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The Republican journal., 1870-05-12
From the April Technologis
THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD.
IT'S AN OLD STORY.

| The cry that earnest and noble women are
| daily becoming more rare that the places
of the brave-hearted and gentle are usurped
| by he frivolous and dissipated, is one that is
by no means new. Two hundred years ago
the wits Of England indulged in the same
cant, and said the same smart things in re-
gard to the same matter: and long before
that time the prophet had asked the people
of his day why they said that ''the former
days were better than these :" and rcbuked
them roundly by telling them that they "did
not consider wisely concerning this matter" :"
We have heard many reverend gramies,' y
both with and without petticoats, dwelling
at length upon the degeneraey Of the men
and women of the present day; no days like
the old days: no such wise men now as those
that laid sage hands upon their young heads ;
no such mothers as their mothers. and, in
ferentially, no such young men and women
now rs heV were in their prime.
AWAY WITH sUCH CANT.
The skies are as bright to-day rs they ever
were since human history began to record
the changes of the years statistics show that
the men of to-day are larger, stronger and
loneer-lived and less vicious than those that
lived five hundred years ago, and among the
women there are hearts as brave and true,
natures as warm and atfcctlonate, minds as
intelligent and souls as noble as ever exist
ed among our grandmothers, of either sex
PLEA FOR THE GIRLS.
Our girls may dress more gaily, and, per-
haps, they enjoy amusements more keenly
than did the women of the last century but
what of that? If the chemist ofthe period is
able to produce anilne colors so brilliant as
almost to rival the famed Tyrian purple,
shall his sister-the girl Of the period-be
condemned to wear dingy madder? And if
better education and wider opportunities
have enabled her to en- Joy Chickering or a
Steinway piano, is it to be supposed that she
will remain content to listen to a shepherds
reed or a cornstalk fiddle?
THE CROAKERs AT FAULT.
These old croakers forget two things: In
the first place, that the grandmothers of the
period were once girls, rs wild as any GIRLS
that we have now; and secondly, that the
greater refinement, the higher education,
and the nobler views of the modern girls are
things that the old fogies who have descend
ed to us from former generation are totally
unable to understand. That the girl of the
period is perfectly able to rough it, perfectly
able to live in a log house, milk the cows,
and tend the babies, we have no doubt, tor
we have seen her do it on more than one oc-
casion, when necessity required. But if she
should prefer the coarse associations that ac-
company life of what is called roughing it.
to the refined and elevating influences that
in the nineteenth century have made our
Christian homes the nurseries of modern
civilization, she would deny her birthright
and prove false to the intellectual opportuni-
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By ths we see that clover requires Lime, Potash
ul Salt IN the soil upon which it grows, Clover
h;ts Lcen termed a Lime plant from its being large
N tompoSed of this element. If there is not lime
n lIe soil it must be supplied in the form OF conn
no0 lime plaster, bore phosphate. on some other
lime Welding material, | sub0in few other
analyses of the clover plant
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Lime plaster, a>ie~, salt, lho~phltc> and sea
