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Just two months from todny Teddy
will step down and out.
Have those Now Yenr resolutions
survived Saturday night and Sunday?
'ihe Hottentots have risen in re
bellion In East Africa, and are mak
ing It hot for the Germane.
So far this year not n single pe
destrian Ims heen run down and kill
ed by an automobile In Atlnnta.
The governor of Nor*h Carolina
need not say 11 now to the governor
of South Carolina—everybody knows
It.
The cost of the Taft banquet In At
lanta will he $lO a plate. ’Possums
come high, hut Mr. Taft must have
them.
Congress assembles again today
and Teddy has a bunch of messages
ready to llro ut U as soon as It gels
together.
The people of Rome must be n
•loopy lot. Ono woman baa been
asleep ever since Christmas day and
Htill can't be awakened.
To bear the Charleston papers tell
It, Charleston Is a city entirely with
out bars. The one kind has b ten
dried up and the other washed out.
Nearly all successful actresses warn
young girls to keep off the stage.
They evidently don't subscribe to th«
doctrine "The more the merrier."
Governor Vardanian has pronounc
ed Theodore Roosevelt a vulgarian.
Nobody Is better qualified to judge
In such matter than Varda.
Claus Spreckles, It Is said, arrived
In America with three dollars. Now
he has gone to another country, and
left even the three dollars behind
him.
An evangelist out west says that
hell Is no worse than Chicago. Still
It will be safest not to accept that
statement without further corrobora
tlon.
Really now. Isn't It a ridiculous
farce to make our liquid dispensers
take out a license to sell near beer,
when never a bottle of near-beer
passes Into their shops?
The Hottentots are on the warpath,
making it hot for the German settlers
In Africa, and the Germans are try
ing to make good Hottentots of them
as per our good Indian recipe.
The Savannah Press oomplalns that
"Klrst It was the straight front, then
straight hips, now straight backs."
Well, wasn't It straight goods, all
the time? Then quit your growling.
It It be true that the way to hell
la paved with good Intentions, ns
some preachers sometimes any, a lot
ot that aor; of paving Is likely to be
broken within the next «v\ days
Castro also believes that a bird In
the hand Is worth two in the bnsh.
and will remain in Europe with his
money instead of returning to Ven
ezuela to try to get more.
No Pauline. Aunt Carrie Nation
wasn't in Sicily when the earthquake
occurred Aunt Carrie is rarely ever
In the place where according to the
ideas of >oHu people she should
have been.
Things must be desperately dull In
Thomasville The Times Enterprise
hopes to see Governor Smith and
ex Governor Northern get into a dis
pute over the negro education ques
tlon.
The warden of the lowa peniten
tiary recommends tailor made suits,
laundered shirts and polished shovs
for the convicts in that institution
He'c the man we 'need in Georgia
since we started our prison reform
AMERICAN COTTON SHOULD BE MANUFACTURED IN AMERICA.
Nothing of greater Interest to the cotton growers and the people of
the south generally was ever written than the article in "King Cot
ton's Improverlshed Retinue," written by Mr. Daniel J. Sully and which
appears In the February number of the Cosmopolitan. Mr. Sully will
lx remembered as the centra! figure among the hulls during the time
when the price of cotton was raised to 17 cents a pound, in 1903, the
highest price that had been reached since the days of the world’s cot
ton famine during the Civil war. It Is pointed out that dur.ng this
time of good prices for cotton $450,000,000 In gold was brought into the
country, and this It was, really, which led to the great prosperity our
country enjoyed until It was shakoll by th«v*Wall street panic In the
fall of 1907.
It is cotton which insures the future prosperity of our country. As
Mr. Sully points ouf, "Cotton is the clothing of the uncounted multi
tudes, and even those born to the purple depend upon cotton for much
of their appareling. King Cotton’s dominion is mankind. America,
therefore, producing, practically alone, a commodity vital to civilized
life and progress, has In that harvest the secret of Incomparable wealth
and power. It is not steel or lumber, kerosene or corn, that insures
enduring leadership, for the United States. Vast capital and dynamic
genius have gone Into the development of steel, yet this Is transitory.
The scepter of steel must ultimately slip from our grasp. The iron-ore
beds of the Lake Superior region arc doomed. Experts have numbered
their years as less than a generation. Lumber cannot furnish a per
manent foundation for our Industrial pre-eminence. The forests are
fast vanishing. Oil has contribulted one of the leading item.s to our
export trade, and lans multiplied incredibly the fortunes of Its managers;
but the oil-wells cannot, disgorge (heir lllumlnant forever. Besides,
the Baku fields are ready to compete. Our corn and wheat before
tli< - end of many decades will be consumed at home. Argentina, cen
tral Kit rope, and Manchuria produce these cereals in prodigal abundance.
