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iI‘he Board of Belief torlthe Town of Nor
walk. on the assessment list of 1894, will
meet in the office of the Selectmen, Monday,
J an. 7th, 1895, at 2 o'clock; Wednesday even-
ing, January 9th at 7 o'clock; Saturday, J anu-
ary 12th, at 2 o’clock; Wednesday evening
January 16th, at 7 o’clock; Saturday, January
19th. at 2o’clock: Wednesday evening. Janu-
ary 23d at 7 o‘clock; Saturday. January 25th.
at 2 o‘clock. for the purpose of hearing and de-
termining any and all appeals made to them
from the doings of the assessors. The Board
of Belief will meet with the assessdrs as a joint
board Saturday January 12th. at 2 o’clock, for
theyurpose of abating the polls of sick and
disabled persons.
Norwalk, Conn, December 24th. 1834.
B. S. KEITH.
HENRY SEYMOUR.
HENRY 1). FOX.
Board of Belief.
Pennsy unis
RAILROAD CO.
P: rsonally—Ccnclucted Tours.
A series of three day tours
WhSiilNElllll' Dates: January 17th. Feb.
7511. March 2lst. April 11th. May 2nd and 23d,
1395, inclusive. Ilatesnincluding sceormnoda-
lions at best hotels, [New _York $13 50, Pairs.-
delphia $11.59.
a series of thre-
& - {a
531.9 PT. BUMP-Bill day tourawill leave
New York and Philadelphia Feb. 7 and March
7. 1595. Bates, including all neceesary expene
ses: New York $15.50, Phi adelphia $12550; also
tickeis returning v13. Richmond and W asking-
I10",
FLORIDA A series of Jacksonville t‘ours
' allowing two weeks in the State
‘of Flowers will e run during January 29th,
February 12th and 26th, and March 12 and 26th
1895. Rates; $50.00 from New York; 318 from
Philadelphia, including meals on route and
Pullman berth on special train.
GALIFBRNI TWO tours tome Golden
. Gate will leave New York
and Philadelphia by magnificent- Pullman
‘1 '1211. February :0 and March 20. 1895.
Detailed itinerary will be sent on applica-
tion to Tourist agent. 1196 Broadway,.l\iew
York. or Broad street station, Phladelplna.
GEO. W. BOYD,
J. ll. WOOD.
’ Asst, Gen. Pass Agt.
Lien. Pass. Agt.
h srwall: Opera. House.
£3‘é3?2{;,,, January, I lth, l2th
Family matinee, Saturday at 2.330 p. In.
Good Bye!
Last appearance and farewell exhibition in
"America.
Prof. I). M. Bristol’s
hoses-Curriculum 1
30 Educated Horses, Ponies and Mules
The oldest, largest and best School
of Educated Horses in the world. Posi-
tively their Last Appearance, as they
sail for Europe early in February, for
A Tour Around the World.
Don't forget the Day and Date.
Friday and Saturday, and Saturday
Matinee, Jan. 11 and 12.
Prices, 25, 3-3 and 50:3.
and 3513., Children, 150.
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Maiirv' e, to
' Hoyt’s Opera House.
’ Monday Evening, Jan. 14th.
I The Quintessence of Comedy.
The Comedian,
Mr. ‘William Barry,
“lie Rising Generation!
The biggest comedy hit of the nineteenth
century. . ' _
A magnificent scenic production.
A story of N. 3’. City life. .
A sextette of the most graceful dancers ever
brought together.
A laugh wrth cvery_line._
Seats on sale at Plaisted s and Gregory’s.
DIED
OOLIDGE.—_—On January 8. 1895._ DB. C. B.
COOLIDGE, in the 45th year Of his ace.
Funeral from his late rr31dence, Norwalk, Ct.,
Friday, January 11, at 2 p. m.
WAN TED .
ANTED.—-A second-hand piano; must
be in good condition and cheap. Ad-
dress 0. H. D.. 172 Mam street, Stamford, Ct.
T0 BEN 1‘.
. Halrinch or less. 250 a. day or $1.00 per weer.
