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J n. liscount Day, Saturdav- Tairfield Bounty National Bank. 44 Wall Street, N orwallc, Conn. INCORPORATED. 1824. ' Capital, anooo EDI-rm O. KEELEB, President. DAVID E. MILLER, Vice-President. L. C. GREEN. Cashier DIRECTORS . EDWIN O. KEELEB' Moses H. GLOVER .mvm FL MILLER, A. J. MEEKEB, F an. JOHN Locxwoon, THEODORE E. SMITH ' IHA COLE, CHAS F. ansrasu. Accounts of Manufacturers, Merchants and Indivrduals solicited. Safe Deposit Boxes free to 'Depositors. iocKwosnls LIGHT PARCEL and _ PACKAGE DELIVEBYi Cheap-rates, Willa so take orders for mes- senger service in ew York. Goods called or and delivered to all arts of the town, Orders received atE P. eed’s Drug Store . And while the modest, worthy man the ,38 Wall Street. with telephone connection um I l ’0' c E. LOCKVVOOD. I There was one among their number I re- ,tlcman whose black frock-coat, white THE OLD BELL‘ COW. When I was but a. boy I used so happily to roam ' Through every nook and corner of the dear old country home. At dewy mom to pasture I would drive the cows. and when The sun was fading in the west I drove them home again. member very well, It seems but yesterday I saw the cow that wore the bell. She wasn't any prettier nor of a. better breed, But all the others followed her wherever she would lead; And in my youthful mind I used to wonder why and how It was that all the cattle tagged the old bell cow. Strange years of shadow and of shine have passed away since then, And now I mingle daily with the busy hosts of men, And still I muse as earnestly as what I uScd to do, For men, I find, are likewise quite peculiar creatures, too. And some have natures made of gold, with- out a speck or flaw, While some are only gilded forms all padded out with straw. world may never heed; The counterfeit, who loudly brags, steps. in and takes the lead, The one who “roots his horn” is sure to get the crowd, and now I know why all the cattle tagged the old bell cow. -—Nixon Waterman, in L. A. W. Bulletin. STEMBEE’S INVESTMENT. BY CHARLES DUDLEY RHODES. The town marshal, ex-officio editor of the Lariat Exponent, afterwards declared that his bad luck came that night with the rain. It first came leak- ing through the roof about midnight, and, finding a convenient crease in his blankets, trickled slowly downward, until it awoke. him with a start. Be- ing a man of few words, he simply gave a grunt of disgust, leaned over to a cor- ner of the diminutive room, seized an umbrella, opened it, thrust it accurate- ly under the leak, and calmly fell asleep. In the morning things were in even a worse state. The bed was a minia- ture island, the type-cases were half filled with water, and the press, a foot— power affair, stood 'cheerlessly in a. damp corner as if waiting to be resus- citated from its all-night exposure. Even then, Hank made no remark— his first act after sitting up in his blankets being to pull forth slowly at huge plug of tobacco from his hip- pocket, take a generous chew, and then, as if fortified against all manner of disagreeable things, to spring up and begin putting things to rights. ‘ There was a knock at the door. “Come,” he shouted, grufiiy; and there appeared to view a little old gen— collar—an unusual luxury in Lariat— and air of quiet dignity accorded well with his gray hair and mustache. “Pardon me,” he said, with a slight air of difiidence, “but is this the editor of the Exponent?” Hank nodded. “I am Col. Stemble,” the little old fellow continued, aifably, “and I am up here on special business for the Black Butte Cattle company. Now, to come to the point, I am very anxious to have a special edition of your paper published to-day.” Hank kicked an empty tin can under the press, and looked hard at his boots. People were wont to say that he was a cautious man. “It will pay,” the cattle man con- tinued; “and this will give you some idea of my wishes.” He handed the , editor some pencil notes and a new ' greenback. _ ' “Get the paper out by three o’clock ? at the latest, and above all things make i it interesting.” i l I “I‘ll do it,” Hank replied, with 0115- ; tomary brevity; and then,with renewed energy, he resumed the renovation of , the little one-story . shanty which served as editorial office, press-room § and home. The old gentleman smiled to himself - as he trudged away—such a paternal, benevolent smile as to .seem almost out of place in such an unconventional wicked little frontier town as Lariat. As far as the eye could reach were to be seen the temporary Structures of canvas and tarred paper which were the homes of the inhabitants. Up and down the railroad the first-comers had pitched their tents, and as the town grew