NORWALK GAZETTE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1889.
A GOOD HOUSEKEEPER.
How can I tell her?
By her Cellar;
Cleanly shelves and whitened wall.
I can guess her
By her dresser:
By the back staircase and ball.
And with pleasure
,Take her measure
By the way she keeps her brooms.
Or, the peeping.r
At the keeping
Of her back and unseen-rooms.
By her kitchens air of neatness.
And its general completeness.
Where in cleanliness and sweetness
The rose of order blooms
—.lcwisl: Messenger.
A FALSE m.
The man who sits down to (Jelliwratcly plan
acrime works every point and detail to one
common center—an alibi. The law has com-
mon sense enough in this one particular to
presume that a man who is in Boston, for in—
stance, when a murder is r lLlllllfiiL‘il in Cin-
cinnati could not have fired iiieshot or struck
the blow. Therefore, let one a '3 .. mi of crime
prove to the jury that he was a: some other
point at a certain critical hour. unvl he must
be declzircl innocent This l;no\vl..-:lge makes
the alibi a favorite thsi'cnsc. If not clearly
proved it nlwnysraisCs doubts and affords
opportunity for argument On the other
hand, however, when (2:1 aliini is fairly beaten
by the prosecution, then circumstantial evi-
dence becomes the death trap of the accused,
and he has no show. '
One of the best laid alibis I ever run up
against in my career as a detective, and one
of the easiest to work out after I got the end
of the thread in hand, was put: forward in a
case in Iowa about twenty years ago. The
situation was this: In asmallfiillage in the
western part of the state lived a Miss Clarin-
da Moore, a spinster about 45 years of age.
She was worth $50,000, and she had adopted
a boy named Byron Fergus. At 1 he date of
which I am writing this boy was no longer a
boy, but a young man of :25. He was eni—
boardcd and lodged at home. He was adopt-
ed at the age of 1:2, and on the day he reached
his majority .‘.liss Moore made a will leaving
him everything. This fact was known to all
in the village. Fergus was a model young .
man. No one could point out a single bad
habit. He was trusted and respected by all,
and had he been accused of the slightest dis-
honesty no one would have believed the
charge.
19 a smaller village six miles away Fergus
had an aunt who was a widow and lived
alone, with the exception of having the com-
pany of a servant girl. He was in the habit
of going over there about once in two months
and remaining over Sunday. On these trips
he drove. a horse and buggy belonging to the
village cooper. The horse had a peculiar
habit, which will be described later on. One
Saturday evening of a. July day Fergus drove
away on one of these trips. There were two
or three women at the gate in company with
Miss Moore when he drove away. The only
thing out of the usual run was the remark
that Byron looked rather pale and seemed a.
bit nervous, but probably this would never
have been thought of but for when. came to
pass.
At 11 o‘clock that night. there was a thun-
der storm, and an insurance, agent who was
on the road between the two villages, with
horse and buggy, drove. into a fence corner
and sheltered himself as well as possible with
tho waterproofs. In the midst of the storm
3. horse and buggy came along. The
driver was so enveloped by waterproofs that
the agent could not tell whether he was old or
young, large or small, white or black. At
that spot the road had been lately graded up,
and was very soft. The stranger was urging
the horse to trot, but the beast found the mud
too deep and could only proceed at a walk. As
the strange horse came opposite there was a
long, vivid flash of lightning, and the agcnt
saw that the animal had his head turned to
the right and his tongue out. This was the
peculiar habit of the cooper’s horse when on
a walk. VFhen trotting he held up his head
and kept this tongue back. The agent identi-
fied the horse to his perfect satisfaction, and
called out to the driver, asking who he was.
Instead of halting or replying the man struck
the horse sharply with the whip and was out
of sight in a moment.
“That‘s old Shepperd (the cooper, and
he’s afraid l am a highwayman!” laughed
the agent. and, the rain now beginning to
cease, he made ready to resume his journey.
Miss Moore was an early riser, and, mom».
over. never missed church services As the
day was fine and she was not seen at church,
two or three of her friends called at the
house on their way to ascertain her excuse.
