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A1,omt sixty years ago (her, stood, thirty
[Hiles away from hoyden, on the road to
Millbroolc, 0lonely inn—so L,ne1y was it,
that evert In the day Lillie it presohle4 ally
thing but 1( heep!tm111e mud Inviting appear.
Salm.
It stood about half u dozen yenta from
the side of the road, and to approach ILwas
necessary to Dross 110010 long and rather
rankes r what'll g a , wl u 1 the znuuUY people used
to eay rho landlord allowed to grow there
expreealy Chet 11 might damp the feet of
the persons putting up et his inn, tints foo.
ing than, not only to Latch deeper potations,
but further, of account of the rheumatism
or cold to which their damp feet gavo rise,
to protract their stay,
This inn was palled "The Dutnpling."
A queer name, and suggestive of an att.
p001 110 the reverse of what it presented,
with its stained walls, its email windows,
its narrow doorway, and its rickety sign,
symbolical of the name by means of the
pietnro of a smoking dumpling, held in a
fish by the hand of a brawny woman.
\\chat made this inn more peoullarly deso-
late was the circumstance of there being no
trees in the vicinity. Saving here and there
a small growth of the most luxuriant grass,
there was not a patch of respectable vegeta-
tion to he seen within halt a mile of the
house all round.
It ie quite certain that no man in hie
senses would ever have thought of construote
lug an inn in such an uninviting locality.
Therefore it was rumoured that the house
had only been converted into an inn since
,the present proprietor had taken possession
of it, and that it had previously been no
more than a doubtfulkind of shanty,
occupied by a sot of persons who, it had
been strongly suspected, had varied their
lives by innperaonting the ohmmeters of
shepherds by day and highwaymen by night.
The none of the proprietor, et the period
of this story, was one Nat ,\(organ, a fel-
low of Welsh extraction, and as odd a look-
ing personage as ever you set your eyes on.
He was almost a dwarf. His sleight was
no more than 4 feet :3 or 4 inches. He had
a head of very red hair, and one •eye, the
other having been extinguished, it was said,
by a fight which he had had with a young.
ster when a lad. In epite of his being a
dwarf, however, he appeared a very power-
fully built man. Hie bow legs helped him to
THE BRUSSELS POST.
sheets, ail' if you will do Inc the loner in hie horse's bridle, ;eel 1• hen d0livot up
all p." hie money,
No, 1 have fourteen mitre Io ride to. Tho attack Was quit,• uexpectml, for it
night, It is now me v. n. It will take me was an dark that tIio 11'IVI`ller oras unaware
all tate thee 1 prop me, I tan see, for my Of the Tiresome, of the highwayman mail he
horse has not had half rest enough, lint felt the reins 01 hie horse suddenly jerked.
never Mind. Co and saddle hint and bring " fa t go sly reins 1" cried the traveller,
him retina, 1)11(1 let me know what 111 tee to dWillg 11110 of 11le piilnls, "all (111'1( of
pay you.' your lila."
Nat left the room, and the traveller, A low nothing laugh wee the highway.
swinging his heavy cloak over hisshomlder0, man's anewcr, aeeonlpanied by a second de.
pulled 1111 hat firstly ever his bows, and /nand for his murrey, 'Ili,. tror,'lIor 1111011111
strode to the threshold, where he stood eilhis pistol, and again the luwneckieghtugh
waiting for Nat. of the robber rang forth.
IIIebolt
1 five minutes' time theelan carne Thorn s
wee bei•hbt1,•(
111 an explosion and
round, leading tate florae, which, 111 spite the forum of the highwayman, shot through
of what the traveller had 851 1, looked alt , o heart, lay prone on the road at the feel.
the better for its roes :11)1 feed, of rho horae.
The traveller, placing his foot un the The traveller alighted placed the body
stirrup, lightly bounded on to the animal's naval the saddle how, and rode back to the
Meek ; then, drawing forth a' purse, he 0x• forge, where by a light he discovered that
treated acme money from it, which he drop. the wretched highwayman was no other than
ped into the outstretched hand of Nab the landlord of tile inn, who 11011 been lung
asking 1111101would cover the reckoning. 1n concert with the blacksmith, and made
An avaricious gleam shone in Nat's oyes, ten easy prey of his guests by the practice of
a8 his glance met the purse, and a ferocious rendering their pistols- useless.
expression for a moment overspread his fea- In this instance he fell it victim to a he.
tures, and then abruptly vanished. lief in the infallibility of his precautiou,
It was too dark for the traveller to note whilst the traveller owed iia life to the
this expression. rruinea which he gave to the blacksmith.
