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DEcIDUoUs AND CITRUS FRUITS.

Peaches are weak. as the high prices check the demand, but there is no decline. Apricots keep steady. Plums slow. but not mate rially lower. Figs show change. Berries weak. The market is still bare of Pears. something unheard of at this time of the year. DECIDUOUS FRUITS
 Strawberries. g 5oa3 50 per chest for large and s6G7 for small.
 Black Cherries 25@50c; Royal Annes, 3oG5oc; loose Cherries, 2q3lzc per lb for black and Figs s5q6oc per box for single and s5@s1 for double layers.
 Seedess Grapes from Yuma, s1 50 per crate. and dull.
 Currants. s2@3 50 per chest.
 Blackberries. per crate and $s94 per chest
 Plums. 60690c per crate and 25965c per box. Apricots. 40I65c per box and 60Q75c per crate and S35Q45 per ton in bulk
 Peaches. 40cGs1 per box. 70cGs1 per basket. GooseberTies. 1Q2c per ID for common and 312q4c for English.
 Newcastle Raspberries, - per crate; Near by Raspberries, s4G6 per chest'
 New Apples. 25G50c per small and 75cGs1 per large box and 20@30c per basket.
 CITRUS FRUITS-Navel Oranges. s1 50G2 50; Seedlings, 50c@s1; Lemons, s1 25G1 75 for com mon and s2 50G3 for good to choice: Mexican Lines, s 50a4; California Lines. in small boxes. 40l50c; Bananas S1 25d2 per bunch Pineapples $3M4 per dozen.
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SHIPMENTS OF WINE.

Shipments of Wine from this port during the first five months of the year were 6,21S, 600 gal Ions, against 5,4S9.6O0 during the same time last year.
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IAN FRANCISCO MEAT MARKET

The feature of the market is the arrival of dressed Hogs from the East. the high prices here enabling their import. Otherwise there is nothing new.
 Wholesale rates for dressed stock from slaughterers are as follows:
 BE-4F-First quality, 6hc: second quality, 65sc; third quality. 4Q5c per ID.
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yEAI-Large 4G5c; small. 697c per ID.
 MUTTON-Wethers. 71A@sc; Ewes. 7@7hc per ID. .
 LAMB-Spring s@S1ac per ID: TuRK-Iiye Hogs 41sG4%c for large, 5Q5Nc for medium and zQ4Mc for small; stock Hogs, 2621ac: dressed Hogs, 7QSc.
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50; dry salted shoulders (boxed), $4 75@5; short clear sides (boxedl. s 65@5 s5.
Receipts. Shipmen
WHEAT MOVEMENTS.

On the Produce Exchange to-day the Butter market was firm; creameries HG16c; datries, I1k@13lkc. Eggs, steady; fresh, 10kc.
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BANK CLEARINGs.

NEW YORK, June 24-The following table, compiled by Bradstreet shows the bank clear ings at the principal cities for the week ended June 23. with the percentage of increase and decrease, as compared with the corresponding week last year:
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COLD PRODUCT OF THE WORLD.

Tn 1897 the total gold production of the world was about s24O. 800 000 divided as follows Mexico, SIC. GOO 900; Africa S5S O0O 0O0 Australia GOO; India, $27, 900. and Russia, s25. 0l0 O00 -
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BOSTON.
MONEY MARKET.

BOSTON, June 24-Atchison 13; Bell Tele- phone, 274: Burlington, 1051s; Mexican Central, 4A Oregon Short Line. =; San Diego, =.
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BEANS AND SEEDS.
Beans are dull and nominal.

