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LOSS OF VICKSBURG. EFFECT ON THE GENERAL WHO COM MANDED AT THAT PC'NT. Pemberton Resigned ?md Took Service Is a Lower Rank - His Family Were Wealthy Pennsylvanians, and Ho Was Disinherited When He Joined the South. In an address at San Antonio, Tex., Gie Hon. John H. Reagan said : "While I am speaking of matters connected with the war which have not, so far as I know, gone into history, I desire to t?o an act of justice to tho memory cf Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton, who was in command at Vicksburg when that city was surren? dered. He, with the balance of his com? mand, was paroled after their surren? der. The great strategic importance of Vicksburg, commanding as it did the Mississippi river, and the loss of which substantially bisected the t em tory of the Confederacy by the line of that riv? er, was so important and was so keenly felt by our people that it caused deep regret and great dissatisfaction, and many of the people questioned the fidel-. ity of General Pemberton to our cause. It is cf this that I wish specially to ' speak in justice to his memory. "He was a citizen of the state of Pennsylvania and a major of the feder? al army when the war broke out. His mother lived in Philadelphia and was wealthy. He believed the people of the ! south were in the right and that their canse was just and determined to enter i the Confederate service. Ho notified his mother of his intention, saying to her that he was a military man, and that his age would require him to .partici- j pate in the war, and that he could not i afford to risk his life in a. caur,e which J . he believed to be unjust. His mother ! protested against this course and threat- j cued to disinherit him if he persisted I m it. " You may well understand what a trial it must have been to him to refuse j to comply with his mother's wish and 1 to separate himself from his own. section ; of the country, greatly the stronger, j and unite with the weaker section, plac- j i?g*his life at stake because of his con? scientious conviction of duty. On his .? merits as an officer he rose to the rank ! of lieutenant general in the Confederate service,, and cn account of the corni- j dence of the president in his ability and fidelity to our cause he was put in com- j maud of the important military position of Vicksburg. " "After he was exchanged as a prisoner j and released from his parole I was with President Davis in his office when Gen- i eral Pemberton called on him and stated ! that the discontent on account of the | fail of Vicksburg had destroyed his use- j fulness in high command and made it I proper for him to resign his commission of lieutenant general, which he then did, and he asked to be assigned to the rank of lieutenant colonel of artillery in the regular army of the Confederacy. The ?president, with expressions of sym? pathy and regret, accepted his resigna- j tion as lieutenant general, and he was j assigned to his line rank of lieutenant ! colonel of artillerv. This was thc onlv j instance during the war cf an officer ; voluntarily resigning a high rank in the army and asking for service in a lower one. "Not long after this General Butler, in command of the Federal forces, mov- j ing a portion of the army from the i south to the north side of the James j river, with a large force attempted to ! capture the city o? Richmond. Our line j of works in front of him was defended ; by a number of siege batterie s and by ! infantry. The principal attack was by j field batteries on the line of the Wi!- ? liamsburg road. Lieutenant Colonel ? Pemberton was in command of our but- ; teries, which covered that line cf ap- j preach and iii the immediate front of the Federal batteries. Colonel Preston Johnson of the presidentas staff and I, on hearing the heavy firing, rode out to where we could witness the contest. We saw Pemberton standing on the parapet of the battery on the Williams? burg road, fully exposed to the most terrific fire of shot and shell, giving di- j rections to his command. Seeing this, J we feared that the disaster at Vieks- j burg and the criticisms to which he had been subjected were causing him to seek I relief in death. This supposition may | have been unjust to him, and his pur? pose may simply have been to encourage his comrades. "On my return from prison in ISO;', | in going from Richmond to Columbia, ? S. C., I met General Pemberton on i the cars at Greensboro, Is. C., and I learned that he, too, was going to Co? lumbia to see Mr. Trenholm, the