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KODAKS, all sizes, beautifully fin- isohed, no better or more pleasing gifts, $1.00 to $100.00, CRANSTON & CO. 158 Main Strest. apridaw Jap-A-Lac Gives new life and lus- tre to old tables, chairs, furniture and picture frames. It is the ideal finish for floors, interior wood- work, bath rooms, sash and sills, Thirteen colors, 100 different uses, in various gize cans. For Sale in this City By Ghe Lee & Osgood Company Largest dealers in Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Pure White Lead, Window Glass, Bronzes, Stains, and all paint- ing material. Estimates on Plate Glass :Aurfully furnished, 133 Main Street. apridaw 0 mistake will be made in selecting THIS school as the one to attend. THENEW LONDON Business (0llege RhBrybeck, Fian, NewLondon. Conn. Catalogue for tie asking. JOSEPH BRADFORD, Book Binder. Blank Books Made and Ruled to Order 108 BROADWAY., Telepbone 353 oct10d Watch Repairing done at Friswell's + speaks for ({tself. WM. FRISWELL, 25-27 Franklin janizdaw A Fine Assoriment o! ... MILLINERY at ilttle prices. MRS. G. P. STANTON, A. W. BURNHAM, ««« « Eyo Specialist Twenty -five years exyerience In fit. ting Glassos to the Most m!ne‘:n '-vn. muy located at 257 Main St., Ct Satisfaction guaranteea fice hours. 3 t0 8 0. m. SEIRE ooRumne Pens, Holders, The finest b————————————— A ———" Hearing on the Measure Feld at Hartford—Substitute “Bill, it is Believed, will be i"avorgbly Reported to the . Legislature. Favored by Treasurer Lippitt. Treasurer Lippitt, of the Norwich Savings society, and father of Bank Commissioner Lippitt, heartily favored thé substitute and, referring to Com- missioner Noble, said he wished to say a word of the “magnificent services of that man.” ; He believed that the commissioners needed extra help. Each commission- er, he thought, should be allowed a clerk go that when he went to exam- ine a bank's books it could be done Hartford, Conn., April 8.—It is be- lleved by many that in place of the proposed legislation creating a bank- ing department in this state, the com- mittee on banks will report favorably to the legislature a substitute meas- ure which will provide that the sal- aries of the two bank commission- ers shall be increased from $2,500 to| $3,500, that a clerk at a salary of $2,000 | and & stenographer at a salary not to | Connecticut Banking Department exceed $1,000 shall be allowed them, and that they shall be given offices in the capitol building. The commis- sioners, it was pointed out at the hear- ing held this afternoon on the meas- ures proposing a banking department, have no office quarters now. One of the bills discussed provides that the banking department shall consist of two commissioners pointed to serve for a term of four years, at an annual salary of $5,000, The other measure proposes a single-headed department, the commissioner having under him two deputies, and such other assist- ants as he might require. In the lat- ter case the salary of the commis- sioner would be $5,000, and those of his deputies $2,500, ankers repre- senting the bank associations in the state spoke strongly against the idea of a double-headed banking depart- ment, one of the speakers asserting emphatically that if such a commi sionership were created it would be- come a political office and be filled by a politica] commissioner. Arthur Perkins of Hartford Presents Substitute. Arthur Perking of Hartford present- ed a substitute which provided that the salaries of the commissioners should be $4,000 each, that they should be allowed traveling expenses of $1,000 in place of the $500 which they are at present allowed, that they should have two clerks and a stenographer and an office in the capitol. Mr. Perkins thought the work of the official was of such Importance that they should have an office In the caplitol, and if $2,500 was sufficlent salary in 1875, it did not seem with the work as it ig, today greatly maultiplied that the $4,000 was unreasonable, entirely independently of the bank and without having to call on any of the bank clerks to assist him. The asso- clation of savings banks, he said, was o{)posml to the single-headed commis- sion. Other Speakers. L. S. Catlin of Bridgeport said he approved of the substitute and of what r. Lippitt had said, but with the un- derstanding that the expense was to | be borne by the state. If the bankers have to pay for it, he thought perhaps the figures were a little too liberal. M. H. Whapleg of Hartford, repre- senting the State Bankers’ associa- tion, said that the proposal for a sin- gle-headed commission was similar if not the same. as that measure which was rejected by the last general as- sembly, Out of a large number of cards sent out to bankers all over the state operating under state charters, replies had been received which show-" ed eleven in favor of a single-headed commission, four had been non-com- mittal and 85 had said they were op- posed to it and favored the two-com- missioner system. He sald that a sin- gle-headed commission would become a politica] target and would be filled with a political commissioner. It would be a cumbersome machinery and the bankers would feel safer un- der the present system than under that of a single commissioner and his {rresponsible deputies. He Dbered: “Do not impose upon us an autocratic bureau called a banking department with an autocratic single head and fr- responsible deputies.” -y He proposed a substitute which would place the salaries of the com- missloners at $3,500, would allow them offices in the capitol and would make provision for assistants. 