Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1875 — Page 4

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Th* Louisville Courier-Journal reports that they already have spring chickens in Louisville. Possibly, though, this may refer only to hidden of tickets in the late lottery. Talk English papers, not observing the fun hi them, carefully weed Max Adder’s “ humorous” articles of their unnecessary verbiage and publish them in a condensed form as news items. A bride after the conclusion of the marriage ceremony stepped gracefully forward and requested the clergyman to give out the hymn: “This is the way 1 long have sought.” A poor, ill-used wife in Montreal said to her husband just before she died: “ 1 accumulated such a store of love for you during our courtship that six yean of neglect and coldness on your part have failed to exhaust it.” It is the ruthlessly contemplative mind of the editor of the Cincinnati Times which evolves this exquisite consummation: “In all this world of woe can it be possible to imagine another retribution so stern, so awful, and withal so just, as that exhibited in the marriage of a life insurance agent to a book-canvasser.” A dame who in her sweet maidenhood some forty yean ago lost the power of speech, and thereafter and thereby won the heart and hand of an admiring swain, has lately unexpectedly recovered loquacity, and is making up for lost time, and the afflicted husband is said to be anxiously inquiring whether violation of an implied essential condition of the marriage contract be not valid ground for divorce. A gentleman in want of a housekeeper tried an odd experiment. He sent out two advertisements, one for a lady of education and elegant manners, qualified to act as a companion as well as housekeeper, and was overwhelmed with replies. The only requirement in the other advertisement was that the lady should be plain in features, but not a solitary applicant appeared to answer that appeal. Prof. Exner, of Vienna, has developed a formula for the force with which an ax is handled, and shows what carve should be given to the face or cheek of the ax in order to secure, under certain conditions, the least waste of power. By means of these formulae he is able to demonstrate that the splitting efficiencies of the best axes made in Vienna, Prague and America are to each other as 18.3, 9.2 and 4.9, respectively. This places ah American ax pretty low down. The Warsaw New Yorker tells the following singular story: “ A heifer lost by Mr. Sedore four weeks ago was found in a gully near the State Line Railroad, last week, nearly starved to death, with the end of a rope around her horns frozen in a brook, holding her down. She was reduced to skin and bones, and so crazed that she could not be approached with safety. By lassoing her on each side shs was finally drawn up the embankment, and, after drinking some warm water, was led to the stable, and is doing well. How the creature had survived during the weeks of terrible cold,, with no food except what little she got by browsing on brush, and nothing after she was imprisoned by the ice, was a marvel.” A Bangob (Me.) fruit-dealer has been paying a bet recently, with the making of wmch he had nothing to do. A couple of well-known gentleman stepped in one afternoon, and, beginning to eakoranges, informed the proprietor hau made a bet of the oranges on a certain question, and that after the bet was decided the loser would pay for those which they were eating. To this the dealer in fruits agreed, and the customers ate all they desired. The next time they were in the store he inquired which one was to pay for the oranges. “ Don’t know yet,” was the reply; “ I bet that when the Brewer bridge is carried away the Brewer end will go first, and Smith bet that the Bangor end will go first.” The oranges were charged to profit and loss. The following is a summer episode, as evolved by little Johnny: “ Last summer our dog Towser was a lyin in the sun a trine to sleep, but the flies was that bad he cuddent, cos he had to cetch em, and bime by a bee lit on his hed, and was a woking about like the dog was hish. Towser he hel his hed still, and when the bee was close to his nose Towser winked at me, like he said you see what this duffer is a doin, he thinks I’m a lily of the valley which isn’t open yet, but you just wait till I blossom and you will see some fun, and sure enuf Towser opened his mouth very slo, so as not to frighten the bee, and the bee went inside Towser’s month. Then Towser be shet his eyes dreamy, and his mouth too, and had begun to make a peacefie smile when the bee stung him, and you never see a lily ''of the valley ack so in all your life.” Colors in Carpets and Upholstery.— Put a good amount of color on ceiling, not, however, making it so dark as to bring it too close to the eye. The carpets must be either lighter or darker than the walls. This is following out the artist’s rule, to make either background or foreground run into the figure. If this be not done in painting a woman in white satin, for instance, against a dark floor and dark walls will look like a cutout figure stuck on, and the same sort of a result would occur in rooms. As in ordinary life dresses are dark in color, where a light wall tone has been recommended the carpet will have to be darker than the walls. Not too vivid in color, however, and of course no flowers, ferns, birds’ nests and such like fearful things. Furniture and hangings should not be too much alike in color; have, say, the carpet one tone, the coverings of furniture another and the curtains and other hangings a third. Have summer and winter hangings and furniture coverings; those for the former light and cheerful, the others with more warmth and suggestive of comfort and home life. A table-cloth, occasionally a chair, or a rug, may supply a bit of effective contrast with prevailing hues of hangings, etc., and a spot of vivid color in a vase or some small hanging will complete the formal decoration of the r->om. —British Arch. Association paver.

