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Good Sample Room on First Floor. Free Buss to and from all trains. Special rates to witnesses and Jurors QUMMINS HOUSE, BISHOP STREET, BELLEFONTE, PA., EMANUEL BROWN, PROPRIETOR House newly reflfctod and refurnished. Ev erything done to make guests comfortable. Rates mode ra'" tronage respectfully solici ted 5-ly yRVIN HOUSE, (Most Central Hotel in the city.) CORNER OF MAIN AND JAY STREETS LOCK HAVEN, PA. S.WOODSCALDWELL PROPRIETOR. Good ample Rooms for Commercial Travel ers on first floor- R. A. BUMILLER, Editor. VOL. GO. curiam Peter Patterson was ill—at least ho thought so—and depiessed; he had a headache and he hated the dusty streets in which the summer heat burnt and the summer sun shone before the green leaves had drajied the liees, and potted geraniums, which had com > to be s > blessedly popular in New Yoik, lent their summer freshness. "What shall I do, doctor ?" he'aaid. "You say nothing ails tne, but I can tell what my ;feelings are better than you can. I know I shall be down with something soon. I rodo in a car with a half dozen dirty children the other day—to the small pox hospital, I haven't a doubt—very red and nasty looking, all of them ; and while I was buying something in a store down Broadway the other day a horrid old woman begged of me because her hus band was sick with typhoid fever. No doubt I have caught both diseases, and it's the complication that puzzles you. Couldn't relish my coffee this morning; left my milk toast untouched. Hateful life, that of a bachelor at a hotel. Oh, dear me !" "Why don't you marry, then ?" said the doctor. "They need so much courting," said Patterson. "You spend six months or so, at least, dangling at a woman's a pron strings. You must go to the theatre and opera if she is gay, and to church if she is pious. At fifty a man likes his slippers and dre3singgown and chair, of an evening. If it was just stepping over to the clergyman's and getting married, putting a ring on her finger and saying or nodding yes two or three times, why I wouldn't mind it, you know." "Ah, well, courting is the fun of it all,in my opinion," said the old doctor, "bat every one to his taste. And my advice to you is to get out into tbe c mntry." "To another hotel and more mercen ary waiters I" said Mr. Patterson. "No," said the doctor; "go to a nice private home. I know one—a mother ly widow lady, who cooks a dinner fit for a king. River before the house, woods behind it, orchard to the left, kitchen garden to the right ; no fever and ague ;no mosquitoes. Heavenly ! I am going up there to-morrow, and I'll see if she'll take you." "Very well," said Mr. Patterson; "I think I will try it." "And you mast drink plenty of milk and eat plenty of nice homemade bread." "Yes, I will," said Patterson, over joyed at least at hearing something that sounded like a prescription. "And yon would advise milk ?" "Quart of it every day," said the doctor. "I'll take a note of it," said Patter son, "and if I should be very ill she'll nurse me." "Splendidly," said the doctor, and went his way. Mr. Patterson thought the matter o yer and thought better of it every day, fend when the little note informing him Ahat the widow would be willing to "take him in and do for him" reached him, he had bis trunk and portman teau already packed, and was ready to start that afternoon. As for the wid ow,the doctor had prepared her for her boarder's peculiarities thus : "Nice fellow; social; plenty of mon ey; thinks himself 111, but isn't; ought to be married; told him so,but he hates the idea of courting ; marry off some day, no doubt. 'Will you haye me ?' 4 Yes.' Call in a clergyman, but then old bachelors are peculiar generally." The widow was a smart woman. She had married at sixteen, and had never failed to have her washing over when other people were hanging out theirs. Her bread al ways rose, her cake was always good and her batter always sweet. At forty-five she had married off all her daughters, was well-to-do, buxom and happy. Her son and his wife boarded with her, and she added to her plentiful sav ings by taking a Rummer boarder or two, if they happened to offer. "Fifty and a bachelor," said Mrs. Muntle, looking in the glass. "Well, it seems a pity ; but when elderly gen tlemen marry it is to some hity-tity girl that lead* them a terrible life, and like ly it's for the best." Then she looked in the glass again ; for tho widow was but a woman, after all Mr. Patterson came to the widow's and obeyed the doctors's prescription carefully. He ate bread and milk,rob bed the orchard like a school