Beans are dull and nominal. BEANS-Bayos $2 sOQ3; Small Whites. q 75 G1 s0 Large Whites, sl 65G1 75: Pinks, g 60Q ? 70; Reds, s2 SOQ3; Blackeye s303 25; Butters, q SOGD2: Limas, g S0@l 90; Pea, $1 70Q1 90; Red Kidneys. s2 50Q2 75 per ctl.
 SEEDS Brown Mustard: s4@4 25 per ctl; Yellow Mustard s4G4 25: Flax. s2 20; Canary Seed, 2Ad2Ac per ib; Alfalfa, 3G6c Rape, 2AQ 2%c; Hemp, 2s4Q3c; Timothy, 5Q5Ac.
 DRIED PEAS-Ntles. S1 75Q2; Green. $2Q 10 per ctl
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pressed oat. s15a1s; Alfalfa, s2@12 50; Clover.
 -: Timothy. S13615. @16; Barley. -; Island Barley. $12G14; Alfalfa, $11 50Gl12 50.
 STRAW-60695c per bale
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Cash quotations were as follows: Flour, dull and unchanged No. spring wheat. 66G5Sc; 2 corn S2%c; No. 2 oats, 24l5c: No. white, 27l3G2sc; No. white. 261eG27c: No. rye. 43c: No 2 barley. 30G35c: No. fiaxseed, $1 or: mess pork, per bbl s9 55G9 65: lard. per 100 fbs
 $ 62isQ5 s7h: short ribs sides Qoose), s5 25@
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CONDITION OF THE TREASURY

WASHINGTON. June 24-To-day's statemen of the condition Of the Treasury shows: Avail able cash balance. s19O 15S. s21; gold reserve S165, ,67S. .097.
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PORTLAND, June A.-Wheat dull and un- changed. Walla Walla, 60061c; valley, 63c.
 WASHINGTON. TACOMA, June 24.-Exporters figure on new wheat lowering near Coo, with 70672c asked for old wheat and no takers.
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TIME BALL.

TIME BALL. Branch Photographic Office. U. S. N. Mer- chants Exchange, San Francisco, June 24 1898.
 The time ball on Telegraph Hill was dropped exactly at noon to-day-i. e., at noon of the 12Oth meridian, or exactly D. m., Greenwich time c. P. WEIGH
 Ensign. U. S. N, in charge
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DUN's REVIEW.

NEW YORK, June 24.-R. c. Dun 6 Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade will say in to-mor-
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PoRTLAND's BUSINESS.
NORTHERN WHEAT MARKET.

PORTLAND. June 2.-Exchanges, ;1so, ,57s balances, $23, ,052
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RECEIPTS OF PRODUCE
FAMILY RETAIL MARKET.

Butter and Eggs are slightly cheaper. Cheese Is unchanged.
 Meats show no particular change. Poultry Is cheaper.
 Vegetables from the districts around the bay are now coming in and the market IS well supplied. Fruits are selling rather above the normal this year, owing to the shortness of the crop There have been no pears of any conse- quence thus far, something strange. Aprtcots, too, are not plentiful. few seedless Grapes are coming in from Yuma, but they are too dear for the ordinary purse.
 Following is The Calls regular weekly retail price list:
 Coal, per ton
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JUNE-1ssS.

NOTE-In the above exposition of the tides the early morning tides are given in the left hand column and the successive tides of the day in the order of occurrence as to time. Tho second time column gives the second tide of the day, the third time column the third tide and the last or right hand column gives the last tide of the day except when there are but three tides, sometimes occur. The heights given are additions to the soundings on the United States Coast Survey charts, except when a minus sign e precedes the height.
 and then the number given Is subtracted from the depth given by the charts. The plane of reference is the mean of the lower low waters.
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Totals .. s25,s7s24s 4s.2 .... sNot included in totals because containing other items than clearings.
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COTTON MARKET.
CALIFORNIA FRUIT SALES.

