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A Morocco AT SEA

CHAPTER I.

Y dandy-rigged yacht, the

Spitfire, of twenty-six tons,

lay in Boulogne harbor, hid-

den in the midnight shadow

of the wall against which

she floated. It was a breath-

less night, dark despite the

wide spread of cloudles sky that was

brilliant with stars. It was hard upon

the hour of midnight, and low down

where we lay we heard but dimly the

sounds of such life as was still abroad in

the Boulogne streets. Ahead of us

loomed the shadow of adouble-funnelled

steamer,—an inky dye of scarcely deter-

minable proportions upon the black and

silent waters of the harbor. The Cape-

cure pier made a faint, phantom-like

line of gloom as it ran seawards on our

left. with here and there a lump of shadow

denoting some collier fast to the skele-

ton timbers. We were waiting for the

hour of midnight to strike, and our ears
were strained. '

“ What noise is that ?” I exclaimed.
“ The dip of sweeps, sir.“ answered

my captain, Aaron Caudel; some smack .

a-coming along.—ay, there she is.” And
he shadowily pointed to a dark square
heap betwixt the piers, softly approach-
ing to the impulse of her long oars.

“ How is your plug now, Caudel?” said
I, in a low voice, sending a glance up at
the dark edge of the harbor wall above
us, where stood the motionless figure of
a dowm'er, with a button or two -of his
uniform faintly glimmering to the gleam
of a lamp near him.

“ Right for the job, sin—right as your
honor could desire it. There’s but one
consideration which ain’t like a feeling
of sartinty; and that, I must say, con-
sarns the dawg."

“ Smother the dog! But you are right.
We must leave our boots in the ditch.”

“ Ain’t there plenty of grass, sir?"
said he.

“ I hope so; buta fathom of gravelwill
so crun’ch under such hoofs as yours that
the very dead buried beneath might turn
in their cofllns, let alone a live dog. wide
awake from the end of his beastly cold
snout to the tip of his tail: Does the
ladder chafe you?”

“ No, sir. Makes me feel a bit asth-
matic~like, and if them dum'ers get a
sight of me they’ll reckon I’ve visited
the Continent to make a show of myself,”
he exclaimed, with a low deep sea laugh,
whilst he spread his hands upon his
breast, around which. under cover of
a large, loose. long pea-coat, he had
coiled a length of rope~ladder with two
iron hooks at one end of it which made
a hump under either shoulder-blade.
There was no other way. however, of
conveying the ladder ashore. In the
hand it would instantly have challenged
attention. and a bag would have been
equally an object of curiosity to the two
or three custom-house phantoms flitting
about in triangular-shaped trousers and
shake-like head-gen r.

“ There goes midnight,
Caudel.

As I listened to the chimes a sudden
[it of excitement set me trembling.

“Are ye there, J ob?” called my cap-
tain.

“ Ay, sir.” res ended a voice from the
bows of the yes t.

‘ ‘ Jim ?”

sir I" cried

“Here, sir," answered a second voice V

out of the darkness forward.

“ Dick ‘9”

“ Here, sir.”

“Bobby?"

“Here, sir,
note of a boy.

“Lay aft, all you ship’s company,
and don't make no noise,” growled
Caudel.

I looked up; the figure of the douam’cr
had vanished. The three men and the
boy came sneaking out of the yacht’s
head. ..

“Now, what ye’ve got to do,’ said
Caudel, “is to keep awake. You’ll see
all ready for hoisting 'and gitting away
the hinstant Mr. Barclay and me arrives
aboard. You onderstand that ‘1’"

“It‘s good English, cap‘n,” said one of
the sailors. _

“No Skylarking, mind. You’re a-list-
ening, Bobby?"

“Ay, sir.”

“You’ll just go quietly to work and
see all clear, and then tarnto and loaf
about in the shadow—Now, Mr. Barclay,
air, if you’re ready I am.”

“ Have you the little bull's-eye in your
pocket ?" said I. ~~

He felt, and answered yes.

‘ ‘ Matches ?”

“ Two boxes."

