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WHO VOTED FOR THE PEOPLE AND
WHO VOTED AGAINST THEM.

Itis very easy to make professions of
devotion to the people on a campaign.
The test is when measures affecting
the people are up and the Hobbies are
filed with corporation agents and the
people are far away.
The bill to reduce the present high
passenger and freight rates, telegraph
and telephone charges failed in both
House and Senate by ONE vote The
roll call We give below that it may be
cut out and kept. On EACH MAN of the
majority rests the responsibility of
not reducing these burdens, for a vote
to reduce by any one of them would
have carried the day for the people.
In the Senate those voting on the
side of the people to reduce rates were ::
Messrs. Alexander, Atwater, Bark
or, Butler, Clark, Earnheart, Geddie,
Lyon, Maxwell, Mitchell, MOye, Mer-
rift, McCaskey, Newsome, Parker, of
Randolph, Patterson, Ray, Robertson,
Scales, Shaw, Utley, Walker and Wake
| field-23.
Those voting against the people and
to keep up high rates and high r. R.
| salaries were:
Messrs. Abel, Anderson. Antbonv
Ashburn, Barringer, Cannon. Dickson
Grant, Henderson, Hyatt, Justice
Mauitsby, Mccarthy, Mcneil, Odum'
| Parker, of Alamance. Person, Ramsay.
Rollins. Sharpe. of Wilson, Sharpe, of
lreuell ,Smathers, Shore and Whedbee-
la
In the House, those voting on the
peoples side were:
Messrs. Aber nathy, Babbitt, Barrow,
Bryan, Of Chatham, Carter, Cathev.
Chapman, Cooley, Cox, Craven, Crum-
pler, Cunningham, Dixon, of Greene.
Drew, Duffy, Eddins, Pagan, Foster,
Eerreli, GallOp, Hancock, Harris, of
Hyde, HARNESS, Hauser H dimes, john
son, King, Lawhon, Lusk, Lyle, Nc
Bryde. McPeeters, Morton, Nelson.
Parker, of Wayne, Pearson, Person, of
wayne, Person, of Wilson. Petree.
Plnnix. PlOtt, Prize, Purgason. Rev,
nolds. Rountree. Schulken, Sutton. of
| Cumberland, Ward, Walters. Watts.
Whitener, White, of Randolph, Wilson
and Wrenn-54.
| While those whose votes sustained
the present exorbitant rates and cor.
porstion salaries were:
Messrs. Adams, Aiken, Allen. Ar
ieoSe, Arlington, Bailey, BINGHAM.
BLACKBURN, Brown, Brewer, BRYAN. of
Eugecomb', BRYAN, of Wilkes, Bunch.
Burgess, Gambler, Chaplin, Chilcutt.
Cianton, Cook, Creech, Crews, Currie'
Dancy. Daniels, Dayton, Deweese'
Dixon, of Cleveland, Dockery, Dune an
Elliott, Ensley, Ferguson. Freeman.
Green, Grubos. Hare, Harris, of Hall.
lax, Hodges, Jones, Leak, Mckenzie.
meares, Murphy, Ormsby, Peace, Pool
haWls, Roberts ,SOmers, Spruill, Sutton.
vi M New hanover, White, of AIamapce,
W Wnite, or Beru', Marlborough and
we are sorry to say that two of the
n. IL commissioners, having failed to
reduce rates them selves, seemed tn
think it would be reflection on them
II the legislature did so, and exerted
their influence to prevent any relief
being given the people in this matter.
rney might have we'll said that they
nsd been unabls to see their way to
take the responsibility of reducing
rates themselves, but that IL the lesis !.
iature saw fit to do 80, being the immedi-
ate representatives Of the people, the
X. X. Commission would enforce thu
reduction. Then no one could have
blamed them.
In view Of the popular and general
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DISBl E>rvFr

Loaned on mor'gsE-
Loaned on Other .r.urt.l
Paid on withdraw.
commissions
Paid on withdraw,
dends, int t5p.tpel
Salaries w
Advertising, prir'lrrrs
stationery
Other disbursrla-fr.
detail
Real estate and-ng-ts.
Sundry account
Cash on hand
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LIABlIlIll.
Report for The Year Id
cember 81. lSs|

