Ligonier Banner., Volume 30, Number 31, Ligonier, Noble County, 7 November 1895 — Page 7

: WINGS. ; Wings that flutter in sunny air: Wings that dive and dip and dare: = Wings of the humming bird flashing by; ; Wings of the lark in the purple sky; . Wings of the eagle aloft, aloof: Wings of the pigeon upon the roof; Wing of the storm bird swift and free - With wild winds sweeping across the sea— Often and often a voice in me sings— O, for the freedom, the freedom of wings! O. to winnow the air with wings! 0. to float far above hurtful things! Things that weary und wear and fret— 2 Deep in the azure to fly and forget To touch in a moment-the mountain's crest, - Or haste to the valiey for home and rest; To rock'with the pine tree as wild birds may, To follow the sailor a summer's day, - Over and over a voice in me sings— O, for the frecdom, the freedom of wings! Softly responsive a voice in me sinzs— : Thou hast the freedom, the freedom of wings. Soon as the glass a second can count Into the heavens thy heart may mount, Hope may fly to the topmost peak, Lone its nest in the vale may seek: Outspeeding the sailor Faith's pinions may Touch the ends of the earth in a summer's day. Softy responsive a voice in me sings— Thou hast the freedom, the freedom of wings! ~—Mary F. Butts, in Youth's Con;pnnion. IN GOLD TIME. BY ROBERTA LITTLEHALE. He was straight, and grizzled, and keen of eye. He had worked, and fought, and gambled his way through the lawlessness and passion of the state’s early lifeintothedecency and uprightness of a successful contractor. His name was Bill Bowen, As a civil engineer, I came more or less in contact with him, and rejoiced in the largeness of his mental r_nold,'.vas well as in the-business sense of security he let me enjoy. One summer’s night we took a drive to a distant town on the San Joaquin river. We were to look at stone for a bridge building, and the blistering heat of the day made us willing to lose our rleep for the more comfortable traveling by starlight. - The horses jogged lazily through the coarse, thick dust on thé river’s levee, end the insects from the grain fields and the frogs from the sloughs had things wholly to themselves until Bill suddenly interrupted: “Mrs. Chase is pretty enough yet to understand why she sent two fellows to the devil, isn't she ?” ' “What are you talking about?” I angwered. i . J “QOh,” said Bill, pulling himself up, “I forgot you didn’t struggle with the rest of us through those groggy days.” I knew Bill well enough to let him relapse just so many minutes; thenlsaid: “Judge Chase’s wife is lovelier at sixty than most girls at sixteen, but I hadn't any idea she figured so romantically in. the early days as to send anybody overboard.” “H'm,” replied Bill, reflectively. The horses traveled on without attention, and I waited in patience. .. *You know what it was like,” he began at last. ‘*‘Men with guns from all over the union and gold the heaven we sweated for. Prayers, and court, and the gambling tables all running under oneroof, and nary awoman’s face showing upinthe masstogive us courage. 'L'o be sure, there were vixenish ribs o Satan who robbed, and killed, and drank with the worst of us; but until ’5l we'd never the woman for reverence. Then, by degrees, the lawyers and. a stra‘:{ merchant or two aired their families, but things svasn’t dizzy tiil pretty Grace Blancherd got out with her father. “Understand, she carried herself as she'd ought to; but, understand, there was men among us as was born and bred to live with blooct. 'T'he mass of us had to take out our satisfaction in looking at her; but for two the favor in old Blanchard’s eyes was easy reading, and it wasn’t long seeing the course the straw took. , “Ned Emory was a long, lean, blond fellow, . with a blamed tine face and a way that made friends of the toughest. They said he looked a swell when xe’ called at the Blanchard's, but I never saw him but like the rest of us—red-shirted and overalled, and an angle to his pistol that made him a joy. “George Stokes—'Shorty,” we called him—was a man with an answer that ripped like a knife and a head that made success of everything, because it could work crooked as well as straight. He’d been on the bench, but he’d located a vein at Mariposa, and was overseeing up there in’s2. Naturally, he lost opportunities, not being right on the spot, and the danger began. v “The Blanchard. house was swelled larger than most of the cabins, and had two long windows that opened onto a porch. Things might never have been 80 bad but for those two lidless eyes in front. B “One fatal night Shorty Stokes rode Into the settlement—but I am getting ahead of affairs.” - Bill tossed his cigar into the tules, and hurried the horses into effort as the interest of his reminiscence swept him on. “The girl carried herself after the fashion of high steppers, and neither fellow could swear where he stood. It was laughter and spirit for both of them, they said, and nip and tuck for the yielding. The pace was the sort that exhausts men, and Shorty’s brain for lawyering cooked up a scheme for his rescue. le was for their going together some night before her, and, after ‘a formal marriage proposal, each argue his claim and fitness for ten minutes by the clock, their honor at stake to stand by her decision, “It got about afterwards that Emory wouldn’t consent until he saw the .devil to pay in Shorty’s earnestness; and they swore with their fists in each other's to carry the thing through to the finish. The date and hour were arranged for the following Sunday might at-eight, and they drank to it with gall in the cup. : ' “When the evening came the clock had already struck eight when Stokes reached the BW& house. ~ “The lights from the room fell over the porch, and from the shadow of the steps he saw the something that in all the world he couldn’t bear to see—Einory crossing the room to take Grace Blanchard in ‘his arms; Emory with passion paling his face and Graco ;““% %WW e *‘%’ﬁ?w%ﬁ ey w& s Diphanin fond b e vl Aol ekl Sl bodies o ol syt s o