rough streets had been formed, ranging back to the line of low hills at the east. Lariat enjoyed the distinc- tion of being the extreme end of the new railroad which was rapidly push- ing its way through Wyoming towards the great northwest. Crouch’s, down the road, had until recently enjoyed that honor. But one fine morning after the first train had pushed on to the present site of Lariat, the inhabitants of the older town had emigrated in a body, and Crouch’s was no more. True to the editor’s promise, the Exponent appeared at the time named, but not until Hank O’Doughall, a man in whose veins ran a strain of thrifty Scotch blood, had engaged in several mysterious transactions with certain property owners of Lariat, in exchange for some ready money that the editor had been hoarding up for many a day, the latter became the owner of a con- siderable strip of land along the rail- road—an acquisition afterwards ex- plained by the following announce- ment which appeared in the Exponent: “We take pleasure in announcing the arrival of Col. C. H. Stemble, agent for, and a prominent stock-holder in, the Black Butte Cattle company. This English syndicate, having been struck with the advantageous location of Lariat, is contemplating the erection of‘enormous Stock yards in our city, for the shipment of cattle from the Powder river valley. It is needless to comment upon the great influence that .this deal will have upon Lariat, the Star city of northwest Wyoming, as the improvements will amount to at least $40,000,” etc. It was all very quickly and amicably arranged. That evening the colonel held an enthusiastic reception at the Alagazan,the leading hote1,where there were none so confident of the future of Lariat, so jovial, and withal so lavish with his money, as he. Incidentally, it may be said'that the. bar of the Ala- gazan did a big business, and that the landed proprietors of Lariat, Hank Mc- Dougall especially, awakened to the fact that they had a good thing. The next morning the colonel, note- book in hand, and accompanied by the leading citizens of the town, inspected property available for the uses of the Black Butte Cattle company. In the afternoon—for the agent’s time “as limited—the purchasing began. The courteous old gentleman who had en- tertained them so hospitably the night before did not haggle over prices. He paid cash for his new acquisitions in crisp, new $500 notes—a proceeding which, to make change, unfortunately, drained the town in a short time of all its smaller denominations. By evening the English syndicate had acquired a. choice tract of land lying on both sides of the railroad, in the heart of Lariat, for which it had paid out some $25,000. McDougall, editor and town marshal, had made some thousands by the deal. and had he been a ready speaker would prob— ably have said: “These Englishmen are the biggest suckers I ever saw." But, as it was, he contented himself with the simple words: “Beat-s all!” It wanted but a few minutes of train- time, next day, when the colonel, car- rying his compact little valise, his face beaming with happy good nature, saun- tered leisurely down to where the big engine was pufiing and blowing, pre- paratory to its long trip down the road. “I must leave just at this time,” he said,“‘to transact some very important business in Cheyenne. But I’ll be back in a. week or ten days, and begin work immediately.” And he treated the lit- tle crowd about the train to cigars. The whistle tooted.a warning note, the bell rang and the colonel cordially shook hands all around. Stepping on the rear platform of the train, he turned about once more and waved his good-byes to persons in the distance. Just at the moment that the wheels began to turn, Hank McDougall, his marShal’s star gleaming on his vest—— he wore no coat—came running down \Vyoming avenue from the post office, a yellow paper in his hand, which he waved dramatically over his head. “Stop that train!” yelled the town marshal. But the conductor and en- gineer did not hear, and the. train : moved on. ‘ “Jump, you scoundrel, jump!” again yelled Hank, at the same time drawing his gun. The colonel‘s only answer was a polite u ave of the hand. Then Hank took a snap-shot at the fast de- parting train, and—would you believe it?