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Slemi) Congressman from Vir ginia, writes: ¢ have used your valuable remedy, Peruna, with beneficial results, and oan unhesitatingly recommend {our remedy as an invigorating tonic and an effective and permanent cure for catarrh.” Man-a-lin the Ideai Laxative. 4_;/&" N Oh! Papa don’t forget to buy a bottle of CHENEY'S EXPECTO RANT for your little girl. | You can buy it at any Drug { Store and you know it never fails to cure my Croup and Cough. i SULPHOZONE CATARRH BALM, ‘The Great Antiseptic Catarrh Remedy. 2l:d:“.u;:::§t;lc!&;r$5f mwl’{c.:t.l.r‘ml arising "fl:uiv:-“" .nig:.:::i}': of the nasai passages, and "\ Lme duarantos Hond o refund the brice. 8 fl&.‘?{l‘l not ldntlflfy. Absolutely hnru‘\‘:ls..i;m » nimrml': d :h::l(l\‘:u,ndo\:ll&).r::: ol'l:?llout{'tm'ltpnld | ®he Hightower Drug Ce., - Dalton, Ga, Light SAW MILLS g l LATH AND SHINGLE MACHINES, SAWS AND SUPPLIES, STEAM AND GASOLINE ENGINES, Side and Centre Atlas g Engines unagrocs LOMBARD Foundry, Machine and Bailer Works and Supply Siom, AUGUSTA, GA. If aMicted T Y miwesk Thompson's Eye Water When a wise man is too tlrad to think his talk is sure to scund foolish. finny gels-made men are hot-air prod ucts. 4 THIRTY YEARS OF IT. {A Fearfully Long Siege of Daily Pain \ and Misery. r Charles Von Soehnen, of 201 A St Colfax, Wash., says: “For at least A TR thirty years I suf < - \ sered with kidney : & troubles, and the at -3 SRy tacks lald me up for \ X “!,‘) days at a time with T / pain in the back and A ”#3*‘ rheumatism, When A | was up and around { - sharp twinges caught me, and for fifteen years the frequent 'passages of kidney secretions an moyed me. But Doan's Kidney Pllls thave given me almost entire freedom {from this trouble and I cannot speak too highly in their praise.” ‘ Sold by all dealers, 60 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N, Y, Women who own cut glass shouldn't throw stones, __ Only One “Bromo Quinine™ is Laxative “o Qai Look z-md’ . Grove, Eudtho to Cure a Oold in One Day, 2¢. ~ Some of our distant relations come fi%m of posterity, _Survivals, Not Americanisms, The accepted manner of defining Americans, either male or female, in | the London comic papers or in sec ond-rate English novels is to lard their speech plentifully with “calcu late” and “guess” and with “well” at the opening of each sentence. This mode of marking, or any other is in itself totally unimportant, but lin gulstically It Is not without interest, for while it is purely conventional as now used and has no relation to any American habits of the present day, whether good or bad, it is pleasant to note that the hard-worked insular humorists need not have gone so far afield to find the words necessary for the identification of Americans. They really had but to turn to the “New Letters” of Thomas Carlyle (Vol. 1, p. 178), and there read the following sentence: ‘“He has brought you a Fox's book of Martyrs, which I cal culate will go in the parcel today; you will get right good reading out of it, I guess.”—From “The Origin of Certain Americanisms,” by Senator H. C. Lodge, in the Seribner, Wants the Recipe. : Pittsburg club women are in some excitement over the discovery that in that city many women are mortgag ing their homes to buy automobiles. This is done to make an appearance of wenlth and soclal position, which to many women seem about all there is of life, even if they are mere imitatlons. Pittsburg is not the only place where this ambition is consplcu oug, and everywhere there are people who would rather have an automobile than an unencumbered home. When the club women have reformed this gort of thing out of Pittsburg—for, of course, they are going to do it— we request that they send on their recipe.-—~Philadelphia Press. o I ——————— \ \ AN.OLD MISTRESS, A visitor to one of the stately an cestral homes of Virginia who was be ing shown about by an old colored en tainer paused before a painting. ‘ “Exquisite!” he exclaimed, raptur cusly. “That must be an old master.” Uncle Nelse shook his head. “No, sub,” he replied, “tain’t ole marster.’ Dat’'s ole Mistis Al'son.”—Youth' Companion, The very wisest advice: take Garfield Tea whenever a laxative is indicated! Pleasant to the taste, simple, pure, mild, potent and health-giving, lgmfe of Herbs“not drugs. Right you are, Alonzo; the fountain plays because the water works, & . —————————————— ECZEMA SEEMED INCURABLE. Body was Rawe— d from Hospitals as Bosg.