Evening gazette, Thursday, May 21, 1896 · page 2

 

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If there is one thing more than
another which gratifies us, it is the

g1eat volume of l1ea1ty thanks which

come from grateful pa1ents for the
cu1es Hood’s Sa1flsapa1illa has effected
upon their child1en. The agony of
despair turns to. unspeakable joy as
mothers and fathers see dreadful sores
and eruptions g1adually yield to the
potent purifying power of this g1 eat
medicine, and bright boys and girls
given perfect health. Read this:

31 “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

AS
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
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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

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AN . M. as INFATUATION.

A DOMESTIC DIFFERENCE.

The general impression ameng Jim
Percival’s friends was that he might
have done a good deal better for him-
self than he did in his matrimonial
venture.

An M. P, with a safe seat and de-
cided abilities, young, good-looking,
well connected, but having only a
limited income, he was just the man
who should have married money,.and
this is exactly what he had not done.
He met his wife in Paris during a holi-
day trip. She was a pretty, viva-
cious Irish woman, lad’y- -like and at-
tractive, but she had no fortune, and
was of no particular family. The M.
P. s friends shook their heads over the
match, and all felt convinced that be-
fore long he would find out what a
mistake he had made.

There could be no doubt that under
the circumstances his marriage was an
imprudent one. With his eight hun-
dred pounds a year Percival had
subsisted comfortably enough as a.
bachelor, but as a married M. P. he
found that his income went simply no
way at all. To cut himself off from so-
ciety and to live with his wife in econom-
ical seclusion was, of course, out of the
question. It would have made him un-
popular with his constituents, as well
as with certain influential friends in
town, to whose good oflices he looked
for securing some post in the govern-
ment when his party came back to
power. And as he had no profession,
buthad launched himself for good or

 

in upon a parliamentary career, it

would have been madness in him to
prejudice his chances of political pre-
ferment. .

The natural consequence followed.
Percival got into debt. He consoled
himself first of all for outrunning the
constable by the consideration that his
party must soon return to power, and
then he should be able to recoup his
present expenditure. But the radicals
remained “in” session after session;
the looked-for general election came
no nearer, and Percival beganto feel
very lugubrious indeed. He' already
owed nearly one thousand pounds
——a crushing liability to a man with
a. small income and no capital; in-
deed, he did not attempt to disguise
from himself that unless something
very unexpected turned up he must
soon be hopelessly insolvent. His wife
had long been urging immediate and
rigid retrenchment, but each time she
mentioned it Pe1cival shook his head.

The house was in committee on a
bill which was being fought tooth and

nail by the opposition, and urgent
whips had been issued to the members
of both parties to be as frequently as
But there
were many dreary intervals of debate,
when no big division was imminent,
tand during those intervals Percival did
not always remain in the precincts of
the house.

He might no doubt have spent them
at home or in escorting his wife to one
or other of the numerous social func-
tions which, for his sake, she so re-
ligiously attended. But in his worried
state of .mind the dullness of a domes-
tic evening ,or the yet deadlier bore-
dom of a apolitical conversazione, was
uninviting. He preferred to forget his
troubles in more enlivening scenes.
Within a mile of the Palace of West-
minister there is, as all the world
knows, a famous theater of varieties.
It is under unexceptionable manage-
ment; it puts forward the strongest
and most enterprising programme of
the kind in London. One evening dur-
ing a particularly drowsy debate a fel-
low M. P. had suggested to Percival
that they should run across to the X.
and see the Rainbow danseuse. Perci-
val had complied. After that night
he went to see her pretty regularly.

Just before the dance the stage was
darkened; behind loomed abackground
of murky clouds, gloomy as the sky
before an impending thunderstorm;
then a brilliant blaze of sunlight burst
upon the shadowed scene, and whirl-
ing wildly in its dazzling rays ap-
peared the famous Rainbow danseuse
What a sight that was! How dexter-
ously she managed her mass of gor—
geous draperies, which floated all about
her, and swirled and spun like a. re-
volving wheel. At times nothing but
the flashing hues of these robes was
visible; at other times a lovely face,
crowned with golden yellow locks,
stood out among them, radiant, spirit-
ual, superb-and then, while this en-
trancing apparition smiled and the
audience c zipped and shouted, rum-
blings oft11under rolled upon the air;
clouds overcast the sunlight; and,
amid their gathering gloom, the Rain-
bow goddess faded slowly from the
scene.

