Evening gazette, Thursday, October 1, 1896 · page 4

 

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THE EVENING GAZETTE

 

ENTERED Ar run POST OFFICE IN. NOBWALK
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AS a ansrarnn.

M 4.1L 8 UBSC’RIPTIONS.

DAILY. one year. 33: six months. $1.75; three
months. 31.00; enelmonth. 30c.
' WEEKLY. one: year. in Evadvance; $1.00; six
months. 600.: three months. 35c.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1896.

 

 

THE WEATHER—Forecast for to-
day: Partly cloudy to fair, cooler
winds, possibly high on the New Eng-

: land coast. 0n Fridav, fair. cooler,
fresh winds with frost in the northern
find‘exposed districts at night, and‘on
Saturday, fair to pm H y cloud y, warmer
weather.

. o.———————
'Hopeand Help are Near.

It is only thirty-three days, when Wil-
liam McKinley will be elected Presi-
dent—the friend of honest money; of
protection; of the employment of labor;
of American progress, prosperityand
glory. Amen and Amen. So mote it
be. '

 

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Congress is of First Importance.

In a Presidential campaign it should
be remembered that Congress is almost
as important apart of the Government
as the President, and as much attention
should be given to the election of Con-
gressmen as to the election of a Presi-
dential ticket. A President without a
Congress in sympathy with him is not
a very powerful element of the Govern
ment.

 

The Pension List. ‘

Back in 1879, when the appropriation
tor pensions rose from thirty-three to
fifty-seven millions, General Garfield
explained that this was the maximum,
as all dependent veterans had then b on
provided for and the list Would thence-
forth tend to diminish.

This prediction held good for just
one year. Then new forms of pension
began to be provided and the appropri-
ations graduallly rose to eighty-nine

millions in 1889. Then came the Con-
gress of 1890 and the item for pensions

took another leap reaching a maximum
of one hundred and fifty-eight millions
in 1893.

This was really the high water mark,

 

_very large sums having been required?

for the payment of arrears under the
new set. In 1894 and 1895 the annual
payments were nearly stationar“, the
total pension disbursements of the lat-
ter year being $140,959,361. This year
according to the report .just published,
the corresponding figures are $138,214,
761, a decrease of two million and a
half.

The Commissioner’s report shows that
40,374 new pensions were added to the
rolls during the year and 3,873 restored
who had been dropped. The losses by
deaths were 20,393 and by other, causes
14,700, so that the number on the rolls
at the close of the year, 970,678, was
but 150 more than at the beginning.

> This seems to indicate that the pension

' list has at last actually reached the
maximum, and is likely henceforth to
diminish.

It is interesting to remark that, omit-
ting the postal service and interest on
the public debt, the payments for pen-
sions are almost exactly one-half of the
annual expenses of the government,
both civil and military.

6

“The Right Kind of 8. Tariff.”

Major McKinley has laid in so much
ammunition for a tarifi‘campaign that
no one can reasonably object to his fir-
ing some of it off at Canton. It is
generally realized that we must get the
currency agitation settled first of all,
and settled emphatically.

The New York Commercial Adver-
tiser expressed this very well in a re-
cent article in which it said that what
the country wants is “a business tarffl‘,
framed on just and scientific princi-
Ples,” by a commission of .iexperts
rather than by politicians, and that the
proper course would be “to revise the
present tariff thoroughly in accordance
with protective policies rather than at-
tempt an absolutely new enactment.”
Every one admits the necessity of more
revenue, but that could be easily pro-
vided without disturbing the body of
the tarifi‘ at all, and whatever the faults
of the existing act, it yet, as the Ct m-
mercial Advertiser says, “affords a
basisuipon which the work of tarifl’ re-
vision can proceed without undue dis-
turbance to business.”

The soundness of this proposition is
so..plain that it meets the approval of
some of the most prominent Republi-
cans, whose opinion was sought, among
them Err-President Harrison, who says
that the views. of the Commercial Ad-
vertiser “reflect the’ sentiments of a
great majority of Republicans.”

