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| Swipesey-Say, Chimmie, I'm STUMP
speaker.
Chimmie-Aw, wot yer givin' us?
Swipesey-Sure! Didn't we hear me
tackle dat Teller fer his cigar stump p
Pickup.
Markleigh-Your office seems badly
mussed up. Have you no janitor?
Barkleigh-We have one, but since he
| became faith-curist he has been Civ
ing the office absent treatment" BAL
timore American.
Came by it Naturally. -visitor-what
a naughty, overbearing child that little
! freckle face isl
| Teacher-It isn't his fault. his moth
er is cook and his father is the jani-
| tor of an apartment house, Brooklyn
Life.
whats your husband dom now 2"
asked the neighbor
Well answered Mrs. Corntossel,
pears to me like he amt doing much
of anythin' except scoldin' our boy Josh
fur not bein' more industrious. wash
ington Star.
The owl met the wolf
MIR. Wolf" said the owl, "let me in
duce you to sell my book"
Me" exclaimed the wolf "What
prompted you to think that l would
make a good book agent?"
You knock at so many doors, Mr..
Wolf. Chicago News
The political orator at the noon meet
ing evidently was much disturbed by
the whistle of a big factory in the
neighborhood
Never mind" yelled a hard listed
son of toll in the audience. IF you
elect Bryan he'll put stop to that
noise. Chicago Tribune.
In Brooklyn.-"Do you want a trans
fer?" asked the conductor.
What for?" asked the man with the
alligator bag.
so that you can take another car"
mo, sir. l have waited twenty min
utes for this one, and l propose to hang
on to it. washington Star
Haste Desideratum.-"Ho d'y do?"
said the busy man. "Will you marry
me?''
Ger she gasped. This is so sud |
den; | must have time to think. | - |
Say don't keep me waiting too long, |
or 1 won't have enough money left TO |
buy the ring. l came in an auto-cab, |
and they charge by the minute, you
know. "-Philadelphia Press. ..
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was worth SO cents, Four years ago it
would have required 81 ga bushels of
wheat to buy the heater Now 20 IL
bushels buy it, A saving of IA bush
els, or $3.50 on heating stove. A cook
stove four years ago would have cost
2S2 bushels Of corn This year the
same stove can be bought for 121 bush
els CT corn, a saving of 1872 bushels
worth $469S. A wagon that cost $62. so
in 1896 costs $67.50 now. People who
traded corn for wagon four years ago
remember that it took about 54S bushels
to buy one. Now one can be bought
for 232 bushels, a saving of 81 bushels.
And so forth and so on, Kansas
farmers can't be persuaded that they
are not fairly well off this year.
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NEW llRK

