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WHERE WEIMAN IS BOSS.
IN FAR OFF sung?“ SHE RUNS THINGS
TO sun-”r" HERSELF. '
Gold and Silver as Plenty as the Sum"
shine, and Everybody happy—Wanner:
van the Houses and Lands—Extrav-
agant Dress—Husbands Always Lovers.
A country where; e women own
the houses and lands,.. here gold and
silver are common ital-the flowers in
the spring, where everybody is happy
an nobody does wrong, is the burden
of the story that W. J. Shaw brings
from far off Sumatra." ', .
W. J. Shaw is one of the men who
nodelled things in this country when
it was young and pliable. He came
from New York in 1849 and was about
the first man to hang out a lawyer’s
sign in San Francisco. We won the
cases that settled the vgidty of set-
tlers’ titles and resulted‘vin the Van
Ness ordinance; and he served as a
State Senator in 1854, when it was
more of an honor to be a legislator
than it is now.
“ In all my years Of travel,” he said
yesterday, “ I never found a - happier
people than those who liveflgin Suma-
tra, in the middle part of the island.
The people all over Sumatra are be-
lievers in the Mohammedan religion,
but the peculiar customs which make
this particular people unique and dif-
ferent from all others are confined to
one community. ,
“It would not be correct, to term this
ranch of the Sumatra people a" tribe,
orthey do not live in tribal relations
It .all, although there is a chief and
inder Chieftains. These rulers, how-
-ver, are not despot‘s, and if the people
‘0 not like thelway in which they
ranage things‘ they dispose of them
ery shortly and put other men in
heir places. ‘ .5 ,
“Although men are the oStensible
hieftains, the women are the real
ulers. The customs of the country
orbid the giving of a man’s property
0 his children after his death. If a
II an dies the property he owns is given
0 his father and mother. The
oman’s property, on the contrary, is
iven to the children. Probably that
. the custom that is responsible for
be turning over of all the wealth of
e country to the women.
“It is the constant aim of the men
I enrich their wives. Each man has
ut one wife, and each wife one hus-
and, and they live a perfectly moral
fe. The teachings of Mohamme-
.nism are followed upon the question.
: divorce. The husband has the
ght to divorce his wife whenever he
looses, but must allow her to retain
Ie property in her’possession. Di-
II‘CGS are not frequent though, and I
-lieve that, in proportion to the
pulation, divorces in this part of
matra are not one in sixteen com-
red to the number in California.
“ The people are happy there—hap-
, as they can be.'_ The children live
home with their mother—the boys
til they are thirteen or fourteen,
Id the girls until they marry. '
“When the daughter "gets married
e does not leave her mother’s
use. An addition is built on—a
w roof as they call it—and the new-
married girl makes her-home there
(1 brings up her~ children. This cus-
n, of course, results in forming
ite large communities where there
e many children.
‘I knew one of these communities
Iere there were a mother and sever-
daughters living with their chil-
en. The original house had grown
th each marriage until it spread
er a large piece of ground.
‘When the boys get old enough to
we home, they are taken to a com-
rtment house which is set aside as
Iome for them until they wish to
rry. The girl has the right to
.ose whom she will wed, a privilege
legated to her in few Mohammedan
ntries. .
‘Once married, the husband for the
t of his life is his wife’s lover. He
-s apart from her and visits his
ne only in the evening 'to chat with
and the children. All the money
gets—and there is plenty of money
Dutch coinage th’ere—he turns
r to his sweetheart. She dresses
self and the children and shoulo
s all the petty family cares.
To get things for them to eat need
worry them much. The portion
umatra in which these strange
ple live is very fertile and produc-
It is a fine country, with beau-
1 mountains and streams and mag-
cent scenery. All sorts of fruits
grown, and in the higher altitudes
Iy of the grains.
To find dresses for the family must
a diflicult matter, for I never saw
elegantly attired women as in
e communities. They are very
utiful, boasting the fairest and
st complexions and the brighest
I have seen women there wearing
ses of pure gold and others wear-
silver gowns. Both these metals
mined there in Sumatra and the
res possess sufficient knowl-
of the arts to smelt and
the ingots into wire. The
~ing of these handsome and costly
sis quite the principal oc'cupa-'
of both the women and the men.
ever in Christian countries do
en dress as extravagantly.
remember that once the chief told
1c would have two pretty maidens
s as they would on their mar-
.. The two bright-eyed girls
gone some time, and came back,
ing, one a dress of gold and the
If one of silver. They had brace-
.Inc above another from the hands
above their elbows. At the el-
': they wore peculiar bracelets,
ed to permit easily moving the
In brief, their arms were arm-
with precious metal. They had
laces of gems and other costly
merits, and the c.<Ith--If-go'.d and
-{<;»t]i-of-silver dresses mam made
fitting above the Waist, and
l-zirts in liouuces.-——San Francisco
naer.
