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MK S17MTSS WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850. -_ "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's " THE TK?2C SOUTHRON, Kata blahed June, 13?$ Consolidated Aug. 2, ISSI.] SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1892. Sew Series-Yoi. Xl. So. 35. -'JmjL~lmrK-m--imr-jTM^nfiun ?? .HIL fii|| miall Ililli -Big |t S?aftjpiiait ??? Souita Published ?Tery Wednesday, BT tf. Gr. OSTEEN, SUMTER, Sf?. TKRMS : Two dollars per annum-in advance. ?DT1?TIB1XIMT8. Qa* Sa jare,Jrstja?ertion...^..;.......^-$l 00 ?verjMt^?jtte??a?6rtion:.?..M..... 50 Conti AC ts %r*TOree months, or letaler will be bads at reduced rates. All communications which sut .arve private o teresf [ will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charlee for. ? The Public. 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Will sell as a whoie or io lots to suit'pur? chasers. Terms-One-third cash, b.tlance ea.^, pay- ! ments and low interest. See or address W. O. CAIN, j Ramsey, P. O., S. C. OR E. W. Dabbs, Agt Ramsey P. O., S. C. Dec. 30.-tf. / To Wind up the Oil Trust The special meeting of certificate holders of the Standard Oil Trust, which was called for the purpose of dissolving the Trust, as announced in the Herald two weeks ago, was held yesterday and the final dissolution of the Trust was resolved upon unani? mously, according to programme. As heretofore explained, the wip? ing out of the Trust was made neces? sary by the decision of the Supreme Court of Ohio declaring against the legality of the Trust in that State and the certainty that the Trust would sooner or later be driven out of othej States by reason of the growing un? popularity of such monopolistic com? bines. Of course, the dissolution is only a matter of form. The Rockefellers, the Flaglers, John D. Archbold and the other members of the Trust will continue to be the brains of the asso? ciated refineries and control the busi? ness iu tin's country as heretofore, not as trustees of the Standard Oil Trust, but as individual owners of the companies, in all of which thpy are the chief stockholders. The meeting yesterday was held at the office of the Standard Oil Trust No '2Q Broadway. There were about two hundred and fifty certificate holders present, representing, with the proxies held by John D. Rocke? feller, president of the Trust, and John D. Archbold, the secretary, 736 720 shares of stock ont of the 950,000. Mr. Rockefeller was invit? ed to take the chair and Mr. Arch bold to act as secretary of the meet? ing. THE AGREEMENT S. C T. Dodd, the solicitor of the Trust, then offered the following res? olutions : Resolved, That the agreement dated Januar}' 2, A. D. 1882, com? monly known as the Standard Oil Trust agreement, and the (supplement thereto, dated January 4, 1882, be aud are hereby terminated this 21st day of March, A. D. 1892. And further resolved. That the affairs of the Trust shall be wound up by John D. Rockefeller, Henry M. Flagler. William Rockefeller, John D. Arch bold, Benjaraiu Brewster, Henry S. Rogers, Wesley li. Tilford and ? B. Jennings, and the survivors and sur? vivor of them, in the following man? ner :-AU property held by said Trust, except stocks of corporations, shall be sold by said trustees at pri? vate sale, and the proceeds thereof, together with any money belonging to the Trust, shall be distributed to the owners of trust certificates accor? ding to their respective interests. All stocks of corporations held by said trustees shall be distributed to the owners of Trust certificates in proportion io the respect? e equitable interests of said owners in the stocks so held in tiust, as evidenced by said Trust certificates that is to say, each owner of Trust certificate or certifi? cates shall be entitled to deliver said 'certificate or certificates for cancella? tion, and to receive in lieu thereof an assignment of as many shares or frac? tions of shares in each of the corpora? tions whose stocks are held in the said Trust, as he is entitled to by vir? tue of said certificate or certificates ; it being the intent and meaning of ?his resolution that the equitable in? terest in said stocks represented by Trust certificates may thus on de? mand be converted into legal inter- ! ests represented by assignments and transfers of said stocks by said trus? tees to the parties entitled thereto, which transfers and assignments may be entered on the books of the several corporations upon the demand of the holders of said assignments, thereby merging or converting equit I able ownership into legal ownership j in said stocks. All purchases, saleR, : exchanges and cancellations of stocks, or agreements therefor executed or j executory, made by the trustees dur-1 ing the existence of the trust, and all assents by said trustees as stock hold-1 ers to purchases, sales and exchanges of corporate property, and to the for? mation and