Wheeler & Wilson’s Sewing Machines.

We call attention to the Wheeler & Wilson advertisement in our columns. This well-known Company has the most advantageous facilities for supplying the public with Sewing Machines,on as favorable terms as the business will allow. They warrant all their work, and it is a matter of importance to the purchaser to deal with a Company whose position and permanence give assurance that their guaranty will be fulfilled. They have agencies and offices throughout the civilised world for furnishing needles, thread and other necessary supplies, and have an established reputation for reliability and fair dealing.

Fleas in Florida.

A rsceiit correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, writing from Jacksonville, says: “ One of the most prolific crops that the sands of Florida develop at certain seasons is the playful flea. He is a merry little nomad, and wauders around on warm days in a reckless, dissipated *° rt of way. He is gregarious in his tastes. One no sooner begins his gymnastics on your legs than a whole regiment marches up, deploy into line and begin skirmishing over your body in a

manner that is very perplexing. They are very independent ana liberal, biting all alike, without regard for color, race, or previous condition, etc. When captured early in life and properly educated they become very docile and almost as intelligent as are the ‘trained fleas’ in London, which are dressed and armed and mounted cm horseback, like Christiana, every horse being a flea, bridled wad saddled, and at the command of their owner they go through a number ol movements with a regularity that is truly wonderful. In the uncivilized state, however, the flea is a Very uncertain ‘critter,’ and very agile. To catch him is like playing at ‘ thunble-rig.’ Now you see him, now yon don’t. You slap your hands down violently, and with great precision, on some tender portion of your body where the little rascal is pleasantly grazing, and are ready, like the victim of ‘ thimble-rig,’ to bet you can name the hanahe is under. You carefully remove it, finger by finger, and discover, instead of a little red rascal, a big red mark. I met the other day a popular young man from your city, who resides on Park street, on a big flea hunt. He is quite a sportsman, and came here for sport; he thinks he has had it, having been in close pnrsnit of a flea ever since he came. The morning I met him he was sitting up in bed. As I entered the room he signed me to be quiet. If a snake had been his bed-fellow he would scarcely have moved more cautiously or removed the covers more stealthily. He saw him; his hand was poised for a few seconds in mid air, as a smile of malicious satisfaction passed over his countenance, then down it came like a sledge-hammer, smack went the report, away skipped the flea, “ merrily singing his chic-a-dee-dee.” It has often been said that women have more tact and skill and perseverance than men in overcoming the little difficulties of life. They sorely make an admirable display of the qualities in the manner in whicn they deal with these little red wretches. A lady told me of a system she adopted when in Italy, and which experience has proved to her to be the only successful way of dealing with them. I give it to you for the benefit of such of your readers as may be attacked when either traveling abroad or in many parts of this country. “Go to your room,” she says, “lock your door, close your blinds, spread a large blanket on the floor, take your position in the middle of it, with a basin of water beside you, then remove each article of dress, one piece at a time, turn it inside out, and shake it carefully over the blanket. The little wretches will drop on and become entangled in the nap of the blanket, when they can easily be caught and consigned with appropriate rites to a watery grave in the basin.”

The Grandest Canon on the Continent.

