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NOVEMBER 28, 1897..
{I rains leave South Norwalk as follows:
FOR NEW YORK — Accommodation
trains at 9.36 a. m., 1.11, 3.04, 4.07, 5.33,
6. 41. 8. 11, 10. 20 p. 111. Express trains
at 4. 55, 5.45, 6.15, (local), 6. 55, (local).
7.13, (local), 7.56, (1,oca.l) 8.17, 903 (local)
9.58,10.35, 11.37, (local) a. m. 12. 47,
2.25, 5.05 5.55, 7. 55 p. m. For Washing-
ton via Harlem River 12.53 a. m. (daily)
SUNDAYS—Accommodation 9.15 a. m.
5. 43, (local), 7. 23, (local) 9. 28 p. m. Ex
press 4.55, 5.45 a. m.
FOR NEW HAVEN AND THE EAST—
Accommodation trains at 6. 32, 7.42,
8.46 and 11.42 a. m., 1.37, 2.42, (to B’p’t),
4.,20 5.27, 6,27 _7.28(tOB-’pt), 8.41, 9.41
and 11.15 p.m Express trains at 1.11,
1.20 9.,11 10.05,11.08 an m 12.,02 3.05
5.04 (Naugatuck Express) l. 10 p. m.
SUNDAYS—Accommodation 7.42, 9.12
a. m. and7. 15p. m. Express 1.11 and
1.20a'. m.
C. T. HEMPSTEAD, Gen. Pass. "Agent.
DAVID (W. RAYMOND
Funeral ”13ch 11111111311111
in Washington StreetSouth-Norwal'
Idenee.M chemo Hotel.
A .‘IEW- YEAR THOUGHT. '5
"1 here ‘1 the \‘ew Ycai come again— the.
u'i-Ien ’sgone-atlast;
‘ I ad in the past.
.. ', ‘l‘l‘
:II I ”l mid year.
I..7..i'.
11.1"
.-.-I burn: c:
Ix from start to end was sitting at my
' llIIOI‘
‘ ‘. :Is I. think it over, all the troubles that
\\‘:l '0 Il’lli ll) '
'I- I or. 11101th1. on by ninetx-aex on but. of
my 01.111 design.
211: l me the ye 119 in which they 10 xvocs,
liid possibly they' 1e right.
(‘ I. say ah; It they are wrong, or that they-
sue: Ik lroni spite.
1 (mix knmx \t’ 11' .It I
«11011: .le for me:
“411011101131 rig ht to blame the folks xxho
(Iiszl' ’100.
I do:
do think and that’s
11.:
‘ ct l c 111 be :1r my uitness of the things that
l believe
And l \1 ill do it truly, ixith no wishing to de-
- ceive - ('2 ' 0
That whether yez'us be good 0': ill 1101111: 1
should c or condemn,
Bcc; 1115c that. which these years become i3
\\ hat 11 e make of them.
And though old ninety-seven has brought me
qui e a deal of woe,
1 thank it that I’ve kept alive and able still
to go.’
And as I’ve no reforms in view. I wish it 1111 "
derstood
I only hope this new onewill turn out one-
half as good—Harper’s Bazaar.
A NEIWISOI’IE
South Walton, was as new and cheap
and crude as the substantial Old town. ~
of Walton, of Which it Was an offshoot,
was sober, dignified and respectable.
New streets, rough and unfinished} ran
at right angels with the railroad track,
and were lined on either side with pre—
tentious little dwelling-hOuses, which '
had heavy looking round towers out of
all proportion with the buildings which . .
they were supposed to adorn, but
which they only vulgar-iced and cheap—
_ened.
The few public buildings were hud—
died about the railroad station, and
were as plain as the dwelling—houses
weie ornate, but had the same air of
newness.
One of the plainest of those was di-
rectly opposite the station. It was a
big, box-like structure, two} stories
high, just primed over with an ugly
reddish yelloxv paint, through which
the coarse nails and the pencilings of
the lumber dealer were plainly visible.
