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| ‘1 have used several bottles of Peruna and 1 /el greatly benefited J
thereby from my catarrh of the head, 1 frel encouraged to belleve that
1 1 use it a short time longer I will be fuwlly able to eradicate the disease
of thirty years' standing,’’--David Meelison,
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| OTHER REMARKABLE CURES.
Mr. Jacob L. Davis, Galena, Stone county, Mo., writes: “I have been in bad
health for thirty-seven years, and after t,u_lu'n{ twelve: bottles of your Peruna | am
cured,” Mr. C. N. Peterson, 132 South Mair St., Council Bluffs, Towa, writes: *“I
cannot tell you how much good Peruna has .ae me. Constant confinemunt in my
store began to tell on my health, and I felt that I was gradually breaking down. 1
tried several remedies, but obtained no permanent relief until I took Peruna. 1 felt
better immediately, and five bottles restored me to complete health.”
: A SINCERE RECOMMENDATION.
Mr, D. C. Prosser, Bravo, Allegan Co., Mich., writes: “Two years afgo I was
badly afflicted with catarrh of the stomach. 1 had had a run of typhoid fever, was
very depleted. 1 tould find nothing 1 could eat without causing distress and sour
stomach. Finnll‘v 1 came to the conclusion that 1 had catarrh of the stomach and
seeing Peruna advertised, began to take it. It helped me soon, and after taking three
or four bottles 1 was entirely cured of stomach trouble, and can now eat anything.”
Manufactured by Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Chio.
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- Without Minard’s Liniment
Please send me a trial botgle of Minard's Liniment, as I wish
to give it to a friend who is troubled with Rheumatism, and who
has never heard of your Liniment before. We have had it in our
family and don't think we could keep house without it. We are
over seventy years old. I will see that my friend will have the
Liniment as soon as I can send it to her. Yours respectfully, Mrs.
J. Page. , Powerful, penetrating and soothing, free from oil or
grease, and beneficial alike for child or adult, containing nothing
injurious to even the most sensitive system, Minard’s Liniment is
at once the most effective, economical, agreeable and clean to use
. external application for rheumatism, neuralgia, stiffness of limbs,
joints or muscles, sore feet or hands, chest pains or hoarseness,
proof of which is found in the grateful letters of those who have
used it, like the one above signed by
MRS. J. PACE
«112 New Hanover Ave., Meriden, Conn.
A special bottle sent free on request. Minard’s. Liniment Mtg. Co., Southk
Framingham, Mass,
*Spare the rod and spoil the child”
may be offset, suggests the New
York American, b} an adage just as
true—" Ply the rod and spoll the
teacher."”
Free Cure for Rheu
matism, Bone Paln
and Eczema
Botanic Blood Balm (B B B.) cures the worst
cases of Rheumatism, bone pains. swollen
mnscles and joints. by purifying the blood
Thousands of cases cured bv B. B. B. after
all other treatments failed Price SI.OO per
large bottle at diug stores, with complete
directions for home treatment Large sample
free by writing Biood Balim Co, Atlanta, Ga
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kind when he oan get the Putiy Lock
Bash Just as chemp. For sale by
M'l’g SBash, Doors
Randall Bros., \hrd Blinde”
Every time 7{’;&Trffifiixs an air éé\w
tle she puts a different man in it
Mrs. Winslow’s Sopthing Syrup for Children
tecthing,softens thegums, reducesinflamma.
tion, allays pain,cures wind colic, 25¢a bottla
QUITE LIKELY.
“We theught,” sald the reporter,
“you might care to say something
about these charges against you.”
“No,” replled the®¢ crooked public
» official, “I dbelieve that ‘silence is
golden.' ",
“Well,” replied the reporter, “per
haps the public might believe it's
merely giit in this case.”"—Philadel:
phia Press, ;
~ Hicks' Capudine Cures Headache,
Whether from colds, heat, stomach or
nervous troubles, No Accetanilid or dan
gerous d!ui;s. It’s liquid and acts imme>
dintely. 'l'rial bottle 10c. Regulur sizes
®s¢, and 50c., at all druggists,
Dopdt break up housekeeping by
smashing: the furniturve;
Do Your Feot Ache and Burn?
