FREE surronsr A ELEGANT BUTTON FREE WITH EAcH PACKAGE Sweet Caporal Ciga ettes m— AN oppéhTumTj; To MAKE AJUULLEUTIUH UE BUTTONS WITHOUT COST. I ucKwonnls LIGHT PARCEL and l.- , PACKAGE DELIVERY Cheap rates. Will also take orders for mes Booger service In New York. Goods called , rot and delivered to all parts of the town. Orders received at E. P. Weed’s Drug Store. Wall Street. with telephone connection un- ‘3°' o, E. LOCKwoon. AT, P. W. BAT ES’ 42 mm STREET. you can find as fine an assortment of Mfllllfllflllfllllflflllfllllllwnl‘l As can be found in any Yard in the State. Look it over and get prices before going elsewhere. —_ w. H. HAYWARD a. co. Proctor Attorocrc coo Solicitors, 109 East Capitol Street, WASHINGTON. D- C All classes of claims prosecuted before the Interior Department. Rejected pension claims a specialty. Correspondence solicited. Boocoscrrrrcrccc . control...“ A PURE MALT EXTRACT. A SUBSTITUTE FOB SOLID FOOD. Highest percentage Extract. ' Lowest . percentage Alcohol. An effectiveTonic. An agreeable Beverage: A mild'Stimu- lant. Just what physrcrans Will pre- scribe for Nursing Mothers. _ Convales- cents and victims of Insomnia or Nerv- ous Disorders resulting from Impaired Digestion and Overworkdj Fer Sale and Delivered Anywhere Lona Island Bottling 00., 280:284 Bergen St-. Brooklyn, FOR SALE BY EDWARD P. WEED. PRIVATE Instructions given in BOXING at the pupil’s home. CLASS Now foaming, and ap- plicants desiring to join should apply at once to Prof. Geo. Yoerger, SouthLNorwalk, or at this ofiice. 00 YOU KNOW - WWI—Z) . That you can save money by buying your Meats and Fish at r. w. SMITH’S, 55 Main Street. verything First Class. OPEN EVENINGS l SOME OF THE SILVER KINGS. Enterprising \Vesterucrs \Vho Have Grown Rich Off the National Treasury. [New York World] .,., No story’showing the wealth and in- fluence of t'he silver kings woud be complete without special reference to W. A. Clarke of Montana. This gen- tleman is worth $40,000,000. Since the present campaign opened he has been one of the conspicuous workers in the cause of free silver. As recently as the 3d of this month he was closeted a long time with the Bryan managers. Mr. Clarke is one of the principal owners of the very valuable Anaconda mine of Montana. In order to show the value of this property it should be mentioned that in October, 1895, a one-quarter in- terest in this mine, representing 300,000 shares, was sold to an English. syndi- cate for $25 a share, or $0,500,000. The capital stock is $30,000,000, divided into 1,200,000 shares. It is a. copper mine, but silver as a by-product is taken from it in large quantities—just how much it is impossible to learn. In this city there are several publications de- voted to mining interests that receive much of their news direct from the mining camps. To this information is attached the condition that the entire yield of the mine shall be lumped to- gether and that no names or any other particulars shall be made public. David H. Moffat, the Denver banker, has made $40,000,000 through his mining interests. He made it raDi, y and easily. Besides being presideh of the First National bank of Denver, he owns large interests in- the Maid of Erin mine of Leadville, and in the famous Holy Moses, Mammoth, Victor and Amethyst mines at Crecde and rich properties at Cripple Creek, Ouray, Aspen and other camps in Colorado. - The Maid of Erin mine is capitalized at $3,000,000, divided into 600,000 shares. It has paid $740,000 in dividends. Gold, silver, lead and copper are taken out of the mine. The Victor mine is capi- talized at $1,000,000, divided into 200,000 shares. It has paid $605,000 in divi- dends. In July last a dividend of 10 per cent. was declared. Mr. Moffat was a Republican presidential elector in 1892. He went over to the Silver party before the Chicago convention and did his utmost to secure the silver plat- form. When it became necessary to gather together a fund to carry on the campaign Mr. Moffatwas unhesitat- ingly placed in charge of this work. It is said that within a short time he had organized a pool that yielded $200,- 000 on the first demand, and that it could be depended upon to yield as much more as was necessary. The money is not sent to the Democratic national committee, but is spent by the silver syndicate in its own way. Mr. Moffat and Senator John P. Jones have held many conferences as to the best plan for fastening free silver on the people. Senator Jones is worth $25,000,- 000, and the people of Nevada look up to him in much the same way as the people of Colorado look up to Mr. Moffat. He is a silver man before he is anything else. In June 