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AUSTIN WEEKLY STATESMAN. THURSDAY. AKCH It. 1 StfG. SPRING finds everybody feeling dull, languid, sluggish; exactly in the condition to be vastly benefited by the use of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, T.izzia W.

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Price $1 six bottles, $5. GOVERNMENTAL WHAT Jo GOING Jl' THE DEI A UTMEN AN KIMTOMH OK WHAT WAS LEAItMU) YESTKUDAY AT THE C.Vt'lTOL. Receipts at the office of the secretary of Ftufe for the mouth of February were $1,711. The military department reports all quiet in the Panhandle and along the Mexican border. The insurance branch of the government whs very quiet, and items of public iuteicbt scarce.

comitbollek's office. Yesterday, those shining lights of the southwest corner iu the comptroller's office, Col. Joe Coster and Major P. 8. Spiller.

completed the tiling of the insolvent errors in assessments, delinquent and redemption papers for the year 188-t, and if you wish to refer to any of these papers now, they can be easily found. The Gulf, Colorado fc Santa Fe railway company paid in $489.97 passenger tax. In this department the Fort Worth fe Denver city railway company paid in $204.77 passengor tax. Mr. Finley, the gentlemanly financial man of the concern, deposited in the treasury, for the comptroller, $5,000 to general revenue, and $3,000 to the available school fund.

LUNATIC ASYLUM HOARD. The board of managers of the lunatic asylum were in session yesterday, considering applications for the position of assistant physician, made vacant by the aberration, and consequent disability, of Dr. Givens. The board, finally, on a unanimous vote, appointed Dr. J.

T. Wilson to the position'. Dr. Wilson filled the same office under Superintendent Wallace, acd no better selection could possiblv have been made. Dr.

WTilson's many friends iu this city will be glad to learn that he is ooming back again. STATE DEPARTMENT. The charter of the Huberich Coffee and Spice Mills, of San Antonio, capital stock, $20,000, was filed yesterday in the office of the secretary of state. Incorporators: Conrad Huberich, Panl Huberich and H. BennighauB.

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. The following county treasurers have refused to report their annual statement of schdol funds to this office, as required by law: Reeves, Tyler, Valverde, Martin, Midland, Navarro, Oldham, Harrison, Haskell, Hays, Kerr, Kimble, Knox, Encinal, Galveston, Gregg, Armstrong. MISCELLANEOUS. It was reported, yesterday, that committee of the Knights of Labor from Dallas had waited on the governor relative to the railroad strikes, but it proved false. Prominent Knights of Labor in the city know nothing about the matter whatever and could not account for the rumor.

The land board received several thous: and dollars yesterday. The adjutant general reports the frontier unusuolly quiet. PENITENTIARY FINANCES. The following is the report of Capt Haywood Brahan, showing the financial condition of the state prisons for the month of January: Balance on hand, $22,301.76. Received at Huntsville, received at Rusk, $1,810.46.

Total, $52,796.88. DISBURSED. At Huntsville, at Rusk, iron industries, for material, balance on hand, $9,977.18. Total, $52,796.88. WHERE DEPOSITED.

First National bank, Austin, Ball, Hutohins Galveston, Houston Savings bank, Bonner fc Bonner, Tyler, $700; W. G. Parish, Rusk, cash, $4,498.26. Total, $9,977.18. THE STATB UNIVERSITY.

Dr. A. V. Lane, associate-professor of mathematics in the state university, has contributed an article which appears in the February number of the American Journal of Mathematics, published at the Johns Hopkins university. It is a mathematical solution of a roulette problem, but ia not intended to show young men how to play "roulette." The merits of the article may be presumed from the fact of it appearance in a journal which is noted for publishing only original work of a high order.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. In the case of the arrest of Mr. J. B. Belohradsky, of San Antonio, for embezzlement in Chicago, the governor last night gave it a fair review, and or.

statements furnished by some highly respectable citizen of San Antonio, came to the conclusion, after mature deliberation and consideration, that the charges were groundless and without foundation, and the extradition warrant was at once revoked. This will be good news to his many as he is considered, both here, and in San Antonio, os a good and worthy citizen, having embarkel his all and invested fully $100,000 in the brewing business in that city. Too mnoh praise cannot given to onr worthy govtrnor for acting in this case in a just and busintsa-like manner. The governor yesterday appointed T. M.

