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"Dyer!" he exclaimed.
"Right my son.' said the other
coolly.
"What are you doing?"
"If you want to know, I am filing
this chain."
Wallace made one step forward and
so became aware that at last firearms
were taking a part In this desperate
game.
"You stand still!" commanded Dver
' from bplilnu the revolver. "It's unfor
, tannic ' - rou that you happened
"You stand still"
along, because now you'll have to come
with me till this little row is over. Yon
won't have to stay long. Your logs 'II
go out In an hour. I'll Just trouble
you to go Into the brush with me for
awhile."
The scaler picked his file from beside
the weakened link.
"What have you against as, anyway.
Dyer?" asked Wallace. His quick mind
had conceived a plan. At the moment
he- was standing near the outermost
edge of the Jam, but now as he spoke
he stepped quietly to the boom log.-
Dyer's black eye gleamed at him
auspiciously, bat the movement appear
ed wholly natural In view of the re
turn to shore.
"Nothing," he replied. "I didn't like
your gang particularly, bat that" a noth
ing." ''Why do you take such nervy
Chances to Injure us?" queried Car
penter, "Because there's something In It,"
mapped the scaler. "Now, about face.
Mosey!"
Like a flash, Wallace wheeled and
dropped Into the river, swimming aa
fast aa possible below water before
bis breath should give out The swift
current hurried him away. When at
last he rose for air the spit of Dyer's
pistol caused him no uneasiness. A
moment later he struck out boldly for
Shore. -
WliAt Dyer's ultimate plan might be
he could not guess. He had- stated con
fidently that the Jam would break "In
an hour." He might Intend to start it
with dynamite. Wallace dragged him
self from the water and commenced
breathlessly to ran toward the board
ing house. . -
- Dyer had already reached shore.
Wfillnce raised what was left or bla
voice in a despairing shout The scaler
mockingly waved his hat, then turned
and ran swiftly and easily toward the
shelter of the woods. At their border
be paused again to I "w In derision.
Carpenter's cry brought men to the
boarding bouse door. From the shad
ows of the forest two vivid flashes cot
the dusk'.' h.'t'.f staggered, turned com
pletely about seemed partially to re
cover and disappeared.. An Instant
later, across the open space where the
calsr had stood, with rifle a-trail, the
Indian leaped in pursuit
CHAPTEB XXXIIL
1
HAT la Itr "What ia the mat-
terr "What the s up7"
"What's happened V burst on
Wallace in a Toller. .
"It's Dyer!" gasped the yoang man.
"I found him on the boom! . He held
me op with a gun while be filed the
boom chains between the center piers.
They're Jr . ready to go. 1 got away
hw divine Hnrrr and pat in a new
rhain Yon haven't aot mock timer
"He's a goner bow," Interjected Sol
ly grimly. "Charley la oa nia irau-
and nela lit" it
Thorpe's Intelligence leaped promptly
to the practical question.
"Injun Charley wnerro no
from? I sent him op to Sadler
Smith's. Ifa twenty auiea, v
tbrough the wooda."
Aa though by way oc cowem umww
Hm waia surface of the) jam aaorea
Inward and upward, thrusting the loge
bristling ar net the horlsoa. . .
Sbe'a going break!" ebouted
Thorpe, starting on a run toward the
river. "A chain, qmcar
The mm followed, strung high wtf
excitement Hamilton, the JoorBaHsfc
pauaed long enough to.glaaeaap
stream. Them he, too. raa afta tteas.
creaming that the river avewaafuB
of kogfe- By that they all knew that
WmTchartry-a mlsekm hadfaOrdad
St aometblng onder 10.000000 feet of
log, vers raring dowa the river like
many battering ransa.
At the boom the great Jajaiwaa al
ready a tremble . with 1,f1"m!
Krtn. IWd a mlrade siooe seemed
to bold the ttobeta to (tlrtao
-It's death. "fi J!?
oo that boom," muttered BUly Jtaao ,
Tint Shearer stepped forward coolly.
By STEWART
EDWARD
WHITE
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Sttnart Litmard ft! 1.1,.
ready as always to assume the perilous
duty. He was thrust back by Thorpe,
who selaed the chain, cold-shut and
hammer which Bcotty Parsons brought
and ran lightly out over the booms,
shouting:
"Back! Back! Don't follow me, on
your lives! Keep 'em back, Tim!"