Mr.. Croker has been making some
large predictions about the majority he
is going to give Bryan in New York
and he has also apparently been max
ing some large bets based on his belief
in Bryan's success. But perhaps he
hasn't quite meant what he has said in
his predictions, and perhaps he doesn't
stand just as he seems to in the betting.
If he has believed his own predictions
and If his bets are not hedged he may
be able to sing ooh what a difference in
the morning" the morning after cleo
ton. Mr.. Odell, the chairman of the
New York Republican State committee
predicts that Mckinley will carry the
State, and similar predictions are made
by other Republicans who know what
they are talking about. One report says
that Mr.. Odell puts McKnley's major
ity at 100000 which would not be sur
prising in view of the fact that he car
ried the State four years ago by over
26s. 600
We do not believe that New York is
in any danger, even if Bryan doesn't
talk 16 to there this time.
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Silas Simkins was a fnanc1er, although he
wasn't rich
Sllas was n sorter silverite an greenbacker
an SIGH
An he never cut his whiskers, an he didn t
wear no socks,
An all DAY long ned argify upon a dry
goods box.
An he'd whittle and he'd white, an he'd
shortly demonstrate
How his plan I'D save the country from a
mighty sorry fate.
Why, we use to gather round him, an we
didn't care cusS
For tn plowin an the haydn long es ST
I'D talk to us.
Nope, | cant quite recollec' now Jest how
81 would fix 1t out,
But | shore hev seen IN cut 'er an know
twas all about
per capiter,' an ratio" an / recollec'
that he
Use to crate most conyincin' on the "crirne
of sempty- three"
An he lowed twas then our slav'ry to the
plutycrat' begun,
An / think 81 said the chances was about
sixteen to one
IN favor of the plutycrat-an' then he'd
When he'd tell how they'd squeezed the
sweat from out the brow Of TOLL
Wen, | guess 81 must a talked too much
1t sorter wore i'm out
Fer at last he got right porely an cud
sca'cely get about
But he'd still come down town daily when
tn weather I'D permit,
An ned set out In the sunshine, an he'd
whttle an he'd spit,
An ned keep right on a-talkin', es he set
there In the sun,
On the putycrats an ratios an about six
An he argied an commended an he fnan
ciered until
He died one day, an we buried him. an
tn county paid tn bill.
ALBERT Bigelow Paine, In Harpers Week
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| An interesting use of endowment in
surance is to be made in Wisconsin. A
committee of the Milwaukee Episcopal
diocese has prepared plans Of endow-
ment insurance to meet the annual ex-
penses of the diocese. Members of the
church are to be asked to assume the
payment of premiums on ten or fifteen
year endowment policies payable to the
church, and varying in amount from
$100 up 1t is estimated that the in
come from a fund of $12500O will be
sufficient for diocesan expenses, and
strong hopes are entertained of ulti-
mately securing this amount. To date
policies of $4,000 have been written,
Bishop Nicholson leading the way with
q policy of $4,000. Policies are issued
upon the lives of men and women be-
tween the ages of seventeen and sixty,
and in special cases up to the age Of
sixty-fve. Those who for any cause
do not wish to take insurance on their
own lives, may nominate others to rep
resent them. Under the contract the
insurance company proposes to pay the
Committee on Endowment Fund a GER
tain percentum of the first premium
on each policy, and in renewals when
$4,000 has been written.
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COMING,

1t is announced that Mr.. Bryan is
coming to New Haven once more and
he will doubtless draw big crowd. He
drew a big crowd when he was here
four years ago, but he didn't draw a
big vote. He wasn't pleased with his
treatment on the Green or at the polls
four years ago. This time an effort
should and doubtless will be made to
have him pleased with his treatment
on the Green, if it is thought best for
him to speak there, but there is no need
of trying to please him at the polls.
New Haven wants reputation for good
sense as well as for politeness
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HID HER FACE FOR FORTY YEARS
She Sent Her Sweetheart Away and
from That Time On Would See No

She Sent Her Sweetheart Away and
from That Time On Would See Nc
/ One
! In the burying- ground which sur
rounds the little Baptist church al
! Newport. N. j., is a new-made grave
/ 1t will be dedicated to the memory OF
Miss Rebecca Newcomb. and long af-
ter the present generation in the village
shall have been gathered to Gods acre
the romance of Rebecca Newcomb will
be told and retold to children who are
yet unborn.
When the neighboring town of
Bridgeton was only hamlet and when
the surrounding country showed few
marks of the pillow, plain farmer
named Reuben Newcomb came and
built the cabin that was to becoe the
nucleus of Newport hamlet. He had a
wife and four children, three of them
girls. For neighbors there were the
Newports, father and mother and an
only son.
Oldest of the Newcomb children was
Rebecca-lithe, graceful, full of animal
spirits and pretty as one of the famed
peaches of the district. And while the
neighborly relations of the Newports
and the Newcombs ripened, Rebecca
and John looked more and more as
kance at each other, She was wilful,
saucy and piquant; he was shy,
thoughtful and diffident
They were only children to the old
people, but the time came when the
court paid to Rebecca by the young
men of the neighborhood could not be
mistaken, even by the parents. At pic
mics, at barn-raisings, at the spelling
bees, and even at the services in the
country church these young men bid
for the smiles of Rebecca Newcomb.
Finally, when these smiles centered
on John Newport, the parents were so
pleased as to forget their insistence
that Rebecca was only child. The
day was fixed and the home
spun fax and linsey-woolsey were
into the simple wedding clothes
of the bride. when one day Rebecca
came no to her mother as she sat sew
ms on these simple garments. Silently
she took tht sewing from her dexterous
fingers.
Il won't need them, mother" she said
N explanation, II have sent Jack away
-or good. I shall never look at man
AGAIN."
Nothing more was ever said to clear
he mystery. Rebecca went to her
DOM and shut herself in, recluse
rom that hour. For forty years she
iept to that room and to her VOW
But DEATH whatever it's sex entered
hat silent room a few days ago, and |
lfter him trooped a score of idle Cos |
fps. And when the black coffin was |
arried into the little church, men in |
ong black files passed, looking upon
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small
advertisements, One Cent Word each in-
sertion Five Cents a Word for full week
(seven tjmes).
Display advertisements, per inch, one In
sertion, $1.20; each subsequent incer'lon. ~
cents: one week, $500; one month, $lo; one
year, $40.
Obituary Notices, In prose or verse. I'D
cents Ter line. Notices OF Births, Marri-
ages, Deaths. and Funerals, SO cents each.
Local Notices, Is cents per line
Yearly advertisers are limited to their
own Immediate business (all matter TO be
unobiectlonablel, ard their contracts do not
include Wants, To Let, For Sale. etc.
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Some members of the State Presbyter-
ian synod in session at Waukesha,
made a bitter attack on the Wisconsin
State university, claiming that among
the students were some dissipated
young men who care not fit companions
for clergymen's sons" Quite likely.
And possibly some of the dissipated
young men may be clergymen's sons
who are disgracing themselves and
their honored fathers.
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ETH ED.

