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less price. If you don’t believe it
come and see what “hunks” of meat
you’ll have to carry away for 25
cents. Or, if you prefer, we will de-
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Would like to call atten-
tion to four or live
styles of
IINELsEOEs.
First, our $1.39 Lace Shoe. Kid,
good style and very cheap.
Our 352 Jewell Shoes, Button and
Lace, best Shoe in the Market.
Then, Our $2.50 Welt Shoe, Fine
Kid, good wear. A look at them
will convince. -
Our $3 Razor Toes, patent backs,
very stylish; suits the particular
ones.
The $3.50
themselves.
'We think our $4 Kid Welt Shoes
have the beauty, fine finish. They
wear. They are about perfect.
Look at these lines, you will be
satisfied. These are all old prices
and can't be duplicated to day.
A. H. HOYT & SON.
3 7 Wall Street, Normal/t.
lIiid Shoes speak for
. D’ELITE
The Finest in Market.
COFFEE.
NiCkerson doBetts.
OLSEN BROS’.
1 WHITE SHOE STORE.
Quality and low prices have made the success of our great sample
sale.
$3.00 Sample Shoe reduced to $1.75.
We shall make still another great reduction in prices.
Our Ladies’
Our Ladies’ Russia Calf Lace Razor Toe. $3.50 and $5.00 Shoes
reduced to $1.50.
Our Men’s $4 Russia Calf and Seal Goat Shoes reduced to $2 50.
Our Men’s $3 Russia Calf Shoes reduced to $2 a pair.
The Greatest line of School Shoes ever shown in {own at the
Lowest Prices.
We invite you all to come in and get a shine free of charge,’while
you wait, by the best bootblack in town. '
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X You will ride
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Of course you will ride. All the
world will—fashion, pleasure,
business — men,
women, children.
It takes a. while
sometimes for the
World to recog-
nize its privileges;
but when it does
it adapts itself
promptly. There-
fore, you who are
in the world will
ride a bicycle—a.
COL UJIIBIA.
bicycle'if you desire the best the
world produces; a Hartford, the.
next best, if anything short of a
Columbia will content you.
Columbias. $100; Hartfords,
$80 $60 ; for boys and girls, $50.
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BOXING
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ADDRESS
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. Norwalk. Conn.
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Shore Dinners a Specialty.
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ALK -‘GAzETr/n.
THE TELEGRAPHIC “THIRTY.”
now the Cipher, Which Is Now Universal.
Had Its Origin.
I attended a. funeral the other day
where there was a lovely flower piece
with the figures “30” in the center.
The deceased had been familiar all his
life with that signal, having been con-
nected with telegraph or newspaper
business for nearly 30 years, and yet I
doubt if ever he or any one who con-
tributed to the flower piece knew or
dreamed how 30 came to mean any-
thing, especially finis, or the end.
As a part in telegraph history I will
explain how this signal, which has
come to mean so much, had its origin.
Like a great many other expressions, it
was started accidentally, as it were. In
the infancy of the telegraph business
dispatches were sent paid or collect,
many of them abbreviated in telegraph-
ing, and all newspaper dispatches were
not only abbreviated, but sent collect.
There were no news agencies then, as
now, and papers had friends in all the
towns; who were authorized to send
them dispatches to be called for.
Every beginner in the art of teleg-
raphy was given a book of abbrevia-
tions and signals, which he had to com-
mit to memory and practice till he be-
came expert in their use. Among those
signals that of 30 was found, and it
meant “collect pay at the other end.”
Whether a news dispatch or common
business message, if not prepaid, the
signal 30 was attached. As all press
dispatches were paid for where. received,
they all had 30 at the end. So when
news agencies began their work the sig-
nal was retained, for they were still
paid for where received.
This signal has come in these days to
be a universal finis to all press dis-
patches, privatc, special and general,
and a secondary meaning, or perhaps,
legendary moaning attaches
itself as “the em ” and is a proper and
beautiful expression of the finis of a
telegraph operator or any other person.
It well may be a signal to the spirit-
ual dispatch of a human soul to the
great center of rewards and as a notice
to estimate its value "when received and
“collect pay at the other end.”—St.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
PURITANICAL LAWS.
How They Round Up Delinquent Debtors
In Cultured Boston.
“Just wait till I catch him in Bos»
ton. Then I’ll make him come to the
center,” remarked an angry man the
other day while roasting a theatrical
manager who owed him a few hundred
dollars for services rendered. I told him
that I supposed he would then clap the
debtor into the Charles Street jail.
