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I EVERBILIOUS? |
H Charleston, Miss,.—Mrs. R. V. Hein*, of tbift place, r I
I; says: "I have never had to use very much medicine, (I
■ because if I feK-headache, dizziness, or colds, bad taste II
I) in the mouth, whlch comes from torpid liver,. I would
■ take a dose or more of Black-Draught, and it would jl
Iff straighten me out and make me feel as good as netf.
We nave used in our family for years J
THEDFORD'S
BUCK-DRMIGHT
land it certainly is the best liver medicine I ever saw. ■
It has not only saved me money, it has helped keep my 711
system in shape, and' has never weakened me as S9 gM
many physics do. I recommend it to my friends and am
• glad to do so." Black-Draught is the old, reliable liver U|
medicine which you have doubtless heard much about
When you feel badly all over, stomach not right, bad (I ;
taste in your mouth, bilious, or have a headache, try )■ -.
Thedford's Black-Draught At all Druggists. 9V
Always Insist on die Genuine!
I 1 1
liirol /
■V/J';
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HIPPLB CONCERT COMPANY.
Earl H. Hippie, "wlxard of the
xylophone," Is the manager of the
Hlqple Concert company. Each of the
other members of the company la thor
oughly experienced In concert work.
' The company'a program, as usually
given, la both classical and popular In
character although a strictly classical
{iragram will be given on request.
The Hippie Concert- compuby have
• urned a splendid reputation as enter
tainers and enthusiastic words of com
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European Laundry Marks.
Laundry t.iurk* vary g rent I? In Fn-'
rope. In Buvarla every piece liar, a
number Biamped on It In large char
acters. In other parts of Germany a
■mall cotton label la attached by
menus of a hot waterproof adhesive.
In Bulgaria each laundry has a large
number of stampa engraved with de
signs. and In Rnssla the laundries
mark linen with threads worked In
arrow shapes. In some Russian towns
the police Issu* regulation/ for laun
dries, while In Odessa books of marks
are furnished nfaiually to the laundry
proprietors, and\these marks and no:
others may be nsed. By this system
criminals and revolutionary agitators
are often traced. Marks used In Eng
land consist of certain small letters or
figures stitched In red thread. In some
parts of France, linen Is defaced by
having the whole name and address
of the lanndry stamped upon It, and
an additional geometric design to In
dicate the owner.
About Men Who Look Alike.
The men about town whose visible
resemblance Is so ctose as to be «uh-
Ject each to the embarrassment of he
ing mistaken for the other are entitled
to compassion, but there sre ways of
removing the difficulty. "Bee here."
said the late .King Kdward at Ham
burg, to a merry chap who looked like
his majesty, "either you or 1 mm*
leave this town. I don't mind being!
mistaken for you»«very day of the
week. I don't mind the bands playing
'God'Save ttie King' whenever yon ap
pear. But when a fellow comes up
and slaps you on the bark and sings {
out "Hullo, old chap I How's your
aelfT Gome and take a drink.' tt gets
a bit tiresome after awhile, don't yon
know."
So they agreed to toss up a coin Tor
the choice of alternatives.* His majesty
won the toss and hla annoying double
cleared out—Boston Globe.
Beat Telephone Voices.
An American physician visiting l.nn
don has discovered that American
voices are better adapted to Mm- use
of the telephone than the British
voices. To'tikis defect In the British
rornl cords he ascribes the fact that
the telephone service of London It
ranch maligned. Americans do not pos
sess soft voices, but tbetr l^cordi
mendation huve been written concern
ing them by people la all porta of tha
tJnltod States.
V%e personnel of the company la aa
foflowa:
Earl H. Hippie, manager, xylophone
soloist, trombonist, drums, traps and
novel tlee.
Asel A. Osborne, violin soloist lad
saxophone.
Mrs. Earl H. Hippie, piano aololst,
planologues, xylophone and saxophone.
Christ Knudson, fluta aololat on«»
cornotlat
o\er lhe~wlre. .It Is often "remarkeo
that American women are given to
talking loudly In public places. As a
matter of fact, they do ok talk any
louder than their British cousins, hut
their voices have a carrying quality
' that Is sometimes rather trying.
