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J. t : ; . Good Advertising J to Business what Steam ia to Machinery, that groat propelling power. This paper gives results. Good Advertisers Use these columns fur results. An advertisement in thi jper will reach a good c!as- of people. E. E. MILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. , 'Excelsior" is Our riotto. Subscription Price ii.CO Per Year. VOL. XXIII. New Senei Vol. 10. -5-18 SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1907. NUMBER 29. khHE Commonwealth. Over-Work Weakens Your Kidneys. Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood. All the blood in your body passes through y our kidneys once every three minutes. I'vi'k Xt blood purifiers, they fil ilUM) ter out the waste or 'yyuk VSk imPurit':23 in the blood. it they are sick or out of order, they fail to do their work. Pains, aches and rheu matism come from ex cess of uric acid in the blood. dl!ft in ncrtntA Kidney trouuie. Kidney trouble causes quick or unsteady :-cf. t beats, and makes one feel as though .':.ey had heart trouble, because the heart is over-working in pumping thick, kidney roisoned blood through veins and arteries. It used to be considered that only urinary troubles were to be traced to the kidneys, Lut now modern science proves that nearly ...I constitutional diseases have their begin ning in kidney trouble. !f you arc sick you can make no mistake Vy first dectoring your kidnivs. The mild and the extraordinary effect cf Dr. Kilmer's wamp-Root, the great kidney remedy is ;oon realized. It stands the highest tor its cures of the most distressing cases rrA is sold on its merit3 jtsW . , ... .....Lt. ' "'-''' !,y all druggists in rf$ffiB. cent ana onc-uouar az-Mv KMEmmg; , ;. You mav have a lii-"ldVSOT 'iir.Dle bottle by mail r- i-.T7Ti!.nrV. - V'INU . L O M III H H t . fee. also pamphlet trying you how to find t ut if y ou have kidney or bladder trouble. Mention this pape Vhsn writing Dr. Kilmei ti Cc, Bingham'.cn. N. Y. ' Don't nii-jco any mistake, but re Member t'.io name, Swamp hoot, Dr. Kilmer's Swanm I lout, and the address Sinuli.-i'.iittm, N. Y., on every bottle. Qn f . SMITH, M. D. 1'IIYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Scotland Neck, N. C. 'Of;';,', in the Xew Bank Building. )R. J. P. WIMBCRLEY, PHYSICIAN AND SUKGEON, Sennr.ncl Neck, N. C. 0:Hre on Depot Street. )1I. J. C. L1TRMGN, DENTIST. LYi'fTV head Building. Ofdee hours from 9 to 1 o'clock and 2 to 5 o'clock. W.M1X0N, Eefk acting Optician, "Watch Maker, Jeweler, En graver, Scotland Neck, N. C. 3 Mt'BRYDC WVM, Attokney and Counselor at Law, LM','-J2l Atlantic Trust Building Norfolk, Va. Notary Public. Bell Phone 374 PDWSRD L. TRAVIS, At-oknky and Counselor at Law, Halifax, N. C. Money Loaned on Farm Lands Wiil II. JOSCY, I Iexeual Insurance Agent, Scotland Neck, N. C. ( M''i.'?jI to ira xoumiui voim. .'?n-rLjSSS Cvset f -n'r A-.trwti hair 1 ailing. Day & Hedges, Livery uesM.es Harness Whips Robes Tarboro, North Carolina .. H CLUSTER-5 iycky fountain Tea Kuggsts A Basr Ksaicina f.T Cnav Petoule. B.iag.! Golden Health end Eeiwwed Vigor. ; f irm, :;r, coats a box. Genuine made by '' "-M-'STKu ilsn Cohpany, Madison, Wis LiLOM KUQGETS FQS SALLOW PEOPLE KILLthe cough w eunn the lunos WITH !r. King s Discovery 111: irnn Consumption Price ; f UK 9 CUGKSand 50c & $1.00 f'JLL'S Freo Trial. Guaranteed for all THROAT and UNQ TS.OUBLEB. or MONEY SACK. ;l53 PARKER'S . HAIR BALSAM i Mtciino f.,r Cor.Ktipp.tir.n, Inflipcestion. Uvo r:: l i'Ji;i y Troubles, l'implas. Ecema, Impure ''"'. V.xl Hrcoth. Flut'cish Co-'!s, HcadachA THE EDITOR'S LEISURE HOURS. Observations of Passing Events. Mur. Hodgkinson, of England, an inventor of merit, will soon put into operation in Charlotte a roller cotton gin to take the place of saw A Roller lOttOn Gin g'nS' G process '1S 'erent from the saw gin which cuts the lint from the seed. The roller gin presses or twists the lint from the seed, and it is claimed that the staple is much better and will bring perhaps two cents per pound more th2n the cotton which is ginned by the saw process. The roller gin is used in India and Egypt where the staple is finer and requires more careful nandling. If this process farmers will be glad to have it in operation. Tht3 speech of Judge Alton B. Parker before the North Carolina Bar Association at Ilendersonville, called forth some criticism by the New Stands by Judge Parker. following: "Alton B. Parker was a worthy candidate and would have made an excellent President. The fact