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mated the value and importance Of money. He had expected to lose heavily by bad debts from the hostile attitude of the south. and this, perhaps, more than any other consideration, moral or political, had recently made him it's en- emy. In consonance with his financial ideas, he had seen that two of his daugh- ters had married fortunes and he had de- termined that Helen should follow their example.
 Clarence Williams, a young man de- voted to society, clubs and pictorial dis ness and the possession of a millionaire father, had imagined himself deeply in love with Helen, and had proposed to her few months before the firing on Sumter had reused the nation from its protracted lethargy. To his surprise and indignation she had positively refused him-him who had thought that the offer of his hand would be accounted an honor. He had then, with singular lack of pride, referred his case to MT. Morley, who favored his suit and encouraged him to believe that the girl would doubtless change her mind; that she probably had romantic notions on the subject of marriage, which a year or two more would correct.
 In an interview with Helen, she told him she had a temperamental aversion to MT. Williams that never could be over- come Asked if she loved anybody else, she replied evasively that she was not aware that she did. 'sThen there is am- pie reason" said her father, tsfor Will jams to persevere. A girl whose heart is not pre-engaged never knows anything about the state of her affections. You'll come round, Helen, in due time. Why, my dear, Clarence Williams will inherit two or three millions"
 When Darrell Seaton read the fateful dispatch on the morning of April 12, and felt that it meant indefinite, possibly eternal separation from Helen Morley, the wild throbbing of his heart revealed that his friendship had been but mask for an intense, passionate love. He re- solved to tell her so at the first opportu- nifty, and he kept his resolution. He did not ask her directly to be his wife, but felt that she ought to know how he had deceived himself, and that he was at last awakened to the truth-the delightful, distracting, tumultuous truth. His avow- al elicited hers. She, too, had uncon- -sciously practiced self deception. They were, and had been from the first, sim- ply and completely in love with one an other. Before they were aware of it, and before they could understand how it was brought about, they were engaged. Dar- rell had always thought that he would not, under any circumstances, marry an heiress; and here he was betrothed to one. He was beginning to see, as so many young men have seen, th$5 it is impru- dent to form opinions without adequate | exnarience
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home and faced an uncertain future.

nome ana raced an unCerCaln 1uCure.
 And will it last? was the question asked by many a doubting one. Will the fruits of the war all be saved, will the vanquished be reconciled, will peace be assured for this generation? And be- yond the most sanguine hopes of the most optimistic all these questions have been answered in the affirmative. Twen- ty-fve years have passed, and the inn portance of the victory only grows greater every year. With each return ing Memorial day the American people realize more and more that the Union soldiers did better than they knew.
 Theirs was a threefold victory. They not merely broke in pieces the opposing force-that alone would have left us a divided people-they destroyed the very cause of the war and conquered the hearts of their foes. This last was the greatest victory of all. While the Union soldiers demonstrated the nations strength to such an extent that no other nation dreams of attacking us, they so won upon the vanquished that their strength, too, soon became part of the nations strength.
 Twenty-Five years of unbroken peace! The United States has now enjoyed a longer exemption from war, foreign or civil (minor Indian troubles aside), than ever before in her history. In all the great land there is Sabbath peace, and for all that human wisdom can see the future is one of peace. And for this fortunate condition we are indebted, un- der God, to the wisdom of the war lead CTS and the valor of the Union soldiers. They took up arms only to secure peace, and every promise of the most sanguine is more than fulfilled.
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CANAAN CONN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2s, 1890
2. She wrote, soon after the battle of