‘mmm “From the age of three months until made intolerable by eczema in its worst form. In spite of treatments the disease gmhnlly spread until nurg every a:n of is body was quite raw. He used to tear himself dreadfully in his sleep and the agony he went through is quite beyond words. The regimental doctor pronounced the case hopeless. We had him in hos pitals four times and he was pronounced one of the worst cases ever admitted. From each he was discharged as incurable. We kept trying remedy after remedy, but had gotten almost past hoping for a cure. Bix months ago we purchased a set of Cuticura Remedies. The result was truly marvelous and to-day he is Serfectly cured. Mus, Lily Hedge, Camblewell Green, Eng land, Jan. 12, 1007.” Somehow tha average boy lacks a mania for acquiring good conduct marks at school. Tayler's Cherokees Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullen {s Nature’s great reme dy--cures Coughs, Colds, Oroup and Con suwmption, and all throat and lung troubles. At drugglsts, 250., 500. and SI.OO per bottle, Women with natural curls are apt to have a few kinks in their dispo ‘sitions, © Piles Cured in oto 14 Days, Qintment fs ranteed to cure et liching, Biind, Bleedingor Protruding Piles in 6to 14 days ormoney refunded. 500, It fsn't always easy for a female detective to catch a husband. ! Ttch cured in 30 minutes by Woolford’s | Sanitary Lotion, Never fails. At druggists, Every dog has his day-—with the exception of the yellow cur. ‘ THIS MAN'S BACK | ACHED FOR TWO YEARS, " Cured by Minard's Liniment after all i clse had failed-——we want you S to send a postal for a Free Bottle. Minard’s Liniment Mfg. Co., Dear Sirs:=— T write you these few lines to let you kuow | that I thank you for your sample of Min | ard’s Liniment sent me about a week and a hali ago. I want to tell you that I have had the back ache mearly two years, and could not get anything to cure it until I looked in the paper and found your adver tisement. 1 had spent a good deal of money and did not get any satisfaction out of it. Now I will tell my friends and neighbors about your great remedy for all aches and pains, for 1 am feeling 0, K. now. You can publish my name anywhere you like and I will recommend Minard’s Liniment. Yours verytruly, Joseph Perry, 83 Ingraham St, E. Providence, R. I, Jan, 7, 1008, The above letter is one of many telling of wonderful cures by Minard’s Liniment, and we again offer to send a special bottle Free to all who send a postal to Minard's Lini ment Mfg. Co., So. 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S, 114V~ e’ g A 7 o 7 ¢ T BBt A e ~(Clever Cartoon in the Now York World, by C. R. Macauley. THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD OWN SHIP LINE Bristow, ot Parama Railroad, Advises Pacific Coast Boats ~~Thinks It Would Be of Advantage in Transporting Supplies to the Canal---Criticises Pacific Mail Co. For Attempting to Monopolize Railroad. Washington, D. C.—J. L. Brigtow, of Kansas, who was appointed a spe cial commissioner of the Panama Railroad last August, with instrue tions to report whether it was advis able to establish a Government steam ship line between Panama and Pa cific Coast ports of the United States, has made a report to the Secretary of War, in which he says that “the weight of the argument is strong- Iy in favor of establishing this service.” : Mr. Bristow, who first came into the public eye as Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General at the time of the postal scandals which he investi gated for President Roosevelt, had servéd under a previous apfiomtmontyi as a special commissioner of the Pan ama Rallroad, with directions to in vestigate freight rates and trade ex isting between United States, South American, Furopean and Panaman, ports. As a result of his inquiry at. that time the' Panama Railroad was continued as a commercial line un der the United States Government, the Panama Railroad Steamlhip‘gg_.‘j between New York and Colon, was ‘1 tained and ‘operated by the Govern ment, and contracts of an exclusive character with the Pacific Mail Steam ship Company were annulled. Un der his s;acond :gtxlngtgl’om Mr. Bris tow was instrue W ate sne cifically the service rendered 79@ Pacific Mail Steamship Company REAR-ADMIRAL CAPPS ANSWERS CRITICS OF BATTLESHIPS Chief of the Repair Bureau Definds the Freeboard Style of the American Navy---He Recommends a Change in the Holists---Greater Spezd Gained in the Dreadnought Type. Washington, D. C.—Rear-Admiral Washington Lee Capps, Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair of the Navy Department, made an swer to the critics of the navy at a hearing before the House Committee on Naval Affairs. To the minds prac tically of all the members of the com mittee, Admiral Capps’ statements were a complete refutation of the charges which have been made against certain features of the con struction of American battleshins, Admiral Capps displaved no ani mosity or ill-feeling toward the chronic and scientific fault-finders, and discussed the subject of naval ar chitecture in a dispassionate wav, While he riddled the Reutardahl ar ticle in McClure's Magazine in itg general features, still he gave eredit to certain criticisms made. In partie ular he admitted the justice of the criticism of the ammunition hoists on battleships. He advocated a com plete change of hoists, and asked for andapproprlatlon of $175,000 to this end. o The Admiral discussed at length the question of high free boards and low free boards on battleships. 