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FOLEY KIDNEY PILLS

Neutralize and remove the poisons that cause backache, rheumatism, nervousness and all kidney and bladder irregularities. They build up and restore the natural ac, tion of these vital organs. A. Jac obsen.
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Telephone service has a practical, every day value for everyone, every day in the year. ..-.E..--
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The population of Connecticut has increased 23 per cent. in 10 years During the same period the number of telephones had increased 443 per cent. Does that mean anything to you?
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Telephone sSrvice saves you in in- numerable ways more than 1t costs.
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D. Robertson k Go.
...Pre-Inventory Clearance SaIe...

order toake purchases offering special lin the various departments a speedy clearance 1O4 Gray and White Blankets, at per s-.- and Blankets, ands heavy finish White I$169 pair instead O
 729O Beached Sheets % spreads with .25, $1.5o, $1.75 and $2oO The Ostend Toque the this The quality of Fleshes a shape and sofnes indefinitely Feisher
  I2Oc skein.
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TENEMENT TO RENT-56 Furnace
 ! Avenue. Inquire of JOHN T. WOOD, next house.
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CHOICE BUILDING LOTS for Sale O on StaHord Heights, for cash or on very easy terms. Apply to G. W. EATON.
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TENEMENT to rent. Three minutes
 SAMUEL KUsLANsKY.
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D DON'T FORGET that use the very best of Drugs
 and accuracy in compromising of Prescriptions.
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EOK SALE-6O New MiIch Cows and 1' SpTingers, just arrived from York state
 W. J. BOWLER, West W1llington. 36tf
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HOUR Tenements to rent, West Main 1' street. Three minutes walk from the Rhode Island mill. MICHAEL JOSEPH.
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L>LUFF RUGS made to order from old
 Y 1ngrain carpet. t,arpet weaving. Write for particulars. c. SCHULZE, 5 Cham6erlin St. Rockville, Conn. -#
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NNO RENT - Tenement over Arm- 1 strong's market. Inquire of
 GEORGE SISWICK. :
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TO RENT-Tenement near trolley sta 1 tion at West Stanford. 2 rooms, running water, large garden. MICHAEL ROBERTS.
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NOTICE.

TOR SALE-2 Good, New Milch Cows, I 3ws w. D. RUBY, Stafford Springs.
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WI ASHING and Ironing at home or w away, and cleaning of any kind done in a satisfactory manner.
 MRS. ALEX 10TH, wiIlington-ave.
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ENO RENT Tenement at corner of \ High and Church streets.
 MRS. HATTIE l.. CLEAVELAND.
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MISS FRIEDA RAND. Teacher of Q1 Voice and Piano. Addre ss Fiske-ave.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09
ECZEMA GONE, BOlLS CURED

my son was about three weeks old
when l noticed breaking-out on his
cheeks, from which a watery sub
stance oozed. A short time after, his
arms, shoulders and breast broke out
also, and in few days became solid
scab. / became alarmed. and called
our family physician, who at once pro-
nounced the disease eczema. The lit
tie fellow was under his treatment
for about three months. BY the end
Of that tine, he seemed no better. l
became discouraged, and as / had
read the advertisements of Cuticura
Remedies and testimonials of great
many people who had used them with
wonderful success, | dropped the doc
tors treatment, and commenced the
use of Cuticura Soap and Ointment,
and in few days noticed marked
change. The eruption on his cheeks
was almost healed, and his shoulders,
arms and breast were decidedly bet
ter When he was about seven
months old all trace of the eczema
was gone.
During his teething period, his
head and face were broken out in
boils which l cured with Cuticura
Soap and Ointment. Surely he must
have been a great sufferer. During the
time of teething and from the time /
dropped the doctors treatment, used
the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Oint-
ment, nothing else, and when two
years old he was the picture of health.
His complexion was soft and beauti-
full, and his head mass of silky curls.
| had been afraid that he would never
be well, and feel that owe great
deal to the Cuticura Remedies"
(Signed) Mrs. Mary w. Ramsey, 224
E. Jackson St., Colorado Springs,
Colo, Sept. "a, 1910.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

