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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1892-12-8, Page 7weseeesesseewewasea _. ,bariT1 A'PzTvGOa ax ta 4 gvrlaaiioLlr ISA PCO13 MND OF ECONOMY r!. ii Itis on a par with buying lots of rubbishy soap for little money, Poor soaps are the " bunghole " through which time and laborare wasted, and by which the clothes and hands are ruined. Closes the Avenues of Waste and Ruin, and by its lasting pro- perties, its wonderful cleansing powers and perfect purity, it Saves Time & Labor, and brings Comfort & Satisfaction to all who use it. • • o • • • • • IT IS • TRUE S=ONOMY4 T R Y -. Slluhl ts TQ U$THE IT • • • • • • a WORKS. PT. SUNLIGHT LEVER arms, ammo NEAR BIRK.NNt:An TORONTO INTERCOLON TALI RAILWAY OF CANADA, 'lihodirect route betweentbeWest and all Points on the Lower St. Lawrence and B vie des Cbalenr,Pravince of Quebec; also for Newfrunswick,Nova Scotia, Pr Inca l;dward Oape B roto as lauds , an d Newton ndlan (land st. Pierre, Express trains leave 3rontroaland Halifax daily (Sundays excepted) and ran tbrongh without change between these points in 23 hours and 55 minutes. The through express train cars of the In- tercolonial Railway aro brilliantly l.ghtal byoloatricity andhoatod by steam from the locomotive, thus greatly increasing the u I1n tort and satety or travellers. Now and elegant buffet ileepi0x and .lay oars areruu onthrouch expressGraina. Canadian -European Mail and Passenger Route. p.lssengersiorGreat Britain or the conti- nent by leaving Monti cal on i'riday morning will loin outward mail steamer at Halifax onSaturday. The attention 013shippers is directed tothe superior taoilittosoffered by thit routefor the transport ofilon r and geuerei merohan- diseintended tortheE.asteir1 Provinces SO! Newfoundland; also for ebpments of grain and produce intended for toe European ma: Yet. Tlcketsmaybe obtained and nforesation about the route; WOO freight and passenger TIMMINS S ROPtioation to N. 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Drowsiness, Distress after eating Pain in the Side, &c. While their most remarkable success has been shown in curing HSIC eadache, yet CARTER'S LYTLE Ln•Icn PIETA are equally valuable in Constipation. curing and preventing this annoying complaint, while they also correct all disorders of the stomach, stimulate the liver and regulate the bowels, Even if they only cured EA lobe they would be almost priceless to these who suffer from this distressingcomplaint; but fortunately their goodness oes not arid s re andthose who - once here, , wotry .them will fled these•little pilla valuable in so grapy ways that they will not be willing to do without thele, $ut atter all sick head ACH :•ii the bane of so many lives that here Iswhore wo matte our great boast. Our pills curd i. while lcothersdono not. . aANTER9 LITE LIVER Pitts are verysmall and very easy to take. One sr two pillmaks a dose. They aro 'strictly vegetable and do not gripe or purge, but by their gentle action please all who use them. In vials at P6 cents; five for SI, Sold everyWhere, or sent by mail.' * OYSTER MEDICINE CO,, New York. trail PI i 11 DOsel SBia11 Price. BATTLE OF BUFFALO, fierce Fight for Supremacy Between the Rival L'a,3era. Notable contest witnessed frons a lillltow by Interested JQautetts—now the ttally ot, the Breed Settled a Pr . ptuoue Autagomist -Terrine 5liock or tiara Beads. "It was the afternoon of a day in early summer, along in '59, when we found our- selves drifting in a boat down the Saskat- chewan," remarked a tall, wiry gentleman, whose hair was sprinkled with gray. "The morning broke with a drizzling rain, out of a night that had been tempestuous, with a fierce gale, heavy thunder, and unusually terrific lightning. Gradually the ram stopped. Jack Lyman and myself got in the boat, and we had gone but a short dis- tance when the clouds broke away, the sun shene£orth, and the earth appeared glisten- ing with a new beauty. Ours was an aim- less trip. We had anon h of hunting. We had a vague idea that wo might meet some emigrants, at the fords some mites below, which, in the present swollen condition of the river, would be impassable. There they would be compelled to wait for the river to subside. Ahead of us appeared, high up on the bluffs, a clump of trees and bushes. .As we drew near A SUDDEN OAi'RIOE seized us, and, shooting our boat up the shelving bank, we secured it and then climbed the steep embankment. We in. tended to knock around in the brush a. lit- tle while and then resume our trip. A. fine epeeimen of an eagle caught our eye perch- ed high up on the dead bough of a tree. Then our attention was directed toward a herd of buffalo coaling from an opposite direction. We moved forward a little to get a better view of the herd when the eagle, unaware to us, spread his pinions, and when we looked again for hint he was soaring at a safe distance from our rifles. We were on the leeward aide of the herd and so safe from discovery if