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(Founded 1790.)
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.Ave., Bridgeport. Conn.
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LA5EL
THURSDAY, FEB. 27, 191S.
'fTHREEPENNY DAY"
sf WILL BE CELEBRATED'
C ' AT ETON TO-DAY.
Many quaint and ancient customs
obtain 'at Eton College, the- -famous
Buckinghamshire school founded in
1440- a-nursery .to .Cambridge,, and
one of them, the celebrated "threepen
ny day." . will be cerebrated to-day.
TEV'-ouston hair been Observed nearly
fowriesn-turles and waS " Inaugurated
by gr-'LuPtonVno" yTaa provost of
Eton from 1502 to 1535. In" his will
Lupton arranged for an annual distri
bution of money on the anniversary of
his death, which fell on Feb. 7tn.
By the terms of the bequest the pro
vost received 2s. 8d., the fellows, head
master and chaplain is. 4d., the f as
sistant chaplains and ushers 8d., the
clerks 6d., and the pupils ana cnons-
tersi one. penny, each. t i Anftther. pro
v6aBiatJaiiiMinti(ufettJund for
the same purpose, and the scholars at
Eton will each receive threepence to
day. There is an old tradition at Eton to
the effect that the bequest really pro
vided that half a sheept was to be giv
en to each scholar, and that half a
sheep is really what each pupil is en
titled to. The college, it . is alleged,
sidesteps this obligation by giving each
lad the worth of half a sheep at the
prices prevailing in the Middle Ages.
There seems to toe little basis' of fact
for. such, a. tradition, but it persists
and' , it la , likely that .to-day, as in
years past, some brave scholar will
create a sensation by refusing the ten
dered "thruppence" and demanding
his rightful ha"if a sheep. The last boy
to make such a demand aroused the
Ire of the college authorities, and was
soundly flogged. This precedent is
hardly likely to act as a detriment.
I&r what lad would not take a flog
ging if, he gained thereby the respect
and admiration of his fellows?
The Dominican (Republic's national
holiday, commemorating-, the begin
ning of the struggle for Independence
in 1844, will be celebrated to-day. Al
though It has had its share of politi
cal troubles and civil strife during
the last few years', Dominica ia much
more civilized and prosperous than its
neighboring black . republic,. Haiti.
Nothing so accurately reflects the ed
ucation. Intelligence and culture of a.
people as the support given to their
press, and in this respect Dominica is
far ahead of Haiti. - The population
of Dominica is only little more thin
a third that.df its neighbor, yet Do
minica has thirty-one newspapers and
periodicals, six. of which are Issued
daily, while Haiti has only five publi
cations, two of-then dally newspa
pers. Port ala ' Prince, the Haiti cap
ital, has & population of 60,000, and its
two dally papers have a combined cir
culation of less than 7,000. Santo Do
mingo, only a third as large as the
metropolis of Haiti, has two evening;
papers with a combined circulation . of
12,000. In -addition to the daily, Sun
day and ,weekly press, Santo Domingo
has semi-monthly and monthly re
view's ef religion, agriculture, educa
tion, "medicine, pharmacy and com
merce; a humorous weekly and three
excellent literary weeklies. Haiti has
only one small review, which boasts o
a circulation of 3,000. Dominica was
a part of Haiti until the revolution
which began Feb. 27, 1844. From 1S61
to 1863 Dominica was a Spanish pos
session, but the republic was restored
in 1863. The semi-centenary of the es
tablishment of the present republic
win foe celebrated, next August.'
Kaiser "Wllhelm and Kaiserln Au-guste-Victoria
will celebrate to-day the
thirty-second anniversary of their
wedding, which was- celebrated In Ber
lin Feb. 27, 1881. The Kaiserln was
the daughter of Duke Friedrich of
Schleswlg-Holstein.
SEW BRITISH .AMBASSADOR
TO AMEHICAy 54 TO-DAY,
'.i-.-r i X!f'''XiK ''BABY'" OF CORPS.
Although he will celebrate his- fifty
fourth birthday to-day. Sir Cecil Ar
thur Spring-Rice, the new British am
bassador to Washington, is an infant
among diplomats, being the ypungest
of Great Britain's corps to hold am
bassadorial grade. Sir , Cecil will need
ail of his acknowledged ability to "fill
the 'shoes"1 ; of the Right Hon.' James
Bryce, who has been relieved of the
"Washington post to become a mem
ber 'of the Permanent Court of Arbi
tration at The Hague. Mr. Bryce
will not go to the Dutch capital until
next August, when Sir Edward Pry,
president of the British delegation will
retire. ' ' '
Sir Cecil was born Feb. 27, 1859, and,
was educated at Eton and Oxford. He
' entered the service of his country as
a clerk in the war office, and later
In 'the foreign office. He was next
sm ployed as assistant private secre
tary of Earl Granville, and In a sim
ilar capacity by the Earl of Rosebery.
