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VINCENT’S LAST APPEAL ♦ CLOSE OF THE ARGUMENT IN BEHALF OF AIJOLPH LtETGERT. * Juror* Ankrd Not to Take the Life of a Man Who Has Lost His Fortune, His Liberty and His Wife. ♦- CHICAGO, Oct. 16.—The last word in defense of Adolph Luetgert has been spoken. Former Judge Vincent, chief counsel for the defense In the great murder trial, closed his address to the jury this afternoon. As he bowed to the jury and took bis seat an outburst of applause shook the courtroom. The jurymen stood up and the court bailiffs shouted in vain for order. Several hysterical ladies were escorted from the room. Judge Tuthill ordered the jury to its room and delivered himself very forcibly on what he called a disgraceful scene. This was the last day of the eight weeks during which the trial has been in progress, and Attorney Vincent, after again reviewing the evidence of the bone experts and severely arraigning the witnesses for the state, some of whom he styled “mechanics,” referred in a touching manner to the associations formed during the trial. “And now, gentlemen of the jury,” he said, in conclusion, “the ever-moving hands upon the dial of yonder clock warn me that the usual hour of adjournment has arrived. I must cease pleading and leave the case in your hands. I have fought the fight and keot me faith to the very best of my ability. What I have done has been done with an abiding conviction that it was right. For two months we have been closely associated in the trial of one of the greatest cases of the day. Soon we must separate to go our several ways and again take up our different lines of duty. But before I leave you I desire to thank you, on behalf of my client, my associate and myself, for the close attention you have paid to this trial. And now, gentlemen, after all that has been said against Luetgert, and which has been swept away by the clear sunlight of truth, would it not be like shooting an oid messmate in the back to find a verdict of guilty against him?” A hush fell over the courtroom at these words. Turning again to the jury, Judge Vincent concluded: “He has lost his liberty, fee has lost his name, he has lost his fortune,'he has lost his wife. Will he lose his *fe?” / r Jne of the incidents of the session this morning was the appearance at the Mich-igan-street entrance of the courtroom of a woman who wore a man's straw hat and goggles. A guard who asked her name understood the woman to reply that she was Mrs. Luetgert. In five minutes the report that Mrs. Luetgert had returned and was in the Criminal Court building circulated throughout the big building. People poured out of the courtrooms and offices. .Deputy sheriffs rushed to the Michiganstreet entrance of the building, and great excitement prevailed for a few minutes. It developed later that the woman was a teacher of German, who is instructing the daughters of Judge Tuthill. When his Honor arrived at the building he took the teacher of German to his courtroom with him. Judge Tuthill also took a party of twenty, pr'ncipally women, into court with him. The visitors had been waiting in one of the corridors of the Criminal Court building for over an hour for the appearance of his Honor, and they formed into line and tripped in after the judge in military style and secured the best seats, much to the disgust of the less favored, who stood in line before the courtroom while another crowd lined up on the pavement in front of the Michigan-street entrance to the building. Luetgert was unusually jolly this morning. The argument of his counsel pleases him. “Vincent is ail right, and he is giving them the right kind of a talk,” said Luetgert this morning. “He is reasoning with the jury; that is better than trying to tell them what they must do according to the law.” Ex-Judge Vincent resumed his argument at the opening of court and at once began to ridicule bone experts. "This man Sergeant Spangler deserves promotion,” said Luetgert's chief counsel, as he waved his hand in the direction of the police officer referred to. “He is a much smarter man than Chief of Police Kipley. It was no trick at all for him to step over to the Luetgert sausage factory after all the bone experts had depicted their bones ami find a femur—the only femur of a woman-just the kind of a bone that w-as wanted. Then there is Professor Dorsey, a nice, fresh, " ' "" " " ■ -T Official facsimile of Medal Awarded DR. PRICE’S CRMM BJUUNG POWDER I WIBM X , j VSfa-HDCttXCn- WttCKlilWORLD’S FAIR,CHICAGO, 1893

pleasant young man. I’d like to trot with him—or, rather, I should have liked to havq, done so in my younger days. He is clever, but he does not know it all—not all there is to be known about bones. Yet he was very positive on the witness stand that he knew more than any other osteologist called in this case, and his assurance on the witness stand simply made him ridiculous.” Ex-Judge Vincent continued to “roast” the experts for the prosecution, while he protected and lauded the experts for the defense. He talked about the soap making in the factory, and positively declared that there was nothing strange about it, and that the reason for making the soap had been fully explained. Ex-Judge Vincent closed his address with the words quoted above. As he finished the crowd in the courtroom broke