They found the curtains down and the doors
locked. As they knew of young Fergus gO'
ing to his aunt’s the evening previous, they
reasoned it out that he must have returned
during the night for Miss Moore, she perhaps
being wanted for an emergency. This theory
satisfied them until about 4 o’clock in the of-
ternoon, when one of them returned to gather
a bouquet of flowers. She then noticed
bloody finger marks on the back door, and,
trying the door, found it unlocked. She
dared not enter the house, but two or three
men were swmoned to make an investiga-
tion, and in' few minutes it was discovered
that a murder had been committed. The
dead body of Miss Moore was found in the
sitting room. at the door of her bedroom.
She had been struck three terrible blowswith
a club or other blunt weapon, each one break-
ing the skull.
l was visiting the sheriff at this time, and
we were driving through the village when
the first alarm was sounded. I was, there-
fore, at the house among the first, and being
placed in charge by the sheriff, I kept the
people out until I could make an investiga-
tion. The murderer had not obtained forci-
ble entry to the house. Not a single article
of value had been removed, nor had any mn-
sacking been done. The woman had been
struck down where the body lay, but her
hands were clenched as if she had grasped
the weapon of death and it had been pulled
away from her. The palm of one hand was
tom and bleeding. I did not know either the
dead woman or Fergus. but I wanted au-
thority to arrest the latter. When this fact
became known I was regarded as an idiot or
a lunatic. A general cry went up that Fergus
could no more be suspected than an angel in
heaven, but while the sheriff was left to so-
cure the necessary papers, I drove out to in-
terview the young man and break the news
to him. If Fergus was guilty. his defense
would be an alibi, and he had carefully ar-
ranged the details He would be expwtmg
the news, and he would be braced up to play
a part. 1
I found him making ready to hitch up to
drive back. He had never seen me before,
and he did not know my profession. As I
entered the barn he looked startled and
turned pale, but recovered himself after a
minute, and asked the nature of my business.
“You know, of course, that Miss Moore is
dead?” I carelessly replied.
“How—how should I know it!” he exclaim-
ed, turning very white. - -
“Well, she is dead, poor thing."
“And do they charge me with it?”
“With what?”
“Her murder I"
“I hadn’t said sh: was murdered.
on
I told
a
you simply that she was dead. How did you
know she had been murdered?”
He saw the trap he had fallen into, and he
gasped and stammered and did his best to
smooth it over. I pretended not to lay it up
as a point against him, and speedily arranged
that he should return in my vehicle and leave
the cooper’s rig where it was. After the first
shock he braced up wonderfully, and his de-
meanor on the way home was entirely that
of an innocent man. He expremed great
willingness to give us all possible informa-
tion, but at the same time advanced and
clung to the theory that no one but a tramp
could have been guilty of the crime. Upon
reaching home he displayed considerable
grief and emotion. In fact, be rather over-
did it. It was more like acting outa part.
The people were indignant that, he should be
suspected, and he was not put under re-
straint. Indeed, no warrant had been issued
. for him.
Early the next morning, satisfied in my
own mind that Fergus was the murderer, I
drove out to his aunt’s. I found that he ar-
rived there at 7 o’clock Saturday night. Half
an hour later he complained of headache and
went to bed, saying he would be down again
by 9 o’clock. As he did not keep his promise
the hired girl knocked on his door at that
hour, but, receiving no reply, was told not to
disturb him. He was not seen by the inmates
of the house until 7 o’clock Sunday morning.
The girl was up at 5, and as she crossed the
yard she saw that his window was 11p, and
some of his clothing was hanging in the sun.
At the barn I found the cooper’s buggy,
washed clean. Fergus had done this Sunday
forenoon. He had not made a good job on
the horse, however. and I found plenty of
mud on his fetlocks. As it was dusty Satur-
day night when he was driven over, this mud
must have been picked up after the storm. I
found the harness stiff and damp from being
wet, and the cloth cushion of the buggy was
still damp. Hunting further, I found the
fresh tracks of horse and buggy turning into
the barnyard after the rain. The window of
the room occupied by Fergus opened on the
roof of the shed. At the lower edge of the
roof stood a leach. On theedges of this leach
: and on the roof. I found mud. On the carpet
ployed as a clerk in a dry goods house, and '
in Fergus’ room I found more of it. He had
scraped and cleaned his boots and flung the
dirt into a. stove, whence I got half a. pound.