The most interesting feature of the summer’s exploration, in the estimation of Prof. Gannett, is the great Canon of the Gunnison, whose perpendicular walls rise in many places to a height of 4,000 feet, and for a distance of fifty miles will average over 8,000 feet The course of the river seems to have been sculptured as if by drifting rocks, and along its almost straight course the white walls, separated only a few yards, loom up toward the clouds. It makes one almost dizzy to think of it. Standing at the top of the highest wall and looking down nearly three-fourths of a mile, lies the bed of the stream, the water’s swift current dashing and foaming through the narrow channels, but so far down that it can scarcely be seen, and its roaring never heard. Here is something that rivals the Wonders of the Yellowstone, and is grander than the Yoemite. The point where these great precipices begin to loom up is about 100 miles northwest of the Los Pinos Indian Agency. The Indians, as far back as the time of Fremont’s explorations, gave indications that such wonders existed well down this slope, beyond the Uncompahgre Mountains, bul the wild region has been le|t almost unexplored to this day, and it is left for Gannett’s party to give the people of this country the first real knowledge of the wonderful canon and its awful precipices. They have made drawings at some of the highest points, and taken in the fall topography of the region; but words will be weak to convey an adequate idea of the sublimity and awful grandeur of this Canon of the Gunnison. It seems probable that the stream of tourists that found their way over the range into the Middle Park this season for the first time, to test the virtues of its famous hot sulphur springs, to angle in its brooks, and indulge iu the pleasures of the chase, will another season find their way into, the Uncompahgre Mountains ana to this wonderful region. The greatest depth of the Grand Canon of the Yellowstone is but 1,000 feet, and the average for miles along the deepest part is not over 600 feet. Clear Creek Canon, in Colorado, which Grace Greenwood, Bayard Taylor, and other travelers have praised as rivaling the Yellowstone, is but little over 1.000 feet at its highest point. Prof. Gannett declares that there is nothing in America that equals the new wonders of the Grand and Gunnison. The white walls, contrasting strongly with the others in the neighborhood, in many places cut and scarred into curious and fantastic shapes, spires, towers and minarets, standing out above, add to the startling picturesqueness and awful grandeur of the scene. Here and there, along the lower sides of the canon, may be traced strips of coloring. This is due to the mingling waters from several springs that line the river banks, iron springs producing the red colors and sulphur springs the yellow. The river bed is shallow, and the water clear.— Dr. Hayden.

Milch Cows Must Be Made Comfortable.

No animal can thrive satisfactorily while its surroundings do not tend to promote comfort When fattening swine are uneasy, ever squealing ana racing about they will not fatten. When a milch cow is not provided with comfortable quarters she cannot be expected to yield a full flow of milk. Concerning this subject, 8. Flaville said, in a recent address: In everything consult, as far as possible, the comfort of the cow. Let all the arrangements that appertain to her keeping, such as food, drink, shelter, treatment and general management, be such as shall tend to her comfort and -quiet; then, and not tin then, can we reasonably look for the best results. The question of feeding dairy cows has become one of vast importance. Breed is important, but feed much more so. Persons about engaging in dairying look over the reports of dairy association or read the report of some dairv in the agricultural papers, in which they see so many cows kept, and from them so much money made, and they seem to forget all the rest. They go on and get the required number of cows, and when the end of the year comes they are obliged to divide the profits by two, for the reason that they have not well considered the business in all its detail. Many men seem to think that anything is good enough for a cow. The warm side of a rail fence good enough shelter, and a chance to feed at the straw-stack, with an occasional dressing of marsh hay and a chance to run in the standing corn-stalks, good enough

care and feed for the cow. They seem to feel that grain fed to cows is almost thrown away. The horses mid hogs must have all the grain, leaving the cows to take care of themselves. These are mistaken notions, for its costs only a little more to keep a cow well than poorlv. Indeed, it costs only a little more to keep s cow upon grain than upon hay. Example: It will take one acre of good grass to furnish winter fodder for a cow. The same acre, if planted to corn and properly cultivated, will not only furnish winter fodder, but will furnish grain enough, if led with the stalks in winter and the pasturage in summer, to give a good flow of milk during the entire milking season, while the hay would have done but little more than sustain the animal life. The difference of cost, then, in the two methods of feeding is the difference of expense in raising an acre oi grass and an acre of com. — N. Y. Herald.

