~._'—
By True .
In ’ Merit Only
I can any article attain such a
high standard Of favor among
the people as that enjoyed by
L For years no Other, soap
' in New England has ever
approached it either in sales
or quality. It has_p_roved its
~ value over all substitutes. It
but soap.
-TlME--
Iron ones.
i We have some netslfor them . . ’
i VPriee 25 Genls.
Something new in COVERED BASIL
ETS. Good for picnics, fishing, etc.
on ~Lomis, I5'-'and 25¢
"a Pair. ' ‘
11.11. WILLIAMS
17 Main St.
: -‘ ADAMS’
Blazon
Soap Powder,
For Kitchen Use
Excells all others. ‘
Ask-Your Grocer For It.
The following Grocers have it on. sale: E . J.
Finnegan. Main street; P. J_. O‘Brien, Cha el
stret; M. Abraham.,;1’latts.ville' avenue: rs.
Harriet A. Northrop. Unionville: A. Stull
East Norwalk; .D.Rosen_, South Norwalk; J.
L. June..W1nnipauk: N. Driscoll. Westport'
Fred Scribner, A. A. Av1son. Hugh Donnelly.
George Pomeroy, Chapel street. E. II. More-
house West avenue. D. Gormley, Spring Hill,
.E. Schachat, Harbor avenue. . Schachat.
Franklin avenue. F. BailWLtz &. Bros., 30 Mam
street; Buttery Bros, Belden Avenue; Anna.
Lubrous. 20 Ward street; Anna R Qurke, East
Norwalk; William Flynn. 25 Day street; 0. K.
Scofield, 170 Main street.
SPECIAL SALE
__._OF___.
Sailor Hats
NOW READY,
Unlrimnted, we and Upwards,
Trimmed, 50c and llpvlards,
~~ FAWdETTS.
t 3 Water Street, Norwalk
MEEKER COAL CO.
con, wool), BRICK,
LIME, EEMENT, TILE PIPE.
,, GFFICE WITH G. WARD SELLEOE
WALL STREET. NOBWé LK.
Horace E. Dann,
axonnsrbx
LIVGI'V a. 6. Sales Stable.
wuvvvuu ~1ku uu‘
Opposite Danbury and
Hawaii; Railroad depot
Norwalk, Oonn. Stylish
Single or Double Team
with or without drivers
Safe horses for women
andchildren. .
SADDLE H O RSES’lh SPECIALTY
nears out tunes. “
A {fine building. lot on Wilton aw-
nue. If you intend to build, look at
. this before purchasing.
Water, gas and sewer on the avenge.
. Will be sold at’a Bargain.
. w. on. sviuoron.
*«lleel Estate and Insurance,
Room l . Gazette. B’l’d.
is soap, all soap, and nothing .
TWENTYYEABSDEAD
LlTT'LE REMAlNS T0 MARK A. T.
- STEWART’S. ACHIEVEMENTS,
The Failure of 'Judge. Hilton's Son De-
stroys the Last Yestige of America’s
Once Richest Man. His Grave Unknown;
His Wealth Scattered as Atoms: '
It is a trifle saying, that in America
- it is only three generations from shirt-
‘ sleeves to shortsleeves.
. In allthe. story of business, which is
part of the history of Manhattan Is-
land, there is no sadder, no more over-
whelming chapter than that which sets
forth the building and breaking of the
A. T. Stewart property as it is called to
mind by the failure of Hilton, Hughes
& 00., the successors.
It is well nigh threequarters of a
century now since an Irishman—kin-
less, portionless, for all he knew, save
for the pack'of college learning-landed
in New York. Hetook a box of a place ,
in Broadway below Chambers. street
and spread out there a little stock of
Irish lace. It had cost him every dol-
lar that he owned.
A. T. STEWART.
But the trade judgment of AT. Stew-
art proved itself good. He sold $200
worth of the lace in a twinkling, and
the house of Stewart was established.
Elate over this omen of success, be
framed a business motto thus: “Hon-
esty, discretion, watchfulne'ss, persis-
tent labor.”
His life, the last drop of his energy,
brain and body, were always staked
against ‘his credit. Nobody should as-
sail that at any cost. There should be
no shadow on it..
He made money when other men
were crying panic. In 1837, when most
men could not borrow a farthing, Stew-
art enlarged his business. Ten years
later there was no store in New York
big enough to house the business he
had set going. He built one! White-
haired men of to—day remember how
the New York of their time stared at
that temple of trade at Chambers
street, and more business hurried to
make friends with so much thrift.