Even If our corn and wheat were the world’s sole sufficient supply, as
In the case of our cotton, the oversea natlefis could dispense with these
staples, ns some of them now do. Millions upon millions of Mongolians
have not yet developed an appetite for anything save rice. But dll of
them are clad In cotton goods An additional inch on the shirts worn
by the Mongolians would Incan one million hales of cotton, and Hits Is
the market that Is slipping from us."
Mr. Bully points out the world necessity cotton has become. "It
Is easy to,forget, or at least to fail to keep In mind that cotton cloth,
the cloth of the civilized masses, without which they would become
barbarians, Is Ihe product of a plant. Cloth grown from the soil! If by
sonn botanical necromancy we could grow finished garments in the field
and If these garments could be produced In like quantities In no other
part of the earth, every man would Instantly realize that America pos
sessed a monopoly which would make all other nations our petitioners.
Yet we have that monopoly tut assured as it would be if wo harvested
clothing ready to wear, for if we ourselves produced the garments (hat
we by our toil in the south enable Europe and Japan lo manufacture,
we would possess almost an exclusive supply of the cloth and clothing
already ii'edrd by at least one-half of (he human race.
"Men cannot, ;f they would, again depend for their clothing upon
the skins of wild animals. Those beasts have practically vanished. Nor
is there enough wilderness on Ihe globe to furnish a range'for Ihe rear
ing of sufficient animals to provide garments of skins for man-kind.
The world of men nnd women Is clothed today as never before. It is
only within the lasi century’, with cotton within the reach of the multi
tude, that the majority have been udequaely clothed. The heroes of
the Revolution were half clad nnd that half was rags."
Phe Idea thnl low priced cotton Is good for the manufacturer la
combatted by Mr. Sully. On this point he says: "In 1898 I made my
usual trip south. Those were dismal times in the land of cotton. It
was a period of poverty and despair. Cotton was only five cents a
pound and frequently sold below that price In the Interior. The expla
nation of the spinner regarding this five cent rate was that it was fixed
by the laws of supply and demand. The southern planter said that the
cause of the ruinous rate was oppression. In my opinion It was
neither. II was ignorance, ignorance on the part of the planter, be
cause he did not realize his Impregnable position in having a monopoly
of the most valuable fruit of the soil, and because he did not assert his
rights. And Ignorance on the part of the spinners and manufacturers,
because (hey clung to the musty old idea that In buying their raw nta
lerlul at the lowest possible price and turning out finished products
they were doing their full duty is business men. I’hls cotton selling
at five cents was the same cotton that Lancashire had fought o get in
1801 at $1.90 a pound. It was the same cotton lor which lives were
risked In running blockades In the Civil war."
If we would eifthrone King Cotton so that no plotting and planning
could disturb his supremacy, and no conspiracy to deprive the country
which produces cotton of Its Just reward be successful, then the coun
try which produces the cotton must manufacture It also. Mr. Sully
shows how Switzerland, raising no cotton, without a mile of seacoasc,
a port or a trading vessel, yet can buy our cotton, transport it to Switz
erland, make it into cloth, and re ship and sell to us the cloth made out
of our cotton. lie shows how Japan buys our cotton, makes It into
cloth and sells it to the Chinese, driving our cotton manulgetiirers out
of that market. if we would establish for cotton the supremacy we hold
In the almost monopoly of Its production, and secure for our country the
benefits which of right this favor of nature gives us, then we must
spin nnd weave In the south the cotton that is raised In the south.
OUR WAR FLEET AT MESSINA.
It seems almost providential. In
view of the great disaster In Souvh
Italy, that the cruise around the world
of our warship fleet should have been
undertaken Over a year ago It sailed
from Hampton Roads. It sailed around
the South American continent, crossed
the Pacific ocean, visited Australia.
Japan, China and other countries, and
then crossed the Indian ocean on its
homeward way. And Just as the grout
disaster In Italy startled the world
with Its horrible magnitude, and help
was needed as It had never been
needed before, our battleship fleet was
nearing that stricken country. Today
It Is at Sues, and In a short time can
be at Messina. President Roosevelt
has acted promptly in the matter, and
has ordered it to proceed at once to
the strieket port, to render what aid
It can. This prompt notion on his
part meets the approval of the Amer
ican people.
