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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-28
JAMAICA GINGER

Purchasers OF Browns Ginger are warned against
piratical counterfeits intended to be sold on the
splendid reputation Of this matchless article All
REAL Browns Ginger is prepared by FREDERICK
BROWN, Philadelphia, and the label bearing his
name is Incorporated with his private u s. Inter
nal Revenue Stamy, to counterfeit which is felony
Browns Ginger-for Travellers use.
Browns Ginger-for Summer Complaint.
Browns Ginger-for Cramps and Collie.
Browns Gnger-for Sea Sickness, Nausea.
Browns Glnger-for Stimulant; no reaction.
Browns Ginger-used by Army and Navy.
Browns Ginger-used all over the World.
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Browns Ginger-prevents Malarial Disease
Browns Congratulations Summer Drink.
Browns Ginger-excellent in Rheumatism.
Everybody knows the value of Browns Ginger 81
household necessity and preventive OF disease
Be sure your druggist gives you the right kind
Browns Ginger, as described above.
FREDERICK BROWN,
Philadelphia.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-28
MEDICAL
JUDGE NOT
m McAFFEE,

-,orce with travelling quacks, but coE
psst eXpe ssn HToested Physician, the cele-
suit VI" brated Specialist,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-28
A WONDERFUL MEDICINE.


~
Certificate ola Prominent Citizen
of Adrian, Mich, who had not
Walked without Clutches for
two years. He threw them away
in "a Hours after the first ap-
pIicatiOn of Wizard Oil.
DR. HAMLIN:-When met your agent
here, in September, had been two years suf-
fering severelywith Rheumatism, half of that
time confined to the house, and three months
at time to my bed. The balance of the
time was compelled to crawl around upon
clutches. l used medicines without number,
including large quantity of morphine, all of
which proved worse than useless. AS to what
| suffered, the English language cannot tell
it to any one who has not tried it's realities.
The first application of Wizard Oil gave
me relief in fifteen minutes, and dispelled my
doubts in twenty-four hours. l used bottle
a day for ten days. The next morning after
the use of the first bottle,
left my Clutches at home and
walked down town without them
for the first time i'm two years.
Since thenI have not used them, and can now
| split a cord of wood as quick as any man in
Adrian. Some of my friends at first thought
such sudden cure would kill me, but wanted
change, though it should be death.
mat all who read this may know how
have been, l will say, when 1 commenced
using Wizard Oil, could reach around nv
leg above the knee with one hand
L was reduced to a mere skeIe-
ton, and most of the time
when I moved upon
crutchcs, or tried to stand
without them, / could not raise
either foot from the floor.
l used fifteen bottles in all, but have not used
| any for two months. | now feel as we'll a:
ever did in my life, and have gained thirty five
pounds in flesh. But l must tell you it seem:
almost like dream. You can refer to me a.
often as you wish, and hundreds of the citi
zens of Adrian will testify to the truth Of
my statements.
JOHN ". FAIRBANKS, Adrian, Mich.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-28
MEDICAL.
SGR0EuLA

The scourge Of mankind. old methods
OF treatment and remedies fraud upon
humanity.-A revolution in the treat
ment of blood and skin humors a GER
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-28

"dent Samuel J. Tlden.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-09-20

plying the warmth and vital force
necessary for the proper performance Of
the various functions of the body. Alco-
hol fails, perhaps, to fulfill the first Office
of food, according 10 the foregoing def
milton, since it is incapable, as far as we
know, of supplying materials 10 build
up the tissues. But when given in small
doses, oft repeated, especially in the case
of a sick person, il may be said to sur
pass all other substances as species OF
easily burning fuel, from whose COM
bustion the heat required to generate
vital force may be derived. Indirectly
it answers the first of the aforesaid pur-
poses: for though it may furnish actually
no new building material, il spares the
reserve supply of fat in the body, which
would otherwise have to be burned to
give the necessary warmth The heat
ing powers Of alcohol, of pure coal, of
cod-liver oil, and of hydrogen gas are as
4. s, 9, and $40 respectively. Contrast
with this, now, a mere stimulant (ether),
rs filling exactly the place which the
earlier Psychologists assigned to alcohol.
The same writer says: ..Etheris car
diac stimulant. but rs such il contrib
utes no new force to the heart, all il does
being TO excite the heart so Is to make
il put forth what force it already has
more theoretically. Instead of contrib
uting fresh power, it draws away more
rapidly that which is left. DR.. Titus
". Coaa, IN Harper'S for October.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-09-20

