ESTABLISHED 1800
Volume LXXXIX. .
An Enterprising Republican Journal, especially devbted to Local News and Interests.
NORWALK, CONN., WEDNESD '
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AYLJANUARY 23, 1889.
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ETTE.
TWO DOLLARS A YEAR
Number 4.
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GEO . WARD CHI-DECK,
HARDENBROOK’S sLocK. WALL smear,
FAMILY GROCERIES.
ATEDI‘I‘S l
Gr. R. BEING-TON,
Washington, D. C
Guide to Inventors Illailetl lies.
1'.) YEARS IN U. f‘.
PATENT OFFICE.
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niestinents, Real Estate and Insurance,
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Securities.
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Insurance Placed in First-class Companies
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ly 13
i. BELDE‘N ii ii-itLBU"'i‘.
Attorney ani Counselor at Lam,
Room No. 4, Up Stairs,
GAZETTE BUILDING, NORWALK, CONN.
ALEX. S. GIBSON,
Organist of 1st Congregational Church, Waterbury,
Teacher of
Pianofor e, Organ and Musical
Composition,
Lock Box 39 I’ 0., NORWALK, CONN.
M. L. Byington,
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WASHINGTON, ii. 0. me
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THE
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um & WARM Ain Centurion HEATER
kinds of Ornamental and Plain Slatelng, Tin
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Kepniruu Done by Experienced Workmen
Short Notice.
53 WflLL STREET,
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er. 13- ELLE
Opposite Horse Railway Depot. A good no how
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FURNITURE
Delivered at your home Without extra expense..
him to the siege 0
inherited, however,
..obsei'ved that he was a simple, good
. natured'man; he was, moreover, a kind
_ stance might be owing that meekness of
' spirit which gained him‘such universal
Giro. B. Sr. .10iix,'i‘i'eas.,'
.7 too, would shout with joy whenever he ap-
.. Wél'n o '
Bill! to dosficzih
nir VAN Winona.
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By WASHINGTON IR'FIN G.
A POSTHUMOUS WRITING OF DIEDRICH I
KNICKERBOCKER.
By Woden, God of Saxons.
From whence comes Wensdny. that is Wodensday.
Truth is a thing that ever i will keep
Unto thylko day in which I creep into ,
My scpiilchro. —Cartwright.
thocver has made a. voyage up the
Hudson must remember the Kaatskili
mountains. They are a dismembered
branch of the great Appalachian family,
and are seen away to the west of the
river, swelling tip to a noble height and
lording it over the surrounding country.
Every change of season, every change of
weather, indeed every hour of the day,
produces some change in the magical
hues and shapes of these mountains; and
they are regarded by all the good wives,
far and near, as perfect barometers.
When the weather is fair and settled :
they are clothed in blue and purple and
print their bold outlines on the clear
evening sky; but sometimes, when the
rest of the landscape is cloudless, they
will gather a hood of grave vapors about
their summits, which, in the last: rays of
the setting sun, will glow and light up
like a crown of glory.
At the foot of these fairy mountains
the voyager may have described the
light smoke curlingnp from a village
whose shingle roofs gleam among the
trees just where the blue tints of the up-
land melt away into the fresh green of
the nearer landscape. It is a little vil-
lage of great antiquity, having been
founded by some of the Dutch colonists
in the early times of the province, just
about the beginning of the government
of the good Peter Stuyvesant may he
rest in peacei)and~‘i there were me of
the houses of the o ' - - ‘
ingl within a few ‘
y: ow bricks bro
ving latticed win I
surmounted with w ,
In that same v' V5».
these very houses (w
cise trut
Van Winkle. ,
ant of the Van;_;‘
ured so gallantly iii-Fl
of Peter Stuywesa""
L Christina. I Had“
but? ttle of the mar-
tial character of his ancestors. I have
neivhbor, and an obedient, hcnpecked
bus and. Indeed, to the latter circum-
popularity; for those men are *most a t
to be obsequious and conciliatitig abr ,
who are under the discipline of shrews
at home. Their tempers, doubtless, are
rendered pliant and malleable in the
tier furnace of domestic tribulation,
an a curtain lecture is worth allthe
sermons in the world for teaching-the
virtues of patience and long suffering.
A termagant wife may, therefore, in
some respects, be considered a tolerable
blessing; and, if so, Rip Van Winkle
was thrice blessed.
Certain it is, thatLhe was a great favor-
ite among all the good wives of the vi!-
liage, who, as usual with the amiable
sex, took his part inall family squabbles
and never failed, whenever they talke
those matters over in their evenin gos-
si ' gs, to lay all the blame on me
an lVinkle. The children of the village,
preached. He assisted at their sports,
made their playthings, taught them to
fly kites and shoot marbles, and told
them long stories of ghosts, witches and
Indians. Whenever he went dod ‘ 3
about the village, he was surround by
astroop of them, hanging on his skirts,
clambering on his back, and pinyin a
thousand tricks on liim with impum y;
and not a dog would bark at him'
throughout; the neighborhood.
The great error in Rip’s composition
was an insuperable aversion to all kinds
of profitable labor. It could not be from
want of assiduit'y or perseverance. for he
would sit ”on a wet rock, with a red as
long and heavy as a Tartar’s lance. and
fish all day without a murmur, even
though he should not be encouraged ,b
a. single nibble. He would carry a fowl:
ing piece on his shoulder ‘for hours to-
gether, tru ', ‘ through wo'ods and
swamps, and u _, 'yliand down dale, to
hmto . .
, ,_' ffle dd jobs as their less
obliging husbands would not do for them;
in a word, Rip was read to attend to
anybody’s business but his own; but as'to
doing family duty, and keeping his farm
in order, he found it impossible.
In fact, he declared it was of no use to
work o'n his farm; it was the most pesti-
lent little piece of ground in the whole
country; everything about it went wrong,
and would go wrong in spite of him. His
fences were continually falling to pieces;
his cow would either go astray or get
among the cabbagcs; weeds were sure to
grow uicker in his fields titan anywhere
else; t 0 rain always made a point of set;-
ting in just as he had some out door work
to do; so that though his pati'iuionial
estate had dwindled'away under his man-
agement, acre by acre, until there was
little more left than a mere patch of In-
dian cord and potatoes, yet it was the
worst conditioned farm in the neighbor-
hood.
