Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 August 1881 — Page 2

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PROHIBITION IN VERMONT.

How Coercion Works in the Land of 8teady Habits.

Bom Plain and Homely Truth About Its Opsrationin That State-

The "Vy hole Thing a Failure Doing More Harm than Good

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From the Cincinnati Commercial.

LUDLOW, VT Aug. 2.—I hate observep that the extreme temperance men in Oli io, those who advocatc total prohibition and will accept nothing else, refer continually to the examples of Maine, Knnsas and Vermont, where the traffic in liquor is prohibited by law, and the severest penalties and punishment are provided for the transgressor. 11 any one doubts the possibility of enforcing the total-abstinence law, they in reply point triumphantly to Maine and Vermont, aud call upon you to there behold the refutation of your assertion.

A BEAUTIFUL UTOPIA.

They declare total prohibition to IKJ a HUCCCHH in those states that drunkenness has been banished there, and is unknown that no saloons exist, and no intoxicating liquors are oold in those states. This in off-hand discussion, or in public speeches, is a pretty safe assertion to make. It is made at a safe distance, and hardly anybody can be found who has information and data ready for a reply.

THK RETORT COURTEOUS.

Now, some people who believe and sometimes assert that total prohibition is impracticablc become tired of beiog shut up with the remark: "That is false, air. Look at Maine, and look at Vermont, and look at Kansas. How dare you make such an assertion, sir, which in view of the condition of things in these BtateB you must know to be false, sir?"

I have observed that your total prohibition advockte seems unable to carry on a temperanfce discu»sion very long without calling somebody a liar.

TESTIMONIALS.

Now, Mr. Editor, you know me well and know whether any statements I may make can be relied upon or not, and you know very well whether my character is such as to entitle me to the confidence of the people Your printing what I have to say will be equivalent to indorsing me to your readers as a man whose truthfulness can be relied upon.

I propose to state plainly and truthfully my experience with the working of the liquor laws in at least one estate.

NEAL DOW'S PARADISE.

It is needless to dwell upon the condition of things in Maine. It is just as easy to p?t a drink of whiskey in Maine as it is in Ohio. You have but to go into a saloon and order it, just as you would in Ohio, with pjssibly this exception: That you may have to go into a room or stall by yourself and order the drink brought to'you. Drunkennesswas never more prevalent in that state the evil was never greater, and the criminal records tell the same old story of the fiendish workofiuoi. I saw once this summer thirty cases of arrest and punishment for drunkenness disposed of in a single session of a municipal court in a Maine city of less than 11,000 inhabitants, and it was only an average Monday morning's work.

NO BALOONFE?

As to the ascertion that there are no salotiis in Maine, so arrogantly made, I can reply by the counter assertion, which is true, that there is not a town of 500 inhabitants in that state in which there is nc.« asaloop or drug store, or other place wheie whiskey can be bought if not by the drink, by the package.

THE BUSY FLASK.

A tremendous trade is .carried on all over the state in little fiat glass flasks which hold two drinks of liquor (about a halt a common table tumbler,) aud retail for twenty-five cents. They are the same kind offlasks sold all over the country to travellers, particularly at the railioad stations.

WHY PLEA3E?

At the risk of being called a liar I would venture timidly to ask why, if there are no saloons in Maine, the niayor of Augusta the other day issued a proclamation ordering all Uie saloons and places where liquor is sold closed for theday.

HOKE OF THE NUISANCE LAW. And now about Vermont. You know that at its last session the Vermont legislature passed a law which is the fiercest and most ferocious law up«n temperance in existence. It tries to make a social and legal outlaw of any man selling liquor. I'.,aims to utterly ruin any person engaging in such traffic to break him up in business to ruin his flunily to •et the brand of Cain upon him, sod make him an outcast and Scorned of men.

