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» o~‘@>"""\. The Ligonies. Banacr, - ZIGONIER, s : - INDIANA ~ THE STORY OF # FLOWER. i A spotless thing exsugh, they said, The drift, perchance, from foreign lands, ‘Washed in atop of mighty tides ~ And lightly left along the sands. P Was itthe treasure of some shell? Some islander’s forgotten bead? . ' A waye-worn polyp from the reef? Wi ThJ gardener said: ‘lt is a'seed.” ~ ' ® B s ‘Bury it,” said he, “in the soil; 5 e earth will quicken here, as there, . ‘With vital force—so fair the seed, - : The blosom must be wondrous fair!™ Ah, woe, to lose the ample breath | - : Of the salt wastes! Tosee no more . The sacrifice of morhing Burn A And blot the stars from shore to shore, - Ah, woe, to go into the dark! : Was. it for this, the buoyant slide Up the steep surge, the flight of foam, A The great propulsion of the tide? To lose the half-developed dream piak : Of unknown powers, the bursting throe Of destinies to be fulfilled, - A And go into the dark—ah, woe! But the mold closed above the seed: 305 Relentlessly; and still as well All life went on; the warm winds blew N / The strong suns shone;}the soft rains fell. ‘Whether he slept, or “waited there _ Unconscious, after that wild pang— | Who knows? There came to him at last’ ‘ A sense as if some sweet voice sang; ; As if. throughout the universe, - Each atom were obeying law i 5 In rhythmic order., In his heart : He felt the same deep music draw. And one sharp thrill of tingling warmth Divided him; as if the earth e . Thyobbed through him all her stellar might - With the swift pulse of some new birth. ' Upthe long spirals of his stems ~ "~ ! What currents coming from afar, ; ‘What blessedness of being glows—i Was he a blossom or a star? ; Wings like their own the great moths though . His pinions rippling on the breeze—- " Did ever a king's banner stream ‘ With such resplendent stains as these? - Overwhat honey and what dew " His fragrant gossamers uncurled! ! Forgottén be that seed’s poor day, £ Free, arfd a part of this high world! A world of winds, and showers aslant, With gauzy rainbows everywhere, Cradled in silken suushine, rocked In skies full of delicious ‘air! .

Ah, happy world, where all things live " (Creatures of one great law, indeed: - Bound by strong roots, the splendid flower—- . Swept by great seas, the drifting seed! —Harriet Prescott Spofford, in St. Nicholas. . BIG BILL.. An Episode of Life at Monk’s . Corners. i : " |Written for This Paper.] -

E you goin’ t' the spellin’ t'night,. Bt The party addressed pulled the old mare he was lazily riding in to'wards the woodpile at the side of the road where Abe Hinchew was chopping ' the evening ‘wood, and, throw-

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ing his left leg over the animal’s neck so as to face the chopper, asked where the spelling was to be. 2 «“Down 't the corners,” said Abe, pausing with his axe uplifted and step- ~ ping down from the log on which he had been.at work. ¢Th' master give 't out las’ night, but somehowsl don’t bleeve but what lots uv folks hain’t ‘heerd uv it.”’ F “Well, I hain’t heerd uv it, that's a sure case,” Bill admifted. ¢Goin’ 't be any fun there, d’ you reckon?’’ “Shouldn’t wonder. Better - come anyways. Th’ more th’ merrier.” “Be you n’s goin’?'” the rider inquired, by which collective pronoun he meant to designate not only Abe himselt, but the entire Hinchew family of spelling school age, from little Bob to half grown Barb'ry and Nancy, in the full bloom of rusti¢ womanhood. “That's what we air,”’ said Abe. “Th’ hull gol-darned kit un us’s goin’.” The boy and the young man compared notes together for a few minutes. about the school at ‘“4he corners’’— Monk’s corner was the full and original’ - appellation, but popular usage protests effectually against superfluous words—and “Big Bill”” Brubaker concluded that he might be interested in making the acquaintance of the new ‘‘citified” man who had come from Briggsville to try his luck with one of the hardest schools in the county. - ' = “I'reckon I may be down,” he said, indifferently, as he jibed his heels into the flanks of his mare and went off at & spurting trot with Abe shouting after “hims e i “Be sure’n bring a can’l along with you!” : The spelling was to be at ‘‘early candlelight,”” and the master had seen that a good fire was left in the big stove which stood in the middle of the room, in a shallow box filled with sand well be-spattered and soaked with tobacco _ juice, for the night was cold. “Who will open the school-house and light up?’ he had asked, and, as usual, there were contending aspirants for the honor. st : o “] guess I’?l have to let Abe do it ‘this time,"’ the master had said when the plans were all before him, and accordingly the key was given into Abe’s keeping when the girls had swept the ‘room and made it tidy for the evening. . But when Abe came in sight of the _school-house at a seasonable hour, with ‘acandle cut in the middle so as to double its illuminating powers by making two lights in place of one, he saw - thatsome one had preceded him, for there was a light already in the room, ~ although the door; as ‘e found upon “Who's in here?” he demanded, as ~ he turned the key and threw open the door. Butthere was no reply. He oammum, e el o P Maay ot ﬁﬂwa’”mg A :, T i’%ﬁ} o ST RN T SN g n listieiam iy, ~Coms outen yor e g S e R AR ‘*k*‘*\?“’

