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~ NORWALK, CONN.,WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1888. ;
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Volume LXXXVIII.
A song of life I sing, I
A ripple in a. stream— 1}
A day of bliss—n smile—a kiss- .
A sweet, enchanted dream. [I 1'
We strive for might and power{
. Some newer heights to climb—f
Our triumph song—we shout and sit
A psalm of life sublime. ;'
We long for "sweet repose," ,1,
1 .For rest and quiet sigh— "
Ah: wherefore must—we liver—In
Our shuttered idols lie.
, We moan and look for DeliJ
l And count his coming dew
; Our hearts‘ dull pain knows notéfm‘ni
Save sigh and sob and Id?-
wall meekly folded h ds
We. neither sing nor si ‘—
Our longings done—our rest gun—
ln peaceful sleep we 10-
—Sarah in. Osborne WWW“-
THE LAST LESSON.-
Note—From timr fmmemorial the fertile
provinces of A19“ 51nd Lorraine. have‘ been
the subjectjmi st; , ‘-betw‘cen France and
Germany. .Aslcarly as theThiI-d century the
Alemaiini invaded Alsace, and, after along
war, subjugnted the Celtic inhabitants and
‘ filled up the region with German settlers,
who were called "Ill Basset), or dwellers on
the River Ill. From this on the provinces have
changed masters frequently. In 1681 Alsace,
then in the hands of the Germans, Louis
XIV seized Strasburg, its principal city; and
sixteen years later the whole provincé came
under French authority by the treaty of Rya-
, wick. A small part of the province was
ceded to Prussia in 1814, but the majority of
tho Alsatiaus remained Frenchmen until as
a result of the Franco—Prussian war, Alsace
was given up in 1871 to the German empire,
of which it. now forms a part.
Robert Louis Stevenson, in his “Inland
VOyage,” Speaking of this same patriotism of
the French country folk, which Daudet so
happily illustrates in this little story, says:
“In what; other country will you find a pn-
triotic ditty bring all the world into the
street?” and adds: “I have watched a. for-
ester from Alsace while some one was sing-
ing ‘Los Molbcurs do la France‘ at a baptis-
mal party in the neighborhood of Fontnine—
bleau.Ho arose from the table and took his son
aside, close by whom I was standing. ‘Listen,
listen,’ he said, bearing on the boy’s, shoul-
der, ‘nnd remember this, son.’ A little
and I could hear him sobbing in the dark-
uess.”
I was very late in going to school that.
morning, and I was afraid I should get a
good scolding, because M. Hamel had told us,
thatlho was going to question as in the par-
ticiples, and I didn’t know the first word of
them. For a. minute the idea. Came to mo to
run away from school and enjoy myself in
the fields.
The day was so warm and clear! You
could hear the blackbird whistling in the
edge of the wood, and in the meadow behind
the sawmill the Prussians were at their drill.
All this was a great deal more attractive to
me than the rule for participles, but I had
the strength to resist, and I hurried along
toward the school. ‘
As I passed the town hall I saw a. crowd of
people gathered around the little bulletin
board. For two years it had been from this
little board that; all our bad news had come;
news of battles lost, of requisitions, of orders
from the government, mid I thought without
stopping:
“What: is going to happen now t”
Then, as I was running across tho square,
Wacbter, tho blacksmithnvho was thero,with
his apprentice at his heels, reading the pos-
ter, called after me:
"Don’t be in such a. hurry, little one; you’ll
get to your school soon enough i”
I thought he was making fun of me, and
when I entered ML Hamcl’s little courtyard I
was all out of breath.
Usually, when school began, there was
street; the opening and shutting cf desks,
everybody studying their lessons out loud,
stopping their ears with their fingers so that
they might: learn the better, and then the
master’s great; ruler that rapped on the desk:
“A little less noiscl”
_I was counting on all this confusion to get
to my bench without; being noticed; but on
this particular day, everything was as still
as if it had been a Sunday morning.
Through the open window I could see my
companions all in their places, and M.
Hamel walking up and down with tho terri-
ble iron edged ruler under his arm. I had
to open the door and go in, in the midst of
this profound stillness. You may imagine
if I blushed, and was afraidl -
Well then, no. M. Hamel looked at; me
without any anger at all, and said gently:
“Go to your place quickly, my little
Frantz; we were going to begin without
you.” .
Istrnddlod the bench and settled myself
at my dcskas quickly as I could. Then, a
little recovered from my fright, I noticed
for the first time that our master had on his
beautiful green frock coat and his pluited
shirt; trill, and his embroidered skull cap of
black silk that. he wore only on exhibition
days, or when he gave out; the prizes. And
the others, too; every one of them seemed to
have something unusual or solemn about
them. But what; surprised me most; of all
was to see at the back of the room, on the
benches that were usually empty, the men
of the village sitting as silent uswo were:
old Hauser, with his three cornered hat, tho
white haired mayor, the old notary, and many
others. Everybody was sad; and Hauser
had brought an old primer. with the corners
all chewed, which he held wide open on his
knees, with his big spectacles lying across
the pages. ’
While .I was wondering at all this M.
Humelhnd taken his place in his chair, and,
'in the some gentle. grave voice with which
ho had spoken to me, he said to us:
2 “My children, it; is tho last timcthatI shall
teaeh‘you.“ , The order has come from Berlin
that: only German shall be taught in the
schools of Alsace and Lorraine. The new
master comes to-morrow. Today will be
your last; lesson in French. I beg you to be
very attentive."
The words set; my heart to thumping. Ah,
the wretchesl this was what they had posted
at the town halL
My last lesson ill Frenchl
And I who hardly knew how to writel I
should never learn nowl I must break 03
where I was. How I longed for the time I
had loft, for the days 1 had, played truant to
hunt for bird’s nests, or to slide on the river
Soar. My books that just; now I had found
so dull, So heavy to carry, my Bible history,
seemed to me old friends whom I should be
sorry to part; with. [owns the some with M.
Hamel. The thought that ho was going away,
that; I should never cm.- him any more, made
the ruler. Poor r
It; was in honor
had put on his Sunday.
der:..ood why the old
come to sit at. the bani q
to any that they rcr. orry they had not
come oftener to the school. It was, too, a
way of thanking our master for his forty
years of faithful serI ices and of showingtheir
love for tho father-land which was slipping
may from us.