things, can not help wishing, for her
SAKE, that my friends husband would pay
little attention to that other clause in
the same verse, "Love seeketh not her
OWN Unfortunately this man, not the
only one of his class, really thinks thar
he is doing the very best he can
John says am making this article too
long, and perhaps l am, though have
not said word about the experience of
another friend, an experience resulting
from kind of selfishness which is,
think, more common among women than
men. | must not, however, say a word
or | shall want to tell the whole story.
But the portrait have sketehed here,
though drawn from life, might. am
sorry to say, serve equally well with
slight changes as model for several
others besides my friends husband, even
in my own limited observation.
And the pity of it is, that they will fail
TO recognize their own portrait; while
the best of it is, that those of us who see
in it even the faintest likeness to our
selves, will strive all the more earnestly
to get away from the shadow of self into
the love that .slOoks also on the things
of Others. Priscilla Alden, IN the
Christian Union.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-09-20
Use OF Alcohol as a Stimulant.

Use OIL ALCOHOL as StlmuIant.
Before about 1860 it was taught that
nature treated alcohol. whether in larger
or smaller quantity. simply As an intrud-
er, TO be expelled from the human sys-
TEN with all speed, and by every chan
mel, whether by the lungs, the kidneys,
or the skin. The results of the older
experimenters percy, Strauch, Masing,
Perrin, Lallemand) seemed to indicate
that this was the case. A physician OF
the old school-Prof. Miller, of Edin-
burgh-sums up the old notion of its eff
feet in the following words, which |
quote as stlmmatory of the last genera
tons physiologic creed upon the sub
ject:
Alcohol he says, sis a narcotic
stimulant-one of class of substances
which, given in repeated small doses,
will produce stimulant effect, which
may be kept up for some time-an effect,
however, which will be certainly follow
. by depression profound in proper
t on to the length of time during which
i has been delusively postponed
But within few years this question
has been re-investigated with great care.
Prominent among the contributors to
our better knowledge of it are Schulinus,
Anstie, Dupre, Subbotin, and Binz. 1t
was DIR. Anstie who first clearly showed
to the English-reading public, arguing
from original investigations, that alco-
hol, in small doses, was not poison /:
that, ON the contrary, ii was a true food !;
and it was stimulant to the system in
precisely the same sense as that in which
food is stimulant. He pointed out that
we had been using terms loosely: that
oxygen is, for instance, both true
stimulant and a true food. at pre-
vents or relieves pain, averts the dispo-
sitiOn to muscular CONFUSION, tremor
and spasm, reduces excessive secretion,
Gains all unduly frequent circulation,
removes general debility and special IA
tigue of particular organs, quiets the
disturbed brain, cOmpensates in great
measure the absence of ordinary food,
promotes local nutrition" And these,
he adds, are also precisely the effects
that are produced by alcoholic stimu-
lants in small doses.
So far had the doctrine of stimulant
effects as distinguished from narcotic,
and as closely allied to the effects of
food. been carried by Anstie and Others
in 1864. 1t was based upon laborious
research and experiments, which this
is not the place to describe; and fur
ther series of experiments was reported
in the Lancet Of 1868. DIR. Anstie died,
- 4
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-09-20
A Japanese Bill OF Fare.

II seemed good TO the citizens Of
Nagasaki to give Gen. Grant dinner
that was to be in itself romance and
play Instead of doing what is done ey-
cry day and rivaling the taste of Paris,
it was resolved TO entertain him in the
style of the daimios, the feudal lords Of
Japan. The place selected for the fete
was an old temple in the heart Of the
city, from whose doors You could look
over the bay. Moreover, it was to be
the work of the citizens of Nagasaki.
The merchants would do it, and this in
itself was a delicate thought: for in the
East il is not often that We have any
recognition Of men as men and citizens.
The party was not more than twenty,
including Gen. Grant and party, our
japanese hosts, Consul Mangum and
family. and Consul Denny and family.
The dinner was served on small tables,
each guest having a table TO himself.
The merchants themselves waited on us,
and with the merchants swarm of at
PENDANTS wearing the costumes of old
Japan.
The bill of fare was almost volume,
and embraced over so courses. The
wine was served in unglaZed porcelain
wine-cups, on white wooden stands. The
appetite was pampered in the beginning
with dried fish, edible seaweeds, and
isinglass, in something OF the Scandi-
navian style, except that the attempt
did not take the form of brandy
and raw fish. The first serious
dish was composed of crane, seaweed,
moss. rice, bread, and potatoes, which
we picked over in curious way as
though we We're at an auction sale of
remnants, anxious to rummage out a
bargain. The soup when it came-for
it came many times-was an honest
soup of fish, like delicate fish chow
der. Then came strange dishes, as
ragout, and as soup in bewildering con-
fusion. The first was called namasu, and
embodied fish, clans, chestnuts, rock
mushrooms, and ginger. Then, in va
rious combinations, the following:
Duck, truffies, turnips, dried bonito,
melons. pressed salt, aromatic shrubs,
snipe, eggplant, jelly, boiled rice, snap
per, shrimp. potatoes, mushroom, cab
bage, lass-fish, orange flowers, powder
ed fish, favored with plum-juice and
walnuts, raw carp sliced, mashed fish,
baked fish Using lass, fish boiled with
picked beans, wine and rice again.
This all came in the first course, and, rs
a finale to the course, there was sweet
meat composed of white and red bean
jelly cake and boiled black mushroom.
With this came powdered tea, which
had a green, monitory look, and sug-
gested your earliest experience in medi-
cine.-,John Russell Toung's Letter to N.
y. Herald
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-09-20

