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and into my bank account.
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F i n e Shoe. I have them in a Opera, Square and Common Sense Toe, B. C. and D.
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THE ONE PRICE CASH HOUSE,
CHAS. H. FREY,
fSUCCESSOR TO F R E Y & ECKERT), THE L E A D E R OF LOW P R I C E S IN
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H. L. BOAS.
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PURE R YE WHISK E Y.
J. B. HERTZLER, P r o p r i e t o r,
LITITZ, PA.
Distillery one mile east ol B. B. Depot.
10may-ly
I WAS a bachelor, not wealthy, but
contented and happy. 1 am still
a bachelor, contented, but not
happy. This is the difference of
Thomas Growler of a month ago and
the same person to-day. But one short
month ago I thought nothing of matri
mony. I smoked my pipe in comfort
at my lodging (in the city of Canter-bury)
or sewed refractory buttons upon
my clothing without a thought of any
female to take that employment out of
my hands.
But I was one day seated in the
beautiful grounds of the Dane John
watching the children drinking at the
fountain, when a shadow fell upon the
path. It might have been the shadow
of coming events, but upon looking a
round I perceived t at the substance
was a very beutiful young lady, with
roguish blue eyes that might have been
the headquarters of fun and good hu-mor,
looking at me from a frame of
golden ringlets.
Now, you must uot imagine that I,
a sober gentleman of forty, was in love
with a girl. Nothing of the kind. She
was at least thirty ; and a ragged little
boy who stood near, whose tongue I
loosened with a piece of silver, told me
that she was a widow, who owned a
small farm outside the town, and that
her name was Mrs. Faber. He also
informed me that her brother lived
with her and managed the property.
Upon the following morning I great-ly
surprised my friend, Harry Powers,
by praising the Widow Faber aud re-questing
an introduction. He gazed
At me a moment in speechless astonish-ment,
and I think that he really
thought of knocking me down with
Webster's Dictionary and calling for
assistance. But Harry was engaged
imself and soon comprehended the
state ol affairs. So he dropped the
book upon the table and invited me to
picnic which was to take place in the
woods in a few days, «here I should
meet the lady and be introduced.
I immediately purchased a new suit
of clothes, a beautiful wig and a pair
of tight boots, and when the morning
of the festival dawned, crowded myself
into the broadcloth, put on my wig,
and after much preparation and
strong language had been wasted,
managed to squeeze my feet into the
patent leathers, where they felt en-cased
in red hot iron boots.
At the picnic I received the prom-ised
introduction, and had the pleasure
of escorting Agnes all day. She talk,
ed with me, and we attacked the eat-ables
in company, investigating the in
tetior of pigeonpies and dissecting
chickens together. I was happy all
day, and when at parting she inviied
me to visit her, I believe the tightness
of my waistcoat was all that prevented
my heart from bursting its bonds. My
feet prevented me from sleeping that
night; but I was willing to suffer in
»uch a case, and I bore it witnout a
murmur.
One day I hired a horse and gig at
the livery stable and started towards
the farm to carry Agnes to a party
at a neighboring town. She was al-ready
dressed when I drove up, and
looked beautiful in a new bonnet and
shawl. We were very comfortable
and our conversation was very interest
ing. I was advancing rapidly in her
good opinion and was beginning to
think seriously of popping the question,
when the horse stopped suddenly as it
turned to stone. We both tumbled
suddenly forward with a low bow, and
nay companion's lovely nose came into
sharp contact with the dashboard.
I immediately jumped out to see
what was the matter, but everything
about the horse appeared to be all
right, and I again climbed into the gig
and prepared to start. But the horse
obstinately refused to move, I coax-ed
and flattered,-but-he would not be
persuaded. I thrashed him with the
whip until my wrist ached, but he re-mained
immoviable as a statue. At
last I sharpened a hedge stake, took
my seat, gave the reins to my compan-ion
and gave him a tremendous blow.
I hardly.hoped to see him stir, but he
did j and started with a leap that al-most
threw me on my back. I imme-diately
seized the reins, but his deter-mination
had taken another channel,
and he would not slop. I tugged at
the reins and shouted, "Whoa" but
he held the bit between his teeth and
rushed along the road like a runaway
comet.
