, FREE BUTTONS! ELEGANT BUTTON FREE WITH EACH PACKAGE Sweet Caporal Cigarettes AN OPPORTUNITY TO IMKE A (BULLETIN! OF BII'I'TOIIS WITHOUT cosT. LUNKWOUB’S LIGHT Pancho. and Cheap rates. Will also take orders 't’or mes wager service N ew York. ' Gnods- called or and delivered to all parts of the town. Orders received atE P. Wood’s Dru" Store Wall Street. with telephone connection un- ' n E LOCKWOOD. Ace" . P. W. BAT ES 42 WATER STREET, you can find as fine an assortment of NOOONOOIOINOOOIOIOI‘Y WOI‘K As can be found in any Yard in the State. Look it over and get prices , before going elsewhere. W. H. HAYWARD & CO. Pastor Attorneys and Solicitors, i 09 East Capitol Street, WASHINGTON, D. C All classes of claims prosecuted before the Interior Department. Rejected pension claims a specialty. Correspondence solicited. Booorsorrrrrroro NOAAE‘ A PliiiE IIIIILT 'E'xriilor. A suosTITII'rE ron soLIo rooo. Highest percentage Extract. . Lowest percentage Alcohol. An efi'ectlveTonic. An agreeable Beverage. _A mild.Stimu- lant. Just what physrcrans Will pre- scribe for Nursing Mothers . Convales- cents and victims of Insomnia or Nerv- ous Disorders resulting from Impaired Digestion and Ov‘erwork. ‘ For Sale and Delivered Anywhere Lona Isl-and Bottling 00., 280-284- Bergen St., Brooklyn. ‘ FOR SALE BY EDWARD P. WEED. PRIVATE Instructions given in BOXING ' . ‘ at the pupil’s home. CLASS ' Now fo.ming, and ap- plicants desiring to join should apply at once to Prof. Geo. Yoerger, South Norwalk. ‘ or at this office. W ”—0 That you can save money ‘by buying your Meats and Fish at -/ ' r. w. SlilTil’S, 55 Main Street- Everything First Class. OPEN ‘EV-ENINGS \ PACKAGE DELIVERY SOBER FIVE YEARS. MILLIONS WON BY A CALIFORNIA MAN BY A TERM OF SOBRIETY. The Courts Asked to Decide Whether George Crocker Has Been Really Sober for that Time. His Father’s Will Made it an Object for Hirn to Give Up Drink. George Crocker has served notice on the trustees of his father’s estate that he has been sober for five consecutive years, and that he now wants the for- tune left him by his father. Charles CrOcker, the Pacific Coast millionaire, was aware of his son George’s convivial habits, and some time before he died decided that he would so guard the fortune he in- tended for George that he could never get it unless he mended his ways. He accordingly placed a large sum in the hand-s of trustees on April 22, 1887, with an iron clad trust deed, which provided that . if his son George Crocker kept sober for five consecu- tive years within the fifteen years fol- lowing the creation of the trust he could have the fortune. Charles Crocker’s two other sons, Charles F. and William H. Crocker, were appointed the trustees, and it was especially provided that Géorge Crocker must prove that he-rhad shun- ned the flowing bowl for a solid block of five years. As long as the elder Crockcr was alive, George showed no intention to win his fortune. He was always well supplied with funds, and, “taking no thought for the morrow,” he went on in his usual ways. But his eyes were opened when his father died, August 14, 1888. Then he discovered that nothing was left him except the trust, which he must earn. Forever a month George pondered over the situation, and finally decided to make a determined efiort to win the fortune that composed the trust fund. It was in 1891, that he came to this resolution, and he gave notice to all his friends that for five years from that date he would drink no more. “Don’t ask me to take a drop of anything,” he said, and his friends, knowing the conditions of the trust, did not press him. The period of George Crocker’s pro- bation was up recently and the first thing he did was to notify the broth- ers that he wanted. the fortune, of which they were the trustees. The brothers were not only willing, ut anxious, to give George the fortune, which they thought he had rightly earned. The conditions of the trust, however, made them hesitate. It had been provided that if George Crocker failed to keep sober the required five years the fortune should be divided between the children of the two trus- tees and 'Mrs. Harriet V. Alexander. In their quandary the trustees have appealed to the Superior Court to set- tle the whole question. They say that the minors who would receive the money in the event of George Crock- er’s failure to do so, may have some reason to question the declaration that he has been sober the required time, and hence ask the court to determine