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CHAPTER V
Continued
At that resolve she sat and wrote
four pages of pleading and prayer and
explanation But having finished her
letter it smote her suddenly as she
folded and sealed it that it would be
ft selfish thing- to steal away with
out warning and leave this poor pa
per behind her to crush Jason for
though written in pity for him in
truth It was fraught with pity only
for herself As mean of soul as that
she could not be and straightway she
threw her letter aside resolved to
tell her story face to face Then she
remembered the night of Stephen Or
rys dath and the white lips of Jason
as he stood above the dying man his
father whom he had crossed the seas
to slay and again by a quick recoil
she recalled his laughter of that
morning and she said within herself
If I tell him he will kill me
But that thought decided her and
she concluded that tell him she must
let happen what would So partly in
the strength of her resolve and partly
out of its womanly -weakness and the
fear that she might return to her first
plan at last she took up her own let
ter Jason and locked it in a chest
liven takiner from the folds at her
reast the letter of Sunlocks to her
self she read it again and yet again
for it was the only love letter she
had ever received and there was a
dear delight in the very touch ot it
But the thought of that sensuous joy
smote her conscience when she re
membered what she had still to do
and thinking thfat she could never
speak to Jason eye to eye with the
letter of Sunlocks lying warm in her
bosom she took it out and locked
it also in the chest
Jason came tjack at sundown to
fetch her away that they might make
some innocent sport together because
his mill was roofed Then with her
eyes on her feet she spoke and he list
ened in a dull impassive silence while
all the laughter died off his face and a
look of blank pallor came over it
And when she had finished she wait
ed for the blow of his anger but it
did not come
Then all is over between us he
said with an effort
And looking up she saw he was a
forlorn man in a moment and fell to
her knees before him with many pit
iful prayers for forgiveness But he
only raised her and said gently
Mistress Greeba maybe I havent
loved you enough
No no she cried
Im only a rough and ignorant fel
low a sort of wild beast I dare say
not fit to touch the hand of a lady
and maybe a lady could never stoop
to me
No no theres not a lady in all
the world would stoop if she were to
mjarry you
Then maybe I vexed you by finding
my own advantage in your hour of
need
No you have behaved bravely with
me in my trouble
Then Greeba tell me what has
happened since yesterday
Nothing everything Jason I have
wronged you It is no fault of yours
but now I know I do not love you
He turned his face away from her
and when he spoke again his voice
broke in his throat
You could never think how fast
and close my love will grow Let us
wait he said
It would be useless she answered
Stay he said stiffly do you love
anyone else
But before she had time to speak
he said quickly
Wfait Ive no right to ask that
question and I will not hear you an
swer it
You are very noble Jason she
said
I was thinking of myseli he said
Jason she cried I mean to ask
you to release me but you have put
me to shame and now I ask you to
choose for me I have promised my
self to you and if you wish it I will
keep my promise
At that he stood a sorrowful man
beside her for a moments space be
fore he answered her and only the
tone of his voice could tell how much
his answer cost him
No ah no he said ro Greeba
to keep your promise to me would be
too cruel to you
Theres no need to do -that he
said for either way I am a broken
man But you shall not also be broken
hearted and neither shall the man
who parts us
Saying this a ghastly white hand
seemed to sweep across his face but
at the next moment he smiled feebly
and said God blss you both
Then he turned to go but GreeDa
caught him by both hands
Jason she murmured It is true
I cannot love you but if there was
another name for love that is not
He twisted back to her as she spoke
and his face was unutterably mourn
ful to see Dont look at me like
that he said and drew away
She felt her face flush deep for
she was ashamed Love was her pole
star What was Jasons Only the
blankness of despair
Oh my heart will break she
cried aagin and again she grasped
his hands and again their eyes met
and then the brave girl put her quiv
ering lins to his
Ah no he said in a husky voice
and he broke from her embrace
CHAPTER VI
ESAUS BITTER CRY
Shrinking from every human face
Jason turned his dumb despair to
wards the sea for the moan of its
long dead waves seemed to speak to
him in a voice of comfort if not of
cheer The year had deepened to au
tumn and the chill winds that scat
tered the salt spray the white curves
of the breakers the mists the dapple
gray clouds the scream of the sea
fcwl all suited with his mood for at
the fountains of his own being the
great deeps were broken up
It was Tuesday and every day
thereafter until Saturday he haunted
the shore the wild headland to sea
ward and the lonesome rocks on the
south There bit by bit uie strange
and solemn idea of unrequited love
