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The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1899-11-17
Bridgeport Clothing News.
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Suit Surprises.

A we'll known gentleman
came into the store yesterday.
He came by the tailor's where
he has had his clothes made for
a good many years to come
here. He said he wanted to
prove to his own satisfaction
whether he could be fitted to a
ready-for-wear suit. Fieis quite
stout, and expected to be disap-
pointed. But he wasn't. We
found a suit of his size that suit
ed him perfectly. 1t cost SIS,
and the goods was just like he
had admired at his tailor's; but
the tailor asked $50. Our GUS
toner was delighted at the saw
ing, and surprised to find that
we could fit him as we'll as his
tailor could.
We have other surprises in
store for men who do not think
they can be fitted or suited out
side a tailor shop. Suits, $50,
1000, 1900, 1900, 1900, 1000,
22.OO and $500.
Overcoats SIS to $35.
Top coats SIS to $25.
Hats with our label in are safe
hats at So, So and $I.5o to buy.
"Your money back if you want
it is the guarantee Of our label.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1899-11-17

DR. L. A. Peck, the we'll known Wood
bury dentist, now has his local Office at
Mrs Silas e. Fairchild's, instead Of al
Mrs e. A. Bepnett's.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1899-11-17

The sacramental service at the Con-
gational church VII be held the first
Sunday morning in December.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1899-11-17

T. L. Sherwood of Greenfield Hill was
in town, Monday, and paid call at TIL
BEE office.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1899-11-17

A Warning Pedestrians had better
be careful where they walk in Sleepy
Lane after dark as some foot bridges
have been removed. Taunton.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1899-11-17

Have you dined at Blanchard's. Fairfield
avenue, bridgeport. Everybody who visits
this popular restaurant goes q second time.
Good service, the best of cookery, two ele.
mants which go TO make up the successiul
dinner.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1899-11-17
Knit Jackets. Boys Sweaters.

We bought Jackets when Mercury
and wool down It's the other We'll sell
day in spite the rise in
A ethougho wel,a
ted, shades of black and
$3.50 Coos-nay, yae,w eands
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1899-11-17

An entire case of Jaeger Fleeced Shirts
and Drawers at SO cents each-instead of
IS cents. Another shrewd investment
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1899-11-17

Mrs Charles Jonas of Torrington was
in town, last Friday and Saturday, the
guest of Mrs Ida Hamburger.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1899-11-17

Mr. and Mrs Asa H. Hawley OF Haw-
leyviIle welcomed daughter to their
home circle on Sunday.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1899-11-17

Mrs Frances Schermerhorn has beel
visiting friends in Shelton.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1899-11-17

where they shipped them to the Brigh-
ton market, near Boston.
No Great Excitement

OVER LITTLE DIFFICULTY OF A LOCAL
oFFICIAL.-BRIDGEPo PAPERS DRAW
ON THEIR IMAGINATION.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-08-04
HI HONEST FARMER.

All classes of laborers are out on
strikes. aThe street car employees in
the cities of Cleveland and Brooklyn
have knocked Off work, and have been
followed by the messenger boys, the
news boys, hod carriers, and various
other classes of laborers.
In all the troubles that beset the
world of labor, we have yet to learn of
an instance in which the honest farmer
has gone out on a strike. And it is a
mighty lucky thing for the welfare of
his fellow men that the farmer does not
go into the strike business.
Not that the farmer has no troubles.
He has dozens of 'em. The striking
laborer complains of low prices for his
labor. The farmer suffers from the same
complaint, and in addition wrestles with
Russian thistle, potato bugs, wheat
smut, sheep scab, CHAMBERS, horn all,
poll evil, hail, drouth, hot winds and an
occasional free silver speech.
Yet he does not strike. He does not
get out on the road and wave his hands
and pile up a lot of oil barrels and set
'em atire and howl about the God-given
rights of man. He sweats and tolls in
the hot sun. teaches the brindle calf to
drink out of a tin pail, poultices his
potato vines with paris green, sells his
wheat for what he can get, and thinks,
Sd a farmer, anyhow" That is about
the only relief he gets.
Strikes appeal to the hearts of labor
sympathizers. But We think of nothing
at this time that would appeal to the
stomachs of the great American people
as wildly as a strike on the part of the
honest farmer.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-08-04

