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/ASAP;ai ante attack of Bronchitis,
,cetteelesa tlekllng in the throat; and an
exhanstings dry, ,iOEe1ing ough, sffiliet
the, stifferer, Sleep is banished, timl teat
prostration f °flews, 'Phis disease Is also
*gentled with Hoarseness, teal sometimes.
loss ot VQiee, It •is liable to beeome
Sdatemies involye the lunasa and terminate
latallya Ayer's Cherryc'Pectoral agerds
speedy relief and Ore n cane of Brom.
selfitis, It controls the disposition to
tollgb, and induces refreshiug sleep.
have been a practielins PhYelelen for
twenty -our years, mid, t'aor the past
twelve, have guttered from annual attaeks
tz4, Brondhitis, After exaausting all the
usual remedies
Without Relief,
Ttried Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. It helped
me immediately, and effected a speedy
•cUre. —0. Ste voall, M. D., Carrollton, Mise.
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is decidedly the
best remedy, within in knowledge, for
hronic Bronchitis, and all lung diseases.
—M. A. Rust, M. D., South Pars, Me.
'was attacked, last winter, with a severe
Cold, which, from exposure, grew worse
sand finally settled on my Lungs. By
slight sweats I was reduced almost to a
skeleton. My Cough was incessant, and
frequently apit blood. My physician told
me to give up business, or I woulenot
live a month. .After taking various reale-
dies without relief, I was bluffly
Cured By Using
two bottles of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. I
am now in perfect health; and able to
resume business, after having been pro-
nounced incurable with Consumption. - -
S. P. Henderson, Saulsburgh, Penn.
For years I was in a decline. 1 had
weak lungs, and suffered from Bronchitis
and Catarrh. As e r's Cherry Pectoral re-
stored me to health, and I have been for a
loug time comparatively vigorous. In
case of a sudden cold I always resort to
the Pectoral, and .find speedy relief. —
Edward E. Curtis, Rutland, Vt.
Two years ago I suffered from a severe
Bronchitis. The physician attending inc
became fearful that the disease would ter-
minate in Pneumonia. After trying vari-
ous medicines, without benefit, he finally
prescribed Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, which
relieved me at once. I continued to take
this medicine a short time, and was cured.
--Ernest Colton, Logansport, Ind.
:Ayer's Cherry Pectoral,
Prepared by Dr. J.C. Ayer &Co., Lowell, Mass.
Bold by all Druggists. Prrice $1; six bottles, $5.
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BLOB.
•A Maine doctor !says bilious fever is a
mild yellow fever,
A simple remedy for neuralgic headache
la tho intce of a lemon taken iu a 011p
black coffee.
Changes of dreg+ from thick to thin should
always be made in the morning, as then all
the vital forces are in full play.
It is not always necessary to have teeth
extracted when they ache, The nerve may
be diseased and the tooth still perfectly
sound.
In a case Of slight sore throat, let a little
powdered borax be placed on the tongue,
and allowed to dissolve and run down the
throat,
" Enough is as good as a feast," Remem-
ber that it is better to leave the table a lit-
tle hungry than to Buffer the pangs of indi.
gestion after eating heartily.
The habit of continual spitting which at -
sends the chewing of tobacco and gums, in-
duces debility, not only of the salivary
glands, but of the system generally.
Keep your sleeping rooms well aired even
in cold weather. Many a headache and
unpleasant taate in the mouth is caused by
sleeping in impure atmosphere.
Men in business have a very bad habit of
keeping their hats on indoors. To this
cause may be ascribed the distinguishing
mark of the middle-aged American—bald-
ness.
None of the minor "ills" is more trouble-
some than an ingrowing nail. By pouring
hot tallow over the nail, the hardened flesh
about it is shtunken and relief is immediate.
When any part of the skin has been fro-
zen, apply ice snow or cold water. The vi-
einity of a ice,
and warm room should be
avoided. If the part blisters, treat it as
you would a burn.
A drop of cold water, placed in the lobe
of the ear, will put a stop to hiccough, or if
this does not produce the desired effect,
press firmly on the arteries of the wrist,
where the pulse is felt.
No pet son should bathe when the body
is fatigued by either mental or physical
labor, or immediately after a meal. For
bathing purposes, in summer, the water
should be about 70 , in winter, 80 °.
In case of being bitten by a snake or dog,
suck the wound (spitting it out) bathe it
with warm water to make it bleed freely.
Tie a handkerchief around the limb above
the wound. Give spirits and water to
drink.
