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THE GUIDE TO NATURE.— ADVERTISEMENT S. 



Your Earning Power 



DEPENDS UPON YOUR COMFORT 



You cannot work to best advantage 

 with the toothache, with a wasp 

 stinging you or with an ill-fitting 

 suit of clothes. 



Get the Suit to Suit 



First of all Be Comfortable. 



A well dressed man among well 

 dressed men does not think of his 

 suit nor does it appear conspicuous 

 to others. 



He is just comfortable, and can 

 think and act with freedom and 

 efficiency. 



GEO. J. HURLBUTT & SON 



314 MAIN STREET 

 Custom Tailors Haberdashers 



Every Thing Electrical 



New Store with up-to-date 

 equipments. Skilled work- 

 men. Facilities for hand- 

 ling large contracts :: :: 



Fairbanks Electric Co. 



438 ATLANTIC STREET 



Stamford Connecticut 



Replete in Humor and Philosophy. 



Incorrect thinking or absence of any 

 thinking is responsible for much 

 trouble to one's self and others. It is 

 bad for individuals as well as for na- 

 tions. 



Here is an actual occurrence in 

 Stamford's new post office that has 

 plenty of humor and philosophy. "The 

 Daily Advocate" tells the story as fol- 

 lows : 



there's a job for a glazier and a 

 study in hallucinations. 



Elisha Williams, a colored teamster, 

 made the mistake of his young life 

 yesterday afternoon, while in the post 

 office on Atlantic Street. For a few 

 minutes afterwards he was almost as 

 pale as a white man. Williams was 

 writing at the desk near the north wall 

 of the building, having left his team, 

 untied, in front of the building. 

 Glancing up suddenly, he thought he 

 saw the horses running away, and, 

 with one mighty bound, he jumped 

 right into the plate glass window, 

 smashed it into fragments, and stood 

 on the sidewalk, rubbing his head and 

 looking first at the horses, which were 



standing peacefully in the gutter ; then 

 back at the broken window, while 

 those who saw the affair aver that his 

 skin paled perceptably. 



To-day, the window, which was 

 about 8x6 feet, was boarded up, await- 

 ing the glazier, for nobody ever made 

 a better job of window-smashing than 

 did Williams. The glass that re- 

 mained was in pieces, the largest no 

 more than a foot square. Assistant 

 Postmaster Plunkett, wdio hurried out 

 of his office to see what was the cause 

 of the noise, said to-day that Williams 

 was so frightened that he could hardly 

 stutter, and explained that he thought 

 the window was a door, standing open, 

 in his hurry, as he thought he saw his 

 horses, moving away. There is a plat- 

 form about a foot high inside the win- 

 dow, but this was unnoticed by Wil- 

 liams as he made his leap. 



An apostrophe to the value of the 

 hen is attributed by an exchange to a 

 philosophical colored man. He said: 

 "Chickens, sub, is the usefulest animal 

 they is. You c'n eat 'em 'fo' they's 

 bo'n, an' aftah they's daid !" 