Harwood, of Gonzales, and W. S. Delauy, of Culumbus. special judges to try the case of M. E.

fc S. W. Miller vs the Galf, Colorado Santa Fe Railroad company, now pending in the supreme court, Judges Willie and Robertson disqualified' The governor yesterday issued the following proclamation: Whereas1, oa the first day of March, A. 1886, upon the requisition of the governor of Illinois, I issued an extradition warrant for one Javoslar B. Belorasdky, charged with embezzlement in the county of Cook, in said state of Illinois; and Whereas, it has been satisfactorily shown to me by the affidavits of the sheriff of Bexar county, and his deputy, that said warrant has been issued improperly aud in contravention to the true object and intention of the extradition law of the United States, and of the state of Texas, i.

for the purpose of collecting an alleged debt. Now, therefore, John Ireland, governor of the state of Texas, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the constitution p.ud laws of the state, do hereby revoke said warrant, and direct that it be not executed by any official of this state. In testimony whereof, I have horeuuto signed my and have caused to be impressed thereon the seal of the state, at Austin, Texas, this the 4th day of March, A. D. 1886.

Jno. Ireland, Governor. By the Governor: J. W. Bainjjs, Secretary of State.

Messrs. A. N. Mills and M. Kleberg, appointed special judges by the governor to try cause iu the supreme court M.

C. S. W. Miller vs. Gulf, Colorado Santa Fe railway company hi place of Judges Willie and Robertson, disqualified, tendered their resignations as such special judges, finding upon examination of the case that they were disqualified.

STATE LAND B03UD. The land board was in session yesterday to consider the report of Grass Com missioner Gass, in the case of Charles Goodnight and others, who propose to mandamus him in court to accept $8,000 tor lands winch they propose to purchase under the seven section act. The board determined to secure the services of Hon. J. N.

Browning, of Mobeelie to reprtseut i he state in the matter, and he was telegraphed to last night. 'The state land board met in regular monthly session, with Chairman Lubbook, Attorney-General Templeton and Land Commissioner Walsh present. Bids for leasing 120 sections were considered, and 74 se out of the number awarded, while the balance were rejected because of previous lease at 8 cents per acre. WHERE SITUATED. The lands leased are situated as follows: Borden county, 4 section; Burnet county, 1 section; Gaza county, 14 sections; Hale and Lamb counties, 2 sections; Lubbock county, 10 sections; Lynn county, 27 sections; Presidio county, 6 seotions; Uvalde county, 12 sections; Wharton county, 2 sections.

One or two contests between actual settlers were disposed of. Mr. Newton Walton was on hand with $3,000 in cash, and a bid at four cents, for ninety-two sections of land, situated in Deaf Smith county, but the board incontinently sat down upon and crushed the whole business, before Mr. Walton's musical voice succeeded fully reading his papers. Four cents an acre, was sufficient for the board to promptly and vigorously act upon, and it acted.

Hon. W. L. Wurzback, of San Antonio, was over, and also appeared before the board with a proposition to lease, at. four cents, a certain number of seotions in Medina county, but he met with the same fate that did Mr.

Walton. Mr. Wurzback, however, will change his bid to the regulation price six cents per acre. To-morrow the board will convene to consider the matter of pending contests between actual settlers, and to examine and approve of the lease made to Peacock Bros, by the university regents. This lease will be approved, as it should be, rumors to the contrary notwithstanding.

The regents think they will be able to lease at least 1,000.000 acres during the next three or four months, and it is a consummation devontedly to be wished for. PROSPECTIVE LITIGATION. On the adjournment of the land board the clerks will make up a list of all lessees who have failed to pay the amounts due for lands leased from the state, and it will be turned over to the attorney-general who will institute proceedings to collect the same as required by law. The state land board had a short session to decide between conflicting claims for school lands set up by actual settlers. Three or four cases were decided.

In one case a section of dry land which had been leased was applied for by an actual settler purchaser, but. the lessee having built a tank upon it and procured permanent stock water under the board's resolution withdrawing watered lands from sale, the application to purchase was rejected. The land Viiird held a meeting yesterday in the attorney general's office to consider the recent lease made by the university regents to Peacock Bros. After some discussion it was decided that the lease was irregular, in that it did not pass through the hands of the county surveyor and because the lands were not put up at competition, as required by the rules of the board. The bids will be returned to the county surveyors and by them returned iu proper shape.