 

 

 

WHAT SHOOK HER FAITH. '21

How n Very Sweet Tempered Bill.
Learned Something of Old Soldiers.

She is a bride, sweet tempered, sympao
thetic and with a boundless faith in hu-
man nature. She lives in a. pretty little
home. in West End avenue—no .mattel'
what the number is. Before her mar-
riage-and, indeed. ever since—she has
been active in works of charity and good
will, and long ago she made a resolve
that when she came to have a home of
her own no needy man should be turned
from her door empty handed. ~

But already she has made a mental
reservation. She is disposed now to do
her almsgiving through organized chan-
nels of charity, rather than at the front
door or in the streets. And this is how
her childlike faith was shattered.

The snow had just stopped falling. It
lay six inches deep, white and glistening
on the pavement of \Vest End avenue,
when a poor, forlorn fellow in tattered
coat and leaky. shoes came shuffling
through the drifts and up the steps that
led to the pretty bridal nest. He shook
the feathery flakes from an old slouch
hat, hesitated a moment, then touched
the electric bell and stood firm and erect,
despite his beggarly rairnent, in the atti-
tude of “attention.”

“Excuse me, miss,” he said to the maid
who opened 9 door, as he gave her the
military salute, “I’m an old soldier, and
not used to begging, but if you would ask
your mistress if she hasn’t an old pair of
shoes to spare. Thesnow comes clear
through the soles of these.”

The maid left him standing there, and
soon returned with a. half worn but serv-
iceable pair of shoes, much better than
those he wore. The old soldier took
them gratefully. He hesitated, and
then said, with an air almost Chester-
Ieldian:

“Miss, your blue eyes are as kind as
they are pretty, and that makes me hold
to ask if you couldn’t perhaps find an old
coat a. trifler more presentable than these
rags I am wearing.”

The maid was impressed. ”He’s awell
spoken man,” she said to her mistress,
as she delivered the second message,
“and I’m thinking he’s seen 'better
times.” _ .

A serviceable coat was found. The
bride’s good husband only glanced over
his newspaper to see that it wasn’t his
newest cutaway that was to be sacrificed.
He smiled. He was rather fond of humor-
ing the bride’s little charitable whims.
The maid delivered the coat and was soon

tel-able surprise.

“And what is it he wants now, Maggie ?”
said the mistress. "

“Well, ma’am, I never saw the likes of
him for a beggar. He took the coat like
he took the shoes,almost a cryin’, he was
so pleased, and then he kind 0’ choked up
like, and he says to me: ‘Sure, miss, I’d
like to do something for yez to show me
gratitude is genuine, and if yez’ll get me
the coal shovel I’ll do yez a good turn
anyway by 'a-clearing the snow off your
front pavement.’ So I got the coal shovel
and gave it to him, and he touched his hat
ugain.”

“He is no ordinary mendicant, surely,"
laid the bride. '
some equivalent, eVen by his own hard
labor, proves him to be a worthy lInan;
don’t you think so, my dear?” and she
turned toward her more worldly wise
husband for his approval.

But the worldly wise 'husband only
smiled as he glanced over the top of his
newspaper again and said: “Perhaps so,
my dear; but Maggie had better go down

shovel.”

Maggie went. The wind whistledmn
she opened the door. The snow still
glistened in the sunshine. It, was still
six inches deep on the level, and drifting.
It was still unbroken, save for the broad
footprints of the old soldier headed to-
ward the street corner. He had gone. So
had the coal shovel.

THE BOY AS A BAROMETER.
He Fortells the Coming of Spring in Hi]
Own Way. '

The other day a boy in this town stand-
ing upon the heel of one boot for a cen-
ter described the circumference of acir-
cle with the toe of the other. It was a
marble ring, and spring’s first and surest
harbinger is here. The migratory birds
may be deceived. The trees may swell
their buds with a false joy at the deceit-
ful breath of the south wind. Water!
may laugh merrily at. their territory re-
lease from bondage, as the mouse re-
joices when the cruel cat lifts up her
tantalizing claw. The sky and the earth
and the air may seem to read the signs of
spring and be mistaken, but the boy in
nature’s masterpiece. He does not err in
interpreting the sound of nature’o
voice.