| Yesterday the Philadelphia and Read
! ing Coal and Iron company issued the
| following statement: The Philadelphia
and Reading Coal and Iron company
hereby withdraws the notice posted Oc-
tober 8, 1900, and, to bring about prac-
teal uniformity in the advance of wa
ges in the several coal regions, gives
notice that it will suspend the opera
ton of the sliding scale, will pay 10 per
cent. advance on September wages till
April 1/1901, and thereafter until fur
Their notice, and will take up with it's
mine employees any grievances which
they may have.
This notice is taken as ending the
great strike of coal miners, which has
lasted just month, and which has re-
suited in a substantial victory for the
strikers. How much politics has had
to do with the settlement is not plain.
If it has had as much to do with it as
some say the settlement may not be
very lasting. 1t is to be hoped that
there is more business than politics in
it, and that the settlement has been
made on right basis The strike has
not been as violent and bloody as some
of the great strikes have been, but
there has been reason to fear trouble at
any time. The miners have had a good
rest and they will doubtless be glad to
go to work on terms that do not hurt
their pride or their pocketbooks.
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IA CT rs. FANCY.

| The Jewell County (Kansas) Monitor
| IS Popul1st paper, and does it's best
to live up to its profession. The other
day it worked itself into state of mind
| over the trusts and thus it said: A
trust robs you waking or sleeping,
working or playing, living or dying
the coffin trust gets you in the end
If trust goods and grain had advanced
alike or in the same ratio it would not
take so per cent. more wheat to buy
stove than it did in 1896, but it does
take that much. 1t requires 20 per
cent. more corn to buy a wagon than
it did in 1896. Twice as much corn to
buy a coil of rope as in 1885, Forty
per cent. more grain to buy a plow
than in 1896. One hundred per cent
more grain to buy a copper kettle A
set of common wheels that cost 81 in
1896 now costs s12 The price of all
the same ratio. 1t requires 40 per cent
more grain to buy sugar than it did in
1896. The prices of oil, coal, lumber,
tools and hardware have gone up from
40 to 100.
The Republican of the same county
noticed this Populist wall, and offset it
by getting some prices for 1896 and 1900
from Democratic dealers. The dealers
said: A heating stove that cost $14
then costs SIS now. A cook stove that
cost $3.50 then costs $35 now. Four
years ago last week wheat was worth
A cents in Jewell City. Last week it
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seen, in life. The marks of the faded
beauty were in it, and all the scars of a
tragedy that had been playing through
forty years
But John Newport. married and
living in his native village with wife
and three children. were not at the
funeral.-Chicago Tribune.
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It's an ill wind that blows no good.
much of the soil in the tobacco growing
districts of the island remained uncul-
tivated between the years 1885 and 1885,
and the new crop coming to market has
been vastly increased and improved in
quantity and in quality because Of the
rest thus afforded. An average crop Of
Cuban tobacco is 400, 900 bales CT enc
hundred pounds each; but this years
600 bales, worth at present prices over
ST., 900, 900.
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sO-CALLED ABANDONED FARMS.
A Defender of the New England Coun-
try from the Charge of

