Norwalk Gazette, 1818-1883, 1875-11-23

.VHOLE NUMBER 1454.

[IO N cold the clouded skies, how low and

Hers was a feeble mind that could not rise

Out of herself to things of higher power;

Busy with ,tigiﬁes, but while an aching want
Decpcned and widened every listless hour.

And friends were kind. but, careless passed

go .
Talking with her, helped her not,nor soothed
*Thc leaden sorrow that: they did not know.

, s. ., .
,Noneggve her work to .
Worrsought she any, livedi

Then 0. one the L ”II to that (laserled door I
That all men passed with hurrying beetl-

-.-. M. ______'___”——

an'rrtn MAN it run RS.
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nv CAROLINE Noam. ,

”.m- lonely seemed her life now she had

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The love that gave to life its grace and

worihl .’

dull

What erst shc decmcd most beautiful on

earth !

her by ;

One of themselves, and happy as things

'Yet thankful if a passing sun
- For any joy that God in pity sent.

less feet,

Etc and fro wildly, ass. man

pass the weary days,
' n dull content,
beam strayed.

And she rose up, and opening found at last
All she had lost within His presence sweet.
' —Good Words.

“-1——

THE MODERN PSYCHE.*

cr cumin) 1:. HALE.

[Co ncluded.]
CHAPTE R l V.

Dear Psyche, could you not (east the fu-
ture better?

That day, as she had arranged, she pack-
ed her things and Geoffrey’s for the country,
and the next day they went, bag and bag-
gage, to a beautiful place Mr. Ross had
hired, at the corner of Hale and Beach street
for a seashore home, in Beverly, so that dear
Geoffrey might have the south wind off the
sea, the purest of air, and the freshest of salt
water, brought up for his daily bath.

The only grief was that Edward had to
take the evening train for Boston ﬁve nights
in the week. But he always appeared fresh
and bright at breakfast, and in the bath at
noon, in the daily walk, or in the'gcvening
ride tome-station,- life seemed all the hap-
pier bocguse the three .h go of Painted Post
bod -rqmrne§l~§ojtheir- lair. . ~ -

9an; this paradise lasted only a fortnight,
when the tempter came. This letter arrived
from Prifcilla:

‘ ' “ Very Private.

“PAINTED-POST, J une 5.

L‘Mv Deannsr Parana—Your sisters and
Ihgve had a very serious conversation about
you'nnd the life you are loading. , .You seem
“1:119, very happy; but have you thought, my
doorPsyche, that you are dancing .on the
edge of a. volcano. Have you asked no ques-
tion as to the future '3 Are you so blinded as
to for ct that the wages of sin is death, and
that go joys of this moment are as nothing
compared with the terrors of eternity ?

-“_ our sisters and I have spoken to dear
papa’aboutthe life you lead. He has biddcn
uicjwrite you just what I think, and your sis-
torlgnlso sayrit is my duty to do so. . I write
you, therefore-"how Sadly you know—to say
that as a Christian woman you ought not to
continue in' this 'life. You should rise above
it. and assert the freedom ‘of is child of God.
What is a dinner at Parker’s if oatenwith a,
guilty conscience? Better is a dinner of herbs
where love is! ‘ . .

"1am sorry t0 write you a. letter which
seems severe. But you know, my dear child,
that; I am as a mother to you. And surely
the counsels ofa mother will be sweeter to -
yltliu than the ﬁatteries of any not so near as
c e; .

“Always yourloving sister, PBISCIL‘LA.” .

“Counsels of a'ﬁddle‘sticks," said Psyche:
and she wrote this answer: -

“What in the world is the matter ? I saw‘
no dislike of- Parker’s dinners when you was
here. I believe you-are crazy. .

“Always y'burs, PSYCHE."

And she threw Pris'cilla's letter into the
kitchen ﬁre. This was her mistake. ‘She
would have been wiser had she shown it to
Edward, as she did the other. But she was
ashamed to. . . . '

Another week brought her. another letter,

“Private and;.Porticular.
. PAINTED-POST, June 18,

“MY DEAR CHILE—Iain shocked with tho
levity of your note, without date, which lies
before me.

“Dear Psyche, fools make a mock of sin.
How can you exult in your own shame! How
can you live as the wife of a man of whom

‘ erfectl happy too?
gDear 'lyittle Psyche! Poor little Psyche?

read together;

They
charming.

night before they went to bed a

noticed that before.
bless us. darling l” and he would be asleep
in two seconds. But Psyche could notslecp.

for that. .
candle, and sat for a minute thinking. Then

she bravely took her husband’s coat and

letters.

although there were two letters a day from
dear Edward, and very funny scrapS from

‘ bills of fare and play-bills, and one 0’ two

new novels by post. and an English edition
of the new “Morris,” still her ”earllilypara-
disc" was a very gloomy paradise Without
him. _
And every day the poor child read over
Priscilla's venomous letter; and at last she
went so tai- that she determined that she
would ask him why nobody except the doc-
tor and the minister ever came to see her.
Of course she did no such a thing: for
Friday night came, and—joy of joys 1-1.3,).
ward came. And Geoﬁ' was dragged out
ofhis crib to see papa, and came down in
hislittleﬂ =nnelnight-gown.and really knew
papa, or was said to; and Geoﬁ' really grub-
bed. at the new coral papa had brought to
him, and held it in his hand and swayed it
‘ very drunk
would do; and they laughed happily ovor
Gepﬁ’ and put him to bed again: and they
sat and talked, and talked and sat, till long
after any bed-time Psyche had ever dreamed
offanti then they went to bed together, and
as Psyche undressed,Edward read the story
of the “Four Sons of Aymon" aloud to her.
It was as beautiful as it could be; antlwus
she to bother him with talking about call-

night, and she wasnot going to destroy her
own paradise before then.

So there was one long, lovely
when he worked with her and she worked
with him, and they went to the beach to-
gether, and went to drive together, and
painted together, and in the evening they
tried some new magic that he had brought
home; and he had a whole pile of lovely
English and French letters which had come
since'he went away, and they had those to
and there was one German
letter from his old Heidelberg triend.Wel,
sled, and Rs; che helped him puzzle out the
words of tho writing—lie said she always

uessed these riddles better than he did.