NEW ORLEANS. June A-CoTTON-Easy; middlinp 6c
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dronned on time or giving the error, if any, is mhIished the same day by the afternoon papers and bv the morning papers the following day. e P WEIGH, Ensign, U. $. N, in charge.
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SUN, NOUN AND IIDE. United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Times and Heights of High and Low Francisco Bay Published by official au- thority of the Superintendent
 NOTE-The high and low waters occur az twenty-five minutes later than at Fort Point; the height of tide is the same at both places.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-11-03
save The Forest Lands

The new forester of the Department OF
Agriculture, Mr.. Clifford Pinchot, has
Just issued circular notice of an innova-
ton, the results of which will be looked
for with considerable attention by those
interested in forestry and the preseI walton
of native growth. The Division of
Forestry under Mr.. Pinchot will under
take to provide a series of practical ex
amples of improved treatment of private
forest lands, in which the present interest
of the owner and the protection and i'm.
provement of the forest shall have equal
weight. The one is essential to the other,
for the productive value of forest land Is
the only consideration that will lead to
its preservation by the great majority OF
private owners. The object of Mr.. Pin
chot's undertaking is to show that i'm
proved ways of handling timber lands are
best for the owners as we'll as for the for
est, by assisting lew owners to make
the trial, when the Department will pub
lish the methods and the results. The
questions of American forestry is one OF
such slupendous magnitude, contemplat-
ing as it does, the production of millions
of feet of timber daily. and the annual
reduction of our timbered area is so
appalling, and leading to such disastrous
consequences as affecting climate and ag.
ricultural conditions, that any practical
method put forward which can be shown
to preserve our forests as well as afford a
profitable income from them will be re-
garded with the most intense interest.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-11-03
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given to all persons and
parties interested. that certain logs in the
month of April, a. d. 1898, then lying in
and near the Wesserrunsett Stream IN
Brighton in Somerset County, marked and
described as follows, viz: All the poplar
spruce, pine, hemlock and cedar logs or lum
Der now piled on the bank of the Wesserrun
sett Stream and in said stream, at and neal
the mill of the Southland Manufacturing Com
pany at Brighton Village in the plantation Of
Brighton, in the County of Somerset atore
said; being the same poplar, spruce, pine
hemlock and cedar logs or lumber cut ano
hauled to said mill the past winter from the
north part of Brighton, on the fourteenth day
of April, A. d. 1898, at three O'Clock ano
thirty minutes in the afternoon, were duly
attached on a writ in favor of Alfred Cook
son of Brighton in said County for the sun
of one hundred dollars and against John
Parker of of st. Adams Somerset County IT
order to enforce and secure the said plaintiff
lien thereon and the lien of one +. A
Brasier whose account is assigned to sale
plaintiff for their personal labor performed IN
cutting said logs during the months OF Deem
Der, January and February 1898.
Said action was made returnable to the
Supreme Judicial Court, then next to be
holden at Skowhegan, within and for the
County of Somerset on the third Tuesday o.
September A. ID. 1898, and was duly entered
in said court. The writ in said action was
dated April 18th, A. d. 1898.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-11-03
NOTICE.