All this I got without the aunt suspecting
that I was after proofs. I then returned to
the scene of the murder, and after an hour’s
search discovered the place Where a horse had
been hitched for some time. It was in the
rear of the house, on an open space and under
a tree, and the horse had pawed up the
ground and gnawed the bark of the tree.
The footprints of a man could be faintly
traced across the garden, and I had no doubt
that Fergus came and went this Way. On
the fourth day after the funeral I learned
from the insurance man what he had seen
during the storm, and then a. warrant was
imued and Fergus was taken into custody.
By this time the townspeople had begun to
think it a queer case. F 5 had gone over
the house and declared that nothing had been
taken. No suspicious characters had been
noticed in the neighborhood. Jewelry and
money had been left lying on the bureau,
showing that the object could not have been
plunder. Did the woman have an enemy?
No, not one, as far as we could learn. Who
could profit by her death? No one but Fer-
gus, and yet this was one of the strong points
he brought forward. It was known to a score
of people that she had made her will in his
favor. Would not everything be his at her
death!
To clinch our case and make circumstantial
evidence good we must show a. motive. This
seemed hopeless, but I went at the task,
hoping evidence might aid me if Fergus
was guilty. I examined his personal effects
over and over again in search of a hint, but
for two weeks after he had been sent to jail I
discovered nothing. Then I got the claw
where I ought to have secured it before. In
a.’ drawer in his desk I found several adver-
tisements plainly in the interest of Swindlers.
One of them read:
“A steady young man with $10,000 cash capital
candouble it mono year in a legitimate enter-
prise. For particulars address box 801,“ etc.
Another read:
If you have nerve and $5.00) in cash we will
make you amllllonalre in one year. We permit
the fullest investigation before investmmt. Write
for particulars
A third just hit his case:
Are you a young and ambitious man, feeling
that you could get ahead if properly backed and
encouraged? Have you any money: Can you
get from one thousand to three thousand? If so
we will pos’tively guarantee you $100 in retum
for every dollar, and inside of a year.
I’felt sure he had written some of thwe
parties but as I could not find any letters
from them I set out to hunt them up in per-
son. They were bold faced swindlcrs, and
they bothered me some, but in the end I got
five letters written by Fergus. In one of
them he stated that be world soon have
momyto invest, and his satisfac-
tiona‘ttbe particulars the 'on as
far us'given him. The greed of gain, then,
was his incentive. The woman, who had
been mother and sister to him, cameof a long
lived race, and was in good health, and a
month before her death was told by a doctor
in the hearing of Fergus that she was likely
tolivetobeQOor 100 years old. _Until be:
death theyoungmancould hopefur littlocn'
nothing, assbe was obliged to make the in»
terat of her capital support ha.
Murderer or not, the boy was the legal
heir, and he‘ employed th‘chese legal talent
in the west to defend him. The lawyers
might take every dollar it could but
clear him. It was a veritable vhf. for life
Mthallthemoneyandmtofthetalenton
one side, but that web of circumstantial evi-
dence kept drawing closer and closer, and it
could neither be broken not 6 away.
HadFergus been innocent afrank reply'to
ouch question would have eqialned it.
Being guilty, his anxious only made matters
worse. The jury were out fourteen how’s
before finding a verdict of guilty, but within
anhourhe had made afulloonfesision. He
toldme that hehadbeen planning far two
months, and that he believed he ar-
ranged details until his 0358 could vi
the most minute in chm of the W
detective talent. —New ark Sun. '
. “Cd7ching n on a... My.”
Wehvemvcrsemittnprtnfiandit may
beamossyJoe Miller in modem dress. Ithes
keeping qualities.
Theodore Thomas‘ «chums m playing
symphonyorsomethmglnwhlch the music,
atonepart, was softenedalmwb to a bird)!
whisper, when, likethecfi’ackd aflfledoan—
non, cameone-stmflingbhst fun: the 0609.
The emged conductor mined savagely upon
the player: “Whatmtbodevfldo'youmnr‘
Just then a. plump Nuthatch fly tookwing
fromthooboeist’s more. "‘00“ in himmcll
IdhhkhevasmnMundINay W—
Satmday Globe.
