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DOVE-TAILED PUTTY LOCK SASH Nobullder coan afford to use the old ki d when he can get the Putty Lock Bash just as cheap. I"ox: -..1q by Randall Bros., ", ;3 slind" GREATEST Protective and Beneficial Order ever started. Over 50,000 mem bers. Both men and women., Helps get EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES with other people. HIGIHER WAGIS, LESS TOIL and IMPROVED CONDITIONS general ly. NO RACE DISCRIMINATION., SIOO ot death; $256 to each male member at wife's death; $lO at child’'s; MANY OTHER BENEFITS. Membership open to all honorable people alike, LEADING RACE MEN AND WOMEN DEPU TIES WANTED IN EACH LOCALITY. Work after hours. LIBERAL PAY AND PLEASANT WORK. Write at once for full particulars, enclosing 10¢ for postage. The I-L-U GRAND LODGI, 178 I-L-U BLDG, DAYTON, OMIO. Billion Dollar Grass. Most remarkable grass of *the century, Good for three rousing crops annually, One lowa farmer on 100 acres sold $3,- 800.00 wprth of seed and had 300 tons of hay besides. It is immense. Do try it. FOR 10¢ AND TIIS NOTICE send to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., to pay postage, etc,, and they will il you the only oriuinnf seed eatalog published in America with “sam. w:n of Billion Dollar Urnnn( Macaroni heat, the sly miller mixer, Sainfoin the dry soil luxuriator, Vietoria Rape, the 20¢ & ton green food {))r()du'.'('r, Silver King Barley yielding 173 bu, per acre, ete,, ete., ete. i Antd if you send 14¢ we will add a pacic age of new farm seed never before seen by you. John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis. A, C. L. : Lots of people look easy until you try to do them. HAD ECZEMA 15 YEARS Mrs. Thomas Thompson., of Clarksaviile, @Ga.. writes, under dute of April 28, 1:07: I suffered 15 years with tormenting eczema; had the best doctors to preseribe; bat noth ing did me a .y good until I got Terrerive. It curod me, I am so thankfal.” Thousands of others can testify to slmilar oures. TerremiNe is sold by druggists or sent by mail for boc. by J. T, BHUPTRINE, Dept. A, Savannah, Ga, No man can think well of himself who does not think well of others. Only One “Bromo Quinine” That is Laxative Bromo Quinine. Look %r the signature of 1. W, Grove, Used the World over to Cure a Cold in One Day. 25c. It's better to work for nothing than to play a losing game, Free Cure for Rheu . matism, Bone Paln - and Eczema Botanic Blood Balm (B, B. B.) cures the worst cases of Rheumatism, bone pains. swollen muscles and joints, by purifying the blood, Thousands of cases cured by B. B, B, after all other treatments failed. Price SI.OO per large bottle at ding stores, with complete directions for home treatment Large sample free by writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. 3 M waa A~ MADE FA ";!r. FOR VAR, N SERVICE “- 5.::,% A\ fi\%‘ _and guaranteed A\ \/ w_- absolutely \ W WATERPROOF ¢ ‘§. <OWERy IR e ' 051 prl® OILED SUITS, SLICKERS : AND HATS / - t te Clean - Uight * Durable Suits #3209 Slickers $329 « N JOLD BY BIIT DEALERS EVERYWNERE [ N CAYALOG FREE FOR THE ASKING o 1% e o ayn e . —t> e VAN TP oy os | A--u - g~ MOTHER GRAY'S % SWEET POWDERS . FOR CHILDREN, " A u-n..;m n.in for l-‘fivorzrzn‘.-:. B &:'i:ll::‘ula‘!:"l“:':'uhlfi-r \‘«N‘il n.‘ Mother Gra u'lu“r‘:rrn e'l"-h:'y ':3.1.":.'(".'.1':1’.' Nurse in (‘,..,15.. in M hours, Sl n“ |!ru(x|l‘!, 20 ote, ren's Home, Samplo mailed FREE. Address, Now York City. A. 8. OLMSTED, Le Roy. N. Y. e —————————————————a Fancy prices please the seller more than the buyer, CURES It removes the cause ecothes the nerves and relieves the aches and l'ourllllp COLDS AND GRIPPE »s" ‘1 cures all headaches and h-wdfis also, No bad ~ effects. 100, 2% and ¢ botties. (Liquip.) ‘Keeley: .' B \“.3 3 :‘ e G h? e t L () e é M Of good health is a well ordered liver, NUBIAN TEA brings immediate relief. Cures tendency tp_constq{mtmn and restores normal conditions. Pleasant to take, effective and leaves none of the bad results of calomel and other violent remedies. Proved by the experience of twenty years to be a most valuable liver regulator. Thousands testify to its efficiency. Read the following: “‘Ludowici, Ga.