Ligonier Banner., Volume 32, Number 35, Ligonier, Noble County, 2 December 1897 — Page 7

. -WHO[DIED JUST NOW? ° ‘Who's de_adf Who at this moment died, Or far away or. close at hand— - 1 Out where the ocean furies hide | -Or on the érime-infested land?’ - . | Who, when {you bend to read this line: | ~_(No mattet where, na matter how . o Death came .to him and gave the sign | of bec;:oaihg), who died just how? . | King, was it? Bishop? Robber? Wife? | Or babe insome worn mother’s arms? . | Or patriarch just finding life g . Possessed of newer, fresher charms? = | Perhaps it was a boy, whose face : Was brigmt with youth — perhaps. & {beidesN | o ] Perhaps a chief of some wild race,- o Stretched Hn his bullhide shield—who i dlog s : . ! B oy o And.“{where»?,';_ In fair and sunny Spain? | Or’in the ehdless northern night? | Or on the parched Sahara plain = i . Or on some stony mountain height? ‘‘| Touched Deéth some islet of thesea” | . Where ocenns part and oceans meet.. | Or did he cofne’a guest to be — . i . Within th¢ house across the street? -|- Who died just now? Each human breath (So calculdting men declare) L | Is but.a tally for a death . o In this greit hive of men, somewhere, | Somewhere just now o’er trembling lips | . There passes forth life’s final sigh, Just as the disappearing shipg - i Drop down below the line o% sky, ‘ ' . . = . : : y Who died just now In all the world? . . For some ohe, statisticians say, - - | Is for each passing moment hurled '@ - | Down Azrael’s dark and gloomy way, | To stand,‘ga?ﬁnt-eyed and white and awed, Where Claklon’s boatlights dully shine. | Who was it Hlied just now? Pray God | Not sgme g¢ne of your kith—or mine. ; ‘ . 5 = —Chicago Record, | Yaaary 222 l 2ddddd .i..l.a.ali‘g: 3 A TIGER EPISODE. }g | T : it 4 = te 4 BY AQUILA KEMPSTER. - KTTT T CCTT TAT TTR TR PTTTTR, | EMEMBER IT? ‘What a question!| ‘lt’s teh years gone and more, yet| I wake in’/ the night with ‘the cold sweat\ poutring from 'me and the echo of that laé,t awful ery ringing in my] ears.' Forget it? I wish to God that I could, but-fwell, this is the story: We| were. statigned at Nassirabad. the hot 4 test and slpwest hole in the whole In 4 dian empirg. The only thing to break the awful Iﬁimnotony was hunting, and after two Vears there I was naturally; (something of an expert. Game, outside ,round [the Ajmere hills, was pretty thicl@»—ih'is_ }’fiis, déery neilghai and such li'ke—}y'hii‘e}‘,’weﬂ up Chandi way there were lots gf tigers to be had for the patting. - § . 2 | Now, when one of the officers goes off whuntiffe he generally picks on one| of us “Tongmies” who knows the ropes§ and takes pus along. As therg’s generally tidyégood picking for Tommy, the job is;well liked; so when young Simpson—dur latest sub.—asked me to go along a nd show him around, why, T naturally jimps at it and packs my kit before I khew where we were bound. i o e : = When I heard noother place than €Ehandi jungle @vas to be our stamping ground I kind -of squirmed a little, ’gause I'd Peen there before and knew, the particufar kind of place it was. It’s| full of tigets, and they’'re always hungry. Why, when the locomotive: is _plugging ®p the hiH at night the stpkers hafe to throw open the fire-| ‘bax door -afd I€t out the light so as to| Efare the brutes off with the glare on; the Out‘sideg)f that litt¥e patchof jungle,] and half a*dozen Parsee firemen have} beeu"clznvc{i:’ﬁff the tender by the brutes; as the _enéijne grunted past. The hili] is so st‘eepz,t‘here that -you can’t make| “more than 12 miles an hour with those| old rattletrap locomotives anyway. | ‘Of course I wasn’t frightened; but| taking a beginner out to a place lika! that isn’t fun. There’s no telling what| a feliow’ll do when stacked up against, big game for the:first time; the finest| shots in the world will go_to pieces at] their first, sniff of a tiger or a hatn?—| not that eléphants are particularly dan-| gerous—but when your finest pigeon; and target shots tremble So that they| can’t hit afdeer at.so yards it’s no joke| to take a keginner up in the woods at| " Chandi. . Iftried to thold him, but he| wouldn’t lear of it; told me as how,;