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What Makes Fog-
London Is famous for Its fogs. Why 7
Because, for one reason. London'is a
city. Cities make smoke, and smoke
makes fog. Doubtless fogs
are much thicker aM more prevalent
nowadays thsn a century ago. The
city la much bigger, and there la more
smoke.' A fog is formed hy the con
densation of moisture upon, smoke
particles and dust particles suspeqded
In the atmosphere. The more smoke
and dust, the greater the liability to
the formation of fog, each particle
furnishing a nucleus for moist are
when conditions are tight. Thus, ss a
, city gains In population, fog* becomfc
more frequent. /
Moon tha Brightest ftateliiM.
From an Intereatlng summary of
knowledge concerning the satellites of
the solar system by Dr. sC B. Nichol
son we glean several facts which are
perhaps unfamiliar to mank stndents
of sstronomy. The writer points out.
for example, that on account of our
i lyarneas to the sun, the moon la by
fhr the brightest sstelllte, as seen
from the surface of Its primary.
>j Jupiter's satellites are large (two of
: them are larger than Mercury) and
some of thfem pre quite near the
> j planet, but tbelr total llgbt oq Jupiter.
11 even if all were In full phase at once,
r would be only ooe-thlrd that of full
i moonlight on the earth.—Scientific
i American. n
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•; / Effect of Drink at Meala.
i] Drs. It J. Miller, O. Rergem, 11 H.
t Rehfuss and P. B. Hawk of Philadel
phia have been testing the effect of wa
ter, tea, CQtfoe and cocoa uQ-the diges
tion of meals of mixed foods. They
report to the American Journal of !
i Physiology (Baltimore) that one liter j
, of cold water, tea either hot or cold,
, or hot coffee drunk with a meal doea '
, not delay the pasasge of the food from j
t the stomach, bnt the addition of sugar
i to the coffee does slightly delay the
i. process.' Cocoa markedly delays IL
l 'Coffee, tea and water seem alsr> to
■ stimulate gastric secretion, but coco*
I delays It coffee with m>gar and
} cream has ies# effect.
i*!-- i i l .-: . e-~ i '. •.
THE ALAMAKCH 6ft AH AM, N. C
PUBLMPPOSES
GOVT OPERATION
Canvass of 5,154 Editors Shows
4,466 Communities Against
Socialistic Experiment
OPPOSITION QROWIKQ
Ilghty-eeven Par Cent In 1920 aa
Against St Par Cant la 1919
Think Pototlo la Oppcaad
/ to Radlcallam.
Tba American public la mora l»-
tensely opposed to Government opera
tion than It was a 7«*r ago, according
to the newspaper editors of tba coun
try. Oat of 6,164 editor* replying to
a questionnaire aant out by tha Press
: Service Company of Now York, 4,406,
J or 66 par cant, gate It aa their Judg
ment that tha people of their commu
nltlee were overwhelmingly against
tha Government competing la business
with Ita own dtisens. '-
In lbl9 tha Prva Service Company
conducted a similar canvass of editors
on the government operation of rail
roads. That questionnaire showed that
k B3 per cent of the editors compered
their communities against Govern
ment operation of public utilities.
Apparently, than. If editors estimate
public opinion accurately, that opin
ion In a year, conaldered by commn
n I ties, baa awung 8 per cent farther
away Cram socialistic experiments.
Steven Million Circulation,
The combined circulation of the pa
pers whose editors replied Is 11,428,-
817, which means, according to the
usual estimated rati* between circula
tion and readers, a constituency of at
least 44.000,000. And this constituen
cy la pretty evenly scntfeeed through
out the country, no considerable sec
tion of any atate being unrepresented.
The estimate of opinion based on this
thoroughly* diffused 44 per cent of tiy
country's population may, therefore,
be conaldered a fair representation of
the people as a whoMf
Another feature of the result Is It*
evident lack of partisan bias. The
major political affiliations of the pa
pers represented are fairly evenly di
vided, being 1367 Republican and
1,330 Democratic Tbere are alsd 1,486
'lndependent and 482 miscellaneous.
Including labor organs, ate.
How little the results are. affected
by the polltica of the papers la shown
In en analysis by sections. In tbc
Southern section, for Instance, igbore
repliea came from 66 Republican pa
pers and 880 .Democratic the per
centage against Government operation
was 88; In the Great Lake section,
with conditions reversed, 478 Repub
lican and 165 Democratic, the oppo
sition was 87 per cent.
