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“ WITCHCRAFT.”
Do a Majority of Citizens of This
Country Believe in It?
The Remarkable Asse tlon of
a “ Century ” Contributor.
Rev. Dr. J. M. Buckle/, in tho
course of an article in tho Century
Magazine, is responsible for ihe nsset-
tion (hat n majority of ciiizens in Ihe
United Stntes believes in wiichcmft.
He says:
Witchcraft is at (ho present time
bollcvod in by a majority of iho ciii-
zons of the United States. The lnrgor
number of immigrants from the con¬
tinent of Europe lire more or less in
fear of such power*. To these must
be added no inconsiderable proportion
of persons of English and Scotch de¬
scent; fora strong vein of superstition
is discernible in many Irish, Scotch,
ami 101110 English, whoso “folk-lore,”
diffused in nur.-ery tales and neighbor¬
hood gossip, Inis entwined itself
strongly ah mt ihe fibres of sponta¬
neous subconscious menial imagery.
Where colonies of immigrants have
remained is luted, reinining ihe use of
their own language, the influence of
witchcraft is more easily traced. The
interior of Pennsylvania affords bctler
illustrations of this, and on it larger
scale, than any’ other Slate. It has
been but two or three years since suit
was brought hy a man against his
mother, in one of the counties of
Pennsylvania, to recover damages for
a dog which lie charged iter with hav¬
ing killed by witchcraft; and lie not
only brought suit, but obtained judg¬
ment from a justice of llio peace.
Vaiious witnesses testified is to their
experiences in witchcraft, and only
one said that lie had never hud a friend
or relative who was bewitched.
In divers villages in Pennsylvania,
some of them in the Dunkard
settlement, arc women who aro sup¬
posed to be w itches. Some of them
aro shrowd enough not to apply their
arts for strangers, but to those wnoin
they know, ns stated in an article in
the Now York Sun some years ago,
they will sell charms to ward oil
lightning from buildings, dry up tho
wells of enemies of applicants, forco
cows to give bloody milk, cause sick-
ness in the family, destroy beauty,
separate man and wifo, and reunite
estranged lovers.
In the interior parts of the Southern
Statos there arc “w itch-doctors,” who,
assuming that nil disease is caused by
witches, secure thriving practice in
counteracting their influence. The
Philadelphia ‘‘Times,” on tho an.
thori y of a reputable correspondent,
who gives many fncts to sustain his
representations, says: “For gener¬
ations tho poor whites have believed
in witches, and the belief is deep-
seated and incurable.”
Tho African population brought
this belief from the Dark Continent,
and it persists among them to this day
though tho progress of roligion and
education is doing something to check
it.
I have recently noted in various
partB of the United Stutes more than
50 suits instituted hy persons against
those who they claimed had bewitched
them; but under existing laws the
accused could not he prosecuted ex¬
cept where money had been obtained
under false pretonsos, or overt acts of
crime had boon suggested or com¬
mitted.
During pedestrian tours in New
England, hi various parts of the West,
and in every Southern Siato, I have
frequently stayed for tho night at the
houses of poor farmers, laborers,
fishermen and trappers. In such
journeys 1 have invariably listoned
to the tales of the neighborhood,
stimulating them hy suggestion, and
have found tho bolief in witchcraft
cropping ont in tho oldest towns in
Now England, sometimes within tho
vory shadow of the buildings whore a
learned ministry hns existed from tho
settlement of the country, and public
schools have furnished means of edu¬
cation to all classes. Tho horseshoes
seen in nearly every county, and often
in every township, upon tho houses
of persons suggested the old horseshoo
beneath which Lord Nelson, who had
long kept it nailed to the mast of tho
Victory, received his death wound at
Trafalgar.
The Athletic Long.
i » Athletic lung” is a medical term
used to designate tho abnormal devel¬
opment of lung possessed by some
athletes. The condition is produced
by those forms of exercise that cal*
for the constant use of the lungs
at tbeir highest power. The result is
an enormous development of lung
capacity. Such men, upon giving up
tlieir athletics and taking to sedentary
pursuits, are peculiarly subject to pul¬
monary complaints. The overdevel.
oped lung is only used in part, and the
unused cells easily fail a piey to dis¬
ease when once an athletic lung has
been restored to health. The wi-e
physician forbids any violent athletics
on the part of the patient, for a sec¬
ond attack is likely to be followed by
collapse. The term athletic heart is
likely to be followed by collapse.
