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‘5. NONE WILL SEE IT AGAIN.
. One Hundred Caribou in a Herd, in the
"— Maine Woods. "
“I was trout fishing early one summer
up in Somerset county, Me.,” said a
New York sportsman. “My camp was
on the shore of one of the many small
lakes that abound in that part of the
State. One evening, just at sunset, ’my
guide came in, all a. quiver with excite-
ment.
“ ‘If you want to see something that
neither you nor any other man will ever
be likely to see again,’ said he, ‘Just
sneak down to the pond with me.’
» “I crept stealthily in his wake down
through the thick timber to the edge
of the lake. It was still light enough
at the upper end of the lake, where we
were camped, and which was not in'the
shadow of the hills, for us to see plainly
a quarter of a mile along the margin of
the water. The guide cautiously parted
the dense growth of young birches that
fringed the edge of the lake on that
side.
“ ‘Look yonder !’ he whispered.
“I looked audmy heart almost jumped
out of my mouth. The sight was al-
most past believing. All along the up-
per shore of the lake, standing belly
deep among the lily pods, iii various at-
titudes of grace and stateliness, the
water was alive with caribou. Magnifi-
cently antlered bulls stamped and
snorted and tossed their kingly heads
among meek-faced cows, while in and
out among them sported a drove of vel-
Vet coated calves. We counted fifty-
seven bulls and cows, and almost every
cow ,had a proprietary interest in at
least one calf. We watched this remark
able congregation of caribou in silence
—the sight being too much for speech
-—until the shadows of the evening be-
gan drawing deeply about them, and
we could have seen them only dimly a
few minutes later. Then my guide
whispered:
“ ‘We’ll pull on ’em just once, any-
how, and see how many we can drop.’
“Selecting each of us a big bull, we
fired. A terrified chorus of snorts fol-
lowed the discharge of the guns. There
was a sound of water in great commo-
tion for a moment, and the next instant
the woods were filled with the crashing
of the flying herd through the thick
brush. My guide and I sent the con-
tents of our second barrels after the
caribou as they rushed in a confused
and thickly bunched mass from the
water. In less time than it takes to. tell
all was as quiet as if nothing had oc-
curred to disturb the solitude of the
great wilderness. In the water, their
huge hulks showing above the broad
mat of lily pads, lay the dead bodies of
the ‘two old bulls we had selected as our
first targets. On the edge of the lake,
one with his head in the water and his
flanks stretched on the shore, and the
other with his antlers lifted high on
land, his hind parts buried among the
lilies, lay two other bulls, the victims
of the two chance shots that followed
the herd in its flight.
" ‘I’ve seen a good many caribou in
my time,’ said the guide—who was Nat
Moore, at that time Maine’s greatest
caribou hunter—‘but the natural his-
tory of Maine never calculated on me
or any one else ever getting in among
such a congregation of ’em as that
was.’ -
Atchison’s Hero.
The real hero of ”as town is a 13-
year-old boy who lives in Price addi-
tion. His mother is dead, and there is
quite a large family of young children,
yet he keeps house for his father" and
takes care of his brothers and sisters, ..
and does it well. He can cook and
wash dishes as well as any girl of his
age intown, and he finds time to raise
a garden, too.
His brothers and sisters are devoted
tohim, and mind him as they would
their mother.—Atchison Globe.
‘tiously ascended the stairs.
Seal]; spelml
It’s brimful of life and snap, bub-
bling and foaming to the last drop,
and has a flavor and body that
pleases the most fastidious palate,
quenching the. greatest thirst. Be-
ing made from the choicest roots
and herbs, it is a tonic for children
or grown folks. Once used always
used; you cannot drink too much
mans a can
nanrrono. com.
ETON 00..
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“ The kind Boss makes his Biscuits with. ”
.3 PURE. STRONG, RELIABLE.
‘ Is the verdict arrived at by
Chemical Analysis of
$05 BAKING
Ecoriomy, Health and Satisfactory
Results attend its‘nse.
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POWDER
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A HALF-DIME NOVELETTE.
Six Chapters in Four Minutes by an
Anonymous Artist.
' ‘ CHAPTER I.
The report of a firearm broke the
midnight stillness. Through the dark-
ness a body could be seen to reel. stag-
ger forward, then fall prostrate upon
the bosom of its mother earth and re-
main motionless. The branches of the
great elms swayed to and fro, and an
"occasional gust of wind caught up the
dead leaves here and there, blowing
them ghost like across the desolate
yard. Except for the rustling of these
wayward little travelers all was silent,
sad and suggestive.
