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The Plain Truth.
the debate on the Wilson
bill for the Republicans in the House of
Representatives yesterday, ex-speaker
Thomas B.Reed struck the nail square-
ly on the head when he said:

“We know, my friends, that before
this tribunal we all of us plead in vain.
Why we fail let those answer who read
the touching words of Abraham Lin-
coln’s first inaugural and remember
that he pleaded in vain with these same
men and their predecessors. Where he
failed we cannot expect to succeed. But
though we fail here to-day, like our
great leader of other days in the larger
field before thelmightier tribunal which
will finally and forever decide this ques-
tion,we shall be more than conquerors;
for this great nation, shaking oil as it
has once before the influence of a low-
er civilization, will go on to fulfill its
high destiny, until over the South, as
well as over the North, shall be spread
the full measure of that amazing pros-
perity which is the wonder of the world.”

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In closing

Our Cotton Product-

The Manufactures’ Record for this
week publishes a brief history of the
cotton production of this country, pre-
pared by Mr. H. R. Edmunds, its edi-
tor, which is of very great interest.

Of course, statistics play a prominent

' part in the sketch, and those for the
last twenty years are very signifigcant.
For instance, it appears that the value
of cotton exported since 1875 is $2,800,-
000,000, while the total of wheat and
flour is only $2,500,000,000, showing a
preponderence of over 50 per cent. in
favor of cotton.

The natural result of such an enor-
mous production, however, has been a
steady fall in its price, which is unsatis-
factory to the Southern producer.
Were it- not for the decrease in the
price of other commodities there would
be reason to feel that there had been
over-production in this particular com-
modity.

But the fact- most worthy of consid-
eration is that with all the talk about
the enormous wealth of the West and
Northwest, the South may yet be con-
sidered to have in cotton a staple which
can and will put that section to the
front more than ever. And with the
continued increase in the number and
capacity of the cotton spinning mills
in the South the annual production of
wealth there will compare favorably

. with that in any other section of the
country.

The American lclea.

There is one thing about Mr. Theo-
dore Roosevelt which all right-minded
people must admire, however much
they may dissent from his eccentrici-
ties and peculiarities in other direct-I

V ions, and that is the fervency of his dc-

votion to American principles and
American institutions. He is for the
UnitedStates first, last, and all the
time, not in a narrow, prescriptive,
nativistic sense, but upon the broad,
patriotic ground that the destinies of
the Republic must onl'.7 be guarded and
guided by those who are in full sym-
pathy with its Constitution, with its
laws, with its civil and religious liber-
ties.

1 Mr. Roosevelt expressed himself very
clearly upon this point in his remarks
on Friday before the Good Govern-
ment conference at Philadelphia, when
he said :

“If you are to win you must win by
being straight-out Americans, and by
conducting your campaign in the
regular American spirit. If you try to
organize your movement on any line of
caste, on any line of birthplace or of

deserve to be beaten. It you wish to
, municipal reform you must be upright

’ and disinterested; you must be practi-
' cal and willing to work hard and not

A: merely criticise ; you must be American
‘ through and through, in temper and

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,i Spirit and heart, and you must possess

.l the essential virtues of manliness. of
resolution, and of indomitable cour-

age.”

Herein lies the safe foundation of

lpolitical reform. Upon no other basis

can the structure of good government,
Whether national or municipal, be
securely erected. American ideas must
predominate as to the obligations of
citizenship, the proper methods of
naturalization, the regulation of im-
migration, the maintenance intact of
the public school system, the purity ,of

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the ballot, the integrity of the courts, ’
religious toleration, and all other things 1
that enter as elements or factors into
our national progress.

 

 

A Question of Responsibility.

The Times-Democrat, of New Or-
leans, has been going to the London
Spectator for information as to Ameri-
can affairs, and, as a result, has this to
say about the existingnfinancial emer-
gency in the United States Treasury:

‘ ‘ The Republicans—and. particularly
the Harrison administration—are re-
sponsible for the dissipaluon of the sur-
plus. They left the treasury depleted,
and the income of the government crip-
pled and insufficient. That the Demo-
crats are in no Wise responsrble is clear,
because the Democrats have not been
able as yet to pass any p “div measure.
The legislation under which _al1' this
crisis has come on us is distinctively
Republican.”