Repliea from tba West, Middle West
and Southweat show that It la a mis
take to conakler those sections vastly
more favorable to radical Government
experiments than the East The rad-
Icala can get little comfort out/of the
SB per cent of thumbs down—2 per
cent above the average—ln the South
west. Including Arkansas, Louisiana,
Missouri, Tanaae, Oklahoma, end Tex
aa. Texas, ence supposed to be much
given to Government regulation ax
perlmeota, returned 92 per cent of un
favorable replies. Oat of the 244 edi
tors replying from that state only
three edited Kapoblleon papers. The
82 per cent oppoeltion of the North
west, Including lowa, Minnesota, Mon
tana, Nebraaka, North Dakota, Sooth
Dakota aad Wyoming, and the 88 per
cent veto of the Far Weet group, In
cluding Arlaofa, California. Idaho,
Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Colo
rado, Utah and Washington, are air
nlflcant of the prevaUlng conservative
sentiment so this question even la
the more roilcal sections.
JMpwl Apparently Unbiased.
The tueotteonalre cloees with a re
quest tor the editor's personal opin
ion ob certain concrete cases as fol
lows:
- „"Do you pereonally believe that the
Federal Government should owo and
operate competitive Industrlee to pro
vide: (a) Fertiliser I (b) Clothing?
(c) AutomobilesT (d) Farm Implo
meatat (a) Foodstuffs?
Substantially All the editors who
gave eetimatee of their readers' opin
ions also exprsdbed their own by re
plying to thle last question. Proof ( of
considerable effort to evotd persons!
bias la found In tba fact tbat In many
cases the editor differed from the
opinion he credited to bis community.
The percentage of "nee" rent (a)
78; (b) 88; («) 86; (d) 82; (a) 19,
While the queettons were basal oa
general prtnctplea Involved In the
Government participating in compiti
five buslneoa, the ao-called Muscle
Shoals BUI new before Congrees was
used aa a concrete example of a Gov
ernment operation achats a. Cndet this
bill a Government-owned Corporation
wqpld he given brood powers to oper
ata and develop Government plants
and properties. It would produce el
Muscle Sboola various fertiliser prod
nets and sell them In competition with
producers and merchants to the fer
tiliser buslneee.
I The strength of the oppoeltion ta
Gorerement operation is Indicated by
' the repUee from Alabama, where the
J Muscie Shoe la war plant ta and where,
of -outae. there la latanae Interest
and looal pride to fatting its expected
peace-time operation under way at the
earliest feasible date. Fifty editors
Bra rami m.;
MILK AND BUTTER
Small Investment brings Big
Return. Mr. W&ver's
J -P»aa id Simple.
"I bougrht a V'.ckage of Dr. Le-
Gear's Stock Povrdars from my local
dealer and after feeding it to my
JerMy Cow, she increased from 8
quarts to 12 quarts of milk per
oar, r.nd after continuing the Pow
ders for 80 days longer, she in
creased in butter ffrom 6 pounds
to 10 pounds per week, and at the
and of 6 months, shn was making
12 pounds of butter fat per week."
—U B. Weaver, Grand xtapids Mich.
Mr. Weaver followed the advice
of Df. LeGcar, Graduate Veterinary
Surgeon of 27 years experience, and
Is money ahead. Here is the Doe
tor's offer to you: -Get a package
of Dr. LeGear*s Stock Powders from
your dealer; feed it to your horses,
milk cows, steers, hogs and sheep as
per direction and after a thorough
trial, if results are not satisfactory,
Just return the empty carton to
your dealer and your money will be
cheerfully • refunded.—Dr. L. • D.
I-eGear Med. Co., St Louis, Mo.
WENT THROUGH MANY HANOt
i
But gee ret Sarvioe Man Finally Found
the Maker ef That Counter,
felt .S2O Bill.
The tracing of counterfeit bills
back to the person responsible for
their Issue Is a curious and exciting
employment. The experts assigned
by the government to this work are
among the most skillful members of,
the secret service. The protection of
the currency depends In large meas
ure upon their efficiency, and the pains
they take are almost Infinite. A strange
story told by one of these operatives
Illustrates the difficulties vshlcb they
meet arid overcome. %
One day a bank clerk In Cincinnati
detected a counterfeit S2O bill In the
deposit ot a small retail grocer. The
operative was sent for and undertook
the case.
