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THE EVE N1N(x (JAZEII‘TE
(EVENING GAZETTE.
ENTERED AT THE POST OFFICE IN NOR-
. WALK AS A NEWSPAPER.
MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS.
DAILY—One year, $3: six months, $1.75;
three months, $1; one month, 40c.
WEEKLY—One year, in advance, 81; six
months. 600.: three months. 350.
W'EDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1897.
That C'onfiscatory Tax.
A Buffalo man gave his three sons
$1.5"0. 000 just before he died, and
now the assesso1s are afte1 the inhel' 1-
tance tax on each sha1e. The law ap-
plies to gifts") made in expectation of
death,and the only thing . to prove is
that the donor was in a physical condi-
tion to make him anxious. The only
way to evade the tax appears to be to
give away the property at a time when
the expectation of life seems excellent,
and there is no doubt that there are
plenty of Norwalk sons and daughters
wh J will heartily approve the idea.
Football Defended.
A Chicago alderman named Plotke
proposed an ordinance as follows:
Section 1. It shall hereafter be 11n-
' lawful for any person or persons to as-
semble for the purpose of Witnessing or
playing, taking part or engaging in
the game known as football anywhere
within the co1po1ate limits of the city
of Chicago.
Section 2. Any person or persons
who shall violate any of the provisions
Of Section 1 of this act shall be pun-
ished by a fine of not less than five ($5)
dollars or more than fifty ($50) dollars
for each Offense.
Prof. Stagg' of Chicago university,
the famous pitcher of the Yale nine at
one time, replies to the alderman by
saying that he nev 01 saw a football
game and continues:
Alderman Plotke knows a thing OI
two. He knows, fo1 example, that foot-
ball and other sports are bringing a new
race Of Americans into the active pur-
suits of life. Football does not make cow-
ards of young men; it does not make
cheap politicians; it does not make boc.
dle aldermen. A foot ball man in politics
is dangerous to the rule of the gentry
who “train” on bad ,whiskey and im-
prove their “wind” by running for of-
fice. The youngperson who has had
to win his way across a football field
‘ with two or three hundred pounds of
brawn hanging from his neck is not to
be discouraged in politics by the an-
tagonism of the ordinary type of bar-
room politician. N o podgy Plotke can
sit upon him who has breathed con-
tentedly under a ton or two of real
men.
Mr. Plotke is in earnest. He is no
joke. He means what he says. And
he ought to be in earnest, for the more
football men take a hand in the game
of politics, the more Plotkes there will
be on the political hospital list.
Mr. Plotke’s ordinance. came up be-
fore the Chicago City Conncil Monday
night, and‘there were 62 votes against
and5 for the Oldinauce.
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L'\~s About Cuba.
The stmies of e '11 vation and death
in Cuba are horrible even to contem-
plate, and there is but little doubt that
they contain the truth, but in a greatly
exaggerated form. In fact. all reports
from the ill-fated island mustsbe taken
with a grain of salt, for experience has
demonstrated the fact that. both sides
are given to gross exaggeration. For
instance, last..(summel:- it was aSSerted
that ten thousand American citizens
were starving in Cuba, but when
this government placed ample funds
fur their relief in the hands of 'Consul
General. Lee, not one-tenth of that
number came “forward to claim it.
About the same time General Weyler
submitted a Falstaflian report to his
government, in whichihe claimed to
have killed more than three times as
many insurgents as were ever enrolled
in the Cuban army, to say nothing of
eleven colonels who were slain in what
proved to be only a skilmish with an
insul gent battalion.
‘ Of course there was some excuse for
Weyler, for this was about the time
that he was threatening to ride his new
Kansas City stud across every lawn
from Florida to Maine, and it may be
I ' readily understood how his imagination
could have deceived him into the be-
lief that he had reached Kentucky,
while in endowing the slain Cubans
with the recuperative power of Harry
Hotspur at Shrewsbury he was but fol-
lowing the example of that other equal-
' 1y voracious and valiant general, Sir.
John Falstafi'. .
All of this and much more might be
citedc-as examples Of the untrustworthy
nature of Cuban news, but the stories
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.we shall find ourselves. For all people,
of slaughter, famine and starvation
bear upon their faces the stamp of ex-
aggeration, from. the fact that if they
are true the, island has lost more than
dbuble its normal population since the
beginning of the war. This theory is
untenable, for Cuba has received com-
paratively few volunteers for her
armies, and it is a well established fact
that the losSes of the Cubans in battle
havebeen slight, and they now have
the most numerous and best equipped
the commencement of the war. '
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FEMININE CHAT.
Purple is worn by umany swell wom-
en: ~
Cotillon favors will be next sought
for.
Mufis ale carried whether it is cold
01: not. ,
Accordion-plaited silk skirts are all
the rage.
Dresden China glove menders are
only 75 cents.
{:Small fur-trimmed turbans are con-
sidered smart.
