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Oi'ders for Genuine Ger man Kai nit directly im ported will be filled at low est prices by Kerchner Calder Bros. Importer, Wilmington, JT. C. W. R. FRENCH, Agent, Lilesville, N. C. 13-cm. Han H. tan, Wholesale and Retail Wilmington, A C. De-alerin - Patent MeVlicine. ?Jdi cinejs, Acids, Morphine, Kerosene Oil, (juiuine, Upturn, bp:ces, uaetor oil. Cigars,. Tobacco. Mineral, .Waters, Garden Seed, &c, &c. BJFOrders solicited and promptly EADHIT. executed, - . . . . u- BOTH PERFECTLY WILL.IXG. If I should steal a little kL&, Oh, would she weep, I wonder? I tremlde at th" thought of blissr- If I should steal a little kiasl Sufh pouting lip would never misa The dainty bit of plunder; If I should steal a little kiss Oh, would she weep, I wonder? He longs to steal a kiss of mine He may if he'll return it: If I can read the tender sin, He lons to steal a kiss of mine; "In love and war" you know tho line, Yhy cannot he discern it? He longs to steal a kiss of mine Ke may- If h'll return It. A little kiss -when no one ."sees Where is the improprity 1 How sweet among the birds and bees. A little ki.-;s when no ones sees; Nor is it wrong, the'world agrees, If taken with sobriety. A little lriss when no one sees. Where is the impropriety ? N. Y. Star. Janet's Mistake. Janet Elwood stood in alow, vine wreathed doorwaj" of her home, a comfortable Maine farm-house, at the close of a sultry July day. Her glance was directed-tovrard a manly, sunburned ""Young follow, tall and broad-shouldered, who was making his way toward her through the wide, sweet clover meadow. Nearer lie came, until a smile broke the naturally grave expression of his handsome mouth, and he stretched out his arms and drew her to his breast. Janet, instead of "nestling close against tho manly heart which she knew bent always warmly and truly with love for her, drew petulantly away. A dee;! red flush mounted suddenly to the young - man's forehead. He looked at her averted face, her in different attitude, with amazement. Was this the girl who had put her hands in hi3 over six months ago and pledged herself to be his ''own little wile?" 'Janet.' he said, 'what is it?' 'What do you mean, John?' Janet kept her eyes fastened 'on the too of her little shoe, that, notwithstanding her appearance of coolness, beat a lively tattoo against the painted boards. Glancing up she saw an ex pression ou that face bending sternly over her that forced her to add, "I am tired. I havo been helping moth er in getting ready for the boarder who has engaged Ihe front chamber for the Summer.' '1 did not know yoa expected to take boarders, Janet.' 'He is tbe only one. He came last week, while mother was at the sewing circle, and I showed him the room, and he engaged it for two months, and and- that's how it is.' Janet's clieeks giew pink as she thought of the dashing stranger's look of admiration, as, in her pink print dress, she had 'stood at the gate when he went to the city for his baggage. Her ' toil sue seemed un- loosened now, end uhe gave an ani mated description of her new boarder, informed John that he was an artist from Boston, wealthy and of good family; his name was Ray cliff e Eugene RayclifTe. She pronounced it lingeringly twice over. 7 John was far from being elated at the prospect. Ha could not see the delights of the Boston artist's high toned society as plainly aa Janet. He 6aid so in so many words, a little .more energetically than the occasion warranted, perhaps, but Janet was very pretty aud the, honest young farmer was ver much in love. 'Anybody would think he was an ogre,' pouted the young woman, seeing with her quick bright eyes the state of mind her lover was in. 'There he comes now,' she cried. Mr. Eugene Raj'clilfe smiled under his drooping jet mustache as be noticed Janet's lover. 'Some country bumpkin boring her half to death, I've no doubt; but I'll soon settle him. These remarks, made mentally, were accompanied by such an air of self satisfied complacency, as- he threw his satchel on the steps and sat down beside it at Janet'6 feet, that John Wentworth scarcely bowed in answer to the languid 'glad to know you' which follow sd Janet's introduc tion. John seemed suddenly overgrown and awkward. Mr. Eugene Ray clifie's hands were so exquisitely white and delicate that his own seamed by contrast redder and of more gigantic proportions than ever. His attire seamed rough and ill fitting compared with the natty 'store clothes" of the artist from Boston, and altogether John felt awkward and uncomfortable stand ing with his broad back against the lattice of the porch, and observing with scant approval the upward glances from Mr. Raychffe's black eyes to Janet's browji eyes. 