ea
Worn out, nervous women, receive
criticism Where‘ they should have
sympathy. They cannot help being
nervous, if their blood is impure.
IVhen the blood fails to feed the
nerves upon proper nourishment what
can you expect but nelvous prostla-
tion, debility and nervous headaches?
If the cause is found' 1n impule blood
the cum must be in making the blood
pure. This is just what Hood’s Sarsa—
parilla .does, and it has proved the true
nerve tonic because it is the true blood
purifier, and the solace, comfort 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, which would last
for several minutes. Sometimes it would
seem 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
little, it wow cause me such misery that
I was often wicked enough to wish my-
self dead. I had that
‘ languid, all-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
MW W m‘
to try Hood’s Sarsaparilla and be benefited
by it. We have used Hood’s Pills' 1n our
family and find them very excellent, es-
pecially for constipation. We give Hood’s
medicines great praise, and if anyone
complains of feeling badly, I say ‘You
should take Hood’s and only Hood’s. ”’
Mus. KITTIE SMITH, 326 Dane Street, Wa-
terloo, Iowa. -
Remember that
Sarsaparil'la
Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. $1.
Prepared only by C. 1. Hood 8: Co., Lowell, Mass.
° . the best familycathartic
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35-10%. 5. P. 11.13 1.1.; liter stimulast- .250-
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NORWALK.
SO.D NORWALK
NEW YORK
. Prapallers
(uty of Norwalkf
Vulcan and Eagle.
Leave Norwalk at 5 p. 111,
Leave So. Norwalk at 6 p. 111.
Leave New York, Pier 23,
E. FL, Beekman St., 5 p} m,
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HERE’S 1111 (11111105.
A fine building lot on Wilton ave-s
nae If you intend to build, look at
this before purchasing.
Water, gas and sewer on the avenue.
Will be 30ch at a Bargain.
W. H. .BYINGTON,
Real Estate and Insurance,
Room]. GazetteB’l’d. , I
. was able to rescue your child. If you‘re
'three flights or rickety, filthy stairs.
MRS. PHELPS REVELATION.
BY CHA LES E. REED.
“Madam, I need help; won’t you give
me something?” The question was ad-
dressed to Mrs. Phelps, who had just
entered her carriage.
“No, I’ve no money" to waste on lazy
vagabondsl" was her sharp reply as
the carriage door slammed shut.
Mrs. Phelps, a. wealthy young widow,
prominent in fashionable society, was
in an unpleasant frame of mind. She
had just visited three of the largest
stores in the city in a. vain Search for
a certain costly fabric, and now felt
that she was an exceedingly unfortunate
and most ill-used individual. Present-
ly the carriage drew up before another
store, which Mrs. Phelps entered after
instructing her four-year-old ,son to
remain seated in the carriage until her
return. Mas ter Phelps was very obedi-
cut for about three minutes. Then his
attention was attracted by something
which appealed to him quite as strongly
as to a less aristocratic juvenile—the
antics of a monkey under charge of a
pcripatctic musician. Standing on tip-
toc, he laid his hands against the door,
which, having been accidentally
left unfasteued, yielded to the pressure
and partly opened; and in a very short
time the young gentleman was out of
the carriage and half-way across the
street. Then, in an instant, there was. a
hoarse cry of warning, a woman’s
shriek—and something grasped the boy,
swung him from right in front of a.
runaway team, and laid him, frightened
and screaming, in his mother’s arms.
After she had soothed the child and
put. him into the carriage, Mrs. Phelps
turned to the rather shabbily—dresscd
man to whose agility her son’s rescue
was due.
“You have saved my Arthur’s life!”
she. exclaimed. “Come to-morrow to
my residence and name your reward.
Meanwhile, take this;” and she handed
him a $20 gold piece.
But the man refused the. profiered
geld.
“Wl 11y should you reward a lazy vaga-
bond? That is what you called me a
bit. ago when I asked you for some-
thir. g,” be remarked.