boy, and riclined over the strawberry short-cake after a fashion that would have made his reputation at the bar. Then, too, Mrs. Muntle did not smile at his aches and pains and insut that he must be perpetually well because he bad a fresh complexion and dimples on hi 3 cheeks. She had savory herb teas and po' ions which she produced when he complain ed of feeling miserable. MILLHEIM, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 7., 188 G. For two mouths and more, Mr. Pat terson boiuded with Mrs. Mantle, and happier months ho never lived through. Then he went back to the eity for a few weeks, returning in urgent need of more pellets from the medicine chest, and staying until the last pink clays anthemnn was blooming on its wither ed branches. He had grown so fond of his little room, with its white curtains and fresh grass bleached linen, of the country good things and of the buxom Mrs. Muntie, that be could r.ot bear the thought of parting with them alto gether. After all, why could he nob buy a house and get Mis. Munlle to. keep it for him ? Perhaps she would. He would offer a high salary,and she could have plenty of servants. Then,indeed, he might have friends to dine with him, and be as happy as possille. If only he could approach his hostess, showing her as he did so that he con sidered her his equal and a lady— aud all that she certainly was ; a clergy* man's (laughter aud the widow of a c mntry doctor. After much consideratiou lie finally mustered courage for the effort, and walked iuto the front parlor and sent the servant to ask Mis. Muntle to please step there for a moment. ''Gracious !" thought Mrs. Muntle to herself; "what can "he want ?" Then she blushed brightly, settled her necktie, took off her apron aDd walked demurely in. "Be seated, ma'am, 4 ' said Mr. Pat terson. "Sit here please. Allow me to sit near you, as I have something to ask which may require some considera tion." "Oh, dear, it is cdming !" thought Mrs. Muntle. "I suppose you know I'm a man of considerable means, ma'am," said the old bachelor, "able to buy a nice house, furnish it well aud live in it comfort ably ?" 44 50 I've understood,Mr.Patterson," said tbe widow. "And of course it is pleasanter to live that way than at a hotel," said Mr. Patterson. 4t l should judge it might be," said Mrs. Muntle cautiously. "You judge rightly," said Mr. Pat terson; "but you know a bachelor must be in the hands of servants if he keeps a bouss. A gentleman dosn't want that; he wants a lady to superintend things for him -some one of taste and refinement aud all that. Common peo idf don't understand his feeling*, and mercenary servants are a poor depend ence." "I know that," said Mrs. Muntle. "You are almost as much alone as I, aren't you, Mrs. Muntle?" said Mr. Patterson, coaxingly. "The doctor knew him. He's going to do it just as he said he would if he ever did," said the lady to herself. A loud she answered : "Well, sir, lam pretty free, it js true. All my children are married well." "I know money would be no object to you,", said Mr. Patterson. "You have enough. But if I was to tell you that I hated boarding-houses and want ed a home, I think you would have pity on me., I'll buy a beautiful house, and you shall have complete control of everythiog;inly to make ray strawber ry short-cake for me all my life." He paused and looked at the lady. • "That is decidedly put," he thought. "Now, will you hire out for a house keeper, I wonder." "I ain't romantic though," said Mrs. Muntle ; "but still we ain't young, neither of us,and it gets to be just that with the most sentimental after a while." "Don't refuse me," pleaded Mr. Pat terson. "Well, Mr. Patterson, I won't,"said Mrs. Muntle. "I'm my own mistress; and though I never thought of a second marriage, why I think I'm warranted in making one. And no doubt I shall never repent, for I think you've a fine disposition, and I understand your ways and tastes." Mr. Patterson listened. lie saw what he had done—proposed and been accepted without having any idea of what he was about. He looked at Mrs. Muntle. She was very nice and comely and ten years his junior, at least, if she was forty. He could not have done a better thing, and would be married without any troublesome courting. So he at once put his arm a round Mis. Mantle's waist and said : "Thank you, my dear. I consider myself very fortunate." He wrote to his good doctor in about a fortnight's time, to tell him that he had taken both his perscriptions ; was a married man and intended to b'ing his bride home about the first of the new year. —Lancaster Almanacs, English or German, mailed to any part of the West, upon the receipt of four 2 cent stamps. A PAPER .FOR TIIK HOME CIRCLE. 