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That’s why
B. L. Tobacco
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impurities.
FERTIIIZERS.
Supeiphnsphale Iii lime,
Ground Bone.
Potato Manure.
Mapes’ special FertiliZI-rs,
L' e,Ashes and Barnyard
I entire retailediat whole-
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cllIPElllEll In BililllEll.
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' “dew-ti “at?" oligar'ln'llf. ulv'en Lr
III! In no eye
, a“ ”I" molly Handed In. All Iri'l'l'ir
‘ “Bigg‘LAs reIIAIIIIIh.
e. connownr.
mm
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”’02.“ka W3
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HADN'T THE PRICE.
Imam—I.
Hie Early Struggles Ind Frequent Re-
bufls. Obeteeles ‘l'hnt Would III"
Proves: lusurmonntnhlI to Lou Per-
IiItInt Youths.
Grant went to Galena to serve his father
as a clerk in the leather Itore and tannery
of J. Dill-lint 82 Co. lie gladly accepted
such employment a your or two before
the outbreak of the war. lie received It
flrltul) a-niouth and his pay wail alter-
werd raised to 875. He hired a little cot-
tege,stlll standing. and paid $12 a month
rent leaving a sum upon which he could
support his family only by scrimplng and
the hardest sort of economy
At the breaking out of the war, think.
ing that there might be an opportunity
in St Louis, he Went there and although
he met one or two old ai my comrades
Z’end even rode with them when they set
out to disperse a hostile denioiistrntion.
nevertheless he found no encouragement
that Missouri Would accept. his services.
Returning to Springfield anil again
almost determined to go to his home. he
happened to think of MI-Clelinli, who
was then in Cincinnati preparing to lo: No
for the front. lie kiicw .\lI( lolilin slight—
ly and “(Hi certain that McClellan knew
of him. lint in Cincinnati he faced the
same indill'I-reiice and had luck. McClel-
lan had just gone to Washington, int his
brilliantly uiiil'oriiiied stallE were iii and
III cunirndeship when Capt. (Inuit timid-
ly introduced himself to two or three of
them. There “no nothing to do hilt to
return to Hpiiiigiicid and on his w y
thither he stopped .er for a day in ii-
dinnnpoiis thinking ' that [ltlllllph his
services might he accepted by iiov. Mor-
ton. A low hours there snowed hi.ii
plainly that the political coioncls a. d
political liilluclictH “ere quite as i-itro g
in Indiana as they acre in Illinois Then
his mind was made up. ile went to
Springfield. That evening in: nict Capt.
Chctiulii and told him that he decided to
remain in Springfield, hilt that llt‘ h .d
got to practice the strictest economy in
order to support house”. Then liII. made
.3 Buggt‘htiull:
‘ "I can’t live at the hotel any longer; it
costlitoo much. liiii l have found a. nu Iii
I'lgut'IICI‘UHS the street. It in of good
size and has. a double bed in ii. The price
in 83:1 work. Now, if you will I‘illlli‘ :I Ii
share the room. it will cost us only :I riot)
a week llpll'I'v, and we can get our nil-ill:
where “r can find them."
(‘inI. I livilain agreed to llIi-I proposi-
tiuIi, and [nail t’\'l"lill}..' ilL‘ ll "( min I .Ipt.
“rant .9 iooiiiiii iii‘ and r« iIinInI-l \\ on
him ulitil tho (Ullllliilly was iiiiIsIIIrI-d iii-
to m-rvitl- niIIl joint-ll its rcgiiiiI-nl. I’llpt.
(lrnnt lllllni have lived wry plainly .d.
that tiliiIr. ill: did not IIIIiIipiiIiii, l.,il.
then: In .‘Illlli‘ l'l‘i'ini)” to livin-vo Illa! he
now and thou hhlppt‘ll a mold, and “'llqll
lli‘Iilll out he lioiight llII- [Lilllll'hi fI-ol.
lic “l‘ill lo thi- Shite l‘llpillli III'rI'y I: .y
and i'rlm'nI-d every evening more and
more dIIspoIidIInt.
At last hi.‘ I'l'illl'llt‘ll to his home in
Halt-nil, liliilI-VIIII: that [or the (min at
least thIrI- “as no chance {or liii lll)~(‘|ll‘0
military nian. since the puillll'lllli-‘i were
making the oilicere for the regiments
and brigades.
