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THE HATlTFOlin DAILY COUISAXT: Wl-DXESDAY. rKlilJUAKV 27, 1S95. LITCHFIELD VICTORIOUS. ET0EIE8 FOR MARCH. A KEW HONOR FOR HARTFORD.

Ijc Jlariforft (Tourtmt Ludlow Barter Co. Have soil a very large numbei of Nowby Evans that can show but a pitifully meager ta list In 1K1'3 will have another story to tell before the Twentieth Century comes of age. He ho lives will see. THE LAND OF L1TKRATCBE. It has mi geographical limitations, be-Ing everywhere that g- nluss ha thrown a glamour over the of the earth.

Oscar Wilde In saying In his whimsical epigrammatic way that the chief use of Nature Is to Illustrate tit" poets has in mind this power of literature to breathe a new Interest Into and upon plae otherwise) commonplace perhaps. The of Westmoreland nud Cumberland In England, for example, we call Wordswoi Country, and they take on maid" they never possessed before, aihi It beautiful enough, to be sure, in their own right. A man writes a book ra.led "In Dickens's Land" and helps us to realize how certain parts of and places In London and Its suburbs have an illusion for us thnt adds tenfold to their rhfirm. 1'p In bleak 1,1 n-cilnshlre an Important village. Haworth by minie, has an attraction that is he-snid words.

Just because Charlotte Bronte lived and worked there. Our th circumstances and said that In his judgment Mr. Polridexter had already been over paid for the work. His statements were supported by Major Edward Schulze, Joiner at the Capitol. The committee will report in favor of giving Mr.

Poindexter m) for lalior performed. Favorable report will also be made by the committee on ex-Dairy Commissioner Wlnslow's claim for $126.63. The committee will rejsirt in favor of transferring State Prison Director Law ton'a claim for to the appropriations committee. The bill enlarging the powers of the state board of equalization is assigned for a hearing the finance committee on Thursday, March 7, at 1 o'clock p. m.

NoTL' AND C0MMLNT The Springfield, common council has at last empowered the mayor to fine or suspend offending or Inefficient policemen, on the recommendation of the city marshal to that effect. But every case of suspension must be Immediately reported to the aldermen, for their approval, and they keep In their own hands the power of dismissal. President. Hiij-hanan's housekeeier. Miss Hetty Parker, Is still living at Lancaster, in excellent health.

Monday was her ninetieth birthday, and among the friends who congratulated her was Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston, cx-mlstress of the White House. Two ladles, says the on Transcript," share the honors of anti-slavery work before the forties. Mrs. Elizabeth Pease Nicholl of Scotland, and the venerable and delightful Mrs.

Elizabeth V. Chaee of Rhode Island, who is now 88, and Indefatigable In cheerfulness and energy, although suffering with Infirmities that might make many less courageous younger women hopeless and helpless. Mrs. Chaee has learned china painting since she was 80 years of age. Mr.

Hill of New York Is said to be the only member of the Senate who didn't rejoice in General Ransom's stroke of good luck. The Puyallup Indians are making rapid progress in civilization. Ttvw of them are in jail at Tucoma, charged with forgery, and a third was nabbed the other day for passing counterfeit bill. A Washington correspondent says that Secretary Carlisle is the only member of the cabinet who never has wine on his table, and that for two years past he has been a total abstainer, Massachusetts has a real crocus. It appeared at Milton Hill last Friday.

According to the Mayor of Brooklyn, N. the public school system of that city is full of "the most shameful abuses." One schoolhouse janitor had to pay for his appointment, he says, and It was the discovery of that fact that led to investigation and further discoveries. Five of Milwaukee's aldermen are, in private life, saloon-keeprs. "We do not think," remarks a conservative Milwaukee pnper, "that it Is the kind of business that equips a man to discharge the duties of an alderman as well as many other pursuits do." A bill for the relief of John C. Pelton, the father of California's public school system, is now pending In the Legislature at Sacramento.

Senator-elect Ben Tillman was In Philadelphia Monday. He told inquirers that his state liquor dispensary has not put an entire stop to private (illicit) selling but nevertheless Is a great success financially and morally, too. A Boston paper advises Lady Henry Somerset to buy William Waldorf As-tor's "Pall Mall Gazette." General George W. Jones, the oldest living ex-senator of the United States, has been the central figure in the Mardi (Iras doings at Dubuque. He Is now in the early nineties.

