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I make a specialty of Neglected and Rejected Claims, and if you will present me with a 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 requires a competent attorney to make them good cases. Soldiers sufertng with disabilities contracted in service, who have not applied for a pension, should do so as it is their RIGHT. SOLDIERS OF THE MEXICAN WAR, Who were in that service sixty days, [or their widows if not re-murried] are entitled to $8.00 per month from January 29th . 1857. ”20 I‘m—Per Sale Cheap. SECOND-HAND Cast Iron Fence, with gate all in perfect order and as good as new, about 120 feet in length. Will be sold at a sacri- fice If applied for soon Inquire m EO't. .-\7.I£|"l'lwl HFFICE . ' " Life a Dream. ' 'Otu- wakinglifo is but e‘connecteddream. 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VALDENf ”DEALER DN— ‘ kerchief from her head and to fold it on her BEING ENGAGED.- Wheu Mehitable’s mother, leaned on the chair back and looked at her daughter, after the departure of Parrot Smith, that daughter felt that she would almost be willing to forego the pleasure of hearing a man ask if he ' might come to see her Sunday night, if that pleasure were to result in such a gaze as this. She could not account for her suffering from such a guilty feeling when she was not guilty of anything, unless it were of being so at- tractive that a gentleman desired her society. At this thought she blushed, and then com- mon sense whispered to kenthat she was not attractive. It was of no use to try to look her mother in the face, and she gave up the attempt. After a terrible silence Mrs. Green cried out: “I never! I declare I never didl” Mehitable trembled. “He was a-weighin’ the roosters,” she said, feebly. “He wa’n’t a-weighin’ no roosters when you ’n’ he was stan’in’ by the fence, without bein’ nigh no roosters,” was the stern reply. Mehitable felt that there was nothing for her to say, and so she said nothing. She only tried to hold herself so that her mothershould be as little aggravated as possible. “Has that man buried his second wife!” “He has. " “Oh, gracious land!” Here Mrs. Green deliberately withdrew her hands from the back of the chair, sat down in that chair, and then, with ostenta- tious carefulness, began to untie the hand- knees. When she had done this, she looked up at her girl and made this inquiry: ’ “When (1’ he bury her!" “About six months ago.” “He’s been a mourner ever sense, I s’posel" “I s’pose so,” dejectedly came from Mehit- able’s lips. The poor thing was endeavoring to brace herself in some way. She knew that she had a right to receive Mr. Smith’s addrtmes, but this knowledge was of singularly little avail to her. She was immensely astonished and indefin- ably alarmed when her mother said, rising to her feet as she spoke: “We mustn’t be a foolin’ here if we want to get them bunnits sewed ’fore the man comes.” Mehitable eagerly sat down to the straw work. For two hours she expected, every time her mother opened her lips, to hear something more of the dread subject. But no, Mrs. Green was remarkably amiable, and “the gentlemen” were not mentioned in any way. So thedays passed, and nothing was said. It will be guesed that Mrs. Green had not only inherited the Farnsworth look, but the Farnsworth shrewdness as well. What she said to herself was: “If I go aginst that Parrot Smith, she’ll take up all the more for him, so I’ll hold my tongue.” She was one of those exceptional women who, having resolved to hold her tongue, can do so. Thus it came to be Saturday night. When Mehitable went upstairs to her cold and dis- mal room, she stood with her small kerosene lamp in her hand before her foot-square look- ing glass. She was meditating the act of doing her hair up in “crimps.” She had not hitherto had any occasion for crimps, but it seemed to her now that the time had come for this adornment. When she had gone to the library that afternoon she had stopped into the store and bought a pair of crimping pins. These instruments ,were shaped like very stout hair pins, each furnished with a slide which confined the hair. When she had come into the house she had felt as if her mother could see these articles, although they were wrapped up at the bottom of her pocket, and her circular was over her pocket. She never felt exactly certain how for her mother’s knowledge extended. It was cold in her chamber. The wind made a loud whistling when it was that side of the house. At this