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Pants, $3.50, FRANK coco. 36 Main St., Norwalk. Cleaning, Repairing and Dyeing. ODORLONHOUSE GREGORY’S IOINT. -—-—— NOW UPBN FOR- THE SEASflll UFIIBQl. SHORE OlllllEllS, lllIOOE ISLAND OLAlIi CAKE, BATHIHO, BOATING, FISHING. Electric cars to Hotel, every twenty minutes. ‘ l 2. m1 LLIVAN, Manager. HAL .BALSAM ~ 25C.T ' Ask Your Druggist!‘ , In "out." Don’t go out of town to have your Awnings made when you can get them right . here at home just as cheap. If you want a canopy for a party or a wed- ding, I will supply it at two hours’ notice. A letter or postal card ' will receive prompt-at. tention. P. E. CALLAHAN, , Awning Maker, 53 Cross St.,r_Norwalk. THEiNE'W‘LIBRAIuAN. JOHN RUSSELL YOUNG TOURED THE WORLD WITH GRANT]. He Was One of Horace Greely’s Boys on the Tribune, and Did Good Work as a War Correspondent-«He Also Made 3 Failure of a Newspaper Enterprise. The new librarian to Congress, John Russell Young was born on a farm near Downington, Pa., on November 20, 1841. He began his newspaper ca- reer at the age of 16 years, when he became a copyholder to the proof- readers on the Philadelphia Press. He was soon made a reporter and his ad- vance in his chosen profession was so rapid that before he was of age he was one of the editorial writers. When the editor of that journal, the late Colonel John W. Forney, was elected Secretary of the United States Senate he took Mr. Young to Washington with him as his private secretary. While engaged in that capacity Mr. Young continued to write for the Press and when the battle of Bull Run was fought he was present in the capacity of war correspondent and'won no lit- l _ A. “-1. ~.—. -.=.,_.. ., JOHN RUSSELL YOUNG; tle credit by his description of that engagement. He left the Press in 1865, to go to New York to accept a position with the house of Jay Cooke & Co., which needed the services of a trained newspaper man to arouse pop. ular interest in its efforts to place a loan for the aid of the Government. While thus engaged. he became a con- tributor to the editorial page of the New York Tribune, and the excellence of his work soon attracted the atten- tion of Horace Greeley, who early in the year 1866 appointed him the man- aging editor of the Tribune to succeed Sydney Howard Gay. Mr. Young was then only in his 25th year, and would have much preferred to serve the pa- per as its Washington correspondent, but Mr. Greeley insisted upon his tak- ing the higher position, which he did, displaying in the discharge of its duties executive talents of a high order, and accomplishing a reorganiza- tion of the staff of the Tribune, which won him high reputation in newspa- per circles. He remained in the serv- ice of this jounral until 1869, having in the meantime studied law and been admitted to the New York Bar. . fter a year passed in Western travel Mr. Young established a morning paper in New York, which did not prove a fin- ancial success. In 1872 he accepted an editorial pos- ition on the New York Herald, and took up his residence in Europe, hav- ing charge of its foreign news serv- ice, and serving the herald in Paris and London, as well as on the conti- nent. It was during his residence in Lon- don, in 1877, that Mr. Young was in- vited by General Grant to accompany him on his famous tour around the world. In the two yea-rs he passed in the constant companionship of the great soldier were laid the foundation of a friendship only interrupted by the death of General Grant. M2. Young1 wrote many brilliant articles describ- ing the scenes and incidents of the tour, and afterwards recast and pub- lished them in two large volumes, un- der the title of “Around the World with General Grant.” Returning t: New York in 1879, he resumed his pos- ition on the editorial stafi of the Her- ald, which be retained until he ac- cepted the appointment, offered to hit: by President Arthur, of Minister tr China. His acceptance of this posi- tion, it was stated, was given in defer- ence to the wishes of General Grant who felt that the knowledge of mi 'Chinese gained by Mr. Young during their joint stay in the Celestial King. dom would make him an exception- ally valuable representative of his Government. He was appointed it 1882 and resigned in 1885, after thI election of Mr. Cleveland. . the evening, c THEEvhNING QUEEN vlo'roaIA‘s ENGINEER. Precautions 'Paken to Safeguard Her Bail: ' way Journeys. , “Everybody knows that extra can is exercised whenever“ her Majesty travels, by rail,” remarked George La; sham, familiarly known among rail way 1:11:11 as the “Queen’s driver,” to the writer one day recently, “but few people realize how thorough and com- plete are the ’precautions taken to guard against any and every possible danger.” Mr. Lasbam, it may be explained has driven the “Royal Special” over the London and Southwestern system for nearly forty years, and is there- fore an authority on the subject. “Before every journey,” he ex- plained, “no matter how short the dis- tance may be, the engine and tender attached to the ,special are carefully examined by the chief locomotive su- perintendent. A pilot engine precedes the train, all