At the special session of the eighteenth legislature the following act was passed: An act to provide for leasing the unorganized county school leagues. Section 1. Be it enacted by the legisla-ture of the state of Texas: That the attorney general, commissioner of the general land office and comptroller shall constitute a board to be styled the "unorganized county school land board" with power and authority to lease the three hundred and twenty-five leagues of land surveyed in the year 1882, for the unorganized counties of the state and situated in the counties of Hockley, Cochran, Bailey, Lamb, Andrews, Martin, Dawson and Gaines, subject to the terms hereinafter expressed, to-wit: Each league shall be leased separately to the highest bidder and all enclosures shall have convenient gates at least twelve feet wide and not more than three miles apart. Section 2. That said lands shall be advertised for lease for sixty days by publication in one newspaper in utch of the cities of San Antonio, Colorado City, Fort Worth and Henrietta or Decatur and may be leased for any term of years not less then five nor more than seven, as may seem to said board best for the ultimate interest of the counties affected thereby; provided, that whenever any league or leagues so leased shall become the seper-ate property of any county on its organization, then the lease as to such particular league or leagues shall cease and the same shall be and become at once subject to the control of respective county commissioners court, as'other countv school lands, acoording to the provisions of the state constitution and the laws thereof.

Provided no lands shall be leased for less than five cents per acre. Section 3. That the rents on said lands shall be paid to the state treasurer annually in advance, commencing with the date of each lease respectively, and the treasurer shall keep an account of the money received for each respective league and the money bo received shall be used as a part of the available school fund of the state and when such league becomes the separate property of a county a sum equal to the proceeds of such lease shall be, by the treasurer, paid over to the proper authority of such county out of the available school fund, to be invested and managed by the commissioners court of such county, according to the provisions of said section six, article seven of the state constitution, less the pro rata expense of advertising, etc. Section 4. That said board shall promptly report to the state treasurer each lease made by them, specifying the league or leagues embraced in the same, and the name or names of the lessee or lessees, and any lease so made shall become null and void on the non-payment of the annual rents at the time or times hereinbefore specified, and it shall be unnecessary for any action to declare the forfeiture other than the action of the board upon the report of the treasurer that default has been made on the pay ment of the annual rents, and all leases shall contain a clause making it a portion of the contract that a judicial ascertainment of the forfeiture is not required, aud upon the forfeiture of any lease said board shall immediately advertise and relet the lands on which said lease or leases have been made.

Section 5. That said board is hereby clothed with authority to make such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act in regard to the leasing of said lauds, as they may deem best for the interest of the counties to be benefitted thereby. Section 6. No corporation shall be allowed to lease said lands, and if any individual lessee or lessees transfer said lease to any corporation, or allows them to use sueh lands, they shall thereby forfeit their leases and improvements Section 7. This act shall take effeot and be in force ninety days after adjournment.

Section 8. The near approach of the close of the session and the importance of this bill creates an imperative public necessity, authorizing the suspension of the rule requiring bills to be read on three Several days and said rule is hereby suspended. Approved February 6, 1884. John Ireland, Governor. In compliance with the provssions of this act the officials named on yesterday organized the board and advertise the lands for lease as required.

SECRETARY OF STATE. The following charters were filed yesterday in the office of secretary of state: The Magnolia Cemetery company, of Houston. The Campbell Real Estate company, of El Paso. Object, to subdivide, improve, sell, lease, mortgage, or otherwise dispose of lands. The capital stook is placed at $100,000.

Incorporators, John W. Noble, George H. Gill, Hugh Campbell, William S. Hills and BennetH. Davis.

THE TREASURY. Yesterday a large number of the warrants advertised to be paid off were presented, and the chief clerk was kept" busy cashing the same. Kirksey, the rotund man of the office, and withal one of the most agreeable and efficient of clerks, was busy, too, yesterday, with land matters In fact, every clerk in the department was hard at work, as they are daily, with the land business of the state. This month some $23,000 interest due on bonds is to be paid, and the cash is on hand to do it with. To-day Treasurer Lubbock will begin the payment of another batch of revenue warrants, aggregating about $25,000.

EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT. Superintendent Baker has had sent to the tax assessors the following, which they should heed and promptly comply with: "I send you blanks for sch61astio census rolls and abstracts. The law requires you to complete the rolls and deliver them to the county judge by the tenth day of June, to be filed by him with the county clerk. The abstracts are to be made out in duplicate and filed with the county clerk, after they have been approved by the county judge, on or before the first day of July. Under the law you cannot receive compensation unless this is done.

It is the duty of the county clerk to place one of the abstracts on hie in his office and mail the other to this department at once, and I suggest that you see that he does so. If there is a city or town in your county which has assumed control of its public schools, you will not take the scholastic census of such city or town, but leave it to be done by the city or town assessor. Children who will be eight years old September 1, next, and not sixteen years old, are entitled to enrollment. Unless your abstract reaches this office by the fifteenth day of July apportionment will have to be made to your county on last year's census report. I respectfully call your attention to sections 80,81, 82, 83, 84, 85 and 86, school law of 1884." Superintendent Baker anniunces that he is ready to receive applications of cities intending to bid for summer normal schools.

Superintendent Baker has received the first census roll of school children, and it comes from the city of Sherman. It shows the number of children as follows: Sherman total number of white male children eight and under sixteen years of age 535. Total number of white female children eight and under sixteen years of age 558. Total number of colored male children eight and under sixteen yeras of age, 220. Total Bumber of colored female children eight and under sixteen years of age, 221.

Grand total, white and colored children, 1555. Total nuuber of white children, 1094. Total number last year, 1050. Total number of colored children, 441. Toial number last year, 215.

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Very truly, JS. 1. Mooiik. Austin, March 6th, 1886. Hon.

E. T. Moore Dkab Sib: In answer to your favor of yesterday, I have the honor to state that your name was placed upon the ticket put the field by the republicans and in dependents of this county, with other democrats, who were deemed to be honor able gentlemen, by the campaign com mittee. Regarding your question whether you paid any consideration iu money, or otherwise, for placing your name upon this independent ticket, I would say, that you never paid, or offered to pay, any money for that, or any other purpose. Very J.

C. DeGkefs, La to chairman campaign committee for independent ticket. I concur in the above. E. UvrvEUTi, Late treasurer and.

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Fifty cents. ENGLAND'S WARNING. Texas Sittings. England has heard the first rumble of the hidden fires which seethe nnder the thin crust of law and order, or of society, or whatever you choose to call it. It was not a very violent volcanic eruption, but it was enough to show the latent force below the surface.

That is to say, it was enough for those who have ears to hear, and eyes see, and senses to understand. To those who are blind, and deaf and dumb, it will of course have little or no significance. A few more police, or a few extra regiments of soldiers, they think, will settle the whole account. But no! Volcanoes cannot be bunged up with a cork like a bottle of soda-water, and even soda-water bottles will burst at times. It is of no use to call out the military to suppress Vesuvius.

Here are thousands of honest working men starving. Behind them stand other thousands of thieves, loafers, ruffians, vagabonds, ready to make the honest appeal of the worker an excuse for rapine. England has recieved her hint. The whole civilized world, from our furtherest territories to the oldest centres of culture and cipital, have been formally served with a notice, and no matter who is right and who wrong, society must recognize the service. 'OSTLER JOE.

THE POEM WHICH SHOCKED WASHINGTON SOCIETY From the Washington Capitol. Mrs. James Brown Totter read a beautiful and striking poem by' George R. Sims, an English writer, at the dilutable entertainment at Secretary Whitney's residence on the 19tli iust. We publish this poem in full to-day in order that certain prudish people who have fancied that they were shocked on hearing the poem rend may peruse it and be assured that there was nothing improper either in the words or the tone of it.