It is very easy to make assertions of
this kind, especially if one goes abroad
for the authority, and it is still easier,
having established a set of hap-hazard

premises, to argue beautifully there-
from. The truth is, however, remarks

the able and independent Washington
Post, that Mr. Harrison did not leave a
depleted Treasury at all. The available
cash in the government cofi'ers on
March 1, 1893, was $124,128,087.88—a
very long way short of bankruptcy, we
should say. When Mr. Cleveland re-
tired in 1889, he left $183,827,190.29—
only about $60,000,000 more than his
successor left four years later. And
when it is remembered that throughout
the term of Mr. Cleveland’s first ad-
ministration the government enjoyed a
revenue of some $55,000,000 annually
from sugar—a revenue which the Me-
Kinley law practically destroyed—we
think it may be said that the Harrison
administration did fairly well with the
material at its disposal.

Any attempt to ascribe the present
condition of the Treasury to the Harri-
son administration must go outside the
facts. Even the New York Evening
Post, as persistent a defamer of Mr.
Harrison as it is an uncompromising
idolator of Mr. Cleveland, is careful to
avoid that folly. That paper gives
quite a different reading of the situa-
tion, in its edition of the 29th instant,
when it says :

“The break-down of the surplus this
year has been due to both the panic
contraction in Federal revenue and to
the fact that the very heavy appropria-
tions made by Congress during the pre-
Vious administration extend through
the fiscal year to June 80, 1804. Ad-
ministrations themselves do not leg-
islate.”

Nothing could be truer than this last
proposition: “Administrations them-
selves do not legislate.” Those heavy
appropriations which run through the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, were
made, not by Mr. Harrison, but by the
Fifty-second Congress, with the House
of Representatives controlled by the
Democrats. It is just as well to discuss
the crisis with some reference to facts.
In that way only can we achieve an
issue from our troubles.

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TERSE TALES Gt lHE le‘r‘lES.

Candlemas day.
There will be a reception at Mrs. M.
E. Meud’s seminary tonight.

Fred. Smith is cutting ice to-day at
the Union factory pond '7 inches thick.

 

 

Auctioneers who do business in
Bridgeport are obliged to pay "elOO for
a license.

Liveryman Dann took _a party
fourteen Winnipauk sleighriders
Bridgeport, Thursday night.

 

Ten more of the memorial windows
for the new. St. Paul’s chapel arrived
from Chicago, on Thursday.

 

Several persons from this city attend-
ed a dance‘at the home of D.C.Crreen in
West Norwalk, Thursday evening.

Writes a. correspondent : “Why is it
that the sidewalks on Mott avenue are
not cleaned of their load of ice and

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SHOW !

The funeral of John Bennett will be
attended from his late home on East
avenue. tomorrow afternoon, at 2:30
o’clock.

——Ladies’ fine $3.50 shoes at $1.90, B
to E. Hoyt a Son. 786-tf .

The meanest man is the landlord who
raised the rent on a house, because the
walls had bulged out, thus making the
building larger.

 

—Hatsl Hats! Norwalk union made
fine fur stiff hats, latest style, regular
price $2.00, our price $1.00. Taft Bros,
23 Wall street.

Connecticnt Pensions—: Minors of
Thomas Coleman, Birmingham ; Mary
Michaux, Waterbury; Sarah Tomlin-
son, Waterbury.

7-Samples of Hale’s Lung Balsam
free. _ 774-tf
Justice Coolidge has assigned the

case of the State vs. .William Murphy,
for trial before Justice Gregory, next

The City Counicl will meet next Mon-
day evening.

 

. MissNellie Martin, of Mount Vernon,
15 viSiting Miss Hattie Bogardus.

A Hungarianwoman was fined :52 and
costs this morning. The charge against
her was assault on another woman.

The eleventh department convention
of Connecticut, W. R. 0., has been

called for February 20 and 21, at Me- .
. morial building, Bockville.

Dr. George Lansing Taylor will de-
liver a lecture at the Norwalk club
rooms, to-night on “Wit. Wisdom and
Wickedness of the Woodpecker.”

In several sections of the city the
sidewalks still remain uncleaned and
covered with snow rendering travel
disagreeable and often dangerous.

The oration of the Messiah was re-
peated by the choir of St. Paul’s church
at the new chapel, Thursday evening.
It was greeted by a large audience.

The regular monthly meeting of the
Central Circle of the King’s Daughters
w111 beheld in the Congregational chap-
el to-morrow afternoon at 4 o’clock.

 

AMrs. Morgan of Wilton, in getting
out of a sleigh on Center avenue,Thurs-
day night, slipped on the icy sidewalk
and falling sprained one of her wrists.

