Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, November 07, 1889, Image 3
A JACKKNIFE GENIUS.j QUEER THINGS CARVED OIJT OP SOLID BLOCKS OF WOOD. Wonderful Ships, Puzzles in Bottles and Other Wonders. A Biddeford, Me., Correspondent of the Boston Globe says :—Almost twelve ; years ago Alfred Armstrong, of this city—then a resident of Lake Village, j N. H., gave up all oridinary pursuits and began to devote his entire time and energies to the carvings from solid blocks of wood with no other tool than an ord.n aiy jackknife. Armstrong always pos- j sensed the ingenuity commonly supposed to belong to the genuine Down-east Yankee, and his knife and pine stick had been his inseparable companions during leisure hours from his youth up. Having raised a good sized family of children until they were big enough to turn to and help support the family, he concluded to forsake ordinary labors al together, and spend the remainder of his days in the gratification of his whit tling genius. Prom the fashioning of small toys he turned his attention to carving likenesses of every thing that presented itself for a model, from big, 1 solid blocks of wood, carefully preserv- | ing every specimen of his handiwork, whether good, bad or indifferent. With-! in the past five years his oldest son, who inherits his father's peculiar inolinaiion, | developed such ingenuity and patience • that he, too, graduated from common labor, and united with his father with equally patient devotion in his original craft. "To-day they have a big lent full of curiosities and travel about the country at the beaches and fairs exhibiting their museum of wooden wonders, with finan cial returns which are not nearly pro portionate to the patience and toil which their curiosities represent. Their art seems to have been particularly de voted to the production in wood of all kinds of animal life. Every species of bird, quadruped or replile upon which their eyes over fell has been cut out of j solid wood with their jaokknives, sand paper being the only other thing used 1 in their work. A few of their figures are jointed, instead of being entirely carved, but those joints are fashioned with the jackknife in all cases, and never is nail, screw or glue used. Some of the oh ects are as truo to nature us any ever produc ed by the ordinary methods of the sculp tor, and others are executed with an ap parent carelessness which any school boy could imitate. Some are handsomely ornamental, and all would find ready sa'e as toys, but to the owner they are treasures beyond price, and ho cannot be induced to part with even the most insignificant, and, as he continually keeps up his whittling, his stock of curi osities is constantly increasing. No painter or sculptor was ever move wrap ped up in his art or more enthusiastic over his productions than this old fellow, now about 65 years of age. who has been in poverty all his life, and who doesn't appear ambitious to better his condit ion. Among his curiosities are all sorts of puzzles cut out or put together in small necked bottles. In one is a man sawing wbod, with saw and saw horse, which closely till the space of tho bottle. 111 another is a yoke of cattle neatly carved, with a mail standing beside them. In another is a ship, and in another a house. How tlie.se things got inside the bottles is an inexplicable puzzle to those who have looked over the old man's collection, and he does not give any light upon the matter. Besides these puzzles and his wooden menagerie are houses which are almost, big enough for dog kennels, and which might almost serve as models of modern architecture, all of one piece and carved from a solid block. There are also boxes and cases composed of hun dreds of different kinds of woods, firm y inlaid and finely finished. The most remarl able piece of tin's kind of work is a violin case made of 2,030 pieces of wood ot 10G di Here lit kinds. Of his puzzles, perhaps tho most mysterious is a big snake inside a g'ass jar, cut out. in a coil which almost com pletely tills the inside. The neck of this jar is perhaps one inch in diameter, and a b r g wooden stopple is put down through and locked underneath with i wooden pin. One ot the best carvings is a yoke of oxen hitched to a hay-rack, in which rides a man. The whole thing is about three feet in length and half as high, and, like all his other works, was cutout of a solid block, even to the rack and cart- wheels. Several times he has attempted to re produce pictures in his carvings, ami the handsomest thing among hisob'ects was made in this manner. His sub oct was a picture of three Russians in a double-seated a'edge drawn by a pair of horses and pursued by half a do/en wolves. I pon this, as well as some others of Ids best pieces, he has used paint after the work was finished, much to the improvement of its e' oet The pair of