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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1893-4-14, Page 7Ann, 14, 1.8W;.TEE BRUSSELS POST. , 1 .. llitt, eiw, rnn, atittE..,ntnt, , Mw,.,.ntl,t, ,..ertrua.unt,r„ ,,....e1,...rm FERE LEMONNIER'S GUN, It, the miact of fruitful vase and wooded hills ++ 11'ih+ , In lu vill'n;;e lay. Emelt lieu• el,htil'11 dual brought its wars mot strife anti 1•t•vahut:0ts, but their hat brew lied passed over the face of the land, leaving tide green aunt In pellg'until the „ terrible year" of the C;ee•man l,uvasien, when th t euewy hod come there, killing, burning, and pillaging all before tltcm, and loavirg in their woke a memory of terror and desolation. It was all so ve.,Y terrible to these quiet, th rift Y peasant proprietors, who dwelt in their fhafched cottages and farmhouses down yonder in the valley, where the parish church, with its slated roof, green and moss -grown through age, used to peal forth the Gail to vespers 01 a Rummer evening with a sweet, deep tone that seemed the very soul of old-world rest and portae. A poet, it was said, had once hymned those votteraLlo oak trees, which had seen many cent•uriet) come and go ; but now alas I they had been out clown 10 order that 1000 might the better see to slay each ether. Old 1'cre Lomnnuler sat in the kitchen of his farmhouse, width was situated in a 00• questered spat, and hitherto been respected by the foe. He was aver eighty now and had fought in the great Napoleon's wars, but ever SUMO that tune he had tilled those lands which were has very own—albeit is small holding —and, living a healthy, frugal country life, he had :'nine to this ripe old age a hard, [honest San—the very soul of unoomprom• icing honour. His only son, Antoine, was away with his regiment, and no news lied been heard of him for a long time past so Pere Lemonnier was quite alone now, save for bis niece Melanie, who kept house for hint. He could neither read nor write, What good would it it do hint? he would say ; he could earn his living from the soil without these a tcomplishments. He, therefore, oould not, read the newspapers ; but even had he been able to do so he would only have swallowed a mass of otfielallies in which the Froneh journals of 1870 mainly dealt. But tee news that passed from mouth to mout:n—the news he heard when he went with his cattle to the nlarlcot•town—had, alas I n0or0 truth in it ; and he could hardly believe or Understand the feathal disaster to Ins glorious palrie which came on every hand ; they stemmed to crush him, and to break down hispanic! old spirit. Now they were forced to realise all the shame and the horrors that were brought upon them by a corrupt and decaying dyn0aly. The holed Prussians were even now in their very midst, and Pere Lemonnier Ireew not at what moment he might be driven from that home which had been his father's before him in the dead and gone days when the seigneur ruled over the land. "Alt, wall," he sighed now, as he looked up et his ancient ride which he kept loaded, hanging from a black Hak bean above the ample chimney -piece ; " thou hast seen good service, my stout companion, but I am too old to raise thee now for my country. That is Antoine's duty, and please the good God he may do it bravely 1 But still, who !allows? Perhaps I may yet have to take thea down to defend my life, or my hon- our ."" He raised his eyes towards the window, and there out in the basse•cour, by the fading evening light, he could just decry Melanie in apparently earnest converse with a man in the uniform of a Frenoh lines- man. The old man called to his niece, whereupon Melanie hastily ran into the house, and the soldier disappeared. 1i Who was that thou wart speaking to?" Lemonnier asked. ., I thought all our men had been driven away from these parts?" • It is a poor fellow who lied from Buchy, where there has been a terrible battle." " A thousand thunders 1" cried the farmer, striking the table with his fist. Why didst thou not make hint conte in?" " T-1 did not like to ilo that, the girl answered hesitatingly. \Vhy not? 1 ane hard enough, God knows—perhaps a miser, as they any—but toy door shall never be clotted against those brave lasts who have been facing the 001(0001 Prussians in defence of their ootmtry. Co 1 bid him come in and cost himself, and have a Glass of eider." 