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"NT THE FARMER: JUNE 6, 1913 BRIDGEPOR T E VENING FARMER (FOUNDED 1790.) r Published by Hie Farmer Publishing Co., 179 Fairfield Am, Bridgeport, Conn. - The "Two Bridge" Bonding Bill Thefbrldge bonding bill Is up to the voters. If they wish to spend a, mil lion dollars on an unnecessary bridge at State .street, for the beneflt of real estate speculators and debt maniacs they may -do so. The opportunity Is theirs. It was 'a hard won oppor tunity. The double machine, backed by a ipowerful lobby, fought hard for a. law that would prevent the Ques tion from J going automatically to the ballot box. .. In this purpose they were defeated. ' But the .bin shows its origin and :the desperate desire of its originators 'for .the State street project. Feeling jthat there Jmlght be a demand for a J new bridge at Stratford avenue, the I -promoters of . the State street folly 'caused both matters to be consolidat ed in lochia way that they must be I -voted .opon -together, the hop being I that the friendship some voters may have for a new bridge at Stratford avenue, might help the State street ' million over. Thevdefeat of the bill should be cer tain. Nor will this prevent Bridge port from ' issuing bonds for a new bridge, j If it desires. The General As sembly passed a law under which 'cities may issue bonds, BY THEIR OWN IXITIATIVE, with, the consent 'of the electors. ' Under this law a proposal for a bridge at' Stratford avenue can be fceparately submitted, and the way is (absolutely clear for the unhampered jvIULEf G of the proposed issue of a ''million and a half of bonds for the 'construction of two bridges, for one "of which there is certainly no large, V or general demand. THE FIGHT FOR CHEAPER GAS Bridgeport was visited, yesterday, y the Public Utilities Commission, -vhich sat for & few minutes to fix a date for hearing upon the petition of Representatives McMurray and "Wilson 'for a reduction of the .price of gas in Bridgeport.' ..vit The hearing will be held on July 2. Gas coats more in Bridgeport than it costs in either-Hartford or New Ha ven. Gas costs $1 net in Bridgeport. Better gas Is sold generally in Massa chusetts cities of the same class as Bridgeport at prices ranging from 75 to 85 cents, but generally at 80 cents per thousand cubic feet. Bridgeport ought to enjoy rates at least as favorable as those enjoyed by other communities. SEWAGE POLLUTION BILL The bill to remove sewage from In land streams and tidal waters, which came into the General Assembly, with good pn-ospects, emerged at the end of the- session so badly emasculated that Its own parents couldn't recog nize it. Instead of a measure authorizing a "revolution of sewage disposal meth ods, there remains a mere instruction to the State Board of Health to In Jjulre into the question. In taking this action it is notable that the legislature became a partaker of the view of Hon. Zalmon Goodsell of Bridgeport, who was an ardent and Indefatigable opponent of the plan, believing it would inflict millions of expense upon the cities. On the other hand the measure was ardently de sired by the oyster growers, who be lieve .that their oysters would be Jnore marketable if sewage deposits vere estopped from the Sound. i THE HUMAN PROCESSION How to keep my figure? That is the question that is -agitating millions of jtvomen the world over, in these days when slenderness is the supreme fem inine virtue, and fatness, or even plumpness, is little short of criminal. And here is the answer, as supplied fy Mme. Rejane, the great French ac tressy who, although she passes her pfty-sixth milestone ' today, still re tains the slender and beautiful lines tf her youth. A meatless diet, a pure ly vegetable regimen, saved the peer less Rejane when she found herself growing -too plump to play the roles in Which she has won fame the world jvr. It. was hard it was difficult Cor Madame to forego the pleasures of frog limbs, and poulet, and pate de toie gras, for Madame is fond -of good living, but in the end she triumphed over her appetites and made the great renunciation. Immediately the folds Tf fat began to disappear, and now Rejane. on her fifty-sixth birthday, finds herself young and beautiful as ever, with every likelihood of equalling the record for perennial youthfulness established by her sister vegetarian, the divine Sarah. Madame Rejane, whose real name was Gabrielle Reju, was born in Paris on June 6, 1857, and made her stage debut - at the Vaudeville Theatre 38 years ago. She speedily won a place 'among the foremost of Parisian ac tresses, and in 1895 made a tour of 'America