'Your friend sdec slightly dis pleased at something,' said he, a John, with a brief farewell and never a second glance" at Janet, walked away with a firm step and head wel Up john had no fancy for standing about unnoticed, especially, while the. girl to whom he was engaged coolly allowed a comparative stranger to monopolize her smiles and society. Don't go off angry, John. 6aid ;- J . t - : c w' - - 5 ,;-'.-f " , Janet trying the witchery of her eyes on her farmer lover. 'He is so deeply in love with me that I can wind him around my finger,' she thought. And it would be very fine to have two swains sighing at her feet, espe cially two like John Wentworth; by far tho best catch in tho country round, and the stylish, dashing Ray clifTe, the new arrival, is sure to create a furore among the maids and matrons of Sunnydalc. John would not soften spite of tb moonlight cJarvgl' upraised eyes, seining under the fair curly lashes. 'I will come back when you cau treat a fellow decently, Janet. I am not going to be fooled to the top of my bent to please- you any longer. Good evening. - - ' This was tho last Janet saw of John. But she had little time to think of him, while Mr. Raycliife devoted himself so entirely to her amusement. He painted her portrait, and while she sat for him, beguiled the time reciting, in tender tones, yards of tender, sentimental poetry; they went on sketching tours; they eat on the piazza in the twilight, and sang together; Janet had a sweet alto voice, which the boarder was not long in finding admirably suited his oVn. Things went on until Janet's moth er, with ruany a nod and beck and wreathed smile, intimated that there was an 'understanding1 between the two young pejrle. John Wentworth was well enough in his way, honest, sober and industrious, and shrewed as need be, but she looked higher for Jauet, Janet had been to boarding schools, she had the education of a lady, and Mr. RayclifTe praised her drawing more than a little. And, by the way lie hung around (his time to go back to the ci'-y was up, but he had engaged tho room for another month), she was sure something would come of it. She could sniff weddings in the air, and went so far as to ask Mrs. Brown's opinion as to the most fashionable way of making dresses, a very nice one, suitable , and then Janet's mother hesitated, smiled and looked very wise suitable lor a wedding dress. Of course Mrs. ' Brown knew at onco that the dress ; was for Janet; and through Mrs. Brown, v.-ho was sometimes called 'the Sunny dale daily tatler,' the rest of them were informed without the loss of precious time. The report came to the ears of John Wentworth. Like a sensible fellow ho concealed -whatever feeling of disappointment and chagriu the announcement aroused from the pry ing busy bodies. He did not stay away from church orfrom any of the social village gatherings of young people because he met Janet and her devoted adorer there. Not he; he danced and laughed the more, al though the pain in his heart, which he determinedly hid from view, was in rea'it' Ing in dying out. Janet had been his first love, and however I ghtly she had loved him, he, at least, had been sincere, and could not forget her in a day, try as he might. Time, however, is a great healer, and when one haz3' October day Janet rode over in her little phaton to ask John and his sisters to go berrying, he looked Ler straight in the eye and wished her a 'happy future" without a tremor in his hearty voice or a quiver of his eyelids. 'Eugene has gono to Boston,' said Janet lijeking the flies oil her gray pony, and leaning forward.' 'We should have heard from his yester day. I feel a- litt.'e worried. He had a good deal of money with him. We sent to the city by him for things we could not get here, and several of the neighbors Judge Jordan, Squire Ellis and others paid him in advance for portraits. I dreamed last night of his being robbed and killed. Ugh ! it makes me shiver. I know: I'm foolish, but I can't feel easy.' Bills began to fall due, and Mr. Eugene Rayclille was still like the unknown quantity represented by x. People began to talk. Janet's moth er took to bed with an illness sudden, and of s. nature unexplained and ob scure. Janet grew pale waiting for a let ter. Finally, one bright Sunday morning Sunnydale, individually and collectively, was agape ovor a start ling headline iu a Boston paper. 