ESTABLISHED 1800 -VOLUME XC. ...x An Enterprising Republican J ournal, especially devoted to Local News and Interests. NORWALK, CONN., G‘WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1890. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR NUMBER 44. Norwalk Gazefia TERMS I) FSIIBSGBIPTIIII. _, W Two Dollars per year. in (lawmafiil RATES ran ADVERTISING Algéfll Plillll’llld Furnished on ap licatlon at the ce. Ordinary and traliisient advs., 1 inch, 1 Week, $1.00 Each subsequent insertion, up to 4 times, 50 Half inch, half of above rates. One column, ordinary adv., one time, - l§.00 One column, reading matter, one time, 20.33 cans in readin matter columns. per line, L%irths. Marriaggs and Deaths inserted free. Advertising of Funeral Notices, - - 1.00 Liberal terms to yearly and half-yearly advertis- ers, and ten per cent. discount on all advs. pre- paid for three months or over. THE GAZETTE J on PRINTING DEPARTMENT is equipped with the best, facilities for turning out First Class Work of every description. All orders for Printing, Engraving and Book Binding, execu- ted promptly, and will be as well and reasonably done as anywhere. LOCAL ITEJlIS. Ho! for the Danbury'fair. Right away up! . . Read the town assessors’ notice in an- other column". Capt. C. E. Crabbe is now in command of the propeller Eagle. . Rev. George Hebbard and family are home from the South. This is Danbury fair week, but not a Burydam fair weather. Lynes Place appeals to the borough fathers for an electric light, and ought to get it. Mr. John F. Nichols, of Bethel, manager of the Nichols Opera House, was in town yesterday. Walter Comstock shot at a 27 pound coon up in Lockwood’s woods last week. The coon came down. “Weddings are ripe,” says the Danbury News. So are peaches, but the crop is a failure just the same. The town of Norwalk voted for Li- cense by 837 majority, there being 1,319 in favor and 482 against. ——Carriages,\carts and wagons of all de- scriptions and at reduced prices at W. E. Dann’s, 50 Wall street. tf17 'Hubbard Blakesley paid $7 and costs, $15.31 in all, for practising amateur. sur- gery on a glandered horse. The White Mountain express train on - the Consolidated road was discontinued for the season on Saturday. What is more beautiful than a charming day in October ?—Ioe Howard. George Honnccker, Esq., on a bicycle. —Everything pertaining to horse fur- nishings, carriages, etc., at greatly reduc- ed prices, at W. E. Dann’s, 50 Wall St. 17 The wife of Mr. Perry Beers of Silver Mine, died very suddenly Sunday morn- ing of apoplexy. She was buried yester- day. The board of trade will soon be conven- ed to see about making it an object for a Hartford manufacturing concern to locate here. ‘ Mr. and Mrs. Talcott have returned. to their cosey home in the Turney mansion on Union Park, after their summer’s absence. , The Bridgeport Suicide Club has com- mitted suicide at last, and exists no more, the last surviving member, Dan Loeser, having left town. . , The last run of fakirs for the Danbury . fair went through Norwalk on foot last week, headed for Beantown. He was a scissors grinder. A final collection for the building fund for the Roman Catholic cathedral at Hart- ford will be taken during October in all the churches in this diocese. _ The Cosmopolitan Magazine has jumped from a circulation of 16,000 copies in Jan- uary, 1889, to 90,000 now and a sure prospect of reaching 100,000 by January, . 1890. .. ‘ Rev. Dr. Van Alstyne gave a much needed and vigorous protest Sunday even- ing against the effort made in one of our public prints to carry this town for rum and license. ' ‘ No more vacations “with full pay” will be allowed employee of the Adams Ex- press Company hereafter. They must stick to their knitting or get docked like the rest of us. ; _ Mr. W. H. Ells, one of the GAZETrE’s graduates, who was an apprentice here in- 1809, is visiting friends in town. He is at . present employed in the office of the New York Journal. Commodore Burritt, of the Cedar Point Yacht club is said to have in contemplation the building of another racing yacht this winter, which will beat the best records of his best boats. ‘ - _ ; Gen. and Mrs. Couch have moved down from their summer cottage on» the dizzy - heights of Prospect Hill, ‘to their town residence in thefveryheart of" Our busy, bustling borough. - . - . A pedestrian contest isvbeing walked in Bridgeport‘fthls week“, in.'ii‘thich all the champions are entered: Some good records ought to be made, for Bridgeport . is every fast city. ' " ‘ . ,. . .._ .I in. Mr. James B. Duncan, employed at the Lounsbury, Mathewson & Co. shoe manu- factory, is very low With pleuro-pneumonia at his home on Fair street. Frank Robertson, of East Norwalk, a member of Co. F, and foreman of the Mayflower hook and ladder company, died on Monday of pneumonia. Mike Cahill, the champion light weight pugilist of Connecticut, now of Brooklyn, was in town visiting friends