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Sarsaparilla, 
Smilax sarsaparilla. Natura Orver: Smilacee—Smilax Family. 
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eyfOR cleansing impurities from the human system the root of 
the Sarsaparilla has long been held in high estimation, and, 
"2 though it has been supplanted to some extent by other 
remedies, it is still imported in large quantities from South 
Keo America, where the natives gather it in the woods on the 
Noo banks of the Tigre, Ucayale and other rivers, and pack it 
- in large bales ready for shipment. Another species of the 
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soil. The root differs materially from that of the first mentioned, 
which is long and slender, the North American variety being thick 
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and fleshy. The latter is sometimes substituted for the former by 
druggists in their preparations, and is supposed to have similar properties. 
kar perience, 
HIS sad experience cites me to reveal, 
And what I dictate is from what I feel. 
—Priar, 
FATE! all left behind, No need, then, with thy stings my flesh to goad, 
I follow thee adown the bitter road, Keep them for those that strive with thee in vain, 
With weary feet, and heavy eyes and blind, And leave me to my constant, weary pain. 
That leadeth to thy far unknown abode; —William Morris. 
ORLD’S use is cold— world’s love is vain — 
World’s cruelty is bitter bane; 
But pain is not the fruit of pain.  _agys. Browning. 
TEACH him, while your lessons last, How rich it glow’d with promised good; 
To judge the present by the past; Remind him of each wish enjoy’d, 
Remind him of each wish pursued, How soon his hopes possession cloy'd. 
— Scott. 
XPERIENCE, join’d to common sense, 
\ To mortals is a providence. _Gyeen, Mi 
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