Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1901 — Page 2

CHAPTER XVir. Slowly and drearily dragged the days away to Clarence and his boy companion. The dungeon in which they were confined was in the stout castle of San Juan de Ulloa. It was not damp as most of the cells were, but very strong and dark, there being barely sufficient light to read by at noonday. It was about a month after his confinement that Clarence was Informed that a priest wished to see him. It was in the afternoon, and the day had been very bright and clear. “What does he want?” the prisoner asked. “It is one of our good priests who knows of your heresy, and who would cave your soul,” replied the jailer. Clarence bade the jailer to let the priest come in. lii a fSx minutes afterwards the keeper returned, and a Catholic priest followed him in. The former aimply nodded an introduction, and then withdrew.. “Well, my son,” commenced Father Rondo—it was Gonzales —"how does your , confinement agree with you?” . “As well as the same would agree with any man who preferred his liberty,” answered the youth. “But I suppose you find some consolation in your loneliness.” “Yes, senor,” returned Clarence. “I nm consoled by the belief that the arms of my countrymen will ere long open my prison door.” “Is there not something uninentioned that occupies your thoughts at times?” asked the priest. “Senor!” spoke the youth, starting to his feet, “you may speak plainly. “I will. Would you like to hear from Irene St. Marc?” “More than from any other living soul!” answered Clarence, quickly and eagerly. “Well —r have a message from her to you. I have had it in keeping for a month, and this is the first opportunity I have had to see you. I told her you had been put in prison. She would have •come to you then if I would have permitted. No consideration of self could deter her; but when I made her understand that you would suffer equally with her If she fell into her father’s hands again, hhe consented to be governed by my advice. You have seen the old wotiian, Oalypso?” “Yes, senor,” the youth replied, anxiously. “Well, the maiden went away with her. I promised that I would see you, and tell you all. Donfia Irene loves you almost too well. At all events, her whole undivided heart is yours; and not until I had promised her that I would see you, would she consent to leave the vicinity of this city.” “O!” cried Clarence, clasping his hands and raising his eyes to heaven, “heaven Uess and protect her! But have you heard from her since?” “Yes —'this very morning. She was in the city of Mexico a week ago, and was going from there to Valladolid.” “And was she well?” “Yes —perfectly so." “O, I bless you* good senor, for this. Henceforth my bondage will be light in aomparison with the past month. Of course, I shall know where she is when I am free?” “Yes. You shall see me. If I do not find you, you must seek me. But I may aee you now occasionally. If. you trill halp me make the officers of the prison think I aui your confessor I can gain access here often.” “I will. O, I’d confess a thousand sins for one word from Irene. But you will come as often as you hear from her?” “If I can, Of course; for I only hear for you. She needs no word for me alone, save the warm friendship she feels for all who have been kind to her.” Awhile longer they communed upon the subject of Irene and her father, and then the good priest took his leave. From that time forth Father Rondo visited the prison as often as convenient. In another month he brought further word from Irene. She was in Valladolid, and there she meant to stop through the winter, as she had found a comfortable home and was safe from danger. Thus the mouths wore away, and Clarence began to wonder if he should ever be free. A strong hope had thus far sustained him, but he began now to falter. He often asked his jailers how the war was progressing, but they lied to him. He knew this from the statements of the priest. March came, with its winds and Storms, and yet the prison doors were not opened. But in a few days from that time the officers who sometimes visited the cells wore strange expressions upon their countenances. Clarence kept a calendar upon the wall of his dungeon with an old nail which he had begged of his jailer for that purpose. One morning after eating his breakfast he went to the wall to make his mark for that day. It was the ninth mark for March. “Hark,” uttered Peter, as his master turned from the wall. “What is that?” “Perhaps the troops are turning out for drill,” answered Clarence. “No, no. Do you not hear that distant sound? That hum, as though a vast concourse of people were shouting?" “Ay—l do,” said the captain, bowing bis head and listening. “And did yon net notice how pale and agitated the soldier looked who brought tn our breakfast?” ‘T did not look at him.” “But I did—and I noticed that he was much moved, too.” After this the two prisoners listened attentively, and while they were thus listening Gonzales Rondo was admitted “Have you heard anything?” the priest

