hill!” Hollow ntveMwhenthe long
mused shoveths dust that onoewae
And when certain uphyrs' the clustered
Mary were ,
I m in obutened We at Hawthorne’a
initial grave. ' .
Onthhnunhflhgeathlun andstamwlii
' Wham m
mam“ and'tl‘i-e hindroainlees sleepwear!-
‘ “I”
“amusemwnoranheryemour west»
enmidoanehow, . ..
WWW Menndnrflulsburiedhere
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I turned “mn'hmo‘u ”mm mgr“ o‘er hum-
hisrburlalwavu.
And then beheld agrayoidmauwho walked
amongthegraves.
“Great men ”aborted here." and. no wiped,
a ar. ~
“Great men," he sighed. “I know. but then my
boy is buried here.
God gave them strenelh and length of days till
Ill their work was done;
My boy—my boy we buried here before his work
We!"
The dreamer and the mystic—i left them to
their fame. ‘
And silent left the poor boy's grave, the grave
without a name. .
Their home is in the thought of men in nations
wide are“.
The boy finds love as warm as theirs in his old
father’s heart.
~Sam Walter Foss in Washington Post.
A GHOST STORY.
One morning the head of our firm re-
marked: “Mr. Nelson”-my name, by the
way’, is John Nelson. and a very ’good and
bold name it is——"I want you to go up to
Granville and take these depositions in the
Shlndler case. Catch the night train back
or stay until morning, as you prefer.”
Many people go to Greenviiie once. No
body goes a second time if he can help it. I
remembered in a vague sort of way that
Greenviile had come into notoriety for a
day or two a few years before through
reason of a hotel fire in which at least one
man had perished so successfully as to jus-
tify the newspaper use of the word holo-
caust. However, this need not alarm me,
asI intended to return on the night ex—
press. I like to travel at night. There is
such a comforting, ghost dispelling sound
in the spores of my fellow passengers.
Fate was against me. My business iii-
deed was quickly and easily dispatched.
and at 9 o'clock I was at the station, only
to learn that a serious washout was report-
ed up the road and that all trains had been
abandoned for the night. There was no
help for it, and back I went to the hotel,
which, suggestively enough, was called the
Phomix. The landlord took ii cheerful view
of the situation, as was perhaps natural.
' ' He gave inc the best drink at the bar, which
was bad enough, and the best room in the
h use, which was not so bad.
‘ am a light sleeper—another result of a
nervous organizationuand the circum-
stances under which [was sleeping in a
strange bed in a strange town were not
likely to deaden my slumbers. What awoke
me I cannot say, but my first recollection
is that of sitting up in bed. holding my pis-
tol in my hand and looking with consider
able astonishinen’t'mt the dim outline of a
man apparently stowing away clothing in
great haste in an ordinary gripsuck. That
the man was a burglar and that he was
taking unwarrantable liberties with my
possessions I had not the slightest doubt.
My calmness under such trying conditions
surprised me. I remember experiencing
actual pleasure in cocking and aiming my
revolver. The click of the lock alarmed
him. lie turned hastily and said in a tone
so thin that it seemed to come from a great
distance:
"Here, don’t shoot, please!"
Enough light came through the window
from a lamp across the street to enable me
to seethe fellow more closuiy as he turned.
lie was nppallingly thin-4 be meresi shud-
ow, in fuck—with sunken cheeks and the
glowing spectral eyes l but Lena had told me
about 80 year.» lM'fUl't‘. i saw that. he was
no match formi- pliysiciillynind it was plain
that he was unarmed. So i said {accli-
ously:
“You are not built for your culling, my
friend. You Would do better as :1 ghost
than ii burglar. "
And the reply l'illlli! inonrnlully and hol-
low, "I am a ghml.”
“You'll excuse iiic,"!iniil the ghost, ”i”
go right on with my piickiug~but time
flies."
“Pardon the bluntiicws of the question."
I answered, feeling under the pillow for
my watch, “but in this pressureof time are
you packing up any of my things by wir
take?”
“If you knew anything at all about spiru
in," said the ghost, carefully brushing and
folding a coat, "you would know that they
are strictly and invariably lillllt‘HL and wore
never kliovrn to appropriate any article not
belonging to them."
