WHOLE NUMBER 1743.
The Secret ofa happy Day-
Just to let my Father do '
What he will ;
Just to know that he is true,
And be still ;
Just to follow hour by hour
As he leadeth .
Just to draw the moment’s power
As it needeth; .
Just to trust him—that is all,
Then the day will surely be
Peaceful, and whate’er befall,
Bright and blessed, calm and free.
Just to let him speak to thee
Through his Wdrd; .
‘: Watching that his voice may be
I Clearly heard ;
4 Just to tell him everything
I As it arises ;
I, And at once to him to bring
I All surprises;
I Just listen, and to stay
I Where you cannot miss his voice—
I This is all! and thus tc-day
I Communing, you shall rejoice.
—0alcutta Paper.
Em
Among the Cow-Boys.
Lipplnimtt’s Magazine.
“Why did I leave God’s country to come to
this benighted land i” pathetically exclaimed
the Northern bride of a Texan “cow-man,"
as she observed her lord, the morning after
their arrival home, rise from his luxurious
couch of two black-jack logs and, stretching
his giant frame, remark that he must be
riding, as “that sleeping was too good for the
likes of him.".- .
The night that knows no earthly dawn has
long since closed around that bride ; but she
had'utteredasaying that was not born to
‘ die; and to this day, and perhaps forever,
‘ “back in the States" will be reverently spoken
; of by the cow-boys as “God’s country.” The
aphorism of the divine scribe that "all flesh
is grass” might be easily converted into the
prevalent belief of this State that “all grass
is flesh.” Certain it is, the divinity of the
“golden calf” has never been disputed in
Texas, and here his faithful worshippers
cluster by the thousand. West of the Brazos
River, the social and financial standing of a
man is reckoned by the number of cattle
which he possesses and the length and
breadth of his range, and the first essential
of a stockman is his ability to draw his six
shooter sooner than the next man.
The history of stock raising and stockmen
in Texas is interesting, and the desperate
efforts by which some of them haVOforced
their way to the top of the ladder would
apps! the bulls and bears of Wall Street.
With scarcely an exception, the successful
stockmen of Texas were originally penniless
adventurers who floated into the State “dead
broke,” and have in a comparatively short
time built up fortunes aggregating millions
of dollars. Standing head and shoulders
above all the rest is Richard King,—-the
cattle king of America, and, indeed, of the
world,—-who owns and brands fully four
hundred thousand head of stock. King is a
type of the successful Texan stock raiser.
Previous to the year 1837 he worked as a
’longshoreman in New York City. Tired of
being a roustabout on the dingy wharves
along the East River front, the young Irish
man shipped before the mast and came in a
vessel to Brazos Santiago, at the mouth of
the Rio Grande. For some time he worked
on a small boat which plied up and down
the river, and he rose to be steward, and then
captain and part owner. It is said ‘that he
also ran an establishment in one of the Mexi-
can river flinchlcs..nim.ilan--bo--Ille 7‘“.Bucklng-‘
ham" of New York, where nightly fandan-
gos turned hundreds of Mexican dollars into
the pockets of the ex-’longshoreman,on whom
Fortune now indeed began to smile. His
next venture was to organize and run Mine
of stages between‘Brownsville and Corpus
' Christi, and a line from Corpus to Laredo on
the Rio Grande. Although his enterprises
prospered, he sold out his boat, and, giv-
ing up his dance-house, went with his
partner, Captain Kennedy, into the cattle
business. Buying up a lot of cows, he loca-
ted his range along the Nueoes River, and.
to use the language of the stock-men,
proceeded “to work his cattle”. Sticking
to it night and day with rare and indomitable
pluck and perseverance, he has gathered
around him more flocks than Laban and
Abraham and Job possessed jointly. 'A bitter
and relentless prosecutor of the cattle thieves
who at that time infested the frontiers, fol-
lowing bands of marauding Mexicans and
outlaws across the river into Mexico, and
invariably hunting them down to a merciless
punishment, he became the object of their
especial hatred, and his life was in constant
peril. Whenever King road abroad through
his pastures, it was always with an escort of
thirty or forty of his Mexican was to guard
him from danger ; and this body guard still
accompanies him whenever his sallow coun-
tenance is seen in the streets of Corpus
Christi. . ‘
Around his hacienda, which is situated on
an elevated hill overlooking the greater por-
tion of his pasture, are planted batteries of
cannon that are used in defending his resi-
dence and warehouses from the attacks of
raiding Mexicans and~bands of horse thieves
In the warehouses are stored the supplies for
his small army of herdcrs'. This finch, the
Santa Gertrudes, alone stretches the enor-
mous distance of seventy.five miles long and
from ten to twenty .miles wide, while
all over its surface are sunken wells or tanhs
which furnish the cattle with water during
the summer drought. Besides the Santa
Gertrudes, "which lies in, the counties of
Nueces and Cameron, King owns several
other huge pastures, or fenced lands, near
Brownsville, on the Rio Grands. . More
than three hundred borders are employed
working his cattle, the majority of them
being the pawn, or lowest class of Mexicans;
King annually brands forty thousand calves,
and last year drove to Kansas thirty-five
thousand beeves. ‘He owns thousands of
horses, sheep, goats, and asses besides, and
offered once. to sell the government four
thousand horses, of four different colors,—
one thousand blacks, one thousand whites,
one thousand paints, and one thousand bays;
but the tough little mustangs could not come
up to regulation size. King still runs stages
between Corpus Christi, Brownsville, and
Laredo. A stout built man, dark, with
sallow complexion, he moves with :a sort of
twisted motion, from having had his leg
broken once and not properly ”3‘- The
Mexicans look up to him with more venera.
tion than to their own President. He hears
the reputation of being: stingy and close,
fisted, even with his great wealth, except
when in his cups, when he is liberal enough
to give away a whole ranch and all its stock
at one timer-alwayswhen sober keeping the'
piomises made when drunk.
N ext to King, the largest individual stock
muslin Texas is R. E. Stafford, whose
cattle to the number of one hundred and
twenty-five thousand graze on the ranges
along‘the Brazos, Colorado, and Navidad
Riverc' At the close of the war, Stafford,
Who Cane to Texas from Florida. lived in a
10!! cabin on Pin Oak Creek, a tributary of
the Colt-ado River, and was estimated to be
worth (.9 thousand dollars. Shrewdly
working is stock, his policy was to put
3111118 ca-I‘Idy posessions "into “she. cattle ;”
and this far he brands twenty thousand
calves. .. _
“Dang his 'aul,” said an old herder to the
writer, Speak“: of Stafford,.“he is buying
many 8 COW 3"3hich seemed to express‘tlfn
secret of his sue.“ exactly. ‘
The big stock men crowd out .the small
ones, and much bitter feeling and some
bloodshed are engendered by their persistent
efforts to assert the right of the strongest. A
bitter feud sprung up between Stafford and
a small stock raiser named Townsend, and
each, backed by his own party, would fight
whenever they met. Stafford, while gradu-
ally absorbing the smaller brands on the
prairies,in his rise to wealth found Townsend
in his path. He sent word to him that they
could not work the prairie together, and that
he (Stafford) was not rendy to leave. Town-
send refused to sell out and move away, and
the two parties, meeting in the streets of
Columbus, fought a pitched battle, in which
the Staffords were victorious, several being
killed and wounded on both sides. The
Townsends were ultimately crowded out of
the way, and Stafford reigned supreme over
the Colorado ranges. This is a fair illus-
tration of the manner of man a stock raiser
must be. '
Capt. Kennedy, King’s old partner, whose
ranch is located on the head waters of the
Nueces, annually brands fifteen' thousand
calves. Colonel Eugene Millet, in his pas-
tures on the Upper Brazos, owns forty thou—
sand head and brands ten thousand calves a
year. James F. Ellyson, of San Marcos,
William B. Mines, of Tree Palacois, in Mat-
agorda County, D. R. Fant, whose cattle
water in the San Antonio River, and perhaps
adozen more throughout the State, brand
annually from five to ten thousand calves.
