_ upon their children.
"despair turns to unspeakable joy as
lte hi n g
If there is one thing more than
another which gratifies us, it is the
great volume of hearty thanks which
come from grateful parents for the
cures Hood’s Sarsaparilla has effected
The agony of
mothers and fathers see dreadful sores
and eruptions gradually yield to the
potent purifying power of this g1eat
medicine, and bright boys and b'giils
given perfect health. Read this:
“When my baby was four weeks old,
scrofulous eczema broke out on his body.
He became literally covered with
Sores
When six months old the breaking out
healed on his body, but his head, face and
arms were a terrible sight. I passed many
sleepless nights holding his little hands
to keep him from scratching his face. I
cannot tell what he suffered with the sores.
One doctor attended him a year without
avail. No one thought he would ever get
Well. He was almost a year old when I
commenced to give him Hood’s Sarsapa-
rilla. He soon grew so much better that
Cured
I was able to rest at night. Gradually the
sores on his head and arms healed, the
burning and itching ceased, and he slept
better. In 2 months he looked-like an-
other child, gained strength, was cured.
I recommend all persons afflicted with
eczema or any skin disease to take Hood’s
Sarsaparilla. I feel assured that it will
do wonders for others. I cannot praise
it too highly for what it has done for my
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poor little sufferer. It is hard to believe
he is the same child, he is now such a
big, hearty, fat boy, a very picture of
health. If more people would give Hood’s
Sarsaparilla to their children, there would
not be so many poor, delicate little ones.”
Mas. AGNES C. BAILEY, Box 91, McVey-
town, Pennsylvania.
This and other similar cures prove that
: "are . .
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Hood’s
:s~ Sarsaparilla
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Be sure to get Hood’s and only Hood’s. It is
prepared only by C. I. Hood&Co., Lowell, Mass.
cure all Liver Ills and
HOOd’S Pills Sick Headache. 25 cents.
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BY MUTUAL CONSENT.
Mr. and Mrs. Messinger were simple,
unaffected people, devoted to their
children and to Nancy, Mr. Messinger’ 5
young stepsister.
One sunny afternOon in early sum-
mer Mrs. Messinger sat at the open
bay window of the drawing-room read-
ing.‘ The door opened presently and
Nancy came in rather SIOWIY She ’ was careful to avoid a date a-tete with
came over to the window and seated
herself in a low basket chair with an
air of constraint.
“I have a letter from Jim,” she said.
“Does he say when he is coming?”
“Yes; he came by the same steam-
ship as the letter. He will be here to.
morrow, I suppose.”
“Nancy! really?" asked Mary, look-
ing almost excited. “Are you not de-
lighted?”
“I—I—have a confession to make,”
said Nancy, nervously, looking out
over the sea. "I thought I loved Jim
when he went out to India five years
ago, but 1. was only seventeen then,
and did not realize what love meant.
We had known each other all our lives,
and I mistook our friendship for love.
"I have felt it dimly for a year or
two, but what made it all clear to me
was Jim’s last letter, saying that he
was coming home. It filled me with
dismay and fear. I felt that I simply
could not. meet him as his betrothed
wife, so I wrote last mail and asked
him to release me from my engage-
ment.”
“And what does he say?" Mary asked,
anxiously.
“He is delighted,” said Nancy,
brightening. “He says that his feel-
ings have changed too:”
“You never hinted at any change be-
fore,” said Mary, a. little reproach-
fully.
“I only knew it dimly or 1 might
have done so,” replied Nancy, gently.
“And since I wrote to him I have been
silent to spare you any anxiety. My
letters have never been from the pres-
ent Nancy, but from the Nancy as I
could remember her at seventeen. In
fact, I have been writing down all the
time to the level of his intelligence as
shown in his letters, and that level is
painfully low.” ’
“He would be much moge likely to
object if he once saw you,” said Mary,
frankly, “for these five years have
done wonders with you in every way.”
“Oh, he’s so boyish that he will think
me strong-minded, and therefore dis-
like me,” said Nancy, laughing. “And
I did send him my last photograph, you
know.”
“Did you send that hideous thing?”
asked Mary in surprise.
“Well,” confessed Nancy, rather re-
luctantly, “I believe I had seme secret,
unconfes'sed hope that he would offer
to break off the engagement if he once
saw that hideous caricature.”
A day or two later Nancy started for
‘her usual afternoon walk along the
cliffs. “'alking quickly along, she did
not hear footsteps behind her. and was
surprised at hearing herself suddenly
addressed. Looking up with startled
eyes, she found a young man gazing at
her with a. puzzled, intent expression
in his handsome face.
“You are Nancy, are you not?” he
said, doubtfully, holding out his hand.
“Why, Jim, is it really you?” asked
Nancy, regarding him with surprise.
“How you have grown! When did you
come? and how did you find me?”
