Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 July 1878 — Page 3

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A MYSTERY.

Or tba Murders In the ftae Morgue.

BY EDGAR A. POE.

Whit song the syren sang, or wbat name Achilles as mmed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions are not altogether bcyong conjecture. ttir Thomas Browne.

"There are two windows in the chamber. One of them is unobstructed by furniture, and is wholly visible. The lower portion of the other is hidden from view by the head of an unwieldy bedstead which is thrust close up against it. The former was found securely listened from within. It resisteJ the utmost force of those who endeavored to raise it. A large gimlet hole had been pierced in the frame to the left and a •tout nail was found fitted therein, near ly to the head. Upon examining the other window, a similar nail was 6een timilarly fitted in it and a vigorous attempt to rase this sash, failed also. The police were now entirely satisfied that egress had not been in these directions. And, therefore, it was a matter of supere rogation to withdraw the nails and open the windows. "My own examination was somewhat more particular, and was BO for the reason I have just given—because here it was, I knew, that all apparent impossibilities must be proved to be not such in reality. "I proceed to think thus—a posteriori. The murderers did escape from one of these windows. l'hi» being t,o, they could not have re fastened the sashes from the inside, as they were found fastened —the consideration which put a stop,through its obviousness, to the scrutiny of the police in this quarter. Yet the sashes were fastened. They must, then, have the power of fastening themselves. There was no escape from this conclusion. I stepped to the unobstructed casement, withdrew the nail with some difficulty, and attempted to rase the sash. It resisted ail my efforts, as I had anticipated. A concealed spring must, I knew, exsist and this corroboration of my idea convinced me that my premises, at least were correct, however misterious still appeared the circumstances attending the nails, A careful search soon brought to light the hidden spring, I pressed it, and satisfied with the discovery, forbore to upraise, the sash. "I now replaced the nail and regarded it, and one passing out 01 this window might have reclosed it, and the spring would have caught—but the nail could not have been replaced. The conclusion was plain and again narrowed in the field of rnv investigations. The assassins must have escaped through the other window. Supposing then, the springs on each sash to be the same, as was probable, there must be found a difference between the nails, or at least between the modes of their fixture. Getting upon the backing of the bedstead, I looked over the head board minutely at the second casr-ment. Passing my hand down behi I.I i. board, I readily discovered an ,»ie c,i the spring, which was, as I a *uiv.j*ed, identical in character with it- nci^.iDo •. I now looked at the nail, LI A.I- .O siout as the other, and apparently fitted in the same manner—driven in nearly up to the head.

You will sar that I was puzzled but if you think so you must have misunderstood the nature of the inductions. To use the sporting phrase 1 have not once 'been at fault.' The scent has never been lost, Tnere has been no flaw in any link of the chain, I had traced the secret up to its ultimate result,—and the result was the nail. It had, I say, it\ every respect, the appearance of its fellow in the other window but this fact was an absolute nullity (conclusive as it migh^. seem to be), when compared with the consideration that there, at this point terminated the clue. There must be something Vfrong,' I said, 'about the nail,' 1 touched it and the head and about aquarter of an inch of the* shank came oft" in my fingers. The rest of the shank was in the ginuet-hole, where it had been broken off. The fracture was an old one (for its edges were incrusted with rust), and had apparently been accomplished by the blow of a "hammer, which had been imbeded, in the top of the bottom saeh. I replaced the head portion of the nail. I carefully replaced thi6 htad portion into the indentation whence I had taken it, and the resemblance to a periect nail was complete—the fissure was invisible. Pressing the spring, I gently raised the sash for a few inches the nead went with it, remaining firm in its bed. I closed the window, and the semblance of the whole nail was again perfect. "The riddle, so far, was now unriddled. The assassin had escaped through the window which looked upon the bed. Dropping of its o*n accord upon this (or perhaps purposely closed), it had become fastened by the spring and it war the detection of the spring which had been mistaken by the police for that of the nai), further inquiry being thus considered unnecessary. "The,next question is that of the mode of descent. Upon this point 1 had been satisfied in mv walk with you around the building. About five feet and a half from the casement in question there runs a lightnig rod. From this rod it would have been impossible for any one to reach the window itself, to say nothing of entering i:. I observed, however that the 6liuttcrs of the fourth stery were of the peculiar kind called by Parisian carpenters ferrades—a kind rarely employed at the present day. but frcqucnrlv seen upon very old mansions at Lyons and

