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cured in the annals of the republic, and ve will
require wise, brave and virtuous men to guide
the ship of state. If Stephens is alive,his influ
ence will be felt, if be has passed away his ex
ample and his precepts will not be forgotten.
This work wap published in 1878 by J. B. Lip-
pincott, in a style equal to the highest art of
the trade.
SENSATIONS .
LIFE OF ALEXANDER H. STEPHEN'S.
This is a work which will live in American
literature, not only on account of the merit it
deserves in the various departments in which
it excels, its biographic, narrative and philo
sophic features, but on acoount of the interest
ing and in some respects lovely character of Al
exander H. Stephens.
A poor boy, honest, industrious, with a talent
and an energy of spirit rising superior to bodi
ly infirmities and breaking at sunder the bands
of comparative poverty; btcomiDg a learned and
successful lawyer, entering the field of politics,
but becoming a statesman, are elements which
not only attract the cultivated and good 01 man
kind, but serve as models for all who aspire to
honest and virtuous success; and to crown the
enchantment ot such a life, a pious, domestic
home faculty which has made him the ol jtct of
love to those to whom he was allied by kindred
or blood, certainly presents a character for his
tory,and of which history may be proud.
Among the interesting features of this work
which literature and love alike may cherish, is
the pleasant and tasteful manner in which the
writers of this biography have placed the home
letters and dressea the domestic scenery of the
subject of this work.
To the young men of the present age this
work is commended, as an encouragement to
labor under the disadvantageous circumstances
of poverty and disease. The life it portrays is a
stimu'actto hard work; an incentive to success
along the pathway of virtue and Christian piety.
It is the life size picture of the statesman,around
which are hung the beautiful sunlight photo
graphs of domestic life in its simple purity, but
utmost refinement.
To the public men of this age the life of Ste
phens, as presented by bis biographer, should
be even exhibited, as showing how a man can
face the storm of political life, free from the
wiles and trickery of the politician—the creature
ot the current—and plaming his feet on the firm
foundation of truth and justice, became a states
man, whose honesty and wisdom are proved by
the admiration, of the wise and virtuous, and
whose popularity is secured not by the mere
voice of the multitude, but by the sucoess of
wise measures and the tist of severe trial and
experience.
Mr. Stephens wss but expressing the feelings
of a statesman characterized by pure and eleva
ted principles, when in Feb. 1858 he said:
‘To mix daily with men who nave no patriot
ism and no object but their own little selfish
ends, is disgusting to me.’ (Life cf Stephens,
page 330.
Hew well he describes the politician, whose
great effort so often appears to be a mere strug
gle for some personal end.
That Mr. Stephens' political and constitution
al views of many public measures are liable to
logical objections we will not deny. We are not
criticising his publio opinion s, but noticing the
manner in which they have been treated in the
work of his biographer, which we think in all
rtspeots fair, just and able.
Mr. Stephens’ high and honored character
and position as a statesman, free from the in
fluence of the partizan, and with a patriotism
limited only by the boundaries of the nation,
was strikingly manifested on bis retirement
from the House of Representatives, ‘in the offer
of a public dinner tendered by members of both
houses cf Congress, without distinction of par
ty, headed by the Vice President (in his capac
ity of President of the Senate) and by the speak
er of the House, as a testimonial of personal
esteem.’
Mr. Stephens’ views on secersion and his
council during the late war are well and clear- ‘Hid God ever make a heart that would net
ly presented in his biography. Before Georgia I respond for good if the rightchord was touched,
seceded he said: | «pf any 0 f you laok wisdom let him learn of
■My judgement, es is well known, is against j God.’
the policy of immediate secession for any exist- Shower8 of divine graoe a re descending in all
ing causes. It cannot receive the sanction of 6 8
my vote; but if the judgement of a majority of! ° f our country.
this* convention, embodying, as it does, thesov-1 . ^ of meetings for prayer and exhort*-
ereignty of Georgia, be agamst mine; if the me-! I* 011 bave been held during the past two weeks
jonty of the delegation in this convention shall, the First Presbyterian Church, conducted by
by their votes,dissolve the compact of the union, the Rev. Messrs Bachman, whose labors Lave
which has connected her so long with her con- been greatly blessed in bringing sinners to see
federate states, and to which I have been so ar- that without God they must be eternally lost,
dently attached, and Lave made such tffortsto! We have before us some excellent Expository
continue and to perpetuate upon the principles 1 Rotes on the International Lessons, prepared by
on which it was founded, I shall bow in sub-1 Rev. Dr. Cunningham, assisted by Dr. O. I.
mission to that decision. ’(Vide Biography I Hammers, and issned by the Southern Metho-
Sunday tornadoes are getting wonderfully
common. A terrible one struck the town of
Lockport, Texas, on the 27th, and demolished
forty houses, including churches, court house
and Masonic Hall. Many persons were badly
injured and one child killed outright.
