' / WEEKLY-NORWALK-GAZin'rTE._ g ' . IT TAKES YOUR MONEY __ . —onl)r 25 cents to buy a glass vial of Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant ~ Pellets -— but then you get a lasting enefit and a perma- nent cure of your Bilious or Sick Head- _ ache, Constipation‘or Indigestion, loss of appetite, and all those troubles which follow a' disordered liver. The time to treat an inactive liver is before it becomes a disease. If these tiny Pellets were in every day use people would be germ a proof. The germs of disease make their entrance to the system through the ' liver—your health and well-being depends on the liver. If you suffer from wind and pain in the stomach, giddiness, costive- ness, disturbed sleep, you get imme- diate relief from the use of “Pleas- ant Pellets.” They’re guaranteed to give satis- faction, or money returned. A, “COLD IN THE HEAD” is quickly cured by Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. Sb is Catarrhal Headache, and every trouble that is caused by Catarrh. ' , So is Catarrh itself. ’ The proprietors offer $500 in cash for any case which they cannot cure. Sold by all dealers in medicines. DIR. E. H. WILSON’S fretted for 3383on DIS TlNC‘l/I/E FEA 7 URES : M/ett considered methods of mstractz'orc. ' Due regard for the individu- ality of pupils. Demands on each boy sailed. to his capacity. C arefzcl observation of each boy’s progress. , Means carefully adapted to the proposed end. Boarding Pupils, $50.00. Day Pupils, $120. Allenlimi Lilies! Just received; latest styles in Fall and Winter Millinery, consisting of Hats,Hat Frames Feathers, Ribbons. Velvets and Buckles ; also a very fine line of Walking Hats, Tur- bans, Sailors, etc , at Fawcett’s, Headquarters for Millinery No. 3 Water street, Norwalk. . all and examine. ire ‘ ours i TitlllK To write a convincing advertise- , mentabout clothing nowadays. All tailors claim so much, and most of them too much. All I do is to try and get you to look at my new Winter stock. My constant aim is to put into the clothes all the attractiveness of artistic fashion and careful mak- ing at the lowest possible price. Ask these who wear the latest and finest clothes where they trade and all will tell you with KOCOUR, 17 NORTH MAIN STREET, So. NORWALK. Horace E. Darin, Excnnsmh Livery and. Sales Stable. “vuwwwvuw‘ t \ Opposite! Danbury: and Norwalk Railroad depot. . Norwalk, Conn. Stylish Single or Double Teams with 'or without drivers. Safe :horses for women and children. . . SADDLE HORSES A SPECIALTY ten. H. tsterhanks. House and Sign Painter and ’ Paper Hangerl Fine Stock - " Wall Paper Orders promptly and Reasonably Exe- "" :cuted. . Shop and Residence m 4'? River Street, Norwal I TRADER'S SNAP. Next Door Neighbor-r. Change Horses and Pay Him for It. I A man named Coombs was recognized authority on horses, not only in a. certain lumber region in Pennsylvania, where he carried on a brisk business in trading and selling horses, and fitting out the lumbermen with teams, but also in the adjacent county he gained a. reputation for shrewdness and square dealing. When the county fair was held in Sep- tember he was on the spot, and in front if the little store which he made his headquarters there Wa‘s always a line of horses hitched to the fence. which the owners had driven from diflercnt parts of the country to be sold or traded, ac- cording to the pleasure of Mr. Coombs. One day as Coonibs was leaning against his doorpost discussing the merits of a promising two year old with the enthu- siastic owner of the animal, a wagon en- tered the enclosure in front of the shop and stopped at the door. A man covered with dust, with a red face and wilted appearance, juin ed from the wagon and addressed 1'. Coombs. '9 ' “Well, 1 am glad to see you, Mr. Coombs. Business looks promising with you,” looking around at the horses on the grounds. “Perhaps I am not dusty and hot, and perhaps I do not think a deal of you to come twenty miles in this weather to make a. trade with you. Just look at that horse. He is a beauty, he is. There isn’t another like him in the coun- try, but the fact is he is too speedy for me. Iwant a. horse that will go well with the other horse—something not too fast, something strong and at the same time steady.” Mr. Coombs showed much interest in the matter, and the farmer became more and more convinced that he had acted wisely in securing his services. While they were talking he saw Mr. Coombs’s eye rest in a dreamy way on a. pair of horses that were hitched near the door. The instant he saw the object of Coombs’s attention he exclaimed: “Gad, sir, I think we have struck the very horseI want—the off horse, that bay A HORSE there. Look him over. If he is sound and kind he will do for me. I’ll trade even.” “I don’t know,” answered Coombs doubtfully. “He is an especially fine animal.” ~ “Well, I will throw in $10. I will just step over to the fair grounds and you can think it over.” Presently another man appeared, the ovvner of the “especially fine animal.” “Have you found what I want?” he asked. “I