I t c h i 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
upon their children. The agony of
despair turns to unspeakable joy as
mothers and fathers see dreadful sores
and eruptions gradually yield to the
potent purifying power of this great
medicine, and bright boys and girls
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.
On'e 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 rwhali it} has done for my
W 7i: a," W”.
st
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
Hordb
.» Sarsaparilla
Is the One True'Blood Purifier. All druggists. .31.
Be sure to get Hood’s and only Hood’s. It is
prepared only by C. I. Hood 8; 00., Lowell, Mass.
cure all Liver Ills and
HOOCI’S PIIIS SickHeadache. ascents.
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A fine building lot on Wilton ave-
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this before purchasinm.
Water, gas and sewer on the avenue.
Will be sold at a Bargain.
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5 : Room I,..¢azéttefB'.I’d." 11, . »
LYDIA WHEELOCK.
BY DIARY E. WILKINS.
We all agree that Lydia Wheelock is
v’erys plain looking, but that , she is
very good. Shewas never handsome,
even as a. girl. She never had any youth—
ful bloom, and her figure was always
as clumsy and awkward as it is now.
I’oor Lydia, wit-h her round shoulders
and her high hips, always moved heav-
ily among the light-tripping maids of
her own age. Seen from behind, her
broad, matronly buck made her look
old enough to be the mother of them
all. Bright and delicate girlish rib-
bons Vand muslins, which set off their
happy, youthful, flower-like faces, made
poor Lydia’s dull, thick 'cheeks look
duller and thicker and heavier.
Some women, as plain-visaged as
Lydia, seeing themselves, as it were,
like dingy barnyard fowls among
locks of splendid snowy doves and hume-
ming birds, might have deliberately
tried to cultivate loving kindness and
sweet obligingness of manner as an
offset. But Lydia was not brilliant
enough for that, neither had she such
personal ambition. It is doubtful if
she had ever looked in the glass much,
except to ascertain if her face was clean
and her hair smooth, and if her lack of
comeliness ever cost her an anxious
hour.
As a child at school Lydia. never whis-
pered, was never tardy, seldom failed in
her lessons, and never teased away an-
other girl’s candy. Besides, her mother
always vouched for the fact hat she was
as good as a young and tender infant,
and consequently seemed to have been
actually born good.
“Lyddy never cried, except when she
was real sick,” her mother used to say.
( She lived to be a very old woman, and
harped upon her good daughter as if
she were the favorite string of her
whole life.) “Never knowed her to cry
because she was mad, as the other chil-
dren did. Lyddy allers took her nap
regular an’ slept all night without
fussin’. An’ she never banged her head
on the floor. ’cause she couldn’t have her
own way“. She tillers give inseal pleas
ant and smilin’.” “Manx .
What was true of Lydia as ababy has
undoubtedly been true of her ever since
-—she has “allers give in real pleasant
an’ smilin’.” There may be some peo-.
ple who would urge the plea that Lydia
had an easy temperament, and not nat-
urally such a firm clutch upon her de~
sires that it is agony to relinquish them.
But if all the ways that Lydia has pa-
tiently and smilingly accepted have
been her own ways, she must, even if
her temperament had been ever so stolid,
have had peculia-rltastes and likings.
Sometimes it would have been almost
like a. relish for the scalping-knife or
the branding-iron. If Lydia has not,
metaphorically speaking, many times
during .her life banged her head upon
the floor, it has not been for lack of
proper temptation. She has had from
an y human standpoint a hard life. Her
father died when she was a young girl.
She had to leave school and go about
helping the neighbors with sewing and
cleaning and extra household tasks
when they had company,‘to earn a pit-
tance for the support of. herself and
her mother. Lydia’s mother, although
she lived to be so old, was always a
feeble woman, crippled with rheu-
matism. '
Lydia lived patiently and laboriously,
earning just enough to keep her mother
comfortably and herself uncomfort-
ably alive, and that was all. She had
one good meal a day when she was
working at a neighbor’s. Often we
know that was all she had, although
she never said so and never complained.
Her mother never went without her
three meals a day and her warm flan-
nels, when the dread of Lydia’s life was
that she might faint away some day at
a neighbor’s from lack of proper 'nour-
ishment, and the state of her attire in
midwinter be discovered. She con-
fessed her great dread to somebody
once, after she was married.
