NO HURRY.
The way some folks puts things off beats cre
ation.
Now there was Cy Lunt had a likely pup,
Ard as he had no other occurpailon,
He lowed he'd kind of train tho criltcr up
Now, this yere pup was blooded, rtg'lar
pointer;
If he'd bin trained—pshaw Ho'd a mado
things hum;
And Cy. ho always eald, he wuza-goln' ter
Train bim, when he had rested Jest a
crumb;
Squire Jones kept pigeons, an' It made him
madder
Than a March hare, to see that pointer
pranco
A yelpin' through the pasture for tholr shad
der,
An' never give the flyln' birds a glance.
Nigh on four year Cy had that dog, lntcndln'
To edercate him. ez Uo would a child; •
Till folks said: "Sho' ho'Jl never be wuth
londin',"
For usefulness he wuz entirely spiled.
Now one thing seems to me still wus, an' sad
der.
Than that tho dog was 'lowed ter tako false
scent-
That is. Uls master hankered for some shud
der
Instead of his work the Almighty meant
—Arthur Howard Kali, in Detroit Froo Press.
MRS. BUSBY'S IDOLS.
11Y HOrB DARING).
Mr. Joseph Busby eyed the sk£ as he
leisurely walked from the barn to the
house. The morning sun was veiled
by a fleecy • mist, while low in the
southwest a bank of dark gray clouds
was visible.
After his prolonged scrutiny, Mr.
Busby pondered the matter. It was
not until he had washed his hands and
face on the back kitchen porch and en
tered tho room whore his wife was
taking up the breakfast, that he said:
"'Pears like it might ram."
"That is what you always say if
there's a cloud in the sky," Mrs. Busby
said tartly. "I'll thank you to lift
that boiler on, just the same."
"Goen to wash? It's most certain to
rain."
"Let it rain. I haven't any patience
with such weather," and Mrs, Busby
rushed down cellar after a pitcher of
cream.
Iler husband never hurried. Ho put
the boiler carefully on tho stove, built
up a good fire, and, in obedience to a
gesture from his wife, took his place
at the table.
Mr. Busby always thought before he
spoke. This time, after a brief but
earnest blessing, he devoted himself to
ham, eggs and potatoes for five min
utes before saying in his usual drawl
ing voice:
"That was a powerful sermon of tho
elder yistcrday, Mirandy. I always
thought that text about Epliraim been
jined to his idols might apply to sonv
of us. Most everybody has idols of
some sort or other."
Mrs. Busby stirred her golden brown
coffee reflectively. "Perhaps so. I
hope the people who needs it took Mr.
Ranton's fine application. As for mo I
once had an idol, but God took it."
There was a pause. The thoughts of
both husband and wife traveled to the
parlor where hung the picture of a
child, a wee maiden with laughing blue
ej'es and dimpled arms. It was the
picture of little Leah, their only child,
whose death twenty years before had
left the old farm home desolate.
Mr. Busby's heart was too deeply
stirred by memories of his child to
speak. But when a dash of rain came
against the window pane his wife ex
claimed crossly:
[ "There, it's raining. And if I don't
wash Monday nothing goes right all
the week."
"'Tain't an idol, Is it, Mirandy?" The
good man of the house pushed back
from the table. "Now, it don't 6ecm
jest right to be so sot as you air on
tloen your work exactly as you want
to. It 'pears to ijie it might be an
idol."
"What un ideal Just look there,
Joseph. See that dirty spot on the
tablecloth where you've rubbed your
old coat sleeve. This tablecloth was
clean yesterday morning and now il
must go in the wash, making three
this week. I do wish you would be
more careful."
"Why, now, Mirandy, I do try to be
careful. I wish you would use colored
tablecloths. I thought you bought
some turkey red ones."
"Yes, I did buy them," and a look of
disgust crossed the face opposite Mr.
Busby. "Hut I want it understood I
am not going to use 'em. I will work
my fingers to the bone before I'll set
my table with anything but a white
cloth," and she the glossy linen
approvingly.
"I know, Mirandy, but maybe that's
another idol. You see, you think a
sight of such things."
"Now, Joseph Ilusby, if you are go
ing to talk such nonsense as that you
better get to work. Just see there.
The sun is shining. *So you see it was
right for me to wash after all."
