SOUTH ,_NO.RWALK.
eBranch Office of GAZETTE No. 12
NOrth Main Street. ‘ .-
The dog show at Oedar island closes
to—day. New attractions will be an-
nounced later. '
Bicycle coasters will coast for honors,
etc. on High street hill next VVednes-
day evening. '
A prize of $10 awaits the person who
secures the largest number of new
members for the Twin City Wheel club
before the let of December. '
Mrs. Phoebe Crabbe will celebrate
her 100th birthday anniversary this
afternoon, at the home of Councilman
George S. TrOwbridge.
The Fish club Outing will take place
7 on the 15011.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. A.
E. Winchester yesterday. _
Members of the Twin City Wheel
club propose taking a trip to Water-
. ,bury on their bicycles next Sunday.
Business is booming at Hubbell’s hat
factory, in fact this is true at all of the.
. hatfactories, including the R. & G.
' (factory where they make corsets of
world wide reputation.
James Walters, 43 years old, who
said his home was in Boston, was struck
by a train yesterday while he was walk-
ing across the “Tin” bridge at Bridge-
port. He sustained a bad scalp wound
and concussion of the brain.
Ernest R. Wilson represented the
Putnam Hose company at the funeral
of Edward S. Laidlaw in Westfield,
yesterday afternoon. '
' Chief of Police Vollmer met with an
accident at his home on Union street at
an early hour this morning. He was
able to attend to his duties, however,
as usual.
Fancy work sales at summer resorts
give women who never do embroidery
a chance to secure the loveliest things
for their homes at very reasonable
prices. ' ‘
The Baptist Christian Endeavor so-
ciety held a lawn party at the home of
Dr. Shel-er on Washington street last
evening. The grounds were prettily
decorated and the afl'air one to, be long
remembered with pleasure. '
John H. Ferris, the Coal dealer, is
“sampling” half a dozen or more corru-
l‘ gated coal-pans, to take the place of.
baskets for the delivery of coal in
apartments. They have rope handles
and would appear to fill a long felt
want. . __ ,
The excursionists on the steamer Isa-
bel consisting of the Methodist Sun'-
day-schools reached home 'in safety
. shortly before 6 o’clock last night.
They visited Locust Grove where they
enjoyed a luncheon. and afterwards
were treated to a delightful sail on the
Sound ending with a trip home.
The Crosswalk club partook of a
ashore dinner at Gregory’s Point last
evening. The members present were:
Chief of police William Vollmer, Ed-
} ward Zeluff, Sylvester Hunt, William
-Miller, Charles Seymour, Joseph Volk,‘
Matthew Corbett, John Paul, Charles
Bosch, Robert McDonald, Charles
Smith, Edward Conners andGeorge
Gladstone, the latter sitting down at
the festal board last and making what
is considered by some to be the un-
lucky number thirteen. The feast was
, one of Landlord O’Sullivan’s best.
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An Odd Fish.
In the Pacific Ocean, among the
islands of Santa Barbara and in the
seas of California, a queer fish spends
a lazy life, floating on the surface for
the most of the time, and basking in
the sunshine, with part of his body out
of the water. It is called the mola-
mola by the natives, and the mole or
moon fish by the Whites. Unlike oth-
er fishes, it has no‘ tail in the proper
.sense of the word, only a kind of
fringe acting as a rudder. It is some-
,times over ten feet across the? fins.
'and round as a bladder. Strange to
say, it serves as a floating island for
large numbers of sea birds, especially
gulls and cormorants, to rest upon and
preen their plumage. When chased,
the [indolent moonfish dives like a
duck, to reappear further off. Never-
theless, it Would be easily caught,
were the flesh good to eat, but its
toughness renders it only fit to dry in
the sun as a. substitute for india-I'ub-
ber balls.
. Hardly Worth Remembering.
A clergyman says that he was one
day called down into his parlor to per-
form a marriage ceremony for a cou-
ple in middle life. .
“Have you ever been married be-
fore?” asked the clergyman of the
bridegroom. '
“No, sir.”
' . “Have you?” to the bride.
. ‘,‘Well, yes, I have,” replied the bride,
aconically, “but it was twenty yea-rs
-: go, ,and he fell off a horse and killed
.‘isself when we war married-only a
eek, so it really ain’t worth mention"
g.”——New York Tribune.
