WEE K L Y ' Non iv ALK-GAZETTE. ' 3' 3 ‘ .we» “.- is THE MAN WHO NEVER LOST. ”The man who never knew deft-ail" ‘i—Iow proudly does he stride! How blindly thoughtless people, too. Go flocking to his side! ' “The man who never knew defeat” May set a nation free—— He may be great, but there is one More great by far than he! “The man who never knew defeat" Has never passed the test That lies behind the truly great And proves ,them first and best! “The man who never knew defeat" Is pitiful and small Beside the one who loses and Can triumph after all. "The man who never knew defea " HMay be the one to choose As leader in the battle—but What if he chanced to lose? Above the man whomever lost n'llhe one to trust is he Tfii bravely rises from defeat 3’ " goes to victory! » -§.7E.,‘Klser, in; Chicago Times-Herald. 'Pcrpcrcd fthc *‘B‘a’ndit g “- T’S queer,” saida man from Col-’5 ~ ~ orado, “what. different- ideas men: have as to how they’ll act in-case they ‘ever get involved in a train or stage ‘stick-up’ or hold up, as you call it back this way. Myself, I’ve been stuck-up 8t theipoint of one or more guns on three different. occasions, and on each occasion I’ve pointed my mitts heaven-- ward without any fuss or feathers whatsoever, and delivered the goods with nary a whimper. But-I never fig- ured on‘ doing anything else. Before I ever got held up at all I always said to myself that. when the time arrived for some fellow to poke at gun into my face and request me to elevate my: arms, I’d do what he asked me to do without. any questions at. all, and let him have all he could find on me without any side- stepping or murmuring. I considered that that was the only sensible thing t05)do, and I consider so yet. So, while it ,cost- me. a heap more than I really coilld afford to fork over my little val- uables on the three occasions the boys of the road have nailed me, I always pat-ted myself on the back and told myself that, while I mayn’t. have been very heroic or dare-devilish, I did the wise" thing in getting away with a com- plete and unpunctured hide. “But I’ve often met chaps who were simply going to cut a- dog in two in case anybody ever tried to stick them up at the end of a. gun. They were. go- ing to decline to be held up, and teach the bandit: or bandits a. lesson. It is remarkable, the bra-very some of these fellows were go- ing to exhibit whenever any bold, bad proposition with a mask tried to co- erce them into handing over the stuff they had on them. In nine cases outof ten these large and ample talkers are the very first to cast up their paws when the command rings through the ear or coach: ‘Hands up!’ and fihe last . ll / l l , . _ , é}. “EVERYBODY PUT ’EM Ul’ QUICK!” to take them down when the robber has fired his little. parting volley and taken to the tall cactus. But you can never tell how a man’s going to act in a stick-up. _ “About six years ago I was riding through southeastern Colorado on a west-bound train. I was only making a six-hour journey of it, and soI took the smoker and stayed there. There were about 25 or 30 men in the smoker, all pretty comfortable looking chaps. A dyspeptic-looking little man, about40 years old, with a Bostonese dialect, sat in the seat ahead of me, and an hour or so after I boarded the train he engaged me in conversation. . " ‘Belong out this way?’ he asked me, in a characteristic New England d rau‘l. “ ‘ch,’ said I. “ ‘Ileason I ask you that,’ said he, ‘is that I’ve heard there have been a. lot. of hold-ups on the railroads out this way lately. That. right?’ “ ‘Pretty near,’ said I. “ ‘Ever find yourself mixed up in one of those affairs?’ he asked me. “ ‘Couple times,’ I told him. “ ‘Did you let ’em go through you ‘3” he asked me, with a searchinglook. “‘Don’t you think otherwise for a holy minute,’ said I. ‘I am my sole re- maining support, and, in general, 1 find life a pretty good game. It’s the best I know anything about, anyhow.’ “ ‘Well,’ said the dyspeptic-looking little chap, in his piping draw]. ‘I’d just like to see the loafers get any of my money, that’s all! I’d just like to catch them ~tit!’ _ “I couldn’t help smiling amusedly. “ ‘Why, what would you do?’ I asked him. grinning right in his teeth—I couldn’t have helped it to save me. ,, “ ‘Never you mind, sir, what I’d do!’ said the little man, choppily. “I’d take good care that they didn’t get any of my goods. however! I’d fix ’em! Yes, siree, the train robber doesn’t _ walk in shoe leather that’s ever going . rto relieve. me of a copper cent, and don’t " you fail to-remember that!’ . “The little man, who. as I afterward ascertained, was on his way to Cali- rn f for his health, looked so puff-1 toady and fierce while he was getting off those brave remarks that I couldn’t help but laugh in his face. That net- tled him a trifle, but 1 smoothed it over and made a remark or so to him about the general matter of train hold—ups. “ ‘My friend,’ said I, in conclusion, ‘the only advice I can give you is, if any of these chaps ever comes along your way and asks you to call heaven to witness with your two hands point- ing to the zenith, just you do it, that’s all, and do it in a. hurry; do it a-running; be nice and good about it, and don’t get gay; don’t endeavor to be frivolous with a man that’s gotthe edge,on you with a 45-caliber lead- spitter.’ . “‘Just .let one of ’em try it with, me, that’s all! ’ exclaimed the little man, fiercely, and then we changed the sub-; ject. “Well, at about nine o’clock that night we pulled up at. a little station called Tyrone, to give the engine a drink. We only halted there about four minutes, but it was long enough. The train hadn’t got more than five miles out of Tyrone before we heard a lot of shots up forward—the smoker was the second car from the engine— and the train came to a halt. The wheels had scarcely ceased to revolve, when the front door of the smoker was \ thrown Open with a bang, and the com- , mand rang through the car like the crack of a whip: “ ‘Everybody put ’em up! Quick!’ “A tall, raw-boned man, with a strag- gling red mustache, stood in the door calmly ,waving his gun from side to side with the characteristic movement of an expert gun-fanner. He looked business all over. I decided instant- ly—I’d put'my hands up before I’d done any deciding, however—that. he wasn’t any amateur, and that. he was going to get all that was coming to him. ] couldn’t help but notice that the dys- peptic-looking little man in front. of me threw up his hands with the rest, although he did a bit of fumbling with his right. hand before it went up in the air. “ ‘Seein’ that my podncr’s busy keepin’ tab on th’ loco-driver,’ said the raw-boned bandit—he didn’t wear any mask, and there was a certain devilish twinkle in his eye as he spoke—‘I’ll jes‘ ask you gentlemen to spring what you’ve got on with one hand at a time, as I pass along, and I’ll do the rest.’ “He wore a hickory bag, suspended by a string around his neck, in front of him—a bag similar to those worn by carpenters or lathers for holding nails -—and he just reached out his left hand and dropped wallets, watches and chains and loose rolls into the bag as he passed along. None of the vic- tims had a chance to hold out anything on him, for he was one of the-eagle—eyed species, and he seemed to see all hands in the car at once. He walked sideways down the aisle so as to make surethat he wouldn’t be plunked from behind after passing along. He was a. scientist in his business, all right, was that raw boned man, and he didn’t. miss a trick. Every man up forward unquestionably passed over his belongings to be dropped into that roomy bag. The little man with the Bostonese accent so amused me, with his h‘ands sticking up there as rigid as poles, that I almost forgot to. worry about what I was go- ing to lose when it"came my turn. He had gone as white as a sheet, and he looked more ghastly as- the raw-boned robber approached him. Finallyit came his turn. The robber looked him over with a half grin. “ ‘Sorry, my sawed-oil? frienrl.’ the robber started to say, when puff! the right hand of the dyspeptic-looking little man opened with a. cat-like rapid- ity and the robber got a. fist-full of red pepper square in the eyes! He let out a howl, and the little man dropped to the floor like a flash. So did 1. for that matter. _ “The robber yelled like a. mad man, lowered his gun hand and groped around with it, and half a. second later he was butted in the stomach with all the force the little man from New Eng- land had in his head. That- doubled the robber up, and a minute later we were all on top of him at once. “You will try to appropriate what doesn’t belong to you, hey, dog—gone you!’ the dyspeptic-looking little man muttered, standing over the blinded bandit. who was almost insane with pain. \Ve bound him securely. did what we could to alleviate his pain. and put a guard over him. The robber who was holding up the engineer, hearing the agonized shouts of his partner, concluded that there was nothing do- ing, and, firing a few bluff shots, scam- percd off the tender into the darkness. We took the raw-boned bandit to Trin- idad. where he was tried, as I after‘ ward learned, and got. 20 years. And that’s one time I got fooled up a whole lot. in a stick-up.”—VVas-hington Star. _._AL———_..___—-—. Floating Chips. No truth was ever converted into a truism without itsfmartyrs. No graven image ever worshiped has done so much harm as false ideals of duty. No one can forgive seven times who has not needed forgiveness 70 times seven. ' “’c say we have outgrown our illu- sions. but is not that the greatest One 01‘. all? The woman who has not learned to wear a. smile over an aching heart has not attained her majority. I‘Ve would stand more chance of be- inghappy if there were fewer people to insist on our being so in their way. Cynicism is called cheap, but those who have bought it in the mart of ex- perience have paid a dear enough price.