Many of the: pastures of thecow-men are.
larger than the State of Rhodc Island. In
Southwestern Tevas the stock firm of Cole-
man, Mathis & Fulton have“ enclosed nearly
the three entire counties of Bee, Aransas and
San Patricio, and,graze more than two hun-
dred thousand head of stock. This firm sold
this year one hundred and fifly thousand
acres of fenced pasture land to one man
(William Wright) for fifty cents an acre,
Wright paying besides at the rate of five
hundred dollars a mile for the fence that
surrounded it. The fencing isalmost entire-
ly of barbed wire. According to the cow
men’s arithmetic, there is a calf to every four
head of cattle. Failure after you are once
started in the stock business they consider
impossible if a man adheres strictly to his
cows; although several years ago a stock
firm, Allen & Poole, was rated as worth two
millions of dollars, and now they have
broken and their names as stockmen are
things of the past. But their failure was
attributed in a large measure to having made
bad investments in landed property.
But whatwould astonish the:peaceful,law
abiding citizens of the East is the immense
amount of thieving which-is done on the
border. The facility with which this nefa-
rious practice can be carried on has been
greatly lessened, however, within the past
two years. Prior to that, the'only punish-
ment meted outta the cattle thieveswas by
the citizens taking the law into their own
hands and hanging and shooting them where-
ever found. In the fall of 1876, a re ' larly-
organized band of desperate white men and
low-down Mexicans infested the country
around Goliad and stole large bodies or cattle,
driving them across the 'river into‘Mexico.
This hand was under the leadership of two
white men, Ada Mildy and “Bill"; Breaking.»
Issuing from the dense timber alongthe
Guadalupe and San Antonio Rivers, Brook;
ing’s band Would round up a bunch of cattle
on the prairie, and, coralling them, would
proceed to brand, counter-brand, and deface
the marks upon them until the cattle were
beyond recognition. If anybody rode up
neighborhood organized a vigilance commit-
tee, which, after much hard riding and
fighting, broke up .the band, killed the most
of them, and drove the rest intoMexico. It
was a long time, bowever,before they caught
the two leaders. Young Mildy was only
twenty-one years old,the son of a respectable
old German, a carpenter of Goliad, but was
known as one of .the boldest and most suc-
cessful thieves that roamed the prairies. He
could easily have escaped :into Mexico; but
from the recesses of the river chapparal the
vigilantes were unable to drag him, until,
venturing one day in bread daylight into the
town of Goliad to hold an interview with his
sweetheart, to whom he was soon to be mar-
ried, he was surprised and surrounded by the
stock-men in the Case Hetcl. Fear was a
stranger to the young thief, and he never
qualled at his perilous position. Standing at
the top of the staircase, with a six-shooter in
each hand, while his- sweetheart stood near
him with a cocked Winchester rifle, he swore
they should have only his dead body. Fair
promises induced him to come down on the
street,where, boldly facing the score or more
of mounted men before him, he asked them
what they wanted of him.
“Where is Bill Brooking i” asked Captain
Tom Sullivan, the leader of the party.‘
“I don’t know; and if I did, I would see
you in hell before I would tell you,” was the
‘cool reply. But his courage availed him
nothing, for, at a sign from Sullivan, he was
lassoed and his arms bound tightly to his
body,while two of the horsemen dismounted,
and, seizing the young thief, strapped him,
not without a desperate resistancefito the
back of a led horse. Riding out of town,
the party stopped on the banks of the Perdi-
\do or Lost Creek, and held a consultation as
to the best method of disposing of their
prisoner. During the whole time Ada Mil-
dy’s round red face never psled, no. did he
pay any attention to what was being said.
His coolness was so extraordinary that a few
of them wanted him turned loose under a
promise to quit the country; but when the
proposition was made to him he refused to
accept it. A few days afterward Ada Mildy’s
mangled carcass was fished out ,of the San
Antonio River and sent to his aged father.
Bill Brooking shared the same fate, being
shot while cooking his supper, and his body
left to the tender mercies of the prairie
wolves.
These vigilantes existed all through Texas
two years ago; but the energetic services of
General Ord, assisted by a body of State
Rangers under Captain Lee Hale, has ren-
dered thieving a more precarious mode of
earning a livelihood than most men are will-
ing to accept. At one time the negroes
resorted to skinning and stealing cattle on
the ranges along the Colorado and Guadalupe
Rivers; but armed squads of white men
would ride through the timber in the river
bdttoms' where the negroes’ cabins are all
located, and, taking the blacks from their
homes, would conduct them into the woods
.a little way, and tying them to a tree, would
.go to work on them with their six-shooters.
jSometimes twenty or thirty would meet
:their doom in this manner in a single {night
,In this cormtry the life of one white man is
considered equal in value to four Mexicans.
or twelve negroes, and punishment for the
crime of murder is rated accordingly. During
the winter the cold northers that sweep over
the prairies kill the cattle by thousands, and
it is a great temptation to skin these dead
animals, although strictly illegal._—their hides
being worth from one to two dollars each.—
and it is scarcely to be wondered. at that the
negro or poor white, seeing fortunes lying
around him, should slip out' of the timber
. after dark and stealthily skin a dozen or so
of the brutcs. Yet if he is caught at it his
life is certain to pay the forfeit. 4
In the spring months the great cattle drive
to Kansas takes place. Formerly,before the
war, Texas cattle were driven to some point.
on thc Mississippi Biver and shipped to
Kentucky, Tennessee; Ohio, and' other
Eastern States; but owing to stringent laws
passed by these States, prohibiting the
importation of Texas cattle because of the
fever they were supposed to bring, and the
turmoil consequent upon the outbreak of the
civil war, the cattle, compelled. to seek a
market elsewhere, were driven across the
Red River and through the Indian Territory
to the stations along the Kansas do Pacific
and Union Pacific Railways. The first drive
to Kansas took place in 1860, when twenty-
five thousand beeves were driven through.
During the war, when the men to a great ex-
tent were in the ranks of the Confedracy,the
drives were small, and the cattle accumula-
ted to an' immense number'on the ranges.