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Sixty -third ye
ope Oct. 1st. 189
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I‘ITHEEVE/151NG.'GAZ'E;T.TE,; , ,5 5 , .‘
Stock and M11010] Management
For a Quarter-Cantu .1 3
LIKE SPARROWSAND RAVENS.
A” Kazan-City Soot That Gets All It Want
"' from God.__ ,'
The KansasCity Times tells of a
colony of fifty people out on Eleven-ti:
street and Troost avenue of that city,
known as the Gospel Union. The head
of the colony is a Mr. Perry, formerly
cashier of a bank in Abilene, Kan. The
colony lives on faith. That is, they
pray for what they want, and it al-
ways comes. Mr. Perry said to the re-
porter: - ’ .,
“We really depend on the Lord for
all that we eat. drink and wear. We
never know on one day just whatwe
are going to have on the next, for we
are certain that He will provide. ”
“You have plenty to eat, then?”
“We not only have all that we need
to sustain life, but we have a great
many little extras that make it pleas-
ant. Of course we live plainly. We
should do that even if we had plenty
of money at our command. Some time
ago a report got about that seemed to
convey the impression that about all
we have on our table is bread and ap-
ples. This is not trueby any means.
Understand me, we should not com-
plain at all if we were compelled to
subsist on bread and apples, nor, in-
deed, if we were left without food.
The only reason, therefore, that we
have for objecting to such statements
is that the Lord has provided for us,
and we wish to acknowledge it and
give Him credit for it.”
“All your contributions are volun-
tary?”
“Entirely so. They all come from
people who believe we are doing the
Lord’s work, and who are prompted by
Him to help us. 'We never take up
any collections, nor ask for any dona-
tions.”
"Does the money always come when
you need it?”
"Yes, and what may seem strange to
- you, it always comes in the amounts
I remember one day, some
time ago, I received $12. Our gas bill
was due. That was $8.85. I paid it
and had $3.15 left. Our water bill was
due on the same day, but I did not
know the amount of it. I put the $3.15
in an envelope for the purpose of pay-
ing at least a part of the water bill.
When I went down to pay the water
bill, what do you suppose the amount
of it was? Exactly $3.15. You see, we
had received exactly the money we
needed for that day and no more.”
“That was certainly an odd coinci-
dencg.” _
"There was no coincidence about it,”
said Mr. Perry; “the Lord knew how
uch we needed, even though I did
not, and He sent it to us.”
“At another time one of our mis-
sionaries in a foreign country had
spent everything he had with the ex-
e'eptio of 5 cents. Dinner time came,
and h had nothing with which to buy
food. ,
Presently theletter carrier came to his
house with a letter which he had neg-
lected to deliver when he had been to
the house earlier in the day. That let-
ter contained the remittan‘be which the
minister so sadly needed.”
we need.
CHURCH TRUST IN NEW ORLEANS.
Ion Negro Organizations Give Up Their
Afl’airs to a Church Debt Co.
New Orleans has developed a
church trust. Ten colored churches of
different denominations have organ-
ized so as to reduce their indebtedness,
and have placed themselves in the
hands of a company styling itself
“The Church Debt Liquidating Com-
pany,” which promises to relieve them
in whole or in part from the debt with
which they as well as the white
churches are weighted down. The
Church Debt Liquidating Company is
regularly organized, the business
cards of the concern announcing that
H. C. Higey is President, William 0.
Preston, Secretary, and Frank W.
Smith, Treasurer. The company will
take hold of any church debt and un-
dertake to reduce it or wipe it out.
It began work at Spanish fort with
a festival and congress of nations
given under the auspices of the Free
American Church and Charities of
New Orleans, and managed by the
Church Debt Liquidating Company.
The entertainment continued five
nights, and the financial results indi<
'cate that the company will be able to
materially reduce the indebtedness of
churches interested. When . it .is
through with this work. it will take
hold of another batch of churches and
undertake to free them also from debt.
ASKED TO IE BURIED ALIVE.
ARquan Sect that Believe in Salvation
by Martyrdom.
Details hav-e been received in Lon-
don'and cabled to this country from
Odessa of the self—immola.tion of a
number of the fanatical followers of
Raskolniki, a report of which was
first received weeks ago. More than
twentyefour bodies of persons who
were buried alive have been recovered
from a series of pits near Tirespol.