moment, liOWe-ver, the occupant of the room was not cold. She looked at herself full front, quartering, and tried to see her face in profile, with but poor success. Finally, she set down the lamp. with a dreary sigh. “I’m jest a fright, that’s what I be,” she said aloud. She held the crimping pins for a long time in her hand. She wondered how they would make her’ look. Sue wished her mother were going to stay over Sunday somewhere, and then she, Mehitable, might experiment with GROCERIE‘S, ’ FRESH on NEW. 1 shall keep constantly on hand a Hill ”NB (If All GOODS usually found in a. FIISI- UIflSS-I-Gl‘fltfll'l'i'SIlll‘fl which I will sell at prices DEPYING HONEST COMPETITION to heat. A share of the public patronage is solicit: ed and every effort will be made to faithfully serve our customers. Give us a call and let us assure you of our ability to give satlsfactiou. CHAS. H. VALDEN, "Wall St, Norwalk, ct. ~ sell. Choice BUILDING. LOTS (ON INSTALLMENT PLAN.) FOR SALE , 0n Wilton Avenue —AND-—— San Sauce? Plo t. APPLY TO ’ A. u. 'BYINGTON, I GAZETTE OFFICE. . iron gray hair over her forehead. That . ”warm if Mr. Smith should come. And if he " ' the’barn chores a full half hour earlier than those pins. But her mother never went a way. She was always there to oversee every- thing. Mehitable shuddered at the thought of what might be said when her hair was seen done up in those pins. ‘ Then a kind of convulsion of courage came to her, and she did what she believed to be the bravest act of her life. She twisted her hair up in those instruments, and without waiting to consider what she had done or what she should do on the marrow, she hurriedly crept to her bed. When she went down stairs the next morning, Mrs. Green did not seem to see that her girl had her head bound up in a handker- chief which carefully concealed her brows. The excasive amiability continued even up to the time when Mehitable came from her room after their late dinner, in her best black woolen dress, and with a wavy fluff of Mrs. Green experienced a shock at that mo- ment cannot be doubted, but she did not make it manifest. The two women sat in the kitchen. The elder one had a book of the Psalms, in very large print, open on her lap. She appeared to bereading diligently. The younger was holding a Bible, but she did not even make the pretense of perusing it. She was think- ing that the fire was ready to “touch off” in the sett’n’ room stove, and wondering how long it would be before the room would be came, what would he say? She had done she had ever dene them before, and her mother had made no remark. If he came, what would he say? This ques- tion recurred again and again. She could not, by any possibility, put it from her mind. It bummed over and over in her thoughts. It is pitiable to have to relate that Mehit- able had never had “Sunday night company" in all her life. She had a hazy belief that this was a very sad fact, and she hoped that it might never be said with truth Of her again. Surely somebody had driven into the yard; somebody said “Whoa” very loudly and em- phatically. “I guess we’re goin’ to have callers, M’hit- able," said Mrs. Green sweetly. “You run right ’n’ light the sett’n’ room stove, ’n’ I’ll go to the door.” While Mehitable was “lighting the stove” her mother ushered into the kitchen Mr. A1- phonso Smith. He said he guessed he “might ’5 well take out his hoes ’n’ stan’ itin the barn, as ’twas kinderbitin’ out.” He immediately disappeared, and was evi- dently “stan’in’ his boss in the barn.” When he returned Mehituble was in the kitchen, and he shook hands with great cordiality with both women, and said with gusto that he had an idea that two women alone so might be lonesome like, ’n’ he jest dropped in to be sociable. He unwound a gray “comforter” from his neck, and as he did so one might have ob- . served shat ‘ his overcoat was not aslong, by about a foot, is the garment beneath it. This has?! e appearance to a gentleman, and when a lover appears with this relatively wrong position of cost skirts, it is very hard indeed to bear. Not that Miss Green was fastidious in such matters. Still she could not control a fleeting wish that Mr. Smith's coats had agreed with each other better. When, however, his outer garment was re- moved, and she had hung it on a nail in the back entry, where she used to hang her father’s but, she saw. as her visitor stood rub- binghis hands by the cook stove, that she ought not to blame him for not having any- thing loag enough to