to light one piece of his «tndles, which he located on. the master's desk, standing on a little platform at one end of the room. Theother piace, which, after a considerable frying and sputtering of the loop of wick that protrudes from the butt end, had been induced to burn, he stuck into one of the blocks of wood, bored half through with an augur, which served for candlesticks, he placed at the opposite end of the room. \ ,

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Ignoring further the presence or absence of any one other than himself, the boy now took a survey of the room to see what was needed to put it in order for the evening's entertainment. The work of the interloper was at once manifest. Several of the desks were piled on top of one another in the middle (ff the room, the whole sur‘mounted with the water - bucket. The drinking cup was nowhere to be seen. The blackboard was covered with outlandish caricatures of the master and some of the more prominent pupils, with coarse comments in rude scrawls above and beneath them. Many of the books were removed from inside the desks and carried to distant parts of the room. ; ;

When Abe had righted all these discordant eléments he sat down on one of the long benches by the stove and watched the red spot on its side grow to a brighter red and gradually spread beyond the gaping crack in the rusty iron from which the ashes sifted at times. A

“Jehu, but she’s gittin’ hot,”’ he said aloud. “Them fellers 't know her afore I did must ’'ve filled her chock full of hick’ry.” - Then he pushed the front slide in, shutting off the pleasant roar, and watched the hectic flush on the dull red ivron fade away as slowly as it had come. A fresh bucket of water would be needed, he reflected, but he would wait for that until some of the other boys should arive®and atford him company to the spring, a good quarter of a mile away, at the bottom of a high bank on Beaver Run. '

- *I haint afeerd 't go ’t the spring alone,” ‘he thought to himself, ‘but a feller'd as well. have company, an’ this ere school-house oughtn’t be left alone no ways.”” | ‘ L ~ The atmosphere of the small room was of more than tropical warmth when the voices of the first comers were heard outside and the red cheeks and radiant eyes of half a dozen boys and girls burst noisily through the door. They came rapidly now and the scene was one of boisterous merriment as candle after candle was lighted and hung in the wooden candlesticks rouhd the room.. N

The teacher, Lyman Frost, came in with the well-to-do Douglass families, whose farms adjoined, and in whose joint households were several* nice young women. - A few of the youngishold men of the district sat sedately round the stove, cracking the limited supply of well-seasoned jokes anew, while the young people were hilarious outside at games of ‘‘tag” or *‘blackman it

' When it was thought time to begin the teacher rapped on the window frame with his ruler, hats were removed, and the loud talk graduall§ subsided to a buzz, and at length died away to furtive whispers and suppressed titters. The rollicking young men and women came in with-abandon, shutting off their loud talk at the door, but ocecasionally - projecting parts of unfinished sentences into ‘the interior stillness with an'incongruous effect that awoke renewed tittering. When comparative silence had been obtained the master announced: /

