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GOLDSBOltO, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1899.
VOL. XII. NO. 42.
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1 NTO
Some Things Forever.
Some things shall be forver;
Mutter may change, as matters must;
l he mountains crumble into dust,
I he titles forget their ebb and How,
1 he earth no more its verdure know,
the moon its light to darkness burn,
.stars fade away, suns cease to turn
Some things shall be forever.
Some things shall perish never;
1 he wealth of gold, thediamonds worth,
Shall vamsh with the miser earth,
Honor aud glory shall be o'er
And fame, e'en time shall be no more.
Kingdoms shall crumble, and the hi.rh
Shall f.ill, and death itself shall die
Hut some tilings perish never.
Some things shall live foryer;
Reason shall perish never more,
Memory shall keep her treasured store
And will shall live, imperial will,
And love or hate, for good or ill,
This mystery of being, I.
This conscience, self, shall never die
Some things shall live forever.
Some things shall be forever:
Truth shall be changeless blessedness.
Just ice abide and righteousness.
And peace and heaven be their abode.
God shall forever more be God,
Shall sin with truth run parallel,
And hell eternally be hull?
Sonic things shall be forever.
Cheerful Labor.
The hardest task is made easy
when it can be done cheerfully. The
willing worker thinks only of the
labor in hand and finds pleasure in
doinj,' it. The unwilling worker is
dissatisfied and renders himself un
happy by vain regrets. Although
these are the merest truisms known
of all men, the knowledge is not
always turned to useful account.
If the labor we all have to perform
may be made either a source of
pleasure or of discomfort, we should
surely take some pains to learn how
to work cheerfully. That is one of
the reasons why care should be
taken in choosing an occupation.
Unless we are interested in our work
we cannot do it well, nor can we go
to it day after day with a cheerful
disposition. Nor can we work cheer
fully, even at a congenial occupation,
unless we have become habituated to
labor regularly.
Much of the happiness or unhap
piness of our lives depends upon the
habits we form when we are young,
and happiness comes not to those
who pursue pleasure, but to those
who learn to carry within themselves
a cheerful and contended disposition.
The pleasure-seeker must have
change and excitement he cannot
content himself with a dull routine
of work; but the great majority are
required by force of circumstances
to labor daily, and, therefore, it is
the part of wisdom to learn to work
cheerfully and to seek pleasure in
labor. There are other pleasures to
be found in life, but they. will be ap
preciated more keenly if they have
been earned. To realize this it is
only necessary to note the zest with
which the cheerful worker enters
upon a brief holiday, and the lang
uid air of his fellow who on the same
occasion seeks an outing, but to
whom the holiday has no significance
because his indulgent parents per
mit him to live in idleness.
The well-to-do often envy their
poorer neighors because of the keen
appetites of those who work hard
and have few luxuries; they have as
much reason to envy the cheerful
worker to whom a holidayr is a great
event. The hours that most people
can give to so-called pleasure are few
in numbercom pared to the hours they
must give to work, and their happi
ness will be greatly increased if they
can learn to labor cheerfully. This
is largely a matter of mental habit
and the young should start right in
forming habits. The first thing to
learn is promptness in begiuing a
task. The more one stops to consider
about going to work the more dis
tasteful the idea becomes. There is
no trouble about getting out of bed
in the morning when one is called,
provided the summons is instantly
obeyed. Hut it becomes more and
more difficult to get up the longer
one lies in bed thinking about it.
So also there is no trouble about
going to work of any kind if one
starts at the appointed time, instead
of lingering and making a vain effort
to postpone the begiuing of the day
labor. Good habits having been
formed in the matter of starting,
activity and earnestness in doing the
work will shut out idle thoughts and
enable one to do the appointed task
cheerfully. Idleness is the parent
of many vagrant thoughts; the cheer
ful worker becomes so intent upon his
task that he thinks of nothing else.
Cheerful labor has in this a good
moral influence, and every one should
therefore endeavor to acquire such
habits as will make work a source of
pleasure.
The man who never failed is a myth.
Such a one never lived, and is never
likely to live. All success is a series
of efforts, in which, when closely
viewed, are seen more or less failure,
The mountain is apt to overthrow
the hill; but the hill is reality, never
theless. If you fail now and then
don't be discourage.
An Kpltlemic of IMarrlioe.
