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nv nus. M. F. BUTTS.
The sun behind low-lying clouds
Revealed a streak of splendor,
While, all above, the heavens shone
With radienoc sweet and tender.
And in the dazzling line of light
That through the cloud was trailing,
What seemed a. far.celcstial ship
Was slowly, proudly sailing.
’Twas but some coarse and common craft
Doing its common duty,
Yet in the wondrous light it looked
A thing of matchlcss beauty.
And so a saint on life’s rough sea,
Fulfilling life's strange story,
May seem to far-off angel eyes,
' Sailing,—a mist of glory.
Fromytlw Argosy.
What Callie of It.
The three girls were going to spend a month
at the seaside—Lydia, Rosa and Julia Taller-
el. Their aunt, Miss Hamlet, after keeping
them in suspense for weeks—now up in the
skiss of hope, now down in the dust of des-
pair—at length made up her mind, and an-
nounced her decision—to go. “But I’m sure,”
she added, “I 510113, hmw—w‘aub-w’dl—oomnfi,
Charlotte Hamlet had thought fate rather
cruel when, three years ago now, she heard
of the death of her widowed sister, Mary
Taiterel, and that the three daughters she
left in the world had no protector, unless she
herself became one. The girls had 300
a year conjointly—that is, one hundred
pounds each, and could have kept a home
over their heads by living together ; but they
were young for that, and Miss Hamlet sus-
pected, somewhat giddy. She was well off
herself, and had a roomy, pleasant house.
It was not on that score she shrank from the
prospect; but she was rather an invalid, ner-
vous, and loving above all things a quiet life.
However, there appeared no help for it, and
she wrote for her nieces to come. “We
must all have crosses,” murmured poor Miss
Hamlet, “and I suppose this will become one
for me; but I have been pretty free from
them hitherto, and must not repino.” ,.
The girls arrived at Staghrook, Miss Ha _
let’s village home. The eldest of ”‘ was
twenty-three, .thg/Jfiafigest twenty-one.
They turned out to be pleasant, sociable and
chatty; full of life and spirits, eager for any
gaiety that might fall in their way, and very
anxious, each of the three to pick up a bus-
band.
"Small blame to them either,” freely spoke
up Mrs. O'Malley, an intimate friend of Miss
Hamlet‘s. “What do girls expect but to
marry ? and sure the young men are growing
scarce.” g
Nearly three years had elapsed since they
came to Miss'Hamlet, and there had been no
change, when she bethought herself of tak-
ing them to the seaside, and bade them pre-
pare themselves. .
To get away anywhere was something; but
the place she had fixed upon, Brightwater,
was new and untried, not a dozen houses as
yet in it. Agrand hotel was just built, the
size of which might, perhaps,~»make up for
the scarcity of other accommodation. It
was called the Royal Victoria, and it £00k
its guests by the week, somewhat as a board-
ing house does, or after the fashion of Scar-
' borough. Miss Hamlet had written to the
Royal Victoria to make arrangements, Mrs.
O’Malley, who had just, returned from a
fortnight’s sojourn there,i.aviug praised it
warmly. ' -
“It is exactly what I like." said Miss Ham-
let to her nieces, as they sat at tea. “I have
never tried the life myself. and I fear it will
prove to be too familiar; but we can leave
the hotel at the end of the first week for
lodgings if we choose." ‘ ‘
“Oh, Aunt Charlotte,” exclaimed Rosa,
“It will seem like Paradise after this dread-
ful Stagbrook.” ‘
“Dreadful Stagbrook l” repeated Miss
Hamlet, gazing in amazement through her
spectacles. “What do you mean by that,
Rosa ?”
Rosa dropped her high tone. “Well,
aunt, Stagbrook is dull; you must know
that.” _
“I have never found it so, young lady, and
I have lived in it all my life.”
“Yes, aunt,I suppose that makes the dif-
ference. We did not think Chichester dull.”
“I wish the holiday to be pleasant to you
all," resumed Miss Hamlet stlfily; “and I
shall take Dorothy Krone.”
“Dorothy Krane l” screamed all the thrce
girls in chorus. “Dolly llrane!"
“Yes, why not?” said Miss Hamlet. “She
will be a pleasant companion for you.”
“Why, Aunt Charlotte, Dolly won’t have
a decent thing to appear-in,” exclaimed Ly-
dis.
“She‘ll do very well. ‘People are not ex-
pected to be fine at the seaside. Fancy
dressing up at a hotel."
Lydia kicked Julia under the table, and
Julia kicked Rosa. The young ladies were
taking every smart this; they possessed,
with enough ribbons ani fal-lals to fill a
trunk.
“Nearly all Dolly's droeses are cotton 1”
“If they are they sredlicate and pretty,”
said Miss Hamlet. "Mot sugar, do say, J u-
- lia? She has her gray Elk for best; new
that it’s turned it looks afgood as new. And
Dorothy tells me—-—” .
“Have you been to ti: parsonage, Aunt
Dorothy ?"
“Yes; walked over Jis morning when
you three were out shoping. Three hours
you were gone. I wasghck long before you
came in. One would think you wanted
something at every shop: Stagbrook."
“All the prints Dollyiezot have been wash-
ed ever so many times,.r.nt." .
“I dare say they hare. They’ll be just the
things for the seaside. I‘hen she has that
pretty figured muslin ‘53.“ was new last year,
and for best she has hop him. Not that, as
I believe, she will refill-e to wear it. Do-
rothy asked me whetherhc had better take
it or nor.”
“The white has been washed too,” cried
Lydia. "I wonder ligand Mrs. Kranc can
sparegher. How will; lo children get on
without Dolly, Aunt harlotte ?—and the
parish ?——and the schdpl?”
“As well as they'j in,” answered Miss
Hamlet. “All work it no play is not good
for anybody—least goolof all fbr the young.
Dollv needs a changedsro than you do, and
the tears stood in Mréi I-ane's eyes when be
thanked me for . thinki; of her. Another
cup of tea, Lydia ?” . ‘
The church and 'onage stood half a
mile from Stagbrook The Reverend Abel
Krane was the incu-lnt; a hard-working,
conscientious man "\t a flock of children,
and-a small income t peep them on. Dolly
was the eldest, and s md to teach and take
care of the others, :o speak of the run-
ning about in the p ,h, which she partly
did for her mother, '1’ was as hard-worked
as the reétor. Mrs. “-ane, formerly Doro-
thy Hamlet. was 11 ,lousin to Miss Char-
lotte Hamlet "and t0 '7,’ Taflorel.
Brightwa‘tek W33 1 red; and the Royal
Victoria proved to, - an imposing white
mansion, WM- PH ' and balconies and
green blinds. Miss ‘l inlet found it very
comfortable, 4d " it better she had
thought for.
A slight acciént If
after her arrivq '
weed to her the day
.epping from a car-
lthc young people to
fact. It was noth-
1;.in a few days test.
So Miss Hamlet re ed on one of the sofas
near the window in he ladies’ drawing room
by day, feasting her eyes on the beautiful,
over-moving sea, an . conversing placidly with
another invalid lady,§who had come to Bright-
water to recover st rength after an illness,
and did not seem to e able to do it quickly.
For the lgirls this vdas just delightful. Not ,
of course, that thtiy could rejoice over a
twisted ankle, but lit was pleasant to go about
without the supe .‘vision of Aunt Charlotte.