that he was 'knifed' by many of those who ought to have supported him is not at all to his discredit. If he was put up to be knocked down, he did not know it and had nothing to do with the plot nor did the Southern Democracy. It is a shame to say mean things about him because he was slaughtered in the house of his friends. The people who knifed him are the ones that should come in for the criticism. The Landmark thinks that Judge Parker deserved to be elected. It thought so in 1004 and thinks so yet. It is proud to have sup ported him and has not a whit less esteem for him because his popular opponent won so sweeping a victory." If there is a man in the State who can aptly use the long-worked phrase "I told you so," it is president C. C. Moore of the Southern Cotton Asso "I Tcld YOU SO " ciation. Last year he urged the farmers of the State not to put all their cotton on the market but to hold a good portion of the crop for better prices. Much of the cotton crop was storm beaten, and as the price for storm cotton was quite low, the farmers thought that perhaps it might not be much better, ?o they sold the storm cotton at from seven Io nine cents. Mr. Moore tried to persuade the farmers to hold a reasonable quantity of their cotton; and he now forcefully reminds them that if they had held it they could now be getting nearly thirteen cents for the cotton which they sold at seven, eight and nine cents. The prospects are good now for belter prices this fall than prevailed last fall. Whatever the price, it is always well for the farmers to hold some of their cotton for the mid summer market, for prices then generally run higher than in the fall or spring. Last week Editor Josepus Daniels of asked a number of editors of the State Editors' High Ideals. and it was interesting reading. Taking it that the editors endeavor to run their papers on the plane of their replies, one cannot fail to be im pressed with the great service the newspaper men are rendering this good State. The one predominating idea of the editors is to stand for the right and hold up a high standard of civic life in all the departments of human endeavor. And we believe that no class of men in North Carolina is more united in the one general effort to uplift the people, encourage the good and suppress the bad than the editors. They are a most unsel fish brotherhood of laborers for the State's best interests, and as a man of good observation remarked to-day, it is only the little-soulded persons and businesses that are ungenerous and illiberal towards the newspapers. They are ever ready to encourage the best in everybody, lynx-eyed to gather the news that the public will appreciate, and they do more for less than perhaps any other class of citizens so Very long quotations are not generally used in this column of editorial observations, but the following from . . . good, hard Children and Cniid Labor. ithere;and and ponder it well: "The principal of a Chicago public srhool expresses the opinion that the agitation against child labor taking child to mean a person of any age up to 14 or 16 should be more discriminative. Educa tion is good and play is good, each in argued, must be formed early in life And the habit of work is valuable indispensable for most persons. Tour hours of school,' says the Chicago teacher, 'and four hours of work alter nating will make every child self-sustaining after the age of 10. Society and the law have prevented the boy from getting work that really is work. Every child ought to work every day of his life. He is. born into a world which requires workand he ought not to be permitted to form habits of idleness and shirking. Child idleness is worse than child labor.' Dean Russell, of the New York Teachers' College, expresses the opinion that the American public errs in teaching boys and girls that they may fairly expect to occupy the very highest political and professional positions in the land 'can do anything but earn a day's wages by a decent day's work ' whereas in fact only 1 out of 1,000 young folks will get the big Yon with the big salary. All are Presidency or Newport, cue. oi cuuiw.-, iw,, a commonplace job. The chief fault, however, is not so much with the school system, or with the rosy ideal there inculcated, as with the idea that the school, without any work, is to be the one preparation of boys and girls for making a living." The Charming Woman U not necessarily one of perfect form and features. Many a plain woman who could never severe as an artist's model, poswraca those rare qualities that all the ,.i npfltness. clear eyes, csmooHkinand that htli- lean smooth skin ana umu .,..... .Lof step and action that accompany ood health. A pineal y weak Ionian is never attractive, not ex en to ness woman is ir:" , . i--tri 4.