horses on the dead run are | er fectly modelled, and even the ex uVs sions upon the faces of the riders lias been reproduced by his knife. The wolves, also, true to life, are jumping at the back of the sledge, and tho man upon tho rear seat has half arisen and is in the act of firing upon them from a revolver. One of the men upon the front seat ho'ds the reins and tho other is urging tho horses on with a whip. Reins, whip, team, men and wolves are all one piece of wood, the whole thing being about two feet long and eight inches high. Mr. Armstrong h'mself admits that this is his mastcrpie o. His exhibit is certainly novel and wonderlul, and tho patience and ingenuity of the man who fashioned the objects is indisputably j displayed, yet one can not help thinking 1 how much more profitable the same amount of labor might have been had it been expended in another direction. Pearl Fishing in the Pacific, Writing from New Zealand, a corres pondent of the Now York Times soya: Perhaps the most lucrative of a 1 the en terprises of thoSouthldi ific is that of t" e 1 pearl and pearl-shell fisheries, in which large fortunes have alrea ly been ma chiefly through the icceiit great demand for the mother of pearl in Europe, where, w.thin a few years, its utility has been demons'rated in a thousand directions before unsuspected. Pro digious profits were made on the shores of North Australia until the Govern ment, pandering to the demands of the "labor element, prevented tho men engaged in tho enterprise from em ploying the only labor that could be got for such a purpose. Even be" or opportunities exist in tho South Sea Isl ands, for tho shell is equally good, la bor is obtainable on the spot, and food is produced spontaneously at the scene of operations. In favorable situations —as in the branches of clean-growing coral and where thore ic. little or no sand to diH turb the oysters -they often attain pro digious size, not infrequently measuring a yard in the diameter of their open valves. Sometimes a dozen of those | are linke'l together, and, if they con i tain pearls, are sure to have the largest in size, shapeliest in form and purest in lustre. The oysters which produce the greatest number of pearls, however, are I thick, stunted and deformed, which I seems to indicate that the formation of j pearls is due to some disease in the ani-; mal. Strangely enough, however, the ! finest pearls are often found in the 1 healthiest oysters. In former times, j | when tradition began first to be prac ; ticed with the natives, many very large j j pearls were secured which the savages had found and placed in their temple s not from any notion of their value, but because it WAS the'r habit to pla e | : the largest of everything, whether co- j I coanut, erab, oyster, or what not before j 1 their gods. The seductions of beads, j rum and red calico led to these things j being withdrawn from the place where j thev had lain for generations and given | to the traders—foolish people, who re- | gar od them as having value. As for , pearl shell, the natives were more than ! delighted to give half a ton of it for a| single tomahawk, and some groups, like ; Paumotus, have exported as much as a | thousand tons a year the hist quarter of j a century, representing a value in Eu rope of over $3,000,000. Although this particular group does not now export ; 'over two hundred tons of shell a year. ; there are plenty of others possessing ■ vast deposits that have never been i touched, and should yield equally large returns. If, also, any means could be l devised for excavating and sifting the | , sand of old beds, great value of pearls : could doubtless be found, since the number wlfch fall to the bottom from dying and decaying oysters largely ex ; ceeds that which has been brought to the surface by the pearl fishers. The Polynesians are most expert pearl fishers and do not use any stone to s nk themselves, or an}' apparatus to c ose j their nostrils, as do the Cingalese. They can remain under water over three min- ; utes, and bring up shell from a dep'li of 120 feet- although not liking the ; undertaking, and needing to be paid j extra for it, The cost of raising shell by this means is about $25 a ton. THE POTLACH. A Feast Celebratsd by Indians in British Columbia. The Canadian Government have been advised that great preparations are being made among the Indian tribes of British Columbia for the largest "Potlach" or "Give Away Feast-" i hat has ever been hold 011 the Pacific Coast, which is to come off on the northern extremity of Vancouver Island, near Fort Rupert, on Christmas Day. The Potlach will be given by Capt. Jim, an aged Indian chief, known from 011 c end ot' the pro vince to tho other. Tho articies to be lent comprise 6,G00 blankets, 800 pairs 01 silver bracelets (Indian make), forty largo canoes, and muck amuck galore, in