Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1899 — Page 6

THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE

By CAPT. FREDERIAP WHITTAKER

CHAPTER IX.—(Continued.) Blanche quickly noticed, among the mourners, a tall, stern-looking knight, with a haughty, disagreeable manner, and recognised the cousin, who was next in succession, and whom she knew her mother had always feared and disliked. It bad come to this, that, in consequence of the mad crusade of the children, the castle of her father had fallen to a stranger, and that her mother was liable to be turned out into the cold world, as soon as the funeral was over. Poor Blanche knew well enough that, by the famous “Salic Law,” neither she nor her mother could inherit the lands of which her brother Stephen was the rightful heir; but she knew also that, till Stephen was dead, they could resist the possession by their cousin, Gaston de Vaux, of the lands and castle. Thus It became necessary for her to dedare herself and tell the expectant heir that the Stephen he evidently thought dead, or as good as dead, was alive and would come back. She had not long to wait, as the procession broke up; for her mother, turning toward home, caught sight of her; and in a moment there was a scene of confusion and excitement, as the poor widow, who bad thought herself childless, rushed to her daughter and clasped her to her breast, weeping, chiding, blessing and protesting, all in a breath, while she overwhelmed her with questions, the while that the expectant heir stood by, scowling at the girl he knew well and meditating what to do to secure the inheritance he was determined not to lose. But even in those days, which we call "barbarous,” there was some decency of public opinion; and Gaston de Vaux did not dare to turn the widow and orphan out of the home they had so long occupied without a show of justice. He pretended polite interest in both, accompanied them to the castle, Inquired of Blanche what news she brought of the Children’s Crusade, and lamented the fate which had taken the count from his domains “in the prime of bis life,” as he ■aid. Then Blanche heard from her mother how her father had died, and shuddered as she thought that, but for that wretched crusade, he might have been spared many a long year. It seemed that the count, ' after his return home and the discovery that both his children had deserted him, as he thought, had become morose and solitary in his habits, taking his only enjoyment, or rather his only consolation, under his affliction, by trying to drown bls sorrows in drink. He, who had been the most temperate of men, like most people in southern countries, had become, in the short interval between the departure of his son and the return of his daughter to the castle, a furious drunkard, who never stopped in his potations till he had become insensible to •verything round him. In one of those orgies, when he had been surrounded by his men-at-arms, who were drinking with him and his cousin, Gaston de Vaux, the old count had been drawn into an angry controversy about the crusade in which his son had embarked, had drawn his sword and tried to kill his cousin. Being disarmed by his men, who saw that be was no longer conscious of what he was doing, he flew into such a furious passion that he had burst a blood vessel in his head and had fallen dead, almost in an instant, the day before Blanche arrived at the castle, hie funeral having been hurried on by the expectant heir. And after the story had been told, and the question remained: What should be done to ransom the young heir of the castle? Gaston was the person who displayed the most anxiety to be allowed to help in raising the ransom. He insisted on remaining in the castle, “to protect his cousins in their inheritance against the possible assaults of the robbers who sometimes come'even into Provence.” The poor women, glad of any protection, and beginning to think that they had misjudged the character of their cousin, consented to this scheme, and the result was that Gaston de Vaux brought to the castle quite a number of his own men-at-arms, whom he quartered in the room of the late old de Vaux retainers, and gradually introduced, till the whole garrison was devoted to him. Then, when Blanche and her mother were away at Vanduse and among the neighboring counts trying to raise the sum that had been stipulated as the ransom, without which the boy count could not be allowed to return to his home, Gaston threw off the mask and seised the castle of Vaux, declaring himself the count, and proclaiming that his cousin Stephen had been slain by the Turks, which most people believed bn the word of a rich man like Gaston. As soon as he had accomplished his purpose, the new count, abandoning the pretense of affection for his cousins that he had kept up till he gained possession of the castle and lands of Vaux, turned them out of the home they had enjoyed so long, and coolly bade them. If they wanted to get back, to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and beg the freedom of Stephen from the Grand Turk, if they still dreamed that be was alive. Thus, at one stroke, the poor countess found herself deprived of home, husband and son, and reduced to beggary in her ffiße; tor, in those times, there were no such things as “settlements” in France, KnAthe reign of law was precarious in the arid* of the various dvll Wars and quarL Ba? whom