late secretary of the treasury, his object, as lie told me, being to tiy to borrow mon- ! ey trcin Mr. Trenholm to enable him to get on a farm as a means of support to his family. I inquired o? him if he un- j derstocd farming. He said he had no j experience in farming ; that he had no \ profession but that of engineer, and that there was no opening for him in that line, and he saw no other way of supporting his family except on a farm. He was then in a destitute condition financially. I said to him that I under? stood his faintly in Philadelphia was j wealthy and asked him if they knew of his condition. His answer was, in character with his past actions, that they did not and never should know ir , from him. "From this we can understand the injustice of thc criticisms to which he ! had been subjected. I saw him no more, ; but have since learned that he died in ; Philadelphia, and from this fact trust that he became reconciled with his f am? ily. I learned from President Davis tho j facts relating to General Pemberton?s leaving his home and entering tibe Con? federate service. " Too Emotional. wJulia, I never see you at funerals." "No; when I go, I always cry harder than the widow, and that makes people think I was in love with the mau.;' Chicago Record Distillers in Victoria, Australia, re? ceive $9.75 a week, in Germany $3.50, in Denmark $3.90 and nrSpain $4.25. BEAR SAWED THE LOGS. ; Strang? Tale of a "tVooasmaa sud the Ef? fects of Minc-j Fie. j "I don:'i like to repeat a story about j Sullivan county unless I know it is I true." said Phil Kinney. Mr. Kinney ! never tells a story except with the mest : serious countenance, writes a corre j spondent of the New York Press, j "A farmer." he said, "from Forest j burg was here recently, and he told me j of an experience he had out in the j woods, and I'll give up my dinner if I j don't think he told the truth. You see, ' he is one of those honest old fellows who drink hard cider around home. He says plain cider doesn's hurt him, but I when he comes here he winks at me and ; says, 'Put a little in ruy cider. ' "tWell, sir,' he was getting out rail? road ties down where he lives. He uses in doing it one of those big, double handled cross cut saws. "Says he: 'I was a-sawin away out thar in the snow, with my little fox terrier nosin round in the bushes after jacks, when he sudden like puts his tail twixt them slender legs o' his'n and digs ont fer hum. I kinder looked round, but blessed cf I could set t hem eyes o' mine on enything out the or? dinary. I kept on a-sawin till it gits time to eat my old woman's Dits. " *I set down on a log an et away, an I sets the pail down when I was through, an I saved my mince pie fur a little later. I fell into a doze, an when I come to I waz half skairt onten my boots by a blasted big black: bear siriin longside an eatin my minee pie. I knew better'n to try to get up 'fore he could swat mc with his paw. So I sets still, ! a-shakin and a-shiverin. Purty soon I I heard them whistles a-blcwing fer 1 j o'clock do wn in Port Jen-is. Then the j funniest part o' the hull business coin- j meneed. That they're bear jes* wipes ! his nose in the snow an goes ever an j ketches hold that saw and went to work. ! " 'By gosh! Iwuz expectin that he ! would do some sort o' trouble to it, an ; it was the enly saw I hod. But he didn't Ho sawed off' four or five legs jes'the right length, an then lie saw I the rest o' that tree wnz too small fer ; use as ties, an he looked round fer an- ' other tree. But there wnzn't none-down, ! so he sets the saw up agin a tree an i goes off.' "I saki to him then," continued j Phil, "'You borter have a little more cider. ' He took a big drink mid then another. Then he says: 'Phil, I don't want you to laugh at me, but I went down there nex' day, an I cut down six trees, an I put two mince pies an the saw-longside the first one an went an hid behind a tree. I waited till 2 o'clock, but that blasted bear never showed up.' " Perils of a Joke In Germany. This story illustrates the perils of practical joking in Germany: Eighteen months ago four gentlemen of leisure from the Rhine country went to the kir mess in Bullay. They redo about with a cabby and drank wine until they were overtaken by the conditions cf mind and body which accompany these per? formances at German festivals. Then they began to dispute with The cabman ; as to the weight of his horse and cab. Eventually they offered him 50 pfen? nigs-or about 12 cents-a pound fer the whole equipage. He accepted the .offer. ? The horse and cab went on the