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» , oils. A scrofulous con-
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vites Catarrh, Bronchi-
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the germs of consump-
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yet only the weak ones
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——if you suffer from Ca-
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artistic fashion and careful mak-
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METROPOLITAN NOTES.
Interesting Facts and Opinions Chroniclod
by the Daily Press of New York.
New York’s streets are a perpetual
flower show. Any one that has known
the city a dozen years must have noted
the progressive growth of the retail flow-
er trade. Not only does the business
flourish on fashionable thoroughfares,
but it has found its way to every quarter
save the poorest. There are between 200
and 300 florists with shops, to say nothing
of the myriad of street stand keepers and
peripathetic men, women and girls.
Wherever streams of home-going persons
converge there is a flOW‘cl‘ stand wooing
them to amiable extravagance. There
are astonishing displays at a dozen ele«
vated railway stations. All the new
quarters far uptown 'have their florists,
with all the luxuries, seasonablc or un-
seasonaole. There are plenty of second-
hand dealers offering flowers that have
already adorned the windows of the large
florists. and in late spring and summer
these flowers are so cheap that they
come within the means of even the poor-
est.
Albert Bierstadt, the famous painter,
has failed financially with liabilities $40,-
000 and nominal assets $100,000. He has
long been in the front rank ofAmerican
landscape painters. He was born in Dus-
seldorf, Germany, Jan. 7, 1820. He came
to this country'with his parents in 1831,
and settled in New Bedford, Mass. He
early developed a taste for art, and in
1851 began to paint in oils. In 1853 he
went: abroad to study at Dusseldorf
and in Rome, .making sketching tours
during the summers in Germany and
Switzerland. Returning to the United
States in 1857, he made an extended tour
through the \Vest, and it was he who
first put upon canvas the scenery in the
Rocky Mountains, the Yosemit Valley
and the Yellowstone.
Among his best know' paintings are
“Laramie Peak.” (1861), now in the Buff-
alo Academy of Fine Arts; “Lander’s
Peak in the Rocky Mountains,” (1863),
for which James McHenry of London paid
$25,000; “Looking Down the Yosemit,”
(1866), in the Lenox Library; “Settlement
of California” and “Discovery of the
Hudson,” both in the Capitol at \Vash-
ington; “In the Rocky Mountains, (1871),
bought by Marshall 0. Roberts for $40,-
000, and “Mountain Lake,” and “Mount
Cocoran in Sierra Nevada,” (1878), nowin
the Corcoran Gallery, \Vashington.
In speaking of Mr. Bierstadt’s work, a
well-knowu artist said to a reporter:
“There was a time when Bierstadt’s
paintings brought the highest of any
American painter, and in London he was
as popular as he was here. He was a
great chap for courting royalty, and many
of the English nocility Were his friends.
He was a particular favorite of the Man
quis of Lorne and the Princess Louise.
But painters, like Women’s gowns, get
out of fashion. Sic-cc Dicrstadt made a
name for himself, other painters in land-
scape have came to the front, and I fancy
Bierstadt’s paintings would not sell for
nearly as much now as they did ten or
fifteen years ago. At any rate, they would
not bring anything near their value at a.
forced sale."
Mr. Bierstadt was married about a year
ago. for the-second time, to _Mrs. David
Stewart, who, before she married the late
millionaire banker, David Stewart, was
Miss Mary E. Hicks. Mrs. Bierstadt is
said to be very wealthy, having inherited
the greater part of her first husband’s
large estate.
The field of charity has no fences. It
is boundless, and will admit all the men-
ey that can be thrown into it. Charity
tries the thoughts and the ingenuity ofa
great many rich people, who seek to help
human failures and misfortunes. If peo-
ple had more to give, there would still be
ample opportunity for greater expendi-
ture than marks the present time, so act-
ively and energetically charitable. It is
upon this humane and generous spirit
that the Knights of Labor in Brooklyn,
who are running the trolley strike, have
sought to impose through an appeal that
is fairly soaked with falsehoods.
“We have not appealed to force; we
have acted as .aw-abiding citizens; we
have refrained from violence,” says this
shameless whecdlc. Yet at that very
moment the streets of Brooklyn were
lined with the entire police force and
with militia of the State to protect the
street cars, their passengers and opera-
tors, from being stopped and assaulted.
Then the strikers go on to insult other
citizens not. engaged in the strike. They
call the men “imported from other cities
of the Union” to run the Brooklyn cars
in the place Of the strikers who have re—
fused to run them, “the scum and drift~
wood of humanity.” Members of Dis-
trict Assembly 75 are honest citizens
whom the railroad companies have “con-
taminated with the tramps and out-
cast-s.”
