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rulis.- Our ricc-. make you think. Call in io see us.
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For Infants and Children.
Mothers Know That
Genuine Castoria
Always
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Signature.
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CASTORIA
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Choice
Hams
There Is nothing' more
appetizing than a sjice of
our choice ham we nave
anvthinir vou mav want
lu the line of meats. All
Kinds of Canned Goods.
system, stimulate the brain, and
I DOG AS CHILD'S COMPANION
i With the Right Kind of Animal,
Youngster Will Seldom Stray
i Beyond Safe Hounds,
An ol.-t-i vatloii of oiir I'r ll. I III'1
I'll -.!.-. I till! "I 1 hi ' ,.'s I - ! I nr.l
l ii I'll, Ill's tiritli,' n . . 1 1 lusl llnl hail
l ''-'X 111 plil A.lll." illl'I'ilS c. ic ll lil
lilll.
Si.t'i'inii'- p'nernli.atlotis al e iiii-a' e,
lllll llll'I'e s nil ltl"-lioll ill' tilt" 1. title
of ;i tl;.' :i child'' playmate uli'l P''1'
to. !r. Sunn- doirs have the ni.:.
ilMllu't 111. nisohes. Tht II nf Ihi'
l "Ill's wl'.hln llii'in -llu'.v in"
Murrains by I) :i r ill'i. Sui'll ll '! '
Ui. lllll ilfllc.ht to lluo lilllllllll ''"!!
fniiy in !i runaway Journey unil are
i'il iiil'i' coiiipuiil'.iis lor cliililri'ii. I'm
i'ii' right kiml ni' ileus, mill ilii'i'i' ii iv
ii ;.i. of Ihoin. who him' been lit'out-li!
! mi with children, iiri' quick tn ii'-suhie
Hie lull' or guardian. Willi siirh 11 (!!
no rliihl would ever get !isl ; 1 n 1 1 t .
w 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 not lit' ullowed In .stray In-youil
houii'K
Wo have In mil. I ll (irellt riill.r
Whose ll'lllpt'l- wns snrli tlnil, lilt tnill"-tl
we were in'iiinliiiiiii''i's. we nt'vi-r ven
tured In elder his i itiii. if In1 witi"
around, until ho hiul hail time to sat
isfy lllllisi'll Ulllt WO I'lllllll puss IIIIIS-
i.t Hin t' saii-iioil you wort' approved
hy ilio i:..i ho called nnistor inul god
.1.' s ho mil. , inisti't'ss. hi' hnil tin
onil.arra.siii'j ttny of sliiiiillni! on his
liin.l li's I plniiiii; his from out's
. n.ii'i.l .Mini nook -n t'liii'sd quili' llkt--
ly, If you wort!, not woll hl'lni'il. f
kno. k you oti' jour fool. Ill' mis the
Ins.'iiiii'iililt' i' pin. Ion i if thf hnhy uf
tin- family-. i h..y of four or Iim
who Inul ti pri'illlt'itioii for I'liunlni!
Iiwny. Wh' ti Ilio yotliu-sti'l' sinrloil,
Mi.' ;r,iit I'alio followoil; whou thf
t-liilil it a. Iii'.l Hi.' i-'ati'. Iho ilo.- lil...'Uoil
his a. L-i'i: Iv hut tiniily. H'or nny
oiii to havo toiii'hiil that cltiltl wlioii
tho Ilauo w;S noar woiilil hivo oust
1 1 ) 1 1 1 his lift- unlfss ho I. i.l lil -t shot
inul shut to i.ill.
Iho lllll'l : -.'ll.-' of III!' ll.'L'.IS B
SOIII'I'l. of .'Olislllllt lllllll.i'llll'lll t
thoso who ki .iw liini host an. I lovo him
most : inul ..f Ills iloviiiion Hn rf Is.
happily, no i.iiistiiiii. If all i-liililivn
hail iloss as pla.nnnl.'s llit'l'i' woiilil ho
ffwor to run ii way mill gt'l lust. Ni)"
Hftlford Stiiiitlitnl.
Varnlih Not Full Protection.
Wood Is not wholly proU'i'li'd frmn
moisture h niriilshint, wlihli In
Nhown hy tt sls uf the r'oiwt I'roilui-ts
liihiitii'ory In Wlsoonsln to Iiiivh uiily
a i--1 iirtltiitc otToft. The wumls iisotl
..ii..- luroh luissw I. red ftfuin.
Afiliiin
innli.iKmi.v. white ash, white
pliu.
pine,
I'.ut
stillt.i snnioe. solllht'l'll yellow
hald 1'ypri'ss, liiffiise t'filnr,
lirfiinl ottliir. ntnl sutur pine;
l.ut thole
fi'i.'iu'e In
WHS
Ilo piTfi'litlho'
tin
(llfli'I'fllt spet'lf:
tho nioi-lun
iilisorlifd throtii-'li the
t'Olltilll.