"Maybe so," and the eyes of the
simple-hearted man softened as he
looked through the east window at the
sun-kissed young foliage from which the
rain drops were yet falling. "Maybe so,
Mirandy. You air an uncommon
woman and have been a good wife to
me for twentj'-sevon years. You hain't
got many idols, Mirandy, not half as
many as I have. llut this always
thinken your way is best —"
"See here, Joseph Busby," there was
an undertone of almost fierceness in
her voice. "I think such twisting of
the Scriptures'is sinful. If I have idols,
I can tend to 'em, that's all," and Mrs.
Busby strode into her bedroom and
shut the door violently.
When she returned to the kitchen
she was ijg possession of the field.
Joseph had gone to his work.
"High time," she sniffed; "idols, in
deedl"
She put her clothes to soak, and car
ryingl her dishes into the pantry began
washing them. Her thoughts were not
pleasant ones; the frown on her face
told that. The window before which she
stood was cohered with a thick growth
of morning glory vines. A few of the
daintily twisted buds, unhepding the
threatening of storm, had opened their
pink, blue and white cups and peered
in at the flushed face of the worker.
But Mr, Busby was too busy, too dis
turbed Vy her husband's words to no
tice the.r beauty.
"I don't see what possessed Joseph
to say that," she said, as she began
rubbing' her clothes. "I gave up the
only idol 1 ever-had twenty years ago.
I—"
She stopped abruptly "Of course,
it's that letter,*' she went on, after a
brief pause. "But he is wrong. It isn't
Idols that keep me from doing my—"
Again she stopped. She had almost
said duty. A week before a letter had
come from a little town in Kansas to
Mr. Busby. The letter contained news
of the death of Mrs. Emma Hale, a dis
tant cousin of Joseph. Mrs. Hale was
a widow and left one child, a boy. two
years old. The writer, a neighbor of
the dead woman, went on to say she
could care for the child 110 longer, and
if his relatives did not come for him he
would be sent to the poorhouse. Joseph
pondered the matter a day and a night,
lie then coolly proposed sending for
the child and adopting it. His wife
flatly refused. What—a child, a two
year old baby, to make litter on her
clean floors and upset her orderly plan
of life?
"You must be crazy, Joseph," she
said, severely. "If it was a girl, now,
and big enough to be out from under
foot, I might think of it. But there
Ijaiu't no use talking about it."
Joseph Busby rarely opposed his
wife, even in so small a matter as talk
ing when she bade him bo silent. How
ever, this time he said:
"We air growen old, Mirandy. The
baby would be something to love us."
These words came back to Mrs. Bus
by as she bent over the wash tub. Did
she and Joseph need something to love
them? She thought of the rambling
old house with its many rooms, of the
fertile acres surrounding it, and of the
comfortable bank account. Then her
mind wandered to the distant ceme
tery where a white marble cross
marked her baby's grave.
"I couldn't give Leah's place to an
other," she whispered. "And yet ho
might make a place for himself. Oh,
ray baby, I miss her still."
Withdrawing her hands from the
suds, Mrs. Busby crossed the sitting
room and entered the parlor. No one
knew, not even her husband, how
many troublesome questions the
mother settled before her child's pic
ture.
iShe opened the blinds and looked
long and earnestly at the laughing
baby face.
"Do you want mo to, dear?" sho
asked tearfully. "Do you want me to
take a noisy, troublesome boy into this
home? Is it an idol, Leah, iny want
ing everything so quiet and orderly?"
Ten minutes lator she was back at
her washing. The parlor blinds were
-closed and all things wero as they had
been excepting Mrs. Busby's cj'es;
there was a new- light in their gray
deptjis. At half-past nine tho last
clothes were on the line. Returning
from hanging tliem out, Mrs. Busby
found a neighbor, Mr. Vance, atr the
door.
"I've been down to the station," he
said, "and tho eight o'clock train
brought a baby for you, or Busby,
rather."
"A what!" demanded Mrs. Busby,
catching her breath.
"A baby." It was plain to see that
Mr. Vance was enjoying the situation.
"A woman who was going cast on a
visit brought it from Kansas. Said it
belonged to some of Busby's folks.
She left it in care of the ticket agent
and he sent it over by inc. It's down
to the road in my wagon, and a trunk,
too. The little fellow has cried most
ever since the woman left him."
Mrs. Busby took down lior green
gingham sunbonnet and prepared to
follow him out' to the wagon without
u word.
