The Columbian., January 25, 1884, Image 4

The Face in the Moon.
IGraetno Murdock in Tbo Continent
We tad all observed for some time that
Tom Eaton had been unlike bimself. Orig
inally a good-natured sort of chap, without
much facility in painting, to be sure, but
with any mount of ambition, he bad xleased
lis all. The one or two sharp criticisms on
his pictures that had been accepted by the
lianging committees and the innumerable re
jections he had sustained at their hands,
seemed at last to have really turned his tem
per, lie grew blue, sombre, now and again
gruff, and singularly loquacious on the sub
ject of his art. lie would orate by the hour
on theories of painting, and was some
times ingenious, if obscure, I was
talking to Gleasou Towner about him
one day, and Gleason, who deals in
caustic speeches, said: "Sum up Tom
Eaton, and he is a good example of a limited
man with an unlimited ambition. He was
supposed to have "great talent, and started
out in life under the impression that he was a
genius. He lived in this dream for a while;
now he is waking to find he is only an ordi
nary sort of man like the rest of us. It makes
him mad, or if he is 'not mad, he soon will
be,' if he goes about with his notions and
talk."
A week or so later, Eaton monopolized an
evening at the Kit-Kat club by giving us his
new views on art. Art meant only por
traiture. Everything else, from still life up
to landscape, was a mere accessory. He
really dawdled on with his thought, though
' his words flew fast enough, and I felt as if he
- were killing his friendships as I glanced
about the room and saw numerous indica
tions of suppressed yawns.
It was so. Gleason Towner said: "Eaton
has rung his own death-knell. lie belongs in
an insane asylum, not in an art club."
"I really think his brain is cracked," sug
gested Bob Langley. "They say he has an
uncle who "
But some one broke in with tidings of a
new model, and we dropped Tom Eaton.
I do not believe I gave the fellow a thought
again until he chanced upon me the next
summer while I was staying in an out-of-the-way
village in Maine, on a sketching excur
sion. One day, in July, I stumbled upon
Eaton sitting out under his umbrella, paint
ing. "Hello, old man! given up portraits?" I
called, remembering by the association of
ideas his talk the last time I saw him.
"No, this is a portrait," and he turned his
- easel toward me to display a most indifferent
. firwmk tt on Ti-icli VAmfln trit H ix VkQelrot. in Viol
hand.
He held his brush idly for a moment, and
then looked up at me quickly.
"I have come here to see you," he said ab
ruptly. "I heard you were hero. Will you
go rowing with me to-night 1 I have some
thing to say to you a secret. I have come i
all this distance to find you, for say it I
must."
I will confess to a vague remembrance of
Eaton's queer ways, but I am not half a bad
fellow, and was, moreover, a trifle flattered j
at this proof of coufidence and friendship, so
I consented.
"At SP he asked.
"At 8," I answered.
"Meet me here at this point if you wilL I
shall be busy until then, and do not care to
see you and idly chat over nothings while my
secret chokes iu my throat.'"
He laughed uneasily.
"In love," thought I ; "and I shall lie in a
boat and listen to descriptions of her beau
ties and her charms all night Heigh-ho!"
, at. o o ciock precisely i naa reacuea me
point, but Eaton was there before me sitting
in the boat, oars in hand, saddling about un
easily. He had pulled off his coat, and as he
was a fine, brawny fellow. I looked at him
with some admiration.
"What a Hercules you are!" I cried.
"And what a crab, a turtle, are you I Get
1 n
111.
As I jumped into the boat, annoyed by his
tone, which was almost savage, I stumbled
against his paint box and a big bit of canvas.
"What are these things doing heref: I
oueried. as I sat down in the stern of the boat.
"They go where I go," he replied. "They
are my tools." j
We did not speak for some time. Eaton
pulled hard and fast, and I lay back with my
hands under my head and looked up at the
sky. It was just before moonrise, and the
heavens were in their goMen glorious expect
ancy. I did not care to break the silence. The
secret of the night was grander and more in
teresting than any petty human confidence
could be. Eaton spoke first.
