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Volume LXXXVII.
An Enterprising Republican Journal, eSpecially: devoted to Local News and Interests.
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A Romance of the Jerseys, 1779.
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Continued.
“He will find, good friend Blossom,”
said the baron with the soft, quiet gravity
of his eyes, “Beauty, Grace, Accomplish-
ment, and—ch—Santa Maria, what shall
I say?” He turned appealingly to the
count.
“Virtue,” nodded the count.
“Truly, Birtoo! all in the fair lady of
thecs countries. Ah, believe me, honest;
friend Blossom, there is mooch more in
thecs than in those!”
So much of this speech was addressed
to Mistress Thankful that she had to
show at least one dimple in reply, albeit
her brows were slightly knit, and she had
turned upon the speaker her honest, ques-
tioning eyes.
“And then the Gen. \Vashingtondias
been kind enough to offer his protection,”
added the count.
“Any fool—any one,” supplemented
“may have the general’s pass, ay, and his
good word. But what of Mistress Pru-
dence Bookstaver—she that has a sweet-
heart iu Knyphausen’s brigade, ay—I
warrant a Hessian, but of gentle blood, as
Mistress Prudence has often told inc—-
and, look you, all her letters stopped by
the general, ay, I warrant, read by my
Lady IVashiugton, too, as if ’twere her
fault that her lad was in arms against
congress. Riddle me that, now!”
“’Tis but prudence, lass,” said Blos~
som, frowning on the girl. “ ’Tis that
she might disclose some movement of the
army, tending to defeat the enemy.”
“And why should she not try to save
her lad from capture or ambuscade such
as hcfell the Hessian commissary with the
provisions that you”—
cmbracc, managed to pinch Mistress
Thankful sharply. “Hush, lass,” he said
with simulated playfulness; “your tongue
clocks like the W'hippany mill. My
(laughter has small concern—’tis the man-
ner of womcnfolk—in politics,” he ex-
plained to his guests. “These danger-
some days have given her sore aflliction
by way of parting comrades of her child-
hood, and others whom she has much
affected. It has in some sort. soured her.”
Mr. Blossom would have recalled this
speech as soon as it escaped him, lest it
should lead to arevelation from the truth-
ful Mistress Thankful of her relations
with the Continental captain. But to his
astonishment, and, I may add, to my own,
she showed nothing of that disposition she
had exhibited a few moments before. 0n
the contrary,_ she blushed slightly, and
said nothing.
And then the conversation changed—
upon the weather, the hard winter, the
prospects of the cause, acriticism upon
the connnander-in-chief’s management of
affairs, the attitude of congress, etc., be-
tween Mr. Blossom and the count; char-
acterized, I hardly need say, by that pos-
itivencss of opinion that distinguishes the
unprofessional. In another part of the
room, it so chanced that Mistress Thank-
ful and the baron were talking about
themselves; the assembly balls; who was
the prettiest woman in Morristown, and
whether Gen. Washington’s attentions to
Mistress Pync' were only perfunctory gal~
lantry, or what; and if Lady \Vashington’s
hair was really gray; and if that young
aide-de-cauip. Maj. Van Zandt, were really
in love with, Lady W., or whether his at;
tcntions were only the zeal of a subaltcrn
—-in the midst of which a sudden gust of
wind shook the house; and Mr. Blossom,
going to the front door, came back with
the announcement that it was snowing
heavily.
And indeed, within that past hour, to
their astonished eyes the whole face of no.-
turc had changed. The moon was gene,
the sky hidden in a blinding, whirling
swarm of stinging flakes. The wind, bit-
ter and strong, had- already fashioned
whitc feathery drifts upon the threshold,
over the painted benches on the porch,
and against the door posts.
Mistress Thankful and the baron had
walked to the rear door—the baron with
a slight tropical shudder—to view this
meteorological change. As Mistress
Thankful looked over the snowy land-
scape, it seemed to her that all record of
her past experience had been efl’aced; her
very footprints of an hour before were lost;
the, gray wall on which she lean'ed was
white and spotless now; even the familiar
farin shed looked dim and strange and
ghostly. Had she been there? had she'seon
the captain? was it all a fancy? She
scarcely know.
A sudden gust of wind closed the door
behind them with a crash, and sent Mis-
tress Thankfulhwith a' slight feminine
scream, forward into the outer darkness.
But the baron caught her by the waist and
saved her from heaven knows what imag-
inable disaster; and the scene ended in a.
half hysterical laugh. But the wind then
set upon them both with a malevolent
fury; and the baron was, I - presume,
obliged to draw her closer to his side.
