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TH LE 7 av E N,
Lives With a Broken Neck.
Barney Baldwin of Birmingham,
'Ala., has lived for nine years, with a
broken neck. He was formerly an en-
gineer on the Louisville and Nashville
”Railroad. In an accident near Bir-
mingham he was horribly injured.
Several ribs Were broken, both legs
.and one arm were crushed, his skull
was fractured, his watch‘was driven
into the abdominal cavity, and his
neck was broken. Despite all these
injuries he recovered, and is now
sound and hearty, but suffers from
the inconvenience of having to wear a
steel harness to hold his head up. 'He
has traveled all over Europe and
America, exhibiting himself at medi-
cal‘colleges. Doctors are unable to ac—
count for his condition and his seem-
ing defiance of the laws of anatomy.
A Boy's Definition.
Teacher: “Now, children, 'tell me
what is an orphan?” No
from the scholars.
Teacher: “Well, I’m an orphan.”
Billy Jones: “I know what. an orph-
ing is, teacher!”
Teacher: “Well, Billy, what is it?"
Billy Jones: “An orphing is a lady
wat wants to git married and can’t!”
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WM. N. SEARLES."
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A STOLEN PICTURE.
My own poor holidays were of .the
scantiest at the time of this narra—
tion. I had enjoyed my freedom for ten
days of June. but (though the period
bade fair to live for ever in my mem—
ory) I seemed to have been already a
twelve-month back' at work upon the
evening when I found. Dick’s letter
awaitingme at my lodgings. -
“My Dear Mortimer: I am in town
again at last; arrived last night. Come
round and smoke a pipe—to—night, if
possible; I’ve a hundred things to tell
you. Meanwhile—if you’ll believe it—
I’m engaged. Yours, DICK."
The news he told me was the pleas-
antest possible; for I also, to tell the
truth, had learned in my days of free-
dom how unenviable are the liberties
of the mere bachelor. I remained free
for the present; but I nevertheless
hoped to follow his example before the
year was out.
One can do a good deal in ten days;
indeed, I had fallen hopelessly in love
in less than that number of hours. But
I felt it rather much to ask that Maud
should have recognized and learned
to reciprocate my feelings in so short
a time; and so I had not spoken. All
the same, I knew that it would be a
crushing disappointment to me if she
had not accomplished it. Her home
was at Brighton, she once told- me;
and she well knew my friends, the
Meynells.
For Maud—I could find no words to
express her. I put my hand into the
breast-pocket of my coat and drew
out a photograph. It was not a very
good likeness; the hair was not
dressed in the fashion which had be-
come so familiar to me—and that fash-
ion of a surety was the most charm-
ing that ever occurred to the mind of
ingenious woman. But still, the pic-
ture had enough of her to be for me
the most beautiful thing in the world
——save only her sweet self. I had stolen
it. She was stopping with the Lut-
trells, with whom I spent my holiday
at Sandybar; and Madge Luttrell was
a great friend of mine. She had de-
tected or foreseen my devotion to
Maud, I think, eyen before it revealed
itself to me. At any rate, I knew she
would be discreet, and, trusting to her
clemency, I had stolen this precious
photograph Out of her album upon the
morning when I left Sandybar.
I had soon finished the meal which
stood ready for me. and from which
I had been kept by Dick’s note and by
the emotions resulting from its peru-
sal. Then I found my hat and stick
and my very largest pipe, and set out
across London to Dick’s rooms. The
place was in darkness and untenanted
when I entered, but I knew that he
would not fail me, and struck a match
to discover if he had left a note to tell
me when he would return. “Back at
eight,” it read. “Meanwhile, there’s
baccy and a new Stevenson.”
It was now upon the stroke of 7, so
I lit the lamp, found the Stevenson,
and prepared to spend an hour pleas-
antly. The time passed most happily;
at last I‘laid aside the book and filled
my pipe. I walked across the room to
take a spill from the mantel-shelf, and
in a moment found myself gazing at
the photograph of Maud Cameron—the
girl I loved, the girl I hoped to marry.
It was in a frame .of elaborately
beaten silver, already somewhat
tarnished by tobacco smoke, and be-
yond a doubt was a portrait of Dick’s
fiancee.
There was a sudden sound of foot-
steps on the stair, a hand upon the
door, and (even as I thrust back her
photograph into my pocket) the door
opened and Dick entered.
“Hope you’ve not had a long wait,"
he said. “I had to be out for awhile.”
“Not long,” I answered. “And I—I
found plenty to occupy me. And now,
I suppose, I must congratulate you?”
Dick laughed. “Do you only sup-
pose? I am the luckiest beggar in the
world. But never mind; you will see
her some day, and then you will speak
differently. You will envy me—madly;
for indeed— But we’ll wait until you
have met her; only I promise you you
may safely venture your congratula-
tions. Here is her photograph, by the
bye, a wretchedly bad one, but still
not at all unlike.”