A few days later C'upt. (Brant. sitting
in his falliI-r'u leather store. received a
telegram from Gov. Yates asking liiiil if
he would accept an nppoiiilziiI-nt ii~ ('Ui-
0iiI-l ol the 'l'wcuty—lirnt iiI-nIIIiI-iil. Ac-
cept tlieappoinluicnt! Would an eagle;
lly if it had the chance? (Grunt tele-
graphed bin-k instantly that he would
gladly Iomuizind the regiment and as
soon as possible wcnt again to Spring-
Ill-Id. lie rewiicd his Ioniniiasioii and
joined the regiment and the lira! impulse
of hill discipline was immediately made
apparent, in Ilrant was not lrIIIId from
humiliation. ”I: had hot-n unable to pro
cure any lwitI-r Clothes lhiin Illimi: which
he won: when he llrsi went to Sprint,-
lield, and while those served him well
enough. having upon the shoulders of
his cont the strap» which \Vl‘rt‘ the only
indicatioim of his authority when he
was drilling the regiment. yI-t Iii I-oursc
hi! could not appear upon dross parade
ilulI-s-I III full uniform. and ill‘ did not
portal-ii» the money to buy a. uniform, a
sword or II il‘ll’hl'. Till‘rl'ryl‘i‘ (Ir more
than two er-ks lll‘ left to l.ieiIt.-i'oi.
Alexander thi- duty of appearing upon
drl'lH piiriIdII no nnln in that rIIiziinI- .t
then knowing Unit the only IIIIIIon why
he llilliM'Il did not take command was
beinuw his Iiotliilitg Would not permit
him to do no.
In that t'iill‘l‘gi‘llt'y I‘oi. liralil wrote lliii
lather aiid asked for the loan ol Noll, the
money to he inch in buying uniform,
lword and horse. I‘ol. Ill'llni'» [other |
not see his way clear to alleInI-II hiili i I
money. hill “i'lyau.” as lll.‘ was alwu N
known in the litore. had a good Iril'llli iii
the junior partner of the llllliM‘. Mr, I‘. IA
lliiii. ilv kin-w of thin rIIIlliI-ut {or II in» I,
and be procured tlIII Iiioiicy lit the blink
and “PM it III (VII. Grant, lIIll I‘Vl‘li limi-
cntillu :Il iiII- time that it Wins Will by the
junior partner and not by the father. In
tho liioiounrc containing the draft for
you was Ii proniinuory nolr put in on! «f
lllliiit‘l'\l of Ilrliimry no that l‘ol. lira t
Would li‘l'l that he had lIorr-IWI-Il the
money. Wiil'l'l'lN )lr. ('Uiiill‘i ioulwll lllloll
that Milli :H ii I'niilrihulion lo the room
oi the i'iiion. With a part or the iIIniIi-y
Col. IlrIIIIt bought the {unions yIIi my
horse which lll'l‘llllll! lIllIvrwnrd known III
“()III ('lliylmrk." and an noon on he could
have the uniform nnIdI- IH‘IHIIH’UHt‘il upon
dross pllrlnhn .\lI(' iIIII-‘ s Magazine.
( nnelelrmiy.
A luluzhuhli- little story is told of a
woman on tho wlIiII-IIII IItiInII in II Front-h
couri. HIII‘WIM asked her mm and she
IIIIIm-rwl that Idle was thirty yeers
Old.
"lint.” mild the innuintretr. “did you
not tI-Il on- you were thirty when you lip-
peal-ml iiI-foro mI- tun years ago?"
"I think it wry likely." she replied.
Iiniilhllziy IiIIlIiiowleIlginu lII-r falsehood
and lllihlli Iiil lilmehed. "1 Mil not one of
those Women who any one ililinr twilny
Iiud nnol lli‘i‘ tiling tomorrow/‘wi'onth'3
Companion.
.lncoh Corey. the llhlo populist. hi I
horse broader. and it hi I coincidence
thIt ill-I Peniisylunln rlvnl, Joseph E.
filhley. whom the new Iilver pIfly would
like to make President. is I cattle breed-
er. The IIIIiI-i- inn I grant stuck farm in
the west of ”IF unit». has been president
of the Bone llnlrymnn’n Aesoeletlon Ind
in member of the Fermm' Alliance Ind
M Granite.
Gun-AMI. sheer up. old teller. eel
thinnut em
«me
about the hotel, and there was no offer
That e do. possesses In intelligent.
' capable at diucrluiii‘IIting on the veins of
cards to such an extent as to bet in I
rational and sensible manner is a hard
plll to swallow unless washed down by
he conclusive proof of a test experiment.
Yet the pill has to be swallowed.