“Albert Swope and Polly Pringle have been selected to choose up. They will now take their places.” . - There were more titters and craning of necks as the boy and girl, with modest sheepishness, made their way to the far end of the room, where they stood side by side, the blushing captains of prospective companies. To decide who should have first choice the teacher held up his closed hand and asked: _ **Odd or even?”’ “odd,” said Albert, and ‘‘even said Polly, seeing that she had but Hobson’s choice. : , , The teacher’s outspread palm disclosed a single coin. +‘Albert has first choice,” he declared, and with the promptness of a pre-formed decision, Albert called out: ' “‘Louisa Larcom.” = z With an assumed reluctance to accept the wholly expected honor the blushing Louisa tripped. with determined air to the front. 2 b “James Pritchard,”” was Polly’s equally prompt and emphatic second choice, and the choosing went on with | an animation which flagged in proportion as the best spellers were exhausted, and a certain dumb sympathy for those left to the last as a kind of undesirable rubbish managed to make itself felt though unworded. Some of the middle‘aged men had excused themselves and remained sitting round the stove, spectators and. critios of the performance. ‘The teacher took a candle in one hand ““gave out” the words, beginning with “‘baker.” Any one missing sat down until all wore disabled. 1, At the end of hall hour the teacher N wwwwﬁgﬂ Wiabing to be cxoused, apologiseds - s Lt o oy 5%!”;"".’:-:5!'«’%&‘ BT G, T L VR S A e s e

~ “My way of pernouncin’ may not be quite up to what you've been used to, scholars,’’ with significant recognition of thé mare cultivated style of the law student from Briggsville, “but I’ll due the best I kin, an' if you don't understand any word all you haf to due is not to tackie it ontil you due, an’ don’t be any ways bashful beout havin’ it giveout agin.” In half an hour more the curious words which the Deacon had managed to find secreted in old McGuffey had thinned the ranks until but a single speller remained on each side. Soon one of these, in the excitement of the contest, interjected a superfluous *‘h”’ into “‘exorbitant’’ and sank into shamefaced obscurity with the instant discovery of her mistake. ; The second spell down after recess 'was held more important than the first in that the capacity?)f the contestants had been somewhat tested and they could be more evenly matched. Mr. Joel Douglass, himself an ex-teacher, “oave out’ for awhile, leaving the teacher in charge the honor of the closing. There was an evident tensity of feeling as the contest deepened that was not observable before recess. Each speller endeavored to be careful and self-possessed - and to bring no avoidable disaster upon his or her side. Nearly half the spellers were down when Mr. Douglass pleaded weariness and turned the book over to Mr. Frost. ““Breakfast’’ was the word he gave out nextand it was *“Big Bill” Bru‘baker’s turn. : ~ “B-r-e-c-k, brek, f-a-s-t, fast, breakfast,’’ he sang out with the prompt confidence of<easy mastery. But before ‘the word was all out of his mouth i pretty Ruth Turner, on the other side, 'snapped it up with a ‘b-r-e-a-k, break, i'f-e-a-s-t, fast, for breakfast,” and as i instantly Lucinda Sweet, standing next to Bill, took it back from Ruth by spelling it correctly, amid an enthusi‘asm at the rapid and brilliant work ‘that could not, be wholly repressed. Ruth sat down in a confusion of morti- } fication which mantled her cheeks and suffused her eyes at thought of her foolish mistake, and the teacher palliatingly suggested: - ‘““You see, Miss Ruth, it isn’t break‘ing ene's feast, but breaking one’s fast.” It was noticed, however, that Bill Brubaker had not sat down, as the - perception of his failure should have led him to do, but remained sfolidly standing in spite of the efforts of those around him to pull him down. " «J didn’t understand the word, nohow,” he said, sullenly. “Didn’t understand it!” the teacher exclaimed. - “How could you help un--derstanding it? You knew what the word meant, I hope.” : | At this sally of Briggsville wit, there was a general titter of derision from the other side, which added to Bill's discomfiture. i |

““You said breck, not brake,”” he declared, recklessly, ‘‘an’l speltit asyou give it out. I reckon I know how to spell brake as well as any on ’em.”’ “You fairly missed the word,"” the teacher said, decisively, and you must take your seat like the rest, Mr. Brubaker.” Even the exceptional honor implied in this deferential address did not wholly appease Bill's wounded vanAty “I'll take it if I waunt tew, an’ not otherwise,”’ he muttered, slinking down with an ugly scowlon his face. Big Bill was hardly a third-rate speller at best, and usually was among the first to go down, but his unprecedented good fortune at keeping on his feet so long had imbued him with a swaggering confidence im his powers and induced the vain hope of a possible emergence as one of the champions of the contest. i -

