What is _Beef Malt ? Not a ‘Patent Medicine or an' Alcoholic Mixture No remedy has ever done so much good among weak, nervous, run down men and women as BEEF MALT. No remedy has ever met the speedy and permanent approval of so enlightened a portion of the community. What then 13 Beef Malt ? . It is the most perfect food ever made. It contatns the .strength .of the best beef the nutriment of the choicest grain, and the tonic properties of celery. It is a whofiesome, natural stimulant, safe and simple; 1,891,080 bottles sold the first year it was offered to the public—a record not equal- ed in the same time by any other preparation ever put upon .the market. Beef Malt means to all fuller health, greater strength. ThlP wonderful tonic will be served free at our store during this week. All are inv1teed to come in and try a sample. Niokerson <32: Betta- ' noun MISS arms CHANCE. Goods all new this season, and the latest in every way, We .intend to come out each season with an entlrely new Stock of Men’s and Boys’ Clothing. Look what we are doing to clean our stock up so you need never look at old goods. MEN’S SUITS. Price, 3 7.00,-f)rmer Price. $10.00. Price, S 8.00, former price, $12.00 “ 10.00 “ 14.00. “ 12.00, “ 1500 CHILDREN’S SUITS AT HALF PRICE. W. A. BENEDICT & CO... oLornIERs AND’ FURNISH nus FOR MEN AND BOYS Sentinel Bld’g. 19 Main St., SOUTH NORWALK, NORWALK. OLSEN BROS’. GREAT. SALE OF Lounsbury, Mathewson & Co.’s Sample Shoes and ‘Oxfords. These bargains surprise and delight all who see them. They are great in value, and beautiful and. attractive in variety. We have put prices on these goods that will sell them at once and we cordially invite your inspection of our stock and prices. THE WHITE STORE, N0. 3 GAZETTE BUILDING, NORWALK, CONN. "FIRE! FIRE! Having Purchased a Large Stock of Fine Shoes Slightly Damaged by Water,l am Selling them at less than Half the Regular Price. Come Quick and Secure a Bargain. THEODORE H. OLSEN, 8] Washington Street, . SO NORWALK. — _— CONN l : Roton Point. ‘ South Norwalk, Conn. g The Most Charming Summer Resort on Long Island Sound. Fine Hotel. Fine Bathing House-s. ”General Attractions. Every facility for providing for large , ' Excursions. FirSt-class accOm- modations for Boarders. _~.,._. 2 .4-» i . 'Prnt. Smyt‘ne’s orchestra furnishes music in the dancing pavilion daily. ' and xi“? 4 .‘N Roton Point Improvement Company, Owners and Proprietors , .l. FINKENSTEIN, General Manager.‘ 7).,«5 - . "$"- ~-;.:_...: I, ,1 .~ ’7 WE E K L‘s ”n o R BEEF MALT. " ‘THE VANISHiNG RED MAN. At the Present Rate of Decrease the Full Blooded Indian Will Soon Disappear. Lo, the poor Indian, is growing scarcer scarcer as time advances, and will probably disappear altogether, as a full blooded Indian before the end of an- other century. The total Indian population at this time, according to estimates made by the official of the Indian Bureau, is 248,- 253, exclusive of the Indians in Alaska. In 1829, before the annexation of Texas and Mexico, the estimated Indian popu- lation of the country was 400,000. In 1855 the number was said to be 350,000, and the same estimate is made for 1871. The most rapid decline in numbers has been in the last quarter of this cen- tury. The fact that the Cherokees and Chippewas, both comparatively power- ful tribes, have actually increased in numbers makes the decrease in the other tribes all the more remarkable. It is believed that the principal loss has been among the Sioux and other tribes of the N orthWest. More than two-thirds of the total number, or, 227,- 478, in 1871 were on the reservations. At the beginning of this year the num- ber on the reservations had been de- creased to 133.417, or about one third the total number. Less than 30,000 of these are self sup- porting, the Federal Government issu- ing supplies to most of them. If the rate of decrease. which has been main- tained for the last quarter of a century or so be continued, there will not be a single full blooded. Indian in the coun- try. except possibly in dime museums, by the end of the twentieth cen- tury.—Troy Press. Mark Twain's Earnings. The misfortunes of Mr. Clemens have been eunhasized by legal proceedings which indicate that the once successful author has lost the once handsome for- tune that he possessed. Commodore Vanderbilt Once said that it was a great deal harder to keep a for- tune than it was to make it. He meant by that that it was more difficult to in- vest money safely and profitably than it was to get the money for invest- ment. That has been Mark Twain’s experi- ence. He had at one time the record of having made the most mon'y by his writings of any American au..ror. Mr. Bronson Howard is reported to have ac- cumulated some 5200.000 as royalties upon his plays. Miss Alcott made about $100,000, much of it from her two books “Little Women” and “Little Men.” Mrs. Burnett gained some 860,000 in royalties upon her play “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” and that was twice as much as she had received for all her other