Mrs. Phelps looked at. him closely
and recognized him.
“I 1111s Out of humor,” she explained.
“PL Idon 11l1at I said, and tell me how
I can assist y ou. " .
“Madam, you’ 1' e inv ited me to come to
your home. If y ou’d do me a. kindness,
come to mine instead."
Mrs. Phelps looked at him in amaze-
ment.
“I can hardly do that,” she said.
11 ould much rather—”
“As you‘plcase, madam. I‘m glad I
on“ .
“I
glad, I wish you’d visit my home. It
isn’t much to ask.”
“ That- is your name, and where do
you live?”
He said his name was James Thomp-
son, and named an obscure street as his
address.
“After I’ve taken my child home, I’ll
call and see you,” said Mrs. Phelps. ,
“I’ll be there by the time you are, ” he
responded.
An hour later Mrs. Phelps, accom-
panied by a trusty servant, having
driven into a narrow street, entered a
11' est uninv iting tenement, and ascended
was admitted to a small attic 100m,
ligl 1tcd by a single window. The floor
was carpetless. A cracked stove, an
old table, a large box which served as
11$ cupboard, a bed, and. two or three
broken-backed cha.irs,_1vere the only
furnitme. But though so ham and
cmfortless, the 100m 1v as clean. Upon
the scantily cov ered bed lay tw 0 persons
—a woman of perhaps 35 and a little
girl of about six—both evidently ill and
both sleeping uneasily.
“I asked you to come here because I
wanted you to see this,” said Thomp-
son in a low voice. “This”—with a
comprehensive wave of the hand—“is
my home. You see all my furniture—
cxcept what’s at the pawnshop. I have
no fire, and no fuel to make it with; no
food, and no money to buy it ,with. I
have a little medicine left by the doctor,
but none of the comforts needed by my
sick wife and child. This, madam, is
why I asked you for help this morning.”
Mrs. Phelps covered her face.
“How long have you been in this de-
plorable condition ?" asked Mrs. Phelps.
“To-day is the first I’ve had to beg,”
was the reply; “something I’d have
thrown myself into the river rather
than do if it.‘ 1: ; dn’t been for them. But
I couldn’t see them starve. I came to
the city five years and more ago,” he
added after a moment’s pause. “I had
bad luck, for work was dull. From hav-
ing a little‘house by ourselves, we were
obliged to move here, and then my wife,
,1 Phelps, half to herself.
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finished coats at from five tote'n cents
each, and make knee pants at 16 to 18
cents a. dozen pairs.”
, “Eighteen cents a. down pairs! You
don’ t mean that?”
“Yes, madam, I do. When Phelps &
Co. pay ten cents for making a. pair of
trousers which sells for five dollars, is
it any wonder that the firm prOSpers
exceedingly, and that your husband was
able to give away his thousands ?”
“This is a revelation to me,” said Mrs.
Phelps. “I'cann10t see how you man-
aged to exist at all.”
“It’s been a hard, hard stmggle,”-re-
plied Thompson. “With the aid of our
little girl—for she has been sewing ever
since she was four years old—11c were
occasionally able to earn a dollar in a
day; but. that was seldom. We had to
pay a. dollar and a quarter per week for
this room, and hardly ever 'had more
than four dollars a. week to feed, clothe
and warm the three of us. But. for the
last six months the child has been ill.
Ten days ago my wife took sick, and be-
cause of having to wait on. her and the
child I was able to do so little sewing
that the foreman got angry the other
day and refused to give me any more
work. Besides, we have been falling
behind with the: rent, and only yester-
day I received notice that if I don’t pay
up by the end of the week I and my sick
family must leave.”
“Outrageous! Who is your land-
lord?”
Thompson took a paper from his
pocket, and, remarking that it was his
last receipt, handed it to Mrs. Phelps,
who, after a single glance, started, and
then stood staring at it in open-mouthed
astonishment. For her own name was
affixed to the receipt!