roguery in working between the public and some
swindng game: in this case, working among
those who stop In at the auction and pretending
to have no connection with the sale, betraying
a score of people day after ingratiating himself
in their good graces through cunning and craft.
Without these shills no sham auction can ex-
list OF course in smaller towns only two or three
be used, strangers are more easily noticed
in such places. They are the crooks on whom
the proprietor relies to pick out unsuspectng Wis
itors shared by the bargain lure and jockey them
into buying misrepresented articles.
The shill mixes with the crowd His business
is to look Just like interested buyer and lie in
wait for the fly for which the elaborate web was
spun
This individual for whom the scenery is set
and the actors dressed is called In technical slang
"a rummy." The old three-card monte men chris
tened him sucker"
Picture a room 40 feet long and 20 feet wide.
Double doors to the sidewalk are nvitngly open;
above them hangs enticng red flag bearing
the of what purports to be legitimate
auction firm; beneath that in large letters are
the words:
SALE TODAY.
Pick out any acquaintance who lives in a small
town, is fairly prosperous, and has come TO the
nearby city 100000 to 10000 population to look
around for the day purchase a present for his
wife and some implements for the farm.
He has read in the papers and magazines ac-
counts of book. art and antique auctions and not
ed the hugh prices brought by rarities When he
stumbles on to the fragrant flag of the fake auc
ton house and looks In at the window, heaped
with a miscellany of antiques, he is suddenly
stirred by that perennial longing for bargain.
He glances through the door There is a wor-
ried auctioneer struggling with eight dulfaced
people He is trying frantically to sell pair of
opera glasses
Genuine Lemier, gentlemen concave and con.
vex lenses, put up in this heavy morocco case.
the suctioneer cries, "and 50 is bid for them
Think of that! Not tenth of their value why.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09
A Corner In Candles.

AS an example Of trusts and monop-
allies prevalent even in that early day
it may be mentioned that in 1850 one
Benjamin Crabb obtained the exclusive
rign, to make sperm candles in Massa-
chusetts for IA years.
A year later, however, a factory was
started in Providence, R. l., and with
in the decade there were eight fac
tories in New England and one in
Philadelphia. Their output greatly re
duced the price of candles, which not
long before solds for five shillings a
pound. In those days $1.25 was worth
fully three times as much as it is now
From the Designer.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

That technical secret attack upon
the Atlantic coast by our returning
battleship feet will be valueless un-
less the Mole st. Nicholas liar and
the New England faker who heard SO
much cannonading at sea in 1898 are
allowed to get into the game.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09
Feared a Real Calamity.

why did you abandon your motor
car trip so abruptly"
"Oh, my wife is 30 superstitious,
After we cad run over the thirteenth
man she said We ought to turn back
otherwise she felt sure we should meet
with some ccident!"-Pearson's.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

When rat carry plague and cats
and dogs that kill or drive them away
carry diphtheria and tuberculosis,
both of which are affirmed by the ex-
perts, it seems there is nothing left
for threatened humanity but to get off
the earth.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

Morocco is to pay money to Spain
for the war which Spain recently
fought in Morocco. Such is the en-
barrassing consequence of coming out
only second best.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

New York's biggest hotel, to be
erected next year, is to have 1000
sleeping rooms and 1000 baths The
clerk will wear a diamond as big as
a walnut.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

When they go to exhuming the
bones of the dinosaur in the Palisades,
right across from upper New York,
1t looks like cruel infringement of
the Carnegie Museums copyright.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

That New York man who started to
shoot himself but thrice changed his
mind in time to dodge the bullets
may live to congratulate himself on
his fickleness.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

A barber in Duluth has invented
"buttonless suspenders." If you have
contracted the habit of wearing sus-
penders with buttons on them, fellow
mortal, here is your chance to break
yourself of it.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

Still there is this much to be said
for those attempts to break the alti.
tude record: In case of accident
few thousand feet more or less makes
no difference, even to the underta-
ker.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

Maybe some time they will invent
a padded aeroplane which will not
rise more than ten feet from the
ground. Then the careful man will
become interested.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09
Unnecessary.