They were alone, save for the _ presence
ofthose mischievous confederates, nature
and opportunity. In the half obscurity of
the storm she could not help turning her
mischievous eyes on his. But she was
perhaps surprised to find them luminous,
soft, and, as it seemed to her at that mo-
ment, grave beyond the occasion. An
embarrassment utterly new and singular
seized upon her; and when, as she half
feared yet half expected, be bent down
and pressed his lips to hers, she was for a
moment powerless. But in the next in-
stant she boxed his ears sharply and van-
ished in thc.darkness. When Mr. Blossom
opened the door to the baron he was sur-
prised to find that gentleman alone, and
still more surprised, when they re-entered
the house, to see Mistress Thankful enter
at the same moment demuroly from the
front door.
\Vheu Mr. Blossom’ knocked at his
daughter’s door the next morning it
opened upon her completely dressed, but
Withal somewhat pale, and, if the truth
must be told, a. little surly.
“And you were stirring so early, Thank-
ful,” he said; “’twould have been but
decent to have hidden godspced to the
guests, especially the baron, who seemed
much concerned at your absence.”
Miss Thankful blushed slightly, but an-
swcred with savage celerity, “And since
when is it necessary that I should dance
attendance upon every foreign jack in the
box that may lie at the house?”
“He has shown great courtesy to you,
mistress, and is a gentleman."
“Courtesy, indeed!” said
Thankful.
“He has not preshmed?” said Mr. Blos-
som suddenly, bringing his cold gray eyes
to bear upon his daughter’s.
“No, 110,” said Thankful hurriedly,
flaming a bright scarlet; “but—nothing.
But what have you there? a letter?”
“Ay—from the captain, I warrant,”
said Mr. Blossom, handing her a three
cornered bit of paper; “’twas left here by
a camp follower. Thankful,” he con-
tinned, with a meaning glance, “you will
heed my counsel in season. The captain
is not meet for such as you.”
Thankful suddenly grew pale and con-
temptuous again as she snatched the letter
from his hand. When his retiring foot
steps were lost on the stairs she regained
her color, and opened the letter. It was
slovenly written, grievously misspelled,
and read as folloWs: '
“Solemn/5m; A-tr.r.eu91_ls._Act, be-
Mistress
Thankful hastily, with a slight blush—'
Mr. Blossom, in an ostensible fatherly '
gotten In navy and Jealousic, keeps me
here a prisoner. Last night I was Basely
arrested by Scrvile Hands for that Free-
dom of Thought and Expression for which
Ihavc already Sacriilzed so much—aye all
that Man bath but love and Honour. But
the End is Near. \Vhen for the Mainte-
nance of Power the Liberties of the Peo-
ples arc subdued by Martial Supremacy
and the Dictates of Ambition the State is
Lost. I lie in Vile Bondage here in Mor-
ristown under charge of Disrespeck—me
that a twelvemonth past left a home and
Itcspectablc Connexions to serve my
Country. Believe inc still your own love,
albeit. in the Power of Tyrants and con-
demned it may be to the scaffold.
“The Messenger is Trustworthy anti will_
speed safely to me such as you may deliver
unto him. The Provender aauktiiicd by
your llands and made precious by yr. luve
was wrested from me by Servil Hands, and
the Eggs, Sweetheart, were somewhat
Addlcd. The Bacon is, methinks, by this
time on the Table of the Comr-in~Chief.
Such is Tyranny and Ambition. Sweet-
heart, farcwell for the present.
“ALLAN."
Mistress Thankful read this composi-
tion once, twice, and then tore it up.
Then, reflecting that it was the first letter
of her lover’s that she had not kept, she
tried to put together again the torn frag-
ments, but vainly; and then in a. pet, new
to her, cast them from the window. Dur-
ing the rest. of the day she was consider-
ably distraite, and even manifested more
temper than she was wont to do: and
later, w..cn. her father rode away on his
daily visit to 'Morristowu, she felt
strangely relieved. By noon the snow
ceased, or rather turned into a driving
sleet that again in turn gave way to rain.
lly this time she became absorbed in her
household duties—in which she was usu-
ally skillful—and in her own thoughts
that today had a nbvclty in their mean-
ing. In the midst of this, at about dark,
her room being in the rear of the house.
she was perhaps unmindful of the tramp-
ling of horse without or the sound of
voices in the hall below. Neither was un-
common ut that time.‘ Although pro-
tectcd by the Continental army from for-
age or the rudeness of soldiery, the Blos-
som farm had always been a. halting place
for passing troopers, commissary team'-
stcrs and rcconnoitcring officers. Gen.
Sullivan and Col. Hamilton had watered
their horses at its broad, substantial way-
side trough and sat in the. shade of its
porch. Miss Thankful was only awak-
ened from her day dream by the entrance
of the negro farm hand, Crosar.
“Fo’ God, Missy Thankful, them
sogcrs is g’winc into camp in the road, I
reckon, for they’s jest making thcysevs
free afo’ the house, and they’s an ofiieer
in the company room with his spurs
cooked on the table, readin’ a book.”
A quick flame leaped into Thankful’s
cheek, and her pretty brows knit them-
selves over darkening eyes. She arose
from her work no longer the moody girl,
but an indignant goddess, and, pushing
the servant aside, swept down the stairs
and threw open the door.