must be getting home again. I have twenty miles to travel over before dark.” “Take a look at this horse,” said Coombs, pointing to the animal that the owner had called too speedy. “He’s just what you want. Fast, lightly built and good match for your other horse.” The farmer looked at the horse, com- pared it with his own horse, and had it hitched up and driven round the enclos— ure, and finally exclaimed: “First rate. Is it an oven trade?” “Throw in $10 and you can have him,” answered Coombs. “It’s a bargain,” said the farmer. He gave Coombs $10, and, leaving his “especially fine” animal, he drove his old horse and its new mate down the street. ‘When he had travelled about a mile one of the horses cast a shoe, and he was obliged to stop at a blacksmith shop beside the road. While he was chatting with his old acquaintance, the black- smith. and waiting for the shoeing to be completed, he saw a wagon stop at the door, and an agitated voice exclaimed: “Neighbor, I want to know where you got that horse,” pointing to the newly acquired animal. The owner came out of the shop and answered with pride: “He’s afiue piece of horseflesh, ain’t he? I made a trade with Coombs. 1—” But he stopped abruptly, for his eyes rested on the off horse in his neighbor’s team, and he saw in it his lately discarded property. The tWo inen looked at each other. “How much did you pay to boot?” asked the man in the wagon. "Ten dollars,” answered the other, “and you ?” “Ten dollars.” They were neighbors; they lived a quarter of a mile from each other, and they drove home slowly, side by side, thinking, no doubt, of the long twenty miles over the dusty road, of the $10 of .- each, and sometimes of Coombs.—New York Tribune. Queer Habits of Animals. When the common earthworm is cut in two, to the tail there grOWs a head and to the head there grows a tail, and two animals are formed. As the wound heals a small white button is formed, which afterward develops into rings and a per- fect extremity. The serpent moves by elevating the scales on its abdomen and using them to push the body forward. The windings are always l. vizontal. The artists who represent the iosities as vertical have never obserw- .- .mimal in motion. It is impossible .. ., to move in that way. Herbivorous .. .. mus do not eat all of nature’s menu. ‘i‘ne horse refuses the water hemlock that the goat cats with avidity, and, on the other hand, the goat refuses some plants that are eaten by the sheep. The tobacco plant is avoided by all save the goat, man, and the tobacco worm. Some “botanist think that no plant is absolutely poisonous, but only relatively so, being harmful to only cer- tain animals. The jawbones of a whale are sometimes 20 feet in length, and the mouth, when wide open, is 12 by 18 feet. The throat, however, is so small as scarcely to admit a hen’s egg. The whale gets his living by straining the animalculae and small fish out of the water he takes into his capa- cious mouth. It must be slow work, but, then, he has plenty of time and nothing else to do, so he attends to his eating so regularly that he often accumulates a ton of oil in his bulky system. The sea anemone resembles in shape a morning glory. Its mouth opens like the cup of that flower, and above it are seen a number of tentacles waving in the water. Its food consists of anything it can get, but generally it gets the minute insects that float in the sea. At any alarm it closes its cup and is then hardly distinguishable from the rock on which it is rooted. It has a set of sucker mus- cles that attach it so firmly to the rock that it will sometimes be torn in pieces - rather than let go. Buy the Gsznmv A DEFA ULTER. Until a week ago I was a trusted em- ploys in an old and conservative house. In receipt of an income sufficiently large co maintain me in comfort, with appar- ently excellent chances of advancement and regarded as the favored suitor for the hand of one of the best of women. I was envied by many young men in the circle in which I lived. To day, an exile in a. strange country, forever separated from the object of my passionate love, bereft of friends and honor, I am the scorn of all, the envy of none. But a short time ago I should have scoffed at the thought that the love of a pure woman could bring with it a heritage of woe. Now, on the brink of eternity, I have to record, in the few hours that remain to me, how such a. love has been the innocent cause of the ruin of three lives, my own the most unworthy Two years ago, at my mother’s death, I went to live, at his earnest solicitation, in the home of Mr. Barker, a depositor in the bank for which I worked. ’ Mr. Barker was a widower of reputed wealth, of fine presence, and who pos‘ sessed in a high degree the quality of personal magnetism. I had met him first through his business relations with the bank, and from the start he had mani« fested a lively interest in my welfare. Our tastes were congenial, and the ac- quaintance developed into an intimacy akin to that between father and son. Therefore I accepted