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SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1896.
The Lesson of Humility.
One of the very finest virtues born
with humanity, or to which humanity
can be educated, is humility. It is a
star, shining with such a. mild and
tender light that it. has a blessed infiu-
, once upon all who come within its rays.
It is the very essence of Christ, for He
himself has told us that He was "meek
and lowly.”
Saith the Lord thy God, “Dust thou
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art and unto dust shalt thou return,
and the process of life and” death ac-
centuates this saying, and gives it a
force that we all should understand.
A great many people, however, good
Christians too, perhaps are inclined
to take this assertion with a grain or
two of salt; It is repugnant to their
finer senses to think that they sprung
from acommon dust, were formed of
atoms that float about us every day.
They are perfectly willing :to believe
that common, ordinary people came
from the dust of the ground—the hum-
ble artisan, the tired little sewing wo-
man and all who toil and sweat and live
in cabins and dine on plain and very
scanty food; but they are rather in-
clined to believe that they themselves
11.34; a higher and more satisfactory
origin.‘
Mylord, in the pompous arrogance
ofTweahh or the equally pompous insc-
lence of office, laughs incredulously
when told that he is dust the same as is
{he beggar sitting at his gate; and my
lady smiles in superb disdain at the
idea of being formed of the, same com-
pound as the slave who toils oger the
fire in her kitchen. Dust of the ground,
forsooth! That may do for you and
me and the rest of the common folks.
but not for the tier, 'he high and the
powerful.
And yet to dust we must all return at
last. Death is no respecter of persons,
and in the grave all men and all women
are eq‘1al,dispute the equality as we
may when we strut our little hour upon
the stage of life.
We die and decay and are forgotten.
The very memory of our names fades
away before we have resolved into our
original element. Others take our
place and revel in the power that we
once held. Our ships are sailed by
others and our houses shelter the alien
and the stranger.
The wealth that we toiled so hard to
win is scattered to the four winds of
heaven by the dissipated hands of
thankless heirs, and another kisses the
lips that once breathed words of love
for us alone. We are missed but a
brief moment, and then the world
moves on unheeding, uncaring, swift to
forget.
Should not all these things fill the hu-
man heart with a sense of our utter
insignificance and inculcate a spirit of
humility, a fitting crown for fall who
realize that some day they must return
to the dust of the ground? What are
. we that we should look down upon each
other and strive to believe that we are
made of finer material than those who
sufl'er and weep and die all around us?
The highest place we may obtain can-
not save us from the lowest one—the
grave toward which our footsteps sure-
ly toeud. Why shOuld we boast of our
riches and look down in scorn upon the
poor, the struggling and the weak,
when all the wealth that fills our'cofl’ers
cannot purchase one moment’s respite
.from the inevitable doom ‘1 awaits
us, the dust of the ground? «-
Far b «tter is it to pay more attention
' to the great hereafter than to the petty
conditions that now concérn us; of far
more importance is that which may
confront us in the other world than the
fickle plaudits of those who will be
equally ready to crown some other
when we shall have passed away.
It is the meek and lowly to whom the
heral‘ds of glad, sweet promise sing. It
is for those 'who realize their own weak-
ness as well as‘ their own strength, and
who recognize all humanity as broth-
ers, that the dear Christ pleads. It is
for those who bow in prayerful humility
before the power and majesty. of God
that the pearly gates swing wide.
The Niagara Falls hydrulic power
plant and franchises were sold to Mor-
ton, Bliss & 00., bankers, yesterday,
for $4, 000, 000
CALDWELL out.“
Slolidly Refused to Give the Names of His
Assailants.
Aleck Caldwell, the young man found
on the railroad tracks near Glenbrook
Thursday morning and brought to the
hospital in this city, died last night.
His mother who arrived at midnight
Thursday and remained at the hospital
with the invalid is reported as being
quite overcome by the death of her son.
Tue body was removed to D. W.
Raymond’s morgue at South Nor-walk
and will be sent to Southington. Up
to the very last young Caldwell refused
to state who assaulted him and how he
came to be on the railroad tracks, and
died with his secret.
