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The Penn's Grove record., 1900-08-31
Trade and drop Renort,

Hot weather has helped the Louisi-
ana cotton crop.
White pine lumber is in good demand
at the Northwest.
Exports are heavy and money is
abundant at Montreal.
Victoria, B. G., reports Yukon ship
ments heavy, coast trade fair and
building active.
Omaha reports a heavy trade in gro
ceries and dry goods, and an excellent
corn crop probable.
The dullness in general speculation
is marked, stocks and food products
being very inactive.
Reports from Cleveland state that
the freight situation on the lakes is
very dull. with no improvement in
sight.
Canadian trade is seasonably light
in the province of Quebec. but wealth
or is better and crops have been helped
thereby.
Gross railway earning of sixty roads
for the second week Of August a9mre-
gate $8.997, TT, a gain Of SO per
over a year age
There Is a better business doing
hardware at several markets Yves
md East, though 1t Is claimed Id son
m4tancea At the expense Is pricess
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The Government made an appropria-
ton of 6 5000 for the experiment, and
demanded that the tests show a press
ure of $4,000 pounds per inch and a
velocity of 1900 feet to the second.
Solid shots weighing a ton were fired.
After two preliminary shots the
third was fred with a charge Of 800
pounds of powder, and showed a press
ure of 19,045 pounds and 1896 feet We
locity, while the fourth shot, with the
same charge, recorded a pressure Of
1880 pounds and a velocity Of 1901
feet.
The gun is intended for coast de-
Tense. The inventor claims that it
will throw a shell fifteen miles. Gun
cotton will be used in the charges.
The gun is forty-four feet long and
weighs ifty-nine tons. ,
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A Shark story.

The Hawaiian bark Willscott ar
rived from Newcastle, England, yes
terday. making the passage in 155
days. She met with light winds, and
Gains throughout the run and thu only
excitement was shark fishing. On
July II half a dozen tigers of the deep
were captured. One weighed 250
pounds and measured nine feet from
nose to tip of tail. A capstan bar was
showed down his throat and the ships
lame branded on his hide. After that
the shark was dumped over the side
again. An hour later the same shark
with the ships name plainly visible
was swimming astern and smelling at
a piece of pork attached to the hook.
San Francisco Call.
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SAVED HIS LIFE BY HIS TEETH.

Painter Falling From Church spirs
Catches Rope In Hts Mouth.
Chicago (SpecfaD.-A. Alizewski, a
painter, saved his life by his teeth. He
had been engaged in painting the
spires Of st. Hyacinth's Polish Catho-
lie Church. The spires are 100 feet
high.
The work on one had been complet.
ed, and In gliding the cross on the
other he was landing on a small plat
form suspended by ropes. In some
manner he became ove~rbalanced, fall
Ing backward. A rope was dangling
below the platform. which he grasped
with his teeth. Thus he hung for sew
eral seconds, until he was able to
grasp the rope with his hands. when
he again pulled himself to the plat
form. He Immediately descended from
his lofty perch. Then. realizing what
had happened, he tainted and was
taken to his home.
A physician was summoned and
found the man to be suffering from
an internal rupture, which was no
doubt caused by his grasping the rope
between his jaws.
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spools and Thread.

