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Napoleon’s Stubbornness Caused the Death ,
.J of Two Hundred Frenchmen.
..'-".’It is only a few years since many
nglish sailors were drowned because
"an admiral gave a wrong order, and
another officer, who knew the order to
_be‘wrong,'obeyed it. Admiral Bruix,
of .the French navy, was once in the
English officer’s posrtion,‘ and took a
contrary course, although his orders
came from -no' less a personage than
Napoleon '1. Both cases, it should be
noted, occurred not in battle, but on
parade. At such a time, surely, a sub-
ordinate must be justified in. saving the
lives of his men, even at the cost 0
. technical disobedience. ‘. - ~ .
While Napoleon was at Boulogne, in
1804, he went out to ride one morning.
leaving word that on his return he
.would‘. review the fleet. During his
~ absence, therefore, a message was sent
to Admiral Bruix, that he might order
the shipto weigh anchor and put .out -
to sea. To the. astonishment of the
messenger, the admiral re‘plied that he
was very sorry, but the state of the
weather would not permit the review
to take place. -
.g In due time the emperor returned,
~ andin'quired if everything' was ready.
The admiral’s response was communi-
cated to him. At first he seemed not
to understand, but on its being re-
gpeated he stamped his foot and ordered
the admiral summoned into his pres-
ence. _ ,
'The'admiral came at once, but even
so he Was not quick enough for the em-
peror, ’who met him half way. The
emperor’s st'afi followed, and stood
ranged in silence about him.
“Sir Admiral,” said Napoleon, in an
angry voice, “why have you not
obeyed my orders?”
“Sire,” ansWered the admiral, with
respectful firmness, “a fearful tempest
is preparing. Your, majesty can see it
as well as I. You cannot wish to ex-
pose, uselessly the lives of so many
brave men.”
‘ Constant, the first valet de chambre
of the emperor, and one of his firmest
. apologists, is constrained to admit, in
relating the story, that the aspect of
the sky at that .very moment fully.
justified the fears of the admiral; but
Napoleon was too much irritated to
listen to reason.
“Sir,” he said, “I have given orders.
Once. more, whyhave you not executed
them? Obey!”" ‘ ' ‘ '
“Sire, I shall not obey.” ,
At that word the emperor advanced,
riding whip in hand, as if to strike.
The admiral recoiled a step and laid
his hand upon his sword.
“Sire,” he said. turning pale, “take
care!” ' ' '
The two men faced each other; then
the emperor dropped his whip, and the
admiral withdrew his grasp from the
:handle of his sword.
“Rear Admiral Magon,” said Na-
poleon, “you will execute instantly
the order I have issued. As for you,
sir,” turning to Admiral Bruix, “you
pvwill leave“,BoulOgne within twenty-
'four hours and retire into Holland.
Go!” <
The rear admiral did as the emperor
had bidden.. The tempest broke as
the admiral had predicted, and more
than two hundred "Frenchmen were
drowned before the emperor’s eyes.—
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‘with snow.
these mountains is a broad desert.
“Early in January, 1886,.1 waS'cross- .
.ing that ‘desert with a ,team.‘ It is
quite a trip, and; the valley is quite ~
warm even in January. It is necessary '
to carry water across this plain, and .I
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AMONG THE APACHES:
An Arizona Miner's}? Experience
‘ ‘ with the Indians.
How He Rescued a Mother Squaw and
Her Twin Babies from Death at
the Hands of ‘Her Super-
stitions Tribelmen.
‘ ‘IK
' “Superstition .forms the greater part
of the Indian’s character,” said John
Elwood the ether day. There are few
people that are in closer touch with
the” Indians, and especially the
Apach_es_,,ltha_n Jack Elwood, as he is
familiarly‘known through the Rockies.
J ack is acharacter. Early in the fGOS
J ask" went" west to- ' California. His
fortune. 'did not come at once, and
finally Jack drifted back towardlthe
land of the rising .sun. He finally
landed in Arizona, and for years has
pectors in that territory. He lives at
PhOenix, and is‘getting- almost too old,
one would think, to keep uphis efforts
to uncovera fortune, .butlitwould not
be safe to'tell Jack ,E‘lwood that. 11.1
the latter part of the "SOs-lackhad an
experience while crossing the plains
that led to his close. relations with the
Apaches, and 'since then he has been
one .of the few who have the friend-
ship and confidence of ‘ this band of
warriors. , é, _ , V . ,
“ ‘How 'di‘d'l get my great stand-in
with the Apaches?’. Well, I’ll tell you, '
I hardly know,” continued Elwood.
