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THE LIVE NEWS Otto-DAT
The Epworth League hold a meeting
at the M. E. Church this evening.
—-Briar Pipes from 10 cents up
Sutherland’s. _ _
The large refrigerator on Water
street is being connected with a South
Norwalk water main. ’ Bhew l
at
The Central Bank has not onlyal-
ways been considered “pure gold,”
but it is now painting its outposts in
bright, pure “ old gold” colOrs.
—Split Bambo Fishing Rods $3. 50 at
Sutherland’s. '
Rev. Dr. Van Alstyne delivered a
patriotic sermon last night before the
Norwalk and South Norwalk councils.
of the order of United American Me-
chanics. A large delegation repre-
sented the order.
—,The finest Line of Smoking Tobac
co in town at Sutherland’s.
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Buckley rep-
resented Norwalk at Bunker Hill Mon-
ument, at Boston’s annual 17th of June
celebration of that desperate battle,
and where Connecticut’s famous Gen-
eral Putnam was in command after the
fall of Warren. ~ ,
Police ! fire ! Call out the militia !
The Hour says there is to be a parade of
the “ Connecticut Total Obstinance
Union " at Bridgeport, Wednesday.
Such obstinant demonstrations should
not be tolerated. . Abstinence from ob-
stinance is what is wanted.
‘ Quartermaster Caleb Wood and Ad-
jutant Fred. Arnold of Douglas Fowler
Post sailed across the Sound, Saturday
and camped over night on “ Old Long
Island’s sea-girtEshore,” returning yes-
terday evening. It is said the main ob-
ject of the trip was foraging for cher-
ries.
The report of the Commissioners ’ to
assess the damages of the land taken
by the New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad for the improvements
at Mount Vernon was confirmed Satur- .
day by Judge Dykman. The assessment
will give property owners about $600
per lot for the land obtained. '
Evelyn C. Woodford, the eldest
daughter of Gen. Stewart L. Woodford,
died Saturday at her father’s residence
in Brooklyn, in the 30th year of her
age. She had been ill but a few weeks.
The funeral will take place from the
house at 4 o’clock Tuesday afternoon,
and the burial will be in Stamford.
Mr. Beers and daughter of Union-
ville, who were engaged to speak at the
Washington street temperance meeting
yesterday, were not present, owing to
a prior engagement elsewhere, but
it was announced that they would ap-
pear on Ila later date, also that the
meeting next Sunday will be addressed
by one of the local clergymen.
The closing session of the Douglas
Fowler W. R. C. fair Saturday night
drewan audience of about'one hund-
red persons, and a very pleasant even-
ing was enjoyed by all. Owing to the
bad weather on that and the two pre-
ceding nights the fair was only moder-
ately successful financially, the net
receipts being between $30 and $40.
The announcement in the city daily
that Gershom Raymond had opened a
fish market at No. 12, Dibble’s block,
was correct,’barring these corrections:
No. 12 is on the other side of the street
and is tenanted. No. 13 is a vacant
room in Dibble’s bIOck, and Mr. Ray-
mond has not opened a fish market any-
where in that neighborhood.
Rev. Mr. Graham preached an elo-
quent and impressive sermon to young
men, last evening, and at: the close of
the service extended the right hand of'
fellowship to about thirty members of
the order of the Brotherhood of St.
Andrew, which he has’ recently organ!
ized frOm'among the young men‘lof St.’
‘ Paul’s church.
.i‘ “Allie” Ncwnfan of Stamford? was in?
town over Sunday.
.. This is commencement week at Yale
College. ' _ ‘ ‘
Ex-Senator McDonald of: Indiana
died last night: S . 7 -.
Miss Charlotte Betts is visiting Miss
. Sallie Ayres in_Brooklyn.
g Attorneys gHurlbutt,» >Hubbell. and:
Light are at Westport again to-day try-
ing to discover whatthere is left of the
Crossman estate. ' '
Mrs. Ashton is a visitor at Mrs: {Tal-‘g-
' co’ttis on‘Unionc'Park, her husband :Drglg
Ashton, of Clean, N. Y., having sailed
on Saturday for Europe.