The Methodist theological school at Evanston, 111., has just acquired for its library a private collection of 3,000 vol-ums relating to Methodism (including all the known published attacks on it), together with busts and portraits of the pioneers in the Wesleyan propaganda. This collection was begun in the last centuryv The bill for the disestablishment of the alien state church in Vales has the right of way now in the House of Commons. If it meets with no accidents there, the lords spiritual and temporal will probably ditch it, with what our Mr. Cleveland would call a ghoulish glee, when it reaches them. They know what It means and menaces.

The alien state church in Ireland was disestablished by Mr. Gladstone and his party years ago. Now it is the turn of this Welsh flying buttress of the Anglican establishment. Next it would be the turn of the Kirk of Scotland, and then the Church of England would find itself left (as Shakspere puts it) naked to its enemies. The evil day may be inevitable probably is but it is not un-postponable, and the lords spiritual and temporal can be trusted to postpone It.

About a hundred of the good women of Milwaukee, old and young, took temporary possession last' week of the "Datly Journal" of that town (with the consent of the proprietors) and brought out a mam-moth SW-page. paper, stuffed with reading matter and' "ads." The proceeds go to Milwaukee charities. LETTERS FROM HE PEOPLE. Invoxttgnto. To the Editor of The Courant: As a citizen lot me thank you for your timely editorials of this morning.

True patriotism can't utter 'more weighty words. If, under the challenge of ex-Governor Waller, this legislature doesn't appotnt its Lexow and give it a job tit house cleaning, it 'will earn, and will invite, the brand of venality. The mal-odors of the old bridge "demand drasth; sanitation. Is not the rot deep enough in the Nutmeg state? It is high time that the blasts of public Indignation center uim the guilty men. "Who's Afraid?" "Speak up.

Gentlemen." Parties ought not to be named while the honor of our beloved state hangs in the balance. SAMUEL li. FORBES. Feb. 26, 1S05.

Yes, Ouo or Two Connecticut Men Wci-e There. (Boston Journal.) With such historic bodies as the Vor-cester Continentals, the Amoskeag Vet-terans and the Putnam Phalanx in line, the 17th of June parade this year is pretty sure to take on an exceptional splendor. There would be. fitness in the presence of the visitors. New Hampshire and Connecticut both took a hand at Bunker Hill.

Tho Old ounty Jail Will be Repaired mid Enlarged. The representatives of Litchfield county held a turbulent meeting In room in the Capitol at 7:30 o'clock last evening behind closed doors. The room waa cleared at the beginning of all persons not members of the General Assembly from Litchfield county. A number of prominent Litchfield men who had come to this city especially to attend this meeting were Indignant at this star chamber method of procedure, but their affirmations that every taxpayer had a right to be present at such a gathering were of no avail and most of them spent the two and a half hours which the meeting occupied sitting on the stone steps of the stair-case outside the door. The meeting was to take action on the proposed change of the location of the county jail from Litchfield to Win-sted.

The Litchfield Jail is an old building and the state board of charities has notified the county authorities that steps must be taken to improve it. There were two propositions before the meeting one calling for an enlargement of the present Jail at Litrtifield, and one providing for the building of a new jail at Winsted. The contest was, therefore, between Litchfield and Winsted. and there has been considerable feeling over the matter. Manv of the Litchfield partisans say that the effort to remove the jail to Winsted Is but the opening wedge of a series of changes by which Winsted hopes to become the county seat.

At a former meeting Wellington B. Smith of Winsted. W. T. Marsh of Litchfield and Andrew G.

Barnes of New Milford had been appointed a committee to "investigate the plans for the proposed addition to the countv jail at Litchfield." A favorable report, signed by Mr. Marsh and Mr. Barnes, was presented, with a resolution appropriating $22,000 for the addition. Mr. Smith did not sign this report and criticiseil at some length the arrangements that had been made, claiming that there had been no adequate plans and specifications.

A test vote was taken on the question of tabling Mr. Marsh's report and resolution, and resulted in a vote of 23 to 20 for not laying the matter on the table. This vote showed that the Litchfield party was ahead by three votes, and also that every representative from the county, with one exception, was present. A resolution In amendment offered by Mr. Williams of Salisbury, providing that $50,000 be appropriated to build a new jail at Winsted, and naming building and legislative committees was then voted down by the Litchfield party and Senator Warner amended Mr.

