and life. The evil is hidden in the by-Ways and alleys, Sometimes beyonu tLe light of day and alwaysin that seation of a city that seldom cemes under the notice of the average citizen. But even these dark holes are now being penetrated and plans are being devised for the best way of plucking up by the roots a sys- tem whose evil side has been brought to light. But it always happens that in provid- ing a remedy for an evil there results a great disagreement of views. The sweat shop system was discussed recent- ly by Dr. Parkhurst, of New York, and it is made the subject of a portion of -, the last report of the State Factory In- spector, and the cause each assigns for the existence of tie evil illustrates the difference between the too zealous reformer, who,lpenetrating no further than the ulterior (fleet, assigns it at once as the root of the whole evil, and the more practical and conservative mar, who‘I gaining knowledge by ex- perience reaches the fundamental cause I of the wrong and then suggests a remedy. Dr. Parkhurst attacks the bargain- connter woman who secures cheap goods at the expense of the wages of the victims of the sweat shops. This, and. ubtedly, is one of the results of the system, but it is not that which gives it life. Remove the bargain counter and the sweat shop remains. Competition is the life of trade, but we cannot disguise the fact that the multi- plication of business houses in this age has generated a very fierce competition that is one of the cause of cheap la- bor. This fierce competition results in small profits, and small profits he- get cheap wages. Natural forces are unable to right the evil and the blot- ting out of the bargain counter will not effece the surest shop. All the, which Dr. Parkhurst fails to appreciate.comes under the experienced eye of the inspector. He sees the only remedy in a restrictive law. He asks that the immigration law be made more stringent, as his visits through the sweat shop districts have convinced him i ' that foreigners form the major part of those who will labor for a mere pittance. And then, after this class is made as small as possible, he asks that the State Legislature pass ,a supplement to the tenement house law which will make the existence of a sweat shop an im- possibility. Such laws would go pretty far in the eradication of thisjevil. By a special town meeting, »Winsted has again voted to pay soldiers’ boun- Skinner and David Finn. t Edward * THE ,STEACHING' cat/"PHONGERAPH. I". A Curious and Clover Scheme of a New York Professor. ‘ Many novel projects have been de- vised in the way of language teach ing, but never until just lately has the phonograph been made part of the outfit of the linguistic professor. It is difficult at first to see how this instru -mcnt can help along teaching of any kind, but thereon hangs a tale. The man who has adapted the phonograph to this profession is R. D. Cortina, and he has been so successful that al- ready he has sent out over five hun- dred machines all loaded with his in- struction and primed with his voice. His method is simple. With each phonograh there is sent his textbook, twenty loaded cylinders and twenty blank ones. Each lesson in the book is arranged in the form of questions and answers. The pupil ready to be- gin. puts the cylinder of the first les- son in the machine, the tubes in his cars and starts the phonograph. Keeping his eye on the book he hears 'the words and phrases repeated, with their proper accent, just as if the pro- fessor stood at his side. There is an additional advantage that the lesson can be repeated twenty or :1 hundred time, if necesary, until every sound is familiar to the pupil. Then after having thoroughly learned these sentences, he puts one of the unused cylinders in the nin- chinc and repeats the lesson. In 21 little paper box the cylinder goes back to New York, and at his earliest op- portunity Mr. Cortina pops it into his own machine. At his side is the stcnogrupher. As he listens to the lesson. repeated back. now stopping the phonograph, now starting it going again. he dictates his criticism, where the pronunciation is wrong. what is right. what the mis- takes are and where they have been made. The letter and the cylinder :0 back to the pupil, who reads and listens to his own voice reproduced, Then, taking up the original cylinder once more, he is able to tell just where the difference lies. A. QirEEr Experience. Three years ago I was