Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 11, Number 13, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 September 1880 — Page 5

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

KDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

PUBLICATION

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So. 16 sooth Sthjfit., PiintlPgjHooge Square.

TERRE HAUTE, SEPT. 25,1880

TWO EDITIONS

OT this Paper are published. Tfce FlBSr EDITION, on Friday |Even ing, 4 bag a large circulation In the surrounding towns, where Unsold fby nc^boys and agent*. rbeSECOND EDITION, on SatttfOay Evening, goes lnt the hands of nearly every reading perton tn the city,and the farmers of thin Immediate vicinity. Every Week's Issue is, In lact,

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

jn which all Advertisements appear for TUB 1'BICE OF ONE ISSUE.

TUB MAIL will appear next week in a new dress of type.

WHY baa not the North as good aright to be solid as the Sooth

THAT man who gets mad when he talks politics ahould retire from business.

AFTER all it tarns out that Plaisted the Fusion o&ndldate, for Governor in Maine has a plurality of 174 vot^s.

(TheNew York Economist says that •'the country has at last entered on a condition of unprecented prosperity."

LET us have an honest election and an honest count and we can all afford te be satisfied with the result whatever it may be. -u C'U. --—s

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AN eastern exchange startles us with the intelligence that "red and white checked matting is used on the floors of country bouses."

To judge from the calendars of apapointments in the Journal and Sentinel one would suppose that there must be some political speaking in progress in just now.

8ATINS in all shades of blue and pink, and embroidered in pure gold and silver, are sought for so eagerly that one New York house has already imported the third invoice. They sell from |35 to |42 per yard, and fourteen yards are required for a costume.

THE inducements to a trade in the Indianapolis district can only be appreciated when it is known that whichever party will take up the Greenback candidate for Congress is promised from 8,000 to 10,000 votes on the State ticket. The trade is "oil" at present, but will it remain off

The popularity of the Pan-handle route to the East is attested by the fact that it is an almost every day occurrence for the Pennsylvania road to run their express trains east from Pittsburgh in two sections, and frequently three, eaoh train carrying from ten to twelve heavily laden coaches.

FOUR new American plays are now being presented in New York. They are as follows: "An American girl," by Anna Dickinson "Lawn-Tennis," "by B. E. Wolf 5 "The Soul of an Actress," by A. C. Gunter and "Our First Families," by Edgar Fawcett. It looks as though American play writers were coming to the front.

Now is the midnight air melodious with squeak of life and thump of drum and redolent with the perfumes of coal oil toichos. It is the period of the republic's mighty quadrennial travail in behalf of liberty. Shall the pillars of the government stand or fall? is the momentous question for decision. Let the squeaking and thumping and stinking go on!

Taa English Parliamentary Commission appointed to Inquire into the agriculture of the United States and Canada, referring to the push of emigration to the West, say, "It seemed that if bell lay In the West these enterprising spirits would cross Heaven to reach it." Doubtless mauy an enterprising emigrant has found hell there instead of the Heaven which his glowing imagination had painted.

THE disparagers of General McClellan seem determined to thrust upon him that Immortality which his eulogists alone could not give. Whether his celebrated campaign was a grand military aoocees, as his admirers assert, or a dismal failure, as his detractors argue, makes little difference this continued dlacuwlon of his merits and demerits can only result iu increasing his fame. Let as have peace.

Arm serious attempt* by the Democratic managers to get Mr. By field to withdraw from the congressional race In the Seventh district, so that the Democrats and Green backers oould unite on De La Matyr, the plan has fallen through, and the contest promises to proceed with triangular truculence. The three aspiring tubs will stand on their own bottoms and the outcome Is only capable of conjecture.

As astonishing Increase of business Is repotted from New York. The sales far the west are said to be enormous, some homes reporting them 100 pfcr cent, greater than last year, while the ad ranee in the Southern trade la amaxlug. Our large bouses is selling 200 per cent, more goods in the South than it did ISM year. Borneo? the largest bouses use electric lights by the aid of which they do a heavy busies** long alter the usual hoars. There Is no i-Mbt about the return of prosperity In the great metropolis.

