Slips
nil Tn Portland
Minile War Game (Sem-
‘ ioday.WlnenSeeret
Agents Notified
_ i first Vessels
1' 9 Under Way
' ‘\ RTLAND. Me, Aug. 21. L—Theorct-
ic y 'a hostile fleet sailed from the
on today to attack Portland, and
at service agents notified the Unit-
00 um Government of the fact. In
thi way began the mimic war in which
do hnnenta of the United States army
on the combined fleet of the North
.At tic squadron are to take part dur
the next ten days. The neet which
to he sailing towards Port-
really is at anchor off Rockland.
, re it will remain for the two days
would be consumed if it was
ac ally approaching from the tropics
Til the vessels will appear off this
' r and commence operations. in
meantime, prompted by the imag-
in y receipt this forenoon of news of
the' advance of the enemy' s ships, the
artsy of defence will assemble and pre-
pare itself (or the protection of the bar-
bor and the city. The local batteries
being the' first naturally to hear the
news of the threatening danger, res-
pended pmlpnptly an‘d by noon sill tlLe
00qu gone into camp an to
en umactt “timid. The First and
Bacon“ Remnants ‘wn'lch constitute the
ontireatate militia started as soon as
notified for Portland and they also were
In camp In god season. Before Sun-
day night a itional forces from Mass-
It: e island and New York
will be here, ready to assist In pre-
Venting the operations of the enemy
form being successful
Halon General A. R. Chaffee Is to
command the land forces. The enemy
. {will be under Rear Admiral A. S. Par-
er.
‘IFFlI ELLBLER'S FATHER DEAD.
'One of the Oldest Man in the Theatri-
oathofssalon Dies of Heart Disease.
NEW YORK Aug. 81—John Ellsler,
father of Ellie Ellsier, the act.,ress and
himlllt p veteran actor and theatrical
manager, died at his home in this city
today, aged eighty- two. Heart disease
caused his death
The body will be taken to Cleveland
tor burial Sunday. ..r. Elisler was
born in Harrisburg Pa., September 26,
1821.? in 1306 he went to Philadelphia
where he' began his theatrical career
with Wllllam G. Burton, taking com-
.edyeaud ‘character parts His first ven-
ture as a theatrical manager was in
he early 50' s. in partnership with Joe
’ opli Jeflerson taking a company
its the Southern circuit for two
or ughree years. and meeting with great
Maggie Mitchell. and other
celQ as were members of that com-
. Kr lllIsler went West in ‘55 where
, he remained for thirty years. In Cleve-
land he brought out his daughter Ef-
fie miner, the original Hazel Klrke, In
the play of that name, about the same
that: lilso bringing Into prominence
Joseph Haworth and Clara Morris. Mr.
Ellaier retired from active life In 1886.
cans to New York city. For sev
with his daughter Efile, but
within the past few years he gave up
farm altogether. The widow two
«filters. Em) and Annie Kay Ells-
ler'and two sons, John J. and William
urvivei’lnlrs. i
W :-
1 , .llRE NAVY YARD Lid.
NW YO ,August zl-Fire was
, Won board the navy yard tug-
,ngwhiie going down the bay to-
. alongside the cruiser
“WW lhlch lint a stream of water
blue, extinguishing It. The
a“ to the Pontiac was slight and
an [art Lafayette.
H’
Our $2.00 Ladles’Slnoens
. well known for its ‘Siulish-
. ,_ it itoossand LondService;
F. D. LYON a co.
AUDITOR AND‘ CAVALRYMAN.
Differ-ed on the Question of the Na-
cssslty of lathe.
"Auditors and controllers are
natural enemies of mankind," remark-
ed an army ofilcer.
harly are they the enemies of an army
They take great delight In
finding reasons why they should not
pass an officer's accounts, and take ad
vantage of the least little technicality
or any possible way of refusing to do
so. Sometimes an officer, to get a just
claim that has been turned down by
the auditor or controller, has been oom-
pelled to go to congress and the print-
lag bill for the account was four times
as large as the amount in the first in.
But more particu-
General Weston got the heat of Iii
auditor when he was in the Seventh
Cavalry, and this is the way he tell»
"i was on a horse board at Aeneas
City. and before a horse could be ac-
cepted he was sent a mile at a very
fast clip, to test his endurance.
served that the men who were selling
the horses had a rider who would take
them behind a clump of trees where i
could not see, and shortened the dis-
! decided to ride the horses
myself, and i tried about twenty 11
I would get pretty well warmed
up with that kind of work, and I went
in' afterward and took a bath: 1 charg-
ed up the bath each day in my expens-
But the account came back from
the auditor with the indorsement:
"One bath a day Is a luxury, and not
One bath a week
“Andil indorsed under that: 'lt may
be enough for an auditor, but not
enough for a cavalryman."‘-—Wash-
HIS REASON.