Medical Examiner Burke has notified
Coroner Doten, and the conductor and
engineer of train .112 which picked
Caldwell up near Glenbrook, will prob-
ably be sent for to indicate the exact
spot where he was found.
It is also probable that the Coroner
will take steps towards having young
St. Clair, now in the Stamford hospital,
detained until he can be examined.
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{Rah for Yale!
Yale’s crew sails for England to day,
and with them go hearty good wishes
for their success on the Henley course.
Yale’s oarsmen have shown strength
and skill and pluck in many a hard
rowed race, but at Henley the Leander
boat will carry the very pick of the
amateur .oarsmen of all England, and if
Yale defeats the famous English crew
old Eli’s sons will come home the vir-
tual champions of the world.
Good luck to the boys from New Ha~
ven, says the Herald, and so say we all,
as they sail away to- day. We are all
Yale men to-day as we put out a hand
to the gallant crew and bid them good-
bye and good luck, and Yale men we
shall all remain till the race is rowed
and gallantly won or honorably lost.
’3 1h for Yale!
O
Wants His Watch.
A letter has been received from
Joseph B. Healey, dated at Bristol,
asking that the party addressed would
call at Mrs. Weyerhauser’s, and ask her
to send him his'watch by Adams’ ex-
press, C. O. D. Healey was here with
Ellinwood’s Players and left his watch
with Mrs. Weyerhanser as security for
a board bill, when the Players went to
pieces. Mr. Crockett another member
of the company who left a wheel at Bi-
cyclist Ambler’ s to be repaired, prom-
ises to send the amount due on the same
at an early date. Healey writes “Busi-
ness has been bad but we expect to do
better.”
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Died in the Hospital.
William EllisOn, familiarly called
“Billy” died in the Bridgeport hospital
yesterday afternoon, aged 34 years.
He was a painter by occupation and
well known here in Norwalk where he
resided for a number of years. He hs (1
been in poor health for a long time and
went to the hospltal some months since.
The deceased was popular and his de-
mise Will be sincerely mourned. The
funeral will be held from the under-
taking rooms of'David W. Raymond in
South Norwalk, at 8 o’clock this even-
ing, Rev.. S. H. Watkins officiating.
The deceased was a brother-in-law of
George Wardwell of this city.
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At the Churches.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL—Rev. T. K.
Noble, Pastor. Services at 10;30 A. M.
and 7:30 P. M. In the morning Rev.
Frederick Curtis of Japan will occupy
the pulpit. In the evening the Pastor
will preach upon “The Rare Grace of
Contentment.” Y. P. S. C. E. at
6:30 p. m.
GRACE CHURCH—Rev. S. H. Watkins.
Rector. First Sunday after Trinity,
June 7th, 96, 8 a. m. Holy Communion.
10:30 a. 111. Holy Commuuion and ser-
mon. 12 111. Sunday School. 7:30 p.
m. Choral Even Song and address. The
Rector will officiate. All are welcome.
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An Incipient Fire.
The timely discovery of a fire at the
rear of James M. Creagh’s store and
not far from the north side of the Boston
Store, late yesterday afternoon, averted
what possibly might have proved to be
a large confiagration. The fire was at
the base of a board fence and was eating
its way along toward the large bullding
occupied as the Boston Store. ,
Several pails of water were used in
extinguishing the blaze and no fire
alarm was sent in. Damage nominal.
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Mr. and Mrs. William G. Thomas
left for St. Louis, to-day.
A meeting of the City Council will be
held next Monday evening.
Fred Brower received three horses
from New York this afternoon, to pas-
ture during the summer.
The board of health met last evening
and besides routine business, ordered
several sewer connections to be made.
Jennie, the bright little daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. William Chalmers, is cel-
ebrating her ninth birthday at her home
in Cranbury, this. afternoon, by enter-
taining a number of her little friends.
Ice cream, cake and other good things
will be refreshing parts of the“ occasion.
*rul
of.
expected—Stamford Advocate.
HERE AND THERE
An Epitome of Happenings, of
Interest to the Public.
Garnered with Scissors .and- Pencil.
f,
—Use Adams’ Blazon.
