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CONTENT vs. DIscONTEhT.
One, satisfied with what must be her lot—
‘Twas not a corner lot—serenely meant
Never to wander from her humble cot,
Made beautiful by wise and sweet content.
And one, dissatisfied with all he had,
Roved from his place into the world‘s mad
whirl.
What did he find? Well, it was not so bad-
The follow found that cottage and that girl.
—“A. W. R." in The Century.
THE LADY’S MAID’S STORY ‘
“Yes, miss, certainly, I lived with Mrs.
Birch—Miss Grigg that was before she
married Mr. Birch. I knew all about
that afi’air. It was very singular indeed
—-very. I’m not sure that I ought to
mention it, for if a. lady’s maid can’t hold
her tongue she can’t find good places.
Dear me, I’In no talker. I’m as mum as
amouse. Bushels of pearl powder and
quarts of rouge have I applied with my
own hands, and never so much as hinted
at. As for cotton, bless your heart I’ve
never breathed about it, and I did live
with a lady once that took arsenic regu-
larly for her complexion. That’s no
secret, for she took too much one day, by
accident, and died.
“There was an inquest and it all came
out. It’s well it did, for suspicion pointed
to hér husband. Somehow, it always
seems to strike a jury that a. husband is
the likeliest person to wish a wife out of
the way. But this isn’t anything about
paint; Miss Grigg, being on the stage,
made no secret of that. She played queens
and such, miss. I’ve often had tickets
given me and gone with my young man
to see her act. And when she was haughty
and curled her nose like, miss, and looked
at other folks over her shoulder, and
talked away down in her throat like a
pigeon gurgling, she was splendid, miss.
It made me think how nice it would be to
be a queen and to take airs over every-
ody.
“Well, Miss Grigg was engaged to be
married. Mr. Birch had fallen in love
with her when she was playing Hamlet’s
ma. Perhaps you have seen the play,
miss? The young man objects to his ma
getting married the second time, so I
seemed to make out, and acted most im-
pertinent, giving sass to his ma and his
step-pa, and carrying on awful. And
there was a poor young lady quite out of
her mind that afterward got drowned.
“Well, she was playing Hamlet’s Ina,
and Mr. Birch fell in love with her and
sent her a letter, and called and made an .
offer, all in no time. She accepted him,
of course, and the preparations for the
wedding began. I don’t think any lady
ever had so many dresses before. Silks
and satins, and velvets and laces. Dear,
dear; Mme. —’s whole establishment
was hard at work for a month, 'and if I’d
had twenty fingers, instead of only ten,
I’d have had use for them all.
“At last everything was finished. The
trunks were packed, fifteen of ’em, miss,
and fourteen 'were to go on that afternoon.
and one—the one with the wedding and
traveling dresses—was, of course, to be
left and go with the bride when she started
next day. She was to be married at 10
o’clock in church and then drive home.
have a splendid breakfast, change her
dress and catch the 3 o‘clock train. Of
course I saw to the trunks, and I was very
careful; but just when I was needed most.
just as the trunks were going down stairs,
Miss Grigg called me.
“Miss Grigg was a lady who didn’t like
to wait. I went to her at once, miss, as
was my duty, and I said to Bridget Dus-
ter, the chambermaid:
“ ‘Bridget, watch that black trunk and
see that the men don’t carry it offl’
"Bridget understood with her elbows,
of course, miss, and after I had been to
the land’s end for two yards of blue rib-
bon of exactly such ashade as she wanted,
and got back, I found that she had sent
off the black trunk first of all, and was
very proud of having been so careful.
The trunks were all miles away by that
time. ' There was nothing for it but to
tell Miss Grigg. She fiew at me, miss. I
don’t blame her for being angry. I would
forgive her in such acase. She flew at
me violent, miss; and then, miss, she had
spasms. She beat the sofa, she tore. her
hair, she screeched, and me all the while =
saying:
“ ‘Remember
how you’ll look.
dreadful, miss.’
“Finally she came to and bathed her
face. And says she:
“ ‘Flora, what—shall—I do?’
“ ‘I don't know, miss,’ said I. ‘uuless
you put off the wedding until you tele-
graph for the trunk.’
“ ‘No,’ said she, ‘that unlucky; be-
sides, one never knows.
depended on.’
“ ‘You might borrow a dress,’ said I.
“ ‘As if I’d be married in one that
didn’t fit,’ said she. ‘Stop, don’t speak a
word. I’ve an idea.’
your eyes, miss. Think
Your nose is swelling
“She sat with one finger on her lips for : . _
g cepted by the early manner as a miracle.
He would have come home witbn yarn .
a while. Then she said:
“ ‘My embroidered dressing gown. The
white one! That’s here?’
“ ‘In the bureau, miss,’ said I.
“ ‘Very well,’ said she. ‘I’ll be mar-
ried in that. Telegraph for the trunk,
Flora.’
“ ‘The white dressing gown, miss?’ said
I, nearly astonished out of my senses.
“ ‘Yes,’ said she, ‘tlic white dressing
gown, goose, you don‘t think I’m going to
be married in church in that. I won’t
put off the wedding, and I won’t stand
up before a crowd in anything but my
white sai in dress! But I’ll‘be married at
the appointed hour, for all that. So tele-
graph for my trunk and come back so'on.’
“When I came back I found Miss Grigg
in bed and the doctor sent for.
puzzled, I could see that. He couldn’t
tell what was the matter, and Miss Grigg
was too faint to speak. He questioned
me. I said she had been very Inuch agi—
tated. He prescribed something and went
off, bidding me send for him if she seemed
worse. The evening paper published the
report that Miss Grigg was dangerously
ill, and Mr. Birch came to the hotel in a
terrible fright, as pale as a sheet, to ask
how she was. I took him down ‘Her
love, and she was very ill.’
“Then Miss Grigg said to the ladies who
had come in: ‘Leave me with my faithful
Flora,’ and we were left alone. I can’t
say that I was surprised when she sat up
in bed and said briskly;
“ ‘Lock the door, Flora. I’m sick of
lying on my back. I’ve taken them in,
haven’t I? You see what I am about
now?‘
“ ‘Exactly, miss,’ said I; ‘to be too ill
to be married when the time comes.’
“ ‘No,’ said she; ‘to be ill enough to be
married in the white dressing gown. I’m
going to be married on my dying bed,
Flora-J
“I gave a screech and she laughed, and
then she made a supper of sardines and
biscuits and wine, and she threw the med-
icine out of the window. Early next day
the doctor came. I answered his question
as to what sort of night his patient had
passed by saying she had been ‘much the
sanie.' And then I took a little note she
had written to Mr. Birch.
“I knew what was in it. She told him
‘that rather than leave the world without
keeping her vow to him she would be
married on her dying bed.’ I powdered
her up well, miss, and I dressed her in
the embroidered dressing gown, with tube
roses at the throat. I pulled down the
green shades and darkened the room. She
fixed the pillows to prop herself up with,
and then skipped into bed.
“ ‘Give me my pearl bracelets,’ she said,
‘and the liandsomest of those liandkcr‘
chiefs, and all my rings; and Flora, mind
you must sob all through the ceremony,
I’m going to be calm.’
“We hadn’t five minutes more, but just
as the first knock came to the door she
whispered :
“ ‘Oh. dear! if I only could have slow
music. Couldn’t you catch that “Travi-
ata” organ, Flora, and get him to play
for - half an hour outside the window?
He’s always on the corner. Flora, I’ll
leave you something handsome if you do.’
"I did it, short as the time was. I
caught that man and he ground out his
quarter’s worth.
“The clergyman was a very nice, neat,
near sighted old gentleman. Mr. Birch
was the dreadfulest sight—pale as a ghost
and shaking from head to foot. The
groomsmau looked dreadfully sorry; the~
long or five intimate friends looked as
though they were at a funeral; and to see
her, with her calm smile and powdered
face, one hand against her heart, the
other in his—I was glad I‘d been told to
sob; I had to do something. And so they
were married.
