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TIE OLD SPlNEI.

xn the dusk of the dirn old attic, under the
low, brown caves,
Where the panes of the dormer-window
peer through the ivy-leaves.
Mnere the timorous light of day CT the
knobs OF the high-boy CLEANS,
With the distaff ard wheel beside 1t, silent
the spinet Dreams
scr the chords in its heart are dumb, await
irg the fingers white
xhAt we're pressed on its shining keys IN
the hush of a mooElit night,
NJ mat gathered the sweets of all to chime
with voice that sung
"a sne stately colonial days when the spinet
was glad and young.
1hen 1t stood on the oaken floor. waxed
smooth as a robins breast.
IA tne light of hundred candles. each In
its silver rest,
E<em the branches of shining sconces far
ing the radiance shone
IA the tapestry wrought with scenes Of
times that were not their own.
and the breeze as 1t softly shook the folds
OF the hangings rare
Gave glimpse Of an armored knight, the
face of lady fair
Or falcon perched on the wrist, or crest
with a rose thrust through
they were fleeing shadows of life that
moved as the keen winds blew.
2foW the voice of the violin rose. pathetic
and glad and sweet.
10 tne music Oh money musk, anQttne tap
ping of merry feet!
Aa the joy of her youth the girl. with rustic
of rich brocade,
with the light on her powdered hair her
way through the dances made.
Add the lace on her bosom swayed and her
cheeks as a rose grew red
al the touch of a hand on hers. at words
that were softly said.
- 0emure little beauty-patch! o smiles
that were treasured so!
k4zve you slipped since the spinet knew you
into the Long Ago?
Where, are now the low laughter and talk,
the blush and the downcast glance
when the splndle-legged chairs were
brought for rest from the happy
dance?
As tt-night-wind that rattles the leaves
where twinkling the stars look through,
Sse a sword that has touched a spur or the
jeweled clasp of shoe?
IA is only a light-foot mouse at play In the
attic old;
No t6e stead of the ancient grace are lone
illness, dread and cold.
tN;Sh the thoughts of its heart I'm told asleep
IN the moons pale beams,
<ssth remembered delights around It, silent
the spinet dreams.
Curtis May. in Youths Companion.
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should attain to its highest honors
merely because they are rich. In the
present senate there are more than a
score of men who would not be there
but for their possession of wealth.
in the senate, are necessarily uu-
worthy members of that body, but, Ia
itself, the fact that wealth can Sc
cure senatorships does not make for
the health of the body. When to this
we add the domination which the sen
ate has gained over the president and
the popular branch of congress, and
over the party organizations, we
readily understand that it is men,
ace to the health of the body polite.
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Went Week. without sleep.

George w. Woodruff, who for many
years has been a puzzle to the med
ical profession, is dead at his home
in Frankfort, Ind. Although in fair
ly good health he would go for many
days without sleep. At one time he
lid not sleep for IS days and nights.
although during that time many
noted physicians became interested
in his case and gave him treatment.
1t was a common thing for him to
GO a month without sleep.
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Three Inche. of Land Sold.

The smallest real estate deal ever
consummated in Minneapolis, Mimi,
was effected the other day when the
owners of the Donaldson Glass block
purchased of F. II. Peterson a strip
of land three inches wide by 100 feet
long. The price paid was $500. The
transaction is also unique in that
it took several months of negotia.
tiou and the attention of several law
YER to perfect it.
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A Severe Rehuke.

a dunning letter which CHANGED to
reach the wrong man. Here is the re-
ply: "Dear Sur: This note was put
in my box by mistake. 1 han't the
man, bees dead, and amt any relative
of mine anyway. How dose your con.
shens let you dun the dead? Why don't
you lead better criston life ssd try
to meet that man in heaven which i,
worth more than forty dollars tc any
doctor" !,
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it. I was surprised to hear his tele-
phone bell ring.
II made an examination" contin.
ued the promoter, according to the
New York News, found that the tel.
ephope was connected with nothing
but that button, and realized that he
had rung it just to get rid of me.
II concluded to wait no longer. AMI
sneaked out as quickly as possibler
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A KnaVe Of
Conscience
Ry FRANCIS LYNDE.
CHAPTER xxx.
.lCopyright 1860, by Francis Lynde.,