It enacts that the premises upon which whiskey is sold may be declared a nuis anee aid wiped out of existence in short its iaw is the extremest utterance and action of that class who believe that one poition ot a people have the right to the absolute control of the appetites and actions of others, and is the last act in sumptary legislation. Let any one read the Vermont law and they will see that this is not putting it too strong. In fact, the temperance fanatics jor this small and comparatively virtuous state have manufactured a sort of temperance inferoal machine, which is capable of such hard and cruel things and is so dangerous that they don't dare to use it uiuch, now that th,ey have it. They handle it as gingerly as they would a can of nitro-glycenne. It is so harsh and terrible a law that th« authories hardly dare enforce it, and pablic sentiment will not

who cross the line from Canada. There' were taking a drink together within five

are no great manufacturing cities oi centres of crime, and no transient population. It is a staid and settled old com munity as communities, composed mostly of old people and children, for most of the young blood and the enterprise flows westward regularly. The unenterprising and extremely virtuous young men re main at home and follow in the plodding footsteps of their fathers.

AN IMPBRI8HABLE MINORITY. The dram drinkers and men of liberal opinions are in the minority, and the pious and proper majority endeavor fto crush tbem by legislation.

For years and years this struggle has gone on in Vermont with all the odds on the side of temperance, and whiskey has come up on top every time, and public sentiment has been educated downward by the very sympathy that grows up for a hunted and obstracized portion of a community, even if no sympathy is felt for their calling. The two factions have been fiercely arrayed against each other, long and bitter quarrels in communities and families engendered, and society circles broken up and destroyed. This was the gloomy view given to me by one ot the oldest workers in the temperance cause in the state. Said he: "I am now old. I have spent and I am now spent in this cause, and I sadly believe that the evil of intemperance has grown stronger under our clubs. Legislation will not exterminate it only patient labor in education and elevating public sentiment will do ary good, and that is slow and long."

HOW IT IS DONE.

In Burlington the landlord at the hotel at which I stopped told jme, in answer to questions, that just as much.whiskey was sold in that place as ever, lie took me to a saloon and said: ''Here, I will show you how it is done here." He said, "Go up to the *ar and

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on a knowing look, and ask for some angley's bitters or beef tea I did so. I saw no bottles except of bitters, and mineral water, and "pop" etc.

I asiied for a drop of Hop bit'ers. The barkeeper took me all in with a quick glance, and dropping a few drops of something into a tumbler, placed it on the counter. Then he setup an empty tumbler, and, motioning to the usual water pitcher, said: "Pour your own water."

It was an innocent-looking "crockery'' pitcher on a little rubber mat in the centre of the counter, but when I tipped it up I found it half full of whiskey. The last place in the room anybody would hink of looking for it.

TNE FESTIVE FOUNTAIN.

My friend then took me upon the principal sheet of the city, callod Church street, and at three drug store* wo were given whiskey in response to a wink when asked what syrup we wanted.

In two stores the whiskey was produced from a bottle under the counter, and at the other was drawn from a faucet uniform with the syrup cocks and labelled "Don't care!" or something of that sort.

LEGAL SOBRIETY.

In Otte evening I counted six drunken men pass the hotel, and one night the young men of the university in the place had a banquet which towards the small hours became a regular Bacchanalian orgy, and several were put to bed drunk.

A LYING LABEL, I

In St. Albans I was told a saloonkeeper sell-i whiskey in two, four and six drink flasks, labelled as though sold in Plattsburg, just across the lake in New York Slate, with day and month written on the labels. For instance, every flask sold by him to-day is labelled "Sold by J. C. Crumley, Plattsburg, N. Y, on the 25th day of July, 1881."

THE LITTLE JOKER.

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sustain the application of its heavy and they were all town and county officials, ruinous penalties. Meanwhile liquor is! and one was a justice before whom many jufct as plenty in Vermont and drunken-jot'the cases of drunkenness and violation niss just as general as ever. ,, of the liquor law were tried

HOT A PARALLEL CASE. BURY JJC

But it was in a large town south of there that I was shown the sharpest practice in ways that are dark and tricks that are for the benefit of the bibulous.

A gentleman whom I questioned about the wording of the liquor law told me just as I was told in other parts of the state, that there was no trouble in procuring whiskey. He said: "I am in a very funny secret, which is shared by most of our citizens who like a little stimulant occasionally. Come with me."