Shakeinto your shoes Allen’s Foot-Ease, a
powder for the feet. It makes tighu or
new shoes feel easy. Cures Corns, Buuions,
| Bwollen, fror, Smarting and Sweating Feet
| and Ingrowing Nails, Sold by all drug‘glsts
and shoe stores, 25 cts. Sample sent FREE.
| Address Allen S. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. X,
You never saw au—;ctress w'ho had
no vanity in her make-up.
A CORN CURE THAT CURKS,
- ABBOTT'S EAST INDIAN CORN PAINT {8 a won
- derful remedy for hard or soft corns, bun
jons, sore, callous spots on the feet, warts
~and indurations of the skin. It is appited
with a brush and cures without cutting,
burning or soreness. 252. at your drugglsts
or by mail from T Assorr Co, Savan
nah, Ga.
Don't attempt to forge ahead by
forging another person's name.
| KEEP YOUR SKIN HEALTHY,
TerresiNe has done wonders for suffer
ers from ecgema, tetter, ground itoh, ery
+ipelas, infant sore head, chaps, chates and
| o&er forms of skin diseases. In aggravat
- ed cases of eozema {ts cures have been mar
volous and thousands of peopie aln’ its
- praises, 800, at drugilsts or by mail from
; 5 .T. SuverniNg, Dept. A, Savannah, Ga.
. Lot's wife became a pillar of salt,
ibut most wiveg become peppery.
AEEILE (]
ho et
G orthß pging
wavings banks are established in
228 schools in Scotland, There are
35,712 depositors, with $48,990 to
! their credit.
I In the course of a paper before the
!Prench Academy of Medicine Profes
sor Grimbert recently stated that the
central pharmacy, which dispenses
supplies to the public institutions in
Paris and the Department of the
iSeinn, aunually furnished 12,000
i leeches for use in the hospitals.
i J. Pierpont Morgan has presented
{to the Wadsworth Athenaeum, at
llvlurtford, in memory of his father,
Ifourteeu volumies descriptive of his
art collections in London and New
’York. Each volume is valued at
181000, ,
| Amateur photographers aré not
happy in Russia. They have to se
’(:ure licensges, and if they chance to
|take a snap-shot of a view near a
!iortress they are liable to be whirled
{to Siberia as spies. L
S A
Worticalturists have discovered
that roses and mignonette cannot live
together. If the two flowers are
placed together in a vase both wither
within half an hour. -
‘ Laconians, whose chief city was
| Sparta, were famous in ancieat
;Gl'(ze(te not only for their success in
{ war, but for their scorn of luxuries
| and their brevity of spesch. When
King Philip of Macedonia, father of
'Alexandcr the Great, threatened
them, saying, “If I enter Laconia I
will level yotir city to the dust,” they |
sent back the reply, “If!” Thefr short
answers give to the English language
the word “laconic.” ;
New York City has 113 public
parks, varylng in size from a few
square yavds'in the angle at the
crossing of streets, up to Pelham Bay
Park, containing 1756 acres. 5o
A New Jersey commuter, fond of
figures, estimates that during the six
coldest days of this winter, when the |
rivers were filled with ice, the delays |
in ferry transportation to persons go- |
Ang to and from their work in Man- |
hattan amounted to forty-two vears |
of working day® for one man. ? |
P : i
An American syndicate has pur
chased the Port Coloso Railway and
nitrate fields of Chile, as well s
nitrate fields in Tarapaca and An e
tagasta for §512,000,000. Sie [
Mr. Richard Carter, of South Po- |
land, is probably the tallest ing ]
Maine. His height is six feet ecight
inches, and he is as straight as an
arrow. His shoulders are very broad, |
arms unusually long and body well[
proportioned. He weighs only 190 |
pounds. i {
Home Paper the Best Advertisement.