"You are not curious f
"I beg your pardon ; I am ready."
He was silent again for a few moments.
"I am going to be a great painter," he said,
abruptly.
Ah I It was not a love secret then!
"But to accomplish my end I must take
. terrible means. I must condemn myself to
years of agony. I must condemn also an
other being to a briefer but very horrible
torture."
Then it must be a love story, after all I
"Yesf I replied, as he paused, putting as
much expression as i coma into ine woras.
My mind, curiously enough, rambled back
to another moonlit night when I was quite a
lad, and when I sat in the stern of a boat
with such a beautiful little girl, Anita - Gray
son by name, a child of 12, perhaps. Some
one sitting by bad said, "Anita looks like the
moon," and I had watched her during the rest
of the evening and wondered n by, and gone
home to dream that I saw the moon in the
water, and that it had Anita's face in it.
While I was dimly recalling this, and half
listening to my friend, I became suddenly
quite roused from my dream. Eaton had
been saying something about his incapacity
to catch a likeness.
"I cannot make the people I paint impress
me." One eace follows another swiftly, and
my model flits away with these spsctrea.
Now, only one thing can impress a face upon
my mind, I feel sure impress it so that it
will stay by me and haunt me by day and
print itself on my soul at night. I have
thought it all over. There is but one way.
God help me I I must commit a crime. I
muse kiii soma onei iuai lace nisiaco
will haunt me. I shall see only that, and I
can paint it. Yon see, I am quite calm in
this matter. I have icasoned the thing out.
I am a good man; my bitterness of spirit
will harass me into work. I shall hold my
brush with remorse. I shall paint a great, a
terrible picture!" j
Great heavens 1 Gleason was right. This
is a madman, I thought, and glanced about
. with my mental eye to take in the situation.
It must bo strategy versus strength. I saw
at a glance that I must not display the
slightest fear. His plan was settled. I must
plot to defeat it. In the firs' place I must
gam time, rins might be only wild talk.
"Whom do you propose to killi" I inquired
nonchalantly, although my heart seemed to
stand still as I waite 1 for his answer. He
lifted bis oars, and I could hear them drip,
drip in the moment's silence.
"I projiose to drown a man " he said.
"Then I will tie him to my boat this, my
l oat, that you and X are m and let him
float. I shall drink in the sight of that float
ing face in the dark water, with the moon
light about it, and the world that lias scorned
me will hold its breath."
"An original plan, indeed," I replied.
"Have you chosen your manT
'I have chosen you."
"You should have selected a handsomer
face, or at least have mad him shave be
fore starting. A bearded face in the water
is pshaw! very bad, Don't you seef'
My voice sounded steady, and I was lost in
admiration of myself as a man of nerve.
"Don't you see?" I repeated.
"I shall see, for I shall paint it! You take
it coolly," he continued, eyeing me warily.
My thoughts were flying about in confu
sion. I could not swim. Eaton knew it. I
am a slight man, a mere nothing to this
ntmnla fin YuAn tnloorl hilt )iV mV Wits.
If 1 was cool, so was he. I must try a new
tack, unsettle the fixed idea that anchored
his wild fancy and gave him this terrible
strvrifrth of purpose.
"A woman's face would have been better,
I suggested. "Something really poetic abont
that, now! Ab, look there I" I cried, an idea
striking me, and pointing as I cried out to
the moon mirrored in the water. She Lad
risen, but had been cut off from us in the
heavens by a ledge of rock at our left, just
beyond this jut, hor counterfeit presentment
shone round and full in the water. "Look
there!"
"What do vou seef' cried Katon, his voice
trembling with excitement, his whole body
eagerly bent forward.
"A woman's face in the moon in the
waves!" I called, gazing fixedly as if at a
vision. "What a brooding face! What
shadowy hair! What a slow smile 1 An-1 her
eyes! Ah! do you see her eyes? She has
opened them! Have you killed her?"
