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The Portland daily press., 1899-07-15
BARAKAT MEETINGS

The camp neeSing season at OLD Or
chard opens July 10th, when serics cf
meetings will open under the direction
Of Mrs. L. Barakat. She VIII have the
assistance Of many able speakers, ana
there Is every reason TO believe that the
eeryicus will be largely attended.
The Old Orchard camp meeting grove
Is most Charming spot, and tho variety
OF amusements which the teach and its
surroundings offer is alene enough to
attract ene, but when combined with
such series of Instructive anu Interest.
ing meetings as the Harakat meeting,
there will be an unus ialiy large attend
ares.
Low rate tickets have been placed on
sails at many of the Boston & Maine sta
iions, and Information regarding them
can he had upon Inquiry.
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The BowsrS Eisaoh barge horses ran
away In Knlghtvilie yesterday morning
hut wsrs stopped tefore any aampRs WINS
done. The passengers had an exciting
experience. however.
Mr. Walter b Twitcheli. iats tsIegrapher
at Boucher Falls, VI, has teen trans
ferred &, the Mains Central station at
Hiram. de Is ths son OF Col. }. rwitohsll
Of Hiram.
The Let between the residences Of J. NJ.
Winn and hrs. George A. Spearina IN
Clinton village, has been purchased by
Hon. ". W. Brown Il Portland. as the
site for the new library tn that town.
This Is 81. Swithin's day. wien the fol-
loving rhyme IN supposed TO hold good:
St Swithin's Uny. and there be rain,
FOR forty days Vt Will remain;
e. Swithin's Day. an IL be fhir
For tcrty Gays 'twill rain nae mRir.
Among tho hnl pr visitors TO the feet
have been Mr.. and Mrs. N. u. Stork.
bridge of Lewiston, accompanied y thtir
children. who came to m ct their son
Virgil Stockbridse OF tho Brooklyn. Virgil
was one OF the few men mentioned by the
admiral in his report Of the battle of San
tiazo. IL will be remembered that ut tho
time Of the bsttls tookbridge. who Is
marine. was confined to his bed by ILL
ness. aud when the battle began he co. up
against the advice of his physicians and
tlimted Into the main top and fought
VITA the other men till the battle was
over, when it was necessary to carry
him to his bed. because he was so WEI k
The mem bers Of the Maine Veterinary
Medical association. who have been bay-
lug meeting in Bangor, have decided
to hold the next meeting of the assooia-
tion in Waterfalls. The association will
send DE-. Jolly Of waterville to New York
In September rs representative to the
American associat ion meeting.
A hickman driving down Kim street
yesterday afternoon came to grief. One
of the bind wheels came off and the body
OF the hack dropped to tbs ground, but
fortunately there were no passengers in
side to sufrer from the shake down.
jeremiah Shea ( the hattieship Texas,
is one of the survivors Of the hattleship
Maine. MIR. Shea has been on shore leave
to fnd rome Of the relatives OF his dead
shipmate, Tinsman. formerly Of East
Deering, who was killed by the explosion
which destroyed The vessel.
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RUNAWAY WITH BARGE.

About 80 o'clock yesterday morning
Merton Boss who drives the large from
the Two Lights to Portland was ON his
way to the city when reaching G street,
Knightyille. his holsss took fright and
dashed away at break neck pace. At
the time there were about ten or more
passengers in the barge and the excite
ment was great. The driver held reso-
luteIy to the reIns. but on went the
horses, down the main street, BY thu
power house ami across the bridge. 1t
was not until they got near the Draw Of
the Portlsnd bridge that the horses were
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Personal.

