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INDIAN MEDICINE MEN. iORCHARD AND. GARDEN.
THEIR FHYSIC IS MAGIC AND THEIR
SYSTEM CONJURING.
How the Indian Priests Look and Dresa
When They Are Making llIedicine—Cusf
toms Recalling Some 01d Bible Stories.
How They Got Their Name.
The fact that Sitting Bull was what is
called a “medicine man” has been stated
in all the notices of his death, but it is a
question whether one in seven of eastern
people know precisely what a medicine man
is. To one who does know, nothing is more
amusing than to read the accounts of early
travelers in the Indian country when they
come to treat 'of the making of medicine
and the other doings of .medicine men
Even Capt. Butler, I". R. G. S., and Lewis
and Clarke were very shaky when they
came to this subject.
Every tribe had, and still has, many
medicine men, some of: whom are chiefs, :11)
of whom are very important personages.
Nearly all that the writer ever saw have
been old men or men past the middle age
but that is a mere accident, for a man may
be made a medicine man while he is young.
NO one can visit any Indians at any fest-i-
val time or time of gcflsral excitement
from any cause without seeing the medi-
cine man figuring very conspicuously it
whatever is going on.
Sometimes they are merely beating
drums, or perhaps they are only crooning,
while a dance or feast is in progress. AI
other times they appear in the most gro
tesque costumes, painted all over, hung
with feathers and nails and claws, and car-
rying some wand or staff, gorgeous with
color and smothered with Indian finerv.
HOW THE TERM WAS APPLIED.
The term “medicine” is a white man’s
expression which the Indians have adopted.
It was applied to the priests of the tribes—
for that is‘ what they really are—because
the first white men often found them mak-
ing their incantations at the side of the
sick, the wounded or the dying. In reality
they were xorcising the evil spirits of dis-
ease or death, but the white travelers, see-
ing them in the presence of the sick, put
two and two together and called them
medicine men. The term is two centuries
old, and the Indians have so fully adopted
it that when one of these officials is at his
offices they say he is “making medicine.”
The medicine man is a conjurer, a magi-
cian, a dealer in magic, and an intermediary
between the men of this world and the
spirits of the other. He may know some-
thing-t of the rude pharmacopoeia of his
fellow ;, and may prescribe certain leaves
or roots to allay fever, to arrest a cold, or
to heal a wound. That is not his business,
however, and such prescriptions are more
apt to be offered by the squaws or by any
member of the patient’s family.
The medicine man’s work comes in when
medicine fails, and it is pursued until death
is seen to be certain, when—among most of
the tribes~the sick or wounded man is
abandoned to meet his fate. Far from
thinking the only good Indian is a dead
one, the Indians themselves have little re-
gard for one who is half dead or seems cer-
tain to die.
A WEIRD SIGHT.
No more weird sight is to be seen on the
face of this continent than a view of such
a group of medicine men at work to save a
life. Seen at night the effect is awesome.
They sit in a. circle, broken only by the
body of the invalid stretched on a blanket,
at the head of the tent opposite the door or
tent opening. The wavering light is from
a candle stuck ingeniously in a loop of
birch bark, fastened tight in a slit in the
end of a stick that has been thrust in the
earth. The medicine men are painted in
their own colors, green and yellow predom-
inating. They are in full regalia, but their
hair falls over their hideous faces as they
bend forward to swing to and fro or to beat
their drums.
All are singing. Often they sing only
the tunes of ancient songs, the words be-
ing forgotten or having grown tiresome.
Now and then one leaps to his feet, waving
his befeathered rattle and yelling louder
than the others. He sings the words that
occur to him as suiting the case. He has
on no clothing but moccasins and a breech
clout, or “gee string,” as they call that gar-
ment on the plains.
His thin, bony, bare red legs have the
efiect of their nakedness increased by the
jumping, dangling tail of feathers that
flutters down from his head and mixes its
colors with the paint stripes on his flesh.