whether their brother George is en- titled to the money. George Crocker, it is said, is pre- pared to go into court and furnish the proof_t11at he has earned the money. .,, NOT AS WISE AS SERPENTS- A Number of Foolish Snakes that Had a Lot of Work for Nothing. “Talking of snakes,” said a man who had recently arrived from the wilds of Nicaragua, “reminds me of an incident I witnessed while I was in the interior of the little republic. It was in the section where the hills ap- proach the rivers. I happened to be paddling down the stream, and halted to escape the sun under a bank that was some thirty feet above the low ground, forming an abrupt declivity. “While. I was leaning against the trunk of a large trumpet tree near the bank of the river I happened to glance up at the edge of the cliff and noticed a snake hanging head downward and swinging in the open space. W’hile I was wondering I was more surprised at seeing another reptile climb down the body of the first and coil his tail about its neck. Then there came another and another, all doing the same thing until there was a rope of snakes reaching within about three feet of the ground, all pursuing the same tactics as the second. Then I realized that the things were trying to reach bottom in this original manner. They did not reach low enough and directly the bottom ones crawled to the top and shortly reappeared, each with a small bit of twig in his month. When the first one with the twig reached the end of the rope the hang- ing one grasped the wood in his mouth and the other hung tail down. Then a second dropped down the rope, coiled his tail abOut the tail of the other, and hung head down with,the stick in his mouth, and a third, climb- ing “the living coils, in his turn grasped the other piece of the twig, and was suspended tail down like the first. By the aid of the pieces of twig they lengthened the coil until the bottom snake touched the ground—” “Say,” queried one of the interested listeners, “what became of the snakes at the top; did they drop?” That was just the thing. When the bottom snake was about to let go, he seemed to realize that the ones at the top would be no nearer terra firma than before, changed his mind, and, crawling up slowly, apparently, in- formed the others, and the'links short- cued as the snakes crawled up, and the last I saw of the lot they were hunting ,for a piece of twist vine to make a rope ladder.” ‘ Fast Faded. Bliss. More than one lover has had his love dispelled by an onion laden kiss. —Dansvillc Breeze. ‘ ._ >. T “ HE HAS CAVED m. Mrs. Wigton‘s Lessons Not Wasted '0ch Her Growling Husband. rigton nas always had an idea that he is about all there is of his rather extensive family, and ever since their marriage has treated the clever Mrs. Wigton with an exaggerated defer- ence to her weaker sex that just placed her above the level of contempt. The other-evening he sat reading the paper when he broke forth in the pompous manner which he regards as \the unmistakable mark of his superi- ority: ' “Now listen to this. Here’s a we- man that’s something like. It’s a chap in Utah that’s writing and he says that ‘Any genuine daughter of this Holy Land can play a Beethoven son- ata or a Chopinnoeturne, write a poem, lead a quadrille or a prayer meeting, shear a sheep or spank a re- fractory urchin with a vigor and grace and a delicacy and precision of tech nique that would send the green-eyed lobsters of hopeless envy galloping and gamboling through all the rosebud gardens of girlhood and womanhood in the effete gold—buggy East.” “You like that?” queried the clever Mrs. Wigton. “I certainly do. It shows the grand heights to which cultured woman- hood can rise to fit companionship for superior man.” ' , The next minute the sweet, true notes of 3. Beethoven sonata burst from the grand piano, filled the house and through the doors and windows floated on the soft evening air. “Stop that infernal racket!” yelled Wigton. “Don’t you know that I’m trying to read? I object to having a music hall made of my private resi- dence.” ~ A masterly rendition from Chopin set Wigton roaring again, and a little later the rhythmic sound of a ma- ternal slipper doing active duty as a disciplinarian, accompanied by the cries of a refractory boy caused him to rush profanely for his hat and head for the club. “Bring home a sheep,” called the clever wife as he made record time down the walk, “and I’ll show you how to shear it.” New Wigton is humble and looks