The term athletic heart is applied to a
similar condition of the heart pro-
duced by like causes »— [Chicago
Herald.
FOR FARM ANI) HARDEN.
ROOKING FOIt FAItM BUILDINGS.
Slate is now much cheaper than it
used to bo. Shingle* arc dearer nml
generally of poorer quality, ai there
nro now few rived shingles, that can
only bo made fiom tho straightest
grained limber. Sawed shingles ab¬
sorb the water and rot out quickly.
On all wooden roofs tho pitch should
he made steep. Tho water runs off
fas'er, and so the shingle*, being kept
dryer, last lo gor. But wo prefer a
slate roofing. Hero the pitch is of
less consequence, and ihcre is safety
in case of tire in neighboring buildings
Unit cannot be had with buildings
having roofs of inflammable material.
— [Boston Cultivator.
WASHING THE BARIC OF FltUIT TREES.
In spito of many professional theor¬
ies about Iho naluro of hark and the
injury to them from being coaled with
outside material Ihe German farmers
of Pennsylvania have extremely
healthy apple trees by washing the
hark with lime. No cleaner or health¬
ier bark may ho seen on apple trees
anywhere than thoso German trees
present. The white color of tho lime
is, of course, objectionable, but that
can he readily obviated by puttin'- a
little yellow clay or even coal aslios in.
There aro many washing receipts for
tho hark of trees, such ns soda, soap,
and other materials, but plain lime
wash alono is all lhat is necessary to
make healthy bark 011 applo trees.—
[Mediant's Monthly.
TREATMENT OF COLTS.
Gentleness is a quality of iho high,
cst valuo in a horse. Viciousnoss in
horses is frequently nothing but sheer
timidity and almost invariably is the
result, of rough treatment. Horses
would not give Avay to fear when a
man approaches them if they had been
accustomed to receive always kind
and humane treatment. Now (hat the
season for putting tho young colts into
the hands of trainers is at hand, it is
a good time to commence teaching
them not to fear tho approach of a
human being. They aro fond of be¬
ing petted, and with constant kind¬
ness will become quite docile. A
nubbin of corn, a handful of grain or
a liitlo sugar offered occasionally will
gain their confidence, and they will
gradually loso all fear of mankind.
The fear of trustworthiness Urns in¬
spired, and tho resulting gontleness
of disposition, will last through life,
unless ndverso influences aro allowed
to intervene.—[New York World.
MAKING HEDGES.
A hedge is mndo or marred during
Iho first years of it9 history, says the
Rural Canadian. Most pcoplo aro im¬
patient for a tall growth, whereas
that is the worst thing that can befall
a hedge. Persistent pruning and
shortening in must ho practiced in or¬
der to have a good hedge. Take, for
example, tho barberry, which be¬
comes a straggling and open bush if
left to itself, but properly pruned
makes a bodge that will effectually cx-
cludo “Peek’s Bad Boy,” or any other.
.Tho (>%»go Orange, whore it will grow,
the buckthorn, tho white willow, and
among evergreens, tho Norway
Spruce, all make impenetrable hedges
if thoroughly cut back in tho earlier
stages of their growth. The common
hemlock is iho prettiest of all hedges,
but tho plants aro hard to move safely,
grow Blowly and require considerable
attention and perseverance to do
really well; but they repay all cost of
time and trouble, making in the end, a
wall of verdure green all the year
round; “a thing of beauty and a joy
forever.”
BUTTER FROM SWEET CREAM.
Making butler from sweet cream is
now occupying tho attention of Ihe
progressive dairymen in a lively way.
A short lime since no one thought of
it, much less practiced it; now we
find the stations looking into its
manufacture with tho eyes of science,
and discovering new ways of over¬
coming tho old objections to it. One
claim always tins been that much of
the butler was lost in tho buttermilk
when tho cream was churned while
sweet. This trouble lias beon entirely
overcome at tho West Virginia station
by lowering the temperaturo of the
cream beforo starting the churn, first
to fifty-four degrees, but now they
tell lo forty-live degrees. The open
market has not yet proclaimed consent
to sell it, but when I ho commission
merchant does not know it. lie deals
in it the same as with ripened cream
butter. Tho advantage of making
butter from cream beforo it is allowed
10 sour is that it makes a more uni¬
formly fine article, for which tho best
price can be obtained, and this, we
are told, is because any kind of ripen¬
ing is a process of decay, which is a
condition that should be avoided ns
much as possible. Speed is the saving
factor in handling milk and cream for
butter making. — [American Dairy¬
man.
