Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 36, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 February 1888 — Page 1

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Vol. 18.-~No. 36.

THE _MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

Will

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one please rise up and aver

that the backbone of winter Is now broken?

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Song of the Blaine Republicans: "Bat booms may come and booms may go, but Blaino goes on forever."

If all the fire insurance companies are losing money it is a wonder that more of them don't go out of business.

A foolish married woman in Aubnm, N. Y., ran away with a newspaper man. What is to be thought of a journalist anyway who allows a married woman to elope with him?

Nobody troubled himself about when Phil Sheridan was born when he was fighting rebels some twenty years ago. If he had dropped down from the moon it wouldn't have mattered.

Ignatius Donnelly's "great Cryptogram must have got snowed under out in Minnesota. It seems to have a hard time getting before the country. But the country can wait, ae far as that is concerned. _____

Frank Stockton, the story writer, says be only works two hours a day and thinks that is quite enough, since it produces two large books a year. So it is, Mr. Stockton. And now if somebody oould only persuade Mr. Howells to take a similar view of the matted

Phil Sheridan's mother toy# that since he was 10 years old he has never had anything but care and anxieties. If that is true he has managed to thrive on that kind of a diet much better than most people are able to do, for "little Phil" is just about ss broad as be is long.

It Is reported that our own Hon. Buffalo Bill is contemplating a permanent residence in England. This is too bad, but if the calamity should be still furthor increased by a similar resolution on the part of the Hon. J. L. Sullivan, this country could scarcely sustain the shook.

The National Do oc ran 8~~6o is vetftJott goca to 8t^ Louis and the date is fixed for June flth. The choice of St. Louis i*ean* ft***? thousand dollars to the two St. Louis roads running through here. That* will be a repetition of the excursion business of the time of the grand army encampment.

There has been mon of the GresliamHarrison quarreling during the week. The Chicago Tribun# seems to have taken it on itself to oethe special champion of theGresbMn c*use and is daily giving a great deal of space to articles written by friends of the Judge. It has also made the editorial suggestion that Indiana Republicans should accept Judge Gresbam as their candidate for President with the understanding that Harrison is to go in the Cabinet.

The police change has been made at last and now let us have peace. There can be no doubt that Ed Vanderveris the best detective that has ever been on the force, but for two or three years not the least in importance of the issues in the city campaigns has been the Vanderver question. In several wards candidates for the oonncil have been elected or defeated on that issue. In the First, Fifth and Sixth wards it has been a more Important question than any other. It is now settled and it is In order to discuss matters of more importance,"*'"

Hie Pltt#urgCommercial Gazette announces the success of Mr. Westinghouse to manufacture cheap fuel gas from ooat. The works near Pittsburg are now able to turn put gas so cheaply as to make It a eompedtor with natural gas where the later has to be conducted any considerable distance. Any kind of coal, even alack, can be used for the purpose and a ton of coal worth $1.36 will make 60,000 feet of gas. Other processes have also been discovered for making oheap fuel gas and may now be considered about cet tat that gas is to be the fuel of the future and will soon be in use in all the larger towns and cltles^-^,,^

No one can ever know where the terror of fire, earthquake cyclones is going to fall. Once It was Chicago, then It was Charleston, and now it is the once prosperous Little oily of Mt» Vernon, 111., that over* hel med by disaster. From a spot of beauty and comfort it became in thejtwinkllngof sn eye a soeoe of devolution and ruin. In a tew momenta, on a quiet Sunday afternoon, more than a neon of its people were killed, three times as many Injured and a million dollars' worth of property destroyed. The scene of destruction is beyond the power of words to adequately picture Nothing remains but lo give aympathy and help to the unfortunate people of citv. This, according to the generous apirtt of modern humanity, has been prompt and liberal, and it should and will continue until tit* nscssritlss of the stricken community shall have been fully provided for.

