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THE UK BESS.
Ey H&BEIET PRESCOTT SPOPFORD.
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I knew, in an intimate and under con- [
scioiisncss, that ! was deceived: hut, do |
wlrnt I would, it came to me as if I were |
experiencing it myself, all the annihilat
ing terror that nntit overwhelm the suf- !
serer as that black monster and its red i
hot eye advanced with the thundering!
tread and shook her frame bodily and her i
soul with vast fear. I heard, in my |
fancy, her shrill shrieks, ar; she struggled
vainly Io rise, and escape, and flee, and
knew that it was vainly. J. felt —almost
with positive and physical pain of my ;
own—the breaking and grinding of the I
Lone, and then—l should have done it— j
1 had reached out my hand to do it — ;
when, suddenly, the fair, pale face rose
from the way like a dew cloud, the float- 1
ing garments of the late prostrate form
were gathered together, all had diesap-I
peared—and we slid gently upon the i
trestle-work, and wound our way over
its spider line, till kindly woods beyond
took us into safety and shelter.
1 stood, then, powerless, and could not
have lifted my hand to my face to wipe i
<j!T the beads of cold sweat there. It :
seems, perhaps, in the rehearsal, a little
thing to have endured: but I can L 11 yon
that it was the tortures of the damned.
The men and women who had given
their lives into my hand that night,
never knew how. for one moment, that
hand, loosening its grasp, hesitated, and
held them over the precipice anil gulf of
<! ;:th, while they gazed out and down,
and admired the beauty of the world,
mid felt their life and enjoyed their
breath.
It was then Margaret said I must leave
the railroad; 1 had no right longer to
play at fast and loose with the destinies
of others; each time I stepped upon my
platform was a sin. Tho wear and tear
of travel, and night travel at that, she
said, had broken up my nervous system,
which, added to my previous shock al
ready sustained, might produce irrepar- :
aide misfortunes, if I did not. leave
everything, and come down and rest
with her al her mother's.
This last was pleasant enough—rest in
that happy house, the low-roofed old
farmhouse, standing on its verdant knoll,
that always shone like some broad carpet
of greenest velvet embroidered with all
the golden sunshine of trimmer, the
house where everything wAsordered to
the music of peace and quietness—hut
then, by and by, there was a time for
that.
Was it a devil driving moon to stay?
or was it my natural manliness refusing
to yield to a devil and begging for one
more trial?—l declined to go: still said
nothing, and took my train out of Water
wey. I was so thoroughly myself on
every other topic, that 1 could not be
lieve in a monomania upon this one. 1
invented an apology to myself for every
time that I yielded to my pursuer—the
ri flection of tho moon in some ditch of
11:11 water, the lantern of a crossing in
the woods, the round, white signboard
of a switch, the signal balls upon a draw
bridge—l aflinned that in similarly de
ceptive lights and shadows they would
have affected every man in tho name
way ns that in which I was affected.
But, at last, the tormentor grew insup
portable; it followed me from station to
station, as sonic great, winged, stinging
thing pursues a racer, its play on my
emotions being all the more forcible that
I could never entertain any sentiment of
anger toward it—for there it always lay,
lowly, appealing and piteous, only tho
face of Margaret. It grew plain to me,
and, reluctantly, 1 was forced to ac
knowledge either that my vision was
distorted and ruined, or that some neces
sary spring in my mechanism had be
come loosened.