Steers lived to be fifteen years old, grew to
the enormous _ weight of three thousand
pounds, and were as wild as deer. As much
as one hundred pounds of tallow could be
taken from one steer. The wild bulls herded
together \like buffalo on the plains. Those
were the palmy days of the Mexican caquero,
and
In fancy’s mirror, ever near,
he saw himself riding through green plains
covered as far as the eye could reach with
hundreds of thousands of wild cattle. '
These Mexican peons are the boldest and
most fearless riders in the world. It does
not matter whether it is a wild bull or a wild
horse, the caquero will ride anything that is
brought to him. It is a wild and striking
picture they present, as the writer has often
seen them, seated around their camp fires at
night, singing their Spanish love songs, with
the firelight glistening on their swarthy
features and casting into a deeper shadow
the dark outlines of their ponies, which they
never allow to wander far off. ‘
There is a peculiar fascination in this wild
life of the cow-boys which tempts many
young men of culture and refinement, reared
in the enjoyment of every luxury .at the
East, but of adventurous dispositions, to
come and live with these rude spirits on the
frontier. Often for thirty-six hours continu-
ously in the saddle, the hardships of their
life are apparent. Cold black coffee, without
sugar, drunk whenever the opportunity
offers, is the sole luxury of the cow-boy-
With a piecs of bread in one hand and some
jerked beef in the other, he will ride around
a stampeded herd, eating as he goes, and as
happy as a king on his throne. When nigth
comes, provided his cattle are quiet, he will
tie his horse to his leg, and “covered with
his hat,” with a hummock of grass for his
pillow, will sleep peacefully on the broad
prairie and dream perchance of his sweet-
heart far back in “God’s country.” Perhaps
his dreams will be rudely disturbed by the
thunder of 'a thousand hoofs, as his cattle,
becoming frightened at some noise, have
stampeded and the grass fairly pops beneath
their cloven feet. Then it is he does the
tallest riding, and circling around his cows,
brings them back to where they started. If
a wild bull_hecomes obstreperous and unruly,
a rider dashes past him, and seizing his tail
as he goes, gives it a twist around the horn
of his saddle, and in a trice the bull is fairly
slung over head on his back. Two or three
applications of this discipline will generally
reduce the stiffness in the bull’s 'tail to a
minimum and render him as docile as a calf.
An expert cow-boy can rope, throwdown.
and tie up snow in just one minute from
the time he rides up to her. But a man
knows nothing of “punchng the» heifers”
who has not been through on the “trail" to
Kansas. .Going for days together without
eating, never out of the saddle, mounting a
fresh horse as fast as one is broken down,
the limit of endurance is reached. and one
who has-stood the test' and can boast of 'hav-
they would. 5‘9? “'0ka and, putting their ing “busted the Indian -Nation~aquare’ open”
_h__gndmru:the‘lr‘nodmts.h~ug-hmly “0‘1““ attains respect in the cow-boy’s eyes and is
the pen until the stranger went off. The considered to have takenhis degree.
In 1874 the largest drive to Kansas ever
recorded, took place, when half a million
beeves were driven through. The trail was
beaten into a broad path a mile wide and
extending fifteen hundred miles in length.
For miles and miles the string of lowing
herds stretched along, while the keen riders
darted hither and thither, keeping them well
on the trail. At night the voices of the men'
singing to their sleepy cattle could be heard
all along the line, while the long string of
camp-fires throwing their lurid glare against
the black vault overhead, called back to the
minds of many old gray-bearded cow-boys
the stormy times when similar lines of light
glimmered. along the Rappahannock and
pierced the musky gloom of some Virginia
night. Sometimes the music of the violin,
sounding strangely shrill in the calm night
air, would mingle 'with the‘ deep tones of
voices singing “The Maid of Monterey,"
or “Shamus O’Brien,” the cow-boy’siavorite
tunes. . - ,.
In passing through the Indian Nation it is
no uncommon thing for a band of Indians,
all painted and varnished up, to ride down
on a beef-herd, and, singling out the finest
cattle in the bunch, compel the white owners
of the stock to cut them out in a separate
flock, when the Indians will gather around
them and run them off. ' Some years ago a
party of five Indians came riding down on a
herd which was resting on the banks of a
small creek, and demanded of the boss
herdsman ten of the fattest steers he had.
The boss was a bold man, and, looking
on his stalwart cow-boys, swore that no five
Indians should take his beeves from him, and
using‘the polite phraseology of the Plains,
told his red skin visitors to “go to hell."
The baflied five retired into the forest, but
soon returned with an increased force of fifty
men, who charged down on the defiant
herdsman, whom they nearly beat to death
with his own ramrod, stampeded his cattle,
and ran off two hundred of them into the
woods. .
It is a wild, rough set of men that cam
around the herds after they have been driven
through the Nation and are resting on the
grassy plains of Kansas. Clad in the soiled
and dustyjeans of the trail, for weeks in
succession no water has touched their hands
or fades, and, unshaven and unshorn, they
give free rein to Bleir cxhuberant spirits,
taking some quiet Kansas village by storm,
setting the tame local laws at defiance and
the authorities to acknowledge the sovereign-
ty of their native State. The wages earned
by these cow-boys are twenty-five dollars a
month while they are herding on Texan
ranges; but as the toil and hardships -_en-
countered on the trail are so great, they are
paid thirty-five dollars a month during the
drive and each man furnished with eight
ponies to ride. Some of them'return home by
rail, visiting the cities of St. Louis and New
Orleans, and managing to be despoiled of all
their hard-earned money during their brief
sojourn in “God’s country ;" but the greater
number straddle their; wiry little ponies and
ride back through the Nation' to Texas. Not
every one that started out to go up the trail
lives to get back, and the nameless mounds
that dot the sfls of fit broad patbbear mute
but powerful testimony to the danger that
every hour surrounds the cow-boy. Whether
they fall by a shot from some hostile savage
lurking in a ravine near by, or are dropped
by a six-shooter in the hands of a fellow-
herder, they are hastily buried and soon
forgotten. Entirely free from the restraining
power of the law, men give free rein to the
passions, and the six-shooter or Winchester
rifle—the inseparable. companions of the
stock-drivers—is freely resorted to to settle
disputed questions. It is very common for
two bosses having charge of different- herds
to jump doWn from their horses and proceed
to crack away at each other until one has
bitten the dust. When a violent storm,
accompanied by thunder and lightning,
stampedes the cattle, they will probably get
mixed up with two or three other herds, and
much labor and confusion results, and 'a
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l
considerable amount of tall swearing and
separated and each herd gotten to itself.
Every animal, besides the regular brand of
the owner, has his tail bobbed and a “road-
mark” put upon him during the drive, and in
a mixedherd the rider goesin and “cuts out”
all the cattle that hear his brand and runs
them into a separate flock.
When cattle are sleeping it requires very
little to stampede them. A loud breath, the
clank of a chain tied to the leg of a wagon-
mule, or the galloping of a horse, will some-
times cause them to be up and gone in the
twinkling of an eye. They will run over
whatever is in their path, and the only way
to stop them is to get them to “miling,” or
traveling in a. circle, when they will wind
themselves up like a ball and stop. It is
instinctive with them to run when anything
else is running, and away they go at the
slightest noise, with the cow-bay in wild
pursuit after them.