A fearful massacre occurred last week at Bel
fast, Maine. A crazy man named Powell mur
dered an entire family, consisting of John Mc
Farland, a farmer, his wife and granddaughter.
The insane fury shot McFarland and beat out
the brains of the others. He then attacked an
other family, when he was shot and killed.
A young lady of Baltimore recently jilted her
lover, and he retaliated by writing her amorous
letters on postal cards. She did not invoke the
’aw, but going to a church which he frequented,
awaited the dismissal of the congregation, Sun
day night, when she drew a jaw hide and laid it
on so hot ana heavy that his rapid locomotion
was at once brought into requisition to save him
from further punishment.
Awful domestic tbagedy.— Monsieur Fillette,
a b&i ker’s clerk, lived in handsome apartments
in the Quartier Breda in Paris. His pretty
young wife was a teacher of music, and one of
her pupils was a young man of twenty-five, clerk
at the prefecture of the Seine. The husband
had been beard to remonstrate with his wife
about the too frequent lessons given to this pu
pil. Recently it was nctioed that the doors of
the Fillette apartments were not opened, and as
nothing had been seen of the man or his wife
for some days, the police broke into the front
room. There lay Monsieur and Madame dead
on the floor, the lady half undressed, and a six
barrelled revolver lying beside the corpse of
the man. Farther search discovered in the ad
joining bedroom the body of the 3 oung clerk of
the prefecture of the Seine. He had been shot
through tt e heart. The sight of the three dead
bodies told the whole story.
A STABTUNG INCIDENT-MAN KILLED IN BED BY
ameteoblite.—Near Newtown, Fountain conDty
Indiana, lived a farmer L< onidas Grcver. He
is a widower and his newly-married daughter
and her husband were the only other inmates of
his home. The young couple went out to spend
the evening one day last week—when they re
turned, the honse was quiet, it was past the el
der gentleman's bed time, and nothing nnnsual
apparent Next morning, when breakfast was
ready, the daughter called her father; and re-
cieving no answer, the door was broken open,
when a startling sight presented itself.
The man lay on his shattered bed, a horribly
mutilated corpse with the sunlight streaming on
him through a ragged hole in the ceiliDg, and
roof of the house directly above the bed and in
a line with the bleeding breast of the man,
which was torn clean through as though by an
immense cannon ball. The hole extended down
through the bedding, through the floor, and
through the ground beneath to the depth of
five feet. On digging down that depth,the cause
of the strange calamityf was apparent. A mete
oric stone weighing v^enty pounds and stained
with blood was unearthed. It had fallen with
awful impetus,and the victim who was no doubt
asleep at the time, must have been instantly
killed.
Hard Times Sure Enough.
Rich, Fare and Racy,
THE CHURCH.
Doings and Sayings in the Re
ligious World.
For the especial benefit of the gentlemen of
the bar we publish the following without further
comment:
High Point, N. C.,
Messrs. John Smith a Co.-Gents: Replying
to yonrs of the 18th instant, I have to say that
for the prospect of Laving claims placed in my
hands to collect iu this vicinity, and nothing
more, I do not feel willing to report the ‘stand
ing’ of the party mentioned, or of any one else.
I do not wish to be misunderstood as saying
that I do not want paying business, but I do
know that a lawyer would starve as quick on
commissions and fees on collections as he would
on corn-cob soup in January. I have haa some
experience in collecting since the war, cr rather
in trying to collect. I have offered to comprom
ise claims by taking old clothes, frozen cab
bage, cirous tickets, patent medicine, whet
stones, powder horns, old flour barrels, gourds,
coon skins, jay birds, owls, or almost anything,
and yet I have a number of those old claims on
hand unsettled. If I were to depend on collect
ing claims for ray iiving, my bean broth would
get so thin tbftt it w6uM rattle in me like pot
liquor in a floor dog. I don't like to shoot at
long taw, but if yen are inclined to pay any
thing certain for the desired reports, I‘m your
man; say ten dollars cash, then I‘in in, or, if
money is scarce, I would take shoes, large Nos.,
say 10s, 11s and 12s, to the amount of ten dol
lars at wholesale prices.