58 SIOUX INDIANS Coming to Bridgeport for Wijld West Show. Although there was talk that the Bufralo Bill Wild West #show had win. tered in Bridgeport for the last time, Major Gerdon W. Lillie (Pawnee Bill), stated this week that the show would come back to Bridgeport when it fin- ishes the season. The story was that the Wild West shows would go to Pawnee, Okla, where Major Lillie owns rge tract of land, a bank ard controls several industries. The name of the shows this year is “Buffalo Bill's Wild West combined with Pawnee Blll's Great Far East.” The letter heads of the company show the pictures of the two great scouts side hy side In bold relief. The Far East will be the big feature of the showe this year and will exhiuit Hirdus, Arabs, Cingalese, Bedouins, Sudanese Algerians, Sgyptlans anad Javanese and Malaylans, On Sunday, Aprll 15, the Indians who are to be a big feature with the show, will arrive In Bridgeport, 53 In number. They are Sloux, the same as the Indians that have been with the shew in past years, but come from the Rosebud Indian agency in South Da- kota. They are the first to come from this agency, the Indians of past seasons having hailed from the Pine Ridge agency. At the head@ of the newcomers will be Chief Iron Shell, ons of the most noted men in the Sloux nations. Sjoux nation will be represented by sturdy braves and some of the best riders to be found among them. A number of squaws and papooses will accompany them. They will rehearse their part of the performance in Bridgeport before going to New York. Proof of Our Democracy. It is an eloquent commentary upon our @emocracy that Bob Tait, son of the president, has, with a score of oth- er candidates, been dropped from the Yale rowing squad.—Detroit Journal. Doesn’t Include Jimmy. Although works of art more than 20 yearg old are to be admitted free of duty. according to the new tariff bill, James Hazen Hyde N\opbably will stay | in Paris.—Chicago News. Modern Advancement. A collar button was found in an Oklahoma man’s appendix, showing the futility of searching under the bureau | instead of calling a surgeon.—St. Lou- is Post-Dispatch. Would Never Have Been Missed. Even if ex-Senator Thomas C. Platt had not had a successor, it is not at all certain that his retirement would have caused a- vacancy.—Charleston News and Courler. Had His Eye on It As to the mastery of the air the Wright brothers are welcome to It un- til Mr. Harriman gets baek from his vacation.—St. Louls Post-Dispatch. Accomplishing the Impossible. It actresses were always as pretty as their pictures no girl should get married without going on the stage.— Chicago Record. All of the six tribes in the | OYSTER MEN ORGANIZE. Not Consent to Use of Patent Shipping Package. Wwill A meeting of oyster dealers wa3s held in New York on Saturday and ar asso- clation formed which is dving impor- tant work fcr the oyster industry. /The membership of this assoclation in- cludes many of the leading oyster ship- pers of New York and New Haven. Tt is Intended to work in harmony with all other organizations of oyster ship- pers and dealers, but its special work 18 to remady the cffect of a vast quan- tity of misleading advertisement ciren- lated throughout the country in which it has been attempted to compel the use of a patent oyster package for shipment by slanderous statements against other kinds of packages. The association of New York and New England oyster shippers voted to distribute throughout the country 32,- 000 circulars signed by the following | firms, among others: H. C. Rowe & | Co., BE. E, Ball and Lancraft Bros., all of New Haven. On Saturday the association voted a permanent organization and elected of- ficers, Inc Haven, p Carthy of ent, and Eugene D. Mc- ew York, secretary. Man for the Job Once more th the cro man f seas. Still, New York Herald. m Another Nature Fake. | found a cactus tha And no aut! 4 etable e the veg- American. fa 4 -2 ® & ®° R | ] o 2 E 8 i 8 B = ate azainst a waist with 500 fastens down the back?— te-Times. buttons t | Pittsburg But Continues the Goat. Loeb, the poor Indian, is now get- | ting § , year as a reward for apegoat for so many years, Post-Despatch. Equal to Occasion. ng may arise which w for m es from Mr. Taft as long as those which Mr. Rooseveélt used to wr Trying It Out. k gave his new Chautau st successful rehearsal n the house first.