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a public improvement. But in some
way the vicious assumption that the
AUDITING property must necessarily be
benefited to the full extent of cost of
| Improvement crept in, and seems, in
most cases at least, to have passed I'M
challenged.
1t appears that one man has had the
courage and the means to contend
against the injustice and to carry his
case up to the highest court in the land,
which has rendered a decision in his ia
vor. This is the case of the village of
Norwood VS.. Baker, i'll which the Unit
ed States Supreme court declares that
assessments in substantial excess of
benefits constitute a taking of private
property for public use without just
compensation, and therefore without
due process of law. Speaking of this
Mr.. Rich in his article says: This was
a case of assessments on abutting prop
erty for the expense of laying out a
highway, but the doctrine laid down APP
plies to all assessments on abutting or
adjacent property for public improve
ments. No decision of recent years was
more needed"
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After Dinner
To assist digestion, relieve distress
after eating or drinking too heartily,
to prevent constipation take
HOOGSD@ Pills
Sold everywhere. 25 cents.

we brought up MiddleWay that was the
end of the business. Go find out how
much his conscience will sell out for. -
Boston Transcript.
How it Struck Papa" Mamma went
to the auction and bought one of those
decorated Chinese praying machines.
She thought it would please papa"
did it?' AT first. He was Just look
ing into it when he asked the price,
When mamma told him he sWore like
a trooper" What did your mother
say?" "She said she was glad it was
a praying machine, and not a phono-
aph!'-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Her Opinion,-"Do you think this
government ought to drift into a colo
NAL policy?" asked the thin young man
with Prince Albert Coat, Yes, in
deed" answered the young woman, Vi
vaciously. II should think that would
be Just the thing for the White House,
My aunt had a home in the country,
and she had nothing but colonial arch
itecture and colonial furniture, and it
was too sWeetly old fashioned for any
thing. Washington Star.
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DoN,r CATcH oyER THIRTY.

We should judge from some fish sto-
ries that have been told in this vicinity
that some of the fishermen Of the region
don't know that there is new law
which makes it illegal to catca more
than thirty trout in one day. We hope
this law will not be broken around here,
and we don't believe it will be to any
great extent. Few of those who pursue
the wary and elusive trout will have to
restrain their ardor because they have
caught thirty. About the only thing
that will need restraint is the propen-
sity to say they have caught more than
thirty. Be careful. If you must tell
fish story add to the weight, but keep
within the number set by law.
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ENGLAND'S BIGGEST BATTLE
SHJp

| SHIP.
| Devonport's Implacable is classed as
an improved Majestic, and will rank
with the Formidable and Irresistible as
the biggest battleship in the British
navy or in any foreign navy. Her
| growth since she was laid down in
! July last has been little short of mirac-
| ulous She has advanced from week to
| week at an unparalleled speed, and her
launching weight on Saturday will be
about 5000 tons. This Is less than the
| weight of the Ocean when she was
! launched, but that ship had been more
| than twice as long building. Like the
Ocean, the Implacable is twin-screw
barbette battelship Her main dlmen-
sions are Length cover alD, 430 feet
breadth, rs; displacement, $1,000 TONS
mean draught, 269 feet; estimated
speed eighteen knots an hour. Coal
carrying capacity is one of the distin-
gushing features of British ships, and
though the Implacable will carry only
900 tons of coal on her normal draught,
provision is made for as much as 3 100
tons, which would enable the ship to
keep on the sea without calling at
coalng station for several weeks. She
will be fitted with triple-expansion en-
gines of the ordinary type, with an in
dicated horsepower of $4,000 Steam
will be supplied, not by marine boilers
of the old type, but by no less than
twenty independent water tube boilers
of the Beleville pattern. similar to
those of the monster cruisers Powerful
and Terrible, which were so much dis
cussed in the House of Commons.
The Implacable will be powerful
ship in every rspect. She Is fitted with
great ram of cast steel Weighing over
thirty tons. but whether this weapon
could be used against another ship
without serious danger to herself is
doubtful. She will carry a complete belt
of armor to protect her vital parts
This armor will be of the improved
Harveyed type. The side armor will be
nine inches thick, fifteen feet deep, and
216 feet long. To the ends of the side
armor will be fitted two armor bulk
heads The protection of the ship will
be completed by two protective decks.
The Implacable will carry heavy ar
mament of no less than forty-eght
guns The four Acton breech-loading
guns made on the wire wound system
that has revolutionized heavy guns,
will be of an improved type known as
the Mark TX, and will be mounted in
pairs, two for firing forward and two
aft. Each pair will be protected by an
eight-inch armor shield, and twelve
inch armor will mask guns hydraul-
ic machinery, Eight six-lnch quick-fir-
ing guns-which the American war
showed to be the most useful and de-
guns made-will be placed on
the main deck, each enclosed in case
work of Harveyed steel. Four others of
these guns will be similarly mounted
and protected on the upper deck, On
the main and upper decks there will be
no less than sixteen twelve-pound |
guns quick-tirers, each Weighing twelve |
and able to throw |
twenty projectiles Of twelve pounds |
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CONFISC4TING -ASSESS1T ENyS

