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P- Volume LXXXIX.
An Enterprising Republican Journal, copecially devoted to-Ilocttl News and Interests.
NORWALK, CONN, immunoassay, MAB-CH 20. 1889.
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GE 0 .WARD SEIJLECK,
unausuaaoom's BLOCK. WALL stassr.
FAMILY GROCERIES.
LETENTS I
" G. R. BYINGr'rON,
“'iisliington, D.
C.
title to Ioieotots Mallet Itee.
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ii. B. UltAUFUItD,
investments, Real Estate ant Insurance,
ROOM 2, MASONIC BUILDING.
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to vans in u. :.
PATENT uproot.
Wm. Lockwood,
Real Estate, Insurance and Investment
Securities.
MONEY To LOAN.
Insurance Placed in First-Class Companies
bitten—Cor. MAIN a WALL 81‘s.. NOItWALII
.‘i. BELDEN
ittorney ant Counselor at Law,
Room No. 4, Up Stairs.
GAZETTE BUILDING, i‘OllWALK, CONN.
II—ALEX. S. GIBSON.
organist of let Congregational Church, Waterbury,
Teacher of
Pianofor e, Organ and Muslim]
Composition,
Lock Box 39 P O.,NOItWALK,CONN.
M. L. Ilyington,
Pension ant Patent Attorney,
No. 2-11 EIGHTH STREET, N. E.,
WASHINGTON, D. (Y. tftd
A INSURA NE 0., of HARTFORD.
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Charter Perpetual.
J IncorporatedlSt‘l.
(tAl‘i'I‘AI. AND Asst-ITS, $5,002,272.04.
lrisures against loss and damage by Fire, on
crins adopted to the ltazard and consistent. with
he laws of compensation. COWLLb A'- MERRILL,
sole Agents for Norwalk and vicinit y.
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Norwalk Fire Insurance Co.
this now completed its
18th SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS YEAR
A nd has not outstanding in dollar of unpaid losses
or claims for losses. .\‘0 sound company insures
ror less. ' ‘
\i’. C. STREET, Pres, Geo. 11.312 Jons.'lreas.,
(IEO. R. (Townes Secretary.
E xp reps. s .
Patronjze the old reliable
roams. EXPRESS COMPANY.
Longhorns AND PROMPT DsI.Ivmrv.
Branch Office,"§iorwalk. at. S. K. Stanlplyés
Ii om 'e at De at South Norwalk.
Mai L p ’ L. IIUN'I‘,
Agent.
u. my FRANKE, ,
THE Harmonious,
No. I Gazette Building.
HOT AND COLD BATHS.
PENSIONS
sud GOVERNMENT on A'IMS mv' sole-4 isusi-
Iness. ..ejected and increase claims a specmlity.
Don’t delay. Address or visit
GEN. WM. NOBLE,
No. 01 Srmvrronn Avs , Bruno i-on'r, Cr
HENRY “088,
Restaurant, [late and Smotinm Room,
Grand. Central Station,
4 STREET AND 4m Avnxun, NEW YORK
Entrance from waiting room, New York, New
ill aven and Hartford railroad. If32
O. Eil/VILSON,
Iliatlltttttl losnraooeti Ileal Estate Agent
Money to Loan.
mks, Bonds, ‘ &c., Bought and 8010
and Loans Negotiated at Lowest
Rates of Interest.
ItOOli NO. 3 GAZETTE BUILDING
w. 11. MEEKER, '
Plimtiini, Steam and Gas Fittioo,
SOUTH NORWALK , CONN.
anitary Plumbing, and Ventilation, and
tow Pressure Steam Heating, a Specialty.
PLUMBERS’ SUPPLIES.
Pipe and l-‘itting for Steam and Gas.
Agent for the Florida. Low Pressure Boiler.
Facilities for Cutting and Threading all Sizes of
me. 50“
Geo. H. Raymond,
Furniture Dealer,
AT THE OLD STAND,
36 MAIN STREET.
all kinds of Furniture Cheap
or Cash. Also
FURNISHING UNDERTAKEB.
-i am prepared to take charge day or night and
varnish everything necessary for the lntement of
no dead. Telephone Connection with residence
N o. 3 Berkle y Place. ly5
3A Large Steel; 0?
yr, W. JAQUI. JR...
DEALER 1N .
Storesl’orttiBitok-Set tti noes
Furnaces and Steam Heaters,
'I‘iii. Slicct Iron, Copper, Wooden, Glass
and Crockery Ware.
Refrigerators and lionse Furnishing Goods.
Generally. A Full line of
CHILDREN’S CARRIAGES.
umbing. Gas and Steam Fitting, and lint Air
Engineering. Agent for the Richardson
.VI Boynton (Jo’s.
fi‘wrmwes cued. Ranges,
Also agent for the Economy
mi & Warm Ain COHBINATION HEATER
kinds of Ornamental and Plain Statciug, 'I‘tn
Shingle Rooting.
rtepairtru Done by Experienced Workmeu
Short Notice.
6'3 WALL STREET,
“OR“ ALK. CONN
FURNITURE
:r. :B. ELLS
nposite l'Iorse Railway Depot. A good 'nenow
' in stock of .
Barton, Chamber. Dining and Kitchen
FURNITURE
ellvered at. your home without- extra expense.
‘ffiE RING MY MOTHER WORE. .
M— .t
lt~ is not set with precious gem:
‘Tis buta quaint and simple thing,
Yet more than jeweled diadein
I prize this dear old fashioned ring,
She laid It in my trembling hand
And bade mo wear it. cvermorc:
There‘s magic in its narrow band,
The wedding ring my mother wore.
’i‘wo names in letters old and dim,
That time and use have worn away.
Are graven on its narrow rim,
The records of a. vanished day. '
Those names are writ on marble now.
The parted twain have met. once Inor'. .
This ring records each solemn vow—
’t‘lie wedding ring my mother wore.
Dear patient hand that lies at- rest!
Dear ring that binds my soul to her!
Do this my future holy quest:
To see in it God‘s messenger.
My passport to the city fair,
When this fantastic scene is o‘er,
Dear emblem of our circle there.
The wedding ring my mother were,
—Iilr:=. 31. L. Ilayiro.
JonattianimlIIIs—Ciotinent
By Max O’Rell, Author of "John Bull and
His Island,” “John Bull, Jr.,
Etc,” an_d__ Jack Allyn.
[Translated by Mme. Paul Blouef. Copyrighted
by Cassell & Co., New York, and published by
special arrangement through the American Press
Agoclatiou. Paul Blouet (Max O‘Rell) is a re-
markably clever Frenchman. who has devoted
his talents mostly to satirlzing the Anglo-Saxon
race. The book from which the following ex-
tracts aro made is his latest production, and Into
terial for it was gathered during his rece’nt visit
toAmerlca.)
CHAPTER XXXIX.