“I sort of grew into' their ‘> confidence,
and have shared it more or‘less since
about 1886. 'LOng in January of that
year ‘I had an occasion to get pretty in- '
timately acquainted‘with the Apaches.
“ In Phoenix in a back street stands
a little adobe house. 'It isofl ,by itself
and its occupants have no communion
with any of theirneighbors. It is the
home of an Indian by the name of
Melo, who, with his wife and two chil-
dren, live a quiet and solitary life.
They, like all Indians, .are clannish.
They dovnot want to associate with the
outside world and have little or noth-
ing to do with their own people. I am
about the only one who ever gets in-
Side the threshold of that little adobe '
cottage. From. its doorway to the
east can be seen in the distance 'Four
Peaks,’ with their summits covered
Between Phoenix' and
had a goodly, supply in a barrel on the
wagon.
yet to remain there would be equally
as serious. We did our best.
of Apaches in an almost exhausted con-
dition. They gave me 'water,and one
young couple who seemedto be supe-
rior'to the Others in intelligence“ ‘fed
'me. ' I, however; did not have my full
senses. The terrible strain'on a dry
alkali plain without water and in a.
burning sun Was enough to turn any-
one‘s brain, I want to’ tell you. v
“Indians are superstitious, illogical
and childish to a degree of which no
civilized man has any conception. This
was to my advantage. They thought
me insane. and aslthey regard one out
of'his natural mind as sonfething su-
pernatural and to be revered they
treated me with the greatest kindness.
1 did not trust the Indians, and hence
when I began to recover my mental
balance I tried to give no outward evi-
dence of this fact and wandered among
them in a solitary and speechless man-
ner. I was shamming to get away all
the time. ' -
' “A few days after my arrival at camp
twin boys'were born'to the young wife
of‘ the Indian who had fed me and
cared for me. This is not any more
uncommon among the Indians .than
elsewhere, and, although the red man
is passionately fond of children. yet
.the appearance of twins and a erazy
man (as they thought me) forebode
them evil, and the medicine man ~ said
that Mrs. Melo was a witch, and that
she and her infants must be sacrificed.
Melo pleaded for 3 his wife, without
avail. She did not attempt to escape.
I was not yet able to understand the
Indian language, and it was some time
before I was aware of what troubled
my young friends. Already the dance
had commenced, and Only a few hours
remained before the mother and her
children'would be burned. I made my
escape, and succeeded in reaching the
agency. Here, With much ‘ trouble, I
secured a detachment of cavalry, and
led them back to the Indian camp. I
had no hope of being in time; but, '
fortunately, the chief, had eaten some- -
thing’that did‘ not agree with him, and.
the sacrifice was postponed afew hours.
When we rode up the noise of the heat-
ing of tom-toms and the singing of
dancers drowned out the sound 'of our
approach. In the distance we could
see the young wife and her two ,chil-
dren being driven into her ‘shack, and
the warriors, with burning firebrauds,
gradually closing in to ignite the "fun-
eral pile. At this moment we \vere dis-
covered, and the dance was brought
to a standstill. 'The presence 'of the
troopers was sufficient. I persuaded
Melo and his wife to‘return to Phoenix
with me. They have lived there since,
and aided me in gaining knowledge of
the customs of the Apaches. "—Chicago
Inter Ocean.
- Bunion Proverbs.
Many familiar proverbs of the Rus-
sian people havera cynical flavof. Here
is a little group of themr' ' ‘ ’-‘ '
Words are not arrows, but they fly
farther. ' , y , ,,
After the fight, there are lots of brave
men. . . . .
The bread of others is sweet. ,
Seat a lout at your table and he will
put his feet on it. _ - ~
The rare visitor in; jolly companion.
'He who robs, sins once; 'he' "who is ,_
robbed, sins, ten times.
Pure gold makes itself knoWn, even
in the dirt-:Yohth’s Companion.
been one of the best-known ~pros-.
Everything was going along-
‘in good shape until nearly noon, when
' an accident resulted in the loss of every
drop 'ot water we had. -It was impos- '
.sible to proceed far without water, and
{Long in,
the evening I was pickediup by a band'
.15.
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NO H URRY l'N NOBWAY.‘ .
People Take Their Time There and. Won-
1 der at Yankee Visrtors. .