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—To clean flasks which have contained resinous solutions, wash with caustic alkaline lyes and rinse with alcohol; if they have held essential oils, wash with sulphuric acid and rinse with water. —Bituminous coal ashes from two to four inches thick will make nearly as hard and as lasting a floor in a cowstable as plank, ana, besides, it is not as slippery and does not afford a harbor for rats ana mice. —Do not use martingales on working teams. See that the hames are buckled tight enough at the top to bring the draft iron near the center of the collar. If too low, it not only interferes with the action of the shoulder, but gives the collar an uneven bearing.— -Scientific American. —Most of our plants are iqjured by too much heat. Fur a general collection of house plants it is not best to allow the thermometer to be above seventy, and if they could be kept in a room where the thermometer would usually not range much above sixty-five it would be the better. In the night time fifty is high enough. Give a iittle fresh air every fine day, and all the sunlight attainable. Cleanliness is as necessary to plants as to other bodies, therefore secure them from dust, if possible. Sweeping carpets is almost enough to kill both plants and sweepers. It will be a happy day for our lungs, as well as for the lungs of plants, when we get a good substitute for carpets, something that will not raise a cloud of dust every time a step is taken. Until this good time comes, give the whole plant a good syringing occasionally, or a bath in a pail of water. A little moisture in the air of a room is pleasant and healthy. We would not say that a greenhouse or a mushroom house would be a good place to live in, but we do say that a room that will keep a few plants in good health, other things being favorable, will keep a family in the same desirable condition. The family can breathe the confined, dusty, dry, over-heated air of a room and live, because they are out in the air a good portion of the time, but those who are confined to the air of our living rooms the greatest number of hours are the most delicate, and the plants having to remain in those overheated, ill-ventilated and dusty rooms, without a moment’s relief, must droop and die. Cleanliness, fresh air, moderate heat and a moist atmosphere will secure healthy plants.

—ln contradiction of the reported decline of churches in the Sandwich Islands since the withdrawal of missionaries in 1873 it is stated that there has been a great increase in the number of native pastors, churches and schools. During ten years $77,973 have been given for missions in the islands of the Pacific, and no difficulty is found in disciplining offending church-members. —Judge (to intelligent juryman): “ Would you convict a man on circumstantial evidence?” “Idunno wot dat is, Jedge.” “ Well, what do you think it is?” “ Well, ’cordin’ to my jedgment, sarcumstanshil is ’bout dis: Es one man shoots anudder an’ kills him, he orter be hung for it. Es he don’t kill him, he orter go to de plenipotentiary.” —An eminent foreign physician asserts that the drinking of coffee invigorates and improves the sight. Coffee, however, is not alone in that respect, as any fellow who, after a little spree, has found two key-holes in the door can testify.} The Piano Harp Cabinet Organ is a new invention, combining three and onehalf octaves of a piano-forte, or of an instrument with tones between those of the piano and the harp, with the organ. It is a beautiful instrument, costing but little more than the organ. The Mason & Hamlin Organ Co. are not able to manufacture it rapidly enough to supply the demand. —The Grand Opera-House in New York has not been sold to Senator Stewart, of Nevada. But A. T. Stewart talks of buying it and the property adjoining for $1,000,000, and opening another dry goods store. Medical Advertising.— The medical profession are outspoken in their denunciation of the system of medical advertising, and declare that any medicine that is advertised is a fraud. How thoroughly inconsistent and unfair is such an argument. The men who are so loud in their criticisms are those who advertise themselves as medical smarts by ostentatious display; splendid residences with massive door-plates; fast horses and costly carriages. . Dr. J. Walker, of California, an old practitioner, respected alike for his skill and conscientious independence, dares to differ; and having discovered in his Vinegar Bitters— a purely herbalistic medicine, free from all spirituous poisons—a wonderful specific for numerous disorders, advertises the same for the relief of his fellow-man, and is borne out in his declarations of its many virtues by thousands of invalids who are being cured of disease by its use. 27