His agents were in every market in
Europe; his customers were in every
city and hamlet in America. He bought
as he hired, cheaply. He sold as he
talked, quickly. His employes were
servants.
Stewart knew no sentiment but pelf.
He was just. He gave to charities, but
only so much as would make him
known of men. bring; him newptrade,
and, incidentally, ..r.l<c good his stand-
ing account withthc Eternal. While he
juggled with the prices of merchan-
dise, he wept over the condition of the
slaves in the South. He sent a ship-
load of provisions to Irelancl——an ad-
vertisement that he could not other-
wise .have secured for quadruple the
$50,000 it cost him.
And out of ‘all this “honesty and
watchfulness” new greatness came.
The old apple woman who had sat on
his door-step had brought him luck, he
said, and he must carry it uptown with
him. Then, still trusting in the Al-
mighty but “hustling” while he prayed,
he built that giant store at Broadway
and Tenth street, where recently the
financial collapse occurred.
He gave $50,000 out of hand to aid
the sufferers by the Chicago fire. He
sent 4000 barrels of flour to Havre
when France was writhing in the ago-
nies of the German war. But it was all
business.
Stewart built the marble palace at the
corner of Thirty-fourth street and Fifth
avenue. What millions it cost him no
man, save perhaps Judge Hilton, ever
knew. If one thing were more price-
less than another, that Stewart bought
to make his home the"princeliest palace
upon earth. -
That was not all. He bade the great-
est minds of the century to his board,
and they came. And he spread that ac-
cumulation of material and intellectual
and artistic finery before the world and
said: “This is all Stewart’s.” But he
called it a “mere toy,” and people mar-
velled. '
Mr. Stewart died at half-past 1
o’clock in the afternoon of April 10,
1876, in the southeast corner room of
the Thirty-fourth street mansion. He
had been married fifty-one years, but
he had no children, his two sons having
died in infancy.
On‘Novembcr 7, 1878, Mr.‘ Stewart’s
body was stolen from St. Mark’s
_ churchyard. The sensation that fol.- ,
lowed, the long search, the rewards of1
fered and never claimed, the endless
recriminations and scandals, were the
sensations of that day. And so with
the failure of- a dry goods firm is bro-
ken the connecting link between the
achievements of the richest man in
America twenty years ago and the
present. Nothing material
and memory is fast fading.
Before and After.
Mary had but little nerve
. .VVith mice, until she got ‘
Her bloomers safely fastened on-
And then she hada lot. .7 ,
. " ~. —n».1:‘ v v ”.Times,
———~——r““ - -4
r, ‘ l
remains,
. swered smiling.
A
THEIEVENINGVGAZETT
A BICYCLE RAILWAY.
Trains “Will Run Two-Hundred Miles
an Hour on it the Inventor Says.
A ibicycle railway over which you
can ride two hundred miles an hour!
This is what Col. George F. Brott, of
Washington, claims can be accomplish-
ed by his invention. He is very posi-
tive about it. The belief is roseate.
but practicality has not been shown.
Col. Brott says not only will his bi-
cycle railway be built, but in a. compar-
atively short time it will extend all
over the country. Within two months
he says, he will have his structure
erected and cars will be running there-
on by_ Fall. I
When this road operates from ocean
to ocean, its inventor assures us, we
can breakfast in New York, lunch in
Chicago, and the following morning
take our morning cup—of coffee—where
the Golden Gate charms and the or-
ange blossoms grow. This very rapid
transit will impart no disagreeable sen-
sation to the traveler. In fact, if he
will avoid looking out of the windows,
he may not know that he is moving at
all.
- The structure for the cars will be
slightly elevated, and will contain but
a single rail, for each car has practical-
ly only one wheel, the other two wheels
which run in grooves on the guard rail
being only intended for safeguards. ‘
On each side of the main Wheel, and
considerably higher, will be the guard
rails, so strong, that even the impact of
a moving train will hardly shake them.
All the rails are to be of steel. ‘
The power, of course, is electricity.
The propelling fluid will be furnished
by a motor in each car. There can be
no possible danger of a. collision, for
the inventor says he has gained so great
a. command over electricity that on the
opproach of a current of electricity for-
eign to the one generated on the train
the cars will come to as sudden a. stop
as if air-brakes had been applied to
Lem.
The cars which are intended to travel
over this remarkable road are peculiar
in shape. The front one will be pointed
something after the fashion of the
whaleback—that queer craft that jour-
neys about the great lakes. This is be-
cause it is believed that with such acar
in the front the resistance to the atmos-
phere will be less.