I was deep in my thoughimwhen. suddenly
I heard my name called. 1cm my turn to
recite. What wouldn'g.1,:;havo giventobe
able to say, clear to,thg\exiid,,that famous rule
of participles, very. lodges? clear, without
a. single faultl butill'fiétufhblgl' all, .the‘fllrst
words, and stood ‘theregbeslde gmyi'b'ench,
swaying buck and forth,‘~my heart swelling.
without daring to raiseumy head. Iheard
M. Hamel-speaking to me. ». '
“I will not scold you, my 1191,19 Frautz,” he
said; “this should be punishment; enough, It
is always like this. Each day we say to our-
selves, ‘Pshawi I hag plenty of time. I
will learn to-morrow.’ And now you see
what has come—ah, that has been the great
misfortune of our Alsace; always pu g of]?
her education until to-morrow. Now hose
men have the right to say to us: ‘How is
this. You pretend to be French, and you
can neither speak nor write your languu 1
You are not the most to blame, my p r
Frantz. We all have much to rcpromh o
selves for. ,
“Your fathers and mothers haven’t given
enough attention to your education. They
like better to send you to work in the fields
or to help the spinners, because i 1: brings in a
few sous more. And I, have I no fault to
find with myself? How often have I sent
you to water my garden instead of making
you sudyt And when I wanted to go trout
fishing, how impatient I have been to get rid
of you alll"
Then, running on from one thing to another,
M. Hamel began to talkto us about our lau~
guage, saying it was the most beautiful in
all the world, the clearest; and the strongest;
and that we must guard it among us and
never' forget; it,’ for when a people fell into
slavery, so long as they hold fast; to their
language it was as if they kept the key to
their prison. Then he took upo. grammar
and read usour lesson. I was astonished to
see how well Iunderstood it. All that: he
sold seemed so easy to me. I think, also, that I
had never listened so attentively before, and
perhaps, too, that ho had never before had
somuch patience inexplnining tons. One
would have said that before going away
2 'Icsi: lesson that. ha
clothes, and now I un-
of tho village had
Iho‘room. It secured
fmmm..thomor_man_uehfed tn amen"
PHASES. ,1
after he went; out; into the garden suddenly, '
such a hubbub that. you could hear it in the .
me forget the punishments and the slaps of ‘
fl His knowledgo, to force itlnto om‘hea‘dsih‘tfu
When the lesson was finished we had our
1 writing next. For this last day M. Hamel
i had made new copies for us, on which were
written in a; clear, round band: “France,
Alsace, France, Alsace), They looked like
so many little fluttering flags hanging from
the rail nt."the front of each desk. You
should have seen how we applied ourselves;
. and what u. silence there, was! One heard
only the scratching of the pens on the paper.
Onco some beetles flew in at the window, but
no one paid any attention to them, not even
the little ones, who were 'tracing their up
strokes and down strokesnsenergetically and
us conscientiously as if there were something
French in that, too. On the, roof of the
school house the pigeons were cooling softly,
and I said to myself while I listened: “And
the pigeons, too; will they have to sing in
German?" ~»
From time to time, when I raised my eyes
to the top of the page, I could see M. Hamel
sitting motionless in his chair, fixing his eyes
on the things around him, as if he wanted to
carry away in his mind the whole of his
little school. Just think of it! For forty
years he had sat there in the same place,
7 looking into his little court yard through the
' window in front of him, and with his class
‘I single stroke.
had become worn and polished by usage; tho
walnut; trees in the courtyard had grown
bigger, and the hop vine that he had planted
with his own hands now encircled the win-
dows and climbed up to the roof. How it
must: have made his heart ache to think of
leaving all these things; to hear his sister
going and coming in the chamber above
going tho next day—going away from their
country for-overt. ..; . . . '
But; for all that he had the courage to
teach us to tho end. After our writing came
our history . lesson; then the little ones
chanted their “Ba~be—bi-bo«bu.” There at
the back of‘tho room old Hauscr had put on
his spectacles, and, holding his primer in
both bands, was spelling'out the letters with
them. You could sec how earnest. ho was;
his voice trembled with emotion, and it; was
so dl'oll to hear him that we could hardly
keep from laughing and crying, too. Ah! I
shall always remember that last; day.
All at: once tho clock ill the church tower
sounded for noon, then chimed the “An-
gelus.” At: the same moment the trumpets
of the Russians, who were returning from
their drill, rang out; under our windows. M.
Hamel raised himself from his chair; ho was
very pale. Ho had never looked so tail to
me as he did then.
“My friends.” he - said, “my friends,
I—I”— " ‘ ‘
But; something choked him.
finish what he was going to say.
He turned to tho blackboard, took up a
piece of chalk, and bearing on it with all his
strength, he wrote as large as he could:
“Viva la France!” '
Then he ricod there leaning his head
against the Wall, and, without speaking,
made a gesture with his hand:
“It is all—got”—Translated from the
French of Duudct. for The Evening Sun.
He couldn’t
Story of an Elephant Funeral.
The St; James Gazette prints the following
letter from a. planter in Ceylon, giving a
remm‘lmblo account of the removal of the
body of'\a dead elephant by its comrades of
the herd:
"I went. after'a herd of eight. elephants,
and cnme up with them about 3 p. m. After
stalking I got; a. chance at the one which
seemed about; the biggest of the herd, and
dropped it: at the first shot. It: turned out
to be a. big cow elephant. About» two hours
afterward Ishud the tail and feet out off and
taken to the bungalow. Next morning I
went; to the spot to look at the elephant and
found her, or what remained of her, non est.
After looking around, I saw the herd had
been around during the night, and I soon dis-
covered a. track where they seemed to have
retired in a body. I followed this through a.
thick bamboo jungle, and about 500 yards
further on, I came upon the dead elephant,
lying in the bottom of a. rocky stream.
4 Judging from appearances, the body of
the elephant; had been carried to the top of the
bank, and from there rolled. into the stream.
From the tracks it was plain that the body
had not; been rolled, but carried to the bank,
and it was plain that it had been rolled
through the mnnagrass, which grows on the
sides of the stream. The jungle through
which the body was brought: to the stream
‘ was very heavy, with bumboos growing
close, and the track which the elephants
made was several ,Iyards wide. Some sur-
prise was expressed at; the circumstances by
my neighbors till ]I showed them where the
' elephant; had been shot and where its tail and
feet had been cut of! and where the body lay
in the stream, which proved conclusively
that by some means or other the body had
got ova: the intervening space in the night}:
It; is dificult to understand 'how elephants
with their trunks and feet could raise and
support the dead body of ascomrado. How-
ever, they seemed to ho vc managed. it.—
Scicntific American.
A Few‘Qucs'tIons for R. 9. Mills.
The Neerork Sun in its issue of Sept. 21
prints the I following letter from a. corre-
spondent
I have just read the report of the speech of
the Hon. R. Q. Mills, as published in your
paper {of today, in which he endeavors to
show that his tariff bill is going to mist
every sort; of people, mill owners, workmen
and furthers.
Will it benefit the farmer toput; on the free
list. every article which he produch Grain,
I thitik is the only exception.
If Mr. Mills were a farmer—say between
Buifalo and Suspension Bridge—and if he
had been taxed to build the highway leading
to Buffalo, on which he carted ht; produce to
market, where he sold it at a. fair price in
competition with his neighbors, what; would
he say on getting up the day after the Mills
bill went into effect: and found the Canadian
farmers crowding him on his own highway
in their eager; race for the Buffalo market in
order to dispose of their product in competi-
tion with him, and ueoemrily lower the
price? _ .
Suppose the Canadian former has sold his
produce, and is on his way homoalong your
highway, and a highwuyman holds him up
and robs him of the proceeds of ‘ his sale, who
is sent to catch the thief? Who prosacutos
him when caught? IVho tries him? then
convicted, who supports him in prison? and
who phys for the prison that confines him?
Isit the Canadian farmer or the American
that; pays the bills? IVould Mr. Mills pill-
ingly undergo these expenses for the sake of
enjoying the luxury of having to compete on
such uneven terms?
Or suppose, Mr. Mills, that you were em-
ployed making brick on the American side of
- the Niagara river, and earned $2 a day, while
on the Canadian side of the river there is a
brick yard where men are paid $1.50 a day,
and on the day after the Mills bill goes' into
. effect your wages are reduced to the lével of
the Canadian brickmaker, would you feel
justified in voting into power the congress-
men whose votes declare that; the‘ Mills bill,
»which would accomplish all this, is the true
exponent; of their policy? If you were this
American farmer or this American brick-
‘ maker, would you, or would you not, vote to
sen I members to congress either to restore
the tariff, or else vote for free manufactured
woolens, silks, hosiery, made up clothing,
and, in fact, everything you consume, in
order that you might also get the benefit; of
the cheap product of foreign labor? .