-: tj tfor restore weak lierseli. i'-iieum , . i . give strong smooth, velvety skin 2 plexion. Guaranteed at h. I. lt head & Co., Druggwta oOc. will make the cotton worth more the York World. The Norfolk Landmark replies to the World, its closing paragraph being the the Raleigh News and Observer their opinion of the mission of a newspaper in North Carolina. The News and Observer printed a symposium of their replies, well informed. the Baltimore Sun has so much of sense we are glad to appropriate weurge everyparent to read it season, but the habit of work, it is or it may never be formed at all. started off in the direction of the For Over Sixty Years Mrs. Winslow.s Soothing Syrup has been used for sixty years by millions of mothers for their chidren while teeth ins with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cure wind colic, and is the best remedy for Diarrhoae. It will relieve the poor little puffcrer immediately. Sold by druggists in every part of the world. Twentv -five cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow.s Soothing Syrup. Guaranteed under the Food and Drug Act, June 30th, -190G, Serial Number 1097. Electricity as a Field For Invention. (Electric News.) By far the greatest activity in in vention during the past few years has been in the electrical field. Thousands of patents have been taken out but there are still a great many things which are needed, and needed badly. The serious problems which are perplexing the hundreds of scientists and inventors are legion and a fortune awaits the men who perfect insulating material; a trolley wheel that won't come off the trolley; a new and lighter storage battery; a wireless method of directing tor pedo boats and discharging subma rine mines; non-mechanical electric generators; the transmission of elec tric power without wires; the wire less telephone; the self-contained electric car without trolley or third rail; more efficient arc lights; better batteries and a household motor adapted to various uses. Apparently some of these things are impossible but it should be re membered that many of the greatest scientists of the age said the incan descent lamp was impossible up to the announcement of Thomas A. Edison's invention, twenty-years ago. These things will all come in time, perhaps tomorrow. The world wants a more economi cal electric light. The present in candescent lamp wastes 90p;r cent of the electrical energy. Scientists are trying to discover how to pro duce electric light without heat. The fire-fly does it but how? A perfect insulator for high volt age transmission lines is yet to be found. A cheap, light-weight, strong substance that can be formed easily and has high insulating properties would be worth a fortune to the dis coverer. A new storage battery of light weight and increased capacity is in great demand. The present storasre battery with its lead plates is very heavy. Vf&atCettQn Has ; Doac. (ChaiUtte Observer.) The South, in the production of cotton, commands the attention of the world. She has developed out of the soil and the air a fibre which has surpassed linen for cheapness and utility. With it she has driven wool into a narrower field of service. With it she has so closely come to all the appearances and utilities of silk that the latter must compete active ly with mercerized cotton in the big world markets. She has given the world a food product in cotton oil that staggers the olive oil producer. She fattens cattle at home, in Eng land and in Germany on cotton seed meal and hulls and brings these pro duets into competition with corn in the Northwest. She supplies oil for packing sardines in France, for mak ing butter in Holland, for increasing olive oil exported from Italy, and for many other uses. Yet the world tells the South that she docs all these things wrong; that she doesn't know how to make and handle cotton. We don't plant it right, we don't gin it right.we don't bale it right, nor in anyway handle it as the New Englander, the Eng lishman, the Frenchman or the Ger man would. Neither do we live right with the colored people according to these critics. Meanwhile 40 per cent of the cotton crop is produced by the colored citizen, with the op portunity we give him, and this 40 cent yields mere than $300,000,000 