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LITERARY LARCENY. Twenty yeszs ago a novel entitled "Rutledge" was published anonymously by Carleton A Co., of New York, and attracted considerable attention. The book was, as known by Mr. Carleton, the production of a young lady of that city by the name of Meriam Coles. Her first work, being successful, was followed by others of a similar character, ail of which were published by Mr. Carleton. Soon after the name of the anonymous author became known to the public, stories began to appear in western story papers signed by the name of Meriam Coles. Miss Coles married a lawyer of New York, Mr. Sidney S. Harris, and soon after the signature of the writer in the West was changed to Meriam Coles Harris. The genuine Mrs. Harris and her publishers made efforts to discover the person who was thus using her name, bnt were unsuccessful. Last Sunday a lady whose home was in Hudson, Wis., came to her death in St. Paul, Minn., where she was visiting, by being thrown from a runaway carriage. This woman represented herself to be Mrs. Harris, of New York, and the author of "Rutledge," and other works of Mrs. Harris'. Among her effects was found the manuscript of an unprlnted novel, apparently in the handwriting of the real author of "Rutledge," and also genuine photograph of the author of that book. The woman was no doubt an impostor, and Mr. Carleton states that Mary J. Holmes has a similar shadow who precedes or follows her in her travels and boldly represents herself as the real author. Mrs. Holmes has found herself preceded by this strange shadow at hotels In Europe, and* has been put to the disagreeable task of having to prove the genuineness of her pretensions.

These are curious phases of the literary life, and, fortunately for the literary guild, do not occur often. Of a similar character,, however, are the not infrequent claims and counter claims of different people on the authorship of single literary productions, for the most part short poems which have sprung into quick notoriety. It seems singular indeed that anyone could be mean enough to wish to steal the

offspring of another's

mind, and add to the crime of theft the equally shameless one of falsely pretending that the offspring was their own robbing at once the author of his property and his fame. But since there are people In the world who will steal offspring of flesh and blood, perhaps we ought not to be surprised at the other class of thieves.®' &

THE two English commissions appointed to inquire into the agriculture of the United States and Canada recently made their report to Parliament. They were engaged some three months in the investigation and traveled 0,400 milesf visiting niost of the States east of the Rocky mountains. The report is highly creditable to American agriculture, and the inquiry appears to have been conducted with intelligence and impartiality.

In the opinion of the commissioners, agricultural enterprise is most rigorous, ly developed In the great basin watered by the tributaries of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, which is more than fourteen times the size of Great Britain, and here the display of activity and energy is pronounced "beyond comprehension."

Our agricultural Machinery is highly praised, and our implements set above those of English make as being lighter, better shaped and better made. This is an Important concession for John Bull to make. Farm machinery is in more general use here than in England. The cultivation of corn is supplanting that of wheat In the older States, thns poshing the wheat area further West and Northwest. The annualoorn product Is rapidly increasing, having swelled in acreage 45 per cent, in ten years, while the value per acre has steadily declined. Our butter is pronounoed on the average poor, while our cheeee is mostly good but of little variety. In sheep, wool, bogs, bacon, poultry, fruit and vegetables, we excel in quantity rather than quality.

ALTHOUGH John Bull has no such country as oats, yet a review of the condition of afffclrs in England, or rather Great Britain, during the last ten years, is not discouraging. In that period it appears that the population baa increased 11 per cent., public wealth 90 per cent., commerce 13 per cent, textile manufactures 29 and minerala 45 per oent., schools 122 per oent., and the welfare of the poor 19 per cent. Taxation is lighter than it was ten years ago, and the national debt,has been reduoed twenty-four millions sterling. The accumulation of wealth among the work* ing classes, aa shown by the returns of the savings banks, has increased from 51 to 76 millions sterling.

MR.