1 determined then, at last, that I would
consult a physician, to seo if there were
any balms in Gilead for my healing. I
shudder now at remembrance of my
seliish criminality—for 1 reasoned that
I could do this the more readily, as 1
.’ now that, by tho laws of his profession,
be would be obliged to keep my applica
tion secret, and could make no report to
my employers. 1 needed not have
feared, as it ended. Old Dr. Blanchard
had no time for mischief, and had, more
over. such a professional curiosity and
r arching into things, that, if my symp
toms had been at all anomalous, he would
have suffered mo to launch a loaded train
of my fellow creatures into eternity, in
order that ho might study their develop
i.-.e’.it. However, ho assured mo that
it was a very simple and frequent
ferm of disease with which 1 was afflict
ed, on? taking its variation according
t? the idior.yneracies of the patient; and, (
!■ ing entirely upon the nerves, there
w:no medicine to reach it but my own
vol. This was cheerful after my ex- 1
; :l?;:ce. If my spiritual identity, he
; ..id. v.-;;:i weaker than that of my body,
it must succumb into hopeless insanity:
Lm.cor.id 1 rouse its flagging courage
whip it into action, all was safe and
i; :?. The one, the only thing, for me
t do wa>. when the next time I saw the
: ? ■(' before me, to run over it. Ixddly and
v. ithout a remonstrance—remorselessly,
i. 1 could, but to run over it—and I
should be well.
It was an easy thing to order —but,
then, the face was Margaret's.
Dr. 13lan hard professed himself in
i'.:, ted in the case which I had exliib
: dto him, and would not take any fee.
1 went out from his presence, hall com
rled, somewhat strengthened, and re-
Ived that 1 would do as he l.ade.
1 began, in the first place, by fortify
i • myself daily with a simple tonic, in
cider that no mere debility might cause
aiaiitire, and, perhaps. it was. on tinding
me : o rv; .dved that the subtle apparition
:?.-r.-d a fresh eaeoc.nier—so many weeks
w. ;:t I ■ without i'■■ reappearance —the
w; • r. v iiieii 1 Imdonee looked forward
t? tor its promi d homo and joy. having
: Liit, .1 into spring— that I was fairly
drawing fresh I reath and fancying my
self free —mid, being off mv guard one
; i.'.ht, there it lay.
It was a starlit midnight, with a thick
1 :e catching the star!.earns ami we?, v
; . - them into a kind of t'.ecco over the
i . avens, so that v. hat light there was
i.' d a strang: 1 mid i . in.tural effect, at
I .-st. With ti is. a vvii i. h:wind w::s
re s ing on behind L ? th-? tramp of a
legion e.n high, ami (.lowing
up s >;ae rail.. t'.gh ~ ::i the ea-
'sard. Owing to t;:i . e;? wind incur
1 .vor—which favoring wind has some
thing as much to -.. ?’. a railv.-ny car
i i : as with a chip. while pn s lug from
tr.:? mid - .. A-.-
t: u'.eo in fpco —we ;ad tr: remark-
■tl .< I'wn.ic:: th at f y
w'.,.m ;; u v.dnge,’ :■, ,t i ~’d
I pri . ii. r., .ro u cov ;t I-
U..C lira' l..;ck, mid I'-.w ... -.
■ the woods. In another moment some-,
thing else rose, too, as if a slumbering I
■ wayfarer there had lifted head to gaze I
after the flying shadow, and then it lay l
back again—and, looking at it intently, I
I saw the face once more.
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I saw lhe face once more.
Mow was my time. What if I should
shut my eyes, and, not seeing it, drive
on? But no, that would bo cowardly—
neither would it effect the object, neither
could Ido it. Moreover, were 1 able, in
so doing I might fail to observe some
real obstacle, and so plunge my whole
train to destruction. Therefore, I gazed.
And gazing, it took the strength out of ;
me —tho sweet, wide open eyes; the ten
der, trembling mouth; tho half fainting I
roso upon the check. As the storm
swoops and snaps a bending tree, I sent
a blast shrieking against the whistle’s
edge, and felt the answering drag of the
brakes, and then, in spite of myself, the
throttle valve had done its work, and we
were gently slowing, and should have :
pausedata point several rods from the ■
appealing sight—should have paused—
but wo did not.