RECEll'I>.
Cash on hand January
lsaC. ......
subscriptions ON share, A
Paid up" ~prepaid o.
part paid stock. &
Mortgages redeemed 10
whole or in part
Other loans redeemed, bils
payable -
Premiums received
Interest received
Fines received . ...
Other receipts, in deibIl
viz: Trans fees
Insfaiiments b
Paid up D...........
Interest on stock adv
X. f. Rents. -
Earnings arc't.
Balance due on lApzee
stock ..
Accounts .-.......
DISBURSEMENT
Loaned on mortgage
Loaned on other securities
Paio on Withdrawal, cue'
Paid on withdrawal dig!-
dends, c. u. ...
Salaries
Advertising ........
Rent and miscellsne0us
expenses. ........
Other Disbursements a..
tail, Treas. com
Real estate.
Interest on withdraw A.
b. and &.
Interest on discounts
Ofiice fixtures and furnl-
ture..
Stationery and printing
Taxes on real estate
withdrawal Il stock
Bills receivable.
Accounts
Cash on hand
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be.ic~. IN one rear. Somsthing Ike
this ratio Of earnings would apply 10
the :. A. J.. and the Atlantic Coast
Line. These three system, take about
two million dollars oser and aboTe q
fagd,rdil NET ihser<H on their prop
ery from the people OF the state By
high rates and charges. These two
million dollars 90 largely 10 high
sal.ried officers. big fees for lawyers
fabou, hundred lawysrs are being
feed n Raleigh by the railroads ri Ehi.
now }. and for various other purposes
The legislature has the right and
power 10 reduce rates to the basis OF .
reasonable interest The amount
which i. ertorted from our people for
the benefit Of non-resident bond hold
er. /. about dgubi< N, dmnoni of our
nnhuai STATE idrSs.
tya. said that t'ro cant Jare would
decrease the yearly receipts Of the
road. by 100000. Well, We have shown
above that on, roId gets $500 900 more
than moderate net interest, and 1t
would thus appear that then IL plenty
OF margin" for all the roads TO sustain
this loss. Yes, il was said that two
cent rate was tvo lar; but the >. A. L.
and probably other lines are selling
900 mile ticket books at = cents per
mile. How is il, and why is it, that
q man who is. able to put up twenty
dollars at once should be allowed TO
buy railroad tickets for two cents q
mile, while man who has only dol
lar or so must payl3L4; per mile:
The corporation lobby here said that
tl2.0O per year rental for telephones
was too cheap. But in Winston, n. c.
where there are two competing tele-
phone companies, the annual rental
is sl2 90 per year, and both companies
are making money. In Mobile, Ala,
the yearly rental is $1,000, and the tel
ephone company makes 25 per cent.
yearly.
AS to telegraphs, the rate in Europe
on an average is ten cents for twenty
words. 1t looks as though the rate
ought to be as cheap as Is cents for
ten words in North Carolina. The
Western Union pays its President one
hundred thousand dollars per year;
AMI there are many other phenome-
nally high salaried officers. The
stockholders Of the company
have paid in only $4,000, in
all. Now the. company has
capital stock Of one hundred
and twenty million dollars. Thus,
one hundred and nineteen and
half millions of dollars have been made
out OF the people by excessively high
charges, in addition to large annual
dividends and enormous salaries. And
all this is because these corporations
always seem able to defeat any reme-
dial legislation by just one rote.
There is and has for years been am
pie margin to reduce railroad and tel
egraph. rates. The legislature has the
right to do it, but it seems that corpor-
atiOns have some strange power to
prevent legislatures from exercising
this right in the interest of the peo-
pie.
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II C0Q
Sarsapar1
Hoods Pill

Suhscrip,isns .'t-..
Paid M. IrFr
part pAid"
Mortgage r-t.-..s
whole CT "a Ia-
Other loans r-t-,-..
Premiums r.r+..rf
interrstr-c-lN~f
Fines received
Other Receipts
viz.
Investment real rs..
Admission fee
Expense fund
Sundry account.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-02-25

NOW IsTHGrGME TO srs-c
roE cAucASIAu.-
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-02-25


