t. for Wil- -.a.
A moM lucrative brain a a truffle In
wild beasts is the sale of performing
animals, says W. G. Fltz-Gerald In his
article “Romance of the Wild Beast
Trade” in the February Technical
World magazine. At Stelllngen there
are regular "schools" or "academies”
wherein wild animals are educated,
whether they be boxing kangaroos,
wrestling lions, elephants that are their
own chauffeurs In motor cars, polar
bears that drink toasts at festive par
ities, tigers that draw chariots as
though for jovial Bacchus himself, or
(seals that juggle with fiery brands.
Hither come the great circus compa
nies’ buying agents In search of novel
ties; and such Is public appreciation
that a new feat, a clever Idea in train
ing. may actually double a wild beast's
value In the market.
A DESPAIRING WOMAN.
Weak, Nervous aod Wretched frou
Wasting Kidney Trouble*.
Mrs. Henrjr A. Reamer, Main anti
Garst streets, South Bend, Ind., says:
“When I began using Doan’s Kidney
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I could hardly
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v o u s , and had
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down pain, head
ache, dizziness and
weak eyes. Dropsy
set In and bloating
of the chest choked
me and threatened
the heart. I had lit
my untold surprise
Doan's Kidney Pills brought mo relief
and saved my life. I shall never for
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Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Mllburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.
At the Ball.
From the New York Weekly.
First Artist (admiringly)—What a
faultlessly beautiful face Miss Heebie
has I
Second Artist (enthuslstlcally)—Yes.
Indeed. It's as perfect as a retouched
photograph.
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Take LAXATIVE ItltOMO Quinine Tablets.
Druggists refund money If It fails to cure.
B. W. Grove’s signature Is ou each box. 25c.
An exhibition of British manufactures
jwlll be held In Alexandria and Cairo
between the months of November, 1906,
and February, 1907.
Robbed la Church.
Just think what an outrage It is to
‘be robbed of all the benefits of the
services by continuous coughing
throughout the congregation, when
Anti-Grlplne Is guaranteed to cure.
Sold everywhere, 26 cents. F. W. Die
mer, M. D., Manufacturer, Spring
field, Mo.
A Dead Beat
From Harper's Weekly.
The trolley car was crowded, a numbo.
Of passengers finding foothold upon tho
running board. It had proceeded quite a
distance before the conductor could com
plete his fare-collecting round. Suddenly
a woman caught hold of his arm and
cried, excitedly:
"Conductor! A man has fallen off the
ear!"
"I know It, ma'am,” was the cool re
ply. "I hadn't got his fare. Some folks
•will go an^ length to beat the company!”
Miss Josephine Northmore, of Lake
Side. Minn., has a genuine tenor voice,
with a range from E flat to high C.
Any attempt to make her sing soprano
In the same range of contralto has
proved unsuccessful.
Nature’s Way Is Best.
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
BY A. CONAN DOYLE.
Copyright. 1903, Copyright, 1905,
by A. Comb Doyle end Collier** Weekly. by McClure, Phillips 01 Co.
V._ — _ — ^
I.—THE ADVENTURE OF THE
EMPTY HOUSE.
' " "J T was In the
spring of the
4 year 1894
*1 that all Lon
4 don was In
4 terested, and
4 the fashlon
■ able world
*5] dismayed by
9 the murder
4 of the Hon
i orable Ron
ald Adair
under most
Unusual and
I n explicable
circumstanc
es. The
public has
a 1 r e a d y
learned those
particulars of
l ,ie crime
which came
out In the
police Inves
tigation. hut
a good deal
suppressed upon that occasion, since the
case for the prosecution was so over
whelmingly strongthat it was not neces
sary to bring forth all the facts. Only
now, tit the end of nearly ten years, am
I allowed to supply those missing links
which make up the whole of that re
markable chain. The crime was of in
terest In Itself, hut that interest was
as nothing to me compared to the in
conceivable sequel, which afforded me
the greatest shock and surpr ise of any
event in my adventurous life. Even
now, after this long Interval, I find
myself thrilling as 1 think of it, and
feeling once more that sudden tlood of
joy, amazement, and incredulity which
utterly submerged my mind. Let trie
say to that public, which has shown
some Interest in those glimpses which
I have occasionally given them of the
thoughts and actions of a very re
markable man, that they are not to
blame me If I have not shared my
knowledge with them, for I should have
considered It my first duty to have
done so, had I not been barred by a
positive prohibition from his own lips,
which was only withdrawn upon the
third of last month.
