WHOLE NUMBER. 1810.
The Leaf in the Book.
TRANSLATED BY 0. “-
An ancient lady is my aunt,
A little old book has she,
A faded leaf in the old beck lies,
Withertd as leaf can be.
The hands are withered that plucked it once
’ For her, on a day in spring;
What ails her now, the poor old soul,
That she weeps when she sees the thing?
Temple Bar. Aaasrasins GltUN
Yorkshire Love Legend.
Belgravia.
Some three hundred years ago a very poor
man kept a shop underneath the Minster
towers. IIis businessiwas as poor as he was ;
he had already five children, and one morn-
ing his wife gave birth to a sixth, a fine little
girl. The poor father =iglicd ; he took the
child in the shop, and laid it on the counter
Then be fairly broke down ane sobbed over
his new possession. Now, the shop was an
open one, and a knight who happened to be
riding by stopped his horse when he saw the
poor man’s distress.
“What ails you, friend ?" said he.
“Alas,” said the father, “I have already
five young ones, and knew not how to find
food for them, and 10 my wife has but now
given me another. I would that it had not
come into this suffering world.”
“I will see what will happen to her,” the
knight said; for he was a sorcerer, and he
always carried his great “Book of Fate" at
his saddle-bow.
The poor man gazed at him as he read. All
at once he saw the knight turn pale, his hair
bristled on his head, but he spoke with a
‘ smiling face to the distressed father. ,
“Be consoled, friend; I have no daughter,
and if you will give me your welcome infant,
I will adopt it and make it heir to my pos-
sessions."
The father’s delight was great; he landed”
the knight with thanks, and placed the baby
in his arms. The knight spurred his horse,
and rode swiftly to the banks of the Ouse at
some distance from the city. Here he dis-
mounted and flung the infant into the mid-
dle of the river, for in the “Book of Fate” he
had read that this new-born babe was destin-
cd to marryhis only son.
Then he rode away rejoicing. But the
river was more compassionate than the
knight. It washed the baby ashore, and a
fisherman hearing its cries carried it,homc‘to
his cottage.
Fifteen years after, the knight, with many
of his friends came riding along the banks of
the Ouse, and stopped at the fisherman’s cot-
tage to buy a fish. A young girl came to the
door, and the knight and all his friends were
startled by her wonderful beauty. licr man-
ner, too, was so sweet and gracious that as
they went on their way they continued to
praise her and wonder at her loveliness, till
the knight said with a laugh— '
“I will search my book and see which of
you is destined to be the fisher-malden’s hus-
hand."
But his laughter ceased and his face grew
white when he read that this was the very
maiden he had fiung into the stream long
ago.
He soon made an excuse to leave his
friends, and going back to the cottage
asked the fisherman if he would ;aliow his
daughter to carry a message from him to his
brother, a noble knight who lived at Scar-
borough. '
The fisherman consented, and thou the
knight wrote a letter. and scaling it gave it
to the girl. She put the letter into her purse
and started at once on her journey. When
night fell she went to a little inn, where she
asked for a bed and slept soundly. Now, it
happened that a thief found his way into the
inn that night, and prowling about he came
into the maiden’s room and saw her purse
lying on the table. In it he found the letter,
which he opened and read. It contained
these words:
“Dear brother—Take the bearer, and put
her to death immediately."
The thief turned his lantern on to the face
of the sleeper, and seeing how young and
beautiful she was he ,felt compassion. “She
deserves a better fate," he said, “and she will
have it.” Then he wrote a note in the hand-
writing of the knight :
“Dear brother—Take the bearer and marry
her at once to my son.” He then sealed the
letter and placed it in the girl's purse instead
of the other.
Next morning the girl waked early {and
hurried on to Scarborough. The knight’s
brother received her kindly ; but when he
had read the letter be embraced her, and
went to see his nephew, who happened lobe
on a visit to his castle. As soon as the youth
beheld the maiden he became enamored of
her. and desired to be wcdked next day; and
the marriage was celebrated with much
splendor, the bride looking more beautiful
than ever in her wedding garments.
After a day or two, the knight told his
nephew that he must go to York to seek the
knight, his father, and tell him that he had
obeyed his commands. The young husband
was unwilling to leave his wife; however,
hr departed withmany promises of a speedy
return.
He had not been gone long when his father
arrived—they had missed each other on the
road—and when the York knight learned
what had happened he was almost mad with
rage. He asked his daughter-in-lsw to come
with him outside of the castle; then, seizing
her by the hair. be dragged her to the sea-
shore aud drew his dagger. She fell on her
knees.
“Spare my life," she said, “and tell me
how I have angered you.”
At this he told her her history, and bade
her to prepare for death; but at last her
tears and entreaties so far softened him that
be sheathed his dagger; then plucking a
gold ring from his finger, he flung it into the
sea.
"Swear to me," he said, “that you will not
come into my sight or that of my son tili
that ring is on your finger, and I will spare
your life.”
She swore, and then she fied away in wild
terror, till she found herself in a strange
place, obliged to beg for food. ’
At last, after long wanderings, she became
cook to a nobleman.
One day, as she looked out of a window at
the guests arriving for abanquct, she saw her
cruel enemy and his son, her dearly beloved
husband. She drew back hastily, and then
she trembled so that she could hardly cook
the dinner. Just before it was ready at fisher-
man came to the door. He had brought a
splendid fish for sale, and she took it in and
began to clean it. All at once she saw some-
thing glitter inside of it.
She looked closer; it was the knight‘s
ring; then she ceased trembling, her fear
changed to joy, and she cooked the dinner to
perfection.
“Who is your cook, my lord?" asked the
knight, who, notwithstanding his cruelty,
was extremely fond of good eating.
“She is a strange girl, but she is fair to
see," his host answered; “she came begging
to my door, and I took her in from charity;'
then turning to the servants behind him:
“Some of you bid the cook come up into the
dining-hall."
' The girl washed her face and smoothed
her hair, than she put on her best clotlys,
and with line ring on her finger she entered
the ball.
The guests looked at her with wonder, for
she seemed to them “as fair as the moon. 88
lovely as a rose.”
But the knight uttered a fierce yell and
started from his seat. He drew his sword
and made a rush at her, but she smiled anti
held tip her hand. On it he saw the ring
which be had cast into the sea. He saw. too,
that her young husband stood beside her
and clasped her in his arms, Then the
knight bent his head, for. he saw that fate
had been too strong for him, anti he suffered
her to dWell peacefully with her loving hus-
band; and she became famous through the
country for her beauty, her courtesy and her
goodness.
From St. James‘s Gazette.
The Eiiiuncipmion of Woman
from the Piano.