Whereas william K. Atwood OF Fairfield. in
the county OF Somerset and State OF Maine,
was on the 22d day OF October adjudged and
declared by the district court of the United
States for the district of Maine, to be bank
rupt, according to the provisions OF the
statutes Of the United States relating to bank
ruptcy, upon q petition filed by himself,
which petition has been referred to me as
referee In bankruptcy for said court for Som
erset district, 1t Is therefore ordered by me
that meeting of the creditors of said bank.
rupt shall be held at the law Office of Forrest
Goodwin at skowhegan In the county of
Somerset on Thursday the 10th day OF Novem
ber A. d. 1885, at IL O'Clock in the forenoon at
which time the claims OF creditors there pre-
scented may be allowed or disallowed, and the
bankrupt may be publicly examined by me,
the said referee, or caused to be examined at
the instance OF said creditors, aud at which
meeting the creditors shall appoint one or
tn rec trustees for said bankrupt estate, or the
court shall do so; and the creditors shall take
such other steps as may be pertinent and
necessary for the promotion of the best In
terests OF the estate and enforcement of the
act OF bankruptcy.
Dated Pttsfeld, Maine, Oct %, 1893.
lw44 JOHN W. MANSON, Referee
in Ban kruptcy in and for the District of Som
eiset and State and District of Maine.
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1t will be observed that in every case
the increase from the home mixture is
decidedly greater than from the factory
mixture which it was intended to dupli-
cate the difference being greatest in the
case of the most expensive factory mix
ture. The prices given above for the
factory mixtures are what the station
paid for them in small lots at the re-
speotive factories. The prices quoted for
the home mixtures represent the cost Of
these mixtures at the station, the ma
terials being bought in single sack lots
at the regular publicly quoted, retail
prices for the materials, with freight to
Wooster added. Nothing is added for
mixing, as the freight paid on the fac
tory mixtures would several times over
pay the cost of mixing.
The Ohio station claims that its field
tests are showing conclusively that out
of tankage, acid phosphate and muriate
of potash, all of which are in the con-
dition Of dry powder or salt, it is posi-
BILE to make fertilizer that will equal
in effect any factory mixed fertilizer of
buulNdleuJ CULupOSltlOu' al hVao az
profiting by this demonstration to form
home mixing associations, purchasing
the necessary materials in carloads,
thus getting the advantage of wholesale
prices and low freights, and thereby re-
ducing the cost of their fertilizers by
so to 100 per cent. In some cases the
farmers have agreed upon a common
formula and taken bids on this formula,
the fertilizer to be delivered in carloads
ready mixed and subject to the analysis
of the state fertilizer control or expert
ment station One farmers organiza-
tion of this kind in Pennsylvania num-
bers more than 600 members, and one
in Ohio will use 800 tons of fertilizer
this year. Each of these clubs will save
several thousand dollars in one year 8
purchase. In conclusion the station as
serts that the best fertilizer houses are
glad to meet the farmers in this man
ner, for they realize that the consump-
tion of fertilizers will be largely in
creased when the farmers can get them
at fair price.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-11-03
AnRora Goats.

Considerable interest seems to exist
just now in Angora goats, the profit
there is in raising them, etc. Some de-
tails of the business are given by a Texas
correspondent of The Wool Record and
Textile News as follows:
1.-The best Angora fiocks yield about
four pounds per head per annum where
they are kept in large tiocks, but they
will yield more if only few head can
be kept in bunch. We always shear
early in the spring and early in the fall.
Shin oak country is pretty good for
them, but live oak country affords
more feed in the winter if the oaks are
not too tall, but the falling leaves of
large trees give much food in the spring.
"Angora goats are scarce, or, rather,
they are hard to obtain, because so
many wish to buy and hear of none
for sale. The cheapest way to care for
them is to keep them unherded in wolf
proof pastures. They can easily be
trained to come home by feeding lit
tie and by sailing regularly. They are
easily handled after one learns how to
handle them. The best market for mo-
hair | know of is in New York, where
several commission men sell it to the
factories
1T is difficult to say what it will
cost per head to attend to Angora goats
properly, but any one going into the
business will soon find that they pay as
we'll as or better than any other kind of
live stock. Fine goats seldom bear
twins They pay quite we'll enough by
raising one young one each year.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-11-03
Making Vinegar.

Good russell cider, first run is best.
Allow it to settle in the barrel in which il
is brought home then draw off all but the
settings into another barrel. Store it in
any place where severe freezing will not
occur Better not to put it in the cellar
until freezing weather occurs. Some
times the settings from an old vinegar
barrel, or part of the vinegar is used to
hasten fermentation. The barrel should
not be filled quite full Cover the bung
hole with mosquito netting to keep out
insects, but do not replace the bungs.
The vinegar will steadily grow stronger
for two or three years Drawing it OF
from one barrel to another will hasten
fermentation In changing from cider to
vinegar fully one-fourth of the bulk is
lost
The Somerset reporter., 1898-11-03
STATE OF MAINE.