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’ Mrs Giles EA; ’ Gregory); 15f» Norwalk,"
and Mrs. C. B. Sellcck, of Jersey City,
are visiting their'grandmother Mrs. J. ,
'J..Wilcoxson, at Seymour, ”Conn. '
Joe ‘Mulligan, . arrested Saturday
evening for drunkenness by Officer
Adams; was before Justice Mead this .
morning and paid the costs for his in-
discretion., . . ,
Warden Keeler has requested a full
attendance at; the" speciaLBorough
meetiugtofnightto consider the Rice
assault matter, as well as the financial
questions for which their last meeting
‘was adjourned. ' —
To-davI’. M. Hubbell has gone to
Boston, ”Letter-carrier Matheis, to
Brooklyn, and Mail CarrierzBennett is
just round‘shouldered with the weight
of the ofiicial duties of the Norwalk
post offices; . V - " " »
. Mrs. George R. Chelwell, Mrs.
Charles Dennis, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. C.
Cholwell, child and; nurse, leave on
Tuesday morning next for the White
Mountains. They have rooms engaged
at the Sunset House, located on the
highest point at the mountains.
MR. EDITORz—Will you, in behalf of
an outraged community, whose good
name, peace of mindand even property
interests, have been most grossly in-
jured by .the events of the past week,
give place to the following extracts
from our borough by-laws that our
worthy Warden may more clearly see
his .duty and what the public have a
right to demand of him: . [TAX PAYEB. .
[Page 10 Borough By-Laws, Secs. 6, 7 and 8.] '
~ Sec. 6.? Any policeman who shall at
any time, whether on duty» or off, he-
come intoxicated, or who shall at any
time when on duty, except by the or-
der of his superior officer, or to sup-
press disturbance, or to make an ar—
rest, enter into any drinking shop, or
saloon, * * * shall be removed
from his office by the Court of Bur-
gesses. . ‘ _
Sec. 7. The Warden shall supervise
the police force and keep himself in-
formed by frequent inspection of the
manner 1n which the sexieral mem-
bers perform their duties.
Sec. 8. The Warden shall have pow-
er to suspend from duty any member
of the force. ' ‘
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Another Incendiary Fire.
A barn 30x40, belonging to Charles
L. James on the turnpike west of Tay-
lor avenue, was destroyed by fire early
yesterday morning; About 3 o’clock
Mrs. James heard the horses kicking in
their stables and looking out of the
window saw that the barnwas in flames,
She aroused her husband who was tired
out, but he could save little of value so
much headway had the flames gained
The barn, about 8 tons ’of hay, three
horses, harnesses, threshing machine
and many tools 'were destroyed. A
horse and a cow which were in the
basement of the barn were fortunately
rescued without serious harm. Mr.
James’ loss is over $1,000 which is cov-
ered with insurance. Allen Dauchy
while- on his way to the fire met a man
in the swamp near by who asked the
way to South Norwalk, but Dauchy is
unable to give a description of the par-
ty. It looks very suspicions that a man
shouldbe in such close proximity 'to
the burning barn and give no alarm.
Mr. James says that one night about
three weeks ago his hired man saw
someone acting in a suspicious manner
near the barn and gave chase but the
_,,fgllow made his escape.
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S'étUrday’s Trotting. ’
The attendance at the races Saturday
was quite good and the trotting was
above the average. For lack of space
we summarize the results in the differ-
out events as follows: 3 I ,. H
' The double team race, for a silver
pitcher, was won by the Bedford team,
of Greens Farms. Timé—2.29 1-4-
2.31 1-2 and 2.30 1-4. ’
In the 2.33 class, purse $250, Ethel
took first money and Rob Roy second.
Time—2.28 3-4, 2.31 1-4 and 2.32 1-2.,
In the 2.40 class, purse $200, Alcyo
took first money, and Nutmeg second,
Time—2.31, 2.33 1—2 and 2.32 3-4.
Free'fc’r‘d“, Purse-$300. Hy. Wilkes.
first, Monkey Rella second. Time-—
2.24, 2.24 1-2 and 2.22 1-2.
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.. g Atgi-tillstde Reception,
As promisedgin Sdturday’s DAILY G114
zn'rrrn; we {crowd out'rmuch-gother inter-’
esting', local matter tb giéve placeito the
' "following, as we trust, more profitable
treatise on the subject of a sincere,
earnest and methodical exercise of the
mental faculties. = We have'rarely‘Seen
a more able, carefully and astutely
considered address, prepared not so
much for the temporary pleasure of
:‘listening graduates, as for their presi
ent profit and future growth in brain
power, than this praiseworthy effort of
Senator, John H.5Seymour and deliver,-
ed at the graduating exercises at Hills
side? on Fridaymveniin ;, under the ap-
propriate head of' . -- '5 ”‘1'
‘ “THINKING.”
