’THE.EVENING GAZETTE THE BLASPHEMER. . Sketch of Character on the Canadian Frontier. AppaIllng Utterances of a Rough Traveler Who Defies the Priest and Refuses His Holy Offices—A Start- ling Incident. ; “Sacrez mon bapteme!” a “What did he say?” asked the little chemist, stepping from his doorway. “He cursed his baptism,” answered tall Medallion, the English auctioneer, pushing his way farther into the crowd. “Ah, the pitiful vaurienl” said the little Chemist’s wife, shudderingly; for that was an oath not to be endured by any0ne who called the church mother. The crowd that had gathered at'the Four Corners were greatly disturbed, for they also felt the repulsion that possessed the little Chemist's wife. They bubbled, shook their heads and waved their hands excitedly, and swayed and craned their necks to see the offender. All at once his voice, mad with rage, was heard above the .rest, shouting frenziedly a curse which was ahorribly grotesque blasphemy upon the name of God. Men who had used that oath in their insane anger had been known to commit suicide out of remorse after- wards. For a moment there was a painful hush. The crowd drew back involun- tarily. and left a clear space, in which stood‘the blasphemer, a middle-sized, athletic fellow, with black beard, thick, waving hair, and flashing brown eyes. His white teeth were showing now in a snarl like a. dog‘s, his cap was on the ground, his hair was tumbled, hishands were twitching with passion, his foot was stamping with fury, and every time it struck the ground a little silver bell rang at his knee, a pretty sylvan sound, in no keeping with the scene. It. heightened the distress of the fellow’s blasphemy and ungovernable anger. For a man to curse his baptism was a fearful thing; but the other oath was :not fit for human ears, and horror held the crowd moveloss for a. moment. ;— Then, as suddenly as the stillness came, a low, threatening mumble of voices rose, and a movement to close in on the man was made; but a. figure pushed through the crowd, and, stand- ;ing in front of the man, waved the peo- ple back. It was the cure, the beloved M. Fabre, whose life had been spent among them, whom they obeyed as well as they could; for they were but frail humanity, after all, crude, simple folk, touched with imagination. “Luc Pomfrette, why have you done .‘this? What provocation had you?” t The cure’s voice was stern and cold, his usually gentle face had become se- vere, his soft eyes were piercing and determined. The foot of the man still beat the ground angrily, and the little bell kept tinkling. He was. gasping with pas- sion, and he did not answer yet. “Luc Pomfrctte, what have you to say?" asked the cure again. He mo- tioned back Ardenne, the con-stable of the parish, who had suddenly appeared with a rusty rifle and a. more rusty pair " The kind 8088 makes his Biscuits with." I ’0. Iggittzs 6’ NO MORE TO BE SAID. If you wish perfect success in the “ construction” of light, healthful, delicious pies, cake and biscuits, your 5 Cooking School Teacher will always ; say —“ But above all, use only Boss Baking Powder for it’s what made their cracker famous. I You know them of course, for over ‘ 3,000,000 pounds were sold last year.” ' Take no substitute from your grocer. Q. MANUFACYURID SOLELY BY 3‘ C. D. BOSS & SON, New London, Conn PLYMOUTH ROCK ICE. Stores and Families Supplied. Lowest Rates. .AT P. W. BATES’ 42 mm STREET. You can find as fine an assortment of llfllllllllillllll ll Ufllllilfll'IWfllII As can be found in any Yard in the State Look it over and get prices before going elsewhere. ,— ’ "nun . , Lluumnv. 26 MINI STREET. The undersigned will, on SATURDAY NEXT, open a Hand Luandry at the above place Satisfaction guaranteed; a share of public patronage solicited. ANNA MOKELY. MARY CLUNE. - Slight of handcuffs. Still the voyageur did not answer. 1- l ‘I' * i i I- “The blasphemy is horrible, a. shame and stigma upon Pontiac forever.” He looked Pomfrett-e in the face. “Foul- mouthed and wicked man, it is two years since you took the blessed sacra- ment. Last Easter day you were in a drunken sleep while high mass was be- ing said; after the funeral of your own father you were drunk again. When you went away to the woods you never left. a penny for candles, nor for masses to be said for your father’s soul; yet you sold his horse and his little house, and spent the money in drink. Not a cent for a. candle, but—” “It’s a lie!” cried Pomfrette, shaking with rage from head tofoot. A long horror-stricken “Ah!” broke from the crowd. The cure’s face became graver and colder. “You have a bad heart,” he answered, “and you give us an evil name. I com- mand you to come to mass next Sunday to repent and to hear your penance given from the altar. For until—” “I’ll go to no mass till I’m carried to it,” was the sullen, malevolent inter- ruption. ' The cureturned upon the people. “This is a blasphemer, an