» A .3 Weak. livid. ‘7“ \ \ \ “I was feeling as miserable as any one could feel, tired all the time, many times unable to go out on the street even after I had\started. If I went u one flight of stairs I felt as though I a cold fall. I had palpitation of the heart and suffered eatly with catarrh of the head and ghost. I finall decided to try Hood’s Sarsa rilla, an soon felt better. I used the t ird bottle and I then felt like a different person. I hope others in ill health will do as I did. If on take Hood’s Sarsaparilla and use it aithfully I am sure you will be benefited. I have also found Hood’s Pills to be of great benefit and I highly recommend them.” MISS J assrn FREMONT, Saddle River, N. J. Hood’s Sareaparilla Is the Only True Blood Purifier Prominently in the public eye today. Hood’s Plus care all liver ills. 25c. ARE YOU GOING SOUTH? it so. for health. pleasure and comfort go so Piney Woods Inn. Southern Pines. N. C. I “use desiring to escape the rigors of the 2'...ma.te Norah will find a mild. dry climate at Southern Pine-s, N. C.. in the heart of the long leafed pine section of America. The elevation is 600 feet above sealevel. the highest point ill the turpentine belt, delight- ful climate. with all the advantages of resorts farther south and free from many disadvan- taxes; it is the place the tourlst and health seeker will appreciate. It has the most perfect drainage. being a huge sand bank. and is Sltllfitedln‘tlle heart of the long leaf pine. It is Within the in- liuence of the gall stream. to which it owes much of the mildness of the climate. Piney Woods Inn. an elegant new hotel. is now open. The house accommodates 200 guests. has all modern conveniences. sam- iary plumb ng. electric lights. call bells. wide verandais. sun parlors. steam heat. etc.. in fact Piney Woods in 2 has been fitted up that guests may enJoy mu comforts Of every day life at home at moderate rates. Piney Woods Inn is reached by the Sea- board Air Line. For terms. etc. address. CHARLES ST. JOHN. (MANAGER). Southern Pines. N. 0. DAILY FREIGHT LINE BETWEEN} NORWALK, . SO. NORWALK AND NEW YORK. Propellers Uity of Ncrwalk, Vulcan and Eagle. Leave N orwalk at 5 p. 111. Leave So. N orwalk at 6 p. m. Leave New York, Pier 23, E. R., Beekman St.. 5 p m, CENTRAL NATIDNIL BANK. .26 WALL 811, NORW'ALK. NUORPORATED SEPT. 4. 1876. APl'l‘AL. - - ~ - - - $100.000 nus M. HOLMES. President. . L. Borne. Vice-President. WILLIAM A. CURTIS, Cashier ' DIRECTORS : onGE M. Honifins, H. E. DANN. . L. .Guxnmonam, J. T. Pnowrr'r E. 11.301153, 8. H. HOLMES J. Cousms. JR. .Eliscounl (lay, Saturday. iaufleld Bounty National Bank. 44 Wall Street, N orwalle, Conn. INCORPORATED. 1824. Capital, $200,000 EDWIN O. KEELEB, President. DAVID E. MILLER. Vice-President. L. C. GREEN. Cashier DIRECTORS . Emmy 0. KEELEB, Moses H. GLOVEH I‘M”) H. MILLER, A. .l. Marxian, I f-"l'. Jorm Locxwoon. Tnnnnonu E. SMITH lull COLE. Cues F. TBIS'I’LAIII. accounts of Manufacturers. Merchants and Ind ividualsvsollmted. sure Deposit Boxes free to DepOSitors‘. 1'? fl , l 'LIGH'I‘ PARCEL and tIIbKWIIIIIIS PACKAGE DELIVERYi Obviiiirates,‘Willalso take orders for mes- senuev- s--rv1r‘-e l" an York Goods called or and delivered foal] parts of the town -l.r:jr>i;s receIVed atyE P. Weed’s Dru! Store: if... 53.-Street. Withhelephone connection un- 3' ‘0 E-L‘OCKWOOD. 2': ‘I y. I I THE RIVER. I am a. river flowing from God’s sea. Through devious ways. He mapped my course for me; . I cannot change it; mine alone the toil > To keep the waters free from grime and soil. , The winding river ends where it began; - And when my life has compassed its brief span . I must return to that mysterious source. So let me gather daily on my course The perfume from the blossoms as I pass. Balm from the pines and healing from the grass, And carry down my current as I go Not common stones but precxous gems to show. And tears (the holy water from sad eyes) Back to God's sea, which from all rivers rise. Let me convey; not blood from wounded hearts, 3%“. Nor poison which the upas tree imparts. \Vhen over flowery vales I leap with joy, Let me not devastate them, nor destroy, But rather leave them fairer to the sight. Mine be the lot, to comfort, and delight. And if down awful chasms I needs must . leap, Let me not murmur at my lot, but sweep On bravely to the end without fear, Knowing that He who planned my ways stands near. Love sent me forth, to Love I go again, For Love is all, and over all. Amen. —Ella. ”W. Wilcox, in N. Y. Independent. _____——_________—— A STRANGE EXPERIENCE. If there are those inclined to doubt the probability of the following story, told to me as the truth by