NORWAL
An Enterprising Republican Journal, especially. devoted to Local News and Interests.
ESTABLISHED 1800.
Volume LXXXVII.
NORWALK, CONN.,-WEDNESDAY, JULY 27-, 1887.
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DREAMS.
I open my hands and I let them go, '
Be thcy Heaven‘s above or earth‘s below:
But one to Iny throbbing heart I hold,
And I prizc it more than Orient gold:
A dream of thee—my love—my iifel
And it soothes all misery, care and strife.
No shining sernph about the throne
Could take one thought from thee—mine own.
~Eva Marshall in The Inter Ocean.
FLIGHT OF THE DERVISH.
I. _
The day wins in sacred one at Constantinople.
It was the festival of the Hegirn, and every
available mosque was crowded with the pros-
trate formsof the faithful.
A terrific storm raged over the city. At
each. lightning flash, the thunder rolled
through the vault of heaven as if to announce
theduy of doonn. The rain poured dowrn in
torrents, and the wind swept iin violent, fitful
gusts beneath the porches, and into the very
isles of the holy places where the worshipers
were assembled. '
While the tempest was at its height, a man
of tall, commanding stature, with a long
white. beard which readied down below his
girdle, might have been seen picking the best
:of his way through the - narrow streets that
extend towards the outskirts of Gaiuta, as if
intent on reaching some unknown, invisible
goal. This weird individual, whose ago it
would have been diilicult to d :cipher on his
haggard anid‘wriukled countenance, was evi-
dently sinking with fatigue. Alone on iron
. will, or pen-chance some extraordinary Innis-
sion, could have upheld him in his toilsome
journeying, for at each stop he sank deep
- into the mud of the streets of old Stamboul,
and the blood from his swollen feet stained
the thick, heavy sandals which the Wayfarer
wore. - '
He stopped occasionally to cast a look of
deep anguish towards heaven, and murmured
in his misery. '
“0, God! when wilt thou give me rest?”
But the blast alone made answer to his
prayer, and a mysterious voice from the
thunder clouds overhead seemed to mutter,
“0n! Olll on!" while the lightning flash, liken
threatening finger, pointed to thcnriuzo of
street-s iii town, or, beyond those, to the dis-
mril horizon.
This man, so wretched and sorely tried,
was Ahasverus, the Jew, who, in years long
since dead, had struck our Lord Christ,
driving him with corituincly from the door,
when, faint. with sorrow and suffering, and
exhausted by the weight of the cross, the lat-
ter besought the cowardly rufliau to let hlnn
rest for a moment on the step of his house of;
Jerusalem. From that day forward. cursed
by God and man, Ahasverus, whose doom it
is still to walk the earth under the burden of
alife that will not end and must know no_
rest, sallied forth from his home, and, leaving
his wife and children, haswmidorcd aimlessly
from land to land for nigh 2,000 years.
Suddenly the storm grew to a tremendous
hurricane, such as Moslciu had never seen
even at Constantinople, where tlnc winds
blow from every point of the Bosphorus,
and hail fell in such masses as almost to turn
day into night. The large icy lumps fell so
thick and fast on the bare head of the wan:
derer that, haviugrenchcd the outskirts of
Kassim, he sought refuge in the newly
erected mosque of the Sultana Vulidc, culled
Yeni-Djami, with its lovely iiiinnrcts and
columns brought from the ruins of ancient
Troy.
Entering the front hall where good Mor-
lems cast oll.’ their shoes, Ahznsvcr'us left his
dirty blood stained sandals among as rare in
collection of variegated foot gear as it had
ever been his cobbler-’s privilege to come
across at Jerusalem. It was no mere senti-
ment of curiosity that impelled the doubtless
Hebrew thus to penetrate within the sauc-
tum-y. His sole object was to rest his burri-
ing brow against one of the marble pillars
from Troy. Soon he found himself within the
temple, his drill eye grew dizzy at the sight
of flashing lamps, and a sense of awe came
over him as be viewed the closing scene of the
great Mohammedan ceremony, through the
‘cloud of incense which arose frorin golden
censers, thuriblcs and tripods. Ho had no
sooner lowered his gaze of the host of worship-
ers before him, in the vain hope of discover-
ing perhaps a human being as wretched as
himself, than the voice with the same pitiless
injunction fell inexorably on his car:
“Onl on! on!”
He staggered foward to obey, just as the
crowd of Moslems rose to leave the sacred
building. They all made for the doorway so cf-
fectively that Ahasverus was pushed to the
wall, and unable to reach the “hall of shoes” un-
til well nigh every one had got out before him.
on he did manage to quit the sanctuary,
he sought for his mud covered, blood stained
sandals. They were gone. First, his eye
squliitcd awfully round the place; then it
twinklcd with delight on beholding a tall
pair of boots, sumptuously lined with some
soft material, which, like Castor and Pollux,
uproso in dreamy, dual grandeur in a corner
of the hall. He slipped them on and made
off. Never before, throughout his checkered
career, bad he met with such a comfortable
pair of boots. They were large and well
furrcd throughout. As soon as he reached
the doorway, two eunuchs caught hold of him
by the arms and legs, arid carefully lifted him
into a well stuffed, silk lined and cozy sedan
chair, which at once conveyed its precious
burden towards the beautiful quarter of
Galata, in the suburbs of Constantinople.
The storm had blown over, and the sun
came out again, full of serene glory.
An hour after, Ahssverus found himself
before a well dressed table inside of 'un ele-
gant villa, with three lovely creatures, who
ministered to his wants and formed his
harem. The table literally gave way beneath
the load of fruit and cakes and viands which
it bore.
0n arriving at the villa. the eunuchs had
plunged Ahasvcrus into a delightfully cool
bath; the barber had combed his hair and cut
off his long white beard, while a caftan of
soft satin took the place of his former rags.
Even his wrinkles had disappeared and his
hair grown brown; in fact, so thoroughly
transunogrified was he by the time he found
himself at table that no one would have
known him who had seen him ml hour before.
He ate and drank as he had never done be-
fore, deluded by the sweetest dreams and be-
guiled by, tho loveliest women.
Doctors and learned men from all parts of
the world visited and consulted him, for his
erudition was profound, and his knowledge
of languages unprecedented. The sultan
caused thirty gold pistoles to be drawn from
the private treasury and handed him by the
scraskicn' of the palace, for a work of con-
siderable merit by him on “Shoes," now un-
fortunately Iost. Diplomas and decorations
flowed in upon him so thickly that ho had to
have a. room set apart for his archives.
In fact. he who for upward of 1,880 years
had been a wanderer on the earth_now lived
the life of aquiet, well to do citizen of the
Ottoman cnipii'o under Abdul-Humid II, the
thirty-fifth sovereign in male descent of the
house of Ottoman, the founder of the empire,
and the twenty-eighth sultan since the con—
quest of Constantinople.
(May his shadow never grow less.)