into applause, which the bailiffs vainly tried to subdue. Judge Tuthill, his face flushed with auger, stood up and commanded the applause to cease, and as soon as he could be heard he ordered the courtroom cleared. Pointing directly at a woman who sat in the front row of seats, and who had been among the most vigorous In her approval of Judge Vincent’s peroration, he said: “There sits a woman who is present in this courtroom by courtesy. I brought her here myself. She has abused my kindness, and. Mr. Bailiff, I desire that she be removed from the room.” . Soon after this incident court adjourned until Monday, when State’s Attorney Deneen will close tho case. Judge Tuthill will probably deliver his charge to the jury on Tuesday, when the case will go to the jury. Betting is going on in Chicago pool rooms on the verdict of the jury. Sports who declare the corpus delicti has not been shown sufficiently to warrant conviction are said to be offering bets of 60 to 40 on the proposition that Luetgert will be acquitted. DIMINUTION OF SEALS. Some of the Henson* Pointed Out by Dr. David Starr Jordan. MINN EAPOILS, Minn., Oct. 16.—Dr. David Starr Jordan, en route to the international sealing conference, corrects an error into which ex-Minister Phelps and others seem to have fallen when they commended a thirty-mile closed zone for sealing around islands belonging to the United States. He says a sixty-mile closed zone is already in effect. “Asa matter of fact, the strictest regulations governing the American herd have been of no avail. The natural increase of the breeding herd is about 7 per cent. Since 1885 the American herd has fa.len from 600,000 breeding females to 130,000; the Russian herd from 300,000 to 60,000; the Kurile herd from about 40,000 to I,2oo—that part of it now belonging to Japan now numbering three females, as against 25,000 formerly. The sole cause of decline has been in all cases the same—indiscriminate killing of females. For this great internationai crime, two nations are solely responsible. They are Great Britain and the United States. One great obstacle to the success of negotiations in the past is the fact that we have never come into any conference with clean hands. American hands have destroyed one-third of our own herd, which once had a cash value of $25,000,000, and more than half the devastation of other herds has been due to American enterprise. We have allowed our pirates to destroy the seal herds of ourselves and our neighbors just as we allow squatters to burn off forests to improve the feed for their sheep. If nations were as honest and just in their dealings as private citizens are forced to be, the whole seal controversy couid be settled in a day. And it must be settled.” COOLER WEATHER TO-DAY. Partly C'londy Skies and Po**ll>ly Showers in Southern Indiana. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—Forecast for twenty-four hours ending 8 p. m., Sunday. For Ohio—Partly cloudy weather, possibly lignt local showers; decidedly cooler; fresh to brisk northerly winds. For Indiana and Illinois—Partly cloudy weather; possibly light showers in southern portions; cooler, northerly winds. Local Observations Saturday. Bar. Ther. F..H. Wind. Weather. Pro 7a. m.. 30.20 65 52 Soutn. P'tCl'dy. 0.00 7p. m.. 30.18 68 71 North. Clear. 0.00 Maximum temperature, 85; minimum temperature, 66. Following is a comparative statement of the temperature and precipitation Oct. 16: Temp. Pre. Normal 55 0.09 Mean 75 0.00 Departure from normal *2O —0.09 Departure since Oct. 1 *155 —1.24 Departure since Jan. 1 *7B —2.66 •Plus. C. F. R. WAPPENHANS, Local Forecast Official.

Yesterday’* Temperatures. Stations. 7a. m. Max. 7p. m. Calgary, N. W. T 34 Cairo, 111 66 84 72 Cheyenne, Wyo 28 30 24 Chicago, 111 70 74 52 Cincinnati, 0 58 84 18 Concordia, Kan 40 46 44 Davenport, la 60 60 54 Des Moines, la. 44 54 62 Dodge City, Kan 38 42 40 Kansas City, Mo 56 58 52 Little Rock, Ark 64 80 88 Memphis, Tenn 66 86 78 Nashville, Tenn 56 88 80 North Platte, Neb 34 46 40 Oklahoma. O. T 66 72 60 Omaha, Neb 40 52 50 Pittsburg, Pa 66 88 78 Rapid City, S. D 32 50 42 Salt Lake City, Utah 38 50 42 St. Louis. Mo 70 86 72 Springfield, ill 68 78 66 Springfield, Mo 66 80 74 Vicksburg, Miss 64 86 78 Quaker* Suffered front Heat. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 16.—The thermometer at the government weather bureau today registered 87 degrees from 12 until 2 o'clock. The heat broke all records of the bureau for this time of the year. The temperature has never exceeded 87 degrees in October, and only on two occasions. Oct. 3, 1879, and Oct. 1, 1881, has it equaled that record. Hot Time in Boston. BOSTON, Oct. 16.—The temperature in this city at 8 o’clock was 72 degrees, at 9 o’clock 75 degrees, and at 10 o’clock over 80 degrees. Paul Schneider, a laborer, was overcome by the heat and is in a serious condition. Marvelous Pictures. Hundreds of people stopped before Bow r enMerrili's window yesterday to admire the beautiful display of colored carbon photos on exhibition there. They will remain there all week and it would repay a special trip down town to see them. They represent some recent work made at the Kitchell Residence Studio (old) 614 North Pennsylvania street. Free carbon offer lasts but two weeks more.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1897.