ing. She wrote, soon after the battle of Bull Run, that Clarence Williams had again proposed to her, encouraged, as she believed, by her father to renew his suit. His second rejection had apparently as- tonished him more than the first, and had so visibly excited his anger that she was forced to the conclusion that he wanted, unaccountable as such motive seems, to marry her from something like malice. The next mouth he sailed for Europe, to be absent indefinitely, and her father upbraided her for what he pro- nounced her extreme folly in once more declining rich, handsome, we'll con- nected fellow, whom most of the girls in her set would be overjoyed to get.
 i Months and seasons passed, very, very slowly, for the horrors of the oivil war seemed to stretch out time immeasurably. Darrell had taken active part in most of the engagements in Virginia, serving under Mcclellan, Burnside, Hooker, Meade, and finally Grant. He had gone unscathed through the bloody battles of the Wilderness, and in the summer of 1864 was sent with his regiment, which he now commanded as colonel, to be- siege Petersburg He had been greatly opposed to asking for leave of absence, but had several times, during lulls of active hostility, seen, with increased love, his betrothed, who had gone on to Wash ington under chaperonage of maiden aunt. Helen had been anxious to serve as voluntary nurse in the hospitals of that capital, but her father, who was not very well, had persuaded her that he needed her care at home. The lovers had often been tempted to marry clan destinely, but they had resisted the temptation, even when she had, in de- spairing mood, a horrible presentiment that he would die in the field.
 Remember, my darling," he would say, in mock heroic tone, 'tthat it Is written in the stars that our matrimo- nial war shall begin after the nations roaca y
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can't keep the tears back. O, how can [ let you goI" And she clasped him more tightly in her arms and wept convul- sively on his breast.
 Do not make it any harder, darling" he replied, kissing her tenderly. "Tm not much of hero at best. l feel my patriotic resolution giving way when l see your streaming eyes and your dis tressed face"
 "I will be brave, Darrell; l will be worthy of you. See now," and she dried her eyes with her handkerchief, e'the tears are all gone"
 You are brave, my dear girl; braver | than am, fear. It is far harder for a woman to let the man she loves go to | battle than it is for him to lead the for Iornest of forlorn hopes.
 This very sentimental dialogue, oscu- Iatorily punctuated, took place in the drawing room of conventional brown stone front in Thirtyfourth street, New | York, rather late one evening at the close of April, 1861. The speakers were Helen Morley, aged 20, and Darrell Sea- ton, aged 29. She had an intelligent, in- teresting face without regular features, gray eyes, light brown hair, slight, | willowy figure of medium height. She was the youngest of three daughters, | two of them married, her mother being dead, and her father a prosperous dry goods jobber, in whose residence these love scenes were occurring, while he was passionately discussing the prospects of the civil war with several of his fellow | rnorcboptc ot fbo T1nipp c1,1h
 Darrell Seaton, after having been graduated at Columbia, had studied medicine, and been practicing three years under promising circumstances as his father was physician also, anc had gained prominent place, thougl little money, in his profession. The elder Seaton had six children-Darrel the eldest-two sons and four daughter and, having been opposed to slavery all his life, had naturally reared his fam fly to the same views. Darrell had be lieved, while at college, that armed con fict between the north and south coult not long be postponed, and had made III his mind, when it should come, to talk some active part in it. A year before h had met Helen Morley, between whom and himself close and sympatheti friendship soon arose. They were to good friends, they used to say, to fall il love with one another, and they frml believed what they said. Thus secure as they fancied, against any dangerou attachment, they passed much time to gether, took long walks when occasio favored, read the same books, and wer both passionately fond of music.
 The elder Morley and Seaton had bee intimate from boyhood, having been Dor and having spent their early years in tn l3h in the interior of New Tor state Morley was very different iron Seaton. He had far less intellect, witt less literary and artistic taste, bu far greater fondness for acquiring money. In truth, he had often sait in youth that he intended to b rich man, and he had largel, fulfilled his intentions, being worth, a 60, not far from million. His low of gain, as often happens, had increased with his gaining until he had come t. regard wealth as indispensable. He wa not destitute of generosity by any means he did many kind things without consid l ering expense; but he certainly overssti
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(y1aSkfhefl.

The burning of the Whittier school build ing at Fortress Monroe short time since recalls to mind an amusing incident which occurred there about the close of the war. At that time there was 8 mania among the colored people for education, and the school was made up of all sexes and ages. At the end of q year an exhibition was given to show what progress had been made, tc which a number of prominent people were invited The teacher stated that if any per. son in the audience wished to ask the stu. dents any question they could do so. A strapping big fellow, who wore only shirt trousers and pair of government shoes, was called on to read He got along very well until he reached the word "biped." Here a gentleman in the audience interrupted when the following dialogue occurred:
 "lIy man, what is the meaning of the word biped?"
 "A biped is beast"
 ''Why is beast biped?"
 Because 1t has four feet"
 Are you ;t biped?"
 "No, sir"
 "Why?"
 Because hasn't got four feet"
 What are you then?"
 "Ise d cupid!'-New York Tribune.
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ON THE POINT OF THRUsTING A BAYoNEI
 INTO HIM.


