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SAFE.
Not on my mother’s bosom,
Held by her clasping arm;
\0t 0’ er the carpet tottering,
Guarded by her from harm.
Not by her side 1011' kneeling, 0'
' Asking the shepherd’s care;
'Not' 111 the crib, sweet sleepinr- V:
The 11' cc lamb 11 as not there—
Not with the father—playing,
Dangling with childish glee;
Not on his shoulder, shouting,
Not on the father’s knee.~ ‘
Up in that “beautiful city,”
Which hath “no need of the sun,”
Safe -—ou the Saviour’s bosom—
liestcthV the little one. ——S€lected.
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General Jack’s Diamond.
A Smll)1\'(ii-‘..\ \IAN "lOOV HON‘I‘ '10 SThAL
WHEN HE TRIED T1).
Pretty much everybody has heard of Gene-
ral J ack's penchant for diamonds, and a great
many of us know ihe.man himself, a sturdy
character, sound and firm on his feet as a
horse block. A florid face, rather hard,
9. square chin, determined lips closing over
white teeth, cold gray eyes looking right at
you from under a hedge of eyebrow sandy in
color, dusted'wit‘i gray, a large straight nose,
broad and fleshy—you’ve seen the man.
Dressy in his way, but not as gentlemen
dress, and Wearing rings upon his fat white
fingers, and a big diamond in‘ his expansive
shirt-front. VI-Iis voice is deep and- stem,
rather hoarse, too, and harsh; its volume is
tremendous when it comes freightcd with a
crash of oaths. General Jack is self-made;
began as a drivei of a pair of mules on a (a
11:11 route, then took the lion- car of Herr Bros-
cher’ s menagerie, became finally ring master
to a circus, owner of his own circus, keeper
of a. livery stable, millionaiie, art patron, po-
litical leader. His wife was on the stage
once, and a charming creature she is , and
General Jack' is universally kno11 n and liked
by the profession—but it is about General
Jack’s diamond I am to tell you. .‘
“ First thing I ever bought," says General
Jack, “when I get to be ring—master, after I
was properly fitted out in the clothes depart-
ment, was a diamond, and I’ve been buying
’em ever since; Tiffany’s people always send
for me when they’ve got anything new, and
the Amsterdammcrs know me.”
It is said that those who want to come it
over General Jack—110 _ easy thing to' do—
always approach him on his diamond side.
Hetak es it as acompliment to be asked to
show his collection, and does show it. But
he isa good judge of character for tall. The
story goes that. some thieves conspired to rob
him by profiting by his pleasure in showing
his treasures. There were three of them—
nobby English fellows—who came over ex-:
pressly to do the job, and thoroughly posted.
They made his acquaintance at a down-town
hotel, where he is to be found, and in due
course procured the invitation to see his dia-
monds. They claimed to be sporting men,
ardent turfites, but connoisseurs in such
things. They came to Jack’s house one fore-
noou in a coach, and he received them alone,
opened his safe,_displayed all his treasures,-
went into their history, etc. “This,” he
said, “is my Golconda specimen—not very
- large, but remarkable for its brilliancy and
pure water. This is my Brazilian—it is shit
off color——-a suspicion 'of a canary tinge—~”
whack! smack ! thwack! “You would,
would you ?” and with three successive
blows of his white, fat fist, his three English
visitors were knocked down and put 1101's du
combat. It was a mere suspicion on his
part—something he saw in the men’s faces,
read in their eyes—but it saved his diamonds.
He summoned aid, locked the safe, s ured
the men, and found. them fully armed—
pistols, burglar tools, handcuffs, rope, gag,
chloroform, red pepper. He disarmed them,
bundled then into a coach, and gave then
' twenty-four hours to leave the country
“As you came here by my invitation, I won’t
cache y ou, but—git. 1” And he still preserves
thg gag, the handcuffs, and the Cayenne
among his trophies.
One day General Jack had a visitor, a man
of forty years, with grizzled hair and a stoop
in his shoulders—a pallid face, somewhat
bloated from long indulgence in liquors.
“You don’t know me, General Jack 1” said'
the man. '
The General was puzzled a good deal.
“Hombre, I’ve seen you somewhere. Stop——
I have it. 1 Good Lord, Cary, what have you
done to yourself 9”
“ It’s fifteen years ago, General,” said Gary,
apologetically.
“ Only fifteen! Zounds! You were a
handsome young fellow then; I thought you
were a genius. And your wife was lovely. ”
“ Don’t mention the past—slic' s a wreck—
six children to care for ; and I am—wliat
you see. I want you to do something for me
before the black dog devours me.”
“ Hombre, it’s the drink that does it.”
“ I want you to save me from the drink,
General.” '
“ This man” (the general says, when he
tells the story)——“this man, Mark Cary, was
what you' might truly call one of theselhere
geniuses. When I knowed him—and loved
him, too, as everybody had to do—lie1 was
editing a neat little paper in a V" irginia town.
and happy as a June bug. One of your Ap-
polloses—tall, square, a step like a spring-
. board, blue eyes full of fire, Hyperean curls
like—a man, every inch. The things he
couldn’t do with the dumb-bells weren’t
worth trying—he could beat the best man at
the square leap—sat a horse like a Center or
a Comanchy—and puta pen in his' hand, or
call on him for a speech and, by zounds, vou
couldn’t mate him nowhere. I used to get
him to write my bills and advertisements for
me—he’ (1 been a treasure in that line if he’ (1
only taken wags. As for poetry-“well, I’m
no judge, but if he couldn’tpuinp all these
here ccntenniallcrs, I’m dutch ' His wife was
just the S111 ectest little lady ever you see, and
could pour out tea like an angel. And 110w
here he Was, gone to seed.
“ How come it, Cary? .
It was the ’ an1,povert_1 , sickness, long
struggles' in adversity, longlassitude and loss
0 spirits, chagrin, all that turned in.
“ I think I’m gone, Gener,111 but Margaret
won’t hear a word of it. She told me to
come and see you and ask you to help me.”
“ Where. is the little woman Mark?”
He named a wretched tenement house.
General Jack drummed 011 the table with his
fat fingers a moment. “Not in want, I hope,
Cary?” said he, at last.
“ Not quite, General; but the times are
hard; I 'can’t get away, and there’s no telling
how long it will be before that comes,
too:
“ Come, let’s go and see her,” said the Gen-
' eral, and Cary, without a w 01d, led the way
to his poor lodgings.-
Hc General does not say much about the
interview that ensued, but I know from other
sources that the wife and children had a good
supper that night.
“ Come to my office—down town, here’s
the number—to-morrow at 11, Mark, and I’ll
talk with you. Madam, I’ll see you again,”
and the General withdrew.
‘.‘ See here, Mark,” said the General next
day, “you’ re broke down. The little woman
can ’tdo any thing with you, and your own
backbone’ s turned to Injun-rubber. Y' 011
aint worth a dV-n. "’
“ That is just about the conclusion I am
coming to myself, Gener.al " said C 111 v, with
pathetic sincerity. .5
“ I know better i" cried Jack, vehemently
pounding on the table with his fist ; “I mean
to take you. in' hand now, and make a man
of you. "’ . -
“ I wish to heaven you would,”
Cary.
“Vamean to !'you’re the very fellow I’ve
bee oking for this year or more. You’re
cried
logy, mincrology, and that sort of thing, don't
you ? 'If you don’t you can learn—stop !
Listen !, you are 11p to‘my diamond passion
P—well, there’s where I want youl I want a
man—an ‘honest man—a capable man—to go
to South Africa for me, and find me the big-
gest diamond there—a dozen. of them, if
you’re so minded ! Will you go ? Stop!
[’11 take care of the little woman if you don’t
come back. The sea voyage will give you a
chance _to. taper off, drop the drink, build
yourself 11p,"and all that ; when you get there
you ’11 be all right again, and then you can
use your brains in finding me that diamond.