It was as though some mighty and in
visible hand, mightier than the breath
of steam or the temper of steel, mocking i
my own, had seized us and was drawing
us on at its wicked will. My heart rc-1
fused to beat—stood still with horror; I
tho shiver that ran even through tho |
roots of my hair hardened there; we |
were close upon the place, grinding with
all our hefty iron over it; wo had passed
it, and we paused.
Tho wind had dragged tho whole train
for that distance. If you doubt me,
the books of my profession will tell you
that it is no remarkable instance, for a
sudden flaw of contrary wind has been
known to do so much as to bring to a
Stop a train under full headway. 1
would that sudden flaws of contrary
wind had been blowing one cruel day
for me!
We had passed the place then. Till 1
could rouso me from tho benumbing
faintness, could draw a breath, and then
could stead v my voice, 1 did not attempt
to move. 'But the instant I mastered
myself I went through my customary
drama on these occasionsh—was off, run
ning behind and swinging my lantern
over the vacant track, finding nothing,
back again, and leaning on my handles ,
before the conductor had reached me. I '
told liim then that wo were ahead of
time by reason of tho wind, and 1 was
waiting on the side track for the down
train to pass. Fortunately, facts upheld
me, or my flushed' face and shaking
hands would have betrayed the truth, or
the falsehood, behind.
I questioned with myself now if tho
ghost was laid. Yet how could it be? [
Wo had run over the face, it was true, I
but by no volition of mine. Indeed, I
had decided exactly the opposite; 1 had
refused to do so; I had stopped. My will I
had'again been cowed and conquered— i
not yet had it pricked the bubble of this I
phantasm and caused it to explode into
empty and innoxious air.
It would bo idle to rehearse the passing
of the summer and the coming of the
winter, with their continued visitations
that then, indeed, came more seldom,
but every time with increased power. I
had struck work for a season, and had
been up resting with Margaret, at her
mother’s, for two delicious months —
resting, just closing my eyes in peace.
I had begged her then, before I came
away, to marry me; for 1 thought if 1
had the dear real lac? mv daily c r.p?n- I
ion. to come home to, to go outfrem. the '
fictitious one would perforce die natural i
death. But, even bad Margmvt L.-r If i
entirely com ented, her mother had I
too many scruples to suffer her only |
child to leave her for such precarious '
protection as mine might be. So 1 went I
back to solitary life again.
My troubles had now become so much
a chronic thing that, except when its j
I manifestation:, or their results were ex- !
trau.dmary, I took no serious note of :
them; only the possibility of their future :
! coming. a:;d the actuality of their past, i
hungover me like a black, suffocating :
| cloud, awake or asleep. In fact, though.
, 1 ha I n-> sleep that deserved the benefi
cent name. In place of tho sweet ob
livion and rest of forgetfulness that
i other men knew, 1 had for my part a
I long and living nightmar •.
In all this time 1 had failed to find
: sufficient strength toobey the fihvsician’s
I order, to cut through the cursed thing
I that, was killing me, with the sharp
thing? of my wheels, ami annihilate it.
But Dr. Blanchard had found me out.
: although in consulting him 1 had given
j no name, and one afternoon he accosted
I me in the street, on my way to the
station, not to ascertain what progress 1
i had made —for that was visible enough
i in my haggard and jailed tippearanee —
but to ask me if 1 was to be on duty
i that night. 1 responded in the affirma
tive, and. on hearing my reply, lie said
i gently that ho should have the pleasure
; trf trusting turns.-If to my guidance for
i that trip. and. if I bad no objection, and
could find room for him. ho would be
my eomp.mi m upon the Black Bess. Os
course 1 perceived his intention sufd
: eienilv well: and perhaps it was an un
wise thing for him to propose, for his
metv presence was more likely to con
jure no the appearance than to help me
’ overcome it.
If, now. I tell the rest of the story as
it appeared to me then, and as my
trouoied brain received it, it is because
r. mombra’.icc i'- nearly as vivid as the
sulferi. g. and I can hardly say today
where reason ends . nd phantasms Legin.
