It’s Soap,
In All Soap.
Welcome Soap is abso-
lutely free from excess of
alkali, corrosive, and other
adulterations: that is why it
is superior to any other soap.
If by special inducements >
they are led to try some
other kind, they always re-
turn to Welcome.
SARATOGA!
Genuine Saratoga Water in
block-tin lined barrels direct
from the celebrated Spring, is
for sale on draught at Had-
den’s, corner Wall and River.
Street.
THE WATER
Is brought direct from Sara-
toga, and is dispensed in pre. ,
cisely the same condition in
which it flows from the spring
at Saratoga, and is sold at
5 Cents per (flees.
House-cleaning.
Lustrine.
100
Ask your Grocers.
-BIII BUT IN PIIIBE-
0F
MEAT.
Round, Sirloin and Por-
terhouse Steaks, Sausge,
Pot and Rib Roasts
Reduced 20. a Pound
All First Quality Meat.
J.vu.BoaAnuus,
6 WATER ST.. NORWALK
NEW CAFE
WITH] .
RESTAURANT
ATTACHED.
MIKE fiAI‘CHFORD,’
44 Wain Street,
The Best Wines, Liquors and Cigars.
Horace E. Dann,
EXOELSIOL
Livery and Sales Stable.
umvuuwuvuvv‘
Opposite Danbury and .
Norwaik Railroad depot
Norwalk. Conn. Stylish
Single 'or Double Team
with or without drivers‘
Safe horses for women
- andchildren. .
SADDLE HORSES A SPECIALTY
‘ and hard frost?”
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PUNGENT_ PARAGRAPHS. ‘
—Mollie-—-"Do you like trolley par-
ties?” Dollie—“I just love ’em. You
know I’m engaged to one; he’s a mo-
torman.”-——Yonkers Statesman.
—After the Summer. 9— Hinks —
“IVhere did you spend your vacation?”
Binks—“I didn’t spend it. My wife
and daughter spent everything else I
had, and I thought I’d better save
something.”—-Detroit Free Press.
—Bellefie1d—-I say that the laws
ought to be matde stronger.” Bloom-
field—“I don’t know that I quite com-
prehend your meaning.” “Well, as
the laws now stand, even comparative-
ly week people can break them.”—
Pittsburgh Chronicle—Telegraph.
—-At a picnic given the waifs of Chi-
cago a plate of tarts was passed to
two little urchins, evidently chums.
One, whose mouth was too full for ut-
terance, and plate too full for even an
extra tart, shook his head; not so his
neighbor, who added the tart to his
pile of goodies. In a few minutes numv
ber one had so reduced his plate that
he asked for the refused dainty, when
he was told they were gone. Where-
upon his little friend was heard giving
him this philosophical advice: “The
time to take tarts, Bob, is when they’re
a-passin’l”-—Harper’s Bazar.
—One day, when the late Lord Bea-
consfield was walking in his grounds
at Hughenden Manor, he was accosted
by a well-known parishioner noted for
his ready wit. It being winter time,
and the weather unusually severe, the
villager, after paying his respects to
his lordship, commenced to make an
appeal for a little help. “How often
have I told you to be careful and pre-
pare for a rainy day?” “Ah! that’s
right enough; so I did, my lord,” said
the ready-witted villager; “but then
who thought of seeing all this snow
This ready retort
had the desired effect. —Household
Words.
—“Bridget, I want a pound of steak,
8. bag of salt, two ounces of pepper, a
loaf of bread and a 'pound of butter.
Do you think you can remember them
all, or shall I write them down?”
“Sure, mam, I kin remember one by
the other. When I hev bread, I know
I want butter, and when I have steak,
1 want pepper and salt.” “All right.
Go. and don’t belong.” Bridget was
not long. She was back in a very
Short time; but with an empty basket.
”Why, where is the dinner, Bridget?”
“I couldn’t remimber wan of them,
mam.” “Why, I thought you could re-
member each article by the one before
it.” “Faith, mam, I had nothing to
remimber the furst one by.” ‘7 ‘
THE CUNNING BRONCO.