It is alleged on good authority that, from
the eventing of. the day Aliasvci-us was iii-
stalled iii his villa by the Bosplnorus, he slept
for forty-eight consecutive hours before he
could borouscd'to his new life of moss and
luxury. IL
Meanwhile, the rightful owner of this
handsome villa had become an outcast and a
fugitive on the face of the earth.
Mahmoud, tho dervish, to whom the house
and harem belonged, had fallen asleep in the
mosque while the Hegira was being corn-
memorated. Now Allah, who regards this
festival one of the most sacred in the year,
was angry at Mahmoud for dozing orf on
such a day in his holy place. The flight of
the Prophet—which the Regina recalls—was
to be matched by another no less memorable
flight on the part of the dervish, as a. punish-
ment for his rcmissness on that occasion. So,
awakening from his nap, and finding himself
alone in the mosque, Mahmoud rushed out.
He hunted about the hall for his boots, but,
of course, they were not to be fouird, having
been filched by Ahasverus. Inadark corner
he discovered the mud covered, blood stained
sandals of the wandering Jew, which he put
on, horrible as they were, in order to get
home. At once a strange experience came
over him. Hitherto, being dropsical and
gouty, his pace had been snail like and his
walk a bobble. Now an electric fluid ran
cleanup through him, loosening the stiffness
in his joints and muscles. The suppleness of
youth and the strength of manhood returned
to those legs, and he felt like starting off on
a ten mile race with Deerfoot. A glass
of brandy poured down the throat of a dying
man could not have proved more invigorat-
ing. His _ almost impotent limbs were
changed in a few minutes into those of a
well trained and robust pedestrian. He felt
like a new man and started for a walk. He
no longer thought of going home, as was his
wont. Besides, his sedan chair and servants
,were not in attendance. ,The weather was
fine’; the air had been cooled by the recent
downpour, arid the brown thrush sang in the
hedge. Never before, at any season of life,
had a dervisb been known to run along as he
did, with villainous sandals on his feet,
through the muddy streets of Constantinople.
And, 0 miracle! it was not his brain which
led the way, but his feet; that spurred him on.
He soon got beyond the walls of the town,
and fairly out into the open country. As
. took place.
night. came on, however, feeling sonncwnut
jaded, he was about to make up and knock
at the door of a farm house by the way, when
an unconquernble impulse to proceed got the
best of his judgment. Ari invincible force
kept him walking along the high road all
night. At daybreak he found himself miles
and miles away from his pretty hours at
Galata. He stoppedtoqueiich his thirst in
the clear water of it brook, which ruin-rowed
his features and form. He was dumfounded
at the change which his roving freak had
wrought inn his personal appearance. Was it
a dream? His jet black hair had grown white
in a. single night, like that of the prisoner of
Chillon; his beard, which was carefully
. shaved every morning, had grown half a yard
long; his brand new clothes were now in
'tatters; and he held in his hand in long, stout
staff, which no must have cut as he passed
through the wood. .
He now fairly took fright at the state he
was in. A ray of reason returned. He would
get. back to Constantinople by hook or by
crook. He had only to make himself known,
and fee some peasant. So muttering, he felt
for his purse full of gold sequins. But the
purse was gone. After fumbling in the
depths of his pocket, he presently fetched
up five bits of rod copper, the lowest coin in
the country. He flung the money away from
him, with rage and disgust.
he passed a baker’s shop, and began to feel
the pangs of hunger, his surprise was un-
bounded at finding five other cursed bits of
copper, like those which he had thrown away.
This time, however, he bought some bread,
and drank from a public fountain before pro-
ceeding on his way.
And thus, day after day. Mahmoud the
dervish traveled. He visited many lands, and
the five copper coins which he had at first
despised, and which were constantly renewed
in his pocket as fast as he spent them, proved
in the long run a most pi'ovidential supply.
Thus, at Epinal, in France, where children’s
colored pictures are made, he bought fora
cent his own portrait, together with a plain-
tive song set to a still more plaintive tune en-
titled “The Legend of tho Wander-ing Jew.”
For he had no doubt, by this time, that he
was the genuine article; not the Will 0’ the
Wisp of the story, but the real Simon Pure.
So he settled down to his task in sober ear-
nest.
A twelvcinonth had elapsed since the events
here recorded took place, when, on the sacred
day of the Hegira, at the same hour, and in
in storm of thunder, hail and rain like that
which had taken place at Constantinople on
the saline day the previous year, two men en-
tered the mosque of the Sultana-Vanda, called
Yciii-Djumi. One was Ahasverus, tho Wain-
dering Jew, and the other Mahmoud, the
dervisln. Soon as the public prayers were
over, both sullicd forth into the “hull of
shoes,” llllll ll second interchange of foot gear
The false Jew, Mahmoud, got
back his well f ur'rcd boots and went back
home to his villa. arid wines at Galata, while
the spurious dervish, Abusverus, stumbled
Upon his lllIl-l covered, blood stained sandals
and went out again to wander forever and
ever over the surface of the broad, old earth.—
Translated from the French of Victor Hugo
for Chicago Inter Ocean.
ANTELOPE GETTING SCARCE.
The Game Going Down Before the Guns
of the Hunters—Baby Antelope.
“Your city people who want sport and
who never do anything but fish a little in the
small streams near here ought to come up to
Fort Bidwell,” said Jonathan Chopin to a
reporter.
“There is the biggest lot of antelope north
of Fort Bidwell and beyond the Oregon line
I ever saw. Very pretty they are, too, with
beautiful tawny skirts and graceful car-
riage.
"it’s almost a pity to kill them, but they do
it. It won’t be icing till the antelope, like the
buffalo, will have to take a back seat. There—
wou’t be any left. Nowhere else in Califor-
nia are antelope now to be found, and no-
where contiguous to the state, but on the
plains of eastern Oregon. But the latter
region is, or much of it, already just like the
great American desert. It looks as though
it was too great in extent and too barren to
ever be anything else but the home of prairie
dogs, wolves and these antelopes.
“We know enough about the program of
the country generally, though, to know that
this cannot; be. Water will be brought on
the land; it will be made productive, and the
game will go down before the guns of the
hunters. .
“There are indeed a great many antelope
there. Two weeks ago I saw four or five
bands while crossing over from Oregon in a
wagon. There were as many as twenty or
thirty together inn some of the droves. Inn
others there were from seven to a dozen.
“There is no difficulty about seeing plenty
of them. We killed three and had the best
antelope steak to eat you ever saw. We only
saved out the best meat.
“There have been a good many killed lately
—partly for sport, partly to use as meat. I
don’t think the skins have been saved at all.
“There are some of the funniest little ante-
lopes there you ever saw—little bits of deli-
cate, graceful things only a couple of months
old. Very pretty, too, they are. A fawn or
a lamb doesn’t begin to impress you the way
one of these cunning little antelopes does.
Women go wild about them when they see
them. Perhaps there is no living thing, bar-
ring a little child, that they are so taken with
as a baby antelope.
