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HAMLIN COPYRIGHT. 1905. Bl ."Had you T>een Here all fSeTlme, you Toung rattlepate?" Louis was not afraid of Barnett "Yes; I was down there looking for Hob.** He, pointed toward the town of j Bode. . / -".Well, Pm to bring you home-in t?n?y!" \ Louis took shelter behind Raymond. *3?o, you don't Tell him, Rob." Baymond winked at Barnett. "He's going tomorrow on a promise to me, Don. I've made a bargain with him. He can ten you about it on the way. Moreover, he is going by stage. He's OD honor." "When they were alone Barnett said: "The most unaccountable of all things is -fee human heart. That boy is crazy about you. By the way, how's the liragi "Almost as good as ever." "Your constitution is a wonder. And j the mining deal?" j "Very promising." In the talk that followed Raymond learned 1 for the first time of the pro? posed consolidation of the Red Star willi two or three other heavy proper? ties, and they fell into a discussion of the camp. "If I had my way," said Barnett, Td ha ve^ this meddling idiot Lamed thrown out of the eimp. What busi? ness has he here? He's a rank out? sider anyway, and this union is a hreeder of war." Raymond raised a warning hand. **Carefuh Don. It doesn't do for you to say such things up b?re. This union has come to stay, and you who employ labor will do well to treat it with a certain measure of respect" "But you're an employer too." Baymond laughed. "Oh, my little crew don't count They're all pros- j pectors or cowboys, and, besides, I work right with them and am classed es a working miner. Your case is dif? ferent" Barnett went away calmly superior, but came back from a conference with Mackay, the superintendent of the Red Star, less haughty of manner, but dis? tinctly more acrid of tone. "Mackay j says this confounded union Is growing ; rapidly and that practically every in-1 x.?om?ng miner jonis at once. ? told h'm j to nip the thing in the bud, and he has i begun :o form?lete a plan to do so." *'Wa;t a year." warned Raymond, j ~Wsit till I pay for my mine.'' Tliat ni^t as Lou:-, sar before the fire ! In the center of the unfinished cabin I his face shone with joy and the heart j of the tall miner grew very tender to- i -ward him. It was good to have this | .gay young brother of his love to keep him company. A new sensation arose from having some one to plan for and to protect The creaming lad, outstretched on a pile of blankets with his hands under ids head and his small feet clothed in moccasins, extended to the blaze, sud? denly turned and said: "Rob, this is the kind of life for me. Wouldn't fa? iner have liked this? I'd be perfectly happy if I didn't have to pack off down the hill tomorrow. Why couldn't Ann crane up here?" "Maybe, by and by, when we get our cabin fixed up, we will ask your sister and Mrs. Barnett to come up and visit os," said Raymond. Louis started up. "Oh, will you? If j Asm were here I would never want to I 9> back east again-never! I could j ?lve here always." A foot outside disturbed Raymond, j nnd a man's voice called, "Is Rob Ray? mond here?" In the unfinished doorway stood a graceful young fellow in a white som tnrero and a neatly fitting dark suit j "^Jack Munro!" exclaimed Raymond, J and they shook hands. "Sit down, j TThis Is a boy friend of mine from the j Springs," he said, indicating Louis, j .What can I do for you?" "Nothing, old man. Just lined you j ont today. I heard that a man named j Baymond had taken a lease with Kelly, j trat I didr/t know it was you till I saw yon with Barnett today. Well, this is ! -wonderful: Where you from? What i liave you been doing since we-grad rated?" There was something in his TOice that eluded Louis. Raymond gare Munro a warning glance. "Oh, a little of everything - cattle ranching, hunting, mining. I saw you lest night in Hanley's saloon." ?"Why didn't you speak up?" Baymond hesitated. "I didn't know whether you" "Oh, rats! I'm not one to dodfre. What did getting fired amount to any? way? I was ready to leave." Baymond repeated his warning sign. ?"Have you been back-home?" Munro smiled broadly. "You bet! I went back and swelled around in high feathers-told my side of the story understand? I didn't let the institution get the drop on me. But, see here, come up to the saloon; I want to talk things over with you. The boys are bound to make me take a hand in this union." "Can't do it now. Jack. But come down again. Louis is goinjc back to? morrow, and VU be alone for a day or two, and then we can talk freely." "Ali right. There are a whole lot of things I want to turn over. By the Lord, this is wonderful-our meeting up here!" He was reluctant to go. "You bring up the old days. Well, so long/' When Raymond returned to his seat ids face was grave and his eyes deeply Y... ? GARLAND HAMLIN GARLAND reflective. Louis was much interested in the stranger. "Who was