all valued at §IO,OOO. .For this $lO,- 000 Capt. Jim, according to native cus tom. will receive within two years §20,- 000. The potlach will embrace nineteen tribes residing between fjuulicum and Fort Rupert. This will make the one hundredth potlach Capt. Jim has given, and he now intends to eclipse nil former efforts in that line. The centurion hero of the potlach is about 05 years of age, of line physique, and speaks English with re markable fluency. In his last annual report the Superintendent General uf Indian Affairs ca Is attention to the wretched heathen feus , as he oal's the po.lach, which is entailing great loss of proper.y and time among the Indians of the Pacific coast, and which, he believes, is at the root of all the vices anu ng them, tho older members of the tribes taking the opportunity at these gather ings to intimidate the younger ones who show any desire for reformation. In commenting upon tliese gatherings the Superintendent-General says : " The older members of the various bands are strongly wedded to tho cele bration of tho heathen least known as the 'Potlach,' and to indulging in a ' medicine dance,'which is designated 'Tamanawas.' As these feasts and dances are prohibited by the law and tho celebration of them is dec ared to be a 111 sdomennor, .t is hoped that the visiting superintendent for the Province and the local agent will adopt early and vigorous measures to cause tho law in this respect to be enforced in the case of violators of tho same in this agency, and that similar steps will be taken 111 other places where the law is vioVed by the celebration of tliese prohibited heathenish ceremonies. "lii regard to the pot'ach, there are tokens thai it must soon undergo a marked change or gradually die out. The reason for this is that of late years blankets have so depredated in value that few if anv new b uiikets are bought, as the purchase en'.uils a loss. Kew blankets cannot bo purchased for less than lift2.ro a pair, and they are only wor.h Jirl.ro among themselves : conse quently they are becoming very scarce, and money is gradually taking tin ir plae. While visiting the Mur-nia-iil li-kulia tribe recently it was fore b!v impressed upon inc. as small pieces of stick were often given in lieu of blan kets, to be redeemed as soon as the man was able. 1 also saw a good deal of silver given away, perhaps as much as JSH()O or #4OO, at n potacli that took phi c while I win there. The advices received from British Columbia would not appear to indicate that the Mi erintondent t eneral's hopes arc to bo realized f Cr.pt. .Jim succeeds in evading Government interference in carrying out tie great potlaoh he has arranged for Christmas. Appalling Heresy. The following anecdote, about a fa motis old characier in Whitley County, Ky., is going the rounds. .Joshua i ar ne t was a wag and a re igious or .tor, ami possessed a prodigious memory. "(no e .Josh, a; he was generailv ca-led, had an appointment to piea -h one Sunday at an out oi the way log school-house in his neighbourhood, and two noted lights of a rival denomina tion attended the me ting for the pur pose of criticising the sermon. Cne was named Jones, the other Wurman. Uncle .Josh, who, it appears, was aware of their intentions, concluded to checkmate them, and instead of preaching a ser mon lie began repeating from memory, and without any comment whatever, one of the Epistles of St. Paul ; for nearly nil hour chapter after chapter fell l'roni his lips, accompanied by grave and de corous gesture and intona ion. Brother Jones, at the end of some thirty min utes, arose with grave disapproval writ ten all over his face, retired from the house, and took a seat in the yard upon a barkless and prostrate tree which was used as a horse-block. Brother War man stood it some ten minutes longer, j when he, too, arose and joined Brother Jones. 4 Well, Brother Warman, what |do you think of such a sermon If' said ' Brother Jones. 1 Think If' said Brother Warman, • why, I think that if the good Lord will forgive me thin time for listen ing to such rotten doctrine, I will never be guilty again.' " Changes in Nature. That it is necessary to make changes in nature nobody will dispute. That Manhattan Island should have remain ed a wilderness was clearly impossible. Changes being required, it behooves us to find how to make them without dis turbing the beauty of the landscape, and how to improve the materials nature lias so bountifully provided. This is what the breeder of fine horses, dogs and cows, the landscape gardener, the fiorist, the seedsman and the archi tect are ail trying t > do. In this way dogs have developed frcra wolves and jackals, and the cat shows considerable of the qualities of her ancient ancest >r. The wild horse of the p'aius lias been refined into the more gentle road horse of the j resent day. The landsca o