“There have always been lots of antelope
near the Nevada line and out toward Idaho,
but‘I think the past winter must have been
unusually good for them, else there wouldn’t
be so many now. There seemsto be a good
many more than during any single year for
some time past.
“If there is any law against killing them I
have never heard of it, and nobody pays any
attention to it, anyhow, if there is. I think
it wouldn’t be a bad plan if there was such a
law, because they are now too scarce on the
continent, generally speaking, to have them
killed off.”—-San Francisco Examiner.
Tho Natives of Long Branch.
The utter lack of enterprise on the part of
the natives of Long Branch has always had
and probably will for some time to come
have in retarding influence on the growth of
the place. The native Long Braincher never
improves his property. If he had his way,
the vision which I saw a few moments ago
would rapidly become a living reality. The
fences, barns and houses would crumble and
fall and tho uuromuntic wild turnip would
grow up inn the roads. The whole tenor of
feeling in Long Branch has for years run into
one idea: “Wait for the New Yorker."
Every farmer who has seen his barns grow
rickety has said to himself: “Never mind;
I'll get just as much for my place as if I had
good ones, because the city man who buys.
will put up new buildings.”
On this principle old and broken down
fences have been permitted to stand along
Ocean avenue. The bluff, which suffers every
winter from the tremendous beating of the
winter surf, the roadways and the police
force all have been allowed to go in a con-
dition of uiircpair- that is simply disgraceful.
The police force is quite comical, it is so
utterly short of the requirements of the
resort. Whatever is done for the advance
meat of Long Branchis done by the city
people who have property there and who
realize that the natives, earning their bread
and butter out of the existence of the Branch
as a. watering place, will never move hand or
foot to increase its attractiveness orto pro—
serve its natural advantages—JV. F. Hen-
derson in Outing.
Injustice to the Kerr.
This little story Major Ben Butterwortb
had from a. worthy Scot: “I visited our agri-
cultural fair," said he, “and I was disappoint-
ed to find that the premiums offered for the
best horses were so large as compared with
the poultry premiums. Well, I was called on
for a speech, you know, and I took advantage
of it to call attention to the matter. l'said:
‘Gentlemen, it seems to me that your com-
mittee has made a mistake and done an act
of injustice to the hen. The horse is a noble
animal and is worthy of any encouragement
you feel able to give him in the way of a pre-
mium. But, gentlemen, you ought not footer-get
that our exports of the products of the hen-_-
eggs—exceed in value the exports of horses.
Besides, gentlemen, your horses, once export-
ed, are gone. Not so with the hen. She re-
mains at home and keeps right on doing
business at the same old stand.’ Well,-you
know, that speech made such an impression
that the committee determined to give the
lien in better show hereafter. ”—New York
Tribune.
Mark Twain's Mood.
Mark Twain‘s mood in writing is just the
reverse of Burroughs’. He says that he can-
not write in the cold months. Pointing from
his billiard room one March day down to the
summer house in sight, he said to the writer:
“There, when I can get in that with the
leaves and birds about me I can write. In
the winter I can do nothing that suits me."—
The Epoch.
Awakened Their Jealousy.
A slim young beauty, who is the happy mis—
tress of a tawny St. Bernard dog, has a
Witching way when visitors are with her of
taking of! “Czar’s” silver collar and fastening
it round her slender waist. It is just a fit,
and in nine cases out of ten the admiring
spectator remarks he wishes he was “Czar,“
or the collar. They all tumble to lit—Boston
Herald.
But later on, as ‘
WOMAN AND HOME.
A CHILD WITHOUT pier ANIMALS is
A sourmv sense.
I Use of Toilet soap—Something M...‘~. ‘l‘han
Housekeeping—A Farmer's Mistake—
Childreu'a Friendships—What city Phy-
sicians Tell The Chicago Driily News.
‘The effects of anger upon the human milk
may again be likened to the effect of a
thunderstorm upon the dairy. Both are iii
effect electrical stun-iris, oirly Iinmnn passion
has in it a more refined evil tliuii iniero acid.
The more violent and crazy the anger the
greater the danger. As one may become ac-
customed to large and repeated doses of
opium, so, no doubt. on infant may (other
circumstances favoring) become somewhat
insured against the pernicious effects of milk
that is subject. to more or less frequent
storms of pamion, but if the child does escape
severe and dangerous physical illness, it will
hardly. iii the transforming of milk to flesh.
escape a most undesirable inheritance of
character. A general irritability, bad tem-
per—tho result of trials poorly stood up to
mentally—may keep the babe in constant
unrest, and 110 one knows what ails the baby,
be is so cross.
“What has been said of anger iiiny be said
of the other unhappy emoticons, impressing
the child after their kind. not always percept-
ibly but none the less surely. On the con-
trary, states of love, joy, peace, etc, act as
most powerful tonics, arid physiological action ‘
goes on under their stimulus iin perfection.
Thus the secretions are, as it were, happy;
digestion and assimilation take place in the
mother harmoniously and unconsciously, and
the inllk becoiries perfect in its properties, the
babe literally drawing in health, happiness
and peace."—Dr. 'l‘. P. Mills.
PLEA FOR THE BOTTLE.
“It needs no argument to show that infants
in all probiliility derive a large amount of
positive exhilaration from the not associated
with nursing, and the inference is plain that
the deprivation may entail considerable dis-
advantage. it has always seemed to me
cruel to thus curly cutoff the pleasures of
life. The bottle and its appurtenances,
mor'co vci'. can be kept. clean, but not without
the employment of a good deal more time and
care than 'is usually bestowed uporn it. The
bottle and nipple should be afforded a brush
of its own. Wei-c I, iir order to be explicit,
to give directions for cleaning a nursing
bottle, I should say wash both bottle and
nipple well separately inn plain water. Then
soak them both for llve minutes ina2 per
cent. soluiionn of bornx in water, scrub them
both with the aid of the brush, bor-ax water
and soap. The nipple should be turned in-
side out and scrubbed. Rinse them all well
several times in plain water. Hung the
bottle and nipple separately inn dry place
until needed. .
“Another- point of importance often over-
looked is the necessity of givirigto infants
occasionally some water to drink. During
the hot weather, when evaporation from the
bod _\' goes on so fast, nothing will satisfy the
dciiiuirds of the body. even of an infant, so ~
well its a drink of good, plain, pure water. "—
Dr. Robert; Tilley.
DANGERs THAT BESET.
“Under-the eiiei'vating influence of great
heat tendencies toward death, dormant be-
fore, becomcpotent. The weak link in the
chain is broken. Whatever the predisposition
to disease may have been; the depression of
heat as the exciting factor becomes the ‘last
feather that bi-cak’s the camel's back.' The
higher the animal the greater are the dangers
that beset curly life, because the period of
helplessness 'is prolonged in the ratio of special
intelligence. Parental intelligence does not
keep pace with racial tendencies. however;
evident enough when we find that:
“1. Infants are fed upon starchy food before
their salivary glands are developed, and at-
tempts are made to raise babies upon beer,
beet, griddle cakes. potatoes, skim milk, sour
milk, or even if the milk be good it is often
drawn froui unclean bottles.
