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THE PASSING 0F BEETHOVEN.
Pathetic Story of the Last Time He Ever
Played. _
A writer in Temple Bar relates the
following ~regarding"the last time Bee-
'ehoven ever played: ' _
“He had been deaf for twenty-five
years, nearly half of his life, When, in
1827, a letter reached him at Baden
from his nephew, the being dearest to
him on earth. The ydung man wrote
from Vienna, where he had got into a
scrape, from which he looked to his
uncle to extricate him. Beethoven set
out at once; but his funds were so low
that he was obliged to make the great-
er part of the journey on foot. ' He
had gone most of the way, and was
only a few leagues from the capital,
when his strength failed.‘ He was
forced to beg hospitality at a poor and
mean-looking house one evening. The
inhabitants received the exhausted, ill-
:empered looking, gruff-voiced stranger
with the utmost cerdiality, shared their
meagre supper with him, and then
gave him a comfortable seat near the
fire. The meal was hardly cleared
away before the head of the family
opened an old piano, while the sons
each brough forth some instrument,
the women meantime beginning to
mend the linen. There was a general
:uning 'up, and then the music began.
As it proceeded, the players, the wo-
men, all alike, were more and more
deeply moved. Tears stole down the
)1d man’s cheek. His wife watched
him with moist eyes and a pathetic,
Ear-"away smile on her lips. S-he drop—
ped her needlework, and her managing
laughter forgot to find fault. She was
Tistening, too. The sweet sounds left
only one person in the room unmoved.
Phe deaf guest looked on at this scene
with yearning melancholy. When the
:oncert was over he stretched out his
nand for a sheet of the music they had
ised. ‘I could not hear, friends,’ he
exclaimed in hoarse tones of apology,
but I would like to know who wrote
:his piece which has so moved you all.
The piano player put before him the
Allegretto’ in Beethoven’s symphony
in A. Tears now stole down thevisitors
:heeks. ‘Ah',’ he exclaimed, ‘I wrote
it; I am Beethoven! Come and let us
lnish the piece.’ He went himself to
the piano, and the evening passed in a
true delirium of pleasure and pride for
:he dwellers in that humble musical
home. When the concerted music was
aver he improvised lovely songs and
Iacred hymns for the delighted family,
who remained up far into the night lis-
Lening to him playing.
“It was the last timelhe ever touched
tn instrument. When he took posses-
\;ion of the humble room and the couch
illotted to him he could not sleep or
rest. His pulse beat with fever: He
:ould not breathe. He stole out of
ioors in search of refreshment and re-
:urned to bed in the early morning,
:hilled to the heart. He was too ill to
:ontinue his journey. His friends in
Vienna were communicated with, and a
ahysician was summoned, but his end
was at hand. Hummel stood disconso-
ate beside his dying bed. Beethoven
was, or seemed to be, unconscious. Just
)efore the end, however, he raised him—
lelf and caught the watcher’s hand
:losely in both his own. ‘After all,
dummel, I must have had some talent,’
as zinurmured, and then he died.”
A WOMAN WHO LOVES BRIEFS.
iler Present Position Never Before ,Held
, by a. \Vonmn.
One of the assistant corporation
counsels of Chicago is a woman, Miss
Zora B. Hirtzel. Her superior, Mr.
l‘hornton, is being warmly commended
'or this recognition of the legal talent
if women. Miss Hirtzel was not ap—
aointed because of her sex, but be-
;ause she was an able lawyer. Indeed,
she has a reputatibn equal to that of
my member of her profession in Chi-_
:ago in the special work of preparingl
l case for court and in making briefs.
Before her appointment she had been
:mployed by many well known legal
lrms in a work of that nature.
Miss Hirtzel was born in Ottawa, Ill-
nois, and read law at Oakland, Wis-
:onsin, in the offices of Jackson &
[‘hompson and of ex-Judge George
rlary. She went to Chicago ten years
tgo, and entered the oflce of the late
W. C. Goudy, at the same time taking
the regular course at the Chicago 001—
ege of Law, where she graduated in
L890. Five years ago she left -.Mr.
loudy’s employ. Some practice came
.0 her, but she preferred the working
rut of legal professions to appearing
n court. Her present position has nev—
er before been held by a woman.
Bard on the Irishman.
Gentleman (to an Irishman): “Well,
Pat, I see you have a. small garden."