'A Dynamite in Chicago An Attompt to Destroy tho Houso of Judge Tree, tho Belgian Minis tor. CHICAGO, Djcmbof 25.- A little af ter nine o'clock this morning a quart can of peculiar construction was found under the front porch of Judge Lam bert Tree's palatini residence, No, 1)4 Cassßtrect, by his coachman. A fuse attached to it was charred at the end, showing that it had been lighted and gone out. The deadly contrivance looked like a common lamp, and think ing it was put there by some practical joker the coadfcmflii removed it to the yard. In laying it down he was horii tied to notice that a fuse was attached to the machine. A hurried inspection 9howed that it was not the innocent thiug it was deemed to bo. He hurried to the Chicago avenue police station and Officer Gallagher returned with him. The ofilcer carried the machine to tbe Central Station. His appearance created the wildest excitement and the officers lost no time in getting to the outside. Many of them, mindful of Otto Funk's experiment with infernal machines, ran pell-mell out of the sta tion and Gallagher was forced to dis pose of the machine himself. He car ried it to a powder dealer on Lake street, but this man refused to touch it. A cleric in the store, however, ex amined it and at first sight pronounced it a finely-constructed dynamite bomb. Gallagher and the clerk hastened with the machine to the lake front, where preparations were made to ex plode it. A fuse five feet long was at tached to the machine and fired. Both men ran with all speed to a safe dis tance none too soon, for they had not gone over two hundred feet when the machine exploded with a tremendous noise. The report was heaid as far west as Fifth avenue, aud an Idea of the force of the explosion may be had by the way the ground was torn up. For a depth of six feet the hard frozen ground was scooped as if it were so much water. Oflicer Gallagher's com panion, an xpert, wa9 ot the opinion that the explosive was nitro-glycerine, and declared that enough of it was in the machine to blow up the City nail. Thus far the police have no idea of the parties who are responsible for the contemplated outrage. It is not known that any motlvo existed for the com mission of such a barbarous act. There have been no arrests made. The Tree residence is one of the most elaborate and costly in the city, occupying one quarter of an entire Hock i n fashion able residence district in the north di vision of the city. The building prob ably represents S2OO,OCX), with its valu able contents. It is a three story struc ture of brown-stone, rock faced and covering a wide area. It has been oc cupied for some time by Gen. A. C, McClurg, of the publishing house of Jansen, McClurg & Co. Farm Hlnta for January. Of course, before you take your vaca tion, the farm harness will be oiled and repaired, the wagons, and sleighs, and buggies and carriages,carefully examin ed, and tlie nuts tightened. There will be a place for everything, and every thing will be in its place—forks, rakes, hoes, shovels, spades, chains, clevises, whiffle-trees, plows, cultivators, horse rake, mower, binder, roller, harrows, farm drill, garden drill, garden line, corn marker—l am afraid my corn marker is sticking on the feme, hut I have no expectation of taking a vaca tion, unless we may conclude that that is the proper place for it. Of course you will get the harrow teeth sharpened, and the wood-work saturated with crude petroleum. The manure will be all drawn out and piled iu the field. You will get everything ready for the lambs, and the pens will be made comfortable for early spring pigs. You will have a plenty of troughs and racks. lloop3 will be tightened on barrels. New leathers will be put on pumps. Pruning will be done Dead trees will be cut down and woiked up. Dead- branches of shade trees will lie removed, and wher ever shade trees, or trees on the lawn are too thick, they w ill be thinned out. Fences, gates, and bars, will be in per fect order. All pig pens, cow stables, hen house, cellars and sheep sheds, will have two coats of white wash, and some of them throe. The potatoes iu the cel'ar will be soiled over, thedecay" ed ones removed, and thoso intended foi seed, for market, or for home use, put by themselves. There will bo no broken panes of glass ; no windows loose In the frames; thehloors, the locks and the bolts, will all work smoothly. The garret will be overhaul ed. Perhaps you will say this is wom an's work. At any rate, you will see that they have a good bench for the wash tubs.