“What!” she ejaculated, as soon as
she could find her voice. “This house——
mine?”
“So it seems.”
“This is my agent’s work,” said Mrs.
“And he would
have turned you into the. street! Hor-
rible!”
She opened her pocket and took out
some bills.
“Mr. Thompson” she said, “I thank
you- f01 insisting that I should come
here. You have opened my eyes to some
things I was blind to before. Take this
—it is only a very small part of the
heavy debt I owe you. Buy fuel, food,
clothing, furniture, medicines—what-
ever you and your sick family most re-
quire. Spend it freely, butpay no rent;
this room shall never cost. you another
cent. ” -
“God bless you me dame'” Thompson
exclaimed, his eyes filling with tears.
“I take your gifts now with a glad and
thankful heart. I felt sure that all you
needed was to see and understand. But,
oh, remember that thereare others in
this house almost. as badly off as you
fennd me.”
Upon reaching home Mrs. Phelps
went to her room and shut. herself in.
Her visit to James Thompson had in-
deed beenaa revelation to her. How had
she discharged the responsibility which
the possession of great wealth carries
with it? By lavishing money on
flowers, music, rich viands and the like,
when so many were lacking the DECCS-‘
series of life. And, most humiliating
thought of all, much of the very wealth
which she enjoyed had been earned
for her by those same starving poor.
Theirs it was—not hers—if justice were
done. In her humiliation she knelt and
offered what was, perhaps, the first. real
prayer that. had risen from her lips-
for along time; a. prayer in which she
craved pardon for the thoughtlessness,
selfishness and frivolity of the past,
and consecrated her wealth to the serv-
ice of Christ and of those concerning
whom He said: “Inasmuch as ye. have
done it unto one of the least of these
* * * ye have done it unto Me.”
A year has passed. James Thompson
with his wife and daughter, both of
whom have been restored to health, are
living in a neat, pleasant house, the
gift of Mrs. Phelps, through whose in-
strumentality Thompson has procured
lucrative employment. The year has
witnessed some other changes, too——
especially in the real estate o1vned by
Mrs. Phelps. Very promptly she called
upon her agent and gave that individual
some instructions which fairly took his.
breath away. She obtained from him
a list of all tenements owned by her,
and then set to work to systematically
visit each house and the families occu-
pying it. Such poverty, squalor and
degradation as she encountered! As
a result of this inspection, she ordered
a general reduction of the rents, a.
thorough cleaning of all the houses
and numerous repairs, . while some
crazy habitations she ordered to be de—
molished.
Phelps & Co. no longer on}. starvation
wages to their employcs Mls. Phelps"
' husband had bequeathed her a controll-
ing interest in the firm, and one day she
who was a good seamstress, succeeded
in getting men’s trousers to make at 18 '
cents a pair.”
“Eighteen cents a pair!” exclaimed
'Mrs. Phelps.
“Yes; but the price soon :fell to 15
cents, and as I was out of employment,
I helped with the sewing. By working
from early morning till late at night
, '11e managed to earn enoug 0:11 to pay our -‘
rent and buy sufficient food to keep us
from starving. But the rates ' went
dowu, down, down, to 13, to 12, even to ‘
ten cents a. pair.” 1
“What! . Ten cents for making a '
pair of trousers? Who is mean enough
to pay such wages as that?”
“The great clothing firm of Phelps &
Co., madam!”
’ “Phelps & 00.! Impossible!”
“The .firm, madam, of which your
husband was the head. I wonder if,
when he gave largely to some library,
church or hospital, he ever thought of
the poor wretches who toiled day and
night, summer and winter, with aching
eyes, weary fingers and hungry
stomachs, that the mill vvhich ground
out his money might turn him out a
good-sized grist! I can take 'you to
half a dozen families 1n this very house
startled the other partners by propos-
ing a'heavy increase in the rates paid:
for making up clothing. _'They de--
murrc 1-, .. nds said the tsuch an increase
would bankrupt the firm. But Mrs.