“2. The two extremes of wealth and poverty
cause neglect of offspring. In the one case
careless nurses are iiitrustod with the infant.
and in the other neglect is unavoidable.
“3. Z yiuotic diseases leave as sequelaa scrof-
ulous or some other depressed condition that
only needs the push of exhaustion, however
induced, gi'avcward.
“Parents should know that milk is the only
proper food for young children, and that
course animal and vegetable diet is hurtful
in airy season and especially so in hot weather.
Patent medicines and foods—especially sooth-
ing sir'ups, that always contain opium—help
the little ones out of the wor'ld."—Dr. S. V.
Clevenger.
FEEDING INFANTS.
“Be the food over so wholesome in quality
it must be perfectly clean. Probably as
many babies die from good milk and food
that has soured and become tainted by ex-
posure as die from want of the fight food.
Marry a physician will refuse to allow an
ill fed woman to wean her baby; what mat-
ter though he knows her milk is not the best
for the child, but at least .it is clean and is
not tainted when it reaches the stomach.
“ ‘Boil a. teaspoonful of powdered barley in
a pint or a pint and a. half of water, with a
little salt, until barley is cooked. Leave it
stand, well covered; when settled skim all
impurities front the topcarefuliy arid strain;
mix with an equal quantity of boiled milk lf
baby is 0 months old, or only one-half milk if
less than 6 months. Older babies more milk.
Keep bottle and mouthpiece in bowl of water
when not in use. When baby is costiveuse
oatmeal instead ‘of barley: Infants of 0
months may have beef tea or soup once a.
day. Babies of 10 or 12 rrionthsmay have"
crust of bread and piece of rare beef to suck.”
“The above are substantially the directions
for feeding infants presented' by Dr. Jacobi
to the Public Health association of New
York, and to use rules have since by experi-
ence been found correct and proper to follow.
Your child may need other food if it does not
thrive; go and risk your doctor what to give
it before. it falls sick.”——Di'. Ferdinand Heu-
roliii.
This CLOTHING.
“Inn my experience the first wrong thing I
noticcisihc clothing of the child. Until a
child is wall past the critical period of teeth-
ing flannel should always be worn over the
. bowls, and merino stockings should be kept
on the your around, summer and winter.
Wool or silk next the skin prevents sudden
nl‘l'ibt of perspiration, and mothers should
remember- clwuys one truth: The freer the
perspiration t‘ c greater the danger of even a
slight chilling of the surface. The babies
from whom the sweat just rolls off are
always the ones more liable to the dreaded
summer complaint."—Dr. Kate L. Graves.
Children and Pet Animals.
A child brought up without the knowledge
of pet animals is a solitary being, no matter
if there be brothers and sisters, while a child
who has animals to tend is never quite alone.
A dog is of itself a liberal education, with its
example of fidelity, unwearied activity, cheer
ful sympathy, and love stranger than death;
nay, love that is triumphant over shame and
and iguominy and sin—influences that so
often wear out human love or make it change
to hate. How many of us hold to our friends
with a levees inexhaustible and inextingnish-
able as that which our dog gives to us! The
child especially finds' in the faithful creature
much of its own impulsive and ardent life;
the delight in little things, the ready curiosity.
the muscles activity. the 'qnick changes of
occupation, the unabated interest in existence.
Kittens, again, seem sent to give to a child
951: what the dog leaves out; the more re-
fined ways, the soft playfulnea. the gentle
domesticity, the willingness to be tended and
potted. Kittens about the house supply the
smaller punctuation in the book ’of life; their
little frisks and leaps and pats are the com-
mas and semicolons and dashes, while the big
dog puts in the colonsaud periods.
Animals, again,.give to us, even by what
they receive and evoke from us, the habit of
care and tendernem. Those potted dogs we
see carried in the arms of young girls in
fashionable equipagesars rarely a substitute
for the natural object of ' and! emotion, they
are rather a preparation or intermediate pos-
session that precedea- it; something that‘ is
more than a doll and less thanahumau child.
Mr. Carnegie tells us that he saw at a. large
New York stable a card nailed up giving for
the conchmau the address of the proper phy-
sicianto be called upon it the favorite dog
should be ill. He also tells us of a young
lady who, having to go on a journey, had to
leave her favorite collie to some and: special
attention, and Mr. Carnegie suggested that
as he had given her the dog, it might be per-
fectly safe to leave her with .him, “or rather
with Jack and the horse." With a grave
shake of the head, she answered, “I have
thought of that; but it won't do; he requires
a woman’s care.” Here the woman and the
favorite met on equal dorms; neither could
do without the other. The care given by the
young girl was simply the anticipated ten-
derness of a mother for a child.
The self control that must be learned in
dealing with animals is in itself an education.
One of the child’s first lessons in governing
its impulses is when it finds that the kitten
cannot be caught by running and shouting.
but by quiet and measured approaches. The
control of animals, from the lamb to the
lion, is not a matter of force, but of gentle-
ness and a steady eye. Impulses that seem
the'very strongest in animals. as the disposi-
tion of dogs to‘chnse cats or bite, can be'bet-
tei' overcome by accustornflig them very early
mtho sight and touch of the weaker crea-
tures thann by any blows. All this is a lesson
to the child, and it unconsciously learns the
application to , itself. In days when oxein
were employed largely on our farms it used
to be a common thing at a “cattle show" to
see some sunburnt farmer's boy drive in a
yoke of half grown steels, and win the ad-
urination of all the nieii,by the gentle skill
with which he handled "them. On a farm
near my summer horriegthei'o isa fine bull,
which is bettericontrollcd‘aird led by a boy of
13 than by anybody else. ' Thai-surely is, as
Heine says, air occult sympathy between
children and animals, as between two races
not sulldel‘etl very long ago—T. W. Higgin-
son in Harper’s Bn'zar'. '-
’ Use of relief-Soup.
The opinion that of such a necessary article
as soap for the toilet one can’t use too nnuch,
is an opinion which late researches in science
disprove. Tire attraction or the alkali in it
for the oil of the skin as wbll as for its un-
clean accumulations, constitutes its cleansing
property. Out of the 7,000,000 pores through
which nearly two pounds inf poisonous ex-
halation daily puss from the adult, come
enough materials in a short; time to produce
fatal and filthy'diseoses. Kn eminent physi-
also has declared that “if the skin be model'-
atcly active, ochree or faint" diiys suffice to
form a layer which may b3 corripured to a
' thin coating of varnish entitling.” As this
accumulation increases annd,,decorrrposition
follows it is not necessaryto dehqiiie the re-
sult. What agency but soap can i‘hrnovoeitt. .
Many good authorities declar‘ that water
alone isjsufiicleut.;.,Ԥxcept at rare intervals.