that, Rob?" "A chap I used to know." Next morning after breakfast Ray? mond hurried Louis off down tue can? yon to the stage and in his letter to Ann repeated his pledge to look care? fully after the boy's health and to keep him out of mischief. Louis arrived at the Springs fairly hysterical with joy over his wonderful day's ride and set about to describe Skytown. ^ His absence had been a revelation of his value to Ann. She had Dot realized up to that moment how deeply his care was woven into her daily life. It was jealousy of Raymond's power-an acrid juice-which had turned her pity for .him, while wounded and helpless, into i resentment, and now that he was well and triumphantly drawing -the boy to lils side her heart was bitter with hatred, but she gave her consent to Louis' return because she dared not ; do otherwise, and in a letter to Ray? mond she said: I resign Louis into your hands, because his happiness is more than my own zmd because he no longe-* regards my wishes. I have heard mud the gambling and drinking of mining c<. .nps. I beg of you to guard him. He is so fine and sweet now, and defilement is so easy. Upon reading this letter the camp suddenly became a dark and dangerous place to the young miner. He found it harder to make excuse for profanity and foul jests of the miners, and he went less and less among them and spent more of his time with the lad watching him draw or listening to him while he read. Their cabin became the center of the finer spirits of the camp. Dolan and one or two of his friends often came in of an evening to smoke a pipe and play" a friendly game of cards. "A visit to the bungalow always pays," said one young fellow whose weakness was drink. "They send a fellow away feeling respectable." Mrs. Kelly supervised, the house? keeping as well as she could, and the 'T/iis is a boy friend <f mine." place was at least warm and cheerful. Once a fortnight Louis rode down the trail to spend Sunday with Ann, but Raymond steadily refused to join Mm, though he suffered keenly of loneliness. "I am a miner now." he said. ' I've taken myself out of that life." And Louis did not know when he carried these words to his sister that they conveyed a deeper meaning. Ann was aware that Raymond was holding aloof from her, and, while she re? spected him for his consideration, she was, after all, a woman and reseated his self mastery a little. She was beginning to be bored to hopelessness by the narrow life at the Springs, under conditions which seem? ed to the outsider ideally beautiful. But Louis came down each time browner, more manly in bearing-al? most comical in his assumption of Kel? ly's walk and Raymond's impassive face. He always had exciting tales to tell and seemed so entirely happy a?ad so well that Ann had not the heart to ask him to return east with her. She even found herself listening with in? terest to his account of the doings of his heroes, for he had placed Matthew Kelly on the same pedestal with Rob? ert. Mrs. Barnett responded graciously to his invitation to come up and see the peak, but explained that tho high alti? tude was destructive to her, and Ann shrank from meeting Raymond again, though she expressed to him in a letter a tepid sort of gratitude for his care of her brother. CHAPTER XII. ONE day Barnett telephoned to his wife that he would nor take luncheon at home. There was nothing unusual in the words of this announcement, but Jean? nette's keen ear detected restrained excitement in his calm drawl. "What's the matter?" she asked quickly. "Nothing, ray dear; nothing," he ; ly responded. "Don Barnett. I know better, me this instant!" He was in for it. "Well, Mr. I kay. Our superintendent, was ta and ridden on a rail by the miners morning" "Gracious heavens!" -"and Fm getting off up the si road to meet him." "What did they do it for?" "Oh. it's the same old business, men didn't like some regulation of and struck, and-but it's a long stol won't go into it now. I'll get bael time for dinner, probably." In an hour Millionaire row was h ming with news of the outrage, ports, confused, conflicting, flew al the wires east and west, and the af noon papers were filled with dram details of the opening of a big st in Skytown and the story of how union leaders had mishandled Macl the superintendent of the Red ? Mining corporation. All this would have interested ? very little had not her brother beer the midst of the disorder. She imm ately wired him to come down and a reply from Raymond saying, "Lc is on the way-no danger." and the himself came riding into the yard dusk. Raymond's letter to Barnett took rious view of the situation: I don't think Mackay the proper mar attempt to reorganize the working ho of this camp. Don't try to put him bs and don't make too much of this tie affair. The whole camp is uneasy ifchis time. The union is getting v strong and likely to make it hot for