CHAPTER II.
One moment later.
A dark form crept from behind the
rickety old ash barrel, and with a look
of triumph upon his mocking face cast
one look at his still motionless victim,
then stole swiftly toward the house.
Aha! The door was unfastened.
CHAPTER III.
The same moment.
At the report of the gun a woman
who was sleeping in the upper story
sprang from her bed.
She had seen better days.
“John! John!” she cried frantically,
“where are you?”
But John was not there. She rushed
to the window and threw it open. - The
very winds that blew across her fair
white face seemed to tell her that some
thing had happened. The air was per-
vaded; she could feel it; she knew it,
but being a woman not of the New, she
crept back to bed and covered her head.
The heavy atmosphere that now filled
the room nearly choked her.
CHAPTER IV.
Two minutes later.
The man below had now fastened the
door on the inside, and had removed
his shoes. Evidently he was on a pur-
pose bent. The very act of barring the
outer door was evidence that he knew
there was a woman in the house, and
that she was alone and unprotected;
with his weapon still smoking, he can.
There was
evidence in this. It was also evident
that he was familiar with the interior
of the old mansion, for he halted di-
rectly in front of the unsuspecting
woman’s chamber and listened.
“Aha! She still sleeps; it failed to
wake her,” he muttered.
CHAPTER V.
Three minutes later.
But the heroine was not asleep. She
had heard his footsteps on the creaking
stairs, and springing from her bed
again, with courage born anew, she
waited, pale, beautiful, tragic, a pic-
ture rivalling the divine Bernhardt, her
eyes fastened on the floor. A thousand
thoughts rushed through her brain,
but, alas and slack! it was too late
now. The only weapon they had ever
had in the room her husband had taken
with him in hfs strange midnight de-
parture. A hand was on the door-
knob! .
CHAPTER VI.
Four minutes later.
The door swung softly open. The
first thing her eyes beheld was the shin-
ing barrel of a murderous-looking shot-
gun, and then—her husband stood be-
fore her.
“John!” she cried, “what has hap-
pened?” --.«
“Nuthin’ hez happened tew me, but
suthin’ has happened tew thet 01’ black
skunk thet took off so many uv our
chickens night afore last. Did you
hear me shute‘Z”—New York Herald.
Why He Did It.
“Not infrequently,” said a citizen.
“you see the guard on the rear car of a
train .on Fthe elevated railroad walk
back through the car and look out be-
hind. I never understood exactly why
he does this, but I suppose that at night
he looks out to see that the end lights
are burning all night, and in the day
time he looks out to see that everything
else is all right.
“In a car that I wont uptown in the
other day the guard came walking back
in the usual manner, but this time he
didn’t go clear to the end of the car and
look out; he sat down for a moment,
between me and a little girl who sat
in the next to the and seat, the end seat
being occupied by a little boy. The two
had been looking out of the windows,
the boy on his knees in his seat and the
little girl on her feet.
When the guard sat down the little
girl turned at once from her window
and put her arms around his neck, and
the small boy turned‘from his window
and smiled.
“The guard had come back not to
look at the end lights or things in gen-
eral, ,but to take a little look at the
lights of his existence—New York
Sun.
Easy to Make a Knight.
Knightwood is conferred by the Qu son
by simple verbal declaration, attended
by a slight form, but requiring no
tent or other written instrument.
metimes, but seldom. knightwood is
conferred on persons who do not come
into the royal presence, such as gover—
nors of colonies and other persons
abroad in high situations.
The Cat Came Back.
A Lewiston lady owns a large brown
coon cat which has just been sold for
the seventh time for $8. Within a week
after each sale the cat comes back to
the house of the first owner and makes
her appearance at meal time. -
Cleopatra had blue eyes and brown
hair, according to the traces of color re
maining on her statue at. Luxor. She
was a Greek in everything but her birth. .
by that she was Egyptian; so were be:
parents, Ptolemy Auletes and his nu
known wife. She had about as muck
Egyptian blood {as Queen Victoria has
English blood.
AMERICAN WRITERS.
NEW ENGLAND IS NO LONGER THE
GREAT LITERARY CENTER.
In the Forty Years Preceding 1860 Many
Famous Authors Developed, and Bos-
ton Became the Hub of Culture. ms.
Stowe the Last ofa Brilliant Coterle.
Mrs. Hamlet Beecher Stowe was the
last of the noted writers whose work,
done chiefly between 1820 and 1860,
gave New-England its prominence in
American literature. William Cullen
Bryant was the earliest of them, and in
prose» and verse they embraced such
writers of the first class as Longfellow,
Whittier, Lowell, Emerson, Holmes
and Hawthorne, not to mention many
others of undoubted merit.
