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devoted to the (Protection of JTome ancfr the Interests of the County.
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Gastoiyia, Oa's'Ton Oouftir, ;N. C, Satuhbay Moving, jPKiL 2ncl.7 188JU.;
ON
GAZETTE
1 T. M. PITTMAN,
' . .'ATTORNEY AT-LAW,
(opposite Court House,)
Practice m die State and Federal CnuHs
and pa t,i prompt attention to business,
mil net ornate loans.
Charlotte. N. C , 16 June 5 tf.
CENTRAL HOTEL
Hpavtaiiburgr, feS. C,
W. S. LIPSCOMB, Pro.
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New house and furniture, ror mi carpeted
electric bells, atteutivo servant, location
central, fare the very beat. Terms, f 2.00
day, f 10.00 a week. (35.00 a month
Drummers stopping over Sunday 91.60,
Only a few yards from the Iron bprings,
Sep25tojanl.
L. R. Wiiston. T. J. Moore, M. D
Wholesale and Retail
N.-W. corner Trade and Try on sis.,
CHARLOTTE, N. C,
And Dealers in
Hints;. (Dite
FARNISHES, DYE STUFFS,
DRUGS,
S E x D YOUR ORDERS TO
J. R.EDDIN'S
BLANK BOOKS
SCHOOL BOOKS
-AND
STATIONERY",
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
W. G. BERRYHILL !
MANUFACTURER OF- -
FOEEIGN k AMERICAN MAEBLE,
MOSVMEKTS,
II E A DS TOMES,
TABLETS, '
MANTLES e
Trade Street, Opp. lstPresbyterian Cburch
CHARLOTTE, S. C.
Oct tf
SCHIFF& GlilEll.
WHOLESALE CROCEBS
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Commission Merchants.
iVg' Special attention Riven to the purch
ate andsale of cotton
CHARLOTTE, 1ST. C.
6epl8 tko
R. M, MARTIN
UA8 A CI101CB LOT OF
cniiisTMAs hoods
At his Old Stand. No. 3, Air
Line Street, next door lo the Uzet'.e Office,
His friends are respectfully
invited to call and ex
amine them.
Respect fully,
oc25tf
R. M. MARTIN.
KING'S MOUNTAIN
II O r.V I JLi,
KWG's JifouSrrjijr, jr. c.
M& Is tbe place to slop for good
t& attention "tttt
A good livery stall is attached to the
Hotel.- Terms moderate.
L. II. LONG, Proprietor.
Oci2 tf -
,1880. FRLIT TREES! im-
A Fin assortment of FRUIT TREKS,
and VINES for the Fall of 18 9, and Spring
of lS81,at low rafes,t
The Grange Nurseries,
(Two Miles South of Oaribaldi, N. C.)
. , M.U.HAND, Proprietor.
y Send for CaUlogue "t3
seplStf
Boots. Shoes
AND
QAITJ3B.S X
The most durable, the most comfortable
1 the best fitting, made, til we ask is an
examination and trial.
W. C. TEAGUK,
Gaktokia. S. C.
feb2Ctf
, SPUING,
ST BUN BLUFF.
A bird came flying over the hills,
Over bare forests and ice-bmnd i ills ;
He sang a song so glad and true,
It floated up to the sky of blue.
And down where the young buds waiting
lay
For the wooing sun to come that way.
Then he darted down to a brown old tree,
And sang it the news right merrily :
" The grans es will grow aud flowers will
1 bloom, -For
spring is coming, is coming soon !
The sunbeams bright will warmer grow,
The risers and rills will faster flow;
Be glad ! be glad for the news I bring,
And welcome the coming of beautiful
spring."
A few snow flakes that lingering slept
Where the warm sunshine but seldom crept,
Waked up at the notes of the wild song
bird, Trembling with fear as the song they
heard ; .
Then clung to old earth, and weeping they
lay,
Their heme, to the last, on her bosom of
clay.
Hark 1 there's a stirring among the trees.
And a breath of flowers in the whispering
breeze ;
It come to us from the balmy South,
With fragrant kisses in its mouth
Its touch is as soft and warm to me
As an infant's dimpled palm could be.
See ! o'er the hills in the morning bright,
I here s a deeper glow and a rosier light I
A nd a fair, sweet show of the coming q ueen,
Along the mountain side is seen.