An officer sitting by the fire in an easy,
lounging attitude that justified the serv-
ant’s criticism, arose instantly with an air
of evident embarrassment and surprise
that was, however, as quickly dominated
anti controlled by a gentleman’s breeding.
“I beg your portion,” he said, with a
deep inclination of his handsome head,
“but I had no idea that there was any
member of this household at home—at
least, alady.” He hesitated a moment,
catching in the raising of her brown
fringed lids a sudden revelation of her
beauty and partly losing his composure.
“I am Maj. Van Zandt; I have the honor
of addressing”—
“Thankful Blossom," said Thankful a »
little proudly, divining,-with a woman’s.
swift instinct, the cause of the major’s
,hesitation. But her triumph was checked
by a new embarrassment visible in the
face of the officer at the mention of her
name. _
“Thankful Blossom,” replied the officer
quickly. “You are, then, the daughter
of Abner Blossom?”
"Certainly,” said Thankful, turning
her inquiring eyes upon him. “He will
be here hetimes. -He has gone only to
Morristown.” In a. new fear that had
taken possession of her, her questioning
eyes asked, “Has he not?”
The officer, answering her eyes rather
than her lips, came toward her gravely.
‘ ‘He will not return today, Mistress Thank-
ful, nor perhaps even to-morrow. He is
—-a prisoner.”
Thankful opened her brown eyes aggres-
sively on the major. “A prisoner—for
what?” ‘
“For aiding and giving comfort to the
enemy, and for harboring spies,” replied
the major with military curtness.
Mistress Thankful’s cheek flushed
slightly at the last sentence; a recollection
of the scene on the porch and the baron’s
stolen {kiss flashed across her, and fora
moment she looked as guilty as if the man
before her had been a witness to the deed.
He saw it, and misinterpreted her con-'
fusion. -
“Belike, then," said Mistress Thankful,
slightly raising her voice and standing
squarely before the major, “belike, then,
“ I should be a prisoner too; for the guests
of this house, if they be spies, were my
guests, and, as .my father’s daughter, I
was their hostess; ay, man, and right glad
to be the hostess of such gallant gentle-
men—gentlemen, I warrant, too fine to
insult adefenseless girl; gentlemen spies
that did not cock their boots on the table
or turn an honest farmer’s house into a
taproom.”
An expression of half pain, half amuse-
ment, covered the face of the major, but
he made no other reply than bya pro-
found and graceful bow. Courteous and
deprecatory as it was it apparently exas-
perated Mistress Thankful only the more.
"And pray who are these spies and who
is the informer?” said Mistress, Thankful,
facing the soldier, with one hand trucu-
;lently placed on her flexible hip and the
'other slipped behind her.
“Methinks ’tis
only honest we should ‘know when and
how we have entertained both.”
“Your father, Mistress Thankful.” said
Maj. Van Zandt gravely, “has long been
suspected of favoring the enemy; but it
has been the policy of the commander-in-
chicf to overlook the political preferences
'of non-combatants, and to strive to win
their allegiance to the good cause by lib-
eral privileges. But when it was lately
discovered that two strangers, although
bearing a pass from him, have been fre-
quenters of this house under fictitious
names”—— »
“You mean Count Ferdinand and the
Baron Pomposo," said Thankful quickly
——“two honest gentlefolk; and if they
choose to pay their devolrs to a lass—ul-
though, perhaps, not a quality lady, yet
an honest girl”—— ‘
“Dear Mistress Thankful," said the
major with a profound bow and smile,
that, spite of its courtesy, drove Thank-
ful to the verge of wruthful hysterics, “if
you establish that fact—and, from. this
slight acquaintance with ‘ your charms, I
doubt not you will—your father is safe
from further inquiry or detention. The
contmander-in-chief is a gentleman who
has never underrated the influence of
your sex, nor held himself uversotoits
fascinations.” ,
“What is the name of this informer?"
broke in Mistress Thankful angrily.
“Who is it that has dared”—
“It is but king‘s evidence, mayhnp,
Mistress Thankful; for the informer is
himself under arrest. It is on the infor-
mation of Capt. Allan Brewster, of the
Connecticut contingent. "
Mistress Thankful whitened,
flushed, and then whitened again.
she stood up to the major.
“It’s a lie—a cowardly liei”
Maj. Van Zandt bowed. Mistress
Thankful flew up stairs, and in another
moment swept back again into the room
In riding but and habit.
“I suppose I can go and see—my
father," she .said, without lifting her eyes
to the ofilcer. '
"You are free as air. Mistress Thank
ful. My orders and instructions, for from
implicating you in your father’s offenses,
do not even suggest your existence; Let
me. 1101p yen to your horse” -
then
Then
A
The girl did not reply. During that
brief interval, however, Caesar liad,sad-
tiled her white mare and brought it to the
door. Mistress Thankful, disdaining the
offered hand of the major, sprang to the
saddle.