It is a singular and to some extent
an unaccountable fact that they have
left no successors. To all appearances
New England literature is dead. A
great deal of fine writing is being done
in New England, it is true, and some
of the young Irish singers of the John
Boyle O’Reilly school show undoubted
genius, but Longfellow and Hawthorne
have no successors, and the New Eng—
land of today does not seem capable
of producing them.
MRS. STOWE.
Perhaps the reason is to be found in
Emerson’s theory that the “conquering
eagle” is only to be carried by those
who “bide at home nor look abroad.”
New England before 1860 was a little
world in itself, with a strong individ-
uality which gave support and encour-
agement to every young New Eng-
lander who attempted to do something
for New England’s credit. The New
England of to—day, however, is so
wealthy, so refined, so critical, so cos-
mopolitan, that the bcginner who does
work as rough and crude as Longfel-
low’s first productions would be sup-
pressed at once by ridicule or by a
contemptuous refusal to take notice of
his attempt to do his best.
A single book brought Harriet
Beecher Stowe a fume wider, perhaps,
than that of any other American wom-
an of h- :- time, yet her long life is a
record (.1 activity in many fields, and in
most of them her labors have been im~
pou'tant. She came of a distinguished
and talented family. Her father was
the Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher, and
Henry Ward Beecher was her brother.
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is said to have
had a larger sale than any other book
ever printed, with the single exception
of the Bible. ;
The book was publish—e'd on’Mfiéh'zo,
1852. Ten thousand copies were sold
in a few days, and over 300,000 copies,
it is said, were in circulation within a
year. Its extraordinary moral and po-
litical effect is now a commonplace of
history. A thrill of horror and indig-
nation nan through the North, and the
rage of the slavehold-ers flared out in
their effort to keep the story out of the
mails in the South. It had done what
years of agitation had failed to do in
bringing home to the indifferent masses
at the North the true meaning of the
Southern slave system. No account of
the causes that led to the outbreak of
the Rebellion and the quick response
the North made to the first gun fired
on Sumter can be complete in which
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” does not have an
Important place.
In England, too, the book had an
enormous sale and a marked political
effect. Within a year after its first
appearance eighteen London publish-
ing houses had taken it up, and forty
editions lrad appeared. Translations
were made, sooner or later, into nearly
twenty languages. Among these were
the Bohemian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish,
Flemish, Magyar, Polish, Portuguese,
Spanish, Modern Greek, Russian, Ser-
vian, Siamese, Swedish, Wallachian
and Welsh. In French and German
several distinct versions were pub-
lished. In this country the book has
bad a steady sale for over thirty years.
The story was put on the stage, too, in
over twenty different forms, and has
been played times almost without
number. Unhappily, the author had
no royalty from any one of these dra-
matized forms, and got no income
whatever from them.
Exercise for All.
“What do you think of the bicycle
craze?"
“Great thing! I never took so much
good exercise before in all my life.”
“Why, I didn’t know you were rid—
ing.”
“I’m not, but I have to cross the
street once in a while.”
How It Tired am.
“Don’t you get awfully tired doing
nothing all the time?” asked the young
man who thought himself interested in
sociology. '
“Mister,” answered Perry Pattetic,
“I get so tired doing nothin’ that I can’t
do nothin’ else.”
om...
Dr. Prayery—“Search the history of
the whole world, and you will find no-
.vhere else so inspiring an example of
bold, fearless
with gentle godliness as you find in St.
Paul." ‘
lu'inneapolis (picking up his hat)—
~'l‘hut~—tliat’s just a little more than l
r.. sir under."—~l‘uck. » -
enterprise combined
Your Boy Wont Live aMonth.
So Mr. Gilmau Brown, of 34 Mill St.,
South Gardnrr, Mass., was told by the
doctors. His son had Lung trouble, fol-
lowing Typhoid Malaria, and he spent
three hun red and seventy-five dollars
with doctors, who finally gave him up,
saying: “Your boy wont live a mouth.”
He tried Dr. King’s New Discovery and
a few bottles restored him to health and
enabled him to go to work a perfectly
well man. He says he owes his present
good health to the use of Dr. King’s New
Discovery, and knows it to be the best
in the world for Lung trouble. Trial
bottles free at E. P. WEED’S drug store,
Norwalk, and Monuon’s, New Canaan.
The New Haven City Council last
night orderedpasphalt to be put on its
streets. Of course they mean asphalt
that is asphalt.
Free Eu 8.