"Thanks," said I. considerably relieved
by the assurance. "Now may i ask who
you are and to what am i indebted for this
unexpected pleasure?"
The ghost glided over to the washntand,
gathered up a toothbrush and ii cake of
soap and tossed them into the bug. Then
he answered:
"It domn’t matter who l am. i was
Richard Barnard, and all of me that was
mortal wail burned in the fire that do—
strayed the Metropolitan hotel on ibliiepot
four years ago. You may have heard of
me. I see that you have. Pardon me if i
keep on with my wor ."
And to my amazement he picked up a
typewriterand threw it out of the window.
I listened for the crash. and hearing noth-
ing said:
“I have heard of you. Richard, in aden-
ultory and unsatisfactory way and ehould
like to hear more of you. Could you favor
me with the particulars which escaped the
newspapers? You'll find a cigarette, if you
smoke, in that case on the bureau. How
happens it," I asked, “that you return to
est-lb in this syutematio way?”
"Tbat’e the disagreeable part of it. You
. see that after all my care in looking after
my property 1 entirely forgot my accident
insurance policy and left it on the bureau-
you see it there. of courts it was burned
n and my family had nothing in the way
compensation for my death. For tide
is enrolment l am wgnpeiied to
mmnight after night to go over the bar-
rowing scenes of my eombustim." ,
“not why don’t you take the policy at
“,th it is in plain sightmndniake
ill and end the matter and go back to your
tibia e39 urinal bone like s well ordered
V mt’sllmlt. ieea’t. Even with my
7 'imlmmmm ”in???“
' , , r. on
_‘ ‘ , ' main when
the may of
can the crying foil stoopl to m
tremor-sin e moimntilhethfiifi itlsnot
that [do not know better now. Thatl!
Whammy punieliment com in. l
present ‘ . . ,, t." inn-y night}.
gojuiitso .Li '1‘th amnesia that not
I am conscious oil‘tlw policy on )H bottom ‘
but must goon pliebingmfi
‘ herein!
creasing trawl-lore. only to fall in a
voluiif‘l
of flame and smoke on the threshold II the 1235
clock strikes 1."
“Richard." said 1. “yo r argument in
quite remarkable, but I still pnuled.
If you are incorporation I perceive on
cimer inspection that you are, how can you
talk! Where are your vocal chords, your
trach your muscles at expiration? How
can you hear me! [examine you closely.
and lame the absence of the usual auditory
apparatus." ,
“You are wrong,” replied the ghost.
“You deceive yourself. I do not talk; I do
nothear. l communicate with you and you
with me by sympathetic e reunion. Asl
told you. you have rare med autistic quail—
tles. but your spirituality is so innuflciently
developed that you cannot distinguieh be—
tween spiritual oommunlon and mortal in-
terchange of thought. Ibeg your pardon.
I am charmed to have met you”—-here the
ghost suddenly picked up his gripe-ck—
“but 1 have just time to get to that door.
[don’t wish to alarm you, but I am sure I
smell something burning."
And so did i. There was no doubt of it.
i saw the ghost look isnghingiy at the pa.
per on the bureau and run swiftly across
the room. And I’ll swear that i saw him
throw open the door and fall in the volume
of flame that poured into the chamber.
And all the time there was a tremendous
singcing in my ears, with the sound of the
hanging of doors and the shouting of men.
And I heard a voice:
"Mr. Nelson! Mr. Nelson! Get up quick!
Conic down the back wnyl It's on fire, the
house!"
a t e a e a a
1,.lohu Nelson, uni a lawyer and a man
of uiiimpi-achable veracity. It is true that
Iwas the guest of the Phoenix hotel in
,Greenviile, Sept. 10, the night it burned to
the ground. ' it is true that the porter
called me lit precisely l o'clock in the
morning. and that I escaped in very scant
attire, securing my watch, pocketbook and
legal papers. it is also true that an acci-
dent. policy which [hail taken out before
leaving the city was forgotten and burned
in the flames. All these are facts hereto-
fore ililrQVi‘lllt‘il, as I have dreaded the no-
toriety attending the revelation of a sense-
tional press. 1 disclose them now. not in
thebinterest of spiritualistsnnd the fanatic—
al element of the prombtera of psychical
research. but merely to dispel a very popu-
lar delusion concerning ghosts and to calm
the fears of the superimaginativo and the
superstitious.
