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should choose to turn into alone there, and She was not quite the-Bessie Walter" NORWAL'K' GAZETTE. R EAL EST ATE_ WANTED. ‘ lint RING. 2E
THE RIIETING s
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After so loug an absence,
At last we meet again;
Does the meeting give us pleasure,
Or do;-s it give as pain?
The tree of life has been shaken,
And but few of us linger now,
Like the prophet’s two or three berries,
In the top of the uttermost bough.
We cordially greet each other
In the old familiar tone,
.And we think, though we do not say it,
How old and gray he has grown i
We speak of a merry Christmas,
And many a happy new year.
And each in his heart is'thinking
Of those who are not here.
We speak of friends and their fortunes,
And of what they did and said,
Till the dead alone seem living,
And the living alone seem dead.
And at last we hardly distinguish
Between the ghosts and the guests,
And a. mist and shadow of sadness
Steals 0 ver our merriest jests.
—-Lonyellow.
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FOB PASTIME.
If anything could make one sure of a des-
tiny that shapes our ends, and against
which it is of very little use to contend, it
would be the odd and apparently unaccount-
able freaks that now and then take posses-
sion of a man, and lead him to do some-
thing al'together outside of his usual routine
and contrary to his habits pf life. In the
ease of a man of leisure, whose inclination
naturally forms his habits, you might easily
suppose them contrary to his inclination, as
Well. It was a freak of this kind which
led Walter Phelps to refuse to join a family
party, consisting of his own mother and
sisters, his younger brother‘John, and his
cousin, Miss Margaret Sturgis, with her
maiden aunt. They were to makc the tour
of the Northern lakes, and to settle down
for a few restful weeks in the Lake Super-
ior region, returning in time for the
climacteric at. Saratoga, and " p
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glories of the ““0" “Egg ql’l‘lzt to himself
He wanted a 11!" J '
, .a it as one who was in ear-
!“ “la; “Eli‘s something new for him. He
nfgtone of the men fond of being entertaiu~
cd, and accustomed to be made much of;
fond, too, of his own womanhind, and
usually quite to be relied on for escort duty.
His mother and sisters had remonstrated
at first, but he tol them that, with John in
attendance. they s irely would not need him.
And Miss Marg :‘ct Sturgis, his cousin,
maintained that he was quite right. So
they started for the north-west, andhe for
the north-east at about the same time. He
had provided himself with the multitudinous
equipments of.an angler, and alteady he
had stopped at two or three difleri-nt small
villages in New Hampshire, failing so far to
find a spot which the trout and he were
agreed in approving.
At last, one evening, he was staging it
through the beautiful Pemigewasset valley,
watching the. sunset glory upon the hills
and over the tranquil river. They were
just entcring a little village, and he turned ‘
his eyes by chance—still Destiny, you see,
was playing him as if he had been a pawn
on a chess-board—away from the river,
crimson with sunset, to notice on the other
side a. picturesque old house among the
trees. As they came opposite the doog, hc
saw standing in it a girl when lovely piqu-
ant;facc flushed on his sight for a moment
and then vanished, as the stage-driver, after
the manor r of his tribe, whipped up his tired
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artmg
in order to drive up in state to the hotel.
adVr-nture. Let me lead the beast home, 0
drive him,“ you please.”
in and let Bessie thank you."
the gate.
house together.
door.
been running away.
bit and saved me.
should have been .a. beautiful and belated
damsel, instead of a hoary 0 ~ country
doctor, to have it read like a page out of a
novel.” ,
“You are better worth saving than any
she kissed him; “and how I thank the
‘strong enough to tell."
“The ‘miracle’ is Walter Phelps. by name.
at your service, and only too glad of so easy
an oppoutuntty to earn your thanks. I am
staying at the hotel, near by, and I will call
to-morrow, if I may, to see whether the ad-
venture has had any more serious conse-
quences than appear at present.”
“The more often we see you the better,"
his host answared with cordial hospitality,
and Phelps fancied that Miss Bessie's eyes
seconded the invitation.
“Papa is forgetting to tell you that he is
Dr. Crandall,” she said, as she had“ "'7‘,
good night; "the only doctn- °‘ the place,
and you‘ve done a -— .. many people a ser.
vice who” so kept his bones whole."
,..'rate had been, was it kind or unkind
-only the future can say which—to Walter
Phelps; or let us call it indulgent. He
walked back through the moonlight to his
hotel, in a mood of mild selfcongratn‘lction.
She was certainly a,girl—-they were a fam-
ily—on whom no impertincnt intrusion
would have been tolerated. lic might have
staid. in Riverside all summer, angling in
vain for the opening which destiny and his
night. He was born under a lucky star.
But just here conscience pricked him, and’
asked a question he could not evade. Why
did he want to know this Bessie Crandnll—
what could she be to birth-why should hc
seek her 1’ He stood still, and answered the
inquiry-answered it all the more defiantly
because he know he was wrong.
“I want to know her just for pastime—
and why not? ‘ Arc men and women like
tinder and fiint that they cannot meet with-
out falling in love? In this dull place any?
interest is a blessing. No doubt I shall on-
tertain Miss Crandall, as much as her beau-'
over it will be autumn all the same, wheth
er we have amused ourselves or been
bored."
noon—he would not be in hastc, or intru-;
Mr. Phelps had meant only to spend a night tying Wolmme.
in this little village of Riverside; but it be-
gun to look to him like agoodtrout region. “but lnever slept all night for thinking he re
“1 took it lightly last night?“ we ”is;
When'he was shown into a largO comfort- how easily he might have been killed; and'
able chamber overlooking the river, bit: .he is all 1 have in'the world."‘
conviction was strengthened; and by the
time he had eaten his neatly-served, well-
cooked supper, he was sure that if the trout
did not come there it was so much the worse
for the trout.
Walter Phelps begged her not to hutltili-E
ate him by too much gratitude fora service
tary exertion of strength; but her thanks}
and praises were very pleasant, neverthe-' such doubtful fashion.” ~
A soft summer moon was rising as be less. He leaned back in his chair and sur-
wcnt out on the piazza, and he strolled
“0h. homo isjust here, and you will come
Could the young beauty be this man‘s-
wife? But no; the idea was monstrous.
