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DAWSON, - GEORGIA.
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REV. J. P. LUDLOW, WRITES;
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VEGETINE.
SHE RESTS WELL.
Mr. H. R, Strvens H P ° LAliDt Me ’ oct " • 187 -
iijs? ar have been sick two years with the
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v ( , ~, , Mrs. ALBERTBICKfik
Witness of the above,
Mb. GEORGE M. VAUGHAN,
Medford, Mass.
VEGETINE.
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Dear Sir, —We feel that the children in our home
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those troubled with the Scrofula. *
With respect,
Mrs, N WORM ELI*, Matron
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VEGETINE
Prepared by
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Vegetine Is Sold by all Druggists.
THE GENUINE
DR. C. McLANE’S
Celebrated American
WORM SPECIFIC
OR
VERMIFUGE.
SYMPTOMS OF WORMS.
THE countenance is pale and leaden
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a circumscribed spot on one or both
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along the lower eye-lid; the nose is ir
ritated, swells, and sometimes bleeds;
a swelling of the upper lip; occasional
headache, with humming or throbbing
of the ears; an unusual secretion of
saliva; slimy or furred tongue; breath
very foul, particularly in the morning;
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with a gnawing sensation of the stom
ach, at others, entirely gone; fleeting
pains in the stomach; occasional
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regular, at times costive; stools slinly;
not unfrequently tinged with blood;
belly swollen and hard; urine turbid;
respiration occasionally difficult, and
accompanied by hiccough; cough
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the teeth; temper variable, but gener
ally irritable, &c.
Whenever the above symptoms
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DR. C. McLANE’S VERMIFUGE
will certainly effect a cure.
IT DOES NOT CONTAIN MERCURY
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iHE DAWSON JOURNAL
V THRILLING ADVENTURE.
Thrown Overboard to Drown
in the Sound, bv His Elder
Brother--A Five 3lile*s
Swim and Three
Hours’ Strug
gle for Life
At about 0 o’clock on Thursday
night, September 19, an almost ex
hausted swimmer touched with his
hands Indian Reef, a spur of Black
Hock in front of the grove and shore of
D. L. Mansfield, in the town of Hast
Haven, about six miles from New Hav
en by the road. Resting a little he
plunged in again and crossed the month
of the creek known as East Haven
River, and then he stood on the main
land, which he recognized. A little
walk brought him to Mr. Mansfield’s
stable, aud there he stood naked while
Mr. Mansfield, was roused from his bed
to come and see him, and the Old
Shore House keeper wili probably al
ways remember the handsome young
man, whose naked, finely-built figure
met his eyes that night when lie open
ed the stable door. The strange story
which the swimmer told to Mr. Mans
field, after clothes had been put on him
and he had taken a cup of hot tea, was
as follows:
“MY NAME IS EDWARD BRONHAM.”
I live in New Haven, and am not quite
of age. This afternoon, at 4 o’clock,
my only brother —William W. Brom
hain—and myself hired a sail-boat at
White’s dock and went down the har
bor. We passed out of it into the
Sound, and were a mile or two beyond
the new light-house when my brother
asked me to sit in the steam on the
edge of the boat, saying it would sail
better. As soon as I had seeted lay
s' there be came up behind me and
said
‘ain’t THAT A SHARK OUT THERE?’
An i as I turned to look where he point
ed he pushed me overboard. At first,
when in the water, I thought it must
have been an accident, but soon changed
my mind. I asked him to help me,
and he put the boat about, but didn’t
try to get at me. He told me to
swim toward the boat, and when I got
near he would change her course and
go away from me, as if he wanted to
lead me out into the Sound. He would
n’t throw me an oar or a rope. In this
way he kept me in the water for a long
time, and some of the time laughed at
me and asked me if I was tired. When
it began to get dark he started for home,
j leaving me in the water four or five
miles out. Before he started I had
given up all hope of r.elp from him, and
had started for the shore. In fact, I
| had been
AFRAID HE WOULD STRIKE ME
With an oar if I should get near the
boat. lam a good swimmer, but I
had a hard time getting my clothes off
and preparing for a long, hard struggle
for life. My buttoned gaiters gave me
most trouble, and I must have gone
down five or six times in getting them
off. I laid my course for the old
Light-house on the shore, but soon it
became dark and I lost my bearings.