He found that the grocer received
the, bill from a shoe dealer, who had
It from a dentist,\ who had It from
somebody else, and so on. until finally
the secret service man traced It to an
Invalid woman who had used It to
pay hei» physician. When questioned,
she said the money had been sent to
her bjJiefL.brother, w,, 0 lived In New
Orleans.
The operative took up the brother's
pedigree, and was certain that he
was the man wanted. He had a
bad record, was the proprietor. of a
dive and was Just the sort of person
to be a confederate of counterfeiters.
The operative went to New Orleans
with the handcuffs In hts pocket, but
he was a little prematui*.
The man proved to the detective's
complete satisfaction that he had re
ceived the money as rent for a small
house he owned, In Pittsburgh. The
operative took the next train for
Pittsburgh. ,
The tenant of the house proved te
be n traveling oculist, who spent most
of his time on the coed. He was then
away In the West, but the operative
aaw him on his return, and he at
on«e recognised the bill. It had been
given hira by a patient tb Cincinnati,
the very point from which the opera
tive had started. '
The patient was a boss carpenter.
The secret service man got his ad
dress from the oculist and made a
beellne for the carpenter. He had a
premonition that something was going
to happpn, and he wasn't disap
pointed. *
The carpenter Was an honest old
fellow, and told the detective without
hesitation that he had received the
bill from Mr. Smith for repairing his
barn. Mr. Smith was the smnll gro
cer la whose bank deposit the coun
terfeit hnd turned up. The detective
fled to bis store as fast as a taxi
could carry him and found It closed.
He had left town. His shop, It was
proved, wsl a mere blind.
Spelled Agent's Sale.
"1 had a rather curious experience
during the war." remarked the novel
ty salesman.
"What was thatf asked the genial
shoe drummer. '»
"I tackled a factory where a great
many women were employed and tried
to sell them a patent pocket lighter." *
"Of course, women didn't have
much use for a thing like that."*
"I should aay not! Host of them
had already learned bow to strike a
match on their overalls, man-fashion,
and were so darned proud of the ac
complishment I didn't make a sale.*—
Blrratnetiam A*e-H«-«>J'l
T ASPIRIN FOR
Name "Bayer" is on GMUIBB
Aspirin—say Bayer
Insist on "Bayer TaUeta of Aspirin'
KafWt, Lumbago, mad BUwaMew
NaaS "B»ver" means genuine Aspiria
King Jsmea I of England, had ha
Bred hi this modem age, might hate
been classed in that vast and familiar
category we have for certain ot»»
population known as "all front and no
back," for his purse was slender and
his desire for show beyond Its com
pass. Very pious were the missives
sent out to bis gobies, jasklnf assist
ance to meet the expenses of his
queen's coronation and the celebration
of bis marriage festivities. His no-,
bles rallied to bis aid, even though it
was necessary for them to borrow to
do It An autograph letter is In ex
istence In which James I begs "the loan
of some silver spoons to grace bis mar
riage feast." In another letter he
craved the loan of a pair of silk stock-.
Ings from his dear Johnnie Slaltes (the
earl of Mar) for his own royal weqtfng
at a reception be gave the Spanish am
bassador, adding with a pathos Pe
culiar to himself: "Te wad no that
your king said appear a scrub on sic
an occasion."
, King Burled In Tree Trunk.
When Henry n was in Wales In
1177 receiving the submission ot the
princes, he chanced to bear the deeds
of King Arthur sung by the Welsh,
and was told the exrfct burial place of
the hero of Glastonbury. Some years
later the abbot ot Glastonbury, the
king's nephew, searched for the body,
and found tt burled in the trunk ef a
tree, beside that of Arthur's queen,
Gulnlvere. When Glastonbury abbey
was made a ruin In Henry VHPs time,
the remains of King Arthur and his
queen /were swept' away, according to
the 4 London Telegraph. It was on
C«Jtt>ury hill In Somerset, the famed
Cataelot of Arthurian romance, that
the British king prepared for his great
stand against/ the Anglo-Saxons; and
the name of Arthur still clings to the
locality whleh has become known by
the name of "Arthur's lane" and "Ar
thur's well."
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He Could Have Been.