Hiscliildren, too, were as rugged and
wild as if they belonged to nobody. His
son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own
likeness, promised to inherit the habits,
with the old clothes, of his father. He
was generally seen trooping like a colt at
his mother’s ieels, equi' ) ed in a pair of
his father’s cast oil gallirraskins, which
he had much ado to hoId up with one
hand, as a line lady does her train in bild
weather. .
Rip Van lVinklc, however, was one of
those happy mortals, of foolish, well
oiled dispositions, who take the world
easy, eat white bread or brown, wliicli~
ever can be got with the least thought or
trouble, and would rather starve on a
any than work for a pound. If left to
himself he would have whistled life away
in perfect contentment; but his wife kept
continnually ‘ ' v in his ears about
his idleness, his carelessness and the ruin
he was bringing on his family.-
Morning, noon and night, her tongue
was incessantly going, and everytlnng
he said or (lid was sure to produce a tors
ent of household eloquence. Rip had
but one way of repl ' 0' to all lectures of
the kind, and that, y frequent use, had
grown into a habit. He shrugged his
shoulders, shook his head, cast up his
e es, but said nothing. This, however,
ways provoked a fresh volley from his
wife, so that he was fain to draw off his
forces, and take to the outside of the
house-the only side which, in truth, be-
longs to a henpecked husband.
1%,, , 2
So that he was faint to draw 01)" his forces.
Bi ’5 sole domestic adherent was his
docr olf, who was as much hen ecked
ainis master; for Dame Van Win 19 re-
garded them as companions in idleneSS,
and'even looked u 11 Wolf with an evil ,
eye as the cause 0 his master’s going so .
often astray. True it is, in all
ints of spirit befitting an honorable l
og, he was as come us an animal as !
ever scoured the woods—but what cour-
gfie can withstand the ever during and
besetting terrors of a woman’s tongue?
The moment Wolf entered the house his
crest fell, his tail drooped to the ground
or curled between his legs, he sneaked
about with a gallows air, casting many
a sidelong glance at Dame Van Winkle,
and at the least flourish of a broomstick
or ladle he would fly to the door with
yel ing precipitation. . _
imes grew worse and worse With Rip
Van Winkle, as years of matrimony o
rolled. on., Aim temper never mellnws
._. v. _-,.
with age, and a sharp tongue is the one?
edge tool that grows keener with con-
stant use. For along while he used to
console himself, when driven from home,
by frequenting a kind of pe tual club
of the sages, tphiloso hers an other idle
pcrsonages o the v' age, which held its
sessions on a bench before a small inn,
designated by a rubicund portrait of his
majesty George III. Here they used to
sit in the shade, of a long, lazy sum-
mer’s day, talking listlessly over
village gossip or telling endless
slee y stories about nothing. But it
won (1 have been worth any statesman’s
money to have heard the profound dis-
cussions which sometimes took place,
when by chance an old newspaper fell
into their hands from some passing trav-
eler. How solemn! they would listen
to the contents, as wled out by Der-
rick Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, a
da per learned little man, who was not
to daunted by the most gigantic word
in the dictionary; and how sagely they
would deliberate upon public events
some months after they had taken place.
The opinions of this junta were com-
pletely controlled lliflltlicholas Vedder, a
patriarch of the v' go and landlord of
the inn, at the door of which he took his
seatfrom morning‘till night, just moving
sufficiently to avoid the sun and keep in
the shade of a 131' a tree, so that the
neighbors could te the hour by his
movements as accurately as b a sun
dial. It is true, he was rarely card to
speak, but smoked his pi incessantly.
His adherents, however ( or every great
man has his adherents), perfectly under-
stood him and knew how to gather his
opinions. When anything that was read
or related displeased him, he was ob-
served to smoke his pipe vehemently and
to send forth short, fre neat and angry
puffs; but when leased 9 would inhale
the smoke slow y and trim uill and
emit it, in light and placid c on , and
sometimes taking the ipe from '
mouth, and letting the vagrant vapor
curl about his nose, would gravely nod
his head in token of perfect a probation.
From even this strong hold 6 unlucky
Rip was at length routed by his terms-
gant wife, who would suddenly break in
upon the tranquillity of the assemblage
and call the members all to nought; nor
was that august personage, Nicholas
Vedder himself, sacred from the daring
tongue of this terrible virago, who
said charged him outright with encouraging
her husband in habits of idleness.
Poor Rip was at last reduced almost to
despair, and his only alternative to es-
;. cape from the labor of the farm and the
clamor of his wife was to take gun in
hand and stroll away into the woods.
Here he would sometimes seat himself at
the foot of a tree and share the contents
Of his wallet with Wolf, with whom he
sympathized as a fellow sufferer in per.-
secution. “Pour Wolf," he would say,
“thy mistress :‘ads thee a dog’s life of it;
but never mind. my lad, whilst I live
thou shall; never want a friend to stand
by thee!” Wolf would wag his tail, look
wistfully in his master’s face, and if
dogs can feel pity I verily believe he re.
ciprocated the sentiment with all his
heart.
In a long ramble of the kind, on a fine
autumnal day, Rip had unconsciously
scrambled to one of the hi liest parts of
the Kaatskill mountains. to was after
his favorite 5 ort of squirrel shooting,
and the still so 'tudes had echoed and re«
echoed with the reports of his gun.
Punting and fatigued, he threw. himself
late in the afternoon onagreen knoll
covered with mountain herbage that
crowned the brow of aprecipice. From
an opening between t 6 trees he could
overlook all the lower coun for many
a mile of rich woodland. 9 saw at a
distance the lordly Hudson, far, far be-
low him, moving on its silent but ma-
jestic come, with the reflection of a
purple cloud or the earl of a. ' k
era and there sleepoing on its glassy
bosom, and at last sing itself in the
blue highlands.