winding up of corpora? tions and all other acts of the said trustees during tau existence of the trust, are hereby ratified and con? firmed. Resolved, That the trustees hereby appointed to wind up the trust have j power to act by a majority of their I number to fill any vacancies in their number, and to sign ai! papers by one or more of their number a* attor? ney or attorneys in fact, and that they report from time to time to the parties interested all transactions had or done by virtue of those r?solu j lions. j Resolved, That the power to Vote ! upon any stocks then standing in the names of the trustees shall cease at the end of four months from this date. . .MK. DODO'S EXPLANATION. In explanation of the resolutions and urging their adoption Mr. Dodd made a snort speech, in the course of which, after describing the origin of the Standard Trust, he said : "Other persons, however, found this trust plan a convenient one, and it is alleged that it has been adopted I for and adapted to purposes quite dir- I feront to those which actuated the framers of this Trust. Whether these , allegations be true or false, it is true that a trust is now defined lo be a combination to suppress competition, to reduce production antd o increase prices Public opinion has not un? wisely been aroused against combina? tions for such purposes, and legisla? tion of more or less severity, nod j ratle r more than ?ess t eculiarity, has been directed against them in seven- ? teen or eighteen ?lates of the Union. \ All sncii arrangements are now mis? called trusts, and all trusts are popu- j lal ly supposed to partake of the same nature. For this reason, if for no ! other, it should be seriously consid? ered whether this Trust should not be terminated. So lon? as it exists O misconception of its purposes will exist." lie told the story of the adverse decision of the Ohio Supreme Court, ! and continued : "Thc resolution which has be.cn read provides that the Trust shall t m?nate tcday ; that the trustees oh continue to hold their office For t purpose of winding up its affair that all property held by the Tm except slocks ol' corporations, si? be sold and the proceeds divided p rata, and that the stocks shall be di1 ded pro rata in specie. Thia c only be done by the trustees assig ing to each one I he legal title to t interest now rep resented by his TIT certificates, which transfer may entered upon the proper corpora books when demanded by the assi i nee. The Trust certificates are e1 \ deuces of equitable title iii stock the legal title t<: which is vested the trustees. It; is proposed to co vert this equitable title into the leg title. Tour interests will be tl same then as now. The various Cf I porations will continue to do ti same business as heretofore and yo proportion of their earnings will n be changed. You will understai that 'A' will not get stocks in 01 corporation and 'B' in anothe Each one will get his due proportic in the stocks of all." A GREAT PUBLIC GOOD, HE SAYS. Alexander E. Orr seconded the re olution in a brief speech. Il said : "While the Standard Oil Compari has very much more than met the e: pectation of its stockholders, it hi been to the whole community in th country and elsewhete a great publ; good, how great very few of us con prehend. It has minimized the coi of production and given to the rici est and poorest alike a magnified light at a bagatelle of cost. 1 afBn that this Trust, which is now d( dared to lack a legal construction has been during the period of its exi? tence a great boon to the people ( the whole United States and to th countries of the Old World." When the resolution was put to vote it was found that all the stoc represented at the meeting-736.72 shares-was veted in the affi;ma:iv( There were no negative votes. After the meeting Mr. Dodd, in ar swer to my questions as to the futur of the Trust, said that it was expect ed il would take about four month for the tiustees to wind up the affair of the Trust. The only property t be divided consists of stock in th various companies, cash on hand am office fixtures and such belongings There are about thirty corporation in the Trust, in seven different States They are all petroleum ?efining com panics except eight pipe lines, ; lubricating oil works and severa cooperages and box and can factories These thirty corporations will be re duced to eighteen or twenty, eithe by keeping them out altogether o by consolidation with larger compa nies It is still a question of law to b< determined just what companies cai be absorbed. Among the cojnpauiei to be abolished, so far as Mr. Dode ( could tell yesterday, were the Prat Manufacturing Company, of Brook lyn, whose works are near those o the Standard Oil Refining Company of New York, with which it is to bf mei ged ; The Atlas Refining Com nany, ol' Buffalo , the Acme Oil Com pany, of Ti?usville, Pa. ; the Sone & Fleming Company, of New York, and the Mix Lubricating Company,, of Cleveland. The three pipe lines in Ohio-the I Buckeye, the Connecting ?nd thc Hacksburg-will be consolidated into one, the Buckeye. Several small trading companies in the South? west will be merged into the Standard Oil Company ol Kentucky. The consolidation of these compa? nies will be followed by an increase in the capital of all the remaining i companies from the present total oi $80,000,000 to $95,000.000. The increased stock of all the asso? ciated companies is to be equitably divided among the Trust certificate holders according to the amount of their holdings. Leap Year Enforced. PITTSBURG, M ??rab 18.