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Life Is What We Make It.
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Do not go through the world talk
ing poverty and asking every one
you deal with to show you special
consideration because you are
"poor" and "unfortunate."
If you do this with an idea of sav
ing a few dollars here and there, you
will always have to do it, because
you are creating poverty by your
constant assertions.
It is a curious fact that the poeple
who af e always demanding considera
tion in money matters demand the
best that is going at the same time.
I have known a woman to make a
plea for cut prices in a boardiDg
house because she was so poor, yet
she wanted the sunniest room and
the best location the house afforded.
It is the charity patients who
make the most' complaint of a phy
sician's skill or a nurse's attention.
If you cannot afford to do certain
things, or buy certain objects, don't.
But when you decide, you must, de
cide, too, that you will pay the price,
and make no whining plea of poverty.
There are two extremes of people
in the world, oue as distasteful as
the other. One is represented by the
man who boasts of the costliness of
every provision, and invites the
whole world lo behold his opulence
and expenditure.
His clothes, his house, his servant,
his habits, seem no different to the
observer from his neighbors, yet ac
cording to his story, they cost ten
times the amount.
The other extreme is the man who
dresses well, lives well, enjoj's all
the comforts and pleasures of his
associates, yet talks poverty contin
ually, and expects the entire com
munity to show him consideration in
consequence.
Another thing to avoid is the role
of the chronically injured person.
We all know him.
He has a continual grievance. He
has been cheated, abused, wronged,
insulted, disappointed and deceived.
We wonder how or why he has man
aged to exist, as we listen to the
story of his troubles.
No one ever treats him fairly,
either in business or social life.
Everybody is ungrateful, unkind,
selfish, and he could not be made to
believe that these experiences were
of his own making.
All of us meet with occasional
blows from fate, in the form of in
suits, or ingratitude, or trickery from
an unexpected source.
But if we get nothing else but
these disappointingexperiences from
life, we may rest assured the faults
lies somewhere in ourselves.
We are not sending out the right
kind of mental stuff, or we would
get better returns.
You never can tell what your Jhoughts
will do
In bringing you hate or love.
For thotie;lits are things, and their airy
wings
Are swift as a carrier dove.
They follow the law of the universe
Each thing must create its kind
And they speed o'er the track to bring
you back
Whatever went out from your mind.
In the main, we must of necessity
get from humanity what we give
to it. If we question our ability to
win friends or love people will also
question it.
If we doubt our own judgment and
discretion in business others will
doubt it, and the shrewd and un
principled will take the opportunity
given by our doubts of ourselves to
to spring upon us.
If in consequence we distrust
every person we meet we create an
unwholesome and unfortunate at
mosphere about ourselves, which
will bring to us the unworthy and
deceitful. Stand firm in the universe.
Believe in yourself. Believe in others.
If you make a mistake, consider it
only an incident.
If someone wrongs you, cheats,
misuses or insults you, let it pass as
one of the lessons you had to learn,
but do not imagine that you are se
lected by fate for only such lessons.
Keep wholesome, hopeful and sym
pathetic with the world at large,
whatever individuals may do. Ex
pect life to use you better every
year, and it will not disappoint you
in the long run. For life is what we
make it.
Shot a Bird Ou a Woman's Hat.
Rockford, 111., Sept. 23. Mrs. Julia
K. Barnes, author of "Annais of a
Country Town," was accidentally
shot at Manitowish, Wis. She was
seated on a log in the center of a
clump of bushes, when a hunter ap
proached. He could see only her hat
and mistaking it for a partridge dis
charged his shotgun in the direction
of the supposed bird. The charge
took effect in Mrs. Barnes' head.
She was taken to a hospital, where
it is said that her eyesight may be
impaired.
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SAM JONES ON SCHOOLS.
The Commonest Thin? in the Country is
the Common Schools.
Cartersville, Ga., Sept. 23.
I suppose the commonest thing in
this country now is common schools.
We h ave three classes first, those
who are taking advantage of the best
schools available to educate their
children; second, those who send
their children to school because it is
fashionable; the third class are those
who send their children to school be
cause they don't know what else to
do with them, or, as they sometimes
say, to keep their children out of
devilment. Our common schools
now are not only very common, but
are free schools. The average fellow
will take most anything from itch
up or smallpox down. The fact of
the business is, you can give some
fellows most anything, and if you
don't give them what they want,
they feel like the classes have all the
country and the masses are drifting
to destruction. A neighbor of mine,
some time ago, said that he would
send his boy to the public schools,
but he didn't think he could afford
to. I said, "Why, it doesn't cost
anything, does it?" "No," he said,
"but I believe my boy will learn
more on the streets than he will at
the school." Now, there is some
thing wrong about this whole busi
ness. I might like common schools,
but I do not like very common schools.
