gWWfflrS EVENTS
IMPORTANT NlWt OF STATV, 'NA
I'/" T'lOH and the world -
.... ? RIBPLY TOLD
ROUND MOOTJHE WORLD
A CsndmHd1 Reoord Of Happenlnos
Of InttrNt From All Point*
V'- Of The World
Foreign?
V; ' ?W4W; Abbas, Per* la. dispatches
; Stuart M?cLaren, British aviator,
, ' arrived' there to bla plane from
m Bagdad. , ' , ,
Report* fropa Home, Italy, say that
y 1 Mt.. Etna I* showing marked activity
> again. 80, also do dispatches from
Catania.
Paris Boulevard strollers had a mo
ment or tWp ?f, excitement the other1
afternoon when fire broke but amoftg
?' t the gaudy cloth' poster* of one of
Parts' largest and most popular mo
t-\ tlon picture Routes, next door to. one
of the best known boulevard cafes.
t\ ; The correspondent of the- London
K . Daily Express at Hyde, Isle of Wl&ht,
^"telegraphs that William 11. -Leeds' 1*
1 preparing to *all from Bembrldge,
Isle of Wight, to New York, la a 60
foot fishing smack equipped with, an
auxiliary engine.
Reports on the American immigra
tion legislation as it affects Japan
were submitted to a meeting of the
privy council by Premier JCiyoura and
Foreign Minister Matsul. It la under
stood thai 'the- council generally in
dorsed the government's conduct.
Several American marines ' have
been killed In Honduras, according'' to
advices received at San Balyador. An
attache of the American legation In
Teguclp&lpa is said to have proceed
ed to La Llbertad, Salvador, a cable
station, in order to communicate with
the 'government In Washington.
Alllo, T. H.. reports that earthquakes
which started in the Puna district of
iufi Island of Hawaii, on which; HIlo Is
located, are still continuing. Land
around the village of Kapoho Is sink
ing. Measurements taken at the Ka
poho railway stations showed If had
dropped eight feet since the shakes
began. The Inhabitant! of the VoJ
| , lage fle<. . / ?
Premier Rai/say MaeDonald, born
In a miner's .cottage.^ was a -personal
week-end nest of the king and queen
of England at Windsor castle. Pretty
Iqabel MaeDonald was also a . guest
with her father. . King George and
Queen Mary greeted them In the outer
hall when the prime minister and his
daughter drove up to the Imposing
castle. The guests were assigned
roomi tn tti$ king's owq wink of the
~^pastis as Intimate frWnds, instead of
Welng given- ? the more formal rooms
jrhere state guefcta stay. ' Ambassador
1 Kellogg, American ' representative In
London/ was also a guest at the saine
time.
Havana's street car service Is at a
standstill because motormen and con
ductors. quit work -In support of the
Striking dock workers, but the 50.000
or more taxi drivers did not Join In
the general strike and thousandi. of
persons ilrlng in the suburbs were
able to reljr on them for getting to
work. ?
A severe earthquake lasting one
minute and twenty-six seconds one af
ternoon recently rocked Mexico city.
Bp.;but only slight material damage Is
; - reported.
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Wa?hingt
House Republics* leaders informed
President Colldge that the houae was
approaching conclusion of considera
tion -of constructive legislation and
that so far as that body was concern
ed would be able to adjourn June 1.
Expenditure of f 2, 7001)00 annually
b? the secretary of "agriculture for
protection and reforestation of tim
ber lands would be authorised under
a bill passed by the house and sent
to the senate.
Josephus Daniels, as secretary of
the navy, was very "obdurate" when
it came tOrgetting any lease for lands
within > the naval oil reserves. Com
mander K, A. Stuarts, N. S. N-. said
In a letter rdad into the record of the
senate oil committee.'
Fifty additional federal veterlnar
^^Mans are beiing dispatched by the bu
?reau of animal industry to California
f; ? to ugment the forces of tbe govern
ment now! there battling the foot and
, mouth disease among cattle.
f"' ( ? A denial that the Southern Pine as
j jactation had ever engaged in prac
tices constituting violation of the
anti-trust laws, or'that-lt sought under
former Attorney General Daughert.v's
administration of the department of
Justice to delay trovernment prosecu
tion on SUcb charges was Issued by |
f f John H. Klrb'y. of Houston. Texas,]
president fit the organization In 1823.]