Knew Nothing About Society's Dress-
“And do you refuse even to make the
effort to enter into society?"
in response to his friend’s protest
the tall, handsome man bowed in all-
"It is too much to ask." he said,
have spent a life in hard work, and i
need the rest."
friend laughed.
intense!" he replied, "you are in
the prime of life, have accumulated
millions and are Just. the men.
is the particular thing that makes you
"if you must know.” said the other,
' don't know whether to
wear a Tuxedo coat with a white tie.
or whether a black waistcoat should
ever be worn with full dress or not.
Is it proper to wear a black tie with
a dress coat, or a white tie with a
white waistcoat, or a black tie with a
Shall I say ‘waist-
coat’ or ‘vest,’ and shall I say ‘full
dress' or ‘evenlng dress? Do I want a
velvet or silk collar on my coat, and
when shall i wear an opera hat and
whcn‘a silk hat? Would it be proper
to wear an opera hat with a sweater.
or a silk hat with a flannel shirt?
it right to wear a frock coat before
breakfast and .how many studs shall
I have in my shirt bosom?
shall my shirt cuffs be _round or
Some say round, some say
square, These are questions that tor-
No, no, my friend, i can-
not take up this burden."
And his friend shok his head in el-
He understood at
black waistcoat?
lent sympathy,
THEIR LOVELY HOME.
His salary was 51,000 a year, and he
had just proposed to Miss Clare Light—
head and been accepted, and both were
exquisitely happy until she said:
“And you don't know how lovely our
home will be Charles.
home indeed for you~a place of rest,
and joy and comfort I'll call the house-
keeper up every morning"—
“'l‘he housekeeper?”
"Yes yes. dear
it shall be 11
Now don't inter
rupt me you naughty boy, I'll tell the
housekeeper to tell the cook to”—
"Of course and I do hope we can get
aFrench cook—l love French cooking;
and, i’d like the housemaid to"-
“Honsemaid 2"
"Yes. yes; ['11 like a brisk, tidy rosy-
cheeked housemafd.
much about the chambermald."
"Why my darling l’m afraid"--
“Now no, there you bad old boy. You
I don't care so
acquisition.
.. Even a painter to careful as Mr.
Godall, R. A.. narrowly escaped,
palpable blunder in one of his Idgyp~
tian canvases. He was engaged on a
picture portraying a number of men
dragging a huge monolith across the
desert when a famous man of science
a friend of his, entered the 311:1"0. Af-
ter locking intently at the can 12-: '
a few moments he said, “i say, timid-
all, if you want those fellows to pull
that stone you must double their num-
ber. it would take just twice as many
to move it." The academician took the
hint. added as many men again, and
the picture was unimpeachabie from a
scientific point of view.
But our modern painters. even when
they make the most grotesque mis-
takea, as they rarely do, can plead that
they err in good company. Did not
Albert Durer in one of his immortal
pictures, that of Peter denying Christ,
represent one of the Roman soldiers in
the act of enjoying a pipe, an indul-
gence when was, to say the least, pre-
, mature: and in the canvas portraying
Adam and Eve's expulsion from their
paradise he decked Eve in a petticoat
w .. flounces.
Two years ago there was exhibited
in London a beautiful picture by an A.
R. A. of an 18th century interior. per-
fect in every detail but one, for on the
wall of the interior was a small picture
of a very up-to-date locomotive; and in
the same year the writer saw among
the Academy pictures a presentment of
a cavalier, evidently waiting impa-
tiently for his lady to keep the tryst.
consulting a watch which would have
done credit, to a twentieth-century
watchmaker; while on another canvas
11 peninsular veteran who was fighting
his battles over again for the beoctit
of admiring rustics at the village inn.
was wearing an unmistakable Victoria
cross about 40 years before this badge
of valor came into existence.
The late Mr. Frank Hall, was as‘
painstaking as he was clever in his art.
but on one occasion he put his foot
in if. grievlously, when In a portrait of
a naval officer he introduced the un-
ion jack painted upside-down, to the
amazement and horror of service men,
Even the great Turner made. some
ludicrous mistakes, as when he made a
rainbow rub shoulders with the sun,
lnsteau of taking up a respectful posi-
tion opposite to that luminary, and in
other pictures he has painted his sails
black and has gone woefully wrong
over his rigging. .
In his magnificent. cture in
Royal Exchange of scared Inndoncrs
escaping in boats from the horrors of
the great fire of 1666, Mr. Stanlnope
Forbes has Introduced vessels of a
type which, It is said, the Thames has
never known: and another artist of re-
pute armed the children of Israel with
guns, presumably for self-protection.
while they were occupied In gathering
manna.