In the current number of the Ameri-
| can Law Review there is an article on
"Confscation by Assessments" which is
of interest to all owners of property in
cities. 1t is by Burdett A. Rich of
ROCHESTER, New York. 1t attacks the
common practice of street assessments
by which the whole cost of an improve
ment is put on the abutting property,
whether that property is benefited to an
equal amount or not. In the course Of
his article Mr.. Rich says; 1T is by no
means unheard of for city authorities
to force a new pavement on unwilling
residents of a street against their al
most unanimous protest, and when for
some of them the assessments will re-
suit in the entire loss of the property
assessed. This is done through the in
huence of outside people who want the
benefit of the pavement without paying
any part Of its cost, or through the Sc
cret and corrupt influence of paving
companies" More truth than poetry in
this In explaining how this humane
custom grew to it's present proportions
Mr.. Rich further says: The growth of
this system has been insidious 1t start
ed with the reasonable principle that
special or peculiar benefit received from
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Ten Thousand Years Ago.

Before they had arithmetic, .
Or telescopes or chalk,
Or DackboardS maps and copybooks-
When they could only talk;
Before Columbus came to show
The word geography,
What did they teach the little boys
Who went to school like me?
There wasn't any grammar then,
They couldn't read or spell
For books We're not Invented yet
| think twas just as well.
There were not any rows of dates,
Or laws, or wars, or kings,
Or generals, or victories,
Or any of those things.
There couldn't have been much to learn
There wasn't much to know.
Twas nice to be boy
Ten thousand years ago. l.,-
For history had not begun,
The world was very new,
And In the schools don't see what
The children had to do.
Now Always there is more to learn:
How history does grow!
And every day they find new things
They think we ought to know.
And if it must go on like this
I'm glad live to-day,
For boys ten thousand years from now
VIII not have time to play!
Primary Education.
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TAKE THEM NOT AWAY.

The Board of Aldermen, led by AL
derman Dewell, did we'll last evening in
protesting against the removal of the
fine old cannon that so efficiently guard
ed our lives and fortunes during the
Yanko-Spanl1o war. We let the noble
Wyandotte go without much protest be-
cause the inhabitants of Bath, Maine
were so much more scared than we We're
that it would have been fiendish cruelty
to deprive them of the encouragement
that was theirs when they read that
our monitor had been ordered to go to
their relief. To be sure, she never got
there, but she did get started and thus
in great measure accomplished the pur-
pose whereto she was sent. There was
some need that she should leave us, but
why should the cannon go? Nobody is
scared now, even in Bath, Maine and
why should our war dogs be taken from
us at much needless expense? Leave
them with us to impress and teach
Besides, there may be another war, and
they would then be as cheering and use
full as they were during the last war.
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Well. there are indications that our
misguided brown brethren in the Phil
ippines are at last learning that it will
not pay them to continue to fight their
great and good friends. General Otis
thinks that the insurgent army is ode
feated, discouraged and scattered" He
reports that insurgents are returning to
their homes in cities and villages be-
tween Manila and points north of Ma
lolos which accommodating parties have
reached, and desire the protection Of
the United States. The news from
Visayan island is also more encourag-
ing every day.
This is decidedly cheering. 1t is to
be hoped that the gales which sweep
from the Philippines will soon cease to
bring to our ears the clash of resound-
ing arms. 1t has been savage little
war, and a totally needless one on the
part of the Filipinos. We only wanted
to do them good, and they wouldn't let
us. How foolish they have been. Why,
if they had had sense by this time some
of them might have been holding office
under the best government on the face
of the globe.
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FLAX IN MINI SOT.1.