Pat: “Yes, sir.”
lext season?” .
“Nothing, sir. I set it with potatoc:
ast year, and not one of thtfli came
1p.”
- “That’s strange; how 'do-you explain
t?”
“Well, sir, the man next door to me
let his garden full of onions.”
\ "Well, had that anything to do with
rour potatoes not growing?”
“Yes, sir. Bedad, them onions was
shat strong that my potatoes couldn’t
White Animals Cannot Smell.
'ound that pure white creatures are ut-
.erly deficient in the sense of smell. In
xfrica white rhinoceroses poison them-
selves sometimes by eating a. euphor-
iia, which no other animal will touch,
ind Italian wool-growers do not like
Jure white sheep, because they are
aways eating grass and herbs which
to not agree with them.
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“What are you going to setin it .’ 7.? ‘
tee to grow for their eyes watering!”
Very few animals but pigs and sheep:
ire white all over, and it has been»
' " Klondike!” .
g was: nun Is IT- 23
,A Local Occurrence That
I ‘ Will Interest Many
Read.ef5b
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If when a foghorn warns the mariner
shore and wrecks upon it, Whose fault
is it ? If the red switch light is up and
the engine driver deliberately pulls
ahead and pitches into another train,
blame the driver.
man will, in spite of warnings, try to
find out how many teeth abuzz saw has,
and the saw tries to find out how many
fingers the" workman has, blame the
workman——not the saw. If a sick man
knows that acertain medicine is doing
him good, and he carelessly neglects to
use it, blame the man net the medicine.
If N orwalk people who have kidney
complaint and backache will not take
Doan’s Kidney Pills, when they are
endorsed by scores of citizens, blame
the people, not the endorsers. _
Mrs. Joseph Whitley of 61 Belden
avenue says: “I was reading the pa-
pers one evening, and came across an
advertisement of Doan’s Kidney Pills,
and at that time I was annOyed with a
pain in the small of my back and was
thinking of trying some preparations
to see if I could get relief. Doan’s
Kidney Pills seemed to me to be above
the average judging from the cures
they had made, and I got a box at
Glendening’s drug store and took
them. They produced decided and
satisfactory results. I recommend
them to my friends.
Doan’s Kidney Pills are for sale by
all dealers, price 50 cents per box, six
boxes for $2.50. By mail on receipt of
price by Foster—Milburn Co., Buifalo,
N. Y., sole agents for the U. S. Re-
member the name Doan’s and take no
other.
To some natures the mysterious is
perfect delight to be surrounded with
all that’s uncanny and unexplainable.
The one object in life of this latter
class, then, resolves itself into the fath-
oming out to some satisfactory conclu-
sion that which has seemed so queer.
FROM SIRE TO SON.
As a family medicine, BACON’S
CELERY KING, for the nerves, passes
from sire to son as a. legacy. If you
have kidney, liver or blood disorder,
get a free sample package of this rem-
edy. If you have indigestion, consti-
pation, headache rheumatism, this spe-
cific will cure you. Edward P. Weed,
Norwalk, or George C. Stillson, South
Norwalk, the leading druggists, are
sole agents, and are distributing sam—
ples free. Large packages 50c and 25c.
"Put a beggar on horseback” is an
old proverb, but a. theatre box in these
latter days is sufficient to show all the
ill breeding there is in a person.
GREAT TRIUMPH.
Instant relief and a permanent cure
by the great remedy, OTTO’S CURE
for Throat and Lung diseases. Why
will you irritate .your throat and lungs
with a terrible hacking tough when
Edward P. Weed, Norwalk, or George
C. Stillson South Norwalk, sole agents,
.will furnish you with a free sample
bottle of this guaranteed remedy? Its
success is simply wonderful, as your
druggist willptell you. Sample free.
Large bottles 500 and 25c.
Some of the brightest conversation-
alists are wholly at a loss to know what
to say when they have occasion to use
the telephone.
SAVE YOUR LIFE.
By using “THE NEW GREAT SOUTH
AMERICAN KIDNEY CURE.” This
new remedy is a great surprise on ac-
count of its exceeding promptness in
relievmg pain in the Kidneys, Bladder
and Back in male or female. It re-
lieves retention of water, and pain in
passing it almost immediately. Save
yourself by using this marvelous cure.
