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THE GRADY COUNTY PROGRESS, CAIRO. GEORGIA.
Minding the Doctor.
"It Isn't strango that Bob Hilliard
should have won tho honrt and hand
of a girl with throe millions, for Bob,
despite hlB years, 1b tho hnndsomeBt
and most elegant creature going."
The speaker, n dramatic critic of
Chicago, smiled and continued:
"Tho last time Bob acted here I met
him one morning promenading. And
he was , superb—top hat, stick, black
, morning coat, spats fitting without a
wrinkle, and one of thoso cigarette
tubes that had Just come out, a tube
of gold and amber, a foot long, or pos
sibly 18 Inches.
"As we chatted, and as ho smoked
his Egyptian cigarette through this
extraordinary tube, I said to him:
"Why on earth, Bob, do you.pse such
a long cigarette tube as that?”
“ ‘My doctor has ordered me,' he re
plied, 'to keep away from tobacco.*"
Pork
ans
Delicious - Nutritious
Plump and nut-like In flavor, thoroughly
cooked with choice pork. Prepared the
Libby way, nothing can be more appe
tizing ami satisfying, nor of groater food
value. Put up with or without tomato
aauco. An excellent dith served either
hot or cold.
. insist on Libby's
Libby, M?Neill k_
& Libby,
'Chicago- ■■■ .
The Reason.
"Why Is It that young • Rounder Is
such a slow pay?"
"Because he Is bo fast."
The shoe salesman Bhould look out
for slippery customers.
Don't Poison Baby. ,
F ORTY YEARS AGO almost every mother thought her child must hare
PAREGORIC or laudanum to make it sleep. These drugs will produce
Bleep, and a FEW DROPS TOO'MANY will produce the SLEEP
FROM WHICH THERE IS NO WAKING. Many are tho children who
have been killed or whose health has been ruined for life by paregorio, lauda
num and morphine, each of which Is a narcotlo produot'of opium. Druggists
are prohibited from selling either of the narcoticB named to children at all, or
to anybody without labelling thorn “poison.” Tho definition of “narcotic”
is: “A medioine which relieves pain and produces sleep, but which in poison
ous doses produces stupor, coma, convulsions and death.” The taste and.
smell of medicines containing opium aro disguised, and sold under tho names
of “Drops,” “Cordials,” “Soothing Syrups,”etc. You should not permit any
medicine'to be given to your children without you or your physician know
of what it is composed. OASTORIA DOES NOT .
CONTAIN NARCOTICS, if it bears the signature -J? -
of Chas. H. Fletohor. y
Genuine Castorla always bears the signature of LiT-ccsic/CiAi
Lots of colorB don't harmonize. For
instance, red liquor shouldn’t be used
for the' blues.
No, Not Half Bad.
"The Women We Marry and Other
Fictions."—Newspaper Headline,
Not Bad.—Chicago Tribune.
No. SIX-SIXTY-SIX
This is a prescription prepared es
pecially for Malaria or Chills and
Fever. Five or six doses will break
any case, and if taken then afe a tonlo
the fever will not return. 25c.—Adv.
Valuable Information. / .
A happy couple were on their way
to .Scotland.'
S NTIL the year 1776 the historic
shrine of American liberty In Phila
delphia was known as the State
house; but after that it was called
Independence hall. Thousands have
made their reverent pilgrimage
thither from distant places as to a
sacred shrine, and yet a great many
aro unfamiliar with the history of
the most famous edifice in America. They may
not know that it was begun in 1729 and finished
In 1734, and that in those days the plan of it
was considered 1 so palatlally ambitious that its
building was bitterly opposed by those who, like
John Gilpin’s wife, were of a frugal mind. Tho
cost was •$16,260, and the wings that were added
five years afterward brought , the total amount to
$28,000. Doubtless there were many who dubious
ly shook their heads at the extravagance. What
would they have thought of a city hall occupying
several acres and . costing $24,000,000?
Although in the Immediately pre-Revolutionary
days the purpose to which Independence hall
was put was serious enough, the lqng gallery
lupstairs had often been the scene of "revelry
by night” before those times that tried men’s
souls.' In 1736 the mayor, William Allen, Invited
most of Philadelphia to a feast; in 1756 the as
sembly gave Governor Denny a most pretentious
•banquet; and again, In 1757, Lord Loudon, com-
mandor-ln-chlef of his majesty’s forces In Amer
ica, was lavishly entertained, and the uninvited
■ grumbled at the outlay.
