- - . W THEEVEIVINGTGAZETI‘ E - BEGIN THE YEAR BY FOR THE WEEKLY l'vAZETTF. AND" Y. WEEKLY TRIBUNE. BOTH P APEBS ' Sent to anv Address FOR O “,3 :- Dollar! .itDDRESS‘ALL caucus TO GAZETTE. - GOMEZ,THE WARRIOR. HEIS TO CUBA WHAT WASHlNGTCN WAS TO AMERlCA. [115 Words Upon Hearing .of the Riuim: Disaster—A Grand Old Man “110 Knows No Fear and Has but One Aim—tho Freedom of His People. A story sent from the interior of' Cuba, describes in detail the reception of Gen. Maximo Gomez of the news of the Main disaster. That the veteran soldier and undaunted commander of the insurgent forces in the field should have been deeply stirred by this awful tragedy was to be expected. It was to be expected,‘too, that he should unhesi- tatingly attribute to Spanish activity the perpetration of a dastardly crime. His bitter experience fully justifies his conclusion, for he is not in a position to judge the Spaniard impartially even in a. specific-case which lacks satisfactory evidence of guilt. But aside from his ready and necer- sarily hypothetical opinion, there is an admirable mingling of dignity and pa- thos in his use of this catastrophe to point a moral from the Cuban view. In these words from the insurgent head- quarters there is laid bare the SOul of an indomitable warrior who has risen superior to the assaults of age and the heart of a patriot wrung with a sense of hope deferred. Gomez rests under the conviction that his letters to two Presidents of the United States, and his government's reports to the govern- ment at V‘fashington, been heeded, we should have saved $300,000,000 of lost commerce, the Maine and her gallant crew, and all the foreign complications, present and prospective, arising from the postponement of definite action. There is, of course, in this the error of a judgment naturally biased. _I-Iis- tcry, when impartial, will record that the United States has. handled this question with admirable patience, posi- tive skill, and a determination to so guard its own honor and the rights of Spain, and so meet the demands of in- ternational comity, that it shall event— ually stand blameless before the civil- ized world. The very fact that a dis— tinctively commercial nation has been willing to sacrifice $300,000,000 of trade in order hot it might be absolutely right when it should decide to go ahead is alone eloquent of the domination of principle throughout. But these con- cluding words of the aged soldier will strike a responsive chord in the heart of every American: "Um.- ot‘ tne saddest disappointments of my his; is the knowledge that there are in the 'L'nited States persons who believe tl.£lt our just representations, ask'rg only for the recognition which we have the right to request, were made for the purpose of involving the United States in a war with Spain be- Spaniards. We had fought the Span- cause we could not cope alone with the iards ten years. Now we have been. fighting them three years more, and no honest man can doubt after what we have done that we are resolved to die rather than surrender. I have been thirteen years in the saddle, and Spain has sent against me across the Atlantic 400,000 men. I have needed no help to do that much, for with me were the 40,- 000 Cubans who died in the last war, and to-day the whole Cuban Army is ready to die for the principle we main- tain.” To this, grand old man of a stricken but unconquerable people the hat 0: every right-minded American must be dotted. From the inauguration of the present war, of Which he assumed di- rection at a time of life which justified permanent retirement, in which he has sacrificed a beloved son upon whom he had come to lean, and displayed an en— ergy that would shame most younger men, he has never spoken to the world from camp or field that he did not in- crease the reSpect in which he is held and render more hideous by contrast the perfidy and brutality of his foe. Master of himself at all times—even when his heart was most torn by the cold-blooded butchery and torture of his unarmed and helpless countrymen—- no grander figure is presented by the annals of modern warfare. Rightly may Maximo Gomez be im- mortalized by his people as the 'Vlash- ington of Cuba—serene, statesmanlike, uncompromising, just—but terrible. Raymund “Matched” Between the Lines “The late John T. Raymond carried his love of matching dollars so far that he once actually made a bet while performing his role in a theatre here in Washington,” remarked Mr. William St. John, the well-known New Yorkers. “I happened to have a seat in the front row that night, and as soon as Ray- mond came on he spied me and nod- ded. That very afternoon he and ] had been matching, and he came out second best. He hadn‘t been speaking a. great while, when, half turning to me and pulling out a silver dollar to my utter amazement, he said very dis- tinctly: " “ ‘Heads or tail, Saint?’ I caught on, and though I thought everybody in the house must be looking, put my finger to my head. ‘All right, you win,’ said Raymond, and immediately proceeded with his lines. It certainly was a funny thing, but the audience appeared to think it was regular, though perhaps some were puzzled at its irrelevancy. Raymond himsell thought it the best joke of the season, and after adjournment of the audi» ence another matching engagement fol- lcwed.”—W’ashington Post. He Didn't Like the Suggestion. "I understand that whisky comes pretty high in the Klondike." said the sociable old gentleman with the red nose. “Looks like it reaches the top of fill glass around in this town.” saidpthe bartender, and the old gentleman walked out full of wrath—Indianapolis Journal. VILLAGE WITH A HISTORY. I the Part Fountain City Played in Abol- I fishing Slavery. 