Bloom bright, ye flowers, ye wild birdi
sing!
All hail, she comes, the beautiful spring
PATCHWORK AND OTHER
WORK.
' Here is Bornel'iine- so apropos to the
subject,' 8 tid I, looking up from the pa
perl wsa reading, 'that I think 1 must
copy part of it for The Household.'
' What subject ?' queried Cousin Fan
nie, looking at me in ao amused way.
Patchwork, I replied ; 'a topic which
I have been before inclined to touch upon,
and here is a sensible woman who endorses
my views so emphatically that if any of
7 lie Household Bind are disposed to find
fault with my opinion, I can lay it to the
writer who instigated this bomily.'
Rend it,' said Farmie, then I shall
know what you aru talking about
wen, tins woman mentions seeing in
ao ' Art Letter' tliut patchwork is coming
in fashion again, anJ is to be treated as
an art, and says that if the It tterwnter
was accustomed to attend our agricultural
fairs, she wold discover that tbi art lias
never been out of fashion in the rural
districts. Then adds: 'It may be com
rtit:g to some of the sisterhood who have
been told so often of their foolishness in
catting cloth into bits t't sew together
gain, that their work is no longer foolish,
but artistic.
But for all that,' this sensible woman
goes on, I must say that I think it de
cidedly foolish for a woman who is able
to do her legitimate portion of the world's
work, able to bear her share of life's bur
dens, to sit down and deliberately cut print
or silk into little snips for the sole purpose
of sewing it together in some obscure
geometrical from. The fuel is, we .have
not time to be artistic : at least not many
or us, and if we had, there are many ways
that we could use this artistic sense, if we
have it, to better advantage.
There are many old ladies who have
borne their hardens bravely, but have
been forced to leave them to younger and
strongci hao ls; invalids who must bvur
the cross of isolation and partial help
lessness, to whom such light and cheerful
work is a blessing that helps enliven many
otherwise tedious hours, aud it is a nice
way to leach our little girls te sew neatly.
'hen why not leave such woik for the
little girls, or for the time when 'the
grasshopper shall become a burden' to ui f
For we have so many ways to use our time ;
there arc so many calls that we cannot
answer ; we must look after the comfort of
oar households ; we mast Care for the
mental, moral, and physical well being of
oar children ; with social deaiauds upon
oar time which we ought uot to ignore.
hile we oeed besides, time to take c ire of
ourselves.'
Just to tbe point,' said Fam.ic. ' For
my part, I never could see any artist c
beaa'y in the most elaborate patchwork
quilt to be used as ao outside spread, nor
conceive how any woman with a family to
cane for could waste time and overtask her
strength for this same piecing and quilting
of bedquilts.'
' Let me read yon another sentence,'
id I ; There is a rait number of wcra n
ho neglect to take care of them Ives;
bo employ the leisure frost necessary
duties hi unnecessary labor, and leave the
mind stunted and starved, as well as m ike
of their bodies mere machines to turn out
so much work per diem, knowing or heed
ing little of ibe world's great work outside
heir particular domain.
oiih) day lu ovcrtwkeJ body and
mind, which should buve had change and
diversion in the midst of Us labor, gives
out, and life may be forfeited, or the body
or mind enfeebled for the af.er years of its
life.
' But,' sayr one, 'the same patchwork yon
have been talking ubiut is fir rest and
diversion.' It may be for some, and if tint
were the best atiuinable, far be it trom me
to say aught against it : hut is it tbe very
best V
' On that interrogation point,' said Fan
nie, 'hangs a q ie-tion which each woman
di., I presume, answer for herself better
than weTcan answer it for her. And if we
muy jud'e anything by the numbers inqtiir
iog for patterns for patch-wnrk, and
asking for bits of print,' with others telling
how to piece tlii.', or that Kind of a quilt,
it is evident that the patch-work fever is
somewhat prevuli'iit, even among those who
have enough cured ami responsibilities
without this and other trivial tusk added
to their labors.'