31, said that the general type of naval architecture which is followed by the Board of Construction is the same as has been followed since 1889. This style was adopted By Great Britain after the suhjeet had been considered thoroughly and exhaustively by the leading naval architects and experts of the country, in fact, of the world. It is the style generally followed to day by England in the building of her biggest ships. He said that if there was one na tion more than any other which by reason of sea-fighting experience should be able to distinguish between the respective value of a high free THE CANAL SAFE IN TIME OF WAR Colonel Goethals, in - Report at Washington, Says It Wili Not Be Hard to Defend. Washington, D, C.—At the hear ings of the Senate Committee on In teroceanic Canals, Colonel Goethaols gave assurance that the Panama Canal, when completed, would be - reasouably safe from military in vasion, and said that the chances of ‘ O—— -_%-m—-—-—“- Australia’'s Heat Wave-—— Many Persons Prostrated, Melbourne, Australia, — The heat wave in Victoria is ended, but it has left disastrons efiects in fts train. Vast bush fires raged in many parts, destroying hundreds of homesteads and threatening many townships. The sufferings of horses and : have been terrible, and the settlers have lost mvily in live stock. 100 d::‘m 'tm : -umtrokc.}ln S “with a view to advising whether or not the Isthmian Canal Commission should purchase steamers and estab lish a service between Panama and the Pacific Coast ports of the United States. to be operated in conjunction with the steamers now running be tween New York and Colon.” In his report Mr, Bristow criticises the service of the Pacific Mail Steam ship Company to Panama. He thinks a Government line on the Pa cific coast would be desirable for the transportation of canal supplies and materials and ecanal employes, for keeping open and improving-the Isth mian route of commerce and for pro curing cargo for the Panama Ralil road steamships homeward bound irom Colon. M:. Bristow represents Genefal Manager Schwerin, of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, as com plaining against the action of the United States in permitting foreign lines to use the Isthmian Railway upon the same terms as American lines, Mr. Bristow argues that as the canal when completed is open to the use of all nations on equal terms, there should be no discrimination now against foreign steamships. Mr. Bristow says that to perform the service required on the Pacific Coast would necessitafe the purchase of from six to nine vessels. Hs esti anates the cost of these vessels as from $3,500,000 to $6,000,000. board and a low free board, that na tion was Japan. ~ He pointed out that Japan had fol lowed the.nlan of low free boards, while Russian shios had the high free boards. The Rvsslan ships are now at the bottom of the sea, while Javanese ships are still floating. ~ Since the Russian-Japanese war, the Japanese bave been building their ships so that the free boards are stiil lower. Tt bad been ascertained that the Russians, apnarently realizing the error of their high free boards when 2oing to battle in the Sea of Japan, had pumved water between their decks, and had even loaded coal in the staterooms of the officers in order to get their ships as close to the water as nossible, and afford the least pos sible taget. - American ships, he said, had a lit tle more free board than the Japan ese and a little less than the Hnglish ships of the Dreadnought type, the English, in order to get greater speed having been forced to allow a little more free board. ‘The questions raised in the Reuter axfl article, he said, had afforded subjects for argument, dispute, con troversy and discussion among naval architects since the construction of the modern navy began and doubt less always would do so. There was always a fight between armor men and armament men, between steam engineering departments and other departments, but the result in the end had been the construction of ves sels which present the best knowledge of naval architects. No nation had followed the French style of naval construction. That was a distinctive class by itself, but in general there wassimilarity among the English, American and Japanese styles, the crippling of the canal by spies armed with dynamite will be small, provided that armed guards are main ‘talned at Miraflores and Gatun locks. ?'rhe Gatun lock is located seven miles from the Atlantic, and the Mliraflores lock eight miles from the Pacific. br. Flexner's Serum i Cares Meningitis Cases. . Newport, R. I.— The latest two cases of spinal meningitis that ap peared among the apprentice seamen at the naval tralning station here have been treated with success with the new serum, the discovery of Dr. Flexner, of the Rockefeiler Institute, ;"th cases were those of F, F. Craw ford, of Charlestown, 111,, and R, B. }.!