M'hi '.nits of hlL'h t.'rnili'
smi'
...n.isi, u.-io aiii.ll.il to four
n, t. si....,ios two Illinois he-
I,,,, t,,ush-t ed inul two dipped with
I .l iim.'hilie llosii;neil to ISlve
.. ,,i The Illinois were tlrled
7" hours hetwoen fonts unil ten tlnyi
t,., tto. flnnl font: mitl were then ex-
.i i7 .-a VI to mi utiuosnhere pnic
.t ...ii.. ,im.i with moisture. The
. i." ...... tu.i ihiiioIs then sltowetl ten
liruso-s'."" i
urKtiiiues of inoistuie per square foot
of surfttte; tile ilippeu, uc.it.-."
ami live granimea.
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Women
In use for over -W years!
Tho. : jnds of voluntary
letters irom women, tell
ing of the good Cardui
has i! :iie them. Thi is
the bet proof o! the value
ofCar . ui. It proves that
Cardui is a good medicine
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There are no harm rut or
habit -lorming drugs In
Cardui. It is composed
only cf mild, medicinal
ingredient?, with no bad
aiter-ellects.
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The Woman's Tonic
You can rely on Cardui.
Surelv it will do tor you
what it has done lor so
many thousands of other
women! It should help.
"I was taken sick,
ras taken sick,
lr .Veste,
soiThihts, Va.
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seemed to.
writes Mri
of Madison
"I got down sir weak,
could hardly walk . . .
Just staggered around.
... I read of Cardui,
and after taking one bot
tle, or before taking quite
all, I felt much belter. I
took 3 or 4 bMilcs at
that time, and wai able to
do my work. I take It In
the spiiug when run
down. I had no appetite,
and I cornn enced eating.
It Is the be . I tonic I ever
saw." Try Cardui,
All Druggists
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gfDJSCARDED
crashes into it, causint; craniping and nausea.
Take "Dodson's Liver Tone" Instead!
If you feel bilious, headachy, run
Btipated unil all knocked out. just go
to your druggist and A a lwttV of
Dodgon'i I.ivcr Tone for a few rents,
which ia a harmless vegetable sub
itltute.for dangerous calomel. Take
a spoonful and if it doesn't start
your liver and straighten yon up
better and quicker than nasty calomel
Manila carnival big
attraction of far east
This Is the season of the year when
the Philippines become the playground
for the entire orient. It Is carnival,
season In Manila.
In 1II08 the flrst Philippine carnival
was held on historic Wallace Field In
Manila in February, when the climate
of the Islands Is at Its best, und each
succeeding year there has been larg
er and more elaborate celeliruiloii.
The 1'JL'O, or Victory Curulval, will be
the greatest event of Ita aort ever held
anywhere lu the Fur I'.ust.
There are cotumcrchil and govern
ment exhibits In connection with lie
carnival, and on no other occasion Is It
possible to gain at once such a com
prehensive Idea of the produ . lion and
How Would You Like lo Harvest Two Crops
of Corn a Year as They Do in the Philippines?
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No, reader, this corn was not grown'
by on of our local farmers 1 It wasn't
grown In the United States, even. II
was grown In the faroff Philippine Is
lands by Filipino schoolboys. Two tine
crops of corn a yeur are produced In'
the islands.
The Philippines are doing mune won
derful things In tho agricultural line.
The Philippine government bus line it
rlculiuiul schools throughout the la
lands, and the Philippine legislature,
composed entirely of Flllpluos, is each
year making larger .and larger appro
prlihoiis for this Important work.
l.ic staple food of the islands Is rice,
but corn la coming right along In popu
lar favor Its use was given great Im
petus In the last year because of a rice
$100 REWARD. $100.
The readers of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dread
ed disease that science has been aide to
cure tu all its stag. s. and tiiat is alanli
Hall's Catarrh Cuie is the only posimc
cure uuw kuowu to the medical fiutei
nity. Catauh heiug a constitutional
disease, it quues a constitutional treat
meul. IIuIIb'b Cutarih Cute is taken in
teiually, acting directly upon the mu
cous nil faces of the system, thereby de
stroying the foundation of tin! disease
aud givim? the patientstrcugtlibybuild
lug up the constitution and assisting it.
tltunir its work The proprietors have
so much faith in Us cui attve powers that
they oll'en'ne Hundred Dollars lot any
case that it fails to cure.
F. I. CIIENKV id CO.,
Toledo, libit.
Testimonials sent free. Price V. cent,
per bottb . Hold liv all diugsists.
Halt's Familv Fills for Constipation
writer
Calomel salivates! It's mercury. Calomel
acts like dynainile mi a slity.siMi liver. When
calomel comes into contact with sour bile it
nd wit In nit making you sick, you
iu.t iro b.n'k and jet your money.
