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SOLDIERS, ATTENTION
.WM. H. HAYWARD,
Pension A ttorncy,
708 East Capitol Street,
waslriso'ron n. 0..
Located at the National Capital, adjacent to all the
Executive Departments. gives me superior
‘ advantage in the prosecution of Claims
against the United States.
‘ 'INCREASE YOUR PENSION.
Many pensioners borne on the rolls are entitled
to a much higher rate of pension than they now
receive. In a great majority of cases in which
pension was granted for disease, the pensioner is
entitled to an increase of rule, and in most cases
where it was granted for wounds or injuries the
dlsabilltyincreeses each year. As time passes the
dlsabllity 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 dissbllliy not set forth In
his original declaration. -. The; pension in" are
more liberal than formerly, and better rstlng‘csn
be had for many dlssblllllcs. I make a speclsll
of Neglected and Revealed Claims, and if you: wl l .
present me with a brief statement of our case,
statlugby whom it was presented, I w “l obtain a
_ ' f it has merl s‘wlli
procure a favorable settlement. Many c aims
stand rejected before the department, who: it
only requireeiscolupetentfsmrney to make them
good cases. Soldiers amt-ma with disabilities
contracted in melee, who have not applwdfor a
pension, should do so as it is their man. '
sources rug-{ghoul WW
tmo.‘ u! ' " melon
ll
achimneys is almost confined
points than all the Ranges on .he ‘
Short Life of the Dog. .
-A lover of dogs writes: The dog is short
lived. He is aged at 15 years, as old in point
of de’crepitude as a horse at 30, more so than
a man at 80. It is sad to think for how short
a. time we have this prime favorite with us,
and what lamentatious are poured over his
early grave. He doubtless lives a fast life.
He has fine faculties, scent and sight and
hearing, and he uses them without stint. His
digestion must be pretty. good, too, judging
by ,the way he bolts his food. Perhaps nature
has designed him to wear himself out quickly,
so that he shall not live long enough to know
too much— —to Learn to speak and to write—in
short, to rival her prowl piece of work, man,
as he might if he had fifty years instead
of fifteen to do it in.—Montrea;l Star.
If your skin is rough and pimply, or
covered with blotchcs or sores, and you
want a clean, smooth skin and fair com-
plexion, use Sulphur Bitters. The best
. medicine in such cases I ever sold.—O. E.
Scnsrrmn & 00., Druggists, Lawrence,
Mass.
Blobson—Don’t you think that Dempsy
rather plays the fool ?_ Popinjay—No,
sir; I think he works at the job.
Do not despair of curing your sick head-
ache when you can so easily obtain Car-
ter’s Litttle Liver Pills. They will effect
a prompt and permanent cure. Their
action is mild and natural.
When a woman promenades the street,
leading a dog, it looks as if she couldn’t.
get anything else on a string.
The man' that sells you
'iglamp-chimneys may, or may
'emot, know the difference—
‘Some are made Of brittle glass,
and some are made of tough
glass. The tough ones cost
(the maker two or threetimes
ids much as the brittle ones.
That accounts for the break-
" 'ing of chimneys.
The making of tough glass
to one firm, Macbeth & Co.,‘-
Pittsburgh. “Pearl-top”
is the trade mark. 9
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Do Your Own Dyeing, at Home.
They will dye eve thing. They are sold every»
where. Price inc. argsckage. Theyhsve uocqusl
for Strength. Brightness, Amount in Packages
or for Partners of Color. or non-fading Qualities.
They do not crock or smut; «colors. For sole‘by
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Street, Geo. l5. Plalsted. Drugglsts. lys‘l
GOLD man. PARIS, 1878-
W. BAKER & 0038
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No Chemwals
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that m m m m of Cocoa
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end is therefore for more
‘, com use the. one cut-o”. 1th
delicious. nourishing. strengthening. EA-
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.for invalidsuwellupeuousiuluelfi.
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FOR SALE
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Sam Sauce? Plot.