Mn fingers were busy with en-
Droid ind fine sewing on the porch
Of tn MINER hotel, when the great
numb T spools Of thread and en-
broid |Qtton brought up the subject
Of thu hnufadture.
"Spod bra made chiefly from birch
wood" said the manufacturer who
was called out for facts. First, the
wood is sawed into sticks four or five
feet in length, and from ,seven-eighths
Of an inch to three inches square,, ac-
cording to the size Of the spool de-
sired. The sticks are sawed into short
blocks, a hole is bored through each
block, and then are then thoroughly
dried in a hot-air kiln"
'The spool machine is automatic,
but ID cannot feed itself. The feed.
Ing is usually done by a boy; he SIM
ply places the blocks in spout, being
careful to take out such as are knotty
or in any way defective. One whirl of
the little block against sharp knives
shaped by a pattern makes the spool.
"The spools polish themselves by
being rapidly revolved in a drum.
They are made into thousands OF
shapes and sizes, and are produced al
the rate Of one per second. One fac
tory makes 100000 gross a day.
Briefly stated, the whole explana.
ton of how thread Is numbered is as
follows: When $40 yards of thread
weighs 1000 grains, a pound Of cotton
the thread manufacturer marks it No
l. If 1850 yards weigh a pound it ii
marked No. 2. For No. so thread II
would take fifty multiplied by 4S9 tt
weigh a pound. There are 1000 kinds
Of thread, and each kind goes through
hundreds Of different processes before
It is ready for use."
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BROOM CORN U R

hot Winds and Rains Do Damsre Of
100000 in Illinois.
Arcola, Ill. (SpeciaD.-Three hun
dred thousand dollars worth of broom
corr is rotting and worthless in the
fields of thistle greatest broom corn
district of the world. Profit to that
amount belonging to the farmers OF
the broom corn belt has been de-
stroyed by blasting winds, terrific heat,
showers OF hail and scalding rains.
every woman who uses a broom is in.
terested IN the situation. Brooms that
sell IN Arcola for twenty-five and thir.
" cents are selling in the outside world
at from forty to sixty cents, a price
unknown for years.
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A remarkable instance Of barbarity,
within two hours journey Of Tangier.
Is reported, which shows how matters
still go In Morocco to-day. At the
QUAR- of Chariin a man stole a donkey
and sold it for seven pesetas-less than
$1.25. On his return home he was
taken before the chief Of the duar,
who gave the thief's relations leave
to punish him as they thought best.
There and then, in the presence Of the
neisA5ors, the man was tied to a tree.
and his eyes were burned out with a
red-hot iron, The wretches took their
victim to the Basha of Tangier, who,
instead Of giving them their deserts.
consigned the man to the vile dungeon
at the Kasbah, from which he was
only released on his mothers interces-
ciop
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BREscI GETS LIFE SENTENCE.
Trial Of King Humbert's Assassin Takes
Place at Milan.

Trial of King Humbert's Assassin Takes
Place at Milan.
Milan, Italy By Cable).-The trial
Of Bresci, the Anarchist who on
July 20 shot and killed King
Humbert of Italy, at Monza, resulted
in his conviction. He was sentenced
to life Imprisonment. An immense
crowd was present. The hearing be-
gan at nine o'clock. Bresci sat IN the
dock, calm and almost Indifferent. His
counsel, Signor Martelli, head Of the
Milan bar, and the Anarchist writer,
Signor Merlino, made requests on vari-
GUS grounds for an adjournment,
which were refused.
The Indictment, which was very
long, showed that the assassin had
practiced much at target shooting, and
that he prepared bullets SO as to rem
der them more dangerous. The wit
nesses were then introduced. There
were eleven for the prosecution and
five for the defense.
During the examination of Bresci,
the assassin declared that he decided
to kill King Humbert after the events
In Milan and Sicily, ito avenge the
misery of the people and my own"
He added: II acted without advice
Or accomplices."
The prisoner admitted the target
practice and the preparation of bull
lets-He spoke In a low armxoice,
and said that Ne ned three shots at
three yards with his revolver. Two
wooden targets were here placed on
the table before the judges.
A brigadier of gendarmes. Salvatore,
recapitulated the story Of the assassi-
nation of the King. He said he saved
Bresci from the crowd, who nearly
lynched the assassin.
The testimony Of witnesses Calm
bert and Oliviers did not adduce any
new facts.
At the close Of the trial Bresci was
pronounced guilty and was sentenced
to Imprisonment for life.
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Can Cure Texas Fever in Cattle.