, It is well known that one may have a
ifixed custom of retiring at 10 o’clock
at night and rising at seven. and yet,
that upon occasion, he may retire w1th
the Special intention ,of rising on the
followin morning at’five,‘ that accord-
ingly, a ter a m ht of sound sleep,
’Without the aid '0 zen-alarm bell, he
will awake at the usual hour of five, in
conformity with his resolutlon.
In order. to see what; has been :done.
in this ‘remarkable case let us notice
what difficulties have been surmounted.
Were the same person to lie awake all
night, similarly be end the sound of
bell or clock, and eyond the mfiuence
3of dawn 'or the sight of the stars, or of
an li hts, hes-would: have the utmost
di city in telling time after the first
three hours, within the limits of an er-
ror of two hours, and yet, the sleeping
‘ mind has taken such note of time with-
out strain or exhaustion to the sleeper,
that the result is accurate almost to the
minute. - .
Take another,,case: One will _set be-
fore him some ‘problem under discus-
sion which has required him to gath-
er together a group of materials which
from their complexitv‘or want of sys-
tem will force himto lay aside the sub-
ject under a’cloud 0f confusion ofideas;
after turnin his attention to other
things he wi l a ain take up the knotty
subject and fin to his delight that
meanwhile it has taken system and co-
herentform, and that his confusedma-
terials “have" arranged themselves in
groups so as to pennit- and invite clear
Something has
resting; a laborious result has been
reachedwithout conscious. labor, and
fati e. .. How _ these things are done
needjlnot trouble us now. It answers
my purpose at present to remind you
that they are done, and that your own
experience has- alread' y, many times,
led you to know the fact, .
This address is concerned witha dif-
ferent manifestation and exercise of
the mind, although later I- shall re-
turn to this remarkable operatmn to
make my meaning}. clearer. _I speak
chiefly of purposeful th1nk1ng, 'the
plain,‘ ordinary every day thtnking,
onlymore intense,only better directed,
only turned upon a definite subject. ‘
Let me relieve your mind at once of
the impression which yOu may by this
time have gained, that I am trylng to
force upon your attention a metdphyst-
cal discussion. If it were poss1ble to
t are eye' in upon one’s- self and see
how the :mind uses the bram, or how
the brain in its inner folds, or finest
tissues, or minutest molecules changes,
and that itchanges w1theveny thought,
or impulse, or perception; if 'lt Were
possible to think clearly and w1th full-
est comprehension of 'one’s self as think-
ing, and to see himself most lucldly 1n
all the processes of thought, beyond
the hopes of any thinker successfully
to do, the miracle would be entlrely
fereign to the subject whlch I am” dis-
cussing, it would indeed be most mar-
velOus, most valuable, but 1t 18 not at
all what I am trying to do, or to ask
you to do this evemng. That would be
discussing in what manner we perform
the operation of thinklng. I am 1n-
viting you to Consider andmore clearly
to realize that you can think, no mat-
ter how the operation is performed.
Some. say that the mind is always
busy, that We {never cease'to th1nk,and,
in a certain sense that may be true. Of
aimless thinking there 1s enough, of
useless and vain thoughtsthere 1s no
lack; of revery and musmg we. have
constant examples in ourselves w1thout
coming to. the process whlch we .are
now considering. It 1s not conscious
thinking, as though one were to s1t.
d0wn and say I will now think, I am
now thinking; let me see and know
that I am th1nking.
And to further state what the sub-
ject is not about—It is not about fol-
lowing the thought of.others,and there-
fore is not about readlng, even the best
of books. It is true that one can thmk
and think effectively, that one ought
to think and think closely as_ he reads,
and of what he reads; and it 1s true that
he does this in the same_ manner and
with the same faculties w1th wh1ch he
thinks asI am about to suggest. Yet
in one sense, reading and t lnkmg, or
following the thoughts; of others, no
matter how intently or successfully,an_d
no matter how useful or necessary if; is
to do this, is yet distinguished from
thinking for one’s self very much as
copying a picture. 1s dlfl‘erent from
painting acreation of one’s own. Doubt-
less to copy a great plcture 1s to pro-
duce a better picture than to first create,
a conception and then place 1t upon the
canvas. The, illustration is. not w1selv
chosen'because béltbftetw fpaint, and. tOf
those who pain 11 ew orlgma 9,
whereas all think, and of all who_th1nk
all may, if they choose, th1nk_ w1th set
purpose, think inten51vely,,th_1nk w1th
'ever widening grasp of subject and
reach of thought, and w1th ”ever in-
ereasing success. _ ‘ i 3 _ '
But. may the thing be doneto'amOunt
to anything? May 1t be done -w-1thout
studying a book about the mind ? May.