Saturday,

And We sterlmasnunriied too, and he had

. .1 .

a little girl baby, and made gr‘ezrt‘futi‘ about
marrying her to Geoﬁ‘rey. And they wrote
an answer to Welsted, and it was midnight
before they came around to the “Four Sons
of Aymon” and to their bed.

.-And Sunday was another lovely day.
drove to church and the drive was
They drove to Essex Woods,and

that was charming. And Edward got out

some of his old college diaries and read to
her,and she fell to telling him about Ingham
Univers‘ty,

do not know what
And it was mid-
ain.
Edward went right to sleep. syche had
He would say, “God

Oh dear!
they did not talk about.

She had lost all her chances to ask him
about the calls. She could not hear to wake
him tip and ask him. Nay, had she _not
romised him that she would not ask him?
of this very thing, perhaps, but what was

just the same thing. .

Why should she ask him? Why should

she not ﬁnd out without asking him? Pris-

cilla seemed to know, but Priscilla had
never asked him. V How did Priscilla know ?

How did Priscilla know ? how ‘3 how 7 how?
The poor child said this over to herself in
words—How 9 how? him ?——and she fell

asleep.

But she did not sleep well. All of a sud

den, in a horrid dream, in which they were
dragging Edward off to prison,she woke up.

Oh, how glad she was to be awake 2 What
in the world were they takino him to prison
for? What had he- done? Priscilla knew.
Did Priscilla know? Why should not .Psy-
Clie'kntiw ? .
Poor little Psyche i It was very still. And
Edward Was dead asleep, And one ‘word
from him-would make her perfectly happy.
And yet she dare not ask him to speak that
one word. ,
1 Why should she not be perfectly happy?
Why should she disturb him at all? Why

’ should she“ not keep her promise, and be

‘She'g'ot'out of bed, andshe stepped gently

across the room to Edward’s dressin-groom,
and she pushed the door to. ﬁrms the ﬁrst
time in her life that Psyche had ever tried
to part herself from her husband. And she
knew it was and a cold shudder ran through
her as she thought of this. But she was not
born 'to be frightened by cold shudders.
There was too much Lady Macbeth in her
She struck a match, lighted it

drew from the breast pocket that Russia

leather pocket book which she gave him at

Christmas. How little she thou ht then

that she should be handling it stea thily at.

the dead of night i - ;
She opened the book which was full jo'fc
She seized the ﬁrst : . .»

you know nothing, whose whole life is suhpii “Afr. Edward R0“, No. 999 State Str e of: ~30 xii-1

cious and a scandal, who is himself so asham-
ed of it that he does not admit his own wife
to a knowledge of its secret ways? I cannot
see how a child of Christian parents should be

‘ so blinded and misled.
“Rouse yourself in your strength, dear child

too.”

Then that was his ofﬁce. She Could drive,

down State street some day and'r'u'gt look at.
the number. njdlgfléon her
' knee to free lierhand while she? ‘eﬁcdrt-he

She set the ca

letter. , _,
Ask your husband honestly and bravely what ‘ V c--,
it is that he does in his nightly orgies, Do not ‘ DEAR Ross—Could you sparc in rigors
for half an hour ? B. .1

think that we observed nothing. in our visit.
Do not think that .we were Ell-116d or put to
mg) in our watch 'over our deter. Never,
dear Psyche, we love you ‘as much as ever.
And We are dqlermined to tear every shred of
mystery from your life, once so artlm and
pure.
“Truly your sister mother, PBISCILLA.”
“Sistergmother indeed i” said Psyche; and
she wrote: 1‘ ‘muer:
' R; p u will mind your-11,011,54—

-. 'Vi'iséillcls, letter into the
‘ tyrnintlﬂiftle bits.. This

' gain, ybu will comc‘JtQ-dh u

Miserable girl 1 She had violated all conﬁ-
dence— to learn nothing!
But Lady Macbeth went. op.-
‘Mr. Edward Ross, 999fState Street; '
“DEAR Ross—Ifjmr ‘can come. to club
edge reads,
nd Emerson. and James ' there. We
ave not seen youljor a year.”
ud She knew tiny ,he had notVdin'ed at
cl b fora year, why lghad spent every mo-

m at that h'e’co 1d swim "at home. Miser-
abl girl! It w s'

. for this’ that she had stolen
out f bed!» '1 ' . _
So tidy Macbeth read number three.

“Mi- . Edward Boss, 999 State Street:
“DE ' it Sm: We cannot match the turquois

' ' r . 3051‘, June 21,
"‘an'mﬁlmnliﬁglhavo spent the hero. ut on the catalogue of Messrs. Roo-
- nightinpwycrtiéif munching Agnes than, Amsterdam, there are four such stoncs.
Pallf'nndl“ V ﬂigale Iettcr Shall weéelegraph them a We have very lit-
. hm .d me to tie time fore July 31.”
- -' V 'July 31’was her birthday. It was for this
the life that she 3 reading her husband’s secrets.
.. x 0.13119“ Wretcned _.sychel ‘ .
lovoB‘mn Inot right: wit »1 fall upon-“m Lady M both went on.

.heeigpuyiegygig; if" h" , - f
" .eoedlo s. '1» .9 °Mo,cn.-f"
:33, knowingsthnt mygojctér is eatingthc

bread of wit: a an drinking frbm the
cup of sin. ., hﬂhthowotohman desert his
. ’ been: ﬂi‘fqildicr sleeps-4‘,
‘f‘A’sk you'roélf’wh'y no ponon5"oxcept the
highlin'g ‘ 'Il‘ov‘cr visits at this house

ofE-luxur .-nﬁdcx-in cc, which your hus-
band ,makGSV'l‘shéﬁt‘iibnf‘ viii-.6 of your soul.
“Ask" youueIEWIia-‘t is’thoﬁfoimtain of this

goldwhtoh hcslpondsso shamelessly. ‘
“Ask your» , dear $Piy’cho,”-1whot won

'yOur letter with great care.
that he had seen you on Tuesday, and that

on
. {aid before the committee General G
‘ ﬁtter to you, and the telegram you had re-
ceived from Syracuse.
your friends to—’-’

“ 'Jz‘cd'te and Conﬁdential.