Bats Stole the Pigs-
J. D. Smith, ofSunnysldwafewwedksogo
inadoneorthe finest 1013 at Pound China
pigs in the community, but every night or
two one of the porkers would disappear. Mr.
Smith decided to watch fbl‘ the thief. fluidis-
coverod a large rat come up through the.
floor and quickly grab one of the-hide ' pigs
and carry it away. Mr. Smith mined a
rifle and succeeded in killing seventeen of the
thieves—Flemington Democrat.
A Cynlo’s Decree.
In 1861 John Howard, a Colorado judge,
Introduced a quaint novelty in a divorce
case in which he was the defendant. m,
hiswife, havingfiled a. petition for samb-
tion in the chancery court, her unfaithful
husband presented his answer in the form of
a quit claim deed of his better half. This»
workable legal curiosity appears on the rec-
ords as follows:
In court of chancery, Denver city, Jeffer-
son territory, Mary E. Howard, plaintiff, vs.
John How'ard, defendant. Petition for di-
vome. To the plaintiff in the above entitled
action: '
Whereas, having been cited through the
prematDenvertoappem- before one 0',
Browning, of the above entitled court,
show cause why your prayer to be divorced
from me should not be granted;
I, the defendant, 11er state (waiving my
own oath in the premises that I don’t know
any such‘cause whatever, and therefore con-
fess the corn! And said defendant, as judge
of the Canon City district court, enter a do
area in your favor accordingly; and, in order
to relieve you of any embarrassment in the
matter, I have executed and send you here-
with, as part of this answer, a. quit claim
deed of all my right, title and interest whatr
ever in you, leaving a. blank to befllled up by
the name of the party granwaoby
whom you may in future beclaimed under
squatter title. Hoping you will fully appre-
ciate my feelings in the premises, I hereby
attach the said deed, as follows, to wit:
Know all men (and women) by these pres
ents, that I, John Howard, of Canon City, of
theflrst part, do hereby give, grant, bargain.
convey and quit claim all my right, title and
interest in and to the following (un) real as
fate, to wit: The undivided ancient estate
known as Mary Howard, the title of which
I acquired by discovery, occupation, posses-
sion and use; situate at present in the town
of Denver, Jeflerson territory, together ‘with
all the improvements made and erected by
me thereon, with all the rents, profits, ease-
ments, enjoyment, long suffering and appur-
tenances thereto in any wim appertaining,
1mm , of the second part; to have and
tobold,untothe said ,solongashe
can keep her, without recourse upon the
grantee, as indomer.
_ In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal this 24th day of June, 1861.
(Signed) JOHN HOWARD. [Seal]
ligned in presence of A. Budd, clerk of
district court.
Per WILBEB F. STONE, Deputy.
—Excba.nge.
Evolution of the Plano.
Ibeplamasweseeittodayfisthegrowfli
of centuries of invention. In its infancy it
was a. harp with two or three strings From
time to time more strings were added, and
after ’a while the citharu was born. The
citham wasintheshapeof theletterP and
had ten strings It took many centuries for
musicians to get the idea of stretching the
strings across an open box, but somewhere
about the year 1200 this was thought of and
the dulcinier made its appearance. the strings
being struck with hammers. For another
hundred years these hammers were held in
the hands of the player, and then a geniusin—
vented a keyboard, which, being struck by
the . fingers, moved the hammers. This in—
strument was called a clav’icytherium, or
keyed cithara. This underwent some modifi-
cations and improvements from time to time.
In Queen Elizabeth‘s time‘ it was called a
virginal. Then it was called a spine, because
the hammers were covered with spines of
quills, which struck or caught the strings of
Wires and produced the sound. From 1700 to
18m it was much enlarged and improved, and
called a harpsichord, and this was the instru-
ment that Lady Washington, Mrs Hamilton
and the fine ladies of our revolutionary times
played on. In 1710 Bartolomeo Cristofoli,
an Italian, invented a key or keyboard such I
as we have now substantially, which mused
bammerstostrikethewimsfmmabovaand: . ' _
thus develOped the piano. In the past 150’. Lev York Tribune.
years there is no musical instrument which
has so completely absorbed the inventive
faculty of man as the piano. At the present
day the upright piano has the field almost en-
tirely to itself, and has reached such a grade
of perfection in shape, tone and appearance
that there would appear to be no possibility
of further hnprovemenh—Musical (hm-let.