The sect is a survival of the old dis-
senters, who were persecuted in Bus
sia for two centuries. Their treat-
ment was worst under Empress So-
phia, when thousands of their!b were
knouted by the State. The result was
that they became fiercely fanatical,
and invented a doctrine of salvation
by martyrdom. They are now prac-
tising self-immolation. ‘
Six bodies were accidentally discov-
ered on the premises of Feodo-re Kow
aleII, who confessed that he had
walled up in his cellar nine living per-
sons, including his wife and two young
children. He further admitted. that he
ran (buried the other six, while they
were still, alive. in a specially exca-
vated pit eight feet deep. 5'
In an adjoining garden, belonging to
Matvei'Sukula. four bodies were dis-
covered in a pit.
these were buried alive at their own
‘ For circulars address L. J. Tompkins, Registrafy fiquest, '
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. as’hiuzton Souure. New York City. .
His faith remained, lIo-‘twever.
Sukula says that,
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" Brandreth’s Pills
The difference between these pills and all other medicines is
told in the following statement of facts:
They have been in active demand in the markets of the werld since 1770,
or for nearly one hundred and thirty years. - -
They are 'purely vegetable, and are made of the purest and highest
class drugs'obtainable. , ‘“
They are kept for two years in our storehouses after being made, and
no pills are, sold until they are TWO YEARS old. This allows them to
become thoroughly mellowed and makes of them the very best
and safest cathartic medicine that it is possible to procure. I
They’ never become inured to the system; that is, the same dose
will always produce the same effect. This cannot truthfully be said
of any other medicine. There are others who' claim it, but
demonstrations show it to be true only.of BRANDRETH'S PILLS.
They never produce gripingor pain unless the stomach is in a very
acid condition, and then only if the dose is a large one. In doses of
one or two pills they never cause pain or other inconvenience.
. One pill taken after a heavy meal will relieve distress immediately.
. BRANDRETH‘S PILLS are composed one-third .of the best extract of same.-
parilla that can be made. It is highly concentrated and it makes of these
pills the best blood purifiers that'you can get, one 25-cent box con-
1 st.
2d.
3d.
4th.
5th.
than a dollar's worth of any liquid preparation in the market.
One or two, taken every night, will cure rheumatism in almost every
instance.
They are a pOSltlve and effective remedy for constipation and for all the
long list of ills that follow in its wake—~such as dyspepsia, dizziness,
drowsiness, coated tongue, foul breath, headache, pain in the stomach,
etc. Take one or two pills every night—one is usually enough—and
be certain that a cure will follow. .
They are the best complexion pills. After you have taken them for a
few nights, your skin will assume a wholesome, healthful color, your
eye a brilliant lustre, and sallowness and pimples will disappear.
BRANDRETH’S PILLS NEVER injure—you are always in better health
after taking a dose—they are the safest medicine to give children and
women in delicate health. One pill is usually sufficient.
No medicineis made with such infinite care as BRA-NDRETH’S PILLS
—no medicine but BRANDRETH'S PILLS is kept for TWO YEARS before
they are boxed to be sold. k
Except in sudden and acute sickness, when the dose should be from
four to eight pills. the best results are obtained by taking one or two
pills every night for a week or two. They act on the liver and leave
that organ in a perfectly healthy state, and when your liver is right
your blood is pure, and you are well. Don’t bully your liver with
powerful medicine, but coax it with BRANDRETH’S PILLS.
RANDRE’I‘H’S PILLS are sold throughout the world, with and without
sugar coating. They never fail to do their work.
8th.
9th.
10th.
11th.
12th.
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Yours Until net.
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I2 North Main Street, South IIorwaIk.
SPECIAL EAIJE 2
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PENNANT Blunts $38.00.
A first class high grade wheel, large tubing and all 1897
improvements. Made by the Acme Mfg,, (30., makers of the
celebrated Stormer bicycle. A chance to get a fine wheel for
itle money.
THE J. T. PBOWI‘IEI’ GO».
TO RENT.
The fine office formerly occupied by
Police Headquarters. Suitable for Insur-
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Terms. moderate. Apply! at. I . ,1
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taining more of the active blood-purifying principle of .sarsaparilla '
V COMPARED.
10in LIFE AND CONNECTICUT 0010a
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Comparative History showing the re-
sults of thetwenty—five years’ administration of the
presentconservative management of the leading Mutual life
insurance company in New England ' in contrast with the
progress made in the same period by the greatest exponent of
Stock management in the United States.