Without a record vote the house
? * passed the Brusum bill, already ap
proved b? the senate, carrying pen
sion Increases for veterans of the
Civil, Spanish,' Mexican and Indian
wars and of the War of 1812.
The Supreme court declines "to re
view the case of "Nicky" Arnsteln and
others convicted of bringing Into the
District of Columbia fraudulently ob
tained stocks.
Election of cabinet officers by the
people was proposed In the bouse yie
. other day by Representative (J pshaw
?$'. of Oeorgla.
Gaston B. Meauan, former lnvestlga
tor for the department of Justice, and
star witness before thq senate DaugU
ei*y Investigation ioramlttee repored
to. committee reported to committee
members tllat his extensive collection
of | diaries and documents put In evi
dence had disappeared.
'An amendment designed to break
up an alleged boycott in packing oon
te'rs against co-operative market
agencled was voted Into the agricul
tural department hill by <he house./'
Further testimony favorable to Sen
ator Wheeler was heard by the -Borah
committee Investigating the Montana
ednator's indict nlent ?n & charge of
accepting a retainer to practice before
a I government department. ,
A last ifilnute attempt to Insert
1360,000 fqr distribution of seeds in
the agricultural department appro
priation b|ll failed by a vote of 111
tci 207. ... '
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Domestic ?
i. State Representative eoOrge W. Bln
nicker and five other men, Orange
burg county, after preliminary hear
charges of breaking into a house by
lng befor? Magistrate Blackmon on
night and f assault and battery, which
grew out df the alleged wHpping of a
negro wonjaii several weqks ago, *ere
bound over for trial In , the court of
general sessions at Orangeburg, S. C.
' Contributions of Southern Presbyte
rian) churches totaling $2,035,634 fpr
the year' ending March 31, 1924, Will
be reported to the "Southern Presbyte
rian general assembly, meeting in San
Antonio, Texas. May 16, by Dr. M. E
Melvln of Chattanooga, Tenn. ?
Mrs. Mabel Wlllebrandt, aslstant at
torney general, In an address at Roch
ester, -'ii. Y., before the chamber of
commerce, declared Hugh M. Daugh.
erty will be cleared of->ll suspicion.
Ludwjfc Schmidt, alias "Dutch
Louie," who is in a Tuxedo hospital
(N. Y.) hospital, as the result of a
gunshot, received In an attempted rob
Mry of a freight train, has been, iden
tified as the man who. ^ith George
Anderson, confederate of Oeral&Chap
man,, escaped from the federal, peni
tentiary at* Atlanta, Ga., on .December
30, 1923. 4
> - As the probable plurality of Ralph
B. Strassburger over Governor Pin
shot In the Pennsylvania Republican
primary vote for delegate-at-large to
the national convention continued -to
hover between 200,000 and 225,000, the
association opposed to the prohibition
amendment issued a statement claim
ing ^a "wet" victory.
Patt Marr, El Dorado oil promoter,
convicted In United States district
court at Texarkana, Ark-t of misuse
of the malls, will ' be sentenced by
Jndge Prank A Youmans.
The Oklahoma state Republican con
ventlon at Oklahoma City Indorsed the
nomination of President Coolldge and
instructed the 16 delegates from Okla
homa to the national 'convention -to
support him.
Harry M. Daugherty told an audience
of friends and neighbors at Columbus,
Ohio, that he had given up his cabi
net post rather than "contribute to a
treasonable cause."
Lem Bowden, sheriff of Tangipahoa
parish, Lonlslana, went to New> Or
leans and. in the private office of War
den Rennyson read the death. v#ar
rants to the six men condemned to'
die on May B for the killing of Dal
las Calmes at Independence, La., on
May 8, 1921.
Samuel P. Thomasfcn of the Chicago
Tribune was elected president of the
National AssocUtlon' of Newspaper
Publisher] at the business session of
the organisation. In New York. .City
the other, diy. (
Governor General Wood, who i& tour
ing the Islands In his yacht Apo, has
ordered supplies sent the natives of
San Dlonlslo, Batan Island, who have
been driven from their homes by an
active volcano. '? ?
Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tam
many Hall and for nearly a quarter
of a century onePof the most power
ful Democratic leaders of the coun
try, died suddenly after returning
from a meettlng at Tammany- Hall,
from acute Indigestion. Murphy came
up from the -bottom, and was one of
the most tuccessful leadors Tummany
has ever had.
Domonlck Galluzzo, 15-year-old son
of Charles Galluxzo, was exonerated
by a coroner's Jury at Chicago for
killing his father, whom he shot whllo
the father was bektlng hl's mother.
Bishop W. B. Bdauchamp was elect
ed president of the Centenary Com
mission of the Souther i Metbodlet
church, to ?succced tho late Bishop
James Atkins.
G Stanley llall. president fcmerllus
of Clark university, died at his home,
Worcester, Slass., after k prolonged
Illness.
Leakage from containers led to the
seizure of two carloSds of Brain alco
hol and bottled liquors valued at S106.
000 by prohibition agents at Norwalk.
Conn.
Joseph E. Qulnu, 48. proprietor of
a soft drink stand, attended the ball
game between Chattanooga and Lit
tle Rock at Chattanooga. Tenn... then
went to his home, locked hmself In
hi; room and ?hot himself through the
temple, dying In a tow minutes. No
reason Is known. v
A few hours before he would have
son? to the gallows to pay the death
penalty, J. B. Satterfleld. convicted
slayer of his brother-in-law. R. H
Hart, was granted a 2S-da> resptt#
by Governor Clifford Walkor of At
lan La. Ga. ?
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1? Scene la New Orleans after freak gale tliat hurt 60 persons and did $400,000 damage. '2? ?ioung dancing i
pupils under the blossoming cherry trees along the Potomac In Washington. 3 ? Passenger train In India blown
from bridge into a river by a cyclone, 50 persons being killed. v ?
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Senate Passes Bonus Bill
After Rejecting the Cash
Option Amendment' v
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
T LAST the American ex-service
man who fought In the World wor
seeing assured of receiving a bonus, or
ns he prefers to call It, an , adjusted
compensation. The senate on Wednes
day passed the bill essentially as It
was adopted- by ? the house, and In
i both case? the. ranjorlty' was so great
tbat there la no doubt It would l>e
repassed over a presidential veto. But
the bonus provided for Is hot in cush,
so It may be Mr. Coolldge can see his
way clear .to approval of the rteasure.
He, like President Harding, was op
posed to a cash bonus for the pay
ment of whteb no special financial
plan was ofTered. ?
According to the present measure,
InBtettd of cash the former service
man will receive a twenty-year en
dowment Insurance certificate on which
he can obtarn a loan after two years,
equal to 00 per cent of the current
cash value of the policy. This loan
will be obtained through a bank~whlch
will be reimbursed by the government
In the event <Jf u default, loan
value of a $1,000 policy would be *87.
03 at the end of two years. $153.52 In
Ave years, and $580.19 In fifteen years.
Senator Copeland of New York,
supported by a number of Democrats,
tried to have the bill amended to pro
vide for a cash option, but this was
defeated. 37 to 48, because most of
the senators felt It would mean the
certain veto of the measure and per
haps Its defeat. However, the
Democratic leaders announced after
passage of the bill that they con
sidered It an unsatisfactory makeshift
and that next winter they would make
a fight for the cash option. If a
Democratic administration is elected In
the fall they believe they can so pmend
the law. TVlth several minor amend
ments "adopted on the floor, the bill
was passed by a vote of 67 to 17,'' Eight
Republicans and nine Democrats were
recorded in opposition.
'j The cost of the bonus under the In
surance plan Is expected to be some
where between $2,202,407,420. the
figure given by the aetuary of the
veterans' bureau, and $3,631,047,601,
the amount claimed by the treasury
actuary. The cost the first year would
be considerably In excess of $100,000,
000.
Under Its terms the basic rnte of
compensation Is $1 a day for home
service and $1.25 for overseas service,
with maximums of $500 for home serv
ice and $625 for overseas service. The
first sixty days of service are ex
cluded from the computation. En
listed men of the army, navy, and
marine corps and officers up to and
Including captains In the army and
marine corps and lieutenants In the
navy are embraced within Its scope.