The swift water boiled from under
the booms. Bang! smash! bang! crash
ed the logs a mile up stream, but plain
ly audible above the waters and the
wind. Thorpe knelt dropped the cold
shut through on either side of the
weakened link and prepared to close It
with his hammer. He Intended further
to strengthen the connection with the
other chain.
"Lemme hold her for you. You can't
close her alone." said an unexpected
voice next his elbow.
Thorpe looked up in surprise and an
ger. Over him leaned Big Junko. The
men had been unable to prevent bis
following. Animated by the blind de
votion of the animal for its master and
farther stung to action by that mas
ter's doubt of his fidelity, the giant had
followed to assist aa he might
"You fool," cried Thorpe, exasperat
ed, then held the hammer to him.
"Strike while I keep the chain under
neath!" he commanded.
Big Junko leaned forward to obey,
kicking strongly his calks Into the
barked surface of the boom log. The
spikes, worn blunt by the river work
already accomplished, failed to grip.
Big Junko slipped, caught himself by
an effort overbalanced in the other di
rection, and fell into the stream. The
current at once swept him away, but
fortunately In such a direction that he
was enabled to catch the slanting end
of a ''dead head" log whose lower end
was Jammed in the crib. The dead
head was slippery, the current strong.
Big Jnnko had no crevice by which to
assure his hold. In another moment he
would be torn away.
"Let go and swim!" shouted Thorpe.
"I can't swim." replied Junko In so
low a voice ns to be Rcirccly audible.
For ii moment Thorp stared at him
"Tt-II Ciri-lc" said m Junko.
Then thi-re Iirin-iilli the swirling gray
sky, iimlc-r the frownlnjr Jam. In the
midst of flood wiitcm. Tliorpe h 'i his
second great moment of decision. lie
did not pitiiM' to vek:li mtxoiiM or
cham-es. to dUciis vi;!i himself expe
diency or the moiilI'lcH of f.ilhirp. His
actions wctv fop-o iIiiIiichI un-chuniciil.
All at once the r.vnt f:ns which the
winter had Iieen h'ttvltiK to nou-er
crystallized Into something higj-i'r tWin
himself or bis Ulcus. The trull hiy he
fore blm; there was no choice.
Now clearly, with no shadow of
doubt, he took the other view: There
could be nothing better thau love. Men,
their works, their deeds, were little
things. Success was a little thing, the
opinion of men a little thing. Instantly
he felt the truth of it
And here was love in danger. That
It held its moment a habitation In clay
of the coarser mold bad nothing to do
with the great elemental truth of it
For the first time in his life Thorpe
felt the full crushing power of an ab
straction. Without thought Instinc
tively, be threw before the necessity of
the moment all that was lesser. It waa
the triumph of what waa real in the
man over that which environment
alienation, difficulties, had -raised up
within him. .
At Big Junko'a words Thorpe raised
his hammer and with one mighty blow
severed the chains which bound the
ends of the booms acrosa the opening.
The free end of one of the poles Im
mediately swung down with the cur
rent In the direction of Big Junko.
Thome, like a cat. ran to the end of
the boom, seised the giant by the col
lar and dragged bias through the wa
ter to safety.
"Boar be shouted. -Bua for your
Hfe!"
The two started desperately back.
skirting the edge of the toga which ow
the very eecooda a loos eeemed to bold
a. The were dreacbed aad bilad-
ed with apray, deaf eed wtth the erase)
of Mm bars eettttag to the leap. The
a efaere could a longer eee uee
for xbo ecaotfeer. The great eresa ar
loa aad actually begtm Its (Srrt aiajee-
Oc eliding anottoa wbea at last they
anerged to safety. -
At first a few or me anas nrann
wad ' the opening, ellpptng quietly
through with the current; thea snore.
Ilaally the front of the Jam dove for
ward, aad aa Instant later the smooth.
awlft aiotloa had galoea its nopnas
and waa sweeping tba entire drive
owa through the gap.
Bank after rank. Ilka corners cnarg-
Jng, they raa. The great aerce wima
GRAHAM, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 20,
cangbt them up ahead of the current.
In a moment the open river was full
of logs jostling eagerly onward. Then
suddenly far out above the uneven
tossing sky line of Superior the strange
northern "loom," or mirage, threw the
specters of thousands of restless tim
bers rising and fulling on the bosom of
the lake.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
HEY stood and watched
them
go.
"Oh, the great man! Ob,
great man!" murmured
the
the
writer, turbinated.
The grandeur of the sacrifice bad
struck them dumb. They did not un
derstand the motives beneath it all, but
the fact was patent Big Junko broke
down and sobbed.
