A Lit}; '
,GAZETrE.
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How Many
I! Stay?
Of the many brands of soap
placed upon the market dur-
ing the past fifteen years,
how many are now, in exist-
ence?
has stood the test of time.
It fulfils the ' exacting re-
quirements of the New Eng-
s
land housekeepers.
JcEle”
chance-0'2-
EARN-TU GAL
SARATOGA!
Genuine Saratoga \Vater in
block-tin lined barrels direct
from the celebrated Spring, is
for sale on draught at Had-
den’s, corner Wall and River
Street.
THE WATER
Is brought direct from Sara-
toga, and is dispensed in pre-
cisely the same condition in
which it flows from the spring
at Saratoga, and ‘is sold at
5 Cents per Glass.
House-cleaning.
vvu .
Lustrine. _
I Go
-B|Il BUT IN PRIIIE',‘
OF
MEAT.
Round, Sirloin and Por-
terhouse Steaks, Sausge,
Pot and Rib Roasts
Reduced 20. a Pound
All First Quality Meat.
J. W. BOGARDUS,
6 WATER s'r.. NORWALK
NEW CAFE
WITH
REST‘AURAN T
ATTAC HE D.
lVlIKE fiATCI-IFORD,
44 Wain Street,
The Best Wines, Liquors and Cigars.
Horace E. 'Dann.
EIGELSIOB
Livery and Sales Stable.
mWwwva
Opposite Danbury and
Norwalk Railroad depot
Norwalk. Conn. Stylish
Single or Double Team
with or without drivers'
Safe horses for women
‘audchildre . .
This“ V‘ANDERBILTS.
THE HEADS OF THIS FAMILY HAVE
BEEN WORKERS.
though Destined to be Master of Millions,
Cornelius Began His Career as the Hum-
blest and Conscientious of Bank Clerk.
in all the City of New York.
Commodore Vanderbilt had conceiv-
ed the idea, vast in his day, of owning
a railway line from Chicago, the cen-
;er of the food-producing empire of the
West to New York, the Empire City
and seaport. The plan, magnificent
as it seemed in his day, outlived and
outgrew him. His son, William H.,
saw the necessity of extending the line
further westwdrd into the food-grow-
:ng‘territory. Hence the Chicago and
Northwestern, a line greater in extent
than the parent line. Cornelius was
in at the birth of this idea and has ex-
tended it further east and further west,
along collateral lines and through sup-
plementary territory, until now the
"system” stands not for a single line
east and west, but for a network of
lines interlacing the richest territory
on the continent, and it reaches liter-
ally from lands of snow to lands of
sun. All this is history. It is a part,
and no small part, of the industrial
history of the century. And in it the
master mind, the controlling, domin-
ating factor to-day, has been the bank
clerk of other days. There is some
hint of the vastness of his work in the
fact that Cornelius .Vand-erbilt is a
lirector of forty-five raierads.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, a son of Wil-
liam H. the first, was born in New
Dorp, Staten Island, on November 27,
1843. His grandfather was Cornelius
J., the founder of the family. The
young Cornelius went through the com-
mon schools and then entered a bank,
not as president or ornamental direc-
tor, but as a plain clerk, at a plain
clerk's salary.
He went early. to his desk and left
late.- On Saturday night he went to
his father’s farm, in Staten Island, but
he returned on Sunday night, so that
he might be early at his desk on Mon-
day morning.
He saved money and developed
financial independence of his elders.
The father good naturedly laughed at
nis son’s thrift. To the grandfather it
was no laughing matter.
“That boy,’f he said, “will make a
man. He is ”making his own living.”
He had a further test in store for the
young man. After several years in
the bank Cornelius the younger was
summoned to Cornelius the elder. The
Commodore was going to Europe, and
he oilfered to take the boy along. Go-
ing to Europe was no such common
matter in those days as now. To the
overworked bank clerk who had really
never been a boy or known a boy’s
pleasures the temptation must have
been a strong one. '
It is recorded that he did not yield.
The delighted grandfather saw the
young man pause and weigh the pro-
posal. It involved the surrender of his
salary while he was abroad. That
settled it. He shook his head. "I can-
not afford it,” was his reply.