—that~ little old man whipped out two pistols from somewhere, quick as a wink, and for a few moments the way the bullets whistled about the heads of the crowd along the track was something wonderful. And as the train grew smaller and smaller in its straightaway course over the prairie, the last act of the lone passenger on the rear platform was to wave a white handkerchief towards the little city of , Lariat and disappear within the car. The town marshal replaced his gun in his hip-pocket and "turned sadly away. Deaf to repeated inquiries as to the meaning of it all, he disappeared within the editorial sanctum; for in the midst of all excitement he still remem- bered that, ex-ofiicio, he was an editor, ' and—he was both a thrifty and a cau- tious man. An hour later another'edition of the Exponent appeared, double-leaded, as ' if in mourning, and the copies sold for a dollar apiece. The editorial was brief and to the point: “From a telegram received only too late by our town marshal, because of l the necessity of forwarding it by mail from Crouch’s, it appears that our late distinguished visitor, Stemble, was none other than the well-known dcs- perado and confidence man Ike Rogers, lately a- fugitive fr0m the Black Hills. It is painful to be forced to state that. the greenbacks which Rogers so gen- erously distributed while in Lariat are clever counterfeits, in exchange for which he carried away thousands of dollars of our citizens’ earnings. “The editor 'of the Fxponent bids farewell to his many friends, and an- nounces his intenton of pulling up stakes and moving immediately to the Big Horn country.”——Lippincott’s Mag- azine. Going Too Far. “This here ‘new woman’ business is . gettin’ to be too darned serious fer a. joke,” said Uncle Hiram, solemnly. “What’s the matter now?” asked his nephew. “Wa-al, I was down sorter lookin.’ over the tough part 0’ your city, an’ a woman ran out of a house an’ grabbed my 01’ hat.” “Oh, that’s an old trick. Did you fol- low her ?” “Not much I didn’t.” “That was lucky for you.” “I sorter reckoned that if she got this here ‘new woman’ fever so bad as all that,” explained Uncle Hiram, “she ‘could have the ol’, hat an’ welcome; an’ I hollered arte‘r her that if she’d give me her address I’d ship her down a. pair of overalls when I get back to the farm.”—Chicago Post. —-To go beyond the bounds of moder- ation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep Within proper bounds. So far from greatness con- sisting in going beyond the limits, it really consists in keeping within them. -—Pa.scal. ____'_____ —The greatest results in life are usu- ally attained by simple' means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may, for the most part, be summed up in these two—common sense and perse- verance.—Feltham. woRTH READING. There is a. school-teacher in Deering, Me.,who makes heated political speeches to her pupils. ‘ " The first buckwheat state is New York, with 280,029 acres and 4,675,735 bushels of product. p A Deer Isle, Me., man who recently dug 259 snakes out of one‘hole. there has the record for 1895. Hunters from Maine are reporting from all directions that deer are plenty, and many are being killed. Bears also are frequently seen. Two well known New York physi- cians have been testing a new anaes- thetic—a combination of pure oxygen and ether—with highly successful re- sults. . “ Cordite having resisted the climate of India, orders have been issued to use up- all the ordinary powder as soon as possible and to supply cordite to the troops. ' A monument to the memory of Wash— ington is to be erected at his birthplace, Wakefield, Westmoreland county, Va.., next February. The dedicatory exer- cises will be held in June. Bear oil sells for $4 a. gallon this year in Maine, and the bears are fat enough and there are enough of them to make bear' hunting the most profitable busi- ness for the trappers this season. Five Mormon missionaries left Salt Lake City a. few, days ago for New Zealand to establish a mission among the Maoris. Whether they will bring the converts, if they take any, to this country or not they are unable to say. , PERSONS AND THINGS. The prince of Wales has become ad- dicted to the golf habit. The income of a new cardinal for the first year, $5,000, is spent in fees. Luigi Arditi, the “II Bacio” Arditi, who has conducted Italian opera for years, has written his reminiscences, which will be edited by Baroness von Zedlitz and published soon. It is said that every effort is being made to bring back Baron Hammerstein from Auckland, in New Zealand, to Ger- many, to stand his trial on the serious charges made against him. Lincoln R. Gibbs, who graduated from Wesleyan‘ university in 1892, has been elected to the chair ofEnglish litera- ture in Boston university, to succeed Prof. Daniel Dorchester, Jr. A monument of Bertholdi, the cen- tral figure of which is Helvetia, has been set up at Basel, to commemorate the hospitality shown to the people of Strasburg by Switzerland at the time of the siege. The Bismack tower in Got-tingen, where the chancellor studied and fought most of his 31 duels, is fastapproach- ing completion. Germans from all over the world are aiding in its erection. A few days ago two granite blocks ar— rived at Gottingen from this country, one of them being from New York and the other frOm San Francisco. . "f 2 TEE E E v EN ING GAz E T TE 1 l . Highest of all in Leavening Power.'