Stick to -
In Welcome.
New England housekeep-
ers are too wide awake to. be "
fooled into buying inferior
soap more than once, just
because there is a present
given with it.
On washing-day they vant
only the best soap; next day
they buy their own present.
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SARATOGA !'
' Genuine Saratoga Water in
block-tin lined barrels direct
from the celebrated Spring, is
for sale on draught at Had-
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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 Glass.
House-cleaning.
Lustrine.
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Round, Sirloin and Por-
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Nor-walk. Conn. Stylish
Single or Double Team
with or without drivers:
Safe horses‘, for women
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THE EVENING GAZETTE.
SA SACRED BANNER.
The Flag Which Inspired the
National Anthem.
It Waved Over Fort M'Henry When the
British Fleet Assailed 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 Star
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
McHenry at the time of its successful
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
foptress 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, 001. George Armistead was
born in Newmarket, Carolina county,
Va., on April 10, 1780. He was one of
five brothers, all of 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
burgesses and of the council of states.
On his mother’s side Armistead “’21:;
was with Washington at W'inchoster.
Col. George Armistead was distin-
guished for his gallantry at t‘ne 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 com—
manding officer had gained his epau-
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 m0ved 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. I At daybreak
next morning—the 13th—the bombs
having taken their stations within
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 eu-
emy might press against him the
charge of disobedience to his superior
officer, 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
bright as 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 allarge piece out of one corner,
as if out. This, I believe, {cally 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 bé
of national-.interest.-—~N. Y. Herald
SADDLE HORSES A spsclALT-v ‘
PEASANTS STILL FLOGGED.
Tolstol DenOunces,with Vigor a Planv'for
Only Partial Reform. ’ '
Count Tolstoi, in a characteristic let-
ter to, the Bourse Gazette, gives his
considerable agitation of mind at pres-
ent in many circles of Russian official
and private life—namely, that of the
abolition, in whole or in part, of the
punishment of flogging in its various
forms.
The provincial zemst-vos of a large
number of prOvinces, as well as several
highly placed officials in Asiatic Rus-
sia, have formally decided to petition
for the exemption from this degrading
penalty of all peasants who have
learned to read and write. Count Tol-
stoi, with the ard-or natural to the
artistic temperament, cries “Shame!”
upon their niggard asking, and, in an
article headed with" that word, very
broadly hints that, while the peasant,
for the last'three—quarters of a. cen—
tury, has been steadily advancing, his
masters have in some respects failed to
keep their place in the van of the march
toward civilization.
Count Tolstoi is a foremost authority
on the life of the peasant, and the spec-
imens he gives in this article .of the
abuse of the power of flogging by the
small fry of Officialdom are certainly
striking. These insignifié’ant members
of the lower governing ranks have no
uniform, but, when engaged on official
duties, wear some’kind of outward and
visible sign of authority, generally a
large medal. For “speaking his mind”
to one of these village_“eldens” who
happened to have the .signpf office on
at the time, a fellow villager was duly
flogged, although his only fault ap-
pears to have been that he overlooked
the medal which converted an ordinary
neighborly difference of opinion into
an insult to the czar! The poor fellow,
‘Tolstoi relates, consoled himself with
the remark that “Christ suffered
descended from Col. John Taylor, who.
stripes, and bade us suffer, too.”
There are, however, many in Russia
who think that the moujik is still suf-
ficiently brutal to make the entire
abolition of flogging a measure of mis-
taken humanity, and Tolstoi’s cry of
“Shame” upon the moderate reform
proposed by certain zemstvos will,
doubtless, be met by the not unnatural
reply that Tolstoi is before all a lit..-
erary artist, with all the artist’s native
scorn for practical measures which fall
short of the ideal aimed at. The par-
tial exemption from flogging which
practical men desire would certainly
prove a very powerful stimulus toward
popular education, even as compulsory
service in the army keeps the Russian
universities filled to overflowing with
men who, in a large number of cases,
would do the state better service in
other ways than by learning discontent
in a. sphere unfitted to their natural
capacities or station in life—London.
Standard. .
ATH LETICS AT ATH ENS.
