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A SUPERB MANSION. i
WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER’S BEAUTI-
FULVHOME ON THE HUDSON.
Bockwood Hall Second Only to George
Vanderbilt’s Aslieville Palace. The
House and Improvements Cost about
$2,090,000. . ‘
The valleys in the vicinity of the Hud—
son have been particularly favored with
palatial homes. Among the small Vil-
lages which rest upon its banks there is
none more picturesque and none that
contains more wealth than Scarborough.
The most enterprising, and, in fact, the
wealthiest land-holder of the place is
William Rockefeller, who owns Rock-
wood Hall. ‘
The estate is situated about a mile
from the Scarborough station, on the
Hudson River Railroad, and extends
back from the river line far beyond the
old Albany post read, now known as
Upper Broadway. _" '
In the centre of a lovely park, with
all the picturesqueness of nature, which
comprises a series of well kept lawns,
shaded and embowered drives and
walks, woodland retreats, beautiful
flower gardens, seweral lakes, across
which are sprung pretty bow bridges,
greenhouses, &c., stands Rockwcod
Hall, the baronial mansion of Mr.
Rockefeller. The house stands on an
eminence, from which there is a mag-
nificentyiew of the Hudson. It is of
chased granite, and occupies the site of
the famous old Aspinwall mansion.
It is asserted that there, is now but
one chateau in'America that can excel
Rockwood Hall in magnificence, and
that is George Vanderbilt’s home, Bilt-
more, at Asheville, N. C. The house
is absolutely fireproof from basement
to roof. ,
The floors are of inlaid oak, polished.
The roof is of tiles and fire brick, paint—
ed red. At the rear of the house is a
walled yard. and in it an ice house of
Ashley stone." '
Some idea of the luxurious appomt-
ments of the mansion will be derived
from the following description of the
sleeping rooms: ' _
The sleeping boudoir is in the Empire
style, finished in white mahogany and
gilt. The light and green colored vel-
vet hangings give a decided richness to
this room. The canopied bed, with its
silken coverlets, trimmings, and per-
fumed blankets, cost something like $2,
500. The dressing room has an arf
rangement of mirrors that reach from
the ceiling to the floor, and which stand
in deep niches in the sides and ends of
the room.
There is also another arrangement of
mirrors whereby four different views of
the same gown can be had at one time.
Opening out of the dressing room is a.
pretty bath-room. .
The suite of rooms occupied by Miss
Emma Rockefeller before her marriage
to Dr. David Hunter McAlpin are to re-
main intact. These rooms combine
both beauty and convenience. The bed-
room has a cameo tinted ceiling, and
is decorated in blue and gold. The
walls are beautifully frescoed and hung
with large paintings and portraits of
Miss Emma.
On entering her boudoir the first object
which catches the eye is (an immense
onyx fireplace. over which is a French
glass mirror, whose frame is of antique
oak, rich in carvings. Connected there‘
with is a cozy .reading room, which is
in baywood mahogany, and is tinted
and decorated in a light cherry shade.
Miss Rockefeller formerly spent a
great deal of time in this room in read-
ing and writing. The bathroom is fin-
ished in white tile and cameo tinted
onyx.
Each sleeping room throughout the
house has handsomely upholstered easy
chairs and divans, the colors of which
match the tints of the room. Both Mrs.
Rockefeller and her daughter in their
extensive travels collected many rare
pieces of furniture, brica-brac, em-
broideries, statuary and bibelots, which
adorn the different sleeping-rooms.
The grounds, which comprise one
thousand acres, are kept in superb or-
der. At the river side is a fine wharf
and a pretty boathouse, to which the
largest steamers may approach. The
house and the improvements about it
cost more than $2,000,000, and the fur-
niture, it is said, cost nearly $1,000,000
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ANTITOXINE, DIPHTHEfilA’S FOE.
Mortality from the Discasu In _BOSton
Reduced One-Half.