“Stop a minute,” said I, and I de-
scended into the cabin to read my dar~
ling’s letter for the last time, that I
might make sure of all the details of our
romantic plot ere embarking on as hare-
brained an adventure as was ever at-
tempted by a lover and his sweetheart.

The cabin-lamp burned brightly. I see
the little interior now, and myself stand-
ing upright under the skylight which
found me room for my stature, for I was
six feet high.

My heart was beating fast, and my
hands trembled as I held my sweet—
heart’s letter to the light. I had read it
twenty times before, but my nervous
excitement obliged me to go through it
ancc more for the last time, as I have
said, to make sure.

The handwriting was girlish; how
could it be otherwise, seeing that the
sweet writer was not yet eighteen? The
letter consisted of four sheets, and on
one of them was very cleverly drawn, in
pen and ink, a tall, long, narrow. old-

responded the squeaky

fashioned chateau, with some shrubbery,

in front of it. a short length of wall,
shen a tall hedge with an arrow pointing
at it. under which was- written, “ Here
Is the hole." Under another arrow, in-
dicatingabig square door to the right
of the house. where a second short
length of wall was sketched in, were
written the words. “Here is the dog.”
Other arrows—quite a flight of them, in-
deed, causing the sketch to resemble a
weather-chart —pointed to windows,
doors, a little balcony, and so forth. and
against them were written, “Ma’m’-
selle’s room.” “ The German governess’s

room,” “Four girls sleep bereft—with,

other hints of alike kind. I put the let-
ter in my pocket and went on deck.

“ Where are you. Caudel?"

“ Here, sir." cried a shadow in the
starboard gangway.

“ Let us start,” said I ; there is half an
hours walk before us. and. though the
. agreed time is one. there is a great, deal
to be done when we’ arrive."

. We said little until we had cleared the
Rue de l’Ecu and were marching up the
broad Grand Rue. with the church of St.
Nicholas soaring in a dusky mass out of
the market-place. and the few lights of
the wide. main street rising in fltful

' twinklings to the shadow of the rampart '

walls. A mounted gendarme passed;

. the stroko'of hie‘horeo's hoofs sounded

 

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hollow in the broad thoroughfare and
accentuated the deserted appearance of
the street. '

“ I shan’t be sorry when we’re there,"
said Candel. “This here ladder makes
my coat feel a terrible tight fit. I sup-
pose it'll be the first job of the sort ye
was ever engaged in, sir i’”

“ The first,” said I, “and the last too.
believe me. It is nervous work.
would rather have to deal with an armed
burglar than with an elopement."

“And I don’t suppose the young lady
feels extray comfortable. either)” he ex-
claimed. “ Let me see; I’ve got to be
right in my latitude and longitude, or
we shall be finding ourselves ashore.
It's for us to make the signal, ain’t it,
sir?”

“Yes," said I,- pufling, for the road
was steep and we were walking rapidly.
“ First of all, you’ll have to prepare the
ladder. You haven’t forgotten the
rungs, I hope?” referring to three brass
pieces to keep the rope extended, con-
trivances which had been made to my
order, resembling stair—rods with forks
and an arrangement of screws by which
they could be disconnected into pieces
convenient for the pocket.

“ They’re here, sir." he exclaimed,
slapping his breast. -

“Well, we proceed thus. The bull’s-
eye must be Cautiously lighted and dark-
ened. We have then to steal noiselessly
to abreast of the window on the left of
the house and flash the lantern. This
will be answered by the young lady
strikng a match at the window.”

“ Won’t the scraping of the lucifer be
heard?” inquiréd Caudel.

“ No. Miss Bellassys writes to me
that no one sleeps within several corri-
dors of that room."

“ Well, and'then I think ye ‘said, sir,”
observed Caudel, “ that the young lady'll
slip out onto the balcony and lower
away a small length of line to which this
here ladder," he said giving his breast a
ttliiinip, “ is to be bent on, she hauling of
1 up!”

“ Quite right,” said I. “ You must
help her to descend. whilst I hold the lad-

der taut at the foot of it. No fear of the_

ropes breaking, I hope?"