As secretary at Brussels, Washington,
Tokio, Berlin and Constantinople h
bad a wide and varied training for
his diplomatic career, and he has
many friends In the American Capital
lo which he will now return as am
bassador. He was charge d'affaires at
Teheran, Persia, in 1900, British am
bassador Of public debt at Clairo a
fear later, and first secretary of em
bapsy at St. Petersburg from 1903 to
L90 5. Then for two years he was Brit
ish minister to Persia, and in 1908
went to Stockholm as British minister
to Sweden.
As a linguist Sir Cecil' will have few
equals at ' Washington, as he speak
nearly all of the foreign languages, is
thoroughly conversant with the Per
sian tongue, and has a speaking ac
quaintance with Japanese, and Arabic
A fiaflii floreled. Aloe yeans ago, Flor-,
WHAT IS POLITICAL VALUE OF LOW TAX RATE?
There was no occasion
circles over the tax rate. The shuddering was all unnec
essary. The people of Bridgeport are not stupid. They
do not tear their hair, nor go into spasms of rage because
of an extra mill on the tax rate, if it ought to be there.
The citizens are concerned about what they GET for
their money. They want a dollar 7s worth tor a dollar, o
things useful, convenient, or necessary to make a comfort
able city, fit to be the home of a hundred thousand persons.
They do not want fads,
undue expenditures to gratify political ambitions. They
do not want debt, especially by long term. bonds, except
when debt is absolutely necessary.
They do not want to be told that they have a fifteen
mill tax rate, when the person conveying the information
means that they are to have a fifteeen mill tax rate plus
thirty mills of indebtedness, upon which a sum equal to
sixty mills of tax rate must be paid before the" debt is ex
tinguished. . ; : .
It is not an offense upon the part of the city govern
ment that it has a tax rate of sixteen and a half mills, if
thejmatters for which the rate is laid are things that the
city ought to have. , p v
It is an offense, if the city is deprived of what it ought
to have in order, to keep the tax rate a mill less, in order
that somebody may make a better run for office. j:
It was easy enough to eliminate the half milL if it was
desired to do so. It was only necessary to repeal the or
dinance, adding fifty, policemen to the force. But much
as Mayor Wilson desired a lower tax rate, he was not will
ing to abandon his aggrandized police, nor his nine lieu
tenants in gold braid and politics. ,
v This is proof of the executive estimate of the compar
ative political value of a lower tax rate, and several hun
dred prospective policemen hustling for votes.
At the last minute schools were cut, and many other
items.vv.'iJA provision, was made for the deficiency which
as the city auditor indicated, arises from the over estimate
of revenue a year ago. r This deficiency will equal $45,000.
Even the cash surplus which the city maintains for
emergencies was scarcely safe. .
It was only by the insistence of a single member of
the tax board that this surplus was not absorbed, into the
ravenous maw of the administration policy of "a low-tax
rate at any cost and bonds whether the voters want them
or not." " - 1
'BAD BILL
The bill to create the board of contract and supply by
charter amendment, which would fix it upon Bridgeport
for an indefinite period, came to its end in the House yes
terday, when the committee on cities and boroughs report
ed it unfavorably, and the bill was rejected without re
mark. ,The senate will concur in this action and that will
be the end of the matter. 1
Mr. King, house chairman of the committee, in ex
plaining briefly the report upon the bill, said that it had
once been submitted to the people of Bridgeport and that
they had defeated it by 1,500 votes. He stated what was
merely the truth. . The people's verdict should have pre
vented the introduction of the measure. . .;'
' It may be that the board of contract and supply is a
good thing. There is no evidence at present to prove that
it is. It is, operating under ordinance. " It will be con
tinued of it gives good results,
it does not.
END OF SIXTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
V The Sixty-Second Congress is about to come to an
end. It has a week of life, and much work ahead of it.
The supply bills are for the most part not in. Some of
them may go over to the next Congress. r
The Sixty-Second Congress hasn't had a profitable
career .1 Its services have been of weak accomplishment.
