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WM, H. HAYWARD,
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Executive Departments, gIVcs me superior
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Many pensioners borne on the rolls are entitled
loumuchhighcr rule of pension than they now
receive. Inugreut majority of cases in which
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entitled to an increase of rate, and in most cases
where it was granted for wounds or injuries the
disability Increases 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 examining surgeons. A pensioner is
entitled to increase on a disability not set forth in
his original declaration. The pension laws are
l more liberal than formerly, and beller rating can
be had for many disabilities. I make a specialty
of Neglected and Rejected Claims. and if you Will
. present me witha brief statement. of your case,
stating by whom it was presented, I 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 requu'es a competent attorney to make them
good cases. Soldiers sumo-lug with disabilities
contracted in service, who have not applied for a
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SOLDIERS OF THE MEXICAN WAR,
Who were III that service sixty days, [or their
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r III E Homestead of, the late Abijnh Betts, situ-
ated at South Wilton, one mile from depot.
llwcllimz has eleven rooms. good well of water,
burn an 'I sheds, eighteen acres of land, abundance
of fruit. Will be sold at a bargain. Enquire of
0. E. WILSON. 3 GAZETTE Building. Norwalk, or
to a UL'A GREGORY, Winnimmk. (:oun. Ifll
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SECOND-HAND (last'lron Fence, with irate
allln perfect order and as Izood as new,
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The Art of cartography. ,
Ellie early maps used by Profmor Horsford
are partly French, and this, with the remark-
able display of maps at the Paris exposition,
and the great work undertaken by the
French bookseller, Hatchette, leads me to
say a word about map making, or “cartogra-
phy,” as the French call it. The age of Louis
XIV, which produced so much else, gave an
impulse to map making, and early in the last
century the great atlas of D’Auville, which
was I'ort y years in making, was the first an-
cestor of innumerable maps since published.
Fruucculso, under the Bourbons, made. the
first important topographical survey. under
the lead of Casino do Fleury, who was en-
gaged on it from 1744 to 1783, and his maps
were used by Napoleon and W'ellington in
their campaigns.
In our century, however, geographical
science and art under Humdoldt, who studied
in Paris, and Ritter have migrated to Ger-
many with other branches of learning. Tue
great publisher, Portbes, at Gotha, employ-
ing men like Stieler, SydOW, Spruuer and
l’ctcruu.nn, and the rival Berlin publisher,
Iiiepcrt, have for fifty years held sway in
map making.
second Napoleon, undertook to break down
the German monopoly in this art and to re-
store France to her former eminence in it,
and this Paris publisher employed Vivien do :
St. Martin to edit his new atlas, which is.
now comingr out in monthly numbers, begin—
ning with 1887. A still larger atlas. begun in
lb'Tl', is waiting to follow. Vivien dc St.
Martin died before much had been issued,
and be had been succeeded by F. Schroeder.
tiou will soon begin again.
occupy an engraver a year or two. In the
smaller atlas, lumps of Switzerland, the Brit
ish Isles and the Russian empire are published
and appear to be better than the best former
maps—those. of Slick-‘1’, the German. Com~
pared with work like this, the. new atlas of
Middlescx county seems rather crude and in-
accurate, but the maps are on a large scale,
and in the villages every man’s house is put
down with the owner’s name—Springfield
Republican.
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Winters, than by any nllur :lppllI'llllHIl,
and after lIn- l)ll.l‘l\':ll'lll i< cured. you can
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for two or Ilm-e Wieksorlouucr. This
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any pain or uchc that will not, yield to it.
Prim- 25 (rents. Sold by (lruguisls every—
where.
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A man whose wife Is not. blessed with
an especially mild temper says he goes
through his meals to the tune of “ Han-li-
lug Through-Juwetlyer."
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\‘ llI'II a mun and :1 Mill in an open lot,
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MONEY IN A BLACK EYE.
HOW AN ARTIST IN CHICAGO SAYS
HE MAKES A LIVING.