His dancing is rather more like pounding
something beneath him than like what we
call dancing. He lifts his feet by bending
his knees; lifts them and thumps them
down monotonously, though he turns his
body first to one side and then to the
other. When the dancer tired and fell
back in his place in the circle, the spirit
moved another to take his place.
QUEER RESEMBLANCES.
The queer resemblances between the In-
dians and those Hebrew bands of whose
history the Old Testament is a record have
often been pointed out, but the wyiter has
never seen attention called to the similar-
ity of. certain of the Hebrew incidents to
the common practices of Indian medicine
men. In their early history the Hebrew
leaders were continually holding converse
with the Almighty. They went apart from
their followers up in mountains or in se—
cret places and talked with Jehovah. That
is precisely what the medicine men do to-
day, or pretend to do. Every man who
knows the Indians knows that during all
the Messiah craze the medicine men of the
various tribes with great formality pre-
pared to talk with Gitche-Manitou or what—
ever they happen to call the Good Spirit.
In some tribes they built little wickoi-ups
of saplings and leaves, and went into them
and held conversations that were audible,
though not intelligible to the red men listen-
ing outside. The savages heard the medi-
cine man’s voice and then heard the voice
of some other person replying to him in a
jargon they could not unravel. In other
tribes the medicine men merely reported
having held such conversations precisely
as-the Israelitish leaders did. It is not for
us to say that the grounds for such reports
of the words of the Almighty were as
slight in one case as the other, but it is
true that the Indians have believed that
their priests have really believed such cun-
versations took place.
Those who followed ,Sitting‘Bull’s his-
toxy know that his tribe was long divided
as to this power. One contingent held that
his “medicine” was no good, bywhich they
meant that if he ever had genuine, power
to converse withgspirits, that power, left
him-’ . v'l‘hisiofibn ' hippo!“ Medicine mén
huvctheindangudgthcin (lasagna-1;. is
a very Sagn‘cionafilndiaii ‘éwho markecp :up
falthin his ministrations for munyyears
at n time or until he dies—New York-Sun.
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Maud—Have you heard the new opera by
Mildred—You'dcar little stupid! Don’t
you know that Sullivan is an actor, not a.
writer of operasr—Pittsburg Bulletin.
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DEVOTED TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF
SUBURBAN AND COUNTRY HOMES.
The Golden Polypody Fern, a Typical
Specimen of tho Phlebodium Group,
and Valuable for Decorative Purposes
with Its Conspicuous Appearance.
The golden polypody fern, known to
botanists as Phlebodium aureum, is re«
garded as a typical species of the Phle-
bodium group. It is a. strong grower,
strikingly bold in habit, and owing to
its glaucous foliage conspicuous. The
popular appellation of golden polypody,
under which this handsome plant is'best
known, may have been derived from the
glossy brown color of the scales that
cover the older portions of its rhizomes;
but it may also be due to the intense
golden hue of the under side of its fertile
fronds. This class of ferns is very use-
ful for decoration, the noble fronds pro-
ducing a striking contrast with those of
other ferns with which they are associ-
ated in the warm fernery. When plant-
THE GOLDEN POLYPODY FERN.
ed out their naturally wild growing rhi-
zomes grow apace and produce fronds in
abundance.
As may be seen by the accompanying
illustration of P. aureum, though their
fronds are of variable dimensions, they
single rhizome, and would in that way
be of little use as pot plants. To ob-
viate this mode of growth the extremity
of the rhizome is Cut off entirely when
only two inches high, the result being
the production of several lateral rhi—
zomes growingout of the mutilated one
in all directions, thus making a. bushy
compact plant. It requires substantial
food; a mixture consisting of about
equal proportions of fibrous peat, loam,
and silver sand suits them best. They
must also receive a liberal supply of
water at the roots while growing, and
during that time they will also derive
great benefit from Occasional waterings
with weak liquid manure.
Directions for Root Pruning.