1’“ pay you good 1v ages, and all you find is
mine. Is it- a bargain? Strike hands on it if
it is!” -
“ If Margaret says yes, I’ll go, General !
And God bless you, anyhow.”
“ (‘- ome home to lunch with me, then, and
we’ll ask .her-she’lllikely be there."
Not only she but all the children were
there, and' 111 the newest of clothes, for Mrs.
Jack had been at work too, and Mrs. Cary
told her hus'. mud with tears in her eyes,
‘5We needniVV go back to that dream of hor-
for any lllOl“.(
So it was all settl .1d' in a very few minutes.
Cary’ 5 family were to have the cottage on the
general’s farm, and an ample allowance, the
eldest boy and girl to school; and Cary him-
self to go after the big diamond. In a week
Mark Cary sailed, with a chest full of books
in 11 hich to study 11p the subject, and the
little woman and her children were happy on
the farm—happy, at‘least, as they could be
with Cary away in quest of the big diamond.
How did that quest fare. 9 I must let Gen-
eral Jack tell it in his own way, as he takes
the key of his safe from his pocket, prepara-
tory ‘to opening it, and stands on the hearth
before the grate, warming his stout ca-lves,
and emphasmna' 111s narrative with gestures
of the key.
“ Never was mistaken in a man in all my
life, before that 3 Made all my money by
looking in people’s faces to see if I could
trust ’em or no. And this here Mark Cary—
well, there’s half a million 0’ diamonds great
and small, in this here chest, let alone bonds,
and I’d left him here with the safe open and
no body else in the house, and go off, say to
Europe 01' the Sandwich Islands perfectly
easy. But, you see—well, there’s such a
thing perlmps as tempting people too far.
Cary got along splendidly at first. He wrote
to his wife and me regular all along the “voy-
age, and when he got the Cape he sent a pho-
tograph that we might see 110w he was spruc-
iiig up. I could see the old curls were com-
ing back to his hair, the old fire to hiseyes,
the old roundness to his cheek—and the little
woman was more in love with him than ever.
He went up country, and by and by his let-
ters began to come more regular again, and
diamonds, too—small ones, but one or two"
good sized ones, so that their sum might be
taken to be worth full as much money as- I
had put 11p for him. One day he sends me a
real brilliant two-carat fellow, and simultan-
eously draws on me for £500, saying he ~ was
going to another place in the hope to find a
diamond worth the venture.
“ After that, no more from Mark Cary.
More than a year went by, and not a word
did I hear from him, nor did his wife no
more than me. The little woman was well
nigh crazy,’ and, as I had' no good news for
her, I didn’t tell her any. I had written in
private way to a correspondent of mine, at
Natal, and heard what I was afraid of—thatV
Cary had gone air to the bad again—and it
cut me deep , but I never let on, not even to
my own wife. No news—eighteen months
and more went by, and not a single word
from Cary. I kept out of the little woman’s
way all I could, for sight of her would have
distressed a politician, let alone a stone wall;
but one stormy night she burst in upon my
wife and me as wild as she could be.
‘Geneml Jack,’ she says, wringing her hands,
but never shedding a tear, and turning on me
a face I couldn’t look at for the pity of it ;
‘Gcneral Jack, I cannot be the pensioner of
your bounty any longer! You are the best
man that. ever lived and I’m the most wretch-
ed of women, but that is no reason why I
should keep on imposing upon you.’ 801
says to her, ‘What’ up ?' for I was pretty
shure she had bad ews of Mark, and noth-
ing good. ‘Have you heard from Cary '1"
‘General Jack,’ she says, solemn like, ‘I
know that he liastcen false to you, and it
killed him! It’s killing me 1’ I Was struck
all of a heap. ‘Never mind, little, woman,
never mind 1’ I was going on to say, when
my wife broke in,-‘How did you learn all
this, Margaret 9’ she asked. ‘In a dream, a
dreadful, awful dream 1’ said the poor crea-
ture, and then she broke down, burst out
crying, and couldn’t say any more. So we
sets to work to' console her the best way we
could, but didn’t make much headway at it.
I told her I would be cruelly hurt if she
didn’t let me keep my promise to Mark, but
her last word was she couldn’t, daresu’t and
wouldn’ i: live on me.
“ Just then the front door-bell rang, and
when William opened it the raggedest buz-
zard of a man broke past him and came rush_
mg i o the sitting room here where we were.
He hadn't a whole stich nor a clean stich on
him, that fellow hadn’t; his hair was long
and wild, and his beard also; his feet bare
and his face would have won the premium
over a Connecticut hatchet for sharpness.
All the same, that little Woman knowed him-
as soon as he stopped at the door, turned as
white as ashcet, held her twohands togeth-
er tight, and just sighed between her set
teeth, ‘Mark !” I thought she’d go over, but
she was too Vtrue grit for that. He never
noticed her or any thing else. He came
straight up to nieVand kind 0’ steadied his
staggering feet by holding on to the table,
calm like, but in a monstrous thin, reedy
voice: ‘Gencral Jack, I’ve been a thief and
a traitor, a sot and a vagabond for more than
a year; but I have lived long enough to make.
you amends. Here’s your diamonds ; take
it quick, for I'm dying l” and he put a bun-
blc of rags about as big as your two fists in
my'hand, and went over just like he was
shot.
“ The 11:11; woman gave one cry, half joy,
half terror, and had him' in her arms the next
instant, his head in her lap and she smother-
ing him with kisses, while1 my wife, cool as a
statute, turns to William ' and says, ‘Have
some soup made,’ and the first thing I saw
she had the brandy bottle and a spoon and
was down on her knees beside him. ‘I-IVe’s
just starved to death, General that’s all,’ says
she. And I wasn’t nowhere ‘ in that ring,
while them women were bringing him round
with little doses of beef tea and brandy, and
kisses and patVt'ings, and calling him all the
loving names in the dictionary. By and by
he sits up—‘Where' is it '1’ says lie, and makes
me hand that parcel of old rags out of my
pocket where I’d slipped it in the hurry of
the moment, and unwrap, and unwrap until
out there shined—but _sho! there are some
things you cannot describe."
And at this point in the narrative the Gen-
eral always unlocks his safe and produces
his great diamond. “There he is! Biggest
diamond in America! - Finest jewel in the
world! Look at it! That man fetched him
for me all the way from' Africa, by way of
Australia, and hadn’t a cent in his pocket
half the time! Didn’t I tell you I never W31
honest and capable—you know all about geo- V
and looked me in the face and said, cool and '
' ever yielding and half afraid of her.
longs to tell him to “act likea‘man!” The I
Hadn’t had a bite to eat from Omaha hcre,
but held on to the diamond and said nothing
——only starved. 1” _
“ Well! he told me all about it; not that
People with his sort of face are honest be.
cause it’s their nature. If they get wrong,
theirnature beats and kicks them and pulls
their ears till it sets them right again.' That’s
all of it. His story was that he hadn’t been
at the new place more than a week before he
lighted on, the big diamond—kicked it up
with his toe. He no sooner saw it than he
knew it was a fortime for him if he kept it.
Then, he says, the. devil entered. into him
and tempted him, and he got on an all fifcd
rollicking bust, and ran away to India to sell
the stone to a rich Maharajah there. But
just as he was concluding the bargan he ran
away again—he dont say the devil tempted
him this time, though. Then he landed _in
Australia ; and kept up his jollific..tion till he
hadn’t and left ; but all this time he held
on to the diamond, because it was mine, not
his. So he makes up his mind to come home
and works his passage aer0ss to California.