The hotel was not halffull, butit was en-
joying itself. ere was a little carpet-
dancing, a littlc flirting, and short moon-
light promenagfles in the hotel garden and on
the beach. i
One draw 'ack the Miss Taficrels did find ,
not a soul 0 the male sex, then at the hotel,
could be prv nounccd quite eligible. Three or
four very oung men, who were with their
mothers jhd sisters, and three or four mid-
it
.11.”.ng ones, who looked grave, and no
doubt he Ll wives at home, comprised the list.
But widthrce sisters got a great deal of ad-
miratkon; they were tall, stylish and showy,
witl 'rather Spanish-looking faces, sparkling
darl eyes, and blue-black hair. Their man-
nor in society were perfect ; their repartees
d ‘ ightful. “Three charming girls 1” declar-
ed young Mr. Ponder a dozen times a day,
or as often as he could get away from his tu-
to r. "Never saw such beauties!" _ /
—— Dolly-Kmuu-wus-HUWMside them;
clipsed as a pale star by the brilliant moon.
he was pretty in her way, but of style she
1 none. She only about came up to Miss
ydia’s shoulder; a slender girl, retiring in
anncr, shrinking from strangers, rather than
c ulting them. Not but that her face was a‘
v. ry pleasant one; fair, gentle, with earnest
lue eyes, ever smiling, and chiselled fea-
ures; her fine, silky hair had afgold tinge on
t. Dolly was kept down by her imperious
cousins—imperious to her—and remained in
{her place accordingly. She was accustOmed
‘to think of them as rich and fortunate young
ladies, quite above herself. A .sweet nature,
a sunny temper, utterly unselfish, and ever
ready to help all the world. Such was Do!—
ly Krane.
Three or four days after the ankle was
injured. Miss Hamlet was able to use it again
without much trouble. and she went in that
evening, upon Lydia’s arm, to join the dinner
in‘tibcpublic room. _;
“Dolly,” criédt'ue young lady in a‘tol‘lebf
command. “you had better change your place
for thisone. next to Aunt Charlotte. And
then you'will be at hand, you know, to help
her to anything’she may want.”
Now, by a skillful arrangement of the
mistress of the ceremonies, the elder people
were placed together at the head of the 1:24
is, and the younger ones at the foot; she
had been young herself twenty years ago
and knew what was what. And perhaps a
sort of disappointment crossed Dolly’s heart
at being called away from the lively com-
pany of her own age, to sit with the sober
elders. The feeling passed in a moment.
Dolly had only lived to serve others, not to
indulge herself, and she sat down by Miss
Hamlet with a loving smile and cheerful
brow. ,
“Letit.bo your place‘for good, Dolly,”
said Lydia,” as she moved away to her own.
“New I dare say, my dear, you would
rather have stayed down there,” said Miss
Hamlet.
“Indeed I am glad to be with you, Aunt
Charlotte,” replied Dolly—for she had al-
ways called Miss Hamlet“ aunt.” “ Please
let me stay.” .
But by that wonderful law of compensa-
tion said to exist in this world, while Dolly
was taking her soup, there glided quietly
into the vacantgeat’beside her a tall, hand-
some distinguishb'l-lioking man, whose face
Dolly liked at the‘fimt glance; took a fancy
to, in fact. Itifhs a very attractive face, its
features pale and ”regular, eyes, hair, and
whiskers of a dark brown, and a slight
brown moustache. .- u
Dolly passed hifil messiah. He thanked
her, and that broke the ice. He began to
talk to her, talked with her throughout din-
ner, and spoke a little across Dolly to Miss
Hamlet. His English was very good indeed
-a slightly foreign accent being distinguish-
able at times ; now and then he hesitated for
a word. Once he used a wrong word, and
Dolly laughed.
“ What is it, mademoiselle?” he asked,
laughing also. “ What is it I ought to have
said ? ”
Dolly told him. Though a retiring,modest
girl, of innate refinement, she had none of
the foolish shy ness that some young girls
have when conversing with strange gentle-
men, and that some effect. to have. And—
she did not know how it was—but she felt
as much at home with him as though she had
known him for ten years. He could not be
mistaken for anything but a gentleman, and
he was certainly a very attractive one.
The Miss Tafferols, looking on from the
other end of the table, turned green with
envy. Miss Lydia wished she had taken the
seat by her aunt instead of giving it to Dolly.
“I wonder who he is?" thought she. “I
suppose he came in by the five o‘clock train.”
And when the company left the dining~room
Lydia ran to get a sly peep at the visitors’
book.
“ The Baron de Fierreville." _.
“ A baron! A real, live baron laFrench, of
course! ;’ Lydia Tafferel made a rush to her
sisters, her cheeks glowing with excitement.
There would be somebody worth dressing
for now.
And from that evening the three young
girls dressed in all theirbest. Feathers and
fiouncos wonderful to behold, silks and rib-
bons and laces; and, though some people
might have deemed them a little overdressed,
they looked very well. \ '
The Baron do Fierrcville did not appear
in the drawing-rooms that first evening; but
the young ladies made his acquaintance the
following morning. lawns a very hot day;
they and Dolly were sitting on the beach
under an awning, when he came strolling
along with young Mr. Ponder. ,
“ Oh, there are those charming girls!”
cried the young man. “Do let us go and
join them! ”
“ You must present me, then,” said the
baron.
Accordingly young Mr. Ponder presented
him—“ The Baron de Fiorrcvillo.” The
three young ladies made each an elaborate
courtesy : Dolly blushed and smiled. ‘
But fate was not kind to young Mr. Pen-
der. It came in the shape of his envious
tutor to call him away. A grim tutor, who
would not always be put down. , So the
young gentleman was borne off, and the
baron was left alone with the ladies. He sat
down by Rosa, and they began to talk to him
—all three of them, their questions tumbling
out one upon another. There was no room
for Dolly to put in a word, even had she
wished to.
“ How do you like Bridgewater, baron P”
“ Do you not find the bathing excellent? ”
“ Why did you not come in to join the lit-
tle dance last evening? "
“ Do you like English girls ? ”
“ How long do you think of staying ? ”
“ I suppose you don’t know all the people
here yet? Those Miss Fitzroys are very nice.
They had on blue net at dinner yesterday;
perhaps you noticed them. Their father is
Sir John Fitzroy, a half-pay colonel or
admiral, or something; that old gentle-
man with a long white board and a bald
head.”
“ How very well you can speak English,
baron! Did you come to England to learn
‘it. ”
“ Are you a good sailor? I am a dreadful
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NORWALK, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, JANUARY, 3, 1882.
“ Do you like cruising about in a yacht?”
“ Were you ever at Brighton ? ”
“ In what part of France do you live? ”
These and a hundred other queries the
young ladies poured out. Dolly felt uncom-
fortable and blushed frequently. She could
not have put such questions for the world;
did not know how her cousins liked to do it.
The baron laughed and answered freely—as
freely as the torrent'of words permitted.
He had landed yesterday from a friend’s
yacht; had come over in her from Dieppe;
his’friend, Captain Close, after landing him,
had put off again, was going further up the
coast; he did not see, as yet, much to like in
Bridgewator, but believed he did like Eng-
lish girls ; had noticed the young ladies in
blue and thought them pretty; had sat out-
side in the moonlight last night smoking a
cigar and talking with the young follow’s
tutor, who had just left them; found him a
most intellectual man; and so stayed there
instead of going in to dance; his home was
in Normandy, but for the past year he had
been much away, travelling.