we took ordin- ary p-eoaution among the trees. It was a fine spectacle which they presented, and what was more we were in just the mood to watch them. The land undulated but was covered for litany acres with minuter undnl- ationa of dark brown shoulders slowly drift- ing toward us. We could hear the rasping sound wlrioh innumerable mouths made chopping the crisp grass. .As we looked our ears caught a. low, faint, rhythmical sound borne to us from afar, We listened intent- ly. The sound grew more distinct, until we could recognize the thread of another herd of buffaloes coming from another direction. "We skulked low through the under- growth and came to the edge of the wooded patch just in time to aee the van of this now herd surmounting a hill. The herd was evidently spending its force, having already run for miles. It came with a less- ening speed, until it settled down to a comfortable walk. About the game time the two herds discovered each other. Our herd was at first A LITTLE STARTLED. But after a brief inspection of the approaoh- ing mass the work of clipping the grass of the prairies was resumed. The fresh ar- rivals came to a standstill and gazed at the thousands of their fellows, who evidently had pro erupted those sections, Apparent- ly they reached the conclusion that that region was common property, for they soon lowered their heads and began to ehave the face of the earth, of its green growths. The space separating the herds slowly lessened. The outermost fringes touched but a short distance from our point of observation. It was not like the fringes of a lady's dress coining in contact with the ]ace drapery of a window, I can assure you. Nothin so soft and sibilant as tisat. It was more e the fringes of freight engines colnin tact with each other when they r with some momentum on the sam Two powerful bulls had found themselves in close prox other, coming from either he shooting up from the sides of herd was on the ground first, made graceful curves in the ai the signals for hostilities to comm: i e hoofs of the powerful beast were . sted by his small horns, which dug the soil and tossed bunches that settled out of the air in his shaggymane. These heli orent dem- onstrations P -onstrations were responded to in quite as defiant a fashion by the late arrival. He, too, was an enormous affair- We noticed his unusual proportions of head. But his shoulders with their manes. were worth displaying to excite admiration and awe at their possibilities, if they could do nothing more. "Unquestionably the two fellows regard- ed themselves as representative of their dif- ferent herds, the one first on the ground viewing the other as au interloper, and he in his turn looking upon the former as reign- ing because no one had the spirit to contest his supremacy and show him where he be- longed. they sidled up nearer each other, their heads all the while kept low to the ground, and their eyes, rod with anger, rolling IYFI\E FURY. This display of the preliminaries of battle drew the attention of an increasing number from either herd. At first they would look up, then recommence their eating, and then direct their attention mire intensely as the combatantabegan to measure their strength more closely. And when the fight was on limy became quite absorbed in the varying fortunes of the struggle. "At last the two huge fellows, after a good deal of circumlocution, made the grand rush. I reckon it would be your everlast- ing fortune if one of you college fellows who play football had the force to make the great rush which either one of these animals presented. The collision was straight and square. A crash of horns, a heavy dull thud of heads. We thought surely the atrial of one or the other or possibly both was crushed. in. But evidently they were not even hurt. Didn't they push then.? Well, I guess,l The force would have shov- ed an old-fashioned barn from its founda- tions. The muscles swelled upon the thighs, the hoofs sank into the earth. But they were evenly matched. "For au: instant there was a mutual ces- sation of hostilities to get breath. Then they came together with amore resounding crash than before.. Instantly we peroei.ved that the meeting of heads was not square. The new championhad the best position. Like a flash he recognized it and redoubled his efforts to take its full advantage. The other appeared to quadruple his efforts to maintain himself 'inpoaition, and his mus ales bulged out, but his antagonist made a sudden move which wrenched his head still farther off the line,, when he went down upon his knees. That settled the : contest, mwas main him beforeh' for.his ane p a could recover. He was thrown aside and his flank was raked by several ugly,•upward. thrusts of his foe, which left him torn and bruised all in a heap. As quick as he could get on his feet he limped crestfallen away. "rhe victorious fellow lashed his small tail, tossed his head, and moved in all the pride of his conquest up and do vn through the ranks of