, When the first congress met In Philadelphia,
In 1774, there was a “sumptuous collation" In
the State house, attended by 600 persons, and
ns they drank their toasts cannon were fired, as
happened in the case of Hamlet's unamiable
father. The same hall that was the scene of
these elaborate banquets became the prison of
the American officers ecaptured In tho battle of
Germantown, and after tho bloody field of Brandy
wine It was a hospital.
It' was In this building that Washington de-
. livered his memorable farewell address; Lafay
ette was the guest of honor here at a reception
In 1824; and here the bodies of John Adams and
■ Abraham Lincoln lay In state.
Thus it will he seen that the social and historic
associations of the edifice are Innumerable, leav-
' ing out of the reckoning’ what happened there on
the Fourth of July, 1776.
The slgpers of the Declaration came near not
having a bell to announce their epoch-making
resolution to the world. As soon as tho building
was completed. In 1784, It was planned to buy a
bell commensurate with the dignity of the new
State house. Then the advocates of economy—
or parsimony—arose in their might and fought
the project tooth and nail, representing that the
“great cost of the State house had Imposed a
heavy tax upqn the citizens and further expendi
ture was useless." After several yearB of moro
or less acrimonious debate it was decided to have
a hell;-and it was then discovered that there was
not a foundry In . the colonies capable of fashion
ing It, the repressive policy of parliament hav
ing well-nigh destroyed manufacturing enterprise
in the new world. So tho colonists had to send
to London for a bell, giving specific directions
as to the dimensions—tho weight was 2,030
pounds.
When at last It arrived, in 1752, It was more
than a nine days’ wonder; the Pennsylvania farm
ers flocked to the wharf from far Inland to ac
claim Its arrival. It proved all that any reason
able mortal could want in the way of a tintlnnab-
ulum. Its tones were far-carrying and sweet
ly musical, and all true-born Philadelphians (In
cluding those who had opposed tho expense)
were proud of 1£. Alas! as it was belrig trans
ported with festal ceremony from the water’s
edge to the Intended site In the belfry some ner
vous weakling gave way beneath his corner of
the ton of metal and the bell fell to the ground
and was mortally Injured. It hnd to be recast,
and Isaac Norris, who superintended the opera
tion, announced with pride that the result was
"a good bell, which pleases me much .that we
should first venture upon and succeed In the
greatest bell, for aught I know, In English Amor-
• ’ lea—surpassing, too, the imported one, which was
too high and brittle.”
The great occasion In the life of the Liberty
Bell was not duo to arrive until 24 years after
ward. It was on tho 15th of May, 1776, that tho
-pncral assembly gave Instructions to Its dele-
H0W TO CURE ECZEMA, ITCH
AND ALL SKIN DISEASES
Don’t suffer any longer with eczema
or any other , skin trouble. Just apply
Hancock’s Sulphur Compound to tho ■
parts affected and It will stop tho Itch
ing at once and curq the trouble per-,
manontly. Many sufferers from skin’
troubles have written us that the Sul- L
phur Compound cured them after V
everything else failed. Mrs. Evelyn
Garst, of Salem, Va., writes:- . "Three
years ago I had a rough place on my •
cheek. It would burn and Itch, I was
fearful It might be of cancerous na
ture. • I used different preparations, ;>
but nothing helped it. One bottle of ,
Hancock’s Sulphur Compound cured
mo completely." To beautify the com
plexion, remove blackheads and
pimples use Hancocks’s Sulphur, Oint
ment. For Sale by all dealers.—Adv. >
Swallowing his pride never yet sat
isfied a man’s hunger.
the author of the Declaration. He wrote
It in a house at the present site of 700
Market street, now occupied by the
Penn National bank-building, and the
very desk on which the Immortal docu-
_j ment was drafted Is now .In the library
of the state department In Washington.
It Is not necessary to quote the sol
emn language of the Magna Charta of
our American liberties. It was accepted
almost as It came from Jefferson’s hands, though
a few passages were expunged which. It was
feared, might .give offense to America’s much-
needed friends In the mother country.