And then, for fear lest he should be tempted
again, or get robbed, begs and borrows his
way home. 1 Now that I call pretty much of
a temptation for one poor man to overco Ye,
don’t you 9 Look at the' stone—worth S ,,-
000 as it’s cut, and that Mark Cary didn’t
know that he was going to get a penny for it,
outside his wages, as agreed on. .But he
brought her on, all safe! It isn’t every mun
who would do it—but the way I got rich was
in looking in men’s faces and seeing if they
were honest. And I never was wrong Vin
judging a man’s character' in my life. ,
General Jack will not tell you, what is
nevertheless the' fact, that, after his famous
diamond was cut, he had it apprised, and
paid Mark Cary its value, less the advances
made to him and his family. He will nbt
tell you of 'Cury’s' fine plantation and- his fine
prospects, how he is a temperate man,ia
good citizen and the best of fathers ai'id
husbands—made so by General J ack’s mini}
toy. But he will show you the big diamond,
If you call upon him, with exquisite pleasure
and relate to you with much gusto such pd;-
tions'of its history as do not reflect too great
credit upon himself.
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Fuauns IN Honsn-Fvnmsniue. —We are
just putting behind our backs the time when
furnaces were all the rage, anl the doctors Vin
consequence were rattling round' in their gigs
with no cm of business, and 'it required is
steady stream of rich men’s last-wills and tes-
taments to keep up the supply of hospitals
that were made necessary by this devil's last,
best gift to man, as fizh as anything. It
really began to seenfias if the hearth-stone
Were a dead institution, and yet it was pil-
thetic to see how men and women still held
on to the idea, and instead of logically leaving
chimneys out of their houses, or building the
piers up solid, kept on putting in expensive
make believe fire places, and erecting mantis
pieces over them, as if they could’nt bear f0
give up the memory of what had once been
so pleasant. In those days the kitchen came
near being the only cheerful room in ,.t e
house, for there, at least, there wasa real
place with areal fire in it, giving out heft
that was actually Warm. Poorish people had
to give up burning wood, of course, because
it was too dear; but rich people, who might
have kept up the delightful luxury, didn’t, of
course, dare to, when all the world fook to
burning hard coal. However, some few of
them did, and there were others who wanted
to, and so made a compromise by employing
that funniest of all the fashionable humbuns
of our time, funnier than wedding presents,
than funeral flowers, or dinner parties with
borrowed silver, the fire-place with its make-
believe andirons supporting make-believe logs
with pieces of asbestos stuck between them,
and made red-hot by lighting the gas dih-
charged by pipes hidden behind the fraudu-
lent heap. Still, even this, vulgar or babyisli
as it was, was a concession to the god of hot-
pitality, who really does not know how to
make folks sociably happy unless he can bring
them round a fire, and, as a concession, it
had an air of respectability about-it. But tlie
“furnace register” that puffed out its dusty
heat at you from behind the so-called “suin-
mer blower” was not a concession at all; it
was a pretense, and deserved no fair words.
It was and' is honester to frankly make a hole
in the floor and warm yourself at that, than
to pretend you still have something left of the
beloved old-time fire-place with its hospitable
warmth and eye-aud-heartdelighting glow;
Clarence Cook, inVScrz‘bner for January. I
Boris 11‘ P Y.
Does it pay to have fifty workingmen poor
and ragged in order to have one saloon-keeper
dressed in broadcloth and flush of money. 9
Does it pay to have one citizen in the coun-V
ty jail because another sells him liquor. 9
Does it pay to hang one citizen because an-
other got him drunk? '
Does it pay to have a dozcn intelligent
young men turned into thieves and vagabonds
that one man may lead a lazy life by selling
rum“. ‘
Does it pay to receive $15 fora rum license
and then pay,$20,000 for trying a man for
murder, induced by rum sold him “.9
Does it pay to have athousandhomes blast-
ed, ruined, defiled, turned into hells of misery,
strife and want, that some wholesale rumsel-
ler may build up a large fortune 9 '
Does it pay to have twenty mothers and
their children dress' in rags, live in hovels,
daily famish, that one i'um.seller’ 9 wife and
children may live in case and affluence 9
Does it pay to have hundreds of thousands
of men and women. in almshodses, penitentia-
ries and hospitals, and thousands more in the
asylums for the idiotic and insane, that a few
heavy capitalists of the whiskey ring may
profit by such atrocity. 9
Does it pay to tolerate a traffic which breeds
crime, poverty, agony, idleness, shame and
death, wherever it is allowed?
—New Jersey Templar. .
Men as Lovers.
In the first place, it is an imposition on any
well-bred girl to keep her up later than 10: 30
0 ’clock, when you have the opportunity of
seeing her often. If you always leave her
with the wish in her heart that you had staid
longer, you gain so much. Never run the
risk of wearying her with your presence.
Be just as earnest and straightforward as in
your honorable dealing with men. Impress
your friends with the worthiness and serious-
ness of ybur love, sozthat vulgar and sense,
less bantering will appear to them as such.
Love Vand religion—the supremcst happiness,
wear it manfully and proudly, but holily.
Woo a woman bravely. If there is anything
humiliating to a woman, it is to have a lover,
whom she wishes to honor, weak and vapid,
She
man who conceals or denies his love for fear
of being laughed at, is a coward. A love
that has no element of divinity in it" is not
love, but ngmsion, which of itself has nothing
ennobl' That was a beautiful inscription
on Va en gncnt ring, “Eric! for the other
and both for God.”~—M'83 Abbie J. Term, in
Scroll Work.
The New London Telegraph revives the
story that a woman in _Stonington found a
package of $20, NO in bank bills beside the
railer track, at a place between Stonington
and Westerly, and says the story is abso-
lutely true. The selectmen of the town now
hold the money, and unless aii owner pears
soon it will become the _
coverer. ”01’9"ny t 0 dis
I believe all his sentimental trash, though. ,
The recent robbery of the Northampton
public. The truth is, that if a tithe of the
care and attention given to the acquiring of
money was given to the keeping jof it, losses
would be less serious and less frequent.
“'0 do not allude to the making bad invest-
ments—during the last few years .we have re-
ceived a severe lesson in that respect—but we
refer directly to the preservation of .our evi-
dencesof value, of. which almost every one
has a greater or smaller number. Much prop-
erty of this description is annually destroyed
by fire; much more. than' 18 generally suppos-
ed by persons who have not investigated the
subject, this, as well as the insecurity of
private safes, , prompted people to seek
greater safety y depositing their securities
in banks. It is ,to this practice that we desire
to direct the attention of thoughtful persons.
It would no doubt surprise many persons if
we should give a careful estimate of the mil-
lions’ upon millions’ worth of property which
are placed in the various banks of this city
for protection. It is the attempt to obtain
safety by this means which has caused the
suffering felt at this time in Northainpton.
It' is a significant fact that the many bank
robberies of the last ten years have inflicted
by far the greatest loss upon'. persons who
have placed their securities in the Vvaults_ or
safes of banks for protection. Judicial decis-
ions go to show that, banks cannot be held
liable to make restitution of such securities
taken for safe-keeping which are lost. or injur-
ed. The weight of authority' is that it is beyond
the scope of their powers; in fact, the great
est security such depositors have' is, generally
the fidelity of the porters of the banks; who,
while' in many cases men of the highest in-
tegrity, are not, as a class, persons whom we.
would select to take charge of our property.
The courts are strongly inclined to hold
that national banks have no legal right or
power to. make themselves liable to return
such securities when left with them for safe
keeping. This is the plain tenor of Justice
Allen’s opinion‘ in the case 'of V . the .First
National Bank of Lyons againt the _Ocean
National Bank, which was decided in the
Court 'of Appeals onVVthe 23d of March, 1875.
Certain bonds had been deposited with the
cashier of the defendent, and— appeared to
have been stolen. The dcfendent was a
national bank, and the opinion of the court
has been thus summarized :1
“lst. That the powers to bind the corpor-
ation could only be presumed to exist in its
officers within the scope 0f its ordinary bus.
iness—their'ordiuary duties-and that such
deposit did not coine within that designation.
“2d. That the powers of such a corpor-
ation are banking powers only, and that it
does not include the business of a safe deposit
company ; that there could be no distinction
made between a deposit of bonds and a de-
posit of, jewelry and plate.”