He took me to a cross-street, and we (entered a room which appeared to be a cigar store, with confectionery, etc. We took seats at the rear, and my friend told me to keep my eyes open.

Within twenty minutes I saw ten or twelve gentlemen come in, some in pairs, some singly and some in little parties, go to the ^ater-cooler, take a drink, buy cigars and go out.

My friend finally asked me if I had seen a^y liquor sold, and I said "No." "Nevertheless," said he, "every gentleman who came in here took* a good, square drink of whiskey, and paid for it." "Well," said I. uthe drinks must have been in the cooler or the cigar. I know it was not in the cigars, for most of them were lighted before the purchaser left. It must be in the cooler." "Well, go and draw some," said he.

to the cooler, held the glass un

der the nuzzle, and pressed down on the button. I was rewarded.for my exerv tions by a finw of clear, cold water that soon filled the tumbler. I was puzilcd. and my friend and the pioprietor greatly enfoyed it.

My friend took the empty glass and drew from the same faucet half a glass of whiskey. If I was puzzled before, I was now thunderstruck, and utter laughi at me awhile, the trick was explained, was simple: Press down the button and water runs press up with the thumb from below, while you appear to press down with the forefinger, aBd you get whiskey open the cooler and you find it full of ice w'ater. The whiskey comes from a cask in a hidden closet upstairs, and flows through a small pipe which deceods in the partition and passes from the wall into the bottom of the cooler and connects with the faucet.

DOO EAT DOG!4'"'

Before we left a pa.1y of five or 9ix gentlemen came in, and I was told that

A gentleman told me that in St. Johns-

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In Vermont the conditions aie very. workhouse for liquor-selling and drunkdifltrent fcr temperance l'rom what they enness by a justice and prosecuting atare in Ohio. There is little or no foreign torney. who were both striving to overpopulotion except the few "Canucks" come an all-night debauch, and who

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minutes after the officer went out With] his prisoner. FLOATING SALOONS. ST-*'

Upon Lake Champlain, which lies be-i tween New York ana Vermont from the CaBada line to 7 iconderoga, are floated a number of bargee, which are fitted up as whiskey saloons, and to these come thirsty Green Mountain Ijoys from all along the border and away back into the interior of the slate on midnight trips, and go away with casks aud demijohns under the buggy seats, or at lea^t stomachs and flasks filled. Much liquor is thus procuied from boats which float on New York waters and is carried by sellera back to taverns in the Green Mountains, and the bad men of the village organize "fishing expeditions" to the mountains, which turn out to be big sprees. •.

COSTLY LAW.

It was claimed for the new law thaVii would create a revenue frota fines, etc, but I saw in a Monlpelier paper thestattment that after long and vigorous efforts in Windsor (I think) county the expenses tooted up $20,000 and the receipts $800.

LEOAI.I fcD LIQOR-SELLING.

In Vernioi.i ,'ie government arrogates to itself the rL lit to ct !', liquor, and tnere they have a peculiar otlleal who is called

Tiie Town Agrut." Hisduty isto Bell for the town all kinds of liquor, distilKd or malt, upon the order of a physician, the liquor to be used only for medicinal or mechanical purposes

This gives the poor physician a chance to turn an hwnest dollar and at the same time relieve much consuming thirst. In nine cases out of every ten where liquor is sold by the town agent thus, the prescription of the'physician is a fraud, and the physician got f!3 for writing It. As lnng as a man ses uwhiskey discreetly, don't get drunk'or get into trouble so as to invoive the doctor, he can get all the whiskey he wants from the town agent, and at the same time be putting money into the doctor's pockets and the town treasury.

TAKINO IT BY FORCE.

Whiskey being contraband and not recognized by law as property, it is stolen with perfect in:puniiy all over the state.