Seldxyour address to H. E. Buckleu &
Co.. Chicago, and get a free sample box
of Dr. King’s New Life Pills. A trial
will convince you of their merits. These
pills are easy in action and are particu-
larly effective in the cure of Constipation
and Sick Headache. For Malaria and
Liver troubles they have been proved in-
valuable. They are guaranteed to be‘
perfectly free from every deleterious
substance and to be purely vegetoble.
They do not weaken by their action, but
by giving tone to tomach and bowels
greatly invigorate the System. Regular
size 25c. per box. Sold by E. P. WEED’S
drug stun, N orwalk, and MONROE's, New
Canaan.
Telex-Lone Superintendent Morris, is
so encrossed in improv no the Nor walk
telephone service that he could not so
to Willlmuntic.
Relief in Six Hours. _
Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis-
eases relieved in siz hours by the “New
GREAT SOUTH AMERICAN KIDNEY
CURE”. This new remedy is a great sur-
prise on account of its exceeding prompt,
ness in relieving pain in the bladder
kidneys, back and every part of the urin-
ary passages in male or female. It re-
lieves retention of water and pain in pass—
ing it almost immediately. If you want
quick relief and cure this is your remedy.
Sold by E. P. \Veed, Druggist. Norwalk,
Conn.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Brower of
Westport avenue are expected home to-
morrow from their visit to McKinley’s
state.
Mother-’8 Delight With Hand’s Colic Cure
HAVERHILL, Mass, 11-30-‘95.—Haud
M ediciue 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 everthiug 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.
.~ Capt. A. J. Wilcoxson is in receipt of
a very complimentary letter from Col.
Frost, dated at Paris.
Try Allen-‘3 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 corus
and buuious of all pain and gives rest and
comfort. Try. it to-day. Sold by all
druggists and shoe stores for 25c. Sent
by mail for 25c in stamps. Address,
Allen S. Olmstead, Le Roy, N. Y.
Joseph Leeds was arrested by Chief
Bradley this morning. The charge
preferred against him is insanity. He
will be given a hearing this afternoon.
snake Into I‘our Shoes
Allen‘s Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet.
It cures painful swelliugs of the joints
and instantly takes the sting out of corus
and bun‘ious. It’s the greatest comfort
discovery of the age. Allen’s Foot-Ease
makes tight-fitting or new shees feel
easy, It IS a certain cure for sweating,
callous and hot, tire/l, aching feet. Try
it to-day. Sold ‘03. all druggists and shoe
stores, 25c. Trial package free. Ad-
dress, Alleu S. Olmstead Le Roy, N. Y.
Cleveland (Ohio) rioters blew up with
dynamite the house of a grocer who
had refused them credit.
lilothr'r’s Find Nothi—ng to Equal Dr. Hand 8
Colic Cure. '
\VATERBURY Conn., 4«2-’96—Hand
Medicine Co:—Dear Sirsz—“I am using
Dr. Hand’s Cough and Croup Medicine
and Colic Cure for my children and find
nothing to equal them. They work
like magic. I would not be without
them in my house. The little ones love
Dr. Hand’s Colic Cure and cry for it ; it
relieves them almost instantly. Mrs.
Frank Smith, 22- Wood St. At all drug-
gists, 25. I
Captain Daun accompanied George
Toohill to Middletown to-day. George
has been adjudged as being 720720077210
mantis.
Bucklln’s Arnlca Salve.
The Best'Salvein the world for Cute
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers. Salt Rheum
Fever Sores ’I‘etter, Chopped Hands
Ohilblains, Corns and "an Skin, Erup
tions, and positivelycures Piles. or .no
Payrequired. It is guaranteed to give
perfectsatisfaotion,or money refunded
Prire25 cents per box. Fnr Sale by
E.P. Weed, Norwalk and Monroe, New
Canaan.
Bright little Josie Monohan and his
s’ster Annie of Jamesburg, N. J., are
visiting their aunt Mrs. M. Ratehford
of Winnipauk. ‘_
The Best Remedy for Bowel Come
plaints.
It gives me pleasure to most .heartil
recommend Chamberlain’s Medicines.
advertised them for a long time before I had
occasion to use them in my own family. At
the time referred to, the patient was sufi‘er-
ing terribly from cramps, yomitmg and
purgeing. was delighted with the prompt
relief afforded by Chamberlain’s Coho, Chol-
era and Diarrhoea Remedy-A. M. Evan-
LAN‘D, Editor and Proprietor of the Weekly
Globe, Mendon, Mich. For sale by E. P.
l Weed, Druggist.
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