The cars will accommodate from 40
to 80 passengers each, and their bag-
gago will be stored in the truck be-
neath. No freight whatever will be
carried,
LILLIAN RUSSELL AND THE STAGE.
The Famous Star Talks of Retiring to
Private Life.
One of the reporters of the New York
Journal gives the following story of
Lillian Russell:
I called on Miss Russell at her home
in West 77th street last week, but she
would not talk. Her managers claim
‘ they have lost a fortune upon her this
past season and that it is her fault, ‘ I
stated these facts to her and asked her
opinion. The big blue eyes looked
meltingly sorry, but that was all.
“They had been kind,” she said sim-
ply, settling down in the folds of alight
blue tea gown, and then. she added earn-
estly: “I have been far from well this
season. I have worked hard and I have
suffered intensely from a fall from my
bicycle. And. everything hurts the
voice; an ache 'or a. pain anywhere ef-
fects it.‘ But I don’t want to talk; I
ddn’t want to be written about. I am
going to end it all right here and slip
quietly away into the "country, where I
shall spend this year and will probably
live.”
“Do you think you Will enjoy an or-
dinary existence after the brilliant
stage life you have led?”
“Need home life be dull?” she an-
I scarcely thought as
I looked at her that her’s need be. Then
a. burst of laughter and the clinking of
glasses sounded through the portieres
from the dining room. Miss Russell
lifted her brows and laughed. It was
so apropos. ' ‘
“You have not given up singing on-
tirely, have you?” I asked.
Miss Russell coughed in a burst that
sounded like bells. “No, not I,” “I sing
all day, it is a. part of me—the greater
part. When I’m happy I sing—which
is most of the time; when I’m unhappy.
Ising, too. It is a. very excellent rem-
edy. ' -
“I think I can be perfectly contented
elf the stage,” said Miss Russell, “for I
have a very pretty home and derive a
great deal of comfort from it.”
And it is a pretty home and tastefully
arranged, and I haven’t the slightest
doubt that she will ,get plenty of fun
out of it.
Diore Dangerous Now.
“What are you reading, Richard,”
asked Mrs. Meekton. .
“I happened to see something about
Ajax.” . ‘ . .
“The gentleman who defied the light-
ning?” _ ,- '
“Yes. I suppose it was safe enough
in those days. But if Ajax had to ride
on a trolley car and pay the bills of the
man who fixes the fan and the light
ning apparatus, I’m willing to wager a
good deal that he would have been more
careful about how he got so familiar
with electricity.”—Washington Star.
A Blessing in Disguise.
“I know,” Mr. Meekton. remarked tc
an intimate friend, “that some people
say Mrs. Meekton wears the —er—er the
pantaloons, you ,know, but it isn’t
true.” . _ ,
“I’m glad to hear it.” ,
“Do you know,” Mr. Mocktpn, went
on, with a far-away look in his eyes, “I
kind of wish she would wear ’em once
in a while! Then, may be, I’d get thi=
suspender buttons sewed on oftener."‘—
Boston Herald.
There is a good deal of religion which
is purchased on the instalment plan.
You get a quantity of it, but you fail tc
pay up, and the first thing you know
you haven’t any—New York Herald. _
Mothers and DIarrl-ed Sons. \
‘A great many people expect that a
man after marriage will, as a matter
of_ course, identify himself with his
wife’s family rather than his own.
Mothers often feel this. keenly, and
wonder, in their loneliness, how their
dear sons can forget them so readily.
Have all the years of loving care and
intimacy counted for nothing? If
anything is said, the only consolation
oflered is the old couplet:
A daughter’s a daughter all her life,
But a. son’s a son till he marries a. wife.
Does the fifth commandment, then,
appllr only to the daughters? Too
many mothers could say, as one lately
did: “My married daughters write to
me every week and 'come home often,
but I don’t know much about my son.
He has seldom written to me since his
marriage, and he never writes much
about himself 01' his. affairs; lately he
has left my letters for his wife to
answer. He hasn’t been-home in two
years.” In the ideal marriage the wife
wishes her husband to continue his
love and devotion to his parents and
old home, just as she does to hers.
When this is not the case, something
is wrong—The Congregationalist.
' \Yomen’s Education.