! he had prognised a skin toia young lady ‘; back homeffor her birthday, and a skin _he was goi 1g to have. So we started. .| We tool the mnight' express - and, dropped off early in the morning af: Chandi ’Yilf;é‘g»e; swhere 1 got the stuft “'for our camp, a bundle of bamboos, “some stout cord and a young kid for bait~ We then struck across country, keeping wvell in the open, for the Chan-. di river, a little half-dried-up stream that quenches the thirst of more tigers in & week than all the other rivers infa\ -month. Wk crossed this stream about three in thg afternoon; and on the edge 6t the junfle I found a banyan tree, up which T secrambled with the help of _the youngster, and inm short time had hacked a Space clear to fix my bamboos, Whi.'il’ I nailed and lashed into a_ kind ‘Bf platform, strong -and roomy enpugh to hold us both comfortably. fThen I slipped.-down by & knotted rdpe, which was to serve us as a ladder. 7 e A - Nest We'gdrove a stake deep down in " the ban}(»(&ff‘the stream and tied the kid to 'it, ,scr‘jﬁtching its hind leg with a ~knife so §t would bleat; and, having chucked éur grub; blankets and riflek up, we shtinned up the rope ourselvey ~and’ made everything comfortable; ‘Thén I began to breathe a little easier, for it would take a pretty clever tiger. to get at.'us up there.. i We were none too soon, for nigh. drops quick y there, and the long -gray shadows were creeping over the . land befofe we were safely housed. We made a Bearty meal and had a goodslug of-brandy to keep the chills off; then we fay smoking and talking in -whispers,; with. our eyes and .our Martinis sighted on the vague form of the kid tbai fas dimly visible in-the gloom. ‘Later the moon came out, a gre':z‘, ~ big, roun, creamy thing, looking some“how awfal solemn sailing up there so still ‘and ‘mournfullike; and the plaintive lery of that poor little kid as i ~sniffed 'round after its mother all adde to the ghostliness of the whole bqsines. _ ?‘m not superstitious, but I~own Idi eel uncdmmon queer that night, | - I think maybe I got a trifle drowsy; anyway, my eyes were so misty thats ‘1 lost sight of the tip of the gun and the kidfStogether. Then there, was loud ruftle, and I was back in Chandi - jungle {¥ith a jump that fetched mg. t;zszr,te;i #to my mouth, But it wasn’tn u&eng fit d ring buck; but, say, what ~a buekly In all my hunting days in In- . suspiciolis, then walked up to the kid Sl bl s ey

the next moment his Martini spoke and the buck dropped—a fine shot, yes; but he had such good light he couldn’t miss it. So far it.was all right, but what wext?2 . . - e “Jones,™says he, “keep a good wateh out; I must have the skin beéfore a tiger spoils it. I never saw such a fine one in all my life, and I wouldn’t miss it for a fortune.” ~ 1 o - An’ he up’s to go down the tree. Well, s'wel’p me! yot might have knocked me down with a feather. That kid had been howling: for a tiger to come and eat him for an hour or more, and now this crack-brained idiot must go and add himself to the brute’s supper! . . Well, I raved and I prayed and I cursed at him; it swasn’t a bit of good; his British blood was up, and, like thousands. of other youngsters who make the backbone and glory of out army and navy, he didn’t know what fear was, but just grinned. They’re grect daredevil fighters, but they haven’t any more sense than a suckling calf. There’s only two places on earth where they can be safely trusted—in bed and leading a forlorn hope:. When I saw he was bent cn it I just gritted my teeth and pulled up my gun as he slid down the rope. In two minutes he had skipped over the strenm‘\and‘ had his knife at work on the buck, the Kid meantime trying to pall up-to him as if he were its mother, Well, sir, I just lay there with the muzzle of my gun sighted on his head —whenthe thumping of my heart didn’t shake it off. -Ifthe tiger would only try to sneak out on him—for I felt an awful certainty that he would come—l could save him; but if the brute sprang, God help him! [ Not a man .in the empire could pot a tiger on the jump except by a fluke, » As he kneit there in the moonlight 1 saw kim push back from his side the scabkard of an Indian tulwar—a present, I believe, from the rajah of Ajmere —to prevent the blood from staining it. While I was admiring his coolness and cursing his c¢ussedness, even at that moment there was the flash of a long black shadow across the moonlitf space, the