The papers eontain an amusing account ot a performance of this sort in the town of Middlebury, which is very straight-laced and the centre ot a comparatively strong temperance region

The wbisicey place in the town is an innocent dining-room, witn private rooms upstairs, and the railroad passes by the rear. The proprietor has his barrels and casks of liquors dropped at the freight depot, half a mile up the truck, and a man wheels them down after dark in a •arrow. The "bad men" of the place found this out, and one night about three weeks ago a dozen of them laid in wait for the wheel barrow^ captured a keg of beer and a cask ot whiskey, took them down to a grove on the river, near the town, and put in a Uunday of wild and reckless dissipation. Fifty or a hundred men and boys got wind of the afiair and went to the grove for free drinks, and there were several fights and disgraceful scenes. Yet all the papers treated it as a big joke, and evt,n augular temperanceites laughed altout it.

CONCLUSION.

Now, 1 think this will (Vvfor the present. I have not exaggerated, but I hkve slated only what I have seen and know, and what no one can truthfully contradict. It is riot a nice picture fur the believers in total abstinence legi-lation. It has but one merit, and that is that it is the truth. 1 have given everything except the name of the town in which is the patent cooler, because I promised not to do BO, but I will say that the people of Rutland county need not go across the mount .m find it.

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~2e arc builder*, mud each one I SWould cut and carve as bctt hfr

A smoke, a blackness from the abrss Where unclean serpents coil and

But Bill went under, and in a queer way, too. It was after they found some good lodes of free milling quartz above the gulch and the camp had become a Town. Bill was running a bank above the nugget saloon and he made it pay big. One day a fellow walked into Town all rags and misery and went to the bank. Bill was keeping cases, and the minute he saw the stranger he jumped up and walked over to him. There was some talk and they shook hands. Then Bill came back to the table leading the stranger. "Boys," said he, "when I was sick this man doctored me when I was hungry he fed me when I crawled out on a Rebel stockade in Macon and tried to get North he helped me. My friends are his friends. His enemies are my enemies. No matter how the cards run, half I've got is his." Then Bill sat down, for he wasn't much of a talker.

The next day the stranger came out in a better outfit,but it didn't help his looks much. There was something mean about his eyes that looked like the devil's trade-mark. He had a noisy, blustering way about him, and nobody took to Bill's pet And it wasn't a good day for Bill when he came, either,, lor after that everything seemed to go wrong. The stranger spent an awful sight of monej^, and all of it came from Bill He used to cut up and make bad breaks about the bank, but Bill stood it all and never said a word. If any of the boys growled he'd just take in three angles of the room with his eyes and that settled matters. If they talked to him he'd shrug hit shoulders and say he was of age.

One day, though, Bill's bank closed. Nobody knew what it meant for awhile but whea "Georgia""—that's what they

posHsesses the peculiar properties whichI J.J so exactly suit the various conditions of called the stranger didn turn up,it got whispered about that he had gathered up all the loose scads and skipped. Bill

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Life is short, yet some achieve Fqrtune, fame, in war or art Some miss their chance and can't retrieve, Some fail because they stop to grieve, ^+*4

Some pause with lauiting heart.

'Tis the bold who win the race,

whether for gold, or inve, or tSSM':

'Tie (he true ones always face

Dangers and trials, and win a place, A niche in the fane of fame.

Strike and struggle, ever strive. Labor with hand, and heart, and brain, Work doth more than genius give He who faithfully toiis doth live

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LONGFELLOW'S CREED.

My will: is finished I im strong I n'faith and hope and charity or I hnve wiitren the things I see, The thing* that have been and shall be. ''Conscious of right, nor fearing wrong liecanse I am in love with Love, ,£And the sole thing I hate is Hate ,•»'? .For Hate is death and Love is life, peace, a splendor from above silAnd Hate a never ending strife,

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Every life i* but stone, irery one shall hew hi* own, Make or mar ahall every man.

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Love is the Holy Chost within "Hate is the unpardonable sin I Who prenches othfcrwi.se than this

Betrays bis Master with a kiss.

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A ROCKY MOUNTAIN ROMANCE.

A Typical Wostcrn Character and How He l*la.ye«l the Vame to the End.