We have heard 'Ostler Joe" called "Swinburnian" in character, but such a reference to it would be made only by persons who either never read this poem, or else never read Swinburne. If the object of a publio reading be not to put a lot of stupid people to sleep, but to produce a dramatic effect, then Mrs. Potter exercised a oorrect and praiseworthy judgment in her selection of this poem: I stood at eve, as the run went down, by a grave where a woman lies, Who lured men's souls to the shores of sin with the light of her wanton eves, Who rang the aonir that the siren sang on the treacherous Lnrley height, Wbose face was as fair as a summer day und whose heart as as block as ninht. Yet a blossom 1 fain would pluck to day from the earden above ber dust-Not the languorous lily of soulless sin nor the hlod-red rose of lust, Hut a sweet white blossom of holy love that grew in the one green spot, 1 In the arid desert, of rhyme's life, here al wuj iiarcnetl ana not. In the summer, when the meadows were aglow with blue and red, Joe, the 'ostler of the Magpie, and fair Annie Smith were wed.

Plump was Annie, plump and pretty, with a cheek as white as snow; lie was anything but the Magpie's 'ostler, Joe. Hut he won the winsome lassie. They'd a eot-tHLre and A cow. And her mutronhood sat lightly on the village beauty's brow. Sped the months and came a baby such a blue- eved habv boy! Joe was working in the stubles when they told him of his joy.

lie whs rubbing down the horses, and he gave them then and there All a speeiul feed of clover, just in honor of 'he heir. It hud been his great ambition, and he tidd the horses so, That the fates would send a baby who might bear the name of Joe. Little Joe the child was christened, und, like hiibies, grew apace; He'd his mother's eyes of azure and his father's honest face. Swift the happv years went years of blue and cloudless sky, I.uve was lord of that small cottage, and the tempests passed them by. Passed them by for years, then swiftly burst iu fury er their home.

Dow the lane by Annie's cott ige chanced a gentleman to roam Thrice he came and sow her sitting by the window with her child. And he nodded to the baby, and the baby laughed and smiled. So at lost it crew to know him little Joe was nearly four; He.would call the "pretty gomplln" as he passed the open door; And one day he ran and caught him, and In child's play pulled him In; And the baby Joe had prayed for brought about the mothei'H sin. 'Twos the same old wretched story that for ages bards have sung, 'Twos a woman weak und wanton and vlllian's tempting tongue; 'Twas a picture dettly painted for a silly creature's eyes Of the Habvlonian wonders and the joy that in them lies. Annie listened aud was tempted; she was tempted and she fell, As the angels fell from heaven to the blackest deotlis of hell: She was promised wealth and splendor and a life ol guilty sloth, Yellow gold for child and husband, aud the wo man left them both.

Home one eve came Joe the 'Ostler with a cheery cry of "Wife 1" Finding that which blurred forever oil the Btory of liia life. She had left a silly letter through the cruel scrawi ne speu Then ho sought the lonely bedroom, joined his horny hands and knelt. "Now, Lord, Oort, forgive her, for she ain't tobUnie!" he cried; "For 1 owt t'a seen her trouble, and 'agone away and died. Why, a wench like her (iod bless her! 'twasn't likely as her'd reHt With that bonny head forever on a 'ostler's rag- geu vest. "It was kind o' her to bear me all this long and happy time, So for my sake please to bless her, though yoil count her deed a crime; If so he 1 don't pray pioper, Lord, forgive me; for vou see I can talk all right to 'osses, but I'm nervous like wltij 1 nee.

No'er a line came to the cottage from the woman who had flown: Joe the baby died that winter, and the man as left alone, Ne'er a bitter word ho uttered, but in silence kissed the rod. Saying what he told the horses, saying what he 1(11(1 ins ikki. i Far away in mighty London rose tho woman Into lame, For her lieauty won men's homage, and she pros nered iu her shame: Quick from lord to lord she flitted, higher still each prize she won. And her rivals puled beside her as the stars be side tne sun. Next she made the stage her market, and she drugged Art's temple down To the level of a show place for the outcasts of me town, And the kisses she hud given to poor 'Ostler Joe for naught With their gold and costly jewels riih and titled lovers brought.

Went the years with flying footsteps while the star was at its height; Then the darkness came on swiftly, and the gloaming turned to night. Shattered strength and faded beauty tore the laurels from her brow; Of the thousands who hud worshipped never one came near ber now. broken down In health ard fortune men forgot her very name, Till the news tnat she was dying woke the echoes of ber fame; And tho papers, in their gossip, mentioned how an "actress" lay Sick to death in humble lodgings, growing weaker every day. One there was who read the story In a far-off country place, And that night the dying woman woke and looked upon bis face. Once again the strong arms closjied her that bad clasped ber long ago.