Mr. A. Is a very, euthuslnstlc lodge
man, spending abont five nights out
Of every seven at vnrlous lodge rooms
—of all of which lodges lie Is n mem
ber. His wife, who Is rntliufl tolerant
of the whole business, however, does
occasionally get peeved enough to say
a few sarcastlMhlngs. And the other
night came her chance. For a wonder,
her husband was at home for an eve
ning, curled up In a rocking chair be
fore the grate fire and reading busily.
Fpr a long time she sat silently watch
ing him, then she asked, "John, what
are you reading!" "My ritual," he
' answered. "Well, I must say." ahe
remarked with some spirit, "If you
had studied your marriage vows as
much as you have studied that ritual
you would be a model husband."
A Borneo Court of Justice.
. If we were transported to the
shores of Borneo, we might see a
group of natives gathered together un
der the tropical palms, watching two
men sitting on their haunches, facing
each other across an earthenware dish,
containing Hmewater. Bach bolds a
clam in his raised hand, and, at a
signal, drops it Into the llmewater.
It would not occur to us that this Is
a court of justice, that the two men
leaning over the dlsli are litigants,
and that he whose clam first winces
on falling Into the llmewater loses the
case. The people of Borneo believe
that their gods give this as a sign te
show who Is In the right
The "Fairy Rings" of the Field.
Green circles In pastures or mead
owlands were once thought to be
tlta scene of midnight revels of the
fairies. But the rational and scien
tific explanation of the j phenomenon
Is that the rings are caused by the
growth of the subterranean mycall
um or fungi, which: radiate outward
; to find fresh soil or nourishment The
circles are bare because the mush
room has exhausted the fertility of the
earth so that, grass Cannot grow, but
as soon as the fungi begin to deeay the
grirand becomes fertilised by the rich
i nitrogenous products of decomposition,
and the grass grows greener than ever.
Dttwer That Will Not Jam.
A new anti-friction roller for furnl
-1 tore that has sliding parts Is described
' by the Scientific American as a sim
ple contrivance "with a cylindrical
1 steel roller which sets in a circular
frame that fits perfectly into a flve-
I eighth Inch auger hole and has a
I flange that holds the roller one-six
teenth Inch above the surface. The
! device is designed for use as a bearing
for dresser drawers, extension tables
i sod other srticles of furniture that
i frequently cause trouble snd give an
, noyaace because of a tendency to
■ stick.
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Inventing the Blanket.
.Poverty Is responsible for the Inven
tion of the blanket Tears ago a man
In England lost all his wealth and be
came very poor. One cold winter night
In 1840 be used a piece of rough, un
finished doth for a bed covering te
keep himself warm, and from this
mskeehlft bed covering he Invented
the blanket The name of this man
was Thomas Blanket and the new kind
of bedding baa been known under the
name of blanket ever since.—Detroit
Newa
' ... Citrus Powders.
Announcement is made of the dis
covery of a successful process for re
ducing orange Juice and lemon Juiee
' to dry powders, the method adopted
' being much like that employed for
1 the production of powdered milk. Dry
«lr, that has aot too high a tempera
fure, evaporates the Juices to flijnai
thus preserving the freed flavor.
™™Chllirercs^i^^he^n™
The ttl«a Ton Have Always Bought, and which has been
in use for over over 30 years, has heme the rignatare of
A ««d has heen made under his per
/7» - sonal supervision since its infancy,
fawm J&C&U46 Allow no one to deceive you in this.
* AH Counterfeits, Imitations and " Jturt-as-good "are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children— Experiment.
ro 9)9ixT9J? IsL,,.
Drops and Soothing Syrups.»lt is pleasant It contains
mrithftr Opium, MoffphiM/Hor other narttticßtibitaflce. Its
age is its guarantee. For more than thirty years it .has
been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency,
"Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness arising
therefrom, and by regulating die Stomach and Bowels, aid#
. the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep*
|!" The Children's Panacea—The Mother's Friend. .
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
In Use For Over 30 Years
Th# Kind You H«v« Always Bought
* . OIWTAUW
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THIN PEOPLE NEED MORE IRON
I IN THE BLOOD
—; '
New Form of. Liquid Iron Feeds the Tissues
through the mood —Builds Firm Flesh
—Fills out the Hollows
Appearance* count for a lotto this
world, and If yoa are thin and
scrawny and "below weight,' yoa
' can'/t help bat feel aenaitive and en
vious of year neighbor who is plump
and sturdy and who looks well nour
ished.