The Great International Contests That
“Till Take Place in April.
The principal part of the festival
will be at the ancient stadium on the
Atheniari plain near the city. Here
were once celebrated the games of At-
tica and her allies. A wild waste for
many centuries, it was excavated a
few years ago by King George of
Greece. N ow it has been restored in de-
tail for this occasion by the generosity
of Georgius Averoif, a rich Greek of
Alexandria, Egypt, at an expense of
600,000 francs, so it will appear in its
old splendor of white marble. The
amphitheater seats from 50,000 to 70,000
spectators and incloses a course 670
feet in length by 109 feet in breadth.
giving a level area of 8,100 square yards
for the gymnastic and field sports,
with a. broad foot-race track as well.
One of the most interesting features
of the games will be the long-distance
race of 20 miles, from Marat-hon to
Athens, in memory of the brave courier
who died of exhaust-ion after he had
brought tidings of Miltiades’ great vic-
tory over Darius. To the victor, M.
Victor Breal, of the French institute,
has offered the prize: of a silver am?
phora or wine vessel. The general
prize of each contest is a silver olive
wreath, to commemorate the simple
wreath of wild olive that in ancient
times was the only token of victory.
In addition to the athletic games and
field sports it is proposed also to rep-
resent an ancient drama in some well-
proserved classic Greek theater. The
dances of to-day, believed by many
scholars to be relics Of the classic age,
will be rendered by peasant. dancers in
costume, and various musical societies
will furnish the music for the festival.
For the inauguration the date of
April 6 has been selected, as it is t. e
75th anniversary of Greek independ-
ence. The middle month of spring.
too, is the most delightful in the Greek
year—much like the American June.
The Athenians have completed exten-
sive preparations for making the mod-
ern revival wOrthy of the ancient fame
of the Olympic games and for the en-
tertainment of visitors. It is pleasant
to note‘that the first to send a contri—
bution 'to the festival committee was
Mr. Alexander, the United States min-
ister. to Greece, who is known to be
an enthusiast in Hellenic studies—G.
T. Ferris, in St. Nicholas. '
Living for Self Alone.
The man who lives to himself be-
queaths his own folly and poverty and
meanness for his monument. He has
benefited nobody, while he has dWarfed
and wamed his own powers, and
senseless stone or marble, however lav-
ishly supplied to mark his resting
place, does him no honor. He has lived
in himself, he has died in himself, and
all that he leaves in memory of himself
Speaks no word of praise in his behalf,
no word. of justification. This is no
true life. It is the worst of failures.
There tire glorious opportunities in
this world for service. He who wisely
uses them enriches both his race and
himself, and dying leaves a monument
which outlasts granite and is brighter
than polished brass—Detroit Free
,_ Press.
views on a question which is causing '
The New Experience of an Amer-
ican Traveler Abroad
Ho Actually Runs Across a Man In 3
Barber Shop Who |Wllllngly Yields
His “Next" Privilege to
Another.
A New Yorker who recently returned
to the city after a foreign tour says that
he enjoyed one experience while abroad
the like of which he never before heard
of, says the Sun of that city. “During
my life in New York, for forty years,”
he said, “I have met. plenty of nice
‘ people and seen more acts of courtesy
and deeds of kindness than would fill a
book. I have known of a skinflint giv-
ing money to the needy, and of a pas«
senger invan elevated car resigning his
seat to a woman, and of a Wall Street
man with Christian symptoms, and of
a smoker handing his lighted cigar
right end foremost to a stranger who
asked a light, and of a human being
who always had a. match when anybody
needed one, and of a woman who would
dots on the beauty of another without
jealousy, and of an entertainer who
would cut for his guest abetter piece of
porterhouse steak than he kept fOr him-
self, and even of a curmudgeon who
would, upon occasion, give proof that
there was a streak of virtue in him. All
such things one can safely expect at
times in the world.
“But, though I have been a customer
at barbers’ shops in New York for
twenty years, I never saw and never
heard of a case in which a man who,
when it came his turn to get in the
cried ‘N ext!’ would resign his place to
any other man in waiting. He will
stick up for his rights there against the
world. I have seen many aquarrel,
and two or three fights, between men
waiting to get shaved, when there was
a crowd, as to which one came in first.