it be done by one who has never
thought much about havmg a mind?
May 1t be done by one who never. trled
to do it before ?. Is it worth domg if
one does not expect to enter_ a profes-
sion, or to lecture, or to write booksi
.-into the mind” of some thinker.
Whole thing will exist in the realm of
'thoughtlon before it reachestherealm’.
little further.
2 Scientists tell us that the mechanical
world is waiting for the invention of a
storage battery whlch may be charged
with electricity and then carried about
on cars or in englnes in such a manner
that the electricit ma ”be used asre-
qui-red. Hundrec s of 7 een penetrating
minds are at work on the problem. To-
night thereare men in all parts of the
civilized World who are toilingin labor-
atories, or abstractedl pacing 'u
down rooms, . or we king in onely
places under the open sky, bent upon
solving that single problem,—what sort
of avcontrivance or a receptacle. or cell
may electricity be put into and then be
got off again by a radual and regulat:
ed ‘ discharge wit out ruinous waste.
«Some-man will get it. Th
e
of sight am ~touch.
{In a certain sense, all that is valuable
in the world,*all that rules it, all that
characterizes the, a c, all t will con-
trol the future, all t at will raise men
and women from a low level of livin to
aghigher plane, all that fills out the ife,
exists in the world of thought:
€It has man. times been suggested
that courses 0 reading shouldbe adopt-
ed; that every day we should read a
certain thing; and various plans have
been made upon which this may be
done conveniently and with the best
effect. Many learned men have com-
piled lists of the best one hundred
books, or lists of the greatest books in
the world. Nothing will take the place
of effort in this direction. , No student
has a right to say that he will shut his
eyes or shut out of his life the great
works of the thinking world in the past
or in the present. John Ruskin calls a
library a King’s treasure house, and
better than any other man whom I now
recall, he has directed young ladies
how the may effectively enter this
treasure cusp and take therefrom its
rarest stores without impoverishing'
others and» their own eternal enriching.
As this may be done by reading, so an-
other store house may be entered by
another avenue—the store house of
thought. Or, changing the figure,
there is a world not less rear. than that
which is visible about us which is invis-
ible and et' human. It has been said
by one w o is entitled to speak that the
Kingdom of Heaven 1s within you.
“With truth it may also be said that the
world of thought is within you. You
are of it. You may fitly and effective-
ly seek for it, not by going) about here
and there in search 0 it ut in. your
own room, alone, by simply turning to
it: Again it has been said that as a
man thinketh in his heart so is he. In
the presence of a Doctor of D1vinity I
shall not attempt to discuss the full or
controversialxneanin ‘of these words,
but, it seems to me, t at the lay mmd
may suggest that one meaning of this
passage is that in proportlon as _he
think, in proportion as he is a thinkln
beingfguided by honest and purposefu
thought, in that proportion he reaches
out to the full measure of man. It is
not that he must think a certain thing;
it is not that he must reach a certain
cenclusion in his thinking; that 15 more
than should be required. The sugges-
tion is that he should think; that the,
conclusion he reaches shall be his ' own
by thinking; that it should not be the
conclusion of another obtained cheaply
by the asking, and, that the very pro-
cess, irrespective of. the cenclusmn
reached, is an ennoblmg) one.
The process is one to e thought of a
The best way to think
1s to think. And, just as the serious
reader sits down with his chosen sub-
ject and the best author upon that sub-
ject, and gives his hour to that subject
and that book oblivious of every outer
thing, so the thinker may take himself
into the world of thought, by choosmg
his subject, by preparing for his study
of it as he would for his greatest effort
or his noblest occupation in the visible
world; and, w1th all bodily) conditions
as favorableas they can e made so
that he may enter upon the undertak-
ing without any, avoidable hindrance,
let him turn upon the werk. I am not
going. to attempt to lay down formal
rules 1n preparation for this elevated
task; it will not be useful to say that it
should be done at a particular time as
early in the morning, or late at night,
or in the fullness of the day. It cer-
tainly should notbe done when either
mind or body is fatigued, when the
body is~ in pain, or the muscles re axed
or the nerves unsteady or unstrung, or
the disposition sour or .heavy, or. the
mind wanting in elastlcity and vigor.
