January 2, 1892 (4 pages)

or a : and at once then proceeding to their in‘ from classical writers or the simplest ti for good: music, ‘then it ittustration” = ay—maay of then with great trees . "will be preaching morning and evening Gb 1s 90 teppene ot the Theater here on _the evening of the 9th instant, was born blind. At the age of 7 he developed marvellous musical powers ; néw, at 14, he is a wonder. He was taught the comat the Berkeley Institute. Four years ago he had the betiefit of several months’ instruction from’ -Robert -Tolmie, the great concert pianist, and for three years past he has pr-gressed by a memory system, his ‘father reading ‘the sceres ‘to him, he imprinting . them on his memory terpretation. His execution is brilliant, and at times marvelously so. His ear is good and his feeling deep and® strong, and asa result he plays by inspiration melodies of the hour. He is nervously eager toadvance, but his affliction and lack of means hinder him, but the latter, ¥; is believed, will not be fer long. Such talent as his must find a generous patron to aid it-to its fullest possibilities. As. a_meré curiosity, even.ifone dares —pears-to have: ‘etidowed hin with wonder} ful musical capacity in compensation for . .,-deprivation of sight and given him Powers not one lad in s million emer, At the Churches Tomorrow. _ There will be mo services at the Epis. capal, church tomorrow. Rev: Father Shaw will open a mission at St. Canice Catholic Church. At the Congregational Church ther: by the pastor. Subject in the evening, ** A cordial greeting to the year 1892:” Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper will be i at the close of the merning @ervice. The subject at the Methedist Church in’ the morning will be “Our Present Need,” and in the evening the choir, assisted by the congregation, will give a “New Praise Service.” The pastor will explain what inspired’ the composition of, and the incidents relating to, the hymns that will be sung, ‘The Epworth League will meet at 6:15 in the parlor of the church, Vandals Abroad. About the_most contemptible vandalism displayed here ia a long time was that of a gang of fellows out New Year's eve. They broke windows in the busimess places of Jas. Foley, J. F. Hook, W. A. Sigowiaey aad ot! er places; shattered same colored glass globes on the Tea Company's big gas pendant; distigureda siga in front of H. Pecarty’s saloon, and did other things that should lead to their being sent to jail. sedis. eae Ae Good Fo: Sore Eyes.{ ‘There is now on exhibition at the Biate Mining Bureau's museum in San Francisco a large specimen’of gold in crystallized quariz from the Delhi mine in the Columbia Hill district, this county. The specimen is owned by R. McMurray, who intends toexhibit it-at the World’s Fair, It contains $1200 werth of gold. Death of W. H: Phiips.:, William Henry Phillips, a native of Virginia, aged 46 years, died at his home in Yuba City at 4 o’clock Thursday morning afte: an illness of nearly one month. The deceased, who was commonly called “Crooks,” was formerly iu the pork packing business at this city. Foothill Oranges, H. Falk of Marysville has purchased thie orange corp of the Excelsior Company’s ranch near Smarteville and has. force of men now engaged picking the } oranges, the greater part of which will be shipped to Portland and other northern pointe. Eas Don’t Rub Of the Enamel The teeth are teo valuable to be trifled with, When gone, you must: have false ones or “gum” yourself through life. Use SOZODONT, which contains no grit. secretions. The Latest. Weare exclusive agents for the celebrated “CLAUS” NATURAL’ GAS ‘TEMPERED SHEARS AND SCISjand get's pair, take them . home and try them. If not perfectly satisfactory return them and get » new pair. NO QUESTIONS ASKED.’ LEGG & SHAW, Main street, Nevada City. Nevada City Dancing Academy. Soirep and school Friday evening at 8 Ohildren’s class Saturday afternoon. Tr never failed te cure dyspepsia and liver complaint. Take —Gim.nens Liver Regulator. bos Connoisseurs admit that ‘Public Taste” Street Meat Market are the best wid wt this city. 43-tt isp is business well . ments, betraying limbs that would have . seemed to take no part in the contest, ___ . pew: beby! Fainter and fainter. it become last it coased % TE MDY-mDT GL Te Fist Gam Dy i vada (ity. in 1851. [Carrie Stevens Walter in the 8. F. Wasp . 