The following nre guests at the Hast
| ings' Cottage, Willard Mira David
Stewart, Misses Helen and Agnes, and
j. H. Pollard, Newark, n. j.; Mrs. A.
r. Cushing. New York; Mrs, J. McNal-
~ and Miss Violet OF Montreal; Mrs q.
NJ Milliken. Miss Todd, Portland; Mise
i S. q. 1itcomb. Yarmouth; Mrs. G. W.
Lindsay, Montreal; Mrs. ]. w. Parker,
Walter and Percy Parker, Portland
Misses Ella and Agnes Carroll. Miss
Louise Hector, Montreal; Mrs. A. ID.
Stoneham, Portland; Rev. W. W. Jor-
dan, wife and son, Clinton, Mass. Mr..
and Mrs. huston. Miss Huston. Mon
treal
Mrs WI. Bridges Of Bay City, Mich (,
is visiting her brother, Mr.. Stewart Wor.
i ster at his home on Stevens Plains ave
nue., Bridgton corner. This is the first
time for 80 years that Mrs. Bridges has
been in Portland. She will remain about
three weeks.
DIR. H. NJ. Willard of the Quincy Man
sion school, and Mrs. willard. visited
Miss Alice Mcdowell on their way t.
Bath, where they are spending week
with another pupil.
Mr.. Willis Dyer with his granddaughter.
Miss Nellie Dyer and grandson. Willis,
of Curwensville, Pa, are visiting
friends. Mr. Dyer has not been east for
several years.
MIR. and Mrs. Arthur Hall have re-
turned from their wedding journey and
ore at Mrs. Halls fathers home pending
the completion of their new house en-
sherman street, near the home of Mrs.
Hall's father, DIR. Foster, which they ex-
peat to occupy BY the middle of August.
Miss Anna E. Eastman OF Lowell Is
the guest of Miss Mar Bryant,
Mr.. Jamas W. Emery of Dallas, Tex,
a graduate OF Bowdoin college. and &c
years ago teacher Tat North Bridgton,
passed through the city this week on his
way to his OH home rs Lowell
Mrs. William Leighton CT Old Orchard,
gave lunch on Wednesday TO dozen
ladies of her Portland club. Ballads Ly
Mrs. Fellows and piano solos by Misses
Iimmons and Moses added TO the enjoy.
ment. A ride to Saco River completed
the day.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. v. Bailey and Mr..
and Mrs. Leon D Verrill and family OF
Auburn, are takinga two weeks outing
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OUR LADY or LIBERTY.

Some Portland people do NOT recognize
tho beauty of the statue in Monument
square commemorative soldiers and
sailors.
Visitors do; and no visitors more than
the men from whose faces the tan of sam
tiago has scarcely faded. AS those men
went down Congress street yesterday they
spoke with admiration of the bronze
women who stands there with tho wreath
in her hand.
Whether their Judgment be wise. or I'M
wise 1t is one that Portland cannot for
get.
1t is the verdict of Soldiers aud sailors.
ALFRED YORK..
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BRIEF JOTrINGs.