dependents like Kelly and myself. "What is it all about?" asked Je nette. Don looked bored. "Oh, really n< don't ask me to go into the cause o strike. A woman never understai such a situation. However, here what Rob says: Mackay posted his notices Sature night, putting the new nine hour sched into effect Monday morning. Sunday camp boiled. The union put forth its cree, and of course at the morning h< a big crowd gathered to see Mackay f; his men. He came riding up (the ja* ass!) in tan colored English rid: breeches and a little two billed gray ca you know the kind. Of course they hoo: him and headed his horse back down 1 elope. He was red headed, naturally, a: being a double distilled idiot, hired couple of desperadoes from Bozle guards and came back. This time 1 buys jerked him and his men from th horses and hustled them down the cany ! at the boot toe. I did what I could prevent this, but the men who had t j matter in charge had been drinking, a ! the crowd was with them. My men s not in the .union, but I hear omino threats. I advise you not to attempt put the new schedule into operation the .present time. The effect on the valley of Mackay recital of his maltreatment was mc wonderful. The principal mine owne of the Springs met to discuss the campaign. The valley called for tl blood of those who had dusted the s j cred person of their representative, ai the sherill was ordered to arrest ai bring down the insolent "red neck ! who h? >\ humbled the proud and co fident Red >';>: superintendent. "Th spirit' or. lawlessness must be cheeki or it will run into riot," said Barnet who developed unexpectedly into leader of the mine owners by virtue < his large interests-in the Red Star. The sheriff valiantly responded to tl call and, with a half dozen deputie marched up into the glittering mist < the high peaks and came down agai empty handed and.sullen. A meeting of the officers of the Rc Star and allied compames was calle* Barnett presiding. Most resolute re olutions were passed. Mackay was ii structed to press his demands to tl] full. Barnett naturally opposed a coi terence with the miners. "Either the come to our terms or we close dow the mines," he said. "It is our cue t be firm in this demand." The sheriff, who had been invited t be present and tell his tale, put in warning word. "Gentlemen," said he, "you're dea ing with a lot of free miners and proi pectors-men who won't be driven an can't be scared. If it had been just case of ignorant dagoes I would hav brought 'em down, but they've got lead ers that you can't monkey with. Wbe; Hob Smith, Denver Dan and that devi Jack Munro met me with their holster tied down 1 threw up my hands. Yoj are from the east, where things ar different. About one-third of the mei on the peak are old prospectors an< free miners, and if they stay by thi proposition you've got to take a sneal or put up the fight of the age." "We stand pat," said Barnett, "an< vre shall insist on your arresting th< men who assaulted Mr. Mackay." The sheriff made an elaborate bow "Right you are, Mr. Barnett, but IT want a hundred deputies to do it with.' Moving with such secrecy as be could, the sheriff collected and swore in some ninety men, the boldest and hardiest to be found in all the towns of the valley. They were not sedate and considerate citizens, but they were brave, or at least reckless, and without exception experienced wearers of guns. They professed themselves quite able and willing to bring down anybody in the hills. After being armed and pro? visioned they were to be sent round by way of a railroad which was build? ing town rd the camp from the south. Barnett was heedful of his words at home and made light of the probable opposition of the miners, but Louis, with a boy's ability to discern what was going on. soon acquired a pretty clear idea of the plan, and when Ann asked him not to return to the heights on Monday he was ominously calm, but asserted his right to go where be pl eti sed. "Rob wants me and needs me. and i i'm going. You can put me in jail, but that is the only way. If there is going to be war, I am going to be in it, and I'm going to be on the side of the minors." Ann wrote a swift and fervent note to Raymond : I am trusting Louis to your care be ecus-: ? sl?y. You have his i: . and we are power to pr rn. Guard him, for sake sh sweetness, for sake. She : . further, for as mind J ? . ; ' that camp of ruf miners ana their desire for battle a ter resolution swept over her. "I . test his love for me." With cold in: sity she announced her purpose, you insist on going back to that ca I shall go too." s "You must not go," said Louis. " no place for you." "It is no place for you." He asserted himself again. "I take care of myself." "Mr. Raymond has asked me to k you here." She went to him and her arm about his neck. "Stay v me, laddie. I am missing you th days." In the end she