“ ‘I feel,’ said Miss Grigg, slowly, ‘that
this, perhaps the last moment of my life,
is very sweet. To die thus, with my hand
in yours—ah! ' Dear friend, adieu. Flora,
my faithful maid, take this ring.’
her pick out the cheapest; but no matter.
“Remember me by it. Now—leave us.’
“Then everybody kissed her and went
out of the room sobbing.
“In a moment more there was a scream;
Mr. Birch had fainted away. It took an
hour to bring him to.
“The reporter of the evening paper was
waiting outside for the news. It was pub-
lished all over that night. but the next
afternoon the traveling dress came back
in the black trunk.
“Yes, miss, of course—Miss Grigg-ol
mean to say Mrs. Birch—recovered at
once. And that’s the whole story. I’m
the only one that knows it, and I wouldn’t
mention it to any one but you, ma’am.”s-
New York News.
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IsaW'
He was '
ON A SAILING SHIP.
PICTURESQUE EFFECTS OF MOON-
LIGHT ON THE WAVES.
A Magnificent Stone in the Orient—Con-
flict of Moonlight and Lightning—A
Jamaica Shower on Phospiiorescent
Waters—The Phantom ship.
A sailing ship moving quietly onward.
or lying restfully in the heart of a calm,
offers a surface upon which the magic
brushes of the moon will paint a hundred
lovely things. The clear, sharp shadows
resemble jet inlaid upon the ivory of the
planks. The spaces of splendor upon the
yards between the black dyes, wrought
by the interception of the reflection of the
end of a boom or the clew of a sail, are
like bands of shining silver. There is
nothing“ fairer than the spectacle of a
sleeping ship with her canvas hanging si-
lent from the yards, stealing out to the
light of the moon that soars sparkling as
if wet from the sea.
A fine efifect is often produced by a con-
flict of moonlight and lightning. I wit~
nesscd a magnificent scene of this kind in
the Indian ocean, the Island of Amster-
dam in sight on the starboard quarter.
There was a full moon in the north, and
in the south hung a vast bank of clouds
charged with fire and thunder.‘ The early
gusts of this electric storm broke away
great wings of vapor from the shoulder of
the main body, and sent them speeding
athwart the moon. The shining of the
luminary was ghastly, rendered so by the
alternations of her own light, darting
Wildly over the edge of the driven clouds,
with the quick dazzle of the southern
flashes. Her beams seemed to be colored
by the electric leapings. It was the eye,
of course, that carried the reflection of
the blue and sun bright darts t0 the
northern illumination; but the effect was
as though the lightning struck its own
hellish quality into the fabric of the silver
beams as they fell from the rims of the
flying clouds. The combined illumina-
tion put a new and monstrous face upon
the ocean. It made you think of a dead
sea complexioned to a very mockery of
vitality by the light of such flames as
those from which Milton’s Fiend rose to
steer his flight to dry land.
rnosrnonESCEN'r WATERS.
I was once becalmed in highly phos-
phorescent waters, but‘ the surface was so
still that the few gleams visible in the
dark profound were faint as the reflection
of a star riding upon the heave of the bid-
den swell. A cloud gathered overhead
and its sooty belly seemed to lean for sup-
port upon our scarcely swaying trucks.
Suddenly it rained. One should spend
some months in Jamaica 'to understand
Ilic meaning of such a “shower” as this.
in a few moments our decks were half
full of water, the scuppers sobbing madly;
the roaring of the rain and hail smiting
the ocean drowned all other sounds. The
>01 was so phosphorescent that a piece of
wood, dropped overboard, chipped out fire
as though it~had burst into flames. Judge
then of the effect of that Niagara fall of
rain and hail! The ocean was flashed up
into a plain of fire; It swept sparkling in
one vast incandescent sheet to its limits,
dimming into sickly sulphur as it ap-
preached the horizon.
You might suppose that such an inn.
iiiination as this would have revealed any-
thing afloat upon it; but, though I’took a
long look round, being deeply impressed
by this sudden, wonderful burning of the
ocean, I saw nothing, till all at once the
darkness was split by a flash of lightning
that leaped from the clouds away over our
foreyard arm and shot into the water, as
it seemed to me, a league distant and on
our starboard quarter, and then to this
might-y flare there sprang out upon the
view a large ship, well within a mile of
us, snagged down to her topsails. The
sight made me catch my breath for an in-
stant, for the wonder of it lay in her
having been invisible until the lightning
threw her up, so bright was the water
wiili the lashing of the rain. One waited
for a second flash to make sure; and I
dare say, had she foundered before it
come, there would not have been wanting
people among us to swear that they had
seen the Phantom Ship,
ORIGIN OF THE LEGEND.
Indeed, it is .quite possible that this
grand old legend had its origin in some
atmospheric effect due to lightning, moon~ :
shine or fog. I have sometimes at sea,
but more often in our narrow waters,
watched a ship for a few moments, re-
. moved my gaze, and, thinking of her
i presently, looked for her again and found
I
her gone.’ This is one of those mysterious
disappearances with which all seamen are :
acquainted. The evanislnnent, however, I
grows more p€rplexing when, after search-
Ing for the vessel and believing her to be
gone for good, you look for her again later ,
on and find her almost in the same place.
A thing of this kind would have been ac-
about it as long as his arm, and so have
fired the first poetically minded guest he '
could constrain with his eye with visions
and fancies of a spectral ship.
Be this as it will, disappearances and
reappearances of this kind can be due to ,
nothing but the subtle and imperceptible 5
Mist :
will often take its complexion from the .-
I have seen a bank of haze .
gathering of haze about the object.
atmosphere.
of so skylike an azure that but for the
curvature of the sea line under it caused
by the defiective sweep of its base I should
have accepted it as pure blue air. White
mists also, of a slightly opaline tincture
corresponding to perfect-ion with the hue g
of the heavens beyond, I have detected
only by the apparent depression of the
horizon under them. A ship may be in
the act. of piercing one of these elusive
veils with her flying jibboom when you
first catch sight of her. She is as plain
in your sight as your own vessel; yet when
you seek her a minute after she has van-
ished, and there is nothing in the somber
or sunny texture of the stuff she has eu-
tered to persuade you that what you are
viewing is not the same brown or ceru-
lean sky that stands over and on either
hand of it.——Macmillan’s Magazine.
Best Trade to Learn.
The best trade to learn is one that can
never be handicapped by machinery In-
ventive genius has well nigh driven the
shoemaker to the poor house, for shoes
can be manufactured so cheaply by ma-
chinery that many cobblers have been
driven into other pursuits. And it is the
same way with the carpenter, tailor, black-
smith, saddler and others. For a while
typesetting was thought to be safe from
the inroads of progressive machinery. but
now I see that some genius has invented
an instrument that is calculated to drive
the printer from his case.
however, if any machine will ever be. con-
structed to lay brick, paint carriages or
upliolstcr a lounge; and so 'thesc trades
are the best for young men to learn..—
Globe-Democrat Interview.
Recipe for 'rossnm tonne.
Sitting on the edge of one of the long
piers on the Delaware front the other day
were two darkies who seemed to be very
earnestly engaged in a more than ordinary
discussion. Slipping up behind one of
the large mooring posts, a reporter over-
heard the following colloquy: “Fust you
get dc ’possum, den you get do dooh, den
you get de pot, and den—um—you be
ready for do potpie. Now, Sam, comesde
way we make do pic. Fust a lay of de
’possum, den a. lay of de dooh. Bush)
den anuder lay of do ’possum and anuder
lay of do dooh—oh, Lord, hush, nigger :—
den comes anuder lay of do ’possum and
anuder lay of do doo ”— “Look heah,
you Rastus, if you keep up do lays of de
’ possum and de dooh you’ll hab dia' heah
coon jumping right up and down; why,
(lat yarisnuif to make a man kickhis
grandmother.” After the excited darky
had somewhat cooled down at the vivid
description of the potpie he picked'up his
hat, that had fallen from his head in his
expressions of delight, and both rapidly
walked away—Philadelphia Call.
From Barbados to Trinidad.
