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imifioyal is the highest grade baking W
‘ brown. Actual tests tum it 50980..-
fllird farmer than anyam brand.
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Absolutely Pure
ROY”. BAKING POWDER (20., NEW YORK.
The front of the Spencer store cu
Main street is being reprinted.
Seventy voters were made in South
Norwalk, yesterday.
The Knights of Columbus will hold a
“smoker” on November let.
Frederick H. Burger and Lillian M.
Burger have .instituted suit, in the
town court, against Henry Shepard. It
is an action to replevin three trunks
that are valued at $100. .
Miss Jennie'M. Howard, Miss Caro—
line Schuman and Miss Madeline. Rice,
of A. Dicker-man &. Son’s store, spent
Sunday in New York.
Judge H. W. Gregory was in Stam-
ford yesterday '
The Republican canons of the Second
Voting district for the nomination of a
candidate for representative will be
heldin South Norwalk, Friday even-
ing‘. fl” ,
A in :.:.In,9; of Douglas Fowler Post,
G. A. H. was held last night at which
businc... of importance was transacted.
——————~<uoopl>——
-‘.: ~Pussv IN OUR NAV\Y.
"n
The Government Makes Regular App‘r‘
priations for the Cats. ~ ..
When Major Gen:ral Merritt sailed
from San Francisco he ask-ed the gov-
ernment authorities folijllffie cat‘s t9
take to Manila. Probably the trio of
'American felines are now teaching
flankee habits to their misguided fel-
lows of the islands, for it was Major
General Merritt’s intention to send
them ashore when he lppded.” _ Th5
catscame from the commissary, depot
in San fiancisco, and their pregam-
tor m y seen there-any day,-busied
- ~among the barrels and boxes or dozing
lazily in Sonic snug corner, _,_.«~-::-.1‘
San Fran'ciSco Chronicle, that the g5?
ernment ’spends several thousands of
dollars annually for the maintenance
of cats, but the accounts ofrthe United
States depot commisSaries prove it.
In every storehouse there are from
one to five of. the animals, and their
rations are provided 'as carefully and
regularly as those of any of the gal-
lanjt soldiers. , -. . ,
They are not fedaon scraps, nor are
their individual tastes disregarded, as
are those, of the enlisted men, but
they are allotted so many pounds of
choice beef or- any other delicacy their
palates may desire. Of court? they
~ may‘have as much game as they wish,
and the storehouses seldom fail to fur-
men an unlimited supply of rats and
mice. That the cats e many times
ltheir cost of support 8 well known,
as such supplies as crackers, cheese,
b‘acon, flour and meal are much sought
adder by the rodents.
v Some time ago a new attache of the
warehopse procured a terrier and in-
stalled "him in the territory of “The
‘lGolo’nelf’ who is the 'fathé’r 'of the ani-
mals Major General Merritt took with
him. The next morning the dog was
found beside two dead rats, badly
schrred, while “The Colone” guarded
five With a pride that spoke in the se-
vere arch of his back and his loud
’ meows. The terrier was forthwith
removed. -
A211 menrof-war carry cats. Their
usefulness is never more apparent
than on shipboard. The writer was
cressing from Antwerp to New York
on the steamship Southwark, when he
was aWakened by the sudden stop-
ping of the ship, an occurrence which,
happening in mid-ocean, ”generally
means soniethin-g serious. The pas-
s‘éngers rushed on deck half. clad, and
were disgusted to learn that .a rat
having crawled into the cylinder had
caused the halt. Such an action on a
. ,an-of-wlar in time of action might be
.feartully paid for, and an active cat
is the only preventative of such a pos-
sibility. '
A Verltable Napoleon.
“That shows what you can do in
this country,” said the man with the
9‘ loud voice, as he rang up a nickel
with a view to stopping the car.
' “J ohrn’s one of the most remarkable
self-made men we ever had in Wayne
county.”
“13 that true?”
“I should say so. Wonderful man!
Why, that fellow came here twenty
years ago with $50 and last week he
railedfor a round half million. Beats
_ Mile band‘what a rustler can do in this
country.”——Detroit Free Press.
vvn' AND HUMOR.
your' zfolks ever
5“" Little Georgie—Do
1 before break.
shave family prayers.
fast ?" .