“Edward RO'ss, Esq., 999 State Street:

Laderncbcth paused, but her hand was
in. - - -

- “DEAR Sing-The committee met and read
Mr. Potter said

expressed tho-same view then. I also
V
.. s

If you can persuade

you have-Bﬁid-twoyoors Togo had any, one told .t‘jHerthhe page ended, and Psyche had’to
you that you should. become the. wife eta: pit-n over. V‘As she turnod,-tho.cahdlestiok

connterfeiter, or-tférﬁgcr, or a gambler, 161‘».le
keeper of M18909 119.1196. 91' a detective, canny.
[other of those horrid" things which are'dono
in secret. Itchy one had said to you that .
you should have pleasure in those that do
them, what ‘wouldgyou have said? 0b, In
dear lost lamb, how often has that sweet text
(sooﬁomana, 1 ; 32) come back to me since I
came tc see you, in the faint hope that I
might rescue my bitch even as a brand from
'frtim the burningl My dear Psyche, will you
not turn before it is too late ? Why will you
die? . “ ' ~
“Thus asks and prays your own PniscmLA.”
"My own cat and dog i" said little'Ps che,

ueornfully.’ But she did not'prttﬁhet otter
into the ﬁrc,,no_r_ did she tear it .to shreds to
throw them into the sea. I ani‘very sorry,
but,even in her wonder, she kept the letter
bidnway. 1 ‘, jas- ‘ . ‘
wl‘Whatin’ the world did-they ﬁnd out
about Edward that I do not know i" This
was the ﬁrst fatal question which Psycho.
ukedlierself; .‘ -~
“Forger, counterfeitcr, detective, gambler
——what do the vile creatures meanfThey
shall not say such horrid things about. the‘
best of men." ‘ -‘.: . 1

“Ask ourself what is the fountain of this
gold." cyclic had asked herselfvcry'often,
and she did not know, and she knew she did
not know. Edward was not lavish-and he.‘
was not parsimonious. She and he went
over- the bills together, once a month, and;
when they were too "large,- they both took
care that that should not happen again. And
be gaVe her nice crisp bills iopsy them
with. and always gave her a separate sum
En‘fﬂ’ which he said was her “private.

,ersOnal, oi" peculiar sb‘areﬂ“ w‘hichs‘he'had
‘ otter not keep‘ any account of.“ Whereit
a‘ll cameo-0m she did not know, and. she
know, she did not know ; and she had prom-
; -.(s.or'asV_ing verse” w y nobod cal
to'lee ner,,she had asked that too, dud if},
had no better answer. The minister di‘c'l
call once '0. year; but they had been out
in times, and he had left' his card. Thé
actor had’ called beforeQeoﬁTey was‘born,
ﬁnd after; butshe had not asked him why
nobody else called. She supposed it was
the Boston way. Certainly she had'called
on nobody, but on Mrs. Royall and Mrs.
Flynn and a few more, ofyhcr protegec.
She was sure she did not .tvant people to
call on her, and she did not want to call on
them. ,
Still the iron had entered her soul.- And,
as Satan orderedfo‘r- this week of‘iill weeks,
Edward was called away to New Yoikgxand

tipped on . ,_ ‘
ﬂour, and Psyche was in darkness.
What a noise it made, a
.fool Psyche felt like- .1 .
n’owl But she folded: he,
backin the letter-case. .Sﬁqu’utthe letter

her knee, fell bottogijémp on the

Vrt'what a guilty
1K " sdy Macbeth
taller and put it

room. All thi‘ - _ ..,
out, “Dear Psycho, _ V0...
dear ‘9" He wasout'ogw'
in the darkin PsyCh'e ; ,

the ways of theae‘tt‘

miliar'tohim: — .

When Psyche daredetha ,is;when she
was at the loot of the bade—sh~ cried out to
Edward that nothing was-wrod '. She had
Md a W1 dream, and Was-‘frigliteued,
and had got up to strike a light,but she had

“not meant to call him. And lle‘ fonndher

shivering on tho-bedside; and he Cooed to
her, and comforted her, and made her prom-
ise to call him another‘time, And Psyche
had just force enough to any, sadly, “Call
you—yes, it you are here.” And he sand
to her a little Creoning snug his mother sun:
to him when he was a child, and Psych;
cried herself to sleep.
(:inrrsn v.

The next morning Psycho slept too heav.
ily. She did not wake till Edward was out
of bed. Then she startedlike a guilty thing.
But she did not-.dare go into his dressing
room. . ,

Au‘d he brought in the “Four Sons of Ay-
mon,” anglgfojiyl to her. Oh, she was as long
an ever she‘coiild be itbonl her dressing; but
alasi the b'reakfast-bell,'railg', and Edwa’rd
ran into his robin. "' ' . ' ‘ ‘

Qne minute—if seemed" forever then he
came in with his cOat, 'ahd" with a: look that-
tried to be comical, but was, oh, 'so and! he
pointed to the long swirl‘ of spermaceti
which ran from one end. tip the other.

, Then be bent overth . ‘Oor, c'rying girl.
and kissed her, an kissed.- ‘er. a' 'tun.‘

‘ l‘Hdw‘csn' you'E wag . s " so wicked
—an’d such afooll’,’ , ' ' ' ‘

“Darling, you are 1191'
it is who'am ,‘hﬁsifgpl-f

“Dear Edwardghc inc 'I;,Was perfectly
happy in: they cam-02w: '

“Sweetheart,y0'ir“’n§ed not say so.”

“Edward, hear me - read what they write
to me. Read this Beadpvhere they say
you are a forger, a count feiter, a detective
and a gambler.” a»: ' ‘ .

“Reallng‘ﬁﬁid Ed rd aslhe read, “they
compliment 1110- . heNo‘w York Observer
could not treat a manworse." ~ '

igii 'd at all. and

crs? Not she! She .had him till Monday .

Psyche was amazed, and she saw that Ed-
ward was more amused than angry.

“Dear Edward. I am a fool. But I could
not hear that Bloody Mary should. know
more of my boy than 1 did.” . -

“No, my darling,” said he stoutly; "and
there is no reason why you should. But
hear that belll Ellen is crazy that we shall
come to breakfast. Finish your hair. I will
ﬁnd another coat ; and tbreaktast,'as Miss
Braddon says, I will tel on all.”