IVouIIl this policy load to absgluto free
trade or not? These are concrete examples,
and] challenge Mr. Mills or any other free
trade: to refute them. ‘
New York, Sept. 20. J aux GALLAHEIL
. Bad Management.
Secretary Fairchild has raised his limit for
the purchase of United States 4 per cent.
bonds to 130, says the Democratic New York
Sun, and at thatvfigure has just bought 86,-
340,350 of them.
In January last the secretary could' have
purchased these bonds at from 125 to 126. In
the same month of January be deposited with
certain . favored national banks $30,000,000
and upward of public money free of timer-est,
with which he could ha: a bought 8%,000,000
of bonds. Adding to the 130 he is now paying
for them the 2 per cent. interest paid since
January, brings their cost to the government
up to 132, as against say 126. which the cost
would have been if he had bought them in
\January.
, Here is a dead loss to the national treasury
f 6 per cent. on $24,000,000, or $1,440,000,
d a corresponding profit: to the banks
\ ich bought the bonds and pledged them to
t treasury. This migl ihave been avoided,
could have been av dad by the exercise
of a little common sense. What says the
pi' 'dénti
The Party of Reform.
D ocratic “economy” under President
Clev and in the-lust year has c1eatod799new
of which 675 getlannual salaries mak-
ing a. mi of $762,2l6.50, while the per diém
pay 0 the remaining 12-}.15 estimated at an
aggro to of $100,000 per unnum. This does
not in do the army of additional employee
is administration in every depart?
administ tion. As the Democrats used to
necessary.”—Philadclphia
while she fastened their boxes; for they were .
always the same. Only the desks and benches ,
N0 FREE TRADE FOR HIM.
WHAT MR. LOWE EMMERSON SAW
1N ENGLAND.
Why the American Zion-Imp!) Should
‘ mill): to the Good on mg“ and True
”American syihm—Sofld i’hliot from a
Maker of earring". .
Mr. Louis Emerson, of Cincinnati, one of
the most. widely known carriage manufactr
urers in‘the United States, has recently re
turned from Europe. He is a keen observer
and told a Times-Star reporter some of his
impressions. , Said he:
“I paid particular attention to the wage
question when I was in England this summer.
I wont to say in the beginning that there is
no comparison between the manner of living
of , Engliish and American laborers. The for-
mer will and does put up with things the lat-
. for could not and would not endure.
, “The first thing is the cost of living. Meat
is. imported to England from this country
End is, therefore, higher. Clothingisfrom
101:0 15 per cent. cheaper there than here.
But again the English laborer buys very few
clothda—asfew as possible. ‘Rent is some
whiitcheopo'r there than here, but the homes
therb’pre, far poorer and very seldom indeed
does ihborbl own the property-he lives in.
A311 rule they lips in tenements—whole
families in a mom. *Take it all around I
thinkthe c0“ of ,liying, food which a, man . '
has to. haveJovdly day being cheaper here,
while clothing, an affair of once or twice a
year, being in their favor, I think the cost of
living is in favor of this country.
“In the carriage businm the best laborers
arepaid thirty-five shillings, less than $8.70 a
week. Here our best mechanics gets $3.50
and sometimes $4 a day, while the average
is about $2.50 a. day. Averaging the thing
up the mechanic here gets something over
twice as much as the English mechanic—and
that is putting it: very mildly. The mechanic
of America lives like a prince compared with
the Englishman. 7
“The mill operatives are worse paid than
the carriage men. Where an American cot-
ton mill hand gets $10 an English cotton mill
hand gets but $4.59. The woolen mills pay
somewhat worse. The ratio there Is as fOur
to eleven. As to the matter of living you will
find twice as many in a room there asyou do
here. In mining’und its branches, wages are
about 45 per cent. of what they are here.
“The skilled workmen who were laying
granite blocks in the streets of Aberdeen,
Scotland, got 85 cents a day—one shilling and
six pence—for their work. The skilled work-
men who laid our granite blocks got on an
average 85 a day.
“The skilled workmen engaged in quarry-
ing Scotch granite near Aberdeen were paid
from 35 to 45 cents a. day for their work.
Where will you find the stone cutter in this
country who would work at such prices?
“Street car and omnibus drivers got five
shillings for a. day’s work of fifteen hours in
London and a shilling a. day loss at Edin-
burgh, Manchester iind« Glasgow. Conduc
tors get‘five shillings in London and a shil-
ling less in the other places; that is, they get
about 81.20 and 95 cents respectively. Here
for a. day’s Work of twelve hours conductors
are paid 82 and drivers $1.75.
“The brunt of the burden of a reduction of
the tariff would undoubtedly fall on the
laborer who lives from day to day. The
manufacturer could live on his capital. In
Engluhd the wealthy class i. the manufac-
turers and merchants. The great political
power lies with them. Free trade would
throw a. wedge into society, elevating and
putting more power into the hands of the
wealthy classes and driving lower the work-
ing classes, rendering their condition hope-
lem. '
“In England manufacturing pays about
the same, or perhaps a little better, than in
America, while laborers get far less and live
far worse. This illustrates the point made
before, that power would .thus be taken from
the limbler classes and placed with the
wealthy.
“The farmer, too, must suffer. He has his
products to sell, and if his market is curtailed
he must sell at a. sacrifice. Free trade would
bring them a. low market» without fail.
“I talked with a good manyEnglishmon.
’Very few of them would discuss the effects
of the change on America, although all were
in favor of Cleveland. I talked with one
man on the Clyde, who was a. sensible, calm
sort" of man, and he admitted all I have said.”
“Fici-ir To' THE DEER!
To Be Written “In on". Senate in the
Midst of a Datum"-
We printed from The Con o‘nnal Record
a short speech made by Mr, ' explanw
tion of a letter written by , III which the
following language occurred:
“Mr. Cleveland, by his message, for which
I sincerely honor him, 116$ challenged the
protected industries of the coutitry to a fight
of extermination. * * * ' The fight is to
the death. "
Mr. Vest, interrogated by Mr. Sherman,
admitted the genuinenes of the above as an
extract, but protested that it was a. portion
of a private letter not intended for pnbilcw
tion. He said:
“There is a. clubin St. Louis which, fortun-
ately or unfortunately, bears my name—the
‘Vest Democratic club.’ Some time since I
wrote to an intimate friend, Mr. Charles M.
Napton, who happened to be secretary of
that club, not specially on any political muff
tor, but in regard to some matter of business
about which he wrote me, in which letter he
asked me generally about the campaign, as
the constituents of senators generally do. I
wrote him a letter—it was written hurriedly,
without any idea that it would ever be pub-
lished, or that it would ever be subjected to
any public criticism—but I wrote it as one
confidential friend would write to another.
* * * -As a. matter, of course, I cansay
frankly that I am not an idiot, and that the
Democratic party would not, in the teeth of
its platform and of the public and private
expressions of all its members, attack the in-
dustries of this country.”
Further along Mr. Vest said the letter was
written “here in the senate in the midst of a
deba. ” It was, ,ehl How, then, does it
happen to be in type writing, with careful
pen and ink emeudations and signature? We
have seen the document as received by Mr.