Marsh's original resolution by three resolutions to the following effect: That not over $22,000 be appropriated to enlarge the Litchfield jail according to the plans made by Contractor Hotch-kiss of Torrington; that the county commissioners, with Mr. Marsh of Litchfield, Senator Smith of New Hartford, A. T. Roraback of North Canaan and Aaron Thomas of Thomaston, be authorized to make the addition; that before the contract be made the plans and specifications be subject to compe tition after due public notice. These amendments and the amended resolutions were passed by a vote of 23 to 20, and after some talking and arguing- the meeting adjourned at 10 o'clock.

It was not a particularly orderly meeting and parliamentary principles did not always prevail. HIGH SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT. An Amusing Farce Followed by a Dunce. The entertainment at Foot Guard Hall last evening by the Theta Chapter of the Gamma Delta Psi Fraternity was a very clever performance. The play, "Freezing a Mother-in-Law," reached Its climax when the old lady, for the purpose of being relieved of neuralgia, submitted to the test of suspended animation.

An injection in the right ear was to cause her, however, to freeze instantly. In this condition she was to be kept till her much subdued husband had shaken off the yoke and Indulged once more in smoking and wine bibing for a time. Then she was to be "brought around" by an injection in the left ear. The old lady, however, was let Into the plot by the lover of her daughter, and when discovered the old gentleman, suffering from remorse, asked to be frozen instead. His wife decided such a man was not fit to freeze and the curtain fell.

Morrison B. Young took the part of Mrs. Vatmuff, and Louis B. Chapman in the character of her daughter, Emily, did well. William P.

Sage was Mr. Watmuff. Henry G. Bryant was the nephew from America, who put up the Job, and James L. Howard the lover, who gave it away.

All the parts were well filled. The High School Banjo Club, consisting of Messrs. Howard, Brown. Bur-dick, Spencer, Field, Y'oung and Ens-worth, gave several selections and Emmons's Orchestra furnished the music for the dozen dances which followed. The play was under the supervision of Dr.

Henry McManus and Charles J. Warriner, with Harleigh Parkhurst as manager. The hall was well filled. The performance was for the benefit of the High School Athletic Association. Gossip of tbo Boxers.

The athletic entertainment of the Hartford Wheel Club takes place tonight The principal bout will be between James Wicker of Springfield and Harry Lane of Bridgeport at 140 pounds. The other contests will be between Jack Brooks of Danbury and Jack O'Brien of Willimantic, Tom Ragan of Worcester and Rube Rice of New London, AI. Wescott of Hartford and AI. Jennings of Springfield. All the bouts will be six rounds.

There are no novices in the lot and the program Is the best ever presented in this city. There is some doubt expressed as to the appearance of Jennings. A sporting man in this city wrote to him a few days ago and the letter was returned by the postmaster. It was said that he had disappeared and even Wicker did not know his whereabouts. The Capitol Wheel Club will have five bouts on March 19.

The main one will be between Charley Matthews and Patrick Daly of New York at 122 pounds; It will be eight rounds. John Morlock of Danbury will meet Young Keenan of Newburg, N. Y. in a six-round contest. Ryan's Cyclone will have O'Neil for an opponent for four rounds.

Each contest will have a call. Two of the bouts have not yet been decided upon. Complimentary Son a Recital. A complimentary song recital was given by the pupils of Alfred Barring-ton at Unity Hall last night. The program was a long one, but the pupils did so well that there was nothing tiresome about the recital.

There were three choruses, which were led by Mr. Harrington. The accompanists were Mrs. Lucius Johnson and Edward F. I.aubln.

Those who took part were: Martha Bloomingdale, Lena H. Gouge, Iu Parker, Cunigunda Schmidt. Grace Weir. Edith M. Aab, Jennie Curtis, Ada Cooper, Florence J.

Blisss Etta Stock-well. Loula A. Bliss, Raphael Drott, Walter C. Booth, Will Stephenson, Frank Oonky. William Gnodaere, Frederic W.

ltham, Frank C. Gill. Charles It. Burnham. Vilburt H.