— JOSEPH HARRIS in Ameri can Agriculturist for January. Wealthy editors,saysanexchange,are as scarce as bald-headed Indians. Pulled off His Leg Speaking of wooden legs, there is an old soldier employed in the government service in this city who has had some experience with an artificial limb, his meat one haying linen taken off at the knee. Among the most amusing was one with a sleeping car porter. This pampered railroad tyrant rarely earns his quarter all 'round by his pretense of blacking shoes and Hipping dust from his victim's back, but it is the habit of this wooden-legged man to utilize the darky in taking off that leg and making him earn his hire. On one train he struck an uppish sort of a porter—a brother to the insufferable swell who sings out, "Last call for dinnah in the dining cah !" That darky stood around with a languid dignity that "would make a street corner dude sick at heart. The man with the wooden leg made up his mind he would "wake that nig ger up" beforo he chipped in his quar ter. He told a couple of men in the car his purpose, and they joined in with him. He wears his shoes firmly fasten ed to the wooden leg, having no need to remove it, and having fallen once from a loose shoe. After his berth had been made up he went to tbe dressing room and unstrapped his leg, keeping hold of the strap, and then got to his berth. Then he called the rheumatism and can't bT oyer," he said, "and I wish you'd pull off that shoe. The porter untied the shoo and tried to pull it off, but it wouldn't come. "Pull hard," said the passenger. The darky gaye it another pull. "Oh, brace against the berth and pull," said the passenger. The porter had blood in his eye. He put his foot against the berth and pulled like a dentist. The passen ger let go the strap, and the darky fell back with the shoe aud the leg. "My heavens! you have pulled off my leg," shrieked the passenger. The porter dropped it, and, with his eyes bulging and his teeth chattering, he broke]);from the car. He concealed himself in a cor ner of the baggage car, and pretty soon the two other conspirators came in, pre tended they didn't know where he was, sat down on a trunk and talked over the awful condition of'the man whosg leg had been pulled off, and about the penalty the darky would have to suffer if he should be caught. That porter was of no service to anybody that night, even after they explained the joke to him. — Milwatike Sentinel. Cupid and Soap. There is a certain self-9tyled man of letters in London who is more remark able for his lofty indifference to soap and water than for any additions which he made to literature. In spite, how ever,of his somewhat uncomely appear ance, he fancies himself to be a great conqueror of the heart of woman ; and he is always delighted to set abroad lit • tie rumors about fair beings whom his fascinations have charmed—rumors which are by no means agreeable to the fair beings whose names are mention ed. One young lady was very much disgusted the other eveuing on being asked at a dinner-table by JMi friend who had taken her down, iithere was any truth iu the rumor that she was engaged to be m trried to the somewhat unsavory man of letters in question. The young lady denied the suggestion, indignantly. "Then you have not ac cepted his hand ?" hor inteilocutor in quired. "Accept his liaud 1" said the lady decisively and epigrammatically— "accept his hand I Why, I would not even shake his hand without a previous course of Turkish baths on his part and a subsequent course on mine." Glass Nearly 4,000 Years Old. The oldest specimen of pure glass bearing anything like a date is a little molded lion's head, bearing the name of an Egyptian king of the eleventh dy nasty, in the Slade collection at the British Museum. This is to say, at the period which may be moderately placed at more than 2,000 years B. C., glass not only made, but made with a 'skill which shows that the art was nothing new eyen at that time. TIIE Evangelical Alliance has rejoic ed the hearts of temperance people, by this year placing on the list of topics for Friday, Jan. Bth, "Prayer for the Abolition of the Traffic in Opium and lutoxicating Drinks." We urge all local Woman's Christian Temperance Unions to carry out, as far as possible, the admiiable programme given by our National President in "Union Signal" of Dec. 17th. Let us ask the co-opera tion of Fastors that a united volume of prayer may go up from all the people on this day, for flu outpouring of tbe Holy Spirit on our work and workers, and that the liquor traffic may be re moved from our State and Nation. FRANCIS L. SWIFT, Pres't. ELLEN M. WATSON, Cor. Sec'y. Alleghany, December, 1885. —SUBSCRIBE for the JOURNAL. Terms, SIOO per Year, in Advance. Brother Gardner on Mottoes. •I doan' go much on mottoes atr sicli,' said Brother Gardner as he open ed the meetings of the Limekiln club on the usual degree and winked to Samuel Shin to raise the alley window. 