The major still held the reins.
moment, Mistress Thankful.”
“Let'mo go!” she said, with suppressed
passion. '
“One moment, I beg.”
His hand still held her bridle rein. The
more reared, nearly upsetting her. Crim-
son with ragc and mortification, she raised
her riding whip and laid it smartly over
the face of the man before her. .
He dropped the rein instantly. Then he
raised to her a face calm and colorless,
but for a red line extending from his eye-
brow to his chin, and said quietly:
“One
Ha dropped the rein instantly.
“I had no desire to detain you. I only
wished to say that when you see Gen.
Washington I know you will be just
enough to tell him that Maj. Van Zundt
knew nothing of your wrongs, or even
your presence here, until you presented
them, and that since then he has treated
you as became an officer and a gentle-
man."
Yet even as he spoke she was gone. At
the moment that her fluttering skirt
swept in a furious gallop down the hill-
side, the major turned and re-cntered the
house. The few lounging troopers who
were witnesses of the scene prudently
turned their eyes from the white face and
blazing eyes of their officer as he strode by
them. Nevertheless, when the door
closet] behind him, contemporary criticism
broke out: '
“ ’Tis a Tory jade, vexed that she cannot
befool the major as she has the captain,”
muttered Sergt. Tibbits.
“And going to try her tricks on the
general,” added Private I-Iicks.
IIowbeit both these critics may have
been wrong. For as Mistress Thankful
thundered down the Morristown road she
thought of many things. She thought of
her sweetheart Allan, a prisoner, and pin-
ing for her help and her solicitude; and yet
—liow dared lie—if he had really be-
trayed or misjudged her! And then she
thought bitterly of the count and the
boron, and burned ~to face the latter, and
in some vague way charge the stolen kiss
upon him as the cause of all her shame
and mortification. And lastly she thought
of her father, and began to hate every-
body. But above all and through all, in
her vague fears for her father, in her pas-
sionate indignation against the baron, in
her fretful impatience of Allan, one thing
was ever dominant and obtrusive; one
thing she tried to put away, but could not
——the handsome, colorless face of Maj.
Van Zandt, with the red welt of her rid-
ing whip overlying its cold outlines.
CHAPTER III.
, The rising wind, which had ridden
much faster than Mistress Thankful, had
increased to a gale by the time it reached
Morristown. It swept through the leaf-
less maples and rattled the dry bones of
the elms. It whistled through the quiet
Presbyterian churchyard, us if trying to
arouse the sleepers it had known in
less windows of the Assembly rooms over
the Freemasons’ tavern and wrought in
their gusty curtains moving shadows of
those amply pctticoated domes and tightly
hosed cavaliers who had swung in “Sir
Roger" or jigged in “Money Musk” the
night before. '
But I fancy it was around the isolated
“Ford mansion,” better known as the
“headquarters,” that the wind wreaked
its grotesque rage. It howled under its
scant eaves, it sang under its bleak porch,
it: tweaked the peak of its front gable, it
whistlcd through every chink and cranny
of its square, solid, unpicturesquo struc-
ture. Situated on a hillside that de-
scended rapidly to the Whippany river,
every summer zephyr that whispered
through the porches of the Morristown
farm houses charged as a stiff breeze upon
the swinging half doors and windows of
the “Ford mausion;" every wintry wind
became a gale that threatened its security.
The sentry who paced before its front
porch knew from experience when to
linger under its lea and adjust his thread-
bare outer coat to the bitter north wind.
Within the house something of this
checrlcssuess prevailed. It had an ascetic
gloom, which the scant firelight of the
reception room and the dying embers on
the dining room hearth failed to dissi-
pate. The central hall was broad, and
furnished plainly with a few rush bot-
’tomcd chairs, on one of which half dozed
a black body servant of the commander-
in-chief. Two officers in the dining room,
drawn close by the chimney corner,
chatted in undertones, as if mindful that
the door of the drawing room was open,
and their voices might break in upon its
sacred privacy. The swinging light in the
hull partly illuminated it, or rather
glanced gloomily from the black polished
furniture, the lusterless chairs, the quaint
cabinet, the silent spinet, the skeleton
legged center table, and finally upon the
motionless figure of a man seated by the
fire.
It was a figure since so well known to
the civilized world. since so celebrated I:
print and painting, as to need no descrip-
tion here. Its rare combination of gentle
dignity with profound force, of a set reso-
lutcness of purpose witha philosophical
patience, have been so frequently deliv-
ered to a people not particularly remark-
able for these qualities, that I fear it has
too often provoked a spirit of playful ug-
grcssion, in which the deeper underlying
meaning was forgotten. So let me add
that in manner, physical equipoise, and
even in the more details of dress, this
figure indicated a certain aristocratic ex-
clusivcness. It was the presentment of a
king-~11. king who by the irony of circum-
stances was just then waging war against
all kingship; a ruler of men, who just
then was fighting for the right of these
men to govern themselves, but whom by
his own inherent right he dominated.