I kept on, floating at times to rest my
self, but did not know where I was un
til I touched your reef, almost ready to
drown. I had been in the water three
hours, and had come three or four or
five miles to eastward.
I firmly bclive
MY BROTHER MEANT TO DROWN ME.
My father has been dead many years,
and my mother bas married again. My
brother and myself inherited two-thirds
of his property. If I, who am married,
die without issue, my share goes to him.
He is married, has one child and is
two years older than I am. His ac
tion in the boat explaines another cir
cumstance hitherto mysterious to me.
Some time ago I lived in his house. I
am always very careful to turn out my
gas before going to bed, but one night
while in the house I awoke and smelled
gas. I was very drowsy, but soon,
when my head felt oppressed, with an
effort I left the bed, staggard to the
window, and had just strength enough
to open it. The fresh air revived me,
and I looked at my gas-burner. Some
one, in my sleep, had turned the gas
full on, and the room was full of it. I
shall coaplain to my guardian, Hon. C.
B. Bowers.
j Mr. Mansfield took him home that
night to his mother’s house. Hisbroth
er had told her of Edward’s probable
death, and when Edward began to con
demn William to her, she restrained
him, saying that William had assnred
her that he had done all in his power to
! save him. hut in vain. But Edward
holds to the belief which he communi
cated to Mr. Mansfield that night, and
has told the same story to several per-
DAWSON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1878
1 sons. He say's his brother did not
know of Ihis rescue until the next morn
ing, when he was told as he was start
ing for the shore witli the intention of
looking for Edward’s body, and that he
went home that evening and told no
one of the accident except his motheT.
Mr. Mansfied was out fishing that af
; tenioon, and says the sea was smooth
and the weather pleasant. He consid
ers it almost miraculous, however, that
in the dark Edward swam to the shore
that night. Edward has had no busi
ness. His brother is a book-keeper.
Their father was for several years a
member of the firm of Booth & Brom
ham, dealers in paints and oils, in
State street. Their successors, Booth
& Lawrence, are now in Water street.
Mr. Bromliam left about §IOO,OOO
worth of property, mostly in real estate,
but Edwards's share is not thought to
be now worth more than from §IO,OOO
to §20,000.—-V. Y. World.
A Remarkable Man.
Uncle Wright Merritt, who carries
tlie mail from Dawson to Morgan, was in
Cuthbert last week, and paid his re
spects to the editor of the True South
ron, who writes up the old gentleman’s
history, as follows:
“Yesterday Mr. Wright Meritt, well
known in all this section as an inde
pendent and dont-care-sort of man,
stepped into our office and called for
our last weeks issue. He made him
self at home, and entertained the whole
office with his odd sayings keeping all
hands in an uproar of laughter. Dur
ing his stay we took dots and gleaned
the following of his personal history :
He is 65 years of age, and never
took a drink of liquor in his life; never
had a spell of sickness but always
“threw physics to the dog;-.” When
asked the question: “Ho you chew
tobacco,” said he “never chewed what
a dog wouldn’t.” He never smoked a
pipe or cigar, and never ate an animal
that could climb a tree on the outside
or inside, neither anything that lives in
water or burrows in the ground, and
nothing that was cooked by a negro.—
When asked the question: “Are you
an old line Whig or Democrat,” he said
he had but little to do with polities and
had seldom voted. He was a strong Un
ion man and cursed the “secessionists”
blue, but fought two years in the Con
federate service, and thanks God lie
came out sound to still curse “secession
idiots.”
He said lie lias eaten blue bird eggs
enough, if hatched out, to make a blue
line from here to Ilawkinsville. He
sayshehas a “yaller” mule 35 yearsold
with which he has made 21 successive
crops, and says that that mare mule
early learned him that her heels were
private property, and has often turned
his heels in the direction of Heaven.
Mr. Merritt never went to school a
day in his life, but can read and write
and has more sound common sense than
the average Congressman or Legislator.
A Large Turtle Captured.