He moved to the mantel and handed
me her picture, enclosed in that abomi-
nable frame of his. I took it from
him, and for a minute and more gazed
hard upon her face. ‘
“It’is all true,” I kept whispering to
myself. “She has betrayed me.”
Dick watched me in silence. evi-
dently convinced of my admiration; in
reality I was wondering whether it
would be better to tell him that we
‘ had met.
Presently he broke silence. “Well?”
he said, holding out his hand for the
return of her photograph.
“You are lucky,” I answered slowly.
“She is very beautiful.”
"Ah,” he said, contentedly, “but you
don’t know how beauriful. That pho-
tograph is a libel.” '
He put it back upon the mantelshelf,
and selected a pipe. Then he stretched
himself in an easy chair.
“You two must know one another; in-
deed, she is already eager for your ac-
quaintance.” _
I was steeled, I thought, against all
that he could tell. me, but upon this I
wellnigh betrayed myself. Had she
admitted that her fancy for me—I
knew that she had come near to loving
me—was dead, I could have borne my
burden uncomplainingly, and ,might
have forgotten. But that she Should
deny that it had existed—that she had
ever known me—that was past tolera-
tion. 1
“They live at Brighton,” Dick con-
tinued, “so that we are not too far
away to visit them. You must come
down some day with me. I want you
to know her.”
”—1—“...—
-heard her speech.
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There are times when it were unWise
to be sincere. .'
“I shall be delighted.” I said, even
While I reviewed the‘ excuses upon
which 1 should be able to rely in the
, event of his some day tendering a
more definite invitation- Then I
turned tlie conversation into other
channels, and in a little while (some-
what to the disgust of my friend, who
had much to tell), I left.
About a month had passed when I
had a note one day from Mrs. Luttrell'
“Dear Mr. Mortimer—We have taken
tickets for the Lyceum matinee on Sat-
urday, and three or four friends are to
meet us there. I wonder if you are
free that afternoon, and would care to
meet us at Charing Cross and go with
us to the theatre. Yours very truly,
Frances Luttrell.”
It was a miserable,“ foggy day, and I
half-feared they would not come. But,
though their train was somewhat de-
layed, they presently arrived, and we
took a cab along the Strand. Madge
looked unusually pretty, and greeted
me with a disappointing cheerfulness.
I had counted on a little sympathy
frox her, but her aspect was one of
rather mischievous enjoyment. It
would have been timely enough if she
had held in store for me some very
delightful surprise. She even referred
to a matter which I had hoped for a
month past had escaped'observation.
“I did not think that you would de-
scend to theft,” she said; “I would
have given it to you. And of course
you discovered your mistake?”
We were entering the theatre as she
spoke; there was a momentary press
of people, and I affected not to have
Indeed, I was not
a little angry; her clumsines-s was ob-
viously intentional, for I was well
aware that she in no wise suffered
from want of tact.
A moment, later we were being shown
to our seats.
“I’Vill you take the inside seat?” said
Madge, and I moved obediently to the
last vacant place—next to a lady whose
face was turned from me. I was just
taking my seat when she turned and
looked up at me. She had the grace
to blush—for it was Maud Cameron——
but there was no tremor in her voice
when she spoke a moment later.
“How do you do?” she said politely.
And in the same words I answered
her. .
Presently she leant a. little nearer and
spoke to me in her soft, pretty voice.
“You have nothing to say,” she said.
“You may talk, you know.”
I turned to her with a look of des-
peration. Why could she not leave me
to myself?
“I had forgotten,” I said.
congratulate you—or Dick,
rate.” .
“0!” she answered, smilingly, “you
may congratulate, me also; do not
fear. It has happened marvelously
Well.”
“Marvelously well I” I echoed.
“Yes,” she continued; “and particu-
larly in that you are his particular
friend. It is so nice for the wife when
the husband’s friend is nice. But why
didn’t you tell him you knew the Lut-
trells—and me?”
I stared at her, incredulous of her
cruelty.
“How could I tell I tell him?” I
said indignantly. “You had denied ac-
quaintance with me, and since you
had forgotten, do you think I wished
to remember?”
I was a trifle startled at the effect
of this speech. It should have silenced
her, I thought; but it seemed as if I
had injured her, and now a greater in-
dignation than my own arose in her.
“It is not true,” she said. “\Vhat do
you mean? I saw him only a fortnight
ago, when I returned from Sandybar,
and I distinctly remember telling him
that day that I had met you there.
Mother did suggest that he might
bring you down one Saturday, but of
course—”
I interrupted. “You only saw him
a month ago? Why, ’tis a full month
since he told me you were engaged.
And yet you have known him only a
fortnight?”
She looked at me with a sort of piti-
ful amazement.
“He told you he was engaged to me?
Why, he’s engaged to Mary, my sis-
ter. And besides—”
A new life entered into me; the old
hopes lived again. Yet.I was uncon-
vinced.
“He showed me your photograph,”
I said.
She looked at me a moment. Slowly
the bewilderment faded from her face,
and it appeared she was mightily
amused.