Phelps persisted in her demand, and
fine My induced the senior partner to
.tccomp any her to the abodes of some of
the people £1111le 1-ed b_1 the firm. They
be 11 “o‘. 1isitcd many places when he
said he hurl seen quite enough.
“How do you suppose the patronage
of Phelps .1: Co. would be affected,”
asked Mrs. Phelps, “if our customers
were aware that their new garments
had been lying a few hours before on
the dirty floor of a. tenement or on the
bed of a child sick with a contagious
disease?”
Being unable to answer this question
submitted to the inevitable. The wages
11 ere raised, and, far from becoming
bankrupt, the firm of Phelps &. Co. is
more prosperous than own. And Mrs.
Phelps today is a very cheerful, happy
woman—far happier than. when she
was a 'devotee at the altar of fashion.
For she knows that she has the smile
1 of Him to whom she has consecrated
not only her wealth and her time, but
herself. ——N Y. Observer.
who make trousers for Phelps & 00., at
.Asm-fim
the same prices, and who, like us, have .
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REV. WM. N.- SEARLIZS,
716 E. I78:h Street, writes:
“Tnxzraoxr, N. ’1’. Cirv,
May 13:11, 1895.
l
"I am glad to see you are pushing!
SAhV’A-CEA. ' l 1‘ 111011;. y of it.
fter having given it a thorough
trial for over a y.:';1‘.r',I am persuaded
that it comes nearest to. being a.
“ PANACEA," a. dc”. lghtful cure-all, of
anything of its kind List I have ever
known. I have come to believe that
you are 6.1572 modert' 1.1 you r claims of
:iA 1.5 excellencc.1’eriiy, it .5 the! oil
' of gladness.
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WM. N. SEAR‘EES‘.”
Svaa-CEA is un1vcrsally ‘
prm sod—people are finding out .
tla: t it does its work promptly; 1‘
that it is oer‘ertl 1r safe and that-
tdoes as it is ad rcrtiscd to do. ,
on 1': -:1'. ' depend upon it toglvo ,
immediate relief' 111 every case of -:
piles, and a cure in ninety cases ,
out of every hundrc It is a
positive cure for all skin irrita- ‘
tion and ch". :ing—colds—aud
nasal catarrh, especially the dry _
catarrh s'o prev.“ lent in this I
country. , 1
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Two sizes, 25 and gal/cents per box.
At druggists, or by mail.
For deep-:eatedjazn axe! rkeumatz'sm of
flu/cit): .1 use Sama- {mu “Extra Strang. "
Sold in tm: at" w tart: tacit.
T111: anaz'm Co., systems! St, N. Y.
)
J. D. Jennings.
UNDERTAKFR
1 Knight. street. opposite
Street Railway Depot
BE EL 41 OFFICE.
l" LIGHT PAPCEI. and
LUhKWflUl} 311’ CliAGE 11111111711111
cheap rates. Will also take orders for mes
cougar service in New York. Goods called
01 and delivered to alPl arts of the town,
urders received atE cod ’5 Drug Store
11 12111 Street. with telephone connection am
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57. E. LOCKW 00]).
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20’ WALL SIC, NORWALIL'E'
- U-ltPORATED SEPT. 1. 782’s;
nI’I'I‘AL. :— - - - - - 32681836
sun 113.301.1125. President.
. 1... Berna, Viced’resident.
WILLIAM A. (Juana. Cashier
DIPMRS :
1.111615 M. Honmns, H. E. Dans.
1:1. Cussmcnau. J. T. Pnowzrr'r
S. 11. Bonus
.1 . Cousms.fJa.
allseesnl Day, Saturdav.
E. E1. Born-n,
Having purchased
the Market ofiE. J.