GERMANS ARE WROTH THEY THINK THE DINGLEY LAW IS INJURING THEIR TRADE. ♦ Editors Are Ratling at the United States Without Proper Investigation of the Facts. FARMERS WANT TARIFF WAR WHILE OTHERS FAVOR NEGOTIATION OF A RECIPROCITY TREATY. ■ f Nothing Likely to Be Done Until the Cabinet Crisis Has Passed—Prince Henry of Reuss Insane. (Copyright, 1897, by the Associated Press.) BERLIN, Oct. 16.—Soon after the new United States tariff went into effect the officials of the American embassy informed the German government that the United States was willing to begin negotiations for a reciprocity treaty under Clauses 3 and 4. No answer of any kind has thus far been made but preparations are actually making to open negotiations, although the pace is very slow. The question is being thoroughly considered in the Imperial Departments of the Interior and Finances, as well as in the German Foreign Office, the officials of that department of the government being engaged in collecting and compiling statistics for ascertaining not only the effects of the new tariff of the United States on the different branches cf German industry, but with a view of the possibility of extending new branches of goods into the German exports. One of the principles in conducting this work is Herr Wermuth, the former German commissioner at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, while the statistical branch is wholly in charge of Baron Von Thielmann, formerly German embassador at Washington and now secretary of the imperial treasury. The fact, however latent, that the Cabinet crisis is still on and is considered to only end with the departure of Prince Hohenlohe, necessarily retards the whole work of the reciprocity treaty preliminaries. * * * Erroneous and misleading reports as to the effects of the new United States tariff on German industries continue to appear in the press. Consul General Goldschmidt has just compiled an official list of German exports, from which it appears that while there h;is been a great decrease in exports for the quarter ending Sept. 30, largely due to the very haste in crowding exports to America, prior to the Dingley bill becoming a law, the derease in the whole of Germany is only 34 per cent., and not 56 per cent., as reported by the Kreuz Zeitung. Mr. Goldschmidt points out that the decrease is mostly in sugar, as evidenced by the fact that during the third quarter of 1896 the sugar exports from Germany to the United States were valued at $6,669,955, while in the second quarter of 1897, anticipating the passage of the Dingley bill, the exports of German sugar to the United States were nearly double that amount, nearly $13,980,597, but for the third quarter of 1897 the sugar exports of Germany to the United States were under $900,000 in value. The sugar exported during the fiscal year of 1896-1897, ending in August, amounted to $30,227,668, showing an enormous excess as compared with normal years. How terrific was the crowding of German exports in anticipation of the Dingley bill becoming law is shown by the fact that while during the second quarter of 1896 the figures were only $13,837,108 for the Berlin district; during the second quarter of 1897 the amount reached $24,849,167 for the Berlin district alone, comprising only the northern half of Germany, while for the whole of Germany the figures were about $51,000,000 against $26,000,000 for the same quarter of 1896. In other words, the German exporters dscounted their trade in anticipation of the passage of the Dingley bill for a whole quarter in advance. The German press here, with a few exceptions, has not looked the above facts squarely in the face. Even the Cologne Gazette, which has immense influence in western Germany, publishes this week statistics claiming to show the disastrous effects of the Dingley tariff law. The National Zeitung says: “Everybody has known that the Dingley tariff bill would injure German inudstry, and the question is what can be done on the German side to neutralize the injury? A tariff war such as the Agrarians want would only render the situation more acute.” The Deutsche Zeitung, a leading Agrarian organ, after speaking of the continued flow of money from Europe to America, says: “If it should prove that the commercial intercourse between Europe and the United States continued, as at present, to necessitate an outflow of gold to America and a chronic stiffening of the European money market, the European countries which this year will have to pay about 500,000,000 marks for American cereals in excess of their exports, will be compelled to organize joint measures for self-defense.” Under these circumstances it is not surprising that the growing feeling of animosity against the United States finds expression even in the Liberal and Radical papers, which have hitherto been friendly to America. It is significant, for instance, that Herr Max Schipperel, a Socialist member of the Reichstag, has declared, in behalf of the other forty-seven Socialist members of the House, the willingness of