These Norwegians are _ a wonderfully,
patient people. They never hurry; why
should they? There is always time
enough. We breakfast at nine. Mon-
sieur goes to business at ten Or so, and
returns to his dinner, like all the rest
of the Scandinavian world, at half-past
two. . We reach coffee and cigarettes at
about four, and then monsieur goes
back to his office, if he likes, for two or
three hours.
again at supper at half-past eight, but
usually there is a game of whist or‘a
geographical society lecture, or a con-
cert, or a friend’s birthday fete (an 00-
casion never overlooked by your true
Norwegian), or some one hasereceived a
barrel of oysters, and would not, could
not, dream of opening them without
champagne'and company -- masculine
company Only. It seems to me that
there are entirely too many purely male
festivities here. In fact, the men say
so themselves, and that they would
really enjoy many of the occasions ,
much more if ladies were present. But :
“it is not the custom of the country” (a ’
rock on which I am always foundering) }
to omit or to change in such matters:
Monsieur only does as do all the other ‘
men of his age, which is elderly, and .
condition, which is solid. ,
There is a curious feeling concerning
America over here, in one way and
another. Morgenbladet, the chief con-
servative paper; an organ locally of the
first importance, keeps a sort of horror
chamber of Americana. The reason is,
I suppose, that in these very dark and
treublous political times, when not only
the union, but the monarchy itself, is
threatened and tottering, the conserva-
tive ’ interest thinks it dangerous to
allow any virtue to appear in a re-
public, and especially in ours, the
most flourishing, and there-fore the
most pernicious, example of that inven-
tion of evil. bred. ‘
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A DOG'S LESSON.
He Was Taught to Be Respectful to
. Bears. -
Jack McCall, of Gray~ Eagle Bar, was
out at the dog show and took a great
deal of” interest filin _ the foxhounds, for
up in the mountains of Placer ~J ask. is
known asa._mighty'deer'h’unter, says
the San Francisco Call. Sanderson,
whose dog Paddy took the first prize in
‘ the challenge class, was talking of his‘
dog’s merits. “Foxhounds,” he said.
“seldom know much more than to fol-
low ascent, but Paddy is an exception.
I can drop my knife while out'hunting,
and, after going on a mile or more, send
him back for it and he will bring it to
me.”
“You ought to see my dog Quartz,”
said McCall. ,
“Thoroughbred?” asked Sanderson.
.“Oh, yes, yes,.he’s a thoroughbred.
One of the smartest dogs, yOu ever saw.
Fine deer dog, too. He’s a half hound
and half Scotch terrier.”
“I thought you said he was a thor-
oughbrcd,” said Judge W. P. Lawlor,
who is the owner of a prize Winner. ‘
“Well, if you saw him after deer you
would say he was a thoroughbred,” re-
plied Jack, who has not attended many
deg shows. “One day Twas out pros-
pecting and had no gun with me, and
we, Quartz and I, came upon a black
bear sitting up on his haunches. Quartz
had never seen a bear before, but .had
often' had fun with the Wild hogs that
you may see sometimes in the moun-
tains, and he supposed he had a hog to
deal with and rushed up‘ to the bear
and made a grab for him.
“The bear just reached out with one
paw, and, taking Quartz on the side of
the . head, loosened one ear and sent
Mr. Quartz roll-ing down hill. You
should have seen the intelligent look of
inquiry on that dog's face when I came
up to him. It asked as plainly as could
be: ‘What kind of a hog was that, any-
Way?’ ” ‘-
THE USEFUL BICYCLE.
An Occasion on Which It Replaced Turp-
' ln’s Bonnie Black Bees.
In these days when so many means
of earning a livelihood are closed, save
to the working classes, it is interesting
to hear of the revival of so old a pro-
fession as that of the road. This be-
ing the age of machinery, says the Pall
Mall Gazette, one need not be sur-
prised to learn that ,the bicycle has
been substituted for the Bonnie Black
Besses of a century ago. The original
formula: “Your money or your life,” is,
however, maintained intact, and the
old York road is once again the scene"
of the highwayman’s operations. The
pistol, too, is still the proper weapon,
and in other respects the traditions of
the craft are carefully preserved.
“The Doncaster police are communi-
cated with, but have not made any
arrests,” is a sentence that reminds one
of the days when watchmen were over-
turried intheir boxes. Throughout the
account is« picturesque. The cyclist-
cuthroats’ bicycles were “on the road-
side,” while their riders disputed the
passage of Mr. Lovely. The latter
shook up his gallant “safety” (hence-
forth a misleading title),- and ate
temptbd to run the gauntlet, but a
bullet took him in the back of the
thigh. He, however, escaped to “his
native city” of York, preserving his
purse virgin. .