The Floating Socisty of @. &c win en-
tertain the Jackies ON Saturday evening.
ALI the ~ an bars are to meet at No. So
GSesn streer.
Attention Is called to the advertisement.
regarding Tightening In portland harbor
and along the coast In this mornings Is
sue.
The mission meetings in South Portland
still continue with interss-. Evenings at
1880. and on Sunday at 10 80 IA. IN. and
ana p. m.
Mrs. Mary Edna Richardson of LIE Wis
ton will speak at Friends church, Oak
street, Sahtath morning at 10 80.
One OF George q. Shnw's horses, driven
BY William Hawkins ran away on Brack-
ett street, Thursday afternoon. The team
was overturned, but no ssrions damage
was done.
Albert Libby, veteran of the civil
war, ana recently an inmate Of the Sol
diers' home at Togus. died suddenly at
Swett's hotel yesterday forenoon. He
came to the hotel Wednesday night. An
inquest was deemed unnecessary BY Cor
oner Littleteld. MIR. Libby formerly lived
In this city and was quite well known
ct enc time. He leaves sister who
lives on Alba street In the Deering dis
trict
Fish Commissioner Niokerson says the
law against taking short Holsters rs
exceedingly difficult of enforcement.
Yesterday tho police captured a young
negro who pretended to be blind and
wore this sign: .please help me rs /
am afflicted as you see me, and not know
ing what miaht happen to you." DR..
Hanson says his eyes are as good as any
bohy's. He gave his name as Willie
Gerkson. agsd 80. of Alabama.
VIM. X Dunning, brakeman en-
ployed by the Boston s. Maine railroad,
met with serious accident Thursday
western division. He stepped between
two cars Of the slowly moving train,
when he stumbled. and his hand caught
in the draw bar, jamming it SO severely
that 1T VIII have TO he amputated. He
was brought TO the city at s 20 Thursday
morning and removed to the Maine Gen
eral hospital In Rich's ambulance.
:. Yesterday Liquor Deputies Gribben and
Osborne made seizures at Nos. 413 and
5i7 Commercial street. % Middle and242
Fore street.
Yesterday a Grand Trunk train was
passing down Commercial street, and a
car OF the Spring street line was going
in the opposite direction toward the
Grand Trunk station. An American tx
press wagon loaded with Holsters in bar
rels got between the two and the electric
car struck the express, doing some dam
age, but nobody was hurt.
!. The jackson Gas Burner and Supply
company, with capitalization of $780,.
600. has been organized here with these
officers: President. Francis A. Barley;
treasurer. Elwood B. Blandy; directors.
Francis Barley. John @. sullivan, I'D
ward Blandey, Ardon Cooinbs, Charles
N. Tolrnan.
Hughie Baverege. the sailor who fell
from the Rigging Of the schooner Nellie
Eaton Tnurss.:.s morning, died yesterday
at the Marine hospital from his injuries.
His home il in Yarmouth. n. 5.
The sailors go to Peaks Island this af-
ferncon to see the sports AMI contest for
PRICES given By the Gasco Bay steamboat
company. AT a o'clnck q lunch will be
Siyer them AT l.30 Mr.. Fisher of Cam
bridge. Mass, Will mako high dive Of
IL feet, from the end of Forsst City
wharf
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at the Verrill cottage ut Higgins Beach.
Miss Mary Hunt OF Portla IA Is ylsit,
ing in lewiston.
Capt. Ii. B. Sawyer Of Auburn, oom-
rade of the Eighth Maine Regiment, was
active in the entertainment Of tho Au-
burn G. A. II. excursion at the Eighth
Maine Rsgimental building at Peaks is
land, yesterday. Capt Sawyer win re-
main over Sunday. His family is there
for the summer.
Mr.. and AIRS. Edward Dewey and Miss
Dewey Of Montpelier. Vt. are at the Fai,
mouth. Mr.. Dewey is brother. OF AG-
iniraI Dewey.
Frank and Miss Agnes Dresser OF
woodfosds are guests of their aunt. Mrs.
DR.. Mitchell Of Bird gton. Miss Ruth
smith Of the same rlace is also enjoying
her hospitality.
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FRAZER AND BURGo MATonED.

A match was concluded yesterday after
noon beuwsen Jack Frazer of Portland
and Walter Burgo of Boston to take place
Monday evening, July "a OF Long island.
It will be twelve round 20 for a de-
cision. The preliminary go was to have
been between Bill Danning and Frank
Bnrkhardt- Of Fort Williams, but ON ac-
count Of Cummings accident. this bout
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was changed SO that young Sharkey OF
Boston will take Dunning's place.
MAINE MEN APPOINTED.

Frank N. Hume, Captain Go. b. First
Maine artillery and formerly first lieu-
tenant and adiutant of the second regi-
ment of infantry. of Houiton, has been
appointed captain in the seth regiment of
volunteers.
Another appointment from Maine is
that OF Henry G.-Crocsett of Lewiston,
formerly captain First Maine artillery, to
be first lieutenant in the volunteer SER
vice.
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Real EsrATE rRANsFNRs.

The following transfers OF real estate
have been recorded:
Chester &c. Douglass of Brldgton. to
Melissa j. Trip CT Bridzton, for s S. a
10y OF l.nu IN EridTton, on the eas,sriy
side OF the road leading out of Bri5atc n
Centre village over Huyt's hill, consisting
OF three-tourths of an acre.
Arthur K. Marks and E. Vinton Earle,
both OF Portland, to George W. Blown
cf Portland, for 81, a lot OF land In Port
land, 1T Fessenden Park.
The Portland daily press., 1899-07-15
NEW ADvEnrTsnarENrs TO-DAY.