Its use will prevent fatal consequences
in almost all~cases by its great altera-
tive and healing powers. Sold by E. P.
Weed, Druggist, Norwalk, Conn.
' It is an odd fact that our first name
is our last, the other names being
given us at the time of baptism.
CEREAL COFFEE DRINKERS BE-
WARE! ‘
If you have been deceived and tried
one of the cheap bran substitutes now
on the "market, claiming to be the
original and to have great food value,
and you got a pound of poory roasted
bran for your 25c. and a poor, weak,
sickish drink (what can you expect
from bran,) don’t be discouraged but
try GRAIN—O. It is made from solid
rain, nicely browned and 2 pounds for
5c. Grain-O takes the place of cofier
at i: the price. Get a package of youo.
grocer to-day. ‘
--Live Merchants keep their hamer.
before the Public. An Advertisement
in THE GAZETTE will be read.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
.Rev. Francis A. Smith was killed in
Boston by a collision with a team
while riding a bicycle.
A jury in the Supreme Court in New
York has disposed forever of the charge
that JayGould had been a. bigarnlst.
Stearnsr Hall, of the Tuskegee (Ala.)
Normal'and Industrial Institute for col-
ored‘vmen and‘women, was dedicated
yesterday.
The Senate Committee on Rules has
instructed the sergeant-at—arms to en'-
force the rules against the sale of
liquor in the Senate Wing of the Capl-
to]. ’
.Mr. Tof'u Hoshl, the
for at Washington,
Japan is emphatically Opposed to the
Japanese Minis-
States. ~
George J. Gould has won in the Court
of Appeals at Albany his suit-to ex-
empt from taxes the $5,000,000 left by
his father for managing the million-
aire‘s business.
The Spanish Government has sent
troops to search the region between
' the pi'ovinces of Valencia and Castel-.
lon and the district around Morena,
where the Carlist. agitation is most
active. ‘
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to shear oil the coast, he still hugs the.
If a careless work-.
absolutely detestable; to others it is a '
reiterated that.
annexation of Hawaii by the United
Carlists Planning Revolution to
Uproot the Present! Regency.
COUNTING 0N err. WBYLER
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He Is Expected to Head :1 Strong-
Fuction of Robledo’s Partisans.
Sen’or Sagastu Defies Intervention
of the United States. , i
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London, Dec. 11.—From secret infor.
mation furnished by a prominent sup-a
porter of the Carllst cause, it is safe to
state that important developments are
to be expected at any moment. The
Spanish Government is believed to be
too weak to make any, effective re-
prisals, and the Carlists believe most
of the Spanish politicians and public
men would cheerfully throw the Re
gency overboard.
Calling for \Veyler.
Madrid, Dec. 1L—The Robledoites an-
nounced to-day a meeting of Robledo’s
partisans. It will be attended by sixty
or seventy Senators and Deputies, and
nine hundred municipal and county
councillors. The programme of this
new party will be to adopt the prin-
ciple of fighting war with war as the
best solution of the Cuban problem;
to defend the integrity of the national
territory; to protect stoutly the na-
tional resources and industries. As
stated, Weyler’s leadership will be
proclaimed if he cares to accept it.
Sngastu Defies Intervention.
Madrid, Dec. 11.—-—At a Cabinet coun~
cil yesterday, at which the Queen Re-
gent presided, the Premier, Senor Sa~
gasta, outlined the opinions of the Eu—
ropean press regarding President Mc-
Kinley’s message to Congress, the ma-
jority of which the Premier said were
favorable to Spain. He further de-
clared that in the-vent of the United
States wishing to intervene in Cuba,‘
it would find the Government prepared
to defend the rights and honor of
Spain. The Premier also said he did
not attach importance to “the attitude
of certain American Senators.”
MILLIONAIRE FLEISCH MAN DEAD.
Big Distiller, Politician and Turf
Patron Passes Away.
Cincinnati, Dec. 11.—Charles Fleisch—
mann, the millionaire distiller, politi-
cian and turf patron, died yesterday.
He was stricken with paralysis Thurs—
day’levening and his condition was
such that very little’ hope of his recov-
ery was entertained.