It can be Imagined that my close in
timacy with Sherlock Holmes had in
terested me deeply in crime, and that
after his disappearance I never failed
to read with care the various prob
lems which came before the public. And
I even attempted, more than once, for
my own private satisfaction, to employ
i ' _
anrl such a loss could not in any way
affect him. He had played nearly ev
ery day at one club or other, but he
was a cautious player, and usually rose
a winner. It came out in evidence
that, in partnership with Colonel
Moran, he had actually won as much
as four hundred and twenty pounds I
In a sitting, some weeks before, from j
Godfrey Milner and Cord Balmoral. So
much of his recent history as it came
out at his Inquest.
On the evening of the crime he re- j
turned from the club exactly at ten. !
His mother and sister were out spend- '
lng the evening with a relation. The ;
servant deposed that she heard .him
enter the front room on the second
floor, generally used as his sitting'
room. She had lit a fire there, and as !
It smoked she had opened the window.
No sound was heard from the room
until eleven-twenty, the hour of the
return of Cady Maynooth and her!
daughter. Desiring to say good night,
she attempted to enter her son’s room.
The door was locked on the Inside, and
no answer could be got to their cries
and knocking. Help was obtained, and
the door forced. The unfortunate !
young man was found lying near the1
table. His head had been horribly mu- j
tllated by an expanding revolver bul- ,
let, but no weapon of any sort was to
be found In the room. On the table
lay two banknotes for ten pounds each
and seventeen pounds ten in silver and
gold, the money arranged In little piles j
of varying amount. There were some I
figures also upon a sheet of paper, with
the names of some club friends oppo
site to them, from which it was con
jectured that before his death he was
endeavoring to make out his losses or
winnings at cards.
A minute examination of the circum
stances served only to make the case
more complex. In the first place, no
reason could be given why the young
man should have fastened the door
upon the Inside. There was a possi
bility that the murderer had done this,
and afterwards escaped by the window.
The drop was at least twenty feet,
however, and a bed of crocuses In full
bloom lay beneath. Neither the flow
ers nor the earth showed any sign of
having been disturbed, nor were there
any marks upon the narrow strip of
grass which separated the house from
the road. Apparently, therefore, It was
the young man himself who had fast
ened the door. But how did he come
by his death? No one could have
climbed up to the window without
leaving traces. Suppose a man had
fired through the window, he would In
deed be a remarkable shot who could
tall, thin man with colored glasses,
v/hom I strongly suspected of being a
plain-clothes detective, was pointing
out some theory of his own. while the
others crowded around him to listen to
what he said. I got as near him as I
could, but his observations seemed to
me to be absurd, so I withdrew again in
Borne disgust. As I did so I struck
against an elderly, deformed man, who
had been behind me, and I knocked
down several books which he had been
carrying. I remember that as I picked
them up, I observed the title of one
of them, "The Origin of Tree Wor
ship," and it struck me that the fellow
must be some poor bibliophile, who,
either as a trade or as a hobby, was a
collector of obscure volumes. I en
deavored to apologize for the accident,
but it was evident that these books
which I had so unfortunately maltreat
ed were very precious objects in the
eyes of their owner. With a snarl of
contempt he turned upon his heel, and
I saw' his curved back and white side
whiskers disappear among the throng.