Patrons of the PRESS who are 60
ing out Of town for the season are re-
minded that they may have the adj
DIRE Of the paper changed as often as
desired, if they are regular subscribers.
To those not regular subscribers the
paper will be mailed at the rate of
fifty cents a month.
The Portland daily press., 1899-07-15
A DELIGH.pFnL SAL

The steamer Sebascodegan Of the Harp
swell line win make another Of those de-
ilghtful sailing trips down Caaco Bay
Sunday afternoon leaving Portland pier
~ a.l5 O'Clock. Howe's full trsss taad
will discourse sweet music during tho
trim.
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stopped and while no injuries resulted to
the passengers the harness was damaged
and the whifiletrees of tho wagon we're
smashed.
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SHIRT WAISTS.
WHITE WAISTS.

We have about so dozen White Waists
in stock, some are regular numbers.
Others bought this week. They will all
be offered at the rate of about o0e-
half of regular prices.
One lot White Waists. made of Lawn
with three rows of blue and pink trim
ming, Made 10 sell at gI.5o Sale
price GOc
The Portland daily press., 1899-07-15
PEAKS ISLAND.

A delightful surprise awaited the 1899
attendants at the Gam theatre on Thurs.
day evening. when me officers OF this
North Atlantic squadron We're present
Manager Barrows appeared before the au-
dienoe and spoke of the usual custom OF
giving an address of welcome ON such oc-
casions. lie said. however. that he was
no speeohmaker, but that he had sub
stitute. young man who bad lived some
time on the island. was in fact, an is
lander. What was the surprise Of thu
waiting crowd, when he led to the stage
tiVe.year-oid Charlis l.. Blackman, the
boy orator of Peaks leland who, with as
tonishing eioquence, reoited "our Nozzle
Volunteers The loud and insistent
encore compelled his return; and ne gave
.SamEson or schleyf" Another encore,
and the little fellow returned and bowed.
His father, spying some blue Jackets in
the galleries, took the small orator mp
there. where the sailors shook hands with
him, and expressed their concurrence in
the sentiments of the poems.
STATE TJREMENsS ASSOCIATION.
Following is ths official programme OF
events of the thiid annual convention
of the Maine State Firemen's association
at Bangor, Wedne sdsy and Thursday,
August 2sand B:
First Day.
Convention called to order at 10 a. M.
= Address Of welcome, Mayor Chaplin.
Business of convention.
Address on the subject OF fire streams
and their effecti veness under various
conditions, Chief W. Il. McAIlister of
Calais.
Address ON the relative merits of grav-
ity and direct pressure tor waterworks,
ex-Chief John Mason OF Bangor.
second Day.
Firemen's Muster.
Steamer eoniesf-First prize, $50.
Hand tnhs, First class prize Slu0; sec
ond hand prize, $50.
Hand tubs-Seeond class, first prize.
| 500; stcond prize, $50.
Reel races-First prize, SIS; secord
prize, SIS
Hose counting CONVERSATIONS Prize. 8 5.
Hook and isdier contest--Ons priz /,
$40.
4 At la. m. file nen's pun ada All com.
pan es that take part in tua mustfr will
apf ear In tie rade.
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Tuo Great Answers.

"ciradually woman is coming to her
own, remarks gossiper in the Roch-
ester Post-Express. "Like the mills
of the gods, in the familiar paraphrase,
she grinds slowly, but she gets there
inst the same. In answer to the ques-
tion, What is the Salic law? put by a
school inspector, this is what one girl
replied, The Salic law was an enact
ment that provided that no one descend
ing from a female should ascend the
throne. That girl must have been deep
ly impressed with the wrongs OF her
sex.
"You may match this heroic reply
with another which comes from the
same source. a Sunday school teacher,
after having explained to her class that
only the patriarchs were allowed to
have more than one wife, went on,
But, children, in these Christian times
how many wives may man haveT
Upon which a little girl eagerly put up
her hand and cried, please, 'em, two
only is generally necessary to saliva
tiOn,''
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A Narrow Escape.