If Christianity may be said to have
given a permanent elevation to woman
as an intellectual and moral being, it
is as true that the present age, above
all others, has given play to her genius,
and taught iis to reverence its influ-
ence. It was the fashion of other
times to treat the literary . acquire-
mcnts of the sex as starched pedantry
or vain pretension; to stigmatize them
as inconsistent with those domestic af-
fections and virtues which constitute
the charm of society. ,
These things have, in a great meas-
ure, passed away, The prejudices,
which dishonored the sex, have yield-
‘ ed to the influence of truth.
Baby’s Short Clothes.
ll As soon as the baby reaches its fifth
month take off the long, cumbersome
skirts and put on skirts that come just
about three inches below the feet.
3 Then put on light, soft stockings and
soft morocco shoes. When the baby
lie six months old shorten the skirts
still more, thus giving the child more
freedom of limb. At the age of seven
months put a baby on the floor, and let
it race about as much as it likes. This
will give it the strength required for
creeping and walking, which soon fol-
low. It is a great mistake to be eter-
nally handling a child.
_,__..
Cleaning the Carpets.
There “are still a great many carpets
used in modest homes, where the care
of them is wearing out the housewife.
Even soft pine floors can be prettily
stained and varnished after the cracks
have been filled in with putty, and the
pretty, cleanly method of laying rugs
about will give ,the room the whole-
someness of our grandmother's days
and do away with the principal bother
of house cleaning time, to say nothing
of the labor of frequent sweeping; the
soft, long—handled brush will remove
most of the daily accumulation of
dust.
Trained Nurses.
Rich girls are taking the greatest in-
terest in the practical nursing of sick
people; some of them have even car—
ried their enthusiasm so far as'to enter
into a training of the most exacting
sort. Invalid cooking, reguiring- the
most delicate skill, massage, which
makes an «imperative demand upon
one’s strength, and long hours are all
necessary in any adequate course.
New Table Linen.
Hemsti‘tched table linen is highly
popular. Tray cloths are frequently
of fine lawn, simply hemstitched, much
in the style of a neat handkerchief.
Four handkerchiefs fastened together
with drawn work pattern may be
made to form a pretty five o’clock tea
cloth.
The High Collar’s Virtue.
One virtue the uncomfortable high
collar may be said to possess—it
forces its wearer to hold her head high,
with a slightly backward tip, that may
influence that graceful carriage of the
head which is so pleasing and which
"should not be a matter of props and
stays.
FACTS FOR 'HOUSEKEEP’ERS.
Pieces of charcoal distributed
through your refrigerator purify it.
A little kerosene mixed With starch
gives a gloss to collars and cuffs.
Food may be kept hot by covering
and setting in a pan of hot water.
Grease may be removed from wool-
len goods by sponging same with
strong cold coffee. »
Sprinkling salt on any substance
burning on the stove will destroy the
odor and smoke.
Cake made with one egg is just as
palatable as one made with many if it
is fresh and well baked.
packed in wheat flour and allowed
to remain twenty-four hours. 7
.5. bit of charcoal boiled with cab-
bage destroys the disagreeable odor
and renders the cabbage more diges-
tiblc.
A bit of pepper, rolled in cotton, the
whole dipped in ,alcohol, whisky or
" brandy, is an excellent remedy for ear-
:liflle. . . I " .
Two parts crude oil and one part of
surpentine removes white spots from
furniture, and makes as good a polish
.:‘.s one can desire to have.“ ' j '
A toaspoonful of baking soda in a
mzp of boilingwater makes an excel-
lent gnrgle for sore throat,_to be used
2.»; hot as you can possibly bear it. ~ ‘ <
' \
Fine laces may be cleaned by being.
ARE BUSTLES COMING? _
The Latest Silk Petticoatis a busplclnus'v
‘ Bonfl‘ant Affair. '
(By Special Arrangement with the N. Y. Suit.
The latest silk petticoat may be .-~
forcrupncr of the much despised bustl. .
It is a billowy creation made with .-:
deep ruflle, through the bottom of
which a fine reed is run. At the bat-i.
the lower half of the skirt hangs in
folds. There are six folds, and
through each one a reed is run which
makes the skirt stand out with a cer-
tain aggressive stiffness at the bot-
tom, ‘though at the waist line it is very
flat. '
All the new silk skirts have either
the fine reeds 'to aid them in standing
out, or they are lined from the bottom
hair cloth.
A handsome-home gown is of mauve
silk and has a bodice of a darker tone.
This bod-ice is very richly embroidered
down each side of the front in gold
and pearl shades. It opens over a full
waistcoat of lisse of a very delicate
shade of mauve and is studded all
over thickly with crystal and sapphire
jog-veiled trimming. The sleeves are
gauifered perpendicularly from waist
to elbow and finished with a moderate
put at the top.
skirt is finished with a puff of the
darker silk.