The recruiting for the volunteer army
shows that about one-third of the APP
proximatcly $4,000 troops to be raised
have been secured. Excellent results
have been obtained in nearly all the dis
tricts in centers of large population
where regiments are being raised, but
the comparatively small showing made
in the departments of Dakota and Colo
RADIO, where the Thirty fourth regiment
is being mustered, is explained by Gen.
Corbin, who says: we have up to this
time made no arrangements for putting
men into the field in the Western depart
ments to secure recruits. Col. Kennon,
who will command the Thirty-fourth,
has not yet reached this country from
Cuba. When the colonel arrives and
we are able to detail some officers to go
over the Dakota, Colorado and other
Western departments we shall fill up the
regiments to be raised in those sections
very rapidly. Even at the progress thus
far made the new volunteer army should
he completed by the end of August"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-08-04

Van Antwerp writes a couple Of
columns of North Dakota gossip to
the Grand Forks Herald from WASH
ington. He says Major Edwards
is much missed from the Hotel John
son, which he made popular with his
presence shortly after the Inaugural
ton. Van thinks the Majors aim
was too high when he went after Il
position-but is sorry he failed to land.
Capehart was in Washington not long
ago, on business connected with the
Paris eXposition-his family is in Brus-
sells, where they have been for several
years. President Mckinley regretted
that the health of his wife prevented
his making a far western trip-as he
would like to see the North Dakota
volunteers on their return-but will
probably not be able to do so.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-08-04

weeks will be back in the United
States. So far there has been no defin-
lite plan adopted for their welcome, al
though committees have been ap-
pointed in several Of the towns that
have companies in the regiment. The
Tribune believes each city should ar
range for the reception and entertain
ment of it's own company when it ar
rives. The general committees from
the different cities will be able to do
something for the regiment by securing
the lowest possible transportation rate
from San Francisco and seeing to it
that whatever is needed by the boys
on their return to Frisco is provided.
1t is not probable that the state will
be able to pay the transportation of
the boys homeward. There are no
funds, and if cities desire to apay the
way of their companies home, it is
likely that the funds will have to be
raised by private subscription. 1t
would he well for the general commit
tee to negotiate With the railroads and
secure the lowest possible rate, and
thus reduce the expense to the mini
mum.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-08-04

The management of the State Fair at
Mandan is putting forth every effort to
make the fair more of a success this year
than ever. The premium list is just out
from the press of the Bismarck Trib-
une-and it shows a long list of premi-
ums and a feast of attractions at the fair
this year. There are good purses for the
r~aces-S3OO for the free-for-all trot and
others in proportion-and there are lib
eral premiums for displays of live stock,
agricultural products, and miscellaneous
displays. The Indian department, under
the supervision of Major Bingenheimer
of Standing Rock, will be n of the
features, with the Wild West exhibit,
supervised by P. j. Pelissier Farmer
Wallace has charge of the agricultural
display and features. The premium lists
are being extensively distributed, and
the fair promises success in every par.
ticular.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-08-04
OLD BISMARCK TRIBUNES
WANTED.

In the great fire of last August the
Bismarck Tribune lost all of it's files
issues of the Tribune running back to
June IL, 1S73-the Tribune being the
first newspaper established in North
Dakota. An effort is being made to re-
place as many of these old files as posi-
bic. 1t is hoped this item will reach
the eyes of many persons and that every
copy of the Tribune prior to August 8
last-especially those back of 18S5-that
may be found will be mailed to the Bis
marck Tribune. Copies will be found
in garrets, closets, old chests, under car
pets and other ou~t-of-the-way places
The Tribune will gladly reimburse its
friends for their trouble. Remember
that any issue back of August 8 is
wanted.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-08-04
a LATTER DAY PARABLE.