The decision, which is a long one, goes
very. fully into all the reported cases upon
the subject.
Similar facts existed in the case of Wyley
against The First National Bank of Brattle-
boro (Vermont Supreme court, 1865), with
the additional fact that the bonds were re-
ceived by the cashier, who - gave a receipt
that they were deposited in the bank for safe
keeping. ' The courts hold that thereis a difa
ference betweena mere agreement to keep
11 an agreement to keep safely, and that
the promise of the president of a bank to
keep coin deposited safely is__ ultra wires.
The court proceeds to say: “The cmhier
had no authority to bind the bank by a con-
tract for the custody of the bonds. The
fact that they were received for deposit
would not bind the company; the only rem-—
edy for the person depositing the bonds is
against the individual oiiicer who receives
them.” '
It is certainly time for the merchants and
capitalists of New York, who are depositing
their securities very generally with the banks
for safe keeping, to understand these points
distinctly; and in view .of the many robber-
ies which have occurred, both in the city
and country, and also because of other dan—
gers which exist, we would warn persons
against looking for the required security in
that direction.
Long observation and the experience ob-
tained from the test of various measures of
safety seem to indicate that the greatest pro-
tection to vaults is secured by armed guards
who constantly patrol the premises.
As a rule, banks grant a favor in consent-
ing to store securities, the remuneration,'if
any is made, being no equivolent for the
anxiety, the time wasted, the care required
and trouble taken in attending to this bus-
iness, which is generally entered into to
avoid what might seem to friends and custo-
mers a lack of courtesy or a disinclina'tion to
be accommodating. Not only is this demon-
strated by the fact where there” is an oppor-
tunity the managgrs of banks are now ad-
their valuables' in depositories designed espe-
cially for safety, but many banks are pursu-
ing the same course with their own securi-
ties—N. Y. Evening Post.
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Boot Money.
The Hartford Post relates a suggestive little
story as follows: “Earlv in 1862,11 youth
named Frederick Boyer found a $85 bill on
the street, and turned it over to Chief Cham-
berlain to be returned to the owner. In April
of that year, no owner having a,ppeared the
money was deposited in the Pratt street Sav-
ings Bank to the credit'of Young Boyer, and
remained undisturbed until 1873, when Boyer
came 19 Mr. Chamberlain, saying that he
needed a pair of boots 'and had no funds.
He was given an order on Marcy, and a' year
later Mr. Chamberlain drew the expense of
the boots from the deposit, Wthh by this
time had been increased to $9. 77 by interest.
To-day Boyer made his appeal-ance againwitli
the demand for more boots, and went with
the chief to the savings bank, where he re'-
ceived $5. 28. The money originally found
had thus been of much more benefit than if
he had retained it and spent it, and several
other boys whose interests have been looked
after by Mr. Chamberlain in similar cases
have now, with their deposits and their ow n
additions, some nice ‘lnest eggs’ laid away for
the future. Though deposited . in their own
names, entries are made in the books stipula-
ting tluit the money shall not be drawn with-
out the acquiesence of Mr. Chamberlain, and
this restriction has been of real advantage to
the youngsters.
Privileges of Leap Year.
“ Yo dies have thé- privilege of saying
anythinth eyplcase during leap year, ’she
said, eyeing eyhim- out of the corner of hei-
eyes with a. sweet look
wondered if slie'Was going to ask the question
which he had so lon desired and feared to
do, he answered, es.
“ And the young’ man must not refuse, ”
said she.
“ N0, No! How could they ?" sighed he.
“ Well, then,” said she, “will——-”
He fell on his knees and said: “Anything,
anyt ything you ask, darling. "
“ Wait. tillI get through. Will you take
a walk, and' not hang around our house so
much 1’”
And he walked—Oil City Derrick.
Theodore Thomas has purchased the former
mansion of Edwin "Ferrcst, in Philadelphia,
for a summer concert garden.
Four hundred gamblers are collected at
Cheyenne, ready for the opening season in the
Black Hills country.
Some people will be over polite. “Don't
trouble yourself, I can find the .way myself,”
“ 0h! nonsense, my dear, I’ In very well
pleased, indeed, to show you out. " 1’
(Mass. _) Bank hasbrought the whole subject-
of the safe keeping of valuablcs before the.
every ten of the recent failures, the elegant
gwarenousé has been the millstone about
necks of those who have succumbed It hiis
_sold by re
vising persons Who apply to them to place ,
His heart gave a great bound, and while he'
I‘ACTS FOR anmnssfimv
THE riinsriivi' svsrim '01." ruins carrioisiin—
'rnr. 1mm 01‘ THE DA!--lllGH amuse-man
urixiis, 8m. ——w 11.11 near 1111 boss '10 Wis
BACK svocsss. . '
Perhaps' in these days it will be well for
business men to stop and inquire whether it
be hard times or a false system of doing lins-
in'ess that is the cause of financial-depression.
It is barely possible that during the last twen-
ty years we have, in some matters, progressed
backw VV instead of making the rapid strides
ahead 0 ‘ hich we have been congratulating
ourselves. Within three weeks there has been
aslight improvement in feeling in business
circles. Men are more buoyant and hopeful
than they were in thcmiddle of January. The
signs for 1876 are favorable to at least a fair
trade, unless you take round-shouldered
croakers, and allow them to set the current
of feeling in their peculiar manner. It is
possible that something may be done to facil-
itate an improvement if every businessman
will find his own sore: spota‘,"put in the knife
for himself and effciit'hisi-own, cure. Some
branches of trade are suffering from causes
which must be remedied before they can ex-
pect sound and substantial prosperity, such
as they enjoyed a score of years ago. Take
the dry goods jabbing :trade for instance.
We enumerate it simply as an example.
What' is true .-in regard 1.511131 will,- in- a large
measure, apply to the rclothii'igimdc,"the
shoe and leather interest, honlmrs, gro-
cery, and many other interests. Twenty
years ago the dry goods jobbing. trade of
Boston was done on an entirely different
basis from that which exists. togday. Thch
the proportion of foreign to American
sold was 75 per cent. foreign. The item of
rent, one of the chief ementsz of expense,
,run from one to five , 11 dollars, the
latter being a high figure};- and. the other'ie‘x4
penses were in proportion.) Then on foreign
goods there was a large profit, and théiprofit
on American goods wasvof Course small: The
. goods were sold by the proprietors (and their
salesmen)’ in their own (stores here _in Boston,
and the merchant was brought face 105111011,
with his customers. .00 the goods sold 11'
can. The costly stores which have been built
in the burnt district, vary-'01] the way from
$5,000 to $20, 000 per mania, and other ex-
penses have been increased' .m .the same. rati.
Under the present system of distribution flilVy
fifty per cent. are sold byxcoinmercial- trachly-
ers, and this has become a .dinstroiisly ruiii-
ous feature of the businssm It costs at least
five dollars a day for the crawling and hotel
expenses of such traveler fin addition to his
salary. This system has crept 'into the. busi-
ncss and grown gradually-until it has become-V
an alarming feature, and (111111 high rent',
etc.) it is leaving but very, few jobbers to re
the past. As the business is now done
the jobbers do not need any. elegant store.