That incident, it is said, did much to
fix the young man in his grandfather’s
esteem. At the age of twenty the boy
was transferred to the banking house
of Kissam Brothers, on a broader and
more lucrative footing, but he still
stuck to the patient, methodical habits,
to the quiet and uncomplainlng indus-
try bf the bank clerk.
The Commodore about this time saw
fit to raise William H. to a higher
place in his regard and gave to him a
share in the management of their then
infant Vanderbilt system. Cornelius
junior shared in his father’s good
favor and was transferred from the
bank to the office of the Harlem road.
This was his first taste of railroad
work. Within four years, which had
been four years of work and not of
play, he was made treasurer.
The child is father to the man. These
early years of toil developed the in~
born traits of character which ruled
all his later life. His industry and
watchfulness and habits of economy
were in a measure farced upon him.
They were destined to serve him when
he came to the mastery of a financial
and industrial principality, when he
became charged with the conservation
of an almost unbounded fortune.
He has been compared to the elder
Cornelius. his grandfather. The Com-
modore was single of purpose, tireless
and pertinacious, and these qualities
be transmitted to his grandson. Cor-
nelius, junior, is generous, high-mind
ed and open-souled.
He is a consistent churchman. noble
'In his aspirations; charitable, the pa-
tron of arts, the friend of his family.
He has been compared to his father,-
out they had very little in common. =
The merest view of Cornelius Yam
ierbilt’s life would find him immersed
beyond the common depth in many
activities. First, set down the all-con-
suming business to which he paid
tribute in blood and strength from the
days of his youth. For more than
thirty years he has wrought nine or
ten hours daily, with short and infre-
quent vacations. at the work that came
to him as a heritage.
Measured by the responsibilities it
entailed to himself, his family land to
more than 100,000 men who served
him, his work has been to him a roll.-
ion.
How great is Mr. Vanderbilt’s for~
tun-e? Only guesswork can answer
that question. He had something like
$10,000,000 when his grandfather died.
Hisfather left him $12,000,000 besides
and a residuary interest inthe estate,
' whose value no man can more than
guess. It has been estimated at $85,-
000,000. If he kept what he had and
added thereto the customary five per
cent. per annum it is plain that the
fortune must now be far in excess 01
' $150,000,000. ‘
SADDLE HORSES! A SPECIALTY l
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A WONDERFUL DOG, INDEED.
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Story of Andrew Lang’s Extraordinary
Canine, Oscar.
A Newfoundland named Oscar, be-
longing to myself, had often listened
with much interest to stories of rescue
of drowning persons by dogs. I happen
to possess an engraving of Landseer’s
“Member of the Humane Society.” Os-
car would contemplate it for hours, and
study the pose in the mirror. One day
_ a couple of little children were playing
together on St. Andrew’s pier, and I
was sketching the ruins at a short dis-
tance, Oscar running about playing on
the pier.
I happened to look up and saw Oscar.
as if inadvertently, but quite deliberate-
ly, back one of the children—Johnny
Chisholm by name—into the water,
which is there very deep. The animal
then gave three loud yells to attract at
tention. He had been taught to give
“three cheers for Mr. Gladstone.” He
then jumped into the water, rescued
the child, and carried him to the local
photographer’s, obviously that the deed
might be commemorated by art. No
body saw the beginning of the tragedy
except myself.
Oscar, when brought home, deliber-
ately rapped out “Humane Society”
with his tail on the floor, but, much as
I appreciated his intelligence, I could
not, in common honesty, give him a tes-
timonial. This prayed on his mind; he
accompanied a party to the top of St.
Rule’s Tower, and. deliberarely leaped
from the top, being-dashed to pieces at
the feet of an eminent divine whose
works he had often, but unsuccessfully,
entreated me to review in an unfavora-
ble sense. His plan was to bring the
book, lay it at my feet, and'return with
man’s Magazine.
A‘ MATTER OF PATENTS.
The Greatest Inventions Were Never
Patented.
If you look back on the history of hu-
man progress you will find that none of
the great epoch making inventions has
' ever been patented. The man who lit
the first fire—whether Prometheus or
the party from whom he stole the in.
vention—did not get a patent for it.
Neither did the man who made the first
wheel—in every sense one of the most
revolutionary inventions in the history
of man.