Rain -Water.
Many persona employ rain -water for
drinking purposes, with the idea that in so
doing they are availing themselves of one of
the purest sources of water. The following
from the Royal Commission, on the Domes-
tic Water -Supply of Great Britain, is suf-
ficient to lessen confidence in rain or cis-
tern water for domestic purposes, and it
renders very evident the necessity for filter-
ing cistern water before using it "The atmosphere is the recipient of vast
aggregate quantities of impurity, derived
partly from the respirations of animals,
partly from the combustion of enormous
quantities of fuel, and partly from excre-
mental dust, the fine particles of which, in
dry weather, become suspended in the air
to the extent, over the area of this country,
of hundreds of tons, and remain there for
weeks until washed out by rain. This
rain is in reality water which has washed a
more or less dirty atmosphere. It is laden
with mineral and excrementitious dust,
zymotic germs, and the products of animal
and vegetable decay and putrefaction. A
half pint ot rain.water condenses out about
3,373 cubic feet of air, and thus in drinking
a tumbler of water, impurities which would
only gain access to the lungs in about eight
days, may be swaliowed at al . us, the
roofs of dwellings this rain-watei, hich is,
after all, the ouly source of our water -sup-
ply, meets with soot and dust; and on the
fields, manure and all sorts of impurities,
which is carried down into wells, streams,
and rivers. These sources in their turn
are liable to be further contaminated by
soakings or infilterations from cesspools and
privies'by deadfish, animals, and de-
composing weeds, and also on a larger scale
by the land drainage, sewage, and refuse of
towns, which flow into our rivers.
Causes of Sudden Deaths. .
The number of sudden deaths is large,
perhaps increasingly aciathough the popular
impression may le false, sinVe the daily
press and the telegraph have misde a neigh-
borhood of the whole land.
One source of sudden deaths is accidents,
but many events pass under the head of ac-
cidents which might have been foreseen, and
guarded against. Canadians particularly,
are apt to take great risks; for example, in
their eating, their clothing, their building,
in crossing railway tracks, and in many
other ways.
How careless we are ! No staging need
ever fall, and it would not if proper care
were taken in the choice of material and in
construction. Think of the frightful list of
deaths resulting from the use of oil poured
upon a lighted fire to cause it to kindle
more quickly !
With many other cases of sudden death,
our own personal ills seem at first sight to
have almost nothing to do. There may be a
fatal break in the physical machinery at a
point where weakness has not been suspect-
ed. The heart, perhaps, becomes unnatur-
ally enlarged, or its tougb, muscular fibre
turns to fat, and suddenly there is a mortal
pt
Or the enfeebled heart fails to send blood
to the brain, and the man drops dead in the
street, or at his business, or, more fortuna-
tely, perhaps, in the midst of his family.
In other cases there may be a degenera-
tion of the cerebral artery, and high living,
or a glass of wine, or an excitement of pas-
sion, may arouse the heart to send the blood
to the brain with a force too great for the
weakened arterial walls to withstand.
These walls give way at one or more points,
the outpoured blood presses against the
nerve centres, and thus is cut off the neces-
sary supply of nerve force to vital organs.
The man falls unconscious, and within a few
days dies.
We have not space to speak of other
causes winos/at siinilar, but in most of
them the weakness Of the link at which the
chain breaks is due to over-exertion to too
continuous brain -work, to occeases in eating
and drinking, to passion, to worry. The
weak spot being atieertained, the fatal 'T-
wit may be prevented for years, perhaps in-
definitely, by a carefully regnIated life
WaterDrinking.
According to Dr. L. Brunton hi the Pena-
titioner, theme is nO • diuretic So good as
water, Water' doea riot metely stimulate
the kiclueya, but it facilitates their Work by
preparing the waste sithstatices fiat elithint-
tiota atiel by aiding in their tentoval, The
Majority of pertains dfink too little water,
Persona Who have a gotity Or theturiatid
otate 'of the oyotem, wilrfinci groat toilet in
copiOns water-dritiking. A bad, taste in
the inr,,uth in the morning. May often be
prevented by taking a glass or two of water
late in the previons evening. Water is most
effective when taken hot,
Ratternulk.
13ntternu1k obtained from sweet eream is
often found of great service in the treatment
of the diseases of children, and is often use-
tul as a food for dyspeptics and persons
suffering with the diseases incident to the
warm season The writer was informed,
not long since, by an eminent physician,
that he had succeeded in curing a large
number of oases of dysentery during an
epidemic of the disease in a southern State,
by feeding his patients upon buttermilk.