'Arrest last night of Joseph Ray mon. otherwise known as 'Dashing Joe,' and having for his latest alias Eugene Raycliffe. Several well-to-do residents of Sunnydale victimized by the accomplished and gentlemanly scoundrel.' The affair was a nine day's wonder. But after a month or two had passed away and the excitement had quieted, people began to wonder if John Wentworth would 'take up with his pretty early love.' Encouragement for him to do so was not lacking (so the matrons of Sunnydale will tell you) from Janet's mother. Janet herself wrote a little note on perfumed paper to John, and this was the closing part of his reply: 'I don't want to reproach you for your throwing me ovgr aa you did. You have been punished quite enough. But for a man like me it's no use try ing to go ;oa with things, as they are now. Better each go our own way. And, al though I cannot feel toward you as I did once, believo me that I bear no ill-will toward you, and re gard me if you will as a friend etilL' When, a year after, on another still October day, John told J m t of his approaching wedding to a young lady of Boston, Janet cried a little, and offered faint, lachrymose con gratulations, with a fury of regret and jealously in her heart , that the young lady of Boston fortunately j.ic nothing about. And Jauet's A frets summer and winter be cause Janet is an old maid; but, nevertheless, she frowns severely on any luckless man who offers a 'sum mer boarder's' remuneration for her spare front room. It is not to let. Confederate Flags and Their Histo ry. Tho TTarrior's Banner takes its f ight To gl eet the Warrior's souL " When one reflects upon tho recert ness of the late great struggle, it in deed seem3 strange that of all the thousands of men who wore the grey so few "have a distinct rememberence of the flag under whose folds they fought. To some extent this lack of present accurate knowledge of the Confederals flags, for there were three, may be explained by reason of the exteDsive use of State flags, which gavoplace but slowly in many localities to the ensign of the Confed. erey. Every one has heard of the famous "buttle flag," with its red field and siow white stars, but how few havo a knowledge of its exact appearance. It ia the purpose in this article io give such brief descrip tion of the Confederate flags as will clear away this misty forgetfullness and renew this remembrance, When tijo Confederate Provision al Congress met at Montgomery, Al abama, early in ISG1, the necessity for the use of a flag for the new con federation was made evident. Sever al designs were submitted, from which were chosen the following, which was the first flag: A field of three horrizontal .bars, or stripes, the upper red, the centre white, the lower red; in the lefi upper corner a "blue union, with a star for each of tbe seceded States. Within two hours after the adoption of tho flag it was flying ove the Capitol at Mont gomery. It was never displaced by Congress until the spring of 1SG3, though owing to its resemblance to the United States flag, many sugges tion for a chance were made. This resemblance of the two flags was found at the Battle of Bull Run, July ISth, 1S61, to be so great that many persons in both armies believ ed that each side had used as a stratagem the colors of its opponent, it was immediately determined to adopt a battle flag for the Confeder ate forces, and in September 1SS1, (Jen. J03 Johnston and Beauregard -'hc?e the well known "battle flag of the army of the Potomac" (as it was at first called), which became so dear to Southern hearts. The field of this dag was crimson, the bars were blue, and running diagonally across from one corner to the other, formed a Greek cross. The stars en the bars were white, equal in number to the Slates of the Confederacy the blue bars were separated from the red field by a narrow white filet. The size of this famous flag was, for in fantry, 4x4 feet. It had the merits of being small and light, and very distinct at great distances. It was not, however, though in use con stantly, adopted by the government until it became the union of the sec ond and third flags, and the "stars and bars" continued to be flown by vessels and forts. In May, 1S63, the Confederate Congress, in session at Richmond, adopted the second flag, which was of the following design: The field of white; in left upper corner a union of red; across this diaginal stripes of blue, with white 6tars, five pointed thereon, equal in number to the Con federate States. It will be seen that tho banner thus chosen was a battle flag U3ed as a union, on a white ground. An attempt was made by the State to place a blut stripe in tho centre of the white field, horrizontally, but this failed, and the beautiful banner described was prescribed as the Con federate flag. The size of this ensign was made 4x6 feet, but was atter wards modified, and reduced to the dimensions of the battle flag, 4x4 feet. It was the intention of Con gress by the adoption of this flag to establish as the national . ensign of the Confederacy a pure white flag having for iu union the Southern Cross as the Battle 4flag of the ar my. This, the second national flag of the South, at a distance bore a close re semblance to the English white en sign, and also was objected to as to resembling a flag of truce. These objections proved so valid that the Confederate Congress in February 1865, added a broad strip of red to the end of the flag. Thi3 was the third and last of the flags. -The of ficial description cf this the last ban ner of the Confederacy, is as follows ''The, width two thirds of its.; length; With the union, ? nqw used as the. bat tle, flag, to be in width; three-'fif ttos o -..,;::,". :-. ' -, .';.