With the commercial tmvclerV audh plea
in such prominence, a loftgqjust as- good 48
an expensive store. And Viui about nine out f
proved an elephant on their hands that could
not be shaken off, and the only1 way to gét_’
rid of it Was to fail. Not-withstanding the
commercial traveler has been so largely e’ut'ili?
zed, just as many clerks and salesmen are eni-
ployed' 1n the stores, rand no expense islessen-
ed_ in any 'ection. Profitshave been reduc-
ed very materially; as now the largest prdV-
portion of the goods. are American, they are
lar tradgmarks hich. are weil
known in 11' market. ‘5 'giV'ea many 3111...),
are sold at from two. and a half to five per
cent. profit. It costs'more than that for the
commercial traveler to distribute the goods, _
let alone store expenses, interest on capital,
bad debts, losses, insurance, and numerous
incidental items, And when they come to
strike a balance at the'e'nd of six months, it
is, found to be always on the wrong side. To
show- how thoroughly the commercial traveler
has been introduced, one of them whowas
recently ina small town where there were .
three stores, counted forty-four drummerfi-
representing as many different houses, and it
wasn’t a very good day for drummers either,
If the expenses of those forty-four commen-
cial travelers and their sales in that town
could be estimated, what a commentary the
figures would be upon the systeml'Wlieii
thcsc traders came to Boston and the mer-
chant met his customer, he could ascertain
his condition and prospects, cth., and deter-
mine whether he was entitled to credit or not-
On the other hand, by sending out young
men anxious to make sales and reputations,
many -of them will take an order from most
anybody, especially if trade is dull and they
have had a. poor trip. The commercial trav-
eler always presents the bright side, and in
nine cases out of every ten doubtful cases,
the goods are sent against the V.jVudgment of
the proprietors.
our assertions, let him walk through summer
street, Devonshire street, or Franklin street,
and count the number of large and elegant
warehouses that are marked “To Let." The
fact that they are empty can be traced to
this pernicious system of distributing 'goods
by commercial travelers. All this expense is
so much added to the already large expenses
which the times have engendered. Many of
the prominent failures we have badhave been
due, not so much to any supposed hard times
or lack of business qualificatiu, as to this
cancerous system of doing business.
Men who were successful twenty years ago
under the old system of distributing goods' in
their own stores, would make a failure doing
business with this present system of high
rents, high taxes and commercial travelers.
Among other items of expense the jobber haVs
’ to pay taxes on goods if they are found in his
possession, though he may' owe for them.
This is a very heavy item with the present
high rates of taxation. Another trouble with
the jobbers is that the few men have to take
the brunt of everything.
iness are putting their money in some place
where it cannot be. found to be taxed. The
result is that those who stay in the trade have
to stand all the taxes, high rents, charities,
etc, and bear all the burdens of the day.
The inflated war basis, which began during
the later years of the wai- and lasted several
years after its 01090, has gone. Those were
days when profits were acquired so easily no
one thought of expense. A hundred thou-
sand dollais could be turned over and over
and would go on almost as easily as a huge
snowball in winter. That exceptional period
has passed away. It' is harder to make $1, 000
11ch than it was to make $20, 000 then. Bus-
lness' is settling to 'the old hard pan bed-rock
basis.
The days of getting rich slowly have re-
turned. What is false in our ways of doing
business must be removed. Fancy valuations
are fast becoming matters of history, and we
are settling down to hard pan. The whole
question of values and expense must be reso-
lutely and manfully met and solved. ‘
One remedy“ is lower rents. The idea that
real estate holders should have from eight to
ten per cent. and taxes paid' is fast vacating
their stores. They must be satisfied with a
lower rate of interest. United States curren-
cy as at the present rate of selling yield only
about four and a half pcr cent. net. Mer-
chants have to pay eight or ten per cent. on a
valuation of about twenty-five per cent. high-
er than the property would bring in the mar-
ket today. In fact, the trade, with taxes,
rents, etc., and 'all these other expenses, to-
gether with: this system of distribution, has
been very badly crippled, if not nearly wiped
out. Allthe expenses must be cut right in
this market seventy-five per cent- are Ameri-‘ '
.IMVidaS, wud you let go dth board, or wud you
quest-ion what VIV’ni
resent the' immense and profitable business of f
can’t swim. " ,’ ‘
V'noV scursiOns.” V V ' ,‘V V‘
"' AMAx’sCmvnstaionnoas —TlieRaleigh ‘
tlie ‘I,(N. 0.) News iV'eports' that Rev. Dr. Paton.
' ard, of that city, referred in his Thanksgiv-
benefit my neighbors.” "
you regain "as OUTIIUIg‘nw-ni
If any business man doubts 1
People not in bus- '
wholly wiped out. Then the business will get
back upon a healthy basis. Every man must
put his own house' in order, must examine his
own case, and, cut his garments according to
his cloth. Every man must adapt himself to
the conditiomof things today, not how his
calculations altbgether on what his neighbor
is doing, or any brilliant expectations in the
future, but on his present condition to-day.
A Loving Couple.
Samarium Anonr Gorxs ox A ’Somisiox—V
' “’Srossx .1 Cass.” .
5‘ Midas! I want to ’sposen a case to you,
and I'want you to gin me the gospel truth oh
you ’pinion ’bout do matter. "
That’s the manner in which one of Wash.
ington’ s dusky damsels put it to her adorci'
last evening.
“ Now, Midas, you know’s you‘ se tole me
more tiniesanyou’se got fingers Van toes,us
you lubed me harder an Va marble-top wash-
stand, an at Ise sweeter to you an buckwheat
cakes Van lasses Vforebcr.’ _“Midas, dis _am
"only a ’szoseii case, but I want-’5 you to
’sposcu jas es hard as it"s tiaVs a shonufi
one. ”
sion down do ribber ? ”
WerniViou. ” V
' .“ 'AnVy’ 1.7111191111130111 do 111111113 Midas,
kin youVV swim 9 " 1
“No, Luce, Ise sorry to ’form you dat do
only drec'kshon what I kin oirciimstanshiate
VfVif'u dVe water,, am to de bottom. ”
"V“Wel], den, Vas I was ’1'atin. ’Sposen we
was on do boat, glidin _libbinly an harmunly
down de bussum 01) de ribber’ s stream ’pon
'de smokcstack, and you was sottin rite up to
you 1.0pr dat’s dc way. ”
; “Yah. ' Yah, but would’nt dat be scrump-
tons," interrupted Midas. ,
“ Sposen," continued Lucy, “you had jes
put your arm rouiiV' my wais' (dat’s 1L) dey
wasn't nobody ’bout, you was a squeezen me
“Do. an’ was-jean gwine .to gimIVne de lubbeiiest
kind 0b a kiss,“ an’—.—an’ —an’. Vde biler wud
bust?
“- -0li, dc VdVebeVil!” said the disappointed
Midas. .
“ Now, Midas, I' is a Vsposcn dis case, ’an I
speakin’. SpOsen when (hit .biler busted, we
bof went up in de air, conic dVoan' 1n dc rib-
her, 1111’ when we arriv in de water we found
the only thing lef’ ob (lat boat was one piece
0' b01'1rd, sposeu (lat piece 0' board wasn’t big
enuff t0 hole us bof, but we bof grab it ,now,
put 1110 iii an’ took it all y'self. 9 Dat’s de
1"
ma spasm.
he asked, after
5’
“ Lche, kin you swim.
hesitatin'g a few moments, , V V V
“No, Midas, ob course not. You an'ow I
“ Well den, Luce, my eonsl'ienshus’ pinion
ob de whole matter Vam,V datV we won t VV'goV on 1
i
..'-1.5' ‘
ing sermon to a conversation held some ”years
ago between Dr: Thomas E. Skinner, former-
ly of Raleigh, now of Georgia,'and'an anti-’
missionaryist; DnSkinner,he said was so-
lic'iting aid for Foreign Missions, and applied-
to this gentleman, who promptly repulsed
him with the reply, “ I don’t believe in for.
eign missions. I won’t give anything except
to home missions. I want what I give to
' “Well ” re lied Dr. Skinner,_ “whom do
“Why, those around me,” replied the
brother.
' “ Do you mean those whose lands join
yours. 9” inquired Dr. Skinner.
a Yes
"'W'ell,” said Dr.
land do you own?”
“ Ab0ut'500 acres.”
“How far down do you own. 9” inquired
Dr. Skinner.