For All Female Complaints,

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DriuiAlfYit 9 Wilann’a ww ••Mr w*WA Rntarv Hnnk Inrk-^tifch lilflili | iilrlrli SETHS MACH® MORE THAN 1,000,000 —OF THEIR— Ml; Hu xnr use. A Quarter of a Ceitufs Trial ias Demonstrated_Tlieir Superiority. “WHEELER & WILSON'S NEW NO--8 MACHINE must eventually supersede all others novo run with, which it comes in competition. We recommend for it the highest award which it is in thi power cf the Institute to bestow." —From the unanimous Report of the five Judges of the American Institute, New York, 1874. The Board of Managers unanimously approved the report, and recommended for this machine the Cold Medal of the Institute. The Board of Direction unanimously approved this recommendation, ana awarded the Gold Medal to Wheeler & Wilson, the only gold medal awarded for a Sewing Machine by the American Institute for many years. The Austrian Official Report of the Vienna Exposition pronounced it “ the marvel of the Exposition. ,” and added, “ this universal machine sews the heaviest leather harness and the finest gauze with a truly pearl stitch." The Grand Medal of Progress was awarded for it. What the heading Manufacturers of Boots and Shoes Say at WHEEUER&WnSOITS New No. 6 BEWINC MACHINE: We, manufacturers of boots and shoes,are using Wheeler & Wilson’s New No. 6 Sewing Machine in all kinds of stitching on our work, and confidently believe that it will supersede all others in this branch of manufactures, for the following sons: 1. The work done by this machine is superior to that of any other in variety, amount, excellence and beauty. 2. This machine is more durable than any other of its class, requiring much less outlay for repairs and renewal of parts. 8. It does the carding or staying cf buttonholes in a most elegant ana substantial manner, without the expense of royalty. In short, because by the use of this machine we can turn out superior work at less cost than with any other. [Signed by many.'] GTlt is fast superseding all other machines for leather work. WHEELER&TSTIISOFS BT Mo. V MACHINE, Now for the first time introduced to the public, ranks in excellence with their famous No. 6 machine, but has some modifications adapting it to special classes of work. The Tailor will find it as well suited to his work as is No. 6 to leather work. It might properly be termed the Tailor’s Machine. Send for Circular to Wheeler & Wilson Manfaefi Co., 44 Fourteenth St., New York.

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Mmvt a now superseding all JSIiABTIC BE others, being adopted ■L T R U 8 R BM everywhere by the leadW—_ ' ing physicians, surgeons, druggists,army and navy, V hospitals, gymnasiums, \ # etc., etc. X. W W y The success and nnlversal satisfaction they have given, aa well as the great number of radical cures they have effected, has demonstrated the fact that rupture can be surety cured without suffering or annoyance, and without the danger of incurring Spinal Disease or Paralysis- often caused by the severe pressure of Metal Trusses and Supporters. Itis the only sure cure for Hernia, as it Is the only Trass in use that will hold the rupture securely In all positions in which the body Can he placed. It will perform radical cures when all others fail. It can be worn with ease and comfort when no spring trass can be used. When once adjusted.no motion of the body or accident can displace it. These Instruments have the unqualified approval of the most eminent practitioners In the proFrom the numerous testimonials In our possession we append the following: < “After-the experience of months, patients testify strongly to its efficacy, as well as to the east and freedom from Inconvenience with which the instrument is worn. With superior advantages, the Elastic Truss possesses in a high degree ALL requisites and qualifications claimed for other inventions. I have no hesitation in regarding It as an Important means for the relief and sure of Hernia. „* ’“Ex-Health Officer of the' 1?ort of Hew 'York, ’fenr-geon-ln-Chief of Hew York State Hospital,” etc.,etc. Guo. V. Hops*, M. T>., Sup’t Elastic Trass Co.: Dear Sir—Alter suffering for thirty years, in myown person, from the use of every form of Metallic Truss procurable in this country and in Europe, I. two years ago, applied your Elastic Truss, and since that time I have experienced comfort and satisfaction, and been taught-the truth, that the Elastic Truss is the only Instrument that should be used for the relief and cure of Hernia; and now, after more than thirty years* COntlnupus practice, and having adjusted many hundreds of Trasses (and for the last twenty months yours exclusively), I gratefully declare it to be my deliberate opinion that your Elastic Truss is (he only one entitled to the confidence of the public; that elasticity is the only power at all adapted to the requirements of a Trass or Supporter, and am eonvincedthat your Elastic Truss actually cures a large proportion of all case# to which it is applied, not only among children, botln numerous cases within my own knowledge of patients from 50 t 075 years of age. H. BtTBHHAM, M. D„ Prof, of Anatomy and Surgery, H. Y. E. Med. College. _ Beware of cheap and worthless imitation Elastic Trasses, which some parties advertise and sell, fraudnlenCiy repreyntlng that they are manufactured -by These Trasses are'sent by mail to all parts of the country. Satisfaction guaranteed In all esses. Be“““w™ «► ELASTIC TRUBB CO., 683 BROADWAY, YEW YORK.