A discovery of much interest to
those who lose thousands yearly ow-
Ing to the cattle pest has been COM
municated to the French Academy of
Medicine by M. Linniere, one Of the
leading scientists on veterinary sub
jects, who claims to be able to pre-.
serve animals from Texas fever, the
worst form Of parasitic maladies. NJ.
Linniere has succeeded in ~cultivating
the parasite producing the disease in
serum from animals which have been
previously attacked, thus alternating
its virulence, and in obtaining a vac
cine virus with which to ~inoculate and
protect cattle against the fever.
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FATAL STORM At NOME.
Scores Of Bodies Washed Ashore on
the Gold Fields.
MUCH LAWLESSNESS PREVAILS.

= 49, - ~
OF Rubber Tubes and Then Robbed
storm Leaves Disaster and Death in
Its Wake = Disease Raging Among
the Eskimos The Mortuary Record.
Seattle, Wash. (SpeciaD.-A terrific
storm ragged at Nome, in which there
was a. heavy loss Of life; the water
front was lined with wreckage and
stranded vessels of all descriptions.
Out of sixty-eight steam launches only
five remained afoat, and of seventy
two barges all except seven drifted
ashore.
Twenty dead bodies were washed
ashore and taken to the morgue for
Identification. Ten dead bodies were
washed ashore at Topkuk, three miles
north Of Nome, the mouth Of Nome
River, and eight in front Of Nome
Camp, three twelve miles below Bluff
City and two below Topkuk.
A tale of disease, death and suffer
ing among the Eskimos which almost
beggars description is told by Guy N.
0lOChSluECl WIZ ud6 UGCA ullCCtl1S
q relief expedition sent out by the
Government. Stockslager has re-
turned from Cape York and reports
the natives dying by wholesale, doz-
ems of dead bodies lying around un-
buried.
In Teller City the sick natives killed
the medicine man of the tribe In
the vain hope that the act would ap-
pease the evil spirit. Thirteen deaths
were reported in n day in Teller
City.
The whole number Of deaths in
Nome since June / up to date OF the
fatal storm, as shown by the records
of the Coroner, is Seventy-one, of
which twenty-nine were natives. There
was only one death from smallpox.
There were in all twenty cases Of
smallpox In the hospital, nearly all
Of which were of a mild form. Most
of the deaths were from pneumonia.
Reports from Nome by the steam
ship Tacoma say that much lawless-
ness prevails there; that from eight
to a dozen robberies occur nightly,
and that people are not safe from at
tacks from thugs after nightfall. The
lawless element, it is said, predomi-
natess and those whom they fear to
rob in the streets are drugged in tents
by means of a long rubber tube,
through which chloroform is forced
after the tube has been inserted
through the canvas of the tent. The
occupants Of as many as twelve tents
have been robbed in this manne in
one night, and in one instance it was
with difficulty that a victim was re-
stored to consciousness.
The nights in Nome are lengthen-
ing rapidly; darkness now prevails
as early as 5 o'clock, and the law
abiding folk are afraid to appear on
the street after that hour.
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SAVED BY HYPN0TIsM
The Rev. G. B. Cutten's Remarkabl,
Cure For Inebriates.
Ne Restores several Suffering From Al
coliolisin 10 Normal Health
and Saves One Life.