It principally serves to point the error of keeping the leg
islative establishment of the nation so that the men en
trusted with the affairs of the people do not take control
until months after their election. ,v
One government should succeed another more speed
ily. When the people elect new men to have eharge of
aff airs it is not wise that the government should long con
tinue itx the hands of those from whom the people have re
moved it. -. ', '
ence, daughter of the R-t. Hon. Sir
Frank Iaeelle, then the British am
bassador to Germany.
The first visit to Washington, of th
new Ambassador was -as secretary o
embassy during the regime of Lord
Pauncefote, who represented Great
Britain In the formulation of the now
famous Hay-Pauncef orte - treaty. 6ir
Cecil's official residence in Washing
ton is a plain, solid, almost ugly
structure, and not very well suited to
the social affairs which: are no small
part of the duties of a diplomat In
the capital of Yankeedom, although
the edifice is the largest of its kin
In Washington. . '
Prof. Irving Fisher. Is the Theodore
Roosevelt of "American colleges. Th
eminent professor of political economy
at Yale, who will celebrate his forty
sixth birthday to-day, does not con
fine himself to political economizing-
One day he remarks that all college
men drink too much, and the next he
joins the national association which
proposes to save all of us from goinft
to,-the lunatic asylums. He was
member of Roosevelt's National Con
servation Commission, and 4a leader in
the movement for a governmental de
partment of health. He advocates'
"pedigreed "marriages," and has
scheme for solving the high -cost o
living problem, which he attributes 'to
the "tyranny of gold." Altogether.
Prof. Fisher is a very busy man.
Sir Charles Cust, That sounds lik
a simple declarative in simplified spell
ing, but it is the name of an English
baronet and former naval officer who
is now equerry to the Prince of Wales.
Sir Charles will be forty-nine to-day.
having been born in Shropshire on
Feb. 27, 1864. He is an enthusiastic
sportsman, and his name appears with
great frequency in the list of among
those present at English hunting par
ties. , -
"Progressive Citizenship" will be
the subject "of an address tonight by
W. W. Collins, of. this city, before the
Progressive Club. ' . . . .
for the perturbation in official
nor useless ornaments, nor
KILLED.
and" will be discontinued if
INSTRUCTOR ATTACKS
; YALE MORALS IN PLAY
New Haven, Feb. 27 In a four act
play Just published and entitled "The
Ice liens," George Frederich Gundel
finger, an instructor in Yale, attacks
the morals of college men.
It is understood that the play ; wa
written in the , hopes of raising the
tone of the morals of college under
graduates and that the Yale Instructor
said that attacks on college - morals in
the newspapers are always denied in
a subsequent issue by university offi
cials who are striving to uphold, either
falsely or ignorantly, the moral stand
ing of their institution.
The play pictures the insignificant
despised tutor struggling through col
lege and eventually surpassing th
rich man's depraved eon, who comes
out of college a moral and physical
wreck. He reminds the reader that
the real scholar has gained nothing
over the one who has got in toj
trickery, as they both have the same
degree.
PROTEST TO WILSON
AGAINST BRANDEIS
Trenton, Feb. S7. Governor Wil
son has appointed Charles L. Swem
his personal stenographer. The young
man has occupied the position with
Wilson as Governor.
Warren Johnson has been named as
personal stenographer to Joseph P.
Tumulty, secretary to the President
elect. Thomas P. Reilly, of Boston, and
Humphrey O'SuIlivan, of Lowell, have
filed a. vigorous verbal protest with
the President-elect against the possi
ble appointment of Louis D. Bran dels,
of Boston, to a place in the cabinet.
Wilson - listened attentively but gave
no indication - whether be would be
guided by their wishes.
THE FARMER: FEBRUARY
KOCHERSPERGER
COURSE OF NEW HAVEN CO.
Vice President of Railroad System Denies
Wilson's Allegation That Steam Road Is
i Being Looted by Purchase of
Trolley Lines
Vice President H. M. Kochersperger
of the New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad, issued a statement
yesterday, brought forth by Rep. Lynn
W. Wilson's bill of particulars, deny
ing that the managers of the New
Haven Company are looting the steam
road property, by the constant pur
chasing of trolley roads and steam
ships at extraordinarily high prices.
Mr. Kochersperger's Statement f ol
lows:
"The average market price for
New Haven stock in the year 1906 was
$197 a share, but it should be borne
in mind that the New Haven stock
was selling at a price based upon the
then business conditions, which not
only affected it but all other stocks.
