‘. * Pct aal Rib Busts ‘, L Reduced 26ft Pound i it Cures . ' ‘ COUGHS and A cows wulilus’ eouau neurnv. , EVERYBODY stou‘iig“'5,.5.. HALE’S . CLUNG” in ~ . 25.0. at eheeu m PllltE- ON‘ MEAT. — Round, Sirloin and Por- terhouse Steaks, Sausge, -a .u.."~- 'All First Quality Meat. , J. W. BOGARDUS, 6 WATER ST., NORWALK DMNK WATE RFOR THE Stomach, Bo weis, Liver and; Kidneys. FOR SALE BY The ”Holmes, Keelee &Selleeh to Hill. ’ANDlWINTER lSUlTINGS. Having Wocured :adarge line of handsome Fall and _ inner suitings. I am ready to make them up in the latest styles. IF.KOCOUR, I7 Nnrlh Main St, South Nerwa'k. _ ‘-evasccnuse l w ‘. INEW LQ'_1‘_IN BLUE A_:._\ID BLACK,’ 3 Tailor-madn,late..t t. l . ' $6 to $109 waists and sleevz 12:11:23... t1 DIAGONAL wonsruo IN BLUE AND BLACK, SUE“: $8.50 a: suit. Fine Custom WOrkFI- All great bargains. Call and examine—I H. GOODWIN’, 170 WASHINd'i-ofls'; "E'x‘ii'ini‘ ’iiaiifnon. Horace E. Darin, ExcELsrot. Liyery and Sales Stable. Mu--.,.,...,.,..v _ . .. ' - Opposite IDanbury! 'and Norwalk Railroad depoti Norwalk. Conn. Stylish Single or Double Team with or without drivers Safe horses for women and‘children. . FADDLE HORSES A spam as: ‘ ‘ SANCTIEIED SISTERS. A Que‘er Sect of Women Located in Texas. ‘ They Live Like Monks and Are Guided by Dreams—Cellbacy Is an Impor- tant Part of Their Religion. v.- Located in the thriving town of Bel- ton. Tex., in the» central part of that state, is a curious colony of religionis ts, known as "Sanctified Sisters,” or "Sanc- tilicationists." Three representaave 4 women of this order are Mrs. Martha McWhirter, founder of the sect; Mrs. Certrude Scheeble, secretary of the co- operative institution owned and con- trolled by these peculiar people, and the treasurer, Miss Lizzie Holtzclaw. This strange community of earnest women is the outgrowth of a réligious movement that has cut off its members from all intercourse with the world, and has even divided happy house- holds. The doctrine professed by the women is of a very Simple character, and embodies three essential principles -—--a life of celibacy, a common property interest and an isolated existence. Among the members are those .vho previously Were social leaders in their respective towns, universally respected and some of them Were very wealthy. The original leader of the Sanctilica— tiom'sts, and their present head, Mrs. Martha McWhirter, is a woman of in- domitable will. She was the mother of twelve children when first she con- ceived the idea of this new belief. Her husband naturally opposed her extraor- dinary views and endeavored to prevent her from assisting in spreading them. But his objections were in vain. Nineteen years ago the society as- sumed tangible form, and since that period a steady grthh, financially and otherwise, has been made. History records no instance where stubborn- ness, folly and fanaticism have been so strangely intermingled. Stern devotion to principle, heroic fortitude and selt< sacrifice have been and are the con— . trolling influences. in the early days of the society the women determined to raise money in order that the so— ciety might be self-supporting: Each employed a method of her own for ac- complishing this result. It is strikingly indicative of their earnestness to know that one woman, who had previously lived in afliuentc, bought wood as it stood in the forest and with the aid of another sister cut the timber and hauled the fuel to mar- ket. Others accepted positions as r10- mestics in households in adjoining towns, their earnings being pooled ior mutual benefit. Others sold country produce and a few took in laundry work to add a mite to the assets. No uniform is worn by the San'ctin- cationists, nor have they ever adopted one. They dress plainly, and at out: time wore bonnets similiar to those worn by orthodox Quaker women. A little more latitude inrthe matter of dress has been allowed recently, Illd modern hats have been receivedwith favor. The community consists of 32 mem- bers, all of whom live at the Central hotel in Belton. This building is their own property. The Central Hotel com- pany is a corporation well and favor- ably known in financial circles and re p resents the united interests of the vol- onists. The estimated Wealth of the sect is $100,000. The hotel building and furnishings cost $50,000. The rest of their capital is distributed in smaller enterprises. It is the aim of the sisters to make their community as complete within it- self as it is possible to-make it. With that end in view the entire work is done by the members, who have a sys- tematic method of dividing the labor. One of them will teach the children. One of the sisters is an expert dentist and has an office fully equipped for working at her profession. The income from the hotel is the principal source of revenue, but every investment seems to have been a profitable one, rendering the organization self-supporting and entirely independent. They are leaders in making public improvements and all are among the most active and pro- gressive citizens, always