Happiness consists in the fewness of
our necessities.
Snake rings for women are supposed
to bring good luck.
A boa of chiffon is frequently worn
with low-necked gowns.
At the modistes’ the rumor that the
bustle is again to be worn is fully cor-
roborated.
Persian lamb combined with sable or
chinchilla is much prettier than when
used alone.
A woman shoplifter of unlimited am-
bition was detected in the act of carry-
ing off a canary bird in a good-sized
wire cage.
It is only the Older Quakers whom
army in the field they have had since
Hospital. - :— Fair
BUILDING FUND EENEFIT.
Lockwood’s flail. Homo-Ill.
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY, '
NOVEMBER l6thand I7th.
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
SPECIAL PUNCH AND JUDY MATINEE.
by New York A1 tlsts, for the chil- ,
dren, Wednesday afternoon
at 3 o ’.clock
ADMISSION - - - -'10c.
_..__FEATURES.____‘
KLONDIKE—MYSTERY TABLE, FLOWER
TABLE, JACK HORNER, SLEEPY
HOLLOW, FANCY GOODS,
REFRESHMENTS.
'Concert Each Evening.
GENERAL ADMISSION. - . — 25c.
New York Announcement.
“011: American Homes and How to Fumllh Thom."
‘Horner’s Furniture’
The Best in the Market.
All who desire to buy reliable Ful-
niture, whether in medium or finest
grades, will find our stock the most
advantageous to select from £01 these
reasons: It lepresents the ploduc-
tlons of the best makers only, and
13 the largest and most varied in
America, while our prices are the
lowest at whlch goods of similar,
quality can possibly be sold for.
The completeness of our assortments can
best be 11ndc1stood from the fact that
we exhibit moxe than f ve hundred difeient
Bedroom Sets in evely variety of wood.
over 70 patterns of Brass Bedsteads. as
well as endless lines of Pailor. Drawing
Room. Liblary and Dining Room Fulniture
of the most altistic styles. and longing
from the modest and inexpensive to the
most elaboratelv carved and inlaid.
One entire (1001 devoted to Venetian
Calved Fumitme. French Cabinets. and
other foreign productions.
Send —for our Illustrated Book.
R. J. Homer 6: (30.,
we can recognize by their garb. The
younger men may use plain language,
but they ceItainly do not weal the
Some baby dolls that etc seen in the
shops have faces exactly like those of
mature midgets like Tom Thumb and
CommodOIe Nutt. ‘ They are a base
libel on the pink and white p1 ettlness '
of the 16111 infant.
An advertising scheme ofa New York
furniture house is to have a drawing—
room set in the window, a real hostess in
a gorgeous gowu being:called upon by a
dozen or more feminine guests, all in
smartest attire. The women are hand-
some and a new lot appears each day.
If the gowns are their perquisites for
thus exhibiting themselves the pay is
pretty good. _
The uses of lemons are manifold, and
the more we employ them the better
in sickness or in ill health, lemonade is
ant drink. It is a specific against
worms and skin complaints. The pip-
pins crushed may also be mixed with
Water and used as a drink. Lemon-juice
is the best anti-scorbutic remedy known;
it not only cures the disease, but, what
is better than a cure, it is a preventa-
tive. Sailors make a daily use of it for
that purpose. It is a good thing to rub
the gums daily with lemon juice to keep
them in a healthy condition.It prevents
chilblains. Lemon used in intermit-
tent fevers is mixed with strong black
tea 01- coffee. ,without sugar. Neural-
gia may be cured by rubbing the part
affected with a lemon. It is valuable
also to cure warts and to destroy dan
druif on the head by rubbing the roots
of the hair with it.
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BLUE PEOPLE BRIGHT.
The business man’s friend, Bicola.
Pills. ate a scientific remedy and the
only pe1fect cure for the diseases of the
nor vous system. Aremedy adapted for
the banker. laWV er, doctor, preacher
and meichani. While Bicola Pills are
intended to: all Who me afflicted with
nelvous weakness, they are par ticularr
1y adapted to women sufiering f1 0111 a
weakened condition of the nervous sys-
tem, with prostration, faintness, etc.
Bicola Pills give immediate 1elief—for
rheumatism, all blood and Del vous
troubles. Discovered and Perfected by
THE TURNERS, of Philadelphia.
THE TURNERS also make TARZINA—
the only ointment for skin troubles.
Cures piles.
TURNERS’ LITTLE LIVER TURNERS—
A very small pill Turns you1 liver.
F01 sale only in N orwalk by E. P.
Weed. druggist, R. H. Palisted, South
N01 walk.
' Wonderful Tattooing.