"Was you expecting it?" Mr. Vance
asked, somewhat disappointed at her
quietness.
"Not to-day," she replied, briefly.
It was a plump, but tear-stained lit
tle face that met her eager gaze.
Tliero were great blue eyes, a rosy
mouth and closely-curling yellow hair.
But the child was unmistakably dirty
and began crying again in a piteous
fashion.
Mrs. Busbv held up. her arms.
"Come to auntie, dear," she said coax
ingly. "You want some bread and
milk, don't you, and to see the dear
little chickens?"
At the same leisurely gait of tho
morning Mr. Busby again traversed
the path from the barn to the house.
Miranda's line of snowy clothes dry
ing in the sun brought to his mind tho
conversation of the morning, but ho
expected no reference to it from his
wife. A surpriso awaited him. Tho
table was laid for three, and at tho
guest's place stood a clumsy little
high chair that for twenty years had
stood empty in an upper room. And
on the floor sat a happy faced child
surrounded by clothes-pins, empty
bottles, a disused candlestick and a
like collection of impromptu play
things.
"Who —who is that, Mirandy?"
"Joey Ilale Busby," was Miranda's
prompt reply, and picking up the
child she put it in her husband's
arms. "There, Joey dear, make
friends with Uncle Joseph. Ho is tho
dearest little fellow," she went on,
"so cunning and not a bit afraid."
"But I don't understand," and
Joseph Busby's arms closed tenderly
around the littlo orphan.
The story was soon told.
"Of course, we'll keep him, and do
the best we can by liim," Mrs. Busby
said byway of conclusion. "Dinner is
ready and the green peas and custard
pie will taste good to little Joey. 1
guess you were right 'bout my idols,
Joseph," stopping to fasten a towel
around the child's neck in lieu of a
bib, "but they are overthrown. Now
I'll try and not make an idol of Joey."
"You air a remarkable woman, Mir
andy," Mr. Busby said, wiping his
eyes. "I have always said you was a
remarkable woman, and I'm a leetle
afraid I am niaken an idol of you."—
N. Y. Observer.
LUMBER.
A CUBIC foot of green live oak weighs
78.75 pounds; after two years' drying its
weight is reduced to 00.75.
"BELTING" a tree —that is, killing it
by destroying the bark in a eirele
around the trunk—injures it for lumber.
IT is possible in some cases to assist
the process of seasoning by dissolving
the sap of wood by immersion in water.
THE beauty of the bird's-eye maple
arises from the contortions of its fibers.
The cause of this peculiarity is un
known.
tfllE weight of a cubic foot of cork is
fifteen pounds. Cork is the bark of a
species of Spanish oak, and not prop
erly a wood.
YELLOW stains in either timber or
lumber are an indication of dry rot, and
ire regarded as an injury to the tree or
wood.
MAPLE is not so light as is generally
supposed, weighing 40.87 pounds to tho
3ubic foot, a little more than locust or
hickory.
VIRGINIA white oak, green, weighs
17.7 pounds to the cubic foot; in two
years' time its weight will be reduced
to 49.0 pounds. ■
MAHOGANY, one of the hardest of
woods, is also one of the slowest to sea
son; pine, one of the softest, Is ainoug
the quickest.
A CUBIC foot of the best English oak
when green weighs 71 pounds lOmraces;
v.*hen seasoned the wood is reduced to
43 pounds 8 ounces.
NICKNAMES.
Louis V. was The Idle, on account of
his laziness.
HOR.MLSDAS of Persia was The Nose
less, from a natural defect.
PEPIN, son of Charles Martel, was
The Short, from his small stature.
HAROLD I. of England vvat The Hare
foot, from his fleetness in running.
CHARLES 111. of Naples was The Lit
tle, because of his diminutive stature.
CHARLES VII. of France was The
Victorious. He won forty-seven battles.
EDGAR, the Saxon king of England,
was The Peaceable, from his dislike of
war.
JOHN of England was called Lack
land, from losing a large share of his
possessions.
FREDERICK 11. and Otto 111. of Ger
many were each styled The Wonder of
the World.
PF.TER IV. of Aragon was The Cere
monious, from his punctiliousness in
court etiquette.
PTOLEMY, king of Macedon, was The
Thunderbolt, from the vigor of his mil
itary movements.