~lt is the finest medicine I ever saw, and & big seller. It takes the E\lace of calomel and all other purgatives. C. J. MeDonald.” All dealers sell it. Manufactured by : SPENCER MEDICINE COMPANY : [ - Chattanooga, Tenn. :E ! The General Demand of the Well-Informed of the World has always been for a simple, pleasant and efficient liguid laxative remedy of known value; a laxative which physicians could sanction for family use beeause its com ponent parts are known to them to be wholesome and truly beneficial in effect, acceptable to the system and gentle, yet prompt, in action, In supplying that demand with its ex cellent eombination of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, the California Fig Syrup Co. proceeds along cthical lines and relies on the merits of the laxative for its remark able success. That is one of many reasons why Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is given the preference by the Well-Informed. To get its beneficial effects always buy the genuine—manufactured by the Cali fornia Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all leading druggists. Price fifty cents per bottle, Better a day worker than a day dreamer, Itch cured in 30 mnnuflfi by Woolford’s Sanitary Lotion. Never fails, At druggists, Some actresses look upon matrimony asg a sort of progressive game, 1. H. Gneex's Sons, of Atlanta, (Ga., are the only successful Dropsy Bpecialists in the world. See their liberal offer in advertise ment in avcther column of this paper. Multiplying her words seldom adds to a woman's popularity. 3 A SPLENDID COFFEE. Luzianne Possesses Fine Flavor, Su perior Quality, and Perfect Purity. We are pleased to call the attention of our readers to the splendid merits of Luziasxe Correr, put up by that enter ersmg firm, the f(FIII,Y-+AYIA)]L Coi;- of New Orleans. This coffee is of fine flavor, sWperior quality, and perfect purity. It is blended and prepared accordinge to the methods employed by the best Creole cooks for more than fifty years, and when you drink LUZIANNE, you are drinking a coffes that has made New Orleans famous the world over. What makes this the best coffes for the family of moderate means, is the fact that it has twice the utrenf{th of ordinary coffee, requiring only half the usual quantity in the making, and its price is very moderate, indeed; considering its quality, it is the most economical of any on tlhe market, LUzIANNE has a tremendous sale throu?h out the South. More than fifty orders for carload lots u\'ern%mg 30,000 Ibs. each, have been filled within the past year. (‘offec being the most lnu{ormpt article of food on the breakfast table, it is well to have the very best to be obtained. That is why we commend to our readers this splendid and satisfying brand. . Notwithstanding its high grade quality, many beautiful presents are given away to purcimcm of this splendid coffee simply t 6 advertise it. The coupon, in every can, tells you all about it. Alwayvs call for LUziANNR when you buy coffee, are not always on the level, Some of the charity that begins as That Dry Hacking Cough needs attention. Ask your druggist for Brown's Bronchial Troches, which will quickly relieve the cough, Some men are like gas meters; they just can't halp lying. A REMARKABLE MAN. Active and Bright, Though Almost a Centenarian. Shepard Kollock, of 44 Wallace St., Red Bank, N. J., is a remarkable man at the age of 98. N For 40 years he was B I a vietim of kidney S oy troubles and doctors " said he would never RS %’» be cured. “I was try ¢y | j»f;/ ing e}'erything.“ says W/ Mr. Kollock, “but my i back was lame and weak and every exertion sent a sharp twinge through me. 1 had to get up several times each night and the kid ney secretions contained a heavy sedi ment. Recently I began using Doan's Kidney Pills, with fine results. They have given me entire relief.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. After calling a prisoner down the judge is apt to send him up. 