And at breakfast he told her all. It was
so little to tell that I am ashamed to have
wasted ten thousand words without reliev-
ing the reader‘s anxiety.

As soon as Ellen, had attended to the ta-
ble and left the room, Edward said : “Dear-
est, all is that I am a greater fool than
Clarence, Hervey himself. I am the leading
editor of'rfl‘he Daily Argus. That is all."

Psyche fairly laid down her fork. "What
it fool I am i I have read things I told you
myself in the‘ paper, yet I never dreamed
that. you put them there. But why keep
such a secret from your poor little butter-

?" _

. “Why, my darling." said he, more serious«
ly—-“why but that I wanted to have my
butterﬂy to myself? You will see, dearest.
God grant it may not be as I fear. But if—
I am afraid—if one person knows where
you live, he will know where I live, Ifcnc
person knows, two will know. If two know,
two’hundred thousand willknow. If they
know, there is an end to breakfasts Without
door-hells, an end to German together, an
end to water-colors and to music, an end to
the pony-wagon and the drives. 'l but was
my only reason for trying to protectyou
from the necessity of keeping a secret

thought, if we called on nobody, nobody
would call on us. So far I was not wrong.
Then I took care at the ofﬁce to have it un-
derstood that no messenger was to be sent
to my house. I bit off old Folger’s head
one day, when he offered to send me a
prcof-sheet. Then I thought If we sent out
‘no csrds,’ if I could only make you happy
without‘receiviug,’ my friends would not
know where to ﬁnd me, and so my enemies
Would never know nor the intermedmte
mass who are neither friends nor enemies.
A little skill in May was enoughtokecp my
name out of the directory, excepting with
the ofﬁce address. Indeed,I thought if I
did my six hours’ work there between nine

and three o’clock every night, it was all the

world had a right to ask of me. But all this
has made you wretched, so it has been Vail
wrong, and it shall come to an end. You
shall have a state dinner party next Satur-

da ." -

Psyche cried and cried and cried, asil her
heart would break. And Edward cried a
little, too. n _

“But why not go on so now t "said she.
“I can keep a secret.” This she. said proud-
ly, though she blushed as she said it. “ Wild
horses shall not draw it from me.” ‘

“No,” said Edward, sadly ; “I know wrld
horses will not drag it from my darling, but
I know they will try; and I do not choose
to have her torn by wild horses- She has
suffered enough from the pulling and haul-
ing of three wild asses.”

And so it was all settled that they shculd
begin to see people. All was clear as light
between them now, and the new dynasty
began. .

And
great change.
brbught out one or
to spend Sundav.

for a month or two there-was no.
At ﬁrst it was only that Ross
two gentlemen with him

, They made“ the house
very pleasant, and dear little Psychedid the
honors beautifully. Then they whispered
round what a charming home it was. And
the Beverly people, some of whom are very
nice persons, found out what a pretty neigh-

~bor they had, and that it was Ross of the

Argus, and they called, and asked to tea.~
And then Psyche and Edward returned the
calls, and asked to tea.

It was not till they went back toﬂRox-
bury that the real change came. Then was
it that before breakfast the door-bell began
to ring, and women with causes, and men
out 'of employment, and inventors with in-
ventions. began to wait in_ the anteroom till.
Mr. E. Ross came downstairs. Then was it
that be poured down his hasty cup of coffee
and ran to be rid of them. Then was it that
councilmen came out as soon as breakfast
was over to arrange private schemes for
thwarting the aldermen ; and that while the
councilmen arranged, aldermen called and
waited for Mr. E, Ross to be at leisure, be-
cause they wanted to make'plans for'thwarte
ing the council. Then was‘ it that, from
morning to night, candidates for the House
and candidates for the Senate came for pri-
vate conferences, and had to be let out from
different doors lest they should meet each
other. Then it was that men who had let-
ters of introduction from Japan and For-
mosa and Siberia and Aboukuta, sat in Psy-

‘che’s parlor, six or seven’ hours at a time,
' illustrating the customs of those countries,

and what Mr. Lowell calls “a certain air of

condescension observable in foreigners.”

Then was it that Psyche received calls from
wives of senators and daughtersof congress-
men,to say in asides to her thhtfinganﬁoss
could ﬁnd it in his way to' scythi'sghc would
so much oblidge thus and so. iiThen was it

J that, trying to screen him from bores, she

received all the women who sold Lives of
Christ,,and all the agents who exhibited cop-.-
ies of maps or heliotypcs. Then was it that,
when the ponies came to the door, railroad
presidents drew up, whojust wanted a mine
ute to talk about their new bonds. Then
was it after the ponies had been sent back
to the stable, grand ladies drew up to send
in cards to Psyche, and to persuade her to
take tables at fairs. and to be vice president
of almshouses. Then was it that every
Saturday Psyche gave a charming literary
dinner, not bad in its way. And the coun-
terpart of this was that Psychcand Edward
dined at other people‘s houses four days out
of the remaining six. The sixth day 31:1.
ward was kept down town for some of t e
engagements these wretches bud forced him
into. Thus was itin the end that moths ate up
the camel’s-hair pencils, and no. one ever
found it out; that the upper G string in the
piano rusted oﬁ‘, and no one discovered it;
that Bridget Flynn at ten votumes of Grill.
pharzer into the fa nace ﬁre, and nobody
missed them; and that: all the ferns in the
fern-house died, and nobody weptfor them.
' From early morning round to early morn-'
ing Psyche never saw her lover-husband,
except as be and she gorged a hurried and
broken breakfast, or as he took into dinner
some lady he did not care for, and as she
sat at her end of the table talked French or
Cochin Chinese to some. man who had
brought letters of introduction. »

She knew what her husbandls business
was, and who his friends wore. But for all
intents and purposes,she had lost him for:
over.

As for the three step-sisters at Painted
Post, they went to a Sunday-school picnic
one day, and fell off a precipice and were
killed.—-.Harpar’s Magazine.