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"A Clérieal Justification, ~ One who ministered in the only magnificent church north of the Tweed, being Rome, had a private interview with the pope. -When he eame back, e was severely catechised whether ;he had ‘knelt-down to the Son of Perdition. *“Yes, I did.” And I am prepared to justify it. Kneeling,-in Scotland, has 10 religious significance. That was'all rig'rht.' But ' if, while the pope - was épe.akjng to me, I had lounged, and stared. about me, and fréquently yawned, and looked in any direction® save that of his holiness, that would have been most improper in a minister of the kirk. For that would have been adopting, in €peaking to a mortal mun, the well-known ‘attitude of public prayer.” Several individuals, hearing this, declared that the eminent preacher would certainly go to perdition for Inuking such an observavtion. But vghody attempted to answer it—Longinan’s.

.. Patlietiec Incident. e An exchange prints a pretty and pad thetic story said to have bee¢n related by (Prof. Gallaudet, the weli-kinown instructor of deaf mutes. The professor has a favorite pupil—a little deaf mute ‘boy, exceptionally bright. Mr. Gallaudet asked him if he knew th= story of ‘George Washington and the cherry tree., With his nimble fingers the little one said he did, and proceeded 1o repeat it. The noiseless gestulations ¢ontinued until the boy had inforvied the professor of the elder Washington’s discovery of tﬁnutilatéd tree and of his quest - for ¢ mautilator. “When George's father asked him who hacked his favorite cherry tree,” signalled the voiceless child, “George put his hatchet in his left hand—" “Stop," interrupted the professor. ,;‘Where do you get your authority for saying he took the hatchet in his left hand?”’ “Why," responded the boy, “he needed his right Land 1o tell his faflier that he cut the tree.’-— Youth's Companion. o

-~ Astrology was ({}ﬂti?’ﬂ ted firdt by the Chaldeans, and was trassmitted from them t'o/the Egyptians, Chinese and others at the very dawn of history. The Jews became much addicted to it after the captivity, 558 B. . Bede, the learned Saxon monk, was devoted 1o it, A, D. 673-785, and Roger Bhcon 12141292. It was much in vogue in Italy e steenth tey. AAe S .

THE HORSE’S FEET. Why| They Should Receive Constant and Careful Attention. - - From the birth to the death of the’ horsd, says a fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, the hoof requilres attention, if it is to be kept in a heglthy condition, It is before the hoof is shed that the feet are generally pegldcted, and the animals suffer accordingly. because they are young and immature, and the bones and other tissues lare soft, and could be easily distorted to suit the conditions under which they are kept. The feet of foals and growing horses should therefore have attention given them, since neglect at that period often sows the seeds of continuous trouble. The hoofs should be kept clean by being “picked out” as often as possible to prevent any sort | of hard substance being buried in the fissures of the feet. They should be eéxamined from time to time (say every six eight weeks), to detect any defects| of shape that might be taking place. If the feet are not growing level and symmetrical, they should be made so by rasping away the horn which is not naturally worn down. If thisis negJectedl the animal will soon have the fetlogk joint bending over towards the dutside. . On no pretense whatever should the front of the wall be interfered with, for the glazed coating of its surfdce protects the horn beneath it; it shiould therefore be left untouched. 1t would be as well to disabuse people’s| minds of a very popular fallacy ——\iz, that wet, soft ground, and even manfure yards, are the best places to keep| young horses—and some would even| have the frogs and soles pared thin [to allow the moistiire to penetrate mord “easily. |No greater mistake is madé¢ than this, for the preservation of the ljoof dependsto a great extent upon the soil the animal wasreared on. The } best| footed horses are bred on dry. soils{ and that is undoubtedly the kind of ground best adapted to the healthy growth of horn. Young horses re-. quire ‘plenty of exercise, and unless theylage allewed it; the growth of the horn, ete., is sure to be defeciive. Then the lquestion arises: “When ought a horsp to be first shod?” 'The answer is, }'i'hex the work required .of the animal wears the horn away faster than it is fornjed or grown, or in other words, so lgng as the horn of the foot can stangl the wear required, it will not need protecting (shoeing). Moreover, if the young -horses are not 'shod so early; they will not be worked so hard, and [fewer would be ruined in their vouth, as is too often the case at #he nresent time. : ' | NEAT FEEDING PEN. - '!-Io to I’x_'otec_t tllé Pigs’ Rations 4 - from Greedy Fowls. . Where hogs are fed mear the house or brn, the fowls are apt to go among thent and eat alarge portion of the feed; I fijally solved the problem by constru¢ting a feeding pen so that the hogs and pigs could go. in and out at pleasure i)ut fowls of all kinds were exclud-

