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20 Years +!

The reports from the use of Swifts Specific rs. s. 81 in
the treatment of Cancer continue to be wonderful
Ihere seems to be no doubt that it is a positive specific
for Skin Cancer or Epithelioma.
For twenty wears I suffered from a Cancer on nv
neck. Fatent Potash and Mercury Mixtures fed in
sted OF curing the Cancer. / lost the use of nv arms
ana the upper part of my body. My general health was
broken down. and my life was ~despaired of. s. S. S.
cured me sound and well. This new lease oflife it gave
to me cannot be measured by any monetary value. /
owe my lie and the support Of my family to Swift's
Specihc.n
W. +. Robson Davisboro, Ga.
Nj; Brooks near Albany, was hopelessly afflicted
with Cancer. 1t had eaten through his nose into his
mouth and throat. The time of his death was only a
question OF a very short time. He prayed for death. his
suffering was so great. S. S. S. has had a wonderful eff
IecG on MN. His improvement is so great that we all
feel sure OF his being perfectly cured in time.
WI II. GILBERT, Albany, Ga.
Our Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free
to applicants.
SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Drawer 3. Atlanta. Ga.
N. Y. Office, l59 w. 23d st. Philadelphia Office. l205
Chestnut st. '
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rough on Rats Clears out rats, mice. flies.
iDaehes, bed-bugs, ants, vermin, %chipmunks. l5c.
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Miss Alice Igo, a niece of Hon. Mart Magin-
mis-, was married recently at Belle Greek to
David Hutchinson of Featherstone.
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William Gouk was killed by a mad stallion a
Newcon.erstown, o.
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where. Soiu EVERY

me htth annual meeting Of the twelfth dis
tlct par association is at O~rtonYille Ang Is
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"Buchu-Paiba." Quick, complete cure. all
annoying Kidney and Urinary Diseases. 81
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All LIENS LENS IRON DoN1c BffTERs U R Dizziness
DrpSeistt Ss pear the signature of ]. P. Allen
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president WIN tne
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vital ouestionsII I

Ask the most eminent physician
Of any school, what is the best thing in the
world for quoting and allaying all irritation Of
the nerves, and curing all forms of nervous com
plants, giving natural, childlike refreshing sleep
always?
And they viii tell you unhesitatingly
Some form Of hops. I ! I"
CHAPTER
Ask any or all of the most eminent phvsieians.
What is the best and only remedy that can be
relied on to cure all diseases of the kidneys AMI
urinary organs; such as Bright's disease. dia-
betes, retention, or inability to retain urine. and
en-
ically 'Buchu! ! /"
Ask the same physicians
What is the most reliable and surest cure for
an llVer diseases or dyspepsia; constipation, in
digestion, billiousness, malaria, fever, ague.
DC" and they viii tell you:
Mandrake! or Dandelioal Z"
Hence when these remedies are combined with
others equally valuable,
And compounded into Hop Bitters, such a
wonderful and mysterious curative W is de-
Veloped, which IS so varied in its operations that
no dlsease or Ill health can possibly exist or re-
sistlts power, and yet it is
Harmless for the most frail woman. weakest
invalid or smallest child to use.
CHAPTER
Patients
"Almost dead or nearly dyings-
For years and given up by ply s@icisns. Of
Br1ghts and other kidney disease = liver com
plants, severe coughs, called com n~nntion have
been cured. -
Women gone nearly crazyi fllt
from agony OF neuralgia, nervousness. wake
aulhess' ana various disef .ses peculiar to wom-
People drawn outof shane from excrueiating
pangs OF rheumatis7 Il, infammatory and chron-
&c, or suffering fro IN s@crofnla
Erysipelas!
oaitrheun blood poisoning, dyspepsia, in
nature a heir to
nave oeen cured by Hop Bitters, proof Of
tMhmn1n Car be found in every neighborhood in
the nnown world.
None genuine without a bunch of green Hops
ca the white label Shun all the vile poisonous
stuff with Hop or Hops" in their name.
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an are ~ C0d-I yer OIL maze from selected j,,s-.
ba ax 9nce TAKEN II prefer il to all Others. pbvss,.naoo
NJ srS aeclaed It supenor to any Of the other ais H.
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- cough on Corns." 15c. Ask for it. Com
p s'e, cure, hard or soft corns, warts. bunions
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stffan Hands, Face. PimpIes, and rone
CAswELL' ii !. mSlhg SUNIPEE TAB Soar, made BIZ
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woTm sat - lIcn" cures hnmofs, eruptions, ring
"Oiin' 'e''er' salt rheum, frosted feet. chiiblains.
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Patents.