The girls listened eagerly to this, the sub-
stance of his answers. Lydia would have
much liked to ask him how old he was, and
whether he was a poor man or a rich one;
but that would have been going a little to far
oven for her.
learned to speak English so correctly. You
have scarcely. any accent at all. Did you
learn it in England ? " ‘
“No.1 learned it at home; my mother
was English," he answored. “ She brought
an English maid with her when she first
came to our country, and when I was born
the maid became my nurse. She is with us
still—poor old Hannah! "
“At home. with your mother, do you
mean ? ”
"Ah, no,” he replied, a sadness creeping
into his tone. “ My mother is dead; nobody
is ‘in the old place now—save the servants.
When I am at home now I am alone.
The young ladies noticed that he was in
slight mourning, and concluded that he wore
it for his mother. The conversation was be-
coming eminently satisfactory, for was not
this ad explicit avowal that the baron was a
bachelor? Lydia’s lips had been twitching to
ask whether he was or not, but it was per-
haps too home a question and might have
been misconstrued; and now it was answer-
ed without asking! How lucky! When men
get to he thirty years of age—and he looked
to be as much as that—one could never be at
any certainty. _ _
“ Your father, I gather, is also dead, then,
baron?" she began again.
“ He died many years ago. ”
The baron got up and stepped aWay; per-
haps he was tired of being asked questions;
took a small telescope from his pocket, and
stood looking at the sea. Presently he put
it up again, turned back to the bench, and
sat down at the other end; which brought
him next to Dolly. She was knitting on a
sock and he began talking to her about it.
“For a little brother or iister, perhaps,
mademoiselle ? l” .
“ Yes.” said Dolly, her blue eyes brighten-
ing with the success of the guess as she
raised them to his. “ I knit all the socks for
two or three of the little ones. It is cheaper
than buying and they last longer.”
“You have two or three brothers, then—
or sisters are they ? ”
“I have ever so many," laughed Dolly
“ Four brothers and four sisters; we are nine
in all.” _
“Are you the eldest of them?”
“ Yes, the very oldest. The four boys
come after me, and then the little girls.
Momma often says she is thankful that I
came before the boys.”
“ But why ? ”
“ Oh, because I can help her; I can do so
much for them all. A boy could not have
done anything”.
“So you are a very industrious young
lady! ”
“ I have to be,” said Dolly simply. “And
oh, you don’t know—you can’t guess—how
delightful it is to have a holiday,‘_and to be
at the seaside. I never saw the sea before;
and now I wish I could always see it.
Dolly spoke out in her enthusiasm. Her
eyes were bent on her knitting; she was
thinking of home. The baron’s eyes were
heat on her; and the other girls saw it.
“ You had better go in now, Dolly,”
said Miss Lydia. " Aunt Charlotte may be
wanting you.” And Dolly took up her ball
of wool, and went slowly off, knitting as she
went. .
“ She is not your sister, is she, that young
lady? " asked the baron.
“Oh, dear, no! ” they all screamed at
once, wondering at the little discernment of
men, even of real French barons. They
displayed an elaborate toilette in all the fash-
ion of the day; Dolly had nothing on but a
pink gingham, already washed to paleness.
Their head-gear was bristling with feathers
and steel bugles and ,cockatoe tufts; Dolly’s
straw but had a bit of ribbon twisted round
it. “ Our sister! My dear baron! how
could you! She is only Dorothy Krane, a
very distant cousin."
“ Dorothy Krone,” repeated the baron.
“ Krane ? ”
" Yes. rather an odd name is it not ?—
spolt with a K. We call her Dolly."
When Miss Hamlet heard that the newly
arrived guest was a French baron she .felt
doubtful. “I think,” she observed to her
nieces, “ that you had better not cultivate
any acquaintance with him. He was very
pleasant and affable , last night at the dinner
table; but it is well to hold foreigners at a
distance.”
“Good gracious, aunt!" exclaimed the
young ladies.
ing to him out there all the morning! ”
For this conversation occurred on this
same day when they came in at luncheon
time.
“Especially foreign nobleman,” went on
Miss Hamlet. “ barons and counts, and such
like. It happens sometimes that the titles
are only put on, and that that those who
assume them are but adventurers. I have
heard tell of such things.”
“Now, aunt Charlotte! can you suppose
such a thing of this one? His very looks, his
manners might tell you he is a perfect gen-
tleman."
“ Some years, ago, Lydia, a foreigner came
to Stagbrook, and took the best rooms in the
place. I forgot his name; in fact, none of
us ever quite got at its true pronunciation;
it sounded like Crassaco, and that is what
we called it—the Count do Crassaco. He
seemed to be a gentleman, also perfect, as
you phrase it, with black moustachios that
curled upwards ,and a lisp. He stayed three
months in the place, the young villain mak-
ing love to all the girls, and winning their
brothers’ money at pool, and cards, and bi!-
liards; and he ran away at last without pay-
ing for his rooms, or 'for any of the provi-
sions that had been furnished by the trades-
pooplo. Now that’s true, girls; and I have
suspected titled foreigners own since.”
The girls laughed. “ Did he make love to
you, Aunt Charlotte ? "
‘ “No, Iwas too old for.him, I expect,”
said Aunt Charlotte good-humoredly. “ I
was between thirty and forty then; It must
be fifteen years ago. But that is all true, I
say. I would have you bear it in mind, and
not allow this Baron de Feverel to drift into
any intimacy with you.”
“ De Fierreville, aunt; not Foverel."
“ It comes to the same. For the matter of
that, it may not be his name at all. Just
without any introduction—any friend to an-
swer for him pr countenance him.”
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.manmpt‘mm—nsrmronrnow you" '
“ Why, we have been talk.
recollect one thing, my doors, that he is here»
“ He landed from Captain Closc’s yacht,he
told us," remarked Rosa.
“ Just so,” said the elder lady; “ but Cap-
tain Close—if there is such a person—did not
stay to confirm this, or his yacht either. He
may have landed from the excursion steamer;
one touched here yesterday afternoon, you
know; and not from the yacht at all. What
are you looking so serious about, Dolly? "
“ I was only thinking, aunt Charlotte, that
he is what he seems—what he says,” replied
Dolly. “ He has a truthful face and voice;
I don’t think he could be deceitful. And I
was also trying to recollect where I have
heard the name—De Ficrrcvillo. When
young Mr. Ponder mentioned it this morning
it struck me as being somehow not quite
strange to me.”
“Anyway,I desire that you will all be
upon your guard,” concluded Aunt Char-
lotto.
To which advice the Misses Talfcrels took
care not to listen. “Dolly‘s right in that.
You can’t doubt him,”.they said to one an-
other. “ If a prince came down here, aunt,
in her old-fashioned notions,would tell us not
to dance with him.”
. [To be continued]
15$:
“How Do You Cock This Revolv-
, ....--Mor '2"
‘ Elmira Free Press.
Mrs. Deacon Grover, who was the widow
of the late Mr. McConnell of the town of
Horsehcads, is a lady approaching 60 years
of age, a kind-hearted and charitable but
spirited woman. One day last week she was
visiting her son Augustus McConnell in
Horsehcads who keeps a bachelor sort of a
farm in the town. By. bachelor, we mean
not a lonesome place, nor an ill-kept one,
but one in which the absence of women is a
noticeable feature. During her visit Mrs.