ready to ad- vance the interests of the town. Mrs. McWhirter is a member of the board of trade and a director of the opera no use syndicate of Belton. . There is no formal worship of any kind practiced by the sisters, but dai 1y devotional exercises are part of Luvir creed, and they are also largely guided by “dreams.” A recital of religious ex- perience by members forms a basis for all their important actions. They also claim to be possessed of a delicate sense, which is their greateSt help, and by it they detect mistakes made and through it correct them. They try to improve themselves in- tellectually, and are regular subscrib- ers to the leading papers of the great cities. in their library are all the standard works, but the works of [ol- stoi, Bellamy and other Would-be re- formers are most liked. Woman suffrage is a hobby of. tho Sanctificationists, and they conSidcr themselves an instructive illustration of what women can accomplish in un- usual Walks of life—N. Y. World. Great Financier-s. Webster and Clay both were great moneymakers, and both were forever in th hardest financial straits. One day Clay went to Webster and said: "Got any money, Dan? 1 want $250." “I was just going over to borrow that amount of you,” said Webster. “I am dead broke.” “Wonder where we can raise it? We need $500 between us.” They formed themselves into a com- mittee of ways and means, and after much thought conceived a plan. “Clay, if you will make a draft on me at thirty days i will indorse it and we can get the money at the bank." The draft is in a Washington bank at this day bearing both signatures. The twd “old boys” got the money. and the next day were skirmishing around for - ,more.——N. Y. Press DEATH BY TERRIFIO NOISE. Heroic Self-Destruction Chosen” by Stokers of Steamers. Readers of Capt. Griffin’s article on battleships .in war in China, and his descriptions of the terrors of the boiler room, where men’s heads bled from the shock of noise, will like to hear from an Englishman that when a man comes to grief and has to disappear for rea- sons Of any sort he often'chooses the living death of a stoker on a steam- boat, says the New York Press. “I was once taken over the engine rooms of a big boat while we were go- ing through the straits of Gibraltar,” he says, “and, having endured an almost tropical sun for some weeks, I felt well disposed to see the furnaces. I tried them for about ten seconds and came out feeling more dead than alive. The chief engineer told me afterward that the men employed to attend to the fires Were the very dregs of humanity, but represented many social conditions. He said that in his 50 years’ experience he had found members of learned profes- sions side by side with men who had served time. “The main object of such comers was to exist away from the sight of the rest of humanity, and for this purpose they became inured to the horrible atmos- phere and surroundings of the furnace room. It was pretty bad down there just now, he confessed; ‘but imagine the Red sea in August, and then think what they must endure.’ Sailors who have spent years in the tropics cannot long stand Stoking, so great is the heat, yeta-there are men in the ‘vitals’ of great liners that never left temperate climes —men who used to go to cool places in summer—until their faults or misfor- tunes drove them to the boilers. Fancy what the work is when accompanied by concussions of shot that crack the flesh open! ” ._—.__. HOW HE FELLED A TREE. Scorned to Labor with His Hands When Brain Work Would Count. The man in the country has not the push of the man in the city, but he knows more about necessity as a labor- Saving machine than the city man. An ordinary Chicagoan fell into this line of thought the‘ other day as he was re- tnrnin g to the city on a railroad train. An accident detained the train out in the woods. The Chicago man, says the Chronicle of that city, had time to stay and he roamed about in the leaves. In doing so his attention was attracted to a man and a horse. The ’horse was harnessed to one end of along rope. The animal was led out the length of the rope. The man walked back to a tree. The other end of the rope was tied around his waist. I-Ie climbed the tree until he reached the topmost branch. Then he untied the end of the rope from his waist and made it secure on a limb. Then he descended, took off his coat, spat upon his hands,~ laid hold of an ax handle in the usual way and began chopping at the tree. After he had made quite a gash he chucked to the horse at the far end of the rope. The man resumed chopping, and, succeeding every half dozen chops, he started up the horse. At each start of the horse the top of the tree, and the trunk as well, inclined by degrees to the horse. By the time the man had cut half into the tree, with the horse still pulling on the rope, the tree broke where the cutting had been made and fell. The man had saved himself half the usual labor. The Chicago man grunted. "Well, I’ll be darned,” he said. “Now, if a city man had under- taken to fell