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! u; ./FARMERS and fruit growers
Sfiu ^ have been fighting injuriIfitl
F Uli ous insects ever since there
pii" were any farmers and fruit
E&- vSf growers.
- it would seem as if, after these many
years of experience, they would have
learned good remedies for every insect
pest
They have learned many, and the
cientific men who are constantly
.working on this very important problem
have found excellent economic
means to destroy the great majority
of injurious insects. But every few
years there appears some new insect
;i>e8t, which is so strong and prolific,
jor which lives in such a peculiar way,
(that it is able to do enormous damage,
\ to destroy millions of dollars' worth of
/ crops, and sometimes to alarm more
/ than a single country and affect the
t relations of many civilized nations.
, A few years ago the San Jose scale.
minute creature which injures fruit
trees, spread all over the United States
and occasioned the passage of edicts
and laws in many foreign countries by
.which American fruits and fruit trees
Were practically barred from international
commerce.
if Ana now anomer 01 uiese treui iijl
Beet scourges Is affecting the cotton
1 crop of Texas, and threatens to spread
all through the cotton States. It is
partly due to the great damage which
/ this insect has done that the price of
, cotton last year went up to almost unprecedented
figures, so that cotton
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AN ADULT BEETLE)
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mills have been obliged to stop, thousands
of operatives have been discharged,
and the wages of thousands
more have been reduced.
THE COST OF THE WEEVIL.
Eighty per cent, of the cotton crop
of the world is raised by America, and
ui uie coiioq raised in me unitea
States Texas produces nearly onefourth.
All the richest cotton counties
of Texas have been invaded by the
weevil, and the loss in cotton destroyed
by its depredations in tfie past
summer has surely been as great as
$15,000,000.
spurred on Dy tr.e njgti price of cotton
and by the prospective danger of
a great lessening of the American
crop, foreign nations are making every
efTort to raise tueir own cotton. The
English colonies are particularly active,
and the German colonies, as well.
Russia is also making every effort to
push the growing of cotton within ber
territory. Other nations are doing the
same. The trade balance of the entire
world may soon be affected if efficient
remedies for tbe pest are not discovered
and used.
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IJ.AJC VVCVJVJU JO U 41 lubjguiucuui
creature, a little gray snout betHe
about a quarter of an inch long, but it
breeds very rapidly, multiplies enormously
in the course of a summer, and
. works during tbe critical period of its
life absolutely protected from any application
which could be made to the
Icotion pianr.
Stowed away in old oornstalfcs, ic
clumps of grass, under the bark ol
trees and logs, and in all sorts of shelHA
TUBE BOLL CUT OPEN, tGre<* places,
showing full-gbown the we,evi]
larva. passes the
Promptly a s
piaui cuuirs uj.
forth, fiy to
//j&I^SSfifeev the plants, and
as soon as the
first "BQuares" Mp'
buds ? are rJ mL-*
formed 1 ay
Ioung grub
latches and
,es troys the '/
orming flow-LATK FALL boll, bhowim
r, causing how beetles hjde behe
square to tween involucbe
lyop. The AJ!D E0LLrv
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'USE AeS IT WILL APPEAR.
ION-BOLL TOVIL
Chief United States
||Sjl 'En torn olo gijl
grub changes to a pupa within the
bud, and the full grown weevil
emerges soon after.
When such of the flowers as escape
this first attack mature, and the cotI
4-r\v\ fArme ic? o?CA Iw
weevil's beak, an egg is laid, and another
grub begins to feed on the interior
of the boll, destroying all the forming
cotton lint, reaching full growth ?]
and changing to pupa and emerging
as a weevil. In this way the insects
increase in geometrical ratio until, by
late summer, they occur in countless
millions; often hardly a boll matures.