seemed to prevail, she took no pleasure in her victory, he went about the house like a yoi eagle pinioned. Nothing save the n< of the camp interested him, and wi the 'time came for the sheriff to start his new raid he became greatly cited. "There's going to be a battle," he s tc* Ann. "I'm going." '*No, no I" she pleaded. He turned upon her with a resent stamp of his heel. "I can't stay ii like a kid." She changed her tone, "Very w When shall we start?" He looked at her steadily, and i] his eyes came a softer gleam. "I just thought" he began reflective "you can stay with Mrs. Kelly till build a wing for you. She's a nice v man and lives in the cunningest lit log cabin. That settles it! We will right away, today!" ? Ann was at a loss, but did not sh< it. "If you are-determined to go, th there is no use vin waiting. Let us sfc ? at once!" ' While Mrs. Barnett suggested wt i to wear Don ordered a carriage to ta \ Ann and himself to the train, and Lot I saddled his horse for his return trip the stage road. "I'll beat you up." shouted to Ann and galloped aw; with shining face. The railway which ran up Bear ca yon was still building and had not y reached the divide, so that a stage ri of some twenty miles connected t town of Grand View with Sky cam Ann and Barnett were noticeable p( sons in the car, which was filled wi roughly clad workmen of all kine Ann was conscious of their admir tion for her, and it deeply annoyed ht Two or three of the better dressed me who were on speaking acquaintan with Barnett, came up to ask him wh; he thought of the strike. "I didn't know it was a strike," sa j he, ignoring their evident desire to 1 j introduced to Ann. j "Oh, it's a strike all right. Your ma Mackay wasn't much hurt, was he?" "Notbadly." "He was a little too previous. I hoi the sheriff won't try to do anythirj ! more about it. The boys up at Sb I are a little sharp set about that bus ness. Ain't goin' up there yourself, ai ye?" "Yes; I've ai ways been on good tern with my men. I think I can he?p 1 arrange some sort of a compromise." The two miners looked at each othe At length the older of them said in tone that meant a good deal to ears a customed to western inflections: "Wei I reckon the whole thing has been e: aggerated. ily claim is just belo1 Bozle, and so, of course, I don't kno1 much more about Sky than you d< Still I wouldn't advise your going in ? this time." \ At Grand View a couple bf stage met them, and as Ann waited on th platform for Don to secure a carriag she observed that on the seat of eac of the coaches two guards sat, negl gently nursing rifles which glittered i the sunlight. Soon the whips began t crack, and the coaches rolled away on by one, leaving Barnett to follow in road wagon which he had hired fo their own jespecial use. The sun was sinking to midaftei j noon, and Mogalyon on the left was i: ! full glory of ermine and saffron. Th ? air was keen and crisp, the sky cloud less, and the road, except for an occa sional mudhole, was very good. Bat nett remarked, "We ought to pull int Bozle before dark on these roads." Night came abruptly. A thin gra; scum rose swiftly on the western" sk; and suddenly grayed the brightness o the sun. The world grew instantly stern and cold. The road, after climb ing a ridge, descended into a gorg< with firs on either side, and when the: came out upon the flat meadow to th< northwest of Mogalyon only the light! of Skytown could be seen. At the moment that Don was point ing out the lights two horsemen ap peared in front and in the middle ol the road. "Halt!" cried a clear voice. The driver pulled his tired horses tc a stand so energetically that his hand* rose above his head. "Is Donnelly Barnett with you?" asked one of the men as he rode nearer. "I'm Barnett. What do you want of me?" asked Don coolly. V "Not a thing." answered the 'horse? man. "That's just it. We have no use for you, and I've been watching to meet you and say that the boys want you to continue your quiet, uneventful life at the Springs." "Who are you?" "We're a couple of Skytown vedettes. Who is the lady?" "That doesn't concern you. Go on. driver." Tlie driver took up the reins, but the voice of the vedette grew stenier, "Stay where you are!" Then, turning to Barnett: "I'm your best friend. Don I nelly. The boys understand that you ! are backing Mackay In his plans, and it isn't safe for you to enter the camp. I advise you to turn around right here and go back." Ami spoke up: "Please let us go on. Mr. Barnett is taking me in to meet my brother, "and 1 "am cold and hun? gry." There was something thrilling in the calm, clear sweetness of her voice, and the first of the vedettes, pressing near? er, leaned from his saddle to ask: "Who is your brother, lady?" "His name is Louis Rupert. He is only a boy, and I am going in to care for him." "Rob Raymond's kid. I know him," replied the vedette. "But I thought