0n the other side he looked down into
a deep mountain glen, wild, lonely and
shagged, the bottom filled with frag-
ments from the im ending cliffs, and
scarcely lighted by t o reflected rays of
the setting sun. For some time Rip la
musing on this scene; evening was gra -
ually advancing; the mountains began to
throw their long blue shadows over the
valleys: he saw that it would be dark
long before he could reach thevilla c,
and he heaved a. heavy sigh when 3
thought of encountering the terrors of
Dame Van Winkle.
As he was about to descend he heard
a voice from a distance balloo-
lng “Ri Van Winkle! Rip Van
Winklei’ He looked around, but could
see nothing but a crow winging its sol!-
tary flight across the mountain. He
thought his fancy must have deceived
him, and turned again to descend, when
he heard the same cry ring'through the
still cvenin air, “Rip Van Winkle!
Van W' " elf—at the same time Wo
bristled upkhis back, and, mg a low
owl, sku ed to his master 3 side, look-
g fearfufly down into the glen. Rip
now felt a vague ap rehension stealing
over him; he looke anxiously‘in the
same direction and perceived a strange
figure slowly toiling up1 the rocks and
bending under the wei t of something
he carried on his bac .‘ He was sur-
prised to see any human being)in this
onely and unfrequented place, ut sup-
posing it to be some one of the neighbor—
100d in need of his assistance he hastened
down to yield it.
On nearer approach he was still
more surprised at the sin arity of the
stranger’s up earance. e was a short,
square built 0 d fellow with thick bushy
hair and a grizzled beard. His dress
was of the antique Dutch fashion-a
cloth jerken strapped round the waist—-
several pair of breeches, the outer one of
am' 19 volume, decorated with rows 6f
bu us down the sides, and bunches at
the knees. ,He bore on his shoulders a
stout keg, that seemed full of liquor, and
made signs for Rip to a proach and assist
him with the load. ough rather shy
and distrustful of this new ac uaintance,
Rip complied with his us alacrity,
and mutually relieving each other, they
clambered up anarrow gully, apparently
the dry bed of a mountain torrent. As
they ascended, Rip every now and then
heard Ion rolling peals, like distant
thunder, t at seemed to issue out of a
deepsravine or rather cleft between lof
roe , toward which their rugged t
conducted. He paused for ,an ins t,
but supposing it to be the muttering of
‘one of those transient thunder showers
which often take lace in mountain
heights, he proceede . Passing through
the ravine, they came to a hollow like a.
small amphitheatre, surrounded by per-
pendicular precipices, over the brinks of
which impending trees shot their
branches, so that you only caught
glimpses of the azure sky and the bright
eveningl cloud. Durin the whole time
Rip an his companion ad labored onin
silence; for though the former marveled
greatly what co 0 bethe object; of car-
rying, a kefilof liquor up'tlns wild moun-
taineers: ere mass .spnietlfins strange
and incomprehensible about the un-
known that inspired awe and checked
familiarity. , . '
On entering the amphitheatre, new ob-
jects of wonder presented themselves.
One. legals l t. in the center massif??-
panyo coking persona P .8
at nine pins. The weregésedln e
uamt outlandish ashion; some were
6 ort doublets,,_others jerkins, with long
knives ‘in their belts, and mostof them
had enormous breeches, of similar style
with that of the g’uide's. ‘Their visages,
_i;;'m=:hstsi,si.t .imd
too, were peculiar
broad face, and. .
face of anoth .. seemed; ‘_‘.f . .
of nose, and was surmounted- "?
sugar loaf hat, set of! with a 'ttle: ted
cook’s tail. They all had beards,of vari-
ous shapes and colors. There was one
who seemed to be the commander. He
was, a stout old gentleman, ; with a
weather beaten countenance; he ,wolfea
laced doublet, broad belt and hanger,
high crownedhat and feather, red stock-
ings, and high heeled shoes, with roses
in them. he whole group reminded
Rip of the figures in an 01 Flemish
amting in the parlor of Dominic Van
ISchaick, the village parson, and which
had been brought over from Holland at
the time of the settlement. _
What seemed particularly odd to Rip
was that though these folks were evt-
dently amusing themselves yet they
maintained the gravest faces, the most
mysterious silence, and were, withal, the
» most melancholy party of pleasure he
' hadeverwituessed. No ’
interrupted
the stillness of the scene bu the noise of
the balls, which, whenever theywere
rolled, echoed along the mountains like
rumbling peals of thunder. ,
As Rip and his companion a preacher!
them the suddenly esisted rom their
play, an stared at him with such a. fixed
statue like 326, and such stran , un-
couth, lack uster countenances t at his
heart turned within him and his knees
smote together. His companion now
emptied the contents of. t c k into
larne flagons, and made signs to to
wait upon the company. He obe ed
with fear.cw1.trernhlinkat.lwy_aue.§£1 -
the nqu'a'r rn‘prarouna' silence, and men
returned to their game.
By (Lop-recs Rip’s awe and ap rehension
subsid . He even ven , when no
eye was fixed upon him, to taste the bev-
erage, which he found had much of the
flavor of excellent Hollands. He was
naturally a thirsty soul, and was soon
tempted to repeat the draught. Ono
taste provoked another, and he reiterated
his visits to the flagon so often that at
length his senses were overpowered, his
efies swam in his head, his ead gradu-
al y declined, and he fell into a deep
s ee .
011i waking he found himself on the
green knoll from whence he had first
seen the old man of tho glen. He rubbed
his 0 es—it was a bright sunny morning.