A few days ago, says the Lrmpkin
Independent, a negro man was fishing
in the Pataula creek when he hung a
huge turtle in the mouth With a small
perch hook. He managed to raise the
turtle’s head partly out of the water
and held him in that position, with
mouth open, until several gallons of
water had run down his throat. The
turtle then dropped his head ovor
to one side and the negro, thinking that
he had drowned him, jumped into the
creek and caught him. He caught the
turtle by his tail, put it between his
teeth and held on to him while he cut
a slit in two of his feet for hand-holds.
He then started for the bank with him
but found it a severe struggle as the
turtle would hold on to the roots and
branches of trees in the creek. The
negro finally got him turned on his
back and pushed him out of the water.
The turtle weighed 77 poundsjand had
a head that measured seven and a half
inches across the top. The head was
on exhibition in town last Saturday.
The turtle was cut up and made a fine
lot of steak which the negro found
ready sale for.
Speaking of turtles, reminds us that
there is a man in Lumpkin who once
knew a truthful, reliable fellow to as
sert that he eaught a healthy specimen
of the “ Chelonia imbricnteV or logger
headed turtle and placed it in the bot
tom of an empty sugar hogshead for
safe keeping. Two or three days after
ward he went to look at his prisoner
and found that she had laid the hogs,
head full of eggs and made her escape.
The party informing us of this occur
rence is ready to make all necessary
affidavits.
TERRinLE FIGHT WITH A
GRIZZLY BEAR.
A Cali font iti Hunter’s Ui*ex|XM‘t
ed Encounter.
On Thursday of last week Mr. Nath
an Rogers, who lives upon a ranch in
the mountain abovo West Point, had
the most terriffc encounter with a griz
zly we ever heard of. Gray squirrels
are quite plenty there this season, and
after dinner Mr. Rogers went out for
an afternoon’s sport. He was armed
with a light rifle, and fortunately had
a large knife, which he occasionally car
ries. Grizzlies are no strangers in the
vicinity, and Rogers had frequently
seen their tracks while hunting his
stock ; but as it is yet too early for
ravenous beasts to be driven out of the
higher mountain ranges by the snow,
he felt no apprehension from that
source.
In leaving a timbered ridge upon
which he had been shooting, Rogers
had to cross a patch of comparatively
open country. He had gone but a
short distance when, in descending into
a little blind ravine, he came upon a
huge grizzly feeding on the carcas of a
sheep. The bear was not over twenty
feet distant—a space that Rogers bad
not the remotest desire to diminish.—
Man and beast discovered each other's
presence at the same instant. Rogers
is a resolute man, a splendid marks
man, and Well inured to the dangers of
backwoods life; but, with a full knowl
edge of the characteristics of tho fero
cious animal facing him, hope died
away in his breast. His impulse was
to run; biit his better judgement told
him that if he did so, and should be
Eursued by the grizzly, escape would
e impossible. There was a chance
that the grizzly might not attack him it
he retained a bold attitude, but this
was dispelled by the bear giving a low
growl, dropping his mutton and advanc
ing toward him. When the grizzly had
got within about fifteen steps of him,
Rogers threw his rifle to his shoulder,
and with a steady aim planted a bullet
in the bear's breast, just inside the
point of the right shoulder.
The animal was hit hard, but no six
ty-to-thc-pound bullet ever stopped a
grizzly. With a growl, so ferocious
that it resembled a roar, the infuriated
animal rushed forward to the attack.
