———v flow Many In Stay? - Of the many brands of soap L placed upon the market durf ing the past fifteen years, how many are now in exist- ence? has stood the test 'of time. It fulfils the exacting re- quirements of the New Eng- land housekeepers. .4; ~ ”cué/ - *WATERO'? “pSABAIUGo SARATOGA! ' Genuine Saratoga \Vater in block-tin lined barrels direct from the celebrated Spring, is for sale on draught at Hads 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 v 5 Cents per Glass. House-cleaning. Lustrine. I Go -BIG BUIOIPN PHIIIE- MEAT.“ Round, Sirloin and Por- terhouse Steaks, Pot and Rib Roasts ‘Reduced 26. a Pound All First Quality Meat. J. W. BOGARDUS, 6 WATER. ST.. N ORWALK NEW CAFE RESTXIIOANT lVlIKE ATOHFORD, 44 Wain Street, The Best Wines,‘Liquors and Cigars. Horace E. Dann, — EXCELSIOL Livery and Sales Stable. "Muvuwwuvm‘. ‘ - Opposite Danbury and ‘ Norwaik Railroad depot Norwalk. Conn. Stylish Single or Double Team with or without drivers; Safe horses for women andohildren. . SADDLE HORSES ESPECIALTV ‘ Sausge, , ous, IN THE OTHER BERTH. ‘ “This will be your berth, sir, No. 31,” said the berth steward, ushering me into a cozy little cabin. “Your friend can have 33; the lower berths will not be oe- cupied.” “So much the better,”said my “friend,” whom I had met for the first time at Liverpool street station that evening. He seemed a gentlemanly fellow, and had an endless stock of good stories at his command, so thatI was not sorry to hear that we were to L3 companions for the rest of the journey, and flung Iny baggage down on one of the lower berths with alacrity. “We’re lucky,” he said, as we made our way up on deck; “the boats are usually crowded at this time Of year, and it’s difficult to secure a cabin to oneself. Have a cigar? There’s plenty to see up here, isn’t there? I’ve been across some dozens of times.” - I took the portly cigar that he of- fered me, and for a time we wandered up and downthe decks, watching the crowd of passengers, Dutch, English, Hebrew and German, who had “just come on board. It was not until the lights of Harwich were mere pinheads in the distance that we decided to turn 1T1. ~“We shall be half way up the Maas when we wake to-morrow,” he re- marked, wishing me good night. “Good night,” I answered, turning over on my side. I recollect thinking for a few minutes of the jolly holiday before me ; of Mynheer Van der Denn, the wealthy diamond merchant, and his pretty daughter, whom I hoped soon to make my wife; of'skating and sleigh- ing galore in her company at Amster- dam; of the chance of my host being as ready to give his only child to a compar- atively poor young Englishman as he was to invite me to his house; of a dozen other things connected with my visit; and with past days, when the branch in Hatton Garden was being started, and the Van der Denns lived in London. And then, suddenly the roll- ing of the vessel, the throbbing of the engines and the fumes of the string cigar I had smoked on deck must have overpowered me, for the next moment I seemed to hear the gruff voice of the berth steward: “N ow, sir, it’s time to get up, please. I called you some time ago, and thought you were dressed. We’re just outside Rotterdam.” I rubbed my eyes drowsily, and darted up, knocking my head suddenly against the white ceiling of the cabin; and the berth steward, having at length succeeded in rousing me, hurried out to attend to his numerous duties. How on earth had I managed to oversleep myself so shockingly? A glance at the tumbled bcdclothes opposite showed 'me that my companion of the night before was already up. I could feel that the engines were beginning to slow down; while, through the port hole, trees and houses on the bank of the river were to be seen. On the deck above I could hear the shuffl ing of many feet, the excited jabbering of Dutch and English Jews, the guttural tones of Germans, the shouts of the sailors to those on the quay,the plumping down of bags and boxes ready for landing. and boxes ready for landing. ' resist the temptation to lie down again, and began to fish about for my clothes on the berth below me. I was annoyed with myself for losing the early morn- ing trip up the river, and the sight of the snow-covered windmills, the quaint wooden houses, the low marsh lands and the curious little