mm- ft eg*ur*BitterS a£*a l purely Vegetable preparation, made chiefly from the native herbs found on the lower ranges of the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, the medicinal properties of which are extracted therefrom without th© use of Alcohol. Tho question is almost dally asked, ‘‘What is the cause of the unparalleled success of Vinegar B peters f” Our answer is, that they remove the cause of disease, and the patient recovers his health. They are the great blood purifier and a life-giving principle, a perfect Renovator and Invlgorator of the system. Never before it tha history of the world has a medicine been compounded possessing the remarkable qualities of Vimboar Bitters in beaimjrthe sick of every disease mania heir to. They are a gentle Purgative as well as a Tome relieving Congestion or Inflammation ©t the Liver and Visceral Organs, w Bilious Diseases. The properties of Dr. W alkeb’s ViifBGAR Bitters are Aperient, Diaphoretic, Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic, Sedative. Counter-Irritant, Sudorific, Alteralira, and Anti-BUlo** Grateful Thousands proclaim Vinegar Bitters the most wonderful Invigorant that ever sustained the sinking system. No Person can take these Bitters according to directions, and remain long unwell, provided their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison or other means, ana vital organs wasted beyond repair. Billons. Remittent and Intermittent Fevers, which are so prevalent in the valleys of our great rivers throughout the United States, especially those of the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, Cumberland, Arkansas, Red, Colorado, Brazos, Rio Grande, Pearl, Alabama, Mobile, Savannah, Roanoke, James, and many others, with their vast tributaries, throughout our entire country during the Summer and Autumn, and remarkably so during seasons of unusual heat and dryness, are invariably accompanied by extensive derangements of the stomach and liver, and other abdominal viscera. In their treatment, a purgative, exerting a powerful influence upon these various organs, is essentially necessary. There is no cathartic for the purpose equal to Dr. J. Walker's Vinegar Bitters. as they will speedily remove the darkcolored viscid matter with which the bowels are loaded, at the same time stimulating the secretions of the liver, and generally restoring the healthy functions of the digestive organs. Fortify the body against disease by purifying all its fluids with Vinegar Bitters. No epidemic can take hold of a system thus fore-armed. Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Headache, Pam in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness of the Chest, Dizziness, Soar Eractations of the Stomach, Bad Taste in the Month, Bilions Attacks, Palpltatation of the Heart, Inflammation of the Longs, Pain in the region of the Kidneys, and a hundred other painful symptoms. are the offsprings of Dyspepsia. One bottle will prove a better guarantee of its merits than a lengthy advertisement. Scrofula, or King’s Evil, White Swellings, Ulcers, Erysipelas, Swelled Neclq Goitre, Scrofulous Inflammations, Indolent Inflammations, Mercurial Affections, Old Sores, Eruptions of the Skin, Sore Eyes, etc. In these, as in all other constitutional Diseases, Walker's Vinegar BizftSßa.iiare shown their great curative powers in the most obstinate and intractable cases. For Inflammatory and Chronic Rheumatism, Gout, Bilious, Remittent and Intermittent Fevers, Diseases of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys and Bladder, these Bitters have no equal. Such Diseases are caused by Vitiated Blood. Mechanical Diseases.— Persons engaged in Paints and Minerals, such as Plumbers, Type-setters, Gold-beaters, and Miners, as they advance in life, are subject to paralysis of the Bowels. To guard against this, take a dose of Walker’s Vinegar Bitters occasionally. For SKin Diseases, Eruptions, Tetter, Salt-Rheum, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules, Boils, Caibancles, Ring-worms, Scald-head, Sore Eyes, Erysipelas, Itch, Scurfs, Discolorations of the Skin, Humors and Diseases of the Skin of whatever name or nature, are literally dag np and carried out of the system in a short time by the use of these Bitters. Pin, Tape, and other Worms, lurking in the system of so many thousands, are eflectually destroyed and remoYed. No system of medicine, no vermifuges, no anthelminitics will free the system from worms like these Bitters. For Female Complaints, in young or old, married or single, at the dawn of womanhood, or tho tarn of life, these Tonio Bitters display so decided an influence that improvement is soon perceptible. Cleanse the Yitiated Blood when" ever yon find it? i mpurities bursting through the skin in tHmplevErnptlons, or Sores: cleanse it when yon find.it obstructed and sluggish in the veins; cleanse it when it is fool; your feelings will tell yon when. Keep the blood pare, and the health of the system will follow. a. h. McDonald'A co„ Druggist* and Gen. Agt*., San Franeiaoo, California, andoor^of j|t*., N ■ Y. fSBSBSStntkSS pcrbSfrJre^eetiSr 381-J. X 4