The irds were happmg and twittering
among the bushes, and the eagle was
wheeling aloft and breasting the me
mountainbreeze. “Surely,” thought ip,
“I have not slept here all night." Ho re<
called the occurrences before he fell
asleep. The strange man with the keg
of hquor—tho mountain ravine—tho
wild retreat among the rocks—the woe.
bégone party at nine ins—the flagon
—“Ohi that wicked agon!" thought
Rip—‘ ‘what excuse shall I make to Dame
van Winkle!” ‘
He looked round for his gun, but in
place of the clean, well oiled fowling
fie he found an old fire lock' lying by
' , the barrel incrusted with rust, the
.u\'
He found an oldflrc locleying by him.
lock falling of! and the stock worm
eaten. He now suspected that the grave
roysters of the mountain haddput a trick
upon him, and having dose himwith
liquor had robbed him of his gun. Wolf,
too, had disappeared. but he might have
strayedawa after asquirre! or ' .
He whistle afterhim and shouted '
name, but all in vain, the echoes re-
peated his whistle and shout, but no dog
was to be seen.
He determined to revisit the scene of
the last evening‘s gambol, and if he met
with any of the party, to demand his
dog and gun. As he rose towaik, he
found himself stifi in the joints. and
wantin in hisusual activity. “These
mounta beds do not agree with me,"
thought Rip, “and if this frolic should
lay me up with afit of the rheumatism, I
shall have a blessed time with Dame Van
Winkle.” With some difficulty he ot
down into the glen; he found the gifily
up which he an his companion 113. as-
cended the preceding evening; but to his
astonishment a mountain stream was
now foaming down it, leaping from rock
to rock, and fillin the glen with bab-
bling murmurs. e, however, made
shift to scramble up its sides, workin
his toilsome way through thickets o
birch, sassafras and witch hazel, and
sometimes tripped up or entangled by
the wild gramuies that twisted their
coils and ten ' from tree totree and
spread a kind of network in his path.
At length he reached to where the
ravine had opened through the cliffs to
the amphitheatre; but no traces of such
coining remained. The rocks presented
a 'gh impenetrable wall, over which the
torrent came tumbling in a sheet of
feathery foam, and fell into abroad, deep
basin, black from the shadows of
the surrounding forest. Here, then.
r Rip was brought to a stand.
6 a sin called and whistled after his
dog; ie was only answered by the caw-
ing of a flock of idle crows, sporting
high in the air about a dry tree that
overhung a sunny precipice; and who,
secure in their elevation, seemed to look
down and scoff at the poor man’s ger-
plexities. What was to be done? he
morning was passin away and Rip felt
famished for want 0 hisbreakfast. He
'eved to give n his dog and gun; he
ended to meet '5 wife, but it would
not do to starve among the mountains.
He shook his head, shouldered the
firelock and with a. heart full of troub e
and anxiety turned his etc 3 homeward.
As he approached the villa go he met a
number 0 people, but none whom he
knew, which somewhat surprised him,
for he had thought himself acquainted
with every one in the country round.
Their dress, too, was of a different
fashion from that towhich he was ac-
customed. The all stared at him with
equal marks 0 surprise. and whenever
they cast eyes upon him invariably
stroked their chins. The constant recur-
rence of this gesture induced Rip, in-
voluntarily, to o the same, when, to his
astonishment, he found his beard had
grown a foot long!
He had now entered the skirts of the
village. A troop of strange children ran
at his heels, booting after him and point-
ing at his gray beard. The dogs, too,
not one of which he recognized foran
old acquaintance, barked at him ashe
passed. The very village was altered:
it was larger and more po ulous. There
were rows of houses whic he had never
seen before and those which had been
his familiar haunts had disap red.
Strange names were over the cors—
strange faces at the windows—every-
thing was strange. IZ-Zs mind now mis-
five him; he began to doubt whether
th he and the world around him were
not bewitched. Surely this was his na-
tive village, which he had left but a
day before. There stood the Kantskill
mountains—there ran the silver Hudson
at a. distance—there was eve l and
dale precisely as it had always eRip
was sorely perplexed—“That 11 last
night,” thought he, “has addled my poor
head sadly!”
It was with some difliculty that he
found the we tohisown house, which
he approache with silent awe, expect-
ing every moment to hear the shrill voice
of Dame Van Winkle. He found the
house gone to deca —the roof fallen
in. the windows s ttered and the
doorsoifthehin. Ahalf
starved dog, that loo ed like Wolf,
was skulking about it. Rip called
him b name, but the cur snarled,
shows his teeth and assed on. '
was an unkind out in eed. “My very
dog,” sighed poor Rip, “has forgotten
me!"
He entered the house, which,to tell
the truth, Dam Van Winkle had always
kept in neat order. It was empty, for-
lorn and apparently abandoned. This
desolateness overcame all his connubial
fears—he called loudly for his wife and
children—the lonely chambers rang for
amoment with hisvoice, and then all
again was silence.
He now hurried forth, and hastened
to his old resort, the village inn—but it
too was gone. A large, rickety, wooden
building stood in its place, With great,
ga ing windows, some of them broken,
Tan mended with old hats and gtticosts,
and over the door was pain (1, .“The
Union Hotel, by Jonathan Doohttle.”
Instead of theqo'eat treethat used to
shelter the quiet title Dutch inn of yore,
there now was reared a tall, naked pole
with something on the top that look
like a red at ht cap, and from it was
fluttering a g, on which was to. sm-
gfllar assemblage of stars and stripes-
this was strange and incompre-
hensible. He recognized on the sign,
however, the rub ace of King George,
under which 9 had smoked so
many a peaceful pipe, but even this was
sin y metamorphosed. The red
one was changed for one of blue and
buff, a. sword was held in the hand in-
stead of a. scepter, the head was deem
rated with a cocked hat, and underneath
was painted in large characters, Gen.
Washington.
There was, as usual, acrowd of folk
about the door, but none that Rip recol- 3
lected. The ve character “(3: the people .
