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Dragging Music Into a Play.
“I once saw a raft scene in an En:
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“Suddenly one of the shipwrecked par-
—4y cried out: ‘What's that I see float
ing toward us on the waves? ‘A grand
plano,” shouted another. Then the
plano was hauled up on to the raft and
one of the famishing castaways played
a ‘Rhapsodie Hongroise,” by Liszt. That
cured me of ‘dragging in music by the
hain?”
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Mary PrTErs, 90 South Union Street,
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Tne Oyster.
The sentiment which annually. greets
the return of the oyster from its sum. |
mer vacation may not be of an esthetic
sort, but certainly it Is as remote as
possible from mercenary considerations
of commerce. And yet the oyster not
only stands for a great delicacy, but for
a great industry that will in time be
vastly greater. It is shown by Gov-
ernment statistics, for instance, that of
the 35,000,000 bushels of oysters con-
sumed throughout the world each: year
30,000,060 bushels are supplied by the
United States, and that the oyster fish-
ery excels any other fishery in impor:
tance. Add to this that the industry
is especially important in the States of
New Jersey and Maryland—the latter
alone producing one-third of the world’s
crop—and it will be scen that there are
special reasons why Philadelphia |
should be cordial to the oyster, and
should greet its advent with a degree of
effusiveness not extended to any other
thing. in the edible list with the possi:
ble exception of the Thanksgiving tur-
‘key.—Philadelphia Record.
RELIEF FROM PAIN.
Women Everywhere Express their
Gratitude to Mrs. Pinkham.
irs. T. A. WALDEN, Gibson. Ga., writes:
“DreAR Mrs. PiINkHAM:— Before tak-
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to me. I never saw a well day. At
my monthly period I suffered untold
misery, and a great deal of the time I
was troubled with a severe pain in my
side. Before finishing the first bottle
of your Vegetable Compound I could
tell it was doing me good. I continued
its use, also used the Liver Pills and
Sanative Wash, and have been greatly
helped. I would like to have you use
my letter for the benefit of others.”
_ Irs. FLORENCE A. WOLFE, s15 Mulberry
St., Lancaster, Ohio, writes:
“DEAR MI Pixgnay:=For two
ears Twas troubled with what the |
local physicians told me was inflamma-
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time only. AtlastIconcluded to write
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say that by following your advice I am
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Mrz. W.R. BATES, INansficld, La., writes:
* Before writing to you I suffered
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the lower part of the bowels. Nowmy
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{ most sensitive to sudden increase of
the-bath—which-al-pewly-admitted-pa-
‘manifest when about $700 in bills was
remedy of the age.”
Eyes Not Necessary.
Eyes are popularly considered to be
quite necessary to sight, but this is an
error, if we are to believe Dr. Nagel,
a recent German experimenter. Many
creatures without eyes ‘can see; at
least they can distinguish perfectly
well between light and darkness and
even between different degrees of
light. This is the lowest degree of see:
ing, to be sure, but still it is really
sight, and differing scarcely more from
the vision of some insects that possess
eyes than this does from our own clear
sight. “a :
Creatures that see without eyes see
by means of their skins. All skins, says
Dr. Nagel, are potential eyes; that is,
they are sensitive to light. In ‘animals
that have eyes the sensitiveness has
been highly localized and greatly in-
a retina very sensitive to light, and ap «
expanse of ordinary skin which pos-
sesses a sensitiveness to light so slight
that it is hardly conscious of it. Yet
his skin is sensitive in some degree,
as is proved by the fact that it sunburns
—that is, light may cause a disturb-
ance in the pigment of the skin just
as it does in that of the eye. In the
eye the disturbance is accompanied by
a nervous change, which sends a tele
graphic message along the optic nerves,
and there are messages, also, but their
tidings imprint no image on the mind;
they simply express discomfort—cry
out “sunburn.”
But in many eyeless creatures the
lack of eyes Is in part made up by in-
creased sensitiveness of the whole skin
surface to light. Darwin long ago no-
ticed that earth worms, although they
into their holes at the approach of a
lighted candle. Some creatures seem
light; others to sudden diminution.