CHARLES VI. of France was hated by
his people, and in derision was termed
The Well Beloved.
ALPIIONSO 11. of Leon was denomi
nated The Chaste. No scandal was
ever alleged against him.
CHARLES 111. of France was in de
rision called The Simple, or The Fool,
on account of his stupidity.
ENGLISH.
AN Athenian-society has been formed
in London for the purpose of printing
privately literal and absolutely com
plete and unexpurgated English trans
lations of Greek authors.
NICOTINE poisoning from eating
grapes from vines fumigated with pure
nicotine made many persons sick re
cently in Dorchester, England. None
of the eases proved fata)..
CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE on the Thames
embankment is sealing off; it is sug
gested that The same means he used to
prevent this that were used in preserv
ing the obelisk in Central park.
FOR swearing in members in the
house of commons tho revised version
of the Bible is used for Protestants,
the Douai version for Catholics and a
copy in Hebrew for Jews.
A RED-POLLED cow at Whitlingham,
England, has yielded milk continuous
ly since she ceased calving, five years
ago, her record being thirteen thou
sand seven hundred and thirty-four
quarts of milk of the first quality. No
other case like this is known.
FARMING.
THE best rice-producing state is Lou-
Isana, having 84,377 acres producing
75,045,433 pounds.
THE farms of Missouri produced In
the census year tin estimated product
of 8109,751,024.
THE first buckwheat state Is New
York, with 280,029 acres and 4,075,735
bushels of product.
THE first state as an oat producer is
Illinois, with 3,870,702 acres und 137,-
324,828 bushels.
THE buckwheat of Missouri In the
census year amounted to 2,802 acres and
28,440 bushels.
THE vulue of tho farm products of
New England has steadily declined for
a number of years.
MISSOURI produced, according to tho
last census year, 308,807 bushels of rye
from 24,283 acres.
THERE were 93,425 ocres of broom
corn sown in 1889, and 33,557,429 pounds
of product raised.
PEBBLES.
"MAMMA, ain't Deacon Dal ton a
funny man?" "Why, Jimmy, what did
he do?" "In church to-day lie took his
hat around and showed it to every
body."—Chicago Record.
"DON'T you find it rather lonely
here," asked Chollj f , 'with nobody to
talk to?" "Yes," she replied, with a
vacant look into space; "and it'j get
ting worse every minute."—Washington
Star.
"I THINK," said the unsophisticated
man, "thut Goggins must he quite a
power in city politics. I was passing
his place yesterday and noticed in big
letters the word 'Pull' on his door."—
Boston Transcript.
"TALK about these horseless velil
rles," said Uncle Si, "I see 'em
loDg ago." "Why, pa." began Aunt
Mandy. "Oh, but I did. Don't you
remember the old ox cart we ro(>e to
our weddin' lu?"— lndianapolis Jour
lul.
Item of Kxpenfte.
"Hit mus' be a heap of expens ter
keepsceh or lot er duckings," said
Erastus Pinkley, as lie stopped at the
prate to cpst a glance at Farmer Corn
tossel's poultry yard.
"Oh, not such a greddeal," replied
Farmer Oorntossel.
"What am do principal items ob ex
pense?"
"Powder and shot." Washington
Star.
illi Grounds.
Manager of Telegraph Company—
You say you were a messenger boy for
this company fifty-five years ago and
was discharged for being too old?
Applicant—Yes, sir.
Manager—Then, upon what grounds
do you ask for reinstatement now?
Applicant—Why, I'm in my second
childhood.—N. Y. Journal.
In Sight.
"Ha, ha! ha, ha!" laughed the great
detective. "I have them now."
For five days he had been on the
trail, and had neither eaten nor slept.
He had done nothing but drink.
Under the circumstances his joyous
assertion that he had 'em bore the
similitude of verity. lndianapolis
Journal.
lladn't the Price.
Ho took her out to get ice cream,
His lovely frecklocl Kate
He fainted when he read the sign:
"Cream twenty-live a plaio."
—Cincinnati Enquirer
NATURAL SIMPLICITY.
"Mrs. Jones is a woman of very sim
ple tastes."
"Yes, I noticed that when—"
"Y'ou have never met her?"
"No, but 1 was introduced to her hus
band." —Boston Budget.
Loud Dredging.