AVINTER FOOD FOR THE BEES.
The greatest loss among the bees
during the winter time is caused by
diarrhce. 1 , and when this trouble is
eliminated one finds tha the bees keep
pretty well, writes Heber Wharbui-
don. This bee complaint is directly
traceable to the food, and lo the con-
Gneinent of the beos in wiuler quar-
tera whero they have no chauco to
void their intestines. If a few bright
warm days come in midwinter tho
hoes have a chance to move around a
little, hut Iho colder tho weather is
tho more they have to huddle into
close quarters to keep warm. It is
also true that the colder the wcathor
Is the more tho boos have to eat to
keep up tho animal heat. These two
causes operating togelhor often make
lhe loss of bees quite important dur¬
ing extremely hard and severo
weather.
Tho food in the wilder time then is
tho all-important question. Superior
even to natural honey for food is pure
cane sugar, which will cause dysen¬
tery less than any article lhat can be
fed. It is said hy expert culturists
that when this is the exclusive diet of
tho bees they never die of dysentery.
If natural honey, or any of the other
foods is fed, they should bo given to
tho bees during the waim spells in Iho
winter, when iho bees have a chance
to move around. T. e hoes sometimes
eat the hoe bread itself, or grains of
pollen floating in (ho honey, and it is
this coarse part of tho food which
overloads Iho intestines and cause dys-
entory. A great many apiarists will
have a surplus stock of lionoy which
hns failed to find a good market, and
tiiey hate to keep this mid buy sugar
for hoc food. Yet If it is going to
cause death among the bees 0110 ought
not to hesitate long.
In feeding tho bees in winter, a
great deal depends upon tho weather
and the locality. Several of our past
winters liavc been so mild and open
that honey could bo fed right along,
and no danger be run of causing
dysentery in lhe hive. In Ihe warmer
states, where tho bees can fly around
most of tho winter, the same holds
true; hut in a sevoro winter, In a cold
Northern state, tho odds will he large¬
ly in favor of tho pure cane sugar as
a food. The price of sugar is now 60
low that it is tho cheapest food (ogive
I he boos.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Grit is good for poultry.
Lazy hens generally take on fat.
Kerosene is a good cure for scabby
legs in fowls.
Tho*poultry houso should he mug
and tight now.
Now is a good time to buy fowls
cheap for spring breeding.
Master tho details in management if
you expect succoss with poultry.
All tho best breeds have beon built
up by careful selection and breeding.
With poultry, as with other stock,
nothing cun be accomplished without
work.
Full grown fowls will fatten on
what is necessary to keep Die younger
fowls growing.
Fresh water, renewed daily, is
essential to the health of chicks. Foul
water, sick fowl.
If turkeys knew as much as the des¬
pised geese they would fly very fur
south in the fall.
Hay grown in a dry season contains
a larger per cent, of nutrition than
that grown in a wet one.
Improved stock, improved moil and
women and improved everything else
are called for in this ago.
It is labor-saving to use tho best im-
p’ements and machinery, though it
may not improve tho quality of the
product.
One reason why orchard grass
grows bunchy is because not enough
seed is used. Never use less than two
bushels per acre.
Depression does not express the con¬
dition of tho farmer so well as dis¬
satisfaction. Ho has been satisfied
and silent too long.
A correspondent asks which is safer
to feed for winter store?, good honey
or syrup from granulated sugar. Ac¬
cording to a lirsl-class authority on the
subject, sugar syrup is preferred.
“Strange, isn’t i(?”
A man in California recently pur¬
chased 100 colonies of bees,and this sea¬
son secured 12,000 pounds of honey;
lhe fact that he was an amateur is very
encouraging, indeed. Ono hundred
and twenty pounds to the colony, even
in the hands of m expert, is an extra
yiold. Bee-keeping is but in its in¬
fancy yet.
A New Kind of Barometer.
"I haven’t seen tho weather predic¬
tions for tomorrow and next day,”
said a Farnam slrcet motorman yes-
terday afternoon, “but we’ll have a
siorm inside of forty-eight hours.”
“What makes you think so?”
queried tho reporter, who was hanging
lo tho front guard of Iho car.
