GET READY
FOR "fl»"
Ceep Your Liver Active, Your
System Purified and Tree From
Colds by Taking Calotabs,
the Nausealess Calomel
Tablets, that are De
lightful, Safe and
Sure.
Physicians and Druggists are advis
fef their friends to keep their systems
purified and their organs in perfeet
working order as a protection against
ths return of influenza. They know
that a clogged up system and a lazy
liver favor colds, influenza and serious
complications.
To cut short a cold overnight and to
prevent serious complications take one
Oalotab at bedtime with a swallow of
water— that's all. No salts, no nausea,
no griping, no sickening after effects.
Next morning your cola has varnished,
your liver is active, your system is pnrij i
fled and refreshed and you are feeling i
fine with a hearty appetite for break
fast. Eat what you please— no danger.
Oalotabs are sold only in original
sealed packages, price thirty-five cents.
Every druggist is authorized to refund
your money if you are not perfectly
delighted with Calotabs. —(Adv.)
Supreme Office.
Robert caine home filled with excite
ment about a new club formed by sev
eral of the neighborhood associates.
He said, "Jim is president and Myron
Is vice president, but I ai» the most
important officer."
"And what are you?" asked Uncle
Robert.
"Why. I'm janitor, and they can't
get in till I unlock the door!"
HURRY! YOUR HAIR
NEEDS "DANDERINE"
Get rid of every bit of that ugly
dandruff and stop fall
ing hair.
To stop falling hair at once and rid
the scalp of every particle of dandruff,
get a small bottle of "Danderine" at
any drug or toilet counter for a few
cents, pour a little in your hand and
rub well into the scalp. After several
applications all dandruff usually goes
and hair stops coming out. Every hair |
In your head soon shows new life, vigor, i
brightness, thickness and more color.
—Adv.
A Dusty Worm.
"Why don't you marry him?"
"He has such freakish ideas. Says
he's a worm of the dust."
"But as long as he is a worm with
the dust, what do you care?" —Boston
Transcript.
LESS MEAT IF BACK
AND KIDNEYS HURT
'Take a Glass of Salts to Flush
Kidneys if Bladder
Bothers You.
Eating meat regularly eventually
produces kidney trouble in some form
or other, says a well-known authority,
because the uric acid in meat excites
the kidneys, they become overworked;
get sluggish; clog up and cause all
sorts of distress, particularly back
ache and misery in the kidney region;
rheumatic twinges, severe headaches,
acid stomach, constipation, torpid
liver, sleeplessness, bladder and uri
nary irritation.
The moment your back hurts or kid
neys aren't acting right, or if bladder
\ bothers you, get about four ounces of
Jad Salts from any good pharmacy;
take a tablespoonful in a glass of
water before breakfast for a few days
and your kidneys will then act fine.
This famous salts is made from the
acid of grapes and lemon juice, com
bined with llthia, and has been used
for generations to flush clogged kid
neys and stimulate them to normal
activity; also to neutralize the acids
In the urine so it no longer irritates,
thus ending bladder disorders.
Jad Salts cannot injure anyone;
makes a delightful effervescent lKhla
water drink which millions of men and
women take now and then to keep the
kidneys and urinary organs clean, thus
avoiding serious kidney disease. —Adv.
On the street cars, the fat men al
ways seem to get the inside seats.
Farmers are the only men who can
'"help each other with their work."
Important to Mother®
'Examine carefully every bottle of
'QASTORIA, that famous old remedy
"for infants and children, and see that it
In Use for Over 30 Years.
Children. Cry for Fletcher's Castoria
Work I Work! that is my unfailing
cure for all troubles.—Lydia Maria
Child.
FIFTEEN YEARS
OF BLACK-DRAUGHT
Black-Draught Highly Recom
mended by Illinois Man for
Liver and Stomach Disor
ders. —Used It for Fif
teen Years.
Singerton, 111—"For fifteen years
vse have used Thedford's Black-
Daaught, and have not as yet found
anything that could take its place,
writes Mr. W. F. Bister, of this town.
"I have used it for indigestion a num
ber of times, and it gives relief,"
continues Mr. Rister.
"For sour stomach, a heavy, bloated
feeling, it is splendid. And when the
liver gets torpid, so that when you
stoop and raise up suddenly you feel
dizzy, a few doses will set you straight.