craft that general- ly dot the Maas; I was equally annoyed with my roommate for his kindly con- sideration in not rousing me from my slumbers; and I struggled into my gar- naents rather viciously. And then, sud- denly, it began to dawn upon me that something was wrong. What on earth was I to do? The clothes that I had fished up from below were not the ones that I threw on the berth overnight—they had been changed for others! By mistake or by design—yes, it must have been by de- sign, for no such mistake could possi- bly have been made; the man in the other berth had substituted his clothes for mine. I flew to the electric bell, and rang vigorously for the steward. But by this time he was busy on deck, handing departing passengers their luggage and pocketing tips in return, and no one heard or heeded my summons. It was impossible for me, half clad as I was, to rush up above among the crowd; and as hastily as possible I slipped into the other man’s clothes. I had come off much worse over the bargain, for there was not a sou in the pockets of the sub- stituted garments, while my watch and chain, money and jewelry were all missing. ' When I finally was in a condition to rush up the gangway—I need hardly say without finishing my toilet, for I was in my (or the other man’s) shirt- sleeves—I found that most of the pas- sengers had left the deck, though a‘ small .group of officers were standing on the shore side of the vessel, engaged in earnest consultation. The heads of a couple of Dutch policemen, distin- guished from the others by their curi- low-crowned helmets, towered above the group; and I at once rushed toward them, thanking the lucky chance that had brought'them on the spot. ‘- “Have you got him?” I shouted, ex- citedly, no doubt cutting a curious enough figure in the blue shirt and short trousers that my friend of the night before had been considerate enough to lend me. “It looks rather as if we have,” said one of the ship’s officers, glancing at me with a singular expression that I could not at all understand, in his eyes. “Blue shirt and light trousers—dark mus- tache—-that’s all right, isn’t it, officer ?” he said in Dutch, to‘ one of 'the police- men. , . “But where is. he?" I asked, in sur- pri§e, looking from One to the other. ' cerned in a large diamond robbery, and l , I was compelled to content myself with \ulster of yours, English every inch of “The fellow’s taken practically every- r thing—watch, chain, money, clothes.” “Let’s have a look at the other things,” said one of the policemen, ig- noring my question altog ther, and turning to meet the steward, who was stumbling up the gangway under the weight of the clothes that I had left in the cabin. “Blue shirt, light trousers, dark mustache, astrachan overcoat, soft felt hat,” he muttered, checking off the items with a cablegram he held in his hand. “And he speaks Dutch pretty well, but with a foreign accent. Yes, my friend, I’m afraid we shall have to take charge of you for the present, in spite of your clever little ruse. Just put the rest of your things on, please, and come along quietly.” “But what’s the meaning of all this?” I asked in bewilderment, as the hand- cuffs were clicked on directly I had fin- ished dressing. “A man steals my clothes and my money, and you lock me' up for it, and allow him to escape. Is that the way things are, usually man- aged in Holland?” _ . “You’ll see how thfiigs are managed in Holland where diamond thieves are concerned, quite soon enough, sir,” said the man, curtly, evidently annoyed at my tone. “Any ciplanations or ex- cuses you can give later on; in the meantime, perhaps you will accom- pany us quietly.” “Yes, and in the meantime this gen- tleman is hurrying off as fast as trains can carry him to some out-of-the-way corner of Europe,” I grumbled; but resistance was worse than useless, and, followed by a small crowd of stolid urchins, we made our way along the tree-lined Bompjes to the police station. Here a. short interview with a fiery- faced and fiery-mustached officer told me the nature of my supposed offense, but did not in any way improve my prospects of release. The object of my cabin companion was now quite clear to me, though all my exclamations with regard to the change of clothes were smiled at by the oflicers, who evi- dently