The most common practice is to dig a
deep narrow trench around each tree at
a suitable distance, by which the roots
are exposed so that a portion of them
can be cut Off, when the trench is again
filled. As good an authority as Viek
says: “With large trees root pruning
should not be completed the first year,
but a half circle be dug at one time and
the remaining half in a subsequent sea-
son. In some cases the ball of roots
should be undermined quite up to the
main stem and some of the tap roots be
severed.” An English authority gives
the following directions in the case of
young trees with too vigorous a tenden-
cy: Begin far enough from the tree and
open a trench deep enough to get under
the roots, then with a fork work toward
the trunk, lift out-the roots, especially
those which are young and will develop
fibers, cutting off those that have a down-
ward direction, and save all that can be
lifted near the surface. Obviously a
practice involving so much labor cannot
be expected to come into general use, es-
pecially in large orchards. In such cases
where there isltoo thrifty a growth, with
scanty fruitfulness, seeding. to grass
sometimes has the good effect of chant,-
ing the habit.
Renovating Currant Bushes.
Vick tells of a farmer who renovated
an old row of cum-ants in this way. He
cut out all of the old wood and pruned
the roots. He spaded up the soil well
and worked manure into it. Then he
put old mortar, sand and the like about
the bushes to keep the weeds from get-
ting a start. He allowed the hens to
wallow in this, and they kept the worms
from depositing eggs in the soil and
preying on the bushes. The first season
the canes made a. growth of two or three
feet. Only four were left to a plant. The
second year he picked off all the blos-
soms and nipped off the. ends of the
bushes. They sent out many branches,
and the third year he had a good crop of
fine, healthy fruit. Perhaps it would
have been as well to start new bushes,
but he is under the impression that he
gained something by saving a. portion of
the old ones.
Cold Storage Fruits.
Cold storage for fruits is now so com-
mon, and in most instances useful, that
its disadvantages are seldom taken into
consideration. By the, use of ice the
small fruits are preserved in a fresh con-
dition much longer than they can be by
any other method. When taken out,
however, and exposed to the warm at-
mosphere decay sets in very rapidly.
Hence fruits out of cold storage are not
as well adapted to long transportation
or remaining long on sale as when they
were fresh picked.
An Ear-Mayor of New York.
A. Oakey Hall, who used to be mayor of
New York in the old Tweed days, can be
seen along the Strand almost every day, still
looking well and hearty. He has a quiet
home and seems to be very well contented
with life, declaring that a man can buy a
great deal in England for what he cams,
and does not seem to want as much as in
the United States—London Cor. Atlanta
Constitution.
HOEC'Z
SENSE.
Lessons the Average Farmer May Draw
from the Horse Show.
The'Rural New Yorker has this tosay
about the horse fair that was held in
New York city: ,
It was for the “400;” that is to say, it
@pea-led most powerfully to the fashion-
able people, who, demand showy and
speedy animals, and are prepared to pay
almost any price for them. The lessons
to be learned by the average farmer at
such a show are few, but they are none
the less important. These fishionable
horses top the market in price; and when
they are good are as staple articles of
commerce as wheat or pork. A stylish
roadster or coach horse of good style and
color will never go begging for a cus-
tomer. -
The average farmer cannot hope to
breed Nelsons or Axtells; that costs too
much money, and must be left to the
wealthy breeders, who have every facili-
ty for breeding and training the best,
and who can afford to give away nine
poor horses for the profit of breeding the
one first class animal. But the farmer
can afford to raise good coach or carriage
horses just as well as he can afford to
raise nondescript animals that naturally
find their way to the street cars, with
the certainty of finally being driven from
that work by the electric motor.
The breeders who exhibited at this
show all agree that the business of
breeding and training fine horses grows
better with each year. Sales Of trotting
stock for breeding purposes are largely
determined by “records.” As one fam-
ily or strain increases the number of its
members in the “2:20 class,” or under,
the demand for that “blood” increases.
Just now, for example, N elson’s great
performance has attracted attention to
his breeding and ancestors, and it will
doubtless change the \ plans of many
breeders, and create a. “demand for ani-
mals which otherwise v. ‘ald hardly be
noticed by the “experts.” All this is the
most necessary sort of business for the
breeder, and while of less importance to
the farmer it; is, nevertheless, import-
ant that he should know what he is
breeding his mares to. A study of pedi-
grees and performances will help him
just as a knowledge of the good qualities
of several bulls will be of service to him
, . in breeding up a. herd of good cows.
have a natural tendency to grow on a .
