VOL. XX.
BOOTS and SHOES
SPRING STYLES HOW OPENING AT THE
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B. L HDSETOS.
I a most and Fines! Sljle* ami lowest Prices ever shown toy
I,ar«esi an^, J , loMße f u miller. All Fresli Goods
MADE TO MY SPECIAL ORDERS
ana warranted, jUSt reP "
I WANT THE liADIES
To look at my French Kid Turn Button Boots (Cur Kid. Mat Top Cur. Kid
Vox Boots.* Gondola, (St Goat, Pebble Goat ) Serge• * ox "
Cloth top Boots.) Pebble Grain, OLD LADIES WIDE SIIOEb
AND SLIPPERS. Walking Shoes, Sandals, Opera Slippers,
Ladies' Button Boots from SI.OO and upwards. Ladies can
find in this Stock any style and priced shoe they want.
I WANT THE GENTLEMEN
To step in and look at my Calf Boots, Calf Bals, Button Shoes London toe and
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Oxford ties strap shoes, Plow Shoes, Brogans, Hob Nail
Shoes for miners, all of these are desirable goods
from the cheapest Brogan to the I' inest
Hand Sewed Boot and Shoe.
I WANT THE BOTS AND GIRLS
To see our School Shoes, Fine Button Boots and Bals, Slippers, &c., all
New and Nice Styles very cheap. Infants' and childrens' Shoes
in endless variety, from 25 cents upwards.
The Largest Stock of Leather and Findings ol any House in
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New Goods Constantly Arriving.
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Estate of Mary Wright,
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For Djip«piii,
: lick Headache,
Chronic Dlsr-
Fj rhcca. Jaundice,
Blood, Fever jnd
t-Utill t-l frllf iTan
gj* UU|i€( ] by D,.
ranpement of liver, Bowels and Kidney*.
SYMPTOMS OF A DISEASED I.ITER.
Bad Breath; Pain in the Side, sometimes the
pain is felt under the Shoulder-blade, mistaken for
Rheumatism; general loss of appetite; Bowel*
generally costive, sometimes alternating with lax;
the head is troubled with pain, is dull and heavy,
with considerable loss of memory, accompanied
with a painful sensation of leaving undone something
which ought to have been done; a slight, dry cough
and flushed face is sometimes an attendant, often
mistaken for consumption; the patient complains
of weariness and debility; nervous, easily startled;
feet cold or burning, sometimes a prickly sensation
of the skin exists; spirits are low and despondent,
and, although satisfied that exercise would be bene
filial, yet one can hardly summon up fortitude to
try it—in fact, distrusts every remedy. Sever*
of the above symptoms attend the disease, but cases
have occurred when but few of them existed, yet
examination after death has shown the Liver to
have been extensively deranged.
It should be uaed by all persons, old and
young, -whenever any of the above
symptoms appear.
Persons Traveling or Living In Un
healthy Localities, Dy taking a dose occasion
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all Malaria, Bilious attacks, Dizziness, Nau
sea, Drowsiness, Depression of Spirits, etc. It
will invigorate like a glass of wine, but la no in
toxicating beverage.
If You have eaten anything hard ol
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Time and Doctors* Bills will be saved
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IT IS PURELY VEGETABLK,
And has all the power and efficacy of Calomel or
Quinine, without any of the injurious after effects.
A Governor's Testimony.
Simmons Liver Regulator has beta in use in my
family for some time, and I am satisfied it is a
valuable addition to the medical science.
J. GILL SHORTER, Governor of Ala.
Hon. Alexander 11. Stephens, of Ga.,
says ; Have derived some benefit from the use of
Simmons Liver Regulator, and wish to give it a
further trial.
"The only Thing that never falls to
Relieve.*'—l have used many remedies for Dys
pepsia, Liver Affection and Debility, but never
have found anything to benefit me to the extent
Simmons Liver Regulator has. 1 sent from Min
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such a medicine, and would advise all who are sim
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thing tliat never fails to relieve.
P. M. JANNBT, Minneapolis, Minn.
Dr. T. W. Mason says: From actual ex
perience in the use of Simmons Liver Regulator in
my practice 1 have been and am satisfied to use
and prescribe it as a purgative medicine.
only tho Genuine, which always
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•3 over 40, patients with the most gratify- •
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Q Its effect upon li'e system ts entirety un- 2.
