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The Crimp Gets All, Itis AlloneY 4114.
Then Wm tor a Long VoYage-
Those making a spec; al study of the cities.
tion say that 18,OQ0 sailors and sailor bort
may be found in Loudon every night. Moot
of these do not live there—in tace, have no
home anywhere in the sense of word under-
stood by landsmen. Jack ashere has been
given a dein of Attention ; so much, in fact,
that no trade nor glees of mep lute so many
different kinds of persons looking out for it,
Some of these haye hie welfare at heart.
Some of them care nothiog for his welfare,
but devote themselves to hia pockets and
to getting rid of him 'ite soon as these are
A day or so ago two sailors appeared be-
fore Mr. Lushington at the Bow street po.
lioe court in London, and charged Jeremiah
Brady of Well street, Se. George's -in -the -
East, with haviug them unlawfully shipped
wen p.roved that Brady had no lieense and
was, in fact, a crimp.
" Crimp," according to the dietionaries,
is the term applied to a person who, goner,
ally by false pretenses, decoye others into
a service, espeoielly by unlawful detention.
At one time, not so very long ago,the crimp
was a recognized evil and when prege gangs
flourished was regarded as a valuable ad-
junct of government itself. But stringent
laws have been passed and the crimp exists
to -day only because so many Jacks ashore
aot
from the moment they get on solid ground
until they are afloat once more.
The two sailors who made the oharges
against Brady went to his boarding house
and left their olothes there. Brady induced
them to hand their discharge papers over
to him. Then, when there was nothing more
to be made out of them, he shipped, thein
abroad the Thirlmere.
Unfortunately for Brady,the Thirlmere is
a British ship. !lad she been a foreigner the
board of trade would have been without
jurisdiction and Brady would have escaped
punishment. .As it is he was convicted of
unlawfully supplying seamen and was fined
411, including costs. But for one case of
this kind that reaches the courts probably
twenty or -more cases are never heard of.
In sailor towns
MERE ARE MANY' ALLIMEAIENTS
for Jack ashore, and a majority of these do
nob tend to benefit either his health or his
pocket. He can keep awey from them if he
pleeses, but as a general thing he does not
Jack ashore can hardly be judged by an
ordinary standard. He has been away per-
haps on a long voyage, has hardly put his
foot on land tor a year. He has been doing
nothing but work, and whether he would or
would not he has been unable to spend any
money for the simple reason that he has not
had any. When fie arrives in 'gore, there-
fore, and knows that in three days.
the temptation to have a " bit of a fling" is
very strong. If he once goes ashore on his
own hook and is not exceedingly circum-
spect in his conduct the " bit of a fling"
often means empty pockets and not sel-
dom a broken head. The crews of ships
that arrive in the port of London are paid
off three days after arrival at the shipping
offices of the board of trade. Every crimp
in Sailor Town knows the date of departure
aud destination of each vessel that leaves
the port, and can calculate to a nicety when
she will return. His runners are on the
dock to the minute. They see Jack and
they hail him whethernthey know him or
not, and, if possible, they get hold of his
lothes.
Once the box and bag are in their posses.
Mon the chances are that Jaok is also, for a
sailor's clothes are to him as tools are to a
carpenter. Without his bag Jack cannot
go to sea, so he follows. his bag, There are
many respectable sailors' boarding houses
to which runners are attached, but these
are nnt " run" by crimps. The latter often
givetheir victims nothing but a bare shelter,
and until Jack is ps.id off supply him with
enough cash for his grub and a reasonable
amount of drink. The crimp is careful
that Jack shall not go on a debauch until
he has received his wages; then heengineers
the debauch in a manner that gives Jack a
headache and
MAZES MX ANX/0IIS TO pliT TO SEA
as fast as possible. There are public houses
in Sailor Town, the lowest dens in it, Which
enable the ceimp to outwithis victim with
tne least possible amount of trouble. A,
single drink of alleged whisky, which is
fire water in every sense of the term, will
put Jack in A generous frame of mind and
makes him feel,as if it were a matter of no
consequence whether he or anyone else
"stands drinks " for the crowd. A glass
of drugged liquor makes him oblivious to his
surroundings. While in this condition he.
is taken to a strange boarding house and
Sometimes every penny is taken from
him, and he is ewakened in the morning by
watt to sleep here all day as well aseall
night ?" The poor wretch is still almose
on his beam ends from the effects of the
drugged; liquor, and if he weienn- a sailor
would probably wish 1hat he wan dead, He
does not recognise his surroundings, and
asks how lie came them He is told he paid
foe a night's lodeing, and having had it he
must get out. Ire staggers out to the orimp'e
place, The orimp has a respectable per -
mintage of Jack's money in his pocket; but
leughs at the ',victim when the letter ae-
°tares he has been robbed. Jack may leek
for his clothes, He is told to pay up. He
says he has nornoney, hut will pay with his
month's advance as soon as he gets a ship.
