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OAL “Ee That Weuld Catch Fish Must Vesture His Bait ‘This was one of Poor Richard’s say- ings and has been the secret of early oal it T now ; the. lowest of the season, and we would request you to enter your order at once. 4 E. CHAPPELL CO. Central Wharf and 150 Main Street. Lufi;"i)er "COAL and LUMBER In the beautiful valley- of Wiyoming, in -Penn. -h‘? gflnflnn?fo- et thracite Coal i fi - Y -your .cooking stove end hedter. ~ sre he agunts fon Rex Fitntkote best roofings known The best to be had and at the right prices too. Remember we always eatry s.big line of Shingles. Call us wp and let us tell you about our stock. M. F. & A. J. DAWLEY, movisa Pree Burning Kinds and Lebigh 2= s —.‘AWA!I»II~S'!‘?¢ A D. LATHROP. Tolephone 168-13 of instryction 'in our school. -“We Write today — now — for full - mformation. ° -All Commercial Branches, COFFEE *Pride of Norwich”, “Gold Coin” “Otioman™ “Rex” PEOPLE’S MARKET, 3 6 Frankiin St. aprisd . JUSTIN HOLDEN, Prop. MAY BASKETS “Trimmed and Untrimmed Crepe Paper, Tissue Paper, Napkins, Paper Flowers, Paste and Mucilage for mahking.. : MRS. EDWIN FAY, Franklin Squan aprisd Spring Millinery requires Call and get the Latest Ideas in Hair Dressing.’ CHIROPODY, FACIAL MASSAGE, SCALP TREATMENTS. The Gibson Todat Company Saite 26, Central Bldg., Tiom 5% The Goodwin Corset 4 HORRORS OF RUSSIAN PRISONS. Yeu Just Ought To Drink Our|*'5Z L would Henry W. Savage has already sev- eral plays in preparation for next sea- Among them are “The Little - ' “The Great Name,” by Vic- ’ tor Leon; “Little Boy Blue,” b; knowiedged to be the greatest of living violinists. Mr. Kreisler has not played in Springfield for several years and since his last appearance there has risen to the very top of his profes- sion and his playing at the Tuesday afternoon concert will be one of the treats of the festival. What the “Politicals” as Well as the Criminals Have to Endure. I think that perhaps some of your readers may.be interested to hear of a committes I have recently established in Paris, in the hope Of being able to alleviate if onilv in some slight degree the. terrible. sufferings of the Russian political prisoners in the prisons of Russia and Sfberia, Since leaving Eng- land .I have been greatly distressed by mflz;;:epflon of letters describing the nding. conditions of the prison— ers in those prisons. The committee has éssued an appeal in the French age. which extracts from letters received from political prison- ers... The following is one from the " There are nearty 600 pnisoners in On Safin-days “we sell for 5 Genis each a mild cigar ‘That's What They Said To Us! Our coming was mostva'a’wr'edly something of a hurrah. It's a way we have—to. be the talk of the town no matter if we don’t make a cent for months. = We stop at no legitimate effort to become known quickly, because we count on first impressions, as the foundations for later sucess. On this plan of merchandising we have won our way into favor in'a hundred other cities. All that we do for the smoker will take some time to tell. Little that we do is old-fashioned. - % It will therefore pay every user of tobacco to read our announcements in the newspapers and follow the crowd. 2 Qpew. - ¥ For example: T . 3 T i e Sy bl 7387 1 called ROBIN HOOD and a medium cigar called UNICO, - sons, so that the overcrowding is ter- S0 IR S Sy el both of which cigars are actually good ten cent values. e s encnes, e macs voren| i RROBIN HOODS and UNICOS ‘at 5 cents each_will he ' the benches and every inch of the floor e i e tna e pve s eses | il . Special features to-day. 2 B ‘We are allowed to wash our linen once we are 80 and 70 in a place which can only accommodate 12. It is difficult in the day time to find a place to sit down in the cells. .Even for eating only a few can sit down, while the rest are prrs money o buy iaod are constantiy starving. The prisoners are ireated are cruelly beaten with fists or the butt ends of rifles. Many are still chained , according to their sentences, should have been set free from chains long ago. It is absotutely useless to complain to the administration. . . . ‘Here is an extract from another let- ter, also from Algatchi, date@d Sopt. 27, 1909: “Our eftuation is frightful. For & month I have been trying to borrow a copeck (1-4 d) to buy an envelope. me & dittle money. I am dead -with hunger. I cant write any A am ‘mere. foot.” was received from a prisoner in Riga stating ‘that in the prison there they ‘were literally dying of hunger. Those who saw the young female “politicals” brought from the prison to be des- patched to Moscow declared that they were scarcely able %o send from weak- ness and exhaustion. At Gorny Zaronty the ove_;mwdm Mr. Aitoff is an ; comrade of Nicholas Tobaykoveky, and has lived for twenty years in Paris. A commit- tee of the same kind was formed in St. Petersburg and existed from 1306-1907. But at the end of 1907 it was closed by the Russian government, eng its orig- inators were arrested and exiled. X, , you can find space in your paper for the insertion of this letter, I think that you will be aiding the cause of humanity by enabling your readers to learn of the sufferings o which thousands of our fellow creatures are expased, who are not criminais, but for the most part highly educated, gentie and cultivated men and women.