"I swear to you, no!" cried Eaton; "I swear
to you, no! I know no such woman! I have
never killed her! I have not even broken her
heart I Tell me more about her!"
"She is young, very mystical, yet very real,
with a smile at one side of her mouth, while
the other looks quite grave."
This was a characteristic of Anita's mouth,
and it was she I was describing Anita as I
fancied her grown older, for I had not seen
her, scarcely indeed thought of her, since that
day when we were children.
"It's a pity you can't paint her for me,"
said Eaton impetuously, as he gazed at the
moon. "I don't quite see her, but she sounds
great."
"I might try to paint her to-morrow," I
suggested, taking a cigarette from my
pocket, and relapsiug into my calm manner
again.
"You forget to-morrow will be too late.
But you shall paint her to night now, be
fore I kill you."
He put up his oars as he spoke and came
toward me. drawing a rope through his
heavy hands. He was in a state of -wild ex
citement, and I felt my light, airy manner
slipping away as he approached. I was chill
as as my watery grave was like to be. Yet
I let him bind me hand and foot, and instinct
ively counted his deep breaths the while by
way of something to do. A lurch, a struggle,
and I should have been overboard and lost.
Now that there seem id a chance for life, I
was in terror, and I was more than half out
of my senses as I watched my Charon lay me
on the hither side of his stream. He took me
from the boat as if I had been a child. Then
he built a fire.
"I can mix colors by firelight," he cried,
and unfastening my hands set his canvas and
easel before me, gave mo a brush and bade
me begin.
For tho life of me, and in spite of the
threatened death so near at hand, I could but
feel an interest in the freak.
"I must do it in grays or browns. It must
be a monochrom?, or we shall ruin it." I
spoke impatiently. So I did it in grays.
The jut or black rock, tne waves, the moon
resting on the waves, and little Anita's face,
with the half-solemn, half-smiling look
upon it. f
The strange scene, the maniac beside me,
my own former fear and excitement and the
striking of my fancy gave me a certain ficti
tious strength. In less than an hour, as I
should think, I had finished my sketch. It
was certainly weird and, as it seemed to me,
strong. In the distance I half suggested the
boat, and two men in it, one gazing eagerly
toward the moon and the face, and the other
lying iu the stern, his arms over his head,
his eyes toward the heavens. The boat and
the m.n were small and well in the shadow.
"Bravo! bravo!" cried Eaton. "Don't
touch it again! Give me the brush! Here,"
and snatching it from my fingers he wrote
his name, "Thomas Eiton,"' in bold, black
letters under the boat. "This is my work,
remember mine, not yours, it will be a
great success, and you" he pause! and
looked at me "you have saved your life."
Saying which he jumped into his boat with
my sketch, laughed a harsh, black sort of
lausb, and rowed away around the ledge of
rock.
For a few moments I sat still thinking it
over the strange, ridiculous, yet almost
tragic scenes. "I am not sure that little
Anita didn't save my life after all," I thought
to myself.
It did not take me long to get out of my
close quarters, but the walk home over the
dreary, rough coast was long, and it was late
lefore I reached the village. V hat a strange.
eerie walk , it was, with the sea charging the
moist air, and the moon contracting and ex
panding before my eyes through the mist
that had risen. Anita shared tho walk
with me.
I found a telegram telling me of my
father's very serious illness at Baden Baden,
and I was busy packing and driving through
the chill, early morning toward the nearest
railway station, so that I had no chance to
look up Eaton. I remember that I told my
driver something about an artist, a friend of
mine who had turned up, who seemed wrong
in his mind, and ought to be looked after. I
believe I wrote a line to the same effect to
Gleason. I know I meant to do so. But the
anxious voyage and moro anxious weeks in
Europe put all other thoughts from my mind,
It was after my father's death late in the
fall that I sailed for home. Taking up a pa
per that came out on the pilot-boat I saw the
notice of the Salmagundi exhibition. Coupled
with it was au announcement of the death of
poor Tom Eaton, who had died in a mad
housa the week before. "An unsuccessful
but painstaking artist," the review went on
to say, "it is somewhat surprising that the
only work he has left of any strength should
now be hung at the black and white exhibi
tion. This sketch was made after his mad
ness was fairly upon him. This picture is in
grays, oddly colored, but in composition and
drawing quite full of a certain wefrd power.
