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SECURED HIS RIGETS.
now a Drummer Overcome Several Bail.
,road Men.» -
Because he carried a hundred pounds
of baggage in excess of the amount al-
lowed to one passenger, a commercial
traveler had ‘ an amusing experience
which is described by the Bangor Com-
mercial. The baggage master at a cer-
tain small town told him he mustlpay 75 .
cents to have his extra trunk taken to
the next station.
The drummer knew this was just 50
cents too much, but there was no time
to argue. He asked the fare to the next
station. It was 30 cents. He bought a
ticket. [Then he presented his two
tickets, and the baggage master not
very willingly, checked both of the
trunks.
While this was being done. the drum-
‘ mer asked if there was any one in the
crowd who was going to the next sta-
tion. If so he added, a ticket could be
bought at a discount. He succeeded in
selling his extta ticket for twenty
cents.
This made the baggage master furi-
ous, and when the train came in he in-
formed the conductor that he had ex-
cess baggage and only one ticket. The
conductor then took up the matter;
but the drummer told him that one
ticket was good for one fare and two
checks were good for two trunks, and
he would not pay an excess rate.
On their arrival at Blank station, the
conductor warned the station agent to
see that excess was collected. The
drummer replied that unless those
trunks were delivered to him before the
train started, he would remain on board
go to headquarters and report the case.
He got the trunks.
All She Wanted.
A Scotch woman was returning by
train from a market town, where she
made a few purchases. Just as the
lastbell rang a fussy gentleman. ele-
gantly dressed, and with a “mind thy-
self” looking face, rushed into the com-
partment, flung himself hastily into a
corner, pulled out a paper, and pro-
ceeded to devour its contents. Hardly
had he become seated when the woman
timidly addressed him:
“I am very sorry, sir, but——
"I never listen to beggars,” fiercely
interrupted, the gentleman. _“If you
annby me further, I’ll report you.”
- The woman’s eyes flashed, then
She said no more, and the
old gentleman retired with an angry
iron-cu behind his paper.
All went merrily as a marriage bell
until the train arrived at Cromlade,
when the “auld wife” in stepping out
again addressed the churlish individual
in the corner:
"1 care na, sir, whether ye report me
or no, but I want that pound of butter
ye’ve been sittin’ on for these last six
mile.”-—-Cincinnati Enquirer.
On Being Critical.
It is one of the -maxims of the “well
meaning person” that you should not be
too critical. But well meaning persons
scatter their advice recklessly out of the
fulness of a soft heart untempered by
the wisdom of a hard head. True, they
have a habit of hedging their philoso-
phy by a free use of the adverb “too"
before the qualitive adjectives they
condemn; but that is only for an exit
in case of emergency, as it were. As
we cannot roundly condemn these kind-
ly people, we express our opinion of
them by calling them “well meaning
persons,” who have a habit of confusing
ideas and are not usually quite happy
in the choice of words to express what
they intend. When they say, “Don’t be
too critical,” they mean, “Don’t be per-
petually finding fault in a peevish
spirit.” But when the teacher or
preacher goes astray in his definition, it
is not always the fault of his hearers if
his doctrine is misunderstood.
If not. you have missed half the fun of
hole thirsty.
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and 15 good.
“Our folks have tried every sort of so-
called root-beer extract, and have found
that Williams' is the most satisfying and
healthful tern cc drink on the mar-
ket.” Why punish our stomach with
inferior articles ? t costs but a trifle
to have
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Is the verdict arrived at by
Chemical Analysis of
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Economy, Health and Satisfactory
Results attend its use.
Ianuncrunrn BY ’9
New London, Conn.
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A PEACEFULWOWN.
Butit‘wu Well to Keep Out of the Bench
ofits Shooters. .
As I sat on the veranda of the-‘villig-e'
tavern and looked about me I thought
it one of the most peaceful towns I ever
saw, and said as much to the Justice of
the Peace who occupied a chair beside
me.
“Yes, purty peaceful, but—” he re-
plied as his right hand fwent slowly
back to his pistol pocket.
