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THE FARMER: FEBRUARY 26, 1913
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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 26, 1913.
ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY
IS LIVES OF DESCEN
DANTS OP VICTOR HUGO.
In the Pantheon, among the immor
tals of Prance, Victor Hugo is at rest.
The sublime genius who was bornlll
years ago to-day, and whose birth
day Is annually observed by thousands
of ha admirers throughout France,
could siareetr be proud of some of
his descendants. Sis elder . son.
Cbwrtec gained some fame . both -as
author and statesman, and died of
Apoplexy . m 1871 without having
brought discredit on the name of his
father. . Charles left two children,
Jeauie and Georges, but the latter
ti. . wi riiffwtr1 fril ? f in tltA flli-ia-
trioM name of his grandfather. A
few years ago Georges, petitioned the
French government for permission to
assume the name of Victor, but the
application was indignantly refused.
Brett before Victor Hugo's .death in
188S, Bis grandson had become a
source of Morrow. He was dismissed
from the French navy oil account of
znlsooadaotr .and then, commenced - a
career of th-e wildest extravagance. He
courts, and attained international no
' toriety by his curious defense in s
oelebrated case. Georges had been
en terms of Intimacy with the wife
of a French noble, and had indorsed
that, lady's account with a Paris mer
chant. The affair was broken off,
and Georges refused to pay for goods.
The tradesman brought suit, and Hu-
' go's defense was that he was no long-
r intimate with the woman, and that
the amount could not be collected by
law because it was "an immoral ob
ligation." Later Georges married
the daughter of a wealthy merchant.
by whom he had two children, but
the alllanoe ended In the divorce
courts. Jeanne, the daughter of
Charles and , granddaughter of Victor
Hugo, married Leon Daudet, son of
the great French, novelist, but later
secured a divorce and became the
wire or x-rr. -jean viitii vjul, tue antarc
tic explorer.; , - . . , ,---.-?
Romance and tragedy also blended
in the life of Adele Hugo, Victor's be
loved daughter. Bne married an
English army officer, whom she met
at Hauteville House during her fath
er's exile on the island of ' Guernsey.
Her husband . took, her to India, and
later, to. Singapore, where ohe was sta
tioned. The officer" "was given to
drink, and while under its influence
treated the delicately nurtured daugh
ter of the great poet with the gross
est brutality. Eventually he devel
oped delirium tremens and commit
ted suicide. The bride, already made
desperate by brooding over the death
of her child suddenly became insane,
and was found wandering about the
native . Quarter of Singapore. . She
was taken taack to France, and treated-
by the most celebrated alienists
of the country, but never recovered
her reason. After her father's death
his estate became Adele's property,
but all it could do for her was to pro
cure the best possible medical at
tendance and a luxurious home in a
sanitarium for the mentally derang
ed. . Another daughter ' of . Victor Hugo,
the beautiful and charming Leopol
dine, was also the heroine of a ro-
- mance that turned suddenly into
darkest tragedy. She married Chas.
Vacquerle, a brilliant and talented
young man, and the happy pair set
off on a honeymoon trip. They had
known but a few days of wedded bliss
when they met death together in a
boating accident.
Clementine, the natural daughter of
Victor Hugo's nephew, Leopold Hu
go, also bad an adventure and sensa
tional career. : As a "get rich quick"
agent, a blackmailer and conspirator,
she used the name of Countess Hugo
as an aid in victimizing credulous peo
ple in France, Germany and Italy.
When last heard of, she was serving
a term in an Italian prison following
her conviction of fraud.
BASH; KING, FAMOUS
CANADIAN AUTHOR OF "THE
INNER SHRINE, IS 54 TODAY
With the veil of anonymity but re
cently lifted, Basil King, the Cana
dian novelist, stands forth today, the
fifty-fourth anniversary of his birth,
as the author of three of the most
successful fiction works of recent
yeare. Mr. King was forty-two years
old, ill, and almost blind, when he es
sayed his first story. Despite ' the
handicap of defective vision, he is
now known throughout America and
England as the author of "The Inner
3hrine," "The Wild Olive," and "The
Street Called Straight." All of these
were published anonymously, and the
secret of their authorship has only
'ately been revealed. When "The In
ner Shrine" was published a a ser
ai in one of the leading Xew York
magazines five years ago there was
much speculation over the authorship,
but critics one and all admitted it
10 be the work of a genius. Its suc
cessors have been even more sueces
ful. and Mr. King is now engaged on
another novel to be brought out later
tne year.