There was'a narrow hall through the
building, unlighted save by a glass
transom over the door, and a. window
at the extreme end. -.
0:: one side of the door was the post-
ofiice; on the other the South Walton
branch of the \Valton public library,
and the inevitable laundry. office and
small-wares store combined.
A modest tin sign On the left—hand
door post informed the public that “E
Nelson, M. D.” had an office on the sec-
ond floor,-'and the same name appeared
in larger letters over the rough piazza,
between two windows on the «right.
Theshades at these windows were a.
soft ecru, and the windows themselves
were. bright and clean. In marked
contrast to those in the lawyer’ s of—
fice across the hall.
The. people at South Walton were
somewhat slow, at first, 'to accept Doc-
tor Nelson, on account of her sex; but
Walton was four miles away; those
who consulted her because she was at
hand did so afterward because they be-
lieved‘, in her; then they spoke of her
to their friends, and so it came to pass
that three months after her first ap-
pearance in the place she had a very
respectable showing of names upon her
books.
Now all this promised well for the
» future prosperity of DOctor Elaine Ne1—'
son, but such prospective success did
not materially alter the fact that New
Year’s Day found her in the unenviable
position of a person with’ her last dol-
‘ lar in her pocket. She was an orphan;
her nearest relative was a half brother,
now in the” West, and as he 'had not
approved of her choice of a. profession
she was too proud to appeal to him for
aid. The thousand and one expenses,
little and great, of moving and settling
in this, her ,«first' practice; some bills
contracted during her year. 'of hospital
work, the rent'and incidental expenses
of her life at. South Walton, had re-
duced to this What had seemed at the
outset money enough to last at least
six months, in case she had no patients
for that length of time.
She tried to joke about her plight to
herself. She had bridged over many
a rough spot in her. path by persistent-
1y looking at the humorous side, but
it was hard to see any chance for a
joke on this occasion.
Who could be jovial on the eve of the
’New Year if in a. strange town, with.
\ no relatives within a. thousand miles;
with only bread and butter and an egg
in the larder, and only a dollar in one’ 6
pocket?
Certainly not Doctor Nelson, al-
though she made a brave attempt, say-
ing to herself.— '
“Well, one can’t starve on bread and
milk, and there’s coffee and that egg. ~
I only hope it won’t prove a bad one.
Even if no patient cdmes in between
now and to-mOrrow, I still have my.
dollar;
of course be lonely. I am glad I have
that d011ar., To think of beginning the
year with gnawing hunger, biting at
my digestiVe organs, and my birthday.
too! I had quite forgotten that. Well,
I can’t freeze, fortunately, in this
steam—heated hOuse.. ,I really must eat
that egg for supper. I’m so tired oI
bread and butter, and Lshall surely
have some office call,.bef01'e night."
But the evening were away, and no
one called except the postman with a
letter from her half-brother. This is
what she read:
2~I ’fef\-~even \xe’ll see no more; its van-;
\Iholo: I think it‘s been a pr'et f-y "
111 111;, memory I'll hold it clIISe and
it didn” .. bting me much I hadn’t
I can’t starVe, though I shall'
.1ng
iii
Meal
Rae-I PLATEG‘. 1w.
“Dear Elaine:—-I sent your birthday
present by express a day oritwd ago.
Hope you’ll like it. Thought it safer
not to prepay the expressage. {ope
you are doing well. NO news. All
tend love. Hoping to hear from you
room,
“Your affectionate brother,
“JOHN P. NELSON.”
A cold perspiration broke out all
over her as she rea‘ Supposethat ex-
press bill should be more than a dol-
lar! ’ .
The night was long and wakeful,
but New Year’s morning dawned at
last, cold and gray and dreary. The
expressman came brisht and early,
with a big box and a charge of'eighty-
five ce1 ts which she paid, thankful
that it was no more.