= Sometimes he gets a ship himself and
to the criinp in exchange for his clothes,
although he may oWe the crimp only a few
shilliogs, while the order may be for x4.
Sometimes the crimp fInde a ehip for his
victim, a fereignero if posaible, and then
makes terms which are ae profitable for
himself aa they are unprofitable for jaCk.
At other timea Jack isnot imbleed, excepe
in a mild sort of wan, before he is bundled
into bed, He is woke up in the Morning
by the boarding-house keeper, who says
" yen did have booze last night."
Jack hag reeollection elf anything of the
sort, mid says so. Re im told to get up
and come downstairs. He does so, and is
shown a table that packed with eMpty
bottles whioh have been collected for the
purpose. He ie informed that he refueed
te permit anyone to " stand a single
round," but insisted that he Should pay for
everything. His bill is presented. It
summits to half or three.quarters of his
money. HO pays it, Then the bearding.
house keeper', 'with assumed heartinees
fnaiste upon " standing" drinks " for old
acquaintance sake," The liquor is drugged,
and Jack staggers into the street to fall
int() the hands of those who are waiting for
him. When they leave hila he is penniless.
There is danger every feet of the. way for
the sailor who wanders about Sailor town
et night.
Two of these dangers aro
TruE"Tit,tz'.teae" ANI) TUE °'BULLY."
The " tripper" is a female and the " bully"
a male brute, Every " tripper" has her
" bully," . Sometimes they work in couples,
aometimee singly. The " tripper" is so
oalled on account of her dexterity in trip.
ping. She does not trip as the country.
maiden does in light opera, nor does she
trip herself ; she trips the unwary sailor:.
When she meets the latter in a locality
where she is not likely to get any assistance,
and shefinds that her ordinary blandish
meats have no effect, she suddenly trips him
up, and then, almost before, he is aware of
what has happened, kicks him, about the
head and face until he is unconscious. Then
sho proceeds to rob him of everything, of
value, The generalopinion in. Sailor Town
is that the " tripper" is more brutal, if
that is possible, than the"bully."
Not long ago a sailor boy landed and fell
among'theives. He thought they were hail
fellows, for before he had .drawn his pay,
which was £24, he found that hie credit was
good for all that he wanted. One of his
newly made friends took him to a slop shop,
where he purohased a suit of clothes worth
a guinea for £3 10s.. Then he bought a pair
of boots and a ring. When he drew his pay
he paid for these artieles,and then, to show
there were no hard feelings, all hands ad-
journed to a public house and had " drinks
around" at the sailors boy's expense. He re-
membered nothing more until the morning,
when he found himself in the street minus
his clothes, boots, ring—everything,
EXCEPT A PATE OF DRAWEES.
There is always a crowd of crimps, run-
ners, and touts—the latter of both sexes—,
hanging about the shipping offices of the
board of trade, where sailors are paid oft,
and if a sailor delivers himself into the
hands of any of these he is lost. Many a
man who has drawn his pay and has been
inveigled into taking a single drink has
found himself stranded the next morning,
This often happens to men with wives and
families, and in numerous cases the sailors,
upon waking to a full consciousness of the
situation, have been ashamed to face their
wives and home shipped for other voyages
without catching a gliMpse of those who
were anxiously awaited their coming.
Often a sailor's wife, who knows that his
DEATH OF LOUTS KOSSHTH,
THE AGED HUNGARIAN PATRIOT
PASSES AWAY AT TURIN.
et Wag Not Itis Fortune to Ole, as Ito Wislt-
ed, In Itis Native Lanul..Uareor or One
or the not Eloquent orators anii Ifo.
seUlsh i'atrfots of nee century.
A despatch from `,Curia says :—Louis
I{ossuth, the Hungarian patriot, died at 11
o'clock on Tuesday night.