If you tnl" calomel today you'll
be !.'!; and ll.illtiatid tomorrow; be
side, it may alivnte you, while if
you t.fe 0"'-on' T.iver Tone yen
will wake up teeliug KruiU' full uf
ambition and ready for work or play.
i H is harmless, plea.ant and safe to
I give to chlMren; they tike it.
development of resources of the archi
pelago as that which Is offered the
visitor at the carnival city.
In the evenings the carnival becomes
the center of Philippine und oriental
social activity. A huge open air audi
torium serves for tit elaborate nightly
balls, und on Its iiuiiiiii.il Ii lluor thou
sands of couples swing together to the
strains of music furnished by the fa
mous Constabulary und other military
bands. Probably at noother place In
the world will one see un equally Im
pressive cosmopolitan spectacle.
The Manilu visitor who can plau his
trip to urrlve at the Pearl of the Orient
for carnival time niuy well deem him
self fortunate.
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shortage. Other Important Philippine
crops are hemp, sugar cane, cocoanuts,
coffee, tapioca and pineapples. Lum
ber Is also an Important Industry.
There are hundreds of thousands of
a.'.es of land lying Idle In the Philip
pines, which have a greater area of
fertile land than Japan this lu spit
of the fact that the population of the
Philippines Is 11,000.000 while that of
Japan la around 5o,000,000. There Is
every ren to believe that some r)y
the Philippines will have a population
as large as that of Japan today. The
rillplnos are the only Christian people
in the orient, and their young men are
working night and day to prepare
themselves for the responsibility of
cltlwnshlp In th Philippine Republic,
which they bellevn to be near at hand.
' Chronic Constipation.
There are people w ho never have a
movement of the hoAels without it is
produced by a cathaitic. Most of them
have brought tint condition on them
selves by the use of mineral waters and
strong cathartics that take too much
water out of the system and aggravate
the disease they arc meant to relieve. A
mil. I laxative tunic like Cliauibeilaiu's
Tablets afford a gentle movement of the
bowels Cat you baldly realise has been
produced by a medicine, and their use
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If? 3M I'rthr Wmm
itil il
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is not so likeli to be followed by ennath
I at ion .
The age of romance for a wo
man is anywhere between 6 and 65
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
Still Believe In' Falrlea.
A ease Just heiin! In the TTppeniry
eourtK reveals the survival In Ireland
of n belief In the fairies. It was a
elnlin for t'otnis'iisiillon for cutting
trees and hushes around n fort at
Sluinhnlly. The elnlnmnt said he espe
chilly valued .these hushes as "there
wiis'dnncInK and lights there every
nlk-ht"
It was alleged thut the defendant
had taken awny the bnstu to evict
the fulrli'S.
The Judtji' pointed oil! thut If there
wore fairies Ihey would visit their nn
irer on tho iiiiin who dared lo cut
the hushes mid not on the owner. IT"
did not accept the fairy theory mat
dismissed the claim.
Receiving Wlrelesa.
Hy use of photography, a method
Invented hy 0. A. llovle. an electrh n'
engineer nf Schenectady, wireless mes
sages can lie received and recorded at
a fur greater speed and with mure ne
eiiriuy than heretofore. The Inven
tion penults the eye either to supple
ment or replace the enr In rending
wireless messages. The niachtae has
reached u rate nf 41 X) words a inla
nd', and In lest as iiy us (inn words.
t'p to this time the most rapid melh
et of r riling niilhi slgnnls has his-ti
hy phonograph, hut this must still he
tniiiscrlhcil, so to speak, hy the ear
und not the eye, and moreover nn
peniiaiient visual record Is made.
Harmful Duit in Factories.
The dust In various Industrial e.
tiiMlshinetits Is found by Professor
Wltislow of Yale Medical school, tn
range from about one-twentieth of n
grain of aolld particles per 100 culih
feel of air lit a good inelal n,lls,ilng
simp to l'J grains In a textile factory
Hut while a carpet or blanket mill
yields more dust than such Imltislrlo
as pottery, asbestos, lohnceo anil steel
grinding. Utile of it Is Inorganic mat
ter. and It Is the dust from ahraslvt
materials that seems mot huniifui
und to tend must to produce t liberal
IllttlS.
To Foil Auto Thlevee.
To aid Ir. the capture of nutomohili
thieves' it I...s Angi'les man has In
veutctl cbitup In tie locked about v
tire a ..rh makes a loud noise ea-t
time It strikes a pavement and leavm
tn easily followed trail.