Yet I suppose, if the preparations were
too elaborate, if it should be undertak-
en as a great ceremony, there w1ll be
difficulty“ in losing consciousness of
this, and the danger would be that one
would thus think about his thinking in-
stead of intently, exclus1vely, and w1th
fixed purpose thinklng upon h1s sub-
ject. 'Of course, it should not be con-
tinued long. It would be enough for
most mature mom—certainly 1t would
be enough for any of the young ladles
before me to continue this for half an
remember about real thought; it‘should
be as vivid, as consecutive, as uninter-
rupted as it can be made by throwmg
the whole life into it; 1t should be done
body and soul.
It has been said that one may do
enough of intellectual. work 1n two
hours to exhaust his ent1re v1tal power
for two weeks. It is not such extreme
exertion as this that I speak off; and,
on the other hand, it is as far as possi-
'ble removed from the aimless musing
that is called thinking in a loose but
too common use of the word. I mean
to Suggest a course of thinking as some
of the great thinkers of the world have
thought. Sir Isaac Newton, 1n tellmfi
how his vast discoveries was made, sa1
subject, that he dwelt upon it withOut
penetrating through it; then, after a
period of rest he returned to it and
thought again in the same direction,
penetrating further, and then a little
further, fighting for a way as it were,
for a passage through, inch by inch;
and he attributed all of his achieve-
ments to the ipower of consecutive
or to teach. or to-try to‘become learns
orgreati \ ' ~:
thought which-he had thus acquired.
and '
It will} spring.
hour a day; for I am speaking you will
that he fixed his attention upon 71.11163
leaving it hour by hour until ha,saw._
some opening in it, some ray' of- light,
In the case of so remarkable a person- '
age, it is not unpleasant to know that
a school he was far from industrous
and stood low in his class, and it is with
a, feeling of pardonable pride that the
fact is here recorded that the school he
_ attended at Granthem was far surpassed
by this institution at Hillside.
. The dau hter of Charles Dickens
has given t 'e world in a recent ma 9.-
z1ne,_—"— ferget when or where, ut
within the last few years a limpse of
her dlstmguished father in his study.
She'had been allowed, on recovering
from a serious illness to be carried in-
to hls room and to lie there upon a
couch durin his morning’s work. I
do not recal at present how she de-
scribed it, but the portraiture was of
one who was absorbedin ever fiber of
h1s being with the creations 0 his mind :'
he threw himself into the character he
was developing: he was for the moment
that character: he Was as oblivious ‘of
her .and of all his surroundings as
though he were in another world. John
-'Ruskin in a luminous essay in which
he is advising young ladies how to read
took a concrete example from a single
page 1n Mllton and went over it phrase
by phrase, throwin into it the splen-
dor of his own inte lect, until, follow-
1ng hlm, 1t seemed as though the pas-
sages were as full of nobility of thought
and high purpose, as, without such in- ,
tent, penetrating, thinking into it, and
through it, it would’be obscure and al-
most unmeaning. And, as though up-
on such a passage is made a part of the
llluminated reading of which he was
then treating, so it seems to {me that
your own thought may of yourself be
turned upon a subject to be chosen by
you w1th an orignal and penetrating
light from within, which will lead, not
1ndeed to great discoveries at once,
not 1ndeed to some high creation in
hterature, but yet to an ennobling re-
sult, poss1bly to some true creation all
your own. whlch will give you a sense
of possessing a new faculty, and will be
like entrance into a new world. This
1s so plain a conclusion, indeed so
homely a suggestion that I have some
reluctance in elaborating it even in the
inadequate manner which has been at-
tempted: and yet, realizing the imper-
tance, and 1ndeed the greatness of this
occas10n,_knowing that it is an oppor-
tun1ty glven to but few to address
young ladies of spirit, of high ambition,
and of noble purpose, at the time when
the word fitly‘ spoken may sink deep,
into the heart, I could not say a more
serlous word, or say a thing under a
sense of greater responsibility, than to
say, think. .