Continental artists are no less prone
to slips of this kind than our own
wielders of the brush. In the Louvre
there is a famous painting by Cros
which represents Napoleon amid the
arctic snows and frosts of itussia,
clothed in a light pcllsse, open at the
front. which would certainly have ter-
minated his career within a week from
' pneumonia: and In a recent salon pic-
ture Louis Seize la equipped with a re-
volvcr modern enough to have seen
service in the Boer wan—London 'i‘It-
Bits.
A Good Word for Friday.—"Don’t
you really think Friday Is an unlucky
day?" “No, indeed! Why. it Wine on
Friday that my husband tried to board
a street car and fell and broke his
leg!" “Why. that was unlucky, wasn't
It?" “Unlucky! i guess not. He had
all his doctor‘s bills paid by the tra-
ternity he belongs to. and he got 025
a week from an accident insurance
company, and the street car people are
going to pay him 31. 000 to cotnorom-
lee the matter. "Unlucky! Well.
wish there was a lot more of such Fri-
day!"—Cievelahd Plain Dealer.
At Wichita a woman passing along
the street with an arm full of packages
[dropped her purse. containing 3750 A
[gentleman found the purse and re-
turned it to her. "Oh, how grateful i
am." she exclaimed. And then she
lmpulsively opened one of her pack-
.ages and said '"Won't you how a cook-
le?"——Kansas City Journal.
Belle—Married next week? Why. you _
told us you were booked for a person-
must let your little girl have her own
way when it comes to the house see
You can engage the butler If,
laundreas and seamstreaa—.
Charles what a dmfui long. face you
hpve, I don't like It. "
It looked longer so he. sat in his 10:12 tian and Graves.
room an hour later trying
how the wages of the
nitsetkiofilier and butlemnd all the
mac equetoho truthful)
per week. He hasn't W it out yet.
oChicago Journal.
Some miarnan‘not undersand poo.-
fly. The r “on IInotbeabunedtor
Ithacause they cannot help it. One
to Mombafl
' ale. One man is naturally religious;
he ca'nnot get along without It: Ano-i
ther man. equally worthy. moot un-
derstand “religion at all. and honestly
denies the insertions-
ill lattand a play.
idlyt conducted tour with a small selecl
Mayrion—Yes, dear. But George is
1.00 like, and, of course.yoll'11 set the the personal conductor, and I'm the
coa‘chman, but when it comes mwhhye small select party. ~Chicago oJurn’el.
In one neighborth near Atchison.
there are families named Amen. Chris-
W, ”shamanism: making It bet-
ter known that we are‘now 11111 fledged
peoi Coal Dealers, bringing our coal direct
range ips at the Dwain Which an
Aver-x debaclbey Oeuld Detect.
it is surely one of the ecosntrieitiaa
of genius that a great artist, in paint
tag a picture which he has perhaps
been elaboratlnl in his mind for
months or years. will occasionally
make a slip which it scarcely requires
the discernment of an uncritical
.schoolboy to detect. it is not long
since a well known artist dowered the
hand of a figure in one of his pictures
with five fingers in addition to a
thumb: and there is a story that an Ac-
ademy exhibitor once painted a frisky
lobster the beautiful red color which
is usually considered a postmortem
HOYT'S, THEATRE.
“‘..—w...
TU ISDAY, AUGUST 20TH.,
. ._._.——-
THE SHOW YOU KNOW.
Edgar Scldcn Presents the New Big
Second Edition
Peck and His Mother-
in-Law Abroad.
ALL GIRLS AND GLITTER.
Exactly as seen in New York, Bos-
ton. Chicago, Pittsburg, and all the
big cities.
COMIC" OPERA, EXTRAVAGANZA.
3—8HOW8 IN ONE—3.
SUMPTUOUS
SCENIC SETTING.
SURPRISINC TRANSFORMATIONS.
TONS OF WARDROBES.
OANT EQUIPMENT.
45—OOMPANY OF—ifn.
BIGGER THAN BEFORE.
Popular Prices—25s., 35c., 50c
higher.
i alshipd d"
TOWN
lax Bulletins Notice
Notice is hereby 1:11 on to all persons
liable to pay Texas to the Town of
Norwalk, County of Fairfield and State
of Connecticut on the Assessment List
of 1902, that I will meet them to re-
ceive said taxes at the office of the
Collector, Town .fiall Building, in the
City of Norwalk, in said Town of Nor-
walk on Monday, August 31st. .
from 9 o'clock foronoon until 1 o’clock
afternoon and from 7 o'clock, until 8
o'clock evening.