EDISON cornea to the front in the

North American Review with an exposition of his electric light, which be speaks of in the moat confident terms, an being now fully developed for commercial purpoeee and ready to be Introtroduced as a marketable commodity. He says that a public exhibition of the light will be given at Menlo Park, probably within the next two months. He has been btuily at work perfecting the many details of the new method and arranging for the manufacture of the various appliance* required on a large scale. So It seems that the extinguisher of gas and coal oil la only a question of time

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Opera Boom, In Indian­

apolis, the new theatre built by Wo. H. English for his eon, and the largest and finest hall now in that city, will be opened next Monday evening by Lawreuce rett, in Hamlef

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

THEnet emigration from Great Britain during the part ten yean has been 875,000. ____________

THEY bad a solemn time in Boston last week. A convention of undertakers was in session.

GREAT BRITAIN still rules the sea, owning nearly one half the entire tonnage of the world.

Two weeks from next Tuesday the election in this State. It will attract more attention tbau that of Maine.

OCCASIONALLY literary work pays. For instance H. J. Byron, the English playwright, has been paid $25,000 for bis new play entitled "The Upper Crust."

THE charity ball in New York city this year is expected to display a mag' nificence of dressing such as has not been witnessed for years in the gay metropolis.

BEFORE he can become an M. D., the medical student in Maine must dissect, but the law provides that no bodies shall be dissected except those of executed criminals, and another law abolishes capital punishment.

SeciAL

circles in the town of Moati-

celio, Illinois, were startled on Sunday over the birth of five children to Mm M. Hazzard, wife of a prominent merchant. Only two of them lived. The mother is doing well.

SOMEBODY hits the nail squarely on the head with the statement that establish ing a newspaper is like pouring water into a leaky cask—if you have grit enough and water enough to keep the vessel full, possibly the staves may swell up and become water tight.

THE election will be held this year as usual on the second Tuesday iuOotober, the Supreme Court baviDg overruled the petition for a rehearing in the case involving the validity of the constitutional amendments. This leaves* the amendments null and void as not having been ratified. Judges Scott and Nlblack voted for a rehearing.

THERE is certainly one striking difference between the earlier days an^l the present time. In fact there are/doubtless very many, but none has deeply Impressed us as this to which our attention has been called. In early times, alluding to the Bible, it required .a miracle to make att ass speak. In these days it takes a miracle to stop asses speaking.

THE enterprising chewing gum manufacturers are putting it up in packages with portraits of the presidential candidates thereon. And thus the ladies can chew their favorite candidate!—those of the Republican household rolling Garfield under their tongues as the sweet morsel of their choice, while the believers in the Democracy sink their ivories Iftlb an

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THERE is a growing alarm over me consumption of cigarettes by boys and young men. The practice has grown to great dimensions within a few years, and it is rare to find a boy who ddes not smoke these poisonous things. It is stated that the material used In them Is of the cheapest and worst kind, and is certain Co breed disease. They are as nasty as they are obeap.

ON Tuesday Mr. Ingalls of Cincinnati gave a lunch at the St. Nioholas Hotel at which he Invited some fifty of the solid men of the city as guests. The purpose of the lunch was to raise money for the Museum of Art to which Mr. West had subscribed $150,000, conditioned on the raising of an equal sum' by other citizens. The lunch realized $32,500 and the total amount so far subscribed, exclusive of the West donation, is 190,950.

WHETHER or not the apple was the cause of trouble with our first families in the Garden of Eden, certain it la that people generally do not appreciate the value of this fruit as an article of diet. It is a well known fact that many of the French, German, and Russian peasants "make a dinner of sliced apples and bread," and that the laborers assert they can "stand their work" on baked apples without meat, "while with a potato diet they require it or some other substantial nutriment."

THE Independent Republican 8tate Committee of New York have issued an addrees to their followers throughout the state urging them them to support Garfield and Arthur. The address eloees with these words: "we would say that the friends of good government have more to hope for from the Republicans than from the Democrats that Gen. Garfield would make a better Preddent than Gen. Hancock, and that it would be unwise In any case to trust a party while It la still uncertain of its own policy or convictions."

THE suicide of John H. Baker, a termer living near Madison, Ind., la quite nnacooantably to his friends. He was a young man, in apparent good health and very comfortable situated in life, owning a farm of 120 acres and considerable personal property, besidea having money loaned ont and In bank. He was at the of his death repairing and enlarging his house, with a view, sshis Mends believed, of marrying. Sunday evening he appeared aa cheerful aa usual and Monday was found hanged in bis barn. It seems that be left nothing to indicate the motive of hla death which la altogether a mystery to the members of his family. ___________

A bride at Portland, Me., was incensed at her husband's conduct in playing croquet with other young ladies, and emptied seven chambers of a revolver at hls*fleeting figure. Hi baa not since been seen.