—Vera lr;t‘i‘nu'. Appeal in the London Daily ews. Perennial Quarrels. Is the orow the friend or the ememy of the farmer? That is a question that has péstered editors of and con- tributors to agriculturai papers ever since Orange Judd wes a young man. One will tell you that the miscreant pulls up, and out of the soil, the tender corn plant, and does it for pure mis- chief, and be recommends the “scare- crow” to frighten him away, or, better the slaying of the bird and gibbeting { e 4 "' 'We also want to introduce to the smokers of this city ] some of our special values in little cigars, cigarettes and tobaccos. The shortest cut to popular attention is to place in the smoker’s hands free of cost to him what we would like him to test. % - To-day this is the li&t of free packages:® alnypuxdlu_ooftwd of little cigars, at 12 or over, no matter what C : One 10c package of LORD SALISBURY Turkish Ci; Cigarettes free with any purchase of two packages of 10c Turkish cigarettes, no matter what brand. et 7 ::i!yptirc_hinof-two packages of tobacco, no matter at brand. .. . One 10c box of FRIENDSHIP Smoking Tobacco free with any 25§ pipe. One 12c package of BRAHMAS Turkish Cigarettes free with ; myp\ltthaaebftwop-cbwofcm at 12c orover. In short we will make it plain to everybody, sooner or later, that if you smoke you can’t afford to overlook the fact that a United Cigar Store has been estab- ; lished here. You will miss something every day you stay A UNITED CIiG AR STORES Shannon Bldg., Main Street R e B o, | SO S A his carcass conspicuous in the field as warning to his fellows. Another says| A Great Showman’s Great Fortune. |had imagination, audacity and the |$L000 & might for 150 nights. The |of paralleling it with a rival line. the crow is after the grub that is after When P. 'T. Barnum died in 1g91 | iBancial instinet. Indulging in ‘ven- | venture was a goid mine, and the gross The road is now in complets opera- the plant; that if corn i pulled up it is turesome enterprises, he amassed great | reéceipts for ninety-five concerts ex-|tion for a distance of about 2,200 due to’ accident, and that the crow |the number of American millonaires | wealth, but it melted away as the re- | ceeded $700,000. from Cape Town. That means that it repays it a thousandfold in th¢ de-| was much smaller than it is now. The |sult of misfit investments. In 1857 he| 7The annual acoounting of the DIg | hias not merely traversed Cape Colesy siruction he visits on noxious grubs|report filed in the Bridgeport probate |settled with his creditors, and then jestate serves to recall one of the many { and the Transvasl, but has crossed the Indeed, calculation has been made that |court on Friday by the administrators )buckled to and built up amother for- |interesting characters born on Connec- | Congo border and has penetrated a single crow will destroy 100,000 en— | shows that the present value of the es- |tune. Two of his museums were de-{ ticut soil he Courant Belgian colony for scores of emies of the farmer every season. tate of the American showman is, $1,— | stroyed, in 1865 and in 1868, but he " g Moreover, the route has ‘The ‘crow is a migratory bird, and | 223,276. Not large in comparison with | didn't mind a little thing like that. Cape to Cairo. surveyed hundreds of miles further and perio@ically he is gregarious, He her- | many fortunes of the present day, the | Wihen kis circus, surpassing anything Only a few years ago men still spoke | work is being vigorousiy pushed. Con- alds winter in November or December, | estate was rightly considered great | ever before dreamed of, got into full |of Africa as the Dark Continent and | nections wili soon be made with the and spring in March or April. He is|nineteen years ago, and it has béen |swing; the dollars came Barnum's way. | regarded Cecil Rhodes’ scheme of a | navigable part of the Congo river, thus the most intellectual of all the feather- | kept intact and wel conserved. TUn- | He Miked to fool the public in legit railroad from thé Cape of Good Hope | giving the nmorthern end of the road an ed tribe, with more sence than 40 par- | der the térms of the will an annuity | mate ways and it was one of his divi- | to the shore of the Mediterranean as | outlet to the Atlantic as well.as 30 the rots. Many a crow has been taught|of $40,000 is provided for the widow, |dend yielding hobbles.that the Amer- | visionary—at least, so far as the pres- | Indlan ocean at Beira. There is still to talk, and when domesticated he is| while the rest of the income is dis- |ican people like to be humbugged and | ent age was concerned. Today that|a long distance between the M ow the most incorrigible thief in the world | tributed among half a dozen restduary | are willing to pay for the experience. | gigantic railroad enterprise is within | reached in construclion and Ttum, the domesticated coon. That | legatees. ' A performance whidh at the time—it | measurable distance of completion, and | but it is steadlly bei reduced and ‘is pretty nearly as smart as the crow. Barnum, who in 1823, then 13 years |was in 1847—was considered daring {there are actually discussions now and | will soon disappear.—New York Tri- '—Wumnqbon Post. old, began work in a country store, | was Barnum's offer to pay Jenny Lind | then, here and there, of the desirabllity | bune. MANICURING,-SHAMPOOING, AND |- “One -mon.-‘_e slice,