Flax has been successfully grown in
Oregon and Washington, and now it is
asserted by those who ought to know
that 1T can be successfully grown
belt. Experiments made in Minnesota
have turned out well. They We're con-
Quoted by Professor Hays of the State
agricultural college, in the hope of re-
viving the industry in the State which
was abandoned by the discouraged
farmers some years ago, after it had
been followed long enough to bring
about the establishment in the State Of
five fibre mills. The result thus far is
to disprove the opinion formed of flax
in Minnesota from the earlier expert
ence and to demonstrate that 1.-THE soil
of the North Star State can grow bet
ter fibre than the world has ever seem
In proof of this broad statement, it is
cited that with a plant bred for fibre
from mingling of native with Russian
f1ax-seed, an average increase of seven
and one-half inches in height has been
attained, with great Improvement in
the fibre over the parent yield In seed
production, too, encouraging results
have been obtained, plant being pro-
duced by i11terbreeding fibre that is far
bushier than any produced elsewhere.
Good. Such scientific work as this is
useful.
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each minute, giving total for these
sixteen weapons alone of 800 projectiles
a minute were they all fired at once.
The other weapons in the Impacable
will comprise two 12-pounder quick7fir-
ers for field and boat use, and eight
Maxim guns, completing the most pow
erful armament in the British fleet,
which is further-fring guns which will
be placed in the tops" of the two mill
tary masts for protection against tor
pedo attacks. These masts will be of
steel, with platforms for searchliShts,
which, being placed above the water
VIII command an extensive radius, Al
together, there will be six powerful
searchlights on the Implacable, two on
the mast platforms, and two on each
bridge. The vessel will also be lighted
throughout by electric light, three indie
pendent sets of engines and dynamoS
being required. There will be, of course,
many other engines for auxiliary pur-
poses everything possible on modern
war ship being worked by mechanical
means One feature of a modern bat
tleship is the fotilla of boats of various
kinds with which she is provided. The
Implacabe will carry no less than six
teen small craft -Four of these will be
steam propelled little vessels, two OF
them Sc feet long, and two 40 feet In
length, which will be able to steam at
10 1-2 knots an hour. Their primary
use will be to do scouting duty when
the ship is in harbor, and to protect her
from stealthy advances of torpedo craft
of various types-and may be from sub
marine boats if they ever develop to be
a real danger. Consequently, these four
craft will be fitted with apparatus for
dropping torpedoes. The other boats
carried by the Impiacable will be sail
ing or pulling craft. When it is borne
In mind that the battleship, while serv-
ing as a flagship, will have crew of 789
officers and men-equal to the popula-
ton of many villages that plume them-
selves on their size--it will be under
stood that this little fleet of sixteen
boats is none too large.-London Daily
Telegraph.
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FASHION NOTES.
Fruit Standings for Gowns.

Apple colors are going to offer new
fields for combinations in the summer
dresses women are already beginning to
plan. Costumes of wash goods COM
bining bright warm apple red, the pink
into which the apple fades on the other
side, and the ivory Uniting into which
the pink blends, offer a charming plan
of harmony A dash of apple green
completes the idea, and it will suit al
most any complexion. A gown, for in
stance, of apple red wash goods has a
front of delicate pink, yoke and little
frills wherever an edge permits of ivory
lawn, and collar and belt of apple
green ribbon. A hat all purple green
straw and pink wild roses goes with it.
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-ENCO TR iGTNG.