My observations of No. 427 Park
lane did little to clear up the problem
in which I was Interested. The house
was separated from the street by a
low w'all and railing, the whole not
more than five feet high. It was per
fectly easy, therefore, for anyone to get
Into the garden, but the window was
entirely Inaccessible, since there wras no
waterplpe or anything which could
help the most active man to climb it.
More puzzled than ever, I retraced my
steps to Kensington. I had not been
In my study five minutes when the
maid entered to say that a person de
sired to see me. To my astonishment
it was none other than my strange
old book collector, his sharp, wizened
face peering out from a frame of white
hair, and his precious volumes, a dozen
of them at least, wedged under hi3
right arm.
“You’re surprised to see me, sir,” said
he, In a strange, croaking voice,
I acknowledged that I was.
"Well, I’ve a conscience, sir, and
when I chanced to see you go into this
house, as I came hobbling after you.
I thought to myself, I’ll just step in and
see that kind gentleman, and tell him
that if I was a bit gruff in my man
ner there was not any harm meant,
and that I am much obliged to him for
picking up my books.”
"You make too much of a trifle,” said
I. "May I ask how you knew who I
was?”
“Well, sir, If It Isn’t too great a lib
erty, I am a neighbor of yours, for
you’ll find my little bookshop at the
corner of Church street, and very
happy to see you, I am sure. Maybe
you collect yourself, sir. Here's ‘Brit
ish Birds,’ and ’Catullus,’ and ‘The Holy
War’—a bargain, every One of them.
With five volumes you could just fill
that gap on that second shelf. It looks
untidy, does It pot, sir?”
I moved my head at the cabinet be
hind me. When I turned again Sher
lock Holmes was standing smiling at
me across my study table. I rose to
my feet, stared at him for some sec
onds in utter amazement, and then It
appears that I must have fainted for
the first and the last time in my
life. Certainly a grey mist swirled be
fore my eyes, and when It cleared I
found my collar ends undone and the
tingling after-taste of brandy upon ray
HE TURNED OVER THE PAGES LAZILY.
fils methods in their solution, though
with indifferent success. There was
none, however, which appealed to me
like this tragedy of Ronald Adair. As
I read the evidence at the inquest,
which led up to a verdict of wilful
murder against some person or persons
unknown, I realized more clearly than
I had ever done the loss which the
community had sustained by the death
of Sherlock Holmes. There were points
about this strange business which
would, I was sure, have specially ap
pealed to him, and the efforts of the
police would have been supplemented,
or more probably anticipated, by the
trained observation and the alert mind
of the first criminal agent In Europe.
All day, as I drove upon my round, I
turhed over the case In my mind, and
found no explanation which appeared
to me adequate. At the risk of telling
a twice-told tale, I will recapitulate the
facts as they were known to the pub
lic at the conclusion of the inquest.
The Honorable Ronald Adutr was the
second son of the earl of Maynooth,
at that time governor of one of the
Australian colonies. Adair’s mother
had returned from Australia to undergo
the operation for cataract, and she, her
son Ronald, and her daughter Hilda,
were living together at 427 Park Lane.
The youth moved in the best society—
had. so far as was known, no enemies,
and no particular vices. He had been
engaged to Miss Edith Woodley, of
Carstairs, but the engagement had been
broken off by mutual consent some
months before, and there was no sign
that it left any very profound feeling
behind it. l'or the rest the man’s life
moved in a narrow and conventional
circle, for his habits were quiet and his
nature unemotional. Yet it was upon
this easy-going young aristocrat that
death came, in most strange and un
expected form, between the hours of
ten and eleven-thirty on the night of
March 30, 1S94.
Ronald Adair was fond of cards —
playing continually, but never for such
stakes as would hurt him. He was a
member of the Baldwin, the Cavendish
und the Bagatelle card clubs. It was
shown that, after dinner on the day of
his death, he had played a rubber of
whist at the latter club. He hud also
played there in the afternoon. The
evidence of those who had played with
. him—Mr. Murray, Sir John Hardy and
Colonel Morun—showed that the game
- was whist, and that there was a lairly
- equal fall of the cards. Adair might
have lost five pounds, but not more.