An artist fond of subjects for still-life pic-
tures could ﬁnd all he wanted in the case of
William Sharpe, who,according to the Don-
caster 6mm, went .to bed'in 1807. and ncv:
or got up till he died there in 1856-41 still
life of forty-nine years passed in a cha her
nine feet square, the window of which cjdf
not been raised for thirty-eight years. ‘thn'
he was thirty he went one ﬁne morningltbﬁ'
church to be married, but: his aﬁlab‘cfé‘d
came not, her father having an invincible
repugnancc to Mr. William Sharpgns- "
in-law. The mortiﬁed bridegroplﬁ
home, undressed, got into bed,” _
blankets over his head, and f6 .. ,
years obstinatcly refused to get-r ' ,_
clothe himself, or to do any work ._ sags"
the time uninterruptedly in 3051,;
never seriously ill during this",tiV
body was perfectly sound in spit

sick one week before his death,
W -

PEANUT OIL—During the war the people
of the South were thrown upon their... Own
resources to an extent which reSulted-in-de-
veloping some industries that otherwise
they might never have even dreamed.- of.
One was the manufacture of oil from poa-
nuts to take the place of olive oil for table
and other household uses. It gradually be-
came popular, and is now in large demand.
It supplies the place of olive and almond
oils in various uses and is lower in price,
retains its purity and ﬂavor for a long time
and is less susceptible to the eﬁ‘ect of»: light
than olive oil. ' The oil is extracted entirely
frbm the meat of‘the nut by pressure, the
refuse being used as cattle feed .or_fcrtilizer.
' —-Bostou Journal. .

4'1 931m freight train has asscdcver the
New YOrk, New Haven an'dp' Harifﬁi Smil-
road every day for; the past thréfe weeks. '-
Eate'qts have been issued to' Milo Richard-
son, Bridgep'ort, soldering ,‘progcgg, 'and.‘ g5
James J. Wolsey, smmmf‘ltWHEEL-“13101

gret age and great ' abuse, and he was-fiinly_ -

tind‘ door fastener;

A little bltofu thing, who hadjus get back
from a party, was. asked by her' mamma
how" she had enjoyed herself. "011m...
ma! she said. “I’m s'ofullofha pincss—I
ggpldu't be no happier, without I) was big-

GnNsva, CAYUGA Co., N. Y. I.
Nov. 11th,1875. 5

Mussns. BYINGTON d6 Co. :-—A friend kind-
ly sent me the NORWALK GAZETTE of No-
vember 2d, 1875. In it was an obituary
,notice of my brother, Rev. Wm. U.Bcncdict
atVeriuontsvillc, Michigan. In your edit-
orial allusion to it, there was a mistake as
to the place of his birth. Quite likely some
of our Norwalk friends have supposed he
was born there. Although cousin Wm. H.
Benedict lives upon the ground of the old
homestead, and I suppose his father’s fami-
ly were all born there, my father, Uriah
Benedict, was already at the time of his
marriage in 180510 business as a Carpenter
and Joiner in Stamford. There he began
housekeeping. and there my two elder broth-
ers—Benjamin N.,now of Palmyra, Wis-
consin, and Wm. U., late of Vermontsville,
Michigan, were born. Father‘moved diml-
ly. from there to Scipio, Cayuga, Co.- N. Y.,
in 1811. and has nchr since changed his
place of residence. His P. O. and church
are in that town, at the Squares, though by
the division of the town his home is in Led-
yartl. He is now in his 93d year, and has a
sister two years younger, Mrs. Levi Scrib-
ner, still living in Wilton,CJnn. He has
been a ruling cider in the Presbyterian
church ﬁfty years, attends church three
miles from home very ofien, and is greatly
respected and venerated in the region anti
by the members of our Presbytery. .Of his
four sons and four daughters that grewup,
all were living,and each with a family until
Brother William’s recent dccease. Wm. U.
graduated at William’s College, Mass, in
1829, and at Auburn.Theological Seminary
in 1832. Consequently he had been in the-
ministry 43 years, and since 1843 had had
his residence at Vermontville, Eaton 00.,
Michigan, except three years when he was
secretary and treasurer of Olivct College.
He acted as pastor at Vermontville several
years, and as teacher of the Academy dur-
ing most of the same time. He had also or-
ganized four churches in the region and had
been a very cﬁlcient worker in the develop.
ment of that new region, as it was when he
ﬁrst went there in its material, intel-
lectual and religious interests. His health
was uniformly good until within a few
months. But a Colloid Cancer (a tumor)
entirely obstructed the action of thc'liver,
and the active, energetic, strong man he
was. Ido not suppose you will judge it
best to allude to him again, but. seeing the
mistake as to the place of his birth, I

fondness has led me to say more. Yours
respectively, EDWIN BENEDICT.

Pastor Presbyterian church, Geneva, N. Y.
' ﬁne Said So.”

.Alittle-fo'ur yearold came in from his
play and found his mother crying over a
telegram she had received.

“ What makes you cry, momma,” he
asked.'. .

“Because Mamie’s momma is very sick,
and they think she’ll die."

The little face was sad for a moment, but
it quickly brightened. as the child said,
“ Don’t cry momma; I’ll ask God to make
her well." And dropping his playthings.
he went into the bedroom and offered his
simple prayer. Coming out with most
perfect satisfaction, he said,“ Now she’ll get
well, momma; I asked God to please make
her well, and he said,“ Yes, I will." '

There was not a doubt in his mind; and
to the astonishment of every one else, the
lady was raised from the very gates of
death. »

3‘ Course I knew she’d get well,” said
£rcddie,“causc He said so when I asked

int.” . '1

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HORSE TALES.

A FRIEND IN NEED.

It is generally known that thoroughbred
and other well-bred horses have their attach-
ments for stable companions—cats, goats,
dogs, and at times even for domesticated
fowls, geese, ducks, &c. To these they ex-
hibit great partiality, and often a marked
affection; The following incident—one
among many we could recite—is an illustra-
tion in point;

A gentleman living in Norway, Maine,
owned a thoroughbred horse, which be used
for the saddle. He also owned an Engllsh
coach dog—.0. handsome, faithful animal—be-
tween whom and the horse there existed a
friendship strong and hearty. The dog’s
bed at night was under the horse’s manger,
and they were seldom apart. In fact, the
dog, at length,wou1cl not leave the horse
excepthe was called away to accompany
his master, and on such occasions the horse
would very freely and touchingly manifest
his restlessness and unhappiness,

One day the horse was feeding upon a
grass-plot back of the house, being tethered
by a sweep of rope attached to his halter so
as to allow him good scope without permit-
ting him to encroach upon‘thc adjacentcorn
patch. The coach dog was with him as us-
ual. At the same time a friend chanced to
call on business, accompaniedby a large and
powerful bull , astiﬁ‘. The inastiﬁ—zan ug-
ly quarrelaome rule—:made his way around
into the garden and attacked the coach~dog
very soon getting his savage jaws set upon
the other’s throai,.with a prospect of seriously
injuring, if not killing him. . , '

The horse saw and quickly comprehended
the situation. With one wild bound he
broke his tether and rushed to the scene of
conflict, where he set his teeth upon the
neck‘ oftlie strun e dog with a force and
power. that broug t tbrth howlings long and
agonizing. But the horse was not satisﬁed
with making the inastiﬁ‘ let go his hold.
He lifted the belligcrent cur bodily into the
air and bore him to the gate,‘ where he
shook him until a piece of his hide gave
way. When released the mangled brute re:
treated with yelps and bowls of pain.