‘ “I came two days ago,” he said, red-
dening slightly in irritation at her first
words, “but I called at the Ness this
afternoon and Mrs. Messinger told me
where I should find you.”
“Let us go home now, and then you
can see them all,” she said, turning
back. “You will hardly know the
children; they were such mites when
you left.” i
“I certainly shall not, if they have
altered as much as you have done. I
scarcely knew you,” he said, looking
down at her with intent gray eyes,
and inwardly comparing this beauti-
ful, graceful girl with the gauche
schoolgirl of five years since.
“I am older,” she said, her' heart
sinking strangely. “He might disguise
the fact that he finds me a. disappoint-
ing failure,” she thought, rather bit-
terly.
“Of course we are no longer boy and
girl,” he said. “But 1 hope We shall
always be friends, Nancy! \Ve have
been that all our lives, haven’t we?”
“Yes, let us be friends,” she said.
And, thinking that he was eager to im-
press upon her that they were to be
nothing more, she added: “And it was
very wise to break off that childish
engagement before you came home,
wasn’t it?”
“Y—yes,” he said, doubtfully.
“Those boy and girl engagements never
answer, do they? People develop so
differently from what one would ex-
pect. Judging fr 1m your letters, I
should have tl ._‘:10u_; 1t you utterly differ-
ent from what I fin': you.’
“You are equally different from what
I should have expected you to be,” she
answered. “But let us put up with
each other as we are; we need not see
much of one another, you know.”
They had just. reached the gate lead-
ihg into the garden of the Ness as she
said this, and unconsciously she paused
outside.
Jim took this, coupled with her last
words, as a hint that he should go, and
was more hurt than he cared to own.
“Good afternoon.” he said, stiifiy,
raising his hat. “Your suggestion is a
brilliant one, and you need not fear
that I shall trouble you with my pres-
ence more often than is necessary.”
“Good-by,” she said, turning in at
the open gate in order that he should
not see the rising tears.
“Good- -by,” he said, freezingly, think-
ing her absolutely cruel in not shakigg
hands.
If Mrs. Messinger had been given to
abstruse reflections she might have
asked herself how Jim and Nancy
could possibly avoid each other, ac-
cording to the compact, when he was
always coming to the Ness?
For he came every day and at all
hours of the day, as he had been wont
to do five years ago.
Nancy lost all her gentle brightness
when speaking to Jim, and was coldly,
distantly polite to him. Inwardly she‘
. .-
knew that her love for- .him 'was
strengthening day by day, and that no
power of hers could prevent it. “
His position in regard to Nancy was
much worse than that of any mere ac-
quaintance. Every other man could
‘ tell her of {his love, while it seemed to
Jim that he had lost right by gladly
agreeing to cancel their engagement.
One afternoon he found her alone. a.
very rare occurrence indeed, for she
him.
“Shall we go‘into the garden?” she
asked, thinking that anything was
preferable to sitting stifliy in the
. drawing-room.
“I should like it immensely,” he an-
swered, rising and opening the door
with alacrity. “Will you take me to
your old favorite seat? I have so often
thought of those days when I was
feeling homesick, Nancy.”
“I thought you were very happy in
India?” she said, unresponsively.
“So I was, but I was homesick some-
times, especially when I first fwent
out.” .
“Mr. Penstone and I always quarrel
over this view,” said Nancy, anxious
to prevent any embarrassing pause:
“Who is Mr. Penstone?” asked Jim,
k‘nitting his brows.
“He is our curate,” she answered. “I
always say that this is the finest view
in town, but Mr. Penstone maintains
that the view from—”
“He must be an idiot, then,” burst in
Jim, hotly; “the views are not to be
compared!”
“You might have waited until I had
mentioned the other,” said Nancy,
raising her eyebrows.
“I—I beg your pardon,” he said, in
utter confusion. “I thought you must
mean—in fact, I understood you to say
—that——that the view from Beacon was
finer than this.”
“Yes, that is what Mr. Penstone de-
clares,” she said.
“What a. hideous name the man has!”
said Jim, in itably “Of course you are
devoted to him, Nancy?”
‘ Yes, he is so very good and clever
and pleasant,” she said, surprised at
his vehemence.
“You are going to marry him, 1 sup-
pose?” he said, with ill-concealed an-
ger. .
“You forget yourself, I think,” she
answered, with gentle dignity. “And
whom I may marry can be no possible
concern of yours.”
“0, none, of course,” he said, furi-
ously. ‘ “Only you might have told me
the truth when you broke off our en-
gagement. It would have been just as
easy to say that you were engaged to
some one else at once.”
“You are entirely mistaken in think-
ing that I am engaged to anyone,”
said Nancy, calmly. “Mr. Penstone is
married and old enough to be my
father. Shall we go in now, or have
you any other interesting accusations
to make?”