“Just feel the brass railings of the
car,” said the m dorman. “Notice
how greasy they feel? Well, when
they feel that way you may be sure
there is a stoim coming, I never
knew it to fail.”—[Omaha News.
Herald.
Her Fears Allayed.
Young Mrs. Codling (to her papa)
—Oh, papa, what does the word
••contract” mean?
Papa—It means to make smaller,
my dear. For instance, heat expands
and cold contracts.
Mrs. Codling-Then it’s all right,
Harry told me he was contracting
some heavy debts, and I was so ner-
vous till yoq explained it__[Harper’*
Bazar.
Didn’t Haro Pio.
Mrs. Waybick— “Mandy, did you no¬
tice that all the time we was visitin’ at
Cousin Eldora’s, in the city, sho never
once had pie on the table?”
Mandy—“Yes, I did. 'I ’sposo it’s
’cause them silver knives o’thcr’n ain’t
sharp enough to cut pie with.”— efmith
& Street’s Good News.
She Couldn’t Walt.
Lady—“I’m sorry ycur marnmn is out,
my pet, for I wanted very much to see
her, and I can’t remain until she teturns.
She hns gone shopping, I presume?”
Little Pet—“No, she's gone to rnske
sixty-five calls.” I’ll
Lady—“Oh. is that all? ‘Then
wait.”
Neighbor — “How-de-do, my little
man? f hear y< ur fuller has come into
a fortune. Are y u not glad?”
Little Man—“No’m; I’m orful sorry.”
“Dear me! Why?”
“’Cause he says now I’ve gutter be ed¬
ucated
An Important Difl'ere lice.
To make it apparent to thousands, who
think themselves it), that they are notaffccted
with any disease, hut that the system simply
needs cleansing, Is to bring comfort homo to
their hearts, as a costive condition is easily
cured by using Syrup of Figs. Manufactured
by the California Fig Syrup Co.
No had man ever makes himself any better
by claiming to be a saint.
If your Rack Aches, or you are all worn out,
rood for nothing, it is general debility.
Brown's Iron Ritters w 11 cure you, make you
strong, cleanse your liver, and give a good ap¬
petite-tones the nerves.
The true way to conquer circumstances is
to be a greater circumstance to yourself.
The Only One Ever Printed.
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These is a3 inch display advertisement in
this paper, this week, which has no two words
alike except one word. The same is true of
each new one appearing each week, from The
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"Crescent” lish. Look on everything they make and of pub- the
word forit, will send them the name
and they return you book, beauti¬
ful LITHOGRAPHS or SAMPLES FREE.
No Safer Remedy can ho had for Coughs than
and Colds, or any trouble of the Throat,
"Brown’s Bronchial Troches.” Price 25 ots.
Fold only in boxes.
FITS stopped free by Du. Kline’s Great
Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first day’s
vse. Marvelous cures. Treatise and $3 trial
bottle free. Dr. Kline, 931 Arch St., Phila.. Pa-
The worst cases of female weakness readily
yield to Dr. Swan’s Pastiles. Sainilea free.
Dr. Swan, Beaver Dam, Wis.
Baby Boy
Covered with Salt Rheum—Perfectly Cured by
HOOD’S
Sarsaparilla
Mr. Frank I. Rlckson, who holds a responsible po¬
sition on the Boston & Albany Railroad at Chatham,
N. Y., writes as follows:
“When my baby boy was two years old he was
covered from head to feet with salt rheum. It be¬
gan to come out on him when he was two weeks old,
and Increased In spite of all that could be done.
We were Discouraged
The doctors said It would disappear when he was
seven years old. I happened to bo taking Hood’s
Sarsaparilla myself and thought I would give it to
the child. At that time he did not have n hair
on Ills head, and it was covered with a crust. His
sufferings were awful. In two weeks after giving
him Hood’s Sarsaparilla the scabs began to fall off,
and in six weeks he was entirely cured of
the sores. He is now' the healthiest child we have. I
know of two other cases In which
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
did the same as for my boy. It Is a great medicine.”
F. I. Rickson, Pittsfield, Mass.
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“August Flower”
I had been troubled five months
with Dyspepsia. I had a fullness
after eating, and a heavy load in the
pit of my stomach. Sometimes a
deathly sickness would overtake
me. I was working for Thomas
McHenry,Druggist, Allegheny City,
Pa., in whose employ I had been for
seven for years. I used August Flower
two weeks. I was relieved of all
trouble. I can now eat things I
dared not touch before. I have
gained twenty pounds since my re¬
covery. J. D. Cox, Allegheny, Pa. ©
The loss of flesh is a trifle.