"I'm much obliged to you for the money,
air," said Nat, pocketing the coins. "It
pays me, and over, sir. Which way are IN 'IRE MERCANTILE WORLD.
you going, that I may direct you this dark
night?„
I am going as far asI)aunston--" Within a few days the prices of British
Consols have declined alightly, 00
"I know it well," interrupted the man, m0 say
"This road takes you right to it." for reseon that the United States will make
"Good•night." a new bond iseaue.
"Good -night, sir; thank ye 1" The stock of contract wheat in Chicago is
The traveller ¢lapped spurs to his horse, now 10,000,000 bushels, an increase of over
and in a few moments had left "The Dump- 500,000 bushels, the past week. The total
ling " some distance behind him. stock of all grades is 21,000,000.
--- There is little change in' the prices of
II. Canadian securities in London. Canada 3
per cents. nre selling at 00, QuebeoProvince
'f Ise night was gathering apace. It had 4's at 08, Toronto 4's at 102, and Wilma.
again commenced to rain and the strong peg 5'8 at 110•
wind, right in the teeth of the traveller, The wholesale grocery trade at Toronto
positively impeded the progress of his horse. (tae improved slightly, with a better de -
For a moment he almost regretted that (nand for sugar and molasses. The letter
he had not adopted Nat elorgan's au gas• are very firm, with an advance of 1 to 2c.
tion, and availed himself of the oder of the in New Orleans molasses. Bright syrups
bed and the well -aired sheets. And I do aro very scarce.
not say that, but for the appearance of the Aedording to figures furnished by the
inn and the landlord, the traveller would Paris correspondent of the New York Her -
not have discontinued hie journey until the ald the great powers of continental Europe
morning. hold as war reserve funds a sum aggregating
Highway robberies were rife in those over $1,300,000,000. Of Chia France has
days. Sixty years ago no elan ever thought $400,000,000. Germany 5300,000,000, anti
of mounting a horse to start on a journey of Russia $425,000,1190. These vast amounts
got over the ground with amazing rapidity, ever so fete miles without a couple of loaded of treasure are permanently withdrawn
and when ho moved his arms you could see pistols in the upholsters of his saddle. Our from the channels of industry and coin.
his meseles playing under the tightfitting traveller was no exception to this rule. The ,nerve, and serve only as a sort of insurance
possession of his pistols gave hint oonfidenee, to those in authority against the day of in_
He telt himself to beamatch foranyoneman ternational strife.
who might attack 11im ; and for the matter
of more than one ho must take his chance.
Time passed on. He had been riding now
for more than three-quarters of an hour,
when all at once be felt iris horse become
lame beneath trim. He hoped for a mo-
ment tient it might prove his fancy ; but it
either through stress of weather or From became in a very short time a fact that
want of refreshment, were melon the tires• had was on use dider ibt lahke animal
had not only considerably slackened its
pace, but every now and then uttered a
love neigh, as of pain.
sleeves of rue waistcoat In such a manner 09
would have made you hesitate ere you de.
tern -tined to anger him.
Yet of all amiable hosts Nat Morgan was
the most amiable. The visits of travellers
to his inn were infrequent enough; and
everybody wondered how lee managed to
gain a subsistence by such few customers ;
but the people who did put up at itis inn,
hold of " The Dumpling" with a smile and
a how that quite won their hoots.
But, as I have said, the visits of such
people were very rare. Many 0 time and
often might Mr. Nat Morgan have been
seen staining at his door, on the look -out,
it seemed, for travellers, whether on horse-
back, fn vehicles or on foot.
Sometimes such travellers would heave in
eight, as they say at sea, at the turning
of the road a mile away from the inn.
They would approach gazing earnestly at
" The Dumpling," as it meditating a visit ;
but seared by the inhospitable look of the
piece or by the highwayman•llke air that
hung about it they would press forward
aid disappear.
At such moments Nat Morgan would
utter a suppressed oath, and turning upon
hie heel, stalk angrily into 0110 house.