Those entitled to $50 or less receive
cash. Others receive no cash, but are
elven twenty-year endowment Insur
ance certificates, the face value of
which Is the adjusted service credit i
plus 25 per cent plus Interest at 4 per
cent compounded annually.
Having thus disposed of the bonus,
the senate turned Its attention to the
revenue bill, and the\ prospect was
that the discussion of tills measure
would continue for severe! weeks.
Even so. the leaders In congress now
think It may be possible to adjourn |
enrly In June, before the openlni: of ;
tfie Republican national convention.
I
EVEN the most enthusiastic prohl- j
bltlonlst will not deny the In'ense
and widespread Interest in the hear- |
liyjs started last week before the house
Judiciary committee which had un ler
consideration fifty-nine Mils to amt-nd
the Volstead net and legalize the manu
facture. sale and consumption of 2.75
per cent beer and of light wines First !
were heard those who arcued for this
llbernll*atlon of the law. and the most
Interesting and perhaps most Influen
tial of these was Ssmnel Oomper*.
who spoke for the 4.0(10.000 -members .
of the American Federation of l.at>or. ,
A few of his sentences were: i
"tou 5s(c* me whiif.' .'Influence legali
zation of 2.75 per cent beer woiyd
have on general prohibition enforce
ment. I answer In one seritence: It;
woulii transform the people of the'
United States from a whisky drink
ing to a beer drinking nation.^.
"The dissatisfied man is tne. one
who becomes .the drunkard. The satis
fled man becomes the good citizen.
And. I say that this prohibition of
today has caused the. utmost In dis
satisfaction," ,
"No pne wants the saloon. No one
will be foolish enough to try to \re
pefil the eighteenth amendment. What
we who plead for 2.75 per cent beer
want to do Is to get the good that lies
in temperance and rid ourselves of tfie
evils of the present, prohibition."
Several emlneht psychiatrists told
the committee of the great Increase
in insanity from alcoholism since pro
hibition, and at. least one minister of
the gospel stepped forward to de
clare that the Volstead act Is- tmen-j
forceable, unpopular and wrong
ethically, morally and socially. A
large number of samples of jthe poison
ous stuff sold In Chicago for "hootch"
comprised one of the exhibits,
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OFFERS for Muscle Shoals were up
before the -senate agricultural
committee and a delegation of Ten
nessee manufacturers appeared to
argue against . the Ford. bid.. , ..Their,
statements may , be thus summarized :
,1. Expenditure, of thousands of dol
lars made the South look on Ford as
Its savior If given Muscle Slioalsu
'2. Some $85,000 for this' propagund'*
came from Ford friends In Nashville,
Chattanooga, Knoxvllle, and Memphis
alooe. How much more, and its source
Is unknown.
8. But the South now is waking
up to the fact that Ford in Muscle
Shoals means ruin and not salvation.
/T\HE house committee on banking
* and currency, perfecting the Mc
Fadden bill revising the notional bunk,
act; approved city-wide branch buhk
ing proposals. The committee's . de
cision in this IS approved by 'Con
troller of the Currency Dawes.
TESTIMONY before the Teapot
Dome committee lost Its ex-pnrte
character for a few minutes when
Barnes O. Lewis, a consulting pe
troleum engineer,- upheld Former Sec
retary Denby's policy of getting the
naval reserve oil out of Teapot Dome
and Into storage as expeditiously as
possible. H6 said :
"If Teapot were rhpldly developed
today, the recoverable oil could be got
out In two years. Otherwise, with the
gas pressure exhausted, 4t would take
twenty to fifty years and be very ex
pensive. The loss "of gas pressure
would, in short, unfit Teapot for an
emergency."
Mr. Lewis said the amount of oil
in Teapot had proved "very disap
pointing"? 12,000.000 to 24,000,000 of
barrels Instead of the bureau of mines'
^estimate of 135,000,000.