Remedy for Obesity.
Dr. Intenzen, of Erlanger, has been db-
azssing the influence of liquidson obedty.
Theflrste riment was made on himself.
For aperi of nine years he drank a large
quantity of Erlanger beer daily. During
four yearsof the period the daily quantity
consumed amounted to ten litres, or two gab
Ions, one and onehalf pints-(r about twenty-
two pounds weight; during the remainder of
the period the quantity ranged from five to
seven litres, in addition to one litre of wine.
Intbisway he succeeded in increasing his
bodily weight by seventy-eight pounds, and
circuitry
the usual unpleasantness of made its
nce.
On shutting off the liquids his weight full
fourteen pounds in seven days. .
more water was taken. but without alcohol,
the weight increased Within five
weekshereduced himselftotbeaxtentof
twenty-three pounds, the chat monument
diminished byseven 03111:!mede
the abdomen by thirteen centimeters, and the
‘difllcultim attending respiration disappeared.
Similar experiments carried outon colleagues,
whowere likewise heavy men, had similar
results. The disappearance of fat on with-
holding fluids he endeavored to explain on
the hypothesis that the cells whose province
if; is to decompose albumen, when a large
quantity of fluid is taken, now expend part
of their energy in the combustim of fat. The
fattheyconsumeisreplaced hyfazfimntho
tissues—London Medical Pres. .
An Important Period. ,
Tboeeofusnotyet 50 years of age have
probably lived in the most. im 8 and In-
tellectually progressive of human his—
tory. W'lthln this half century the following
inventions and discoveries have Either been
placed before the world or elaborated: 00am
steamships, railways, street tramway; tele-
graph lines, ocean cables, telephone, phone
graph, photography and a score of new
methods of picture making, aniline coitus,
kerosene oil, electric lights, m fire en-
gines, chemical fire extinguishers, mania!
.andpainless sun'gery,gun cotton, Intro-gly-~
armadynennteandahost of other explo
onlyafnwout ofamultitude. All postal“
knowledge of the physical mention of
yandstellarworldshaaobbemafi
mined within this pried—madm- 1m.
80 make. '
_ Iii-is hard to prove eruptive, mom
who not absolutely impossible.
“My boy" " said a father, “IMMUO-b
, . you for breaking this vase.”
. “Oh, but he didn’t break. it!” spoke uptbc
boy's sister. '
.“How do you know that!” midthofntber.
“I saw himdidn’tl” answered thélittle ~girl,
trhmphautly.—Youth’s Companion.
'totzbe originaf his crimes.
DURATION OF LIFE.
People Live Longer Now Than They Did
In the Olden Times.
Dr. Todd, president of the Georgia State
Medical society, read at the annual meeting
of that body, held at Atlanta, 3 paper on
“longevity,” which possesses great intrinsic
interest and at the same time is gratifying as
showing how much medical and sanitary scl-
emoe and a. more rational mode of life have
done to prolOng the human span, and how
much better in every way are the conditions
of today than of those “good old times” for
the return of which sentimentalists vainly
sigh _
The doctor is modest in his claims, making
no effort to monopolize in the name of the
medical profession credit for a betterment in
which so many agencies play parts; but he
does claim, and with reason, that the intelli-
gent physician has had much to do with the
result, and that the death rates of the va-
rious peoples of the globe bear a ratio very
nearly inverse to the number of qualified
physicians among them.
The highest death rate in Europe is that of
Russia, ranging from 20 per 1,000 in Cour~
land and 22 per 1,000 in the Baltic province,
there being many physicians in both districts,
to 49 in places where there are but few. But
onehalf of the children born in some partsof
Russia reach the seventh year; and of 1,000
male children only from 480 to 400 reach the
age of twentyone years, and of these only
375 are able bodied. Russia, with all its
teeming population, has only 15,414 regular
physicians, and one surgeon to 100,000 popula—
tion.
The United States, having a doctor of med-
icine for every 000 population, shows the
lowest death rate in the world, England fol-
lowing. The average life expectancy in the
United States is now fifty-five years; in Eng-
land among the urban population it is fifty,
and among the ruralists fifty-four years.