at his wife in a puzzled way. Whenever he attempts to mount his high horse all she has to do is to suggest having a dance, that she may lead the quad- rille, or go to prayer meeting, that she may lead there. - ' RISE OF THE WRITING WOMAN. She Has Blade Her \Vay in Spite of All Obstacles. Women, observes a writer in “Tem~ ple Bar,” are just emerging from ’the egg of suppression; it is natural that, like newly hatched chickens, they should chirp a little just at first. “There are so few of us who have dis- tinguished ourselves; why should we not give ourselves serious and re- sponsible airs?” Women are terribly self-conscious; directly one of them attains to celebrity she feels the eyes of all the world upon her, and she at once ceases to be natural. She thinks that the small applause of her coterie “is the great wave that rushes round the world,”and forthwith she must needs wish to found a society or a re- ligion, or at any rate talk of her work as if it began with a capital letter. Hence arise all of the cruel jokes and unchivalrous gibes that had been leveled at her, and which we have only to look at the pages of Punch of thirty years back to appreciate the full force of. To fully understand woman’s ar- rogance now, we must recall the in- justiCes .from which she has suffered. Only little more than a century ago, Dr. Johnson, in alusion to women and public speaking, delivered himself of a scathing invective. No doubt he would have said equally, “Sir, a wo- man’s writing is like a dog’s walking on his hind legs it is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all.” Edward Fitzgerald, nearly a century later, though he goes so far as to allow “taste to be the feminine of genius,” says of a literary lady, “She and her sex had better mind her kitchen and their children, and per- haps the poor; except in such things as little novels, they only devote them- selves to what men do much better, leaving that which men,do worse, or not at all.” The Reward of Virtue. The following story is related of a gentleman who invited a number of Sunday school children to a treat on his beautiful grounds. Not the least appreciated among the many good things were the excellent strawberries and cream, of which there was a plen- tiful supply. , Seeing how the children enjoyed these, the good man, wishing to im- prove the occasion, addressed them: “Well, boys,” he said, “I hope you have thoroughly enjoyed your straw- berries and cream?” “Yes, sir,” was the reply, in lusty chorus. “But suppose,” he continued, “that instead of having been invited here you had stolen over my garden 'wall and helped yourself when no one was looking, you would not enjoyed them half so much, would you ?” “No, sir,” replied the chorus. “And why not?” queried their ben- efactor. ’ To this question there was no im» mediate response, the boys being ap. parently shy Of giving any reason. At length, however, a little urchin, rather bolder than the rest, piped out: “’Cause we shouldn’t have'had no cream with theml”—Pittsburgh Dis- patch. ' “Fame,” said Dr. Holmes, “usually comes to those who are thinking about something else; rarely to those who say to themselves: ‘Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual.’ ” Lead ............... 19 ' Louisville &Nash. 4.2% n WEEKLY - NORWALK --.GAZETTE.A TWO POLICZIIL-‘li ELAIN. White and His Son Killed Two and la- tally ‘Vunnded a. Third. COLUMBUS, Ga, Oct. 16.——.T. A. White, a shoemaker, and hem-y White, his son, murdered two policemen on Thirteenth street. this city, and fatally wounded an- other on Sixteenth street shortly after- ward. There was no cause for the com- mission of the crime other than the fact that both men had been summoned to ap- pear before the recorder tomorrow for some trivial offense. Richard Adams was the policeman who summoned the two men to court, and im- mediately after he presented the subpoenas both men armed themselves and. returned to Ramsey’s bar, near where Adams was standing. The elder White deliberately leveled :1 Winchester and shot Adams just above the heart, killing him almost in- stantly. Policeman Jackson, who was paw trolling the adjoining bent, heard the shot and ran to the scene. He was met by both the Whites, who began firing at him as he turned the corner from First avenue. He was shot four times and «lied. After the commission of the second mur- der the two men walked leisurely up First avenue to their home on Sixteenth street, where Policeman Charles Roberts went to