There s a busy,
seemed Chang
bustling.
stead of the accustomed phlegm and
drowsy tranqpillity. He looked in vain
for the sage icholns Vedder, With his
broad face, double chin and fair long
pipes; ' clouds of tobacco smoke,
of i e speeches, or Van Bummel,
the schoolmaster, doling forth the con-
tents of an ancient no .. peg. In 9
of these, a lean, bilious ookm . fe ow,
withhis pockets full of hand ills, was
haranguin vehemently about rights of
citizens—e ection—members of co ss
—-liberty-—Bunker’s Hill—heroes of 76—
and other words that were a perfect
Babylonish jargon to the bewildered Van
Winkle. _ _
The appfarance of Rip, wrth_ his long,
izzied card, his rusty fowhng piece
sawthndress. and £119. £131.!
disputatious tone about it, in- l
7 one of the patriarchs of the
i
women'anucnucren tum. mo gntiierct.
at his heels, soon attracted the at-
tention of the tavern politicians. They
crowded round him, e eing him from
head tofoot, with grea curiosi . The
orator hustled up to him, and . awin
him partly aside. inquired. “om whic
side he voted?" Rip staredln vacant stu-
idity. Another short. but b little
ellow pulled him by the am, an' rising
on tiptoe, inquired in his car, “Whether
he was Federal or Democrat.” Rip was
equally at a loss to comprehend . ques-
tion; when a knowin . self im rtant
old gentleman, in n. s 1?. cocked hat,
made his way through the crowd, put-
ting them to the right and left With his
elbows as he passed. and planting him-
self before Van Winkle, with one arm
akimbo, the other resting on his,cane,
his keen eyes and sharp hat penetrating,
as it were, into his very soul, de-
manded in an austere tone, f‘what
brought him to the election with a gun
on his shoulder, and a mob at his."heels,
and whether he meant to breed a riot in
the village?’ .. ,
“Alas! gentlemen," cried Rip, some»
what dismayed, “I am a poor, uiet
man, a. native of the place, and a oyal
sub 'ect of the king, Go bless him!”
era a general shout burst from the
bystanders—“a Tory! nTory! a up ! a
refugee! hustle him! am. with him ”
It was with great did .341th that the
self important man in the cocked hat re.
stored order, and having assumed a ten~
fold austerity of brow demanded again
of the unknown culprit, what he hams
there for, and whom he was seeking.
The poor man humbly assured him that
he meant no harm, but merely came
there in search or some of his neighbors,
who used to keep about the tavern. ,
“Well, who are they? Name them.”
Rip bethought himself a moment, and
in uired, “Where is Nicholas Vedder?"
ere was a. silence for a little while,
when an old man replied, in a thin,
piping1 voice, “Nicholas Vedder? Why,
e is cad and gone these eighteen. ears!
Therewas a wooden tombstone , the
churchyard that used to tell all about
him, but that’s rotten and one, too.”
“Where’s Bram Dutcher ”
“0h, he went off to the ammln the
belifiinning of the war; some say e was
it ed at the storming of Stony Point
others say he was drowned in th lauall
at the foot of Anton s Nose. _ on’t
know—lie never came k a?! '
“Where's Van Bummel, 6 school-
master " '
“He went off to the wars, too; was a
great ,r’nilitia general, and is now in con-
Ri ‘5 heart died awa at liea " of
they? sad chan in his homgnigmd
friends, and finding himself thus alone
in the world. Every answer puzzled him,
too, by treating of: such enormous-lapses
of time, and of matters which he could
not understand: war—congr ny
Pointi—he had no courage to ask after
any more friends, but cried out in de-
6 air: “Does nobody here know Rip Van
inkle?”
"Oh, Rip Van Winkle!" exclaimed two
or three. “Oh, to be sure! that’s Rip
271m yWinkle yonder, leaning against the
me.
Rip looked and beheld a precise counter-
part of himself as he went up the moun-
tain; apparently as lazy and certainly as
ragged. The poor fellow was now com-
letely confounded. He doubted his‘own
identity, and whether he was himself or
another man. In the midst of hisbe-
wilderment the man in the cooked hat
demanded who he was, and what was
his name? .
“God knows,” exclaimed he at, his
wit’s end; “I’m not myself — I’m
somebody else—that’s me yonder—no—
that’s somebody else, glot into my
I was myself last nig 1:, but I fell deep
on the mountain, and they’ve change
my gun, and everythin s changed, and
I'm changed, and can’ tell what’s my
name or who I am!”
The bystanders began now to look at
each other, nod, wink sificantl , and
tap their fingers'against t ' fore ends.
There was a wide r, also, about secur-
ing the gun, and eeping the old fellow
from doing mischief; at the very sug-
gestion of which, the self important man
with the cocked hat retired with some
recipitat-ion. At this critical mo 1: a.
{esh comelyt woman passedth thropgh (libs
tirongtoge apee at e are
man. She had ll. 1()ihubby Ehaild in her
arms, which, fri htened at his looks, be-
gan to cry. “ ush, Rip,” cried she,
‘hush, you little fool, the old man won't
hurt you.” The name of the child, the
air of the mother, the tone of her voice,
all awakened a. train of recollections in
his mind.
“What is your name, my good wo-
man " asked he.
“Judith Gardenier.”
“And your father‘s name?"
“Ah, poor man, his name was Rip Van
Winkle; it’s twenty cars since he went
awn. from home wi his gun and never
hasbeenheard of since—his do came
home without him; but whether eshot
himself, or was carried away by the
Indians, nobody can tell. I was then but
a little girl."
Ri had but one question more to ask;
but e put it with n faltering voice:
“Where’s your another?”
0h, she too had died but a short time
since; she broke a blood vessel in a fit of
passion at a New England peddler.
There was a drop of comfort, at least,
in this inte ' once. The honest man
could contain ' if no Ion er. He
caught his daughter and her child in his
arms. “I’m your father!” cried he—
“Young Rip Van Winkle once—old Rip
Van Winkle now! Does nobody know
poor Rip Van Winkle "
All stood amazed, until an old woman,
gotten-inh ' outfit-011:1 amongd the crowd, ut
er an to er row,an peerin uner
it in his face for a moment, echaimed
“Sure enough! it is Rip Van Winkle—it
is himself. Welcome homo again old
neighbor. Why, where have you been
these twenty long years?”