I might like a free school, but I do
not like a very free school. Free
pensions, free schools, free silver,
etc., are all going to seed into some
thing else some of these days. The
fact of the business is, we are sowing
in joy and we will reap in tears, re
versing the Scriptural idea.
The average taxpaper and citizen
have about as much voice in the man
agement and conduct of a public
school as I exercise over that im
mense truck farm in Michigan. We
have got our State and county com
missioners, our educational boards,
etc., and the average public servant
becomes a public boss, and instead
of being a servant, doing the bidding
of vox populi he is vox populi him
self and dictating the terms and
plans, and woe be to the fellow that
lifts his voice or his hand in opposi
tion to the public boss.
I don't know much about public
schools because I have never patron
ized them, but I know about as much
about them as the fellow that does
patronize them. I tell you the fellow
that don't pay anything to the thing
he is patronizing is like the average
fellow with a free pass in his pocket
he can occupy more seats and kick
more at schedules and raise more
sand at starting point and destina
tion than do the passengers who
have full paid tickets in their pock
ets. The best thing a fellow ever
had is something he worked for.
The poorest piece of property any
fellow ever had is something he had
given to him.
Common schools means everybody
come in. Folks haven't got half as
much sense about children as the
average old farmer has about pota
toes. If the old farmer has two piles
of potatoes, one rotten and the other
sound potatoes, and you slip in some
night mix them on him he would lick
you, but we gather up the scums
and offscourings of the back alleys
and dump that class of childreu into
the public schools with the best chil
dren in the land, and give the philo
sophical reason for it that the good
children exercise a good influence
over the bad ones. I have often
wondered how many sound potatoes
it took to pack around a rotten pota
to to save it. Does any man sup
pose that a thousand real sound po
tatoes packed around one .rotten po
tato will -save the rotten potato?
Don't any fool know the rotten potato
will get them all? If any boy wants
to he can learn at the public schools
the first week how to smoke cigar
ettes, the next week how to play
keeps, and the third week how to
shoot craps, and the fourth week how
to cuss, and in six weeks he can
graduate in deviltry if he wants to
from the average public school in
this country, to say nothing of the
girls at all. f
We grind out teachers like preach
ers and doctors these latter days are
ground out of medical college and
theological cemeteries. They all
come out like round sausage, just the
same in diameter and length and
about the same substance, just so
much beef and just so much pork,
and so much pepper and salt and
sage, and then the machine and a
negro to turn it, and round sausage
will result. The average teacher
these days when he stuffs the curri
culum of the school into the head of
the kid be has got him educated, and
I had as soon stuff my stomach full
of sawdust and brickbats and call
myself fat. Education to any man
is but his best preparation for his
life's work, so it is with women.
Education is the disciplining of the
moral and mental forces. Of course
Harvard and Yale and all the other
colleges now are disciplining the
physical forces. The graduate of
Harvard College that can't kick a
ball further than he can see a thought
or grasp an idea is considered away
below par. I kind of like the Tech
nological School of Atlanta. I sent
one young man to that school, among
others, and he is succeeding magni
ficently. I sent another and he turn
ed out to be a base-ball catcher. I
am sorry for that.
I wish our public schools of Geor
gia could be not only changed, but
revolutionized. Let the indigent,
orphan children be educated at the
public expense, and then every man
who is able to contribute to the sup
port of his own children, make him
do it, at least to the half of the tui
tion, and if he don't do it put him in
jail. The reason I have never pa
tronized public schools is because I
have always felt like I was able to
educate my own children, and I felt
this way when I was as poor as a
dog, as poor as two dogs.
It is a lamentable fact that after
we have spent twenty millions, more
or less, from the public treasury of
Georgia, pulled out of the taxpayers
of this State, on public schools, that
our chain-gang forces have multiplied
by the figure seven. It takes more
common sense to make a successful
school teacher than almost any job I
know. Every school teacher in Geor
gia believes he is loaded down with
common sense, and none of them,
therefore, will take any offense at
what I say.