"We keep It and use for consti
pation and the above troubles, and
find it most satisfactory. I can recom
mend it to others and gladly do so.
For the number of years I have used
Black-Draught now, I ought to know."
In its 70 years of usefulness, Thed
ford's Black-Draught has relieved
thousands and thousands of persons
suffering from the results of a dis
ordered liver. And, like Mr. Rister,
many people feel that, after using
Black-Draught nothing can take its
place.
If you haven't tried Black-Draught
get a package today.
Nearly every druggist keeps it
—Adv.
Cheerfulness is an excellent wear
ing quality. It has been t'Vled the
bright weather of the heart.—'Samuel
Smiles.
TAKE ASPIRIN RIGHT
Bayer Company, who introduced As
pirin in 1900, give proper
directions.
To get quick relief follow carefully
the safe and proper directions in each
unbroken package of "Bayer Tablets
of Aspirin." This package is plainly
stamped with the Safety "Bayer
Cross."
The "Bayer Cross" means the gen
uine, world-famous Aspirin, prescribed
by physicians for over eighteen years.
"Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" can be
taken safely for Colds, Headache,
Toothache, Earache, Neuralgia, Lum
bago, Rheumatism, Joint Pains, Neu
ritis, and Pain generally.
Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost
but a few cents. Druggists also sell
| larger "Bayer" packages. Aspirin is
| the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture
; of Monoacetlcacidester of Salicylic
acid. —Adv.
Took Him Literally.
Renpeck—"That woman is unspeak
able." Henpeck—"Then she's just the
woman for me."
RUB RHEUMATISM OR
SORE, ACHING JOINTS
Rub Pain Right Out With Small
Trial Bottle of Old "St.
Jacobs Oil."
Rheumatism is "pain" only. Not
one case in fifty requires internal
treatment. Stop drugging. Rub sooth
ing, penetrating "St. Jacobs Oil" right
Into your sore, stiff, aching Joints and
muscles, and relief comes instantly.
"St. Jacobs Oil" is a harmless rheu
matism cure which never disappoints
and cannot burn the skin.
Limber up! Quit complaining! Get
a small trial bottle of old, honest
"St. Jacobs Oil" at any drug store,
and in just a moment you'll be free
from rheumatic pain, soreness, stiff
ness and swelling. Don't suffer! Re
lief awaits you. "St. Jacobs Oil" has
cured millions of rheumatism sufferers
in the last half century, and Is just as
good for sciatica, neuralgia, lumbago,
backache, sprains.—Adv.
Count your blessings every morning.
It should make you an optimist till
noon, anyway.
Wh«n you got
A few tablets ef "Pape's Diapepsin"
bring relief almost as soon as they
reach the stomach.
"Pape's Diapepsin," by neutralizing
the acidity of the stomach, instantly re
lieves the food souring and fermenta
tion which causes the misery-making
gases, heartburn, flatulence, fullness
or pain in stomach and intestines.
"Pape's Diapepsin" helps regulate
disordered stomachs so favorite foods
can be eaten without causing distress.
Costs so little at drug stores.
miasm.
S«M fir SO Ycin. FOP. MALAKIA, C""* AND FfcVEg.
[ Alt* a flu General SireajUwaiaj Ttiic. At &il Pra* S{«ss.
SOME REGENT PROMOTK
The Farming Interests of this Stats
could aione Easily Finance issue
Bonds for Fifty Million Dollars.
Charlotte, —Following is a list of
men who enlisted at the local navy
recruiting station in the Mint build
ing and have been promoted during
the lasit month all being graduates
of some one of the navy's achool:
Fred L. Heafner, Charlotte, Basil
H. Hooper, Charlotte, Samual J.
Broom, Charlotte, John C. Sheets,
Gasto-/?, Earnest Ludwick Kanna
polis, Grover C. Cleveland, Bessemer
City, Sexton G. Rankin, McAdenville,
James R. Faither, Callahan, George
H. Loflin, Salisbury, Van C. Hols
houser, Rockwell, James H. Marshall,
Thomasville; Wm. F. Bowles, Mocks
ville.
