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THE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April, i860. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THK TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jane,1366
Consolidated Aug. 2,1881
SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1896.
New Series-Yol. XV. No 29
t\)t W?r??yiixmx ?n?? ^onfljroit
Published E7cry Wednesday,
JXT. Gr. Osteen,
SUMTER, S. C.
TERMS :
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All communications which subserve private
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IO
Handsome 2-Horse
Farm "Wagons
GIVEN AWAY.
To induce farmers to keep a record of the re?
sults they get from the use of
"HOME FEBTILI2EBS."
and to impress upon them the advantage it is
to compost their fertilizers at home, we have
decided to give as prizes
Five Handsome Two
Horse Wagons,
Which retail for $65 each, to the ive farm?
ers in the States of North Carolina, South
Carolina aod Georgia who make the largest
yield of COTTON per acre exclusively from
the use of "Eoine Fertilizer," composted by
either formula printed in our Annual Circu
lar; and
5 Handsome 2 Horse
Wagons,
To the five farmers who make the largest
yield of CORN per acre exclusively from the
use of "Home Fertilizer," composted by
either formula printed in our Annual Circular.
This offer is open to all farmers, no matter
what quantity they buy.*
RV LES FOR THE CONTEST.
The laud to be measured and crops weighed
by two disinterested parties, who are to report
.in full to the dealer from whom the goods
were bought; be to forward the reports to us
on or before December 1st, 1896.
The wagons will be distributed as soon as
the reports are in and it can be ascertained
which ones have made the five largest yields
per acre. No reports will be considered which
reach our office after December 5tb, 1896.
Boy kin, Canner & Co.,
BALTIMORE, MD.
FOR SALE BY
DUCKER & BULTMAN.
SUMTER, S. C.
Of Interest to Farmers.
The State Grange's Annual
Meeting Yesterday,
The organization known as "The
State Grange of South Caroltoa" held
its annual meeting yesterday at
Wright's hotel. The following granges
were represented : J. F.? Boykio,
Cleveland grange; J. N. Jones, Hill?
side ; N. Moseley, Gam Spring ;
C. J. Rollings, Dumpford; D. M.
Bethune, Sandy Grove ; J. W. Eog- 1
lish, Mount Clio ; F. A Atkinson,
Black River; B. B. McWhite, Lvnch
e's Creek ; W. B. Allen, Reedy Creek ; \
W. K. Thompson, Liberty Hill ; R. A. ]
Love and T. J. Cunningham ; Bull 1
Run ; Mrs. G. W. English, Mount
Clio.
Master Thompson made his an?
nual report. 1
In his annual report be referred to
the State Grange having once been a
flourishing organization io South Caro- !
lina. In some counties the granges 1
have never ceased to work. To-day,
many who onoe thought the grange too 1
conservative and slow, now concede 1
that it is the best organization for the '
farmers and best adapted to their wants. 1
The grange has escaped the rocks upoo I
which other orders have been wrecked, *
and is now ready, at all times, to enter 2
any contest in which the rights and in- 1
terests of the farmers are concerned. (
Our efforts should be to so educate the *
farmer that he will be enabled to retain 1
his legitimate share of his products, (
and see that other professions got no
more than their legitimate share. It *
matters not how progressive the agri-r '
culturist may become, if he cannot <
reap the benefit of what is rightfully 1
his own, bis best efforts are lost and he (
becomes the dope of somebody else. 1
Mr. Thompson spoke of the grange 1
and its educational influence. He said '
that all farmers should be educated so 1
that they could be better fitted for their *
line of work. He alo referred to the '
social influence of the grange
In reference to their financial benefits
Mr. Thompson said that he though too
much stress bad been isid on the finan?
cial featureof the grange totheexclusion
of other benefits to be derived. In
some counties of the Stats the grange's
trade has grown to such proportions s
that it is earnestly sought. The co- 1
operation among the members has been i
the means of saving thousands of dol- j
lars to the farmers in the matter of fer- t
tilizers and supplies. c
Mr. Thompson said that the financial i
atringetcy and low price of cotton for (
the past few years had been a blessing
io disguise to the framing class. It had
taught them economy ; it had taught
that the cotton crop alone could not do ;
it taught them to produce more and
buy less ; it had taught them that a
small cotton crop had increased the de?
mand and thereby brought more than a
larger crop which increased the supply.