DoctOI Nelson’s suite of moms con-
sisted of her office, a sleeping- room
and a little back room, hardly larger
than a good—sized closet, which she
used for storage, and where she pre—
pared her simple meals. She ate her
breakfast in the office before office
hours; her lunch and supper invher
chamber for fear of callers. The rooms
were prettily and tastefully fitted up,
and a marked contrast 'to the outside
of the building. With a little more
money she might have‘ been very
happy there.
Before getting breakfast she opened
the big box. It contained a" beautiful
fur cape. She 'had needed and wanted
one, but she looked at it rather apathe-
tically. She& felt strangely weak and
faint. .When one,_considers.that coffee,
bread and butter and 'an occasional
egg had been her bill of fare for a
week or so it is not sulprising. Any
one who ghas tIied that way of living
will readily understand the situation
and sympathize With. Elaine.
Finally she made her coffee, spread-
a little table neatly, toasted her bread,
and sat down to her simple meal.
She tried to think of pleasant things;
to be thankfu fOI shelter—for warmth;
but she could (fly think 'Of the past
with sadness, and of the‘ future with
increasing doubt and mlsgiving. Her
meagre fare reminded her by force of
contrast of the breakfast they used to
have in her old home in her father’s
lifetime. She remembered that there
was often some homeless man or wo-
man“ invited to share the meal with
them. How far away it seemed—that
happy time. \How incredible it .would
have sounded then had some one said
that in the year of grace 1896, she, too,
would be fatherleSs, homeless and hun-
gry -
The tears came to her eyes as she
pictured her father’ s anguish could be
know how lonely, how utterly friend-
less, she felt. Ah, how she hoped he.
could not knoW! It would spoil even
he? van for him—the dear, loving
‘father, whose loss she could never
cease to mourn She felt that she cOuld
not eat, after all; so she drank her cup
of coffee, lay down upon the couch, and.
with her eyes fixed upon the new Cape,
fell into a state of dreamyI apathy. ‘
“It must have Cost at least seventy-
five dollars,” she found he1 self othink-
ing. ' - , ,
She glanced at a diamond ring upon
her finger—another of. John’ s gifts.
teen cents to buy dinner! She laugh-
ed in a weak' hysterical fashion as the
grim saicasm of the situatiOn occuned
to her, and then relapsed into her list-
less musing, forgetting the untouched
breakfast and .the lapse of time, al-
though the clock struck eight and then
the half— hour. _ -
Presently, however, the dOor opened
and an old farmer, whose wife was one
of her patients, came bustling in.
“Good- morning, doctor, good- -'m01n—
"mg," he cried cheerily. “I had to. coihe
A'
'new fur cape, diamonds, and only fit-
fort.
llllllllllllllluuul
RRIIIIIIIII III IIIIIR IIIIuIl lll ll R‘RRR
:o the village for some cranb’r’ys—
mother told me to get ’em yesterday
but I fo1got, and we couldn’t have
;u1key without cranb’r’ys you know!
A1nd mothel says, ‘Pa I wish you’d stop
and pay the doctor’s 11111.1 hate to
3W8 anybody New Year’s Day.’ ,‘All
"ight, mother,’ said I,"and spos’n I ask
her to come home to dinner with me?
She ain’t got any folks, and we ain’t
got any, for ’tain’t likely Horace can
zome home.’ Horace’s my son, who
lives way out in Minneapolis. SO put
on your bonnet, docfor, and come right
along with me. We’ re plain sort of
folks, but we will give you a warm
welcome.”
He stopped
suddenly, for Elaine’s
‘uerve had deserted her at last, and she
covered her face with her hands and
burst into tears.
Over the bowed head the old man
glanced at the little table with its
slices of toast, its empty coffee cup, and
unused plate and knife and fork, and
a. sudden comprehension made his keen
gray eyes misty.
“There, there, my dear!” he said
huskily, as he gently stroked the pretty
brown hair. “Don’t cry. I can’t bear
to have you do that. You’ re about
the age my girl would be if she had
lived, and—”
. He could say no more, and coughed
to 'hide his emotion.