Agnes screamed aDd I roared as we
dashed by the farm-house with the
speed of a locomotive. The horse's
heels splintered the dashboad at every
leap, and the bright shoes twinkled
like small stars in dangerous prox-imity
to our eyes. Finally the wheel
struck a tree, the horse stumbled and
the next moment I was lying upon my
back in the road.
Feeling like an exhausted bellows I
regained my breath and picked myself
up alter a while. But what a situa-tion
¡-Agnes lying upon the grass, with
torn clothing and disordered hair
while her clugnon was rolling along
the pathway pursued by a terrior.
The horse stood quite still and gazed
calmly upon the ruins. I was without
a hat, covered with dust. The bcvs
shouted boisterously, and the company,
who perceived that we were uninjured,
laughed. I could have jumped into
the river, to hide myself, and I enter-tained
serious ideas oi running away,
but I thought better of it and assisted
Agnes to arise.
It cost me a heavy sum for the
wrecked gig. I was scratching and
discouraged. Agnes had turned the
cold shoulder and I was in despair,
but I wrote her a letter explaining
matters and begging to be again taken
into favor. I was overjoyed to receive
an encouraging reply. She forgave
me and would not give me up, but her
brother was very angry and would not
permit her to see me. If I could come
upon the following evening to the
farm I could reach her window by
means of the grape vine and we could
talk the matter over.
This letter cheered me up wonder-fully,
and when the clock struck nine
upon the following night, I walked
sraily to the farm, passed around the
rear and perceived a white figure at
the window. A large dog, who was
fastened in a kennel, under the win-dow,
threatened to raise an alarm; but
a few words from Agnes quieted him.
I clambered up the vine, and was soon
at her side. I was so happy, that the
grape vine might have been the lad-der
to paradise. Agnes was forgiving
and lovely, and we cmversed for half
an hour without a thought of the low-er
world.
I was calmly gazing at the farm
which would soon be my own, when I
heard the door open. Upon turning I.
saw the obnoxious brother standing in
the doorway, with a very suspicious
whip in bis band. He looked angry,
and I immediately comprehended his
purpose. I was not in human nature
to remain quiet; and when he sprang
towards me with an angry howl, I an-swered
with a j e l l , and springing
through the window, began slipping
down the vine.
I would no doubt have made a mas*
terly retreat, but I was but a few feet
from the top when the brother cut the
fastenings with bis knife, and the vine
and myself fell together. Unfortu-nately
I dropped upon the roof of the
kennel; the roof not being able to hold
showers of fallen humanity, gave way,
aud I tumbled directly into the jaws
of the bull dog The jaws, with a
how], fastened upon my leg, and for a
moment there was a terrible battle be-tween
us. At last the dog unfastened
to take a fresh bite ; and I took advan-tage
for the moment to get away ; but
my enemy again fastened upon my
coat-tails, and as I could not drag dog
and kennel over the fence, I was un-able
to moye.
The dog pulled one way, and I the
other; and for a while the issue was
very doubtful, but I caught a glimpse
of one of the farm laborers advancing
with a pitchfork and gave a desperate
jerk. It was too much for the strong-est
of cloth ; and, leaving the torn por-tion
in the dog's possession, I bounded
away towards the barnyard fence.
But I discovered in time that I was
charging upon the couched pitchfork
of the servant, and turning quickly to
the right, took a flying leap over the
garden wall. Unluckily I attempted
to fly without wings; my feet caught
in the stones and I turned a somer-sault
into the garden.
Instead of falling upon the grass I
dived, head foremost into a straw bee-hive.
The beehive went over on the
ground and I followed ; but the bees
were the first to pick themselyes up,
and when I rose upon my feet there
was a whole colony ready to settle
upon me.
J hey swarmed in my hair, and
crawled under my clothing until I was
frantic. The morel stamped and beat,
and raved, the more they stung me.
At last, I gave a stamp of tremendous
force; my tight patent leathers burst,
and just as my feet protruded at the
sides, I stepped in the overturned hive.
I might as well have stepped in the
fire; the little tormentors stung my
feet, and I danced like a bear upon hot
plates, and for the same r. ason.