He thought the future policy of the
government might be unfriendly to the
best interest of the farmer. Still, the
farmers held the key to the situation.
Let them plant less cotton and reduce
the cost of makiog it by producing
everything necessary on the farm, and
thus become producers, and not alto?
gether consumers. He asked the in?
fluence of every member of the order to
prevent any increase io the acreage of
cotton and then earnestly urge all of the
members to use every effort to induce
the national legislative bodies to pass
such laws as will forever prevent future
speculation io farm products, and let
the inexorable law of supply and de?
mand fix the prices of their farm pro?
duce.
He spoke of the solid foundation on
which the State grange stood to-day,
and urged upon the members their
hearty support and co-operation for its
future success and prosperity.
The grange then proceeded to the
election of officers. The following is a
result of the electioo:
W K Thompson was re-elected
master; B. B. McWhite, overseer; J.
YV\ English, lecturer ; Gr. W. Mose?
ley steward ; D. M. Bethune, assis?
tant steward ; C. J. Rollings chaplain ;
W. B Allen, treasurer; T. W. Hollo?
way, secretary ; J. F. Boykin, gate
keener ; Mrs. W. K. Thompson ;
Ceres; Mrs. J. W. English, Pomona:
Mrs. B B. Mo White, Flora ; Mrs. G.
W. Moseley, L. A. S.
The following is the executive com
mittee elected : G. W. Moseley, J. W.
Stoae, A. K. Sanders.
All of the newly elected officers were
dilly installed by Master Thompson.
The annual meeting was a very en?
couraging one and much zeal was mani?
fested by the members of the organize
hon for its success.
The next annual meeting will be
held at Sumter, S. C.. the first Wednes?
day io February, 1897.-The State.
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The State Fair Memorial.
South Carolina Asked to Re?
new her Appropriation.
The following is the' memorial of the
State Agricultural and Mecchanical
society transmitted to the general as?
sembly yesterday by Governor Evans
together with a message recommending
that the request be granted.
To the Members of the Senate and the
House of Representatives of the
State of South Carolina.
The petition of the State Agricultu?
ral and Mechanical Society of South
Carolina would respectfully show to
your honorable bodies :
That this society organized under the
laws of this State for the purpose of (
encouraging agriculture, mechanics and
the related arts, to develop a healthy ,
rivalry and ambition among our farmers ,
and mechanics and to aid in the dissem- ,
inatioo of information relating to these ,
industries. 1
That to this end the society annually ,
it the close of the harvest seasons holds ;
a State fair in Colombia, which is at?
tended and supported by the people of ,
the whole State.
That to maintain the fair upon the ;
proper basis, to pay its operating ex- ]
penses and to provide such premiums as ]
will secure the best class of competitors j
308t8 a large amount of money. That (
the revenues of thesooiety, which oome 1
from the gate receipts and from cooees- ]
510ns are uncertain in amount each ,
pear, and that two yeats ago, when the t
jociety found itself badly in debt, an t
ippropriatioo of ?2,500 was made by \
be city oouncil of Columbia to pay its j
iebte. Again last year, the citizens of (
Columbia contributed a fund of $2,000 ^
which was used in paying the premiums ,
)ffered to exhibitors by the society.
That it is the desire of the society to r
secure its establishment firmly, so that x
it will not be liable to the danger of 'a ,
?eficit from time to time, as has been ^
be case io the past, and that to this \
ind the society would petition for an f
appropriation of $2,500 at your present t
jession, this amount to be expended by r
be officers of the society for the pay- ?
nent of premiums at the fair to be ,
jeld in the city of Columbia io Novem- E
)er, 1896.
And your petitioners will ever pray. l
L. D. Childs, j
President. j
Thos. W. Holloway, \
Secretary. t
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The negroes of Mississippi have \
sent a delegation to Gov. McLaurin t
;o protest against the proposed sepa- c
.ation of the school fund. The pro- r.
position is to appropriate thc school I
axes paid by whites to the support a
)f schools for white children and 0
;axes paid by negroes to the support I
)f negro schools. a
The Popular Loan.