Napton. There are just four lines o “pri-
vate matter” in it, and two of these are occu-
pied with an achmMedgment of Mr. Nap-
ton’s letter to him (V est) Mr. vest then
goes on and occupies a. page and shelf of
type writing in saying: ‘
“I sincerely hope that your club may be
made permanent, and that its membbership
may be largely increased. While there is no
possibility that Missouri will fail to give her
electoral vote for Cleveland and Thurman, it
is important, both for campaign p , and
as an educational entallty, that the
organization should be continued. We are
entering upon a. most fearful preddential con-
test, the most important since that of 1800.
Mr. Cleveland, byhia message, for which I
sincerely honor him, has challenged the pro-
tected industries of the country to a. fight of
extermination. The men who are
accumulating ' immense fortunes under
the tariff laws are determined: to
defeat: Cleveland if money and industry will
_accomplish it. It is the personal duty of -
every Democrat in this country to do every-
thing in his power to sustain the president.
Every agency which can be used in this di-
rection must be put actively to work.
“It; is useless for us to the fact that
the fight is to the death, and we would be
idiots to ignore this. Very respectfully,
- “G. G. Vnsr.”
Itwillbeobservedthatinhiflspeechinthe
senate Mr. Vest says, in eflect,_that he is not
an idiot, ma therefore not a. free trader,
. while in his letter to Mr. Napton he says, in
effect, that Democrats who try to ignore or
them trade issue are idiots. Mr.
Vest’s powerful mind seems to run largely to
idiots—St. Louis Globe-Dimiocmt.
Wants Free Trade.
>Now and then thetrue sentiments outcr-
tnined by the Democratic leaders are voiced
by some outspoken DemOcr It or some portion
of the Democratic press. ‘ They can’t all be
muzzled in this state even, as is seen by the
following quotation from The New York
Democrat: _
“Why should any 0 Democrat take to
the woods when free trade, the true watch:
word‘of this campaign, is mentioned? Presi-
dent Cleveland sounded the key note in his
memge and clinched ft; in his letter of ac-
ceptance, although he took pains to qualify
the terms of the expremion. This was, no
doubt, done to please some of the nincom-
poops in the party who are foolish enough to
think that the masses regard thonnme as ob-
jectionable. Free trade is popular, and shoul i
be inscribed on our banners with the names
of Cleveland and Thurman. When the Demo-
crats made their mall: on protection and on
protected articles they aroused a. degree of
enthusiasm among the rank and file of the
party which can only be suppressed by beg-
ging the issue Let them undertake to do
that, and defeat awaits them sure as fate.
We assert boldly that: where one vote is los‘
on this free trade issue ten will be gained. "
- and exports forthe’
"TELL THE TRUTH."
Facts About Wool Here Related for the
. Farmers;
So for, tho main effort of Mr. Brioe’s
“campaign _of intellect” seems to have been
directed toward the work of'confusing and
deceiving the readers of Democratic papers
on the all important tariff question. \ ‘
A great. many intelligent persons who fan-
cied they wore being honestly dealt with were
surprised to find the following editorial in
The New York World: , ' 1
“All the wool used in this country is grown
here. The qunptity imprinted is insignificant
and growing smaller yearly. But we only
grow about one-third tho' wool we can use,
and only about one-third the amount required
'by 1,990 wool n mills. employing 36,000
hands. The result is that we have to import
foreign manufactured woolen goods, in
which there is more foreign raw wool
than we now make.”
Many who have read this editorial write to
the editor of The Tribune toask if the re-
markable statements 1113410 by the ‘Vorld
writer were true, and this is the answer they
received: There is not;. a single statement; in
this quotation which is not an error. The
World and other Democratic journals some—
times .wonder, or profago wonder, why The
l Ti'ibi'lno does not dovoto‘ itself to combating
their ignorant misstatements about the tariff.
The reason is obvious; Ive-cannot often spare
the time and space to correct statements so
palpabl y untrue that their untruth is seen by
all readers intelligent enough to understand
a newspaper. The brief "extract from The
IVorld in each and every item is proved false
by official documents us‘follows:
1. “All. the wool used-“in this country is
grown here.” The treasury'repoft of imports
document 1,130, page 61, states that the im-
ports of raw_ wool for the your just ended
were 113,058,753 pounds.
2. “The quantity imported isinsignificant.”
The special report of the bureau of statistics
on wool, page 16, and the reports of the agri-
cultural bureau monthly for 1888, Show that
the production of wool was 265,000,000
pounds during the last; year, 285,000,000
pounds in 1886, and larger in 1885 and 1884,
so that the imports of row wool were 80 per
cent. of the entire consumption this year, and ‘
nelu'ly 30 per cent. in 1880.
> 3. “Growinwaller, yearly.” The wool
report just quoted, page 16, shows first; the
proportion of imports, which is 30 per cent.
this year, was 29.1 per cent. in 1886, 29.9 per
cent. in 1885, and 18.7 in 1884, so that: itis
growing larger rapidly, and it has not been
as large as it: is now in any other year since
1372. ~
4. “We only grow one—third the wool we
can use." Official documents already cited
prove that we grow nearly two-thirds, and
before the reduction of duties in 1883 did
grow about four-fifths.
5. “Only 1,990 woolen mills” suppresses all
worsted mills, wool hat mills, hosiery, knit
goods, carpet, felt; goods, and mixed textile
establishments. Even then the statement is
true only as to the number eight years ago.
6. “We have to import: foreign manufact-
ured woolen goods in which there is more
foreign raw wool than we now make.” The
official report of the treasury department on
commerce and navigation for 1886, pages 088
to 693, shows that the quantity cannot be
more than about half the imports of raw
wool, and therefore not mom than about a.
sixth of all wool consumed. .,
When a. newspaper manages to packiinto
eight editorial lines six distinct statements,
every one of which is proved false by official
documents, and known to be false by every
reasonably informed citizen in or out of the
wool trade, what reason has that paper to ex-
pect. serious notice of its statements in, any
discussion? The truth about the W001 busi-
ness in a nutshell is this: This country in-
creased its production of wool under the tariff
of 1867 from bout 60,000,000 to over 300,000,
000pounds, t at is; more rapidly than any
other important nation has ever increased in
that product. It reduced the proportion of
foreign wool used in manufacture from nearly
45 per cent. to less than 19 per cent. Then a
reduction of duties, made by Democratic votes
in 1883, caused a decrease of 43,000,000 pounds
in the product and an increase of 43,000,000 in
the imports.
THE PARTISAN POSTAL SERVICE.
Democratic Postmasters Open Mall Mat-
ter and Violate the Law's.
The demoralization of the postal service is
growing in an alarming way. A chorus of
complaint comes from all parts of the coun-
try. The western papers are full of charges
against the Democratic postmasters, who
clearly ignore the postal regulations in many‘
respects. Even in New York the Democratic
postmasters seem to be leagued together in
hindering the delivery of mail supposed to be
Republican. Wrappers on Republican news-
papers are either removed entirely or torn
open so that‘ free - trade and tariff reform
documents can be inserted. These breaches
of the postal regulations have been most
frequent in states that by the Demo-
crats are put on the doubtful list. In
Indiana the work of distributing Republican
documents through the mails has been con-
ducted with the greatest difficulty, and every
possible hindrance seems to have been put in
the Way. It is especially so with documents
and letters addressed to Germans, for ibis on
their votes that the Democrats hope to
squeeze out a bare plurality. Gen. Habercon,
who is in charge of the German bureau for
the Republican national committee, has re-
ceived many complaints from Germans in
that; state. Documents and letters addressed
to them have either been kept back as long
'as possible without arousing suspicion, or
they have been opened and pamphlets bolster-
ing up the Mills free trade bill have been in-
sorted.