nothing seemed to terrify, the countess must have sunk under her misfortunes. As it was, with the assistance of her daughter and Father Hildebrand, who seemed to be roused out of his apathy as soon as there was a chance to work for the good of others, she secured a shelter in a convent, of which the lady abbess was a relative of the dead count, while Blanche and the hermit continued their efforts through the country to secure the ransom of the captives. They traveled far and wide through France, their sad story attracting Sympathy wherever they went; but as time passed on and the fate children grew more distant, the collections became more and more scanty, till they ceased altogether. Three thousand of the children had been ransomed, and news came that the Turkish prince was weary of the delays, and had determined to sell the rest of his captives in the market in Egypt, without waiting for any more money from France. Sold they were, all but Stephen, the boys to be turned into mamelukes, who were Christian slaves compelled to profess the faith of the prophet Mohammed, and trained as enemies of the very faith for which they had madly taken the cross. Of poor Stephen nothing was heard, and as time went on, Hildebrand sank under the weight of his years and the remorse to which he had been subject ever since the failure of the crusade. Then poor Blanche was left alone in the world, and with the firm determination which had always distinguished her character, resolved that she would find her brother alive or dead, if she had to go to Jerusalem on foot. In those wild days, with all their lack of what we call “civilization,” there was one advantage possessed by the poorest: The garb of a pilgrim to Jerusalem, consisting of a brown woolen robe, with a broad hat, in which was stuck a scallop shell, enabled the wearer to travel safely in every Christian country without any money, for it was counted a shame to refuse alms to a pilgrim. Blanche de Vaux, after visiting her mother at the convent,” took the pilgrim’s staff and made her way on foot through Italy to Venice, and thence across the whole of what are now Servia and Bulgaria, to the city of Constantinople, that had been in the possession of the Greek Emperor Comnenus till the year 1204, when the crusaders, under Baldwin, Count of Flanders, instead of fighting the Turks they had sworn to drive from the Holy City, had turned out their fellowChristian, Comnenus, and set up the Latin empire of Baldwin in his stead. It had been an act of the most barefaced robbery, but it had this advantage for poor Blanche that it enabled her to travel as far as the Hellespont in a nominally Christian country, where pilgrims were protected and welcomed. From Constantinople she was put across the Bosphorus in a boat, by charity, and then began the real perils and hardships of her journey, as she toiled on, on foot, through the country of the Turks she had beep accustomed to think of as “cruel infidels and wild beasts,” determined to suffer anything, so long as she found her brother Stephen. She had one hope in using the name of Prince Saphadim, whose gratitude she remembered well, and whom she told the Turks she met, she was going to see. This name she soon found to be a tower of strength; for Saphadim, it seemed, had been made sultan, and any person going to see him was sure of protection on the journey. It took the poor girl a long time to reach Jerusalem, for she had to walk every step of the way, as she had done from France, and was frequently stopped, and sometimes carried off, for a time, by the numerous robbers who infested the Turkish territory, who would keep her a prisoner a while, but always released her at last, when they had sent to some place, of which she was ignorant, to ascertain if her name was known to the Turkish sultan. In every instance the message came back that “the woman was to be allowed to depart in peace,” though no help was extended to her. It seemed strange to her that robbers should have such a respect for the name of the sultan, but she found out at last that what she thought common robbers were merely chieftains, like the barons in France, who claimed sovereignty over certain spots and the right of levying tribute on all the pilgrims that came tn their way. And as the poor girl could not pay for her release, she would have been sold for a slave many a time but for the potent spell of the name of Sultan Saphadim. At last, nearly four years after the illstarred enterprise of the Children’s Crusade, Blanche de Vaux reached Jerusalem, and boldly demanded an audience of the sultan. She was admitted to his presence at once, with the simplicity characteristic of the Moslem of that day when he became a sovereign. Saphadim the Turk, mindful of the precepts of the Koran, though not a Christian, showed the poor pilgrim a kindness no Christian had yet exhibited to her. At first he hardly recognized, in the emaciated, sunburned woman who came, the slender, beautiful girl who had saved him when a slave from the lash of the cruel crusader; but as soon as she spoke and reminded him who she was, the haughty young prince melted into tears at the pathetic story of her sufferings, and told her she should have any gift she asked for. Blanche pleaded only for the freedom at her brother, and Saphadim sent for Mm at