-
New Haven, Conn. (SpeciaD.-Hyp'
notism as a cure for the liquor and to.
bacco habit is beino mt IN nra ct,cal
and sc;ant;ea E q =. css.~.
-. uso ~ 'ne 11 u0oiss
oultsn' pastor OF the HoWard Ave
nue. Baptist Church in this city, and
formerly centre rush on the Yale foot.
ball eleven 4 eor;os ~ oxnor,mon+s
49,
rarn, ne nas conducte9 promises &C
,estnr,no Tue Laelnou employeu y
s pHysieai = Aeu.dl
FIN - ess tue inepria.e anu 7 VIC
-. ~ d. n1u selce - snuoAins.
avna,+ h. ~. ou..su nus pecolAe 81
mo bic spnosasI anu naS ueeu Spvn
ps-voho,or,aaI Iao.o.aon -
nast~, > m'Nus 70.
sen+ - h,n, hn 4ha ~ ha.s.sss
~ nc o,tu IL u ~ saa Z la 81
the hvnnof,s+ cbair a. iaost onoo ! dau
ali summer
Tndica+ions ~ +ho+ he saved a.
least ono mans I,fa +ho+ ~ Thomas
Dick. s.I,m tho pormann 90 No -
known shout town nao,r had Noon
drunk for . month ond was an incin-
lent delirinm tremens case Oniates
had failed 70 odmo ssaan bic n,,iso
stood at 10 heats - tha minute md
his heart indicated that . stroke of
apoplexv might resnlt ct anv time
Sleen he must have within = fovu
hours or death was inevitahIo Ont.
ten administered h~vnnotic leon and
In mn hnur Dick,s heart WAS hnatino
regularly and his mise was aimost
normal. Dick was ahle 70 resume his
work the newt dav
Half 4 DOZEN cases of simn,a a,co.
,,.,t-- --.sSI
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The national Game

The Brooklyn team has stolen twice
as many bases as the Bostons.
This is said to be the most disas-
trous season for baseball In the history
Of the big league.
Sheehan is again back with>the New
York Club. He was farmed out to
Syracuse Of the Eastern League re-
Gently, but was sent back as not being
good enough.
The remarkable reverses sustained
this season by visiting teams in the
League may be largely explained by
the undeniable fact that home umpir-
ing is systematically pursued by the
League umpires.
Pittsburg has loaned Pitcher Wad-
dell to Milwaukee and released J0uett
Meekin outright. The latter viii re-
tire.
Neither Dunn nor Nops has given
satisfaction to the Brooklyn manage
ment this year, and both men have
been released outright. Dunn injured
his arm the spring and has not been
ah10 condition again.
lses to remark: pitch.
B not seem to have the
that they had back IN
s Of baseball. Probably
&t8uSe they use more curvea
thereby cripple thei kx1as.'
<z
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A sail in = Volcano.

In the Aegean Sea a vessel may sail
into the top of a crater, and though 1t
is hard to find anchorage there, yet a
mere sail through is appreciated great
" by the captains. because it cleanses
the bottom of the ship from marine
growth. The submarine crater has
been more Or less active for at least
1000 years, and has been constantly
throwing out streams Of sulphur. The
sea for miles around is charged with
the sulphur, and the water has the Gu
rious property Of completely cleaning
the copper bottom of any vessel, no
matter how thickly coated with ma
rine growth.
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BRITISH TAKE MAcHADoDoRP.

BOera Retire Northward Before the Ad.
Vance of General Roberts.
London (By Cable).-General Rob-
srts reports from Belfast as follows:
Buffers advance occupied Macha.
dodorp Tuesday afternoon. The enc.
my made a very poor stand and re-
tired northward, followed by Dundop-
AIDS mounted troops, who could not
proceed beyond Helvetia on account
Of the difficult nature of the country
and the enemy taking up a position
too strong to be dislodged by the
mounted troops.
French continued the movement
Tuesday as far as Elandsfontein,
from which he turned the enemy out
with no difficulty. The latter retired
very rapidly, leaving cooked food be-
hind.
General Buffers casualties were:
Killed, one officer and thirteen men;
wounded, seven officers and fifty
seven men,"
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Ta,npa Police n wa.- sh.-. 49,.