It is seldom that the use of any agent
in the treatment of disease has met with
the complete and lasting success that
has attended the use of antitoxine in
diphtheria cases. The success in its use
has been marked, and it is a conserve.
tive estimate to say that since it has
come into use, the mortality from diph-
theria has decreased one-half.
As a matter of fact, it is probable that
the use of antitoxine has reduced the
death rate from this disease to a much
greater extent, as, from the ease with
which cases, are, treated with .the new
agent many can at once be taken care
of, which under the _old’ system of treat
ment might, through the poverty of the
family, or through other causes have
reached such an advanced stage that it
would be difficult to combat it.
Interesting as the use of antitoxine in
the actual application of the agent to
diphtheri'a is, it is a. small part of what
it means to the medical profession. As
soon as it was found out that there
could be no doubt that antitoxine could
be successfully used in fighting diph-
theria, medical men all over the world
ask'ed themselves why the same system
could not be applied to diseases of like
nature, and Che result is that experi-
ments are now going on which, if sue--
cessful, bid fair to revolutionize certain
lines of medical science.—Boston Tran-
script. - '
An Incentive to Businesl.
“Smith is in" business for himself,
isn't ,he?" asked Jones.
“For himself? Well, I should say he
is in business for the benefit of an ex- ,
navagant family,” replied Brown.
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ONE (LITTLE WORSHIPER.
But it Was Said, “Of Such is the Kingdom ;
of Heaven.”
One lonely little worshiper, whose
eyes were big and gray, whose brown
hair came almost to her waist in two
fluffy braids and whose dress reached
just to her shoe tops, had to say the
ameus and make the responses for the
great, rich parish of St. Chrysostom one
morning not very long ago. '
It was shortly before 9.30 o’clock that
Dr. Sniyely’s congregation came trip-
ping up Dearborn avenue with a little
red prayerbook under its arm. And
the congregation, pushing open the big
swing door, saw with some misgiving
that the dozen or so worshipers who
usually are present at the weekday
morning service had not yet arrived.
But she, nevertheless, tiptoed shyly
down the aisle and slipped into her
accustomed seat, which is just to the
riglit‘of the chancel steps, and, having
knelt to say. the little silent prayer for
forgiveness, and grace, she waited. Ten
minutes passed, and fifteen minutes and
twenty minutes, but still nobody came-
to morning prayer. But it never oc
curred to ”her that if the rest of the
world saw fit not to worship she, too,
' might be justified in omitting the duty
So she. looked steadfastly up at the
greatjstained windows where the sun
streamed through in radiant patches 0.
purple and gold. »
Just as she was. beginning to think
she must have made a mistake aboui
~ the hour for service, Dr. Snively looked
in from theyestry. When he cspieil
the congregation he smiled very ten
derly and came down to the pew where
his faithful parishioner sat. And she
looked up somewhat abashed, and he
said: “Don’t go away, Edith, for we
will have service in a few minutes."
Then he went back to the vestry ano
soon reappeared, clad in his vestments
He knelt at the altar an instant ii.
prayer, and then rising and turning to
ward the congregation, which also had
risen, he spoke that solemn exordiun'
of morning service, which begins: “The
Lord is in His holy temple; let all the
earth keep silence before Him.”
Then, as the ritual says it shall be.
"the minister shall kneel and say the
Lord’s prayer, the people still kneeling
and repeating it with him.” Aftei‘that
Dr. Snively said: “O Lord, open Thou
our lips,” and the very small person in
a very scared voice said: “And our
mouth shall show forth thy praise."
Then they said the anthem and the
psalmsfappointed for the day, and of
the psalms it happened that one was r
petition in which David invoked the
direst penalties on his enemies. and the
words of it sounded very strange as the
child uttered them, skipping the hard,
long onesand putting infinite sweet-nos.
into David’s terrible maledictions. ‘
The glorias. the Te Deum, the lessons
of the day, the creed and all the other
ofiices of the service followed, not
thing being skipped or slighted by the
priest or the little girl who were wor
shiping all alone in the, beauty of holi-
ness. And when it came to the bean-
tiful prayer of St. Chrysostom the min.
ister repeated with peculiar solenmity
that part pf the petition which says
“And Thou who dost promise that
when two or three are gathered together
in Thy name Thou wilt grant our re-
quests, fulfill now, 0 Lord, the desires
and petitions of Thy servants as may be
most expedient for them.”