Hotels are one of the strongest attractions
in America to Americans, especially the
ladies. ‘
When we Europeans travel, we alight at a
hotel, because it is impossible that we should
have a. pitching place of our own in each
town we visit, or friends able to receive us;
in other words, we go to the hotel, because
we cannot help it. When we leave our good
bed and table, and set out to see the world a
little, we say to ourselves: “The worst of it is
that we shall have to live in hotels perhaps
for a month or two; but, after all, it cannot
be helped, we must put up with hotels since
we have made up our minds to see Switzer-
land, or §cotland, or Italy.” Our object in
traveling is to see new countries. make pleas-
ant excursions, climb mountains, etc., and to
attain that object we must use the hotels as a
convenience, as :1 sad necessity.
III Europe. the hotel is a. means to an end.
In America, it is the end.
People travel hundreds, nay thousands of
miles for the pleasure of putting up at certain
hotels. Listen to their conversation and you
will find that it. mainly turns, not upon the
fine views they have discovered, or the ex-
Clll‘SlOilS and walks they have enjoyed, but
upon the respective merits of the various
hotels they have put up at. Hotels are for
them what cathedrals, monuments and the
beauties'otfrnature are torus; .4- ..‘T- ; _,._
In February, 1888, I went‘rtoseo the‘ Amart
cans take their pleasure in Florida,‘ During
the months of January, February and March
flocks of society people from the towns in the
north go to Florida where the sun is warm
and the orange trees are in f uli beauty of
fruit and flower. Jacksonville ancLStg'Au-
gustino are in winter what Saratongow-
port and Long Branch are in summer-«the
rendezvous of all who have any pretensions
to a place in,the fashionabloiworla'. ,
But what do theydo at Jackie
St. Augustine, all these Americans in search
of a. “good time?" You think perhaps that,
in the morning, they set out in great numbers
to make long excursions intq the country or
on the water; that picnics, riding parties and
such out of door pastimes are organized...
Not so. They get up, breakfast, and make
for the balconies or piazzas of the hotels,
there to rock themselves two or three hours
in rocking chairs until lunch time; after this
they return to their rocking chairs again and
wait for dinner. Dinner over, they go to the
drawing room, where there are more rocking
chairs, and chat or listen to an orchestra
until bed time. And yet, what pretty en-
virons the little town of Jacksonville has, for
instancel For miles around stretches a villa
dotted orange grove.
And the table (Photo! >
In France we look well at the bill and
study it; we discuss the dishes, arranging
them discreetly and artistically in the mind
before making their acquaintance more fully
on the palate. We are gourmets. In America
the question seems to be not, “Which of these
dishes will ‘go well together?” but, “How
many of them can I manage?” It is so much
a day; the moderate eaters pay for the glut—
tons.
You see women come down at S to break-
fastin silk attire, and decked in diamonds.
And what a breakfastl Firstxan orangeand
a banana to freshen the mouth and whet the
appetite; then fish, bacon and eggs, or_orno-
let, beefsteak or chop with fried pota’tbes,
hominy cakes, and preserves. . ‘
“How little you eat, you French people i”
said an American to me one day, as ‘I was or-
dering my breakfast of cafe an felt and bread
and butter. ‘ '
“You are mistaken,” 1 said, “only we do
not care for our dinner atS o‘clock in the
morning.”
The larger the hotel is the better the Amer-
icans like it. A little, quiet, well kept; hotel,
where, the cookery being done for twenty or '
thirty persons instead of a. thousand, the beef
has not; the same taste as mutton; a hotel
where you are known and called by your
name. where you are not simply No. 578 like
aoonvlct; this kind-,of pitching place does
not attract the American. He must have
something large, enormous, immense. He is
inclined to judge everything by its size.
Jacksonville and St. Augustine boast a
score of hotels, each capable of accommodat-
ing from six hundred to a. thousand guests.
These hotelSare full from the beginning of
January to the end of March.
I have almost always accepted with reserve
the American superlatives, followed by the
traditional “in the world ;" but it may safely. '
be'sald that the Ponce do Leon hotel, at St.
Augustine, is not only the largest aud‘hmd,
somest hotel in America, but in tho'whble
world. Standing in the prottiefi part of the
picturesque little town, thfi‘Mborishjpflace,
with its walls of. onyx, its rapt, artistically
furnished saloons, its orange" 'lt'alks,’ foun-
tains, Cloisters and towers, is a revelation, a
scene from the “Arabian Nights." . .
Here the Americans congregate in search of
a “good time,” as they-call it, The charges
range from ten to twenty-’fivovdollars‘ a day
for each person, exclusive of ' fines and ex-
tras. The Americanwho goesjfotheuf’once
(19 Leon with his wife and, daughters, thoro-
iore. spendsfrom one toe-two hundred dollars
a day. . For this-sum, he and his family are
fed, played to‘by a very ordinary band, and
supplied with an immense choice of rocking
chairs. On his return to New York, be de-
clares to his friends that he has had a “lovely
time." The American never admits that he
has been bored, in America specially. The
smallest incidents of the trip are events and
adventures, and he never fails to have his
“good time." He is as easily pleased as a.
child; everything American calls out his ad-
miration, or at. least his interest. Remark to
him, for instance, that to go by train to
Florida from the north one has to travel
through more than six hundred miles of pine
forest—which makes the journey very unin-
teresting—and he will throw you a pitying
glance, which seems to say: “Immense, sir,
immense; like everything that is Americans."
The temperature of Florida in winter is
rarely lower than 61 dogs, and ranges from
that to 75; but the climate is moist and ener-
vating, the country a vast marsh, so flat that
by standing on a chair one could see to the ex-
tremities of it with the aid of a good field
glass. Sorno enterprising American should
throw up a hill down there; he would make
his fortune. Every one would go and see it.
It is not everybody who can afford the
luxury of the Ponce de Leon hotel, but it is
everybody who likes to be seen therein the
season.
You must be able to say when you return
to the north that you have been at the Ponce
de Leon. This Is how it can be managed.
You go to some other hotel near the Ponce.
In the evening, dressed in all your diamonds,
you glide into the court yard of the great
cai‘avausary. Another step takes you to the
immense rotunda where the concert is going
. on. You stroll through the saloons and cor-
- ridors, and, takings seat where you can be
‘ $0,000 to $8,000 a year.
5663 onhE'miItifiTde, you liEféE Whomsic.
About 10 or 11 o’clock you beat; a retreat and
return to your 0er hotel. Wishing to set
my mind at rest: on this matter, I ivent one
evening, about half past 9, to the Case. Monica
and Florida house. There, in the rooms
where the musicians engaged by the proprie-
i tors play every evening, were at the most: a
score of people.
Everything is on a grand scale in good
American hotels, especially the bills.
I caught the following bit of conversation
at the St. Augustine station as I was leav-
ing: .
“Heliot you are off, too?” said a young
man to a friend who had just installed his.
wife in the train for Jacksonville.
“My dear fellow, l have been here a. fort-
night; the Ponce do Leon is magnificent, but
the bill is awfully still."