annually a sum larger than the en tire cotton crop of ten years ago yielded to the entire Southern popu lation, white and black. Yet we survive and seem to be growing a little better and a little more pros perous in spite of the critics. Prcud of Kis Dog. "He's the most pestiferous little pup in town, sir," exclaimed the angry neighbor, "and you've got to keep him at home or I'll take a club to him the next time he comes over here and tramples my flower beds and-" "You dare to do so much as shake your little finger at that dog of mine, and I'll knock your head off!" shout ed the other man. "Who said anything about your dog? I mean that youngest boy of yours." "Oh, well, that's different. I'll give him a talking to and whip him if he bothers you any more." Judge. Pincules for the kidneys strengthen these organs and assist in drawing poi son from the blood. Try them for rheumatism, kidney, bladder trouble, for lumbago and tired Avorn out feel ing. Thev bring quick relief. Satisfac tion Guaranteed. E. T. Whitehead & Co. The Hunter. O hunter, will I go with you, With your buckskin suit and gun, Killing God's creatures so recklessly, And doing it ali for fun. No, no not any for me, sir, Slaughter is not in my line ; God put the dear creatures here, sir, Killing is no mission of mine. Chasing a doe o'er the mountains, Killing a deer with a gun, Shooting birds of bright plumage, And all this, you say, for fun? No, no not any for me, sir, Slaughter is not in my line ; God put the dear creatures here, sir, Killing is no mission of mine. B. F. Cobb, Kansas City, Mo. Dr. Osier Taboos Soup. (From July What to Eat.) Dr. William Osier, to whom is ac corded the oft-repeated and oft-denied assertion that people should be chloroformed after becoming CO years old, is bitterly opposed to the drinking of soup, according to the statements of a New York mer chant. "My wife was a wreck from ner vous dj'spepsia," said the merchant. "Several prominent physicians in New York had treated her without success, and finally I was advised to take her to Baltimore to see Dr. Os ier. He inquired carefully about her habits, and practicularly her diet. We described it without going into details, but this did not satisfy the great physician. " 'Tell me what you have for din ner, describing the nature of the courses, their numb r, and so on,' he insisted. " 'Well, usually we start with some good, nourishing soup,' I began. "'Stop right there,' interrupted Dr. Osier. 'Soup must go. There is a popular fallacy that soup is nourishing. That is a mistake. It is one of the most harmful things one can eat. lt is worse than lobster. Of course, there are times when a simple beef or mutton broth is not to be condemned. But as a rule soup is positively dangerous. It di lutes the gastric juices and it fer ments too rapidly to permit it to be easily digested. It is the greatest cause of dyspepsia and nervous dis orders. Vegetable soup should be thrown into the garbage pail, where it belongs, instead of being poured into a delicate stomach. Half the nervous wrecks among society folk, vho live well, are caused by eating soup.' "Dr. Osier gave some other advice, which was followed by my wife in addition to giving up soup. Soup is never served at our table, and has not been for four years. My wife is well and strong to-day, and she can eat anything on the menu except soup." The Engineer's Story. "Yes, indeed, we have some queer little incidents happen to us," taid the fat engineer. "A queer thing happened to me about a year ago. You'd think it queer for a rough man like me to cry for ten minute.;, and nobody hurt, wouldn't you? Well, I did, and I almcst cry every time I think of it. I was running along one afternoon pretty lively, when I approached a little village where the tracks cut to the street. I slacked up a little, but was still making good speed, when suddenly, twenty rods ahead of me, a little girl, no more than three years old, toddled on to the tracks. You can't even imagine my feelings. There was no way to save her. It was impossible to stop, or even slack much, at that distance, as the train was heavy and the grade dec-ending. In ten seconds it would have been all over, and after reversing and apply ing the brake, I shut my eyes. I didn't want to see any more. "As we slowed down, my fireman stuck his head out of the cab window to see what I stopped for, when lie laughed and shouted to me,'Jim,look here!' I looked, and there was a big, black Newfoundland dog holding the little girl in his mouth, leisurely walk ing toward the house where she evi dently belonged. She was kicking and crvin:r. so that I know she wasn't hurt, and the doc: had saved her. My fireman thouc-ht it f unnv and kent laughing, but I cried like a woman. I just couldn't help it. 1 had a little girl of my own at borne!" Boston Budget. MOTHER GRAY'S SWEET POW DERS FOR CHILDREN, Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in the Children's Home in New York. Cure Feverishness, Bad Stom ach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 30,000 testimonials. THEY NEVER FAIL. At all Druggists, 2oc. Sample Free. