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THK LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., JANUARY 28, 1897. 3 “TV^T ISOY JEEMS.” i Komc cranky n<i' notions when we first possum huntln. I could sec wit It LIKE IS WORTH LLVINCJ. started out. in tin- bu: mess, but 1 soou 3 u e py 0 that deems was the mainest Trainintr Up o. '' A Powerful I’ur: —Old Slim l. Winner am! <J ; .i the Way for Go. .i.. 1 of Casin' ru< r CirRcd u Measured l : p cm child>ren iverage, and to Ills Work. I^rinpin a boy \ ^ i;; the wa} T you want him to po is a powerful particlar and ticklish kind of business, and for a common thing I don’t reckon more than one man in .•'cry hundred would know for certain how to lake holt and turn oit tlie job. Leastwise, from what 1 have got well and runt. They arc too fre quent like and nmnerou row. ! only make my liggernt to come up to ihe you will never h- »r i !! >1 < Id man (’as Garner grumblin it they do that well. Throw in them 1 ! boys in with the common run of rich dry cattle, I calcu late that son. of t lem will turn out first class, some only middlin and some hardly that. It may be different with the grrls, but as for the boys, if I can ey leader of the pack. Soon the next mornin I got. up and war, browsin around the place 10 put a razor edge on tny appetite, and theix was the Imy Je<-ni.s eallin up the hop. and drivin out the rows and teiwlin to the stock in gen eral. One day me and old man (’as went outridinaround through the fields Look- in at the crops, and way down in the swamp we run up with the boyJeonvs and a squad of hands cuttin timbers and buildin a new weather house. That Arp Horrified at tho Apparent In crease in Suicides. Work Ih the Remedy Given — Remora* Over Homo Very Wicked Deed the Only 1'oastble Kzcase for Self-Murder. but raise three or lour rale good ones night Jeems come up with a new saddle SS-'- W /*n .■ssUc*?' \ learnt and Irnc.v al-out the human fam- in general, i! : ; now my private and ^blic opinit i wh )lc panic of aney is wasted thi country every tar train!icr I ' :1 into ways which jWaa nevei • them to go— jays v hen it ain’t Qtten to go— [ays in which t : ■■ . couldn’t go if they [anted to, and w< ' n't if they could. St at hi" t !i»* Miil'iest Pacts. plow in oi tatethemaiir* Mt facts of the i'.:: more in full 1 will give you the gi at common pint which 1 am drivin at so plain till a fool—blind drunk and a ru.inia -mought read. / There was Tom Hick Simpkins, which run for the hMature the first time 1 was a candidate* and got the livin day lights beat outen him. Well, when Tom Dick was a ytavlin boy at school he was bright, as nev. mom out of tlie pack 1 will lie plum wiilin to give thanks and say nothin. Some peo ple mought think they could raise them all up to lie great men, hut 1 know a wliole lot better than that. They are all boys and all my lays—regular open- faced, stem-windia American boys. “You see this here youngster, with the jxile and puny look and a bead on him as big as a hamper basket, ILufus?” says the old man, h .n his hand on a. Iwy that stood about middle way of the row. “Well, this is my combi con gressman. '1 he old lady she has picked out two or three for preac rs, and I tell her that out of the whok bunch we had ought to raise one that T do to. send to congress. So 1 ha\ picked the winner, and this is him. 1 will let. | him take his growth natural and slow | for a few years longer, and. then I will i put him in trainin to run with patience the race set before him. I d m’t see how it would make any parth nr dif- * fortnee whether he hns got any name or not, llufus, but anyhow, the i. uneof ! our comin congressman is.leeme —jest plain Jeems.” I — "That Hoy Jeems” In Trainin;,. I forgot to tell you in the out dart, i but anyhow, old man (’as Garner was y and terrible ! one of the best fixed men in all of tho horse which he had swapped for late in the evenin—-which he made the trade I with a Methodist circuit rider jiassin. through the settlement. When I got a good chance. I asked old man (’as what sort of a trade.Teems had made. “He jest naturall y swapjicd the livin socks off the preacher,” says the old man, Jookin proud and tickled todenth. “I can’t tell as yet whether you will ever enter that !