I‘Vliere. summer is most constant—in
these equatorial regions where no cold
comes—rheumatisms are prevalent, be-
cause of the high humidity. Last winter
a. party of tourists eat upon a steamer’s
deck, making the passage between Barba-
dos and Trinidad, a day’s run. A tropical
moon shone~ resplendent, soft breezes
from sparkling sea fanned the deck lazily,
and beds were long unsought. In the
morning four of the six men were suffer-
ing from lumbago, and the writer, who
should have known better than to expose
himself in so foolish a way, was deco-
rated with porous plasters for a week.
Night air is carefully avoided by natives
of those lands, and it is a wise plan to fol-
low native customs as a rule. To ‘make
amends for losing night. hours, they rise
very early, and long before northern
breakfast time have taken coffee and gone
to business—William F. Hutchinson, M.
D., in American Magazine.
cums of All sorts.
There are clubs of all sorts and characc
'ter in New York, The tall men have a
club called the Titans. The men who
wish to show themselves superior to
superstition have formed themselves into
a club of thirteen. The southerners club
together and so do the New Euglanders,
the fat men and the Scolchmen. The
athletes and the artists all meet together
in associations for their own encourage-
ment and improvement. It is even re-
ported from Paris that anear sighted club
has been formed there..-_N. Y. World,
NORW‘ALK GAZETTE, WEDdNflESDAYj-MARCH .7, 1886.
BALLET IN PARIS.
LITTLE GIRLS TAKING oANcINc LE..-
sons FOR THE STAGE.
A Peep Into the Big Kurdifio’l‘tiufthro
tho Classes Meet for Prgét'io'céhirrofes-
sor and Pupils—Art of Smiling—Mo-
ments of Rest.
By some accident; or, aucther, (we will
suppose, M. and Mme. Pipelet have decided
that their little Adele shall. become a
dancer, and so the-little dear is brought to
Mme. Theoddre,’ ,thegfprpfessor-ypf the
opera, who examines her and passes her
on to the doctor, who in turn ,examlnes
and pronounces her .to be ,fit or , unfit for
the profession. The verdict, being favor-
able, little Adele henceforward belongs to
the opera; she'is now aged 7 or' 8 years,
and if she works hard she will become a
passable 'danseuse
twelve years. The first stage is
the little glrls‘ class, la classo des
petites. Winter and summer, day after
day, everymornini at 10 o’clock, Mine.
Theodore awaits er pupils, who come
accompanied, bygtheir mothers, each one
carrying a little bag that contains a regu-
lar Noah’s ark full of miscellaneous ob-
jects necessary for the studies or the
happiness of a pupil of the petite classe,
such as stockings, dancing shoes, 11 box of
poudre de riz, acomb, abutton hook, some
bread, a bottle of wine .and’ water, some
cold veal, hard boiled eggs, sardines,
apples and what not.
In the twinkling of an eye the little
ones undress, put on their working cos-
tume, and come rushing up stairs pell
mell into the class room, bounding round
the professor and kissing her.
A BIG BARE ROOM.
Let us look at the room. It is a large,
bare room, with bars fixed parallel to the
walls on three sides and a sloping floor,
to accustom the pupil to the sloping stage
of the theatre. Along the free wall are
benches, and two cane seated chairs ac-
commodate the professor and her assist-
ant, who plays a fiddle or sometimes a
sort of harmonium. The girls, of whom
the oldest is perhaps 13, wear low necked
corsages leaving their arms bare, white
muslin skirts, broad sashes of blue or red
ribbon; pink tights and gray canvas shoes.
They are a lean, scraggy lot, not lovely to
look upon individually, but full of good
.humor and vivacity. ‘ .
“Allons, mesdeinoiselles, a vos places!"
cries the professor, and the girls run to
the bars, and the fiddle gives the word of
command, just as the bugle calls direct
the soldier. There is no melody, but
simply a series of andante, allegro, pizzi—
cute and trill movements, each followed
by a tremolo, so that to the untutored ear
the sounds suggest the confusion of the
tuning of an orchestra. But the dancers
understand that such and such notes in-
dicate such and such a posture at the bar,
fessor keeps up the tremolo; other notes
followed by a tremolo indicate another
posture. And at every moment during
the lesson the professor interaperses her
remarks with the words: “Souriez! Sou-
riez! Mais souriez donci” (Smile! Won’t
you smile?) For in the midst of the most
difficult and torturing dislocations the
ballet girl must smile, and the art of
smiling has to be learned just like a step
or a developpe.
After half an hour of these general ex-
ercises at the bar there comes a rest, and
the little girls begin once more to chatter
and flutter, while the professor lays the
dust by watering the floor in geometrical
interlacements. Then follows the adage,
or second part of the lesson, which con-
sists of an ensemble and composed steps.
The dancers take place in the middle of
the room in rows; Mme. Theodore holds
up her skirts and indicates the step, and
the little ones begin to bound, whirl,
pirouette, form groups by twos, and smile
in unison, while the fiddle scrapes queer
tunes and the professor cries in strange
terms: “Ballonne, fondu, assemblez,
soutenez, souriez. Mais souriez done!”
Always that smile!
At intervals there are moments of rest;
but the zealous pupils do not rest; they
run to the bar and work their knees and
loins, multiplying the efiorts to gain
their suppleness and lightness that the
public often seem to regard as natural and
innate.
It is doubtful, '
The third part of the lesson is the varia-
: tion. The pupils gather in a group around
3 the professor, who with her fingers dic-
tates the steps that are to be executed,
one finger of each hand representing the
‘ two legs of the dancers. “Attitude, pas
7 do bourree, glissade, entrechat, temps dc
g cuisse," etc., says the professor in her
wonderful language, as she expounds the
variation that she dances with her fingers.
So, too, in fencing one indicates the play
or the foils with the index of each hand.
Meanwhile the pupils carefully watch the
professor’s fingers, and imitate with their
i own, their bodies oscillating and undu-
lating, andasit were feeling the steps.
"‘Est—ce compris?” (Do you, understand?)
' “Yes, madam.” “Very good. In posi-
, tion, then.” And they all promptly take
* their places once more in the middle of
: the room, and. with the professor, dance
i the variation while the fiddle plays a more
rapid measure.
Suddenly the fiddle stops. There is a
rest and then the girls go through an-
other course of dislocation at the bar, and
then, with their sweetest smiles they
‘ salute first to the right and then to the
' left, as if thanking an idolizing public for
a deserved ovation, Then “Au revoir,
Mme. Theodore. Ademain,” In a sec-
ond the class room is empty; the little
girls, panting and worn out, don their
paltry robes of poverty and return under
their mothers’ wings to Montmartre or
Belleville.—Theodore Child in The Cos-
inopolitan.
The Hunter and the Grizzly.
I never killed or trapped a grizzly south
of Manitoba that measured more than
seven feet and a half from nozzle to tail,
with probably the same girth, or one that
Weighed more than 1,200 pounds. It was
no rare thing, at least ten years ago, to
be confronted in the solitudes of Manitoba
1 by one of these monsters nine feet in
' length, nine in girth and with a bulk of
1,600 pounds or more. When a Manitoba
grizzy throws itself on its great haunches
and rises up before a hunter, it towers
often five or six feet above him, and it
takes a brave man to stand in that most
formidable presence, with steady nerves
and a cool head. I have more than once
discovered the measuring mark of a
grizzly'sfront claws on the bark of a tree
trunk seventeen feet from the' ground.
Imagine coining suddenly upon a beast
like that in some deep ravine or some
isolated spot almost impassable with down
timber, and surrounded by rocks and
thick underbrush. The sight of his great
jaws, open and red, and his eyes flashing
in fury at you from the enormous head
that towers so far above you, is some-
thing only to be appreciated when once
seem—New York Sun.
Advice to Young Writers.
Don’t give up your occupation, from
which you derive regular income, until
you are sure that were you to give your
whole time to writing you could produce
enough articles, and articles of the proper
kind and quality, to bring to bring to you
cash returns large enough to supply such
wants as you believe must be filled. Until
that time comes-sand when it does come
you can tell much better than Isakeep on
writing, reading and thinking. Accumu.
late all the ideas you can. Accumulate
all the articles you cannot sell, and ac-
cumulate all the customers you can. Do
your writing early in the morning when-
ever possible, and always keep your eyes
on the future.
