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Weak
Wo1n out, nervous women, receive
criticism where they should have
sympathy. They cannot help being
nervous, if their blood is impui e.
then the blood fails to feed the
nerves upon proper nourishment What
can you expect but nervous prostraa
tion, debility and nervous headaches?
If the cause is found in impure blood,
the ewe must be in ma 'ng the blood
pu1e. This is just what Iood’s Salsa-
paiilla does, and it has p1 oved the t1 ue
nerve tonic because it is the t1 no blood
puiifiei, and the solace, comf01t and
defender of thousands of housewives,
Nervous
teachers, clerks and other sufferers of
of both sexes. Just read this letter:
‘ “I think it is my duty to tell what
Hood’s Sarsaparilla has done for me and
my family. Two years ago I was in a weak,
nervous condition and had dreadful pal-
pitations or jumping of my heart, fol-
lowed by sinking spells, w hieh would last
Ifor several. minutes. Sometimes it would
lseem as though I would never come out
{of them. I was treated by the best physi-
cians, but only for a little time did they
help me. I seemed to be growing worse
instead of better. I would often seem
hungry, but when I ate, no matter how
Ilittle, it would cause me such misery that
II was often wicked enough to wish my-
Iself dead. I had that
Tired
Ianguid,al1-gone feeling and suffered aw-
ful‘ distress in my stomach. I had given
up all hopes of ever being Well, when
,my mother wished me to try Hood’s
Sarsaparilla. I consented, to please her,
and before I had taken the whole of one
bottle I could see I was improving, and
soon was indeed very much better. Its
effects have been truly wonderful and I
hope this letter may be the means of help-
ing other suffering men and
.WOmen
to try Hood’s Sarsaparilla and be benefited
by it. We have used Hood’s Pills in our
family and find them very excellent, es-
pecially for constipation. We give Hood’s
medicines great praise, and if anyone
com: )lains of feeling badly, I say ‘You
should take Hood’s and only Hood’s. ”’
Mas. Krrrm SMITH, 326 Dane Street, Wa-
terloo, Iowa. Remember that
g H O d S
Sarsaparilla
l Is the One True Blood Purifier. Alldruggists. $1.
Prepared only by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.
fiOOd’S Pills the best familycathartic
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‘ ‘ house alone lest thieves break in and,
A GLITTEL’ING TEMPTATION.
BY MRS. M. L. BAYNE.
When Leander Clarke married Mabel
Thorpe, he had no expectation of ever
being a rich man, but as his affairs ap-
pear at the present time he is on the.
broad highway to future wealth. It
all arose from the fact that he took ,
time by the forelock, the only way ‘
poor mortals have of evergetting even i
with him of the scythe and hour-glass.
But it is this very thing that is caus-
ing him such a lot of mental anguish
now, making his nights sleepless, and .
threatening‘to undermine his domestic
peace.
Mabel Thorpe laid no claims to so- i
cial distinction when Leander met her
first at some entertainment, where
she rendered selections of classic
music in such a masterly manner,
that he, being a lover of .music,
was instantly attracted to her side,
and stayed there during the even-
ing. For the rest she wore glasses,
being near-sighted, and, having been
graduated from an eastern college,
was rather stiff and pedantic in her
manner—a. grateful change from the
ordinary frisky young creatures with
whom Leander had been associated.
I It takes all kinds of people to make a
world—more’s the pity—and love goes
where it is sent. Mabel had expected
to become one of that noble army of
martyrs, teachers, but when Leander
proposed, she reconsidered the matter,
and thought she heard the voice of
duty bidding her answer “yes,” and
without more ado she accepted him.
Now, Mabel Thorpe did not expect
her hero to swim the Hellespont of
life with all his armor on, but she did
demand from him—as she had a. right
to do—a high moral standard, for she
had not married him until she had
seen, as she believed. his whole past
life laid open before her as abook.
There is no time when a man is as
weakly sentimental and as religious as
when he is trying to live up to the
standard of a pure young girl’s ideal,
and Leander became almost an angel.
There are very few of us capable of
making human angels of ourselves.
Good and evil are as persistently pres-
ent in our moral nature as light and
darkness are in our atmosphere, and
one serves as the complement of the
other. To banish night we use the
light of science, to counteract wrong
we invoke Divine help; but so largely
is our worldly nature in excess of our
spiritual powers that we are constant-
ly in danger of erring to be forgiven,
in other words, sinning and repenting.