weed are good fertilizers for the clover crop. APP
pnd At the surface they give the best results.
, lover is one of the be-, at r,novatn% crops.
Flowed under for green manure, it moi only en-
aln~ the soil by its decomposition. but leaves II
ght aud triahc for the succeeding crop. y.
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The following advice is from Newburg
paper ''Press on, young man though you be
poor We know youth who, with only his
two hands and a crowbar, opened a jewelry
store, and now he is living in fine stone
residence in Sing Sing
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The safe in the law office of Hamilton Har-
ris, in Albany, N. Y, was robbed of $50, 900
worth of bonds on the night Of the 9th ult.
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A man in Allegheny county, N. Y, who
died recently, left his wife one cent, his
brother few dollars, and $4,000 for the
erection of monum ent to himself
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Governor Palmer, of Illinois, trims his sails to
the Democratic whrlwind by the declaration that
1.-THE war is over, and the men are to vote Just as
they please
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A HORRIBLE AFFAIR. In Baltimore one
day last week Mrs. Catharine Marsh cut the
throats of her four children and her mother,
Mrs. Dwycr, with whom she lived. About 4
o'clock, as appears from the statement of Mrs.
Dwycr, she was in the house with her daugh-
ter and three of the latter's children. Mrs
Marsh asked her mother if she had ten cents
and being answered in the negative said She
had ten cents herself She then put on her
bonnet and went q few doors and borrowed
a butchers knife and then proceeding to
school No. l3 and calling out her son James
aged eight years, cut his throat from car to
ear, nearly severing his head from his body
A little boy named Burnett came out of the
school with James and witnessed the murder
Mrs. Marsh rushed at the boy Burnett but
he ran and escaped. She then returned to
her home and went into the back yard where
another son, William, aged seven years. was
swinging, his little sister Mary Jane, aged
four years being at play near by, She sez-
ed William and cut his throat causing instant
death, and Immediately grasped her little
girl and applied her weapon, cutting off her
head She then went into the house and cut
the throat of her young child, George, aged
two years and five months. The head was
nearly severed from the body. She next as
sauited her mother, aged fifty four years, and
very feeble, cutting her so terribly that she
cannot survive Mrs Marsh the murelercss,
is about twenty-sevcn years old, was born
in the county of Kerry, Ireland, and has been
in the, United States about twenty years.
She was married about nine years ago in
Baltimore to VIM. Marsh, u barber, who left
there about eighteen months since to find
work elsewhere, and he is now said to Ii, O
in New York city, The reputation and char
acter of Mrs. Marsh is said to have been
very good. She was undoubtedly temporari-
iy insane. The faces of the murdered
children as they were placed side by side
were as placid and calm as if in a sweet
sleep. They were dressed neatly in the
same clothes they wore when they were
killed. AT o'clock last night the mother
who is confined at the Eastern police station
was unconscious of her terrible deed.
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There are As, 900 school-teachers in France,
according to late satisfies.
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THE GIRLS AS GOOD AS EVER.

