————
”—
Because _
" m it is” Best. ,
-Why is the demand for
Welcome S'bap in New Eng-
land greater than fer any
other family soap? . ' .
Because housekeepers, after.
using it for years, and com-
paring it with others, know It
is the best‘and most econom».
ical; its quality never varies.
is the standard family soap.~
NEW CAFE
RESTAURAN T
ATTAOHE D.
MIKE finTCHFORD,
44 {Main Street,
The Best Wines, Liquors and Cigars.
-BIGGUT IN PRIGE-
OF
. Round, Sirloin and Por-
terhouse Steaks, vSausge,
Pot and Rib Roasts
Reduced ' 20.11}: P0111111}
All First Quality Meat.
J. W. resinous,
6 WATER sat. NOnWALK
IBIIIS’
B Iaz on
Soap Powder,
For Kitchen Us‘e
Excells all others. ,
Ask Your Grocer For It.
The following Grocers have it, on_ sale: E. J].
Finnegan, Main Street; . J_. O Brien, Chane.
stret; M. Abraham. Plattsyille. avenue; Mrs.
Harriet A. Northrop. Un1onville' IA. Stull
' East Norwalk; .D.Rosen, South Norwalk; J.
L. June. Winnipauk: N. Driscoll. Westport
Fred Scribner, A. A. Anson. HugElli Donne-11y .
George Pomeroy, Chapel street. . H More-
house West avenue, D. Gormley, Spring Hill,
E. Schachat, Harbor avenue. chachat,
Franklin avenue. F. Barlwrtz 6r. Bros., 30 Main
street: Buttery Bros. Belden Avenue; Anna
Lubrous. 20 Ward street; Anna R Qurke, East
Norwalk; William Flynn, 25 Day street; 0. K.
Scofield, 170 Mam street.
SPECIAL SALE
.Sailor Hats
NOW READY, ,
IlnlriII'Imsd, we and Upwards,
Trimmed, 50c and Ilpwards,
FAWEETTS. ;
3 Water Street, Norwalk
MEEKER GOAL co.
"1:011, 11001), BRICK,
IIIIE, IIEII'EIII, TILE PIPE.
OFFICE WITH G. WARD SELLECK
WALL STREET. NOBWA LK.
Horace E. Dann. A
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EXOELSIOh
- Livery?- grasses sang.
mywwuuw‘x
‘ Opposite Danbury and
Norwalk Railroad depot
Norw'alk, Conn. Stylish
Single or Double Team
with or without drivers '
Safe horses for women
. ‘ andchildrea. . ' ‘_
SADDLE HORSES 3A SPECI A-LTV
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LAST wanker HERs
[ts Owner \Yanted Him to~Get Back the 0
MRS. BEECHER SAYS WIVES MUST'
' HOLD THEIR PEACE;- —
Silence is Golden, and Solomon Was Not
. in 'Wise Condition When He Advised
Answering a Fool. According to Hill
' Folly. ‘ l .
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, writing
to the New York World upon the topic,
.When Wives Should Hold Their Peace,.
says: ' _
.Words spoken in season are of great
value, but now and then, even with our
best and dearest, there are seasons
when silence will do more good than
the most royal gifts of eloquence. With
every one there comes sometimes the
temptation to, dispute when silence
would be the better though by‘far the‘
harder, nay, and when even a soft an-
swer has not half the power of perfect
silence. With the ignorant and pas-
sionate it is net only useless but the
greatest folly to dispute. I doubt ifs
Solomon, with all his wisdom, was in
his wisest state of mind when he ad-
vised us to answer a fool according to
his folly.
In the household there must occur
many things which demand forbear-
ance and a good stock of. patience.’
Hardly an hour passes in a large fam-
ily, even when all are disposed to be
ruled by the laws of love and kindness,
that little shadows do not pass over the
horizon which, by a trifling irritation or
mistake, could be nursed into dark
clouds, threatening a storm. But by!
silence, by setting a watchover the
door of the mouth, they pass quietly.
More than any one else the wife
should have the grace of silence—the
crowning household blessing. She
should know when to refrain from
speaking, even though her words be
those of afiection and endearment.
Wives may love their husbands
strongly and faithfully, but I do not.
think that thehappiness of husbands
and fathers depends so much on the
daily outward expression of affection
from those most dear to them, as wives
andjmothers fancy. .
But with the wife it is difiercnt. The
words and acts of affection she cannot
miss without suffering and loss known
only to her heart. They are her life
Receiving these, her nature expands,
broaden-s, becomes richer and nobler.