Living on Stinking Creek, in the Indian
Territory, just off the great trail, is an
Irishman named Fitzpatrick, who came to
this country not many years ago, a common
specimen of the bog-trotting Tipperary Pad-
dy. Floating on the tide of emigration west-
ward, he finally went into the Indian Nation,
and, building a cabin in the timber where the
trail crossed Stinking Creek, he proceeded to
gather up the cattle that dropped from the
herds going through or were est in some big
stampede. His business throve, and in time
married a Choctaw wife and went to house-
keeping, and to-day he is owner of many
thousand beeves and is regarded as a rising
stockman. He still collects the stfinpsded
cattle in the creek timber—a striking example
of the strange ways in which men become
rich. More than one big stock-man in Texas
began his career by branding the mavericks,
or wild unbranded and unclaimed heifers
found in the river timber. As an instance
of the manner in which they worked up a
herd, it is related of a successful stock.man
that he started with a solitary steer, which
he turned loose on the prairie, and the first
year branded forty calves !
Killed by the merciless northers, the
cattle lie by the thousand on the Plains;
yet .few of the owners of the, dead beasts
ever skin them, nor will they allow any one
else to do it, and thus millions of dollars’
worth of hides rot annually on the prairies.
Fully six per cent. of the cattle in Texas die
every winter, notwithstanding the mild 'cli-
mate. Where the fires sweep across the
prairies there grows up in the spring a short
green grass. The cattle get on these “burns”
and thousands perish whilejtrying to derive
a scanty subsisten’Ce from the short green
growth.
Cattle are like :bufialo in their habits,
and wander from place to place in search of
fresh pastures. They drift down through
the State from the Red River to the Rio
Grand; and one of Richard King’s great
.sources of revenue is derived from the large
numbers of “drift cattle" and mavericks that
find-their way to his pastures. He pays the
Mexicans who live in the “Sands"—an arid
desert between Corpus Christi and Browns—
ville—twenty-five cents a apiece to put his
mark and brand upon these strays. Close
to the “Sands” is a ranch of the only Mex-
ican stock-raiser of any prominence in the
State, Pablo Parras, who owns forty thousand
hOrses and is an instance of what can be
‘done.even by the much despised Mexican
palouse. He is the largest horse raiser in the
State. ’ . .
The tide of immigration gradually sweeps
the cattle westward, following in the track.
of the buffalo and the wild game. Perhaps
one of these days the broad ranges of Texas,
instead of being dotted with herds of grazing
cattle, will be cut up into farms and plan-
tations, and the chief charm 'of Texas, the
grand immensity of its plains,be gone. The
frontier-line has advanced over one hundred
miles within the last year, and a compara-
tively short space of time must elapse before
it has pushed itself to the ultl'ma Thule, the
Mexican border. Whether it will brush
aside the flimsy barriers of national courtesy
and absorb Mexico, with its mongrel popu-
lation, is amooted question. Stock-men and
Mexicans regard with equal' disfavor the
heavy immigration to the State. Many of
them, as the'strangers begin to multiply and
increase, take their cattle and move
farther west, where in the green valleys along
the Pecos the cows can roam at will and ac-
cumulate tallow undisturbed by the snort of
the locomotive.
It was with a feeling of sincere .regret
that the writer of these ,lines, meeting with
a severe accident, prepared to return to
where his home is nestled in the Alleghanies
after a sojourn of eighteen months with these
wild riders of the plains. Lest the impres-
sion be conveyed that .these are irreligious
and godless men, let the reader fancy a group
of men. belted and spurred, seated in a rude
arbor, listening reverently to a tall cow-boy
who has been selected by unanimous choice
to read the Scripture, and he can form an
idea of the last Sunday I spent with the
cow-boys. With slow and deliberate utter-
ance Phil Clairborne read out the words of
the golden rule; “As ye. would .that men
should do to you, do ye also to them like-
wise," Then he proceeded, “These, my
hearers, were the {words of the Lord Jesus
Christ, who spoke as no man ever spoke;
and Ipledge you my word, gentlemen, the
Bible is a good egg.” Profound attention
greeted the speaker, and continuing he said,
“Whatsoever is earthly. can soon be replaced,
but that which is In yon side of the grave
is eternal. If you lose your property, you
may acquire more; if you lose your iwife,
you may _. marry again; if you lose "your
children, you may,have.more; but if you
lose your immortal soul, then up the spout
you go.” ' Lours C. BRADFORD.
m
A Plea for Plain English.
[London FigaroJ
We are glad to see “G. "A. S.” publishing
a protest against the unnecessary use of
French and other foreign words in ournews-
papers and conversation, though it was
hardly to be expected that a writer ~who so
freely peppers his articles with an olla puma:
of foreign words and phrases would heartily
reprove a practice of which he is an arch 11p.
holder. The protest was written apropos of
the word cloture, which has been generally
ddoptéd without question in all our recent
discussions about Parliamentary prOceedure.
But why, it has been aptly asked, need we
drag this French word into our already. vo—
luminous language, and thus seem' to admit
it contains no word which would express a
similar meaning? As a matter of fact, we
do possess a word, as Mr. Saia points out,
expressing the same sense, viz: “closure,"
which Shakspeare uses several times, and
which surely would answer our purpose quite
as well as clotm-e. What would there be
amiss in a Minister of ,the Crown declaring
urgency and calling for the “closure ?" The
only possible excuse for usmg French, or
German, or Greek, or Chinese, or. American
words is, when no word in our language ex-
presses quite the meaning which the adopted
term conveys. How seldom this is the case
let Charles Dickens’ works show. He wrote
all his novels without, so far as our observa-
tion goes, using a single foreign word or
phrase. And no one can say his vocabulary
was defective.
m .
Who says corporations have no souls i The
Pennyslvania Railroad company is about to
contract for 50,000 plants of various kinds,
to be delivered at the station between Jersey
11 ve flower beds at every st‘ationalong the
rgute. This is a delightful contrlbntionito
the pleasures of travel.
fighting takes place before they can be.
,foot of Main. which ' has
-‘ Geo.
City and Philadelphia. The purpose is 'to‘
NORWALK GAZETTE,
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L. N. PHINNEY, M‘. D.,
Residence andOfil’ce, No. 62 Wall Street.
Cfnce Hours—6 to 9 a. m., 12 to 3 and 7 to 8 Pum-
Slates at I. A, Meeker & Co’s,Norwalk, and Still-
son’s and I’lnlsted’sDrug Stores, So. Norwalk.
CHARLES W. MANY,
Surgeon Dentist.
nonwnnx, CONN.
Ofllcc corner of Main and Wall Streets. Nitrous-
Oxidc Gas administered.
DENTIST.
FRANK T. HYATT would . respectfully
call the attention of the public to the fact
that he is now prepared to execute all orders ap-
pertaining to dentistry. Havrng had 1‘3 {cars prac-
tical experience with the late Dr. Fran Brady is
a guarantee that none-but thc best of work and
erfect satisfactidn wrilbe given. Call nnd see
him at his residence adjormng the Methcdlst Par-
sonage. 2 ti
ALEX. S. GHBSON,
Organist of the‘ First Oo'ngrégationalist Church
Teacher of ‘
Plano-Forte, Organ and Musical
Com, position,
Lock Box 39, P.’O.‘, NORWALK. CONN.
Hurlbutt & Relyea,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law,
Ro‘om No. 4, Up ltnlrs,
GAZETTE BUILDING, NORWALK.
REMOML z
B.S.BLASCER.