That we are iii a transition state; that pas
sing from the rude culture of our forefathers
to the higher education that awaits lis. we
have reached 4 somewhat anomalous condi-
ton, no one can for 4 moment doubt But
the fault lies with the times and with the pc
culiar conditions Of human progress, and not
with the girl of the period. Beneath the ami
line-dycd garments Of to day there are hearts
as true and warm rs ever beat beneath the
linsey woosey of a hundred years ago the
eyes that luxuriate upon the beauties that
fill our modern homes are as fond and bright
as those that watched the shadows on the
log walls Of our ancestors; and the fingers
that draw delicious music from the modern
piano are no less dcit and gentle in the sick
room than those that spun the coarse gar
ments of bygone years, and milked the COWS
that grazed in long past meadows
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ties with which she has been so marvelousl
blessed
NO USE FOR THE STOWE MODELS.

NO USE FOR THE STOWE MODELS.
1 When Mrs. Stowe and her sister hold up
for admiration and imitation the women Of
her young days-days when ga bride was
married with sheets and table cloths of her
own weaving, with counterpanes and toilet
covers wrought in divers embroidery by her
own and her sisters hands''-they seek to re-
call times that have passed away, we hope
never to return. AS these ladies will observe
''those remarkable women of old were made
| by circumstances; we can only add hope
that neither the women nor the circumstances
will ever be reproduced on this planet. In
their own departments, for the tired muscles
of the weary worker, men have substituted
muscles of iron, sineWs of steel, and nerves
of brass, propelled by heart and lungs that
can never tire while the coal fields of Penn
| sylvania hold out; and shall we condemn
our wives and daughters to the humdrum OF
the spinning wheel and dstaf1? No, indeed
Even the sewing machine is bad enough,
and it won't be long until some of us succeed
in harnessing the physical forces to it, SO as
to give the tired limbs Of the sewing girl Il
holiday.
REQUIREMENTS OF OUR CIVILIZATION.
1t is singular fact that we often meet peo-
pie who, having come down to us from the
and whale oil lights, are anxious to revive
the habits and education of these old times
in the days of gas, telegraph and lightning
express trains. Their highest ambition is to
have clean linen, make good butter, and
save money-pOints that are all very COM
mendable, but that do not altogether fulfill
the requirements of modern civilization which
involves wider necessities. They tell US to
limit our desires, being ignorant Of the truth,
that the extent of our desires is the measure
of our culture, and that the advice is like
telling 4 man to cut Oft his feet when he
wants boots. And so persistent are these sol
disant sages in recommending us to restrict
our desires and ''simplify' our tastes; to
confine ourselves to the qualification of home
ly pleasures, which with them signifies the
obtaining OF mere material necessaries (and
pork and beans at that), that we often feel
tempted to turn from them in diso1,st and TO
exclaim; "Give me the luxurcs of life, and
| will dispense with the necessaries.''
A WoRTIIIER woMANHooD WANTED
These thoughts have been forced upon US by
the evidence of changes that must take place
in the education of our young women rs we'll
as our Young men. While we deprecate any
system that would tend to convert the latter
into mere tenders Of machines, much more
should we condemn any system, the tenden-
cy of which would be to degrade the former
below even this humble level, and convert
him into the machines themselves. We do
not want spinning machines, sewing ma
chimes, or knitting machines for wives; we
want women and that all around Us
THERE Is ABUNDANT MATERIAL
for the production of good women, material
which it requires but proper education to de-
velop. we feel perfectly satisfied. All this
tWaddle about the ue~cnnracY of mnlnrn NO.
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P0RTLkND&RO ROCHESTER
WINTER ARRANGEMENT

Esss<ssi-zsE==I On and after Monday, Nov. % 1890
~ k%--esess trains will run as follows; - A'''
Passenger trains leave Portland tlailv fSundavs -.
eeptedl Tor Alfred and intermediate Sfafions ~ =,
A. NJ, 200 r. NJ. ions, at fIe
Leave t9 ,r, for Saco River at PM.
Leave Alfred for Portland az 93i AM.
Leave Saeo River Tor Portland at $50 A. NJ ON,
$40 P. NJ. ~ 90" a. NJ and
treishI Trans with passenger car attach
ed leave Alfred for Portland at5Sq A. M a''aon
Leave Portland for Alfred at l2l5P M
Stages connect as follows:
At Gorham for South Windham, windbam Hin
and North Windham, West GorhaI. Stahdisb stea,,
Falls. Baldwin. Denmark. Sebago, Brighton, Lowell
Hiram, BrowDfeld, Fryeburg, Conway, Bartlett,
jackson. LimiHgton, Cornish, Porter, Freedom, Mad,
isOn and Eaton H., daily.
AT SacO River, for West Buxton, Benny Eagle
South Llmingon, Limngton, daily.
AZ Saoo River for Limerick, Newfelo, Parsons
field and Ossipee. tri-weekly.
At Center Marlborough for Limerick. Parsons
field, daily.
AT Alfred for Springvae and Sanford Corner.
April &c, 1863. dtt
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FALL RIVER LINE.
For New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore. WASH
ington. and all the principal points
West, South and South West,