' 'Even for recreation,' I reply. 'Nev
ertheless as so many am nig our House
hold Baud are girta, und young womsn.
and blooming matrons, some of whom muy
have been brought up to consider patchwork
a necessity, and to think there is economy
in saving bits of print in this way, or that
there is some charm in a charm qiilt worth
striving for. it may not be amiss to stop
long enough to inquire if, indeed, there is
economy in this, and if there is not tome
more sensible means of diveision, and many
more artistic way; of expressing art, than
in tbe mo-t intricate patchwork that can
be devised.
We talk of wasting time in the mnkine,
of numberless tueks aud rufH s, and rows
of shirring on our clothing and there ia
waste in too much of this but it is not
so foolish by any means as patchwork
because there ia a -sense of beauty in
adoring and embroidering our apparel,
while there is none to be derived in cut
ting up und se wing together bits of print
Then there nre so many simple ways in
which the artistic faculties may be educa
ted ; in pretty appliances for tbe house,
in tasteful drawings, and even paintings
at no very great expense, that I cannot
conceive how an intelligent woman of cor
rect taste and true views of life can take
heart to spend precious tin.e and faculties
in this way that of making and quiltinj;
p-itchwork.'
The mention of its being thought by
some to be out of fashion reminds me,
sa id Fanni ', ' of tbe variety of quilts I saw
when visiting in Stoctttown last year. One
woman showed me at least six, which she
had pieced and was going to quilt, having
made a share from half-worn dresses, and
the rest from new cloth purchased expressly
for these same quilts.'
As for okl dresses,' said 1. 1 If we do
not care for them for kitchen aprons, we
can put thera together in the easiest pos
sible manner, either to tie for comforters,
or to quilt in some 'easy manner for summer
quilts, as they are more comfortable tlun
blankets for warm weather And outside,
a white counterpane is altogether cheaper,
prettier, and easier to wash than any oth
er covering, even unbleached cotton elolb
knotted with candlewicking, if one wishes
a dome-made spread, is veiy simple and
inexpensive, and pretty, ton.
Jinn coutiturpancs, said ranme, 'are
nice if one wishes a bit of knitting for odd
moments, or to take visiting, and pleasant
work for old ladies. 1 hese knit in parts.
nd afterwards sewed together, m ike light
worn, and in ty set ve for lundy work for a
long time ' ,
' And as the writer I have qioted say?,'
I added, ' patchwork for old Udies msy be
a real blessing. Old eyes cannot d the
line sewing or fancy work they once could,
and there is something to lax the ingenuity
in devisein a quilt, to be hand.d dowj to
granif-childreu us oieineiitoes ff the past.
t not long since selected a nice roll of pi ce
of print fcr an old lady who wished In make
a crib-quilt, knowing she would enjoy the
diversion and sweet -thoughts it gave her
to help cover the little crib of a great-grand
child.
What about the little girls T'arked
Funuie.
All right till they , have learned to sew
neatly in over-amhover seams, as we used
to say. Let them cat and make a quilt
for dolly's bed, but when it conies lo after
sewing I think that making dolly's clothes
leaches them better to do a variety of
sewing which will be osefal as they grow
up. Patchwork is so narrow ina to the,
(acuities, that much of it I would condemn
even for a child lo do.'
And invalid.-T' queried Fannie.
That depends,' said I. If a woman
has cultivated a variety of tagtes, and
has led a life of active sympathy with
liti rsUre, and the oaL-ide world, and its
many resources', patchwork will not likely
amuse her for any length of lime, at least,
she will Gnd many things aiore to her
mind. During a period of weary invalid
ism myself, as yon know, I was obliged
in rather early li(je to endure, I found
many ways of diversion without resort
ing to ' patchwork, or even to think of
that for a change, only as I pieced some
bright bits of silk handsomely for an otto
man cover, the arranging the 'different
colors being rally a ttroke of artistic
work. Bat I could do a little embroidery
sometimes, could make a rag-baby for a
child, and dress it, d'ess dollies for an
older miss ; do a little pencil drawing ;
now and then a wuter-coh r sketch with
some other light work, either fanciful or
useful as t the case required. With this
and reading for short . intervals, writing a
little, translating a few lines, and with
lettintf he mind and heart be kept in
sympathy with the progress, and needs,
and doings of the great world outside the
siek room, there was no nied of patchwork
for whiling away the time. But in saying
this I condemn nothing which another in
the Siiine place may find diversion ; for the
very triviality of patchwork nny uinkeit
the best of recreation. It is women in their
busy round of cafes who have no time or
streiiL'th which ought to go to sueh useless
employment who are to be considered here.