Special attention, the breeders said,
should be given to the mare, and unless
she is large, strong and solid they would
seek for vigor and strength rather than
speed in the stallion. In fact, endurance,
good nature and a popular color will
prove more valuable than great speed
without any of these qualities. There
is a great demand for good hunters and
jumping horses. So long as rich people
will organize so called “hunts” after
foxes or aniseseed bags there will be a
demand for good saddle horses that can
clear a fence or brook with ease. Who
is better qualified to meet this demand
than the farmer whose pastures are on
hillsides, and whose rough land will not
provide a living for slow moving, heavy
horses?
Hackney horses are also in good de-
mand. These “chunky” and handsome
animals are wanted by the riders who
like to show themselves off in the parks.
Many good hackney stallions are being
sent to this country from England. If
there is one in your neighborhood, and
you have asound, active, “blocky” mare,
it will pay you to breed her to him.
There is every chance that the colt will
be salable at a good price.
Another chance for making money is
in breeding Shetland ponies. There is a
great demand for these little fellows.
Try to buy one and see how difficult it is
to get what you want. They are tough
and hardy, easier to keep than mules
and will do more farm work in propor-
tion to their size than any other farm
animals. There are several stock farms
in the country where they are kept ex-
clusively, doing all the farm work, from
plowing to haying, and doing it well.
There is three times the money in breed—
ing two good ponies that there is in
breeding one car horse, and the cost is
about the same. The Exmore ponies are
also in good demand. They are some-
what larger than the Shetlands, but are
strong, active and rugged.
Mixed Farming.
One small colony of eight Michigan
farmers near Ypsilanti went to Dakota
eight years ago with not over three or
four head of cows among them. They
can now count up over 400 head of cat-
tle and horses which they have raised
and which figure as profit. They have
lived through the toughest of the prairie
privations, and now see the way out by
the yearly increase in the flocks of sheep,
cattle and horses—Exchange.
Points of Interest.
Secretary Rusk proposes to give par-
ticular attention to the poultry interests
of the country. For the present they
will be placed in special charge of the
dairy division of the department of agri-
culture.
The judges at the poultry show in
New York city in February next will be
appointed with great care. The most
capable experts in each breed of poultry
are brought to the exhibit and asked for
their judgment on each bird of their
special breeds. The points will be noted
‘oy the expert in a. book. Then the best
specimens of each breed will be selected
and all of them together carefully com-
pared, according to the points the expert
has set down in his book. This seems
the nearest to accuracy of any method
yet devised.
If southern farmers would pay more at-
tention to poultry raising in winter they
would have an active market for their
products and good prices, while poultry
and eggs in the north would not rise to
a price almost out of reach of ordinary
people incold weather. It costs more
to raise chickens in the north in winter
than in summer, and the price of eggs
soars into the empyrean accordingly.
We ought to have an abundant supply
of eggs the year around in this country
of varied climate. Will not southern
ugriculturists turn their attention more
generally to eggs and poultry?
CREAM RAISING. ‘ I
A Summary of Experiments in Setting |
Milk with Water at the Cornell Station. f
In eleven trials where the milk was set I
in the Cooley creamer with ice water, at
a. temperature of 44 dogs, the average per i
cent. of fat in the skim milk was .23 1
In eleven trials wheromilk was diluted I
with an equal weight of cold water and I
set in the open air the average per cent. I
of fat in the skim milk was 1.38. I
In six trials where milk was diluted
with 20 and 50 per cent. of cold water
the average per cent. of fat in the skim
milk was 1.21. {K
In ten trials where milk was dilute};
with 10 to 100 per cent. of its weight 01
hot water the average per cent. of fat in‘
the skim milk was 1.11.
In two trials where milk ' vas set in
deep cans without dilution in running
water at 60 to 63 dogs. the average per
cent. Of fat in the skim milk was .89.