A Home-Grown Experience.
A man went into an icehouse to cool
off.
An abrupt and impetuous hired man
closed and locked the door and went
away. The next day was Sunday and
the hired man did not come back.
While the man who yearned to cool
off waited for the return of the hired
man his object was accomplished in a
very thorough manner. He cooled off
The mufifled door gave back but
echoes to his blows, and his voice could
find no place to escape and sound the
alarm.
When he grew tired of walking and
swinging his arm to keep warm the
chunks of ice that were piled around
him did not offer a tempting bed. Hun:
ger gnawed at his vitals and refused to
be satisfied with diet of raw air. Dark:
ness settled down like a six months’
Arctic night, and. the only sound which
broke the profound stillness was the
man who wanted to cool off trying to
swear.
The hired man opened the door on
Monday morning, and the man who
wanted to cool off crawled out more
dead than alive.
‘When his tongue had thawed out he
began to abuse the hired man.
“Fool!” retorted the hired man.
“Fool, you are a lucky dog and do not
know it. Don't waste your time in
abusing me, your benefactor, but go
and write a book of impressions on
Alaska.”
Then the man who wanted to cool oft
saw that his fortune was made. —Chi
cago Record.
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Please Mention This Paper,
Pork Dangerous—Veal Unwholecsome
“Pork is the source of trichina; for
this reason it should be cooked thor-
oughly. Hogs are almost always fat-
tened so as to be actually diseased be-
fore killing, and we find here also a
common .source of tuberculosis; it is
also generally believed that pork eat-
ing is a common source of scrofula,”
writes Mrs. S. T. Rorer in the Ladies’
Home Journal. “I certainly know that
persons who -indulge freely in pork
have very unhealthy, rough and easily
irritated skins. Veal (equally indiges-
tible with pork) may mot contain the
dangerous germs of the mature ox;
the fibre, however, is dense and dif-
ficult of digestion. Unless it be thor-
oughly boiled and chopped rather fine
it had better not be eaten at all. It
should never, under any circumstances,
be given to children.”
THE MARKETS.
Late Wholesale Prices of Country Produce
Bs 3 Quoted in New York.
8 MILK AND CREAM.
1'he average price paid for the surplus on
the platforms has ‘been 214c¢ 8B qt. net to
shipper. Receipts of milk and cream at thd
different railroad distributing points in and
near the city for the week have'¥peen as
follows: }
Average daily receipts of the week.
fluldmilk, cans. 1... hu he 23,1817
Condensed milk, cans................. 14
Cream, cans
BUTTER.
Creamery—West. extras... $
BIrsts. ea,
Thirds to seconds........ .
State—Thirds to firsts. ....
Stave Dairy tubs, extras....
Imitation Creamery..... sive
Factory, fresh flrsts
Low grades
CHEESE.
State—Full cream, new,large
Small :
Part skims, good to prime.
Full skims. .?
State and Penn—TFresh
Jersey—Fancy
Western—Choice....... dee
Bouthern—Choice
BEANS AND PEAS,
Beans—Marrow, choice, 1897
Medium, choice, 1897,
Pea, choice, 1897 —
Red kidney, choice, 1897... 1 6!
White kidney, choice, 1897 1!
Yellow eye... ......0.:...
Lima, Cal.; © 601bs.......
Green peas, hags
FRUITS AND BERRIES—FRESH.
Apples, Ben Davis 00
Greening, © bb 00
Baldwin, 8 bbl.......
Grapes, Del., ¥ basket .® . ..
Catawba, ® basket........ k
F? Concord, © basket —
Cranberries, Cape Cod; P bbl 7
i, Jersey, ® bbl 70
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PIB®Y
Fowls, $ 1b
Chickens, # Ib
Roosters, ® 1b
Turkeys, ® Ib
Ducks, @ pair............. .
Geese, P pair
Pigeons, B pair
DRESSED POULTRY.
Turkeys, ¥ ib
Chickens, Phila
Western, dry picked........
Fowls, State & Penn., ® Ib. .
Western dueks..............
Geese, Western, § Ib
Squabs, B® doz
HAY AND STRAW.