'I once knowed a man who sot out in life wid do inotto: 'Excelsior.' 110 was proud of it, an' do las' time 1 saw him he was in de poo' house. He got so tired of luggin' dot motto around dat lie couldn't work ober three days in de week. •I once knowed a man who bad de motto' Time is Money' hung in ebery rootn in his house. He invariably rush ed in his coHi ten day9*ta airly, an' den tried to average up things by plantin' his 'taters twenty days too late. De only' occaßhun wheu he got even wid tiuie was when he jumped his clock half an hour ahead. I)e only time when be had a decent crop was when lie lay sick an his wife worked de truck patch. '1 once knowed a man who carried de motto *A Penny &aved-am a Penny Aimed' in all his pockets, an' no pus son eber found him wid a dollar In cash to his name. He was all on de save nu' nuffiu on de aim. 'Doan' you get the ideah inter ver head* dat a motto or maxim am gwine ter feed an' clothe ye an' whoop up rent and doctor bills. It's mo' in de mau dan in de maxim. I kin show ye fo'ty pussous in'my nay bur hood who sot on de fences all summer an' keep deir eyes on de maxim 'lndustry.am de lload to Wealth.' I kin show you fo'ty mo' who haugupde motto of 'Proyidenoe will Provide P down for Providence to do so. If de wife ai us a dollar dat's Providence. 'Stidy work wages, wid a do mestic wife to boss de kitchen, am mot to an' maxim 'nulf fur any of us. If anything furder am wanted let us strive to be honest,* truthful, charitable au' virtuous.lWe needn't hang out a sign on de fences'dat we am strivin', but jist -git dar"wMonti any Fo'th of July fire -works to attraqt public attenshun. LetAis now Press. Took it for a Team. While the band was playing in tbe park the other Sunday on old lady, just down from Green Valley, created a panic by suddenly springing. from her shrieking: 'Look out! Take carc ! There's a runaway team coming 1 There goes oue of the front wheels with the driyer. The horses 'll be along soon. Get out of the way!' And over two hundred people had shinned up into trees before it was dis covered that the lady had merely seen a bicycle pass.— Peck'sSun. The Soldier's Excuses. While on the peninsula, during the war. an officer one day camo across a private soldier belonging to one of the most predatory companies of the Irish Brigade. The fellow had the lifeless bodies of a goose and hen tied together by the heels, dangling from his musket. 'Where did you steal those, you ras cal V' the officer demanded. 'Steal, is it ? Faith, I was marching along with Color Sergeant Maqnire, and the goose—bad cess to it—came out and hissed at the American flag, and bedad! I shot him on the spot!' 'But the hen, sir, how about the hen ?' 'lt's the bin, is it ? Bad luck to the hin! I caught her laying eggs for the Confederate array, and as a Federal soldier, 1 couldn't stand that anyhow, and I gave her a lick that stopped that act of treason !'— Soldiers' 1 Journal. Season for Waiting. 'Only one thing, I ask, darling I' she whispered. •What is it, ray own sweet V he yell ed. 'Let our engagement be a secret for another month.' 'Why V No, let me tell the world you are mine. Let me show them the prize I have won.' 'Not for a month . dearest—one, one little month, I beg of you.' 'Why do you want to keep it a se cret ? I fear you do not love rae.' 'I adore you. You are the only man I ever loved. But you are poor—atd— and ' •But I will be rich. • With you, love,l will work for wealth.' 'Yes, darling, yes. But Harry is wealthy, George is well off. William has plenty and several of my admirers have money.' 'Still thinking of your admirers ?' / •Yes, dear, for Christmas is next week, and they liaye all given me hand some presents on previous occasions.' 'Thoughtful augel, forgive me. Let us wait a year.— San Francisco Chron icle. Little Jennie's entertain ing Mr. Skibbers and thinks she can get along without Jennie's assistance, so she pats tbo little one on the head and Bay 3 : "Come.little pet, it is time your eyes were closed in sleep. 