was borne in upon him It was very
hard to understand For one short
day the image of a happy love and
stood up before his mind but already
that day was dead That he should
never again clasp her hand whom he
loved that all was over between them
it was painful it Wias crushing
And oh it was very cruel His life
seemed as much ended as if he had
taken his death warrant for life with
out hope was nothing worth The fu
ture he had fondly built up for both
of them lay broken at his own feet
Oh the irony of it all There were
moments when evil passions arose in
his mind and startled him Standing
at the foot of the lone crags of the
sea he would break into wild peals of
laughter or shriek out in rebellion
against his sentence But he was
ashamed of these impulses and would
sink taway from the scene of them
though no human eye had there been
on him lika dog that is disgraced
Yet he felt that like a man among
men he could fight anything but this
relentless doom Anything anything
and he would not shrink Life and
love life and love only these and all
would be well But no lah no not
for him was either and creeping up
in the dead of night towards Lague
just that his eyes might see though
sorrow dimmed them the house
where she lay asleep the strong man
would sob like a woman and cry out
Greeba Greeba Greeba
But with the coming of day his
strength would return and watching
the big ships outside pass on to north
and south or listening to the merry
song of the seamen who weighed an
chor in the bay he told Himself sadly
but without pain that his life in the
island was ended that he could not
live where she lived surrounded by
the traces of her presence that some
thing called him away land that he
must go And having thus concluded
his spirits rose and he decided to
stay until after Sunday thinking to
see her then in church and there take
his last tender look of her and bid
her farewell in silence for he could
not trust himslf to speak
So he passed what remained of his
time until then without bitterness or
gloom it ying within himself as often
as he locked with bereaved eyes to
wards Lague where it lay in the sun
shine Live on and be happy for I
wish you no ill Live on and the
lucmui j ui an Liiia win imaD atvaj
But he did not in the meantime re
turn to his work at the mill which
stood as he had left it on the Tuesday
when the carpenter fixed the last of
its roof timbers This with the gen
eral rupture of his habits ot life was
the cause of sore worry and perplex
ity to his housemate
Aw reglar bruk bruk complete
old Davy said far and wide A wnile
ago ye couldn hould him for workin
at the mill and now hes never put
tin a sight on it and gcod goold
waitni fcr him and showin no pride
and what hes thinkin of no ones
knowin
Davy tried hard to sound the depth
of Jasons trouble but having no line
to fethom it he had recourse to his
excellent fancy
Aw bless yer sowls the thick as a
haddick I was he whispered one day
and me wonderin why and wonder
in why and the thing as plain as
plain whats agate of the poor boy
Its divils thiafs took at him divils
in the head Aw yes and two of
them for its aisy to see theres fight
in goin on inside of him Aw yes
same as they tell of in Revelations
and Ive seen the like when I was
sailin forrin
Having so concluded old Davy
thought it his duty to consult an old
body that lived in a dark tangle of
birchwood at Balaglass
Its fit to make ft man cry to see
the way hes goin said he and a
few good words cant do no harm any
way
The old woman agreed with Davy
as to the cause of the trouble and
said that Jason must be somebody
after all since what he had was a
malady the quality was much subject
to for to her own knowledge the
Clerk o the Rowls had suffered
frcm it when a little dancing girl
from France had left suddenly for
England Yet she made no question
but she should cure him if Davy
cculd contrive to hang about his neck
vhile he slept a piece of red ribbon
which she would provide
It was not easy for Davy to carry
out his instructions so little did Ja
son rest but he succeeded at length
and thought he remarked that Jason
became calmer and better straight
way
But bless me I was wrong said
he It was four divils the poor boy
had in his head and two of them are
gone but the other two are agate of
him still
When Sunday morning came Jason
mfade himself ready for church and
then lounged at the doorway of old
Davys cottage by the dial to watch
the people go in at the gate And
many hailed him as they went by in
the sweet sunshine and some ob
served among themselves that in a
few days his face had grown thin
In twos and threes they passed while
Davy rang the bell from the open
porch and though Jason seemed not
to -heed any of them yet he watched
them one by one Matt Mylechreest
he saw and Nary Crowe now tooth
less and saintly and Khne Wade who
had trudged down from Ballure and
his wife Bridget grown wrinkled and
yellow and some bright young maid
ens too who gave a side long look
nis way and John Fairbrother Gen
silken bows on the toes of his shoes
But one whom he looked for he did
not see and partly from fear that she
might not come and partly from
dread lest she should pass him so
closely by he shambled into church
with the rest before the bell had