Hay—Prime, # 100 Ib........
Clover mixed
Btraw—ILong rye
Short rye
Oat
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VEGETABLES.
Potatoes, Jersey, ¥ bbl
L. I., in bulk
Sweet, @ bbl. :
Cabbages, #100 ve
Onions, white, ® bbl......... !
Red, # bbl
Green peas, Va., P basket. ..
Egg plant, © bbl
Tomatoes, # carrier
String beans, ® basket
Squash, B bbl
Hubbard......... idee
Tuarnips, Russia, B bbl
Celery, # doz
Carrots, ¥ bbl
Cauliflower, 8 box
Beets, bbl... —....... oy
Lettuce, ¥ basket
Spinach, B bbl
Kale, per bbl
Spinach, per bbl
Brussels sprouts, ¥ qt
GRAIN, ETC.
Flour—Winter Patents
Spring Patents. ........... 520
Wheat —No. 1 N. Duluth
No. 2 Red.
Corn—No. 2
Oats—No. 2 White.
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SRNONS BY ENIENT DIES
GOSPEL MESSAGES.
“Stirring Folks Up’’—Fourteenth Sermon
in the New York Herald’s Competitive
Series ta hya Pennsylvania Minister
Dr. Talmage On Ordinary People.
“Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife stirred
up.”’—I. Kings, xxi., 25.
A large part of the evil and a larger part
of the good in the world would never be
Jone but for the doers being stirred up
o it.
Life is much like the sea; there seems al-
ways some wind to smite the. surface or
some stealthy undercurrent to send its rest-
lessness up from the depths.
The lesson is many sided; if fully consid-
ered it covers the whole eomplex question
of life’s relationships. It is not one part.of
"the world against the other; part of the
world giving, the other ever receiving im-
pressions, for one who is stirred up by evil
may be a constant impulse to another’s
good. 7
No matter how weak one may be or how
dependent on others, there is still some
power going forth—consciously or uncon-
sciously—which makes more positive the
good or evil of the world’s conflicting
forces.
* We find ourselves pressed by life’s im-
pulses or irritations. Its attractions and
rgpulsions find ready allies in our inclina-
tions, and often we fail because we under-
estimate the opposing forces, or we joyously
realize that we have been impelled to a
usefulness we had thought beyond our
power.
w The example of Jezebel—the Lady Mac-
beth of Scripture, the “new woman’ of
nearly three thousand years ago—is not
chosen because women are more prone to
stirring up to evil than men, though blessed
is the woman who ‘stirs up” her husband
whenever he needs it, and happy is the
man who never stirs up his wife to any-
thing but good.
We are ready to condemn "Jezebel for
having stirred up Ahab to evil, but we of-
ten lose sight of how Ahabinfluenced Jeze-
bel. His negative weakness provoked her
positive badness, We sometimes comfort
ourselves that we are not bad because we
do not great sins, forgetful that our very
weakness may provoke some one else into
sinning.
Ahab wanted a piece of ground that was
near the royal palace. It was the property
of Naboth, who, with true ancestral rever-
ence, refused to part with it. Piqued by
Naboth’s refusal, Ahab went to bed, turned
his face to the wall and refused to eat.
Ahab, the king, peevish as a child because
he could not have his own way! It was
then Jezebel’s murderous plans were
formed. Ahab’s peevish sulkiness stirred
up the wickedness of Jezebel. Had hebeen
noble she could not have been so evil.
“Whom Jezebel his wife stirred up’—
stirred up to evil. Had that power been
turned to good even weak Ahab might have
been one of the world’s helpers.
The power for great evil reveals the pos-
sibility of great good; the power in the
direction of wrong is the measure of benefit
if turned in the opposite direction.
Who can estimate what the world would
have lost had not Wendell Phillips heard
his true hearted wife say, “Wendell, don’t
shilly-shally!” That put an end to possible
vacillation. Was Lady Palmerston’s “‘stir-
ring up” worth while? She spent her life
in “placing and keeping’ her husband in
his proper position.