Td-RENT.—The_IOWer floor of 31,Belden
avenue. Inquire of 0’BBIEN,Tailor. up-
stairs. ' 1014-tf
0' RENE—Two furnished and very was-
ant rooms to let. Call at 139 Main sgggeg
w E u k L Y? '- N'o nwi‘AfLi-JK. -. G Armin rr 1:: .
love to her. All except Johnny. All the .
A BRAKElllA—N’S STORY
It was so quiet outside that when the
long freight train would come to a stand-
still with an abrupt, awkward jerk,'we
could almost hear the big, drifting flakes
as they fell.
stirring, and the big, round moon filtered
down through the snow storm with a
white softened light that revealed nearby
objects in a strange, ghostly sort of way.
The soft coal fire that spluttered fitfnlly
in the old-fashioned cast iron upright
stove lacked cheer enough to break the
spell of the outside air.
Without knowing precisely Why, we
sat mostly in silence or muttered an oc-
casional monosyllabic observation as to
how soon we might reach Jersey City.
We were four hours behind time, and
somewhere back of us we knew was the
West Shore Express likewise behind
time, and endeavoring to make up some-
thing of its lost run.
Sitting in the small red caboose in the
rear of the big freight train, rumbling
along through a blind fog of snow with a
flying express at our heels, gave an un-
canny sensation, that I, for one, did not
relish in the least. The drummer who
l had boarded the train at Newburg sat
morosely on a pile of grips, which afford-
ed him a. softer seat than the hard,
wooden benches strung along the sides
of the car. A couple of shippers anx-
iously discussed the prospects for getting
their stock to market without having
them half frozen to death.
At the entrance of Joe, the brakeman,
however, the glum party seemed to thaw
at once. He swung down off the roof of
the last box car and in through the door
in a cheery, wholesome sort of fashion
that warmed us at once.
“Joe,” said one of the shippers, “be we
going to reach Jersey City before
night?” ,
“Isn’t this good enough for you to live
in? How’d you like to be out braking
to-night?”
“ ’Taint no snap, that’s a. fact,” the
shipper assented.
“No, you bet it ain’t,” said Joe, deciS<
ively. “But; this ain’t a patching to What
it is sometimes.”
Something in the manner in which Joe
carefully filled his cob pipe, took a bit of
stick from the floor, poked it into the fire
and lit his pipe slowly and thoughtfully
indicated that a story was coming.
“Strange,” said Joe at last, with a
ruminant look into the fire and a long
steady pull at his pipe, “somehow to-
night reminds me of the'day in January
two years ago. That was when we
brought Johnny Haines home. Guess
you must ’a known Johnny,” he added,
turning to the shipper.
“Nope. lienrd of him.
\Vhat was the story?”
“Not much of a one,” Joe replied depre-
catingly. “Just. a braketuun’s yarn, only
it’s a. little out of the common run. The
first day I ever saw Johnny Ilaines I
thought him the handsomest lad Ieverset
my eyes on. He came up on No. (5 on her
first trip. \Ve used to meet often up and
down the road and got to know each
other pretty well. He was one of these
lads with a fresh, pink and white com-
plexion and a jolly laugh that made you
warm up to him at once. He was straight
and strong, and when he used to stand
jauntily on top of the car, the train going
forty miles an hour and he not thinking
it was going at all, there wasn’t a girl
along the road that hadn’t a Ismile for
him as he went by. The 1nd was anxious
to stick and worked hard, and, as he
kept his mouth pretty well closed, it was
a long time before we found out anything
about who he was. He had little ways
about him that made us think once in
awhile that he hadn’t been brought up
to work, and his hands at first were as
soft and white as a girl’s. One of the
fellows told us a story of how Johnny
belonged to a good family, but got kicked
our for some reason or other; but we al‘
ways thought he made it up, and, in fact
we never did find out his story until that
.night. I mean the night we took him
home.”