W'hat self-respecting American joins
District Assembly 75 of Brooklyn in call-
ing men out of work “the outcasts of so-
ciety?” What are Martin J. Connelly,
the Master Workman, and his four asso-
ciates in signing this request for money,
that they can thus spit in the face of
every‘ man who comes seeking work
which they have refused to do?
When the trolley men deliberately put
themselves into the condition of asking
charity, they were their own masters. An
appeal for money to help carry on their
devilish determination to keep other men
from working in their places, and to
maintain a situation in which the people
of Brooklyn have their street cars stop-
ped, and the men and money of Brooklyn
and of, the State of New York are called
on to preservo the elementary rules of or-
der and public convenience, is a gross
abuse Ofthe charitable impulse. The de-
nunciation of non-strikers seeking work
as “outcasts” is an inadmissible out-
range.——N.Y. Sun.
Did Not Blame the Japanese.
The child often set the passengers
laughing at her droll and ingenious re—
marks. Presently a remarkable fat
Chinaman, in full Chinese costume, en-
tered and sat opposite the child.
She looked at him in apparent amaze-
ment, and then, turning to her mother,
with an air that showed she had given it
up, asked:
“Mamma, what’s that opposite ?”
“Sh—. ’ hat’s a Chinaman, my dear,”
answered the mother in a low tone of
voice.
“The sumakind of Chinaman papa says
the Japanese are killing?”
“Yes, my dear. Don’t. talk so loud.”
The child -meditated a moment, and
then said;
“Well—I don’t blame ’em.”
Many a man sets up for a. public bene~
factor who never thinks it worth while
to give his wife a word of encourage
ment.-—Ram’s Horn.
Advertise infiGazurrE 3
WASHINGTON NEWS.
THE PRESIDENT’S POLICY AND THE
SENATE.
Senator Hill as a Bunqueter.
acy of Our People. Legislation Probably
Looking to the Compulsory Settlement
of Strikes by Arbitration.
The people Of the United States are so
in the habit of eulogizing the Republic
as the most enlightened country on .the
globe that many will be surprised at the
statement that one-tenthof-our popul‘a~ .- '
tion is made up of illiterate's. The actual
number, as reportedby the last census. is
6,324,702. There .will be still greater sur-
prise to know that these figures represent
an increase of nearly one ' hundred thou-
sand illiterates since 1880. , As will He
readily inferred, the greatest proportion
of illiteracy is to be found among the
Southern States. There is but one of
these States in which illiterates did not
constitute more than 20 per cent. of the
population, while in Alabama, Louisiana,
Mississippi, New Mexico and South Caro-
lina they formed 40 or more per cent. .
Naturally most of the illiterates are
blacks, indicating a callous indifference
to the intellectual improvement of the
colored race on the part of the whites.
These facts and figures are the more sig-
nificant when it. is borne in mind that
foreign illiterates who emigrate hither
seldom strike below Mason and Dixon’s
line, but go to swell the proportion of
illiterates in the North and West. This
subject is a matter of serious moment to
the country at; large. Such a large per-
centage of illiteracy is a taint on the
body politic, for it is impossible to ex-
pect intelligent popular rule where such
a large mass of ignorant voters exist.‘If
the South will not grapple in earnest
with the illiteracy of its people, then the
nation, in self-defense, should ,do so. It
is to be hoped that the new Congress may
find time to turn its attention to this
problem.
Senator Hill made another great social
hit at the dinner party given by John R.
McLean. There Were a number of bril-
liant society people present that the Son-
ator would not be likely to meet at the
ordinary official dinners, and the Senator
proved as capable of saying as many
clever things as any of them. If some of
his old friends around Elmira had heard
the brilliant small talk he indulged in
with the ladies they would not probably
have realized him to be the same who was
their old political boss. Considering that
the Senator has had little practice, it only
shows how novel reading will improve a
man socially. The dinner itself was a
grand affair, like all the entertainments
the McLeans give. There is not a more
hospitable house in Washington, or prob-
ably in the country, and the most bril-
liant people to be found at the Capital can
be met there.
There is a difference of opinion among
those who are interested in the financial
question as to whether there is any
special significance behind the measure
introduced by Senator Sherman. Those
who have faith in the financial wisdom
of the distinguished Senator from Ohio,
claim that he is sincere in his efforts to
help bring forward a proposition that
may afford immediate and substantial
relief to the Government, and that he is
acting in accordance with what he be-
lieves to be the wishes of a majority of
the Senate, without regard to party affili-
ations. On the other hand, Senator Teller,
who is the accepted leader of the advo-
cates of the free and unlimited coinage
of silver, denies that there is any signifi-
cance in the introduction of the Sherman
bill. Senator Platt of Connecticut agrees
with the ColoradoSenator that there is
no significance in the bill introduced by
Senator Sherman. Senator Platt says
that Senator Sherman was not instructed
or requested by the Republican Senators
to offer any solution of the pending prob-
lem, and the introduction of his bill was
an individual act. Under the existing
rules in the Senate the silver men have
the power to defeat any proposition that
is not made satisfactory to them, and
they declare that they will use that
power to the best of their ability an:
physicai endurance.