that was immensely success ful. Rejane was for some years .the Sits cf M. Porel, director of the, U N ! C N(1LA BEL FRIDAY, JVrtTE 6, 1918. ' Vaudeville, tout Ahey were divorced in 1905. i . " "The pseudo-charitableness of the man of the world, who speaks no evil of any one because he knows that even a small insect can bite, is sheer cowardice." "People have no rlght'to live the sin ned unless they hate the sin. The punishment of the sinner ought to be the vengeance of outraged society." "The soul of the adulterer may have good qualities known only to God, but the man we are invited to meet at dinner Is not the soul we are leaving to God." . These epigrams are specimens of .the cauetic utterances of Dean Inge of St. Paul's, London, who is a clergy man who does not .hesitate to speak what is in his heart. The Dean of the world's most noteworthy cathedral was born in Torkshire forty-three years ago today, and his father was a clergyman and his mother a clergy man's daughter, while his wife also came of a family long prominent in the Church of, England. James Augustine McFaul, the distin guished Catholic bishop of Trenton N". J., was born in County Antrim 63 years ago today. Although- enjoying excellent health, the Bishop recently selected bis grave and ordered a. Cel tic Cross tombstone to be placed over It. Bishoo McFaul began his priest hood over thirty-six years ago, and has been head of the Trenton diocese since October, 1894. In addition to his religiohs work he has long been prom inent in movements f 6r the welfare of society, especially the prevention and cure of tuberculosis. Prof. Stockton Axson of Princeton, brother-in-law of President Wilson, was born in Rome, Ga., 46 years ago today. English geographers and explorers will hold a meeting today to commem orate the birthday of Capt. Scott, the intrepid explorer who lost his life on the return trip from the South Pole. It has been suggested that Scott Day be annually observed by the Royal Geographical Society, and it Is likely that the plan will toe adopted. ' In any event, the name and fame of Scott will not soon vanish from the mem ories of men, for few tragedies in all history have made so deep an impres sion as the death of the heroic Scott and his brave companions. Robert Falcon Scott was born at Outlands, Devenport, a naval station on the southern coast of England, 45 years ago today, June 6, 1868. .His ca reer as ah' antarctic explorerv began In law, when . be . headed the: English . ex pedition that sailed on the' crude wood en whaler Discovery' and established a "furthest south" record. A. borii lead er of men, a. physical and mental stal wart, fearless yet never rash, deter mined but always sympathetic, Capt. Scott tv-as the ideal figure of an ex plorer. The long roll of modern mar tyrs to science begins with the heroic Bruno, mute and defiant in bis pyre of flames, and ends gloriously with the ice-enshrouded Scott. , Canada and Australia, as well as the United Kingdom, have joined in be stowing honors ; and more subsantial appreciations on the families of Capt. Scott and others who lost their lives in the antarctic tragedy. The widow of the great explorer is now Lady Scott, with the same rank, style and precedence as if her husband had been created a Khight Commander of the Bath, as he would have been if he had lived. The King's prerogative of bestowing a title upon a woman is rarely exer cised. The last noteworthy instance of this kind was In 1891, when the widow of Sir John Alexander Macdon ald, the great Canadian statesman, was made a peeress, becoming Bar oness Macdonald of Earnscliffe. The distinguished Dominion Prime Minis ter died in Ottawa just twenty-two years ago today. In the same year the wdow of the Rt. Hon. W. H. Smith, leader In the Commons, was created Viscountess Hambleden. Perhaps the first notable case of the conferring- of a title upon the widow of a great man was in 1801, when the widow of Sir Ralph Abercromby, killed in the battle of Alexandria, was made a baroness. The bestowal of titles on women whose husbands were living has been of rare occurrence, but there have been several such cases. Onefof the most noteworthy was the confer ring of the title of viscountess on Mrs Disraeli tome eight years before her husband, the eminent statesman, was elevated to the peerage as Eiarl of Beaconsfleld. . ; One hundred and one years ago to day, June 6, 1812, a United States ves sel seized the British ship Lord Jfel son on the Great Lakes. War was not -declared until nearly two weeks later, and a United States court de clared the seizure illegal, and awarded $5,000 to the Canadian owners