After a time the stream of logs
through the gap slackened. In a mo
ment more, save for the inevitably
stranded few, the booms were empty.
A deep sigh went up from the atten
tive multitude.
"She's gone!" said one mad, with the
eniphasl&AOf a novel discovery, and
groonedpj
Then tie Iwe broke from about their
minds, and they spoke many opinions
and speculations. . Thorpe bad disap
peared. They respected bis emotion
and did not follow blm.
"It was Just plain foolishness, but
it was great," said Shearer. "That no
account Jackass of a Big Jnnko ain't
worth as much per thousand feet as
good white pine."
Then they noticed a group of men
gathering about the office steps, and
on it some one talking. Collins, the
bookkeeper, was making a speech.
Collins was a little hatchet faced,
man, with straight lank hair, near
sighted eyes, a timid, order loving dis
position and a great suitability for bis
profession. He was accurate, unemo
tional and valuable. All bis actions
were aa dry as the sawdust in the
burner. No one bad ever aeen blm ex
cited. But he was human, and now
his knowledge of the company's affairs
showed blm the dramatic contrast He
knew. He knew that the property of
the firm had been mortgaged to the
last dollar in order to assist expansion,
so that not another cent could be bor
rowed to tide over present difficulty.
He knew that the notes for $00,000
covering the loan to Wallace Carpenter
came due in three months. He knew
from the long table of statistics which
be was eternally .preparing and com
paring that the season's cut should
have netted a profit of $200,000, enough
to pay the interest on the mortgages,
to take up the notes and to furnish a
working capital for the ensuing year.
These things he knew In the strange
concrete arithmetical manner of the
routine bookkeeper. Other men saw
a desperate phase of firm rivalry. He
'
saw a struggle to the uttermost Oth
r men cheered a rescue. He thrilled
over the magnlfleent gesture of the
gambler scattering bis stake in largesse
to Death.
It was the simple turning of the band
from full breathed prosperity to life
less failure.
His view was the Inverse of his mas
ter's. To Thorpe it !md suddenly be
come a very little thing in contrast to
the great, sweet, elemental troth that
the dream girl bad enunciated. To
Collins the affair was miles vaster than
the widest scope of bla own narrow
life.
The firm could not take up It notes
when they came due; It could not pay
the interest on the mortgages, which
would now be foreclosed; it could not
even pay in full the men who bad
worked for It that would come under
a court's adjudication.
He bad therefore watched Thorpe's
desperate sally to mend the weakened
chain In all the suspense of a man
whose entire universe to in the keeping
of the chance moment It must be re
membered that at bottom, below the
outer consciousness, Thorpe's final de
cision bad already grown to maturity.
On the other band, no other thought
than that of accomplishment bad area
entered the little bookkeeper's head.
The rescue and all that It bad meant
had bit him like a stroke or apoplexy,
and bis thin emotions bad curdled to
hysteria. Full of the idea ha appeared
before the men.
With rapid, almost incoherent speech
be poured It out to them. Professional
caution and secrecy, were forgotten.
Wallace Carpenter attempted to push
through the ring for the purpose of
topping him. A gigantic river man
kindly but firmly held him back.
"I guess Ifa Just aa well wo bears
this," said the tetter.
It all came out-the loan to Carpen
ter, with a hint at the motive the
machinations of the rival firm on the
board of trade: the note, the mort
gagee, the necessity of a big aeason's
cut; the reasons the rival flna bad for
wishing to prevent that cut from ar
rlvlne at the market; the desperate and
varied means they bad employed. The
men listened, silent Hamilton, bla
eyea glowing like coals, drank In every
nni nm waa tbe master motive be
bad aought: bare waa tba atory great
to fate band.
Tbars what a ought to getr enen
Collins, almost weeping. "Ana now
we're gone and bust Just because that
Infernal river bog bad to fall off a
boom! It's a shame! Thoee ecaiawags
bare done as after aur
Out from the shadows of tba wooda
stole Injan Charley. Tbe whole bear
ing and aspect of the man bad chang
ed. Hie eye gteamea witn a awn,
farsedng Ore of Its awn, which took
account of anything but sosse re
mote Ttefcm. He atoto along aimoas
furtively, bat with 'a prond. upright
carriage of bla neck, a backward tut
of his lae bead, a dteteneion aa mo
flatrila. that lent to bla appearance a
panther-like pride and ctcalthtnase No
- Buoaeniy b vmm
through the frroup and mounted tba
atepo baaldo CoiHaa. "
Tbe enemy of my Motner at gone,
ild he almely in bia native toagoe.
aad with a eoddea gesture beid out be
fore them a scalp.