Mr. Fleischmann has for many years
been an important figure in Cincin—
nati’s affairs. He was born in Hun—
gary in 1834, and came to America in
1866. He was employed in a. distillery
in this city until 1869, when he went
to Cincinnati. He invented an improved
apparatus for distilling which was
generally adopted, and laid the foun—
dation of his fortune. Later he became
a. partner in the distilling firm of Gaff,
Fleischmann & Co., which also en-
gaged in the manufacture of com-
pressed yeast. -
Since 1880 Mr. Fleischmann was the
sole owner of this concern and his in-
come from it was estimated at $1,000,—
000 a. year. He was also part owner of
the Buffalo (N. Y.) Distilling Company
and the Baltimore (Md.) Manufactur-
ing Company. Since 1888 he has been
president and principal owner of the
Market National Bank, Cincinnati.
Gov. McKinley made' him a member
of his staff in 1892—93. He was a mem-
ber of the Ohio Senate in 1880, and for
a number of years was a fire commis-
sioner of Cincinnati.
THE END IS NEAR.
Mother McKinley Is Expected to Die
at Any Moment.
Canton, 0., Dec. 11.—Mrs. McKinley
is still living this morning, but is ex-
ceedingly weak. The conditions of sev-
eral days past continue—a gradual
sinking", away. She passed a rather
restless night and the family momenta-
rily ’expected the end. She ShOWS
scarcely a sign of life and gives every
evidence of having nearly reached the
end. She is still unable to take nour-
ishment. ,
Dr. Phillips stated this morning that
Mrs. McKinley was likely to die at
any moment. He said it was almost
impossible that she could live through
another day.
BODY IN A FURNACE.
Paris Collector Killed and Robbed
by a Man and a ‘Nomnn.
Paris, Dec. 10.——The mystery of the
disappearance of a. bank collector
named Lamare a week ,ago has been
explained by the arrest and confession
of a couple named Carrara, who were
engaged in the business of growing
mushrooms.
Lamare on Nov. 30 ‘called on the
Garraras to collect some money, when
Carrara hit him on the head with a
piece of iron, killed him and hid his
body in the evening, when it was
thrown into the furnace used for pre-
paring mushrooms. Lamare had 26,030
francs ($5,200) on- his person at the
time he was killed.
Fourth-Class Postmaster-s.
Vashington, Deg. 11.—_Fourth-class
postmasters have been appointed as,
follows: __
‘ Connecticut—Southford, New Haven,
Jervis Sommers.
New Jersey—Janesburg, Middlescx,
H. L. Jaquez. ,
New York—Middletown, Niagara, R.
B. Moss. -
Pennsylvania—Birchardville, Susque-
hanna, E. E. Smith; Eatonville, Wyom.
lug, F. I. VVheelock; Lawsville Centre,
Susquehanna, F. H. Southworth; Mid-
.‘slr. Clevelandllnnts Ducks.
\‘.'ashiiigto’n, Dec. 11.——Ex-President
'levelaud passed through W’ashingtbri
esterday morning en route south on
Atlantic Coast line, and will go
.w: to the lower Chesapeake Bay. It
:5.- {. aria-lo that “the‘ex—Presuident may
,u as :‘:::- south on this hunting trip as
:l'e Caloiinas.’ The ex—President has
not been in W’ashington before. this
awning since the ' inauguration of
."l resident McKinley.
SPAIN ~13 Tallinn "
way, \Vashington, Samuel Williamson.
* dunking trip. At VVashinéton he took ‘
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in charge of the
'working on the case.
MORE THAussopoo TAKEN
Being the Total Shipments for Two
Days—Nexv Jersey. Banking Con-
cerns the Shippers—Mail .Clerk
Missing Since Nov. 9.
New York, Dec. 11.—Major Charles F.
Lewis, of the Philadelphia. branch of
the Government Secret Service, is in
the city investigating what is supposed
to be one of the biggest robberies .in
the history of the New York postoffice.
The robbery is said to be in the rail-
way mail service, and confined exclus-
ively to registered'letters.
The exact amount cannot be learned,
but it is unofficially stated to be in the
neighborhood of $100,000. This figure is
declared to be excessive by several
who are investigating the case; but
they admit that the amount is a big
one. the largest ever taken at one time
in the registry department. The rob-
bery is confined, so far as investiga«»
tion has. shown; to that section of the
Central Railroad of New Jersey which
is known as the New Y—ork, Somerville
& Easton branch.