-Leap year has been inaugurated in this town by a well to-do widow, who took a sudden likiog to a young far?: hand, who has been employed io :his neighborhood for morphs, says a special from Edgerton, Kansas, to PitsS: urg Times. Mrs Mary Watson owns a fine farm about two miles wes-t of tl is place, and while she has never given the neighbors cause to gossip, she han been recognized as a j strong-minded woman, and one who was perfectly capable of attending to her own business. Her husband died about five years ago, and left her worth in the neighborhood of $20,0U? Her farm has been kept ir. a hi?h state of cultiva? tion, she managing the whole business herself. About- a week ago she carne to town to market, and when here she met John Northrup, who works on the farm of William Johuson, about two miles be? yond the farm of Mrs. Watson Mrs. Watson had never seen the young mao before, but appeared to be taken with bisappcaiance,ai)d asked th? storekeeper who he was, and when she learned that he worked for her neighbor, asked to be j made acquainted with him. The young j man was much aurprised when she told i him, after being with him about half an ! hour, that she wauted a husband, and if i he was willing lo take the position she thought they would do well together as man and wife. He was a little taken hack at the sud? denness ot the offer, but as he knew her circumstances lie concluded that lie could not do better, and accepted with? out any shyness. They immediately got. the license and were made man and wile. ! Ii L Polk, President of the National I Farmers' Alliance,was asked in Raleigh, : N. C., a few days ago if he was in thc ! Third party movement. He said in ! reply that, as far as he was concerned, I hii was foot h?ose from all political parties, having severed all party ties. He added, however, that the Northwest I is on fire for the Third party movement. Ii'.* had several conferences and caucuses ! with Alliauccmeu dutiog his visit (oj Haleigh. Canadian Seal Poachers will get no Protection. What will President Harrison do about Lord Salisbury's reply ? Ile has been considering it all day in private at the White House, but so far there has been no call to* arms. The reply is said to be "slicker" than sealskin. The text of the reply bas not been made public, but enough of it is known to seemingly justify the belief that a renewal of the modus vicendt has rot yet been agi eec! to. The question is still thought to be open A Compromise, it is said, has been offered to this extent. That England will not interfere with American cruisers sent to seize poaching vessels, providing that America pays all claims for damages arising from such seizures if the court of aibitration finds against her. In this way England cleverly evades any responsibility growing out ot the coming seamen's sealing. When England agreed to the modus vivendi last year the so-called Canadian poachers looked to her for damages I am told these claims amount to several millions of dollars, and that if England wants to keep Canada in good humor she will have to settle them. Salisbury, however, it is said, knows that a large percentage of these alleged Canadian poaching vessels, although flying the British flag, is owned and fitted out by American capital. Naturally he is somewhat angry over being expected to pay such claims when they resulted from a modus vivendi which was agreed to as an act of international comity by Great Britain. WOULD ESCAPE RESPONSIBILITY. By warning the so-called Canadian sealers that American cruisers are apt to seize them and that the United States is alone responsible, England would escape all liability this year, no matter which country won in the court of arbitration. In other words, as au Englishman here put ii, "The Lion will not rake any more seals out of the water for the E^gle.'* The poachers must take their own risk in going into the sea, for under these conditions they will get no protection from England, and although liable to seizure by the United States can only expect redress from this country in the event the arbitrators decide against us. It is clearly the intention of Presi dent Harrison to keep the poachers out of Behring Sea, peaceably if" possible, but by force if necessary. If England does not resist these seizures-and it is believed that she will pursue this do nothing policy no trouble between tbs two countries can result. As far as the Navy Department is concerned interest in the Behring Sea matter today was confined to speculation as to the nature of Lord Salisbury's latest communication Nothing whatever transpired at the Department to-day io indicate that this note had settled the part the naval powers are to play in Behring Sea this summer. No new orders f?