the Socialist faction to aid the government in any measures calculated to bring about a state of commercial interchange with the United States more favorable to Germany than at present. * * * • * * The senetnce imposed on the editor of the Hamburg Echo, Herr Reinhold Stenzel, who was committed to eight months’ imprisonment after being tried on the change of lese majesty, in asserting that King Leopold of Belgium had habitually encouraged gambling, and who has since been released on 5,000 marks bail, and the case of< Herr Liebknecht, the Socialist leader, whose appeal to the Supreme Court against the sentence of four months’ imprisonment passed upon him in 1895 for lese majesty committed in his speech at the opening of the Socialist Congress at Breslau, in October of that year, has been dismissed, which necessitates his undergoing the term of imprisonment, continue to agitate the newspapers, and periodicals of every shade of opinion demand that the Reichstag abolish Section 103 of the Penal Code, under which Herr Stenzel was convicted. • • • The income tax bill introduced in the Bavarian chambers is modeled upon the law of Prussia, but on a scale averaging 50 per cent, lower. * * * The official report on the effects of the exclusion of cattle and meats from most of the German frontiers shows that only 2.4 per cent, of the total consumption is imported. Since Oct. 14, .1894, not a single head of American cattle nor a pound of American fresh beef has been imported * * • During the past week snow has fallen and cold weather has prevailed in western Germany, * * * The condition of Prince Henry of Reuss, who is confined in a private asylum for the insane in this city, is rapidly growing worse, and the family has begun proceedings to have him declared irresponsible. It appears that the prince, before he was placed in confinement, did several sensational things. He ordered of a Berlin jeweler diamonds and other jewelry to the value of 900,000 marks, and the jewels have since disappeared. He also presented his valet, a mar. named Schneider, with a deed of a house in Berlin worth 1,200,000 marks. * * * Max Biradkblra, a German-American actor, who is well known in New York, Chicago and Milwaukee, has created, at the Goethe Theater, the leading part in anew comedy, entitled “Tyrant’s of Fortune,” by Baron Von Zobelitz, which has scored a great success, and which is going to America. • • * Albert Duering, a German-American Socialist. was expelled during the week by the

police of Scharmbeck, Hanover, two hours after his arrival there to visit relatives. * * • The first shipment of American butter has arrived at Hamburg in excellent condition, and found a ready market at prices slightly lower than the German, averaging to the American butter cents per pound. Rudolph Nunnemach£r, of Milwaukee, son-in-law of Frederick Pabst, the wellknown brewer, who has been passing part of his honeymoon in Berlin, has left this city on his way to Paris. * * * Captain Wiburg, of Cincinnati, who accompanied Gen. Nelson A. Miles through Europe, has sailed for home, * * * At the reception to the members of the leprosy conference at the new palace at Potsdam, on Friday, by the Emperor and Empress, his Majesty conversed at length with the American delegates, Drs. Gatewood and Kinyon, about leprosy and the danger in the United States. SOCIALISM CONDEMNED. Paper Read by Rev. A. E, Craig at the Civic Philanthropic Conference. BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Oct. 16—The trend of papers and discussions at the Civ-ic-Philanthropic Conference during the week has been quite socialistic. To-day Rev. A. E. Craig, of Albion College, read a paper on “Ethics of Socialism,” in which he denounced socialistic doctrines and created something of a sensation. He gave a review of socialism and outlined socialistic teachings. He said that the ethical idea of socialism was not a lofty one. It rejected religion and morals; it destroyed incentive and aspiration, and, in practice, would break up the homes. The equality attained under that system would be a dead level of mediocrity. If medical well-being was assured there would be no effort. Necessity is the mother of invention. The best development must come through personal development. Socialism is the outcome of materialistic philosophy. Miss Clara Morehouse, secretary of the King’s Daughters in Chicago, gave an outline of work in that city and Its purposes. Dr. George Hoover, superintendent of the Home Finding Association of Chicago, explained the good being done by that organization. This afternoon the Very Rev. Dean W. R. Harris, of St. Catherines, Ont., read a paper on “Organized Charity.” He is a Catholic priest and caused great applause by saying: “We all worship one God, but bend the knee at different altars and hope tho time will come when the barriers of religious prejudice will be forever broken down. Every largo city has Its destitute population, consisting of two classes, those who will not and those who will w'ork. There are alsq, the drunkard