There is much that warships tan
do there at this time, to relieve the
situation. A Russian warship was
promptly on the spot, and the war
ships of other countries have follow
ed, all vietng with each other In
Samaritan work. How it will ,ar
inonlte with the eternal fitness of
things that the American navy do
more than air the other navies of the
world combined. In giving such aid iu
this dire distress as warships can
give
No less commendable is the Presi
dent's prompt action in sending re
lief, and by the quickes’ method pos
sible. All the countries of the world
will join In this relief work, but again
It Is as it should be that our coun
try, the greatest, richest, most free
and liberal on the earth, should lead
In this work, in the promptness with
which it was rendered and In the
amount that was given.
M hen Mont Poioe suddenly spoilu d
sulphur fumes and fiery ashes and de
stroyed the eitv of St. Pierre and its
80,000 inhabitants, our government
was the first on tho spot with re
lief supplies of $200,000 in amount.
And in that it did well. The need in
Sicily and Calabria Is much greater,
for In St. Pierre all the vie*tins were
killed and the suffering among sur
vivors was inconsiderable compared
with this great Italian disaster, whore
hundreds of thousands have lost all
they had, and in one fearful day wore
rendered homeless and penniless.
These people need help— alt that can
be given.
And It Is Just as it should be that
our country will be there, with the
greatest number of ships to give aid
on the- spot, and with the most lib
eral contribution of material supplies
that are so sorely needed.
The Difference Is 28 Minutes.
Editor Herald:
In your very interesting editorial
on tho "uprisings and downslttiugs of
Old Sol." you neglected to tell your
readers that you were figuring on
sun-time." Our "fast time" makes
the sun rise at 7:25, and so on. 20
minutes afiead. With best wishes for
the New Year, J. p,. STOKES.
Atlanta is advertising for a hund
red 'possums for the Taft banquet.
Either Atlanta 'possums must be
mighty small, or our Atlanta friends
must think that Mr. Taft is being
starved iu Aususta.
The Columbus ledger sticks to It
that It was a grasshopper that was
seen during Christmas. At any rate
tha: is better than snakes, aud should
be set down to the credit of the pro
hibition law.
THE AUGUSTA HLKALU.
POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS.
The republican platform pledges
that party to the establishment of pos
tal savings banks. It is therefore
reasonable to suppose that an effort
will be made to pass a law.
Western congressmen have announced
their Intention to press such a law
|to passage, and after the Christmas
| recess the fight will probably begin.
| It Is said that a considerable num
| her of the republican members are
opposed to postal savings backs, and
will fight the passage of a law to es
tabllsh them, notwithstanding their
party pledges. These don’t amount
to much anyway, and if the Western
members are more faithful in this
instance it is not greater regard for
party pledges which causes it, but
the fact that the people of the West
more generally favor postal savings
banks.
It will probably not be attempted
to defeat outright the bill to estab
lish postal savings banks, but the
effort will be to prescribe such con
ditions for these banks as to virtually
make them Inoperative. To this end
It, Is to be provided that not over
SSOO shall be deposited on one ac
count; that not over SIOO of this shall
draw interest; that all such deposits
shall be assessable for local taxation
where they are made; and that they
shaH be re-deposited by the govern
ment in Incorporated hanks in the
same communities. It is safe to as
sume that, if postal savings banks be.
established under a law with such
amendments, they will do very little
business. Few people would care to
deposit their money in banks which
would pay little or no interest on
it.
But why should we have postal ssv
ings banks? To establish them, unless
the money deposited were at once
re-deposited in other banks, would
mean perhaps a doubling of the pres
ent national debt, with a doubling of
the interest burden on the same, for
the care of money for which the gov
ernment had no use. Talk about,
harmful paternalism in government,
this would be it. In addition, un
less re-deposlted by the government,
It would mean the withdrawal front
circulation of the amounts of the de
posits, and we would have the strange
condition under which the more the
people saved the worse off they would
be, for the want of sufficient money
to transact the business of their com
munities.
And for these great evils, what
would be given the people in return?