Statement of the Relative Standing 0f the
Etna Life and Connecticut Mutual, on
DECEMBER 31, 1872, JANUARY 1, 1897.
[The information below has been gathered from the sworn statements filed in the
Insurance Department of the State of Connecticut for the years 1872 and 1896]
.—o.c—.—_——.
. _Z_EI'I'N_A_ LIFE.
DECEMBER 31, 1872. JANUARY 1, 1897.
$I7,592,504 Assets, $45,557,272
I6,759,938 Liabilities, 38,368,920
Sur. to policy-holders, $832,566 _Sur.to policy-holders, {-7, I 88,352
Increase in Surplus to Policy-holders, $465,740.
Assets,
Liabilities,
(1872)
Insurance in Force,
(1897)
$97,653,682 (Insurance in Force, $I45,635,94
Increased Insurance in Force, $47,982.259’i
(1872)
Premium Income,
(1897) ,
$4,750,6l0 (Premium Income,
Increase Premium Income, $47,982,259.
(1872)
Total Assets to each $1,000
of.Liability,
$5,56I,350
(1897)
| Total Assets to each $1,000
$I,049 | of Liability, $I,I87
Increase in Assets to Liabilities, S l 38 per $1,000.
(1872)
Ratio of Expense of Management
to Premium Income, I3.82 per cent. I
(1897)
Ratio of Expense of Management
to Premium Incbme, 20.88 per cent. 1
Increase Ratio-of Expense of Management, 7.06 per ct.
CONN- ITIU'I'UAL.
DECEMBER 31,1872.
JANUARY 1. 1897.
$34,936,! 4| Assets, . $62,947,270
29,875,362 Liabilities, 54,684,I 79
Sur. to policy-holders, $5,060,779 Sur. to policy-holders, $8,263,094
Increase in Surplus to Policy=holders, $3,202,,3 12,
Assets,
Liabilities,
(187-2)
. . (1897)
Insurance In Force
_ $I8I,735,488 (Insurance in Force, $57,422,626
Decreased Insurance in Force, $24,312,862.
(1872)
Premium Income,
(1897)
$7,7l5,068 [Premium Income, 4,743,236
Decreased Premium Income, $2,971,832.
(1872)
Total Assets to each $1,000 Total Assets to each $1,000
' of Liability, $I,I69 of Liability, $| |5|
’
Decrease in Assets to Liabilities, $18 per $1,000.
(1897)
(1872)
Ratio of Expense of Management
to Premium Income, I327 per cent. I
. (1897)
Ratio of Expense of Management
to Premium Income, 24.73 per cent.
Increase Ratio of Expense of Man. 11.4,“...per cent.
SYNOPSIS.
.ZETNA LIFE. CONN.‘MUTUAL
Increase Surplus to Increase Surplus to
Policy holders, $6,355,786 Policy holders, . 3,202,312
or 763 per cent.
Increase Insurance in
or 63 per cent.
Decrease Insurance
Force, . - 47,982,259 in Force, ' $24,312,862
Increase Premium (Decrease Premium '
Income, . . $465,740 Income, - - 2,97 I ,832
Decrease in Assets to each
$1,000 of Liabilities,
Increase Ratio of Man
agement Expenses, 11 $0 per ct,
Increase in Assets to
each $1,000 of Liabilities,
Increase Ratio of Man-7 -
agement Expenses, 7 1°06, per ct.
$138 $18
Extract from a recently published letter of the President of the A
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company:
“WE KNOW 0F H0 REASON WHY THE PAST SHOULD IIOT REPEAT ITSELF.”
Warranted Solid Gold.
$010 1,
Beautiful Chased Holder.
"($1.00 ,
You may think it cannot possess merit or durabilit , the rice is so -
the “Lincoln” is a $2.50 pen reduced to $1 00 It is duyi'able, glways I'e:ci(i;’o::7)"‘gt}:E
but never drips, the ink flowing steadily and'uniformly.‘ . They are in use in this
oflice, giving the best of satisfaction, audithey are in use in the ba 8, insurance
and busmees offices and among all classes of users of pans in Norwalk and vicmity
Orders are received from all parts of the country. ‘ J *
Samples to be seen ahd orders received at the ’G SZETI‘ ,OB‘E‘IUE; .. ‘ _
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