and the criminal classes kept at public expense. The task is easy to maintain the helpless compared with the task to maintain the idle and undeserving. Organized charity prevents waste, abuse and imposture. It is one common field in which men of all beliefs and no belief work side by side in the cause of humanity. It. means personal investigation in all individual cases and detection of impostures. It is comparison and exchange of information in confidence Charitable people should give their money to existing organized charities.” Rev. Arthur Edwards, editor of the Northwestern Christian Advocate, of Chicago, read a paper on “The Press and Social Reform.” "If we have too many presses of the wrong kind, let us provide more presses of the right kind,” he said. “There is such a thing as fighting fire with fire. There is an inky foe to he faced. Some products of the printing press recently discovered and seized by a committee e the Chicago Civic Federation would make a decent man blush. Books, engravings and scenes which would horrify Sodom are sold by the wagon load in and near some of the most aristocratic hotels and public schools. It has been difficult to punish the venders of this pernicious reading matter. I am in despair because of the impossibility of convincing people of these facts. My doctrine is the displacement of bad books by good books. The misapplied press is a powder wffiich can be met on its own grounds alone. In past time God called men to preach the gospel. The call remains, but the most potent Instrument of obedience is the pin. Men who are now called to preach must print their sermons. My special comfort is that the cheapness of popular books has compelled the use of cheap white paper. It is so poor that it crumbles, turns yellow and seems to poison itself to death. Its sin has found it out.” FREE RAILWAY RIDES. Privilege Granted Shareholders of the Chieago Great Western. CHICAGO, Oct. 16.—The directors of the Chicago Great Western road have adopted a resolution declaring that any holder of five or more shares of the capital stock of the company which has been registered for at least six months prior to the meeting, on application to the secretary of the company at least ten days prior to any annual meeting of the company, shall be entitled each year for the next five years, and thereafter until the further order of Ihe board, to free transportation from the station on the road nearest his or her residence to Chicago and return, good going four days prior to and returning four days after the meeting. President Stickney says the company has a large number of local stockholders living at all important towfis on the line, and it is desired to increase their interest in the property. E. & R. to Be Operated at Once. Special to the Indianapona Journal. SEYMOUR, Ind., Oct. 16.—This morning Thomas J. Clark, city treasurer, received a draft for $190!63 in full payment of the taxes of the Evansville & Richmond Railroad. The county tax, amounting to $605.40, was also paid. The folio ving telegram from New York to Jason B. Brown, is self-ex-planatory, and should put at rest the false stories published in other papers about the Journals story in regard to the early resumption of traffic on the line: “Evansville & Richmond Railroad property has passed to ownership of John R. Walsh, of Chicago. Entire line will be at once repaired and equipped in first-class condition and put in operation. Will be at Seymour Sunday morning. Please engage double team for me that day. Will receive telegram here, Buckingham Hotel, until this 6 p. m. F. M. TRISSAL.” Superintendent Thompson has put men on every section who are engaged in lining up the track and next week two gravel trains will be put on. Panhandle Earnings. CHICAGO, Oct. 16.—Earnings of the Panhandle road for the month of September: Gross, $1,352,677, against $1,176,787 for the same month last year, an increase of $175,890; net earnings, $561,247, against $434,285 for the month last year, an increase of $126,962; surplus, $346,097, against $193,046 last year, an increase of $153,051. For nine months the gross earnings of the road have been $10,736,821, against $10,875,619 for the corresponding period last year, a decrease of $139,596; net earnings, $3,324,642, against $2,914,967 last year, an increase of $409,675; surplus, $1,027,252, against $511,555 last year, an increase for the nine months of $515/697. General Olliees to Be Moved. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, ind., Oct. 16.—Construction of the eastern extension of the Findlay, Fort Wayne & Western Railway will be commenced east from Findlay within a very few 7 weeks. The extension from Fort Wayne west will also be commenced about the same time. In connection with this, information reached the city, bused on good authority, that the general offices will soon be removed from this city to Findlay. General Manager Bissell w 7 as seen this evening, but would not deny nor affirm the rumor. He said if such were the case the change would not take place for some time. The Commission Question. CHICAGO, Oct. 16.