1906 was what might be called a ban.
ner year for business, but ftie busi
ness disturbance which resulted in a
decline in the stock of the company
was due very largely to the attacks
on the great business interests of this
country by men In public life. Those
business attacks have continued ever
since and is it any wonder that x the
price of New Haven stock is selling,
to-day at $127 a share. The depres
sion In New Haven stock Is incidental
to the depression In all dividend pay
ing stocks. ' One has only to look
over the stock lists In this morning's
newspaper to have my statement thor
oughly accepted. All of the stocks
of great corporations have been very
seriously depressed Within the last
few years and this depression 18 al
most wholly due to "the apprehension
created by the continuous attacks on
the business of this country by men in
public life, and the prospect of con
tinued hostile: legislation affecting
these Interests. .
"The- attack of the politicians on
the business Interests of the country
are bound to affect the values of all
Properties and It is time that the
stockholders in Connecticut and ad
joining states should be aroused to
the effect of these attacks on the
great business Interests of this coun
try. There isn't s man, woasn or
child In the United States, continued
Mr. Kochersperger,. "who Is not famil
iar with the business depression which
followed, the great panic of 1907. In
deed 'the effect of that panic is with
us to-day and it Is not an exaggera
tion to state that panic brought upon
this country by unwise public utter
ances. As to the net earnings report
ed for the years 1906, 1909 and 1910,
it should be borne in mind that the
figures stated by Mr. Wilson are for
the New York, New Haven andW Hart
ford Railroad proper and that a cor
rect conclusion cannot be formed
without taking Into consideration the
surplus income of subsidiary, com
panies, to which the New Haven road
as the owner directly or Indirectly of
the stocks of those corporations. Is en
titled.
Would Be Surplus.
"Also to the conservative policy of
the New Haven board in establishing
and building up out of the expense
accounts, reserve funds for fire losses
personal injuries, coal insurance and
marine insurance, wnicn nau me ei-
fect of understating the real net in
come of the system. This was clear
ly set forth on page six of the Gen
eral Statement to the stockholders for
the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1912
wherein it was shown that if the sur
pluses of the subsidiary companies
and these reserve funds had been ta.
ken into consideration that the de
ficit Of $458,613 for 1909 would have
been converted into a surplus of ?85,
606; the deficit for 1911 of $1,267,000
would have been converted into a sur
nlus of S456.712."
" Vice President Kochersperger speak
ing of the acquisition of The Rhode
Island company quoted from the re
port of the Validation committee of
Massachusetts, page 122, which says:
"When It Is considered that the
lines Rhode : Island Line) have a
mileage of 320 miles of single track.
serving the second largest city in New
England; that the earnings are in
creasing; that the property has been
put in excellent condition; and that
the leases are for a very long, term, it
seems probable that the ultimate val
ue of the property will be great. For
the purposes of this report, which
is designed to be very conservative,
however, the value of these shares Is
placed at $6,000,000, or about $62 a
share, that is to say, about one
fourth the cost to the New Haven."
As to Trolley Lines.
Vice President Kochersperger took
up and considered Representative
Wilson's statement that the New, Ha
ven company had Issued its stock on
an eight per cent, basis for the ac
quisition of street railway properties
paying two per cent, and declared:
"That substantially all of the street
railway properties were purchased
either through the sale of or ex
change for the four per cent, deben
tures of (the- Consolidated. Railway
company; in fact one of the first pur
chases that was made was through
the exchange of three and one-half
per cent, debentures of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad
piminftnV." .
Vice-president Kochersperger call- I
ed attention to the letter of President
Mellen to Charles F. Choate, Jr., of
Boston dated January 4, 1908, which
said: i ' i
"With regard to the trolley lines
that have been acquired since I came
to this property, that Is, since Novem- j
ber 1, 1902, let me say:
"They were acquired under a gen-!
eral plan which was adopted by our
board of directors, that the trolleys
were deeirable as feeders to the steam
lines that they collected traffic
through their frequent service and
brought the same to points from
which the steam service could be us- ;
ed, and thus developed adjoining ter- j
ritory and made the steam railroad
of itself more prosperous.
"Likewise .they distribute the traf
fic brought to various points of con
nection by the steam railroad lines.