Has removed to Lockwood’s Building. Wall Street
,. eemrefitted andfurn-s
ishcd within 0 oicc stock-or .
Grntslies, Crockery, Glass, &c.,
He gives his .ersohal attention to his business
and invites pub lo patronage.
Ward Selleck ,
Has in his New Store,
HAROEIIROOK’S HEW BLOSK, "All. STREET,
A complete assortment of the best class of
OHOOEIIIES, PROVISIONS, FRUITS.
dim, for family use, at Popular Prices. His stock
is at all times fresh and good.and will stand com-
parison with those of any Grocer in town. ,Call
in and leave your orders. 28tf'
w. s. Q_UiNTARD,_
General Fililliiillllii Illiertaiel,
'OPPOSITE HORSE R. R. DEPOT.
flowers attended to day or night. Residence
Main Street, 3 doors from Union Avenue,
The Iio'rwaIk Fire Insurance ‘00.,
Has now completed its
18th Successful Business Year.
And has not outstanding a Dollar of unpaid losses
or of claims for losses.
It! SOOID COMM" IISII RES AT lOWEB BATES.
Wx.C.s'rann:r. Pres., s. E. OLMSTEAD, Tress.
GEO. B. Cownnsfiec’y.
TNA l NSUBANCE Co.ofHARTFOItD.
Incorporated 1812. Charter Perpetual.
Capital and Assets, $0,716,893.17
Insures against loss and damage by Fire, on terms
adopted to the hazard and consistent wrth the
laws of compensation. COWLES It MEltltILL,
Sole Agents for Norwalk and Vicinity.
HABLES S . LOCKWOOD ,
Fashionahlalllapel and Tailor,
cams, FURNISHING LMPORIUM
Main Street ,Norwalk. Conn.
BERNARD COHN,
MERCHAN T TAILOR,
WEEK’S Bl) mnmu, WALL sun,
a FULL LINE or .
Imported and Domestic Cloths,
of the iatest styles, constintly on hand. Novel-
ties in Scotch Suitings. Satisfaction guaranteed
in every particular. to
People’s. Market,
No. 19 MAIN STREET,
THE very b est of BEEF, delivered daily to
our customers. Also, in their season, Veal.
Lamb, Mutton, Pork. ‘50., at the lowest
Market Rates._ Vegetables and Fruits a full
fresh and varlod supply daily received. Market
wagon sent about town every morntn
JAMES n.3v'vrxs0N:
Now for Your Orders!
HAVING sold out all of my old stock and re-
plenished with ncWI am now prepared to
serve the public with the
BEST OF. EVERYTHING
IN THE .
at the most reasonable prices. Single or Double
Teams either by the dtiy or hour, With or without
ll. [AM
drivers. I AW
N
. Opposite D. a; N. R. R. De'pot, Nonlalk,
'"‘ GLEAILIIESS-IS IEXI TO GODLIIESS.
c. A. rrmrvxn’s
SIIEIIIIIILI, all! Hail tiltill- Salon.
. noun
Plea-Inn Shave, ' ..
Artlatlc nah- Cut, n-
'Thorough shampoo
chm. AT . . .
Mr. Franks’s Hair Cutting sloop,
No. l GAZETTE BUILDING. I
ren’s Hair Cutting and Shampooing.
1110MB TO EVERYBODY. -...
Hot and ColdWater Baths
P ENS-i ON 5,.
Pensions and Bounties gotsfor'
Regiments, 82c.
W. H. NOBLE,
Bnlncuoa’r. O'ONN. .
Particular attention given to Ladies and (much
'allSoldlers of my own and other '
NORWALK, CONNECTICULTUESDAY, MAY :31, 1881.;
DRUG-GISTS,
Successors to EDWARD r. WEED,
No. 38 Wallsrre‘ét, Norwallr, cu,
invite the attention of the public to their complete
stock- of
Pure Medicines and Drugs,
anda fulllinc of .
TOILET & FANCY ARTICLE.
Also dealers in
Pure Wines& Liquors for
Medicinal Purposes.
Careful attention paid to the dispensing of phy-
sicians’ prescriptions. ~ . , 28
O. ll. Kendall, 11.0.
DENTIST, .
NOR W ALE, CONN.
' Oflico second
door west from
Danhury R. Ru;
Depot. Dental‘
operations in all
branches as for-
‘ cxtrnctionof
..- teeth by aid of
. .- . LAUGHING
“J 1"” GAS a specialty
N. B.— r. Kendall spends Mondays in Ridge-
field. 42
LA. lilllliiflilt s so.
D
ruggusts,
21 Main St., N orwalk, Conn,
..YOU WILL rmn
Strictly Pure
Drugs and Medicines,
At Reasonable Prices.
Prescriptions carefully compounded.
Charles F. Chew,
PIANO TUNER, 860.
Orders received at I. A. MEEKEB’S DRUG
STORE. 20 Wall Street. 1y3
,NO COMBINATION.
' IMPORTANT TO THE'PIIBIIOI
FRANK '1‘. HYATT,
Practical and Mechanical Dentist,
on... and Residence wssr AVENUE, adjoining
Methodist Parsonage. mm
0. '1‘. Leonard to Sell,
COAL, WOOD,
Masons’ Materials,
'OE:M E N '1' IPIP’E
For Drains, Sewers, Wells, &c.,
At Lowest Cash Prices.
Drains and wells Dug and Piped
Also Sole Agentf or
Patent Tinder Wood,
The Cheapest and Best Kindling out . Try it
G'Branch OMce at H. S. Betts' Drug Store
PURE MILK.
Delivered in N orwalk and South Norwalk, at i
. your door, every morning
AT 6 CENTS PER QUART,
By REM" SON BROS.
THE MODEL
Hair Dressing & Bath Room 9.
Wall Street, Up Stairs.
cleanliness, Comfort, Artistic Workmanship and
gentlemanly Attendance are leading features of
this establishment.
E. APELL, Proprietor.
Siamillit New Telephone CI!
lIS‘I’ OF SOBSORIBERS 0F IORVIALK, ll SPEAK-
- "IO COMMOIIOM’IOI TO DATE.