Offers Aggregate More Than
Six Hundred Millions.
Washington, Feb. 5 -Bids for
$100.000,000 30-year 4 per cent United
States bonds were opened at the treas?
ury department at noon to-day uoder
the conditions prescribed in the circular
issued Jan. 6 last by Secretary Carlisle
The principal condition ?9 that the bonds
must be paid for in gold. For the con?
venience of the purchasers the bonds
may be paid for in intallments as fol?
lows :
Twenty per cent at the time of the
notice of acceptance and 10 per cent at
the end of each 15 days thereafter.
The total number of bids was 4,640,
aggregating ?684,269,850, but one
bid of $100,000,000 from a physician
in Michigan and one of ?16,000,000
from Texas are evidently bogus.
Deducting these amounts leaves the ag?
gregate of genuiue bids $568,269,850.
At 3 o'clock it was generally understood
that the whole $100,000,000 of bonds
would briog 110 50 and over. The
official average figure at which the
$100,000,000, will be awarded will not
be known until to-morrow.
The bids were opened in the room of
Secretary Carlisle, an apartment about
40 by 25 feet. A large table was
placed io the south end of the room
overlooking the Potomac river and the
Washington monument, at which table
sat Secretary Carlisle, Assistant Sec?
retary Curtis and several clerks. Io
front of the desk were placed a number
of chairs, and every seat was taken by
those who bad come in person to present
bids, and many were compelled to stand.
Hundreds of millions of dollaas were
represented. A large number of those
present as bidders came from New York,
but there was a sprinkling of financiers
and bankers from Chicago, Cincinnati
and other western cities, and some from
Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston.
The first bid was received January
13th of $600, at 110. The first bids
read out were in small amount, rang?
ing from ?50 to $10,000 each. Among
these was one of ?5,000 at 110, from
the Loan and Savings bank of Charlotte,
N C.
At the beginning of the reading
Comptroller Eckels announced that the
bids ranged from pav to a fraction above
119. The comptroller read until his
voice gave out, when he was relieved
by another member of the committee.
The treasury department was simply
overwhelmed by the enormous number
of bids received. With 15 expert
clerks at work scheduling the bids at 6
o'clock to-night, they having worked
incessantly since 8 o'clock this morning,
1,200 bids remained unscheduled.
They will be copied to-morrow. It will
take many hours of bard work to
straighten out the tangle as to the bids
received and the prices offered.
In spite of the care exercised by the
committee which opened the bids, many
unavoidable errors were made in an
noucing the bids. As proof of this, it
may be mentioned that a number of
offers from prominent eastern financial
institutions, all apparently acting in
concert were read out as being at 110.
75. This had progressed for some
time, when the correction was suggest?
ed by one of the parties interested, that
ill those bids were at 110.075. In fu?
ture readings they were so announced.
The official analysis of the figures will
determine the result, and this will be
necessarily a work of great labor.
The great feature of the bidding was
the offer of J. P. Morgan's syndicate,
which as now composed includes only
his own banking house, the Deutsche
bank of Berlin, Germany, and Harvey
Fish & Sons of New York. They pro?
posed to take the entire issue at 110 -
3887. Only one other bid of anything
ike an equal amount was received.
Mr. Morgan, after figuring on the bids
-eceived, said to-nigbt that be estimated
hat be would bc awarded on bis bid
ibout 60 per cent of the ?100,000,000.
rle reached the conclusion simply from
learing the various bid* read, as he
lid not think that more than $40,000,
)00 bids above that figure had been
nade.
The number of small bids was quite
emarkable. The fifty dollar offers ran
ip into the hundreds and at fairly good
)rices, and over 1,000 small banks and
private individuals whose offers at the
ligbest rates of acceptability ranged
rom ?500 up to ?8,000 or $9,000 are
tot included in the lists published.
Fhe offers by all classes of small bid
leis below the 110 and a fraction limit,
which seems to shut off the issue, we*o
till more numerous.