EDWARD KING says he knew, in the
Russian army, most amiable and ac-
complished gentleman who had been
three times reduced to the ranks for
dueling, and who, at the age of 40, was
only Lieutenant when he might have
been Division General.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-09-20

mtnt.
His horses must have rest; but holi-
dav, or any social recreation, for HIM
self or his wife was quite unnecessary.
But even these things were more ex-
cusable than the neglect of the common
est comforts Of the household. For the
first 10 years of her married life my
friend managed TO possess her soul in
patience without drain to her kitchen
sink. Barns were built with fine cellars
and cisterns, but every drop of water
that came to the house for the supply of
a large family must be brought from a
distance, and, after il had passed through
the wash-tub and the sink, il must be
poured beneath the kitchen windows,
there to give back its fragrance in the
heat of summer. and TO form mound
of ice in the cold of winter.
But when. at length, prosperity had
so far attended them as To warrant the
building of fine new house, the DAYS of
such trials seemed over to my friend.
Imagine, then, her dismay at finding
the very same condition of things, with
a slight difference in two particulars:
The supply Of water was several rods
-, -. a. -. ,..,,,.., aol r,Jarnaa,b
~, ,hn HI h;,cha hem" r;nJnws was fab 70 receive
the drainage, TO be emptied when it was
hnusatolJ and o,bervise IA overflow
nnd oanso ,,nn;rg stream If fonl wa
ter around the doors.
And then-well, | don't know what
happened then, but that is 10 years ago,
80 ,,sa,.,.;I,- Ia ..na, nav come
III M nnay ma but this stay there
-, NJ ~ al ,raJes have haen
III 60 ,h. tarn IN Zen harms in re-
-. a,,J EEL I'll honIe5 and l,hor-
p p'' a,,,a,-. =, hand yot in * years
e eno Az a., " ,rorl, cn,,,d not he shared TO
a. j,.a;r and Law a nine few rodsf
.i ~. ,i,a la, ha,fnf tho n;,ataontb
aan,,',.,, IT, arorv nan.r ono tataS nm
i mi ~ San;tarv measures relating TO
H. - 80 ~ ,h;n@ Rut What can be ex.
nec,ed of a man who Is too moor even 10
subscribe for a weekly paper, while a
daily would be o,Yite out of the question?
As his wife argues. he is too poor not to
take one in these DAYS of great improve
ments.
will sav noth;ng of broken door-hells
loft unbnng for four years or catches off
Cow a. ,napy moro for these are only
among nnmberirss minor matters which
have brought to nv friend great incon-
yenience and WEAKNESS. but untold pa
fence and sweetness. To me. her hns-
band seems unutterably selfish: to her,
he Is s;mnly of so different a nature that
he docs moi realize how mucb a woman,s
comfort depends upon such things. l
can not tell her what | can say here
thar he ouoht 10 realize il: that his love
shonld teach him TO consult her pleasure
if his intellect does not Law hold of the
reasons for her desires: that. though his
caresses NAV imply love, they will not
buy shoes for the children. nor give
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-09-20

Gum camphor is speedy remedy
70 clear the house Of cockroaches.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-06-21
Completion of n Great Work.

The completion Of the new Acme
edition of Chambers's Cycloppdia OF
English Literature will mark an epoch
in the experience of many lovers OF
good books. The announcement that
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superior excellence, in form so con-
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one of such high merit, at price only
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similar books generally, was more than
a surprise to reading people. 1t was
generally supposed to be an under
taking impossible of accomplishment
except at great loss of money, and
many who knew the excellent stand
ing of the publishers feared that they
had undertaken too much. and would
never be able to complete the work.
But it seems they knew their ground;
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ise to the public. but by undertaking
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ordinary, have attracted the attention
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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-06-21
I.ucrclIa Mott.