*oy Jeems in a race for congress,” says I to old man Cns the mornin that I left, “hut 1 don’t make no bones of tell'm you this much. If you ever can git him to go on the track and score for the start he will win the race, J and you can put the gate money away in j your flanks as easy as findin it in the big ^ road. He is already comin down to his work in good shape and showin some strong pints, and he hasn’t shod off his 1 baby teeth yet. Don’t hold the rib- j bons too tight, and don’t buckle up the [ oheckrcin too high, and that boy Jeems j will earn his feed by and by.” He could git his smart in his books, lessons, it did look to me like, more quicker and oa: ier than any boy in the chool and alw ; ;. -Iuod pal at the head If his clast. If he went foot like this lornin he would spell up to head in- ' side of three day without half tryin. Bo consequentially about this time old lean Simpkins took up a fool notion to extent that Tom Dick was smart eaouth to go to congress or run for gore nor, and with that he give it out omoi fst the neighbors that he was go- spend money like water runnin hill on that hoy and make a big surroundin country. He want t< say : no ways rich, but he wore good clo‘. lies, and rode a fat horse with a. screakin, saddle, and had plenty of everything around him. It was some six or seven years after that Sunday evenin when, the old man called up his tine bunch >f hoys for me to look at, and named t e winner for eongreus, and 1 was over there to see the Garner folks ouct more. T soon took notice that the .family And the Race Was Won. Did that boy Jeems ever measure up to the work which the old man luui marked out for him to do? You can bet your last solitary dollar that he did. I was on the ground when he entered ids first race for congress. I watched him from the start to the finish, and saw him . come down under the wire like a thor oughbred—winner by a full length. When the bell first tapped three can- j didates scored for the : tart. The other ! two showed up in some better style : than Jeems, pulled on the bits and ! pranced back and forth acrost the ! track. Hut at the same t ime Jeems was looked r it her swunk up in size, and i keepin cool and savin himself for the to ask about the bovs and " ork nhoad - " h ‘‘ n 1 u ‘. v first went off ' vou mought cover the whole bunch on So them Tom Dick in and run through the Cross school as quick and easy as a dost. of. salts, and the next news kwy r outen him It 11 Bou heav went girls. It turned out that two of the girls had already took and got mar ried whilst the others had went to bavin company right tolerably con stant. Some of the. boys went 'zv th we £ t from him he was off and gone ege. He went right on holdin his ith the best and smartest boys he country could bring forth and sli set him back or turn him down, i made a smash':i good record, and at : finish he come down ’.mder the wire stj winn'wi the . e like a deer in a Want ni ■ i ii in the college that set him back or turn him down. He I the Valle, e la fhb niaintim old.man Simpkins jvas blowin his mo:o-y in on Toni Dick like it was growin on the trees, and if it so happened that he couldn’t drop his wad fast < i ouy : h< t o-.fid always git. plenty of help kma l.ait. smart and promisiu boy. 'flrr comin through college with a hi 'i and mighty flurry, Tom Dick soon "'id to be a lawyer, hung 'out his sign aci -rdin a d lit in to build up a big name and fame and let the whole entire dicer.* ered world hear from the Simpi.im family. Hut somehow or other the world [[•went waggin along ..t the reglar old lick and the natives they wouldn’t [^startle any to apeak of. Old man Siinp- f'kins had fixed the nest and set the eggs, but, by gracious, the chickens didn't hatch any tit. all hardly. He had built «the mill at 1 laid the rocks, hut some how the ding thing j' t wouldn’t grind, and it didn’t make a blame hit of differ ence how h" turned the water on. AVhat **waa the matter with Tom Dick? The good Lord only knows—I don’t. He went so far in fine stt la and shape, and then all of a sudden: like he comedown to a dead halt. I f you was to go and ask Andy Lucas, the great horse trader, what was the matter with Torn Dick more than probable lie would tell you that “the young ter had loo much day light under him a r.d they didn’t put no packs in his feet.” And 1 reckon no doubts Hlcv Sen; wins, tho most swift est man with tlie “documents” around Tlocky Creek would teil you that the mnirost trouble v.hh Tun Dick was he thought he was smart enough “to come into the game with nary pair and In the pile.” Hut ,m f>*r me, I don’t now f'>r certain what was the mat er with that bov. I do but only know that old man Simpkins sailed in and rjpent a big pile of bin money bringin ■upTom Dick in a way that he wouldn’t go and couldn’t go and didn't go. After pidd'in and fiunh'fin and foolin around considerable, mukin out like he was a .lawyer and dal blin in politics here and ’.