A feature in these rffers was that as
nany of those of large amount, ranging
n many cases up to one or more mil
ions of dollars, came from fiduciary
nstitutions which thereby indicated
hat they had no better outlet than that
.fforded by United States bonds at the
)rice at which they will undoubtedly
>e awarded. One of the curious inci
leDf8 of the day was the fact that the
?ids of the Union Trust company of
sew York for $78,000,000 at 11?.075
Jmost escaped notice in the monotony
f the reading, while the bid of the
borgan syndicate was received with
pplause.
Hitting the Railroads, j
-?
The House Passed a Jim Crow Car j
Bill by aD Overwhelming Ma?
jority--Passenger Rates to
be Fixed by Law-Peni?
tentiary Directors
Elected.
Columbia, February 5.-This bas
beeo a rather "blue'' day for the rail?
road interests of the State. They were
rapped on all sides. Last night the
House passed a bill providing for the
repeal of the charters of the railroads
if they did not carry out the rates of
the commission. To-day this was fol?
lowed up by a bill to provide for a three
cent and a two and a half cent pas?
senger rate, with the privilege of in?
creasing it for the poorer lines. Then
the separate coach bill was passed, as it
usuallv is by the House, and the House
declined to indefinitely postpone a bill
to prevent all freight trains for vegeta
or anything else to run on Sunday.
The bill was about to be passed when
the electioo of three directors of the
Penitentiary was entered upon lt did
not appear from the debate that rail?
roads had many friends. Two of the
bills had been unfavorably reported, but
this did not appear to stem the tide.
The Senate bas always seen to the
defeat of the separate coach bill.
The General Assembly elected as
members of the board of directors of
the Penitentiary Messrs J. H. Black?
well and W. 0. Tatum, members of the
House, and S. P. J. Garris, a member
of the present board. The name of
Mr. Willoughby, whose term expires
soon, was not placed in nomination.
The report of the special investiga?
ting committee, which has already been
printed was considered to-day and
adopted without debate.
Before the work of the day was start?
ed the registration bill was recommit?
ted.
The railroad charter forfeiture biil
was sent to the Senate, aod just after it
came Judge Townsend's bill to require
through way bills and close connection
between railroads entering the State.
A message was received from the Sen?
ate that Mr. Otts's bill repealing the
emigration agents7 fee had been killed.
The resolution was then passed fixing
the 15th as the final day for new bills.
Mr. Garris's bill fixing a three-cent
passenger rate was taken up.
After debate the hill was ordered to
a third reading.
It provides for a first clas3 fare of
three cents per mile, and for -a second
class fare of two and one-half cents per
mile, and that first and second class
tickets shall be sold. The power,
however, is left with the railroad com?
mission to change the rate on any or
all roads as it may see fit, and railroads
may still sell excursion and mileage
tickets.
The house passed without debate a
bill to prevent the issuing of due bill?
or checks in payment of services.
During the morning Governor Evans
sent in an address recommending an ap?
propriation for the State Fair.
Legislature Work.
Pension Bill Passed-Something
About Fishing and Diving
Committee to Inquire Into
Cost of Printing.
COLUMBIA, Feb. 6.
There was more than usual interest
in the senate proceedings yesterday, al?
though not a great deal was accomplish?
ed. Several bills of questionable char?
acter rv ere up duriug the two sessions.
Ooe of these, relatiog to roads and
highways, was slightly crippled in the
first skirmish, and was withdrawn for
repairs until 1 p. m. to-day. Another
to prevent black-listing by corporations,
was executed at the night session after
? lengthy fight. A third to stop fish?
ing in all streams of the State between
April and November, except with hook
and line, was recommitted after a
lengthy debate. The new pension bill,
increasing the appropriation from $50,
D00 to $100,000 passed. A concurrent
resolution setting February 20th ae the
iay to adjourn was sent down to the lower
louse. Another concurrent resolution
poking to decreasing the expense of
jublic printing, was also passed and
lent to the house. An idea seems to
lave taken root in some quarters that
l?verai thousand dollars can be saved
in public printing.
The senate couvened yesterday mom
it ll o'clock.