Rip's story was soon told, for the whole
twenty firs had been to him but as one
night. a neighbors stared when they
heard it; some were seen to winkat eac
other, and put their ton es in their
cheeks; and the self impo t man in
the cocked hat, who, when the alarm was
over, had returned to the field, screwed
down the comers of hismouth, and shook
his head—upon which there was a gen-
eral shaking of the head throughout the
assemblage.
It was determined, however, to take
the opinion of old Peter Vanderdonk,
who was seen slowly advancing up the
road. He wasadescendant of the his-
torian of that name, who wrote one of
the earliest accounts of the province.
Peter was the most ancient inhabitant of
the village, and well versed in all the
wonderful events and traditions of the
neighborhood. He recollected Rip at
once, and corroborated his story in the
most satisfactory manner. He assured
the company that it was a fact,_ handed
down from his ancestor-the historian,
that the Kaatskill mountains had always
been haunted by strange beings. That it
was affirmed that the great Hendrick
Hudson, the first discoverer of the river
and country, kept a kind of vigil there
eve twen years, with his crew of the
H -moon, ' g permitted inthis way
to revisit the scenes of 1118 enterprise and
keep a guardian‘ eye uponthe river and
the t city called by his name. That
his other had once seen them in-their
old Dutch dresses pic at nine ms in
a hollow of the menu ; and t he
himself had heard. one summer after-
noon, the sound of their balls, like distant
peels of thund .
To make a long story short, the
company broke up, and returned to
the more important concerns of the
election. Rio in dauirhter took him home
to live vith ht; sun had a snug,
well furnished house, and a stout chee
farmer for a husband, whom Rip reco -
lected for one of the urchins that. used to
climb upon his back. As to Rip’s son
and heir, who was the ditto of himself,
seen leaning against the tree, he was em-
ployed to work on the farm, but evinced
a hereditary disposition to attend to any-
thing else but his busmess.
Rip now resumed his old walks and
habits; he soon found many of his for-
mer cronies, though all rather the worse
for the wear and tear of time, andpre-
ferred making friends among the rismg
eneration, with whom he soon grew
into great favor.
Having nothin to do at home, and be-
in arrivedattatha yagewhena
magnum do nothingwr’t im unity.he
took his place once more on he bench
at the inn door and was reverenced as
village and
a chronicle of the old times “before the
war.” It was some time before he could
get into the re track of gossrp, or
could be made comprehend the strange
events that had taken place during his
torpor. How that there had been a
revolutionary war—that the country had
thrown off the yoke of old England-and
that, instead of being a subject of his
majesty George the Third, he was how‘s.
free citizen 0 the United States. Rip, in
fact, was no politician; the cha_ as of
of states and empires made but 11 9 im-
mession on him; ut theirswas omsoemee
of despotism'inder which he had' long
groaned, and that was—petticoat gov-
ernment. Ha pily, that was at an end-
he had got his neck out of the yoke of
matrimony, and could go in and out
whenever be pleased, Without dreading
the tyranny of Dame Van Winkle.
Whenever her name was mentioned,how-
ever, he shook his head, shrugged his
shoulders, and cast up his eyes; which
might pass either for an expression of res-
ignation to his fate, or joy at his de.
hverance.
He used to tell his story to every stran-
gfr that arrived at Mr. Doolittle’s hotel.
9 was observed, at first, tova on some
mts every time he told it, w 'ch was
oubtless owin to his having so recently
awaked. It at t settled down precisely
to the tale I have related, and no a man,
woman or childinthe neighborhood but
knew it by heart. Some always re-
tended to doubt the reality of it, an in-
sisted that Rip had been out of his
head, and that this was one int on
which he always remained fligh . The
old Dutch inhabitants, however, almost
universally gave it full credit. Even to
this day t ey never hear a thunder storm
of a summer after!) ‘ about the KM
koli but they say 3 'ck Hudson'nnd
hiscrewareat their 9 of ninopinl
anditisacommohf" ofall'hon "
husbands in the neighborhood, when life
ban ‘ heavy on their hands, that they
mtg t have a. quieting draught out of
Rip Van Winkle's flagon.
Norm-The foregoing tale, one would
had been to Mr. Knickerbocker“: n
little German superstition about the Emperor
Frederick dei- Bothbnrt and the Windsor
mountain; the subjeined note, however, which.»
had appended totinetalalbowsthatitis nu abno-
lutefscgnamtedwithhinususlndelity. '
“The story of Rip Van Winkle may seem incredi-
ble to many, but nevertheless I give it my full be-
lief, forlknow thevieinityot our old Dutch-et-
mnny stranger stories than this in the villages
niongthe Hudsonmll of whichweretoowellauo
thenticntcdtocdmitofadonbt. [uneven
certificate «the subject «in» before A
justieemnddgned with a min the Men‘-
ownbsndwri . mummmorghw
thepo-ibility doubt."
The Women 6: Contain.
Though as a role not beautiful the
m and middle aged are decidedly
_ dsome, with fine features and a mag-
nificent physique. Of course much of
this is due to their surroundings and the
rimitive life still so universally led.
at these women, with their ' ent
features and fine eyes, are h en-
dowed with sterlin qualities. fi-nve
and faithful, we find them on occasion
devologopg into heroines of the truest
arriors at heart when circum-
stances require it, tbefi will
tented to remain on t a defensive; and,
being intelligent and reflective, the
have often proved themselves for-midrib
enemies, strong and loyal friends.
Withal, they are womanly; cherish a
deep love for their homes and a tender
care for their children; are devotedto
husband, offspring and hearth—yet are
ready to sacrifice everything at the com-
mand of the man they have avowed to
obey. For woman’s mission in Corsica
is definite enough; she is destined to be a
docile wife, to work for he: husband,
bring up his children and keep his castle
and all its fluttenances in good work-
ing order. phatically she is the com-
plement of man, and in no we.
crop-.31. SheisuothingmorethanA 's
ri btyy findhginfeoior position of h -
mani . 881811 ,soeyan expreul,
as the he! mate of the y
“G. C. R. in Home Jo
htier half.—
‘rhe Reconstruction of Mn.