Not to bo too funny at a dead man's expense,
this gives the poor fellow a good send off at
any rate, as a friend of his remarked the
other day. The picture, taken in connection
with the tragic death of the artist, lias cre
ated some little stir, more particularly as the
face iu the sketch is strikingly like that of a
young uoston beauty wno is making ner
debut m Isew Y ork."
So poor Eaton was dead, and his picture
ray picture was a success, and Anita had
lived in Boston when she was 12!
I hurried to the black and white that very
afternoon, and found quite a group collected
about my picture Eaton's picture. I laughed
somewhat nervously as I stood before it.
Borne one behind me spoke. It was Gleason.
"You needn't laugh, man. I am glad to see
you back, by the way. There is some force
in that, and I am glad for poor Tom's sake
that he has left this sketch behind him. I
give you my word I had no idea he could do
as well. He couldn't have while lie was sane.
nvery ono is surprised. How are you? You
look pale. Have you come back to stay ?"
etc., etc. I lingered around for a while and
found myself back again and again before
my picture (Eaton's picture), the picture
never to be claimed as mine now. It chanced
I had told the story to no one. There ha1
been no opiortunity. Now, of cours3, I
never must As I stood looking at it, and
somewhat moved, perhaps, more by the re
membrance of that night than by anything
actually before my eyes, two girls and an
elderly woman approached and stopped.
"It certainly is like her, mamma; I wonder
if she will see it herself? It is quite time she
were here, bye-the-bye. She promised to meet
us at 3, you know."
"I don't think it does her justice," replied
the elder lady, looking' through her glasses
critically. "She is a very beautiful creature,
and this face is less so," she added rather in
definitely, and with some hesitation in her
voice, so that I fancied the picture grew on her
as she looked, and that she might yet reverse
Ler decision.
The other girl spoke now. She had a dis
cerning face, as I could see, and that long
upper lip that goes with speech faculty. "It
is iike," she said, "more like her soul than her
body. It is like the way she will look to her
guardian angel or her lover." She turned
abruptly to greet some people wno were
walking toward us.
I was singularly excited. The maniac in
the boat had no such paralyzing power over
me as this potentiality m a soft gray gown,
with a long gray glove outstretched. My
heart beat and the picture swam before my
eyes, for this might be, might it not, Anita
herself! I heard a voice exclaim, "This is
tho picture !" A lady in black with the gray
girl began an apology: "We are late. As
usual, Signor Boldini and some new music.
Ab!" interrupting herself, "it , is like why,
yes, very. Donx you think so yourself P-
the name at last, surely but no "don't you
think so yourself, dear? '
"Yes, do tell us what you think. Isn't she
weird? and can you look like that?" cried the
girls.
"An, uio otner me:" sam a new voice
oftly, a voico with a low thrill in it "It is
like what I might have been, I'm sure. Some
ono told me once when I was a child, I re
member, that I was like the moon, but hav
ing lived eight years since then in a flood of
sunshine'' and the gray hand touched the
black glove near hers, a graceful touch, I felt
sure "why, I am not so much like it now as
I was." '
"In spite of the smile that you always will
and always won't smile outright That is in
the face in the moon, too, you see. Did you
ever meet Mr. Eaton f
"And do you think the girl very beauti
ful, and very like a maniac's dream?" broke
in the shorter. girL "Do toll us, Anita."