Louis Kossuth, once Governorof Hungary,
was born in Monak, Hungary, on April 27,
1802, of a noble Croatian family. Hie.
tendency to opposition to Austria may well
have been hereditary, for between 1527 and
1715 seventeen members of hie family were
prosecuted by the Austrian Government
for high treason. This instinct was fos.
toned by his course in the college of Patak,
an institution where traditions were all
anti -Austrian, .Shortly after his graduation
he became an assessor for the county of
Zemplien and spoke in its Assembly, " He
was at that time a lawyer, His political
influence among the people grew rapidly,
and at the age of 30 years be was, sent to
the Diet at Presburg as an alternate for an
absent'member, but when he endeavored to
speak he was set upon by the party, in
power.
Finding freedom of speech denied to him,
he began publishing reports of the Diet's
proceedings and his articles were the sub.
;erects of much: attempted repression by
the Government. Feeling that he had
the people behind hien h e published a series
of letters in Pest, criticizing the Govern.
meat with suoh courage and bitterness that
in 1837 he was sentenced to four years' inn
prisonment. Two years later, when the
liberal party cameinto power, he was re-
leased, and in 1841 became the editor of the
Pest Journal. For seven years hie unceas-
ing efforts were for the establishment of The Crown Prince of Siam is among
Hungarian independence. As.. member of boy authors of the world. He haswrit
the Diet he propoaed the address to the several stories for British (children's) mai
Emperor Ferdinand asking that Hungary ziues,and can write fluently in three E
be restored to independence, and when this opean languages.
was done K ossuth became Governor of
Hungary,;
But the bloody war for the p reservation of
independence was closebehind. Kossnthsaw.
it corning and prepared as beat he could
Against combined armies from without. and
treachery from within Hungary fought, her
brave but hopeless fight, and lost. 'The ex.
Governor fled. to Turkey, where:he was im-
prisoned. Anstriademanded his extradition,
hutt'he Porte,, strengthened by the
BRIGHT AND ,BREEZY.
The Isle of Man has no pawnshop.
New Zealand has only one-story houses.
More peeple die in spring than in apy :of
the aoasons.
It takes a Danieh express train a day to
travel:a hundred miles,
Foreigners took sixty-three per cent, of,
the Chicago World's Fir prizes,
' The takings of London theatres and
music•helle exceed £1,e00,00Q.
Smooth tapox lingers, are generally in the
highest degree at tistfe.
Football waa a crime in England during
reign the $eery Fill,
Naturalists assort that a healthy swa
devours six thousand flies every day,
Moscow's foundling asylum, founded
Catharine II., is kept up by a tax gu, p
ins cards.
The pariah of St. Marylebone ha
many as 3,000, buitdinga officially descri
as factories and workshops.
Dressmakers in Paris are seed to chs
than they do their married sisters.
unmarried women less for their coatu
Eighty of the towns in Great Brit
znpperlyicat/ae names of one hundred towns
The huge guns of modern navies can
be fired about seventy-five times be
they are worn out.
le requires an order from the Presid
of the United States to procure an imp
sion of the great Seal of State.
It is a point of honor that Mooriah
men never know th,eir own ages. T
have no birthday celebrations.
Amusements are to virtue like breeze
air to the flame ; gentle ones will fan
but strong ones will put it out.
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ship has come ln, will call at the shipping
offiees to ask if her husband has been seen
or has drawn his pay. She will discover
that he has drawn'his pay, but otherwise
cannot learn whether he is deed or alive.
The shipping offices of the board of trade
are soon to be removed to Well street. This
thoroughfare is short, but not sweet. On
account ofethe contemplated removal and
the knowledge that the street will be more
dangerous than ever her Jack ashore, aMis.
sion to Seamen institute has " just been
opened there. In it there is a large and
comfortable room, which le well furnished
with newspapers and magazines and with
games, and into this room
JACK IS AT LIDERTir
to come and enjoy himself in a rational way
and without price until 10. o'clock in the
evening. The organization is also building
a large institute in East India road, and
the intention is to keep that open until the
public houses close.
From the foregoing -might seem as if
Jack ashore was a person much to be pitied
—in fact that he had not only a hard life,
afloat, but little °nano for a quiet one on
land. This is not so. Jack need not step
Mto any of the pitfalls mentioned unless he
15 so disposed, although there may be more
excuse for him than if he were a landsman.
Every ship that arrives at the port of Lon-
don is boarded atGraves end by an official of
the board of trade. This official catechizes
the crew and finds out how many men do not
live in London and have homes elsewhere.
Every man who is willing to go tehis home,
no matter where it may be in the kingdom,
is provided with a railway ticket and 10
shillings for spending money on the way.