Adams Bros. .... . . . .. . . . . .Market
Adams & Stevens... .... . . . . . . . .Market
Beard, E ...... .. .... . . .Rcsidence
Beatty, J. P. & Bros. . . . . . . ...... Office
Betta, H. '82.. .... . .. . ....Druggist
. Brush, F. W'., M. D. . . . .....Oflice
Byington, A. II. & Co. . .Gazette Office
Clarke, E. 0., M. D. . .... ....Residence
Comstock Bros.... .... . ..Norwalk
Comstock Bros . . .. . . . . . South Norwalk
Crofut & Knapp . . .. . . . . . .Upper Office
Crofut 6*. Knapp . . .. . . . . .'.Lower Office
D. N? N. R. R . . ...... .. ..Fl‘eight Office
Dann, \l’illiam E. . . . . .. . . ...... Stable
Earle, W; H . . .......... . . . . Residence
Ferris, J. H . . . . .... '. . . .Resideuce
Ferris, J. H .... . . . . Coal, Upper Office
Ferris, J. H .... .... Coal, Lower Officg
Gibson, A. S. . . .. . . .. . . . ....Residence
Gregory Bros ...... . . . . ...... .. .. Stable
Gregory, J. G., M. D.... . .Residence
Gregory, J. G. «St 00. . . . . . .. .Druggists
Hat Forming 00.... .....Ofiice
Higgins, R. L., M. D.... . . . .Resrdence
Hill, E. J.... .... .. .Lum'ber Yard
Hilsdon, W. . Market
Hitchcock, D., M. D. .... ....Resldence
Holmes & Keeler.. .... ‘.... ....Groeers
Hoyt& Olmstead. .... .... .... .. .Ofiice
Hoyt, I. Mortimer . . . . . . .. ....Drugglst
Hungcrford, H., M. D. . . . .Resldencc
Hyatt, J. W.... .... .... ....Office
Keeler, E. 0.... .... .... .. . .Residence
Kendall, J. 0., M. D.....:. . .Residcnce
' Knapp, Burn... .... ............Othee
Leonard, C. T. & Son. . .Coal, East Side
Leonard, 0. T. 6’5 Son. . .Coal, West Side
Lockwood, W. A., M. D. ....Residence
Lounsbury 6r. Bissell 00.. .. .. . . .. Office
Many, 0. W. . .. .... . .. . ....Residence
Mahackemo Hotel... ....... .. . . . Office
Frederick Mead.. .... . . . . . . . .Store
Meeker, I. A. 85 00.... . . . . . .Drugglsts
Miller, George E.. . . . . ... . . ..Residence
Mitchell, W. 65 D. . . . . . . . .Meat Market
Nolan, R. G., M. D. .... .ltesidencc
North, G. S ..... .... .... .... ..Gallery
NorwalkGazette.................Offiee
Norwalk Hour.. ............Oflice
Norwalk IronWorks.............Oflice
NorwalkLoekCo....... ........Ofiieo
NorwalkMills....... ............Olflia
Palmer, E. M. 85 Co. . . . .... .... .Oflice
Pardee, E. V., M. D. .... ....Itcsidence
Phinney, L. N., M. D. 4. . . . . Residence
Plaisted, G. B. . . . . . .... . . . . .Drugglst
Propeller Dock .. .. .... .. .Norwalk
Prowitt. J. 'l‘. .. .... . . . .. . . .Hardware
Handle, J. 0. .... .,... . . . .Store
Raymond dz Nickerson .. .. . . . . . . :Store
Raymond, G. W.... . . . .. . . ..Rcsidence
Upper Office
.Lower Office
-.. Rowan, R. H. ...Ofilce
'Sandiforth, L. W. . . . .... . . . .Resideneo
Sherman, S. J.... . . . . .... . ”Residence
Sherman, S. J.... . . . .. . . .. .Stablo
-Smith & Palmer. ....Ofiice
Smith,‘W. H. 6506.. . . .. . Hardware
Solmans,A.. .. . .. . .. ....Offiee’~
StarBroth'us....... ............Storo
Steamboat Dock. .'. . . . South Norwalk
Stillson, G.~O.§.‘.. . . . ‘. . . .'. ....Drn gist
St. John, C. E. g... .... .... ..Resi once
, Western Union Tolcgraph. . .Norvmlk
Western Union Telegraph, So. Norwalk
Rental.of Telephone. er. quarter. with use of:
line, $6.25; Rental of Te ephonc and Transmitter
with use of linc.89.oo. No charge will be made
‘ . .-‘
so: pattinsia eats.
{h-
" meriy....Eainless . .
REAL ESTATE.
MA/\/~./\/\A/\/\ r\/\.’\. \."\.;‘ H
0 LET.—Four rooms over store of G. a s
11. Holmes.
0. C. BETTS.
001VIS T0 LET.~First and Second Floors
. over LA. Meeker N. Co’s Drug Store. En
quire at 21 Main Street. 11
a». A ,._ A A
10 or 12_ rooms; good street, for$20 per month
Enquire of ' B. J.STUltGES,
ITO LET.—A handsome Dwelling House with
11 {cal Estate Agent.
Apartments to. Let.
Ntllc Brick Houses on Leonard street.
quire at LEONARD’S COAL OFFICE.
To Rent.
THE upper part of a. house on Main Street; 6 or
8 rooms if (lesrrcd, very desrrablc location.
Barn room if‘ desired. Possession can be given
immediately. Encluirc at this oflice. 811"
Store to Rent.
THE capacious and handsome Store lately cc,
copied by Messrs. Earle 6'5 Smitll,on W'all St.-
near the old Norwalk liotcl, it comprises two
floors, 24x95, \vlth requisite counters and shelves,
suitable fo-any first class business. Everything
isin comp to order. Possession given immedi-
atcly. Apply to JACOB WEEKS, or this oilicc.
FOR SALE.
SEVERAL very desirable Building Sites for
Busmcss purposes. srtnutcd on Water Street.
Enquirg 01‘1”. \V. MITCHELL, Real Estate Agent
FOR SA‘LE.‘ ~ I
1WD very desirable Building Lots on W’cst
Main street. Apply at GAZETTE OFFICE .
For Sale Cheap.
VALUABLE FARM for Sale, near the vil-
lage of NcwCannan. Three quarters of a. mile
from Depot. Churches and Stores, known as the
Miss Lucy Weed farm. Enquire of
WILLIAM L. WARING, or of
_ S. Y. ST. JOHN.
New Canaan, April G. 1881.
For Sale.
THE well known pro any of WILLIAM C.
STREET, situated on . igh Street, in the Bor-
ough or N orivalk.contamlng one acre of ground
fronting on lllgh and Main Streets, with commo-
dious Dwelllng House, with all the modern im-
provementsrlargc Barn, and out buildings, and
one-half of smal house on Main Street. ll‘orf'llr
ther particulars cnquirc oi‘ BURR SMITH, Agent.
Norwalk, April 11th, 1881. 15tf
In~
For Sale.
A House and about one acre
of Land on Prospect Hill,
May be had on reasonable terms. App? to _
E. W. S ART.
N orwalk, March 16th, 1881. 12tf
FEW HUNDRED DOLLARS willbuy
. a small place on the hill east of Wmnrpauk
facing the ounsbury Jr. Bissell Factory. A
chance for a poor man to secure ahomc of his
own. Apply at the GAZETTE OFFICE. th‘
House on West Avenue
FOR SALE OR TO REN T.
HE house cn West Avenue now occupied by
Doctor Hitchcock. For particulars cu uire
g E;"' HILL, at his Lumber Yard, ater
ree .
A Splendid Residence
FOR SALE.
THE well known place formerly belonging to
SETH ELY, deceased, situated within three
minutes walk of Poet 0filcc,_ Churches. Schools,
and Railroad Depot. Said splace lsisitnatcd on
Water Streetnear Chapel, and contains about one
half acre of land, fruit of all kinds in abundance.
House contains fourteen rooms, with all conven-
iences, gas, water. and bath. in fact all modern
im rovements. Also large barn, carriage house,
sta lin . coal room, wood house, and henery.
This p ace commands a fine View of Norwnlk
Harbor. and is suitable for any gentleman dorng
business in New York returning the same day,as
it is within one hour and twenty minutes of
Grand Central Depot and two minutes of horse
cars in Norwalk. For further particulars enquire
of .HORACE S ELY,
22 Pine St. N. Y.
0: JAMES MITCHELL, Real Estate Broker.