Mr A. Sunders, writing from Cocoa-
nut Grove. Klu.. suvs there has been
,,,.it,. :in enideinic of diarrhoea there.
He hud a severe attack and was cured
In- fniir ilnsi's of Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He
suvs he also recommended it to others
ami they sav it is the l.est medicine they
ever used. " For sale by M. E. Robin
son & Hro., J. H. Hill & Son, and
Miller's Drug Store, Goldsboro; and J.
R. Smith, Mount Olive.
AKPON TRUSTS.
Bill Deems the Tension Trust the Big
gest Trust of All.
David saith "Put not your trust in
princes," and if he had lived in our
day he would have added nor in mill
ionaires or oil trusts or sugar or
vviskeyor tobacco or even in chewing
gum trusts." "Trust in the Lord
and do good is the only trust he
commended. I wonder why these
combines are called trusts. I reckon
it is because the combiners know it
is a rascally business and they will
have to trust one another to tote
fair and divide square, for they can't
enforce it by law. These trusts seem
to be a modern invention a North
America idea an idea of our north
ern brethren to make the rich richer
and the poor poorer. The consumers
of oil and sugar and such things are
not complaining of the price nor
wouid they complain if they got them
for nothing, but these combines are
founded on selfishness and greed.
They disturb the general welfare des
troy the equilibrium and put the pub
lic inconstant peril. They can raise
the price when they wish to and there
is no competition to keep it down.
If competition dares to build up
against them they can destroy it in
a week or a month. They have no
heart or city or kind consideration
for their employees, but can reduce
their wages or discharge them at
their pleasure. They defy the law
and bribe courts and lawmakers.
Now, it may be possible that the oil
trust or the sugar trust sell us those
commodities as cheap or cheaper
than if there were no trusts, but we
would rather pay more and have a
free fight. It is all a one-sided busi
ness and the old maxim that "com
petition is the life of trade" has been
virtually destroyed.
We old men have ceased to lament
the destruction of the hundreds of
small industries that before the war
enriched our state and made the peo
ple happy and contended. The time
was when there was a wagon shop
and a blacksmith shop at every cross
roads a hatter's shop and two or
three shoehops in every village a
tan yard in every settlement and
little mills on every creek. Iiut big
fish have swallowed up the little ones.
Their products may be cheaper now,
but the producers have had to move
away or go to plan tingcotton. North
ern capital takes our iron and timber
and hides and wool and after paying
freight both ways sells back to us
what we had been making at home.
Time was when 1 ware shoes made
in our village made from leather
that was tanned not faraway. Time
was when I was proud of the wool
hat that Hen South made made
while I was looking on. I remember
that the whipping post was planted
not far from the hatter's shop and
how I ran home on one occasion to
keep from seeing a white man whip
ped. "I will meet you at the hat
ter's." was a time-honored maxim,
but is not now.
Time was when once a week I rode
the little bay mare to mill three miles
away and left my grist so as to have
a race back with some other boy.
And there was a country school on
that road and the boys waylaid us
because we had dared to cry "school
butter." This reminds me to say in
passing I received a letter the other
day from some Alabama schoolboys
wanting to know the origin and mean
ing of shool butter. My father was an
old time school teacher and said that
in his boyhood the expression was
"school butter" and signified that
"our school it better than your
school," and is always provoked a
collision. Some very hungry boys
corrupted it into "school butter."
But the town boys never go to mill
nowadays; the mill comes to them.
Home made shoes and hats arc thing
of the past everything comes from
the North, and is made by a trust;
and on almost everything we use or
consume there is a duty or tariff, and
we pay our part of it to keep up the
government expenses and pay the
pensions and light the Filipinos.
Talk about trusts that pension
trust is the biggest trust of all, and
the most corrupt. How the north
stands it I cannot understand. Ohio
gets $13,000,000 this year.and Geor
gia has to pay her quota of the $Ki0,
000,000 and gets nothing. I bought
a pocket knife today for 50 cents that
I could have bought in London for
half as much. Just think of it my
brethren, $0,000,000 in tariff taxes
annually to support a million pen
sioners, one tenth of whom are en
titled to it under the new-law and
nine-tenths are frauds. If this was
all that Georgia paid we would be
happy, but our state has to pay her
part of $8,000,000 more than it takes
to run the national machine. Alto
gether we pay not less than $10,000,
000 annually for the privilege of re
maining in the Union How is that
for oppression? I tell you, it takes
a vast amount of patriotism for a
man to love his government and fight
for it. The only way to be a patriot
is to shut one's eyes and go it blind.