and election- eering with “the boys,” on Mon-day. ' The select schools which glorify and adorn Norwalk, are said to be enjoying an unusual idegree of prOSperity since the opening of their fall and winter terms. Mrs. Ruth D. Havens, of the Treasury Dept., left for Washington on Wednesday. She has been stopping with her sister, Dr. Emily Pardee, since the death and burial of their mother. ’ A couple of Winnipaukers caught about 30 feet of black snake last Sunday in the Old Mill Swamp. _ There were six sarpiuts in all, the champion measuring six and one-half feet long. Landlord Brintuall, of the Waverly Hotel, Saratoga, who was well and favorably known to manyNorwalk visitors to the Springs, died very suddenly last week at Saratoga. Thos. Kelk of Silver Mine, has been appointed a Notary Public and will here- after be ready to administer oaths, fix out deeds, pension papers and the like for his fellow citizens of that suburban hamlet. The 25th anniversary of the organiza— tion of Company B, Fourth regiment, C. N. G., of Bridgeport, was celebrated on Tuesday evening with apprOpriate fes— tivities. A number of Norwalk warriors attended. Hope Hose company received their new uniforms on Thursday eveving. They are after the New York regulation style. The Hope boys will wear them at the fire— men’s parade in Port Chester, Oct. 16th, for the first time. It is expected that Congressman Miles will be renominated at the convention to be held in Bridgeport to—day by acclam- mation. It is certain that he is the only republican having the ghost of a chance of beating DeForest. The sporting fraternity of New Haven are talking about a proposed fight between Jim Cummings, of Norwalk, and Edward report the mill is to take place a week from next Saturday night. Rose says there wasn’t anything on the bargain counter at the town and borough elections that he wanted, but when it Comes to the race for representative we advise several Norwalk aspirants to keep a weather eye out for Rose. George Arnold, the good natured giant who does police duty at the Bridgeport depot, has filled the same position fer thirty years, and he doesn’t look a day older than when he began, although it is thought he has attained his full growth. Bridgeport is a great city for fallen heirs. .Three more of her citizens have just “fallen heirs’.’ to aniestate of $200,000 in Jamaica, Long Island. Every little While we hear of a Bridgeporter who has fallen heirto a fat prize in the Louisiana lottery. The Beehive restaurant closes this week. Mr. Peat has made a better record as res- taurateur at the Water street stand than any of his predecessors, but the location or something else, seems to be fatal to the long continued success of any restaurant there. Prosecuting AttOrney Glover, of the Commou Pleas court, informs is that the report that young McFarland’s case was nolled in that court is incorrect; that it was the Superior court from which the young man, who confessed burglary, was discharged. . The special town meeting on Thursday voted to widen East avenue to 60 feet, from the East Norwalk crossing to the Dorlon House. This will be an improve— ment to be greatly’appreciated by all who enjoy a pleasant drive through beautiful country to a beautiful spot. "Reports come from Danbury as we go ' to press that the Danbury fair opened suspiciously, with a large attendance, and that there was no rain comparatively up there to interfere with its success. The Danbury fair is proverbially fortunate in always having good weather. Norwalk growers are shipping the first of this season’s crop of oysters to the Queen of England, she having last season expressed her preference for oysters grown in the Norwalk. harbor. Her ancestors years and years ago while on a visit to this country found the pleasantest part of it to be in eating Norwalk oysters, which, by the way, they had to fight fen—Record. The breaking of a heavy nightzfreight train into three sections near Winnipauk on Wednesday night, came very, near. playing the mischief with the wholettrain. ment of oneearfi some damage to a few others, and blockade of the road for a? gquplefof'hours. ' * " ‘ McDonald, of Waterbury. According to. 3‘As it was, it simply resulted in s i’d‘erail- . ' “What’s in the wind now?” asks the Bridgeport Post. Well, there’s some hay fever yct, considerable malaria, a lingering suspicion of the “grippe” and a whiff of brimstbne from the breath of defeated political candidates. ' With the excitement of town and her- ough elections, the attractiveness of the local milliners’ grand fall openings of feathers, and the exhilarating sport attep‘gl- ant upon the annual nullification" of be game law, there has been an abundance of something to occupy the public mind of late. ' Robert Brundage, of the firm of Buxtqn & Brundage. fully appreciates the interest taken by those busybodies who, whenever he visits his old home in NewYork-state, take pleasure in circulating