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e?; r-.V.';."--' - v.- Good Advertising Good Advertisers Use these columns lor result. An advertisement in this popr will reach a good class of people. IT iMONWEAI to Business what Steam is to Machinery, thare.iit propelikig oov.d.. TU'y , :i i Kvt- results. . C. HlLLlAEiD, E&:er a-id Proprietor. 'Excelsior" is Our Motto. Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year. NUMBER 14. VOL. X'.iV. Sew Series Vol. 11.-6-1S SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1909. .TEL i .. ..ill rt I' 1 v t - i t r.v:.;:! J ttv.i U!j:1 ttl uiiU tu.li i)) i.iui.& '.t.' L'.:u;:t-i IlWtJ Ktdacv IrouM.? preys upon the mind t'vscov.r.t'.'i a a nd Lidsciiami ;iuon; beauty a igor and cheerful iicis roo:i disappear I when tliekidnevsari j ,f 'Si-- out of order or dli -.'' ",';' eased. J ' i '-j7I Kictucv trouble ha: t ; v N become so prevalen I i'v'X -!r- tliat it. is not unoom J v'VV iir men for a child to 1 ! (J v A: -fllk- 3 bcru aHhcfed will ! Irr-.-.-weak kidneys. Ktb I ! I .ild ut i nates loo often, if the urine scald lie !k-h, or if, v.-hen the child reaehti. a- j ago when it should be able to control th- ' ass.igc, it is yit nf.aeted v, ith bed-wet i t i'ivr. ik-pen-dupei: it, the cat: -.2 ofthediffi ! c;.ity is ki l-K-y t:-uhle, end the firs ! : top should he lov. ,'rds tin: tr.--?'.:nei,t v th;e iuport;':t'-r';r.. Thi-s uuleaar. trouble is d::? t ) a di.-e-.sed cond:tiMi i be kidneys ar. 1 i : adder and not to ; h.ibit ps most pet pi J pnppore. ; Women asv; :!1 v meii are inado mi?r- ! able with kidney and 'didder trouble ! end both need V:i same great remedy The mild ami the immediate effect c: : .SwarnpPoot r r on realized. It is sole by druggists, in fifty- f":-v cent and one-dollar ,jS3CijS''iS3jjjiw: : :e bottle?. Y.nim y i'::'' liave a ie botiie r; ""is E'S'"'' i bv imdl free, e" ;o a ' ' '---i.iie ' pamphlet tellins? all i&'i-z e.beut Sv.-a:np-Uoot, n...m oi wamp-Rort. ; i'leludit?;-; many of the thousands of testi- j monial letters received from, sufferer: vbo found Sv.-amp-Rort to be just the ' remedy needed. In v.-rhhii l'r. Kilmer ; cc Co., i;in;h;'.mto;i, N. Y., be sxu-e and j mention this puvt-r. Don't make any ; mist-ike, but remer.iber the name, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the address, ; Eingliamton, X. Y., on every bottle. JLBION DUNN AXTOKXKY AXll C(UXSEDI.()R A' . lavv-, : Sf.tlaiii! Xfck, X. C. Practices wlifivvcv servict-s-are require-;. Jiron Gin-fiaiT r8 0a Cinh atloe'IBERLIIY, . w.iuze Utiderwear.Coc v. v . ISPRt-rlOX, Scotland Neck, N. C. ' Oifieo on !Vp,,t Street. J)R. A. C LIVERNON, DENTIST. ?f Oihef up stairs in Whit - ' '-'v head Huildincr. OfTice hours from ' to I o'cloeb find 2 to o o'clock. 1 I1C52YDE WS3, i Ittokn'iiv an'B Counselor i Law, 2 1 !'- -2 1 Atl.-uitie Trust Btiildine- Xorfolk, Va. Nor-irv Public. Bell Phone 7C-" L. TRAVIS, VrTORXliY N1) Oouxsklok V Law, Halifax, N. C. Ioohv Leaned on Farm Land - 7iUL H, J0St General Insurance Aoksi Scotland Neck, 7. C. Supplies. Full and Complete Line. ft l i -'e Coffins and Caskets Burial Robes, Etc. Hsarse Service any Time N. U. Josey Company, Scotland Neok. North Carolina SLL the COUGH A3 CURE the LUNC3 w,ir. Kings' Mow Oiigsiiri w- WOLDS Trial Bottle Free AND ALL THROAT AND LUNGTR0U3LES. I GUARANTEED SATISFACZ03M OB. MONEY REFUNDED. THE RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT. What Happened When Resident Sent Hurry Call to Lor.elyville Fire Chief. DiJIups smelled smoke, and investi gation divulged the dread fact that his house was on fire. Now, inasmuch as Billups lives off in the country, two miles away from the hose company, he became very much 'gitatcd, and ran at once to the tele 1 hone. After ringing three or four times he connected with old Si Hop kins, the tire chief of Lonely ville. "That you, Silas?" he cried agitated ly over the wire. "Ya-as, who's this?" came the an swer. "Why, I'm rsillups. My house is on fire, and" "Who'd you say?" "BiHupp, old man. For the love of heavens, hurry the engine over here. -Vy house is on fire." "Whose haouse d'ye say?" "Mine, 'Billups'." "Wa'al, 1 wan tor know. Who sot it?" "I don't know, but ring the alarm, will you? And send the boys up quick." j "Wa'al, I duuno as I kin, Mr. Billups. My wife, she's got the key to the rire house, and she's gone daown t' Sallie's house for supper. Besides, Bill Jones, he's gone to Centerville to buy a kyow, an' Jim, he's daown to Missus Holli berry's place pickiu' cherries." "Well, for heaven's sake, do some- thins?, can't you?" roared Billups. "Wa-al, I'd like f oblige ye spuire, but I dunno as I kin. Leastways not till to-rnorrer mornin'." "To-morrow- morning be hanged, Hos kins! The house is burning now." "Wa-al, mebbe I might git up some time this evening, Mr. Billups."