No Patent, no pay. Send model or draw
ing. Stoddart & Co., Alb G Street,
Washington, ID. @. Patent Attorneys.
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Flso- 8 Remedy for Catarrh is a certain cure for
tLat very obnoxious disease.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-30
of credit has attached to it q long li,t Of

of credit has attached to it . long list Of
banks and bankers where it Dlay be
presented and advances obtained. In
the ase of the bill l carried, this list
stretches from Halifax to Jerusalem.
But few travellers are aware that this
list is merely suggestive. The fact is,
it is to be understood that the bill can
be presented and payments negotiated
with most any banker of standing in
any country named on the bill. And it
is hard to imagine any civilized country
on the face of the globe that is not glad
to purchase of you a reliable sterling
draft or London. Such drafts should
sell at a premium most anywhere. A
shrewd Boston friend, just returned
from a tour around the world, says he
most ALWAYS got a premium when he
drew on his letter of credit from points
away from London.-Lom1on Cor. Bos-
ton Commercial. Bulletin.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-30
Embarrassing to the American.

A friend of mine who spent some time
in Berlin ten years or so ago told me
to-day OF an incident that occurred in
which he and Materna played a con-
spicious part. "Two OF three of us
young fellows" he said, were in Berlin
when Wagner was at work on his
'Valkyrie.' The Emperor expressed a
desire to hear some selections from the
work, and this was a big advertisement
for Wagner, who consensedto have some
portions sung by Materna and Niemann.
The court retained a good portion of the
tickets to the hall in which the affair
was to take place, and the rest were
sent to the various foreign legations in
Berlin, and could be obtained by foreign
ers from their respective Ministers on
the payment of a good round sum,
which L suppose went into Wagner's
pockets.
'tWell, we went to the American Le-
cation and secured three tickets. On
the day of the concert we went on an
excursion into the country, and missed
the train that we ought to have taken to
reach the city in time to dress. The
next train took us to Berlin, and there
we were confronted by unpleasant al
ternatives. We were near the
hall, and the conoe1t would begin in a
few minutes, but we were not dressedfoc
an entertainment Of this sort. Mycom-
panions wore dark clothes, but I had
on a suit of light tweed, which. being
.bob-tailed' into the bargain, I knew
would be too conspicuous altogether for
q swell CONCERT in which the Emperor
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-30
Dynamite and Artillery.

If dynamite and kindred compounds
chn be safely used for artillery purpose.
land there seem to be no insurmounrs
4ble obstacles in the way-artillery as
It present known will be swept out Of
existence, and a new system, based
upon entirely new principles, will be
created. That there is not only a posi-.
bility, but a strong probability, that
lciently stable for use, at least as burst.
ing agents, is conceded by experts; that
they can be used for ~projectila
purposes, or in projectiles thrown from
guns by the explosive force of gunpow.
der, is immaterial; there are many other
ways of projecting bodies to considera-
BILE distances than by explosion. The
development of annon during the past
thirty years has been truly wonderful.
Improvement has i followed improve.
ment in such rapid succession that few
minds have been able to keep pace with
the advance, and lone have had timeto
properly examine the collateral ques.
tons connected with the subject. The
object in view in all these improvements
has been to increase the effective work
resident in the p%rojectile at the moment
of impact: the resident effective
work assumed being the energy
of motion, or kinetic energy OF
the proiectile. AS this is half the
product of the mass into the square OF
the velocity, the task of the inventors
has been to increase the value of the
factors which enter into it. Conse.
quently, the mass has been increased
from the. old forty-two-pound shot,
which was considered a heavy projectile
thirty years ago, to the monster weigh.
ing a ton, which may we'll be considered
the maximum possible. The other fac.
tor, the velocity, has also been in.
creased, and although the increase has
been relatively less, it has nevertheless
been considerable; and the product Of
the two is enormous. The result is I'm.
doubtedly satisfactory, SO far as power
is concerned, but it has been attained
at very great cost. Modern cannon Of
the first class are very expensive ma.
chimes. They might very properly, like
some of their ancestors, be labeled:
"Ultima ratio regum," for none but
kings can afford to own them. And
not only are they expensive to buy, but
costly to keep and perfectly ruinous to
use. If cannon be essential to a mill
tary QUIT it, then war can be waged only
by the wealthy, and poverty and OPP
preston are the surest foundations for a
throne. If that be true, then human
progress has reached its limit and civ
liization is on the wane. Rather let us
rid ourselves of the incubus which
perches like a hideous scientific night
/ mare on the art of war and find in the
adaptation of other less costly forces the
means of protecting the liberties OF M.
tons and the rights of men.-IAe
! United Service.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-30
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