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It was declared of old that "he who takes the sword shall perish by the sword," and in like manner are the coal companies in Pennsylvania reaping of the wind they sowed when they imported from Poland and Hungary cheap laborers to replace their old workmen with whom they had quarreled. These hordes of ignorant foreigners worked for nominal wages at first, but in time they caught on to the American idea and demanded as much as any other miners were getting. They have been troublesome fellows to deal with and have been at the bottom of the recent riots and troubles in the mining region. It serves the importers of cheap foreign labor well enough.

One of the auspicious signs of the times is that fewer newly wedded couples are repairing to the everlasting boardinghouse—that perdition of married people. The prime object of marriage is the founding of a home and if isn't founded, the grand object is lost, much to the social and moral damage of the parties concerned, as well as the comunnity in general. But perhaps quite as serious a mistake Is made when the young people are ambitious to set up an establishment beyond their means and especially when they try to shine with "borrowed light." Ruin and disaster are sure to follow. No bride should, for a moment, expect a husband in his early life to be able to place her in a home as her father possesed at his age, unless, he possibly has an inherited fortune to start with. The safe way is the best way in the end. It is better in its effect upon the finances and upon the character to begin modestly and calculate upon making the home a matter of growth, care and thought.

It is an interesting study to sit in a barber shop and note the customers as they come and go. It is an honored rule of every tonsorlal establishment thatthe first come are the first served. The millionaire and man* of modest means are equally subject to its provisions. Each feels the keen edged blade in turn—that is if he is observant of his rights under the unwritten law. But sometimes an especially accommodating individual gives way to an impatient or hurried candidate for razor attention, or is indisposed to protest when the latter flagrantly usurps his po&tiou. however.. one's turn is missed by his failing to recollect his turn at all. He probably entered when several customers were waiting and, becoming engrossed in a temptingly plaoed newspaper, is finally unable to say who have come in since himself. He feels nettled but evinces his respect for the regulation by waiting until satisfied of his claim to an enthroned seat, unless the artist graciously puts him right in the meantime. The face of the man who is "next" becomes a melancholy study when his predecessor, after the completion of his shave, quietly orders a hair cut and shampoo. The woes of barber shop are legion, and patience is therein tested even unto the very snapping of the cord of resignation and human brotherhood. Then a barber has to enoourage the vanities and oonoeits of men more than any other class of people. For instanoe, the use of powder on a man's face after shaving is only a species of vanity. The harmless chalk or magnesia that is rubbed on the face is productive of neither good nor harm, and a few minutes after leaving the barber's ohair the powder disappears, either being blown off by the wind, brushed off by the hand or dissolved in the perspiration of the face. In no case does the powder last five minutes after a shave, yet people demand its use, and the little vanity is encouraged. The most careless people are particular about their barbers and about the way their hair is cut or beard shaved. No wonder the barber is proverbially pleasant, and speaks of your family, your growing fame and attractive personal qualities. His trade demands the encouragement of various petty conceits. Next to your wife, your barber is the flattering glass in which you see all your good points and none of your weaknesses.

W. W. Coroorax, the well known public benefactor and philanthropist, died in Washington yesterday. He had started on his 90th year.

The intensely interesting story "Valerie," now running through The Mail wan commenced Dec. 17th. We can furnifh a few sets of back numbers—ten in in all—for 30 cents.

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Miss Joaie Holmes, the private secretary of Banker Harper, who was indicted along with that gentleman and the other Fidelity Bank officials at Cincinnati, has been released from jail and the Indictment against her quashed. $

N, W. Ayer A Co., of Philadelphia, claim to be the originators of "Keeping everlastingly at it brings success" with respect to advertising. Whoever is responsible for it, it Is a good motto, and we repeat the injunction for the benefit of all sagacious and enterprising busi-

The women question: going to trim It with?"

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THE PASSING SHOW.

SHOWS AND SHOW FOLKS.