stopped
He had not often been to church
during the four years tnat he had
lived on the island and the people
made way for him as he pushed up
into a dark corner under the gallery
There he sat and watched as before
out of his slow eyes never shifting
their quiet gaze from the door of the
porch But the bell stopped and
Greeba had not come and when Par
son Gell hobbled up to the communion
rail still Greeba was not there Then
the service was begun the door was
closed jand Jason lay back and shut
his eyes
The prayers were said without Ja
son hearing them but while the first
lesson was being read his wandering
mind was suddenly arrested It was
the story of Jacob and Esau how
Isaac their father seeing the day of
his death at hand sent Essau for ven
ison that he might eat and bless him
before he died how Jacob under the
person of Essau obtained the blessing
and how Essau vowed to stay his
brother Jacob
And Isaac his father said unto
him Who art thou And he said
I am thy son thy first born Essau
And Isaac trembled very exceed
ingly and said Who Where is he
that hath taken venison and brought
it me and I have eaten of all before
thou earnest and have blessed him
yea and he shall be blessed
And when Essau heard the words
of his father he cried with a great
and exceeding bitter cry and said un
to his father Bless me even me also
O my father
And Isaac his father answered
and said unto him Behold thy dwel
ling shall be the fatness of the earth
feind the dew of heaven from above
And by thy sword shalt thou live
and shalt serve thy brother and it
shall come to pass when thou shalt
have the dominion that thou shalt
break his yoke from off thy neck
And Essau hated Jacob because of
the blessing wherewith his father
blessed him And Essau said in his
heart The days o mourning for my
father are at hand then will I slay
my brother Jacob
As Parson Gell at the reading desk
mumbled these words through his
toothless gums it seemed to Jason as
though he were awakening from a
long sleep la sleep of four years a
sleep full of dreams both sweet and
sad and that everything was coming
back upon him in a dizzy whirl He
remembered his mother her cruel life
her death and his own vow and so
vivid did these recollections grow in
a moment that he trembled with ex
citement
A woman in a black crepe bonnet
who sat next to him in the pew saw
his emotions and put a Bible into his
bands He accepted it with a slight
movement of the head but when he
tried to find the place he turned dizzy
and his hands shook Seeing this the
good woman with a look of pity and
a thought of her runaway son who
was flar off took the Bible back and
after opening it at the chapter in
Genesis returned it in silence Even
then he did not read but sat with
wandering eyes while nervous twitch
es crossed his face
To be Continued
Skilled Debaters In the Senate
Among the best debaters in the sen
ate are Chandler of New Hampshire
and Spooner of Wisconsin Chandler
is the keener and more caustic of the
two Spooner has the advantage in
the spectacular surprises of a running
debate Chandler is more feared as
an opponent than any other man He
has a genius for discovering the vul
nerable point in the enemys armor
and he is merciless in sending his
weapons home Both he and Spooner
are invariably good natured Neither
of them was ever known to lose his
temper in debate
Estimating Experts
Three exceptionally clever men have
become recognized experts in guessing
or estimating as they call it the an
nual crops of wheat corn and cottonj
Millions of dollars are investod in
futures on their published opinion
When Neill says that the cotton crop
will be a million bales skort prices
rise When his confreres send out
timates on corn and wheat the mar-
ket is instantly affected More
tion is paid to these individual
metns than to the reports by private
wire of all the banking and commis
sion houses combined
Dewey Arch Goes to Charleston
The navy arch in New York City is
not yet to depart into the rubbish heap
though it is to be disposed of as
rubbish for President Gnggenheimer
of the municipal council says that un
der the city charter there is no other
way So the South Carolina Inter
state and West Indian exposition will
receive the rch which will be taken
down with all the care possible and
transported to Charleston where it
will be reconstructed
Referred Him to One Who Knew
A new bit of Washington gossip
tells how one day last winter Senator
Chandler of New Hampshire being
about to enter the senate chamber
from the public corridor was accost
ed by one of two little girls who had
wandered in there Mister what
does it cost to go in there said the
child At that moment Chandler saw
Clark the Montana millionaire can
ing around the corner Ask that
man said the New Hampshire man
He knows all about it
Left HI taw Books Jn His Office
The late Senator Davis was known
as one of the foremost students of
Shakespeare of the present day and in
his home he had a magnificent library
A remarkable thing about this library
was that thsre was not a single law
book in the collection for during the
last twenty jears of his life he made
it a rule never to1 bring his business
cares to his fireside
A VrtSfl IntAvlAnnto vll 3L