Traits of This Hardy Little Rover of the
Western Plains. '
Afew words about this horse—the
horse of the plains. Whether or no his
forefathers looked on when Montezu-
ma fell, they certainly hailed from
Spain, And whether it was missiona-
ries or thieves who carried them north-
ward from Mexico, until the Sioux
heard of the new animal, certain it
also is that this pony ran wild for a
century or two, either alone or with
various red-skinned owners; and as he
gathered the sundry experiences of
war and peace, of being stolen, and of
being abandoned in the snow at incon-
venient distances from home, or being
ridden by two women and a baby at
once, and of being eaten by a hear, his
wide range of contretemps. brought
him a wit sharper than the street
Arab’s, and an attitude toward life
more blase than in the united capitals
of Europe. I have frequently caught
him watching me with an eye of such
sardonic depreciation that I felt it
quite vain to attempt any hiding from
him of my incompetence; and as for
surprising him, a locomotive-cannot do
it, for I have tried this. 'He relishes
putting a man in absurd positions,
and will wait many days in patience
to compass this uncharitable thing;
and when he cannot bring a man
to derision, he contents himself
with a steer or a buffalo, helping
the man to rope and throw these
animals with an ingenuity surpassing
any circus, to my thinking. A num-
ber of delighted passengers on the
Kansas Pacific railway passed by a
Mexican vaquero, who had been sent
out from Kansas City to rope a buffalo
as an advertisement for the stock
yards. The train stopped .to take a
look at the solitary horseman fast to a
buffalo in the midst of the plains.
Jose, who had his bull Safely roped,
shouted to ask if they had water on
thei train. “We’ll bring you some,”
said they. “Oh, I come get,” said he;
and jumping off he left his accom-
plished pony in sole charge of the buf-
falo. Whenever the huge beast strug-
gled for freedom, the clever pony stifl-
ened his legs and-leaned back as in a
tug of war, by jumps and dodges so
anticipating each move of the enemy
that escape was entirely hopeless.
The boy got his drink, and his em-
ployer sent out a car for the buffalo,
which was taken in triumph into Kan-
sas City behind the passenger train.
The Mexican narrated the exploit to
his employer thus: “Oh, Shirley, when
the train Start they all give three
greata big cheers for me, and then
they give three mucha bigger cheers
for the little gray hoss!”—Owen Wis-
ter, in Harper’s Magazine.
Take Time.
Let us take time for the good-by
kiss. We shall go to the day’s work
with a sweeter spirit for it. Let us
take time to speak kind words to those
we love.
no longer hear us, our foolishness will
seem more wise than our best wisdom.
Let ustake time to be pleasant. The
small courtesies. which we often omit
because they are small, will some day
look larger to us than the wealth
which we have coveted or the fame
for which we have struggled. Let us
take time to get acquainted with our
families. The wealth you are accum-
ulating may be a doubtful blessing to
the son who is a stranger to you.
Your beautifully kept house, busy
mother, can never be ahome to the
daughter whom you- have no time to
caress.—-Detroit Free Press.
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By and by, when they can.
THE_EVENING GAZETTE
.McHenry at the time of its successful
,manding officer had gained his epau-
having taken their stations within
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A SACRED BANNER. '.
The. Flag Which Inspired , the
National Anthem.
It Waved Over Fort M'Henry When the '
British Fleet Assniled It—How the
Flag Was Protected by a
Gallant American.
Sacredly guarded from curious eyes,
and as much as possible from the slow
but sure ravages of time, the tar
Spangled Banner is laid away, by its
owner until such a time as may seem
proper to deliver it into the careful
hands. It is so called because it was
the standard which floated over Fort
defense against the British, a defense
that inspired Francis Scott Key to
Write our national ode.
This was the greatest of all naval
victories won in 1812-1814, because it
saved the entire Atlantic seaboard
from further, invasion by the enemy.
The conditions also were unusual.
The fort was not bomb-proof. Its com-
mander, Lieut. Col. George Armistead,
had received orders to surrender the
fortress from his superior, who consid-
ered it unable to make a successful re-
sistance. But Armistead was stirred
to make a brave effort for its defense.
He paid no attention to this order, and
defended the fort to the best of his
ability, knowing that if he faileda
court-martial stared him in the face,
and he gained a. remarkable victory.
Lieut. Col. George Armistead was
born in Newmarket, Carolina county,
Va., on April 10, 1780. He was one of
five brothers, allof whom served with
distinction in the war of 1812, three
being in the regular army and two in
the militia. One of his brothers was a.
first graduate of West Point, and his
full length picture is to be seen there
to-day in the library in the grounds.
He came from a patriotic stock of an-
cestors, his great-great-grandfather
having been a member of the house of
burg-asses and of the council of states.