’ WADHAMS, I have
WADI'IAHS
HAS-
SOLD
OUT.
jrestocked the same
with Meats, Fish
Vegetables and Gen-
ne.‘ goods, and- so-
licit 1 share of your
patronage.
annulus E. sclIEIlBElta-
2t Wall Street.
WILLIAM S. KEMP;
Carpenter -:- and -:- Builder,
34- West Main St. .. Norwalk.
Mr. Kemp has been a carpenter and 1builaez
in Norwala for the past” .3 years. and refers to
owners of buildings erected under his super-
vision as to workmanship.
Chilton Pant.
Every gallon of paint made- by the
Chilton Mfg. Company is mimd and
ground in pure Linseed Oil. hill shades
are mixed and ground by machinery
seven times, making them urgiform and
even. Compare the size of cans and
weight with the cheaper makes. You.
get an honest gallon. Give the, trial and
you will be convinced.
11. 11. WILLIAMS
1? Main St.
satisfactorily, both partners quietly -
. seecmL sALe
”OF—a...—
MILLINEkv
A Reduction of 25 per cent on all
Trimmed Hats and Bonnets Ladies
desiring a nice Trimmed Hat for little
money, will do well to attend this sale.
FAWCETT’S
‘PIEBGE.
'iGOLllMBllS,
HORSE“,
HIIIIMIHt.
311111111111 Allll Manon, 1m 9-11. .-
- Everything First class.-
is handsome, light, durable. Such grace of design as
is cmbodieé' m this “fast, easy—running,- much-talked-
about” mount can only be so cured Lv ".116 most
approved methods, finem matersal and 311:5..eziwork—
manship.
The ’96 Steams IS the: best bicycle :t' 173 possible to
produce. Finished at your option 111 mange or black.
Address now for beautiful new catalogue.
“the Yellow “fellow.”
E. c. STEARN‘SLé‘: 00., Makers. Syracuse; N‘. Y.
BUFFfiLO, N. Y SIN FRANCISCO; CAL. TORONTO; ONT.
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..R BULKLEY & CO., Agents, SOUTH NORWALK.
A WINNERM
The Reduction in Hartford Bicycles has proved a drawing card. Ladies,
Pattern No‘ 2,. is in great demand, and orders are being received right
along. Come in and examine it.
Columbia, standard price to all, $100.
11‘. F. s. Antler cycle 00., 29? Wall Sheet.
If you Don’t believe it, Come and See.
0 BICYCLES FDR $65.
Pallet":
B‘uiltlo SE" at
Top Price.
Full Guarantee.
Easy Tems.
WE ARE NOT IN THE COMBINE
For Terms and Lease of Norwatk Fair GrOupds,.app.ly 03!-
LUTHER M. WRIGHT,
carriage Factory and Repository,.firanklin‘> 81 Madison St», So. Malt.
Branch Shops at Broad River and Darisn.
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“ES,
LIGHT,
'“mh’lifl- 34"
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THE WHITE sum: sum:
Is stillzin the lead. ,We shall sell all' effour Ladies’
$2.00 and "$2.50 Tan,“ Lace and Button Shoes at
$ l .75 a pair.
About 300 pairs in this let. Come early. and. make:
your selections and get the greatest bargain in town...
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OLSEN BROS!
‘WHI-rn saon STORE
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GAZETTE annulus, NORWALK.
YOUR. FRIENDS ARE USING
PLIISTEDS can. ll REMEDY
AND RECOMMEND I'IS USE
Get a Battle at once. 25 and 50 Cents.
ALL DRUGGISTS . ' .
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PRIVATE
Instructions given 1n
BOXING
at the pupil’s home.
tin-You Know. .
That you can save money
by "buying your Meats
and Fish at _
F. W. SITITII’S, - _ .
55141111 $11.11..
CbASS ,_
New farming, and ap4
plicants desiring to
.join should apply at
once to
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Non‘wa Li: .
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Prof. Geo. Yoerger,‘ I
Norwalk Chronicler