1100f, Field and Farm.
A. TWP-names NAG.

The Boston Globe" thus discourses on
horse piety and house intelligence; “The
strongest case of Sunday‘temperanoe yet
he rd of is that ofm. horse in this city, own-
ed y Lewis Sykes, Vexpressman, No. 6 West
street, who never'will drink a drop of water
on Sunday". This'horse is 17 years old—-
‘old enough folknow better’—and how he'-
Ikn’ows it is Sunday :is a'question tor philo‘s~
ophers to solve. Mr. Joseph Church, lath" .
.ofjhefamous painter ofNiagara, whose 'mf:

idenCc is at No. 624 Asylum street has "a
gorse‘which regularly lies down and takes
an. hour's nap every Sunday morning after
breakfast, the queerest thing about it being
the fact that he never does it on other days
though he has the opportunity.to do so.
He scents to have the prhenological organ
of‘time’ largely developed. The correspon-
dent who furnishes us with the case of this

horse. says the animalis usually left in‘a
certain place backer. some bank,'_on such

forengons as his" mister comes down, and
that it thchour of twelve, noon,passes with-
out hismaster coming for him,,the horse

1 himself comes out carriage and all, through“

the alley way, and stands in front of the
bank as a hint that it is time to - drop busi—»
seemed, so to. dinner. ,. V3

. w .
,The-oﬁtoers of the Winthmp bank in
Mainehavc compromised with the robbers
who stole $90,000 in money and securities
from the back last July. The robbers were
very accommodating, and as the bank oili-
cials exhibited alike spirit, there was no
difﬁculty in coming to terms. The robbers
agreed to return all the stolen securities
they couldn’t use. for the reward of $10,000
which the bank'oﬁ'ered. They held on to
the money and government ban 3‘ 'stol'en.
The bank acceptéd‘the Offer and the busi.
ness has been ‘clOsed through a Philadelphia
detective, who was .the.-go-between. The
operation is very much like knockingn man
down and getting thankefd and rewtirdéd
liandsOmcly. for picking, him up.

' General Humphrey’s, in his annual report,
asks for $40,000 to he spent o‘n VEoi-t‘ Tram--
bull, New Iiondon harbpv. _"

Somers voted for license, but the select-~
men refuse'to grant any and the liquor
fraternity are very triad it out it.;- ' ‘ '
' - A San Erancisco womany‘ehcmently as:
sens. that “wear 01.0 00h. "With a; can or

syrup‘ond a teas ioou'wil not’lnjurc a par.
‘ ,lor worse in bat an hear than will-a man

with ten cents worth of tobacco.”

This age has had many names given to
it, some good, some bad, but “theft: {is one
to which is assuredly better- entitled than
any other. it is that of an advertising age.
It advertises everything—its wares, its Woes.
its eternal constancy, and its printed calico
warranted to wash well. ,‘= ". ‘~ ' .-

‘wt 1.

thought I would mention it, and brotherljfft

Fromm St. Paul Dispatch?
Result or Major Whltﬂc’l Visit—Eli‘s;
Knapp and Progress. .4 '

—whargood? Viewing the' matter-from
an unchristinn standpoint,vI do not heal-“-
tate to say much beneﬁt has been, derived
by the religious meetings ih'this'City, ina'i'ig;

transferred to another ﬁeld. Coming among
us as a stranger, with no reverend attached
to his name—with no ostentatious "display
of outward show—modest, plain; bearing
the simple title of “ Majbr," be rapidly won
his way to the hearts of tho pcoplqby'j»
sincerity an earnestness and a ,lomc‘...,tlitit
challenged the admiration of all, one heard.
him; and his ringing Words and {hii'p'cr'e
suasive tones will live in many hecrtslong
after the “postman " who brought “the
gnod'news" shall have passedto another
and higher life. However much the mate-
rialist orthe rationalist or the Spiritualist
may disagree with Major Whittle 'as to his
interpretation :of the Scriptures. all who
heard him must concede his eminent ability
to expound the Bible in a manner never
before heard in this city. Passage after
passage, quotation after quotation were
piled almost mountain high, in support of
his position, and a clearer and better
knowledge of the Word of God has been
imparted to those who not only profess,‘
Christianity, but. who, claim , anyintiruatc‘,
khOwledge of the GnodVBook; and} those
who had no knowledge of the Bible were
surprised and ediﬁed by the interpretation?-
of .the “ word.” as daily made by 'th'e. Evan-'
gelist in-his simple,-plai_n,-.Vearncs ,conv'. .
ing manner; so, thatgifﬁgio gQO',';-Llaf%"
accomplishedythis of itself; sufficient , -.
warrant. me -:in the :assertiom...that gm'nch"
lasting beneﬁt has been derived from Major
Whiltle’s visit to this city.-, . ‘ . . , _‘ ' ,
But other and greater “results. bav‘eigbeen ..