thought them very clumsy excuses. I was accused of being eon- was supposed to have been traveling in Amsterdam in order to make use Of my knowledge of precious stones in disposing of the spoils among the “fences” in the Jewish quarter of the town. ‘ . The actual thief was confidential clerk to a large firm of diamond mer- chants in London; his escape with the booty had been noticed a few hours after his departure from town, and full particulars of his clothing and general appearance had been cabled to Rotter- dam, with instructions to detain him on the arrival of the 'boat. But my “friend” had foreseen some difficulty of this kind, and had laid his plans ac- cordingly. Selecting me as a man Of about his own height and appearance, he had man— aged easily enough to change -the clothes in the cabin, the drugged cigar aiding him in his scheme. Clad in my brown ulster and traveling cap, he had passed off the deck with the other pas- sengers wlthout attracting any special attention, and wasprobably in the act of negotiating with Amsterdam traders at the moment of my examination by the officers at the station. The fact that I had no diamonds in my possession at the time Of my arrest meant nothing; they might have been concealed anywhere in the vessel, or even have been thrown overboard. The steward, to whom I appealed for sup- port of my story, could only assert that he had found me asleep, or feigning sleep, while the other passengers were all preparing to land—and, of course, this told against me. There was only one man in Holland who could help me out of my scrape, and at the name of Van der Denn, diamond merchant, Of Amsterdam and flatten Garden, the Officers looked even more suspicious, though they promised that he should be communicated with “in due course.” this, and resigned myself to my fate. I suppose I must have spent four or five hours in confinement, and was be- ginning to wonder whether I was fated to pass the night in like fashion, when the key suddenly turned in the lock, and a warder entered, closely followed by my friend Van ,der Denn. “My dear fellow,” said the Old boy, cffusively, rushing toward me and grip- ‘ping me by the hands, “what an adven- ture to havehad, to be sure! But all’s Well that ends well, and when you have changed your clothes we will start for Amsterdam at once. Chris is getting quite anxious about you. “Why, certainly. We’ve got the clothes and the jewelry, and the dia- monds, and, what’s quite as important, the man himself. It’s the most curious thing I ever knew in my llfe. Christina and I were expecting you hours back, and I was going to the station to see what had become of you, when I sud- denly caught a back view of your coun- terpart~trave1ing cap, and thatbrown it; why, I should know it a mile Off in Holland—hurrying across the dam.. I caught up to him in a moment, and laid my hand heavily on his shouldcr~ and instead of your face, Holt & Mark- son’s confidential clerk turned to meet me, with terror in his eyes. I had the police up in half a minute; the dia- monds and your watch and chain were discovered; he confessed the whole plot; and beyond that there is nothing else' to tell, save that your things are wait- ing for you to slip into them as quick- ly as possible, down below.” I have little more to tell than Man heer Van der Denn had; save that I spent a jolly winter holiday, not in the whitewashed cell; that I asked Chris- tina to be my wife, and met with very little demur from her or from her fa- ther/who seemed to think that my ad- venture deserved some compensation; and, finally, that the handsome wedding present we received from Holt & Mark- son, out of gratitude for the recovery of the diamonds, has made me none the less cautious now of men “in the other bert .”'