This last is‘very important in oneEpar:
ticular that I am afraid young writers
too often neglect. You must expect what
seems curt and often harsh treatment
from editors. Take this always as a mat-
ter of course, as one of the crosses of the
profession, and never lose your temper.
Do not allow your sensitiveness to put
you on bad terms with any editor. It is
like flying in the face of Providence. You
may forget what you considered an insult
at his hands, but he never forgets if you
resent it, and if, years after, .you offer
'him an article, it will most likely be re-
turned without regard to its merits.
Never argue with a bull, a mad dog or
an editor.—C. M. Hammond in The
Writer.
, "Courts of Conciliation."
“For years there has existed in Den-
mark,” said a well known lawyer in tho
Hoffman house the other day, “what are
called fonligelsis kommission, or ‘courts of
conciliation,” which have worked to a
charm and are well worthy of imitation
everywhere, and especially in this coun-
try, where all our courts are crowded to
repletion with business. These are not
courts of arbitration, but are conducted
on this plan: There is one judge and two
assistants, none of whom are professionals,
but are taken from among citizens the
same as we take jurors, by consent of all
parties. Every case to be acted on must
be brought before these courts of concilia-
tion before it can be taken into a regular
court of law. The plaintiff comes without
counsel, none being allowed on either side,
and states his case plainly, and the de-
fendant is summoned to appear on a cer-
tain day, either in person or by proxy,
otherwise he is fined if the case has to be
taken to a law court. Then each party is
heard and questioned by the judge, who
tells them of the legal rights and duties
ofcach and gives advice or' suggestions,
The parties are not obliged to take this,
but if they do, and agree to settle, the
judgment is without appeal and finals-T
New York Evening Sun.
in about ten or'
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which must be held as long as the pro- '
. Popular Amusement. and Games.
I remember, in my youth, when I be-
came .fond of books and of study, I used
to look 'upon balls, games and prize
matchesas foolish and senseless things,
fit only for silly people who could not ap—
preciate the delights of literature. _ When
'I became older I saw the folly of this no-
tion, and entered into the common games
and amusements of life like other people.
For the customs, games and amusements
of a. people are the outcome of long years
of experience, the means whereby people
come to relax themselves, and to throw
of! the cares of business. Nay, more;
they are the means of forming acquaint-
ances, of learning the habits. character
and thoughts of each other, andof becom-
amusing and entertaining others.
Besides, any man that has an eye to see
and an ear to hear can read a whole
volume in some fete champetre or in some
open air match of two contending parties.
It is here that character is exhibited, that
'wit, humor and raillery are apt to find
free play; that disguises are thrown 011?,
and people show themselves as they are;
and it Is here that a thousand things
worth knowing may be learned when one
has the art to learn them. A man who
can enjoy the literature of a people should
be broad enough to enjoy their amuse-
ments, for without this breadth of char-
acter he will never be able to produce
anything that the people will enjoy.—
Ilonie Journal. ,
Cavalry cf the Confederacy.
actor to any cavalry that has been seen in
modern war. The infantry regiments of
the south possessed, though in less dc-
grcc than those of tho north, some nu-
cleus of trained or partially trained men
in the various militia organizations.
VVit-h the cavalry the case was diflfereiit.
The number of cavalrymcn who ‘on join-
ing their commands knew anything about
cavalry tactics was extremely small. But
on two essential points they needed no
instruct-ion; all knew how to ride, and
all were familiar with the use of their
weapons.
With the northern man it was, as a
general rule. otherwise; he had nearly
always to be taught how to ride, and he
had generally to be taught how to shoot.
Thus it happened that from the opening
of hostilities the southern trooper showed
.his superiority over his northern oppo-
nent—a superiority which he maintained
until the ceaseless attrition of war re-
duced the cavalry commands of the Con-
federacy to mere skeletons—actually as
well‘as metaphorically—and enabled the
northern horsemen to prevail by virtue of
overwhelming numbers, sufficient sup-_
plies and the training which they had ac-
quired through years of campaigning,
which had been, till near the close, gen-
erally disastrous to them.—New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
A Very Dangerous Exporl
Some time ago, in my readings, I
learned of a test made among some lum-
ber men in the far north. One had given
an account, sitting around the camp fire,
of how a companion had committed sui-
cide in an ingenious way. He had taken
a board. probably six inches wide, and,
lying flat, face downward, had placed it
upright under his throat, then stretching
his arms straight alongside his body, had
borne downwith his neck. Unconscious-
ness followed in a few seconds, and he
died an apparently painless death. The
story was received by the lumbermen
with incredulity, and I suggested it be
tried. One of the party volunteered, and
the arrangements were made and carried
out as I had mentioned in relating the
suicide. The man had remained in the
. position only a very few seconds when we
hurriedly raised him and let the plank
fall. He was unconscious, and it was
some little time before he responded to
5
eyes. We were greatly relieved, I can
tell you. In describing his feelings. he
said he had experienced a rush of blood to
the head and a sufi‘ocating sensation, but
was powerless to move any of his limbs
or release himself—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Rights of the Crown.
Many old laws in the English statutes,
although held in abeyance, are still of
legal form, and among them is the right
of the crown to all gold and silver mines
within the British isles. Recently some
fairly valuable gold quartz mines were
discovered on the estate of Pritchard Mor-
gan in North Wales, and the question
arises whether the owner of the land can
work the minerals to his own benefit.
There can be no, doubt that the right of
property in gold and silver mines wher-
ever they be within the realms is in the
crown. unless the crown has released its
right, not by granting mines—that is not
enough—but by granting mines royal.
The origin of the right is said to be that
the king has the gold and silver for mak-
ing the coinage, and so far is the preroga-
tive from being obsolete that it has been
regulated by two acts of parliament in the
reign of William and Mary and one in
18:55, and as recent as 1877 it was recog-
nized by Lord Blackburn as in full force
in an appeal from the colony of Victoria.—
San Francisco Chronicle “Undertones.”
tread for New York's Italians.
One of the Special features of the
quarter is the sale of stale bread, which,
as a retail trade, is altogether in the hands
of women. It is a systematized industry.
The bread that used to be thrown away is
now taken back by the big bakeries from
the retail houses, and is collected by men,
who sell it torthe women; the latter retail
it at from one to three cents a loaf from
the curbstone, Happily stale bread is not
chemically deteriorated, even when the
mold has to be scraped and scrubbed from
it; and all white bread is a luxury among
these poor people, though it is a luxury
now pretty generally indulged in. The
economical, however, still purchase the
black bread of their youth (metaphorically
speaking only, let us hope) at three cents
a pound. This, too, is not injurious, as
is most such very cheap food, and it is
nutritious. It was a cold day when Iwas
last at the Bend, but the bread sellers
were holding their ground and conduct.-
iug a brisk business—Viola Roseboro in
The Cosmopolitan.
A Zoological Enigma.
The axolotl, an amphibian which forms
a part of the food supply of Mexico, is a
very singular creature, It grows to a
length of about a. foot, and has four legs.
a newt like tail surmounted by lungs and
gills. \Vhile it seems to be more fish than
reptile, some naturalists have supposed it
to be the larva or tadpole of a. gigantic
batrachian that has never been seen in
the adult state. An English observer,
who has found the animal capable of
living entirely in water or entirely on
land, has had a live specimen inadry
place during the autumn, and believes
that it is gradually losing its gills and be-
coming otherwise more terrestrial in
character.—Arkansaw Traveler.
Powder for the Slices.
A powder is used in the German army
for sitting into the shoes and stockings of
the foot soldiers. it is called “fusstreu-
pulver,” and consists of three parts
salicylic acid, ten parts starch and eighty-
seveu parts pulverized soapstone (speck-
stein). 'It keeps the feet dry, prevents
chafing and rapidly heals sore spots. It
is to be recommended to mountaineers.—
Bcston Budget.