kindness, charity,and‘jthos'oolém’c , ;'so‘
beautiful set. forth, will penetratejdociety,’
and tend to elevate the human. race. lon ’
after the admired speakers'les aroscfojs
forever. But other and better regain than
these have been nccomplishcdrr‘ Among
those who claim a new dilpcn‘sition' finder
Mr. Whittle, I know one, w. o, for'20‘gears;=
has been a drunkard; druu almostie'very.
day in the year. No temperance societies
could arrest his downward ste‘p‘s;no§ ens:-
treaties of friends, or even the strong-arm of .
thela'w, could make an impression upon.
him; he seemed lost to all inﬂuences,‘ and
being a. kind-hearted person,hc was evi-
dently anxious to reform. Yet he seemed
involuntarily swept into the whirlpool of
intoxication, until at last the kind voice
and loving words, and earnest manner of
Major Whittle arrested his attentiomand-
he now stands forth in every sense a—mas:
A power that can
complishcd great good, and it m'a’ttcrsj-ttﬁt
where it comes from, or through" whom=
comes,it ought to receive the cOmmendt’uib
ofevery goodcitizcn. Again,MajorWhittle’s
simple. education of the-Bible and hissinocre,

ﬂed the church, and there is at presences;
more earnest thought among’ those «who

direction. _ To many the, Bible inﬁga ow,
book, tint through theological, t‘eachi but
throuwh the charming manner -inwhit;h;;t_hei
greatEvangelishexplaincd its meanings‘ -’ .
Again, Major Whittle’s cﬁ'ortgghayo .hecn
crowned with success in prESenting'.Godjas

partiality, but of unbounding'i‘ki‘ﬁ .
No sinner has been driven to forsakcg'f‘his'
ways by the fears of a burning hell as ., '
formerly preached, but it has been by»,

willing to receive his children in any cOndi-
tion of life. Nor has-the redemption Ofthc
wicked been brought about by any undue
excitement. Men have'had time to think-—
to weigh well the course they were about to"
take, and it is reasonable to believe :th‘st
conviction has come to them t'broughdelibr
crate consideration, and hence, this being

creed: or dogmas blocked the roa‘djo'v.‘
which Major Whittle traveled to Havana '51,
It was enough for him to knowaandg-‘Jtof
preach that if aman was convinced 1.that:,
he was a sinner, repentedof hissing.
sought redemption through the Saviour,_he
was saved either out of the‘ohurch or in it.1
The simplicity of this religion willrfevent-
ually ﬁnd many to embrace it. for it comes.
within the comprehension of.‘all, and-swim
be accepted 'by all, except those who dO‘
not believe in the divinity of Christ or"

original sm. , . -
But perhaps the most important poin‘
Major Whittle’s visit to St. Paul is clearly"
seen in the unity of nearly all“the*‘-Prq_t_’esi:
taut churches, in one grand cﬂ‘ortjto redeem
mankind. In all other revivals it hasﬁpttyj‘,
enally been conﬁned to one church {-gbllt
new era has dawned upon thc‘earthha

now hope ‘ 19..]1V§¢'.;lq,1399‘1“1.°.§daY'W

r
,I'll‘” ,

Al‘s ,
-. , ....'.ioseii ;
That such-ab event‘ may recur».
wonderfnli than many f,othc‘r ""‘iv‘
things which are dail ' transpiring: :Note‘
for example, the di 8116068: between] the
revival meetings of a quarter of a centurfs‘
ago and now. I well remember Elder
Knapp preaching in- New Haven, Conh., to
crowded houses, and be portrayed in ‘start—
ling language, the horrible agonies of hell,
so that many susceptible persons were pos-
itively frightened into the church and
afterwards repented and became more
wicked than before. Knapp was course,
almost borderin on vulgarity; terribly
overbearing, on used every conceivable
ﬁgure of speech to convey terror and ride
icule to the sinner. After preaching a ter-
riﬁc and frightful sermon to the unconver-
ted.hc brokebut in a stentorian, voice—.
“Why, a sinner can no more go to‘ Heaven
than a codﬁsh can climb a tree backwards ?’_‘
Andjtist then a lady left her seat, and oh’
wending her way down the aisle, was-(div

goes a'wreck: adding a vulgar allusion on
immediately following this expressionist-a

followed. A student 'oﬁ Yalc'Collegc had-
rcsented the insult to the lady by ﬁringian:
a'ir gun, which did,uot_kill Knapp as it was
intended, but smashed the lamnattndcbmlsﬁ.
up the meeting. Knapp‘s allusion, to Jesus;
was very commonplace, In several instanq.
ces he- made the‘ Saviour calf sinners"
" fools.” '&c., &c. "'- ‘

Whittle. How tenderly he refers to God;
how supremelyrcverent .ahe'u'ses'the name
of Jesus; how pleadingly he invokes the
sinner to partake of Gown-love; how care-
fully he alludes to everlhsﬁri’gpunishment;
how studionsly.hom igy- Word ' or

gesture toifj‘vh- (In
L!"

"j‘iqui'etly and

altruistic. . oi .30 when he
' . 'sn,hking,_howft‘ -;~ 'i‘iger to catch
stiiqse loving war oi wiring God.

at redeemed Saviour, a3 blissful; Heaven l
Gallilco‘ said. “ Thojf‘wpt‘ld"doesgmoveﬂ
and I believe it. " ' _ '3'
The parting with Majoerhittle and Mr.

Bliss, showed how deeply-they. had become
endearedto those 'who' had" for weeks lis-
te'ned totheir'preaching-and singing. St.
Paul never sent out larger or more earnest
audiences, on now that their labors are
0 er, let us all ope that they may be ever
kindly remembered, and that society will
rise higher in the scale of a just apprecia~
tion of moral and religious duty.
Respectfully, T. M. N nwsqN.
.: m
I.’ Postinastcr-Qeneral Jewell is a humorist
,as well as an unusually polite oﬁicial. He
wrote as follows, recently, to a woman who
had applied for a situation in the Dead Let-
‘ter ofﬁce: ‘-‘ We have only 57 ladies employ-
ed in this Department, with the exception
of a few translators and experts, and not
more than two changes have occurred in
that force for the last six months. None of
them ever marry, or die, or resign. In fact
the Dead Letter division ‘is a sort of Mauso-
leum of buried affections—a place not gov-
erned by natural laws—for those who enter
its portals seem to loge all the motives, and
hopes, and aspiration whi‘c'h swa'y and gov-
ern'tlie dcnize 5 0f the outside world. I
regret that it is so, but so it is."
- =22