writings. Mr. Blaine received about $200,000 for his "Twenty Years in Congress.” But Mal": Twain’s earnings Went far beyond ths u—‘e gained by any other Amer— ican writer. His royalties upon “The Innocents Abroad” reached $100,000 in less than three years, as has been re- ported. His royalties upon "The Gilded Age” amounted to about $80,000, and Mr. Raymond once told me that he had paid Mark Twain 860,000 in rOyalties for the play dramatized from that story. His profits from “Tom Sawyer” reached far up into the thousands and were very large for “Roughing It” and “Life Up- on the Mississippi.” He did very well with his “Prince and Pauper,” and at one time he was esti- mated to have gained in all about $500,- 000 from his writings, and from his in- vestments so much more as to make him very nearly a millionaire.—-Philadelphia. Press Early American Coinage. Vermont was the first State to issue a coinage on its own authority. Copper coins were issued in 1785. The first Maryland coins were minted in 1652, and were put in circulation by act of Council ordering every house- holder to bring in sixty pounds of tobac- co and receive ten shillings of the money in exchange for it. In 1634 the Massachusetts General As- sembly made bullets a legal tender by the following enactment: “It is likewise ordered that musket bullets of a full bore shall pass currently for a farthing a piece. Provided that no man be compelled to take above XIId at a time in them.” A Heroic Physician. There are doctors and doctors, but one of the most intelligent of all these friends of humanity was one who had the courage recently to give a bit of ad- vise to thehead of a family not many miles from New York. ' The head of the family was robust but exacting, healthy but irritable—in short a veritable Hector. “1 don’t know what is the matter with my family, doctor,” he said, “but my wife is nervous, my children are sufi‘er- ing from something, I don’t know what —in fact, the whole house is upset. Even the servants seem vacillating and bordering on nervous prostra- tion.” “I think it would be all right,” said the doctor, “if you would take a. six months’ tour of Europe—alone.” “I?” cried the paterfamilias. only Well member of the family?" “Yes,” said the doctor, gravely. "You ought to travel for the health of your family.”——Harper’s Magazine. “The Nledical Infnllbility. Dr. A. claims to be an adept in the art of diagnosis. On being called in to see a lady, directly be had been admitted he remarked with a knowing smile: “I see what your complaint is; you are suffering from a disordered stomach and nervous spasms.” “Sir!” “Let me finish; your temperament is somewhat exacting—” Here the lady interrupted him: “Why, it is not myself that is ill, it is my uncle!" . ‘ The doctor. quite unabashed: "I su51.ec.e.'t as much.”—Le Nain Jaunc. NEWSPAPER OBITS. A DEPARTMENT WHICH INVOLVES SOME CURIOUS EPISODES. Biographies Up to Date. The Prince of \Vales Has 3 Scrapbook of His Post Mor- tem Notices. Harriet Martineau Wrote of Herself Impurtially. You must not suppose that the obit- uary is written in the newspaper. office when the news of the death of some pub. lic personage arrives. All the big daily papers have obituaries of every man and woman of distinction who are advanced in years pigeon-holed, or “in pickle,” as the phrase goes in journalistic circles. Some of, these obituaries are brief; others extend to three or four or five . columns, according to the relative im- portance of the subject; but they are all at the editor’s hand, ready for publi- cation at any moment, and he is thus enabled to give a Sketch, columns long, of the career of a public man. a few hours, in some instances. after that ca- reer has closed forever. The average newspaper reader will read with greater interest and more at length the Obituary of a public man who is suddenly cut off than the obituary of one who has had a long illness, and for whose death the public are prepared. But of course it is of the latter that the best obituary is published. When a public man becomes seriously ill his obituary is taken from the pigeon-hole. carefully gone over, freshened and brightened and brought up to date by the addition of the more recent events of his career. Of that phase of journalism we have had some illustrations within the past few years in the excellent obituaries which Were published of Mr. Blaine, Prof. Tyndall, and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, all of whom had a long strug- gle with death berore they finally suc- cumbed. There is not a daily newspaper that has not had in readiness for years an obit- uary notice of Mr. Gladstone. Twenty years ago, in 1875. the aged statesman wrote to Lord Granville resigning the leadership of the Liberal party, as, he said, he was too old for public affairs, and it was time for him to turn his thoughts to the other world. But, as everyone knows. he came back to public life after a few years of retirement, and since then has made more history than in the previous forty years of his public ca- reer. When