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color" You CARE. g
m are you crying about, little men? ,
Youhsveahsrdlessomyousay: ' . .
Well, there! Don‘t you care,
That‘s no sod affair.
You are bound to have those in your day.
Do brave, little man, hard work is your plan: ,
You‘ll come out all right, don‘t you care.
What are you grumbling about, business man!
Dame fortune is frowning, you say! ‘
Well, there! Don‘t you care. ,
Just set on the square,
She‘s sure to smile on you some day.
Bepiniug, my man, is a. very poor plan.
You‘re going to succeed, don‘t you can.
What are you sorrowiug for. aged maul
Your end is approaching. you say?
Well, there! Don‘t you care,
You have no time to spare, l
Prepare for your journey away. '
Have peace; weary man, ’tis part of God‘s plan,
You are safe in his hand, don‘t you care.
—Frank B. Welch.
Seven as a Sacred Number.
Undoubtedly seven is the sacred number.
There were seven days of creation; after
seven days’ respite the flood came; the years
of famine and of plenty were in cycles of
seven; every seventh day was a Sabbath,
and every seventh year a Sabbath year of
rest. After every seven times seven came
the jubilee; the feasts of unleaveued bread
and of the tabernacle lasted seven days.
The golden candlesticks had seven branches;
seven priests with seven trumpets surrounded
Jericho seven times during the week, and
seven times on the seventh day; Jacob ob-
tained his wife by servitude of seven years.
his wife, and he was bound with seven green
withes and seven locks of his hair were cut
off. Nebuchadnezzar was seven years as a
beast of the field; Shadrach and his compan-
ions were cast into a furnace heated seven
times hotter than it had ever been heated be-
fore.
occurred by sevens, and at the end of the so.-
credvvolume we read of seven churches, seven
eandlesticks, seven spirits, seven scales, seven
stars, seven thunders, seven vials, seven
monster.-St. Louis Republic. '
A Street Scene in Cairo.
Some one turns his head and looks. A
hundred heads follow suit. It is s. couple iof
Egyptian women in baggy treason and
veiled to the eyes that hurry by, their ‘lnulti-
tudiuous bangles, bracelets and necklaces
glistening and jiggling. ' 1’ ‘
In a cool corner, under a gayly striped
awning, you halt a few moments and drink a
tiny glass of fiery rski or a dainty egg shell
cup of Turkish cafe noir. A bench invites
you to rest a moment. The busy world
buzses about you. A fat old lady from the
provinces has. just bought a bar of candy
from that old bearded Moslem in the marlot
fox and green striped robe.
Once between her teeth, it will neitha' bite
together. Her bucolic son, in a big felt hat
and high water pantsloons, is so busy laughv
ing at her that he stumbles into a Parisian
beauty who approaches, and received in re-
turn a withering scowl from her escort.
0n the right stretches a vista of cool
arcades. and through the horseshoe pointed
arches the shops are seen. Their tempting
arrays of all manner of eastern merchandise
purchasers.—Bos u Glo
The Man Wbo Laughs.
Dr. Peppenbrook writes to a St. Innis pa-
per that, contrary to the general impremion,
wrinkles are caused by laughing instead of
should be given as much publicity or poulble,
becausstb, ‘hssbeeuagocddealofoynpa-
thy wasted" the doctor is right. A pawn
whose face is “Vii-initial up is curmdy bo-
Iieved toms" passed through a no of
tumbler. The reason for till-probably grow
out of the fact that, when the hand-on kept
udcwataforeuyls‘ugthof time, the-kin
bunnies crinkled. The natural euppem'flon
was that the skin of - the face would do like-
wim when subjected to the waters of adver-
it}. Thereseemsmbereesou iuthisdedue-
dos. Yet the doctor cannot be wrong or he
would not be right. And the wrinkled once
of the race must uowbe cous‘deredustho
people who have had a good time. The
creases and furrows will mark the rounds of
pleasure they have taken, and it will be dan-
gerous for any joker to try any chestnut on
them unless he is proof against the chestnut
de—Hersld of Health.