try from the Charge of Decadence.
Something of the character of any
section of country may be Judged or
guessed by glimpses caught from the
windows of a swiftly moving railway
train. But leisurely carriage ride af-
fords much better opportunities for OBJ
servation. BY this experience the writ
er has learned the real conditions eX-
listing in eastern Connecticut, through
out localities to which railway trains
have never penetrated. Here are to be
found many of the so-caled abandon
ed farms, such as furnish a theme for
the mournful screeds about the "deca-
dence' of New England. 1t is true
there is a melancholy suggestiveness
about an ancient, untenanted farm
house, out among the lonely hills, with
no companion dwellings in sight. The
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The latest innovation in Japan is the
formation Of commercial schools for the
training of female clerks, and one of the
largest railroad companies in Japan has
intimated that after a certain date wo-
mnn only will be employed in the cleri-
oa1 departYnent
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IN SAMARKAND.

The Athens of Asia a Thousand Years
Ago as it is To-Day.
The Central Asia of yesterday lives
almost unaltered in the cities of Box
hara and Samarkand. The whole world
has only two more interesting cities
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Erastus A. Barnard of Chicago has
given a plot of ground, comprising 3d.
900 square feet, to the city for play
ground He intends it as memorial
to his daughter. A good deed.
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For District Electors,

First District-M. S. CHAPMAN, or
Manchester.
Second MISUNDERSTANDING DE
PFlYSTER, of Portland.
Third District-WINSLOW e. WILL
LIAMS, of Norwich.
Fourth District-G. w. MARSH, OF
Bridgeport
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For EIect0rs-at-Large,

CHARLES s. MERSICK. of New Ha-
ven.
HENRY H. BRIDGEMAN, Of Norfolk.
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REPUBLICAN, NOMINA TIONS
FOR PR EsIDEN1

FOR PRESIDENT.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY, of Ohio.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
THEODORE ROOsEvELT, of New
York.
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Italy's new king according to Eu-
ropes political gossips is going to set
a notable example for other crown
wearers in the way Sof improving the
conditions in his country. He is said
tc have declared that "all of Italy's
troubles are due to want of principle
In her official life" and he promises to
drive out this spirit. Every public Of
ficer he says, shall do his duty so long
as he, the present king, is on the
throne Speaking for himself he de-
clares, 81 love work, and 1 am willing
to be the public's first servant, but I
insist that those under me work as
much as 1 do AS to my ministers,
they shall no longer promise things
they cannot fulfill. The people must
regain faith with the government.
Hence, we must keep faith with the
people"
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For State Officers.

FOR GOVERNOR,
GEORGE P. MCLEAN, of Simsbury.
FOR LIEUTENANT-GovERN
EDWIN O. KELLER, of Norwalk.
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE,
CHARLES G. r. VINAL, of Middle
town.
FOR TREASURER,
HENRY Fl. GALLUP, of Norwich.
FOR COMPTROLLER,
ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN, of Meri-
den.
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Eighth MISUNDERSTANDING
AVERILL, of New Haven.
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Consul Dillingham;, from Auckland,
writes TO the State department of some
Australian vegetables that ought to
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DENNIS A. BLAKESLEE ant
GEORGE #. HALL.
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For Judge of Probate,
! LIVINGSTON w. CLEAVELAND, of
New Haven.
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For Congressman,

Second District-NEHEMI
SPERRY, of New Haven.
, 1900-12-21
DON'T FORGET 1T!
E MENTIONED.

Arrangements are now almost com
plete for the shoot to be given by the
Laramie Rod and Gun Club on Christ.
mas afternoon and for the dance to
be given Christmas evening.
Frank Cooper, who was sentenced
to the ~penitentiary about a year ago
for a term of five years for having set
fire to a house in Cheyenne was re,
leased from prison today on a pardon
signed by Governor Richards. Cooper
had always born a good reputation, and
had committed the crime while intoXi.
Gated. Upon these representations,
and promises to get into no more trou.
bic the governor issued the pardon and
Cooper is a free man again.
, 1900-12-21
ROBERT SINGLE TO MARRY.
Former Cheyenne Boy Wins Beautiful
Bride in Foreign Land.