Dollars and Cents
Counting it only in dollais ami cents
how much ill. I tliut cold cost you'.' A
man may uol ulvtuys sttii wink when
he has a cold, but perhaps it would be
better if he did It takes about ti n
ilavs to get completely ml of a col.l un
der the usual tieulmi'lit. 'Flint tunc
ran be much shortened by taking! hum
lierlaiu's Cough Kcnieily ami propel
care of yours. If, in fact, a bottle of this
reiuedy in the hojise is a mighty good
investment during the winter and spring
mouths.
Some of us are old before oru
time because we had a peach of a
time.
For The Children.
Too much care cannot hecNeicise.l in
securing a eouirh m.-dieiiie foi children
ll should lie pluisjut tn take, contain
uo tiaitol'ul dititf and most effectual in
ciitiinz tin it coughs and folds. Long
experience tias shown that t hainlici
Iain's ( 'ough Itcmedy meets these con
ditious. it is a favorite with many
mothers
Ainiosi every man has the gi is
taken idea ihat he is essential to
ill.- Workings of the universe.
Periodic Bilious Attacks
Persons subject to periodic bilious at
tacks will observe that their appetite
fails tin in just i el'tiie an attack. That
is, they do not really crave food but eat
bi cause it is meal tunc ll they will
eat only a liL'bt meal and un meat, then
take two oi 'Chamberlain's Tablets the
ultack mav be avoided.
Ii is easy for a man io manage
his wife. All he has to do is to
Follow her instructions.
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 30 Years
Always bears
tbe
Signature of
ASPIRIN FOR HEADACHE
Name "Bayer" is on Genuine
Aspirin say Bayer
Insist on "Bavsr Tablets ef Aipirin"
in a "Bayer package," containing proper
directions (or Headache, Colds, Pain,
Neuralgia, Lumbago, and Rheumatism.
Name "Bayer" mnam genuine Anpina
br
. H. ii.lv on nuKes 01 l lauicvs
cost few cents. Aspirin is trade mark
of Bayer Manufacture of Uonoaoetit-
semester ot saiicyucucia.
PROMPT RELIEF
for the acid-distressed aturaach,
try two or three
KhioiDG
after meals, diseolviJ on the
tongue keep four stomach
sweet try Kl-saolds the new
aid to digestion.
MADE BY SCOTT & BOWNK
MAKERS OF SCOTT'S EMULSION
LtlA
THE BEST INSURANCE
AGAINST INFLUENZA
Prominent Educator Believes That
Vapomentha Is A Sure
Preventive.
Dr. R. M. Brame, discoverer of
Brame's Vapomeniha Salve, has a
letter from C. C. VCricht, Superin
tendent of the Vi'ilkes County, N.
C, Public Schools, in which he
says: "We have used Brume's
Vapomeniha Salve lor nearly all
the ills for which ii is prescribed
and have always secured satisfac
tory results. If used in lime it
has never failed to break up colds,
usually ihe forerunner of Grippe,
Influenza and Pneumonia.
I speak from personal observation.
I believe if this preparation is used
in lime n will prevent the develop
ment of pneumonia in every in
stance, if used according io direc
tions. "
These sirong statements are fully
justified by the remarkable recov
eries that follow. Brame's Vapo
mentha Salve is applied freely
over the chest and ihroat and iii-
MANY of our savings deposiiors opened their accounts with
just $ I . Bui bow their dollars have grown since. Into
hundreds, and in some cases, thousands of dollars. It is just
a matter of saving so much each week or month, but the im
portant part is the START.
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This is the Name we have
earned. Why? This is in
Reality Everybody's Store
A trial is all we ask.
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ROSEMARY ROANOKE RAPIDS WELDON M
l'y SpeJd LL You Ennfl?
You might get sick or hurt be prepared for it
You might want to make an investmentstart
now, "Takes money to make money," you know)
You might be visited by thieves or fire an account
with us prevents loss. The saving habit Is a mighty
good one to yet into. We pay 4 per cent on Sav
ings Accounts
THE BANK OF HALIFAX &
HALIFAX 1T.O.
P. C. Urag-ory,
Vice-PreeideBt.
N. L. Stedman
President
seried in each nostril Brame's
Vapomeniha Salve peneiraies the
pores of the skin, relieving con
gestion, at the same lime healing
vapors iirise und are breathed
through the mouth and nose, loos
ening i tie phlegm and causing the
paiienis lo breathe freely, lis ab
solute it Itahiliiy is evidenced by
dozens of unsolicited testimonials.
Branie's Vapomeniha Salve will
relieve pneumonia, influenza, la
grippe, plcutisy, bronchitis. whoop
ing cough, c.itiirrh. asihtna, tonsi
litis, hay lever and inflammation
of the skin.
Vapomentha is applied externally
and it will not stain the clothes, as
oilier salves do. No home should
ever be without ii. Buy it from
your dealer or direct From Brame
Drug Co , North Wilkesboro, N.
C. A small bottle costs 30c. ;a
much larger one, containing six
limes as much, $1.20 Adv.
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