When the season’s change is first sure-
ly heralded a boy is the herald. , Tho
marble ring is more faithful in its prom-
ise than the rainbow. There is no doubt
now that the winter has done its worst.
There may be bitter cold days but there
will be in the chilling Winds the chill of
spring, and the warm days will outnum-

City Star. -

 

Tlmfi'“ Possible Revenge. —.-.-..

The Hon. M.. Strongmind (rising in
her place and Spun ..- mg in a deep, reson-
ant, contralt-o voice)—I wish, now, Mad-
am Speaker, to move that we proceed to
the consideration of the bill, “To Pro-
hibit Men from going Out Between Act!
It Theatre.”——Chicago Daily Tribune.

content With Less.

“I suppose,” said Mr. Gratebar, “that
really the man who attains the greatest
possible enjoyment of life is the man who
finds the greatest happiness in work; but
how few of us there are that are ambi-
tious in thatdirectionl”

Apples as Brain Food.

Apples are now recommended by many
physicians as brain food because they
contain a. quantity of pho'sphoric acid
and are easily digested. Eaten at night
before retiring they excite the action of
the liver and produce sleep. Several
Chicago physicians have pronouncedin
their hymn—Chicago Tribune.

Laporto Girls’ Modest Wants.

, Laporte girls don’t Want very much‘.
They ask for a new writing desk at the
postofli‘ce, a desk supplied with a mirror
where ladies can arrange their toilets, and
easy chairs so that they can rest while
waiting for the mail.-Indianapolia
Journal. .

 

 

' The Beginning of Wisdom.
One of the first things for women ti
learn is how to buy a larger shoe and I
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up stairs again, wearing a look of unut. ‘

“His desire Ito givfi Ill .3

andjust see that he doesn’t steal the coal ,

her the cold ones from now on.-—Kansas.

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Call at 58 Belden
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ing to set out trees
this fall. All stock
warranted to live.
Edgar Buttery,
58 BeldenAve.
25 years foreman of
Hoyts’ Nurseries.
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4-7 Main Street.

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RECEIVING
BASKETS
From which collections
are made -twice daily,
are at the following
_ places :
Benedict, W. A. & 00., 114 Washington
street.
Bodwell, H. E., 75 Washington street.
Comstock Bros., 14 South Main street._
Sturtevant’s, 51 and 53 North Main
street. .
Johnson, Edward C., 193 Washington

street, [Bridge]
Gorham, ‘E. E., 10 First avenue, East

Norwalk.
Pinneo’s, 49 Wall street, Norwalk. .
Also at Elm Grove Store, from which a
daily collection will be made.

Our Drivers Will be Glad to Call
" Whenever Notified. '

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WSGHOOIL

WILL REOPEN.

Stillman 29,1896.

ALL .
APPLICATIONS

For admission should be
made at Hillside at an
early day. '

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SGHlllli. turrets.

soon. Just bear in mind the
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Pens, .
Pencils,

Slates. Everything used in the Sch001

can be found at

JOHN T. HAYES'
NO.:5 MAIN STREET. NORWALK.

 

want iii-5E STORE

Finest and Largest Line of Shoes,

Ever placed on sale, for the Fall of 1896, in N orwalk-

 
 

1n Hanan &; Son’s well-known line, we Wish to invite

 

your inspection of the following styles of Toes in Shoes.

Bull, Dog Patent Leathers,

Our Win

ter Tan,
Bull Dog Enamel Leathers,

Royal Toe in both calf and Double Solo and Rope '

Stitch around the Edge,”
ls simply

Patent Leather.
New Enamo Golf with ,

Double and Single Soles, Perfection itself.

 

These Goods are strictly .
UP-TO-DA‘I‘E,

and are only a few of the many new styles we have added to our
> immense stock of both Ladies’ and Gents’ Fine Shoes

A full line of TRUHKS, BAGS, M'AGIIII'OSIIES and RUBBER.
GLOTHIilfi. Your Shoes shined free at the
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