American apples are in high favor
Tor dessert at London dinners.
The length of the train of a dress
worn On the occasion of a presentation
ut the English Court is from three and
q half to four yards, and there are
usually three widths of material.
"A recent census of the city of St.
Petersburg, the capital of Russia, in-
cluding its immediate suburbs, shows a
population of 92S,O16, only about a
quarter of whom were born in the city.
Scarcely q quarter of a century ago
there were plenty of productive oyster
beds in the waters of Norway. At the
present day theoyster is very scarce, as
the hanks have been overtished and
neglected.
M. Gounod having ascertained that
Mrs. Elack, the original ''Maid of Ath-
ems" was living in poverty in aLondon
suburb, took Byron's poem and com
posed a song, the proceeds of which are
to be sent to Mrs. Black.
Sir F. Abel, chemical professor,
says that smokeless powder can be
made for rifles as we'll as for other pur-
poses. Half the Englishmen who fought
in the late battle in the Soudan were
blinded by the smoke under which the
enemy crept.
During the recent fighting in
Egypt Baker Fasha's cheek-bone was
spljntered by a four-ounce iron bullet,
which was so firmly fixed in the bone
that it had to be sawed out-a long and
painful operation-which was endured
without any a~nusthetic.
! lin London the policemen are not
allowed to carry revolvers, lest they
might be tempted to use them too care
le.sly. A recent and somewhat pro-
6racted discussion of the question of
=arming the police has ended in provid-
ing for them no more formidable weap-
on than a new and improved whistle.
William Higgins, the animal
painter who died recently in England,
when only sixteen began the study OF
{Nyild animals from life. and was TO the
East noted for his crayon drawings of
lions and tigers. He is said to have been
more successful than almost any artist
in his d~elineations of donkeys, for
which he had a great fancy.
bismarck one evening attended q
gathering of prominent men at the
house of q Russian nobleman. During
tall the conversation he was particularly
sarcastic. cutting friends and opponents
lunsparingly. When he rose to take
his leave and walked down stairs, the
host called a pet dog that was frisking
about and led him to one side. care
you afraid the dog will BITE me?" asked
Bismarck, sob, no." replied the host;
..I'm afraid you'll bite the dog" And
the Chancellor was in sucha grim mood
THAT he took this as a compliment and
went away smiling.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-30
A Railroad Dreamer.

A greasy and odorous emigrant was
sleeping peacefully on a Pennsylvania
car. A slightly intoxicated and playful
passenger was about to waken him,
when the brakeman objected.
"Don't disturb his dreams of father
land" said the manipulation of car
heaters and red lanterns: ''let him
dream. l have a good deal of respect
for a dream, as one saved my life
once"
"Well, it was several years ago. I
was on a freight then-the Dutch local.
it was called, because we carried pas
sengers. One night something was
wrong and 1 went back to signal the
fast express that wasn't more than five
or six miles behind behind us. | sat
down on the end Of a tie, and as l had
been on duty a good many hours I be-
came drowsy and fell asleep, Then I
had a dream. l dreamed ] was out
tagging a passenger, when l went to
sleep and ia led to signal her. She
came rushing down on me, aud to this
day l can remember the terrible reality
of that dream; how 1 felt as l looked up
and saw her big nos not twenty feet
away, how she roared and screamed,
and swooped toward me like q demon.
just as it seemed the great wheels were
to pass over me, [ awoke in a fearful
agony with great drops Of sweat on my
face. 1t was the widest dream 1 ever
had, but in a second l looked up the
track, and Ill be darnedof there wasn't
No. 16's headlight, growing bigger
every second as she came toward me.
l reached for my lantern, and were do
you suppose [ found it? When I drop
ped asleep 1 had Topped down right in
front of it, so the engineer of 16 couldn't
have seen it at all. If it hadn't been
for that dream I'd a-been mixed up
with the ballast in about thirty seconds,
and so it is but natural I should have
some respect for a dream. Let thatold'
emigrant alone, 1 tell you."-Ghlcago
Herald.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-30
A Texas Cattle Queen.