Bennett. Frank Reynolds. Every seat was taken and many were obliged to stand. The East and Thanksgiving flays of New England. Ily W.

lie Iss Love, Jr. Ph. JJ. Jlo'lghton, Milfiin Co. This Is a book to awaken the enthusiasm of every lover of molest, painstaking ami thorough work.

It Is good to meet with a historical treatise on a subject demanding extended and minute inquiry Into matters sometimes perplexing and ob.MMire, arid to be able to lay it down with the conviction that the ground ia thoroughly covered and Its resources substantially exhausted. This Is veryde-clfc-dly the feeling one must have respecting Dr. Love's handsome volume of upwards of six hundred pages. It Is a volume stuffed with facts from end to end. A great part of them are new, having nev.r before been published, but resurrected by the compiler from the ancient manuscript archives of state libraries, historical society collections, and church records.

And the whole of them are collocated and arranged with acute analysis and skill In the elucidation of the subjects In a way which will make the book the standard authority on the matters with which it deals. And the subject Itself The Fast and Thanksgiving Days of New England is a much wider one than a mere mention of Its name will be likely to suggest to everybody. The Fasts and Thanksgivings of New England are woven Into every filler of New England's religions, social and political life. How they originated, how they have been appointed, what they have from time to time Indicated and expressed, what changes they have undergone, and the reason of those changes an answer to tho questions Involves a knowledge of New England history, especially In some ef Its minuter aspects, which very few even fairly good scholars possess. Rightly to set the story of these Days In their proper place the whole civil and ecclesiastical life of a people, under all the sharp and manifold changes of two hundred and seventy years, must be very well in mind.

The prepossessions and convictions of Puritan Days; the strifes and struggles of early colonial times; the superstitions and fears of the Witchcraft period; the excitements of the White-fleldlan epoch; the contentions of Revolutionary parties and events; the antagonisms of Republican and Federalist factions in the early period of our republic, as well as the oppositions all along of 'dissimilar churchly principles in the community generally all these things must be understood to understand the story of these days of public observation in New England. Neither a Fast nor a Thanksgiving Day always stood for the same thing. Far from It. We may almost say each specimen of either had a complexion and motive of its own. The uppermost emotion of the time whether a quarrel with a royal governor, or a struggle among differing ecclesiastical principles, or terror at an earthquake, or fear or gratitude concerning drought or harvest, or strife among political leaders found expression in the observation, and sc'metimes even in the official apiKjinlment, of a Thanksgiving or a Fast.

Rightly understood no mirror of the time Is more accurate than that held up to view by the circumstances attending the designation of these days of public worship ami the utterances thereon. But it requires a very minute and painstaking study "rightly to understand" howr that mirror is to be held up. The writer of this volume has taken that pains, and has apparently gone over New England archives with a fine-toothed rake, to let no illuminative fact escape. And there are some special advantages in the survey of the general history of New England thus through the window of a special topic like that of this treatise of Mr. Love's.

A fresh and Instructive glance Is often attained into occurrences which have rather staled In Interest. Matters are seen In a new light. A sense of reality and of human interest is made to attach to things which had before a kind of dry-as-dust character. Examples of this kind might be adduced from many of Dr. love's chapters; but It will be sufficient to refer, as one example only, to the very interesting bearing on the question of our American Aristocracy which Mr.

Love finds in the fast-day generally asoclated In men's imuids with the Anne Hutchinson troubles. One of the very interesting portions of this volume is that which treats of the gradual approximation of the religious festivals of New England to those of the Christian Year; and the fact which no one has ever befor.e so clearly discerned or pointed out, that this is no abandonment of the original principles of Puritanism, but a reversion to those original principles, and to the proposals of Puritans themselves when their system Was In Its Infancy. The Calendar of Fast and Thanksgiving Days which have been historically observed in New England, from 1620 down to 1S15, with the various authority by which they were appointed, churchly or magisterial, the day of week or month on which they fell, is really a tremendous piece of work. It covers fifty close columned pages, and must have involved a vast amount of research. The Bibliography of Sermons preached on such days for the same period reaches to six hundred and twenty-two titles, which being given in full are themselves a kind of epitome of the story of the volume as a whole.