Painting Damaged Optlcc Instead of Land-
scapes—A Remedy That Is Better Than
Raw Beefsteak for the Fellows \Vho
[tun Against Doors.
“Beats your raw beefsteak all hollow!”
said a man in a gruff voice and a loud neck-
tie to his neighbor in 3. Lincoln avenue car.
“Well, will it make it possible for me tc
run around in the street with this thing off”
-pointing to a black bandage over his left
eye—“and yet look respectable?"
“Bet cherlife—I been there—know how it
feels myself.”
This last assertion did not seem toaiford the
man with the black bulge over his eye any
alarming amount of satisfaction. But he
took the address of an artist highly recom-
mended by the gruff voice, which sounded as
if it belonged to a professional hruiser, just the
same. It was the old story—hit his eye
against the door in the dark, and couldn’t get
anybody to believe him. So he finished his
ride and got oil" the car as soon as it had
emerged from' the tunnel. He found the
al‘ldrcss furnished him without much trouble.
It was in a. basement on Randolph street,
almost within a ,stone’s throw of the court
house and next to a Chinese laundry.
now IIE BEGAN.
“ch,” said the. black eye artist, very seri-
ously, “it is rather a queer trade to follow,
You see, I’m really a landscape painter by
profession. But when I struck Chicago a
year ago, out of pocket and without anybody
to suya. good word for me, I found that there
wasn’t much landscape to paint hero anyway,
and for another thing I soon became aware
that what landscape there was had been col-
lared by other painters, who held a sort of
first lien on it, so to speak. Anyway, there
was nothing for me to do, and I soon got
One day, while in the
Sherman house, a fellow raised a row and
gave the man who stood next to him a bat in
the eye. The man who got slugged, a re
spectable fellow, apparently, neat-1y dressed,
felt awfully mortified at his black eye.
‘W'hat in thunder shall I do? he said. ‘I am
a solicitor, and I have got to hustle around
on the street and in the offices of business men
every day of my life. I can’t SllOW myself
the way I am.’ ‘Come with me,’ I said, ‘I'll
soon fix you out all right.’
“And I tool; him to the studio of an ac-
quaintance over on State street, borrowed a
little bit of sienna,some white lead andadrop
of Cinnabar, mixed it to suit; the man’s
natural complexion, and then I put it on
pretty thick under the eye. That made him
look like his own self, excepting a trifle baggy
near the nose. The man was delighted. I
told him to come back next morning and have
a new layer put on, and I thus treated him
with oil paint for a week. He paid me $5,
which just made me solid for a Week with my
boarding house friend, and I’ve stuck to the
calling of Black Eye Artist ever since. My
first ‘patient,’ the solicitor, brought me lots
of custom. He sent all his business friends
and acquaintances to me, whenever they
3 happened to have a discolored optic, and they
in turn spread the glad tidings, and thus I’ve
made a comfortable living ever since—more,
at least, than I ever made at landscape paint;-
mgr.“
'l‘llE “’AY IT IS DONE.
Here the artist interrupted his flow of lan-
guage for a moment to attend to the optical
needs of his “patient.” He used a palette and
a score of little oil paint tubes, just like the
other brethren of his era ft, and he skillfully
and quickly prepared his mixture, keeping
the face exposed to the light, and comparing
notes with it a. few times. Then he began to
point. At first he laid on a. sub-coating of
color about the hue of sunset: in a fog. Then,
as that had dried, he began to rub in the
light brown and paint, and be varied the
shades so as to correspond exactly with the
original subsoil beneath. It- was a highly
creditable effort, worthy of the brush of
Michael Angelo, and with a fidelity to nature
which was truly amazing. After he had put
on the finishing touches be put the man’s hat
on so that its shadow cast the mourning eye
into additional gloom, and thus attired the
patient looked just as he had before he ran
against that door in the dark.