There is in Galveston q genuine cat
t1o oneen in the person of Mrs. Rogers:
who lives between the King ranch and
Cornns Christi, about fifteen miles from
The latter place. Her first husband
was a cow-man nameo MAUI tai.ol
Rabb. from q small beginning and by
good management n THRIFT nao
accumulated q herd of 10000 cattle,l
he died, and left all to his better
half, who had been a help-meet IN
every sense OF the word, and not
only understood the cattle BUSINESS
but had managed it successfully dur
ing her husbands long illness. /.
Widow rabbi was not only thrifty,
but she was pious. A young preacher
by the name of Rogers came along,
and the result was a matrimonial one,'
although the odds in age were in favor
of the parson, by something like
t%wenty-three years. She had no chill
dren, and he had seven, but she tookthe
motherless BARNS under her wings, and
the alliance has turned out in every
way successfully. Rogers had not
long been married to the widow and
her cattle when he acquired a bad case
vi UIOuCIAGlS, LuNl was SOLhPSAAS" W.
give up preaching. But the widow
gave him notice that she was compe-
tent to run the ranch and kept the cat
tie in her own name, Rogers knowing
no more about them than any of the
neighbors. He took to politics when
he found his services were not needed
at the ranch, and is now the Demo-
cratic member OF the Legislature from
Nueces County.
Mrs. Rogers, although worth a
round million, lives in quite a
humble home, and appears to have
no ambition further than to carry
on the business her husband left her,
and accumulate money and cattle.
She goes to Corpus Christi every
week or so, to sell stock or purchase
supplies, but has no taste for dress or
society. She is fifty years old, but
rides a horse like a cowboy, and does
not even own q carriage. She never
e%ntertains any one, except the few
people who visit her place on bust
ness, and lives in the plainest possible
manner Chicago In,er- Ocean.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-30
How Flies Walk on Glass.

have concluded from my expert.
ments that it is not the pressure of the
air nor the power of an adhesive liquid
that gives flies the faculty of running
over smooth bodies, but that the power
should be attributed to the molecular
action between solid and liquid bodies:
or, in other words, to capillary adhe-
sion.
If we examine the under part of the
pulviM with q microscope, we shall see
distinctly that it is furnished with nu-
merous hairs, regularly distributed.
These hairs terminate, at their lower
end, ina kind of bulb, the form of which
varies, whence flows an oily liquid that
dries slowly and does not harden for a
long time. The minute drops left on
the glass by the hairs may be taken
away. even after two or three
days have passed, without our hay
ing to moisten them, by sim
ply rubbing a piece of fine paper over
them. I have devised an apparatus for
collecting these drops by cutting a hole
in a piece OF board owe which [ fix a
glass slide. Turning the board over so
that the glass shall be at the bottom. |
have a little cell with a glass floor.
With the aidof apiece OF paper gummed
to the wings, l introduce a fly into this
cavity in such a manner that the pull
Will shall rest. upon the floor. Then.
putting the board under the MICROSCOPE
with the glass slide uppcrmost, we have
the tly's feet under our eyes. The in.
sect, struggling for liberty, places his
pulvilli against the glass, and leaves
after each effort traces that may be Oh
served very distinctly, for they are Der.
fectly visible in a good light.
We may discover, whenever the feet
Of the fly come again into contact with
these tracks or minute drops that thew
are composed of a very LIQUID su6.
stance, for they spread quite readily on
the glass We can not admit, as some
naturalists assume, that the LIQUID can
hold the club-shaped hair-ends by snc.
ton: II this We're the case the ends
would change shape during the snc.
non, and would take the form Of !,
disk. The fly puts its feet down and
liits them up with an incompatible ia.
cllity that would not exist # tho l;nt
were really acted upor by the n ~ .sr,e
OF the alr.-Dr. j. q. Romlouts. ~
tooular Science Monthlu,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-30
p1rH AM pont.