The taste may be cultivated far better by
more artistic fancy work, when something
of the kind is desired, while a buey
woman's leisure ought to be m ule subser
vient to her own higher needs in life. To
be intelligent, she must read and understand
current events lo keep pace with her grow
ing children she must keep in sympathy
with their studies, their pastimes, and their
social requirements ; and to .cultivate her
own mind she need' beside this to have it
constantly nourished and strengthened by
familiarity with the best that is in our
iterature, of various kiudj, both solid and
the IL'littr of the better class. To do this
besides real cares aud duties, has a woman
time left to make a quilt of 7942 pieces, as
is given in a newspaper paragraph, now
before me, which one ,mart woman pieced?
Or another quilt, pieced of 105G pieces,
no two alike T Can women be proud of
such records, and is it a work worthy her
true womanhood ?
1 have known women of good natural
abilities to whom you might mention new
book" and they neter heard of the works,
so little interest did they take in litera
ture; yea might ask them to join a read
ing c'ub or take some good publication,
and the plea would be they had no time for
reading, and could scarcely more than
look over the weekly newspaper or read
n little Su' days. But these same woman
eould find time for patchwoik, and rug
making, and rag carpets, and other work
that, eould easily be dispended with ; but ,
no time to read. Rag carpets and rugs
are not, to be sure, as senseless as quUts
iu little .bits, but to any woman of little
leisure, and with moderate means to pur
chase new carpels, all such labor is time
and strength tuken from her higher
needs.' Mrs. Leoxida.a
BILL ARP'S REMARKS
Upon Various Matters Now At
tracting His Attention.
Atlanta Constitution.
Six and a h ilf million bales of cotton!
And it sold for S3."0,000,000. That's a
power of money, and it looks like the farm
ers were getting rich, bat they are not. It
costs some farmers ten cents a poo d to
make it. -'It costs the maj irity of 'em
about eight, aud then there is the wtar
aud tear of mules und wagons, and harness,
and plows to be cousid'TiiV Cotton bring?
tbe momy 1! in a lump, and a fellow, feels
so rieh and good with it in his pocket he
struts around and buys a nice dress for his
wife aid t-omething all round for his chil
dren. He has woiked hard, and so has
the old lady and the boys, and it does look
like they ought to have something out of
I, and the cooking stove is about burnt
out and Susan is obliged to have a new
bonnet, and Jack wants a pair of Suruhy
boots, and there's lots of things ll.y c in'l
dii without any longer, and so by the time
the guano is paid for -od the advances nod
hired labor, and so forth, there is mighty
iltle left; and the corn is low in t! e crib.
and the meat won't hold out for another
crop. i rial 8 anoul the way wun small i
farmers all over the count ty, and they
m ike the bulk of the cron. Thev are thv
honest yeomen of the land, who have fam
ilies dependent upon their own labor. They
are the people who keep up the schools aud
the che relies, and support the merchants
and mechanics, fur they pay a fair profit
oo whui iiiey ouy. ami it tney wasn t wil
ing to do it, they have to do it anyhow,
for they are alwsjs just a lk tie behind,
and when a man has to ask for credit or
indulgence, it doesn't become him to be
over particular a boat the prices. Big plant
ers and rich men are worth mighty little to
the community, lor what they buy comes
from awy t ff, at th wholesale price, and
if they can't get convict-labor, they don't
give much for any other, and they make
their own advances, and do their own gin
ning and blacksmithing, which is all well
enough for them, but il I was a merchant
or mechanic, and had to depend upon them
sort for a living, I wonld either quit or
move away, and that speedily.