he goes what excitement and confusion the event will create in the newspaper offices of the. kingdom! The dangerous illness of the Prince of Wales, in December, 1871, was the cause of events—curious and amusing—which will ever find a place in the history of British journalism. The death of the Prince seemed ine- vitable, for the doctors had begun to despair. One day the announcement went forth that his Royal Highness could not survive many hours, and. according- ly, every daily paper in England had its obituary of the prince set or put into type. But the expected telegram an- nouncing the death never came, and so at midnight, when the hour for going to press was near at hand, many a news- paper editor who had relied on his bio- graphical sketch of the prince filling six or eight columns of his paper, was compelled to fill up the blank columns with standing matter of all kinds, such as old advertisements and older news. The principal newspaper editors sub- sequently sent the prince at his own re- quest, proofs, of the Obituaries; and, pasted in a bulky scrapbook, they now form one of the strangest and most curi- ous objects to be seen at Marlborough House, Robert Louis Stevenson, had, like the Prince of Wales, the pleasure—the mel- ancholy pleasure, perhaps—of reading before his death the good things the press would write of him when he was no more. “It has been a source of interest and amusement to me in this island home,” he once said to a vi=itor to Samoa, “to read from time to ti. ;-- my, obituary no- tices. The news tra vels so far before it can be contradicted that it often becomes exciting. However, the climate is so admirable that instead of furnishing the journals with interesting matters for paragraphs, I am likely to supply my editors with copy for a considerable time to come.” When the news reached this country in December of 1894, that the great nov- elist was dead, it. was believed and hoped by many to be unfouiided rumors, and that once again MrnStevenson would be able to read his obituary notices. But, alas! the announcement was only too ’ true. . ., A still rarer experience is for one to write one’s own obituary for a. news- paper. Miss Harriet Martineau, the celebrated authors-SS. who was for many years a leader writer on the staff of the London News, actually wrote the obit- uary which appeared in the issue of that journal for June 29. 1876, two days af- ter her death. A more excellent or im- partial review of her career could hardly have been produced. She says she had “small imaginative and suggestive powers. and therefore no approach to genius;” and that ”She could popularize, though she could neither discover nor invent.” This re markable obituary. which fills three and one-half columns of the Daily News was published precisely as it was written in 1855, when the author and the subject of it felt that her end was at hand. But she lived for 2-1 years after, during which the obituary notice lay in a pigeon hole in the Daily News office. ‘ Just Like Him. Elderly gentleman—This is a re- markably good photo of my son! Very like him, indeed! Has he paid you for it yet? ' .. Photographer—No, sir. Elderly Gentleman—Ah, him, indeed.—Tit-Bits. very like Connecticut's Wealth. The State of Connecticut is enormous- ly rich in comparison to its size, having an assessed valuation of. $327,277,385.— Boston Courier. "w A L‘K f "CA 2 E 'r 'r E HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION. Representative Hilborn Thinks It Would Not Be Advisubl'c at the Present Time. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3.—Reprcsenta- tive Hilborn (Rep, 031.), who returned from Hawaii today, has placed himself on record as opposed to the annexation of the island to the United States. In discussing the question he said: .“I can freely say that I do not believe it would be a wise thing for this country to undertake—at least while the present con- ditions prevail. The population consists chiefly of Japanese, Chinese and Portu- guese, with a small proportion of American or English speaking people. The per cent- age of illiteracy is much greater among the whites than among the Kunakas, and perplexing questions as to what kind of government this country should extend to the islands and concerning the franchise would confront us. The present govern- ment is not satisfactory to a majority of the people there, especially the natives. It is practically an oligzxrchy, and the idea of such a republic is laughed at. It is not popular, and its safety is menaced as it stands. The great mass have no voice ex- cept in the election of the lower house. The senate is elected by the property hold- ers, who represent but a few thousands of the people, and many of them are more il- literate than the natives. Much respect is shown to President Dole. He is consider- ed able and conscientious and is generally liked. “The wisest thing this country could do regarding the islands would be to form some close reciprocity treaty which would give them the same advantages as our states and