AN INVADER FROM MEXICO. j
A bale of cotton contains from 450 j
to 500 pounds, and in former days to j
raise a bale or a bale and a half of \
NEW1/Y HATCHED I^ABVA IN 70VNCI 1
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ginned at a place called Alice. From i
Alice northward and eastward cotton i
culture is continuous, and the weevil
spread at the rate of about seventyfive
miles a year from 1894 until the
present time. It has now reached practically
to the northern border of Texas,
cotton to the acre rn the best parts of
Texas was almost a rule. Where the
weevil -'as made its appearance, however,
it is often difficult to raise a bale
of cotton on ten or even fifteen acres
of land.
The weevil ccme to Teras from Mexico,
where, in certain places, it had
absolutely stopped the culture of cotton.
It crossed the Rio Grande at
Brownsville, and was carried north
across a great extent of grazing country
in cotton which ?as taken to be
and is on the east within a few miles
of Louisiana. ,
During all this time the United
States Department of Agriculture and
At. - A TAT-OP
lilt? Oiillt? AJJUVUI IU1 ill VUUCjjC VI JLCAUO
have been studying the insect and try- |
ins to find some means of fighting it ,
successfully. Eight or nine years ago (
it could have been stopped and all
this damage prevented by abandoning
the culture cf cotton in a rather unproductive
section. Or, if the planters
could have been induced to cut down
and burn the cotton stalks in the fall, "
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NFAKLY FCLL-OKOWN LARVA IN BOLL. "
it is probable tbat the insect would not
have spread, and would eventually
' have been exterminated.
All sorts of experiments have been
made with different insecticide mixtures
and with many different kinds
of machines. The most careful stud
! ics have been made of the life history
and habits of the insect. Experts
; have been sent to Mexico, to other por^
tions of Central America and to the
West Indies as well, to study the insect
In its natural home?for it is evidently
a tropical species?in the hope
of being able to find some parasite or
| natural enemy which might be iutroduced
into the United States with beneficial
effect
j IS THERE A REMEDY?
> Although no such parasite has been
, found, and although no poisonous api
plication has been discovered which
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) no practical machine has been invent;
ed, we have, nevertheless, through our
. intimate knowledge of the life history
. of the weevil, found a way to grow cotton
in paying quantities in spite of
i the destructive creature.
In the spring the weevils are few in
number; the great majority of them
have been killed by the long winter.
Comparatively few come out of liiber'
nating quarters in the spring to lay
the eggs for the coming generation. A
single female will have millions of descendants
by autumn, but these millions
are gradually developed.
It was the old custom to pick cotton
in Texas until past Christmas, and in
late autumn the weevils are at tueJr
height in point of numbers. If planters
use Northern cottonseed, the plants
from which develop much more rapidly
than from Texas seed; if they plant
their rows a little further apart than
has been the custom, if they cultivate
the crop and force it to early maturity,
they will be able to raise a good quantity
of cotton before the weevils have
become so numerous as to destroy the
great majority of the bolls.
In this way, on experimental plots
aggregating seven or eight hundred
nf>r*>s in different Darts of Texas, the
experts of the Division of Entomology,
of the United States Department of
Agriculture, have been able to raise
and pick, before the middle of October,
from two-thirds of a bale to a bale an
acre, whereas from crops not thus
planted and treated, only a bale from
eight to twelve acres has been secured.
Then, after this amount of cotton
has been picked, the cotton stalks are
cut down or plowed up. left to lie for
a while until dry, and are then burned.
Very many weevils are destroyed in
this way. The few that escape have a
much longer period to wait before the
?rop comes up, and many die. The
aumber which will be found on hand
to attack the cotton on these fields
aext year will be v >ry small. The result
is that more cotton can be raised
pear after year.
Thus cotton can be raised in spite
if the weevil. But the weevil will not
exterminated: it will probably con
tinue to spread, and it is altogether
likely that it will invade the other
:otton-growing States.
The work on remedies, however, is
still going on; the search for parasites
n tropical countries still continues.
Congress will probably appropriate at
this session a l<irge sum of money to
aelp in the work, so that, although
the outlook is rather lad, i+ is by no
i?eans hopeless, and the prospect that
:he United States will lose her sujremacy
in cotton production on account
of the weevil is, in my mind, not
jreatly to be feared.?Youth's Companion.