It would not do to think about our
grievances, for they interfere with
our digestion.
Besides all these troubles there is
a long, dry drought upon us, and our
gardens have dried up and the mon
ey has given out, and the cook is
sick, and I have to hunt up the kind
ling wood and fire up the stove be
fore sun-up and go to market, and
there is a picnic on hand tomorrow
and one of the little grandchildren
got hurt on the joggling board. It
tore the flesh from her ankle, and I
almost cried; and our dog and an
other dog got to fighting right over
another dog and knocked her down
and scared her into fits, and I couldn't
run to her as fast as I wanted to, for
my corporosity interferes with my
alacrity. Besides all this, the town
is kept in commotion about jug bus
iness, and it has got into courts and
into the churches, and folks have
taken sides and friends are alienated
and a man don't dare to go to town
hardly for fear of being drawn into
it. "A soft answer turneth away
wrath," but they are not soft in
these parts. "When a man's ways
please the Lord Ife maketh even his
enemies be at peace with him," but
his ways don't seem to please the
Lord in Cartersville, for his enemies
are not at peace with him. The
great question here is not about
drinking or selling whiskey, but is
about the right of a man to order a
bottle or a jug from Atlanta for his
private use or for medicinal pur
poses; and its agitation and denun
ciation has made as much talk as the
magna charta, and both sides declare
they will take it to the supreme
court of the United States of North
America and the Philipines.
Then, again, Hon. Pope Brown,
the zealous president of the State
Agricultural Society, says the state
will not prosper any more uutil the
negroes are sent away or colonized;
but if they won t go, what is to be
done about it? He says that educa
tion has ruined the negro as a labor
er, but how is it to be stopped? The
rich fools at the north keep on dying
and leaving money to negro schools,
and our law-makers keep on making
appropriations for them and taxing
us to educate them to oppose our
people and take sides with our polit
ical enemies, who are killing negroes
in Indiana because they want work.
And now the war party want ne
groes to go to the Philippines and
fight other negroes. That would be
a good deliverance all round, but I
don't believe they will go to any ex
tent. The nigger is in t lie wood
pile, and he is here to stay. Let
Li in stay as long as he behaves, and
if they won't behave and be good
citizens they will suffer in the flesh.
Our people are tired fooling with
them, and desperately in earnest. I
reckon we can get up excursions
and take all the bad ones to Indiana
aud drop them. They will go on
an excursion.
Bill Ari
A Woman's Bank.
The Fifth Avenue National bank of
New York has 5,000 women deposi
tors. It is situated at the corner of
Forty-fifth tteet and Fifth avenue,
in the midt of the residences of
wealthy classes, and is almost ex
clusively patronized by rich women,
who keep their household accounts
and pin money there. The receiving
tellers are very busy during the first
few days of every month, when the
patrons of the bank bring in the al
lowances they have received from
their husbands or fathers, but the
rest of the time they have compara
tively few depositors to take care of,
and have plenty of time to assist the
paying tellers in cashing checks that
have been drawn to meet grocery or
dressmakers' bills.
A (Jirdle of Bicycles.
It is estimated that there are now
in use throughout the world about
14,000,000 bicycles. What this
number of wheels means may be real
ized better, perhaps, when it is said
that if they were put in line, allowing
a space of nine feet for each machine,
they would reacli almost entirely
round the world at the center, or
the point of the greatest circumfer
ence. To be exact, it would take 14,590,
814 bicycles to encircle the earth,
allowing nine feet for each machine.
It would be a difficult matter to as
certain an absolutely correct esti
mate of the number of bicycles in
use, but it is likely that 14,000,000
is something below the actual num
ber. IS IT ltKiHT
For an Kditor to Itec-oiunieri 1'atent
Me.Ilcine?
Kr.nn Sylvan Valley News. Hrt?vard, N. C.
It may he a question whether the editor
of a newspaper has the right to publicly
recommend and of the various proprie
tary medicines which flood the market,
yet as a preventive of suffering we feelit
a duty to say a good word for Chamber
lain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy. We have known and used
this medicine in our family for twenty
years and have always found it reliable.
