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‘Truth above all things.”
FRIDAY. JANUARY 5, 1394.
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'ldiotlc Snobbery.
In these end-of-the-century days it
takes a good deal to cause surprise, but
when one reads in the newspapers of a
handsome Christmas entertainment, g1v-
en by a wealthy New York woman for
heriltengleullleelirflni‘nlrm..rains
"@EnnssrsdritlismA Discusses
be'gmreat Pflzeihslhhydlthasnpldnt
andJea stjdesirable ofzalLdogs,bm;hgn
it comes to wasting a large sum upon
the animal in a way that he does not en-
joy, at a time, too, when thousands of
honest people are in the direst need, it
would seem as though selfishness, shod-
diness and folly could no no farther.
Oysters.
Governor O’Ferrall of
touched upon many topics in his in-
auuural address. but he was especially
interesting to the people of Connecti-
cut when he discussed oysters. Local
sympathy will be entirely with the
governor in all he does that promises
to make the oyster crop plentiful and
of lsatisl’ying qualityszystgrch‘lguie
is'a'n‘art worthy even of gubernatorial
encouragement, and if Col. O’Ferrall
succeeds in making two oysters grow to
fat maturity where heretofore but one
shrivelled bivalve eked out a miserable
existence he. nay hope to achieve great
uses such as comes to but few Virgin-
ians who were unfortunate enough to
have been born outside of the Lee
V lrginla
in. n 1 i ly.
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No Cause for Alarm.
A good many worse things might
happen to this country than the reduc-
tion of the treasury balance. If money
has to be borrowed Uncle Sam will not
be obliged to~go to the ten percenters
for it. If he merely intimates his de-
sire. for a loan gold will be eagerly
ofiered himalmost at his own terms.
So0 the reduction of the treasury sur-
plus lives not mean calamity by any
town-J. it may suggest to financiers
some changes in our financial system;
but it cannot be taken as evidence of
the inability of the government or peo-
ple to pay their debts. rI‘he country is,
in fact rich, despite 'hc falling off in
treasury accounts and the reduction of
the surplus, and despite the prevailing
industrial depression. If one-half the
measures adopted by needy govern-
ments t?- raise revenue were put in
force in this country, the treasury
vault:- vsould have to be greatly on-
larged. to hold the proceeds.
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Hyphenatecl Americanism.
State Senator Edmund O’Connor,o of
New York, has some sensible remarks
to make concerning that class of indi-
>untry of
3 country
unwilling
lic e. he is oppOsed to all who call
themselves Irish-Americans, German-
;‘elmericans, French-Americans or any-
thin;r similar, and thinks if they are
not satisfied to settle down into every-
.lay lit ‘riotic American citizens they
had better leave the country once for
all. ' ’
This is. a strong: remark, but there is
considerable truth in it. The Ameri-
can idea is broad enough to compre-
hend all the types which are desirable,
and it' a man declares his unwillingness
to come under the banner of the repub-
lic, he may as well remain an alien and
refuse to vote.
The hyphenated terms under which
many of our citizens repose ought to
be castes—ids. It is better to be a whole
American or none at all. It is high
time hyphenated Americanism were
extinguished. - -
A True Benefactor.
“If wealth dcesits duty in this crisis
the good feeling produced will be no
small car ‘pensation even for the suffer-
ing endured.” These are the words of
Mr. Andrew Carnegie, and he has
shown what his idea of the duty of
wealth is by offering to duplicate the
contributions of the citizens of Pitts-
burg to the extent of $300,000. ,“These
are terrible times,” says Mr. Carnegie,
“yet I trust the people will not become
discouraged. They will soon pass away,
and the republic will resume its pros.
porous career. Meanwhile they are
fraught with precious opportunity for
the rich to show that when real trouble
comes the rich and poor, employer and
employed, are at heart brothers, allies
and sentinels to the prosperity of each
other—not antagonistic.” It the spirit
which has prompted Mr. Carnegie’s
words and deeds were generally mani-
fested at such times by those whose
wealth has been made largely by the
skill and industry of American work-
ingmen, not only would there be no
protracted period of suffering, but
probably much of the acrimony attend-
ing the controversies between capital
and labor would disappear. The in-
terests of the working classes are the
interests of the wealthy, no matter how
the wealth may have been acquired.
,Connecticnt Pensionsz—Be-issue, An-
w Walker of Southport, John Yale,
ot Gullford, Charles C. Adams of
well, David Sliney of N oroton.
OUR PlllilS.
POWERFUL WORDS AND NOBLE
THOUGHTS.
How Closely Are they Related to
Our Dally Lives.