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_ tlon. Diseases of the Liver and Kidneys, M
<3 MASALIS should be given with it.*■■■ o
3 PEItCNA Is Composed of purely vegetable o
«g Ingredients, each one, according to medt- -•
5 calauthora, a great remedy in Itself. ■■ a)
2 l)r. Hartmau has succeeded In extract- r?
ft lng and combining the active principles
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pound, which perfectly coincides with the 2
Vis MEDICATKIX NATURA in eveiYdls- g
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THE CIIASE XUItSERtEH
Kieffer Pear. Champion Quince, Hansall lias
berry. ainl all tho most ilosiralde frails and orna
mentals.
Only those need apply who can devote their
entire"timo and attcnuon to tho work.
Addreiss, R. G. CHASE & CO., Philadelphia, Pa.
Spring Notes for the Vegetable
Garden.
The vegetable garden is a case of rap
id evolution. All the old roots have
been turned out as uneatable. The
newer roots are certainly far more
palatable and digestible. One who
only knows the old style carrot can
hardly imagine what a table luxury is
to be now found in the French Short
horn or Danvers Yellow. These are
not only better for soups, but are near
ly equal to the potato as a table escul
ent. Boiled and mashed they are lik
ed by all who use them during the fall
as well as winter.
Among the very best of the new
things are the improved Lima beans.
The Lima is very seldom raised, from
& mistaken notion that it is tender and
difficult to bring to perfection. This is
a mistake. It will readily perfect it
self as far North as Canada, if rightly
trained. It should be pinched back at
four or five feet und tied two hills to a
stake. The improved bean that I like
best is received from the Rural New
Yorker. It fills the pods with square
beans, and is perhaps a trifle earlier as
well as more prolific than the old
variety.
A second luxury in the same line is
the Golden Wax bean, as a string
bean. In fact, however, it is string
less, and no more like the old string
bean than it is like the Lima. There
are a dozen or more varieties of Black
Wax, Golden Wax, Crystal Wax, etc.,
but in quality they do not differ; that
is, there are half a dozen or more of
good varieties. The Golden Wax, a
red striped bean, is as good as any.
This is a fair bean for baking, if a
large quantity is left from Summer use.
The Lima is best for all purpose, green
or baked.
The old cauliflower was a treacher
ous affair, full of disappointment; and
as a consequence few farmers know
anything about the vegetable. But
there are now several varieties that are,
according to vegetable morals, sure to
head, and are every way delicious.
The Erfurt, the Snowball, and the
Walcheren are very reliable a3 well as
very fine. The only secret with the
cauliflower is, keep them well watered
and hilled up while hoeing. They will
keep quite late into Winter; often
heads will form on late plants if trans
planted to the cellar.
Tbe long white Dutch parsnip is a
remarkable improvement on the old
woody, indigestible parsnip of ten
years ago.
Of all the peas I have tried, the best
early is Bliss American Wonder; the
be3t late the Telephone or Telegraph,
for they do not differ. For careless
culture the Advance has done remark
ably well with me, giving good re
turns when planted with potatoes.
The vines should be pulled up when
the peas are picked.
Among the new potatoes some are
absolutely worthless. The Burbank is
a great yielder, but is so inferior for
table use that it will soon be dropped.
The Peerless is also good cropper,
and good I'or very late table use; but
not on the whole desirable. The
White Elephants a yellow-fleshed po
tato of good quality, and so enormous
ly productive that it will be a perman
ent fixture. Of all table potatoes
amone: some twenty varieties I prefer
decidedly the Late Rose. It yields
finely, good size and shape, and is good
to eat from September till the next
June. Ido not believe we have a bet
ter potato. Of early varieties I prefer,
next to Early Rose, Clark's No. 1
Early Ohio is excellent, as also Beauty
of Hebron and Snowflake. Mammoth
Pearl, Climax, Late Snowflake are not
desirable all in all, especially Mam
moth Pearl. Too much money is made
from new varieties for us to get honest
advertisements.
The new tomatoes are nearly all es
sentially duplicates and no improve
ment at all over the o|d Trophy, ex
cept in early ripening. The best to
mato is not yet secured.
Among the corns we have as good
as we ca'n ask for or desire. (1) Early
Marblebead; (2) Moore's Early; (3)
Egyptian These will cover the sea
son finely. There is little difference in
quality between Early Minnesota and
Early Marblebead.