Then the men who are willing to go to the
sailors' home are picked out and their num-
ber is sent by telephone to the home. At no
matter how late an hour the ship arrives
in port the men who go to the sailor& home
find a hot supper waiting for them. Good
board and lodging is to be had at the sailor's
home for 15 shillings a week.
When the ship arrivee at her clock the
home's cart is there waiting. Die crimps
and runners gnash their teeth as they see
the duuna,ge of the crew thrown into the
cart and the crew mount on top of it. The
men who have railway tickets are taken to
the station by an offieial of the home and
put aboard the proper train, and, when the
Ship in paid off, their money lege the price
of their fare end the 10 shillings adeanced
is sent ,to them. If sufficient accommo.
dation cannot be provided at the hctme
good boarding houses, where the men will
be properly taken care of, will be found for
them. It is said that when the shipping
offices are removed to Wellstreet there will
be a monad communication between them
and thenailors' heme, so that it will not be
necessary for the sailors who are stepping
ab the homs, to show themselves to the
harpies, yho will throng the vicinity ; and
these herpies have beea !Known to number
120 when a 'single ship's crew was being
paid' off.
JAPANESE SUPERSTITION.
Saving Drops of Water That Washed lh
Priest. °
The latest event in the religious world is
the death, funeral and cremaeion of the
chiefest priest of the' laegest ancl mese
funeral was attended by many tens of thou -
fiends of people from all over japan. The
person of thie priest is so very sacred, and
anything that hats come in contaot with it
eo veey precious in its merit and powerful
in its efficacy to save, that every drop of
the water that was wed la washing the
body after death was eagerly, songht for
and gratefully received by the priests and
laymen alike.
Littlinbanaboo joints were used as viale in
which to receive and carry away the Kee 1-
ous fluid. This water will housed as drops of
saving elixir when the body of some believer
le washed for its burial --es a few drops of
the attar of roes might be used in a bath—
and the one receiving this washing will be
insured a eafe and happy entrance into the
Buddhist Ps.radise.
Men possessing minds which are nuirode,
soleinn and inflexible, enjoy, in general, a
greater share of digniey than happiness,
Sure, he that made us with snoh large
diet:puree, looking before and after, gave
us` net that capability and God -Like reason
to reel) in um unused.
'Youth is beautiful. Ita friendship is
precious. The intercourse with it is a pur,
release from the worn and stained
hardness of old r
These twonations demanded that liossuthbe
„released, and the United Statea sent the
war ship Mississippi to bring him to this
country as the nation's guest.
His request to be allowed to Inas through
France was denied by Louis Napoleon, to
the great indignation of the French people.
In England he was enthusiastically receiv-
ed, and on Dec. 5, 1851, he landed in the
United States, where he was received with
much enthusiasm. A gentleman who
has heard him speak writes of hina : --
"He wee not merely the most versatile
but the most eloquent orator ever heard.
He never repeated his thoughts or his ex-
pressions, and hie mastery of the secrets of
language was complete. There was one
peculiarity in his use of English that was
remarka,bk; it was for the most part the
English of the Elizabethan wee and of the
older English writers, and ie that way he
acquired at times an exceedingly quaint,
if not obsoleee, air. It aroee from the fact
that he had learned English while he was
in prison, with no other hooks obtainable
than a dictionary and Shakespeare's plays.
Thera was a richness and originality in his
English vocabulary that is not often shown
by modern speakers."
Kossuth returned to Europe in 1852, and
for years lectured in the hope of winning
other nations to help in the fight for Hun-
garian independence. His last great effort
was to get the Hungarians to repudia.te the
Doak compromise ,with Austria. Failing
in this he settled down to a life of exile in
Turin., For some time this advertisment
appeared in the Turin Courier :
Lessons in German, English, and Hunger.
ian given at moderate rates by L. Kossuth,
164 Strada, Nuova.
• Thus he aupported himself, declining a
gift of 50,000 florins offered to him by Hun-
garian admirers. After the publishing of
his memoir/a he lived in comparative cone.
fort from the proceeds of the sale of the
book, his sister, Louise Kossuth Ruttkay,
keeping house for him. In 1892 the city of
Budapest presented him with the freedom
of the city, and he was the recipient of
huhdreds of testimonials of hiseountrymen's
admirabion. Nevertheless he considered
that he had lived his life in vain, not see-
ing that Hungary, practically free to -day,
owes her liberty in a great measure to his
fight in.pase years.