- ' Not 80 Easy.
Circumstances alter cases in matters of eti-
quette as well as in the more important affairs
of life. ,
. Little Edith, visiting in the country, was
much interested in an old lady, who. when e.
plate‘of fruit was paired her at an evening
_ party, replied:
"Thank you, I don’t care for any new, but'I
should liketo put an applelu my pocket to
' take home."
'At the end of the dinner, a few days after-
ward. Edith was observed looking hopelessly
at a: last bit of pudding on her plate.
“Can‘t you finish it, dear!” asked a sym-
pathetic auntie. ,
“No," replied she, with a sigh, “not now!
But I should like, if you please, to put it in
my pocket to eat this evening.”—Youtb’s
Compmlion.
Pronunciation of Dahlia.
uitely settled the true pronunciation of the
word dahlia. Mr. Hibbard admits that it
should be pronounced dab-li-a, but that, on
the whole, itis better to adhere to the old
style of dalea, omitting the pronunciation of
the important h altogether, remembering,
that the plant is named after Dahl, the Swed-
iohibotanist. It dos seem obvious that the
pronunciation should be such as to imprea
upon the mind of the listener or learner the
» ‘ idesj that the name of the dehlia is purposod
.- toh'onor thatof Dahl and not some one of
the name of Dale. To that end I hold that
the proper pronunciation should be dahl-ys,
making it as it were two syllables only, and
such as brings into prouiincueo it
porch k—Vlck’s Headline. .
j A Dangerous Book Agent. '
There is a certain firm of submript‘lon book
publishers in Cincinnati that has anage'ut
who: recently took a most wonderful number
of orders. .“I can‘t explain it,” old one of
the firm, “except on the theory that he mos-
merisssthem. I know that I delivered the
books’tp the parties, and while they all so-
knowledged the genuinousssof the oignsturu,
they claimed not to be able to remember the
least thing about giving the «def—Ex-
?!lsgl Willard on Woman‘s Drum.
Mont:
“Catchmu endow-lot him hides
weep women-t, and be ”you'll get no
more hivsutiousg'bhdwa boils upon Bio-
M and farewell to-Gu'msu—uulty; coerce
War-owning into oar-ts, and you’ll
:flgtg’. mannequin; put Porufll him ’0“-
.l'
cosh, n4honorulo-halo‘m'
In the New Testament nearly everything 1
nor break off, but glues her mouth and hands -
.srssurrossdedh magic! .m . and
worry. It is just as well that this stat-meat ~
Wo‘seemtobe in a fair waytohave dcfig
Mislwmsrdfiu a recent lecturoou we».
. “bureauskes’thefollowlugium
Samson kept his nuptials seven days, and f
on the seventh day~he propounded a riddle to)
plagues, seven angles and of a seven headed .
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~ prize this so much more highly than the
2 locked up into the questioning young face.
‘ a husband should solely support his wife.
~ lie, in her best gown, a pretty, soft, rose and
barred out from it the dreams which never,
NORWALK GAZETTE: WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 25. 18:39.
A LOVER’S FANCY.
I would my lady‘s mirror be,
Somightlholdhcrimagcfalrs
And then penchsnce she'd smile on me,
Seeing her face reflected there.
I never could her mirror be,
For when she smiled on mo—sh, then,
My heart would hold the vkiou sweet.
And never give it back again.
—Bostou Transcript.
THE SECRET OF A SCREEN.
“Phyllis!”
“Yes, auntie.”
“Mrs. Van Roosevelt was here again to-
day."
The girl busying herself around the little
kitchen paused at the words.
“About the screen, auntie!” she asked,
wistfully.
“About the screen, my love."
“And she offered!"
“Seventy-five dollars this time,” .
“And,” rather hopelessly, “'you‘—"
“I refused it, dear!” very' promptly and
proudly.
Phyllis pressed her red lips very tightly
together.