his adversary's herd. lfow exultant Ile was I We took it to be -rank impudence, and though he had exhibited. some heroic qualities of strength anddaring itdispleased ns to see him take on so many airs on account of his victory. "But this conquest of the field was not yet entirely complete. As he strode proud- ly along his progress was stopped by a laud snort and looking aside he saw afresh °hal- lenge. There, standing out in full view, was another bull, a monster of a fellow, belonging to his late enemy's herd. He pawed the earth with greatstrokes and sent rockets of turf curving high in the air, some of which sifted its fine soil down upon the nose of the victor. As we looke•1 at this new challenger and took in his immense form we chuckled with the assurance that T1iE IIA17GirTr FELLOW would now have some decent humility im- posed upon him. The conqueror himself must have been impressed with the formid- able • ass of his new antagonist, for there was a ehango in bis demeanor at once. Of course, according to a well established buffalo code, he could do nothing but accept the challenge, "Space was cleared es the two monster; went through their gyrations, their tossing, of earth, their lashings of tail, their snorts and their low bollawa. This appeared to them a more serious contest than the form^ er, if we could judge from the length of the introductory part. They took more time before they settled down to business. We were of the opinion that the delay was caused by the champion, who resorted to small arts to prolong the preliminaries. We watched it all with the most excited in- terest. it had all the thrilling features of a Spanish bull fight without the latter's degradation of man. Hero was the level of nature. Here the true buffalo instincts with their native temper exhibiting them- selves in their most emphatic and vigorous fashion. It was the buffalo's trial oinerve, strength and skill. Numberless as mast have been these tournaments, in which the champions of different herds neat to decide which was superior, in the long ages during which the buffalo kingdom reigned supreme over the vast \%'extern prairies, yet few had ever been witnessed by man. \\ o were looking upon a spectacle exceedingly rare to human eyes, and I confess that 1 never was more excited than when this last trial reached its climax. It was a question now whether the champion would still hold his position. It stintulates one more when he thinks of losing what he has seized than when he thinks of failing to grasp that which he bas never passed. Undoubtedly both of these animals had this amine feeling for as we looked at his latest arrival in the arena we about concluded that he was the real leader, and not the other that limped away vanquished. "While these and other thoughts were passing through our minds the two mighty contestants squared and made a tremendous plunge for each other. \'hat a shook was that! \Vhat a report rolled on the air! The earth fairly shook with tho terrific concus- sion of buffalo brains, and both burly fol- Iows went down on their knees. Both, too,. were on their feet the same instant, and locked horns with the same swiftness and skill, and each bore down on tho other with all the power he could summon. The cords stood out like great ropes on their necks. The muscles on thighs and hips rose in huge welts. We were quite near these fellows and could see the roll of their pLOOD-RED FIERY Eves. They b.''aced and shoved with perfectly ter- rible force. The froth began so drip in long strings from their mouths. Tho erstwhile victor slipped with one hind foot alightly. His antagonist foltit and instantly swung a couple of inches forward, which raised the unfortunate buffalo's back, and we expected every instant that he would go down. But he had a firm hold and he swung his antag- onist back to his former positron, where they both were held panting, their tongues oiling out. " There was a slight relaxation for breath. Then t},e contest was renewed. Deep into the sod their hoofa sunk, neither getting the advantage of the other. Like the crack oft tree broken assunder came a report on the air and one of the legs of the first fight- er sank into the earth. The other buffalo a thought he saw his chance and made furi- ous url• ousplunge toward his opponent. The earth trembled beneath us. The monsters there fighting began to reel. We beheld an awful rent in the sod. For an instant the ground swayed, then nearly an acre dropped out of sight. " We started bank with horror. Then becoming ressured we slowly approached the brink of the new precipice and looked over. This battle of the buffaloes had been fought near the edge of this high bluff. Their great weight—each one was over a ton—and their tremendous struggles had loosened the fibers which kept the upper, part of the bluff together, and the founda- tions having been undermined by the current, all wereprecipitated far below. " As we gazed downward we detected two moving masses quite a distance