The farmers in my neighborhood mad.' a
good crop of cotton last year, and sold it
for a ritht good price, but as shore as yon
are' born, a good m.iny of 'em are buying
corn right now, and buying it on a credit,
and paying 25 per cent more for it than
they could buy it for cash. Fodder has
been bringing three dollars a hundred ever
sii.ee Christmas, and those farmers who
have got corn and forage to sell are the
only independent ones I know of, and
those who didn't run heavy on cotton are
the only ones who sowed any wheat to
speak of, and it docs look like oar people
ought to learn something from experience
aud make cotton the secondary crop instead
of the first.' The cotton exposition will
expose a good many things I reekon. and
if it will expose to cur small farmers how
little they make in raising the greut staple
il will do a wot Id of good in this up coun
try. I am hopeful, very hopeful of the
exposition. It is going to bring the right
sort of people together and it is obliged
t result in substantial good Thinking
men, ingenious men, , industrious men
haven't got time to be fooling around
spending money snd wnsting time. Those
who come from the north will learn some
thing from us, and we will learn some
thing from them. We are willing to mix
up with that sort ot people, lor it win
all be honeet business, and concerns our
great staple that clothes the world and
keeps the south respectable, notwithstan
ding the outrages. John Branson says
the jollifications um ing the bloods and
politicians dou't do nny good, but he is
hopeful of the exposition. Says he went
up to Cincinnati last year, and they wined
him and dined him und bad a lovely least
and while the champnio lasted they hugged
and kissed and slobbered H over one an
other, ard after the jubilee was over they
went rff to slander us as usual and waved
tbe bloody shirt and we came home and
went to hatin' of 'em all same as before
Suys he : "I tell you what, Bill, they are
theeuriosesl people in the world." We art
the best customers thiy have got, and they
get all we make one way or another, and a
body would think they would honey us up
and be kind, but they cuss us, and prosecute
us, and keep on a trading with 'im and buy
every dogou thing they put at us. We
make sugar ami sell it to 'em, and they
adulterate it und sell it back to us. We
make cotton seed oil an sell it to 'em at
40 cents a gallon, and they work it over
and brand it olive oil and sell it back to us
at 50 ceuts a pint. 1 hey adulterate coffee
and candy and butter and baking powders
and fljur and syrup and every thing else
they can. They are a nation of adulterers.
I saw a fellow at Montgomery a selling
Cincinnati buggies for forty dollars apiece
aud throwing in a set of harness, and
the poor white folks and the niggers
were abuying of Vm like iio' cakes, and
man toW nre that the harness was made of
leather-shavings, sltched oo to pasteboard
with a machine and all- blacked over and
shincd up so you couldent tell it and would
come all to pieces in tbe first shower that
come alone, and tbe chaps that made 'em
was all republicans and at every election
would howl around about southern ku klux
aod southern outrages and the way we
treated the poor nigg- r. You can't fake
up a newspaper that aint full of swindling
medicines and advertisments. Now, here
is the Rev. Joseph Ionian, Station P..
Bible House, N. V., and 'Manhood Lost'
ana .Munnoou nesior. u, aim jv oiaruing
Discovery,' and 'All Sorts of Pads for
Women's IJicks and Men's Bosoms,' and
vice versa ; aud Shiloh's Consumption
Cure and Neuralgioe, and 'My Wife has
been a great Snterer.'and 'Buckingham's
Wisker Dye,' nd liver mtdicine by the
ton and 'Hub Punch,' and pills by the
quintillion that will cure i very disease un
der the sun, and 'Rsada is,' aud the
Wonder of I he World aid 'Tain killer
for mm uv.d beast, and 'Worm Medicine,'
and $66 a week,' aud '8777 a year," aud
$993 and any oilier number of dollars and
Wny Will Voulie,' and St. Jacob's Oil,'
and 'Prescription Fre,' aud 'Just Behold,'
and 'R ad Attentively, and 'Benson's
Plaster.' nnd 'Cheney's Expectorant, and
'Cuticura.' and 'George T. Rowell & Co.