'I cannot, my uncle," Melanie replied, seething etrnngely embarrassed. "He—he world not conte d0, I am sure. He is afraid —I mean he has already gone away'." " Well, go ; Sall hits beep if thou comet still dad hint." Lenonnier's niece left the room, as though glad to be released from further questions ; but she did not return, and the old farmer, sitting sad and lonely by the side of the great open hearth, forgot all (shout the matter agate. Old age, having no future, lives in the past, and oftenthnes the events of the present ono and go, making no more impression on the mind than so many fleeting dreams. The hours passed slowly on. Darkness began to fall around, and the fire cast huge ahad001 on the ancient, carved -oak cup- boards, black with age, which give that quaint, old-world Dir to Norman farm• houses. Then Pere Lemonnier, who had been fighting the battle of Jena over again in imagination, and wishing those times under the Little Corporal might come back, returning to everyday affairs, bethought him it was nearly etnle for his evening poetise, and began to wonder where that good.for• nothing Melanie oould have Sot to. He rose up and lit the little lamp of oohs oil, which he met upon rho table, muttering something about the flightiness of youth, Then he determined to go out and look for her, when he was suddenly arrested by the sound of voices speaking in en. unknown tongue., and the regular military tramp of many feet, whioh halted right outside his door. There was a loud kneels, and he caped out : Who fa there ?" The intruders did nob trouble them• selves to answer, but forced the door open, and the next moment tine kitchen was full of German soldiers. " What do you want?" cried the old man, with wonderful courage for his years. "I am past the age for fighting, es you see. If it were nee so it would be the worse for some of you. As Itis, go, and leave mo in peace !" We will do that," replied the sergeant commanding the party fn excellent French —their linguistic accomplishment was one of the weapons with which his oountrymen fought and won -" we will leave you in peace if you will give up onr prisoner whom you are hiding. "What prisoner ?" asked Lenonnier, in utter surprise, "I do not know what you mean. 1 am hiding •no one ; bub if I were and ho wore the uniform of the Vomit army, you tray rest aesnred that you might never take hila by my eotsent," "'Tae is as good as to confess that you aro biding our prisoner." "No, itis not, I know nothing about Min. I would not sully my honour by ly• big to spell dogs as you !" ' .Thetis idle taut, If we were beaten, yon would be the dogs, with us. You had Ir,t r' l,lr t•arc wit Stilt (1 a(.1 sty. Lou" people Luce had tl.e:r b11r111 down tor hew. licit there is no peel in beetine ahem tbe 11111. It le }e'er sent yon err Itidu:u, awl we Duan f a have him. '.I'im:o last +y"rrl4 .,ii treacly alte,tikie•,l the 9111 011(11rr, that he made no re.de! l.0 when tem et the l't'ueelan (011 el'.s I`••1+�: 1111, terribly dawn in his their, wh:let tie rest filed out of the mom to search the 1,,,03 . illy mon is not here, I. tell }rot, He fa far away, fighting with the army( of the Loire. 1 wish he were. oloae at hand. He would Hover allow this indignity to be put t roma In upon Ili while a single drop Fhloop t t etc in his body. My son would retreat and fly, if ordered by hie officers ; but I tell you he would never hide from his enemy I" " Nevertheless," the sergeant %lowered brutally, tf you shall presently see him shot down before your very eyes as 0 fug[• live prisoner of war." "That Ishall never see 1" Lemonnier ex- claimed, possessed by a sullen rage. Now he could hear the soldiers tramping about upstairs, (marching and turning over all his secret and sacred( hiding -places ; breaking, pillaging everything before them. Ah, of course I He had heard these dogs of Polna0ians were nothing but thieves, This, tiler, was only an excuse for robbery. Olt, why had he not the strength of forty years ago, or why was not Antoine here to prevent this insult being pub upon him The sergeant crossed the