Then be blessed the kneeling child
very gently. and the congregation, dc
parting at peace with all the world,was
soon on its way to Lincoln Park, where
the skating was said to be very good.—
Chicago Chronicle.
THIS not; A JOKER.
He Had a llIemory, too, and His Innocent
Prank Showed It.
Dr. Buell of Norwalk, Conn., owns
in intelligent dog, now eleven years
old, which for the first six years of its
life was ill. treated by a young man
who did the chores for the doctor and
took care of his horse. The young fel
10w was an excellent mimic of anima.
sounds. and whenever he caught the
:log asleep he would, creep up to him
and givealoud bark close to his ear.
The dog would be startled and would
jump up to defend himself.
Recently the young man came back
an a visit. When he came into the
house the «log looked at him, but gavo
’ione of {Le usual signs of recognition
l'ha‘t nine day, while the young mm
was leaning on his, elbow looking out 0)
a window with his back to the room
Dr. and Mis. Buell, with others in tli
room, noticed the dog creep softly up to
he y Eng man. All watched to se
chat the dog would do, ready to in
erfere if an attempt to bite the young
allow was made.
But the dog was a joker. He had no
utention of biting or scratching, bui
no memory of those six years remained
:irh him and his time had come to take
evcnge. The dog raised himself until
its mouth was close to the young man's
ax when he’ gave a tremendous bark.
uii‘l {lien dashed o'ut'of thereon.“ The
.o‘ucg "mar. was’as frightcncd'aa‘ if at.
oaitbQu'ake had come. ‘
Ills Infinite Resources.
“I've got to have something to fill
mt [his column with,” said the fore
man of The Spiketown Blizzard, poking
His head into the editorial sanctum
That‘s all there is about it. I've run
in all the dead ads. and all, the catch
lines and slugged everything out until
there isn’t Even a piece of wood reglei
,eft in the office, and I’m tshort yet half
i dozen lines."
Whereupou Editor Clugston sat down
ind wrote as follows:
”Owing to the, crowded state of our
:olumus this week ' we are compelled to
unit several
lions now standing in type. ‘Frienda
will please bear with us. Advertisers
must be accommodated. Until the
pressure’on our columns has eased up
:orrespondents will please write briefly,
and confine themselves to simple state-
ments of facts—Chicago Tribune.
interesting communica-l
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9i NEW GOVERNOR.
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; THE LATE GOV. CREENHALGE’S suc-
1. CESSOR IN THE BAY' STATE.
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No Handsomer and No Betterlliressed
Man in Massachusetts. Not an Orator
or a Handshaker, but aClear Debatei
and a Good Campaigner.
Roger Wolcott, the acting Governor
of Massachusetts, is a. Boston man, the
son of the late Lieut. J. Huntington
Wolcott. -He comes from a family as
old as New England itself, closely iden-
' tified with the early history of the colo-
nies, and conspicuous in the colonial
and revolutionary wars.
Mr. Wolcott is the fourth Governor
in his family, the other three having
achieved success in Connecticut. He
was born on July 18, 1847. His hair is
prematurely silvered, but in constitu-
tion and deportment he is a much
younger man than the date of his birth
would indicate. Six feet in height and
of athletic frame, he is pointed out on
the streets of Boston many times a week
as a person of striking appearance by
men who do not know him. Always a
student and a close reader, he was
known among the students of Harvard
as a young man of considerable literary
attainments. He was orator of his
class, which was graduated in 1870.