Ancient American Art.
Acitizen of Wichita, Kan, has an in-
teresting specimen of ancient American
art. It is a head out in Dakota sandstone,
and was found on the Saline river in Kan-
sas near seine sandstone ledges. The face
is nearly all nose, but the eyes, ears,
mouth and nostrils are well defined. and
also bands runnin g around the top _of the
head—New York Sun.
Leo XIII always dines alone. No king
In Christendom ever receives higher
honor than to be invited to partake of a
cup of coffee.
Get a German friend to say 1888 in Ger-
man. Don’t say it yourself for you’ll dis—
locate your jaw.
During the year the fashionable walk-
ing sticks will weigh five pounds, so it is
said.
Hay fever, Asthma; Immediate relief.
Fontainc's Cure. Sold by all druggists.
A chea‘p piano can be used only five or
ten years and is never entirely satisfactory.
The Matliushek will wear a lifetime. The
Treat & Shepard Co.
There is a remarkable case of heredity
in San Francisco. The daughter of a po-
liceman there frequently sleeps twelve
days at a stretch.
Palpitation of the heart, nervousness,
ti'emblings, nervous headache, cold hands
and feet, pain in the buck, and other
forms of weakncs are relieved by Carter's
Iron Pills, made especially for the blood,
nerves and complexion. '
Those who engage in a milk trust evi-
dently want the cream of it.
Every woman who suffers from sick
headache, and _who dislikes to take bitter
doses, should take Carter’s Little Liver
Pills. They are the easiest of all medicines
distressing complaint; give prompt relief
in dyspepsia and indigestion; prevent and
cure consipalion and piles. As easy to
take as sugar. Only one pill a dose. Price
25 cents. If you try them you will not be
without (herd. ' ‘
our labors to revive him and opened his _
to take. A positive cure for the 'above ’
The cavalry of the Confederate States i
was different in its organization and char~ :
i never been attacked.
ing skilled in social ways, in the power of :
' strong, iicillinycliIIIl,pci'Ic1:i'
Infantile
Skin Diseases.
Our oldest child, now Six years of ngchnen an
lIlIdIll six niomhs om WIIS attacked wnli :i vii-u-
Iem,mnlignmusk1n disease. All Olfllmlr)" reme-
dies failing. we milled ouni'iunIiy pmsu'lan, who
attempted to cure it: but it spread won :1 most
Incredible l‘npldiiy.1inlll ”10 lower porimii oi the
little lcli v’s person, ii'om the inmate of his back
down to his knees, \vus one solid rash. ugly, p 1111.
ful,b!otchedan(l malcious. We Had no rest at
nlginmo peace by day. Finally, we were :ulvserl ‘
iotI‘ylhc I,‘l.“1‘ICCI:.\ Ilmiann-zs. 'l'he cll‘cci u
simply marvellous. .
pleie cure was wrouuiii. leaving me llulc fellmv’s
person as white and as healthy as though he had
III my opinion your valu-
able remedies saved his life. and ,lll-Ilily lie is :i
' \\£‘1i,i;1i I‘cpcillion
of the (IISE'HEC having ever onclii'I'I-Il.
(IIEU. Ii. smi‘ll.
Au’y at Law and lav-I’I'os. .-\1I’y. Ashland, 0.
Reference: .1. (l. \Vels‘l. Ilruggist, Ashlaud, O.
THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN.
Archorn Iiiiotlic world every day Will! 80""I
erzcimiious alienation, such as iuIlK crust. sciill
lIcIIIl.scIII'l' or (lilllllrlllr,Hlll'I) to develop imo :iu
ugoiiizmg eczema, Ilic ilching, bill'l'lllllé. ”Wig"?-
Iiiioii of \viiirli ii :Ikc life a prolonged Inl‘llllc 1111'
1.3.5 properly li'cailml.
A warm with With Un‘ricuua Slur, an exquisilc
Skin Ilcuuiillcr. and ii single lIIIDIlCllllJII of CUTI-
com, the great Skill Cure. will! at linlc I'I'TXCL‘IM
lti:$01.\'i:N'I‘,ihc new lilood I'urIllci'. Is oIlL-n sur-
IIcIcIIL lo arrest the progress of the IIISI'uSU, and
[mini 11: :i speedy :lllll permanent vui'c.
die-nae, no iiioIlIcI' Who loves her children, who
takes pride in ”nor lit-aniy, purity and IlOilllhhllilll
In bestowingoii Ilium a child’s greatest inherit-
ance—:1 skin \I'Iihout :I blends“, and :1 body nour-
ished by pure blood—should fail II) inan trial of
Inc (7C'l‘ll?l’li.\ iii-:nmuns.
Sold cvci'yivliri'c: I I'II'L", CUTICur-A, 501:. ; Hour,
251:. ; 11 ESOIA'HN'I‘, 5|. I’rcnurcd by 1110. 1'0'1‘1‘n1:
DNL‘II AND l'IlICMICAI. 1:0,, Boston, Mass.
W‘Scml for “110w to (turn Skin Diseases,” 64
pages, so illustriu Ions, and 101) tosIIiiioiimls.
BABY’
‘4 Skin and Scalp preserved and beauti-
iied by German M EDICATED $10.11*.
Constitutional (latarrh.
No single disease has entailed more suffering or
hastened the bi'eiihing up of the constitution.
more than Untari‘li. '1'1ie sense smell, or taste, of
siglil,ofll°aring, the human voice, the mind—
oiie or more, and sometimes all, yield to its Ile-
slruc11vc influence. The poison it distributes
lhroughoutthc system attacks every vltul force,
and breaks-upihc most robust of constitutions.
lgnored,bccauscbut little uudeisiood. by most
physicians. unpotcntly assailed by quacks and
charlatuns, 1hose suliei-ing from It have little hope
to be relieved of It this side of the grave, it is
time then Iliiit the popular treatment of Ibis
terrible disease by remedies within the reach of
all passed Inio hands at once competent and
trustworthy. The new and hitherto untried
method adopted by Dr. Sanford Iiiilicprcpar.-
lion of his Ramon. Conn has won the hearty
approval of thousands. It is instantaneous in
affording relief in :illliczid colds, sneezing, simi-
fing and obstructed breathing. and inpidly rc-
mosves the most oppressive symptoms, clearing
the head. sweeten ug the breath, restoring the
senses of smell taste and hearing. and neutraliz-
ing the consiltulionai tendency of the disease
towards the lungs, liver and kidneys.
SANFORD’S lt/iniciu. Cum; consists of one bottle
of the RADICAL CURE, one box of CATAIIRIIAI.
SOLVENT, and au lnrnovsn INHALi-In ; price, SI.
Porran DRUG AND CHEMICAL Co., Boston.
KIDNEY Plums,
STRAINS AND WEAKNESSES,
Relieved in one minute by that marvel-
ous Antidote to Pain, Inflammation and
Weakness, the Cutlcnrn. Anti-Pain
Plaster The first and only puIn-ki ling
\ strenghthening plaster. Especially
adapted to instantly relieve and speed-
lly cure Kidney and Uterine Pains and Weakness.
Warranteii vastly superior to all other plasters.
.At all druggisls, ‘15 cents: live for $1.00; or,
postage free of Potter Drug and Chemical Co.,
Boston. Mass.
The “Record.”
The N orwalk Record
Is an established fact. Although barely four
most 11s old its circulation already averages
2,000 CDPIES PER WEEK,
a fact which alteslslis rapid rise and firm hold on
the public favor. It aims to be clean and whole-
some, and presents all the legalmiue news in
readable, spicy and terse shape. Its subscription
price is sulficiently low to enable anybody to have
it without discarding any other of their favorite
journals, and it prospers without encroaching
upon the prosperity of any of its excellent and
esteemed local contemporaries. as is shown by
the fact that it enjoys and appreciuies the hearty
good Wlll of all—the GAZETTE, Hour, Sentinel,
Journal and Republican.
THE RECORD is sent to any address foroui
small sum of
75 cents Hear; Single Copies, 2 cents.