scales ! and registered 3, OOO pounds. Thc whole outfit was worth about $75, so die cab? man hastened to surrender it and de- j maud his 12 cents a pound, or $300 in | all. The four gentlemen of leisure then ! protested that it was ail a mistake, a ! joke, in fact, and they couldn't think of j paying $3G0 for a $75 equipage. They ! went away, but the cabman sent horse ! and cab after them by express G. O. D. i When the four gentlemen of leisure j refused to follow the practical part of j the joke farther, the cabman sued them, j He carried on the case from court to j court, in response to their appeals from ! each successive decision in his favor, and two weeks ago obtained the final judg- j ment in his favor from the high court of j justice in Coblenz. The costs meantime j had risen to $540, so the four gentlemen of leisure were ordered by the court to ' pay $900, all told. That is the total cost ! of the practical joke about thc cabman's I $75 outfit, excepting the private retain- j ers which, tor the defense of the four j jokers through the steady legal fight of a year and a half, are said to amount to i about $000 more. The Bullay cabman ? has bought a pair and a victoria and has 1 gone to Berlin to carry men with titles and spurs on their boots.-New York Sun. * - An Island City. Greater New York consists of 45 is- j lands-jus? as many as there are now i stars in our flag. It might be called the j Island City. Read the names of some of j the huger: 1. ?Manhattan island. 2. ' Long island. 3. Staten island. 4. Hart's island, o. City island. 6. Biker s j island. 7. North Brother's island. 8. South island. I?. Blackwell's island. 10. Randall's island, ll. Ward's island, i 12. Ben-ion's island. 13. Governor's is? land. 14. Barren island 15. Coney is? land. Many small ones in Jamaica bay Jam? as large names. One inland island. I Marble Hill, near Kingsbridge, has been made hythe government channel cut through on the Harlem river improve? ments. -New York Dispatch. H:s Musical Choice. "Eothen" Kinglake was a great friend ? of Mme. Olga do Novikofi* during lier I sojourn in England, where one feature ' of her entertainments was afternoon musicals to which none but dilettanti j were invited. On one occasion Kinglake j presented himself, and as an intimate of j the house was admitted. He retired to a corner and listened attentively. Madame was surprised, but pleased, and ap? proaching him said: ""Which order of music do you prefer, my friend-classic, Italian or the Wagnerian scho< >1? I fancy you do not know our great Glinka?" "I assuredly am fond of music," he an? swered, '"but my taste is perhaps pe? culiar. As an instrument I prefer the dre.::i."' Madame tc<,k measures to pre? vent his being admitted to these assem? blies again. TELEGRAPIC ITEMS. May 14. The corooer otoDe of the Odd Fel? lows, Orphanage was laid at Goldsboro, j N C., yesterday. More than 1,000 Republicans are j present in Raleigh to atteod the State ' convention which coovenes to-day. The supreme council of the A. P. A. will repudiate the boycott of McKinley the Republican Presidental candida' The schooner Gladiator left .j mo? ville, Fla., yesterday with arms, ammu? nition and men for Cuba. The residence of Maj D. R. Duncan, of Spartanburg, was burned on Tuesday night. The secretary of State has granted a charter to the Clin-oo Telephone Co. Columbia is taking active steps to secure the propesed Lutheran College. A charter has beeo granted the Clin? ton cotton Mill Co., capitail ?100,000. There were 63 cases and 22 deaths from cholera in Alexandria, Egypt | yesterday. . ' A very severe storms visied St. Louis, ? Mo , yesterday. Mav 15. I ? The Morton Cadets of Washington, j D. C.. won the Galveston Cup and the j ?2,500 priz3 offered by the Inter-State j Military Association, af Savannah, Ga. | Scott Jacksoo. the murderer of Pearl Bryan was convicted at Cincinnati, ! Ohio, yesterday. The Louisiana Legislature met io j joint session yesterday and declared Poster duly elected Governor by a ma- I jority of 26,623. William M. White, a newspaper man of Jacksonville, Fla., who killed a negro hackman in February was acquit- j ted yesterday. White is a native of ! Charleston, and is closely connected ; with Senator Buist, who was present ; during the trial. Two masked men entered the bank at j Buffalo, a small place near Springfield, : 111 . yesterday and took all the cash from the cashier. Yesterday tho secretary of State issued a commission to another new j werehouse company-The Clarendon : Tobacco Warehouse and Supply com- j pany. The corporators are A. Levi, I W. M. O.'Br adham. W. E Brown J S A. ,Rigby and D." L Wilkins. The capital stock is to be ?6,000 divided into shares at $25 each. The Vossische Z3?tuag publishes a dispatch from Constantinople which says that owing to the sultan's fear that | he will-be assassinated, as was the shah j of Persia. 