“Fifty cents, please!” be? said, and his pa-
tient gave him the money with great haste,
remarking that it was a very reasonable
charge. Then the artist cautioned him.
“Don’t smile any more than you have to,” he
said, in a warning voice, “and above all, don’t
laugh! The paint as it dries slightly con-
tracts the skin, and it will peel off In, little
layers if you laugh. Come baci. :xn-morrow
or the day after, if you find it necessary, and
I’ll touch it up again. But I guess it won’t
be necessary, provided, of course, you don’t
wash the paint off. You mustn’t put any
soap or water near the eye, and if it begins
to itch you mustn’t scratch. That’s all——
ta ta!”
And the patient left, slightly muddled be
cause of this glittering array of instructions.
“Then this first-coat of paint won’t stay on
until the eye assumes its normal color again?”
queried the reporter.
“No, of course not,” answered the artist,
with a chuckle. “That‘s how I increase my
revenues. If I had to live just on the first
coat of paint I’d have taken to something
else long ago. But it generally takes two or
three renewals before I get through with a
patient, and that’s how I get in my work and
my dollars. You see. the average duration
of a black eye is almost ten days. With some
men it lasts over a fortnight, with some only
a week. In any case I make from $1.50 to
53 out of every black eye that’s brought to
me.”
“How many is that a year?”
“Let’s see! I never kept tab on them ex-
actly, but I can tell pretty nearly from my
earnings. The last six months—i. e., since I
got my trade fairly established—I’ve taken in
an average of $8 per day. That means six-
teen black eyes, at the rate of fifty cents each.
It’s funny, though, to listen to the explana—
tions men make when they come in here. Of
course, it’s all the same to me. A black eye
is a black eye to me. It means money, and I
never stop to inquire into its antecedents.”
——-Chicago Herald.
Flat Life in New York.
If you live in a flat in New York city you
soon get to know the days in which certain
of your neighbors boil cabbage and others
fry onions and to execratc some one‘s pipe;
you seem to have almost as much good of the
garlic as the family to whose persistent use
of it knows no surccase; you may doubt
whether the whiff that reaches y:"- some-
times is from Limburger cheese or hot, but
you can‘t doubt the rottenness of the whiff;
you realize how the arnica. habit is growing
on the young man learning to ride a bicycle,
and you wonder whether so much iodofbrni
is really doing any good to Whoever it is that
uses it so constantly. Now and then a quite
new, original and unassignable stench per—
vades the atmosphere of the house, and, re-
membering that you have somewhere read
that smallpox has one peculiar smell and
scarlet fever another, you would really be
pleased to know if that fragrance from the
bottomless pit is like either of them,-and if
so, which f—Novv York Letter.
A HERMIT’S OATH.
Tho “'09 that a Summer Boarder Worked
in tho Life of a Good Man.
Way back in the early thirties there was
settled a little village not far from Atlanta~
which has since grown to be one of the most
prominent of Georgia’s smaller cities. Among
the first families to make their home in the
new town were those of Mr. Herndon, who
owned a large rice plantation near Savannah,
and a Mr. Lyle, Who moved from the Irlue
grass regions of, Kentucky. These families
settled on neighboring lots, and from that. as
well as the fact that they were all strangers
in a strange place, there grew up a strong
friendship between the two households. The
heads of the families often talked together
and consulted over matters of business, while
the children played and roxuped and sent up
their merry shouts as they indulged in their
pleasant games. .
In the Herndon family there were five chil-
dren—three girls and two boys. The elder of
the boys was W'illiam Fletcher Herndtm, a
bright, manly little fellow of about 12 years.
Only two children had been given to Mr.
Lyle and his wife. Of these, one was a little
boy, while the other was a. beautiful 10~ycar-
old girl, with chestnut gold hair, large brown
eyes and a beautifully rounded face, and on
her cheeks was the ruddy glow of color that
a happy life and plenty of good exercise will
impart to a child. She was a sunbeam (:f a
girl, and no one bid fairer to make a prettier
woman than did Dora Lyle.