Mr. Moses offered the following cao
arrent resolution :
Be it resolved by the senate, the
muse of representatives concurring,
hat a committee consisting of two on
he part of the senate and three on the
?art of the house be appointed a special
ommittec to inquire into the subject of
irinting the reports of various depart
nents and ' inquire if there is any
nnecessar^ jrinting, and if it is practi
able to cut down the cost of the same
without impairing the public service,
aid committee to report by bill or other?
wise, j
This was immediately considered anc
adopted.
A concurrent resolution, offered fy
Mr. Finley, immediately considered anc
adopted, fixed Feb 20 as the d-ite foi
the legislature to adjourn sine die.
The resolution from the house pro
posing the erection of a monument ic
Washington by the Southern States tc
George Peabody and appropriating
?1,500 as South Carolina's quota, wai
presented. It being a concurrent res?
olution and carrying a proposed ap?
propriation, was ineffective, and wai
referred to a senate committee to report
it in the shape of a joint resolution.
HOUSE.
The house of Representatives yes?
terday got up to that point in ?te
railroad legislation where it decreed
that no employee of a railroad cor?
poration should work more than IS
hours continuously, and then branch?
ed off leaving the railroads for a
while. Then it very appropriately,
so some remarked, took up the bill
providing- for the admission of emer?
gency cases to the State hospital foi
the insane, and passed that.
The house then after an interesting
debate, decided that only women
be employed in the engrossing de?
partment of the general assembly, and
that the number of such clerks
should be limited to eight.
These were about the ily matters
of general interest at the morning
session so far as the calendar was
concerned
During the morning, however, the
concurrent resolutions of general in?
terest were received-one a concur?
rent resolution looking to the final
adjournment of the general assembly
on the 20th instant; the other look?
ing to the investigation of the matter
of the public printing.
THE RAILROAD BILL
Section 1. That from and after
the passage of this act it shall be un?
lawful for any railroad doing busi?
ness in this State to require or permit
its employees, who are engaged in
the business of operating its trains
over its roads, to make runs of over
thirteen hours, or to make runs ag?
gregating more than thirteen hours
in twenty-four bouts, except when
such train is detained by reasou of
casualty, or other cause, from reach?
ing its destination on schedule time,
and no trainman, after having been
on a run or runs for as much as thir?
teen hours cit of twenty-four hours,
shall be required to again go on
duty i/?til after ten hours' rest, ex?
cept in case above stated No em?
ployee of any railroad company shall
be deprived of his right to recover
damages for personal injury by rea?
son of the fact that he, at the time of
such injury, wa j making a run of
more than thirteen hours, or making
a run aggregating more than thirteen
hours in twenty-four hours, or had
gone on duty after a thirteen hours'
run, or runs aggregating thirteen
hours, before ten hours' rest.
Sec 2. That any railroad violating
any of the provisions of section 1 of
this act shall be subject to a forfeiture
of not less than $50 nor more than
$500. That one half of all forfeitures
collected under the provisions of this
act shall be paid into the State treas?
ury, to the credit of the school fund,
ind the other half to the informer.
A.RE THERE ANY HERE ?
"My old black auntie," said Repre
ientative John Allen to a Washington
Post man, ''the old black shepherdess
ivho raised me, and who still looks on
me as a lamb of her rearing, grows at
?mes very congratulatory and proud of
nc.
" * 'Deed ! I is proud of you, Mars
lohn,' she said, on the occasion of oui
ast meeting. 'I takes de vastest pride
n ye, honey, an' de way you does hoi'
iffice. You is jes'like yo' ol' father,
liars John, jes' like him fo' de worl'.
Ie was allers hol'in' office 6ame as you,
loney ; hoi' office all de time, yo' paw
id, au' be'minds me of you so much.
Deed. Vee proud of bof of ye.'
" 'Why, what office did my father
old ?' I asked. I was a bit astonished
or while I had a dim recollection of
he old gentleman running several
imes, I never knew of any office he
eld. 'What office did my father
o?d r
" 'Sho ! Mars John ; you go an' for?
et de office yo' father hoi',' the old
uoty replied, reproachfully. 'I'se
ihamed fo' you. He was a candidate,
lara John. De whole neighborhood I
Bmember it well. AH his life he hoi'
at offioe. yo' paw does ; never I knows
im when he warn't a candidate.
iGoks like you an' yo' falber jes' same
lat away ; bof allers hol'in office.' "
linierest in the Exposition.