“That’s just what I will do if I ever
catch him there, you bet.” And then
the mad actor explained how easy it
was to get even with people of that sort
in the Hub. No matter what the debt,
nor where or how it was contracted, all -
one has to do is to enter a complaint
and that settles it. If one who owes is
averse to notoriety, he’ll hardly take
the poor debtor’s oath, which releases
him for a certain number of years, but
does not wipe out his bbligations, but
will linger in the bastile until he can
interest his friends or realize on his col-
lateral and settle.
I know several New Yorkers who
have run against creditors in the bean
burg and have suffered. 'Some joke
about their incarceration and the ques-
tions put to them during the process of
administering the poor debtor’s oath,
but most all agree that the Boston law
is a puritanical provision that should
be materially amended. Bostonians who
are dodging process servers are agitat-
ing a change that will permit them to
pay up on the installment plan instead
of being forced to cash in the full
amount or remain a guest of the Charles
street hotel. If such a law was on the
New York statute books and was en-
forced here—well, the Tombs or some
other prison would be holding hundreds
who now look as if they owned the town
instead of merely owing ILA.» townspeople.
—New York Letter in Pittsburg Dis-
‘ patch.
Poisoning by Tinned Food.
Some light is thrown by The Lancet
upon the mysterious cases of poisoning
by tinned food which from time to time
are reported. They are believed to be
due to neglect of the caution against
eating tinned foods that have been ex—
posed to the air for some time after be-
ing opened. The exact manner in which
poisonous substances, technically known
as “ptomaines, ” are generated so rapid-
ly is not known with certainty, but the
fact that they are‘ produced in sufficient
quantity ‘to cause very grave symptoms
of poisoning have been brought out in a
multitude of instances. In one well
known case the first half of the contents
of a tin of lobster was consumed with,
no ill efi'ect, but the rest a few days aft-
erward proved extremely poisonous. It
is suggested that as a safeguard manu-
facturers might label the tins with some
such notice as “The contents of this tin
are perfectly wholesome when eaten
fresh from the tin and aflord good
food, but the public i‘s advised not to
expose the contents for any length of
time to the injurious influences of the
atmosphere ” The Lancet writ-er even
goes so far as to suggest that some such
warning might he insisted on by the
legislature. —-London News.
Where We Are Going.’ '
I find the great thing in this world
is not so much where we .stand as in
what direction we are. moving. To reach
the port of heaven we must sail some-
times with the wind and sometimes
against it, but we must sail and not
drift, nor lie at anchor. —Oliver Wen-
dell Holmes.
His lifoney All In Stocks.
“There’s money in stocks,” said the
man who is young and enthusiastic.
“Yes,” replied his seasoned friend,
“I’m sure there is. I have been put-
ting half my salary there for the last
’ four years, and it’s all there yet.”—
-~Washington Star. , -
Advertisein the Cezann-
”, HOTEL DEADBEATS.
SHARP RASCALS WHO ARE TOO MUCH
FOR THE SHREWDEST CLERKS.
Some of the Tricks by Which They Obtain
Accommodations Without Paying and
Also Borrow Blarney—Empty Trunks and
Bogus Packages.
Despite every precaution taken by
shrewd hotel clerks a large number of
persons are constantly engaged in seen.-
ing board and lodging by fraud.
It is usually supposed that when a
guest arrives at a hotel without bag-
gage he cannot secure accommoda-
tions unless he pans in advance, but the
tricky “deadbeat” not only. will live
in the hotel free for a week, but in
many cases will secure a loan from the.
unsuspecting gentleman behind the desk.
The “deadbeat” constantly evolves
new tricks to “do up” the hotel man,
and it was not many days ago that a
well known hotel was defrauded in a
very skillful manner of a week’s board
and some of the cash in the till. The
“deadbeat” walked into the hotel lob-
by aud in a confident manner placed his
name on the register as hailing from
Chicago. He was neatly dressed and
carried a small grip. He informed the
clerk that he was a traveling man on
his first trip to the coast. ,
Traveling men are good customers, so
the new arrival was assigned to a good .
room. He handed two baggage checks
to the clerk and requested that his
trunks be sent for from the depot. In
an hour 01' two he inquired why his
baggage had not been sent up to his
room. The porter was sent for and ex-
plained that the transfer company had
not been able to find it. Inquiries were
made by telephone, but the railroad
people could give no information of the
missing baggage. .
“Well, I am in a nice fix,” said the
new guest to the hotel clerk, “for all
my clothes are in my trunks, and I sup-
pose tho things have gone astray. ” .