gardener's duty is to study the curs and slopes of the hills in nature, that ho may reproduce tlieni in the laying out of the lawns and grounds; it is essentially a work of re production, for it is not possible for him to improve upon nature; at best, ho can only copy her. N'ot so with the florist. It is his mis sion to improve, or at least at einpt to, on nature. Nature's Dowers are usually small or single. The fiorist tries to make them larger, and often to make them double. By selection of seeds from plauts exhibiting peculiar phenomena, either on account of size, odor, color or shape, he lius transformed the white rose into a cabbage, having but few of the natural charact eristics. This is a doubtful improvement, but the culti vated violet is sweeter than a wild one, the best strains of pansy are more bril liant than the johnny-.ump-up, and the double balsam is pret- er than its single progenitor. There is hardly a single slower cultivated in our gar lens but has a prototype, often quite distinct, in the fields and meadow s. So it is also with the seedsman. Un der liis cure tlie p tato has beco i e a ! staple vegetable, the cauliflower has risen from the cabbage, which in turn had oome from a wholly different parent, and the tomato has been introduced and wonderfully changed within the memory of many now living. This is what has been done in the past, and in the near future, doubtless, much more will be done. At pr sent we have many trees, notably the oaks, which re tain their leaves in a driet and brown condition almost till spring. Even in the same species some indi vidual tree* keep their foliage much bet ter t an others. If, then, we plant the seeds of those which keep their, leaves the longest, and ol the new generation select the trees which exhibit this phenomenon the most strongly,and plant their seeds, who can doubt l>u L that oaks and o'her trees could be grown that would not lose their foliage until the new leaves began to come. How beauti- : ful would a giove of evergreens look set | off by the dark brown leaves, one can readily imagine. The architect has a similar duty. Iu the country, he must build houses that will not injure the beauty of tho land- 1 scape. In the city he must erect build- j ings which will remind one of the rest ; and pcaeofulness of the green fields, the grandeur of tho cliffs and over auging ledges, the harmony of color in the gray and eafless woods, and the beaut/ of j the flowers that blossom in tho meadows. | Manners of the Moors, The manners of tho Moors are, with slight differences, those of the more civ ilized Arabs everywhere Their houses are in tho same style of architecture, the gardens are the same, the ensine similar, with its staple difli of koussa, and its'cakes, fruit and confectionery. The dro-s is that which is seen, with trivi '1 differences of fashion, through- | out Northern Africa and in Arabia. The Hebrew quarter is a conspicuous feature of all cities n Morocco. It is surround ed by a wall, whose gates are closed at 8 o'clock every evening. A eerta 11 cos tume is obligatory to distinguish tl em from the Mussulmans. They are al ways li ble to insult when seen in other quarters. If a Mohamniolan boy sp ts in the faco of an aged Hebrew or pulls his hoary beard nothing is thought of it. Formerly they were obliged to go barefoot in tii • streets, but no v they are permitted to wear slippers, which, how ever, they are forced to remove w hen they ara before a mosque. They must never be in sight when the Sultan pas ses. The use iff' arms is not permitted them. Tliev are only allowed to ride on mules, and only then in tho country, while as to public positions it is hardly necessary to say that they are never thought of in that connection. Not withstanding all this they are commer cially active, very rich and engaged in tlie most important enterprises. Their complete emancipation will only bo pos sib'o, however, when Moro co falls en tirely under the domin'on of one or sev eral European powers.—[Sun Francisco Chronicle. Greenbacks Reduced to Pulp. All the money that is made in the Bu renu of Engraving and Printing at Washington, except tho national bank notes. generally finds its way back to bo ground into pulp. In the basement there is a great; cylinder into which tlie redeemed notes are put in tho presence of a committee; there are three locks to tliis cylinder, the keys held by different men. and there is 110 danger of a single dollar coming out whole after tho keys have been turned and the macerating process begins. When the pulp is taken out of the cylinder it is a dirty mass and is subjeo ed to a cleansing to get the ink out of it. Then it is pressed into thick sheets, dried, and sold to tho paper-mills, which use it in making a coarse grade of 1 aper. A small quantity of it is used in making souvenirs of l Washington. In the