he was visiting you in the Springs." "He was, but he went back to the camp today, and I am very anxious about kim." "He's all right, lady, so long as Rob Raymond has him in hand. You are welcome, but Barnett is on the out? side and must stay there." "? decline to acknowledge your au? thority," responded Barnett, now thor? oughly angry. The horseman laughed softly, irritat? ingly. "Manners don't go with us at ! the present time. I must ask you to camp right here or go back to Grand View till I can communicate with the president of the union. If you are here to talk compromise the men will be glad to meet you, but my judgment is that you better retire to Grand View. I will see that this lady gets to her brother." Ann was not a timid girl, but the thought of riding away into the black? ness of the night with these sinister i ? guards made her flesh chill and her j nerves creep. "Don't leave me, Don," she whispered. Barnett stormed at the horsemen. "It is impossible! If I am forced to go back she must go with me. What right have you to interfere in our plf.ns?" The answer came quickly, coldly, ev? ery word telling. 'Til tell you. The boys have learned that you have been chiefly instrumental in pushing the sheriff into another raid, and if trouble comes they'll kill you. It isn't safe for you to be on the hill tomorrow. Now you needn't be afraid to trust the lady to me." The vedette removed bis hat. "I am not a man to be feared by wo? men." ! Ann again spoke. "I can't consent to your going into danger for me, Don. Turn back, and I will go on." "It is madness !" lie said in a low ! voice. "These men are not fit escorts for you. We will both go back and j wait-until morning." Ann's teeth were chattering with ! cold. "I dread that loug drive. We must be almost at our destination." The two horsemen conferred together, and at last one of them returned to say: "Driver, you may come on until you reach the first cabin at the foot of the hill. There the lady will get out, and you will drive Mr. Barnett back before daylight tomorrow morning." As they drew up before the shanty door the leader of the vedettes rode forward and said gently: "Lady, the road from here to the summit is lined with cabins, and no harm can possibly come to you while I have you in charge. t)r, "if you" like, "you can "stay here till morning; but I would advise you to go on to Mrs. Kelly's. There i3 no cabin suited to your needs on this side of the peak." Ann, stiff and weary and hungry, rose in her seat with a sort of despera? tion. "I will go," she said with trem? bling voice.. The vedette, dismounting quickly, helped her to the ground, while the sec? ond man, leaning low on his horse, en? tered into a muttered conversation with an unkempt man in the doorway. Barnett argued and insisted on going on to Kelly's. "Not one step farther!" sternly com? manded the vedette. "But you can sleep here till daylight if you wish." Ann interposed. ''Don, I beg of you to go home. I don't want you to go 1 any farther. I am not afraid now. ! This man will take me to Mrs. Kelly's. | I'm sure of it, and Louis will be there by this time, and Mr. Raymond." "Sure thing, lady. And it isn't late- j not more than 7 o'clock. We'll almost get there in time for supper. Can you ride a horse?" "Yes." I "Well, I will put you on my saddle, and I will walk and lead the horse.** J The light from the doorway fell upon, him as he approached her, and the j sight of his boyish face reassured her. As Barnett saw her rise to the sad? dle he burst out: "This is preposterous! You must not go up there. The boy isn't worth it. I'm going with you or fight!" He drew his revolver, but some one caught his hand from behind and twisted the weapon out of his grasp. "Qo on, Jack. We'll take care of him," called the man in the cabin door. As the light of the lamp was left be? hind and the darkness settled round her a convulsive terror seized upon the girl. The horse, stumbling over loose rocks in the road, which ran back and forth on the hillside like folds of braid, passed now and again under dark and silent pines. Once, as her guard came back toward her, somethiug rose iu her throat, some elemental dread, and her breath rushed hoarsely through her lips. "Ii' Robert only knew ni}* need of him." she thought, "he would sureiy come to me." The man's voice was gentle as he said: "You see. lady, the camp is in a terrible excitement. We heard today that the sheriff was coining with a posse, and the boys kind o' hold five or six o' those one lungers in the Springs responsible. They are particularly dowu on Barnett for putting Mackay up to that trick. But you'll be perfect? ly safe at Kelly's." At length Ann's leader turned to? ward a dark, high point of rocks, the trail began to descend and a few min? utes later they came to a warmly lighted cabin, on the door of which the guide resolutely knocked. The latch was immediately lifted, and a small, pale woman with a blur of yellow hair about her head appeared in the light [TO BE COA'TLN O&D.] K Many a tongue shakes out its mas? ter's undoing.