I was still wildly beating the air,
when I perceived all the farm servants,
whom my shouts had aroused, chars?
ing in a body. They shouted "Thief,"
and flourished their weapons and I be-gan
to think of leaving that neighbor-hood
in a hurry. But I was deter-mined
upon revenge. I could not be
stung worse than I was ; so I grasped
the hive that stood upon the bench
and hurled it into the crowd. I had
the pleasure of seeing it drop upou the
brother's head like a huge hat; and to
•ae the individual throw it off, and roll
upon the ground in anguish. I never
derived so much pleasure from hear-ing
a person swear before.
I could hear my pursuers breathing
hard near me, and expected every mo'
ment to feel the spikes of the pitch-fork
behind, when I stumbled oyer
stone and fell headlong into the river
The men behind unable to check them
selves, followed, and the next moment
we were all struggling in the water,
It was not deep, and was the best ac-cident
that could have happened to
me, as it rid me of the bees. I soon
arose and scrambled up the steep bank
where I stood to look around. In one
place a head appeared above the water;
in another, a pair of feet kicked in the
air, without any visible owner. Hats,
pitchforks and men were mixed in
confused heap, while all plunged and
puffed like a shoal of 'porpoise. Al-though
I was smarting with pain, the
scene was too ludicrous to be gazed
upon with a sober countenance; aud I
laughed until I could roar no longer.
But when I reached ray rooms I did
not feal so well. I knew that I had
lost Agnes forever, beside the heavy
sum for the gig and the new suit. My
face was swelled for many days, and I
could not leave the house. To be sure,
some of the neighbors had wituessed
the battle, and when it was shown
how I had punished them, I was quite
a hero among my friends. Praise,
however, did uot replace the missing
money, and Agnes would not speak to
me in the street. So I was wretched.
I am now a confirmed bachelor, and
I look with a thankful heart upon the
chaos of bootjacks and boots in my
room without the least desire to change
my condition. I took upon all widows
as attractive destroyers, and my ex-perience
has been such as to confirm
my hatred of the sex. Of course, all
who thiuk different are welcome to be
fettered ; bat if I was to choose between
hanging and winning a widow, I would
select the least of the evils and patron-ize
the executioner. Agnes is still a
widow; and her brother is married,
and I hear, with grim satisfaction,
that he is henpecked.
CHEAP SUGAR IN SIGHT.
lu Two Months the Price Will Fall
Two Cents.
In anticipation of sugar going on
the free list on April 1, and the price
consequently taking a big drop, en-terprising
wholesale dealers have been
doing a rattling business during the
past fort-night in selling " free-trade
sugar" for delivery after that date
at the new rates. By the provisions
of the McKinley bill the refiners have
the privilege during March of refin-ing
sugar in bond without paying
duty upon it, so that there will be a
supply for sale at the new prices the
moment April 1st is ushered in. In
expectation of lower prices after that
time grocers throughout the country
have been curtailing their supplies of
sugar to avoid being caught with any
considerable amount oi the protected
article after April 1, and the prospect
now is that there may be something
like a sugar famine in March.
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Artificial Sk nil-Shaping.
Astonishing success has attended
the efforts of Dr. Lannelongue, an
eminent specialist of Paris, to give in-telligence
to a little idiot girl. Though
four years old, the child could neither
walk nor stand, and never smiled nor
took notice of anything. The doctor
concluded that the abnormal narrow-ness
of the head obstructed the growth
of the brain, and on May last he made
an incision in the centre of the skull
and cut a piece of bone from the left
side. The result was marvelous. With-in
less than a month the child would,
and she has become quite bright—
playing, smiling, and taking notice of
everything around her.
Nests for Germs.
The impurities that collect under
finger-nails have been investigated in
the bacteriological laboratories of
Vienna. The matter obtained in
seventy-eight examinations was placed
in culture solutions, and gaye thirty-six
kinds of micrococci, eighteen of
bacilli, and three of sarcinie. Cleanli-ness
of the nails is especially necessary
for all who come near a wound, and
for those who live in a neighborhood
where an epidemic prevails.
A REDUCTION OF TWO CENTS.