Grover was sitting at a table sowing, a
something that is necessary even in a
bachelor establishment. She was alone in
the house. A person appeared who answer-
ed well tbe description of tramp. ,He said
he was hungry and, the lady’s sympathies
being aroused, she drew her gold-rimmed
spectacles from her eyes and, laying them
on the table, went down into the cool collar
for some bread and meat for the visitor.
when she returned, she noticed that her
spectacles were gone from the table. With
the toothsome provender on a plate still in
her hand she said: “You've got my gold
specs." The tramp denied the charge. She
reiterated it and the stranger reiterated his
denial. She quietly laid the plate on the
table,wcnt to a bureau,and taking a revolver
therefrom—her son keeping a weapon of this
kind, it is said, in every room in the house,
and she knew it—shc pointed it at the tramp
and told him if he didn’t lay those specs on
the table, she would shoot him where he
stood. The tramp took the specs from his
pocket and mildly laid them on the table.
“Now," she said, “eat what I have brought
for you and get out.” He ate and departed.
Whenher son Augustus appeared,the spirited
old lady again took the revolver from the
bureau and said to him :3 “Augustus, how do
you cock this weapon ?"
A correspondent of the Hartford Times,
noticing the claim that a marriage in smock
or chemise, up in Vermont, was the only
one in American history, says: “I know
that there has been at least one marriage of
the kind in our own state, for I remember
whiling away one rainy day in looking over
the old parish records of St. James’s church
in New London, one of the oldest parishes
in this state, and there reading the record of
a marriage between parties whose name I
have forgotten, b\ut I remember the record
read, “Married in her smock ;” and the rev-
erend rector. Dr. Hallam, explained that it
was supposed to prevent the husband’s re-
sponsibility for the debts of the wife."
“Got any good corned beef i" exclaimed a
citizen as he walked intoa Mystic valley
store. “Yes, oh yes," answered the pro-
prietor, rising to wait on his customer, "we
always keep the first-class article." "Well,
I’ll take four or five pounds then if it is
good,” said the other. Meat hook in hand
the merchant walked to the barrel and com—
menced to search for the right piece. Sev-
eral pieces were inspected, when fiuallya
longish lump was brought up. “How’s
that?" asked the man of the store. “I guess
that will do," replied the customer, “but
hold a minute,” said he, and adjusting his
spectacles and looking closer, he exclaimed.
“do you call that beef? It’s a big wharf
rat that's got into your barrel and drowned
in the brine.” ' Investigation settled the fact
and the curtain fell for explanations and re-
pairs.
When Artemas Ward first lectured in Lon
don his jokes fell flat, and, seeing how it
was, he concluded his discourse to the effect
that the audience on going out would be
handed tickets to Constantinople and return.
“In that city,” went on Artemus, “ I pro-
pose to repeat my lecture this daytwo weeks.
To each ticket is attached a coupon that will
admit the bearer to the hall. I desire your
attendance that I may shed light upon such
of my remarks as have evidently given you
pain, which I thank you for having borne
in silence.” “ What does the man mean i"
asked John Bull. “ Go to Constantinople to
hear him drawl through this mass of stuff
again! We don’t do it.” When they reached
the door, and no one was there with the
tickets, it slowly dawned upon them that
Ward was laughing at them.
In a certain county of one of the central
Western States, ten years ago, only twelve
Sunday-schools could be counted, including
those in towns. Five years ago the number
had increased to fifteen. Since the date a
missionary of the American Sunday-School
Union has been laboring there, and at the
last S. S. convention of the county 145
schools were reported. Of this increased
number the missionary organized 115 in
person and prepared the way'for several
others. This great increase is not to be as-
cribed mainly to immigration, for where this
Union missionary began his work there were
some settlements twenty years old, in which
no religious service had ever been held, and
persons as old who had never heard a ser-
mon, listened to a prayer, nor read the '
Bible. In this field denominational agencies
had no-abiding opportunity to demonstrate
their “efficiency as Sunday-school pioneers.”
If they can “do the work an well as the
Union missionary," why was it not done ?-—~
Church Union.
Two missionaries of the American Sunday
School Union recently made an exploring
and working tour from Minnesota through
Dakota on the Northern Pacific Railroad up
to its present end at Glendive on the Yellow.
stone River, everywhere seeing wonderful
changes and great need for missionary work
and for Sunday schools. One of them writes
(and others confirm his testimony) _ that
Glendive is one of the worst of wrckcd
places. There are 600 people there. Out of
36 places of business on the main street, 28
are drinking saloons, dance-houses and gam-
bling hells. Of the 14 graves found, 11'weie
said to be filled with those who haddicd
violentIdeaths. The railroad managers kindly
offered the missionaries their depot for their
meetings, and they succeeded in organizing
a Sunday-school there, and in holding a
temperance meeting, at which 36 of the 36
present signed the pledge. Afterward one
of them overheard the following conversa-
tion: “I was in Glendive on Sunday, and
there was a religious meeting on yne side of
the street and a dance on the other.” "Yes,"
said the ohter, “heaven on one side, hell on
the other.”
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The latest use devised for paper is itsman-
ufacture into blankets. It is claimed that
they are soft and pliable, and for warmth
excel blankets made of any other malerial.
The use to which paper can bezput are truly
wonderful. Out of it almost anything can be
made, from a lace handkerchief to a human
habitation. The most expensive-onus are
sometimes made from it. They are cut libel: |
oust-Oil City Dramatic, ‘.'
.A’i
Death of the Old Wife.
Detroit Free Press.
She had lain all day in a stupor; breathing
with heavily-labored breath, but as the sun
sank to rest in thelfar off western sky, and
the red glow on the wall of the room faded
into dense shadows, she awoke and called
foebly to her aged partner who was sitting
motionless by the bedside; be bent over his
dying wife and took her wan, wrinkled hand
in his.
“Is it night ?” she asked in tremulous
tones, looking at him with eyes that saw not.
“Yes,” he answered softly. “It is growing
dark.”
“Where are the children?” she queried;
“are they all in?"
Poor old man! how could he answer her?
-—thc children who had slept for long years
in the old churchyard—Who had outlived
childhood and borne the heat and burden cf
the day, and growing old, had laid down the
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“The children are safe.” answered the old 2 i: Six months: . - . - 1'; 33
man, tremulously; “don't think of them Two “ ”93°31“ with paper. ' ‘ " 25 00
Janet, think of yourself; does the way seem ,Three u u .. u 30 00
dark ?”
“My trust is in thee; let me never be con-
founded. Whnt does it matter if the way is
dirk ?
“I’d rather walk wita‘God in the dark,
than walk alone in the light.
“I‘d rather walk with Him by faith than
walk alone by sight.
“John, where’s little Charlie?” she asked.
Her mind was again in the past. The grave
dust of twenty years had lain on Charlie’s
golden hair, but the mother had never for-
gotten him! The old man had patted her
cold hands, hands that labored- so hard that
they were seamed and wrinkled and calloused
with years of toll, and the wedding ring was
worn to a mere thread of gold—and then be
pressed his thin lips to them, and cried.
She had encouraged and strengthened him in
every trial of life. Why, what a woman
she had been! What a worker! What a
leader in Israel! Always with the gift of
prayer or service. They had stood at many
a death-bed together—closed the eyes of
loved ones, and then sat down with the Bible
between them to. read the promises. Now
she was about to cross the dark, dark river
alone.
And it was strange and sad to the old
man, and the yellow-haired granddaughter
left them, to hear her babble of walks in the
woods, of gathering May flowers and stroll-
ing with John, of petty household cares that
she had always put doWn with a strong,
resolute hand; of wedding feasts and death-
bed triumphs ; and when at midnight she
heard the bride-groom's voice. and the old
man bending bver her cried pitifully, and
the young granddaughter kissed her pale
brow, there was a solemn joy in her voice as
she spoke the name of her children one by
one, as if she saw them with immortal eyes,
and with one glad smile put onimmortality,
They led the old'man sobbing away,and when
he saw her again the glad morning sun was
shining, the air was jubilant withvtho song
of birds, and she lay asleep on the couch
under the north window where he had seen
her so often lie down to rest while waiting
for the Sabbath bell. And she wore the same
best black silk, and the string of gold beads
about her thin-neck, and the folds of white
tulle. Only now the brooch with his minia-
ture was wanting, and in its place was a
white rose and spray of cedar—she had lov-
ed _cedar—she had loved to sing over hcr
work: .