From the crown of his powdered head to
the silver buckle of his shoe he was so
royal that it was not strange that his
brother George of England and Hanover
known as the “grace of God’ ’--could find
no better way of resisting his power than
by calling him “Mr. Washington.”
The sound of horses’ hmfs, the formal
challenge of sentry, the grave questioning
of the officer of the guard, followed by
footsteps upon the porch, did not appar-
ently disturb his meditation. Nor did the
opening of the outer door, and a charge of
cold air into the hall that invaded even the
privacy of the reception room, and bright-
ened the dying embers on the hearth, stir
his calm preoccupation. But an instant
- later there was the distinct rustle of a
feminine skirt in the hall, a hurried whis-
‘pering of men's voices, and then the sud-
young officer over the shoulder of the un-
conscious figure.
“I beg your pardon, general,” said the
ofiicer doubtingly, i‘bui;”———
“You are not intruding, Col. Hamil-
ton,” said the general quietly.
“There is a young lady without who
wishes an audience of your cxcellcncy.
’Tis Mistress Thankful Blossom, the
. daughter of Abner Blossom, charged with
' his preferences.”
days gone by. It shook the blank, luster- .
—ruling by accident, otherwise impiously .
den apparition of a smooth, fresh faced '
treagonous practice and ,fa'voring‘ the en-
emy, now in the guardhousc at Morris-
town."
“Thankful Blossom?” repeated the gen-
eral interrogatively.
“Your cxccllency doubtless remembers
aliitlc provincial beauty and a famous
toast of the country side+the Cressida of
our Morristown epic, Wh had our gallant
Connecticut captain astr ”—
“You have the advantbges, besides the
better memory of a younger man, colonel,’ ’
said \Vashingtou, with 'a playful smile
that slightly rcddened the check of his
aide-de-camp. “Yet I think I have heard
of this phenomenon. By all means, ad—
mit her—and her escort.”
“She is alone, general,” responded .the
subordinate. ,
“Then the more reason-why we should
be polite.” returned Washington, for the
first time altering his easy posture, rising
to his feet and lightly cltwping his ruffled
hands before him. “W'cl must not keep
her waiting. . Give her ;access, my dear
colonel, at once, and eveil as she'came—
alone.” -‘
The aide-dc—cump bowed and withdrew.
In another moment the half opened door
swung wide to Mistress: Thankful Blos-
som. -‘
She was so beautiful; in her simple
riding dress, so quaint "iidpriginal in
that very beauty, and, a To all...80.toewe
ing with a certain vitafiWfibstness of
purpose just positive 'jfitnd audacious
enough to set oil? that. ibcauty, that the
grave gentleman before her did not con-
tent himself with the usual formal in-
clination of courtesy, but actually ad-
vanced, and, taking herificold lit-tic hand
in his, graciously led heljdzo the chair he
had just vacated. ‘. "
- “Even if your name were not known to
me, Mistress Thankfull” said the com-
munder-in-chief, looking} down upon her
with grave politeness, ”nature has, me-
thinks, spared you the necessity of any
introduction to the courtesy of a gentle-
man. But how can L especially serve
you?"
Alacki the blaze of MIStress Thankful’s
brown eyes had become somewhat dimmed
in the grave half lights of the room, in'
the graver, deeper dignity of the erect,
soldier like figure before; her. The bright
color born of the tempest within and with-
out had somehow funded, from her check;
the saucincss begotten from bullying her
horse in the last halfhour’s rapid ride
was so subdued by the actual presence of
the man she had come to bully that I fear
she had to use all her self control to keep
down her inclination to whimper, and to
keep back the tears that, oddly enough,
rose to her sweet eyes fins she lifted them
to the quietly critical yet placid glance of
her interlocutor. ,
“I can readily conceive the motive of
this visit, Miss Thankful,” continued
“’ashingtou, with a - certain dignified
kindliness that was more reassuring than
the formal gallantry of .athe period; “and
it is, I protest, to your credit. A father’s
welfare, however erring and weak that
father may be, is most seemly in a
maiden”—
Thankful's eyes flashed again as she
rose to her feet. Her upper lip, that had
a. moment before trembled in a pretty in-
fantine distress, now stiffened anti curled
as she confronted the dignified figure he-
forc her. “It is not of my father I would
speak,” she said saucily: “I did not ride
here alone to-night, in this weather, to
talk of him; I warrant he can speak for
himself. I came here to speak of myself,
of" lics—ay, lies told of me, a poor girl;
ay, of cowardly gossip about me and my
sweetheart, Capt. Brewster, now confined
in prison because he hath loved me, a lass
without politics or adherence to the cause
—as if ’twere necessary évery lad should
ask the confidence or permission of your-
self or, belike, my Lady Washington, in
- She-spousedvaiinonfiat, out of breath.