tleman John who tripped along with those cells
THE TARIFF EUMBUG
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS AS
GAUGES OF THE TIMES
Doe Exporting More Than Wo Import
Maka Ufi Prosperous T It Is Rathor a
Blffii of Prosperity Among Those Who
Buy of Us Iw Prices Still Kule
Octobers commercial record out
shines that of any month in com
pleted calendars reaching an export
total of over 163000000 If that rate
were kept up for the year it would
aggregate pretty nearly 2000000
000 and it affords one among many
other reasons why Bryans tale of woe
about the calamities of the country
produced so little effect on his hear
ers New York Tribune
The thick and thin Republican
spellbinders report abounding prosperity-
without any regard for the
truth In the same paper from which
the above clipping is taken we find a
report from R G Dun Co saying
that the failures in November carried
liabilities of over 12300000 while
for the corresponding month last year
they were only 8046848 An increase
of 50 per cent in liabilities from last
year yet we had a month of unpre
cedented prosperity Dont that par
alyze you
And we exported more than we im
ported and this shows further pros
perity We sent out 163000000 more
than we got and obtained great riches
by giving away our substance
During the same time Great Britain
imported an immense amount of goods
more than she exported and Great
Britain also got rich We make scads
of money by excessive exports Eng
land makes scads of money by ex
cessive imports There is a big lie
out somewhere Who is telling it
Johnny Bull or Brother Jonathan All
we know about it is that England
has every year during the last half
century imported vastly more than
she has exported and has thereby
achieved the reputation of being the
richest country in the world Can we
do the exact opposite from that which
England has been doing and become
rich thereby We do not believe a
word of it If we get rich by this
process England ought to be the
poorest country in the world but she
isnt the poorest country in the world
not by a long shot
Egypt and India have been export
ing more than they imported for cen
turies and Lazaru3 would be a mill
ionaire compared with those coun
tries And yet we are told that what
has made England rich will make us
poor and that which has made India
and Egypt beggars among the nations
will make the United States rich be
yond the dreams of avarice
RICH AND POOR
Why do great riches and great pov
erty Jive alongside oL each other
Why is New York the richest and
also the poorest city in America
Why does immense wealth or grinding
poverty never live alone Where
there is no riches there is no poverty
It takes a thousand paupers to fur
nish the gilding for one millionaire
If there were no millionaires there
would be no paupers When one man
gets too much other men must get too
little The rich man has got hold of
the property that of right belongs to
the poor There is wealth enough in
New York to support every citizen in
comfort and even in affluence but on
account of unequal distribution some
men are richer than the fabled Midas
while a million are as poor as Laz
arus
Out in the agricultural portion of
Nebraska there is neither great riches
nor great poverty no man has a mil
lion and no industrious man comes
face to face with destitution All the
immense fortunes are in the city and
the grinding poverty is there also
the city is the natural home of both
wealth and poverty one attends as
hand maiden on the other Why is
this so There is no mystery about
it it is plain simple and natural
To make one millionaire it is neces
sary to exploit a thousand other men
a man can only make a million by
appropriating the toil of others the
millionaire grows rich by using the
icvuui uj me poor ana tne man in
moderate circumstances becomes a
pauper because some other man en
joys the fruits of his toil There is
property enough in New York City to
give every family ten thousand dol
lars but if one man gets fifty millions
many men must necessarily have noth
ing It takes ten thousand Lazaruses
to make one Rockefeller and so long
as there is one Rockefeller in the
world the Lazaruses will serve and
starve Can this be remedied Yes
Let the state take Rockefellers mil
lions with an income tax and with the
money thus obtained give Lazarus a
good job at fair wages Will this be
done Not very soon and possibly
never What will be the consequence
then The proletariat will level up
the existing conditions with a sword
and a gun and after a cataclysm in
which Rockefeller and those like him
will perish the world will start new
AN ADJUSTABLE ARMY
The army will be increased There
will be 50000 or 60000 regular sol
diers and the president will be author
ized to increase it to 100000 when
ever he shall think necessary It used
to be the province of congress to fix
the standard of the army but con
gress has resigned its prerogative
Hereafter the president will have an
army large or small as suits his con
venience Two jears ago we practi
cally conceded to the president the
power to levy war to make peace to
contract alliances under the last
power he has contracted an alliance
offensive and defensive with the sul
tan of Sulu now we give him power
to establish an army That is a power