HI* fortune waa a considerable one,
with n revolver Inflict so deadly a
wound. Again, Park Lane is a fre
quented thoroughfare; there is a cab
stand within a hundred yards of the
house. No one had heard a shot. And
yet there was the dead man, and there
the revolver bullet, which had mush
roomed out. as soft-nosed bullets will,
and so inflicted a wound which must
have caused instantaneous death. Such
were the circumstances of the Park
Lane mystery, which were further com
plicated by entire absence of motive,
since, as I have said, young Adair was
not known to have any enemy, and
no attempt had been made to remove
the money or valuables In the room.
All day I turned these facts over in
my mind, endeavoring to hit upon some
theory which could reconcile them all,
and to find that line of least resistence
which my poor friend had declared to
be the starting point of every investi
gation. I confess that I made little
progress. In the evening I strolled
across the park, and found myself
about six o'clock at the Oxford street
end of Park Lane. A group of loafers
upon the pavements, all staring up at
a particular window, directed me to
the house which I had come to see. A
lips. Holmes was bending over my
| chair, his liask in his hand.
; ‘My dear Watson," said the well-re
membered voice, "I owe you a thousand
apologies. I had no idea that you would
, be so affected."
I I gripped him by the arms,
i "Holmes!" I cried. “Is it really you?
Catt it indeed be that you are aiive?
Is it possible that you succeeded in
! climbing out of that awful abyss?”
“Wait a moment,” said he. Are you
sure that you are really lit to discuss
things? 1 have given you a serious
shock by my unnecessarily dramatic
reappearance.”
; "I am all right, but indeed, Holmes, I
can hardly believe my eyes. Good
heavens! to think that you—you of ail
men—should be standing in my study,”
Again I gripped him by the sleeve, and,
felt the thin, sinewy arm beneath it.
"Well, you're not a spirit, anyhow,"
said I. "My dear chap, I’m overjoyed
to see you. Sit down and tell me how
yox. came alive out of that dreadful
chasm."
He sat opposite to me, and lit a cig
arette in his old, nonchalant manner.
He was dressed in the seedy
, frock coat of the book merchant, but
| the rest of that individual lay in a pile
I of white hair and old books upon the
table. Holmes looked oven thinner
and keener than of old, but there was
a dead-white tinge in his aquiline face
which told me that his life recently
had not been a healthy one.
(Continued Next Week)
"Stonewall” Jsckson's Battles.
Mrs. Roger A. Pryor's Reminiscenc
es: '‘Stonewall' Jackson’s negro body
servant knew before anybody else when
a battle was imminent. >
"The general tells you, I suppose,"
sai i one of the soldiers.
“I,awd. no. sir! De gin'rul nuvver
tell me nothin’; I obsorcates de *ten
tion of de gin’rul dls way: Oo'se he
piays. jest like we n'U mornin’ and
night; but when he fri.s up two. three
times in a ni ju to pray, den I rubs
my eyes an ! gits up too an' packs
de haversack—uc’Be I dene fine our
light
4
1c! Dec;iv j.
Cin ago I.iaauc. , know I ii.'
uve.-.c* i.uile Aih:, s. i
think they :.*s e ■ n:g a . .. u n.
all they uein^ \ro*
‘ -JU> of .,|.c."
Mr. Talpfus.—t.h: . ...y to
talk about our suntimn :tij ye.,
i Mrs. Talpfast—Hut it Isn't too soon
I to talk about savlnt; * 1)e money to
: go on.
■ ♦ ♦
♦ THE SOCIAL HOUR. ♦
♦ ♦
Italian Railroading.
Alberto Frederlcco, the head of New
York’s roast chestnut trust, an organiza
tion not to be despised, was praising Italy
in a cafe.