Town clerk Herbert H. Smith, was
at his office this morning, for the first
time in several weeks. He is still very
weak as a result of his severe sickness.

——Itegular lines of shoes from $2.50
up to $5.00, 50 cts. per pair discount, at
Hoyt 8.: Son’s. TSS-tf

Valentines have commenced to put in
an appearance. Some are of an ugly
looking naturewhile others are as hand-
some as the prize bed quilt at an agri-
cultural fair.

 

—-Grand matinee for ladies and chil-
dren at Hoyt’s Opera. House. Saturday.
Prices of admission 35 and 50 cents, to
any part of the house. 787 3t

Charles Peck, who was fined $7 and
costs on Thursday, for passing 9. worth-
less check at Comstock Bros, was later
taken to the Bridgeport jail in default
of the payment of the fine.

—100 pairs Men’s calf shoes 551.59..

The greateshbargains ever given in
Norwalk. Hoyt&Son. TSG-tf

To-day is house cleaning day at the
Alms House. The day is celebrated
every two weeks during the winter
and every two weeks during the sum-
mer months.

The Alpha Wheel club gave one-third
of the receipts at the box office on the
last evening of the minstrel show,to the
hospital fund. The amountfcontributed
was eight dollars.

The Superior Court, criminal side,
for this city will open the third Tues-
day of the present month when thirty
prisoners bound over will be brought
up for trial. . ..

 

The city board of relief were in ses-
sion at the City council rooms, Thurs~
day afternoon. They will meet again
at the same place on Monday afternoon
next, and on Thursday Feb. 8th.

——Handy to have in the house, Hale’s
Lung Balsam. 774-

The latest heretic is no less a person
than President Harper of the Chicago
university, who pronunces the story of
Cain and Abel a myth. The Baptist
ministers out there are, of course,great-
ly wrought up. ,,

—Unlil further notice I shall sell
shoes at cost. Jarvis Kellogg. “EEG-ti

For the first time, last night, a light
shown from the east end of the break-
water at Bridgeport. It isa temporary
light placed upon the foundation of the
proposed lighthouse and will remain
until the promised appropriation to
complete the structure is received.

——Mark down sale—”We offer the bal-
ance of our winter stock of men’s and
boys’ suits and overcoats at 25 per cent.
reduction from former prices. Men’s
overcoats $2.50 up. Suits $54.00 up.
Boys’ suits and overcoats $1.25. Try
us for bargains. It will pay you. Taft
Bros, 23 Wall street.

 

The big double-ripper Phrenix was
hitched to a pair of horses Thursday
night, and sixteen members of the
company took a sleighride about town.
They upset three times, once on Wall
street, again on Wast avenue, and a
third time in East Norwalk. No one
was hurt, and the entire party had a
jolly good time.

One of Norwalk’s best known young
men, Alfred, son of LeGrand Jackson,
Esq., was yesterday wedded in the
Church of the Holy Communion, New
York, to Miss Josephine Francesa
Adams, of said city. The bride and
groom made their parents and afew
relatives and friends happy bya de-
lightful visit last evening, a few hours
subsequent to thebridal solemnities.

Saturday will be the feast of St.
Blase, Bishop and Martyr. During the
reign of the Emperor Diocletian, St.

‘Blase was Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia.

He was endowed with the gift of work-
ing miracles, and the Sick had frequent
recourse to him to be healed of their
infirmities. He, is especially invoked
in diseases of the throat, having once,
it is said, wrought a wonderful miracle
upon the throat of a child who was
brought to him in such a state of suf-

 

 

Monday afternoon.

 

fering as to threaten speedy death.

 

The wife and three children of Charles
J. Ferris, the expressman.are very 5101!.

An enjoyable whisbparty was held at
the residence of Carl Harstrom, Thurs-
day night. '

Teoday was observed as the feast of
the Purification of the Blessed Virgin
Mary, at St. Mary’s church.

 

A sleighing party from Stamford paid
Mrs. D. Kelieher a short v1s1t at _her
home on Hoyt street,Thursday ev1n1ng.

Mrs. N. E. Campbell of East Nor-
walk, slipped on an icy sidewalk on
Maple street. Thursday afternoon. and
in falling severely sprained her ankle.

Mr. C “’rles E. Lockwood, the mes-
senger,l t this city to-day, for a two
months’ tiieatment at St. Luke’s hOSpi-
tal, New York. Mr. Lockwood has
been in poor health for some months
past.