Strawberries are plentiful and cheap.
, $1
The funeral of the late Stephen Henry
Smith is being held this afternoon.
Rev. J. H. Hoyt will preach in the
chapel at West N orwalk, tomorrow.-
“ There will be dancing music at Greg-
ory’s and Roton Points, this evening.
—Use Adams’ Blazon.
The gospel tent on Wall street will
be open to the public next ' Wednesday
evening.
The Harbor avenue weather prophet,
Thomas Cooney, predicts a storm for
to-morrow.
A communicant’s meeting will be
held at Grace churee this evening at
7: 45 o ’clock.
The display of roses in dooryards in
difi‘erents parts of the town is simply
magnificent.
A series of new and handsome sum-
mer awnings adorn the Bissell mansion
now occupied by the Misses Lane.
Robert M. Alexander winner of. the
Irvington-Milburn race will start in the
Alpha’Wheel club race in this city.
—Use Adams’ Blazon.
A. number of Norwalk people have
gone to Bridgeport to-day to see the
circus and drink red lemonade,or some-
thing else.
The season at the Straw hat factory
is practically closed, and many of the
employees will soon be chasing breezes
on the mountains.
The Knights of the Mystic Chain
conferred the first degree on five candi-
dates at their hall in the GAZETTE
building, last night.
Miss Amy Watkins arrived from the
N. Y. Teacher’ s College, to Grace
Church Rectory last evening to spend a
portion of her vacation. '
A declaration in favor'of a permanent
international arbitration tribunal was
adopted yesterday by the Lake Mohonk
Arbitration Conference.
A freight train broke in two in this
city last night; the fact] was not discov-
ered until the locomotive and first half
of the train reached South Norwalk.
Use Adams’ Blaz m.
The bicycle race from Stamford to
Norwalk, between Finch and Price,
which was to take place last night, has
been postponed until next Friday night.
Among the Americans registered yes-
terday at the Paris office of the New
York Herald was Miss Welton of Water-
bury, a frequent visitor to friends here
in Norwalk.
The American line steamer -St. Paul
broke on her lastzjtrip, the record for
the fastest trip between Southampton
and New York, by one hour and forty-
eight minutes.
Remarked a learned man this morn-
ing: “The moral tide in town is rising;
there were no police cases on either
the Norwalk or South’ Norwalk cOTITt
docket, this morning.”
A cablegram was received from Hon.
John S. Seymour yesterday announcing
the Safe arrival of himself and two
brothers, and that he had been much
benefitted by the voyage.
A special communication of Uhion
Lodge, F. and A. M., will be held next
Wednesday evening to confer the third
degree. Visitors from Norwalk . are
Edgar Buttery brought down from
his “Aunt Phoebe Cornstock” farm on
Oometock Hill this morning, a crate of
the largest, prettiest and most delicious,
new seedling strawberries, yet seen in
our Norwalk market.
Says the Danbury News; “Several
Danbury bicyclists are training at the
Fair Grounds for the races soon to ,trake
place in N orwalk. Redavats, Beardsley,
Moore and Coyne are upon the track-
nearly every night, and Lthe trials are
often more interesting than regular
races.”
The children of Grace Church Sewing
schOol are holding a sale of fancy'articles
of their own making, this afternoon.
This closes the labors of the l1ttle
ones for the summer. They have been
under the training of Miss Anna Mor-
gan Smith, Mrs. Charles W. Many and
Mrs. LeGrand C. Betta. .
M. Ratchford is enjoying farm life
these days at his beautiful place in Win-
nipauk. He also takes 'his prettylittle
two months old babe out for a walk
every day and to look at him with the
babe in his arms the impressoin is that
he is the happiest man in the town of I
Norwalk.
’u'fP FIROM THEIR'AN‘KS'L‘
Privates Who Are—— Competent Wln Shoul-
der-Straps in Two Years.
The number of men who enter the
army with a. view to secure promotion,
Outside of those who have relatives in
the service, is limited to a. much small-
er number than' IS generally supposed,
says Harper’s Weekly.