So great a speed is attained By ice
yachts that they are sometimes lifted
from the ice and fairly fly for yards. An
incident of this kind happened one win
ter. A large yacht of the New Ham
burg club went scudding down the river
in the direction of Newburg. 1t was the
owners intention to go to West Point
if possible. He sailed there, but moth
ing could induce him to make the trip
again. Everything went smoothly for a
time, so it is related, the wind sending
the skeleton craft along at 40 miles an
hour. just above Newburg gale struck
the sails, and the yacht attained ter
rife speed, clouds of ice spray whirling
in her wake She reared and screeched
like mad thing broken loose. The sail
or's eyes were pointed ahead, but tilm
covered them and almost blinded him.
Suddenly he heard whistle blow
right behind him, and as he looked back
he saw that he had crossed the New
burg and Fishkill ferry cut, and that ne
had crossed just in front of the steam
boat. His hair stood on end and fairly
turned gray. He landed at West Point,
transacted his business, took his boat
apart and shipped it home, having had
enough for that season.-Outlng.
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A WET EVENING.

LADY Day in Harvest, County Kerry.]
Tho silyern circle of this summer lake,
Each ripple'S curl petal of mother o pearl
Curves iron grim, since rutting winds awake
and tented nistS unfurl.
Tho kingly shadow of the mountain wall.
That purple and gold flung down with every
fold
Across the crystal floor, is vanished all
In grayness blank and cold.
rs lifted peak, that while clear skies o'ershone
With hyacinth crest their bluebell awning
broke.
Stoops family, grown all old wan visaged crone,
Ecddled III her holden cloak,
Far, Ear TO seek the shining, lost and Hown,
IS yerteroven's smoke.
Yet = tomorrow beam through amber rift,
Eow swiftly bright shall all flash back on
sight:
Still, waters sheen. high slopes that CLINT and
shift
With sudden lawns of light.
Only in small chcckered fields. begun to glow
With burning bloom Of haulm and ear anu
plume,
The glory, blurred away and stricken low,
What torch shall reillume?
Stern tangled, lrenched, tossed danl on black
peat mire,
Foam flame Of feathery gold-ah, wind and
rain
That now conspirc, forbear our hearts desire.
-A-,t., lest our year long hope lie quelled and
slain,
No spark be quenched save that the worlds
hearth fire
With morn may liindle again.
Jane Barlow in Athen:eum.
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Got the NOtea Cashed.

A little incident which occurred only
few years before my birth, in the ex-
treme west, and which i heard related
by my father, who was familiar with
the facts, illustrative of the slow modes
of communication in those primitive
times, may be worth repeating here.
When the old State bank of Missouri
failed, in, think, 1926, Sam Virgins,
a brother of the well known Billy
Virgins, held a large amount of the
notes of that bank, which, for practical
purposes being entirely worthless, he was
so paralyzed that he moped about in a
condition of dependency for three days,
when he was approached by certain
Frenchman, whose name has now es-
capped my memory, and who was noted
as long distance rough rider, and who
offered for consideration to take the
notes, and, with horse that he knew he
could procure, we'll known for his pow
er of endurance as traveller, proceed
across the country to Louisville and dis
pose of the paper for good money.
The offer being accepted, he took the
horse and rode him 70 miles a day, un-
til he became exhausted, when he ex-
changed him for another, and by re-
peated relays reached his destination
and got the notes changed four hours
before the arrival of the news, brought
by steamboat which had left st. Louis
on the day of the failure of the bank,
nearly three days in advan"e of his own
departure. How would that sound told
in St. Louis or Louisville in this year
of grace San Francisco Bulletin
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Curious Succession Of Calamities.