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! Augusta Doing Ali She Can
to Promote Its Succ?s.
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Augusta, Feb. 6-The greatest inter?
est is taken io Augusta in the proposed
Chicago and Southern States exposition,
The provisional committee here is ac?
tively at work promoting the exposition.
Ex-Senator Patrick Walsh has address?
ed the following letter to thc governors
of 14 Southern States aod the mayors
of 57 southern cities :
"The idea of the proposed Chicago
and Southern States exposition ori?
ginated in Augusta. The suggestion
has been taken up by the leading business
men of Chicago and cordially endorsed.
Invitations have been sent by the mayor
and leading business men of that city to
the governors of the Southern Statesand
to the mayors of 57 southern cities to
appoint delegates for a conference at
Chicago on Wednesday, the 19th of
February.
The first proposition was to hold an
exposition to be confined to cotton and
the products thereof, to show the won?
derful progress the south has made in
the last 15 years in the development of
t li is great iodustry, but the exposition
has been broadened to embrace the
products of sou'bern manufactures, and
the products of southern agriculture,
and all the natural advantages of the
south embracing its mineral and forest
resources.
"The proposed exposition being ex?
clusively for the Southern States, it is
claimed by its projectors that the oppor?
tunity should be enthusiastically em?
braced to show to the people of the west
and northwest the products of the south
and its wonderful wealth of raw mate?
rial for almost indefinite development.
"The south missed a great oppor?
tunity io not being properly represented
at the world's fair io Chicago. The
Cotton States and International expo?
sition just closed at Atlanta displayed
as never before the wonderful progress
and natural bounties of the south. To
make io Chicago this fall an excusively
southern exposition would be to ceocen
trate upon it the public attention of the
west and northwest and to publish and
promote by the most thorough and
practical object lesson the speedy devel?
opment of the south's anrivalled wealth
of natural advantages.
"The success of the exposition de?
pends upon the southern people them?
selves. It will cost very little for each
State to be represented-a mere trifle
for rxhihits, good will being the main
\ capital required for the enterprise. Its
j success means closer trade relations be
j tween thc scuth and west and northwest
j and the migration of people from thesG
j sections to the south, and the invest
? ment cf capital and the certain devel?
opment of the south.
'.Now is the accepted time to prefect
in the most active and convincing man?
ner, the varied and wonderful products
and resources of the south to the people
of the west and northwest, who are anx?
iously looking in this direction for
homes and investments.
"Your co-operation by the appoint?
ment of delegates to the convention at
Chicago on the 19th instant is urgent?
ly requested
"Yours respectfully,
"Patrick Walsh,
"Chairman committee ou publicity and
promotion.
"For further information telegraph
or write and advise me of your action
in this matter. Howard H. Stafford,
"Secretary provisional cc mmittee."
The little daughter of Mr. Fred Webber,
Holland, Mass , had a very bad cold and
cough which he had not been nble to cure
with any thing. I gave him a 25 cent bottle
of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, says W. P.
Holden, merchant and postmaster at West
Brimfield, and the next time I saw him be
said it worked like a charm. This remedy is
intended especially for ?cute throat and lung
diseases such ae colds, croup and whooping
cough, and it is famous for its cures. There
is no danger in giving it to children for it
contains Dothiog iojarious. For sale by Dr.
A J. China.
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How To Prevent Croup.
Some readiog that will prove interesting
to young mothers. How to guard against
the disease.
Croup is a terror to young mothers and to
post them concerning the cause, first symp?
toms and treatment ia the object of this item*
The erigin of croup is a common cold.
Children who are subject to it take cold very
easily and croup is Hlmost sure to follow.
The first symptom is hoarseness; this is soon
followed by a peculiar rough cough, which is
easily recognized and will never be forgotten
by one who h-.is heard it. The time to act is
when the child first become? hoarse. If
Chamberlain's Cou?b Remedy is freely given
all tendency to croup will soon disappear.
Even after the croupy cough has developed it
will prevent the attack. There is no danger
in giving this remedj for it contains nothing
injurious. For sale by Dr. A. J. China.
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