How was " The Dumpling" supported,.
then? :and how did Mr. Nat [Morgan con-
trive to live, if the visits of travellers to itis
inn were so rare?
We shell see,
One November afternoon, a solitary
horseman, enveloped in a cloak, and bowing
his head almost on the neck of his horse, to
protect his face from the rain, which the
high, cold wind made stinging as it dashed
it against him, turned the corner of the
road, and ab jog -trot approached the inn,
which was barely visible through the misty
showers that ware falling.
The wind was howling about the house in
welt a noisy manner as to prevent Me. Nat
Morgan from hearing the sounds of the
horse's hoofs approaching his door. Bleb on
the horsemanloudly demanding if anybody
were within, he darted up, and assuming
his politest smile, ab once went to welcome
his traveller.
"Can you give me anything to eat here?"
asked the wayfarer, who still remained in
his saddle.
' Certainly, sir," answered Nat; "if
you will dismount and walk in, we will pro-
vide you with whatever you choose to ask
for."
" And have you a stable to put my horse
into for a couple of hours.? I shan't remelt
longer, for I have a long ride before me
and pressing business t000mpel me to be,
punctual."
"Capital stable, sir, and your horse shall
be fed, and dried, and looked well after, I
promise yeti."
" As bespoke the traveller ligh tly jumped
from his horse, and, throwing the reins to
Neat, entered the horse. In a few minutes
lefter Nat followed him.
The room which the traveller had enter.
ed WAS a small aparbmen 1, containing two
tables, a few chairs, some long clay pipes
of the mantelpiece, and a few yellow prints
on the wall.
Tho traveller had disencumbered himself
of his heavy cloak, and had thrown himself
into a, chair, evidently muolt fatigued. He
was a tall man, with a heavy moustache,
and a keen, intelligent oyo. He rapidly
scrutinised the form of Nab, who stood be-
fore hien, and then inquired what his larder
contained, Nat delivered the contents With
groat rapidity. He had chickens, eggs,
oheese, ham, a rump steak, some exoollont
Ilollands, and new bread, This was wel-
come news to the traveller, who, from the
exterior of the inn, had anticipated no step
hospitable cheer. He gave inis orders, and
whilst Nab went to execute them himself,
or see them extended, ho drew a chair to the
email log tiro tltab blazed rather cheerily,
and surrendered himself to contemplation.
The time passed, and the meal was pre.
pared, Was set before the traveller, and
discussed.
The wind had increased, but it had ceased
raining. The gloom of the approaching
evening was made more sombre by the
masses of dirty -coloured clouds which the
wind we') sweeping and whirling across the
skies, Nothing could be conceived more
cheerless than elle country, (se wentempbatod
by the traveller through tit small window
of the roan in which he was seated.
Suddenly he rose, and draw forth his
watch.
(let my horse saddled and brought,
round; I Hurst be going,"
"I eat offer you a eapttal bed••-well.Sired
The traveller flung himself to the ground,
and eonmeneed the inspection of his burse.
His first idea was that the animal had
wounded itself against a flint ; but, on ex-
amining its left foreleg, he discovered that
a shoe had dome alt
Here was a pretty fix ! The recovery of
the shoe was itnpossible. He could 1101 tell
how far it had been left behind hint. And,
even could he have recovered it, what use
would it have been to him ?
There was no alternative but to go on ;
awl, as he (anew his horse would be lamed
wore he to ride it on the high road, he turn-
ed off on to a narrow track of sward, run-
ning along the hedge, and which ile kept as
long as he could.
All at once, some distance along the road,
he perceived a light approaching Ilam. and
in a few minutes, a cart and horse, with a
small lantern affixed to one of the shafts,
emerged from the darkness.
"Can you toll me if there's a blacksmith
living about these parts?" shouted the
traveller.
' " Aye," answered a voice from the cart ;
" 39'11 be Poinding one some two moils on,
if ye keep straight"
This was lucky—if true. The traveller
pushed his way forward with extreme
caution, and in 11,0001 half an hour's time
saw some lights gleaming in the distance.
On nearing these lights, 0 group of small
houses grow visible in the darkness, at the
door of the first of which he dismounted and
knocked.
There was no response, and again he
knocked. Still no response. He picked
up a stone, and fell to hamme11ng un the
door, determined, at all events, to lot the
inmates know that somebody wanted them.