“I hope you will pardon me,” said
Elaine, recovering ’herself with an ef-
uI—n ,
“There, don’t; you say .a word! I
understand. You’re homesick, having
no folks round‘here. It’s natural,”
said the farmer with ready tact. “Just
put on this pretty fur thing-and we
will leave the office to take care of it-.
self.
morrow,” he said with a chuckle at,
the timeworn joke. “Oh, and here’s
the money. I almost forgot that, after'
all.” ‘ I
Although virtue is said to be its own'
reward, a more tangible return for
benefits conferred seldom comes amiss,-
and Mr. Hastings felt in a vague way
rewarded for his foretli’Ought in _re-
membering the doctor’ s. loneliness
when, oh reaching ho-,me his eyes
were gladdened by the sight of the big,
broad-shouldered son who was his
pride and joy; who was “Professor
Hastings” in the city of his adoption,
but would never be anything but our
boy “Horace” 'to the dear _old people
on the farm. 1
Professor Hastings had arrived dur-
ing his father’s absence in the village.
If he was in the least surprised to see
the latter drive up with a stylish- -look-
ing young lady 'by ’his side he did not
show it: ,but his quick eye did notice
that no package was forthcoming from
the ample sleigh. Remembering his
father’s incurable absent- mindedness,
and having been told his errand, after
the usual introductions had taken
place and he had escorted Doctor Nel-
son in doors, he said With a twinkle in
his eye,— . ’
“Father, where are the cranberries. 9”
A comical look of dismay spread OVer
the latter’ s face as he said,— ,
“I declare it I didn’t forget ’em
again! Jump in, Horace, and_we.’ll go
back. _I-t ain’t ten ‘o’clock and I’ll have
’em yet—with your help!” _
‘ The old people were happy beyond '
their expectation in having their son
at home. .,
flrSt realhomdike holiday for four
long years; and as for l’rofegssor Haste
ings, when he was not tormenting him-
self with speculations as t.’whether
that dix mond ,ring of the' dO'ctor’s was
'.an ‘engage‘menttoken, he was happy in
dreams of the future“: time - when he
might and did persuade her to weer a
plain gold One, and the nameof’Hast-
lugg.‘-¥Waverly :hiagazine.
. J
‘ \
Folks won’t want you till to-, .
Elaine was enjoying her. _- ‘
1
New Year Superstitions.
The superstitions connected with
New-Year’s are many, and not only
harmless, but interesting. For in—
stance, no one must put on anything
that is soiled, and, if» possible, wear
everything new. You must not cut your
hair or your nails, and on noaccount
wear a torn garment. If you should
be so unfortunate as to put on the left
shoe first, or a garment on wrong side,
you must undress, even to the taking
down of your hair, and dress all over
again. It is very bad luck 'to be late
to bleakfast, and w01se luck! still to
stumble or fall, unless it be upstairs,
In which case do not look behind you,
whatever you do. On retiring, place
something higher than the bed beside
it, on which you can step when you
arise in the morning, so that you may
take your first step upward. Be the
first to speak to the cook, if you can.
i To have a. basket of eggs or a box of
manges brought to the house unex-
pectedly during the day is great goOd
Huck. The salt-cellars must be clean and
full, the bread basket well supplied,
l and money in your purse, and the
. purse in your pocket. Whatever you
start to do on New Year’s Day you
must finish, or else you will half do all
' the year. It is also a custom to light
Ia candle at sundown on the 3lst of
December and keep it burning until
the new year is fairly started. It is a
very ill omen to have a fire go out
with the old year. The finding of mon-
ey is good if the money is spent for
other than the person finding it. And
almost any love sign is propitious at
this time if there should chance to be
a new or a full moon on the 31st of
December or the 1st of January.
Clarence Catches Himself.
i believe I’m getting to be a bigger
fool every day I live! I got smart a
'ew days ago and told pa that when I
grew to be a man and had to whip my
.ittle boy I wouldn’t use a strap on
11111, but would get a. flat paddle, and
:ut square holes in it and Whale'him
with that, because every one of those
101es would raise a blister.