Russians have a life expectancy of but twen-
ty-eight years, approximately, and Chiliaus
of the same, while in Ellobed, in the Soudan,
twenty-three years is a generation. The av-
erage life in the Rome of the Caesars was
eighteen years; now it is forty years. Within
fifty years the average in France has in-
creased from twenty-eight to forty-five and
one-half years, and in the days of Queen
Elizabeth the English average was but twen-
ty years.
Dr. Todd ascribes the great and progressive
change for the better to advanced mdical
knowledge, better drainage and diet, greater
cleanlinem, and to vaccination and the use of
anaesthetics, quinine and the like. He thinks
that quinine alone has added two years to the
average life of civilized man. To these
agencies should be added the decrease of war,
the more lenient laws, and the greater tem-
perance of our day—Chicago Herald.
W'ork for ~Women.
“I don’t see why a smart and strong wom-
an, or better still, two of them, could not
make a good living by upholsterlng," said a.
worried housewife in the city the other day.
“Here I have a lot of furniture that has seen
its best days, the coverings are worn and
faded, but the springs and framework are yet
good and sound. If I send it out to a regular
upholsterer the cost of new material and his
workmanship will be more than I can well
afford. If I sell them to a. second hand dealer,
that will be little better than giving them
av’vay. I could recover them myself at little
cost and with good eflect if I had the time
and a little more strength. Now, if I only
knew where to send for astrong, handy wom~
an to come to the liaise and make the most
of the material I have, cutting it out under
my eye and working according to my direc
tions, I would send for her at once. The re-
sult would be that the work would be finished
much more quickly than if I sent the fumi-
ture away. I would have the use of it all the
time, my material would be economically
cut, and I could afford to pay her good wages
and yet spend less than in any other way."—
Food and Best for the Brain.
Mental effort causes waste of tissue ale
meats quite as much as bodily exertion, and
this demands a. full supply of food. What
with dyspepsia and absence of appetite, the
insults of deficient exercise, and the influence
of preconceived ideas as to the use or disuse
of Special articles of food, the brain worker
is to receive too little nutriment to make
up 'or the waste. Especially is this the mse
when he, unconsciously, perhaps, replams
food by the use of tobacco, tea, alcohol or
opium.
Some advise to go supperlcss to bed. This
most medical authorities of the day think is a
wrong notion. It is a fruitful source of in-
somnia and namsthenia. The brain becomes
exhausted by its evening work, and demands
rest and refreshment of its wasted tissues, not
by todlgmtible salads and “fried abomina-
tions,” but by some nutritious, easily digested
and assimilated articles. A bowl of stale
bread and milk, of rice, or some other fari-
naceons food, with milk or hot soup, would
be more to the purpose. Any of these would
insure a sound night’s sleep, from which the
man would awaken refreshed—Cinchmnt'i
Medical News.
The-'Power'of Imitation.
I know of no more ammllingexa‘mple of the
pom of one life to influence another in far
distant periodathan that which is afforded by
the strange and horrible history of the Mare-
cbal de R617. A man of noble birth, great
wealth, great distinction use. soldier, and high
in favor with his sovereign, he took to the
most horrible course of child murder of which
we have any narrative; and when at last
driven to cwfessim he made his statement as
“The desire to
commit them atrocities came upon me eight
ago. I left oourt'to go to ChansOnce
that I might claim the property of my grand-
father deceased. In the library of the castle
I fund a Latin book—Suetonius, I believe—
fnll of account: of the cruelties of the Roman
empaors. I read the charming history of
Tiberius macalla and other Caasars, and the
. plemme they fbok in watching the agtmicsof
chihlrcn
tortured . Thereupon I resolvedto
Wand surpassthese sameCasaraand
Mira-y mght beganto do so.”—TheCon-
WW.
Muddd'ambel Suit.