A shuffling sort of farm hand had heard
the noise by this time, and came round to
“Take good care of this beast and rub
him down well, for he’s been having plenty
of exercise,” said the tnsster‘coolly; and
then the horse was led away, and“ the two
men walked up from the front gate to the
Already the beauty of
Walter Phelps’s sunset vision was in the
‘lWell. Miss Bessie,” the master of the
house said cheerfully, “the new horse has
I stood a fhir chance
of being dashed to pieces against the stone
wall; but when I had just said to myself
that I could only be saved by a miracle,
this unknown hero caught my horse by the
It only wanted that I
belated damsel I know of,” Bessie said, as
‘mirnele' that saved youI have no words
own steel-like muscle-had made for him to- ‘
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of which he was the sun.
serious. Not thatBessiehad in'the slight-
wus too delicate a woman 9-100 shy beneath
her frankness—for anythingtlike that. To
save his life he could not tell whether she
reallv cared for him or not, and he was be-
ginning to lodg urdently to know. 'Yet it
was a question that he must not ask, and
he began to see that from asking it he could
find no decent, not to say chivalrou3,cs-
cape. If he had been wooing Bessie Cran-
dall for his wife, he could hardly have done
more or other than he had bcen~ doing for
nearly. six weeks past. And now his family
were imperatively summoning him, They
had returned as far as Saratoga; and, in
this haunt ot the well dressed, they found
one escort for them all an insufficient a1.
lowauce—he must have caught and eaten
trout enough by this time to turn his brain
to phosphorus, and, really, they could spare
him no longer. He felt that he must go—at
once, that is, tomorrow. This afternoon
he would pass with Bessie. '
As he went toward the houscwhere he
- had spent so many pleasant hours he felt
himself a coward. Could he go away and
nottell her the truth! Would any truth,
however hard or cruel, be so ignoble as to
depart, leaving her, if indeed she cared for
him at all, a prey to the vain expectations
be bid done his best to create? Would—
but he paused. Fate must settle it all:
Perhaps she did not care; and if .‘so no harm
was done. But all the while he was con-
scious of a wild, miserable longing to see
the light of love in her eyes; and-to kiss the
sweet, sensitive mouth, trembling "“11 ll!
first words of tenderness f" “m' 3" went
in. mm on“... Dcvalu in the great, cool, par-
lor, fragrant with flowers. She was a crea-
ture of infinite variety; co'quetish sometimes,
argumentative sometimes, serious some--
times, and neverotwice the same. This af-i
ternoon she was 'changeful and brilliant,
and elusive as. the hum'ming-vbird:thut_fiitted;
in and out of the rose-tree under her win-
dow. Her mood tortured him. If he was
brutal. that torture, perhaps,.was a slight
excuse—but then brutality is so often the;
resource of a perplexed man. If he'only:
knew whether she cared for him! If not,
he might spare himself the confession he
had to make—but how could he be case f
He drew a picture from his pocket, a lit-'
tlc miniature painted on ivory—thefacc of
a woman pure and proud and cold—“icilv
regular, splendidly null," he had said to
himself thisvery day as he looked at it in'
his ‘own chamber. -
“I belive I have never shown you this,"
he said,» handingit to Bessie—“do you think
it handsome l”
“Your sisterfi’ she asked, looking at the'
picture carelessly.
whom I am engagedto marry."
cared for him; but in that moment I thinkE
1!! Will Pleuie me; and when the summer is he would rather his doubt had remained I
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unsolved.
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"Shin"?
, and he showed it in his tone as
“I am not sure that I am: man; i... ..~.,
meat.” , ‘
“I think you are disloyal 'toyour cousin,"
which cost him nothing beyonda memes-3' she said, with a little scorn in her tone, ll!“ ll. had self-knowledge enough to us.
‘when yeti receive my congratulations to demand that when the excitement of this John' Who had adored her With single". ‘
“005 was our: and ll“ hid 8°“ back ‘0 hearted devotion since that summer when
“Would to heaven that were ray-only dis~ her old graceful and gracious repose, she he did escort duty at'thé Nethern Lakes in
veyed her critically, from under half closed loyalty i" he murmured. in so low a voice would fall l0 satisfy him, as Ill. did before. place of Walter. the absentee. John has
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ready to the warmth of this new summer,
Meantime, be, poor fellow, was not quite
comfortable in his mind. This acquaint-
ance had not been less pleasant than he im4
agined it would he—but it was growing too
est degree thrown herself at‘his'vhead. Shc
He had longed to know whether she: ll
ti
. . “Yes, she is very handsome; one of those 3
‘ . - . stve. The Doctor W8! not at home-Poss» beauties about whom there can be no ques-
horses intoa wild spasm ofdespamngenergy ‘ny he had counted on this in timing his tion. Icong‘ratulate you." ‘
visit—but Bessie received him with a satis-' ‘
gratulated. Marriage, at best, is an experi- taxicflih'gr .1331}?
himself at her feet,’
We on forever in a white dream of beauty 2
‘He laughed at his own conceit, and‘the‘n
went to his cousin.
With an altogether unflattering abrupt-
ness, he proposed to her to be married at
once, and catch the next steamer (or Eu-
rope. The mood to go was, on him now—
he had no patience with waiting—as for
gowns and things, they were its plenty
there as blackberries in New Hampshire.
Miss Sturgis was a thorough-bred, self-
contianed woman of the world; but she
was neither without heart nor without per.
eeption. Whether the New Hampshire in
his comparison suggested anything to her,
I do not know; but, at any rate, shc'had no
mind to be married in an unsentimental
haste that did not even pretend to excuse
itself by any passionate order of love.
She refused his proposal with quiet firm-
ness; and I do not think he was at all sorry
to start upon his-travels alone.-
Europe diverted him; however, less than
he had expected. He spoke American and
French, and it did not open to him any
wild delights of a social nature. For vul-
gar dissipation ,he‘had'not taste. At that
stage in his career'he was, no doubt, selfish,
ease-loving, goodifor-nsnght—but hc'was
always pure-minded; The‘ halls of the
Mabille only disgusted him—the saloons of
a'society, corresponding to his own in New
York, were not open to him. He liked
painting and music-and sculpture, all of
them with mild, good taste—not one of
them-was capable of giving him an intense
emotion. He would have gone home ll! 8
year, had not "the problem of his life waited
at home for his solution. He sought for
“kl“ in on the accustomed directions—he
wintorcd in France to no purpose—he pass.
5“ the next winter in Rome, with no better
success. A summer in Switzerland, and
another in northern Europe served him no
farther—and at the end of two years he
went home, just as puzzled and uncomfort-
ablen man as when he sailed away from,
New York.
Meantime Miss Sturgis hsd been thinking;
Would a lover who loved her have 'staid’
away years? When he had asked her"
to go th .him, had it not been with s‘
make-the-bestéof-it air?
These thoughts were in her mindwhc‘n'
he returnedto her, and asked her if at last,
she were ready to name the weddingodsy.
She looked at him with a curious expres-
sion of inquiry.just touched, or at least hc‘
thought so, with scorn.
“This is sv'veetly courteous of you, I am
sure," she said, in her cold, clear tones;
"but”I want to understand you perfectly—
do‘ you ,ask me to be your wife because you
lovc me with a love that would choose me
out of all the world; or bemusemtter our'
understanding in the past, honor constrains
you i”
“It is late in the day to ask that question,”
he said, with what indignant manhood he
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He had never come so near doingjust this b
thing as at that moment. The keen cxcitc- for him there was no place for repentance.
. He had becn shocked when he saw that merit of her mood had breathed life into
she sufi'ered ; but now her swift composure this seeming status. Her eyes shone with a ‘ whoever’s wife you are," he said fervently;
new fire. A brilliant scarlet glowed on her and then he went away from her in the
cheeks. There were new'tones in her well- twilight, out of the peaceful old house;
d never found her so in- out of the lilac-bordered yard; out of her
bui‘ifih‘l‘n'ritsllet?" 1i '
Possibly, also, he feared himself. It may be, "Enema-31:23, sometime “‘9' “I.“ he
failed. She mamea'mkufimls {ml
sparkling, changeful'face had gained in
and gesture." ’Th’iswas not a" girl forj'any
man to love and ride away. Nor, sincere
as was his purpose, did he find it easy" to
tell her for what he had come. She had
some new power over herself and others.