If it had ended with his merely ad-
miring this ravishing beauty from a
distance, all might have been well.
But such infatuation as Percival’s was
not satisfied to confine itself within
those modest limits. A strong-desire
came over him to make her personal
acquaintance. He ought, of course, to
have withstood it. It should have been
perfectly obvious to him that, in giv-
ing way to his desire, he was volun-
tarily thrusting himself into the path
of danger.

But he gave way, nevertheless. He
went farther. He actually addressed
one or two letters to the young lady.
To his great chagrin she sent him no
reply. At last, in desperation, he pro-
cured an introduction to the manager
of the X. ., and besought that gentle-
man’s aid in his foolish and culpable
project.

“J ust so,” said the manager, rather
coldly. “Well, Mr. Percival, I will
communicate your wish to the young
lady, and will then let you know her
reply. I cannot hold out hopes that it
will be favorable, for a number of oth-
er gentlemen have desired introduc-
tion to her. and have all been refused.
You see, she is a simple, modest girl,
who” 15 merely using her talent to sup-
port her family, and has no desire for
a circle of male admirers. However,
as I said, I will tell her that you wish
to be introduced.”

The following night when he ought

 

By Jove! I was a dufl'er.

to have bee‘11' 1n his place' 1n the house,
listening to the ministerial leader’s
statement, he was hovering near the
stage door of the X. He had made up
his mind to follow his goddess home,
and so find out her private address.

Percival had a cab waiting for him
at the corner. He noticed another cab
drawn up opposite the stage door, He
strolled up and accosted the driver.

“You’re a lucky man to have such a
charming fare,” said Percival care-
lessly.

“00 said I ’ad a charmin’ fare?” re-
torted the man, suspiciously. Then
he added: “If that’s your sort, young
feller, you may save yourself the
trouble of doin’ the civil to me. For
she’s a thoroughly good young ’ooman,
I can tell yer, and won’t stand no fol-
lowers foolin’ around—not she!”

Percival affected, to laugh and
strolled away. In a few minutes he
saw the girl hurry out and get into her
cab. Then he jumped into his own-—
having instructed the driver to follow
the other vehicle and keep it carefully
in sight. ‘

When they had driven about a mile
his cab stopped. The M. P. got out.
He saw the young lady alighting from
her cab about a hundred yards ahead.
She turned and walked rapidly away.
With a beating heart and trembling-
steps, he followed her, keeping an in-
terval of seventy or eighty yards be—1
tween them.

She had not alighted at her own
door, but at the end of a street of pri-
vate houses, down which she was now
walking. Percival realized with a
certain thrill of uneasiness that it was
P— street, the street in which his
own house was situated. But something
worse was in store. The. young lady
stopped, appeared to be carefully scru-
tinizing the numbers, then, after some
evident hesitation, she walked straight
up to the door of Percival’s house and
rang the belL ' A minute later she was
admitted.

All at once the truth flashed upon
the unhappy M. P. There could, of
course, be no doubt upon the subject.q
This young lady, annoyed and fright-
ened by his persistent attentions, and
seeing that silent disdain had no ef:

’ feet in stopping them, had taken the

ready and eife ctive method of report:

'ing him to his wife!

Percival leaned against some iron
railings, near which he stood and
wiped his clammy forehead with his
handkerchief. His dismay was all
together beyond words. If he had.
been on bad terms with his wife—~if
love on either side had ceased between.
them ——if she had not been perfectly.
fond and trusting toward him he could
have stood the thing better. But as
it was he felt like a man who had sudi,
denly received a knock-down blowf,
His knees were trembling violently}?
a sense of sickness, of faintness, stole
ovefihim; in the face of this fearful ex-
posure his infatuation for the danseuse
seemed to die; for the first time he
seemed to realize what an abject idiot
he had been.

It was along time before he could.
make up his mind how to act. He
patrolled the street for more than half
an hour before he had decided—and a
bad half hour he found it. Then he
took a sudden resolution. He would,
go in and make a clean breast of the
whole affair to his wife. That, after"
all, was the most honest, and, proba-
bly, the most prudent course. She
might, or she might not believe him;
but he would tell her all the truth,
express his sincere penitence, and
throw himself upon her mercy.

He nerved himself to the effort. He
went in. He entered the drawing-
room. Hiswife was now alone. She
looked up at him with a cold, altered
expression, that made him wince. But
he persevered. He spoke. He'toldher
all. She averted her face, and heard!
his confession to the end in ominous
silence.