DO you tell your wife everything
you do while she is away?"
No; the neighbors attend to that.
Houston Post.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

He has football in the fall and
track athletics and baseball in the
spring and now the college student
has ice hockey all winter And yet
he is said to play too little
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09
Pre-Sunrauerra rs.sss=---

According TO old-fashioned notions,
1t was impolite to mention trousers in
the presence of women"
yes. That was in tie DAYS before
women were SO darned eager to wear
them"
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

A Boston man declares that he can
prove that there are nine hells, and
we presume that discovering that the
furnace fire is out is one of them.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

Miffed by the jeers of the country
rt large over the brand of weather It
N supposed to start for the refrigera-
sicn of mankind, Medicine Hat pro-
poses to change its name Since the
point is on its style of weather 1t
would be more pertinent to change
chat
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

School teachers think they are en-.
titled to pensions, but can teaching
be called war since corporal punish
nent has been abolished?
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

The unarmored cruiser Detroit
which cost $l,233,OOO. has just been
sold for $4,000. So run the fighting
ships away.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

New York's largest hotel is to cost
H7000,000. 1t is to be built on Her
aid square at Twenty-fourth street
and Broadway.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

Alexander wept because he had no
more worlds to conquer when he
should have hustled around and found
few.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

going dirt cheap Two ladies beside him COM
miserated because they wouldn't have enough
Gentlemen and ladies'" the auctioneer went on
solemnly, eff had this article in Chicago or New
York 1t would bring one hundred dollars, one hun
bred dollars. You couldn't duplicate it at retail
for less than two hundred 1t is the finest piece OF
art glass ever shown in your city"
Can get one hundred dollars? Ninety? Eighty?
Seventyfive dollars? Can get sixty? Fifty? Give
me forty; thirty-ne; thirty"
Fifteen dollars!" came hating voice from
beside Jones'
Jones was interested. He sensed bargain
Had he known that when the auctioneer said
'thirty-ne" 1t was a signal to the shill beside
Jones to bid $50 with line through it, fifteen
actual dollars he would not have been enthu.
siastc.
"Sixteen!" Seventeen" Half" "Eighteen!"
staccato offers puncuated the atmosphere after the
euctioneer's encouragement
The little man beside Jones shook his head
sadly.
Gee, it's gone beyond me-" he sighed, turning
to Jones; it'll go dirt Cheap too. II you could buy
that for $50 it'd be bargain, sure enough"
"Twenty-eght is the last bid" walled the auc-
tioneer. why, you could take it out and pawn
1t for more than that"
Jones thrilled as the auctioneer turned to look
squarely at him
You'd give thirty wouldn't your" he cried,
Jones gulped and nodded
The auctioneer skilfully led up to the grand
landing by taking offers of "thirysx" and thirty
seven" from members Of his troupe. He had felt
out his man carefully and knew that $40 would be
Jones's limit.
"Wi you give me forty?" he said simply in a
level tone, leaning far over the showcase
Jones hesitated gulped and then nodded his
head abruptly.
Jones was pleased with his bargains until he
and rife toId he
same punch bowl for $40 anywhere and that the
other stuff was worthless.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09
The Way of IL.

Il see where a Chicago preacher
says that modern woman's clothes are
an invitation to SIM"
THE bill for his wife's new dress
probably made him want to swear"
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

Il see your children's nurse out on
the street with them at all hours Of
the day"
Eyes, it makes Fido cross to have
them about the house"
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

Pittsburg ANTS to annex about
dozen suburbs. This is likely to
start new annexation movement in
Cleveland.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

Goose-bone prophets are of the
opinion that this winter will stretch
out as long as a British election.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

Fir lumber has gone gone up one
dollar on the thousand. Now, all to-
gether: This is going too fir.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

Alfalfa in various forms is to be
served at a banquet in Colorado,
Now who is brother to the OK"
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09
Led BY the Nose.