After leaving Harvard ' Mr. Wolcott
bent all his energies to the study of
law. He was admitted to the bar, but
like his close friend, Henry Cabot
Lodge, never practiced, all his time be-
ing occupied by his many affairs and
tates. His office is on the sixth floor of
the Exchange Building in State street.
He has occupied there one large room,
rather bare and lonely looking. His in-
clinations pointed toward politics, but
his extreme modesty long kept him in
the background.
Nature seemed to have fitted him for
ahigh place, but politicians hereabout
always maintained that he required
somebody behind him to do the :push-
ing. He was not’aggressive enough,
but everybody admitted that he pos-
sessed most of the other essential re-
quirements. , ’
Mr. Wolcott was started on his pc-
to the Common Council, where he re-
mained until 1879.
branch of the Legislature, and he was
reelected in 1683 and 1884. While in
the Common Council and the Legisla-
hard-working, conscientious man. He
was not conspicuous in politics from
1884 to 1890, but he gave his friends a
tremendous surprise when President
Cleveland came into the field. For a
time he was a Mugwump. He spoke
and voted against James G. Blaine. and
with Richard H. Dana practically defied
the old-line Republicans.
In 1885 Mr. Wolcott and Richard H.
Dana. were sent to Springfield as dele
gates to the State Republican Conven
tion. In 1891 he was chosen President
of the Republican Club, and in 1892 he
was elected Lieutenant Governor of the
‘ State. The Hon. William E. Russell
was Governor.
Mr. Wolcott held second place from
that time until Gov. Greenhalge’s
death. Four years ago, when there
was talk of running him for Governor,
he wrote:
“My attitude toward the nomination
Is this: That 'in'what seems to me the
wholly improbable event of the Repub-
licans of the State wishing to place me
in nomination, I should consider it a
wholly uudeserved compliment and
honor, and should not decline, but I do
not seek the nomination, and if it should
go elsewhere, as Ithink it will, it would
be to me personally a. relief rather than
a disappointment.” .
Mr. Wolcott will be the logical can-
iidate of the Republicans next fall, but
.. the American Protective Society, headed
by" Congressman Rising Sun Morse,
want his political scalp, and will try to
get it. .
Not a New Woman.
They were discussing politics, and
shore had been a noticeable lack of log-
ic in any of her remarks and argu-
ments. At last he said with a little
' iaugh: .
“I don’t believe you can give me a
iingle good reason for your being a
.Democrat.”
"Are you willing to make a bet on it?"
she asked.
“I am,” was the reply. “If you can
i0 it you have two pounds of marrow
glaces, to-morrow.” '
“Well, then,” she said, with a merry
twinkle in her eye. “1 am a Democrat
‘ because my father is.”
She got the bonbons.—New York
Journal. ' I
, An Instance.
“Moral courage,” said the teacher, “is
the courage that makes a boy do what
he thinks is right regardless of thejeers
if his companions.” ‘
“Then,” said Willie, “if'a feller has
sandy and eats it all hisself and isn’t
afraid of the other fellers ca.lin’ him
"stingy, is that moral cc'urage‘IK-Ciii-
:innati Enquirer. . .
his duties as trustee of several large es- .
ROGER. WOLCOTT. -
litical career in 1877, when he was sent
' In 1882 he was elected to the lower
ture Mr. Wolcott was regarded as a
THE VALUE OF CONFIDENCE.‘
Some of the Secrets of success in Business
Exposed.
The law governing success in any’
business is as accurate in its work-,
ing as that of the attraction of gravi-
tation. It seems an application of the
same law. It is the mental condition
acting as a real magnet, which at-
tracts whatever brings to you suc-
cess or failure.’ Make up your mind
that you will have a front seat in life,
and you attract to you the powers
that carry you to the front seat. If
in mind you take the back seat, you
only get the back seat. The confi-
dent, determined mood of mind,
steadily kept up, brings to you other '
confident people. _Confidence in the
business world means both cash and
credit. There is not half money
enough in this country for doing its
daily business. .What is lacking in
coin and bank notes is made up by
men’s‘names written on bits of paper
promising to pay certain sums in 2
certaintime.