,ure will be nothing-absoiuteiy moth
ing. All il will have done, when 1t
resigns, will be the spending Of sixty
or seventy thousand dollars Of the pub
lie fund.-. for which nothing will be
returned.
OF course there are some good men
here who cannot, in justice, be held
responsible for the record, but We are
speaking now Of the record Of the
L>g,sla,ure ~ . whole; and unless that
record shall be phenomenally changed
within the next week, It will be the
imperative duty, and We think 1t will
be the pleasure, Of the people to see
that such q crowd is never sent up to
make laws again.
The various committees TO whom
bills are referred seem to be COM
posed OF men who are either generally
Indifferent or pitiably ignorant. 1t il
almost impossible to get their atten-
ton to any bill that does not carry
some job with it. OF course they will
read . bill, and then make . motion to
either report favorably or unfavtrably,
and thus get rid Of it without knowing
or caring what the bill Is or what it
contemplates.
Two measures Of considerable I'M
portance have had this kind Of treat
ment at the hands Of committees. One
measure was to devise machinery fol-
finding out how much business is done
by people out of the State
with people In the State. This bill
had, pei haps, ten minutes considera-
ton, a part Of the committee being
asleep at the time, and was reported
unfavorably. One member Of the com.
mittee knew what the bill intended and
voted for it. The others would have
voted for it, unless they are fools, II
they had understood the bill.
Another bill was to create q State
Board of Equalization of Taxation. 1,
was proposed to put this work on the
Railroad commission without extra
expense to the State. 1t had about
20 minutes consideration, and wal
voted down. Yet this bill looked te
stopping fraud and cheats in tax list.
ing, and would have probably in
creased the revenue of the State from
SAC, 900 to $4,000 year without Unjust.
ice anywhere, and compelling justice
in some quarters.
And this is the wey the Estates.
man" are acting. Fen the Populists
seem to be unusually apathetic. Per.
haps the Populists feel lie impossible.
ity Of accomplishing anything will,
the disreputa lie 'cou H. &c" of Reps
and boilers is ia the sal -, and fee
somewhat hopeless and dun; but this
in in our opinion. cannot excuse them
from trying to "do something" Up tc
this date, the legislature Is dsmnable
disgrace to the State,
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MINORITY REPORT UPON H. d. NO
3l1. TO AMEND SEC. 800, PUBLIC
LAWS OF 1891, AND ALSO TO RE
DCCE FARE AND FREIGHT RATES
AND PROHIBIT FREE PASSES.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-02-25
NO .soonD up TO DATE

Abou, ten more days remain OF tbs
legislative session. Unless there shall
be, within this time. N almost niracu.
loua change. the record Of the legisla.
,ure will be noshing-absoIuteiy moth
ing. All il will have done, when IL
resigns, will be the spending Of sixty
or seventy thousand dollars OF the pub
lie fund.-, for which nothing will b
returned.
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ANNUAL RErEt
COLUMBIAN BUILn1
LOAN ASSOCIATE
OF Ricliuoua

va isaA aillA 'lHH hAI
For the year ending
1896:
AS~ll~
Loans on bond aud mari
gage (face value
Loans on other serurI'l-.
advance ON stock
Real estate, puroiIa-ecAuc
foreclosed
Cash ON hand and iu iaut
Furniture and fixture
Insisllments due AZ %.
paid ~
Other Assets, ia detail. an
prem. due .
Accounts
Bills receivable
LIABlIlIll.
Due shareholder. due %
stallments paid, a
Due shareholder, install
ments paid i'm adyaucs
Due shareholders Is
Due shareholders &
Due shareholders II
borrowed money
surplus, profits
Other Liabilities, ia detail
viz: Amounts
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-02-25
STATE OF NORTH CAEI
AUDITORS DEFAE7

In conformity with seciic'
OF AN Act TO smtrd Cbsl'
ume IL, % the Coce, entities
and Loan Associations, ] g
the above IL q true copy o.
statement OF the Coluu bis,
aud Lean Association, al
Vs., on December 3lsf, ls1
fle IN this department. 4
HAL W Al
Auditor
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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
old DOMINION BUILDING
AND LOAN ASSOCIATION

or Richmond, Va.
,sa nor the year ending December 81.
ASSETS.
Loans on bond and mort
gage lace yalue)--.:...s s2s $500
Ri oa. er securities 460,Sl5.67
CT ~ So Se.;...,.-:---- 1s704717
E.,..;.. Ano ano In bank A 352 ~
Ins,.ii,ne suu NIX ures 2,6l3 10
PAID "
Other assets, in detail.
"''o'"'s- ''.--'-,. IA ,s0sc5
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$l.6,s.0lC5 IS

Report for the Year Ending De.
cember 81, 1896.
CASH ACCOUNT
RECEIPTS.
N1 I'm. on hand January !.
--..------.---.--t - $3.50
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-02-25

Great preparations are being made
in Washington with a view to making
the Mckinley inaugural ceremonies
the most elaborate aud the erande,t
in the history of the country. AL
ready . number of office holders who
have been prominent Democrats in the
past, but who hope to continue to hold
their places under Mckinley, are be-
ginning to talk as if they had always
been Republicans. Washington is
very much of q chameleon, both no.
hticaiiy and socially. 1t is ALWAYS
with those that are in.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-02-25

LIABILITIES.
Due shareholders, due in-1
stallments paid.
Due shareholders. in
stallments paid in adj
vance. IGis seq,
Due shareholders, earn
1ngs credited.
Due shareholders, earn
lngs not credited =
Borrowed money.
Balance to be paid out on
loans made
Surolns ------r.-
Other liabilities in detail.
Tnfnpo.e -
y" Pa'" up stock- l7,l4S.A7
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-02-25

There is and has for years been am
pie margin to reduce railroad and tel
egraph- rates. The legislature has the
right to do it, but it seems that corpor-
ations have some strange power to
prevent legislatures from exercising
this right in the interest of the peo-
ple
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-02-25

The legislature has the right and
power 10 reduce rates 10 the basis OF
reasonable interest The amount
which i. extorted from our people for
the benefit Of non-resident bond hold
ers - about dpubir h.< dmn,'n ii our
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Missionary with Onion Sauce.