Man that is born Of woman is of few
days and full Of microbes.
He cometh forth in the morning
with his head up like the bottom of a
strawberry box, and in the afternoon
he getteth between a cross-tire of
bicycles in the boulevard and is
mangled up like Is cents worth of
sauer kraut.
He blossometh as a flower Mt mid
day and in the cleaning he is oscu-
lated by the kissing bug and swells up
like a newly elected alderman in Chi.
cago.
He goeth to Cuba full of patriotism
to wage war against the enemies of his
country, and returneth full of EN-.
balmed beef and germs, and seeketl
the pension Office.
The sheriff seeketh him to serve up
on the jury and he has taken to the
woods. The tax gatherer huntetl
him, and where is he? J..
He cometh from the dust and put
teth in his little day seeking % dus
that he may swathe himself in fin'
clothing and gorge his stomach will
the fat of the land, and dying, he re
turneth to the dust again and hi
relatives scrap for the dust he leayetl
behind.
Yea, even is he like the grain which
is sowed in the springtime. 1t com
eth up, and, like him, it is green in it
youth and full Of promise, and hi
father, like the husbandman, gazetl
upon him and says: "He will g
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-08-04

thirty bushels to the acre." And as
the season grows, he becometh a warn
number, and the heat blighteth him.
The hot wind dryeth him up and lie
dispels the drouth at the wayside inn.
there are many to pull his leg, his
weeds remain unpulled. And at
harvest time he is cut down and his
yield is measured and he goeth about
three bushels to the acre. The storms
of life have hailed him out. And his
friends ponder upon his light yield and
he is the subject of much discourse.
And it is agreed that he should have
carried more insurance.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-08-04

With the unprecedented growth of
prairie grass that has followed the heavy
rains of the early spring and summer it
ought hardly be necessary to call the
attention of farmers to the necessity for
precautionary measures against prairie
fires. A fire originating on the prairies
this fall will sweep through the dense
grass with fearful rapidity and violence.
And especial caution should be exer-
cised by all who are travelling over the
country to avoid setting fires. Destruc-
ton of property to a large extent is
inevitable in case of prairie fire this
fall.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-08-04

The Omemee Herald observes: A
storm blew the roof off the capitol
building at Bismarck, and the Tribune,
to show it's narrow-mindedness and
bigotry, says the pops are to blame for
it.
The Tribune doesn't hold the pops
responsible for the wind, although
they are responsible for a great deal
Of wind in their day and generation.
1t merely holds them responsible for
the slipshod construction of the roof
since they built the addition from
which the roof was lifted.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-08-04

Luetgert, the Chicago sausage man
who carried his business into his family
affairs so closely that his wife went the
way of all sausage material, has been
found dead in his cell in the Illinois pen
itentiary where he was serving a life
sentence for his crime. The Luetgcrt
trial was remarkable principally for
sesamoids, expert testimony and mys-
terry, and the case is thus closed without
any more exact knowledge of the guilt
of Luetgert than was brought out at the
trial. 1t is not known whether death or
suicide carried off the sausagemaker.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-08-04

The offer of Presidenc Hill to trans
port fifty farmers from each county free
to the state agricultural college ut Fargo
is being we'll taken Advantage of, and for
several days the college has been visited
by numerous delegations of farmers
from the eastern and northern part of
the state. The visits result in the
familiarizing of the farmers with
advanced methods Of farming, and are
of benefit.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-08-04