“Never mind, old man," re joined the other,
“you will take it, off your wife's next dross
money."
.i’i’t 's in an the
great hotels are Iiegi'oes. You are served
slowly, but with intelligence and politeness.
No “dirchesscs” in the great cities of the
north orthe fashionable resorts of the south.
Those good negroes have .such ‘cheerful,
open faces! They seem so glad to boalive,
amt they look so good natured that it does
one good to see them. When they look at
one another they laugh. When you look at:
them they laugh. If a negro sees another
negro more black than himself he is de-
lighted. ho calls him “dorky” and looks on
him in a patronizing my. Their great dark
eyes that. show the whites so, when they roll
them in their own droll fashion; the two
rows of white teeth constantly on view,
framed in thick I'eti'ousse lips; the swaying
manner of walking, with turned out toes
and trend thrown back; the musical voice,
sweet but sonorous, and so pleasing compared
to the horrible twang of the lower class peo-
ple in the north, all make up a picturesque
whole. You forget- tho color and fall to ad-
miring them.
And how amusing they aret
At the Everett hotel, Jacksonville, I one
day went to the wrong table.
“You‘ve come to do wrong table, sah,” said
the attendant dorky. Then, indicating the
negro who served at the next table, he added:
“Dat's do gentleman dat waits on you, sch.”
I immediately recognized my “gentleman,”
and changed my seat. The fact is that all
the negrocs are alike iota glance. It requires
as much 1)Ci'>,rlt'uclty to tell one from another
as it does to distinguish one French gendnrme
from another l‘i'ench gendarmc.
. I never met with-such memories as some of
those darkics in: ve.
As I have :.:Ed, the hotelsof Florida are be
staged during the winter months. At dinner
time, you may see from six hundred to a thou-
sand people at table. The black head waiter
knows each of the guests. The second time
they cuter the dining room, he conducts them
to their places without making a mistake In
one instance. If you stop but a day, you
may return a month after. and- not only Wil’
he recollect your face, but. he will be able to
tell you which little table you sat at, and
which place at that table was yours. '
At the door of the (lining room ayoung
negro of 10 or 18 takes your hat and puts it.
on a hat rack. I have seen hundreds thus in
his care at a time. You leave the dining
room and, without a moment’s hesitation, he
singles out your hat and hands it to you. It
is wonderful when one thinks of it. Igive
you the problem to solve. Several hundred
men, most of whom fin have not seen more
than once or twice before, pass into a room,
handing you their chimney pots or wide
awakes to take care of. They come out of
the room in no sort‘of order, and you have to
give each the hat that belongs to him. I
have tried hard and often, but never succeed-
ed iu finding out how it is done.
Another negro In the hall goes and gets
your key when he sees you return from a
walk. No need to tell him the number of
your room-he knows it. He may have seen
you but once before, but that is all sufficient
——he never errs. '
And the negressest good, merry looking
creatures with buxom faces and forms, sup-
ple, light, graceful gait and slender waists,
oping the fashion, and having very pretty
fashions of their own, coquetting and minc-
ing, as they walk out with their “tic’lars”
(particulars). The enjoyment of life is writ-
ten on their faces, and one ends by thinking
some of them quite pretty. I have seen some
splendid figures amongst them. You should
seethem on Sundays, dressed in ‘scarlot or
some other bright. color, with great hats
jauntily turned up on one side, and farming
themselves with the ease and grace of Bel-
gravian ladies.
Negresses are not employed as chamber
maids in hotels. They go into service only
as nurses, and of course children love them.
Unhappily for you, it is the objectionable
“duchess” that you find again, up stairs this
time. The evil is not so great as it is in the
smaller towns where these young persons
wait at table also. In the best. hotels their
only duty is to keep the bedrooms tidy. You
must not ask any service of them beyond
that. If you desire anything brought to.
your bedroom, you ring, and a negro comes
to answer the bell and rer civo your order.
I remember having one day insulted one of
these women—certainly unintentionally, but
the crime was none tint less abominable for
that. '
This was it.
I was dreaming to go out. to dinner, and
wanted some hot water to shave with. Hav-
ing rung three times and received no answer,
I grew impatient and opened the door, in the
hope of seeing some servant who would be
obliging enough to fetch me the water in
question. A clrambcrmaid was priming my
door.
“Could you please get me some hot water?"
I said. i
“What do you say?” was the reply, accom-
panied by a. frown undo look of contempt.
“Would you be so good as to get me some
hot water?” I timldly repeated.
“What do you think I am? Haven‘t you a
bell in your room?" said the harpy.
And she passed along indignant.
I withdrew into my room in fear and trem-
bling, and for a few minutes was half afraid
of receiving a request to quit the hotel im-
mediately.
I shaved with cold water first day.
CHAPTER XL.’
If you go to achanger, he will give you five
francs in French money, or four shillings in
English, foradollnr. But in America, you
are not long in discovering that you get for
your dollar but the worth of a. shilling in
English money, or a franc in French.
The flat that lots for 4,000 homes in Paris,
and the house that is rented at. £200, or 4,000
shillings in London, would be charged $4,000
in New York, Boston or Chicago.
' The simplest kind of dress, one for which a
Parisian of -_ modest tastes pays 100 f rancs,
would cost an American lady at. least. $100.
A visiting dress costing 500 francs in Paris
would cost $500 in New York. A bonnet
that would be charged 50 francs is worth
$50 The rest to match. _
Hero is a (li'essmaker‘s bill which fell under
my eyes in New York;
lobe do chainbre ..
Cloth dress.- 175
Oporacloak.. 500
.Riding habit . . . 180
Banned... ...... .. ....... ..... 80
Theatre bonnet ........... .. 50
Blacksilk dress ...... ... 240
Balldress . 650
Total-..................‘ .......... .1 ..... some
In this bill. there is neither mantle, linen,
boots, shoes, gloves, lace, nor the thousand
little requisites of It worrian‘s toilet, and it
is but one out of the three or four bills for
the year. I am convinced that an American
‘woman, who pretends to the least elegance,
must. spend, if she be a good manager, from
Add to this the fact
that she loads herself with diamonds and
precious stones. But those, of course, have
not to be renewed every three months.
A great number of Americans come to Eu-
rope to pass three months of every year.
This is not an additional extravagance; it is
an economy. They buy their dress for 0. year,
and the money they save by this plan not
only pays their traveling expenses, but leaves
them if nice little surplus in cash.
A hotel bedroom on the fourth floor, for
‘which you would pay five francs a day, is $5
in the good hotels of the principal towns of
America. A cab which costs you one franc
and a. half in France, or one shilling and six-
pence in England, costs you a dollar and a.
half in New York. The proportion is always
ken.
. v1.
Tire dollar has pot more value than this in
the lesser towns of the United States. The
omnibus, for Instance, which takes you to the
station from your hotel for Sixpence (or half
a shilling) in England, and for half a. franc in
France, costs you half a dollar in America.