Altogether Dr. Love in the writing of this book has made a signal contribution to New England history, and conferred a distinct honor on the city of Hartford from which he dates his Ireface, September IS, issl. GEORGE LEON' WALKER. The Jtiduo-n Excusable Mistake. (Baltimore American.) It was In the Superior Court, the time yesterday, the solemn tones of the clerk had just ceased reverberating from swearing twelve good and true men to try the issues Joined, the counsel for the plaintiff was standing ready to make his opening statement, that the voice of the judge evolved the stern order of the bailiff for "hats off." Back of the throng that crowded against the rail was a brown felt of alpine shape bobbing- hither and thither, regardless of the stern command.

The judge watched its movements for an instant, and then. In firm, but devlded, tones ordered the offending ger removed. Still it bobbed on, all heedless of the stern command. In stentorian tones came the order, "Remove that man from the room." The crowd in front of the rail parted, and there back towards the door was a diminutive female, whose head was surrounded by the offending tile. The judge looked for a moment at the offender, took in the fact that the new woman had invaded the precincts of justice, and a smile, which he did not attempt to conceal, spread over his features as he turned to the plaintiff's lawyer, and said, "You may proceed." He "I envy that man who sang the tenor solo." She "Why.

I thought he had a very poor voice." He "So did I. But lust think, of Ills nerve:" Lit "The Conrant's" special new fiction for March will be as follows: "The Thirteenth Column." by Barry Pln, March 2d. 4th and 5ilu "Eight Minute of Three," a detective story, by Nyrn Crinkle, Mkn-h 6lh, 7th, Hh. fith, 11th. "Comfort reuse," by Mary K.

Wilklns, Mnreh 12th. Villi, llth, lfith. "The Serond I'roinise," by Howard Fielding, March lMh. 19th, 20th, 21st, 21. "Toxin." by March 23d, 2Mh, 27th, 2Mh, 23th.

3HK ASSOCIATE JUDOE. The racket over the associate judgeship of the Hartford police court la ended and a very excellent gentleman gets the jdace. The rule for a generation pa.it has been for the Judge to name his -associate. This year Judge lill! named Lawyer TuttK being requested by numerous lawyers to do so. Mr.

Tuttle shares nn office with Mr. Bill, though they are not partners. Mr. Tuttle Is a democrat, and the wisdom of giving something here and there to the party out of power added to the feeling In favor of his soli'ciinn. He was Indorsed by many lending citizens and prominent lawyers.

This selection, however, was Jumped on as a ohunco to run In fine of the McGovern crowd, just ns the candidacy, of two out-of-town men was Jumped oti as a chance to run In another, John Crilley, for county commissioner. Neither got A Hartford county caucus seems to be able to take care of Itself. The only result of running In the name of another man was to stir up a demand for a republican. This worked, and so Judge Hill named Arthur 1'erklns Hnd the caucus ratified the choice. Mr.

Feiklns was not a candidate and only consented to let his name be used In case Mr. Tut-tle's selection proved Impossible. It was a mistake not to ratify the choice of Mr. Tuttle, but fortunately the, mistake was In policy only. Personally Mr.

I'erklns Is an excellent man for the place clear-headed, honest lihd fair. LEQIBLA11VJE NOTES. The Senate will meet at noon to-day, the first business will be to consider resolutions on the death of Senator Pickering. The House will meet at 10:30 o'clock this morning, The bill, passed in the House last week, directing thnt the (lag shall fly from the top of the Capitol dally (Irrespective of the weather), was tabled in the Senate yesterday. An amendment Is being drawn which provides that "Old Glory" shall be thrown to the breeze on all national holidays, and on other days at the discretion of the superintendent of the Capitol.

The bill appropriates $100 per year for two years for the purpose. The miliary committee has voted unanimously to report favorably on the resolution authorizing the. governor to appoint a commission to revise the militia, law. The resolution provides for a commission of riot less than three nor mole than five members, of whom the adjutant-general shall be one. The commission Is to report to the present General Assembly.

An Invitation wan accepted by both houses yesterday to attend an entertainment to be given by the pupils of the American Asylum for the Deaf Rnd Dumb at o'clock this evening. The pupils will give the "Merchant of Venice" In pantomime, and an Interesting entertainment Is assured. Sidney E. Clarke of this city appeared before the committee on incorporations yesterday afternon and advocated the resolution incorioratlng the Hartford Snengerhund. Ernst Sehall.