Little or no other treatment was employed.
411,
A DESPERAT.E ENCOUNTER.
A Fatal Fight Between. Two large Alliga-
tors at Coatesville, Pa.
A fierce and bloody fight between alli-
gators was the rare sport witnessed at
Coatesville a few days ago by one of the at-
tendants in Dr. Huston's garden in that
borough. Each of the combatants measur-
ed over five feet in length, and had been
living for eight years peaceably together in
a great tank which Dr. Huston had con-
structed for them near his house. They
were natives of Florida and were brought
from that country when small by Dr.
Huston.
For some weeks, however, the two great
reptiles have been showing signs of discon-
tent with each other, but no one anticipated
the terrible and fatal termination of this
curious quarrel. One day the attention of
the gardener, who was at work near the
tank, was attracted by a commotion in the
water, and looking up he saw that the two
alligators were engaged in a desperate
struggle. The man rushed to the spot, but
was powerless to stop the fight, which was
raging so fiercely that the water was lashed
into foam and the greenhouse was splashed
in every direction.
The largest of the combatants was seek-
ing to get the bodyof the smaller alligator
in his wide-open jaws, but the latter was
always too quick to be caught, and moved
round and round, striking the big reptile
with his tail, and sometimes getting the
enemy's legs in his jaws and biting them.
The tank was soon reddened with the
blood which flowed from the wounds inflict-
ed in this curious contest. The gardener
attempted to separate the maddened contes-
tants by beating them with a long pole,
but they paid no attention to this attempt
at distersion and went on with their fight
only .more desperately. They rolled over
each other, sometimes in the water and at
times on the bank in the mud, but always
lashing with their tails. The smaller and
more agile of the two continued to bite the
legs and body of the big alligator, and the
latter moved about slowly, seeking to make
a successful grab at his opponent's body.
Their sleepy eyes had become bright and
snappy, and it was evident that the fight
was to be to the death. At last in an effort
to snap at the swinging tail of the larger.
the small alligator fell over on his side, and
before he could get out, of the way the big
jaws of his enemy closed upon him with a
snap.
Then occurred the most curious part of
the battle. Raising himaelf slightly upon
his fore feet the big alligator lifted the
smaller one from the surface of the water
and shook him as a dog would shake a rat
—shook him until it seemed that his tail
would be hurled off, and until, in fact, his
back was broken and he laydead and limp
in those great jaws. Then the big animal
dropped the body and moved off to sun him-
self.
A New Shirt Collar Wanted.
A new form of shirt collar is needed.
We have noticed the great number of hand-
kerchiefs that are tucked around men's
necks no wadays between the shirt collar
and the skin of the neck. Some of
these handkerchiefs look as though they
have never been devoted to:any other pur-
pose, yet others have the appearance of
having seen hard usage. By some men they
are tucked in with mors or less neatness,
with a corner of the handkerchief on a pre-
eisejine with the top button of the waisteoat.
Others rumple them and cram them down
their throats, carelessly producing an effect
such as one might imagine would be the
result of turning the shirt amide 'down and
putting its lower end, or skirt, on top.
This use of the handkerchief has been
particularly noticeable during the tremen-
dous exertions of the sun during the last
month to make it hot enough for us—efforts
which it Is needless to say have been emi-
nently successful. But this new style of
neglige collar is very ugly. It is also very
untidy,aand it .must be very uncomfortable.
Itmakes the clothing around the neck closer
and tighter than it is with the collar alone,
and the high value that men set upon their
collars can be seen by the freedom with
which they sacrifice themselves in order
that the cellar may be preserved. It must
also be said that the style of collar most
generally used of late, fitting high and close
to the throat, is particularly ill -adapted
for hot weather. But even turned -down
collars are seen to be sheathed with the
handkerchief, and therefore it is plain that
some very radical change in shirt collars
is needed, if the same propriety of dress
which distinguishes men during the win-
ter is to be observed in summer.
Exactly what sort of a collar we want
for the summer months we will not under-
take to say. On principle it would pro-
bably have to 'be at least a twentyinch
collar, something that would produce the
effect of being a bit offish, of having a
rather far -away look—in other words, very
loose. It may be standing or lying down,
vtinchever suits the inventor's taste, and it
should not be too decollette. It is not
necessary that it should be, in order to give
the neck such freredom that the handker-
chief which now disfigures it may be laid
aside until called upon for its legitimate use
only,
To make the eollar sufficiently comfortable,
and yet sufficiently proper, we would sug-
gest that, starting on a twentyailach bads,
it should rise to a height of about three
inches, with a centrifugal flare of about
450
The onlyproper alternative foe some
such collar is a flannel shirt.