When Lydia was about 30 she sud-‘
denly got married, to the surprise of the
whole “village. Nobody had dreamed
she would ever marry. She was so
plain and so poor, and seemed years
older than she was—old enough to be
her own grand mother, as Mrs. Harrison
White said. She married a man who
had paid some attention to Mrs. Harri-
son White when she was a girl, and
she was popularly supposed to favor
him, but her parents objected, so she
married Harrison White instead.
Elisha WheClOck, the man Lydia mar-
ried, all the neighbors brad called “a
poor tool.” He was good-looking and
good-hearted, but seemed to have lit-
tle ambition and little taste for indus-
try. Moreover, everybody said he
drank. Lurinda Snell said she had
seen him when he could scarcely walk,
and many others agreed with her. Al-
though the village was surprised the
village gave a sort of negative approval
of the banns. Everybody agreed that
a man likeWheelock couldn’t hope to do
any better. No pretty girl with a good
home would forsake it for him, and as
only chance, and she could never hope
to do any better either. Moreover,
father had just died and left it to him,
.with quite a good-sized farm; and it
was said positively that Lydia’s mother
was to live there. “Lydia‘s got a good
home for herself and her mother if
’Lisha~ don’t drink it up.” people said.
Some thought he would. Everybody
watched to see the old homestead and
the fertile acnes transformed into fiery
draughts going down Elisha’s throat,
but they never did.
Lydia. has had her way in one respect,
if not in others,and that one may suffice
for much. She has certainly had her
way with Elisha Wheelock and made a
0 man of him. Not a. drop has he drank,
so far as peeple know—and all the
neighbors have watched—in all the
years since ’ he married Lydia. He
has worked steadily on his farm, he
does not owe a dollar, and he is said to
for Lydia, it was probably her first and ,
Elisha owned a comfortable houseéhis I
have a nice little sum in. the savings
bank. Moreover, he is a deacon of the
church, and on the. school committee. '
Some of the neighbors say openly
that Elisha would never haVe been
deacon if it had not been for his wife;
that Lydia ought to have been deacon,
and since she could not, because she
- was a woman, they made her one by
proxy through her husband. Elisha
is a. good deacon—a very good deacon.
indeed—and he has Lydia. to fully and
carefully advise him.
Lydia has never had any children, but.
she has always had ala-rge family. She
began with her own mother and her
husband’s mother, and. a little orphan
second cousin of her husband’s: who
had lived with the Wheelocks since her
parents died. Her own mother, as I
said before, was very feeble and a deal
of care; her husband’s mother had a
jealous, irritable disposition and was
very difficult to live with; the. orphan
cousin was delicate, had the rickets,
and, people said, none too clear a. mind.
Lydia. kept no servant, and she had to
work hard to keep her house in order,
sewnnd mend, build up her husband’s
character, and reconcile all the Oppo-
site dispositions and requirements of
her family. She has had to delve in a
spiritual as well as temporal field, and
employ heart and soul and hands at
the same time. ever since she was
married. After her mother died an
old aunt of Elisha’s, who would other—
wise have had to go upon the town,
came to live with them. She is stone~
dent and has a curiously inquiring
mind, but it is said that Lydia never
loses her patience and never wearies of
shouting the most useless information
into her straining ears.
It was accounted somewhat fortunate
that Elishu’s mother did not live long
after Aunt Inez appeared, for it would
have been, not too great a strain upon
Lydia’s patience—nobody doubts the
long-suffering of that—but for her-
strength, to reconcile two such charac-
ters and keep the peace for any length
of time. However, Elisha’s mother had
not been dead long before a sister of the
rickety orphan cousin, who grows
more and more of a charge as the years
go on, lost her husband and. came. to
live at the W'heelock place with - her
four children. They said she would be
a great help to Lydia, but she is aprctty
young thing, in spite of her four chil-
dren; she is a. good singer, and she is
constant at all the sociables and sing-
ing-schools, and does a. deal of fancy—
work, and the neighbors think Lydia
has to take nearly all the care of the
phildren. They also think that the
young widow is setting her cap here
and there, and hOpe she may marry and
so relieve poor Lydia of herself and her
children. But, after all, it would be
only a temporary relief. Some other
widow, or orphan, or aged and infirm
aunt, Would descend upon her, for it is
well known that it is Lydia who aids
and abets her husband in. his charity
toward his needy relations. - And,
moreover, it is told how she lets the
children and the additional expenses be
as small a source of worry to him as
possible. Some of the neighbors think
that if Lydia Wheelock stints herself
much more, to provide for widows and.