room, tail shoat• ed upstairs in German : " flake haste 1 If you cannot find him, we must go on, We have other work to do," But they answered back : " We have him, sergeant. He was hiding under a bed!" and then there was a noise of scuttling and a strange scream. "It is Melanie f' cried the old farmer, struggling to be free. "Ah the brigands ! They make war on women now !" But it war a Frenoh soldier who was be- ing dragged, pale and trembling, down the gloomy staireaae. " Donner,retter, yott fools 0" swore the sergeant, as the prisoner was 'nought for- ward into the lamplight : "wino have you got here ? This is a girl I" " Melanie !" exclaimed Lemonnier, this time wrenching himself free ; indeed his captors were too much astonished to detain him, " What is the meaning of this sense• less masquerading?" " Oh, forgive me, my uncle ; I did it to save Antoine 0" "To save Antoine 0" The words carte like a dagger•tltrust. At this moment the outer door was flung open, and two more Germans entered the kitchen with a man of about five•aud• th'irty, attired in the cap and blouse of a Norman peasant, who walked 5101001y be- tweenthem." c' We have got our man, sergeaett," said one of the new comers. " You hate been played a fine trick, it seems. He was try- ing to escape from us in disguise ; but I kuew his ugly plug direotly 100109,00 upon it, for 1 had markets it myself witlt the butheud of my gun when he tried to give us the slip before." The look of shame and agony which was imprinted on the aged farmer's pale features was indeed piteous to behold, as he recog- nized here before him his own son, Antoine "What!" he moaned, bitterly, " You:, Is it yott who disgrace onr honor by oat ing oaf your uniform at the bidding of a girl, and monk and hide away from your enemy, instead of facing them like a man—and worse than all, let a woman meet danger for your sake 1 But stay, thou shalt escape thea e curried Prussians yet, where they can not touch thee 0" Aud as he spoke t hese words, before they knew what he was about, or could stir a. step to prevent hint, old Lemonnier had snatcher! down his gun and iced it for the first time since the day of Waterloo. There was a tremendous report which echoed through the mum, a cloud of smoke rolled up to the black oak beams, and his sot An- toine lay dead upon the Hoer 1 Even the hard (German sergeant's heart was touched with pity as he looked upon tragic scene—the old mow sunk upon This knees, hie white head bowed down ; the girlie her strange garb sobbing out abreak- ing heart over her lover's corpse. "Forward?"besaid very softly to Lis - men ; "we can do no good here. One prts oiler has escaped us after all !" A ROUND DOZEN. Twelve War: Of 0,*j 11 ring tare 010101019. Wearing thin shoes and stockings on damp niglit0 and in cool, rainy weather ; wearing intlicient clothing, especially when 01301.5 the limbs and extremities. Leading a life of unteeling, stupid lazi nese and keeping the mind in an unnatural state of excitement by reading trashy .novels, Going to the theatres, parties and balls in all sorts of weather, in thin dresses; dauoiug until in a eompleto perspiration, and then going home without sufficient overgarments through the cool, damp night air. Sleeping on feather beds in seven by nine bedrooms without ventilation at the top of the windows, and especially with two or more persons in the same small room. - Surfeibing on very hot and very stimu- lating dinnersl eating in a hurry without half masticating the food and eating heartily before going to bed,when the mind and body are exhausted by the toils of the day and the excitement of the evening. Beginning in ohildhood on strong tea and coffee and going from one step to another through chewing and smoking tobacco and drinking intoxicating liquors ; and mental and physteal excesses of other kinds. Marrying in taste and getting at 0090' genial companion and living the retnainder of life in mental dissatisfaction ; cultivating jealousies and domestic broils and always being iu a mental ferment. Keeping children quiet by giving pare- goric and cordials ; by teaching them to sunk candies, and by supplying them with raisins, nuts and rich cakes. When they are elak by giving then[ mercury, tartar emetic and areeni ), under the mistaken notion that they are medicines, and not irrltanb 110190110. Allowing the power of gain to absorb our minds, so as to leave no time to attend to onr health ;following an unhealthy ocoupe- ton because money can be made by it, Tempting the appetite with bitters and nineties when the etomaoh (aye no, and by fooling food into it when nature does not demand, and even rejects it ; gortnancliz• in between inoale. Contriving to keep up a continual worry about something or nothing ; giving away to fits of anger. Being irregular in all habits of eloping and eating too muoh,too teeny kinds of food and that whioh is 100 highly seasoned. Neglecting tot lie proper care of enrolees and not applying early for medical advice when disease drab appears, but by taking gqvaolt medicines to a (levee of making a drug shop of the body. The "Death or Glory lloys," the 1711) Lancers, was anon. the ernik regiment •of English cavalry, Itis not so now. AGRIOULTUE AND GA1)DB91111G. 011100 7trlilxh Itr11(1911 for It i+ nc,( >o lout; atm:( f"110l1.+, :4m1 ear• anr:ara, loo, ff.' 1 )101 1111t1(1, ohie'1. tai 19 give .hey a-+lat.Mr.. in 010 onpihtt i.'n of 110 1a{ .eta•l0.ties, They had a wind, ...me dread of fre,11 or of increased ta:alion. They did mit realize that tin information obtained n"tld lie ascii fur any hat oppres• sive purposes, Anil they were toe ilbinfq,rin- ed to appre0h41e the value of carefully oh tattled and carefully digested statische, asses hie love .•„ sora a� yro i ) The cultry t lw s F } l for fasts, but he did not 1;14i'e For any Facts beyond allose which he could glean for Ititntolf within the foul: corners of hie own ppremises, For other people's foots he hall a profound conto:apt. Improved. education, and especially the stress of foreign competition, have altered this state of things, The love of "facts" is as great as ever—nay, greater : it has happily grown so that no one (a any longer satisfied with his own [hutted range, but extends his gathetng ground as widely as he can. lloreever, with the progress of line hao come a better appreciation of the proportion and of the relative importance of facts. The MUMS of any particular depression, if not known in their entirety, are at least ante known to be complex, and not to be attributable to any one cause, and•tberefore not remediable by any quack remedy, however plausible it may be in appearanoc. A glance at the " Agricultural Returns of Great Britain" for 1893, which hes just been publishe,l, at a cost of one shilling, by Eyre M Spottiswoode, and whioh may be had from soy beekseller, will furnish the reader with abundant opportuutties for indulging is this description of comment. Much of the information contained la the report is out of our scope, so that we shall confine ou00elve0 to calling the attention of our readers to one 01 two matters in which they are likely to bo especially interested, leaving them to make fuller perusal of the document for themselves. Arable land has steadily diminished in amount during the last twenty years to the extent of more than two millions of acres, but this diminution does not apply to Scot- land, where there has been an actual in- crease of 78,000 acres, On the other hand, the area under grass hes increased iu great- er proportion than the arable land has diminished, owing to teclamatious and ex- tensions. Hops are chiefly grown in Kent, which yields more than one-half of the anneal crop ; nevertheless, there has been a dimin- ution in the acreage during the last twenty years to the extent of nearly 4,000 acre. Nursery grounds In England covered in 1892 a total area of 11,331 acres practically the same as in the preceding year. the largest county acreage is Surrey, with 2,733 —more than double that of any ether coun- ty,the next in order being the West Riding of Yorkshire, with 702 acres ; Chester has 507 acres 1 Hertford, 500 ; Kent, 728 ; Mid- dlesex, 604: Worcester, 300; and so on, till we come to Rutland, with 12, and \\'est• moreland, with 11 acres only. In Scotland, the total acreage of nursery grounds in 1893 is given at 1,383, of which 372 are in the comity of Edinburgh, 152 in Dumfries, 107 in Aberdeen, 1 only in