"They were being developed In a
desultory sort of way and not upon
lines calculated to promote the best
results, and, after long consideration,
it was thought desirable they should
be developed more vigorously and j
with a view to supplementing existing j
steam transportation lines. It is fur-
27, 1913
DEFENDS
ther my own opinion, and in that I
may say I am supported by my as
sociates in the board of -directors, that
the ultimate system of suburban de
velopment Is by the trolley, and the
Interchange between cities in close
proximity will be best promoted by the
service upon the street railway lines
in the various cities, thence by high
speed transportation ' through use of
the steam railroad tracks between cit
ies, and we have been hoping and
still believe, there will ultimately be
such a use of the steam railroad tracks
whereon electric lines may be run on
frequent headway, that is, at five,
ten, fifteen or twenty minute inter
vals, as the amount of traffic will
Justify, and thus there will be estab
lished that ideal Intercommunication
between localities which is most de
sirable for their development."
Can't Expect Miracles.
Vice-President Kochersperger incl
dentally referred to Representative
Wilson's statement concerning casual
ties and added:
"You never knew of a business con
cern in the world whose morale was
not affected by continued critical com
ment of an' unfair character.. The
employes of the New Haven road are
among the best in this country. They
are courteous, zealous and eager , to
serve the public, but these men are
but human and like the great busi
ness men of this country have been
keenly affected by the continued crit
icisms of men in public life. Let me
quote from the letter of Charles H.
Jarvis of New Britain when he re
marked:
"We cannot expect miracales even
from the great New York, New Haven
& Hartford Railroad company, espec
ially at a time like this, when all of
their facilities are crowded to the ut
most. Is there any manufacturer In
the state of Connecticut that is giv
ing as good service to his customers
at the present time as he gives un
der ordinary conditions? , Is there a
sales department of any of our fac
tories but what is constantly being
bombarded every day. and every mail
because of. failure to give the usual
service failure to keep promises and
failure to ship goods with " any de
gree of promptness? The railroad
company is not much different in this
respect; with its ample facilities It Is
crowded to Its utmost capacity, and
we manufacturers ought to under.
stand it because we know how it is
ourselves in -our own business."
Vice President Kochersperger next
took up Representative Wilson's crit
icisms on the. amount of taxes paid
by , the. New, - Haven company, and
stated: ...
Pays Big Share.
"In 1899 the amount of taxes paid
to the state of Connecticut by the
New Haven company and the com
panies then operated separately, but
which have since come Into the sys
tem, was $1,090,997; In 1912, the
company paid $1,522,835, an Increased
payment to the state of Connecticut of
$431,838, equal to forty per cent. It
should be' further noted that In 1906,
at which time the Connecticut Rail
way and Lighting company was a
separate and independent corporation,
the amount of taxes paid by it to the
state was $102,767. The taxes of
the Connecticut Railway & Lighting
Co., for 1912, for which the New Ha
ven company was responsible, and
paid, was $207,574, bo that the state
received the benefit of the New Ha
ven's control of the Connecticut Rail
way & Lighting company by the
amount of $104,807, an increase of
102 per cent. Furthermore, this fact
should not be lost sight of, that tha
total revenues of the state of Con
necticut for 1912, other than that re
ceived by it from the sale of bonds
was $5,915,417, of which the New Ha
ven system paid $1,587,195, being the
taxes for 1911, or 27 per cent, of the
entire revenue of the state. As a
matter of fact in some years the New
Haven system has paid to the state of
Connecticut 331-3 per cent of. the en
tire state revenue.
RED HATS OF CARDINALS.
The first Investiture of the members
of the college of cardinals with the
red hat, as the insignia of their dig
nity, took place 667 years ago. to-day
The red hat as a symbol of the sacred
college was adopted by Pope Inno
cent IV at the Council of Lyons in
1245. With the passing of the cen
turies it -has become the chief mark
of cardinal rank, so that to "receive
the hat" is in common parlance syn
onymous with being made a cardinal.
The color was adopted as a constant
reminder to the wearer that he
should always be ready to shed his
blood in martyrdom for the church,
especially against the Emperor Fred
erick, who was deposed by the Coun
cil of Lyons. Varenes, and quotes
the prophet Naham. "The shield of his
mighty men Is red, the valiant men
are. in scarlets" In the course of
time the red hat has become a large
and all. but unwearable creation of
silk and tassels.
get new life and vigor by
taking Scott' Emulsion
after every meal.
It revitalizes the watery
blood and furnishes Nature
with new nourishment to make
red, active, healthy blood and feeds
thm nmrv center. Scott's
Emulsion strengthens the
bones and clothes them with
healthy flesh. M
Scott's Emulsion assimi
lates so quickly it conserves
energy and compels health.
Scott & Bowne, Bloomfield, N. J. 12-74
The D. M. Read Co
Established 1857
New Chiffon Panamas.