Roland Reed long a favorite comedian in this city, comes to Naylor's this evening presenting "The Woman Hater" a play which was made known to Terre Haute play-goers by John T. Raymond during his last engagement at Naylor's. "The Woman Hater" is a farce of the prevailing German fashion, which devotes several acts to a quiet succession of ludicrous incidents. The plot concerns itself with the adventures of Sam'l Bundy, an old bachelor withaWellerlike abhorrence of widows and a Pickwickian perversity of falling into their meshes. The first twoacts are lively and entertaining, and the fourth Is ingenious in construction and witty in dialogue. Mr. Roland Reed may congratulate himself, however, in having in "The Woman Hater" a farce superior in cleverness to those that at present satisfy a degenerate taste. It is better, too, than any in which he has recently appeared, and it will serve to lead him by pleasant stages to the fields of light comedy. It is genuine comedy and from a popular standpoint is a highly effective and successful characterization. The company supporting Mr. Reed is the same that shared his honor at the Bijou Thd&tre, N. Y., during their most successful engagement last summery A thoroughly satisfied audience will leave the Opera 'House to-night.'1'

Miss Minnie Maddern, a talented young actress who has made herself a favorite the country over by her artistic peiformances, will appear at Naylor's on Monday evening in her new play. She has been playing at Indianapolis this week. The Journal says:

As Alice Clandenning, the devoted wife, -ilss Maddern does a moi work, at onee captivating

As Alice Clanaenning, tne aevoiea wire, Miss Maddern does a moat finished piece of work, at once captivating her audience ana Jf enlisting the fullest degree of sympathy which does not flag throughout the piny. The chief charm of her Impersonations lies in her strict adherence to natural methods, and the absence of strained eflbrts to produce the effects desired. Her stage presence is greatly in her favor, and her acting as "Alice" would do credit to the most finished veteran. Miss Maddern is yet a very young woman, but shethas mastered her art. The support* ing company Is good. Especially is this to be said of Mr. Willard, Mr. DeWitt and Miss Tyler.

Minnie Palmer, the daintiest of all the comediennes of the day, as pretty, bright and vivacious as ever, comes to the opera house on Saturday night of next week. Everyone who is a theatergoer knows her as "My Sweetheart." Here, however, Bhe will be

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er's Sister." The new play is most warmly commended by all the leading critics of the cities in which it has been presented. As an example'of the hearty words which have been expressed by the writers concerning stage production, the following from the Chicago Journal of January SI is quoted. "There is a whlr*r-, and down the chimney into a fire-place In a hanjdoomely furnished

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laudtts of the audience. Having confessed she is a girl, and that she had donned boy's clothes to assist her Impecunious father in making a living, she is confronted by the lady of the house, who desires to know the meaning of "his" presence there. This is readily explained by the "boy." The lady of the house conceives the Idea of Introducing the boy's sister as a distinguished young lady from Boston to a haughty acquaintance. The "boy" departs commissioned with a message to send

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time Miss Palmer presents herself as "My

fitting her new station in life. She comes back shortly, decked ont In a handsome silk train dress, Is presented as the Boston belle, and Is also Introduced to the haughty lady% son, who proves to be one of the ex-boot-black's best customers. She shocks all by asking the young man if she can "shine *era up?" Eventually the girl becomes a member of the family, wins the esteem of the ber of the family, wins the esteem or tne haughty lady and the love of her son. The play, "My Brother's Sister," Is the best in which Miss Palmer has yet appeared, as It gives her ample opportunities to display ber venatillties. She appears as an actress, not as a hoydenlsh, silly school girl, and as snch displays abilities which have remained dormant. The actress was never seen to better advantage, and she richly merited the favor which her admirable performance evoked. She fully convinced the audience that she was capable of doing something better than looking pretty."

PROSCRIBED CHESTNUTS.

Philadelphia New*.

The "comic papers" would do the reading public a favor if they would stop printing jokes about the Chicago girl's foot, the Kansas City real estate agent, the Boston girl's big words, the plumber's bill's, the married man's night at the dab, the boarding-housekeeper's butter and steak, the editor's poverty, Philadelphia's slowness, the commercial traveler's cheek, the grocerS sand, the lawyer's lies, the doctor's big fees, the messenger boy's slowness, tne barber's talkativeness, the poet's honesty, the dude's Anglomania, the leoale sex's extravagance, the cabbage-leaf cigar, the Wail street "bear's" love for iambs, the drug clerk's mistakes, .the Kentucfcfanfr love for whisky, and the bank anhtort trips to Montreal.