g { . «&/ o — B Il r,'li’i"r""{—rr'r‘ﬂ—\‘ | ) _ | -/V?'zwr, . ] e ] L o B 1 B e 1 | FPEEDING PEN FOR PIGS. ed. Build a feeding Hloor several inches ‘abo’\{a’ the surface of the ground and inclgse with a tight board fence surmounted with pickets a foot or more lon'gi. Make one or more openings near the jground for the hogs and hang a dooll,* 1, from the top so that it iwill swing pretty freely either way. Leather straps or hinges that work easily will janswer. The hogs will soon Jearn to go back and forth, but fowls will not.lenter. 1f there are '‘two sizes of hogs, make a partition and in it construet a small swinging door just large eroygh to admit the smaller pigs—Orangeé Judd Farmer. - : ~ |HINTS FOR|{ STOCKMEN. <All yoxfng animals need pleaty of exercise to develop the mauscles. — Neé¢ver have the sleeping apartments and {feeding floor for hogs the same. The neglect to begin to train the ‘colt until it is a hiorse, has ended in the death of more than one good man. Begin to train the first week. : ‘AI chronic balker is like a chronic kicking cow, a nuisance. -‘Severalremcdids are prescribed, but the best one is to get rid of the animal. ; It is not well to: keep all kinds of stodk “in the same apartments, whatever anybody inay say. If might do if the ventilation is perfect, but there istherup, |~ Pt 2 There is less waste in feeding baled hay{ opinions to the contrary notwithstajjding. Where the feeding is extengive the saving will pretty nearly payifor the press in one year. The doctors say that there is more typhoid fever in the country than in theicity, owing to the contamination of wells. If that is true, how much sickness is caused among the animals by impure water no one can tell.—Western Plomwinan. -

Beef Producing Breeds. reeds for producing beef have been improved so as to enable a farmer to secure twice as much weight in a steer compared with 40 years ago.. The averagé weight of an entire herd of cattle wonld not exceed 800 pounds, but an avdrage of from 1,200 to 1,600 pounds is not regarded as remarkable at the present day. Beef cattle, in addition to being improved in size, are also better addpted for the objects for which they are intended, and the farmer who enterk into the business of producing beef will not give much attention to the milking qualities of his cows. / | Deep and Shallow Plowing. forty-five tests have been made af the expeiriment stations to determine the relative value of deep and shallow cultivation. Shallow cultivation gave best results in 27 tests, deep cultivation gave best results in 11 tests, and seven tests were inconclusive, In estimating the value of those tests it should beremembered that three inches was called deep tillage. Classing all under three lﬁgw shallow tillage, changes matey

3 STRONG BEEF HANGER. | RS ; Description of a Rig That Is Cheap . and Easily Made. - I send a description of a rig I use to hang a beef with. It is cheap and easily made. One man can hangup a beef that will weigh 600 pounds. Get a piece of good timber/threé feet four inches long-and four {nches in diameter, and round it. Then cut spindles on each end five inches long. Bore one-half-inch holes in ends to put rod in to keep beef from slipping off when quartered.; Bore two 1%-inch holes in center, opposite directions from each ‘other, for your levers. Ash or hickory saplings will do for levers, which should be four feet e 4 \ : b o x’ ] < HANGER FOR BEEF. P long. Then bore two 1%,-inch holes one inch from shoulders. Use three-quar-ter-inch rope in them, and tie toa beam ten feet high. Stand behind your beef and use your levers. When you want to | stop put -one lever between. lever: and ropes.—L. O. Liming, in Ohio Farmer. e : | INTENSIVE FARMING. 'Less Acreage More to Be Desired “Than a Burden of Debt. : Farmers are beginning to see that a legs acreage of land, free from the oppressive mortgage, is more to be desired than. a purdenm df debt. ¥ % % Intensive farming is the basis of argument upon which our learned and gcientific agriculturists build) their estimates of rapid development and future permanent wealth. The increasing number of small farms, with betler cultivation and better improvements, is certain to be followed by anincreased production, an increased number of manufacturing industries, an increased populationand greatly increased wealth of the state’s resources. - Economy on the farm may be made to ‘ mean more than the saving of the little things. The reducing of the morf(-gixge ‘dcbt by reducing the acreage of the farm to the actual capacity to till and make productive will be in the line of economy. The changing of conditions whereby 100 bushels of grain is made to grow where formerly 50 grew is economy; the building of bet{er homes and the enjoyment of better home ccmfcrts by the family on the fagm is econ- ! omy; the incependence of actual ownership in a business which recognizes no rival in its self-sustaining attributes ‘1: econotiry to mind and body.—World '‘Herald. b