Joe stopped, pulled vigorously at his
pipe for a few minutes, blinked rather
suspiciously several times, and finally
the rather husky voice went on:
“It seems that the lad’s name wasn’t
Haines at all. He took that to conceal
his own. His first name really was
Johnny, though, and, as that was what
everybody called him, the last didn’t
seem to make so much difference. When
he first came on the road he was a. little
past twenty, and his open. boyish ways
made some of the fellows guy him and
play tricks on him at first. But it didn’t
take them long to find out that he had
plenty of mettle. A gang of us were lay-
ing around the Albany round house one
day, waiting for a train to be made up,
when Bill Lawson began to nag him and
see if he couldn’t get a. fight out of him.
It seems they had some trouble down the
road, and when Bill had offered to fight
Johnny had refused. He tried to keep
out of Bill’s way, but when Bill said he
was afraid, Johnny turned and walked
squarely up to him and said quietly: ‘You
take that back.’ I never knew just how
it was done, but Bill made some sort ofa
feint, and the next moment the big hulk-
ing lubber was lying on the ground. Bill
didn’t see.” in know what hit him. But
he went at. .i:; .ziny with such a savage
look that a l l 1 without genuine pluck
would have . .lrxzed leather. But when
Bill lay spr .wi. g on the ground a
Go on, Joe.
was a scientific There was an
ugly gleam in Bill‘s eye when he got up,
and as he got. nose up to Johnny, all of
asuddcn he llashed a big jackknife he
always carried. How he got it out of his
pocket‘I never could tell. He made a
lunge, but Johnny dodged cleverly and
the knife just grazed his face. He was
on Bill quicker than it takes to tell it,
choking the life out of him. We started
to separate them, but when we found that
Johnny had Bill so that he ,could do no
damage with the knife, we let them fight
it out. . Bill finally held up his hand for
mercy, and Johnny then let up. After
we got them cooled off, Johnny made him
shake hands, and, though he didn’t show
it then. I think afterward Bill came to
think as much of him as the rest of
us.
Up the road not very far from Albany
there is a farm that runs down to the
river, and right at the corner of it was a
water tank. It happened that on this
farm there was a dark eyed little girl
who was the idol of all the boys along
the road, She wouldn’t flirt with us, but
she used often to come down to the water
tank and get little packages which the
engineer, who was a friend of the-family
used to bring down from Albany. She
was plump and peachy, with dark eye-
brows and long lashes, and under them
i the prettiest pair of eyes I ever saw.
There wasn’t one of us who wouldn’t
have married her quick if she’d had us.
But she was sort. 0’ reserved and shyand
none of us had nerve enough to make
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Advertise in the GAZETTE.
Not a breath of. air. was.
second time we lunnr’. out that Johnny .
girls smiled on Johnny and he smiled on
them. He didn’t have to see. the'lass
twice before he was head over heels ln
love with her and it wasn’t very long be
fore he made her know all about it. To
woo was to win with Johnny, and regular
as his train passed the farm J enny-that
was the dame’s name—Was always there
to meet him. We used to chaff Johnny a
good deal over the matter, but we could-
n’t get much out of him.
Somehow, through the engineer or
somebody, though, we found out that
Johnny was going to marry the girl if he
could get his father to consent. He
couldn’t very well marry on the salary he
was getting as a raw brakeman.
“Things ran along through the summer
and into the fall, and we noticed that
Johnny had got very quiet and reserved
like, and was evidently brooding over
something. At last we found out that
Johnny had been promised a raise, and
that along about the holidays he was to
be made a passenger brakeman, and then
he was going to get married. There
wasn’t one of us that wasn’t glad of it,
or who envied him his good luck. The
fall stretched way into the winter, I re-
member, and my, wasn’t it beautiful
weather! You’d stand up on top of a
car, and as the train wound along the
river shore mile after mile, just drinking
in the air and view. Braking is a hard
life, with lots of danger and pretty slim
pay. But those days we’d forget all
about the hardships and everything else.
Johnny was on the same train with me
and happy as a. lark, thinking how he
would marry and go up to Albany to live.
I used to notice, though, that every once
in a while his brow would cloud up, as
if he was thinking of something that
hurt him.