2 place-without a parallel on the face of theearth. Imagine acity of some 17,000 men—gamblers, saloon-keepers, miners, packers, hangers-on, and then some more gamblers, if tlie quota isn’t complete. What a wild place it was! The flutter of a woman’s petticoat oa a clotbes-liae would have drawn a bigger crowd than a triple murder, becavse it would have been rarer. The town ‘itself had settled down in a dense pine fo est on a movataia side, for all the world like a gray, moiiled cloud, pe. forated into coaniless_ individualities = the giant—t-ees:-—The™ houses were urried affairs, thrown vp almost in a. Pe ma cada aght Tp va: Just back of towa lay . be Cayoie bills —the magnet which bad drawn so moiley a throug” togeiher — honey-combed and worti-tracked by -the picks aad shovels of the miners in a mad chase for gold. And how lavishly it was yielded to, the chasers—ihe [proton yellow stuff! At night the ceuter of atiractioa wai Barker's Exchauge, oe of the largest gambling-saloons aorth of San Francisco. Merely a rough ‘‘shake” shaaty on the outside, it was a palace within, furnished with all the glittering pa-aheinalia that gold could purchase in San Francisco and pack-mules bring over ihe mountaio trails. All sorts of games, as monte, faro and the like, were in operaiion even during'the day; but at night the place was crowded and the wildest! kind of seenes enacted. : Perhaps the most patronized of all was the “‘vingt-et-un” table presided over vy Doc Brown, the most noted gambler of those parts at the thne. Jt was no uncommoa thing to see $25,000 or $0,000 in “dust,” nuggets and coin piled up as stakes on ‘‘Doc’s” table. Several aitendants from.the gorgeous bar were kept very busy all the time serving mixed and fancy driaks at four ‘‘bits” apiece. And so the gold, wheeuled from the generous Cayote hills through the day, was sucked away at night by the leeches at Barker's. One night au unusual comimoiion might have been noticed, anda larger crowd than ever was assembled. A troupe of “thurdy-gurdies” had come to i¢wn, and old Barker, with bf usual shi¢wdoess, had-eaptured them before the oilier saloon-keepers were fa‘rly aware of their arrival and had paid them handsemely to confine their—performances-to.tie E<change. A daneinggirl—ithe chief atiraction—was given three ovaces of dusi extra to dance afew. times during the evening. Every one was on ihe aleri; the games the dispeasers of driaks were flying like meteors through the crowd whea the squeak of the bhurdy-aidy j+sirument was heard. Instantly the clivkiag of gold and the.tinkling of wiae-glaes ceased and silence fell upon tue geeat thzog. A queer affair it was—the hardy-urdy —a cross besween a violin and two or three other instruments. By vaiural descent its name pessed to the roving singers and dancers who weut wiih ii through the mountains in those days. Out upon a raised plaiform bounded the girl, A cleud of coppery gold hair, fluffed around a dark, Madonaa face; 4 great black eyes that bore the look of a hunted deer; a mass of red,-gauzy gardelighted a sculpter; a golden gauze scarf draped around. a. perfect -bust; small brown hands that: swung~and~ twirled « dainty tambourine ia accompaniment to a wild, weird dance that was as the very struggle of a soul ia Hades. What a picwituess and gloat over! The dance ceased at last, and roars of applause were mingled with the musical rattle of a shower of coia which fell at the girl’s feet—the customary tribute of . the miners to genius as they understood . it. As the dancer bowed her thaaks those nearest her noticed an unnatural paleness creep over the beantiful face. She reeled, tottered and: would haye fallin hisarms. Amid the wildest commotion she was borne to a loungé.* A man from the ‘‘vingt-et-ua” table, leaving bis gold, and announcing Mimaclf fainting girl, while old Barker’kept back the crowd. After » few minutes the dostor spoke in low-tones to ‘Be ker. mysterious whispers were through the crowd. All looked~astonished, incredulous at first, . with serious faces sig eels and one by one passed ly out of the saloon: Within hour only Barker and the doctor ) left with the still unconscious girl. All night long the brilliant chandeliers shone above a strange, unequal fight— the twe.men against Death; for the girl w A Romance of the Fast Tiwes Here Nevada City, in the fall ef 1851, was were in full blast and bets running, high; }* ‘ture for the patrons of “Baiker's” to] en had not a red-shirted giant caught her . a physician, presse to the side of the. ~~ fluffed 2 wild disorder aboat'a white still “. face. But the great black eyes, With the look of a hunted deer, were closed forever. Clasped against the perfect bosom was a.roll of golden gauze stuff, from which gleamed the tiny white face of a _hbaby— dad with its mether. In the wild Cayote hills ‘another burtow was made, different from all the rest—the first grave in Nevada City.’ A borne thither‘ by “six miners. For two} hours every saloon and store in the place was closed, and the whole town became a faneral precess‘oa, Came Néar Perishing. A man from Towle’s Station came down yesterday to the Ceatennial mine to take the Washington stage to this city. The stage did not come as soom as he expected it, so he started down afoot, Near White Cloud-he became oxhanehek: along and had him conveyed to the Central House.It took much work to revive him, but he is mow all right. fn A Chamber of Horrors. The apartment to which the unhappy . wretch is confined by inflammatory rheumatism is indeed a ¢hamber of horrors. dured by persons suffe from milder like a flame, a cloud of coppery, gold hair, but “Superintendent Callahan chanced] 11 Should Be ta Every House. . J.B. Wilson, ‘B71 Clay St, Sharpsburg, Pa., says he will not be without Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption and Coughs, that it cared his wife whe was threatened with Pneumonia after an attack of “La Grippe,” when’ various other remedies and several physicians had done her no good. Robert Barber, of Cooksport, Pa., claims Dr. King’s New. Discovery has done him more good than anything he ever used for Lung Trouble. Nothing like it. Try it. Free Trial Bottles at Carr Bros.’ pens Bee: Large bottles, 50¢. jand $00. 5 ORKING PEOPLE an take Simmons” Liver Regulator without loss of tne ow dane : ga, s dials ob the safer as well as more effective remedy "than the poisons often used to subdue it. Always should it be bore in mind by those seeking relief from rheumatism, that though conquerable in the incipient stage, it is not only stubborn but-dangerous when fully developed, on acconnt of its tendency to attack the vital parts. This consideration should lead to the early adoption of curative measures, The Bitters will overcome malarial, kidney, dyspep tic and bilious trouble. Schilling’s Best. Trial will tell how they excel. French Tansy Wafers. The wafers are a sure and safe_ specific for all kinds of female troubles and will remove all obstructions to the monthly periods, no matter what the cause. They are what every woman needs and may be used safely. Manufactured by the Emerson Drug Co., manufacturers, San Jose, Cal. For sale by W. D. Vinton. tf ~~ To allay pains, subdue inflammation, heal foul sores and ulcers, the most prompt and satisiactory results are obtained by using that old reliable remedy, D. J. H. McLean's Voleauic Oi] Liniment. For sale by Carr Bros. 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THE baci olla PLUSH GOODS, SATIN GOODS, LACQUERED GOODS, : “LEATHER GOODS, PICTURE FRAMES, WRITING DESKS, — and Dramatic Successes, with a change of play nightl wo Op n’ng bill, the picturesque Sou medy-Drama, “The =: Planter’s : Vi”) TUESDAY NIGHT, ~ “THE STREETS OF NEW YORK” WEDNESDAY MATINEE, “RIP VAN) WINKLE” A * Second Blind Tom 1” > This Musical Prodigy will give One of Hs Unsurpassed Concerts at the Suimabax i EVENING, . BEFAD BASKETS a NEVADA CITY THEATRE, Mrs, A. RK. Wilber’s Dramatization -of i Dumas’ Fantous Novel, DRESSING CAS ES j a oa # ” ; oo fr The Clemenceau Cased XMAS CARDS, » {SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY. 9, "92. Adisteslen oh ta ik ee bees PERFUMES, “ x ed i ‘ , Seats can now be secured at Mulloy’s. ; on. f ) 4 Admission Fifty Cents. j Compound Sulphur ( _ DOLLS, oo Tickets a uloy’s Store. Nothing extra to re ve. : And hundreds of other articles appropriate for nak ae : a’ . 