PA" what is leading woman"
ANY woman, my son."-Boston
Transcript.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

Western farmers are returning to
the effete east to buy up the deserted
farms of that section.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09
CANNING FACTORIES FOR SALE
So Il Is.

SO II Is.
viii you tell me why to entertain
dwarf is the same thing as to blow
up with an explosive?"
Didn't know the two acts had any
resemblance. Why is il the same?"
Because, stupid, it is to dine a
mite"
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

When women are required TO sit
on juries they should be permitted to
bring their knitting.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

wisely directed, will cause her to
give to her little ones only the most
wholesome and beneficial remedies
and only when actually needed, and
the well-informed mother uses only
the pleasant and gentle laxative rem
edy-Syrup of Figs and Elixir of
Senna-when a laxative is required,
as it is wholly free from all objec-
tionable substances. To get its ben
efcial effects always buy the genu-
inc, manufactured by the California
Fig Syrup Co.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09
THE PROPRIETOR

from line to line, we find
In nearly every state
from one to forty cities
supporting temporary
auction swindles. Few
are permanent; it is a
mushroom busin e IS
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

Subscription price, $l.00 per year in
advance.
Advertising rates furnished on appli'
cation.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

a misrepresented article. These bogus auction stOTes
are more harmful to us as a nation than all the old
time lotteries, policy games, mail-order fakes and
circus gratis including gold bricks and shell games,
combined.
They are not honest. They play heads we win,
tails you lose" Uncle Sam doesn't want to bring up
his boys in the business; yet he countenances it,
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

One OF the very hest local and general
advertising mediums in the State OF
Tennessee.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

The word "shill," or "shil-
liver" in full, is of indie
terminate origin. 1t is
synonymous with cap
per-" booster" ringer"
dummy" STOOL" stool
pigeon" and Outside
man." all technical slang
titles for the shabby crea-
ture, the human buzzard,
who picks up his foul liv-
inn hr rncn nlitr md
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

CIRCULATION GUARANTEED.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09
Y@7s-E===E-zE-7lz;7za
| IHf FAKE
| AUCTION
BY HE. TWINELLS
| - coore/CbT By RkARSon PUB CO.

MERICANS have the reputation of be-
ing quick witted and shrewd. AS
matter of fact we are Barnumized
buffers, far more gullible and credu-
lcus than any class of any nation.
Right now, in nearly every moder-
ate.sized city of the United States we
are falling in line and dropping gold
into the tills of organized fake auc-
ton stores and taking In exchange
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

one in his pocket; SO his eyes continually
roved toward the cut glass in little Japanese
cabinet
He didn't know it, but before he was in the
place two minutes while the auctioneer was
trying to feel him out" with the watch, one
of the shills had noticed Joness interest in cut
glass, and had called the auctioneers attention
to the fact by touching the cabinet signif-
cantly,
The auctioneer on his perch above them
ALL had control of the situation. He noted
the signal from the shill, jotted down mentally
that Jones wanted cut glass, and knocked
down the watch he had been experimenting
with to one OF the shills for ruinous price,
which was all helpful in showing Jones that
a shrewd man could pick up a bargain If he
laid low, attracted no attention and bided his
time.
Sold for six ninety. Put 1t with the other
goods for Mr. A. Deposit sufficient the auc-
tioneer cried to the pretty cashier.
Jones did not bid on the first piece of cut
glass The auctioneer did not look toward him
once to give him a chance. The piece was
knocked down for $3.50. 1t was frightful bar
gain Jones would have given IS for it him
self But the auctioneer passed abruptly to the
next article.
Jones pressed forward this time as a gor-
geous punch bowl was put up He heard vari-
Gus EXPLANATIONS around him, all tending to
give him confidence in the fact that things
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

and over $50 of his cities
issue licenses regularly
to the auctioneers of
these fake companies,
giving them the privi-
lege of swindling the
public at a nominal fee.
Any town with over
10000 blind, Barnumized
Yankees waiting to be
buncoed is considered a
fertile field.
From coast to coast
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-09