“Lord love ’ee,” he cried heartily,
“ it’s brand-new ratline—stuff, strong
enough to hoist the main-mast out of a
first—rate.”

By this time we had gained the top of
the Grande Rue. Before us stretched
an open space dark with lines of trees;
at long intervals the gleam of an oil
lamp dotted that space of gloom; on our
right lay the dusky mass of the rampart
walls, the yawning gate-way dully illum-
inated by the trembling flame of a lan-
tern into a picture which carried the
imagination back into heroic times,
when elopements were exceedingly com-
mon, when gallant knights were to be
met with galloping away with women of
beauty and distinction clinging to them,
when the midnight air was vocal with
guitars, and nearly every other darkling
lattice framed some sweet. pale. listen-
ing face.

“ Which’ll be the road. sir?” broke in
Caudel’s tempestuous voice.

I had explored the district that after-
noon, had observed all that was neces-
sary, and discovered that the safest if
not the shortest way to the Rue de
Maquetra, where my sweetheart Grace
Bellassys was at school, lay through the
I-Iaute Ville, or Upper Town, as the
English called it. The streets were
utterly deserted; not so much as a. cat
stirred. One motionless figure we
passed, hard by the cathedral—a police-
man or gendarme—he might have been a
statue.

“ Foreigners is a queer lot.” exclaimed
Caudel. “I dunno as I should much
relish living between them walls. How
much farther off is it, sir?”

" About ten minutes,” said I. .

“A blooming walk, Mr. Barclay. sir,
begging your pardon. Wouldn’t it have
been as well if you’d have ordered a fee-
hggre to stand by ready to jump aboard
o .
“A fee what?” said I.

“ What’s the French for a cab, sir ?"

“Oh! I see what you mean. No. A
carriage makes a noise; and then there
is the cabman to be left behind to tell
all that he knows. ’ .

Caudel grunted an assent, and we
strided onward in silence.

A few minutes walk brought us to
the grounds belonging to the house,
which were divided from the lane by a
thick hedge.

We came to a stand and listened, star.
ing our hardest with all our eyes. The
house was in blackness; the line of the
roof ran in a clear sweep of 'ink against
the stars, and not the faintest sound
came from it or its grounds, save the
delicate tinkling murmur of a fountain
playing somewhere among the shrub-
bery in front.

“Where'll be the dawg?”
Caudel, in a hoarse whisper. .

“Behind the wall there,” ‘I answered,
—“ yonder where the great square door
is. Hark! Did not that sound like the
rattle of a chain?"

We listened; then said I,—

“Let us make for the hole in the
hedge. I have its bearings."

We crept soundlessly past the house,
treading the verdure that lay in dark
streaks upon the glimmering ground of
this little-frequented lane.

“One bell. sir,” said Caudel, “it's
about time we turned to, and no mis-
take. Lord, how I'm a-perspiring! yet
it ben’t so hot, neither. Which side of
the house do the lady descend from ?"

“ From this side," I answered.-

“Well clear of the dawg, anyhow.”
said he. “ and that’s a good job."

“Here’s the hole,” I cried, with my
voice shrill beyond recognition of my
own hearing through the nervous ex-
citement I labored under.

We squeezed through and found our-
selves in a. sort of kitchen garden. as I
might imagine from the aspect of the
shadowy vegetation; it seemed to run
clear to the very walls of the house on
this side in dwarf bushes and low ridged
growths.

“Here’ll be a path. I hope,” growled
Caudel. “What am I a-treading on?
Cabbage? They crackle worse nor
gravel, Mr. Barclay.

“Clear yourself of the rope-ladder,
and then I'll smother you in your big

exclaimed

_pea-coat whilst you light the lamp,"

said I. “ Let us keep well in the shadow
of the hedge. Who knows what eyes
may be star-gazing yonder?”

" With a seaman’s alacrity, Caudel
slipped off his immense coat, and in a
few moments had unwound the length
of ladder from his body. He wore a
colored flannel shirt: I had dreaded to
find him figuring in white calico! He
dropped the ladder to the ground, and
the iron hooks clanked as they fell to-
gether. I hissed a sea blessing at him
through my teeth: . .