Koesuth was married when about 35
years old and had three children two sons
and a daughter. His wife abdi• daughter
ars dead ; his sons survive him.
Kossuth had three nephews in :thee Uttion
army at the time of the rebellion : Col.
ZnIyavsky, Col. Ruttkay, and Major Al-
bert Ruttsky, Mrs. Albert Ruttsity and
her son Louis KossutheRuttsky, natne-
sake of 'his great uncle, live at 348 Grand
avenue, Brooklyn.
Dufferin on the Czar.
By way of contrast it is interesting to
note the opinion of the Czar expressed by
the 'Marquis of Dufferin in his recent speech
before the British Chamber of Commerce iu
Paris. He Said ;—" I observe that many
publicists ire' of opinion that it is upon the
fiat of the Emperor of Russia that the con.
tingency of peace or war mainly depends.
If this is the easel think that Europe is in
safe hands, for every day is producing fresh
evidence of his Imperial Majesty's wisdom,
moderation, and peaceful intentions. That
he possesses these admirable qualities
have long known. I remember at a publie
dinner given to me shortly before r started
for India ventured to express my ad-
miration for the character of his Majesty
the Emperor of Russia. Now, in England
there is, or rather there was, a certian
amonnt of Russophobia, juet as in France
you may. come ocoasionally neon some
eccentric, individual Whole lose erithusiastio
hi his admiration for England ancl hor Ways
than we could with. In sotre quarters con.
sequently considerable diemay was express-
ed that a person somanifestly entangled in
the spells of Ennio, should be gent to safe-
guard the interests of England in Hindustan.
The result. however, fully justified my
predictions and On my retnrn I was able
triumphantly to .point out not ofily that the
attitude of tussle. upon our Indian frontier
had been correct end friendly, but that dur.
ing the formidable crisis of Ishak Khan's
rebellion against the Amir of Afghanicitsne
in the course of which, .had it Orogen, the
Russian Government might haVe done us a
deal of Mischief, hie Majesty the Ctar display.
ed his aoeustomed tnagnanimity and high
sense of honour."
gdeen Victoria speaks ten languages flu.
In China, when there is only circumst
tial evidence against persons suspected
crime, thew:owed is tortured until he c
hoses. Sometimes an innocent person w
confess, just to escape torture.
The Pope has decided to forbid all p
formances of the well-known masses
Mozart, Haydn, and Weber. He exuees
the opinion that they are of too florid
charaoter to be conducive to piety.
Statistics compiled by the Census Bur
show that in the United States there a
14,069,467 horses, or one horse for eve
four behabitants ; mules, 2,295,532 ; cow
16,511,940 ; swine, 57,409,583 ; end shee
32,126,868.
Providing the recent survey of ' the M
souri River wader the direction of t
United States Gebgra,phical Engineeri
Department is correct, the once majes
river has dwindled greatly in the past fif
years. The ratio of decrease is said to
alarming.
In the face of the absolutely stupendo
number of pictures which represent Que
Vietoria on any and every domes
occasion with her crown on, it is rath
curious to learn that she has not, as a, matt
of fact, worn it more than twenty tine
during her whole reign.
A Spaniard, a millionaire, is at prese
working as an ordinary paid workman in
soap manufactory at Berlin. He possess
the largest soap factory in Madrid. H
wishes personally to learn the differen
between the German and French modes
making eteap at he is not satisfied with t
French metWocl, which has up to now bee
followed at his factory. As he cann
speak one word of German he is accompa
ied by an interpreter.
Mrs. Kendal, who is so jUstIy noted fpr
her lovely complexion, gives the following
as her complexion recipe:—I en hours' sleep
every night ; a four -mile walk every day ;
vigorous runbing in cold water ; brown
bread, no sweets, and no coffee."
An. old and curious key and look is at.
tached to the door of Temple Church in
Fleet -street, London. The key weighs
seven pounds, is eighteen inehee long, and,
unlike other keys, was not made for the lock.
On the contrary, the lock was made for it
Both key and lock have been in 'use since
the Crusades, the church itself having been
built by the Knights Templars in 1485.
One of the sights of China is the antique
bridge of Suen-tchen-fow,2,500 feet long and
20 feet wide. It has on each side fifty-two
piers, upon which huge stones are laid, some
of them 20 feet long. Many thousand tons
of stone were used in the erreotion of this
wonderful ,bridee, which is regarded by
engineers as indroating constructive talent
as wonderful as that which raised the
Egyptian pyramids.