after a losing fling at the tables, he started to find Emory. . “After a little ineffectual riding, he leaped from the back of his vicious-eyed piebald at the corner that bulged thickcst vith saloons, and stood close to the stirrup with his hand on his hip. Some one who noticed him said his face had the steely intensity of arazoredge. . - “Then out of the crowd, unconscious, with the music of love in his heart, swung Ned Entory. His hat was pusherd back on his fair hair, and he was whist~ ling the overflow out of his veins. “In one instant a bullet rang through the air, followed by another. Emory fell in his own blood, and a horseman was riding off wildly and safe through the shower of bullets thatrained around him. Every man with a cayuse tore in pursuit, but they only brought back eight half-dead horses. Stokes had staked relay beasts at different points along the road, and was then safe in the chaparral canyons toward the north. “The gambling dens choked up with the crowds; gold dust was heaped on gold dust for the reward of the cowardly hound’s capture. Murders weren’t rare thern, but there wasonly one Ned Kisory, remember, 1 “Four of us wouldn’t drop the search. We let the blood-mone¥ men get out of the way, and then we worked as we'd toil for only ourown. : : “There was scarcely no scent to follow, for Stokes had bribed the greasers who furnished his horses; but we forced our way along onnothing. Day and night we rode with our eyes open, sometimes bullying and sometimes begging. It began toseem hopeless. The days were running into summer again. “Omne afternoon, teward twilight, we rested on the crest of a meuntain where the path took a sudden turnaway from a two-hundred-foot precipice. = ~ “We were torn with the. snapping ‘branches of the greasewood, and full of extremest dirt and disgust. - Suddenly we heard the rustle of a step on the fallen leaves.. Under a live oak, not thirty yards away, on the very edge of the cliff, stood Shorty Stokes. He had not heard us, and he stood looking at the moon which hung a sickle in the hot sky. The evening star was showing. “The four of us were like stones. He could have got to Guinea before motion’d have come to us. Then, simultaneously with our steps forward, he turned and looked into our, faces. “It was a moment to test the nerve of any man. He stood it as we were used to seeing him face all things. * ‘T suppose I'm the man you're after,’ he said. : “He said it with the dignity of a parson. “In a second he had thrown down his pistols. e unsheathed his knives and dropped them to the ground. . . ““Take me,’ he said.: : “Four of us looked into the unflinching clearness of his eyes. As we hesitated, he spoke again. . “‘Listen. It is not in excuse that I speak, nor in weakening. It is to tell you that those among you who are men will follow my steps under like circumstances.