♦here, he finally at, last stewed down and petered out and quit. ; with one blanket, and things didn’t 1 change any to speak of till they swung I into the home stretch. Hut after they passed the last quarter pole Jeems lim- citv, and got in business, ami there was j bere<1 U P s « r Prisin. squatted down dost to the ground and come in ahead as ?asy as a boy in a baseball game would steal to the home base on his belly. Hut whilst there may he one man in a hundred that ran train a 1 >oy up In II'mt to rick h Y« Inner. Now there was an old man, Ca.s Gar ner—which he was one of the mighty few men I ever met up with that could say he brurg up a boy in the way he wanted him to go, and the l>oy went that way. Hut old man Cos wa» dead sot in his own notions about boys and ’.hings and he played the game a whole lot different from old man Simpkins. I recollect onest upon a time when I rid aver to the Garner place one Sunday fvenin and passed a few pleasant hours with the old man and his (oiks. At that writ in old man Cns—and Mines ( Jnrrncr between them — had 1.1 boys and four girls and hadn’t burnt the cradle yet. The old man calk'd up the whole drove \\ hilst I was there that fvenin. and stood tie in out in a row so I could take a good look at them. “Self piaise is half seandalation, so they tell me, lliifus,” says old man (’as, ^ill o. : b 1 ; > If uni runnin his d down the row of cottou- 1 d.'.'i ‘ m a they come down at 1 all around—that is It you mought call a good average crop of children. I reckon maybe I hail two or three off at college takin the finishin touches to preach. “What about our comin congress man. Uncle ( as?” says 1. “Who, Jeems? Well, I don’t try to keep very dost up with that boy, Kufus, but he is Kuuimus around the place,” the old man come back, and then he sorter loosened up and went on to say: “Kf .hems ain’t plow in the best pair of mules on tlie place and layin by swamp corn. I reckon you wili find him runnin the wagon and haulin timbers to build a new barn, or either down on the creek elearin up a new ground. You must recollect, Hutu:;, 1 am trainin 1 up Jeems for congress and lea ruin him how to go in ail the gaits. He i< farm- in on shares wit!) me this year. J give him a third of what he can make, with his board and wushin free. If the sea sons hold out good and no bad luck conus our way, 1 reckon Jeems will go to school some thiscendn full and win ter. II ail depends on what we have got left after the eiop; come in and we count up and divide out. 1 will give him the time providin In* can rake and scrape up sufficient money to pay his way. He take- to books as quick and natural as a hound dog to a meat house and would be in school all the lime if it w as so he could. “As to that, Itufus, you know good and well 1 am able to send the lx\y to school for ?!) years hand runnin, but .Jeems don’t know that mid it ain’t none of my business to tel! him. It wouldn’t do nohow for a boy in trainin for con gress. lie has gel plenty of speed on him right now, but I must work him somehow and manage so as to put the muscle on him and give him some stay- in qualities. He has got plenty of sense, but it will take some hard work to round him out and fill up the low places. Tho upper machinery is jier- feetly all right now, but in ordermont to make him a dead sure winner I am bound to look out for the undei pinnin. Jeerns must learn !.; right hand from his left, and stand alone and walk be fore he can run a winnin rat e. I don’t claim to know much about any tiling in this world, liufus, exceptin corn and cotton and niggers and mules and boys, but I'll be everlaslinly dad- smashed if 1 don’t know all about them! “Now the boys that my old lady has picked out for preachers, they are off at college, and cur future merchants are now clerkin around and doin about iu town. That is right for them, Jeems, the coi: must sweat for without gourds, would do for Jeems. I an youngster iu his work, but let him take his own gait and come down to his knit- tin steady and natural like. Hut when he goes on the track he is gnfin to show down like u thoroughbred, and—maybe —you niougdit—well—at any rates, you can keep your eye on Jeems.” the right way for him to g'o, there are 00 that will make a botch of the game every clatter. A boy can’t be a girl, but he is j. ore than probable to he. a human. Itl’FT’H SANDERS. LIKE A VAST VOLCANIC BUBBLE. \Vl 'll CllOllgl 1 a ml all 1 reckon, 1 till as to ill) emigres sin an, he hi: k feed a ml swim >, RllfUH. It never I'h s to conic Oil y wit h .1 gain to pus ■•li the Slum lug Strum; I’olnlM. 1 remained and tarried around over there in the hill country about a week an that trip, with my general head quarters at t he <iarner place. And along in durin of that time 1 made it my busi ness to watch I hat hoy Jeems, which ho was then 11 years old past, in come next grass. J ho first night he come up Extraordinary Freak of Nature Near tho Mexican City of Puebla. Kev. F. S. Hortain, of Huebla, writes as follows: “It may lx- of interest to some of the readers of the Herald who visit Puebla ta know of one of the less visited attractions in the vicinity of the City of the Angels. 1 refer to tho ‘Cox- comate.’ It is about 20 minutes distant from Puebla over the streetcar line to ( holula. Any street ear conductor can point it out lo the curiosity-seeker. It is to the right of the ear line, about 500 j ards distant. “It looks from the ear window to he a pile of white stones or a well-bleached haystack. Hut upon closer inspection it proves to be a tumulus of white cal careous stone evidently of water for mation, alrout 50 feet in height and 100 feet in diameter at the base. The form is that of a truncated cone. At the :q>ex is an elliptical-shaped opening about 25 feet along the minor and 5»i feet along the major axis. It is u bell- shaped cavity and lined with ferns of various description.-''. I should judge the depth to be at least 100 feet, and at the bottom, so far as is visible, the open ing must he 00 feet in diameter. Jn the bottom, on one. side, are to be seen some gorgeous ferns and on the other side a pool of water. “Tradition says that the ancient Az tecs were accustomed to worship here the genius of Ihe s-pot, *jnd occasional ly threw in a live victim to appease his subterranean majesty. It is also said that u few victims of the inquisition were thrown down here to reflect upon the controverted points of doctrine. At all events it is a most singular freak of nature, as it is in the middle of a level plain, or rather a barley field. It looks to have been some volcanic bubble, of which the great Mexican upland is *-o full, and is well worth a visit, on the part of the curious. “Although I have inquired among my Mexican friends, I have found no one who could tell me the meaning of the name ‘Coxcomate.’ ”—Mexican Herald. lleiiucuthcd Her Skeleton. Defore her death, which occurred in New York city in. 1878, Mrs. M. K. Hcneh- ley, the widow of the former lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, willed her body to the Woman's medical college. According to the provisions of this queer will the body of Mrs. Hcneh ley was to be carefully dissected anil her skeleton hung in the college museum. This seems to be tlie only instance on record where an educated woman has deliberately sent her body to the dis secting-room and her bones to the show rooms of a museum. tow InviulcH n I’antry. A queer incideot is reported froi om t he West district, Kochy Hill, Conn. \>ne day last week whi n..Mrs. Charles Gil bert. returned from a brief call on a neighbor she found one of the cows in ibout dusk drivin a ix-mule team, the i the pantry. The bovine had stowed wagon lo.nh'd with Ire h cut timbers. | iuto its capacious stomach three luuvci Him and a o ,g'r boy then unloaded G f bread and a lot of cuke. In order and took out and fed. After supper a | to reach the pantry the cow w as obliged crowd of the i i itlemont boys come to- to pass through two rooms, between tables and chairs and past a hot stove. get her and blowcd up the dogs and went I was ruminating about these suicides that seem to be on the increase all over the land, and are not confined to any class or condition. Several have oc curred during the last few days in Geor gia and the adjoining states. Two were young men, two past middle age and one w as a girl in her teens. None had good cause for the rash deed, and it seems like this generation has more nerve and less fear of the hereafter than their fathers. I cannot imagine any condition or peril that requires as much courage and will power a** the deliber ate taking of one’s life. I would rather take my chances in battle or shipwreck or pestilence. To be weary of life is a common misfortune, and thousands there are w ho can exclaim w ith David: “Oh, that I hail the wings of a dove, that I might fly away and be at rest.” Hut to the average man “the weariest life, that age, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise to what we fear of death.” It must be a fearful leap to commit suicide—“to die and go we know not where,” and yet it has become almost as common ns murder— murder that has the excuse of gratify ing some passiod as hate, revenge, avarice, desire or ambition. The sui- eide leaves no blood behind him save his own—no nothing but pity and do mestic grief. There is no sheriff to pur sue, no court to try, and in this coun try no attainder or confiscation or burial w ithout benefit of clergy. A little more than a century ago, when George IV. was king of England, the law was in force that the body of a suicide should have a stake thrust through it anil be buried by the high way, so as to intimidate others from self-destruction. His goods and chat tels w ere forfeited to the crown. This law was repealed during King George’s reign, but a new* law declared that the liody should be buried at night, without the performance of religious ceremo nies. Such was the detestation of our English ancestors for what they called the crime of suicide. I know of but one cause that would justify a man taking his own life, and that is re morse—such remorse as Judas Iscariot felt when he went out and hanged him self. There are but three instances of self-murder mentioned in sacred his tory, and they were all bad men. Hut in our day, suicides are generally good- hearted