WHILE the Borah committee was
hearing stories of the allegpd
plot to bring about the Indictment of
Senator Wheeler In Montana, the same
topic was brought up before the
Brookhart committee. John S. Glenn
Of Nashville, Tenn., told the ' latter
committee the first move to "get"
Wheeler was engineered by W. J,
Burns and Mai Daugherty.. Speuker
Oiiiett of the house appeared volun
Airll.v before the committee nnd ex
ploded the sensational testimony of
?apt. H. L Scalfe concerning a "trunk
pill of whisky" which Scnlfe hnd mure
tfinn intimated was sent to Mr. Otl
Utt's office. ' "1
J Harry Daugherty. helng now free to I
tilk. made a red hot speech In Colum
lifci In which he denied flatly much of I
tfle testimony heard by the Wheeler 1
committee. HI* most significant state- <
ment w as I hat he had given up his '
cabinet post rather than "contribute J
to a treasotjohle cause." Flies of the '
Department of Justice, he said, con- 1
tained "abundant proof of the plans,
purposes nnd hellish designs of the
communist Interna: lonale."
"Bear In mind," he added, "that the |
flies which I refused to deliver to the
Wheeler investigating committee at
the time tn\ resignation was request
ed were demanded hy Rrnokhiirt nod
Wheeler, two I'nlted States senators
who Spent Inst summer in Iiusstn with
their soviet friends ? -those same soviet !
and comnronlsr leaders ?w}ia - preach
destruction of constitutional gpvern
ment, destruction even of human 'life."
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE traveled
to New York lust week and spoke
at the annual luncheon. of the Associ
ated Press. The more Important of
his statements related directly, to Eij
ropepin affairs. He snjid he hoped
France would accept.-. the pawes- vtfni-;
tnlttee report- arid th?jt; Ainerlciie^CMpl
taJ. wp-uld joUl - In ihfe ioiim ^irfrpa'aed
for, Germany. He thought that thus
the reparations question might he
definitely settled, and promised that
lie \vould then try to' bring. about an
other world conference on disarma
ment to carry on the work begun by
the Washington conference tnti?l to
take np the codification of interna
tional law with an attempt to estab
lish the rules of warfare and to de
termine the rights of neutral*. He
also Indorsed the Harding proposal for
American adherence to the world
court.
, The President touched oh the desire
for profits and the quest for easy
money, revealed In current govern
ment 'Investigations, as symptomatic
of the morbid IflnanclaJ state of mind
brought on by the 'war, and continued :
"From all of this tiVfirdldneas the af
fairs of government, pf .cpurse^^wifr.
feretl. In some of It a few publlp offi
cers-were guilty jMirWetpants. -But the'
Wonder Is not that this was so much
or so. ma^y, rather that it has beeri
so little and so few.
?!The encouraging thing at , present
Is the evidence of a well nigh com
plete return to norm#! methods of ac-.
tion, and a sane public opinion. -The
gravity of guilt of 'this kind. Is fully
realized and publicly reprehended.
There Is an exceedingly healthy dis
position to uproot It altogether, and
administer punishment wherever com
petent evidence of guilt can be pro
duced. Thaft I am doing and propose
to continue." 0
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REALIZING that economic relations
betw^eh Japan ?nd,j Atpferlcp ' are
far more vliaf to the fonner than to
the latter, Japan's prlv^/councll Is un
derstood to have Indorsed the govern
ment's conduct in the immigration ex
clusion matter. That Is, continued,
protest against the American exclu
sion act but no retaliation. The Japa
nese were still hoping that President
Coolldge would vettf the measure, nod
this he whs asked to do by a great
mass meeting in Osaka. Ambassador
Hiinlhara, meanwhile, explained to
congress that the words "grove conse
quences" In his note were not meant
to convey anything In the nature of a
threat, but Representative Johnson,
chairman of. the 'houae^.Qommlttee on
lmmlgratlojp^.repUed with a statement
that' live ?ctTo{ri o't oongress had been
assured before' the note was written''
and tjiat therefore the passage of the*
exclusion clause was not due to re^
sentment against the ambassador's
language.
BECAUSE of his "interference" In
the senate Investigation of the In
ternal revenue bureau by suggesting
the employment of Francis Heney as
Investigator, Governor Pinchot lost
the chance to 'sit In the* Republican
national convention as delegate at
Inrge from Pennsylvania. Representa
tive Vare and others turned on him
for what they considered disloyalty |
to the administration, and Rnlph 13.