It was no wonder, then, that, being thrown
together as they were, there sprang up a
childish love on the part of \Villiam Herndou
for Dora, and, as the boy was handsome and
bright, there is nothing strange in the fact
that the girl returned that love.
Time went on. The one grew to bcayoung
man of 20, good looking. clever and accom-
plished, but a farmer, good as anybody, but
a workingman, While the other merged into
a young lady of 18, the beauty of childhood
being brought out more clearly and distinct-
ly and made even more beautiful by the ma-
turity of womanhood. The fancied love of
the children grow in reality with these two;
all the village knew of the affair, and it was
conceded that they would be married. But
fate. had decreed otherwise.
It was in the summer of 52 that a. richly
dressed stranger made his appearance at the
home of the Lyles and sought board. There
was a spare room in the house, and good mo-
ther Lyle, with her eye to business, agreed to
take the stranger in. There sprang up an in-
timacy between Dora Lyle and the stranger,
but no one suspected a love affair, and time
passed on until the day arrived when Will
Herndon and Dora were to be married.
It was a bright September day, when the
sun had gone down in all the beauty and
splendor of an autumnal sunset, and the
shades of night had fallen about the world,
that those of the citizens of the little village
who had been invited to the wedding began
to assemble at; the Lyle residence. Will,
happy at heart, and full of the inspirations
of a new life opening before him, hastened to
the house of his promised bride to claim her
as his own. But there was something wrong.
No bride met his coming, nor could she be
found anywhere. Quick and eager search
was made for llCl‘, but fivaiu. Then, 100, it
was diseo‘.’ered that the stranger boarder
had disappeared also. It took
while for the rumor that Dora had left Will
for the stylish summer boarder to gain circu.
lotion and credence among the guests. This
was found true. for the next day a letter was
received from the man, stating that be and
Dora had been married in a neighboring
town the night before, and were then on
their way to a distant part of the state,
where they would make their home.
Poor Bill! It seemed as if the shame and
mortification and the loss of Dora would
drive him mad. He acted as a crazy
man, and taking a picture of the girl, which
110 had in his room, he would sit: down for
hours at a time looking at it and crying like
a child. Several days afterward he called in
a number of friends, and in their presence
signed this 021th:
"I, \Villiam Hcrndou, do solemnly swear
that from this day I shall never associate
with man or woman again: and Iswear, also,
that, if ever I hear of Dora Lyle havmf,r
been done any harm by any one, I will
hunt down the person who is guilty of the
act and will kill him as I would a venomous
reptile. So help me God.”
A strange oath that for a man to Sign, but
Bill signed it, and the same day he went off
to the mountains and Commenced Work on
the but. Where was to be his lonely home, and
began his strange life of seclusion from the
world, fleeing from every one, and dead,
though living, looking upon every visitor as
a ghost of the past haunting him and making
his present all the more miscrablc.-S3n
Francisco Examiner.
An Old Kissing Game.
“I found a peculiar custom up at Shepherds-
town, TV. Va, where I spent my vacation,”
said a gentleman yesterday, “which was a
novelty. The. people have what they call
‘soups.’ A ‘soup’ is a sort of outdoor picnic.
Each person invited brings a dressed chicken.
The host provides the vegetables. The
chickens and vegetables are put into huge
kettles, holding ten to twenty gallons, and
cooked over omn fires for several hours until
the combination is reduced almost to a jelly.
Pepperaud otherkseasouiug are introduced.
The young folks stir the soup with long-
handlcd iron spoons, walking around the
kettle as they stir.
“I‘Vheu a girl‘s spoon clicks against the
spoon of a young man he is bound to catch
and kiss her. As you can imagine, there are
a good many lively scrinunnges around the
kettle. \thn the soup is done it is Iadled
out into plates and eaten, and is delicious.