In two trials where milk was set in
shallow cans at 60 dogs. and (Si dogs. the
average per cent. of fat in the skim milk
was .48.
In one trial where milk was set in
shallow pans and one-third of its weight
of water at 120 (legs. added the per cent.
of fat in the skim milk was .75.
How Gas Lime Is Best Used.
Gas lime has little, if any, manurial
value in itself, but may be useful in
hastening the decomposition of other
substances Of a. vegetable nature. and by
its chemical action upon insoluble min-
erals contained in the soil, making them
available as plant food. Where soils are
full of vegetable mold lime in some
form is highly beneficial, even if the
land already contains sufficient lime for
the use of the crops. Lime from gas
works contains some properties that, if
largely ~ applied without correction,
would be injurious rather than beneficial
to vegetation, unless previously exposed
for some months in the air. Conse-
quently, if spread upon the ground un-
mixed with anything else, it had better
be done in the fall than in the spring.
On sour, damp soils, disposed to moss or
fungous growths, gas lime may be ap-
plied in moderate quantities at any
time. Commonly the best way to pre-
pare it for use will be to compost it with
other substances, ereh as swamp muck,
or in alternate laj' of lime and dry
earth, turning 0v: ‘ I mixing together
the contents of th ‘ ' - :jibefore it is used.
Mixed through i173: of weeds, coarse
grass, or vegetal " . matter of any kind
in the fall, it may be made useful, but
it should not be composted along with
animal manures.
Lime as a Fertilizer.
I-I. Stewart tells in Rural New Yorker
that if there is any one useful special
fertilizer in use, it is lime. When lime
is used in its common form. as air slaked
quicklime. it furnishes the lime in a sol-
uble condition, and, so far as it goes,
provides a needed plant food. But it is
one of the most active of chemical agents.
It attacks the inert organic matter in the
soil and develops nitrates from them
which furnish nitrogen. It makes the
various silicates in the soil soluble to
some extent, and thus releases potash,
sodd, magnesia and phosphoric acid from
their combinations and makes them
available. Thus it provides all the ele-
ments which are required by the crops
and rarely disappoints the farmer. But
it is easily seen that it adds nothing to the
soil but itself, and as it draws the others
from the soil it will in time rapidly ex-
haust it unless these others are returned.
Show Animals.
The comparatively high prices fixed
by their owners on the best animals
shown at fairs are not “fancy,” and
should not discourage any from attempt-
ing needed improvements of their own
stock. The pure bred stock in many
cases produces enough more from the
same feed to warrant a large part of the
price demanded for it. The rest is
abundantly justified by its ability to re-
produce its valuable characteristics in
its progeny. It costs comparatively little
for any farmer to grade up his stock in
any desired direction, and this will al-
ways pay. When his grades show the
expected improvement and begin to pay
it will be comparatively easy to begin
purchasing and breeding thoroughbreds.
—-American Cultivator.
Ground Bone as a Fertilizer.
.At the N ew Jersey station the fertil-
izer work of the present year included
an analysis of thirty-one samples of
ground bone, seven of dissolved bone
and four of superphosphates with pot-
ash. Ground bone is both a phosphatic
and nitrogenous fertilizer. It is insolu-
ble in water, but is readily decomposed
by the action of the soil, and furnishes
amounts of nitrogen and phosphoric acid
to the crop from year to year in propor—
tion to the fineness to which it is ground.
It is less liable to adulteration than
mixed fertilizers, and varies in composi-
tion between reasonably narrow limits.
What is termed raw or unboiled bone
is perhaps the purest, though not always
the best, in agricultural value, as the fat
prevents the full effect of the agencies in
the soil which cause the decay necessary
before the nitrogen and phosphoric acid
can serve as food for plants. The nitro~
gen in boiled or steamed bones is often
very low, while the phosphoric acid is
correspondingly high. This is owing to
the extraction of the nitrogen along with
the fat.
To determine the value of bones, says
Mr. Voorhees, the chemist, both the
amount of nitrogen and phosphoric acid
and the degree of fineness are taken into
consideration. The finer pure bones are
ground the more valuable they are, pro-
vided the whole of the bone is used .to
secure the fineness. A mechanical an.