For New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore. WASH
lngton, and all the principal points
West, South and South West,
Via Taunion, Fall River and Newport.
Cabin, $500; Deck $500. Baggage checked
through and transferred in free OF charge.
New York trains leave the Old Colony and New
port Railway Depot, corner OF South and Kneelsnd
streets daily Sundays excepted as follows al no
Nj, arriving in Fall River 40 minutes in advance OF
the regular Steamboat Train, which leaves Boston
at D 10 p M, connecting at Fall River with tbe
new ana magnificent steamers PROVIDE NOE. Can't,
b. NJ. simmons, BRISTOL, Capt. W. H. Lewis
Ihese steamers are the fastest and most reliable
boats on the Sound, built expressly Tor speed satv
ern Boats and Railroad Lines from New York going
West and South, and convenient to the California
Steamers
'"ro shippers Of Freight, this Line. with
us new ana extensive depht accommodations in Bos-
business OF the Lnel is supplied with facilities tor
freight and passenger business which cannot be sur-
pass d. Freight always taken at low rates and for
waIded with dispatch.
New York Express Train leaves Boston nj 30 p
M goods arrive in New York next morning about 6
M. Freight leaving New York reaches Boston on
the following day at 945 M.
For tickets, berths and staterooms applv at the
company's Office at No 3 Old State House. corner OF
Washing on and State streets and at Old Colony and
Newport Railroad Depot, corner OF South and Knee
land streets, Boston.
Steamers leave New York daily, SUNDAYS excep.
ed) from Pier 30 Worth IL liver, loot OF Chamber
ST, at 400 VI.
GEO. SHIvERIcK, Passenger and Freight Agent,
\, ', - JAMES FlSK, JR. PI esident
G.. NJ r; SIMONS, Managing Director Narragansett
Steamship Co.
NOv5 d1yr
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PURSUANT to license from the Judge OF Pro-
l. bate tor Cumberland County, l shall offer at
public auction on thu premises, on Saturday the h
day OF February, 1870 at 10 o'clock a. NJ, valu-
able Farm, the estate Of the late Robert W. Sher-
man, situated in FreepOrt, about mile from the
Depot. Said Farm contains about ninetv-fve acres
PLENTY OF WOOD, BEST OF PAsTURING, SALT
MARSH, could cheaply be made yield n VERY
LARGE quantity of hay, being the head of he tide
water.
Two story House, two Barns, aud other buildings
on the premises
Freeport, Dec. 2ist 1862
L. c. SHERMAN
Administrator OF the estate OF Robt. Sherman
oxySI
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I. M. THAYER, Proprietor.
C0pNTt2aershSp Notice.

M R. MOSES B. CLEMENTS and EDWARD
w SPALD1NG RURCHILL have been admit
ted partners in our firm.
Z. CHURCHILL s. co.
Portland, January 8, 1870. DIV
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Portland & Kennebec r. 3,
Winter Arrangements, Dec. 3, 1869.


1no Trains Daily betuceen Portland and Augusta
EsSEawE Leave Portland for Augusta, mixed
SetSe.s3sa3fs train at 90 A NJ
Leave Portland tor Bath, Augusta, Wateryille and
Bangor, at 1245 III. Portland for Bath and Au-
gusta at 5.15 NJ.
Passenger Trains will be due at Portland daily
at $50 A NJ. and q 10 M.
Fare as low by this route to Lewiston, wateryiIle
kendaiis Mills, Dexter and Bangor as by the Maine
Cen'ra Road; and tickets purchased in Boston Tor
MAINE central Stations are good TOR a passage on
TINS ilne. Passengers from Bangor, Newport Dex-
ter &c, will purchase Tickets 10 Kendall's Mills
oply ana after taking the cars of the Portland and
ehhepec load, the conductor will furnish ticLets
anu MAKE tne .ate the same through to Portland or
through Tickets are sold at Boston over the East
ern ana Boston and Maine Railroads Tor ali Stations
on TINS llIe; also the Androscoggln r. r. and Dex-
ter, oangor, &C., on the Maine Central. No break
OF gauge east OF Portland by this route and the only
ro1te by which passenger from Boston or Port
by railroad. S N"'
Stages leave Bath for Roekand &c., daily, Au-
gusta Tor Belfast daily. Vassaboro for North and
East fassalboro and China daily. KendalPs Mills
ior Unity daily. AT PIshons Ferry for Canaan dali
their route.
Augusta, Dec. 8, 1869. mayiitf
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z OosI 4KzStsftttt -K5tflE'T5lIITyl
!gO THE EaAUEES.