But although much has undoubtedly
been done, much more still mains“)
do. “The way in which you westerns
keep calling out that Russia must re-
form,” said a. Russian friend to me not
long ago, “reminds me of a saying of one
of your own statesmen, that ‘people are
fond of shouting for retorm as if it were
an article that could be handed to them
out of the window.’ They seem to for-
get that a. system which hastaken gener-
ations to construct and centuries to de-
velop can hardly be demolished and to-
built with one turn of the hand. Russia
is not to be reconstructed in a da , any
more than Rome was built in one.’
This is true enou h; but the marvel-
ous rapidity with w 'ch so many of Bus-
sia's ancient institutions have been over-
thrown and replaced by those of modern
times certainly offers some excuse for
these exalted e tions. Within the
last twenty-eight years Russia has abol-
ished slavery, reorganized her army, re-
vised her tarifi, introduced trial by J
into her law courts, remodeled her
system, decreed and carried out a thor-
opgh redistribution of land, and taken
8
east one or two important steps to-
ward the education of hex-peasant and
the sup§rt of her papers—Do Ker
in New ork Times. _
Language. In Infill-
Morethan 150 languages and dialects are
current in India and British Burmnh. with
their 256,000,000 of people, and the distinct
alphabets of these countries, many of which
are very elaborate, outnumber all other! in
the world. Some forty diflerent alphabets
or syllable systems, each having from 250 to
500 combinations, are used to represent the
sounds of the 150 languages, and more than
10,000 different signs and typeshavo been
elaborated from the original alphabet to rep
resent the fifty simple sounds—all that the
combined indian vernaculars contain. As
these simple sounds cannot all be represented
by the twenty-six letters of the English al-
phabet, twenty-four letters of the English
phonetic alphabet are captured and made to
do service in this new English phonetic al-
phabet; and wo-tben have one simple niphnp
bet taking thcplacu of fortyor man and
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of 200,000,000 of people who have no written
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A Love A“: of Schubert. '.
The Countess Caroline, an enthusiastic
girl of great beauty, became the object of
Schubert's romantic passion. Hie exterior
was anything but that of an ideal lover.
Rude, unshapely features, thick nose, coarse,
protruding mouth, and a. shambling, awk-
ward figure, wereredeemed only by eyes of
uncommon splendor and depth. The inex~
perienoed maiden, belonging to n haughty
family, hardly understood the devotion of
the humbly born genius. Only once he was
on the verge of a full revelation. She asked
him why he had dedicated nothing to her.
With abrupt, passionate, intensity of tone
Schubert answered: “What’s the use of
that? Everything belongs to you." This
brink of confession seems to have frightened
him from any further intercourse with tho
family, yet he never forgot his beautiful
dream. or loved another woman—Cassell'l
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Iinpure Blood, Jaundice, Bilious Complaints,
Dyspepsia, Loss of Appetite, Indigestion. Costiveness, Nervous and Sick Headache,
Neuralgia and Nervous Diseases,
Inflammatory Rheumatism, Piles of every
Kidneys, Colds and Fever and A e.
OWAT'S LIFI PILLS are a egantly
dinner Pill,
Female obstructions and General weakness, Scurvy.
kind, Gravel and Diseases of the Bladder and
Sugar coated and easy to take and are a perfect nftv-r
one taken after dinnercach day Willnid digestion and cure ail disorders of the Stomach.
Headache I") Sick Headache cannot exist if these Pills are used. F or costivcness take one Pill at bedtime.
MOFFAT’S PHOENIX BITTERS
Are not a drink used for intoxication , but a pure medicine and only used by people
who are sick. They correct the secretions of the stomach and are asure cure for
Dyspepsia,
Complaints,
erfect cures effected by these invaluabl
’IlSt what: we have said or money will be r
Sleepiessness, Nervousneas, Debility, Weakness,
etc. Thousands of certificates are in possession of the proprietor, givmg,
Loss of Appeti'e, Female
e medicines and we warrant that they will do
cfunded. It is simply asked that the aillicted ’
will tr them once, their use will convince the most skeptical.
E's OLIHAX SALVE, asc.aBox. "OFFAT'S LIFE PILLS, 25¢. a Box. MOFFAT'S
A0
PHOINIX BITTERS. $1.00 a Bottle.
or sent by mail or Express, prepaid, or. .eceipt of
r'or Sale by Druggists and Dealers in medicir r everywhere,
price.
3'. P. MILLS, Sole Proprietor.
85 LIBERTY STREET. NEW YORK-
lf You Are Sick
With Headache, Neurslgia, Rheumatism Dyspep-
sia, Biliousness. Blood Rumors, Kidney Disease,
Constipation, Female Troubles, Fever and Ague,
Sleeplessness. Partial Paralysis, or Nervous Pros-
tration, use Paine's Celery Compound and be
cured. In each of these the cause is mental or
physical overwork, anxiety, exposure or malaria.
the eil'ect of which is to weaken.the nervous sys-
tem, resulting inone of these diseases. Remove
the CAUSE with that great Nerve Tonic, and the
12mm will disappear.
Paine‘s Celery Compound
Ju. L. BOWEN. Springfield, Mass, writes :—
“ Paine's Celery Compound cannot be excelled as
INerve Tonic. In my case a single bottle
wrought a at change. My nervousness entirely
disappears ,and with it the resulting nil‘ection
oftbe stomach, heart and liver and. the whole
tone of the system was wonderfiilly invigorated.
“slim friends, if sick as I have been, Paine's
Celery mpound
Wil Cure You!
Sold b druggists. 81: six for 85. Prepared only
by Wage. monument! & Co., Burlington. Vt.
For the Med, Nervous, Dehiliiaieti.
Wax-ranted to color more goods than any other
dyes ever made, and to give more brilliant and
durallolle colors. Ask for the Diamond, and take
no oi. er.
A Dress Dyed ”R
A Coat Colored Io
Garments Renewed cENTs.
A Child can use them!
Unoqualled for all Fancy and Art Work.