The door was abruptly opened and a
swarthy form, visible against a background
lighted up by a faint reddish glow, inquired
who was there at that hour of the night.
"I am a traveller. My horse has lost a
shoe, and I can't proceed until I find a
blacksmith. Can you direct me to one?"
"I'm a blacksmith," said the swarthy
figure ; "but if you think I'm going to shoe
your horse at this time o' night you're vast•
ly mistaken, I can tell you.'
The traveller, however, set before hint
his benighted oondition in such pabhetio
terms, that 111e rude blaeksmibh, after much
grumbling, seemed touched with pity, and
volunteered to perform the eurveoe required
of hint.
"Here's a guinea for you, my man," said
the traveller. "Now work away like a good
fellow."
The man took the gninea in silenoo, and
for some moments there was a pause. Then,
approeehhrg him, he took the traveller by
the arm, and, after cautiously looking
around him, exclaimed, in a low whisper
"I ain't accustomed to this liberality, :and
I likes to repay kindness, If you'll take
my advice, sir, you'll turn back, for there's
danger on the road."
"Danger 1 Well, I'm prepared for it."
"How ?"
" I nave pistols."
" Look to them, sir."
The traveller drew the weapons from
their casings and examined then[, All at
once he tamed pale.
The charges were dimwit I
"There's treachery I he exclaimed, re-
coiling, and sternly examining the black-
smith.
"Ave, there is," answered the man, with
a low laugh. "And now I'll shove you
funnelling more."
He approached the horse, and raining one
foob atter another, showed the amazed
traveller that the olnnelling of the nails had
been filed away, evidently with the inten-
tion of disabling the animal from oontiuu
ing the journey beyond la o0rta11, point,
\\chile[ the blacksmith remedial these
defeats which Ito eoornod to do now willing.
enough, the traveller oarofull reloaded
ly y
Itis pistols, and then, in opposition to the
urgent entreaties of the blacksmith, mint
fin,jonrnce,.
A bout a mile from the forge he eyes en-
countered by it highwayman, who seized
The French Board of Trade returns for
January show that the balance of trade ea
tending in favor of that country. As menu
pared with January of last year the total
imports decreased 210,750,000 francs, while
exports only showed a decrease of 11,1)48,•
000 franca. Notwithstanding the decrease
on other exports the velem of manufactured
areioles increased 0,303,000. It is not aur-
0rising, therefore, ° apart from' other con•
lfideration, that gold continues to flow into
France."
The visible stuck of cotton in the United
States are at the ports 010,000 hales. lu-
totem, towns 378,000, against 1,1011,0(10 and
448,000 respectively last year, a deficit of
830,0(10 bales. The visible supply in the
United States and Europa of all kinds is uow
4,200,000 bales against 4,08333,000 a year ago,
a decrease of 477,1'0OAmles. The supply of
America is 477,100 bales less. The excess
in total supply over 1801 is 085,0110 bales.
The stook in New York warehouses is 280,•
000 bales against 384,000 last year.
The passenger agent of ohne of the steam-
ship lines, in speaking of the increase of
about 25 per cent. in the rates for imni.
greats made by all the companies running
to America said:—"The rate in all cases
depends upon the law ofsupply and de-
mend. \\ e find this year an increased
demand, while the number of steamers to
supply this demand is no greater. hates,
therefore, have been increased by all lines
both in the United States and Canada, and
the steamship companies hold they are per-
fectly justified in this. I may tell you this
also, that the three big steamship lines run-
ning out of
unningoutof Montreal have decided to increase
cabin rates from there, as business for years
past has not been upon a remunerative
basis."
Irrigation is receiving steady and in•
creasing attention on this continent, and
yell not neatly so much as In Europe. The
cause of this is not far to seek. The eco.
momie needs of Europe are such that it is
necessary to make a nice adjustment of
supply to demand. A single crop failure in
these closely settled drstticts of Europe
would entail a degree of loss and suffering
that would not be made up in several seasons
Demand treads close on the heels of supply
and in the very best years there is only
enough, and none to spare, for the needs of
the population. For these reasons govern-
ments engage the besbengineersend expend
millions ofdonate to insure the crops
against possible loos from drouth, and by
the aid of small canals, as in Holland and
Italy, to condu1t safely away from the
fields the ooeasional floods that nniglbother.
wise prove disastrous. Centuries of
experience have taught these people
chat this policy pays, and their confidence is
amply demonstrated by the fact that they
have largely extended their irrigation works
during the past thirty years, Of late the
European shortage in agricultural produce
has been largely made up from this eonbin-
ont, butthey in aro way relax their sueoess-
ful attempts to assist nature to yield what
might otherwise bo lost. The necessity of
adopting these measures may not be appal'.
ant to Canadians yet, but it is encouraging
to contemplate the greab possibilities, froth
natural and artificial, for our own require.
ments and then of other countries, which
may sooner become overpopulated, our vast
berritorios possess.