—LateSt U. S. Gov’t Report, l . aid-us PEOPLE OF EUROPE. Adelina Patti has earned $5,000,000 as a. vocalist. ' Recently a rural minister in Kent, ex- amining a. class of small boys, asked: “Who is the patron saint of England?” With one voice they all responded: “Mr. Gladstone!” ‘ Lieut. Feijo, of the Spanish army in Cuba, has been sentenced to imprison- ment for life for surrendering Fort Pelayo to the insurgents without a proper defense. Queen Victoria. hassuch a deep-rooted objection to the smell of a cigarette or a cigar that smoking is strictly forbid- den at Windsor castle, at Balmoral and at Osborne. ‘ On his Dorsetshire estate Lord Aling- ton has a “white farm.” It is so called because every animal on it is white. There are white horses, white cows, white donkeys, white hares from Si- beria, and a. white pigmy bull. The dogs and the cats are white, and so are rats and miCe. WELL-KNOWN AMERICANS. Gov. Morton uses dumbbells every day, and attributes his good health to the exercise. Gen. 0. 0. Howard expresses great gratification over the reception given him everywhere during his lecture tour in the west. Speaker Reed’s fondness for amateur photography is said to have grown on him to such an extent as to become his ruling hobby. Dr. Julius Rosenstein, a. San Fran- cisco surgeon, is suing for $14,000 for six weeks’ attendance on the late Jo- seph McDonough, the millionaire. John D. Rockefeller has given 100 barrels of apples to the various char- ity institutions of New York. The fruit was all raised on his own farm at Tarrytown. JUDGM ENTS. Frenzy is the safety-valve of folly, The fire of hate usually flashes in the pan. A sunbeam in the heart is bound to light the face. Texas did a deal of brewing for the amount of punch. . Unfortunately, the bore never leaves a hole in the memory. A man may keep his mouth open so wide he cannot see an argument. The awkward man is never in a hur- ry. He always wants a day of grace. ’ brellas'.” qr ' Undoubtedly. J _ . The people of Holland are commonly as matter-of-fact as the Scotch, and a. figurative phrase bothers them sorely. Not long ago an American traveler found in a. cafe at Amsterdam a Dutch- man who had traveled much, and who spoke English perfectly well. The Dutchman was smoking 3. china pipe of ‘ remarkable size and beauty, and the American, as an admirer and collector of such bric-a—brac, took the liberty to comment. upon it. “You could not. stumble upon a. pipe like that every day,” said the American. The Dutch— man took three or four whiffs at the pipe, and then slowly removed it from his mouth. “Certainly not without breaking it,” he said, gravely.—Youth’s Companion. . . TOLD IN FIGURES. The population of the world‘averages 109 women to every 100 men. Eighth ninths of the sudden deaths are those of males. More than 185,000 persons committed suicide in the diflerent countries of the world during the year ending Septem- ber 30, 1895. This is an increase of near- ly 20,000 over 1894. The report of the inspectors of luna- tics in Ireland shows that the number of persons confined as insane at the lst of January last was 17,655, as compared with 17,276 a. year pnevious. An uptOVTifBroadway (N. Y.) 'win- 'dow shows electric lights for bicycles in two‘styles. One is an incandescent, which goes out when the wheel stops. The other is fed by a storage battery. BRIEF LAUGHS. “Why, professor, you have two um— “That’s all right. I expect to lose one of them.”——Fliegende Blaet— ter. “By Jove, I left my pocketbook under my pillow!” “Oh, well, your servant is honest, isn’t she?” “That’s just it— she’ll take it right up to my wife!”— Chicago Record. “What a. lot of people there were at the Wortleburys’ last week—and yet how dull it was!” . “Yes, dear. But it was much brighter after you left.”— Punch. . “Bunkins, I guess, is about the smart- est man of his years in this communi- ty,” said the citizen who observes. “Knows a great deal, does he ?” “Knows a great deal? I should say so. Why, sir, that man knows almost as much as his 19-year-old daughter who is in the high school.”——Washington Star. Powder 1* . v Ansonumw puns A POINTER...” Is your plate glass or safe insured? I will write you a policy in the Mutual Plate Glass and Sale Insur- I In Case of Fire If not, call on me and ance Company. Glass will break and burglars use dynamite. You should be insured. 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