Wo b..i t a snowy night for this excur
sion of Dr. Blanchard's, so much is cer
tain: not like that great, white, whirling
storm iu which tho face, all wrapped in
folds of bridal lace, flitted before me and
nsted till I stepped, and not all tho big
plows in the company’s use could then
have advanced the snowed up train an
inch; but a night of gusty flaws, when a
i light down dropjxrd on the track and was
gone, and velvety flakes draped spray
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i and twig of the woodland and snook eff
showeringly as wo passed, and snow
; squalls dashed blindingly across our path
| and vanished, and all the sky was agr«y
i and dazzling bewilderment.
I knew that, whatever the weather
| was, Margaret would not fail me at t!:o
station, and then I told tho doctor, as wo
neared Brookford, what sight there was
in store for him at that place, and re
marked that it was, may be, fortunate
for mo that night that Margaret b.::d
really to cross the track inorder to reach
the spot where she was to await us. as ia
looking out that no flanger befell herself
I should be less likely to encounter that
wraith of hers, nor could I see them both
together. But Dr. Blanchard shook his
head, and hade me mind my own busi
ness. and have that degree of confidence
in Margaret to believe her capable of
taking care of herself.
And looking out into tho wavering
whiteness lit by tho glare of the head
light, while ho shouted fort h his gruff
advice, all at once—“ There! There!” I
cried. “There it is!”
“Where?” demanded thedoctor, spring
ing to gazo over my shoulder, as if I.is
untrained vision could have discerned : o
much as an outline in that thick a:; 1 .
“Damn it! Don’t be a fool! Drive c::!”
“Where?" I answered. “There! right
beforp us. A woman walking. See!:!."
has turned her head; she secs ur;; rhe c 1
not hoar us in that gust, we have fright
ened her; sho stumbles, she falls, she is
lying on the track, she cannot get up
that face, that wdiito sac is Mor
gan t’s!”
"By God! there is no woman ther !
ho replied, before I had finished. “My
eyes are as keen as yours. I tell y.-.:i
tnero is not a single object before us till
wo reach tho Brookford lights there, a
mile away!”
I hardly heard him. I had stretched
out my hand to pull up. when 1 caught
a sidelong glimpse of him. brandishing
an iron bar above my head. “Touch
that handle,” ho cried, "and I will kno .i:
you down!" And then he interposed
himself between my hand and it.
“You are mad," I said, calmly, and
believing what 1 said. "Do you suppose
I fear your billy? While lam master of
tho Black Boss she does not run down a
woman—least of all that one.”
Tho whole of this was so hurried that
not even George Rowe, who stood staring
and gaping and hearkening with all l.is
might, could make out a syllable.
“Very well,” said the doctor then, r ■-
versing his method, and yelling out his
words in my car till ho must have been
purple. “You aro convinced that you
seo this face, and ns both your lirem:::i
and 1 myself can assure you that we f 1 '
nothing there, you must feel equally
convinced that it is your pursuing phan
tom, as you call it. Now, then, is th?
time to put an end to it. Destroy i : .
Exert your will. You have only to fold
your hands behind you. Nothing else in
,r - o
the world to do. Give them hero to ni".
I The engine will do tho rest. Be an; :i 1
now—remember that, this once done, all
.your peace begins—Margaret and mar
riage—homo ami happiness. There is
nothing there! Drive on!"
I heard him now, but as a hollow vobo
might speak far, far outside of the
world in which 1 was.
I had fixed my will, as much as it was
possible to fix so loose and weak and
shaking a thing, a bundle of broken
links— I was determined to obey him.
But all the time 1 saw only her, only
> her sweet face in the snowy light, as I
never should see it again—the hood had
fallen i from it. the wet rings of the
dark !• .■ wore blowing out f rom ii. a
tint lib ihe flush of the tea rose was lying
i on ill check—not that 1 noted all such
I items then, 1 remember them today,
I they were impressed like the work of r.