When the spelling was finished and the preliminary @'epurations of bundling up, blowing out the candies, and lighting the hickory-bark torches provided for lighting the homeward way were going forward amid much confusion and merriment, two of the smaller boys drew the teacher aside to say with bated breath: ' *‘Say, master, Big Bill's a threat’nin’ of youan' asayin''t he kin lick the boots offen you an’ not haf try, nuther.” They wisheda—such at least was the pretense—to put the master on his guard against a possible surprise. | " “You tell Big Bill,”’ the master said quietly as he went on completing his preparations for departure,- ‘‘that I say he's a bully and a coward, and that if he wants any thing of me he can be accommodated in mighty short order.”’ : ‘ The boys carried such a message with proud alacrity, as what boys ‘ would not? The version that reached Bill’s ears outside a moment later was something like this: ~ “Th’ master says 't you're a cowerd an’—an’’ (the other term was not in familiar use at the Corners)—¢‘what was it, Jim?” “‘A bully,” Jim declared from a care-fully-stored memory. . X - “Ya-as. An’’tef you wantany thing of him you kin git iaymight.y ‘quick.” “Huh!” grunted Bill. ¢‘He's peart enough with his tongue, but he'll. fine 't & smart tongue haint no match for these two fists.” . Loy Y He flourished them in the air as if to assure himself that they were in thorough working order. . As the master come out the door with! Lucinda Smith on his arm, looking' aggravatingly spry and citified, a foot tripped him up and sent him fﬁpﬁ{vlm on the ground, amid the ‘half-suppressed guffaws of the group at the door. He was on his feet in aninstant, his face as white as the snow 'é“???ﬁ*ﬁf‘.?h‘l&?.’*:g e ol _ “Who did that?” he demanded, with an intense coolness of voice and manner that caused a hush of expectation spectators; for when was there ever a of M‘“”’z ors did not rapid 1&@»& S s e DR W et eo s s His et SRR e G RO LS el P At SR e

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“You're the fellow that wants to lick ‘me, are you?'’ said the teacher, opening hostilities with a vicious blow at Bill's face, which the latter caught on his massive forearm with less punishment to himself than to the striker.

' He made a lunge at his antagonist. If he could once get the slender form ‘within his powerful clutch the fight would be practically 'ended. But the teacher was too quick of foot for his ungainly opponent. Jumping to one side, he dealt him a blow on the side of the face that sent Big™ Bill staggering, and followed up his advantage with a rapid succession of thumps and punches. Something inthe upstretched hand- of Bill gleamed in the moonlight. “‘Liook out, master, he’s got a knife!” A murmur of suppressed horror ran through the lookers-on. This capital piece of fun might develop into a tragedy. The girls, huddled together by the school-house door, began tc scream. The agile master caught the descending blows on his left arm, at the same instant dexterously tripping up@ls:a feet of his antagonist, who fell like a tree to the ground. He was on his breast, his right hand at Bill's throat and his left pinioning to the ground Big Bill’s right, which it was now seen held, not a knife, but that only less vicious weapon, a pair of steel knuckles. This was something very different from what Big Bill had counted on. | ' “Curse you, let me up,’’ he mutteréd, from his half-choked throat. The teacher made no reply but held him hard to the ground, himself panting for breath. : : ; ; ‘“‘Have you got enough?’ he inquired, when he could control his voice. The only answer was a more vigorous effort to free himsell from his victor’s grasp, but the latter tightened his grip on Bill's throat and the pressure of his knees on his chest until the man beneath recognized the fruitlessness of further struggle.