—Tit-Bits. ‘ ' I,’ SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. ' —Perfumes are now extensively man- ufactured in the United States, and the native articles are said by experts to cempare favorably with foreign manu- factures. ’ —England manufactures perfumes on a very large scale,importing many of the materials from other countries, but also making large use Of home- grown herbs and flowers. —'i\lany woods have sugar and gum in their composition, and the presence of these elements is generally shown by the attraction the wood seems to have for many kinds of insects. ‘ —The wheat yield in the Genesee valley, Idaho, this seasonis immense. W. N. Gibb thrashed 9,000 bushels off of 200 acres, averaging about 45 bushels to the acre. Dan Healy cut and thrashed 14 acres of wheat that went 52 bushels to the acre. ' —-A Missouri rattlesnake at the mu- seum of comparative zoology at Cam- bridge ,has been observed to lose his skin twice a year and to add a rattle for every skin. Instead of losing the rattles as he does the skin, they are re- tained by the closing of the inner end of the old rattle over the knob of the new one, and accidents accepted, the snake bears with him this record of his age. -—The trade in California’sweet wines is showing a gratifying increase. The total estimated product for this year is 3,000,000 gallons, which is 25 per cent. more than was marketed last year. Heretofore there has been little profit in the vintages because of the fierce com- petition of growers, but the producers have now made arrangements with a sweet-wine syndicate which will con- trol the entire product of the state and give all concerned some share in the profit. S '> —In America it has been observed that bees often bore tubular corollas in. order to get at the nectar of flowers, in- stead of entering by the mouth, as humblebees do in EurOpe. In essays on the crossfertilization of flowers, this supposed anomaly has been the subject of much comment. .It now appears that the humblebees of Europe and America have identical habits in regard to the manner in which visits to flowers are made, and that it is the class of insects known as the carpenter bee, or the borer, which works in the outside man- ner indicated. ,3- ——-The question of the influence of the size of seeds upon germination and up- on the size Of the plants that spring therefrom has recently been studied anew by Mr. B. R. Galloway, a summary Of whose conclusions is given by the Gardeners’ Chronicle. The weight and size of the seed are of great importance. A large seed germinates better and more quickly, and with it one can count upon‘ having at the same moment from 85 to 90 per cent. of the total crop,whi1e with small seeds the crop reaches maturity only in successive periods of time, so that at no moment in gathering the crop in toto could we have the same proportion of the whole. Besides, where with small seeds four successive crops are obtained, we have six with large seeds, their evolution occurring with greater rapidity. __ avg THE SIN-EATER. ‘ .4 A Curious Funeral Rite Which Obtained in Wales. The principality of W’ales has within living memory possessed an official known as the “sin-eater.” It was the practice for a relative—usually a wom- an—to put on the breast of a deceased person a quantity Of bread and cheese and beer, and the sin-eater was sent for to consume them and to pronounce the" everlasting rest of the departed. It was believed that in doing this he absolutely ate and appropriated to himself the sins symbolized by the viands, and thereby prevented their disturbing the repose of the sinner who had committed them. Such an arrangement would obviously leave nothing to be desired on the one side, but how it worked on the other we are not told. What was supposed to be the condition of this spiritual under- taker after the ceremony was con- cluded? Did his “appropriation” of the dead man’s sins imply a sort of moral as. similation of them, answering to his physical assimilation of the bread and cheese? The question would obviously be one of some importance to a sin-eater in large practice.’ If the responsibili- ties of his profesion were as great as ties of his profession were as great as hypothesis, he,would need to‘ retire from it early, and to devote a consider- able portion Of. his closing years to re- pentance and good works. Again, it is natural to ask what hap- pened at the decease of a. popular or “fashionable” sin-eater. Would any- one among his professional brethren undertake to eat his sins, even in the first flush of satisfaction produced by stepping into his shoes? If so, then, indeed, has the epithet Of “gallant” been rightly bestowed upon little Wales. It is as though one doctor succeeding to another’s practice should consent to as- sume the moral responsibility for his late colleague’s treatment