SEAL,
SOMERSET, IS. Supreme Judicial Court, I
September Term, A. d. 1898.
And now in this term, it is ordered, that
general notice of the tendency of said action
be gwen to all persons and parties interested
in or owners of said logs, described as afore-
said and attached in the above named writ to
enforce lien therein for labor and services in
cutting and hauling said logs, and that the
same are attached, by publishing an attested
copy of the above notice with this order
thereon, three weeks successfully in the
SOMERSET REPORTER a public newspaper
published at Skowhegsn, in the County of
Somerset, the last publication to be thirty
days at least before the next term of this
Court to be held at Skowhegan, within and
for the County of Somerset, on the third
Tuesday of December next, that they may
then and there appear and show cause, if any
they have, why judgment should not be
rendered and execution issued against said
logs.
Attest: N. w. BRAINERD, Clerk.
A true copy of notice with order of Court
thereon. 3w44
Attest: N. w. BRAINERD, Clerk.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-11-03

Companion of Factory and Home
Mixtures of Equivalent Composition.
In the spring of 1897 the Ohio ex-
pertinent station began an experiment.
in which several brands of factory mix
ed commercial fertilizers are being com.
pared with home mixtures of tankage,
acid phosphate and muriate of potash
calculated to contain the same quantl-
ties of ammonia, phosphoric acid and
potash as are claimed by the manufac-
turers for the respective brands of fac
tory mixtures used i'll the test.
As stated in recent bulletin from
the station, the experiment was begun
on tract of heavy clay land, and the
plan is to continue it several years in a
rotation of wheat corn and clover, APP
plying the fertilizers to the corn and
wheat. The plan of the test and the res
suits on the corn crop of 1897 are fully
reported in bulletin 93, which shows
that in the first crop of the test the
home mixed fertilizers produced results
quite equal to those yielded by the fac
tory mixtures, although the cost of the
home mixtures was from IS to $l2 per
ton less than that of the factory mix
lures.
Following out the plan Of the test,
one of the sections Of land set apart for
it was sown to wheat last fall, the fer
tilizers being repeated on the same plots
and in the same order in which they
had been used on the corn. The wheat
was sown late and suffered severely
from the winter, the yield on the I'M
fertilized plots being reduced to less
than two bushels per acre. The increase
on this unfertilized yield given by the
several fertilizers is shown below.
The factory mixtures were used at
the uniform rate of 200 pounds per
acre, but it was possible to duplicate
their composition in essential constitu-
ents with considerably less than 200
pounds in most of the home mixtures.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-11-03
DR., Thomson's
SarsapariIla Cures.
Read the Testimony from lone OF
Uncle Sans Trusted Employees:


Hearing is one thing, but knowing is another
thing. Now am going to tell you few facts
that I know about DR.. Thompsons Sarsa-
pArilla. was in q terrible condition, my lower
limbs were numb. and had no action at all.
stepped on q large tobacco tack and went
around all the afternoon with 1t in my foot as
did not feel it. had terrible heart attacts, II
turned round quick would fall on the floor,
4 was dizzy headed. 1t seemed as though my
Every time would turn over in the night IL
would be Just that way. l could do no wash
ing for year. weighed only 81 pounds.
bad doctored by number OF doctors. l wore
an electric belt, and used the battery on my
feet for about six months, and would take
everything / heard Of for rheumatism and
pAralysie, but when commenced to take DR..
better. do not have any hear, trouble now.
Ny heart lie all right. went into the hall Oh
dsnce night, and danced, something had
mover expected to do again. My feet have
come to their natural color. Before they
looked as II they were dead. They are now
warm. I do my own work and washing for
four OF us, and keep the post office besides.
1 now weigh about one hundred pounds.
This 10 all within one year. Now II any OF my
suffering sisters will write to me will answer
all questions. l am "a years old, and have
been sick for the past Ave years. l shall keep
taxing DR.. Thomson's Sarssparilla another
year ct any rate. have sold 1t to my custom
ers with the best satisfaction, and In fact all
their remedies cannot be beat. One bottle is
enough to give relief. but you want to take
more to get your system renovated anew.
know that feel like new woman, and all my
neighbors and patrons for miles around can
testify that look we'll and get around nicely.
! walk when l GO out to q neighbours, without
any pain. Nobody knows but God and myself
what suffered for three years. DR.. Thomson's
carsaparilla has done wonders for me.
MRS. p. F DUDLEY.
North Guilford. Me-, Nov 10th, 1897.
For Sale at Patterns Drug Store. Skow hogan
The Somerset reporter., 1898-11-03
To the Public.