So then it was Anita. I turned, and as
walked away faced the blue-gray eyes, like
violets, and the hair like shaded moonbeams,
and the smile. Not the little 12-year-old
Anita this, but a leautiful, sunny creature,
with the other Anita somewhat suggested.
and yet not there. This one more of the
world, with a savoir faire lying over the
moonshine. I had meant, if it were she, to
speak to her at once and boldly. As it was,
I simply gazed, and when her eye3 met mine
I fear it was I, not she, who blushed. But
6he recognized me. My identity was all in
my face, I am sure. I saw a puzzled look in
her eyes, and I seized my chance. I bowed
I spoke:
"i ears ago you knew me, Miss Grayson
wnen i was a boy in Boston, ana when you
were like the moon."
I was introducod to the aunt in-black. My
father had been one of the old family friends.
So in a few moments I was talking like an
old friend myself. Mrs. Grayson touched on
my recent loss, and then, as I turned to leave,
said:
"I woull bo glad to know your father's
son. Can you dine with us on Sunday next?
tvi tne golden gates were opened for me.
and Sundays came and Sundays went and I
was fathotns deep in love. I could not
paint, I could not talk. I heard a good deal
of music, and I suppose alack and alas read
poetry. Fatal habit of lovers. And so at
last it came to the point when I must tell her.
Armed with a shield of violets I met hor in
her aunt's drawing-room one Sun lay again
toward twilight. A day in April it was, and
spring was in the air.
The aunt was out on an errand of charity
would soon be at home, Anita hoped. I said
nothing. Talk flagged in consequence.
"If those violets are for this house, why do
you hold themf asked Anita; "why do you
not give them to me P
"I hold them because Veil will soon touch
them yourself" which was an asinine speech,
wasntit?
"That is stupid," she laughed frankly, "and
like other men, and not like you."
"But I am like other men," I answered, ab
ruptly, '"for I " Then I paused, gave her
tho violets, and conversation flagged again.
We tried various subjects Russian dyna
mite, Scalchi ; all failed.
"How good Aunt Emily is!" cried Anita at
last in enthusiasm; "so full of thought for the
poor and needy. I wish I had ever done any
one any good.
"You saved my life oilce," I said. I must
have said it very earnestly, for Anita flushed
and then paled.
uy muse you jest witn mo m tins way
to-day ? You are breaking our friendship."
'l want no inenosnip irom you. I am
glad to break it I will tell you how you
saved my lite u you win say yes to a ques
tion I am going to ask. But you must look
at me and not at the violets."
And so all the debut went for nothing, and
the swells and the lordlings that had hung
about got their conge, and I got my moon
light, for the girl with tho long upper lip
who, by the way, is now my cousin was
right, and Anita was the moon Anica to her
lover.
In the course of time wo married. Such
bald statement of an idyllic fact! But that
is all that words can do only half tell any
tale. Our secret and our love and how she
looks to me still are all told to us silently by
a picture that hangs over the fireplace in our
nursery, for there is a nursery as well as a
studio, and the picture is a picture of a moon
with a face in it, and in bold black letters
the name of the artist Thomas Eaton.
A certa:n brown-haired baby bov, on be
ing held up to warm his wee toes by the open
fire, always stretches hte hands toward the
face in the moon and calls: "My mamma!
my mamma I"
An Old Mnpereiltion.
Chicago Herald.
A curious story comes from Brent
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"How is it you are so punctual at the of
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a big sunflower scornfully to an humble
violet. "No, sir, said the violet mod
estly, lowering its head, "I am only a
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the efforts of exiienenced physicians, she
crew no lietter. until I lost hoiio and
looked for her death as Her only relief,
Readv to trrasp at anything that promised
help. I bouirht a bottle of Life Essence,
and gave regularly. 2he is now, alter live
weeks, steadily iuinrovintr. can stxp to the
floor and pick up a pin witn certainty or
balance, walks firmly, aim gives promise
of full recovery. Respectfully,
A. DOWNING, 1)S Angeles.
Dr. Irwin II. Klderidge., Baltimore
Md., says: "I would recommend a trial of
Brow n's Iron Bitter in all cases of anaemic
debility or when a tonic or appetizer is in-
.1!. 4...1
UllUlCU.
tlivKolf . with fC.AT.nnit? Vitai
uii. it win cure tne worst pain.