Among the cucumbers there is no
better in quality, shape, and yield than
Tailby'e. The addition of "Hybrid"
may as well be left off from this as
well as many other vegetables, as they
are nearly all hybrids in the same
sense,
The vegetable garden is quite as
good a place for hybridizing and secur
ing novelties as is the flower garden.
All of the vegetables may be improved
with a little care ; and experiments are
very delightful. I have, during the
past two years, secured about thirty
varieties of self crossed h.eans. They
preset some exceedingly beautiful
colors, stripes and flecks, with gray,
green, chocolate, and other ground
colors. The vegetable oyster should
be taken in band. I have an aspara
gus that is nearly white, without any
artificial blanching. It came from two
roots ; probably at first one, which was
a shoct of Conover's Colossal. The
Argenteuil is a promising looking as
paragus, but I have not fully tested it.
NOTES IN THE FRL'IT YARD.
It is getting to b? ft prime matter in
planting apple trees to secure varieties
that are hardy. The old seedling
orchards were as secure as elms, but
not so our finer sorts. Evolution in
quality does not secure a survival of
the toughest wood. The tendency is
rathe? tho other way. Of the hardier
sorts of late introduction the Spy ranks
high. Tbe Roxbury Russet does not
easily kill, while the Kirkland is at
tough as tbe toughest of the old time
seedlings. These are the three best
late winter keepers and most hardy
trees.
Those who plant pears should select
those which do not need to be hurried
to market. Of these the three most
profitable and beet are Sheldon, D'An
jou and Clairgeau. The two f>st i.re
also shapely Ue?s and ftU tlifese are
hardy,
A few peach trees from seed should
be on every farm. They will give a
great deal of satisfaction when they do
bear, and take little room when they do
not. Seedlings from Early Crawford
are likely to give hardy as well as
good varieties. The Wager is also
quite reliable as well as Amsden and
Alexander.
No fruit is more pro6table with
proper care than the quince. The
trees must be sheltered from cold winds
and protected from the frost. This
last can be done by a liberal mulch of
coal ashes. The quiuce is easily prop
agated by planting cuttings six inches
to a foot long, set in good garden soil.
The trees must be well cultivated to be
of special value. It is impossible to
get a good crop of quinces from trees
grown in green sward. The best
variety is still the old Orange.
Among the new humbugs, or new
things that will soon be discarded, are
the Kieffen pear and several of the new
varieties of quinces. The only new
pears now needed are very late winter
pears of the first quality ; a D'Anjou
that will keep till May. The Josephine
de Malines and Beurre D'Aumberg are
excellent, but the latter is not a good
market pear. A pear that will not
blight when all others do is a hopeless
acquisition. A pear thus advertised
may be pronounced a mistake at the
mildest. The best plan is to plant the
very best varieties and keep tbem well
trimmed and thoroughly mulched.
It is astonishing as well as painful
to observe about the country how
many yoang orchards have been plant
ed and then neglected until hopelessly
diseased. After suckers have grown
freely about a young tree for two or
three years the vitality is so much
lowered that it will never, by any
nursing, become a sound, vigorous
tree.
Any one wishing to plant a small
yard of grapes for home use, will not
go amiss on the following list: Dela
ware, which still retains its position,
Duchess, Herbert, Lady, Prentiss,
Agawam, Brighton, Lindley, Worden,
Rogers 30, Walter, Wilder, Martha,
Massasoit. Of the newer ones I am
convinced that Yirginius and Pock
lington will hold a high place. The
same list will make a good one for a
vineyard of a larger size. The
two best grapes when ripened
with us are Goethe and lowa ; but the
Gcethe I cannot easily get to ripen,
and lowa is decidedly too tender. We
want grapes that can stand our climate
without being covered every Winter.
I have given up the whole business of
Winter protection and have quite as
good success as before. The Isabellas
occasionally kill back as also lowas,
and the Delaware is not always quite
safe.
There are two rules in planting fruit
trees, or for that matter any trees, that
cannot be too carefully applied. (1)
Always cut back the limbs sharply. If
the tree is large cut away nearly all
the top. So in planting evergreen
hedges; down with tbem ; shear away
half or two-thirds. (2) Mulch heavily;
mulch everything ; mulch always.