The best advertising medium of a
town is its home paper, provided the
paper be properly sustained, says the
Richmound Times-Dispatch. A good
home paper, well edited, well printed,
well filled with local advertisements,
having the smile of prosperity®on its
countenance, and well circulated, is
in itself an index to the thrift and en
terprise of the community it repre
sents and an expression of the enter
prising spirit of the people. It has
now become an axiom of trade that
every community is judged by its
newspaper. If the newspaper is dull
and poverty-stricken, the outsider
who sees it will conclude that it rep
resents a dull and thriftless commu
nity. If, on the other hand, it is live
in all its departments, and shows that
it is well sustained, the outsider will
judge its constituency accordingly.
And usually it is a fair basis of esti
mate. Nine times out of ten the local
newspaper is a correct photograph of
the town in which it is published and
from which it derives its support.
This is a matter which the people
of every town should seriously con
sider. They should bear in mind that
every copy of the home paper goes
out as a courier, with a message to
the outside world. It is for the peo
ple to say what sort of a courier it
shall be, and what sort of message
it shall carry. If the people proclaim
to the world that they will not sustain
a home paper, howcanthey expect the
world to believe that they will'sustain
any other home enterprise that might
move in?
The money spent on the home pa
per should be expended in subscrip
tions and individual advertisements,
for, as we have said, the paper should
be an advertisement in itself of the
community. But the local paper is
necessarily limited in its reach, and
in addition to local support the town
should appropriate a liberal fund for
general advertising in mediums
which have a wider circulation. No
town is too large to advertise abroad.
The largest cities in the United States
are the largest advertisers, and if the
cities find it necessary to advertise,
how much more necessary is it for the
towns, which are not so well knowp
to do so! .
The Gernian Way.
In Germany the adulteration of
wine and beer is prohibited for homea
consumption, but permitted for ex
portation. It is an open secret that
wine from Vienna and beer from
Munich are doctored before shipping
to the United States.—New York
Press.
VERY TRUE.
Sally Gay—" What a cunning little
fellow Mr. Callipers 4s!”
Dolly Swift—" Cunning! Why, lcok
2t him—he's dreadfully bowlegged.”
Sally Gay—"Yeg; but that gives
him such an ‘arch look,” you know,”
—Pick-Me-Up,
The tip of the tongue is the most
gensitive part of the human body;
the tips of the fingers come next,
and third the lips.
WOMEN'S KIDNEYS.
Are the Source of Most of Women’'s
Sickness. 4
Mrs. Rebecca Mock, 1795 E. Rich
Street, Columbus, Ohio, writes: “]
believe I would still
- P ) be a victim of kid
) % ney troubles but for
27 @ %9 Doan’'s Kidney Pills,
4 for when 1 started
. using them I was in
e’ 'D~ constant pain with my
'f, iz’l“‘ back, and no other
7l remedy had been of
any use. The kidney secretions were
irregular, and 1 was nervous and
lacked energy. But Doan’s Kidney
Pills gave me prompt relief and con
tinued use cured me.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
HE REMEMBERED.
“Well, George, what did you learn
at school today?”
“I—learned—that—well, 1 learned
that three apples plus six pears
equals nine oranges.”—Philadelphia
Record,
: SIOO Reward, SIOO.
The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded dis
ease that science has been able to cure in all
its gtages, and thatis Catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh
Cure is the ounly positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con
stitutional disease, requires a constitutional
treatment. Hall's Cutarrh Cureis taken inter
nally,acting directly upon the blood and mu
cous surfaces of the s(ystem!thereby destroy
ing the foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the con
stitution and assisting nature in doing its
-work. The proprietors have so much ?aith
in its curative powers that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to
cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address
F. J.Cuexey & Co., Toledo, ©.
- Sold hv Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
PROHIBITIVE HANDICAP.
“I can't get a pair of shoes to fit
me.”
“That is strange, considering they
are made in such variety.”