* ‘Emory gave me his hand and his oath, in the manner of his franknéss, to stand by an arranged agreement. *‘We were to .meet at eight o'clock on that Sunday night. A—a beautifully good woman was to decide on our argument which man she would marry. In riding to meet my engagement I happened on un accident. Within half a mile of the settlement, close onto time, 1y piebald went back on his haunches and the groan of a man came up from the roadside. Ifoundan overloaded miner, hurt in the leg, and the hope in my own heart aroused my sympathy. I mounted the man oniny beast and headed him back toward camp. “ ‘Walk as I never walk, I reached the meeting place three minutes late. Ah—God—out in the darkness I saw Emory taking advantage of the delay. “‘None of you is so much a cur as to let the life run in.a man who, under his honor, couldn’t yield a rival three minutes’ grace. “‘But, with the camp against me and Emory the friend of the sorriest, I couldn’t face the music when the justice was done. ; “ ‘lt is not mercy I ask. It is life hereafter. Come.’ “ ‘With a common impulse we started forward, only to halt inn a frozen horror as Stokes’ broncho threw-up his head in alarm to watch with us the backward somersaulting of his master's body over the precipice. “Though there was but one verdict, even Chase said as we rode down over the mountain that night: ‘Emory Inight have given Shorty a few minutes’ grace. "—The Black Cat.

A Modest Philosopher. John Stuart Mill was an unassuming philosopher. He strove to give his wife the credit of his works, and he was never pretentious in claiming precedence among men. Miss Cobbe, in her ‘“‘Life,” relates this anecdote of Mr. Mills’ modesty: She was talking to him one day about the difficulty of doing mental work when disturbed by the music of street bands, and instanced the case of a gentleman who was thrown into a frenzy by their noise. ‘lt does not interfere with my work,” said Mr. Mill. Miss Cobbe remariced that Herbert Spencer was much annoyed by such disturbances. *Ah, yes, of course!” rejoined the modest man. ‘“‘Writing Spencer’s works one must have quiet!” He was so unconscious of the freedom from disturbance required to write his own “‘System of Logic” and ‘“Political Economy” that he would allow, while writing, his eat to lie on his table or on his neck. = His gentleness and his absorption in his theme protected him.— Youth’s Companion., s i W T A Talking Machine. The gramophone, a talking machine, much simpler and cheaper than the pbonograph, invented by Dr. Berliner, the famous electrician, will soon be put upon the market. Its records of human speech and of music, it is said, are indestructible, and can be cheaply multiplied to an indefinite extent by simple mechanical means. What it has tosay or sing can be heard all over an ordinary sized house. 8o devoid of complexity is its construction that the complete apparatus will cost only eighteen dollars, and a 2 smaller edition, intended for the us¢ of children, will be sold for five dollars,—Chicago Chronigle, - ~ ~Whole years of joy glide unperceived away, while sorrow counts the minutes as'they pass.—Havard, . |

THE FARMING WORLD. | FIRST-CLASS BACON. Ar Increaging Demand Which Is of Imo " portance to Farmers, . Thlis country is fast becoming a nation of bacon eaters, and the demand for -bacon is very much greater now than it was only a few yearsago. This demand leads to a well-defined call for bacon breeds of swine and those breeds which can be depended on to produce meat well streaked with lean have a prospect of becoming very popular. The bacon made in America has hitherto been too fat to meet with great favor in the markets of the world. In EuJrope, Danish bacon has first place, while that of Canada is taken in preference to that from this country. This is because of the greater amount of lean meéat in the product of these countries as compared with ours. ' The American swine breeder has been paying most of his attention to producing weight without regard to what their weight was made of, and, as a conseéquence, American pork is largely pure fat, and it is not uncommon to find American side pork that has no lean at all in it. The favorite breeds in America have been bred !to this weight ideal, until they are largely fat producers, and very few of them are good bacon hogs, and he who desires to produce first-class bacon mustchoose his breed carefully. A few years ago the Berkshire produced good bacon, but the rage for great weight and the Labit of getting this by feeding heavily on corn to the exclusion of more nitrogenous foods, has made this breed a fat producer instead of a good bacon breed. It is altogether possible to breed back to the old-time qualities, but this is a work of time, and to meet the present demand other breeds must be looked for. The Yorkshires are a first-class bacon breed, and promise to obtain a popularity that they have not had because of this disposition to produce well-streaked bacon. The Tamworths are also a good breed for this purpose and are largely bred in England for bacon, but in this country they have not been as widely introduced as the Yorkshires. : :