While we are paying so much to
these schools let's write about them
and talk about them", and if there is
anything better than we have got,
let's have it, and if there is nothing
better than what we have got, let's
rub out and start over again.
Sam P. Jonks.
Tramps Steal a Child.
Newport News, Va., Sept. 20.
The city was thrown in a state of
great excitement this evening by the
mysterious disappearance of Irwin,
3-year-old son of Michael Craven, a
well-known citizen. The police de
partment was notified immediately
after the boy was missed and a detail
of officers were seut out to scour the
surrounding country in search of
him. He was last seen about 5
o'clock by a milkman in company of
two white tramps who had been seen
prowling suspiciously about the boy's
home for several days.
The two were headed in the direc
tion of Morrison, a country post
office about 5 miles north. One was
dragging the child by the hand while
another walked along behind. Officers
were hurried in that direction, but
tip to a late hour to-night they have
gained only a slight clue to the fugi
tives. The boy's mother is prostrat
ed with grief, and unless he is re
turned to her soon doctors fear for
her life.
Bandit Blew Bank aud Self to Pieces.
Skagway, Alaska, Sept. 23. About
3 o'clock yesterday afternoon an un
known man walked into the Canadian
Bank of Commerce, a revolver in one
hand and a dynamite bomb in the
other, and demanded $20,000, threat
ening to blow all into eternity. Cash
ier Pooley and Teller Wallace were
the only two men in bank. Wallace
ducked to get his gun and ran quick
ly to the back of the room, calling
for Pooley to do the same.
"No you don't," yelled the man,
dropping the bomb.
The clerks had just gotten out of
the window. The bank was wrecked.
The robber's head was smashed and
one arm torn off. People living above
the bank were blown into the air.
J. G. Price, formerly prosecuting
attorney, who was entering the bank
at the time, was hurt, but not seri
ously. The dynamiter died without
regaining consciousness. The bank
lost about $1,000, chiefly in gold dust,
which wai lying on the counter.
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Got Pver $1,600 by Torture.
Titusvili?. Pa., Sept. 23. Hugh
Myles, 81 years old and a rich oil
producer, living near Fagnudes, was
overpowered while milking his cows
last evening by three strangers and
taken to the house, where his aged
wife was bound and intimidated into
keeping silence with a revolver held
under her nose.
Y Threatened with torture and the
use of dynamite Myles disclosed the
hiding place of the key to an old
safe, which was opened and $1,000
Government bond secured, with $145
in money and $500 worth of gold
watches and jewelry.
An attempt was then made to ob
lige the old lady to prepare some tea
for the trio, but she flatly refused
and they left. Hitching up the old
man's carriage they drove at break
neck SDeed in the direction of
Warren.
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of the Lacevville Messenger, suggested
that I take a dose of Chamberlain's Col
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purchased a bottle and took two doses,
one before starting and one on the route.
I made the trip successfully and never
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an attack of dysentey. 1 bought a lottle
of this same remedy and this time one
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AT HOME AND ABROAD.
The News From Everywhere Gathered
and Condensed.
The Stack mine, near Covington,
Va., caved in Friday morning and
killed four colored men.
Alonzo Tucker, colored, was lynch
ed at MarshSeld, Ore., Friday uight,
for assaulting a white woman.
As a result of a lovers' quarrel
Marion Lucas shot Maude Chisam,
1G years old, at Fairport, Mo., Sun
day. Claiming that be bad compromised
her daughter, Mrs. Maud Smith kill
ed Harry Clark at Des Moines, Iowa,
Monday.
In a trolley ear collision Saturday
near the base of Lookout Mountain,
Tenn., A. G. Harris was killed and
t ,vo women badly hurt.
Threatening to kill Beauregard
Russell at Fairburn, Ga., Tuesday,
William Whaley was himself fatally
shot by his intended victim.
Ill feeling, caused by a feud, re
sulted in the killing of Frank J. Black-
well and John Scott, by Jesse Dur
ham, at Huntsville, Ala., Monday.
As the result of a head-on collision
between two passenger trains at
Witmer, Pa., Friday morning, five
men were killed and two seriously
injured.
Charles Soap, an employee at the
Tidewater Steel Works, at Chester,
Pa., fell into a hot water tank Tues
day morning and was boiled almost
to death.
Two deaths and about 40 cases of
inji ry resulted from a Baltimore and
Ohio Southwestern train running
through an open switch at Leesburg,
O., Saturday.