- “I knew they are, but what good
does that do a fellow when he hasn’t
got the price?”’—Nashville American.
HOW TO TEST LINSEED OIL.
. There is nothing that will make
paint go wrong on the house more
quickly than poor oil. It is as bad in
jts way as adulterations in the white
lead. Petroleum oil cheapeners may
be detected by placing a drop of the oil
on a black painted surface. ‘lt one sees
the characteristic iridescence or play
of colors which kerosene exhibits, it
is evidence of adulteration. Corn and
fish oil can be detected by the smell.
Adulteration in white lead can best
be discovered by the use of a blow
pipe, which National Lead Company
will send with “»nstructions free to
anyone interestea in paint. Addx:ess.
National Lfad Company, Woodbridge
Building, New York City.
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THE DIVINATION. : 4}
Cholly—“1 wondah why they call |
it leap year?” FRE]
‘Wally—"“Because it gives the deah
girls a chawnce to jump at us/’— |
Baltimore American. ‘
< WANTED |
Responsible young man to take charge of |
two or more counties in safest, surest, good !
money-making plan, with absolute guaran- |
tee. Can’t lose. Address WAyNE SiLks |
Co., Jesup, Ga. !
KINDRED. i
Knicker—What is the successor to |
the Bridgejam? |
Bocker—The Subway jelly.—New |
York Sun.
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Hicks' Capudine Cures Nervousness, |
Whether tired out, worried, sleeplessness |
ot what not. It quiets and refreshes brain |
“nd nerves. It's liguid and pleasant to |
take. Trial bottle 10, Regular sizes 25¢. |
and doc¢.. at drugyists. |
A RREAL STOORENT. ~ ;
She—Why do you always get be- |
hind in your courses?
He—So I can pursue them.—Har
vard Lampoon. ;
How 1 Cured Sweeny and Fistula, :
“I want to tell you how I saved one |
of our horses that had a fistula. We |
had the horse doctor out and he said |
it pvas' so bad that he did not think |
he could cure it, and did not come |
again. Then we triel Sloan’s Lini- |
ment and it cured it up nicely. |
“One day last spring I was |
plowing for a neighbor who had a ;
horse with sweeny, and 1 told him |
about Sloan’s Liniment and he had |
me get a bottle for him, and it cured |
his horse all right, and he. goes off 4
now like a colt. |
“We had a horse that had sweeny i
awfully bad, and we thought it was |
never going to be any good,*but we ,
used Sloan’s Liniment and it cured it g
up nicely. I told another neighbor |
about it and he sald it was the best |
Liniment he ever used. |
“We are using Sloan’s Sure Colic |
Cure and we think it fs all right.” |
A. D. Bruce, Aurelia, la. |
THE PROPER WORDS. ;
"~ Young Man (calling)—What is
proper to say when leaving a young
lady, “Geod evening” or “Good night?” |
Young Woman—" Say “Good morn- |
ing."—Philadelphia Press. |
BEST ON THE TEAM.
I He ,(pointing on field)—That's
iGre@n over there. In a few weeks
i he will be our best man.
| She—Oh, Charlie, this is so sud
| den!—Princeton Tiger.
i e e e
I AS TO A POLITICIAN.
' “He says he's wedded to a high
{ tarift.” s %
“Well?”
I “I take it he &idn't marry it to re
{ form it.”"—Louisville Courier-Journal,
‘ Lots of Oxen Left in Maine.
We have heard much in recent
3 years about the disappearance of 6x
len from our Maine farms, but we
5 find by the report of the State As
! sessors that in 1907 there were 8,758
'of them left in the Siate. That
{ would make quite a herd if they wera
‘ pastured together, says the Kenebez
i Journal. :
f If yoked up in pairs they would
‘ make a team stretching a dozen miles
| away. There are 750 oxen in Keunne
!bec county, and if these 375 pairs
| were put on the country road on par
% ade or taking part in an old-fashioned
t‘lhauJing bee,” they would furnish
| 2 mile of goodly satisfacticn for the
[ wielder of the oaken goad.