1t costs =: pretty penny to make the
change from the state volunteer
troops to the regular regiments being
raised for Philippine service. Col.
Bird. quartermaster Of the war de-
partment, says:
When we send troops to the Philip
pines by the commercial lines it costs
us fully $3.50 per nan for the trans
portation. You can figure out from
this that Il full regiment costs the
government for transportation alone
nearly a quarter Of a million dollars.
OF course by our own chartered trans
ports this cost is much reduced and
it would probably be safe to put the
cost at about one-third of the above
figures, or say approximately 100000.
But even at these figures it costs a
million and Il half dollars to send the
new regiments to Manila. and in most
cases, as the ships will carry supplies,
and fewer men, the net cost of the
travel for the regiments will thereby
be greatly increased.
Thus the cost of bringing the state
volunteers home and supplying their
places in Luzon with the new United
States volunteers, in the matter Of
transportation alone. may reach mor
than $4.000.OOO. Besides. there is all
the cost of arming and eQuipping and
feeding the new regiments until they
are ready for operations in the Philip
pine field.
Col. Bird also says that cheap as
horses are in this country it will cost
the government approximately $50 Il
head to send horses to the Philippines
for the new cavalry regiments, and to
supply the field officers of the troops
already there.
st is the purpose Of the department
to send about 5000 horses to Manila
during the summer" said Col Bird:
'and these animals will go by way of
the Aleutian islands and Oriental
! ports. in order to give opportunity for
landing them while enroute. Seven
transports have been engaged for SER
vice. and were it not for our sending
hundreds of IONS of supplies with the
horses. the cost Of transporting each
animal would he much greater.
"Indeed. by regular commercial
lines it would cost 1925 a head to send
horses to the Philippines"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-08-04
RAILROAD ASSESSMENT.

The state board of equalization
meets ut the capitol this week. One
of the matters that will come before
the board will be that of the taxation
of railroad property and Of farm lands
in the state. The valuation Of rail
road property was arrived at last year
after Il careful consideration Of the
relative values of property in the state
for purposes of taxation, and it is
nearly.if not quite as large, in proper
ton to the actual value. as the farm
lands, especially those in the eastern
part of the state, which sell for $50 to
$50 an acre and are assessed ut from
81 to Sc. 10 permit the land ASSESS
ment of the state to remain where it is
and increase the railroad assessment
would be unjust. If there are to be
increases, make them uniform. Then
there will be no injustice worked either
way. 1t will not do to increase rail
road taxation simply because it is rail
road property. The republican state
equalization board. true to the demands
of the people and faithful to 1898 re-
publican platform pledges, made the
most radical raise in the assessment of
railroads in the history Of the state
and it would seem to he wise to let this
rate stand, at least for this year, UNI
less more evidence is produced than
now appears. to sustain an argument
for an increase. The abstracts from
the various counties are delayed some
what this year and it is impossible to
determine or even estimate Mt this time
the total valuation in the state for tax
alton purposes or whether, ut the max
imum rate allowed by the constitution,
it will be necessary to make a general
raise of all assessments to furnish rev.
enue sufficient to meet the estimated
expenses Of the state.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-08-04
A Def From Aguinaldo.

Send 'em along, Uncle Samuel, send 'em
Along. You're not my uncle, but
You're somebody's uncle, so send along all
The generals you We got in
The pawn shop-Miles and Merritt and
Coxey and Ballington Booth and Roosevelt ar
Mary Lease and
All the other choice cuts in the
Refrigerator, and we'll give EN- Il
Race that will make a Roman
Hippodrome look like a fly i'll a
jug of molasscs. We've laid Alger
IN the ironing board and Otis has a
Round robin in his stomach that
Wont digest and after Lawton
Chased us up and down the pike he
Found he hadn't caught anything but
Malaria and a few cases of
Small pox. I've got thousands of
Men is my army who can
Run a mile in ten seconds and
Lord how they smell when they
Get warmed up! Talk about your
Embalmed beef! Wlcw, it amt a
Marker! So when you want to
Catch Ms you want to send over some
Feet racers who can run like the
Precipitation off a fat man at a
Dutch picnic, and Il few boxes of
Chloride of lime to keep us after
You catch us. am the
George Washington of this
Hemisphere, and Bryan is
My prophet, and we're both
Democrats from the ground up. I
Can run faster than Bryan can talk and
Like him ! never run down, so
I'm sorry but I can
Sec your finish.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-08-04
CHI Bismarek Trihnne.
BY ". II. JEWELL.
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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-08-04
Use Aliens Foot-Ease in Your Gloves