orphans, she cannot go to meeting for
lack of simply decent covering. Lurinda
Snell is positive that she keeps her
shawl on in hot weather to c0ver up her
sleeves, which are past mending in any
decorous fashion, and simply make a
show. of their innumerable and not
very harmonious patches. And as for
her bonnets, it is actually, an insult to
look attentively at them.
Poor Lydia. has not had a new carpet
in her sitting-room since she was mar-
ried. The one Elisha’s mother had was
old then, and. long ago went to the rag
man. Ever since she has lived on the
bare boards. It is a dreadful thing in
this village not to have a carpet in the
sitting-room. The neighbors have
never got over being shocked. at the
loud taps of their shoes on the bare
boards when they enter Lydia’s. She
had a rag carpet almost done, they
say, when Lottie Green and her children
came; since then she had no time nor
opportunity to finish it.
But everybody knew that if Lydia
and Elisha did not do much for other
people she could have a tapestry car-
pet in her sitting-room, and a black silk
dress every year. She sees to it, howev-
er, that Elisha is not stinted to his dis-
comfort. He has his good Sunday
clothes, and looks as well as any man
in the village.
Lydia is a good cook, and is said to
simply pamper her husband’s appetite,
and takes more pains to do so the more
she has in her family. We are all very
sure that Lydia never neglect-s her hus-
band for his needy relations, nor re-
laxes for an instant her watchful eye
upon his spiritual and temporal needs.
,Miss Lurinda Snell declares the t she has
built up a fire in the north parlor every
evening this winter that Elisha may
sit in there and read his paper, and not
be annoyed by Lottie Green’s children.
They are very noisy, boisterous chil-
dren.
Lydia. Wheelock, busy as she is with
‘ her own household cares, does pot con-
:fine he-r ministrations to them. If a
’neighbor is ill Lydia is always ready
3
’to watch with her, and a most
l but would rather have Lydia than any-
' body else over her when she is ill.
' Lydia is always in the house of
mourning; people claim her sympathy
as if it were their right, andshe seems
to recognize her obligation toward all
sufi'ering without question. She is also
always ready wit-h her aid on occasions
of rejoicings, at wedding feasts, as well
as funerals. , She cOmes to the front
with her kindly sympathy when the ex-
igencies of human life arise.
We look across at~themeeting~house
on a Sunday and see Lydia sitting lis-
tening to the sermon, her plain faceup-v
lifted with the expression of a saint,
under. that bonnet which we avoid
glancing. at for love of her, and our
'Woman in our
Journal.
village.—Ladies’
"run9EVENIao,qunrrnT
Silva-tea is a Perfectly Safe Remedy it llse.
a.
REPORT B‘s; THE DISTINGUISXIED‘ CHEMIST,
PROP. HENRY A. Milli", PH.D.. LLJIL, £10..
Fellow of the London Chemical Society,
Member of the American Chemical Socraty,
Chemist of the Medico-Legal Socic! .
Author of numerous scientific works on bed,
Ventilation. Chemistry, etc.
“ Naw Your, October 22, "1895.
“ Pursuant to request I have car
amined the preparation known as
SALVA-CEA and {and the same to be
composed of pcrlectlv harml::ss and
efficient medicinal constituents, prim--
cipally of vegetable origin. Chemical .
analysis demonstrates the entire
absence of any metallic. poison, such
as lead, mercury, arsenic, copper.
etc., or their salts, as also the entire
absence of any alkaloid; such as
morphine (opium), strychn‘ine, etc.
“ It is not the office of the chemist
to point out'the medicinal applica-
bility of any preparation, stilli, know-
ing the nature of the constituent
elements which compose SALva-CEA,
I can say that the properties o‘t the:
same are so well defined that I am
justified in saying it should accom-
plish the work for which it is
recommended.
” I have the honor to sign myselil, ,
Yours respectfully, .