A freight train ran into the rear
of the Sells Downes show train at
Choctaw, O. T., Saturday morning,
killing two persons and seriously in
juring twenty-six others, all on the
show train.
Domestic trouble induced Mrs.
Brock Byman, of Jonesburg, Ark.,
to shoot herself dead Thursday night.
She had been married twice, but in
every instance her married life prov
ed unhappy.
In a fight near Langdon, Ala.,
Sunday night, between William Phil
lips and William Owens, the latter
was instantly killed and Phillips
mortally wounded. The trouble a-
rose over ayoung woman both loved.
Peter Shaffer, aged 35, slew Mrs.
Anna Lloyd, aged 45, a widow, and
then shot and killed himself atTama-
qua, Pa., Tuesday evening. Jilted
by the widow he hid behind a grape
arbor and shot the woman sitting at
the window sewing.
Harry O. Williams, a life insurance
agent, abducted his two-year old son
from its mother, at Auburn, 111.,
Saturday afternoon, and when pur
sued by officers, got out of his buggy,
placed the child in the road and blew
its brains out, and then killed him
self.
On the principal street of Norfolk,
Va., Friday afternoon, a gasolene
peanut roaster exploded and instant
ly killed Miss Bessie McGrath, of
Hampton, Va., fatally injured Mrs.
M. R. Palmer, of Lawrenceville, Va.,
and slightly hurt two other women
pedestrians.
Joseph R. Rockwell, a prominent
business man of Petersburg, Va.,
was found dead in his room at a hotel
in Washington, D. C, Saturday
morning, the victim of gas asphyxia
tion. He had been to New York on
a business trip and stopped off at
Washington to visit relatives.
Peter Hernia was hanged in the
county jail at Hackensack, N. J.,
Friday, for murder, but before his
death was accomplished Hernia made
a desperate fight, until a stream of
water turned on fully in his face sub
dued him. lie was placed in a chair
and carried to the gallows, his cloth
ing dripping wet.
While working at a knitting ma
chine in a hosiery mill at Fleetwood,
Pa., Monday, the long braid in which
Miss Carrie Bausher wore her bair
was caught in a shaf ting. She was
lifted to the ceiling and her entire
scalp torn off before the machiney
could be stopped. Every hair was
torn from her head. .
In an awful crush of humanity
caused by a stampede in Shiloh Col
ored Baptist church, at Birmingham,
Ala., Friday night, 115 negroes,
mostly women, were killed and a
large number injured. The disaster
occurred at 9 o'clock, just at Booker
T. Washington had concluded an ad
dress to the national convention of
colored Baptists, which was in ses
sion there, the cry of "fight," caused
by a disturbance, being mistaken for
"fire!"
The nineteenth week of the miners'
strike ended Saturday and still there
is no settlement in sight nor very
little chance of one. Disinterested
parties now believe that in the min
ers' strike history will repeat itself,
and that the present struggle will go
the six months' limit the same as
the big strike of 1877. At the present
time both sides are evidently as de
termined as ever and there is no
opinion as to the duration of the
I strike.
Financial and Commercial.
Special Correspondence.
New York, Sept. 23, 1902.
Business conditions as a general
thing continue favorable. The close
working of the money market has
adversely affected speculative ope
rations, but regular trade move
ments have continued on an expand
ing scale. Aside from the contin
uance of the anthracite strike the
industrial situation remains very
satisfactory. Retail distribution in
practically all lines is active, and
manufacturers and jobbers in most
departments are in receipt of urgent
orders for the replenishment of
stocks. Outside of the hard coal
region and among iron furnaces
crippled by the shortage in coke
supplies the industrial output is lar
ger than at any previous time. Frost
has lowered the quality of corn in
some sections, but it came too late to
cut down the yield, and the general
results of the agricultural season
have been so satisfactory that mer
chants in all parts of the country
look confidently forward to continu
ed and growing activity in general
business. Business failures during
the past week, according to R. G.
Dun & Co., numbered 199 in the
United States and 25 in Canada,
against 157 in this country and 20
in Canada during the corresponding
week last year.
Notwithstanding a heavy crop
movement, prices of cotton have
been advanced 3-1G of a cent per
pound for spot sales and about i of
a cent for contracts for future de
liveries. The strength has been
chiefly attributable to speculative
buying influenced by reduced crop
estimates, but it has bad some sup
port also from large exports which
have offset the increased receipts.