Aeaawn an/l waalyivqml Asa SriF aAMi vutc, anti iwuieu w.ioc anus ter Rteyhon, oneebrilHant young bey count of Vanduse, now a haggard, dart, emaciated slave, who had been toiling on the fortifications of Jerusalem, digging wells, carrying heavy blocks of stone for the masons, driven to Mo wart under the lash day after day till all the fire and impetuosity of his boyhood had been knocked out of him, and the young man of only twenty-two looked like one of forty. He had almost forgotten, in Ms misery, the face of his sister, and when she spoke to him could hardly believe her story. But at last they were sent away by the generous Sultan Saphadim, clothed at his expense, and supplied with money, in a ship which was about to sail tor Italy. They departed and were landed safely at Naples, whence they proceeded to France, still in the guise of pilgrims, as the safest dress in the disturbed state of the country, where Christians were fighting each other as fiercely as ever. As Stephen advanced through the midst of more familiar scenes, he gradually regained the balance of his mind, which had been almost fatally disturbed during his slavery, by the influence of the remorse that had preyed on him, at the sight of his companions dying by scores under the hardships which they might never have had to suffer had he not led them on that terrible Children’s Crusade. When he entered Provence and neared Ms father’s castle, he was much affected; but took his measures effectually to get back Ms inheritance. .He found it necessary to challenge the villain Gaston to the “trial by combat,” which was then a legal way of deciding an flwue at law; overthrew him, and finally regained his inheritance. There we might end his story, but for the question that occurs to us. How about the moral that lies hidden in it? Let Stephen himself give it in his words, in the old chronicle, from wMcfi these facts have been gleaned. “I hold to thia,” he says, in the quaint old Provencal, which we are obliged to translate for our modern readers, “that the empty tomb of Christ, though a desirable thing, is not worth the spilling of one drop of blood. And I hold, further, that a woman, in her love, will go further than a man in his valor; and that the same God is worshiped by Turk and Christian; so that the man who fights for his religion fights against Ms God.” (The end.) Copyright.

VALUE OF VARIOUS FURS.

Wide Reuse of Prices in the Different FV - -Am OOFTSe There are few commodities on the market wMch have a wider range In prices resulting from simple natural conditions than the popular brown furs, such as mink, otter and sable. Take the sable, for example. Scarfs of this fur of the same size and general appearance may be bought at prices ranging from $lO to SI,OOO. As far as the handiwork of man is concerned, the $lO scarf is in every way similar to the one selling for an advance ot 10,000 per cent. This great enhancement of value results first from the country in which the animal producing the fur grew to maturity and, second, from a certain variation in color, which gives the fur a richer appearance. There are three Important grades of sable in the market given different names for purposes of distinction. The fur know as Alaska sable is not sable at all, but simply the pelage of the plebeian skunk, made up to represent the genuine article. Scarfs of this may be purchased for $5. Stone marten is the cheapest genuine sable fur. This comes from comparatively temperate countries, and the price for scarfs is frequently as low as $lO. Marten is-the scientific name for the animal which the trapper calls the sable. The fur dealer in making up his lists borrows from both trapper and scientist After the stone marten the next most expensive sable is the Hudson Bay sable. Scarfs of this fur range in price from S2O upward. The most expensive of all is the Russian sable, which cannot be touched under SSO. In this classification the price increases with the coldness of the country producing the fur. There is another much more important grading, however, depending on color, and to this Is due the chief range in prices. In these soft brown furs the brunette type is much more esteemed than the blonde, and the fancy prices are exclusively paid for the darkest and richest skins. The Russian crown sable, which is the most expensive of all, comprises the pick of the dark skins from all over northern Siberia. Hundreds of dollars are sometimes paid for single pelts, but it is always the fur buyer who profits. The poor trapper, to whom the money would mean independence, is ignorant of fancy values and receives for his sable a fixed price, which is invariably gauged by the value of the poorest skins.

When the Wrong Hymn Wan Chosen

Two country clergymen had agreed to exchange pulpits on a certain date, says the Syracuse Standard. One of them made the following solemn announcement to Ms congregation on the Sabbath previous. “My dear brethren and sisters, I have have the pleasure of stating that on next Sunday the Rev. Zechariah B. Day will preach for you. Now ring two verses of Hymn No. 489, That Awful Day Will Surely Come.” And it took him some time to discover why the congregation smiled.