that no constitutional monarchy ever
assumed We rank with Rus3ia and
Turkey in that regard instead of
Great Britain and Germany The
president has been granted the power
of an absolute monarch Do you sup
pose the Parliament of England would
allow the queen to levy an army and
carry on a war according to her own
sweet will The first Charles he of
gracious memory and besmirched rep
utation lost his head for the exer
cise of less power than the president
of this republic is exercising every
day The congress and the supreme
court are subordinate powers The
president is supreme He exercises
absolute power under the direction of
rings and syndicates He is the nom
inal head of this plutocratic power
and exercises complete dominion in
the manner that his rulers and owners
suggest No autocratic sovereign on
earth exercises such absolute power
as McKinley He is the whole push
and the congress Is composed of a
lot of cheap clerks who register his
will This is what the people voted
for and the people should have their
wishes gratified
UNSPEAKABLE OUTRAGE
Senator Stewart has Introduced a
bill in congress which appoints five
judges for the Philippines and gives
them a salary of 25000 each Isnt
that a pretty steep price Isnt that
all the traffic will bear and more too
We get a pretty good class of judges
in Nebraska at 2500 a year Why
should wre pay eight times as much
in the Philippines
Common laborers get 150 a day In
Nebraska and our judges get 2500 a
year Laborers get 15 cents a day in
the Philippines and judges are to get
20000 a year We are paying too
rgich in Asia or too little in America
Judjtje Sullivan or Judge Helcomb
would probably be able to decide
causes between Tagals and Chinamen
and we get such men in this state for
2500
Stewart says that the salary is made
high in order to get men of character
and professional standing for the
office of judge The men they will
get will be broken down political
hacks with neither credit nor char
acter at home or abroad In a thou
sand years they will not get a man so
competent or so honest as have been
on the supreme bench of Nebraska for
thirty years It is nothing but a fat
office to be given to some Rathbone
or Neeley to pay him for dirty work
done for some Hanna or Addlcks It
is a mean cowardly dirty steal it
takes the money from the gaunt hands
of poverty and gives it to dishonest
and disreputable politicians
CROKERS INCOME TAX
When Mr Croker landed in London
the tax collector was waiting for him
and demanded 5000 of his honest dol
lars as a contribution to the income
tax 5000 of his money to be spent
in strangling liberty in South Africa
Mr Astor and Mr Bradley Martin had
also to pay an income tax on their
princely fortunes Mr Croker didnt
iike it and neither of the other gen
tlemen were pleased
Our rich men go to England and are
taxed to carry on the British govern
ment They stay at home and it dont
cost them a cent for the enjoyment
of their mighty incomes Doesnt it
strike you that Thompsons colt was
wise when compared with American
legislators The only men that pay no
taxes in America are the very men
who could pay a very large tax and
never feel it If an American judge
had not had a changeable mind we
would have been collecting tax off of
the superfluities of the rich instead of
the necessities of the poor John
Rockefeller would have paid three mil
lion dollars a year into the national
treasury instead of raising that money
on revenue stamps at two cents
apiece
We are glad they stuck these rich
Americans and we hope that this coun
try may learn a lesson from our wise
cousins over the sea
WHAT ARE LAWS FOR
It is very evident that most laws
are not made to be obeyed unless con
venient for the reason that while
they may appear on first reading to
be plain a further reading or an
other law on the same subject will
introduce technical points to hinder
its operation If it is more convenient
to obey the plain letter of the law
than to contest the matter in court
it will be obeyed but if obedience will
inconvenience a person more than a
lawsuit then the law is disobeyed
with impunity and the technical pro
visions are relied on to avoid punish
ment This is the exact situation
with regard to our corrupt practices
act It clearly forbids certain things
and the honest man obeys the law
The dishonest man looks farther and
finds a lot of technical provisions of
procedure behind which he can hide
his guilty head if he has money
and he disregards the law and expects
to go scot free
A GOOD PLATFORM FOR 1904-
1 Direct legislation or the initia
tive and referendum
The Question of whether we are to
have a peoples government is greater
than any question of administration of
a hypothetical government
2 The right to issue currency must
be taken from the banks and the gov
ernment must issue all money and
make it all equally a full legal tender
and must abolish the fraudulent pre
tense of redeeming one kind of money
with another kind of money
3 We demand the public owner
ship of public utilities
s
When a sure thing man takes an
other in out of the rain it isaptto be
a Questionable transaction
Skilled Debaters la the Senate
Among the best debaters In the sen
ate are Chandler of New Hampshire