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“Got enough?”’ was the laconic inquiry again addressed to him. Bill's head tried tonod an affirmative and -the grip was relaxed sufficiently to let him speak. ' “Say you've got enough, then,” «'Nough,”was the degged response, and the two men rose from the ground. The ficht was finished. = ~“Ther’ won’t be no more trouble in ithat air school this winter,”’ was the conclusive observation of Mr. Jasper Stricklan to the little group who were 'walking through the woods with him by the light of a shell-bark torch. Jasper was a six-foot, strapping fellow of -some thirty odd years, the best deer shotin all that country. He carried hisrifle everywhere and had it now on his shoulder. He was af{ admitted judge of human character as exhibited’ in physical contests. v “Yer jest right there,” agreed . Jackson Lambert. ‘Didn’t he lay Big Bill out slick enough though?”’ ' “Them city chaps,” continued Jasper,. meditatively, ignoring the' interruption of his companion, ‘‘don’t look so pow'rful strong but ther almighty pert and nimble on ther feet, and the feller't pick ’em up thinkin’ he’s goin’; 't han’l ’em “thout exertion is li'ble 't git left. Ther no spring c¢hickens when it comes to a fight. I've seed that thing tried afore.”’ : c Mr. Jasper Stricklan’s prediction was fulfilled. The school at Monk’s corners recognized from the outset that it had a master. The young toughs and bullies who had not been witnesses of Big Bill's layout soon had authentic information of it from disinterested witnesses, and concluded to postpone: the exhibition of their physical prowess until Mr. Frost's successor should appear. Big Bill himself lost all interest in the subsequent orthographical contests at *‘the corners,” contenting himself with the tamer recreation afforded by the sundry dances, apple-parings, quiltings and husking-bees of the neighborhood. "~ IsaAac HERR.

Destroying Moths with Salt. For moths salt is the best exterminator. The nuns in one.of the hospital convents have tried everything else without success, and their experience is valuable, as they have so much clothing of the sick who go there, and strangers, when dying there, often leave quantities of clothing, etc. They had & room full of feathers, which were sent there for pillow making, and they were in despair, as they could not exterminate the moths until they were advised to try common salt. They sprinkled it around, and in a week or ten days were altogether rid of the moths. They are never troubled now. In heavy velvet carpets sweeping them } with salt cleans and keeps themn from moths, as particles of the salt remain { in the carpets and corners. Salt is not hurtful to any one, #hd has no bad smell. Here is a little hint I add,j which, perhaps, every one does not know: For cleaning wash-basins, baths, etc., use the same thing, common dry salt. - Rub a little.of the salt with your fingers on the basin. . @ften a sort of scum is notioed in the basins in a marble washstand in the' bathroom; the salt takes it ‘off easily, and leaves the basin shining and clean.—Philadelphis Prawh 0 - —The common complaint thatchickmwmmommmg heep “do not ‘men of their ownerss = =

~ PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS, ~—Some juries in murder trials are so soft-hearted that they wouldn’t hang a barn door. . : e - —He (rejected)—*Well, you may go further and -fare worse.”” She—*Yes; can’t bedone around here.’’—Munsey’s Weekly. S : ! —Put mosquitoes on duty Sundays and they would beat policemen at the work of finding open bars.—N. O. Picayune. ; ; —The well-bred woman says ‘‘please’ to her servants, and sometimes to her husband if there’s, anybody around.— Somerville Journal. ‘ — 4] live mostly within myself,” said a conceited fellow. ‘I understand,” replied his neighbor-at the table; *‘you occupy a flat.” —Texas Siftings. —The prize simpleton of the season is the young man who goes away for ‘his health and spends histime smoking cigarettes.—Baltimore American. —The bathing-dress is a leveller of all distinctions. In a single scanty garment there is no use of putting on airs.—Martha’s Vineyard Herald. —Mr. Lytewaite—‘Miss Crimple is quite skillful with her spoon.” Miss Hightone (sweetly)—¢O, yes; inherited, you known. Her grandfather was skillful with his shovel.’("’;—-'l‘ime. —The late Oliver Ditson left $15,000 for the founding of .a home for poor singers. But the sum is appallingly inadequate. Fifteen millions wouldn’t house half of them,—Puck." —Husband (contemplatively) —“How true it is, my dear, that the good that men do is oftinterred with their bones.”’ ‘Wife (not contemplatively)—‘Yes, I suppose there’s so little of it that it isn’t considered worth saving.”—N. Y. Sun. —*There is only one way to secure accuracy in our signal service bureau,’’ said the Congressman. ‘That way is to compel the prophets to confine their observations entirely to last month’s weather.””—Harper’s Bazar. - . —Mrs. N. Peck.—*l ran across one of your old letters, to-day, Nathan, where you said that you would rather be in endless torment with. me thanibe in bliss by yourself.”” Mr. N. Peck—- “ Well, T guess I got my wish.”— Terre Haute Express. ; —«See" here, Mr. Grocer,” said a Hartford housewife, ‘if you are going to bring me any more:.goods I want them to be the very best.” ‘“We keep none but the best.” “I presume so; you must sell the worst in order to keep the best.’’—Hartford Post. —Editor—¢lwan’t you to take charge of the Queries column.” New man (modestly)—*l fear I can not answer the questions our readers would ask.” “0, yes you can. Most of the questions are from college graduates, and they are easy.—N. Y. Weekly. —The publicity given to scandals affecting peopie of no social consequence whatever is much to be deplored, if only for the reason that it gives them, so to speak, a ‘‘conspicuousness’’ to which they are not entitled, but upon which they flaunt about among their betters. e —When a man milks his cow, puts ‘water in it, and sells it, he is fined; but when men build a railroad, water the 'stock, they are elected Governor or sent to Congress, to aid in enabling the stockholders fo get large dividends on the water in the stock.—lowa State Register. : —¢*] hear Brown has been taken to the insane asylum since his failure—business troubles must have affected his mind?”’ ¢‘O, yes, he’s as crazy as a loon—went around, don’t you know, after the crash and offered to settle up for ninety cents on a dollar.”— ‘Epoch., ' b et — e . WHEN THE DEAF HEAR. A Lawyer Finds Out and Loses a Good Client in Addition. The deaf man has just discovered that riding in a rumbling car robs his affliction of its terrors, and is getting even with his backbiting acquaintances who have expressed their opinions ‘of him heretofore without reserve: An eeccentric millionaire, who had .no hearing under ordinary -circumstances, found this out the other day at the expense of his lawyer, and the latter now mourns the loss of his most profitable client, while the deaf man thinks he has learned a thing or two. | ~ The lawyer was sitting in a car talking te a friend when his wealthy client entered and dropped into the vacant seat beside his legal adviser. ¢‘This old curmudgeon will talk me deaf, dumb and blind,” said the Blackstonian to his companion, and they both scowled at Moneybags, who was looking out of the car windew. ¢‘‘He has spent lots of money with me, but it’s worth a mint to yell in his ear. I'm tired of it. He is deaf as a post.” ' o Then the deaf man tdrned around. “You can send me your bill in ‘the morning,”’ said he, *‘and I'm done with " s iy you. b - Lawyer and companion looked at each other amazed. The lawyer set about to find how his client recovered, his hearing so quickly. e ¢t is due to the counteraction of the noisy motion on the drum of the ear,”’ said the aurist to whom he applied for information. ‘The rumble of the heavy wheel on the track causes the drum to vibrate, and the afflicted one can hear quite plainly. Some people think that they voluntarily raise their voices in a car. That is not so. ' Always speak in a low voice to a deaf person in a moying car or vehicle.”’—Philadelphia Ragowed, - 0000 L

Museum ot Princess’ Garters. A curious collection of ladies’ garters is kept at the Hohenzollern musewn at Berlin. Whenever there is a wedding in the Hohenzollern family a number of these short silk garters with the initials of the unewly-married princess are distributed among friends. The collection was begun by William 1., and the oldest garter is that which was woven on the occasion of the marriage of Prince Friedrich ‘Wilhelm Ludwig with the daughs ter of the reigning Duke of Anhalt ‘Bernburg, in 1817. 'There are twelve garters from the reign of Frederick William lIL and ten from that of his successor, Frederick William IV. They ‘are all made of Fibbod silk of different colors, braided with gold ot silver, and many ot them are Suidhed oft t botty uda by hoavy iringok— Pl Mal Goe IR L L g e