“But what,” I asked.
“But you don’t want to mix in when
it comes off. Yo’r best way will be to
go through that dodr and up stair, and
don’t come down as long as yo’ hear any
shootin’.”
“But, I don’t understand you, Judge.
“Is there to be any shooting around
here?"
“Sartin’ to be I”
“But what about?”
“Wall, he drawled, as he pointed,
down the street, "d’ye see that onery
hawg wallerin’ in the mud down
thar?” '
“Yes, I see a hog.”
“He belongs to Sam Batterson, the
cooper, and Sam feels mighty tender
«towards that hawg since his wife died.
Now, then, d’ye see that pesky dawg up
the street by that shade tree?”
“Yes, I see him.”
“He belongs to Joe Stivers, the bar-
ne- maker, and he thinks so much of
him that he makes his children sleep on
thefloh ithat thé dawg may havea
feather bed all to hisself. In about five
minutes that pesky dawg will sight
that onerv hawg and thar’ll be a big
row.’ ,
‘-“The dog will pitch into the hog, you
mean?”
“Sartin’ to.”
“And then—”
“And then Sam Batterson will pitch
inter the dawg, and Joe Stivers will
pitch into Sam Botterson, and the fust
thing yo’ know the hull town will be
pitchin’ inter each other. As I said
befor', yo’ had better keep yo'r eyes
on that doah onless yo’ want to mix
in.” '
“But Judge, why should a little
scrap between a hog and a dog lead to
"Thar goes that pesky dawg!” be ex-
claimed, as he sprang up and started
down the steps, drawing his pistol as he
went. ,
I made for the door and the stairway
and reached my room. The shooting
opened lively, and was well sustained
for, about ten minutes. When it ap-
peared to be over I descended to the
veranda. The Judge was just coming
up the steps from the street. He had
his hat in his hand and there was blood
on his check where a bullet had grazed
"Wall, it‘s all over till next time 1” he
remarked as he sat down and examined
his pistol to see how many cartridges
were left in the cylinder.
"Anybody killed?” I asked.
“One or two, I reckon, and three or
four hurt, but it don’t begin to be as
lively as usual. The pesky dawg was
shot, however, and now Joe Stivers
will be layin’ fur Sam Batterson every
day in the year, and thar’ll be no end
of public enthoosiasml”—Detroit Free
Press.
Cuba’s Fair Amazons.
The women of Cuba have always had
the reputation for being beautiful, but
th‘m is true only in a modified way. Out-
side of Cuba they would not be consid-
ered handsome according to American
standards; but in her own fair home,
where the tropical setting necessary t
make the picture perfect is a;
most ideal, the Cuban lady is bewitch-
ingly charming.
She is a product of her own tropical
island. and one must see her with her
natural surroundings to appreciate her
grace of form and features. She has an
exquisitely moulded form, which is
always set off to the best possible ad-
vantage by the thin, gauzy garments
that cling in graceful folds from her
shoulders and waist.
Her face and features are small and
regular, with a full red pair of lips,
mall mouth, rounded cheeks and small
white, even teeth; her hair is always
black and abundant, waving in tangled
masses down her shoulders, and her
eyes, Oriental in shape and splendor,
are always expressive, glowing and
sparkling when animated, and soften
ing into tender, bewitching smiles when
pleased.
Detected.
“Lady,” he said, “I’mfin hard luck.
I’ve been misled by the signs of the
times, an’ I’m compelled to weaken an’
ask fur assistance.
“Have you ever tried working?”
"Yes’m. The trouble is that I went
at it too systemetic. The spirit of the
age is fur a man ter qualify himself fur
some particular line of efulness. Ver-
satility hez wrecked so e of the best of
us.”
“I have heard so.”
“Well, lady, I took up snow shovel-
ling as a profession, an’ I studied it an’
practiced it. an’ got so I knowed all the
fine points of it. An’ here I am in the
middle of a warm wave with my occu-
pation gone.”