THE TEXAS CRUISER

—BYT. BURLINGAME ROSS

from your prison, but I fancy this investment will not bring such an event about, unless after defeat here the Americans choose to capitulate.” “Who commands the American forces?” “Gen. Winfield Scott, so I have heard.” “Then, your city is gone,” pronounced Clarence, in a calm, positive tone. “I know Vera Cruz is a strong place, 'but it cannot withstand the power of your enemy. Mark me—l know this." “I cannot agree with you, senor,” the priest replied, full as confidently. “Why —even this castle is invulnerable to such a force. No, nor-your hope lies not in that direction.’* “Very well,” returned Clarence, with a smile, “we will not dispute this point now. Only let me say—and I say it with, a full knowledge of all the circumstances —if Landero is he will capitulate. If he does not —he will not only lose his city, but a most dreadful carnage mu6t be the result. You know what dreadful scenes must necessarily accompany the besieging of a large and densely populated eity.” * “I know—l know,” said the priest, solemnly. “But ’tis the fate of war. O, why will men in their national capacity do that for which they would hang each other as individuals?” When the prisoners were left alone again they passed the time in listening to the hum of the distant army. When noon came, Clarence noticed the- appearance of the man who brought his dinner. He was pale and trembling. “What is all this noise we hear in the distance?” asked Clarence, as the soldier was upon the point of turning away. , The man turned and looked the speaker in the face, but he was not used to the dim light, and he could not see the prisoner’s face plainly. “It is an army come to be cut up and driven into the sea,” he at length replied, blusteringly. “Have the Americans come?” the captain asked, honestly. “Yes. They’re fools —or else they’re blind.” “They must be,” rejoined Clarence, “if they imagine the people here will surrender without fighting. I suppose you are prepared to fight to the death.” “Yes,” answered the Mexican, with a ghastly effort to appear bold and determined. And in a moment more he was gone. And so the day wore away, and when Clarence laid his head upon his hard pillow at night, he could still hear the busy hum that came up from the camp of his countrymen. CHAPTER XVILL. Night followed day, and dajh came again, until Clarence had made seventeen marks for the days that had dawned in March. On the morning of the eighteenth he arose as usual, and when the soldier came with the breakfast he noticed that he was more tremulous than usual. At length there came a strange stillness over the city. It seemed an oppressive, deathly silence. But it lasted not long. Soon there came a thunder crash, and the old castle trembled to its very foundations. Anon the thundering commenced in the city, and ere long the air of the dungeon held the odor of exploding powder. “The bombardment has commenced,” shouted Clarence. “Ho, my noble boy, iotir people have opened the ball. As sure as fate this place must fall.” “I hope so,” returned Peter. “But I know it. If the Mexicans are stubborn they may hold out some time, but they must come to it after a while.” And now the booming of the heavy artillery was incessant. One continuous roar filled the air, and the old castle shook like a reed hut in a gale. And there came the sound of that sharper, harsher crashing, as the huge shells burst about the place. So passed the long day away, and even into the night the earth shook with the bursting of the shells and rockets. Thus passed six days, during which the roar of cannon and mortars was almost incessant. On the morning of the seventh day Father Rondo made his appearance. He was pale and wan, and his step was tremulous. He extended his hand, but the salutation was performed in silence. “Good father,” said oifr hero, “I am glad you have come, for now I can know what is going on. How goes the siege?” “Alas, my son, it is a fearful work that is being done!’’ the priest replied, with a shudder. “I have read of wars, and I knew they were dreadful, but I never dreamed of such scenes of horror as have presented themselves to my gaze during the past few days.” “Then the execution in the eity is considerable?” "O! dreadful—dreadful!” “But how goes it now?” asked Clarence, who had more interest in the probable result than in the mere work that was going on. “Our city is one vast slaughter house!” uttered Rondo, with.his hands clasped upon his bosom. “Houses are torn in pieces; the ground plowed up by bursting shells, and the whole city running with the blood of its people! In every street the dead and dying ure lying helpless and hopeless, and the agonizing groans sound above the roar of the cannon. One moment I beheld a family—a father and mother, whose heads were white with years, and some half dozen of children who clung to them for safety. On the next moment I saw a huge shell fall directly in their midst, and in a second of time the poor creatures were torn in pieces as if by the faugs und claws of some ravenouff monster! O, it is too dreadful, evA for thought!" “But will not the city surrender?” asked Clarence. “They mast—they must,” the priest replied. “Day before yesterday, many of the most wealthy citizens waited upon Landero, and begged of him to capitulate; but he refused. And again last night the general was waited upon by Otany people; but he would not listen. Yet he must come to it. O, be is much to blame now, for if he has sense be must see that he cannot hold out rnamr days more. Some have told me that mej caa