Tampa Police to Wear Shirt Waists.
The City Council of Tampa, Fla,
has passed a resolution instructing the
Mayor to have the entire police force
uniformed in shirt waists and straw
hats. The men are greatly pleased
at the proposed change.
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Electroplatlng After Embalming

DR.. Variot, of Paris, has discovered
a process for embalming bodies which
it is thought will prove a great sue.
cess He not only embalms, but met
Allies the bodies by the Ruolt process.
just as it is done with a fork or q
spoon. In this they can be
preserved indefinitely, and in such per.
lection that the most imperceptible
wrinkles and lines are reproduced,
and the embalmed body has the ap-
pearance of a metal statue.
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Neusy Glean,nv.

A celluloid collar worn nv Nathan
Clausen, OF Hampstead, L. l.. caught
ire from a cigar and terribly burned
him.
Cholera is prevalent throughout Nv.
derabad and in Bombay, in India.
There are 5.688,0OO persons receiving
relief.
The tax rate of Boston, Mass. has
been fixed at $14.7O, as against S13.10
last year. This is the largest rate
since 1885.
Public land in Northern New Mex
leo was Withdrawn from sale, in or
der to save the cliff dwellings, from
destruction.
There r 1926 licensed dogs in Chi
cago.
A thirteen and one-half-pound baby
was born recently at Middletbwn.
Conn, to Mrs. Michael Potterno. her.
self but fourteen years old.
OH has bMn dethroned from the
n 1;0n c e Pc Chicago 11n1on = ac-
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sGn nb-
reasnr he
Elton boys
little EHglis
twenty by d
at onction "a
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Rats are fine swimmers. They are
nearly as much at home in a swollen
stream as in the placid cellar of a well
stocked mansion. In fact, the whole
rodent family, including squirrels and
other species. learn to make them
selves at home in the water when ne
cessity requires it.
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Father Kills stepson.

William Nichols, colored, head wait.
r at the Hotel Champlain, at Allan.
tic City, N. j., while intoxicated shot
and killed his stepson, William, Jr.
The young man was much in evidence
at a party given by Mrs. Nichols
Nichols. ST., took umbrage at some re-
mark and shot the son in the presence
of his mother. He was arrested.
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Man Dies From x-Rav Enects

MRn DIes FF0m A-Eay EneCts.
According to the physician who is.
sued the death certificate. the death
Of August Kittman, at st. Paul, Mimi,
was due to burns received during an
X-ray treatment. Kittman met with
a street car accident last winter, and
It is said desired to have X-ray photo
graphs taken OF his INJURIES.
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W BY HIS FRIEND.
Gallant Attempt at Rescue Ended
Two Losing Their Lives.

Gallant Attempt at Rescue Ended In
Two Losing Their Lives.
Uniontown, Penn. (Special). Altha
NJ. Riteneur, a young man of this
place, lost his life through the death
embrace Of a friend he was trying to
a W from drowning.
Samuel Trimble, of East End, Pitts
Durg, tried to swim across the Monon-
gahela River, several miles about
Point Marion, and when a good dis
tance from the other side gave out
and called for help. Ritenour went to
the rescue, and when he reached
Trimble the drowning man clutched
him about the body in such a desper-
ate manner that both were drowned.
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Two Killed in . street pu.,.

A fatal duel occurred at Belt, N. M,
David e. Baca made some remarks
about a young woman friend of Mel.
quiades Baca, which the latter resent.
cd. The men met later, two six-shoot.
ers were raised simultaneously, three
snots ron each rang out and both
men fell mortally wounded.
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70 CORNER cAULlfLoWER.
Phiiadelphia Syndicate After Entire Long
Island Crop.