apart and soon the shaggy fronts of these buffaloes were seen. One got into the current of the river and was swept down stream. The other soon was caught by the tides and swept onward toward his foe. Probably they resumed the contest when, after gain- ing a good footing farther down the banks of the river, they were fully rested. Little Cabinet o f Curios. The longest rope ever made was a wire cable turned out at Cardiff, Wales, in 1885. It was two miles and 108 yards long, and weighed twenty-one and one-half tone. In the capital of Corea they have a drop of the sweat of Buddha enshrined. For thirty feet around the large temple in which t is kept not a blade will grow. There are neither plants nor flowers inside the sacred inclosure. A_ single .plant of purslane will, produce' 388,800 seeds per annum ; the thistle 95,366 ; the plantain 42,200 and the burdock, 38,068. No, child born in Aspinall has ever lived to reach the age of 21 years ! that is, unless he emigrated to, some more congenial clime. Still, canal officials tell their dupes that Panama is a "perfect Paradise." A few years ago. Athens, Ga., lai 1 claim to having a citizen who had not closed his eyes in sleep for over four years ! His name was Charles Hardin.. He was a negro. An authority on druggists' stuffs, the Physician and Droggist, says that a two- ounceial of, h sosti mine sal oils h to crystals is worth $1,810,020 ! salyoilate custom of celebrating birthdays dates back thousands of years. "It came to pass the third 'day, which was Pharaoh's birth- day feastuntoall h' that he ad is ser- vants." See Genesis, xl chapter, 20 verse.. The English Cabinet has decided that for the future the Attorney -General and Solicit- or -General shall relinquish their private practice. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castorial A LATTER -]JAY FRA DIAVOLO. 1For Nearly half a Century Antonio Bei lncascia Terrorized Corsica. A very curious chapter in Corsican history has just been closed by the surrender of the notorious Corsican bandit, Bellacascia, who has been out "in the huh" for forty-four years, awl has baffled all the efforts of the gendarmerie to capture him. He was born at Bocagnano, a small vill. as in the centre of Corsica, Isis father beluga shepherd, and in 1848 he killed the assistant mayor of the village in a quarrel and took to the bush. flis presence was betrayed to the gen- darmeries soon afterwards, but Bellacasica, having got wind of this, lay in wait for hie betrayer and killed him. Ile was then joined in the bush my his brother Jacques, who had been preparing for the priesthood, and the two brothers led a very wild existence in the mountains. of Corsica, killing several gendarmes who at- tempted to capture them. They do not ap- pear, however, to have lost the esteem of their compatriots, for M. Emanuel Arene, ono of the Deputies of Corsica in the French Chamber, relates how, about fifteen years ago, he and the tate Edmond About where received by the two brothers at breakfast, and how they were introduced to the differ- ent relatives of the brigands, all Mayors of their respected communes, M. Aran° re- lates, too, how the late Baron Ilaussrnann was breakfasting with them on another oc- masion wheo the gendarmes appeared in the distance and the two brothers made off, leaving their guest to explain his presence there as best he could.. There was some talic of granting the. two brothers an amnesty when M...aruat paid his visit to Corsica two years ago, aid the daughter of the younger brother was presented to him. Nothing was done, how- ever, and the two brothers might in all prob- ability have remained at liberty for the rest of their lives. But Antoine, the elder of the two, has at last been persuaded by his friends to give himself up to the au- thorities, and his mode of doing so was not Iess dramatic than the whole of his life has been. Another of his brothers, who was for several years himself an officer in the gendarmerie, induced him to take the step, and the two met at daybreak in the forest of Vizxavcna, which is about halt -way between Ajaccio and Bastin. They then went to a place where Capt. Ordioni, commanding the gendarmerie of the districts, was waiting for them, and Antoine Bellacascia laid down his arms in token of submission. They went by train, on the lino newly opened, to Bastia,and Antoine Bellacascia was delight- ed at this mode of locomotion, which was quite novel to him. Upon reaching Hestia, wisere be is to be tried at the next assizes, Iso went to the principal hotel, writing his name and pro- fession in the visitor's book. as " Antoine Bonelli, commonly called Bellacascia ; pro- fession, bandit ; born at Bocagnano ; resi- dence, uncertain." He is not under the least restraint or even surveillance as Capt. Ordioni, who is responsible for his appear- ance ill the assizes, knows that " when a Bellacascia gives his word he never goes back from it " Antoine ]lellacasia has sev- eral tinges been sentenced to death