This venerable member and minis
ter of the Society Of Friends, of whom
some forty years ago DR.. Claiming
spoke as a noble ard beautiful sample
of womanhood, still lives. A news
paper correspondent writes under date
philadelphia, 9th mo. 18th, 1879 as
follows:
l have recently visited our beloved
friend Lucrctia Mott, who called my
attention to couple of passages, which
she desires to have inserted in the
journal. Now eighty-six years Of age,
very delicate in health, and feeble in
bodily vigor, she still retains mind
SO clenr and y heart so warm as to en-
10y society and conversation on sub
jects of value. She mentioned to us
that when nearly cighty.six, she made
q dress for herself, and that from the
age of seventeen, she has made all her
dresses, with few exceptions.
A stranger having just sent to her
for her photograph, autograph, and a
sentiment, she sent for the latter, her
iavorite motto: Truth for authority,
not authority for truth"
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-06-21
The Library Magazine.

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lie Church. by John Moreley: Com
mercial Depression aud Reciprocity. by
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Appointed seasons, by j. e.. Wood /:
The Study OF Natural History, by ST.
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1t 10 ca. a number CT 81. year post
2ge prepaid,
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-06-21
observation-disclosures and Kisses.

Ono day, When came home h,Igued,
And felt inclined to grumble
Because my life was one Of toll,
Because my 10, was humble,
Isald TO Kate, my darling wife,
In whom my whole LIES bliss 10,
"wbat have you got for dinner, Kater
"why bread.a' d-:hee. and ki'ses'
Though worn and tired, my heart ienped up
As those plain words she uttered.
Why should I envy those whose bread
Than mines more th,ekly buttercdi
! said, "wc'll have desert at once"
whats that" she asked. "why this is.'
kissed her. All, what swecter meal
Than bread .and.c cheese and kisseS
gszed at her with pure delight;
She nodded and smiled gsyly;
Isaid, my love. on such meal
I'd dine with pleasure daily,
when but think think Of yop. dear girl,
Iplty those fine misses
who turn their noses up and pout
A, bread. and. cheese aud kisses.
And when look on your dear form,
And on your face so comely;
Ard when look In your dear eyes,
And on your dress SO homely;
And when hold you In my arms,
laugh at Fortunes misses.
I'm blest In you, content with you.
And bread. and. cheese and kisses"
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-06-21

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Ayers .,
Sarsaparilla

For Scrofula, and MI
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-05-31
A Romantic Story from Troy.

HOW TWO MEDICAL STUDENTS sTRoyE FOR AND
WON TIE HAND OF THE SAME LADY.
the following very romantic story is but the
substance OF what happened In our own city
many years ago. The characters that appear
as principals have passed away but their
1escendants yet live among US and occupy
who had passed through college and graduated
with honor were studying medicine. They were
1ast friends and were almost inseparable They
entered society together, and were well received
evening at reception In one OF the wealthiest
mansions OF the city, when new star appeared
In the person CT niece OF the hostess, who had
come from Massachusetts,. She was handsome,
and reports agree In saying that she was as
good as she was pretty. Both OF the medical
s SLUG were smitten, and for the first
came between them. The natures OF the two
young men were essentially different one was
frank and open as the day, while the otner wa S
LADY, but she soon manifested choice for the
more frank character and they became engaged.
Inc aeIeated sutton seemed to bear his dis
home and the successful sutton Vent abroaH to
complete his studies. While absent letters were
created the feeling that he was.false :" her n
ana finally enc came in his own hand writing
plGdlhg her farewell, and stating that he was
10 pe married TO lady of rank. This proved
rallied and sought In every way to conceal the
traces Of grief. The defeated sutton was at
hand and again profIered his homage, and final
~, In ut OF pique, she married him Had this
been the finale OF the story there would be no
romance. Ii was not long after the wedding
before the lover returned He could not be
made to believe that the one he loved was false
by nature. He reasoned that there was cause
Tor her change, and, like a sensible man. he
commenced the task OF unraveling the mystery.
AFTER much trouble, he obtained an Interview
with the wife In the absence OF her husband,
and as an answer to his upbraldings she hand
ca MN nus letter OF remuneration. She was
napier than she had been In many days when
Sne learned that the letter was forgery, and
That the lover had always been true to her.
she at once renounced her husband, and soon
opportunity offered. and she procured divorce,
ana was united to her first and only love- The
husband and wife settled down In this city, and
here he enjoyed long and successful career,
and when he died, full OF years and hOnors. he
was surrounded by his wife and family. The
raise friend, who, by his wicked Vaccinations,
had wrought so much sorrow, removed to Ian,
sng6arg, where he became physician OF note.
He afterward remarked, and his posterity to-
day occupy honored positions in the state. In
two family Bibles In this city the marriages are
recorded among the family archives.eI7roy
Times Mdy %.