In times past women played on later, viols,
and all kinds of instruments of the violin and
guitar family, In Italian and Flemish pic-
tures up to the end of the seventeenth cen-
tury, a “music party" meant something very
like what would be called a quartet party in
the present day. No one had any suspicion
as to the violin’s being an iingraceful instru-
ment in the hands and arms of a lady; and
Domenichino has represented St. Cecilia her-
self performing a solo, not on the violin, but
on the far more formidiblc Violoncello. Af-
ter the introduction of the harpsichord, how-
ever, anti, abovc all, after the replacement of
the harpsichord by the more perfect piano-
forte, stringed instruments were generally
abandoned by the fair sex. The pianoforte
now came to be regarded not merely as the
only instrument for a lady to cultivate, but
also as one which every lady was bound to
learn. The prejudice on the subject of
pianoforte playing as an indispensable "ac-
complishment” must have caused a consid-
erable amount of annoyance and pain to mul-
titudes of dull girls and to a certain number
of bright ones. It has never been expected of
every lady that she shall be an able pianist,
any more than it is expected of every gentle-
man that he shall be a finished scholar. it
has always been enough for a man to be in a
position to say that he learned Latin and
Greek when he was at school; and a woman
satisfied all claims when she set forth that
she had studied the piano, but, owing to
domestic occupations of another kind or for
no matter what reason, had been unable to
“keep it up.”
Of the rather vague principles put forward
under the name of “women’s rights” there is
not one which generou'minded men would
more willingly concede than the right of
young women, or even of little girls, to refuse
instruction in the art of playing the piano-
There are houses in which the practising
is quite an ordinary punishment for juvenile
offenders. Such a sentence is one that in-
volves pain and suffering not to those alone
on whom it is pronounced; and that in itself
is a sufiicicnt reason for abolishing it from
the family book of punishments. Little girls
fear the piano, and long for the time when,
having mastered its difficulties, they will not
be called upon to play upon it any more;
while numberless great girls regard it as one
of the many nuisances which they must put
up with until they get married. Once, how-
ever, liberate young women from that‘ piano
to which like serfs they have so long been
“assigned” (but not “attached”), and some
of them will take to cultivating it for its own
sake; while the remainder will at least spars
both themselves and their friends a consider-
able amount of annoyance.
The enormous difficulties of modern piano-
forte music constitutes in itself a reason why
in the education of young girls the piano
should not, like “dancing and deportmcnt,"
be made obligatory. A woman can get
through life so well without playing the
piano; and for ii. few fiiillings, or even in
extreme cases for a single shilling, she can, if
her lot happens to be cast in London, hear
from time to time the finest players that this
great pianoforte-playing age has ever pro-
duced. It is not because the piano is unwor-
thy of her attention that woman should be
liberated from the task-work imposed upon
her in connection with it. It is because Inu-
sic, like every other ari, demands from its
votarics special gifts and inclinations, and
because among women who are thus endow-
ed it is a mistake to suppose that the piano is
the only instrument suitable to them. Let
it be understood in the first place that it is
no more a disgrace for a young lady not to
play the piano than it is a disgrace for her
not to draw, to paint, or to model; and, in
the second place, that if she does mean to
play some instrument it is a mistake for her
to restrict herself as a matter of course to the
piano. Next to the organ, the piano is,thanks
to the fine orchestral effects which it can be
made to produce, the finest instrument in the
world; and- it is the only instrument for
which every great composer's orchestral
works are arranged in reduced form. To
praise at the expense of the piano the violin,
which—except when~ tour: de force are in-
dulged its—yields like the human voice but
a single note, is a very common thing, but
it is one we should not ourselves care to
undertake. The violin to be effective in a
truly musical sense must,like the human voice
be accompanied either by the orchestra or by
the pianoforte, or by other menbers of the
violin family. The pianoforte is (put-
ting aside, of course, the too colossal organ)
the only instrument which, for harmonic as
well as melodic purposes, is complete in it-
self, and which is really an orchestra in lit-
tie.
There are good reasons, then, why all who
care much for music should study the piano
exclusively. iten in the same family there
are two, three, and even four pianists. How
much and how advantageously the domain
of such a family would be increased it. with
or without neglect of the piano, the instru-
ments of the violin family were taken up,
with a view not necessarily to string quartets,
but, at least, to the numerous pieces written
and piano. “The violin—I include always
the viola and Violoncello-is no doubt,” says
Mr. Hullah in his excellent- little work
on “Mimic in the House," “a difilcult instru-
ment; but the difficulty of acquiring a ser-
viceiible amount of skill on it has been much
exaggerated. To become a Joachim, a
Holmes, or a Patti, is the work of a life-
time, even for men gifted with equal aptitude
and perseverance to these—turned to account
under skillful guidance and at the right time
of life, and supplement ed and encouraged by
a thousand circumstances as impossible to take
account of as so to bring about and foresee.
But there is an amount of skill below—very
much below—that of artists of this class
which, if accompanied by feeling, taste, and
intelligence, may contribute largely to the
variety and agreeableness of music in the
house." It may be hoped that in a few years
without the number of our domestic pianists
being too much diminished, that of our do-
mestic violinists will be considerably increas-
ed. Some half-dozen lady violinists have
appeared this season in London, at public
concerts, who poasess the very highest merit;
and at a half private, half public concert
given recently at Stafford House for the ben-
efit of a charity the chief attraction was a
string band consisting of no fewer than twen-
ty-fcur lady executants. The diversion,then
of feminine talent from the piano towards
the violin is not a movement which has to be
originated : it needs only to _be encouraged.
m
In California, a missionary of the Amer-
ican 3- 3- Union gives the summary of a
year’s work: 82 new schools or anized,
with 155 teachers and 1,185 scho era; 85
schools visited and aided, having 168
teachers and 1,314 scholars; 404 Bibles and
Testaments distributed; 288 famlies visited;
128 addresses deliveied. The S. S. work
grows in encouragement. His last his best
yeah—Church Umbra
by great composers for violin or Violoncello, _
NORWALK, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1882.
Connecticut: Politics.
New York Herald.
New Haven, Aug. 31, 1882.
The preliminary canvass in Connecticut
maybe considered as flirly opened. The
Republican State Convention has been called
to meet at New Haven, September 20, and
the democratic at Hartford, October 4. In‘
this canvass each party is tendering the
other an immense deal of gratuitous advice.
The democratic press is attempting to per-'
suade the ,republicans that to ratify the al-
leged bargain of 1880 and nominate William
H. Bulkeley for Governor would prove a
fatal mistake and result in their overwhelm-
ing defeat. At the same time numerous re-
publican papers are laboring to convince the
democracy that “Tom" Waller is their most
available candidate for Governor. The el-
fect of these disinterested suggestions from
the opposition is, as might be anticipated,
directly contrary to that which it was iii-
tended to have. The republican managers
put their heads together and conclude that
the exceedingly great solicitude of the dc
mocracy to prevent Bulkeley's nomination
furnishes the best reason in the world for
putting him at the head of the ticket, while
the democrats begin to fight shy of a candi-
date so enthusiastically indorsed by the re-
publican organs as Waller.