ordinary traffic is sus- pended, and the line for the whole dis- tance is watched by relays of plate layers. To the driver are given the most explicit instructions as to speed, stoppages, etc, to disregard any of which would be to court instant dis- missal. Printed instructions are given to every official accompanying the train, who is strictly forbidden to give any information respecting the ar- rangcmcnts. “When any special danger is appre- hended the ordinary precautions are redoubled. For instance, during the dynamite scare in the jubilee year, ev- ery piece of coal used in the furnace was broken into little bits in the pres- ence of an official before being loaded on the tender, and the interior of the boiler was carefully examined and scraped. The object was, of course, the same in both instances—to guard against the introduction of explo- sives."—Answers. ‘ A LIBERAL HOSPITALITY. An Irish Gentleman’siUnique Manner oi Entertainment. Some years ago a San Francisco banker maintained a country house upon what were supposed to be entire- ly original lines. It was, however, a poor imitation of the establishment of Mr. Matthew of Thomaston, Ireland, who lived in the earlier years of. the last century. Mr. Mathew inherited an annual income of about $125,000. For many years he lived abroad in a very frugal manner in order to accu- mulate an amount that would enable him to indulge in a form of hospital- ity in his own country in harmony with the plan he had devised. His» house in Ireland might be compared in size with a modern hotel. Each of those he wanted to visit him had a suite of, apartments and ordered his meals at the hour that best sultedw. him. He could eat alone or he could invite others to join him. All the vis- itors hunted, shot, fished, played bil- liards or cards at will, and all brought their own horses. There was a regu- lar bar where drinks were served without stint. Mr. Mathew as host completely effaced himself. He min- gled with the visitors as one whose stay was as definitely fixed as theirs. In fact 'he conducted his house as if it were -a hotel, with the exception that all was without charge. No servant was allowed to accept a tip. Viola- tion- of this rule was followed by the instant dismissal of the offender. This establishment, unlike other country houses of Ireland of the period, was conducted with perfect order and method and without waste. His hos- pitality was lavish, and attracted to Mr. Matthew all of the more famous men’ of. the time'.—New York Sun. ONE OF THE JOBS OF CHEMISTS. ' Analyze Food for Old lilen “i110 Think Young “’ives “’ish Their Demise. Chemists sometimes have queer ex- periences. The following facts were told by a professor in one of our W'est- ern universities: "For about ten years I have made a specialty of examining and reporting upon cases of real or suspected poisoning. As a number of my cases have been connected with murder trials, I have had considerable notice in the daily papers. This repu- tation for making analyses for poisons has brought me a queer class of pa- trons. ' “Every year I have one or more old men come to me with samples of food to be examined for poison. These men, without exception, have married young wives, and when the husband is taken sick and does not recover as quickly a-s he tlhinks heshould, he be- gins to suspect that his young wife wants to get rid of him, and is poison- ing him gradually \through the me- dium of his food. Of course he does not want his wife to know of his sus- picions, so he quietly gets a sample of the food he suspects, and at some un- usual hour for work, generally either early in the morning or very late. in he comes to me and tells me very secretly that he wishes to I have *an examination for poison made. “Now, the odd part of that, though I have made a number of such analy- ses, I have never found poison present in any case. Then the husband is very much afraid that his wife will find out be suspected her, and he gets out of my laboratory in the quickest and quietest manner possible—Chi- cago Journal. . -——-————‘.. Not a Conventional Bankrupt. “I don’t think you ought to be so bit- ter against the president of the Bust- upp Bank,” said the pastor. “Remem- her, brother, that he lost all of his own money as well as some of yours.” “That is jist, What riles me,” said the brother with the long upper lip and the-mouth that looked as if it had. been made with an ax. “To think 01 .losin’ my money to a blame fool!”— ludlanapolls Journal. . . » .tion. 'm-cnt' of that which he is .s..