What a rare tribute was paid by General
Charles H. Taylor to the memory of Eben
D. Jordan when in a Boston Globe editorial
he said, “No man of my acquaintance ever
possessed a rarer gift of developing the gifts
of other men, and no one ever helped others
with more patience and generosity.” Ie
stirred up to their best possibilities those
whom he met; he made them by his help
what, possibly, they never could have been
without him.
Are those who are near you weak and
sinful because you have not stirred them
up to be their best selves?
The world will ever be grateful toDr. W.
, Robertson Nicholl for his persistent stir-
? ring up of Ian Maclaren.
He gave him no
rest until he led the world to the “Bonnie
Brier Bysh,” which, like the bush Moses
saw, is aglow with God.
Despondent we sometimes are because
all the world seems against us.
If we put curselves in right relations
with God He will give us of His power and
we shall be masters, not servants, of fate.
Most happily it has been said:
Likoethe winds of the sea arg the waves of
fate
As we journey through life;
Tis the set of a soul
That decides its goal,
And not the calm or the strife.
How are you using the forees which
come upon you? Have you so ‘set the
sails” that the very winds which are in-
tended to drive you far out on the tempest
tossed sea shall help you into a harbor of
safety? Are the dens so numerous and
heavy that they you to the earth?
Then learn of the fabled hero who by every
touch gained increase of strength.
Jesus ‘‘set His face steadfastly to go to
Jerusalem’ because His soul was set on
doing God’s will. Paul said, “All things
work together for good to them that love
God.” To asoul set on doing right even
the opposing forces will bring benefit.
, | __From the naggings of a jealouswife John
Wesley learned lessons of patience, from
the stormy days of companionship with
scolding Xantippi Socrates drew lessens of
self-diseipline.
We influence. by what we are. Not our
seeming but our being sends forth its influ-
! ence to stir up to right or wrong. You have
| watched the groundswell as the waves
dashed, surging and moaning, upon the
rocky shore, and though there was no vis-
ible cause, you knew of the tempest far out
on the ocean. So we influence and are in-
fluenced.
You have taken in your handan opal—
the sympathetic stone. It was dull and
colorless until the warmth of your hand
caused it to glow with radiance of color.
So there are lives about us; dull and unin-
teresting they seem. but the stimulus of
human sympathy will make them shine as
with God’s own glory.
You are stirring folks up—to what?
Horace BR. GoODCHILD,
Pastor Baptist Church, €laricn, Penn.
ORDINARY PEOPLE.
Dr. Talmage Discourses Upon Ordinary
or Inconspicuous People.
Text: “Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Her-
mas, Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus and Ju-
lia.”—Romans xvi., 14-15. :
Matthew Henry, Albert Barnes, Adam
Clark, Thomas Scott, and all the commen-
tators pass by these verses without any
especial remark. The othertwenty people
mentioned in the chapter were distin-
“guished for something and were therefore
discussed by the illustrious expositors; but
nothing is said about Asyneritus, Phlegon,
HMermas, Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus and
Julia. Where were they born? No one
knows? When did they die? There is no
record of their decease. For what were
they distinguished? Absolutely nothing,
or the trait of character would have heen
brought out by the Apostle. Butthey were
good people, because Paul sends to them
his high Christian regards. They were or-
dinary people moving in ordinary sphere,
attending to ordinary duty, and meeting
ordinary responsibilities.
What the world wants is a religion for
ordinary Joople. Ifthere be in the United
States 70,000,000 people, there are certainly
not more than 1,000, extraordinary; and
then there are 69,000,000 ordinars: and we
do well'to turn our backs for a little while
upon the distinguished and conspicuous
sil [eons of t2e Bible and consider in our text
seven ordinary. We spend too much
of our time in twisting garlands for remark-
ables, and building thrones for magnates
and sculpturing warriors, and apotheosis
ing philanthropists. The rank and file of
the Lord’s soldiery need especial help.
The vast majority of people will. never
lead an ATIT. will never write a State Con-
stitution, will never electrify a Senate, will
never make an important invention, will
never decide the fate of a nation. You do
not expect to; you do not want to. You
will not be a Moses to lead a nation out of
bondage. You will not be a Joshua to pro-
long the daylight until you can shut five
kings in a cavern. You will not be a St.