' "L'ittle Alberte—No;
we only have
ayers before we go to bed. We: ain’t:
Plain
in Ithe'lday 1111
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Old‘l’mt Royal Can Be Seen on a Clear l
* T H E 'n‘fvn‘nn n G. G A Z" ET '1
l
A .CITle-‘iNDER WATER. ‘
Day. Destroyed in 1692. . »
The traveller who visits .the capital
of Jamaica should pray for clear
weather without wind, that he may
see the sunken city of Port Royal.
When the water of the harbor is ruf-
fled .by breezes the city is obscured
from, view. But on .a cloudle-ss, still
day, When the surface of the sea is
perfectly smooth, the ruins of the
phantom city may be plainly seen in
.the depths of the transparent water.
The spire of the old cathedral is
the most prominent object. In the
clear water you can see .‘the fishes,
lazily swimming in and out among the
wider! turrets, more suggestive of .
owls and bats than 'of the finny inhab-
itants or the sea. Occasionally glimp-
ses can be had of the ruins of other
buildings—buildings which for more
than two centuries havb kept their
ghastly secrets and will keep :them un-
til the end of time.
Down there, in that peaceful depth,
lie the bones of three thou-sand men,
women and children, carried down
into the sea with their homes on,.that
awful day in 1692. An earthquake, 1
suddenly and without warning, smote
the profligate city -of Port Royal,
which slid into the sea. The waters
opened and swallowed it up, and
there, beneath the silent waves, was
hidden the wickedness and debauch-
ery of a community'described by his-
torians as being almost without par-
allel. - M . . \u _
From the richest city of its time it
has dwindled into insignificance, until
now it is a most wretched place, used
only as a naval station. Disaster after
disaster has overtaken it.
After the earthquake the town was
rebuilt, only to be completely destroy-
ed by fire in 1703. On August 22, 1722, I
it was swept into the sea by a hm-ri-_,
care. It was. once ‘mgicjecons‘frdct-
ed, but again, in 1815, it was reduced
to ashes, and as recently as 1880 it
was visited by another hurricane.
Every disaster was attended by great I
loss of li_fe. “g .
The city 5f Port Royal was origi—
nally built upon a narrow strip of land
extending out into the sea, which ac-
counts for its strange disappearance
of the time. of the earthquake. Like
the houseof the foolish man of Bibli—
cal lore, which was builded upon the
sand, it literallyrlid into the water
when the earthquake shock came.
Previous .to that fateful seventh day
of June, 1692, Port Royal had been
known as “the finest town in the West
Indies, and the riches-t spot in the
world.” It was, as it now is, a British
colony, bu-tthcre was little either in
its government or its customs of Brit—
ish moraliy. We are told that it was
a place of luxurious debauchery; that
in their excesses the colonists rivalled
the profligates of ancient Rome—New
York Herald. w- ‘..?*i§.’.‘2jj£t§§ffi'f{§orw
_.
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_ BRA-,3 no”;
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Character in the Pitch of Voices.
r. H. Brand, or Chicago, thinks he
has discovered in his occupation of
“veice building” that human beings
are individualized or made known to
each other by the pitch of their voices,
and says it is a fact that the dispo-
sition of an individual is indicated by
the key tene of the voice, just the
same as the tone of an E-flat corner
or any other musical instrument en-
enablcs people to identify the instru-
ment with which the sound is pro-
duced. It will be found that persons
whose voice-s are pitched in the key of
“C” are of a social nature, and their
whole make-up is amiable. “D”
voices indicate hopefulness and cheer-
fulness; “E” indicates a sanguine tem-
perament. Those Whose voices are
pitched in “F” are earnest and sin-
Cere; those in “G” are egotistical and
domineering; those in “A” are fretful,
nervous and pathetic, wliile those in
“B” are timid and apprehensive and
lack confidence and self-control. The
semi—tones are similarly distributed,
but we give the diatonic scale as a
sample. With this key any one can
judge of the qualifications and the dis—
position of those with whom he comes
in contact. '
Arabian Sheep Without “'001.
The principal kind of meat con—
sumed by the people of Arabia, both
native and foreign, is the mutton of
the Somali, or black-head sheep, and,
no matter by whom eaten, all pro
nounce it the best mutton ever tasted.
This sheep, as its name indicates, is
from the Somali county, on the Afri-
can coast. These sheep have no wool.
but short, fine hair, similar to that of
a dog. The most peculiar thing about
them is that they have a large lump
of pure fat growing right at the root
of the tail, and this fat varies in size
and weight according to the conditions
of the sheep. A medium-sized lump
of this fat weighs about four pounds.