' But there is another side-»thtn peo
ple are usually sick people. The food
they eat doea not give tnem theprop
er nourishment —or perhaps they
are extremely nervous. The blood
doea not make strength and nerve
, and flesh aa~it doea in the normal
person.
It la a remarkable characteristic
of Add Iroh Mineral—the new nat
oral form of potable iron—that it is a
great flesh builder. Thin people who
take it find after a short time that
the hollows are filling out, that the
For Sale by All Good Druggists.
Burw ell &Dunn and John M.Scott &Co., Charlotte,N. C.,
* • *
Distributors.
UNITED STATES LEADS ALL
Country Estimated to Have Coal Btff
flclent to Latt for ait Least
2,008 Year*.
Considering the world's sources of
Industrial energy, Svante Arrhenlns
' finds that the United States leads in
' fuel, as In other resources! with coal
' probably sufficient for 2,000 years, j
Borland Is In the most uncomfortable
condition of any of the great coal pro
ducing countries, and faces exhaustion
| of Its mines within a little less than i
200 years. Germany probably has coal ;
[ enough for a little more than 1,000 ]
years. The world's production bf mln- j
eral oils represents not quite 3 per j
j cent of the energy contained In the j
yearly production of coal; and it Is I
# urged that the supply should be re- j
served for lighting and heating. Nat-' j
| oral gas offers only a small total of en
t ergy as compared with oft. The ava 11-
. able peat of the United States.ls less
, than one-half of 1 per cent of the es
timated coal, and the condition in En
rope Is. (about the same. Turning to
watar power, It Is found that 0.8 horse
power per Individual would supply the
, present need for industrial energy, snd
. that this Is the latest corrected show
t Ing of available total horse power and
. horse power per Inhabitant: Asia,
, 238,000.000. and 027; Africa, 160,000,-
, 000, and 1.14; North America, 180,000,-
I 000. and 1.17; South America. 04,000,-
k 000, and 625; Europe. 65,000.000, and
I 0.18, and Australia, 30,000,000, and 8.75.
> Of the different countries. Crawls has
I 28,000,000, snd 4 per cent per Inhsbl
tnnt; Unit.nl States, 100,000,000. and 1;
Iceland, 2,000,000, and 22; Norway,
000,000, and 5.2; Sweden, 6,700,000, and
„ 12; Finland. 2,800,000, and OX; Bal
„ Kan countries, 10X100,000, and .06;
, Switzerland, 1,500,000, and 0.4; Spain,
] 5200.000, and 028; Itnly, 5,500,000.-and
r 0l15; France, 6,000,000, and 0.15; Aas
. trls-Hungary, 6200,000, and 0.12; Ger
. nav, 1.4 M.OBO, and 0.02; Great Brlt-
L ain. 1,000,000. and 0.02; Boasia, 3,000,-
5, 800, and OXXL wind and tide power
flesh becomes firm and healthy, that
even within so short a space aa a
single month, a becoming plumpness .
ana soft curved lines of beauty haye
replaced angles and scrawnineas.
And with this increased weight
comes a better appetite, more re
freshing sleep and a marked increase
in vigor in every way.
Thin people can take Acid Iron
Mineral to improve their appearance,
and they will find their health bene
fitted at the aame time. Physicians
say that this power to build new
tissues and firm flesh is due to the
extraordinary attraction the blood
haa for this particular combination
of iron.
Druggists refund the purchase
price u you fail to get the result you
seek.'
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™ Accept Bg '
m No Substitutes m
9 lor
3 Thedford's
3LACK-ORAUBHI
■ Purely tf
Vegetable g
a Liver Medicine £
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Remarkable Checker Boards.
Probably the most extraordinary
checker board in the world was con
structed st St. Leonards, in Sussex,
England, In 1891. It was made'of
solid bricks df concrete, three feet
thick, and its surface covered an area
of 625 feet The pieces were moved
by hooked iron rods, making the game
of value as a physical as well as a
'mental exercise. A checker board
which was presented to Bismarck at
the height of his fame is said to have
been the most costly thing of its kind
ever made. The squares were made
of gold and silver Inlaid upon an
ebony case. There were 24 checkers,
12 of gold and 12 of sihrer. In the
center of each gold piece waa ft, ruby,
while each of the silver plecefe 'was
adorned «Ith a > diamond. The outfit £ ,
was valued at that time at about 7
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