hold out four days; but this morning one who ought to know told me that two days after this would be the longest. Our people are not only falling fast, but our means are failing; while the besiegers seem as fresh and strong as eVer.” Night and day came again—and Clarence placed another mark upon his calendar. It was the twenty-sixth one for March. He had hardly fixed his mark when the firing ceased, and ere long a death-like stillness reigned over the place. “Hark!” whispered Peter. “Ay—hark!” shouted Howard, springing back and clasping his hands. “Isn’t that a glorious sound?” It was a shout—a prolonged, thundering shout of victory, that saluted the ears of the prisoners; and it came from the distant army, -where the Americans were. Now the youthful captain was nervous and anxious. Each hour seemed an age, and he Jonged to greet his brave companions. But time was not moved aside at his prayer, nor could his longings expedite the transactions that were going on without. But the time came at length. When the dungeon had become dark and drear once more, and just as the prisoners had made up their minds that they were to spend another night in the prison, the tramp of heavy feet was'heard in the long, arched corridor, and shortly afterwards the heavy door was opened. . “Number one hundred and seven, ‘prisoner of war,’ ” read an officer, who held an open book in his hand. “Now, whom have we here?”

“Great heaven, I thank thee!” ejaculated Clarence, raising his clasped hands. “Charley—don’t you know me?” “Eh? What? Whose voice is that?” “Clarence Howard owned it once.” “Clar—what? Clarence Howard? Heaven bless you, my dear fellow!”

Half a dozen American officers crowded about the spot, and when they knew that the prisoner was in reality the noble commander of the Lone Star, their joy knew no bounds.

The sun was just sinking when Howard emerged into the wide court of the castle, and for a moment a sensation of horror pervaded his soul, for the ghastly evidence of the death work that had been going on were to be seen upon all sides. On the following morning Clarence received a visit from one of the general’s orderlies, who bade him wait upon the commander-in-chief at once. Our hero had eaten his breakfast, so he was ready to set out, and he accompanied the messenger back. He found the stout old general with numbers of his staff about him. He arose as the young captain was introduced, and extended his hand. “Am I right, sir, in looking upon you as the commander of the Texan schooner of war which has done so much execution against the enemy?” asked Scott, gazing admiringly into the handsome face of the visitor.

“I aui the man, general,” replied Clarence, modestly. “And how came you here?” the old commander asked. The youth told his story in as few words as possible. . “And besides all/his,” he added, after he had told of the message he had received from Irene, “I knew that I should gain from the maiden some information of the privateers that had fitted out at this port, as her father knew them all, and had some interest in one or more of them. But I gained nothing, as you already know, save pretty snug winter quarters.” “Well,” returned Scott, “you haven’t lost much, for there’s been nothing of much consequence going on since you were imprisoned until we commenced this bombardment. And now what do you wish to do?” “I should like to work, but—what are your movements?” “I am for the Mexican capital, captain.” “Then let me go with you. Give me a'musket, and let me go.” “We’ll do better than that,” said the general, with a look of pleasure. “You Khali keep me company, and we’ll find a commission and a pair of epaulettes for you; by the powers, my dear sir, we need such good heads and arms as yours.” It was soon settled that the young officer should go with the army, and take his station near the commander-in-chief, until some vacancy should occur where his presence should be more needed. During the remainder of the time that the army remained at Vera Cruz, Clarence spent the time very pleasantly with his brother officers. Scott opened the port to the commerce which had been languishing under the blockade, and placed the gallant Worth in command of the city,. (To be continued.)

Honesty in Small Things.

“Put that back!” exclaimed President John Quincy Adams, when his son took a sheet of paper from a pigeon hole to write a letter. “That belongs to the government. Here Is my own stationery, at the other end of the desk, I always use it for letters on private business.”

