Have a Sm ile!
You may be hot, dusty, thirsty—so
much the better—pleasure will be
greater—there’s a Cooling, refreshing
deliciousness in every glass of Williams’
Root Beer—combined with its healthful
qualities, it’sthe one great pleasing ben-
eficial temperance drink. Make it at
home-ea bottle of extract makes five
gallons of delicious
WILLIAMS & CARLETON COI., PROPS.
1 HARTI‘ 0RD. CONN
cum oEns, Bunions and WARTS
spssn'IIu and tumour PAIN.
FOR SALE _8Y_I__ TLL‘ IDRUGGIS
00 YOU KID!
That you Can save money
by buying )OUI Meats
1nd Fish at
F. W. SMITH’S
_ 55 Main Street.
Everything First Class. '
OPEN EVENINCS
Donor HOUSE
GREGORY’S OINT.
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NOW OPEN FOR THE SEASON OF 1897.
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SHORE IIIIIIIEIIS,
RHODE ISLAND GLAivl CAKE,
lBATIIIIIIi. BOA'I'IIIG, FISHING.
Electric cars to Hotel, every twenty
minutes.
JOHN E. O’SULLIVAN,
Manager.
HALE
LUZ“; (3;.
BALSAM
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Ask Your Druggist
AT HOME.
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..; Norwalk.
TAX ALL B ACHELORS
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX WOULD
CREATE A REPARATION FUND.
A Bachelor After Thirty-Five is Chronic-
Men Should Earn Money, and Women
Should Use It in the Maintenance of the
Family—If They Won't, Tax ‘em.
There is everything in modern civ-
ilization to render bachelorhood a
pleasant life for a selfishly inclined
man.
'The spirit which actuates invention
must be masculine, for almost every
I day we hear of some new device, which
renders woman’s services as a caretak-
er unnecessary in a man’s life.
The patent button sneers at the old-
fashioned needle and thread.
The electric light and the heat rad-
iator illuminate and warm the bach-
elor apartment with no aid from wo-
man.
The steam laundry, at a very small
cost, keeps a man collared and shirted
neatly, with no feminine intervention.
The clubs furnish an excellence and
variety of food, much more carefully
prepared than can be_,_f0und in any
home save the homes of wealth. And
after dinner there are the cardrooms
and the reading-rooms and the billiard
rooms, and no one to say “don’t go."
Of course these luxuries cost money.
But so do a home and a wife and chil-
dren.
The bachelor can estimate the cost
of his club life each year. He can on-
, I xly guess at the possible cost of a mar-
" ‘u' ,ri'a'ge; and he always puts it at the
-‘~,l_1IiIghes_t figure, and decides that the
luxury :is too expensive and the risk
L T .too, great
.Since it is man’s prerogative to de-
'oide the question of his own and of
some woman’s life in this important
-matter he who elects to be a bachelor
ought to be. ready and willing to pay a
tax towards the support of single wo-
men.
Since he refuses to maintain one wo-
~man and receive the value of her affec—
tion and cOmpanionship in return let
him aid in the support of many, with
no reward save his own self-respect.
. Woman was ”intended by the Creator
to be supported by man.
Everything in the organization of
the two beings indicates that fact.
Man should earn money, woman
should use it in the maintenance of the
family. Man should give gladly, wo-
man receive gratefully.
The child-bcarer should never be the
wage-earner; and however the mod-
ern woman may disdain the idea of
being regarded merely as a child-bear-
er we can never get around the fact
that she was intended by natnre to be
the mother of man.
If bachelors deprive her of the priv-
ilege they should hasten to relieve
her of a life of self—support or depend-
ence in her old ag 59
Every sane—minded and healthy-
bodied woman is entitled to three chil-
dren. The world is maintained and
society exists by the birth of children.
Bachelors who decline to become
husbands and fathers should be taxed
to supply what might be termed a
“reparation fund.” If single women
refused to draw upon this fund it
could be used in the support of homes
for the aged or in the education of or-
phans.