—1 t has been found Impossible to carry out the agreement of Western roads regarding commissions in territory east of the Missouri river. While the Union Pacific and the Burlington pay $5 commissions on Denver business, to restrict roads having lines east of the river only to 75-cent commissions would be to shut them out most effectually from all participation in transmissourj business. All of them have, therefore, returned to the payment of $2.50 and $3 commissions to the Missouri river amd St. Paul. New Board of Directors. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CARBON, ind., Oct. 16.—At a special meeting of the stockholders of the Fort Wayne, Terre Haute & Southwestern Railroad Company, held here to-day, a new

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board of directors was elected, consisting of J. M. Dawson, Robert L. Engle, C. C. Cook, Edward A. Keshan and John D. Follett. This board wMll re-elect J. M. Dawson, of Cincinnati, as president. Railway ArroNi Newfoundland. ST. JOHNS, N. F„ Oct. 16.—The railway across the island of Newfoundland, 550 miles in length, has been completed and a triweekly service for mails and passengers, with the American continent was begun tonight by the steamer Bruce, built especially for the service. The steamer lands at Sydney C. 8., where she connects with the intercolonial railway, enabling passengers to reach all points on the American continent much more quickly than is possible by the existing routes. Acton Park Improvement*. The board of Acton Park Assembly, at a recent meeting, made arrangements to refund a part of the debt of the association and Superintendent Hodell was instructed to proceed at once with the lake improvements. Some weeks ago, when the regular meeting of the board was to have been held, three of the trustees, who found themselves unable to attend, sent in their resignations, thereby inadvertently breaking & quorum. The only reason they had for offering their resignations was to enable the board to take speedy action on the improvements, each one thinking that as he would not attend it would be well to permit the board to put someone in his place, thereby enabling it to go ahead with business without being embarrassed. None of them had any idea that a quorum would be broken, and later they all withdrew their resignations. The meeting recently held was a harmonious one and the affairs of the association were shown to be in excellent shape. It is thought that the lake improvements can be made in time to receive the benefit of the fall and winter rains, thereby making it possible to harvest a crop of ice for the use of the cottagers next assembly. G. W. Gadd, the secretary of the association, is enthusiastic on the outlook for next year’s season. ECZEMA TEN YEARS Suffered Untold Agonies. Limbs Swollen so Could Not Get About. Ablest Physicians Signally Failed. Was Absolutely Disheartened. Had Lost All Hope. Gave CUTICURA a Trial Which Resulted in Absolute and Perfect Cure. For ten years I suffered untold agonies from that dread disease Eczema, my lower limbs most of the time being so swollen and broken out that I could hardly go about. I had to wear slippers so that I could move about at all. My brother, a physician of thirty years’ practice and extensive experience, had tried in vain to effect a cure and signally failed. I tried other physicians of splendid ability with liko results, and had reached that point where I became absolutely disheartened, and in fact had lost all hope, when a friend (after long and continued persuasion) succeeded in inducing me to at least give Cuticura Remedies a trial. I shall never regret that I did so, and until my dying day 1 shall sing the praises of them. 1 used two cakes of Cimcctra Soap and two boxes of Cuticura (ointment), and it resulted in an absolute and permanent cure. I feel that I owe suffering humanity the debt of at least, in my feeble way, calling their attention to my case and absolute cure. I am now, 1 feel, perfectly cured, sound as a dollar, and the sweets of lifearestill mine, thank Clod,and toCuTicntA Remedies I attribute my almost miraculous cure. I refer all interested to the Postmaster of this place, any of the ministers, the prominent business nien, and all of the citizens of our vicinity indiscriminately,, and especially to my friend, John A. B. Shippey, attorney at law. who succeeded in persuading me to give Cuticura Remedies a trial. With profound gratitude, I remain your most enthusiastic admirer, DAVII> M. SAPP, Plymouth, 111. Dealer in Hardware, Stoves, etc. Bmrdy Cm Trratuent for alc Skis and Biood Homor* Warm bath, with COTier.A Soar, grotto application* of CUTK,TnA(.tiitmenl).thoeroatkiniMire. ami mild do*., of Cutlet rv Rr.olvcxt, greatest of bluod purifier, and humor core*. Sold throughout the world Pottbr D. AND C. CORN., Bole Prop... lio.ton, tMT " How to Cure Ecieuia,” Ire*. BEE! ROUGH HANDS S °tf l CcTe*i bOAi? ed

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