Bordeaux', They are in the form of an ordinary door, (a hingle, not a folding door)except that the lower half is latticed or worked in open trellis—thus affording an excellent hold for the hands. In the present instance the shutters are fully three feet and a half broad. When we saw them from the rear of the house, thev were both about half open—that is to Uy, they stood off at right angles trom t^6 wall. It is probable that the police, as well as myself examined the back of the tenement but if so, in looking at these ferrades in the line of their breadth (as they must have done), they did not perceive this great bredth itself, or at all events, foiled to to take it into due consideration. In fact having satisfied themselves that no egress could be made in this quarter, they would naturally bestow here a very "curtsrv examination. It was clear to me, however, that the &hutter beloning to that window at the head of the bed, would, if swung back to the wall, reach within two feet »©f the

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lightning-rod, It was also evident that, by exertion of an unusual degiee of activity and courage, an entrance into the window, from the rod, might have been effected. By reaching to the distance of two feet and a fialr(we now suppose the shutter open to its whole extent) a robber might have taken a firm grasp upon the trellis-work. Letting go, then, his hold upon the rod, placing his feet securely |on the wall, springing boldly from it, he might have swung the shutter so as to close it, and, if we imagine the window open at the time, might have even swung himself into the room. "I wish you to bear especially in mind, that I have spoken of a very unusual degree of activity as requisite to success in so hazardous and difficult a teat, it is my design to show you, first, that the thing might have1 possibly been accomplished —but secondly and chiefly, wish to impress upon your understanding the very extraordinary—the almost preternatural character of that agility which could have accomplished it. "You will 6ay, no doubt, using the language of the law, that 'to make out my cas.,' I should rather undervalue ihan insist upon a full estimation of the activity required in this matter. This may be 'he practice in law, but is not the usage of reason. My ultimate object is only truth. My immediate purpose is to lead you to a place of juxtaposition, that very unusual activity of which I have just spoken, with that very peculiar shrill (or harsh) aud unequal voice, about whose nationality no two persons could be found to agree, and in whose utterance no syllabification could be detected."

At these words a vague and halfformed conception of the meaning of Dupin flitted over my mind. I seemed to be on the verge of comprehension, without power to comprehend—as men, at times, find themselves upon the brink of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember. My friend went on with his discourse. "You will see," said he, "that I have shifted the question from the mode of egress to that of ingress. It was my design to convey the idea that both were effected in the same manner, at the same point. Let us survey the appearances here. The drawers of the bureau, it is said, had been rifled, although many articles of apparel still remained within tnem. The conclusion is absurd. It is a mere guess—a very silly one—and no more. IIow are we "to know that the articles found in the drawers are not all these drawers had originally contained? Maiam L'Espanaye, and her daughter lived an exceedingly retired life—saw no company —seldom went out—had little use for numerous changes of habiliment. Those found were at least as good quality as any likely to be possessed by these ladies. If a thief had taken any why did he not lake the best—why did he not take all? In a word, why did he abandon tour thousand francs in gold to encumber himself with a bundle of linen? The gold was abandoned. Nearly the whole sum mentioned by M. Mignaud, the banker was discovered, in bags, upon the floor. I wish you, therefore, to discard from your thoughts the blundering idea of motive, engendered in the brains of the police by that portion of the evidence w^ich speaks of money delivered at the door of the house. Coincidences three times as remarkable as this (the delivery of the money, and murder committed within three days upon the party receiving it), happen to all of us every hour of our liyes, without attracting even momentary notice, Coincidences, in general, are great stumb-ling-blocks in the way of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities—that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted, for fhe most glorious of illustrations. In the present instance, had the gold been gone, the fact of its delivery three days before would have formed something more than a coincidence. It would have been corroborative of this idea of motive. Bui, under the real circumstances ot the case, it we are to suppose gold the motive of this outrage, we must also imagine the perpetrator such an idiot as to have abandoned his motive altogether." "Keeping steadily in behind the points lo which I have drawn your attention— that piculiar voice, that unusual agility, and that startling abtence of motive in a muider PS singularly atrocious as this, let us glance at the butchery itself. Here is a woman strangled to death oy manuel strength, and thrust up a chimney, head downward. Ordinary assassins employ no such modes of murder as this. Least of all do they thus dispose of their murdered. In the manner of thrusting the corpse up the chimney, you will admit therj was something excessively outr?—t-omething altogether irreconcilable with our own common notions of human action, even when we suppose the actor* to be the most depraved of men.