“Such weather couldn’t last, though,
and when the end came, it came with a
squall. The thermometer dropped forty
degress, and a cold, driving rain that had
set in the afternoon turned toward night
into a drifting, blinding snow. \Ve had
a big train that night, and with the snow
and the sleet and the cold it gave us no
end of trouble. She parted three or four
times, going not more than twenty miles,
and it was cold, dangerous work slipping
along the top setting brakes or getting
down to make couplings. The wind
howled and whistled and the snow cut
your face, like going through a hedge.
It was dark and the lanterns didn’t show
plain through the snow, and everything
seemed to go wrong. Several times we
thought we were stalled in the drifts, but
we’d uncouple and send the engine and
‘two or three cars through the drift, and
then back up and take the rest of the
train through. We wanted to get through
to Albany, for the next ,day was a lay
oflf.
“Johnny and I fought like beavers
against the cold. and, I tell you, it was
ticklish work. I felt more anxious about
Johnny than I did about myself, for I
was old at the business and he was new,
and I knew how easy it was for a sudden
jerk to send a man flying down between
the wheels. But Johnny wouldn’t listen.
He said he wasn’t afraid. and just then
the whistle sounded ‘down brakes.’ \Ve
were sitting in the caboose, shivering
around a dirty little fire. I had frozen
three of my fingers, and I thought my
ears were frosted, too. You see the storm
came so sudden we didn’t have time to
get on any mufflers, and the mittens were
pretty thin. W'cll, we climbed out, and
Johnny ran on ahead, saying that he
was all right and he’d take the front.
The cars on top were as slippery as glass,
and we had almost to creep along from
one car to another to keep from falling
off, for she was running at a good pace,
and the snow on the tracks made the cars
lurch and swing. I looked up, and
through the snow and the dark I recog.
nieed the landmark, and knew we were
nearing the water tank, where Johnny’s
girl lived. Just at that moment the train
gave a frightful jerk,and I saw the engine
go rearing in the air, and about a hun-
dred feet ahead I saw a. lantern swing
wildly in the air and go down. I went
flat on the car and hung there for dear
life. \Ve stopped in ten or twenty yards
and I swung ofif the car like mad. ‘Great
God, I thought, if that was Johnny!’
“Something made me feel that he had
gone under the wheels, and when I
crawled ahead a few cars there I found
him, lying all white and still. He was
too much stunned to say a. word. We
picked him up and started to carry him
to the house—where Jenny lived. We
saw that the wheels had gone over both
legs—over one near the thigh and the
other below the knee. My, but he was a
game lad, for all the torture of bringing
him up the hill couldn’t wring a word
from him. \‘v'e knocked at the door and
said that one of the boys had got hurt,
and that the engine had jumped the
track. A white little face came to the
door and looked at us a moment, and then
as soon as she saw me and my face Jenny
shrieked out:
“ ‘It’s Johnny!’
“But she. didn’t faint or cry, or say an-
other wcrd. \Ve just carried him in and
put him on the bed, and she tool; charge
of him. One of the boys rode over to get
a. doctor, but when he came he saw at
once that it was no use. It was only a
question of how long Johnny could sur-
vive the shock. He lay there very quiet-
ly, and finally, when the doctor’s Aexami-
tuition was finished, he said:
“ ‘Is there any show, old man?’
“I couldn’t reply, but he knew as I
turned my head away what the answer
was. Johnny was quiet for a moment,
and then pulling Jenny’s hand with his
own weakly, he said in a husky voice:
“ ‘Little girl, I want to go home.’ .
“And that he insisted on all the night.
“’6 didn’t thinkthat he would be alive
by ‘the morning. But he was, and we
decided to put him on board the morning
express. The wreckng train had thrown
the engine out of the road and cleared
the track, and when the express came
dowu We flagged her and took Johnny
aboard. All Jenny would tell us was
that his father lived in New York, but
gave the conductor an address for a
wire.
“We didn’t think that he Would last
the journey, and about half way downzhe
suddenly clutched Jenny’s hand hard,
and then lay back still. The little girl
threw herself upon him sobbing as if her
heart Would break, but it didn’t do any
good. Poor J ohnny’was gone.”