Those who saw that representative of
the highest development of reason in the
canine race. Milli Scotty, perform on the
stage of one of the theatres last week.
looked with wonder upon the [elite this
collie was able to accomplish; iii-It lio-
cepting them as what they seemed to be,
than deciding them too marvelous to be
true and putting them down an clever
trickI—vsinge tricks in which the do;
merely followed the signal of her trainer
or a confederate back or the scene, Work-
ing as an automaton without reason or
judgment except an to obeying the signal.
Thiii is but natural. asthe coiiditionssur-
rounding a performance on a stage invite
fraud.
liowaver, to a number of gentlemen
who inquired from the dnu’ s owner, Mr.
Lewis, il‘ the performance was really an
exhibition of the dog is intelligence and
real-inning power or merely it lrick \ll‘.
Lewis responded by oil'- ring to give a
private exhibition undei tent IHIiiiIliliIIlii-i,
an the Spiritualiato put it to prove that
the dog possessed the poWI-Ii of Iiisuirn-
iiintion and iI-iiiioning Ill-\IIlopcd lo a
woiidcrlul dlfi'l‘m AI (.(lillllii'ly a. room
was engaged and the dog began her Work.
She picked outthe curds-i of a pack as they
were called with lint few mistakes. ()ne
of these mistakes was pl‘l‘llellifi interest-
Ing as exhibiting the ptcniiar IITcI t of a
fill. idcalnking iioid oi the mind Mine
Scotty got the idea early in tho perform-
once that the queen prccch-Ii IhI- king in
order of value. a most chivsdroiw notion
to be sure, yet wrong. No iiIutlI-r how
lunch .\I r. Lewis objected hill? iiisintcd
upon picking thuquceln-i lit-lore llll‘ kings
when selecting the cards according to
their value.
Some other tricks were gone through.
when two hands of curls worl- lil‘illl, and
Miss Scotly being .given her hand was
linked to play. When asked how much
she Would hot, she piI-kI-Ii lip tho third
card in the row, signil’yiiig .‘llll‘ would 30
three. And IIIIII llllilll' her turn: tricks an
well as any t'pr'i'l card pillyl’l‘l‘tlllili have
done. llut this erroneous idea of the
order of the cards still I'lilni; to her in
playing her hand. She lll‘ill IiiI- lll't‘. king,
and (llIL’l'ii of Il‘lllllpii. riho pluyrd thcacc
first; lllI-Ii lilk' I‘lil‘Ull and the king. HI
course they were all of the lilillll" value
lililll‘l‘Iill'sl'i'il‘clllllfllllllCt’fi, lilll Mr. Lewis
objected, saying; "Now, Sitoiiy, you've
played wrong. ’l'lIiII'si not IliI- pay you
have ill'i'll iliiliglll. Now, what, ('UlllI‘H
IIl’lIIrlhI- HI"!
hcoIIy nnsnirini; piI'IkId up the qllI‘l‘ll
ll-‘lwiillt iii \VII IlllII ill I Iiiili llHl. I’i'l lilo
IlUj' to I ll. Inge in r him in Iiii‘~ rlgl.lrd
\ot uiiiikl HHIIII' iIIIIIi uho. Iii ‘Ih iiiuh liloy
have bII~i iaugiit hum, iilsisi that
w mug is i iizhl lo Illi' (‘liil Iii tln-ir days.
.‘llh‘i hr lly piflyl’li cards with sI-v‘lIriil
of the gI-iiliI-iiicn present and quit..- UVI'X“
powered on lllVllll‘l‘JIIi I-iIrd piayvr who
prided LinisI-il' upon his hilll\Vll'li}.:Il IIIIII
science in dealing with cards. by boating
liimtwo games without giving him the
least show.
Mr. Lewis left the room after Mien
Scotiy became better acquainted with her
spectators and allowed lhi- dog to work
at the command ol.’ one of the party. it
was quite difficult to get the dog's liltI‘ii-
tiou away ironi the door where her man-
tI-r went out, hilt nevertheless h‘lH' per-
formed Ys'tlllit' tricks, iII-irI'Iil'u cards and
number-I named, IIiIlliI-iI-nt to rrinove all
doillitu as to lllt' gI-nuiiimirss III' llt‘l‘ per‘
Iormnnce _. l’ittnliurg llispuli h.
A JOHNNY REBS WILD RIDE.
[III I ninnnngmhlo Ilorw Tool “In:
Through the Federal ILIIikII Iii Battle.