 INTO HIM.
 fellow down with the Hat of his sword. The Unionists soon retrcated, and Dar- rell on recovering his senses found him. self prisoner and suffering intensely. After while be was removed to 8 tem- porary hospital, where the Confederate captain visited him and did what he could for his comfort The two men, about the same age, appeared to have an aff1n- ity for one another, and soon became, as they called it, very friendly enemies. The succeeding weeks were full of events; the cause of the south was rapidly disin- tegrating. AS soon as possible Darrell wrote to Helen what had occurred, but the letter was lost. Everything in the south was chaotic. He was sent to Mo bile, where his wound refused to heal, and where fever was consuming his life. He was not aware when Richmond fell, be- ing semi-delirious at the time. Mean while he had been reported killed and his body missing. The New York news papers contained touching obituaries of him, and poor Helen Morley, wishing that she had died with him, mourned without hope. Her father had failed in business, and the shock of his failure made him an almost hopeless paralytic. As the daughter carefully attended to his wants in smaller and humber home, she frequently whispered to her despair ing heart, My presentiment was the projected shadow of destiny.'
 l. Two months after the surrender of the last of the southern fofces-our foes no longer, but our common countrymen-1 met lame, pale man in Broadway, who accosted me warmly. recognized him | not. He told me his name was Darrell Seaton, and then I saw in his altered features my old friend
 "How is it with you now, my dear | fellow?'
 | "It is all we'll. married Helen Mor- ley week ago, and with such woman as my companion defy fate."
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Increasing Importance of Memorial Day.
 When Memorial day was instituted it's observances were confined to the com memoration of the bravery and self sac- rifice of the fallen heroes, whose graves are annually decorated with flowers and adorned with flags. As the years have passed these observances have broadened, and now they include, beside the cele- bration of the deeds of those who fought for the old Union and whose blood quenched the fires of civil war, consider ation of the demands of and the relations existing between the sections of the new Union. Animosities are forgotten, and the north and the south each year clasp hands in closer friendship. This is as the depart ed soldiers would have it; they fought for a.common country, and in the effacement of the antagonisms of the past not one jot of the reverence felt for the departed is abated
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''SHOT THROUGH THE WOODEN LEG" blow, but escaped the twinge of pain that generally accompanies the passage of bullet through genuine flesh and muscle: and enjoying keen sense of the ludicrous he forgot the battle and it's dangers and gave way to the heartiest and most explosive laughter.
 He pushed along the line, and ap- preached the colonel, to whom, after a severe effort, he was able to communi- cate the cause of his mirth. Almost con- vulsed with laughter, he exclaimed: "Colonel, by George! the d-d rebels have shot me through the wooden legl Ha! ha! Devilish good joke on the fel- lowsr And he hobbled back to his posi- tion in the line.-Thrilling Stories of the Great Rebellion.
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The Long Peace.

At last there is peace!" So said the wearied people, and the almost exhaust ed nation breathed again and took stock of her hurts. The grand review at Wash ington delighted all spectators and all readers, and on smaller scale was many times repeated during the summer; a million Union volunteers returned home to be welcomed by rejoicing neighbors, to be held in ever increasing honors and to be the preferred in nearly all politi- cal contests, while the defeated Confed- crate sorrowfully sought his desolsted
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word biped?
The Cause of tho Gloom.

"What's the matter, for heavens sake?" exclaimed the frightened passenger, rising and groping helplessly about
 Nothing, madam" replied the conduc- tor of the Chicago suburban train reassur- ingly Don't be alarmed Sometimes people think we've broke through into a tunnel, and sometimes they think there's terrible tornado coming but it's neither. Th2 brakeman has just lit the lamps. That's all."
 And the polite official cautiously felt his way along through the thick darkness to- ward the next car.-Chicago Tribune.
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GARLANDS FOR THE DEAD.