“Oh, may I in his courts be seen,
Like a young cedar fresh and green.”
But what strange transformation was there!
The wrinkles were gone, The traces of age,
and pain, and weariness were all smoothed
out; the face had :grown strangely young,
and a placid smile was laid on the pale lips.
The old man was awed by this likeness to the
bride of his youth. He kissed the unrespon-
sive lips and said softly :
“You’ve found heaven first, Janet, but
you’ll come for me soon! It’s our first part-
ing in more than seventy years, but it won’t
be for long—it won't be for long 1”
And it was not. The winter snows have
not fallen, and there is another grave, and to-
day would have been their diamond wed-
ding ! We had planned much for it, and I
wonder—I wonder—but no i Where they
are there is neither marriage nor giving in
marriage.
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The Rumors ofPllot Boating.
In an illustrated account of a cruise in a
New York pilot-boat, undertaken on a com-
mission from Scribner’s Monthly, and pub-
lished in the Century for December, Mr. S.
G. W. Bentamin says :—
We kept on to the east, decidin g to go as
far as St. George’s Bank after steamers.
These vessels are the great prizes in the pi-
lot lottery, because their draft averages more
than that of sailing ships. To secure an in
bound steamer also insures piloting her out
again. Ocean steamers are therefore very
desirable game, and great risks are encount-
ered in order to intercept them. The oppo-
site extreme are Norwegian barks, for they
are small, and generally come to this coun-
try in ballast. “To gel: 9. Norwegian bark"
is therefore considered a good joke on the
poor fellow whose luck it is to board one.
Steamers which are exclusively freight boats
and are irregular in their sailing days and
slow in their movements, are called
"tramps,” and are also not held in high
esteem by the pilots, The cruises to the
eastward are sometimes,although rarely pro-
tracted to twenty or thirty days. But the
average luck is good.
The following“ evening, when we ware
well eastward of Nantucket Lightship, a
steamer was reported heading directly for us.
Immediately the cards wereyflung aside, and
in a moment every soul was on deck. .The
pilot whose turn it was to board the next
vessel after a hurried survey of the steamer,
exclaimed :
“Boys, good-bye.
yourselves.” , ‘
He then dashed below, and in all haste pu
on a “boiled" sliirt and a Sunday-ge-tc-rncet-
ing suit, and packed his valisc.
It should be remembered that those steam-
ers are rather more “swell" than sailing ships,
and seem to demand a corresponding differ-
ence in apparel. In the meantime, the torch
was blazing on deck in the liveliest manner.
The needle like points of light representing
the steamer gradually approached, and at
last the huge, vague form of the vessel
herself could be defined. But she already
had a pilot, and paid no attention to us.
The game in the cabin was resumed at once,
and the “boiled" shirt wasoncc more folded
up and laid away carefully in the locker.
The precariousness of steamer catching is
well illustrated by this matter of dressing to
board them. One of our pilots told us that
he had actually shaved and dressed six times
in one trip, for a steamer before he had
succeeded in boarding one. There is a tra-
dition of a pilot who dressed seventeen
times before success crowned his persever-
ancc.
Finish the game for
The only opening the New York and New
England road can see beyond Brewster is at
Whaloy’s pond. It looks as if that opening
is unlimited. Sqilcs 150 feet in length have
gone down out of sight, and the bed is daily
spliced out with railroad ties.
is ,at the rate of from three to W
day. When it will end is not kn ..o. The
company has a large force ce’nstantly en-
gagcd in the filling. “(lame every day to
come to the end. U
Quarter of a column, one time . . .. ....
“ “ one year........ 5000
One-half column, one time ..... ... . . . 10300
“ “ oneyear........... 8000
Full column, one time... . .... .... .. . 20 00
“ “ one year................15000
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Spoclal Notices 25 per cent. advance on the
above.
Local Notice. in Reading Columns, 25
Cents per line. _
Yearly advertisers restricted to the business
contemplated at the time of contract,but are
permitted to make monthly changes of their ad-
vertisements.
Marriages and Deaths inserted gratuitously.
Obituary or Funeral Notices 15 cents per line.
All unusual cuts and devices 25 per cent. extra
J. G. GREGORY & CO.
DRUGGIST'S,
Successors to EDWARD P. WEED,
No. 38 Wall Street, Norwalk, ca,
invite the attention of the public to theircompleto
stock of
Pure Medicines and Drugs,
and a full line of
TOILET & FANCY ARTICLE.
Also dealers in
Pure Wines& Liquors for
Medicinal Purposes.
Careful attention paid to the dispensing of phy.
siciuns’ prescriptions. 23
REAL ESTATE.
.1"/\/\J V‘./\_V.'\/\f\_/. AM.’\ “xx/x
flip/Aliartments to Let.
N the Brick Houses on Leonard street.
quire at LEON ARD’S COAL OFFICE.
To Let.
OUR. rooms suitable for offices on the 2nd floor
of Gazette Building at a very low figure.
For full particulars enquire of
BENJ. J. STURGES, Agt.
- No. 4 Gazette Building.
Norwalk, Ct., Sept. 5, 1198!. 36
For Sale. ”I
'1‘ South Norwalk, half a mile from the depot,
the late residence 0! A. ll.Suowdcn, known
as “Clifi'wood.” Large Villa House, substantial—
]: built, in good order, clcven rooms, collar and
attic, largc_purlor with bay windows beautiful
tower, carriage house, barn and stable. attractive
rounds, finely shaded wrth fruit and forest trees.
"crms to suit. Apply to A.C.S.\'OW])EN, on
the promises, or to REV. 1:. ll. SNOWDLN, S!
St. Mark’s Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. 34“:
In-
tl. ll. Kendall, M. l)
DEN TIEBT,
NORWALK, CONN.
_‘ Office second
door west from
'Dimbury R. B.
Depot. Dental
operations in all
branches as for-
;merly. Painless
. extractionof
teeth by aid of
LAUGHING
. GAS a specialty
, ....
N. B.—Dr. Kendall spends Mondays in Ridge-
field. Prices for artificial teeth reduced. 42
DEN TIS'I'RY
FRANK T. HYAT’I‘,
NOT belonging to any combination, can and
will make Artificial Teeth cheaper than
any other Dentist in Norwalk and warrant them
to be of the very best material. 1 have also pro-
cured the services of J. C. NEWKIRK, and am
now prepared to do filling at the Lowest Cash
Price. Extraclfug250. Nochargo for-extract-
ing if artificial tcetharc to be inserted. Chloe
and Residence adjoining Methodist Parsonage,
Norwalkl Open evenings. 25
'- . “‘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,
assimilating the food, Sour Stomach,
Feverishness, Worms, and Disor-
dercd Bowels, Castoria. has the larg‘
est sale of any article dispensed by
Druggists.
Wei De Meyer
WEI DE ““33 CATARRH
Cure, a Constitutional Antidote for
this terrible malady, by Absorption.
SPURTS of disgusting Mucous,
‘Snuflles, Crackliug Pains in the
Head, Fofld Breath, Deafness, and
any Catawba! Complaint, can be
extenninuted by We! Do Meyer’s
Catmh Cure. The most important
Discovery since Vaccination. Other
remedies may relieve Catarrh, this
cures at any stage before Consump-
tion sets in.