The custom is an old one, and I was unable
to find its origin. A company of Stonewall
J ackson’s command was recruited round
Shepherdstown, and it still keeps up the or-
ganization. It has a. reunion every year and
celebrates the occasion with a. grand ‘soup.’
A ‘sonp' of that company, to be properly
gotten up, should be made of stolen chickens,
but the veterans have had to give up forag-
ing since the war, and now make a compro-
mise with neces51ty by going around in squads
and robbing each other’s hen roosts by a. pre-
arranged understanding.”—W’ashin gton Post.
Advertisement I 'riters. ,
There is a great deal of ingenuity and
brain power spent in the making of adver-
tisements. This is so much the casz: that cer-
tain firms in New York and other cities agree
for a consideration to ’\'-'I‘I'L‘ advertisements
for any firm that likes to employ them. They
guarantee to write the, c advertisements in a
taking way, so that may will command at-
tention, and if they succeed in doing this they
certainly earn the money, ~for the greatest
wealth producer in the world is advertising,
persistently stuck to and intelligently accom-
plished—Detroit Free Press.
Kate Field at \Vm-k.
At her literary work Miss Field nowadays
wears a bright red satin dross, reformed after
her own ideas, and touched up with frills and
shells of soft lace. She has tiny feet, which
she puts in the dainticSt of slippers and the
finest of spun silk hosiery, and which she has
a most coquettish way of crossing and un-
croMng while she. reclines, working swiftly
and steadily all the timo.—Philadol phia Press.
I
but a short- ,
AME uCAN NEWSPAPERS.
STORY OF THEIR BEGINNING
AND EARLY PROGRESS.
THE
Benjmnln Harris the First American Pub-
llslmr —Jonrna.ls Conducted by the
Framing—Suppressed by an Act. of tho
Legislature—Old Style of Printing.
To Benjamin Harris is due the credit of
having published the first American news
paper It. was printed in Boston by Richard
Pierce. the first number being issued on Sept.
25, 16110. It was the intention of the pub-
lisher to issue a monthly edition, but on ac
count of some unfavorable criticisms it was
almost immediately 811;)de by the author-
ities. But one copy is in existence, which is
possessed in London. It bears the title Pub-
lick Occurrendes, Both Foreign and Domes—
tick.
The first newspaper that had any consid—
erable existence was The Boston News Let-
ter. This 'was published and printed by John
Campbell, and appeared on April 24, 1704. It
was issued weekly and continued to appear
until 1776. Next in order was The Boston
Gazette, first published on Dec. 31, mo. On
them of December of the same year The
American Weekly Mercurie appeared in Phil-
adelphia, the famous William Bradford be.-
ing the editor.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
The appearance of The New England Cou-
rant, :1 weekly newspaper published by James
Franklin,elder brother of Benjamin Franklin,
took place on Aug. 17, 1721. The new journal
at once attracted attention by the slashing
style of its editorials and criticisms, and the
life of its editor was by no means an easy one.
Franklin began by falling foul of the clergy
and became involved in a fierce controversy
with Increase Mather and other ministers,
and was so liberal in his criticism of public
affairs that in 17:32 a resolution passed the
Legislature forbidding James Franklin to-
print or publish The New England Com-ant or
any other pamphlet or paper of like nature,
except it be first supervised by the secretary
of the province. For some time Franklin.
yielded obedience to this edict, but within a.
few months after it was issued his paper
again appeared, with the name of Benjamin
Franklin, 3 boy of 16, anda compositor in the
office, at the head of the columns as the pro-
prietor. -
New York could not boast the possession of
a newspaper until Oct. 16, 1725, when William
Bradford, founder of The Philadelphia Mer-
cm'ie, published the New York Gazette. In
17:58, Benjamin Franklin established The
Pennsylvania Gazette, which appeared in
Philadelphia. This journal continued in
existence until 184-5, when it was merged in
The North American.