THE LIBERAL LEAGUE, a society of free religionists, is having a hard struggle over the question of obscene literature and the mails. In fact dirty literature seems^ to be the axe splitting the society into kindling wood. A year since, at their meeting in Cincinnati, a majority passed resolutions expressing sympathy with Bennett who wss serving his term in the penitentiary for sending a vile puplication through the U. S. mails, and condemning Gomstock, and the laws forbidding such a use of the mail. Thereupon a large and most respectable minority withdrew and formed a separate organisation. This year at the meeting in Chicago an attempt was made to commit the old society to efforts to repeal all laws against this use of the mall for this purpose. Bob Ingersoll snd bis party wanted the mails free for those who were conscientious in circulating obscene literature, but would forbid their use to those who did It for deviltry, and would have the society inquire into the motives, of every offender before assisting him. But the majority were against any limitation whatever. This was too much freedom even for Ingersoll, and be resigned tue vice presidency, and woman was put in bis place. It is little queer that when there is anything in this line too dirty for a man to do some woman is ready to take the place and do the work.

To forgive success is dreadfully hard and consequently very rare. Jones, D., will find many members of his pro fesslon to speak kindly to him and of him, so long as be hns no patients. He may drink, cheat his creditors, slsnder the other members of the fraternity, in fact, oommit almost any fault, professional or unprofessional, and be forgiven even without asking. But so soon as patients begin to come to him, and he is frequently ealled' In haste out of church or theatre, and rides a great deal, he has committed the unpardonable sin. He Is a "quaok," a "charlatan," "Ignorant puppy," "a great blow," and—anything but what he ought to be. Wee betide the doctor, young or old, who anpteeds better than his fellows. Jones, is likewise a good fellow, so long aa he makes no unusual stir. Butonoe get it noised about that be is an unusually good preacher, and let his congregations grow rapidly, and at once Bro. Stewpid, and Bro. Lazle, and Bro. Flashpan, begin to cry out sgainst "sentlmentalism," and find that Bro. Jones isn't quite "sound," and very probably not so moral as be might be. Jones, Pedagogue, gets along well till the School Board, the Superintended and the public find out his superior qualities, and then woe to him. Ditto Jones, Merchant, and JoneB all down the list. If Jones does anything better than somebody else, that somebody is pretty sure to owe him a grudge for it.

AT LAST Beecher haa done It, and there is no escape for

him.

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FACONNIE.

Materials for Trimming and combination, in colors to blend with every convelvable new material,or to improve the eld.

CHILDREN'S PLAIDS.

SERGES,

With Persian Border#

He has had

the temerity, the unparalleled rashness, not only to use the word "darn" in the pulpit, but to do this in the very suburbs of prim and proper Boston. In the report of

sermon delivered at Newton-

ville last Sunday, as contained in the Boston Advertiser, we find, that while speaking in very warm terms of the value of Science, be said, "Bat if your science makes you despise the teethings of your mother, and hold in OOOtMtnpt your father, and throw off rellgioue belief, and break away from all restraint and say,'Nowm do aa I darn please/ then science is bad for yon." But after all that may be said of the good or bad taste of the language, there can be little question that the poiftt was a good one. When a man makes science an excuse for giving up religious belief, and the giving up of religious belief an excuse for casting off "moral restraint, he certainly is in a bad way. This is tbe chief use made of science by many.