AS it happened, the launch party
tn which Mr.. Andrew Galbraith was
60 be guest had to be postponed.
after all, on account of the weather.
Though there was no storm during
6sae afternoon, there was good
promise of one; so Margery went
about to ask the invited ones to save
tho afternoon of the following day
Tor her.
While she was doing this, the good
results of her mornings work among
Che wives of the strikers eliminated,
6rst in a meeting of the men in Labor
Hail, and little later in visit of
u sieputation of the strikers to the
afice of the iron works. Griswold
and Raymer were both there, and
when the trouble came to be dis
Eussed without heat, and with a mu-
aual disposition to give and take. it
vas wonderful how the difficulties
~Scre surmounted each in it's turn.
Lhe upshot of the conference was
- coupronise duly acceded to by all
econcerned; and the following morn
ang the hideous steam siren of the
aron works announced to all and sun
dry within a radius of half a dozen
miles that the long strike was ended.
1t MAS characteristic of the two
partners that the relaxing of the
sstrain affected them in Numerically
opposite ways. Raymer flung himself
into the work of the Office with all
szhe joyous abandon of a schoolboy
whose vacation has been over-long.
H8nt Griswold took holiday, rioting
I'm his release from the strain, and
Streaming to spend the better part of
she day alone on the lake in his cat
Boat.
Oddly enough, he was diverted from
&iiis plan not once, but a dozen times
ego with Raymer to be present at the
nPeniag of the firms account at the
Farmers and Mechanics bank Then
he chaRced to meet Griffin. and when
Eae would have made a mere greeting
<of that, was drawn aside to smoke a
social cigar with the detective in the
2obby of the ST. James.
A chat about everything in general
3ad nothing in particular went with
che cigar burning, and it was at the
very end of it that Griswold noticed
n most astonishing change come
upon his companion! a change so
marked that he thought Griffin was
4aken suddenly ill-thought it and
said so.
tEsrSifin shook his head in denial
81 guess it must have been sugges-
&iap," he said, evasively. "You have
a gerry vivid way of describing things,
AR. Griswold, and your telling me
sAiscst that attack of typhoid gave me
stise sympathetic qualms."
This was what he said, but it was
mo more than half of the truth. 1t
szsas not the fact of the fever, but
ssouae mention of the time of it that
mad moved him; and when Griswold
xas gone, he sauntered over to the
see,kss desk to ask a question.
syoa told me once, awhile ago,
szhaS Mr.. Griswold was sick here IN
che house." he began. "Was that last
<spriug. or was it late in the winter? %
II don't remember, but I'll look
zand see," said the clerk. And he
hooked and saw, and this time gave
mis- Gucstioner the correct date of
asriswoid's arrival in Wahaska.
Griffin moved away with his hands
67eep In his pockets and his lips drawn
INTO tim, straight line. This was
ahe last broken link in the chain of
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A Others See Us.

Pat-Did yez iver motifs how thin
Oytalians are afther wavin' their
hands an shakin' ave their heads
whin they're talkin'?
Mike-Faith, an Oh hove. Thot do
be tn only way tn jabberin' fur
riners can make aich other under
sthand pwhat they're talking about,
b'gory, I dunno. = Chicago Daily
News.
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Hod Her BIu6ed.

How does the new cook strike yos
my dear?" asked the head of the
house as he sat down to dinner.
..She hasn't struck me yet" replied
the weary other half, "but I believe
she would if 1 gave her any back
chicago Daily News.
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ITO Be Continued
Moors Indifferent to Life