1-11:an A. Mo‘rr, PH.D., LL.D.”' .
SALVA-CEA is a positive remedy .
for piles, colds—aspeciaily cold in
the head—all skin irritations and
chafings. It is antiseptic and ano-
dyne. .
Two sizes. 13 and suiccms per box.
A: druggists. or by mail.
For q’erfuatedfat'n andr/zeumdfz'sm aft/r:
Joust: use Salve-(ea. "Extra Strong."
Sold in tin; at 75 centreach.
THE Banners-m C'o.. 274. Canal Sc. N. Y.
J. D. Jennings.
UN DERTAKF R
1 Knight street. opposite
Street Railway Denor.
BE L13 AI OFFICE.
I ! LIGHT PARCEL and
LULKWDDDS PACKAGE DELIVERY
Cheap rates, W111 also take orders for mes
uuuger service In New Stork. Goods called
0. and dehyercri to all arts of the town,
orders received atE P. eed’s Drug: Store.
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BENTRAL NATIONAL BANK
.26 WALL 812, NOR IVA-LEI
ORPORATED SEPT. 1. 19176.
Afl'l‘AL. :' ' ' ' " . $100ch
nus M. HOLMES. President.
. L. BOYEB, Vice-President.
WILLIAM A. Guerra Cashier
DIRECTORS :
mien M. HOLMES, H. E. DANE,
h. CUNNINGHAM. J. T. Pnowrrr
1!. L. BOYEB. S. H. HOLME
J . Cousr-NSJE.
ulseounl llay. Salurrlav-
T >
Having purchased
the Market ofiE. J.
WADHAMS, I have
WADIIMIS
HIS
SOLD
OUT-
restocked the same
with Meats,‘ Fish
Vegetables and Can-
ned goods, and so.
licit’ a share of your
patronage
2: 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 suDer-
visron as to workmanship.
Chilton~ Paint,
Every gallon of paint made by the
Chilton Mfg. Company is mixed and
ground in pure Linseed Oil. Ail 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. ‘
H. H. WILLIAMS
17 Main St.
hearts are full of gratitude for this good -
Home, .
SPECIAL SALE
‘MILLINERY
SATURDAY AIID MONDAY, MAY 9-II.
invaluable nurse she is. Not a neighbor -
A Reduction of 25 per cent on all
Trimmed. Hats and Bonnets. Ladies
money, will do well to attend this sale,
IFAI‘NCETT’S .
AIDIIIIILES E. SDIIEDBEIIJF
desiring a nice Trimmed Hat for little.
» is handsome, light, durab 2‘.
about” mount can only
manship.
The ’96- Steam is the
produce. Finished at your
BUFFALO, N. Y.
approved methods, finest material and skilled
Address ,now for beautiful new catalogue.
_ “the renew Selim.” ’ '
E. C. STEARNS- 6: C0., Makers. Syracfise. N. ill.
SAN Framersco, CAL. V
saute.
Such gracefef design as
is embodied in this “ fast, easy-running, snatch-talked-
be seemed by the " most
work-
best bicycle: it is possible to
' option in Change or black.
H. R. BULKLEY & 00., Agents, SOUTH NORWALK.
3,1896 Hartford B
Patterns Fibs. land
5‘ 3 fl
5 “‘
rcycles “”"fiffllcs.
2,. from $80 to $65
4,. “ 60 to 50'
6“,. 50 to 4353
This is the best value for the money offered in the medium grade machines.
The r. s. Ambler cycle-2 (In... 29 Wall Street.
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rquI,
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$ I ,75 a pair.
OLSEN
About 300 pairs in this let.
your selections and get the greatest bargain in town:
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Top Price.
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. ‘ LUTHER - M. WRIGHT,
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:1 River and Darlen.
STDRE
Is still in the lead. We shall sell all of our Ladies’
$2.00 and $2.50 Tan, Lace and Button Shoes at
Come early and make
BROS.’
WHITE SHOE STORE
'3 GAZETTE BUILDING, NORWALK.
ALL DRUGGISTS. '
<
DD YDII KIIDW .
' That you can save money
by buying your Meats
and Fish at
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55 laln Street.
Everything First Class, #-
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AND RECOMMEND I’IS USE
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