The Stream of Life'
Like a scall etreamlet on a mountain side,
A white unread glaneing in the Sumner sun,
Lightly down leaping with a ;heroes spring,
So passes happy childhood's playful hour.
Next, through green dolls and neath o'er -
shadowing -crags,
The growing stream with heedless flow winds
on,
Now gladly lingering round some glowing
isle
That smiles with }meanly beauty, and allures
With Orem leo of perpetual delights
Now fiercely dashinrr Clown sonic rough cas-
cade
Whore rushing Iwo cis split on hostile reeks,
Spouting &of 1 the iridoeeont spray
Drifted in suekes clefts by swaying winds 1
So pass the years of vonlli Our riper age
Te Lilco Inc broadened river's stately march,
Whose current shekels yet ndu111a 110 pause,
Tlut passes hold and coppice, tower and town,
Net wholly 'seeping from defiling mlains,
Yet toiling onward. restlessly. Mown
Ike nmoo4)t vat of 00 glhlhluservant we haste,
Nor mark rbc jjn n,,re eo of Ito quiet speed.
mina llelulla n bears
i isweeps u r it ut t tit c nd
Threg1, for tel in -. 01 h oo ,laectnd
I'lu•ocg t the tore rapid-. m' 1 01,1 and pain,
9411 plunging dna n 111. •al:: rant ordinate
We glide into m t 1. cul mil nowt: space.
The boundleee ecenn 0110111011),
• (Walter W, 8.c:at.
BIGGEST OF WAPITI•
X111 .innel'i' mr, A 'MIT Ilfll,'Iq' $II,>sl, it MOO
ei rr ultra Its lite 11'11,1. o1'.1loulana,
ScO l l.I mmltlin ago Lieut, l:. 1', Ahern
of I.be United tit at e0 army wee in the wild
rat, lent visited pert of Montana,,purettilg
him 1111.+ieu of mapping the mountains of the
Huge for the Wee Department. He bed got
1111> miles front Deer Lodge into a region sr,
emit/dell that (null pi °L:ehiif t,v no white mall
had ever been there before, An he wait toil•
ng 1111 ahead of bis num, he none upon e,
sight that made I fa,t'eterltn banter though
ho is, lent .e a hu
with t" buck f.v,
r,
Before
him, not maey yards away, 101(0 a
[nighty wapiti, 111e mightiest he had ever
seen,
It wan lyinrg, down and, as he stopped, it
arose 010wly', slut neither turned to 11y ter
ndvanued to fight. It looked straight at
hent, and the Lieutenant thought Eta cyea
were trying to express to him an utter
weariness of life and a desire to have the
and cone as scam as possible, for he could
neo the 1 this book wee very all. As he ad-
vanced toward it it male a feeble snort to
turn away. He raised his rifle end abet it
behind the ear. It fell dead with scarcely
a quiver.
Whett the Lieutenant Dame to examine
his prize he WWI more astonished that at
first. For he saw that he had killed the
greatest wapiti of which there is any record,
and also the oldest, Erect the wapiti stood
neatly ten feet from the ground to the top
of its great antlers, From the ground to
the base of the antlers wait six feet, The
head was over two feet long from the base
of the antlers to the end of the nostrils.
The body was as large as the body of a big
horse, and the heart was mach larger. The
autlora themselves had fifteen prongs, one
lees than that sixteen -pronged pair of antlers
which is regarded as a anit(ne curiosity, and
is not nearly sn large as this pair.
The teeth of this old bunk were worn
clown below the gams, so that it would have
been impossible for him to bite anything,
and, as an index to his long and varied
career, there was hardly a square inch of
his hide that did not bear the mark of bullet
or arrow. Lieut, Allan's Indians hauled
the body down to Deer Lodge, and there
hunters, white and Indian, from all parts
of the world crowded to see the wonder.