evil-heart- ed, shameless man,” he said. “Until he repents humbly, and bows his vicious spirit to holy church, and his heart. to the mercy of God, I command you to avoid him as you would a. plague. I command that no (1001' be open to him; that no one offer him comfort or friendship; that not even a bon jour or a bon soir pass between you. He has blasphemed against our Father in Heaven; he is a leper.” He turned to Pomfrette. “I pray God that you have no peace 'in mind or body till your evil life is changed, and y0ur black heart is broken by sorrow and repentance.” Then to the people he said again: “I have commanded you for your souls’ sake; see that you obey. Go to your homes. Let us leavé‘the leper—alone.” He waved the awed crowd back—Gil- bert Parker, in Century. Valuable Books. The library at Yale college has been very fortunate to. obtain the valuable private collection of books owned by the late Prof. Rudolph Von Gneist, of the University of Berlin. Yale’s success in acquiring this collection seems to have been due to the efforts of Prof. Farnam, who cabled for the prize and secured it on his own responsibility—Chicago Tribune. Chesapeake Oyster Beds. The Chesapeake oyster beds are rapid- l y diminishing in productiveness. Fifteen years ago they furnished about 30,000,000 bushels of oysters annually: The product this year will not be more than 5,000,000 bushels—Chicago Inter Ocean. IRIDESCENT buttons are much worn, and big and rough ones will be seen everywhere. THE connemara cloak is being re- vived for evening wear, owing to its convenience in covering up big sleeves. modifications of this gar- ment introduce elements of elegance. The Shirred neck is replaced bv a velvet collar, and, with the addition of a cape, the garment is completely transformed. The long cloak, with quite a. short cape, is quite as popular as the longer cape. ALICE AMOBY. The veddahs, or wild hunters of Coy- lon. mingle the pounded fibers of soft and decayed wood with the honey on which they feed when meat is not to be obtained. According to ofiicial returns the Boer male population in the Transvaal is 25,- 000, while the male Uit-lander popula- tion is calculated by those acquainted with the country to number about 40,- 000. In Japan one marriage in every three ends in divorce. This is not so very sur- prising, seeing that a womam’for in- stance, may be divorced for talking too much, or because her mother-in-law de- velops a dislike for her. SHORT AN D PITHY. Napoleon III. said to Octave Feuillet: “To one returned from America every- body in Europe seems to be asleep." South Auburn, lie, is greatly stirred up over the. fact that. a number of the best hUnting dogs in the town have come home with their tails cut. off. 'l‘a-rolaro, an island 11/2 miles in di- ameter, in the Mediterranean, is the, smallest republic in the world. It has 55 inhabitants; the president is elected for six years; no public official receives any pay, and women and men are voters. . Two little waifs of the sea were found the sole possessors of the schoon- er Robin Hood, drifting in mid-Atlantic. They had started with their father from Newfoundland for Lisbon, and their father had died on board, eight days before the drifting schooner was discovered. ~ u . ' I rink .- ll s‘lloot Been doyou? FIFTY YEARS " AGO. Transportatiou in Pennsylvania Before the Railway Era. Canal Boa-ts \Vere Then in Great De- mand-The Principal Artery of Traffic in the Early Times. 0 And what primitive transportation they did have in those old days of ’46, to be sure! Railroads there were in the east, and had been for full 20 years, _‘ but not here. Pittsburgh was a far western town then, ‘of but 30,000 in-- habitants. The patient, plodding, tow- path mule was good enough for the Pittsburgher of ’46, who peacefully and contentedly wended his way to J ohns- town in 30 hours and was well satis- fied if he landed in Philadelphia in something less than a week. To us of the post-bellum generation this is hard to realize. The canal boat and the mule seem relics of the misty past almost as unreal as the Indian with his toma- hawk and birch canoe. And yet there is many a hale and hearty citizen, still in his prime, to whom they are vivid and well-remembered realities. Practically all the commerce of Pitts- burgh 50 years ago was carried over the western branch of that famous water- way called the Pennsylvania canal. Its western terminus was Pittsburgh, its eastern Johnstown, the route between the two places being as follows: Cross- ing the Allegheny river by an aqueduct at the foot of what is now Eleventh street, then up the west bank of the Allegheny to Freeport, then across the river again by an aqueduct, up the Kishkiminetas river to Saltsburg, thence up the Conemaugh to Johns- town. _ e route of the canal in this city can be traced, though not a vestige of it now remains. The basin, wheremost of the loading was done, was practic- ally the end