One package generally suflioos.
Delivered by Druggists, or by D. B.
Dewey & 00., 182 Fulton St., N. Y.,
81.00 complete. Troutisound ro-,
murkable statements by the cured
mailed boo.
The most Powerful,
Penetrating and Pain-relieving
remedy ever devised. by man. It
soothes Pain, it alloys inflammation,
it heals Wounds, and it cures
RHEUMATISM,
Sciatica, Lumbago, Scalds,
Burns, Stiff Joints, Cuts, Swell-
ings, Frost bites, Quinsey, Salt
Rheum, Itch, Sprains, Gulls, and
aneness from any cause. Suf-
ferers from
PAIN IN THE BACK,
Fever Sores, Eruptions, Broken
Breasts, contracted Cords, N eu-
ralgia, Palsy or dislocated limbs;
and owners of horses, planters, me-
chanics, merchants and professional
men everywhere, unite in saying, that
CENTAUR LINIMENT
brings relief when all other Lini-
ments, Oils, Extracts and Embroca—
tions have failed.
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A. H. BALDWIN,.M. n.
Homutnalhc Phllciai 8: Silliflflll
Ofilcc corner ofMain and Wall Streets, over H.
S. Betts’ Drug Store. ‘
Office Hours from 8 to 9:30 a. m.,l to 3 and
7 to 8 p. m.
Slates at IIunford & Osborn‘s, East Norwalk,
and at D. Beers, Jr,South Norwalk. Calls by
Telephone at Betts’ Drug Stbre promptly attend-
ed to. 1y‘23
L. N. PHINNEY, M. D.,
Residence and Office, No. 6-2. Wall Street.
Office Hours—6 to 9 a. m., 1-2 to 3 and 7 to 8 mm.
Slates at I. A, Meeker & Co’s,.\'orwalk, and Still-
son’s and Plaisted’s Drug Stores, So. Norwalk.
CHA‘RLES W. DIANY,
Surgeon Dentist.
NORWALK. CONN.
E.
Office corner of Main and Waustreots.
Oxide Gas administered.
Nitrous-
ALEX. S. GIBSON,
Organist of the First Congregationalist Church
Teacher of
Plano-Forte. Organ and Musical
Composition, '
Lock Box 39. P. 0., NOR\VALK. CON N.
”The Norwalk Dye Works
ARE now in successful operation. Ladies’ and
Gents’ Garments Dyed, Cleaned or Sconrod
in best possible manner, Withoutoniury to cloth.
Any shade of color produced which may be de-
sired. Work well done and _ rices reasonable.
Goods can be left at the Mr linery and Fancy
Store of the MISSES ST. JOHN. 33 Main St., N01-
walk. or at MR3. II. KREIGER’S Millinery. lifhf
BERNARD COHN.
MERCHANT TAILOR,
WEEK’S Bl) sLnING, WALL s'r.,
A FULL LINE OF
Imported and Domestic Cloths
of the latest styles, constantly on hand. Novel-
ties in Scotch Suitings. Satislaction guaranteed
in every particular. it;
w. :3. columns;
General Filllllllllllll Undertaker,
OPPOSITE HORSE R. R. DEPOT.
”Orders attended to day or night. Residence
Main Street, 3 doors from Union Avenue,
People’s Market,
No. 19 MAIN STREET,
THE very best of BEEF, delivered daily to
. our customers. Also, in their season, Veal.
Lamb. Mutton, Pork, &c.,at the lowest
Market Ratosg Vegeta bios and Fruits a full
fresh and varied supply daily received. Market
wagon sent abouLPfi n every morning.
-” JAMES E. WIXSON.
The sinking ,/ (’3; 1301an Hill'lbutt,
Attorney all Cniisellnl at Liil,
5m)l-til'this is reached t‘i
.,, I . ’53..
sweats-«Eat ' ,
I
4r“.
DENTISTRY
A Triple Combination of Experi-
ence. Artistic Taste and Skill.
With the above combination, DR. 0. I].
KENDALL offers from June 7th, 1881. Artifi-
cial Teeth of superior quality at so low a. price.
that all desiring them will do well to call on him
before purchasing elsewhere. He can and will
make Artificial Teeth cheaper than any man in
Norwalk.
Farm for Sale.
HE subscriber will sell the we] known David
St. John Farm with all the Stock, Tools and
Growing Crops. Most of the price can remain on
mortgage. For full particulars address
22tf GEO. F. BELDL‘N, Winnipauk, Conn.
FOR SALE.
EVERAL very desirable Building Sites for
Business purposes, Situated on \Vutcr Street.
Enquire 01' 11‘. W. MITCHELL,Real Estate Agent
FOR SALE.
W0 very desirable Building Lots on West
Main street. Apply at GAZETTE OFFICE.
For gale.
THE well known property of WILLIAM C.
STREET, situated on ligh Street. in the Bar-
ough of Norwalk.containiug one acre of ground
fronting on High and Main Streets, with commo-
dious Dwelling House, with all the modern 1m-
provcmcnts, large Barn, aniloutbuildings, and
one-half of small house on Main Street. For fur
thcrparliculurs enquire of BUltlt SMITH, Agent.
Nor\valk,Aprillith,lSSl, - 15tf
For Sale.
A House and about one acre
of Land on Prospect Hill,
May be had on reasonable torm‘s. Apply to
L. W. STUART.
Norwalk, March 16th, 1381. lfltf
FEW IIUNDRED DOLLARS willbuy
‘ . a small place on the hill east of Winnipauk
lacing the ounsbury & Bisscll Factory. A
chance for a poor man to secure ahome of his
own. Apply at the GAZETTE OFFICE. th
GOODELL & PAIGE,
COUNSELORS AT LAW,
Sword’s Building, SOUTH NORWALK, CONN,
EDWIN B. GoonELL, (3m) ALLAN W. PAIGE.
Notice.
OR.,HITOHOOOK HAS' REMOVED
To the corner of West Avonue.nnd Berkeley
u“ Iglace, third house below the Methodist
‘i re . '
p Office Hours from 7 to 9 a, m., 2 to 3, and 7 to 8
. m.
irritating Agent and Messenger,
THE subscribers will act as Purchasing Agents
and Messengers between Norwalk and N cw
York, daily. Orders and packages received at
Theodore Knapp’s, South Norwalk, and Bone-
d‘ict’s News Room, Post Oflice, N orwalk.
EDWIN K. SELLECK, with James McCrecry 8’.
00., takes 6 o’clock train.
D. R. SELLECK, takes 7:45 a. m. train.
its llorwalk fire Insurance 00.,
Has now completed its
18th Successful Business Year.
Andhas not outstanding a Dollarof unpaidlosses
or of claims for losses.
IO Sllllll OOMPAIY IISIIRESAT IOWER BA'IES.
Wu. 0.S'rannr, Pres., S. E. Onnsrnxn, Tress.
(31:10.8. CownnsSeo’y.
TNA 1 Nsunamcn embrnaurrronn.
Incorp oratcd 1812. Charter Perpetual.
Capital and Assets, $6,716,893.77
Insures against loss and damage byFire, on terms
adopted to the hazard and consistent with the
laws of compensation. COWLES it MERRILL,
Sole Agents for Norwalk and vicinity.
HABLES S. LOCKWOOD ,
Fashionable lran’er and Tailor
GENTS’ FURNISHING EMPORIUM
MainStrcet,Norwalk. Conn.