‘ Tattooing extraordinary has been
l practised in the case of a. young French
Isoldier, who has lately excited much
interest in the military hospital at Bor-
deaux. His body has been almost en-'
tirely covered with tattoo marks. Be—
sides sundry commonplace scenes and
devices, there is a large and elaborate
reproduction, extending right down the
back from the shoulder blades to the
loins of a. picture in a French illustra-
ted paper showing the degradation of
Captain Dreyfus. The young soldier’ 5,
well meant patriotic enthusiam must,
in this instanee, have caused him con-
Side: able pain.
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Twin Difficulties.
Fair Visitor—I suppose, Mr. Pal-
ZtE, that t1 as art is very difficult to
Indelstand. "
M: . Palette—About as difficult to
indelstand, madam, as it is to sell.—
{z-ctroit Free Press. .
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It ABSOLUTELY prevents slipping.
and insures perfect safety and comfortto
horse and driver.
Shod with the “Neversllp” your horse's
feet are always in good condition—kept”
b not having to constantly remove the
8 ass for sharpening.
The CALKS are REMOVABLE, ‘
Steel-Centered and SELF-SHARPENING
When worn out new Calks can be easily 1n-
sorted without removing shoes. savingan
mmense amount or time usually lost at the
blacksmith shop
On receipt 0 postal will mail free out do-
acrlptive circular containing rice: ofCalkod
Kaboom ready tobo benailed on, or m. 036M
winter at very low prices.
1.. «L. Buswon'ru,a so",
Blacksmith’s Supplies.
HARTFORD, . - -
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r. J. minus. a co,
Can be found Heating Stoves
from small Cyclinder to large
Heaters. '
riety of patterns.
The Electric Oil Heaters
with fine combustion.
Also Cooking Utensils and
. House Furnishing Goods.
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That you can save money
by buying you1 Meats
and Fish at ‘
F. W. SMITH’S
55 Main Strut.
Everything First Class.
OPEN EVENINGS
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dance. M «kemo Hotel
J. ll. JENNINGS,
UNDERTAKER!
No. 7,~MAIN STREET.
NIGHT BELL 41' clarion.
Piano Lessons.
us.- enoncn w BBADLEf. (daughter
‘1 of the late Wm. 3. Noah.) Rives eflioent
mu .xtlsfaczory instruotions on 'the Piano ‘at
.er tome No.1” Mhln street. »
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The Stamford Ranges in va- '
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e vening Gaze te-Nells Buys l N
OVER $100.00 WORTH or PRIZES.
ZETTE may take part.
offered to those already on the list.
room, give the name of the applicant and receive a number.
at it.
No. 6—Pair of Nickel Plated Club skates,
No. 7—Rugby Foot Ball.
No". 8+Boy’s Sweater, a beauty, one of the best.
No. 94—‘Pair of Boy’s or Girl’s Fine Shoes.
No.10—Si1k Gloria Umbrella. '
No. 11—Boy’s Sled,
No. 12—Four-bladed Pocket Knife.
No. 13—Silver Dollar.
No. 14—One-half—dozen Handkerchiefs.
No. 15~Boy’s Windsor Tie.
No. 16—"Half Dollar in Silver.
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Each boy or girl will receive on coming to buy a stock of papers, a number.
record in the business office of this paper and the prizes will be awarded.
every subscriber obtained. _. . .;
ews Girls.
WILL BE 11111111111111) TO THE BOYS on GIRLS MAKING T1111 LARGEST ~
SALES ranvmus TO DECEMBER Tw ENTY-FIFTH
To thi
numberwill be Credited each day the number of papers sold. \ At the close of business on
the evening of December 24, the aggregate ofthe sales of each numbered seller Will be on
In this distribution of Christmas gifts not only the boys,but the girls now selling the GA-
Any bright lad or lass can gompete for the prizes on the same terms
All that is necessary is to apply at the GAZETTE counting
The appended list of prizes speaks for itself. News boys and news girls in striving for
them will not merely be working for the prizes but making more mOney than ever before.
It IS a great chance for bright boys and girls and there IS little question of the way they will
The Prize List.
No 1—A'Scholarship of Ten weeks’ Personal Instruction in the .,Academic Business
Shorthand, Typewriting, Telegraphy and Penmanship Departments of Eastman BIISTIIOSS
‘ College.
- No. 2—A Complete Course [Instruction by Mail, book included} 111 Shorthand, at
Eastman Business college.
No 3—-A Complete Course [Instruction by Mail, without books] in Bookkeeping. at.
[Eastman Business college. , V
No 4—A Ten Weeks’ Course [Instruction by Mail] In Shorthand, at Eaglman BITS?
fitness college.
No. 5—A Complete Set of Shakespeare’s Works, 8 volumes
”Any News Boy 111 News Girl. bringing
$1.00 to this oflce as, a. new : . subscription to"; the
WEEKLY, GAZETTE and. NEW Year: 1 WEEK-
LY TRIBUNE ,will a credited. with so 19.19: for.
Help the Newsboys and Newsglrls to win the xi;
lPrlzes by buying a GAZETTE every~ ni’Lsht.
Norwalk Chronicler