It e h i n g
If there is one thing more than
another. which gratifies 11s, it is the
g1eat volume of hearty thanks which
come f1om grateful parents for the
cures Hood’s bSar'sapa1illa has effected
upon their children. The agony of
despair turns to unspeakable joy as
mothers and fathers sec dreadful 501 es
and ’e1upt1ons gIadually yield to the
potent purifying power of this great
medicine, and bright boys and bgi1ls
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.
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
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
r any skin disease to take Hood’s
la. I feel assured that it will
1 for others. I cannot praise
,, for what it has done for my
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.”
MRS. AGNES C. BAILpY, Box 91, McVey-
town, Pennsylvania.
This and other similar cures prove that
Hood’s
Sarsaparilla
Is the One True Bldod Purifier. All druggists. $1.
Be sure to get Hood’s and only Hood‘s. It is
prepared only by C. I Hood&Co., Lowell Mass.
cum all Liver Ills and
HOOd:S PIII5__ Sick l;Iea().acl1e.__~ 25 cents.
The Saddle
. Question.
This' is an illustration
of the old style saddle.
3 If you will observe it
carefully you will note
that it fits like a glove '
(and a saddle should
not). It presses the sen-
sitive parts, causes sore-
ness, stiffness and chaf«
ing, and has made cycl—
ing to a certain extent
injurious, because few
could enjoy a long ride
without fear of injury.
Shows pelvis as it
rests on the or-_
dinary saddle.
All this' is now changed. 1 Here is repre-' :
Sented the perfect saddle—ethe Christy
Anatomical Saddlen' .
showing the pelvis as it
rests on the pads. The
Christy Anatomical .-
Saddle is the only '
saddle that is built
right. Made of metal,
of light weight, cannot
“"8113 or change its
shape, has pads that .
rest the entire body,
does not press the sen-
sitive parts, prevents
stiffness, and makes
cycling a pleasure.
Price, $5.00
FREE Booxur on Sanntss.
A. G. SPALDING 6: BROS.
New York. Chicago. Philadelphia.
Shows pelvish as it rests
on the Ch risty
Saddle.
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Water, gas and sewer on the avenue
Will be soldjat a Bargain.
w. I}. vac ron,
lleal Esiale 'and Insurance,
' ggazette B’l’d.
~and h‘is excellency
. dinner.
THE EILEN'ING ca zn'r'r'"
DINED WITH THE GOVERNOR.
Mark Twain's Story of the Old Salt, Who
Knew Gov. Russell.
Mark Twain told a. capital story
capitally the other day. which he said
had never been in print, but which
deserves to be if for no other reason
than to allow it to fall into the hands
of the self-appointed managers of the
embryo presidential boom of its hero.
It was on the ship coming home from
Europe at the entertainment given in
aid of poor sailors that Mr. Clemens re-
called the tale in response to the en-
core demanded after he read a. selec-
tion from his own wri ings. Naturally
he turnedto the sea. and seafolk for
inspiration. This was the story.
robbed perforce of all the inimitable
features of the telling peculiar to Mark
Twain in his happiest mood, when the
words drawl their slow length along.
fairly floating: in their humor, which
is frequently far more in the style of
utterance than in the matter: itself.
He had the tale from an old salt he
met once en route to Havana. '
‘The old salt, who was a Nantucket
fisherman and for many years master
of a craft of his own, was reminiscing
about the queer characters and odd ex—
periences he had encountered first and
last in his day. Shortly before the
N antucketer and Mark Twain came
across each other the old captain, just
home from a long voyage, together
with the mate of his vessel, had gone
up to Boston to see the sights. Among
them they concluded to take a lun-
cheon at a swell hotel just to see what
a. swell hotel was like. After many
meanderings they fetched up at the
Tremont house, now soon to be no
more, and got fairly seated at one of
the tables in the main dining-room.
While they were waiting for their best
substitute for plum duff they noticed
that a great deal of attention was be-
ing paid to a. gentleman who had just
come in, accompanied by two ladies.
They were so impressed by this that the
captain asked his waiter who the im-
portant personage was, and he learned
that he was the governor of Massachu-
setts. When he named the governor
the captain’s memory was stirred, and,
with his seaman’s love of dramatic ef-
fects, he turned to his mate and “bet
afiver" that he’d go over and shake
hands with the governor. The mate
bet a fiver he “dassent.” But the
captain wasn’t daunted; he added that
he was ready to bet another fiver that
the governor would not only shake
hands with him but would ask him to
dinner. The mate accepted this wager,
too, and the captain “gave a hitch to
his trousers,” which is a. trick all sea.
men “larn,” and got up.
In telling the story he said he almost
felt ready to lose his wager after he
started, but he didn‘t want to make a.
fool of himself, as he went. over to the
governor’s table and made his best bow
and said: “How do you do?” The gov-
ernor said: “How do you do?” too, but
went on to say that he wasn’t able to
place the face, and so on. The captain
had his pedigree all ready; it consisted
of his own name and the name of his
vessel. The mate, who was looking
on, saw a change come over the face of
the governor, and waiters and all were
much surprised to see the stated digni-
tary leave his chair at a step, grasp the
hand of the queer-looking old codger
and shake it vigorously. The captain
was asked at once to sit down and have
some luncheon, but he said he couldn‘t;
as he‘d left his mate over aft there.