>r the preparation of vessels for ?ea were issued or any thing else beyond the ordinary routine business performed. Secretary Tra? cy denied himself to ali ca"lera, as he has for some days past, but it was said by those near to him that he was engaged upon some piivate law business and not Behring Sea matter as reported. CONSULTING WITH THE PRESIDENT. The number of law books carried to and from his oflice indicated that his work, whatever its nature, had a legal phase to it At a late hour this evening he was called from the De? partment to the White House, and he and the President spent an hour or more together It was thought that some instructions to J-hips might fo'.h.w this interview, but nothing of the kind transpired after his return to the Department and nothing could be learned as to the result of the inter? view. In thc absence of any additional instructions today the inference of naval officials is that the preparations for this summer's campaign will be wholly in the direction of police duty, as anticipated, pending the publica? tion of Lord Salisbury's reply. At any rate, the officials are proceeding on tl is theory until instructions to thc contrary come from the White House. They luve accepted the conclusion, which seems to be gen? eral, that the United States will have to do all the police duty this year and are figuring out how the}* can manage to get as many vessels in Behring Sea ?s were represented by both countries hut year, it is evident that ?they do not anticipate any interference from tho English men-of war, from the fact ? ih.it the lour large cruisers, Charles? ton, Baltimore, San Franciso and Boston are not included in thc number th ev are talking about for this sea? son"-N. Y Herald. Big Forgery in a Penal Colony. SAN FRANCISCO, March 19.-When the steamer .">]onovyai left Sydney tv?o out of the throe escapees frota the Fruneh penal settlement at New Caledonia had just beeo arrested. ' While cn the islands they perpetrated j un i of the cleverest forgeries on record, i B?noefoux and Brevier had completed their tenn of incarceration and v?ere free j witbiu the island. The third man, j Civale, had completed his terms arni ? was tree to pi to his native Sand ->r elsewhere ii lie desired, lits special criminal forte was forgery. A letter was sr ritten te cue of th."' French authorities asking about large fortune that had been ?eft to Jouissant Bonuefoux. Soon afterwards an an- j swer, under the o(5ctai signature and seal, waa received, si?tu g that the fortune was a myth. The signature and seal, however, were all the trio wanted, ar;dj soon a letter was written ? Petting forth that haifa million hams had been bequeathed to Boam foux by relatives in Algiers. Tho imitation et tho oi:nri;:l seal was faultless sud the wriririir -??"i si^nutuje were neriect. A ; 1 Ul' WU tur ?lvtiUJC?' ( )'?si. 0 W M> taken into the conspirators' confidence, j and he took the letter to France and j there posted it. A few weeks later it was delivered to Boonefoux in N?77 | Caledonia, and ih-^n the criminals ..be- j gan to operate. On the strength of the letter Bonne foux cashed drafts for '250,000 francs j and the trio made their escape from j New Caledonia. When arrested io ! Sydney, Bcnnefoux was on his way to ? the bank accompanied by a well known j priest, who was going to identify him. He had a draft fer 50,000 francs in his possession which he wanted to cash. -- H.IT- -4B^ One Girl's Work. A few years ago a little girl applied to a pastor in one of our large cities for admission into his Sunday-school. She was ?oid that the classes were so full there was no room for her, and that the church was so small that no ;n<*re classes could be organised. Much disappointed, the little girl began tc save pennies-her family was poor for the purpose of enlarging the church in order that 5:he and other children, like her might be accommodated. She told i no one of her ambitions purpose, how? ever, so that wheo the pastor of this church was called to her bedside a few months later, to comfort her in her severe illness, he saw nothing unusal, only a frail child of six and a half years. The little sufferer, died, and a week later there Were foo sd in her battered red pocket-book, which had been her savings-hank, fif:y seven pennies, and a scrap of paper that told, in childish print, the story of her ambition, and the purpose of her self-denial. The story of that little red pocket? book and its contents, and of the unfal? tering faith of its little owner, got abroad, lt touched