MARRIAGE ON TICK.
Telegraph Offices Have Now Become
Mun-inmniai Bureaus. ‘
When telegraph companies Opened
their offices to women operators they
did not forsee that they were estab-
lishing a matrimonial bureau on a
large scale with an agency in every
town where there was a telegraph in-
strun'u-nt. Assistant Superintendent
Han-trioz'ni of the W'cstern Union
Com puny sriys that the marriages are
so :requent in the office that it makes
many annoying changes. Just as
soon as a woman gets broken in thor-
oughly and can handle a heavy wire
almost as well as a man, if she is
bright, pretty or has anything attrac-
tive about 11011, nine times out of ten
she will fall in love with some tele-
graph sharp and get married. In
most cases the women quit work and
go into the housekeeping business
while the husband thumps the key
twice as hard to keep from going in-
to bankruptcy. A new operator has
to be broken in, and then it is the
same old story over again. Mr. Ham-
mond says that the companies would
give up women operators altogether
in the large offices if it were not for
the sake of economy. ' '
There is another; branch in the
matrimonial line of which telegraph-
ers have the monopoly. To fall in
love at first sight is the lot of many,
but it is reserved for telegraphcrs
alone to fall in love without a sight at
all. The little instrument with its
brass key and sounding plate is made
to take the place of eyes and stamp
upon the brain the image of the one
adored, though a thousand miles
away.
There was a romance of this sort in
the Western Union office recently
which did not end in the usual way,
and there is a. heart - laid up for - re-
pairs. Aheavy “click, click” came
on the Pittsburgh wire in the. morn-
ing that caused pretty Ida Wilson to
start with surprise. ‘ It was a man’s
touch surely and for more‘ than .a year
Miss Wilson, the operator at this end,
had been taking messages from a
woman. A change had evidently been
made in the Pittsburgh office. When
the long meseage had been received
the young lady asked the name of the
sender, and the answer came back
with a heavy touch, “ Bob.” The ice
was broken and Bob and Ida became
friends and then lovers.
the last “good night” was given
each day “darling,” “pet,” “a
million kisses,” and other sweet
things when humming back and
forth over the wire. All the symp-
toms of marriage were manifested
and the time came when an inter-
change of pictures was requested. Ida
got some taken with all the extra frills
to make her look prettier than ever,
and she sent one to Bob. She waited
anxiously for a reply. It came in a
few day. It was a big envelope, and
her fingers trembled so that she could
hardly break the seal. The picture
fell on the floor and the big black eyes
twinkling with mirth, looked up at
her. The black mustache that she
had heard about was not there, but
instead there was a little roguish
mouth, a big curly bang and just the
sweetest girl’s face that ever was any-
where. Love changed to hate in a
second, and the pretty face was spoiled
by an angry heel. It is not safe to
mention love or “Bob ” now in the
Western Union office, at short range,
near the Pittsburg wire—N. Y. Re-
corder. _
A Costly Game of Baccarat.
“Did you ever hear how the Mar-
quis de Caux lost Patti?” asked a
Russian gentleman who was in Chi-
cago a short time ago. “ He lost her
through his passion for cards,” he
- went on, “ and baccarat was the game.
No, he did not make a. bet Of her; but
her running off with N icolini was a
result of the noble husband’s gam-
bling. It was at St. Petersburg, where
Patti was singing, that the rupture
occurred. The Marquis was intro;
duced at the Yacht ”Club, where high
play at baccarat was going on. Here,
as at the Jockey Club at Paris, a visi-
tor is given unlimited credit, the mem-
ber who introduces him being respon-
sible. The Marquis lost many thous-
ands of francs more than he could,
raise next day; so he took his wife’s
casket of jewels and placed it in the
hands of his creditors. These were
Russian officers. They at once re-
turned the jewels te the diva, sending
a note to the effect that they could not
accept as the spoils of fortune the
lewels which had been earned by a
woman. This disgusted Patti with
her noble Marquis, and it was imme-
diately afterwards that the world
heard that she. had eloped with the'
tenor. ”—Chicago Tribune.
Dyspepsia of the Mind.
Benjamin Franklin said he made
himself an” educated man simply by
learing things when he wanted them.
Whenever he haduse for any kind of
knowledge, he acquired it.. Hisap'pe-
tite was good, his mental digestion
was in order, and hence he assimil-
ated his knowledge and made itapart
of his intellectual organization.
A man cannot be made wise upon-
knowledge which he doesn’nt want to
learn, any more than he can be made
strong upon pie which he! doesn’t
want to eat. Compulsory pie can only
result in dyspepsia, and compulsory
knowledge is inevitably followed by
intellectual indigestion. There are
thousands of men who are graduating
from our colleges at this season of the
year who, from the Very nature of the
case, must be mentally dyspeptic.—
Boston Globe.