Lieut. Ahern sent :he head and the hide
on to Mr. Julian Ralph, the author, and
Mr, Ralph took them to a taxidermist and
animal dealer, in New York, This man has
had thirty years' experience, and has stuffed
all sorts of things, both great and small.
Ile had never seen anything like this mon-
ster. When he came to examine the teeth
he could hardly believe his own eyes. He
said that the buck was at least eighty years
old, and perhaps 10)10 over a hundred.
He thought that no oae1nhistoric times
had killed such a great creature, greater
than any animal supposed to exist on this
continent since the white men began to ex.
plore.
When you think of this creature, who
was born in the last century, long before
any white man had penetrated the fast-
nesses of the Rockies ; when you think of
his hide, scarred in a hundred places by
arrow aid by bullet, you realize what a
wonderful career Lieut. Ahern's bullet end-
ed. As Mr. Ralph says, away back, before
Washington was president, 11110 buck was
leading a herd of does, and was the proud.
est of his kind. When he fought to assert
his supremacy and the right to an inviolate
harem the issue of the battle could never
have been uncertain, Many 011 Indian
hunter he has laid low in the days when he
could look out over vast plains, dotted
thickly with ten thousand buffalo.
But as decades and quarter centuries roll-
ed by he began to grow old, still ruling
by reason of size and strength, but inevitably
nearing the time when age would make him
too feeble to rule any more. Brit he saw
many, many generations of proud bucks rise
and grow old and die before even the first
signs of great ago began to appear. It mast
have been less than Ove years ago that he went
out to join battle with a book who had sent
him a ringing challenge, that ho lost the
fight and was compelled to fly for his life.
He saw his harem, the last of many he had
had, file away meekly behind the conqueror,
with not one look behind.
Then he realized that his long day was eL•
the setting, and Ile wandered off alone to
wait for death. It was months before the
end that he lost the power to take food prop-
erly. For the taxidermist found that hes
akin was as thin as a piece of brown wrap-
ping paper instead of an eighth of an inch
thick, as it would have been had he not been
starving and lining oft hie tissues.
•
English Child -Marriage.
England can furnish instances of child
marriages, not perhaps to any great extent,
but as young as any to be found in Eastern
o,untries, where such marriages are almost
of daily occurrence. The youngest English
bride on record is, beyond all doubt, a
daughter of Sir William Brereton, who, in
the sixteenth century, was united in the
bonds of holy matrimony, when only 2 years
of age, to a bridegroom who was only her
senior by one year. In this case the chil-
dren were carried into church, and their
elders spoke for them. Subsequently, when
the pair reached years of maturity, they
ratihed the strange tie. In this instance the
object was to (sally out a desire to unite
property.
In 1563 Randle Moore was married at the
age of 8 years to nitride two years his eeuior;
and about the sante time Emma Talbot, (1
years of age, had a 5 -year-old husband pro•
vided' tor her in the person of Gilbert
Gerrard. Ill this case the bridegroom's
uncle held hien up nod spoke the marriage
words for (nim, while the bride answered for
herself, as she had been taught,
In 1852 William Chatterton, who was
Bishop of Chester and Lincoln successively,
thought it nothing out of the way to pea.
form the marraige ceremony uniting his 0.
year•obi daughter Joan with Richard
Brooke, an 1 1.year-old " man." This eon -
alone, was by consent et the cotibracting
parties, ratified four years later, The
Chester church records contain lengthy
documents testifying to bilis ratification. In
this instance the marriage was not asuccess,
for the bishop records that the wife was
separated from her husband. —CALI the Year
Round.
One Man in a Milan.
"Hobo, Rivera I You have a bad told,"
"Worst fever had Banks." " I'm sorry
for you, old fellow. Wish 1 knew of some.
thing that would cure you, but I don't,"
With tears in his eyes—" eilve Hie your
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The Most Astonishing Medical-Diseovery o
the Last One Hundred Years.
It is Pleasant to the Taste as the Sweetest Nectar.
It is Safe and Harmless as the Purest Milk.
This wonderful Norville Tonic has only recently been introduced
into this country by the proprietors and manufacturers of the Great
South American Nervine Tonle, and yet its great value as a curative
agent has long been known by a few of the most learned physicians,
who have not brought its merits and value to the knowledge of the
general public.