Taking© a•d •v antag©e of this situation
some enterprising wholesale houses in
Philadelphia have been taking orders
for April delivery, and the rush to
buy has been tremendous. Granulated
sugar, which is now selling at 6}
cents a pound, was quoted on Tues-for
April delivery at 4} cents and on
Wednesday at 41 cents a pound. In
two days one wholesale house received
orders for 1600 barrels, and the Phila-delphia
refineries have now so many
orders for April delivery that they
have refused to take any more. The
New York refiners, it is said, haye
been slow to grasp the situation, but
they will doubtless realize it when
they find that the Philadelphians
have secured the bulk of the April
trade.
A PREPARATORY ADVANCE.
Owing to the course of the retail
grocers in keeping their stocks of
sugar as low as possible the price has
been advancing lately, but after April
1st there will be a big drop. The
sugar which is ordered at 4} will
retail at 5 cents a pound, and prices
will generally be about 2 cents a
pound lower.
How to'Find the Thump.
Thumping or knocking in a piece of
machinery is often hard to locate, and
the following has been suggested as a
means of discovering the difficulty:
A rubber tube about a yard in length
is used, one end of which is placed in
the ear and the other end passed over
the suspected spots. The vibrations
from all other parts than the one
covered being excluded, it is said to
be an easy matter to find the jairing
Man's Best Friend.
First and foremost, woman is man's
best friend:
. Because, she is his mother.
Second, she is his wife.
Because she is patient with him in
illness, endures his fretfulness, and
" mothers " him.
Because she will stick to him
through good and evil report, and al-ways
believe in him, if she loves him.
Because without her he would be
rude, rough and ungodly.
Because she teaches him the value
of gentle words, of kindly thought and
of consideration.
Because she can with him endure
pain quietly and meet joy gladly.
Because on her breast he can shed
tears of repentance, and he is never re-minded
of them afterward.
Because, when he is behaving like a
fretful boy—and we all do, you know,
at times—with no reason in the world
fo'r it, woman's soft word, touch or
glance will make him ashamed of him-self,
as he ought to be.
Because without her as an incentive
he would grow lazy; there would be
no good work done, there would be no
noble books written, there would be
beautiful pictures painted, there would
be no divine strains of melody.
Because she had made for us a
beautiful world, in which we should
be proud to live and contented to die.
Because—and this is the best reason
of all—when the world had reached
an unenyiable state of wickendess the
blessed task of bringing it a Saviour
for all mankind was given to a woman,
which was God's way of setting his
seal of approval on her who is mother,
wife, daughter and sweetheart, and,
therefore, man's best friend.
Bright and Brief.
When ideas refuse to flow they may
be said to have flown.
The strongest point in the Indian
question just now is the bayonet.
He—Are you intimately acquainted
with Mrs. Wilsen ? She (from Chica-go)—
Only slightly. I was married to
him once.
Mrs. Stanley declares the American
women to be the brightest in the world.
Her husband has the same opinion of
the American dollar.
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A.rch street, Philadelphia.—Bates re-duced
to $2 per day. The traveling
public will still find at this hotel tne
same liberal provision for their com-fort.
It is located in the immediate
centre of busln ess, and places of amuse
ment and the different railroad depots
as well as all parts of the city, is
easily accessible by street cars con-stantly
passing the doors. It offers
special inducements to those visiting
the cityfor business or pleasure. Your
patronage is respectfully solicted.
JOSEPH M. FEGER,
oc7-ly Propr.
Cold Waves.
A cold wave is defined by Prof. T.
Russell as a fall of temperature in
twenty-four hours of twenty' degrees
over an area of 50,000 square miles,
temperature in some part of this area
descending to thirty-six degrees. Be-tween
1880 and 1890 no less than 691
cold waves were recorded in the United
States. In the great cold wave of
January 17,1882, the fall of twenty
degrees extended over an area of
1,101,000 square miles, and the £¿»11 of
ten degrees included 2,929,000 square
miles. In six cold waves of the ten
years the area of the fall of twenty
degrees was more than a million
square miles. Cold waves follow a
day after an area of low pressure, or
occur to the southeast of an area of
high pressure, reaching their greatest
extent when both conditions are
present.
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General News.