Copper money exists in America, but if you
were to offer a cent to a beggar he would
fling it at you indisgust. When the bare—
footed urchins in the south beg their formula
is: “Spare us a nickel,” or “Chuck us a
nickel, gnv’uor.” The nickel is worth five
cents. The only use of the cent that I could
discover was to buy the evening paper.
Tho‘ouly things cheap In the States are
native oysters, and English or French books
that have been translated into American.
If expenses are enormous in the United
States I must hasten to add that. it is chiefly
the foreign visitor who suffers in purse. The
American can afford to pay high prices, be
cause his, receipts are far larger than they
would be in Europe. . Situations bringing in
three or four hundred tit-liars. as in Franco in
England, are unknown in America. Bank
clerks and chop assistants command salaries
of a. thousand to fifteen hundred dollars a
year. A railway car conductor gets $50 a
month.
In the grades above in the professions, the
fees, compared with those earned in Europe,
are also in the proportion of the dollar to tho
shilling or franc. A newspaper article for
which would be paid in France from lOO to
, 250 francs (and no French paper, oxceptIThe
Figaro, pays so much for articles) is paid for
in America from two to $250. A doctor is
paid from $5 to $10 a visit. I am, of course,
not speaking of specialists and fashionable
doctors; their charges are fabulous. I know
barristers who make over $100,000 a year.
Every one is well paid in the United States,
except the vice president.
If I have spoken of the high cost of living,
it is to state a fact and not to make a com-
plaint. I went to America as a lecturer, not
as a tourist. Jonathan . paid me; well, and
when crabby asked me for a'dollfil' , and a half
to take me to a-‘lecture hall,;l said, like M.
Joseph Prudhomme: “It is expengive, but I
can afford it,”a_nd I paid without grumbling.
, CHAPTER XLI. , ,
“Well, sir. and what do you think, of
Amerimi” . . 6- ‘5'
Without pretending to judge America on
cathedfa, I' will sum up the impressions jot-
tcd down in this little volume, and reply to
the traditional question of the Americans
When one thinks of what the Americans
have done in a. hundred years of independent
life, it looks-as if nothing ought to be impos-
sible to them in the future, considering the
inexhaustible resources at their disposition.
America has been doubling its population
every twenty-five years. If immigration
continues at the same rate as it has' hitherto,
in fifty years she will have more than two
hundred millions of inhabitants. If, during
that; time, Europe makes progress only in the
arts and sciences, while the social condition
of its nations does not. improve, she will be
to "America what barbarism is to civilization.
While the Hohonzoflergs, the Hapsburgs
and tho Firebrahdouburgs' .roview their
troops; while hor‘stahding‘mmieo are cost—
ing Europe more than, 51,000,000,000 a year,
in limb, of, peace; whilst the European
debt is more tired: $25,000,000,000, the Ameri-
can treasury at Washington, in' spite of cor-
ruption, which it is well know? does exist,
hasa surplus of $60,000,000. Whilst Euro-
pean governments cudgel their wits to devise
means for meeting the expenses of absolute
monarchies, the Washington government; is
at a loss to know what to do with‘ the money
it has in hand. Whilst the European tele-
grams in the daily papers give accounts of
reviews, mobilizations and military maneu-
vers, of speeches in which the people are
reminded that. their dutyis to serve their
emperor first and their country afterwards,
of blasphcmous prayers in which God is
asked to bless soldiers, swords and gunpow-
der, the American telegrams announce the
price of corn and cattle and the quotations
on the American stock exchange.
Happy country that can get into a state of
ebullition over a presidential election, or the
doings of John L. Sullivan, While Europe in
trembling asks herself, with the return of
each new spring, whether two or three mill;
ions of her sons will not be called upon to out
each other-’3 throats for the great glory of
three emperors in search of excitement!
America is not only a great nation, geo-
graphically speaking.
The Americans are a great people, holding
in their hands their own destiny, learning
day by day, with the help of their liberty, to
govern themselves more and more wisely,
and able, thanks to the profound security in
which they live, to consecrato all their thlents
and all their energy to the arts of peace.
The well read, well bred American is the
most delightful of men; good society in
America is the wittiest, most genial and most
hospitable I have met with.
But the more I travel and the more I look
, at other nations. the more confirmed I am in
my opinion that the French are the happiest
people on earth.
The American is certainly on the road to
the possession of all that can contribute to
the well being and success of a nation, but he
seems to me to have missed the path that
leads to real happiness. His domestic joys
are more shadowy than real. To live in a
whirl is not to live well.
Jonathan himself sometimes has his regrets
at finding himself drawn into such a frantic
race, but. declares that it is out. of his power
tohang back. If it were given to man to
live twice on this planet, I should understand
his living his first term a I'Americaine, so as
to be able to enjoy quietly, in his second ex-
istence, the fruits of his toll in the first. See-
ing that only one sojourn here is permitted
us, I think the French are right in their study
to make it a. long and happy one.
If the French could arrive at a steady
form of government, and live in security,
they would he the most. enviably happy poo
pic on earth.
It is often charged against the Americans
that. they are given to bragging. May not
men who have done marvels be permitted a
certain amount of self glorification!
It is said, too, that their eccentricity con-
stantly leads them into folly’and license. Is
it not: better to have the liberty to err than
to be compelled to run straight in leash? If
they occasionally vote like children, they will
learn with age. It is by voting that people
learn to vote.
Is there any countryin Europe in which
morals are better regulated, work better
paid, or education wider spread? Is there a
country where you can find such natural
riches, and such energy to turn them to ac-
count;so many people with a consciousness
of their own intellectual and moral force; so
many schools, where the child of the million-'
air-o and the child of the poor man study side
by side; so many libraries, where the boy in
rags may read the history of his country,
and be fired by the exploits of its heroes?
Can you name a country with so many
learned societies, so many newspapers, so
many Charitable institutions, or so much
widespread comfort?
M. Ronan, wishing to turn himself into a
prophet of ill omen, one day predicted that,
if France continued 'republican, she would
become a second America.
May nothing worse befall herl
THE END.
The Alpha and omega.
There are 202 letters in the Tartaric alpha.
bet and twelve in that used in the Sandwich
Islands. Those are the numerical extremes.
A Justice of the Peace says:—I-Ion.
John Nealey, justice of the peacc,‘aud ex-
member of the House of Representatives
from Meredith, N. H., was for twelve
years a sufi'ercr with rheumatism. _He
says: I cannot obtain any medicine which
does me so much good as your Sulphur
Bitters, and I think it is the best medicme
made
The study of the Russian language is
being developed in the English Army.
For 30 years I have beeu‘troubled with
catarrh—have tried'a number of remedies
without .Iclicf. A druggist here recom-
mended Ely’s Cream Balm. I havcused
only one bottle and I can say I feel like a
new man. My catarrh was chronic and
very bad. I make this voluntary state-
ment that others may know of the Balm
J. W. Mathewson. Lawyer, Pawtucket,
R. I.
The commission of the New York city
Postmaster expires in April.
sooty 0N THE‘TGONG’O.
