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along the lines of business in Mexico.
 "The sugar cane industry in the states of More1os and Puebla has suf- fered enormous losses in the past few months by the depredations of rebels" says one recent report. ''The- cane growing districts are overrun by armed men who live by foraging, and condi- tiops have grown steadily worse under President Huerta. Zapata, leader of the rebels in the south, has forced sug- ar planters to pay heavy tribute. The Burden has fallen chiefly on Mexican and Spanish property owners.
 ~In addition to these losses, the in terna1 strife in Mexico has postponed investment of American and foreign capital in sugar lands and the develop ment of this as well as other branches of agriculture."
 In advices sent to the state depart ment by Marion Letchers consul at
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tngton officials high in rank. charged by the duties of their offices with re- sponsibility in dealing directly with Mexico, confessed their ignorance. So did leading Mexicans in and out of their unhappy country.
 How can a foreigner. for instance. find the truth when the representative of President Huerta in the United States says that 'it is now a well es- tabIished public fact that the so called revolutions in Mexico, which are merely unfortunate local domestic af- fairs magnif1ed greatly by publicity, are becoming very profitable specula- tions for adventures and f1libusters, who make a business thereof, commer- acializing arms, ammunition. conces-
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Sing Sing, New York Prison. Rival of
 Calcutta's Black Hole" to Be Demolished

TNo filter school could be devised fof the moral. mental and physical dis figurement of the man. In which ho either succumbs to painful and finger ing disease and death or survives to continue on his release the life of crime which preceded his tncarcera- tion."
 It is no wonder that the Sing Sing prisoners thought no punishment Warden Clancy and his subordinate9 could inflict worse than that to which the state had sentenced them, so they tnutinied and set fire to the shopa- Damage to the extent of $2oo,ooo wan done AS a result hundreds of the mu-
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torted he may be morally or mentally. The state sentences him to condPe- ment for term of years. It does not sentence him to tuberculosis or chronic rheumatism or confinement in solitary Imprisonment for eighteen hours at a time.
 It has been said on good legal au- thority that a prisoner having compe- tent counsel could demand release from Sing Sing on the plea that the constt- tuition of the United States and that of the state of New York forbid the in ffction of "crueI and unusual punish ment.''
 Lest this be thought exaggerated.
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ICol lh1BgJS ST6TJEI 1 z ' Ef I;E YlIG9 e1E xIGo GIT

, tries combined is nearly $11s.5oo,ooo-
 The United States investors have put s235.OOO 900 in Mexican railway stoclzs. s4O8 oOO, 900 in bonds, S7.s0O.000 in bank stocks, S22,70o,OO0 in bank deposits S223, 100000 in mines, s26,5OO.OOO iA snelters, $52,OOo.oO0 in national ponoH, Ss OOO 900 in tinnberlands, S3.16O.OoO in ranches, $9.00O,OO0 in manufacturins enterprises, s15, ,0Oo, ,0O0 in oil properties and $15,OOO,OOO in the rubber industry
 These items are exceeded in no 3n- stances by the investments of other foreigners in Mexico, save that Great Britain holds $67, 7,0eO,O 900 of Mexican national bonds, which is S15.OOO'oOo
 more than Americans hold, and France has S6O ,000, an excess of SS.O0e.0eo over the American interest
 United States investors are Fer3 largely the owners of Mexico's rail roads. Mexican capitalists have $lz5y- 44oOO0 of Mexican railway stocks-less than half the amount owned by cltl- zens of the United States-and- only $12, 2,275, 900 of railway bonds
 All this enormous total Of 'nVesr- ment money taken into Mexico and left there in anticipation of a stable government that would permit the Un- dertaking of permanent Improvements the development of the country and tho making of profits, is endangered by the political turmoil
 rake, TOT SAdAHpA04 IAA0
 National railways, a government insti- tuition with a large amount of Euro mean and American capital It is one of the chief sufferers from the various revolutions.
 The company is operating slightly less than 4s per cent of it's mileage and it's gross revenues for the first week in July were only S6O0,0O0 as compared with $9O0.OOO for the cor responding week of last year, which, in | turn. had shown a loss of S3o0~Qo0 from ] the year before.
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sions, properties and securities to that end and poisoning public sentiments and opfnions?'
 And when at about the same time Senator Fall of New Mexico issues a statement saying:
 "The Huerta government, so called. has only been able to maintain itself without opposition of armed char acter in the City of Mexico and other certain other garrisoned towns in the republic.
 "The greater portions of each of 1 twenty-five states out of the twenty seven are at present in the hands of the opposition to Huerta, whether the opposition of the present allegiance be to zapata. Carranza. Pesqueira, Martt-
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state has ndd Tn sing Sing
 prison one of the best known A places of detention for crimi- nals in the world When penologists and criminologists have spoken of prisons for the purposes of compari- son they have brought in Sing Sing as one of the largest of the worlds jails.
 Now they are Voicing a demand for the demolition of Sing Sing prison. Their demand is supported by the united voices of statesmen, politicians and reformers. For many years Sing Sing has been a stench in the nostr1ls of all decent minded men, say these investigators. It is time to wipe it out and either build new prison on it's site or abandon the site altogether.
 There are eighty-eight years of frfgbtfuI history inclosed- In the gray walls of Sing Sing. When the prison was erected, in 1825-S. the light of reason and humanity, to guide those who had dealings with offenders against the laws, had not dawned on the world. A criminal in those days, save to very few isolated reformers, was no longer a man; he had become a wild beast, a ferum naturae, to be hunted and bounded out of the world as fast as possible The newer, better ideal of regarding a breaker of laws as a man afflicted with disease, as a victim of heredity or environment. had not arisen.
 