the reporttbat' he hasgcne to be .married,fland one of thesefine days he’ll do’just-‘that .very thing, for their especial benefit. ‘ ' The bazar, which thaladies'o‘f the First Congregational church are preparing for October 21st and 22d, will take the form of a “Calendar Kirmess.” The decora— tions will be very» elaborate, and an enter- tainment will be‘giiven each evening, in which a numbei‘fo'f Norwalk’s most prom- inent citizens will take part. The Atkinson House Furnishing Co,, of cent. each and the seventh is. already earned. All seeking a safe and profitable investment would 'do well to write. tothe cempany at once for particulars, as all buying stock now will receive the full '5 per cent. dividend in January. ' Dr. G. W. Bennett, the dentist, has ac— cepted a most advantageous offer in Brook- lyn, whither he went on Monday morning to engage in business. Dr. Bennett is well known as one of the most skillful dentists in Fairfield county, and he has many friends ~hereabouts who will wish him a full measure of success. Henry E Abbey is reported to have offered Ward McAllister $50,000 for a winter’s course of lectures on Society, but as there is no report of Ward having ac- cepted the ofier it is inferred that the Four Hundred have “seen” Mr. Abbey’s figure and gone him one better and have thus avoided being talked about in public. Daniel Lamont, once secretary to Presi- dent Cleveland, ten years ago was work- ing on a countr newspaper for a salary of $15 a week, is income now is placed at $50,000 a year. What does that go to show ?-—Ea:change. It goes to show that the writer is eligible to enter the contest for the champion liar’s belt. A South Norwalk young man requested his wife, the other day, to salt some crackers which he brought home, and, poor innocent woman, she ventured to ask him where he had acquired the appetite for salted crackers, and wretch that he was, he refused to tell her, merely asking instead where she acquired a taste for salted mackereL—Record. On Friday last a meeting of the stock- holders ‘of the Norwalk and South Nor- walk Electric Light Co. was held, three- fourths of the entire stock being repre- sented. It was unanimously voted to expend $35,000 in the extension of the plant, $10,000 to be expended in a build- ing and $25,000 in new machinery, etc. Mr. Nathan Turk has been in town several days on business at the probate office. He states that his scholarly son Milton H. who is, so well and favorably knewn here among our younger people, has been appointed Professor of English Literature at Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y. He received his appointment in June last. a Connecticut man, was unveiled in New York Thursday under the auspices of the American Institute of Mining Engineers and the British Iron and Steel Institute, now in session at New York. Mr. Holley was born in Lakeville, July 20, 1832, and died in. Brooklyn in 1882. For many years he edited and conducted railway magazines. When dyen meet a fellow creature who is traveling own hill, Don’tpush him On his downward way, remember f you w ' ill For the reason that he’s going down, it surely must be true ~ That he.s0metime or other, has been higher up than you. —Berksmre Gurttss. It isn't wrong to shove a man who’s trav’ling down the hill; ~ ‘ If he’s bound to reach the bottom, help him downward with a will, For it plainly stands to reason, if the reasons plainly put— . When he travels down the hill he must have business at the foot. Inimitable “Joe" Barbour in his speech at the Reed rally at New Haven last Week, got off the following happy illustration of the Connecticut democracy’s‘platform do the tariff :— “The democratic party has met and passed the .same old kind of a ‘Katy-fdid. means free trade and it means protection, just as you please. It reminds me of the ’ Witness in the liquor, case who was asked what he saw, taken. into Pat Duffey’s saloon. -,‘Well,’ said-he, ‘being as I’m on my, oath, Iwill as that on one end of the- barrel was marks ‘whiskey’ and ‘ on: ‘ the - other. was ‘Pat ,, Dufiey.’ ’,_I reallygean’t Tiny ,«n . that was!!! the, barrel-4” ~ Maine, has paid six dividends of 5 per. A bust of the late Alexander L. Holley, ' and-Katygdidn’t’ kind of a platform. It, whether ”it .was whiskey or - Pat gDi'ifley; All must agree that Warden Lee has made an exceptionally good borough officer, and it was a pity to have had his stainless record so badly smirched as it was in the eyes of our decent citizens by paragraphs of silly and disgusting pnfiery of his merits and abject begging for votes andpaid for at advertising rates. Did he forget the Sentinel’s oft repeated state- ment that a candidate supported by the journal which has made him so ridiculous, is almost invariably doomed to defeat? And yet Lee has been a model warden. The republican state campaign was opéned Saturday night at Bridgeport by General Merwin and it was a rousing dem- onstration. The