The majority of single men in cities
pay several hundreds dollars a year
in club dues. Of course, the dues
are but a small portion of the expenses
of club life. Any bachelor who is
able to pay $100 in club dues ought to
be taxed $25 per annum for the sup-
port of single women over forty years
of age, besides a separate tax for the
“repa1ation fund.”
No man should be taxed until he has
passed his thnty fifth birthday, be—
cause until that age a man may be
merely postponing marriage to make
himself worthy of it, but-after thirty-
five, he is liable to settle down into
chronic bachelorhood unless roused
to the necessity of action.
No woman. unless an invalid, should
receive the benefits of the bachelor’s
taxation before forty because many
women remain single into their thir—
ties from choice, remembering that
Cleopatra and Helen of Troy were
both past that age when they inspired
historic passions, and many mothers
of successful families have married
for the first time in their late thirties
Dut it is always a tragedy when a
woman'passes into her fourth decade
with no companion by her side.
Unless she has some great life werk,
1?...) Florence Nightingale 01' Emma
Willard, her outlook is desolate and
sad.
However pleasant the bachelor’s lot,
from a purely commonplace standpoint
he misses the sentiment of life. A
happy 1:13.11'iage offers more real pleas-
ure in any one month than bachelors
find in a lifetime.
For eveiy pain or anxiety or worry
in the life of a. well—mated married
couple there are ten mutual joys to
recompense. But though the man
misses much by remaining single, the
woman misses still more.
Clubs, travel, adventure are not the
diversion to her which they are to
‘him.
It is only right that he should be
taxed for his selfishness, and that she
should receive the benefit of such tax-
ation. ELLA WHEELERWILCOX
still Hal'dorf
I Dumbleton: “I’ll tell you what..0~,1
fellow. when a man has been ,.
spcndihrift during a good portion 0:“
his life. and has gone the rounds 01'
dissipation. it's a bald matter for him
to settle dow‘n? ’
Flasher: “Yes:
harder for him to settle up!"
but it’s a good deal
I‘IE iI.O\‘ ED,- .ISOTY DIPLOMATICALLY.
A French Soldier’s Romance That Menac-
ed the Comity of Natlons.
Not long ago there was much talk '
In France and Italy regarding a little
interchange of incivilities on the Fran-
co-Italian frontier. 'French projectiles
were shot across the frontier near an
Italian fort, and a general explanaton
of the circumstance was necessary be-
fore the creases could be smoothed out
of the ofilcial temper in Rome. What
this explanaton was has been made
public renently by Rome dailies. It
certainly is the most peculiar one of
the day. Here is the story:
A French artilleryman named Picon
loved Lilli Vacherelle, a mountain
maid, who lived in the Mont Cenis re-
gion, where the French troops ‘were
manoeuvering. Capt. MorainVille, un-
der whom he served, had taken a fancy
to the same girl. He saw—her kiss Pi-
con one day, and afterward became
possessed of the purpose of thwarting
the private in love. He pursued the
mountain girl unceasingly, but as Pi-
con knew of all her comings and g0-
ings the Captain was unable to enjoy
any long interviews with the girl. No
sooner would he begin to press his at-
tentions than Picon would appear, with
' hand at hat and other signs of respect,
to be sure, but still appear and stay
and ruin the love making.
The rivalry grew uncomfortably
keen and trouble between private and
officer already was feared, when one
day Morainville set his men to work at
target shooting and, started off in the
direction of-the girl’s home, explain-
ing that he wished to observe from
Mont Cenis the effect of the mountain
batteries. Picon was left behind to
shoot in misery while his commander
went lady killing after the mountain
maid. But jealousy sharpened Picon.’s
wits, while it gave nerve to his desper-
ation. There was an Italian fort with-
in easy range. If he aimed at it With
solid shot he could raise an interna-
tional rumpus in less time than it
would take to tell about it,*and could
bring the Captain back on the double
quick. So he fired at the fort and
raised the rumpus and brought back
the Captain.