1 Nine miles north of Richmond, Ind., r there stands the unpretentious village ‘ of Fountain City, with its population lot‘ 400 or 500 people, most of whom i are Quakers or direct descend-ants of i Quakers. In these days Fountain City is scarcely ever heard of outside the i borders of Wayne County; but a half century or more ago, when the anti- slavery movement was sweeping through the North, the little settle- ment was known'the country over. The town has a history unlike any other city or town in Indiana. It was the central station of what was known as the “Underground Railway,” and the house still stands that sheltered hun- dreds of fugitive slaves who were en route to Canada. Fountain City was originally called Newport, and it was laid out by Quak. ers about 1829. This religious sect be- gan the anti-slavery work in Indiana, and the HeWport settlement was the first to bring about means to assist in carrying on the Underground Railway. Levi Coffin, the president of the U-n- derground Railway, and one of the great abolitionists of his time, was one of the residents, of the town. In 1826 fugitive slaves began to arrive at his home, which then and now stands upon the main street of Ithe village. Benjan min Straatan, Dr. Henry Way, Benjav min Thomas, Samuel Charles and other prominent Friends became identified with the work, and not a. day passed in which slaves were not brought into the town, given food and shelter and assisted on their journey toward the North. The burden of expense was borne chiefly by Levi Coffin, who for- tunately was wealthy. Three lines of the “railroad” converged in the town— one from Cincinnati. one from Madison and' the other, from Jeffersonville. Newport, or Fountain City, is still much as it used to be in appearance. Many of the historic landmarks stand as Ithey did sixty years ago, and the home of Levi Coffin will never be torn away—Cincinnati Enquirer. PROFIT OF 'THE suez CANAL. in Extortionate Charge for Vessels Pass- ing Through. The Suez Canal is just under one hundred miles long. The enterprise, as every one knows, has been highly suc— cessful from a. financial point of view, the receipts annually being consider- ably over $15,000,000. This is due to the fact that the saving to large ves- sels consuming great quantities of coal, as against going round the Cape of Good Hope, is so great that the Suez Canal Company are in a position to "ask huge rates, not to say extort'ionate ones. It is true that, happily, Great Britain owns "about half the shares and reaps a. very handsome profit; but as, out of 3,500 vessels or thereabouts, 2,200 are British ships, it is to some extent like taking it from one section of the community to give it to another. Recently the owner of a large steaim yacht wanted to go as far as Ismailia, a distance of about forty miles, just to see the canal, and come back again. The trip would have only taken a few hours, and the sum asked, according to the scale of their rates, was nearly $2,500. The owner very properly said he would rather throw the money into the sea, or, better still, give it to the poor, than submit to such a ridiculous demand. It is easy to see the canal from the railway which runs alongside it. It is a. very curious experience from the windows of the train—the trackless desert on the one side and on the other enormous vessels, the largest afloat, perhaps 5,000 tons or more, steaming apparently through the land; because you only get occasional glimpses of the canal itself. At night these monsters of (the deep have their hundreds of electric lights shining brightly, with a. huge searchlight on deck, to show them :the way, and the sight is most picturesque, viewed from the railway carriage windows of this little line.—Tid Bits. Source of ‘Veal th. Along the Mongolian borders of China, there are thousands of farms on which nothing is raised but dogs, of a breed peculiar to this region. Each proprietor keeps several hundreds of them. They are of a large size, and when eight months old are killed, us- ually in midwinter, for the sake of their skins. As a result of the severe climate, they are COVered almost from birth with a. magnificent growth of fur. Hence they are much in demand among the northern Chinese as mater- ial for winter clothing. They consti— tute the only wealth of this desolate country. In each family a. certain number of dogskins are laid aside as the daughter's marriage portion. Yet they command no very high price. eight skins being required for a. gown about-two yards long, and worth some three or four dollars. This would make the average value of each but lit- tle over forty cents, from which must be deducted the cost of sorting and dressing; also of manufacturing the garment. Why He Didn't Want to Go to “’ar. Colonel Hunt says that a private in the lst Regiment, Ohio, refuses to go to war because he stutters. ' “You don’t go to talk, but to fight,” said the Colonel. ”But they’llp-p-put me on g-g-guard, and a. man may go ha—ha-half a. mile before I can say, 'Wh—‘who-who goes there?’ " “Oh. that's no objection. for there will be another sentry placed along with you, and he can challenge it you can fire." - “Well," stammered the private. ”b—b- )ut I may be t-také'n and run through the :g-gw'zizzard before I can ‘c—c~(3r_v qu-qu-quarter.”—-Cihcinr. ati i:2iiqi.1ir-3.r. NORWALK BUSINESS DIRECTORY. , Norwalk Fire Insurance Co- ' ——~.-—IN—— . , SUCCESSFUL OPERATION SINCE 1860. @ NO OUTSTANDING CLAIMS. Piel Bros’ Real German Lager, ON DRAUGHT AND IN BOTTLE __..at.__ _\ .4 —-_z—z_~-~~~,« - .. J-w—u/ RATCHFORDS’ 44 Main street. ' s- :8. WILSON, > PRACTICAL CONTRACTOR & BUILDER. . Estimates cheerfully given. Large buildings a. specialty. Contracts taken in any part of the Country. Steam mill and yard, 8 Cross street. 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