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It contains no acid, powder or alkali, and is as harm{ced Tea, But it takes fine rusia Tea to stand the test of Ice, J: \ It seems to bring out the bit 5 terness and, objectionable fon’ BN tures of poor tes, It is essen — tial therefore that the Tea ~~ shotld be PURE. With a market flooded with green TRY IT! The Great eset; for Habitual Constipation, Indigestion; Piles, Diseased stew a tsihetower Pilos @ {ra Liver, Billiousness, Gout; . ise, all of which ave :artifiels 4 ‘it denggistannd hair dxeiabess oe 2 hi Rheumatism, Sciatica, Lum. 7: q ally colored, and black toa, the cheaper grades of which are often both colored and 4 adulterated, the difficulty in Gervaise Graham’s getablishanetst, 103 Pow Street, Sau Francisco, where she ladies for all blémishes of the face ‘or figure. Ladies at a distance treated by Jeter, Send stamp for little book ‘How to be Beautiful,” SAMPLE BOTTLE mailed free to any lady on receipt of ten cents in stamps to pay postage end packing. Lady agents MRS; GRAHAM'S FACH BLEACH 8 m bago, Gravel, Ete, Every prominent physician in San Francisco, San Jose, Stockton WY Sacra— procuring PURE Tea begins mento recommend it. ae py mena Thousands of bottles are. sold monthly, and ‘everybody that has used it prolaim it to a wonderful mediIt was to meet the demand for an absolutely PURE TEA at o moderate price that Cures the worst cases of Freckles, unpig Sulow nee sta ie re cine. Beech’s Tea was placed before } and all skin blemishes, ic Harmless and effective. i rh A 4 the public, Being the PURE . . i fair. oy will convince you ever used. It is neither Whitehead Gook Books, the most skeptical that it is. *#teen or black, simply natusn tao OR the wonder of the age. ae ee & canary s : eye y awe * " de LEAD ‘1 HE WORLD, ‘ _ a! Bs pil eo ; a” meee : Wbishechomathe via ere The American Pastry v sold by il ‘rig hemi > : va %, Hotel Meat ee rmion ‘on. © Herald Cook

or a : and at once then proceeding to their in‘ from classical writers or the simplest ti for good: music, ‘then it ittustration” = ay—maay of then with great trees . "will be preaching morning and evening Gb 1s 90 teppene ot the Theater here on _the evening of the 9th instant, was born blind. At the age of 7 he developed marvellous musical powers ; néw, at 14, he is a wonder. He was taught the comat the Berkeley Institute. Four years ago he had the betiefit of several months’ instruction from’ -Robert -Tolmie, the great concert pianist, and for three years past he has pr-gressed by a memory system, his ‘father reading ‘the sceres ‘to him, he imprinting . them on his memory terpretation. His execution is brilliant, and at times marvelously so. His ear is good and his feeling deep and® strong, and asa result he plays by inspiration melodies of the hour. He is nervously eager toadvance, but his affliction and lack of means hinder him, but the latter, ¥; is believed, will not be fer long. Such talent as his must find a generous patron to aid it-to its fullest possibilities. As. a_meré curiosity, even.ifone dares —pears-to have: ‘etidowed hin with wonder} ful musical capacity in compensation for . .,-deprivation of sight and given him Powers not one lad in s million emer, At the Churches Tomorrow. _ There will be mo services at the Epis. capal, church tomorrow. Rev: Father Shaw will open a mission at St. Canice Catholic Church. At the Congregational Church ther: by the pastor. Subject in the evening, ** A cordial greeting to the year 1892:” Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper will be i at the close of the merning @ervice. The subject at the Methedist Church in’ the morning will be “Our Present Need,” and in the evening the choir, assisted by the congregation, will give a “New Praise Service.” The pastor will explain what inspired’ the composition of, and the incidents relating to, the hymns that will be sung, ‘The Epworth League will meet at 6:15 in the parlor of the church, Vandals Abroad. About the_most contemptible vandalism displayed here ia a long time was that of a gang of fellows out New Year's eve. They broke windows in the busimess places of Jas. Foley, J. F. Hook, W. A. Sigowiaey aad ot! er places; shattered same colored glass globes on the Tea Company's big gas pendant; distigureda siga in front of H. Pecarty’s saloon, and did other things that should lead to their being sent to jail. sedis. eae Ae Good Fo: Sore Eyes.