ineon- tuniariany but as all the murders for which he was condemned took place more than thirty years ago they are covered by pre- scription, and the only offence for which Ise can bo tried is an attack he is accused of having made on a gendarme in 1850, The expectation is that he will be acquitted and that he will spend the rest of his days un- molested among his friends, That Handy Typewriter. " Oh, yes, frequently," said a young lady who has had considerable experience as a stenographer, in reply to the question as to whether lier employer ever dictated family letters to her. "Now, there is Mr. Jones," continued the young typist. " While his wife was away at Hastings in July, he always dictat- ed the letters he sent to her daily or else got ma to write them. It came to be finite the usual occurrence for him to say after busi- ness matters has been attended to: "` Well, I think, Miss Brown, you may write to my wife. You know abort what to sty.' " So I would proceei and write a letter in his usual cordial tone, telling her that the house vas doing well and the bity s were getting aln finely with Mary, the house servant. Sometimes, when I was feeling trite in the humour, I would send off long letters of several hundred words each. Mr. Jones would look over the page and jot down his name at the end. I would address the envelope on the machine, seal it and send the message on its way to the absent wife. "But there came an end to all that. "One day Mr. Jones did not comedown to the office. I supposed he had been out to a ball the night before. In the afternoon his brother came over to my desk and said : ' Perhaps we had better get off a. letter to ?ilrs. Jones, as otherwise she might think something had happened.' " So I wrote out a letter in the usual manner and signed it with the rubber fac- simile of Mr.. Jones' signature. " The letter was posted, and I thought uo more of it for several days. Mr. Jones dict not comedown to the office that day or the next, but on the third day there was an ex- plosion. It seems that the reason he did not come down on the morning that I wrote the letter was because his wife came home the morning before, and he had not heard of it till he went home at night, she thinking she would surprise him. " The next day and the next he stayed at home, and. the third day the letter that I had written unbeknown to him was for• warded to her from Hastings, and you can imagine the breeze it created. I really be- lieve the woman couldn't have been more angry if she had caught me flirting with her husband instead of doing my best to keep up pleasant relations between them. Yes, that is why found another situs• y L tion. - She put on such funny airs before me, and wouldn't even speak to me whip she came into the office, 'although she had always done so before that. " 1 think Mr. Jones enjoyed it on the quiet; but Ise was too honourable and tuo much of a gentleman to make sport of his. wife, even indirectly. If love were not blind, life would be merrier. Samuel Irvin, of Lake County, Ind., has been married nine times. Two of his wives aro dead, the law annulled the marriage of six, and he has just led the ninth to the altar. ASkibbereen telegramstates that Michael Sullivan, 30, labourer, was charged at the Petty Sessions on Wednesday with murder of Patrick ' Harrington, at Baltimore, Co. Cork, on Sunday last. . On the application of .the police a remand was granted: Agnes Pitcher, 30, wife of William Pitcher, of North End, Henley, committed suicide on Tuesday morn ng by cutting her throat with a 'bread• buife at 21 Oxborne Villas, Margate Road, Ramsgate. Sheaves staying at Ramsgate for the benefit of her health. • THE KOOi AK A RUSSIAN VAMPIRE. He Plunders the Peasants or Their Last Kopeck by Usury. I have frequently called attention to the deplorable condition of the Russian peas- antry uuderuthe tyranny of the village usurers says a St. Petersburg correspondent to the London Telegraph. The Societe Economique has now published a calcula- tion that the rural population is paying 200,000,000 per annum interest to the koo- laks. This is about equivalent to the inter- est annually ?aid on the national debt. In fact, the usurers have discounted the state revenues and gradually sucked the peasant- ry so dry that they are now refusing to have anything more to do with them. Hitherto when a commune could not pay his taxes the koolak paid and took the crops of the population for several years in advance as repayment. Now, however, by a long process of this exhaustive drain upon them, the peasantry have been reduced to such utter ruin that even the koolaka will nc longer lend. The result, of course, will be that none of the enormous arrears will be paid, nor will it be possible to collect taxes until the peasants have recovered somewhat. And, unless a check is put on the koolaka, this recovery can never take place, for as soon as it begins the koolak will recom mance his operations. A few examples will show what bas been and