It‘s hard times here—the niggers aDd the
democrats have pulled and worried each other
till this country smells like cheese. How in the
world would you collect money out of a people
who plow little speckled bulls on hill sides? If
you were to see a nigger plowing his garden
with a sow, you would not wonder why I don't
want claims to collect in this vicinity. Your
sincere friend, J. R- Bulia.
Fun.
page 382.)
ihb above extract from a speech deliver ed by
Mr. Stephens Jan. 16, 1868, before the Georgia
Secession Convention, is a full and dear, prac
tical and philosophic expression of the charac
ter of the union under its constitution. Every
wo.d seems to be carefully used to express the
power of the constitution over the union, and
the duty of the people under it. The sentence
embraot s a volume of philosophic truth based
on history.
Mr. Stephens was elected to the Provisional
Government at Montgomery, much against his
wish, but finally concluded to go, provided the j
convention would pass two resolutions which he
offered, touching the mode of organization of
the Provisional Government and the subsequent
formation of a peimantnt government ‘upon the
principles and basis of the constitution of the
United StateB.’ When resolutions were passed
with great unanimity and Mr. Stephens felt it
to be, as his biographer remarked, ‘his duty to
do all that he could to preserve and perpetuate
the principles of our Federal Union.’ The bi
ographer cites the remark in quotation, proba
bly from Mr. Stephens.
Mr. Stephens became Vice President of the
Southern Ccnfedeiacy, and here we leave him
with the remark that his talent and character
are well defended and protected by his distin
guished biographers.
The work ot the authors of this biography is
highly judicious and tasteful, the composition,
in style and substance is elegant and accurate.
The remarks and observations drawn from the
letters and speeches, as they are arranged in the
work, are appropriate, just and true,at:d appear
in every sense applicable alike to the tone and
character of the man whose life is written, as to
the history and philosophy of the various sub
jects to which they relate.
Why write a man’s life while he is living ? A
monument is designed to show a people's love
and admiration for one whose days are ended,
and 10 prevent, if possible, the noble deeds of
the person from being forgotten. The written
life of a great man is designed to keep his life
before us after death.
The habit of writing the life of a person be
fore death is generally not to be approved.
Dr. Johnson is reported to have said that ‘He
would take the life of any one before he would
permit him to take bis.’ It is well he did not
kill Boswell.
The writers of Mr. Stephens’ life will permit
us to say it is to be hoped that he may live long
enough snd do and say enough to enable them
to wiite another life, or to add another volume
to the yet unfinished life ol the distinguished
statesman. We feel confident that it will be in
all rr speots as interesting and instructive as the
present one. In all probability, we are enter- j
ing upon a period to be as active and aB proli- .
flo in important history as any that has yet 00-
by
dist Publishing House, Nashville, Tenr.
As the sun never wearies but continues his
rounds from day to day, forever, so do not be
weary in well doing, and as the sud, after the
daily course is run, is robed in glory by his
great Author, so you shall retire from this ter
restrial, moral firmament wrapped iu the divine
glory, as an emblem of the glory to be thereafter
revealed in you.
The King of Siam has richly endowed a col
lege for the education of the children of his
court and of the princes, and called upon Rev.
S. G. M’FarUnd, a missionary, to manage it. It
is to be a Christian college.
An English paper tells of a new sect called
‘The Hallenjah, or Salvation Army.’ Detach
ments of this ‘army’ are operating in Blyth and
Bedlington. The ‘army’ is under the general
ship of Rev. W. Booth, and consists of lady
preachers.
Rev. James Davis, the efficient Secretary of
the British Evangelical Alliance, has been com
pelled by serious illness to resign his post,
The Cathedral at Bristol, England, is lighted
by the electrophote.
Life is swept with cyclones of sin. In these
gales many souls go down. It means some
thing to have certain deliverance from every
possible blast of sin that may sweep through the
world.