Throwing aside tbe now useless rifle,
aud drawing his knife, Rogers braced
himself for the death struggle. As the
shaggy monster reared up its hunches,
its great black convex head towering
two feet above Rogers, the latter invol
untarily threw up his left arm like a
pugilist on guard. The bear seized the
arm in its month, and, throwing its
great paws over the shoulders of the
hunter, hugged him in an embrace so
cruel that his eyes seemed starting from
their sockets arid the blood gushed from
his nostrils. Rogers’ right arm Was
free, and he drove the blade of his knife
to the hilt in the side of the grizzly
close to tho shoulder. The blade
reached a vital point, but its. immedi
ate effect was only to increase the griz
zly’s ferocity. It huggod Rogers the
closer, its, long, sharp, chisel-pointed
claws tearing gaping wounds in the un
fortunate man’s back, while the bones
of bis left arm were ground to powder
in the vice-like jaws of his terrible an
tagonist. Rogers plied his knife with
the energy of desperation, driving it
again and again in the vitals, of the
bear, literally carving it alive, while
the latter, with claws and teeth, lacer
ated its human foe in tho most fright
ful mauner. The terrible wounds of the
grizzly were commencing to tell upon
its vitality. Rogers’ senses were not
so dulled but that he could dis
tinguish that the grizzly was gradually
relaxing its hold, and the ray of hope
the knowledge afforded stimulated him
to renewed exertions with his knife.—
The bear endeavored to support itself,
despite its cruel wounds, wavered for
an instant, and then, with a low moan,
the huge monster toppled over, drag
ging the man with it, the latter falling
partly underneath. Summoning all his
remaining strength, Rogers plunged his
knife into the grizzly’s abdomen, the
hot life blood and viscera spouting full
in his face. The bear relinquished its
hold, and Rogers, torn, lacerated and
bleeding, crawled far enough away to
escape being rent to pieces by the ter
rible death struggle off the grizzly.
Although victorious, Rogers’ condi
tion was critical in the extreme. He
was a mile and a half from home, so
weak and faint he could scarcely stand,
and in danger of bleeding to death be
fore he could reach help. Conscious
that he must soon have help or perish,
he summoned all his resolutions and
staggered along in the direction of
home, more dead than alive, a trail of
blood marking his footsteps, lie man
aged to reaclt a spring in sight of bis
house, when his endurance at last gave
way, and he fell in a dead faint by the
Water’s edge. Fortunately he was soon
after discovered by his son, a lad of
some twelve years, who immediately
gave the alarm. Rogers was taken
home aud his wounds temporarilly dress
ed, an express in the meantime being
sent for it physician.
The grizzly was the largest ever
known to have been killed in the county.
It measured nine feet in length, “over
all,” and weighed one thousand four
hundred pounds. The left side of the
bear was liteallv torn to pieces, there
being no less than twenty-two knife
Wounds, nearly'every one of which reach
ed a vital point. Mr. Rogers is lying
in an extremely critical condition.—■
, Calamras Cal. Chronicle,
A too-sensitive lover m Burke eo.,
|(la., has broken off his engagement
because his sweetheart named her pet
calf after him.
VOL. 14-NO. 33
The Painful Experience of a
Tarred and Feathered Man.
\V. .1. .Tones, who was tarred and
feathered by the Reno people, and
then sent out of town on the west
ward-bound train, was in a pitiable j
condition when he reached Truckee. j
The Republican says; “We saw tbe!
victim Thursday night on the over
laud train He was truly in a pitia- j
ble condition Coal tar or gas tar;
had been Used, and used freely. This ‘
substance blisters like a mustard
plaster. The cuticle will (reel off of
Mr. Jones just as it' he had been boil
ed. His hair and the wound on his
head were filled with tar. The hair,
stuck out in till directions, or a mass
of tar stuck out. Tito sockets of his
eyes were level full with solid tar
which seemed to have bean poured
into them and allowed to cool. His
whiskers seemed a large, shaggy mass
of tar, Ifis face, neck, and, as we
arc told, his entire body, had a thick
coating. The vigilant ' kindly clothed
him before putting him an the train.
The sight might have been ludicrous
if it had not lieen agonizing. The
train was nearly three hours in reach-
ing Truckee. 'The pain endured by
the poor fellow was excruciating.—•
Sightless, helpless, coated with a hor
rid, odoriferous substance, he sat si
lently, with his head boWed over.—
Oeeasionlly bis fingers would grasp
spasmodically at the open air. Some
times his body Would twitch nervous
ly, as if from the pain he endured—
Arriving at Truckee, Grandson Jones
and another colored man were put to
work to remove the tar. It Was art
hour before Dr. R. J. Goss was called
and the linseed oil which he prescrib
ed obtained Everybody who saw
tho poor wretch pittied him, The’
very men who performed the deed
would have pitied him. His suff
erings were extreme. His eyes were
fairly burning up. No one ever
hoard before of putting tar in a man’s
face and in his eyes. U<> r six hours
the two men worked faithfully neu
tralizing thetar and removing it from
his body. We saw him this morning.!