She chose, for a while, to keep; the toner-
sation on indifierent subjects. She wished
to take a nest: sense -_of this here, whose"
cur hhd ence'i-uled the’ heavenséto see,
with matured powers of‘perccpti’on, what
manner of man he was. would‘hc be able
to stir her pulses with any of the old ' thrill?
She thought nob-but he might try, if he
choose; it would he‘ witll‘thatfshe should be
altogether sure or herself.
So at last'she let him ask theqncstio’m
for the sake of which hehud come. He was
too much in earnest, now, for dainty’gallau-
tries. He asked her‘in a fewplain words
to'be his wife; and she answered 'with a
little spice of wickedness, for she was s'
very human little creature: ,
“But yourcousin. Miss Margaret Stusgic l
I supposed you hadjm'crrled her, long ago.”
“No, Bessie, you" had’made that impos-'
sible. Ionly found out‘how’ well I loved
clear-sighted to be deceived, and when she
guessed my secret she gave me up. um.
fear but I" am honorably released: I- am
yours, now,'if you will have me.” . '
, “I am afraid Ida-Robert Niles would ob-
ject," she said, idemurely. 7
“Who is Mr. Robert Niles?"
‘She answered with deliberate cruelty,
bearing in miud_thc very words with which
two years before, he had turned her to
stone. '
“My friend. tvhom
marry." ,
Walter Phelps was. proud. There is
pluck and courage in the: jettison m.
58,100, remembered thede time—tho old
words. "“I congratulate you.” hossid, as
I am’ engaged ‘.to
coolly ss-sh‘e had spoken the some words of
old. " I
. .“Thank you," shc.~ inawered-é‘q know
My. Niles so'well that-I do not think my
marriage wilt-bun experiment." '
Just before he left her, his heart softened
over her, and eonqueredhis pride.
“I have loved you.very dIery',” he said.
I did not guess how well, in that old sum-
mer; but I know afterwards that I had
never really cared for any other woman. Is
ttoo much for me to. ask, in the name of
all-I feel'for you, whether you love this 'Mr'.
Niles f” - . '
Her nature, always as exquisitely true as
it was exquisitely tender, impelled aerate
be frank confidence which was all: she
could give him now. If he were really
_ bob]. enough to rejoice in her happiness,
could summon, “now that you have been I
“No, my cousin, Miss’ Margaret Sturgis,i my promised wife four years."
She smiled—a smile which promised him 0
he would make him sure of it;
“Yes," she said, with grsvc..'swcet 'seri-'
usness. “I love Robert Niles; I .‘ was
very near to loving you, two'sun’smcrs ago;
“Well, I will change the conditions then. but I felt that you treated meiill; ' You had
am no longer yourpromised wife. I with- played with my heart for lifetime; but. it
raw every pledge I ever made you. Now, was a prouder heart than you knew. You
She turned suddenly white to the very if you suit me, it must be afresh. You had amused yourself with me, careless of
lips. As long as he lives he will never for- ll"? “100:1“ me 8 cold woman; but. I tell what you might make me sufi‘er, whilc'you,
Mr. Phelps went down into to breakfast, get that momentary ‘glimpse of her, with all you that any man would marry me at his yourself, were engaged to another woman.
the next morning, and found himself a hero. her young warmth and brightness gone—s. peril who could not give me the uttermost When I knew the truth, it aroused against
Dr. Crandall had driven by, and stopped to woman of stone. She was both proud and love of his heart. It would be a treason I you my pride and my indignation and they
tfill the landlord llle story of his rescue. brave, and she would never lower flag to could never forgive—I should be .
Phelps had saved from accident the most the enemy. In a moment the color had exorable as death. Do not speak one word known and loved Robert Niles and he satisp
POPUIM 1mm 01' ""3 Villlge. and Ill. village come back to cheeks and lips‘, and her voice more to me of marriage, unless you know. fies me entirely.” ‘ 1 ' V '
was determined to make much of him. He- did not even tremble as she answered at r. in u s 1 th t
did not go over to Dr. Crandsll’s until af‘tcr-l |y_ . ' ,q e yo r on ’ a. you love me Whh ‘ devo-
in- cured my budding love. Since then I have
Walter Phelps looked at her in the set!
on that is absolute, exclusive, and for all summer dusk—this fair woman who was
ot for him. He knew that he had sold his 1)“- “BARTON-
irthright for a mess of pottsge; and that
fe, forever.
away in the tempting summer night, and lids. She wasnlsdy,certainly. His cousin that Bessie did not feel herself obliged to Will! Bessie forever hlithe and bonny and never been known to complain that his
went ~but this was of a set purpose and
Margaret was no more entirelv well-bred— hear it. She led the conversation in quite ll
eguiliug in his memory, d3" he "V“? "in wife was cold. He prefers his stately white
not at all ‘0 be Pm down ‘0 the account 0f but how different they were—as different other channels;andjcsted and mocked and he loved Margaret absolutely, exclusively, lily to any other man's ardent rose; and
Destiny— toward the house where he’d seen
the vision of fresh, young loveliness in the
doorway. It was a picturesque old place,
a square house, the roof sloping up on each
side toward a square erection, which was a
. sort of large-nixed cupola. The trees that
overshadowed this New England home
were old and stately enough for an English
park—haughty-looking trees, though they
belonged to plain New England people. I
used that word belonged, as-if it were not a
mockery to talk of transient wayfarers on
this planet as owning the solid earth, the
waiting hills, the whispering trees, that were
here long before they came; that will be
here, glowing in the warmth and light of
each day’s sunshine, long after these brief
sojourners are dust. Shall property mock
its possessor with its own permanence?
There is only one Roprietor, because only
one who can outlast his possessions; and
when David said, “The earth is the Lord’s.”
he understand the secret of ownhrship.
But Vii alter Phelps was not of aspecula-
tivc turn of mind; he only thought of the
trees as indicating an old estate. “Some of
our trout New England .yeomanry.” he
mused, “who may very likely havc lived
here for generations. The old house seems
almost as strong as the land it is built on—
but that girl looked like an exotic. She
must be worth knowing, if one could only
find out a way. But she is not the glrl,nor
are such people as live herc the people, to
permit any importincnt familiarity.”
Just then Destiny took up the cards again,
and chufiled them for him.
A horse came tearing along the country
road at a frightful pace. It took only a
glance to show the locker-on that he was
running away. The vehicle, a sort of Dr.’s
sulky. was swaying from side to side, and
its occupant had evidently lost all control
of the excited horse. Mr. Phelps glanced
around. A few rods ahead of him the road
turned suddenly and sharply, and unless
the animal had sense enough to turn with
it, there was nothing to prevent him from
dashing everything to pieces against a solid
stone wall. There was no lack of pluck or
of muscle about Walter Phelps. He had
been stroke car of his boat’s crew in col-
lege—ho had reserved force enough, and
knew how and where to use it. He‘walked
leisurely toward the horse, with an air as
listless and dcgcges as if he were in a ball-
room; but suddenly he had caught the bit
was slight and lissome and girlish of figure.
the woman’s longing and passion were in
them too. Her hair was dark, with a soft,
ripple in it. Her features were piquant,
rather than regular—the broad,sunny brow,
the nose not quite straight, the‘ sensitive,-
sweet mouth, the clear, dark skin, the round
you could not ask for anything brighter or
would have ventured to criticise.
the unvarying calmness and repose which
ciai experience. Bessie, on the other hand.
was swayed by her impulses, as a butterfly
is blown by a summer wiud. These impul-
eel, however, being always pure and sweet,
the moods of a womanly and gracious soul.
the result was quite as charming as the
more reasonable department of a colder
woman. Unconsciously all these compari-
sons drifted through the young man's mind.