—Nash- Champ And Then Some, ‘There used to be only 57 varieties of dsrr?a"rme Now there are at times 57 varieties of tariff democrats.—New { York Tribune. | No Protection for Them. Not much chance of a duty en golf | balls, now that Speaker Cannon Iis ‘, taking up the game.—~New York Amer- | fean, Open Season for Nature Fakes. | . It will now be safe for Jack London to write some more animal stories.— | Milwaukee Sentinel. ILLINOIS WOMAN MAKES REMARKABLE RECORD Picks Eighty-five Gallons of Berries Besides Performing Regular Housework. Mrs, Anna Maring, R. F. D. No. 1, Box fl'{, Dennison, Clark county, Illi- nois, relates an interesting experience with the Cooper remedies, which have grown largely into popular favor dur- ing the past few years. She says: “For years 1 have suffered agony from stomach trouble, always experi- encing severe pain Immediately after eating. 1 had a very poor appetite, and often went without my meals in order to escape the distress that was surs to follow. My digestion was bad, I was troubled with gas on my stom- ach, and my bowels were in a wretched condition. “I tried everything I heard of in an effort to get relief, but could find nothing that would help me. I be- came weak, run down and greatly dls- couraged. I could do scarcely any work and felt miserablé all the time. I had no strength — everything was a drag, even my very existence. I could not sleep, and was so mervous and worn out that life hardly seemed worth the ltving, “Having read several announcements of the Cooper remedies, I was finally #0 impressed with the claims of L. T. Cooper and with the statements made by persons who had used his medicine, that I.decided to give it a trial, and procured a treatment of Cooper’'s New Discovery. “From the first day I started to use the New Discovery I began to improve, It put my stomach and bowels into per- fect condition, cleansed my system of impurities, and built me up rapidly in flesh andg strength. 1 was soon sleep- ing soundly at night, and in the morn- ing felt rested, and ready for the days work. By the time I had taken the full treatment my health was better than it had been in years. “Last summer I picked eighty-five gallons of blackberries, besides doing my other work. The neighbors all re- marked how well I was looking. And T told them it was Cooper'’s New Dis- covery that was doing it. I can never be thankful enough for the benefit I medicine.” Cooper’s New Discovery is now on sale by all druggists everywhere. A sample bottle led free upon request by addressing the Cooper Medicine Ohio. : ABOUT. 3 — = The rosewood bed on which Samuel J. Tilden slept when governor of New York was sold under the hammer last ;::k for $10.50 to Bidder James Do- . L4 e’ Mrs, bert Bacon, wife of the re- cent ad interem sec! of ‘state, is giving an eight oared_ shell (English n;alg‘e) to the Harvard University Boat clu g "naagg"“ Shter ot Mrs. Biizabeth es! A Culy‘?unt , is sald to be equipping a factory at Newark, N. J, for the manufacture of electric condensers. Col. A. J. Sitton died at his home at Autun, near Pendleton, S. C. He was one of the original organizers of the Red Shirts that did so much to redeem So‘;.nsth Carolina from radical rule in 1876. , 'he Prince of Wales is now an hon- orary fellow of the Royal college of sugeons. The Princess of Wales and Lord Roseberry—another honorary fel- low—saw him duly enrolled and'in possession of his diploma. Algernon’ Charles Swinburne, whose latest work, “The Age of Shakespears,” has just been published, has a t dislike to being interviewed, and he will go to almost any length to avoid being cornered by a reporter. Mrs, Lilllan Brown has just passed her examination before the steamboat inspectors of Portland, Me., for a li- cense to run a motorboat.- There are said to be only two other women in Maine who have passed a simlilar ex- amination. Albert C. McMillan, who gained a congressional medal for his bravery as a Rough Rider during the Spanish- ‘American war, and who won his brid Virginia Boyd of Fordham Heights, at the conclusinon of hostilities, has been sued for divorce. After eating three pieces of mince ple, Albert Allen of icago went to sleép and, dreaming that a man The was gambling with was cheating, he got his revolver, intending to shoot the gambler, bu: instead fired a buliet into his wife's head. Wilbur and Orville Wright, the American aeroplanists, in recognition of their practical solution of the prob- have derjved from this splendid Cooper lem of aerial flight, have been honored by the Technical High school of Mu- nich with the honorary degree of doc- tor of technical sciences. Friedrich Thell, a peasant of Rauda, fn Saxony, whose leisure hours have been devoted to the study of Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Sanscrit, Arabic