A cloth gown is capable of being
made very prettily in any of the fash-
ionable materials of the day. The
sleeves and ceinture are its principal
features. The sleeves are fitted per-
fectly tight to the arm, but cut so full
about the hands that they hang over
them like a fluted frill. The tops of
the sleeves are finished with three
flounces of the cloth. Each flounce is
edged with a tiny frill of chifion. The
ceinture is of satin handsomely trim-
med with embroidery and fastened
with gold buttons. The rovers are fas-
tened back with the some buttons.
The bow and ruche at the neck are of
chifion, to match the frills on the
sleeves. The muslin gown often seen
'5
l5 made with perpendicular insertions
of .lace on the skirt and waist. The
sleeves fit the arm closely, although
they are wrinkled for their full length.
They are finished with a full puff at
the top and a full 'frill about the
hands, so full and deep as to almost
cover the hands. The ceinture is made
of shot silk, showing rthe principal
color of the muslin. It is pointed back
and front, the wrinkled fronts crossing
each other and fastening at the upper
edge with a. little bow. The Collar is
"finished with an outstanding ruffle.
Checks are so much in favor that the
idea is carried out in trimmings. The
plain materials are made to look
checked by,carrying insertion or rib.
hon-down and across at regular inter-
vals, thus forming squares, either
- large or..small, as may be required. ;
Milk is of universal use, and pecul-
iarly adapted to children and invalids,
because it contains in its normal condi-
tion a proper propprtion of food ele-
ments in a palatable and easily-digest,
ed condition. These’are, under, normal
condition, fat, 3.7, per cent; sugar, 4.7;
lcaseiuc‘, 3.13. ‘9' "
i’ : . fig}
to a few inches above the knee with-
' The bottom of the,
RIGHT 'riiEItE;
Covers the Same Territory In Nor-
wall: as Elsewhere.
You don’t have-to find it:
It 3 right there—and stays there.
\ find lyou dodn’t forget it.
- no es an then aches eom
Jfiver save that backache ? emore.
nun it wasn’t ~ou ' " ’
yoTu? 3 r back, didn t
he kidneys are
when sick. . great grumblers
Feel them clear through the back.
Feelthem clear through the body.
It is kidney disease. .
And many tortures fellow.
Urinary troubles curse the life.
And it’s networih the living.
Cureit and you’ll have peace.
You can do it easily. .
By taking‘Doan’s Kidney Pills.
.- They cure every wrung condition of
the kidneys. ' =
. Norwalk people are learning this fact.
Our cases are not confined to any
class, condition, or sex. For (xample,
h‘rnnklin avenue has reached the allot-
tea span of life, being SrVBDtV years
of age and is the mother of eight chil-
dren. She says: “I hacl'hidney~nnd
urinary trouble for years. Severe
headaches and scantiness of urine. I
got a’box cf Dean’s Kidney Pills at
Hale s drugstore. I did not take them
all for I did not need them. They
. cured me and I am glad to recommend
them to anvone who suffered as I did.”
Dean’s Kidney Pills do this. if taken
as directed. They tone up the kidneys
and force them to perform their func-
tions properly. They actually cure the
most stubborn cases of kidney disease.
Dean’s Kidney Pills act at once. You
can feel their effects in an hour or so.
'lrv them for weak-or lame back.
:For sale by all dealers or sent by mail
on receipt of price, by Foster-Milburn
00., Buffalo, N. Y. Sole Agents for
the U. S.
.The only remedy in the world that
Will at once stop itchiness of the skin in
anv part of the body, that is absolutely
safe and never failing, is Doan’s Oint-
ment. Get it from. your dealer.
.SARATOGAl’
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.
DRINK
HATHflflN
sums ’
WATER
roarnr
Stomach,
Bo wels,
Liver and
FOR SALE BY
DORLON HOUSE
'GREGORY’S Pomr. _
Shore Dinners, , .. ..
Rhode Island clam, Bake. '
Electric cars to Hatch-every Went,
minutes. - , ' ' '
' . JOHN E. O'SULLIVAN,
.51.? .1 _.
Mrs. C. Malone, who resides at No. 31 I I
Kidneys.-
Tia Holmes, Keeler tSelleci (It.
NDWUPEN FOR THE SEASON or 1896.
Balhlng, Beating. Flshlng. ' '
, Manager. ~
Norwalk Chronicler