iWeak
Worn Out, nervous women, receive
criticism where» they , should have
sympathy. They, cannot help being
nervous, if their; blood is impure.
When the blood fails i, to. feed the
nerves upon proper nourishment what
can'you expect but nervous prostra-
tion, debility and nervous headaches?
’-\ If the cause is found in impure blood,
the cure must be in making the blood
pure. This is just what Hood’s Sal-sa-
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 wastreated by the best physi-
,cians, but only for a little time did they
ihelp me. I seemed to be growing worse
‘instead of better. I would often seem
hungry, but when I ate, no matter how
little, it would cause me such misery that
I was often wicked enough to wish my-
self dead. I had that
aired
Ianguid, all-gone feeling and suffered aw-
ful distress in my stomach. I had given
up all hopes of ever being ell, 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 '
wo men
. 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-
pemally for constipation. We give Hood’s
medicmes great praise, and if anyone
complains of feeling badly, I say ‘You
should take Hood’s and only Hood’s.”’
MRS. KrrrIE SMITH, 326 Dane Street, Wa-
terloo, Iowa. ' Remember that
Sarsaparilla
' wind. “I can hardly believe you.” And
. “Imam
Y EST E R DAY.
Why should ye troop
About my way.
Ohl pallid ghosts
Of yesterday?
Why wake me
From my fitfui sleep.
To think of sorrows .
. Past, though deep? ,'
Shine. brightly shine.
. , Fair morning sun,
”‘5 And gild my darkness
As I run. .-
Bloom. sweetly bloom, .
Ye flowers of May,
, Above the graves
0f yesterday.
We will not waste
Lifeis precious time.
In chanting sorrow's ,_
Mournful rhyme: t
But, as we watch. ‘
And as we pray.
We’ll heed the lesson
Of to-day.
-—Mrs. M. A. Kidder, in N. Y. Weekly.
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APICKANINNY PREACHER
Wonderful Doings of a. Little
Negro Girl Evangelist.
A
A South Carolina Squire’s Story of the
Child Who Is Preaching the Gospel
w'th Such l’ower to Black
and White.
About a dozen prominent members
of the southern colony in, New York
not in the lobby of a. down-town hotel
the other evening to talk over old
times with a genuine Old South Caro-
lina “squire," who is spending a few
days in the city. says the New York
Sun. This gentleman of the old school
acquired the title of squire in the old
days, when it was a little above that
of “judge." and far above that of
“colonel,”‘as a mark of popularity and
dignity, and he wears it gracefully
still.
“Squire, suppose we all take some-
thing,” suggested the big- colonel from
Kentucky.
“I can’t do it, boys,” responded the
squire, anda far-away look came into
his kindly eyes. “You see, I’ve stopped."
“Wh-e-w,” whistled the colonel, with
a. long-drawn-out sound like a fall
every man in the party looked as if he
was thinking the same thing, but none
made any comment. “m-
”llow did such a misfortune come
upon you?" finally ventured a Virgin-
ian, after the first great wave of sur-
prise had subsided, for they all knew
that for nearly forty years the squire
had taken his toddy three times daily
"V:-
after meals to aid his digestion.
“Well, boys, it was this way." he
said. “The little nigger girl, preacher
converted me. and I’ve dropped a good
many of my old ways, such as cussin‘,
swearin', and drinkin’. I reckon you
maybe all read that little editorial
about her in the Sunday’s Sun suggest-
ing that she should come to New York
and preach in Madison Square garden.
Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. s1. ,
Prepared only by C. I. Hood 6; Co., Lowell, Mass.
{food’s Pills
the best familycathartic
and liver stimulant. 25c.
DAILY FREIGHT LINE
BETWEEN
NORWALK.
so. NORWALK
AND
NEW YORK. _
Propellers
Uity of Norwalk,
Vulcan and Eagle.
Leave N orwalk at 5 p. m.
Leave 80. Norwalk at 6 p. m.
Leave New York, Pier 23,
E. FL, Beekmau St., 5 pi’; m,
HERE’S YOUR CHANGE.
A fine building lot on Wilton ave-
nue. If you intend to build, look at
this before purchasing.
Water, gas and sewer on the avenue.
Will be sold at a Bargain.
l! W. H. BYINGTON,
I RealEslaie and Insurance,
would influence a man of your com-
mon sense, squire?” spoke up the oldv
past history. which is a very short one,
as she is only nine years old,” com-
menced the squire, as he tools a long
draw at a corn-cob pipe, “but she was
daddy was a preacher. and died; three
‘I’d been hearing and reading a good
Well, all I’ve got to say is, if she-comes
you must all go to hear her, and if her
sermon don’t touch your hearts more
than all the Parkhurstian bombs and
Talmagic Roman candles that you’ve
listened to since you moved to this dis-
trict, then I’ll go back to my wicked
Ways.” .