“Forgive me, Nancy, I was a. fool!”
pleaded Jim, earnestly. “I forget
sometimes that I have not still the
right to speak to you on such matters.
For five years I have thought 'of you
as my promrsed wife, and now that I
am with you I, cannot always realize
that you are mine no longer. Say, that
you forgive me, Nancy, for my rough-
ness and presumption.”
After this quarrel Jim found it im-
possible to be on the same footing of
f1iendship with Nancy. She was
colder and more constrained than ever
in her manner toward him, and he
\\ as too proud and too manly to force
his love on her, believing that she dis-
liked him; and at last, after a. bitter
struggle with himself, he determined
to return to India at once.
He had never been to the Ness lately
without some valid reason, and this
new decision was so good an excuse for
calling that he was not slow in taking
advantage of it. He found Nancy in
the garden, arrayed in a. large white
sun bonnet, busy gathering straw-
ber11es for tea.
“I am going back to India; I have
had enough of England.” .
“To India? At once? 0, why?" she
asked piteously, growing very white
and looking at him with frightened
eyes.
“Do you care, Nancy?” he asked
eagerly. “Would you rather I stayed?”
“My wishes have nothing to do with
the matter.” she said, rather bitterly.
“Indeed, they have,” he said, very
earnestly. “Nancy, tell me, would
you rather I stayed?”
“If I say yes, would you stay?” she
asked, quietly.
“Only if you loved me,” he said. “I
cannot stay on and see you. day after
day, and feel that you will never care
for me. May I stay, Nancy?”
“If you like,” she answered shyly.
“There is one thing I want to know,”
he said, presently, looking down into
her eyes; “when did you begin to love
me. dear?”
“When did you begin to love me?”
she replied, blushing under his gaze.
“I don’ t know; I have loved you all
my life,” he answered.
“I don’ t know, either,” she said;
“when I was about four or five, I
think.”
“But, my darling, you broke off our
engagement,” he said, wonderingly.
“Yes, from your letters I thought I
did not love you. They were so stupid
—I—I mean-”
“Yes; they were stupid, but yours
Were silly, too, and I thought that was
the kind of things you liked,” he said,
intelligence dawning in his eyes.
“I thought you were terribly boyish
so wrote very "young letters, thinking
they would interest you,” she said, be-
ginning to laugh.
“We both fell into the same mistake,
then,” he said, laughing, too. —Wav-
erly Magazine.
_'.“’.‘:~$: .
' ——The first law that ever God gave
to man was a law of obedience; it was
a. commandment pure and simple,
wherein man had nothing to inquire
after or to dispute, for as much as to
obey is the proper office of a rational
soul acknowledging a. heavenly su-
perior and benefactor. —Monta1gne.
—A stray hair, by its continued irri.
tation, may give more annoyance than
a smart blow—Lowell.
'5;
THE En. m1... Azm TE
. PICTUR'ING A SEA FIGHT.
How Instantaneous Photography Figures
in the Modern Painter’s Art.
Instantaneous photography has made
it easy to-day for men with little knowl-
edge of sea-manship to place ships and
boats under sail in 'a. picture, but in
early days, says Temple Bar, the power
of doing so correctly was limited to'a
few men like Stanfield and Capt. Beechy ,
R. N.
The difficulty of obtaining anything
like a reliable description of a sea fight,
even from those who had taken part in
it, was, according , to Stanfield, very
great, and he told us how, when plan-
ning his picture of “The Battle of Tra-
falgar,” he applied to ,Capt. Hardy for
advice as to the position of the Victory,
Hardy’s answer being that, owing to
the smoke, it was impossible during
the height of the action to see beyond
the ships alongside, adding: “I am
about the w orst man you could come to,
for some time before that which your
picture represents the Victory’s tiller
ropes had been shot away, and I was be-
low in the steerage attending to them
and the helm, and down there we knew
so little of what was going on that we
continued to load and fire one of her
stern guns until ordered from the deck
to stop because we were firing into one
of our own ships.”
Like Loutherbourg, Stanfield had
been at sea as a young man, While both
owed much of their facility and power
of composing a. subject to their early
- .training in the scene loft. But I think
Loutherbourg greatly surpassed Stan-
field as a draughtsman and in knowl-
edoe of naval architecture.
CARVED HIS OWN COFFIN.
An English Craftsman Puts His Art to a
Strange Use.
A coffin yarn from England is this,
from 3. Nottingham paper: “The hobby
of an old gentleman, who has just de-
parted this life in Duddlestone, was
wood carving. Being of independent
means he was able to devote his time
to the craft and become a very artistic
craftsman. After filling his house with
hand—carved furniture he turned his at-
tention to the carving of an oaken
coffin, to contain his remains. Over
the richly-carved panels he spent much
loving care. In this coffin de, luxe he
was buried recently, and in accordance
with minute instructions in his last will
and testament, was followed to the
grave by one mourner only—a. young
man to whom he had left the bulk of
his property, ignoring all of his rela-
churehyard in the old gentleman’s pri-
vate vehicle, drawn by his favorite
Pony.”