Differences in Opinion.

Now the divorce business is becoming so popular that any excuse serves to ■ever two once fond hearts forever, the day Is perhaps at band when a woman may leave her husband because she can no longer laugh at his jokes or back him up in hls wanderings from the narrow path of truth. There’s hope for everybody In this changing world. A half-way decent woman will ds anything to Mde a criminal who is her torse, , ■ ■■

REST IN ARLINGTON.

DEAD HEROES OF THE SPANISH WAR ARE BURIED. Solemn Ceremony at Washington la Unprecedented la the World’s History—Salutes Are Fired and Taps Are Sounded Over Graves of the Soldiers. An event unprecedented in the world’s history occurred at WasMngton Thursday, when 350 dead soldiers whose remains had been brought from Cuba and Porto Rico were interred at the national cemetery at Arlington. Va. The day was a solemn holiday, by proclamation of the President.- Flags were at b::l£ mast and department buildings are*-.- -.used. A great cortege, comprising all the military and naval forces stationed in the vicinity, escorted the remains to the beautiful resting place across the Potomac, where thousands of heroes of the civil war lie in weil-cared-for graves. Other nations have paid tribute to their fallen heroes, but none before so tenderly expressed its esteem of those who died. It is the first in history that private soldiers who were killed on foreign soil were brought back to their native land for interment. The transport Crook left this country two months ago with a small army of undertakers and grave diggers. The bodies of men who died, either in action or from disease, at San Juan, Guantanamo, Santiago and other points in Cuba and at Ponce, San Juan, Coamo, Guanica and other Porto Rican points, were disinterred and brought to New York. The sMp reached the metropolis last week. A large number of bodies were claimed by relatives and forwarded to them, but about 350 were sent to Washington tar interment in the national cemetery. Of the bodies that were buried nearly one-half are claimed, but laid to rest in Arlington at the wishes of relatives. To these the special privilege of a position within the lines was granted. Many others "beyond these lines looked on with moistened eyes upon the row of caskets. They knew not but what some Aative or faipnd whose death had been reported but whose body had not been identified slumbered there among the “unclaimed” dead. Full military honors were paid the dead soldiers. The military committal service was conducted by Post Chaplain Freeland of Fort Monroe, according to the ritual of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and the Rev. Father Joseph F. McGee ot St. Patrick’s Church read the Catholic service over the Catholic dead. The customary volleys wete fired, taps were sounded, and then each flag-draped casket was lowered into the earth. There were no addresses, and the entire service consumed but a short time. The military escort comprised all of the artillery troops at the Washington barracks, one troop of cavalry from Fort Meyer, a battalion of marines from the navy yard and marine barracks, and the entire national guard of the District of Columbia. Besides the public, that showed sympathy and patriotism, the relatives who shed their tears above the bodies of loved ones, there were in attendance the President of the United States and most of the members of Ms cabinet, army and navy officers of the highest rank, whose presence indicated the official honor and respect in wMch those are ever held who die for their country’s sake. In Ms proclamation, President MciKnley said: “Those who died in another land left in many homes the undying memories that attend the heroic dead of all ages. It was fitting that with the advent of peace, won by their sacrifice, their bodies should be gathered with tender care and restored to home and kindred. This has been done with the dead of Cuba and Porto Rico. Those of the Philippines still rest where they fell, watched over by their surviving comrades and crowned with the love of a grateful nation. “The remains of many brought to our shores have been delivered to their families for private burial. But for others of the brave officers and men who perished there has been reserved interment in ground sacred to soldiers and sailors amid the tributes of military honor and national mourning they have so well deserved.”

FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

Bulgaria has secured a loan in Vienna of $50,000,000. Cedi Rhodes' telegraph line has reached Abercorn, at the southern extremity of Lake Tanganyika. The cable between Manila and Iloilo has been repaired and communication once more established. The Sultan of Turkey will send five envoys to the Csar's disarmament conference at The Hague. Germany will take.no steps to purchase the Carolines until ratifications of the peace treaty are exchanged between Spain and the United States. Lieut. Lemaire's exploration party in German East Africa recently covered the 600 miles between Lake Nyassa and Lake Tanganyika in twenty days. Considerable alarm has been occasioned in Constantinople among th* native Christians by the receipt of many telegrams from friends and relatives in Smyrna, signed “Are Safe.” Such telegrams in 1895 were often the forerunners of a massacre. The Sultan of Turkey has granted to Germany the right to build warehouses and docks at Haidar Pasha, a port directly opposite Constantinople. Haidar Pasha will be made the western terminus of the Anatolian Railway, now under construction by German capitalists. Newspaper reports at Turin to the effect the Italian territory in East Africa still be ceded to Great Britain create intense excitement, notwithstanding official denials. The Armenian committee at Geneva has issued a circular to the powers hinting at revolution unless they intervene to secure an amelioration at the position of Armenians in Turkey. The Indian budget just announced esS’Xww’S STS year 1899-1900 at $12,500,000. The Gov 'has voted not to reduce taxation.

MANY KILLED ATPANA

TROOPS QUELL RIOT IN A MINING TOWN. Bloody Result of a Battle Between Metro Miners and Deputy Bherifi —Woman Among the Dead—Governor Tanner Proclaims Martial Law. The riot at Pana, 111., Monday resulted In the killing outright of at least seven persons. Nine more were wounded in the battle, and a reign of terror prevailed throughout the city until the arrival of three companies of the Illinois National Guard. Every street in the city was soon patrolled by soldiers. The same rigid martial law which was invoked a few months ago, immediately after the bloody riots between the union and non-union miners, silenced the hot heads and suppressed the indignation of the citizens over the wanton sacrifice of life. There is mourning in many homes, and heart-rending scenes were enacted os the streets. The refusal of Henry Stephens, a negro miner, to submit to arrest seems to have precipitated the trouble. Stories conflicted as to the origin of the affray, but all agree that Stephens was the direct cause of th< fusillade which aroused the whole city. He is a giant in stature and strength, and one of the leaders of the negro miners. It is said on good authority that he was the foremost in inciting the riot last September. His desperate character stood him in such good stead that he evaded the service of a warrant for his arrest in the hands of Sheriff Downey. Sunday he was walking the streets armed with a revolver, announcing that he was looking for Sheriff Downey. He had made repeated threats that he would kill the sheriff on sight. Monday morning Stephens appeared on the streets again and made threats that he would shoot the sheriff at sight. Sheriff Downey had been warned of Stephens’ actions, and was on hls guard when he encountered the negro in Locust street. The sheriff Stephens to deliver the revolver and told him he was under arrest for carrying concealed weapons. Stephens, without a word, instantly leveled his weapon and fired at the sheriff. The bullet went wild. The sheriff immediately opened fire on the negro. Deputy Sheriff Cheeney, hearing the shooting, rushed to join Sheriff Downey. Stephens took to his heels and succeeded in gaining Penwell’s general store in Locust street, the principal thoroughfare, two blocks distant, and took his stand in the entrance. He hesitated there an instant, and then stepped to the pavement, leveled his revolver down the street toward his approaching pursuer and fired. The bullet missed the deputy and struck Xavier Lecocq, a Frenchman, who was standing in the entrance of a near-by saloon. sqnarely in the forehead, killing him instantly. Stephens then turned and ran into the Penwell store and sought refuge behind a counter. Citizens Rush' to Arma. By this time the excitement was great and the streets were rapidly filling with men, all of whom bore weapons. Deputy Cheeney dashed into the store, followed by Deputy Joseph Mullen and several citizens. A fusillade of bullets was poured into the store and Stephens emptied his revolver at his assailants from behind the counter. The infuriated crowd at the door eon tinned firing, and Stephens, seeing that death was inevitable if he remained behind the counter, made a desperate dash from his cover to a stairway in the rear of the store. He fell pierced by six bullets before he had gone ten feet. One of the bullets had gone through his neek, another through his back and the other wounds were of a less serious nature. The firing stopped instantly and Deputy Cheeney ran to the wounded negro and placed him under arrest. Stephens is of robust constitution, big and brawny. The shock of his numerous wounds did not apparently hurt him, for he swore and said to the deputy, “I surrender,” and with blood pouring down his dotMng walked with his captor to a physician’s office, where he was given medical attention. He was then taken to jail. Meanwhile the riot was raging in the street. As soon as the first shots had been fired the whistle of the electric light plant was blown as a signal for the citizens, the majority of whom had long ago been sworn in as deputies, to turn out armed and ready to fight. At the same time the miners of the Pana and Penwell mines, which are located about four 'blocks from the Penwell store, which is in the center of the town, rushed into the tipples and opened fire on the thronged streets. The news that Stephens, one of their number, had been shot aroused them to a pitch of fury. They shot at any living mark in sight, and as a result among their victims are three women, two of whom are white women, wounded and one negro woman dead. The military upon its arrival immediately arrested every deputy sheriff, including Chief Deputy Cheeney, all of whom were disarmed and then released. Chief of Police William Kiely was also arrested by the soldiers and taken before Col. Culver, who disarmed him. Late the same evening Gov. Tanner issued a proclamation placing Pana under martial law. After calling attention to the existing state of affairs and reviewing his late action in removing the troops from Pana, the Governor’s proclamation continues in the exact language of his former proclamation, issued on Nov. 21 last. The troops were ordered to disarm all persons and seize all arms in Pana wherever found.