an eminent and trustworthy gentleman of San Francisco, they have yet to learn and comprehend some of the most vital things of life. He said to me: “A few summers ago my family left town to spend some weeks in the coun- try. I gave the servants a. vacation and arranged to stay alone at my house. For a change I had a bed placed in the drawing-room, which was in the front of the house on the lower floor. On one side of this room was the vestibule, into which the outer door opened, and on. the other an exterior passage which opened upon the street through a gate, and which ran back alongside the house in the rear of the premises. It was paved with boards, some of which had worn slightly loose. The gate was closed with an ordinary lift latch. - “We had lived in the house a number i of years, but I had never slept in that i room before. The front of the roomi was taken up by a bay window, which . was furnished on the inside with ordi- ; nary slat blinds. My bed was placed . at the opposite end of the room, against f the sliding doors. , “I had arranged to take my meals downtown. On the first evening of my solitary occupancy I returned to the house shortly after dinner and read! in my improvised bedroom until ten] o’clock. Then I pulled down one of,- the upper sashes of the window, closed I the blinds and went to bed. , “Ordinarily, I would fall quickly 3 asleep on retiring, but the novelty of ; my position, and perhaps some busi-I ness anxieties, kept me awake for an hour or two. . This worried me. and, made me nervous. The stillness of the night came on, but still I remained awake. It was while I was lying in this state that I heard the latch of the gate opening into the side passage cautiously raised, then some one step cautiously within, leaving the gate open, and then footfalls proceeding stealthily toward the. rear of the house, causing a loose board here and there to squeak. ‘ “I listened with the most. eager and . strained alertness, for my immediate; conclusion was that a burglar, perhaps ' having observed the departure of the , family and assuming that the house had been temporarily deserted, had come to plunder the place. I heard him try and then abandon the secure- ly barred door opening from the rear porch upon the passage. “A lattice extended from the lower rear porch to the upper. Without . moving, I heard the intruder slowly but nimbly scale the lattice and step upon the floor of the upper porch. A hall door and a bed chamber window both opened upon this porch, and I was curi- ' ous to note which the burglar would attack, and began to wonder if they had been locked. “He chose the window: I heard the ‘ sash lock snap under the pressure of his old chisel. After a pause he stepped into the room and proceeded to ransack it. It was my wife’s ro'om, and al- though I knew that she had provided elsewhere for the safe. care of her furs and‘ other more valuable clothes, I re- flected there must have been left a number of things which a burglar might think worthy of attention. I heard him strip a blanket from the bed, spread it upon the floor and proceed to pile upon it the plunder which he found in the trunks, cliffi'onnieres, closets and the like. Ther- i‘e stepped to the open doorinto the f.::=..:age and stood listen- ing for a moment. “These occurrences had a surprising effect upon my nerves. The door be- tween my temporary bedroom and the \estibule was open for ventilation, and I realized that I was almost in physical touch with the man who would not hesitate to kill me should that prove necessary to his safety. I knew that sooner or later he would descend the stairs, at the foot of which was the open door of my room. It would not have been difficult for me to waylay him and make an effort to cripple or kill him in the darkness with one of a dozen of the convenient articles which I remembered were' the room, includ- ing a heavy poker, some bronze stat- uettes, chairs, stools and the like. Dr- rlinarily, as you are aware, I am not a timid man, but I tell you now that an unaccountable fear assailed rfie‘ and held me prisoner. It requires a good deal of candor to make that admission, but it is necessary to~a complete under: si andingof this remarkable experience. “After standing in a listening atti— tude a moment, the burglar slowly and cautiously descended the stairs, and, as I expected, left my room 'alone and proceeded to the dining-room. I knew that the solid silverwarchad been sent away for safekeeping, and so i was not surprised when the burglar,after hand- . ling the plated ware which he found and making it tinkle softly and. gently, left it, 'made ahnnprofitable search