On the Fourth of July all the delegates except
those of New York (whose representatives signed
a few days later) had appended their names to
the document and had pledged , their lives, their
fortunes and their sacred honor In the cause of
liberty. Then came the moment for the Song of
the Bell—a song whose reverberations shall not
cease till the last page of American history has
been written.
Truly prophetic was the biblical motto which
Isaac Norris is said to have chosen for tho bell:
"Proclaim liberty throughout the land and to all
the inhabitants ;thereof." And rapturously did
the assembled multitude and the distant patriots
receive the announcement of the bell, that at
last the 13 colonies had become the 13 United
States, and the days of the dominion of the for
eign oppressor were forever past.
They had to change
trains at Carlisle, and an obliging por
ter, while struggling with the lug
gage, noticed that the young lady's
hair was dotted with rice. Ho ap
proached the young man and,’ pulling
a folded paper from his pocket, said:
“A present for you, sir, with tho
company’s compliments,"
“Indeed,” sgld the traveler; “what Is
it?”
“A railway map, sir.” '
"Oh, thank you; but what are these
marks In blue pencil?"
"That’s the beauty of It, sir'; those
marks show where the tunnels are
and their length."—London Tit-Bits.
•'fJLRFWZUADlla&f"
gates In congress to present to that body a reso
lution in favor of the mighty schism from Eng
land, and tho formal declaration of the colonies'
Independence. Richard Henry Lee on the 7th of
June arose and solemnly moved that “the united
colonies aye, and ought to be, free and independ
ent states, and that their political connection
with Great Britain Is and ought to be dissolved.”
John Adams of Massachusetts seconded the reso
lution, and thereupon' a long and vehement debate
began. It was adopted by the closest possible
majority—seven colonies giving It their approval,
six voting In the negative.
A committee was then appointed to draw up
the Declaration. Its members were Benjamin
Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Roger
Sherman and Robert R. Livingston.
The committee reported the result of Its de
liberations on June 28, the other members of con
gress In the Interim having bestirred themselves
to learn tho wishes of their constituents.
Thomas Jefferson, as every one knows, was
Too Late.
On an Atlantic City pier, gazing
sadly out over the blue water, a vet
eran of the Civil war talked about
the late General Sickles.
"A good man,” he said, "a brave
man, but a most theatrical one.: In
the bfack tragedy of his youth, he was
kind to hlB wife, but' something
marred, something vitiated his kind
ness—I think It was theatrlcallsm—
and , the poor young woman died two
years after ho took her back.
"Once, at an army reunion, I heard
Sickles rebuke a man who was run-.
Acid Stomach, heartburn and nausea
quickly disappear with the use of Wright**:
Indian Vegetable Fills. Send for trial
box to 37z Pearl St., New York. Adv.
When a girl Is a! belie she natu;.
rally wants to be tolled so.
vices that a pretty little luncheon or piazza sup
per is a comparatively easy thing to prepare!
Of.course, the red, white and blue predominates
and the symbols of the patriotic Fourth are re
produced In cardboard and paper with such real
istic effect that the candy counters In the largo
department stores seem to have changed their
usual stock for a supply of fireworks. 1
There are most natural looking packages of
firecrackers with the usual Chinese paper covers
and glaring red posters. The contents are red
candy sticks for all the world.like the real fire
cracker. There are candy boxes in the form of
Roman candles, plnwheels, large cannon crackers,
etc., all of which will make good souvenirs of the
occasion. Crape paper is used for a greater va
riety of boxes and baskets than ever and very
prqtty and fanciful little devices - are on hand,
mostly in red, white and blue.
Red paper forts hold up warlike little cannons,
keeping guard over the supply of candy stored
within; the Liberty bell Is reproduced In crape
paper, and other ideas, all suggestive of the great
event of *76.
The paper manufacturers have tablecloths and
napkins ornamented with American flags, and
flags In all sizes are found made ojt crape paper
and attached to wooden sticks. Those In paper
are a little moTe attractive than the ordinary stiff
muslin affairs. The candelabra, too, may be In
the spirit, of the event with its red, white and
blue candle shade, and altogether without much
trouble or expense a table may be fitted up which
will be patriotic enough In its appearance to satis
fy the stanchest of admirers of Uncle Sam and
Old Glory.