Dr, R. W. Shufeldt has recorded an in-
teresting study of a case of the repair of the
bill of a raven after it bad bee h shot off.
The ball had carried away the upper bill
just forward of the nostrils. The bone had
grown agaiii so as to °Over the injury," and
the horny covering, following suit, had in-
cased the stump formed by the bone. The
result of Nature's surgery in the ease was
that the injitredpart Was left in such eondi-
tien that the danger of aubsequetst
filiation Was a voided, while the form of the
restiltieg stung!) was as mieful a one as could
possibly be eXpectecl to fallew after a wotind
Of elicit a oharaoter,
A 149T1IER'S OMB
Her ROI nay itowereidi into* nd
Len to miserably rerislit.
A young µmarried woman, living in a
good situation witb an Oxfordshire (Eng.
laud) farmer,had with her a boy of 2
i *
years. This ncumbrauce etaading in the
way of her being married, she made up her
mind to rid herself of it. Obtaining a holi-
day, she left the farm with her boy, giving
out that she was about to visit a relative
some miles off. Next day she returned,
and stated that she had left the child to be
brought up by her cousin. The statement
was naturally believed.
On the following afternoon two men were
at work harvesting in a field on the next
farm to where the mother was employed.
One of them was a laborer on tramp, and
inquired of his companion the best way to
got to the place where be had taken lodgings.
The best way was told him, and he was fur-
ther instructed that when he reached a small
coppice he was not to go through, but round
it, otherwise he might fall down an unpro-
tected old dry well. All the remainder of
that day the thought of this well worried
the tramp: he felt an intense and unac-
countable desire to see it, and so earnestly
solicited the man working with him to ac-
company him to see it that the other agi-eed
to do so. When they arrived at the coppice
and found the well both were afraid to
stand on the edge and look down, and lay
down to do so. Presently one threw down
a stone, when, instead of hearing the sound
of its fall, they heard a cry. Another stone
was dropped with the same result, Certain
that something alive was at the bottom, they
promptly went to the nearest farm -house
and returned with more men, a lantern and
ropes.
A plucky lad volunteered to go down,
and was lowered, the rope around his waist,
the lantern tied to his wrist. He found at
the bottom, 120 feet from the surface, ly-
ing between four pointed perpendicular
stakes—on either of. which a man might
have been impaled—a living, bleeding, and
sobbing baby boy, which, when brought to
the surface, 'vas at once recognized as the
child of the girl at the adjacent farm. The
mother after conviction, when asked how
she got the child down the well without 1
killing it instantly, replied that she had not
the heart to throw the poor boy down, so '
procured a long cord, doubled it under the
child's body, and when it reached the bot-
tom let go of one end and drew the cord up
by the other. The amount of heart possess- '
ed by a mother who could leave her off-
spring to slowly perish of starvation in pre-
ference to slaying it outright must be very
small, both in quantity and quality. The
poor innocent was 36 hours without food
and in pitchy darkness, and was so cruelly
cut, scratched and bruised that he still bore
the marks weeks afterward, when at the
trial he was stripped and placed on the
table to show them. And had this inhuman
mother any heart in her composition she
must have felt cut to the very core then,
when the poor little fellow put out his arms
and cried to go to her. The death sentence
was recorded against her, but commuted to
penal servitude for life.
Study French and German.
skleOhel in. tile Axotio)1%1°14'
The great Arotio traveller, Greeleh bee
been telling %bat he lipows about aleehol
and what may be its vaine in Arctic 'egins
amid all the cold and hard labor of an explbr-
ing expedition in theae fitgSions, gie deli-
berate couolusion from all he saw and all he
exnerienoed in those terrible yea he Vent
amid everlasting ice is that if people Want
to atand, cold and to do hard work well
and safely they had better give all intox-
icating liquors a wide berth, The following
is his summing up of the whole matter, and
coming from such an authority, every word
ought to be carefully studied by every sine
who is anxious to get at the truth on the
whole subject :
"It seems to me to follow from these
Arotio experiences that the regular use of
spirits even in moderation, under condi-
tions Of great physical hardship, continued
or exhausting labor, or exposure to severe
cold, cannot be too strougly deprecated,
and that when used as a, mental stimulus or
as a physical luxury they should by taken in
moderation. When habit or inclination in-
duces the use of alcohel in the field, under
conditions noted above, it should be taken
only afterthe day's work is done, as a mo-
mentary stimulus while waiting for the pre-
ferable hot tea and food ; or, better, after
the food,when going to bed, for then it may
quicklyinduce sleep and its reaction pass
unfelt.