of the Lord Nelson. A United States court clerk absconded with most of the 000, and for a century the claim has gone -unsettled. Now it Is before the International Joint Commission, and the present Canadian claimant, Henry James Bethune, will probably be awarded not only ' the original $5,000, but interest at 6 per cent, from June 6, 1812, making a total of over J35.000. The first European settler in Brook lyn was George Jansen de Rapeljo, who , established his horns at Waal bogt, now Wallabout, during the di rectorship of Peter Minuet. His daugh ter, Sarah Rapelje, was born there 2S8 years ago today, and was the first white child born in Brooklyn or Long Island. The Indians celebrated the ar rival of the stork with a paleface pa poose by conveying to the young lady a large parcel of land near the Wall about land now worth many millions. Governor. Minuet of New Amsterdam promised the mother of the infant a, cow, as soon as the ship came from Holland, and the promise was fulfilled, the cow being the first to be brought to Long Island. The father of Sarah was followed to America, and to Brooklyn or Brouckelen, as it was called by the Dutch by, two brothers'; who received .: patents .for . land near Gravsend. In 1657 Governor Stuyve- SCRAP BOOK FOR TO-DAY j sant granted a general patent to the town, and this patent was confirmed by subsequent governors in consider ation of an annual quit-rent of twenty bushels of wheat. This quit-rent con tinued to be paid by the town as late as 1786. Brooklyn, now famed as the "city of churches," was without a house of worship for thirty-four years after its settlement. Even after a church was built the people complain ed to the governor that their minister was inattentive to his duties, officiat ing only once a fortnight, end then only praying for a quarter .of an hour, insteod of preaching a sermon. - LABOR APPROVES TRADE SCHOOL AS PLANNED BY GLYNN New Haven, June 6 By its approval last night of the New Haven Trade echool plans as set forth by the Su perintendent of the. new school. Frank Glynn, the New Haven Trades coun cil established a notable precedent In the attitude of labor toward the trade school idea. In the majority of cities where trade schools have been estab lished the unions have been either in different or antagonistic to the schools, and the support given the idea here is taken by the Board of Educa tion, which will conduct the school, to Indicate that the school will have smoother sailing than if the support had been withheld. Mr. Glynn told .the Council that it would be the policy of the school to prevent over-production in the trades, and to this end the Board of Educa, tion would through him consult with the masters of various trades and train in those trades which the masters agree upon as necessary. In addition he analyzed, the, public, school system to show where elimina tion could be practiced so that those without special" training for a voca tional life could be helped. The trade chool he showed as a special prepar atory school for the practice of one's trade, just as the normal school is the preparation for the teacher and the college for the physician or law yer.? --. And above all he overcome what ever vestige of objection there' might remain to the idea by emphasizing the fact that the school would teach the trades in their entirety, and the men turned out would be the equals of the apprentices turned out in the factories and not low-priced oompeJUtors, as feared by the unions. Superintendent " of Schools JBeede spoke upon the needs of the public school as related to the industrial conditions, and urged that the schools should better answer the needs of the people in educating children for a vo cation. The trade wehool, he said, would bridge the . gap between the fourteenth and sixteen tti "years of the child. As It is. now a boy. who grad uates frorn ' the grammar school a fourteen must wait two ' years before lie can become an apprentice to a trade. By going into the trade school he can spend those two years in learn ing, the trade, and: comes out able to earn the same money as the lad of nineteen years who has had to become an apprentice in a factory. TO OPEN CHESHIRE REFORMATORY SOON The Cheshire Reformatory board will meet this evening, at which time it will be determined officially when the State Reformatory for Boys will open. "Warden Garvin has given it as his Informal opinion, when - asked by Judge Joel H. Reed, of the Hartford term of the superior court, that it would be open for the reception of prisoners within two weeks, and on the -strength of that assurance Judge Reed "sentenced three