What One of Our Foremost Ladies
Thinks About l‘t.
Henry W. Longfellow said in one of
his most popular poems that “All th1ngs
come round to him who will but wait.”
How true it certainly is thatif we
have but the patience to wait and strug-
gle for that which we so much deem),
the prize will surely be'ours.‘ It is not
enough, how-ever, to sit quietly down
and remain inert, but if we would ac-
complish great results we must possess
untiriugr perseverance. .
Atleast one person apprecmtes the
full significance of the great man’s
words. Miss S. Cohen of 554 South
6th st., Camden. N. J., has for months
been waiting, longing: and str1v1ngto
regain that health without which life 1s
at best- but a lilreary existence.
She has bet n constantly treating with
different remedies and physicians but
never once lost courage, for she had
made up her mind that there was a
remedy which Would cure her and was
determined to find it. She succeeded
so well and is so tilled with gratitude
and thankfulness that she wishes the
whole world could know of her won-
derful cure.
The following is a letter written by
her for the public benefit:
“I suffered for over a year with severe
painsin my head and could not keep
MISS S. COHEN.
anything on my stomach. I was so
nervous and weak that I could not hold
a glass in my hand, and the doctors
pronounced it nervous prostration. I
changed doctors and found no relief.
My friends advised me to try Dr.
Greene’s Nervura blood and nerve rem-
e’dy, and after using four bottles 1 ex-
perienced a. great. change. I am now
entirely cured and am anxious to rec-
ommend this valuable medicine to
everyone suffering from similar com-
plaints. I hope it will do as much good
to others as it has to me.”
\Vhat more beautiful interpretation
of our beloved poet’s remark, than to
be suddenly restored, after long {suf-
fering from pain, to a life of happiness
and usefulness.
Have not all cause to thank Dr.
Greene, who gave to the world this
fountain of hope and good health!
\Vhy indeed should we suffer with
such a remedy at our command !
If you are sick with any form of ner-
vous or blood disease, indigestion, dys-
pepsia, kidney or liver complaint, take
this giver of health, Dr. Greene’s Ner-
vura blood and nerve remedy. Take it
when the first symptoms appear. If
the disease is advanced delay no long-
er. It is purelv vegetable and harm-
less. It is not a patent medicine but
one which the doctor has employed in
his practice for years.
Dr. Greene of 35 W. 14th Street,
New York, is one of our most eminent
physroians in the treatmentof all ner-
vous and chronic diseases. He is
pleased to talk with any who wish to
consult hillt.
If you live out of the ctty and can-
not call, write him a description of
your complaint and he will return an
answer free of charge, advising you
just what to do to get well.
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New York,
January 1, 1894.
Have you seen that hand-
made ‘lVaukcnphast shoe of
ours? The biggest part of
seeing is feeling it on your foot;
and, of course, that’s the only
way to judge a shoe.
$5.50-
Our two other VVauken—
phasts,not hand-made——$ 3 and
$4—--are the best three and four
dollar shoes we know of. Best
means full of wear and com-
fort and good looks---is that
what you mean by best P
Send for our Winter book.
F rec.
ROGERS, PEET & CO
Free deliveries toall pornts withi one hun-
dred miles of NewYork city
THREE Prince,
BROADWAY i Warren,
STOREK, 32nd St.
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The Old and New Year.
Speed the old and hail the New Year,
and may it be a “Happy New Year” to
one and all. The year 1893 will be re-
membered more for its misery than its
.joy. Never, within the experience of
the present generation, has there been
witnessed such industrial depression
and financial shrinkages and collapses
throughout the borders of this great
and mighty land. The crisis came,
when neither “pestilence stalked abroad
at noonday,” or “gaunt famine. with
shriveled lips” swept over the land. It
came when productive industry had
reached the high water mark of pros-
perity, when cropswere bountiful and
when neither lack of work, war, fire
nor extravagant speculation, were pres-
ent as a cause. This crisis, or panic, or
business paralysis, or whatever it may
rightfully be called, has been frequent-
ly but inconsiderately compared With
that of 1873, but‘fistatistics show that
within six months of the past year
more disastrous results were produced
in our most important industries, than
were caused by the panic of 1873 at any
time during the six succeeding years.
In cotton the decline in consumption
in.1874 was less than 8 per cent , while
in nine months of 1893 over two million
spindles stopped in New England alone.
The decrease in production of the great
industries by the middle of August had
gone beyor d the decrease realized at
any time after the panic of 1873. Of
cotton mills 23 per cent were closed, of
woolen mills 43 per cent were closed, of
knit goods 53 per cent were closed.