Security of their deposits. That is
all. This Is very good, but could
not this be by some other
method? lu China, it Is said, such a
thing as a bank failure Is unknown,
because it is there made a capital
crime for bank officials to allow their
bank to fail. This may be true or
not. but everybody will agree that
If bank officials be made responsible
for the deposits made In their banks,
financially to the extent of all their
individual means and criminally to
terms of long imprisonment if cul
pability, neglect or Inefficiency were
shown on their parts, there would
be no bank failures. No business is
safer than the banking business, if
honestly and prudently conducted:
and where a bank fails It is either
because the officials were dishonest,
or, secure against personal liability
if the bank should be wrecked they
took speculative chances of the get
rieh-quiek order. I,aws could be
easily passed which would prevent all
this.
If, then, private banks can be
made absolutely safe, why have gov
ernment banks? Why have the gov
ernment do business which private
parties can do as well? This is a
dangerous step towards socialism,
and in addition would either increase
the taxes or be a bljght to business
In tletng up permsner tlv a large part
of the money needed by the people to
transact their business.
If nothing will do little two-by-four
lawmakers whom the people were
foolish enough to elect but to pass
a postal savings bank law, then at
mast it' is to be hoped that there are
enough safe and sane men in can
egress to see to It that the govern
|ment shall pay no Interest on sinfli
deposits. With that provision, and
jthe further provision that the gov
ernment re-deposit these deposits in
[local banks, no harm would be done,
mud the government would have an
additional source of income.
But precious few dollars would gov
ernment savings banks receive on de
posit under such provisions.
Taft and the Theatre.
Judge Taft's last visit to the thea
tre was twenty years ago and the
play "Uncle Tom's Cabin,” No won
der he has not been since. He should
give the drama another chance, lu
its best estate it is a source of both
comfort and helpfulness. Mr. Lin
coln. who met his death at tho plav,
had yet found it of much support dur
ing the most trying times of the Cl
vil war A light comedy well pre
sented had often relieved the gloom
nr.d braced him for his arduous work.
It is surprising to hear that the cheer
fulness and the optimism that Judge
Taft possesses owe nothing to a
source to v. fitch so many others of
bis temperament are deeply indebted.
—Washington Star.
STRANGERS NECESSARY AFTER CATACLYSMS
Prompt Coming of Outsiders Absolutely Need=
ful After Great Catastrophes
(By Paul Thieman.)
It is said that the victims of great
beasts of prey are benumbed as if
by some automatic anesthesia inter
posed by the mercy of the laws of
nature.
It may be a thing of Imagination,
but its truth has been attested by
persons rescued at the last moment
from the Jaws of man-eaters.
And, verily, those who have been
present at scenes of vast slaughter
by nature’s "blind forces” can testify
that cataclysmic horror and death
produce a stunning effect on the
nerves suggestive of the anesthesia
of the tiger’s jaws.
At Galveston, where naked corpses
were hauled through the streets, piled
Trias-cross on cotton trucks like cord
wood, the people gazed upon the
ghastly procession as If it were usual
traffic.
Eight thousand persons—most of
them women and children —were
drowned in that terrible night of
crazy waters at Galveston. The
tempest whipped off ail clothing, and
when the flood receded the survivors
saw naked bodies of women in tree
tops, lying across fences—nude beauty
and purity lifeless in the gutters, un
der foot, everywhere—and the sur
vivors stepped over the obstructions
of the dead as horses step over ob
jects in the dark!
A mysterious calmness pervaded
the people. No loud words. Few
wails.
Not a semblance of curiosity to be
hold a spectacle (beyond imagination.
The incoming rescuer and newspaper
correspondents had never dreamed
that such stoicism—ln the face of
such awfulness of horror —was possi
ble.
Scylla and Charybdis.
But when, after setting out, the
wind shall waft you to the Sicilian
coast, and the straits of narrow Pe
lorus shall open wider to the eye, veer
to the land on the left, and to the sea
on the left, by a long circuit; fly the
right both sea and shore.
These lands, they say, once with
violence and vast desolation convuls
ed (such revolutions a long course of
time is able to produce), slipped
asunder; when In continuity both
lands were one, the sea rushed impet
uously between, and by its waves tore
the Italian side from that of Sicily;
and with a narrow frith runs between
the fields'and cities separated by the
shores.
Scylla guards the right side, im
placable Charybdis the left and thrice
with the deepest eddies of its gulf
swallows up the vast billows, head
long in, and again spouts them out
by turns high into the air, and lashes
the stars with the waves.