meeting was under the auspices of the Young Men’s Republican club. Gen. Merwin was escorted to the Atlantic hotel, where he made a speech from the balcony. While he was speaking a handsome banner was thrown to the breeze across the street. General Merwin was then escorted to the republican head— quarters where speeches were made by Postmaster Sperry of New Haven, Herbert A. Benton and General Merwin. Now comes our old friend C. Collard Adams with the first issue of “The Adams Monthly” just started by the invincible and irrepressible Adams. It isa clean, crisp publication, bristling with Adams’ char- acteristic sayings. It ought to succeed, if for no other reason than that its editor, who by the way, looks like Lord Dun— dreary, gives as an intimation of his , capabilities, the fact that when he was in Naugatuck he “gave two columns of fine print report of a masquerade, which in- cluded a description of two hundred and thirty costumes worn on the occasion.” The body of Horace G. Hyatt was brought here from Saratoga, Wednesday. His funeral took place from the old home on Main street, Thursday. The services were conducted by Rev. Dr. Noble. Mr. ,Hyatt was the oldest son of Deacon Launcelotte Hyatt, many years deceased, and was 71 years old. He went to Saratoga on the recent Housatonic ex- cursion, and was taken seriouslyill, im- mediately on his arrival there, with a gravel trouble, and died there on Tues- day. He was a man widely known in Norwalk, and universally respected. . The Standard says the Shepaug road is now in the control of the Housatonic sys- tem andwill soon be re-organized, with a new directory, presidency and superin- tendency, and that the new superintendent ' will be the popular conductor of the early morning train north out of Bridgeport, A Gurdon S. Coit. If this be true the selec- tion is a most excellent one, for Coit is admirably equipped, in every essential qualification, for the position. But how homesick the patrons of “Coit’s train” will be until they get used to the new- man,who, it is said, will be Harry Thomp- son, yard master in the freight yard at. Bridgeport. Ansonia has a “newsboy” named Henry Warren, who has just celebrated his 82d birthday. He is a hale and hearty old boy and attributes his long life and good health to the fact that he never used liquor nor tobacco in his life. If this rule of abstemiousness had been observed by the “oldest man in England,” who died a He said shortly before his death that for his longevity he was indebted to plain food, fresh air, pure liquor and good tobacco. But the fallacy of this doctrine was demonstrated by the fact that he was cut down before he was fairly started on his second century of life, and died at the age of 103 years. The Epworth League. met in the lecture room of the Methodist church, on Tues- day evening, nearly 200 persons being present. Edward Morehouse, president of the league. The exercises were of an interesting and entertalning character and consisted of readings, recitations, &.e_. Rev. C. J. North of South Norwalk talked pleasingly on the work of the league. A recitation by Miss Sadie Lounsbury of Bridgeport won applause, and a-recitation by Miss Clara Kellogg of a humorous nature excited many loud smiles. A solo. by Miss Maud Francis and also a bass solo by Frank Vail won merited recognition. The evening’s meeting closed with a half hour’s social talk. The league is rapidly increasing in number and is doing good work in the church. A Very pleasant and uiet wedding was that which occurred, ednesday after- noon, at three o’clock, at the home of the bride, 74 Perry avenue, Shelton. The contracting parties were Miss Ada M. Wakelee, of that place, and Thomas S. Osborn, of Norwalk. The bride was dressed very prettily in a cream colored Henrietta. Rev. W. A. Richard, of Birm-_ ingham, performed the ceremony,‘ only immediate relatives bein present. The happy couple left on ‘the :14 train for'an extended trip including Washington D. 0., Philadelphia, Baltimore, etc. -' after which they Will reside in' Norwalk. ~ A- very fine array of presents were sent in to the bride.-,—-Ansonia Sentinel. _' ‘ ' _ The groom is a well known contractor and builder, and resides at 23 Merwin street. Mr. and Mrs. Osborn will be “at. home,” on andfafte‘r Nov. 41,5th,‘ and they; can rest assured'of the-hearty congratulaé" 1tie‘ns’of waistline“! °f friends. 