Lacking them, she withers and is
greatly impoverished. Husbands little
realize how quickly their wives may
deteriorate and become cold machines
if they pass heedlcs'sly on their way,
forgetting the heart famine they leave
at home.
But however much a wife may crave
more gentle attentions and tenderer
words, she should teach herself to
know that she can gain great honor 'by-
that silence that tends toward peace.
Continued patience will often Open a
man’s eyes to his unintentional neglect
and make him love and honor his wife
more for the quiet lesson she has
taught. . '
Does not a wife sometimes destroy
love by repeated expostulations, com-
plaints and reproaches? While her love
shines undiminished, there is always
hope that the dove of peace and prom-
ise will-yet fold its wings and abide;
so that the last daysof that household
shall be brighter and more loving than
the first.
Let her try the power of a cheerful
silence when tempted to have the last
word. Let her learn if that will not
lift the cloud faii more surely than the
bitter invectlves her wounded pride
and irritated love tempt her to utter.
The first, faithfully acted upon, brings
hopes of better times. The latter, if
not at once and forever dismissed, is
sure destruction of all true love and
domestic peace.
Villages Built in Trees.
People who live in trees or employ
them as places of refuge are apt to be
particularly miserable specimens of the
human family, for their choice of a.
home invariably implies that they are
not strong enough to meet their ene-
mies on a level. The tree village re-
cently discovered by_Slr William Mac-
Gregor in Guinea is the most remarka~
ble that has been reported in a long
while. Some ways inland he found a
wretched, half-starved remnant of the
Yeiburi tribe. In one of their settle-
ments all the villagers live in a single
enormous tree, on whose wide-’smead:
ing branches four houses, with two
stories each, had been constructed.
Wide platforms are built in front of
the houses on which are piles of stones
kept to hurl at intrusive persons. This
wretched people are in process of ex-
termination by a powerful and warlike
neighbor. V
The most numerous tree villages that
have been found are along the Due.
branch of the Mangala river, north of
the Congo. The explorer who discov-
ered them last year says the natives
are the poorest and most wretched peo-
ple he has seen in" Africa.
OF ONE MIND.
'- She-Do you remember, J ack, this.
' day one year ago you offered me your
hand and heart and I cruelly refused
you? I have thought better of it since.
He—Umphl . Sohave I;'-—New York
Herald._ 0 . '
look on a h'at‘I—Erie .
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Hosesnrmo TH’E DEAD~PARROTI
Dioney She Paid for It.
An'old woman, who carried a large
paper bag, asked to see Coroner Hoeber
at the coroner’s oflice, in New York;
She was ushered into Coroner Hoeber’s
private room.
“My bird is dead,”
the coroner.
‘What is that?”
Hoeber. .
"Yes, he only lived a little while after
I bought him on Houston street. ' Such
a pretty green parrot, but he——”
“\Vhat do I about your bird care?”
said the woman to
asked Coroner
yelled the coroner, becoming-excited.
“I took him to Justice Roech’s 'court
at Second avenue and First street,”
continued the woman, paying no at-
tention to Hoeber’s interruption. “They
' told me: there that,‘as the bird Was dead.
you would hold court on him and get
me back my money.”
“They are all crazy in Roesch’s
court,” voc‘iferated the coroner, danc
ing about. “We don’t cognizance take
of dead parrots here already. We have
all we can do looking after men and
women who their brains blow out.
Did you think I was a taxidermist?”
“Eliza Thurston Berkland is my
name,” the woman went on when the
coroner’s breath gave out, “and I don’t
want my husband to know that the
birdman swindled me. The bird was
sick when he sold it to me 5' “See,” she
added, as she took the dead parrot from
the paper bag and laid it on the core
ner’s desk. “Look you what a pretty
bird. Can’t you help me, get my money
from that swindler on Houston street?’
“Take yourself and your parrot out
of my office quick 1” the coroner roared
“This was one contemptible tricl
played on me, ain’t it? I will hear n
more from you 1”
Mrs. Berkland picked up the dead
bird and walked sadly out of the ofiice.
Afterward Coroner Hoeber threatene'
to discharge all the clerks in the gen
rral ofiice for sending the woman in
him—New York Sun. ‘
BISMARCK'S BOOK COMES HIGH-
No American Publisher Able to Pay the
Price for His llIemoirs.
- Bismarck holds himself at a grea‘
figure in a. literary way, as some of tho
American publishers are finding out. II
looked last summer as if at least one 01
the American editors in Europe would
bring back a contract for the American
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- f THE ummbs‘diiste Hobie.