On, his mother’s side Armistead was
descended from Col. John Taylor, who
was with Washington at Winchester.
Col. George Armistead was distin-
guished for his gallantry at the capt-
ure of Fort George, and was brevetted
lieutenant colonel at this time. A
little over a year afterward fresh
from this ,victory, he was placed in
command of Fort McHenry. Here he
was destined to meet men whose coin-
lets in the service of the greatest gen-
eral of that age—the duke of Welling-
ton. Sir Alexander Cochran, in his
dispatch to the secretary of the admi-
ralty, dated September 17, 1814, says:
“So soon as the army moved forward.
I hoisted my flag on the Surprise, and
with the remainder of the frigates,
bomb-sloops and the rocket ship passed
further up the river. . At daybreak
next morning—the '13th—the bombs
shell range, supported by the Surprise,
with the other frigates and sloops,
opened their fire upon the fort that
protected the harbor.” Admiral Alex-
ander Cochran was in command of the
Royal Oak, while his son, Sir Thomas
Cochran, commanded the Surprise, to
which the admiral transferred his flag
in going up the Batapsco river.
Francis Scott Key and his friend, Mr.
Skinner, were, on board the Surprise
until shortly after the battle, when
they were transferred to their own
vessel, in which they had set sail from
Baltimore. Here they remained with
their own private sailors and a detach-
ment of marines from the Surprise as
guard. It was at this time on his own
vessel that Francis Scott Key wrote
the “Star Spangled Banner,” and not
on the Mindon, as is generally sup-
posed. Judge Taney received this
statement from Key’s own lips, who
told him that he had written his, poem
in a a moment of excitement, when the
enemy was retreating to their ships.
The weeks following this great vic-
tory were very proud ones to the Balti-
moreans, for though at the bombard-
ment were troops from Pennsylvania
and Virginia, the great burden of the
engagement was borne by Baltimore
men. The strain, however, of that
great fight, and the dreadful responsi-
bility of the occasion, were too much
for Col. Armistead. It left him with
an affection of the heart from which
he died four years later, in his adopted
city, Baltimore. He knew, even after
the victory was gained, that some en-
emy might press against him the
charge of disobedience to his superior
ofiicer, and if this had been done it
might have led to other complication,
but as “nothing Succeeds like success,”
everything was forgotten in a general
rejoicing.
The flag was presented to Lieut. Col.
George Armistead by the government.
It bears upon one of its stripes his
name and the date of the bombard-
ment in his own handwriting. At his
death he bequeathed it to his widow,
who left it to her daughter, Mrs. Wil-
liam Stuart Appleton. When Mrs. Ap-
pleton died it was bequeathed to her
son. in whose possession it now is.
The banner is thirty-two feet long
by twenty-nine feet wide. In all prob-
ability it was originally forty feet long,
and its great width is due to the fact
of its having fifteen stripes instead of
thirteen. In color it is almost as
brightas it was some eighty-four years
ago, but the bunting has become very
worn, and some twenty years since it
was stitched on canvas to insure its
preservation. It will be observed that
there is one large hole it, where a
bombshell passed through it, and it is
torn in other places by fragments of
shell.
It will also be noticed that there is
quite a. large piece out of one corner,
as if cut. This, I believe, really was
done, as I remember hearing from my
mother that a brave soldier, who had
served under her father, on his death-
bed wrote and requested Mrs. Armi-
stead to let him have a piece to wrap
around his. dead body. The request
was complied with, but it can be read-
ily‘understood that now the flag must
be preserved from all such spoliation
from relic hunters and from loaning it
on any occasion save where it would be
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
-—Alabama has ,27 national banks
with a combined capital of $3,694,000.
The state banks number 11. '
“All the members of the Vanceboro
(lI-Ie.) board of health are quarantined
on account of scarlet fever in their fam-
ilies.
-—Of the eighteen people who died
at Norwich, Vt, during 1895 ten were
more than .73 years old, and of these
ten five were more than 80 years old. '
-——A box of earth has been sent from
the grave of Gen. Lafayette to the
Daughters of the American Republic
at San Francisco, in which to plant a
tree of liberty.
—A hunter in Bracken county, Ky.,
last week out down a tree to get at a
’possum, and when the tree camedown
he found it contained four ’possums,
two coons, five young squirrels and
about 100 pounds of honey.