This conscientiousness in regard to what many would consider a metre trifle may appear excessive. But thg dividing line between vice and virtue is so fine that the boundary is often unconsciously crossed, and It Is Just as dangerous for a young person to dally with conscience as It is for a child to toy with a dagger, or to play .with fire. He who Is honest lu small things can always be trusted in great. There Is truth not to be ignored in the old-fashioned rhyme: Much more to steal a greater thing. It Is a sin to steal a pin.

No matter how little value the thing we appropriate from another may possess, the fact that it does not belong to us should make It sacred.—Success.

Gingerbread as a Barometer.

Tn the rural regions of Maine the people waste no money In buying barometers. They put a piece of gingerbread out at the door and know when the gingerbread Is motet and pliable that rain may be expected, and when It becomes crisp that a dry spell is coming. As for thermometers, they say; “What’s the good of them— *ny fool knows when lt*s hot or cold.”

Surface Pressure of a Hurricane.

In a hurricane blowing at eighty miles an hour the pressure on each square foot of surface la thirty-one and one-half pounds.

STATE SOLONS MEET.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE BEGINS ITS WORK. Body -Meets in Biennial Session, Effects Organization, and Hears the Message of Retiring Governor Mount —Important Measn -es lip for Consideration. Indianapolis correspondence: The Forty-Second General Assembly of Indiana, which meets once in two years for a sixty-day session, convened at 10 o’clock Thursday. The feature of the firet session was the farewell message of Gov. Mount. The message dealt with State affairs in an exhaustive manner, the Governor complimenting the people of the commonwealth on the satisfactory condition of State finances.

One of the principal recommendations made in the messuge was for stringent laws by which Indiana lynchers can be convicted. The Governor said that the people of Indiana feel keenly the sting of reproach and the justice of the criticism heaped upon the State by reason of the brutal lynehings that have dishonored her good name. A mob is an assembly of lawless men acting in defiance of law. Gan such men administer justice? Lax enforcement of law brings its fruitage of contempt for law. The remedy, says Gov. Mount, must be found through the eo-operatiou of good citizens in demanding a rigid enforcement of the law and'not through mob violence.

The Governor favors the election of United States Senators by popular vote, and on the subject of kidnaping the message says: “Where the kidnapers have ifo legal or blood claim, where the abduction is for ransom or for any other unlawful purpose, it should be made in extreme cases punishable by death or imprisonment for life.” ; The Legislature this winter is Republican in both branches. In caucus Wednesday night the two houses organized: Senate —President, pro tern., Will R. Wood, Lafayette; secretary, W. W. Huffman, Anderson; assistant secretary, Harmon Hutson, Indianapolis; doorkeeper, C. Pelzer, Boonville. House —Speaker, Samuel R. Artman, Lebanon; clerk, William Essman, Indianapolis; assistant clerk, It. B. J. Shafer, South Bend; doorkeeper, W. T. Murray.

The Democratic nominations were: Speaker of the House, C. E. Davis; principal clerk, R..F. Stewart; president pro tem. of the Senate, Ephraim Inman; principal secretary, Bayard Gray. Important bills will provide for a new primary law, for an increase in the Governor’s salary from $5,000 to $7,500, and for new charters for smaller cities.

The House and Senate were in session buit a few moments Friday, and each provided for holding a joint convention on Monday, when the votes cast for Governor and Lieutenant Governor will be canvassed and the results declared.

Hudson Bay Fur Company.

Years ago the fur trade ceased to be managed from London, and, although the governor of the company is the titular and official head, a new rule provided that there should be a resident chief commissioner, with headquarters at Winnipeg. The successor to the post held for nearly forty years by Sir George Simpson, the late autocrat of the fur trade, is Clarence Campbell Chipman, kfiown not to Englishmen at home, perhaps, but to every factor, clerk, hunter, trapper, engage, Indian and half-breed In the Great Lone land as the “chief,” or the “big white boss,” of the fur trade. As in the days of Sir George, directors in England may come and go, convening by candle light, acording to immemorial usage, in the musty broadroom at Hudson’s Bay bouse, but the “chief” remains.