FACTS LEARNED av sous OF THE
LATEST TRAVELERS.
lagonyess ~of the Natives to Learn the Re-
sults of Explorations-Tho Human Sac.
riflclnl Offerings of tho Africans—Ways
in Which “‘omeu Have the Best of It.
The ten or twelve explorers who have done
most to prove that the Congo basin, until re-
cently almost unknown, is the second greatest
river system in the world, have of course dis-
covered many things of surpassing interest to
the student of geography and its kindred
sciences. It is intended here to speak, not of
the great discoveries of sensational import-
ance, but of interesting facts which have at-
tractant less attention. 1:
About 450 miles above the mouth of' the
river the Congo widens info on almostsoa
like expanse, and for more than ahundred
miles up stream it is from five to twenty
miles in width. It is a. curious fact that,
though many of the Congo tribes travel for
jam borne, the natives along'ouc bank of the
widened stream liad hardly a particle of in-
formation about the dwellers on the other
shore when the whites first met them.“ Thn
great; river was a barrier that. news rhrqu
crossed, separating the tribes almost as 'com-
pletely as though an ocean stretched bet-woén
them. Here hundreds of lovely islands so
impede the view that travelers skirting one
bank cannot see the other for more than one
hundred miles. Of coursofilro river is very
shallow except in the channels, which are not
yet well known, and steamers often run
aground. It has occurred that steamers have
passed in broad daylight wit-bout knowing of
each other-”s proximity.
A FREQUEN’I‘ SAD SIGHT. ,
Many natives are eager to learn the results
of exploring expeditions. IVheII the more
intelligent chiefs understand that the whites
are spying out the land, they are anxious to
learn whether the new facts can be utilized
to their orm advantage. Thus when Gren-
fell returned to the Congo from his 260 mile
trip up the Lulongo, the big Chief Ibengo
and hishead men were as inquisitive as an
American interviewer. They wished to lmow
how far the Lulongo could be ascended in
canoes, whether the natives were numerous
and friendly, whether they had ivory and
slaves tb sell, and so on. Here, as in other
parts of the Congo basin, the discoveries of
the whites have largely stimulated the inland
trade of the natives. They now send canoe
trading parties for up tributaries where they
did not venture before the whites pioneered
the way.
Native geographical information has been
rarely serviceable to the whites. Coquilhat
says that- bcforc a native answers a. geo-
graphical question ho makes up his mind
what answer isdesired or expected and re-
plies accordingly. Von Francois found on
some of the southern tributaries that inform-
ation given in one village was contradicted
in the next.
One of the saddest sights seen anywhere is
a common spectacle on some of the large
tributaries. The Bengals. and a few other
large tribes along the Congo have a great dc-
maud for slaves to be killed as sacrifices upon
the death of important persons, or to be used
to furnish forth their cannibal feasts. Unless
they are at war tho~ supply of slaves often
runs short, and they send expeditions up the
Lulongo, tho Tchuapn. and other rivers to
buy victims for their ceremonies. Another
reason why they seek the slave markets along
the Congo tributaries is that, as a. rule, the
further they go from the main river the
cheaper they can buy slaves. So it is no ur.~
common sight for explorers, ascending the
tributaries, to meet processions of Congo
canoes laden with slaves, usually male adults
going to their own funerals, and often bound
hand and foot.
They understand full well the cruel fate
from which there is no escape. The richer
or more important the farml' y which has lost-
one of its members, the more numerous must;
be the victims who follow him to the grave.
This is one of Africa’s great cruelties which
the Congo state government is suppressing
wherever its authority is sufficiently estab-
lished to combat the ancient evil.
The chief reason why natives on the tribu-
taries are wilder and more distrustful than
on the Congo itself is because Congo pirates
do not take the trouble always to patronize
the slave markets, but seize any man they
can.
WHY worm-1N ARE NOT BOILED.
IVhilo women perform most: of the drudg-
ery of the field and house. there are certain
compensations for the stern fact that theybc-
long to the fair sex. Women are not regarded
as fit subjects for the boiling pot, and through-
out; the Congo basin, where cannibalism is
doubtless practiced to a greater extent than
in any other part of the world, women as a
rule are notamong the victims. Then while
the lazy men are exchanging gossip in the
village street the women are pounding grain
into flour or delving in the fields. The result
is that in some tribes the women fully equal
the men in muscular development. In the
great Baluba. tribe the harmful practice of
hemp smoking, confined to the men, has
made them conspicuously inferior to the
wornenin physique. So it happens that in
many 9 Congo household it is not; the man
who “bosses the ranch.” Many of the women
are credited with great ability as scolds, and
having the muscle needed to back up their
voluble complaints, they lord its over the
household as completely as though they were
strong minded Caucasians.
Some very forcible methods are employed
for keeping up the price of commodities on
the Congo. A while ago it woman 5 body
was found hanging from a. tree on the river
bank near Irebu. It was learned that the
crime of which she was accused was that of
selling provisions too cheaply to white men.
If we happened to be on 0. Congo steam-
boat, which, rounding a, sharp bend, came
suddenly into vicwa scores of people who
had never heard of iisteamboat or a white
man, we would probably regard the actions
of that astounded crowd as among the
strangest spectacles we ever saw. Explorers
say that every mode of expressing astonish-
ment is shown on such occasions, and that
actors would find among these awc stricken
blacks a rare chance to study facial expres-
sion. Many stand and stare, with eyes burst-
ing from their sockets, andwith wide open
months, which they presently cover with
their hands, acornmon mode of expressing
unbounded astonishment. Others stand. a
long time motionless, as though riveted to
the spot. Still other—s are seized with the
wildest panic, and bound away info the forest;
as though bcwi‘tched. One day Grenfell,
on his “little steamer, suddenly came upon
about fifty women, who were fishing along
the shore of an island. lVitII a wild shriek
pll plunged into the water and swam with
frantic strokes to the mainland, whom they
disappeared in the underbrush On another
occasion a woman, who suddenly saw the
strange apparition, fell to the ground in a
fit. Dr. “Volt and Lieut. Von Francois have
{written most graphic accounts of the remark-
hblo effects upon the natives of their first
sight of a puffing steamboat—New York
Sun.
nopmg a non. _
After about an hour of crawling and push-
ing through, our men suddenly stopped and
began to point ahead, chattering and gesticn-
hating. Looking the way they pointed, we saw
in a tree an immense boa constrictor waving
his head to and fro, with his scales glittering
in the sun. My friend said: “Get back,
quick, he is preparing to jump!” and we did
so as fast as possible. After consulting a few
moments the Malays cautiously advanced
with a. lasso, which by a dexterous throw
caught the snake around the neck, and jump-
lng behind a tree they tightened it on him.