The farming interests alone of this
state easily could finance the refund
ing, including interest, of a $50,000,000
issue of bonds for permanent highway
construction, it is indicated by fig
ures made public by Col. T. L. Kirk
patrick, president of the Charlotte,
Asheville-Wilmington highway asso
ciation, the leaders of the movement
to secure the enatment of a bill, au
thorizing suh an issue, during the spe
ial session of the legislature to be held
this summer.
Shelby.—The Cleveland Bank and
Trust Co. opened a temporary office
in the Shelby Hotel building. This
office is established to carry on cor
respondence. Actual business will not
begin for several days.
Washington. (Special). Frank
L. Spruill, representing the North
Carolina Pine association, has invited
Attorney General Palmer to speak at
Norfolk on tho 30th. Mr. Palmer has
accepted. The invitation was extend
ed through Senator Overman.
BurlingtonAt a very enthusiastic
and largely attended meeting of citi
zens and business men, plans were
discussed looking to the organization
of a chamber of commerce.
Kinston, —D. G. Brummitt, speaker
of the House of Representatives of
the General Assembly, will deliver
the commencement address to grad
uates of Grainger High school here
the night of May 28, it was announced
by Kader R. Curtis, superintendent of
schools. Speaker Brummitt is an ora
tor of wide repute. He is Granville
county's representative in the
sembly.
Asheville, —Thomas P. Roach, a
fullblooded Cherokee Indian of Musko
gee, Okla., who arrived here with his
friend, Dr. John A. Reynolds, is a son
of an Indian woman who was removed
from western North Carolina in the
early part of last century, to Okla
homa. He states that his mother is
still alive at the age of 107.
Salisbury,—Exalted Ruler T. W.
Summersett of the local lodge of Elks
has announced the committee select
ed by the central committee to have
charge of the state meeting of Elks to
be held in Salisbury this year.
The local boys are expecting from
800 to 1,000 visitors and are prepar
ing to entertain them royally. A fea
ture of the entertainment program
will be a big barbecue.
Wilson, —That it pay 5 to raise some
thing besides tobacco and cotton has
been fully demonstrated by Mr. R. G.
Briggs, a prominent banker of this
city. He sold to Mr. W. R. Nowell,
buitcher for the Carroll Grocery Com
pany two Black Angus steers, two and
a half years old, for $248.79, that when
"dressed" tipped the scales at 1,594
pounds. Mrr Nowell says they were
two of the finest cattle he ever
slaughtered and the equal if not bet
ter than any shipped out from the
West.
Ahoskie, —Ahoskie will soon have a
new banking institution, under the
name of Sessoms Banking and Trust
Company. This corporation was re
cently organized wiith a $25,000 auth
orised capital stock, and SIO,OOO
paid in.
The business of erecting the new
electric light plant in Ahoskie is mov
ing forward.
Much Building in Goldsboro.
Goldsboro, —Goldsboro now is en
joying perhaps the most pronounced
building boom it has ever had. The
Export Leaf Tobacco Company is
building one of the largest plants in
this part of the state. The Imperial
Stemmery will break ground in a few
days for an enlarged plant. It is rum
ored that the tfl. J. Reynolds Company
and the British American Company
have both bought sites on which to
build. Work has been started on two
additional sales warehouses for the
coming season.
Injured by Street Car.
Durham, —Henry Radford, 17-year
old son of C. H. Radford, is in the hos
pital minus the big toe on right foot
and the second one broken and bruis
es about the head. Dr. Cheatham's
automobile was wedged lengthwise be
tween two other machines, and a man
in the rear was helping to get the car
out, when Radford, on a bicycle,
swerved around the rear car from the
opposite side, struck this man, knock
ing him down and the boy was thrown
from the bicycle and fell near a pass
ing street car, which did the injuries.
THE COURIER, FOREST CITY, N. C.
PATENT OFFICE
IS NEGLECTED
CONGRESS IS URGED TO ENACT
LEGISLATION TO INCREASE
ITS EFFICIENCY.
ITS CHIEF NEEDS ARE LISTED
Increase of Staff, Equipment and Com
pensation Are Called for to Meet
the Demands on This Exceedingly
Busy Bureau.
By JAMES P. HORNADAY.