Think, too, how great must have been that strength which could have thrust the body UP such an aperture forcibly that the united vigor of several persons was found barely suflicient to drag it DOWN.

Turn i.ow to other indications of the employment of a vigor most marvelous. On the hearth were thick tresses—verv thick tresses—of grey human hair. These had been torn out by the roots. You are aware of the great force necessary in tearing thus fr6m the head twenty or thirty hairs together. You saw the locks in question as well as myself. Their roots (a hideous sight!) were clotted with fraements of the flesh of the scalp—a sure token taken of prodigious power which had been exerted in uprooting half a m'llion of hairs at a time. The throat cf the old lady was not merely cut, but the head absolutely severed from the body, the instrument was a mens raz^r. I wish ou also to look at the brutal ferocity of these deeds. Of the bruise* up-m the body *f Madame L'Espanaye I do not speak. Monsieur Dumas and his worthy coadjutor Eitnenne have pronounced that they were inflictcd by some obtuse instrument and so far these gentlemen are very correct. The obtuse instrument was clearly the stone pavement in the yard, upon which the victim had fallen from the window which looked in upon the bed. This idea however simple it may now seem, escaped the notice for the same reason that the breadth of the shutters escaped them —because, by the affair of the nails, their perceptions had been hermetically sealed against the possibility of the windows having been opened at all. •'If now, in addition to all these things you have properly reflected upon the odd disorder of the chamber, we have g»ne so far a6 to combine the ideas oi an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive) a grote&querie in |horror

solutely alien from humanity, and

Wrap the drawing around it, and try the experiment again." I did sc but the difficulty was even more obvious than before." "This," I said id the mark for no human hand.', "Read now," replied Dupin, "this passage ffom Cuvie."

It was a minute anatomical and generally descriptire account ot the large fulvous Orang-Outang of the East India Islands. The gigantic statue, the prodigious strength and activite, the wild ferocity, and the imitative propensities of these mammalia are sufiiciently well known to all. I undertood the full horrora of the murder at once. "The description of the digits," said I as I made an end of the reading, is in exact accordance with thw drawing I see that no animal but an OrangOutang, of the species he mentioned, could have impressed the indnitations as you have traced them. This tuft of tawny hair, too, is identical in haramer with that of the beast of Cuvie. But I can not possibly comprehend the particulars of this frightful mystery. Besides there were two voices heard in contention, and one of them was unquestionably the voice of a Frenchman. "True and you will remember an expression attributed almost unanimously by the evidence, to this voice,—the expression, 'mon Dieu!' This under the circumstances, has been justly characterized by one of the witnesses (Montani. the confectioner), as an expression of remonstrance or expostulation. Upon these two words, therefore, I have mainly built my hopes of a full solution ot the riddle. A Frenchman cognizant of the murder. It is possible—indeed, it is far more than probable—that he was innocent ot all participation in the bloody transactions which took place. The Ourang Outang may have escaped from him. He may have traced it to the chamber but, under the agitating circumstances which ensued, he could never have re-captured it, It is still at large. I will not pursue these guesses— for I have no right to call them more— since the shades of reflection upon which they are based are scarcely of sufficient depth to be appreciable by my o'vn intellect, and since I could not pretend to make them intelligible to the understand ing of another. We will call thein, quesses then and speak of them as such. If the Frenchman in question is indeed as I suppose, innocent of this atrocity, this advertisement, which I left last night, upon our return home, at the oflice of 'Le Monde,' (a paper devoted to the shipping interest, and much sought by sailors,) will bring him to our residence."