. The "Borns'l’lred" Man.
_ The fellow who was born very tired
grew‘more and more Weary as he went
through the haps and mishaps of child-
hood, the adolescence of youth and the
early period of manhood. At middle
age he was the tiredest- maul then liv&
ing. 'At fifty he- was; so utterly worn
out with the simple praises of existing
that it occurred to‘ him to calculate
how many breaths he must draw ifhe
went on living for twenty years‘ more,
and, being ~= a - manin fair preservation,
there Was a goo’dprospect of his reach-
ing 'the’ allotted threescore ! and ten
years of. ‘ average mankind. Well, the
tired citizen figured it out on the basis
of eighteen :breaths:a minute,21',080 to
the hour, '25;920 to ,the. day, 9,462,280 for
a year and. $189,342,800 for . twenty
years. ,, ‘ The j-figur'es,.appalled him, and
he died in :‘disgust and discouragement.
We sometimes see him '
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Your '30:; Wont Lice ‘a Month. '
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
threehun red and, Seventy-five dollars
with doctors, who finally gave him up,
saying: ‘.‘_Yc'>nr boy wont live a month.”
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 MONROE’S, New Canaan.
A daughter was born last night to Mr .
and Mrs. William Bucknam Vof Platts-
ville avenue.
Free Pius.
”Sea-a your address to H.‘ E. Bucklen &
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Of Dr. King’s New Life Pills. A trial
will convince you of their merits. These
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and Sick Headache. For Malaria and
Liver troubles they have been proved in-
valuable. They are guaranteed to.
perfectly free '.from every deleterious
substance and to be purely vegetable,
They do not weaken by their action, but
by giving tone to. stomach and bowels
greatly invigorate the system. Regular
size 25¢. per box. Sold by E. P. WEED’S
drug store, Norwalk, and MONRQE’S, New
Canaan. ‘
- A new~ transformer is being placed on
the Pole in front of the Curtis building
on M an street.
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Distressing Kidney and "Bladder dis-
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ing it almost immediately. If you want
quick relief and cure this is your remedy.
gold by E. P. .Weed, Druggist. Norwalk,
onn. >
Although the-Democrats carried Ar-
kansas by'45,000it was a loss as com-
pared with 1894:.
“Mother’s Delight With Hand’s Colic Cure
HAVERHILL, Mass, 11-30-’95.—Hand-
Medicine'Co.—“I Wish to say that I pro-
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Cure and am delighted with it. My baby
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every day of her short life with col-
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heard of, but can truthfully say that any-
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Dr. Hand's Colic Cure. Yours respect-
fully, Mrs. G. G. Miller, 38 Arch St.”
Sold by all druggists, 25c
Miss Elizabeth Dwyer of Chapel
street has returned home from a visit
withjriends in Waterbury.
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, andget 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
druggisls and shoe stores for 25¢. Sent
by mail for 25c in stamps. Address,
Allen S. Olmstead, _Le Roy, N. Y.
Miss Annie Johnson of Orange, N. J.,
is :visiting Mr. and Mrs. Barry M.
Gardner, of Union Park. . -
snake Into Tour Shoes
Allen’s Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet.
It cures painful swellings of the joints
and instantly takes the sting out of corns
and-bunions. It’s the greatest comfort
discovery of the age. Allen’s Foot-Ease
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Charles F. Laumis, Jr. of Waterbury,
formerly of this city, is at LouiSville,
Ky., attending the national convention
of the Sons of Veterans. .
Mother’s Find Nothing to Equal Dr. Hand 3
Colic Cure.
WATERBURY Conn, 4-2-’96—Hand
Medicine Coze—Dear Sirs:-—“I am using
Dr. Hand’s Cough and Croup Medicine
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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. . -
Look at what the free silver agitation
is doing for the farmers. Corn sold
for 19% cents a bushel and outs for 143
cents a bushel in Chicago on Saturday.
Bucklln’s Arnlca Salve.
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Bruises, Sores, lcers. Salt Rheum
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Canaan. ’ ,
Policeman Joseph McLaughlin of
New York, and a former resident of
Franklin ,avenuethis city, is visiting at
the home of Barney Lsrrigau' 'On Bel-
den avenue. .
The Best Remedy for ’Bowél Com-b
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It , gives me pleasure to most heartily
recommend Chamberlain’s Medicines.
advertised them for along time before I had
occasion to use them in my own family. _- At
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