Why Cigarettes Kill.
A post-mortem examination of two
boys who died from excessive cigar-
ette smoking took place at Prairie du
Chien the other day. The result of
the autopsy was to show that there
was phosphorous in the stomach, and
the symptoms indicated that death
was caused by this substance, com-
bined with nicotine and an arsenical
solution used in the preparation of the
cigarettes—Pall Mall Budget.
Before
SOME THUNDER MYTHS.
CURIOUS BELIEFS PREVAIL AMONG THE
AMERICAN INDIANS.-
Strange Legends About the, Thunder
Bird and the Storm God—Waukheon
and ‘Unk-ha-te—Lightning. Supposed
to be Fiery Serpents.
The almost universal belief prevails
among the North American Indians
that thunder is a bird. A large bird
starts the rumbling and a number of
smaller birds keep it up; hence the
long duration of the thunder—pears.
The Dacotahs say that the young
birds,'or .thunders, do the mischief,
and are like the young men who will
not listen to the words of wisdom.
The old thunder does not kill anybody
and is perfectly harmless. He is ac-
tually supposed to have been shot in
Dakota, and his footprints are seen in
the rocks twenty-five miles apart in a
place near the source of the St. Peter’s
called Thunder-tracks.
The Sioux Indians have very fanci-
ful ideas concerning thunder. They
believe that a thunder-storm is a
struggle between Unk-ta-he, the god
of the waters, and Waukheon, the
thunder-bird, for the command of
their nation. -The following story is
related by one of the oldest men in
the tribe, who was revered as a medi-
cine man of great powers: “ Uuk-ta-
he is as powerful as the thunder-bird,
Waukheon. Each wants to be the
greatest god of the Dacotahs, and
they have had many battles. My
father was a great medicine man; he
was killed many years ago and his
Spirit wandered about the earth. The
thunder-bird wanted him and Unk-ta-
he wanted him, for they said he
would make a wonderful medicine
man. Some of the sons of Unk-ta—he
fought against the sons of the thun-
der-bird. The young thunder-birds
were killed, and then Unk-ta-he took
the spirit of my father to teach him
many mysterious things.”
The Dacotah tribes likewise believe
in a giant called Haokah, who pos-
sesses superhuman powers. He is an
odd-looking man, dressed in many
colors, and wears horns or a forked
hat, which is supposed to represent
the lightning. His face is red on one
side and blue on the other, and his
eyes are of different colors. He always
carries a bow and arrow in his hand,
but never uses them, “as one look
would kill any animal he wanted.”
His manifestations were fourfold. and
one of the four winds was the drum-
stick he used to produce the thunder,
which he would take in his hands and
hurl to the ground.
The Chippewas represent thunder
brandishing a rattlesnake, the symbol
of the electric flash, and sometimes
they call him the northwest wind,
which usually brings the thunder-
storm in the region they inhabit.
The Passamaquoddies believe that
the great bird down South, which the
thunders are ever pursuing, is Wu-
chowsen, that is, the Wind-Blower.
They believe that this .bird sits upon
a great rock at the end of the sky, and
whenever he moves his. wings the
wind blows, hence his name. When
Goosckap was among men he would
often go out in his canoe and kill sea-
fowl with his'abow and arrows.
It seems to be a very widely spread
myth that the thunder is the flapping
of the wings of a giant bird, and the
lightning the flashes of its eyes.
There is a strange resemblance be-
tween these legends and the story of
Rip Van Winkle, the distant sound of '
resembling low-mut-
tered thunder. The hospitable enter-
tainment he received among the
gnomes likewise recalls the kind
treatment experienced by the Passa-
maquoddy Indians in the Thunder
Land.
the nine-pins
Among the Canadian Indians the '
dark storm-cloud is also supposed to
be a great bird, and the - lightnings
are regarded as writhing worms or
serpents in the back. These fiery ser-
pents are believed in to this day, and
the thunder is the noise of their hiss-
ing. _
Among the Algonquin traditions
Michabo had agreat conflict with the
shining prince of serpents, who lives
in the lake and floods the earth with
its waters. He destroyed him with a
dart and, clothing himself in the skin '
of his foe, he drove the rest of the
serpents to the South. “ where in that
latitude the lightnings are last seen
in the autumn.” Michabo not only
overcame the prince of serpents, but
became master of the thunder and
lightning, with which he destroys his
enemies.
The Iroquois tribes tell of a great .
horned serpent, "which rose out of
the lake and devoured the people,”
until a hero destroyed it with'a thun-
derbolt. Their thunder god is Heno,
who rides through the heavens on the
clouds and hurls thunderbolts'at his
enemies, often splitting open great
forest trees and making vast charms
in the earth with his mighty weapons.