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.This wonderful Nervine Tonic has only recently been introduced into this country by the Great South American™ Medicine Com&tmy, and yet its great value as a curative agent has long been known by the native inhabitants of South America, who rely almost wholly upon ‘its great medicinal powers to eure every form of disease by which they are overtaken. This new and valuable South American mediaine possesses ‘powers and gualities hitherto unknown to the medical é)rof%sion. This medicine has completely solved the problem of the cure of Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint and diseases of the general Nervous System, It also cures all forms of failing health from whatever cause. It performs this by the Great Nervine Tonic qualities which it possesses and by its Igreat; curative powers upon the (ggestlve organs, the stomach, the liver and the bowels. No remedg compares with this wonderfully valuable Nervine Tonic as a builder an strengthener of the life forces of the human body and as a great renewer of & broken down constitution. It is also of more real permanent value in the treatment and cure of diseases of the Lungs than any ten consumption remedies ever used on this continent. It is a marvelous cure for nervousness of females.of all ages. Ladies who are approaching the critical period known as change in life should not fail to use this great Nervine Tonic almost constantly for the .'i?m of two or three years. It will'can'i them safely over the dan%er. his great strengthener and - curative is of inestimable value to the aged and infirm, because its great energizing properties will give them a new hold on life. It will add ten or fifteen years to the lives of many of those whowill use a half dozen bottles of the remedy each year.

Nervousness and Broken Constitution, : Nervous Prostration, Debility of Old Age, : Nervous Hzadache and s - Indigestion and Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Heartburn and Sour Stomach, Female Weakness, { Weight and Tenderness in Stomach, All Diseases of Women, ; Loss of Appetite, i Nervous Chills, ~ Frightful Dreams, , Paralysis, : ' Dizziness and Ringing in the Ears, Nervous Paroxysms and *'Weakness of Extremitiés and Nervous Choking, Fainting : b : Hot Flashes, : Impure and Impoverished Blood, Palpitation of the Heart, Boils and Carbuncles, : ' Mental Despondency, Scrofula, : Sleeplessness, Scrofulous Swelling and Ulcers, St. Vitus’s Dance, - Consumption of the Lungs, ‘- ' Nervousness of Females, - Catarrh of the Lungs, v Nervousness of Old Age, - Bronchitis and Chronic Cough,’ ‘ Neuralgia, Liver Complaint, | e Pains in the Heart, Chronic Diarrheea, = Pains in the Back, Delicate and Scrofulous Children, Failinig Health, : : Summer Complaint of Infants. , All these and many other complaints cured by this Wonderful Nervine Tono-

NERVOUS DISEASES. _ Asacure for eveg class of Nervous Diseases, no remedy has been able to compare with the Nervine Tonic, which is very pleasant and harmless in all its effects upon the youngest child or the oldest and most delicate individual, Nine-tenths of all the ailments to which the human family is heir, are dependent on nervous exhaustion and impaired digestion. When there is an insufficient supply of nerve food in the blood, a general state of debility of the brain, spinal marrow and nerves is the result. Starved nerves, like starved muscles, become strong when the right kind of food is supplied, and a thousand weaknesses and ailments disappear as the nerves recover. As the nervous system must supply all the power by which the vital forces of the body are carried on, it is the first to suffer for want of ﬂerfect nutrition. Or-~ dinary food does not contain a sufficient quantity of the kind of nutriment necessary to repair the wear our %resent mode of living and labor imposes upon the nerves. For this reason it becomes necessary that a nerve food be supplied. This recent production of the South American Continent has been found, by analysis, to contain the essential elements out of which nerve tissue is formed. This dccounts for its magic power to cure all forms of nervous derangements. - = 5

#+. CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND., Aug. 20, ’B6. ) 1 %o the Great South American Medicine Co.: | * DEAR GENTS:—I desire to say to you that I have suffered for many years with a very serfous disease of the stomach and nerves. ' I tried every medicine I could hear of but nothing done me any appreciable good until I was advised to try gonr Great South American Nervine Tonic and Stomach and Liver Cure, and ince using several bottles of it I mustsay that i am surprised at its wonderful powers to cure the stomach and general nervous system. If everyone knew the value of this remedy as I do, you would not be able to supply the delnand.‘ J. A. HABDE%O'-‘ : Ex-Treas, Montgomery

A Sworn Cure for St. CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND., May 19, 1886, My daughter, twelve years old, had been afelcted for several months with Chorea or St. itus’s Dance, Shewasreduced to a skeleton, could not walk, could not talk, could not swall?kw anything but milk; I had to handle her ean infant, Doctor and neighbors gave her up. I commenced giving herthe South American Nervine Tonic, tlie effects were very surprising, In three daysshe was rid of the nervousness, and rapidly improved. Four bottles cured her completely. I think the South American Nervine the grandest remedy ever discovered, and would recommmend it {o everyzne. ; - Mrs. W, 8. ENSMINGER. tate of Indiana, i o , - Montgomery Counly§ "™ . Dk Subscribed and sworn to before me this May 19, 1887. CmAs. M. Travis, Notary Public.