How she wished her aunt would sell the ar-
ticle in questionl They were so very poor.
Her salary as teacher in the village school
barely paid for their necessaries, and she did .
. so long to be able to spend a few dollars fool-
isth sometimes. . .
She was a pretty girl—an extraordinarily“
pretty girl. Her slender ‘bflt well rounded
form was most alcrtly and charmingly grace-
ful; and the face, with its smooth, broad
brow, its sunbright hair, its' short, arch
features, its delicate coloring and. dreamy,
violet eyes, deserved better gowning to em-
phasize its exquisitenem than the faded and
mended old blue cashmere which she wore.
“But, auntie, all your other old heirlooms
went long ago to buy bread and butter for us
both—wont in the time before I was old
enough to earn the little I do.“ Why 'do you
rest!" ' -
The small, withered old lady, dremod in
black alpaca, with a net handkerchief crossed
over her. bosom, ceased her slow rocking and
“Ilm keeping it to give you for a wedding
unseat." .
“That is very kind of you, auntie, but in:
deedlwculdratberhsve'yousell it and en-
jo‘y some comfort now.”
Mrs. Men-it’s little brown bird like eyes
twinkled ohrowdl .
. “I would if I were offered enough for it.”
' “But,“ cried Phyllis, stopping in the act of
filling tho tea kettle, ‘mvmty-five-dollsrs, '
auntie l"
“Seventy-five (Idlers can’t touch it!” do
dared the old lady, with esperity.
Phyllis sighed.
It wm quits usel- b argue with her aunt
when she got an idea in her head.
As the girl washed the supper dishes and
tidied up the tiny room which was both din-
ing room and kitchen, and which, with two
other apartments, formed their whole estab-
lishment,she recalled many of the odd stories
the had heard about her aunt.
A peculiar character every one seemed to
consider her—demented, many intimated.
Certain it was that one episode related of her
seemed to justify suspicion of her sanity.
'Vslr ww'luronmmml‘
wheu she bed a handsome adventur-
I' named Oswald Merrit. She had converted
all her property into money, invested the
money in bonds, and then made a bonfire of
the bonds! Her jewels disappeared, no one
knew where. She said she wished to test the
sincerity of her husband's love, and believed
But a test so severe Oswald Merl-it could
not and did not and. quuriated at his
brids’sdeedaad doctrine,botoldhuhohsd
only married her for It money, and took
himself 06.
lbs- yeers, woe-thin, abudvo, di-ipeted.
he hung mad the neighborhood, seeking
no reconciliation with his wife, but ever to
borproviug a persistent andmalicious m‘cn-
ace.
To her immerse relief die. learned one day
hohsd falleuoutoutofothlrdetorywiudow
and broken his neck. '
His widow devoted herself to thocaroof
her brother‘s orphan child, Phyllis Clyde,
and till the latter w of an age to work, had
supported them both by nursing, doing plain
sewing, and occasionally selling a bit of her
antique furniture or old family silver. Now
the only relic left was the fire screen, with
which Mrs. Mel-tit so stubbornly refused to
part.
That night, when she had given her aunt
her regular cup of cocoa and tucked her
mugly away in bed, Phyllis went into the
wee box of a parlor and stood before the
maroon in question. :.
“Worth more than seventy-five dollars, in—
deed l" she murmured, ' " ' y. "That
clumsy, ugly, uncle. old thing! But then it
is just the articles which are ugly, clumsy
and useless that rich people seem to run crazy
after nowadays.” ‘ .
It was oval in shape, bound in- dull silver
and swung in a slender frame of black mo.-
hogany. Tho back—it was a couple of inches
deep—was of poplar macho ; the front, a queer
jumble of appliqued pictures in, oil, India ink
and water colors, all boiug protected from
the dust by glass.
The following day was Saturday, and Phyl-
whito challis, set off for the Van Roomvelts’,
where she was engaged to instruct tri-weekly
the younger children in music. -
Quite the shew place of the neighborhood
was the Van Roosevelis’. Built in the most
elaborate style of modern architecture, it was
surrounded by conservatories. orchid houses,
and terracesof emerald velvet.