Dujardin's Life Essence cures neuralgia
and. nervous headache.
No safer remedy can be had for coughs
and colds, or any trouble ol tne tnroat,
than "Brown's Bronchial Troches." Price
25 cents. Sold only in boxes.
"Mother Swan's Worm Syrup," for
foverishness, restlessness, worms, const!
pation tasteless. 25 cents.
Dujardin's Life Essence makes the old
feel young again.
Wlu.ii w.oh venison the cheapest ? When
the man paid too dear for a whistle.
A FORTUNE
May lie made by hard work, but can
neither be made nor enjoyed without
health. To those leading sedentary lives
Dr. It. V. Pierce's "Golden Medical Dis
covery" is a real friend. It stimulates the
liver, purifies the blood, and is the best
remedy for consumption, which is scrofu-
i .if. .. I.. 11 ll ,l-,w..!.,
ious disease oi me iuiik. " ul "kk"".
Any man who attempts to pronunce Ar
kansas without the "saw, should be put
out at once.
Dnlardin Life Essence positively cures
hysteria,, and all nervous affections.
THE GREAT GERMAN
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FOR PAIN.
Relieves and cures
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BACK At'IIK,
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SORE THROAT.
QUINSY, SWELLINGS).
SPRAINS.
Soreness, Cuts, Bruises.
FROSTBITES,
BVB2IS. SCALDS,
And all other bodily aches
and p til iis.
FIFTY CENTS A BOTTLE.
Sold by U Droegteta nt
Dealers. Directions in 11
l&neufutes. 2ft
The Charles A. Vogeler Co.
on t A. TOUSL w.
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HAKKNESS FIRE EXTINGUISHES.
First Dremium Mechanics'Institute. 1883.
D. S. Brown & Co., general agents for Pa-
crnc Coast, 30 California street, ban Fran
cisco. The following letter explains itself
J. N. Andrews, dealer in General Mer
chandise; Postmaster and Agent Wells,
l argo 8c Co s li,xpress.
Elk Grove, Sacramento Co., Cal., 1
December , 1883. J
Messrs. D. S. Brown & Co.:
Gentlemen Please send me another
six-gallon Ilarkness Fire Extinguisher as
soon as you can. l nau occasion to use tne
one I boutrhtof vou a short time ago.
Last night the hotel adjoinining my
store caught fire in the hallwav to the sec
ond story from the explosion of a lamp and
the building being cloth and paper was im
mediately on fire in several rooms, but in
less than two minutes after getting the
extinguisher to work the fire was out.
As soon as this one arrives I will send
the otherone down and have it replenished,
Also please inform me if I cannot draw off
the fluid remaining in tne tanK ana save
it for future use, or shall 1 send it as it is
Yous, etc.. (Signed) J. N. Andrews.
The Strongest and Best!
THOMAS TRICE. Analytic Chemliit, pronounce
thotilANT BAKI.VO ltrtVDER ur arly one-third
stronger than any sold on the Pacific Cuar.t
San Fbanciw-o, 8cptemtcr 24, 1853.
H. E. BOTHIN, I'rtttideiit Bothin hl t'e Co.:
Dkar Sir: After careful and compute chemical
analyiiis of a can of Giant Baking t'owder, purchased
by us in open market, we find that it does not con
tain alum, acid phosphate, terra slha, or any Injuri
ous dulrtitaiio.fi. hut is a pure, healthful Cream far
tar Baking Powdor, and as such can recommend it
to oonsuuicrs. VM T. WENZELL & CO.,
We concur Analytie Chemuita.