of other rooms and returned to the foot of the stairs. This brought him again to my door. He paused on the thres- hold, listened in silence a moment and then started upstairs. In that mo- ment I suffered such a reasonless agony of terror as cannot be explained on or- dinary grounds. I held my breath until I was nearly sufiocated, and when the man turned to leave was cold to the marrow. “He reascended the stairs, tied up his bundle, passed through the window and closed it, dropped the parcel over the rail, clambered down the. lattice and went away as he- had come, shut- ting the gate behind him. “I felt intensely relieved when he had gone, and a. reaction set, in that com- posed my nerves for slumber. Drowsi- ncss was already approaching when I was startled by the soft clicking of the gate latch. It was very unlikely that the same burglar had returned, and' would have been extraordinary if an— other had cbme. And yet, tryas hard as 1 might to reason out some other pos- sibility, there came the steady foot- sscps of a thief on the boards of the outer passage. I studied this step so intently and analytically that I was certain the intruder was not the same- as the first. Then I began to wonder what he would do. “I was not surprised to hear him try the door of the Tower porch and find it strongly barred within, nor greatly to hear him climb the lattice as the other had done. I was curious to see whether he would attack the door or the window after he landed on the. porch. By a. sin- gular coincidence he chose the window. I heard him try it, and imagined that he started on discovering that the latch had been broken. It was evident that upon entering the room he was sur- prised and confused to see its disorder. But he drew a. sheet from the bed and spread it out on the floor and proceeded to ransack the room. Evidently his be- wilderment increased, and he must have been discouraged to find so little worth taking. “He was not long in completing the looting of the room, and then he went to the door and stood a moment in the | passage, listening intently. After that he began carefully to descend the stairs. His conduct thenccforward was exactly a repetition of hisprcdccessor’s. He passed my door, tinkled the plated . silverware in the dining—room, left it alone, returned to the vestibule, stood a. moment listening at my Open door, cautiously retraced his steps upstairs, passed through the window, closed it, dropped his parcel to the grouml, clam~ bored down the lattice and passed out, closing the gate behind him. “It may be supposed that the. coinci- dence amazed me beyond measure. - This, more than anything else, seemed to unnerve me all the more. All this time I realized I had been acting the part of a coward. Merely tohave light- ed the gas in my room would have cleared the house of the second bur— glar, but I had not the courage to do that. THE-EVENING Giznewsv } A Doe's 'cumous' ACTION. l Appeared to Surmise That His Master , Had Been Hurt. ' L. C. Meachamp, living above Homer, l La., on the edge of Arkansas, is a great hunter and has a fine deer hound, Dan, ,' of which he is justly proud. A few I days ago, says the Philadelphia Times, Mr. Meacha’mp was going squirrel hunting, and in order to keep Dan at home he was compelled to tie him up. The hound whined and begged, but, finding his master was obdurate, he at last lay quite peaceably before the ken- nel all day. . At five o’clock in the'afternoon, how- ever, when Mrs. Mcachamp was be- ginning to look for her husband’sre- turn, Dan became so unusually restless that she went out to see what was ihe matter. In spite of her repeated ef- him, and at last, to her utter astonish- ment, he broke the rope and bounded away over the fence and into the woods. He wa= gone probably ahalf hour when he came running back panting and al- x most breathless with his master’s hat . in his mouth. 3 Mrs. Meachamp became at once alarmed, and, calling her son, they set out to find Meachamp, the dog all the time bounding along in front and lead- ing the way. At last they came upon Mr. Mcachamp lying helpless in the woods, where at precisely five o’clock he had fallen in a little ditch and broken a small bone in his leg. The dog’s knowledge of the accident at the very moment of its occurrence seems almost incredible, but the truth of this is beyond dispute. A FEATHERED MONSTER. Strange and Gigantic Bird Killed by a nIan in West Virginia. Elias Midkif, of Hamlin, Lincoln county, was in Charleston the other day, and proposed to the State His- torical and Antiquarian society that if it would send a taxidermist to Hamlin the society would secure a monster