- "This evening nothing! Why, the roof's ablaze at this very moment." "Wa-al, I tell ye, squire, if it's as bad as that, what I think ye'd better do " "Well, go on! I'm listening." "fJot a postage stamp?" "Yes." "Waal, preaps ye'd better stick it onto an envelope and send word to th' insurance people. If it's got to th' rof they ain't much use o' my coming ov.i. : If ye wnnt me to, I'll send my boy Vv'illie up after the letter, an he kin take it daown to the post-office an' mail it for ye." ; ' You be" began Billups, but he i didn't finish. The fire had reached the ; telephone wires and destroyed the con nection. New York Herald. Erought Old Man to Time. The young man had asked the father for his daughter and been refused. "Then you will not give me Jane?" ! he hca-scly demanded. ' T didn't speak in Vclapuk, did I?" sneered Jane's father. The young man paused at the door. "I am considered a good looking fel low," he said. "Ladies turn and stare after me as I pass along the street. Your cook smiled at me to-night as 1 lingered at the side door. I returned j the smile. Now I will follow up this j favorable impression. I will make love to the cook in a week we will elope!" The old man turned pale. "Don't talk like that," be gasped "You wouldn't, be cruel enough to rob us of our conk. No, no; not another word. Jane is yours!" Tone and Tune. When your vbality is low you need "toniner up." Yvhy not "tuning up?" Same thing. We are all pianos, just a mass of sounding boards, keys and strings. We get out of tune and tone; wo run down, just like an eight-day clock, and require rewinding. Look at your wife to-morrow morning and see if sheds out of tufte. If she is cross you will say she got out of bed with the wrong foot foremost. Not a bit of sense in that. She simply got up from ber night's rest out of tune, or tone. Tune her up! Tone her up! In her finest health she may be a G sharp; when not so well she may be at D. Have your family kit of tuning irons; give her a test; then bring her up to pitch. New York Press. All Join in Helping Messina. Says tb London Chronicle: "It is not only by means of ships that Amer ica has gone to the rescue of Sicil ians. Visitors from the western hemi sphere to Rome, albeit making no long Ixay, are using their wealth lavishly in the work of rescue. We hear of one family alone receiving six earthquake children into their house, and giving shelter to 16 more elsewhere. Th committees of relief are composed from every nation that gathers in Rom- for "winter and spring. All gay eties are suspended, and the embas sies have put their merely social of fices aside." 0 Where the Eard Falls Short. "Aren't there some rather indelicate things in Shakespeare's plays?" sug-"e-tecT the punctilious citizen. & "Yes," answered Mr. Stormington limes' "but they don't go quite far enough to constitute a New York suc cess." The Sincerest Respect. "Yon neoole in the east don't appre ciate the importance of the great mid- ril west." said the visitor. We don't, eh! On the contrary, we sit up nichts thinking about the great middle west. That's where most of our weather comes from." Floodgates of Wisdom. "Why do you sometihies discuss top ics on' which you are scantily in formed?" , iU . "To save time," answered the fear less public character. "It's the surest way of being immediately and volum inously enlightened." The man who persistently sits down is sure to become hard up. LIVE AFTER DEATH VITAL ORGANS SLOW TO CEASE FUNCTIONS. j I All Parts of the Body Do Not Simul- j taneously Give Up Their Work j Where Science Admits Itself at Fault. To the unscientific citizen it is some thing cf a surprise to learn that large parts of the body are alive and useful after the phenomenon popularly known as death has taken place. Few of us suspect, for example, that our kidneys and hearts after we have died ourselves can in most cases be resuscitated and that if by some sur gical miracle they could be trans planted into another body they would quickly resume their functions. This, however, is a well demonstrat ed medical fact. The human heart has been removed from the body more than 30 hours after death and made to beat again. Dr. Carrel of the Rockefeller institute has taken the heart from one dog and inserted it in the neck of another, connecting the aorta with the carotid artery of the new heart and the vena cava with its jugular vein. In a few moments the live dog had two hearts rhythmically beating, one recording a pulse of SS and the other 100. Science has yet formed no precise definition of death, says McClure's. The human body teemS and quivers with life, only a small part of which becomes a part of individual conscious ness. An artery, thoroughly disinfected, placed in an ordinary culture tube and then closed to the access of all bac teria, will not putrefy. Under ordinary circumstances, however, it will under go autolytic disintegration. Complete desiccation will preserve it against this latter process. Autolysis does not take place except in the presence of water, this explains why Egyptian mummies, which were thoroughly dried before being placed