Seth- erlandehire, while Caithness, Kinross, Lin- lithgow, Orkney, and Shetland have none at all. Market gardens in (heat Britain are ac•' credited with a total acreage of 83,081, as compared with 81,30S in 1891. Kent heads the list with over 12,000 acres, 11lid. dlesex rooms next with 8,089, then Bedford with 0,828; Worcester,4,850; Essex, 4,105; Surrey, 3,763. .After these there is a sud- den drop, and, after that, agradual dinlinu- tion, tilt in Westmoreland we find only 24 acres returned as under market cultivation, In Scotland alone there are 5,32.2 acres under market gardens the largest acreage being in Lanerkehire 1,378, and Ediuburgh 1,030, while Suttherlandshiro i.a at the other end of the list with one acre—one more than in 1801 ' Orchards were represented in 1802 as 0c• cupying an area of :308,050 acres, a slight diminution as compared with previous years. But it is to the returns relating to fruit culture that we desire practically to (all the attention of our readers. In Great Britain and Ireland it is satisfactory to dud ars in- crease of :3,425 acres devoted to shall fruit culture. In the year 180.2 en learn that the oiler bee of aoreo devoted to small fruits in the grazing western counties of England was 17,064, a percentage 0.1. In the corn - growing eastern comities the figures are :311,438, and tie pereentoge 0.8, the total percentage for all the English counties be• ing still only 0.2. In reforenoe to this sub• jeot we take this extract : " The area under small fruit again shows an increase. The area returned for Great 'Britain was 62,148 acres, of whish 50,502 were in England. Although every English county now returns a certain aoreage under this head, there are only five where as much as 2,000 acres is returned. Kent heads the list with 10,831 acres ; no other county a.t all approaches this total. The acreage r0• turned in Middlesex 13 now 3,718 ores. Worcester returns 2,421 acres, Lancashire has 3,102, soros, and Cattbrdd a 2,064. Full details are given in table X11. whioh in• t , dioates the extent to whioh gooseberries, strawberries, raspberries, and currants (all grouped under the title of small fruits) ere cultivated either along with larger fruit trees in orchards, or in market gardens, or as a farm cop at other land," The imports of f,'uit are alluded to monthly in our oolumns, and in the return before us we have a statement of the quart• tithes and values of imported fruits, nuts, and vegetables for ten yeer0, Wo can only say, by way of illustration, that Ito,18111 the number of bushels of apples imported was 3,147,373, of the value of 1:1,033,097. In the same year 3,102,836 cwt. of pota• toes, of the value of £1,196,824, were im- ported, whioh, as we see by another table, means nine pounds per head of the entire population. Onions iu 1891 were imported to the ex- tent of 4,281,040 bushels, valued at 0-733, 746. The total value of ail kinds of fruits, nuts, and vegetables imported in 1891 amounted to X8,311,200. No fewer than 1,275,398,000 eggs were imported, valued at X3,606,000, France and Germany supply more than half ofthis enor- mous number, Belgium, Russia, and Den- mark coaling next. The Canadian quota has ineroaacd from 2,000,000 to 3:3,000,000 in a single year, and we have now laid under contribution a variety of minor,: sources, among which it is ottrtoue 10 note the Canary Isles, 'Turkey, and Egypt I Those figures aro certainly astounding. In another table we find that thirty-four step eggs were eaten by each member of the en- tore ntore population of the United Kingdom, It is evident we could not raise enough for onr own consumption within our small islands, but that it should pay commercially to bring suoln things 00 eggs ftom ouch very. distant 00mhtries surely suggests a lesson to our people, sad accounts for the difficulty of ?reeving now•lavl eggs in Leaden. aa.mereeceeirreoeieerverriiVeerinsponannimieelinveenireeierwarenrarianieseerwi,t , t.n a.ee...,. A. TiTHE's f ^7 tti'te Ipd�'�g- '� a ^k 17 ° s GREAT c 110 cab ,:J1 ,f°!t.�°.t qbi� port i, r 01 1', enmeer(b. Il ,r• 1(1'.l01111441,1lei.,•a! do. tis nt l tine t , h.Ruc(111'.rl p, ,num IF tete �n (somtJ 10 o .10 and of 0wit ,•'d,a,i'•+. `l'i're• frnlrca 11,1 111 leu Uelat rarriulh' dl Wbc,i need 1,11...11 t, hens L}• free tta&•ra an 1 Ito -deo iuni, llE COULD MAKE MONEY AI f WH1:RE• !