The same thing may be said of the
inventions of soap, candles, gunpowder
umbrellas, and the mariner’s compass;
or, to come down to our own day, of
the steam engine and the electric tale
graph. .
Patents are mostly concerned with
small mechanical details and improve-
ments—it may be in candles or umbrel-
las, or it may be in the application of
steam or electricity—and’by means of
these patents enormous profits have been
secured to second rate inventors; but
the great ideas and discoveries which
underlie these details have been given
to the world gratis.
There is a general notion that if you
did not protect inventions by means oi
patents inventors would cease to in-.
vent, and material progress would come
to a. standstill.
History does not bear this fact out in
the least. Men with great mechanical
gifts do not exercise them solely with a
view to commercial profit any more
than astronomers search the heavens
for new worlds with an eye to register-
ing patents and floating companies on
the results of their discoveries. —Lon~
I don Truth.
THE SIZE OF THE SUN.
To Cross it by Train \Vould Take Two
Years and a Half.
The sun, provided we measure only
the disk seen with the smoked glass, is
866,000 miles in diameter—i. e., 108
earths could be comfortably ranged side
by side across the disk. To cover the
surface-would require many thousands.
To fill the interior we should need 1,-
300,000. ‘
On a. smaller scale we might represent
the sun by a ball two feet in diameter,
and the earth by a good sized grain of
shot. Let the sun be hollowed out,
then place the earth at its centre, and
let the moon revolve about it at its real
distance of 240,000 miles. There would
yet remain nearly 200,000 miles of space
between the moon’s orbit and the enclos-
ing shell of the sun.
Indeed, to journey from one side of
the sun to the other, through the cen-
tre, would take one of our swiit express
trains nearly two years and a half. So
vast a globe must be heavy. Since its
density is only one- quarter that of - the
earth, it only weighs as much as 332,-
000 earths or two octillions of tons! The
attraction of gravity on its surface
would cause a man whose weight was
150 pounds to weigh two tons.—Ladies
Home Journal.
“Honeymoon Row.”
There is an apartment house in Chi-
cago whose. forty flats contain forty
bridal couples. In the same building
are twenty- four un finished flats. These
have all been rented to couples who will
have been married by the time the flats
are completed. Chicagoans call the
structure “Honeymoon Row.”
This castle of love is at the corner of
Francisco and W'alnut streets, in the
heart of Chicago’s most popular section,
"the great West Side. It fronts upon
two sides Of a corner, but completes a
quadruple of buildings that hedge in a
small, but charming park—New York
Journal.
Millions and Title J oin Again.
Yet another millionairess is to, be
converted into an “Old World Princess.”
Miss Milmo, who has a dowry of two
millions sterling, has married Prince
Albert Radziweil. The guture Prin-
cess is a sister of Mrs. Eugene Kelly,
one of the richest women in the world.
The Radziwells are Poles, and rather
given to making good matches in the
financial sense. One of them says the
Chronicle, married the rich daughter of
I M. Blane, the founder of Monte Carlo. _. ‘
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the carving knife in his mouths-Long:
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“ HUG KNEW HOWELLS.
Literary Chat of Two Clever Young
People of Nowhere.
Time—Now. I
Place—Nowhere.
Dramatis Personae: Young man who
reads Sunday papers and has the nerve
to take chances on talking books to a
young women; young woman who
doesn’t rec-.laanything and has the wit
to fancy the young mar. doesn’t know
any more than she-does.
He—Eave you read Mr. Howells’ last
book?
Shs-—You mean “Bonnie Brier Bush?"
. Ila-Yes. Charming story, isn't It?”
fins—Exquisite.
Pie—I think Howells is one ct‘ our best
wnters on fiction. I mean good. whole
some fiction.
Sho——‘l’es, and he makes his chemo
ters so true to life. Take, for instance,
the leading man in the "Brier Bush"—-
um-er—uni—how silly of me to forge'
the name. Isn't it—-—”
He-—I think Sherlock Holmes
for to.
She—Jl'hat’s it. I have such a poor
memory for names. Quite unfortunate.
isn’t it? '
He (laughing)—-Yes, but we are all
that way, more or less. It’s a wonder!
was able to recall the name.
She—As I was going on to say, I
think that character is in some partic-
Elars one of the finest in American fic
1011.