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some fear of involving his employees in' a
costlylibclsuit. Ibisrelatedaf him thathe
detailaiaccrtainnumberoftbelocalstaflto
writecrqiort of a sermondeliveredatme
attbaloclldmrchcsbya celebratedeastern
mmhadcm” abasis'fa'theles-
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fin Ital-yum owclusim that Judas wuss.
fillet. 11B embodiedthisdednctlon
hhlquiartdthesermonand his
Wmmetendermdeaofthemth-
lesblue’pencil. In a moment the trained
ymdfln‘editorcaugb" ttbesentenca “Judas
'mcthiaf,"and slap through it * mt the
The editor feared allbel suit brought
by some of his lineal descendants—St. Louis
Republic.
i
THE FUTURE OF CHINA.
A Prophecy That It Will Be In the Front
Bank In Fifty Years.
Ll Hung Chang, the viceroyof China, is
reported as having lately made the assertion
that within the next half century China
would be covered with a. network of railways;
that it would haverolling mills and furnaces,
with immense mineral resources and unlim-
Itedcheaplabortoback thumand thatChina
may do the n: .znfs-cturing of the world.
While China is 9'? corn"... ’ 5 “low in adopting
the methods ci ti. ~‘ ._ 2- ‘.;:.T'.‘.*‘.9ns, a
striking change lit-.4 a" ‘ ‘IL' ‘ , .l‘{_—." a”
lately; and tot z,- 34; -
fleet of ironclads Of lilo .l. r! '3’}. ‘-' ill;
. -r. --_
arming and disciplining its .9.» 9-
European models, has telegraphlineoau.
least one railway in successful operation, and
is pushing forward tuna phenomenally rapid
way, for conservative (Elma, toward the l
acquisition of the majorityof the 1m and l
manufactures that but lately marked the I
difference between it and othermomdvili'
nations .
The industrial momentun of,»
400,000,000 inhabitants, ooverir -'
the inhabimble globe, if or . . «'5, ’
is well worth consider -- . , u—
thofen, indescn'binr- - » .nina,
saysthatthesz'. 1 .- v. themost
remarkableooalm... '.::..~-. era-J: ' .mtheworld,
and he estimates til" -“ . present rate of
consumption the 003. this district would
supply the world for thousands of years to
come. It is claimed by some writers that
Shansi, when more thoroughly explored, will
bear away the palm from Penmylvania,
whose 20,000 square miles of coal land have
been heretofore considered as the greatest
single deposit in the world. Richthofen says
furtherthattbisooal can beveryemilyand
cheaplyextractedona large scale, and that
iron ore of excellent quality is found in quan-
tities in the immediate vicinity of the coal
fields.
Be this as it may, mineral wealth is abund-
ant, andwhenitcomatoaquestiouoflabor
theChinesecanfumishthistoanahnostfim‘
itlmsdegree, undrecrultifitromaclm that is
naturally patient, skillful and content with
smaflgalns. Wedonotagreewith thevice—
royinhispropbecytbatallhehopesformy
be accomplished in fifty years. China is too
deeply settled in its rut forthat, and other
nations, with the many advantages they al—
ready posses, will be moving, too, at an
always accelerating rates but the Chinese
may sortie time be very active competiwrs
in the manufacturing world—Engineering
News.
Forced toe Lave Home.
OVer 60 people were forced to leave
their homes yesterday to call forafiee
trial package of Lane’s Family Medicine.
If your blood is bad, your liver and kid‘—
neys out of order, if you are constipated
and have headache and an unsightly com—
plexion, don’t fail to call on any druggist
to-day for a free sample of this grand
temedy. The ladies praise it. Everyone
likes it. Large size package 50 cents.
Telephones are more generally used in
Sweden than anywhere else in the world.
Every woman who sufferers from sick
headache, and who dislikes to take bitter
doses, should try Carter’s Little Liver
Pills. They are the easiest of all medi-
cines to take. A positive cure for the
above distressing complaint; give prompt
relief in dyspepsia and indigestion; pre—
vent and cure constipation and piles. As
easy to take as sugar. Only onepill a
dose. 40 in avial. Price 25 cents. If
you try them you wil not be without
them.
There are over 800,000 more Widows
than widowers in England.
To MY FRIENDS :—As you are well aware
that I would not recommend that which I
did not believe to be good, I desire to say
to all who need a good, reliable, family
medicine, that I believe that one bottle of
Sulphur Bitters will do more good than
any other remedy I ever saw—Rev.
Ccphas Soule.
It cost $5,000 to cable a speech by the
President of Chili to Europe.