bird, of a kind never seen before by anyone in West Virginia. The feathered monster, says the Baltimore American, is described by Mr. Midkif, from meas- urements taken by himself and W'. W. Adkins, of Hamlin, who killed the bird at the mouth of Vannatters creek, with five bullets from his rifle, while hunting deer recently. The bird is seven feet four inches from tip to tip, four feet from tip of bill to tail, flat bill four inches long and three inches wide, somewhat similar to that of a duck; web feet, covering nearly a square foot of area each; neck 19inches long, legs about 11 inches long, and about one and a half inches through below the feathers; plumage dark brown, re— lieved on the wings and breast by light blue shading. The bird when first seen was circling high in the air, but came down very quickly and alighted in the water, where Adkins got a good shot at it, crippling its wing. Adkins at- tempted to capture the strange fowl alive, but it was so vicious that he could not get near it without killing it,.which required five bullets. ; ~ I “My alarm and nervousness became g so great that I arose from bed and was ’ just about to strike a match with which to light the gas in the chandelier l when I heard the gate latch click for the third time. My match remained unstruck, and I listened with a fasci- nated intentness to this last invasion. In all particulars it was identical with the second, down to the point when the burglar descended the stairs and passed my own door on his way to the dining-room. To light the gas then would have been to place the man in l a corner and compel him to fight. I realized not only that it is taking one’s life in his own hands, to cut off a bur— ' glar’s retreat before attacking him (as a knowledge of a chance of escape di- vert-s his attention from the necessity for self-defense and renders h‘im easier to overcome),but that I was now in a condition in which I lacked both the courage and the strength to make the attempt. “The position which I now occupied in the room was half way between the bed and the window. As I was so much nearer the window than before. I could hear sounds from without with much more distinctness. While I stood there listening to the third hur- glar tinkle the plated ware I was startled to hear the gate latch click again and the footfall of a fourth bur- glar on the board-paved passage. As he was climbing the lattice a fifth en- tered the gate, then a sixth, then oth- ers, until burglars in an endless pro- cession were entering my premises and rifling my house on one common and unvarying plan. “It is useless -to say that an intelli— gent man should not have entertained such an idea for a moment. that I might have reasoned that per— haps that there had been only one, or. at most, two, burglars. after all, and that the fright which they gave me caused me to conjure up the others from a fear-deranged imagination. It might be profitable to indulge in a great many other speculations on this subject, but the truth remains that 1 could not reason at all. . “In simple desperation, perhaps moved by a sort of fascination, I crept to the window in order to ob'Serve with idle curiosity the procession of bur- glars entering the gate. I turned the slat of a lower blind and looked Out. Not a soul visible, and yet burglars were still pouring through the gate! “The cxplanatiOn came like a. shock- ing revelation. The wind was playing with some loose blind slats immediate- ly above my head as I stood there, and out of that slight and varying sound my imagination had constructed the phantasy from beginning to end. No burglar at all had invaded my house. I amused and teased myself for some time afterward by compelling my attention to leave the rattling slats at intervals and fill my house with burglars.-"--— San FranciscoCaIl. “’6 know ' "Highest of all in Leavenin‘g Power.—4LateSt U. S. GOv’t Report W Ansowrmy puns Powder ~ forts she could do nothing to pac—ify_ UNIQUE WASHING COMPETITION How English Women Draw Visitors to :Bazars. In England when society embarks upon some charitable enterprise—usu- ally a bazar or something on that or- der—they secure the promise of a. baker’s dozen of popular young debu- tantes to engage in a “washing compe- tition,” this feature of the bazar al- ways proving a. big drawing card. Each of the fair washerwomen is at- tired in chintz, a big white apron, broad white collar and sleeves rolled up above the elbOw in true washerwoman style. Each competitor is‘supplied with a. pail, some cold water, two pegs and a~ soiled tea cloth. On the word “go” jeweled hands are plunged into the water and the wash- ing begins. The