200 Armenians have been j arrested in the city during the last few i days It is credibly stated that the j prisoners have been cruelly tortured. j The Virginia Republicans have en- ! dorsed McKinley for President. The St. Matthews Cotton Oil Mill ! has just paid a dividend of 10 per cent. . -III i i Ultu Fire at Wedgefield. WEDGEFIELD, Mav 13, 1896.-Mr. J. R. Corbett's house was bumed OD yesterday, ; (Sunday), and its entire contents were a i total 'loss. Mr. and Mrs. Corbett bail just re- ! turned home from church, and the former be- j ing quite sick, had gone to bed when the i house was discovered to be on fire. Mrs. i Corbett took out the two little children and \ only one or two articles of clothing that were j at hand. She could not leave them in the j yard to go back to the house. Mr. Corbett! managed to get out of the house but was j unable to carry out anything at all, and when j the Sre was over he had not even a hat or a j pair of shoes. A feather bed and the few j articles saved by Mrs. Corbett are all that! they had when fire w&s over. The unfortu? nate family have the profound sympathy of J the entire community. We sincerely hope that the community at large will come to the aid of Mr. Corbett and his family. Any? thing that any neighbor or fri end might see fit to donate will t>e thankfully received and | worthily bestowed. Mr. Corbett is one of ; our very best citizens. The dry SDell has not yet been broken, we ! have not even been visited by refreshing j showers. Dr. McLaurin's tobacco crop has ! been very much reduced and injured, and ? will, on account of the excessive dry weather, necessarily be very much cut off. Only ; about ten acres have been set out and the ; stand ou that is miserably poor. It is use- , less to set out any more till it rains, and the plants in bed that have to be watered to pre- j vent their dying are crowing so rapidly that the most of them will soon be too large to be ? transplanted. Grand Lodge A.O.U. W. About one hundred delegates are in at tendace on the grand lodge of the Ancient Order ci United Workman of the jurisdiction of Georgia. Alabana, North and South Carolina and Florida, which is in aanua? ses : ion tc-day at Odd Fellows' hall in Macon, (irand Master Workman N. G. Gewinner, of MHCOD, opened the lodge. Ac 10 o'clock the members of W:-sliin<;r.;>:i at?d Magnolia lodges of Macon, escorted the members of the grand I lodge from the Brown bouse to Odd Fellows' : hali. Mr. Bridges Smith, itt behalf of Mayor Price and t t?e etty of Macon, delivered a! very happy and appropriate address of wel? come, to which Hon. A. Moses, of South' Carolina, m?de an eloquent response. Mr. Moses is ati able and prominent member or' the senate <;f Carolina and he is mentioned1 favorably for congress. After thc addresses j the lodge went into the secret work of the j order. The annual address of the grand workman was delivered and reports read. To-night the members of the grand lodge j were entertained at Ocmulgee park. Un- I der the zealous and popular administration | of Grand Master Workman Gewinner the or der in this jurisdistiou has prospered aud ! flourished greatly. 'ion. A. Moses of South Carolina was elect? ed grand Master Workman.-Macon Cor. ! Atlanta Constitution, May 25th. Mr. Carson Nominated. Mr. Editor ; Please permit me space in your columns to nominate Mr. I>. S. Carson a.H a very desirable person to take the place oi 'jv. Archie China or, the City Board o? Health. .Mr. Carson lives in the same ward ] .!?ar J)r. China is representing, and repre sentation by districts or vards is required by ?av.