From the following remarks on our Savior’s
birth, those struggling with poverty may be en
couraged to make greater efforts: ‘Christ com
ing in the form of a little child is a strong les
son in afvor of filial love. As a little child He
was subject to His father and mother, and thus
he teaches us that there can be no Christianity
without filial obedience and love. His coming
thus had hallowed childhood, and now, with
each new child born into a family is a rivulet of
new virtues drops into the hearts of parents.
Christ came in the form of a little child to show
that His kingdom is a spiritual kingdom, and to
teach us that lowliness of birth is no barrier to
the unfolding of a useful life. All his surround
ings were lowly, yet He grew in favor with God
and man in a despised neighborhood, and thus
the hidden lite of Jesus was made manifest
His lowly birth also showed us the condescend
ing love of God. ThiB world was wicked and
perishing in its sins, when Christ came down
through darkness and throngh suffering and
want that you, my friends, might be lifted to a
throne.
Whiskey is about the only enemy man has suc
ceeded in really loving.
It is when a woman tries to whistle that the great
glory of her mouth is seen without being heard.
The latest slang phrase is: ‘O, you're too new; the
dust sticks to you.
May an attractive young lady—one who draws
men after her—be called Pull mar?
John writes to ask, ‘if there is a bird, besides the
ostrich big enough fora man to ride?’ We would
ask John if he ever saw a man on a lark.
Every man is a miserable sinner in church, but
out of church it is unsafe to say much about it, ex
cept to a small man.
When a man begins to take off his coat and vest
at you it is a sign that he is resorting 'to the court
of peels.
When the contribution box comes round, if you
don't give a cent you should nod, and nodding is
assent.
We have just paid a dol’ar and a half to have our
boots repaired, and are now more than ever disin
dined to believe in the immortality of the sole.
The cornet .is ^ mm.jug popular as an instru
ment of diurehjfc. jsic. pome wicked wag Aeslres
to know if tiiiSiStnnisiug the L'ord in a horn*.
There are ten slides of red this season in wo
man’s toggery and 347 shades of blue about the hus
band and father, who foots the drygoods and mil
linery bills.
A lady named Mary Magui-ah
Had trouble in lighting her fl-ah;
The wood being green
She used kerosene—
She has gone where the fuel is dry-all-
They bounced him literally and figuratively.start
ing him down two flights of stairs, and fie mur
mured resignedly: ‘Well, p'raps it's just as well
I was going down any way.’
A youug lady said to her lover: ‘Charlie, how far
is it round the world ?’ ‘About twenty inches, my
darling,’replied he, as his arm encircled her waist.
She was all the world to him.
, ‘The way it is,’ said little Johnnie, describing a
raffle at a church fair,‘you see somethin' and you
give a half dollar for a chance to win it; another
fellow always gets it, and they never oiler you jour
money back.
Wishing to pay his friend a compliment, a gen
tleman remarked: ‘I hear you have a very indus
trious wife.’ ‘Yes,’ replied the friend with a mel
ancholy smile, ‘she’s never idle; she’s always find
ing something for me to do.’
New Parlor Maid—‘Here’s a letter ma’am, if you
please!’ New mistress—Pray. Mary, are you not
accustomed to see letters handed on a tray? New
parlor maid—‘Yes ma’am, but I didn’t know you
were.’
A witty young lady was once told by a gentleman
friend of her acquaintance that ‘he must have been
born with a silver spoon in his mouth.’ She look
ed at him carefully, and, upon realizing the size of
his mouth, replied: -I don’t doubt it; but it must
have been a soup ladle.’
The ioliowiug unique epistle was picked up in the
street at Schuylerville: ‘Dear Bill: The reason I
didn’t laff when you laft at me in the post-otfis yis-
terday was becaws I hev a bile on mv face, and
kant laff. If I laff she’ll burst. Bit 1 luv yu, Bill,
bile or ntf'oile. laff’ or no laff. Yure luving Kate,
till death.
■ —
ANSWERS TO CORRESPON
DENTS.
Mr. W. C. Jones, who five years ago gave the
Church of England Missionary Society £290,000
as a capital fund for the support of native evange
lists in certain miasious, has now given a further
sum of £35,000, to be employed for the extension
of evangelistic work by the native Church of India.
To the “Lacy” who wishes to exchange somevol-
umes of English and ancient classics lor modern
hooks, new or second-hand, W. K. Mobley, of Dal
las, Paulding Co., Ga., makes a request that she
send him a list of the books she wishes to dispose of.