basement is also the laundry where the cloths that the 1 plate-printers use in wiping tho plates are washed. This washing is all done bv machinery, because the acids in tno inks eat the hands. Domestic Service. In 1831 there wore in the United King dom 1,000,' 00 eenan s; in 1881 'their number was c nlv a few over a mi.lion and a quarter. More sign ficant sti'l is the circumstance that while during tlie dec ide 1871-81 the genera l popu'ation increased by more than M per cent., the ranks of the domestic servants were re inforced by less than 1 per cent. This is not because the great households call for fewer servants than they did in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but is duo solely to the propagation of democratic and socialistic ideas '1 he majority of the domestics spring from respectable mechanic and artisan homes, which are tlie very centre of democratic government. It is interesting to noticp that like causes are producing like effects in both Great Britain and the United States.—[Good Housekeeping. A Peculiar Pig. In t-lio year 1821, Czar Alexander vis- I itod the fortifications in the ( r moa. He i went personally to tlie qnar ersof each j company at dinner time to see how they fared. Wherever he went he found an j excellent dinner on the table, the prin- | ciple feature of the meal bring a small roast pig. Prince Wolohonsky, who occompnn- | iel the Czar was of a suapici us nature, J and itoceurre 1 to him that it was ratlier i peculiar that each mess should have a roasf pig, so he slyly cut oft* the pig's tail and put it in his pocket. In tin; liex* quar'ers they visited I there was a roost pig on the table, but lo I and behold! it didn't have any tail. 1 Prince Wolohonsky remarked to the j Czar that ho thought the pig was an old acquaintance, and when the Czar asked j him what he meant, he produced the missing tail and fi ted it to the ampu tated stump of the porker. As soon as the roast pig had been inspected in one 1 house, before the Czar could reach the next, it was whisked out the back door and made to figure on the next table 1 that was inspected. Prince Wolohonsky had good cause j to repent of his curiosity as lie acquired j the eternal enmity of the General in j command of the Crimea, and even the Czar himself trea ed him with coldness and neglect e\ov afterwards. —[Siftings. The Great Paris Pawn Shops. The annual report of the Board which j administers the monts-de pietr, or estab lishments at which money is lent upon j objects placed in pawn, is to the efi'ect ; that during the past year (1888) 1,510, ; 950 articles were pledged for a sum of .1'1,425,357, and 780,384 objects pledged ; anew for a sum of 1845.445. The num. ! ber of objects sold was 177,415, and they produced a total of about £IBO,OOO. The greater part of tlie articles pledged were for sums of from six to ten francs, j and then came the article* pledged for | from throe to four francs. Only 1.77 ! per cent, of the wlio'e amount lent was in sums between £2O and £4O, while the proportion on podges over £4O was but j 1.23 per cent. The Hoard of Directors | calculates that tlie total reduction tn | persons who have pledged goods with n tlie last two years, brought about, by the I gradual dim nutlon of the rate of inter- | est, is at least £( 8,()()(>, and they propose to obtain the sanction of the next French j Chamber to two other measures, one for i loans upon negotiable securities, which j will be of benefit to small invest >rs. and the other for the reorganization of the j system of appraising the articles offered j in pledge. —[London Times. Queen Victoria's Crown. Queen Victoria's crown, kept with i other royal regalia under strong guard j at the old Tower, and worn only on | State occasions, is one of the most costly i insignias now in existence. To begin ! with, there are twenty diamonds around 1 tlie circlet or head-band, each worth 87,500, or 8150,000 for the set. Besides these twenty there are two extra large centre diamonds, each valued at .810, 000, making $20,000 more; fifty-four smaller diamonds, placed at the angles of the others, each valued at 8500; four crosses, each worth #<>o,ooo, and com posed of twenty-five diamonds; four large diamonds on top of crosses, each having a money value of 8",000; twelve diamonds in tlie fleur-da-lis, #50,000; eighteen smaller diamonds contained in the same, #10,000; pearls' diamonds and rubies upon arches and circlets, not mentioned before, 850,000; also forty one small diamonds, formed in roses and monograms, 825,000; twenty-six diamonds in upper cross, #15,500; two j circles of | earls about the rim of the j head piece, 815,0 K) each. The total money value of this relic in any jeweler's , market in the world would be at least ■ 8000,000, metal and all included. A Limbless Politician. H. Kavnnogh, who is lying seriously ill in London, and