I die—the line and lovely lips of the ten
der trembling mouth were parted ns if
calling to me by some old fond name,
the eyes suffused through all their depth
I with tho light wo cast before us, the
sweet gray eyes, like those of the <:■■-
I serted German girl, shone up at rue I;.. ■
1 two great tears. Ah! how many tins .
I before had they gazed into mine with long
! and lovely looks—and now for the Im t
time—had I returned their gaze with ail
the protestationsot passion—and: tandin.';
hereto bray them into nothingness—<.;!:,
all the meetings and partings of the day..
that could dawn no more—the dear em
braces of those arms never to Ik; felt
again, the warm, full kisses of the meet
ing mouth—and t myself blotting a 11 out!
To save mo tho vjxiug sting of a gadlly
1 was crashing down on the best beloved
I thing in the world with all the mighty
revolutions of my ponderous red hot iron,
with dropping coals and tho I-lasting
l oi steam, with the unirdcrot:
purpose of this jumping, plunging Her I
that I alone controlled, with a shrouding
deafening fury that to the waiting vi,
lim drowned the universe in its roar.
All these horrors came one by one Be
fore my mind, and dr°l’l>ed into my o'-
solve like grains into the weighing scale.
I suffered agony. My knees were shak
ing under me. I doubt if 1 could h:n
lilted my hand—it hung nervelers
by my side; the life was dying
out of me. 1 only stared through
I my window, along the track, at the
i woman's face with the fright hardenin
I into it, the blank terror there, dcat
I thundering down in the fierce, wild
! throes of sundering socket and mangling
j flesh, that in one instant would have
| their hellish grip on every live nerve and
spurting vein. Then my ears were ring
, ing with shrieks; I fancied that even
j through the hot roar and reverberation
'of our flight 1 heard the rest. When
i would the last car be over, the last wheel
turned? Was that swift hiss the severing
; of a tress upon the rail?
It was passed. We rolled into Brook
ford station; George Rowe’s hand had
i slipped before mo and slowed tlie Black
I Bess to her usual point. We stopped
Then the blood bounded back to my
I heart, to my throat, to my face, the
strength of an army to my single hand
1 seized Dr. Blanchard by the shoulder
I as if he had been made of card board
"Come back with me!" 1 hoarsely yelled
"if we find nothing 1 am well once
more—but if it is as 1 am sure it is. then
you are dead !"
And, regardless of my train, swinging
my lantern to this side and to that. I
rm bed bock with him to the spot where :
the highway cressed the track, and where
1 swore some torn, crushed thing must
lie. Never, never had 1 been jso sure —
and there —yes. yes—sob and strangle, ;
vou tool!—oh, God! oh, God! —it was
‘ Margaret!
Four whitewashed walls, and a clank j
of chains, anil a fair devil going and
i oming about me, and night and day and i
eight speeding by in whirling flame.
And still the phantom face, fixed on
. tb - wail, on the trencher, on the Boor; if ;
I 1 climb to my grated window a seal and ,
; blotch on all the wide Liue heaven! And;
i then it grows into reality, and hides it
i seif in tlesli; it lays a cool hand on my
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It was Margaret,
I burning brow; it puts water to my parch
ing lips; it sings me songs which, some
where, I fancy, that once long ago I
have heard; and it smiles till it almost ,
seems that I have seen and felt the same
smile with thrills of deep, delightful joy
in a life ere this. And then it sighs, a
tear gathers; I grow enraged at all the
lovely counterfeit; I spring upon it, and
would beat it down bodily, when the
fixed gray eyas arrest my arm—eyes like !
two tears—anti after tliat I hear when
ever I move the clan!-: ng of the chain.