Such asheerp, which weighs fro-m
thirty-five to forty pounds, is sold at
from four to five rupees (85 cents to
$1.05). The skins, when sun-dried,
‘nre exported, and large quantities of
them go every year to the New York
market, where they are known as
“mocha skins,” but, like the “mocha
coffee” of commerce this is merely ,a
term and nothing else—New York
Press. ‘ «r
An'American actress and singer who
still shines in comic opera after-twen-
ty-three years of work on the stage
was asked for ‘her Ponce de Leon se-
cret. Her response was: “Lots of
air, lots of exercise, lots of sleep, lots
of water, lots of friends, lots of en-
thusiasm, very little wine, and very
little worry.” The recipe deserves
consideration.
Reggy—Do you ever, Miss Geraldine,
think, of marrying? _
Geraldine—éNot any more.- I’ve join-
.cd'the “Don’t Worry Society.”—-Pm13.
. . "'i‘a‘Cal . .. 'r ‘ , '
July 1. ‘5 :grvzfm‘.‘ '~"‘~P“' . .. ‘.r‘Z'-........: fun I
crisis is near.
tie, and have had no.” money ‘for sev-‘
eral month's." Mén who know say star-
; aboard in time.
5.,
inneuxnou‘or CUBA. ,
fflpfin'to Be Mlowad Until January 1 to
,'Bé'nninve Her Troops.
Washington} Oct. 25.——The president
:yesterdayconsidered a telegram from
General Wade at Havana recommend-
ing that the limit of time allowed the
Spaniards to vacate Cuba. be extended
from December 1 to January 1.
He said that .«it. would be practically
impossible for- the 124,000 Spanish
troops to leave before the first of the .
year. The recommendation‘ was ap-
proved.
In the meantime the United States
-troops now in Cuba and others to be
dispatcheg will take possession of the
territory'as fast as the Spaniards va-
cate it, probably leaving Havana until
the last.
In regard to the reported purpose of
the Spaniards to dismount and remove .
to Spain the heavy ordnance cf the }
forts and arsenals about Havana, it is
said in positive terms that nothing of
the kind will be permitted, and if this _
movement had already begun, it would
be stopped at once. ' finntw'é’a
The instructions given our evacua-
tion commissioners at Havana covered
all these questions, and explicitly pro-
; in their months for him to
a bullet. With his horse
j Abbi, mm. "ROUGH RIDER.”
l Astonishing Feats of Cherokee Bill \Vitl
l '- ‘ His Rifle.
l In the Second troop of rough riders,
a
l was “Cherokee Bill.” who, as his name
5 indicates, «hails from the Indian Ter-
g ritory, and belongs to the once pow-
erful tribe of redskin warriors.
it not for his high cheekbones and
bonze complexion, he would pass mus-
ter for a tall and uniscular New Eng-
lander. But the Indian origin of Cher-
okee Bill is unmistakable. - ~
'Like all Indians, Bill rides his hors
as though he and the animal were one,
and his skill with rifle and revolver is
a constant source of wonder and de-
light to his companions. His feats in
marksmanship are the talk of the reg- -
iment. Any of his comrades are will-
ing to hold a silver dollar for Bill to
shoot from their fingers: or hold pipes
shattefll ~with
at a gallop
and hanging on with one knee and a
hand he can hit a small target at a
Vere
vided that only the arms in the hands
of the troops and what is generally um i
derstood as ‘impedimepts” would be
permitted to be taken away. ”MM
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”4th- AFFAIRS AT SANTIAGO.
A Narrow Escape for Gen. Wood. Free
Ration: Demoralizlng.
Santiago de Cuba, Oct. 25.-——Generai
Wood, the acting military commander
here, and Major Brooks, had a narrow
escape Sunday evening from a serious
disaster. They had started down the
bay, on the way to ,Morro Castle, on
board a steam launch. The engineer
caréle§sly started to fill the boilers
suddenly, while they were almost red
hot. 47$;mfi,‘ ___;< N““\
M'aipr Brobks saw the dangéi’, stop-
ped the launch, had the fire drawn, and
t _e launch Was towedlgg (31; Lo her star-
pm
'.': . “aim-.‘.).fl» #3.: "ya-c l
hng placmipéy,‘ ~,. '._ milt'k‘j‘W‘E‘a.
The engineer was 1scharged.
jors Starr and Brooks returned yester-
day from a. trip to Baracoa, Sagua and
other places. They report that there
is no destitution among the Cubans at
the places. visited and that the distri-
bution of free rations is having a de-
moralizing effect upon the people, who
do not want_to go ’to work-on the
sugar estates, which, with other in-
dustries, are badly in need of help, but
cannot obtain workmen. ...