William Benjamin Basil King is the
full name of the author, and he was
barn in Charlottetown, Prince Ed.
arl Isle, Feb. 26, 1859. His father
tvae an Englishman, while his mother
was a native of the--Unlted States,
;nd SMriaeirrtfl admits i; being very
,-nuch divided in allegiance between
the empire and the republic. While
he makes his home in Boston, he
spends much of hi time in travel.
Hi first book was "Griselda," publish
ed In 1900, and it was followed by
xt Not Alan Put Asunder," and
THE SIXTEEN AND ONE
The budget, as arranged by Mayor Wilson's Tax
Board, will warrant a careful study. The grand list is
the largest in the history of Bridgeport. Despite the
large reductions made by the Board of Relief, the addi
tions to the grand list, this year, were without precedent,
and the total upon which the levy is made is in the neigh
borhood of $105,000,000.
The tax rate is fixed at sixteen and one-half mills.
This result has not been accomplished without the elision
of appropriations for things most useful and necessary.
For months the mayor has insisted that the very
heavens must fall should money not be raised with which
to build a new almshouse. The people, at the polls, twice
signified their belief that the necessary sum ought not to
be raised by long term taxation. The Board of Charities
then sought an appropriation of the Tax Board, but none
was given them. In lieu of beginning the work as a charge
against the budget, Mayor Wilson elected to seek bonds,
this time without consulting the citizens. In other words
he hopes to 6btain from the General Assembly permission
to issue Alms House bonds over the heads of the electors
of Brideport and without consulting them in any way.
This repudiation of the referendum is called to the .atten
tion of the thousands of citizens of Bridgeport who in the
past have found it a useful protection to their pocketbooks
and their homes.
The budget includes little or nothing for PERMA
NENT PAVEMENTS, although such pavements are
needed, and the mayor has had much to say about their
necessity. - - -
, Here again, he and his sponsors prefer to rely upon
the borrowing power, which they wish to exercise with
out reference to the views of the fellow citizens who put
them into office and power. '
There is one item of the budget that' is conspicuous
for its presence. It is the appropriation for fifty new po
licemen, and, nine expensive lieutenants of police. Here
is an addition to the annual expense of something like
$60,000 a year. The sum, bygreason of what the increase
will bring in its train, will soon, be $100,000 annually.
There is no more need for these policemen and this
expense than there is for skates on an automobile.
, But the administration and the peculiar forces it rep
resents, need them, to help carry party primaries, next
fall.
Alms houses and permanent . pavements have not
votes. They do not register in primaries. They cannot
hustle for the boys. But several hundred police appoin
tees, those to be actually appointed, and .those to whom
appointments are promised, can do a lot of work in that
line. They can do it in more than one party and Mayor
WilsOn has designs on more than one party, or his sponsors-have.
' .. '
Mayor Wilson, prior to his nomination, promised a
flat tax of 15 mills.
This newspaper said that the flat tax was merely a
lure, and that his actual purpose was to borrow heavily,
and plunge the city into debt as deeply as might be.
How well circumstances have since fulfilled this prog
nostication any citizen who reads the newspapers will
know. ' .
In September there was submitted proposed debt
amounting to $2,200,000. It was defeated, most of it over
whelmingly. ' ...
-S1 The mayor now has proposed and there is1 pending
before the General Assembly further projects to create a
debt amounting to $1,175,000, making a total debt pro
posed by the mayor, of $3,375,000, which is going some in
a "city famous throughout the United States for its strict
adherence to the pay as you go plan. ,
Now a sixteen and one-half mill tax raises about $1,
700,000, which is about half the amount his honor has
strenuously advocated bv way of debt.
. Mayor Wilson's ACTUAL PROPOSAL to the people
of Bridgeport, - therefore, is a budget of $5,075,000, composed-
one-third of tax levy and two-thirds of debt.
His actual tax rate, had he had his own will, would
have been, not 16, but 48 MILLS, a financial policy which,
if long continued, would -bring Bridgeport to its knees.
Is or would this have been all. The debt created would
in some instances have compelled the creation of further
debt. The Hering sewer plan could not have" been car
ried to completion, for instance, short of $6,000,000, and
it would have brought large additional expense to the an
nual budget for expenses of maintenance and operation.
-His has been a policy of financial folly inspired by
the owners -of municipal seiTiee corporations, seeking to
delay as long as possible municipal ownership of those
things.