One day a thundt rgust has swept
across the sky. I have watched its
purple masses'fold ai d lap and let their
lire down to earth, raid, as if I were
myself metallic, have felt the electric i
current coursing down thecountless rods
that protect my prisoi house. A curious
sensation has come over me, as if the
blood had turned atout and were run
ning the right way in my veins, I am
conscious of its fresh free tingling, as if
I were just made.
I look at tho lovely fiend sitting there
beside me, so unmoved by the wild com
motion of the elements; 1 mind the j
spray of tea roses in her hair, falling
over one ear. and lending their tint to ;
to all the delicate skin below. “Let me
see you, fair devil, if you aro shadow
or substance!” I exclaim. “You pursu
ing phantom, if you are not all an evil ;
spirit, let me see if there is any blood in
your veins!”
Tho tint upon her skin grows paler, |
but she Smiles on me, and lifts the sleeve ; (
from the bare ivory of her rounded arm. .
She takes from some liidden place a tiny
toy knife, and gives it me. ,
Then she looks at me again with her I
beautiful, fearless eyes. I do not hesi- |
tate for all t.iey say. I scan the fair
faint veinery—l choose—and tho red, red I
blood is trickling down, and all the tint
upon her cheeks is gone, and she falls
forward upon, my breast. “Margaret!" I '
cry.
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“Bespeaks my name, she murmurs,
os one enters. “Oh! all is well!”
And all is well, indeed. From that I
hour lam m fuelf. The old trouble aris- i
ing from tho concussion that Iso long I
ago experienced is entirely done away
with; the ghost that so long stalked ■
through tho Miambersof my brain is laid
to rest, and never have I seen a trace of I
it; but Margaret, long since recovered
from her injury—Margaret herself, in :
tho beautiful liody of her llesh and blood
—is seldom out of my sight.
When I came from my whitewashed
prison room Dr. Blanchard himself took
me in hand, luul mo at his own house till
strong enough again to fight my way,
and then established me in a different
occupation from that in which he origi
nally found me. 1 ventured out from
that in time into deeper water. I have
prospered, as you know—improved my
self, as you may imagine; my house, my
retinue, my equipage are worthy of my
wife, for the mother of many children £>
more beautiful in her maturity than in
her maidenhood, and if any material
coin’ort, pride and pleasure can atone to |
her f wall the trouble of her youth the
earth shall be ransacked but it shall be
hers!
rTof-issor Henry says on tho much
vexed question of cooked, wet or dry
feed f>r hogs; “in conducting experi
ments with cooked and uncooked feed,
it was found that a hog would eat more
uncooked feed than cooked, and in these
experiments wo note that he ate more
wet fe.xl than dry feed. Since we desire
him to eat tho maximum quantity per
•lay, it would seem that in some cases at
least wet feed is superior to cooked feed
on tho ono hand and dry feed on tho
other. Such seems to be' tho status of
the important question of how to pre
pare fcerl for ewme at the present time.”
MENLO NEWS.
The crop prospect is unusually
promising in Broomtown valley at
this time. The farmers report fine
stands of grass and clovm with a
large acreage sown. We are anx
iously waiting for the Chattanooga
Southern railroad, which we think
will materially help our side of the
county.
One of Summerville's young ma
rooners was seen Sunday going at
a terrible rate of speed toward,
Lookout mountain. Perhaps he is
in the option business; all business
like you know.
Reports say that one of Menlo's
swains is on lookout for a Cooke.
Hope he will continue his attention
and win at last.
Misses Lena and Ethel Hiles
spent Saturday with Mrs. A. J.
Lawrence.
The mail service from here to
Gaylesville, Ala..has been increased
Ito three trips a week. We now
have three routs that end at this
i place, besides the daily from Rac
j coon Mills to Valley Head, which
gives us extraordinary mail facil
' ities. Lawsox.
Postmaster-General Wanamaker
i has established an inviolable rule
that no postotiiee shall be kept in
; a saloon, or in any room from which
i a saloon may be entered.