Feeding has something to do with producing bacon, and if the farmers of the country will feed more nitrogenous foods and not so.much corn, they will go a long way toward making good bacon with the breeds now found on the farms of the country. While corn will probably remain the standard food for hogs, they should be given wheat or middlings} bran, oats, grass, milk and other lean-making foods, and receive less corn in their rations. If a hogis well fed, and by that we mean properly fed, so as to make size without being made fat, it can be finished on corn and make a very fair article of bacon, but if it has been grown and fattened on a diet that is almost exclusively corn, it can never bé made to produce firstclass bacon.—Farm News. 1

FUMES OF CYANIDE. They Cause a Radical Change in the Colors of Flowers. It is well known that the ycllows of some insects are turned to red by the fumes from potassium cyanide; but I Lave not, after some inquiry, been able to obtain any literature describing the effects of such fumes upon the colors of flowers. The reactions I have observed are very curious, and while it seems improbable that they are hitherto wholly unknown, it may not be amisgs to direct attention to them. A few lumps of cyanide are placed in a corked tube, covered with a little cotton, and the flowers are placed on the cotton. 1t is probably necessary that the day should be hot or the tube slightly warmed. The pink flowers of Cleome integrifolia and Monarda fistulosa turn to a brilliant green-blue and finally become pale yellow. A pur-ple-red verbena becomes bright blue then pale yellow. The purple flowers of Solanum sloeagnifolium go greenblue and then yellow. The white petals of Argemone platyceras turn yellow, the natural color of A. Mexicana. The pale yellowish flowers of Mentzelia nuda turn a deeper yellow. Flowers of Lupinus Argenteus, var., turn pale yellow. White elder (Sambucus) flowers turn yellow. The scarlet flowers of Sphaeralcea angustifolia turn pale, dull pink, resembling somewhat 4 natural variety of the same. Any of your readers will doubtless obtain similar results with the flowers growing in their vicinity.—T. D. A. Cockerell, in Nature, ; ;

CAUSEWAYS OF WOOD. More Easily Constructed Than Those Made of Stone. In some regions stone suitable for building causeway walls is not at hand. In such a case a passageway for cattle

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may be made under a road by using wooden timbers for the sides, as shown in the accompanying illustration. The timbers are spiked or trenailed together to keep them firmly in place. Crosspieces at the bottom hold the sides from pressing together, while the timLers at the top serve the same purpose. Such a wall is much more easily constructed than one made of stone.—Orange Judd Farmer. Treatment of Poultry Manure. Poultry manare should be removed from the houses every day and should be kept under cover. Every {time droppings are added to the pile, sprinkle on either land plaster or kainit.” The latter is to be preferred becruse it contuins potash, in which the , boultry imanures are eficient. 'The ohiject of the addition is to prevent the eseape of ammoniz, and the nose will be @ sufe. guide in.determining: the amount of. Fainit to -use. The quantity necessary : will vary with the degree of moisture of the manure and the temperature of the air, Add enough so that there 181 no odor of ammonia when the pile is stirved. The mixture of kainit with hen manure fits it for use for Hoed crops, It should be made fine beforg applivation.—Prof. W. . Brooks, Mussi-

GOOD THINGS TO HAVE. | They Seem Almost Insignlﬁcant, But s_a..vic Lots of Work. I send you a sample of a corn tie a a fruit hook. The corn tie should have a stout cord about 6 feet long with | loop on one end to be hooked on the tie at time of use, and taken off when put away. In using it, take a stout cord!s or 6 feet long. Tie a knot in one enjﬁ, and tie another knot about 2 inchés from the first, but before drawing it up, put the first knot through it, whidh will form a loop. When ready to tiein shock, put the loop over the little pa.{‘t of the tie,the Joop occupying the midd!e bend. The large bend is for the finger to pull by. Put strings around s‘nocf(, and draw it up on the inside of sharp bend, in which draw the cord tight and it will hold itself. The stringsand tigs should be kept separate when nct in use, to prevent tangling. It takesabont 9 inches of round wire 8 inches-in diameter. The fruit hooks should ‘;)e