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Travel-S'udy. (ric-silo;i A. N. Esh:ii;;n in f.o. AR'ii-ulturist.) It is well to study books. His well to travel. Combining the two ap proaches ideal business development and social cultivation. To depend on either to the neglect of the other, will result in moie or less narrow ness and awkwardness. Book-study io daily held up to us as though it were the sole and sufficient source of , education; while travel is commonly ; thought of only as a matter of en tertainment. This article would consider travel as a means of study as an impor tant soui ce of education. Such con sideration would bring to view a long-neglected side of the education- i r i 1 1 H al question. Behold m our co eges and universities a painfully large per cent, cf young men and young women wc know they are young only by the word of him who has counted their birth days men and women whose cheeks should glow with evidence of the rich blood of youth, who nevertheless are in such striking contrast to that normal and ideal condition that one may say, without extravagance, they are as pale and bowed, and broken, and wrinkled, and nervous as if the days of their years were more than twice ! the actual number! A tragedy in-j deed! A spectable of men and worn-! en who have mastered the bool.s.but ; to do so, they have murdered the body! What's the matter? One-sided education. What's the matter? A departure from God's plan. God gave us "the hills that look eternal," "the clear streams that flow forever," and the stars that glitter in their unapproachable glory, that we might spend much time in "His great out-of-doors," there to drink, only to increase our love till it makoth us to drink again and again of that soul-inspiring beauty of His handiwork "a foretaste of heaven," as we revel in Nature's fields of freedom and breathe the pure and purifying air of the forest primeval, and drink from the gurg ling waters of the mountain springs. God has given us a great, beauti ful world. Let us enjoy it by some times pausing to live with books and feed upon the thoughts of other men and legitimately copying what they have done, and sometimes going forth into Nature's great class room, where one may happily be both stu dent and teacher. God has given us a world of vari ety; therefore he that lives among the hills should sometimes descend into the valleys and traverse the plains; and he that dwelleth in the lowland should climb to the moun tain top and view the landscape o're. To a degree, it is a happy philos ophy for one to believe that he lives at the best place in the world, and his "claim may be allowed," never theless he will be a "green-horn" and a bigot if he doesn't get out now and then to see something of what the rest of the world are doing. One mav snend a lifetime limited to the best circles of 'New York or London, and yet be an ignoramus, ;:nd if he misses "the dunce block" it is only because justice is not meted out to him. Nature hates narrowness and short sightedness, and beats with many stripes those who either wilfully or carelessly close their eyes to the world of broadness and beauty. Schoolboys have not debated in vain who found food for thought in the question. "Which is the 'greener,' a city girl in the country; or a coun try girl in the city?" Well might the judges say: "Both are the 'green est,' and both are in fault in not hav ing sought more diligently to know the best side of the world as it is." The "Travel-Study" idea is funda mental on this wise; one needs to acquit himself creditably in conver sation whether his object be business or pleasure. To walk well, there must be data one must have some- j i - - thing to say it he would get away from the "small talk" that is doom- eu, sooner or la'.cr, io grow onous, and to render one silly, ang- ling and ill at ease. To talk well is essential to the best business ability; and in the social realm without con- versational