——An authority on deaf-mutes says
that the ratio of deaf-mutes to hear-
ing is about one to each 1,609, accord;-
ing to which there are about 40,000
such persons in the United States and
about 1,000,000 in the world’s entire
p0pulation.
—The oldest postmaster in New
England, in point of continuous serv-
ice, is believed to be SamuelS. Fuller,
of Mansfield, Conn- He has been post-
master in “that place during the past
45 years. He is a democrat, but his
place has never been thneatened by
political considerations.
-—The Norwegians are supposed to
have been the first who attempted the
perilous enterprise of killing the
whale. The Biscayans engaged in a
regular whale fishery in the twelfth
century, but the whales then caught
were of a small size and were employed
as food. Whalebone appears to have
been then used for the first time.
—The boundary line between Cana-
da and 1th United States is marked
with posts at mile intervals for a great
part of its length. Cairns, earth
mounds and timber posts are also used,
and through the forests and swamps
a line a rod wide, clear of trees and un-
derwood, has been cut. Across the
lake artificial islands have. been put
to support the cairns, which rise about
eight feet. above the high water mark.
SMUGGLING BY RAILWAY.
Engigpering Appliances as Carriers of
' . Contraband Goods. 3
There is a story of several years’
standing to the effect that at- one time
a locomotive on one of the lines run-
ning across the German-Russian fron-
tier was used most successfully as a
carrier of contraband goods, and that
the fraud, so long practiced, was dis-
coverbd only while overhauling the en-
gine in the repair shops. The exact-cir-
cumstances cannot now be called to
mind, though the essential facts of
such illegal use having been made of
a legitimate piece of engineering work
is brought back to memory by a re—
cently published item which chronicles
a somewhat similar bit of deception.
.The Belgian customs authorities, it
appears, knew for a long time that
large quantities of jewelry were smug-
gled over the French border, but how
it was done puzzled them. In the lug-
gage- van of the express which runs
between Paris and Brussels is a case
which holds the accumulators when
the train is electrically lighted. A key
of the case is held by the conductor
of the express, a foreman porter and an
excise official of the border station,
but none of these ever appear to use
it. The other day, as the train ran into
Quevy, the border town, a customs in-
spector took it intoshis head, more
through officiousness than suspicion.
to open the chest. To his amazement,
it was filled to the lid with watches,
chains, rings, bracelets and all kinds
of dutiable, jewelry. It was found that
the foreman porter at Quevy had, for
a long period, been carrying on a con-
traband traffic for a well-known Paris
jeweler, who, it is said, had had to dis-
gorge heavily, both in jewelry and hard
cash, in consequence of the disclosures
of his frauds—Carrier’s Magazine.
Speed of the Dragon Fly. ‘
It is the popular belief that the
flight of bir'ds is much swifter than that
of insects, but a number of naturalists,
who have been making a. study Of the
matter, think that is not the case. A
common house fly, for example, is not
very rapid in its flight, but its wings
make 800 beats a second and send it
through the air 25 feet, under ordin-
ary circumstanées, in the space of that
time. When the insect is alarmed,
however, it has been found that it can
increase its speed to 160 feet per sec-'
.ond. If it could continue such rapid
flight for a mile in a straight line it
would cover that distance in exactly 33
seconds. It is not an uncommon thing,
'when traveling by rail in the sung-z
mer time, to see a bee or wasp keeping
up with the train and trying to get in at
the windows. A Swallow is considered
one of the swiftest of flying birds, and
it was thought until recently that no in.
sect could escape it. A naturalist tells
of an exciting chase he saw between a
swallow and a dragon fly, which is the
swiftest of insects. The insect flew
with incredible speed, and wheeled and
dodged with. such case that the swal-
low, despite its utmost efforts, com-
pletely failed to overtake and capture
it.-Golden Days.
Blubber Baths for Rheumatism.
- In Australia they have a whale cure
for rheumatism which is said to be ef-
fective, though disagreeable. It was
discovered by a drunken man, who was
staggering along the beach near the
whaling station at Twofold bay, and
who, seeing a dead whale cut open,
took a header into the decomposed
blubber. It took two hours for him
to work his way out, but he was then
not only sober but cured of his rheu-
matism. Now a hotel has been built
in the neighboring town of Eden,
where rheumatic patients wait for the
arrival of a/whale in order to take blub-
ber baths—Detroit Free Press.