Thomas Meirs, of Bath, Ohio, died
on Friday, aged 100 years and 5
months.
It is learned that forty people were
killed in the explosion, Wednesday,
in Russia.
A report comes from Silverton, Col.,
that Padlewski, the Pole, who mur-dered
the Russian general, Silverskoff,
in Paris, some months ago, was seen
in that place recently.
Charles E. Eaton, president of the
Eaton Manufacturing company of
Boston, was injured probably fatally
by being caught in an elevator at the
new Woburn factory.
By an unexpected blast of giant
powder in an excavation at Helena,
Montana, Assistant Division Engineer
M. M. Kinney of the Northern Paci-fic
railroad was instantly killed and a
dozen workmen had a miraculous es-cape.
John K. Aydelotte, editor of the
Hamilton, Ohio, Democrat, was caught
in the fly wheel in the engine room of
his new building and instantly killed.
He was a prominent Mason of that-city
and at one time postmaster.
Wilkins Osmun was sentenced at
Belvidere, N. J., by Judge Schultz to
serve fifteen years' imprisonment in
the state prison at hard labor and to
pay a fine of $1000 for criminally as-saulting
Adelaide Vann, an eleven-year-
old girl.
Patrick Hogan and Bernard Dough-erty,
two boys, are lying in St. Mich-ael's
Hospital, Newark, suffering from
serious „injuries by being knocked
down and run over by the horse and
buggy of Dr. P. V. Hulett. Hogan's
skull is thought to be fractured and it
is feared his injuries will prove fatal.
Dougherty has a broken leg.
Mrs. Melvin White, the woman who
has been sleeping 25 days at Eau
Claire, Wis., has revived. She lies
motionless, with her eyes closed, but
she opens them when told to do so, and
responds feebly to questions. She
says she has been conscious all the
time, and in great agony of mind for
fear she would be buried alive.
Cigarette smoking has killed Geor-gia
Mortimer, a chorus girl, at Cleve-land.
Ohio.
There is a project for spanning the
Mississippi at Alton with a pontoon
bridge.
Sixteen year-old Henry Gasper is
under arrest at La Porte, Ind., for the
theft of $5000.
A bottle of the Koch lymph has
been presented to the physician of
Indianapolis by President Harrison.
To see brickmaking by natural gas,
300 members of the National Bricks-makers'
Association visited Marion
Iud.
At Herkimer, N. Y., John O. Rior-dan,
having been sentenced to pay
1^1000 or serve 1000 days for man-slaughter,
handed over the money and
was released. The Judge is criticised.
Girard, 111., is in quarantine because
of smallpox.
Saville, Ky., nearly destroyed on
Friday, is thought to have been fired
by thieves.
Jay Gould appeared in the New
York Stock Exchange on Friday for
the first time in years.
A Woodford, Ky., county jury has
sentenced a negro to jail for six
months for stealing a pint of whisky.
A. Harris, a Jewish rabbi, fell dead
in his pulpit at Richmond, Va., just
after delivering a sermon.
Mrs. Charlotte Ambrose, the oldest
Kanchester (N. H.) restdent remem-bers
of holding Horace Greeley in her
arms when be was a baby.
Arrangements have been concluded
by which New York is to have a per-manent
orchestra to perform music of
the highest order.
Thè census reports show that the
1,513,017 inhabitants of Alabama
embrace 830,796 whites, 681,431
negroes, 750 indians and 40 Chinese.
A bachelor, standing beneath, was
unhurt by the falling of the Fitch-burg
(Mass.) mill-shaft that killed
Thomas May, Whose widow and six
children attended the funeral.
A Jjawyer Crazed By Poker.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 23.
Poker playing has driven Lawyer
Kling insane. At the West Hotel
yesterday he took from his pocket a
small pearlhandled razor, made a
lunge at the air with it and shouted:
" I'll fix that fellow that's following
me!" He was overpowered, taken to a
hospital, and pronounced hopelessly
insane. He had lost several thousand
dollars at poker playing since Christ-mas,
and his reverses and their impend-ing
consequences unsettled his reason.
His friends in Brooklyn have been
notified that lie is in the asylum.