Eext door to tie Frsoie Eouee, PortJan
x Sand Stamp for Circular.
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lfYou are Going West

Procure Tickets by the "a
Safest, Best and Most Reliable Routes
THROUGH TICKETS
From PORTLAND, via BOSTON to all points I'm
the WEST. SOUTH AND MORT INVEST furnish-
ed at the lowest rates, with choice OF Routes al
the ONLY UNION TICKET OFFICE,
No. 40 1-2 Exchange Street,
Mar 24-dtt
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Dk2. j. B. HUGHES,
CAN BE FoIND AT HIS
PRIVATE MEDICAL ROOMS
No. II PrebJe Street,

yNsby
NM GGGiE lie can be consulted privately, and Wit
Wv the Utmost confidence by the sfiieted at
hours daily, and from A. N. to 8 Pm.
Df: - addressed tbose who are suffering under the
af,ictiOn of ciVate diseases, whether Arising from
impure connection the terrible vice of self-abuse
Devong hia entire time to that particular branch Of
che medical prOseesion he feels warranted in GUAR
AYrEEIEo A CUHR III ALE. CASES, whether OF long
standing recently contracted entirely removing the
SroSs Of disease from the systen sad assins PEI.
feet end ORNAMENT CUBE.
He you'd call the attention OF tho ae1icted &C TIE
tact OF hIs ong-salding and Eel-sarnsd reputation
Cess.
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Read what the editor of the Cincinnati Time
says of ALIENS LUNG BALSAM:
REMARKABLE CURE.-Mr. Samuel Lewis, one
the old Pioneers OF Cincinnati, was very long, APP
rarently, in the last stages of Consumption, and
given up by physicians, when some kind friend re-
commended him to use ALIENS LUNG BALSAM.
He did so, and Immediately commenced recovering,
and Is able to attend to business. He says: SIN
truth, may say it has saved my life. MIR. Lewis is
well known in Cincinnati, and the fullest confidence
may be placed in his statements 1t is DUE therefore,
10 the community, especially those suffering under
this terrible malady, that the fullest publicity be
given to such marvellous cures, that other sufferers
may avail themselves of the remedy. With pleasure,
therefore, we refer to this cure.
From our knowledge of the merits of this excel
lent balsam, and what we hear of lis merits, we
think it should be at once used by all persons suffer-
ing from cough or any pulmonary complaint. We
hear that many far advanced umption have
been cured by its use. dc1li4w
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RAILROADS.
Maine Central Railroad.
PORTLAND AND BANGOR LINE

ES5ssifSfssssI Trains will leave Grand Trunk Denot
saek.eszassat Portland for Auburn and Lewiston
at ITO A. M, LOS p. NJ. ~
Leave Tor Waterville Kendalps NfuIa Na,r,o-.
Dexter, (Moosehead Lake, ana Bangor. at 1 r. p
III. Connecting with the European & North AnerI
can X. r. tor towns north and east.
Freight train leaves Portland for Bangor and IN.
termediate stations at 6.S5 A. NJ So
Trains leave ewiston and Auburn for Portland
and Boston at $40 A. NJ, 2O4 +. N.
Train from Bangor and intermediate stations In
que In Portland at 2.l0 p. NJ, and from Lewiston
and Auburn only at $40 A. NJ
The only route by which through tickets a 70 .old
10 Bangor, Dexter and all intermediary Stations
through. ~ "ssase eneeAso
dec16tf EDWIN MOVES 6.
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MISCELLA NEOUe,
GreNt Distribution
by the Metropolitan Gift Co.
CASH GIFTS to the AMOUNT Of 100000.