29, 1893, he declared that if congress repealed the Sherman silver purchasing law a. sil- ver party would be formed, and that there would be a breaking up of the two old parties. The Sherman law was repealed, a silver party has been formed, and the rest of the prophecy’s fulfillment may be seen four weeks from, tomorrow. when election day shows how the peo- ple regard the small group of pluto- crats, of which Senator Jones, of Ne- vada, is a distinguished representative. When in 1873 silver was Worth more than gold in the open market at the ratio of 16 to 1, Senator Jones and all the mine owners wanted gold made the money standard. They could sell' their silver in the open market and they wanted a monopoly of the United States mints for their gold. As fresh discoveries of silver and improved min- ing machinery more than doubled the output of silver it became “cheaper" than gold at a ratio of 16 to 1. Then‘ the mine owners began the increasing agitation to force the government to buy silver at an artificial price not warranted by the market rate. They knew that their gold would find a market without the help of the mints. so that they only ask a monopoly of the mints for their silver. That is their position today. Concessions to these silver monopo- lists have already cost the government $146,000,000, losses on silver purchased. \Vhat Free Coinage \Vonld Teach. The ultimate result is not at all uncer- tain. After a period of infinite confusion. disaster, humiliation, suffering, and min- ery the American people will at last ro- gnin sanity of. mind and arrive again at some very simple conclusions: That, if you calla peck a. bushel, you will have more bushels, but not more grain; if you call a foot 3 yard, you will have more yards, but not more cloth; if you call a. square yard an acre, you will have more acres but not more land; and if you call 50 cents, or 1 cent, or abit of paper a dollar, you will have more dollars, but not more wealth—— indeed, a great deal less chance of wealth, for you will have far less credlt. because far less honesty. “’8 shall then have learned again that the wit of man cannot —-a1though insanity tries very hard—4n- Vent an economic system under which everything you have to sell will be dear and everything you have to buy will be cheap. And having got hold of the). sim- ple truths, the American people will then in sackcloth and ashes repent of this in- sane free coinage debauch—Cnrl Schnrz. Lower Wages. If Mr. Bryan should be elected presi— dent on Nov. 3 every wageéear‘ner in the United States would be working on Nov. 4 for less wages than he-‘received on Nov. 2. By the votes of the Amen. can people he would be pitchforkea 1n- stnatly into lower wages. Hi9g,day‘9 pay on the silver standard basis‘wcumi buy only one-half what it bought-under the gold standard. Does he think; he could get his pay doubled to make 1115 wages equal to what they had been? Does he think that when employersl were going into bankruptcy or stopping business by the thousands because all? security was diminished and because’ all credit was destroyed—does he think that, with ruin upon the na_tio , any employer would raise wages? Competent Authority. Ex-Governor Tom Waller joins in the general denunciation. of the talk of the demagogues who seek to array the poor against the rich, and who, as he happily puts it, flatter poverty in or- der to take advantage of it. It Will-hp remembered that Tom Waller began life as a newsboy, land is acquainted with poverty.—-Boston Herald. x. . . . . l. 1...“.-. “. ../‘ 1' THE EVENING GAZETTE THE GERMANS IN AFRICA. Resignation of Baron von Wissmunn—Dt. Kayser’s Farewell Speech. LONDON', Oct. 21.-—The Berlin corre- spondent of The Times telegraphs that Baron von Wissmann has resigned the gov-, srnorship of east Africa on account of ill health and will probably be provided with a post at home. It adds: “At the autumn session of the colonial council today Dr. Kayser, chief of the Ger- man colonial department, delivered his farewell address, in the course of which he reviewed the German colonial history since he has held the office. He denied the rumor that he had resigned on account of the ceaseless attacks of the Peters party, but said it was an open question whether the colonial policylwould ever bring ad- vantage or blessing to Germany. His own rich fund of enthusiasm had been exhaust- ed in a continual struggle against obsta- cles in the reichstag, against selfish op- ponents and in exhausting labors which had long since outgrown his physical powers. He then described the persecu- tions he had endured at the hands of the Peters faction. ‘Dr. Peters was incensed at being passed over in favor of Baron von Wissmann for the governorship of east Africa,’ said Dr. Kayser. “Herr Arendt visited me on the eve of Baron von Wise- mann’s appointment and made a veiled threat of persecution unless Dr. Carl Pe- ters was appointed.’ Dr. Kayser pre- dicted that revelations would soon be made which would clear the atmosphere of the scandal and intrigue In German colonial aflairs. He hoped that eventually the colonies would be self supporting and would justify the dreams of the colonial enthusiasts. ” A dispatch to The Morning Post from Berlin says that there are rumors of an- other change in the colonial administra- tion, involving an increase of 5,000,000 marks in the imperial subsidy. De Gicrs to Succeed Mohrenheim. PARIS, Oct. 21.—-'L’Eclair today says that. M. N. N. de Giers. councilor of the Russian embassy at Paris, will supersede Baron von Mohrenheim, the Russian em— bassador to France, on account of the lat- ter’s pronounced opposition to the recent visit of the czar and czarina to the French capital. Fatal Fall From a Bicycle. CLINTON, Mass, Oct. 21.-—Jaines Mul- doon of Concord died today at the Clinton hospital as the result of injuries sustained by falling from his bicycle on Sunday. As Muldoon and two friends were descending a steep hill Muldoon’s wheel struck a rut, and he was thrown ofif, striking on his head. Sweden \Vants an Ironclad. STOCKHOLM, Oct. 21. — The govern- ment will apply to the next riksdag for credits of 10,000,000 kroner to build an ironclad, several million kroner to build torpedo boats and cruisers and 6,000,000 kroner with which to begin the fortifica- tion of the gulf of Bothnia. Five Hundred Men Get “fork. POTTSTOWN, Pa, Oct. 2l.——The pud- dlers in the Ellis 85 Lessig Nail Works have gone to work at $2.25 per ton. The works had been idle several months. The entire plant, including the sheet mill and nail factory, will now resume, giving work to about 500 men. Sir Edward Clnrke Criticised. LONDON, Oct. 21.—The Daily News (Lib- eral) and The Morning Post (Conserva- tive) have editorials which complain of the explanation offered by Sir Edward Clarke of his speech attacking the British case in the Guiana boundary dispute as evading the real point. Incendiarles at a Church. SARATOGA, Oct. 21.—An incendiary at- tempt to burn the Presbyterian church at Whitehall is being investigated. The con- tents of a kerosene tank were poured on the carpet and ignited, but the fire was discovered in its incipiency and was extin- guished. The London Grain Market. LONDON, Oct. 21.—'-—At the Baltic today the wheat market opened Sixpence under yesterday’s closing price, but prices stiff- ened later, holders demanding yesterday’s top prices. There was little doing. how- ever. . The Weather. Fair; cooler; brisk westerly winds. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Closing Quotations of the New York Stock Exchange. NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—~Money on call very firm at 6@8 per cent. Prime mercantile paper nominally 7@9 per cent. Sterling exchange steady, with actual business in bankers' bills at $4.83%@4.831/(n for demand and $4.80}fi@4.80}§ for 60 days. Posted rates, $4.80}é@4.82}§ and 34.83%,@4.85. Commercial bills, 54.78%. Sil- ver certificates, sales 56,000 at 66c. Bar silver, 35%0. Mexican dollars, 50%0. Government bonds firm. State bonds dull. Railroad bonds firm. Closing prices: Atchiscn ..... . ..... 18%IN. J. Central.. . . .101 Bur. & Quincy..... 72% North American. 4% 0., C., C.& St.!L.. 27% Northern Pacific 13% Chesapeake & 0.. 14% Do. pref ......... . 21% Chicago Gas....... 05% N. Y. Central.... 92% Cordage... ..... 4% Omaha.... ...... . 39 Cotton Oil ....... .. 14% Ontario & West. 13% Del. &"Hudson....122}é Pacific Mail...... 20 Erie........ ..... 4% Reading.......... 28% General Electric.. 28 Rock Island...... 63% Hocking Valley... 1654 Silver Bullion.... 66 Lackawanna......155 St. Paul.......... 71% Lake Shore. . . . . . ..146 Sugar Refinery. (1105/4 Lead...... ........ . 21% Texas Pacific.... 7% Louisville &Nash. 43% Union Pacific.... 7% Missouri Pacific... 20% Wabash pref..... 15% Northwestern.....100}4 Western Union.. 83% General Markets. NEW YORK, Oct. 20,—FLOUR—State and Western quiet, holders‘still asking,qu prices; city mills patents, [email protected]: winter patents, [email protected]; city mills clears, [email protected]; winter straights, [email protected]. WHEAT—No.