Phyllis was eudoavoriug to make the most
diminutive Min Van. Roosevelt comprehend
the diner-once between a crotchet and a qua-
verywheu Archie came into the room.
Archie was the Van Roosevelts' eldest son,
their pride and heir. And Archie was most
tomondously in love with Phyllis Clyde.
This, to the girl’s decided embarra-ment
and consternation. Not that she didn’t like
Archie—one couldn’t be], that, so frank, and
kind, and handsome, an honorable was he-J
but Phyllis felt their paths lay in. widely dif-
ferent worlds, and that sheswculd be more
content with her prosaic. existence if she
never could culminate in realisation. So
that was why she gave him now the more“
nod of recognition when he entered the music
room. . -
To half a donor: random remarks she made
no reply. He tried the strategy of questions.
“Mymothorweuttouo yourauutyestefi T p ‘ I‘_ : ,H . ,
. . Ahanobum willow-owners
» k. sprinters for Mats-wee Elvenfijs pretty
{3' “You." ~ ‘
“Why won’t she sell it! My-motber has
her beart set on securing it." ~
Phyllis looked up and laughed.
“She says__
gift for me.”
l...9frhynm"
l “Well—one, two, three. nodal”
‘5 “Oh, infantile tuition be bid!" cried
'Mhm-hl‘ungoutoth
she is keepiugjit'fora 'dinlli ‘
1.
But '10 managed tomeet Phyllisou her way
home. .
"Phyllis,” he said, “I’ve thought of a great
scheme. Marry me 1"
“You’ve said that before,” with a shake of
her head. ~
“Yes, but about the screen, you know.
We’ll give it to mother as a pom offering
when you are her daughter-in-law.” » ‘
Phyllis laughed merrily. But she was ob-
solutely unrelenting. >
“No, no, no. Archie!” «
“I shan’t take no for an answer i” avowed
the young fellow, stoutly.
“You must!”
“I won’t!”
“That is a nice way to contradict a lady I”
reproved Phyllis, with great evidence of in«
dignation, and at her heart a warm, glad
thrill.
That evening Archie presented himself at
the door of Mrs. Merrit’s domicile.
Regardless of his sweetheart’s protest, he
marched boldly in to see her aunt.
He quite dwarfed the little parlor “and its
furniture.
The wrinkled old lady in the window looked '
at him in amazement. . .
“Mrs. Merrit, I presume?” he said, stand-
ing, but in hand, before her.“ “I’m Archie
Van Roosevelt, and I want to marry Phyllis,
if she will accept a man‘whoi'hasto depend
on his-brain and hands for a living)“ “ '
“But your father and mother?”
“Have dislnherited me.” .
“For wanting to marry Pbyllisl”.
“Yes,” " . . ..
“Then I shan’t7’7- began the girl, promptly.
“Oh, yes,” in avoioe both. coaxing and con-
fident; “oh, yes, you will, Phyllis!” ‘ . ,
Mrs. Merl-it turned her' gimleting eye. on
her niece. . '
“You’d better i” she advised dryly. "You
won’t find such unlover every day. Look at
my luck!” '
The remark was effective. The eyes of
the young people met, and out on each soft
check of Phyllis Clyde glowed abright flag
of surrender. . .
The following day Archie Van Roosevelt
went to the city apd secured. work, and Phyl-
lis received a new frOm his mother, dispens-
ing with Iber services. _
A year passed, during which Archie worked
hard- and;: saved every cent: he «with. and
Phyllis. halt. ‘resrétfsl a... .l. Ind made
such a sacrifice as his necessary, and wholly I
glad of his loyal love‘,countod the weeks till
she should soehimagain. ' ' ,. '
It was in September that he cams back-
golden, fragrant, delicious September. Very
quiet was their wedding. And Phyllis, in
her simple, snowy wedding gown, looked
more radiant and lovely than ever. '
Just as soon as the cottage could bodie-
posed of Mrs. Merrit was to go tothe city
to live with the young couple.