his offer with grati— tude, and went to live at his home in a suburb of the city. It was then that I first met Helen Bar- ker. I shall not attempt to describe the rare beauty and grace that characterized the daughter of my friend. Suffice it to say she realized my ideal of a noble wo- man, and charmed me equally by her grace of person and intellectual attain— ments. Thrown constantly together in home life, it was also looked upon as a matter of course that I should attend her at all social functions, until it came to pass when I considered an evening wasted which was not passed in her companion ship, and grew to love the young girl with a passionate devotion thatI thought foreign to my nature. Of all those happy times, the memory of one evening in particular is indelibly stamped on my heart for it signalized at once the culmination of my happiness and the beginning of my undoing. We had been to the theatre, and the play had been well suited to a. lover’s mood. I re- member that we were both more quiet than usual during the walk home. I longing, vet fearing, to speak what was in my heart. She, perhaps, from sympa. thy, more subdued than was her wont. It was quite late when we reached the house and, as we entered the dimly light« ed hall my companion gave me her hand in good night. The touch of her fingers uerved me with Sudden courage. “Helen,” I said, “the play ended happi- ly. How is our story to end?” She blushed,. and withdrawing her hand from mine, ran lightly up stairs. Halfway she looked down with a mis chievous little laugh. . “I think pupa is in his den,” she said. My heart beat wildly as I entered the study, which Mr, Barker called his den. He was still up and had evidently waited for me. “I thought you would be in for a smokel” he said. I lighted a cigar with trembling hands then plunged abruply into the subject that agitated me. Mr. Barker listened quietly to my avowal, then sald: “Siegmund, my boy, nothing could have pleased me more. If Helen loves you, the secret wish of my heart will have been gratified.” After that, Ithink nothing less than a severe shock could have shaken me from the dream of bliss that enthralled me, but I Well recollect the foreboding of evil that came over me later. Mr. Barker and I talked till late and were about to retire, when he said: “By the by, Siegmund, I drew a check last night after banking hours that may overdraw my account a trifle. If pre- sented in the morning, will you see that it is all' right until I can make a de- posit?” “Certainly sir,” I replied, but even as I spoke the wordsa chill struck my heart. Helen did not appear at breakfast next morning, and though I tarried late over my coffee I was obliged to go to business without having seen her. Still I was ex‘ travagantly happy, for with the morning my strange forboding of the night before had left me, and Mr. Barker’s request had nearly passed from my mind as I took my accustomed work at the bank. I was rudely brought back to memory, however, by the paying teller at my el— bow. “Salters,” he said, “is Mr. Barker’s ac- count good for $10,000?” Istarted violently, then mechanically turned over the pages of the ledger and pretended to foot up the account. “The account is O. K.,”I said at last. I thought my voice sounded strange and hollow, and wondered curiously if it was noticed by my fellow clerk. He seem- ed to see nothing unusual, however, and I watched him with a queer fascination as he passed the piles of crisp bank notes over the counter to a man whom I recog« nized at the time as a well known stock broker. ' All day I waited in suspense for a. slip showing a. deposit to Mr. Barker’s ac count, but none came, and all the time I knew that in the eyes of the law I was a defaultcr for more than $5,000. Dinner at Barker’s was a. depressing meal that night. Mr. Barker was distrait and ill at ease, and rarely looked in my direction. I tried hard to appear natural but my attempts to rally the laggin con- versation by an assumed gayety wgs too plainly forced to deceive Helen’s quick eyes. She was plainly puzzled and somewhat worried, and I was thankful when at last Mr. Barker and myself got away to the study on pretense of business. “Mr. Barker,” I said as soon as we were alone,” your account is overdrawn more than $4,000.” He did not reply at once, but sat with his head bowed in‘ his hands, so evidently agitated that my forbodings of ill came with redoubled force. ' “then he spoke at last it was to tell me of heavy losses sustained in speculation. He had made large purchases of a certain stock which he had every reason to be- lieve would take a marked advance as a result of expected legislation. The legis- lation had been long delayed and to pro- tect his holdings he had been obliged to cripple his finances until ruin stared him in the face. He besought me for my love for Helen to conceal the true state of aflairs “ time at the bank. The expected legisla- Advertise in the GMT tlon could not be long delayed, and than all must come right. But why prolong the story of my suffer- ings