SOIB
lar i
Fils. Munis,
Cattim, 3 Seres,
Rheuma- jjstC 5 >3l Wainnia-
Kauralgia, i 2nd Hmcr-
Bruises, iPOIiffSEXTRASTJ Hagas
Sore Eyes, Kinds.
INVALUABLE »OB
BURN'S, SUNBURNS, DIAKRHffiA, CHAF
INGS, STINGS OF INSECTS, PILES,
SORE EYES, SORE FEET.
THE WONDER OF HEALING!
For Piles. Blind, Bleeding: or Itcli
ing;, it is the greatest known remedy. ’
For Burns, Scalds, Wounds. Bruises
and Sprains, it is unequaled—stopping pain
and healing in a marvelous manner.
For In Ila med and Sore Eyes,-Its effect
upon these delicate organs is simply marvelous.
In Female Complaints, Pond's Extract,
as is well known, is used with the greatest bene fit.
For Ulcers, Old Sores, or Open
Wounds, Toothache, Faceaclie, Bites
of Insects, Sore Feet, its action upon these
is most remarkable.
li ECOMM INDI BY rifTSICIANS !
USE JO IN HOSPITALS!
HEYWOOD SMITH. M. D.. M. IL. C. P.. of
England.—“ I have used it with marked benefit.’’
IL PRESTON. M. !>.. Brooklyn. N. Y.—‘l
know of no remedv so generally useful.”
ARTHUR GUINNESS, M. !>.. F. K. (. S.. of
England.—“ I have prescribed POND'S EX
TRACT with great success.”
The Famous Lecturer, JOHN B. GOUGH,
wrote: ‘‘ For Sore Throat, especially when tend
ing to ulceration, I have found it very beneficial.”
ANDREW D. WHITE. Ex-President of Cornell
University, says : " One of the absolute necesgir
tigg of housekeeping.” Be sure to act the genuine,
EM « 4 A BBOTT. the celebrated prima donna.
•-“Valuable and beneficial.”
In Bottles only. Prices, &oc., sl. 51.75.
Note our name on every u and label.
Prepared only by POND'S EXTRA! T CO«y
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LH. 1c S
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,v w. 1! ’ J r<?n:aj:;ible specific
ion upon the affected parts
gives it "uprenv 1 <? ntrol over
fsiavaj V h ■■ ” - ■•• v< i i.>.
Also for Burns, Scalds,
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, Tosti, . ciu.l , !';• m allcliLsses
prove its efficacy. Price 50e.
Sol-1 by all Druggists < sent by mail
on receipt o" price. Put up only by
POND'S EZTEACT CO.. 70 sth Ave., N. Y,
iTHAT FIGHT
teg Tho Original Wins.
C F. Simmons, St. Louis, Prop’r
g 1 M. A. S : rr.nwns Liver Medicine, Est’d
I I J s 4o, in the U. S Court Dai eats J.
I H. Zcilin, Prop’r A.Q. Simmons Liv- |
er Regulator, Est’d by Zcilin IS6B.
■ 'TVj M. A. S. L. M. has for 47 years
r V5-J1 ci.n•! Indigestion, Biliousness, i
1 JvK U>Y; J rH’i.IA,SICK HEADACHE,!.OST .
W Apfetjte, Sour Stomach, Etc.
V o Church, /Idam .. T enn., writes :“I
W A think 1 sh< uld have been dead but
Y» I for your Genuine M, A. Sim
rmms Liver Medicine. 1 have
s 'inetimes had to substitute
f / “Zeilin’s Stuff” for your Modi- j
• c ‘ nc » but it don’t answer Lhe
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/ YcOPLE! . Dr. J. R. Graves, Editor ZAe
Mvtnphis, Tenn, savs; i
I ? I received a package of your Liver i
A Medicine, and have used half of it. i
kK It u orkslike a charm. I want no ’
JK bett r Liver Regulator and cc r- !
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