living in a car ind travelling from town to town in :he Stac of Washington. In Cheney l and a call from a real estate man Sonic way or other the talk drifted :0 queer experiences. My friend told he he had one such experience in life,’ ind one only. Ten years before he was running a train out of Chicago as a conductor on one of the Burlington tines. One morning after heavy rains. when there was freshets in the streams, he stood upon the platform of a way station about three miles from the crossing of a small river. He “ was about to signal his engineer to go ahead, when a. voice spoke plainly in sis ear, “Look out for the bridge!” No one was standing near at the time. He walked forward and said to the engineer, “Jim, I think you had setter slow down at the curve just this side of the bridge.” “There is nothing :he matter with the bridge,” said the engineer, “or we would have had a wire from it.” “Perhaps there isn’t," replied the conductor, “but you slow .‘lown all the same.” There was a sharp curve a short distance from the ap- proach to the bridge, so near, in fact, :hat' it would have been impossible to stop the train after coming in sight. of :he bridge had it been running at the renal rate of speed. The engineer slowed down. The bridge was gone. It had been carried away between the hue the train left the last station and ts arrival at the curve. Had it not econ for the mysterious warning the whole train would have gone into the rivet—Chicago Times-Herald. Aspai agus for the Czar. The asparagus served at the Elysee banquet cost the respectable sum of 3 francs per piece, or 90 francs the bun- dle, and any one fond of reckoning may form a guess as to the probable total cost of this course alone, and the amount consumed among 200 guests. Still the price was not unreasonable, all things considered, as asparagus during the month of October has hitherto been an unrealized dream of cultivator-s, who so far have only man- aged With the greatest difficulty to raise a poor apology for the real vege- table in December by means of hot- houscs and unceasing care and pains. Every one knows the difference be- tween the latter and fresh spring as- paragus. but that placed before the Czar was freshly cut, and in no Whit inferior to the very best grown in Ap- ril and May. The expensive dainty come from the far-famed gardens of . Carpentrns, whence all the finest produce of the kind in Paris comes, and the growers of that district are justly proud of their lat.- sst success, which has excited muchin. forest in horticultural circles, and will' no ,doubt do lasting good to the growers. ' How to Cure to Severe Cold. A few weeks ago the editor was taken with a very severe cold that caused him to be in amost miserable condition. It was undoubtedly a. bad case of la grippe and recognizing it as dangerous he took imme- diate steps to bring about a. speedy cure. From the advertisement of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and the many good recom- mendations included therein, we concluded to make a first trial of the medicine. To say that it was satisfactory in its results, is fitting it very mildly, indeed. It noted ' e”magic and the result was a s eedy and permanent cure—The Banner 0 Liberty, Libertytown, Maryland. The 25 and 50 cent sizes for sale by E. P. Weed, Druggist. Raymond es Son. Buocessorsto George H.Baymcnd. 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Harness_made to or- der a specialty. 3! MAIN ST. 1 NORWALK, - - Conn. w. s. svmeios . INSURANCE. Ilccm t incite Building. TRY WEED’S SODA WATER 38 Wall St. Painting. Pa er Hanging. Ka somin- ins and Hardwood Finishing. G. l. PLATT, 52 Wilton Avenue, Norwalk, Conn. Send for book con- taining samples. PARLOR BABBEII-i-SIIOP, E. S. LEOBOLD. 4-7 Main Street. Joli Printing EVERY DESCRIPTION nxncurnn a'r 1‘11!le Talonho able. 7 'M Mrs. MEAD’SQ‘ “SUI-I0 Oh sanctum, 1896. ALL APPLICATIONS For admission should be made at Hillside at an early day. '~ CHEAP FUEL Owing to many of the factories having been shut down, we have a large accumu- lation of first class coke. ' We offer the same during the month of December at six cents per bushel at the - work 5, or eight cents per bushel delivered within either city limits, in not less than twenty-five bushel lots. Extra for car- rying in. The llorwalk Gas Light Company. Piano Lessons. S.GEOBGE W. BRADLEX. (daughter ._ of the late Wm. B. 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