accomplishments, on is I like a dumb piano. To talk well, there must be not only something in teresting to say, but it must be said pleasingly, entertainingly, naturally, spontaneously, springing from a heart full of enthusiasm, inspiration and love. Such life and earnestness, depth and broadness come not from a soul of the narrows and shallows of one locanty ana one iuea, out f-om a heart filled to the brim from tv world's rrofithnok of varietv:the r T.vr:v..:r a. humble huts cf the hedges, the state ly blocks of wonderful architecture; the lonely hermit in a desolate cavern, If. nfisrssra 1 or that ana run There is one thing that will cure it Ayer's Hair Vigor. It is a regular scalp-medicine. 3 It quickly destroys the germs H which cause this disease. U The unhealthy scalp becomes 8 healthy. The dandruff diss?- f pears, had to disappear. A y. healthy scalp means a great deal tn Vrtl flPllfNxr r.r A nr, g ..a?., ... , . a aruitjiio pimples.no eruptions, B ' , ' wiu,uuwo. Tha best hind of a testimonial "Sold for over eixty years." a ...... . . CilfRRV PECT024.L. H the busy throng of a crowded city; the desert sands, the perennial mead ows; the gardens of abiding sum mer tirno, the crest crowned peaks of perpetual snow; the loitering streams of the lowland, the rushing, mifditv waters of the mountain gorges; th; world ;:t its poorest, the world at its greatest, the world at u be5t thc30 (hi,,, with looks in broken dose.-?, not . nly "makoth h ready mrn, a full men, an exact man," lut a mm of health and a wealth of good cheer a tread man, a bright man, a gentleman. A K.'.pi ! Care. ( W oiiMii's Home (Yiiipauion.) On his last visit to l-.i;; old home in Hannibal, Missouri, Mark Twain told the school children a r.t.ory of u school boy, the truth of which it wan hardly neccary for him to guaran tee, though ho did so. "Ti.is boy," h.e ivJil, "awoke one morning very ill. Hi.; groans sdarm ed the household. The doctor wa.; sent for, and came po.st-haste. " 'Well,' said the doc'u r, as h i en tered the hick room, 'what u the t rouble?' " 'A pain in my side,' said th.; boy. " 'A pain in the head?' "'Yes, sir. " I the right hand stiOT " A little.' " 'How about the right foot?' '"That's stiff, too.' "The doctor winked at the hy'a mother ptandin'r by. "'Vfc:!I.' he said, 'you're pretty sick. But you'll be idlo to go to school on Monday. Let me see, to day is Saturday, and ' " 'Ls to-diy Saturday'.'' .said Ihoi.cy in a vexed tone. 'I thought it was Friday.' "Half an hour later the boy de clared himself healed, and got up. Then they packed him oir to for it was Friday, alter all." ;cho;. Talk nl.out your hr.-wklWt f. ,'.!-. A thousand you can sc; ,. , , i wo'iiu not nave tnnn as a rid. But would have IJoekv Momit.-di) Tea. II. 'I'. V!:'it !" :el t; Co. "Much of my success in life," said the millionaire, "was due to the ad vice of my friends." "Is it possible!" exclaimed the skeptical friend. "Yes," said the man of millions, "t always listened to it - but never fol lowed it." Cbk'igo Nw. Tlion.-'iMtds of 'M opV ii;c daily .u!'i r ing with kidney a'ld 1 'ladder Uoiio'es d:m"i-in:;.-s :iil.nnt ? ! 1 : 1 1 -hiiid " checked I'i'-'n;; -tly. LeWiilV Kidney ::,) m.i.'d. r Pil!s a;-- t!.e le.-t remedy j for th- 1-.:ek.el.e, w.-d-r kidney, ilaiiiinatio!) of the 1. ladder. Their na tion i-i t:r,o);M,t aiill sure. A V.e K n l-'",: treatment ior ; Whitehead Co ie. d by I!. T. Secretary Boot intimates that the majority of wars aro caused by yel low newspapers. That is probably true, but all newspapers ::ro not yel low. (There are fewer wars now than there we re when no newspapers existed.) Norfolk Landmark. T;i..ii1..j .o. for li.o IvidlieVS JM'.d n!a(1),(,r They bring ijui.-!c nIi-f to i backache, rheumatism, iun.baeo, tired worn out feelings. Joey jnoosee nat ural action of the kidneys in filtering waste matter out of the blood. '.'M day treatment $1. 00. Money refunded it Pinetiies are tint satisliii.t ory. K. T. Whitehead S: Co. A Glasgow paper thus analyzes the music of the bagpipe: "Big Hies on window, 72 per cent; cats on mid night tiles, 11 1-2 per cent; voices of infant pupies, G per cent; grunting hungry pigs in the morning, 5 per cent; steam whistles, 3 per cent; chant of cricket, 2 per cent." A MemoraLIt Day. One of the days wo rem. jnber with .(iire, :e weit as with .;oiit to our health, is th.? os.o on wl.ieh we became '-qun:nt-d illi Dr. King's N w late bids, the Vnit,Wxu tht cum headache and bduousTT'ss, and keep the bowels rigid. ?'k:. at K. T. V hue head & Co.'s ding stoic. I