{ ‘There is now on exhibition at the Biate Mining Bureau's museum in San Francisco a large specimen’of gold in crystallized quariz from the Delhi mine in the Columbia Hill district, this county. The specimen is owned by R. McMurray, who intends toexhibit it-at the World’s Fair, It contains $1200 werth of gold. Death of W. H: Phiips.:, William Henry Phillips, a native of Virginia, aged 46 years, died at his home in Yuba City at 4 o’clock Thursday morning afte: an illness of nearly one month. The deceased, who was commonly called “Crooks,” was formerly iu the pork packing business at this city. Foothill Oranges, H. Falk of Marysville has purchased thie orange corp of the Excelsior Company’s ranch near Smarteville and has. force of men now engaged picking the } oranges, the greater part of which will be shipped to Portland and other northern pointe. Eas Don’t Rub Of the Enamel The teeth are teo valuable to be trifled with, When gone, you must: have false ones or “gum” yourself through life. Use SOZODONT, which contains no grit. secretions. The Latest. Weare exclusive agents for the celebrated “CLAUS” NATURAL’ GAS ‘TEMPERED SHEARS AND SCISjand get's pair, take them . home and try them. If not perfectly satisfactory return them and get » new pair. NO QUESTIONS ASKED.’ LEGG & SHAW, Main street, Nevada City. Nevada City Dancing Academy. Soirep and school Friday evening at 8 Ohildren’s class Saturday afternoon. Tr never failed te cure dyspepsia and liver complaint. Take —Gim.nens Liver Regulator. bos Connoisseurs admit that ‘Public Taste” Street Meat Market are the best wid wt this city. 43-tt isp is business well . ments, betraying limbs that would have . seemed to take no part in the contest, ___ . pew: beby! Fainter and fainter. it become last it coased % TE MDY-mDT GL Te Fist Gam Dy i vada (ity. in 1851. [Carrie Stevens Walter in the 8. F. Wasp . 2 place-without a parallel on the face of theearth. Imagine acity of some 17,000 men—gamblers, saloon-keepers, miners, packers, hangers-on, and then some more gamblers, if tlie quota isn’t complete. What a wild place it was! The flutter of a woman’s petticoat oa a clotbes-liae would have drawn a bigger crowd than a triple murder, becavse it would have been rarer. The town ‘itself had settled down in a dense pine fo est on a movataia side, for all the world like a gray, moiiled cloud, pe. forated into coaniless_ individualities = the giant—t-ees:-—The™ houses were urried affairs, thrown vp almost in a. Pe ma cada aght Tp va: Just back of towa lay . be Cayoie bills —the magnet which bad drawn so moiley a throug” togeiher — honey-combed and worti-tracked by -the picks aad shovels of the miners in a mad chase for gold. And how lavishly it was yielded to, the chasers—ihe [proton yellow stuff! At night the ceuter of atiractioa wai Barker's Exchauge, oe of the largest gambling-saloons aorth of San Francisco. Merely a rough ‘‘shake” shaaty on the outside, it was a palace within, furnished with all the glittering pa-aheinalia that gold could purchase in San Francisco and pack-mules bring over ihe mountaio trails. All sorts of games, as monte, faro and the like, were in operaiion even during'the day; but at night the place was crowded and the wildest! kind of seenes enacted. : Perhaps the most patronized of all was the “‘vingt-et-un” table presided over vy Doc Brown, the most noted gambler of those parts at the thne. Jt was no uncommoa thing to see $25,000 or $0,000 in “dust,” nuggets and coin piled up as stakes on ‘‘Doc’s” table. Several aitendants from.the gorgeous bar were kept very busy all the time serving mixed and fancy driaks at four ‘‘bits” apiece. And so the gold, wheeuled from the generous Cayote hills through the day, was sucked away at night by the leeches at Barker's. One night au unusual comimoiion might have been noticed, anda larger crowd than ever was assembled. A troupe of “thurdy-gurdies” had come to i¢wn, and old Barker, with bf usual shi¢wdoess, had-eaptured them before the oilier saloon-keepers were fa‘rly aware of their arrival and had paid them handsemely to confine their—performances-to.tie E<change. A daneinggirl—ithe chief atiraction—was given three ovaces of dusi extra to dance afew. times during the evening. Every one was on ihe aleri; the games the dispeasers of driaks were flying like meteors through the crowd whea the squeak of the bhurdy-aidy j+sirument was heard. Instantly the clivkiag of gold and the.tinkling of wiae-glaes ceased and silence fell upon tue geeat thzog. A queer affair it was—the hardy-urdy —a cross besween a violin and two or three other instruments. By vaiural descent its name pessed to the roving singers and dancers who weut wiih ii through the mountains in those days. Out upon a raised plaiform bounded the girl, A cleud of coppery gold hair, fluffed around a dark, Madonaa face; 4 great black eyes that bore the look of a hunted deer; a mass of red,-gauzy gardelighted a sculpter; a golden gauze scarf draped around. a. perfect -bust; small brown hands that: swung~and~ twirled « dainty tambourine ia accompaniment to a wild, weird dance that was as the very struggle of a soul ia Hades. What a picwituess and gloat over! The dance ceased at last, and roars of applause were mingled with the musical rattle of a shower of coia which fell at the girl’s feet—the customary tribute of . the miners to genius as they understood . it. As the dancer bowed her thaaks those nearest her noticed an unnatural paleness creep over the beantiful face. She reeled, tottered and: would haye fallin hisarms. Amid the wildest commotion she was borne to a loungé.