But Scylla a cave confines within
Its dark recesses, reaching forth her
jaws, and sucking in vessels upon
the rocks. First she presents a hu
man form, a lovely virgin down to
the middle; her lower parts are those
of a hideous sea monster, with the
tails of dolphins Joined to the wombs
of wolves. It is better with delay
to coaßt round t{ie extremities of Si
cilian Pachynus, and steer a long,
winding course, than once to behold
the misshapen Scylla under her capa
cious den, and those rocks that roar’
with her sea green dogs.
Further, if Helenus has any skill,
If any credit is due to him as a pro
phet, if Apollo stores his mind with
truth, I will give you this one pre
vious admonition, this one, oh, god
dess born, above all the rest, and !
will inculcate it upon you and again
and again: Be sure you, in the first
place, with supplications worship
great Juno's divinity; to Juno cheer
fully address your vows, and over
come the powerful queen with hum
ble offerings; thus, at length, leaving
Trinacria (Sicily), you shall be dis
missed victorious to the territories of
Italy. When wafted thither, you
reach the city of Cumae, the hallow
ed lakes, and Avernus resounding
through the woods, you will see the
raving prophetess, who, beneath a
deep rock, reveals the fates, and com
mits to the leaves of trees her char
acters and words. —From Virgils
Aneid, Davidson’s Translation.
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GOVERNOR SMITH.
Governor Smith is just a trifle
worried about that near-beer tax. and
he has perhaps a right to be. It
won’t prove so profitable to the state
as was first expected by a long shot.
—Thomasville Times-Enterprise.
PRESIDENT-ELECT TAFT.
Mr. Taft played the echo while a
candidate for office but he now seems
to know what he wants and to be de
termined to get It. —Jacksonville
Tiraes-Unlon.
SPEAKER JOE CANNON.
Speaker Cannou says positively
that there Is to be no river-and-har
bor appropriation bill this session.
Unless he stops such step-fatherlv
tactics, he will soon forfeit the famii
iar prefix of “Uncle Joe.” —Atlanta
Georgian.
EX-PRESIDENT CASTRO.
When Castro took office he was
worth SB,OOO. When he left for Eu
rope to avoid the coming revolution
he was worth $80,000,000. His ca
reer was almost as profitable as that
of a political boss in New Y'ork or
Philadelphia.—Americus Times-Re
corder.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.
It Is Nimrod Roosevelt's ambition
to capture alive an aryx. a keenboc
and a nahau. It is perfectly safe to
hunt them, for all three species bice
been extinct for half a century. He
had as well be searching for a be
hemoth or a mastodon Having such
wild desire*. It Is not to Africa he
should go. but to the mountains of
I Hepsidam. in pursuit of a whang
doodle.— fifirfolk Virginian-Pilot.
But soon they realized what it was
—it was not stoicism. It was the an
esthesia of the nerves caused by
catastrophe.
It was a colossal coma!
The people who had come under
the catastrophic influence were stun
ned. They were not able to feel what
ordinary suffering inflicts. They were
not able to work as men work in the
stress of ordinary calamity.
And they did not know it them
selves. They thought they were work
ing actively when only perfunctorily
trying to cope with the magnitude
of the sweep of death.
The men talked sanely, but they
spoke of trivial and irrelevant things.
The expected and of course written
stories of criminality let loose —the
stories of ghouls with pockets full of
fingers cut off for the rings—of name
less infernaiism —could not be veri
fied.
The truth was that evil minds were
as much stunned and benumbed as
the good and brave souls. Rapine
was left as nerveless as the energy
for order and plan was rendered
comatose.
And when it was necessary to light
funeral pyres on the Gulf shore and
burn the corpses, the weird labor was
done as if it were a sad destruction
of condemned statuary. Even new
comers had partaken of the strange
calmness of the survivors.
In these vast visitations of death,
as in Italy, the prompt coming of out
siders who have their normal senses
is absolutely needful.
They are needed to direct and com
mand and infuse energy and help the
people to throw off the pall of the
.cataclysm.
The Prohibition Movement in South,
In view of the fact that yesterday
state-wide prohibition went into ef
fect in the states of North Carolina,
Alabama and Mississippi, and the fur
ther fact that Georgia is under a pro
hibition law and that the local op
tionists and anti-saloon advocates
have almost got possession of the
other southern states, it is an inter
tsting question as to whether, before
the end of another year, nearly All
the south will not be prohibition ter
ritory. In Texas the prohibitionists,
under local option laws, have the
greater part of the state and there
is scon to be held an election there to
decide whether or not the state shall
not have prohibition. In Tennessee
it is expected by many that the leg
islature will pass a prohibition bill
at its approaching session, and It is
well-known that the prohibitionists
have captured sf very large part of
Virginia, Arkansas and Florida. Louis
iana has recently adopted a liquor
regulation law that will tend to put
the saloon out of business, if it is
rigidly enforced.