IMPROVING HOME GROUNDS.
The Ground Plan of an Attractive
Design.
While the illustrated design may
seem to:> elaborate for application to
:arm home grounds, and they will apply
quite as well to town or small city
)lots, it is not expensive, for the main
tem is that of labor. One's house may
lot be so pretentious as that shown in
iie plan, but that will not interfere
ivith the application of the design. It
will be noticed that two things in the
leslgn are prominent?the preservajon
of a large expanse of lawn and
:he grouping of the shrubbery in
nasses instead of dotting individual
ihrubs here and there over the lawn,
rhen the drives are in simple curves
)y which the symmetry of the plan is
reserved.
Tho hopt -mrr! r?f tho form nrnner
f it extends back from the rear of the
louse, is shut off from the road view
jy a line of shrubbery at one side on
i line with the rear of the house and
>n the other side from a little back of
ie middle of the house. At the joinng
of the drives (which are also the
;valkg) is made a bed for fiowering
AN ATTRACTIVE DESIGN.
)lant8, other places for such plants
jeing provided at the corners of the
reranda. The whole plaut is simple,
aut very harmonious and artistic, and
may be readily carried out from the
iesisn shown.
Monument, to a Dae!.
Many as are the places in England
which have been the scenes of duels,
only one is marked. This is a part of
all that now remains of Cawnton
Heath, in Norfolk, on wmcn stanas a
small pillar to Sir Henry Hobart. Bart.,
who was killed on the spot in a duel
with swords.?Car.
During bloodhound trials near Leamington,
a hunted man. who was granted
an hour's start, was tracked down
in thirty-five minutes.
GEORGE WASF
This natural -wonder Is located a
Angeles, in the 3anta Susana Mount
A chiseled monument could scarcely
ington than this chance picture cut <
boulder.
MAGAZINE '
TACKHAMMER |
A Machine That Operates on the Maga7
IT\P P.lin DrinnVlfi
Patterned after the magazine gun is !
the newly invented tackbacimer that
has recently been patented at Wash- ;
ington. The head of the house who :
, returns from his office after a hard |
days work and is assigned the delicate 1
task of putting down tb? parlor carpet
will unquestionably relish the possession
of one of these latest improved
hammers. Besides not having to bother
himself with a box of tacks, he will
have the added comfort of being able
THE MAGAZINE TACKHAMMER.
to use both hands in stretching and
hammering instead of boing obliged
to employ one in holding the tacks in
place as he makes futile attempts to
strike them on the head.
Any one wno has gone through the
experience of hanging small' pictures
in high out-of-the-way places will also
appreciate the new hammering tool.
The mechanism is not complicated.
As the illustration shows, it consists
of a hammer, whose jointed handle
is so arranged that a long row of tacks
is fitted into a channel, which discharges
them one at a time in position
under the head of the hammer. The
hammer is magnetized so that the
tacks are automatically held in place
until a sharp crack sends its point into
the carpeted floor or other material.
The Mango in Forto Rico. B II
The Department of Agriculture is
informed that the climate of Porto
Rico is favorable for the cultivation
of what has sometimes been called the
finest of tropical fruits, the mango.
But although mangoes abound in the
island, they are seedling trees, and the
fruit i6 inferior to that of the famous
Bombay mango, which is a grafted
tree. It is believed that fine mangoes
could be grown in abundance in Porto
Rico by importing the best grafts, and
that the industry can be developed
into an important one as soon as the
excellence of the fruit becomes known
in the United States.?Youth's Companion.
Decline of Keligion* Newspapers.
At the annual meeting of the Boston
Wesleyan Association the Rev. Charles
H. Parkhurst, D. D., addressed the
gathering on "The Future of the Religious
Paper." He said that, although !
Zion's Herald has earned $50,000 in the
last fifteen years, it has lost 3500 sub- j
scriDers during tne last twelve monius,
and that its story is the same one
which other religious periodicals have
to tell. He cited the instance of one
religious weekly printed in Boston
which has sunk $4U,000 in the last five
years. He expressed the belief that
the improvement of the press and the
opening of the columns of the maga
zines to religious topics have forced
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periodical field.