- LIFE—WORTH LIVING. on. SAVAGE ON THE GREATESTCF HUMAN PROBLEMS. I ' The Prize Itself Defined, as Well 3 Some of the Physical,'Mental uncl.)Iurul Re- qulsltes Necessary to Carry It Off—ileu- reatlon. “Recreation” Was the theme of the sermon'preach‘ed in 'nev. zoom Coll- yer’s church in New York by the Elev. Minot J. Savage. It was the closing one in the series which Mr. Snvagelms been preaching at this church. In the course of it he said: “The Apostle Paul was presumably a lover of common sports for he pic- tured this life as a race. He was care- ful, however, to point out this differ- ence between the race of life and the races which were commonly witnessed in the arena; those who ran in the lat- ter ran for a crown which only one of the contestants could win, while all of us can win the life prize if we will; and I will complement that by saying that we can all lose it. Right here I should ask what is the life prize? In human society one may seem to be striving for human indulgence, anoth- er for gold, another for social distinc— tion. There are a large number of goals toward which the human race is running, but if we analyze the prob- lem carefully we find that the one real object in life is living “The first desire in life is continu- ance. _We want a long life, and yet if that was all it wouldn’t be worth much. If it were only eating and sleep- ing it would be unendurable. The principal thing of life to care for is that which we get out of it-the con- tents, I might say, the fulness, the high tide, the excitement, the exhilara- tion. Therefore the question is what part of the special contents of life ought we to desire? What are the things we should seek to attain at the end of the life race? Above every— thing at the very heart of. humanity we find that man is an affectionate be- ing. those he loves. Therefore we desire home, friends, lovers. Another thing he should desire is a knowledge of the world’s literature. We may not be able to choose the society we should like, but we can go into the libraries; even the poorest of us can do that. ' I have nothing to say against the news- papers—I have the greatest admira- tion for them as one of the wonders of our time—but I do say something against persons for spending too much time reading them when you could get more value from other works. Pick out all the events of the day that a per- son would be in touch with, and let the other news go. Read Homer for a bit of Greece; enter the life of 'H'omer through the 'eyes of Virgil; make yourselves familiar with Shakespeare and Milton, and then take up the Bi- ble as the great «text book of religion. When you have done this you will know a hundred times more than most scholars know when they die. Desire to take out of life the satisfaction de- rived from reading. “Then seek something of the world's beauty. The principal thing we need in this case is not money to buy but eyes to see. You own that which you can see and appreciate. Then learn to seek music, and, lastly, learn to seek the secret joy resulting when you strive to do service to your fellow men; learn to pour yourself out indiscrimi- nately on your fellow men just as the sunshine lights up the dirtiest thing in the gutter. The more we give the richer we are. “The conditions necesary to do these things are many, but the principal one of them is health. The prime moral duty of every man is to be well. I know there are a lot of invalids who do good, but in-validism is a source cf weakness and not strength. ,The sec- ond condition is mental sanity and health. "'I'e come now where our subject touches the rhythm of life. There is a time to run and a time to play. Re- creation is quite as necessary as work. Puritanical people have. an idea that there is something sacred in work. Get that out of your head immediately. Such people boast of not having a vo- cation. The-re is not a particle of vir- tue in working in its own sense. Thous- ands of business men get intoxicated with work and spend their whole life getting ready to live, and neverlive at all. There is more, however, in recrea- tion than the mere relaxation from work. There is the question of food. We ought to study and know our con- ditions. and eat those things which Will help us. It is not a question of physi- ology; it is a question of morals. I believe that more harm is wrought in the United States‘by bad eating than by drinking. The men and women who eat wrong do‘ not go wild and break furniture, but it is quite possible to get blue and become fault-finding and complaining from this source. It is quite true, too, that as much unhap- piness results from .‘eating as from drinking. The next thing is sleep. How much shall we sleep? People are the best judges of this themselves. Some people regard it as a virtue to get up early in the morning. They are wrong. Sleep enough. “Then comes the question of play. There is one kind of play that is recre- ation and another that is dissipation, There are men in this country who live in luxury and whose whole life . is given up in searching for a new sensa- It is a well-known fact that we are always within two or three years of starvation; that the accumulation of productions is very small. What do you think, then, of a man who takes out of this little pile and puts nothing back? _ . . “The last thing necessary _is a trust in God. Learn that it is best. not to worry, but to find out the Divine drift of things and help out-the accomplish- effecting through the ages.” . ‘ ‘i ‘ ., . . _ ‘ 1.. GA ZETT E He seeks the companionship of' , ’(‘TII . u my - .nfl‘l‘r ‘ . “A I -:; :' 1' l «,1; . \ ' In, .‘ a a. / K. / , .1“? 1am: i \\ ’Tr . WA-HNlC-I' matchless. Write for catalogue of choice premiums. "I” ‘ fin l.“ 'm r I i .i4 V . .I '~ ': 3, 7.1%?) titty") 7.71% 5- ’? sari”??- '_ 5:2 - K, ,- . yrs: . 