. . The people of Bridgeport have seen through the pre
tense, of the fifteen mill rate,
Next November they will take
by putting into office somebody whose ideas of municipal
hnance are a little more conservative.
several other novels. These were pub
lished under his own name, but were
not highly successful and he was
comparatively unknown when "The
Inner Shrine" was published anony
mously in 1908. Although he began his
literary career late in life, Mr. King
declares that from his youth he held
the conviction that he was a born au
thor. . '
Lathrop Brown of Long Island, who
will succeed Martin W. Littleton as
congressman from the First New
York district - next ' week, is thirty
years old today, and will be the "ba
by" of the Sixty-third Congress. Clyde
H. Tavenner, a newly-elected memper
from Illinois, is the next youngest
member of the new House. He was
thirty-one this month.
Ferdinand I, Tsar of the Bulgars,
will receive the congratulations of oth
er mona3hs to-day on his fifty-second
birthday. The Bulgarian King, is as
sprightly and active as a youth of
half his years, which he attributes in
part to his adoption of the sour milk
diet, of his adopted land a diet made
famous by Prof. Elie Metchnikoff.
Ferdinand was the youngest son of
the late Prince Augustus of Saxe-Co-burg
and Gotha and was elected prince
of Bulgaria in 1887. Five years ago
Ferdinand declared Bulgaria to be in
dependent of Turkey, and named him
self as first Tsar. Just now he is one
of the most popular of rulers, owing
to the success of his army in Turkey.
Thomas William Lawson, of "Fren
zied Finance" tajme. la SXty-aix, to-due,
- HALF MILL TAX RATE
plus unlimited borrowing.
themselves out of ieopardy,
Despite the devilish wrath of the hel
lish "system," Mr. Lawson is still
"comfortably fixed," and in no imme
diate danger of. the poor house.
Mr. and Mrs. August Belmont the
latter was Eleanor Jto-bson, the ac
tress, wUI celebrate their "leather
wedding" to-day.
Col. William Frederick . Cody, the
picturesque "Buffalo Bill," was born in
Iowa sixty-seven years ago to-day."
INJUNCTION CURBED
BY CRAWFORD BILL
Washington, Feb. 26 Use of the in
junction power toy federal courts to
prevent enforcement of state laws and
orders of state commissioners, is curb
ed . by the Crawford bill just passed
by the Senate.
The measure, designed chiefly to
protect state railway commissions in
the reduction of rates, provides that
federal injunctions must be approved
by a supreme court justice, a 'circuit
court justice and the federal district
judge.
Mrs. S. S. S., Van Bur-en St.. King
ston, N. 'T. (full name furnished on
application) had such decided benefit
using Foley's Honey & Tar Compound
that she shares her good fortune with
others. She writes: "Foley's Honey
& Tar Compound brought my voice
back to me during a severe case - of
bronchitis and laryngitis. Oh, how
many people I have recommended it
to." F. B. Brill, Stratford avenue
wi gi-r.th atreai A&K X 3, ft
LIBERAL SUNDAY
BILL IS URGED
MINISTERS OF MANY CHURCHES
AGREE WITH WORKERS ON
ALLOWING AMATEUR
J SPORTS.
HEAR OPPONENTS LATER
Professor Wlllard Fisher Calls Con
necticut Town on Sunday Most
Desolate of Places.
Hartford, Feb. 26 "The most deso
late spot in the whole world is a Con
necticut town on Sunday," declared
Professor Willard C. Fisher before the
judiciary committee yesterday after
noon in arguing for more liberal Sun
day.
Prof. Fisher said that he was in
favor even of professional baseball
where an admission fee vsas charged.
He declared that unless that was per
mitted thousands of people would
never have an opportunity of witness
ing a baseball game. He declared that
if laws could compel a man to spend
the day in religious meditation he
would favor such a result. He added
ho'rtkBver, that laws couldn't establish
that and that after a man had spent a
few hours of the day in religious duty
there was nothing hamf ul in spend
ing part of the remaining time in rec
reation.
He was the last speaker of a. half a
dozen or more who favored the en
actment of laws which would open up
certain hours of Sunday to amateur
sports and amusements. The oppon
ents of the measures will have an
opportunity to present their side of
the cane at some future hearing.