-'-v ' r- -s. -.- -v - -T - - --.v. .v the flag and so proportioned as to leave the length of the field on the side of the union twice the width be-lowrit;-tbe union to have a ground of red, with blue bars rossed diagon ally thereon ; in these bars five-pointed stars corresponding in number to the Confederato.Statcs. The field of the flag to be white except the outer half from the union, which shall be a red bar, extending the1 width of the flag." Our Ancestors' Nerve. THE 9ECBET OK TilEIT. UNUSUAL VJOOR EXrLAUVEU AND HOW IT CAN BE AC , QUIRLIX There was something about the sturdy vigor of former generations that challenges the admiration of ev ery man, woman and child. They were no.epicures -tlioee ancient fath ers. They jived simply, and success fully met and overcame difficulties that would have discouraged this age and generation, The rigors of the frontier were supplemented by tho savages; wild beasts threatened their enterprise and poverty was a common companion. Yet they bravely en countered and resisted all' those things and laid the foundations of a land whose blessings we now enjoj-. Their constitutions wero strong; their health unsurpassed and jet they were forced to expose themselves continually. Thero certainly must have been some good and adequate cause for all this and for the phj sical superioity of that nge over the pres ent. It is well known to every one con versant with the history of that time that certain homo compounds of strengthening qualities were used al most universally by those pioneers. The malarial evils and exposures to which they were subjected necessi tated this. "When their bodiss be came chilled by cold or debilitated by the damp mists of a new country they were forced to counteract it by the use of antidotes. Medicines were few in those days, nd doctors almost unknown. Hence 'the preparations above referred to. From among the number, 'all of which were compound, ed upon the same general principle, ona was found to be more efficient and hence far more popular than all the rest. It was well known through the middle 'and-western states and was acknowledged as the best prepa ration lor malarial disorders and general dobility then known. The recipe for compounding this valuable article was handed down from one family and generation to another, was known to the Harrison family and is used as the basis and general formula for the present "Tippecanoe," the name being .suggested by the bat tle in which General Harrison was engaged. The manufacturers bare thoroughly investigated this subject in its minutest details, -and aro cer tain that tor mai assimilation of food, dyspepsia, tired feelings, general debility, prostrations, malarial dis orders and humors in the blood, noth ing can exceed in value ''Tippecanoe," which was the medicine of our fore fathers and seems destinued to bo the most popular preparation of the day. "Tippecanoe" is prepared and given to the public by Messrs. II. II. Warner esc Co., of Rochester, N. Y. proprietors of the famous Warner's Safe Cure, which is now the most extensivelj- used of any American medicine. The well known standing of this house is a sufficient guarantee of the purity and power of this prep aration, which seeks to banish one of the greatest banes of the nineteenth century mal assimilation of food. Any One who experiences trouble of digestion; who feels less vigor than formerly ; whoso system has unques tionably "run down" and who real izes the necessity of some strengthen ing tonic cannot afford to permit such symptoms to continue. If the farmer finds that his threshing mach ine does not separate the grain from the straw he realizes that something is wrong and tries to repair the machine. When the food does not sustain the life; when it fails to make! blood; when it causes the energy to depart and ambition to die, it- is a certain sign that something is wrong and that the human machine needs repairing. It is not a question of choice; it is a matter of duty. You must attend to your health or your sickness and nothing will sooner overcome these evils than "Tippe canoe," the medicine of the past a safe guard for the present and a guarantee of health for the future. The Correct Reports, An ' amateur poet who i3 waiting his ' sweetness on tbe desert air of Minnesota, sends to a paper a poem beginning: "I met her at our trysting place, At edge of field beside the bars, And gazing in her pure, sweet face, I kissed her "neath the cold, pale stars. w The fellow must be and idiot, or elsa he don't know good goods when he sees them. If the seraph who moulds the poetic course of this paper had done that job, his reports to head qu artea-s w ould have read ; tnet her at onr trysting place, . ; - At ecgeb field where the daisy " grows I ' iAnd gazuigm her pare,, sweet face, ; ; A juuaseu uer ueuui una WHipaus,nu6ef 7 ' .