The size of the crop is still a matter
of conjecture, with estimates rang
ing all the way from 9,700,000 bales
to 10,700,000 bales, but actual yield
is still to be determined by the char
acter of the season for maturing and
picking the late crop. Demand for
cotton goods for current domestic
distribution is fair, but exports and
home jobbers have been handicapped
in their efforts to place orders for
goods to be made by the reserved
attitude of maufacturers, who are
unwilling to contract ahead to any
extent at ruling prices, and as yet
have been unable to secure any ad
vance. Wheat prices show little change
for future delivery, but the tendency
has been slightly downward for spot
supplies as a result of a large move
ment from the interior. There has
been no special activity in the spe
culative markets, and demand for
exports has been comparatively
light. While receipts are larger,
the visible supply accumulates slow
ly, as a large percentage of the
wheat deliveries has been absorbed
by interior mills. Conditions for
fall plowing have been more favora
ble, and the seeding of winter wheat
has made good progress.
Corn prices for September delive
ry have declined 1 toli cents per
bushel, owing to large receipts at
centres in preparations for contract
settlements, but the December op
tion, which represents new crop
corn, snows sustained hrmncss in
price on account of frost io nor
thern sections of the corn belt. The
bulk'of the corn crop was practically
made before the advent of frost, and
the damage done late corn will af
fect the quality but not the yield.
The Cincinnati Price Current says
there will not be much sound or mer
chantable corn in Wisconsin, Minne
sota and South Dakota, but as they
are States that are not very impor
tant in corn production the injury
will not appreciably affect the sea
son's general results. The quality of
the crop has been slightly affected
in some other States, but the yield
for the whole country will be ex
ceptionally large. Trading in corn
has been only moderately active,
and stocks are so small that there is
no likelihood of any material increase
in the export movement until the
new crop shall become available.
Fluctuations in values of hog pro
ducts have been within narrow li
mits. Packing operations in the
West have continued on a moderate
scale, as the movement of hogs has
been comparatively light. Exports
have increased a little, but they still
fall short of the weekly shipments
for the corresponding period last
year.
Imprisonment For Debt to be Tested.
Norfolk, Va.,Sept. 23. Imprison
ment for debt is likely to be tested
here. The case is that of C. E. Russ,
a contractor, who was arrested yes
terday on the claims of two creditors
C. A. Nash & Son and C. W. Cake
as an absconding debtor. Russ
had called a meeting of creditors, all
of-whom except those two, accepted
the settlement offered.
They not only refused the offer,
but brought suit and arrested Russ
while he was at dinner with his fa
mily. Russ declares that be had no
thought of absconding, and gave
bond for his release after being in
jail for several hours. He threatens
now to sue for false arrest and dam
ages. Both creditors are wealthy.
ALL OVER THE STATE.
A Summary of Current Events for the
Past Seven Days.
The Debnam-Kinsey school, at La
Grange, has suspended for want of
patronage.
Fire at Pilot Mountain, Friday
night, destroyed two wagon and
buggy shops and a livery stable.
The entire business portion of Bat
tleboro was destroyed by fire Wednes
day night, causing a $30,000 loss.
State Auditor Dixon, who is now
passing on the applications for State
pensions, says there are more than
2,500 new applications.
Josiah Francis, a farmer of Hay
wood county, died Wednesday from
the result of injuries received by a
colt kicking him in the stomach.
Green McAdoo, colored, shot and
killed his wife at Greensboro, Satur
day night, upon returning home in
toxicated, and made good his escape.
Four prisoners escaped from the
county jail in Trenton, Tuesday
night. One of the number was Cyrus
Dixon, under sentence of death for
murder.
In a dispute about some chickens
Jim Nelson shot his aunt, Mrs. Fran
cis Baker in Anson county Monday,
inflicting a wound from which she
died the next day.
John Richardson, a young white
man, was fatally injured at Willis
Whitaker's cotton gin in Wake coun
ty, Friday morning, and died soon
after. His arm was caught and torn
off.
A number of prominent club wo
men, from the different towns in the
State, will assemble in Winston
Salem, October 7-9, to hold the first
federation of women's clubs in North
Carolina.
i
Rev. Goodman Laney, a local
Methodist minister of Union county,
was found hanging by a rope from a
joist in his barn Thursday morning.
He had not been well for some time ;
and had been very despondent.
Henry Andrews, while running the
cotton gin of E. D. Hobbs, in Samp
son county, Tuesday, had one arm
caught and jerked in the gin by the
saws. The arm was cut in two be
low the elbow and otherwise dread
fully mangled.