The funeral of Peter Rezier was at-
tended from the home of Louis Verlin,
in Wilton, on Thursday. He belonged
to the society of the Sons of Herman
and his friends will be entitled to a fu-
neral benefit of $500. It is understood
that before he died he provided that
the money be paid to Mrs. Verlin. He
will perhaps be the better known as
making frequent visits to this city with
loads of hoop-poles.

 

An Oyster Case.

The suit of Miles and Jane Ball
against the American Oyster company
for $1,200 damages, for trespass on
oyster ground,in the harbor at New Ha-
ven, is on trial. The company bought
of Asa Curtis twenty-four acres of
oyster grounds, planted 2,000 bushels
of seed on it, and afterward. took up
some to test it,when the suit was brought.
The company alleges that the. title is
clear in the West Haven recfirds farther
back than the Bulls claim to have owned

it.
USE DANA’S SARSAPARILLA, IT’S
“THE KIND THAT CURES”

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Amusements.

nor'r’s OPERA nocsn.

To-night is opening night at Hoyt-’s
new Opera House in South Norwalk,
and a splendid attraction is offered.
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Byron will appear
in their successful play of “The Heart
of Africa.” To-morrow afternoon the
same piece will be presented at a mati-

nee performance, and Saturday even-

ing “The Plunger.” All three per-
formances will no doubt be worthy of
large audiences.

USE DANA’S SARSAPAEILLA,IT’S
“THE KIND THAT CURFS.”

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. The Atlas Again Sold.

United States Deputy Marshal Lov-
eridgc sold the steamer Atlas at Wilson
Point on Thursday to Thomas Denin,
of New York. his bid being $510. This
is the second time the boat has been
sold by the deputy marshal. Three
weeks ago he sold the boat, which was
knocked down for 173150. Interested
parties immediately petitioned Judge
W. K. Townsend to declare the sale
illegal on the ground that they had
not received sufficient notification, and
that in consequence the boat had been
bought for 3150, though worth about
$4,000. Judge Townsend ordered a
new sale which took place on Thursday.

USE DANA'S SARSAPARILLA, IT’S
“THE KIND THAT CURE.‘.”

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Liquor Men Alarmed.

Suit has been begun against Andrew
Marus and Patrick Hogan, of Ansonia,
by County Treasurer Hiram J acols, for
$300 in each case. The suits are the
outcome of the discovery by the Law
and Order league, of a law, providing
for the forfeiture of the bonds of any
liquor dealer convicted of a. violation
of the excise law. The law is one that
has been on the statute books for many
years, but has not been enforced for so
long a period that the saloon keepers
came to look upon it as adead letter.
The law leaves no option to the county
treasurer, who must bring suit when-
ever the cvidencc of a conviction is
presented to him.

 

 

 

 

USE DANA’S SARSAPABILLA, IT’S
“THE KIND THAT CURES.”

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The Messiah.

When the production in Norwalk of
an oratorio, especially that of the Mes-
siah, was some months since proposed,
it was pronounced to be an impossibili-
ty, but it is needless 10 say that this
week’s‘performance on the part of St.
Paul’s choir fully demonstrate that all
fears in such direction were groundless.

The recent rendition in the new
Berkeley street Chapel of goodly por-
tions of the noble composition referred
to was a'grand triumph. Several of the
solo passages were peculiarly excellent,
while the chorus was unflagging in
spirit all through. The time was al-
most precision itself, and tone, temper,
and timbre of voice in not a few in-
stances noticeablc and admirable.
Among the boys’ voices were many of
unquestionable quality, and several of
delightful archness and vivacity. Prof.
Whittaker has reason to be proud of
his Wednesday and Thursday evenings’
success, the whole matter having been
well conceived, well executed, and well
received. His clever handling of the
organ, which was really upon exhibi-
tion, attested to the instrument’s su.
periority, and made apparent those dif-
ferent modern mechanical appliances
with which it is furnished, and which
offered scope for almost unlimited mu-
sical combinations and effects.

The Hector, vestry, and people of St.
Paul’s are to be congratulated upon the
happy auguries for the future of the
new Chapel of Our Holy Savior. May
its destiny be to gather coming genera-
tions to that Blessed One whose name
the beautiful structure bears.

 

 

STAlE SHOTS.

James A. Smith has resigned as presi-
dent of the Hartford Y. M. C. A.