For myself in mosaythiit if I have never
sci-ii li ghost since that night. of adventure
it is because i have not desired it.
l have. sought out country gi-nveyanla
on lt‘l‘lipt‘fllnl‘lfli‘ nights and sat alone
on u innrhlqslab as the clock [011ml 12.
Oi'cra table in my study beings is grinning
skull, and many a time between the hour;
i ti! In (lit ‘ L ‘,
use e “chiefly?” willing“ g
of ii: and l l biii‘i'turned down illif light and
stood before the hideous emblem of mor- -
iiilily and called (,DllA/J‘ilt'l or llurnuid, 1:",
the humor niigblmuggi-st. llutull in vain. .
.\'0 ghost rises at. my bidding. Alone 1 can i
accomplish nothing with the supernatural. E
i think i shall marry.»- 'EXCilLIllgi‘.
Wanted to See- lllm Drink.
Tin-rowan ii select family gathering in
the Buck llny district the other night. and f
the parlor was full. Charles Augustus was 3
an invited guest. and he was doing toxin 5!. 5
to iX' agreeable. He had fallen in low with
the oldest daughter. or rather with ii pos—
sibledowry that would go with llt‘i‘ if she
married. Little sister Mabel wastherc, ll
years old. with i-yi-i-i and ears wide open.
She regarded Charles Augustus with curt
unity and finally asked him:
“Mr. Charles, don't you want a glass of
water?“
“No, thank you, my little girl,” he mild.
“lint l “‘le you would take one." per-
sisted tho lilllc diuturhcr oi' the public
pi‘llt‘tz
"And why do you \\'i‘~li llll' to drink some
ii nil-r?" in: :islu :1.
" 'l 'liusiu" I;ll-’l liii' precocious lot, "iiiliur
mu any you drink like ii li-di. and l want
ll) Ht't' how 3m: do ii."
'l'lii‘ii- u::~ .i dull thud of silence in that ,
purlor. and ”MTV it one less lllllilt' on ( ‘harica
Augusliia' \ idling: llhl." Boston (‘oiirii-r.
“mine and llodiea.
iii-r brain» and big abiionieiis may go to
gi-lhi-i'. \‘irlor liugowus lurgcenough lo
jlliltllli‘fiil iiii-u'a soizietmind'ewu lluu- _
Lil'l', who «pi-iii. ii good deal of time poking
fun at hit man, at last became fat himself.
ilf Juniu, ii French editor, iluuticr said:
“He would lil‘l‘iik down any eighteenth (‘t'll-
tui'y sofa on wnii-h he might happen to sit.
His chili lllill checks fell down chm-ling
Lllf‘lllt-t'll't'N over his whiskers.“ Alexandre
Dumas, "lt' elder, weighed more lliiin201l
pounds. Eugeni- Sue. author of this "Myst
teries of l’uris“ and the "\VuiiiicriiigJi-w,”
for several years before be (“I'll had to any
goodby to his fort because he. couldn't see
them. lie-nun. the philosopher and histo-
rian, was puffy with fill. The same author
main»; that William the Conqueror iii-mime
a monster physically before he died, and so
did Emperor Muxiinus. (‘imur and Na-
poh-on did not belong to the lean kind.—
Mcdical Journal.
Practical French.
’l‘wo li‘i'i-nch teachers were discussing
fillllil‘l‘ll relative to their profession.
"Do your pupils pay up regularly on the
first of each month?" linked one.
“So. they do not. lofleii how to wait
for weeks before I (M my pay. and Hinto-
tliiien i don’t get it at all. You can't well
dun the parents for the money."
“Why don’t you do llfildo.
get my lillllllty regularly.”
"liow do you manage it?"
"it is \'l'l'y simple. (in the first. day of
the month. if money for immune doesn’t
come. i give the following uentenuve to
lmnelateiinil write out at home: ‘1 have
no money.” "i‘he month iii up.’ 'llast
thou any moneyl' '1 need money very
much.’ 'Wiiy hast, thou not brought the
money this inornlngi‘ ‘Did thy father not
giva tlii-e any iiioneyi" The next morning
the tummy usually coinee.”--Youth’s Jour-
niil.
i always
Peculiar Marriage (.‘uiitoiiis.