* A man from the ‘‘vingt-et-ua” table, leaving bis gold, and announcing Mimaclf fainting girl, while old Barker’kept back the crowd. After » few minutes the dostor spoke in low-tones to ‘Be ker. mysterious whispers were through the crowd. All looked~astonished, incredulous at first, . with serious faces sig eels and one by one passed ly out of the saloon: Within hour only Barker and the doctor ) left with the still unconscious girl. All night long the brilliant chandeliers shone above a strange, unequal fight— the twe.men against Death; for the girl w A Romance of the Fast Tiwes Here Nevada City, in the fall ef 1851, was were in full blast and bets running, high; }* ‘ture for the patrons of “Baiker's” to] en had not a red-shirted giant caught her . a physician, presse to the side of the. ~~ fluffed 2 wild disorder aboat'a white still “. face. But the great black eyes, With the look of a hunted deer, were closed forever. Clasped against the perfect bosom was a.roll of golden gauze stuff, from which gleamed the tiny white face of a _hbaby— dad with its mether. In the wild Cayote hills ‘another burtow was made, different from all the rest—the first grave in Nevada City.’ A borne thither‘ by “six miners. For two} hours every saloon and store in the place was closed, and the whole town became a faneral precess‘oa, Came Néar Perishing. A man from Towle’s Station came down yesterday to the Ceatennial mine to take the Washington stage to this city. The stage did not come as soom as he expected it, so he started down afoot, Near White Cloud-he became oxhanehek: along and had him conveyed to the Central House.It took much work to revive him, but he is mow all right. fn A Chamber of Horrors. The apartment to which the unhappy . wretch is confined by inflammatory rheumatism is indeed a ¢hamber of horrors. dured by persons suffe from milder like a flame, a cloud of coppery, gold hair, but “Superintendent Callahan chanced] 11 Should Be ta Every House. . J.B. Wilson, ‘B71 Clay St, Sharpsburg, Pa., says he will not be without Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption and Coughs, that it cared his wife whe was threatened with Pneumonia after an attack of “La Grippe,” when’ various other remedies and several physicians had done her no good. Robert Barber, of Cooksport, Pa., claims Dr. King’s New. Discovery has done him more good than anything he ever used for Lung Trouble. Nothing like it. Try it. Free Trial Bottles at Carr Bros.’ pens Bee: Large bottles, 50¢. jand $00. 5 ORKING PEOPLE an take Simmons” Liver Regulator without loss of tne ow dane : ga, s dials ob the safer as well as more effective remedy "than the poisons often used to subdue it. 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It contains no acid, powder or alkali, and is as harm{ced Tea, But it takes fine rusia Tea to stand the test of Ice, J: \ It seems to bring out the bit 5 terness and, objectionable fon’ BN tures of poor tes, It is essen — tial therefore that the Tea ~~ shotld be PURE. With a market flooded with green TRY IT! The Great eset; for Habitual Constipation, Indigestion; Piles, Diseased stew a tsihetower Pilos @ {ra Liver, Billiousness, Gout; . ise, all of which ave :artifiels 4 ‘it denggistannd hair dxeiabess oe 2 hi Rheumatism, Sciatica, Lum. 7: q ally colored, and black toa, the cheaper grades of which are often both colored and 4 adulterated, the difficulty in Gervaise Graham’s getablishanetst, 103 Pow Street, Sau Francisco, where she ladies for all blémishes of the face ‘or figure. Ladies at a distance treated by Jeter, Send stamp for little book ‘How to be Beautiful,” SAMPLE BOTTLE mailed free to any lady on receipt of ten cents in stamps to pay postage end packing. 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