Some forms of this drug are found in nearly all the various patent medicines so freely sold as a cure-all for every mortal disease.

He was dressed in the brown over-alls of Southern California, stained and discoloured by sun and tar-weed.

When half an hour or more had passed, the old soldier said to me, in a more kindly tone than I had ever suspected he could use: "The lad is eatin' his heart out, an' all to no purpose.

Each man ran his own machine without the slightest expert assistance; the men in over-alls with kits of tools lurking along the roadside were modern brigands seeking opportunities for hold-ups; now and then they would spring out upon an unoffending machine, knock it into a state of insensibility, and abuse it most unmercifully.