“Why, I never thought of it before, bug I
suppose I own half way through. ”
“Exactly," said Dr. Skinner. “ I suppose
y0u do, and I want this money for the Chi!
ness—the men whose landjofns yours on the
bottom. "‘
The hardened brother had never thought of
that, and gave a good sum for foreign mis-
sions. ' ,
Miss Serapliina Havens, of . Shelter Island,
who has been an invalid for. nearly thiity .
years, is engagedin making an autograph '
bed-quilt from bits of satin and silk, the gifts ‘
of many friends. 1 She proposes to send this
quilt to the Centennial Exhibition at Philip
delphia next summer.
The autographs are written on pieces of
white silk, about two inches square, and are
arranged in'therfollowing'"manner: A large
center standsurrounded by smaller stars.
The center is of crimson satin, surrounded
by autographs of the President and his Cabi-
net. Another row of satin, this circle being
composed of the autographs of prominent
Army and Navy Oillcers, intermingled with
those of Senators and Representatives. The
third row of satin is hardened-with the names
of the Governors of States. The points 'of
the large star are made 11p of small stars of
white silk, everywhere ”one containing auto-
graphs of prominent men of all professions.
In one star will be found names of celebrated
Poets; in another, the names of Editors; in
a third, those of Professors of Colleges, and
a fourth contains the names of our most no-
ted Clergy. To these she intends adding a
star each of Authors and Actors.
She has procured most of these names by
writing to the individuals, enclosing the bit
of white silk for autograph, and it is a source
of gratification to her that of all the requests
Skinner, _ “how much
ceived. V _
. How'She Got Revenge.
A gay looking negro, with a woman of gin-
get-cake color on his arm; was promenading
SoV ith Broad street, by the 01d cemetery, the
other evening, when a very black negress
suddenly appeared in front of the pair, and,
in language more forcible than elegant, said.
" Say, Sam, whar is yer gwine with dat
yaller gal? Y-ou leave her alone and come
home to yer lawful wife and chillun.”
Sam wasn’t thinking about home just then,
and tried to pacify his irate spouse with 1116
question.
“ What you always want to spile my ’joy-V
inent fur, Hannah-V ._ doesn’t I allers come
home early i"
But this did not suit Hannah, and aftér som’e
further persuasion she said: ‘
“Look yeah, you Sam, if you don’t come
to yer family, wl'iar you b’long, yer will have
to do yer walking widout a hat, " and grab-
bing his shiny tilflhe stood there a moment,
but seeing somebody like a policeman coming.
she disappeared rapidly around the corner, V
with the hat' in her hand,
If any one remembers seeing a bum-headed
durkey, with a light-colored uegrcss on his
arm, perambulaiing South Broad the other
night, they now know why it was, as he ex-
pressed it himself to the police thus. _
“ Y 011 see, I' 1095 started out to take a stroll
with dis lady, and de ole woman done got
111:“, and‘ dat’s wat de matter widHnnmh.- ’
Savannah Advertiser.
#
Consistency. ANew Hampshire distiller
makes all his employees sign the temperance
pledge.
never have a
“ ’Sposen me an you was goin on a ’scur- ,
“ Yas, " broke In 111111.11, “down to Moud '
me jas, (slide up. here closer, an lcni’ me show .
"road Depot.
ilillilifliil'lilll'l' lill'fllll,
'wants you to mind de words what I am a .
f1: HAW-Lbs .. w
Oillce at rcsidencvol’rfl; 0: Banks, Main Street.1
- u
at fairlivin prices.
ket, on the I3
Special attention paid to country residences. 1yV2
she has made, but; one refusal has been 19- _V
I' By devotinghis coust- “ll personal attent‘outo the
£19,113 F ti:1”fii_’i'iiiiiii cums.
1110 Second OldenPnpei'}n _llscsule.
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All 111111911211 cuts and devices V25V [10} cent. extra.
uOBNER o1 River and Wall streets, Norw'nlk.
0min, opposite the Danbuny & Norwalk Bail-
The nub'scr'i at has taken the above
well known and popular telm establishment
calculated'hy its central position for the acoinm'o-
nation of permanent and transient guests. The
rooms are commodious, the table 0011, the prides
reasonable 1 first-class livery sta leis connected
with the Hotel. Carriages in readiness It' 31111111 I;
, LEROY TAYLOR, Proprietor.
Norwalk, (70011. April 16, 1875. 311116
CornerMaln' and Wall sVls.', NORWALK; 0’13?
THE subscriber li wing" taken the’ above violi-
known centrally located Hatch“ is “prepared to
entertain permanent and transient Good-
rooms , good to his; reasonable; A 11:11-
0lass Livery connected with the otel. Carriages
to all trains. Every eil’ort' made to please. - ' ;
6811f . _ DB. MOREIIOI-ISE. Proprietor;
"NbRWALK 1.121111.
contemplated at tVViVie time of contract, but are pcr— .
mitted to make monthly ch mchsV 01'1- their adver- ,
Nowell: "Hotel-‘2. ' I
\J\I\I\I\m\l \Wv‘
Apartments to Let !
' Enquire of C. 1'. LEONARD, -’
. at the Coal OfficeflVaterSt.
—Upper or lower 1arto1 l d
To Rent. on West. M ain Vsl. B. 12.1%
MOND, 2x11, at Earle a Smiths
tr ,'
“80
AYo
I 317
1
' 1
FOR-SALE on T0 RENT.
HE [louse and Mill Pro rt occu iedb Eb-
T cuezcr l’attciidenP in SYilpel'BI JN’Dlldse'pEn( nyi‘rc of
V P A
New Canaan, Feb. 10th, 1876. E“ (7)
To Let?
THE lower part of a pleasantly situated house
on Union Park. Possession g1 on April 1st.
Enquire of Mrs. Allen on- the premiJcs.
Feb. 13111, 1876. GEORGE CVOLYER.
To Let. -—
PPER PART OF HOUSE,
on fllaln Site I,
with six rooms. [11' e minutes walk from the Brit go
New house, and location very desirable. Also
Barn if 11 auted. {It'} Apply at this OlliceV.
To Rent.
TllEV rooms over the. Cornm Drug Storm now
new ied by Joseph F. F0010, Esq. ., as an A
torney 0 cc, willbe to rent {Tom the first day 0 '
Ayn-linen. Inquire of the subscriber.
IUSEI’H \V. llUBVBELL L.
\‘11111nlk Yelp—11th, 183.511
To Let
ROOMS Second Story,V three infnutes' '11 if
from the village. Inquire at this 0111011. 1.8
1
are Rent. I
ROM the int '01 April next, art ofaHon'se.
ifopr room) right in the vi Inge. Rent fls
per month. Enquire at this 01111111.,
-- To Let. _
The Store tor. Wall & 11111191819 .
Under the Opera House, V3
Formcil) occupied by D S. Curtis. Inquire of
ti‘ JOSEPH l. LYNES.
*F'OIEI. SAIL-IVE! V
VHVE subscriber otters for sale his
Dwelling House and lick.
p mummy situated on the lower end of Fair Stréet
he house is new and 11 ell finished; the lot is
1111:3115 feet. Will be soid low and a large part 701‘
the. purchase money can remain on and am!
mortgage. Enquire at the Straw Facjtory.
41." 7 D.S. VAlLa
., . , . , '1
. . Homestead For Sale: ‘1
on no n'nu'l', 11v win-ion, coins."
[CONSISTING or one large Dwelling House, (14
rooms,) Barn, and one acre-01‘ Ground situ-
ated on me Danbnr and Norwalk Turnpike,
South Wilton. so as ed. Has Fruit of all kin“I
and two good welfs of never failing water. With -
In five minute: walk of depot oi Da'nbnry a» Ndr
walk Railroad. and close to post 001110. 11 notsold
before April 1st, it will be rented at a low Nfignl'e
to'a good. tenant. Apply to S. GKUMM AN ,' - .
416 on the premises, or 51}; Main ‘.t ,Norwaulk
i
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ALEX. VS. GIBSON,
Organiswffhomuonmgulonal Church.
4-. -ch0herolj the; ..
Plano-Forte, 93“" and J] oilieal
.1 Composition.