He thrashed and pulled, and it was all the
four Malays could do to keep from being
drawn near enough for him to crush them,
and once or twice it» seemed as though he
would get them.
We could have shot him at first, but they
wanted to capture him alive. After a while,
by pulling and choking him, they made him
ivc up and pulled him down from the tree.-
_ e was a big fellow, twenty feet long and
very large around. They have great
strength, and this one I was assured could
swallow a goat ora. calf He was looking
probably for leopards that are plenty there.
living principally on monkeys, and the snakes
also catch them when they can; but usually
the monkey is cleverer than the snake. They
sometimes gather in big bands and club the
boas to death.
The Malays made a. cage very quickly, out-
tingleugths of bamboo and notching them
together, into which they put the snake, and
swinging it on two poles marched off with it:
on their shoulders—Forest and Stream.
Wortlilbss Dogs.
. Statistics show that there are 20,000,000
dogs in the United States, t‘rat the sum of
$200,000,000 is required to support this army
of flea lodgers, an amount of money suffi-
cient to keep in comfort 200,000 families. It
is difficult. to understand why there should be
an hundred worthless canines tolerated to
one dog worthy of being man’s companion.
The dogs that make night hideous, that bark
when they should be silent and that are voice-
less whcn their bark might be of service;
dogs that are miracles of ugliness and hairy
epitomes of all that is vicious; these are the
beasts that predominate and that should re-
ceive tho nttentiongof a. modern dog Herod.—
l’ittsburg Bulletin.
A STORY OF ‘THE SUPERNATURAL
ATOLD IN THE SMOKING ROOM.
A [Man Saved from the Hangman In a
Singular Manner—A Fisherman's Inter.-
cst in the Habits of Trout Snatciios an
Innocent Man from the Gallows.
“I have known of a fisherman being visited
by a. ghost," said Rose, one of the party,
“and ‘as I aim an old Inna I should like the
story to be preserved. I was living some
fourteen miles from Worcester. forty years
ago, and was a keen fisherman. One day late
in the season I had a good after-noodle; trout
fishing in a brook which ran ~thro'e miles
from my house, and on my way home in a
very dark evening‘was drmched to the skin
by a thunderstorm, in spite of my efforts to
escape by sheltering hero and there under
sheds, hedges and the like.
OBEYING THE SUMHONS.
“Six months afterward I was {disturbed in
bed by a lotid voice in my room, saying:
‘Got up, and go to Worcester.’ I started,
rubbed my eyes, sat up and listened, but
heard nothing, and there, not a breath of
air stirring out of gloomy,“ ”flout of! to sleep
again and was again speedily disturbed by
the same-cry. I new swgke my wife and
asked if she had hem-Mything. “Certainly
not,’ she replied, but she did not wonder I
heard voices offer tho‘jndlgestiblo dinner I
had made. This was 3%th and
again the words sounded, ' T ’--louder
than evor,.at may eat: ‘Get up amigo to
Worcester! I rose and struck alight; it was
4:30 a. In. and pitch dark with much rain, I
could see. The idea of descending, cuddling
the horse (for my groom lived atadistant
cottage) and starting to Worcester in such a.
deluge was not at all cheerful. But the sonic
words sounded more imperatively than be-
fore at my ear, and telling my wife I was
going to Worcester for the day I slipped on
myclothes, let myself out and began saddling
a gray. With some surprise I noted that
whereas she always strongly resented this
process by leaping and kicking,-on this par-
ticular morning she was perfectly quiet and
tractable.
“I rode along the dark and miry chain of
roads which surrounds Millington with ease,
partly from knowing them perfectly, partly
because no one was stirring, and toward
dawn'approached the Severn, now in full
flood, where it. was necessary for me to cross
if Idid not care to go by the windings of the
river (a. much longer road) to the city. Here
[expected to spend half an hour bowling
from the bank till the drowsy ferryman
would be pleased to awake and come over to
take us across. Curiously enough, as I rode
down the bank I ‘espied him waiting. Ho
touched his hat and said: ‘All right, sir; I
heard you shouting and came over as quickly
as I could.’ Of course I had {never shouted,
but the rain and cold forbade my raising
any question on the matter, and I thankfully
got in and was ferried across. I had about
six miles to ride on the other side, and it was
'1‘ :30 o‘clock when I rode into “'orcester,
tired and hungry. However, I put up my
beast, breakfastod, and not knowing what to
do strolled out into the city. A ghostly
summons had brought me there, butI had
no further guidance, so one way seemed
much the same as another.
“Noticing a. crowd posing toward the as
size courts, I fell in with them, and by dint
of tipping and squeezing soon found myself
listening to the end of a murder trial. The
prisoner, one Llewellyn Morris, had just been
found guilty. As I entered, the judge called
upon him to say anything he desired against
sentence being pronounced upon him. The
accused seemed familiar to me, and yet I
could not recall where I had met him. He
was a little man, and appeared, while a
crowded court hung upon his fate with breath-
less anxiety, to be the least concerned of the
assemblage.
Ills INNOCENCE ESTABLISHED.
. “He answered the judge respectfully, but
carelessly enough, that ho was entirely igno—
rant of the murder, and was two or three
miles away from the place where it was com-
mitted. He had a defense, “a bully boy,’ it
was called, but could not produce his,witncss.
He had no idea who his witness was, but on
the night of the murder he had been fishing
and had walked a couple of miles on the road
home, till thunder roared and the rain de-
scended like u. waterspout, with a gentleman
whom he had met at the riverside. At length
the storm was so fearful and the darkness so
deep that they had both diverged front the
road into a neighboring churchyard, and
taken refuge in its porch until, half an hour
later, the tempest passed on. He had con-
verscd that; time with his neighbor, but had
no notion who he was or "he would clear him,
as that; storm took place immediately after
the old man had been murdered, and it would
havo been physically impossible for him to
have stood in the porch unless he had been far
away from the scene of the murder at that
time. As it was, however, having no clew
to his witness, ho was content to leave him-
self iu his lordship‘s hands.
“At once I remembered that this was the
very man who had stood with me in the
church porch, and, rising amid much excite-
ment, offered myself to the judge asn wit;-
ness for the accused. After being sworn, I
wrote down at- tire judge‘s request, what we
had talked of and what answers the prisoner
had made. Upon this the prisoner examined
me, and the answers so' tallied with what 1
had written down that the judge delivered
another address to the jury, and, deleting
their previous verdict, the jury unanimously
and without a. moment’s hesitation acruitted
him. We had talked, as it happen ,of a
curious legend in a neighboring lord’s fam-
ily, and the prisoner had given me some in-‘
formation about the spawning of trout,wbich,
as a fisherman, I had naturally remembered.
Years afterward a convict at Dartmoor
prison, on his death bed, confessed that he
alone was guilty of the murder for which my
companion in the porch so narrowly escaped
conviction; and so, you soc, a ghost was of
advantage for once, and let us hope, for the
credit of fishermen, chose oné of them to
perform an act of justice in consequence of
his gentle, amiable and kindly disposition.”—
London Field. ‘
‘Celery.