 of that and former days was built as a place of punishment for offenders, not as place wherein men might possibly be reformed and restored to the world. It's narrow, cramped, unclean cells were and are adapted to the former end. They are cells for wild beasts in the form of men rather than places of abode for men formed in the image of their maker.
 Sanitary science was almost un- known away back in the days of the building of Sing Sing, and its advance has passed the prison by. Cells in- tended to hold one man with inconven- l. fence and distress of body and mind are now often made to hold two. There is no running water in the cells. Many of them are below the level of the Hud- son river, on whose east bank the pris- on stands, near the village of Ossin- ing, and the water seeps in and collects in dirty pools on the floors of the cells. A man goes to Sing Sing under sen tence of the law. He Is well and strong ] physically. however depraved and dis
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FIN the days of the long hunting rifle
 of the backwoodsInen. when. Davy @ Crockett and his rivals could hit "A a squirrel in the eye at 800 yards -or so the story books told us. at any rate-American rifiernen were consid- kred the best in the world They're
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here is a quotation from a recent mes- sage by Governor Sulzer in regard to Sing Sing:
 "I am mortified by the revelations. Today and for many years past this state has confined many thousands of convicts in cells seven feet long, three feet and three inches wide and six feet and seven inches in height These cells are constructed in a rectangular cell block of solid masonry. The only opening in these cells is through the door. The door opens on corridor. which itself is incIosed in the prison building. In many of these masonry pockets in Sing Sing there are con- fined two prisoners.
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competitions is any test. They are going to have another chance to prove their supremacy at the international rifle matches to be held or shot at Camp Perry. Ohio. from Aug. 15 to Sept. g.
 Rifemen from sixteen foreign coun- tries have been entered in the matches
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win or win back some of the Iaurels
 which the Yankees won in Stockholm,
 Buenos Aires and Ottawa last year.
 America. came near making complete cleanup of the international matches in 1912. In the Swedish. Argentinian and Canadian capitals they met -r-
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 tinous prisoners have been removed from Sing Sing prison to Auburn. The new Great Meadow prison, where the men do farm work, is incomparably superior to any other prison in the state of New York
 Built to hold 1900 prisoners, Sing Sing often holds about 1.5O0. Thls ac- counts for the doubling up' of the men in the cells. Some of the cells have three tiers of beds, so that be- tween the head of the man in the top berth and the ceiling there is a space of barely six inches The consequencea of sudden movement in sleep may be ina gined-
 Of the insanitary conditions in the prison nothing may be printed here. They are too horrible for description | anywhere save in an official, closely l guarded report, written for the purpoGa of aiding reform.
 |. ARTHUR ,. BENTON.
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And they do well to hide their hell,
 For in it things are done That Son of God nor son of man
 Ever should look upon! From 'tThe Ballad of Reading GaoI," | Oscar Wilde.
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)R almost a century New York state has had in Sing Sing prison one of the best known
 places of detention for crimi-
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By cHARLEs N. LURE.