And the weary head lay pillowed on the breast of 'Ostler Joe. All the post had he forgotten, all the sorrow and the shame He had found her sick and lonely, and his wife he now could claim. Since the grand folks who had known- her one and all bad slunk away. He could clasp bis long lost darling, and no man would say him nay. In bis arms death found her lying, in his arnii her spirit fled; And his tears came down in torrents as he knelt beside her dead.

1 Never once bis love had faltered through her base, nnhallowcd life: And the stone above her ashes bears the honored name of wife. That's the blossom I fain would pluck to-day from the garden above ber dust Not the languorous lily of seniles sin nor the blood-red rose of lust; But a sweet white blossom of boly love that grew in the one green spot In the arid desert of l'hyrne's life, where all was parched and hot. POND'S EXTRACT. "The Vegetable Pain Destroyer" never fails to afford relief from pain. Try it once, and nothing could induce yon to be without it.

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Lot is. KASTKHX TKXWS. ITEMS FROM ItrsK AM) HENDER SON ivm. Special t'oiresponderce toTht Statesman. IUIHK COUNTY.

HuNDKitsoN, March 4, 188B. We have had cnU north east rain for threo days. County court has been in session this John Dovh'. colored, an Ernest Smith, tho white Dutch boy. who were limb oon-victed to the penitentiary, and escnned from the county ji.il lust vuik.

arc still at large. JuUgoFnlds wue hits just returned from a two weeks viiiit to relatives at Terrell. Tlows made at the Henderson fouudry are soiling rapidly throughout the coun try. T. B.

McMurray, formerly of this place but now of Gainsville, was here last week. F. A. Dotsou, of Navasota, has been vis iting his father. Col G.

M. Dotson, of this city. The first number of the Monthly Educa tor was issued last Saturday by the colored teachers of Rusk county. Howell Hull, one of the best citizens of Rusk county, diod of paralysis last Saturday. G.

II. Delamar has sold out and moved to Omen, in Smith county. Sweet potatoes and ribbon cane for seed, were greatly injured by the fieeze in January. i Henderson still maintains her character for being the healthiest town ill the state. Not a case of sickness in town at this writing- HHKLBT COUNTY.

The justice precinct which embraces Buetia Vista und Timpson, will vote on local option March 10. Timpson wants the first cotton factory in East Texas. Center had a railroad barbecue lust week. Stirring speeches we' 'v Judge Boren, of Panola i Johnson, H. B.

Short aud A. Shelby county. They built a railro'id to Center on paper. They will build one on the ground luter. John Crawford has moved back to Con-tor, i Wyatt Childers lost his house and its contents by fire last week.

The new court house has been completed and formally recuived by the commissioners court. Twenty now houses will be in Timpson soon. When a man becomes a slnvb to opium he cannot give up the habit. It may have been acquired by giving Win opiates when sick, and this is why Red Ster Cough Cure commends itself for its purity, freedom from narcotics, mid prompt efllcacy. Only 25 oentH.

"Stella of Lackawanna" was the nom de plume of Mrs. Harriet C. Wnfres, of Scranton, who died on the 1st instant, in that city. Her best known poem was "Bear Them Home Tenderly," and was written in memory of the Massachusetts soUiers who were killed while passing through Baltimore. Her son, Senator Lewis A.

Watres, will collect and publish her poems in book form. Frederick James Coney (or Clayton) mny hear of something to his advantage by applying to Stephen Camp, solicitor, of Watford, Herts, England. Nothing like it before in Austin! Go and see how cheap you can buy boots and shoes at Jas. Martin's. Mum, Survival of the Fittest.

A FAMILT MEDICIXK THAT BAB HEALED MILLIONS Dl'BMG ti TEARS! A BALM FOB EVERT WOUftD OF MAS AND BEAST The Oldest Best Liniment EVEE MADE IN AMERICA. SALES LARGER THAN EVER. The Mexican Mustang Liniment has' been known for more than thlrtv-flvet year aa tho best of all Liniments, for uan ana iteasr. its sales to-day aref lareer than ever. It cures when Bill others fail, and penetrates skin, tendon and muscle, to the very bone, fcolil; everywhere.

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