In many cases a dose of this remedy
would save hours of suffering while a
physician is awaited. We do not be
lieve in depending implicitly on any
medicine for a cure, but we do believe
that if a bottle of Chamberlain's Diar
rheoa Remedy were kept on hand and
administered at the inception of an at
tack much suffering might be avoided
and in very many cases the presence of
a physician wouitLnot be required. At
least this has been our experience during
the past twenty years, l or sale by M.
E. Robinson & Iro., J. II. Hill & Son,
and Miller's Drug Store, Goldsboro;
and J. R. Smith, Mount Olive.
A NATION'S DOIXUS.
The News From Everywhere (fathered
and Condensed.
While deranged Saturday, Benja
min Lang, aged 84, killed his wife at
Boston, Mass.
Fourteen hundred striking cigar
ette girls have returned to work in
Richmond, Va.
A Knights of Pythias picnic train
was wrecked near Danville, 111., Sat
urday, and three men were killed.
Five hundred convicts in the
Anamosa penitentiary, Des Moines,
la., have struck for better rations.
At Neillsville, Wis., Tuesday, Miss
Alice Willan and Mrs. Neil Morrison
were thrown from a buggy and
killed.
C.-azed by jealousy, William Kelly
shot and killed his wife in Lowell,
Mass., Monday, and suicided in like
manner.
Two men were scalded to death by
the collapse of a steam flue on the
river steamer St. Paul, at St. Louis,
Mo., Tuesday.
A train struck a crowded carriage
at Indianapolis, Ind., Monday, and
killed seven-3'ear-old Hazel Shaffer
and injured three others.
Branson Troy was killed by light
ning at Morgantown, W. Va., Wed
nesday night, during a storm which
unroofed many dwellings.
A trainload of negro miners was
fired on near Cartersville, 111., Fri
day, one woman being killed and
twenty other persons wounded.
Mayor James Balbirnie, of Muske
gon, Mich., was shot and killed Fri
day by a disappointed office-seeker,
who afterward committed suicide.
A combination of nearly all the
Virginia and North Carolina peanut
factories has been effected. The
trust will have a capital of $5,000,
000. The steamer Margaret Olwill went
down in the storm off Lorain, Lake
Erie, Friday night. Twelve people
were lost, including the captain and
his family.
Being out of work and despondent,
George J. Booze of Canton, Md.,
committed suicide in Druid Hill Park,
Baltimore, Friday morning, by shoot
ing himself in the head.
As the result of insomnia, mel
ancholy and nervous prostration,
Hon. Charles F. Collier, of Peters
burg, Va., shot himself through the
head Thursday morning, dying in
stantlv. Five men were drowned in the
Mississippi river near Clarksville,
Mo., Thursday, by the overturning
of a skiff. Thev were 'overnment
laborers engaged in the river im
provement works.
All southwest and central Texas
was visited by terrific rain storms
Monday, which have practically tied
up all the railroads in that section.
Many hundreds of acres of farming
land are under water and much cot
ton will be badly damaged.
A l.'i-year-old boy named Thomas
near Athens, Ala., Tuesday night,
stabbed and killed his older sister,
who had quarreled with him for not
helping support the family. He then
turned on his aged mother, who had
come to her daughter's assistance,
and slashed her so terribly that she
died in a short time. A few months
ago the boy and his father were out
hunting, when the latter was shot
in the back and killed, suppositively
by his son.
Foreign Affairs.
There have been 13 cases of yellow
fever in Havana this year.
The new Supreme Court at Manila
has begun to hold sittings.
A severe earthquake occurred
Monday at Pisa and Florence, Italy.
The transport Grant, carrying the
Sixteenth Infantry, has arrived at
Manila.
The British fleet has been ordered
to mobilize at Chatham, England,
July 11.
The transport Ingalls is on the
way to Santiago with money to pay
the Cuban soldiers there.
The turbulence at Saragossa,
Spain, continues, and fresh troops
have been stationed in that city.
Sixteen new cases of 3'ellow fever
and four deaths from the disease
were reported in Santiago, Cuba,
Tuesday.
General Wilson has taken meas
ures to punish the Americans who
caused the recent riotous outbreak
at Cienfuegos, Cuba.
General Otis in a cablegram de
scribing the situation in the Philip
pines, says 12 per cent, of the sol
diers are reported sick.