I “The only bad thing about Italy Is its
train service," he said. "I shall never for
get a winter experience of mine on the rail
road that runs along the Mediterranean,
from Ventimllle to Genoa.
| "1 boarded this train at Ventimllle one
morning bound for San Remo. Off we
started, snow covered mountains to our
left, orange groves and rose farms about
us, the blue sea on our right, and after'
some minutes we stopped.
“ ‘Is this Bordighero?” I asked a guard.'
“ 'No, It's a cow,' he answered. 'There's
a cow on the track.’
“Well, after a while the cow was driven,
oft, and we got under way again. Some
few miles were traversed In a leisurely
way, and then—we stopped again.
“ ‘Another cow?’ I said to the guard blt
’erly.
’’ ‘No,’ he replied. ‘The same one.’ ”
—*—
Betty Wins.
Betty, the incorrigible, banged Into the
house as she came from school and,, fling
ing herself down at the luncheon-table, ex
claimed breezily:
"Pass the jell!”
“Betty,” said her mother severely, “you
cannot have the Jelly until you ask for It
correctly.”
“Passs—theee—jelll!” urged Betty with
elaborate enunciation.
“Elizabeth, you ask politely for the Jelly
at once,” commanded her mother, sternly.
“Pass-gery-the-gery-jell-gery 1” grinned
Betty Impishly.
“Betty Brown, obey me at once, and ask
for that Je-”
“Pagadass thegeree Jeggedelly,” sug
gested Betty amiabiy.
Her mother fixed her with a piercing
eye.
“You may ask for that Jelly correctly or
leave the table instantly.”
Betty compromised. She smiled a smile
of surpassing sweetness and said deli
cately:
"Will you pul-lease pass the jlllee?’’
It was reluctantly given to her, and she
ate unctuously of it. When she had fin
ished she pushed her plate away and
looked up innocently.
“Dam good jell I” she announced with
'onviction.
Then she fled.
Abroad with Bryan.
From the Portland Telegram.
Colonel William J. Bryan was discussing
the war In Manchuria with General
Oyama.
"Were you ever under fire, colonel?”
asked the warrior.
"No, general, answered the Nebraskan,
“but I’Ve been over one many times.”
But Oyama didn’t know how W. Jen
nings had been roasted.
They were talking of national institu
tions.
“We have an order here,” said the mi
kado, "called the Samurai, who fight and
never give up. No one has ever succeeded
In getting the best of them. Is there any
thing like it In your country?”
"Yes,” answered Mr. Bryan, “but wa
call them life Insurance companies."
With such badinage, they whiled the
lours away. I
—a—
Perilous Speed.
Governor Folk, of Mlsouri, praised
Philadelphia the deliberate way in which j
Mayor Weaver had set about reforming' ;
the city.
“All reform,” he said, “must be deliber- I
ate and gradual to be lasting. If your !
mayor had set in to reform your city a 1
year ago, he would have failed. Corruption
is a dangerous thing, and its dangers must
be escaped from cautiously, as a ship es
capes from the dangers of a fog.
“Your mayor,” said Governor Folk, “hag
not been like the foolish sea captain.
“To this man, in veritable pea soup
weather, when you could not see your hand
before your face, a passenger came and
said anxiously:
“ ‘Captain, why are you stearing through
this thick fog at such a dreadful rate of
speed ?’
“ ‘Fogs, sir,’ said the captain, ‘are dan
gerous, and I am always in a hurry to get
ut of them.’ ”
Like and Unlike.
The literary work of a wealthy amateu.
was being lauded in a Philadelphia club.
John Luther Long laughed and said:
“I always compare our friend’s produc
! tions with Tolstoi’s. This comparison edi
fies and iluminates, for both the resem
blances and differences between the two
men are marked and striking.”
A friend of the rich amateur’s smiled
eagerly:
“What are these resemblance and diff
erences, Mr. Long?” he said.