'What is a coquette?" "a coquette
| is a girl who knows how to encourage
a man by discouraging him. Chicago
Record.
Still Hoping.-"How is the senatorial
contest coming on?" asked the friend
rs the deadlock broke YETI NO, .
answered the candidate; "but cheer up
Neither am l. "-Washington Star
sYou will forget me, won't you dear?"
she pleaded by way of softening the
harshness of her refusal" Sure
thingi" said he, you know I'd do any
thing to please you."-Detroit Free
Press.
Unreasonable Expectations.-"Th
say Cholly's father is greatly disap-
pointed in him. YES; but he expect
ed too much. He thought Cholly might
be able some dav TO earn his board and
clothes. PUCK
Had References.-"I hear you have
married Bobbett's divorced wife"
Yes ''Hod did you come to do that 2"
"Bobbett recommended her highly. Said
his only trouble was she snored and
you know I'm deaf Brooklyn Life
Teacher-"Once upon time there We're
two rich men, one of whom made his
fortune by honest industry, while the
other made his by fraud Now, which
Of these two men would you prefer to
be?" Tommy (after a moments hest
tation)-"Which made the most?"-
Tit-Bits.
Middeway says he can't
vote for our bill, after all. His con-
science, he says, will not permit him..
Bowser-'Well | suppose there's no
help for it. although / thought when
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Perhaps such a combination might bet
| ter suit the autumn, but what woman
| to whom the combinat ton is not I'M
| suited and whose means Will permit its
purchase can wait till fall?
All the mentioned shades are in evil
| dence among the new hats, and for
! that matter, so are pretty nearly all the
other colors. The hues that are to have
| a run are left to women to settle upon
and as yet they haven't made an out
right favorite Of any one shade to the
neglect of the others Yellow and red
come as near to the front rank as any
at present. Of the new hats of pleasing
characteristics one is the green sort
trimmed with black velvet ribbon. This
ribbon is put on hats of almost every
color, out on the new shade of green
it is especially effective. Flowers
there are besides, of course, generally
white and accompanied by liberal
showing Of green leaves and stems. The
hat of this type that the artist presents
here was bent picturesquely, suiting
it to youthful face of strong features.
Green straw, black velvet ribbon and
white heather and foliage We're it's COM
ponents.
Diamond soltaires a-swing are again
in fashion, but whether or not one likes
the fancy depends upon whether one
has the solitaires. Old time buckles
and paste are as much In vogue as
ever Turquoise is set in cut steel with
excellent effect. Copper is being used
by some jewellers as setting for stones
whose individuality is called out by the
copper's warmth. Coral and canoes
are among the old time ornaments that
are revived. A string Of coral Deeds
combined with pearls each bead sepa-
rated from the next by little fiat disk
of cut crystal is something very fine.
FLORETTE
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Pennsylvania representative OF
middle age, six feet tall and 365 pounds
weight, complained in the session the
other day, that the presence of women
in the galleries interfered with legisla-
ton. "No man." said he, 'can legislate
with a lot of pretty girls looking az
him"
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DR.. Kennedy, the convicted New York
murderer, holds that he has proved his
innocence by his ability to sleep. He
was sound asleep within fifteen minutes
and during all the time that he was in
prison and awaiting trial he slept as
calmly as the most innocent babe
Many innocent people can't sleep well.
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DELIvERED RY CARRIERS IN THE CITY,
10 CENTS WEEK, 30 CENTS
MONTH, s3 FOR SIX MONTHS, pc
YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL
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YHE CARRINGToNP UBLISHING CO.
o ET1cE 400 STATE STREET.
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Right after the Windsor hotel fire a
man wrote to the Sun and described
Vassar college as a death-trap The
Poughkeepsie Eagle says the man
didn't tell the truth. 1t says the six
hundred Vassar girls live in three wide
1y separated buildings. There is no ell
eyator shaft in the main building; every
partition is of brick; the building is d.
yided into five parts by heavy double
frewalls; at each end of which part is
a stairway of stone and iron; there are
similar stairways enclosed in brick
towers) at the corners where the corri-
doris cross; the building is equip
ped with electric gongs; it is heated by
steam exclusively, and the only stove
on the premises is in the kitchen ''If
there is any building in America that
is better arranged so as to be slow
burning and provided with more ample
means of escape" says our Poughkeep-
sic contemporary, Eve do not know
where to look for it."
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"a notable matrimonial career Is that
castle, England, just married for the
third time. Her first husband was q
Quaker, her second a Catholic and her
present is Protestant. Each husband
was twice her age. At sixteen she mar
ried man Of thirty-two, at thirty she
took one Of sixty, and now at forty
two she is united to a gentleman Of
eighty-four
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Russia, according to recent advices,
PROMISES to be a competitor with the
other countries Of the world in the pro-
duction of cotton. The Trans Caspian
railroad traverses a country where last
wear cotton was planted on 100000
acres, and crop of 1O5, 900, 900 pounds,
or about 100000 bales, were produced
making a yield Of over 230 pounds to the
acre, an amount somewhat in excess of
the average yield of this country. The
industry is now only in its infancy,
and a small amount Of cotton is pro-
duced, but with the development of the
country and means to diminish the eX-
pense of getting the product to market,
it Is possible that some day Russia may
be considered a factor in the worlds
production Of this article.
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A nervous curate in an English church
reading deck, "Here beginneth the sec
ond chapter of the Duke of Booterono-
NV" His vicar looked severely at him.
and the young man blushed, coughed
and repeated, "The Boot of Dukerono-
my" There must have been germs of
INSTRUMENTATION lurking in the air, for
at a later period in the service the vicar
read out, II publish the mans of bar
rage" ETC. The curate beamed with
satisfaction, in spite of the solemnity OF
the occasion.
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It has Gust been discovered that the
New Hampshire legislature passed at
its recent session an extremely radical
fire insurance law 1t provides that if
any one Is dissatisfied with the rate
charged by fire insurance company
he may take the matter to the insur-
Rnce commissioner, and that official,
IL he believes the rate is exorbitant,
and the company must write the risk
at that rate. If the company refuses it
will be fined 5000.
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Some superstitious people are making
up their minds to keep away from Paris
next winter. 1t is foretold that the city
IS to be almost totally destroyed by fire
in December. A poet and seer who liv-
ed in the middle ages, Cismo Ruggiero,
prophesied that Christmas eve, 1899,
would see terrible fire in Paris. This
prophecy has been made by other peo-
pie. Necton, who died in 1872, said:
rParis will be entirely destroyed while
two women prophets Of late years have
Paris reduced to ashes"
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The OLDEST DAILY PAPER PUB
LIsHED IN CONNECTICUT.
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