There are oil glands as well as excretory
ducts. and for no idle purposehas nature pro-
duced these tiny humanitill wells. Inunctiori,
or the external use of oil, has a recognized
place among the prescriptions of some famous
modern physicians, who_in‘this way seek". to
restore that necenary property of which the
body has been deprived by the excessive use
of soap or by disease. . They claim that it'
enables the ptient to resist cold, that its
nutritive qualities convey heat to those or-
ganswhich require it, that it gives a sense of
exhilarating freshness, and that it is not only
soothing in cases of nervous depression,
but it is capable of strengthening weak lungs.
For this purpose almond oil,.cocoairut, olive
oil or vaseliueare daily applied by the aid of
vigorous rubbing. Toull such treatment and
in most cases where inunctiorr is not required,
the daily application of soups is injurious.
“What uncleanly habits!" some one ex-
clniius. Not so. Plenty of soft water, a.
coarse wash rag, baud friction and a Turkish
towel, with soap applied It rare irit'erVuls,
and the skin should retain the delicate smooth-
ness of an infant. Those-milk baths indulged
ion by the ancient Romain emperors and cm-
presses owed their emollient properties to
the oil contained in the milk. Every old
nurse krrbws, too, that weakly children are
sometimes injured by too frequent inblutious.
Dry rubbing is-often the safest opiate for a
nervous little one, answering many of the
purposes of soap. .
Ari eminent- ysiciarr and scientist lately
told me that he seldom used soap in his daily
bath._ “It makes . the skin dry, hard and
harsh, and renders rue much more liable to
take cold through any changes of the
weather,” said he.‘ “At the some time, no
rule can be given for the soap. Some per-
sons secrete oil uiuch lllOl'o readily than
others, and to such soap is more of a nieces-
sity," and he spoke much upon the desirabil-
ity of using a pure soap or, none at nib—lies-
tcr M. Poole in GoodHousekeeping.
something More Than a Housekeeper.
A wife and mother needs to benrore than a
good housekeeper; she must be in all things
the mistress of the house, the companion of
her husband and children. Now, what kind
of a companion to anybody is a woman who
is all wrapped up in her housework? The
children ask her questio about something
that has taken place, probably in her own
vicinity, that any one would be supposed to
know, and are sent to the'fathor for informa-
tion. They very soon come to the conclusion
that mother isn't supposed to know anything
outside of housekeeping, and do not trouble
her by many questions. The father comes
homo with a glowing account of an event
that is taking place in which he is very much
interested, and is all enthusiasm over it. He
wants somebody to talk” to about it, but he
has learned long ago that his wife has no in-
terest in anything outside of bar housekeep-
inig, and he soon learns to find his entertain-
ment elsewhere.
Visitors come to the house, very often
women who are familiar with all the passing
events, and the wonder why her husband and
children are so much brighter and interesting
with company, than when alone. These
women very often are not what she would
cell model housewives, yet their families are,
as a general thing, more contented with their
homes than all her housekeeping ability can
ever make hers. People who have known
her for along time, remeirrbering how enter-
taining she was asaglrl, wonder wiry ibis she
is so much different. They ask her to sing or-
play, but she excuses herself with, “I haven’t
pinyéd far yearsf I" have had so much to do I
really haven’t had time to practice." This is
too bad for a woman who actually squanders
time in unnecessary work, to admit not hav-'
lag time to practice an accomplishment that
would be a delight to her family and friends.
Then, women, don’t get completely envel-
oped iu your * housework. Remember, you
owe more to your family and friends than
merely a clean house. Find out what is go-
ing on about you outside of your own neigh-
borhood. Take an interest in whatever in-
terests your families. It may be only a
baseball game or a yacht race that both
, father and little ones are enthusiastic over.
Then learn all you can about it; find out the
names of the rival clubs or yachts and take a
‘ lively part in the family conversation. 'To
do this will require but a few minutes each
day, and you will be well repaid by having a
pleasant, enjoyable home, a home that hus-
band and childrern will prize for above a
“spick and spun” one—Boston Budget.
. A Farmer’s Mistake.
I know a well to do farmer, having eight
children. who, as soon as they are old enough
to support themselves, leave their home. 0f
the five boys, not one remains on the farm
They have gone to clerkship and other posi-
tions, in preference to staying on the much
despised farm. A glance iii the home may
account somewhat for this. There never has
been any effort to make it attractive for the
children. The parents’ aim has been to work
and save, with scarcely a thought that their
children had any other nneeds than food and
clothing. They are active, bright minded
boys and girls. It is no wonder that the dull-
ness and monotony become unendurable.
This fanner does not hesitate to spend
money in farm improvements, in fine stock,
or in anything that will advance his financial
interest;.but any outlay for the children’s
pleasure is regarded ins-unnecessary and ex-
travagant, , «
. dren cannot feel that sense of proprie-
tor-ship in the farm and its profits that is a
stimulant to the heads of the household, and
something is needed to take Its place. Some
personal property, even if a chicken or a pig,
.isa strong incentive. Children are sportive
by nature-all young animals are—and some
diversion is essential for leisure hours; other-
wise their minds will waudar of! and dwell on
the attractions supposed to pertain to village
and city life.
If children love music and an organ or
piano cannot be afforded, let them have
smaller and less expensive instruments. Many
an hour might be spent in the happiest way
by. a boy in his edorts to perform on the
violin or accordion, that would otherwise
puss discontentedly or in hurtful compan-
ionship. .
A few dollars each year- invested in reading
matter will not only supply pleasant employ-
ment for leisure hours, but the means of
ruentaiimprovemout unwell. There are so
mnii y excellent entertaining publicatitus for
the young, and at such low prices, that no
family in which there are children should be
without one or mom—American Agricul-
turist. '
every day in,
to rid herself '
are corruptbd. All children require compan-
ionshippf; theseof their own age, but it is
very eientlal‘ that the parents should choose
these cohn'pan'nlons.
Children can be readily taught to be neat
. auditidy’jlu their, habim‘hy example prin-
cipally, for they imitate closely the actions of
their elders. A eldest or other convenient
place should be, given their; exclusively for
their toys,-. provided there iano play rdfm;
then let‘it be understood that when play. is
. ended all toys are to bereturned to their
proper place. If this rule is disregarded, the
withdrawal of n. favorite toy for a time. as
punishment, usually has the desired effect of
causing them to be inoro careful in the
future. This device may have to be resorted
to more tlmrr once, but it usually is success-
ful iii the cud—Mrs. Ellis L. Mumrnn in
Good Housekeeping.
Sweetmeuts and Pastry.
It was recreation hour at both the Poly-
technic and Central grammar school. Streams
of boys emerged from both institutions and
at once made for a 'ncighboring bakery.
There they gorgcd themselves with sweet-
ineats and pastry of every description.