Lit'r mar GET UP A “BLIND roon ”
The outlook now is that nothing short of
a complete revolution in republican senti-
ment—such a one as has buriedCorncll in
New York beyond reach of political resur
rection trump at present known—can defeat
Bulkelcy's nomination by the republicans.
In conversation with a leading republican
politician of this city to-day I was informed
that it was extremely doubtful if Governor
Bigelow can secure a home delegation that
will favor his renomination. The correct-
ness of this information would not be
doubted by any well posted politician of
either party were the source of it to be made
public. The Governor has rendered himself
obnoxious to some of the leading New Ha-
ven republicans who have heretofore been
his warm friends by his failure to make cer-
tain appointments on which they had set
their hearts, and should no show the least
disposition to accept the nomination they
would pack the New Haven primaries against
him. The renomination of the old ticket
may therefore be dismissed as an impossibil-
ity, for no candidate could be pushed through
the convention without a solid home delega-
tion to his back. -
In the western part of the State the claims
of Phinehas T. Lounsbury to the guberna-
tional nomination are being quietly but ac-
tively canvassed, .and his candidacy presents
the only obstacle that is liable to prove for-
midiable to the foreclosing of the so-called
Bulkeley “mortgage." Lounsbury was
brought into notice by being put on the
Garfield electoral ticket in 1880, and is said
to have political ambition for the gratifica-
tion of which he is both able and willing to
pay liberally. His availability was recently
discussed by a knot of republican managers
who met by chance at a shore dinner resort.
“Why," said one of them, with enthusiasm,
“he is worth $2,000,000 now, anti 1 tell you
that by ’84 he will have at least $5,000,000
in his pile.” “Then," promptly responded
manager No. 2, with an eye to business,
“won’t it be just as well to let him wait over
and scoop him for a candidate in a Presl-
dential year?” Lounsbury is represented by
his friends to be a sort of second edition of
Marshall Jewell so far as his ideas of liberal
contributions to the campaign funds are
concerned, but a little less effusive than the
ex-Postmaster General. The friends of Bulk-
eley are suggesting that it would be the prop
er thing for Lounsbury to take the second
place on the ticket now and run his chance of
promotion two years hence.
The possibility of inducing Oliver Hoyt of
Stamford, to take the nomination for
Lieutenant Governor is being canvassed to.
some extent. He has servced several terms
in the State Senate, is the head and front of
the Methodist denomination in Connecticut
and a liberal giver both in religion and pol-
itics. Two years ago, when an effort was
made to shut it gubernatorial boom for him,
one of his intimate friends was appealed to
as to whether he would “bleed” (that is al-
ways the first inquiry made about a candi-
date in Connecticut). “Bleed f" answered
his friend, “why, he would take the roof
right of! and let- it pour down on the
people.” Senator Hoyt, according to the
best information, however, would not for a
moment entertain the idea of running for the
second place now, unless there was a dis-
tinct understanding, a la Bulkeley, that he
would be called up higher two years hence.
Even with that tempting bait held out to
him it is doubtfulwhether he would care to
go before the people just now. His vote in
the Senate last winter against the Parallel
Railroad scheme would undoubtedly weaken
him somewhat in his own section, for there
was a strong sentiment in favor of the road
all through Fairflcld county, and especially
on the line of the New York and New
Haven. He also incurred the hostility cf
the mutual benefit societies, which have
a large membership in every county (aggre-
gating, it is said, a voting strength] of more
than fifteen thousand), by supporting legis-
lation hostile to their interests. These so-
cieties have put him on a black list, which
is displayed in all their lodge rooms, and
threaten to treat him to the same fate which
overtook Hosted when he ran for Treasurer
in New York. Still Hoyt is highly respected
and it is urged that his pronounced prohibi-
tion views would help him in this era of tem-
perance waves. It is by no means improbable
that if he would say the word he might have
the second place now and a'promise, more or
less valuable, of future promotion.
son snooun rues.
Ex-Mayor Wessels and Editor John D.
Candee, of the Standard, both of Bridgeport,
are named as possible candidates for Lieu-
tenant Governor. Candee is a venerable
stalwart. He was for a third term for
Grant, and there is nothing that can be
called by the name of rcpublicanism that is
any too strong for him Those who would
like to see the gubernatioual nomination g.)
to Lounsbury are suggesting that the second
place be reserved for one of the Cheneys, the
South Manchester silk manufacturer—which
one they are not particular—as the entire
family are in a position to make liberal con-
tributions to the campaign fund.
The lion in the path of all the Fairfield
county candidates, whether for Governor or
Lieutenant Governor, will be Commodore
James D. Smith, of the New _York
Yacht Club, the present State Treasurer.
When the arrangement was made to throw
overboard the present State officers Commo-
dore Smith was excepted. An excuse for
this was found in the fact that he was not
elected to the Treasurer, but received the
office by executive appointment only a few
months since on the death of David P. Nich-
ols, the original incumbent. The Commo-
dore is popular with “the boys” by reason
of his general jollincss, and; numerous
champagne dinners that he has put “where
they would do the most good.” Moreover
he has modern ideas of finance, and upon
assuming the office of Treasurer startled the
old coaches who handled the money bags for
a generations by ordering that thebonds and
securities belonging to the State be brought
from the vaults where they had long rcposed
and dumped on a table,so that he could count
them and make sure they Were all right.
If the Commodore wishes; the nominatipn
for Treasurer other Fab-field county candi-
dates for positions on the Slate ticket might
as well take back seats. No one seems to
know what the Commodore’s ideas on the
subject are.
There are two reasons for selecting so late
a date as October 4 for the Democratic
Convention. In some way certain‘members
of the Democratic State Committee became
possessed with the belief that the choice of
September 20 by the republicans was merely
a “blind,” anti that the democrats ,should
name their day a later date would be substi-
tuted. it was also considered desirable, in
the present uncertainty as to a candidate for
Governor to secure as long a time as possible
in which to make the effort to reconcile eon.
flicting interests and frame a slate that would
give general satisfaction.
~ "STRATEGY arr nor.”
The retuin of “Tom” Waller from a brief
European tour has startcd his boom afresh.