Eui'ly Pigs Are the :Best.. Wherever a farmer has warm basement stables it is easy to make a hogpen in one cormer and use *it for the breeding sows. Every one admits that pigs dropped early in March will prove much more valuable than those born a month or two later. Itis some extra trouble to keep them warm, and they will also need extra feeding for both sows and pigs while the cold weather continues. But when the warm days come the early pigs that have a run in pasture and plenty of milk will be far better fitted for heavy corn ; feeding than will the late spring pigs. There is often a difference of 50 to 75 pounds in hogs fed just the same, and whose cnly difference is that the heavier were bern four to:.six weeks earlier than the others.—American Cultivator. 3 ’ Testing the Seed Corn, 7 'Testing seed corn is far too often neglected. Corn which has been thoroughly dried and then properly stored will lay in the ground for a few weeks without rotting should a long, wet season occur. Corn which was well dried, but was repeatedly frozen when moist and its vitality injured, will very soon rot if the soil is so wet and cold as toretard germination. The person accustomed to testing seed corn can determine whether a given sample comes with strong or weak vitality and whether or not it would lay long in the soil before rotting. A little nice careindrying and preserving seed corn materiallyl increases the chances for a crop of corn. —Wéstern Plowman. ' bl . . New Distribution Centers. j IThe big shipping points or productiow districts are now the big- distributing points of the country, and not the lerge cities, as . heretofore. Whether this will work to the advantage of the producer or not is an interesting subject for debate. 'The prices fora carare iclegraphed broadeast to every town large enough to consfime a car of potatoes, mrelons, tomatoes or any other pioduct raised for distant markets. The greatest losses to the distributors come from the class that orders the goods and then refuses to accept them on some pretext when the market fails to reveal a margin on arrival of goods. —Frait Trade Journal. - L

Farmers Are Nog Penurious.

4t is mainly by what city people call petty economies that farmers have al ways made their money. Their business is one that has as many details as that of the retail merchant to whom every penny is importarnt, as its possession may mean profit to him, or the failure to possess it may mean loss and possible bankruptcy. The farmer, in selling his produects is obliged to getall he can so as to meet his expenses. Yet farmers are not at all niggardly. Most of what they make over and above expenses goes in bettér methods of living, which make prosperity for everybody else.—American Cultivator.

The /Antigquity of Wheat.

It is believed now that wheat is the oldest of the .cereal grainos, as it unquestionably is the most important for human ecivilization and progress. It probably originated in eastern Asia, which is also supposed to have been the place where man originated. There are many kinds of:wheat, one of the oldest being o variety which produces a number of ears on each stalk., What is called corn in the Bible story of Joseph in Bgypt was probably this variety of wheat. At no former period in human history was wheat so gﬁm‘rﬂwmt‘% human food as it is at present.

FIRST WOMAN CITIZEN. Her Sturdy Lads and Clever Lasses - Become Prominent Citizens. Known as the “Widow Ryan”—Was a . Clever Business Woman—Short Sketch of Her Life and What Some of Her Children Ac- - complished. ;