| So the patient ox is not vet quite
| as uncommon on the Maine farm as
l the caribou and wolf on the Western
| plains, but the rate of decrease is in
i dicated by the fact that where there
| were 4,758 oxen in Maine in 1997,
| there were 15,473 of them ten years
' earlier. -
fict T s e T
| Bad Economy,
| A southern gentleman recently at
! a banquet in Washington related the
~following story about a certain phil
'anthropist he knows at home, He
- said: : -
- “My friend heard of a negro family
lthat was reported in destitute cir
cumstances, and, calling at their
- home, he found the report true. The
family consisted of mother, a son
about 15 years old and three #young
children. After hearing the mother’s
story, he gave the oldest. . so» a
bright silver dollar, saying:
“‘Here, my lad, take this dohar
and get a turkey for the Christmas
dinner. >
“No sooner was he gone when the
mother said in a stern voice to her
son :
*“ ‘Heah, Jacksow you done gib/ me
dat dollar, and go git dat turkey in
de pnachral way.’”—Harper's Weekly.
-’
: Diving for Fish,
A unique method of fishing is em
ployed by natives along the Panlaung
River,
Two dugout boats are employed
about thirty feet long, with two men
with long poles. One in the bow,
the other at the stern punting tho
boat along. They stretch a long rope
made of bamboos and plaited grass
about a hundred yards long and
weighted about every ten yards with
big stones. This they let down into
the watelr, and the fish are frighten
ed toward the bank. The divers then
Jump in three at a time, remaining
down about twenty seconds.
They carry gaffs about eighteen in
ches long and fishhooks with cords
attached. When they strike a fish
they let go the gaff and the fish i 3
hauled up in th 2 boat. A big fire
is lighted on'the river bank, and tha
men warm themselves before it when
not diving.—Rangocn Gazette.
THIS IS LEAP YEAR.
“I'm weary of being a bachelor
girl.” : / 3
“Well?”
“Do you know any fellow who's
tired of being a spinster man?'—
Kansas City Journal.
WILLIE IS UP IN GRAMMAR.
“Willie, is it right to say ‘my sister
has come to school'?”’ il
“No, ma'am.”
“Why /not?” i
“Because your sister has wen!
home.”—Philadelphia Record,
I — ————
i BUILT RIGHT
Brain and Nerves Restored by Grape-
Nuts ood.
The number of personsg whose ail
ments were such that no other food
could be retained at ail, is large and
reports are on the increase.
“For twelve years I suffered from
dyspepsia, finding no food that did
not distress me,” writes a Wisconsin
lady. “I was reduced from 145 to
90 Ibs., gradually growing weaker
until I could leave my bed only a
short while at a time, and became un
able to speak .aloud. |
“Three years ago I was attracted
by an article on Grape-Nuts and de
cided to try it. 2
“My stomach was so weak I could
not take cream, but“l used Grape-
Nuts with milk and lime water. It
helped me from the first, building up
my system in a manner most aston
ishing to the friends who had thought
my recovery impossible.
‘“‘Soon I was able to. take Grape-
Nuts and cream for breakfast, and
lunch at night, with an egg and
Grape-Nuts for dinner,
“I am now able to eat fruit, meat
and nearly all vegetables for dinner,
but fondly continue‘ Grape-Nuts for
breakfast and supper. \
At the time of beginning Grape-
Nuts I could scarcely speak a sentence
without ghanging words around or
‘talking crooked’ in some way, but my
brain and nerves have become so
strengthened that I no.longer have
that trouble.” “There’'s a Reason.”