“And so, Jim, my make-up, my
golden wig, and my wedding draperies
—to say nothing of the shifting lights
and the shadows thrown upon one,
baffled even your penetration, eh, sir?”

Jim was staring at his pretty wife,
who had now risen and stood before
him, smiling archly, in evident enjoy-
ment of his obvious relief and astonish-
ment.

“And you fell in love with my make-
up. For that is what it comes to,
doesn’t it, Jim?”

“By Jove!” he exclaimed with em-
phasis, “that explains it. It was your
eyes that did it, little girl. They drew
me to the theater night after night to
worship you. I could not resist their
spell. I could not explain it to myself.
YetI felt there was something half
familiar in their magnetic influence
upon me. To think. I never guessed.
I ought to
have known that no such other eyes
were to be found in all England!”

' “or in all America, either?” ques-
tioned the Rainbow danseuse, playful-
ly. Jim’s explanation was, uncon-
sciously, the most diplomatic that he
could have devised. Those incompara-
ble eyes beamed upon him with tender-
ness and loving humor.

“But, I say,” asked Jim, an idea
striking him, “these social functions
which you have been attending so as-
siduously for the past few months—
have they been simple blinds to dupe

your unsuspicious husband—eh, Jen- '

nie?”
‘ N ot at all, sir. I went to them all.
But as my ‘turn’ at the theater lasted

only ten minutes or so, I was able to '

go there as well. Besides,” she added,
with the slightest tinge of playful re-
proach in her tone, “you have not been
at home enough lately to miss me very
much, have you, Jim?”

“By Jove!” he cried,I“I’ll turn over a
new leaf in that respect to-night.”

He went up, placed his arm round
his wife, and kissed her .fondly. She
leaned her head upon his shoulder and
held up a pink slip of paper to his
eyes.

“There! Dear old J iml” she exclaimed.
“Mr. Y———— has paid inc—what do
you think? Fifty pounds a week.
That is a check for ten weeks’ salary.
At this ' rate your Rainbow goddess
will soon dance you clear out of debt-—
wen’t she, Jim?”

And she soon did—London Truth.

 

 

’EAMINE ‘ III INDIA. " '1

Pressure of the People on the Soil and‘

the Labor Problem.

The scarcity in northern India is as-
suming a. threatening aspect. The sea~
son has not sufficiently advanced to
Warrant an estimate of the dimensions
to which the distress may attain, nor is

it yet possible to distinguish between , ,
well-founded ‘

alarmist rumors and
’ forecasts. A calculation brought by the
last mail puts the probable cost, of re-
lief in four districts alane' of the north:
west at 1,750,000 rupees, and the expend-
iture required to deal with the whole
threatened area .at- 5,000,000. Such
calculations lie for the moment be-
yond the range of criticism. But
they make us realize, what for
some years we have been- allowed to
forget, that widespread scarcity forms
a contingency with which the Indian

government must constantly prepare

to reckon. "'*' -~‘-'=~- .,

It is exactly 30 years ago since the
Bengal famine of 1866 rudely awak-
ened the British‘conscience to the dark-
er side of our progress in India. That
progress, whether gauged by the in-
crease of the people or the educational
influences which have been brought to
bear upon them, is one of the most won-
derful facts in the history of the world
during the present century. But it is
a triumph of British administration for

which the Indian peasant has at inter;

vals to pay a terrible price. We have
removed the old Asiatic check upon the
population by more rapid stages than
we have created the modern European
safeguards against the results of. its
accelerated growth. The ancient

checks upon the Indian population

were the sword, pestilence and famine.
The sword has ceased out of the land;
pestilence is encountered by a vast Sys-
tem of medical aid, famine is mitigated
by an equally vast system of relief.
But as famine,‘ in the appalling sense of
the word, has become rarer, partial
scarcities has grown more frequent.
Throughout large areas of India the
pressure of the people on the soil is
so intense that even a partial failure
of the crops means severe suffering
to millions, and serious failure pro-
duces a scarcity which taxes all the re-
sources of the government to prevent it
deepening into famine. —- London
Times. - i
Saratoga Biscuits.

Heat a pint of milk over the fire, and
when hot enough to melt butter re-
move, add butter the size of a walnut,
three well-beaten eggs, three teaspoon-
fuls of good yeast, a little salt, and flour
enough to make a soft dough. Let
them rise" in a warm place for two or,
three hours. Make up into small bis-
cuits or bun-shaped cakes, lay close to-
gether on a well-buttered tin, and bake
for 15 or 20 minutes in a quick oven. —-
N. Y. Ledger. .

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