Do not mistake the nature - of the
proposed effort. It is not memory.
This will illustrate. '
Suppose one knew all the facts that
exist, and that the word “fact” were
used in its widest sense; that it includ-
ed all facts not only of the material and
visible world, whether within our ken
or beyond it, to its utmost limits, if
there be limits, as well as all facts of
the invisible world; all the facts sought
for by the various societies of psychical
research; that the past, both regarding
the race and regardin the planet upon
which they live, were nown; I will ex-
tend the supposition so as to include
cognizance of all conceivable facts that
may be claimed or suggested by any of
you—this would certainl afiord all
the materials of thought that could be
desired. And now I wish to point you
to this further statement that conceiv-
ably a single mind mi ht contain all
these, or rather, might e able to call
up any one of those facts, for of course,
they could not all, or many of them,
be present in consciousness at once ;
yet the power of thinking might not
and need not necessarily be exercised
upon these materials. The power to
call up a fact in consciousness, or a
cup of facts, I wish to contrast with
t e. partlcular exercise of the mind
whlch, in this address, I have calle
th1nk1ng. To think, is to regard things
1n thelr relations; and, at least one
step 1n the process of so doing is an ex-
er01_se of the imaginative faculty. And
agaln, no possible array of facts, or the
power to call them up in consciousness,
or the learning of them as facts merely,
1s the} same thing, or like the thing
whlch 18 here meant by thinking. Fur-
thermore the fullest and clearest repro-
duction of a set of facts is a . different
thlng from drawing the smallest con-
clus1on from these facts. The study of
the facts of a period of history, or of a
branch of astronomy, or of architecture
is not of 1tself. what the world recog-
nlzes as learnmg or true wisdom; nor
Is the process of acquiring these facts
thought or thinking. Take an exam-
ple: We are told by astronomers that
the sun 1s the source of light and heat,
that 1t » 1s elght hundred and eighty
thousand mlles in diameter, that it is
ninety-two millions of miles from the
earth, that the earth has a satellite
about _1t two hundred and forty thous-
and mlles from 1t, that the earth re-
volves about the sun, that other planets
also revolve about the sun, some in
smaller orb1ts and some in larger than
that of the earth, as 'on the one hand
Mercur , Venus, and beyond the earth
Mars, uplter, Saturn and the like.
And the hat of facts might be increased
1ndefin1tely; how that the sun is of far
11 hter matenal than the earth; that
are _1s about like the earth in its con-
stitutlon, about as well fitted apparent-
ly forvthe abode of a race of living be-
1ngs as the earth; has its seasons, its
land and water.
no water and no atmosphere and is cold
and umnhabitable so far§aswe can'judge;
and so on until the mind should be
tired of the catalogue of facts. But
that-mind can take these facts and ar-
range them in order- so as to realize
the1r ex1stence as one realizes his sur-
roundings in this room; by sight, one
who can picture to himself in vivid im-
gaglnatlon as the poet sees his creation,
seemg these facts in due proportion, in
,arrangement, as though before his i115i
should be unpr0pitious the fete will be
per being, such a thinker while con-
fimng hunself to the realm of fact is
reallzmg 1n 9. lummous picture the facts
which we have before regarded as
merely catalogued or remembered.
And if, having 3
delightful contemplation, he should
proceed to consider how probably they
came mto then present form and order
and relation. how that a difiused cloud
That the Moon has '
began to condense upon itself and slow-
ly to take motion about a center as yet
unformed, and how at last a ring at the
outer edge were left to revolve around
the inner shrinking mass, and so on
through the various steps by which the
whole is» thought by some to have
passed on its way to its present form,
to reach this conclusion, without direct
knowledge of it, by the close contem-
platlon of presentfacts is a very differ-
ent thing from the ca ing up in con—
sciousness of that conclusion as a fact
established, b one who regarded not
the manner 0 reaching the conclusion.