John to unroll an Apocalypse. You will
not be a Paul to preside over an apestolic
college. You will not bea Mary to mother
a Christ. You will more probably be Asyn-
critus, or Phlegon, or Hermas, of Patrobas;
or Hermes, or-Philologus, or Julia.
Many of you are women at the head of
househofds. Every morning you plan for
the day. The culinary department of the
household is your dominion. ‘You decide
all questions of diet.
regulations of your house are under your
supervision. To regulate the food, and
the apparel and the habits, and decide the
thousand questions of home life is a tax
upon brain and nerve and general heglth
alleviation.
decide the health of the world. You have
only to go on some errand amid the tav-
erns and hotels of the United States and
Great Britain to appreciate the fact that a
vast multitude of the human race are
slaughtered by incompetent cookery.
Though a young woman may have taken
sons in painting, and lessons in astronomy,
she is not well educated unless she has
taken lessons in dough! They who decide
the apparel of the world, and the food of
tho world, decide the endurance of the
world.
Then there are all the ordinary business
men. They need divinoand Christian help.
When we begin to talk about business life
we shoot right off and talk about men who
did business on a large scale and who sold
millions of dollars of goods a year; and the
vast majority of business men do not sell &
million dollars of goods, nor half a million,
nor-a quarter of a million, nor the eighth
part of a million. Put all the business men
of our cities, towns, villages and neighbor-
hoods side by side, and you will find that
they sell less than a hundred thousand dol-
lars’ worth of goods. All these men in or-
dinary business life want divine help. You
see how the wrinkles are printing on the
countenance the story of worriment and
care. You can not tell how old a business
thirty.
the days of their life —harnessed in. busi-
ness. Not grace to lose a hundred thous
sand, but grace to lose ten dollars.
employes in a factory, but grace to super-
the small boy that sweeps out the store.
hundred of clear gain. Such
or do not sell, whether customers pay or
do not pay, whether tariff is up or tariff is
a dead failure—calm in all circumstances,
and amid all vicissitudes, That
kind of grace wo want.
Then there are all the ordinary farmers,
mediately shoot off to talk about Cincin-
natus, the patrician, who went from the
through the dictatorship,
days, went back again to the plow.
ers?
them will be patricians. Perhaps none of
or a hundred acres of the old homestead.
oxen, and to keep cheerful
broken in and trampled out the strawberry
bed, and gone through the
large quantities that they must be kept
from the water lest they swell up and die.
Grace in catching weather that enables
them, without imprecation, to spread out
the hay the third time, although again,
and again, and again, it has been almost
ready forthemow. A grace to doctor the
cow with hollow horn, and the sheep with
the foot rot, and the horse with the dis-
temper, and to compel the unwilling acres
to yield a livelihood for the family, and
to help the older boy in business, and some-
stiff with age, and the
a little short,
got
be
ankles will
breath will
tigo.
I know flve hundred farmers just as noble
as he was. What they want is to know
that they have the friendship of that Christ
mer’'s life, as when He said
best parable out of the scene of a farmer
boy ¢oming back from his wanderings, and
the old farmhouse shook that night with
rural jubilee; and who compared himself
said that the eternal God is a farmer, de-
zt Come, now, let us have a religion -for
merchandise, in everything. I salute
across the centuries Asyncritus, Phlegon,
Julia.
dinary, thank God that you are not extra-
ordinary.
almost to death with extraordinary peo-
seems to say, “That is well done.”
plain as it is on the high peaks. The world
never forgives a man who knows or gains
or does m8re than it can know or gain or
do. If, therefore, you feel that you are
ordinary, thank God for the defenses and
tranquility of your position. ;
Then remember, if you have only what
is called an ordinary home, that the great
deliverers of the world have all come from
such a home, And there may he seated,
reading at your evening stand, a child who
shall be potent for the ages. Just unroll
the scroll of men mighty in church and
Stite, and you will find they nearly all
came from log cabin or poor homes.
Genius almost always runs out in the third
or fourth generation. You can not find in
all’ history an instance where the fourth
generation of extraordinary people amount
to anything. .