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bout thirty-five miles northwest of Loa
a ins, just outside of Chatsworth Park,
bear a truer resemblance to Geo. Washer
worn on the ragged contour of a giant
uniif TiiiA npin
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DREAD C
Catarrh Robs Woi
Pe-ru-na Mai
J Miss Amanda Jo tin
WAW^mWA'AWWW
!| MIbs Flora Hauser, 1032 S. New Jer-1 ?j
ji sey street, Indianapolis, Ind., writes: S Ji
j! "I think I must have been2 '
]! troubled with catarrh ever since 1 j> "i
;! was very young, aggravated each \
\\ time I caught a cold. This did not i 1
i prove sufficiently serious to be ob-i
noxious until last winter. Theni 1
my head and nose were so stopped |
2 tip I fill I X /etc x nmoi'UU suiitcuttni/. f i
Jl Pcruna was recommended to me* 5
i'by a friend. I used it for four * H
!' weeks, and found to my relief that * 2
!| it cured me. 1 have not had a bit i Jj
!; of trouble since. My head is clear, * i
I'and 1 can safely affirm that Pe-i J
|> ricna cured me."?Miss Flora i
!? Hauser. * J
UnTidro^B nf Women Cnred bv Pe-rn-na. .
of Annoying CatarrL
DR. HARTMAN has probably done J
more than any other physician to- 1
ward popularizing a means of escape from j
the facial deformities, 6uch as watery eyes,
twisted nose, offensive breath, dry cracked
lips, due to tiie ravaging effects of catarrh. I
He has made chronic catarrh a life-long c
study. His remedy, popularly known as I
Peruna, is the most famous remedy for
catarrh in existence. 1
Probably there is not a man or woman, a
boy or girl, within the bounds of the
United States that has not heard of Pe- c
T>_. law/roof m o inri^v Via VP T
ruiltt. JU Y iai IUC iaigtov ??. - .
used Peruna. t
The multitude of people that have been
cured of chronic catarrh by using Peruna t
can never be known. |f
Surveying Then and Now.
It is now related of Washington that
he received $7.50 a day for doing a j
little land surveying for Lord Fairfax ^
down in Rappahannock County. Va. t
j Incredible! That is equal to $195 a t
month. Living was dirt cheap f
those days and the purchasing power i
of money far greater than it is to-day. <
The best surveyors in these times are s
a glut in the market at $150. rnou- i
sands of able men are working with
transits for $100 a month?New York
Press. (
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COUCH BALSAM
A bad cold needs a good
remedy
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MADAME ZADOG PORTER'S !
SEVENTY YEARS A STANDARD
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J?s MOTHER GRAY'S '
ija SWEET POWDERS
?f FOR CHILDREN, !
"_L A Certiin Care for Feverisbnesi,
Constipation, Hefti?che,
Sf stomach Tronblee, JTeeltalmr
1 t |?l sorders, *nd Destroy
Mother Gray. Worms. The7 Break up Colds .
Nureo in Child- ?p 34 hour*. Atal1 2o cU.
ren's Homp, Sample mailed TOEE. AddreeN '
! N^wYorkOitj. A. S. OLMSTED, Lc Roy, N ?
Uncle Sam to
When the i'ethmian Canal has had it
Of the Sea.
Standing between the two great oceai
Ing House of the World's Commerce. I
of trade will flow East and West, to
build the world's market place, and 01
portant on the Globe.
This will be the busiest country, am
part of it. With resources vast and vj
mont Region to sustain the greatest
on highlands, between the Gulf and th
the world. It stimulates to activity, bi
try is more conducive to mental and
Ing from 6ea level to 5,000 feet above
equal ten in the variety of products.
The largest state east of the Missis
sources, Georgia naturally became th<
is reason for thinking she will becor
Her people have been called "the most
ninety-nine per ccnt. of them are nativ
Georgia offers the greatest opportur
Products of the soil worth ^0 per cent <
The Greater Georgia Association is
bodies In thirty towns and cities, work!