who sa for many years in Parliament for the County of Curlow, Ireland, was, says The Dundee Advertiser, physically speaking, the most extraordinary man that ever sat in the House of Commons. We have had, and still have, blind men in Parliament, and deaf men are more common than the constituents expect. Mr. Kavanngh had all his senses, but he was without arms and legs. He had to be carried into his soat in Parliament. He ad dressed tho house always sitting, and was allowed to vote without going into the lobby. He was by no means a silent member. He spoke frequently 011 I rish questions, and sat on quite a number of select committees—a special lift having been constructed to raise him to the level of tho corridor in which the committee rooms are placed. He was a man of some mental - vigor, but his parliamen'ary efforts were concen trated in the defense of Tory and land lord ascendancy in Ireland. A Wonderful Dog, A gentleman employed at a colliery a few miles from Glasgow Scotland, had a dog called Jimmy, which ho parted with to a fr end at a colliery some miles distant The two oflices are conno ted by telephone, and tho other morning the gentleman rang up his friend and asked how Jimmy was doing. "Oh, he's tine," was the answer: "he's at my feet just now; I'll hold him up and see if he knows your voice." This was done, and the former owner shouted over tho wire, "Hillo, Jimmy!" Jimmy made no sign of recognition, but on being set down again he at once made for tho door, and when his old master went home to dinner the dog was there to welcome him. If SufTVrcr* from Consumption, Scrofula,, Hron Litis nn<l General Debility will try Scott'h K.MUl.bfon of Cod .ver Oil With Hypoplio-jphites, they will find immediate re li f and permanent 1> noflt. The Medical I'r<- ft-ssion universa ly declare it a remedy of ih irreatest value and very palatable. 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Don't hawk, hawk, bow, spit and disgust everybody v.it.h your offensive breath, but use Dr. Sato's Catarrh Uoaiedy and end it. Kerosene will Hoften hoots and shoes that ' have heen hnrtlenetl h.v water, and render ' tliemaspliul.le a. new. Oregon, the Pnrndlsc or Farmers. Mild, equable climat .certain and abundant Wops. Best fruit, (Train, grass and stock coun try in the world. Full information free. Ad-; dress Oregon Im'Jgraf'n Board. I'ortland. Ore. | It iH said that large quantities of so-called j wine are yearly manufactured in France from | dried currants. If afflicted with M>ro yes uo Dr. Isaac Thomp ion's Eye-Water- Druggists sell 25c. per bottle ' \ A copy of John Eliot's Bible has been . purchased by the trustees of the British . Musuuiu. _ A man who has practiced medicine for 40 years ought to know salt from sugar; read what lie says: Toi.edo, 0., Jan. 10, 1887. Messrs. F. J. Cheney <& Co.—Gentlemen:—l ' have been in the general practice of medlcino for most 40 years, and would say that in all my practice and experience, have never seen a preparation that I could prescribe with as much confidence of success as 1 can Hall's Ca tarrh Cure, manufactured by you. Have pre scribed it a great many times and its effect is I wonderful, and would say in conclusion tbat I have yet to find a case of Catarrh that it would not cure, if they would take it accord ing to directions. Yours Truly, L. L. GORSUCTT, M. D. Office, 215 Summit Wo will give SIOO for any case of Catarrh that cannot bo cured with Hull's Catarrh Cure. Taken internally. F. J. ChunßY & Co., Props., Toledo, G. fciy" Sold by Druggists, 75c. A First Folio of Shakespeare was sold re cently iu New York for $1,400 to an unknown purchaser. You wear out clothes on a wash board ten timen as much us on the body; llow foolish. Buy Ih.bl)!i.sS Klertrir Snap of your grocer and save this usel ss wear. Made ever ainoe IHH. Don't take imitation. There are lo sot them. There lias been a great increase in the de mand for candy in England, owing to Ameri can importations. U45 Catarrh in the Head Originates lu scrofulous taint la tho blood. Hence I the proper method by which to euro cutarrh Is U> purify the bfood. Its many disagreeable symptoms and thodauger of developing Into bronchitis or that terribly fatal disease, consumption, are entirely re moved by Hood's SursnparlUu, which cures caturrh by purifying tho blood; It also tones up the system and greatly Improves the general heulth. Try tho "peculiar medicine." "I have used Hood's Sarsaparllla for catarrh with very satisfactory results. I received more perms l uent benefit from It thau from any other remedy I I ever tried."—M. E. Kicad, of A. Head & Son, i Wauseon, Ohio. Hood's Sarsaparilla i Bold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only ! by C. I. IIOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. [ IQO Poses One Dollar lit! 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