Miss Sturgis was the woman whom, aside
from his mother and sister, he had seen the
most of “tn-his life, and of whom he had al-
most unknowingly made sstandard of com:
parisoa for all other women. Bessie was
so curiously unlike her that there was a
charm in this new study. . '
To do him justice, he pursued it faith-
fully. He pletonded to be there for trout-
fishlng; but the trout had little to fear.
There was always a reason for his going to
see Bessie Crundallmhich would not admit
of delay. He sent to town for books and
music—and one by one he must take them
to her. He had a tenor voice, full of flexi-
bility and sweetness, and he sang to her
while she played his accompaniments. It
he went fishing, she must go to show him
the way. None of these proceedings dis
tnrbed Dr. Crsndall. The manner in which
their acquaintance began had made the
Doctor friepdly. He was glad to make the
return of a cheerful and cordial hospitality.
As for Bessie, it never occurred to him that
she was in any danger. If it had been sug-
gested, he would have said that he knew
Bessie, and she wasn’t the girl to fancy
with a grip like steel, and the astonished
animal stood still in the highway, much sur-
prised, no doubt, at this interruption to his
high-footed proceedings.
itMuch obliged, I’m sure,” came a voice
from the interior of the carriage ; I had been
calculating the probabilities, and had about
cencludei that unless I should be .ssvsd by
a miracle, it Would take a better surgeon
than I am myself to set my bones. If you'll
hold this bloodmndnhunder quadrnped a
moment more, I’ll last out and lead him
home." . .
With which words a portly man of a lit-
tlc past fifty descended from the sulky and
poached out for the bridle rcin
“Let me keep it," Walter Phelps said po~
litely, “you are somewhat shaken by your
every acquaintance a lover, or to. lose her
heart until somebody asked for it.
In this last, he would have been right;
but there are men ways of asking than
one. Walter Phelps spoke no word of love.
but the songs he sang were tender with
some passionate old poet's devotion and
longing—the books he gave her were such
as alover would choose—and his daily
eagerness to see her, told her more plainly
than words how pleasant he found her so-
ciety. She ctfinbined in her nature the fer.
vor of a woman, and the honest simplicity
of a child. She was too inexperienced to
ask herself why he did not speak—it was
sufficient for her that he was. Her heart
had been like a tight-closed rosebud when
he came; and its petals were opening al-
as ice and fire, flesh and marble. Bessie .sparkl'ed,so that iffte had not seen her and for all time?
white face of stone for that one revealing
She had steal. dusky 03’“. out Of WlllCh ll" "moment, he would have believed that she
child’seagerncs- had not yet faded. though cared not nlall for all the summcr that was mm I am unable even to conjecture. to rapturously as any common mother oftit'em
break the bonds that bound us—to casl 'all.
passed.
away, and the parting was general.
The next day he went to'his cousin.
ed cheeks where the color came and went— never love me much,” is casléjr to bear than mistress of your own future."
the fear “I shall love her no morsL", It must
’tbat his cousin would never be very passion-
never to turn coquetish'or light-minded on
his hands.
not guessed how deep an impression
Riverside he had been trying Bessie by her
lery of paintings. alive with color and glow
and brightness, into a hall of sculptured
marbles, still and pure and white, and oh i
so cold. There are thosewhc like‘thc mar-
bles best—who see in them a noble grace
the more sensuous art of painting can never
reach—but Walter Phelps was not one of '
these. He missed Bessie’s riant little face
with its dark beauty, her gay laughter, her
sudden moods of half-pathetic tenderness;
she was a woman, .1 perceive, after his
own heart, while the homage he had paid ‘
to the other for so many years was but the
.clear perception of his intellect.
He had never been used to selfcontrol;
no experience had taught him to submit
patiently to discomforts of mind or body.
He was uncomfortable now ; and his boyisn
impulse was to run away from his uneasi-
ness. He had not yet learned that trouble
is like the ghost that has tormented a cer-
tain worthy family for years. The good
wife finally concluded to move, in order to
escape him; but when the last load of goods
was on the van, a neighbor passed that way
and said, “So you’re moving 2” “Yes,"
cried the ghost, lining from among the beds
and cushions a voice of congratulations ; yes,
We're all going.” Walter Phelps had not
learned that all maladies which are of the
spirit have wings by right of birth,.and will
fly with us wherever we go. He thought
Europe would have resources enough .to put
out of mind one'little, brown, mockmg face.
He would try it. Miss Sturgis' should go
with him if she would. He could take her
over to the old Greek marble women, with
whom she seemed to belong. What‘if‘she
r
A profound student of human nature says contend.
He rose and bowed courteously. ,
“You have chosen," he said, "fo'r what
Dr. cianshit hnd'returned some he wont doubts upon 1 feelins you seemed in other
days ‘0 find satisfsctory. Against such 039' one’s day but his own, in his pastime. 'l‘tu
ice I am not skilled or patient enough to t
I Will 30‘ tomcat You Will! 911' how to 'love' steadfastly, were happy in
that. in marinas. the certainty “she will treaties-you shall bc 8- you have chosen. spite of him; inane—we can afford to pity
him, for be is very much alone.
He made his exit with dignity, as he
Sturgis’i picture.
.‘l
as was'nstnral, but she—surely she must be
--like a flower in a picture that .
“Blddeth fair to blossom soon.
But it never. never blossoms in this picture,"
. nndthcmoen ' .
Never ceases to be crescent, and. the June is
alwast’unet"
He went to see her at about the same
hour on which he had seen her first. He
knew the household ways. They would
be through tea—the Doctor would" havc
gone out—she would be alone. He would
have‘thc‘long twilight, the sweet summer
evening,~in which to make her happy, to
and himself in her soft joy. He half
thought he should find her in the door, as
he had been her stand so often, whitetobed
and fair.I But he saw no one when he drew
near the house. For the first time he
thought, “what if she were dead i” and
shivered, as he knocked at the ’ door. A'
new servant answered his summons, and
his inquiry whether Miss Bessie was in.