Wizein faced little chaps of 12 and 14 tackle
pies nearly as largo as their heads, while
their older classmates gave attention to the
festive cranberry tart, the latter being com-
posed of heavily sweetened cranberries and
partlydone dough. Occasionally one of the
more adventurous boys sneaked out of the
bakery niidiin some secluded spot lighted a
cigarette, which he smoked till the 13:30 licll
called him back to school.
Pastry, insufficiently cooked, and cigarettes
make a poor combination. Fornd mother's
wonder why their boys have no appetite for
dinner at night arid vainly try to guess the
reason. Did they provide their sons in the
morning with an amply stocked lunch box
containing delicacies which would charm the
palate of the urchin, they would firnd that the
latter would have better appetites for the
evening meal. Instead, however, many boys
are given so much money each morning to
pay their expenses for the day. This includes
the price of luncheon and car fut-e. Business
mern sometimes become dyspeptics by eating
too fast, but it is unfortunate that youths
and young men just leaving school should
ruin their digestions before entering coin-
. mercial life—Brooklyn Eagle.
Objections to the Corset.
It is rather funny that there are no women
in this world so healthy as the English
women, and no women who lace somuch.
The French women and the American have
naturally broader hips and smaller waists, so
that much lacing is not required for them to
gain the fashionable figure. But the English
woman, with her narrow hips and broad
shoulders, needs to make her waist smaller
to achieve that which she desires, and yet
'whcrc are there women who bring into the
world a. finer set of men than the Eu; 'in
women? I think that is one of the very un-
swcrs to the objections to the corset. The
finest specimens, physically, of Englishmen
arc-riot what a clever girl called “tailor made,”
but to coin an expression. “mother made.”—
“Bub” in New York Star.
Keep fill the apparatus for cleansinglamps
on an old tray, and never use rags, brushes,
scissors, or any of the articles for any other
purpose thorn trimming lamps.
Never scrub oilcloth with in brush, but
after being swept it may be cleaned by wash-
ing with a soft flannel cloth and lukewarm
water or cold tea.
WORK OF THE STEVEDORE.
The Cost of Loading ii. Cargo—Tho Slova-
dflrc'ri Liabilities.
The loading and unloading of vessels is
never dorro by the ship’s crew. It is effected
by contract with u. Iniddleiiinii, called In .«tcvcc
dove. In New York harbor then-c inrc, all
told, 300 of these stevedorcs, and runny have
amassed great wealth. They are in effect the
agents of the consignees to whom cargoes are
brought and like agents for the “charter
party," the legal maritime term for any per-
son or company chartering fl. vessel to convey
a cargo of goods from one port to another.
To illustrate: A vessel has been chartered to
convey a cargo from New York to Liverpool.
She is ready for her cargo and her cur-go
ready for her. The “charter party" calls for
his stevedorc, as all large shippers usually
continnuously ennploy the some inuu, and corn-
tract with him to put their cargo aboard.
This does not mean that it shall lllOl'Oly be put
on the vessel’s deck. ' It must be stowed
away iii the hold and between docks in a ,
proper manner for an ocean voyage. These
contracts are based either on weight or
measurement, and often on both; and as the
cost of loading a cargo of a 1,000 torn bark or
a great ocean steamer will vary from $1,500
to $6,000, tine opportunity and iiiensurc for
profit and loss on the transaction are such
that the stevedore at once becomes a. person—
age of no little importance.
While the vessel is being loaded he is prac—
tically its master. For while a ship’s captain
may suggest regarding stowage, he must utter
all yield to the arbitrary ruling of. the stove-
dore, who thus becomes the responsible party
for the good condition of the cargo on de-
livei'y at its foreign port, barring general 'sca
risks; and the recourse of the captain who
helplessly objects to the manner of loading
may be had in any port of the world, where,
if he discover that his freight is coming out
in bad order from improper stowage, he can
demand and secure a survey by a “port war-
den,” on whose certificate he bases his own
and his vessel’s immunity from damages, and
fixes them back upon the stevedore. There-
fore, while tho sievedore’s profits are often
large. his liability to loss is also very great.—
New York Cor. Globe-Democrat.
A New Trick in Theft.
The lining thief is, I believe, positively the
latest exploiter in the realm of crime. This
lsthe man who trades hats with you in the
barbershop, in the sleeper car, and outside
the hotel dining room. The mere act of ex-
change is a trick old cuough in itself, but
with the oldest adroitness of the lining thief
it becomes a very tantalizing sort of incan-
nes. The lining thief carries about him one
or more linings which he has pulled out of
old and rusty hats, and by a clever juggle
slips them, asoccasion offers, into, the prop-
erty of others, who have no means of identity
so sure as the look of the inside. In this way,
though you may seem to think you
know your hat by its general appearance
or color, you are nonplused by the changed
character of the lining. I hear of the recent
detection of this sort of thievery on a sleeping
car by a passenger who saw the legordenmin
connected with it through in clumsy perform-
ance—Syracuse Standard.
Bootblacks and Lilies.
One of the principal articles of traffic at
Lake Minnetouka about this season is that
beautiful species of the white water lily,
which growsinsuch profusion there, and is
said to resemble the famous lotus blossom of
the Nile. These lilies are not vended by
pretty country girls with blushing faces and
twinklmg bare feet, such as the story books
tell of, but by the bootblacks. “Shine ycr
shoes and water lilies,“ these crabs will shoot,
and it looks strangely inconsistent Wlluu
with their grimy little paws they hand out
the immaculate blossoms. -Pioneer Press.
The Kind He Wanted.
“Mr. Doppenheimer, I want to introduce a
burglar 'alarm into your house. It will indi-
cate at which door or window”—
“I don’ want none of dose tings. I' don’
bodder me mit burglars.”
“Once you have tried them, Mr. Doppcn-
heimer”—— '
“Look here, mcester. If you ' wash got a
coudrivance what keeps mine wife from goin'
dru mine pockets when I wash asleep, den I
talks mit you a leedlo bit.”—Harper’s Bazar.
Hay fever, Asthma. Immediate relief.
.Fontaine’s Cure. Sold by all druggists.
Scrap Material—Boxing gloves.—Pitts-
burg. Chronicle. -
'l‘o allay all troubles incident to the
change of life Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege-
table Compound inns no equal for female
complaints.
When lightning strikes Chili the natives
at under their beds. When it hits Coney
Island the natives swallow it.——Ncw York
Journal.
For weak Back, pain in the side or
chest, rheumatism, neuralgia, etc., use
the Compound Quininc Plasters, a wonder-
ful strengthening remedy. Sold by drug-
gists.
A Thomas cat is not afraid of a Robert-
tiniled dog. . We know it.——Ncw, York
Journal. ’ '
When purchasing your household sup-
plies, always ask for Sperry and Barnes'
celebrated sugar cured Hams, and pure
Kettle Lard; don’t be deceived into buy-
ing any inferior brands, all goods made
by this firm bear their trade mark.
The song of a Boniface whose lodger lit
out without paying is, “A charge to keep
I have.”——Hotel Mail.