lads' In his court to the reformatory, the first that have been sent there. The statute provides that prisoners from 16 to 25 years- of age may be transferred from the State prison to the reformatory, and until that time the lads will be held at the prison. There was some doubt as to the legality of sentencing prisoners to the reformatory before it is finished, but this is held by Warden Garvin to be legal inasmuch as it provides for their confinement in prison first, and transfer when the other Institution is completed:. It will be recalled that State's Attorney Ailing in prosecuting a case against a young lad sixteen years of age in the April term of the New Haven superior court, -recommended that he might be sent to the reformatory after it opened. In the interim he was sent to jail by Judge Burpee. i The pair are not on speaking terms Their neighbors so aver. They say she always shrieks tat him, He always growls at her. Auto ires We are headquarters and leaders for Auto Tires. Lowest prices and largest stock. WE OFFER Guaranteed Tires and Tubes at Cat Prices. MOTOR CYCLE TIRES AND TUBES All sizes in stock. BICYCLE TERES $1.75 to $4.25. GARDEN HOSE. We have Rubber and Cotton Cover ed Hose In all grades and any length from 1 foot to 500 feet. 8c to 18c foot. The Ailing Rubber Co, 1127 MAIN STREET - '- ; - i9 STORES ' J" T HOW "DAVY" LEWIS HELPED PARCEL POST Something About fiie New Head of the Congressional Labor Committee (By Our Staff Correspondent.) Washington, June 6. In naming Da vid J. Lewis, -of Maryland, as chair man of the House Committee on La bor, the Democratic House has done a great service for the American work ing man. The action is being acclaimed on all sides in -Washington, where it is gen erally recognized that Mr. Lewis is the one man in Congress fittest to head this J Important committee. He will prove a tower of strength for Ameri can labor in Washington. Reresentative Lewis is "Davy" Lewis to all who know him. When he approaches legislation affecting the in terests of the working man, it is not the analytical lawyer, but as the man who has experienced the toil, the struggle, the sweat and dust of labor and its hopes and ambitions. . He knows the needs of labor . from long and painful contact. Davy Lewis himself was a victim of ,the crueleet form in which human beings are ex ploited by capital the child labor treadmill. Born of Welsh parentage, when Da vy Lewis was nine years old'the pov erty of his parents sent him to work as a helper to his father In the coal mines of central Pennsylvania. De prived of the play' and sunshine by which most children develop, and rob bed of opportunities for schooling, Da vy Lewis spent his entire boyhood in the grime and darkness of the coal mines. It stunted his body, but It could not quell its spirit. Like a moth trying to escape from its cocoon, Lewis strug gled for 14 long years to .get to the sunlight. And when he finally did emerge it was to i display a body, dwarfed and thick of muscle, but' a mind rare among Intellects. How he .effected his escape, learn ing to read - in Sunday school, then reading ravenously all the books and publications he could 'get, finally studying- Latin and law simultaneous ly, much of it by the light of the min er"B lamp on his cap, I will not go Into here. Nor how, as a struggling lawyer t Cumberland, Md., he began the study of railway, express and post office statistics and economics as a hobby. . The fact Is that he mastered the subject as It has seldom been mas tered, and when he made his first speech in Congress about two years ago, it stamped him instantly as the greatest authority on parcel post who had ever served in Congress. Even the last Republican administration ac knowledged his superior wisdom on the subject. See how things com about! Lewis studied railroads and express compa nies, and finally the post office, purely as a diversion. because it Interested him. He waa elected to Congress the same Congress that passed the parcel post law. And the knowledge that Davy Lewis acquired in those loner years in bis dingy little Camber- land law, office placed in the present parcel post law every, good feature it possesses. As the bill, was drawn by Senator 'Bourne, who rates himself as a Pro gressive. It forbade the carrying of farm produce by parcel post. Due to the insistence of Lewis, farm products were admitted; but most important of ail. a paragraph was Inserted giv ing the Postmaster General full power to change at will all rates, zone limits and classifications, making complete postal express entirely possible with out another act on the part of Con gress. Such has been the public service of Davy Lewis, in one term of Congress And now at the beginning of his sec ond, he finds himself at the head of the important Labor Committee. tia interest in labor legislation is natural lv intense, and in that big, brainy head of his he has many plans for legislation to make the burden or la bor lighter. -. ANTI-GRAFT MINISTER HAS FIRST WEDDING AND REFUSES FEE Tnna A The Rev. Aimer uveu, ...... - rr,.,-ai i .lctrnmizp-d the first "anti- graft" marriage, yesterday, since his recent announcement tna-t ne Denevea fees accepted by ministers for officiat ing at weddings .were nothing less than a graft and tnat in me luture 1 . . . 