He sent up fls‘card,‘ and then waited for
her in the'parlor below, his‘heart beating
as no woman had ever made it beat before
She looked at the bit'of pasteboar'd, and
smiled. He had come again, then—this
man who held her heart in the hollow ’of'
his hand, that other summer, and played
with an pitisd' it, “with a poor-thing negli-
gence!" She took a sheet of paper, and
wrote on it:
“Do not come tonight—I will tell you
why, to-niorrow. "
This slfe gave to her maid, with a few
words of direction; and then looking a
moment in the glass-efor who does not ad-
just his armor before going into battles-Lake
wont downstairs.
there are those who testify to having seen
Mrs. John Phelps in her nursery, and heard
her talk sweet, foolish, idle baby talk as
So you perceive our trifier wasted no
we women, neither of whom be quite knew
Nor does he enjoy loneliness. Certain
l‘m‘ll". 01' yet more 4115!"!!! from the 1b- be much the same with lovers. '- There had thought. Her eyes' {OllOWfll him Wllll ligplatitudes about love are much in fashion,
While perfection 0f Ml" “31‘5"“ Slursi‘s. always been a vague though possibfylanill- l‘l“ halfsconful and wholly “d- ".3078? implying that man's need of love is less
not .one line of whose classic face an artist taken impression in Walter Phclp’k’mlnd four years ofa lifetime," she said'to herself. u,“ woman's; but there are men and fmen.‘
Tl" 7°"! next afternoon found 1"- PhElP" as there are women and women. Walter
Their manners WOW II unlike as their ately in love with him; and that had never ill Riverside. Tl“ image 0‘ Bessie hill lfl' Phelps is precisely, the kind of man to'covct
faces. Both were perfectly rctlned,but Miss much troubled him. Passionate to", he ken on new charms, now that to win her domestic life, Dissipation, as‘ I said. does
Sturgis had the aplomb and self-possession, thought, wssntit in inning of)“: tempera- seemed possible. One woman had weighed: not, attract him, for his nature‘ is're'fi‘n'ed. '
ment; and he had been well enough satis- him in’ the balance and found hill "Wilt. He has money enough without' locking" for
come only of careful training and wide so- fled without it. not-gm. and beauty bad There would be sweet and full amends in‘the: it, so he has not the excitement of busi-
charmed hic tsste,h_er preference had'fiat- greeting 01 this less judicial charmer, who uses. He has no pong“; ambition; nor
tered his pride; he had looked forwardwith had never seemed disposed even to criticise has he the tastes of a student. , A happy
piansuroto being the envied husband of at him. He found 8 cruel consolation ll! re- ho'me is'precisely .wh‘at‘ he'n'e'cd‘s. but be
much admired woman, whose’very cold- meatbe'fl't. the swift Pilot "M lfld’OVEOF- threw his chance for that'aws’y in hls‘youth.
ncsc was his security, since she was sure 0li her face when he showed her ll" Remembering the past, he has a vague ‘idcn
, Allthrough hic'hurried what love is; and he is determined not to
ourney he had beenpicturin'g'to himself the marry without it. So, ever since, b has
But now a terrible fear beset him lest he "dell-WNW he? wele‘om‘c. H0" ll" will)! been pursuing a hope that has constantly
should never be able to love her. He had cheeks would crimson. the d"! 9!“ gleam eluded him.‘ He can never, 'try how he
Bessie and glomthe sweetmoutb tremble! 'l‘lm will, feel again the glow‘at his'hea‘rt, that
had made on him until he felt how savor- “I!" would be any difiiculty—thstahe mill“ warmed him when he waited that last‘ day '
less'tho calm faultless beauty of Margaret be estranged. 01' 00”. 0|” 0083 even, never' for Bessie, in the old house at Riverside.
Sturgls had .becomc. involuntarily he was once occurred to him. Two ram had none Society has come, at last, to look with mild
constantly centrnsting her with Bessie;at by. bringing change “d experience ‘0 him, contempt upon his patient experiments.
I danced with him, last night—n 'well
'“lld'l'd- 1"“ “k. passing from a gal- “l“ that'came “”0900“! rosebnd 0‘ S Sill preserved man of forty-five-band I wonder-
ed if he, as well as I, heard an ‘ all-wise
young chit of seventeen, in ~ the insolent
pride of youth and beauty, say tothe pretty-
boy of twenty who was holding. her fan—
“Jue't see what airs he gives himself, .that
old beau l" ,
gag-g:
J (In I. Owens, the comaii'an', disappoint-
ed sn audience very ' unexpectedly, but his
excuse was a fair one: “During an engages
ment at the Baltimore Mugsum, he fell in
love with and courted the beautiful Miss
Warfield, the acknowledged 'bclle and
leader in the aristocratic world "of that city.
Owen's benefit was announced, and the
museum was crowded to its utmost capac-
ity for the handsome young actot‘wss an
immense favorite" with 1 the ' theater-goers.
A long delay followed the last notes of the
‘overture,’ the band again began to play—a
half and then an‘ hour, when the, manager
appeared and stated to the crowd 'that their
money would be refunded at the door, Mr.
Owens being unable to appear. The scene
next morning the fashionablc world was
shaken asby an earthquake,, for the an-
nouncement went forth that the beautifhl
Miss Wsrfield had eloped with Owens, and
her cousin, Miss—with a fellow-actor of
the comedian." .
m
“So yer mother’s dead, is she?” inquired a
Detroit shoeblack ofa rather solemn-faced
lad who had come back with his“kit” after
an absence ofa day (it two. “Yes, she is,’
replied the boy; and then, straightening
himself up, he' continued, “and daddid the
fair thin by her—seven more hacks than
Mrs.—— ad the other day." ' - -
Phelps had expected to;see,- yet he could
not have defined thechaugev. Certainly she‘
was not less' beautiful.‘ 'If anything, her
charm. But there was an added self-pos-
session in her manneré—a new‘pride in voice
you after I had left you. Margaret was too‘ "
aw
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Extracting teeth and inserting artificial dentures s‘
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ofland; now used as a Saw Mill but suitable for a
Enquire of JAMES FINNBY, Real Estate Agent,
Norwalk, or of the subscriber,
Real Estate Agent, Licensed Auction-
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lie has taken a desk at. J. B. Hurtburt’s Law Office.
Room No.4. Gazette Building, where he can here-
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I THE undersigned Would be pleased to receive or-
Property to sell or to rent, or those wishing to pur-
chase. Business attended to w
dispatch. »
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JAMES MITCHELL,
omcc, jlltclsoll’s Block, Wall Street,
Desirable Residence
FOR SALE one To BENT.
Til
destrublex
to rent.
given Sept. lot. For
I! J
articularsa l to
AMES 9"
NNIY, Real Estate Agent.
E Elegant and ,Commodious Residence and
Grounds located on West Avenue formerly
known as the Dtmon ‘Homestoadr—one of the most
laces in Norwalk,—.is offered for sale, or
ll the modern improvements. Possession
A
at Bank of Norwalk.
GEO. E. MILLER,
sstt
at the Norwalk Savings Society
FEW .‘sharés of the Capital Stockofthe Fair-
field County National Bankand ol TheNation-
When and how shall I meet him, ifcverf
What are the words he first will say?
How will the barriers now that sever
Boots and Sh“
E, the undersigned, lmvingformcd a co-par
TO RENT.
A good,‘ nice place, in the Borbugh
gourlinesor tess‘l insfrtlon 50 cts; 3 times 9:.33 1
no squamous alert- on. -.- - - - - - - ow rate to a good family Possession
Perweek for continuance ....... .50 , . '
Cup-oopicJIx-months. .' - - . . - - . 1:30 When desued. Apply at the Gamma
T,” .. °.'l°’.‘."—‘ti"".'.”{v _' : _ : ”3,: 0mm. ~
'THIOO" u u u u . . . - - 30.00 .