Joe paused a moment and looked into
the fire.
“Well,” he said, “to cut it short, when
we got into Jersey City J ohnny’s father
was there. It didn’t take more than a
glance at his clothes and his portly bear-
ing to tell me that he was a rich man. He
sprang into the can", and would have
pushed me out of the 'rgad. I knew who
he Was and I held onto him, and I
said: "\
“ ‘Wait aminute. J ohhny was pretty
badly hurt.’ ‘1
Advertise in the claim
.-,.‘_‘ “3‘ , _. ’1‘... The, :1 I; ‘3“
“He grabbed me like a vise and said. ‘
in a sweet voice:
“ ‘Can be live?’
“I shook my head, and he gasped:
H 615 118—,
“I led him over to where the boy lay,
but he didn’t want. to see”liim. He looked
very hard at the little girl. who sat there
sobbing, and said slowly:
“ ‘Is this Jenny?’
“And then he took her very quietly in
his arms and kissed her.
“I went to the funeral the next day.
The old man’s hair was turned white,
and his face was as lined and rigid as
though he was mounting a scaffold. He
was twenty years older than the morning
I saw him first. It seems that Johnny
was brought up, ‘like most boys, to have
all the money he wanted. He got wild
and in with a fast gang, and, to try to
curb him, his father, who was a wealthy
banker, got him a. place in a store as
cashier. J ohnny’s allowance wasn’t
enough, and he made it up out of the
cash drawer. When it was discovered
his father made up the amount, and then
sent Johnny adrift. He never spoke to
him afterward, and when John ny, after a
year’s good service on the road, appealed
to him for money enough to get married
on, the old man returned his letter. I
found it in Johnny’s coat pocket the
morning we took him home.”
The train whistled for a station, and
Joe,grabbing his lantern,escaped into the
night and the falling snow—New York
Herald.
The Original Dime Novel Man.
The original dime novel man is dead.
I’Vho has not heard of Beadle? What
man of to-day has not declaimed pieces
out of Beadle’s Dime Speaker in his
schoolboy days? Who has not smuggled
Beadle’s novels into his room and kept
himself out of mischief for many an
hour with them? Though Beadle never
wrote a line in his life, no author’s name
was more familiar to a larger class of
readers than his a. quarter of a. century
ago. Such is the fortune of publishers.
They get the literary fame for what
others do. -
A Consider-ate Wife. ~
She—I need a. new dress.
He—But you should take the hard times
into consideration.
She—I have taken them into censidera—
tion: that’s why I haven’t said anything
as yet about the new hat that is to go
with the new dress—Texas Siftings.
Effect of Cholly's Appearance.
Cholly—I trust, Miss Sharpe, that you
don’t think that when I met that dog I
ran away because—aw—oecausc I was
afraid?
Miss Sharpe (generously)—Oh, no, in-
deed. If any one was scared it should
have been the dog—:Chicago Record.
Ups ane Downs of 3 Handy Man.
Just then a. leg disjointed.—New York
Herald.
Newsboys wanted. ‘ ' ,
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But they are few and far between ll you
are up-to-i‘.a.t.e- enough to know that. good
durable shoes, such as we sell are cheap-
er in the long run, than the trashy kinds
This week we are offering great bargains
and it Will pay you to drop in and look
~at some of them. Trolley cars pass the
door.
THEOEIEORE H @LSEN
The Leading Shoe Dealer,
8| Washington Street, ‘3'). Norwalk.
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,. w 6 head for the -ast twenty years. It will make
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The Woman in White
Was one of Wilkie Collins” best books, but-the
Ladies of N orwalk are unanimous in their state-I
ment that she
Is Not In
It with the large'and elegant stock of Ladies’
and Children’s fine shoes to be found at
The White Store
Of Olsen Bros. in the GAZETTE Building.
Here
Everything from a pair of Storm Boots to the
daintiest Slipper can be found at prices that de
ty competition. As for Christmas presents, there
is no need of looking elsewhere after visiting
the s ore of ,
91.an Enos.
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