President T* C. Mettdeohall delivered a lector* on "Sound" at Salem, Ohio, las* night.

TERRE HAUTE, ESTD., SATTJKDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25,1888. Eighteenth Yeai

The question of a man's marrying his deceased wife's sister, although settled in .England, seldom troubles the widow er in this country. But the movement has begun. The pastor of the Cold Water Lutheran Church, the Rev. Mr. Toewe, entered his pulpit last Sunday morning, with a look of stern resolve on his face. He had before him the unpleasant duty of censuring the proposed union in marriage of Miss Lavina Perk, of his congregation, to Mr. Henry N. Battles, of Wellington, Ohio. The future bridegroom bad previously been married to a sister of Miss Perk, so that the contemplated union was marriage with a deceased wife's sister, whioh is expressly forbidden by the Lutheran canons. The pastor entered such a vigorous protest against the forthcoming ceremony as to cause the fainting away of Mrs. John Perk, the mother. The resulting excitement was intense. Nevertheless, the wedding came off the following evening, but the Methodist pastor officiated. The Perk family will withdraw from the Lutheran.

ybu ever go sJSfrshlng for the longest word in the language? Set your friends to work at this and let them bring to you the result. Some one has kaid in answer to this question thatthe Ingest wVrd irfthe language is "smiles," ijacause there is a mile between the first and last rattens. This is witty, but not just to the purpose.. One who has made the search says titOt^fgost word as been able to find is ^dispropprbleness." TbisNAcontaiiis twerityrs. «t interesting thing of Wis klqd. .IpiSgest wigrdswhose letters

TjWi^Ti^rlS^iioo^ .the •tl|^W5N[.-/,peripatet-|y^e of "precipi-

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yet, no matter wh^ ^Z-h high hat comes home alR on the left side, whe the handsome behd put on the left side of my dress if anything nappeqs to my glove, it is the right one of course. I'm just going to change my seat, and get on the right side Of her. But then if I do the fashion will change, and they will stick everything on the right side, as sure as fate."

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The Indianapolis News tells us that if anybody thinks the improvement of the civilised female form called the "bustle" is a comparatively recent invention the misapprehension may be dispelled by reading one of Marryatt's novels, the "King's Own," published in 1838 or thereabouts. The allusion is to a lady "busy in the adjustment of a bustle," to which afoot note odds: "I am not certain whether Ispell this modern invention correctly if not I must plead ignorance. I have asked several ladies of my acquaintance, who declare that they never heard of such a thing, which, perhaps, the reader will agree with me, is all humbug." It is more than halfjs century old, and grows with growing e. The ladies ought to celebrate its semi-centennial.

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Here's a good feature about the mnoh maligned Charles Arbuckle. He has two hundred girls in his coffee roasting establishment who average twelve dollars a week. These young women must bring positive evidence of good character must not go to dances nor use slang no, nor chew gum. Every girl is compelled to pay ten cents a week to provide a general medical fund that will secure five dollars a week to employes who are ill. When a girl dies, twenty cents is assessed, thus providing fifty dollars for funeral expenses. Orphans are the last ones laid off during a dull season. No girl of doubtful character is ever allowed to remain and forty have married within the last two years.

Some time ago a number of Detroit physicians conceived the Idea of adopting the contract system. That is, con tracting to look after the health of a certain number of families charging each family $10 a year. The scheme appeared to work well, and the doctors thought they had discovered a bonanza, as they had taken care to make the contract with only healthy families. But they were accused of unprofessional conduct by some of their bret hero, and one of them was Med. He was acquitted, how ever*and the contract system has apparently come to stay in Detroit. It «s like* ly also to be tried in other cities.

A little girl in school ths outer oay, when asked by her teacher to explain the difference between climate and weather, replied: **CIimate Is what we have with us ail the time, but wsather only last a few days,"

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SAUCE FROM OTHER SANCTUMS.