"The experiences of the Lady Franklin
Bay Expedition instance alike the benefit
and injury of alcohol on special occasions.
The first man to perish, of scurvy and star-
vation together, was one who was known as
!a regular drinker. At Sabine, the issue of
alcohol in the morning to hunters, on urgent
medical recommendations, was followed by
I the Esquimau Jens, an unerring hunter,
'missing, at his own chosen distance, a large
I seal which might have saved the party;
afterward, Long, his nerves unaffected by
spirits, killed, at the water's edge'a bear
over two hundred yards distant. As an in-
stance of the benefit of alcohol may be no-
ticed SergeantFrederick's remarkable exper-
ience, when his shrewd judgment and his
proper use of spirits saved his own life un-
' der most desperate circumstances of exhaus-
tion and exposure. His gallant comrade, Ser-
geant Rice, worn out in a fruitless effort to
obtain meat for his starving comrades, per-
ished by exhaustion in Frederick's arms.
Frederick, having stripped himself to com-
fort his companion's last hours, found him-
self chilled aud exhausted as well as weak-
ened by months of starvation; but his ex-
traordinary energy and great physical pow-
er of endurance were supplemented and
stimulated by a mixture of ammonia and
brandy. I quote a few passages from his
, narrative
I
"'In my enfeebled condition I was unable
to travel eight or nine hours in one stretch,
for atter the first three or four hours I would
move so slow that I would freeze in my
tracks. I therefore resolved to take the
alcohol, which we carried for fuel, dilute it
with water, and take a small quantity of it
whenever I lay down, so I would go to sleep
at once. . . . I broke camp and started
for Camp Clay. After pulling, hauling and
stumbling for about four hours, I became so
tired that I had to go into camp. I turned
my sledge upside down, stretched the
sleeping -bag between the runners, and took
a finial' drink of diluted alcohol. I was then
soon in the land of dreams, and after lying
here for about three or four hours I woke up
completely chilled, and travelled until I was
thoroughly warm, when I stopped and pre-
pared some food. By the time this was
done and the scanty meal eaten, I was
chilled again. I would then start again and
travel until I was thoroughly warm and
tired out, then I would go into camp and re-
peat the dose of alcohol.
"This article will not have been written
in vain if it has the effect ot correcting
among any class of laboring men the mis-
taken idea that their capacity for work is
increased or their powers of endurance to
exposure and cold enhanced by the use of
alcohol. The English navvy never drinks
while worktug, and the Esquimaux and
Chuckches, without alcohol, endure, un-
harmed, the severest temperatures known
to man."
It seems a great pity that comparatively
so few of English speaking young men have
a sermeable acquaintance with either
French or German. They fancy that when
they know English they know all that is
' necessary for their getting on in the world
I of business. In this they make a great mis-
take, and out themselves at a grievous dis-
, advents, Britain the leading business
I houses ha ,e always more or fewer of foreign-
ers on their staffs, and for the simple reason
that they cannot get Englishmen who can
write and read the language of their corres-
pondents. The London Times follows up
some remarks that were made on this sub-
ject in the following terms :—
"Ninety-nine per cent. of the English- '
men who take to mercantile life are alleged
to have no serviceable acquaintance with
French and German. Consequently employ-
ers who have dealings with foreigners are
compelled to hire strangers able to write
and read the languages of their correspond-
ents. They find their other qualities such
as to render them desirable inmates. A
German clerk commonly is amenable to
rules and is self-respecting. He is gener-
ally intelligent and well -instructed in other
than purely commercial subjects. He &owe
insight into and curiosity about the entire
work of the office, and not his own particu-
lar department alone. Finally he is willing
to serve for a salary praportionately much
•
com-
petitors. His English principals hold him
clearly superior tc, English clerks in his
moderateestimate of his pecuniary worth
and in his knowledge of toreign languages.
He has usually three languages at his com-
mand against one and he is cheaper. Their
praise does not stop there. They ascribe to
him a higher,avarage of mercantile intelli-
gence all round."