First we had the barren facts, then
the. graphic reproduction of them in
their relation to one another,—lastly
the intentthinking about them to _ draw
a conclusion from them;
, Were there time, it was my plan to
take some subject from" a list of those
that might be suggested, some worthy
subject,—a great name in history, a
critical period like the five ears be-
tween the close of the Revo utionary
War and the adoption of the Constitu-
tlon of, the United States, when the
destiniesof this country hung in the
balance—or a battle like that of Sedge-
more where brave men, surprised in
the night, were put to death in the
trenches, and the fate of an i noble
dynasty forever settled,—or a ranch
of science or rather some fragment in
science that might be, as it were chipped
ofi‘and considered for a few moments
in 1tse1f,— or some question in politics,
or religion, or social life, and by dis-
secting it and considering it under re-
fiection, to illustrate how after ather-
mg the materials. of facttoge her. it
may be thought out by a seminary girl
1n the seclusion of her room, if she have
a'mlnd to turn her thought upon it, in.
tensified to~ a somewhat hi her pitch
than she had regarded herse f capable
of. But you see what is meant.
_Now returning to my first illustra-
tlons, you will find t at having set
to yourself some definite problem, the
conscious mind will busy itself with the
matter. As it tallies the silent watches of
the night, advances in the matter will
be made. not of your conscious doing.
There is no profit in discussing the
reason why we should think. The very
possessron of this power is the duty to
exercise it. One should use the mind
because it is possible to use it. The
power to do so means the obligation to
use it, and to do it well, and in due
proportion. Not with an eye to per-
sonal advantage, as getting a living, or
belng able to earn a livin , or being
accomplished, or cultivate , or great,
or noble, or even useful. All these are
proper metives, but this may be done
and should be done from the higher
motive to do and to be all that one has
the power to do and to be.
Bacon sa s: “The mistakin or mis-
placing of t e farthest end 0 knowl-
edge isthe greatest error of all the rest:
for men have entered into a desire of
learning and knowledge, sometimes
upon a natural curiosity and inquisi-
tive appetite; sometimes to entertain
their minds with variety and
delight; sometimes for ornament an
reputation; and sometimes to enable
them to victory of wit and contradic-
ti on; and most times for lucre and pro-
fession; but seldom sincerely to give a
true account of their gift 0 reason to
the benefit and use of men: As if there
were sought in knowledge, a couch
whereupon to rest a searching and
restless spirit; or a terrace for a wan—
dering and variable mind to walk up
and down with a fair prospect; _or a
tower for a proud mind to raise 1tself
upon; or a fort or commanding ground
for strife and contention; or a shop for
profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse
for the glory of the Creator and the
relief 0 man’s estate.”
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OBITUARY.
Last Saturday afternoon, ‘Burr
Brown, an .old soldier and pensioner
whose time has been principally spent
in the almshouse since he became
broken down from excesses, died in
that institution and his funeral will ec-
cur at 2 o’clock this afternoon, inter-
ment being made in the soldiers” lot,
Riverside cemetery. , .
f Hannah Cook, widow of Horatio
Cook, died at the almshouse on Satur—
day, at the age of 75 years. The inner-
9.] services will be held this afternoon
at 4 o’clock at the almshouse.
Michael Shields, a veteran soldier of
the famous 69th regiment, New York
State Volunteers, died last Saturday at
his home on Franklin avenue. De-
ceased was a soldier with an enviable
record, He was badly wounded in
several engagements of the late war,
and on one occasion was left for dead
on the field. The funeral took place
this morning at St. Mary’s church,
the following Grand Army men acting
as pall bearers: Commander Thomas
Bradley, Past Commander F. W. Per-
ry and comrades Daniel Reardon,
Martin Mulligan'George W. Raymond
and Robert N. Morehousei The inter-
ment was-in St. Mary’s cemetery.
Lawn Fete.
To-morrow evening the ladies of the
Congregational church will give a lawn
fete, for which elabOratel preparations
are being made, and which is sure to be
a very enjoyable affair. The proceeds
are to be appliedgtoward the payment
sion fee is very low, there should be a
large attendance. If * the weather
postponed until the next pleasant eve-
one this by close but.
"ning.
——Tuesdav 2 p. m. on Bargain Table
at Boston Store,10 yards of Novel Suit.-
ing or 1.0,.yards Best Shilling Gingham
(plain, stripes and plaids) 49 cents.
of the, church debt, and _as.. the admins:
, »Whlther are we Drifting?
, MR. EDITORs—Has the DAILY GA.
warm the independence and cour.
age to let a subscriber, a citizen and a
tax payer, express his share of the pub.
lic indignation universally felt over the
imbecile, if not criminal action or rath.
er non—action of our borough authori-
ties in regard to the murderous assault
made upon John Rice ? Here a delib-
erate ~ murder has been attempted.