Name given By Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read ‘“The Road to
Wellville,” in pkgs. |
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’ Road Taxes on Whecls,
| The system of graduated tax upon
automobiles whiel is propose4d in New
Jersey by Senator Frelinghuysen——
himself an enthusiastic antomobilist
—is probably ot perfect, but has
! much to commend it to favorable con
lsideratlon. It seems to be beyond
l dispute or question that automobiles
have done much more damage to the
improved roads of the State than all
other vehicles put together, and havse,
indeed, wrecked som2 of them to such
an extent rs to make rebuilding nee
essary, and it also seems certain that
roads which will be suitable for and
~
will stand the wear and tear of auto-:
mobiles will be much more expensive .
to build and maintain than roads for~
other vehicles. Therefore, it is not .
unreasonably argued, those who use
automobiles ought to make a sub
stantial contribution to the increase
in the cost of roads which will be in
curred on their sole account. That
!principle conceded, it naturally fol-
I lows that the big, heavy and swift au
tomobiles, which do most of the dam
age and which require a special kind
of road, should pay more than the
small omes, which do little if any
| damage. The questions of the proper
amount of the license fees and their
proper graduation according to the
size and power of the machin2s, how
ever, are not readily to be answered,
and it is prcbable that the bill as it
now stands nesds some amendment
in thosa respects.
The ‘suggsstion has also been of
fered, though we do not know that
any serious effort is likely soon to be
made to put it into effect,” that taxzes
should be levied upon all vehicles
using the public highways, graduated
according to the size, weight and
style of the vehicles. That also has
something to commend it. Funds
must be procured for the construction
and maintenanc,é/of roads, and it
would seem to be appropriate that
these should chiefly be provided by
those who use the roadsandin propor
tion to the amount of use which they
make of them. The old system lavied
a direct road’ tax, generally paid In
work, upon each taxpayver who was a
land owner, in proportion to his gen
erdl tax. The same system still pre
vails, save that working cut is ahol
ished and the tax is now paid in
cash. But it is obvious that a man
may own much property and pay
heavy taxes and yet make little or
no use of the roads, while one who
owns little land may make much use
of them. Generally speaking, the
man who owns the greatest number
of vehicles makes the greatest use
-of the roads, so that a tax based upon
the former would most equitably pay
for the latter.
The objection may be raised that a
tax upon wheels would be a partial
or a class tax, which would bs odious.
There is_no probiem in all the com
plex science of government more ptiz
zling than that of taxation or mors
‘difficult to solve to universal satisfac
tion. Proverbially ali taxes are odious,
yet certainly taxes of some kind are
necessary. No doubt taxation for
general purposes, fer the common
benefit, should be levied as generally
and impartially -as possible. But
there is much ground for arguingz
that public expenditures which are
chiefly for the benefit of a certain
part of the community should chiefly
be met by taxes levied upon those
beneficiaries. That is a rule already
adopted in some directions, and soon
er or later it may be found expedient
to adopt it in respect to public roads.
—New York Times.
Maryland Roads.
Most of the Maryland counties
have been very cautious in the mat
ter of creating bonded debts. When
such loans have been floated they
have generally been for aggregate
sums that are not large in propor
tion to county wealth, as indicated by
the assessed taxable basis. The road
systems of the counties are generally,
provided for from the annual tax
levies, and it is generally conceded
that the method is one of makeshifts
and poor economics. The repairs
that are made in the summer time go
to work, over and over, year after
year, during the succeeding winters.
From time to time the question of
a system of permanent and sul_astan
tiak road construction has been raised
in one Maryland County or another,
but the conclusion arrived at has been
with few, if any, exceptions that good
roads are too costly to be paid for
out of the annual tax fund, and coun
ty boards apparently stand over
awed when a suggestion of creating
a road-building fund by a bonded
loan is made.—Baltimore American.
In Connecticut. ;
James H. MacDonald, State IHigh
way Commissioner of Connecticut,
has ordered that a survey be made
at once of roads in the northern part
of the State. The work will be
started soon. Improvements are
planned for stretches of road in sev
eral towns on the east side of the
river on the road to Springfield. The
Commissioner is planning to have the
road from Hartford to the State line
macadamized before ‘the middle of
next summer.
s et et e ———|
. Tugging the Elephant.
Thirty men engaged in a tug-of
war with an elephant at Olympia last
night for $250. The men won.—
London Daily Mail. Sl