Hiam looms no largely on the public vi-
stun that. speciallntemt is being taken in
the customs of the people who iitvell there.
One of the mastication. iii that each my
is named after an :lmai. and‘ only napalm
aiilmiilii wallow to intermarry. A pun
son born in the year of the elephant, for
instance, cannot marry n person here in the
year of the tiger, neither may the lion mm
with the lamb. The luv imposes din pen-
al nilwlio felt-innervate
rem th I"! ‘leswlien
inhumane-in
thereto»
’ amend
tits slaw which would not he
weignine in W lam-Nu rare
teeny diseases which attach the air
Pastoral will grounds we
r“ 'W‘
m. and ninth:-
Cherry
1.. ‘
prom
Persons who Him, in With the
afflicted will rejoice til I). E. Carrot
Harrison street.Kaneu City. He
is an old sufferer from inflammatory
rheumatism but has not heretofore
been troubled in this climate. Last
winterhp went up into Wisconsin, and
in _ oodles had another attack.
“Ito: appease again very aeolemd
revere," he said. “My joint» swelled and
became inflamed; sore to touch oral-
ntost to hot. Upon insurgent
request my mother-in-law I tried
Chamberlain's Pain Balm to reduce the
I'ellllfi and ease the diaagd iohmy
W a surprise. t i t . ave
needihree fifty-cent bottles and believe
it to be the finest thing for rheumatism,
gains and swellicgs extant. For sale by
. C. Stiilaoo, druggist.
If King Solomon was alive he would
my: "Co to the traveling man. learn his
ways, and be wise.” Mr. C. W. Batten,
at Cincinnati traveling man representing
the Queen City Printing Ink Co.,after
suffering intensely for two or three days
with lameness of theshoulder, resulting
from rheumatism. completely cured it
with two applications of Chamberlain’s
Pain Balm. This remedy is gaining a
wide reputation for its prompt cores of
rheumatism, lame back, sprains, swell-
ings, and lameness. 50 cent bottles are
for sale by G. C. Stillson. druggist.
The autograph letters teslitlying to
cure made by Ayer's Sareaprilia and
other preparations are kept on file at the
J. C. Ayer’s Cola office. Inwell, lilacs
They are from all over the world and are
cheerfully shown to anyone desirous of
seeing them. > N“
If a New York millionaire glVBlHt din-
net at 5th avenue and 26th street, costing
0700.00, which gives 19 $365” in
and these people nd 1, in oc-
ors’ bills and fine y have to pay $5100
each for Cactus Blood Cure to cure them,
what would be the saving per capita if
the dinner should not be given. there
being 87 poisons at the leaeti‘ ‘
Inquire at Plaisied's drug store. where
you mathave the problem solved and
miniormntion abouti' ‘. ~ct‘us Bln l Cure
A lady at Tooleyil, Lo., was very sick
with biiious colic when M. C. Tieier, a
rominent merchant of the town. gave
her a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhma Remedy. lie
as a she was well in forty minutes after
taking the first dose. For sale by (l. C.
Slillson, druggist.
mummmmm A: e
Brussells,
learns.
@303 elm—2+
ay ‘ Sale Of carpe 7'
‘ WE WILL GIVE, 0N BETTER GRADES, A , Z“ , .3
Cash Discount of 1°C 1' per yard. 5
Making all Wool Ingrains, 50c, 550, best 65c; Tapestry Brussells, 500. 650mm! best 800; Body
90c, 31.00, beet 81.15; Velvote and Moquettee, only $1.00; Mailings, Oil Cloths and Line;
e
A. Dickerman & Son,
84 WASHINGTON STREET. sourH NORWALK. conn. I
mi in "ripstop Tilt.
Patent Medicines
AT OUR PMCIB.
Ill HGT. llhlll IIIIT Til TAKE,
Loxatonik, $1.00
Hood's Sweeper-ills, .00
Ayers’ Sareeparilla, .67
Dana's Samparllla. .97
Cuticura Resolvent, .i
Scott's Emulsion, £30
Green's. Nervnra, . . .il)
Stillson's Specific for Malaria, .75
Paine's Cel Compound. .65
Brandreth's ' Is, .12
.Alcock's Planters, .10
Benson's Capture Planters. .1?