and Gzelie, recently celebrated his 75th birthday by beginning to study the English language. Mrs. Mary Carr Moore and Mrs. Alice Harriman of Seattle are prepar- ing to give a suffrage vaudeville, The libretto was writzen by Mrs. Harriman and the music by Mrs. Moore, who Is described as having sung her way through a suffrage campaign in Cali- fornia. Senator Bacon of Georgia and former Representative John Wesley Gaines of ‘Tennessee are fighting off an attack of pneumonia as the result of severe colds contracted on inauguration day. ‘The former is &rently improved, but the Jatter's condition is said to be causing his friends much anxlety. Miss Winifred Salisbury has just been elected general secrstary of the associated charities at Calumet, Mich. She was on the staff of the Chicago bureau of charities before going to Calumet. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin #rnd held a resident fellowship in its settlement in Milwaukee. A resident of Black Falls, Wis, Capt. Frank Cooper, 84 years nlg, is the oldest printer in Wisconsin, and it is believed, In the northwest. He is a natlve of Ohio, born in 1824, and learned the trade in Ashtabula, being graduated at the age of 17, hence he has been printing since 1841, or more than 67 years. There was little goubt in the minds of those who were Invited to a recent Missour! wedding as to the cordiality of the invitatlon. It was clearly print- ed and read as follows: “You are in- vited to attend the marriage of Au- gustus Clay Johnson and Miss Chloe Matilda Baker, at the house of the bride's mother. AW who eannot come may send.” Dr. Mary Wolfe, superintendent of the state hospital at Norristown, Pa., has under her supervision more than 800 patients. She is recognized as one of the leading alienists of this coun- try, and was selected by the govern- ment a few years ago as one of its representatives at the International congress of alienists which was held at Antwerp. Mme. Johanna Gadski has brought to this country a fad that has become quite the rage in Germany, where it was Introduced by no less a personage than the crown princess herself. It is a new form of visiting cards containing not only an elaborately engraved bor- 31 uosied eyj Jo 8138NOYIIS T ING ‘IOp represents.” The custom calls for a design appropriate to the holder’s sta- tion. Whatever the political significance of King Edward's recent visit to Ber- Jin, the trip must have been enjoyed by Queen Alexandra, for it gave her a grand opportunity to trot about with the German empress without being subjected to the steady stare of the British public. The two women, fudg- inz from the many snapshots repro- duced in European papers, bad the time of their lives. Sir Douglas Strailght, who has for the last 13 years edited The Pall Mall Jazette, Wi'liam Waldorf AlloflJl‘ per, will relinquish that place on Mar, 31, on his retirement from active jour- nalism. To succeed him the proprie- tor has selected Frederick J. Higin- bottom, who has been a member of | the staff since October, 1892. The | policy of the paper will remain un- changed. William, crown prince of Germany and Prusela, has invented and patent- ed a new style of cuff links. They have been registered ‘n the imperial patent office. ‘The invention is de- scribed as double cuff links with two looped buttons. Enterprising manu- facturers are endeavoring to purchase the patent rights, anticipating a great sale among the dandies of all coun- tries. Thfle kaiser recently invented a new brake fo automobiles. Central Hlinois possesses the oldest unmarried woman the United States. of Kendal county, who wiil be 185 years of age May 1 next. She was born in Norway and yhile in her native land was ahout to bo led to the altar but changed her mind at the last mo- ment and has remained single since She was famed as a beauty in Nor- way and tradition recounts her at- tractive .features when a young wo- man. Miss Sorahjl is said to be the only woman lawyer in India. She is said to make a comfortable income by practicing her profession and to en- courage other women ta follow her example. Her most Intimate friend is Mrs. Sorahfi Naidu, the wife of an English medical officer stationed In India. Mrs. Naidu is_a native Hindu and & poet. One of her books, “The Golden Threshold,” was well received in England both by the reviewers and the buying public, Any Bargain Sales There? Chicago suffragist says American women are the glogest on earth.—New York Herald in She is Miss Carrie Milhouse “Digaity Is What We Use To is Eibert Hubbard's deflaition of the dignity. Ul y Elbert 1is n‘nznuuulbl 'murne'. with u..’ s > DON'T WORRY; It Makes Wrinkles. than 1 you ere sick, don'f bot g0 about It to make ycurself well. To do this we repeat the words of thousands of other former sufferers from womar.- ly ills, similar to yours, when we say, lake Viburn-0. 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