Of all oriental races there are none
more callous and Indifferent to hui
man life than the Moors. A travele1
who has recently returned from MOI
rocco related the following anecdote
in proof of this fact. The GRANDPA
Their of the present sultan was one
day boating on the lake in the gar
dens of the palace, the boat, by the
way, being a small steam launch
given him by Queen Victoria. By
some accident the vessel capsized, and
the sultan and two of his wives, by
whom he was accompanied, were
thrown into the water. A soldier on
guard in part of the palace out of
view heard the cries, and, running up,
sprang into the water and rescued
the sultan's favorite wife, the ruler
himself scrambling out unaided.
Later in the day the soldier was sent
for and presented himself joyfully be-
fore his monarch, convinced that his
reward would be great. "You are the
soldier who rescued the delight Of
my eyes?" quoth the sultan. The SOL
der bowed. did you dare to look
at her?" 81 did. your highness," re-
piled the soldier, taken off his guard.
The sultan turned to an officer, muir
INJURED a few words, and a moment
later the soldier was on his way to
the headsman. That was his rewardl
Family Herald.
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The recent act Of the London ouncn providing
should
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| ing of the launch depended upon the
heroic endeavors of these two in the
"Sprite." Other help was at hand and
nearer. The launch was no more
than fairly helpless when the flag
boat of the Wahaska Yacht club
rounded the southern point of the
island, elose-reefed, but driving at
railway speed before the squat. Her
skipper saw the accident and was
happily a man for an emergency.
Moreover, he had a trained yachts
crew aboard, ready to spring to
quarters at his yelled command So
it came about that the Diana" was
the first on the scene, and her crew
was picking up the shipwrecked ones
when the "Sprite" came up, head to
the wind, in the thrashing seas.
Notwithstanding, the "Sprite" had
its mission, and for all the quick
work of the big sloop's trained crew,
one life would have gone out in the
smothering. pillows but for the up
coming of the catboat. In all the
fierce excitement of the moment, it
was Charlotte who kept cool, and it
was she who caught a glimpse of q
white head upthrust for a moment;
of that and of a hand flung out to
grasp hopelessly at nothing. In p
flash she gave Griswold his cue and
damned the tiller down to utilize the
last forging rush of the catboat's
momentum. The reefed sail had
spilled and would draw no more, but
the quick sweep of the big rudder
sufficed; and Griswold, leaning far
over the side, clutched the despairing
hand just as it was disappearing.
This was how it came about that
an old man whose span of years had
well-nigh bridged the little rift of
Time which lies between the two
shores of Eternity, was helped to
make that rift little wider. For all
his years, and the fierce struggle in
the foam-smother, Andrew Galbraith
was yet conscious when Griswold
dragged him over the gunwale of the
catboat; and his first gasped-out
word was characteristic of the man.
II told that gandering loon of
an ingineer he'd lose Mr.. Grierson's
boat, and he's done it the moo! And
rs warrant she cost a pretty penny,
too
With the lake still dashed into fury
by the squan, which was now spend
ing itself in spiteful catspaws, Girls
void had his hands full with the
"Sprite;" and yet in all the distrac-
ton of it he saw the shadow of a
smile in Charlotte's eyes, and found
time to answer it. Found time for
this, and for the thought which
welled up in sudden ecstacy at this
little lovers proof of the consanguin-
ity of kindred souls. But after that
he became the cool and intrepid
sailor-man again.
Taking the tiller, he let the catboat
fall off until he could speak the
yacht.
"Sloop ahoyi" he called; ''have you
got them alp"
''All but one" was the answer,
blown back on the gale.
''All right; we have that one"
shouted Griswold; and at the word,
the two boats shot apart, each to
make its laboring way towards the
Wahaskan haven.
ITO Be Continued
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cloud was mounting, and she pointed
it out.
Does that mean more wind?" she
queried.
81 think not" said Griswold. "But
if it does, I'll run in at once"
81 am afraid you think I am a
sorry coward of wind and water"
she ventured after little 81 used
not to be. j used to have a boat of
my own, and go out in almost any
weather. But since the capsizing of
the Mysie--"
Were you here then?" asked Girls
void. The sinking of the steam
yacht Mysie with all on board in one
of the sudden summer squalls some
years before was the major tragedy
of the lake. and it had had full col
umn in the New York papers.
II was here, and-and 1 saw it.
1t happened just little way out
from our pier. Oh, it was DREADFUL"
she shuddered. ITO see them drown
ing and not to be able to do one lit
tie thing to help them"
Griswold nodded in sympathy. "I
can understand. Shall we go about ?"
The cloud in the west. which had
been no bigger than the 'Sprite's"
mainsail had suddenly grown to half
the width of the horizon, and cool
little puffs Of wind we're coming
across the lake.
do as you would If you were
alone" she said. 81 am not afraid
with you"
None the less. Gfiswold put the
helm of the catboat down and stood
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leading character in the play, are with
in the bounds of reason, while still pos
sessing dramatic value of more than
ordinary merit. s..
The performance will be given again
to-day, matinee and night.
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rendered his resignation and severed
his connection with the company yes
terday.
Charles H. Fairchild. aged twenty
seven years. of Stamford, was found
dead in bed yesterday at the home Of
his father with a bullet wound in the
breast and a revolver clenched tightly
in his right hand. Fairchild was a
moulder and until three months ago
was employed in Portchester, N Y. All
that time he left work and entered a
sanitarium suffering from mental trou-
BILE. a short time ago he was discharg-
ed, as it was believed that he was COM
pletely cured.
Joseph Paul, aged thirty-five years.
employed at the Yale & Towne works,
Stamford, was fatally injured yesterday
by fall at his boarding house, corner
of Manhattan and Pacific streets. Paul
stepped from second-stery window
upon the roof of the piazza, when he
slipped on the wet shingles and. fell
headforemost to the ground, fracturing
his skull so that he lived only short
time. He was unmarried and had no
relatives in Stamford. His mother is
said to live in New York.
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matinee 25c. SOC; night, 81, 75c, SOC, Csc