When the sacred ceremony was over, the
little, old widow said, briskly:
“Now, Phyllis, I’m going to give you the
presentlpromisodlfl‘.‘ .,
"The screens... ,5; ‘9'" "
“Yes. ”31m: .‘ . .
She took 'a tiny key from her bosom—went
toward the heirloom. ' ' '
“Does it openll’ coed Plank-93.1%
volt, in amusement. _ p
, Mrs. Morrit smiledi ,
In the heart of a.pspicr macho role she
thrust the ‘tiuyiékoy-hsourned it. Tbewhcls
back of the screen opened like a door-rand
down earns tumbling on the carpet‘fbldod
papers and heavy little packages wrippod .in
“Bonds!”-~explaiiied‘ the eccentric widow,
briefly. “The bonds. I told Oswald Merrill 1
had burned, just to test his affection.“
my jewels—all the old Clyde jewels. ”(they
are youroinow, my dear—yours and Aréhio's.
I was boundi'you shouldn’t be married for v I.
your money, as Iwgs.” There is fifteen thou~
sand dollars dinghy!!! not to mention
thestona.” “ ' .
“Jupiter!” cried Archie. , , _ j '
“Oh," gasped the bride, “it munds like a
fairy tale l” '
But it wasn’t. It wu every dour as true
as it was delightful. .
“Now,” declared Mrs. Morris, “you know
why I said I never was odes-ed enough for
that screen.”
When she joined them in ”charming
little home she proved herself once more the
blamed magician of their destinies. '
“I’ve heard Archie's mother is heartbroken
over her quarrel with him, Phyllis. You
should send her that screen with your love.”
The bride took her advice. The result of
the gift was a visit from Archie’s parents
and their proud ,acooptaueo of their lovely
daughter. ' " ' ' :.
“Whoever would . have thought,” Queriod
Phyllis, ecstatically, “that theold screen hold
such a secret? .But beautiful things do her
pen outside of books, don’t they—sometimes?"
Elia? M. Kleary in Philadelphia Saturday
lg . »
None the Worse for Bar Experience.
The other day, while a train loaded with
western horses was nearing Greensboro, Ga,
one of the animals began kicking, and, by
dint of perseverance'rather than design, suc-
ceeded in battering down the door of the car.
He couldn’t utilize the advantage, being
haltered, but more was a little more aboard
which, having chewed her halter in two,
roamed about at her own sweet will. She
walked to, the open door, looked lingeringly
back at the other animals, and deliberately
jumped out. The train was moving rapidly,
but the more was on her feet again in a mo-
ment, and immediately sprang between the
rails and followed at a rapid gait. When the
train reached Greensboro the open door was
discovered and one of the horsosmissed. The
train hands were just beginning to surmise
as to what had happened, when the little
more hove in sight, coming down the track
at u gallop. ‘ Without the slightest hesitation
she trotted up to the car door, was helped in,
and the train went on—Exchsngo.
~ Deaths by Accident. ‘
“The multiplication of the comforts of civil-
isstion and the modern utilimtiou of natural.
forces have increased the daugmof life in
normal] degree. It is not an uncommon
thingto hear of death from explosions of
naturalgasiuthoooal roglougaud some of
them happeu’vory curiously. any. short
,time ago a my... killed b ,strihugua.
match cutofdooss.‘ He in" lighting
his pipe, but mstead' ‘ ' hem ' , ‘ thumbing
near bysud'lost his life. Deaths from‘the
electric current, too, have; boon numerous
«rough to arouse much undefined inthe pub.-
lic. mind. ‘ In view’cftbo liability we all incur
constantly to perils of all“ sorts, one cannot,
MP mil-118 stmildwdt‘ int-prise that he
remains alive from day to day.‘ The only
wonder is'that so many escape accident; not
“'9‘ ”my mfi- occur—DA CW
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