At Quebec the winter markets are very
curious. Everything is frozen. Laege
pigs, killed, perhaps, months before, may
be seen frozep in the butcher's shop. Frozen
messes of beef, mutton, deer, fowl, ooa,
haddock and eels, long and stiff, like walk-
ing sticke, abound on the stalls. Milk also
is kept frozen, and is sold by the pound,
in masses which look like lumps of white
Journalists in the United Stato ea pro
verbially imaginative... The following quo.
'tattoo from 'an *American medical con.
temporary :—" The voracious daily Press
states that the mother-in-law of the Mikado
of Japan has recently been ill. She was
attended by 423 physicians, lehe in spite of
that has pulled through, The 423 medical
men. hadtel much to soy asi to ehe cause of
the lady's illness, but a Budd/dee priest of,
ingepions mind deelared that it was owing
to the introduction of railroads" His logic
was simple. Before there were railroads
she Wag Well. After there were railroadn
sne was ill. What could be more clear than
the conclusion he drew ?
TRV
tolvill'FiNTAII.C1'1.1 -5 °A
DAY
Bullets Were Not Trumps:
A fellow campaigner with -the late Gen.
Cureton, who died at Kearsney, near Dover,
this week, sends us the following story
illustratiVe of the gallant officer's sang froid
when on active service. During the Kaffir
war Gen. Cureton and three other officers
were sitting in a bell tent playing whist by
light ef candle stuck in a bottle. A de.
aultory fire was kept up by the enemy, bat
of this no notice was taken, although seV.
eta! Acta pasSed clean through the tent.
Presently, however, a bulleik struck the
bettle candlestick, putting th14 light out.
The cards were carefully laid fee° down,
ward, and, calling out the guard, Gsn.
attteton ordered them to pour a Volley in
the direction of the firing. He then pro-
cured another bottle, relit the candle, and
the. genie was quietly finished, Gen. Cureton
and hit partner winning the rubber,
The humming of telegraph wires is not
°Miami by the 'wind, for it is healed during
dead caling, Changes of temperature, which
tighten or loosen thci wires; probably prce
e the sound.
Chihken Cry for Pitcher's Castoria)
EX MEMBER '6 PARL1AIYIEN
EU
EN E. TRUAX
Vter
eseen
Hon. Reuben E. .Truax, one of
Canada's ablest thinkers and states-
men, a man so highly esteemed by
the people of his district that he was
honored with a seat in Parliament,
kindly furnishes us for publication
the following statement, which will
be most welconie to the public,
inasmuch as it is one in which. all
will place implicit confidence. lfr.
Truax says :
‘, I have been for about ten years
very much troubled with Indigestion
and Dyspepsia, have tried a great
Many different kinds of patent
medicines, and have been treated by
a number of physicians and found
no benefit from them. ; was recom-
mended to try the Great South
American Nervine Tortic. I obtained
a bottle, and I must say I found very
great relief, and have since taken two
more bottles, and now feel that I am
entirely free from Indigestion, and
would strongly recoramend all my
felloiv-sufferers from the disease to
give South American Nervine an
immediate trial. It will cure you.
Walkerton, Ont."
It has lately been discovered that
certain Nerve Centres, 12oated mear
the base of the brain, control and
supply the stomach with the neces-
sary nerve force to properly digest
the food. 'When these Nerve Clen-
tres are in any way deranged the,
supply of nerve force is at once
diminished, and as a result the food.
taken into the stomach is only I
partially digested, and (Ironic Indi-
gestion and Dyspepsia soon make
their appearance.
South American liervine is so
prepared that it acts directly on the
nerves. It will absolutely cure every
case of Indigestion and Dyspepsia, 1
and is an a,bsolute specific for all ;
nervous diseases and ailments.
It usually gives relief in one day.
Its powers to build up the whole
system are wonderful in the extreme.
It cures the old, the young, and the
middle-aged. It is a great friend, to
the aged and infirm. I)o not negleot
to use this*precious boon ; if you do,
you may neglect the only remedy
which will restore you to health.
South American Nervine is perfectly
safe, and very pleasent to the taste.
Delicate ladies, do not fail to USG this
great cure, because it will put the
bloom of freshness and beauty upon
your lips' and in your cbeeks, mei
quickly driye away your disabilities
and weaknesses.
Dr. W. Washburn, of New
Richmond, Indiana, writes.: "I have
used South American. Nervine in
my family and prescribed it in
praetice. 16 is a most excellent
C. LUTZ 'Sole Wholesale and Radii Agent for Exeter.