There is wheie the story ends in the
Rome dailies, as far as the romance is
concerned. The correspondents leave
Picon in the guardhouse and Lilli
Vacherelle and the Captain still at
large. For the consolation of their
feminine readers, however, they say,
whether with authority or not, that
the private will be released soon to
marry the Mont Cenis maid. ——New
York Sun.
PRUSSIA’S GREAT FIELD MARSHAL.
Eighty-eight Years Old and Honored by
All Germa'ne Royalty.
General Field Marshal Count Blum-
envthal recently celebrated the seventi-
.eth anniversary of his entrance into
the army of Prussia. The count was 88
years old and he received telegrams of
congratulation from the emperor, Em-
press Frederick, and many other royal
personages. The aged field marshal
has ever been a great favorite with the
dowager empress especially, and the
old soldier was also much beloved by
the late emperor. 'l‘ he count was born
one may say, in the military service
of his country. He has fought in every
war Prussia has engaged in since 1827.
His promotion was rapid, and his great
fidelity to his royal master won for
COURT BLUMEITTHAL.
him all sorts of praise in and out of
the army. One of the first acts of the
late Frederick William ~when he be-
came emperor was to raise the faithful
old soldier to the rank of field marshal.
By virtue of that title he is the chief
of the general staff of the Prussian
army. The count is now living with
his eldest daughter, Frau von Guellen—
dorf, near Ruthen. Each year he
spends a few weeks at Koenigstein-in-
the- Taunus, where Empress Frederick
always visits him.
Use of London’s Mall Service.
In England a new use for the mail
has been found. A London workman
who could not spare the time totake
his three-year-old son to his home at
a considerable distance from his shop,
conceived the brilliant idea of sending
the child as a postal package. A card
was pinned upon his clothes bearing
these words: “Live Animal.”
father paid ninepence postage and the
child reached his mother in safety.—
. New Yorkfl‘ribune.
. WOMAN.
0 woman. in your hour of ease.
Uncerta' n. ooy and hard to please.
' We’ve all been held across your knees.
When your hand felt like a swarm of bees.
But what of that? We love you still.
And. what is more, we always will!
W'ear what you may, do as you like.
Hold offices and ride the bike.
Be married if it please you to,
Yet nothing that you 0‘ or can do
Will make you proof against the charms.
, That comes when yielding to men's arms.
Love steals into your heart! Ah. then
You're just sweet woman once again!
-Oleveland Leader.
The .
STICK TO THE SHIP.
This Notice is Issued to Seaman on the?
1‘ oust of Vancouver Island.
Some time since the Canadian gov-S
ernment issued a. notice to the effect
that wrecks do not break up rapidly
'1' HE Ev ENIN e e; ZE TTE
'on the coast of Vancouver Island. Sea-3
men were cautioned that in the event,
of approaching shipwreck to stay by
the vessel as long as possible, because
all loss of ,life in the past had been'
caused through attempting to get
ashore,
landing.
Quite recently a large British sail-
Ing vessel was off the coast of Van-
couver Island. For three days a dense
fog prevailed, and'the captain lost his
bearings. Suddenly the roar of break—
crs was heard, and two anchors were
let go. One of the cables parted as the
Ship rounded about one hundred feet
from the rocks. As the other cable
was in imminent danger of parting,‘ it
was decided to lower the boats. One
after another they were dropped from
the davits, only to be smashed to
pieces. At last one of the lifeboats
was floated, and in it thirty-six mem-
bers of the crew tried to reach the
shore. The boat was repeatedly cap-
sized, and it' was little short of a mir-
acle that the men succeeded in land-
lng. On the following morning the
weather moderated, and, to their
great, surprise the crew found that the
vessel was still holding fast sy one
anchor. Shortly afterward the wind
shifted and the crew boarded the ves-
sel again, and, hoisting sail, moved
from the seemingly perilous place.—
Pittsburg Dispatch. - 5.3%.:
“if
or through exposure after
NO JAPAN RECIPROCITY.
l‘hey Learn Secrets of Our Manufacturers
and Give None in Return.