PURE MILK.
Delivered in Norwalk and South Norwalk, at
your door, every morning
AT 7 CENTS PER QUART,
By RED! SON BROS.
Geo. Ward Selleck ,
Has in his New Storc,|
HARDEIBROOK'S HEW BLOOK, WALL, STREET,
A complete assortmentof the best class of
OHOOERIES, PROVISIONS, FRUITS.
Scnfor 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
THE MODEL
Hair Dl'essing&Bath Rooms
Wall Street, Up Stairs.
cleanliness, Comfort, Artistic VVorkmanship and
gontlcmanly Attendance are leading features of
this establishment.
E. APELL, Proprietor.
Sinful!!! fought Telephone Co
“81' OF SUISORIIEBS OE NORWALI, ll SPEAK-
ING OOMMUIIOATIOI TO DATE. ‘
- Residence
Eurlc, W. H. ~-~ -
Resulcncc
Fe rris. J'. H. - - -
Ferris, J. n. - Coal, Upper Uilicc
Ferris, J. H, - - 0031, Lower Ofiicc
Ferry, Mrs. 0. S. — Residence
Fitch, Henry R - - Lumber Yard
Gibson, A. s. - - - Residence
Gregory Bros. - - - Stable
Gregory, J. G., M. D. - Residence
Gregory, J.G. & Co. > - Draggists
Hatch. Bailey 8:. Co. - Planing Mill
Hut Forming Oo. - - _Oll1co
Higgins, R. L., M. D. - 10511101100
llill, E. J. - - Lumber Yard
Hitchcock. D.. . . D. - Residence
Holmes k. liecler, - ~ - Grocers
Hoyt, l. M. Par Or‘srcn - Druggist
Hyatt.J. W. - - - — ‘OiLcc
Hyatt“). W. - - Residence
chlcr, E. O. - - - Residence
.chtlall,J. G., M, D. - — Residence
Leonard, C. T. A". Son. - Coal,Enst sidc
Leonard, (LT. it Son. - Coal, \\ est side
Lockwood, W. A., M.D - Residence
Lockwood, l-‘. Ht. John - Residence
Louusbury it l1isscll Co. - (mice _
_3 Mahackemo Hotel. - - .Olllce
Many, U. W. - - Rostdcucc
Meeker, I. A. & Co. - Druggists
mtliller, George E. - - Resulcncc
_..;Mitchcll, W. a D. . Meat Market
...... Nolan, 1:. G., M. D. - - Residence
I, North. G. S. - - - Gallery
Norwulk Gazette 0 ~ - Ofilce
afiN orwulk Hour - - ~ Ollice
,g Norwalk Iron Works - - Ofllcc
Norwalk Lock Co. - - Office
N'orwalk Mills - - - Ollice
l‘orwulk Savings Society - - Bunk
l’ulmcr, L‘. M. at Go. . - - Ollico
Residence
Purdee. E. V.. M' D. -
Residence
Phinney,L.N., M. D. -
l’lnistcu, G. B. - - Druggist
Post Ollicc, PAY OFFICE, - Noroton
l’ropcllcr Dock - - Norwalk
l’rowitt, J. 'l‘. - Hardware
tundlo, J. 0.. PA \' OFFICE, - Store
Raymond .i‘t Nickerson -- ‘ - Store
Raymond, G. W . - - Residence
Upper Ollicc
LowerOfiico
Residence
Raymond Brothers -
Raymond Brothers -
Sandilorth, L. W. - -
Sherman, S. J. - - Residence
Sherman, S. J. - - - Stable
Smith, W. 1!. A". Go. - Hardware
Solmans, A. - - - Onice
Starr, O. S. - - - Residence
Starr, Brothers - : Store
Steamboat Dock - South Norwalk
Stillson. G. C. - - Druggist
St.John, C. E. - - Residence
Trowbridgc, Chas. S. — - Ollicc
Western Union Telegraph - Norwulk
Western Union Telegraph.South Norwnlk
Wilson, S. B. - - Residence
Wood, Chas. N. - - Market
WESTPORT.
Joncs,Oscar I.,r.u' our-‘10s - TinShop
Set of instruments, per year.
Two or more sets, per year, each, _ .
Payable quarterly IN ADVANCE. . .
Messages to and from Pay Offices, W1“ ho
Mmcnnts each, no mrtter by whom they
. A...“
$36
$30
- on c‘ and I. ”"' Execution, store of _J.
be made 15 Subscrilififyb wt ore no charge will
ué‘é‘ir ._ ,.
k
AdamsJiros. - - . - Market
Adams Express,so. Norwalk - Office
Adams, Leroy - - - Market .
Bank, Fail-field Co. Nut - Ofiicc
Beard, is . - - Residence
Bcatty. J. F. & Bros. - fiiee
Bctts, II. S. - - - Drugeist
Brush, F. V., M. D. - - Ollicc
Bylngton. A. H. .\'r Co. - Gazette Ollicc
Clarke. E. C., M. D. - - Residence
Couistock Bros. - -- Norwalk
Comstock Bros. — South Norwalk
Crot‘ut ht Knapp, - ~ Upper Ofiicc
Crolut A". Knapp, : Lower Ollicc
D. .S: N. It. It. - - Freight Ollicc
D. s. N.R. R. - - Coal Dock‘
Dunn, Horace E. '- - - Stable
Donovan Jerry - - - Store
Farm for Sale.
HE subscriber offers his Farm for sale, situa-
ted in the Town of Greenfield, in Saratoga.
00., in the state of New York, nine miles from
Sarntoga Springs. It is pleasontly situated on
a rise of ground, 95 acres of land, which is favor-
ably diyidcd into pasture. plow, meadow and
woodland; With a. large house; the size of the
barn 30 by 40, wagon house and stabling, hay loft
over the same, 23 by 43, and grainery 16 by 18.
Will be sold cheap; part of the purchase money
can romrinon mortgage if desired, or will ox-
changetorvillagc property. Forfurtberparticu—
lars inquire of SI LAS P. TUTTLE,
£151 Norwalk. Conn,
Desirable Property for sale.
Very desirable place on East Avenue.
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, Enquire of
S. E. OSBORN.East Avenue,
tfll or to D. W, Fitch, W est Avenue.
Small Place for Sale.”
A SMALL, two-story House, with one acre of
Land, near BroadRiver Bridgc,is offered
for sale at a low price, to close an estate. En.
quire at the GAZETTE OFFICE. 6t;
For Sale. '
Acosy, comfortable Cottage on one of tbepleas-
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. Price 57,000. En-
quire nt this Ofiicc.
For Sale Cheap.
Better than his interest Bands.
A House on Fair Street.
Apply to B. J. Sturgcs.
DWELLING—g
AND
Building Lots.
SEVERAL dwellings,vnrions prices in differ-
ent portions of Borough, either to lot or for
sale at reasonable prices. Also several places.
outside or Borough limits—one in Winnipauk,
Also several Building lots in and onto!“ Borough
tit!) Enquire at this Office.
HAS REMOVED HIS
MOSESSTOSE
To Opera. House Block, in
Store with A. W. Austin,
J eweler.
NEW MARKET I
No. 6 Main Street, N orwal, Ct.
THE anr or
Beef, Veal, Mutton, Lamb, Pork,
HAMS, POULTRY, &c., always on hand at very
lowest market prices. GAME of all kinds in its
season. Try me; I will try to suit.
6ml5 W. F. LOCKWOOD, late with Adams Bros.