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A good lady who had not for twenty years left her plantation home was not at all au fait of the new means of transportation. She ignored railroads and th-e workings thereof. She had heard tell of the way people traveled nowadays, but did not quite under- stand it. After extensive preparations for the five-hour journey by carriage she re- garded herself as a second Christo-t pher Columbus, and once in Charles- ton spoke of her jou-rney with a most I amusing exaggeration, informing her| friends that she had “carried wit her” her equipages, her darkey coach- I man, whose name was Hercules—she called him Harcles. Her first drive around the city was a revelation, Har- cles called the attention of his “missis” to everything new to his surprised gaze. They reached a road with double tracks, and loudly sounded the whistle and the rumbling of the approaching train. . Harcles drew up his venerable horses and stopped. Madam’s head] was at once out of the window. “Why do you stop? Go on, Harcles,” but the sagacious darky' did not budge. Rapid- ly rushed by the engine and a long I train of cars loaded with turpentine , bound to the city market. “Never stop that way again, Harcles, and when you hear the whistle and rumble call out in you-r loudest voice whose carriage you are driving. Every- body, railroad men and all, know who I am. They will stop the train and let us pass.”—Vogue. A'Curluus \Vooden Watch. ' The most curious timekeeper, per- haps, that has ever been made in this country, was the work of one Victor Doriot, who lived in Bristol, Tenn., about twenty years ago. This oddity was nothing more nor less than a wooden watch. The case was made of briar root, and the inside works, ex- cept three of the main wheels and the springs (which were of metal) were made from a piece of old boxwood rule. The face. -which was polished .until‘ it looked like a slab of finest" ivory, was made from the shoulder blade of an old cow that had been, killed by the cars. “Doriot’s queer watch,” as it was called, was an open- faccd affair, with a glass crystal, and was pronounced a. fine piece of work by all the watchmakers in East Ten- l i nessee. l 1 Hidden Treasure. It is, asserted into two halves by their French own- ers every year, in the hope of “discov- : ering” an immense hidden treasure. This treasure, according to the legend firmly believed in France, is an order to pay the holder 100,000 francs in sil- v-er five-franc coins. When Napoleon Bonaparte first set the five-franc pieces in circulation the conservative mind of the French revolt-ed against the numiismatic revolution, and it was . very difficult to induce a «Frenchman to receive or proffer the new coin. Hence, according to the story, Na- poleon gave it to be understood that he had ordered a check for 100,000 francs, written upon asbestos paper, to be concealed 'in one of the new silver pieces. From that day to this nobody has objected to the five-franc piece. - together.-——New York; Tribune. ., ..__.__‘—_ = seer; he drew rapidly and simultaneously REGULAR ARMY’S OLD SERGEANT. Fills an Important omen to the Young Lieutenants .Put in Command. The characters reproduced from the recollection of army life for many years are typical and were once, and are to-day, found in every regiment In the army. Moreover, there is a. char- acter who is a study alone, sui generis -the old sergeant. Discipline and "a. stickler for discipline that he may maintain his old dignity, hesnever for- gets the respect due his superior of- ficers, though he may, as he often does, so thoroughly influence the cap- tain or lieutenant as to all intents and purposes command him as much as, if in control by special orders from the ‘ war department. In no instance is this seductive re- spect so manifest as when a. raw young lieutenant just out of West Point is given command of a. scout with a Veteran sergeant in charge of the detail. The lieutenant is made to believe he is in commnd, that he maps out the day’s march and selects the camp, but it is at such suggestions-- as these:—' “Did I understand," says the ser- geant, very insinuatingly at reveille, "the lieutenant to say we would march to the Huerfaho to-day? There is good water there, as the lieutenant knows, and good wood at band.” “Yes,” returns the lieutenant, “we will march to the Huerfano today. There is good water, camping ground and—and—grazing there.” “Yes, good grazing,” rejoins the ser- geant—and the march mapped out b the lieutenant is begun to the sound of the bugle. A Good Dog'Story. Two Senators were telling tall stories about their dogs. Outlying each other, the dog-tales grew longer and longer; At last, a Southern member of the House broke in: . "lion think those things are marvel- loin: do you? I can tell you some-' thing; about a pointer that beats it‘all Several of us fellows were 92:: gunning. Suddenly, in the midst .;f r. .oziely country road, my pointer stood stock still. There was no evia. dent; of game. , There was no one on Ill-o. road but an old country farmer standing stock still, too, gazing at us.' 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