Told in a Few Lines.

Candy has been added to the army ration by order of the Secretary of War. Mineralville. Pa., will celebrate Dewey day (May 1) with a big parade and patriotic exercises. Nearly 800 Spanish merchants sailed from Havana on the steamship Montserrat for Spain, to avoid outrages by Cuban soldiers. A decision has been rendered in favor of Miss Leah Maud Decker, the school teacher at Good Ground, L. 1., who was accused of making love to one of her pupils. ’ A New York man has recently bought the match factory at Calabaaar, a village about twelve miles from Havana, and Will soon be turning out real American matches. Maj. M. R. Marks of Orlando, Fla.,is financing an electric propelling device which will, he maintains, carry a ship Southampton I, threo 7

wall Paper and Diseases.

observes the Kamas City Times in an editorial article March 8, “has made an announcement which is calculated to cause a slump in the market for stock of the wall paper trust. The doctor says, that be has made chemical analysis of' a large number of samples of wall paper, and In nearly all of them has found arsenical poisons, in seme of them the poison existing in surprising quantities. He was led to make the investigation] by having brought to hls attention ai number of cases of sickness which were traced to paper covered rooms. It is to be presumed that, in the future, houses, in order to be classed as *strlctly modern,’ will have to have frescoed walls. “While on the subject of wall paper, the Cornell scientist would confer a favor upon mankind by pursuing hls 1 Investigation funner. It would be Interesting as well as Instructive to know what per cent of the inmates of Insane asylums owe their mental condition to their having been compelled to live In rooms whose walls were covered with realistic portraitures of an opium smoker’s dream. Some of the designs wMch' are alleged to make living rooms cosy and homelike resemble nothing so much as the efforts of a dissipated artist to reproduce the experiences of an attack of the delirium tremens.” Alabastlne, the rock-base cement, for coating walls, is free from these objections. It is sanitary and costs less than,' wall paper.

Not Strictly Poetic.

Mrs. Sherwood, speaking of Julia Ward Howe’s keen sense of the ridlcm lous, relates that once upon a time a lady at Newport, trying to get a fine sentiment out of her, said one moonlit evening on a vine-hung veranda: “Mrs, Howe, do say something lovely about my piazza.” Whereupon everyone list, ened for the reply. That delicately cultivated voice responded: “I think it i| a bully piaz.” There are said to be fewer suicides among miners than among any other class of workmen.

“Trust Not to Appearances." That which seems hard to bear may be a great blessing. Let as take a lesson from the rough weather of Spring. It is doing good despite appearances. Cleanse the system thoroughly; rout out all impurities from the blood with that greatest specific. Hood's Sarsaparilla. Instead of sleepless nights, with consequent irritablene<s and an undone, tired feeling, you wi 1 have atone and a bracing air that will enable you to enter into every day’s work with pleasure. Remember, Rood’s never disappotnte. Coltre—“ Goitre was so expensive in medicalattendance that I let mine go. It made me a perfect wreck, until I took Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which entirely cured me.” Mbs. Thomas Jone. 120 South St., Utica, N. Y. Running Sores-" Five year* ago my affliction came, a running tore on my leg, earning me great anguish. Hood’s Sarsaparilla healed the sore, which has never returned.” Mbs. A. W. Babrbtt, 30 Powell St, Lowell, Mass. Hood’s Mila enre Myer Ills; noadrrtSaUng and the only cathartic to take with hood’s toraaparUla.

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