“2 red opened active and ex- cited at lower prices and afterward declined sharply under long and short selling and weak- er cables; December, 88@84%c.; January, 84% CORN—No. 2 weak and decidedly lower, following wheat and on declining cables; De- ..embcr, 32%@33%c.; May, We. OATS—No. 2 quiet and weaker with corn: track, white, state,21@3lc.; track.white.west— ern. 21@3lc. lanai—Quiet; mess, $8.50@9; family, $10.50@ LARD—Quiet; prime western steam, $4.70 @435, nominal. ' BUTTER—Steady; state dairy, 11@17}éc.; state creamery, 12%@20c. CHEESE ——- Quiet; small, M@10y4c. EGGS—Quiet; state and Pennsylvania,‘18@l I 200.; Western, 15@18}éc. SUGAR-Raw quiet; fair refining, 2966.: cen- trifugal. 96 test, 3c.; refined quiet; crushed, 4%c.: powdered, 4%0. TURPENTINE—Steady. malice. - 'MOLASSES—Quiet: New Orleans. 29@87c. RICE—Firm; domestic. 3% Japan, 4@ 4%0. 4 TALLOW—Dull: city, all-1%!“ coun- try, 3 l3-16@3%c. ‘ - HAY—Steady; shipping. 55@600.; good to choice, 75®82§éa , ‘ ..... , _ The skeleton in many a household is .the peculiar weak- ness of the wife and mother, or of the .- wife who ought to be : a mother and is not. ‘ nappiaess 5 de- stroyed by the pres- ence of the secret sickness that may lurk like a grinning death among the most luxurious homes. The most terrible thing about this condition of of- , fairs is that it is entirely needless. There is no reason in the world why every woman in the world should not be strong and health- ful and capable of fulfilling her whole duty as a wife and mother. Many women go on month after month, and year afier year, be- coming weaker and weaker, because of a very natural hesitancy they feel in consult- ing a physician. They know that if they go to a doctor for treatment, the first thing he will insist on will be “examination" and “local treatment.” This must of course be distasteful to every modest woman. They are generally as unnecessary as they are ab- horrent. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription cures positively, perfectly, permanently, all varieties of “female weakness ” and dis- ease. It is designed to do this one thing, and it does it. It is the only medicine now before the public for woman’s peculiar ail- ments, adapted to her delicate organization by a regularly graduated physician—an ex- perienced and skilled specialist in these maladies. It cannot do harm in any condi- tion of the system. Its sales exceed the combined sales of all other medicines for women. will be healthier and happier for counsel contained in Dr. Pierce’s , great universal doctor book: , “ The Peo le’s Common Sense -' Medical A viser." It is the most comprehensive medical work in . one volume in the English lan- guage It contains 1008 pages, ully illustrated. 680,000 copies have been sold at $1.50 each bound in cloth. The rofits are now used in printing alf-a-mill- ' ion flee copies bound in strong manilla paper covers. To get one you have onl to send 2: one-cent stamps (to pay cost of ma .- inor only ), to World‘s Dispense. Medical Assoc:- atibn, No. 663 Main Street, Bu alo, N. Y. Send promptly before all are given .away if in want of one. They are going off rapidly. CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK, .26 WALL .912, NORWALK. . CORPORATED SEPT. 1. 7876. CAPITAL, - - . - . . $100.00C GEORGE M.HOLMES. President. E. L. BOYER. Vice-President. WILLIAM A. CUBrIs. Cashier DIRECTORS : GEORGE M. HOLMES. P. L. CUNNINGHAM, E. L. Borax, H. E. DANN. J. T. Pnowrrr S. H. Honmcs, J . Cocsms. J n. Ulscount nay, Satcrdav- DAVID . w, RAYMOND Funeral Director and Emlolrrcr 392 Washington Street 80th Normal]; Residence, Mahackerno Hotel. following the friendly, practical . cocoozcrrr: PRINTING M Department. WORD TO THE WISE Merchants, Manuram l u are, Lodges and SO’lleliirr will consult their own Inter ests by giving us a. call. REMEMBE‘R— -If you haw. work to do, write to us. Our Reputation to Put to cor Instruments. Just one mis- take and we are hurt. That is the Reason Why ~ SCHLEIGHEcc SON os ARE WHAT I'lf state, Ia‘rge', mama; : it THEY ARE. Honrsr worm AT on HONESTPBICE Let us build you a piano to match yo 1.. furniture. Come and see our factory. Pianos Sold an Easy Terms and Old Ones Taken Exchange. Factory: Pacific St? Stamford. ECONOMY THAT PROVED COSTLY. How lifi‘. Iti‘»?)wn Saved Half a. Dollar and Ruined Hisl‘rousersh In a moment of economy Mr. Brown went out in the kitchen to press his trousers, and Mrs. Brown followed to witness the performance and to laugh at the figure he cut prancing around in his pajamas. “It makes me think, to watch you," chirruped Mrs. Brown. sitting on the table and swinging her heels, “of something that happened one day last summer when I was typewrit- ing.” “Before you met me?” . “Just so. Well, Arthur Jones came down to the office, in a cool suit of duck, but someway he looked awful- ly funny. One of the men