(ozm of Lipton, Tenn., new re cruits in the | ‘ln the naval service, who were ‘i ke sm alter thelr arrival at ~ A POOR CLOTHES RACK. After a long and wasting illness a North Country man was about to don his clothes for the first time, “Jock!” called Kis wife from an ad joining room, “heg thau getten all thy claes?” The gocd man, with a lively sense of his emaciated condition, replied dryly: 4 “Aye, Aa’s getten me claes reat eneuf, but there’s nowt tc hang ’'m on!”—Tit-Bits. THE ANNUAL CALL. Mr. Wrinkleton States His Views on the Subject of Vacations. “It ism’t the cail of the wild,” sald Mr. Wrinkleton, “nor the call of the tame; it'’s just the call of the vaca- | tion time. | “l find my work now dragging on me; it takes me twice as long to do anything now gas it did a month ago, and I don’t do it half so well. As | a matter of fact I don’t feel like doing a blessed thing; that is, in the way of labor. I could loaf or I could play with great strenuosity, but on my | labor side I am all run down. What I want and need is a change. I want to g 0 on my vacation, | We wind up our labor machinery to run just about so long, aboit one year; and after that we need a com plete rewinding. Sleep will check the | unwinding of the spring, and even | wind it up again sufficiently to keep us going from day to day for the period the clock is intended to runm, but when it comes to the end of the year we are all uncoiled, and then there is nothing to do but te wind up completely again, which we do automatically on our vacation, the power we develop in loafing or play being stored in the spring. “I have known men who never fook a vacation and who yet, worting along thus steadily without a break, did their work well, but I am con vinced that it doesn’t pay. And lam satisfled that the men who do keep plugging along and doing their work well, without taking any vacation at all, pay for it in the end. “So I think everybody ought to have, a vacation, but I do think thatr per haps many of us think too much about it and wind ourselves up for the year with' too narrow’ a margin left aver. You see how this sort of thing ®per ates with a good many people in their winding of themselves for a day'’s work; they stop all of a sudden and g 0 all‘to pleces the minute the whistle blows. You can’t get a lick of work out of them after that. Y “And it's so, I fear, with many of us about our vacations; we want to go when our time comes and we're no good after that.”—New York Sun. Army Language. | In the army there are expressions pmihir{to itself. !}!eard from the first time by outsiders, they need in terpretation. Among the most common are “hike,” for “march;” “striker,” for a soldier serving as a body servant or house man for an officer; “C. 0.,” for “com manding officer;” and “O. D.” for “officer of the day,” “hop” and “hop room,” for *“dance” and “dancing room!” “citz clothes,” for “civilian dress;” “commissaries” for “grocer ies;” ‘“coffee cooler,” for an officer who is always looking for an easy job in some staff position; “found,” when an officer fails to pass his examina tion ;“shavetall,” for a youngster just out of West Point. Among the ?I diers the expressions have multiplied until quite a vocabulary of strange words has been established. “Bobtail” is ‘a dishonorable dls charge. “Orderly bucker” is a sol dier who when going on guard duty strives by extra neatness of appear ance to be appointed orderly to one of the officers. “Dog robber” is the soldier's contemptuous expression for “‘atriker.” The Oldest Bank. There was a kind of public record offfee attached to the palace and tegeple at Nineveh, in which it was customary to deposit important legal and other documents. Among these ther¢ were discovered official state ments as to the transactions of the emirent banking house of Egidu at Nineveh. Assyrian chronology proves that these refer to a date about 2,300 years before the Christian era, when Abraham dwelt at Ur of the Chal dees, as is stated in Genesis. We may, therefore, claim for this firm the reputation of being the oldest bank in the world.—T. P.'s Weekly. PANTRY CLEANED A Way Some People Have, A doctor said:— “Before marriage my wife observed in summer and .country homes, com ing in touch with families of varied means, culture, tastes and discrimi nating tendencies, that the families using Postum seemed to average bot ter than those using coffee. ““When we were married two years ago, Postum was among our first order of groceries. e also put in some coffea and tea for guests, but after both had stood around the pan try about a year untouched, they were thrown away, and Postum uged only. “Up to the age of 28 I had been accustomed to drink coffee as a ronu tine habit and- suffered constantiy from indigestion and all its relative disorders. Since using Postum all the old complaints have completely left me and I sometimes wondet if I ever had them.