He—And still it does not strike me as
favorably as that of his gentle and for
givmg wife.
She—Naturally, the woman would be
more interesting to you than the man.
He—Possibly that has something to
do with my opinion; but still you must
admit her character is a. fine one, and
that Mr. Howells understands the fem-
inine heart.
She—Of course he must.
he write novels, if he didn’t?
He—Hc couldn’t, I suppose.
She—Do you think novels are instruc-
tive?
IIe—Of course they are.
as a great many things.
She—M amma says they teach us a great
deal we shouldn’t know.
Pic—That’s the old fogy idea. Modern
ideas are quite different.
She—I do wish I had time to read
more. I dearly love the companionship
of books.
He—I think you are quite well read.
don’t you know.
She (modestly)-—Not as well as I
should be. I fancy you have read near-
ly all the new books.
He—Really; you flatter me. I try to
keep abreast of the times in literary
matters. At least sufficiently so to talk
intelligibly on the subject.
She—That’s what I try to do, and I
presume if we do that much it ought to
be all that should be expected of us.
HenIndeed, I think so, too. Miss
Carter was saying yesterday——
She—Excuse me for interrupting you,
but did you know she was engaged?
He—To Jack Strong?
She—Yes.
He—Wonder what she is thinking
about!
She—Marrying, I presume.
He (laughing)--That’s good. I’ll
make a note of it. Really, don’t you
know, that’s bright enough to come
from one of Mr. Howells’ stories. Is it
your own?
And the conversation continues indef-
initely—Washington Star.
you re
How could
They teach
YOUNG~-BUT A HUSTLER.
The Story of a. Twelve-year Old Boy who
Will Make His Way.
There is a boy in this town that you
would do well to keep your eye on. His
name is Lawrence Wheeler. He is only
twelve years old, but he is the oldest of
a family of seven children, and his par-
ents are poor. But that boy is a nust-
ler. We got acquainted with him nearly
a year ago, when he began to strike us
for jobs. And ever since then we have
never seen' him when he wasn’t busy,
either doing something or hunting
something to do. We never see him
sneaking around a corner to smoke a
cigarette, and We never saw him loaf-
ing, or heard an idle or insolent word
from his lips.
For a long time he sold cobs around
town wherever he could find a one
tomer, but here of late he has taken the
oil wagon, and is going to see what he
can do with that. He has no horse of
his own, but he told us in a simple and
unafiected way that several men had
offered to help him buy one. Of course
they have. Don’tgyou suppose that
every man in town who knows that
boy is his friend and wants to help him
along? His family has lately moved into
town, and Lawrence has undertaken to
keep up the rent—$6.25 a month, as his
share of the family expenses, in addi.
tion, of course, to clothing himself. We
found out all these things by asking
him, not by any self- praise or complaint
of his. ‘He doesn’t seem to think he is
doing anything uncommon, or that he
deserves special credit, He takes it all
as a matter of course and goes about it
as if he were already a. man. And he is
a man, God bless him, for all his twelve
years—101a, Kan. Register.
One Essential Missing.
“Jorkins, have you everything now
that you will need for yOur fishing
trip?” asked Mrs. J ., solicitously.
“Not by a jugful,” said Jorkins, to
the good woman’s astonishment.—-—De-
aroit Free Press. .
Where D.ogs are Expensive.
Dogs fit for hauling sledges are in
great demand at Juneau, Alaska, and
bring from $30 to $50 each. On one
steamer from Seattle 75 were received.
and the cry is still for more.
The “King’s Days.”
The “three King’s days,” it is said,
are May 19, 20 and 21, and the. king is
lack Frost. The reference is to the
.slerman rule, _“Never to plant what
rost will injure until the three Kings’
._-.ys are past.” ‘
' WAS A REVELATION
To Her And Many Others In Nor--
walk.
It is always arevelation to ever
sufi‘erer from kidney complaints. Sury:
prise and gratitude are the im ressions
it leaves behind. Medicines hzve come
and gone, some with merit, others with
none. Cures spring up in the papers like
mushrooms but are soon declared toad
stools from lack of profit. The people
lived too far away. Facts are wanted.