Mabel Thorpe believed in an inflex-
ible uprightness. The command to do
evil that good may come was to her a
perverted text. She was not aware
that there are sins of omission, as well
as of commission, and that her un-
righteous condemnation of sinners,
and her severe Judgments, were in
themselves of a sinful nature. The
self-righteous are often harder to live
with than the sinner.
Leander Clarke had been a good son,
and he intended to be a good husband.
He was both proud and fond of his
wife, but certainly regretted that he
could not give her all the luxuries
that she could appreciate, not even the
grand piano that her musical talent
deserved. But he went to work with a
will to make her happy, and hoped in
a few years to be able to add all other
needful things.
Among the wedding presents of the
young couple was one that far out-
shone all the rest—a superb set of dia-
monds, sent by an uncle of Leander
who was near to death, and gave the
residue of a large estate in this extrav-
agant present. Leander himself was
genuinely sorry that such an undesira-
ble gift had been made. but he argued
that his wife was a sensible woman,
and would turn them into something
more suitable to their condition in life
—-a piano, for instance, which was a
necessity rather than a. luxury. What
was his surprise when his bride said:
“I never was so pleased in my life.
Diamonds represent to me the crystal~
lization ef everything beautiful in art
and nature. I never dreamed that I
should possess such magnificence.”
“But these have, no associations,”
said her husband; “they are not heir-
looms.”
“They will be; all diamonds were
new at some time. And are they not
associated with the dear old man who
gave them?”
The dear old man had been a. terror
in the family, and had only given the
diamonds to Leander’s Wife because he
hated that nephew a. little less than
the others, whom he hoped to make
horribly jealous and angry and—had
succeeded.
When Leander asked his wife to keep
her diamonds in the bank she prompt-
ly declined.
“But you surely will not wear them,
dear?” he Suggestfl.
“Why not?” she asked.
“It would injure our prospects, and
not be consistent with our position.”
“They were a gift to me;.surely I
have the right to do as I please with
my own.’
“The right—yes, but I thought my
wife had more discretion. I did not
know you cared for gew-gaws, Mabel.”
So the first cloud came upon the
horizon of' their love, but Leander,
was good-tempered and Mabel satis-
fied and it disappeared. The truth
was that Leander had expected a hand-
some sum ,of money from this very
uncle, who was a bachelor and very
old. But age had not mellowed an
ugly disposition to thwart his-rela-
tives, and after raising " the young
man’s hopes he took a malicious pleas-
ure in disappointing them.
The young couple began life in a
pretty furnished .cottage On the mod-
ern plan of a. chafing dish and hand-
.painted china, and it worked like a
charm. Mabel presided over the
dainty cuisine, the butler’s pantry, the
parlor, and really did wonders. Lean-
der fell' 1n love with her over and over
again. But for the diamonds they
would have been as happy as lurks.
Did they hear a sound at night—it
was a. burglar after those precious
gems. They were afraid to leave the
THL LVLNINU
steal, and one or the other Of. the two'
was compelled to be the; hiding place
of the jewels, when they went out to-
gether. Mabel did not c re to adorn
herself with diamonds when she went
to market or to church, but she could
not listen to a sermon in peace if the
gems were not about her. And some-
how it did annoy her to carry con-
cealed wealth, like a brigand or a
smuggler.
But when Leander had a chance to
buy shares in the “Little Catawba”
Lumber company, and to make as
much in three months as he would in
a. year by his clerkship, Mabel would
not listen to the suggestion that the
bank would advance enough on the
diamonds to enable him ‘to make the
investment.
Then Leander discovered that his
wife could be a very obstinate woman.
It was in vain that he laid before her
the benefit that would result from a
transient disposal of the gems. She
replied, not without logic on her side,
that the “Little Catawba.” might be a
failure, and then her precious securi-
ties would be forfeited. Leander, man
fashion, grew angry. and after some
hot words reached the penultimate of
passion.
“I wish,” he said in tones of invec-
tive, “that burglars would get the
hateful stones. They might at least
be of some good to them!” '
It is said that curses, like chickens,
come home to roost. After Leander has
asked forgiveness for his rudeness and
Mabel had sweetly extended the olive
branch of reconciliation, he suggested
that she be doubly careful;of her cher-
ished possessions.
‘ The town is full of burglars, and
they know the people who have fine
diamonds, and if they once set out to
get them they’ll succeed.”