"Did I know Sandy Bill? Well, I should say so! Smartest and ugliest man ever on the frontier. Knew him first in Dead Man's gulcli when they found the placcrs there. Bill came down to wash dirt, but he soon got tired of that and took to curds. But cards got away with him. lie wasn't strong enough, for them. Ho used to say after ho *got right bad that the black spots stained hid heart and the red ones his hands. He was sullen like at times, and then there was trouble. He'd pull a gun quicker than flush, aud there would be cold meat for the Coroner in the wink of an eye. Bad man Bill was.

They wanted to get him out of the gulch once and the camp council held a meeting on it, but the undertaker got the council drunk and made 'em vote Bill should stay. He was good for one branch of business at least.

Bill was cross-eyed, and Vvhen he got right mad it used to make the boys feel queer all around. They couldn't understand exactly who he was mad at, for his eye would take in all sides of the room, which made it sorter awkward. He shot a fellow once and got off on the plea that it was an accident on this account. Four men swore that he was looking right at them, and that his gun went off in the other direction. The Court allowed that a man couldn't be hung because of an infirmity, but said if such an accident happened again an overruling Providence would rake in a prominent citizen. For you see there wasn't any getting away from Bill's straight shooting. When he had the drop on a man you could bet on a funeral with the same Christian confidence you could on four aces.

would never say so, though. He wouldn't talk about it at all. He just soaked his watch and pin and went in for another pile, with two different expressions in his eyes, one harder than the Travis and them other heroes had only other. About "Georgia" he never open-, fallen at Chicago, we would have proed his mouth. vided them with a bang-up four story

He got to drinking pretty hard after residence to fall in, with gas, telephone, that, but his luck was big. It was hard burglar alarm and aU the other modern I. „„IJ conveniences. I tell you, sir, those peoto tell bow much he won, for ho would

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west oii thk' way for some time after "Georgia?' Ifft, and then there was an excitement. Two broncho® had been stolen above the camp, and the thief was caught and brought into town. It ]*aa "Georgia" looking more hangdog and meaner than ever. As soon as Bill heard of it he went to the owners of the stock and offered them double the price

That changed his luck, and when a *'•?1 gambler's luck changes he's gone. The cards never turn up right after they've got out of the habit. It was bad on Bill.

He drank hard and looked hard. He wore his clothes a good deal longer than he used to, and when the snow began to la*! fly he was on the streets without an overcoat. No one could help him, he wouldn't have it. He lived over a little jdive on an off street, and didn't allow anybody to come near his room. He was surly and bitter and ugly, and when he got into row with a man he used to beat him with anything he could get his hands on. He never did that in his better days. He'd just shoot and be done with it. So all the boys sort of kept away from him, and he got a bad name. When he played at all it was with a tin-born crowd,.and queer stories came to be circulated after a time.

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There was a good deal of "holding up" in those days, and people got an idea that Bill might be doing some of it. At any rate a man was killed in front of Bill's place early one morning, and when the crowd came up and found Bill there it was quick enough to think that he had done it He had been seen with the dead man the night before, and there was another man all muffled with him, hut Bill wouldn't say who he was. Fact is, he wouldn't answer any questions nt all, and when the trial came it didn't take the jury long to bring in a verdict of guilty. The Town was a little scared up, nnd the people thought there ought ta

an example. There was one queer thing about it though. The murdered man had a lot of money, but there wasn't a nickel on Bill. After the verdict, there was an attempt by some of Bill's old friends to get a pardon, but he wouldn't have it. He said he was ready and willing to hang and wanted the show to end as soon as possible. The only thing he seemed uneasy about was as to whether any one else was suspected, and he would ask cautious questions about what people thought and what the theories concerning the murder were. The day bcfoie the hanging he wrote a letter, put it into an envelope and addressed it, and then put both in a blank envelope. He gave this to Reddy Jim, one of his old-time pards, and told him not to take off the blank envelope until after he was dead, and then deliver the letter inside to where it was addressed, and keep his mouth shut about the whole business. Reddy promised, and the next day Bill was hung, and died game.