Whom have you cured ? That is what
is wanted. "Tell me of neighbors that
have” found refief and I will believe
you. That is plain English. The dis-
ease may have a Latin name, but any-
one understands pain. Anyone would
rather have relief from backache than
toknow the Latin name for it. And
still it is well to know the cause. Nine
times out of ten it comes from the kid-
neys. That’s why .Doan’s Kidney Pills
are so successful With all kinds of bad
backs. What proof have we of this
success? The only satisfactory proof
nglkypui—lgorwalki testimony. A Nor-
a y as goo reason
of Doan’s Kidney Pills. to speak well
Werefer to Mrs. Alex. C. McLean
who livesat No. 18 Maple street. Mrs.
McLean is wellknown to Norwalk peo-
ple being the Wlfe of the popular man-
ager of a big New York jobber’s Drug
House. She has been a sufferer for
two years and a half, was under treat-
ment With a Brooklyn specialist who
claimed she had chronic Bright’s Dis-
ease.’ She got Doan’s Kidney Pills at
Hales drug store and began taking
them. Mrs. McLean says: “I do not
care to go _1nto-the details of my case.
Doan s Kidney Pills are helping me
andIfeel very much better. I have
great confidence in their merit.”
Doan s Kidney Pills are for sale by
all dealers. Price 50 cents per box, six
boxes for $2.50. By mail on receipt of
price by Foster—Milburn 00., Bufialo,
N. Y. , solemgents for the U. S.
Why continue to pass our ni hts in
scratching and your dayys in ngiisery?
Doan s Ointment brings instant relief,
and permanently cures even the worst
cases of Itching Piles. It never fails.
AT?
P. w. BATES’
42 WATER STREET,
you can find as fine an assortment of
IIflIlllIIlflIllIllIlUfllIlfllfll‘I’Wfll‘ll
As can be found in any Yard in the
State. Look itover and get prices -
before gomg elsewhefe. "
I I LIGHT PARCEL and
LUBKWIIIIIIS PACKAGE DELIVERY
Cheap rates, Will also take orders for mes
wager service in New York. Goods called
.or and dehyered to all ' arts of the town.
Orders received at E. P. eed’s Drug Store.
Wall Street. With telephone connection un-
%' c n. LOCKWOOD.
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DORLON noose"?
earcom's POINI.
New out. FOR THE sound "or 1896. 1
Shore Dinners, , .
Rhoda Island Glam Bake.
Bathing. Boating. Fishing.
Electric cars to Hotel, every twenty
minutes. -
JOHN E. O’SULLIVAN,
Manager.
MEEKER COAL co,
con, wooo, BRICK,
LIME, CEMENT, mt PIPE. .
OFFICE WITH G. WARD SELLECK
WALL STREET. NORWt‘ LK.
IDIHS’
B l a z o n
Soap Powder,
For Kitchen Use
Excells all others.
Ask Your Grocer For It.
The following Grocers have it on sale: E. J.
Finnegan. Main street; 1’. J. O’Brien, Cha 61
stret; M. Abraham. Plattsville avenue; rs.
Harriet A. Northrop, Unionville' A. .
East Norwalk; _D. Boson, South Norwalk; J.
L. June..W1nn1pauk: N. Driscoll. Westport.
Bred Scribner. A. A. Av1son. Hu h Donnelly.
George Pomeroy. Chapel street. ‘. H. More-
house, West avenue, D. Gormley. Spring Hill,
E. Schachaf, Harbor avenue. D. Schachat.
Franklin avenue. /
J. D. Jennings.
UNDERTAKER
a Knight street.opposite
Street Railway Depot
NIGHT BELL 41 OFFICE.
YOUR FRIENDS ARE USING
PLAISTED’S coueH REMEDY,
AND RECOMMEND I’I'S USE "
Get‘a Bottle at once. 25 and 50 Cents.
ALL DRUGGISTS.
ROTON POINT
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SOUTH NORWALK, couN.
A Charming Summer Resort on Long Island Sound._
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FIIIE BATHIIIS HOUSES!
SEIIEIIAL ATTIIAGTIIIIISI‘
Every facility for providing for large excursions.
Roton Point Improvement Co.
OWNERS AND PROPRIETORS,
J. FINKENSTEIN, Manager.
Towle Vault Light Company,
MANUFACTURERS.
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dNDPlTENTLIGHT DESIGNS. ,
Factory:
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