The Tlucomuga cotton mill at
Greensboro, a weave mill of 150
looms, has been placed in the hands
of a receiver. J. C. Watson has been
appointed temporary receiver. The
trouble is due to friction among the
stockholders.
Uotel Lithia, a summer resort lo
cated on the Brushy Mountains six
miles from Wilkesboro, was totally
destroyed by fire Wednesday night.
Some of the guests had retired and
made a narrow escape. The roof
was falling in when the fire was dis
covered. Duncan Porter and others were
'possum hunting in Cumberland
county Friday night, when one of
the party was cutting a tree down,
in which a 'possum had taken refuge,
while Mr. Porter held off the dog.
The tree fell on Mr. Porter and kill
ed him instantly.
Charles Lockamy, superintendent
of the Richmond Cotton Mills, at
Laurinburg, was killed Friday by
Norris Saunders, father of a boy em
ployed in the mill. The boy had
been discharged for rebellious con
duct, and reported the matter to his
father, who secured a pistol and pro
ceeded to the mill.
At Wilmington, Wednesday morn
ing, 200 bales of cotton, a large area
of a new wharf, a hoisting engine
and a shed, together with other prop
erty, were destroyed by fire that
broke out at the Seaboard Air Liue
terminal on the water front. The
total loss will reach $15,000. The
fire is believed to have started from
the sparks from the hoisting engine
falling on the cotton, which was
headed up on the wharf.
Late Wednesday afternon there
was a terrible death in Anson coun
ty, resulting from the frolic of chil
dren. "Bury the Dead" was the
game they were playing in a pile of
seed cotton and little Frank Tyson,
aged 8, son of Marshall Tyson, was
put in a hole the children scooped out
of teh cotton seed. They covered him
up and when they pulled away the
seed he was motionless and cold
The children ran for help, but when
it came the little fellow was dead,
having suffocated.
An Ancient Foe
To health and happiness is Scrofula
as aslv as ever since time immemorial
It causes bunches in the neck, dis
figures the ekin, inflames the mucou9
membrane, wastes the muscles, weak
ens the bones, reduces the power of
resistance to disease and the capacity
for recovery, and uevclop3 into con
sumption.
A bunch appeared on the left side of
mtr nwir it r.inni frc',t nn in. was lanced.
and became a running sore. I wont into a
general decline. I was persuaaea io try
llfwuTa (snrartTinrilL't Mnri wi.-en I had taken
Kniiio. mo rwwlr ripnlfvl. and I have
never had any trouble ol the kind since."
Mrs. K. T. Snyder, Troy, Ohio.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
and Pills -
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manently, aa they have rid thousands.
A SERIOUS CASE
Of Catarrhal Dyspepsia Cured.
I
Ionard F. Verde ry. j
LKOXARD F.VERDEKY, Real Ktate
and Renting Agent, of Augusta, ia
writes;
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testimonial to the wonderful good Pe
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sufferer from catarrhal dyspepsia. I
tried many physicians, visited & good
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done more for me than all of the above
put together. I feel like a new person.
I have taken the Peruna and Manalin
together and always expect to have
bottle in ray home." LEONARD F.
VERDERY.
Congressman Dovlner of TVeat Virginia,
Congressman B. B. Doviner, from
Wheeling, West Virginia, in a letter
written from Wa-shington, D. C, says :
" Join with my colleagues la the
House of Representatives In recom
mending your excellent remedy, Pe
runa, as a good tonic, and also an
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Catarrh assumes different phases In
different seasons of the year. In the
cummer the stomach and bowels suffer
the oftenest as the peat of the trouble.
Peruna cures catarrh wherever located.
If you do not derive prompt and (satis
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Address Dr. Ilartman, President of
the Ilartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O.
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MID-SUMMER BARGAINS
AT
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Just received 2." sets buggy harness
to be sold at bargain prices. Shoes of all
kinds at cnt prices to meet the hard
times. We are selling our stock of slip
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Everything in the Dry Goods line at
low-down prices, (iood tobacco at 20,
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quarts and half gallon. Our remaining
stock of
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ical dentistry done in the best manner
and most approved method. Crown and
Bridge Work a specialty. Teeth ex
tracted without pain.
To Core Constipation Forever.
Take discards Candy Cathartic. 10c or 3u
It C C. C. fail to cure, druggists n-funU money.