In Ohio the postal service became so bad
and so much publicity was given to the man-
ugement of the Columbus Office, that; the de—
partment at IVashington was compelled to
send a, special inSpoctor there to make an in-
vestigation. The editor of The Columbus
Journal, in an open letter published in his
paper, charges the office with opening his
private mail and inserting Democratic cam-
paign matter inside the folds of newspapers
addressed to him. Equally as serious viola-
tions of the postal laws are charged against
the postmaster for receiving in his office, and
afterward sending it through the state, a cam-
paign document issued by Chairman Town-
send and his assistants, as second clam matter,
at the same rate allowed to the publishers of
regular newspapers. These papers were ad—
mitted in bundles and sent to the Democratic
postmasters in various parts of the state. By
them the packages were opened and the circu-
lar folded into Republican papers.
. The Difference.
Here are some of the things with which the
Democratic party has either been identified
in the past or is identified now: _.
Low Licenses and Plenty of Saloons.
Rum Power in Politics.
Ballot Box Frauds.
Loose Election Laws.
Polygamy.
Intimidation and Political Murders.
Shutting States out of the Union on PR!"
tisan Grounds.
Human-Slavery.
Treason.
Civil War.
Inflation.
Repudiation.
Free Trade.
Here are some of the things with which tho
Republican party has either been identified
in the past or is identified now:
Restriction of the Liquor Traffic.
Defiance of the Rum Power in Politics.
A Free Ballot.
An Honest Count.
Laws Protecting the Ballot Box.
Equal Political Rights for Black and White.
Unoeasing Warfare against Polygamy.
Prompt: Admission of Qualified States. a
Human Freedom.
Loyalty to the Union.
Peace—with Honor.
Honest Money.
Honest Payment of all Debts—Dollar for
Dollar.
Protection for the American Home and
Home Industries.
Which ought: the intelligent voter to
choosei—New York Tribune.
Bo Honest, it '. Mills.
We observe with surprise that that. most
unadulterated, avowed, and aggressive of
free-traders, the Hon. Roger Q. Mills, still in-
cludesinhis list of appeals for ratification
the argument that the Mills bill is not a free
trade measure, because it reduces the average
of duties by about 5 per cent. only.
" In a. ocrtaln sense this regularly reiterated
argument is true. The bill which leaves an
average of 40 per cent. duties is no more a
free trade measure than the reading of a
death warrant is the hanging, which is to
come later. . ' _
This Mills bill was got through the house
of representatives by means of arguments for
free trade and unwilling compromises with
protectionist Democrats The policy of Mr.
Mills, applied to the peculiar financial situa-
tion in which this country stands, will not
bring free trade today, but it will bring it
substantially Within twenty years.
Brother Mills has won the repute of a spot.-
loss knight. When he faces his friends now
he should do so with his visor up. Aswe
hnvc‘unfortuuately been called upon to say
before, lot the free traders carry the country,
, but not cheat it.—New York Sun (Dem)
yehroi’rdihg 1888’p'tueasury .
OLD CURIOSITY SHOP.
THE CHICAGOAN’S PASSION FOR COL-
LECTING ANCIENT WEAPONS.
Catering to the Growing: Taste for the
Curious—A Rich and Rare Acquisition.
Relics from Diane‘s—Imitation of Old
Weapons—Collectors.
“Well,” said a man, stopping in front of a
South Side store and giving his voice a ris-
ing inflection, “this strikes mo as funny! The
idea of starting a place of this kind in a.
brand new town like Chicago is bold, to say
the least. But; ‘Old Curiosity Shop' looks
good on a sign. Let’s walk in and see.”
And he and his friend did so. They found
the spacious store filled with all sorts of
curious things, relics and weapons/idols and
implements of quaint design and ancient
make. After pottering around and seeing
their fill they both became the owners of
several Indian relics and departed satisfied.
“This is the first; and only curiosity shop
in the west," said the owner. “I’ve only just;
branched out in this store, for hitherto,
traveling six months out; of twelve all along,
Ididn’t think it; worth while keeping shop,
as I have readily disposed of my goods to
private collectors and museums. But a. taste
for curios is springing up in Chicago, and I
guess it will pay to cater to it in this formal
manner.”
There are in his collection many specimens
of Indian weapons, tools, etc. A rich and rare
acquisition of the war was the collection of
Professor Hon, of Orleans, Ind, which it had
. taken sixty years to get together and which
was especially complete in: Indian g’elics of
all kinds. The shopkeeper, as he explained,
spends a good portion of every year in Old
Mexico, New Mexico, Arizona, Oregon and
other places in which a still hunt: for re-
markable or ancient things is likely to prdve
a. benefit. In Old Mexico he picks’ up old
weapons especially, not; only those of Aztec
make, a good many of them antedating the
Spanish conquest by centuries, but also arms
coming from those very conquerors under
Cortcz. These latter, however, are hard to
get, as they are for the most part in the pos-
session of descendants of the very men who
bore them first: in battle, 370 years ago, and
who do not; like to part; for any money with
such heirlooms; or else they are in private or
public collections or. museums.
RELICS FROM MEXICO.
Still, now and then a. fine piece of_old armor
is gotten by the wily Chicago trader, and in
duo time, of course, finds its way into Ameri-
can collections. Weapons of bone, daggers,
spears and lances, all of Aztec make, copper
swords and shields, likewise very old, are
things which are also still to be found by
diligent search in Mexico. The enormous ax-
heads of basalt and ground down in a very
slow and powerful manner to the right; shape
are interesting things, as are also the mor-
tars and pcstles made of lava from the neigh-
borhood of Orizaba. Puebla. relics, taken
from the Indian tribe of that name in New
Mexico, form another branch of the collec-
tion. Grinning, ugly idols, hollow and with
gaping mouths, made of a. fine grained sand-
stone of brilliant hue, vessels of all sorts, hol-
lowed out in the most painstaking manner
and of graceful shape, are there by the score.
The passion for ancient weapons has seized
the soul of the select few out west at lost. It
took a. long time till the fever reached hero,
but it has now begun its devastating course
in earnest. Owners of fine homes are already
beginning to fret about where they shall ob-
tain their supply of these ancient tools of
warfare. But hand in hand with the grow-
ing desire there is the rise of home industry.
Already there is one man in town who has
begun to manufacture “ancient” weapons on
a large scale. Therefore, when you see a
rusty mailed shirt said to be . 500 years old,
an armor spotted all over with verdigris and
‘ alleged to have come down from a. knightly
old crusader, beware. The chances are that
neither the one nor the other is what it pre-
tends to be. The imitation of these old
weapons has become, all over the world, a
regular branch of industry. Persia, Turkey
and the Caucasus, however, are the countries
par excellence where this counterfeng is
done with greatest; perfection and most
abundant success.
TEE GENUINE ARTICLES.