”fill—K'E’R’Sgfil trgi TON l:
Ginger, Buchu, Man-
drake, Stillingizi, and
many of the best medi-v
clues known are _co.. -
bined in Parker's Gipger
Tonic, into a medium:
' - of such varied powers, :5
to make it the greatest
Blood Purifier and the
Bestlicaltii&Strcngth
Restorer Ever Used.
' It cures Rheumatism,
Sleepiessncss, 8: discacss
of the Stomach, Bowols,
Lungs, Liver 8: Kidneys,
Balsam ‘ gels cntliély diffelrfntfrom
ittcrs, ingcr ‘ . ssenccs
iroghiacogifiiicaililhis‘bé'gg and qlhcn :1 01116.35 it
ing. Never fails to restore the ucvcrrntoxxcatts. Inscox
youthful color to gray Intr- Co., Chemists, N. Y.
' 50c. and 81 sizes. Largo Saving Buying Dollar Size.
TEE
Surpasses any other Heating Appa-
ratus because it is ,
Economical in Fuel,
Regulated without
going- to the Cellar.
{Arranged to heat every
Hair
room without regard to .
direction of the wind.
Free from Gas, Dust or Ashes.
Manufactured by
E. S. MORRIS & 80-, Oanllury, Oi-
Send for circular to C. C.SllOl{T,Gcneral A gent,
Danbury, Conn. _
References—Baptist Church, Nor-walk; Jas. H.
Knapp, if. H. Rowan, A. Dickerman A". Son,South
Norwalk.
0. ’1‘. Leonard it Sell,
COAL, WCCB,
Masons’ Mate/mid ls,
CEMENT ‘PIPE
For Drains, Sewers, \‘r cl ls, 820.,
At Lowest Cash Prices.
Drains and Wells Dug and Piped
Also Sole Agentfor
Patent Tiader Wood ,
The Cheapest and Best Kindlin g out . Try it
fl' Branch Office at H. Betts’ Drug Store
VOL. Lira—unusual.
r
At the Door of. the New Year.
The corridors of Time
Arc full of doors—the portals. of closed
years;
We enter them no more, though bitter tears
Beat hard against them, and we hear the
chime
Of lost dreams, dirge-like, in behind them
ring
At Memory‘s opening.
But one door stands aim-—
The New Year’s; while a golden chain of
days
Holds it half shut. The eager foot delays
That presses to its threshold’s mighty bar;
And fears that shrink, and hopes that shout
aloud
Around it wait and crowd.
It shuts back the unknown,
And dare, we truly welcome one more year,
Who down the past a mocking laughter hear
From idle aims like wandering breezes blown?
We whose large aspirations dimmed and
shrank
Till the year’s scroll was blank?
We pause beside the door.
Thy year, 0 God, how shall we enter in?
flow shall we thence Thy hidden treasures
win ? .
Shall we .eturn in beggary, as before,
When thou art near at hand, with infinite
wealth,
Wisdom, and heavenly health?
The footsteps of a Child
Sound close beside us. Listen! He will
speak,
Yet has He trod the world’s press undefiled.
"Come with Me! ” hear Him through His
smiling say, '
“ Behold, I am the Way 1 ”
Against the door His face
Shines as the sun. His touch is a command;
The years unfold before His baby hand!
The beauty of His presence fills all space,
“Enter through Me,” He saith, “ nor wan-
der more; »
For 10! I am the door.”
And all doors openeth He,
The now-born Christ, the Lord of the New
Year,
The threshold of our locked hearts standeth-
near ; .
And while He gives us back lovc’s rusted
key,
Our future on us with His eyes has smiled,
Even as a little child.
Knowing and Trusting.
——
BY A. A. PROCTER.
I think if thou couldst know,
0 soul that will complain
What lies concealed below
Our burden and our pain,
How just our anguish brings
Nearer those longed-for things
We seek for now in vain,—
I lhink thou wouldst rrjoice, and not con:-
plain.
I tbiuk if thou couldst see,
With thy dim mortal sight,
How meanings, dark to thee,
Are shadows hiding light;
Truth’s efforts crossed and vexed, 1;;
Life’s purpose all perplexed,—
If thou couldst see them right,
I think that they would seem all clear, and
wise, and bright. '
And yet thou canst not know, ,
And y at thou canst not see;
Wisdom and sight are slow
In poor;humanity.
If thou couldst trust, poor soul!
In Him who rules the whole,
Thou wouldst find peace and rest.
Wisdom and sight are well, but trust is best.
“ What is Life, Father ?”
‘A battle, my child,
Where the strongest lance may fail,
Where the wariest may be beguiled,
And the sioutest heart may quai'.
Where the foes are gathered on every hand,
And rest not day nor night,
And the feeble little ones must stand
In the thickest of the fight.
‘What is death. father ?"
The rest, my child
When the strife and toil are o’er ;
The angel of God,—who, calm and mild,
Says we need fight no more;
Who, driving away the demon band,
Bids the din of the battle cease,—
Takes the banner and spear from our tremg
bling hand,
And proclaims an eternal peaco.’
Let me die, father 1 .I tremble and fear
To yield in that terrible strife!
‘The crown must be won for heaven, '
In the battle-field of life;
My child. though thy foes are strong and
He loveth the weak and small;
The angels of heaven are on thy side,
And God is over all.’ ”
HOPE BEYOND.
Still will we trust, though earth serms dark
and dreary, '
And the heart faint beneath His chastening
’ rod :—
Though rough and steep our pathway, ,worn
and weary,
Still will we trust in God!
Our eyes see dimly till by faith anointed,
And our blind choosing brings us grief and
pain ;
Through him alone who_hath our way ap-
pointed
We find our peace again.
Choose for us, God! nor let our weak prefer-
ring
Cheat our poor souls of good thou hast de-
signed;
Choose for us, God! thy wisdom is unerring
And we an: fools and blind.
So from our sky the Night shall furl her
shadows,
And Day pour glatlutss through his golden
gates;
Our rough path lead to flower-enameled mead-
ows,
Where joy our coming waits.
Let us press on in pat‘cnt self denial,
Accept the hardship, shrink not from the
loss;
Our crown beyond the cross.
m
A Chicago naturalist stated in his lecture
that a black bear could hug seven times as
hard as a man, and the next timeamenagerie
vistod that town every girl in the crowd
made eyes and waved her handkerchief at
the black bear, and paid him so much at'ten-
:i-m the! hi- got confused and blushed—Bos-
tan. Post.
—-—-——.-'r—.—-—- .
"You lllllst have been leaning up against
the barristers, Angey, dear,” affectionately
rem-alkyd the fair girl‘s grandmother as sln:
brought her spectacles to a correct focus and
tOHk another look at- thc st llDS on the waist
-—-———.—c.o—-.——-——— .
I‘orrnn Lonsrsus._—Chop the lobsters very:
fine with the coral and fat; put it over a ho
pll'pcr, one teaspoonful salt, one nutmeg;
stir this well and let stand for a half-hour,
then add a cupful of sherry wine. This will
keep for a month.
His birthday bells have hardly rung a week .
Our guordon lies beyond the power of trial, '
of Augey’s duss. -“Tl.: u. ain’t no banisler
stains," relurmd i'::- truthful maiden, who?
ran a little limp? llllll: .l.l<;~: in the parish
church. “Charley \“lS fuelling me caramels
hut night and I cite... illun’s lheprints of his
' fingers.”—~Broo{;lyn Eagle. ,
fire and mix with it a tablospoonful bnttcfyj,
the same of boiled vinegar, a teaspoonful red ~ . _
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Norwalk Chronicler