g Cash gifts, each SO Cash gifts each $1,000
~ ~ . loOu0 200 500
20 g 5000 300 =" -" loo
80 Elegant Rosewood Pianos, each $500 TO s701
% Melodeons, g IS to inn
$50 Sew pg Machines, b" GO tn tn Tx ,gS
500 gold Watches, rs to am
Cash Prizes, Silver Ware, &C., valued at ST 100 000
A chance to draw any OF the above Prizes for 95
cents. Tickets describing Prizes sealed in En-
velopes and well mixed. On receipt of 25 cents q
Sealed Ticket is drawn without choice, and emf nv
mail to any address. The prize named upon it will
be delivered TO the ticket-holder on payment OF
One Dollar. Prizes Immediately sent to any
address by express or return mail.
You will know what ycur Prize is before You nav
for it. Any Prize EXCHANGED tor another of fhe
same value. No Blanks. Our patrons can depen,,
on fair dealing.
REFEREE CEs.---We select the following from
many who have lately drawn Valuable Prizes, and
kindly permitted US to publish them: Andrew j.
Burns, Chicago, $4,000; Miss Clara S. Walker
Baltimore Piano, $500; James M. Mathews. De.
trnit, $4,000; John L. Andrews Savannah. S. 600.
Miss Agnes Simmons Charleston, Piano, $780, We
publish no names without perm ssiOn.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS The firm is reliable
AMI deserve their success. - Weekly Tribune Mnu
g." We know them to be a fair dealing firm ''--,
AZ. Y. Herald. May %. "a friend of ours drew
S5OO prize which was promptly received" Da,ly
NeacS June 8. '
send for Circular. Liberal inducements TO
agents. Satisfaction guaranteed. Livery package
ofSeaed Envelopes contains ONE CASH GIFT
SIX tickets for ST. Is for So So Tor So; ITO for S1b
All letters should be addressed 10
HARP IL, WILSON & CO.
no5-2w 1875 Broadway, New York,
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Il Rare Chance.

THE subscriber offers for sale the Farm fcrmetly
L owned by Capt. VIM. Bucknam, situated at
Yarmouth ioreside, one mile from The seashoie and
tans about sixty acres, part of it under a high
state Of cultivation; excellent buildings in good fe-
pair; valuable orchard; plenty OF water, and a
large quantity OF TIMBER. Come and see. Terms
reasonable.
no26d1tw3ts W. E. BUCHANAN, on the Farm.
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international Steamship Go.
Passport, Calais and ST. John.
DiGby, Windsor. Sc Halifax.
WINTER ARRANGEMENT.
ONE TRIP PEE WEEu.

ON and after Monday, Jan, 3
tsSsA~~M the steamer NEW BRUNSWICK
n n .<KkNN Capt. S. ii PIKE, will leave
- asae Y Railroad Wharf, loot OF State ST.,
.ef.< :. every Monday at 8 O'Clock p. NJ,
for Eastport and St. John.
Thursday. WY
Connecting at Eastport with Steamer
QUEEN, Tor st. Andrews. and Calais. and with
n. b. & G. Railway for Woodstock ano Houlton
stations. ~
Connecting at st. John with the Steamer EN-
PRESS tor Digby, Windsor and Halifax and with
the e. Y n A. Railway for Shediac and interme-
Freight received on days of sailing until 4
O'Clock p. NJ.
A. r. STUBBS
n0VZy-QlSlW 0tl
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shat remedies handed out for general use should have
their efficacy established by well tested experience in
the hands OF regularly educated physician, whose
preparatory studies hit him for all the duties be must
fulfil; yet the country is flooded with poor nostruIna
and cure-as, purpss lg to be the best in the world
which are not Onir seless, but always injurious,
The unfortunate essss lie PARTICULAR in selecting
his stefan, &c 1t is lamentable yet incontrovert.
Die tact, that manv syphidc patients made mis-.
cradle with rum d constitutions by natreatmeut
from inexperienced physicians in general practice for
tits point generally conceded by the best syogrs.
dhera that the study and management of these come
dlaints should engr0ss the whole time of those who
would be competent and successful In their treat.
raent and cure. The inexperienced general practI.
TONER having neither opportunity tiDse to max.
himself acquainted with their pathology, commonly
prraues one system Of treatment, in most cases mai.
Ing sn pcscrnirete OF that a2tiQUatsd and dnr.
gerous EsepCD, the Mercurr,
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a wh5 have committed an excess OF sny ind
neither it be the solitary vice Of YOUTH or the ting
re rebuke OF misplaced confidence in maturer yeacs,
GEEK FOE An ANTIDoTE IN SEASON.
Eos Pains ana Aches, and Lassitude and Nervous
Prostitution that may follow Impure Gotten
are the Barometer TO the whole system,
0a not wait for tbs contamination that is sure 10 fol.
lcy; do not wait for Unsghtly CIcere, fer
Disabled Limbs, for Loss Of Beauty