conceal the immense ex- . tent of his frock coat. The skirts of that ar- ' ticle of apparel were so wide and long, they waved and flopped so when their wearer moved, that they were alm0et awe inspiring. Habitable, in spite of thehgreat significance of this visit, suddenly found her mind almost completely occupied by the wonder as to where Mr. Smith found that coat. Did they have those coats ready made anywhere? Could any man go and get one] As for the rest of this person’s dres, his black penuloons were very short and small, as if all the cloth had been used in the coat, and his shirt front bulged a great deal, and seemed threatening to crack. It had an effect as if it were veneered. Mrs. Green made some inquiries about the hen busines, and found that Mr. Smith had permanently taken the place of that young man who had “gone up. ” He was only driver now, but he “figgered on gittin’ in with the boss.” After-a while Mrs. Green suggested that the front room was probably warm enough now, and Mehitable conducted her suitor into that apartment, where they both sat down somewhat awkwardly. But Mr. Smith wostoomuch accustomed to this “kind of thing,” as he would have said, to be much-at a loss. He did not attempt the sentimental. He talked a good deal about what an advantage it would be for them two women to have jest the kind of a man he was come there and set the old farm ter goin’ agin. He said he should bring his cow over, ’n’ his pigs, and M’hitable could take care of ’em while he was pickin’ ,up hens. His children were all shirkin’ for themselves now, though his youngest was only 12. As she listened to him Mehitable was con« scious of the most curious mixture of disap- pointment and exultation. She exulted over the mere fact that she now hada “gentleman friend” of her own, and there he was visibly beta-e her. Still there was an underlying sense that this mere fact was not so very interesting after all. ' \‘Vas it so lacking in interest to every woman? She couldn’t understand it in the least She tried to listen when be related how much meal he gave his cow, and when he expremd a firm convic- tion that “shorts did a critter more harm than good.” H‘m upper lip was certainly very dreadful, and it was particularly dreadful when he smiled. She supposed she should marry him, of course. It was almost as good as an en- gagement that she had allowed him to come on Sunday night, and she knew he thought so. Her mind went forward to the time when she should have to ask the librarian to change the name on her membership card from Miss Mehitable Green to Mrs. Alphonso Smith. What would be her sensations at a moment like that? Would her mother rule Parrot as she had ruled every one with whom she had ever lived? Why did Parrot—looking at his month she found herself obliged, mentally, to call him thus—propose to come to his bride’s home instead of taking his bride to his her» ' She could not know that a fore- closure of a mortgage was about to take place at the Smith estate. After her guest had couversed an hour about “critters,” and hens, and cotton seed meal, and cracked corn, and kindred sub- jects, and she had done her best to listen and reply occasionally, it became evident that the visitor was getting very sleepy. His son- tences grew more isolated, so to speak, and he would close his eyes for some minutes, then open them with a snap, and hold his head up straight. After what seemed an in- terminable time, the clock struck nine. - Mr. Smith tried to sit a while longer, then be de- cided mentally that it was a pesky foolish thing to spend much time in courting M’hita- ble Green. He rose from his chair, saying something to the effect that his “boss was mighty uneasy if it was out much, ’n’ he s’posed he’d better be goin’; ’n’ he s’posed it was all settled between ’em, and he’d come over next Sunday night ngin, ’n‘ she might have a talk with her mother, ’n’ be sure ’u’ tell the old Iudy’t he meant the fair thing by ’em both, ’n’ they needed a man. When he come ag’in they’d set the day, as ’twa’nt no use put’n’ things off when they knew their own minds; ’n’ he’d like to git settled all comfortable ’fore New Year’s.” He stood looking at Mehitable, where she still sat in her chair, with her work worn hands folded tightly on her lap. “I guess it’s all settled, ain’t it?” he said. She looked up at him, her honest, patient eyes having an unusual appearance under her fiufled hair. ' “I guess ’tis,” she said, feebly. “All right, then,” 'he responded, with brisk- ness, “I’ll