Within three days after he landed from the
Baltic he recovcreil from the effects of his
scasic‘aness sufficiently to stand the inter-
viewers R:port of conversations with him
appeared simultaneously in the Boston 11er-
ald and the New Haven Union, which, upon
carefuleomparison, proved to be identical in
their language for the most part. Those who
are in his confidence entertain not the
slightest doubt that he will leave no stone
unturned to secure the nomination, and yet
it is known that he has since his return
stated in the most positive terms that he is
notacandidotc and cannot be induced to
become one. These statements, it is sup-
posed, tirc for the purpose of lulling into a
false sense of security his fellow townsman,
Colonel F. B. Loomis, who does not hesitate
to say that he would like the nomination,
but conveys the impression that he will take
no active steps to capture the Convention,
although the footprints of his emissaiies have
recently been discovered in diiIerent sections
of the State. The attempts of Waller and
Loomis to fool each other are said by those
who have had opportunities for observation
tobe wall worth seeing. But little more
than thirty years ago Waller was crying
“Here’s yer Herald" on the streets of New
York, and no doubt he learned a good share
of the enterprise which has marked his po-
litical career during the years of his exper-
iencc as a New York newsboy. He was
brought to New London by a worthy citizen
now dead and gone, who found him hanging
around the wharf, where lay the packet
which in those days furnished the principal
means of communication between that city
and the metropolis, and was attracted by
his brightness and his apparently friendless
condition. He was educated at the New
London high school and afterward embraced
book canvassing, in which occupation be
accumulated money enough to defray his
expenses while he was studying law. He
took to politics as naturally as a duck to
water. With all his shrewdness he is boyish
and even verdant in appearance. He tells
it of himself that often when he has been
passing by a mock auction store in New
York, the presiding genius, struck by his
appearance, has interjected in his cut-and-
dried harungue, “Just the thing for a coun-
try clergyman l” Once, after leaving Niblos
Garden, he was accosted at. the bar of the
Metropolitan by a confidence man who had
selected him as a promising game. After a
little conversation about the pay the operator
said, “Come.let’s have a drink." Waller
stared at him through his eye-glasses, which
perhaps add to his real appearance. and
answered. “No, I won’t drink with you;
btit I'll tell you what I will do—I will treat
you to the best bottle of wine in this house
if you’ll tell me what the d—l there is about
me that makes every one take me for a
countryman." The confidence man vanished
in the twinkling of an eye and Waller’s
curiosity remained unsatisfied. A few
years after this incident he was walking
along a Boston street, in the neighborhood
of the Roman Catholic bishops, and glancing
at the houses on either side, when a son of
Erin accosted him with, “Father, shure
you’re looking for the bishop’s house, let
me show your riverance where it is." But
Waller is neither clerical nor verdant. He is
at his best in a political convention and will
resort to any means to carry his point.
Once, when he was a delegate to a State
convention, he made a motion which the
president declared out of order. He dis.
puted the decision of the chair, when the
latter asked, “Who’s running this conven-
tion ?" “I am,” replied Waller; whereupon
he put the motion and declared it carried.
The president was so paralized by this ex-
hibition of consummate impudencc that he
was unable to remonstrate and the action of
the convention stood as Waller wanted to
have it. These incidents furnish an easy
explanation both of Waller’s popularity with
the youngerelement of the party and the
alarm with which the old stagers. who be-
lieve that the executive office calls for
dignity and heavy respectability, view the
attempt to make him a gubernatorial nomi-
nee.
The old heads among the leaders are
scarcely more favorably disposed toward
Loomis than they are toward Waller. In his
way Colonel Loomis islquite as shrewd and
fully as audacious as his younger townsman
againstlwhomihe is pitted. Since he accumu-
lated a fortune by means of government
contracts he has been largely engaged in
speculation both in and out of Wall street.
Some of his; ventures have been on an exten-
sive scale. A dozen years or more ago he
was a member of the famous pool of M11-
waukee and St. Paul that finally collapsed,
and later was intimately connected with the
affairs of the Alabama and Chattanooga road
thatwcre not long since the subject of liti-
gation in the federal and State courts. His
recent speculations have been attended with
marked success, if rumor be true, and al-
the “pile,” it is believed to be sufficient to
warrant him in putting a large sum into the '
canvass in the event of his nomination.
The battle ground between Waller and
Loomis will be in their own county. and
especially in their own city, and the one who
carries the home delegation will prove a
formidable candidate for gubernatorial
honors. Colonel Loomis is spending his
leisure time during the heated term on an
island of rock just below the Pequot House
at New London, on which he is a squatter.
There he has erected a neat little pavilion,
and gives frequent shore dinners. The is-
land is connected with the mainland by a
bridge which spans navigable waters and was
erected without legislative license. Leading
republicans as well as democratic politicians
are frequent guests'at the pavilion. One of
the former, it is said, never visits this second
Goveruqr's Island without remarking soon
after his arrival, “For an island surrounded
by water this is the driest place I ever saw."
At this suggestion Colonel Loomis has re-
course to a large icebox within the pavilion,
and the popping of champagne corks soon
greets the cars of the passengers on the little
steamers that ply between New London and
Osprey Beach, the Rocky Point of Connec-
ticut.
At this stage of the canvcss the two New
London candidates are leading figures, but
cit-Senator Eaton looms up lominously in the
background, and there seems to be a quitt
conviction that when Loomis and Waller
have buried each other he may come to the
front and be accepted as the most a'vaialble
compromise candidate.
Advices from Hartford are that the repub-
licans will renominate Congressman Buck.
The opposition to him on account of his
record on the River and Harbor bill is grad-
ually dying out. In the Second District 8
new candidate for Congressional honors has
though no one pretends to know the size of:-
been discovered on the democratic side in
the person of Professor D. Cady Eaten, of
Yale College, but the managers still keep the
name of Charles Mitchell on the slate. In
the Third, Colonel Wait still has the side
track for a rcnomination, and the democrats
seeing no chance to defeat him, seem to be
indifferent as to their candidate. Any re-
spectable man who is willing to contribute a
reasonable sum toward the election of the
Slutetickct can have their nomination for
the asking. In the Fourth disi.ict Congress-
man Miles is reported as still undecided
whether to make the canvaSt again.
School Teachers Abroad.
Nothing shows more clearly the difference
in the earning power of skilled labor in this
country and in France than the pay received
by public teachers in the‘schools on the other
side of the Channel. It is estimated that
there are at the present time about 32,000
women and 50,000 men employed in this
way in France, and their salary averages lit-
tle more than £50 per annum each. Only
one man in seventy receives a stipend equal
to £100 a year, while the number of women
enjoying that handsome salary falls short of
200, or about one in every 160. Figures
like these must raise very unpleasant emo-
tions l'l the minds of the members of Eng-
lish school boards, who find it impossible to
get satisfactory teachers except on paying
much higher salaries, and then are accused
on all sides of uneccssarycxtravsgsnce.
*
At last the Edison Electric Light is actual-
ly in use for the lighting of stores, ofiices,&c.
In the district below Spruce street and east
of Nusan street, New York, the machinery
was started last Week Monday, and many
offices and stores illuminated with this light.
Edison seemed pleased with the result the
first night, and the light was apparently gen—
erally satisfactory. The Tribune says: '
Where the electric lights were in use last
night the subscribers of the Edison Company
expressed themselves as gratified with their
brief experience with the new illuminating
agent. The light was soft and perfectly
steady and appeared to distribute itself more
evenly and uniformly than the light from
gas-burners. The decrease in the heat caused
by it. as compared with gas, was gratefully
appreciated by the clerks who had to work
beneath it.
at
The recent strike at Eagle gulch, Plumes
county, California, says the Greenwich
Bulletin, is something so great that a bare.
statement of the facts would read like the
wildest romance. One of the owners of the
mine, with a hammer and chisel, cut out one
solid lump of gold worth $2,700. When the
ledge was struck in the lower tunnel, a man
who was at work there was sent off some
liatle distance on a message. During his ab-
sence his employer took out $10,000. It is a
common thing to find from $200 to $300
worth of gold in a single pan of dirt. The
ledge is nearly fifty feet widé,all good milling
ore. The extremely rich vein is about three
feet wide.