You think you need not
mind it.
But, if you go on losing
for some time or lose a good
deal in a short time, you are
running down. Is that a
trifle?
Get back to your healthy
weight and generally you get
back to health.
A book On CAREFUL LIV¬
ING will tell you what it is to
get there, and when Scott’s
v Emulsion of cod-liver oil is
useful. Free.
Scott & Bowme, Chemists, 13,South 5th Avenue,
New York.
Your druggist keeps Scott's Emulsion of cod-liver
oil—all druggists every where do. $1,
Ql'AIXT AND CURIOUS.
Mexico dentists pull a tooth for $2.
Thero are 587 languages spoken in
Europe.
Fresno, Cal., boast of a 45 pound
sweet potato.
The better class of the Philippine
islanders smoko cigars a foot long.
An average acre of grass newly
mowed weighs nearly two and one-
half tons.
immciiso flocks of crows linvo
exterminated (lie grass-hopper pest in
o mo parts of California.
A door was shot in a Bohemian for¬
est, on whose head was a huge hall of
bone or horn in the place of the usual
antlers.
Kennebutik, Me., claims (ho
youngest grandfather in tho State, in
the person of David Parent, who is
only thirty-six years of age.
Humboldt Counfy, California, has a
population of 33,000 and $17,000,000
taxable wealth, but it is unconnected
with the world by railroads.
A house in Dedham, Mass., built in
1036, is occupied by a family, the dc-
scendauis of tlie original builders.
They appreciate the antiquity, and
will show visitors all through’it for 25
cents.
A mulatto servant named Robert
Smith, who died in St. Louis Mo., re-
ceiillv, had been employed for many
years as “hat man” in a hotel, where
his surprising memory enabled him to
furnish every guest who left the din¬
ing room with his proper headgear.
The reports from the new artesian
well in Huron, South Dakota, show
that it is tho most wonderful wells
known to exist. The waterspouts up
a distance of 100 feet, and the amount
11 iwing from the well is estimated at
8000 to 40,000 gallons per minute.
In Boklati they talk of a band of
a band of English crusaders who
strayed away from their leadars about
1150, A. D., and settled in Kurdistan,
and mingling their blood with the na¬
tive stock, so that it is dangerous for
the Britons to he too severe about the
faults of the Kurds.
A curiosity has been found in an
Alpena county, Mich., wood. Two
hemlock trees, the trunks of which
are fifteen inches in diameter, are
growing six feet apart, At the
height of ten feet from the ground
the trunks unite, forming an arch
and then form a single stem eighty
feet high.
A popular notion is that the where¬
abouts of a drowned person may be
ascertained by floating a leaf weighted
with quicksilver, which is said at
once to swim toward and stand over
the spot where the body lies. This is
a very wide-spread belief, and in¬
stances of its occurence are, from
time, recorded.
A Connecticut man owns a big
horse. lie is nearly seven feet high
and weighs 1700 pounds. His appe¬
tite corresponds to his size. He eats
eight pecks of oats at each meal, if
you can believe a local chronicler, and
makes away with 200 pounds of hay
every week. His shoes are of uuusual
size and weigh four pounds each.
Lepers in this Country.
Dr. Deering, a prominent physician
of Philadelphia, is quoted as saying
in a recent interview: “The ntimbei
of lepers in this country justifies the
government in taking special meas¬
ures to provide for their treatment. I
can safely say that there are hundreds
of them in the United States; some in
South Carolina, some in Louisiana,
some in Minnesota and a few scattered
about elsewhere. I come in conlact
with three or four cases every year.
Of course, so long as the disease does
not atfack the face a leper may go
freely about and still keep his condi¬
tion secret. I should recommend that
either a ward in a municipal hospital
in each city be given up to cases of
leprosy, or that several institutions be
built in various parts of tho country
for the treatment of persons afllicted
with the disease.” Dr. Deeriug’s rec¬
ommendations may bo all right, but
his statement that there are “some”
lepers in South Carolina is news to
everybody in this state, we believe. It
would he interesting to learn where
he got his information, and particu¬
larly who and where arc the victims
of the dread disease whom lie has dis¬
covered in these parts. They have
certainly kept their condition a pro¬
found secret from their neighbors and
the local physicians. — [Atlanta Con¬
stitution.