Now 3 the Time to Subscribe
SPECIAL TO FARMERS.
Thief Record.
PUBLISIIES EVERY SATURDAY 'l'IIE
'l‘he”1‘$cw York Market Reports
liB'I'
CORRECTED III’ '1'“ DATE.
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‘,_ every (1y talks about. -
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<9 Disease,Kidne ,Liveror'
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guanine»
00 men. Ouiut irce. Can start
vouiit once. Semi for terms
(Somme)-
to J. AUSTIN SHAW, Nurserymau, Rechesgter.
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HITS.
‘ DR. KILM
A MONTH and expenses. We
actually pay this to our sales-
as
ITS over the top course of brick keeping them
In place for years. No more topping of your
chimneys. 'l'lie Cyclone Cap prevenls down draft.
It 15 made of on t iron in one piece and will last
for ever. Any one can place It. 1; is cheap and
very ornamental. in ordering always send out-
side measnremeut of your chimney. or number of
brick each way. Extra sizes made to order.
Man faciured solely by the Saugatuck iron Works
00., Saugatuck, Conn. 3m30
B. 1.. PILLOW, Agent, Norwalk.
W. 3;. Slil'rn, Agent. South Norwalk.
Fertilizers
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AT
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‘South N orwalk.
We are offering inducements
to Farmers never before
heard of. Produce grown
this year taken in exchange.
BRADLEYs
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lu Iliree or four weeks a com. 5
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CCEOIE OF
making all transfers in Union Depots.
Nelson, Horton, Topeka,
Wichita, Caldwell. and all
interior Kansas and beyond. .
of the celebrated Pullman
lasted track of heavy steel '
notations and St. Paul.
c'. 31'. JOHN,
General Manager.
CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND 81. PACIFIC R’Y.
Its central position and close connection with Eastern Lines at Chicago and
continuous lines at terminal points West. Northwest and Southwest, make it the
true mid-link in that transcontinental chain of steel which unites the Atlantic
and Pacific. Its main line and branches include Chicago, J oliet, Ottawa. La Salle,
Peoria, Geneseo, Moline and Rock Island, in Illinois; Davenport, Muscatine,
Washington, Fair-field, Ottumwa,Oskaloosa,West Liberty, Iowa City,DesMoines,
Indianola, Winterset, Atlantic, Knoxville, Audubon, Harlan, Guthrie Centre
.- 3 .. , and Council Blufi's, in Iowa; Gallatin, Trenton, Cameron,
‘ ., St. Joseph and Kansas City. in Missouri; Leavenworth
' ., and Atchison, in Kansas;
- Minnesota; Watertown and Sioux Falls, in Dakota, and
'- ., ‘1 many other prosperous towns and cities.
ROUTES to and from the Pacific Coast and intermediate places.
,..
All safety appliances and modern improvements.
stations. Celerity, certainty, comfort and luxury assured.
THE FAMOUS ALBERT LEA ROUTE
Is the favorite between Chicago. Rock Island, Atchison. Kansas City, and Min-
The tourist route to all Northern Summer Resorts. Its
Watertown Branch traverses the most productive lands of the great “wheat and
dairy belt” of Northern Iowa, Southwestern l‘iinxicscta and East-Central Dakota.
The short line, via. Seneca and. Rankekc‘e, offers superior
facilities to travel between Cincinnati, Indianapolis. Lafa-
yette, and. Council Bluffs, St. Joseph. Atchison, Leaven-
worth, Kansas City, Minneapolis and St. Paul.
For Tickets. Maps. Folders, or any desired information, :
apply to any Coupon Ticket Cities in the United States or Canada, or addreu.
CHICAGO. ILL.
Mm’ eapolis and St. Paul, in
It also offers a.
Fast Trains of fine DAY COACHES.
elegant DIN IN G CARS, magnificent PULLMAN PALACE SLEEPING CARS,
and (between Chicago. tit. Joseph. Atchison and Kansas City) restful RECLIN-
ING CHAIR CARS, seats FREE to holders of through first class tickets.
THE CHICAGO. KANSAS do NEBRASKA R’Y
(GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE)
Extends west and Iouthwest from Kansas City and St. Joseph to Fairbury,
, fierington, Hutchinson,
. , , points in southern Nebraska,
" in Entire passenger cquipmer;
" manufacture. Solidly bah
rail. Iron and stone bridges.
Commodious. .well built“
A
gilEII‘ABLE
E. A. HOLBROOK,
Gcn'l Ticket a Pala'r Acen‘u
tery, Chronic Di-
arrhoea, Kldn e y
Troubles, and .
Spinal Diseases.
We will send free,
postpaid, to all-
who send their
. names, an Illus-
trated Pamphlet
THE
MOST WONDERFUL
FAMILY REMEDY
EVER KNQWN.
THE OLD AND RELIABLE
1011121110 New Yuri Freight Line.
a:
O ELLE
THE PR RS,
0in ci'NoI-I 'aik and Eagle;
Will make daily trips for freight between
New York and Norwaik. st swing at South NET-
walk. Leaving Pier 23. foot of Beekmau sireeis
Freight taken from and received for all point
on His Diiiihury 11nd Normilk and Sliepaug lliill-
roads at Greatly III-(lured Hates.
. Upon application to agents the City of Norwall;
and Eagle will be sent for special lots of freight
anywhere In New York or Its vicinity.
Willi persons are forbid trusting any of the
employee of the boats on this line on accou'nt of
the owners thereof. till
tone madc.(:ul this out and 1'0
1111'nto us,:1nd we will- send you
, free something of great wine and
iiiipui'liince io yon,1ua1 \I‘ii'. siziri you In business,
which IviII bring you In more money right away
1113 . anything else in iliis \\'(:l’.ll. Any one can do
1119 vork and live Ill home. hilllcr sex; all ages.
Bom lliing new 111111 just coins money 101’ all
war are. We will start you ; Cilpllil] not needed.
’11:! is one of the genuine, imporianl chances 01 a
lifetime. Those who are aianlious and enterpris—
lhg Will not delay. Grand outfit free. Address
True a Co., Augusta Maine. ivoz
es Means
$8 Shoe.
James Means 53 Shoe Is ab-
solutely the only slice of its
price which has ever been
placed extensively on the
, the market in which
Jam
N’s
cures Diphtheria, Group, Asthma. Bronchitis, Neuraigia, Pneumonia, Rheumatism, Bleeding at the
Lungs, Hoarseness, Influenza. Backing Cough. Whooping Cough, Catarrh, Cholera Mei-bus, Dyson-
. mation of v e r y
great value. Ev-
erybody should
have this b o o k.
a n d t h o s a who
‘ ' send for it will
’ ever after thank
their lucky stars.
All who buy or order direct from us. and request it, shall receive a certificate that the money shall
be refunded ifnot abundantly satisfied. Retail prlcg, so cts.; 6 bottles, $2.00. Express prepaid to
any part of the United States or Canada. I. S. JOHNSON Jr. 00.. P. 0. Box 2118. Boston, Mass.
llN
. _.... __.-_.. A.
New York every evening at 5 o’clock ; Saturdays at.
2p. in. Leaving Norwalk Bridge every evening. I
durability is consid-
ered before more
‘ Outward ‘ap‘-
~ peuraiicc.
Call at our Store and try on a pair of these shoes.‘
A. H. HOYT It SON, 37 Wall Street.
m4;
1"th 1888 is better than «Ircri. Hug should he in the hands
0 every person coulomb .11 iii: flying
PLANTS .. I018$.Ili§“‘.sc§.§.
thousands of Illustrations. and nearly in) pages, telling
what to buy, and where to get it. and naming lowest prices
for honest goods. hive of GUIDE only if) cents, includ-
ing a Certificate good for I0 emits worth of Seeds.
JAMES VICE, SEEDSMAN,
' - Rochester. N. Yo
You at. work for us, than at anything else in
this world. Capital not iieedml: you
are started free. Both sexes; all ages. Any one
can do the work. Large earnings sure from first
start. Costly outlit and terms 'iree. lieucr not
delay. Costs you nothing to send us your address
and find out : if you are wise you will do so at once.
ll. Ilalleit it Co., l'oriland, Maine. ly52
”Building Materials, 8%.