A steely glitter came into the lady's
eyes.
““1 .know you now. You were here
last winter.”
» “Was I?” -
“Yes. And you told the same story,
only that you said you were a profes-
sional grass cutter.” — Washington
Star.
The Color Was Uncertain.
“My wife was to meet me here at‘
this hour. Have you seen anything of'
her?" ' ‘
"Is she a small woman with golden
hair?” ' ,
“She is a small woman, but I don’t
know about the hair. She wasn‘t up
when Ileft home‘this morning, and 1
don’t know what hair she is wearing
to-day.”—Pittsburg Chronicle lune.-
mph.
THE DERBY WINNER. '
The Prince of Wales Owns Persimmon the
, “’inner of 1896.
The leaven of romance which lends so
muchglamour to the sport» of horse-ra-
cing has rarely shown itself to such an
extent as the recent race for the Eng-
lish derby. Even non-believers in roy-
alty were moved to unwanted enthusi-
asm by the result, and the scene at the
historic Epsom Downs when Persim-
mons carried the royal colors of Eng.
land’s heir apparent first past the post
was one which will be talked of for
generations. The result was hailed as
the triumph of a good sportsmen pluck-
ily [persisting after nineteen years of
almost unbroken bad luck. That he
happened to be the Prince of Wales
T
made little difference to the majority of
the multitude that saw the classic race.
A good colt, well bred, well ridden and
well backed, had . won the “blue rib
bon,” and the plaudits would probably
have been just as hearty and vociferous
if the winner belonged to a plain civili-
an instead of to "the first gentleman in
Europe.”
The race for the classic Derby always
commands the attention of the racing
world, but the latest struggle was an
unexceptionable event in many respects.
It marked the defeat of St. Frusquin,
one of ’ the hottest favorites that ever
went to the post for the three-year-old
championship, and it attained double
significance as representing the first
Derby captured by royalty for over one
hundred years.
CI-IINA’S NEW SECT.
A Religion Which Is Making \‘Vonderfu!
Progress in Eastern China.
A queer sect has lately sprung up in.
the Loo-Choo-Fin district, in Eastern
China. In order to intimzzlate their
followers into eating meat or not eating
according to the sex), they teach that
meat eating women will be trans-
formed into men in the lifetocome,
and that their children which die be
fore reaching maturity will go to heaven
or hades, as the case may be, as creatr
urea in which the sexes will‘be com-
bined, '
The penalty for the men is just the
opposite. Vegetable eating males can
only gain admission to paradise upon
proving l...zt they have done somevalor-
ous deed. and even then they cannot
pass the pearly gates without being
instantly u'ansformed into woman. The
natural conclusion one arrives at after
reading the tenets of this queer sect is
that unless a vegetable eating man can
prove that he is an earthly herqhe
will not be admitted at all, even as a
woman. This peculiar people are known
as the Wung-Foo-Cheti-Sen, and are
said to be making wonderful progress
wherever they go.
THE AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS.
Wonderful Success of Ballington Booth’s
New Religious - Movement.
There are some who may not approve
of the methods of the Salvation Army, ,
nor of those employed by the new or-
ganization, but however that may be.
it is not exaggeration to state that no
religious movement was ever started in
this country which acquired followers
and gained in strength so rapidly as the
American Volunteers.
It is now only a few months since
Commander and Mrs. Booth began
their campaign for the evangelization
of America under the banner of their
new organization. Yet what they have
accomplished thus far is almost a cer-
tain guarantee of success for the future.
After all the strife and contention that
followed the expulsion or resignation of
BALLINGTON BOOTH.
the American Booths from the old or-
ganization, it could not be possible for
them to carry on a. similar work in this
country without being assailed or criti-
cized by those who held to the old or-
ganization. The Volunteers had ene-
mies, _ they have some now, but the
organization is rapidly overcoming even
its bitterest critics. In the ranks and
among the officers of the Salvation
Army there were many who did every-
thing they could to discredit the Vol
unteers in the eyes of the American
public. Such efforts had little eflicct 0;.
those who had consecrated themselve.
to the work of winning America for
Christ under Ballington Booth’s leader-
ship. Neither the Booths nor their
followers wasted time in recrimination,
but went quietly on with their work.