still is going on. 1 take them, front a small local paper, the Priazevski lirau. Two years ago a peasant in the distriot of Rostoff borrowed 100 rubles at a per cent, per month, giving a bill for 200. Not being able to pay Isis 160 at the end of the first year he renewed, giving this time a bill for 320. He then had 96 interest, snaking a total of 256. rubles ; at the eudof the second year he had a good crap, which brought bio 200, all of which he had to pay, and remain- ed still a debtor for 56 rubles. In 1891 the peasants of the village of Kar- lovna borrowed from the koolak Antoinsheff 3,000 goods of rye agaiust 500 desiatines of their best land for nose years. This year they are buying back their land at 17 rubles a desiatine. in another village the peasants sold their barley crop in advance to a koolak for 35 kopecks a paid, and are now deliver- ing: it so him, though the market price to- day is from 85 to 90 kopecks. Comment on ase examples is quite superfluous. A. Railroad Operated By Rats. A railroad operated by rats was recently cu exhibition in Paris, The animals bad been trained and were directed byaRussian named Dourof. A reporter who visited him and his two hundred and thirty free and ordinarily unaged rats, found hien in the act of exhibiting his "ratrailroad." It con- sisted of a narrow track laid in a circle, upon which were three passenger cars large enough to hold five or six rats apiece, a baggage car, and a pretty little locomotive. Close to the track was a small painted wooden house, which served as a station. There wero switches and other railroad paraphernalia. Presently a cage was brought in which contained n considerable number of rats. Donrof clapped his hands together three times, and all the rats came tumbling out of the cage and swarming into and about the little station, He clapped his bends again, and half a dozen black and sleek rats—very respectable corpulent fellows—climbed into the first car, which was a first-class coach, Once more Dourof clapped,and half a dozen black and white rats, quite regularly marked, gat into the second-class car, while an indiscriminately marked and rather dis- reputable -looking company scrambled into the last car, which was third-class. Ablack rat, which did duty as the station- master, promenaded up and down on the platform of the little house, while two or three small white rats dragged some little trunks into the baggage car. These were the "baggage -smashers." A whistle was heard ; the engineer -rat climbed upon the locomotive, and a switch- man rushed to the switch. Again the whistle sounded, and the train moved off around the track. The training of the rats to the perfor- mance of this feat was, M. Dourof declared, extremely easy, except in the case of the baggage -men, whose education had cost him *great deal of trouble. Each party of "passengers" had been ppra,ced—one party fas in hour oppo- sitea ime at their brash t t g pp site tine car to which they belonged, in which soine pieces of soaked bread had already been placed. At his signal they had and had a h quickly liberated, q y found the bread. Little by little they had been trained in this way to enter the proper car. The loco- motive was operated with clockwork, and the rats had nothing to do with it. • THE ELECTION BOOSTER. iiow a Bird That 15 Now Crowing First Got into Politics. In the celebrated campaign of 1840 there was a man by the name of Chapman editing a prominent partisan paper in the State of Indiana. When the contest was becoming pretty hot a private letter from one parti- san to auother was captured by the opposite side, in which advice was offered as to how the canvass was to be conducted. Among other things it was said that more life was to be infusedinto this Editor Chapman. He was not whooping things up to the re- quired lively standard. Their complaints concluded with the injunction, "`Tell Chap- man to crow." The phrase got into print and was sung derisively by the opposition in all the months that intervened before the election. It went into campaign literature permanently. The oockerels that are prominent down to our day in newspapers when an election is carried had theirorigin in this injunction to Chapman The point in that case was to assume a confidence of victory, even if they had it not,—(Boston Herald. F lies are so pestilential in Siam that every. soldier is compelled to assist in reducing their number by catching enough of them every day to fill a snatch -box. Etiquette has no regard for nioraI quali- ties.. India- rubber ships are talked of. A Friend Wishes to speak through the Register of the beneficial results he has relented from a regular use of Ayer's Alfie. He says : " I was feeling sick and tired and my stomach seemed all out of order. 11 tried a number of remedies, but none seemed to give me relief until I was induced to try the old reliable Ayer's Pills. I have taken only one bcz, but I feel like a new man. 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