Representative Koppleman of Hart
ford was the first to advocate a liberal
Sunday. He. said that he favored entertainments-
on Sunday evening and
believed that an admission fee should
be permitted. He thought the matter
of professional sports on Sunday
should "not be advocated at this ses
sion," though he believed that amateur
sports, without admission should be
permitted.
Favors More Yelling.
B. C. "Terry, of New Haven, called
the attention of the committee to the
fact that railroad men are obliged,
under present laws, to work seven
days a week, and he ' thought that if
one of them was able to get a,' day off
he ought to be permitted to. go to a
baseball game and also to yell, if he
wanted to. He declared that If there'
was less restriction on yelling there
would be less tuberculosis in the
state. 1
Park Commissioner Gross of Hart
ford, favored the hill permitting the
park boards - in towns or cities or
boroughs to allow band concerts or
amateur sports from 2 in the after
noon until 5. He thought this would
do away with the boys playing ball in
the lots back of residences. He said
that the mischief with the young men
of the present day was that they
couldn't engage in sports without us
ing their lungs in an offensive way.
, Ministers in Favor.
The Rev. J. E. James, representing
the New Englapd Religious Liberty
association, saia that he was author
ized to say that the association fa
vored in a general way the proposed
legislation. r
CTharles W. Lang, of New Britain
said that he worked in a factory
where 2.000 people were . employed.
The work there was simple and the
people go through three or four mo
tions for 10 hours a day, or 60 hourp
a week. He thought as a matter of
health they should be allowed' to in
dulge in some sort of recreation on
Sundav. He said it was not fair to
make people of the present day - live
up to laws intended for 100 years ago.
O. E. Edwards of Granby said he
spoke for the conference of Congrega
tional churches of Connecticut which
by a resolution had favored . games
and sport on Sunday which was not
designed for commercial gain.
The Rev. C. H. Edwards of the
Seventh Day Baptist church of Hart
ford said that his people held ser
vices on Saturday and were never dls
turbed by the business and amuse
ment activities and he didn't see why
the other denominations should be
disturbed on Sunday.
The Rev. R. H. Potter of Hartford,
representing 30 Hartford churches, fa
vored sports and recreation on Sun
days to which no admission fee was
charged..
Dr. E. B. Hooker of Hartford said
that people who worked ten hours a
day for six days at indoor labor
were entitled to a day of real recrea
tion which might include games and
sports.
Supt. T. A. Parker of the Hartford
park system also favored a change in
the present laws toward a liberal Sun
day. , .
THE COYNESS OF MR. JUDGE.
(Hartford Times.)
John A. Judge, in his letter to
Senator tebell, expresses, a yearning
to appear before, the committee to
give his recital concerning the three
fingers that Senator Hurley saw. But
Mr. Judge restrains his natural im
pulse upon advice of learned counsel.
As one is led to understand from his
honeyed words he won't come until he
has to come and he doesn't believe he
will have to come at least not be
fore the present investigating body.
It must . he admitted that Mr. Judge,
quoting the advice of his counsel, ad
vances certain reasons for his hesi
tancy which seem fairly sound. There
is a question as to the competence
and impartiality of the committee.
Perhaps this is unjust, but on the
surface . there is sufficient doubtful
ness to --justify some coyness on the
part of a citizen who may find him
self seriously involved. ; Legislative
committees, ungoverned by court pro
cedure and individuality more or lees
responsive to the inclinations of their
political faiths, do not, as tribunals,
command the respect and confidence
vouchsafed a duly organized court of
law. Many people dodge them by in
stinct. ' '
But Mr. Judge must be heard some
where. A senator of the state of
Connecticut has made blunt allega
tion concerning the offer of a bribe.
He points to Mr. Judge as the man
who attempted the bribery. A num
ber of people seem to be giving evi
dence that their personal desires
would be well served by the collapse
.of the whole case or its dismissal as
a humerous incident investigated in
the fashion of opera bouffe. But the
state of Connecticut can't afford to
have it dropped. If the legislative
committee can't secure the witnessed
and can't, find out all there is to be
found out about it then some su
perior XKtvrmr must be invokad.
MOSQUITOES DOOMED
THROUGHOUT STATE
THAT IS IF LEGISLATIVE BILL
GOES THROUGH.
Can Drain Salt Marshes For $7 An
Acre Tenement House. Ques
tion Before the Committee.-
Hartford, Feb. 26. Tlie committee
on public health and safety broke all
records for hearings by calling one
for 10 o'clock in the morning when it
heard men in favor of several bills for
the extermination of mosquitoes.