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. iy i made of stout wire about three‘;ji)ixteeths of an inch in diameter, and about 8 inches long when made. They lare also suitable for house painters w}len working on ladders. The object] ot having'the hook made in this shage is to make it easy of attaching or d’etéching from a pail bail, and have it so it cannot get off without help. Igenerally use a large tin pail for gathering fruit. If to be used ona basket hanjdle, the bend in the lower part will hav?e to be made larger accordingly. It takes about 18 inches of 3-16 inch wire.-f—H. Sherman, in Country Gentleman. | WATERING HORSES. | The Experience of an English Vete%lnarian in Indla. ; An English veterinarian writing to the London Live Stock Journal- says: “Prejudice dies hard, but the handest of all to die in the minds of groox?ls is that it is injurious to give a hoise a drink of eold water when he is heated from exercise. Years ago, when I'used to train horses for racing in India, I grappled with this prejudice, and ¢lung to it with such tenacity that I used constantly to have horses ‘off’ their/ feed after a strong gallop. One day I returned to the messhouse very hot and very tired after a long run, and suq&d'éily thought fit to mentally put njg'self in the place of a race horse. ‘Shall I have,” I asked myself, ‘a better appetite for breakfast if I refrain from drinking till’T have cooled off or if I have a drink right off?” Knowing that I could not eat heartily unless I had first ;of* all a drink, I took it, and thereupon I{elt so fit to eat, and went so strong over a course of beefsteak, ham and jeggs, quail, muffins, ete., that I resolyed to try the same treatment on my hprses. My lead was attained with such sfecess that nowadays all the trainers in|/India give their horses about half a bucket of cold water to drink immediately after a gallop, and with the best results as regards the appetites and health, 1 have not alone never seen, but have never even heard or read of any harm to a horse from drinking cold hwater when he was heated. I have, hoxffvever, seen hundreds of cases of colic/ occur in horses from drinking watex after being fed on ‘occasions when thef; had, previous to eating, been deprived or water for some time. Were all grooms to take my advice as to wat«fring, I am afraid that many an ‘honest and hard-working veterinary surgeon would find his income from colﬁc cases seriouslv diminished.” ]

NOTES FOR FARMERS. — i Keep the manure pile steadi!y growsing. : ‘ Increase the feed of fattening animals. s Lo Carrots are much relished by cattle as well as horses. : Last year we imported 2,804,554 gallons of molasses from foreig‘}n couns= tries. Trees in an orchard that is never manured exhaust the {fertility in the soil within reach of their roots, and then fail to bear as well as was expected. i Gather all your ripe tomatoes, the poor as well as the good ones. 'The former are excellent for stock of all kinds, and are appreciated by poultry, who like to peck at them. : In Great Britian and Ireland there are only 3,695,799 cows, or an average of one cow to every ten persons. In the United States there are 15,000,00 cows, or one cow to every four persons. . e Within the past twenty years there has been a radical change in the English taste for cheese. A 'very mild flavored article is now demanded instead of the strong kind formerly in demand.—N. Y. World. : 0

Decrease in Wheat Cultivation. The most striking disclosure in the recent Hungarian minister’s report of 'the wheat and rye crop of 1895 is the diminution of the wheat area in the undermentioned countries, which is shown as follows: a 7 Great Britain since 1890........28.28 per cent France since 1891..............., 5.10 per eent Germany since 1890............. 0.55 per cent Hungary since 18%4............. 3.01 per cent Austria since 1800...............12.84 per cent ltaly since 1894............000.0. 0,17 per cent Russia since 18%................ 7.00 per cent United States since 1891........18.08 per cent Australasia gince 1891.......... 8.68 per cent Since last year the area under wheat has decreased about 625,000 acres.—= Pester Lloyd. . i A Word Regarding Alfalfa. ' ' Indiscriminate advice is - sometimes published about alfalfa that is apt to be misleading. There is no crop that one needs to go slow about more than this, unless it has proved a success in the ‘neighborhoed, - AHalfa is a splendid crop, ‘and one greatly to besdegired in localities where it thrives. All that has been said in praise of it does ' not overestimate its value ns a forage crop, hay crop, and for green fertilizing; but this does not benefit one if a good cateh cannot be established, It is very much like clover on some soils, T in that it refuses to produce the expects ed resuis—Rural World,