. The fact that the Tennessee school teach-
ers are to be paid salaries without distinc-
tion ‘of sex, serves as a text whereto‘ tho
Salem Obsergtsr appends these pertinent scn-_
tenoes; “Now in Mnsbuchusetts we pay a
man for his services as teacher, and then
pay him something extra for being a man
instead of being a woman. Or else, if a
man is simply paid for being a teacher and

micro of the Salary for the same service
w cu rendered by the other sex, because the
teacher is a woman. ‘ We do not know
which of these ,wava it is, but it is one or
the other, and either reason seems to be as
irrational as its obverse. We know it is said
that men are paid more because they have
wives or families to support, which women
do not have, but we will venture to say that
a careful examination would show as many
widowed mOthers, or unfortunate brethcrs
and sisters, or other relati as, are su‘ppbrte'd
by the female teachers 'of assachnseits but[
of" their: salaries as there are wives and chili
then supported by the gentlemen." -

Major Whittle has (come and gOnc air?"
the question naturally "‘ariscs4cui‘ or": 5,

urated and conducted by that cmihont‘
Evangelist whose laborsﬁhave now tition't‘

achieved. Major WVhittleF'ha's' .taugigt-u om '

do this, hashe- , '.

devotion to the cause of religion, has purl: .

should lead the public.Vsentiii_ient,in this; .

a Godof love; not Mbateﬁéhggttiﬁégr
[3‘ _ ca 4

seating God as a good Father, anxious an " "

so, permanent results ought to folloWg".ND: , :”

if gore: '
erful i

covered "by~ napp, who e‘xolsimed‘§"thei‘c_ T

went the globe lamp near the speaker, but
went the light, and: aj'terrible ‘excitomentv' '

Mark the revival of to-day udder Major "

nothing inqr-c, then we deduct a half or .

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:Sponges, Chamois Skins. Stationery,Cig.-irs, &c.,
gandis constantly adding to his stock all the new and
ipopulnr meoicinesofthc day.

DRUGS AND MEDICINES.

“ 11E undersigned would rcspctfully announce to

the citizens in this vicinity, that at his
Drug Store, . .
CORNER OF WASHINGTON AND DEPOTSTS.

can always be found
P U R E D R. U G S ,
CHOICE WINES and LIQUORS
, FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES,
FANCY AND TOILET ARTICLES,
PATENT MEDICINES. (fir.

W'l’hysiclans’l‘rescriptiogscarefullycomponne
ed day and night. Can he found nights,” sani-
oulldiogﬁgtmncc on Washington St.
lyitl . F. PECK, South Norwalk Conn

Bo So BIAASCER:

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ly on handggoucralassortmeutof ’

G R. O O E R. I E S ,
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TIN AND WOODEN warm, 1:20.. are

By devoting his constant personal attentionto the
businessho hopes to merit public patronage. 9

TNA INSURANCE 00., 0F HARTFORD,
[neorporatcd1819. CharterPcrpctunl. ‘

CnpltnlnudAuctn, $5,052,880.19

[usuresagninstlossand damage by Fire, onterms
pdopted to the hazard,and ccnsistcntwith thelaws
ofeonipensatlon. .COWLES daMERRlLL,

SochgentsforNoi-wulh andviciuity.

.NORWALKI NSURANCE COMPANY
NOR WALK, CONN.

Charter Capital - - $500,000

PaldupCa‘pttnl. - a s -: — $100,000

WM. 0 . srtgcgtdfii-csidcut, (inc. It. COWLES, Sec’y.
' Eiiicx HiLL. Treasurer.

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FARM _

—AND—

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A FULL stock of the most_approved' Farm and
'Garden Implements now in store and for sale,
.vvhglcsalcand retail, at manufacturers’ prices, in-
c it in : . . -‘ '

Mowm Machines and Lawn Mowers.

Lawn owers, fnu'size, 812.

Wheel, lawn, steel and hay rakes.

Ploughs—Mead’s‘, Marsh, Eagle, ac. .

Shovels, Spades, Scoops, Garden Forks. and

cos. . .

Hay Cutters—Burdick’s, Whitmore’s, and Hide
Rollers. . :‘ f- 4 '- , .
Barrows. Corn Shellers, 0x Yokes and Bows.
Churns—Blanchard’s, the very bestin use ; also,
smaller im laments in great variety. - ‘
Phocp ates—Russell’s, Coc’s. Baugh’s, and
Bridgeport. ' ' W. C. STREET.
N orwalk, April, 1875. '

W. C. QUINTARD ‘& 00.,
Wholesale and Retail Dealersln

Hardware. Paints Oils, Glass,
House Furnishing Goods,
Also all kinds of

Mechanics" Tools,
AND

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMEHTS.

LOOKS, K. ass, NA lLS’, AND BUILDER
HARDWARE, POCKET AND TABLE CUTLERI'
ofthebest kind. , Rememberthc place,

No. 3 Opera House Block,

SOUTH NORWALK ,CONN .
w. oasis-rant), nonnknarr

Tl-IE HARTFORD

STEAM initialisation

Insurance Company,
CASH CAPITAL, $500,000

SSUESI’olicics of Insurance. Aftei-carcful in-

spection of the Boilers, covering all loss or
damage to Boilers, lhuldiugsmnd Machinery aris-
ing irom *

STEAM Berna EXPLOSIONS !

J. M. ALLEN, - . -

. $5.0
. 6.

President
C. NLBEACH. - - Vice-President
J. B. PIERCE, - - Secretary

W. G. LINEBURGH, — Agent

001cc over the First. National Bank, cor. Main and
Bank Sts.. BRIDGEPORTy CONN. ‘23

THE llOHT Rename

DOMESTIIC

SEWING MACHINE

is the best of all. Don’t buy any other Machine
before trying the

DOMESTIC.
,J.SPEN0ER,

J E W E I. E EL .
Under Norwalk Opera House,

is Agent. for Noywalk, and vicinilynvlicre only the
NE \V Domestic Sewmg Machines, guaranteed by
theftonipany, can be purchased.

Second-hand Machines atlow prices.

'1? ‘_

Machines of all kinds to rent by the
" Week or Month.

New Barber Shop

Mr. AGUSTIN HAPPE‘E

Having taken the Shop formerly occu ied by Mr.
Ed. Appeal}, in IsAAbs’ BLOCKJVAL STREET,
in now prepared to servethe public in the best
manner as regards anything in the ’I‘onsorial Art,
and intends making it the