A missionary about to be put to death
by savage king, whom he had vainly
attempted to convert, was greatly as
tonished to find that the king had sud
denly resolved to pardon him. The only
stipulation his majesty made was that
be should mount his horse and carry a
small sealed packet and a letter to an
other king some distance away.
He started off in high glee, and on
his way he met with detachment of
English sailors, sent to his assistance.
They wanted him to go on board their
ship, but he declined, being DESTROYS of
fulfilling his mission. But they would
not accept this answer, and while the
discussion was proceeding an officer ex-
amined the packet and the letter.
In the former he found a number Of
pungent little onions, while the latter
contained the simple but significant
words in native hieroglyphics:
"He will be delicious with these. -
Pearson's Weekly.
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Making Birch Oil.

Connecticut farmers have found a
comfortable side profit in gathering the
twigs, branches and saplings of black
birch for the birch oil distilleries. By
protecting the young growth crops are
quickly raised. The birch brush has
brought from $3.50 to So a ton. The
birch oil has sold at So to IS a pound,
but is now less. One ton of birch yields
four pounds of oil. Farmers can make the
oil themselves. The distillery may be
any rough building, and the machinery
is inexpensive. The birch twigs, not
over two inches in diameter, are cut in
lengths of five inches and thrown into
water tight tanks with copper bottoms,
in which are coils of steam pipes.
Three feet of water is poured in, the
tanks are Theoretically sealed, and steam
is turned into the pipes. The water is
kept boiling six hours, and the steam,
rising, passes into pipe which runs in
the form of worm into a barrel of cold
water constantly renewed The steam
is condensed in the worm, and the oil
drips from the end of the pipe into
pail. 1t was formerly clarified from a
dull brown to light green after this
process. Now this is done by spreading
a heavy wooden blanket over the birch
wood inside the tank, and the oil drips
out pure and ready for market. Chi
cago Journal.
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WELCOME NJ. GREEN'S ESTATE.

THE undersigned, having been appointed
y by the Hon. Probate Court for the Dis
trict Of Bradford COMMISSIONERS, to re-
ceive, examine, and adjust all claims and
Welcome M Green late of TOpsham, in
said district deceased, and all claims exhibit
ed in offset thereto, hereby give notice that
we will meet for the purposes aforesaid at the
office Of r McLam i'll Topsham on the 26th
day of May and 2lst day of oct, next from 10
O'Clock a m until O'Clock p. m. each of said
DAYS, and that six months from the Dist day
of A pril a. d. 1897 is the time limited by said
court for said creditors to present their
claims to us for examination and allowance.
Dated at Topsham this 18th day of April,
A. D., 1897.
80 O. q, F. R R5qKGT; comms.
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the
BEST
LINiMEMT
For Man & Beast
the
CELEBRATED
MERCHANTS
GARGLING OIL.
A HOME REMEDY
For the Cure of Colds and
La Grippe.

La grippe and influenza, cold in the
head or on the lungs, are not only dis
tressing maladies. but are very danger
GUS as well. Cold on the chest is an in
tlamation affecting the air passages and
vessels leading into and through every
portion of the lungs. The Inflammation
may be so violent as to cause death in a
short timE if not quickly reduced, or it
may lnger and drag as a bad cold of
more or less severity. What is true of q
cold is equally true of la grippe. Even
mild condition is liable to turn quickly
into acute pneumonia or what is worse
gallOping consumption. The breathing
tubes become so sensitive that the least
exposure, the slightest draught, change
of clothing, or of the weather, is sutfi-
cient to cause fresh cold. terrible cough,
pain and fever. Cough is the foremost
symptom, and it may be harsh and dry,Or
loose and broken with much eXpectOra-
ton. 1t is always annoying keeping up
constant irritation and eXcitment in
the sore and intiamed tubes. There is
pain and tenderness under the breast-bOne
sometimes of raw and tearing nature.
Hoarseness, huskiness, whispering, or
loss of voice, chilly sensations, sore
throat, aching joints and catarrh of the
head. As the deSease advances there are
night SweatS, hectic fever, loss of flesh,
splitting of blood or hemOrrhage, and the
patient has the appearance and symptoms
OF consumption. The old way of treating
a cold is too well known to need any
explanation here the new way-the bet
ter way-is with Lightning Hot Drops.
This remedy is especially valuable in
colds, la grippe, influenza, coughs,
hOarSeneSs. etc. Indeed. for Ia grippe
and influenza il may truly be said to be a
specific, while for breaking a cold or re
heving hoarseness it is without an equal.
These goods are carried i'm stock hr
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Il LEGAL. Il