the heart of saiut and sinner alike. Her inspiration be came a prophecy, and men labored and women sang and children saved to aid in its fulfilment. These fifty-seven pennies became the nucleus of a fund that in six years grew to ?250,000, and to-day this heroine's picture, life size, haDgs conspicuously in the ballway of a college building at which 1400 students attend, and connected wi:h which there are a church capable cf seating 8000, a hospital for children named for the Good Samaritan, and a Sunday-school room large enough to aceommod;,fe all the girls and boys who have yet. asked to enter it. A fairy story ? It reads like one. but happily it is not one. The little girl's name was II ?ti ie .May Wiatt, and the splendid institutions described are located in Philadelphia -Harper's Young People. The Primary. Some people have poor memories The impression is attempted to be made that the "Tiiimanites" iu 1890 clamored and begged for a State primary. Here is what the "platform'* cf the Mircb Convention of 1830 said on the subject. *'2ud. The nominations of the Demo? cratic party are virtually elections. Be? lieving in the Jeffeisonian doctrine that "the people are ?he best condervaiors of their own rights and liberties" and that "self-government is the only fiee gov? ernment," we demand that ail nomina? tions for oinje in the party, other titan State ojlccs, shall be by primary elec? tions, conducted under the Slate law enacted in 1888 " They rvere against a primary then for the same reason they ave against it now-they think they cun more easily win without it.-X'.'wherry Observer. The Democratic Eev'olt. If the spirit of Hill and Tammany should dominate the National Conven? tion and dictate the nomination, although as citizens they would lament the ascendency of bad meu, as Demo? crats the larger part of them would sadiy support the ticket. At present, therefore, u\\ the significant signs show \ that the ilili-Tammany power, and no?, j the revolt, really represents the Demo? cratic parry. The revolt is a personal movement, while its claim to bethe real representative of Democracy discloses the important, fact that in the view of intelligent Democrats it is still an open question whether the Democratic party is mastered bj the worst tendencies in poil tic"-; whether it is represented by honest and reputable citizens or by a horde of plunderers and corruptionists, the foes of honest money and of honest admin? istration -Harper's Weekly. To Rebuild tue Citadel, Capt. William A. Courtenay and Co!. C. S. Gadsden, of Charleston, represent? ing the Board of Visitors of the Citadel Academy, and Major Henry Yoi.ng representing the Underwriters, came to the city thia morning to consult with I Gov. Tillman about the Citadel in-ur I ance. The insurance company -.?roed I to replace the building in sixty days for ?16,000'..and these gent!-men came to submit ti:e proposition to Gov. Tillman, as chairman of the Board of \ isitors It is said that the Governor demanded j the 823,500 insurance on the main building, but the demand was refused. The restoration proposition WHS finally j accepted by bira. The insurance com I panics wiii let out the contract soon t;i I >ome Charleston contracto; and work j I will commence immediately thereafter, j -Columbia Record 2? Hov/ the C ii in ese Make Tea. The British Medical Journal, in commenting on the death vi a boy who died from drinking hot tea without m?'fc, says that the tea had been left ia ibo oven for some time, so that it had j b como a strong decoction ?>' tannin. ! In being drunk withoul milk the ? tannin wa-; not brought into a rela? tively harmless albuminous latinate ! it is on account of this method of j making tea that it is so injurious to ; digestion. Neither the Chinese nor j the Japanese, who know how to make j toa. milk with i?; but with them j thr hot water is poured on and ol? the leaves at table, and ii is drunk as soon as ii becomes a pale straw color. N\> people in the world drink so much tea as the Japanese, yet in Japan it is never injuiious to the digestion, as, by tin .ir method of preparation, the ! tait it in is n- t extracted from thc Tillman cn a State Primary; Newberry Observer. The following is au extract frooi Candidate Tillman's speech in Columbia daring the campaign of 1X90 as repos? ed by The Register : "Two years ago. in the State Con? ree t?o:., in asking for a primary elec? tion, I told those gentlemen who re fused it thst dfci?ey were merely dam? aging the crater back-to wait for 189G when the flood tide would set ii. ? bave been in toe northwestern part of i he State, io nine counties, and the 3 :o 1 gates of the freshet are open, an? ibis little Columbia dam is not going to stop it. " * * We have never had ? Democratic Governor, and I can prove it hy showing you, because you never had voted for a Governor in your life except after he was nominated, io No? vember. Now the Gght is that the peo: pie shall