Philadelphia North American: Worn an is woman'8 worse traduoer. The Judge: Justice limps, but she keeps afoot w'ile de t'ief am a-restin*.

Philadelphia Call: The only thing a chronic borrower will not take is a hint. New York Graphio: A breach of trust —when the grocer demands cash down before delivery.

Rochester Post-Express: The one spot loved by mon who play cards for a livelihood is an ace.

PhiladelphiaijTortb American: Every man should have a hobby and ride it, but not let it ride him.

New Haven News: A priest in Pennsylvania has declared" war on bustles, but a bustle is its own fortress.

Philadelphia North American: It is with knowledge as with money—some do a large business on a small capital.

New York Graphic: The road to success is open to all, but too many want to get there without the trouble of going.

New York Graphic: How would it work for the women suflragista to colonize and govern the Territory of No Man's Land?

Louisville Courier-Journal: The Massachusetts pastor dismissed for smoking tobacco may be said to have gone out under a cloud.

Boston Gazette: "Why don't you let your wife take chance in the lottery?" "Oh, she's not lucky star can't even draw ciip of tea."

Boston, Transcript: Instead'of making politics your business, young m^n, HiA^buoh better, in the long rjun, 'to

make business your politics. Buriingtor* Free Press: The beauty of reading Browning is .that you can turn over tqp pages at a tiniQ without ever knowirig' the difference.

Texas'Sifting*: "Do you use nightcaps, dear?" asked'his sweetheart. "Yes, love," he replied, "with a little sugar and she couldn't think what he meant.

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not court tile Ipraise of the world, but perform the actions which deserve it. It is always to be feared that they who marry where they do not love will love where they do not marry.

We frequently confess our little faults in order to have it thought that we have no great ones.

Knowledge of our duties Is the most useful part of philosophy. Give things the right color and avoid varnishing them over with a false glow.

Learn in manhood to unlearn the follies and mistakes of early youth.

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New York Truth.

I don't suppose the actual wearing of bustles will ever become a fashion among men, but certain it is, that many of the Broadway exquisites have lately taken to padding the region of their seat of learning. It would almost seem that a man Is to be valued according to the size of his hips, for trousers have to be made specially to meet the new fad, and the larger the "success" the more fascinating does the dude apparently become to the fair sex. The Implement, which Is placed inside the pants, is an appropriate, pliable, network affair stuffed with cotton wool, the more elaborate and expensive ones with dried rose leaves, carefully modeled from nature, and the whole, covered wKh undressed kid. It gives in the most natural way when you sit down, and can withstand the rudest shock. This fad appears to be growing, In more senses than one, Into public favor, the only serious difficulty so iar encountered being the choice of an appropriate name.

TALMAQEON WOMEN SUFFRAGE. Dr. Talmage says: "We are told that female suffrage would correct two evils the rum business and the insufficiency of woman's wages. About the rum busi nessl have to say that multitudes of women drink, and it is no unusual thing to see them in the restaurants so overpowered with wine and beer that they gan hardly sit op, while there are many so-called respectable restaurants where they can go and take their champagne ana hot toddy ail alone. Mighty temperance voters those women would make! Besides that, the wives of the rum sellers would have to vote in the interest of their husband's business or have a time the inverse of felicitous. Besides that millions of respectable and refined women in America would not vote at all because they do not want to go to the polls, wad on the other hand, womanly roughs would all go to the polls, and that might make woman's vote on the wrong side. There is not in my mind much prospect of the expulsion of drunkenness by female suffrage.

Everybody needs a spring medicine. the blood

preparad to resist the diseases peculiar the summer months. Ask for Ayer's to gaisapnilia. Taks no other.

WOMEN'S WAYS.