Elaborately illustrated booklets on Ge
tlon, sent fre? on request.
WALTER Q. COOPER, Secret
TIFUL WOMEN ES
ATARBH BY USE
lien of Health and ]
ces Women Healths
iWJWJWMf
* Miss Amanda Johns*
S "I write to tell you ]
gl ij a number of years I hai
? and I thought it was be
?J went to an oculist and
I" wore them for some t
" I felt worse than
J? that the trouble was i
5 anc* ^ musJ ca*
J? used Peruna with benef
' ^ was no^ 80rry
Jji J1 began to improve, and
"J did condition, my gener
J1 the catarrh of the Ifead
* this trouble, and am g
? as Peruna."?Miss Ama
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J |or Attractive. |
" Miss Floi
Many a girl has regained her faded and
>eauty, many a matron has lengthened the self :
lays of her comely appearance by using Pe
Peruna. the
Peruna produces clean mucous mem- the
>ranes, the basis of facial symmetry and it w
i perfect complexion. If
The women have not been slow to dis- tory
lover that a. course of Peruna will , do at 01
nore toward restoring youthful beauty menl
;han all the devices known to science. give
While it is true that Peruna cures ca- Ac
;arrh wherever located, yet it is advisable The
or everyone to use Peruna as a preventive Ohio
Descent of the Family Hat In Korea.
A Philahelpbian who has been in M
iorea, over which the Russians and just
raps are at war, long enough to grow the
amiliar with its customs, says one of ter,
he most unique and picturesque of teet
bem is the family bat, that descends the
rom father to eldest son. This bat. oppi
nade from the hair of the family an- snu
;estors, is a priceless possession, and to t
>o carefully handled that it never neei
,years out. * Thf
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The Mexican Government has de- thei
:ided to permit Chinese immigration, gla:
The FREE Homestead B
LANDS OF Hi
Western ^
mm Canada
..... wn itTiiiun r._ mm A
AretDS SIAH Alinatiliund ror 13U4. m
Millions of acres of magnificent Grain and Grazing H
lands to be had as a free gift, or by purchase from
iailway Companies, Land Corporations, etc.
THE GREAT ATTRACTIONS. 1
Rood crops, delightful climate, splendid
irhool system, perfect social conditions,
;xceptional railway advantages, and
wealth and affluence acquired easily.
The population of Western Canada increased 128,0(10 PIi
jy immigration during the past jear, over SO.OOO Noyi
>eing Americans. sold
Goa
For a descriptive Atlas and other information
ipplyto Jlr. W. I). Kt'OTT.
Superintewlent of Immiifration. ' AMI
Ottawa, Canada, i MWI
Thompson's Eye Waisf' VH
PnV fhp Spa i 3
HUiV IJLBV UVUI ' BDO
exc
b effect, our country will be Mistress eas:
sup
qua
is, this continent will be the Clear"rom
our chores the main currents any
Europe and Asia. Here we shall
ir industries will be the most im- as tl
$4 1
d the Southeast will be the busiest
iried, nature has prepared the Pied- Lool
: industries on the Planet A climate P1
le Atlantic, is the most delightful in coit
jt does not stunt with'cold. No counphysical
vigor. With altitude vary- w.n
it, Georgia's four degrees of latitude
fc
sippi river, with the richest r?- j w
! Empire State of the South. There |ab
Tie the Empire State of America. |an,
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: American of ail Americans," ana cui
_ . __ ful
e bom,
lities to farmers and business men. me
COT
jf the farm, as shown by the census. re,
an organization of the commercial a?
ng together to build up the State. ?oi
orgia, containing reliable Inform* ^
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OF PE-RU-NA.
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Beauty.
r and Beautiful.