1 .-1 n.nlra ti ohflr?A f fir this SfT- vice. He also asserted that couples Tniit "TM-nt clean bills of health from reputable physicians." Clifton Walker nunt, or ueraauu,, and Miss Dorothy Maize, of Oak park, a suburb, were the principals at the i tvh father of the bride at tempted to force a fee upon the clergy man but was unsuccessful. .' "I get a salaryfor my services ana AA,,nic .Bhniri- -nt feel that thev are receiving charity," said the preacher. FANNY CROSBY TO SPEAK ' AT SPECIAL SERVICES IN WASHINGTON PARK CHURCH A special service -has been arranged for the Washington Park M. E. church, Barnum and Noble avenue. for Sunday evening at 7:30 when Miss Fanny Crosby will give some of the experiences of her life as they center around the hymns she has written. The choir will- render the following from her pen, At the . Royal Palace Door, Only a Beam of Sunlight, Hour of Prayer, Tho' Your Sins and Good Night. The congregation will sing, Pass Me Not, Rescue the Perishing," "Al the Way My Saviour Leads Me," and "Will Jesus Find Us Watching?" An invitation is extended to all to en joy the gospel sermon and hear Mies Crosby speak. GOOD SODA AND ICE CREAM ATLANTIC PHARMACY 990 MAIN ST. S SOQ2S SO'CTJB OF. .WALL ST.' j. MILLIONAIRES DOMINATE ALL IN WASHINGTON Nation's Capitol Has Worst City Gov ernment I Ponderous Public Utilities Com mission Order Probe of Taxi Rates (By Our Staff Correspondent.) Washington, June . Washington is the wealthiest city in the United States it is also the worst governed. The per capita wealth of the citizens of Washington is about $3,000, in spite of the fact that a full, one-third of the population is negroes, most of them wretchedly poor. Even . New York, with its horde of millionaires, has a per capita wealth of only $2,000. Wash ington's per capita wealth is from three to five times that of the smaller Industrial cities of the middle west. Yet these 1 same industrial cities are so far in advance of Washington in municipal government that there is no comparison. . . I do not charge graft or inefficiency against Washington's municipal insti tutions. . Simply, the city government Is further removed from a cense of the real needs of the real population which in Washington's case is gov ernment clerks and laborers, strug gling with, a terrible problem of earn ing a bare living than that of any other American city. Let a recent . illustration servo to prove the truth of this observation. . Some time ago there was created for Washington a public utilities commis sion. Great things were predicted for this body. There seemed to be ia. fer tile field for it. Telephone and electric light rates are sky high. Each year the gas com pany asphyxiates a score or so of cit izens, but nothing is ever done about it. Washington has that city curse, the double street car system two trac tion corporations which refuse to ex change transfers and run their cars at all hours of the day just often enough to insure- plenty of profitable strap hangers. - So the public utilities commission, with a'good deal of ponderous Impor tance, took hold of things. And with all of Washington's crying needs con fronting It shades of Tom L. ' John son, Mayor Pingree and other munici pal pioneers what was the first re form -which this enlightened body tac kled? It ordered an Investigation of taxi cab rates! - ', The average citizen of Washington rides in a taxicab once in a lifetime.; and yet the rate charged for this ride seemed the burning question of the hour - to the ' public - utilities commis sion. To anyone who knows the bur dens which are put upon the poor of Washington by the other public utility corporations, the thing passes the out rageous point It simply becomes laughable. , - - But this is only a sample of the way things go In Washington. There is no ' public spirit. The people are submissive to all slights and insults. For they have no votes in their own government. The municipal govern ment Is prescribed for them ready-: made by Congress. The people have no votes. Conse quently, influence at the capitol . is what .counts. This influence has . in the past been swung by the million aire population of Washington the real estate and banking ring, the rich merchants, and the millionaire owners of the insolent public service corpora tions. - The newspapers are servile to this ruling group. No Washington journal ever raises its voice against any of the glaring abuses to which the pop ulation Is subjected. Oh, yes, the newspapers carry on their "crusades," but they confine them to safe sub jects. If it's a swat-the-fly campaign, or cleanlng-up sday, or tag day for the boy scouts, the Washington newspa pers take, it up with great enthusiasm. But they never say anything about 5 cent fares, or universal transfers, or a poisoned gas supply, or extortionate rents." The millionaires aren't even grateful for this submissiveness. Recently a socfety undertook a "whirlwind - cam paign" to raise $300,000 to enlarge a hospital to which poor accident vic times are taken. A large clock was placed en a public corner, and it was announced that the big hand must swing around to the $300,000 mark in two weeks. The campaign "fell down." Any oth er city with a spark of gumption would have raised the money once it had undertaken the . task. But In Washington the millionaires contribut ed their pitiful $100 apiece, and at the expiration of the two weeks the hand of the clock stood only at $125,000. Slumming has recently become a fashionable hysteria in Washington. The cleaning up of the slums Is an excellent enterprise, but it must be followed up with the , providing of places for the poor to go to after they have been driven' from their quarters In the alleys. . That the alley popula tion will be driven to districts where rents are higher is little concern ito the city beautlfiers. The workihg sys tem of the slumming parties is typi cally Washingtonlan. Not one word has been said about the fact that the poor of Washington -are charged high er rates for rent than .are collected from the inhabitants of any other slum" districts of the United States. Washwomen, many of them widows, supporting families of children, are mulcted $15 per month rent by Wash ington landlords. Moreover, the poor of Washington are subjected to a ren tal extortion which 'for refined cruelty has no counterpart in America that I know of. In many slum houses, if the rent is not paid by the fifth day of the month. It goes up a certain per centage. The rent of a Ji& nouse is $17.50 after the fifth of the montn. Of course, Nothing Is said about rents by the slumming parties.. Not in Washington. The whole idea is to make a beautiful city. And Washing ton is beautiful beautiful as a tomb enclosing a dead public spirit. Some day Congress is going to en franchise the citizens of Washington and give them .self-government. And when that day comes I fancy the pur lic utilities commission will find some thing more vital to investigate ' than taxicab rates. The D. M. Established 1857. Suggestions for Men. Now is the time men think of lots of things they need for comfort and pleasure. Hot, summer days are approaching-, so don't let the scorching- weather catch you unawares. Underwear to be cool in. Very fine quality French Balbriggan Underwear, Shirts with long or short sleeves, Drawers, both regu lars and stouts, and also knee length, at 50 cts a gar ment. Men's Gauze Shirts and Drawers, different styles, 50 cts each. Gauze Athletic Shirts, 50 cts. Gauze Athletic Shirts, ribbed, 25 cts. Porosknit Underwear, 50 x cts. Porosknit Union Suits, $1.00. ' B. V. D. Underwear, 50 cts. B. V. D. Union Suits, $1.00. . A full line of Carter's Union Suits at $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00. , . . s Fine light weight Gauze Wool Shifts and Drawers, a nice garment for one who does not like to wear cot ton, $1.00 each. Shirts with either long or short sleeves. Also Boys' Balbriggan and Porosknit Shirts and Drawers, 25-ts each. Boys' Porosknit Union Suits, 50 cts. A new lot of soft Neglige Shirts in our own exclu sive patterns with the soft French cuffs, $1.50. Sweaters for men, also suitable forewomen, just the thing for the automobile, $3.00 and $4.00. A new lot of all-silk Four-in-hand . Ties, excep tional value, 19 cts each, three for 50 cts. . Men's Silk Madras Shirts, splendid quality and beautiful patterns, some plain colors, such as white, tan . and gray, special at $1.00 and $1.15 each. Underwear for Women and Children. Women's Summer Vests, low neck and sleeveless: Light weight, cotton, 13 cts, two for 25 cts. Gauze Lisle, mercerized, 25, 