The discovery was made on Nov. 9,
BAILWlll/llll ROBBED if
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but the secret was quietly kept by the [-
postoflice authorities until yesterday,
when the news crept out. It is known,
so the statement is. made, that $30,000,
the total amount carried in two bags,
was taken. This sum was missing on
Nov. 9.
How long the defalcations had gone
on prior to that time has not been as
certained.
A Missing Clerk.
On the day the robbery was discov-
ered Robert E. Lang, a. clerk employed
on the New York, Somerville & Easton
branch, disappeared, and has not since
been found. In addition to Lang there
were employed in the railway mail
service of this road since the date men-
tioned, W. J. McLaren, P. S. Tooker
and J. D’Arcy. The latter served as a
substitute for George W. Daily, a reg-
ular clerk, who had to temporarily
abandon his runs because of injuries
sustained in the fall of an elevator at
the general postoffice here.
The system of dispatching registered
letters is simple, and except in this in-
stance, thought to be an ample safe-
guard to the Government. The clerk
registered letter
pouches is obliged to give a. receipt for
the same, and in return get a receipt
when he delivers the charge to some
other official. It was through these re-
ceipts that the degalcation was discov-
ered. On the day of the discovery
Lang failed to report for duty for his
regular trip, and, as is customary, an
investigation into his account was
made. Then the Secret Service contin-
ued the investigation, and it has lasted
ever since.
Money Sent by Banks.
Th New York, Somerville & Easton
section of the Central road embraces
calls at such ambitious cities as New-
ark, Elizabeth, Plainfield, Bound Brook
and Annandale. The statement is
made that certain bankers along that
line were in the habit of sending as
much as $15,000 on one trip to this city
under registered covers, in order to
save the extra expense of express
charges. In this way comparatively
big sums were frequently carried, and
always with the knowledge of the rail-
way clerks, it is said. Since Nov. 7
hundreds of complaints have reached
the postofiice, making inquiries after
registered letters that never reached
their destination. The chief inspctor
and his staff at the postoffice here have
several files filled with these com-
plaints. One of the Secret Service men
says that, in his opinion, the defalca-
tions in this particular instance will
reach a total of $100,000.
Lang lives on East 137th street and
is unmarried. He had been in the rail-
way mail service for the last ten years,
during which time his work was almost
wholly confined to the runs between
this city, Somerville and Easton.- He
is known by sight to thousands of
travelers along the line. ' ,
Major Lewis, who is one of the most
successful men in the Secret Service
of the Government, is in Jerry City
No charges are
made against any of the men now on- .
gaged in the service on this r‘varticular'
section, but the» money is missing, and
the postoffice authorities are lad-ring no
stone unturned to get at the bottom 0’!
the robbery. '
SCHEME TO GRAB ERIE CANAL.
Railroads Seeking to Crush Ont
Competition on _Freight Rates.
There is a big scheme on foot among
the railroads connecting New York and
Buffalo to grab the Erie Canal after
the citizens of this State have spent
$9,000,000 in deepening and widening it
to suit the fancies of the magnates.
This grab is to be worked through an
innocent looking amendment to the
law whereby the capital stock of cor-
porations engaging in the canal busi-
ness is no longer to be limited to $50,-
000, as the law now provides. It is pro‘
posed that they be allowed to increase
their capital to $4,000,000, which practi-
cally means indefinitely. The object
of the present law is to prevent the.
organization of big concerns which
would drive the small boatmen out 0!
business by the power of superior cap~
ital.
-With the small canal trade. crushed,
the railroads would be able to advance
grain rates between Buffalo and New
York at will. The railroads alone
could profit by the change. It is ex-'
pec ed that the scheme will be brought
up t the nextrsession. of the Legisla-
ture. '
Naval Officer Badly flurt.
Washington, Dec. 11.—Prof. Philip
Alger, of the navy, received a severe
wound in the head at 2 o’clbck yester-
day at‘t’ernoon in his office in the Navy
Dgpartment. Prof. Alger is the expert
on small arms attached to the Bureau
of Ordnance. "
charged. While working a_P ball car-
tridge in the breeCh he pulled the trig—
.ger. The ball struck an iron window
’frame three feet away, shattering it
He was e:;u...ining a
n. rifle, which was prematurely dish
into many pieces. . Several struck Prof. ‘
Alger and one of them severed the
temporal artery.
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