52, Fairchild, Wis., writes: * \
bow mucb Peruna benefited me. Fot
1 pain in my head aroand my eyea,
mTT PVP? npprlpr? trutmmt. <ui I
bad glasses fitted to my eyes and
ime, but felt no relief whatever. In
before, and came to the conclusion vj|
sot with my eyes, but with my head
arrh. As so many of my friends had
it for this trouble, I thought I would
that I did so, for in a short time I
in four weeks my eyes were in splenal
health was much improved and all
was gone. I was glad to get rid of
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iau iu cuuU1?C ouv.u a |wu mtuiwiuc <3
nda Johnson.
ra Ha user. \
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not wait nntil catarrh hast fastened itin
some part of the system. ''
runa acts auickly and beneficially on
inflamed mucous membranes lining
different organs of the body. Thu#
ill cure catarrh wherever located.
you do not derive promjpt and satisfac- . 4
results from the use of Peruna, write
ice to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statet
of your case and he will be pleased to
you his valuable advice gratis. <: - '
Idress Dr. Hartmann, President of M
Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,
Wm 117 Years Old.
rs. Catherine Hughes who Das
: died in County Armagh, attained
age of 117 years, and she bad a sisalso
a centenarian. She took the
otal pledge from Father Mathew,
apostle of temperance, and she waa
osed to women smoking or using
ff. She had wonderful eyesight up
ie last, and was able to thread a
die without the aid of spectacles.
! curious thing is that towards the
of her life her sight improved, for
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re was a time when she had to use ;. ,.i
sses.?Boston Transcript.
IAD BLOOD
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Bad trouble with my bowels which made my
<1 impure. My face waa covered with pimples
:h no external remedy conld remove. I tried
Cascarets and great was my joy when the
pies disappeared after a month's, steady nse.
ve recommended them tt> all my Wends and
e a few have fonnd relief." i
. J. Pnsch, 967 Park Ave., New York Cltr, N. 7*
Best For
The Dowels.
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CAN OV CATHARTIC
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sa*:nt, Palatable. Potent. Taate Good. Do Good,
sr Sicken, Weaken or Gripe. 10c. So, 50c. Never
in bnlk. The genuine tablet stamped OCC.
ranteed to cnre or your money back
Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or N.V. 600
MMLSALE, TEH MILLION BOXES
1. L. DOUGLAS
t.SS &*3 SHOES U
IT. L. Douglas /
es have by tiielr '' dT gtk
ellent style. M. Ek..
F-fitting, and jpT Sgi
erlor wearing igE ^
Aities, achieved
largest sale of
shoes in the mm v W//
y are just as good &
loeathatcostyou J
glM nscfi Corona
skin, whicli If everywhere c edrd to
le fluent Putent I.entlicr yet pro<luce<l.
Co'or Eyelets used. Shoe* byiuall.25r.t-xtra.
i for Catalog. W.L.Donjlas. Urocktou, M**?.
APSICUM VASELINE)
(PUT CP IN COLLAPSIBLE TUBEB)
tobstitute for and superior to mustardor
y other plaster, and will not blister the
istdelicate skin. The pain-allaying and
rativeeual ities of th i sa r ticle are wonder?
It will stop the toothache at once, and
ieve headacne and sciatica. We recomind
it as the best and safest external
jnter-irritantknown,also asan external
nedy for pains in the chest and stomach
d all rheumatic, neuralgic and gouty comlints.
A trial will prove what we claim
it, and it will befound to be Invaluable
the household.Manypeoplesav"itisthe
stof all of your preparations." Price ?5
i.. at all druggists or other dealers, or by
ldiugthisamount tousi n postage stamps
i willsend youatubeby mail. No articlo
auld be accepted b y th e pu blio u n less th e
ne carries our label, asotherwise it Is not
nuine. CHESEBROUOH MFG. CO.,
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CrimC Sold under 8 gu*r?o3
ie?s. Catalogue free.
ilfirrrtSy J. J. H. CRECORY 4. 80N,
Marble head, Mas*.
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fl OIIRCS WHIRE AU USE FAIL*. Q1
fB43t Cough Syrup. T*atec Ooo<L Dgo PJ1
ii to time. Solfl'oy drnggtota. gfl.
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