Robert Single of Honolulu is to be
married mex month to Miss Adele Wild
ditield, a graceful, beautiful and very
American families in the Hawaiian ISL
ands. Bob has a large number OF
friends in Cheyenne who extend hear
test congratulation and sincere wishes
that his married life may pass as
smooth and delightfully."- as the far.
famed summer days of his adopted
land.-Tribune.
, 1900-12-21
OFFICIALS
OF THE UNION PACIFIC ARRIVED
IN LARAMIE THIS
MORNING..
Denial Of the Story That the Contract
Has Been Let for the Building Of
a Cutoff Between Evanston and
Salt Lake-Inspection of the Grade
Between Buford and Tie SIDING.

President H. G. Burt. General Man
ager E. Dickinson, Superintendent of
Transportation Buckingham, and 9TH
e" officials of the Union Pacific came
in on a special train from Denver late
this afternoon. They arrived at Blu
ford this morning, and had waiting for
them there carriages, in which they
drove owe the new grade between p
ford and Tie Siding. After they had
inspected the work done. particularly
that on the big tunnel, they %re-enter-
ed their cars at Tie Siding and came
into Laramie.
A great deal has been said of late
about the proposed cutoff between
Evanston and Salt Lake, which has
been considered one If the company's
plans for next year. While in Denver
the other day. General Manager Dick
inson took occasion to deny thai the
cutoff will be built.
The report is absolutely false"
III He' lHeIe Is HOt even Il SHADOW
of fact upon which such a story could
be founded. l suppose the story grew
out of the fact that l drove through
Echo canon with an engineer to see
what features would be presented in
the engineering difficulties should an
attempt be made to build. After max
ing the trip we were convinced that
1t was not only impracticable, but al
most impossible to build a railroad
through the canon and the thought
was abandoned. That is as near as the
Union Pacific has come to letting a
contract for $4,000, 900 or any other
sum-
, 1900-12-21
PERSONAL

F. T. Ellis went to Ogden today.
F. o. Harrison is in from his ranch.
G.. c. Wagner left last night for Chr
cago.
]. S. Atherly is in the city this af-
ternoon.
A. H. Stewart returned to Denver
last night.
John Phillips is in the city today
from his ranch.
Elmer Keefe and Eugene Wilkerson
left Wednesday night for their homes
in Cheyenne.
Mrs. F. w. OFT and daughter, Miss
Martha, left or No. 4 for several days
visit in Denver.
Clarence Congdon will leave tomor-
row for Rock Springs, where he will
spend the holidays.
DR.. S. B.. Miller is much improved
today, though he suffered a great deal
yesterday and last night.
Wilkie Collins, who has been attending
the university, has gone to his home in
Lusk. He will not return next term.
Miss Frances Handley, Miss Multi
son, Glen Scott, and S. Cuff left for
Saratoga last night to spend the
Christmas vacation.
George Gobnardt, jr., left on No. 4
today for Denver to spend a few days
there with his parents before their re-
turn to Laramie.
Mrs. c. Stotts of Shurdan, Iowa, is
visiting in the city with her sister,
Mrs. Charles NJ. Nissen, Mr.. and Mrs.
Nissen and Mrs. Stotts will spend Sun
day at the Sheep mountain home of
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Nottage.
, 1900-12-21
SPLENDID PERFORMANCE AT
OPERA HOUSE LAST NIGHT

A more pleased audience than that
which filled the Opera House last even.
ing to witness the presentation of Ten.
nessee's Partner" is seldom seen any.
where. The play is an exceedingly in.
.teresting one and has a very satisfac-
tory finale. The company is one of
the strongest ever seen here. Miss
Jane Corcoran, though suffering from
a severe cold, proved herself a charm
ing little actress and fairly c%aptivated
the audience in the role of Tennessee
while her support was exceptionally
good. The Gold Nugget quartette
proved such a hit that it was repeated
ly encored and it was with difficulty
that it succeeded in getting away from
the audience at all. The show was one
of the very best ever seen in Laramie.
, 1900-12-21
TURKEYS! TURKEYS!

Graham's Cash mar
ket has a fine lot of
Turkeys for the Christ.
mas trade.
, 1900-12-21

Dressed Turk eys, the finest
in town. Pelton'S.