 Advancel Each buried brave Is now glorious king. Who. proudly leaning on his glaive, Awaits the need ye bring. No tributary tear
 Your deathless heroes crave; Advance with incense of the blooming year; Let fair hands crown the brave. They did not bleed in vain That father, brother, son Who made gray shore and pine clad plain An altar and throne. Fame lifts the crimson sign They once to battle gave, Anew they form their gallant line; Let fair hands crown the brave The surging tide is spent; The mighty march is o'er; A mist of morn, the soldiers tent Has fled forevermore. But home and state remain; Whateer they died to save Will quench the fire and burst the chain; Let fair hands crown the brave
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He Cor the Laugh.

Physician (who thinks his patient, col lege professor, more in need of recreation than drugs, but has written a prescription for mild tonic)-Here is 8 prescription, professor, but what you need is a good hearty laugh.
 College Professor (glancing at the paper) -Ha, ha, hal Ho, ho, hol
 "Eh? What are you laughing atf"
 Your Latin. "-Life
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STATION.
 In the winter of 1864-5 he was ordered, with his regiment and considerable Union force, to make another attempt to get possession of railway to the south of Petersburg. They started at dawn, and had sharp engagement with a larger Confederate force, encountering an admirably managed battery, which threw his regiment into confusion. A number of the men had been killed and several of the officers wounded. While attempting to rally his commend a shell exploded over his head, a fragment strik- ing and killing his horse, and another shattering his left leg. He fell under the animal, and sudden charge of the enemy, in overwhelming force, drove back his regiment. A southern soldier was on the point of thrusting bayonet into him as he lay there stunned, when g. captain of the command knocked the
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Are you secesh?"
The Wrong Log,

A soldier of the First North Caro- lima regiment (Union), who had lost a leg in an engagement in North Carolina,
 and who had supplied it's place with an artificial member, consisting of stout oaken peg, waspresent at the battle at Olustee, Fla, and while the battle was as warm as one would care to experience it Confederate sharpshooter put a bull let through his wooden peg. He felt the
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A Brutal Joke.

'sIs there any change in your pockets?" she asked. "Yes," said he.
 Well, give me some money"
 ''I haven't any"
 "But thought you said there was change in your pockets" ','So there is; there was money in there yesterday, now there isn't. What do you call change?'-Merchant Traveller.
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Catering to a Trade

First Paris Artist-Vy you put zat salt in ze paint?
 Second Artist,-Eet is for marine pict- ure. I make zee paint salt; zen when ze Americans put zair fingers on ze water and afterwards put zair fingers to zair lips gay say, ''Eet is wonderful We almost taste ze salt of ze ocean. Zen gay buy."-New York Weakly
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AM so glad you are going, Oar ren, and yet it al- most breaks my heart to think of it. Ihad so hoped you would go, but I would not have asked you to for the world. You see how woman
 like I am. When you do w h at I
 was praying that
 you wOuld do I
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The Great Fair.

School Teacher Gin 1920)-When was the great Worlds fair of 1892 held?
 Pupil-In 1893, ma'am.-Harper's Bazaar.
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"WE SORT o' LEANS THAT WAY.'

''WE SORT O LEANS THAT WAY" population many family so isolated that it had seen no neighbors for months, and had even "lost the run of the days of the week. A very curious fact (and it is a fact duly vouched for) was that in some narrow valleys the few families had guessed that something unusual was going on because they had seen no strange hunters or tourists for long time, but did not know of the war. An officer in the first cavalry company to penetrate that region relates that after long ride over rocks and through forests his company came to a tolerably well built house in a circular hollow, where there were perhaps five acres of arabic land. An old woman rushed out and, catching sight of the uniform, exclaimed:
 claws massy me-ef h'yar ain't one O Gineral Jackson's men. Why, mister, lowed all his men was dead years and years agone."
 'sAnd so they are, ma'am."
 "An' who be you'uns?"
 "Union soldiers, ma'am-fghting for Old Abe, as your folks say"
 ,"Old Abe! Who's hep
 ''Why, Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States.''
 "Lawd sakes! An what's you'uns in h'yar fur? To fight? Is the British cum in agin?'
 This brought an explanation and ac- count of the war, at which the old wo- man was almost paralyzed with astonish- ment; and then followed this colloquy:
 ''Ma'am, are you Union?"
 "Naw."
 "Are you secesh?"
 "Naw."
 "Well, what are you, then?"
 "Well, hain't never jined nothin' yit, but most of the folks around h'yar is Baptisses. and so me and my old man sort O leans that way"
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No Free Advice from Him.