Farmers Read This.
From the Washington Observer.]
We publish elsewhere another suicide
by a farmer. It does not surprise us.
Indeed we have so often spoken of the
isolated, juiceless life of the average
farmer that it never seems strange
when one of them hangs himself or
goes crazy. Farmers need more fun,
more books, more music and pictures,
more flowers, and more social life, or
else it is only a question of time with
most of them. Dixmont has had 33
blacksmiths, 89 clerks, 13 lawyers, 17
butchers, 21 doctors, 70 carpenters, 22
printers, and so on, but she has also
had no less than 585 farmers, 154
daughters of farmers, 199 wives of
farmers, snd 57 widows of farmers. In
other words, since Dixmont has been
opened about 4000 inmates have been
treated, and of these one thousand
went from the farms.
No people on earth can live so hap
pily, none have so much real pleasure,
none have the same opportunity for
enjoyment, and yet to take a mortgage
off their farms they put a mortgage on
their minds. Remember this, ye who
who never danoe, or sing, or play, or
visit, or have fun, that one-fourth of
the inmates of Dixmont to-day are
from the farms. Knowing this, pitch
in and raise a little fun. It is cheaper
in the end than board bills at the mad
house.
Circus People.
The average intelligence of circus
people—aside from the laboring men—
is yery far above the general estimate.
Those immediately connected with the
executive department, who have to do
with newspapers, railroads, city au
thorities and hotels, are men of usual
intelligence, education and experience
in their respective lines, and the sala
ries such people commanded in former
times served to draw into tl« business
the best financiers, advertisers, book
keepers and purchasers money could
secure. Within the past few years the
character of men in these depart
ments has improved very consid
erably 8Q that now persons posses
sed oi the highest order of commercial
intelligence freely ofifer their services,
and managers, finding more agents
than there is demand for, retain the
best and pay thesa much smaller
Salaries that they formerly had to.
Still, there are some men whose sala
ries run as high as S7OOO in one in- 1
stance, and quite a number of men re
ceive as much as $2500 for the season
—usually six months in length. Of ;
late years quite a proportion of per
formers come from gymnasiums, and,
many of these have been young men
who have impaired health by too much |
study and find in circus life the physi
cal exercise necessary to health and tho
gratification of a desire to travel in
culcated by reading or uamadrc in
stinct 90 n«;«u'ai to tbe young.
P*r~ A pint of the finest kiud of ink for fam
ilies or scnools can be made from a teu-ceut
package of Diamond Dye. Try tbem.
A Modern Enoch Arden.
From the Cleveland Herald.]
Eight years ago George Eastwood,
a young and handsome artist, came to
Cleveland from New York. Cultured
and talented, he had little difficulty in
winning his way into the center of
society, for he had enough of the lucre
to maintain a proper degree of style.
His fame as an artist was not very
( wide spread, but as he was a gentleman
| of prepossessing manners and appear
ance, he was universally liked and es
teemed. In the course of events he
was invited one evening to the recep
tion tendered a beautiful West Side
girl on the occasion of her twentieth
birthday. He attended, and for the
first time met the young lady in whose
honor the party was given It was
the old story,—love at first sight. He
did not resist the emotions that took
possession of him, but inspired by
them, made every effort to be agreea
ble. The impulse was mutual. She
played the guitar exceedingly well and
sang divinely. Before the evening
was ended they were singing duets for
the edification of the company. The
outcome of that evening's meeting was
an engagement, and of the engagement
a wedding. Six months after the re
ception the two loving hearts were
made one, and the happy artist and his
beautiful wife began housekeeping on
one of the most fashionable avenues on
the West Side.
HAPPY MARRIAUE—TRIP TO EUROPE.
The speedy courtship and the happy
marriage made the only topics of con
versation in their circle of acquaintances
for weeks. The young wife had pre
viously been the center of attraction of
the gallant swains of the West Side.
Among them was a young, hard-work
ing mechanic, who, despite his brown
bands and bronze face, had seemed to
be first among the young lady's admir
ers. A scholar and a gentleman he
was esteemed alike in society and busi
ness circles. That the hasty marriage
of the girl upon whom he had placed
his affections was a cruel disappoint
ment no one could doubt. Yet hardly
by look or deed did he uxpress it, save
perhaps by a more quiet and by an al
most universal absence from all society.