It is refreshing, therefore, when one sees
some really genuine oriental- weapons from
the brave days of old. In Chicago there is at
least: one place where one may do so. That;
is the “den” of- Dudley Winston, tho son of
F. H. Winston, who accompanied his father
on his mission to Persia, and who brought:
home from Constantinople, Tifiis, Trebi'zondo
and Teheran a. small but very choice-collec-
tion of rare old weapons. There are cime-
tars inlaid with gold and silver, Damascus
blades of finest; temper and most delicate
workmanship. There are yataghans of
rough make and of exquisite mako, the
tracery on the blades being often the finest of
all. There are old guns, eight; feet long and
over, Whose stock shows nrabesques in
mother of pearl, silver and gold. There are
khandjars from Georgia and ' from Circassia,
straight daggers, which are worn stuck in
the girdle in front, handyto seize, and a. most:
dreadful weapon in a close encounter, in size
and length just like the short: Roman sword
of the days of Augustus, only more pointed.
The finest: and most. complete collection of
ancient; weapons in America is, however,
that of Morosini, Jay Gould’s latopartner
and the father-ilnlaw of the former coach.
man, Schilling, otherwise Hulskamp. Mr.
Morosini’s beautiful place on the Hudson is
literally full of arms and armor from every
period, beginning with the stone age and
coming down to the Nineteenth century. He
is said to have spent nearly a. half million of
.dollnrs in the course of the last twenty years
to make his collection what it; is. He is also
probably the most expert connoisseur in an-
cient weapons in this country. Another in-
defatigable collector in this line is R. M.
Moss, head of a great: engraving firm in New
York. Every large dealer in cm‘ios in the
world has a. standing order to send on any
thing specially fiuo’ and old in the shape of
weapons. Mr. Moss has spent several hun-'
dred thousand dollars in pursuit of his hobby;
and his collection is still growing every day.
—Chicago Herald.
William E. filadstonc's Marvelous Memory.
Speakiag of IVilliam E. Gladstone, a. re
cent observer says: f‘Thero is no subject on
which he will not talk. His memory is the
marvel of everybody who has been his asso-
ciate or acquaintance. Scare, a topic can be
started on which he has not: actors of facts.
He takes little thought; of his audience. or of
what may be supposed to interest them. i its
subject interests him. and it never occur: :.;
him that it may not: interest others. And he
lsquite right. In his hands whatever it be
Is entertaining. He has been known to dis-
course to his neighbor through tho greater
part; 'of a long dinner on the doctrine of
copyright and international copyright. His
neighbor was a beautiful woman, who cared
no more for copyright than for the Chero-
kees. She listened to him throughout with
unfailing delight.”--—l\'ew York World.
\Volves and Door in Maine.
Maine historians say that. over 100 years
ago wolves came down from the north and
devoured most: all the door in the colony.
Some of the deer swam to the islands along
the coast and a remnant was saved. The
wolves, having no door to eat, turned to the
domestic animals of the country, and gave
the settlers great trouble. The Indians, too,
robbed of their meat. supply by the wolves,
were for a, long time in a. starving condition,
and often those in the interior went miles to
the seashore for food. The wolves at; length
went northward, and little by little the deer
increased until 1840, when there was another
wolf raid, and for two years they played
havoc with door and cattle. Then they dis-
appeared nnd have not since been seen much
in the state. DQOI' are again increasing, both
because of the absence of wolves and because
of tho stringent game laws of Moinch—New
York Sun. -
“'oman’s Place in Germany. .
An anecdote in The \Vomau’s'World shows
the attitude in Germany toward woman’s
part in public interests. At; a. call made by
an English couple upon a. German of cmin~
encc and his wife, talk arose upon the public
question of the hour. The Englishman, per-
ceiving that the German lady was being left
out of the discussion, asked: “And what is
your opinion, madam?" Before she could
reply her German lord made short work of
it: “Leave the room, meine Liebo; these mat-
ters can be of no interest to you."—Chicago
Herald.
The \Vorld's Tobacco Market.
After most; careful investigation and ex-
periment, the English experts have concluded
that tobacco cannot be grown in their coun-
try; An English colony, however, Borneo,
is raising some excellent tobacco, with great;
promise of increased production. 'Most of all
this is sent to Amsterdam, which is now prob-
ably the principal tobacco market of the
world. Almost the entire East Indian crop
~ goes there, the principal portion of it coming
from Sumatra. This amounts in value to
over £2,500,000, and about half is used by the
cigurmakers of America.—.Boston Transcript.
When you take free trade out of the L‘cm0<
antic party, said an enthusiastic western
orator, you have nothing left but the :km of.
a sausage.
CONFEDERATE DRESS. "
HOW THE PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH
. CLOTHED THEMSELVES.
Interesting Reminiscenccs of the Days of
the Civil War—Feminine Ingenuity in
Fashioning Garments from Crude Mate-
rials—Spinning. Dyeing, Weaving.
“Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy”
was a maxim of necessin in the hard times;
for there was no raiment the subject of bar-
ter or sale which was inexpensive. Sporadic.
instances taken at random prove the general
rule. In August, 1864, a private citizen’s
coat. and vest, made of five yards of coarse
home spun cloth, cost $230 exclusive of the
price paid for the making. The trimmings
consisted of old cravats; and for the cutting
and putting together, a country tailor
charged $50. It is safe to say that; the private '
citizen looked a veritable guy in his new
unit, in spite of its heavy drain upon his ,
pocketbook.
In January, 1865, the material for a lady’s
dress which before the war would have cost
$10 could not. be bought; for less than $500.
The masculine mind is unequal to the task of
guessinghow great a. sum might have been
had for bonncts ”brought through the lines ;”
for in spite of patient: self sacrifice and un-
fultcring devotion of the bedsides of the
wOundcd in the hospital, or in ministeringto
the needs of relatives and dependents at:
home, the southern women of those days are
credited with as keen an interest in the fash-
ions us women everywhere in civilized lands
are apt to be in tinies‘ of Ipcace. It; was nat-
ural that. they should be so interested, eyen
though that interest could in the main-not
reach beyond theory. Without it; they often
would have had a charm the less and a pang
the more. Any feminine garment in the
shape of cloak or bonnet or tires which
chanced to come from the north was readily
awarded its mood of praise, and reproduced
by sharp eyed observers, so far as the scarcity
of materials would admit.
But fushiou’s rules were necessarily much
relaxed in the southern Confederacy so far
as practice went when even such articles as
pins brought through the blockade sold for
$12 a. paper, and needles for $10, with not
enough of either.
The superstition expressed in the couplet,
See a. pin, and pick it up,
All the day you‘ll have good luck,
. gained its converts by the score; more, how-
ever, ns can be readily imagined, for the sake
of the pin itself, which it was a stroke of
happy fortune to find and seize, than of any
other good luck that was to accompany the
finding. The broken needle of Confederate
times did not. go into the fire or out of the
window, but; was carefully laid aside until
the red scaling wax of the ransacked desks
and secretaries lent it a head wherewith to
appear as a handsome and useful pin. To
obtain the bare materials out; of which to
fashion garments for the family and for the
servants soon became a. serious question. The
house carpenter and the blacksmith were
called into service to this end, and cotton
once more became king, though of a. greatly
diminished sovereignty. Carding combs of
a. rough pattern were constructed for the
purpose of converting the raw cotton into
batting, and thence into rolls of uniform
length and size for spinning. The huln of
the spindle and the cloak of the loom tl'badle
were the martial music with which the
women at; home met the fierce attacks of the
legions of cold and nakedness.