said, ‘Hul- to Jones; what have you been doing to your trousers?” and Arthur re- plied that he didn’t want any chatting, that he had had trouble enough all day, running sideways because some Chinese galoot had wheels. Arthur was awfully slangy.” _ ' “He had the creases running up the sides, did he?” said Mr. Brown. “That makes me think of once when we felv lows on the old Post had a flat. There was a coon used to take care of the joint for us. Joint? That’s a name for any old place you like pretty well. Well, the coon hadn’t much to do but smoke our tobacco and drink our beer when we weren’t about, so I thought I’d utilize him for a valet and gave him two pairs of pants to press.” “\Vhy, Charlie,” interpolated Mrs. Brown, “did you wear pants in those days?” “Excuse me, my dear, trousers, but they were pants when he got through with them,” said Mr. Brown solemnly-,- wetting his finger and sizzling the iron. “He’d thought he’d be very careful, you know, and when a coon does such a'rash thing as to think, it’s all up with you. Billy didn’t want to spoil the cloth by putting the iron on it, so he turned the garments inside out. You may imagine the result. I put them on without noticing them, being in a hurry, and I had to go about all day with a Watteau pleat down the front of each leg and likewise down the back.” “For goodness, gracious sake,” guru gled Mrs. Brown, “did folks think you wore a tea gown?” “I didn’t go around talking an in- ventory of opinion.” Mr. Brown set the iron down and burst into a roar, while he leaned up against the sink and mopped the per- spiration from his brow. Mrs. Brown laughed, and swung her heels. Just then a smell 0% burning cloth pervaded the kitchen, and Mr. Brown snatched up the iron and the cloth and gazed ruefully at a big round spot on the leg of his trousers. “Say Madge, what do you think of that? I‘ve saved a half dollar and ruined my best business suit listening to your gabble.” HOW OLD rs SHE? ' The One Subject About \Vliich it is Per- missible to Prevaricate. The Prince of Wales once asked a. very pretty woman her age. She re- plied: “Just twenty-five.” Five years later he met her again, when he asked the same question. “Just twenty— five,” she again replied. The Prince smiled and said: “Five years ago you made the same answer.” “Ah, Your Highness, surely you don’t think I am‘ a woman who says one thing to- day and another thing to-morrow.” Women all the world over, white, black red and yellow, equivocatc on one point. That point is their age. In fact, there is something essentially unfeminine in the make-upof a wo- man, who, having arrived—having very much arrived—at years of discre- tion, does not equivocate. And it is a woman’s first duty to be feminine. That women are reluctant to “change a figure” is common knowl- edge. When she has passed the thir- tieth milestone a woman mendaciously loves to linger in the twenties, from which she refuses to move pntil com— pelled to do so by the too evident pressure of years. This feminine propensity to falsify one’s age is not always the result of vanity. It may arise at times from a slovenly habit of the mind, which is 10th to change a figure that has done service for so long. When the new year comes on us, the pen often clings with sentimental forgetfulness to the figures of the old. It rebels against putting a. 7 where a six has been. Perhaps the same lazy sentiment and forgetfulness urges a woman to fabricate an age in consonance with“ her desire. The favorite “sticking age" for wo- men is twenty-five. This is proved by the facts that the number of wo- men returning themselves as between twenty and twenty-five is far larger than the number of girls returned ten years before as being between ten and fifteen. The former must natu- rally-be the survivors of the latter. Here is a little mystery of which the solution must be found in the intri- cate mazes of woman’s vanity. .Why a woman should begin to fal- sify her age in the early twenties has always been a puzzle to the fair and square-minded lords of creation. From twenty-five to thirty—five is assuredly the table land of woman’s life and attractiveness. , Granted. But women are essen- tially prudential in their calculations. "If one is determined to “stick” at twenty-nine, to refuse to run the stee- plechase of life fairly, to decline to take at a bound the third multiple of A year or two in the early twenties is never missed. " And a woman never stoops to pick up what she has thus lost. Which are wise in their generation. ten, it is Well to begin in good time. ' leads to the conclusion that wom
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