a tree he would have chopped all the way through. The hayseed can give us points on a good many things.” ENGLISH MILITIA. Land Artillery Which Might Well Be Imitatcd Here. Numerically, England has a militia force which is far ahead of that ‘of America, though it is to be remembered that the United States has a volunteer reserve of able-bodied men who could be called out in case of an emergency. This reserve consists of 7,000,000 or 8,- 000,000, and it has been shown that it can fight. Rather. There are, hmvever, says Leslie's Veekly, many points about the British volunteer militia which it seems to me might be incorporated in our own serv- ice. They have, for instance, what is called a land artillery, which has reached the enormous number of 46,- 000 men, and which is as thoroughly trained in rifle exercises, marching. drilling and the handling of big guns as the regulars of our own army. The ar- tillery regiments are composed to a large extent of men in the laboring classes, ofiiccred by ,‘fgentlemen of leisure,” who go into the militia from motives of patriotism. Once a week, in the summer months, the artillery go to the nearest forts for target practice. Every year big de— tachments from each battalion' go to Shoeburyness and shoot for prizes with 18 or 24-po under guns at ranges varying from 1,000 to 3,000 yards. The artillery fulledress uniform is a very handsome one—black with red facings, silver ornaments and white cross-belts. The men are armed with a short carbine and a sword bayonet. Wonderful Sagacity of 5. Dog. The wonderful sagacity sometimes displayed by the dog in its efforts to save its master is well illustra‘ed by the following true tale of late occurrence: A nine-months-old puppy of the shep- herd variety, owned by Farmer Nathan- iel Peardon, of Melindy's Prairie, W'is., was sent to bring home a drove of six good-sized hogs that had escaped from their pen, little thinking the dog could accomplish this difficult task. Imagine the farmer's surprise on seeing the puppy bring each hog home, one after the other, in quick succession, leaning it by the ear, each trip stopping for his master’s approval. Each time the hog 3refused to advance or seemed inclined to loiter the puppy pulled his ear all the harder, thus compelling him to move on. ; , emen fh Assets. . ' . Liabilities . . Surplus . ' ' . Total Income . . , . Total Paid Policy-holders in 1895. Insurance and Annuities in force. Net gain in 1895 T11 E E VENi N. G or AZ ET T E a-f— INSURANCE CO. 5 < OF NEW YORK. ' RICHARDA. MCCURDY President. e Yeah ndinglee. . $221,213,721 33 194,347,157 58 $26,866,563 75 $48,597,430 51 A $23,126,728 45 $899,074,453 78 $61,647,645 36 I NOTE—Insurance merely written. ls discarded from this Statement as wh ll ' actually issued and paid for in cash ls included. 0 v misleading. and only insurance I have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct. CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor. From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual. Report of ’ the Examining Committee. lliliceel the Mutual life Insurance tumpahy of New You, February 11, 1896. At a meeting of,the Board of Trustees of this Company, heldon the 18th day of December last, the undersigned were appointed a C ommittee to examine the annual Statement for the year ending December ’3lst, 1895, and to verify the same by com- parison With the assets of the Company. The Committee have carefully performed the duty assigned to them, and-hereby certify that the'Statement is in all particulars correct and that the assets Specified therein are in possession of the Company. , , In making this certificate the Committee bear testimony to the high characterof the investments of the Company and express their approval of the system, order and accuracy with which the accounts and vouchers have been kept, and the business in general transacted. GUST AVUS ‘3. WINSTON, M. D. ISAAC F. LLOYD, Secpnd Vice-President, WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary, .3 IOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier JOHN TATLOCK, .13., Asst. Actuary. CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor, H. 0. Von Post, Charles E. Henderson, James C. Holden, Robert Clyphant, Wm. P. Dixon, J. H. Herrick. Committee ROBERT A. GRANNlS, Vice-President. WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager. HENRY E. DUNCAN. Jr., Cor. Easy, ALBERT KLAMROTH, Asst. Secy. FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer. 4 . . JAMES TIMPSON, 2d Asst. Treas EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashier. . EMORY MoCLINTOCK LL.D., F. I. A., Actuary. WM. W. RICHARDS, Comptroller. HENRY s. BROWN, Asst. Comp. - JOHN c. ELLIorr, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies, EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, Gen. Solicitor. MEDICAL Dinscrons ELIAS J. MARSH, M. D. GRANVILLE M. WHITE,‘.M. D. when W. motions. ' New Haven, General Agt. for State of Connecticut. . Local Agent. . AL”. LIFE J
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