Washington. Many business or
ganizations throughout the country
are urging congress to enact legisla
tion that will increase the efficiency of
the United States patent office in the
handling of all matters pertaining to
inventions and patents facilitating
quick and more thorough research,
prompt determination of the rights of
Inventors, and avoidance of unneces
sary litigation. The patent office itself
has made representation to congress
that among its urgent needs are these:
1. An increase of staff to meet the
Increase of business submitted to the
office.
2. An increase of equipment com
mensurate with the ever expanding
activities of the office.
3. A radical increase of compensa
tion for the staff, at least as large as
that found necessary in carrying for
ward the industries of the country
through skilled assistants of the same
order of qualification as is demanded
by the patent system.
4. An annual study period, of at
least one month, preferably three
months, for each principal examiner
and assistant examiner, under full pay
and reasonable expenses, while direct
ed by the commissioner as to available
periods, etc., conditioned on a full time
study of the practical phases of the
industries of the subjects allotted to
them in their official capacity as ex
aminers. That a formal report of such
observations be made and filed in the
division archives for reference.
Growth of the Patent Office.
Since 1836 more than a million and
a quarter patents have been issued.
The patent office began its existence
with a commissioner, one examiner,
a clerk and two other clerks having
the necessary qualifications of drafts
men. The office force now includes a
commissioner, two assistant commis
sioners, five law examiners, a board of
appeals of five members, 48 examiners
having the rank of principals, about
360 assistant examiners, and a clerical
force numbering approximately 525.
There are 45 examining divisions,
each in charge of a principal, who has
under him six to eight assistant ex
aminers. Each division passes on dis
tinct subjects of invention, represent
ing the entire range of human en
deavor in tan "ible effort. Whether the
invention peruiins to a hairpin or a
cantilever bridge, a perfume or a
deadly gas, a process for mounting
jewels or for extracting and refining
metals, a new toy or a new engine of
destruction; whether it is mechanical,
chemical or electrical, as simple as a
pin or as complex as a newspaper
printing press, there will be found in
the patent office experts possessed of
the requisite knowledge to understand
the invention, its operation and the
field occupied by similar attempts.
Technical and Legal Staff.
In addition to the examining corps,
the technical and legal organization of
the patent office consists of interfer
ence examiners, a trademark examiner,
a classification examiner, a board of
examiners-in-chlef, a staff of law ex
aminers, and a commissioner and as
sistant commissioners. The interference
examiners decide who is the earliest
of several inventors having conflicting
claims for the same invention: the
board is an appellate tribunal, which
hears and decides cases passed on ad
versely by a lower tribunal: while the
commissioner has still further appel
late jurisdiction. From the commis
sioner a final appeal lies to the court
of appeals of the District of Columbia.
Of all the countries in the world
the United States has benefited most
by invention. Her inventors form the
most notable list In the sphere of ap
plied science, and their contributions
are the wonder and the envy of her
competitors for Industrial supremacy.
To the cotton gin the South largely
owes her prosperity, and the northern
textile mills a sufficient supply of raw
material; to the reaper the West owes
In no small degree her development
and the country a plentitude of food
products. Although the American
patent system Is the best ever devised,
It has been so neglected by congress
that it Is almost "run down at the
heel." Its facilities and equipment are
with few exceptions the poorest of
those of the government bureaus in
Washington; its personnel Is inade
quate in numbers to cope with its
duties; and the mpthods of promotion
and the compensation awarded Its
technical corps are so antiquated that
the force is in a continuous state of
flux owing to numerous resignations
resulting from vastly better - oppor
tunities offered In private employment.
The First Shall Be Last.
An elderly mail, driving a Henry,
suddenly fetched up in a drug store
window.
"Is this the first time you ever drove
ft car?" asked a police officer.
"No, sir," was the grim reply, "this
is the last." —Journal of the America®!
Association.
' I'M SO GLAD I DIDNT TAKE
NASTY, SICKENING CALOMEL
) , ——
"Poison's Liver Tone" Makes You Feel Just Grand aaj
You Can Eat Anything and Not Be Salivated
Calomel salivates! If you feel bil
ious, headachy, constipated. If your
Skin is sallow, your breath bad, your
stomach sour just go to any druggist
and get for a few cents a bottle of
Dodson's Liver Tone, which is a harm
less vegetable substitute for danger
ous Calomel. Take a spoonful and if
it doesn't start your liver and straight
en you up better and quicker than
nasty Calomel and without making
Alarming Symptoms.