7mm Norwalk, Conn.
v
Farm for Sale.
HE subscriber offers his Farm for_sale, situa-
ted imthe Town of Greenfield, in Saratoga
Gemini-the state at. New York, .niue‘milcs from
Saratogn Springs. It is plensontl situated on
a rise or ground, 95 acres of land, w ich rs favor-
ably divided lnto pasture. plow, meadow" and
wood laud; With a‘large house; the srze of the
barn 30 by 40. wagon house and stabliug, hay loft
over the same, % by 43, and gramery 16 by 18.
Will he sold cheap; part of the purchase money
can remrin on mortgage if desired, or Will-8x-
change tor village prOperty. For further particu-
lars inquire of S LAS P. TUTTLE,-
tf5l N orwaik. Conn,
Desirable Property for sale.
A Very desirable place on East Avennc.
Also, a few choice Building Lots situated on
Osborn Avenue. for sale cheap.
Also. a nicely located House and Lot on Mer-
wrn Street near West Avenue. for sale at a. bar-
gain._ Enqulrc of -
tfll S. E. OSBORN,East Avenue,
or to D. W, Fitch, W est Avenue.
Small Place for Sale.
SMALL, two-story House. with one acre of
Land, near Brent! R ivcr Bridge, is cfiercd
quire at the GAZETTE OFFICE.
For Sale.
Acosy, comfortable Cottage on one of the pleas-
antest streets in town, Within five minutes
walk of the Bridge or Churches, will be sold at
low price. A portion of the purchase money can
remain on bond and mortgage. Prlce $7,000. En-
quire at this Oflice. .
btf
For Sale or to Rent.
A House on Fair Street.
' Apply at GAZETTE OFFICE. -
DWELLINGQ
~AND
Building Lots.
SEVERAL dwellings. various. prices in difi‘er-
ellt portions of Borough, either to lot or for
Also several places
sale at reasonable prices. . .
eutsidc of Borough limits—one ln Winnipauk.
Also several Building lots in and outpf Borough,
tf-l9 Enquire at thls Ofiice.
HEAD RENT—A house near Broad River.
Bridge.‘ Will be rented at a low price.
Apply at the GAZETTE OFFICE .
O nENT.—A Barn on West Avenue.
ply at the GAZETTE OFFICE.
For Sale.
A Very desirable Alder-hey Bull Calf, 10 days
old; Dam. Flora 3d. an extra butter cow. sire
importer! by Mr. Bllnlham of Saunatuck. Both
' registered. Can be seen at LEDGEWOO D FARM.
.1. MPT’l’hi’i
Ap-
l2
MIN-O STORE
‘To Opera House Block, in
Store with A. W. Austin,
Jeweler.
NEW llIARKET .’
No.6 Main Street, Norwal,Ct.
THE BEST OF ‘
Beef, Veal, Mutton, Lamb, Pork,
llAMS, POULTRY, &c., always on hand at very
lowest market prices. GAME of all kinds in its
season. Try me; I Will my to suit.
6m 15 W. I“. LUCKWOOD, late With Adams Bros.
Free Reading Room.
THIS is a comfortable room fitted up for the
benefit of the public generally. Situated on
east side of South Main Street, ovcr Bond’s J ew-
elry Store, Clark and Lane’s Block. nearly opp9—-
site Railroad Depot, South Norwalk, CL. 1: is
open from 9 :l. m., to 9:45 p. m. The room ls well
lighted, warm and comfortable. It is supplied
with four dailies, two weeklles. and several
monthly papers and Journals, health: a number of
instructive and interesting books.
COFFEE BOOM.
There is aCoftce Room on the same floor and a'
lady in attendance from i) a.‘ m., to 9:45 1,, m., to
serve HOME MADE articles mentioned below,
at the followxng places:
1 Clip of Cofl‘ce._w1th crackes,
1 Cup of'I‘ca, lvlth Crackers,
Cocoa .
Brown Bread and
Sandwich,
Cake, -
Doughnuts, ;
Piece of l’le, .. ..
Crullcrs, '
6 cents
5 u
H
Ola
M
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II
n.
It
Butte-r. - .
mumqmmm
-. VOL. Lilla-NUMBER ‘22:
-
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as Qua. ~35Doses
35 cents. A Mothers’
remedy for sleepless and irritable
Children. The Recipe of Old Dr.
Pitcher, Free from Morphine, and
not Narcotic. Formula published
With each bottle. For Flatulency,
assrmilnting the food, Sour Stomach,
Feverishncss, Worms, and Disor-
dered Bowcls, Castoria. has the’larg-
est sale of any article dispensed by
Druggists.
' A Pemoc‘scd Purifier of the:System. :
'i‘oxlcr—“Increasin L ‘92 ' ' .
Eitgfié’fi‘ffmy’ (1"“q‘i’llglgfllgIILZgIZItg/bj'fltlzllczgogngbg
For Indigestion. and bybk‘rmin
the "many forms of Liver Com:
plaint, Inlpure and Impoverishcd
Blood, and Functional Derange-
finémts attendants-upon! Debility, and
for Building up the weak, Ash-
Tonic is doubtless the most prompt
and certain remedy yet devised. In
1-" lb. bottles, 75 cents; Six bottles,
$4. Accredited Physicians and
Clergylnell. who may desire to test:
the Tonic, will be supplied with-not
exceeding six bottles, at one-half
the retail price, money to accom-
pany the order. Sold by Druggists,
and by D. B. Dewey & Co., 46 Dey
St., N. Y. .
.NTAU
[Lniment
. The most Powerful,
Penetrating and Pain-relieving
remedy ever devised by man. It
soothes Pain, it alleys inflammation,
it heals Wounds, and it cures
RHEUMATISM,
Sciatica, Lumbago, Scalds,‘
Burns, Stiff Joints, Cuts, Swell-
mgs, Frost bites, Quinsey, Salt
Rheum, Itch, Sprains, Gulls, and .
Lameness from any cause. Suf-
ferers from
PAIN IN THE BACK,
Fever Sores, Eruptions, Broken
Breasts, contracted Cords, Neu-
ralgia, Palsy or dislocated limbs;
and owners of horses, planters, me-
chanic5, merchants and professional
men everywhere, unite in saying, that
CENTAUR LINIMTEN'I‘
brings rélief when all other Lini-
ments, Oils, Extracts and Embroca-v
ticns have failed.
Stir—lists.
Dr. FITCE’S
Family and Bullion!
For Boys.
In; Sprln Term will commence Apr-ll
4th, 1 88 . Pupils received at any age
over six. Young Ladies are also admitted to the
Day Department. both in the Primary and Ad-
vanced Course. Sessions arranged to accommo-
date pupils wishing to commute on the cars.
Penmanship and Bookkeeping, n specialty,
taught by teachers of large experience. Free
Hand Drawrng and Painting also taught. Young
Ladies and Gentlemen fitted for College.
Reference: any former patron. Call or send for
circular. Applications may be made to
-DR. J. C. FITCH, Principal,
Norwalk, Conn.
NORWALK LATIN SCHOOL
Bolder: Ave, near West Ave.