“Both men,” the novelist answered, |
“offer their wonks to publishers free, but
Tolstoi’s are accepted.”
—
Rebuking a Boaster.
The late former Congressman Jcrr^ i
Simpson was a plain man, to whom osten
tation of every kind seemed vulgar.
A rich senator was once boasting to
Mr. Simpson In a Washington restaurant
about his luxurious way of living. Among
other things he said:
“I was obliged to discharge my second
coachman last week. Though he was in
many ways an Invaluable fellow, he wras
■ontinuaily hanging around one of the
rettier under housemaids.”
Mr. Simpson considered such talk pure,
ulgar boasting, and proceeded to rebuke
t as such.
“1.” he said gravely, “have been obliged
o discharge my third groom. He was al
vays loafing in the servants’ billiard
oom.”
Not on Safe.
A company which manufactures banc
nstruments receives a large number of
otters from green players, asking advice
as to their difficulties. Several months
rgo this company sold a cornet to a man in
Canada. As might have been expected,
fter he had played it for some tirhe with
ut removing the valves the action became
tiff. He wrote to the manufacturer, ex- j
laining the trouble, and asking whether
e should grease the valves. In answer j
he was told that was the usual custom of
•ornet players, when this difficulty oc
curred, to remove the valves and put a j
little saliva upon them. To their aston- !
lshment the next week’s mail brought the |
following letter:
“Gentlemen: Kindly send me 25 cents I
worth of saliva. I can’t get it in the stores
\ere. Enclosed find stamps in payment.”
Black Hair Is Strongest.
Black hair is stronger than golden
tresses and will sustain almost double the
weight. Recently a German scientist has |
been experimenting and has found that it
is possible to suspend a weight of four
ounces by a single hair, provided the hair ,
be black. Blond hair will give way at ;
varying weights dependent upon the ex
act tint. A yellow hair will scarce sup
port two ounces, a brown hair will hold up
three without breaking, while a ?ery dark
brown will sustain an additional half
ounce.
The great vitality of the black hair Is
declared to be the reason for the prepon
derance of blond bald heads, and accord
ing to this experiment a person with jet
black hair will still enjoy a full growth,
while the blond will have Vac bald tor
•even and a half years.
Alligator Tail* New Delicacy.
From the Cleveland Leader.
"There is nothing better, I am Hold, than'
the tip of the tail of an alligator which ha»
reached, say, the pullet period," said
Frank Holden yesterday. "It is creamy in.
color, tasting a little like frogs’ legs, but’
with a more pronounced gamy flavor.
Juicy—altogether tempting, I’m told. Thb
dish is a great favorite In Florida, where
Its serving Is considered a great honor.
“Alligator tails are best at this time of)
year, just after the ricebird season. Thej
big alligators float in the water with onlyj
their eyes showing. When they see a*
Book of these fat, juicy little birds tbeyj
ilve to the bottom. Their long’ .wide snout’
scoops up some of the loam and they float,
to the surface again with just the rich]
Boll showing. The birds think it is am
Island. They alight upon it. When the.
Whole family is there the big beast turns,
suddenly. Just as the bird scrambles off]
he opens his mouth once. They are gone.1
"The birds are neat little feeders and thei
alligator is an epicure at this time of thej
year. The ricebird diet makes the tip of!
his tail, of which he most vain, tender andj
aweet.” J
Cream Balm is placed into the nostrils, spread*
over the membrane and is absorbed. Relief is im
mediate and a cure follows. It is not drying—doe#
not produce sneezing. Large Size, 60 cents at Drug
gists or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents.
ELY BROTHERS, 56 Warren Street, New Yorlc,
A Warm Welcome.
From the New York Weekly.
Traveler (in a tropical paradise)—\
would just love to live here.
Forty Million Natives (snakes, bug^
and things)—We’d just love to have you
Btay.
( * ^"
YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO
SUFFER
From Constipation, Bowel and
Stomach Trouble.