Let us all be content with such things as
wo have. God is just.as good in what He
keeps away from us as in what He gives us.
Even a knot may be useful if it is at the
end of a thread.
A Sensitive Pensioner.
Pension Commissioner Evans recently
received from a pensioner in San Antonio,
Texas, an express order for £879. It was
money which the sender believed he had
not properly received. Mr. Evans had an
investigation made of the case, and ascer-
tained that the pensioner was honestly en-
titled to the money he was receiving, viz.,
$12 per month for deafness, and directed
the entire amount be returned to him.
Pauper Descendants of Columbus.
A Spanish DewWspAper announces that the
last two descen
lumbus are now occupants of a poor house
of Cadiz. {
All the sanitary |
absolutely appalling if there be no divine |
1
They who provide the food of the world
lessons in music and may have taken les- |
man is by looking at him, Gray hairs at |
Now, what is wanted is grace—divine |
grace for ordinary business men, men who |
are harnessed fromimorn till night and all |
Not |
grace to supervise two hundred and flity |
vise the bcokkecper and two salesmen and |
Grace to invest not the eighty thousand |
dollars of net profit, but the twenty-five |
a grace as |
thousands of business men have te-day— |
keeping them tranquil, whether goods sell |
down, whether the crops are luxuriant or |
is the |
We talk about agricultural life, and weims |
plow to a high position, and after he got |
in twenty-one |
What |
encouragement is that to ordinary firm- |
The vast majority of them--none of |
them will be Senators. If any of them have |
dictatorships it will be over forty. or fifty |
What these men want is grace, to keep |
their patience while plowing. with balky |
amid the |
drouth that destroys the corn crop, and |
that enabies them to restore the garden |
the day after the neighbor’s cattle have |
Lima-bean |
patch, and eaten up the sweet corn in such |
schooling for the children and little extras |
thing for thu daughter’s wedding outfit, |
and a little surplus for the time when the |
and the |
swinging of the eradlethrough the hot har- |
vest fleld will bring on tho old man’s vere |
Better close up about Cincinnatus. |
who often drew His sinriles from the far- |
‘*A .sower |
went forth to sow,” as when He built His |
to a lamb in the pasture field, and who !
claring: “My Father is the husbandman.” |
ordinary people in professions, in oceupa- |
tions, in agriculture, in the household, in |
Hermas, Patribas, Hermes, Philologus and |
First of all, if you feel that you are or- |
I. am tired and sick, and bored |
pie. You know as well as I do, my brother |
and sister, that the most of the useful |
work of the world is done by unpreten- |
tious people who toil right on—by people |
who do not get much approval, and no one |
The weather of life isnot so severe ontha |
ants of ‘Christopher Co-"|
A Vigorous Battle.
From jhe Neth Era, Greensburg, Ind.
The following is a straightforward
statement by a veteran of the late war, Ne
comrade will need further proof tham
their friend’s own words, as here given.
Squire John Castor, of Newpoint, Ind.,
is the narrator, and an honest, respected
citizen he is too. He said: ‘I have been
troubled with rheumatism in all my joints
ever since I went to the war. It was
brought on by my exposure there. It came
on me gradually, and kept getting worse
until I was unable to do any work. I tried
several physiciansg but they did me no
good. They said my trouble was rhouma-—
tism resulting in. disease of the heart, and
that there was no cure for it. Neverthe-
loss I had lived and fought the disease for
thirty years; and did not intend to die,
simply because they said I must, so J
I
I Wanl'lo Swear to That.
hunted up some remedies for myself, and
finally bappened on Dr. Williams’ Pink
Pills for Pale People. I asked some of my
neighbors about the medicine, for it had
been used by several persons in the com-
munity, and they recommended it very
highly.t I procured a box. The pills
helped/me right away, and I continued
taking’ them. I commenced taking them
last fall, and finished taking the sixth box
a few months ago. I am not bothered
with the rheumatisin now —the medicine
has cured me. I can most certainly rec-
| ommend Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale
| People.”
These pills are not only good for rheu-
{ matism, but are valuable for any disease
that ‘arises from impoverished, or bad
| blood. They do xox act on the bowels.
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