Major Westphal. William TMstor and other members of the Saengerbund also addressed the committee. The committee on education considered two bills yesterday afternoon one providing that scholars in towns not having high schools may attend such schools In neighboring cities or towns, at the rate of one pupil for every twenty-five In the town. The state to pay the tuition, provided il does not exceed a year for each pupil: the other bill providing no limit to the number of pupils but making the tuition which the state shall pay the same as was charged in the high school January 1. 1SDS.

Ex-Senator Sprague and Mr. Yeomans, both of Andover, favored the general principle of both bills, which was opposed by J. II. Hmeklesby, superintendent of schools of this city, Principal Douglass of the high school and Judge Hotchklss of New Haven. Mr.

lSrocklesby thought the towns ought to bear the expense of any tuition, not the state. Mr. Douglass thought that having the state pav this tuition would prevent the building of high schools In the smaller towns. He also thought that under such bills as these a temptation would exist to give tip high schools in some towns, like East Hartford and Vest Hartford, near larger places, and send pupils to a high school In the neighboring town. The judiciary committee will hold a session at 7 o'clock this evening for a hearing on the East Hartford bridge matter.

Mr. lluddlngton and Mr. Hill of New Haven, who have criticised the award of the contract to the Herlin Iron lirldge Company, claiming that the work could be done for much less, will be present. Representative Watrous and John II. Hrocklesby of this city, and Representative Newton of New Haven appeared before the finance committee yesterday afternoon in opposition to the bill which makes some changes in the dls.

trihutlon of the money received as liquor license fees. The provisions of the bill will divert the 5 per of license fees from the reserve fund of the police department. The hearing will be continued to-morrow afternoon. One of the most active-of the lie. Govern gang in the lobby was heard to say the other day that, if pushing Mildeherger would help Perkins, he was out of it, for he'd "rather have the devil than Perkins." Fortunately for Hartford, however, he's got to "have Perkins." The education committee yesterday met the general expectation In unanimously reporting for re-election to the state board of education Edward D.

Rohbins and Anthony Ames, both men of experience who have served the state well in that office. The claims committee considered at length yesterday afternoon the claim of C. F. Poindexter of this city for $541.67 as compensation for labor and materials alleged to have been furnished 'he state in repairing the roof of the Capitol five years ago. The claim was opposed on behalf of Comptroller Mead by Chief Ckrk Moore, who narrated at ths post office In Hartford, as second class matter.

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ISM TWELVi: PAKS. The Cuban "revolutions" of our time those of ticm got any further than the columns of the Kfw York newspapc rs have not panned out well. Tragic enough in some of their In-1-ionts, they have bn-ii merely farcical In their results. Perhaps the fin now jraiiiiiiH-id by ilie York Herald" nmy be different. Southern papers arc bioUlug forward confidently to an lnijrtant southward migration of farmers who have got tired of the battle of life on what ioj of these jxiHr tails the.

"blizzard-j beaten, cy lone-swept. grasshopiT-in-fostcd. drouth-afflicted lands of the Xurtliwcst." A Memphis journal, the "Cimuiicn lnl Appeal." rlorts thnt r-j tics of prospectors search of now; homos nre becoming a more and more familiar fight in Atkansns, the western counties of Tennessee and the caMcrn1 mid southern count ies of Has it occurred to our good friends in those Fin tog that the newcomer will bring their ideas and convictions with the in as well as their capital and their skill in farm work? That is one of the facts to he reckoned with. Two ears ago this mont Bourke Coekran van eloquently urging the House to concur in a Sherman amendment to the sundry civil service appropriation Mil, which would have empowered the secretary of the treasury to sell five-year three per cent. Suddenly Mr.

Cockron Boomed to lose interest In the matter, and let it drop. The authority as not given. A contributor to ''Kate Field's lingtoii" now explains Mr. Cockran'a loss of Interest. In the thick of the light, Breckinridge of Arkansas brought to the New Yorker a telegram Just received from Lake wood, N.

where the President-elect and Mr. Carlisle were in consultation. The gist of il was a request to let the Sherman amendment slide, as the proposed authorization wm "unnecessary." THE HILL TOWN'S AGAIN. As everybody Is Interested In the "bill town" question, here in hilly New Kng land, the "Boston Journal" has done us all a service in calling Attention to certain facts disclosed by the triennial tax census of Massachusetts, now just completed. The tax commissioner finds in the state 6o: of taxable property, nn Increase of $221,101,513 in the three years.