The enactment of ythe law allowing,
- enlisted men of any grade to apply for .
examination for a commission removed
all incentive for applicants to strive for
the lower noncommissioned grades,a
most 'seriousdefect in the law. It’ is in
keeping with the legislation advocated
by Mr. Proctor during his term of of-
fice, relative to the gradual elimination
of th old soldier, and his replacement
by a. better class of young men, who
were to be secured by holding Out as
a bait promotion from the ranks.
The large number applying for ex-
amination at present would naturally
lead to the supposition that Mr. Proc‘
tor’s object was surely being accom~
plished, but such is not the fact. ‘
The enlisted force of the army is to-
day composed of no better men than it
was ten or twelve years ago; in fact, a
comparison results favorably to the old
soldier. The men who are now being
examined for promotion do not in any
sense represent the great body of en-
listed men of our service. _
They in reality re present a, class con-
sisting of. about one-twentieth of the en-
listed force, who have nothing in com-
mon with the other nineteen-twen-
tieths, and who are fully alive to the
advantages they possess over the West
Point graduate in securing their
shoulder-straps in one-half the time re;
quired by the ,cadet to consummate
his high ambition.
The enlisted men of the army, es-
pecially the old soldiers, look upon
these men as a. favored class—and fa.-
vored they are in many ways during
their preparatory two years’ service.
The soldier reasons, and justly, that
if the four years of preparation at
West Point are necessary to fully equip
the cadet for the requirements of his
position as an officer, it‘ is presumption
to suppose that a. man of ordinary in-,
telligence can, in two years, in addition
to his duties of a. soldier, fit himself for
the accomplishment of the work re-
quired of the graduate. ’
Possessed of the finest military col-
lege in the world, which has been the
alma. mater of the greatest soldiers of
modern times, it should be the aim of
the - United States to supply the com-
missioned officers of our army from that
source, restricting promotion from the
ranks to extreme cases in recog-
nitionrof extraordinary acts of conspicu-
ous bravery on the battlefield, or other
distinguishing feature of the soldier’s
service.
MERITS OF THE R’AISIN.
It Has Great Nutritious as Well as Medle-
- inal Properties.
As the grape cure has made its way
into modern methods of dealing with
disease—hundreds filling the German
_—
establishments where this return to
nature is practiced—many a patient
who has found himself made over by
the treatment has added to it a. use of
the dried grape or raisin. Fruit of all
sorts is becoming more and more a part
of the regular food supply, and a grow-
ing constituency of people announce
themselves as believers in a-diet of fruit
and nuts. Leaving these extremists
out of the question, it is certain that
health increases for whoever. substi-
tutes fruit, both fresh and dried, for a.
large part of the ordinary diet in daily
use. One of our best literary workers
has found that a. bunch of good raisins,
with a. slice of bread or a crisp cracker
or two, make a lunch that not only is
satisfying, but leaves the brain clear
for the afternoon’s work. Even in the
days of our forefathers the Muscatel
raisins, so called, perhaps, from the
Muscat grape brought by the Moors
from their African home into Spain,
were credited with a special recupera-
tive force and known as “raysons of
the sun.” They were part of the equip-
age of a last illness. Saffron water and
these “raysons of the sun” were side by
side on the neat little table which held I
also the big Bible reserved for solemn
occasions, all three reminding the suf-
ferer that he or she had done with the
ordinary fare of mortal life.
But there need be no such somber as-
sociation with the raisin of to-day, our
own California providing, at its best, a.
rich, fruity raisin, sun-dried, of course,
yet not so much dried as distilled,
all the watery parts being driven off
and the richer qualities of the grape
developed in nature’s own alembic.
These raisins, with whole-wheat bread,
make a genuine food, good for children
as well as man, and hailed by the chil-
dren with acclamation. The need for
sug ar—an instinct with children—is
met in raisins or dates in infinitely
more healthy fashion than in any other
order of sweet, and the c hild who has
full provision of such fruits makes no
demand for candy or cake. The best
California raisins are now cheap enough
to be within the reach of all, and their
use is steadily increasing. A set of
young lawyers in New York have
adopted fruit asa lunch, finding that
work can go on with none of the sense
of heaviness produced by ‘the ordinary
meal; and raisins have been introduced
as one of the most satisfying forms.