4": 3 “1*" few days ago, he might be alive to-day. A five years old hopeful in Bethe], who had been scrupulously taught by his mamma to say his little prayer every night on retiring, found it easier to memorize the more worldly songs and sayings of his playmates than the better teachings of his mother, and gave evidence of the fact a few nights since, when, on being prepared for bed, he knelt at his mother’s knee to repeat his prayer. Mamma gave him a starter by saying, “Now I—” “Now I lay me,” repeated the child, and here he paused. “Well, go on ; say ‘Down,’ ” and the boy instantly grasped the cue, with the effect of detracting from the solemnity of the ‘ scene, by lisping, “Down went MYdinty to the bottom of the thee.” The democrats of the borough, at their caucus on Thursday evening, declared in favor of the consolidation of South Nor- walk,‘East Norwalk, the borough of Nor- walk, Five Mile River, Winnipauk, Broad River, West Norwalk and Cranberry Plains in one municipality to be called the City of Norwalk, “ in which a Com- mon Council of twelve or more shall be elected from wards of as nearly equal population as possible, so that every por' tion of the proposed City shall have its .just and proper local representation in the ‘City Government,” and a committee of six .was appointed to confer with committees from other parts of the town in a consul- tation as to future action. The committee ‘is as follows: Rev. W. J. Slocum, Hon. Levi Warner, O. E. Wilson, Moses H. Glover, J. J. Walsh and Dr. L. N. Phinney. In a recent speech, Major McKinley uttered the following asserting the faith- fulness with which the Republicans in Congress have redeemed the pledges of the party :— When the Republican party came into power in 1861, almost the first duty that it performed was to organize the most model tariff that this Government has ever known. The internal industries mustbe protected,and with this end in view, the people declared that the two oceans must be united. This great scheme has has been realized, and San Francisco and New York are now united by an un- broken ribbon of steel. “All this is dire to protection. The next thing that the party proposed was to dispose of the twin relics of barbarism—slavery and poly— gamy. It has already extinguished the one and the other has been almost crushed to ashes. Every pledge that has been taken has been fulfilled, but more especi- ally that great pledge that will be ratified to-morrow at 6 o’clock when the Senate of the United States willjndorse the Re- publican party’s greatest pledge of all, the revision of the tariff.” Our genial and usually unanimous friend, “Doc." Coolidge, announces that he desires no elective ofi‘lce, [he has been mayor of our borough; that is enough for him] but having been a faithful worker in the republican vineyard 10, these many years, he would not object to being called from “laborto refreshment” and could, if \properly coerced, be induced to accept the appointive position of County Commiss- ioner. The Dcctorwonld make an except- ionally good one,too, and as the Children’s Home is to be built here the coming year, there is a special propriety in honoring a Norwalk man with that appointment. The GAZETTE endorses his candidacy with sincere and earnest cordiality for the reason that no better man for that position can be found anywhere, and for the fur- ther reason that our sometimes effusive friend has gotten the false notion in his head at times, that this paper was disposed to stick bent pins under him in places where it conjectured he desired to sit down. At the reunion of great hearted “Bob.” Ingersoll’s old regiment, held at Peoria, Ills., on Friday last, Co]. In gersoll expected to be present, but could not, so sent the following letter : “I find it absolutely impossible. for me to attend the reunion. It would give me great pleasure to meet old friends and comrades, but a man actively engaged in business is not master of his own time. suppose there will be a banquet, and if‘so, the boys may have an army thirst. So I wish you would do me a favor. When you go to Peoria, get a basket of cham— pagne of the best brand and tell the dealer to draw on me at sight. I do this because I wish to be present in spirit. Drink to the old toast, ‘Cheers for the living; tears for the dead.’ ” “Fritz” Taylor, of the GAZETTE, has established a reputation as an authority on base ball matters by chewing the requisite number of papers of a certain brand of tobacco, which entitled him to the privi- lege of making one guess as to the rela- tive standing of the base ball clubs in one of the leagues at the end of the season, in a guessing contest gotten upzby the enter- prising tobacconist. His guess was a winning one, and he was on Saturday last awarded a handsome gold watch as his prim. As he already knew how to tell "the time Of'day, the watch was a useful as well as a timely acquisition to his tax-. ableproperty. ~We might—but WewOn’t asli'ghtly dim the glory of his achieve. ment by stating that while Fritz did the . requisite chewing, he'was dependent upon the oflice “devil” for thebase ball “tips” ,whichcnabled'him, to" win the: watch as well: as the credit for, a ,. knowled'ge‘of the national game, with which he is as thor- oughly conversant as an eel would be with _._t,l,ie use ofabuttonfiook. Col. 0. E. Boudinot, who died at Fort Smith, Ark, recently, was the son of a full—blooded Cherokee, who had been adopted by a Philadelphia patriot. The Colonel’s mother was a Connecticut