CHICAGO, June ia dispatch to the
Chronicle from Arthur, ILL.,. says that a
strange chain of disasters began when
the Grand Army Post conducted the
burial on Sunday of I. P. Wells. who
was asphyxiated at a hotel in Chicago
on Wednesday night. While the cere-
mony was in progress at the cemetery
reached Augustus Baker that his
thirteen -ycar-old son had Just been
drowned while swiriming. The shock
Frustrated Mr.. Baker and he had to be
taken home in a carriage. When the
news was broken to his wife she be-
came unconscious. Both are in q pre-,
carious condition. While the funeral
procession was returning from the Gem
etcry one of. the carriages ran over
Mrs. William Sullivan's little two..year-
old daughter, mangling her in horri-
BILE manner. Miss Ola Clark, Il witness
to the latter accident, tainted and was
carried to the nearest house, where she
lay for four hours before recovering
sufficiently to be removed to her home.
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She Inxt Her Shoe.

While in Samoa Robert Louis Steven
son and his wife in Il great measure did
as the Romans did-that is to say, as
the Samoans did. It was Louis custom
to lie abed late cf Il morning and spend
the remainder Of the time under Il tree
on the hill, clad in light ryiamas. the
dress of the native kanaka.
With his wife it was the same. Stays
were unknown to her and Il curling ircn
dim recollection of shady past. 1t
was while Stevenson and his wife We're
living at Apia, in Samoa, that Mr.. Hey
wood was appointed consul there for
this country.
Shortly after bis arrival in the coun-
try he arranged for a reception TO the
English, German and American resi-
dents of the community that they might
meet him in his official capacity and be
them as stcitizens of Samoa.
Of course an invitation was sent Rob
ert Louis Stevenson and his wife. Two
days before the date Of the function
MI. Haywood was surprised to receive
a note from Mr.. Stevenson sent by
courier. The note read as follows:
Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson and Robert
Louis Stevenson accept Consul Hcywood's in
vitation with pleasure and assure him that
they will be present OH the evening OF the .23d'
if by that time Mrs. Stevenson finds her other
shoe Ever thine,
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
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An Inn In Japan.

The singing girls sat round and gig
gled while we drank tea. They siggled
and sang and giggled while we were
initiated into the mysteries Of Jap
anese dinner They danced and alto
sweets and sucked oranges while we
had our after dinner smokes. and then,
at about 8 o'clock, they dropped on
their knees at the door, touched the
mats with their foreheads and shuffied
away. giggling and chatting. down the
stairs
What impressed MS was the cleanli-
ness of the inn. There was simplicity
about everything. No attempt was
made at shoddy grandeur. The mats
were unadorned, t',e woodwork was IN
painted, but blue vase in one corner,
wherein was stncl: green branch, IN
significant though it was, gave artistic
fragrance to the apartment. The food
was served neatly in trim dishes, and
all the dishes were arranged trlmly on
lacquer trays.
1t was, however. not particularly an
petizing to three hungry wheelmen.
Japanese fare is scrapry and finlcky-
On pleasant autumn afternoon, when
you have been reclining in a jinrikisha,
dawdling through sylvan laEes, tiny
morsels of fish and cupful Of rice and
several curious messes seasoned With
mixture Of salt and sugar may be all
right, but when the weather is Geld, and
there is blood tingling breeze, and You
are doing yonr level 30 miles a day
wheeling, yon want ham and eggs and
beef and pudding. We should have
starved had we not every other day or
SO fallen in with some Japanese who
understood the capacity of an English
stomach. Then we fed like the camel.
-Trnvo1
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n Word
to Doctors

We have the highest regard for the
medical profession Our preparations
are not sold for the purpose of antagon-
izing them, but rather as an aid. we
Law It down as an established truth that
internal remedies are positively injuri-
Gus to expectant mothers. The distress
and discomfo1ts experienced during the
months preceding childbirth can be al
leviated only by external treatment-by
APPLYING liniment that softens and re-
lakes the over-strained muscles. We
make ard sell such a liniment, COM
bining the ingredients in a manner
hitherto unknown, ard call it