and shame? What could I do? Con- fession to the bank officers meant ruin ’to us all, and the sacrifice of Helen’s love even if legal prosecution were escaped. I must hasten on to the conclusion of my story, even as I was then hurried on to the inevitable end by the fatal grip of that first wrong act. Matters went from bad to worse, and I was soon forced to make false entries in the books to conceal the overdrafts of my accomplice. Meanwhile I had not dared to declare my love to Helen, and harder than all else to bear were the pained and pleading looks of the girl whom I would have saved from the smallest trouble and for whose sake I had imperilled my very soul. A year and a half passed and our peculia- tions reached an enormous amount. Mr. Barker had aged ten years in the time .and I was pale and haggard. The bank ofiicers noticed my condition and began to insist upon my taking a long rest. - This I resisted and put off by every means in my power, as to leave my post meant discovery and ruin. But the crisis came at last, though not as I had expected. Mr. Barker came to me one day in great agitation. The stock had taken another decline, and unless a. mar— gin of $10,000 was put up with his broker before three o’clock his holdings would be sold. ~ The money was got from the bank in the usual way and at two o’clock Mr. Barker left the bank to take an elevated train downtown. Exactly how it hap- pened no one ever knew, but, according to the station porter, he had noticed an agitated elderly man on the platform just as a. train approached. While walking nervously up and down near the edge of the platform, the man suddenly raised his hands to his head, staggered, and fell directly in front of the engine. He was dead when taken from beneath the wheels, and when I reached the scene where the body still lay I noticed with a sort of dumb horror that the hands of my watch pointed to one minute past 3 o’clock. The stock had been sold! What followed seems now like a black and hideous nightmare. The night before the funeral I went to the bank and worked late over the books. I carefully altered the accounts so that the enormous deficiency in the bank’s funds appeared only in the cash account, and I manufactured false statements and placed them among my private papers, showing that I had been a reckless gambler, a profligate and a systematic thief. That was the least I could do to save the woman I loved from the knowledge of\her father’s dishonor. On the day of the funeral I asked and obtained leave of absence and took the first steamship for a foreign port. As I stepped aboard the ship I bought an evening paper and, by force of habit, glanced at the stock quotations. The stock of which Mr. Barker’s hold- ings had consisted had advanced 30 points that day! Oh, the irony of fats! « And thus my story ends. I reached this land to—day, and my first dayof exile shall be my last on earth. The sooner the better—so! Helen! farewell! mother—~— * -l- ‘I' ‘l' * ii . “The young American who committed suicide by blowing out his brains in his room at the Imperial Hotel last week,” said an English newspaper, “has been identified as Sieginund Salters, a. de- faulter to a large amount from the Bank of 0—, one of the oldest banking houses in the United States.” The Difficulty Overcome.‘ 1—Several times disturbed by finding burglars under his bed-— 3—and now he peacefully slumbers.-- N. Y. " “aid. '1“ .~ is a soft cushion peculiau, . to the stones and gravel :mstantly walk- ing. .uurney through the ' vorn out three se' __ n-imel’s feet are .ning of the past in new for; 2' ry 1. . “cm...” Newsboys wanted. There Are 'Davs ' ' When You Can’t ' t! ' Lav U1) 3. Gen But they are few and far between If you are up-to—i‘an- 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. i sT'IIE'ODORE H. OLSEN The Leading Shoe Dealer, 8| Washington Street, 80. Norwalk. Concerous’ and Scrofulous Dis- eases-for which it is practically Specific, and All Diseases of the Blood, Stomach, . Liver, and Kidneys. IT WILL CURE YOU once and at once, and, taken regularly, will keep you well at all times. Sold by all druggists. Full Pint Bottle, 81.00; 6 bottles, $5.90. CLOVER omrnenr reassurance” _-' Pnpaxed only by the sole proprietors, Clover Medicine (9.. Augusta, Me. .. 5.“; Had to " Grin and Bear It" when he '- had a pain. You can grin and ban- ish it at once by using PERRY DAVis’ do Said and used 9‘ .- ywhr‘u‘e. A whole medicine chest "‘ Ly iiscn‘. Kills e ' cy iorni of external or internal pain. . . . fi'flgfl, p, 6-9 A. .. -.i. ru‘SpUULllul in 21...: glass of water or milk (warm if convenient). I ' ‘ .. 4‘.--',1\ ,- ’.~ -, . ~ I: .r-z‘ zWfit-rm . w"! ‘ MW l' ”tiff-e. L4 3' .3,p.vs.-.v-. , a 55 .54- 'ARE You m THE MARKET FOR ENVElOPES? We can supply them with your business card printed on the corner for a trifle more than the bare cost 30f the envelopes. 4 Don’t wait but send in your orders at once before » our supply is exhausted. GAZ’ETTEJOB‘PRINTINGOFFICE, I Norwalk. _ 4‘
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