It is a fact that a man seldom accumulates money and property until he gets some good woman to help him. It is equally true that many men who have made failures in business would have succeeded had they taken the advice of the wife. .*

It is cheerful to note that a St. Louis paper, while recognizing the benefits of the past, commends the improvements of the present. It devotes a column to the pretty girls of to-day, and concludes that their grandmothers were never so strong nor so lovely. 'K "r

Three ladies calling themselves the "Giddy Young Girls" have left Boston for a six weeks' trip to Florida. They are Mrs., Pliss Williams, of Montclair, N. J., 82 years old Miss Jeptha Harrison, of Orange, 76 years old, and Mrs. J. T, Morris, of New York City, 5S years.

The female mayor of Argonia, Kansas, was elected as a joke, but a good many of the oltlzens think they have caught a Tartar. She has put a stop to the poker i'

games, billiard playing and similar amusements after p. m., and sprees and jamborees are things of the past. Everybody is in bed at 9:U0, and sporting men are seeking fields and pastures new.

Mrs. Cleveland is developing a taste for having her "picter took" that exceeds that of of any lady of the White House. She has been photographed in as many attitudes as a popular actress, has been etched by a French artist, and is now having a water color portrait painted by a Russian. All that remains is to bo 'done in oil by a French sardine.

Two women, Mrs. Victoria Woodhull and her sister, Tennie C. Claffiin, once notably free-lovers and tabooed iu American society, are now visiting this country, one as Lady Martin and the other as Lady Cook. They made things so hot for themselves here during the TildenBeeoher trial that they left for England started a publication of a high moral tone and married Into the nobility. They are noted for their wealth and benevolenoe.

Probably the most expensive opera »ftjLoak worn this winter belongs to Miss Iter, who is equally at home in New $t and Washington, and who is an to {[10,000,000. Her cloak is in brocaded in silver, outjni HiidtfyiiMWli' "'"I *rtinmed epeDfi-m'2^tr¥^h7'lh°«aMh"ef make, but on jeweled clasps, which are ranked at high figures, being in antique, gold set with large pearls.

A story in London Truth, possibly a "regular terrible story," asserts that if a woman paints her face, and if a person who has been eating cloves will breathe upon that paint It will turn black. Any who use rouge or powder, or any patent preparation whatever, would better test it on the back of the hand before applying it, because it might be embarrassing to have it turn black under—oertain circumstances. The Prince of Wales is, in a covert way, given as authority for thi* discovery. It would be unkind to in* quire where H. R. H. acquired hi* knowledge.

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POSSIBLE LADIES OF WHITE HOUSE. Philadelphia Telegraph gossip: One of the first remarks I heard in connection with General Sheridan's candidacy was that Mrs. Sheridan would be an adornment to the White House. She Is a pretty and very delightful little lady and as popular as any who has ever appeared in Washington. She has entertained very largely since they have been at the capital and she has shown a wonderful amoont of tact.

John Sherman has a very amiable wife Though venr little is ever heard of ber in public, all who have bad the fortune to meet her are Impressed with her kindness and amiability of manner. Those who know ber best say she Is beloved by bumble people, who seem to find in her a claim for first consideration, and attention. She has no pride that makes her exclusive and no ambition that leads ber to seek popularity. She is by no means a plain or ordinary woman.

General Hawley, who is liable to go on one end or the other of the ticket, has but recently married a lady who is highly regarded.

Senator Allison has ne wife. He is a widower. Judge Gresham's wife is nothing of a politician. While In Washington she entertained, but not to an extent to give her the title of a "society woman," She is not ambitious .1ike Mrs. Logan nor cold like Mrs. is due to other qualities tbsn diplomacy,

of grace proper to the occasion, is a lady of education and refinement, and of modest, home-like manners. She has a daughter, Just grown, who Is reported quite beautiful, and a son, who is a bright young lawyer.

When a threatening lung disorder, Shows its first proclivity. Do not let It cross the border-*

Quell It with activity. Many a patient, young or olden, Owes a quick recovery All to Dr. Hero*** Ooidton

Medical Discovery.

A Yellow White Man.

feets worse than be looks, but now thai speed cure has been found for jaundice and biliousness, thereis no excuse for a white roan resembling Chinaman. Paine*s Celery Compound at once restores the liver to healthy action, and always cores these diseases.

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