prize "is given to the competitor who shows the cleanest cloth at the end of three minutes, the same being pegged into place upon the line. Points are deducted for overtime and incorrect detail. . Said 3. London belle who recently took part in a. washing competition at a select social event: “Twenty minutes of that exercise Every day would give anybody first-rate arm developing ex- ercise. It’s way ahead of some of the methods in my physical culture class." HUMOR ON THE BENCH. Characteristic Anecdote of Lord Bowen, the English Jurist. The late Lord Bowen, besides being a great judge, was also a great wit, and many interesting bon mots of his are being recalled just now. On the occa- sion Of the queen’s jubilee, says House- hold Words, the judges were drawing up an address to the queen. “Conscious as we are of our short- comings,” ran the address; “conscious as we are of one another’s shortcom- ings,” suggested Lord Bowen. miralty court. Upon taking his seat he asked indulgence; on account of‘in- experience in admiralty business. “And may there be no moanings of the bar,” he added, “when I put out to sea.” Sometimes his wit was very decisive, as, for instance, when he remarked: “Truth will out—evendn an affidavit.” Not the least happy of his recorded Witticisms was the remark he made when congratulated on his appoint- ment to be a law lord. He would, he said, find the work easy, his duty being to give his opinion after so many others had given theirs. “In fact, I only have to agree, and might well have been raised to the peerage as ‘Lord Con- currv.’ ” b. w. Ia. Burneuon, ROOM 1, GAZETTE BUILDING #7 LOANS NEGOTIATED AND INVESTMENTS MADE. Not ' .long ago he was asked to sit in the ad- GIRL MINERS' IN GEORGIA. Custom on Introduction of a Foreign American 8011. Four athletic young girls find daily employment at a small coal mine in the Mahoning valley, several miles from Shamokin, says the Atlanta. Constitu~ tion. The colliery is owned and oper- ated by Joseph Mans, a. hard-working German, who says he has simply intro— duced the customs of the fatherland in having his four daughters assist him in preparing the fuel for market. The girls are six-footers, good look- ing and well formed, each tipping the scales at about 200 pounds. Katie, aged 20 years, has charge of the breakers; Annie, aged 16, runs the mine pumps and breaker engine like a veteran en- gineer; Lizzie, .aged 18, drives a. mule attached to a. gin for the purpose of hoisting the coal from the slope, and Mary, aged 19, sees that the slate is picked from the coal by her little brothers, whom she helps in the work. The girls wear short skirts, not bloomers, as might be supposed. Mans formerly worked in the mine at Shamo— lain, but during thepast 12 years, with the assistance of his wife, who runs the farm, and their daughters at the mine, he has managed to buy this coal mine, and a large amount of timber land besides. ._._______.:s_ . WOMAN'S CAN'T. A Few of the Impossibilities That Arc Classed as Purely Feminine. She can’t, for the life of her, make head nor tailof a time table. She can’t be jolly and appreciate the best time going, if she knows her hair is out of curl. ‘ She can’t, when it’s a question be- tween Cupid and herself, help saying “No” when she means “Yes,” and vice versa. She cannot, not even the most daring , of her sex, scratch a match on the sole of her boot—at least, in an uncon- cerned manner. She can’t take a hammer into her hand and attempt picture hanging without battering the walls and her thumbs into pitiful condition. She can’t help gauging a. woman by her, clothes, even though experience has taught her that beggars sometimes ride in fine coaches. She fails utterly to wrap a parcel up without spearing it through and through with pins besides the cord that serves a man to hold it in place._ She can’t pay a bet, not even the sim- _ple little wager of violets or bonbons, without the fiercest sort of struggle with herself to relinquish the forfeit. Is your plate glass or safe insured? If not, call On me and I' will write you a. policy‘in ‘the Mutual Plate Glass and Sale Insur- ance Company. Glass will break and burglars usedynamite. You should be insured. A. policy in the Reliance OI Philadelphia} Phoenix of Hartford; Scotland Union of Scotland; N (en/Hampshire 02‘ Manchester; Rochester German of'liochester; United States and Pacific- of New York; Security OI_N€W Hampshire qr Granite State of Ports- mouth WilI protect you against the fire fiend. Real 4 Estate and General Insurance. l ”CORRESPONDENCE SOL/CITED, I l 1 f...‘..,.‘~,- - .—.~«\.~..
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