—Of Benjamin Franklin it has
been said by one of our best historians:
" Franklin never spoke a word too
soon, he never spoke a word too late,
he newer spoke a word too much, he
never failed to speak the right word
the right time."
Over the State
—Mrs. Logan may attend the Press
Convention at Pittsburg.
—There were only seven fires in
Franklin county last year, and the
loss was $770.
—Philip Griffiths, of Easton, broke
his leg a few days ago by suddenly
turning in bed.
—Hon. George W. Williams, for-merly
a prominent citizen of Bedford
county, has been elected Mayor of
Newberg, Oregon.
—John McGinly, an insane prisoner
at Pittsburg, thinks he is a pedestrian
and spends all t i e time pacing his
cell. He refuses to take any rest.
—Robert Grant, of South Hunting-don,
while standing before an old fash-ioned
wood fireplace became dizzy and
fell into the fire, burning himself fear-fully.
-Meses H. Rice, the well-known
auctioneer, of upper Bucks county,
who resides at Hilltown, and was a re-cent
Republican nominee for Ree rd-er
in the county, has made an assign-ment.
-Carl Schultz, who recently lived
in Pittsburg, has returned home after
an exile in this country of ten years.
He deserted the German army and
came to this country rather than stand
trial on the charge of murdering a
comrade of which he was innocent,
and now he hears that his innocence
has been established.
—An epidemic of measles prevails
at Wernersville.
—Reading will have new building
regulations in the near future. "
—William White, colored, is in jail
at Reading for murderously assaulting
his wife.
—Dr. W. J. McOlure., Health Com-missioner
of York, died on Saturday
in that city, aged fifty-three years.
— lieading Railroad engine-cleaners
will, after February 15, have their
wages reduced twenty-four cents a
day.
—A Polish miner while at work in
the Stockton Colliery, of Linderman &
Skeer, on Friday night was suffocated
with black damp.
—At Allentown yesterday two new
brick dwelling-bouses belonging to
James F. Gallagher, collapsed and
were completly wrecked in conse-quence
of weak foundation walls.
—William K. Arnold, of Reading,
is prosecuting Dr. John Ege, of that
city, and Secretary Hoff, of the Mer-chants
Protective'Association, for con-spiring
to blacken his character by
collecting a bill through the associat-ion's
agency.
—There are a great many dead dogs
in the eastern end of Chester county,
between Frazier and Devon. Nearly
all were killed, and were suspected of
having been bitten by a mad dog
which belonged to ? qui re Walton of
Malvern..
—A benzine can caught fire at the
shoe factory of Hartung, Schneider &
Co., at Allentown, yesterday, and in
trying to extinguish the flames George
Kennell, Peter Rems, George Cava-naugb,
James Christman and Ignatz
Gresser were painfully burned.
-Farmer Mumma, who lives near
White Bridge, Dauphin county, late
on Friday night found a stranger in
his stable who refused to answer any
question, whereupon Mr. Mumma dis-charged
a shotgun, tearing away part
of an ear of the silent intruder, Amos
Dinsler, a mason who lived at Hum-melstown.
What She Said.
" Did your mother say nothing else
when she sent yon to bring back the
tub ?"
" Oh, yes, she said if you offered me
a bit of pie not to refuse it, for, mercy
knows, you don't kill anybody with
kindness."
A Boy Burglar Gets Five Tears.
MARTINSBUEG, W. Y a . , J a n . 2 3 ,—
Yesterday evening, in Judge Duck-wall's
court, this city, Harry Holman,
a sixteen-year-old boy, was sentenced
to one year in the penitentiary for
burglary on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad. He was convicted on the
testimony of Harry Du vail, aged four-teen,
one of his accomplices. While
they were being taken to the jail Hol-man
made a savage attack on Duvall,
knocking him down, and when in the
jail attacked Jailer Freeze, who report-ed
him to the Court this morning.
Juege Duckwall then added four more
years.
Drunkenness—Liquor Habit«in all the
^Vorld There is but One Cure, Dr.
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without the knowledge of the person
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moderate drinker or an alcholic wreck
Thousands of drunkards have been
cured who have taken the G-olden
Specific in their coffee without their
knowledge, and t o - d a y b e l i e v e t h e y quit
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