VI " WHENEVER discussion of w se:ss., ;ss sss5is1 sszs yer? Sasos,Ss s1s $ E
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N. Y. Wholesale Prices.

BUTTER - Extras, s29A O 29Ac c; hrsts. z7 O 2s H c; dairy. finest, 27 F @ zsc; good to prime, 25 E Q 27c.
 -EGGs--Fresh gathered. extras. per hennerys whites, 2S O 36c; gathered. white, 2S a 34c; hennery brown, 30 o 34c: gathered brown and mixed col or, 23 O soc
 FRUITS-AppIes, Duchess of Old enburg. bbL, $2.25 O $3.25; Craven stein. s2 O s3; Wealthy, s2.25 Q $z.75' Nyack Pippin, bbl, $1.75 @$2.25; Sour Bough, s2.25 O $2.75; Sweet Rough, s2 Qs25o; Summer Pippin, bbl.. SITS O s25o; Pears, CIapp's Favorite, Dbl, s25D@$4.50; Bartlett, bbl., $2 O $4: Flemish Beauty, bbl.. $1.5O @ $2.25; SeckeI, bbl., SO s4; Bell, $1.50@ $2.5o. Peaches. basket, 80 O soc; Connecticut, carrier. s1.5O O $2; Plums, 8-fb. bas- ket, 12 615cs peach basket. 40 O soc; blackberries. quart, s@19c; raspber- xies, red, pint, O lie; black caps, O Sc; huck1eberries, 10 O 13c.
 POULTRY-Fresh killed-Turkeys. hens, zoe; young tomss IS O 2ec; old 9orns. 1s@ zoe; chickens, spring broil- CTS. per pair, S2 O S2.50; to 10. to pair. per ID. 25c; fowls, so ID. and over to dozen, 1s Q1s45c; A to 55 fb. to dozen, IS Q 19cs 36 to AZ ID. to dozen. Is E DIT 1kc; under 36 ID. to dozen, 5 O 16c; ducklings, spring, 16c; &duabSs prime, white, dozen, $Z.Z5 O s4; dark. s1.75; guineas, spring, 1 E IDS each and over. per pair, $1.12@ SIPS: 1 ID. each, per pair, 75c @$1.
 HAY AND STRAW-Hay-Ba new hay, per ton, timothy No. 1, S21; standard. SEQ @ $2O.5O; Nos 3 and 2, 915@ $19.5OS light clover mixed, SIS O $40; No. 1 mixed, SIS O $19; heavy mixed, s1 ' O SIS; No 1 clover, S17@ lS1s; Rye Straw, New, SIT; (sman baIed hav sarra as large)
 VEGETABLES s-Potatoes, Long Is land. bbI., s1-75@ $2; Jersey, bbI., s2 O S2-25; Onions, Long Island, bbI, S2-75 O $3; Connecticut Valley, yellow, 1O0-fo. bag, s1.75 O $2; Jersey, white, basket. SIG $1.50; yellow, $1.12 O S1.37; red, $1 O s1.25; mushrooms, II. . 50 a s5c; peppers, green, basket, 25 O soc; Abi.. 50 O &1; red, bbl., s1.5O O s2; equasA marrow, bbI., 75c O s1; white bbl., soc O S1; yellow, bbL, 25 O 75c; turnips, rutabaga, bbl.. $1 O $1.25; white, bb1.. $1 O s1.50; tomatoes, fan cy. box, 40 a 75c; average kinds, 25 O s5c.
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WANTED.-For U. s. Army; Able bodied unmarried men between ages of 8 and 35; citizens of United States, of good character and tenn perate habits, who can speak, reao and write the English language. For information apply to Recruiting Officer, 62 Cannon St.. Bridgeport Conn.
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POSITIONS.

UNION BUSINESS COLLEGE, Main and Congress streets, has educated $500 students in shorthand, type writing and bookkeeping. If you want position, and want to be kept in position, attend Union Business Calleze It is the leading sehooI. L23aS>
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STAR PRESS prints business cards, envelopes, bill heads. statements, tickets, programs, show cards, cir cuIars. Low prices first class work Jacob Schneider. Prop, 16-1S Kos suth St., corner Stratford Ave Phone 25oS-12. Union office.
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Situations Wanted

WANTED-Position by young lady, as secretary, stenographer and gen eraI business work, in offfce- Have had 10 years experience in New York At present employed. Best of references. Address Secretary, care of Farmer. L2S d"
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wANTFD.-One hundred laborers to work on the construction of Morris Dam. $2.OO per day. Good board
 ing accornm odat1on. No labor trou- bIe The Ryan-Unmack Co.,, Thon- ssto- Conn. R 21 aSS
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NIGHT SCHOOL.