Through Several Ages of Improvement? It
Remains the Same.
When you come to think of it, it
is a. curious and bewildering circum<._'
stance that, in a world and in an age
where progress is one of the laws of
existence, the violin should be today,
not only'as to form and all essential
details, exactly what it was some 300
years ago, but that it is even now a
less perfect instrument than it -was
when the old masters were warming
their glue pots and mixing their vaunt-
ed- varnish and chipping out their
blocks of wood in the little Italian
town of Cremona, now two centuries
back. Mr. Gladstone has said some-
where that to perfect that wonder of
travel, the locomotive, has not re-
quired the expenditure of, morerfiental
strength and application than to per-
fect a violin. But then you can put
the locomotive into the march of pro:
grass; the violin you can’t. In this re-
spect it stands alone among musical _
instruments.
Flutes have been improved, new
types of clarinet have been evolved,
the harpsichord and the spinet have,
given place to the pianoforte, organs
have come to- be controlled by elecx
tricity—everything, in short, in the way
of musical instruments has tended to-
ward advance and improvement, while
the construction of the violin is num<
bered—at any rate by the enthusiasts
who run the fiddle prices into four fig-
ures—among the arts which have been
and are not. The experience of cen-
turies and the ingenuity of many gen-
erations of skilled mechanics have
been altogether unavailing, and violin.-
ists to-day are content to starve them~
selves that they may give hundreds,
nay, even thousands, for instruments
which did not produce tens when they
first left the workshops at Cremona.
NANSEN’S NORTH POLE EXPLOIT.
His Achievements Are the Greatest Ever
Accomplished in This Line.
Frithiof Nansen has failed to reach
the North Pole, but he has performed
the most remarkable exploit in the his-
tory of modern ,Arctic exploration, un-
less 'Andree shall have been found to
have surpassed it. He has made a
longer advance at a single stride than
all his predecessors put together for
rights to the Iron Chancellor’s memoirs I nearly three hundred years. ,In 1607
In fact, it was said that one of the
New York magazines had secured these
rights. Now it appears, however, that
the whole matter of American rights is
or, at least for the present. As high as
$20, 000 was bid for the privilege of th-
American publication of the memoir:
offered. But this was not enough, and
as neither publisher nor editor can 1)-
found sufficiently daring to increase th
amount, the matter remains in statI
quo. It will require at least 810,00.
more to induce Bismarck’s agent to sa.
yes to an American issuance of hi
chief’s work, and even then the publr'
cation cannot be made until after death,
and some time after at that. Furthea
more, only the smaller portion of it.
work is finished—not more than enoug)
for two octavo volumes,while the work
will extend to six at least. From :11.
this it is not very likely that the Ameii-
can people will read whatever Bis
marck has chosen or may choose it
write for some time to come. The
much is certain. ‘
Chicago’s Efl‘ort fox-a First-Class J u: y .
“May it please the court, I have .
prayer meeting to attend, and if I si~
on this jury the prayer-meeting can't
go on,” said the Rev. B. A. Haddock 1.
Justice Hall. The'justice paused in (ii
act of taking his fee for a bond. Sun.
a novel ex0use had never come to lil
knowledge, and it required considera
tion.
“This court has a proper respect f0
prayer meetings,” he finally said, ”an:
it- shall never be said the blind goddcs
who watches over this court was so no
sympathetic and heartless as to deprive
a flock of its spiritual guide, at least
not while I am on the bench. You
may go to the meeting.” 4
The reverend gentleman lost no time
' in departing, and Constable McDon‘ougl
went out to seek another juror. The
justice explained that he had been
bothered lately with professional jurors
and curbstone loafers, who were al
ways within easy reach when a jury
trial was demanded. In a case that
came up recently he ordered the con-
stable to bring in “a first-class jury,”
and that functionary raided the read-
ing-room of the Young Men’s Christian
Association, the Rev. Mr. Haddock be-
ing among the number pressed into
service. —Chicago Chronicle.
An Important Part Left Out.
Hazel—Oh, bother! I I’ve used up all
my note paper and my letter isn’t hall
finished.
Grace—Why, you’ve written eight
pages, haven’t you? Isn’t that enough?
Hazel—Yes, but I haven’t begun or.
the postscript yet.—-Somerville Journal
Spared for Further llIischief.
"Madame,” said the. new boarder.
“one of your family came very near dy-
ing last night.”
“Indeed. I was not aware that any
one was ill. Who was it?”
“The man in the room- next to mine
who played the comet till 3 a. m. He.
stopped just in time to save his life.”—.
Detroit Free Press.