There is, not a word to be said
against a policy that offers education-
al‘facilities to all, regardless of na-
tionality, religion, or race. But the
Japanese enter our factories and work-
shops, and when they have mastered
the secrets return to their native
shores and found factories to compete
with our own. All honor and praise
to those little Japs who will content-
edly bear exile, and dissimulate the in-
born contempt in which they hold us,
that they may contribute to the pros-
perity of their beloved Dai Nippon.
But what must be said of our manu-
facturers, who, while zealously guard-
ing the secrets of their inventions from
their competitors by patents, expose
these results of their ingenuity to
spies whom no sense of honor or grati-
tude will deter from using them to
their own advantage. '
There is no reciprocity to be had
from a Japanese. Let any American,
even though armed with letters of in-
troduction from the Secretary of State,
or even from the Chief Executive him-
self, proceed to Japan and attempt to
discover the secrets of their lacquer,
or any other industry peculiar to Ja-I
pan. He will uniformly meet with a
decided if courteous “delrimasen;’ it
can’t be done. No, the Jaqanesn are
only and perfectly willing to profit by
our good nature, which, in their eyes,
is nothing but stupendous folly—Ar-
thur’s Magazine.
CHIDED MR. ROCKEFELLER.
The Clerk Was Not Acquainted With the
Standard Maguute.
A newly engaged clerk in the employ
of the Standard Oil Company was sent
to work in a room that contained a
health lift. Every morning at about
10 o’clock‘ when this clerk was partic-
ularly busy with figures, small
black-mustached man, quiet and diffi-
dent in manner, entered, said “Good
morning,” walked 0n tiptoe to the cor-
ner and exercised for a quarter of an'
hour. It became a bore to the clerk,
who at last, one day, remarked with
considerable heat, to the stranger:
“How do you expect me to do any
work properly while you are fooling
with that blasted machine? I’m get-
ting tired of it. Why don’t you put
it where it won’t worry a person to
death?” . '
“I am very scary it annoys you,” said
the stranger, flushing. “I will have it
removed at once.” ‘
A porter took it away within an
hour. A few days later the clerk was
sent for by Mr. Flagler, whom he
found in earnest conversation with the
small, black-mustached man. The lat-
ter smiled at seeing him, gave Flagler
some instructions and left the room.
“Will you tell me who that gentle-
man is?” the young man asked, a light
beginning to break upon him.
“That was Mr. Rockefeller,’ was the
1",etly.
It was the clerk“ s first acquaintance
with the head of the great corpora.-
tion by which he was employed. —Ohio
State Journal. '
Electric Light Effects the Eyes.
French authorities say that the in«
tensity of the electric light used on
men-ofiwar has caused eye complants ; '
among the sailors, some of which have
led to complete blindness. Gray and
blue eyes are more likely to be affect—
ed than brown eyes. The eye troubles
are due not only to the intensity of the
light, but also, it is said by some, to
the action of the ’ultra-violet rays.
The interposition between the eye
and the light of uranium glass or of
other transparent substances is rec-
ommended as a preventive of the evil.
Dark blue glasses are now used by
the French sailors.
Whore Life is Long.‘
Persons who find existence attractive
enough to wish to prolong it. are ad-
vised to seek Norway. There the av—
erage length of life is greater than in
any other country on the globe. This
is attributed to the fact that the tem.
‘perature is cool and uniform through
out the year.
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“'7" "A? wsw'wI-zsfi'in'losir ”
am: Who am Gold Models of Thelr Lit- 3
tle Fing'erh- Co Theft Botrothed.