7 don't believe you gentlemen would give $3.50
to see statue OF liberty do Salome dancee Two
dollars bid oh, shill! Two dolars!"
Jones, your outoftown friend is undecided
whether to go in not; but at that moment a
fellow near the door shakes his head to a seem.
ing stranger beside him and says in a low voice;
ITS shame. Things are going for nothing.
Wish / had the price to buy some of that cut
glass It'll sell for a song"
Jones overhears and is interested. He thinks
the mind of everybody in that store is centered
on the opera glasses, going so cheap. He smiles
at their rapt attention and the auctoneer's hard
luck complaints The smile would disappear in.
stantly IL he knew that he himself was the sole
concern of the eight minds in that audience, and
the auctioneer. He would be furious if he knew
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-03-08
ROy'S Consolidated Stores
1921 S. MAIN

were fixed at 500 and 60 days in
jail. Johnson mode bond, but offer
ed little encoura cement 10 his clerk
In aiding him TO get release. For
seven days Smith, who appears to
be n respectable sort OF a fellow, min
gled with the races Of all color and
hue in the city bastile. Fully repent
ant, he plead for mercy before Judge
Houston yesterday who, always Will
ing TO try a man ON his word once,
reversed his former decision and as
sessed q fine of $50.
After paying his fine, Smith was
taken under the wing Of a local con-
tractor and given a job Keeping his
accounts. Smith is said TO be an c&-
pert bookkceper and was employed
in that capacity at the johnson phar-
macy In every respect the crestial-
len man seemed TO be worthy Of clem-
encN as he has an aged mother IN
Missouri to support besides paying
the expense OF n college education for
an only daughter.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-03-08
.NANSLAUGHTER Case
IN District court
ALFRED TRIPuETTS FATE IN
HANDS or JURY THIS MORN
ING-ACCUSED OF DEATH.

Evidence IN the case Of Alfred Trip
lett, colored, on trial in the district
court on charge Of manslaughter
was submitted yesterday and viii In
all probability be in the hands OF the
jury after conveninR Of court this
morning A strong plea is being made
by attorneys for the defense, and It Is
predicted that the prisoner will be
given leuioncy In the finding Of the
jury
Triplett IS on trial on the charge OF
killing his infant child. The man was
found in a drunken stupor on the
night Of October 30 In bed with tho
dead Infant A handkerchief had been
tied around the baby'5 mouth and Il
was the version that death had onsued
from suffocation. The man was the
following day placed under arrest,
Attorneys for the defense contend
that Triplctt was not physically able
to tie the handkerchief around the in
fauis mouth, being helplessly iutoXl-
Gated. The Cahman who hauled Trip
lett from colored dance hall IN
Little Africa" testified that his charge
was rendered helpless, and Il was nee
ossary to carry him up the steps to
his room,
No evidence was presented 10 show
that any one had been In the room
during the lapse Of time, when the
deed must have been committed, The
handkerchief found around the In
fants respiratory organs was that Of
man, hut could not be Identified as
TfipletIs property.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-03-08
THIN FOLKS MADE FAT

Good healthy flesh can only be
gained by tho use Of the proper food,
together with natural action Of the
organs OF assimilation. Nine people
out Of ten I'm order to weigh as much
as they ought and be perfectly
healthy, should use SamOse, the
great flesh h-forming food and health
restorer. Weigh yourself before
commencing TO use these little tab
let's, and see how your weight in
increases from week TO week.
SamoSe does not contain a particle
Of starch or pepsin, nor Is II any
nauseating preparation, such as Is
usually recommended 10 make peo-
pie fat, and which does not build up
good healthy tissues. Samose has
valuable flesh h-forming properties,
tones up and strengthens the whole
system, helps the food that Is eaten
to be assimilated IN natural man
ner, and absolutely restores health
to all the organs.
If your are not perfectly satisfied
with the results from Samose, Shac-
kle Drug co. win return your money
without any quibbling.