~Au'lgggfl‘3bhp W.”- *
- Bearludiun Troubles. ,
Perry, Oklahoma, Oct. 25.—'—Serious
trouble is brewing among ‘tlig. Com-
manche, Kiowa and Apaéhe Indians.
For thirty years, since the Medicine
Lodge treaty, the government has fed
these Ipdians, but that treaty expired
They have commenced killing cattle
belonging to 'I‘exas cattlemen and a.
The Indians have no crops, few cat-
vation threatens them. -
There are 1,500 Cbmmanches. 1,300
Kiowas and 600 Apaches. ' 4,. :- 'tgggfi'v’
lemma...» I ..W" " ' "".-‘.:.-;gi;;,;~.um’-r’
' Gone After Bug ah Mall Ge Shig.
Walker, Minn, Oct. 25.——1t has been
learned from reliable sources that fif- ‘
teen Indians, armed with \Vinchesters‘
and carrying handcuffs, have gone' af-
ter Bug-ah—VIah-G'e-Shig and his son,
At the agency the excitement is great
and news will be anxiously awaited.
'A petition signed (by fifteen chiefs
and 183 braves, was sent to Secretary .
Bliss yesterday asking him to allow
them to cut logs during the coming
winter.
North Carolina’s Race War.
YVilmington, N. C., Oct. 25.—-Advices
from Ashpole say the town is closely
guarded by whites and that all is
quiet. ,
Four negroes who shot the three
white guards have been captured. They
were run down and brought to bay by
the bloodhounds which are thoroughly
trained.
The negroes are now confined in box
cars at Ashpole, and heavily guarded.
It is uncertain yet what the fate of
the negroes may be, but it is feared
that their cowardly attempt to assas-
sinate the guards will so exasperate the
whites as to cause further and more
serious ‘trouble.
The guard was composed of eight or
ten men who were standing around the
fire in the open air, thus becoming easy
targets for the negroes, who fired on
them under cover of darkness and then
(led. . .
The Ashpole incident has increased
the excitement at Wilmington, which,
was already near the danger line.
Another Rise in Wheat
New. York, Oct. 25.—Wheat went up
again yesterday because of the war
scare abroad. The news that the gov—
ernment of France had given orders
to prep-are for a reception of infantry
at southern French ports threw the
Liverpool wheat pit into something ap-
proaching a panic just before the close
there, and the excitement became so
intense and fluctuations so wide that
cables reported an inability to more
than approximate the closing wheat
figures.-
The advance for the day was esti—
mated at about 2 1-8d., which carried
the price of wheat in Liverpool to be—
tween 24 and 26 cents above the parity
in Chicago.
During the afternoon the excitement
continued in thelocal market, every-
body trying to buy wheat. Prices ad-
vanced steadily until they were two
cents over the opening figure, the De-
cember option selling at 77 3-4 cents,
against 75 3-4 cents in the early morn- .,
ing.
rho Bun‘alo on‘ for the East,
Brooklyn, Oct. 25.—There is every in-
dication at the navy yard that the 5
cruiser Buffalo will get away for Ma—
nila to-d'ay provided hercoal is put
Her storesand crew
are already on board, and all that re-
mains to be done is for her "bunkers
to be filled.
Md, .fifELQQ-‘l halcyon feet and plays the
upon a foe, in which every one of the
hundred feet two out of three times,
with his revolver. V
One day some members of his com-
pany were firing at a watermelon in a
field at a hundred yards and manifest-
ing pleasure when they hit it, which
they did about every other time. Cher-
okee Bill joined the group, and, after
looking con-temptuously at the shooting
'for some time, said, “This is what you
want to do,” and, firing his rifle, be
cutthe stem almost completely on.
Bill has taught his horse all the or-
dinary tricks that cavalrymen employ.
and many others which remind one of
the wonderful performances of the
Western Sioux. He makes his animal
lie down and become a pillow for him
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picturesque and notable character .
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while he pretends to sleep, and then
tells him to be on guard while he re-
mains sleeping4 The horse walks cg
pint or ’senlr‘y to perfection. Bl“
breaks a stick in order to produce the
noise made by an enemy creeping up—
on a man’s trail, and. the horse ret‘uriiil
immediately and paws his ' master
Piano LesSonn.