—____—_-——_=I=
Mr. Blaine's description of Oscar Wilde-
“That underdone young man."
If Arabi’s men do not turn out to be great
fighters it must be remembered that they are
mostly deserters.—Boston Globe.
Funny fact—That “noon," whether we
spell it backwards or forwards. is always
midday—Andrew's American Queen.
Never judge a man by the company he
keeps. Perhaps he is an independent candi-
date for something—Philadelphia News.
No wonder the people of DakotaLfeel their
cats. Some of the farmers there claim they
will have eighty bushels to the acre this year.
What are the best malarial antidotes
known il—George. Soap and water, lime
and temperance pledges—Philadelphia News.
They have some enterprising thieves in
Philadelphia. One of them recently stole a
ton of coal that had been dumped on the
sidewalk.
The Greenbackers of Maine have no “hard
times" to help them this year. Maiueis now
a prosperous State and its industries are
flourishing. '
Newport ladies are dressing very plainly
this season. They must do something to
distinguish themselves from their maids.—
Philadelphia News.
“It .is not necessary for a man to be poor to
be honest.” Certainly not. But it seems
sort 0' half way necessary for a man to be
poor if he is honest.—Qui‘z.
Some physicians prescribe bicycles for dys-
peptics. A man‘ is kept so busy tinkering
the raw spots that he forgets all about the
dospepsia.—Boston Post.
During the new government survey of
Long Island Sound‘locsl charts .will be is-
sued for the benefit of shipmasters as rapid-
ly as the progress of the work permits.
Nothing gives to the seven-dollar-a-week
clerk so much the air of princely opulence
as riding home in a back from the depot, af-
ter a two weeks’ vacation—Lowell Citizen.
“Who was it that said it is not good for
man to be alone ?" asked a Sunday school
teacher of his class. A bright boy answered:
“Daniel, sir, when he was in the lion's den."
"A good many things that appear in the
newspapers are not true.” This is because
the newspapers have frequently to get their
information from human beluga—Courier-
Journal.
The railroad service of this country em-
ploys 1,200,000 men, and railroad construc-
tion 400,000 more. a total of 1,600.000, about
one eight of the entire adult male working
force of the country.
A German who has been a Lutheran and
been sprinkled in his infancy was asked,
when he wished to join the Baptist church,
if he had not been baptised. His answer
was, “Veil, now, shust a leedle.”
They tell of an Indiana girl who works in
the harvest field during the day and enter.
tains her company with piano recitals during
the evening. No doubt her work and play
are of equal excellence—Syracuse Herald.
A new Boston fashion discovered out
West: Boston has discarded “trees" as the
feminine silk and substituted “trix.” We
once knew a seamstrix, whose mother was
a tailorix, that became quite a poetrix.—
Waterbury American. _
Early to bed and early to rise doesn’t
always make a man wise. Archbishop
Whateiey was one day asked if he rose
early. He replied that once he did, but be
was so proud all the morning and so sleepy
all the afternoon that be determined never
to do it again.
“Your honor anti Gentlemen of the jury, I
acknowledge the reference of counsel of the
other side to my gray hair. My hair is gray,
and it will continue to be gray as long as i
live. The hair of that gentleman is black,
and will continue to be black as long as he
dyes."—- New York Tribune.
A half-pound. baby was born in Harlem a
few weeks ago,und christened the other day,
with the pondcrous name of George Wash-
ington Krumm. Of course the proper things
to say is that thg baby is a Krumm of com-
fort to his parenti. The child was the talk
of the neighborhood, and so many wanted
to verify his weight that he came nt-ar being
half pounded to death.
George Bancroft, the venerable historian,
takes his daily horseback ride at Newport.
He has aged very much since the completion
of his great work. His home is one of the
most charming spots on earth. It is so retire-
ed, so sweetly bid from envious eyes, that no
more fitting home for a scholar could be im-
agined. Once inside its trim shrubbery and
one seems miles away from the incessant tur-
moil of a great watering place.
The fashionable young ladies at a water-
ing place hotel a few nights ago organized a
spelling bee. The belle that were the most
expensive jewelry was the worst speller, and
twelve out of fourteen went down on the
word “separate," “phthisis” floored them all,
and one of the cooks was called in to spell
the word for them. A young lady who fond;
led a pug dog and wore diamond earrings
maintained that d-o-w-t was the way “doubt"
was spelled when she went to school—Nor-
ristotm Herald.
When Cetewayo was' photographed in
London it was hard work to impress upon
him the necessit of remaining still during
the focussing an arranging of accessories;
and in a pleasant way, when his likeness had
been taken, be placed the artist in the chair
from which he himself had just been re-
leased and waved to the attendants to oper-
ate upon him, as some sort of retribution
for the duress, short as it was, that he had
suffered in his own person.
‘ NORWALK GAZETTE,
PUILISHED EVEI' TUESDAY "all“.-
The Second ciao-trapez- in the sure.
OFFICE IN GAZETTE BUILDING.
A. H. BYINGTON &. CO.
A. H. BYINGTON, J. B. ELLs, G. N. ELLS
Subscription $2.00 per year, in advance.
Single Copies 5 Cents.
Entered at the Post Ofice at Norwalk, Coma,
as Second-Class Matter.
Advertising Rates :
Four lines or less, 1 time 50c. , 3 times $1 00
One square, one insertion . . .. . . . 1 00
Per week for continuance .... .... .... 50
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Special Notices 25 per cent. advance on the
above.
Local Notices in Resdin Column
Cents pertine. g I’ 25
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 ratultousl .
Obituary or Funeral Notices 15 centsgpcr line. y
All unusual cuts and devices 25 per cent. extra
A. H. BALDWIN, M. D..
Hus Removed his office to his New Residence
No. 71 Wall Street, Dr. Hill‘s place.
Hoursti119 a. m., l to 3 and 7 to 8 p. m.
ALEX. S. GIBSON,
Organist of the First Congregational Church
Teacher of
Plano-Forte, Organ and Muslcal
- Composltlon,
Lock Box 39, P. 0., NORWALK. CONN.
The N orwalk Dye Works
ARE now in successful operation. Ladies’ and
_ Gents’_Gurménts Dyed, Cleaned or Scoured
in best possible manner, Without injury to cloth.
Any shade or. color produced which may be de-
sired. Work well done and prices reasonable.