“Do- the girls her‘e give gold models
of their little? fingers to their dances?"
asked the Western girl of the Gotham-
ite.
’ “I-Ieavens,n no!” answered the Goth-
amite. ’ “It seems to me that that is a-
rather grewsome souvenir.”
“Not at all,” answered the Western
girl. “It is decidedly dainty, and I’m
a. little surprised that .New York is so
far behind the times. The fad started
in this way. When the daughter of
one of our big Western politicians was
six months old,- he had a model of her
little finger cast in gold. Around the
little dimpled digit is a ring of tur-
quoise, which is her birth stone, and
it makes a lovely charm for her be-
;rothed’s watch chain. ‘He valued it
so much that it set other men to think-
ing, and the result. is that as soon as‘
the girl w,raps one of these chaps
iround her Own little finger sufficiently
for a proposal to follow, he immediate-
ly insists upon a gold facsimile of the
flesh and blood original. ‘ It'is a pretty
:onceit, and is being followed by'every
Westerner who is in subjection to
somebody’s little finger.—-—New York
31111.
Linking an Artificial Skin.
A process has been patented in Ger-
many for making a substitute for the
natural skin for use in wounds. The
muscular coating of the intestines of
animals is divested of mucous mem-
brane and then treated in a pepsin so-
lution until the muscular fibres are
half-digested. After a- second treat-
ment with tannin and gallic acid a
Lissue'ris produced which takes the
place of the natural skin, and which,
'when laid on the wound, is entirely ab-
sorbed during the healing process.
The Inquiring llIind.
Johnny—Say pa, I want to ask you
a question.
Mr. Sniff.——Well, now, I don’t know
why the Spring doesn’t always come
in the Fall, or where the wind is when
it doesn’t blow, or whether, if the al-
manac makers should leave out the
month of August, the corn crOp would
be ruined by September frosts. But
go ahead.
Johnny—Why, pa, I only wanted to
know how it comes that no one but
children die in childhood?—New York
Jou1'.nal
. Stood Up for Him‘.
“Do you think your sister likes me,
Tommy?”
“Yes;s
ner.”
“Stood up for me? Was anybody
3aying anything about me?” '
“No, nofithing much. Father said he
thought you were rather a donkey, but'
sis got up and said you weren’,t and
told father he ought to know better
than to judge a man by his 100:
London Heusehold Words.
she stood up for you at din-
Not Susceptible to Flattery.
Broken-Down Actor (with battered
hat and frayed clothi11g)—Ah, good
morning, me charming gazelle. May
I inquire if you have at your disposal
any cold turkey or other
viands with which a gentleman might
assuage his hunger?
Servant Girl (who has been there
before)———I guess there’s plenty 0’ cold
vittles in the kitchen, if thot’s wot ye
mane. ' But—er—where’s the ‘gintle-
man?—New York Truth.
His Theory.
“A great many women marry men
for the purpose of reforming them,”
remarked the observant citizen.
' “I suppose so,” replied the man who
was reluctantly writing a check, “but
sometimes, they misjudge a man. Now
that you remind me of it, I believe
my wife unjustly suspected me of the
:' .‘=::it of saving too much money ”—
Washington Star.
Tame Enough.
Tourist (in Jersey, apprehensively)—~
How about the Jersey mosquitoes?
Don’t you find them pretty vicious
creatures?
Jersey Native (indifierently)-——Not at
all! Not at all! Why, they’ll eat
right out of your handl—Puck.
Her Specialty."
Mrs. Tompkins—Why don’t you
make a name for yourself?
Mr. Tomkins—(who is the fourth)—
That’s your specialty; you’ve already ,
made three—New York Herald.