‘alysis of a sample of ground bone con-
sists in dividing it by a system of sieves
into four grades, each grade having a
difierent value for tho phosphoric acid
and nitrogen. The average cost per
pound of these elements with regard to
fineness is stated at 12.5 cents for nitro-
gen and 5.4 cents for phosphoric acid,
while that of the finest is 15.4 and 6.8
cents respectively. ,
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NORWALK - GAZETTE.
m 1.160s" "Ii’dOM COTTAGE.
King Describes a Cheap and
Pleasant Residence.
[Copyright by American Press Association]
These illustrations represent a. four room
cottage, simple and homelike in appear-
ance, with a pleasing distribution of win-
dows of the simplest design and construc-
Architect
FRONT ELEVATION.
tion, which contribute much to the effect
of a. cheerful home. There are two large
rooms in the first story and two in the sec-
ond. The stairs are inclosed by a parti-
tion, thus saving expense in their con-
struction. The frame of the building is of
spruce—sills, 4x7; floor beams, 2x9: rafters,
2x5; outside studding, 2x4; studding of in-
side partitions, 2x3, all placed 16 inches
from centers. The outside walls and gables
of the building are covered with surfaced
hemlock and sheathing paper.
The first story is clapboardcd with white
pine beveled siding; the second story is
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SIDE ELEVATION.
shingled The roof is covered with XX
white }-.:ie shingles, 5 inches to the
weather, nailed upon 1x3 shingle lath.
Shingles on the sides of the house laid 5%
inches to the weather.
The barge boards, outside door and win-
dow casings, cornices, belt courses, mold-
ings, etc., are of dry white pine, to show
clear face. Window sash of white pine,
glazed with single thick glass and bal-
anced with weights in the usual way.
The floors are %x4 tongued and grooved
spruce, well driven together and blind
nailed. The doors in the first story are 1%
thick, with four sunk panels molded both
sides, hung with block japanned iron
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FIRST STORY.
butts, and provided with brass faced mor-
tise locks, white porcelain knobs. etc. Sec—
ond story doors, 1% thick, four panels stock
door, hung with black japanned iron
butts, andprovided with iron locks, brown
mineral knobs, etc.
The side walls and ceilings are plastered
in two coats; last coat white sand finish.
The foundation walls are of stone and
chimney of hard brick, laid in lime mortar.
There is a cellar under the whole. house
6 feet 6 inches in height. A neat hood pro-
tects the front entrance, which is reached
by very broad steps of white pine. All ex-
terior and interior woodwork is painted
two coats, with patent prepared paints in
at:
SECOND STORY.
three colors: roof. red: sash, same; body,
light drab. and trimmings of a dark drab
color.
This house is suited to the wants of a
family of moderate means, and can be
erected for $1,000. By omitting the cellar,
painting of roof and finishing the walls
and ceilings of the rooms with one coat of
plaster it can be erected for about 8750,
without plumbing of any description.
' D. W. KING.
It is anything but good decorative con-
struction to let brass handles in doors
stand alone. For pleasing efiectivenm a
finger plate of some material with raised
fanciful design should be supplied, and
this in met so as to contrast with its
burnished surface. The appearance of the
door will also be thus improved. A brass
handle affords a better grip it slightly
ribbed—Decorator and Furnisher.
G. A. FRANKE, ,
THE HAIR CUTTER,
No. l Gazette Building, Norwalk.
HOT AND COLD BATHH.
DENTISTRY.
R. \V. H. BALD‘V’IN is now permanent-
, . 1y located in the Bishop Building, No. 6‘.
Wall'streetn where all in need of Dentistry in
anviorm w111 find valuable assistance.
15 references are your friends and neigh-
bors. and he invites inquiry as to his ability
and past record. Consultation free. Ofiire
hours: 8 a. in. till b' p. m. ti?!“
HENRY Hues,
Restaurant, tale and Smoking Room,
GRAND CENTRAL l)l‘ll’01‘.