He finds 077,740 pollsan Increase of in the three years. Every city in the state shows a gain In wealth; several of them a very notable pain. All but three of the cities show a gain in polls also. The three exceptions are Newburyport and Walthain; their loss is trifling and finds a ready explanation In the dull times. The large towns.too, have been growing In wealth and in population since the last census.

The attraction of their brisker life, their factories, schools, is still operative and potent. As far as wealth Is concerned, the hill towns and the small out-of-the-swlm towns generally continue to make a melancholy showing. Twenty-two Fuch towns in Berkshire county, fourteen In Franklin county, eight In Hampden county, seventeen In Hampshire county, and others in the other counties are poorer in taxable property than they were three years ago. In some cases the decrease is serious. Klchmond in Herkshire county, for instance, has dropped from J4SS.S70 to $360,057.

There is a brighter side of the picture, however. A considerable number of the hill towns (including some of those in which wealth has diminished) report a gain in polls. This is true of fifteen Berkshire towns, and aa many Franklin towns. The increase in these counties is not large, to be sure, but it is noticeable and noteworthy. Our Hoston contemporary says: The same movement Is noticeable in Hampshire and Hampden counties, and similar lists of towns could be given if it were necessary to reinforce the jKilnt that some the small, poor anil remote towns have pained in polls during the three years.

In short, though there are large areas of hill country where the retreat of population is still Kolns on. there are others where it has teen arrested. Whether this change in the current is temporary or permanent cannot be told from so short a time for review, but It Is worth noticing that there is a gain in polls in so many of these small towns which have been running down hill (ajid this Yankee phrase has its literal as well as figurative sense in this connection) tor two or three generations. Let the folks in the bill towns be of good courage. New times and better times are coming.

The summer migration to New England from the big cities of the middle states, from the Vest and from the South is a big one already, but nothing to what It is going to be. The seafront Is practically bought up to-day. The people who are unable or unwilling to pay exorbitant prices for salt air and a sight of salt water must perforce, in a very few years, content themselves with the coolness and Jjeauty of our inland Yankee hills. Even choice sites In the more accessible regions are being snapped up quietly from year to year by intending occupants or by shrewd speculators discounting the certain profits of a not remote future. There are thousands and thousands of just as choice sites in our Connecticut highlands, in northern and western Massachusetts, in Vermont and in New Hampshire, awaiting discovery and occupancy.

Hill farms that can be had for a song now will be worth good money presently, and a comfortably plump wad 01 it, too. Hill towns PIANOi Daring tbo past seven years to the very great satisfaction of pnrcha sers. It is the best medium-priced Piano made. Persons Mho hava thought they must pay $400 or 500 to obtain a good piano will find occasion to rejoice over the fact that Barker Co. can sell them a per fectly reliable Xewby Evans Pi ano for $275 and $300.

Call and examine them C. W. Pratt. 403 TO 4(77 MAIN STREET Jet Trimmmis, Braid Trimminss Selling at Half Price. A Bargain In Fine Goods, Laces, At prices to make you buy, Handkerchiefs.

All the new pretty styles. C. W. Pratt. Nearly all pianos have their good points.

Perhaps it'a tbo tone, action, or handsome case, or, per haps, tho price. THE lames Piano Comes nearest to meeting the demands of tho critical purchaser in Tone, Quality, Action, Touch, Durability, Finish and Price-. An inspection is solicited. We have other reliable malces. and at all times have a number of second-band instruments of various makes, taken in trade, which have been thoroughly renovated, and of- fered at a fraction of their original cost.

EASY TERMS. GALLUP HBTZGER, 201 Asylum (Cor. Ilaynes) Hartford, Conn. Are receiving daily the latest importations in Novelties, including Flowers, Jet Goods And Bandeux. Crepes and Cropons in all the new est shades.