I was angry myself one day when a
fellow who had been getting his boots
blacked in the rear of the barber shop,
and whom Ihad not seen, stepped up
to a chair which I was about to take,
and said he had come in before me. No
, matter if another man is in a hurry, or
X if he must catch a train, or if his wife
is anxious about him because he is, too
late for dinner, you won’t give up your
turn in the barber’s chair on his ac-
count. There is one of his rights a
man will stand up for, and you can see
‘ it at the barber’s.
l “WhenI went abroad I found the
same thing in England and France. In
London once I asked a barber if he
could not put me ahead, and he
answeredsharply that he would not
do it for the bank of England. The
Parisians are polite everywhere ex-
cept in the barber’s shop when their
turn comes, and you would have to
fight a duel if you asked one of them
to let you get shaved before him be-
cause your soup was growing cold.
“It was in my programme, after see-
ing the French and English, to take a
trip through the highlands of Scotland.
I saw plenty of historic spots as I made
my way far up on the Grampian hills,
where the frugal swains feed their
flocks, and further yet, where the fish-
ermen breast the waves; but I would
give them all away for an experience I
had whenI reached an ancient town
beyond the Grampians one Saturday
afternoon. At the inn I asked for a
barber, as I wanted to go to church the
next day, and must be shaved. then
1- got to the barber’s place his only
chair was filled, and four or five cus‘
tomers were waiting their turn. In a
few moments the chair was emptied,
and I expected that one of the men
would spring ,into it. Not a man
moved. The barber looked at me,
smiled, and told me he was ready for
me. I said to him in a. low voice that
several others had been there before
me. ‘I dinna mind that,’ he replied.
‘You’re a stranger up here, maybe an
American, and the stranger always
comes first wi’ us.’ I glanced at the
other men as if to apologize or to se-
'cure their assent. ‘Aye,’ said one of
them, ‘the stranger must always be
first here; we can wait.’ I took the
chair with thanks, and the price of a
shave was two-pence.
“The seven wonders of the world, all
put together, and with the addition of
Cleopatra’s Needle in the Central park,
would not have impressed me as deeply
as I was impressed by this romantic in-
cident, never before paralleled in my
experience. I have traveled from Bos-
ton to Chicago, from Cripple Creek to
New Orleans, without ever hearing of
a thing of the kind.
“I do not. suppose that many Amer-
icans possess sufficient brain power to
believe in the literal truth of this inci-
dent; yet, for all that, it is true as the
Grampian hills of the highlands of Scot-
land, where it occurred. I have told
the story to two or three Scotchmen
since I came back to New York, but
they did not think there was anything
curious or sensational about it.”
She Knew Them.
At a teachers’ association in lvlcwark
the other day a class Of small children
were giving an exercise in phonics.
The teacher had received correct an-
swers to descriptions she had given
them of trees, wood, etc., and then
thought .she would describe a brook.
“What do you find running through the
woods, moving silently on the ground,
with but little noise?” she asked. For
along time the little ones were quiet,
and then a little hand was raised.
“Well, Bessie, what is the answer?”
the teacher questioned. smilingly.
“Tramps,” piped out the little one.
Ballad Up.
Lawyers are not more free than other
public speakers from slips of the
tongue. Mr. Asquith, of the English
cabinet, in-a recent speech in parlia-
ment, said: “Let it be known, gentle-
men, that of those just demands we
abate not one jit or tottle!” A few
days later an English=judge, after a
policeman had testified that -.he had
found the prisoners in bed with their
clothes on, asked, in amazement: “Do
.you mean to say that they had gone to
boot with their-beds on?”
lsonnrnnvo WONDERFUL.
chair for a shave, and when the barber .
WHAT IT'MEANS.
I
Norwalk ls Learning It—Learrii'nsr It
Fast—Proof Not Lacking. - '
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.
80 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 wrongr
Tired feeling means tired Kidneys.
Just as lame back means Lame Kid-
neys.
And backache means kidney
How do we know it?
Because Dean’s Kidney Pills cure it.