OnequarterColnmn one car ----- so.os ‘ ‘
Onehslf .. V. .' . - . . - 80.00 For Sale, To Let. or Exchunce.
OUSE AND LOT on Cam Street.
if exchanged for New ork Cit
once in cash will be paid. I e House is in good
-order, has every convenience and suitable for a large
family. A?” to CHAS. G. DEAN, 214 East 31st
Street. N. .
BARN TO RENT-A new Barn with good Sta-
bling for several horses, near the bridge. Pfie
88 per month. Enquire at this Ofilce. ,
T' IIIT;—Pine,“plessant rooms, over Klien a
Emsnuel's store, MatuStreet. Apply to
utf - MRS.J.F.MURRAY.
HOUSE AND LOT FOR SALE.
BARB CHANCE IS OFFERED 'TO‘ PUR-
CHASE the residence of the late Alfrcdlal-
lo ,srtnated in the center of the Borough of‘Nbr-
we k,.oppocito the Town Hall andhmmanding’a
fine view of the harbor. Size of lot 120 feet front,
by its feet in depth. Apply to either of the Bacon.
1011.
MRS. ALFRED rumour onthe rem'se .
'ltowsnn BEARD, South Norwnlklt ‘25:!
all
”I I'MII‘WII‘", Building Lots at. your own
terms of payment, .rom one to live years with
usual interest. The finest’located and most. desira-
ble Butldlnlg Lots ever offered on liberal terms in
the town 0 N orwalk, for sale lay
F ANK B. SMITH.
“-11
FOR SALE.
THE beautiful house and lot. recently occupied by
C. E. Doty. on Elmwood Avenue, South Nor-
walk, commanding asplendiu view of thctown and
Long Island Sound. The house has twelve rooms,
with gas, furnace and marble mantels. Size of lot
80x21? feet. Strawberries, Grapes, and Pear trees in
hearing. The place is within five mlnutes’wulk of
the New Haven Railrmtd Depot. and forms a rare
chance to purchase afirst-ctass place low. Posses-
sion given on A trll lst. Part of the purchase money
can remain on bond and mortgage. Euqnire'of
B. H. ELWltLL, or CHARLES E. DOTY,
f South Norwulk, Conn.
' Small Place for Sale.
TH E HOUSE AND LOT situated just west of the
Wide River Bridge, on the south side of the
road,nenrl opposite the residence of J amos Panton,
Esq, is o ered for sale. The house contains six
rooms with cellar, the" and is offer at a low price;
a large part of the purchase mean can remain on
mortgage. 'l‘hlsls a good chance to secure a home.
8
_M:I.11 Property
FOR SALE.
.1qu subscriber offers for Sale nis Mill Property
' situated in West. Norwalk. about two miles
trom Darren Depot, three miles from South Nor-
wulk,cnu two miles trom New Canaan, consisting
of a maunfactory, two stories high, 88x18 feet, with
about 18 feet head and fall of water, with three acres
mannfnctory at any kind. Terms easy and price low.
CHAUNCEY STREET.
WestNorwalk, Sept. 25. 1869. if”
JAMES FINNEY,
oer, Con-sable, Collector. doc.
RATEFULLY returns thanks for the veryliberal
patronage heretofore extended him by a gen-
FAlflFlEtll comm
Real Estate Agency.
ders from those having Dwellings or Farm
ith rom mess and
0 an. B? Aug
3 . Ofiice N5; a. Gazette Building.
REAL ESTATE BROKER,
—AND.-
AUCTI‘ONEER,
:NORWALK, CONN.
Special attention palfi’ddlffiflr, 9!"-
WILLIAM MITCHELL.
At the ever popular
UNION MARKET,
has always the nest of
Beef, Veal, Mutton, and Pork,
at fairllvlng prices. Union (formerlylgedcl) star
NOTICE.
set. on the Bridge.
“subscribers havtniformed a copartnership and
taken the “PROPL ’8 MARKS l‘," in Skiddy’:
block. Main st., formerly conducted by J. :l‘. Adams.
are now prepared to serve the public With all the
best can- of menthol all varieties. The stock will
on bought. and butchered expressly for the firm, thus
«curing fresh meat. of the best quality. By faithful
attention to the wants of thotrcustomers they will
rim to deserve liberal patronage.
Rout. Anon ADAMS a WIION.
Janus E. ston. In
JOHN ROBERTS,
Dealer in
Beef, Mutton, Pork at Hams, .
Parana vzs. CANNED FR 1711's .20.,
No. 3 James, Block.
1 ' warm: srnsarmonwsm court.
HAILES S. LOCKWOOD,
Fashionable, Draper a: Tailor
AND
GINA" FURNISH INC EHPORIUM.
Main Street. Norwslk, Conn.
B. S. BLASCEB,
At his Store in 2mm nLocx, has constantly
on hand a general assortment of
G R O O E B. I E S ,
CBCCKEBY, GLASS.
TIN AND WOODEN W483, 270., ETC.
By devoting his constant personal attention to the
businesshci hopes to merit public patronage.
'TNA' INSURANCE 00., 0F HARTFORD,
Incorporated tats. Charterl’erpetual.
coplsnl cud Access, $5,052,880.19
insures againstlossand dams e by Fire. on terms
adopted to the hazard. and cons stem with the laws
of compensation. , COWLIS & MERRILL.
Solo Agentsfor Norwalk and vicinity.
Nonwaulrtsunancn COMPANY
NOR WALK, CONN.
CachCapltul - - - - - - -$500.000
Phliannpft-l. r - - - - 3100.000
Wu C. Sun President, Gno.R.Cowans,See'y.
ran.'l‘reasnrer.
anon]. min: on
FALL» GOODS,
'Men &, Boy’s Wear.
. iiEllIlEliEll'S FURNISHINii 50008
i O. 21?. Cornwall.”
HARNESSES F0]! 5 ALB.
,Gleansing, Pressing (is Repairin g of
THE subscriber would respectfully inform the
public that he has now on hand a good assort-
ment oft! ARNESSES. made of the very best mate-
' "““irlences, Farms'and
pleasantly located on Fair Street,'opposite
the head' of Main Street, will be renlrd at a
, If sold one-
holf left on mort age; i let. partly furnished;
Real Estate difi'er-
lr
willcouviucethem that by
donorable Dealing tit Small Profit
\vnich inane: quicksnles, at we are bounu to giv
suttstucttonand defy competition. Our motto i
'l‘dESLOWStIILLING "
out! MID UPPER tEAl'ltElt, ftltllltis, UL,
C UsTUDI WORK,
in allits branches, also REPAIRING done with neat
nessand dispatch. SNll'l‘l-‘l & HANFDRD
UIIAELESSMITII. Jessi-n P llaxronn.
VHEsubscribertrottldiuformthc citizens ofNor
walk that he is prepared to do
patronaue. Willtrytoplease. ShopCentcravenue
near Main street.
2 SAMUEL B. FITCIl .
‘V. C. QUINTARD & (30.,
Wholesale and Retail Dcalersin
Hardware, Paints, Oils, tfilass,
House Furnishing Goods,
Also all kinds of
Sleehanics’ Tools,
AND
Asntcutruintt IMPLEMENTS.