➢snit or the peel ice! Muni iinoLteas Mao lu tit t'engu Volley, e Camillo D e cot. one who The miner of a D 1 nm died on the Capper Conga in Domino. last, illustrates the feet that same white cines, are able to ntidte episodic' opportunities for themselves even 111 tropic el Africa. Ten yore ago he wont to the Congo at a 0111011 salary to be the agent of a trading ceulpen}' at one of their stations Nine years later Ito was the directo•of the Society of the Upper Congo, had more than forty trading stations under his direction, and, from a commercial point of view, was the most important while man on the river. Fourteen etoantboate are engaged exclusively in the transportation service of tide company, whose stations are scatterd along the Congo and its tributaries fon' thousands of miles. Deleommune established all of these stations on the upper river. Delon:mune went to the Congo when he was 32 years old of a salary of only ahem. 6700 riot( his rations. He diets when he WAS only 33 years old, and the salary he then commanded would be oousidered as representing brilliant success in any comm mercial centre of the world. One reason for his 0uceees was bis un- bounded enthusiasm and his faith in the future of the much•deoried Congo weeny, In ono of his letters he wrote: ' The trade that can be developed in the Upper Congo Valley is almost incalculable." In another letter he said : " Any degree of success may be attained here by men of enterprising character and of dauntless determination 10 achieve their purposes." Deloommune was that sort a man, Had. he lived he would have be0Ol10 wealthy. He had already won a fair competency when he died. Men liko him menet be suppress- ed. Put them in the desert of Sahara and they would find some way to make money. He was the first European to buy ivory on the Upper Congo. Somehow or other, not even physical obstacles could defeat hint. Explorers had tried in vain to take their steamers through the Zongo rapids of the Mohaugi River. He was theft est to make the passage when he planted his stations on the NIobangi in 1801. The missionaries say no other man of such activity, pusli,antl vigilance has ever been seen on the Congo. He hail great tact in dealing with the ratites, and they all liked hint. He was a strict disciplinarian, and held Ids white subordinates to a rigid accountability. They had to make money for the company or get out. He launched most of the fleet of steamers that he controlled. He did not hesitate, however, to push inland, away from the rivers, when he believed there was a good prospect of opening a profitable ivory and rubber trade. In two months, a while ago, he travelled 900 utiles along tortuous and narrow native paths, studying the prospects of commercial development, at a distance from the rivers. During his ten years' service he visited Europe only once, and was away from his field of work but a few mouths. His vigor and energy never became impaired, and he knew how to keep well in a trying olinnate, and yet his death seems to have Leon due to an indiscretion. While standing by the grave of ono of his subordinates, 110 remov- •ed his bat to make a few remarks. He re- ceived a sunstroke, fever followed, and he died in a few days, lamented by all the white men on the Congo as the most brill- ia'ut man of busineee whose talents had been developed in that region. Hisbrotlt- er Alexander is n w•ell•known Congo ex. plover. A Few Buffalo Still Left, Professor liornaday, the naturalist, esti mated the number of the animals running wind at the beginning of the year 1591 at 1001, and this is certainly a liberal estimate, About fifty are known to be in Colorado, where in October, 1801, a ranchman, for whom justice still calls in vain, is known to have killed five. In 1889 the State Legis- lature of Colorado enacted a law providing severe penalties for any one who should kill a buffalo before the year 1900. The State Game Worsen recently made an effort to bring the individual who admitted that he had killed five of the animals to justice, but he " oould find no one who would testi- fy against