Spinning wheels, reels, bobbins, looms, and
all the appurtenances for the weaving of
cloth were made and used at home; and the
boilers in the cotton fields and the spinners in
the loom shed worked on contentedly, with a
seemingly sublime indiflerence to‘the mighty
struggle that; was convulsing a. continent for
their sakes. Of this dusky people it my
here be said that, no matter what philanthro-
pists, politicians, or philosophers have said
of them in the past or shall prophesy of
them in the future, they were true to every
trust reposed in them; and with a most the
mondous power for direst evil in their pos-
session, the negl'oes of the south in the days
of the civil war did naught: but; good. If
the. “colored troops” of the Union army
“fought nobly," the slaves of the southern
plantation so bore themselvss in those stirring
times as to merit no smaller meed of praise.
Cotton and woolen fabrics of firm and sub-
stantial textm'e were woven, out and fash-
ioned into garments for whites and blacks.
Plentiful crops of flux rte-enforced the array
of wool and cotton and many a. little flax
wheel which in the days of peace has since
moved north to adorn in its newly gilded and
beribboned state the boudoir of some anthe-
tic girl might tell pathetic tales of its former
place of residence if the tongue of its tiny
spindle had but speech. ‘
The dyes of the forest wood barks, of the
sumac, of the Carolina indigo and of the cop
poi-as from the numerous copperas wells were
utilized to color the cloth thus woven. We
read in the current newspapers that “a. hand—
some brown dye” is made by a combination
of red oak bark and blue stone in boiling
water; and that “a. brilliant yellow” may be
obtained by pouring boiling waterx upon
other component parts of “sassafl'as,
swamp bay and butterfly root.” The same
authorities tell us that “vivid purples,
feeds and greens" were produced from a.
composition of coal oil and sorghum, tinted
with the appropriate tree bark; though of
coal oil for other purposes there was all too
little. Ifa. great similarity of quality and
texture existed in the homespun cloth, the
enumeration of the foregoing means of dyeing
clearly demonstrates that there was at least;
opportunity for as great; diversity of color as
distinguished the famous coat of Joseph;
though the reader of today is apt: to look with
some suspicion on the conspicuous forward-
ness of the adjectives “vivid,” “brilliant,"
“splendid,” which always accompanied these
talismanio recipes.
Strong thread for sewing was evolved from
the little flax wheels. For any unusually
handsome work, if by any odd chance such
. work should happen to be demanded, sewing
‘silk was procured in an emergency by ravel-
ing the fringes of old silk shawls or picking
to pieces silk scraps which had survived
time’s touch, and carding, combing, and
twisting them into fine threads. Those little
silken “banks” were sometimes so prettily
colored by means of the dyes that have been
demribed, as to become-mobs eyes of tho
.wc-mankiud of that generation almost as
be: lutiful as the many shade—d, dainty illoselles
of the present are to the women of today. —A.
0. Gordon in The Century.
Bees and Carrier Pigeons.
The owner of some homing pigeons at
Iirauzu bet; that on a. fine day twelve of his
boss would beat a. like number of his carrier
pigeons in making the distance (one hour)
between llcmm and the town of Rhyuern.
Twelve pigeons and twelve beer. (four drones
and eight. working bees, all powdered with.
flour) were taken to Rhynef'n and simultaneh
ously set f rec. A white drone arrived homo
four seconds in advance of the first pigeon;
tho remaining three drones and the second
pigeon arrived together, and tho eight work-
ing bees preceded the ten pigeons by a length.
-—Ncw York Sun.
(~11
¢ue of the Breastwonnz.
"TATE SPRINGS, 'l‘ENN.,,Ju1y 4, 1888
The Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, GEL:
Gentlemen—Seven years ago I contracted
an exceedingly bad case of blood poison. I
tried :1 physician, the best at command, but
secured no benefit. My throat began to
get sore, and my body covered with sores
and ulcers. Going from bad to worse, I
felt that my grave must be reached in the
near future. I gave up the (Ioctors' treat-
ment, and with a despairing hope I com-
menccd taking your medicine. I began to
improve from the first bottle, and in a short
time the ulcers healed, and my skin cleared
off and wars entirely well.
One year agp a case of catarrh developed
in my system. The physician did his best,
but could not cure no; but two bottles of
Swift's Specific gave me permanent relief.
J. II. ROBINSON.
KAUFMAN, Tenn, June 23, 1888.
The Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga.:
Gentlemen—I have been afflicted with a
skin disease for about twelve years, and the
best medical treatment failed to give me re-
lief. I am now using Swift's Specific, and
have received the greatest benefit from its
use. Yours truly, \VM.JON1§S.
For sale by all druggists.
Tm; SWIFT SPECIFIC Co.,
Drawer 3,, Atlanta, Go.
New York, 756, Broadway.
1 ‘ London, Ema, _‘,5 Snow 'III‘...
For any case of nervousness, sleepless
ncss, weak stomach, indigestion, dyspep—
sia, try Carter’s Little Nerve Pills. Relicf
is sure. The only nerve medicine for' the
price in market.
The king of Uganda has over his royal
but the only lightning rod ill Central Af—
rica.
Pages Climax Salve is now sold at. the
rate of millions of boxes yearly—no med—
icine has ever earned so large a sale, sole—
ly upon its merits. For sale by Druggisis
everywhere.
..
Ah I it
so ute y are.
This Powder never varies.
strength and wholesomcness. More economic
than the ordinary kinds, aIld cannot be sold in com-
petition with the multitude of low test, short
weight, allum or phosphate powders.
ROYAL BAKIXII l’ownnn 00.3115 Wall St., N. Y.
TRUE PUBLIC ‘ INTERESTS.
Treated in a clean manly way.
A healthy people make a prosperous nation.
People made and kept healthy by
Baker’s Great American Specific.
Rheumatism with its Vise-like grip tortures its
victim until he loses control of his temper, and
then comes grave mistakes. Another turn of the
vise and Neurnlgin torments all patience out of a
man. Relief from Ihese terrible diseases makes a
heaven of happiness for the suii'erer,and Baker’s
Great American Specific gives that relief.
There is no mistake about this, and at. this season,
In this climate, you cannot aiford making the mis-
take of being without a bottle of this wonderful
remedy. Damp, chill winter winds, sleet, snow,
stop and ice are as: certain to bring on .tlie tor-
ments of KnEUIIAI‘ISM and tortures of NEURALGIA
as is BAksu’s GREAT AMERICAN SPECIFIC to cure
them. Price 50 cents a bottle. Prepared only by
Maurice, Baker k Co., Portland, Me. Doolittle .c
Smith. '21 and26 ’l‘remont Street, Boston, Mass,
EEIIIESS
LADIESi was
Do Your Own Dyeing, at Home.
They will dye everything. They are sold every-
where. Price 10c. a package. Theyhnve no equal
for Strength, Brightness, Amount in Packages
or for Fullness of Color. or non-fading Qualities.
They do not crock or smut; ”colors. For sale by
J. G. Gregory .1: (10.; C. Lapham, ti Main Street;
Geo. B. I’luisted, Druggists. lyzt
sovurou’s FURNACES 1
WITH LATEST PATENT IMPROVEMENTS
ABE MANUFACTURED on? BY
Tho Boynizon Furnace 00
N. A. Boxxrox, Prest. 207 (I. 209 WATER ST., NJ
:51
. I:
n.
2.