'“Who’d ever have thought that what
a durned little pickan-inny had to say
est man in the crowd. testily. "I
wouldn‘t have believed it of you. What
manner of child is she, anyway, and.
where did she come from?"
“I don't know a great deal about her
born near Washington, somewhere in
Virginia, I think, in the fall of ’85. Her
or four years ago. This child, whose
full name is Claretta N ora Avery, has
always eagerly attended religious serv-
ces and taken a great interest in the
spiritual welfare of her.people.. She
says that the love of God entered: her
heart when she was a year and a. half
old, and has never left it, but of course
you all won’t believe that, for' no
genuine darky has any idea of time.
deal about her. and not believing much,
and when business carried me to a.
small town in the lower part of the
state, where she was holding a meet-
ing, I decided to go around to the
church to hear her. It was quite late,
and I got there just in time to catch
the last sentence of her sermon.
“I’m going to stay in the field here
until I die, and when death comes,
some time, ”way over yonder, where
my Jesus is, I’ll live there too, singing
always that new song with Him in
glory.’
“Her voice had a mournful ring in it,
and the little creature made a. most
pathetic picture as her head bobbed up
from behind the pulpit and her great
eyes roved over the congregation in an
appealing way. She looked about her
wearily and sadly for a moment, but
soon a radiant light fell upon her face,
for her sermon had struck home, and
she knew it; the entire congregation
began to sing, and the queer part of it
all was, they began to sing the same
thing. Soon some began to chant,
while others cried aloud, moaning and
bewailing their sins. You talk about
your paid choirs. There isn’t enough
money in New York to buy such
music as I heard that night. The
voices were rich and full and sweet,
and a minor chord that touched one’s
very soul was the predominating
sound. .,
“Sermons and music have .a‘ most
electrifying effect upon a colored con-
gregation, and this one was soon
wrought up to the highest pitch of
religious excitement. Some of the
mo’ners prostrated themselves on their
faces, beating the bare floor with their
hands until they were worn out, when
they would lie in what is termed a
trance. Others crawled on their knees
to the pulpit. Many of them sat in the
Room I. Gazette B’l’d.
midst of this uproar and appeared
neither to see nor hear, so intent were
they in working out their own salva-
tion. In the meantime the old sisters,
I
‘T H E "E vs N
said, ‘for I got business with Capt.
Jesus.' I must ’tend to it. lmust go
on a long white robe, a starry crcwn.
silver slippers, and sit at my Master’s
feet.
hearted mothers.
Wicked fathers.
side those pearly gates. Are you? Are
you?
Learn it now. Now is the time.
over yonder may be too late for you."
and so on.
and each time she had a new sermon.
each one containing. a. sad strain.
clad in deepest black without.
slightest touch of color, that children-
love so well, or the faintest suggestion
of an ornament. .
manded she rebuked: thoughtless per~
sons for bad behavior in a few clear-
cut, kind sentences, and went right on .'
with her sermon.
ers: would only learn' that it isn’t these
staggering truths, which cannot be
grasped by the average mind, but a
doctrine of simple, earnest faith that
arouses people tOvbetter. living.
they never will,
cerity of the little nigger, and the
earnestness of her followers. that im-
pressed me, and, while. I. can’t say that
she converted me, she certainly set me
to thinking, and ~I concludedto leave
off doing certain things.
couldn’t make up my mind what to
buy her.
scarcely write at 3.11,. but somehow
she didn’t seem like a child. that would
care for toys.
desperation, I settled on. a large wax
doll with highly colored. cheeks and a
mass of yellow hair.
have seen her antics of delight when
she found that it was all her own. She
.clasped. it to her as if she would never
let it go, and then she told.me that she
used always to preach sermons to her
dolls, and that the people who over-
heard her persuaded her to preach to
people,. which was the very thing she
had always longed to do. '
der, and: I tell you she is. Many white
people think her inspired, and the
blacks believe that she is. sent directly
from God as a warning, and that the
judgment day is coming soon.
1*.
who were sure of Heaven, kept on
singing to keep things going. The
leader that night was a regular old-
'time,-befo’-the-war mammy, and good-
ness fairly beamed from her counte-
nance.