-. ''Bismarck Trffmtw.'. ' Ihe Old Kim Tre As 1 sat beneath and eld elm tree, tho wind went whittling by. : It bent its boughs rntui softly breathed the fol lowing with a sigh: "I have lived here for many a year and seen tho summer come and go. The spring time with its flowers and rain, the autumn with Ufrivt Cn. the winter with its chilling blast, when with snow and ice the skies aro over cast. In summer time beneath my shade have children often played, and oh, how oft beneath my boughs have lovers renewed their plighted vows, and many a time the old aud feeble havo sought my shade to smoke their pipes or ply tho nee dle ; and thus it's been w i t h tsmilcs a ml tears I have seen them come and go for three score years and many. a tale I could tell of what in that time befell. But age is creep ing o'er my head and I fear my roots are get- ' ting dead ; and soon I'll wither and decay like those who sought my shade each day. China go Sun. Afraid of Kukliix. WIIY THE . MISSISSIITI INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE HAD TO GET A fNEW MES SENGER. ' A good deal of fun has been created among the Senate officials, and even the grave Senators havo been tickled at the expense of one of the messen gers. Ho hails Irom isow England and was selected a3 messenger to accompany the Hoar sub committee on its Mississippi investigating tour. The messenger had conceived the idea that he might not be entirely safe in goirv south on a mission of investigation. In a confidential way he went to soveral republicans from Mississippi who. hold public positions here and asked whether he would bo in dangorat the hands of the kuklux. This manifestation of foar gave one or two of the persons 'to whom he' ap plied a hint upon which they pro ceeded to act. They painted tho horrible torture that "kuklux inflict, and, with tho appearance of great friendship, advised the messenger not to think of running such risk. Other southern republicans wero let into the fun, and numbers of them sought tho messenger and advised him of tho daugor ho would risk in going south with an investigating committee. Tho poor fellow was overwhelmed with such advice from sources he' regarded as not only well informed, but as friendly to him. Gen. Fitzgerald, of Vicksburg, ono of the most prominent republicans of Mississippi, being in tho city, got wind, of the joko, and, as he loves fun, he sought tho messenger and pictured the horrors of his probable fate in that state. When Senator Frye sent for tho messenger to give him instructions he soon discovered that the man was terribly frightened, and upon inquiry learned of the "job" that had been put up. The man es caped from the imaginary danger by getting sick at the time he was need ed and another was substituted. Since the departure of the sub com mittee the whole story is out. Washington Star. When Mr. Popperman threw off a is overcoat., last erening. his wife said: ' .. 'My dear this is ,your birthday. Now, what kind of a present would you prefer?' 'Woll, money. That's just the kind of a present I have for you.' and Mrs. Poperroan took from beneath her aprou aplelh pric bag and emptied upon the tabk a pile of jingling coins. There's your birthday present.' The husband looked at the coins in amazement, then said. . 'Why; my dear, the money's no good. There is nothing here but lead quarters and dimes with, holes in 'em. Here's a quarter with a bole in it, and the hole is bigger than the quarter. What rascal passed this money on you? Oh ! the scoundrels there are in this world !' 'Calm yourself, my dear,' said Mrs. Popperman. That money must all be good. 'That's what you've given me for pin money since wo were mar ried. Ar. Y. Journal. A deligate child is more subject to worms than a healthy one as in the economy of . nature, " one animal is made to subsist upon one another, and the weaker Igoes down." At the first indication of worms adm in isteir Shriner's Indian .Vermifuge thw ! in- J- .3. Mother's SrtliminR Wheel. C02CCK!tXla ONE ARTIC US TliAVWA '. NOT FOU SAtE,, AND t ANOTHER ; " "No, sir I wouldn't1 iolT' yoV that' spinning wheel for nd'moncytihat spinning wheel was my mother'a. It was one day, when aho was sing, ing like a lark and making this old, wheel hum, that my father, cilien a young medical student afterwards tk farmer, fell in love, with herBOtue fifty years-i.go, ; ;, ' .' 