Then, again, he is called grandfather
by his children, the Indians, for they
look upon him as their great benefac-
tor. When they hear thunder they
believe it is the voice of the Great
Spirit speaking from the clouds, tell-
ing them that the time of corn-plant-
ing is near. He gathers the clouds.
pours out the warm rains on the
earth, and is the patron of seed-time
and harvest.
These are a few among the numer-
ous American Indian legends regard-
ing the storms which rage in the skies,
and which, strangely enough, bear a
strong resemblance to European le-
gends on the same subject—Mary
Proctor in St. Louis Republic.
Intelligence 0: Carrier Pigeons.
A carrier pigeon is trained for arace
with as much care as is devoted to a
prize fighter. They are dieted, exer-
cised and cared for in much the same
way. The result of this careful train-
‘ing is very satisfactory. A greater
degree of speed is attained and intel:
ligence to a surprising degree is man-
ifested by these birds.
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Facilities for cutting andthreading all kinds
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THE D. M.
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$500 --Shoninger
Upright Piano.
With Stool, Cover and Lamp.
SOLD BY ‘ . -
J. W. STUD WELL.
NOVEMBER 1. 1891.
The person holding the
cards which represent the
largest amount purchased will receive the Piano, with
Stool, Cover and Lamp. Free
of Charge.
Remember the Card is obtainable only at the following stores. Also, the
Piano will be found on exhibition at SOME ONE or NAMED FIRMS:
Edward Street,
Dealer in Dry Goods, 5 Gazette
Building. Norwalk.
Blackman,
Photographer and Artist, 53 \Val
Street, Norwalk.
Charles T. Leonard,
Coal, Wood, Blue Stone and Ma-
’sons’ Building Materials, 33 to 4
Water street, Norwalk.
Taylor & 00.,
Hardware, Cutlery, Paints, Oils
Glass, Wall Paper, \Vindow
Shades, Etc, 21 Main Street.
G. A. Franke,
Tonsorial Artist, 1 Gazette Build-
ing, under Central National Bank.
Anton Stommell,
Sash, Doors, Blinds, Hard \Vood,
and Slate Mantels, 14 and 16 I
Water Street.
Horace E. Dann,
Livery Stables, opposite Danbury
& Norwalk Railroad Depot.
P. W. Bates,
Monumental. Building and Ceme-
tery Work of every description, 12
Water street.
Bryant, Bessc & Co.,
Clothiers, Hatters and Men’s Fur-
nishers, 29 Main Street.
Chas. L. Werner,
Baker, Confectioner,
Cream, 6 Main Strreet.
A. II. Hoyt & Son,
Boots and Shoes, 37 Wall Street.
3500 REWARD.
AREWARD of Five Hundred Dollars will
Fine Ice
be paid by the Selectmen of the Town of
i orwalk for the arrest and conv1ctio of the
oarty or parties setting any of the recent
ncendiary fires in said town, or any such that
may occur hereafter. _ 40tf
SAMUEL DASKAM, Selectmen of
N SON J.C.A , theTown
OSCAR W. RAYMOND, of Norwalk.
Dated at Norwalk; Februarv 16th. 1891.
C. L. WERNER,
' 6 Main Street, Norwalk,
Bake and Confectio ner.
Manufacturer of Ice cream,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
WPicnics and; parties supplied on short
notice.
ALL KINDS OF CANDIES FRESH EVERY DAY.
Centennial Tea 00.,
Fine Teas, Coffees, Butter, Sugar
and Spices, 18 Main Street.
Jarvis Kellogg,
Boots and Shoes, Leather and
Findings. Special Attention Paid
to Repairing. 31 Main Street.
E. N. Sloan,
Picture Frames, Stationery, Toys
and Fancy Goods, 29 Wall Street.
H. J. & G. S. Grumman,
Manufacturers of Olden-Time Root
Beer and Soda, 43 Main Street.
J. Spencer & Co.,
Watchmakers and Jewelers, 3
Main street.
George H. Raymond,
, Furniture Dealer and Furnishing
Undertaker and Embalmer, 46 and
48 Main Street.
Nickerson & Betts,
Family Groceries, Flour, Feed.
Grain, Hay, Foreign and Domes-
tic Fruits, 35 and 37 Main street
.W. F. Lockwood,
Dealer in Beef, Veal, Mutton,
Pork, Poultry, Etc, 7 Main Street.
Elias Gusowski,
Merchant TailOr, 31 Wall Street
corner Water.
Mrs. W. Fawcett,
Millinery Goods, Mourning Goods
3. specialty, 17 Main street.
John A. Riggs,
Pharmacist, No. 11 Main Street
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Boys’EOIEhing.
BOYS’ SCHOOL SUITS, ages 4 to
14, $1.25 to $2.00 ; worth double the
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BOYS’ LONG PANTS SUITS with
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