With a woman’s quickness of intuition
she saw the change in Washington's face
-saw a certain cold severity OVershadow-
ing it. With a woman’s fateful per<
sistency—a persistency which I humbly
suggest might, on occasion, he honorably
copied by our more politic sex—she went
on to say what was in her, even if she
were obliged, with a woman’s honorable
inconsistency, to unsay it in an hour or
two later: an inconsistency which I also
humbly protest might be as honorably
Imitated by us—on occasion.
“It has been said," said Thankful Blos‘
sum quickly, “that my father has given
entertainment knowingly to two spies—
two spies that, bogging your excellency’s
pardon and the pardon of congress, I
know onlyas two honorable gentlemen
who have as honorably tendered me their
affections. It is said, and haser and
most falsely too, that my sweetheart,
Capt. Allan Brewster, has lodged this in-
formation. I have ridden hero to deny it.
I have ridden hero to demand of you that
an honest woman's reputation shall not
be sacrificed to the interests of politics;
thata prying mob of ragamufilns shall
not be sent to an honest farmer’s house to
spy and spy—and turn a poor girl out‘of
doors that they might do it. ’Tis shame-
ful, so it is; there! ’tis most scandalous, .
so it is; there, now! Spies, indeed! what
are they, pray?” .
In the indignation which the recollec-
tion of her wrongs had slowly gathered in
her, from the beginning of this speech,.
she had advanced her face, rosy with
courage and beautiful in its importi-
nencc, Within a few inches of the dignified
features and quiet gray eyes of the great
commander. To her utter stupefaction
he bent his head and kissed her, with a
grave benignit-y, full on the center of her
audacious forehead
To be Continued.
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NORWALK, CONN.
The Best of Home Dressed Beef.
Ailklnds of
MEATS, VEGETABLES, FRUITS, &0.
Prices Reasonable.
“26 II. W. MITCHELL, Proprietor.
R e m em 10 e r 2
The Best Meats in Norwalk
—-—AIIE SOLD AT—
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—AND FOIL THE—-
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PLATES or BEEF, 5 cents per lb: CORNED
BEEF, from 5 to lo cents per lb. I will not be
undersold for the Best QuaJtiesof Meat. l'oultry
Drawn to Order. iyi
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27 Wall Street.
GENERAL "MARKET.
Meat, Fish, Vegetables. are.
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MAIN STREET.
All kinds of the best qualities of Meats, Fish,
Clams, Vegetables, etc., are kept constantly on
hand. and will 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.
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I WANT EVERYBODY
——’I‘o come in and look over my stock of—
Mon.uments
—--AND—
HEADSTONES
Before they buy anything of the kind. A selection
can be matte from them much better than from a
photograph or pencil sketch. Respectfully, .
P. W. Bates.
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They also desire to state that they have accepted
lhe agency of the New York Vaccine Co., and will
keep a supply of
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J . T. Prowitt,
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_ Vicinity,
47 MAIN STREET. ly26
(liner in Olson,
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Leaders of the Shoe Trade
Wish to cal. your attention to a few of the many
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We have the best The of
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Ever shownin town and at prices from the
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NORWALZ.
Removal.
MRS. BEACII.,Carpet Maker and Layer. has
removed from the Shepherd Building, on
Lewis street. to No. 7 Main street, where she will
be glad to receive and‘ promptly attend to all
orderslnher line of business. She would also
return thanks for the liberal patronage bestowed
“le her for the past twelve years. "20
~ orwulk. July 19, 1837.
Coolidge. &- Lockwood,
' REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE,
Room 4 Gazette Building.
SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO THE CARE OF
III-EAL ESTATE, COLLECTION OF BEETS,
' an, to.
Parties havmg desirable apartments to Let, from
$8 to $12 per month. Will do well to place the same
in our hands. as the call for such places the past
- month has been far beyond our ,ah lity to supply.
Remember our Commission In only 5 per out.
We have now on our books several very desir-
able places to rent, ranging in price from $15 to
$40 per month.
ileum 4 Gazette Building,
lyll nonwanx, comv.
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RIVERSIDE
I EENETERY ISSflGllTiilN.
The grounds of this Association are
situated in the Borough of Norwalk, just
north of the Union Mills, between Spring
Hill Road and Riverside Avenue, and
may be reached by good and well-kept
roads from all directions. The cemetery
is divided into twenty-two sections, With
Blood Avenues
and suitable streets, and the contour of
the land is such that every taste may be
gratified in the selection of plots. The
avenues are so arranged as to afford
an almost
Continuous Drive
to all the different sections, and are
crossed in every direction by the streets
so that carriages may reach every plot in
the entire cemetery. An Elegant
Receiving Vault
bf large capacity, and fitted wilh,all
modern improvements, is near the
entrance gate.
Capacity.
The entire space is not plotted, but
52 Vault Lots, reservations for 517 single
interments, and 2,102 Burial Plots are
now offered for sale at prices very favor-
able to purchasers.
MAPS.