R. 0. Markham succeeds the late H.
B. Starr as cashier of the Central Na-
tional bank at Middletown.

The sixty-fifth annual . reception of
the National Blues will beheld in the
armory on Washington’s birthday, Feb-
ruary 22.

The train despatchers of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford rail-
road moved into their new office in the
building at New Haven, yesterday.

Some Middletown peeple are excited
because School Superintendent Fergu-
son refuses to let “Old Glory” mildew
in a closet rather than fly it from the
top of the high school flag staff.

Congress will probably apprepriate
$120,000 for the further building of New
Haven’s breakwater; for the river at
Hartford. $20,000; for improving Hou-
satomc river, $20,000, and the same for
the Thames. '

The Hartford street board will set
fifty_of the unemployed men who have
applied to work in the streets on Mon-
day under_the city council recolution
appropriating $10,000 for that purpose.
They Will be paid $1 per day of eight
hours. '

George C. Allis of Derby received a
letter Thursday from his daughter,
Miss Genevive Allis, who is now at
Rock Ledge, Fla , in which she says
that Louis Powe, formerly of Ansonia.
picked an orange in his grove which
weighed two pounds.

The. treasury of the New Haven city
court is empty now, and that branch of
the government, which usually furnish.
es $8.000 annually to the city will do
well to come out even this year. There
is a considerable sum due. from the
county which will be available as soon
as the present term of the Superior
court is ended, but this will all be used
in paying bills.

\V. L. Palmer. operator at the signal
tower near the Naugatuck _'unction.was
crossing the Honsatonic riVer bridge.
Bridgeport, on his way to the tower at
8 o’clock last evening, when two men
stopped him and ordered him to hand
over to them his money. Palmer was
alone and unarmed and, seeing that he
would stand little show with the high-
waymen, complied with the order. He
had $5 in his pocket which he‘surmn-
dered.

 

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ON THE AVENUE.

A man couldn’t wash dishes three
days without swearing till all was blue.
A woman stands it fifty years and comes
up smiling. Hence the term “angelic,”
as applied to the sex.

A pretty way to make up a green cloth
for a. girl of sixteen years would be to
have it made with a full skirt trimmed
with several rows of black silk braid,
a little jacket of the same, similarly
trimmed, opening over a vest of bright
plaid silk.

.[f you have a husband, your first du-
ty is to help him. Do all you can to help
him. If he is unworthy of this, or if
you do not feel a sufficiency of genuine
love for him to prompt you to assist him,
then you have my deep sympathy, for
you should never have married him.

' An effectual means of stopping bleed-
ing from the nose is to move the jaws
up and down as if going through the
process of mastication. If the patient
is a child, put some paper in his mouth
and tell him to chew it thoroughly.
This method is ridiculously simply, yet
it has never been known to fail even in
the most aggravated cases.

A West Avenue belle was exploring
her young man’s pockets the other even-
ing during his call. It so happened
that he had forgotten to take out the
ticket for his watch,and when she found
that she immediately wanted to know
what it was.

“That” said he, with as much dignity
as he could command, “is a souvenir of
the World’s Fair.”

 

SMIRCKED IN PANAMA.
Ex-I’remier Dupuy Said to Have Been Im-
plicuted In the Scandal.

PARIS, Feb. 2.-——M. liochefort. in The In-
transigeau t, says that Dr. Carl Herz is
printing three volumes of letters which he
has received at various times from promi-
nent politicians in regard to Panama canal
aflz'airs. According to The Intrausigeant.
ex-Premier Dupuy is implicated, though
he is not accused of having received any
money. He is said to have solicited favors
for his colleagues.

' Aside from the first list of checks, Dr.
Herz is said to hold 45 from which the re-
cipients can be clearly identified. Some of
the documents are reported to have been
sent to Chicago, from which place they
have now been returned.

M. Rochefort is reported to have seen a
telegram sent from Bournemouth by the
representative of an English newspaper,
stating that he had arranged a. compro-
mise of the Reinach family civil suit, which
would be dropped if there was no exposure.

A HORRIBLE MURDER.

Jesse House Kills His Aged Brother and
Cuts His Own Throat.

MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., Feb. 2,—The little
village of Gardnersville, about three miles
south of Johnson, in Orange county, was
shocked today by a murder and an attempt
at suicide, which may also prove fatal.
Alfred House was murdered by his brother,
Jesse House, at 7 o’clock. The murderer
then attempted suicide by cutting his
throat.