“Have you no wicks in these tallow—

candle fingers? Hush! Stand motion-.

less.” .

As I spoke. the dog began to bark.
That it was the dog helongin
house I could swear. The soun . never-

;theless proceeded from the direction of '
the yard in-which my, sweethearttold

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me the dog was chained. The deep and
melancholy note was like that of
blood-hound giving tongue. ' _

“He’ll be a wooper, sir. Big as a
pony, sir, if his voice don’t belie him,"
said Caudel, fetching. a deep breath.
“Iwas once bit.by a dawg ” He
was about to spin a yarn.

“ For heaven’s sake. now, hear a hand
and get your bull’s-eye alight.” I angrily
whispered, at the same moment snatch-
ing up his coat and so holding it as
efiectually to screen his figure from the

 

' house.

Feeling over the coat, he_ pulled out
the little bull’s-eye lamp and a box of
matches, and, catching with oceanic
dexterity the flame of the lucifer in the
hollow of his hands. he kindle ‘~. the wick,
and I immediately closed the lantern
with its glass eclipsed.

“ Pick up that ladder,-—by the hooks;
see they don’t clank; crouch low; make
a bush of yourself. as I do. and come
along,” said I.

Foot by foot we groped our way
towards the tall thin shadow of the
house through the cabbages, and pres-
ently :: area at the edge of the sward;
and now we had to wait until the clock
struck one.

This side. of the house lay so black
against the fine. clear, starry dusk of the
sky that it was impossible to see the out-
lines of the windOws in it. I could
manage, however. to trace faintly the
line of the balcony. My heart beat fast
as I thought that even now my darl—
ing might be standing at the window
peering through it, waiting for the signal
flash. Caudel was thinking of her too:

“ The young lady, begging of your
pardon, sir, must be a gal of uncommon
'spirit, Mr. Barclay.”

“ She loves me, Caudel, and love is
the most animating of spirits, my
friend.”

“ I dorn’t doubt it. sir. What room’ll
it be that she’s to come out of?”

“The dining-room,—-a big deserted
apartment where the girls take their
meals.”

“ ’Tain’t her bedroom, then?”

“ No. She is to steal dressed from her
bedroom to the salle-a—manger—”

“ The Sally what, sir?"

“ No matter, no matter,” I answered.

“ It’s oncommon queer,” he persisted,
“to feel one’s self ina country where
one's language ain’t spoke. The weary
soil don’t seem natural. As to the
language itself, burst me if I can under-
stand how a man masters it."

The convent clock struck one.

“ Now," said I, “ stand by.’_’

I held up the lamp, and so turned the
darkened part as to produce two flashes.
A moment after. a tiny flame showed and
vanished above the balcony.

“ My brave darling l” I exclaimed.

“ Have you the ladder in your hand?”

“ Ay, sir.” .

“ Mind these counfounded hooks don’t
clink.”

We stepped across the sward and stood
under the balcony.

“ Grace, my darling, is that you I” I
called, in a low voice.

“ Yes, Herbert. Oh,‘ please be quick.
I am fancying I hear foot-steps. My
heart is scarcely beating for fright.”

I could just discern the outline of her
figure as she leaned over the balcony and
see the white of her face vague as a
fancy.

“ y darling, lower the line to pull the
ladder up with. Very softly, my pet;
there are iron hooks which make a
noise.”

In a few moments she called. “I have
lowered the line.”

I felt about with my hand and grasped
the end of it,——a piece of twine, but
strong enough to support the ladder.
The deep blood-hound-like haying of the
dog recommenced, and at the same time
1I heard the sound of footsteps in the
one.

“Hist! Not a stir,—not a whisper.” I
breathed out.

It was the staggering step of a drunken
man. He broke maudlinly into a song
when immediately abreast of us, ceased
his noise suddenly, and halted. This
was a little passage of agony, I can
assure you. The dog continued to utter
its sullen, deep—throated bark in single
strokes like the beat of a bell. Presently
there was a sound as of the scrambling
and scrunching of feet, followed by the
noise of a lurching tread; the man fell to
drunkenly singing to himself again, and
so passed up the lane.