Bo! 379 P.10. NORWALK.V(}0NN
”ANY.
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Surgeon Dentist,
' ‘ ivo‘a'vnik'. com. '
Oflice corner Mll- ”Wait-Streets.
Oxide GaVs Vadministcred.
0.9-3. coo-1.111011,
DENTIST-
_ Successor to
- nr. -Asu1 Hill-1.. . l
WALL STREET; NORWVAL'VK,
. 001% over 9
C. J. Grumau’u I!" 60010 Store. 1
‘3' Gus adminlstcrch for extracting teeth with-
out pain.
EDWARD BANKS,
v; 1 Q...- ——v~"v“fih
AND BORN!!!" SURVEYOR,
1
.i.‘
Nitrous-
Norwalk, COIVIII.
S S W. .MITCHELL,
* 1 At the ever popular
UNION MABKE'I
has always the boat 01‘
Boot, Veal, Manon, and Pork,
Union (formerly Model) Mar-
ridge. 4 ~ 18
non" lNSLEE,
_, ARCHITECT;-
70 BROADWAY, NEW - rock,
kW ‘ , 0111:.
l
.naunns s. nooxwoon,
FaShinnaliie Dispersal Tailor,
”'"EN‘D
GENTS’ FURN [SHIN G E111 PORI UM
_Main Street, Norwalk. Conn.
Nor wan.- Fish Marla;
The subscriber respect-fully announces that at
the Old Bridge Fish Market a constant supply of
rnusn 1115111, .
OYSTERS, CLAMS, kc”
and all v arieties of choice
lllllt All VIIEIAIIIS II ‘l’iIEII SEAS“.
CHARLES W. LOCKWOOD.
‘3‘ Spring Chickens Dressed to order.
EDWARD I’- WEED,
D R U G G- I S '1' .
Wall Street, opposite Nor-walk Opera House,
A large and well selected stock of
DRUGS AND MEDICINES"
PerfumeiF Patent Medicines. all kinds Mineral
Waters, oilct and Medicated VSoaps. Flavoring ‘
and Handkerchief Exfracs s, H. iii Brushes. Combs,
Sponges, Chamois Skins. Stationerv. Cigars, (in, '
and is constantl adding to his stock all- thu new
and popular 1110 icincs of the day.
oRqu & MEDICINES,
THVE unV lei-signed woiild announce to the citi'.
zens in this vicinity, that at his Drug Store
COR. OF WASHINGTON .11 DERO'I‘ 5119.,
can always be found.
PURE -DRUGS, .
Choice Wines & Liquors;
F012 MEDICINAL PURPOSES,
Hill“ 1. 101117 Aill'lillis, PM!" IEDIGIIEII
Physicians Prescriptions careiully compounded
day and 11ight.("'111 he found nights in same
building; enti' wince on Washington Street.
iVyiu s. l1 VPEGK, South Nor-walk.
E' ”I \' A INSURANCE Co. OIKABTFORD.
incorpor. 110d 1812. ‘ Charter Perpetual.
("apical and 111.2611, 85 ,052,880.19
Ins'urcs against in s and damage by Fire, on terms
adopted to thehaz. u '.i and cons stcnt 11' ith the laws
of compensation COW Es 1!; MERRILL
Solo Agents iorL:Nor11'tik and 1icinlty.
Mr -_
OIGWA LK INSURANCE 630.,
.vozzivazx, 00.1% . ‘
charlorflnpual - . . - $000,000
191,111,! nucnpnai V- ,. - 1 - 100,000
War. 0.1811118“. Pres., 6110 110011139, Sec’y .
._-. B. s. ma'scsu,
At hisStorein )i ALLORY’S ISLOCK, hasconstnnt
1y on hands general 11390111000 1 0 f
Gadonnxms ,
.CBCCKEJII, GLASS,
TIN AXI)‘ WOOD!“ WARE, 1570.. are
busineéshe hopes to merit publicpatronage.
, FRANCIS McKEON, Jr.V,
. Practical Plumber.
PLUMBING in all its BRANCHES.
Green Homes Fitted up.
Orders left at Shop. on School Street, or 011 slots
at Belden’s Tin Shop. Jobbing promptly attended
to.
(30' T0 BELDFN’S
' " and hsee to new
The only place where the
slim attendance—The Fat
Y. (immera‘al Advertiser.
en’s Ball.—-N. i
Hot Closet Range.
("onclmicd on Fourth Page. ]
l
' A
Houses and Rooms to Rent.
, \ portion can be had for immed’e occupancy.
‘ 0e which 'will be
. ry lst, 1876.
within five minutes’w
Price 37, 500. 0r willW rent it to a good tenant 1‘01
- vesmrs to c all and examine at the olllce of
For Sale or to Rent.
GOOD House and Barn, .11'i'1h 15 acres 01
Good land, situated on high ground, lie-
tween Norwalk and \1 1211111011; harbors. only 10
minutes \1 alk 1‘1 om either depots A beautiful view
of the sound: Abundance of Fruit Trees and
good Spring W'ater. Enquire of BURR KNAPP,
South Norwulk, 01 l‘ Ll BRADLEY, SaugatnckV
‘onn. 5“)!
' . Far Sale or'to Let. ' '
0000:1131 with Dyeiun, Barn. mid
Out-House, iiea'r W est \or'wal Post 00161:.
Enquire of D. R. SE LLECK .Sonth Norwalk.
VSouth Norwalk, J an. 315t, 1876. 41.5
[IE subscribcr has now in charge several
Dwelling Houses and Sell ornonml'
to Rent. The houses and rooms are all within the
Borough, and include medium and first-class rents
Also several desirable resideu
sold at a bargain.
ES FINNEY.
, N0rwalk,Jan- ‘ZSth, 1870. 805
What do you,tliii_ik. of he!” .
Cur Cousin Jane 9 I
, With asallow, sunken cheek.
Hair with many a silver streak.
Features never made for'show;
Eyes that faded long ago, -
Brow no longer smooth and fair, ' .
Form bent o’er with pain and care;
Sad to be so old and plain,
Slighted Cousin Jane.
What do you think of her
Our Cousin Jane 1
Quieting the children's noise,
Mending all the broken toys,
Doing, deftly, one by one
Duties others leave undone, '
Gliding round the sick one’s bed,
With a noiseless hand and tread ;
Who, like her, can soothe in pain 9
Use! 111 Cousin Jane:
What do angels think of her,
Oui- Cousin Jane ‘3
, Bearing calmly every cross,
Finding gain in seeming loss,
And a beauty ever bright,
In the rigid line of right ;
Self forgetting—fres'l’rom art,
With a loving Christ-like heart,
Living aye for others" gain,
Saintly Cousin Jane.
/1
Q
Would that thinking 0ft of her.
Our Cousin Jane,
Might our inward vision clear
To behold the “unseen," near,
And in forms 0.1111113“ hue,
Heaven’s own beauty shining through.
Reached that land of purer ray—
Passed misjudging earth away— _
What radiance will she then attain, ,
Star-crowned Cousin JaneV!
' THVE HERO.
BY JOHN G. WWIIB
“ Oh, for a knight like Bayard, .
Without reproach or fear? V
My light glove on hiscasque of steel,
My love-knot. on his spear!
“Oh, for the white plume floating,
Sad Zutphen’ s field above—-
The lion’s. heart' in battle,
The woman’ 3 heart' in love!
“ Oh, that man once more were manly,
_ Woman’s pride and not her mm!
That once more the pale young mother "
Darcd to boast ‘ a man is born 1’
' j V“But now'life’ s slumbrous current
No sun-bow ed cascade wakes:
No tall, heroic manlicod '
The level dullness breaks.
. _, . . r at;
“011, fora knight like Bayard,
Without reproach or fear;
»My light glove on his casque of steel,
My lovaknot on his spear. 1” '
Then I said, my own heart throbbing
To the tune her proud pulse beat;
“ Life hath its regal natures yet,
V True, tender, brave and sweet.