hint." These Colorado buffalo are said to be in four "bunches "—one in Middle Park, one in the Kenosha range ( the herd numbering perhaps twenty ), ten or fifteen are at Habn's Peak in Route County, and tine remainder at Dolores. On the, James River in North Dakota and south and west of Jamestown there arefoer or fire animals, all that are left of the little herd tvl.ioh made its last stand near -Fort Totten. Manitoba is said to contain a small herd, but as quite a number of animals were recently shipped from Winnipeg to Garden City, Kansas, where " Buffalo " Jones has gathered a considerable number, and is en- deavoring with some measure of success to Morose them by breeding, it, coney be that this Manitoba herd has been counted twice. The Fellowotone National Park contains a large hent—the largest, perhaps, in ex- istence anywhere—and they are said to be slotdly inoreasing in numbers, Forty-seven buffalo are owned by C. Allard, a rancher in tho Flathead country, on Crow Creek, Montana. These animals are herded with the domestic cattle. Here and there thoughout the country, in parks or zoological gardens, a few are to be found. These are all that remain of that mighty host whioh covered the plains of the Woo within the memory of men not yet thirty. five years of age.—[13arper's Magazine. So as to Know What Yon Take. The Berlin police have adopted a common. sense method of dealing with persons wbo advertise harmful and poisonoos prepara- tions for sale, which has the merit of not potting in motion the tardy and uncertain machinery of the law. Immediately be• meth the objeotfonable advertisement they publish the announcement that the preteens - don above named has been analyzed and is found to consist of such andsnoh a composi- tion, its intrinsic yahoo bang so much. 0i this way lately was stopped the Bale of a much advertised ,!esthetic, the chief eon. p0nent of which was that deadly salt of mercury known as corrosive sublimate, —EChatnber'e Journal. Worse and Worse. Minks--" My wife no sooner reaches Florida before the doctor there ceders her North, and as quick as she gets home our doctor here orders iter hack to Merida." Iinke— " Hum 1 I See. how It is. 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IC performs this by the great nervine tonic qualities which it possesses, and by its great curative powers upon the digestive organs, the stomach, the liver and the bowels. No remedy compares with this wonderfully valuable Nervine Tonic as a builder and strength, ener of the life forces of tllc human body, and as a great renewer of a broken -clown constitution. It is also of more real permanent value in the treatment and cure of 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 wilt oarr,v them safely over the danger. This great strengthener and cura- tive is ,of inestimable value to the aged and infirm, because its great energizing properties will give thein a new 11o1(1 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, Broken Constitution, Nervous Prostration, Debility of Old Age, Nervous Headache, Indigestion and Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Heartburn and Sour Stomach, Female Weakness, Weight and Tenderness in Stoinaehr Nervous Chills, Loss of Appetite, Paralysis, ]Frightful Dreams, Nervous Paroxysms and Dizziness and Ringing in the Ears, Nervous Choking, Weakness of Extremities and Hot Flashes, Fainting, Palpitation of the heart, Impure and Impoverished Blood, Mental Despondency, Boils and Carbuncles, Sleeplessness, Scrofula, St. Vitus' Dance, Scrofulous Swellings and Ulcers, Nervousness of Females, Consumption of the Lungs, Nervousness of Old Age, Catarrh of the Lungs, Neuralgia, Bronchitis and Chronic Cough, Pains in the Heart, Liver Complaint, Pains in the Back, Chronic Diarrhoea, Failing Health, Delicate and Scrofulous Children, Summer Complaint of Infants. A.11 these and many other complaints cured by this wonderful Nervine Tonic.