The quarrel started on Thursday
night. It was known to our police,
Threats were publicly made by the be-
ligerents that they would “do” each
other. On Friday night they met,
again. A‘quarrel was openly waged in
our most public business street. Rice
inebriated as he was, beset by two as-
sailants, {John and William Hanlon,
starts for his home. He is followed and
assaulted near the town house where a
brutal fight ensues. Rice then releases
himself and goes on, one only, William
Hanlon, hanging to him. When in
front of Rev. Dr. Noble’s residence
William Hanlon, with a horrid oath ex-
claims “I will kill you.” He strikes
Rice a murderous blow with a glass
bottle. Rice falls unconscious and is
kicked and beaten till apparently dying,
when his would be murderer runs off.
Neighbors, who hear and see the as-
sault are horrified, but no police were
seen. Yet the police had knowledge of
Thursday’s fight, before that of the
Wall street saloon and Town Honse.
What is the excuse that these breakers
of law and the peace are not arrested.
Shall it be said, yes it must be, dis-
graceful as it is—the policeman on the
beat was too drunk to do his duty.
True he was subsequently sent home to
“sober-up.” Is it not true that he had
repeatedly been in this condition be-
fore and that his infirmity was well
known before being put on the force.
Yet Sunday night he was assigned
to duty again. But enough of him.
Let the responsibility for this disgrace
fall where it belongs. Now as to the
Borough Warden and Chief of Police.
What did they do towards securing the
would be murderer? Nothing! From
8 o’clock that Friday night to 2 p.m. of
Saturday he walked our streets unmo-
lested. He then walks down East ave-
nue to the South Norwalk depot and
takes the cars to New York, where he
now is, with no attempt or apparent de-
sire to deprive him of his liberty. If
Rice dies he will easily escape. Is this
all deliberately planned, as is freely
charged, because the Hanlons have a
”political pull” ? True, James is ar-
rested Sunday night and is bonded
out. Well he may be. He was an ac-‘
cessory before the murderous assault,
but not the one who swore he would
kill and did the utmost to kill. Decent
citizens, honest men, taxpayers, all de-
mand an explanation of such unpar-
donable conduct on the part of those
elected to protect the lives and proper-
ty of our people and good name of our
disgraced borough? Is there a school
boy who does not know that had some
inoflensive inebriate from Cobble Hill
gone peaceably staggering through our
streets at such an hour Saturday night,
he would have landed in the Lock-up
before he had gone ten rods. Why is
this Hanlon exception?’ Is it politics ?
Is it because the power of the saloon is
greater than church or state. Are the
vicious violators of the laws of God and
man to dominate good citizens? Please
explain, if you can, whither we are
drifting here in Norwalk. CITIZEN.
The Daily Gazette’s Reply.
The GAZETTE “dares do all becomes
a man.” It will strictly adhere to the
J efi‘ersonian motto that flies at itshead,
“Eclual and exact justice to all." It
will condemn no man unheard, be he
friend or foe. “With malice toward
110116 and charity for all,” and “in sor-
row” not in anger, is it compelled to
confess its utter inability to find ex-
cuses for the pusilanimous, if no worse,
Conduct of our borough officials, in the
above matter from the Warden
down to lowest constable, and all and
every one of them, we believe to be
our friends... If they have valid excuse,
we can assure them in all kindness that
that they cannot make it too soon to
appease the heated indignation of our
citizens, This is acase where politics
and all personal considerations drOP
out of sight. It is a case of public
decencyof the utmost public safety
and if our-borough officials would es-
capef'the ‘- severest reprehension they
cautiot too soon or too earnestly awake
to 3' Serious sense of their responsibll-
“35’ and make the attempt at least to
right 9‘ most disgraceful wrong and
Public outrage, _
-—EDI’1‘_OR GAZETTE :—Permit me,
through the valuable columns of your
paper, to say that while I do not doubt
for a moment the urity and genuine
worth of. the Acme Bottling-Co. s soda
water, 'ngelf ale, root and birch beer,
I am a m believer in equal rights ‘
all,“ and therefOre'insist that the groom
has lust as good a right to sell the
above mentioned code as the saloon
keeper although I- elong‘to the latter
. , . FAIR PLAY.
class.
Norwalk Chronicler