Under Franklin’s able management it be-
came the leading newspaper of the countr ,
and during the controversies with England
preceding the Revolution took a strong stand
in favor of resistance and independence. The-
famous letters of John Adams over the
pseudonym of Novanglus appeared in its
columns. The first newspaper published in
Virginia was issued at Williamsburg in 1736.
It was entitled The Virginia. Gazette, edited
by W'illiam Parks, who, during the nine pre-
ceding years. had published The Maryland
Gazette at Annapolis. In 1771 the first num-
bers of The Massachusetts Spy, edited by
Isaiah Thomas, appeared in Boston. It was-
removcd to W'orccster in 1775, where it is
still published under the title of The W'orccs-
ter Spy.
THE FIRST DAILY.
At the outbreak of the Revolutionary war-
there were in existence seven newspapers in
Massachusetts, one in New Hampshire, two
in Rhode Island, ‘four in Connecticut, four in‘
New York, nine in Pennsylvania, two each
in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina,
three in South Carolina. and one in Georgia,
a. total of thirty-seven. W'lth the exception
of The Philadelphia Gazette, which was pub—
lished semi-weekly, all were weeklies. In
1800 the number had increased to 200, of’
which several were dailies.
The Evening Post, established in New York
in 1801, was the first regular afternoon news-
paper. .t is also the oldest journal outside
of Illassachimetts, with the exception of The
New York Commercial Advertiser, which
appeared in 1797. The newspaper has gone-
through many changes of form. The early
English news letters of the time of Cromwell
were small sheets, printed only on one side,
and containing no more matter than is to be
found in two columns of a modern publica-
tion.
Many Were printed from wooden type, and,
in a. number of instancw, direct hand press-
ure upon a superimposed slab of wood or-
plate of iron was the means adopted for mak-
ing the impression. The type was inked by
abz'ush after each sheet was printed. The
old newsletter style, with the addition of a
fold, and impressions taken on each side of
the sheet, prevailed up to the middle of the
Eighteenth century. The hand press was
used and the ink laid on by a roller. The
hand press continued in universal employ-
ment in the United States until the end of
the Revolutionary war.
Franklin set the type and turned the crank
of the press on his brother’s paper. Both
water and horse power have been employed
in running presses, and steam was not util-
ized to any extent until some time after the
opening of the present century. lVithin the
last half century the improvements have
been immense, and the difference between
the newspapers of 1840 and the some of mod-
ern journalism is far greater than that be-
tween those of the time of President W. H.
Harrison and. Franklin’s hand _ printed sheet.
—Current Literature.
lax-hers Generally Have Good Eyes.
The Boss—Ever get shaved by a barber
who wore glasses! Just think over now and
see if you can remember any barber who
ever wore glasses. I have been in the busi-
ness twenty years and 1 would be more apt
to see such barbers than you. I don’t believe
that I ever saw more than three. A man.
who can’t see well has no business fooling
around another man’s face with a razor. I
went into a recruiting office once, thinking I
would enlist. They asked me several ques-
tions, one of them being an inquiry about my
business. I said I was a barber. The . re—
cruiting officer replied at: uilCC‘: “Then your
eyesight is all right.” 1 don’t: think I ever
saw a cross-eyed barb-er in my life. As a.
rule, the barber’s eyesight Is better than any
class or business or profession which you
find—Chicago Tribune.
The Doctor’s Yarn.
Dr. Ross Bryte, in a talk with a Pittsburg
Commercial Gazette reporter, told of some
peculiar people he had met in his professional.
capacity. One lady brought a four karat
diamond and asked to have it set in one of
her front teeth. It was done as she directed,
but could not be fastened in securely. When
she learned this she had the, tooth drawn and
a false one made with the diamond set in the
center of it. One day she was playing with
her pet poodle when her diamond tooth
dropped out of her mouth. The dog swallowed
the gem, plate and all, and the lady was
sorely disturbed, both over the loss of her
tooth and the danger in which her pet’s life
had been» placed. The tooth was recovered,
however, and the dog is still living. .
Norwalk Chronicler