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f national interest—N. Y. Herald
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WHAT IT MEANS.
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,Norwalk is Learning It—Learnln‘z It
East—Proof Not Lacklng.
Everybody has it.
That Tired Feeling.
Don’t know what it means.
Keeps you awake at night.
Destroys daily comfort.
You would shake it off. ‘
You would be healthful and strong.
So you can.
If you go at it right.
First learn what it means.
Some say it’s bad blood.
Others say it’s a lazy liver.
They’re all wrong.
Tired feeling means tired Kidneys.
Just as lame back means Lame Kid-
neys.
And backache means kidney ache.
How do we know it?
Because Doan’s Kidney Pills cure it.
And they are for kidneys only.
How can we prove it ?
Because N nrwalk people say so.
Here is a case in point.
Mrs. White wife of A. C. White the
hatter, address No. 47 River street.
Mr. White says. “My wife took Dean’s
KIdney Pills.” '
“I‘ook them for backache.”
“Found them just as represented.”
“Is much improved.”
, “Dean’s Kidney Pills did the work.”
“Gotthem at Hale’s drug store.”
Doan s Kidney Pills are for sale by all
dealers; price 50 cents, or mailed by
Foster—Milburn Go , Buffalo, N. Y..
sole agents for the United States.
Fcr Itching Piles, irritation of the
genitals, or itching in any part of the
body, Doan’ngintment is worth its
weight in gold. No matter how long-
standing the trouble, Doan’s Ointment
Will not fail to give instant relief.
Commencing Monday, June
15, and for one week there-
after, I will manufacture to
order my $35.00 Single Har-
ness for $22.48. This offer
is made in order to reduce my
.stock of leather purchased
during the recent drop in the
market—~11ence the price.
Orders will be received dur-
ing the specified time, but har-
ness will not be ready for de-
livery in two weeks. i
For specifications and sain-
ples, write or call
P. H . DWYER,
MANUFACTURER 0F
HARNESS,
Cor. Knight and Wall Sts.,
N O RWALK. CONN.
TERMS CASH.
Wenries the body. Worries the mind.‘
IN“ INNOVATION.
iIIIII‘LIIII HOUSE
GREGORY'S POINT. .
NDW OPEN FOR THE SEASON or 1896.
Shore Dinners,
Rhode Island Glam Bake.
Bathing, Boating, Fishing.
Electric cars to Hotel, every twenty
minutes. 1
JOHN E. O’SULLIVAN, .
Ma nager.
MEEKER (IIIAL co.
“- LIME,,IIEMEIIT, TILE PIPE.
OFFICE WITH G. WARD SELLECK
WALL STREET. NORWA LK.
Piano Lessons.
MRS. GEORGE W. BRADLEY, (dau liter
of the lateWm. 1 . Nash.) gives 6 cent
and satisfactory instructions on the; Piano at
her home No. 193 Main street.
ADAMS’
B I a z o n
Soap Powder,
For Kitchen Use
mus ALL OTHERS.
Ask Your Grocer For It.
The following Grocers have it on sale: E. J.
Finnegan. Main street; P. J. O’Brien, Che. e1
stret; Abraham. Plattsyille avenue; rs.
Harriet A. Northrop, Unionville: A. Stull,
East Norwalk; D. Rosen. South Norwalk; J.
L. June. WInnIpauk: N. Driscoll. Westport.
Fairfield county National Bank.
44 mm Street, Norwam, eon».~
NGORPORATED. 1824. Capital, $200,000
EDWIN O. KEELEB President.
DAVID E. ILLEB. Vice-President.
L. C. GREEN, Cashier
, DIRECTORS .
EDWIN 0. KEELEn‘ Mésns H. GLovEB
DAVID E. MILLER. A. J. MEEKER,
F. Br. J GEN Locxwoon. THEODORE E. SMITH
Ina COLE. Cnas F. ansrnau.
Accpunts of Manm’ Merch nts (1
Individuals solicited. ‘ a an
Safe Deposit Boxes free to Depositors.
FIIIE HOTEL!
OWNERS AND
' FIRE BATHIIIG HOUSES!
ROTON POINT
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A Charming Summer Resort on Long Island Sound.
GENERAL ATTRACTIONS!
. Every facility for providing fogllarge ekcdirsions.
Roton Point ImprOveIhent Co-.
PROPRIETORS,
J. FINKENSTEIN, Manager.
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