Tbe medlarral barbarity of tbe tung
appalled them for a moment The daye
of scalplss were long since pasc nan
been dosed away between the pegae
of forgotten histories, aod yet here
again before them waa tbe thing In all
Ha living horror. Then a growl arose.
Tbe bumaa animal bad tasted blood.
All at once, like wine, their wrongs
mounted to their bead. They remem
bered tbetr dead cotaradee. They re
membered Ute heart breaking daye and
nights of toll they bad endured on ac
count of this man and bis associates.
They remembered the words of Collins,
the little bookkeeper. They hated.
They shook their fists across the skies.
They turned and with one accord
struck back for the railroad right of
way which led to Shinglevllle, the
town controlled by Morrison & Daly.
The railroads lay for a mile straight
through a thick tamarack swamp, then
over a nearly treeless cranberry plain.
The tamarack was a screen between
the two towns. When half way
through the swamp Red Jacket stop,
ped, removed his coat ripped tbe lining
from It and began to fashion a rude
mask.
"Just as well they don't recognise
us," said he.
"Somebody in town will give us
away," suggested Shorty, the chore boy.
"No. they won't; they're all here,"
assured Kerlle.
It was true. Except for the women
and children, who were not yet about,
the entire village had assembled. Even
old Vanderhoof, the fire catcher of the
yard, .hobbled along breathlessly on his
rheumatic legs. In a moment tbe
masks were fitted; In a moment more
the little band bad -emerged from tbe
shelter of the swamp and so came into
full view of Its objective point
Shinglevllle consisted of a big mill,
the yards, now nearly empty of lum
ber, the large frame boarding house,
the office, the stable, a store, two sa
loon and a dozen dwellings. Tbe par
ty at once fixed it eyes on this collec
tion of buildings and trudged on down
the right of way with unbastculng
grimness.
Their approach was not unobserved.
Daly saw them, and Baker, bis fore
man, saw them. Tbe two at once went
forth to organise opposition. When
the attacking party reached the mill
yard It found tbe boss and the fore
man standing alone on the sawdust, re
volvers drawn.
Daly traced a line with his toe.
'The first man that crosses that line
gets It" said he.
They knew he meant what be said.
An instant's pause ensued, while the
big man and the little faced a mob.
Daly's river men were still on drive. He
knew the mill men too well to depend
tn them. Truth to tell, the possibility
of such a raid as this bad not occurred
to blm for tbe simple reason that he
lid not anticipate the discovery of bis
complicity with the forces of nature.
Bklllfully carried out, tbe plan was a
good one. " No one need know of the
weakened link, and it waa the most
natural thing In tbe world that Sadler
k Smith's drive should go out with the
Increase of water.
The men grouped swiftly and silently
on the other side of the sawdust line.
Tbe pause did not mean that Daly's de
fense was good.
TO BB COBMWUBP.
Mixing Natural History.
The Daventry (England) Express
grew indignant recently at a con
temporary who did not believe
French or German army could ever
land in England.
"To poohpooh the idea of this
country ever being invaded," wrote
the editor, "is to follow the example
of the camel, which buries its head
in the sand when an enemy ap
proaches." To which Punch retorted, "Sure
ly the author of this apothegm
must have meant to refer to the os
trich, which in these circumstancea
has a habit of putting hi eye
through a needle."
rat Htu,
Some people are afraid their hens
will get "too fat to lay" and do not
feed enough, and I am convinced that
this la true much often er than where
fowla are overfed, soys O. A. Coegrove
In Bural New Yorker. There la a dif
ference In hens aa In people. Some will
take oa fat much easier than others.
and those that do are not the best
layers In tba flock. Tba proper way
would be to put these extra fat hens In
a coop by themselves and feed them
on a lee fattening diet Tbe active
Leghorn and other small breed very
seldom give any trouble In thle direc
tion. Hie Inapt rati an.
"What furnishes your inspira
tion V they asked of tbe author.
"My wife," waa the reply.