of the canal, though a tun- nel which passed under the city almost in the line of the present Pan-Handle tunnel carried the canal through to the Monongahela. There were many small canal boats, which were used to bring in the products of numerous market gardeners whose farms were scattered along the fertile lowlands beside the Allegheny river. These narkct boats were called “Fanniesg” just vhy, is not apparent. Possibly, in earlier times, when the first of those boats came into use, some charn“:g, smiling Fan- ny used to sit at the tiler and guide her father's load of pumpkins and pota- toes into the city on market day. The “Pennies” were hauled by one horse. But the pride of the old canal was its packet boats. The handsome craft. would not. cut much of a figure beside the Virginia of to-day, but they were looked “non as something elegant in the ’40s, This. was. one of the two great highwa 3 to the east, this canal, and a much-1: iveled highway it was,too, con- sidering "he scanty population west of the mountains in those days. People coming up the Ohio from Cincinnati or elsewhere usually preferred to keep the river, and continued up the Monongm hela to Bro-wnville, and there took the famous old national pike to Cumber- land. Cumberland had a railroad then, and so the journey to the seaboard was easy from that point. But to return to the packet boats. They were 70 to 80 feet long and were drawn by four horses. They were not much unlike the canal boats we see to— day,when we see them at all, but neater and more pretentious, as was fitting for the first-class patronage they en- joyed. Many. a blushing bride and groom there was that. took that. jour- ney to the east. And what a journey it was! On, up through the hills, by and over many a stream, to the foot of the Allegheny mountains: then across that. formi- dable barrier, down into pleasant east— ern valleys, and again by the pictur- esque canal on to the brim of the mighty Susquehanna. Here one seemed to be getting into some sort of permanent civilization; from here the iron horse made the rest of the route easy, and at. last one was actually landed at. the famous city of brotherly love, far away at the other end of the state, a 400-mile journey—a journey, like matrimony, not to be entered into lightly or unadvisedly, but after ma.- ture consideration. It was truly a great event, that voyage to the east—Pitts- burgh Dispatch. Not So Benighted. ' King Menelek, of Abyssinia, whose troops have recently given the Italians a trouncing, is much more civilized than Americans suppose. Several years ago the king asked Massala, the Italian envoy, to secure him a seming machine. of which he had heard. The machine arrived in parts, and the envoy had it carried to the palace with much pomp. Then an unexpected difficulty was en'- countered. No one could put the parts together, and after aday’s work Massala. had to give it up. The king smiled good-naturedly, and ordered the parts taken to his room. He worked all night, and the next morning sent for the queen and the Italian envoy, to show them the machine in complete running order.—Golden Days. Emperor William’s Rose. A pretty story is told of the first meet- ing of the German imperial pair. The German emperor, then a young man of 20, was shooting at. Prinkeznau. One day he lost his way in the park,and came upon a rustic, rose-covered sum— mer 110use,. where a pretty girl of his own age was sleeping in a hammock. He did not. disturb her, but went on his way, thinking of the little German poem known as the “Brier Rose.” Later in the day he met the girl in the castle, and, saying: “Here is my brier rose again,” he introduced himself, and fell in love off-hand. They were married on his .‘32d birthday. Since that time she has set herself to realize the German ideal of a devoted hausi'rau.—Detroit Free Press. "' Old People, Old people who require medigine to regulate the bowels and kidneys will .find the true remedy in Electric Bitters. This medicine does not stimulate and contains no whiskey nor other intoxi- cant, but acts as a tonic and alterativé. It acts mildly on the stomach and bowels, adding strength and giving tone to the organs, thereby aiding Nature in the performance of the functions. Electric Bitters is an excellent appetizer and aids' digestion. Old People find it just exact- ly what they need. Price fifty cents and $1.00 per bottle at E. P. Weed’s Drug Store Norwalk and Monroe‘s New Ca- naan. Court Narruk, No. 58, F. of A. have arranged for a grand moonlight excur- sion on the steamer Isabel - to Pleasure Beach, Wednesday evening, July 15th. The committee of arrangements pro- pose mnking it one of the best excur- sions of the season. Try Allen’s Foot-Ease, A powder to be shaken into the shoes. At this season of the year your feet feel swollen and hot, and get tired easily. If you have aching feet, new shoes or tight shoes, try Allen’s Foot-Ease. It cools the feet and makes walking easy. Cures and prevents swollen and sweating feet, blisters and callous spots. Relieves corns and bunions of all pain and gives rest and comfort. Try it today. Sold by all drugglsls and shoe stores for 25c. Sent by ,mail for 25¢ in stamps. Address, Allen S. Olmstead, Le Roy, N. Y. “T mmy” Ratchford denies that it. was he to whom a. New York paper at- tributed so much snoring at New Ro- chelle, but thinks it must. have been a. class-mate of his in the Medical college who is not only a. practical joker but a young man whose snoring would husk an ear of corn or cause a bolster case to fly out of the window. ' ' Relief in Six. Hours. Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis- eases relieved in siz hours by the “NEW GREAT SOUTH AMERICAN KIDNEY (301113.” This new remedy is agreat sur prise on account of its exceeding prompt ness in relieving pain in the bladder kldneys, back and every part ofthe urin ary passages in male or female. It re l1eves retention of water and pain in pass ing it almost immediately. If you wan quick relief and cure this is your remedy gold by E. P. Weed, Druggist. Norwalk onn. Will B. Glines of Chicago is a guest. of his father, Dr. W. C. Glines of Berk- eley street, this city. He has been in attendance at the artist’s convention in Chautauqua. Will was a former resi- dent of this city and receives a cordial greeting from his many friends. Rheumatism Cured 1n 1) Day. “Mystic Cure” for Rheumatism and Neuralgia radically cures in 1 to 3 days. Its action upon the system is remark- able and mysterious. It. removes at once the cause and the disease imme- diately disappears. The first dose greatly benefits, 75 cents. Sold by N. C. Bauer and Edward P. \Veed, Drug- gists, Norwalk. jan-4-1y The Misses B. A. and Grace Carroll, the Misses Maggie and Mamie Dolan and Mr. P. Crow of Bethel, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Carroll of P15 mouth avenue. Two Lives Saved. Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of Junction City, Ill. was told by her doctors she had Con- sumption, and that there was no hope for her, but two bottles of Dr. King’s New Discovery completelycured her and she says it saved her life. Mr. Thomas Eggers, 139 Florida St., San Francisco, suffered from a dreadful cold, approach~ ing Consumption; tried without result everything else, then bought one bottle of Dr. King’s New Discovery and in two weeks was cured. He is naturally thank- ful. It is such results, of which these are samples, tn at prove thewonderful efficacy of this medicine in coughs and colds. Free trial bottles at E. P. Weed’s Drug Store, Norwalk and Monroe’s New Ca- naan. Regular size 50c. and $1.00. Miss Dunn of the Willimantic Normal school and Miss Fannibelle Curtis of New Britain Normal school have leased i. cottage near Darien where they pro- pose spending the summer months. sucklln’s Armca Salvo. The Best Salve in the world for Cute Bruises, Sores, Ulcers. Salt Rheum Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped' Bands Ohilblains, Corns and all Skin Ext-up tions, and positivelycures Piles. or no Payrcquired. It is guaranteed to give gerf-ectsatisfaction,or money refunded rice2508nts per box. For Sale by E. P. Weed, Norwnlk and Monroe, New Canaan. The Gospel Tent continues to draw crowds of interested listeners aft-er truth, while the speaking and singing are especially edifying and delighting. Mother’s Delight With Hand’s Colic Cure HAVERHILL, Mass, 11-30-‘95.—Hand Medicine Co.——“I Wish to say that I pro- cured a sample bottle of Dr. Hand’s Colic 'Cure and am delighted with it. My baby is now four months old, and has suffered every day of her short life With col- ic. I have tried almost everthing ever heard of, but can truthfully say that any- thing I have tried cannot compare with Dr. Hand’s Colic Cure. Yours respect- fully, Mrs. G. G. Miller, 38 Arch St.” Sold by all druggists, 25c. -~-Advertise in the GAZETTE. Price _ List of Chamberlain’s , Medicines. Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diar- rhoea. Remedy. The most successful medi- cine in the world for bowel complaints, 25 and 50 cents per bottle. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Famous for its cures of coughs, colds,.croup and whooping cough, 25 and 50 cents per bottle. Chamberlain‘s Pain Balm. For rheuma- tism, lame back, sprains, bruises, cuts, bums, scalds, frost bites and chilblains, 25 and 50 cents per bottle. For sale by E. P. Weed, ldmgpst. ime To Send in Your Advertisement THE EVENING ‘- GATETTE 'iTE IS THE NIGHT NEIIIIIN TIENIIIIEII if T0 REIGN ,TNE NEIIIINE PIIBLIG. an’ ling F Tale. It The Only Eight-Page One-Cent ' Paper in the Norwalks. a Value 0 an qutipment DEPENDS' ON THE POGNETS OF THE PEOPLE WHO. IIENII IT. TNE EVENING GAZETTE ARE ' nun nv ms: vino HAVE mom in v .AIIVEIITISENENTS IN ,ONLY CENT. OFFICE OPEN EVENIN—GS.
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