1LUING STON E, all qualities of sand, cel-
lars dug. gardens and grounds renovated.
horses and carts for hire. 1 have somcthorougiily
rolled and very fine manure for flower beds.
J. W. EDMUNDS.
No.6 South Union Avenue
1’. O. Box 654. Norwalk.
can live at home and make more money
0r leave orders at P. W. Bates’Mnrble Yard. me
000 INTERNAL
admin
containing infor-
MENT —
HOUSAIONIC ii AILli-l AD
Daném'y and Norwalk Division.
Corrected December 11th, 1887.
l‘.l)‘.\‘E.\'(-‘llll TRAINS
spU'rx—x.
Lv. Norwalk. Lv .80. Norwalk, Ar.Wiison Pott
i 32 a. m. 7 45a. in. 7 52 a. m.
850 ‘“ 9 Di “ 910 "
10 ‘24 ‘1‘ 1032 “ IU 39 “
12 50 p. in. ‘. 00 p. in. '1 Iii-p. m.
439 H 4.50 “ .457 ..
'1' ()4 “ Mixed 715 “ Mixed i 22 “ M’x’d
NOB'L'I—I.
Lv. Wilson Point LV.So. Norwalk, 'Ar. Norwali
I 20 a. in. Mixed 7 So a. in. M’x'd 744 Mixed
S40 " 920 “ 925 a.m.
35 u 121311. in. 1215p.m.
11 ~10 “ Mixed 1 45 “ Mixed 152 Mixed
15.: p. m. .515 “ 519 p. m.
555 “ 615 “ 6‘20 n
9 80 “ Mixed 10 00 “ Mixed 1007 Mixed
W, 11, Srrzvnxsox, Vice-Pres. and Gen’l Manager
F'. (l. PAYNE, Superintendent.
ll. 1.). Avauun. General Ticket Agent.
New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad.
JANUARY 15, 1883.
NE‘x‘t’ YORIK DIVISION.
Trains leave South Norwalk as follows:—
For New York-Accommodation trains at
5.50 13.12, 0.56. 9.33, 11.45. a. m., 2.44, 5.08, (1545.24,
10.15 p. m. Express Ii'uins at 4.56, 5.10 (except
Mondays). 5.40, 7.23 (local), 7.4:; (local). $.26 (local),
9.03 (Springfield local), 10.30 (Springfield local),
:1. 111.; 12.5915pr1ngileld local), 3.33, 4 40 5.51., 9.50
p. In. Washington night express. 12.56 a. n1.
FurNew Haven and the Elisa—Accommo—
dation trulusat 6.31, 7.32. 5.46.10.5811. m., 1.15, 4.32,
8.29. 9.5S,11.01: p. m. Express trains at 1.22 a. ill.
(Washington night express), 9.20, a. m.; 12.13,
1.43 (Ice-.11), 3.05, 4.49, 5.10 (locals), 5.42 (Stamford
and New lIaVeu special), 6.14 (local). 6.29 (bridge-
port special).6.53 (Springfield local), 7.51 (Bridge-
port special). 11.~1'I' p. in. ; 12.21 a. in. (Boston
express).
Sundays.—Accommodaiion 7.32, 9.11 a. m.,
and 0.51 p. in.
O. M. S11 EPAIID, Gen. Supt.
U. T. liliMi’S'l‘EAD, Gen. Pass. Agt.
M. SCHWAB.
OPTICIAN and UCUIIIST,
\VILL BE AT NORIVALK.
rem-nary, 28 and 29, 1888,"
At Norwallc Hotel.
IIavingqnnlillediuyselfby years of hard study
In the best institutions In Eu'ro'p'e,‘and having had a
practical experience of twenty-live years in the
country, I am enabled at first sight to adapt lenses
most appropriate to restore the vision to its origina
vigor and care all the various diseases of the eye
I have therefore combined my pracilce of an
Oculist'witli that of an Optician, and am now eu-
ahled to furnished all kinds oileiises and styles of
Spectacles and Eyc.Gl:isses which are made to
order under my own supervision, to suit my cus-
omers’ visionary ailments.
Consultation Fr'ee.
References—Geo. G. Bishop, Charles Olmstead
For Sale or Exchange.
lIE Homestead of the late Abijah Betta, situ-
ated at South Wilton,one mile from depot,
Dwelling has eleven rooms. good well of water.‘
barn and sheds, eighteen acres of land, abundance
of fruit. Will he sold at a bargain. Enquire of
O. E. \VII.SON, 3 GAZETTE Building. Norwalk, or
JULIA C. GREGORY, Winnipank, Conn. till
For Sale.
DOUBLE BARRELLED RIFLE madeby John
Blissett, London. Will he sold cheap to
ash. Enquire atthls ofllce.
A N EGRO BAPTISM.
I1 PICTURESQUE SCENE WHICH
NOT EASILY FORGOTTEN.
IS
Arrival of the Preachers—Tho Crowd at
the \‘a'ati-i’s lidge—Forvid Religious
Soiigs— Rupture of tho Converts—A
Curious Sight.
On the banks of the pond, between the
road and the water, the pedestrians are
ranged five or six deep, and down at the
lower corner, near where the mill race
'debouclies from the end of the dam, they
are too thick to be pleasant this warm
August day. For this is the center of at:
traction. Here are the dressing rooms
overshadowed by several shade trees, all
bearing a heavy crop of small boys to-day,
and hero in this open space do the candi-
dates for baptism enter and leave the
water.
All colors of skin are represented among
the crowd, from (he almost white coni-
plexiou of some of the mulattris to the
ebony black of the real, old fashioned,
“befo’ do \vali” African. And all colors
of the rainbow flash and rustle and 11 utter
in the sunlight, as the wind stirs the gur-
ments of the female portion of the negro
Each has on her Sunday-goto-mccting 1
ribbons, and marvelous indeed are some of
the combinations of color in the various
hats and boniiets.
But a stir in the crowd announces the
arrival of the preachers, and they smil-
ingly give greetings around as they make
their way to their dressing room to don
their water garments. Two of them cut-er
the. water and wade out to the home
plate, as marked by a stake, where the
water is about waist deep. Both of them
are pretty dark in color, self satisfied in
manner, and of that sleek appearance and
rotund outline of figure that are the usual,
adjuncts of popular negro preachers; for
the fattest chicken is too poor for them,
the lightest biscuits are too heavy, and
the coldest buttermilk is too varni for
them when they confer the glamour of
their presence on Brother M. or Sister N.
at dinner after the monthly morning
preaching. Verily they live on the fat of
the land and their shadow never grows
less.
AT TIIE WATER’S EDGE.
Some of the converts emerge from the
dressing rooms and begin to congregate
on the edge of the pond, accompanied by
old tried brothers and sisters, and this is
the signal for singing to commence.
A short, stoutly built deacon, whose
complexion is about that of a new brogan,
starts the tune:
Oh! whar you mviue. mourner?
Whar you gwine, 1 say?
I‘se gwine down do Ribbcr ob Jordan.
You cannot cross today.
Sing, bredren, do good Lord he-ars you.
I’sc gwinc down do Ribbcr ob Jordan,
You cannot cross today.
The first sister, accompanied by a
couple of deacons, enters the water and
wades out to where the preachers await
her coming. She is quiet and nervous
and makes no demonstration as she
comes out, excitement not having yet got
the hold on the crowd that it will have
later on.
The leader on the bank gives out the
next song. Several more go through
quietly, but the singing is getting louder,
and a swaying movement of the singers,
led by the deacon, who is getting worked
up to fever heat, denotes that the ex-
citable temperament of the negroes is be-
ginning to spiead itself. A tall young
fellow comes to the front, swinging his
arms like a windmill as he enters the
water. With a yell, he breaks forth into
song; the crowd cease their singing a mo-
ment only to join in the new song with
double fervor:
Oh; dc puttiest thing dat cbcr I done
Was to praise dc Lawd when I was young,
Good Lawd, Good Lawd.