MAKB the most of these good times, remarks the Rochester Surfday Herald, and we repeat its timely words: "Make the most of these good times, not by spending all you earn, bat by laying some away for a rainy day. Rainy days are sure to come. Sometimes they are caused by illness, sometimes by lawsuits, sometimes by fire, sometimes by bard times, but there are few who do not have them In their lives. The cost of living will be higher as times continue flush. The demand la greater and money flowa out easier. Buyers beoome more anxious to bny than sellers are to sell. The latter, therefore, put np their prices. This is tbe time for people to get ahead, tn eight or ten yean, at tbe longest, we will have another period of depression. Hard times are periodical. Tboee who can begin to |pay tor a bouse now will be wise in doing so. If you have a home, keep it. Whatever you onload, don't unload tbe roof that shelters the beads of your family. It la bard work to pay rent In hard times wbeu situations are scarce and wages low. Look out for wild cat schemes. We sawa working man not long ago who paid seven hundred dollars for a wortblees patent several years ago, and who during all these bard times has had to p|y rent for bis bouse. Had he pot that money In a little borne be would have bad it to-day. Tboee who can afford to speculate are those wbo have money to lose. Above aU, remember tbe golden rule of living, upend less than you earn.

Tin Grant boys appear to be pretty well taken care of. OoL Fred has been handsomely supported by tbe Government, Ulysses Jr., was about to marry Into a bonanza establishment on tbe Pacific coast, and now oomes Jesse and does that very thing, capturing tbe fair and lovely daughter of W. S. Chapman, the San Francisco capitalist*

Great Trimming Exhibition.

During the coming week, notice carefully the displa of Trimmings in our windows, on our lines, upon our counters!

JETS.

Combination FoIiKgc, Maple Leaf, Star and Lear, and other equally elegant designs In Gimps.

Onr Fringes, Tnrfclsh Drop Tn»sels, Beaded 9alls and Cordelier merit eqnal attention, bins largely nsed In Dress Ornamentation.

SISHS&b}TO LOOK THROUGH OUR STOCK We count exhibiting goods the cheapest and best adjvertisement.

H0BERG, ROOT & Ca

A MEDIOAI writer tells us that between the ages of forty-five and sixty a man wbo has properly regulated himself may be considered in the prime of life. His matured strength of constitution renders him almost impervious to an attack of disease, and experience has given soundness to his judgement. His mind is resolute, firm and equal ail his functions are in the highest order he assumes mastery over bis business builds up a competence on the foundation he has laid in early manhood, and passes through a period of life attended by many gratifications. Haying gone a year or two over sixty, he arrives at a stand still. But athwart this is the visduct called the turn of life, which, if crossed in safety, leads to tbe valley of "old age," round which the river winds, and then beyond, without boat or causeway, to affect bis passage. Tbe bridge is. however, constructed of fragile material, and it depends how it is trodden whether it bend or break. Gout or apolexy are also in the vioinity to wsylsy the traveler aad thrust him from the passjbut let him gird up his loins and provide himself with a fitter staff, and be may trudge on in safety and with perfect composure. To quit metaphor, "tbe turn of life" Is a turn either into a 'prolonged walk or Into tbe grave. Tbe system and powers having reached tbe utmost expansion, now begin either to close like a flower at sunset or break down at once. One Injudicious stimulant, a Bingle fatal excitement, may foroe It beyond Its strength, while a careful supply of props and the withdrawal of all that tends to. force a plant will

suBtala

it in beauty

and vigor until night has entirely set in.

THEY TELL US

That the fashionable color for pumpkin pies this fall Is old gold. That a woman should study up her complexion JbeXQjro sbo buys a fall bonnet. ^'•V

That if there are not more weddings announced tbe girls are not to blame for It.

That bare feet and contentment therewith is better than patent leather boots and acorn on each toe.

That "sealskin sacques are to be worn longer tban ever this year." This is probably due to the hard times.

Tbst St. Louis has tbe politest lawyer in the country. A long and terrific roll of thunder having stopped him in the midst of an address to the jury, on resuming he bowed and courteously said: "Gentlemen, please excise this Interruption I"

VEER HAPPENINGS

The costs were 9600 in a suit over a hog to two farmers of Moniteau County, Mo.

From a single potato planted by David Brown of Prieetown, Pa., the product was 637 fine potatoes.

Iu a Hungarian shanty in Fayette Qounty, |Pa., a birtb, a death, and a marriage oooured all at tbe same time.

A termer's wife at Huntington, Pa., gathered berries all one afternoon, gave birth to a son tbe same night, and attended market tbe following morning.