This medicine has completely solved the problem of the cure of indi-
gestion, dyspepsia, and diseases of the general nervous system. It int
also of the greatest valt:e in the cure of all forms of ding health from
whatever cause. It performs this by the great nervine tonic qualities
which it possesses, and by its great curative powers upon the digestive
organs, the stomach, the jiver and the bowels. No remedy compares
with this wonderfully valuable Nervine Tonic as a builder and strength-
ener of the life forces of the human body, and as a great renewer of a
broken-down constitution. It is also of more real permanent value in
the treatment and cure or diseases of the lungs than any consumption
remedy ever used on this continent. It is a marvelous cure for nerv-
ousness of females of all ages. Ladies who are approaching the critical
period known as change in life, should not fail to use this great Nervine
Tonic, almost constantly, for the space of two or three years. It will
carry them safely over the clanger. This great strengthener and cura-
tive is of inestimable value to the aged and infirm, because its great
energizing properties will give them a new hold on life. It will add ten
or fifteen years to the lives of many of those who will use a half dozen.
bottles of the remedy each year,
IT IS A GREAT REMEDY FOR THE CURE OF
Nervousness,
Nervous Prostration,
Nervous Headache,
Sick Headache,
Female Weakness,
Nervous Chills,
Paralysis,
Nervous Paroxysms and
Nervous Choking,
Hot Flashes,
Palpitation of the Heart,,
Mental Despondency,
Sleeplessness,
St, Vitus' Dance.
Nervousness or Females,
Nervousness of Old Age,
Neuralgia,
Pains in the Heart,
Pains in the Back, ,
Failing Health, Delicate and Scrofulous Children,
Summer Complaint of Infants,
All these and many ether complaints cured by this wonderful
Nervine Tonic.
Broken Constitution,
Debility of Old Age,
Indigestion and Dyspepsia,
Heartburn and Sour Stomach,
Weight and Tenderness in Stomach,
Loss of Appetite,
Frightful Dreams,
Dizziness and Ringing in the Ears,
Weakness of Extremities and
Fainting,
Impure and Impoverished Blood,
Boils and Carbuncles,
Scrofula,
Scrofulous Swellings and Ulcers,.
Consumption of the Lungs,
Catarrh of the Lungs,
Bronchitis and Chronic Cough,
Liver Complaint,
Chronic Diarrhoea,
NERVOUS DISEASES.
As a cure for every class of Nervous Diseases, no remedy has been
able to compare with the Nervine Tonic, which is very pleasant and
harmless in all its effects upon the youngest child or the oldest and most
delicate individual. Nine -tenths of all the ailments to which the human
family is heir are dependent on nervous exhaustion and impaired diges-
tion. When there is an insufficient supply of nerve food in the blood, a
general state of debility of the brain, spinal marrow, and nerves is the
result. Starved nerves, like starved muscles, become strong when the
right kind of food is supplied; and a thousand weaknesses and ailments
disappear as the nerves recover. As the nervous system must supply all
the power by which the vital forces of the body are carried on, it is the
first to suffer for want of perfect nutrition. Ordinary food does not con-
tain a sufficient quantity of the kind of nutriment necessary to repair
the wear our present mode of living and labor imposes upon the nerves.
For this reason it becomes necessary that a nerve food be supplied.
This South American Nervine has been found by analysis to contain the
essential elements ottt of which nerve tissue is formed, This accounts
for its universal adaptability to the cure of all forms of nervous de-.
rangement.
CnewrososvrmLs, INH., Aug. 110, 'Sit,
Te the Great Soria American. Medicine Co.:
Mae teems: -1 (Mede to say t0 you that 1
have suffered for many years with a very serious
disease of the stomach and nerves, I tried every
medicine I could hear of, but nothing done me
any appreciable gond until r was advised to
try your Great South American Nervine Tonle
and Stomach and Liver Corp, and elnee using
macre( bottles of it I must say that I am sur-
prised at its wonderful polymath Cure the 0tom-
nch and general nervous system. If everyone
knew the value of this remedy n8 I do you would
not be able to supply the demand.