It is on the co-operative and profitsharing plan that the fur trade of the company is managed nowadays. Every employe, from clerk to chief factor, is richer for an abundance of pelts and high prices, but he does not share the profits of the shop-keeping and landselling, which is a distinct branch of the business and annually growing in extent. This is not to be wondered at, considering that wheq the company ceded its lands to the crown it still retained acres which at a rough valuation to-day are yet worth, after all their sales, between £20,000,000 and £30,000,000. This is a grievance with the clerks and factors, as you will discover when you come to talk “musquash” (1. e., “shop”) at any of the or factories in the far north—a grievance and also a matter of contempt and an object for their satire. Land-selling forsooth! As If there were any Intrinsic value In barren acres to a Hudson’s Bay man!— Comb ill Magazine.

Men and Women in Australia.

In South Australia there are only 85 women for every 100 men, and this Is the most favored colony. In such colonies as Western Australia—“where the gold comes from”—there are only 59 spinsters for every 100 bachelors; lu Queensland the percentage of unmarried females to unmarrietj moles Is 05, and In New South Wales 70. New South Wales and Victoria can take the largest consignment of female emigrants, for the excess of unmarried men Is 99.0C0 In the former colony and 78,408 In the latter. In Tasmania only 8,875 heroines are required, but New Zealand requires 43,557 for equality of the sexes.

Has a Houseboat.

i Towu»—Suburbs has bought a houseboat. Browne—The Idea! I don’t see how he can afford a luxury like that Towne— Luxury It’s a necessity. He has to use It very frequently to get from the bouse to the station.—Philadelphia Press.

Philadelphia’s City Hall,

The cost of Philadelphia’s marble city hall to June 80 last was 828,789,588.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Crime Found in Canal Bed —New Mail Routes to Be Passed Upon—Park at Nancy Hanks' Grave — Father Declared Innocent of Murder. With the passing of the last vestige of the old Wabash and Erie canal there has been brought to light evidences of one of the many tragedies that have occurred along its banks. Workmen employed' in excavating along the only remaining stretch of towpath in Pike County unearthed the bones of a man and woman. It is believed that the find explains the mystery that surrounded the sudden disappearance of Lillian O’Ryan and her sweetheart, Patrick Toole, almost fifty years ago. The story is that fifty years ago they took a walk together, that she refused to marry him and that he killed her and himself. They both mysteriously disappeared. A plain gold ring with the initials “L. R.” engraved on it served to identify what remained of Lillian O’Ryan and a rusty dagger near by shows how she met her death.

New Indiana Mail Routes. In this State alone there are more than 500 petitions on file for the establishment of free rural mail routes, and word has. come from Washington that action will be taken on these petitions within the next sixty days. Indiana has been well looked after in the rural postal service, scores of- routes being established in various parts of the State during the last six months. Some time ago it was stated that the department at Washington would decline to grant more routes for Indiana until the system had been introduced in numerous other States that had not been so well looked after. It appears, however, that it has been decided to extend the system all over the country and Indiana is not to be neglected. Is Now Indiana’s Property. After many years of effort the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln, is now the property of the State. Gov. Mount has received the deed for>the ground in the immediate vicinity of the grave in Spencer County in behalf of the Nancy Hanks Memorial Association. The ground is to be turned into a park and a custodian will be put in charge and much beautifying done.

Father Acquitted of Murder. The jury in the trial of W. H. Fuller on the charge of murdering James Tower at Vernon brought in a verdict of acquittal after having been out twenty-six hours. The ease was tried twice before, the jury each, time disagreeing. Tower was a school teacher at Brewersville, and March 10 last punished Fuller’s daughter. A quarrel followed in which Tower was shot and killed. Fatal Wreck on the Bisr Four. A passenger train on the Big Four road traveling at the rate of fifty miles an hour ran into an open switch at Anderson. The engine fell on its side and the cars left the track. John Crite, the engineer, was killed, and John Bates, the fireman, of Wabash, seriously hurt. None of the sixty passengers was injured. Cracksmen Blow a Safe. The postofflee at Wellsboro station, on the Pere Marquette and Baltimore and Ohio railroads, was entered about noon and the safe blown open nnd robbed of a large quantity of stamps. There Uus no money in the safe. The robbers escaped. ’ The job is credited to Chicago safe blowers.

Jealons Lover Stabs Girl.

George Sizemore found his sweetheart, Belle Calloway, in company with Robert Julius in the Keystone club rooms at Marion, and, being jealous, attacked them both with a knife. The woman was fatally stabbed and Julius is in a serious condition. Sizemore escaped.