Three of the measures were sched
uled, two being of minor importance.
relating to the powers of local boards
of health giving such boards power - to
declare mosquito breeding places nui
sances. The main bill, House Bill
55, is more pretentious as it provides
for draining mosquito breeding areas
throughout the state, both fresh water
and salt marshes. It makes an ap
propriation of $200,000 for the pur
pose and the Connecticut Agricultural
Experiment -Station to "go to it."
fhe room was crowded with emin
ent doctors who appeared for the bill
and Dr. W. H. Carmalt of New Ha
ven had charge of the affirmative
side of the proposition, there being
no objection entered.
House Chairman Pons, of the com
mittee opened the hearing by saying
that the committee had decided to
limit all 'speakers to fifteen minutes,
to which Dr. Carmalt acceded. He
said he favored the bill In the interests
of public health and also because it
would enhance the yalue of shore
property. - He said he had received
700 letters advocating the measure
and called attention to the success
which had attended the work of the
government in , eliminating the mos-J
quitoes fron the .Canal Zone and of
the work done by the State of New
Jersey along the same lines. In this
connection he read a letter from
New Jersey expert commending the
draft of the bill under consideration
Dr. C. J. Bartlett of New Haven fol'
lowed and satd the measure was
practical and that those favoring the
bill knew exactly how many acres of
marsh land exist in the state and how
much' it would cost to drain them, a
later speaker placing the figure at $7
an acre. "He said that about one-
tenth k of the entire area had been
drained last year by private subscrip
tion and enterprise but the work must
be statewide in order to attain the
desired results. He said that mala
ria is transmitted by mosquitoes and
while the number of deaths from that
disease is not large the Iobs of time
incurred by its victims should be ta
ken into consideration. He empha
sized the-fact that bbth shore and in
land marshes must be drained. "It
cannot be done by private subscrip
tion as it is too big a Job," he said.
New Haven had done some work and
IBe results were highly satisfactory.
Dr. Moss Gompertz of New Haven
said $5,000 was spent about that city
in the , work last year of which about
$3,500 was spent in ditching. The
amount asked for in the bill is small,
he said. Dr. E. T. Bradstreet of
Meriden, president of the State Medif
cal Society, was heard in behalf of
the measure and called attention to
the eminent backing which it was re
ceiving. He said that ,the $200,000
asked for would probably be but a
small part of what would be expend
ed if the work was started as private
enterprise would aid.
Dr. E. K. Root of this city spoke as
a member of the state board of
health and told of the work which
the ciry did in the South Meadows and
of the success of the undertaking. He
said, however, that- its success was
somewhat hampered by the fact that
work, had to stop at the city line and
nothing cauld be done, to keepmos-
quitoes from breeding in Wethersfield
. Dr. C. W. Gaylord of Branford, and
other physicians were heard for the
measure as was State Entomologist
W. E. Britton.
At the afternoon session the com
mittee considered three tenement
house bills. The first taken up was
Introduced by Mr. Kopplemann of
Hartford and related to the estab
lishment of a state board of tenement
supervision as its prime object . and
provided for certain conditions as to
wall-papering over old paper and the
white-washing of cellars. There were
several, aside from. Mr. Kopplemann,
who spoke, in favor of . the measure
and a numbe offered opposition on
the ground that the boards of health
had the power now, todo all that the
commission would be empowered to
do, and thus the appointment of such
a body would be nothing more nor
less than an incumbrance. . Mr. Kop
plemann outlined the province of the
bill and added that he had always
been interested "in bettering the con
dition of the poor, that he had made
a. study of the subject and that he
thought it the duty of the Legislature
to protect the poorer people who are
really the ones to be safeguarded". He J
said that the majority of the owners
of tenements were inclined to do
the right thing but that there were al
ways someone who would take the
cheaper way out in dealing with ques
tions and it was these, that the bill
was framed to hit.
Thomas J. Cummings explained
that the bill was not to provide a sal
aried commission ror the violations
would take care of any compensation
for the members. The bill provides
for inspectors to enforce the law but
the supporters of the bill did not
know how many would be required.
Alfred J. McKeon of Bridgeport
said the people of his city were vital
ly interested in the bill, as Bridge
port was a cosmopoliton city and the
conditions in many of the houses
were awful. This was particularly
true of the tenements owned by peo
ple living outside the city and he
said people were forced 'to live in the
tenements. so as to be near their work.