His eyed were teribly inflamed. It is;
doubtful if ho ever recovers his sight, j
It is feared that the eye-balls have
been burned and blistered, and for-j
ever destroyed,” —Virginia (.Veil.)
Enterprise.
No “Drones” There.
A gentleman livingi:i tbe northern
subnibs secured a hive of bees 2 orfl
weeks ago asanucleus for on apiary,
and in tho course of ten days lie had
read ten different Works on the honey
bee and invented half a dozen patent
If v is. ’I lia other afternoon a man
called at the house on business and
was informed by the wife that her
husband was out inspecting tho bees.
“Is lie taking up honey ?” inquired
the man.
“Oh, no—lie’s looking to see if
there are any drones in the hive.”
At that instant both were startled
by a. series of whoops and yells, and
the husband came around the corner
oil the jump, his hat Striking
the air on all sides of him. Ilerush
ed through the hushes and back, roll
ed over on the grass and lit. out for
the barn, aud the amazed wife shaded
her eyes from the sun as she looked
after him and continued in a disap
pointed tone:
“But I don’t believe he found a
single drone by the way they stick
to him.”
What tills Country Needs.
An exchange very pointedly des
ignates the great necessities ot this
country. It says we need:
Fewer i.im who seek office 3ml
more men who office seeks.
Fewer dogs and more sheep.
Fewer truckling demagogues who
are anything or nothing, as interests
dictate, and more brave men who dare
do their own thinking and say wlmt
they think
Fewer great men made to order
and of smaller material, and thrust
in front of men who have a capacity
for greatness.
Fewer men to advocate the election
of favorites on personal grounds and
more for the public good.
Fewer wire-pullers in popular con
ventions, and more people.
Fewer “leaders” to knuckle to pop
ular prejudice, and more real leaders
tocombat such prejudice when wrong.
Fewer bar-rooms and more schools.
Fewer schib cattle and more good
ones.
Fewer croakers and more energy
and enterprise.
The HinersviHe Guzetfe fells this sto
ry: At a cainpmccting when penitents
were called up to be prayed for, an old
reprobate “half seas over” went into
the altar. He was not satisfied with
that, but requested the minister after
wards to put up a special prayer in his
behalf. He did so, and begged the
Almighty to have mercy on Mr. White*
as he well knew what a tom-down sin-!
ner he was, that he would get drunk
and swear, and in fact l>reak all the
commandments : hut as lie was penitent 1
to forgive him. The old sinner did not
like to be so exposed in public, and on
returning to bis seat met with a young
lawyer, who observed to him that the
preacher had ruined his character, and
that lie ought to sue him for “defamation
of character," and that he would under
take the case for half of what lie recoa
ered. It was carried to court and the
preacher was liued SIOO.
His Looks Deceived Him.
He did not look like a joker. One
to sit and study his facte would have
; said that his soul was lost tit melan
choly; that Ire didn’t care two cents
whether the sun set at noon or staid
up until seven o’clock. He eirtered
ibe ladies’ waiting room at tlw Cata
wissa depot, walked to a woman
whose husband had left the room
about ten minutes previously, and
inquired:
“Madam, your husband went out
to sec the tiver, didn’t he? y ’
“Yes -why ? ’ she asked, turning
pale in an instant,
“He was a tall man, wasn’t, he?”
“He was,” she replied, turning still
paler.
“Had ha red hair?’*
“lie had—oh what has happened?”
“Weighed about one hundred and
eighty pounds?”
“Yes—yes—where is he—where is
my husband?” she exclaimed.
“Couldn’t swim, could he?”
“He’s drowned, my husband is
dead.” she wailed.
“Had a silver watch and chain?”
continued the mart.
“W here is tny husband—where is
tbe body ?”
“1> > not got excited, mad.utrt. Did
your h isb md h ivo in a gray suit?”
“Yes—oh! m. h übaud! my Thom
as ?”
“And stoga hoofs?”