PROBATE COURTS AND COURTS OF INsOL-
VENCY-BRADFORD DISTRICT 1896.
Probate Courts and Courts of Insolvency
within and for said district will be holden the
ensuing year as follows:
braulOIu-AtJ j. IL, WATSON office in Brad
ford on the second Tuesday of every month.
West Fairlee-At the Eagle Hotel in West
Fairlee on the last Saturday of May, July,
September and November.
Also at the Probate Office in ThetfOrd on
the first Wednesday of every month.
Also at East Corinth on the third Thursday
of May, July and September.
S. Nj. GLEASON, Judge.
Thetford Centre, VT, April l, 1896.
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No Rebate.

He-Last week you told me you loved
me.
She-But things are different now.
He-There is no difference in my
jewellers bill.-Detroit Free Press.
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CARLTON II. TAYLOR's ESTATE.

HTnH + undersigned, having been appointed
by the Ion. Probate Court for the Dis
trict OF Bradford commissioners to receive,
examine and adjust all claims and demands
of all persons against the estate of Carleton
II. Taylor late of Bradford in said district
deceased, and all claims exhibited in offset
thereto, hereby give notice that we will meet
for the purposes aforesaid, at Roswell Farm
hams Office in Bradford on the 18th day of
June and 18th day of November next from
O'Clock p. m. until 4 O'Clock p. m. each of
said days, and six months from the 18th day
of May, A. D., 1897 is the time limited by
said court for said creditors to present their
claims to us for examination and allowance.
Dated at Bradford this 10th day of May,
A. D., 1897.
f. R. ALDRICH, Comms.
81 BARRON HAY.
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Darkness Forever.

Oh, beware You have not yet been
captured. Beware! Whether the bever-
age be poured in golden chalice or pew
ter mug, in the foam at the top, in
white letters, let there be spelled out to
your soul, "BewareP' When the books
Of Judgment are open, and 10000, 900
drunkards come up to get their doom, 1
want you to bear witness that l, in the
fear of God and in the love for your
soul, told you, with all affection and
with all kindness, to beware of that
which has already exerted its influence
upon your family, blowing out some Of
it's lights-a premonition of the black
ness of darkness forever.
Oh, if you could only hear intemper-
ance with drunkards' bones drumming
on the head of the liquor cask the dead
march of immortal souls, methinks the
very glance of a wine cup would make
you shudder, and the color of the liquor
would make you think of the blood of
the soul, and the foam on the top of the
cup would remind you of the fTOth on
the maniac's lip, and you would kneel
down and pray God that, rather than
your children should become captives of
this evil habit, you would like to carry
them out some bright spring day to the
cemetery and put them away to the last
sleep, until at the call Of the south
wind the flowers would come up all
over the grave-sweet prophecies of the
resurrection. God has balm for such
wound, but what flower of comfort
ever grew on a drunkards sepulcher?
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Liabilities.


Canita1 stock Maid in................. 100000 90
S,rnius fund ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 10000 90
,axrs Observation-Disclosures. I2,2IS o.
N-stion.i Rank notes outstanding..... $4,000 90
Due to state banks and bankers....... 2oo5t S
Diyidends unnaid I25 90
individual deBosits subject to check. I53,S7S 10
Demand certificates of deposit......... Q,524 II
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. S722,7oo q
STATE OF VERMONT, lss
County of Orange,
l. Nelson Bailey, cashier of the above-named
bank do solemnly swear that the above statement
is true TO the hest of my knowledge and belief
NELSON BAILEY, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10th day
of May, 1897. r,,.
Correct-Attest:
Et 5 RsS SsS$s.s. Directors.
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REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF THE
National Bank of Newbury

AT WELLS RIVER, IN THE STATE OF VERMONT
AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS MAY. "a, 1897.
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No More GRAY Hair.

storing gray hair to its natural COLOR no dye, and
harmless. Thousands of testimonials. S. per
bottle. Druggists or BRUCELINE Co., 364 Sixth
Avenue, New York. Treatist on the hair sent
Application, FREE.