“The most good to the largest number."
That’s a very handsome principle. and if
we were to announce .that one of the
largest firms of its kind in Boston was
conducted on that principle, many would
smile incredulously. Yet practically,
such is the fact. the instalment plan of B.
A. Atkinson & Co. is directly in that line
of argument. ’
Professor Proctor estimates that 100,-
000,000 people lived and died in America
100,000 years before Columbus set sail for
America. It is probable that if Proctor
had informed Columbus of this fact, the
latter would have set out to discover
America 100,000 years before he did.—
Norristown Herald.
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Absolutely Pure.
This Powder never varies. A marvel of pure
strength and wholesomcness. More economic
than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in com-
petition wrth the multitude of low test, short
weight, allum or plnosphatc powders.
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onenestootheworid.
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lir'ciik first
llzncori,
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Our KETTLE LARD is Strctly. Pure
and Free from all Adulteration. .
Look Carefully for the Brand.
We manufacture all goods bearing our brand at
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A Child’s Letter.
A little girl writes :—
Mii. Foows, Dear Sir:
My brother and I like your
germ meal, and it make us
grow, especially Johnny.
We eat it every morning
; with sugar and milk, and
momma says she don’t
need much tire to cook it,
' and ' breakfast is ready
right away. Papa says it
beats oatmeal certain, and
Uncle Charlie works in an
cities, and he thinks evcry- ,
body should eat it. Our
store man says he sells
lots of it. and I guess he
does.
Fould’s Wheat Germ Meal.
Sold by all grocers every-
‘ ' where, 2 lb packages 154:.
BUTLER, BREED do 00., Agents, Boston, Mass.
LESSONS IN FRENCH.
MISS BAIRD’S INSTITUTE.
Prof. LaLwndc,
Wide] y known as the director of the French Depart.
ment of the Summer School of Languages at
Chatauqua. win. come twice a week to Miss haird’s
Institutcto give Lessons in French. ,A limited
number of pupils outside of the school will be
admitted to these classes
For circulars and other information apply to
. MISS N. F. BAIRD.
i . ennnnon nonnnn.
Meat. Fish, Vegetables. arc.
LOCKWOOD & ANDREWS.
i MAIN STREET.
All kinds of the best qualities of Meats, Fish,
Clams, Vegetables, etc., are kept constantly on
hand. andwill be sold by us as low as can be pro-
cured at any market in Norwalk. We intend to
prove to our customers that we deserve their
patronage by fair and generous dealing.
ly-lll LOCKWOOD ti: ANDREWS.
I WANT EVERYBODY
——'l‘o come in and look over my stock of—
Monuments
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HEADSTONES
llcforc they buy anything of the kind. A selection
‘ can be made from them much better than from a
photograph or pencil sketch.
m, *P. W. Bates.
J. G. Gregory 8; Co.
Desire to state that in addition to in full line of
Drugs, Proprietary Medicines and Druggists’
Sundries they are prepared to receive
orders for
Silk, Gotten or Linen
EL ASTIC HOSE
Tor varicose or enlarged veins. Warrauted to
fit, and at reduced rates.
respectfully, '
They also desire to state that they have accepted
ilie agency of the New York Vaccine (3-0., and will
keep a supply of
PURE BOVINE VACCINE VIRUS
Constantly on hand.
They have in stock Electric Batteries, which
Will be sold at close figures. They carry also a full
assortment of Keystone Writing Paper Packets.
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R. B. CRAUFURD,
Agent, 31 Main street, Norwalk.
Wanted.
Any person suffering from
Piles. Fistula, or Fissure
of the Rectum, to address the undersigned and
learn of in perfect cure. No CUBE, No PAY.
DR. YARNALL,
1y50 150 E . 86th Street, New York City,
BLASGER’S
“OLD BRIDGE STORE.”
these piping times of severe
sell me.
depended upon—
N early half a century ago my store was christened
as above, and. has since been known and honored among
the old residents of N orwalk by that appropriate name.
But that is a matter of little consequence to the public in
BUSINESS COMPETITION.
The one important question to purchasers is Where can
we get the
Best Goods for the Least Money!
From time to time the report comes to me that some of
my near neighbors have boasted that they could under-
N 0 one who has ever tested the truth of sucln a.
claim by coming and examining my carefully selected and
UNEXCELLED s'ronK 0F GOODS
and the extremely low prices at which I offer the same
has ever left
“ The Old Bridge Store,”
With any other feeling than that no one in the trade can
or does offer greater inducements to cash customers than
I do. ~I have the choicest exhibits of
AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN
GROGKERY' 86 GLASSWARES.
Also about every conceivable device for Table
Furnishing, Mantel Decoration, with House Cleaning
and Cooking Implements of every description.
examine and be convinced that my statements are strict-
lv true as to my carefully selected stock of the
llioionsl Utilities and Varieties of. Goods
In my line are
Sold at the Lowest Po'ssible Prices.
We strive to strictly attend to our own business.
We never run down or misrepresent other dealers, and
we ask simply a chance to SIIOW our customer's our stock
and let them satisfy themselves; but one thing may be
Call and
NO OTHER CONCERN SHALL UNDERSELL ME!
The times, the times,
The “Old Bridge Store” is all the rage;
Tell of the town or city, where they keep
Sucln goods at once so rich and yet so cheap!
For of all cheap stores beneath the sun,
B. S. BLAso'Ien’s isthe cheapest one! '
B. S. BLASCER.
Norwalk, April 4a., 1887.
the age, the age—
THE POET OF ‘THE PAST.
Sadly the Poet of the Past complains
That all his fair illusions fade away;
No more the fairies in the woodland play,
No longer Fancy undisputed reigns. .
The stubborn world his magic art disdalns
And harsher grows. and,coider, day by day:
Beauty. for use, is trampled into clay;
Music is dead, and only sound remains.
The Golden Age was ended long ago;
The songs are sung, and greatness is no more;
’ What themes are left to set our hearts oglow,
And wake anew the fiery tongues of yore?
Far from its source, the Stream of Life runs low,
In weedy shallows on a barren shore. ’
-F. W. Clarke in American Magazine.
AROUND BLANCO BAY. ~
A List of the Useful Plants Which Grow
' in That Region. '
Between many plants we found in the vi~
ciuity of Blauco hey I will mention a few
which, on account of usefulness. are alread y,
and will be still more, of very great im-
portance. Between these plants the first
place belongs to the wild date or datilillo tree
(Yucca Scottii), a toll tree, occasionally forty
and fifty feet high.
Datilillo looks sometimes like a palmetto,
but has narrow long and very sharp leaves.
The stem is very fibrous, and excellent from
which to prepare paper, cordage, matting,
etc. The London Telegraph is printed on the
paper manufactured out of the fiber of lower
California wild date. ‘ It grows in abundance
south of San Quentin and Rosario valleys.