Maps of the Cemetery may be seen at
tho ofiice of MB. Enos KELLOGG, the
Superintendent, on the premises; at the
office of How. JAMES W. Hun, at. the
Horse Railroad Depot; and at the office
of Mn. Jenn H. LIGHT, at South Nor-
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Get the rBest!
After more than thirty years on Broadway
I HAVE MOVED To
———’I‘IIE ELEGANT mnxtszs,——~- .
NO. 11 EAST 42])~ STREET,
One block west of the Grand Central Depot,
NEW YORK CITY.
Children, ll Specialty. Quick u a Wink.
GALLERY AND SKY LIGHT ON PABLO“ FLOOD-
. N0 STAIN T0 CLIIB. 3m“
ABRAHAM Bocnnous.
George F. Quintard
-——lIas opened 3——
—-FIRST~CLASS—-
cnocrar_
. No.5 Wad Street,
Opposite to J. B. 8113' Furniture Rooms
Everything new and fresh. and will be sold
cheap as can be bought in town.
Won't fall to give us a call.
PETER L. cUIcUE,
FLORIST NNIIINi YIIIN,
UNION AVENUE,
North of Norwalk Cemetery,
nonwaag, - - cores.
Dealer in In Green House and Hot House and
Bedding and Vegetable Plants, Fruit and Ornamen
ta] Trees Shruhbery, Vines. Cut Flowers alwsy
on hand and all sorts of designsln Flowers arranged
to order. 41y!
Grading and Re-filling Cemetery Plots
promptly attended to.
oer. BUTLER’S ADVICE. .
A FEWJ-‘INANCIAL. RULES. FOR 'A
vouuc. MAN TO FOLLOW. 3...
Bathing so Safe for an Investment is
Improved Baal Estate—A BI: of tho
Goneral's Experience—Marry 3 Ph-
dent, Ssvlng Girl. '
. I think that more young men fail in the in-
vestment of what they earn or receive than
In any other, way to acquire property. Tho ,
temptations to speculation are so great, and
the desire to become suddenly rich' so‘strong.
that I believe eight out of ten, If not'moro, of .
young men or; yrreclred at the very begin-
ning. ' ‘ ' ' -'
When a young man has a very little money
let him buy some property, preferably a
piece. however small, according to his means, -
of improved real estate that is paying rent.
He had better buy it when sold at auction.
under a judicial sale, paying in cash who: be
can, giving his notes for the balance in mall
cums coming due at frequently recurring in;
torvals. secured by a mortgage on the prop-
ortymnd then use all his extra. income in
paying up those notes. It is always safe to
discount your own note, and 'If the notes
come a little too fast, as soon as he gets any- .
thing paid his friends will told him when
he is putting his money 'vvhsrs It can-
not be lost, and where the property is taking
care of the Interest, and in' every short time
be will find thht he has got a very consider-
able investment. He will become interested ,
in it..save his money to meet his notes, and "
he will directly come into a considerable peso . ‘
session of property, and hardly know howit
came to him. That is, he will have had a
motive feri'saving, and will get the renal of‘
that saving, and will not be tempted to enter
into speculations.
A sum Imsmm.
Nothing is so safe for an investment so Im-
proved real estate. Nothingis likely to grow
in value faster. In the last fifty years W per
' cent. 'of all the merchants and traders in_
Boston have failed. In the last fifty years 90
per. cent. of all the business corporations have
failed or gone out of business, so that their
stock has been wiped out. In the last fifty
years all the improved real estate, on the .
average, has paid its interest and taxes and
quadrupled in value. If a. young man's father
can give: him anything to start him in. the
world, he had better invest it in that way
and let its accumulate, and earn his living,
and he will be richer than if he had gone into
business. i Jay Gould issald to have started
from a mouse trap seller to become a million-
aire. Assuming that to be true, be Is only ,
one of 60,000,000 of people, and if any young
man thinks that he is going to Iniitato Jay
Gould, there are 60,000,000 of chances to one,
that he won’t succeed;
The rule I would lay down for a youngmsn
is never to do a mean thing for money. Bo
prudent and saving of your money. Be eure-
ful to have no interest account running
against you unless you have an equal or
greater interest account running In your
favor. Work diligently and you are sures of
a competency in your old age, and as early as
possible, if you can find a saving, prudent
girl who has been brought up by a motlm"
who knows how to take care of a house, make
a. wife of her, and she will aid and not hinder
on.
y A m or nxrnmzvcl.
. I claim no originality in this advice, and
will relate you an incident In my own ex-
perience to illustrate it: In my earliest prac-
tice in my profession I was quite successful in
earning money. and I had a small balance in
the Ipwell bank, at the head of which was
, Mr. James G. Carney. The bank was directly
acres the hall from my office. I stepped into
. the bank to deposit a little money on one oc-
easiongmd Mr. Carney said to me: “Why
don’t you invest your money?” “Invest,"
aid I;"‘I have nothing toinvest." “0h.yes,"-
he. says, “you have quite a little sum of
money, and I see that your young friends
come with your checks occasionally, evident-
ly borrowing it. Now. you hadbetter invest
It.” “How can I invest it?" “Invest It in
real estate." “I know nothing about ml
estate.”