have the right for themselves" -'hat each aud every man shall have ? voice in the election of the Chief Magis? trate and chief officers1." Is the flood tide setting in DOW'/ Spartanburg held a pretty large anti Tillman meetiug and Greenville had a much larger one a few days laterv Tbs* up-country is still asking in vain for ? primary so "that each and every mari shall have a voice in the election of th? Chief 31 agistrate and chief officers." The "dam" may stop the freshet this time ; but woe to the politicians who stand in its way They wili be swept away as with a Johnstown flood sooner or later. The nomination of a Governor id South Carolina is practically the elec? tion of a Governor-and the people want the privilege of voting fir a Gov? ernor-directly and io reality, as they vote for their county officer". - ? LP- ???-*.. gt A communistic experiment is to be", tried ia Africa, where a number ol German enthusiasts propose to give a practical trial to the theories promul? gated io Dr. Iler-zka's novel, "Free* ?and." The selected territory lie? within England's sphere of influence ia Africa, in the region of Mount Kenia,' ia the equatorial highlands 'i"oe communistic colony would be unmolested there, and the climate and soil are s?id to be favorable for European settlers; SW African travellers agree in describe iog this part of the Dark Continent as* an earthly paradise. It is accessible by the river Taus, which, according td the Anglo German treaty touching EasS Africa, is made over to England and is. navigable by steamer for a distance of three hundred kilometres. The promo? ters of the colony are, it is said, already iu possession of a strip of territory where stores and accommodation for settler? may be erected, but consider it impor? tant first of all to secure the good will of the English authorities. There are already twenty-eight associations, with a thousand members, disposed to throw in their lot with this enterprise. Most of them ate Germans. Their capital amounts to ?10,000. Two members are at preseut making a voyage or? investigation, and the Society wilt proceed in accordance with their report. A preliminary commission of fifty will go to the valley cf Kenia to prepare foi ibe colonists. The Yorkv?le Enquirer is undoubt? edly right in asking that 4 the coaling campaign be pitched not altogether or? the idea of defeating or nominating Tillman, but on the idea of establishing beyond a peradventure the fact that whoever receives the nomination is the choice of a maj >rify of the Democratic* voters of the State " The only way td find out who is the preference of a ma? jority i-? to let the voters express them? selves at the primary election on the* oO a of August, and this can be done" without infringing ofi anybody's rights or privileges, or violating any principle of the party. The obstacles in the wa^ at present are the leaders of the *'dom? inant element," and we are not without hope that even they will become con? vinced in a few weeks that a genera! primary is the best thing to securer acquiescence in the final result of the campaign -Greenville Mountaineer. A Compass in lavery Watch; A few days ago I was standing by an American gentleman, writes a* London editor, when I expressed ? wish to know which point was the North. l?e at once pulled out his watch, looked at it and pointed td the North. I asked him whether he had a compass attached to his watch. "All watches,*' he replied, "are com? passes.'' Then he explained to me how this was. Point the hour hand to the sun, and the South is exactly half-way between tho hour and the figure XII on the watch. For in? stance, suppose it is 4 o'clock. Point the hand indicating 4 to the sun, and ll on the watch is exactly the South. Suppose that it is 8 o'clock : point the hand indicating 8 to the sun, and tue ligure X on tho watch is due South. ?My American friend was quite surprised that I did not know this. Thinking that very possibly I was ignorant of a thing that every one else knew, ana happening td meet Mr Stanley, I asked Shat emi? nent traveler whether he was aware of ibis simple mode <>f discovering the points of the compas?, fie said! that he had never heard of it.-The Lutheran. --a - Oh- What a Cough Will you heed the warning. The signal perhaps of the sure approach of that iLofs terril :edis?as-e GonumpUon. Ark uiurst vt? if you cu. afford for the ?.ike of saving 50c, to rat) tile risk - ".?i do cothtns for it. We know from experience that Shiloh's Care will care your cough. II never fails. This ex? plains why more that. .. Milli n Bott Irs wete iold the past j ear. lt relieves croup ?nd v.. oopi: g cough at once. Mothers, ?lo n< t be withoui it. For lame back, side er chest use Shiloh's Poi? as ? laster Seid by Dr. A. J. China. Sumtec S. C. 4 ?; i? a fixed and numnUhte law that to have good, sound health ot:e u;u*' have pure, rich a;.d abundant Mood. 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