The gunboat Albay has notified
the people of Batayan, Philippine
Islands, that they must raise the
American flag or be bombarded.
Brigands captured Benedetto Leon
ardo, a millionaire, near Salerno,
Italy, last week, and released him
on the payment of $10,000 ransom.
Captain Dreyfus arrived at Rennes,
France, Saturday morning. A court
martial to try him has been appoint
ed, with Colonel Jouaust as president.
Financial and Commercial.
Special Correspondence.
Nkw York, July 3, 180i.
Business during the past week has
been less active in some directions,
owing to impending holidays and the
fact that in some departments it is
the custom to make semi-annual
stock inventories; but these adverse
influences have had this year much
less than their usual effect in con
traction of trade. All the statistics
available indicate a volume of gen
eral business greatly in excess of
that of any former year at the cor
responding period. There has been
no unfavorable change in trade con
ditions. The industrial situation is
particularly strong. In some indus
tries the order books are so crowded
that producers are unable to accept
new business, and in many others
production is so largely sold ahead
that new engagements can be taken
only for distant delivery periods. The
exceptionally active condition of the
manufacturing trades gives strong
support to values and maintains a
large distributing movement even in
branches of trade in which there is a
temporary slackening of new de
mand. The crop outlook has been
improved by generally favorable
weather, and there is sustained con
fidence and hopefulness with regard
to fall trade prospects in the' agri
cultural sections as well as in the
manufacturing and commercial cen
tres. Business failures during the
past week, according to R. G. Dun
& Co., numbered 181 in the United
States and 22 in Canada, against 254
in this country and 15 in Canada
during the corresponding period last
year.
Cotton prices have declined J of a
cent and recovered 1-10 of a cent per
pound as speculation has been influ
enced by crop reports; but the latter
have been in the main favorable, and
there has been a considerable liqui
dation by contract holders whose ex
pectations of a rise in prices had
been persistently disappointed. De
mand from spinners and exporters
has continued moderate. Domestic
trade in cotton goods has been rather
quiet at first hands, but a good bus
iness is expected after the coming
holiday. The feature of the cotton
goods trade has been a continued ac
tive inquiry for export, and as mills
running on export grades of staple
goods are largely oversold the bulk
of the new business lias been for dis
tant future shipment. Values of
cottons are firmly maintained, in
spite of the recent decline in the
price of the raw staple. The wool
trade is active, andpriyes are strong
in all markets. The new clips are
rapidly passing out of growers'
hands into those of Eastern dealers
and country operators, who are gen
erally holding for higher prices; and
manufacturers are buying more free
ly at prices for wools in the grease,
which indicates an advance from the
recent lowest rates of anywhere from
5 to 10 cents per scoured pound.
Wheat prices have declined 2 to
21 cents per bushel. A bearish sen
timent has been encouraged in the
speculative markets by the generally
satisfactory progress of the winter
wheat harvest, and by the continu
ance of an unusually free movement
of wheat to market centres both in
winter and spring grain sections,
but particularly in the Northwest.
Crop conditions in the spring wheat
belt are fairly favorable, although
there is considerable complaint about
excessive moisture, aud the situation
as a whole does not suggest the
probability of a yield equal to that
of last year. The big receipts, how
ever, and the nearness of new wheat
shipments have prevented the de
velopment of much strength in the
markets. Foreign crop advices con
tinue unsatisfactory from Russia
and Roumania, but from other parts
of Europe they have generally fa
vored the expectation of reas6nably
good harvests. There has been a
fair export demand for wheat, but
the requirements of exporters have
not been sufficiently large nor ur
gent to give much support to values.
The world's wheat resources for the
coming year are still a matter of un
certainty, but the situation so far as
at present understood encourages the
belief in export trade circles that
European demand will be fully equal
to the probably reduced surplus
which this country will be able to
spare for foreign shipment.
Prices of corn have receded 1 of a
cent per bushel, owing to very large
receipts in primary markets and the
steadily improving condition and
promise of the growing crop. There
has been a good export demand for
this cereal, but it has been met by
abundant offerings, and the recent
tendency toward a reduction in vis
ible stocks has been arrested. The
supply in sight is moderate, howev
er, and interior reserves of corn are
believed to be comparatively small.
The hog movement to packing cen
tres in the West has continued large,
but there has been a good distribu
tion of product for home consump
tion and a considerable increase in
exports both of meats and lard.