"There is something meretricious
about Maude."
"Goodness gracious! Is it ketchln'?"
ANY WOMAN CAN DYE
AND KEEP IN STYLE
"Diamond Dyes" Turn Faded, Shabby
Apparel Into New.
Don't worry about perfect results.
Use "Diamond Dyes," guaranteed to
give a Dew, rich, fadeless color to any
fabric, whether it be wool, silk, linen,
cotton or mixed goods dresses,
blouses, stockings, skirts, children's
coats, feathers—everything!
Direction Book in package tells h«w
to diamond dye over any color. To
match any material, have dealer show
you "Diamond Dye" Color Card. —Adv.
Safety First.
Mrs. Smith and her daughter attend
ed the movie. On entering they found
it very dark. The daughter, taking the
lead, found seats No. 2 and 3, about
midway in the balcony. The man in
seat No. 1 stood, up to let the two pass,
and when they had entered the row
the mother thought she was falling
and reached her hand forward to catch
herself. The man, still standing, said
to the mother: "Lady, you have your
hand on that man's head."
Drawing her hand back with sur
prise, she turned to the speaker and
said: "Oh, I thought it was a post, for
it shone like that post up there."
After seating herself she addressed
her daughter in a loud voice, and said:
"I put my hand right on that man's
head," pointing to a man In the row
below. Much laughter followed and
many lost interest in the rest of the
film.
Teacher's Splendid Record.
Miss Jennie Fish, placed on the
pension list at the age of seventy by
the New York board of education aft
er 52 years' continuous service as a
teacher in one school in the Bronx,
has taught 40,000 children, Including
three generations of at least one fam
ily. In all the 52 years she was never
late in reporting for duty and has
been absent only once, when there was
a death In the family.
Bltp Invigorating
3 Table Beverage
—a real part of the meal,
not merely something* to
drink with your fooa —
POSTDMtefAI
If you feel that something
interferes with your
health, stop tea and cof
fee and use this popular
drink,
"There's
No raise in price.
Marte by Postum Cereal Company
Battle Creek, Michigan.
you sick, you just go back and i
your money.
If you take Calomel today yonUi
sick and nauseated tomorrow; beM
it may salivate you, while if you m
Dodson's Liver Tone you will wakj.
feeling great, with a hearty apr,eta
full of ambition and ready for
or play. It is harmless, pleasant u
safe to give to children—Adv.
On Even Terms.
An old codger, disliking the 1
marks of the chairman at a polity
meeting, shouted: "Young man.ld
a Republican before you were bod
"What of that?" came back i
chairman. "I will he a Republican)
ter you are dead. Sit down
change.
RECIPE FOR GRAY HAIR,
To half pint of water add 1 oz. Bay Ej
ft small box of Barbo Compound, and
oz. of glycerine. Apply to the hairtiia
week until it becomes the desired sit
Any druggist can put this up or yoa«
mix it at home at very little cost. It i
gradually darken streaked, faded gray In
and will make harsh hair soft and gla
It will not co'or the scalp, is not stickjj
greasy, and does not rub off.—Adv.
KING HAD SOME IMAGINATIS
Wonderful Story of "Waterless Si
Would Have Done Credit to
Baron Munchausen.
Prester John as a title was I
the Egyptian Pharaoh and belong
whole lines of king who reigned
the East and in Ethiopia in partial
One writer of long ago sets Abysa
as the kingdom of Prester .Tohn.il
sinia used to be called "Middle Ini
It is related that l>ei'"re the?
1241 a letter was address d by I'm
John to Manuel Comnn n ; :>. mip)
of Constantinople, saying that inß
ter John's country there is a "«'£
less sea," which none have f
crossed. It consists of tumbling
ldws of sand, never at r.-sr. and i
tains fish of most excel M.t
Three days' journey i'mci the fl
of the sand sea is a mountain «'ii
rolls down a "waterless
sisting of small stones, which era
into sand when they reach the sfl
Whoever Prester John may i
been, if he invented that story,
certainly possessed a vivid iraa!
tion and considerable originality.
Extreme Economist.
"Are the locomotives goinu' f
bells and blow whistles when then
gineers' wages are raised?"
"I don't know," replied Mr. W
Stax, cautiously, "whether we car
ford to use up all that steam ani.
power." j