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An official report states that an other great man has arisen in China, one who, by his ability and his achievements, gives promise of being a fit successor to the late Li Hung- Chang. This new leader in the Celes tial Kingdom is Yuan-Shih-Kai, who not long ago was appointed president of the board of foreign affairs at Pekin. He was formerly viceroy of Chih-Li, entering on the duties of the office when that province was in dis orler and chaos. He grasped the reigns of government with a firm hand, put down thieves and plunder ers of all kinds, and made himself feared and hated by all evil-doers in that section of the country. The good effects of his strong and righteous rule became speedily apparent, and he was recognized as the ablest and most patriotic official in the whole empire. While governor of Chih-Li he instituted good relations with for eigners, and became popular with the 7 e ‘v@&“‘:\% \ RS R \ah e e ; y o B e RN L 2 ey e YUAN-SHIH-KAI, Who is coming to the front as China’s greatest and most influential statesman. natives as well. His advice was fre quently sought by the imperial gov ernment, and some of the best edicts issued by it were suggested by him. He is mainly responsible for the de cree suppressing the opium traflic and for the steps taken to establish a eon stitutional government in China. The empire is fortunate in having at this critical stage of its affairs so able and progressive a man to guide it and to shape its destinies.—Leslie’s Weekly. Plenty of Hot Water. Boardinghouse Keeper—*“A glass of hot water! What can the man want with a glass of hot water? He doesn’'t shave.” Cook-—"“He wants ter drink it.” “To drink it? Well, I never!” “Oh, all the boarders is sending for hot water now, three timas a day.” “*Goodness me! ‘What for?” “Fur to drink. They calls it the hot-water cure. It beats all new fangled notions what come up.” *What does it cure?” “Oh, they say it do cure everything just splendid.” “Thank fortune, it's cheap. Give 'em all the hot water they want, Maria.” “Yes'm."” “So hot water is a great cure, is it? Well, 1 shan’t let any of my board ers get ill for want of medicine. Just put another gallon of hot water in that ox-tail soup, Maria, and I think you'd better take out the ox-tuil now; it might get too rich."—Tit-Bits. 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The bell is placed in the inside knob, which is made hollow for the purpose.—Washington Star. A Royal Prerogative. The King can do no wrong, but there is one innocent thing that no sovereign ever does—namely, to stand with his back against the wall. At the royal stand at Newmarket or elsewhere his majesty invariably leaves ample room for the persons to pass behind him, so that he may escape having perpetually to reply to their salutations, which he would be bound to notice did those people pass in front of him.—London Chronicle. Box Seat. To make a box seat you must have two boxes just the same size. Knotk one side off of one of the boxes. Cover both boxes with some heavy goods— denim or burlap is the best. Use very small tacks for the corners, but for the rest you can use brass headed tacks. Then take the brass tacks oy o \ V//?“///'\ \—— /) I v ‘ \\\\\& ’///// \ NN Y IBN\S——" | \ *\\\‘ . '\ ‘.,_&: \“\y\\ \ \\§ o \t\ 3 ! ! 3 ~ SN o 2 A\ ::;:;.-:.-2-: s 8 Q SO AY A S A \ NN and on the front of the bottom box make some pretty design. Then put hinges on the boxes, and there you have a seat and shoe box which will make a pretty present.—lrwin A. Rawson, in the New York Tribune. The most wonderful, costly and magnificent garment in the world is the state robe of the Queen of Siam, which she wears about once a year. How much can the American na tion sayve by wearing its old clothes this year? asks the New York Even ing Post. The report of the Census of Manufactures for 1905 shows that the factory product of men’s cloth ing for the year was valued at $3255,- 796,571. One-third of this, or con siderably less than omne-third on the basis of retail prices, would more than equal the entire balance of trade in "this country’'s favor for the month of December. Helped Him. A physician out west was sent for to attend a smail boy who was ill He left a prescription and went away. Returning a few days later, he found the boy better. “Yes, doctor,” said the boy’s moth er, “the prescription did him a world of good. 1 left it beside him, where he could hold it in his hand most of the time, and he can almost read it now. You didn’t mean for him to swallow the paper, did you, dac tor?”—Harper's Weekly. SrtatE or Ouro, Crty or ToLEDO, ) .o~ Lucas Couxty, o FrANK J. CHENEY niakes oath that he is senior partper of the firm of F.J.CHENEY & Co., doing buziness 12 the City of 'l'oledo, (punty and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay thesum of ONE HUNDRED DOL LARS for each and every case of CATARRII that cannot be cured by the use of HaLL’S CATARRI CURE. FRANK o. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subsrribed in my {)resence, this 6th day of December, A. D, 886. A. W. GLEASON, EEAL.) e Notary Pablic. all’s Catarrh Cureistaken internally,and acts directly on the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. j CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, 75¢. Take }{all’s Family Pills for constipation, HAPPY THOUGHT. Mrs. Knicker—Henry, why did you leave your shoes on the stairs last night? Knicker (dazed, but inspired)—Eng lish cushtom, m’dear; left ’em %o be blacked.—Puck. GEE! DON'T THAT CORN HURT! Stop the pain and get rid of the corn quickly and permanently. ABBOTT’S EAST IN DIAN CORN PAINT will remove any corn, bun ion or callous spot without cutting, burn ing, or ‘“‘eating” the flesh and leaves no soreness afterwards. Appliad with a brush; mighty little trouble. 25¢. at druggists or by mail from Tue Assort Co., Savannah, Ga, An Irish Answer, “Secretary Cortelyou was discus sing,” said a New York broker, “a question of finance during the panic. He broke off to tell a story. “He said he was reminded of the Irish farmer on the way to the cattla fair, “‘Where are you going, my man?” sald an English tourist, stopping this agriculturist, “‘To Waterford fair, your honor, was the answer. “The Englishman looked approv ingly ‘at the heifers the other was driving, *“‘And how much do you expect to get for your beasts at Waterford fair? he asked. “‘Sure, an’ if I get £8 a head 1 shan’t do badly,” said the Irishman. “*Ah, that's a sample of your coun try,’ said the Englishman severely. ‘Take those heifefs to England and you'd average £l4 a head for them. “The Irishman laughed. “‘Just so, yer Honor,’ he said, ‘and if yez were to take the Lake of Kil laimey to purgathory yez would get a guinea a drop.’”—Washington Star, AN ASSUMPTION. 4 “So you have written a book,” said Miss Cayenne. : “Yes,” answered the authoress. “The publishers are sure it is going to create an immediate sensation and be a great seller.” “In that case I suppose propriety forbids our discussing it any further.” —Washington Star. MATCH PLAY. “What's bogia at your golf club?” “Nineteen Scotch highballs and three gin rickeys.”—Puck, HAPPY OLD AGE Most Likely to Follow Proper Eating. As old age advances, we require less food to replace waste, and food that will not overtax the digestive or gans, while supplying true nourish ment. ’ Such an ideal food 1s found in Grape-Nuts, made of whole wheat and barley by long baking and action of dlastase in the barley which changes the starch into sugar. The’phosphates also, placed up un der the bran-coat of the wheat, are included in Grape-Nuts, but left out of white flour. They are necessary to the building of brain and nerve cells. “l have used Grape-Nuts,” writes an lowa man, “for 8 years and feel as good and am stronger than | was ien years ago. | am over 74 years old and attend to my business every day. “Among my customers | meet a man every day who is 92 years old and attributes his good health to the use of Grape-Nuts and Postum which dhe has used for the last 5 years. He mixes Grape-Nuts with Postum and says they go fine together. “For many years before I began to eat Grape-Nuts I could not say that [ enjoyed life or knew what it was to be able to say ‘1 am well.’ I suffered greatly with constipation, now my habits are as regular as ever in my life. ‘“Whenever I make extra effort I depend on Grape-Nuts food and {t Just fills the bill. [ can think and write a great deal easier.” “There’s a Reason.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. . > {joop 2oADS SN e i G 4 s -7 =t ) SRR . U Ta T — SN b 7 Road Construction, < A few suggestions about the proper censtructicn of a roadbed may not be amiss. To begin with, the surface should be made very crowning, for it im mediately begins to flatten by use, and will continue to grow more and moie so all the time if nothing is done (o prevent it. But it can be held in gocd shape by occasional scraping. The scraping will also do a great deal towards filling up the small depressions, which are the real beginning of all trouble. But some new material must be carefully put in by hand where needed—not too much, as that will create two holes where before there was but one. Use more brains and less stone! A good