“Well, go get your mate,” said his ex-
cellency; “there’s room for all of us;
if- there isn’t we’ll have room made;
here, waiter—”
The "upshot of it was that the first
lady in the Bay state and her sister
, the governor, and
the captain and his mate ate together
in peace and harmony and a. flood of
old-time memories, and the mate lost
his two fivers. The governor was Wil-
liam E. Russell, Massachusetts’ “boy"
g0vernor, who filled the executivo
chair .with his democratic presence so
‘well that he filled it for three years in
- that proverbially republican state. —-N.
Y. Commercial Advertiser.
Honors Were Easy.
Some say the Scotch people have no
appreciation for humor. This is hard-
ly true—at least there are exceptions.
Many years ago Lord Harry Brougham
and Rev. Dr. Thomas Chalmers, two
warm friends, met on the street in Ed-
inburgh and stopped for a. chat. One
of them dropped his cane and both
stooped simultaneously to pick it up,
with the result that their heads came
together with a resounding whack.
“Eh, but that made my head ring,”
said Dr. Chalmers.
“That’s a sign it’s empty,” respond-
,ed Lord Brougham.
“Did’na yours ring?” asked the doc-
tor.
' “No,” said the great advocate.
“We e,l ” responded Chalmer .3, “that’s
_ a. Sign it’s crack1t”—Ch'cccro Chron-
'icle.
How to Keep Plates Hot.
One of_the latest adaptations of
electric heating is the electric “hot
plate,” for keeping food hot during
"The metal plate is electrically
heated before being brought to the
table; but should it be necessary to
rehew the heat a plug is inserted at
the side of the plate, connection is
made with a. socket. on the table and
the current is .kept' on as long as
needed. A new form of hot plate fcr
kitchen use has three disks fitted in a.
row into a stand, electrical connection
being established by a socket under
each plate. The stands are nickel-
plated and the plates are each eight
inches in diameter—N} Y. Sun.
How He Judged Character.
‘-‘So you want a situation?” said the
business man.
“Yes, sir,” replied. the applicant.
“Hum'—do you ever go fishing-“PW
“Occasionally.” .
“When were you fishing last?”
“Day before yesterday. ”
“Catch anything?”. ' ' :
“Not a thing. ”
'v
“You can come to work next Mon?
day if you like. If you keep on telling
the truth like that you may be a part-
ner in the firm one of. these days.”—
Washingt'ou Star .
PEASANTS STILL FLOGGED.
Tolstoi Denounces with Vigor a Plan for
Only Partial Reform.
Count ’l‘olst-oi, in aCharnctcrist-ic let-
ter to thc ~lloursc Gazette, gives his
Views on a question which is causing
considerable agitation of mind at pres-
ent in many circles of Russian official
and priVate life—nan: cly, that of the
abolition, in VV hole or in part, of the
punishment of flogging in its various
forms.
The provincial zemstvos of a large
number of provinces, as well as several
highly placed officials in Asiatic Rus-
sin, have formally decided to petition
for the exemption from this degrading
.1 malty of all peasants who have
learned to read and VV11te Count Tol
sloi, with the order natural to the
artistic temperament, cries “Shame!”
upon their niggard asking, and, in an
article headed with that word, very
broadly hints that, while the peasant,
for the last‘three—quartcrs of a. cen-
tury, has been steadily advancing, his
safe. 1 s have in some respects failed to
l 1:" 1 1:e:r flacc- in the van of the march
'._.:l chi: iizntion.
" I?" .~.:~:toi is a foremost authority
. of the peasant, and the spec-
111.11.". gives in this article of the
11!. '11:: 3 oi the power of flogging by the
an all fry of officialdom are certainly
striking. These insignificant members
of the lower governing ranks have no
uniform, but, when engaged on official
duties, wear some kind of outward and
visible sign of authority, generally a.
large medal. For “speaking his mind”
to one of theée village “elders” who
happened to have the signpf office on.
{It the time, a. fellow villager was duly
flogged, although his only fault ap-
pears to have been that he overlooked
the medal which converted an ordinary
neighborly difference of opinion into
an insult to the czar! The poor fellow,
Tolstoi relates, consoled himself with
the remark that “Christ suffered
stripes, and bade us suffer, too.”
There are, he vev er, many in Russia
who think that the moujik IS still suf—
ficiently brutal to make the entire
abolition of flogging a. measure of mis-
taken humanity, and Tolstoi’s cry of
“Shame” upon the modcratc reform
proposed by certain zemstvos will,
doubtless, be met by the not unnatural
reply that Tolstoi is before all a lit-
erary artist, with all the artist’s native
scorn for practical measures which fall
short of the ideal aimed at. The par-
tial exemption. from flogging which
practical men desire would certainly
prove a very powerful stimulus toward
popular education, even as compulsory
service in the army keeps the Russian
,unimrsities filled to overflouing V'hVit
men VV ho, in a. huge number of cases
would do the state better service in
other ways than by learning discontent
in a sphere unfitted to their natural
capacities or station in life—London
Standard.