be a-goin’,” and he walked out of the room. She did not follow him. She remained quiet. She heard him bustling on with his coat and talking to her mother; then the out- side kitchen door shut, and soon after came the sound of a horse and wagon leaving the yard. She was engaged. She’ kept telling herself that she was engaged, while she was doing the little things she did every night before going to bed. ‘ In half an hour she was upstairs. Her mother had continued amiable. She would try to inform her in the morning. It would be time enough in the morning. It was between 12 and 1 o’clock in the night that Mrs. Green became aware that her daughter was standing beside her couch, with a bed comforter wrapped about her. and holding the lighted lamp in her hand. “Mother,” exclaimed Mehitable with ex- plosive force, “you tell him I can’t do it, 1 can’t do it, ’n’ I won’t, I won’t I” Mrs. Green smiled as soon as she could re- cover herself sufiiciently to do so. “So you’ve ben au’ ingaged yourself, have ye?” “Yes, but I ain’t goin’ to stay engaged, I can’t hear him. I—oh—mother, you tell him!” Mehitable showed symptoms of hysterical sobbing. Her mother reached out and patted her daughter’s arm. “Don’t you worry,” she said, “the Farris- worths ain’t afraid of nothin’, ’11] I ain’t lived to this day to be afraid of that Parrot Smith, I guess. I’ll tell him I wa’n’t goin’ to let him git ye, anyway. He’s arter this farm. I’ll tell him it was left to me, ’n’ I c’n will it where I please, ’n’ I sha’n’t will it to Parrot Smith’s wife. Sakes! did ye think I didn’t know what I was up to? Go to bed, child. We’ll git ’long here by ourselves a spell longer, I reckon.” Must it be confessed that, as Miss Green again climbed the narrow yellow stair, in the mii’st of her sensations of relief, there was a dull pang that her mother should have thought, and” have said, that this gentleman friend was “arter the farm?”—New York Tribune. discaritxls least-h does thgive an . THE FEAR OF DEATH. Inst night I woke and found between uqdrawn— ‘ Between us, where no mortal fear may creep-— The vision of Death dividing no in sleep; And suddenly I thought, ere light shall dawn Some $52.11 the substance, not the shadow, of Shell cleave us like a sword. Thevlsion passed, Butallitsnewbomhorrorheld met-st, _ And till day broke I listened for your breath. Some day to wake, and find that colored skies, And pipings in the woods, and petals wet, Are things for aching memouy to forget; And that your living hands and mouth and eyes Are part of all the world’s old histories 1—- Dear God! a little longer, ahnotyet! - —-l'Amund Geese. Honesty and Error. Heneay is not necessarily incompatible with the existence of error. The one “reddes in the intention,” the other is the consequence of abnormal action of the judgment. . , ' Genuine old fashioned "confluent” honesty taken in the natural way and “coming out nicely,” is an infallible. protection against the ' subsequent invasion of meannem or hypoc- my. It is prophylactic per so. Some men ap- pear to havebeen vaccinated with a kind of bastard honesty, a. false theology, a selfish morality, a far-off cousin of the original stock which is the prolific parent of a host of eruptive tricks and narrow minded cavils. Furthermore, the scars of this vaccination they‘proudly exhibit, and confidently rely on them as trustworthy certificates of a state of ' grace which exempts them from the influence of that contagion, whose presence breeds in‘ the carnal man unmodified such horrible corps of corruption—from the spiritual lep- rosies and concupiscences of our lower natures —or will, at least, secure them against any- thing more than a mild attack of moral vari- oloid, leaving behind no marks of its ravages. PMbly, that is better than nothing at all, and even the best that can be in those not uncommon systems where a whole sealed in- noculation “won’t work;” but we submit that the danger is imminent of the introduc- tion of a scrofula of souls, which will resist all the patent sarsaparillas and healing waters in the universe—St Louis Magazine. How Law Led to Crime. I wonder whether really crime or law came first. Law came very early in the his- tory of things. If I remember aright, Adam and Eve was instructed not to eat fruit in the garden of Eden. So it Would seem that law came first and led to crime, and it still seems to. There is a quiet-little place in the Santa Cruz mountains where the simple in- habitants lived for years without law at all. The