After he Was dead Reddy took off the blank enevelope and read the address. It was to "Georgia." That made him curious, and the letter burned his hands. He had always had an idea that there was something behind the murder which Bill was trying to conccal, and he thought that this letter might tell what it was. So, after holding it for four days he gave it to the Sheriff, who opened it. This is what was in it:"

DEAR OLDPARD.—The game's square. You saved me and I've saved you. I aint mad or hurt because you didn't come back and take the murder off my shoulders, for I wanted to get through anyhow. The cards are against me, anc there's no use fighting luck. I write this to tell you that some of thr d—d fools about here may think queer ot the business and look into it, so get as far out of the way as you can. You'd better go home and drop your way of life. There aiot no good in it. Good bye,

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That let in a lot of light. "Georgia" had killed the man and-BillBhotildered the blame. They tried to find him, but he was gone. He had put out for it when Bill was first tried. They never heard of him again.

Where Crockett Fell.!' (Texas Sifting*.]

A Chicago man who visited San Antonio, and is on his way back home, was interviewed by a Texas Sifting*, reporter: r\ Sj« "Did you visit the Alamo, whert? Travis and Crockett fell?" asked the reporter. "Yes I saw the house," responded the practical Chicago man "and I was very much disgusted. It is an old, ruinous, racef ul looking building. I tell you

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not talk about it, but he made a big win- heroes of the Alamo shabbily." and must have had a nicc little The Sittings reporter asked him if the Chicago noose would also have

ning, pile. He never said anything to any one, proposed and didn't want any friends. Things

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not to proiecate. They took it ana

c? agreed, but the thing had raised such a row that a trial was bound to come ofl V- anyhow. It didn't though. The day set "Georgia" escaped jail and got away

free. There was a good deal of talk about it, and the next time Bill was teen on tho streets it was noticed tfeat he didn't wear his watch. He bet low at ,, the tables that evening, too.

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Price Seveaty-five Cents in larg'e glass stop Bottles. Sold by all Druggists.

I Justice of the Peace. .»

NO HUMAN AGENCY?!

Can so speedily, permanently and economically elesnse the blood, clear the complex ion and skin, restore the hair, and on re ev-:-. ery species of Itching sealy^and scrofulous humors of the skin, scrip and blood as tbe Cuticura Remecies, consisting of Cuticura Resolvent, the new blood purifier, and Cuticura and Cuticura soap, tbe great skin cures. Ask your druggist about them. Right here in this town you may find evidences of their wonderful powers.

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One of Collin's Voltalct Electric Plaster, cost! ng

tiiwn25 cents, is far superior uibiavto every other electrical^ appliance before the. public. They instantly!

relieve dyspepsia, liver complaint, malaria. fever ana ague and kidney and urinary'1

difficulties, and may be worn over the pit ofj* the stomach, over th« fected

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RHETIATIgX, DIPHTHERIA, NEURALGIA, SOKE THROAT, SORE EYES, FACEACHE, TOOTHACHE, ••t Ac. 45 P. C. liuJlIIOTOI,Chicaeo.—"I h»T«received in •iihmM relief from n»e of the Extract." (Inflammatory dbMMj 341CXL R. JABKS, 8chenectadj, N. 7.—"A houMbot necessity In my family." ram* D. FtJLTOW, D. ft, Brooklyn. X. T.-"ProfHn ltiwU to be a necenity In my home."

BUBJUSy SCALDS,

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Cantlcfa. —POND'S EXTRACT is sold mwy ta bottles with the name blown in tho glass. WIt is unsafe to ose other articles with oat directions. Insist on having POND'S iliVl ttAOT. Befnse all imitations and substitutes.

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Prioes, BOo., 01.OO, 91*79 at an nfiiHiWi Prngglrta. Prepared by POHOt EXTRACT OQ* 1« WMt Tgsrt—rtfc ftraet, Kmr York. ES=aSESaSS9E5EESaSS===SS»

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A loroly ionic and Bair Dressing. It removes Daainfll allays all itching, •top* fcn™«ir Bair and promotes a healthy growth with a rich, boantifbl gloss, att4 is delightfully fragrant.

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