,2
. FOR SALE BY
1'. w. JAQUI, Jr.
NORWALK. CONN.
2n136
A marvel of pure ,
JESSE Horses,
BARR“ GE MAKER,
nae removed to the building
“Next in Gregory’s Stalin. Knight inset
‘ Where he does first-class
Carriage Repairing and Painting
m At Reasonable Prices.
FURNITURE
A Full Stock of Furniture of all kinds:
PAR]. [III III BEDROOMSETS
a specialty.
DAVID 'STOW,
Main Street clip. Depot
. SOUTH NORWALK, CONN
P. H. DWYER.
The Largest Stock of Harness
EVER DISPLAYBD. IM TOWN.
All First-Class, "and Stitched, Oak Tanned
Pennsylvania Leather
THIRD CLASS PRICES.
Call early as I intend to sell at SMALL PROFIT,
SE YEN1 121411 V12
Sit Siinln‘ till Diliilllfl Harness.
HARDENBRDOK "All.
Over Mitchell '5 Market, next door to P. l]. Dwy-
er-‘s 01d stand. lotf
EQUITABLE MORTGAGE 00..
OF KANSAS CITY. CAPITAL $2,000,000
6 and 7 per cent. Debenture Bonds and Mortgage
Loans at PM and Accrued Interest.
R. B. CltAUFURD, Agent.
Room 2 Masonic Buildiig
1HIENRY TILLY
'CARRlAGE MAKEFI‘,
. SOUTH NORWALK, -
CONN.
Manufacturer of
Family Carriages, Victorian, Buggies, tin.
All Kinds of Repairing.
JOIIN s ATIIINSIIN,“
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Harness, Blankets,
Trunks, Bags,
Sole Leather and Shoe Findings, and Boot
and Shoe Uppcrs.
Corner of Pail-lieu Ave. and Kiddie Street
Bridgeport, Conn. ms
.For Sale.
DOUBLE BARRELLED RIFLE maueby Jon
.. Blissett, London. Will be sold cheap to
cash. Enauireatthsofllce.
v
AstVE
.1 .//’
lieaIsWithout Leaving a. Scar.
CLIM
,1
,‘.I~.
Engels Climax Salve,
A FAMILY BLESSING FGR 25 CENTS.
1.1%!
"3
In:
u mean an muons «£1
Its action upon the system is unlike any other external remedy, as it never drives the
disease I i the Internal Organs. 115 properties go to the diseased part, and separate
all the poisonous and corrupt humors, through the perspiring vessels to the surface. and
eradicates the disease from the system.
\Vc warrant it: to cure Old Sores,.Ulcers,
Scrofula Sores, Salt Rheum. Sore Breasts or Nipples, Inflamecl Eyes, Swollen Glands,
Erysipelas, Boils, Seilds, Burns, Cuts. Bruises, Fistula, Piles, Corns. Bunions, Chil-
blains, Frosted Feet, and all cutaneous diseases on man and beast.
PAGE'S CLIMAX SALVE acts like mas-n: ‘
Sores, Iv'Icsh Cuts, bnake Ilitcs, llrulscs, Burns, Saddle and llarness Calls, Chafcs, etc.
:: H at the low price
l-oxes three times larger than any other Salvr, and
on horse flesh in curing Scratches, blangc, (lid
1: is put up In
oflwenty—five cents yer box.
it Is wurrnutnd to cure in every Case or money refunded. For 3:]: by Druggisls and Dealers In medicine
everyw hero.
NIFFAT? PILLS.
THE GREAT STOMACH AND LIVER REMEDY.
Established by one of our most eminent: pllysici ms and recommended by the medical
profession and drur'gists who know their real merit, and are
results than any other medicine.
Mofi'at's Life Pills :‘re purely \egetablc.
used with more pleasing
They act: on the stomach, bowels, liver
and kidneys, puriI’y and regulate the whole system, and are warranted a certain cure
for all Malnrious Diseases, Torpid Liver, Impure Blood, Jnundlce, Bilious Complaints,
Dyspepsia, Loss of Appetite, Indigestion.
Costivcness, Nervous and Sick Headache,
Nenrnlgia and Nervous Diseases, Female obstructions and General weakness. Scurvy,
Inflammatory Rheumatism, Piles of every klnl, Gravel and Diseases of the Bladder and
Kidneys, Colds and Fever and Ague.
MOFFAT‘S LIFE PILLS are elegant'y Sugar coated
and easy to take and are r. perfect oft»!
dinner Pill, one taken after dinner each dav \in1 out digestion and cure all disorders of the Stomach.
Headache and Sick Headache cannot cxistiithcsc i’ills are used.
For costiveness take one Pill at bedtima
MOFFAT’S PHOENIX BITTERS
Are‘not a drink used for intoxication, but a pure medicine and only used by people
who are sick. They correct the secretions of the stomach and are asure cure for
Dyspepsia, Sleeplessness, Nervousuc s, Debillty, Weakness, Loss of Appeti'e, Femnl 2
Complaints, etc.
Thousands of certificates are in possession of the proprietor, giving,
perfect cures effected by these invaluable medicines and we warrant that they will do
just what we have said or money will be refunded. It is simply asked that the aillicted
will try them once,
their use will convince the most skeptical.
PAGE'S CLIMAX SALVEpZSC-a II'D-V- MOFFAT'S LIFE PILLS, 25¢. a Ilox. MOFFAT'S
PHOENIX BITTERS, $x.-o a lioiilc. For Sale by Urugglsts null Dealers In medicine everywhere,
or sent by mail or Express, prepaid, on receipt of price.
3'. P. MILLS, Sole Proprietor,
as Linsnrv $135!?"- new YORK.
If You Are Sick
With Headache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism Dyspep-
sia,Biliousness, Blood Humors, Kidney Disease,
Constipation, Female Troubles, Fever and Ague,
Sleeplessncss, Partial Paralysis, or Nervous Pros-
tration, use ruine‘s Celery Compound and be
cured. In each of these the cause is mental or
physical overwork, anxiety, exposure or malaria,
the effect of which is to weaken the nervous sys—
tem, resultinginoue of these diseases. Remove
the CAUSE with that great Nerve Tonic, and the
:mUL’i‘ will disappear.
Paine’s Celery Compound
JAS. L. BOWEN. Springfield. Mass, writes:—
“ Painc‘s Celery Compound cannot be excelled as
aNervo 'l‘onic. In my case a single bottle
wrought a great change. M y' nervotlsncss entirely
disappeared,und with it the resulting atl'crtion
of the stomach, heart and liver. and the whole
tone of the system was wonderfully invigorated.
Itcll my friends, if sick as I have been, l’nme's
Celery Compound
Will Cure You!
Sold by druggists. 81 : six for $5. Prepared only
by WELLS, RICHARDSON .1: Co., Burlington, Vt.
. For the Aged, llamas, Debilitaied.
Wurmnted tocolor more goods than any other
dyes cvermudc, and to give more b’rilliant and
durable colors. Ask for the Dimnoml, and 1111.:
no other.
FOR
A Dress Dyed
A Boat Colored
Garments Renewed cst_
A Child can use them!
Unequaileot for all Farley and Art Work.
At druggists and Merchants. Dye Book free.
WELLS, RICHARDSON & C0., Props., Burlington, VI.
1? YOU WA NT
A HEATER
THAT WILL
AHeatYonrHonse
GET——
Ti ttiin
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