ALEXANDER JOHNSTON, A, LL, Principal.
MISS R. M. NORTHROP, LOUIS J. SEYMOUR
’ Assistants.
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prepare boys for Colicgc,Scientifle School,oansi-
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and Higher Mathematics, $7.59 each extra.
The Girls’ Department meets in the room lately
occupied by Miss Carter. at 8:45 A. M. Terms $40
without extras. A limited number of girls-may
board With the Principal. Special terms Will be
made for young children, either as day pupils or
as boarders.
Both Departments are under the Principal’s per-
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Fourth Quarter opens April 11th, 1881.
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THRENODY.
BY J. o. HOLLAND.
Ob, s .veet are the scents and flowers of spring
And brave are the summer flowers;
And chill are the autumn winds that bring '
Tile winter’s lingering hours.
And the world goes round and round,
And the sun sinks into the sea;
And whether I‘m on or under the ground
The world cares little for rue. ’
The hawk sails over the sunny hill,
The brook trolls on in the shade;
But the friends I have lost lie cold and still
Where their stricken forms were laid.
And the world goes round and round,
And the sun-slides into the sea;
And whether I’m on or under the ground,
The world cares little for me.
0 life, why art thou so bright and boon!
O breath, why art thou so sweet!
0 friends, how can ye forget so soon
The loved ones who lie at your feet!
But the world goes roundand round
And the sun drops into the sea;
“"hzvl‘l'egil‘c‘r Era—oiigcr under the ground,
A for me.
‘Thcriwaysiof'men are busy and bright -,
The eye of woman is kind: .
It is sweet for the eyes to behold the light,
But the dead and the dying are bliild.
And the world goes round and round,
And the sun falls into the sea:
And whether I’m on or under the ground,
The world cares little for me.
But if life awake and will never cease
On the future’s distant shore,
And the rose of love and the lily of peace
Shall bloom there forevermore.
Let the world go round and round,
_ And the sun sink into the sea!
For whether I’m on or under the ground,
Oh, what will it matter to me?
—8cfibner’sfor May.
Dr. Henry Barnard’s Life Work.
AN APPEAL T0 AID HIM IN COMPLETING ms
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EDUCATION.
Elizabeth P. Peabody in The Boston Herald.
Should Dr. Henry Bernard’s life and corre-
spondence ever see the light, the letter Hor-
ace Mann wrote to him when he left Massa-
chuisetts to assume the presidency of Antioch
In that letter he speaks of all he felt he owed
to Dr. Barnard’s counsel and sympathy from
the beginning and throughout his own career.
He even expresses the wish that he had, in
IEITIIBIIIIIII III'I'II'II
every instance, taken his advice, declaring
that everything he regretted having said
would have been avoided had he done so.
Beside all the educational work Dr. Barnard
has done in the last forty years, of which an
amazing account is given in; the Connecticut
School Journal of 1855, covering ninety pages
he has been publishing for the last thirty-
seven years hisEncyclopedia of Education,
giving coma own paraphrases of the ideas
and systems of all the great philosophers of
education, but their own statements of them
in their own words, together with the biogra-
phies of all the distinguished educators and
minute descriptions of all educational insti-
tutions in Europe and America, in their
methods or working. He put it into the
form of a quarterly journal, because he
thought that enough teachers would sub-
scribe to meet the expense of printing it.
In this expectation he has been disappointed,
"for he has no claptrap;and'theconte'nts were
of too solid a character to serveas a manual
for merely empirical teaches. Therefore he
has gone on publishing volume after volume
at his own private expense of more than
$1,000 a year, and finds him within sight of
his goal, with no more resource of means.
But he does not know how to ask the aid of
others, norhas he authorizedany one to do
so. And I must not be understood as beg-
ging for him, though I have taken leave to
tell my contemporaries that they may have
the privilege of honoring themselves by en-
abling Dr. Barnard to complete his plan, as
he first contemplated it—that is, to put,
post paid, into some 300 school and college
libraries, scattered allover the land, sets of
these forty volumes, of more than 800 octavo
pages each, containing the whole eirricnlum
of a- professional school of education of the
highest character. Thirty thousand dollars
put into his hands at case would enable him
to do this; and will not some one of our
munificent public benefactors advance it?
Dr. William T. Harris, of St. Louis, has
lately said: “No one thing would so effect-
' ually universalize sound national education
asto put 1,000 copies of this encycloptedia .
journal at as many different points of the
United States.” That would cost $100,000;
but Dr. Barnard meant to put 300 sets only
at ,_so many points accessible to teachers.
And, if one man cannot advancfithe $30,000,
200 men, each advancing $150, could do it,
and should any subscriber prefer to designate
some particular school,college, town or State
library, Dr. Barnard could send a set, post-
paid, in the name of that subscriber to the
place deaignated,_ whether North, South,
East or West. “ "‘ * .
Dr. Barnard inherited a modest fortune of
less than $50,000. But $40,000 of this for-
tune he has sunk in publishing this journal.
This encyclopedic journal will be completed
by three volumes more, making forty vol-
umes in the whole. But it cannot be com—
pleted and distributed without the amount of
200 subscriptions of $150, and what is any
man’s giving $150 in comparison with wha
Dr. Barnard has done gratuitously? One
word more. Professorships. of education
have, within the past few years, been estab—
lished at the Universities of Edinburgh, and
Cambridge iu'Erlgland, marking the advanced
estimate of the profession of education, and
it is noteworthy that Bernard’s Journal of
Education has been recognized as a thesaurus
upon the subject, unparalleled in human lit-
erature. This was said, in so many words
lat‘ely, in the inaugural address of the Pro-
fessor of Education of Cambridge, Eng., and
more copies of the whole set have been
ordered from England since this dictum than
were ever called for in America. _ ‘
Henry Barnard, L. L. D., of Hartford, of
the class of 1830 at Yale. formerly Chancellor
of the University of Wisconsin,and President
of another college, is a son of whom Con—-
necticut may well be proud.
‘
The days of romance are not past. A
Cuban planter visiting New York saw a
charming woman on a Brooklyn ferry-boat,
and fell in lovewilh her. He traced her to
her home and learned that shewas a widow
most respectably connected. He was 'called
to Cuba, and wrote her a letter full of affec-
tion and giving references. Her friends in-
quired and found that he was a desirable
match. She replied to the letter. He re-
sponded. She wrote and he wrote until
there was an offer of marriage and an ac-
etptance, and the wedding day was fixed
She prepared bur bridal robe and he returned
to N.-w You h. They met at the house of one
of her friends, she wondering how he look-
e.i, Ill.- anticipating a second vision of beauty.
‘She saw a handsome man, he looked and
screamed, “You are the wrong’womanl"
And shalt was. They hurl neglected to ex-
change'photOgl-aplls. She remains a widow
and he haunts the Brooklyn ferry-boats for
another vision. ‘
“.0- .m—
fcfore Garfield attained his majority, and
w en he was keeping school, one of the “big
boys” thought he was a bigger man than old
Garfield" and tried it on. u about five min-
- .uics'he was arsorer, lamer, and more sensible
boy. No marsh—Nero Fork Mail.
. unzfiiih
college, in Ohio, should be given to the world. ‘
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Norwalk Chronicler