———MargaretWentworth,in Judge. Sinister. “He says he would gladly lay the world at your feet,” said the. sentimen-' ta] young woman. “That’s- what he’ll do,” said Miss Cayenne. “After you’re married he’ll J lay the world at. your feet and compel van to walk on it. because you can’t -1etter’s Stomach Bitters. llon’l Leave the (lily. Plenty of Proof Right Here in Norwalk. '- Claim is one tlIing,IpI-oof another. Columbus claimed the world was round. Did people believe it? Not until he proved it. Unproven claims have made the peo~ ple skeptics. ‘ Every claim made for the Little Con- queror is proven. Proven in Norwalk by local experi- ence. , Here is one case from the many we have. Mr. Daniel S. Osterbanks, N0. 21 Belden avenue, says: “In my younger days'I’ Worked very hard. 1 had trouble with kidney and bladder complaint, My back ached .so severely at times that I could not move, andI was com- pelled to get up often at night, on ac- count of the kidney secretions, and lost a great. deal of sleep. I tried medicine and plasters-but they did not cure me. I saw Doan’s Kidney Pills advertised and I 'got a box...at Hale’s (now. Glen- dening do Co.’s) drug store. They were just the thing for my trouble.” I had 'every reason to think that they were just what the manufacturer claims for them. They made me sound and well.” Doan’s Kidney Pills for sale 'by all dealers;- price 50 cents a. box. Mailed on receipt of price by Foster-Milburn 070., Bufl'alo, N. Y., sole agents for the ,Remember the name—Dean’s—and take no other. HON.H.C. ROBINSON DEAD Ex—Mayor and Ex-Representative Succumbs lo Rheumatism. HARTFORD, Feb. 15.——Hon. Henry C. Robinson, ex-mayor of the city, and one of the leading lawyers inthe state, died yesterday morning. He was pros- trated with rheumatism some weeks ago, and his strength was exhausted. Symptoms of spinal meningitis develop- ed last Friday, but this was overcome. Mr. Robinson was the youngest son of David F. Robinson, one of Hart- ford's foremost business men in his day, and was born here Aug. 28, 1832. His mother was Anne Seymour, daugh- ter of Asa Seymour, of this city, and a direct descendant of Elder William Brewster of the Mayflower. Mr. Robinson was a member of the flmous class of ’50 at Yale. He n was elected mayor of the city April 1, 1872, and held the office for two years. He was the republican nominee for gov- ernor in this state in the spring of1876, running against HOD. Charles-R. Inger- soll of New Haven, who Wits then in the office. He was a member of the house in 1879. lo 1880 he wasa member of the national republican convention in Chi- cago, which nominated James A. Gar- field. MI'. Robinson was a foremost figure in New England Congregationalism. He leaves a. wife and five children. AA‘ Prisoners of War Meeting- ’l‘he following notice sent out from Hartford, explains itself: "Comrade: The 18th annual meeting of the Uniou Ex-Prisoners of War association of the state of Connecticut will be held at the Grand Army hall, Cheney building, No. 290‘ Main street, this city, at 10:30 a. m., Feb.'22. “The Woman’s Relief corps of Rob- ert 0. Tyler post will furnish the usual fine dinner. “Please notify your secretary of your intention to be present, and how many friends will come with you, so that proper arrangements can be made. “Of course the ladies are expected. GEORGE Q. WHITNEY. “Secretary.” Soap Factory For South Norwalk. Mr. Gilbert the well-known soap manufacturer of . Georgetown, is in South Norwalk looking for a desirable place in which to locate his business, and also a place of residence. There is a prospect that Mr. Gilbert will find alocation suitable to his needs, and that he will remove here in the spring ‘ —————-———-‘0.0'-—-————- Silver Mine Post Office- , The post-office of Silver Mine has been discontinued and mail- for that "community must now be addressed to Norwalk, to go out by the rural free delivery. The postmaster of Silver Mine, who is thus put out of business is Mary Ann Hyatt, who has Served Since Feb. 18, 1888. The compensation of theollice has been annually about $90. AA‘ Frank Baker, Gus Magner, Ed. Con- ally', Joseph Diessia and others of'Court Mahackemo attended the Foresters ball in Bridgeport Wedpesday evening. AWE AK STOMACH will upset every organ in yon! body. If you are constipated, bilious,nervous, sleepless or easily fatigued. try Hos- It. quiets the nerves, improves the appetite and makes rich, pure blood. It. cures all forms of stomach disorder. such as in- digestion, constipation and dyspepsia. 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