people—Shakespeare says of Othello that he was great of heart, but it was remorse for killing his innocent w ife that nerved him to the deed. Now adays the most of suicides are caused not from remorse, but from disappoint ments, failures in business, domestic unhappiness, or grief over lost lovers or dead kindred. Sometimes the un happy man tries to drown trouble in drink, and this brings a depression that ends in self-murder. Hut it does not take a great misfor tune to cause suicide now. Only last week a clever young man killed himself on hearing that hLs mother was dead, and a young girl hanged herself be cause she did not like her stepmother. How many traveling men have been found dead in the Atlanta hotels during the past few years with no extraordin ary cause for self-destruction—just tired of lif«—couldn’t make money fast enough; couldn’t square their accounts with their employers, or some such rea son. Job suffered great tribulations, but didn’t dare to destroy himself. In the greatest anguish he said: “My soul is weary of my life; oh, that it would please God to destroy me, that He would loose His hands and cut me off.” What is the cause of this growing mental malady in. this happy land? Are these suicides all skeptics, or infidels, or univcrsalists, that they should have no fear of death, no dread of something after death? Maybe there is n here after and a judgment to come, and if so u murderer has a better chance than a suicide, for he has time to repent and be forgiven, as David was. Then, again, it is such a selfish act, for it brings grief to kindred and Laves a shadow over the household that never passes away. A few years ago I met a young man whom I had not seen since he was a lad. lie was doing well in a distant state, where his mother and sisters lived, but I could see the lines of a never forgotten sorrow in his face. Ills father hung himself in a barn, and the heart-broken family moved far away. A few months ago I met an old friend who had always greeted u:e cheerfully, hut I hardly knew him. He was prematurely gray, and the lines of sadness were in every lineament of his intellectual features. He had ceased to smile. His only son,ou w hom his love and his hope w as centered, had killed himself—had placed the fata! pis tol to his temple and fired it. What makes our young men do so? If it comes from remorse, is it not cheaper and safer to repent and reform? What does a man kill, anyhow? Nothing but Us body. Ills soul goes marching on and the remorse goes with it. Hut even his body is sacred, and he has no right to mutilate or destroy it. The Scripture says that our bodies are temples of the living God — cre ated iu His own image and but a little lower than the angels. Oh, it is horri ble to think of. It becomes no one but murderers and assassins, and (hey don't do it. If the butcher Flanagan should hill himself iu his cell, it would he a lit ending to his life, whether he bo sane or insane, but for a young man or women who have been tenderly raised and have parents or children or kindred who love them, there Is no excuse. Hotter to bear the Ills we have than to plunge in a gulf of dark despair. Get up and try again. If you have nerve enough to pull the fatal trigger, you surely can make another effort to re form or to suffer and endure whatever troubles you. Get up and do some thing—work for your board if you can’t 3o better. Work at any thing—dig, hoe., :hop wood, be fireman on a locomotive, keep going—don’t stop to think and brood over trouble. Constant employ- aient will stifle grief. If you can’t get work, go to the woods and hear the birds sing, and see the glad water flow ing in the little branches. Life is worth living and the faithful wag of your log’s tail is worth living for—much more is the love of kindred and friends. 1 believe that idleness is not only the devil’s workshop and the chief cause of crime, but it produces that morbid mel- mcholy state of mind that begins with Jrink and ends in suicide. Who ever heard of an engineer, or conductor, or a gardener, or a hard-working farmer committing suicide? They haven’tgot time to think about it. If domestic trouble or discord haunts you, work it off. Socrates married Xantippe, the most aggravating woman he could find, and he says he did it for self-discipline and humiliation. Some women marry aggravating men, but not for the like reason, but women rarely commit sui cide. They prefer to suffer and to live for their children. Don’t nurse your wrath to keep it warm. There ore thousands who are unfortunately worse off than you are. Suffer and be strong, for death will come after awhile and re lieve you. • I was ruminating between the differ ence between now and then—between the old times and the new. There were no suicides then. A crazy woman threw herself into a well, and it created a great sensation. We heard of many cases in Paris, and we wondered and we had pity, but I can’t recall any in Geor gia. Now the daily* papers have to keep a space open for them. Our chil dren are raised wrong or educated wrong. They don’t love to work or to study or to ^ read good books or go to church. They want to frolic or to sport or to find short cute to fortune. Suppose wo look for some of the old landmarks and .travel along the old roads and see if we ca^’tstop this self- destruction that is so fearfully increas ing in our southern land.—Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution. ‘I VARIATIONS IN ACORNS. No Two Seeds Nor Kven Two Leaves Ex actly Alike. It is said that in individual trees scarcely two leaves can be found exact ly alike. What is true of leaves is true of seeds, and, indeed, of every part of a tree. It is also true of t!.e behavior of trees during their life career. In acorns especially one may note a re markable difference im their behavior. Some species of acorn will preserve their vital power without much difficulty for n couple of years, while others can rare ly Ik? found with life after a few months. Some when put into the earth will re main months before sprouting, while others will sprout before they are fairly out of their cups on the trees. The acorns of the live oak of the south often sprout before they fall. The process ot germinating is among the most remarkable of all American trees. The root pushes out from the acorn to a distance of many inches be fore it enters the ground, the root then goes into the earth while the bud or plumule ascends to form the incipient tree trunk. The young tree of the live oak will frequently be a distance of six inches from (he acorn. In this respect the behavior ol this species of oak eor- rtsponds nearly with what is almost universal in monoeotyledonous seeds. Another early sprouter is the com mon white oak. These have not been known to sprout on the tree, hut they scarcely reach the ground before the little radicle prepares to enter the earth. It does not wait to get to the surface of the earth Itcforc doing this. On shelves or boxes where there is some i.umber of them together the whole will be a nia* s of roots before a few weeks after gathering. On the other hand th« nut of the burr oak will remain a long time licforeshowing any disposition to sprout. It is these varying character istics which make rules for the trans- portation of seeds dillicult, each kind has to have a method of its own. So far as the two oaks arc concerned it has been found better to send ymxng plants long distances than the acorns them selves.—Meehan's Monthly. THE GENTLEMAN FARMER. Why HIh Lot Is Coiitlnuully Growing Worse In the .South. While the n aterial development of the south in tlie lust 30 years has been almost startling, it would nevertheless be rash to assume that the economic character of her people has been entire ly transformed. Slavery no longer ex ists and labor is no longer considered disgraceful, but the negro, though po litically free, is still socially and eco nomically servile, and still hffects his w hite employer disastrously in many ways. With the growth of towns, an art isun and a middle class have been de veloped, and the former aristocracy of birth and wealth has given way to one :f wealth only, but in the country the well-to-do middle-class farmer is the ex ception, the. gentleman planter is be coming much rarer, and the negro and “poor white” squatters cumber and choke the ground. Want of thrift and intelligent foresight and an inherited instinct of laissczfaire are to bo ob served in every rural community— normally in tidewater and remote mountain regions, less commonly in luch favored spots as the valley of Vir ginia. In cotton-growing localities the factor or commission merchant plays a part ftdly ns important as he did be fore the war, and practically holds both planter and plantation in his grasp. With the, factor on one hand and the lazy negroes with whom he works on • hares on t he oilier, it is no wonder that the, lot of the gentleman farmer is con tinually growing worse, or that his sons seek urUm employment whenever they can.—Atlantic Monthly. —The Koqtief ni I'liceHc is made of tho milk of goats or sheep. Blood Poison. Contagious B’ood Poison has been ap propriately called the curse of mankind. It is the one disease that physicians can not cure; their mercurial aud potasb remedies only bottle up the poison in the system, to surely break forth in a more virulent form, resulting in a total wreck of the system. Mr. Frank B. Martin, a prominent jeweler at 926 Pensylvania Ave., Wash ington,D.C.,says: I was for a long time under treat ment of two of the best physi cians of this city, for a severe case of blood poison, but my condition grew worse all the while, not withstanding the fact that they charged me three iy ^’hundred dollars. 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