The bill for the settlement of labor dis-
putes by an arbitration commission has
been favorably reported in the House at
Washington, with the declaration that
the business interests of the country de-
mand some means of settling such dis-
putes so as to avoid disastrous strikes.
The theory of the bill is that in the case
of many strikes the public is a vitally
concerned party and often the greater
sufferer, and hence that the interests of
the public, as well as those of the imme-
diate parties to the strike, will be fur-
thered by the amicable adjustment of the
dispute. This fact finds forcible illustra-
tions in the case of the great Chicago
strike of last year and the Brooklyn
strike. Both of these, with their disas—
trous consequences to the public, might
have been averted by arbitration. But
in the former case Mr. Pullman haught-
ily declared that there was “nothing to
arbitrate,” and his example has been
followed by the Brooklyn trolliy com-
,1...nies.
The friends of the Administration in
the Senate succeeded in cutting off de-
base on the Hawaiian question just as it
was becoming most vigorous and inter-
esting, and alter a lively skirmish, in
which half a. dozen Senators got after
Mr. Gray, the Administration spokesman,
and made things very uncomfortable for
him. The Delaware Senator endeavored
to make light of the whole Hawaiian af-
fair, and the burden of his reply to Sena-
tors Frye, Lodge, and others was, “You
wanted a war ship sent to Honolulu, and,
now that one has sailed, why are you not
satisfied?” Senator Gray made as good a
case for his clients as he could, but he re-
ceived very little support from the Demo-
cratic Senators, who, with few exceptions,
disapprove of the Administration’s
Hawaiian policy, although they are not
anxious to‘make a public acknowledg-
ment of the fact.
There has been much curiosity in Wash-
ington to learn the sources from which
the revolutionist R. W. Wilcox and his
friends obtained the necessary money to
purchase the arms with which they Were
supplied.’ It has been suggested that
Theophilus Davies, the guardian of Prin-‘
cess Kalulani, furnished the money. An-
other report is that the son of Claus
Spreekels, the sugar king, who is said to
be engaged to the‘princess, may have paid
for them, but nothing definite is known
in Washington .on this point.
Room-z LEWIS.
Doubtful.
He claims to be a. Christian.
Yet, for a week or more, .-
A sidewalk full of hard-packed snow ".‘
Has lain before his door.
~Clnclnnati Tribune.
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Newsboys wanted.
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The Illitelh.
"i Buy the GAZETrr.
MUNE’I‘AWNFEHEES
ALL EXCEPTON’E‘I‘OR'SILVEE ,-- " .
The President May Prevent the Holding1
of the, Cunference "if lie 'IIVishes—He .
. Will 41.59. Earnoflghree ‘Memt
' bars—Other Capital Gossip.
'l“WASHINGTON, March 7. —The senators
and members chosen by congress as the
representatives of their respective houses
on the proposed international monetary. '
commission have so far very indefinite.
ideas as to what will be expected of them.
Whether they will be called upon to act at
all will depend first upon the important
contingency of whether such a conference
will be called, and if so Whether the presi-
dent will decide that the United States
shall be represented. The provision for
the conference explicitly leaves this matter
to his discretion, but there is thought to
be very little doubt that if some important
European nation takes the initiative he
will put into effect the law providing for
the representation of the United States.
It is also believed that Genhany will issue
the call, and that the conference will be
held during the coming summer or fall.
Where it shall be held will depend upon
the time of the call, as will also the basis
upon which the question of ratio or the
extent to which silver shall be used is dis- ’
cussed. On this latter point it is under-
stood that the advocates of free coinage on
the commission will demand that the ratio
shall be fixed at 16 to 1, and that they
will not swerve from this. As new ap-
pears, they will constitute a majority of
the commission from this country, as five
of the six already chosen hold views favor-
able to independent free coinage. The
delegation will not be complete until the
president shall select the three members of
it whose appointment is left to him. If
those three should all be Opposed to free
coinage under existing conditions in this
country, as Mr. Hitt is, the commission
would stand 5 to 4 foerree coinage.
The Brussels Commission.
The law in the present case is not ma—
terially different from that under which
the Brussels conference was appointed in
1892 except in the number of delegates and
in providing the means in their selection.
The Brussels commission on the part of
the United States numbered five only, and
they were all appointed by the president.