girl, Miss Hannah Gould, who married the Indian much against the wishes of her family. Both father and son were men of h distinction in Indian territory, the former having been chief of the Cherokees when that nation was removed from Georgia. Theflson was a lawyer by profession. The season of eatable palaces has struck the West.RSioux City is building a corn palace to be composed entirely of corn and other grain. Illinois is erecting a hay palace over 200 feet long by 166 feet wide, whose” walls will be entirelyof baled hay. New 'Haven is agitating the matter of get— ting up some sort of industrial exhibition to show what she can do, and a ham pal- ace or a pork palace may be one of its features. Why should not Norwalk fall in with the procession and put up a palace that will represent, her industries and shame all the others ?, Such a structure could easily be conceived, when we con— sider the diversity of products Which Nor- walk puts forth. The foundation would, of course. be built of clams, the main body of the structure should be composed of oysters, the turrets of locks, the spires of cigars, the dome should be tin roofed with shoe leather and surmounted with an immense Derby hat. These plans and specifications are respectfully submitted to the board of trade without money and without price. - Among some of the Norwalk smokers a question in etiquette has of late excited considerable discussion. It admits of more argument than the old question as to whether-“Wliat will you have gentle- men ?” is a more elegant form of invitation than,“Gentlemen, what will you have ?” as it involves a problem in ethics more universally encountered. The discussion is on the correct manner of handing a lighted cigar when asked for a light. Some con- tend that the cigar should be ofiered with the lighted end up, others vice versa, while some maintain that the fire end should be pointed toward the person ask- ing for it, because that is the end he wants, while he should return it month- end first as that is'the end the owner wants. The propositidn is also advanced that it should be returned in the same way it is offered, whether that way is correct or not, for if it is extended by the lender in a manner which the borrower knows to be wrong, the latter, by return- ing it in a reversed position, practically reproves the former for his error and thus shows himself lacking in that true polite- ness that has regard for the sensibilities of others. It is a deep and complex question, which the local Long Filler club will dis- cuss to a final conclusion after the Novem- ber election. ’ Our genial old friend, Walter Fitch, residing on the Westport road, who has for many years been the the printer’s Santa Claus in the way of supplying apples, pears, etc., had an adventure the other day while picking apples, which he relates with as much gusto as if the joke had been on somebody else instead of himself. He raised a ladder into a fall pippin tree and, taking a half bushel basket, mounted to the top and' plucked the fruit until he had filled his basket. ' Still he observed that a number of apples ‘were left within reach before going down. This he did, putting the surplus apples into his capacious trousers pockets, in which he must have deposited not less than a peek of good, sound and solid apples. Having failed to figure on the weight of the fruit, and neglected to take into account the utter lack of appreciation on the part of his suspender buttons, of the responsibility imposed upon them, he was not prepared for what followed. As he began to descend the ladder the full extent of the strain on the suspender buttons asserted itself with the disastrous rssult of ripping them all from the trousers. A description of the efiectproduced would be superfluous. The reader can readily comprehend the fact that apair of trousers , with pockets heavily weighted must be supported at the top if the conventional perpendicular ’ position is maintained. Walter’s trousers, being deprived of that support, simply obeyed the laws of gravi- tation and collapsed beneath their load of fruit at an altitude of twenty feet from the ground. And to add to his embarrass. ment, while he was endeavoring to dis-' entangle his feet from their clinging folds without dropping his basketful of apples or falling from the ladder himself, a three- seated canopy top buggy went by, filled with ladies and gentlemen, the road being only two rods from the awful tree. But none of the occupants saw poor Walter in his sad plight, for he says just as they got opposite the tree he . heard -a suppressed scream from one of the ladies, then a chuckle from one of the men, then the [driverzwhipped his horses into a run and the equipage dashed past with all the [occupants looking intently and with evi- dent amusement: at an awfully funny woodchuck’slhole in the lot on the oppo- site side of the road. ' .
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