Mabel did not sleep with the dia—
monds in the sameroom. Woman-like,
she thought if she secreted them in
some place where they would never be
detected, they would be safe. Neither
the ash-barrel nor the ragbag entered
into her calculations, but places just
as inconsistent did.
One night there was a crash in the
room below. Mabel shook her sleep-
ing husband and whispered in his ear:
“Burglarsl Get your revolver and
go downstairs. The diamonds are in
the bottom of the clock.”
Leander was start-led and confused,
but as the noise continued, he hurried
on his clothes, and taking his revolver
ran softly down the stairs. Mabel re-
mained where she was, shivering with
fear. There was a fearful commotion
below, the noise of falling furniture,
opening and closing of windows, and
the rapid firing of the revolver, after
some flying robber. Then regard for
her husband’s life compelled Mabel
to hurry to his assistance. She found
him lying on the floor grasping his re-
volver.
She did not faint nor shriek, but
kneeling beside him bathed his face
and besought him to speak to her.
“Where am I?” he asked feebly as he
tried to raise himself; “are the dia-
monds safe?”
"N ever mind the diamonds,” said his
wife, “are you mortally wounded any-
where?”
“I don‘t know.” answered Leander,
feebly, and to her credit be it recorded,
Mrs. Leander assisted her husband to
a. couch and sent off, or rather called ,
for assistance, before she even thought
of her diamonds.
Then the open door of the clock told
the whole story—the diamonds were
gone root and branch! And they were
the only things stolen.
If Leander had been surprised at the
manner of his wife on receiving the
jewels, he was astonished at the calm
indifference with which she parted
from them. She allowed the usual
course to be taken to recover the thief,
or thieves, to justice, but when no re-
sults followed, she said'she was glad of
it, that the gems had been like an evil
eye to them, and for her part she never
wanted to hear of them again.
"I wonder,” she said, “that I did not
see it in that light before. I will never
keep anything in my house again to
tempt the cupidity of the wicked or un-
fortunate. To that extent am I my
brother’s keeper.”
But the effect upon her husband was
entirely different. Either he caught
cold on that night of the burglary, or
his nervous system received a shock,
for he was almost ill from the effect, of
his tussle With the burglar. And he
could not endure to have the subject
mentioned before him. Not even the
success of the “Little Catawba,” in
which a friend had invested for him,
gave him the peace and rest he craved.
A little incident that happened at
that time did, however, help to re-
store him to his normal condition. His
wife received a small package, accom-
panied by %- soiled and dilapidated
note, which pen being opened, read:
“honored madem: i gets no sleap
sence i stoal yure dimonsi no yure lady
an i am a retch if i giv them up pra fur
me. “AN UNNONE FREND.”
And in the package Mabel found her
diamonds, exactly as she had last seen
them. .
She was pleased—where is the wom-
an who would not have been?—and
she at once showed her confidence in
her husband by placing the gems in
his hands for safe keeping in the bank:
“I wish I had taken your advice
earlier,”she said, gracefully: “it would
have saved us so much trouble.”
Leander murmured something about
all being well that ends well and at
noon b1 ought her a certificate of de-
posit.
There we leave them ’on the way to
fortune and happiness—if—if Leander’s _
conscience does not upset the whole
scheme. He would give a great deal
to know, what no clairvoyant could
tell him, how much or how little Mabel
has discovered. My own opinion is that
she saw through it from the first,.and
holds herself equally guilty, as acces-
sory after the crime, and with that
sweet ficklessness which even an
upright woman employs she will
make herself a loving accomplice. For
it is a foregone conclusion that
Leand Clarke was his own burglar.—
Detro Free Press. ,
, have served six years in the senate and
'he was first sworn in who has served
YOUNG MEN IN THE SENATE.l
More Numerous Now Than in the Days of
Zach Chandler.
At the time Zach Chandler was first
a. member of the senate he was one of”
the youngest members of that body.
Besides having a youthful appearance,
all the other men seemed quite old to
him. ,On the last day of the first term
of Senator Mitchell, of Oregon,
Chandler and he sat in the barber shop
and chatted about events of the sess1on,
and finally Chandler began talking
about his earlier career, says the Wash-
ington Star.
“When I went to Detroit,” he said,
“there were not more than fifty houses
in the place. Now it has become one
of the leading cities in the west.
Michigan was a “territory, and we had
some pretty hard times there, but I
stuck to it, and have been rather suc-
cessful. Why,” he added, rather proud-
1y, “I was elected to the senate 1.11611 I
was forty-four years old.” .