“Go to the first auction and buy this
property. You cannot be who]: cheated In
that, because you will have to give very little
more than somebody elsewlll be willing to
pay for it, save your money, collect your.
fees, pay your notes as they. become due. Sew.
that the property is improved property, so
that the rent will keep down your interest ac-
count, and when you get any other money in-
vest it in the some way, and if your notes
press upon you a little faster than you can pay
them, why, we will, when we find that is what
you are doing with your money, discount your
note and give you a little nioro time,» that you
can pay it up. This will newton the prompt
collection of your bills, for I know that you -
would rather work and earn .100 than dun a
man for it, unless you have a pressing need
for It. You have not even asked for a little
bill that we owe you in the bank, which.
shows me that you do not promptly collect,
your dues." I followed the advice and
bought a. number of pieces of property in
Lowell that came to me in that: way. I can
only say that I wish I had ham wise enough
to have continued this course through life. ,
I do not think I need to extend these sug-
gestions any further, because if a young man
won't mind these he won’t any others, and I
cannot suggest any better ones—Benjamin
1". Butler in New York Sun. .
\
The Wife In France.
Take now the shop keeping clams. There
you will see the wife the active partner of the
husband. Behold them both as thecommer-
ciul traveler displays his goods on the
counter. The wife is supreme. Her objec-
tions are without appeal, her opinion this].
It is she who generally has charge of the
books and the cash box, and neither books
nor cash were ever lntrusted to a better
guardianship. She is not a more housekeeper.
with or without wages; she k the partner,
not merely a sleeping partner. This not only
enables her to be of great help to her hus-
band, but it also enables her, If she happens
to become a. widow, to carry on the business
without her husband, to be independent, and
to bring up her children. She hasnot, to ob-
tain her living on her husband‘s death. to be-
come a working housekeeper or a nurse; sho
is the mistress of her own house as before,
and now the head of the firm. In her shop
she is most polite and empremee, but never
oer-vile, and if you wish her to take you for a
gentleman, don‘t keep your hat on while you
are engaged with her in a commercial trans-
action.
It is said that Louis XIV , the most haughty
and magnificent monarch of modern times,
used to lift his but even to the female servants
of his court. If so, no man need think that
he derogutes from his dignity by keeping Iris
.hat of! in a respectable shop when be Is
served by a woman.
Imight sayaword or two on the draw-
backs of the influence of women on Framin-
mon. but there is no doubt that this Infinencs
has polished our manners. Even In business
intercourse politeness is not banished. In
England, for instance, checks are marked
“Pay to.” In France they are worded.
“Veuillez payer”—“Please to pay,” “Kindly
pay," etc—Max O’Rell in Harper’s Weekly.
-' Peculiar Freaks of InsanIty.
Keeper Maoist, of the Erie county alma-
house, says that in his experience one of tho
peculiar freaks of insanity is the seeming ro-
versal of natural tendencies. “For instance,”
he says, “we , have in the male wards fil'io col-
lections of potted plants and climbing vinea
which grow so luxuriantly that they curtain
the‘windows. The men tend these carefully.
pluck away the dead leaves, stir up the dirt
-in the pots, prune the vines, keep them care-
fully watered, and in divers other ways
manifest the tonderest wahhfulness. Not so
with the women. Every attempt to intro-
duce plants and vines as a feature of the fe-
male wards, save in the cottage where the
mildest cases are confined, has proved slat
failure. The women pull out the plants by
the roots, tear down the vines, and manifest
other destructive tendencies entirely at vo
rinuce with the nature of the sex In general."
—-New York Sun.
Floors Painted with In.
Some months ago the floors of‘ many 'Ausv
trian garrisons were painted with tar. and
the results have proved so uniformly ndvuno
tugeous that the method is becoming greatly
extended in its application. The collection
of dust in cracks is thus prevented, and a
consequent diminution in imitative diseases
of the eye has been noted. Cleaning of the
rooms has been greatly facilitated, and porn-
sites are almost completely excluded. The
coating of tar is inexpensive, requires renewal
but once a year, and presents but one disad-
vantage, numely, its somber colon—Boston
Budget.
Slaughter of Sea l'owls.
There is a. complaint that a new Paris lash.
Ion, which requires the gray feathers of as
gulls for trimming, is causing a great slaugb
tier of Ion fowls on European coasts-Bosh:
Budget.
Dr. II. Schaf says : “The results ob-
tained in my use of ‘Digestylin’ for indi-
gestion and dyspepsia are most satisfacto-
r .
ySold by all druggists, $1. per bottle, or by
W. F. Kidder 85 00., Manufacturing
Chemists, 88 John street, N. Y.
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