Q. Wlint is the beginning of sickness?
A. Constipation.
Q. What is Constipation?
A. Failure of the bowels to carry ofs
the waste matter which lies in the ali
mentary canal, where it decays and pon
sons the entire system, Eventually the
results are death under the name of
some other disease. Note the death*
from typhoid fever and appendicitis,
stomach and bowel trouble at the pres
ent time.
Q. What causes Constipation?
A. Neglect to respond to the call of!
nature promptly. Lack of exercise. Ex
ressive brain work. Mental emotion ant?
improper diet.
Q. What are the results of neglected1
Constipation?
A. Constipation causes more suffering,
than any other disease. It causes rheu
matism, colds, fevers, stomach, bowel,;
kidney, lung and heart troubles, etc. It
is the one disease that starts ail others.;
Indigestion, dyspepsia, diarrhoea, loss of;
sleep and strength are its symptoms—i
piles, appendicitis and fistula, are caused
by Constipation. Its consequences art'
known to all physicians, but few suffer
era realize their condition until it is too,
late. Women become confirmeiieinvallds,
as a result ol' Constipation.
Q. I>o physicians recognize this?
A. Yes. The first question your doc-;
tor asks you is “are you constipated?”
That is the secret.
Cj. Can it be cured?
A. Yes, witli proper treatment. The
common error is to resort to physics,
such as pills, salts, mineral water;- castor
oil. injections, etc., every one of which'
is injurious. They weaken and increase
the malady. You know this by your own
experience.
Q. What then should be done tot
cure it?
A. Get a bottle of Mull's Grape Tonic
at ovtee. Mull's Grape Topic will posi
tively cure Constipation and Stomach.
Trouble in the shortest space of time.
No other remedy has before been known
to cure Constipation positively and per
manently.
Q. What is Mail’s Grape Tonic?
A. it is ,a Compound with 40 per eenti
of the juice of Concord Grapes. It ex-;
erts a peculiar strengthening, healing in
fluence upon, the intestines, so that they.
can do their work unaided. The process
is gradual, hut sure. It is not a physic,
but it cures Constipation, Dysentery,
Stomach and Rowel Trouble.. Haring a,
rich, fruity grape flavor, it is pleasant to,
take. As a tonic it is unequalled, in
suring the system against disease. It.
strengthens and builds up waste tissue.’
Q. Where can Mull’s Grape Tonic be
bad?
A. Yonr druggist sells it. The dollar
bottle contains nearly three times the
50 cent size.
Good for ailing children and nursing
mothers.
A tree bottle to nil who have never
used it because we know it will cure you.
- HO FREE BOTTLE 238
J i RU 11. « •'..nff'ti with your nnmo »n«1 *<Mrexs,
J .rtire‘«* • nnni«* »n<1 lOr to pav pot-Saco ami w- will
• ■mm-*'’ yon a |tiniple frt»*. if vmi h»v* n^nr u*e-l Mull’* •
j ■ ipo I’nnle. an«1 will nl*> Mtnrt you * certificate good for
I f) m t->war-i the purchase of wore Touio front your
-tM.yritt
j Mi ll’s Graph Tonic Co.. 21 Third Are.
Rnck Island. HI.
(',h>e / nil address and Write Plainly
V> cent, w» rent nn<l i»* bottle* at nil <trn*gi»t«. T'%
fl.ixi rw-itle contain* «»>-..it vx tinni* a* much as the io
»#nt »*ottl« «ncl *nou» threa time* a* mutii m tlitMi c*tt
i , itie There is - »rent saving iu buying the #J.uu sit*.
The genuine lias a date and number
rrampe I on the label—take no other
from your druggist. >
1, is generally supposed that Mme.
Albani took her stage name from the
city of Albany, the scene of her girl-'
hood, but that is not the car#, j^was
suggested l-y her cirg-ng master; Lam
p-Jrtt, who knew nothing of his -pupil
having lived In Albany.