He handed me a paper, and I read thus: CAUGHT- In the Bois Boulogne, early in the morning of the inst., the morn,ing of the murder,) a very large, tawny

Ourang-Outang of the Bornese species. The owner, (who is ascertained to be a sailor belonging to a Maltesfe vessel,) may have the animal again, upon indetilying it satisfactorily, and paying a few charges arising from its capture and keeping. Call at No, Rue Fabourg at. Germain—au troieeme. "How was it possible, that you should know the man to be a sailor, and belonging to a Maltese vessel?" "I do not know it," said Dupin. "I am not sure of it. Here, however, is a small piece of ribbon, which from its form, and from its greasy appearance, hfs evidently been used in tying the hair in one of those long queues of which sailors are so fond. Moreover, this knot is one which few besides sailors can tie, and is peculiar to the Maltese. I picked the ribbon up at the foot of the lightning rod. It could not have belonged to cither of the deceased. Now, if after all, I am wrong in my induction from this ribbon, that the Frenchman was a sailor belonging to a Maltese vessel still I can have done no harm in saving what I did in the advertisement. If I am in error, he will merely suppose that I have been misled by some circumstances into which he will not take the trouble to inquire. But if I am right, a great point is gained. Cognizant although innocent of the murder, the Frenchman would naturally hesitate about replying to the advertisement—about demanding the Ourang-Qutang of great value—to one in my circumstances a fortune of itself—at a vast distance from the scene of that butchery. How can it ever be suspected that a brute beast should have done the deed The police are at fault they have tailed to procure the slightest clue. Should they even trace the animal, it would have been impossible to prove me cognizant of the murder or to implicate me in guilt or on account of 90gnij nncS|

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tinct or intelligible syllabification. What result, then, ha# ensued? What impression have I made upon your fancy?"

I felt a creeping ot the flesh as Dupin asked me the question. "A madman," I said, "has done this deed—some raving maniac escaped from a neighboring Maison de Sonts." "In some respects," he replied, "your idea is not irrelevant. But the voices of madmen, even in their wildest paroxysms, are never found to tally with that peculiar voice heard upon the stairs. Madmen are of some nation, and their language, however incoherent in its words has always a coherence of syllabification. Besides the hair of a madman is no such as I now hold in fny hand. I disentangled this little tuft from the rigidly clutched fingers of Madame L'Espanaye. Tell me what vou can make of it." "Dupin!" I said completely unnerved "this hair is most unusual—this is no HUMAN hair." "I have not asserted that it is," said he "but before wc decided upon this point, I wish you to glance at this little sketch I have traced upon this paper. It is a facsimile drawing »f what has been described in one portion of this testimony as 'dark bruises, and deep £m dentations of finger nails,' upon the throat of Madamoiselle L'Espanaye, and in another (by Messrs. Dumas and Etienne,) as a'series of livid spots, evidently the impression of fingers.' •'You will perceive," continued my friend, spreading out the paper upon the table before us, "that this is no slipping apparent. Each finger has retained possibly until the death of the victim— the fearful grasp by which it originally imbedded itself. Attempt, now, to place all your fingers, at the same time in the respective i-npressions as you see tnem.' I made the attempt in vain. '•We are possibly not giving this matter a fair trial,'' he said. "The paper is spread upon a plane &urface but the human throat is cylindrical. Here is a billet of wood, the circumference of which is about that of the throat.

The advertiser designates me as the possessor of the^east. I am not sure to what limit his knowledge may extend. Should I avoid claiming a property of so great a value, which it is known that I possess, I will render the animal at least liable to suspicion. It is not my policy to attract attention to mvself of to the beast. I will answer the advertisement, get the Ourang-Outang, and keep it close until this matter has blown over."

At this moment we heard a step upon the stairs. "Be ready," said Dupin, "with your pistols, neither use them nor show them except at a signal from myself.

The front door of the house had been left open and the visitor had entered, without ringing, and advanced several steps upon the staircase. Now, howover, he seemed to hesitate. Presently we heard him descending. Dupin was moving quickly to the door, when we again heard him coming up. He did turn back a second time, but stepped up with decision, and rapped at the door of our chamber. "Come in," said Dupin, in a cheerful and hearty tone.