Castoria, .‘Ll
Carter‘s Pills, .12
Atwood'e Bitters, .iil
lladam's Microbe Killer, (its, .25
Radani‘s Microbe Killer, gal. Jam, 2.»?
Yankee Lung Soother, .2.)
Gen. 8. Stillson’s
Drug Store,
82 Washington Street.
THEODORE snvs:
Never Before in South Norwalk,
... ....... . i“.
Prunea. 250: Best California Prunes, Bk: 4 lbs.
glee, 5c: Tip Top Milk
' er
23c; Creamery (Colchestenl ale: Jones’ flour
wt lg. 0010111. Japan or mixed. 50c; Can
or
Prices: Seedlese Raising.15c.
manna—Ir
Arthur l”. Merriam
Dealer in
Groceries
Best tools at low Prices.
33‘ lbs. Cal. Raisins. 5c: 3 lbs. Chlifornln
9c; Granulated Sufi,
lbs. si. om 0m, illczflood Dairy But ,
we; florid tea, ()oiong, Japan or mixed,
ltled 600‘)! of the beat. at Low
w...—
A. T. Merriam,
l28_80ll'l'll MAI“ STREET.
Alwaysallheirtnl
tion tells. We are at the
tend to stay there.
and given useful
chase. No tickets. Take your present
when you buy a
Tea, or Baking Powder, or 2 lbs. Blend-
ed Coffee, at 28c lb, or
many other articles.
Cups and Saucers.
Best lib IM‘
goods, lowest prices,
rout; we in-_
We sell the very best Tees and Coffees,
present with every pur-
pouud or half lid.
Five large pictures given will): 1 lb.
your choice of
Large Platters, Pitchers, Cuspadors,
A line assortment with half pounds.
cisu iiiiiil, '5
, l5 llllllTll aim sum. ,
,. came...
a
WAS THERE ANYTHING LIKE THIS OFFERED
500 Pair Ladies’ Kid Oxford Patent Leather tip; Worth $1.25, at 00c.
500 Pair Ladies' Kid Oxford Patent Leather tip, Square toe; Worth $2.00, at $1.00.
500 Pair Ladies' Kid Oxford Patent Leather tip and Front Stay: Worth 82.00, at $1.00.
300 Pair Ladies’ Nice Russet Blucher Oxford; Worth $1.50, at 95c.
300 Pair Ladies' Russet Oxford Common Sense—Just the Thing for Sore Feet; Worth 81.50, at 05v.
100 Pair Ladies’ Hand Welt Patent Leather tip Kid Oxford; Worth 83.00, at 81.50.
200 Pair Ladiee’ Whole Fox Big Button Razor toe, Wing tip Shoes: Worth 84.00, at $2.00.
o"
the continual Sale at Summer loads.
LADIES’ DEPARTMENT.
200 Pair Ladies’ Fine Cloth top Whole Fox Razor toe, Patent Leather tip; Worth $4.00, at 82.00.
200 Pair Ladies’ Fine Cloth top Whole Fox Square toe, Patent Leather tip; Worth 84.00, at 02. 00.
200 Pair Ladies’ Very Fine Kid Big Button Crimp Vamp, Patent Leather tip; Worth $4.50, at 82.50. ’ -
200 Pair Ladies’ Kid Big Button Square toe, Crimp Vamp—The Latest Thing Out;§Worth 84,50, at $2.50.
300 Pair Ladiee’ Kid Button Patent tip. all Sizes. This is a Dandy; Worth $1.50, at 31.00.
300 Pair Misses’ Spring Heel, Button, Plain toe; J. F.8Swain’s Make; Worth 82.00;“ 31.25.
MEWS DEPARTMEN .
100 Pair Men’s Fine Square toelLace Shoes; Worth 2.00, at 1.25.
300 Pair Men’s Fine Calf Lacee and Congress; Worth 3.00, at 1.50.
400 Pair Men’s Fine Calf Blncher, Cap toe; Worth 2.50, at 1.50.
300 Pair Men’s Fine Celt Blueber, Piccadilly Cap toe; Worth 3.00 at 2.00.
350 Pair Men's Fine Russia Calf Blocher Welt; \Vorth13.50, at 2.25.
Ladies’ and Gentlemen these are the biggest bargains ever offered in South
THEO. H. OLSEN,
Bi V Washington Street,
a
Norwalk. , ‘ .
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