Caudel fastened the end of the twine to
the ladder, and then grunted out, “All
ready for hoisting.”

“Grace, my sweet,” I whispered. “do
you hear me?”

“ Distinctly, dearest;
frightened l”

“ Pull up this ladder softly, and hook
the irons on to the rim of the balcony.”

“ Blast the dawg !” growled Caudel.

“ It is hooked, Herbert.”

“ All right. Caudcl swing off upon the
end of it.—test it, and then aloft with
you, for mercy’s sake !" .

The three metal rings held the ropes
bravely stretched ' out. . The seamen
sprang, and the ladder held as though it
had been the shrouds of a man-of—war.

“Now Caudel, you are a seaman, yo
must do the rest ” said I. ‘

He hzul removed his boots, and mount-
ing with a eat like agility, gained the
balcony then, taking my sweetheart in
his arms, he lifted her over the rail and
lowered her down with his powerful
arms until her little feet were half way
down the ladder. She uttered one or
two faint exclamations, but was happily
too frightened to cry out.

“Now, Mr. Barclay,” hoarsely whisp-
ered Caudel, “you kitch hold of her, sir”

I grasped the ladder with one hand and
passed my hand around her waist; my
status made the feat an easy one, thus
holding her to me I sprang back,then for
an instant strained her to my heart with
a whisper of joy. gratitude and encour-
agement » '

“You are as brave as you are true and
sweet Grace. ”

“Oh, Herbert 1” she panted. ”I can
think of nothing. I am very wicked, and
feel horribly frightened ;”

“Mr. Barclay ” softly called Caudel
from the balcony. "what’s to be done
with this here ladder.” -

“Let it be. let it be.” I answered,

“Bear a hand, Caudel, ‘ and come
down.”

He was along side of us in s trice.pull-
ing on his boots. I. held my darling’s
hand, and the three of us made for the
hole in the hedge with all possible speed

There seemed little doubt from the
persistency of the creature’s deep de-
livery that it scented mischief going for-
ward despite its kennel standing some
considerable distance away on the other
side of the house. I glanced back . as
Caudel was squeezing through the hole,
but the building showéd as an impene-

but I am so

. trableshadow against the winking bril-
liance of the sky hovering over and past

it, rich with radiance in places of motoric
dust ; no light gleamed; the, night hush.
deep 'as death, was upon the chateau.‘ ‘ ’

In a few monien'tsmy captain an 1

hole and got her safe in the lane, and of
we started. keeping well in the deep

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gloom cast by the convent wall, walking.
swiftly, yet- noiselessly, and scarcely

fetching our breath till we were clear off:
the lane, With-the broad glimmering St.'

12:11:“ road running ina rise upon our

[ To be continued}

vvv

A STRANGE INCIDENT.

A Tree Dropped Upon a Moving Train by 3
Lightning Stroke.

Recently as the special express
train conveying relief for the sufferers
of the Colon disaster was proceeding to
its destination, it came within an ace of
itself suffering an equally frightful fate
to that which overwhelmed Colon the
previous night. A heavy rain storm
that commenced soon after leaving Pan-
ama continued with ever increasing vio-
lence until it developed into a terrific
electric storm that was at its height
when the train passed Lion Hill. On
the stretch thence to Gatun, where the
line runs partly through dense forests,
and about midway between these sta-
tions, the incident to which we refer
occurred at 1 :05 A.M.

The train, being an express, was rush-
ing along at about thirty miles an hour,
when an extraordinary sharp flash of
lightning illuminated the darkened
inzm'ior of the car, accompanied by a
peculiar showing crash and tending, the
startling effect of which was not lessened
by the plunging and oscillating of the

cars which immediately followed, as if

they were about to jump the track. In
a second every one was on his feet.
Although no visible damage had so far
been sustained. all seemed to intuitively
apprehend that the train had been
struck by lightning, and awaited further
developments. In a second or two. but
which seemed minutes. the train came
to a standstill. when a rush was made to
gain the doors and throw up the sashes.