A mm entered. He was a sailor, evidently—a tall, stout and muscularlooking person, with a certain dare-devil expression of countenance, not altogether unprepossessing. His face greatly sunburnt, was more than half hidden bywhiskers and mustache, he had with him a huge oaken cudgel, but appeared to be otherwise unarmed. He bowed awkwardly, and bade us "good evening," in French accents, which although so.newhat Neufchatdeish, were sufficiently dictative of a Parisian orgin. "Sit down, myfriend," said Dupin. "I suppose you have called about the Ourang-Outang. Upon my word I almost envy you in the possession of him: a remarkably fine, and doubtless very valuable animal. IIow old do you suppose him to be?"

The sailor drew a long breath, with the air of a man relieved of some intolerable burden, and then he replied in an assured tone. "I have no way of telling—but he can't be more than four or five years old. Have got him here?" "Oh no we had no conveniences for keeping him here. He is at a livery stable in the Rue Dubourge, just bv. You can get him in the morning. Of course you are readv to identify the property?" "To be sure lam, sir. "I shall be sorry to part with him," said Dupin. "I don't mean that you should go to all this trouble for nothing, sir," said the man. "Couldn't expect it. Am very willing to pay a reward for the finding of the animal—that is to say anything within reason." "Well," replied my friend, "that is all very fair, to be sure. Let me think —what should I have? Oh I will tell you. My reward shall be this. You shall give me all the information in your power about these murders in the Rue Morgue.

Dupin said the last words in a very low tone, and very quietly. Just as quietly, too, he walked toward the door, locked it, and put the key in his pocket. Hethendrewa pistol from his bosom and placed it, without the least flurry, upon the table.

The sailor's face flushed up as if he were struggling with suffocation. He started to his feet and grasped his cudeel but the next moment he fell back in his seat, trembling violently, and with the countenance of death itself. He spoke not a word. I pitied him from the bottom of my heart. "My friend," said Dupin, in a kind tone, "you are alarming yourself unnecessarily—you are indeed. We mean you no harm whatever. I pledge you the honor of a gentleman and a Frenchman, that we intend you no injury. I perfectly well know that vou are innoeent of the atrocities in the Rue Morgue. It will not do, however, to deny that you are in some measure implicated in "them. From what I have already eaid, vou must know that I have had means of information about the matter—means of which you never could have dreamed. Now the thing stands thus. You have done nothing which you could have avoided—nothing, certainly, which renders you culpable. You were not even guilty of robbery, when vou might have robbed with impunity. You have nothing to conceal. You have no reason for concealment. On the other hand, you are bound by every principle of honor to confesr. all you know. An innocent man is now imprisoned, charged with that crime of which you can point out the perpetrator."

The sailor had recovered his presence of mind, in a great measure, while Dupin uttered these words but his original boldnebs of beating was all alone.

So help me God," said he, after a brief pause, "I will tell you all I know about this affair but I do not expect you to believe one half I say I would be a fool, indeed, if I did. Still, I am innocent, and I will make a clean breast if I die for it."

What he stated was in substance this He had lately made a voyage to Indian Archipelago. A party of which he formed and landed at Borneo, and passed into the interior, on an excursion of pleasure. Himself aBd a companion had capturcd the Ourang Outang. This.companion dying the animall tell into his own exclusive possession. After great trouble, occasioned by the intractable ferocity of his captive during the home voyage, he at length succeeded in lodging it safely at his own residence in Paris, where, not to attract toward himself the unpleasant curiosity of his neighbors, he kept if carefully secluded, until such time as it should recover from a wound in the foot, received from a splinter on b?ard ship. Jlis ultimate design was to sell it.

Returnihg home from some sailors frolic on the night, or rather in the morning of the murder, he found the beast occupying his own bed-room into which it had broken from a closet adjoining, where it had been, as was thought, securely confined. Razor in hand, and fully lathered, it was sitting before a looking-glass, attempting the operation of shaving, in which it had no doubt previouly watched its master through the key-hole of the closet. Terrified at the 6ig'ht ot so dangerous a weapon in the possession of an animal so ferocious, and so well able to use it, the man, for some moments, was at a loss what to do. He was accustomed, however, to quiet the creature, even in the fiercest moods, by the use oj a whip, and tc this he now rrstored. Upon sight of it, the OurangOutang sprang at once through the door of the chambcr, down the stairs,

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& *. *•. -r,3 °F ,' 7 $

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The great celobrity of onr Tin Tav T«« bacco has causrrt many initiations thereof to be placed on the market, we thnrofor* caution all Chewcrs against using such Imitations.