The most eficacfoNs and j..
pensive method in whichSc rid a bosl1
IF rats is TO rent it for q few months \
, Chinese clearinghouse keeper.
"A man in Texas raises wal,
their flesh, but when the festive 70
sures grow up they raise him ine ut
the fun of the thing.-New YorSh A' |. q
nal.
Wing Fun fell a victim last r,.,
TO a San Francisco car-driver's care See1
ness, It was a piece of mistaken lis
ness, however, for a local editor "a a'l9|
Jude to the event as '.Folly On ~
Fly"
elbow in the world didthey Com, .
name you Susannahp" asked Mrs. A
terrogation point. Greatly, | douj
know howprecisely," repliedthe y oua
lady, very demurely; '.bus l SUSPECT Tesu
was because 1 happened to be a eil
cit is a grounding day AGAIN
see," remarked the red-headed boards
casting his eye over the breakfast.tabS
..Why, no it isn't" contradicted
telegraph operator. Then what /
that sausage doing there?" rejoined n
red-headed boarder.-Boston Post.
The lovers lamp, an English nd
city, is capable of burning eightsl
hours without replenishing. WhattA
country wants is a lamp that will SD
burning q few hours and then flare }
bright and clear when the step Of
old gentleman is heard on tho
stair.-RAaladelphia Call.
Never be inflicted with cold, viii
walls in the parlor or nursery,
should be the effort of the housewife
give color and brightness to eyery roo
Thirteen cents worth of colored chal
in the hands of the children, will tran
form the bleakest panel into a maze
bewildering designs, in one morning.
Chicago Herald.
-"There, Frances, you've cauo
another cold, and I'll warrant
caught it when you were out walk
with Joe last night" "Oh, no moth
l couldn't have caught it then, cad
we didn't go fast enough to catch al
thing, in fact; we just sat down on
stile and studied astronomy" ..And
you have anything around you,
dear?" "Oh, yes, indeed l did! JoI
always particular about that; be wo
allow me to sit down anywhere in
evening air without putting somethi
around me."-Yonkers Gazette.
They were in the grocery so
Said Bromn Seeing a blind man abb
to enter), "Were you aware how ID
cate the touch of a blind person
When Nature deprives us of one sen
she makes amends by bringing (
other senses to extraordinary acutend
Let me illustrate by this gentlemd
I'll take a scoop of sugar and let h
feel of it, and you see how quickly HI
tell you what it is" The blind nj
having entered, he was put to the I'd
He put his thumb and finger into
scoop, and without hesitation Sd
".That is. sand" Everybody laugI
but the grocer. He made three sew
attempts at blushing, and then "
into the back shop and kicked his
Boston transcript.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-30
the Court and REPRESENTATIVES d

| and the Court and Representatives d
foreign Governments would make up
the greater part of the audience. On
the other hand, we could not 60 to our
rooms at the other side of the city, dress
and return inside of an hour and a half
So we decided to go to the n al
we were and take our chances OF being
refused admittance. We went all right
however, and were shown to our seats
which were up front but just around
the corner of the stage, SO that we
couldn't see Wagner and the signers.
The space in front of the stage was
open SO as lot t o obstruct the view Of
the Emperor and the Court. The audi.
ence was of course, as brilliant a gath
ering as could be got together in any
city in the world. We three fellow
were sitting in chairs. and / proposed
that we slide our chairs around the
corner and in front of the stage, so that
we could see the singers. We-did this,
and 1 sank as far as could out of sight,
expecting every moment to be thrown
out of the hall.
well, we heard the 'Valkyrie' music
and the excitement was great. Within
four or five feet of where l was sitting
were a few rather rickety steps, lead.
ing up to the stage. Down these
came the singers after the concert
was over. The audience had been
wrought to a high pitch OF excitement
by the wonderful music and the impas.
sionedsinging of Materna and Niemann.
Shouts Of. applause rang through the
hall, loads Of flowers thrown on the
stage, and Wagner was being crowned
with a laurel wreath. When Materna
was half way down the steps-you
\know what a big woman she is-she
made a gesture as if she were a raid OF
Mailing, o r as if the stepswere in danger
lpf breaking. Instinctively l stepped
forward to aid her, and, taking her
land, helped her safely down. lmag.
ihe my sensations when she took my
arm, and we walked across the hall in
font of the stage, and before the
etery step or two to bow in response to
tile cheers. and l cursing my bob-tailed
cdat under my breath, and wondering
whether she took me for a liveried
lafkey. 1t was a great experience
fof me, but Materna was so excited
tlht she didn't know what she was do,
iR."-Boston Transcript.