Well, yesterday pa invited me out in-
.0 thé woodshed to dress me down for
something I’d been doing, and I’ll be
larnedqif he didn’t lay it onto me with
the very same kind of a paddle that I’d
:old him about! 'Gee-whillikins! , I
I-1aven’t taken a meal at the table since,
and expect to do all my eating off a
Ihelf for a week. The ‘paddle worked
orld. '
A Cynical Proposition.
“How did you come to vote for that
. man?” '
l “I thopght he would make the best
ofiicial. "
“But. he had no experience what-
ever.’
“That 5 just the point. It’ll take
him nearly all the time he stays in
office to learn the different ways by
which he can get the best of us. And
'then we can put in another man.’
Washing ton Star.
Doors and Windows
lust as I thought it would—New York
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NEW IDEA TO STOP JAlL-BREAKlNG.
blade of Tubular
. Grating that. Connect with the Office.
A system of tubular grating for pris-
ms has been invented which practi~
:ally makes escape by means of sawing
the bars of cell doors and windows im-
possible.
The'system is built 011 the vacuum
principle. The doors and windows of
the prison cell are constructed of pipe,
resembling the solid steel bar grating
at present in use. The pipes of each
cell are continued from the cell to the
warden’s office, where they are con-
uected with a vacuum gauge, a combi—
nation alarm and annunciator valve
and a stop valve. There is a connec-~
tion with a main vacuum pipe and a
pump, by, which the [air is exhausted
from all'the grating and a vacuum
formed. in the pipes. The lock used
in connection with this new system is
made on the same principle.
Caged behind these vacuum bars a
prisoner could not escape by means of
cutting, drilling or breaking the grat-
ing without sounding an alarm on the
warden’s annunciator. Any opening
made in the bars would break the vac-
uum and send the air rushing through
the pipe to the alarm valve, indicating
on the annunciator the exact spot
where the opening had been made.
This system has been tried success-
fully and seems to afford an invulnera--
ble protection against jailbreaking. It
has been examined and pronounced
thoroughly practical by such authori-
ties as Sheriff Tamsen, Warden Sage,—
of Sing Sing, and Henry Doht, Sheriff
of Queen’s county-r—New York J ournal.,
PECULIARITY OF POISON lVY.
Doesn’t. Seem to Efl'ect Everyone Alike—-
Cattle Eat It Greedily. '
Just what it is that induces poison
Ivy to play its injurious pranks on
some people at some times and not on
others islstill a profound mystery. One
thing is certain, that the number of
people susceptible to the poisoning in—
fidence must be extremely few, from
the fact that in the vicinity of Bhila?
delphia the highways and byways are
overrun with the plant to an enor—
mous extent. It is frequently impossi~
ble for people to go by without brush-
ing ngainst it, and if it is the vapor or
some exudation from the plant which
causes the trouble thousands of per-
sons must be under the influence to
every one who suffeis from it. The
writer of this paragraph knOWs of a.
tract of land on which the plant g1 ow
profusely, and on which many scores
of laborers are employed. These 13.-
borers are frequently set to weeding
and pulling out the plant by the naked
hand, and, so far as the writer knows,
none of these mem were ever poisoned
by it. The cattle eat it gréedily when-
ever they get an opportunity, It seems
to have ‘no injurious effect on them—-
Meehan’s Monthly.
".._—_
Uncle Sam Too Sharp.
Washington, Dec. 29.—As a result 0;
the orders issued by Secretary Gaga
and Assistant Secretary Spalding dur-
ing the past three days, the filibuster-
ing expedition planned to leave Florida
for Cuba on Christmas night has been
broken up. Extreme vigilance was ex-
ercised by the Government officials
and the filibusters found it impossible
to get away.
The expedition was to have em-
barked near Punta Gorda, on the west
coast of Florida. A quantity of dyna-
mite and other explosives were lo-
cated by the Government officers near
Punta Gorda, and the watch kept over
them resulted in at least the tempo-
rary abandonment of the expedition.
II
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