Agreed to Difl‘er.‘
Old GreybeardeIt’s a {pity to lzeep
such a pretty bird in a cage. '
Mrs. de Style—Isn’t it ashame? HOW
perfectly exquisitivel lovely it would
essenger.
If you read for the pleasure of ”pos-
session, of sharing with the world’s
great men the world’s great truths,"
then pray for courageto resolutely turn
your back upon the flood 'of new vol-‘
umes which sweeppceaselessly past your
dbor. Go. back then reverentially to
seek admissioninto the companionship
of the immortals.
Hendrik Hudson reached the neighbor-
hood of 82 degrees north latitude. For
two hundred and seventy-five years
the world’s explorers struggled to bet- '
ter that record, and mile by mile they
pushed their way northward with suf-
fering and death dogging their foot-
steps until, on May 13, 1882, Lockwood
and Brainerd, of the Greely expedition,
planted their flag at 83 degrees 24 min-
utes. A degree and a half in two hun-
dred and seventy-five years of effort.
Lockwood and Brainerd beat the best
previous record by only three miles,
and yet their achievement has been the
admiration of. the world ever since. It
has stood untouched for fourteen years
and now all at once Nansen has ad-
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EXPLORER NANSEN.
vanced the standard of exploration
nearly two hundred miles at a leap.
He has gone to latitude 86 degrees 14
minutes—nearly twice as far beyond
Lockwood and Brainerd as they went
beyond Hudson. He has covered nearly
half the distance that remained to be
travelled to the Pole. Between Nan-
sen’s furthest point and that ultimate
goal of endeavor there is a gap of only
226 geographical or 263 statute miles.
Although Nansen's theory about the
drift of a current across the Pole may
not have been correct, he has proved
that the plan of his voyage was not as
foolhardy as it seemed. He cut loose
from bases of supply and allowed his"
ship to be locked in the ice, to be car-
ried wherever the drift might take it;
That this scheme has. accomplished
twice as much in the way of progress
as all the arduous explorations of near-
ly three hundred years, and has done
it apparently without‘the lossof a sin-
gle life, is a fact that the critics will
find it hard to dispose of.
ODDS 'AND ENDS.
The canals of the United Statesare
4,468 miles in length.
Education does not mean teaching
the people to know what they do not
know; it is teaching them to behave as
they do not behave. .
It has been found that the policy
adopted in the State Prison of Michi-
gan of allowing prisonersto have birds
as pets and. to take care of them, is
exerting a refining influence even in
the case of hardened sinners.‘ .
Keep in the midst of life. frDon’t
- isolate yourself._ Be among men, and
among things, and among troubles, and
among difficulties and obstacles. Bear
in- mind the words of Goethe, “Talent
develops itself in solitude, character in
the stream of life.”- ,. . _ .
It is estimated that there are five mil-
lion ‘ardentcollectors of postage stamps
in the world. Old stamps are increas-
ingin value far 'more rapidly man are
old .books. " The most valuable Ameri-
can stamp is worth $1,500, and only six
of them are known to exist. '
idea is carried out in trimmings.
.“WOMANIS ADORNMENT. _
Fanclel‘ of the Mom -nt inithe 1303:3311 n
. Fashion“ . .. »
(By Special Arrangement with the N. Y. Sun.
Everything seems to point to :=
short life for the perfectly plain skira.
Cheeks are so much in favor that thI
Th1
plain materials are made to look
checked by carrying insertion orrib-
.bon down and acress at regular inter-
vals, thus forming squares, either largo
or small, as may be required.
\ ,
‘Some pretty capes we have seen
show how elaborately such, garments
are made this season. The first one is
made of Citron-colored Silk, lined with
the faintest pink. The trimming all
[around is of white guipure, lace em-
broidery, running up'in deep graduated
points, and over it is a narrow trim-
ming of Citron-colored jeweled embroi-
dery in shorter points. A thick ruche
of chiffon and narrow lace finishes the
cape. .
.¢__.... . .o... .
The home gown we noticed is. of
mauve silk and has a bodice of darker
tone. This bodice is very richly em-
broidered down each side of the front
in gold and pearl shades. It opens over
a full waistcoat of lisse of a very dell-
cate shade of mauve and is studded all
over thickly with crystal trimming.
The sleeves are gauifered perpendicu-
larly from waist to elbow and finished
with a moderate puff at the ‘top. .The
bottom of the skirt is finished with I
puff of the darker 511k. _.,.'.1 ,idflgfi;
Q
To be fashionable a woman must he
bedecked with feathers. This is the
latest announcement of the Parisian
couturieres. But this does not mean
that feathers will appear in the old,
conventional ways. Not a bit of it.