Corinne of Knoxville asks: ‘Are j*ou going tobave
another story b>' Henri Greville? I liked Dosia
very much. And by the waj', isn’t Henri Greville
a Russian lady?’
We are now having another story of this popular
author translated for the Sunny South byan accom
plished youug lady of Atlanta. It will be far more
interesting than Dosia. Henri Greville is not Rus
sian, though she pictures Russian life so cleverly.
She is a born Parisian, and her stories of French so
ciety are better than those in which she depicts the
manners ot Russia. In a recent preface to her last
novel, ‘Pbilomene's Marriages,’ she protests against
the current belief in the immorality of French soci
ety, and says that iu la belle France even more
than in most other countries, can there be found
“the pure joys of the Art side, women loyal and lov
ing, devoted husbauds, the contentment of duty ac
complished and the ineffable tendtrness of family
life.’
Anabelle says: ‘lam going to take that step in
the dark—marriage—and I want to look pretty in
the last hour of my girlhood. Tell me what to wear
for a bridal dress.
Brides are dressing ad libitum now. Garnen,brown,
blue and buff and all the soberer new shades being
often worn in silk, velvet and cashmere. But you
want to ‘look pretty’—and white toour thinking, is
prettiest. Wear white cashmere entraine, Anabelle,
with vest and revers of white satin, a flowing veil
oftulleanda wreath of tiemuJouslilliesof the val-
leyl
Paul A—, Augusta, Ga., inquires: ‘What has be-
come of Annie Dickenson ? I thought, she was to take
to the platform again and lecture through the
states..
She is lecturing once more. She delivered her
new lecture, *The Stage,’ in New York lately, and
in a week or two the Fifth Avenue Theatre will
bring out her new play of Aurelian, in which she
and the fine actor, McCullough, take the leading
parts.
‘Juan,‘Savannah, oa., writes; ‘lam tired of the
stereotyped custom of giving an engagement ring.
I want to preseut my affianced with some other
pledge. What would be suitable? But if it must be
the ring, what style would be best?’
If you want a more novel gaged' amour than the
ring, why not have a bracelet made with a lock
and a gold key, which you may keep after having
locked the hoop of gold on the fair lady's arm. Such
pledges do sometimes take the place of the ring. A
solitaire pearl is now a favorite style for an engage
ment ring and it is less expensive than a diamond.
Sapphires,amethysts and rubies are fouDd in en
gagement rings; every stone except the unlucky
emerald—Green, you know, is forsaken.
•Reader says: ‘I am intimately friendly with a
number of girls in the town where I live— have
known them all my life. They call me by my giv
en name, should 1 do the same by them ? I wisii to
write one of them a lei ter, how should I address ber
and how close my letter?’
No matter if the girls do call you by your first
name without any “handle,” I would not address
them so familiarly. I should always put the pre
fix, and they will be sure to like it lor the respect it
implies, while it may gentiy rebuke theirown care
lessness or ill-breeding in neglecting this little
point of nice manners. Many girls will insist upon
being addressed by their first names without the
prefix of miss, but it is thoughtless or Indelicate in
them to do so. Only the closest friendship or the
relation of engaged lovers, warrants a young man
iu taking such a privilege. If you are an intimate
friend of the young lady, a letter addressing tier
“My dear Miss Kate, or Mary” would be a proper be
ginning, and the ordinary “Very truly, yours,” or
“Faithfully yours” would do as a winding up. But
when you write, hunt up your dictionary, Verb uni
sap.—etc.
Dusenberry Pops the
Question,
(A sketch from “ The Confederate Scout, or the
Days of Tap Price" by Dr. U m. & Fahy) (copy
righted) 24 f A April. 1876, Ao. 4950 0.)
DB. WM. E. FAHY.
The Colonel had left the room—worn out by
the pers'stent Dusenberry. He (Dusenberry)
sat directly in front of the huge log fire, and by
his side was the buxom Texana, a sn ail our lay
doubled up in a half circle at her feet, and the
fair girl busily employed peeling pumpkins ter
the pies intended for the approaching Christ
mas merry-makings.
Dusenberry sighed, heavily—so did Texana.
He hitched his chair a little closer and said
“ Christmas is a nice time—aint it?”
“ Yon bet ! ’ a long pause.
“liayther cold weather, Christmas times,
aint it ?”
‘ Sorter ?’