Goods can be left at the Mi liner and Fancy
Store of the MISSES ST. J OHN . 33 ain St.,Nor-
walk, or at MR3. H. KREIGER’S Millinery. 39ft
BERNARD COHN,
MERCHANT TAILOR,
WEEK’S BUILDING, WALL s'r.,
A‘FULL LINE or
Imported and Domestic Cloths
of the latest styles, constant! on hand. N ovel-
ties in Scotch Suitings. Satis action guaranteed
in every particular. 46
WE. ouiiiraan,
General Flil‘lllllllllll Undertaker,
OPPOSITE HORSE R. R. DEPOT.
E'Orders attended to day or night. Residence
Main Street, 3 doors from Union Avenue,
Telephone communication with the house.
The Nniwalli Fire lllSlllanlle.00.,
Has now completed its
18th Successful Business Your.
And has not outstanding a Dollar of unpaidlosses
or of claims for losses.
I0 80 ll" “MFA" IISIIIIESA'I’ [It'll RATES.
Wis.0.srals'r. Prom. S. E. out STIAD, Tress.
Gno. R. Cownszec’y.
'l‘NA l NSUBANCE Co.ot'HABTFORD.
Incorporated 1812. CbartsrPerpetual.
Capital and A nets, $8,902,272.64
Insures against loss and damage by Fire, on terms
adopted to the hazard and . consistent with the
laws of compensation. COWLES a MERRILL,
Sole Agents for Norwalk and vicinity.
Notice.
THE undersigned having sold out all his inter-
‘ est II) the Hardware. and House and Sign
Painting Business heretofore conducted by him
at No.30 Main St.,to his son, William Hindlcy.
Jr., would return his thanks to this community
for the patronage accorded him and respectfully
ask for a continuance of the same to his succes-
sor. Persons having unsettled accounts with the
subscriber are requested to call and settle the
same immediately.
WILLIAM HINDLEY.
Norwalk, J an. 16th, 1882. .
nanuss S. LOCKWOOD ,
Fashionable llraiiei and Tails;
AND
GENIS' FURNISHING 1.1903117!
Main Street ,Norwaik. Conn.
Geo. Ward Sellcck,
Has in his New Store,
llAIllEIliillll'S I!" lift“, WALL STREET,
A completeassortmentof the best class of
GBUBEHIES. PROVISIONS, FRUITS,
Acnfor family use.” Popular Prices. His stock
is at all times fresh and good.snd will stand com-
parison with those of any Grocer in town. Call
in and leave your orders. ssti'
GLEAILIIESS l8 IEX'I’ ‘l'll lfllllll“.
G. A. PRANKE’S
Stalin and Hair Ulllllllll Salon.
103 A
Pleasant 8113's,:
Artistic .IIIII' Cut, or
Thorough Shampoo
cam. a-r
Mr. Franko’s Hair Cutting Saloon.
‘ No. l GAZETTE HUILDING.’
Particular attention given to Ladies and Child-
ren’s Hair Cutting and Shampooing.
AT HOME T0 EVERYBODY.
Hot and ColdWater Baths
a E M o v .A. I.- i
To the Basement of 58 Wall Street,
Next door below Jackson Brothers’.
E. BEACH,
House and Sign Painting,
Paper Hanging and Kalsomining,
Residence-Lewis Street.
NORWALK,_ CONN.
All work entrusted to me shall be promptly
reasonably and well done. A share of the public
patronage solicited. am
Notice.
NDER instructions and by power of attorney
I shall prosecute all persons trespassing
upon the grounds or premises of A. H. or ii. .
Byington. BENJAMIN J. STtlltOES.
Norwalk, May 15th. 1882. '
Peter L. Guigue,
Flfllli'l‘ii llllllillllllllll
Union Ave, North of N orwalk
Cemetery, Norwalk, Conn.
Dealer in Green House and Hot House and
Bedding and Vegetable Plants, Fruit and
Ornamental Trees, Shrubbery, Vines. Cut
Flowers always on hand and all sorts of Dr-
signs in Flowers arranged to order.
Grading and Bedding Cemetery Plots
promptly ndcd to. 3m21
ENGRAVED
Visiting and Welling Cflllll,
in Latest Styles,
in run;
GAZETTE OFF !C E.
REAL ESTATE.
MAN
A Small Building Lot
ON PLYAZOUTH AVENUE,1s offered for sale
at a lsw prit 9. Apply at the
‘ GAZETTE OFFICE.
For Sale.
THE undersigned offers for sale his place on
Prospect Hill, Norwulk, within a. few min—
utes walk of the central plan of the town. and of
easy access to N. Y. & N. . 1t.1t. The house is
two stories and lilansnrd roof; has 13 rooms with
all the modern conveniences, water. gas. bath
room, Sc. The grounds are tastefully litid out In
lawn, garden, and orchard, with an abundance
of chorec lruit. On the place are banneurriugc
house, cow stable and laundry; fine view of Long
Island Sound and surrounding country. Locality
attractive and healthful. Address
R. B. ORAUFURD, National Bank of Norwalk.
House For Sale.
0. _8 CAMP STREETJmusc has 9 rooms
With gas, portable iiiriiitcc. cistern of water,
Borough water on premises. Also a large barn
With stabling for several horses, fruit trees.
grape vines. 82c,
Also for Sale.
The Cottage House and lot opposite the resi-
dcnee of 111 r. Charles E. St John, Main Street.
For particulars niiply at GAZETTE OFFICE.
To Let.
THE inrgc, commodious front room in Gazette
Building just vacated by Francis Mchcon.
Full particulars of
B. J. STUllGltS.
For Sale or to Rent.
THE well-known Farm at Winnipnuk, formerly
owned by Morgan T.Smith, is offered for
sale or to rent. The Farm contains some 40 acres
of improved land, in good condition, it commodi-
ous and convenient residence, barns, &.c. Pus-
session iren immediately. Price low and terms
easy. or further articuliirs enquire at the
FA itFlELD UOUN '1' NATIONAL BANK. ii
To Rent.
A PLACE on tho Winnipuuk noud.nenr the
- head of Main Street. A comfortable nousc,
small Barn,Garden, Orchard. large front yard,
grass plots, and plenty of land. Apply to 11.J.
TURGES, Gazette Building.
To Let.
THE Large Hall.rcccntly occupied by the Odd
Felinws. at the low yearly rental of 8160.
Full particulars phthe agent, B. J. STUBGES,
No. 4 Gazette Building.
For Sale or to Rent.
A House and One Acre of Land, on Prospect
Hill.
May be had on reasonable terms. Appi to
E. W.S tlART.
Norwalk, March 16th, 1881. 12tf
Farm for Sale.
HE subscriber will sell the wet known David
St. John Farm With all the Stock. Tools and
Growrng Crops. Most of the price can remain on
mortgage. For full xparticulars address
22st GEO. F. B LDEN, Winnipauk, Conn.
FOR SALE.
TWO very desirable Building Lots on Wes
Main street. Apply at GAZETTE OFFICE.
For Sale.
THE well known pro crty of WILLIAM C.