The clerk was very sympathetic, f0
a traveling man without his clothes is
indeed to be pitied. The fellow man-
aged to borrow$20 to buy some shirts,
collars, tics. etc, and went out of the
hotel vowing vengeance against the rail-
road company. Hc even had the hotel
clerk pay for a telegram to Chicago in-
quiring at the depot there as to where
the trunks bearing certain numbered
checks had been sent to. The reply came
back that they would look the matter
up, and pending the information the
new guest had a royal good time at the
hotel. In a few days he disappeared,
and it then dawned upon the hotel men
that they had been neatly swindled by
the means of two baggage checks which
evidently had been stolen at some time
in Chicago or elsewhere.
Another favorite trick to defraud a
hotel is done by means of a confederate.
One man will go to a first class house
and secure a good room. About the sec-
ond day he will be in the oflice, and
while there the hotel clerk will receive
a telephone message purporting to come
from a wel known store asking if Mr.
So-and-so desires thc‘goods he ordered
sent up to the hotel. The clerk will nat-
urally ask the guest the question, and
he will reply that he desires the goods
sent up. When the package arrives, there
is always $10 to $25 to be paid. The
hotel man is requested by the guest to
“settle the amount and charge it up in
my bill. ” It does not pay to offend
a guest whose appearance indicates
wealth. so the money is handed out in
payment. The guest now disappears,
and his. trunk is found to be a cheap
one and generally full of paper, while
the package which has been paid for
by the hotel people is also worthless.
Bogus telegrams and letterheads are
frequently used by “deadbeats” in or-
der to secure a little ready cash until
“my money arrives.” and very often
the scheme works all right, for a hotel
clerk is always afraid of offending a
guest in these matters, for should he
mistrust an honest man he will injure
the hotel’s reputation. While most ho-
tels make it a rule not to cash drafts or
checks or loan money, still very often
the “deadbeat” will make them break it.
A scheme which has recently been
worked all over the country was for the
“deadbeat” to send by express a. pack-
age. to a hotel in another city. It would
be heavily scaled and marked, “Value
'é‘200," and the bowl man. thinking
that it contained jewelry intended for
a guest soon to arrive, would put it in
the safe. In a few days the “deadbeat”
would turn up at the hotel, register and
inquire if a package had arrived for
him. He would be told that it was in
the safe, and he would tell them it con-
tained watches and valuables. The same
night a lean of $20 would be asked for,
and the hotel man, remembering the
valuable package in the safe, would in
nine cases out of ten hand out the coin.
The guest would disappear, and when
the package was opened it was found to
be of no value.
As all accounts in hotels are rendered
weekly it is impossible for dishonest
persons to obtain free living for longer
than a week, for they will be requested
to pay or vacate.
A man and his wife, by placing asup-
posed jewel case in a hotel safe, man-
aged, sometime ago, to secure over six
weeks’ living in a well known hotel in
this city. The landlord, who had seen
the woman wearing a quantity of jew-
els, naturally supposed they were in the
jewel case in his safe. When the guests
disappeared and the package was opened,
it was found to be a trunk strap, care-
fully coiled up and tied with string.—
San Francisco Chronicle.
Diurnal-ck on Marriage.
A Vienna paper publishes a collection
of aphorisms on love, women and mar-
riage which have found utterance in
the sittings of the German parliament.
The following dictum is attributed to
Bismarck, “It is an immense advantage
to the career of any man if hecan em-
bark on the voyage of life withOut a
female crew. ” ' . -
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Lessons on the Violin, Guitar
Mandolin and Piano. Terms
Moderate. Music furnished
for Balls and Entertainment
with from two to ten men.
0. A. FREEMAN.
Leader Hoyt’s TheatreIOrchestra
9 Haul’orzl P]. So. Norwalk.
CF. Uendco's. Norwalk
Raymond sh Show: .
Successors to George H. Raymond.
Furniture Dealers and General Funeral
Directors.
46 and 48 Main street, N'orwalk. Ct
Residence, Berke] ey Plan-H.
Telephone 4'2' ii ..
Horse Shoeiuo‘.
The undersigned has taken the shop In
the ffour or S. l‘. rtuby’s on Cross street
and is prenarcd M) do home she ems 1n
lion-Clint” manner
John 'I‘. Lyqett'.
e. A. FRANKE,
THE HAIR CUTTER
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- Wm. Lockwood,
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one house on West Main street. also :2 buildin
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