“ ‘I bin 3 li-ar so long. so long— ,m
So long, so long;
Ibin a li-ar so long,‘
she chanted in a weird, pathetic voice,
and every person in the congregation
'who was able to lift his or her voice
chanted the r’efrain at the end of every
three lines: . -Mréeé.:;4;,3_;_ -.
“ ‘Gin me a little time ter pray.‘ ‘ ' "’7’“
“Every one was in motion. Some
swayed their bodies backward and for-
ward, some shufiied their feet in time
to the music, and the very happy ones
clapped their hands and shouted:
‘Glory, my Lawdl’ This kept,up for
hours. Several prostrate forms were
carried out, and a number were left in
the church, where they lay until next
day. When I got tired and went away
that night the little preacher, utterly
worn out, had curled herself up in a
splint-bottom chair, and was enjoying
the sleep of innocent childhood. I
could hardly sleep that night for think.-
ing about that meeting. I tell you,
boys, I was impressed.” ' .
“I always thought you were above
such superstition, squire." remarked
some one. as the squire stopped to refill
his pipe.
“Well. anyway, I went back the next
night,” resumed'the squire, “and for
the first time got a good view of the
little preacher. She is a perfect child
in looks and ways. Her complexion is
about the color of an old mustard
ground ginger cake. her teeth white
and even, the whites of her large,
mournful eyes prominent. and she
doesn’t weigh more than sixty or seven-
ty pounds. There were a lot of white
people in the congregation, but she
took no notice of them. Curiosity
prompted me to go to listen to her, but
interest held me there. She spoke
right out in the most earnest way, as
if her only thought was preaching the
Gospel. Her delivery and gestures
were easy, and. in fact, what she said
and the way she said lt beat nine—
tenths of the preachers—especially
these evangelists—white or black.
“She opened service with avery good
prayer, and read. or rather recited, a
chapter from the Bible, which did not
bear on the sermon in the least. Ber
one thought seems to be to prepare for
the Great Beyond. which she desig-
orders received at E. P.
\ .
Gun=Shot Wounds. :
Major E. A. Garlington was shot
through the aim at the battle of
"Wounded Knee,” December 29,
I890, the last fight between the
Indians and our troops. It is not
often that a regular army officer,
certifies to the value 'of a proprietary
remedy, but .this is what’ Major
Garlington says about SALVA-CEA:
” WASHINGTON, D. C.,
....-.. April 21, I895.
. "I have used SALVA-CEA for
soreness or rheumatic pains in the
muscles of my arm, which is dis-
abled from a gun-shot wound involv-
ing the elbow joint ;relief was quick
and complete.
E. A. GARLINGTON,
Major. and Inspector General,
U. S. A."
Not many people suffer
from gun-shot wounds, to be
sure, but lots of us do suffer
from piles, local skin irrita-
tion, chafings, colds and nasal
catarrh, and SALVA-CEA is
just as efiicacious in all off
these as in gun-shot wounds.
Two sizes :5 and' 5° cams per box.
At druggists. or by mail.
for afetp-uated air: and riztumafism of
the Jami: use Sa Warfea, “ Extra Strong."
5014’ in tin: at 75 cent: tar/t.
Tm: BRANDRETB Co., 274 Canal Street, N. Y.
J. D. Jennings.
UNDERTAKER
; Knight street. opposite
Street Railway Depot
BELL AI OFFICE.
and '
LUUKWDDD’ "’tifiEEGEPAt‘EEivEM
Cheaprates, Will also take orders for mes
hunger serv1ce in
York. Goods called
arts of the town,
_ Veed’s Drug Store.
Wall Street. With telephone connection un.
m' o. E LOCKWOOD.
New
01 and delivered to all
nates as ‘wav over yonder.’ She talks
about the hereafter in a. most pathetic
way, and i remember on that particu-
lar night her text was: ‘Business in
Heaven.‘
" 'I'll'meet you there, sinner.’ she
where partin’ is no mo'.
1' got to put,
I'll meet you over yonder, wry
I’ll meet you there,
I’m going to get in-‘i
UENTRAL NATIONAL BANK,
20' WALL ST., N 0RWALK."
URPORALTED SEPT. 1. 1876.
AYITAL. ‘ ' ' ‘ " . $100IW
nun M. HOLMES. President.
. 1... Berna. Vice-President.
Wraman A. Camus. Cashier
DIRECTORS 5
over yonder, for we all got to cross “91,31, Honmss. H.E.DANN,
Jordan stream dry ShOd and 8° 0“" L. CUNNINGHAM, J.T.Pnowrrr
yonder. I’ll meet you there, sad- 3:. L. Berna, S. H. Homu:
J. Consms.2Jn.
illscuunl flay, Saluniav-
Sinner, you must get right.