The wording of the law as regarded the
purpose of the conference was in that case
the same as in this, the language in both
cases being that the conference should be
held “with a view to ”secure internation-
ally a fixity of relative value between gold
and silver as money by means of a: com-
mon ratio between those metals, with free
mintage at such ratio.” In 1892 an ap-
propriation of $80,000 was made to pay
the expenses of the commission, While
$100,000 is now provided.
The personnel of the commission so far
as formed is a striking one. The men se-
lected have been in public life for many
years, and all have distinguished them- a
selves sufficiently to make a national rep-
utation. Mr. Culberson entered the Forty-
fourth congress, Mr. Hitt the Forty-sev-
enth and Mr. Crisp the Fiftieth, and all
have served continuously since. Mr. Crisp
has served two terms as speaker and pre-
vious to his election to that office had dis-
tinguished himself on the floor and in
committee. Mr. Culberson was chairman
of the committee on judiciary of the
house, and Mr. Hitt is (ix-chairman of the
committee on foreign relations. Mr. Hitt
had also served as assistant secretary of
state before entering the house and was
for seven years first secretary of the lega-
tion and charge d’afi'aires of the American
legation in Paris.
The Senators All Silverites.
Senator Teller entered the senate in
1877, Senator Jones in 1885 and Senator
Daniel in 1887. Senator Teller has made a
specialty of the study of financial and
economic questions durin his entire term
and has thoroughly ident' ed himself with
the movement to secure the remonetization
of silver at the old ratio of 16 to 1. While
they have not so completely identified
themselves with this movement, his sena-
torial colleagues have both taken promi-
nent part in it, so that it is known that
the three senators stand upon the same
footing with regard to silver. Senator
Jones is a loading member of the commit-
tee on finance and was prominently identi-
fied with the tarlfi contest of last session.
Senator Daniel is a man of learning and is
recognized as one of the leading lawyers
and craters of the senate. Representatives
Crisp and Culberson are both silver advo-
cates, but are conservative on that ques-
tion. There is little doubt, however, that
they will stand for all that can be had for
silver in case the conference is held. Mr.
Hitt is classed as a bimetallist and is un-
derstood to believe thoroughly in the re-
habilitation of silver, provided it can be
obtained by an international agreement.
All the members of the commission are
lawyers except Hitt, and all except Teller
and Hitt served on the Confederate side
during the war of the rebellion. All are
50 years and over as regards age. Speaker
Crisp is the youngest member, being 50.
Senator Teller and Mr. Culberson are each
64, Jones 55. Daniel 52 and Hitt 61.
The New Japanese Treaty.
WASHINGTON. March 7.-—The emperor of
Japan has formally executed the ratifica-
tion‘ of the new treaty with the United
States, and the document has just been for«
warded. It is expected to arrive here
March 20, and the ceremOny of exchang-
ing ratifications will be held shortly after.
Postmasters Appointed.
WASHINGTON, March 7.——The fourth
class postmasters appointed today were:
Connection t—Mohegan, Charles Rollins,
vice E. F. Burlingame, resigned; River-
ton. F. E. Cady, vice J. T. Hines, resigned.
Bissell Takes 3 Rest. "
WASHINGTON, March ‘7.—Postmaster
General and — Mrs. Bissell went to, New
York city today. His object 'is in secure a
needed rest, and lie-will be away about a
Week. -
A Step Toward Civilization.
BERLIN, March 7.—A dispatch from St.
Petersburg to The Local Anzeiger today
says that an imperial decree.bas been is-
sued abolishin'g the use of the knout for
offenses committed by the peasantry, who
have been completely at the mercy of the
local judges. . __ ‘ . .._.-..__..
A High School Building Burned.
PITTSFIELD, Mass, March 7.—-The high
school building in this city was destroyed
by fire today. Nothing-was savedbf the
contents except a piano. The loss is $30,-
000. '
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of its unhealthfulness, its wonderful
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SPECIALSALE
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OF
FOR
January and”. February
NOW GOING ON AT
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CONN.
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Diseases of the Blood,
keep you well at all times.
. Grand Clearing Sale
_. AT——
Club Building, Norwalk, Connecticut.
During the month of January we shall
offer goods at greatly reduced prices pre-
vious to inventory. Best Ingrain Carpets
at 60 and 65c per yard. Velvet Carpets
$1 quality at 85c, and $1.25 quality at
$1 yard. Best Moqnettes at prices that
you cannot help buying them; also big
cut in prices of Furniture.
We mean
business as we musn cut our stock down
before inventory.
If you wish to secure
bargains, now is the opportunity offered.
Agents for Buttrick’s Patterns; also agents
fer the old Staten Island Dye Works.
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WHOLESALE AGENTS:
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