The Spouting of a Whale.
The whale does not discharge water,
but only its breath; this, however, in
rushing up into the air hot from the
animal’s body has the moisture con-
densed to form a sort of rain, and the
colder the air, just as in the caSe of our
own breath, the more marked the re-
sult. When the spout 1s made with the
blowhole clear above the surface of the
water it appears like a. sudden jet of
steam from a boiler. When effected,
as it sometimes is, before the blowhole
reaches the surface, a. low fountain as
from the street fire plug is formed, and
when the hole is close to the surface at
the moment a. little water is sent up
with the trill jet of steam. The cloud
blown up does not disappear at once,
but hangs a. little while, and is' Often
seen to drift :1 short distance with the
wind.
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The board of management of the ‘DL’:
A. R. Will meet thieJafternoon ‘to make
arrangements fer. a'meeting of the
State Chapter, which will take place
next Saturday, at which reception sev-
eral notables will, it is expected, be
present. .
The board of selectmen are to-day in.
specting the different roads in tQ‘wn,
more especially those under'icourse of
repair (in the contract system. The
contracts call for 'the completion of
such roads on or before the 15th of this
month.
Unclaimed, Letters. ‘
The following letters remain un-
claimed at the Norwalk Pest Office,
June 6:
Stanley Banks, Mrs. Harry Hautz,
W. C. Prather (2), ‘ .
W. H.IMAL0NE,.P. M.g
' " -~ the Well
MADAM ROSS Known
Throughout the States- Consultation on Past.
Present and Future 1n regard to any matter.
business or otherwise that may be desired.
Consultation for Ladies and Gentlemen, $1.
Short session for Ladies, 50c. Office at No.11
Hanford Place. up one flight. Need not ring.
Can be seen at any hour.
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P. erATEs
421mm Smart,
" You can find as fine an assortment of
lunnntalltennmn ..
As can be found in any Yard' 111 the
State. Look it over and get prices
before going elsewhere.
1’0 BEN 1'.
o BENT—Gotta e of six rooms. 3. 01111118.
T residence of W Jg. Fitch, Westporttltjvenue.
Appl v on premises. tf
IORB'ALE. . ’
FOR SALE—First-class Boarding House.
Popular and always full. 18 rooms newly.
furnished. improvements. Bath room on ‘
each floor. slendid investment. Inquire .
21 Union street. outh Nor-walk. mzotf
LOST.
STRAYED 0R STOLEN-4From the Fair
Grounds, a roan ony.t 11:5 hands high, and
a bay colt. 2 years 0 hstar' 1n forehead.
Wore no shoes Information of the wheres.
Fonts of that :Iifinail‘s wéll be agewafille%v lby
eavmlr war a e air man or e .
wick House, SouthiNorwalk. ar
WAN TED. .
WANIED—A girl for general house-
work. Must be a good laundress. Ap-
ply No.9 Isaacs Place, (down stairs. )_
Towle Vault Light Company,
MANUFACTURERS.
VAULT LIGHTS. SKYLIGHIS
AND PATENT LIGHT DESIGNS.
Factory:
4“ BRIGGS AVENUE,
_ anoovau. -
Office:
lli'l ELM STREET,
nrw vonx.
ROTON
1901111:
A Popular Summer Resort.
Greatly improved
and more attractive than ever before.
Opening, Memorial Day, May 30.,
Music, Bicycles Checked, Dancing Pavilion.
Shore Dinners, 50 Cents.
HEHE THEY ABEL ' ,. f
E nmrs REFRIGERATOBS
Strongly Built, Handsomely Finished and the Most
Economical Users of Ice.
THINK'OF THIS.
Perfect Non-Conductor Packing.
Cold Dry Air Circula-
tion. Wrought-Iron Ice Racks. Absolute'Dryness'.
Slate Stone Shelves. '
Zinanin-ings.
'Unexposed WoOd .
Inside Joints-
Double Case‘s.
EVERY-.oNE WARRANTED As REPRESENTED
South Norwalk Hardware 00-. 9
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