After trying numerous so-callcd catarrh
remedies and receiving no benefit I Was
finally inducec to try Ely’s Cream Balm,
and after trying one bottle I take great
pleasure in recommending it to all suffer-
ers from catarrh.—N. L. Gorton, with S.
Gorton 85 00., Gloucester, Mass.
Pittsburg, Penn., has only ninety-three
saloons.
There are twe ntyfseven more (logs than
sheep in Miami county, Ohio.
About 2,000 patents per month are
being granted.
A monument to Emperor William I has
been unveiled at Gasteln.
‘ ma NEW PRIZE STORY
is eagerly sougpt for. read with pleasure or dis-
appomtment. then tossed aside and for of.-
ten. But ladies who read of Dr. Plerce's a-
vorlte Prescription. read it again. for they dis-
cover in Its-something to prize—a messenger of
joy to those suffering from functional derange-
mente or from an of the painful disorders or
weaknesses pec to their sex. Periodical
Em internal inflammation and uloemtion‘
ucorrhea and kindred ailments readily yiel
to its wonderful curative and healing powers.
It is the only medicine for women, sold by
druggista. under a ponlnyo routes
from the manufacturers. that it give Batty
faction in every case. or money Will be :9-
fund . has been printed on
the bottle-wrappe and faithfully carried out
for many {5681's. 1.00 by druggiats. or six
bottles for .00. _ .
Copyright. 1888. b! Wonm’s DIS. MID. new.
ml?" > . I . I
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{TM , £3 9 - ', ' m
00 ’ ‘ " ‘
.Onequuled as a. halve!
cheupest. easiest to
DOCTOR
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laxative, or an active cathartic. according
to size of dose. 25 cents. by drugglsta.
Ono Pellet a '
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Absolutely Pure.
This Powder never varies. A marvel of pure
strength and wholesomeness. More economic
thanthe ordinary kinds, andcannot be sold in com-
petition With the multitude of low test, short
weight, allum or phosphate powders.
Sold only in Cans.
ROYAL BAKING l’ownnn 00.0.06 Wall St. , N. Y.
cA'nmaH
ELY’S
Bream Balm
CURES
HAY
FEVER
AND
Y-EEVER told in Head.
Apartiole is applied into each nostril and is
agreeable. Price 50 cents at Dru fiists ; b mail,
registered. 60 cts. ELY BROTH S. 56 arren
Street, New York. 1y44
THIS IS THE RIGHT EYE
I Not the Left
SLEEPER’S
EVE CIGAR
is never left but al-
ways just right.
You will never be
left if you smokethe
right eye. which is
Sleeper’s Eye 100.
Trade-Mark.
SLEEPER & (20., Factory, Boston.
For Sale in Norwalk by
UINTABD & sou, rm 1' a BENEDICT,
ALE Jon martin;
unrudnr a co . M. McPHERSOb,
JOHN mm.
gmfim.’
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P. H. DWYER.
The largest Stock of Harness
EVER DISPLAYED 1M TOWN.
All First-Class. Hand Stitched, Oak Tanneo
Pennsylvania Leather
THIRD cuss PRICES.
Call early as I intend tone“ at SMALL PROFIT,
SE’YEN! Y-FI VE .
Set smile and Double Harness.
HAIIIIENBII-OIIK- "All.
Over Mitchell's Market, next door to P. H. Dwyt
' ,er’s old stand. ' 14t-
'l'.'o Rent.
HE SHOE FACTORY PROPERTY, lately
occupied by F. H. Ruscoe belonging to
the Estate oth. X. James. deceasedrcan
now be rented on reasonable terms, and _is
available I or a. variety of 8n ses. Possession
immediately. F. ST"! E LOCKIWOglg,
ms
5. S.
G. F.
H. II.
J. G.
EQUITABLE MORTGAGE 00.,
or xmsns our. ennui.“ 32,000,000
0 and 7 r cent. Debenture Bonds and Mortgage
Loans at at and Accrued Interest.
8' B. CRAUI‘UBD Lcent
Loom 2 Masonic Building .
For Sale. ..
DOUBLE BARRELLED 111an made'by Jon
Bunsen, London. Will be sold cheap to
cash. Enquire at the omce.
:
Norwalk Chronicler