4; v bit of farm land in Tlstcf 'OoUntyj' N. Y., to a relic hunter, and Jtnoth- erV spinning wheel rcirainedltinbug her children and grandchildren. "My mother," writes Rer:-J.-W. Phelps, pastor of !St. Paul's M, E. -Church, Chicago, "has used Parker Tonic, and wishes mo to say that she has found it moro effective than anything she ever used for invigora ting and strengthening tho system 1 debilitated by malaria, Sho desires me also especially to mention thai certainty with which it aids diges tion and overcomes exhaustion." Ever .--inco the the first household was established "mother's" opinion fiiis been more potent la this world, that of judge jurist or physician.!. Her hand- has always cooled the fo- . : vcr and her voice has been filled with hope. With each day's decline, Par-, , ker's Tonic is becoming more deserv- , edly popular with the women .who guard alike husband and childreus It eradicates malaria poison from the . blood, from which there is now such! wide spread suffering. i'. Please observe Drf Parker's Tonio is not an intoxicant. It is a coin' bination of several ingredients; ofy. which none singly can produce any, thing like its effect. For Kidney, Stomach and liver trouble, it is the standard and unfailing remody. v In two sizes ;'5() cents and 11. Tbov y latter the cheaper. Hiscox Sc Co... Chemist, New York. On Ice. . -i - 'Have yon any champagne on feet'" The question was asked, by a well dressed, sad eyed man, as ho Btrolled! leisurely into tho phui macvUtical . L sUiblishmcnt presided over by Dail; Hill.. . 'We have.' answered Daniel in his:- most dignified manner. ' , .. . ! . 'Milium s extra dry ?' , 'Yes, sir.' ., ' , ! . 'On ice?' T ' 'Yes, tir' w 1 'Well please fcive njo a wmall .piece;- of the ice?' .. 1 , Tnen Daniel commenced looking . ' around for the h-mon squeezer ana tho customer took a tooth-pick aud walked thoughtfully awnj.Oil Citp , Blizzard. ,1 The Wile's Welcome A well known ekigyman in tho north of England entertained recent- 'A ly a brother1 clergyman from ByCie ' distance. The evening being unprop- . itious, he asked him to remain for ; the night. At duk tho clergyman asked his guest to step into the manse while ho gave orders to .have bis conveyance ready in tho morning. As thle. visitor entered the manse the clergyman's wife mistook him in tho dusk for. her husband, and seizing. the pulpit Bibl-3 which was on tho lobby table, brought the full wry"'- of it across his shoulders, cxclaiuuug emphatically, "Take iiat for asking the ugly, wreteh;to stay all night.'! 1 ' - cJ 'Had a proposal from any of the fair sex since leap " year began, Jones?' -. ' 'I have, Brown, I bad a. proposals, from the daughter of my boarding . missus'.'. i 'Gimini! you're in luck. How did she muster courage to make it, aud what did she say !" - f"4 "Well you seo she keeps the' books for her mother, so she came to me the other day and proposed.' 'Yes, yes, lucKy dog go on." f ; v 'She proposed that 1 pay up my arrears or git." Whew!' - , 'So I got!' Somercitle Journal. ' , . . I,. .j. 1, 1,L, I,,, , .11 - Vttf The sscret of universal success of Brown's iron Bitter is owing to tho fact that it is the very bc.ti iron prep aration made. By a thorough and rapid assimulation with the blood it reaches ever y part of the body, givr - ' ing health, strength and endurance to every portion. Thus beginning at the foundation it builds up and re stores lost health, it dues not con-, lain whiskey or alcohol. It wUl not blacken the tc-lh. It do ' not con- .... slipate or cause headache. It will", cure dyspeysia, indigestion, heart4 burn, bleep leb-3iibs, dizziness, nervous-1 debility, weakness, etc., . If feeling old j'ene'w your youthful vigor , by using Ayer's Sarsapnrilla.' It will vitalize tbe blood, recruit the -wasting energies, and build up . the system. - .v. Any druggist vili tell you what he knows about the merit of Indian Ver mifuge tuo popular remedy. ' " " 1 ' You must not slay in bed until o'olock with the excuse that its sleep year. ' - i:. 4 Mr. M. Meiriwff. Enfield, N. 0'.,, says: I used Brown's . Iron Bitters',1 for a disordered stomach and found; it an excellent medicine." , . ,'V.t ' The six and a half foot man 'always' makes- his meals go a long war. y ,- TrC N. Robercon; Kim Grove, N, C, says:-- ! prescribe Brown's' Iron J Bitters in my practice and 1 And it aa ' ' rvoornmended. , , 1 v

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