‘ From the News, Indianapolis, Ind. Hundreds of thousands of men of foreign | birth have taken out papers declaring their citizenship in Indiana since that State was admitted into the Union in 1816 without creating remark or comment. It was a different matter, however, when along in the forties the first woman of foreign birth applied for and received papers of citizenship after declarinf in set form that she re‘nounced all allegiance to every prince or potentate on earth. 2o . This “first woman citizen” was an Irish widow who settled in southern Indiana with her progeny of sturdy lads and clever lasses upon a farm which she had bought. She had taken out naturalization papers in order to manage her property to better advantage, and for the further purpose of starting her family as true Americans with a full under_standing of the advantages and responsibilities of American citizenship. “The Widow Ryan” as she was known in Daviess County, Indiana, was a great' worhan with a clever business head and left behind her those who grew to be worthy men and worthy women, and who have left their impress upon the State. 3 One ofp these sons James B. Ryan became treasurer of the State of Indiana, and a son-in-law, M. L. Brett, also held that high and honorable position. Anothér son was the late Lieut. Col. Richard J. Ryan who was probabl&' the most brilliant and fifted orator that Indiana ever produced, and who during | the war for the Union served his country in the Thirty-fifth Indiana Voluhteer Infantry, bettér known as ““the Irish Regiment.” _Another son is Thomas F. -Ryan who is now 59 years old, and with a few intervals of absence has been a resident of Indianapolis for forty-two years. Mr. Ryan has been.an active business man all his life and has seen more than one fortiune come and go in the vicissitudes of trade and sudden pamic. In the early fifties 'smitten by the gold fever he went by way of the Isthmus of Panama to California, and he has alwaysretained the free-hearted, open and trusting ' confidence that distinguished the gallant pioneers. of the golden State. He has been I all over the far west engaged in mining and trade operations in Oregonz Arizona and " Montana. . From' May, 1885 until August, 1887 he was the government agent at the Seal Islands off the Alaska coast, a highly responsible position.. ol ‘ "~ “Tor ten years or more,” said Mr. Ryan in conversation with a group of gentlemen at the Indianapolis Board of Trade, “I have been extremely sensitive in my lower limbs, to weather changes. If my legs had been filled with quick silver I do not think they could have responded more quickly or more disagreeably to climatic conditions. “During the past two years this infirmity became much worse, and I began to be -alarmed, fearing paralysis. My legs were cold and recently from my knees down were without sensation. I could walk only short distances and would even then experience great weariness. I became more aﬁd more | alarmed. I naturally thoughlt of-paralysis or locomotor ataxia. The prospect was not a pleasing one. o “I happened .to meet my old friend Capt. C. F. Shepard, of this city. He was chanting the praises of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People and gave me his expeérience, telling me that he had been brought by using them from a bed where he lay-help-less, his physician having declared him a hopeless victim of locomotor ataxia, and was now as active as any man of his age, not { even requiring the use of a cane. Upon his recommendation I began the use ‘of Dr. Wiliams’ Pink Pills. “I found positive relief, after taking a few doses. The numbness in my limbs disappeared as if by magic and I can walk as far as 1 like at a good rapid gait and without l weariness. This you may understand is a great boon to a man who has been of an active habit of life and who still likes to *depend to a great extent upon his legs to get around in the world. Fon ' “The pills also drove the rheumatism out of my hip for I have not been bothered with | it since I began their use. I think I shall | have to join Captain Shepard in his praises lof Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for. Pale People.” ; ; : Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People contain, in a condensed form, all the ele- | ments necessary. to give new lifé and richi ness to the blood and restore shattered { nerves. They are also a specific for troubles | peculiar to females, such as suppressions, ir- | regularities and all forms of weakness: They build up the blood, and restore the glow of health to pale and sallow cheeks. In men they effect a radical cure in"all cases arising . from mental worry, overwork or excesses of whatever nature. These pills are sold in | boxes (never in loose b[ulrk) at 50’cents a-box or six boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all druggists, or direct by mail from Dr. Willﬁ';}n}ys’ Medicine J Company, Schenectady,

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‘When Dr. Ayer announced his Sarsaparilla to the world, he at once found the Aphysicians his friends. Such a. remedy was what they had looked for,and they were prompt to apprecidate its merits and prescribe it. Perhaps no mediciné—known ‘as a pa?nt medicine—is so generally administeredand prescribed by physiciansas Dr. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla for blood diseases, - and cfiseases of the skin ‘that indicate a tainted condition of the blood. Experience has proved. it to be a specific in such diseases, and-sores of long standing, old ulcers, chronic rheumatism, and ‘many othér like forms of disease havé yielded to ‘the persevering nse of Dr. Ayer’s Sarsaparillaafterother medicines had utteriy failed. The testimonials received from p»hi,rsiciaus to the value of this remedy would fill a volume. Here isone leaf signed by Rich’d H. Lawrence, M. D., Baltimore, Md. “It affords me %leasure to bear testimony to the success which your preparation-of Sarsaparilla has had-in the treatment of cutaneous and other diseases arising from a vitiated condition of the blood. Were it neckssary. I might give you the fiames of at least fifty individuals who have been cured of long-standing complaints simply by the administrdtion of Dr. Ayer’s Sarsa-: pa-rilla. ‘One very remarkable instance was thatofa quite old woman who.-had lived at Catonsville,near thiscity. Shehad been

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