The victim, who was a farmer about 60
years of age, was in the cow stable milking,
when his brother went there, and going up
behind Alfred pulled him off the milk
bench and cut his throat from ear to ear
with a. razor. He died almost instantly.
The murderer then went into the house,
where his wife and four children were, and
said to his wife. “I've done it.”

“Done what r" replied the wife.

“Killed Alice-J,“ answered the man, and
then with the same bloody razor that had
just ended his brother’s life he cut liisovrn
throat. .

lElEGRllPHlG BRIEFS?

Flashed Over the Wire from all

SGthOllS.

What is Going on Here and There.

PnoviLnxc'in, R. 1., FEB. 2.—The su-
preme court yesterday handed down
an order providing that divorce decrees
may be set aside within six months
after being granted, which means
that parties cannot re-marry within
that time.

NE}: Haves: FEB. 2.—'Ihe celebrated
suit of Pratt against Kennedy, an ac-
tion in which Mrs. Charles R. Pratt
sued Mrs. Elizabeth F. Kennedy, alias
Mrs. Charles R. Pratt, sr., for $50,000
damages, alleging that the defendant
had alienated her husband’s affections,
which created such a sensation in the
society circles of New Haven, has been
withdrawn}:

\VASHINGTOX, FEB. 2.—The Wilson
bill passed the House late yesterday
afternoon by a vote of 404 ayes to 140
nays. The large vote in favor of the
bill was a great surprise and the doubt-
ful democrats who v ted in favor of
the bill were loudly cheered.

The vote was later than was expected.
After Mr. Wilson’s Speech there was
great disorder for 20 minutes.

At 3:30 o’clock the vote on the barley
amendment was taken. The amend-
ment was defeated, 120 ayes, 107 nays.

The income tax and internal revenue
amendments were accepted by a vote
of 182 to 50.

Then Mr. Covert (N. Y.) made the
last effort to have the Wilson bill
tabled. It failed. Thirty-six demo-
crats voted to table the bill.

Mr. Dch‘orost voted for the bill.

~ “dob-m ,
Buncoed.

An Italian living on Water street
rushed into the Danbury railroad de—
pot this nuon, and in an excited man-
ner, said that he had been robbed of
$535 and a valisc, and asserted that the
robbers were in the depot.

As near as could be made out from
his broken English two men had visited
his house and persuaded his wife to
part with the $35 in return for a watch
and chain valued at about $2.

The men it is believed made their es-
cape by running up the tunnel and out ,.
on to the street.

 

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Observance of Lent.

The regulations for the observance of
Lent, as prepared by Archbishop Wil-
liams. will be read next Sunday in all
the Roman Catholic churches in the
archdiocese. According to the circular
“all the week days of Lent from Ash
Wednesday to Easter Sunday are fast
days of precept on one meal with the
allowance of a moderate collation in
the evening.

“The church excuses from the obli-
gation of fasting (but not from absti-
nence from fresh meat, except in spec-
ial cases of sickness) the infirm, those
.who are attaining their growth, those
whose duties are of exhausing or labor-
ious character, women nursing infants
and those who-are enfeebled by old

The Holy See grants the following
dispensations for this archdiocese:

1. The use of flesh meat, as also of
eggs and white meats, is permitted at
every meal on the Sundays of Lent
and at the principal meal on Monday,
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, with
the exception of Easter Sunday and
Holy Saturday.

2. The use of white meats is allowed
every day in Lent at the evening colla-
tion, and also at the principal meal on
the days on which the use of flesh meat
is forbidden.

3. A small piece of bread, with a
cup of coffee, tea or chocolate can be
taken in the morning.

4. Where it is not convenient to
take the principal meal at noon, it is
lawful to invert the order and take a
collation in the morning and dinner in
the evening.

5. Drippings and lard may be used
in the preparation of the kinds of food
that are permitted. ,

6. On Sundays there is neither fast
nor abstinence, but fish cannot be used
with flesh meat at the same meal at any
time during Lent.

'7. Those who are exempt from the
precept of fasting can partake of flesh
meat at every meal during the day
when by special indult flesh meatis
prohibited at the principal meal.
~ The time for fulfilling the Easter
precept for communion in the arch-
diocese extends from the first Sunday
in Lent to Trinity Sunday, inclusive.

 

 

DIED.

BENNETT.—Suddenly on January 30th.’JonN
BENNETT. aged 85. .
Funeral Saturday at 2:30.

 

 

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