STREET. situated on . igh Street, in the Bor-
ough oi Norwalk.contmmng one acre of ground
fronting on High and Main. Streets, with commw
dious Dwelling House.w1tb all the modern im-
provements, lar 9 Barn, and out buildin s, and
one-half of smut house on Main Street. 1! or fur
ther particularsen titre of BURR SMITH,Agent.
lat:
N orwalk.April 1 th. 1881.
A FEW HUNDRED DOLLARS willbul
. a small lace on the hill_east of Winnipan
facing the unsbury & Bisscil Factory. A
chance for a poor man tosecure ahome oihis
own. Apply at the GAZETTE OFFICE. :6ti'
Farm for Sale.
HE subscriber offers his Farm for sale, situa-
ted in the Town of Greenfield, in Saratoga
00.,1n the stnte or New York, nine miles from
Saratoga Springs. It is pleasantly situated on
a. rise of ground, 95 acres of land, which is favor-
ably dryided into pasture. plow, meadow and
woodland; With a large house; the size of the
barn 30 by 40. wagon house and stunting. hsy left
over the same, 23 by 43, and graincry 16 by 18.
Will be sold cheap; part of the purchase money
can- rcmrinpn mortgage if desired, or will ex-
change inrvdiage property. Fort‘urther articu-
lars inquire of S LAS P. TU E,
tifil Norwsik. Conn,
Desirable Property for-Lsale.
A 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 Her-
win Street near West Avenue. for sale at a bar-
gain, Enquire of
S. E. OSBORN,East Avenue,
till or to D. W, Fitch, w est Avenue.
Small Place for Sale.
SMALL, two-story Housc,wi.th one acre of
Land, near BraadRiver Bridge,is ofiered
for sale at a. low 'lprice, to close an estate. En
quire at the GAZE TE OFFICE. 6
For Sale Cheap.
Better than low interest Bonds.
A House on Fair Street.
Apply to B. J. Sturges.
DWEIRLID was
Building Lots.
SEVERAL dwellin s. various. prices in differ-
cut portions of orough, either to let or for
sale at reasonable prices. Also nevcrnl places
outside of Borough limits—one in Winnipauk
Also several Building lots innrid out of Borough
tt~i9 Enquire at this Office.
J. Belden Hurlbutt, ‘
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Room No. 4, Up Ital rs,
GAZETTE BUILDING, NORWALK.
Notice.
HE subscriber would announce that he has
di scd of his well-known Livery Stable
and equipments to his son Horace L. Dunn, who
will hereafter run the establishment himself.
Grateful and thankful for the long continued
patronage bestcwcc upon him by the public. tht‘
subscriber would request a con tiniiancc of the
same to his successor, feeling confident that in
will merit and dos erve the confidence of the pub-
lic generally. -
WILLIAM E . DANN.
Norwalk. Oct. 4th, 1881.
PRA N GS ’
Birthday Cards,
FOR sane A'J‘g'l‘llE
GAZETTE OFFlCE. -
Free Readlng Room.
[-113 is a. comfortable room lifted up for the
benefit of the public generally. situated on
east side of South Main Street, over Rood's J ew-
elry Store. Clark and Lane’s Block. nearly 0 pc-
sitc Railroad Depot, South Norwitlk. Uta t is
open from 9 ii. m.. to 9:45 p. m. The room is well
lighted, warm and comfortable. It is supplied
with tour dailies, two weeklics. and several
monthly papers and journals, beside a number of
instructive and interesting books.
COFFEE ROOM.
There is aCoilee Room on the same floor and a
lady in attendance from 9 u. in., to 9:45 . in.,to
serve 110nm~ MADE articles mentions below.
at the following prices :
[Cup ofCofi'cegvith crackcs. . -
1 Cup of Ten. With Crackers. - -
Cocoa - - - - -
Brown Bread and Butter. - . '.
Sandwrch, - - - ;
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Doughnuts. - -
Piece ofPie’, . - ,
Crullers, . . - -
Ham, . . . -
Pork and Beans. wait: if and butter
Stowe lOvstc'I -
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VOL. LXV.--NUMBER 37
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who once try them will find these little pills valu-
able in so many ways that they will no: be willing
to do without them. But after all sick has-l
aces
Is thebtme of so many lives that here is where we
make our great boast. Our pills cure it while
others do not.
Carter’s Little Liver Pills are very small and
very easy to take. One or two pills make a dose.
They are strictly vegetable and do not gripe or
purge, butb their gentle action please all who
use them. it vials at 25 cents: five for 81. Sold.
by druggists everywhere, or sent by mail.
CARTER MEDICINE 00.,
New York City.
J. G. GREGORY a (30., Agents for Norwalk.
J. G. GREGORY & CO.
DRUGGISTS,
Succes:ors to EDWARD 1-. WEED,
No. 38 Wall Street. Norwalk, Cit,
invite the attention of the public totheirccmplete
stock of
Pure Medicines and Drugs,
and a full line of
TOILET & FANCY ARTICLES.
Also dealers in
Pure Wines& Liquors for
Medicinal Purposes.
Carctui attention paid to the dispensing of ph y
sicians’ prescriptions. 2
FRANK T. BYATT,
W
A LL branches of Dentistry performed at rea-
. sonablc prices. and the best of materials
used. All workwarrunted,
Office and Residence, West Avenue.
Methodist Parsonage,-Norwnlk.
Open Evenings.
Dr. D: Hitchcock,
Cor. of West Avenue and
Berkeley Place.
Third housc below the Methodist Church.
Office Hours from 7 to 9 n. m., 2 to 3. and 7 to s
p. in.
Purchasing Agent and Messenger.
THE subscribers will act as Purchasing Agents
and Messengers between Norwulk and N . \V
York, daily; Orders nnd_ packages received at
Theodore 'iinpp’s, South Nor-walk, and Bone-
tlict's News Room, Post Oilice, Norwnlk.
EDWIN K. SELLECK, with James McCrccry a
00., takes 6 o'clock train.
D.R.'SELI.ECK. takes 7:45 u.m. train.
PENSIONS.
Pensions and Bounties got for
all Soldiers of my own and other
Regiments, &c.
W. H. NOBLE.
BRIDGEPORT, CONN.
0. 1‘. Leonard to Sen,
COAL, WOOD,
Masons’ Materials,
0 E M E N 'J'.‘ P I P E
For Drains, Sewers, W oils, &c. ,
At Lowest Cash Prices. .
adjoining
Drains and Wells Dag and Pipe
AlsoSoleAgentfor
Patent Tinder Wood ,
The Cheapest and Best Kindiing out . Tryit
fl' Branch Office at H. s. Betts’ DrugStors
NEW MARKET !
No. 6 Main Street, NorwnlJ‘L
THE near or
Beef, Veal, Mutton, Lamb, Pork,
HAMS, POULTRY, die... fllWllyfi on hand lit very
lowest market prices. GAME of all kinds in its
season. T me; 1 will try to suit.
on“ W. F. LOOK 001), late wrthA dams tires.