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 ailmentp 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 tho 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 out of which nerve tissue is formed. This accounts for its universal adaptability to the cure of all forms of nervous de- rangement. CRAw00RnaritMt Iso., Aug. 20, '8e, To lire Grea6 South AmerfcaaAiled irt.. Ga.: Man Osnms:—I desire to say to you that 1 have suffered for many years tvit.0 a veru serious disease of the stomach and nerves, 1 tiled every medicine I could hear of. but nothing done mo any appreCIOUle good until I was advised to try your Great South American Norville Tonle and Stomach and Liver Cure, and ahem using several bottles of it I must stay that I am stir. prised at its wonderful powers to core the atom. aril anti general nervous System. It everyone knew the valve of th10 remedy ee Ido you would. not be able to supply Inc demand. J. A. Hannon, Ex"l'reas, Montgomery Co. I<F.RSry , wmxlneox, of Brownavalley. Ind•, say's : "I had been in a distressed condition. IOC three years Irofn Nervousness, weakness of the Stomach, Dyspepsia, and iadigeatlon, until my health was gone, r had been doctoring con - gently, with no rester. Y bought one bottle or South American Nervine, whirls done me more good than any (100 worth o1 doctoring I ever did to my lite. I would advise every 'weakly per - 005 to use this valuable and lovely remedy, a. der bottles of it has cured me completely. I consider It the grandest medicine in the world," A SWORN CURE FOR ST. VITAS' DANCE OR CHOREA. C1tAWFORDSVILLE, IND., June 22, 1880. My daughter, eleven years old, was severely afioted with bit. Vitus' Dance or Chorea. We gave her three and one-half bottles of South American Ner- vine and she 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 Disorder's and Failing Health, from whatever cause State of Indiana,noMontgomeryl s JOHN T. 1 iIS13. Montgomery Count.,y,1 Subscribed and sworn ,o before me this Juno 22, 1807. C.t•I.tie. W. WI IGnm, 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 can afford to pass by this jewel of incal•• culable value who is affected by disease of the stomach, because the eaI- perienee and testimony of many go to prove that this is the ONE and ONLY ONE great cure in the world for this universal destroyer. There is no ease of unmalignant disease of the stomach which can resist the wonderful curative powers of the South American Nervine Tonic. HARM= E. LULL, of Waynetown, Ind„ eaye 1 If ns. ELIA A. BRATToN, of New Ross, Indiana, " I owe my lite to the Great South ,tmcrican says: "I cannot express how much I owe to the. Nervino, 1 had been in bed for five monthe front Nerving Tonic. My system was completely shat the effeeta of an exaauetod stomach, Indigestion. Nrrvooe rro0tratlon, and at general ahatttre3 terOt, appetite gond, wao cougldng andepltting all holes f my. Miele , Tire , lied Meed doe- uf/ bleed; am euro I woe in rho ardt etowwn all hopes of gelling well, Tired tried three300- of consumption, eau, nn ratiotsuco banded down tocol with no relief. Tho first bottle of the Ser,- through several generations. I began taking Ise 'tonlout, and ed meso much that me a abieto the Nor,I,Ie Tonle, and am entire *te toe' for walk about, and a few bottles cured me entlrcly, shoot stn months, and nm nerves, entirety novel. It T honour it le the best medicine In clic world, I is the coolest remedy for nerves, etomaoh and curt not recommend tt too highly., lunge I have ever seen." No remedy emanates with Sowni SNOWMAN Nene) as a euro for the Nervee. NO remedy cont.. coienttithelNorville e ioillfreiinohthr11evriitnwith youAmmc mv1ia ulwondrous aomof failing es , net s alt cure Indigestion and Dyspepsia. It never fails to curb Chorea or St, Vitus" Donee. Its powers to build oO tato whole system aro wonderful In the extreme, It cures the old, the young, and the m' 1. ,Ile aged, It is a great friend to the aged and harm. Do not neglect to 000 Bile merlons boon; If ;you do, you may neglect the only remedy whioh will restore you to health. Snnth American Nervine Is perfectly safe, and very pleosatt to the taste. Delicate ladies, do not tall to use this great cid quickly drive awn will your disabilities of a eik000eee beauty upon your lips and in your cheeks, Price, Large 16 ounce Bottle $1.00; Trial Size, 15 Cents. EVERY BOTTLE WARRANTED. If not kept by Druggists order direct from Dr. E. DETCHON, Crawfordsville, lllda A. DEAI1' l l 9, Wholesale and Retail Agent for Brussels.