And they are for kidneys only.
How can we prove it ?
Because N orwalk 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 Doan’s
Kidney Pills.” ,
“I‘ook them for backache.”
“Found them just as represented.”
“Is much improved. ’_’
“Dean’s Kidney Pills did the work.”
“Got them at Hale’s drug store.”
‘ Doan's Kidney Pills are for sale by all
dealers; price 50 cents, or mailed by
Foser— 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, Doan’s Ointment is worth its
weight 111 gold. No matter how long-
standing the trouble, Doan’s Ointment
Will not fail to give instant relIef.
The Saddle
Question.
( This is an illustration
ache.‘
of the old style saddle.
If you will observe it
carefully you will note
that it fits like a glove
(and a‘ saddle should
not). It presses the sen-
sitive parts, causes sore-
ness, stiffness and chaf-
ing, and has made cycl-
ing to a. certain extent
injurious, because few
could enjoy a long ride
without fear of injury.
All this is now changed. Here is repre-
sented the perfect saddle—the Christy
Anatomical Saddlefir . _ .9
IL . - *gthepelvisasit fa“ ,
lists on the pads. The \
Christy Anatomical
Saddle is the only
saddle that is , built
right. Made of metal,
of light weight, cannot
Iz'arp or change its
shape, ,has pads that ,
r s: the entire body, e:
Shows pelvis as it
rests on the or
dinary saddle.
A,
v
5-. (:3 not press the sen- Shows pelvis as it rests
sizive parts, prevents 0n tgeéglhnsty
stiffness, and makes a e'
cycling a pleasure.
Price, $5.00
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Stores and Families Supplied.
Lowest Rates.
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DORLON House
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GREGORY’S PM I".
New OPEN FOR he SEASON ed 1896.
10
Shore Dinners,
Ilhode Island Glam Bake.
Bathing, Boating, Fishing.
Electric cars to Hotel, every twenty
minutes.
JOHN E. O’SULLIVAN,
Manager.
MEEKER (XML 00,
eon, ween, BRICK,
LIME, CEMENT, IILE PIPE. '
OFFICE WITH e. WARD SELLEGK.
WALL STREET. NOBWA LK.
Piano Lessons.
RS. GEORGE W. BRADLEY. (dau hter
of the lateWm. R. Nash.) gives e cent
and satisfactory instructions on the; Piano at
her home No. 193 Main street.
* ADAMS’
B l a Z On
Soap. Powder,
For Kitchen Use
EXGELS ALL OTHERS.
Ask Your Grocer For It.
The following Grocers have it on sale: E. J .'
Finnegan, Mam street; P. , O’Brien, Cha el
stret; M. Abraham. Plattsyille avenue; rs.
Harnet A. Northrop. Umonville' A. StullL
East Norwalk; D. Rosen. South Norwalk; J.
L. June. Wmmpauk: N. Driscoll. Westp’ort.
FaiIIield Bounty National Bank.
44 Wall Street, N orwalk, Conn.
INCORPORATED. 1924. Capital, $200,000
EDWIN 0. KEELER President.
DAVID E. MILLER. Vice-President.
L. C. GREEN. Cashier
DIRECTORS .
EDWIN O. KEELER‘ Mosns H. GLOVEB
DAVID H._M1LLEB, A.'J. MEEKER, 4
F. ST. JOHN Locxwoon, THEODORE E. SMITH
Ina LE, Ones F. TBIS'IBAM.
Accounts of Manufacture ’ M 1
Individuals solicited. r8 ”Chants and
Safe Deposit Boxes free to Dep0sitors.
ROTON . POINT
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SOU TH NORWALK, CONN.
A Charming Summer Resort on Long Island Sound.
FINE HOTEL!
' FINE BATHING HOUSES!
GENERAL ATTHAGTIONSI
Every facility for providing for large excursions.
Roton Point Improvement Co.
OWNERS AND PROPRIETORS,
J. FINKENSTEIN, Manager.
Towle Vault Light Company.
VAULT LISTS. SKvueHIs ,
AND PATENT LIGHT DESIGNS. .
. Factory: ,
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new rear. . '
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