Miss Ethel BarTymore's single per-
fcrmance OF Cousin Kate promises to
be an suspicious event. The play is the
one selected for the dedication of the
new Hudson theater in New York next
Monday, and Mr.. Frohman has such
faith in tn merits OF the work coupled
with the popularity he knows Miss
Barrymore TO possess that he expects
the comedy to remain in Gotham the
entire season. The sale of seats for
Miss Barrymore's engagement here
opens this morning and there is every
reason to believe that it will be very
heavy 1t was the original intention to
open with the comedy in New York,
but the building strikes put the COM
pletion of the Hudson theater back ne
cessitating the sending of the young
actress and her company on tour for
week. Cousin Kate" has been run
ming in London for some time and was
seen there by Miss Barrymore while
abroad during the summer. The actress
is bubbling over with enthusiasm re-
garding the play, being more than sat
isfied with the opportunities with
which it affords her to show off her
abilities. The comedy certainly tells
a pretty, dainty and withal bright.
Interesting story Cousin Kate, who will
be played by Miss Barrymore, is really
a delightful girl. She is a type of a
true-hearted sympathetic young wo-
man whose contact with the world has
knocked the nonsense out of her head.
but has left her heart in its right
place. In England, where the success
of the play has been extraordinary
Cousin Kate has been likened to
Sweet Lavender" comedy which OBJ
tanned great favor both here and
abroad.
Seat sale now open. Prices $50, 81
and 75c.
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ENTERTAINMENTS.
Hyperion Theater.


Without question Magician Kellar,
who comes to the Hyperion to-day and
will be seen at the bargain matinee and
at night is the peer of any nicromancer
or exponent of pure straightforward
who has lived within the past century.
He has made his art a careful study.
He is highly educated, thoroughly
wei read man, and as a mathematician
has few, if any, equals in the world.
He has 1abored to give his experiments
in magic with that freedom from sub
terfuge so apparent with most per-
formers, and has so far perfected it
that he has apparently but to COM
mand the most unheard-of things to
happen, and the transpire. He uses
the smallest possible amount of appa-
ratus. Yet his results are at times as
founding. Spiritualists have claimed
times without number that he is a
medium of unusual power, but Kellar
only smiles at these claims and says
that he is a trickster, nothing more nor
less. He has made a careful research
into the mysteries of the famous Ma
hatmas of India, about whom so much
has been written and in exploiting
some of their illusions far outstrips
amy competitor who ever attempted to
essay this line of work. He will pre-
sent series of marvellous illusions and
far outstrips any competitor who
ever attempted to essay this line OF
work. He will present series of mar
vellous Illusions and a programme OF
experiments in pure sleight-of
] Seat sale now omen. Prices: BARGAIN
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Grand tsporR House.

By special arrangement with Harrison
Grey Fiske, Mr. Frank Burt's scenic
production of "Tess of the D'Urber-
villes'' will be seen at the Grand Opera
House on Monday, Tuesday and Wed
nesday evenings next week. This pro-
duction has hardly an equal Of its
stamp among the whole range of high
class dramas. Coming as it does with
the same elaborate scenic equipment
which distinguished it's production at
the Manhattan theater, New York city,
it is hooked upon as one of the drama
tic events of the season. Probably no
other novel has proven more popular in
the literary world than Thomas Har-
dy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and
the dramatization by the late Lorrilner
stoddard is said to follow the book
closely.
Eleanor Duse, after seeing the play OF
Tess" tries to negotiate for the italian
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NEWS HERE AND THERE
4 ROUGH TIME ON THE SOUND
YESTERDAY.