All aealers bnylog or selling other plug tobacco bearing

•5s

CONSUMERS

hard and metalie label,

render them liable to the penalty of the Law. and all persons violating our trade marks, are punishable by line and Imprisonment. Sew Act of Cvncren, AM*. 14. 18T6«

The genuine LOKILLAHDTIN TAG TMBACCOI can le distinguished by a TIN TAG on each lump with the word LOUILAHO stamped thereon.

Ove* 7*098 tons tobacco soM in 18TT, and nearly 3»000 persona employed In factories.

Taxe* paid Government in 187T abouti »3,500,000, and during past 19 years, aver §20,000,000•

Those goods sold by all Jobbers at manufacture! s'rates. The Tin Tag Smoking Tobacco is "second to none" in aroma, lnildncsc, purity and ]iiaUty.

THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY GRAf'S SPECIFIC MEDICINE

(BADE MARK.Is espcciallyTRADE MARX recommended

tudy ind tnnny years of experience in treating these special diseases. Full particular? In our pamphlets, which w« dofllre to send by mail to every one.

The Specific Medicine Is sold by all drugcrists at fl per package,or six packages} for t', or will be sent by mail on receiptgof th« money, by addressing^

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as an unfailing cure for S N I W iN is a SPEBHATOaBHX«, IMPOTEMCT, and all diseases that'

'hfa»Mi«sS!XuRcSAfti

Tddss'

on Self Abu'e as Loss OK MEMORY, UNIVEBSAL LIBSITRDT, PAIN IN THE BACK, DIMNESS or VISION, PBEMATVKE OLI AW, and many other diseases that lead to insanity, Consumption, and a Premature Grave, all ot ski. path The Spcclflc Medicine Is the recult of life

whlcii. from tn

as a rule, are first caused by deviating ath ot nature and over indulgence.

Gray Medicine Co.

No. 10Mechanic's Block. Detroit, Mich.T Sold in Terre Haute, IndJLat wholesale and retail by Gulick A Berry, Wholesale agents.

Sol* at retail bv Grooves S Lowry, Cook ft Be'l, W. E. McCJrew A Co., and by responsible drugMMs.

.MADISON

DISPENSARY,i1aoiILL.CHICAGO,ST.,CLAMSO.

I E O W

tVbe baa been longer engaged In the treali'. aeolof all SBXI'aLandXllKORIC Olecafl, Uian any other phralcian In CHICAGO.

smnus, WNNMIMT, OLIBT, STUCIIIU,oucurna OTJUItA, aU aenterlal afTestloaa «r the throat, akla or bepee, treated with nnparalelled moaeee, latent aeieollOc prlaciplM ia half the asnal time, aafMr. prlrately. SPIBBATMUUMKi, SUOAL nraiUTT aad I1P0TIICT, aa UM reealt ef actfalnae or eexnal exeeeeee la matnrer year*, or ether eaasee, wbtoh prodtwe rase ef the Mlewlag eflwta: Merrwiiaeaa, aemlnal emiaaioaa, debility, dlmaeaa of eight, deftetlve ery, pinpke on the hoe, aveaaloa te eoeiety, loea ef SBXVAK power, eto.. rendering •ABRIAOt IirHPU, are peraaMatlr cured. Pamhlet (M pegee) relaUag la the abara, aeatta •ealed wireloptu, (br two J-coot atampa. Oenanttatton free aad OOiriMSTlAb

I—i laparate tor ladlee aad gallnia,

entilation

CRNTENNIAI BXlliniTlON

FHESUIIII

Boynton's Furnaces

For Hard or Soft Coal or Wood. 78 Styles and Slsoa,

30.000 IN USE.

RICHARDSON, BOYNTOM CO.,

MARmciTBSIlit,

84 Lake St., Chicago, Ills.

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PRUSSIIfC'S WHITE WINE

CeWhratedfor ltsPnr*tr,Rffen«[^i aid Flaror.

iae^te Rah- anteed free from Smpkmrie~AcUt or o'rxrtictctertau*