In view of the victories of the
prohibitionists it becomes an interest
ing question as to whether or not pro
hibition will get into politics in the
south in the near future. There are
predictions that it will. The chances
are, however, that it will not. While
the prohibitionists are doing all they
can to win their fight they at*j not
yet willing to bring prohibition into
politics. They had a fine opportuni
ty to vote for prohibition in Ihe last
national election, but the prohibition
ticket got comparatively few votes.
If the prohibitionists felt certain of
victory they would throw down the
gauntlet to the anti-prohibitionists
and put prohibition tickets in the
field in about all of the southern
states. There will be a good deal of
skirmishing between the opposing
forces all through the coming year,
but there are no signs yet that either
of the great political parties \»ill put
prohibition in its platform in any
state. —Savannah News.
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Now that it Jaas been announced
that Castro may be relieved of his
physical ailments without the aid of
surgery, we begin to suspect that he
didn't get away from Venezuela with
so much money, after all.—Washing
ton Herald.
John D. Rockefeller is now writing
an article on “Philanthropy.” Strange
how men sometimes select things to
deal with with which they have ab
solutely no knowledge.—Brunswick
News.
Senator Elkins has started a new
bank. See now much money a man
can save when he denies himself the
pleasure of buying a duke.—Columbia
State.
The New York moving pictures are
in the courts, where they will have
an opportunity of learning of a thing
that moves only at a snail's pace if
at all.—Jacksonville Tlmes-Union.
President Roosevelt will have no
difficulty in shooting a white rhi
noceros In South Africa. We are in
formed that the rhinoceros is
even now turning pale with fear.—
Charleston News and Courier.
The Standard Oil desired to be
shown wherein it was a monopoly,
and Missouri was, of course, where
the showing took place.—Macon
News.
A lawyer was found dead the other
day under a bedroom window. The
dispatclf did not note the position
but it is safe to say that he was
lying still—Dublin Times.
A pleasure party of pleasant con
gressmen left Charleston yesterday
for Colon. Panama, to “Investigate."
Uncle Sam pays as they go.—Colum
bia State.
A circus manager of reputation Is
quoted by the Norfolk Virginia-Pilot
as being opposed tp a tariff on pea
nuts. We suppose the musical comedv
managers may be relied on to fight
j the tariff on chestnuts, too.—Wash
-1 ington Herald.
MONDAY, JAIuJASY 4
NO BETTER CLOTHES
ANYWHERE, AND
FEW AS 0000
AS DORR’S
*•
We’ve a number of clients —
men who spend their winters here,
and who, every year, wait until
they return to Augusta to have
their Clothes made by us.
They've long since found out
that Dorr Clothes represent the
highest type of tailoring, tha:
Dorr style and Dorr make-up are
superior to the great majority of
Clothes made by the best tailors
in their home cities.
Tailoring, Furnishings
For Men of Taste.
9
COME TO ALEXANDER'S
For Good Soda Wat
er and Creams.
So many people
tell us our’s tastes
better and is better.
Try it yourself and ,
see what you* think J
of it. You may not
be getting your mon
ey’s worth now.
Prescriptions a
Specialty.
Alexander Drug Co
708 Broad St.
Just In.
«
New lot of those 2 qt.
Hot Water Bags (Maroon
Rubber) ever}' one guar
anteed for 12 (I cfl
months. Price ..
You don’t know what
solid comfort these bags
afford on cold nights.
Gardelle’s,
Druggist,
620 BROAD.
V
For Sale
Store and dwelling on
lot southwest corner of
Walton Way and Chaffee
Avenue.
$2,000.00
Apply To
Clarence E.Clark
Eporatabi.c and stationary
NSIKES
AND BOILERS
Saw. Laih and Mills. Injectors,
Pumps and fittings. tVood Saws, Spllrtera,
Shaft*. Pulleys. Beitlay, Gasotine Engines.
LARGBSTOCK LOMBARD,
I win: ui Itiig Wxb »*t Sap jly Sin,
AUGUST A, QA.
ALL OVER.
Christmas has joined the Christmas
shades.
That growing group;
The last faint trace of turkey fades
From hash and soup.
Some shreds and sawdust in a pall
From broken toys
Form a sad sequel to the tale
Of Christmas joys.
—Exchange,