Candlewood tree (fuguiera giganteu), by
the Mexicans called cirio, is a very remark-
able plant. It presents a very singular ap-
pearance in‘ a desert, sometimes growing
straight like an arrow, sometimes inclined in
all possible positions, or bent in most fantas-
tic forms. The leaves are very small, the
bark white and it is covered with long twigs.
The stem contains pith, which iseaten by cat-
tle. In the hollow trunks of this remarkable
plant swarms of wild bees find their abode.
Here I must remark that the bees were un-
known before on the peninsula. They came
from upper California, and now they are
everywhere, honey being used by the Mexi-
cans instead of sugar for tea or coffee. The
candlewood tree is also very fibrous and can
be used in the same manner as datilillo.
The third remarkable plant is maguey or
agave shawii. It belongs to the family of
the century plants, and it grows everywhere
.from San Diego to San Lucas. It forms a
beautiful object in the desert, with its dark
green leaves and splendid yellow flowers. It
has also fibrous qualities; besides, out of this
plant is prepared the celebrated Mexican
beverage—moses].
Though the country in the vicinity of
Blanco bay is very rich in flora, yet there is
a perfect absence of animal life, and a per-
fect silence reigns. there supreme. The only '
living creature that seems to thrive there is
the trap door spider, occasionally though
wrongfully called tarantula. This trapdoor
spider, cteniza California, is only half as
large as the tarantula, but belongs tothe same
family of mygalidte. It inhabits the under-
ground holes or tubes, provided with very
ingeniously constructed trap doors. The
nests I found near Blanca boy were about a
half dozen in number, and dug .on level
ground, but as I could see all of these. tubes
were abandoned—001'. San Francisco Chron-
icle.
Left at Tuxedo Park.
A kinder atmosphere for the growth of in-
comparable cottages is that surrounding
Tuxedo park. Invited for Friday until the
following Tuesday morning, I went down in.
tending to study all the workings of the club,
to penetrate even to its reason for being, to
learn how many acres the park covered, and,
in fine, to supply you with the driest and
fullest statistics. But I came away as ignor-
ant as Iweut. I had too goods time to
bother about reasons or measure acres, and
you will have to be content with a general
description. Your good resolution, doubt-
less, would have been broken like mine. Soft
pleasure would have pomesed you as soon as
you entered the stately park gates and been
driven for a mile and a' half along the bor-
ders of a steel blue lake, and through woods
of soft and vivid green to the Memorial club
house. You would have sunk intoan easy
chair on the piazza, and, while gazing over a
landscape which nature and man have gar-
dened, never once hazarded' an impertinent
question.
The Tuxedo Park club house is almost too
handsome and convenient to be likened to a
manor, where one looks for moss and a little
disco' mfort. It is neither a family residence
nor a fine hotel, but it possemes the vrrtu' es of
both. The nmsan' ces of either a tram' of
romping children and a group of young men
with cigarettes and minocles have no part in
the ultra civiliza' tion of the Tuxedo club. The
bachelors, save when they are dimug' or done-
ing, or makr'ngcallsat the house, arebanrsh' ed
to an annex, and children and nurses are con-
fined in another annex, called the “kennel”
Surrounding the house, like fiufly chickens
about the mother hen, are the cottages, and
at the first symptoms of danger, is burned
outlet or o dismnmed‘ ‘ cook, they find sure
refuge under her wing. At a safe drstan' co
from the habitable portion of Tuxedo, the
stables have been erected, and these corn.
prise the entire stabliug accommodation of
the park, for, according to a stipulation in
his lease, no proprietor is permitted to build
a private stable. Every Imaginab‘ ' is kind of
vehicle is at the command of guests, from
the tiny goat cmnag' e upward to the victorla
and tantivy coach—Willis Steel! in Chicago
Times. .
Smurtenlng the Coronation Chair.
We shall not know how much harm has
been done to Westminster abbey in prepar-
ing it for the royal thanksgiving service
until the scaffolds have been removed. More
care, i is believed, has been taken than on
previous occasions, but ‘one wanton piece of
mischief has certainly been committed. We
shall scarcely be believed when we say that
the coronation chair, perhaps to most English-
men the most precious of all the precious relics
in the abbey, was handed over to some bar-
barian to be snatched up, and he hasdaubed
it the orthodox Wan-dour street brown and
varnished it! Yet this is true. The chair
made 600 years ago to contain the
stone which even then had a long story
behind it, has suffered much from hard
usuage and from the hands of the mis-
chievous. But not even in the perilous time
when George IV was crowned was it attempt-
ed to take away the chair’s age and makea
new thing of it. Now, when we pride ourselves
on knowing more about old art work than
our fathers did, this has n done, and the
throne of six and twenty monarchs has been
vulgarized into the semblance of the hall
chair of a. Cockney Gothic villu.-The Athe-
naeum.
lthode Island’s Peculiarlties.
She is the only state that has no provision
in her constitution for callinga constitutional
convention.
She is the only state that requires more
than a majority of votes to ratify amend-
ments to the constitution.
She is the only state whose constitution
draws a distinction between native and
naturalized citizens.
She is the only state whose legislatures vote
by secret ballot. _
She is the only state that requires the gov-
ernor to share the pardoning power with the
senate.
She is the only state that requires voters to
register one year in order to vote the next.
She is the only state that requires a majority
vote to elect all officers.
She is the only state that requires a prop
erty qualification of voters—Boston Globe.
What Sporting Men Care For.
Fully one-fourth of the people who visit the
races nowadays do so merely to avail them-
selves of the betting privileges odor-dad on
the course, and not because they care a conti-
nental for the sport of racing as a recreation.
Hundreds of men never go fifty feet from the
betting paddock during the afternoon They
care only for the result and age utterly indif-
ferent to the uiceties of the struggle. If they
win they are eager to get their money is soon
as possible in order that they may play it
again iii the next race. They are the men
who are the most eager for the lam stable
tips and information. Though they consider
themselves sporting men par excellence, they
have little claim to the title, but are gain
blers, pure and simple—New York Sun.
A Bookseller’s Trick.
In New York they tell tales of d bookseller
who buys books at auction here in the spring,
takes them with him to Paris in lo. trunk in
the summer, ships them back to his store in
the fall in cases that. are opened in the pres-
ence of fiabbergasted book men. He shows
a Paris invoice for them. Sometimes it is
the library of a marquis, sometimes the col-
lection of a cousin to a descendant of a gover-
ness of a queen’s children. The trick is said
to pay well; doubtless it does, judging by
librettos that fetch from 815 to $30 for hav-
ing been in the Tuileries library (“ as witness
the blinding with its large, gilded initial N.”),
but these things are manufactured by whole
sale in the Boulevard Saint-Michel.-—New
York Times.
. An Art Criticism.
Henry Laboucherc thus criticises Holman
Hunt’s picture, “The Awakened Conscience”:
“In plain language, I should say of this plot
are that it is the art of the nursery, the color
of the jam pot, and the sentiment of the Sal
vation Army." _. __
a‘.‘
Norwalk Chronicler