-. Mr. Carson is in every way well quail- ; ned for the position. FKES HOLDER. PRIVATEER PERSONALS. PRIVATEER TOWNSHIP, S. C , May 18, '96. Miss Marv Mellen, eldest daughter of the i " 1 late Representative Frank Mel lett, wasi>uried ! at the Cain graveyard Saturday afternoon. ! She wss just entering the arena of young womanhood, being nineteen years old. In his remarks at the grave, Dr. Wyman gave a touching picture of the meeting of the father and daughter in the happier world be? yond the grave. In-Saturday's News and Courier there was an account of a terrible tornado at Sherman, Texas. Among the dead were R. L. Burns, wife and two children. Weare inclined to thick that this -is the family of Mr. R. L. Bnrns, formerly of this township, who was living in Texas. He was a young man of sterling qualities. According to appointment the Amusement Club met at the Alliance Hall Friday night. The programme of the evening was a debate on the question of extending the suffrage to wom-n, but owing to the absence of most of ; the deoatorSj the debate was abandoned, and j a musical evening took its place. The next : meeting of the Club will be held at Miss | Calley Wells's Friday night, May 29, and j will be a ''Rainbow party." Charades, tableaux, etc., will take place next Friday night at Miss Calley Wells's i after which there will be refreshment. A small admittance fee will be ebarged and this, j with the proceeds resulting from the sale of j refreshments, will be used towards paying for j an organ for Bethel Church. It is safe to say j to say that those who attend will enjoy the : evening. Last week we mentioned about two citizens j of this county who had the honor of sbak- ; ing hands with President Jefferson Davis, j We have since learned that Col. J. D. Bland iog, of Sumter, shook hands several times ; with him. Miss Beulah Tindal is visiting on EdistO | island. Magistrate W. A. Nettles informs us that there is not as much sueing among people now as there was formerly. Mr. Sep Whilden is the first of Privateer ' farmers we Ivtve heard of who has had any oats cut. We were shown several colton forms this j forenoon by one of the farmers of this town- j ship. Richard and Elizabeth Hainsworth, who were mentioned in last-week's W. $ S. as ; having been paid by the colonial government | for entertaining Indians, have several deseen? ! dauts living in this township. An interesting paper among our county rec- j ords in the Clerk of Court's office is an old cer- j tificate in regard to the family who belong to ! theRedbone stock of this township. The j certificate speaks of the members of this j family as being '"'free persons of color, and j also "that their conduct has met the appro Dation of their neighbors and they sustain j good characters." This statement was signed i by the following ''citizens of Sumter Dis- j trict," William Nettles, Benjamin Pack, j Richard T. Wells and H. H. Wells. It was j recorded in 1855. G. S. C. Deschamps w&s ! then Clerk of Court. Tom Gibbes, who is t now the Histor of the Redbons Church in j the township is one whose name is mentioned i in this certificate. Sneaking of these Redhones, we can't re-! sist the tempation of digressing a little and alluding to a person in a distant state. This j person is remarkable old lady who will be 89 '\ next July and whose picture looks strkingly j like one of our Privateer Redboses-inded if j 3he lived in south eastern Privateer, she ! would be unquestionably taken for one of j these people-this old lady is Mrs Zerviah \ G. Mitchell, of Massachusetts, who is descend- j ed from a sister of the great Indian warrior ; and sachem, King Philip. Her likeness and; account of her will be found in an interesting j historical work by Gen. E. W. Price The only albino preacher we have ever j heard of in the United States is Richard j Devyer, a young negro man of 25 year3 who i lives in and is pastor of a small Hresbyterien Church of this township, also of a church of this same denomination in Clarendon County He has an albino brother and sister, ! J i who also live in this township. His father,! "uncle" Jim Devyer, is an aged and well j known colored man-of the township-we re- j gard this old man as one of the most interest- j ing characters that we are acquainted with j among the negro race. McD. F. The Reel Races Are On-Look Out for Fun. SUMTER, S. C , May 15, 1336. R. S. Hood, Foreman, Monaghan Hose Co. No. 2 : Dear Sir-I have your cbal'ege of th? 5th j insiant. and in reply would state, that the j Delger Squad will be more than pleased to ; meetyou in a friendly contest during the ! encampment in this city. Three representa? tives of the squad will confer v.ith yo'j at : the squad rooms on the 18th instant, at 6.15 p. ru Respectfully. W. S. GRAHAM. Foreman. - -i i II ? rn M - LAMAR LOCALS. LAMAR, May 14. 1896 -Mrs. Helen Mirna ' is visiting friends in North Carolina. Miss Maud Atkinson, of Timmonsville, is . .'pending H lew days with the f.