insure their markets for us. They would of course be required to put a tax upon all imports from other countries which came into competition with our products. If this is done and we extend a protectorate over the islands, both coun- tries would derive the advantage of annex- ation, while they would be allowed to govern themselves as they saw fit. But as things are going now, I believe the queen will be restored to her throne before long. ” 4 On the question of a Pacific cable, Mr. Hilborn said: “If there is a cable laid at any time in the near future, it will have to be built by this country. It would not pay any private party to build it. I be- lieVC, though, it would pay this govern- ment. I would vote favorably on the proposition. ’ ' RIDDLBD WITH BULLETS. Shocking and Fatal Shooting Afl’ruy In a Saloon In Centraliu. CENTRAEIA, Pa, Aug. 5. —As the result of a terrible shooting afiray in the saloon of Charles Fottcrman, High Constable William Griffith was fatally injured, and Michael Costello, a son of John Costello of Ashland, who is a student at the Jefi‘er- son Medical college, Philadelphia, was so badly injured that his chances of recovery are slim. The shooting was done by Fet- terman, but what led up to the affair is unknown at present. . The three men were drinking and gum- bling in the saloon, nobody else being in the room at the time. outside heard loud talking and the report of a gun, followed by the cries of Griflitl} and Costello. Several men entered the saloon and found the two victims writh- ing on the floor in pools 'of blood and Fet- tcrman standing near the bar with his shotgun in his hand. The contents of the gun had passed entirely through the low- er part of Griffith’s body, the entrails pro- truding from the gaping wound. The leaden pellets took effect in Costello’s right leg, nearly severing that member. The main artery in the knee was severed, and no effort has been made at amputa- tion, as the hemorrhage cannot be stopped. One reason given for the shooting is that Fetterman was jealous of Costello’s attention to the former’s wife. Fetter- man was intoxicated when arrested and did not seem to realize the enormity of his crime. He was taken to the Columbia county jail. Constable Griffith is a wid- ower with several children. Fetterman is about 45 years old and has several chil- dren. He has a violent temper. THE BIG STRIKE ENDED. United Garment Workers Win a. Complete Victory Over the Contractors. NEW YORK, Aug. 5.—It was close on the midnight hour last night when the six day strike of the Brotherhood of Tai- lors was declared ofl‘. Leader Schoenfeld, representing the United Garment Workers of America, and Secretary B. Witkowski of the Contractors’ association met by ap- pointment in the Astor House at 11:30 o’clock p. ‘m. and adjourned to 3 Park row, where the representatives of the Con- tractors’ association, after an investiga- tion of the books containing the names of the contractors who had yielded to the de- mands of the strikers, formally declared the strike over and acknowledged the victory of the United Garment Workers over the contractors. After a careful perusal of the books and the bonded articles of agreement Secre- tary_Witkowski exclaimed, “We lay down our arms, as did Napoleon at Waterloo. ” “It is a grand victory !’ ’ exclaimed Meyer Schoenfeld. “Our cause is fully vindi- cated. ” “I give you credit,” rejoined the van- quished secretary of the Contractors’ as- sociation - Nice Rescuers These. MARKET LAKE, Ida, Aug. 8.-It has been discovered that the robbery of houses broken into in the upper part, of the valley and charged to Indians was committed by six men belonging to the rescuing party of 15 who came from Lander to assist the settlers. The ofienders were followed 35 miles and caught and stolen property re- » covered. Fourteen Men to Try Durant. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 8.—District At- torney Barnes announces that for the pur- pose of avoiding delays that might arise from the sickness or death of jurors 14 jurors will be impaneled to try Durant. The attorneys on both sides have agreed to' this action from the fact that the trial will last several months. Lord Sholto Douglass’ Plans. San FRANCISCO, Aug. 8.—Lord Sholto is going home. His eventful and sensa- tional visit on the coast will terminate in- side of ten days or two weeks. He is set- tling up his business and getting his lug- gage together, and on Saturday, accom— panied by Lady Douglass, will leave for Los Angeles. Arrested For snow Murder. . HALIFAX, Aug. 8.—Lawpence Walsh was arrested here today charged with the murder of William McCarthy, an aged shopkeeper at St. John’s, N. F., in Janu- ary, 1894. McCarthy, who was supposed to be wealthy, lived practically alone, and themotive for the crime was evidently robbery. Parties sitting . Quickens The Appetite Makes the Weak Strong. 'YER’S THE ONLY eon) 1-H. Sarsapari Ila Has Cured Others And wm Cure You. Ayer’s Cherry Doctoral for Coughs. W . 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