It was now discovered that a tree with
long, bare trunk, about thirty or forty
feet high and twenty inches in‘ circum-
ference. had been struck by lightning
just as the train was passing under, and
splintered about six or eight feet from
the ground, it fell with all its weight of
branch and foliage upon the cars. The
train, however, had dragged from under,
shaken indeed slightly, but none the
worse for the unique experience. There
a delay was made to clear the debris
from the track. and scarcely had the
train resumed its interrupted mission of
compassion when another lightning-pros-
tated tree was encountered right athwart
the track.

This too, had to be cleared away, thus
necesitating another delay, the train ar-
rived at Colon some five and twenty min-
utes later that would otherwise
have been the case. Had the first tree
fallen but two seconds Sooner, before the
engine, nothing could have averted the
smash up thar must have followed: and
had it crashed into the car there might
have been none left to tell the tale.
-—Panama Star

Russia's Newest Creed.

Never was such a place as Russia for

eccentric and mysterious creeds. The
peasants in the Government province of
Uflm have been disquieted for some
months past by the appearance of a new
religious sect. Although no man has yet
seen with his own eyes an individual
member of this sect, its extraordinary
doings have filled many a village with
panic. The “Shavers ”—or “Shearers,”
as they are properly called—carry on
their mad work at night and in secret.
Thus the inhabitants of a village dis-
cover early in the morning that all their
fowls have been plucked of their
feathers, all their sheep closely shorn,
and the horses have had their manes and
tails out off. The hair, wool, and
feathers thus gained are made into a
sacrificial pile and burned in an open
place on the road. In village after vil-
lage the cry has been raised, “The
Shavers have been here.” The advent
of the “Shavers” was foretold, they
say, by the appearance of a “ besom ” (a.
comet) in the heavens. The peasants
are persuaded that the “Shavers” are
inspired by an evil spirit, and that their
object in making these burnt sacrifices
is that the ashes, blown about by the
wind, may seatter the seeds of the
plague through the country—Pall Mall
Gazette. .

Attire of London Swells.

The smartest beans in London expend
annually for dress sums ranging from.
$1,500 to $2,000. This includes two dress-
.suits at $100 each, although a very fair
dress-suit can be had for $35. Yet no
London tailor can duplicate the dress-
suit made by a New York tailor and sold
for $85. A morning suit such as is worn
,by the wealthy young men here costs
$25; the average price for a business or
knockabout suit is $15. So far as over-
coats are concerned, there is nothing in
the market here that will compare with
the goods manufactured by American
tailors. The tailors say that the average
middle-class young man in London ex-
pends about $60 a year upon his ward-
robe. It is pretty generally conceded
outside of England that the English are
the worst dressers in the world. The
men look bad enough; as for the women
—well, their clothes look as if they had
been shot on.-—Chicago News.

Abraham Lincoln’s Father.

Within seven miles of Mattoon is the
farm which Abraham Lincoln’s father
used to own. and where he lived. Abe
was of age then and he didn’t live on the
farm, but he visited his father once a
year, and always brought him presents.
Thomas‘Lincoln died on his farm and is
buried in Gordon’s graveyard near by.
Besides his grave is that of his second
Wife. For many years the graves were
unmarked. Later on. Mr. Dunlap of
this city brought the matter to the atten-
tion of several leading citizens of Mat-
toon and Coles County. The result was
that a plain monument marks the place.
Robert Lincoln hearing of the subscrip-
tion ‘sent Mr. Dunlap a check for 3103.—
Chicago Tribune. . , .

How to Take Care of the Brain.

The brain stands most abuse of any
organ in the body. Its best tonic and
stimulant is s'uccess. The worst and
most depressing thing to it is failure."
The most injurous efi‘ects come'by using
stimulants in early life. Young people
should never use liquors, tea or coffee.
The latter two may not exactly do harm
but they are conductive of no good.
They act mostly on the brain and injure
its growth very materially, Abundance
of sleep is necessary. Eight hours is not
more than enough. "Sleep is the time of
relatively lowered expenditures and in-
creased repair. '

What England's Little Wars Have Coot.
Sines 1857 England’s small wars have

'cost her about $110,000.00). The war with
China. in 1857;152:5091; her. summon; the:
Abyssinl'un'expedltion in 1&7-70. $41.- : '

6W‘Ill)‘;the‘80'uth African war in 1879-8),

minnow: the Nile expedition mm..- ’

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The, Latest Styles of

Menu - Cards.