"What's all that racket in the next
room?" asked Home wood, who was
calling upon his friend Ililand.
"That's my brother Tom dressing to
go out."
"Well, I've heard people say that
Tom dressed loudly, but I did not re
alize it before."-rPittsburgh Chronicle-
Telegraph. v
Had Keen a New Light.
Tramp Yes'm, it's hard to break
away from all yer bad habits at once;
but I've given up some of 'em.
Lady—Wiiich ones have you given
up?
Tramp Well, mum, I don't get
shaved on Sunday any more. —Brook-
lyn Life.
Modern Progress.
She—You have been away in the
country, haven't you?
He—Yes; visiting some people I used
to know when I was a boy.
She—Particular friends?
He—Oh, no—father and mother.—
Once a Week.
Not Hard is Suit.
"I want J'ou to remember, Banks,"
said Rivers, "that I have to pay fifty
cents a pound for that tobacco."
"I'd just as lief smoke a cheaper kind,
Rivers," cheerfully replied Banks, as
he went ahead tilling his big meer
schaum.—Chicago Tribune.
felffiiifW-unt Links.
"Ma, I really believe Edward means
business at last."
"Why, what has happened?"
"He gave me a pair of linked sleeve
buttons last night."—Cincinnati En
quirer.
A Real Pleasure.
Fuddy—How did you like Hammer
ton in Julius Caesar last night?
Duddy—Well, I can't say that he was
altogether satisfactory in the earlier
scenes; but it was a real pleasure to see
him die.—Boston Transcript.
Only Kind She Could Wear.
Beth—l wonder why Jennie Whirler
always wears flowers when she rider
her wheel?
May—Oh, J suppose she don't dare
to wear the other kind of bloomers.—
Bay City Chat.
How They Solved the Trouble.
"Smith and his wife quarreled right
along from the time they were engaged
until they got married."
"And then?"
"They got a divorce." Chicago
Record.
Putting It Fine.
Miss Anteelc—lie is the most insult
ing young man I ever met.
Miss Blossom—Did lie ask you how
old you were?
Miss Anteek—No. He asked me how
old I said I was.—Puck.
A Comfort.
"And it r%lly is true that Hetty's
husband keeps a gambling den 9 How
could she marry such a man?"
"It is awful; but Hetty says it is such
a comfort to know where he spends his
evenings."—Boston Transcript.
They All Do.
"Education shouldn't stop when a
woman gets married."
"No, indeed; I've learned a new lj\n>
guarge since George and I married."
"What language?"
"Baby talk."—Chicago Record.
I'roof Positive.
Lady Customer—Are you sure this is
real Ceylon tea?
Well-informed Young Salesman
Certainly, madam, Mr. Ceylon's name
every package.—Judge.
CANCER BY INOCULATION.
A Doctor Furnishes tho First Established
Case in This Country.
For the first time in the history of
medicine in this country has a complete
chain of inoculation from cancer been
established in the case of Dr. Edward
W. Burnette, of 115 West Thirty-fourth
street, New York, who now lies at
death's door. The woman from whom
he received the disease, as the result of
a rather careless aet after treating her
case, is also dying from cancer. She
called upon Dr. Burnette last autumn
with an irritation on tho tongue. The
doctor applied nitrate of silver with his
finger. Some time later he shaved him
self, and in doing so scrratched his left
cheek. To stop the- flow of bl6od ho
applied a powder with his finger. He
noticed that the cut stung him longer
than usual, but he paid little attention
to it.m, A swelling resulted from the
scratch and cancer developed. This
woman in turn was inoculated by
using a speaking tube in tho business
house of a man who has since died from
cancer, and who first had had his
tongue cut out. In every case the can
cer was of the same sort, known as
"large cell sarcoma." Dr. Burnette
has been several times operated upon,
but with no success, and it is now
feared that the poison has so thorough
ly permeated the system that cancer of
the liver has developed.
SENSATION IN WHEAT.
Peculiar Rule on St. Louis Exchange and
the Trouble It Is Causing.
A fight is developing among the
handlers of wheat in St. Louis, which
promises to create a sensation in all
parts of the Country. After several
years' effort, St. Louis commission
houses last year overcame the opposi
tion of millers and exporters, and
passed a rule on the merchants' ex
change, allowing the delivery of No. 2
hard winter wheat on No. 2 red wheat
contracts for future delivery. This
rule went into effect July 1, 1895.