Look out for your habits. _ They are
simply cartilaginous at first, and you
bend them at will. After a while they
become so tough that they hand you.
Your Boy Wont Live alonth.
So Mr. Gilman Brown, of 34 Mill St.,
South Gardnrr, Mass, was told by the
doctors. His son had Lung trouble, fol-
lowing Ty‘phoid Malaria, and he spent
three hun red and Seventy-five dollars
with doctors, who finally gave him up,
saying: “Your boy wont live a month.”
He tried Dr. King’s New Discove and
a few bottles restored him to healt 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 MONROE’S, New Canaan.
Miss Hyatt, clerk to the selectmen, is
busily engaged on the annual town re-
port.
Free Pitts.
A trial
Iarly 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 stomach and bowels
greatly invigorate the System. Regular
size 25c. per box. Sold by E. P. WEED’S
drug store, Norwalk, and MONROE’S, New
Canaan.
Superiz tendent Hoyt is hard at work
placing' the fire alarm telegraph in per-
fe ct order.
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 isa 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. Weed, Druggist.» Norwalk,
Conn.
There are now 197 prisoners in the
county jail at this time, sixteen of them
bound over men.
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 suflered
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.
The Pier: eer base ball team will 20 to
Stamford on the 15th and arms bats
with a team from the Stamford fire de-
partment.
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 come
and bunions 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.
The worst piece of road in the state
is between the Armory and South Nor-
walk. Our sister city should look after
its streets.
Snakelmo Iour Shoes
Allen’s Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet.
It cures painful swellings of the joints
and instantly takes the sting out of come
and bunions. It’s the greatest comfort
discovery of the age. Allen’s Foot-Ease
makes ti ht-fitting or new shees feel
easy, It is a certain cure for sweating,
callous and hot, tired, aching feet. Try
it to-day. Sold by all drnggists and shoe
stores, 25c. Trial package free. Ad-
dress, Alle'n S. 0111:.Head Le Roy, N. Y.
Passes for admission to Camp Gra-
ham, Niantic, will not be required of
civilians on Friday, August 21, Gov-
ernor’s Day.
Mother’s Find Nothing to Equal Dr. Hand 8
Colic Cure.
WATERBURY Conn., 4-2-’96'—Hand
Medicine Coz—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, 2-2 Wood St. At all drug-
gists, 25.
Dr. W. F. Acton left New York by
steamer for Newport last night, where
he expects tojoin the party on board
the Mabel and return with them.
. Bucklln’s Arnlca Salve.
The Best Salvein the world for Cute
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers Salt Rheum
Fever Sores Tetter, Chapped Hands
Oiiilblains, Corns and all Skin Erup
tions, and positivelycures Piles, or no
perfect-satisfaction,or money refunded
Priceeocents per box. .For» Sale by
Canaan.
Congressman Hill is now on his wind-
ing way over the bounding and abound-
ing great and mighty north west, which
argues that his recent indisposition
was but temporary. '
The Best Remedy for Bowel Com-
plaints.
It gives me pleasure to most .heartily
recommend Chamberlain’s Medicmes.’
advertised them for a long time before I had
occasion to use them in my own famfly. At
the time referred to, the patient was sufi‘er-
ing terribly from cramps, yomitmg and
purgeing. I was delighted with the prompt
relief afforded by Chamberlam’s Coho, Chol-
era and Diarrhoea Remedy-A. M.» EVER-
LAND, Editor and Proprietor of the Weekly
Globe, Mendon, Mich. For sale by E. P.
I Weed, Druggist.
Set... your address to H. E. Bucklen &
(.30.. Chicago, and get a. free sample box
' ‘ of Dr. King’s New Life ,Pills.
’ will convince you of their merits. These
. ‘ pills are easy in action and are particu-
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