"How lovely I" they cried. "How
perfectly idealistic r ' ;
- j es, ne vent on, n me muse
ever halta. and I feel like loafing.
her demand for a new dress or soma
additional money for household ex
penaea etira ma to renewed effort
aad puu Pegasus in a gallop.
lion
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1 to bars ta hi bin, how do you know what you r
I tttlrlat? Boms qnoer stories about coffee that i Bold in buli,
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I tosak otri, Ii
II Oould any anxmnt f tnsra talk hart psrsnadad millions of U
tonsa&ssnsis to oat , ,
Out leader of an package eotleea for orer j qnirUr
of a esntury, if ttsy had not toanX it snpritoanc4h!-andal
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L905.
"BALLED" PARTRIDGES.
The Result of Hatching on Clay Soil
In Wat Weather.
In certain districts where the soil
is exactly right, or, rather, exactly
wrong, the partridges so carefully
preserved in England are likely to
bo attacked by u peculiar misfortune
known as "balling." The word
means simply that a partridge
batched out on n clny soil in wet
weather may find tbe mud adhering
to its feet as it struggles along after
the mother bird.
This is a email beginning, but the
chances are that the earth accumu
lates. Sometimes indeed the soil at
tached to the foot of a little par
tridge will increase from a mere
speck to a weight of several ounces.
A writer in Badminton's Magazine
says that the heaviest ball ho ever
kneWfWeiehed four ounces, and the
bird which carried it was only half
its proper size, although the rest of
the covey were full grown. The lit
tle creature could only move along
in a kind of flying scramble, drag
ging the ball on the ground.
Ihe clay was baked as hard as a
brick, so that it was no easy matter
to remove it. Finally it was soaked
off, and then it became apparent
that the bird, without its accustom
ed ballast, did not know how to fly.
With every eltort it tumbled head
over heels and learned the natural
mode only after long trying.
The fate of a "balled" partridge
which is not rescued by some kind
ly hand is a cruel one. Day by day
the burden grows heavier, and the
more the chick scrambles after its
companions the larger its burden
becomes. Finally it is no longer
possible to move at all, and then the
little thing can but give up and die.
Naturalists say that this balling
of birds is one of nature's pro
visions for scattering seeds, it is
easy to demonstrate this, and the
"answer comes true." One experi
menter scattered the earth from a
three ounce ball over the top of a
pan of ordinary dirt, which had been
baked to destroy the seeds in it. Ten
Slants sprang up in due time and
eveloped into seven varieties.
A 8armon on Kissing.
It must require no small amount
of courage on the part of a Church
of England clergyman to preach a
sermon on "kissing." The deed was
recently done in ah Anglican
church in the most fashionable
tuburb of Melbourne. Naturally a
good many giggling girls were in
evidence among the congregation.
They doubtless yielded their assent
to the preacher's preliminary propo
sition that "a kiss is one of the most
.pleasant of earthly things" and that
"a kiss is not erfect unless it is ex
pected and reciprocated." The bulk
of the cermon was devoted tocripH
tural forms ofthe TJfactice- the
kiss of peace, the kiss of reconcilia
tion, the kiss) of consecration, etc.
The Doctor's Retort.
In connection with lawyer.? try
ing to confuHe expert ia the witness
box in murder trials a case is recall
ed whero the lawyer looked quiz
zically at the doctor who was testi
fying and Haid:
"Doctor sometimes make mis
takes, don't they?"
"The same an lawyers," was the
"i&ut doctors' mistakes are buried
six feet under ground," said the
lawyer. '
''Yes," said the doctor, "and law
yers', mistakes sometimes swing in
the air."
Craabe ahella Fa Poaltry.
We advocate the feeding of crushed
bell to poultry. Hoa shells, crushed
oyster shells, etc. Shell are an abso
lute necessity to fowls confined, and at
tbe price they can usually be obtained
It will pay well to keep them before
the fowls at all time. While tbey
take tbe place of grit to aotn extent,
yet grit should not be excluded. Shell
contain lime In proportion that fur
nish health se well a eRirsbcIl ma
terinl. and the fowls greatly relish
them In small proortloM. Farmers
Advocate.
Tlte Poalfrr Haas.
When but 'ding poul'T bouse al
ways so construct them that tbe worta
of caring for the fowla can le don la
the lenrt time and with the tenet labor.
Coffee,
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Co -Operative Road Building.
8t Louis Olobe-Demoorat.
The feature of co operation be
tween the State, tbe County and (he
lown in tbe building of public
roads has made rapid progress dur
ing the past few years. Many of
the more progressive States have
recently enacted legislation provid
ing for such co-operative road build
ing, and the vigotous manner in
which this idea haa been taken hold
of would seem to indicate that per
manent public road building in the
future will be carried on largely un
der this plan of State, County and
Municipal co-operation.