Somali! the most amusing storicn are
those WlIlI'lI have a serious side. An old
(.‘oiiIedI'rnio HUillil'l‘ the other day told a
story that is very laughable in these days
of peace. It was after John Morgan was
made it ul‘ill'l‘lli that a l‘lillllliliiy wan
formed of some of his old squadron who
had just returned from I'nnip Chase.
when: for mine time they had been im-
priiioucd. The company had III-mi formed
by a man named Quirk, a I'I‘I’kit‘flll, dan
in“ Icllow. and a etrliiixor to (car. The
company went by the name of Quirk’e
Scouts.
At this lime the company wnII down ‘in
Middlc'l‘cniivsxce and was Hkll‘llli‘lling
around ior a light, when they IIuddcuiy
came upon a regiment of Federal cav—
alry. iii a Idiori while the two boiliI-ii oi
soldiers WI-ro «landing [nus ll) lace, and
the bullets were flying thick and {nut
through tin» air. The llirlit tli.ii Iollowed
WIN a ill‘hllt'i’llll‘ our. and each side seemed
determined Iosinnd ll~I ground. Hild-
denly, IN the light wall at its hottest. I
borne \vns soon to dash out or Iliolfon.
iederaln line and Hart in a dIrI-rt line for
the Yankee regiment. UII tizl- liorIiIi'ii
back was ii man named I-Inullnh. who wan
leaning lilll'll. ill lilo Middle and pulling
with all his might in Ii lutllo ellort to
stop his lriuhlnucd home. The [whim]
was yellow in color, and in running took
long and I’llllllI)‘ junipll. 'l'hr rider finally
Iinw that ill‘ could not stop the animal
and he made up hill mind to make the
bent ol lIiII Iii! Iiiilioil. lIii leaned forward
in IIiiI middle until his lll‘llli iilmoiit
loiirlird his horuo'n IIIII-lI and hill hiulilii
clumped the brid.e near the hit. l‘iVl'n the
rIIlItr'iI I-Iirs M'i'llliHI pinned hark, no great
we» hhiIIYort to illlikl‘ li‘iIIiIII-ll' ll‘i small
as possible. ill» Ilirii was on pain an
death. (In went the animal ton'ard the
resilient, turning neither to the right
nor lillt. and ciI-Iier IIIId nimmr did the
rider keep to the Inlmal'u body.
The Yankees saw the horse with in
rider inIIlIliiu straight lot i hem and they
were Inland with consternation. Home of
the soldiers ceased living and looked ex«
oltedly at the hall nIIddeIIud Iulmei
flying toward them. in nehort while he
ruched the regiment. but did not Imp.
The Federals almost fell upon enrh other
in their offal-III to get Imiy from the
horu‘n llt’wl Ind I regular panic lul-
lowed. The animal went planning
through the center of the regiment,
teeming lit the mouth and with head
down. The horse Ind rider dulled
on through the entire regiment, Ind the
Yankee» kept talking way for thin Ill
de the line. Not IIIiot was and until
he had gotten out or rules. and than
nearly IIIII III the regiment. who IIII
mugged to may" themed": fre-
tl'lf uwiinhilint, fired It I cloud oi
III-t rising In the III. but the hem and
“lumen-us IlliitIIIee.
rum needs I Ilium-to circle.»
tuning to the Confederate GMIIBII’ In
mfim the rebels saw: their“.
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Silk Waists, at $2. 99.
Kid Gloves, at 75 cts. and $1.
Lace Collars and
Chifi'on Collars.
Bargain Counter of Ribbons, at 3 cts., 5 etc. and 9 cts. per yd.
An Easter Souvenir to every customer on Saturday.
Dickerman & Son,
84 WASHINGTON STREET. SOUTH NORWALK. GONN.
VET! NT
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consults SURREY TRAP. one, call and see me. “v
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w: THUS steel: 1.": new canon 10?
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'Y
easiest and moment entrance one: made
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ouudI eudinuhosmeigiiiinz 30 to will.” is less for
its alipility and more room than any I lit fil’lflél'
Surrey made. and ns min h as 'I (might sill.
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clomd hulk panel when limk eat is In med
down. lulll hell. norkimrlildmendent of EZIW It
min I, \‘ izli no pump sent irons to take on leg
room. An com stile “lien arranged for one
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UL! MAWFAOTURIR.
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_mmy who, cheep Pennies for and.
The Houlion Early Bose.
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l per with mlu in when quIlIthII.
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v
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Willi may member .ilhool I put We
have settled on three until" that here
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yarn They mummy mum. Ind we
are hurting lot the twin of farmrn who
it ie no
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Thin III! In! the lint [or Ill yarn. 0m
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A (molded rial oldie Keely Rose.
It Is I memo new crop
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MILLINERY,
AT
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