Way
Night after night I went,
“She made a pathetic figure, always
the
When occasion de- ;-
If. the Gospel grind-
But
Now it. was the sin-
“I wanted to give her'something, and
She reads poorly, and can
Finally, in a. sort of
WADHAMS
Having purchased
the Market OffiE. J.
WADH‘AMS, I have
restocked the same
with Meats, Fish
HAS
SDLD
DUT-
Vegetables and Can-
ned. goods, and so-
licit .1 share of your
I patronage.
sflHlRLES E. SGHEIIREIM— .
2| Wall Street.
WILLIAM s. KEMP,
Carpenter -:- andw- Builder,
34. West Main St.. NorwalK.
Mr. Kemp has been a carpenter and. builder
in Norwalk for the past 25years.and raters to
owners of buildings erected: under his super-
vision as to workmanship-
If. you could
“Everybody agrees that she is a won-
I don’t
know, because I’ve never thought a.
great deal about such things. But I
do think she is entirely different from
any little child that I’ve ever seen, and
I shall never. never forget her, with
her solemn ways and her unceasing
Chilton Paint,
Every gallon of paint made by the
Chilton Mfg. Company is mixed and
ground in pure Linseed Oil.
are mixed and ground by machinery
seven times, making, them uniform and
even.
weight with the cheaper makes. You
get an honest gallon.
you will be convinced.
All shades
Compare the size of cans and
Give it a trial and
H. H. WILLIAMS
1 2‘ Main St.
warnings about what we must do and
must not do ‘if we want, to meet each
other when we get home, way over
yonder.’ ” -
There was a great shuffling of feet.
coughing and clearing of throats.
among the squire’s visitors as he con~
eluded. and the blustering gentleman
from Kentucky began to, denounce the
excise law in loud tones, But the
squire looked at the rings of smoke. as
he blew them upward from his corn-
cob pipe, and had little to say the rest
of the evening.
——Condemn no man. for not thinking
as you, think. Let everyone enjOy the
full and free liberty of thinking for
himself. Let every man use his own
judgment, since every man must give
an account of himself to God. If you"
cannot persuade a man into the truth,
never attempt tO'force him into it. If '
love will not compel him to come, leave
him to God, the judge of all—John
Wesley- . : . ' . . "
. 3 warmmrnnnr
'SPECIAL SALE
M ILLINERY
SATURDAY MID HONDA-Y, MAY 9-".
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.
h
4FAWCETT’S
v01: WALK
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r‘dk N D .. oe
\ figment;
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is known-throughout cycling as 'a. light, staunch,
stylish, speedy mount. There’s a best in every-
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among bicycles. Finished in black or orange.
,3. Stcarns riders are satisfied riders, and always
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. ’2 Your address will insure receipt 'of our hand-
some new catalogue. ‘ .
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Buffalo. N. Y. Toronto, Ont.-
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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.: '
The r. s. Ambler Dycle 00., 29 Wall Street.
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Dlllllll,
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For Terms and Lease of Norwalk Fair Grounds, apply 01
LUTHER M. WRIGHT,
Carriage .Eaclory and Repository, Franklin & Mailisoa Sls., So. Homalk.
Branch Shops at Broad River and Darien.
THE WHITE SHOE STORE
ls still inlthe lead. We shall sell all of our Ladies"
$2.00 and $2.50 Tan, Lace and Button Shoesat
$ l' .75 a pain. ' ' 1
About 300 pairs in this lot. Come early and make
your selections and get the greatest bargain in town;
fl
OLSEN BROS.’
WHITE SHOE STORE
s cue-rye. BUILDING, NORWALK.-
YOUR FRIENDS ARE USING
PLAISTED’S‘ comm REMEDY!
. AND RECOMMENDS, Its use
Get a Bottle at once. 25 and 50 Cents.
ALL DRUGGISTS.
PRIVATE
I , . . Instructions given in
BOXING
at the pupil’s home.
neuron
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That you can save money
by buying your Meats
and Fish at
F. W. SMITHS,
55' Maln Street.
Everything First Class. , ,’
CLASS "
: Now fuming, and ap-
plicants. desiring to
join should apply at "
Ionceto I . “j
Prof. Geo.~Yoerger,
1 “South Norwalk,
. or at_this'efice._ ,;-
‘OPEN‘EVENINQS ;
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