Collections were in consequence slow,
bank deposits’declined, loans were cur-
tailed even on good security,merchants
were unable to realize on their securi-
ties, and failures resulted. The fail-
ures for the first nine months of the
year numbered 11,174.
A darker record still is but just is-
sued by Bradstreet’s great commercial
agency in an enumerationof the depend-
ent and unemployed, at the end of the
year, and here are the apalling figures:
New England, 65,200 unemployed;
154,400 dependent.
New York and New Jersey, 223,250
unemployed; 563,750 dependent.
Pennsylvania, 151,500 unemployed;
440,200 dependent.
Central Western,22’7, 340 unemployed;
443,310 dependent.
Northwestern, 64,900 unemployed;
175,800 dependent.
Pacific Coast, 25.800
47,000 dependent.
unemployed;
dependent.
Totals, 801,355 unemployed; 1,956,110
dependent.
Public men and statesmen, in and out
of Congress, agree with a practical
unanimity, that this distressful condi-
tion of the country. rich as it is in food
and every essential element of wealth,
was causeless and ought never to have
occurred. Yet our ablest and best men
will not with the s .mc unanimity agree
upon the cause or causes which pro-
duced such hard conditions. t is but
truth to state, that the preponderance
of the most intelligent and patriotic
sentiment of the country, assigns as a
chief cause of this disastrous record,an
utter lack of confidence, among busi-
ness men of all parties, in the adminis-
trative ability of the party in power to
conduct and conserve the great finan-
cial interests of either the government
or the people of these United States.
Such judgement may be just or unjust,
but that it widely prevails, no intelli-
gent citizen can deny. But these are
not the reflections calculated to inspire
brighter hopes and to help make this a
happy new year. True the yearnow
closed has been one of hardship, and
While the present outlook is not as en-
couragingly bright as We could wish,
yet may we not reasonably hope that
present shadows are but the darkness
that precedes the s11nl'it dawn? Here
and there are glimpses of better times
at hand. In Pennsylvania, the Key-
stone State of protection, with the W11-
son tariff bill looming in ominous pro-
portions above its horizon, the Cam-
bria Iron Company, of Johnstown, is
vigorously pushing the erection of a
steel rail mill, intended to be the model
plant of the world, and to cost not less
than $1,000,000. This means the estab-
lishment of a great industry, the em-
ployment of many men, tariff or no
tarifi‘. Conditions cannot be wholly
bad nor wholly incapable of remedy
which permit of such a venture.
It is also reported that the Gautier
Steel Works, at Johnstown, are work-
ing more than 1,000 men overtime,
many of them making fifteen hours a
day, with the works fully two months
behind its orders. The carpet factory
at Roxbury, Mass, will resume to-mor-
row with a force of 400 hands, and the
worsted department of the mills at
Manchester, N. EL, will hereafter run
eight hours a day for five days in a
week, while the cotton mills of that
cityfire running on full time.
So that while the situation is admit-
tedly bad in numerous directions, and
in Some quarters about as bad as it can
be, there are nevertheless, cheerful
rifts in the skies, some things to show
that a. resumption of trade and invest-
ment is not only possible, but proba-
ble. Let us all resolve to be better
and to live better and to be duly thank-
ful for the progress that is making and
for the hopes thereby‘inspired, of an
industrial rev1val at no distant period
in the future, and that 1894 may prove
to be a year of restored business indus-
try and prosperity, wherein no willing
worker may want for bread-winning
fmréloyment, throughout . this broad
an . '
"Ah, friends. it were better to fret not;
i care. ‘ . ' .
What matters though yeget or get not—
A HAPPY NEW Yuan.
Southern, 48,005 unemployed,- 122,650
NEW YORK. WEEKLY
TRIBUNE AND THE
WEEKLY GAZETTE,
$1.00 PER YEAR.
If our lives are but noble. our souls but sin- r
GLOAKS OF ALL KINDS!
When you consider how low our prices have necessar-
ily been kept in order to maintain and increase our large
clo’ak busmess in the face of the keenest opposition we
have ever met, you will readily understand how cheap
this cut of ON E-THIRD from the former price will make
them. There will be no reserve on account of the desire;
bility of style or on any pretense whatever. Every cloak,
jacket or mantle in stOck will be comprehended in this
General Reduction. All must'go, and all alike will be
subjected to the same discount.
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8&3 PER GENTQ
But the fact that there is a decided difference in the
styles---that some are more distinctly fashionable and
otherwise more desirable than others-«is a. strong reason
why youshould come early and have first choice.
THE BOSTON STORE,
Cor. Main and Wall Streets,
Norwalk Chronicler