“Did he tell you my name?” she
asked. ~
“He shOWed me your likeness, an
told me you were engaged to him. I
don’t remember if .he told me your
name. But there was no need; I do
not forget so easily.”
Maud chuckled—there
“I must
at any
is no other
word. ‘ '
“You had seen the photograph be-
fore?” she said.
“I stole it out of Madge Luttrell’s al-
bum the day I was to leave Sandybar.
I thought———”
“Surely it was a little curious to steal
the photograph of a lady you had
never met? For it is to Mary, my sis-
ter, that Mr. Ferguson is engaged, and
it was her photograph you took from
Madge’s album. She is considered
rather like me.”
I was stunned with the sudden joy
<9. ‘
and with the sense of my great stu-.
pidity. I know that her eyes were up-
on me, and would have given worlds
to be with her, for a moment only,
away from this great crowd of people.
“I burnt it,” I said, “a month ago.
You will give me one of \your own.”
She answered nothing.'and at that
moment the curtain rose. But I. was
well content—From Black and. W'hite.
White.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—Robert F. Mar—
shall, 34, superintendent of the- Altoonc
division of. the Pennsylvania railroad, shot
himself at his brother’s house in Washing-
ton today. Mr. Marshall was one of the
most valued young men in the Pennsyl-
vania service. ' Fer some time he has suf-
fered from acute nervous troubles resulting
from overwork,aand it is to this that the
tragedy is attributed He was a son of J.
W. Marshall. ‘ ‘
One Way to be Happy.
Is to attend to the comfort of your fam-
ily. Should any one of them catch a
slight cold or cough. call on Edward P.
Weed, Norwalk, or George C. Stillson,
South Norwalk, sole agents, and get a
trial bottle of Otto's Cure, the great Ger-
man Remedy, free. We give it away to
prove that we have a sure cure for
coughs, colds, asthma, consumption,
and all diseases of the throat and lungs.
Large sizes 50c and 250.
A son was recently born to Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Olmstead. This is the
eleventh time that childeren have been
born with the right and title to call
John J ohnsou grandpa.
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Mother, Have Your; Baby 9
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
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restful sleep. Mother, think of the
worry and tnxiet this.sav_es you. If
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It would appear that the fire-bug
whom some people have accounted as
being dead or in jail was very much
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WATERBURY Conn., 4-2-’96—Hand
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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.
Miss Florence Scofield of this city,
has been visiting with Miss Mabel Kel-
sey of West Main street, Norwalk.——
Bridgeport Post.
Condense Testimony.
Chas. B. Hood, Broker and Manufact
urer’s Agent, Columbus, Ohio, certifies
that Dr. King’s New Discovery has no
equal as a Cough remedy. J. D. Brown,
Prop. St. James Hotel, Ft. ‘Vayne, Ind.,
testifies that he was cured of a Cough of
two years standing, caused by LaGrippe,
by Dr. Kings New Discovery. B. F.
Merrill, Baldwinsville, Mass., says that
he has used and recommended it and
never knewdt to fail and Would rather
it than any doctor, because it cures.
' Mrs. Hemming, 122 E. 25th St. Chicago,
always keeps it at hand and has no fear
of Croup, because itinstantly relieves.
Free Trial bottles at E. P Weed’s Drug-
Store, Norwalk and Monroe’s New Ca-
naan.
Edward H. Fanton,‘ formerly of this
city, who has been employed at Derby,
has resigned and is now located at New
Haven. \
Did You Ever
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troubles? If not, get a bottle now and
get relief. Thismedicine has been par-
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of all Female Complaints, exerting a
wonderful direct influence in givmg
strength and tone to the organs. _ If you
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and are troubled wtth Dizzy Spells,
Electric Bitters is the medicine you need.
Health and Strength are guaranteed by
its use. Fifty cents and 31,00 at E. P.
Weed’s Drug Store, Norwalk, and Mon-
roe’s New Canaan. '
A report that gums credence is to the
efl'ect that Mrs. Alice E. Clark of Mott
avenue, will shortly remove to Bridge-
put.
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Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis.
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Sold by E. P. Weed, Druggist. N nwalk,
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sizMrs. G. Willis White will. lecture on
the subject of “art," at the Central
club, this afternoon.
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Fever Sores Tetter, Chopped Hands
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Price25 cents per box. For Sale by
E.P. Weed, Norwalk and Monroe, New
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How to Cure 3 Severe Gold.
A few weeks ago the editor was taken
with a very severe cold that caused him to
be in a most miserable condition. It was
undoubtedly a bad case of la. grippe and
recognizing it as dangerous he took imme-
diate steps to bring about a speedy cure.
From the advertisement of Chamberlain’s
Cough Remedy and the many good recom-
mendations included therein, we concluded
to make a first trial of the medicine. {1‘0
sayhthat it was satisfactory in its results, is
utting it very mildly, mdeed. It acted
like magic and the result was a s ed and
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