It is strange that so healthful a vegetable
as celery should be used so little, for while in
season it ought to be used like any other
seasonable green thing. The celery glass,
with Its bouquet of vivid green, is a. bright,
attractive ornament to the dinner table. The
majority of people never-think of eating it in _
any way but its raw state, yet there are v:
in whiéh it may be served that are In; '.-
more palatable.
Boiled or steamed celery is very nice. Cut
up the stalks into- inch pieces, put in a sauce.
pan and add just enough water to cover the
whole. Throw in a little salt and let boil
until soft, but not: enough so that it falls to
pieces. Drain of the water, put the vege-
table into a dish, and while hot serve with
butter. ,
Creamed celery is rery nice. Cut in inch
pieces and cover with milk, to which, when
boiling, add salt and a canal! piece of butter.
Serve hot. This way of cooking celery is de-
licious.
The green stalks and leaves, usually thrown
away, are all useful. Cut the stalks into
small bits and use them for flavoring soups,
broths, etc. Put. the leaves into a pan or
dish and place in the oven to dry. Watch
them that they do .not burn and when dry
crumble them. and place away in a. wide-
mouthed bottle and kmp closely covered.
This will be found good for flavoring soups
when the celery is out of the market. Celery
seed is good to keep in the house for flavor-
ing, and celery salt is, to many, it necessary
condiment. '
This plant is a great ucrvlnc and those suf-
fering from any nervous trouble are much
benefited by a liberal use of it. It is also
recommended for rheumatism, some authori-
ties going so far as to say that when freely
eaten it is a sure cure for this painful disease.
-Boston Budget.
About victoria.
The youthful queen of Great Britain and .
Ireland, who had ascended the throne on
June 20, 1837, and was crowned on J one 28,
1838, was married on Feb. 10, 1840, to Francis
Albert Augustus Charles Emanuel, Duke of
Saxe, Prince of SaxeCobuI-g and Gotha, who
was born on Aug. 26, 1819. The prince was
naturalized on Jan. 24, 1840, and ordered to
be styled the “prince conso ” on J one 25,
1857. Prince Albert’s pronounced sympathy
with the efforts of the Federal government
to preserve the Union gained him much esteem
in thenorthern states and caused his prema-
ture death, on Dec. 14, 1861, to bodeeply ro-
gretted—Philadelphin Times.
Wily Uhrufiled.
A man's self respect may help him to rule
his own spirit. A broker having failed to
persuade the manager of a marine insurance
company to take a. certain risk, became rude
and offensive.
The manager, who was noted for his cour-
tesy, kept his temper and remained so calm
that a bystander asked him, “How did you
manage it?"
“Tho easiest thing in the world,” replied
the manager, his eye twinkling with fun. “I
saidto myself, ‘Hushl there is afool in. the
room.’ Then I said tomyself. ‘Shall I doubts
the number? No; that would be a pity”?
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and kidneys, purity and regulate the whole system, and are warranted :1 certain care
for all Malarious Diseases, Torpid Liver, Impure Blood, Jarmdice, Britons COIllprlllli<,
Dyspepsia, Loss of Appetite, Indigestion,
Costiveness, Nervous and Sick llcadaclic.
Neuralgia and Nervous Diseases, Female obstructions and General weakness, Scurry.
Inflammatory Rheumatism, lees ofevery kind, Gravel and Diseases of the Bladder and
Kidneys, Colds and Fever and A ue.
"OFFAT’S LIFE PILLS are e egantly Sugar coated and
dinner Pill, one taken after dinner each day writ aid
easy to take and are :i pcrfcrt after
digestion and cure all disorders of the Stomach.
Headache and Sick Headache cannot exist if these Pitts are used. F or costivencss 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 a sure cure for
Dyspepsia, Sleeplessness, Nervouszrcs, Debility, Weakness, Loss of Appetite. l-‘emzrl:
Complaints, etc. Thousands of certificates are in possession of the proprietor, giving,
perfect cures effected by these invaluable medicines and we warrant that they will do
just what we have said or money will be refunded. It is simply asked that the afflicted
will tr'y them once, their use will convince the most skeptical.
AOE'S CLIMAX SALVE. 256- allox. HOFFAT’S LIFE PILLS, 25C. a liar. I‘s‘IOFFAT'S
PHOENIX BITTERS.
$I.oo a Bottle. Cor Sale by Druggists and Dealers in mcdictr . cvcrywucrc,
or sent by mail or Express, prepaid, cs. . cceipt of price. .
J'. P. MILLS, Sole Proprietor.
85 LIBERTY STREET. “WI?!“-
THE SPRING MEDICINE mu WANT
Pai-n‘e’s celery Bumpeunti
Purifies- the Blood, '
Strengthens the Nerves, .
Stimulates the Liver, ,
Regulates the Kidneys and Bowels,
Gives Life and Vigor to every organ.
, ' l I I
There s not/1mg Illre It.
" Last 33mg, being very much run down and
debilitat .I rocured some of Paine’s Celery
Com und. he use of two bottles made me
feel ea. new man. Asa. neral tonic and
spring medicine, I do not 'now its equal.”
w. L. Gnasxnms, .
Brigadier General V. N. 6., Burlington, V t.
$1.00. Six for $5.00. At Druggists.
Color Ieafhe'ro and Ribbonr.
any! Elegant! Economical!
[IMHO/ID DYES
.. .fis-
luau TED roan
Use It Now!
“Having used your Palne's Celery Compound
thls spring, I can safely recommend it as the
most powerful and at the same time most
gentle regulator. It is a splendid nerve tonicI
and since taking it. I have felt like a new man.
R. E. KNOIin, Watertown, Dakota.
Wrens. chmnnsos .9; Co. Props Burlington, Vt.
Babies Using. it sleep mull
nights. Wake Laughing
IF You WANT
A HEATER
THAT WILL
Heat Your House
———GET———
Tti ttiotn
in II: It. Location» to cross
All first-Chloe, Hand Stitched, 011k 'I‘nmion '
.P. H. DWYER. oatmeal eoitroooo
lire largest Stock of Harness
i
COUGII BIIX’E‘URE,
Hair Tonic,
—'Fii~it—: STATIONERY-
lII ”relates? Society styles.
_Easter Cards,
-*—-—.\’I‘—-.——
J .- G. GREGORY’S.
39 Wall Street.
entrant. MARKET.
Meat, Fish, Vegetables. dic-
LOCKWOOII to ANDREWS,
”Atlkmds ofitre lif:~t qualities of Meats, Fish
mains, \t-gt-tahms, eta, are. kept constantlv OII
trend. and \i‘l.l be sold try us as low as can tie-pro-
41331,: lirf)II::_[)"llll.il:n.r,'lu.lll Noni-alto. We intend to
tuubr'JIJUIS trial we deserve their
patronage by [1111' and generous tIt'iiIIIlg.
ly-lii Loudnuiili .t- .-i .\'l)ttt~:\l'rl.
e , ' " .