-Shakespeare. CLEMSON RUN WRONG. Mr. McMalian is Anxious That College Re Reformed. Greenville. August 21.-In his speech here t >day Mr. John J. Mc Mahan, one of the candidates for govr governor, spoke in partas follows: But the entire organization of Clemson is wrong. It is supported by a^ax upon the farmers, which, some years far exceeds the usual in? come. To avoid the criticism that they have more money than they need they are under the necsssity of find? ing some way to spend the surplus be? fore the time to report to the legisla-' ture each year. This encourages ex? travagance and places this one State institution in a class all by itself, in? dependent of the government of the State. This permanent appropriation, of an indefinite and ever-increasing sum of money is in violation of the fundamental safeguard of govern? ment which everywhere else requires that the representatives of the people, in annual or biennial session,, shall pass upon the work and the needs of the institutions of the State and shall say how much of the peo? ple's money is to be spent. Except at Clemson it has been unheard cf in our State for a board of trustees, without specific authority from the legislature to erect new and expensive buildings, add new departments, in? crease the plant so as to necessitate permanently increased annual sup? port, committing the State to new departures without asking the consent of the legislature. The fertilizer tax: should go into the State treasury and Clemson should be supported as the other institutions- of the State by an? nual appropriations from the treas? ury. But the trouble is more fundament tal. The State of South Carolina has no authority in the government of Clemson Coliege. She has planted her hundreds of thousands ! or mil? lions of dollars there, but for* a mere pittance of poor land and a little cash she accepted from Mr. Clemson the perpetual condition that a majority of the board of trustees . should be named by him and should have the power to perpetuate themselves, and thus rule forever the institution upon which the S1ate of South Carolina, should lavish her wealth. No State institution should be beyond State control. Trustees become cid, be? come antiquated in their ideas, or for; other reasons may be out of joint with the progress and demi rids of the times. Their Czarlike power, per? petual oligarchy amenable to no aur thority, may breed in them arro? gance, bigotry and selfishness. It has long been felt that Clemson College is a close corporation, largely officered by tho kinsmen and other favorites of these life trustees, who* will control even beyond the period of their natural lives, because they choose their successors Nepotism, the bane of efficiency and fairness, honeycombs the institution. It is op? erated in large measure by the trus? tees for the trustees Until the legis? lature some seven or eight years ago saw' the necessity of directing that the trustees should not draw per diem but should draw actual expenses, there were a few old broken down trustees who were on committees to supervise all sorts of work, which should have been left to the presi? dent The mileage and four dollars a day was an inducement to hang around the college nearly all the time Such is the tyranny of the trustees, perpetuated in the Un-American way like a European dynasty, that profes? sors have been taught to keep their mouths shut, to be in constant terror and sometimes to cringe. What is the remedy? The State should go to the heirs or resduary legatees and purchase, as could be done for a small amount, the rever? sionary interest, so that the State could repudiate the will and take charge of the management of its in? stitution. Not the least of the benefits to come from this action would be the right then to name the College, as it should have been named in the be? ginning, after the great statesman whose name the world over is linked with that of South Carolina. Cal? houn's estate was willed by an un? worthy son-in-law, a Northern man, and without any claim upon this Stato. was so ungenerous, so meanly selfish, that lie decreed in his dicta? torial will not only to rule forever the institution which he asked the State to support, but to foist upon it his name instead of the name which sprang to every lip-the immortal Calhoun. The End of the World * Of troubles that robbed E. H. Wolfe of Bear Grove, Ia., of ali usefulness, came when he began taking Electric Bitters. He writes: "Two years ago kidney trou'ole caused me great suf? fering, which I would never have sur? vived had I not taken Electric Bitters. They also cired me of general debil? ity." 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