Knowing Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy to be medicine of great worth
aud merit and especially valuable for
coughs, colds, Group and whoopipg
cough, we will hereafter warrant every
bottle bought Of us and will refund the
money to anyone who, is not satisfied
after using two-thirds of 25 or 80 cent
bottle. II. W. Cushing, Skowhegan !;
Sullivan Newton, Jackman.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-11-03

Hundreds of lives saved every year by having
Dr. Thomas Electric Oil In the house just
when it Is needed. Cures Group, heals burns,
cuts, wounds of every sort.
Green: "Do they play golf in German9"
Redd: ooh, yes haven't you ever heard OF
the FrRnkfuter links?
The Somerset reporter., 1898-11-03
Arrangements OF Train Effect

Oct. 3, 1898
Trains leave Skowhegan as fol ows: 1913 A
NJ. for all points West to Bangor. Vanceboro
st. Stephen, HoultoD, Woodstock, ST. Johr
and Halfax-1.45 P. M. for Waterville, Oak
land, North Arson, Lewiston. Augusta, Gar.
diner and Brunswick, Portland and Boston
Dexter Dover and Foxcroft, Greenville
Bangor, Old Town, Aroostook Co. via b. & A
R r. q Mattawamkeag; "a. 0 P. M (mixt d. fol-
Waterville enabling passengers to take nigh
Pull man 70 Portland and Boston.
ARRIVALS:-7.00 A. M. mixed from Water
Vile, daily except Mondays:-10.33 A. M
Passenger from Portland, Lewiston. winthrop
Waterville, Augusta and Bangor;-6.10 P. N
from all points.
GEO. F. EVANS, Vice Pres. and Gen. Mgr.
F. p. BOOTHBY. General Pasr Agent
The Somerset reporter., 1898-11-03

The Apollo heavy coated chocolates
cost no more, but are found only at
SIMPSONS Drug Store.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-11-03

should be granted to every woman.
Thousands fail of this because they have
neglected to look after their health IN
womanly way The health of a woman s
babies is dependent upon her own health
during the period of prospective maternity.
The prospective mother cannot be too par
ticular about her physical condition II
she suffers from local weakness, nervous
ness or loss of vigor and viril1ty, her chil-
dren will be weak, puny and sickly. Dr
Pierce's Favorite Prescription Is the only
unfailiug cure for all weakness and disease
of the delicate and important organs that
bear the brunt of maternity. 1t makes these
organs strong, healthy, vigorous, write ana
elastic. 1t makes the prospective mother
strong and cheerful. 1t robs maternity OF
its perils 1t insures baby constitutions
ally strong II is the invention OF an emi.
nent and skillful specialist, who has mad
thirty years training in this particular
branch, during which time he and his staff
of physicians have prescribed tor many
thousands of women. Medicines dealers
sell il and an honest dealer will not urge
upon you an inferior substitute merely tor
the little added profit he may make thereon.
u am the mother of nice baby four and a
half months old. - writes Mrs J Il. Clough' lBox
7o3) Of Lisbon, Grafton Co, n. II. cannot
give too much praise to Dr. Pierces favorite
Prescription.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure con
stipation Constipation is the cause of
many diseases Cure the cause and you
cure the disease. One Pellet" is a
gentle laxative, and two a mild cathar-
tic. Druggists sell them, and nothing is
"iust as good