The Board of Health, he thought, was
not empowered to handle the situation
and he added that there was no in
tent to burden the state, but. simply
to aid the poor. He thought the
spread of contagious disease was in
part due to the fact that new wall
paper was allowed to be placed over
germ laden walls without the old pa
per being taken off. All of the doc
tors present, however, disputed him
on this point.
Dr. Frank W. Wright of New Ha
ven was of the opinion that there
should not be any more acts relat
ing to the building laws as the
builders now hardly knew where they
stood. All places where there was
contgious disease he said were disin
fected. Dr. C. T. Botsfo.rd agreed
with this sentiment and said the
Hartford board of health had all the
authority it wanted. Dr. Edward B.
Hooker objected to the bill because he
said that the law should not give
specific instruction as to the details of
scientific work, believing that should
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men. - '
t-v- -a, tin nrtnoRAt this bill were
in favor of a bill amending the pres
ent law in regard to tenement houses
so that it should apply to towns as
well as- boroughs and cities. Rob
ert A. Crosby, representing the civic
Federation of New Haven, outlined
An rim ATI t 9Tld RSI I d that it WSfl
not proposed to change the essentials
in any respect. xne Dins iook up
the question of toilets, and that they
- J .-- n I -? io rilarrt on floor, and
also the size of windows in" sleeping
apartments. tie saia mere were oin
er amendments which might be good,
but that he did not think this an op
portune time to present them. . To
this Dr. Wright replied uai ne
thought if amendments were needed
that they ought to be put in now and
have a law that would stand without
amending for some time.
tj tr rvAiiinc a fnmiAr i1v1tit near
"V i -1 -r. Tules ntrrincrlv renommendS Fo
ley's Honey & Tar Compound and
says: L nave oeen siviseu vy
family doctor to uee Foley's noney
& Tar Oompofcnd for my children
when there was a cough medicine
ticoHoH Jt alwavs arives the best of
satisfaction and I recommend it to
others." F. B. Brill, Stratford ave
nue and Sixth street. Adv. 136
FIRST THINGS
The first of the several terrible
earthquakes from which Lisbon has
suffered occurred 382 years ago to
day, Feb. 26, 1531. Fifteen hundred
houses, comprising- the greater part of
the Portuguese city, fell Into ruins,
and 30,000 persons were killed. A
number of neighboring towns suffered
the same fate. During the following
two centuries the city was frequent
ly shaken by seismic disturbances but
another great calamity of this kind did
nnt nnma until 1755. when the city was
almost Instantly reduced into a heap
of rubbish. In less than eignt min
utes most of the houses and over 50,
ficn Inhabitants were swallowed up.
while whole streets were buried. The
cities of Oporto, Braga and others also
suffered terribly. In Spain, a large
part of Malaga became ruins, and in
Morocco a half of Fez was destroy
ed and 12,000 Arabs perished. Half
of the island of Madeira was laid
waste. Since that catastrophe, one
of the most terrible of its kind in
modern times, Usbon has surffered
several minor 'quakes. In 1S72 the
city was almost wiped out by fire. A
number of buildings remain to testi
fy forcibly of the great earthquakes.
Read Co.
of Hydrogen,
costs only 10
the
cts.
Patrick's Day Novelties and
at the Stationery Section.
Read Co.
We have just finished our
inventory and find a lot of
large and small skates. They
mst go, hence this unheard
of price. Also will sell lot
Boys' and Men's Nickel
Plated Skates,about all sizes,
regular price $1, for 68c.
$1.50 Hockey Skates, all
sizes, now 98c.
A WINE GIBU
He -was the happy father of a very
pretty and bright little girt of twelve.
"Dad" she said to him. one evening
while he wa reading the paper, "ev
ery morning when I am ' going to
school the boys catch hold of me and '
kiss me."
"But. Ethel," he said, -why don't
you run away from them ?
"Well, dad. If I did, perhaps they
wouldn't ' chas me."
He went on reading.
ARCTICS
Tn one, two and four buckles
Men's :..... .$1.10 to $2.00
Ladies' .....$1.25 to $2.23
Boys' . . . .$1.45 to $1.05
FELT
BOOTS
Men's Felts and Overs
$2.40 to $3.25
Boys' Felts and Overs
$2.25.
GLOVES
Men's Working Glove3
10 cto
The Ailing Rubber Co
. 1127 MAIN STREET
19 STORES
WANT AOS. CENT A WORD.