arrest them. In answer to his knock upon the door Roberts received a bullet in the stomach from White’s winchester. He staggered to the street mortally wounded. By the time the third policeman had fallen a crowd of over 500 armed men had regal:- ed the scene and the murderers’ house was surrounded. Tom Jackson, marshal of Girard, and Zeno Pickett, an ex-policeman of this city, volunteered to ml: White out of his house. Four other men offered to follow them, and the crowd charged on the house, firing hundreds Of bullets into the windows and doors. When the fusillade ceased, Jackson and Pickett forced open the door, whereupon White began firing upon them. The two men rushed in upon him, and after shooting him a half dozen times dragged him into the street: Imme— diately after delivering White to the crowd Pickett fell to the sidewalk from the ef- fects of what is believed to be a mortal wound. He was taken to a nearby hOuse, where he is still quartered, and, though in a critical condition, there is a faint hope for his recovery. Young White escaped from the house and crossed the river into Alabama, where he was captured by P0- licemen Osborne and Threllkeld of this city. He was brought to. this place and placed in jail. It is believed that he will be lynched. THE BANOROPT’S MISSION. English Papers Discredit the Report That She \Vill Cooree Abdul. LONDON, Oct. 16.—All of the morning papers here discredit the report circulated in the United States that the Bancroft was to proceed through the Da‘rdanellcs without regard to any protest offered by Turkey. and was to be protected in doing so if necessary by the United States squad- ron at Smyrna. The Chronicle says the report is “purely sensational, without a vestigo of truth,” and suggests that in the event of the United States deciding to do for Europe what Europe does not dare to do for herself the United States with three cruisers might seize the customs‘at Smyrna. The Graphic and Post concur in the opinion that such action as the passage of the Dardanelles by the Bancroft would fail to'ssttle the eastern problem. The Graphic says the report is “a stupid ca- nard. " The Post thinks that perhaps there is a kernel of truth in the report and that Russia’s good ofi‘ices have been invoked to induce the sultan to permit an American vessel to proceed to Constantinople. The Bancroft at Smyrna. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—-'l‘he Ban. aft, concerning whose trip to the Mediterra- nean sensational reports have been pub- lished, arrived at Smyrna today. Killed Himself by Gas. NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 16.—George M. Jaggers, aged 50 years, at one time the largest hat manufacturer in the east, while in a fit of despondency over losses, com- mitted suicide today by inhaling gas at his home, 50 Nelson place, this city. The Niagara Incident. LONDON, Oct. 16.—-The yachting papers this week discuss the Niagara incident on the same lines as‘last week, The Yachting World condemning Mr. Howard Gould and The Yachtsman upholding him. The Weather. Fair; stationary temperature; Westerly winds. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL Closing Quotations of the New York Stock Exchange. . NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—-Money on call firm at 6®7 per cent. Prime mercantile pa r nom- inally 7% per cent. Sterling e change easier, with actual business in bankers’ bills at 34.83% for demand and 84.80% for 60 days. Posted rates, $4.81}é@4.83 and successes. Commercial bills, 54.79%. Silver certificates, 64%@65: no sales. Bar silver. 64%c. Mexican dollars, 49%0. Government bonds firm. State bonds dull. Railroad bonds firm. Closing prices: Atchison ......... .. 13 N. J. Central ..... 99% north- Bur. & Quincy..... 68% North American. 4% C., C., C. & St. L.. 25% Northern Pacific 13% Chesapeake & 0.. 14 Do. pref .......... 20% Chicago Gas ....... 59% N. Y. Central.... 9016 Cordage............ 454 Omaha..... ...... 86 Cotton Oil ......... 14% Ontario 8: West. 13% Del. & Hudson....123}§ Pacific Mail...... 19 Erie ................ 13% Reading.......... 22% General Electric.. 25% Rock Island...... 59% Hocking V alley... 6% Silver Bullion.... 65 Lackawanna ...... 156 St. Paul .......... 69 Lake Shore ........ 144 Sugar Reflnery..lo7 5 Texas Pacifip.... Union Pdcrfio.... 7 Wabash pref..... QM Western Union.. 82% Missouri Pacific.. . Northwestern ..... 19% 93 General Markets. 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