What He Had Lost.
Old Bullion—Ah, my boy, I often
long for lhe good old times.
Friend—That's very strange. You
are rich now, but in those old days
you were a:i overworked, barefooted
plowboy on a farm. What had you
then lhat you haven’t now?
Old Bullion (sadly]—An appetite.
— [Good News.
A Clever Child.
Frances (to her little brother)-
Do be quiet, Johnny, don’t you know
that there’s a visitor in the next roomr
Johnny—How do you know? You
havn’t been in.
Frances—But I hear mamma saying
‘My dear’ to papa.—[SL Louis
JflimApJel
Low-Down Thieves.
Worrit# Editor--“0'JO(i morning! I
presume you are the detective sent to help
catch the miserable thieves wh « steal | a-
peie from front doors. The low-down
rascals! I don’t see how anything in
human form can descend to such pet
ty-” mistake, fir. I
Stranger —“You am
not a detective. I am the paragraph or of
ibeBungtown Bugle, and I dropped in to
ask w hy in thunder you steal all my j kes
and Weekly. piint ’em as oiignial.”—New Yoik
Learning Their Ways.
Courtcr (Canuihal Islmds)— “Here
comes tome more missionaries.”
King (wpying n detachment of the
Salvation Army with tamb trines)—“At
last these for ign nations a:c getting
sense. 11 itli this lot they have sent along
some plates.”—Street & Smith’s Good
News.
Biiown's Iron Bliterscarer Dyspepsia,Mala¬
ria. liiliourm ss and General Debll.tr. (Jives
Strength, appetite, aids Diges ’the ion, best tone- tonic the for nerves— Nursing
cremes
Moshers, weak women and chit Iren.
A judicious reticence is hard to learn, but it
is one of the great lessons of life.
STATE or Lucas OHIO, County, CITY OF TOLEDO, I
Frank J. oath that ( he
senior Cheney of the makes firm of F. J. Cheney is the
Co., doing partner business in the City of Toledo, &
County and State aforesaid, and that said lirm
will pay the sum of $100 for each and every
case of catarrh that cannot bo cured by the
use of Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
Frank J. Cheney.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this lith day of December, A. D., 1800.
{seal [ A. W. Gleason,
Hall’s Catarrh taken Kntarfi internally Public.
Cure is and
acts of the directly on the blood testimonials, and mucous surfaces
system. Send for free.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Sol d by Druggists, 15c.
_
Beecham s Fills cure bilious and nervous
illness. Be chain's i il s sell well because
they cure. 26 cents a box.
Catarrh—Remove the Cause.
I was afflicted from infancy with Catarrh, and for ten years with eruptions on my face.
I was attend by the best physicians, and used a number of Blood remedies with no per
manent relief. MY UFE BECAME A BURDEN TO ME, for my case was declared incurable.
I saw S. S. S. advertised, and took eight bottles, which cured me entirely, and I feel like
a new person.—Miss Josie Owen, Montpelier, Ohio.
I was the victim of the worst case of Catarrh that I ever heard of. I was entirely
deaf in one ear, and all the inside of my nose, including part of the bone, sloughed off.
No sort of treatment benefited me, and physicians said “I would never be any better.” As
a last resort I took Swift’s Specific, and it entirely cured me and restored my hearing. I
have been well for years, with no sign of return of the disease —Mrs. Josephine Polhiil,
Due West, S. C. S. S. S. cures Catarrh, like it does other Blood diseases, by elimina-
ting the poison which causes it. Treatise on Blood and Skin mailed free.
SWIFT SPECIFIC COMPANY, Atlanta, Ga.
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ELY'S CREAM BALM PS
is worth $500 to any
MAN, WOMAN OR CHILD
catarrh.L^J. Apply Balm suffering into each from nostril.
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to the
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You don't want comfort. If you
don’t wish to look well dressed,
ff you don’t want tho best, then
you don’t want the lace Back
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he is alive. If he isn’t he shouldn't
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67 Prince f treet, N. Y.
i WOODBURY’S FACIAL SOAP. 55.
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GIVERS AWAY!
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fjgJ Piso’s Remedy fbr Catarrh Is the ®
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pgB| hy druggists or sent by mail. ■
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Send 60C* i"natrated’book^i^F*^ Addres” ATLAN-
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lit vaut « College. 4AT Main St.. Buffato.
& 63 HT - a
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a. N. V Sis, 1882.