LOCKS, KNOBS, [A ILS, A ND BUILDERS’
HARDWARE, POCKET AND TABLE CUTLER Y
of the best kind. Remember the place,
No. 3 Opera House Black,
_ SOUTH tronsvannmon'tv.
W. 0. QUINTARD, 301:3 KNA PP
W. Hfswonns.
Merchant Tailor
CORNER WASHINGTON AND MAIN srs.,
son's'n wonwann, comm,
scotch Cheviots, Meltons, Grape and
English Coatings,
runs I)? IN STYLE,AND AT LOWEST PRICES.
A LARGE ASSORTMENT 0F
Gents’ Furnishing Goods.
Gents’ Kid Gloves,
0! all Shades and Colors. of the Ben
Quality.
' IRON FENCING.
HE subscriber is now prepared to make andfur-
nish several styles of
Wrought and Cast Iron Fencing,
to enclose churches, dwellings and bnriulplots.
-Also—
Iron Gates, Doors, Shutters and
Gratings-
lronStatrs, and Bolts for building purposes,and
many other articles in the line of
BLACKSMITH WORK,
Shopin rear of Solmon's Hatshop, Union street.
South Norwalk . ‘ 5
WM. H. DUNCAN.
c. H. Kinsman. 0..
:D E N '1:- I s '1' .
Ofilce Bast Side Depot Square.WashingtonStreet.
South Nor-walk, Ct.
Dentistryin all
its branches per-
formeu in thebest
manner.
Special atten-
' tion lven to ex-
- 11g t e e t. h
without pain by
:he use ofNitrous
Oxide or Laugh-
ing Gas. Having
' used the Gas for
the last nineyearswith unvarying success. 1 am per-
fectly satisfied as to its safety, and know positively
that I can extract teeth without pain urlnjury to my
patients. I keep good gas constant.y on handmnd
use tnemost approvegapparatus in administeringit.
P. S.—Ofiice not on n on Mondays or Saturdays.
Dam. 8 AND MEDICINES.
[‘1 DE undersigned would respctfully announce to
the citizens in this vicinity, that at his
Drug Store, .
CORNER OF WASHINGTON AND DEPOT MS.
can always be found
PURE DRUGS,
CHOICE WINES and LIQUORS
son MEDICAL PURPOSES,
Country Seats
Bought,Sold, Rented and Exchanged.
ileal Estate,$tncks, Furniture, &c'-5
at pnblicand private sale. Auction Sales of
HOUSES. LOTS, FA RAYS,
AND PERSONALPROPERI Y.
Sales Of Furniture at Owners’
Residences.
Houses to Rent
Furnished and Unfurnished
Placesfor sale varying in price from $5,000
' to s50,oot
Allsrdcrs left name Union Market,.\iltchell’s
Block,Norwalk,Ct.., willrecetve promptattentiou
JAMES MITCHELL.
Nfll'llall Steam Dyeing & Sillilllll
ns'rassusussnsi'r.
tDBBSSES AN D DRESS GOODS!
of every description
CLEANSBD on DYED
in a manner not to be on cased. Particular atten-
tion pa d to the
GENTS’ GARtu ENTS.
oya new and improved method, in two da 1. Car-
ets. RugsgPiano and Table Coverscleane ordyed.
tD GLU‘ ES CLEANED so as to look almosteqnal
to new in one day; 20 cents per pair. Call and sec
samples done at. the allies, east of Horse Railway
no or. 0 en anti. 8 o’clock p. m.
p p R. N. PERRY.
EDWARD P. WEED,
s) n no G I s '1' ,
Wall Street, opposite Norwulk Opera House,
A large and wellselected stock of
DRUGS AND MEDICINES,
Perfumery, Patent Medicines, all kinds, Mineral
Waters. 'l‘oilet and Medicated Soaps, Flavoring and
Handkerchief Extracts, Hair Brushes, Combs,
Sponges. Chamois Skins.’S§atiouery,Cigars. the
and is constantly adding to his stock all the new and
popular medicines of the day.
NOW FOR Willi WATER PIPES.
Wm. Glover Sr. Son,
Are ready to put in your WATER, STEAM or GAS
PIPE, at very short notice and at. as low a rate as
anyone. thOUGHT do CAST IRON, TIN-LINED.
LEAD PIPES, &c., of every size and description.
PLUMBING In all its Branches.
WILLIAM CLOVER & SUN,
23 Biversltrcet. Norwnlk.
tl’ltl Carriage Slut-p.
and ”with the utmost dispatch.
MARSHALL smnnn'r,
and engaged‘skillful and experienced workmen
the subscribers feel confident the
all the oldcustomcrsofthe
Oldest Stand in Nort’valk.
theirpatronage
RY in C‘tic'iesners’
rials
possibly be furnished at any
ltshntcnt in thc count-y.
no have them otoncc.
lolJ-lflfl.
which he will SELL As Low as thevcan
other similar estab-
Now for the art! rs. Let
WM. D.&AUI
.lc
be found a full assortment of all styles and kinds 0
a. horn affluence to a pony Phaeton.
mum Oops. mm.
New Carriages and other Vehicles made to order,
and Repairing and Jobbing done in thebestmuaner,
Having arranged to carry on the business, on
t th ey can satisfy
and such others as mav be led to extend to them
We have also opened a CARRIAGE REPOSII‘O-
corner store. where always can
"’4 NQZ AND TOILET ARTICLES,
E" Physiclans‘PrekEEDICINES, (90.
ed day and night. Cnn‘be found it.
nnllding, entrance on Washington St.
tyso S. F. PECK, South Norwalk. Conn,
THORBURN’S _ SEEDS.
our Annual Descriptive Catalogue of
V E (a‘r E T A B L E
—and—
Agrccultural Seeds,
Catalogue of I
Flower Seeds,
Hybrid Gladiolus,
and other
Spring Bulbs,
—also—
TREE SEED LIST
will be mailed free to applicants.
mos. Monument a. 00.,
15 JOHN STREET, NEW YORK.
FRANK MEAD,
Manufacturer of
Fine Confectionery,
No. 3, Gazette Building.
Ehrernnnnd-
l
“DIES All) fiEIIlEMEI’S RESTAURANT,
ICE CREAM furnished to order on short notice.
HOME MADE PIES and CAKESconstnntly on hand.
—. . - 7 c s
Unson Marble PI arias ,
NORWALK, CONN .
The subscriberhas made arrangementsby which he
will hereafter receive _
Scotch Granlte,
directfrom Scotland. Hobs also prepared to furnish
every kind of
ITALIAN AND AM ERICA}? MARBLE, .
GRANITE. DEAD, OR BROWN STONE,
M O N U M E: N '1‘ S,
Slabs, Tablets. Sinks, &c., as wellas Mantlesand
Furniture Slabs in general. at the
LO WEST POSSIBLE PR1 DES .
Cemetery Fencing. Iron llailng, lieu
furnished and put uput shortnottcc and on very
favorable terms.
Representing an establishmemtheoldestand best
known ofauyin Western Connection t,thesuhscriber
feels that its reputation for artistic excellence and
honorable dealing is already too wellestablished to
need commendation. Address E. B. Price, Agent.
llechanicSt" in therearof the new Bank,Norwalk-.
Machine drilling and Repairing.