dread polioeman’s star did not shine out in the dark nights; there was no court house, no jail, no use for them. They were happy, innocent people. One day the office seekers found out this Arcadia and made a dead set for it. The profit went to the discoverer, I suppose, and he grabbed all of the offices. He became deputy coroner and justice of the peace, and being the surgeon, the community was at his mercy. He had hardly taken office before there was a fight. He had first, in his capacity as surgeon, to attend to the wounded men; secondly, he had to attend to the assaulter in his capacity of justice of the peace; but to his chagrin the wounded man did not die, and he couldn’t sit on the body as coroner. And ever since that little Ar- cadia has become a riotous kind of place. and the offices have quite an income—San Frau— cisco Chronicle. What a Sea Cow Is Like. On my first trip up the Manatee river I fully expected to see a manatee, or sea. Cow, raise her big horned head out of the black water and bellow a warning at us. The name leads one 'to look for a. great creature with the hairy skin of a cow, with horns and a friskiug tail, a terrible animal big enough to swallow the boat and all its contents, wading along the shallow shore perhaps and nibbling at grass and bushes. But the sea cow of re- ality is u. very different thing from the sea cow of imagination. The're was little danger of seeing One of any sort, for it is years since- the last one was taken in the Manatee river, except one solitary specimen that was con— sidered rare enough to be taken out to the semi-tropical exhibition at Jacksonville. I saw it there, and now my idea of the sea cow is clearer. It does not roam about the country bellow- ing and swallowing whole sheep; it has no hair and no horns, nor hoofs, nor angry tail. .In appearance it is no more like a cow than it is like a chicken, and its name comes not from its shape, but from its habit of living on grass and green vegetables instead of cat. lug fish or flesh—Cor. New York Times. Bear and Biudoo. Today at 4 a. m. Bode Manjhi, of Baro- masia, went to see if any fish were caught in his net. While returning he met a female bear, with two cubs riding on her back. The bear rose to fight him. Seeing that 'he had no chance of escaping by: running, he dropped his fish, clutched his club with both hands, and bravely went to meet the bear. They soon met, and thesSanthal gave the bear five cuts with his club over her head and paws. The-bear then caught hold of his club, and brute and man fought for life. The Santhal shouted at the bear, and the bear growled furiously at the man. This was heard in the village, and five men ran to help their friend. The Santhal succeeded, by twisting his club this way and that way, to get~ it out of her paws, and gave her a blow across her mouth: at this the cub riding on her shoulders fell down. On the approach of the men the fe- male bear bolted with one cub. The Santhal' picked up the other cub and ran home; it is black, with a white back. It is remarkable that the rSanthal escaped without a scratch.— East Indian Paper. . Austrian Opinion of American Women. American women. if they are not always beautiful, at least know how to make them~ selves appear so. Nowhere have I seen so many beautiful women as in America, in- cluding even old women with white hair. The native American girl, especially if of English or Scotch descent, is large and slen- der, generally blonde, with regular features and remarkably small hands and feet. The complexion is often pale; rarely do they have the fresh color of a Viennese girl. The most beautiful girl I have ever come across in 'my life I saw in a New York store. She was an American of Spanish descent, of a literally dazzling beauty, such as I had never before encountered in life or on canvas. The hap- piest marriages are those of American men 151(3) German women—Vienna Neue Freie resse. Common Sense Wanted. The railroad which will adopt the idea of using weights on the window sashes of the cars, so that they may run up and down free~ 1y, as in our dwellings, may never pay a div- idend to stockholders, but every passenger ' will advertise the line from Maine to Texas as exhibiting common sense—Detroit ,Free Press. , Wanted No Such Risk. Agent—Suppose you let me write a policy on this building. Owner—Why, it’s fireproof. Agent (retreating—I didn’t know that. gardon me. I wouldn’t take it.-—-New York un. .
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