How ninny of the young men who pass
through our High Schools and Universities
in Ontario have any "serviceable acquaint-
ance" with either French or German? It
is to be feared a very small percentage.
How many could write a fair business let-
ter in either of those tongues? How many
could keep up a business conversation with
a French or German customer? One does
not like even to guess at the number. It
would be too humiliating. Even in Mont-
real the number of Frenchmen who know ,
English is indefinitely greater than the ,
corresponding number of Englishmen Who
know French. Surely this is not as it
ought to be. In the vast majority of cases
those who take "Moderns" in High Schools
and Institutes never get the length of
reading a French or German classic with
pleasure and cannot maintain ever a smat-
ter of a talk in these languages. What
good in that case do they get? None
whatever. They take credit in after
years for having studied such and such a
language, but the whole is as water spilt
upon the ground which cannot be gathered
up again. Nay, how many of the teachers
of those languages have a " serviceable ac -
with them ? It is to be feared
Good uounsel.
We always like to give our readers
the chance of seeing and profiting by good
advice, and therefore it has pleasure in re-
producing the counsels which Mrs. Rose
Terry Cooke gives to American women.
They are as much needed by Canadian ones,
and if followed will do them quite as
much good. She says if women. wish to be
healthy they must learn to live In fresh air.
In order to du this she advisee them to open
their windows, wear flannelinght gowns, and
when necessary, to take a jug of hot water
to bad, but never sleep with closed windows.
She further says that they ought to air all
their clothes alid their rooms daily, eat
simple, wholesome food, wear boneless waists
and button their skirts on them, and
take the heels off their boots. All
this is exceedingly sensible, and if
women could only be coaxed into follow-
ing such sensible maxims it would be well
for them. But then, will they? One here
and there may, but as far as the great majo-
rity is concerned, it is not to be thought of.
Every day one hears those denounces' who
it seems "have a craze" for fresh air, or in-
clined to sleep with open windows, or have
the bad taste to have low heels to their
boots. Feminine fashions are unsearchable.
One might as well reason with the east wind
as with the average woman when fashion is
concerned. She laughs ab and condemns
Chinese women, but what better is she her-
self? Not much if anything, as far as on-
lookers can see.
The Color Line.
Even Canadians are not entirely free from
the color prejudice yet. It is a pity that
it should be so and it ought not to be yield-
ed to for a moment as far as law will allow.
Of course colored children have a right to
attend public schools and in some places,
Toronto among the rest, there is no differ-
ence made. In other localities, however, it
different. In Kent and Essex it is said rpm A Cat
schools as if the children of colored farmera E
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there would be if peoVe generally were in Fheir severa callings is a Tuarantee for the
tau ht these languages with some measure drink out of the seam pail with their white
Sore 'Eyes
The eyes are always in. Sympathy with
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of its. eondition. 'Mica the eyes beepme
weakaand the Ws inffidned and sore, 410
.an evidence that the system hasaheisoine
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Scrofnla, whielt produced! a 1)44401 la,
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My eyes are now in a splendid condition,
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Mrs. William Gage, Concord, N. II. -
For a number of years I was trouble
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From childhood, and midi within a few
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I suffered for a year with inflamma-
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By Taking
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T. Bowen, Sugar Tree Ridge, Ohio.
Ms, daughter, ten years Old, was afflicted
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last two years she never saw light of any
kind. Physicians of the highest standing
exerted their skill, but with no permanent
success. On the recommendation of a
friend purchased a bottle of Ayer's Sar-
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taking. 'Before she had used the third
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now look steadily at a brilliant light with-
out pain. Her cure is complete.— W. E.
Sutherland, Evangelist, Shelby City, Ky.
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for the totally ignorant person feels his
igtorance and may try to learn but the
smattered' thinks he is all right and will
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Drama at the island. •
She : Here domes masher; why is he tio
cool to you how?
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the girl I've since married.
She : But Why are you so savage with
him ?
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Under the new law there are t be no
more public hangings in 111issourt.
neighbors. This seems offensive enough and
clearly ought to be put a stop to. vie hat can
be said also of the colored ratepayers
never being summoned to serve on juries?
Some officials must be gravely to blame for
such a studied insult and wrong, and such
offenders out to be called to account without
delay. The color prejudice dies hard, but
die it must, and the sooner the better. Of
course all imolai arrangements are beyond
the fate of mere law, but in any ca,so every 1
privilege which law guarantees ought in
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