Dance Orders
Ball Tickets;

RECEPTION CARDS, I

WINE - LISTS.

Show Hangers,
W edding
Invitations.

Business Cards.

Visiting (lords

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Daily Gazette

JOHN con-1n

Sanitary Plumber,

IOBBIIIB A SPECIALTY.

Having taken the basement under the Lib-

rar .108 Washington street. South Norwalk.
an fitted it for

ALL ogINDs “

PLUMBING.

I respectfully solicit ashare of public atron-
age. I refer to plumbing I have done or the
past seven years.1n the employ of W. H. Meek-
er & Co. I work will have my personal sup-
ervision, and Will be prom _tly executed and
mtisfaction guaranteed. ive me a trial. 1y

'TIIE :IIILIIIS HERRMAII 00.,

commas or

AIS, PIII‘IEI‘XIIIIIITTIIIIEE BEST

AND THE
CELEBRATED JACOB HOFFMAN

 

ALSO AGENCY FOR
BALLANTINE 86 SONS
ALES AND PORTERS,

FLASKS AND CORKS FOR SALE.
5 WATER STREET, NORWALK.
Orders Left at H. SCHENK,

27 Railroad Place, South Norwalk.
283-6mo

“ Down They. Go.”

YOU CAN GET

Anything in the Shoe
Line Cheap for Cash,

~AT—

IAETIS IIEIIESS’S,

3| Main Street, Norwalk.

SEVERWARE GIVEN AWAY

1‘ ALL CASH PURCHASERS. ’

 

QTORES AND FAMILIES SUPPLIEQ at
L. Lowssr Runs ' ‘ 5

. 0. O’BRIEN,

Wool Silo Costco Tolloo.

Having made arrangements with one‘of the
Largest Cloth Houses in New York to supply
me with all kinds of goods at a. few hours
notice and at the Lowest Prices. I have over
:hree hundred samples, which I Will make up
in the Latest Styles at about two-thirds the
usual prices charged. I guarantee to we sat-

sfaction 3.31 do my own cuttmg an fitting
and have no guess work. Ikeep the Latest
Fashion Plates and draft accordingly.

depairing, Binding, Cleaning, Pressmg,

Etc.. done at about half-price, Give me a
call and be convmced. 1y164

O. O’BRIEN

31 BELDEN AVENUE.

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"Fur-v" .

E. cuscwsxl,
Merchant .. Tailor.

I have just received the, Finest and
and Largest Selection 0

FALL AND WINTER SUITINGS,
TBOUSERINGS AND VESTINGS.

Ever shown in Norwalk. which I will 'make
up in style and price to suit everybody.

~ r... cvsowsm,
coooco Wall cool Water Sis, Noooolk
NATHANIEL x. FERRIS.

Musical Director and Choir Master,

Grace Church.
TEACHER , 0F

Piano, Organ, Harmony and Singing.

Classes formed to learn the art of singing at
si ht taught at reasonable rates. ’ . .
dult beginners for vocal instruction will
save their voice, also time and money by being
Hoperly started With the OLD ITALIAN
nrnon, the only true one.
30 “'cst Avenue.

 

Residence.

P. W. BATES,
Steam - Stone - Polishing

———AND—

 

 

Jo - Uch. '

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Church and. ‘ -

_ Society Work

ALL KINDS or"

lloooooololc Bolloloo Wolf

42 WATER STREET, NERTALK. _

Onnnns Pnomm EXECUTED. ivioa

 

H. E. Barns. F. 8. Burners

fBA’l‘ES & BRIDGES,

Suocnssons 'ro

BRIDGES c BATES,

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' 0151mm at Dana's Sunni. Rm: man.
munch, 7 lanes 8mm. _ _ ._
Telephone. 56-3. ‘ In

To. cent. i
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MDHOPLE more”

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