They will be used to adorn the fash-
ionable woman in a manner never
dreamed of before.
Not only are they to be all the vogue
in millinery, but they are to be a gen-
eral accessory to dress. And it is in the
odd combinations of wings, feathers
and 'aigrettes that the dictators of fash-
ion are reveling.
Ostrich plumes are no longer used
singly, but combined With a tuft of
:ock’s feathers or a cluster. of wings.
Groups of feathers are the fashion and
theday of the stately Prince of Wales
plume, used by itself, is over.
MADE IN A HURRY.
Record for Converting Growing Wheat in-
to Bread and Trees into Newspapers.
Our readers no doubt remember the:
tri-al, some years ago, on one of the
large wheat farms of South Dakota, to
determine the quickest time in which
growing wheat could be cut, threshed,
ground into flour, and prepared for the
table. It was something less than an
hour from the starting. of the reaper
until the steaming hot biscuit were
upon the table. This was before the
days of_the quick conversion of the
standing trees into paper. 'A similar
test of the power of invention has re-
cently been made in Austria—that of .
determining in how short a space of
time livmg trees could be'convertedi
on .
April 17, at 7:35 in the morning, three ,
into newspapers. At Elsenthal,
trees were sawed down; at 9:34 the
wood had been stripped of bark, cut
up and converted into pulp, became .
paper and passed from the mill to the
press, from whence the first printed
and folded- copy was
live minutes-trees had become news
papers. The poetic declaration, “ser-
"mons in stones,’.’ becomes an actual ,~
reality-as to trees, and. made so by the
wand of the. inventor.
is-
issued at 10 '
o’clock, so that in one hour and forty— ~
minutes.
.‘ snlLons mm
Nt the Prioverbial Sailor’sYarn
.An Old salesmaks In
,Norwalk»
The life of a sailor has-man u s a
downs. The hardships of theymalia wag
sails the briny deep are not appreciated
by the land lubbers who know not what
it Is to strugglewith the elements to
keep above water, it takes brawn and
muscleand good constitutions to stand
it. While men, even the hardiest, when
they return from nautical life find the
exposure has left them with a legacy
as a constant reminder of the past. And
often when a Jolly Jack Tar is relating
an experience, the back that has car-
ned him- through it all is burdened with
a far heavier burden Our representa-
tiye had a pleasant chat the other day
With just such a man. A sailor for thirty
years. Thomas Cooney, by name, a
Norwalk citizen, residing at. N 0:173
Harbor avenue. He has also held-tho
position of dockmaster for ten years,
and to add to the difficulties he has had
to contend with, he fell from a. tree
when a boy, striking a fence. This ac-
cident left him with back trouble..and
the life on the water with its hardships
added their share until he found back-
ache was more or less a steady thing,
coming on from time to time. Like
most people he did not understand that
it came from the kidneys, but reading
thnt Doan’s Kidney Pills cured back-
ache he got a box at Hale's drugstore
and wasenrprised' to find how. quickly
they acted. “ Why.” says Mr. Cooney,
.‘,‘they simply cured me, and you may
be 'sure I have a‘good word for Dean’s
Kidney Pills, they have done such good.
work for me. I shall be glad to tell
anyone about it wherwishes to know."
It’s like a case of mistaken identity.
Mr. Cooney did realize that .it was
kidney ache and that his kidneys were
injured, not his back. That exposure
had simply increased the kidney com-
plications. It’s easy for Dean’s Kidney
Pills to cure such cases.
For sale by all dealers, price 50 cents,
or mailed by Foster-Milbnrn 00.. Bull'-
ablto, N. Y., solo agents for the United
‘ ates.
Itching Piles, night’s horrid plague,
is instantlv relieved and permanently
cured by Doan’s Ointment. Your deal-
er ouaht to‘keep it.
“RINK-4:? '
$$WATER0$ .
SARATUGA
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 Glass.
HATHllRN '
SPRING ‘ ~
WATER
routes
Stomach,
Bo wels,
Liver and
Kidneys.
FOB SALE'BY
The 'IlIIlmes, Kaela 81811111111811
DORLON 11011311 ,
GREGORY’S'POIN I.
111111 OPEN PIIII 1111: Susan UP 1896.
Shore Dinners,
.IIIIoIIo Island than 11.11..
Balhlng, Boating. Fishing.
Electric «is to Hotel, every twenty
JOHN n. O’SULLIVA-N,
‘ . Manager.
Norwalk Chronicler