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read ‘“The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. “There’s a rea son.” - iy g SRR 00l 4 # Good Roads. §{ ooz “ ? : i Pope on Good Roads. . ~ The good roads movement always has aitracted the favorable a,ttent.ion" of automobile manufacturers, both ln-: dividually and collectively, and in his annual report Albert L. Pope, retir ing president of the National Asso-’i ciatian of Automobile Manufacturers, commented on the subject as follows:@i ‘‘Brief intimation has been given| to You in earlier reports of the work performed by your committee on] highway improvement. The most satisfactcry Iresults have been ob-/ tained. The committee has been' working quietly for three years.‘ studying the good roads movement‘; throughout the country, with the! idea of making sure in which direc-! tion it could best expend its efforts.! Analysis has shown that most of the' good roads organizations have only;i been able to accomplish good locally,! and that there is to-day no represen tative national good roads mo’@tement? including all industries and individe' uals desirous of better highways.! With this idea in view, this past sums mer has been spent in gathering to gether the larger industrial interests who could be counted on for flnancla;l‘ support in this movement and in thel perfecting of an organization that' might reaily accomplish somethingi in a tangible way. 5 “Just at the moment the plans ob, the committee are culminating in a long hoped for combination of intetj-i ests, which will be absolutely national in its representation and will un doubtedly be heard from in every, State within the next three months.! The committee points with pride .to the fact that it has had an appropriay tion at its disposal for some two years past to further this work of organi zation, hut has not utilized it, owing to its desire to spend no money until it was sure of the proper policy to pursue, and now has this policy: so well outlined that within the next few months rapid progress will un doubtedly be made, Active work is now under way, and the last appra priation of SSOOO, made by the asso ciation some months ago, will be util ized for this preliminary work, in con-~ junction with like appropriations of the Association of Licensed Automo bile Manufacturers and the American Motor Car Manufacturers’ Associa tion, and the donations of individual manufacturers, most of whom have signified their intention to contribute liberally. We believe that at last the automobile interests have identified themselves with the good roads move ment in such a way that direct benefit will be derived, not within ten years, but within the next two years.’—s Boston Post. Pk ' Road Construction. 4 We are told all about making ma: cadam roads in the latest bulletin of the Office of Public Roads, Depart ment of Agriculture The work gtyeal in detail the best practice in macad am road consiruction, and especially, that followed by the Massachusetts highway commission. It may not be 50 generally known at this time that’ the word macadam is derived from: John L. Macadam, a Scotch engineer, who in the early part of the last cen tury invented the process of road making which bears his name. y The macadam type of road surface ing is connecting. centres of popula tion, on which there is a moderate amount of travel. It is not an eco nomical form of pavement for the main streets of cities'or large towns, and it is usually too expeusive for country roads other than the main ways. It resembles closely the gravel road. When the road built of gravel is not quite sufficient to resist sucs cessiully the wear and tear of the trafic over it, macadam surfacing may usually be substituted for the gravel with satisfactory results. ? The bulletin states that, singularly, enough, at the present time the worst foe of the macadam road is, perhaps, its most ardent advocate—the motor, vehicle. The steel wheels of the or dinary vehicle grind off sufficientf powder from the stones to serve as a binder, replacing the binding mate< rial blown away by the wind or washed off by rains. But the swiftly, moving motor car of the present day, has introduced a new problem into road mantenance. The large rubbeq tires on wheels of small diameter ap pear to esert a suction on the blnder, of the road. The vacuum caused by the vehicle moving rapidly over the road lifts the dust into the air in clouds, and it is blown away into the fields. Various substances are being experimented with for application tq‘ road surfaces to lessen or obviate this evil. Coal tar and oils with an asphaltic base seem to give the best results. In France tar has been used for several years, it is sald, most sate isfactorily.—~—New York World, . Cold Weather Prophet. A One of the rarest birds to New, England is here, prophesying a cold, hard winter. It is the red poll. Only, in the most severe weather does the red-headed bird venture from the fro zen lands’ of the North, and when he does it always means a cold, severe winter.—Boston Record. . Nothing Doing. e “Please, mum,” began the aged hero in appealing toneg, as he stOOd: at the kitchen door on washday, “I've lost my leg—" ' “Well, I ain’t got it,” snapped the woman, slamming the door.—Everys bOdy'!- “i As a producer of woolen clothing Massachusetts 1s pre-eminent {in ‘America, . -