35 and 50 cts. Fancy Trimmed Vests, 25 cts to $1.50. ' Children's Summer Vests, low neck and sleeveless, or with short sleeves, 13, 15 and 25 cts. ' Children's Summer Pants, knee length, trunks and bloomers, 25-cts. , Embroidered Robe Dresses in Ratine, in five-yard patterns, are offered Xt special prices to close out.. Cream with cream embroidery, white with lotus embroidery and white-with ecru embroidery. Very pretty. Former, price $i'8.oo, special price $12.50. .Colored Ratines by-the Yard, Rose, light blue, tan, cream, lotus blue, white and black stripes, 89 cts, $1.00 and $1.25 a yard. Ratine is one of the most desirable and fashionable fabrics of the season. , Two Clean Ups in Wool Dress Goods. Sixty part' pieces of light' colored Mixed Suitings tans and grays, 54 inches wide. Former prices wen $1.50 and $2.00, now reduced to $1.00 a yard. Miami Suitings, 58 inches wide, are particularly suitable for outing purposes. Wear guaranteed, wash able. $1.00 a yard. The D. M. Bvead Company. ADFQKD IB. ViBTEi 1072 Main St. DEPARTMENT STORE, 89 Fairfield Ave. THE STORE TO FTNTJ SCARCE ARTICIiES" " AM THE STORE THAT PAIS IBB CAR FARE GREAT SALE TOMORROW, SATURDAY At 45c Men's and boys' neglig-ee shirta, extra good value at this price. At 8c Several styles rubber balls. At $1.95 Good clothes wringers. At 8c Special value In harmonicas. At 10c New percales, yard wide and the best quality. . At 80 Rowloeks for boats. ; At 25c Great variety of men's and - boys' ' belts." At 80 Men's, women's and chil dren's ten-cent hosiery. At 50o Good overalls and coats or men. At 80 Large huck towels, extra value. At 15c Many colors of yard wide of satteen. At 8e--Glass water filters. At 25o and 35o Lot men's heavy shop aprons. At 8c Large fish lines on reels with good sinkers and book. It doesn't cost much to get rigged for fishing. At 25; Splendid strong police braces for men. At 8c Good clothes lines fifty feet long. At 98o 350 shot air rifles cele brated Daisy make many stores charge this price for the single shot. At 80 All colors of the best crepe paper. ., , LEAERNINQ TO SWIM. (Norwich Bulletin.) One- of the requirements at Colum bia university is that every student, barring physical defects, must be able to swim at least the length of the gymnasium pool before he can receive his diploma. As a part of the ' gym nasium course this is an important consideration and as much stress is laid upon it as upon other essentials of the course.. The great lack of abil ity to swim . among the people is as tonishing and particularly regrettable when the emergency arises which gives them the opportunity to use such knowledge and it is found they are deficient j even for their own pro tection. Columbia has taken a stand in this matter which is highly commendable, and it could well be made a require ment in every institution of learning which has the facilities for teaching it. Though - swimming - can - best bo Read Co. Wash Goods Section. At 25 Men's, women's and chil dren's summer underwear. All the shapes and kinds at this price great variety and best to be had at the price anywhere. At 8c Lots of kinds of ten-cent pennants, colleges, societies, orders, etc. ' At 50o Men's two piece bathing suits. At 8c Splendid enameled playing : cards. - At 25o Good lisle gloves for ladies. At 8c Padlocks with two keys. SPECLVIi SALE BETWEEN" 9 AND . 10 A. 31. ONLY. At 29c5 Some more seconds of cheesecloth. At 94 Best light prints. At -io Best dark prints. At Handsome challies. At 4c Good Shaker KlanneL At 6o Handsome cretonnes. At 7 ?4c Lot 40 Inch white lawn Just received. At $2.19 Will nell for one hour at our coupon price children's rubber tired go-carts worth three dollars. At Price Large lot remnants cotton goods, marked regular prie and sold at half price for one hour. learned before reaching the colleiya age and outside the tank of th gym- . nasium, it la but a Just recognition which the university places upon the value of such knowledge. It Is some thing which everyone should be able to do and should accomplish as a mas ter of necessary education whether they ever aspire to a higher educa tion in college. Such knowledge may never be used except for pleasure, and it is a remarkably enjoyable and healthful exercise, but the Importance of being prepared against danger can not' be too fully recognized. The many drownings which occur every season because of the inability to swim em phasizes the need in an all too trage dlcal manner. "Why Is a horse that can't hold It head up like next Wednesday?" "Don't, know." "Why, because its neck's weak." ,"Oh, I heard that Joke about a week back." Sacred Heart Review.