-tm?y o!' Mr. T. F. Wilson. Mr. H. T. Harrison, who is now growing tobacco at Rose llili. Sumter County, spent ! Sunday last here. Mr. Harrison was ooeofj our r:;cs: successful carers of last season. On account nf \ho long dry spell the to? bacco planters throughout this section have failed to get stands ot' the weed. At a rough estimate we would say that not more than one-fourth of the intended crop has yet been set out. 7*he planters are growing very un- I easy and some of our largest farmers are j putting cotton on the land as fast as possible, i Our new town council is having some trou- j ble at present with bicyclists on the sidewalks ; at night. B. G. P. Secretaries Olney and Carlisle recently j consented, for the first . time since they held ofiice, to bephotographed seated at their desks. ; The pictures were taken at the request of | The Ladies' Home Journal, and will be used | to illustrate ex-President Harrison's article j describing the workings of the State Depart? ment in the July numuer of that magazine, j -~*ah . ? ? . <ESW i What would summer be without ?i ham I mock ? H. G. Osteen k Co. have a full sup- ; ply at tbe lowest prices. j BONOS TOBE ISSUED. fl^tf f)?SeaSe K?llS The Board of County Commission- ; Suddenly; but never without warning simp? ers Will Float Fifteen Thou- : toms, such as Faint .Weak or Hungry Spells, , _ _ Irregular or Intermittent Pulse, Fluttering sand Dollars Worth of ? or palpitationof the Heart, ChokingSensa County Bonds- j lions, Shortness of Breath, Swelling of Feet - ' and Ankles, etc. The Board of County Commissioners met I T\f MSl/ac' H<?5itH" CA%V(* Monday in special session to decide on the \ UT* TieS "eaiT ^Ure, question of issuing bonds under the act of the I CllTCS HC?-ft O?SC?SC General Assembly providing for an issue of { county bonds to theamount of S'5,000. R. j 3 -*?v*'rp^3=^__. D. Lee, Esq., the attorney o? tue Board, was : <4pJgg|r?|C ""^^?-^**-.^^t^--<^^~<^ called in and advised that the law in refer- | n. ? \ ence to the bond issue is explicit and manda- ! ?(j|p( >^^"^>s. Iv Uh \ tory and that the Board has no option in the vPj^ y^^^^^***^^ / //I/t r matter, but must proceed to issue the bonds j & \ \ ''//?{ The Board accordingly decided to advertise j fT^ & ^ \ //fa/X for sealed bids for the full amount of the pro- , ?'J mk^a t?M/xi?fc'S?' posed issue. Advertisements will he inserted t?\ JPjs? ' s?r^sffl-''/ ' in the county papers and in selected papers ; W?Mm $ ?^)^f^ j in New York, Biltimore. Chicago and : V" tt?Iff /*\- ^^?^y^v 1 Charleston. The bids will be received and Y* /', |^^B^%W'^^^/>''' ' opened at the regular meeting of the Board j j y ^^^^^^^^Ty on the first Monday in July. ? . 1||p2^ ^?i|si& Other business of a routine character was , aJKar^ftb il transacted but nothing of especial interest ? '/A-^V^^^^^^T*^ except that it was decided to transfer the Chain j /.. ''^^^k^y^F? ^^^|ii?H^^! Gang from the vicinity of this city to work . 'y,^ \ on the causway at Scape O'er swamp, which j ' '^/^^S^^fi^/'-r^1^!^^ f'* is in such bad condition that it has been re- ? '?J'-^^^l^^y ?. ' 1 ported by the Grand Jury. ? ' W^^i/' \ M Cheap Rates Secured. $pp% ' / ^^L?L__^J-^jJ^\ The State Democratic convention is to as- ! Mr. Geo. L. Smith, of thc Gc::. L. Smith semble in this city on Wednesday next, ?nd j Mantel Co., Louisville, Ky., writes Feb. 20, the proceedings will be watched with inter- 183*: "For about a year I was ti terrible saf? est. Yesterday a relegram was received from ' ferer from heart trouble. whi< h got s;> bud Commissioner Thomas of tbe Southern Pas- ; I \ras obliged to sit up ::: bcd to gt-t rr:y senger association, stating that a special rate ! breath. 1 had to abandon business and of one snd one-third first class fri re for the; could hardly crawl around. My friend, Mr. round trip had been authorized on all roads ; Julius C. Voght, ono of our leading pharma in this State for the delegates to the conven- ' c^ls askc(t rac to try Dr. Milos' Heart Cure, tion. The delegates came very near having . r usc? little more than a bottle when to pay full fare to come to the convention,: *he ? r?asod and palpitations entirely as it was only a day or two ago that the dis- r^pp^ared I have not had thc slightest covery was made that no reduced rates had j trouhle since> an? ?od::y i am attending to been secured or even apolied for. - Tue State. , . ,""?M"i,.ir<,eaTr" - 1 -_. business as regularly as ever. - - - Sold-by druggists everywhere. Book on ^ms^^^:^^.^^^^^ Kourt ri;nd Xi.:.v,.s seat frcc, A<?drcss Dr. Ingi %Wt %4 jgg M m gg ? g ' ames Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. 111 ? m 1?. ! W mM Br. Mes' Remedies Restore Health. uulii^lS) ML i.-AMUsoumnin, nu::::...-:. : . ..-IT^T DENTIST. tended to '/.'./'/?/.'.! 7 r. 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