MR“. GEOIIGE W. BRADLEY, (duueh er l
of the late Wm. 11. Nash). gives efficient ,
and satisfactory instructions ontho Piano at 5 _
or home. 19:; Man 5m ot.
putty to hold them in. Hope
you don’t feel- pained after we
have taken the pains to tell you
about our panes.
We have also prepared paints,
lead and oil. "
H. H. WIIEIAMS.
l1 mm STREET, may, cm.
J. Ii. JENNINGS.
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N0. 7‘ MAIN STREEII
NIGHT BELL ATM flm‘hl - .
gently until he is wide awake.
‘While the regiment was in camp at
Tampa, Fla, one of the most pictur-
esque sights was to see Cherokee Bill
and his horse in swimming together.
The dark copper color of the man’s
body made him seem of the same hue
as his steed. They swam together and ,
even played together in the water, and
not until the animal was thoroughly
tired did it manifest any desire to re-
turn to the land. _ ‘
At Féi‘handi‘na as'well as at Tampa
Cherokee Bill taught his comrades
many queer Indian tricks, thereby fur-
nishing any amount of amusement for
the: soldiers of other regiments. On
o’ne‘occasion he had them all creeping
pd'rty lay (flat upon his face and wrig-
gled, Wormlike, along the ground.
Their dark uniforms, Which they were
at, the time, the Cuban uniforms not
1883, for Coughs and Colds. I
leaving ' a. troublesome cough,
r The Piso Company, Warren, Pa.
in 1890, and have had others since. .
1896-7, I had a. spell of Bronchitis, lasting all wmter, and
Cure, which relieved me.—Mrs. M. B. St
Springs, 0010., August 19, 1898.. .
. I have been taking Piso’s Cure for Consumption since
had an attack of LaGrippe
In the Winter of
until I a ain tried Piso’s
lgALLEY, Colorado
)m' FPISO‘S
l" ‘ H
Q “RE
Best Cough Syrup.
in time. Sold by druggists.
having been furnished", made little
contrast with the earth, grass and
bushes around, and a» person at a hun-
dred yards would never dream that a
body of resolute men were stealing si-
lently along.
To the spectators it occurred that
had Cherokee Bill been a member of
the troop that was cut up so badly the
story of the fightin which Hamilton
Fish lost his life would have been told
differently. Instead of marching care-
lessly, wth much laughter and conver~
sation, right into a deathtrap, they
would have gone forward with Indian
cunning and carefulness, to stumble
on the ambushed Spaniards and stalk
the stalker. What could not a regi-
ment of Cherokee Bills, with their un-
erring rifles, and silent marching, ac-
complish in a campaign such as that
in Cuba? This is a question the sol-
diers who saw Bill playing the school-
master with his comrades asked each
other again and again—Washington
Post.
Domestic Ice Machine.
A description comes from London
of a hand-driven ice machine which
makes small blocks of ice for domestic
.use. With it any one can turn out
a lump of ice weighing 11],; pounds in
about twenty - minutes. The only
chemical used is ordinary commercial
sulphuric acid. A single charge will
make from seventy-five to 100 blocks
of ice, and the process is very inex—
pensive. In tropical climates o-r on
shipboard, or in the country, where
it is only desired to cool water, milk
or other beverage, the machine can be
used directly for that purpose. To
cool water it is simply necessary to
insert a rubber tube connected with
the machine in the neck of a bottle
containing the fluid and then rotate
the machine. In from three to five
minutes the contents will be icy cold.
The cost of the whole equipment is
extremely. low.
Local irg the Responsibility.
“What makes you So impatient with
reference to the old songs?” inquired
the irritable man's friend.
“I haven’t any objections to the old
songs,” was the answer. “Where I put
the blame is with the young people
who sing ’em.” .
_ His Position ‘Was Assured.
“Fellows, you wouldn’t take me to
be a member of % millionage’s family,
would you?” ‘7
“Frankly, five; would not.”
“Neither whold the millionaire; I
asked him last night.”——St. Louis Post_
Dispatch. ' p ' ,
Mrs. Gossipell—~So young Mr. Bene- p
‘dict has taken a wife. Dear me. and
Presidential Appointments.
of New York an assistant paymaster
In the navy 'and Robert E Steele 01'
‘Lo‘uislan‘a tolbe dainin'th nu Vt
Washington, D. C., Oct. 25-—The pres_ ‘
ident has RDDOinted Theodore .1; Arm's l'
only .24! "W'hat could have induced him .
to take such a course?” '
Mrs. 'GossiperuMy dear, I fancy it
runs in theblood. ‘ I hs'arthathisfatha
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