42d Street and 4th Avenue, New York.
_Entrance from waiting room Of New York,
New Haven iv Hartford Railroad. rte-3
Building Materials, 85:.
LILDIXI: STONE. all qualities of sand.
cellars dug. gardens and grounds renovat-
ed and horses and carts for hire. I have some
thoroughly rotted and very fine manure for
flower beds. J. W. EDMUNDS,
NO. (5 South L'nion Avenue.
Z.‘ 0. Box 634. Norwalk.
CAP. . Isl) CONCRETE IVALKS.
' *id in'new and the best possible manner,
~ ; will ones neatly and substantially repaired
.. at very reasonable rates. All orders
.thly executed.
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F‘ATEIoT cr'ri-..
Wm. Lockwood,
Real Estate, Insurance and Investment
Securities.
-—l\IONE1’ T0 LOAN.—~—
Insurance Placed in First-Class Companies.
Office—Corner Main and Wall Sis" Norwallz.
J. Belden Hurlbutt,
Atlanta and Counselor at Law,
.{mm 4, ['1’ STAIRS.
(win: 1'
gum. I
11.; .1. :aa- minding, Norwalk. Conn.
Alex. S. Gibson,
O;':.i.i..-c Of_the First Congregationgl Church,
\V aterbury, and Teacher of
Pianoforte, Organ and
Musical Composition.
1’. 0. Lock Box. NORWALK. CONN.
.‘I’l‘NA INSRUANCE C().. of Hartford.
1 ID Incorporated 1812. Charter Perpetual.
{Capital and Assets, $8,902,272.64.
Insures against loss and damage by 1'an on
terms adapted to the hazard and consistent
With the laws of compensation.
COWLES dr- MERRILL,
Sole agents for Nor-walk and vicinity.
The N mall Fire Insurance Cu.
Has now Completed its
26th SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS YEAR,
And has not outstanding a dollar of unpaid.
losses or claims for losses. No sound com-
121371 3/ i usures for less.
\I’. (I. STREET. Pres: G. B. ST. JOHN. Tress;
GEO. R. Comets. Sec'y.
R. B. CRTUFURD,
Investments. Real Estate and Insurauca,
FURNITURE I
Geo. ll. Raymond,
Furniture Dealer,
Has removed to the new and commodious
store four doors above his old stand and
stocked it with NEW GOODS of the LATEST
STYLE and FINEST FINISH.
GEO. H. RAYMOND. Agent.
Furnishing Undertaker and Embalmer.
I give my personal attention to laying out
and furnishing everything necessary for the
interment of the dead.
lesidence, No. 3 Berkeley Place. Norwalk.
Telephone communication with residence.
w. n. MEEKER,
Plumbing, Steam and Ga Fitting,
SOUTH NORH'ALK, CONN.
Sanitary Plumbing and Ventilation and Low
Pressure and Steam Heating, :3. Specialty.
PLUMBERS" SUPPLIES.
Pipe and Fitting for Steam and Gas.
AGENT for the FLORIDA LOW PRESSURE BOILER.
Facilities for cutting and threading all kinds
of Pipe. 50tf
To Horse Owners!
We keep constantly on hand a good assort-
ment 0
Kentucky and Ohio Horses.
Selected with great care in the western mar-
kets. We have horses suitable for all purposes
and no one who wants a thoroughly reliable
animal should purchase before seeing what we
have to ofler. We also keep constantly on
hand at our Carriage Repository a complete
line of CARRIAGES from the best makers.
which are manufactured for us to special
order; every carriage warranted. WAGONS
and CARTS of every descnlptlon; HARNESSES
WHIPS. ROBES. BLANK TS.
DANN’S LIVEItY STABLE,
OFFICE :—48 WALL STREET, NORWALK.
Opposite D. (St N. Railroad Depot.
FURNITURE.
A Full Stock of Furniture of all kinds.
Parlor and Bedroom Sets,
A Specialty.
DAVID STOW.
Main Street, South Kuwait.
0 poaite
not.
Norwalk Chronicler