Strnsshurger of Norrlstown defeated
the governor by a larpe majority. I
Pinchot blamed the wets. Pennsyl
vania New Jersey and Delaware nH |
elected delegates favorable to Cool-,
ldjre ami seemingly his nomination Is1
an af>solu(e certainty, '^Rpports are
Ynut ' hfe whnts ' Frank' Cntraen' of llll
nols as his running mate, and, fulling
that, wishes Lowden to be temporary
chairman and to deliver the keynote I
speech, it Is Interesting to note that
the Democratic national committee Oj
considering the selection of a woman
ah temporary chairman of the nutlo'nal
convention In New York.
AMONG the notable deaths of the
week were those of Mine. Eleo
norn Duse, the famous Italian tra
gedienne, who passed away In Pitts
burgh after an attnck of Influenza, and
Marie Corelll. the popular English
novelist. Doctor HelfTerlch, former
minister of finance of Germany, wa?
one of the victims of a railway wreck
in Switzerland.
"How I Suffered with
my Stomach and Ca
tarrh of the Head" < ,
Took Four
bottles of
PE-RU-NA
end now
cannot
praise it
enough
Miss Emelie A. Haberkorn, 2251
Gravois Ave., St.- Louis, Mo,
writes': "Foi; over two years I was
troubled wittj . internal catarrh., I
read a Pe-nu-na booklet and began
taking the treatment. Tongue
cannot describe how I suffered with
my stomach bnd the catarrh in my
head. I began to feel better as soon
as-I had uSed :four bottles and now
I cannot praise it enough. I now
enjoy as good health as ever and
would. not think of doing without
Pe^rti-na."
Dr. Hartman's famous remedy
has become, the standby in thous
ands of American homes for the
relief of coughs, colds, catarrh and
every catarrhal diseafe. - ;?
- Insist upon genuine Pe-ru-na and
enjoy satisfaction.
Tablets or liquid and sold every
where. . . i
Find* Paper Worth f 300, 000
? . What Thomas McCarthy,^ age four
teen, believed to be a worthless piece
Of paper (hnt he kicked outside of the
Detroit post office, turned out to be a- '
draft for $800,000 on ' a New York
bank. The boy, thinking that the un-'
stumped envelope was without value,
placed It in his pocket, where It re
mained until next morning, when his
father discovered It and returned It to,
a Detroit bank. '
Indignation sometimes doe? good ?
used .sparingly ; but not so, much as
calm calculation. ?? .<
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Say "Bayer" - Insistl
For Pain .^eadache
Neuralgia ^ Rheumatism '
fcumbago Colds
Accept only a
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which contains proven directions
Handy "Bayer" boxes of 12 tablet*
o bottT
ottles of 24^ and 100 ? Druggist*
Anptrin U the trmd? mirk of Baytr Uu? '
factor* of UoaouaUCMldnUr of aaUcjUcmdd
NEVER WITHOUT
BLACK-DRAUGHT
West Virginia Lady Uses It for
Headaohe'and Sour Stomach
?"Nothing Like It,"
She Says.
Hurricane, W. Va. ? Mrs. Ida Chaney,
who lives on her fruitful farm not far
from Big Hurricane creek, near here,
made the following statement not long
ago : A
"My sons and r have used Black
Drflught for a nnmber of years and
we are never without It. I use It for
headache and sour stomach. When, I
eat something that sours, Just a pinch
of Black-Draught sets me straight. ?
"Not long ago I went to visit ray
sister In Ohio. I took a severe head
ache' on the train. When I got to my
slster'8 I sent for some Black-Draught
and took a big dose. Next morning I
felt fine and enjoyed my visit. My
slBter had never heard of Black
Draught, so she began taking it aMd
says It Is all I said It was. . ?
"After the 'flu' my sons complained
of their Joints aching. They began
taking Black-Draught and think there
Is nothing like It. They take It In
broken doses every spring and are sel
dom sick. "
"The other night my little 'grandson
litfd a colli. I gave him a small dose
of Black-Draught for two or three .
nights and he got all right. I onn't '
say enough for It. I feel It has saved ,
me dollars and suffering besides."
Sold everywhere. Try It. ..
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