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The Kalamazoo has returned to Nor-
wnlk after an enforced vacation of a
few months. Police!
Mother, Have You. a Ba by 1?
If so: get from your druggist today for
25cabottle of Dr. Hand’s Colic Cure.
Every baby often has distressing colic-
Dr. Hand’s Colic Cure gives immediate
relief by removing wind from the
stomach and quiéting the nerves, giving
restful sleep. Mother, think of the
worry and anxiety this saves you. If
your baby is teething Dr. Hand’s Teeth-
ing Lotion for 25csoothes and relieves
all pain. Sold by‘all druggists..
Mrs. William Bates of Leonard street
complained to the police last evening
that her little boy was in danger of his
life by reason of missles hurled at him
by other children on that street.
Motlur’s Find Nothing Equal. to Dr. Hand's
Colic cure,
\VATERBURY Conn., 4-2-’96——Hand
Medicine Co:—Dear Sirs:.'—“I am using
Dr. Hand’s Cough and Group 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. _ ”M _
St. John’s Lodge, F. 8; A. M. will
confer the first degree, Thursday night
and we have it on the word of Brother
Wade that the work will be followed by
refreshments.
Marvelous Results.
From a letter written by Rev. J. Gun-
derman of Dimondale, Mich., we are
permitted to make this extract. “I have
no hesitation in recommending Dr. King’s
New Discovery as the results were almost
marvelous in the case of my wife. While
I was pastOr of the Baptist Church at
Rives Junction she was brought down
with pheumonia, succeding La Grippe.
Terrible paroxysms of coughing would
last hours with little interruption and it
seemed as if she could not survive them.
A friend recommended Dr. King’s New
Discovery; it was quick in its work and
highly satisfactory in' its results.”
Trial bottles tree at E. P. Weed’s Drug
Store, Norwalk, and Monroe’s, New Ca-
naan. Regular size 50c and $1.
The Pequonnock Pleasure] club met
last evening and resolved to enjoy them.
selves as long as the club remained in-
existence.
Electric Bitters,
‘Eiectric Bitters is a medicine suited for
any season, but perhaps more generally
needed, when the languid exhausted
feeling prevails, when the liver is torpid
and sluggish and the need of a tonic. and
alterative is felt. A prompt use of this
medicine has often averted long andp'er-
haps fatal bilious fevers. No menicme
will; act more surely in counteracting and
freeing the system from the » malarial
poison. Headache, Indigestion, _Con-
stipat-iou, Dillincso yeild to Electric Bit
tere. 50c. and $1.00 per bottle at E. P.
Weed’s DrugStore, Norwalk, and Mon
roe’s, New Canaan.
Gilbert Scapeilo the deaf and dumb
repolish of pedal coverings will return
to the asylum at Hartford, to-morrow.
Relief in Six Ham-s.
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 blad der
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.
The remains of Timothy Hyde who
died in New York will be brought here
for interment to-morrow.
Bucklln’s Arnlca Salve.
The Best Salvein the world for Outs
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum
Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands
Ohilblaius, Corns and all Skin Erup
tions, and‘positivelycures Piles. or no
Payrequired. It is guaranteed to give
perfeetsatisfaution,or money refunded
Price25eents per box. For Sale by
ESP. Weed, Norwalk and Monroe, New‘
Canaan. --
Rinaldo Sammis of Northport is" a
guest of the Misses Bennett on East
avenue.
The Best Remedy for Bowel Com-
‘plaints.
It gives me pleasure to most heartily
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, yomiting and
purgeing. was delighted With the prompt
relief afiorded by Chamberlain’s Colic, Chol-
era and Diarrhoea Remed .—A.' M. EVER-
LAND, Editor and Prague __
Globe, Mendon, Mich. For sale by E. P.
. Weed, Druggist. 1 . .
law is
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