1' Smile not, fair unbeliever,-
-‘ One must least I know,
’Who might wear the crest of Bayard,
Or Sidney’s plume of snow.
“ Once, when over purple mountains,
' A banana.
QR S. \LE. —A first-rate Vb t House, (on East
Avenue,) containing iiin rooms; willb belei
if not sol 1. Also BUILDING LOTS for sale.
‘ ‘ Apply' to D. 11. FIT TUB.
Norwulk Nov. 211.11.181'1 V 18
1V EDI;
I “ll: First or Second Story of a house on Eait
A1cnue. Enquire oi J. l’. HAN kORD. 4V4:
FIRST-GLASS HOUSE FOR SALE.
NEW, FIRS'LCLAVSS HOUSE located 01
West Main Street, is offered for sale. Suit
House contains fifteen' rooms besides closets am
wardrobes; cellar under the whole house, Wit
room for a large basement kitchen,and dumb-
waiter, and has a tire-place built -ior a range;
piped throughout for gas and water. It is built 31
as to be convenient for two families if desired
having a. kitchen and pantry up stairs, and sepa-
rate stab-ways. The water is carried up to 1.111
second floor, and the waste water carries out 1111
water to the ccss-pool. The house is built of 1.111
best materials and in the best in11uner.lt is non
being finished and will be ready to occupy Janua-
To one wishing to purchase a lien
first-class place at a modcrate price, in one of On
most desirable locations in town,t_his presents:
good opportunity. If not sold within two month:
will rent it to a. responsible party at a- moderati
rent. Enquireo EBEN EA ATON.”
N orwalk, December 1st, 1875.
FOR SALE.
W0 very desirable BuildingLots on West Main
Street. Apply at the GA ETTE OFFICE. '
I
FOR SALE CHEAP.
(-‘ 00D FARM of about 40 acres of high land.
situate d three miles north of New Canaan.
Apply to A. VB. BENEDICT, Smith’s Ridge. 4
FOR SALE.
NEATRESIDENCE 011 one of the best,pleas
antcst and most accessible streets in town
Has eight rooms, ‘with gas in each, and heater ca
pubic of heating the whole house. Large bun
with stabling for several horses. Apple, Pear ant
cherry Trees, just commencing to car fruit. 1:
alk oi the Post Officc,&c
3600 pery.car Enquiie at this oilicc.
ARN T0 RENT. —A new Barn with good Sta
bhng for several homes, near the bridge
Price $8 per month Enquire at this Office.
NOW FOR YOUR WATER PIPES.
Wm. Glover a: Son,
351°13’le-{"11.L’i.’33§.l§tf.f‘§d§ii‘t‘iii§zti
anyoiz'o' 1111011ch AND CAST inVoN, Tin
LINE L), LEAD PIPES, kc” of every size and de
scription. l’l. U\lBING in all its branches.
'10 PER, 011.111 INTEREST-
, Firsthlortgage carom-lands. ' .
5 Per ' tent Semij—‘anirully,
NO BETTER SECURITY.
Having made arrangements with HENR)
01.11. \1 S .11. 00.111111111101111 tankers, to safely in-
vest money at the abov a rate, we earnestly beg in-
11' ilson it lliirlhutt',
Gin-rug; WILDING
J. BELDEN HUBLBVUTT.
FRANCIS J. MGKEQN. _ .
Draper and Tailor.
A cliuil' 1 so ection 01‘ newand fashionable goods
constantly on hand
n‘oom No. l, Gazelle Blinding.
L A N G L 1; _l" S
PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY,
No. IS Main St., Sorwiilk,
(over (3.81 ‘1. H. Holmes‘ store.)
i. F. Langley would respectfully inform the in-
habitants of \orwalk .1111! vicinity that he has en-
larged and remodeled the 110016 G.1llu~ry.and is
now prepared to makeallkinds oi picturésas 000
as the best, at the low cst prices.Con1'ing i one
and enlargements made irom small pi1tu1'es.V and
colored' 111 India lnk, Oil and W ater Colors. 1 1011's
taken of residences on reasonable terms. Stereo-
Stereo-
Please
I
scopic V" is“ s,Groups and Interiors made.
scopic Views of Norw alk at 25 cents each.
give me :1 call. Satisfaction fiaranteed.
144 l. l". LANG]. ‘l Photographer.
' NOTICE.
11111111111 61. Savings-Bail
WILD COMMDNCE BUSINESS ON
Thursday October [91,1814,
In the Banking Rooms of the Fair
field 00. National Bank.
Illilifl Will. I! AllllWED II All GASES [III
Til! DATE 0! DEPOSIT.
Business hours from 9. A. M“ to 12. M.; and from 1
o’clock, P. M. ., to 3; and on Saturday evenings
from 6 to 8 o’clock.
Wm. K. JAMES. President.
V All that wakesto'nobler action V
Wherever struggles laboi', '
Died away'the Grecian sun,
And the fair Cyliciaii ranges
Paled and darkened one by one.
“ Fell the Turk, a bolt of thunder
Cleaving all the quiet sky,
restaeurmamteucnnims »— ............
“ Woe for the weak and halting:
The crescent blazed behind
A curving line' of sabres
Like fire before the wind.
“Last to fly and first to rally,
Rode he of whom I speak,
When groaning in his bridle-path
Sank down a’woundcd Greek.—
“ With the rich Albanian costume
Wet with many a ghastly stain;
Gazing on earth and sky as one
Who might not gaze again. '
“ He looked forward to the mountains, V
Back on foes that never spare,
l‘hen flung him from his saddle
And placed the stranger there.
“Allah! hu! thro’ flashing sabres,
Thro’ a stormy hail of lead,
l‘he good Thessalian charger
Up the slopes of olives sped.
“ Hot 11de the turbaued rideis,
,, He almost felt their breath,
Where a mountain stream rolled darkly down
Between the hills and death.
" Onc brave and manful struggle;
He gained the solid land,
Ind the cover of the mountains
'And the carbines of 'his band."
"II: was very great and noble,"
Said the moist-eyed listener then;
“But one brave deed makes no hero,
Tell me what he since hath been."
“ Still a brave and generous manhood,
Still an honor without stain,
In the prison of the Kaiser,
By the barricades of Seine. '
“But dream not helm and harness
Sole sign of valor true,
Peace hath higher tests of manhood
Than battle ever knew.
“ Wouldst thou know him now.9 Behold bin,
- The Cadmns of the blind, '
Giving the dumb lip language, . . '
The. idiot clay a mind. ' . -
“ Walking his round of duty
Serenely day by do? ,
With the strong man’s hand of labor,V
And childhood’s heart of play.
1.1.
5‘ True as the knights of story,
Sir Launcelot and his 'pcgrs;
Brave in his calm endurance,
As they in tilt of spears.
“ As waves in stillest waters,
As starsin noonday’su skies,
In his noon of..cuhpncsa 11119..
“ Wherever outraged nature" .
Asks word 0r action 111-ave, ’
Wherever you: a’ 1111s.-
“ Wherever rise the poo _
Wherever sinks “brunt, . ' '-
The throbbing heart of frcmlomfinds.
An answer in his own”
“ Knight of a better era,
Without reproach or fear,
Said I not well that Bayards
And Sidneys still are here !"
THE NEAREST DUTY.
I sought to do sOme mighty act of good,
That I might prove how well my soul but
striven,
I waited, and the minutes, hours post, '
'ct bore no incense of my deed to heaven.V
Sad, without hope, Iwatched the fallingrain
One drop alone could not'refi'esh the tree; V’
But drOp on drop, till from its'deepest'toot
The giant oak drank-life and liberty. '
Refreshed, like nature, I arose'to try
To do the duty which should nearest lie;
And ere I knew my work was half begun”
a.
CHAS. ll. STREET,VT1'0asurer.
The noble deed I sought in vein was dais,
Norwalk Chronicler