Dusenburry twisted his thumbs aud looked
straight into the fire—‘Got enny feather beds? -
he said, abstractedly, ‘Sum.’ She replied,
flinging a pumpkin rind into the fire.
‘Feather beds is nice fur married folks, beant
they?’
‘Dunno—never tried’—another long pause.
Dusenberry punched the logs with his No. 12
‘tanyards’—‘’Spozen I ax yer a question,’
remarked he.
‘Spczen!’ replied Texana.
‘Why air you like a ittle fawn?’
‘Danno!’ she said, treading on Ponto’s
tail, who yelped furiously.
‘Ease you )ir a little deer!’ he said, when the
pup had nniehbd his bowls. „
■Shawl’ said TexaLa. They both relapsed
into meditative silence.
‘What air yer good fur?’ said he, softly stroke-
ing Ponto’s head.
•What’s who good fur?’ She asked. ‘Ponto?’
‘Possums!’ She replied.
There was complete silence for about twenty
minutes broken only by the Sargeant releiving
the sentries outside.]
Dusenberry fidgeted in bis chair and Texana
cut her thumb with the pumpkin parer.
‘Poor thumb!’ Said Dusenberry, wrapping
his handkerchief around it. Another long
silence. Love was evidenly lost in a labrynth
thought. ‘Chicken pie air good,’ at length,
aid our hero.
•So air aigs,’ replied Texana.’
‘How many roosters hev you ?‘ Said Dusen
berry.
‘Nigh on to fifty.* She replied. By this
time Dusenbirry had hitched his chair so close
to Texana that Ponto had to move from his cczy
position between them.
‘Kin yer quilt ?‘ he asked.
‘High Daddy!’ She replied.
‘Qailts is right good for m&rriedjifolks in
winter, * he said.
‘You bet!‘ she replied.
‘Air you got enuy?‘ he asked.
‘Some. ‘
‘Long enough for a feller of my size?* an
swered h 1
‘Reckon/
‘A long silence. Dusenberry slowly raised
his hand 10 the level of Texana‘s head and began
toying with the bright yellow ribbon that bound
up her luxuriant black hair. At length the
pause was broken,
‘Spozen I tell yer another riddle/ said he.
‘Spozen/ said she.
•Why air you like latses candj?
‘Dunno. ‘
Kase yer so sweet/
Tixana tidgeetd in her chair and ‘Duse
looked like a man who has accidently swallowed
a jack knife while picking bis teeth.
;Do yer luv sassinger,; he solemnly inquired.
‘I do thaUJ she said, smacking her lips.
By this time Dusenberry had untied the knot
in the ribbon that bound TVxana's hair, and it
fell over her face and neck in w&vey showers of
ebon treeses.
Let me bind it up ag'n,‘ be said.
‘Don't keet!‘ sfce answered, bunting for the
ribbon, which, after much fumbling aDd
searching ‘Duse* found in her lap, closely
clasped between her knees. The rearranging
of tfle Lair occupied a considerable length of
time. The solemn silence was broken only by
the heavy breathiDg and sighs of the worthy
pair. Ac length it was accomplished, and
Dusenberry resume! his seat. But the two
chairs by this time were so close together it
would have been difficult to insert the thin
blade of a knife between them.
More sighing -some coughing and clearing
of throats when Dusenberry ^suddenly remarked:
‘Got a mind to bite yer.*
Why hev yer got a mind to bite mt?J
* Katze yer won't hev me/
‘Raise yer aint axed me!‘
‘Well now I axes yer!‘
•Then now ;‘I has yer. *
There was & report like a small pistol shot—
as two lips mot togotherin the consummation of
love— and immediately after the sharp ringing
report of a rifle, followed by yells a”d stentorian
calls from the Colonel for the Sargeant of the
guard !*
A Dangerous Torpor.—Torpor or inactivity of it
kidney* it seriously da goro»s to those organs, since the
is the precidest of diseases which destroy tneir substance
and endanger life. This sluggishness may be overcome
by stimulating them, sot excessively, but moderately,.
an effect produced by Hostettei’s Stomach Bitters, a
general invigorant and alterative, possessing diuretic
properties of no common order. The impetus which this
admirable medicine sives to their evacuative function
counteracts any tendency to congestion which may exist
in their tissues. Both they ana their associate organ,
the bladder are invigorated as well as gently stimulated
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