road cannot be made without hard thinking. Keep in mind all the time that you are fighting water! You will notice that the roads always re main in the best condition on the grades where the water can easily run away, and you will also observe (after you have become interested) that they always grow bad first in the valleys and level places, and that it is because the roadbeds are flat, or perhaps even hollowing with little dams of sod up on-the sides so that the water stands there until it soaks in or dries up, instead of running away quickly, as it should, and would if the surface was kept crown ing and the furrows kept from form ing, which act as canals to conduct the water down into the lowest part of the road, where mud and destruc tion join hands in their evil work. Thousands of little culverts may be found covered with loose or brok en planks. They are a fearful nui sance and a source of danger all the time. You must bring your horses to a practical standstill before at tempting to cross with a load, and if the old family horse is trotting along in a comfortable mood, he must be “jerked up” to a slow walk until you are safely over the danger trap. Along the valleys where the roads are level is the very place where trotting should not bhe interrupted. That is where the roads should be the very best, instead of the very worst, as they always are. : Either iron pipe, tile or stone or concrete arches should be substituted for every wooden-covered culvert in existence, just as fast as possible, allowing the solid earth roadway to continue along unbroken over fhem, but as they are now they are a men ace to safe traveling and a relic of ‘‘old corduroy days,” and should no longer he tolerated. ' We trust no apology is needed to justify the sending forth of this little messenger. Its mission is to pro mote good fellowship and to draw attention towards the defects in our general road system and to encour age mutual co-operation in working out some means of remedying the trouble. There is nothing whatever deserving of censure or to complain about so far as the past is concerned, but rather everything to call forth the very highest praise possible for what has been accomplished. Our aim now is to try and anticipate some of the needs of the future and to provide for them in accordance with the demands of modern civilizae tion, i Good Roads Work. i The good roads microbe has multi plied rapidly in New York. The State appropriated $5,000,000 last Year out of money realized from the sale of an issue of $50,000,000 worth of bonds authorized by an amendment to the State constitution. This is going some. For this good road con struction the State pays one-half the cost, the counties thirty-five per cent. and the township or property owners fifteen per cent. The bonds run for fifty years and pay three and a half per cent. interest. An annual tax of .0555 mill upon each dollar’s worth of property for every million dollars’ worth of bonds outstanding is pro vided to pay the interest and create a sinking fund with which to redeem one-half the bonds. The rest of the bonds are to be paid in fifty equal annual instalments by the county and townships wherein the proceeds have been applied to the improvement of highways. The result is that New York promises to become the good roads State of the Union, ever vieing with Massachusetts, where miles and miles of splendid State boulevards have been constructed within the past few years. The old days of the farmers plowing up the sides of the roads and throwing the sod into the middle, when there is no work ypon the farm that can be done, and thus working out the road tax, promises to become a thing of the past in the Empire State, or at least relegated to the remote corners.—Southern Planter. '—*-‘* Brevity Preferable, ™ It is the short piece, be it letter or editorial, that catches the reader, and correspondents who wish their letters to be read should never extend them beyond a quarter of a column, and half that length is preferable. Condensation is an art, but it can be acquired with a little practice. Never try to see how long you can make your article, but how short. Use never a superfluous sentence or word. Be as brief as an intelligible state ment of the case will allow and you will have ten readers where the long winded fellow will have one.—Rich wmond Dispatch,