Within Our Borders.

Columbus Elks gave a minstrel show. Anderson’s furniture factory destroyed by fire. Loss SIO,OOO.

Skull of Valentine Huffman, Brazil, crushed by a street car. Dr. H. W. Cure, Martinsville, wellknown physician, is dead. About SIO,OOO was raised for the new Christian Church, Shelbyville. Indiana oil has gone up to 82 cents a barrel, and ‘there is rejoicing among producers.

Sudden death of Vardeinan Brown, (58, Elwood, thought to have been caused by his grieving over his wife’s death. Mrs. H. Miller Howard, well known in the theatrical profession as Nellie Esmonde, formerly of Bloomington, died in Colo'rado, of consumption. Marion’s police force doubled, and all persons suspected of being criminals, who cannot give a good account of themselves, will be arrested. Crime has been common of late. Loogootee doesn’t want her ntftural gas piped to Washington und Vincennes. The town board will -appropriate money to buy or drill wells, to furnish free gas to factories, as an inducement to locate there. During a severe windstorm at Michigan City Charles Ely and Fred Mecklenburg, two fishermen, went out to their nets in Lake Michigan, and before they could return their boat wastcapsized and both lost their lives. . Miss Lizzie Biers of Waterford is fatally injured as the result of being made the victim of a practical joker. Miss Biers attended a dancing party and as she was about to take her seat her chair was jerked away and she fell, sustaining Internal iujuries. It is the purpose of the family to hold the joker responsible for her (loath. Liberty school pupils, Bt. Bernice, were so Interested in their work that they voted not to take holidays. The old-time method of inflicting punishment on criminals with block and tackle has been Introduced at the county workhouse in Muncie and will be utilized where prisoners refuse to work after being sentenced. W. H. ‘McDoel and Bayard Taylor of Chicago, with local capitalists) have incorporated an electric railroad thirty miles long, lending from Crawfordsville to several nearby towns. The stock subscribed is SIOO,OOO.

Five Toes the Limit.

No living representative of the an!- 1 mal kingdom has more than five toes, digits of claws to each foot, hand or limb. The horse is a type of the onetoed creation, the camel of the twotoed, the* rhinoceros of the three-toed, and the hippopotamus of the four-toed animal life. The elephant and hundreds of other animals of different orders belong to the great five-toed tribe.

Odd Fad of an Austrian.

An Austrian named Anton Petermandel, who recently died at Steyr, had made a collection of about 3,000 knives of all times.

LIEUT. MABEL C. HUNT.

A Bright Salvation Army Lassie. Who Knows How to Keep Her Corps in Good Health. OGDEN, Utah, Jan. 14, 1901.—(Special.)—The Pacific Coast Division of tho Salvation Army, whose noble work In the Interests of fallen humanity has done so much for this western country, has its headquarters in this city. One of the brightest and most enthusiastic workers Is Lieut. Miss Mabel Clarice Hunt. Every one knows how these devoted people parade the streets day or night exposing themselves to all kinds of weather, that no opportunity may be lost of rescuing some poor unfortunate from sin and suffering. In some cases, their recklessness in thus exposing themselves has been commented upon as almost suicidal. Their answer to such criticisms invariably is their unfailing faith in the Divine injunction to “do right and fear not.” Lieut. Hunt explains one of the means she employs to keep her “Soldiers” in good health, as follows: “I have found Dodd’s Kidney Pills of great value in cases of Kidney and Liver Trouble and Diseases contracted from severe colds. Several of our lads and lassies have been repeatedly exposed to cold weather and rain, and have spoken for hours out of doors, often with wet feet and chilled to the marrow. As a consequence of this exposure, Pulmonary Trouble, Rheumatism and Kidney Disorders often ensue. In such cases, I always advise Dodd’s Kidney Pills, for I have noticed better results, quicker relief, and more lasting benefit from the use of Dodd’s Kidney Pills In such cases, than from all other medicines I know of combined.* They cleanse the blood, regulate the system, and destroy disease.” A medicine which can do what Lieut. Hunt says so positively Dodd’s Kidney Pills do is surely worth the attention of all who suffer with any form of Kidney Trouble, Rheumatism, or Blood Dish' srders.

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