INDIGESTION AND DYSPEPSIA.

- The Great South American Nervine Tonic , Which we now offer E)u is the only absolutely unfailing remedy ever discow ered for the cuve of Indigestion, nyapeps;a, and the vast train of symptoms and horrors which are the result of disease and debility of the human stomach. No person can afford to pass by this jewel of incalculable value who is affected by disease of the Stomach, because the experience and testimony of thousands io to prove that this‘is the oNE and ONLY ONE great cure in the world for this universal destroyter. There is no case of unmalignant disease of the stomach which can resist the wonderful curative powers gffthe South American Nervine Tonie. : : : . ;

Harriet E. Ball, of Waynetow:h Ind., says: *] owe my litoﬁbl‘ho Great Sou A,mßrlcan Nervine, I had been in bed for five months from the effects of an exhausted Stomach, In@igestion, Nervous Prostration and a general shattered condition of my whole :{atem. Had Egen up all hopes of gettlxig well. Had tried ee doctors with no relief. The first bottle of the Nervine Tonic imgx;oved me 80 much that I was able to walk about and a few bottles cured me em I believe it the best medicine in the I cannot recommend ' too highly, Mrs. M. Russell, Sugar Creek Valley, Ind., gltea: 41 have nsedp:ovexal bottles of The uth American Nervine Torfi¢ and will say I consider it the best medicine in the world, I ib;l’ieve %hsaved th?i lives o({ tw&i:f my chilN, ey ‘were down and no a Bea.red iodothomanyqoodnnﬁllprocnmﬁtg rem- . Xt was very aurpﬂsln&l how rapidly they jmproved on its use, I recommend the nedldmtoallmyna‘l:;hm el

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Mr. Solomon Bond, a 8 member of the Societ} of Friends, of Darllngbon, Ind., says: “I haw used twelve bottles of The Great South Ames ican Nervine Tonic and Stomach and Li Cure and I consider that every boftle did f me one hundred dollars worth of good, cause I have not had a good night’s sleep fof twenty years on account. of irritation, pain Thorrible dreams and general nervous ns»rostra tion, which has been caused by chronic indi %estion and dyspeglsia of the stomach and by ¢ ‘broken down condition of my nervous system But now I can lie down and sleep all nlght o sweetly as a baby, and I feel like asound mag I.do not think there has ever been & medi introduced into this coantqrwhlch will at compare with this Nervine Tonic as & gure the stomach.”

itus’s Dance or Chorea. . * CBRAWFORDSVILLE, IND., June 22, 1887, My daughter, eleven years old, was severe} afflicted with St. Vitus’s Dance or Chorea. 'W( gave her three and one-half bottles of Soutd American Nervine and she is completaly re stored, - I believe it will cure every case of S 4 Vitus’s Dance. I have kept it in my family fof two and am sure it is the greatest re ‘edy istrxe?h%world for Ind%estion and Dy l: siayall forms of Nervous Disorders and F:R:h‘ Health from whatever cause. - - State of Indi e a;[gnt omg:ya’ C’mmtyz 0. o i Subscrfbed and sworn to before me this Junt 22, 1987, CHAS. W, WRIGHT, - Notary Publia.

Mrs, Ella A. Bratton, of New Ross, Indy says: *I cannot express how much lowe fo the Nervine Tonie. My system was completely shatter appetite gone, ‘'was coughing an spitt.in?}l’p b’ig:d, a:g:ug’e I was lxgl thg : stage o commmpt'i!;)‘x:l an idheritance hand down throuﬁh BOV. generations, I taking the Nervine Tonic and continued Cited Th e the panie Sumaly x meren o rem or stomach and lunggﬁnhave ever seen.” o " Ed; J. Brown, druggist, of Edina, } writes: My health hgfhbeen very poor : years, wasoonghinfsevemly. lo::{{:eizh 110 pounds when I commenced . Bm American Nervine, I have used two bo and now weigh 130 poundn.b::!:l am much stronger and better than have for b years Am sure would not have lived ‘through the Winter had I not secured this remedy, . M customers see what it has done for me #ﬂ it eagerly. It gives great satisfaction.™

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