UNION BUSINESS COLLEGE, Main and Congress streets, has the best night school ever conducted in this city. Shorthand, typewriting, book keeping and English by the same instructors as in the day school
 Write or call for new catalogue. En- roll now. Office open evenings. Telephone to 146. L23 a s *
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WANTED-Position by a reliable young man, 24 years old, as a col Iector, salesman, or any outside po- sition References. Address R. H. C. care of Evening Farmer or Phone 35S-2. APO "tf
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GOOD PRINTING AT LOW PRICES. 100 cards, statements, bill heads. envelopes, note heads. or circulars Reilly St. U22 ~tf
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Merchants Exchange

get your Keys fitted, locks repaired saws filed, lawn mowers sharpened, and all kinds of light repairing done at Smiths Gun Store, 95 Wall Street Telephone 4293-S
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POSITION WANTED-By man cap able of taking charge of office and making himself useful at anything. Good at figures and writing. Ad- dress c. L., care of Farmer Pub. Go TIT %tf
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To Rent -si , x

TO RENT.-Nieely furnished rooma in strictly respectable family ozb Fairfield Ave. Phone 35S-S.
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If the motorist can figure one chance in two for getting across in front of a. fast train, he should take the risk, or his record for the run will be spoiled.
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WANTED.-sewing machine repair ing. Call or phone 2557-5, Sz4 B. Main St. Kruchkow Bros.
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FOR SALE.-Square plano. We need the room so will sell for $15.0O. Good value for small price. Stein ert's, 915 Main St., near State.
 l. 28 b O
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FURNISHED ROOM TO RENT, well appointed electric lights, steam heat, hot water, private bath, pri3
 vate phone if desired, in select MapIewood Ave. with private fam
 fly. Can be seen by appointment only. References exchanged. Ad. dress P. O. Box 450. U26 ~L
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Now that the corn crop is going to be larger than was expected and everyone will have his Johnny cake as usual. the stock market bears feel lprettZ gloomy.
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Help Wanted

WANTED. = General wood worker one accustomed to wheel work. Good wages right man. fl High St.
 Ansonia, Ct l. 70
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SHORE PROPERTY FOR SALE.

FOR SALE.-5OO building lots over looking Long Island Sound; water, gas, trolley service: s2OO up; thfrty- five waterfront lots, fine beach; sew eral new cottages. modern fmproVs- ments; bargains for quick sales. B. L. Nettleton, Milford, Conn.
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FOR RENT-Rooms for naanu7acSufE ing or storage, Gledhi1l 6 Co.,, z24 Water St. RS ~u
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Uncla.ssifed

NEW HOME SEWING MACHINES removed to 50 Courtland St. Geo.
 H. BesseI. Tel. 2712. L 28 b*p
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gTEAArBOATa
MERCHANT'SLTNE

Daily Except Sunday
 Leaves New York, Pier 10, Ea1d River D. m. Due at BridRepOFE. S:SO D. m. Leave Bridgeport Joy Laua Dock, a. m. Arrive New York 2 e. m For further information and retes apply to ,. B. SheDard. Agent
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Printers and stationers

MANUFACTURERS PRIN N C. Time Cards. Order Slips, Pay En- velopes, Tags, Lab1es, etc. Lowest Prices Best Work. Siksay 83 Reilley street. U "A If 4
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XOU CAN'T BEAT Casca-f.ax1ne tab- Let's for constdpatdon- Try them.
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LOCKsMTrH AND HARDWARE.
Financial

THE CONNECTICUT NATIONAL, BANK. of Bridgeport, corner Main President; H. S. Shelton, Vice Pres- ident; l.. H. Powe. Cashier; T. C. Cumming, Assistant Cashier. Cap ,itaI, $332,1OO; Surplus ard Prodts Lump, $3SO, 900.
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Photography

of films and plates for amateurs, first class work guaran- teed- Armstrong-Whitm Studio Park and Fairfield Ayes. T2 ate
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BEFORE SELLING YOUR JUNK it Will pay to see us first; also buy and sell bottles. Bufferd Junk Co.,, 116 Knowlton St. Telephone 2355-5.
 L 12 s
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INDELIBLE INK. stamping outfits for marking clothing, house linens, etc. Engraving, seals, medals, badges, and hand stamps of every description. The Schwerdt1e Stamp Co.,, Al Cannon St. LBS d*
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For Safe