Two years after the marriage of
George Eastwood he began to appre
ciate the tact that his talent had ob
tained outside recognition. Three
years before, c.nd a year previous to his
marriage, while passing the Palisades
of the Hudson by moonlight, he drew
a hasty study of the glorious scene,
that on his arrival home was transfer
red to canvas. Parting one afternoon
with a friend who was on the eve of
sailing for Europe, he presented him
with his work of art. The picture ac
companied its new owner across the
sea, and after a few months found its
way into one of the most celebrated art
galleries in Florence, in Italy. Here
it was universally admired, and one
day a Florentine artist, learning tbe
young artist's name and residence, sent
him a flattering letter, in which was
made a lucrative offer to come to Flor
ence. Encouraged by the hope of a
possible fortune, the young artist de
cided to leave his young wife and their
happy home in Cleveland, and took bis
departure for Italy. He had not for a
moment conceived of a longer absence
tban six months, when he should re
turn and accompany his loving wife to
their new home in the land of sunshine
and flowers. The brightness seemed
to have entirely left the little home
when he had gone, and tbe mother
found her only pleasure in playing
with her little daughter Nellie, then
approaching her first birthday.
A SAD ACCIDENT.
In the meantime tbe young artist
was on his voyage across the sea. All
was bright before him, and he antici
pated only fame and happiness. Ar
riving in Italy, he resolved to take a
month's recreation among the moun
tains. But for this resolve the occas
ion for this article would undoubtly
not have occurred. Venturing out
without a guide, be one day received a
fearful fail down the mountain side.
Brain fever followed. For weeks and
weeks he tossed upon a bed of agony,
only to grow worse and worse, and
finally to apparently lose reason and
mind altogether. He was confined in
an asylum a hundred miles from Flor
ence, where no effort was made to iden
tify him. His trunks and letters were
at Florence, and when the letters of
inquiry from home reached the police
of that city, this fact was sent back
with the information that their owner
could not be found. the
artist had he took with him, leaving
only enough behind to provide for the
wants of the family until he could re
turn. A year had already passed and
the money was long since gone. Too
proud to ask assistance of her friends,
the heart-broken wife took to her
needle, and between her prayers for
her husband's return and her tears
over the cruel fate that kept forcing it
self upon her, she magged to earn
enough to live.
Time rolled on, and two, three and
four years were added to her widow
hood.
"He is dead," whispered every
breath of wind that fanned her faded
and waning cheeks. "Yes, he is dead,"
she said to herself, and tried to realize
the awful fact. So she let it be under
stood that she thought ber loving and
gentle husband dead, and quietly Bet
tied down to tbe terrible realization of
her condition.
ANOTHER PROPOSAL.
While sitting dejected, although re
signed, at her table one evening, her
fast-flying needle completing a garment
for the holy day that dawned on the
morrow, there was a knock at the
door. She arose, and opening it met
: her old friend the mechanic, who bad
! in the meantime prospered exceeding
' ly and bad entered into business for
himself.
"I have come to ask the question I
so much wanted to years ago," said
! be
1 ' And I accept," was he quiet ans
wer.
And then followed the wedding, a
quiet affair; after which the newly
married couple moved into a new
house with all conveniences and sur
i roundings on Willson avenue. Little
Nellie was now four years of age; a
bright-haired, bright-eyed lass, the cen
tre of love and affection.
In the meantime George Eastwood,
under the careful nursing of kind phvs
icians, had regained strength and rea
son and was preparing for the surprise
that he was so sure his arrival home
would cause. Sleeplessly he traveled
by night and day until be reached the
city he had left over six years ago.
He approached the little home be hail
left, but found only darkness. Cruel
ly disappointed, he asked a neighbor
for information and received from his
lips the cruel, crushing tale. Madly,
wildly, almost desprately he rushed
away and an hour later, when the even
ing shadows were settling over the
home of his former wife, a pale, atten
uated face peered in the curtainless
window and read the truth of the story
that had been told. But the newly
wedded wife never knew the awful fact
and the heart-broken and depressed
man quietly left the city. A day or
two ago, in an obscure corner of a little
Western journal, was recorded the
suicide of George Eastwood, a former
Clevelander. But no one appreciated
the terrible experience the victim had
passed through, and but for the knowl
edge of the facts by a well-known West
Side gentleman, who 'yesterday gave
them to a reporter, they would in all
probability never have been given to
the world.