LAST FOURTH OF JULY
New York
nlng down wives and . marrlageB.
Siokles said with a queer smile, a
significant smile, perhaps:
"'Ah, Jim, the- trouble with the
average married man Is that he
doesn't know what a jewel his wife Is
till he comes to put her In a casket.*"
Broadway at 54th Street
■Near 50th St Subway and 53rd St Elevated
Broadway cai*
ofSSm from Grand
tiSdKVn Central Depot
-fMf*5r?T ? 7th Avc. can
' SfiFU 2 • qS * SrwB^Bl from
j-iM ffil'IMW Penn ' a Station
Mew and
IEtna ! J5 smciiy
Last Fourth of July I was only six,
A reg’lar little chump,
I got Into a dreadful fix.
You see there was a stump
In our back yard, where I used to play
All sorts of thingB alone;
On Sundays ’twas a pulpjt,
On week days ’twas a throne.
I was preacher Sundays,
And the pickets on the fence
Were tho people that I preached to,
But I didn't preach no sense.
On other days I was a king.
Tho pickets were my people.
I wore a golden paper crown
All pointed like a steeple.
Well, Fourth of July my cousin Bob
Came from the great big town,
With crackers, punk and fireworks
, To do the Fourth up brown.
I told him how I was a king,
Ho is bigger some than me,
And he said we would have a siege,
Tho stump would be my fort,
And he would try to blow It up,
He Bald 'twas lots of sport.
So 1 got up upon the stump,
* And tho crackers In n row
He piled, up thick-around the foot,
You should; have heard It blow!
Tho stump caught fire, I lost my head,
My father carried me to bed.
I stayed in bed a long, long time,
All bandaged—’twasn't fun.
I’m big thiB year—you needn’t smile,
I’m not so big a chump,
And If we have another siege
Bob can sit on the stump.
Grandmother
First-CUu
Rates
Reasonable
$2.50
With Bath'
and up
Send (or
Booklet
10 Minutes
Walk to
40 Theatres
Didn’t Know
A good cook? Certainly,
but she couldn’t have cooked
the Indian Com, rolled and
toasted it to a crisp brown,
. wafer thin flakes, as we do in
'preparing
H. P. STIMSON
Formerly With Hotel Imperial
ft
HAROLD 80MER8, 160 DeSalb Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y,
Toasties
They are delicious with
cream or milk, or sprinkled
over fresh fruit or berries.'
. From the first cooking of
the com until the sealed, air
tight packages of delicately
toasted flakes are delivered
to you, Post Toasties are
never touched by human
hand.
.FOUND BROTHER AT LAST.
Beggar—Kind sir, could you help a brother
Mason, Odd Fellow, Elk,. Moose, Eagle, Owl or
Forester? <
Passerby—I belong to none of them.
Beggar—Ah, den, could you help a fellow
Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Episcopal or Pres,
byterian?. • .
Passerby—I belong to none of them.
Beggar—Ah, den, shake hands and assist a
feller Socialist and upllfter In distress.
WANTED.S";
Wanted a reliable agent for.your counts
to sell Family Medicines, Stockand Poultry ;
Powders, Toi let articles, Perfumes, Extracts
Vmi In fnrnirh l/,nm i.h.1 ........... A .1.1.
You to furnish team and wagon. Addres
Dr. W. A. Verdier, Atlanta, Ga
INDEPENDENCE DAY FAVORS DISPLAY
, THE RED, WHITE AND BLUE.
FATAL WORDS.
Grandmother would have
liked
ohinqles, Spanish Jila
CVEItYTIIINC. IN SHWtT MBTAL
. ,. OUILDINO MATER I At.
AA ANtirAr.TunKiifi
BEST THAT MONEY CAN flOV
Warm weather does not In the least Interfere
with the plans of the maid who is ambitious
enough to entortaln a coterie of friends at some
kind of an end-of-the-season festival; and tho ap
proaching Independence day holiday admits of so
many forms of novelties in decorations and de-
“Ever hear from that college chum of yours
who went to Colorado?” -
“Oh, he’s dead, poor chap. He may be said to
have talked himself to death." •
“What do you mean?"
"Ho called some Alkali Ike out there a liar.”
Post Toasties.
—sold by Grocers.
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