ATH LETlCS AT ATH ENS..\
The Great. lntcrnationa’Contests That
“’ill Take Place in April.
The principal part of the festival
will be at the ancient stadium on the
Athenian plain near the city. Herc
were once celebrated the games of At-
tica and her allies. A wild waste for
many centuries, it was excavated a.
few years ago by King George of
Greece.- , Now it has been restored in de—
tail for this occasion by the generosity
of Georgina Averoff, a rich Greek of
Alexandria, Egypt, at an expense of
600,000 francs, so it will appear in its
old splendor of white marble. The
amphitheatcrseats from 50,000 to 70,000
spectators and incloses a course 670
feet in length by 109 feet in breadth.
giving a. level area of 8,100 square yards
for the gymnastic and field sports,
with a. broad foot-race truck as well.
One of the most interesting features
of the game-sivill be the long-distance
race of 20 miles, from Marathon 3")
Athens, in memory of the lfi'ave courier
who died of exhaustion after he had
brought tidings of Miltiades’ great vic—
tory over Darius. To the victor, M.
Victor Brcal, of the French institute,
has offered the prize, of a silver aru-
phoro. or wine vessel.
prize of; each contest is a. silver olive
wreath, to commemorate the simple
wreath of wild olive that in ancient
times was the only token of victory.
In addition to the athletic games and
field sports it is proposed also to rep-
resent an ancient drama in some well-
preserved classic Greek theater. The
dances of ”to—day, believed by many
scholars to be relics of the classic age,
will be rendered by peasant dancers in
costume, and various musical societies
will furnish the music for the festival.
For the inauguration the date of
April (3 has been selected, as it is the
75th anniversary of Greek independ—
ence.
too, is the most. delightful in the Greek
year—much like the American June.
The Athenians have completed exten-
sive preparations for making the mod-
ern revival worthy of the ancient fame
of the Olympic games and. for the. en—
tcrtainment of visitors. It is pleasant
to note that the first. to send a contri-
bution to the festival committee was
Mr. Alexander, the United States min-
ister to ‘Greece, who is known to be
an enthusiast in Hellenic studies. ——G.
T. Ferris, in St. Nicholas.
Living for Self Alone.
The man who lives to himself be-
queaths his own folly and poverty and
meanness for his monument. He has
benefited nobody, while he has dwarfed
and warped his own powers, and
senseless stone or marble, however lav-
ishly supplied to mark his resting
place, does him no honor. He has lived
_in himself, he has died in himself, and
all that he leaves in memory of himself-
_ speaks no word of praise in his behalf,
no word of justification. This is no
true life. It is the worst of failures.
There are. glorious opportunities in
this world f0'1 service. He who wisely
- uses them enriches both his race and
himself; and dying leaves a monument
which'outlasts granite and is brighter _
than: polished brass. -—Detroit Free . . .
Pres s.
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The general '
The middle month of spring.
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Cheap rates. W111 also taere orders for mfies
uouget service in New York. Goods called
01 and delivered to all pvarts of the town,
Orders received at El? eed’ s Drug Store
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WILLIAM s. KEM_,P " "
Carpenter -: - and -: - Builder,
34- West Main St.. Norwalk. '
Mr. Kemp has been a carpenter and builue1
in Norwalk for the past 25 y ears. and refers to
owners of buildings erected under his super-
vision as to wor lananship.
CIl'I P .
1 I011 fllIlI.
Every gallon of paint 5made by the
Chilton Mfg. company is mixed and
ground 111 pure Linseed Oil. All 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. Giveit a trial and
you will be convinced.
II. H. WILLIAMS
17 Main St.
SPECIAL VSALE‘
' PIERCE,
1,
MILLINERY
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 sa1e_.-'.-'
3 Everything First Class. '
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WE ARE NOT IN THE COMBINE.
For Terms and Lease of Norwalk Fair'crounds, apply to
LUTHER M. WRIGHT,
Carriage Factory and lleposilory, Franklin & Madison Sls., So. Norwalk.
Branch Shops at Broad River and Darion.
THE WHITE SHOE
ls still in the lead.
$ l .75 a pair.
About 300 pairs in this lot.
STORE
We shall sell alfiof our Ladies’
$2.00 and $2.50 Tan,
Lace and Button Shoes at-
Come early and make
your selections and get the greatest bargain in town:
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.3 cAZI-z'r'rE BUILDING, NORWALK.
rune Haitians 111111 USING
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szfiaj " AND RECOMMEND I’IS USE
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ALL DRUGGISTS.
DO YOU KNOW
That yea. can save money
by buyiffg your Meats
and Fish at
r. w. SIIIIII's.
55 Main Sireel.
OPEN EVENING-S
PRIVATE ‘ '
Instructions given in
BOXING ' .. ‘
at the pupi’s‘ home.
CLASS» ”
.jom sho’uld apply at
once to
Prof. , Geo. Yoerger,‘
Sohth Norwalk.
or‘_at this office.
Norwalk Chronicler