and Spooner of Wisconsin Chandler
is the keener and more caustic of the
two Spooner has the advantage in
the spectacular surprises of a running
debate Chandler Is more feared as
an opponent than any other man He
has a genius for discovering the vul
nerable point In the enemys armor
and he is merciless in tending his
weapons home Both he and Spooner
are invariably good natured Neither
of them was ever known to lose his
temper in debate
Cant Pay a 5 Cent Fare with SSO
Some time ago Ida Balk tendered a
street car conductor in Toledo a 20
bill in payment of one fare The con
ductor refused to accept the bill on
the ground that he did net have
change for that amount and ejected
the woman from the car She brought
suit against the company for damages
and the case was decided against her
Judge Pugsley said in deciding the
case that it was unreasonable to ex
pect the street car conductor to carry
that amount of change
To Raise Georgia Preachers lu Africa
A shipment of 100000 young peach
trees from Georgia nurseries bound
for Cape Colony and Natal South Af
rica will be made next week They
go largely into Natal and a large num
ber of the trees going to lhat country
are consigned to Ladysmith Cape
Colony fruit growers get less than
half of the shipment
MR AYERS NOT DEAD
Very Much Alive and Oat With a- Letter
Telling How Ho Was Saved
Minneapolis Minn Dec 29 Spe
cial Few who knew how ill Mr A
E Ayers of this city had been with
Brights Disease and Diabetes ever ex
pected he could live Four doctors gave
him but three or four days to live He
recovered through the prompt and con
tinued use of a well known remedy
and hlas given the following letter for
publication It is dated at Bath N Y
where Mr Ayers now resides -
Soldiers and Sailors Home
Bath N Y
Dodds Medicine Co Buffalo N Y
Dear Sirs I wist to tell you what
Dcdds Kidney Pills have done for me
As far as I am concerned they are the
best in the world for they not only
saved my life but they have given me
new life and hope I lived in Minne
apolis for forty nine years and am
well known there by many people I
suffered severely with Brights Disease
and Diabetes Four well known physi
cians gave me up to die In fact they
gave me only three or four days at the
longest to live I had spent nearly
everything I had In the effort to save
my life but seeing an advertisement
of Dodd Kidney Pills I scraped what
was nearly my last half dollar sent to
the drug store and bought a box I had
very little hope of anything every doing
me any good as from what the four
doctors had told me it was now a mat
ter of hours with me I commenced to
take the Pills and from the very first
they helped me I took in all about
forty boxes I doubtless did not need
so many but I wanted to make sure
and after all 20 is a small amount of
money to remove the sentence of death
and save ones life
I have since recommended Dodds
Kidney Pills to hundreds of people
and I have yet to hear of the first one
that did not find them all that you
claim for them I can remember of two
people to whom I hbd recommended
Dodds Kidney Pills and who after
wards said to me that they received no
benefit I asked to see their Pill boxes
and behold instead of Dodds Kidney
Pills it was s Kidney Pills an
imitation of the genuine Dodds and
not the real thing at all that they had
been using I gave each of them an
empty pill box that Dodds Kidney
Pills had been put up in so that they
could make no more mistakes and
they afterwards came to me and told
me that they had bought and used the
genuine Dodds Kidney Pills and were
cured
I still continue to use the Pills off
and on and would not be without them
if they were 50 a box I think that
every old gentleman in the world
would be healthier and better if he
would take one after each meal
I wish I could think of words strong
enough to express to you my gratitude
for what your Medicine has done for
me It is not often I suppose that a
man who is staring death right in the
face is permitted to live cind tell of
the means which saved him and as
that is my position my heart Is over
whelmed with thankfulness to God
for His mercy to me in permitting me
to see the advertisement of Dodds
Kidney Pills when it seamed that I
was beyond all earthly power to save
that I cannot express my real feelings
If lanyone doubts the statement I
have made they- may write to me and
I will try and prove to them that all I
have said in this letter is true and
more than true There are hundreds of
people in Minneapolis who know all
about my case and the Way Dodds
Kidney Pills pulled me through when
I had been given up by the four doctors
of Brights Disease and Diabetes and
had practically lost all hope You are
at liberty to publish this testimonial
which I give you from the bottom of
my heart and I sincerely wish that I
could findefche right words to express
my feelings of gratitude to you and to
Dodds Kidney Pills for my restora
tion to life and health
Signed A E AYERS
Late of Minneapolis now at
Soldiers and Sailors Home Bath N Y
Mr Ayers is only one of thousands
of aged gentlemen who say that their
lives hiave been prolonged and their -declining
years made worth living by
the use of Dodds Kidney Bills
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