R. BEVERLY COLE, M. !).,
J. L. MEARS, M. I, H.-alth Officer.
ALFRED W. PERRY. M.D.," Menihers of San
W. A. DOTTOLASS. M. 1., J-Kranciie Board
AUa. ALERS, M. I.. ) of Health.
Mnnufnrltiro! ly the
BOTHIN HTF'G COMPANY,
17 and 19 Main Street. Ran Francisco.
The necessity
for nroniDt and ef
ficient household
remedies is daily
growing more im
Ierative. and of
these 1 loHtetter's
Stomach Hitters is
the chief in merit
and the most pop-;
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of the Ktomach
and bowt-ls, mala
rial fevers, liver
complaint, debili
ty, rheumatism:
und minor ail-j
ments. are thor
oughly conquered
iy i n is lnc-oiiijmr-utile
family restor
alive uiul meuicin
ul safeguard, and
It is justly regarded a.s the mirest and most com.
iirelieiisive remedy or its c-tasx. for suie uy un
reiiensive remedy or U3 cias.
ruggists and Deulers generally
POLLS
TORPID BOWELS,
DISORDERED LIVER,
and MALARIA. '
From those sources ariso three-rourtns or
tho diseases of the human raee. Theso
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Appetite, Bowel costive. Sick Head
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of the system,' producing appe
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Bldnandavlgorousbody. aCTT'SPIILS
cause no nausea or griping nor lnteriero
with daily work and aro a perfect
ANTIDOTE TO MALARIA.
Bold everywhere, 85c. Omcg.44 Mnrray 6t.,NVf.
TIITTS ElAltl DYE.
Ghat Hatb or WniSREES changed in
stantly to a Gi-osst Black by ajingle ap
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Office, 44 Murray Street, New York.
tBTT'S MANUAL OF USEFUL RECEIPTS FREL
A SPECIFIC FOR
Epilepsy, I
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rti n a
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ftTHE GREflTfl
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toff, I
Scrofula, Kinfft
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Evil, Ugly Blood.
Diseases, Ihjtpep-1
i ' i 1 1 1 i I I I i jna, .Nervousness,
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Biliousness, Costueiiess, Nervous Proptratlon,
Kidwy Trouble atui Jrregvlcritiea. f 1.50. j j
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"Samnrftan Nervine iadoiug wonders. i ;
Dr. J. O. If cLcmoin, Alexander Cityj Ala.
"I feel it my duty to recommend it" i i !
Dr. J. F. Lanphlln, Clyde, Kansas.
'It cured where physicians failed." I ' (
Iter. J. A. Kdie. Beaver, Fa.
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fcol.l by all Irumrl. (27) '
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Seedlings, Cuttings,
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Send us a list of what
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thousands of cases oi
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CT. that I will
a iweini
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a j sufferer.
.u m , uuioli iitu rmoii tins ulsfl
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Hatches all kinds of Egg-i
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Satisfaction guaranteed. Address I . j
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CURES WHERE AIL ELSE FAILS.
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01 U U)ZU Address HtinhoN Oo..Portland,Maipe
N. P. N. U. No. C.-S. F. N. U. No. 83.
YThe Greatest
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F(Liebig's Extract), the
Wonderful Nutritive and
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(Pyrophosphate), Tonic
for the Blood, and Food
for the Brain. ,
i i his iniunuir vuru?cij " -
sold in Portland, Oregon, has been exteusiTely used In
. w - . . Ski.. .1 !at.l. umiMIwT BTIll
that locality, anu penorraen iimuj .xiuimum
As a .Nervine and Tonic it U unsurpassed. The
combination of elery, IWrt and Iron, has shown
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Tonic and ervlne is required.
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LUTHELL, COX & CO.,
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NAGLEE BRANDY
The purest and best in Uio world. Recom
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For fcale, in wood or glass, by tho Agent,
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No. 116 Montgomery Street, Han Francisco, Cal.
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