J. A. HassOO, Ex-Treas, Montgomery Co.
Rtnh ce.1. 'WILKINSON, of Browasvalley, Ind.,
Hays : " r had been in a rllstre8sell condition for
threeyeers from Nervousness, weakness of the
Stomach, Dympcpala, and Indigestion. until mes
health was gone. 11ad been doctoring con-
stantly, with no relief. t bought .one bottle of
South American Nervine, which done me more
Read than any 550 worth of doctoring I eve0
did in 01y life, I would advise every weakly per-
son to use tills valuable and lovely remedy, a
fav bottles of 11 has cured me completely. r '
consider It the grandest medicine In the world."
A SWORN CURE FOR ST. VITAS' DANCE OR CHOREA.
(;RAW FORDSVILLE, IND., June 22, 1887.
My daughter, eleven years old, was severely afflicted with St. Vitus` Dance
or Chorea. We gave her three and one-hitlf'bottles of South American Ner-
vine and sho is completely restored. I believe it will cure every case of St.
Vitus' Dance. I have kept it in my family for two years, and am sure it is
the greatest remedy in the world for Indigestion and Dyspepsia, and for all
forms of Nervous Disorders and Failing Health, from whatever cause.
State of Indiana, t iOFIN T. 14iIsls.
lilontryonicr,/ (;otomy, f 118r
Subscribed and sworn .o before me ibis June 20, 1887.
(11IAS, W. WRIGHT. Notary Public.
INDIGESTION AND DYSPEPSIA.
The great South American Nervine Tonic
Which we now offer you, is the only absolutely unfailing remedy ever
discovered for the cure of Indigestion, Dyspepsia, and the vast train of
symptoms and horrors which are the result of disease and debility of
the human stomach, No person c'311 afford to pass by this jewel of incal-
culable value who is affected by disease of the stomach, because the ex-
perience and testimony of many go to prove that this is the own and
osty own groat euro in the world for this universal destroyer. There
is no case of unnalignant disease of the stomach which can resist the
wonderful curative powers of the South American NcrYinc Tonic.
mutterer 11, fret., of waynetown, Ind., says: Mao. ELr,A A. nn,lmmoa, of New Rose, Indiana,
!' 1 Owe my life to the Grrni, South American 80.00: "1 cannot express low much I owe to the '
Nervine, I had bean In berm for five months from
1NervineTonie, My eyetem one completely nat.
1111[11 of an exhausted stomach, Indigestion,
Nervous Prostration, and a general ehalterod tored, appetite gone, Was coughing and spitting
condition of Illy whole eyetem. Had given tip up blood; am sure 1 ons In the neat stages
1(11 hopes of getting well. Rad tried three doe• of consumption, an Inheritance handed down
tors, With no roller. The nre[ bottle et the New through several generations. I began taking
ine Tonle hnproved meso moth that I was ableto the Norvinc Tonle, and contln0011 Ito flee for
walls about, and a tew hotline cured me entirely. about six mnathe, and ant eetlrety cured. it
I believe It is the best: medicine In the world, t is the grandest remedy fm' eaves, stomach and
eon not recommend it too highly." lungs I have over seen,"
No remedy eemparoe with Semen AastntoaN Nrevmman a euro for the Nerves. No remedy com-
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nasee with south American Nervone n0 a wondn one cure for the Stamuelt. No remedy will at all
compare with 80,111, American Nervine ns a earn for all forme of falling health. It never fails to
cure Indigestion and Dyspopsln, It never tolls to cure Chorea or 81., Vitus Dance, Renown to
hnild e the whole syetnal ore wonderful in tin e:crem00. It cures the old. the young, and the mld-
din aged. It Is a great friend to the aged and infirm, Do not neglect 10 1100 this Itrer100e boon;
if you do, you may neglect the only remedy which will restore 3511 to health. Small American
Nervine le perfectly sate, and very pleasant to the taste. nolicato ladles, do not fail to use Nth;
great cure, because It will put the Menet of freshness and beauty upon your lige and In your thecae,
and quickly drive away your dlsab0fl )011 and weal:net:See.
Price, Large IS ounce bottle WO; y Trial Sixes 15 Cents.
EVERY BOTTLE
WARRANTED,
If not kept by Druggists order direct front
• Dr. E. ETCHCN
I, Crawfordsville, Ind.
A. 1)E,t.'bIA Whotes:xle and Retail Agelit .tor 'Itf'lltt el e.