We have just received from a prominent dress
goods manufacturer several pieces of fine quality Chif
fon Panama, which could be effectually used f-e-r .-yrra-piece
dresses, children's dresses, skirts and spring srtits.
The colors are old blue, medium blue, two navys, tan,
and black.
These g-oods are 54 inches wide and are offered at
the exceptionally low price of 85 cts. Cannot de dupli
cated. Dress Goods Section, main floor.
Metal Waste Baskets.
These Baskets for office or home use are more
durable than willow or straw and much safer. Should
a lighted match be thrown into them, there is practi
cally little danger, as the flames would be confined to
the Basket. Finished in oxidized brass in two sizes,
$1.00 and $1.25. In white enamel for bathroom or
bedroom use, $1.25.
. Dustless Dusters.
A chemically prepared cloth for dusting, which
gathers up the dust but does not throw it, nor can it be
shaken out. Can be washed, which does not affect the
chemical properties Special price, 19 cts.
Potato Bakers.
A neat and handy device for baking potatoes.
Holds six . and keeps them off the oven bottom, baking
them evenly with no hard spots. Made of heavy, tin.
10 cts each.
. Nutmeg Graters.
Made of heavy tin, nickel plated, with reservoir for
holding the nutmegs. Uses up all the pieces without
grating the fingers. 25 cts.
At the Jewelry Section may be seen the new gold
filled "Durbar" Expansion Bracelet in several styles.
Very attractive. Price $1.00.
Whittemore's "Elite" Shoe Dressing, which regu
larly sells for 25 cts, is offered at the special price of
,19 cts. Produces a brilliant jet black.
i " . Notion Section.
The sale of Ginghams
variety of new spring goods
different prices. " ' .
The D. M.
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MAYOR GAYNOR
DENIES POLICE
GRAFT GENERAL
mw Torfc. Feb. 27 "There Is no-
better police force In the world than
the force under Commissioner Waldo
I,, iktw "Wrt-lr " Anlrt Ttfawir fiavnor tf
the legislative committee taking evi
dence looking' toweura the warning or
remedial legislation In the vice an
graft situation here.
Th rhurrna that lieut. Becker, un
der sentence of death In Sing Sing,
was a grafter resulted from the action
of the department In closing 12 sepa
rate gambling houses which Herman
Rosenthal opened after Waldo became
commissioner, the mayor declared. The
resort of George Slpp was also closed,
said O&ynor and the recent disclosures
Involving Lieut. Walsh resulted, he de
clared.
"When I first came Into office, po
lice graft had been organized in New
York for 25 years and neaas oi
police department retired as mi-
llonalres," said the mayor. .but. wno
will leave the department now a mil
lionaire?" The mayor Insisted that grart was
onAni Hut otas confined to two
or three districts and possibly two or
three men.
The force as a whole is all right,
declared Oaynor. "Some corrupt
newspapers are trying to make it ap
pear differently but tney win not suc
ceed."
CZAR'S PARDON FOR
POLITICAL PRISONERS
Berlin, Feb. 27. A special to the
Tageblatt from St. retersDurg says
that the Caar has oraerea amneaw w
several political prisoners on the 'oc
casion of the approacning ceieDration
of the ter-centennary of the House of
Romanoff.
Among those to be pardoned are
former Col. KuIJabko, wnose alleged
neglect made possible the assassina
tion of Premier Stolypin; Captain
Trescnenko, who ordered 400 gold
miners Shot down at Jena. ana Prose
goes steadily on. A
larrre
to choose from at several
Read Co.
In connection with this
sale of Sidewalk Scraper3
will sell balance of Wooden
Snow Shovel3 at 15c.
Iron . Snow Shovels at 22
cents.
Lowest prices for hard
ware. cutor Lyschin, accused of fori?; n if
documents against Armenian revolu
tionists. SUNDAY SCHOOL CONFERENCE.
The third of a series of Sun1ay
Bschool conferences will be held thi
evening at the West End Congr
tlonal church. W. I. Woodkln, gen
eral secretary of state work, will con
duct the conference on "Teachers
Training Work."
ARCTICS
In one, two and four bueklf-s
Men's .$1.10 to Z2.C0
Ladies' .... .$1.25 to $2.25
Boys' . . .... .$1.45 to $1.05
FELT
BOOTS
Men's Felts and Over3
$2.40 to $3.25
Boys' Felts and Overs
$2.25
GLOVES
Men's Working Glove3
10 cto $1.43
The Ailing Rubber Co.
1127 MAIN STREET
JB STORES
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