_ ._..4
It is never proper for a. girl to ac-
cept presents from a. young man- unless
he' IS betrothed to her.
In meeting one’ s betrothed on the
street one should bow pleasantly as one
would to any other gentleman.
\Vhen one’s pardon is asked for some
slight inattention an inclination of the
head and a smile is the best- answer.
Rrv. WM. N. Smarts,
71:6 E. I78th Street, writes .
“Transom, N. Y. Cruz;
May I3th,1895.i
SALVA-CEA. It is worthy of it.
After having given it 3 thorough
trial for over a. year, I am persuaded
that it comes nearest to being a
“ PANACEA,” a delightful cure-all, of
anything of its kind that I have ever fl
" I am glad to see you are pushing 1
known. I have come to believethat
you are even modest 1:1 your claims of
its excellence. Verily, it is the oil
7 of gladness.
SALVA—CEA is universally
praised—pcOple are finding out
that it does its work promptly— 1
WM. N. SEARLES.” i
that it is perfectly safe and t3 1. it
it does as it is a cchztised to do.
Y ou may depend upon it t )givc
immediate relief 1n every case of
piles, and a curb in ninety cases
out of every hundred. It is :3 5
positive cure for all skin irrita- )
tion and chafing—colds—.1nd g
nasal catarrh, especially the dry g
catarrh so prevalent in this
country.‘
Two sizes, 25 and 5° cents per box.
At druggists, or by mail.
For derj-Jtatedpaz'n and r/zazlmatz'sm of
{kl/413d: uu Sat-aa- Lea, “ Extra Strnng.”
Sat'd' m (m: at 75 cent: each.
_ Tun BRANDRETK Co., 274 Cami St., N. Y.
tives. The coffin was conveyed to the
OPENED;
Prof. George Y'oerger has
opened his Boxing School
for the winter.
Private instructions at the
Dunils. home if desired.
Full 'course, 12 lessons,
$10. .
ADDRESS
Prof. George Yoerger.
Norwalk. Conn-
or apply at this office.
CENTRAL NATIUNAL BANK,
26 WALL SIC, NORWALK.‘
ORPORATED SEPT. 1, 1876.
.1. ut’l'I‘AL. ;- - - - - -
nun m. HOLMES. President.
. 1.. Burns. Vice-President.
DIRECTORS :
.1qu M. HOLMES, H. E. DANN,
u. CUNNINGHAM, J. T. Paowrr'r
I. L. Borax, S. H. HOLME
J . CousmsJJR.
WILLIAM A. Gnarls. Cashier
elseounl Day, Salurdav-
. .
Having' : purchased
j "the Market ofE. J.
WIDIIAHSj '
' HIS
SOLD
OUT-
WADHIns, I have
restocked the same
with Meats, Fish
Vegetables and Can-
, ned goods, and so-
lici_t"a share of your
patronage.
--*iGI|ARI.ES E. SGHEUBEIlJr
2 I Wall Street.
WILLIAM s. KEMP,
Carpenter -:- and -:- Builder,
34- West Main St.. Norwalk. ’
Mr. Kemp has been a carpenter and builder
in Norwala for the past 25 years , and refers to
owners of buildings erected under his super-
vision as to workmanship. .
Chilton Paint.
Every gallon of paint made by the I
Chilton Mfg. Company is mixed and
ground in pure Linseed Oil. All shades
are mixed and ground by machinery
seven times, making them uniform and
even. Compare the size of cans and
weight with the cheaper makes. You
get an honest gallon. Give it a trial and
you will be convinced. I
H. H. WILLIAMS
17 Main St.
LACE -:- CURTAINS
cleaned and Grass Bleached.
No Acids Used.
0.
:Nottingham, - - 65 Cents
. Brussels, net anwlace, 75c
,lrish Point Applique, s I .00
$100.00c ;
Send postal card to
Toceua’s
Dyeing and cleaning Works,
'Broad River, Norwalk.
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In case
ance Company.
W. H...
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of Fire
a
Room 1, GAZETTE BUILDING"
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If not, call on me and,
.I will write you a. policy in the Mutual Plate Glass and Safe Insur-
Glass will break and burglars usedynamite.
You should be insured. A policy in the Reliance 01 I hiladelphia.
Phoenix of Hartford; Scotland Union of Scotland; New Hampshire of}
Manchester; Rochester German of Rochester; United States and Pacific
of New York; Security of New Hampshire or Granite State 01 Ports-
mouth will protect ycu against the fire fiend.
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