The words an spoken, he is deftly slid ,
under the water by the practiced hands of 3'
the preachers, and, as he comes up a bap-
tized man, he lets the neighborhood know '
it; “I’se found him, I’se found him; bress
do Lawd,” and, waving his hands and
splashing the water all around, he stands
and shouts until the attendants lead him
ashore.
CARE OF THE CANDIDATES.
Time is slipping away, so the officers
don’t give the candidates much time to
obstruct the water way, but quickly lead
them out to do their shouting on dry
land. ‘
There is a sweet rhythmical ring to the
next tune that floats over the pond, a
couple of hundred of negro voices joining
in the old sonar:
In dc sweet fields ob Eden,
In de sweet fields ob Eden,
ln'de sweet fields ob Eden,
Ober dere.
Excitement is getting a good hold on
the crowd now, and many of the newly .
baptized members are going around
among their friends receiving congratula-
tions. Ono old woman is apparently
crazy with excitement, and is embracing
everybody who will submit to be saluted
in that way. In her tour of salutation
she gradually approaches our way, and,
rushing up to our companion, who is
standing alongside the buggy, tries to in—
clude him among her confidents. “Does
you Iub do Marster?" she shouts, as she
spreads her arms abroad and rushes off.
singing:
When]? die I'll come befo’ his face,
An’ live on the beautiful shore.
I was full ob sin an’ widout any grace;
But I ain‘t agoin‘ to be no mo'.
Ole Satan‘ll run when you starts to pray,
An’ he’ll feel mighty sick at dc judgment day,
So bredren tread in do narrer way,
An’ doan‘gtum aside no mo‘.
A trio of freshly baptized young women
are locked in each other arms and stand
slowly swaying backward and forward,
keeping time to the music and occasion-
ally joining their voices in the melody of
some old camp meeting song.
It is acurious sight as the afternoon
wears on. The wind drops and the dense
crowd of darkies around the point of in-
terest are mopping the perspiration from
their heads, but the religious interest is
thoroughly aroused and discomforts are
unnoticed. The ever moving throng of
“black and yellow and tan” sing and
sing, then get a drink of water or a water-
melon, and sing again. The newly bap-
tized ones keep things lively with their
excited gestures and talk, and the whole
picture is one, once seen, never to be for-
gotten—Carl Torp in Detroit Free Press.
The Corean's Hair.
The Ccrean never cuts his hair, and he
wears it in a braid down his back until he
gets married, when he has the right to
curl. it on the top of his head. A man is
not supposed to be a man until he can
wear his hair on the top of his head.—
Chicago Herald.
A $1,500,000 syndicate in London pro:
poses to erect workingmen’s homes and
pay the tenants all the profits over 5 per
cent.
Every lady who knows its worth (and
who does not?) feels that the kindly face
of Lydia E. Pinkhaiii is that of an honored
friend.
A Philadelphia man wants to know how
he can best dispose of $50,000. He might
consult a sleeping cur porter.
Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption.
Fontainc’s Cure relievesa cold in 12 hours.
So'd by druggis‘ts, C. Laphain, ‘11
Main Street, Norwulk.
Apropos of the proposed sleeping match 0
it is more likely that some of the contest—
ants will be caught nappinn'.
If you have a Cold, Cough, (dry, hack—
ing), Croup, Cankercd Throat, Czitai'rh
Dropping, causing cough, Dr. Kilmer’s
Indian Cough Cure—(Consumption Oil)—
will relieve instantly: heals and cures.
Price 25c., 50c. and $1. For Sale by C.
Lapham, Main street.
Thirteen pretty red-haired girls were
counted in a school teachers’ excursion in,
Philadelphia recently. They were the
most attractive girls in the procession, but
they stampeded every livery stable they
marched past.
Thousands are poisoned and made ill
every year by eating adulterated fond.
Lard made by Sperry and Barnes contains
no cotton-seed 0'11, taliow, barytes or other
deleterious minerals. Their ham, should-
ers, bacon etc., are uncxcelled.
We have long known that mercury was
eelish, slippery and hard to catch, but we
hadn’t realized till this winter that it was
so thoroughly humanized as to alwais
take a drop before breakfast—Duluth
Paragraplicr.
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night and day with rheumatism; so much
so that lie was unable to feed himself.
Your Sulphur Bitters cured Iiim, and I
am truly thankful to say they are an hon—
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of Deacon Carlton, First Baptist Church,
Winchester, Mass.
Burlington railroads just now resemble
5) many sore thumbs—they are all tied
up.
The postmaster, Winchester, Mass.,
says; 1 am personally acquainted with
Mr. and Mrs. Carlton, and was astonished
at the remarkable effects of your Sulphur
Bitters in curing their son, and its large
sale is undoubtedly due to the fact that it
is an honest medicine. I know of many
others who have been cured by its use,
and I do'uot think too much can be said
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The czar has an eye on John L. Sulli-
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mar thngi‘hEl-IAM’S
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MRS. PINKIIAJI'S LIVER. PILLS OUR! Cows-manor,
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, YOUTH Mariam
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av usmo
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wrrcn mar.-
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fix It Is the only to nation In the
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FECHTER’S FAMOUS
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The above cuts are made from photographs of tho
discoverer of this wonderful remedy, the first cut
showing him while pcrt‘ectl bald, and the second
after he lizid restored his air b means of the
FAMOUSFAIRICON. This reparat on Isaperfectiy
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study of the causes governing the growth of hair.
and contains all the e ements of which hair is com-
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some or all of the various so—called hair tonic
restorers, (ac. to make atest of the Fair-Icon, an
we will guarantee that it brings about a new
growth unless the roots of the hairbe entirely dried
up, which latter occurs very rarely and exists in
perhaps not more than five cases out of a hundred.
$1,000 REWARD
payable to anyone who will prove that our stato-
. ments are not correct. v
FAIRICON No. 1. price 50 cents per bottle, is
for heads entirely or partially bald.
FAIRICON No. 2. price 75 cents per bottle. is
used on the new hair after its appearance,
FA IRICON No. 3. rice 75¢ents per bottle, is in-
valuable as a HAIg DRESSER, especially for
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it smooth and glossy, remove all dandruff and kee
the seal erfect clean. IT IS A CERTA
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the balance of life. While it is 1'sed, neither total
nor artial baldness need be feared.
FEC TER’S FAMOUS FAIRICON is for sale by all
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receipt of rice. Send or circular containing
history of t e discovery of this remedy and testi-
moni ais from those who have used it. .
H. A. FECHTER & 00.. NEW HAVEN, CONN.
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THE TREAT a. SHEPARD 00.,
9? ORANGE STREET NEW HAVIN, Come.
one
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L
0 one cent a dose.
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. to that awful disease Scrofula.
our Kid—
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S U L 1’ 11 U R
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you are sick, no
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not 'ever take
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‘ ormercury,they are dead
1y. Place your trust in
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This Invaluable Medicine is acknowled
. edby thousands to be The Best Coughlile ~ »
. incin the world. For Coughs, Colds. Sore
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nd Mouth, Whoopinv Cough, Canker. Rash.
&c., there is no mediclno now in use that ha
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- It is tiring-opted not to contain an mineral
-ubsianc_c; it is also free from Ian annm o
squills; it may be taken at any time ' filth 91'
fectsaicty. Soldbyall])‘g’sts.85c. 37$ .bot es.
. MORGAN A: SONS. Prop" Providence, R. l.
. ' Dr. IIayncs’ Arabian Balsam is unequall
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. Warranted absolutely pure
Cocoa, from which the excess of
Oil has been removed. It has three
times the strength of Cocoa mixed
with Starch. Arrowroot or Sugar.
\ and is therefore far more economi-
cal, costing less than one cent a
' cup. It is delicious. nourishing.
strengthening, easily digested, and
admirably adapted for Invallds as
well as for persons in health.
Sold by Grocers everywhere.
11.le11 I 00., BMW. Mass.
Norwalk Chronicler