New York City (speciaD.-A plan
that will take the caulifower trade
Of Long Island out Of the hands of
the commission men is said to be at
present under consideration by the
caulif1ower growers and representa-
tives of a syndicate in Philadelphia
which is trying to cur the entire
caulilower crop. The representatives
Of the syndicate say that it will guar
antee to take the whole crop at 81
a barrel, delivered at the railway sta
lions.
A committee has been appointed by
the cauliflower growers to go to Phil
adelphia and investigate the offer of
the syndicate. At present the farmers
sell their cauli1owers at an average
price Of seventy-ive cents a. barrel.
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sa1IMza!NlfkYMHNgM

You will never find our Doc
tor out. He is here to give
advice without charge to those
who need him-to those who
don't, sometimes. He doesn't
always recommend the Aver
medicines, because the Aver
medicines are not "cure-alls."
Perhaps if we tear a leaf
from his correspondence it will
show you what we mean. Here
is a letter which came last
March.
"DEAR DR.. AVER:
l want your advice for my little boy.
He is getting very thin. He has no appe-
tite. He is fifteen years old. When he
was four years old he had lung fever, but
his health was good until two years ago.
Since then he is failing fast. The doctors
here say he has the bronchitis. He spits
all the time awful bad. The spits are big
thick, and white. Yours truly,
Mrs. MARGARET MURPHY,
March 80, 1900. Kinbrae, Mimi"
And this is the way the Doc
tor answered Mrs. Murphy:
"DEAR MADAM:
"We enclose our book on The Throat
and Lungs, in which we trust you will find
just the information you desire.
"You should begin at once the use of
this Cherry Pectoral for your son, giving
it in moderate doses. Then procure some
good preparation of cod-liver oil, as
SCOTS Emulsion, and give him that, as
well. Pay particular attention to his Diet
giving him such nourishing foods as rare
steak. lamb chops, good milk, eggs, etc.
Above all, keep him out of doors all that
the weather permits. There is nothing
that will do him more good than plenty Of
fresh air. Let him live out of doors all
that is possible. By carrying out these
general suggestions we shall hope to hear
soon that your son is improving in every
way. Very truly yours,
April S, 1900. J. C. AVER"
lou see, 1t wasn't only the
Aver medicines that we recon-
mended. The first idea of the
Doctor was to cure that boy.
The result is told in this letter:
"DEAR DR.. AVER:
"My little boy has improved so much
since received your advice that 1 want to
write and tell you how thankful I am.
"When l first wrote you, on March
80, he only weighed 50 pounds, but now
he weighs 82 pounds; and all this gain
since the 9th of April, when I first began
to follow your directions.
"Please let me thank you again for what
you have done for my boy.
July II, 1900. MARGARET MURPHY.
Perhaps it was the cod
liver oil; perhaps it was the
Cherry Pectoral. Probably it
was both. But, more than
either, it was the good, sound
advice the Doctor gave in the
first place. We are here to
serve you in just the same way,
and we will tell you the medi-
cine for your case or tell you
what medicines to avoid.
Five out of ten of our cor
respondents need a doctor
rather than a prepared medi-
cine, and we tell them so. If
the doctors only knew it, we
are working with them every
day.
J. c. AVER COMPANY,
Practical Chemists, Lowell, Mas.
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spain's Lost Ship Ready For Repairs.
The cruiser Reina Mercedes. the
Spanish vessel which was sunk dur
ing the war with Spain, arrived at
portsmouth, N. H., from Norfolk, va.
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r.,tt,a co.l Skinned Abroad.

Notwithstanding reports that mill
ions of tons Of American coal are to
go to Europe on account of waning
mines there, shipping lists show that
hardly a cargo has been actually sent.
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as mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smellandcompletely derange thewhole system
when entering it tn rough the mucous surfaces.
such articles should never be used except on
prescriptionsfrom reputable physicians. as the
damage they will do is ter fold to the good you
can possibly derive from them. Halls Catarrh
Cure manufactured by F. J.. Cheney & Co.
Toledo, o., contains no mercury, and is taken
internally. acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. In buying
Halls Catarrh Cure be sure to get the genuine.
It IL taken internally, and is made in Toledo
Ohio, by I. :. Cheney & TO. Testimonials free
~ Sold by Druggists; price, 75c. per bottle.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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Cats and Dogs in China.
Black dogs and cats are the favor
ties in China in the line of food, be-
cause when eaten in midsummer they
are believed to insure health and
strength.