The Church Spider.
Two spiders, so the story 3088.
Upon a living bent,
Entered the meeting-house one day,
And hopefully were heard to say—
“Hcre we will at least have fair play,
With nothing to prevent."
E icll chose his place and went to work-
The light Webs grew space; V
One on the altar spun his thread,
in! shortly came the sexton dread,
And swept him off, and so half dead,
He sunglt another place.
"I'll try the pulpit next," said he,
“There surely is a prize:
'i‘hc desk nppi ms so neat and clean,
I'm sure no filrl'lf r there has been-—
Besides how (Illtll have I seen
The pastor brushing flies."
He tried the puipit, but, alas!
iIis hopes proved vision try ;
, With dusting-brush the sexton came.
And spoiled-his geometric game,
Nor gave him time or space to claim
The right of sanctuary.
At ltngth, half-staivid and weak and
lean,
fie sought his former neighbor.
Who now had grown so sleek and round,
He Wt'lgliell a fraction of a pound.
And looked as if the art he’d found
Of living without labor.
“How is it friend," he asked, that l
Indure such iliunips and knocks,
While you have grown so very gross ?”
“”i‘is plain, he answered—“not a loss
I’ve met, since first I spun across
The contribution-box.”
' The Children we Keep.
The children kept coming, one by one, ,
Till the boys werefive and the girls were
three,
And the big brown house was alive with fun
From the basement floor to the old roof
tree; '
Like garden flowers the little ones grew,
N urturcd and trained with the tsudercst
cafe ; ;
Warmed by love’s sunshine. bathed in its dew,
They bloomed into beauty, like roses rsrc.
But one of the boys grew weary one day,
And leaning his head on his mother’s breast
He said “I am tired and cannot play;
Let me sir awhile on your knee and rest.”
She cradled him close in her fond embrace, .
She hushed him to sleep with her sweetest
song, -
And rapturous love still lighted his face
When his spirit had joined the heavenly
thioug.
Then the eldest girl, wiih her thoughtful eyes,
Who stood "where the brook and the riv-
er meet,”
Stole softly away into Paradise
Ere “the river" had reached her slender
feet.
While the father's eyes on the graves are
bent,
The mother locked upward beyond the
skies;
“Our treasures," she whispered, “were only
lent,
Our darlings were angels in earth's dis-
guise.”
The years flew by, and the children began
With longing to think of the world out.
side ;
And as each, in his turn, became a man.
The boys proudly went from the father’s
side.
The girls were women so gentle and fair,
That lovers were speedy to woe and win;
And, with orange blossoms in braided hair,
The old home was left, new homes begin.
So, one by one, the children have gone—-
The boys were five and the girls were
three; ,
And the big brown house is gloomy and lone,
With but two old folks for its nompany.
They talk to each other about the past,
As they sit together at eventide,
And say “All the children we kept at last
Are the boy and girl who in childhood
died.”
The will of Anna Greenleaf, of New York,
admitted to probate last week in Philadel-i
phia, gives $18,000 to various religious and.
charitable organizations, among them being
$3,000 to the American Sunday School
Union of Philadelphia, to establish Sunday.
schools in the destitute portions of the West.
—0hurch Union.
A Dakota girl advertises as follows: “I
mean business. If there is any young man
in this county who has as much sand in him i
as a pound of plug tobacco I want to hear
from him. I have a tree claim sud homo-
stead,am a good cook and not afraid to
work, and am willing to do my part. If any
man with alike amount of land and. decent
face and carcass wants a good wifelcsn
fill the bill.
Concerning the death of his wife, Fred—
erick Douglass wrote to a friend in the
West: “The main pillar of my house has
fallen. Four and forty years have passed
away since our union. Life cannot hold
much for me, now that she has gone. Still
I feel that the lesson taught by this death,
as by all such, is silence, resignation, humil-
ity and hope. We are all strangers and
sojourners."
At Montreal a thief went into the hall of
a hotel while the boarders were at supper and
gathered up all the hats. He was making
his way out, when a boarder, a little behind
time, came in and asked him what he was
about. “Oh."ssys the thief, “I’m taking
the gentleman’s hats around to Leary’sto
get smoothed.” “We ,” replied the boarder.
“take my hat, too." “Certainly, sir,” said
the accommodating thief, and vanished.—
Hotel Mail. .
From Northern Missouri a missionary of
the American Sunday School Union who has
titen working in that iigion for some years,
reports, as the li‘biili of thirty-nine months’
labor, the Olgaulznllilll, or visiting and aiding
of 142 schools, With 704 it-schcrs and 6,707
scholars. He also visited 1.374 families, at-
tended 14 protracted meetings, in nearly all
of which iheie were conversions attended 20
Sunday school conventions. and distributed
thousands of bibles, new testaments, and
tracts. His labors extended through fifteen
counties.
A sensible suspicion of the pretended gon-
ci‘osily of a stranger was all that saved the
family and lit mo of Nniman Stomp,8 Col-
umbus carpei-it r, last Monday evening. Mrs.
Stomp was culled to the window by the rap-
ping of a 1118!] outside, who handed hers
box, telling her to pull back the sliding
cover and she wounl find some pretty
presents for her childrtn. The next morn-
ng the box was crucially opened by the
police and found to contain a pound of
powder and 236 buckshot and sings, Mr.
Stomp does not know that he has an enemy
in the world. _
A Philadelphia hitiit who saw Arabi in
Alexandria last “thin r draws this sketch of
his personal appearance: “A tall, heavy
faced man, sullen, swarthy, with only a
pretty clear eye to soften the general harsh-
ness of i xiari-ssion. and a black moustache to
hide a not particularly finely carved mouth.
His legs are as nnattractiveas his face. The
underpinning looks too frail for the rest of
the body. e isa bulky man, not pussy or
Falstafilan in girth, but a broad, thick
chested fi-llow, built on the lobster pattern.
Take him from his in wavy lit-ad to his spiiitili:
legs. Arabi l’asim reminds one lilL-lc or».
negro than of the agreeable and pluisant
faced genelemcn one meets among the Arabs
and Egyptians.
What the aVerage boy in the newly saith-.1
districts of the South and West thinks of
missionary Sunday-school work, "my be
inferred from the moral letter from Texas.
of amissionary of ii.c Aimrirun Siiiitla).
school Union. 111- “i‘llt'sz “The past
month has been full of inicrming work, I
have traveled in scrotal COUIIHll :, and it is
cheering to hear ilic people spud: so enthu.
sinstically of the success of our Sunday-
schools. ‘It is woiiderfui,’ said an out gen-
donate, ‘to are the imprOVUiit‘ht node by
the Siintlay-sehnol in our COIIluilllIlly in its
first )i'itl'.’ ‘Yt s,’ Snid ii :mull boy, 'll.‘ has
spoiled our Sunday fishing.’ ”—5. 8. Times.
Norwalk Chronicler