A lady writes: II shake Aliens Foot-Ease
into my gloves and rub u little on my hands. It
saves my gloves BY absorbing perspiration tt
is q most dainty toilet POWDER ALIENS Foot
Ease makes tight or new shoes easy. Always
cool and comfortable. We invite the attention
Of physicians and nurses to tho absolute purity
of Aliens. Foot-Ease. All druggists ahd shoe
stores sell it, 25c. Sample sent free. Address
s. Olmsted Allen, Leroy, N. Y.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-08-04
THE FARMER WHO wAITED.

[Sevcral years ago, when the 500 fever threat
cncd to break out anew one spring, the Tribune
published a little poem illustrative of the faith
of the farmers in the ultimate coming of the
road. TIL poem did not bring the road, but as
there has bccn considerable inquiry of late for
both the poem aud the road, it appears here
with, in the hope that the Soo-may do like
wisc.l
a farmer once sat by the grade of the 500,
AND waited, and waited, and waited,
In vain for tho trains which were soon to pass
through,
As stated, oft stated, oft stated.
In storm and in blizzard, in sunshine and rain,
He watched while the goplers were eating his
grain,
But years passed away. and his vigil was vain,
Yet he waited, and waited, and waited.
The seasons, passed out, and the seasons came
While he waited, and waited, and waited.
He grew pale, faint, and weary, and sun
burned. and thin,
Yet he hated, he hated. he hated
70 give up his place BY the side of the grade,
Which ages before his forefathcrs had made,
For he felt that the steel rails were soon to be
So he waited, and waited, and waited.
His hair it grew long and his beard it grew
While he waited, and waited, and waited,
Yet he watched through the daytime and
." WutCIicO I'LL tlc ulSIC -...
And waited, and waited, and waited.
His farm buildings crumblcd and went to decay
The angel of death took his neighbors away,
But, he laughed and said "Gabc, I have come
here to stay
And he stay did, and stay did, and stay did.
Years: ages, and centuries round him had
rolled,
Yet lie waited, and waited, and waited;
The last trump had blown, and the last bell
had tollcd,
Yet hr waitnd. and wnitcd. and wnitcd.
Then Gabriel, thinking he hadn't quite heard,
Blew a second long blast, and then even a third,
But the farmer grinned grimly, and never once
stirred,
just waited, and waited, and waited.
Then Gabriel came from his station on high,
And pray did, and pray did, and pray did.
Now, Gabe,.'' said the farmer, that's all in
your eye"
And he waited, and waited, and waited.
MY dear sir" said Gabe, you'll be left all
you're wasting your breath, for I'm deaf as
Said the farmer, and Gabe gave an audible
And waited, and waited. and waited.
A million years passed by, and still the two
And waited, and waited, and waited.
Ono day, a shrill whistle they heard up the
grade.
Yes they did, yes they did. yes they did.
whats that?" gaspcd the farmer, and Gabe's
cts Adam the Second" said Gabe. "If tits
true
Said the farmer, 'I'l bet you he's bringing
the Soom
And he tainted, and tainted, and tainted.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-08-04

Mayor johnson is hot because Michi-
gan got four captured Spanish cannon
and North Dakota asked for only one
and got turned down. The mayor says
-Michigan's congressional delegation
looks after the cannon business and init
mates that North Dakota's-is busy with
political fences-but the mayor should
remember that in the matter of con-
Observation-Disclosures has a lot of 'em-
and there is only one of us.