Love’s Wooing. | Love caught and held her close and pressed / her to his breast : S & . With a softly whispered word; LT | Light in his fond, dg:p eyes was like sunlight on the sea, T And Nadine both saw and heard. | Mot one small whispered word did the fair Nadine vouchsafe, ‘QNot a little whispered werd; v ut a soft trembling smile and a softly trembling sigh Watchful Love both saw and heard. ; —New Budget. On the Verge. a | Standing where the sunset embers, | Crumbling, fall adown the skies, | Autumn muses and remembers, | Bending stern regretful eyes. The imperious purple burning | From her cheek hath burned away, | And her bosom feels but yearning | " For the golden yesterday. ? Though her kingdom fall asunder . l Through seditious winds and frost, - And the drums of winter thunder, { And she sees that all is lost, o Yet her royal pride ensureth That none whisper word of scorn:. Haggard, battled, she endureth, With a spirit upward borne. ) Eyes that love her grieve serenely _ At the pathos of it ali, . In her bounty free but queenly, - _ Now unbending in her fall. —Edwin A. Valentine, in Youth’s Com-. panion. HARDENING OF THE LIVER. How a Pittsfleld, IIL, Gentleman Overcame It. Condition Often Induces Paralysis and s Should Have the Best of Treatment. -From the Democrat, Pittsfield, I Mr. Valentine Smith, a farmer living in this county, whose post office address is' Pittsfield, 111., for the good of humanity in general, and especially for the benefit of any who may be afflicted as he was, wishes to make the following statement with reference to the great benefit he has received from using Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People: His statement is as follows: ¢“Ahout a year ago Iwas living in the Mississippi bottom near the river,and I had become very much broken in health, suffering greatly from a distension or hardening of thelower part of the abdomen or bowels, besides being troubled with my kidneys iand other complications which rendered my case, as I had supposed, almost hopeless. Ihad been in this condition, although, of course, not as bad as I was a year ago, for something over six years, and had about given up all hope of ever being a well man again, when, by the many testimonials and advertisements I had .read with reference to the wonderful cures perfected by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People I was induced to give them a trial. After taking two boxes I began to feel greatly relieved, and by the time I had used up five or six. boxes I was completely cured and have been, comparatively speaking, a well man ‘ever since. During all the time that I was suffering with this dreadful disease, which lam unable to name, I passed many sleepless nights and was in great distress almost continually and was able to do but little work, Now I sleep and eat well, and although I am sixty-one years of age, I am able to do a good day’s work on the farm, baving put in and tended eight acres of corn this season, besides doing a large amount of other work on the farm.: In short, I think your medicine a great blessing to humanity, and:can cheerfully recommend 1t to all suffering as I was. I had been in this condition six or seven years and had fiven everything I could hear of, doctors ncluded, a fair trial, but could get no relief, 1 VALENTINE SMITIH. Subscribed and swvorn to before me this 4th day of June A. D., 1895, . Mixyie CoLEY, Notary Public. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain, in a condensed form, all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are an unfailing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St.Vitus'dance, gciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after effect of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, all forms of weakness either in malé or female. Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post paid on receipt of price 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50, by addressing Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y.

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- Bubbles or Medals. . “Best sarsaparillas.” When you think of it how contradictory that term is. For there can be only one best in anything—one best sarsaparilla, as there is one highest mountain, one longest river, one deepest ocean, And that best sarsaparilla is———? .. .. There’s the rub! You can measure mountain height and ocean depth, but how test sarsaparilla? You could, if youwere chemists. But then, do you need to test it? The World’s Fair Committee tested it,—and thoroughly. They went behind the label on the bottle. What did this sarsaparilla test result in? Every make of sarsaparilla shut out . of the Fair, except Ayer’s. So it was that Ayer’s was the only sarsaparilla admitted to the World’s Fair. The committee found it the best. They had no room for anything that was not the best. And as the besty Ayer’s Sarsaparilla received the medal and awards due its merits. Remember the word “best ”” is a ‘bubble any breath can blow; but there are pins to prick such bybbles. - Those others are blowing more *‘best sarsaparilla” bubbles since the World’s Fair pricked the old ones. True, but Ayer’s Sarsaparilla has the medal.’ The pin that scratches the medal proves it gold. The pin that pricks the bubble proves it wind. We point to medals, not bubbles, when we say : The best sarsaparilla gAyeﬂé': e RRI ie e e S T e T A

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