Said office will be open thereafter
every week day from ii until 12 fero-
noon and from 1 to 5 afternoon.
Taxes may also be paid at the office
of Jacob M. ieyton, Esq., South Nor
wal
On all tam which shall emaiu on
paid after the; 1st day of October 1903
interest at the rate of NINE PER
CENT. will be charged from the 31st
day of August, 1903.
SIDNEY GUTHRIE.
Tax Collector
In and for said Town of Norwalk.
shall be paid.
on the list of 1903.
190
until the same
Dated at Norwallt, Conn, August 7.
3. a7tf
NEW YORK. NEW HAVEN &
HARTFORD RAILROAD.
____._.
. TIME TABLE.
in effect August 17, 1903.
LEAVE SOUTH NORWALK FOR
NEW YORK.
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6:55, 7:03, 7:45, 0:15. 8:45, 9:05x
9:241, 9:40. 10:24:, 10:40,11:35x.
P. M.——12:55x, 1:13. 3:251, 3:05,
3:20x, 4:07, 4:50x, 5:40, 6:553, 5:38.
6:551, 7:071, 7:55x. 8:00, 10:20.
SUNDAYS.
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A. M.-—l2259i.
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8:40x, 10:10.
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NORWALK.
' A. M.—12:03x. 5:00, 0:00.
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face in quantities to apply 9: 10, 11: 05:.
all whiff
ve'i- a. end this mm.“ . P. '.:nI-—7 15 1:05.
There are my grades of coai. but we """‘
Mwortby have but one—Till! .3381; The proof ”UT" "ORWM'EK .70 DA
One will be lain the ‘
, We aoliclta trial order. Our. iphone
number {564-5. Yard and nude, Wood
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bold» - have their bedrooms so as ev-
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that n Francisco Wasp.
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TRISTRAMdrHYAT
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' “caseiurnlshinq Department
It is inst poSSible uou have not investigated our Houseiur-
., «them. Then uou ought too. for undoubtedlu tion will
be able io'llin‘d manu articles to help make work lighter this warm
weather. willo complete stock. and the aood qualilu of deeds of-
fered. are recognized bit event person trading with us, andour cus-
tomers know to a ceriainln that their will invariablu receive value
for value. - it is useless to add anuthing further. as no amount of
pulling would increase its popularitu on reliabilitn.
Flu Killers. ' ~ 70 Glass Berru Dishes. - i 100
Flu Traps. 100 Large Glass Plates. 100
Large Jelly Tumblers. 20 DecoratedDinuer Plates. 60
Mason’s Rubbers. per doz. 50 Decorated Breakfast Plates. 51:
Flu Screens—Set. 6650 10 piece Toilet Set. $2.95
'Berru Press. 290 7 inch Jardineres. . 590
TRISTRAM a nun, Norwalk Conn.
no. 2 and 5 0112171: BUILDING.
“Why haven't you been attending
church of late?" asked the person.
“liocfor forbid it," replied the dulln-
qucnt party. "ilc said i must give up ,
sleeping'iu the day time."—-Chicago EVERY
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Is to supply the wants of the
masses, if possible, better than
others. Popular goods at small
Denna: ""1." 3’31: 19:33M'm“ profits. As we have stated before,
3:1,"; No.3,...“ c1"... 9' all classes of people trade at Krie-
ger & Cole store. We want
‘ ' ‘ ‘ ‘.--.. ' " 'merit the patronage of all classes
1 . . 135.000.
Capital, “mm “rpm ' by offering values that are
industrial 39"“. 0nd ml 0°- staunch and true, at prices most
or saw you. fair.
. If you lack ready cash you can
Stats supervision .of New pay us 13!"- Sdcc, what you
York 813d cnnn.9“‘u‘- need, all you need, have it charg-
PUV 5 ”a“ ed to your account. That's the
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wrenee .
"" “ " ° " DIAMOND RINGS
AND WATCHES
ON EASY PAYMENTS. ‘
1
The Elite Shoe
for men, and
The Perlecia
for linemen,
mafia a
$5.50 .
combination that has
no sopertor' . i
771: style: are especially
PM to
. ‘ pafifarfar people
and looking for something good to eat, General Contractor.
you will find it at theimperlai Cafe, OIWIRI AND OIWIR couugc.
In Railroad Plice. none, wa'ran weak or 111.1.-
Labstera. soft shell crabs, little peck KINDI. GRADING. ROCK IXOAVAv
mama...“ Isms, bluefiah aiways on hand. av. new, mason wean.
‘ with: in m - Cutler aura-m new Any Kind.
‘“ r11. best Wines and um mm WW“
Bottled Beer delivered free. ' Weiss . fervor-km around
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