ANCHOR 1N E
;‘Ilfllilll' “xpl’t‘hri Service.
LIVERPOOL via. QUEENSTOWN.
Steamship “t‘l’l‘x’ OF HOME” f' ' ' ' "
\\“r;ii.\ thirst , Utilitiexl'oglyhc“ loik
Litrgesi and lines: passenger sit-uriiei' afloat
who, still, cw. and .5in set-outtclass, $3.), .
(i I._\.“(-f i) \i' S E if VICE.
steamer every Saturday from New York to
GLASGOW AND LONDONDERRY.
Catlin l’ai~s.igc in (Ililsgilw, t.oiiitoiiderrvoi' Ilv
. Ci'liorm $43 or anliti-t Lass :30 - ‘
steer-age, unimml nr rid. either sari-vice “90
. Ell-[Mill.ILXV‘Ill'olHll ‘1. .< :tr tiertiici-tt i no:- .
li'faveici's i .n'xiliii‘ l I-ti Us of (form. aridulira'l'is
Foi’nnzt'l'l’lh:‘IIIFI:1:11 I r '1 .ll lowest current rates,
1‘ .. it-sehoi‘fiir'tiitririf ‘ ‘
Apply to lilmlil , )N t;lit).~'.,.\'ew 1531-1???”
STILES W. CURTIS.
.\'oi:\\'.\i.1_, CONN.
611116
DR. HARTLEY’S
GATARRI-I REMEDY
Is the tit-st romt-tty known for the cure of Catarrli
and Its attendant anthems: II is safe, painless and
never fails to girt- l‘c I. this retriedv cleanses
ae 110:9, herd and tiiiuut o 1.1 tllillt‘uIIhV secre-
tions. and sootlics :lll'I ill" ‘ the IllllzilIlCIl parts
\\ hen the remedy i.- once I d the beneficial re:
sults are so prompt and Salt. .aictory that the suf-
ferer III-o'er .' 1-: to continue the treatment until
pci‘nniiiunt 1'2;in is obtained.
Do Not I‘egieci a Bad Cold
[‘se Ilarrtey's ('ntarrli Itamedy for its Immediate
iy-i. Cure.
To inventors.
Gilli. it. BYINGTON
OFFICE 2
Cor. tout .in its. anti ltti Stif
Washington, D. 0.,
fl)
(lives his Persona: Attention o l’i'm'iirirr.
Patents for Invention:
In the U. S. Patent Office and. all Foreig
Countries.
An experience of nearly ten years in the Patch
Otllcc lias'givcn trim a perfect fziiiriti‘aritv with
every classmcatiori of invention and the particlmr
EIIAMINL'HS .iNt) Ilt’ithstfs‘, to which earth
and everyiiivcntton is referred. llc has a com
plete familiarity with the ltules of Practice
the Records, Models, do, kc... .tc., at.
every detail oi'tlic oilicc, :illd GIVES Ills I’I-I li
SONAL .~\'l"l‘l-J.\"I‘ION to the interests of hi
Clients. lletiig on the ground, and 'v'lSlllllE th
Patent Otticc daily, he can serve Inventors i
securing their Letters Patent for more advantage
ousty titan Solicitors who do not reside
Washington.
Searches aired Rejected
Applications
A Specialty._ To all those whose applications
have been rejected. he will make an examination
and i‘eporton the sonic gr'nliiirorls/gl. Prelimin-
ary examination of the Patent Orllcc Records.
prior to an application forapatcrit, will be made
fora_\‘ery small ctiargc,and advice or informa-
tion _1n regard to parents will be given in full
detail in a ctrcuiar which will be mailed free of
charge to every applicant. lie has special
facilities also for
Promotion; Patents in Foreign
Countries.
He refers to any oiltcer of the Patent Ortice, and
to the many Connecticut Inventors for whom’rhc
has done business and taken out LETTERS I’A’I‘EN
SOLDIERS, ATTENTION
M. L. vac‘roai,
Pension. Attorney,
241 Eighth Street, N. I:..
wasnrxti'rox I). 0.,
Located at the National Capital, adjacent to fill the
Executive Departments, gives one superior
advantage in the prosecution of 'laims
against the United States.
ttiCREASE YOUR PENSION.
Many pensioner-s borne on the rolls are entitled
to a much higher rate of pension than they now
receive. luagrcat majority of cases in which
pension was granted for disease. the pensioner is
entitled to an increase of rate, and in most cases
where it was granted for wounds or in] ui'ies the
disability lllk‘l‘t. ses each year. As time passes the
disability of all classes naturally increases. Many
were at first rated too low, and it often occurs
that pensioners are unjustly or erroneously re-
duced by cxaiiiiritiig 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. 1 make a Specialty
of Kaylee-It‘ll um! [litter/rd Ci’ar‘nis, and if you Will
present the with a. brief statement of your case,
stating by whom it was presented, I will obtain it
rehearing of yoiirr-asc,and,if it has merit. will
procure a favorable settlement Many claims
stand rejected before fire department, when it
only requires a cnrirpeieiit attorney to make them
good cases. .s'ulllirrs qu/‘Priiig trill; disabilities
(‘ONII‘HPII'II in Service, I-“lm how not (rirptirrflfrn- 4:
pension, .s/mm’r.’ (In so us i! is their IIIGIIT.
SOLDIERS OF THE MEXICAN WAR.
Who were in that service sixty days, [or their
widows if not IC-llllll'l'ICiI] are crrriilctl to $5.00 per
month from .laniiiirv 29th. 1557. field
WANTED.“
l'l’l 'r‘fi l'O’l‘l’l‘Ol-LQ. ()NIONK‘. lil’T'I‘l-Ilt.l-I(li.‘s.
(:1 SE. 200 TONS Ol‘ l’iillL'i‘lli' ASII
“‘Illl) (Lt I‘Olt HOLIDAYS. \\’itlpa_v cash or
SQIIOIICOIIIIIIISHIOH. (iiir «tally Market Reports
forwarded every day.
'E- M. BALLARD & 00.,
General Produce Commission
Merchants,
743 tttyrtie ire, Breottyo, it. it.
NeariWaliabout Market.
3m“
Geo. s. Gregory.
Livery, Boarding, Sale,
Feed and Exchange
5 t a. b 1!; e S: .
in...“
”MMII‘E'”
No. 14-. Knight at
(Inreai‘ of Horse Car Depot),
NORIVALK, CON-N.
Carriages furnished at all hours. Courteous
neutron and gerittcmauly drivers. 1y
_“ ANTED—An agent in Norwatk to sell our
Western Guaranteed Firstrblortgagesmear-
trig I per cent. i‘ay liberal commissions. Ii‘ull par-
tict1.ars from ENGLISH .i' AMERICAN MORTGAGE Co.
First National think Building, Kansas City, Kan.
Norwalk Chronicler