His'.ory in the Jones Family.
From Detroit Post and Tribune.]
"Pa, asked Willie Jones, as be was
studying his history lesson, "who was
Helen of Troy ?"
"Ask your ma," said Mr. Jones, who
was not up in classic lore.
"Helen of Troy," said Mrs. Jones,
who was sewing a new heel on the
baby's shoe, "was a girl who used to
live with us; she came from Troy,
New York, and we found her in an in
telligence office. She was the best
girl I ever had before your father
struck Bridget."
"Did pa ever strike Bridget ?" asked
Willie, pricking up his ears.
"I was speaking paragorically," said
Mrs. Jones.
There was silence for a few moments,
then Millie came to another epoch in
history.
"Ma, who was Marc Anthony?"
"An old colored man who lived with
my pa. What does it say about him
there ?"
"It says his wife's name was Cleopa
tra."
"The very same ! Old Cleo' U9ed to
wash for us. It's strange how they
come to be in that book."
"History repeats itself," murmured
! Mr. Jones, vaguely, while Willie look
ed at his ma with wonder and admira
tion that one small head could carry
all she knew. Presently he found an
other question to ask.
"Say, ma, who was Julius Cajsar?"
"Oh, he was one of the pagans of
history," said Mrs. Jones trying to
thread the point of her needle.
"But what made him famous," per
sisted Willie.
"Everything," answered Mrs Jones,
complacently; "he was one who said,
'Eat, thou brute,' when his horse
wouldn't take its oats. He dressod in
a sheet and pillow-case uniform, and
when his enemies surrounded him he
shouted 'Gimme liberty or gimme
death,' and ran away."
"Bully for him!" remarked Willie,
shutting up his book of history. "But,
say, ma, how came you to know so
much? Won't I lay over the other
fellows to-morrow, though?"
"I learned it at school," said Mrs.
Jones, with an oblique glance at Mr.
Jones, who was listening a 9 crave as
a statue. "I had superior advantages,
and I paid attention and remembered
what I heard."
A Large Turtle.
Captain Agustus G. Hall and the
crew of the schooner Annie L. Hall
vouch for the following • On March
30, while on the Grand Bank, in lati
tude 40° 10', longitude 33°, they dis
covered an immense live trunk turtle,
which was at first thought to be a ves
sel bottom up. The schooner passed
within twenty-five feet of the master,
and those on board had ample oppor
tunity to estimate its dimensions by a
comparison with the length of the
schooner. The turtle was at least 40
feet long, 30 feet wide, and SO feet
from the apex of the back to the bot
tom of the under shell. The flippers
were twenty feet long. It was not
deemed advisable to attempt it a cap
ture. .
—Colds yields to onions like magic, but Dr.
Bull's Cough Syrup is a still Utter and by far
more agreeable means of curing a cold or
cough. You can buy a botMe for 25 cents at
any drug store, and we are sure it will do the
work every time.
—A great murderer is a fellow who »oes
heaven by cable.
—Mr. H. R. Miller, Reading. Pa., says: "I
used Brown's Iron Bitters as 11 'onic and appe
tizer and found it truly beneficial."'
—lf all heretics go to hell the company must
be somewhat seleet.
flop Hitters Co., TORONTO:
I have been sick for the past six years, suf
fering from dispepsia and general weakmss.
I have used three bottles of Hop Bitters, and
they have done wonders for me. 1 am well
ana able to work, and eat and sleep well. 1
canuot say too much for Hop Bitters.
SIMON BOBBIN*.
—lf the devil should die he would leave a
large family destitute.
Snatched from the Grave.
My wife was at the brink of the grave. She
had "been given up to die bv three of Allegheny
City's best physicians. They all pronounced
her disease consumption. Her finger-naiN an<l
lips were blue; was pulseless at the wrist; we
were all called to witness her death. At tlii»
moment a neighbor brought in Dr, Hartm&u,
who prescribed a teaspoouful ot Peruua every
hour. She improved from the !r-<t dose, and
iu a week she was up, and now, (less than six
months) she is well. See page 30 in the "ills
of life," a book yo* can get gratis from your
druggist. If nut, address Dr. Htirluiuu, rts
born, Ohio.
T. S. KBF-RLKIS, South Chicago, ill.
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