A Heavy Rain FalI-Ends His Life by
Bullet wound-sIIppsd from Roof
and Was KiIied-New Haven OratOFiO
Society Files Articles of Association.
1t was almost as rough on the sound
yesterday as it was during the big
wind storm three weeks ago. Only
heavy-Weather steamers navigated the
sound yesterday. There was an I'M
usually high tide yesterday noon. and
the North Haven meadows and the
Mill river meadows were well covered
with sea water. The train from this
city to New York due at $3.50 yesterday
forenoon was half hour late owing
to the storm and the water near Har-
lem River was as high as the bottom
car steps Of the passenger cars.
New Haveners in New York yester-
day report an almost incessant down
pour of rain there, making it a very
unpleasant day for getting about.
Z The Richard Peck arrived here from
New York half an hour late last even
ing and passengers reported that the
seas were very heavy,
Dennis Mcmahon, of New Milford,
filed a petition in bankruptcy in the
United States district court yesterday.
His liabilities are $13,672.06, with assets
of s11, 974.55.
Samuel Smith, an old and wei1-known
resident of Killingly, died on Thursday,
October 1. He was born in 1881. He
served in the civil war in the Eigh-
teenth C. v. and had held various i'm
portant town offices.
Professor John c. Schwab, of Yale,
who is taking the place of Secretary
Arson Phelps Stokes, of Yale univer-
sity, stated Thursday evening that the
secretary will be back to his post again
in the near future. Professor Schwab
frequently has letters from the secre-
tary, who writes in a very cheerful
tone and reports progress in every let
ter. He expects to come back to his
work in the pink of condition.
The Deep River weekly newspaper,
the Deep River New Era, editorially
announced in its issue yesterday after
noon that it has changed ownership.
Ernest L. Prann, who has purchased
the paper from Charles A. Kirkland
was for number Of years a residen
OF Wethersfield.
George Leete, of Thompsonville, wht
has been employed by the New York
New Haven and Hartford Railroad
company for the past fifty years, has
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Coming Next Week.

Callahan and Mack, In refined Irish
comedy act, the real Irish comedy, in a
sketch 1.-THE Old Neighborhood" will
be the feature act next week.
Ernest Hogan and company; Ernest
is the unbleached American, in a satir-
zeal exaggeration entitled 1.-THE Mission
airy Man." by W. D. Hail. Ernest as
Luke BeasIey the new Chauffeur is the
hit of the act, +. r.
Robert Carter and company present.
ing Kathryn Waters In the sketch '"The
Wise Mr.. Conn.," are coming: AL Law
renee as the fayorite mimic. Mr.. and
Mrs. Nell Litchfield in country sketch
Halloween at Brook Farm" Smith
and German. talking comedians; the
Major Sisters as the Athletic Girls, and
Rise and Fall of Napoleon the Great
| in special series Of motion pictures in
the electrograph. Some sixteen views
will be shown Of this feature. They in
clude school days, in Egypt, crossing
the Alps, at home, Coronation, Battle OF
Austerlitz, Napoleon in His Study.
Burning of Moscow, Battle Of Waterloo
st. Helena. Death of Napoleon.
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CITY BOWLING LEAGUE.
Edgewoods Win Exciting Contest From
fba Cn,,oa s.e,efe,


Edgewoods Win Exciting Contest From
-" the Somersets. IT,.
On the new Brunswick Bake alleys
of the Asehenbrodel the Edgewoods last
night won an interesting and close
game from the Somersets. 1t was the
first game of the season between these
two teams and it was followed by a
large gallery. Next week the teams OF
the league will change about and play
differently from the present. From the
article of bowling put up during the
last week it is. quite certain that the
best bowling seen in this city in many
years will be the order of things on the
Aschenbrodel alleys this winter. Last
nights score follows:
Fs6ppunods e
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Hall Gaines picturesque drama, ''The
Christian" which will be remembered
as the play in which lola Allen won
her first great popular hit as a star,
will be revived at the Grand Opera
House Thursday. Friday and Saturday
of next week, with matinee Saturday.
The play will come now almost as a
novelty to our play-goers and its origi-
nal production will be used. Miss BIZ
anca West will play the part of GLORY
Quayle" and John Storm will be played
by Mr.. Lionel Adams, who appeared SO
successfully in this role the second sea-
son of this play. 49,