Doctor. what will remove superfluous hairS'
 (Grufay)--'A razor. sir."-Yaukse Blade
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pr. Herbert A. Church,

Physician and Sur con. OFFICE at DR. CLEMANS residence until ga m., 12:30 to 2p. m., ' to Sp. m. @Telephone in Office.
 CANAAN, CONN.
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q Iwonder why they call a pretty girl a

belle?'
 Doubtless because she's maid to ring" "Ah! a tinkling symbol. ."-Puck.
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FRANCIS BISSELL, General Insurance

Effected in the strongest Mutual and Stock Companies. Also represents the Fitchburg Mutual. surplus $106, 900. Covers against damage by lightning. Discounts 20 per ct. on one year policy; 40 per ct. on two years 60 per ct. on five years. Call on or. address me at BANTAM, CONN.
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Did you ever think what your ad. in the newspaper is doing for you2 When you close your store in the evening and go home to your family and fireside, not thinking about your business at all, then it is that the paper is being pored over in hundreds of homes-the homes from which your trade is drawn. And there is your ad. doing its work silently, but surely, and if you have taken pains to make it attractive its work will be all the more effective. This is repeeAedl over and again. and is no doubt wAe ej Ispirede to oall nsNapas
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DIR. CIDMAN
H. L. Ross, Dentist,

-s. CUMMINGS BLOCK, MAIN STREET, CANAAN, CONN.
 Successor to pr J. D. Clemans.) Satisfaction given in the most difficult operations. Gas administered for the pain. less extraction of teeth.
 OFFICE HOURS to 12 a. m., 1 to 5 p. m. @Telephone in Office.
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Business Cards.

J.lB. H AR RDENBERGH, \ TTORNEY and Counsellor at Law, Judge Of A Probate, etc. Canaan, Conn
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rUOUsATONIC LODGE, No. 61. F Hand A. NJ Regular communication. Sec nd and Fourth Saturday of each month.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-02-08

AUDITOR GENERAL H. H. ApLIN has
issued the following circular 10 supervis-
ors. Iron county supervisors will re.
ccivc the same in day rtwo:
10 SUPERVISORS Attention Is called to See
tO3 OF Act 1916. Laws Of 1889, providing ior
the Issue OF a warrant by this department for
the seizure oil logs, wood, or timber, cut on or
removed from state tax lands. 10 the end that
the taxes for which such lands are held by the
state may be collected.
Also TO Act No. 22a, Laws Of $50 author
ixiun the issuanceof inlunctions ON application
~ township treasurers 90 retain waste on any
lands on which taxes shall remain unpaid when
II shall appear that such lands arc chiefly vau-
able for the timber thereon. Copies Of the sec
tlon and act referred 10 are appended below
This department viii cheerfully cooperate
With the township officers by issuing warrants
for the seizure Of timber provided by Sex
lO3. Act 1872 Laws Of 1859. whenever Il shall
be officially informed by supervisors or township
treasurers that trcspass n being committed on
state tax lands and the parcels stated Ia such
sHses II h expected that the township officers
viii give thesherIiis all the necessary Information
go enable them Go make proper seizures.
II II suggested that the township treasnrers bee
tailed 20 Act No. 22a, Laws Of 1850. and the
Importance otprompt action IN cases where tim
her u being cut on land on which the taxes ne.
main unpaid strongly urged upon them.
The counties and townships are far more
largely Interested In the collection OF taxes than
D. the state for the reason that the county,
township and other local taxes far exceeds the
amount OF state taxes, the ratio being over
twelve 60 one II " conhdentialy believed that
IL h only necessary for local officers 20 avian
themselves OF the provisions OF law Go insure
much closer collections Of the public revenue