of all his de. ceased patients, in addition to his own similar burdens. We yield to none in admiration of the quiet and homely heroism of the medi- cal profession, but we doubt whether it would enable them to face such an or- deal as this. As to the Welsh practi- tioners to whom we have compared them, we shrink from pursuing the an- alysis further. It is evident that, as in the schoolboy game of “conquerors,” where a. stone which can smash the smasher, of, say, 43 other stones takes over all its conquests, and becomes it- self a “forty-fourer,” so the responsibil- ities Of these unhappy men might ac- cumulate at an alarming rate.l One hardly daresto contemplate the inter- nal condition of the sin-'eater who had in life attended a long series of other sin- eaters. ‘ The cheese would be almost I r n. E _ Ev E Nine d AZ Err E I WHAT ITMEANS. Norwalk- ls Learning IteLearnlna It Fast—Proof Not Lacking. A Everybody has it. That Tired Feeling. ., Don’t know what it means. Keeps you awake at night. Destroys daily comfort. Wearies the body. Worries the mind. You would shake it Off. ‘ You would be healthful and strong. So you can. . Ityou go at it right. ' First learn what it means. Some say it’s had blood. Others say it’s a lazy liver. ~ They’re all wrong. Tired feeling means tired Kidneys. Just as lame-back means Lame Kid- eye. 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 ‘2 Because N orwalk people say so. Here Is acne in point. Mrs. White wife of A. G. White the better, address No. 47 River street. Mr. White says, “My wife took Dean’s Kidney Pills.” “Took them for backache.” “Found them Just as represented.” “Is much improved.” “Dean’s Kidney Pills did the work.” “Get them at Hale’s drug store.” Dean’s Kidney Pills are for sale by all dealers; price 50 cents, or mailed by Foster-Milburn 00., Buffalo, N. Y., sole agents for the United States. For ItchIng Piles, irritation of the genitals, or Itching in any part of the body, Dean’s Ointment is worth its weight In gold. No matter how long- standing the trouble, Dean’s Ointment Will not fall to give instant relief. AN INNOVATION 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 hence the price. Orders will be received dur- ing the specified time, but har- ness will not be ready for de- livery in two weeks. For specifications and sam- ples, write or call P. H. DWYE R, MANUFACTURER OF paanuss, ' eoernight and Wall Sts., NORWALK. CONN. TERMS CASE. 2. DORLON HOUsE I _ GREGORY'-S POIIN r." NOW OPEN FOR insusoN UP 1896. Shore Dinners, Ilhode Island clan Bake. Bathing, Boating, Fishing. Electric cars to Hotel, every twenty minutes. V JOHN E. ~O’SULLIVAN, Manager. MEEKER COAL 00, con, wooo, BRICK, LIME, OEMENT, TILE PIPE. OFFICE WITH G. WARD SELLEGK WALL STREET. NORW! LK. Piano Lessons, RS. GEORGE W. BBADLEX, (dau hter of the lateWm. R. Nash.) glves 9 cent and satisfactory instructions on the; Piano at her home No. 193 Main street. .ADAMS’ Soap Powder, For Kitchen Use axons ALI. OTHERS. Ask Your Grocer For It. The following Grocers have it on sale: E. J. F mnegan, Mam street; P. J. O’Brien. Cha el stret; M. Abraham. l’lattsyille avenue; rs. Harriet A. Northrop, Umonville‘ A. Stull, EastNorwalk; D. Rosen. South fiorwalk; J. L. June. Winnipauk: N. DrIscoll. Westport. Fairfield Bounty National Bank. 44 Wall Street, N orwalk, Conn. INCORPORATED, 1824. EDWIN O. KEELER, President. DAVID H. MILLER. Vice-President. ' - L. C. GREEN. Cashier DIRECTORS . EDWIN O. KEELEB‘ MOSES H. GLovna DAVID H. MILLER, A. J. MEEKEB, F. Br. J OHN Looxwoon, THEODORE E. SMITH OLE. Cass F. Tmsrmn. Accounts of Manufacturers! Mer h t d Individuals solicited. c an 5 an '5' --—~‘ \ \ SOUTH NORWALK, CONN. A Charming Summer Resort on Long Island Sound. FINE HOTEL! FINE BATNINO NOOSES! GENERAL ATTIIAOTIONS! Every facility for prOviding for large excursions. Roton Point Improvement 00-. OWNERS AND PROPRIETORS, J. FINKENSTEIN, Manager. Towle Vault Light Company, MANUFACTURERS. won Homoooooms : , v. IND/PATENT LIGHT DESIGNS. Factory: 48L :nm’fifis IVE-II"!- converted into Welsh rabbit before he. V , I A I V' i ‘ , . had got it down—London Times. . .511‘32!!.n::n«-: 1!. 4m. . Office: 161 ELI Sum, .74 L m‘mx.‘ BlazOn Capital, $200,000 , Safe Deposit Boxes free to Depoptors.’ sores POINT
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