At druggists and Merchants. Dye Book free.
WELLS, RICHARDSON 6i. 00., Props., Burlington, Vt,
IF YOU WANT
A HEATER
THAT WILL
Heat Your House
—-GET———
TI Illillll
Ii. LOCKWOOB h (JOBS
SARSAPARILLA CUMPUUND
coucn MIXTURE,
Hair Tonic,
—-FINE STATIONERY-
L in the Latest Society Styles.
Easter Cards,
—AT———-
J. a. cancerous
38 Wall Street.
Esranusunn 1868.
HAYMDN—IJ— 8803.,
Oflice, 10 Washington St.
So. NORWALK, CT., Oct. lst, 1888.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN -
Coal. Wood, Brick, Lime, Cement, Plas—
ter, Fire Brick, Fire Clay, Fire Mor-
tar, Drain Pipe, Fertilizers, Sole
Tile,Bluc Stone,Grzinite,Hey,
Straw,Grain,Feed,zFlour,
Soap, Oil, Salt, Fish,
Paints, Lead ,
Brushes,
Colors, Alabas.
tinc,Averill and Rub-
ber Mixed Paints, Steve-
dorcs and Trucking, con-
tracts made for Excavating,l’aint-
ing, Grading, Flag and Concrete Walks.
Our goods are bought direct from the
manufacturer and producer; purchased for
cash ; freiglited in large quantities, under
special contract with the railroads and boats
delivered by our own teams, and we are
thereby enabled to offer great inducements
to large purchasers, while the smaller deal-
er or consumer will iind bargains worthv
his attention. ch keep constantly in strck .
a great variety of all the goods on the fore
going list, besides many others not enumer-
ated, and will purchase and promptly deliv-
er oti application, any article required. If
you contemplate building, painting, putting
down walks, laying a drain or sewer, hav—
ing it Well or cistern built. please allow us to
quote prices for work and material.
Respectfully,
L RAYMOND BROTHERS.
SOLDIERS, A'l‘TENTlON
M, L. BYINGTON,
Pens/ion Attorney,
241 Eighth Street, N. E.,
\VASHINGTON l). (1.,
Located at the National Capital, adjacent to aiithe
Executive Departments, gives me superior
advantage in the prosecution of Claims
against the United States.
INCREASE YOUR PENSION.
Many pensioners borne on the rolls aie entitled
to a. much higher rate of pension than they now
receive. Inagreat majorii y of cases in which
pension was granted for disease, the pensioner is
entitled to an increaseof rate, and in most cases
where it was granted for wounds or injuries the
(usability increases each year. As t'me passes the
disability of all classes naturally increases. Many
were at iirst rated too low, and it often occurs
that pensioners are unjustly or erroneously re-
duced by examining surgeons. A pensioner is
entitled to increase on a disability not set forth in
his original declaration. The pension laws are
more liberal than formerly, and better rating can
be had for many disabilities. I make a specialty
of-A'eglected and Rejected Claims. and if you will
present me with a. brief statement of your case,
stating by whom it was presented, 1 will obtain a
rehearing of your case, and, if it has merit, will
procure a favorable settlement Many claims
stand rejected before the department, when it
only requires a competent attorney to make them
good cases. Soldiers sufl‘ere'ng with disabilities
contracted in service. who have not applieafor a
pension, should do so as it is their RIGHT.
SOLDIERS OF THE MEXICAN WAR,
Who were in that service sixty days, [or their
widows if not re-married] are entitled to $8.00 per
month irom January 29th, 18st. “20
‘ acumen mourn
Meat, Fish, Vegetables. «he.
LOCKWOOD 85 ANDREWS,
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. .
ly-lO LOCKWOOD tic ANDREWS.
ANCHOR LINE
Atlantic Express Service.
LIVERPOOL via. QUEENSTOWN.
Steamship “CITY OF ROME” from New York
WEDNESDAY, October 31,
Largest spa iinest passenger steamer afloat.
Cabin, 90, $60, and $80 second-class, $30.
GLASGOW SERVICE.
Steamer every Saturday from New York to
GLASGOW AND LONDONDERBY.
Cabin Passage to Glasgow, Londonderry or Liv
erpooi, $45 or $55, Second-class, $30. '
Steerage, outward or prepaid, either service, 320.
Saloon Excursion Tickets at Reduced Hates.
Travelers’ Circular Letters of Credit, and Drafts
for any amount issued at lowest current rates,
For Books of J ours,Tickets or furtnerinformation
Apply to HENDERSON BROS, New York, or
STILES W , GU RTIS,
NORWALL, CONN.
Choice
BUILDING LOTS
(0N INSTALLMENT PLAN.)
FOR SALE
611116
0n lVélton Avenue
—-—-AND——
San Screw/é Plot.
APPLY TO
A. ll. BYINGTON,
GAZETTE OFFICE.
Bernie L. GUIGUE,
FLORIST lNIIIlS YMIIN,
UNION AVENUE,
North of Norwalk Cemetery,
NORWAJLE, - - CORN.
Dealer in in Green House and Hot House and
Bedding and Vegetable Plants, Fruit and Ornamen
tal Trees Shrubbery, Vines. Cut Flowers always
on hand and all sorts of designsin Flowers arranged
to order. 41y2
Grading and Re-filling Cemetery Plots
promptly attended to.
POLAii-gl SPRING.
BEST SUMMER HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS IN
NEW ENGLAND.
Consumption in 1587 of
POLAND WA PER,
350,000 cantons.
NEARLY 2,000,000 BOTTLES.
The largest sales of any spring in the United
States and more than all the springs at Saratogs
combined.
HIIIAM BIKER & SUNS, Props.
Depot, 164 Nassau St., Tribune Building.
send for Circular. 5m35p
Dressmaking.
DRES<M ;\ l~'.~ KG done in all of the latest style
Button holes made by hard. Old nurmens
re-cut and refitted.
MKS. FANSIr MCKENZE
so. Ii 5 th Union Avenue
Post oflico box 654, Network.
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Norwalk Chronicler