The National Government, too,
has been considering recently a plan
which would enable the different
States of the Union, under what is
known as the "Brownlow Bill," to
secure from tbe Government an
amount of money about equal to
that contributed by the State, to be
applied to building public roads in
the State this contributing.
State aided road building has
made much progress of late, and
the conviction is gaining ground
that scientific road construction
should not be left wholly to local
initiative. Tbe Slate of New York
has made notable advances in this
movement, and is about to submit
to the electors a constitutional
amendment authorizing the State
to bond itself to the extent of 150,-
000,000 to aid counties and towns
to build good roads. The amount
is sufficient to create a system of
7,400 miles of main highways, im
proving a tenth of the road mileage
of the State witbin 10 years, nl
the meantime 90 per cent, of the ex
isting roadways will be improved
by the contribution of 50 centa by
the State to each town for every dol
lar it raises locally for the high
ways. Under the bond issue of $50,000,
000 it is intended to provide money
enough to complete within ten years
one mile in ten in each of the conn
ties throughout the State, it is a cur
ious fact, but nevertheless true,
that when one mile in ten in each
of the counties is improved by these
expensive roads, there will be no
Ibrm in a county further away than
five miles from an improved road,
and that 60 pel cent, of the farms
will be either directly on or within
three miles of an improved road,
and the State system of 7,400 miles
will be completed in ten years and
tbe burden of taxation will not be
burdensome in any county.
The States making systematic
headway with Improved roads are
those that have taken the ground
that there should be joint aid - from
State, county and township. Aj
statement is going the rounds in the
Missouri papers that experience has
shown that the people will not vol
untarily tax themselves for good
roads and it is pointed out that in
MisMurim.few years ago a constitu
tional amendment providing for a
good roads levy of 15 cents on tbe
100 valuation was defeated. But
the people in many States bave be-
gun to tax tnemseives lor gooa
roads. It is a matter of persever
ing education and fairness requires
that the cost be borne equitably.
The bills introduced along other
lines are a mistake.
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disease relieved iu six boars by
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After a bard -fought contest. Col
A. M. Waddell waa Wednesday
uominaled for mayor of Wilmington
by a majority of 44 vote over W. E
Springer, present io.tyr.
Good Solrtta. .
Good spirits don't all com rrom
Kentucky. Tbe main source is the
liver and all the fine spirits ever
made io the Blue Grass State could
not remedy a bad liver or tbe hun-
dred-end-ons ill efficts it produces.
You can't have good epiritt and a
bad liver at tbe earns time. Your
liver must be in fine condition if
yon would feel buoyant, happy and
bopcfcl; bright of eye, light of ne
vigorous and succeniur in your puf
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medicines for the liver and stomach
and a certain cure for dyspepsia or
indigestion. It has been a favorite
household remedy for over thirty
five years. August Flower will
make your liver healthy and active
and thus insure yon a liberal supply
of "good pints." Trial sise, iioc.
regular bsules, 75c At all drug
gists.
NO. i2
W. D. Terry has been.appointed
janitor at the State capitol to suc
ceed Ed. M. Ferrell, who was killed
a few days ago in a saw mill boiler
explosion. Terry has been garden
er in charge of the capitol square for
eight years. L. H. Smith, of Fu-'
quay Springs, succeeds him as gard
ener. CORN FIELDS
ARE GOLD FIELDS
to the farmer who under
stands how to feed his
crops. Fertilizers for Com
must contain at least 7
per cent, actual
Potash
Send for our books they
tell why Potash is as necessary
to plant life as son and rain;
sent free, if you ask. Write
today. s
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RYD ALE'S TONIC
A New adcatifle Mscemry
far Is
BLOOD and NEQVE&.
It purifies the blood by eliminating the
waste matter and other impurities and by
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by reconstructing and multiplying the red
corpuscles, making the blood rich and red.
It restores and stimulates the ne vca,
causing a full free flow of nerve force
throughout the enure nerve system, it
speedily cures unstrung nerves, imtvoos-
nesa, nervous prostration, ana u outer
diseases of the nervous system.
BYDALE'S TONIC is sold under a posi-
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Trial size M eesra. rasaly slae $.
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Tbe Rsdical Remedy Company,
HICKORY, M. C.
Sold by J. C. Simmons Drug Co
Graham
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Agency
SCOTT & ALBRIGHT.
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This time of the year
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v x m a vi lit w-iqmim w .
your bowels, set your
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your indigestion.
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