VIOLETS. Tho largest and most complete as. 6ortment at remarkably low prioes. Some Elegant Designs in Evening Hats Are Being own Hudson Rlvt-r is lovelier to every Imaginative person since Irving told Its legends; and Salem and Concord and Cambridge are thing more than they were before they called up the names of Hawthorne, Emerson, Longfellow and Lowell. One of the gmtt.

gifts; of literntuie to humanity Is this tirichmciit of the cxt 1 mil world by the power of the creations of Imagination. This train of thought is suggested by the announcement of a Volume from the Mnernillan press, written by Marie Eraser, and entitled "in Stevenson's Land." Robert Louis Stevenson, a truly great writer of romance, goes down to the South Sea Islands In pursuit of health, likes them and lives there half a dozen years mote or less, and then dies. Hut not before he has so as sociated himself In his fiction and poetry with that south-land of his adoption that It Is, to the wide- world of readers, not so much Samoa as Stevenson's land, his right of bloodless conquest, sud denly conspicuous among the Islands of the earth. The writer of this promised book spent some months in the home and haunts of the novelist Tusitala, their teller of tales, as the natives af fectionately called him and she will de scribe his life at ValUma with detail and sympathy. Genius can Invest any country with Interest, whether It be big India with Kipling or little Samoa with Stevenson; and without such Idealization the globe tion which we spend our small day would be barren, comparatively, and Its highest uses unenjoyed.

OUR TRADb INTLRMS'l'S IN CfllN A. The present American minister at I'ekln took his son along with him secretary of legation. That Intelligent young gentleman, Charles Denby, Is now in this country "on leave," and has been talking with Kate Field about matters and things In China. A report of the conversation appears in her Washington newspaper. The younger Denby says that the oldest of the Shanghai cotton mills have been in operation now about seven years.

They are already doing rushing business. New cotton mills are projected; some are actually going up The expectation is that these native manufactories will ultimately supply the enormous demand for cottons In China and shut the competing English and American products out of what has been In the past one of their very bent markets. In view of this danger, Mr. Denby suggests, the need of radical reform In our consular service becomes more apparent (as It Is more urgent) than ever. "Trade," he says very sensibly, "cannot be pushed by untrained representatives." Other commercial countries having trade interests to look after Great Hritaln, France, Germany, Rus sia send clever young men to I'ekln to learn the "official dialect," which l.

quite distinct from the dialect learned by the missionaries. To become fairly proficient In it requires two or three years of hard study. Then the young men serve an apprenticeship as consular clerks, and work their way up. All the European consuls-genral and consuls In China have been educated for their duties In this way. What is the result? Let Mr.

Denby tell us: Thus is created a body of consular officials abl to transact business directly with Chinese oltlelals and 'merchants. It goes without saying that such representatives exercise an Influence on trade very much to our detriment, our officials being such birds of passage aa to be no mateh for them. That there is any success whatever In our consular system Is due to the natural quickness and intelligence of Americans, if to this quickness were added the advantages afforded the representatives of Great lirttaln and other European powers, our commerce would be greatly benefited. To get the best results our consular lervieet should be made a profession with a certain tenure of office and promotion for eapahle service. Our trade la the East Is second to Enslajiil'a.

but at a vast distance. Hrit-attnla literally rules the waves by virtue of her devotion to her commercial interests. She leaves no stone unturned to advance her cause, whereas we are curiously indifferent to the development of our foreign commerce. Formerly we had very larpe merchant bouses at Canton and Sliamrhol. The last.

Kussell CtMi-pany, failed several years ago, and no successors have tilled the void. If the bill before Congress to place consuls un der civil service nilea becomes a law, it will he the greatest good fortune that ever befell our foreign trade. In time, talk of this sort from men who know what they are talking about from personal observation and experience, and who are known by us stay-at-homes to iosses that most valuable kind of knowledge, must produce Us effect. Hut the time Is strangely and provokingly slow in coming. The yahoo politicians to whom the consular service and all o.lv.

bran lies of the public service are merely so much "patronage" block the way, and the business men of the country seem not to mind. A while ago, a West Hoboken, X. taxpayer. Marc Aymone, sent a communication to the town council. In it he said that the chairman of the police committee and chief of police, Charles Solyom, "ought to go to New York and associate with the police of that city." The communication was laid before the grand jury.

Ayn was indicted for criminal libel. Now ho has been convicted An appeal is expected. R. Ballerstein Exclusive Milliners, COR. MAIN AND TEilFLB STREET.