Winter wheat millers are, as a rule,
only prepared to grind soft winter
wheat. This year, with a great scarci
ty of winter wheat, the shortage being
estimated at nearly 100,000,000 bushels,
as compared with last year, and the
quality being unusually poor, millers
in Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky and
Tennessee, who have been unable to
obtain all the good winter wheat in
their own sections, and see where the
exhaustion of such wheat is near at
hand, are coining to St. Louis for their
supplies. They have bought, inno
cently, both for September and Decern- i
ber delivery, expecting that when de
livered they would get soft winter
wheat. Under the rule, and in view of
tho lower price now asked for hard
wheat, the latter will be delivered to
them.
ADMITS MARRIAGE A FAILURE.
"tlra. Francos Hodgson Burnett to Live
Apart from Her Husband.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, au
thor of "Little Lord Fauntleroy," who
has limned so many pretty scenes of
domestic happiness, has at last been
forced to admit marriage a failure in
her own case, and henceforth will live
apart from her husband. The husband,
Dr. Swann M. Burnett, is an oculist of
local repute. In anticipation of Mrs.
Burnett s home-coming he has aban
doned the elegant family home on
Massachusetts avenue in Washington
and has removed his effects elsewhere.
Mrs. Burnett is about forty years old.
She is a blonde of rich tint, with dark
grayish blue eyes that are full of vary
ing expression. Her head is shapely
and well poised; nose straight and fine
ly cut, while the firm chin and de
cisive mouth arc full of character. Her
hair is almost golden.
For years Dr. Burnett has been sadly
crippled, through an accident to one of
his legs, the main sinews of which had
been cut just below the knee, and he j
lias keenly felt his position of partial
dependence on the literary fruits of his
wife's pen.
Italy'* Harvest.
Italy's harvest this year is satisfac
tory. Tho yield of silk cucoous is only
an average one, but as the quality is
excellent the value is $4,000,000 more
than in 1894. Wheat, corn, oats and
barley are all good in quality, with a
yield above the average. The rice
fields are promising, as the disease
called risone has been stamped out.
Olives and hemp are also promising.
The vineyards were atta?ked by pere
nospora, but the dry July killed the
pest, and while the vintage will bo be
low the average in quantity, the quali
ty of the wine will be good. -
Named the Defender.
The little maiden, who thought out
the name Defender for the yacht that
represented America in the interna
tional cup races, and thereby won the
New York Herald prize of SIOO for fur
nishing the name, lives in New York
city. She is a beautiful child, llcr
name Is Constance C. Robcrson.
Wind Work.
A 10-foot "windvvheel" in Nebraska
raises 1,000 gallons of water daily to a
height of 70 feet. These windwhcels
arc coming more and more into use in
the west, and it is thought that they
will have a very Important bearing on
the industries of the future.
Dorol hy.
London Forget-Me-Not comes to the
conclusion that the most popular name
to bestow on a baby girl at this time is
Dorothy, for out of 178 girls' names in
the catalogue of the babies whose por
traits were shown at a recent baby
show, Dorothy led all the rest.
Stanley Qpnnot Go to Africa.
Foreign papers say that the contract
between Stanley and tin* king of the
Belgians, binding the explorer to tho
service of the Congo State until 1900,
has been canceled. As a member of
parliament Stanley could hardly go
into the wilds of Africa.
Hrlghim's Whip Canal.
Belgium is about to build a ship
canal. It is to run from 11 cyst, on the
North sea, to Bruges.
for Infants and Children.
THIRTY years* observation of Castoria rith the patronage of
millions of persona, permit, no to sprr.k of it without guessing.
It ia unquestionably the heat remedy for Infants and Children
tho world has over known. It is h arraless._Children like it. It
gives them health. It will save their lives. In it Mothers have
something which is absolutely safe and practically perfect as a
child's medicine.
Castoria destroys Worms.
Castoria allays Feverishnaas.
Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd.
Castoria enres Diarrhoea and Wind Colic.
Castoria relieves Teething Troubles.
Castoria cures Constipation and Flatulency.
Castoria neutralizes the effects of carbonic acid gas or poisonous air.
Castoria does not contain morphine, opium, or other narcotic property.
Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach and bowels,
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Castoria is put np in ono*sigo bottles only. It is not sold in hulk.
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