PEARLS fans sum. ensue? .:~ I
treasures 1:11.11 Are Tiken froth the IndLnn
ocean andrenslnn Gulf. "
In St.‘ Nicholas Capt. H. D. Smith of
'vice tells of his experiences, “Hunting
for Shells,” from the Island of Ceylon
to the Dry Tortugas. Capt. Smith
says:
specimens are hard to obtain. y‘I-‘hey
are found in the Treamotee, Gambier
and Trihual groups 'of islands. The
choicest come from Macassar: these
are the white-edged shells, worth $800
a. ton. and from these the finest pearl
buttons are manufactured.
The most celebrated pearl fisheries
lie near the coast of Ceylon, the Per-
sian Gulf and in the waters of Java
and Sumatra. The Australian coast~
in the neighborhood of Shank’s bay
and at Roebuck bay furnishes some
very large shells, some of them weigh-
Ing from two to three younds each.
The fisheries of Baja, Gulf of Cali-
fornia, are very ,rich, ce con-
trolling the gems procured there. The
bought by the Chinamen, who dry the
leathery little bivalves or- :seal them
-up in cans and ship them to! their
countrymen in San Francisco. The
pearl shells readly sell upon the spotI
at from $1. 50 to $5 per pound. ,
Pearls are of various colors, and in
India the red pearls were highly prized
by the Buddhists, who used them in
adorning their temples. Pearls are
formed to protect the shell fish. They
are due to a. secretion of a shelly sub-
stance around some irritaing particle,
and their composition is the same as
that of mother-of-pearl.
AFISH STORY. » ' g
It Was Homesick for Old Friends and
Moped Without Them. .
Among a lot of golden trout from
Sunapee Lake received at the New
York Aquarium in December last,
there was one fine big brook trout
taken from the same water. At the
_ Aquarium the golden trout
- placed in a tank by themselves; the
brook trout was put into a tank of
lake trout from the interior of New
York state.
The golden trout from Sunapee
thrived; the brook trout that came
with them, now in with the lake trout,
did not. It held aloof from the other
, fish in the tank. and never fed well,
and was not interested in anything.
Two or three weeks ago the tank
that the lake trout were in Was need-
ed for something else. and the fish in
suitable '
it were shifted. The brook trout
lfrom Sunapee was put “into the tank
.with the golden trout with which it
had been received. From that day it
was another fish. It no longer moped
{away the time off in one corner by
‘. itself, but it lined up with the golden
trout, and slashed around the tank
l with them, and pranced around on its
1own account quite at home. .It fed
‘well, and was as chipper as a fis‘.
could be. and has been so ever since.
LVI ch Ii '1he Sp:1 .".110w
A successful lynching took place on
1. fa rm in Michigan, the other day. In
-:he barn a swallow’s nest was seen
:linging to the side of a be: .m, from
which was suspended an Engl:
row, hung by the neck with a hair
from a horse’s tail. While two men
were sitting in the barn they noticed
a spaiiow go into the 5173110.»: 11:3;t,
from which he began pitching the
young birds. Th1ee swallows, a:-
zracted by their outcry,
pounced upon the intruder. After
zonfining him to the nest for a few
minutes, they threw him out. lie
dropped about a foot, there was :1 jerk,
1nd M1. SpaIrow v as hanged as 1:'(. 11y
is though an expert h ngman had
seen in charge. The hair was wound
around his neck several ti'mez, and, di—
91 a few ineffectual s inggle’z, he kick-
:ld 1is last. —G1and Rapids Herald.
His Year-11. .
“Shay, 111’ (hie) fiien’!" sa'd L17 sh-
:ng10n. after vainly fumbling with his
latch— l: ey 101 twenty minutes.
“Well?" returned the passer—by.
"Have you (hie) got such a shing as
1:22 hey (hic) hole about you?”—
I. 5‘;
ll‘.(l.','?.
Stretching 1t.
“ti 1 axes my wife three days to gr;
1:: :‘ p1 cnic’
is that?" '
, :_ 2:35 a (la y to get ready, :1 day,»
day to get over .t.”
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meat of the pearl oyster is readily ,
were .
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