1 ' •'Guess not," says Jennie, "mother told me to keep my eyes open when you and Mr. Skibbers were together." NO. I - i i m NEwm\A rim laws if Subscriber* ordeii tji© disenlhivntivn >f nevvsi apns. Ike miflHli ti may continue to send ili'ih tiirt 11":tif * are paid. IF s refuse i-'r to Into their newspapers from lie • l htrli they uNiswit I hoy uro held 4THjA>usUU* uiUtl tin J haveseltlod trie- bill* a (i mtlfti'v (1 ttvrfil dMmntii.ued. if nuteorihins move tocher places without in forming the publisher, and the newspapers are seiittothofonwrphwe, they***-responsible. rnrtmammmmm " A.DVJKETIBINQ HATKS. 1 wk. 1 mo. Sinos. 6 mo*. 1 yea i square * 2ut> $4 00 * M> 46 00 $8 00 •✓♦'column .4 00 0$ 1000 =ls 00 1800 U " .7 00 10 00 WOO SO 00 40 0O 1 " 10 ooi 15'WI 2frW 4.5 00 75 00 OMie Inch roafcoa ft iMtwrflfr Administrators and Kxeeutors' Notices Transient adver Usemeniwnnd tacalrlOedt** per Hue for first insertion end 5 ftfpUftocr Iffiii for #ft©h addition al inset UMTV ;; She H*d All The Pride. TIo was a now cop vert to the ranks of the Salvation Arm* "end Wasono of tho loudest shouters fn the meetings which were, and stHi are, being held, lie was teliing what religion had done for him, and after enumerating various sins of which he had been purged, he came to the matter of pride. 'Before I joined tbo army,' said he, 'I was ns proud as any of you sinners in the back part of the hall. But now my pride is all gone; there hain't a more bumble man. than me here to night.' 'Perhaps you don't take any stock in what I say,' continued the bumble convert, 'but it's true, every word of it. To show yon that my pride is all gone I'll go right down from this plat form and kiss that old nigger woman in the front seat.' True to his word the convert start ed for the front seat, and when he reached the floor both he and the aud ience had . become motionless. Old aunty had slowly arisen. Her eye 3 glowed with indignation at the blaL ant insult which he heaped upon her. The convert who wonld have ventuuu ed to have kissed her in that mood might not have pride, but it would have required a large amount of nerve. * In a shrill voice she exclaimed : 'Keep away from dis yere; if ye hab got no pride, why t'ank the Lor, I hab, an' yon won't do none o' your kissing ronn ' here V As the humble recruit sank back on the stage he said.* 'Yon ought to be 'shauied ob ynsself, yon ole hypocrite,* and the audience applauded the senti ment aunty took her seat Lost His Taste. I waa sleeping in a second story bed room of a planter's bouse in Mis sissippi, and it was not yet daylight, when something roused me up. I was listening to hear the noise repeat ed, when there camo snch a yell as fairly shook me out of bed. I ran to the window, bat it was too dark out side to soe anything. As I stood there listening I heard the clank of a chain, followed by groans, and then all was still. I went back to lieu with the idea that some crazy negro was prowling around, and slept till sunrise. Then I looked out, and solv edthe mystery. A few rods away was the smoke house. A big bear trap had been set at the door, and it had caught a prize. With one leg held as in a vise, and with his hands grasping a young tree to hold him up, a burly, big negro looked up at me and called out : •Say, boss, bat I want to get loose of dis I' 1 When I went down and told the colonel he expressed no surprise, and took no action until after breakfast. Then we walked out to the smoke house, and, after looking the prisoner over, he said .* 'Does it hurt f' • 'Nebber was hurt so in mj life, sah.' 'Can't yon get out ?' 'No, sah. I'ze been trying eber since midnight, but I can't do It.'* 'I have hams and shoulders in there.' 'Yes, sah ; I reckon you has.' 'Are you fond of smoked meat ? 'No, sah. I used ter be, but I ain't any mo'. I shall nebber tech smoked meat agin 1' • 'Like to walk out nights ? 'No, sah. I'ze gwine ter bed ebery night at sundown arter dis.' We got a rail and opened the trap, and let him out. He went off drag ging Jgfc leg behind him, and as he reaped the gate he lifted bis hat and coolly said: / 'Werry much obleeged, kulnel. If my appetite fur hams an' shoulders eber returns, I'll keep cl'ar o' dis plan tashun, an' doJk'Jorget it!' ADVICE TO MOTHERS. Are you disturbed at night and broken by your rest by a. sick child suffering and crying with pain of cutting teeth 7 If so, send at once and get a bottle of MRS. WINSLOW'B SOOTHING 8T HUP FOE CHILDREN TEETHING. Its value is incalculable. It will relieve the uppr little suf ferer immediately. Depend upont, mothers, there is no mistake about it. It cu]*sdysentery and diarrhoea, regulates the stomach and bowels, cures wind colic, softens the gums, re duces inflammation, and gives tone and energy to the whole system. Mas. 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