The on member. having leased the slto and tools
of .\lr.J..hn Cotter, near the foot of tin Hill, is
fully prepared to execute all kinds of Machine
Jobbing, amt to repair Machinery. Ol‘tlel‘SWlll re-
ceive prompt attention, and be executed in a work-
manlike manner. 0. W. BURRI’I‘T
The subscriber haslocated in the BASEMENT 0F
WILSON’S BLOCK, (opposite Gazette Building,
where he willcarry on the
Gas Fitting and Plumbing Business
MAN and always either pet-annally dOlD." cr_ super-
inteln’ding his \vork he is confident of hi: ability to
give satisfaction.
B
share in the public patronage.
17tf C. \V. BURERITT.
TWENTY-FIVE CBS. IS,
ONE BOTTLE
CAMPHDSINE,
Greatest Discovery of the age for the
RELIEF OF Pltlll.
For sale by
i which is
068 ‘
nership and purchased the Boots and Shoe.
StoreofG. 0. Kceler,woultl mest respectfullyiuvite
his oldcustomers,also, our oltl friends and patrons
audthe publietn general,to give us scall and we
"TUE NIMBLE SIXPENCE IS BETTER 'l‘llAh
\Vholesaleand Retail. Particular atteng‘on paid Lt
CARPENTER [LTD BUILDER.
Building, in all of its branches,
byeontract,ot'by day'swork.andsolicitsashareol
in nllits branches. Being a PRACTICAL WORK-
v faithfulattention to business, REASONABLE
CHARGES, and GO ID WORK he hopes to
PAIN. PAIN. PAIN.
Why suffer with PAIN, when you can purchase, for
Our kindred spii'its be broken invayf
This self-same daylight on‘him is shining,
Shining somewhere the while I s'wg;
The only one who, my will resigning,
Could I acknowledge my king, my king.
‘.
Whether his liair be golden or raved,
Whether his eyes be dark or blue}
I know not now; but 'twould be engraven
On that whi’o day as mv perfect hue.
Many a face I have liked for a minute—-
Been ' ained by a voice with a pleasant
ring—
But chl‘ and aye there was something in it,
Something thatcould not be his, my king.
f
L‘
I will not dream of him handsome and
strong,
My ideal love may be weak and slight;
It matters not to what class he belong,
He would he noble enough in my sight;
lie may not be brilliantly gifted, my lord,
And he may be learned in every thing;
But if ever he comes he will strike file chord
, Whose melody waits for the hand of its
king.
But he must be courteous toward the lowly;
To the weak and sorrowful loving, too;
He must be courageous, refined and holy,
:By nature exalted, and firm and true.
To such 1 might fearlessly pics the keeping:
0f lose that would never outgrow its spring;
There would be few tears of a woman’s
weeping
If they loved such men as my king, my
king.
=3
From The Boston Journal.
BROKEN atoms.
I’m a disappointed man, my happiness has
flown,
The idols ofmy childhood are
_ o’er thrown,
The heroes I have worshipped after all are
common clay,
And each fable that I’ve cherished like a
dream has passed away; ,
The reason why it should be so I’m sure I
cannot see,
But‘somcbow when I treasure things‘it al-
ways seems to me
but people who go prowling round a find-
ing stcrets out,
Are sure to tip 'em upside down and turn ’em
inside out.
l'
remorselessly
T
I—t
remember how with sympathy my little
heart would swell
When reading of the apple that was shot by
William Tell, '
Who had another arrow hid besides those
in his quiver,
With which (in case he killed his son) to
bore old Gcsier’s liver.
of nothing now is safe from those old anti-
quarian moles, ‘
hey’ve gone and burrowed out the truth,
the miserable souls,
hat Switzer sfry is a ,myth on which I
dwelt wit pride, ‘
hey’ve found out all about it now, I hope
they’re satisfied.
B
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The stormy seas of Norway once could of a
“Maelsrrom” boast
Which “took in” other folks besides those
on that rugged coast;
Iseem to see its picture now, the sinking
ships and whales
Which in despair gave up the ghost, flap-
ping their monstrous tails. . ,
Geography for.children now is losingrall its
charms,
For scientific gents abound, with books be-
neath their arms;
With compasses and telescopes they’ve
searched around with care,
But they cannot find a sign of it, they say it
isn’t there.
D
Those “Patagonian giants,” too, a romance
used to lend
[’0 school books, though they used to cause
my hair to stand on end;
They’d be “on hand” when ships were
wrecked, and nab the luckiess crew,
And break their necks and eat ’em up for
anything I knew; ‘
anybody questioned it I treated them with
scorn,
wasn’t quite so common than to sail
“around the Horn ;"
'n‘oagosg'mnce now-n-days at all such
He's been and messured’em wit}. . -.
got their photographs.
If
It
J...
Then there’s the legend of John Smith and
his fair Indian maid,
heard a tale the other day that spoils that
I’m afraid ;
Of all that Pocahontas stuff it didn’t leave s
“18.
And be for whom thousands are named was
only “ on his brag ;”
And his slaughtering those “haughty Turks”
(I say it was a sigh),
With lots of other spunky things, is only “in
my eye."
Folks shouldn’t question things so close, it
really isn’t fair,
I’m losing faith in everything, I
in despair.
I
’11 give it up
Another thing annoys me, too, who would
have ever thought
Those stories could be false about the car of
Juggernaut f ‘
(That thing on wheels in foreign parts neath
which h‘eathen rash '
n pious frenzy flung themselves and died,
crushed “ all to smash”)-
But that has “ gone up" with the rest, ’tis
really of no use
To argue with those knowing ones who evia
deuce adducc;
A “party” lived there years, and years, and
documents he brings
To prove they’re no such folks at all, and
never do such things. 7
I
And here eight hundred years ago (may I
survive the shock)
They say those bold Norwegians were carv-
ing Dightort rock. -
Shade of Columbus, this alas,fill to the brim
my cup! ' '4 .
I mo‘irn to think you’ve cheated me, with
tears I give you up;
Old Jackson’s cotton forts are gone, I men-
tion them with pain, ,
And those horrid “desserts” of my youth
new wave with golden grain.
A modicum of fortitude I trust I do not lack,
But this last story is the straw that breaks
the camel‘s back.
—__L——.=
A Scranton household is enjoying an era
of peace. The lady 'of the house put her
tongue to :t flat-iron to see if it was hot.
A New Jersey preacher received a dona-
tion, the other day, and among the thing.
left were twenty-seven brass watch—charms
and a pistol without any trigger.
An 102m r-(llittl' wrote: “During the past
week we have been visiting the Solons of.thc
COllntrv." and his constant subscribers think
that 132-. funny way to spell “saloons.”
Olive an‘nll says that the Sight of awo-
mnn’s ankle in Wall street would put a
quietus on any gold panic by drawing all
the crowd away. How does Olive know?
The precocious school-boy whmquotmg
from a distinguished statesman, said. he
”knew no North nor South,” was surprised
to find himself put at the bottom of the class
in geography.
Tito Rochester Democrat remarks,“ a.
sample of unrquai assessments. Ithat in
“Whitesione, in Oneida county, a single calf
was sold the other day at a sum greateritltass~ .
the whole asseSmcnts of the personal" prop-
‘ n. M. c o. s. PBOWITT. «
sacrum a 3: cos.
erty of the town.”
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