Chicago values of speculative sta
ples have been well maintained, and
prices of hams have ad-vanced as
a result of increased consumption.
ALL OVER THE STATE.
A S ii m mar j of Current Events for the
Past Seven Days.
A vicious bull gored to death
George N. Sellers, of Macon county,
Saturday.
Fifteen houses at Gaston ia were
burglariously entered within two
nights of last week.
The Winston and Salem postoffices
are now one. The consolidation was
made Friday night.
Bostou capitalists will rebuild the
Benbow House, at Greensboro, that
was recently burned.
In a drunken row at Wadesboro,
Monday evening. Will Sturdivant
killed Doreman Till man. Both
colored. The slayer is in jail.
Richard M. Johnson, colored, of
Cumberland county, while cutting
trees Friday morning was struck by
a falling limb and instantly killed.
William Hamilton, colored, aged
15, was drowned in Green's mill
pond near Wilmington, Wednesday,
while in swimming with companions.
Ned Niven, colored, of Anson
county, got his hand caught in the
feeder of a threshing machine Tues
day and sustained injuries from
which he died soon after.
Quite a sensation was caused at
Wadesboro, Thursday, by the arrest
of Wilson Readfern, a well connected
young white man, on the charge of
looting a store by means of a false
key.
An employe, a "trusty" and an ex
convict have been systematically
robbing the commissary of the peni
tentiary at Raleigh. They were
discovered and captered Wednesday
night.
Luther Marshall attempted to com
mit suicide at Enfield, Tuesday, by
shooting himself in the right breast
with a pistol. His recovery is doubt
ful. He had been on a spree for
several days.
Francis Emery Sumner, a leading
merchant of Asheviile, was arrested
at Charlottesville, Va., on Tuesday,
charged with deserting his wife and
children and eloping with Miss Annie
Ellerby, of Gaffney, S. C.
Wesley Booth, aged S2, who lived
near Cary, was struck by a Southern
train Saturday afternoon while on
his way home from Raleigh. He was
driving across the track and was un
der the influence of liquor.
Horace Lane, a young white man,
was carved to death by John A.
Joney, in Cleveland county, Thurs
day, the outcome of a love affair.
Lane is the third of his name and
family to meet a violent death in tLe
past few years.
Tom Meadows, of Graham county,
who was thought to have suicided
some six or eight months ago, died
at the hands of his wife, who shot
him. The recent grand jury of
that county found a true bill to this
effect against her.
The steamer Mayflower, the mail,
passenger and freight steamer, plying
between Plymouth and Windsor,
capsized and sunk in the thorough
fare between Roanoke and Cashi
rivers, Friday afternoon. The crew
and all passengers were saved except
an infant who went down with the
steamer. It is supposed that the
boat was overloaded.
Odd Items of Slate Xews.
In East Durham, Wednesday night,
Raleigh Floyd and Miss Fannie Floyd,
a blind couple, were united in marri
age at the home of the bride.
The Davie Record says that Mr.
Richard Campbell, -of Rowan, was in
Mocks ville last week, wearing a pair
of shoes which he has worn abut a
year and which were made out of the
hides of six squirrels.
Arthur Williams is a genius among
rogues. Some time ago he broke
into Braswell's store at Battleboro,
was caught and placed in jail. He
escaped, returned to the scene of his
former operations, broke into the
same store, stole $15 in cash and
made good his escape again.
According to tae Lincoln Journal
Archie Huffstetler, aged 27, a blind
inmate of the poor house, and Sallie
Ingle, a widow aged 37, with four
children, who was until recently an
inmate of the same institution, were
married Saturday night at 10 o'clock
by Esquire Philip Carpenter. The
mother of the groom is also an inmate
of the poor house.
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Made from pure
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Safeguards the food
against alum
Alum bating powders are the greatest
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the value of obtaining the liquid laxa
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medicinally laxative and presenting
them in the form most refreshing to the
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dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
gently yet promptly and enabling one
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every objectionable quality and sub
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liver and bowels, without weakening
or irritating them, make it the ideal
laxative.
In the process of manufacturing figs
are used, as they are pleasant to the
taste, but the medicinal qualities of the
remedy are obtained from senna and
other aromatic plants, by a method
known to the Califokxia Fio Sviii p
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