“That’s nothing,” aswered Senator
Mitchell, laconically.
“N othingl” exclaimed Chandler.
“Well, I consider it a great deal to have
senate at forty-four.”
“Well,” replied Mitchell, quietly, “I
am not forty-four yet. ”
“I give it up,” responded Chandler.
“You have the best of me. The further
west we go the more push we have.”
Senator Mitchell is . still a young-
looking man,‘ yet there is only one man
in the senate who was a. senator when
continuously. That is Senator Morrill,
of Vermont. Sherman, of Ohio, and
Stewart, of Nevada, were members of
the senate at the time Senator Mitchell
was elected, but both have been out,
Senator Sherman as secretary of the
treasury for four years, and Senator
Stewart six years, while another man
represented Nevada. Senator Mitchell’s
first term began in 1873. After serving
six years he was defeated, a democratic
legislature having been chosen. Six
years later he was again elected, and
has since been reelected.
POLITICAL ASPIRANTS.
COL. A. L. CONGER, the Ohio politi-
cian, is of opinion that “ex-President
Harrison is just as mucha candidate
for the presidency as. Gov. McKinley,
Thomas B. Reed, or Senator Allison.”
SENATOR ALLISON positively assures
his friends in W'ash'ington that he has
no presidential aspirations and cher- .
ishes no hopes in that direction. He is
a candidate for reelection to the sen-
ate.
ONE of the best dressed women in
Kansas is said to be Mrs. Mary Lease.
She appeared the other day on the '
streets. of Atchison, according to a
local chronicler, in “fashionable spring
gown and a. lovely bonnet.”
GEORGE GOULD is said to have aspira-
tions to represent Ocean cOunty, N. J .,
in the state senate, with a view to the
reversion of the seat in the United
States senate now held by James
Smith, Jr., the political agent and rep-
resentative of the sugar trust and vari-
ous protected monopolies.
LAZETTE
been elected to the United States ‘
Too Huck System.
“There is too much system in this ‘
school business,” growled Tommy.
“Just because I snickered a little the
monitor turned me over to the teacher,
the teacher turned me over to the
principal and the principal turned me
over to paw.” .
“Was that all?” '
“No. Paw turned me over his knee. "
—Indianapolis‘ Journal.
_ Mns. VVILLIAM MvEBs died near Dan- ‘
ville, Ky., recently. She had long
wished to have false teeth, and when
dying requested that the teeth be at-
tended to after death. Accordingly,
the family sent for a. dentist, and a set
of teeth was prepared after death.
Salt Rheum Case.
THOMAS WYAN'r, 365 Mon-
roe Street, Brcbklyn, N. Y.,
writes .
“ November 27, 1805.
“SALVA-CEA is the best friend I
have had for six years. Having been
a sufi‘e rcr for that length of time
with Sal t Rheum, and after trying
almost every remedy known, without
getting any re lief, I tried a. box of
SALVA-CEA, and can honestly say I
was cured before using the entire
box.”
In advertising SALVA- CEA
we mention nothing but facts.
We do not say it wi ‘1 do
things that it WI 1 not do, and
the public appreciate this.
It is the best remedy for
piles, ulcerations, o-ld sores,
skin irritation, c h 1 I bl a i n s,
colds, and nasal catar rh
Two sizes, 25 and 50 cents per box.
At druggists, or by mail.
For deep-seated [am and rlv veumatx'nn. of
tile/amt: use Salva-cea.‘ 'Eztra Strong."
Sold in tins, at 75 ant:- soak.
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with 'Meats, Fish
Vegetables and Gen-
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patronage ‘25:,
riDIIAIILES E. SDIIEIIDEIIJP
2| Wall Street.
WILLIAM S. KEMP,
Carpenter -:- and -:- Builder,
34- West Main ‘St.. Norwalk.
Mr. Kemp has been a carpenter and b
uilaez
31‘ Eogpgfla bflgll cghe past 25 saints, and refers to
:- 1 ings erecte under h' -
Vision as to workmanship. 13 super
Chilton Paint,
Every gallon of paint made by the
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
You
get an lhonest gallon. Give it a trial and
.you willt be convinced.
H. H. WILLIAMS
17 Main St.
“SPECIAL sALE
MILLINERY
SATURDAY AIID MONDAY, MAY? 9-“.
A Reduction of 25 per cent on all
Trimmed Hats and Bonnets. Ladies
desiring a nice Trimmed Hat forlittle
money, will do well to attend this sale.
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