“Let me see him! let me see him!”
she cried.
“Come ihis way, madam; but and >
not get excited There is your hui
band across the street at that peanut
stand.”
“Why, yes, that’s him; tint’s mv
husband!” she exclaimed joyfully. “1
thought you sai<l that he Was drowned?”
“No, madam; I saw him buying
peanuts, and I believed it my duty to
say to you that, peanuts arc not healthy
at this s"ason of the year.
lie slid softly out, and she stood
and stared after him as if he were a
menagerie on wheels. —Detroit Free
Pref.
A Nice old Man.
Old Ehenezer Brown had long had
the reputation of being the stingiest
man in ()!iio< and the following incident,
regarding him is said to be true :
One day a discussion arose as to the
extent of ltis meanness, and in order to
settle a dispute, a committee of three
went to the old ruinous dwelling where
Brown resided, lie met them at the
door, and the lady member of the com-*
mitteo said :
“Mr. Brown wo have come to see if
you are willing to accept a barrel of
eider.”
‘■Good cider ?” asked the miser.
“Yes.”
“Will you bring it here?”
“Certainly.”
“Tap it, and give mo a glass to drink
it out of!”
“Assuredly. Anything else ?” ask
ed the fair spe ik->r, waxing indignant
at the miser’s bare-faced meanness,
“Yes.”
Old Brown looked at her a moment,
tlr; greed of avarice sparkling ill his
deep set eyes, and then lie slowly mut
tered :
“What would you give me for the
barrel after the cider is gone ?
llow a Colored 1L: ifiier Rssis
a'ED the Devil. —<A colored brother
who se eyes were wa.ery, and who had
evidently been imbibing experience
whisky, was telling his young friend
George that he ongnt to giua too.—>
Said George, “I would, but the temp
tation to do wrong is too strong for
me.” “Wh.ar’s yer back hone, dat
ye can’t rose up a t 1 sta:i l tempta
tion?” exclaim cl Brother Peter. “I
was dat way inyscT o:icj. Right in
dis yere town I ha 1 a chance to steal
a pa’r of boots —* nighty floe Ones,
too. Nob >ly was bar to sec me, and
I readied oat my hand nid de debbil
said take ’em. Den a good spirit
whispered for m> to left, and ■ ii boots
alone.” “A i’ you didn’t take ’em?”
“No, sab—not m i'll. I took a pa r
o’ cheap sho33 off di sit 11, at’ I leifc
deal boots alone!”— 7LA nin l Whig.
A Fulton (N. Y.) man laid his finger
on the tabic in front of a buza saw to
feel the momentum of air. The saw
was going so fast that the teeth were
not to he seen. His linger was taken
off. While he was looking at it the
foreman came up with the question,
“How did you do it V “Why, I put
my finger down so," answered he, plac
ing the other forefinger, as he thought,
well away from the teeth. To his hor
ror, the saw took that one, too, clean
off at the second joint.
Good Digestion.
“Give us this day our daily bread"
and good medicine to digest r, is both
reverent and hu nau. Tile human
stomach aud liver are lint (ul sources
of iite’s couif <rUf or, disordered mol
disease 1. they iiogb* misery along
every urnvo and tereugiieveiy artery.
Flic man or woman with y<xtd
seer, beauty as they walk, and overcome
obstacles tin y meet in t rut mo of
life, whore ihe dysp.q tie tees only
gloom aud stumbles an 1 <g;ow!s at
every imag uriy "'■ j et. Tl.e world
| s'ill need:, two or l.reo u~w kinds of
medicine helmed atli ran be p ifect
; ly alhi i.->l>e>l ; but that m my lives bavo
been prolonged, n l many M.iT.oers
from Liver disease, Idi<p-psi and
j Lloadailio, have been cuiud M f.uukli.’#
H KPATIMi, - lie longer a doubt. It
turea Head.a he in twenty minutes,
and theie is no <jn> s ion but what it is
the most wondet tul discovery 3’otmide
in m-rlieal science. i'liase atll.clod
with lii'i"U.-n> ,-s and T ver Complaint
should me M huklc’s llfp.itink.
It c n be haJ at Lu. J. If J vnss.