FOR SALE-Fine two family house, rented, paying per cent. on Sl'Oo"- In select locality. For complete in formation address Box 450, Bridge port. l. { 5
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Storage Warehouses

STORAGE OF FURNITUREzse rate rooms, securely locked, furni- ture and china packing. Furniture and pianos removed, large vans careful handling. Bridgeport Stor- age Warehouse Co.,, 1285 Main St, Cor. Congress St. Tel. 1e34-2.
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STAR PRESS PRINTS BUSINESS cards, envelopes, bill heads, state ments, tickets, programs show cards, circulars, etc. Low prices, first class work. Jacob Schneider, Prop, 16-1S Kossuth St, corner Stratford Ave. Phone 908-3.
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FOR SALE.-Another slightly used Player Piano with 24 rolls of music. Fine mahogany case and a perfect instrument in every way. We offer this one for $450.OO. Convenient payments. Steinert's, 915 Main St., near State. L.28 b*o
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AsTERs FOR SALE. 25c dozen. PIP Wells street. l. 70 o
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-12-04
SOCIETY WITH HIGH PURPOSE
Safeguarding Of Human LIE ths
Idea of Recently Instituted or
ganlzation.

Believing that human life IS worm
more than a dollar, Abraham Lincoln
Graham, owner of printing shop III
Manhattan, has organized the Soci'
etv for the Protection of Life.
Mr.. Graham was the father OF a
child who was killed by a trolley car
in Jersey City five years ago. he
brought an action against the COM
many because he believed 1t had been
negligent, and the jury gave verdict
for one dollar, in effect holding tna'
a cbild's life is worth only one dol-
lar. This came to- be. known as the
dollar life" case.
Mr.. Graham and those ASSOCIATED
with him II. the new society oeileVe
that they can increase the valuation
of human life In the courts, but man
" their object is to prevent accidents
rather than to obtain redress, after
accidents have happened. They III
tend to teach children to cross streets
with caution, not to play VIII
matches. and to avoid hazardous pas
times. They also expect to be abe
to reduce the number of fires ana &C
cidents in factories.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-12-04
ALWAYS WILLING TO oBuGE
Accommodating Man Must Have Mace
Considerable Of a Hit With
Storekeeper.

A certain class of shOpkeepers try
To force their wares upon passers-by-
A traveller determined 10 teach one
Of these a lesson. The offender was
a clothing dealer. and had a way Oh
almost dragging people into his place
One day the traveller stopped for a
moment-to examine a coat hanging In
front OF the establishment. when out
darted the clotbier. who asked:
Wont you try on one OF those
coats?'
Il don't know but l will" responded
the traveller, consulting his watch. L
have some time to spare. Yes"
He went in; but no matter how
often he found his fit, he called for
more coats. Finally. when he had
tried on thirty or more. he looked at
his watch, resumed his own garment
and walked out. saying as he went:
Good day, old chap. | won't charge
you anything for what I've done. !
believe in a man who'll oblige an
other when he can. II I'm ever this
way again and you have any more
coats to try on I'll do all can to help
you"
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-12-04
RINGWoRM ITcHED TERRIBLY

1545 Aisquith ST.. Baltimore, Md
envy children were afflicted with what
they called ringworm OF the scalp
contracted from a house-cat they were
playing with. The ringworm formed
on their scalps about the size OF d
silver dollar and their hair fell out
leaving a round scale or crust on their
scalps. Their hair fell out In rouno
spots. There was terrible itching ana
thew scratched till the blood came
They were very fretful and could not
sleep at night, and they were very
cross. .--,
"They were treated for several
months with no improvement whatso-
ever. was told they would never
have any hair and would always DC
bald. Then l began using Cutlcura
Soap in connection with Cutlcura
Ointment and the first week l coulu
see the wonderful remedies were 90
ing all they we're claimed to do and IN
ak weeks time they were entirely
cured. They all have a beautitul
growth of hair" (Signed) Mrs. SADIE
Pollock, Jan. l, 1913. =,
Cuticura Soap and Ointment SOLO
throughout the world. Sample OF eacn
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post
card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston. ADV