aud here ,9 oue fieaded 'Thieves,' and I
don't know how many more io one single
paper and last oighl I started to read a
whole columu about the world coming lo
an end in July for if it was coming I want
ed to know it and fix op and prepare and
make a will and before I bad got fur in the
reading of the duru thing branched t ff into
a kidney medicine. What m the dickens
do I care about a lil e -i dicine il the
TTffTSP
wo. Id is coming to an end in July? My
kidneys are all rhrhl and if they ain't I
reckon they will run me three ot four
mc'iulis anyhow- I tell you, Bill Arp, them
felleis up ihere beat all creation for inver1
tin' ways to get oar money and live with'
out work. A few years ago two fellers
come along here with a passel of apple
grafts and they had samples of the applei
with em and books full of beautiful pic
tures of all sorts of fruit, and tbey talked
so confldin and ameliorate I let em cat my
old trees all to pieces and they stuck In 4
hundrtd grafts at 20 cents a piece and I
paid em and they went on to tbe next
house and done about the same thing, and
I found out afterwards that they brought
my grafts from Mack Crawford's old trees
and carried some they cat from my trees
over to my next nubors and so on and so
forth, world without end, and here they go,
and if they cant beat the world the flesh
and the devil a lyin and swindlin then t
am mistaken, that's all. I used to think
our people were a good strong healthy peo
ple, but these feller have got about half
tbe men and most all the women to be
lievin they are busted up and broke down
io the lines or got heart disease, or Blight's
disease of tbe kidney, or a tape worm, or
internal suggestions and they go to Josio
and dosin with patect medicine tell tbef
get shore enuf sick, and then go to. bee!
aud send for the doctor. I've been thinkieg
about all this business and at the next
session I'm goiu to introduce n bill that a
feller sbaut sell his medicine nor advertise
it in a newspaper aotii it has gone through
the Eweal box aud been pronounced a
harmless thiog by a board of medical er
amioets of this state. We make the gaarjo
men go through tbe buro and get certifi
cates, and that concerns property only, bat
oar health and our lives is concerned ia
these pisen medicines, and ought to be pro
tected.' My friend John seems sorter demoral
ized, but he had got sense, he has, and I, In
a bettin on him. The credulity of our peo
ple is mast amaain. When they get sick
they experiment with all sorts of kumbogs
that'll got certificates, forged or genuine
withAlek Stepheus' or Alek anybody
else's name to em, and if they don't get welt
some of em go to conjurin. Some of em car
ry buckejes in their pockets, and now
they've got to carrying an Irish potato as
ao antidote for ruma'ism. I was a won
deiin what made potatoes so high and
scarce, and a man told me io Roam the
other day that about half that population
curry one in tbe breeches pocket and tfcat
Polk county was infected in the same way
In luct, the remedy was discovered by Col
onel S ab Jones down there, for he bad ob
served for 40 years that Irishmen didn't have
rheumatism, and consequently Irish potatoes
was the remedy. Jesse; you must carry
one till it dries up or sprout and then take
another. I saw a big fat man in Roam
the other duy with a sprout six inches long
sticking out of bis pocket. Sich is life.
Yours, Bill Arp
P. S It looks like oar people ran afttr
tbe furriners just as bad as thiy do after
the Yankees. Sal Bernhardt come down
here and looled'em ia Fiench, and now I
see that Sal Yeny she is coming to' fool.,
'cm in Italian. And they'll go tea if tbey
dou't, and after a while Sal somebody else
will sing to em io Portugee, and they will
never stop going till they get srl-livated I
reckon. Lord help as, I'm afeerd we are a
oatioo of fools. B. A.
Tbe Baptist church at La Fayette, Ala.,
has decided that raffling is gambling.
In the North Alabama conference there
are 3oS preachers aod 35,000 members
An -eighty-year old counterpane and a
fifty-SK-year old broom are still ia use4u
Kentucky.
A firm iu Madisonville, Kentucky, shipped
5,000 coon and miok skins to St. Louis a
few days ago,
Tbe military companies aod college cadets
at Lexiugton, Ky., will march lo tbe torn i
of Henry Clay and fire a salute 00 tbe 12
of April, the anniversary of tbe great
8tatemaa's birth.
The Firbt African Baptist chorch con- j
gregation if Richmond Vs., has jwid i4f
every doller uf the debt tnccrred iu rtaaoif "
eliog their house of worship, which aui lif
ted to ovtr $20,000.
CaoiJ' Remedy. Partn is would di
well to cut out ibis remedy lor croup, aud
preserve it for future use, incase any ol
the family should be affl cted : Take a
soft flanuel cloth, a quarter of a yard long
and a Guger wide, spread a thin coating of
laid over it and spriukle yellow snuff over
the entire surface. Lay it over tbe cheat,
the lard and snuff uext the skir. Spread
another flannel over It. Urowiup peofli
as well as little fik, will bY; il u .
celliut remedy Tor tihtiMM or lutit-tlius
ol the bin,;.