After traveling one hundred milea through the woods aad crossing several streams, a oat that bad made tbe journey in a box escaped and found tta way home itr Britlah Columbia.

Two old smokers, while travelling In buggy from Wingbam to Belgrave, Ont., set tbe vehicle on Iflre, and^the borne running away, what the fire left tbe animal split into kindling wood.

L. O. Klndsey of Dallas Texas, while walking through some brash was attacked oy an eagle. He killed it witb an axe be had with blm. It measure! six and a half feet from tip to|tlpoflt9 wings.

Go to Wright & Kaufman for oysters, celery* cranberries, grapes, peaches, quinces, Damson pinms, choice cabbage, choice creamery and country butter, extra fihe teas of ail kinds, pure cider vinegar, canned meats and fish, and many other things too numerous to mention.

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FLEXIBLE HIP CORSET. FALLTSTYLE?any.Excels

FANCY COTTON

HOSIERY. Cutest Stand and Tray Cover

EVER SEEN.

NOVELTIES

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Cloths, Napkin

RUSSIAN APPLES,V

Tlkjj FAUKi.lN KEUARD TO TUKM.

None of them are of first quality. None of them are winter apples in this climate. Nona of them are exempt from rot, or codling moth, or other ailments which effect tbe general list of apples. They drop before they are mature, as badly as the usual varieties of our orchards. All assertions made by tree peddlers, contrary to the abovo stateiHOuts, are ingenious devices toluyE the unsuspecting Into paying three prices, ior trees, which will in tbe end disappoint tbe purchaser. The claim of agents who have been canvassing in this locality that the trees tbey offer for sale, are grafted on Russian root, is without any doubt fcflse, and if it were £rue,. they would in uo respect b?-the better for it. The claim that their trees are budded might bs true, but nursery trees budded, are no harder nor better for the planter In any one point, tban grafted trees. I subjoin the following extract, taken verbatim from tbe descriptive catalogue of Eiwanger & Barry, df Rochester, N. Y., who have been largely in the nursery business for about forty years, as corroborative of thu above statement: "Some years irgo we received from tbe Imperial Gardens of Russia, a collection of apples, whioh, we wera in« formed, bad beeu selected with grmt care Ironi the best sorts cultivated /in that couutry. Subsequently we rooelved another collection, said to be of the best Russian varieties irom the Agricultural Department at Washingtou. We have been testing these collections in our experimental orobard. Mauy of theriii have fruited some two or three years. Whilst we canuotsay that any of them will rank Su quality with our beet apples, tbry^are at least /air, and we think all are worthy of a trial in those localities where only hardy varieties suoceed. Nearly ail are moderate or poor growers. Seasou of ripening August and Septemoer.

Having bad about 20 years experience as a Nurseryman I tbink it my duty to give these facts for tbe general good of farmers and others. J. F. SOULB,

Terre Haute Ind.

—GRAND CHAIRCAR EXCURSION over tbe Illinois Midland Ry. for all points in KANSAS and NEBRASKA. On tbe 14th and 29th of September the veteran excursion and land agent, W. T. Leggett leaves Terre Haute at 6:37 n. m. with a special train of chair cars, and runs through over tbe Illinois Midland! and C. A A. railroads to Kausaa City without change, making direction connection with trains for Lincoln and Columbus, Neb., and all rotate through tbe Great Platte Valley.

The chair car train will pass through Kansas City, Olatbe, Ottawa, Fort Scott, Baxter Springs, Iola, Cberiyville, Independence, Winfield and Wellington,, the very heart of Kansas.

Round trip or one way tickets at low rates, for sale at all stations on the Illinois Midland Ry. For map*, rates and full particulars apply to or addreea W. T. Leggett, Excursion and Laud Agent 4C7H Obio street, Terre Haute, Ind. or, A. E. Sbrader, Traffic Manager,

POWDER

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ADK from Grape Cream Tartar. No other preparation makes such Can be eaten by c|*»pepties without Jear of too Uto

resulting

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from bea-nr, indigestible food.

only in cans, by afl grocers. ROYAI* BAKIKOJPowrasn Co,SewYork*