away in the tomb, have resisted for 30 centuries the autolytic ferment. Normal blood serum is another sub stance which inhibits to a considerable degree autolytic degeneration. Cold, while it doesnot entirely check the process, maKes it exceedingly slow. It is upon refrigeration tnat ur. Carrel has thus far chiefly depended for preserving arteries. In order to prevent putrefication he places them m serinzea cimure m . hn '-"" ny the tube3 m ,0-vse 1C0 i IX 1 . M-K-tVi cnesiS, w men maun am a iemi;cia.iuic just above the freezing point. Here they live in a condition of suspended animation. Dry and shriveled as they appear, they are still living tissue, and al though the animals from which they have been taken have long since gone to their final rest these fragments, if placed in a new living host, once more take up the thread of existence. That the arteries could be removed from a man recently dead and have their vitality and usefulness preserved in this same fashion is certain. Work of Bees. Three hundred billion bees made enough honey during last year to fill a train of cars long enough to reach from New York to Buffalo. At the low wholesale rate of ten cents a pound it was worth $25,000,000, and if the 700,000 bee-keepers of the country had worked as industriously and skill fully as did the bees, the weight of the output would have been three times as great and the value $75,000,000. In one year the beehives sent to market a product worth nearly as much as the barley crop, three times as much as the buckwheat crop, $G, 000,000 greater than the rye crop, and nearly $9,000,000 greater than the rice crop. All the the rice and buckwheat grown on an aggregated area of 2,126 1-3 square miles did not reach to the value of the honey by $151,259. To appreciate these results, one must necessarily strive also to appre ciate the number of insects at work. That is rather difficult, for 300,003,000, 000 stretches a long way beyond intel ligent human comprehension. The human mind doesn't work well in any thing mathematically greater than thousands. - Small Scale Love. Dr. Pierce Underbill, whose book on divorce and marriage is to appear next month in Indianapolis, delivered a lec ture on divorce recently in a fashion able Indianapolis church. "T.H-trnvneance." he began, "is one of the big causes cf divorce. My cous in, a bank clerk, married a pretty girl and took her home to a nice little fiat. Hut she frowned and bit her lip. " Oh, Jack,' she said, T can't live in a tiny flat like this!' " You don't love me when you say that, darling,' said my cousin. " 'Oh, yes I do, but not on such a small scale.' " Cause of Baldness. After considerable jocularity the pair turned to the pearly-pated stranger and one said: "My friend and I have been discuss ing the cause of baldness, but we can't seem to agree. Would you mind tell ing us what you regard as the real cause of baldness?" The stranger wheeled about, eyed his questioners fiercely and snorted: "Brains!" Family Likeness. hahv looks iust like me "Well, that's just what I wanted to say, but I was afraid you might be of fended." New York Herald. It is far easier to mend a broken heart than a broken rib. HANGMAN WAS ALSO SURGEON. Until 1C0 Years Ago Executioners Were Permitted to Practice. Two or three centuries ago execu tioners not infrequently performed surgical operations, says the British Medical Journal. This seems to have boen particularly the case In Denmark, July 24, 1579, a license was issued by Frederick II. to Anders Freimut, exe ! cutioner of Copenhagen, granting him the right to set bones and treat old wounds; he was expressly forbidden to meddle with recenc wounds. In 1609 it is recorded in the municipal archives of Copenhagen that Gaspar, i the hangman, had received four rigs- dalers for the cure of two sick children in the infirmary. vIn 1638 Christian IV. summoned the executioner of Gluck stadt in Holstein to examine the dis eased foot of the crown prince. In a letter addressed to Ole Worm, a lead , ing Danish physician of the day, Henry ' Koster, physician-in-ordinary to the j king, complains bitterly of the slight thus put upon him. He says that for two whole months the hangman, "who is as fit to treat the case as an ass is to play the lyre," had the case in hand and the doctor was not asked ; his advice. . . . Again, in 1681, ; Christian V. gae fee of 200 rigs dalers to the Copenhagen hangman for curing the leg of a page. In 1732. : Bergen, an executioner in Norway, was authorized by royal decree to practice j surgery. I Even up to the early years of the nineteenth century this extraoruinary association of surgery with the last, penalty of the law continued. Erik Peterson, wdio was appointed public ! executioner at Trondhjem in 1796, served as surgeon to an infantry regi ment in the war with Sweden, and re tired in 1814 with the rank of surgeon major. Frederick I. of Prussia chose his favorite hangman, Coblenz, to be his physician-in-ordinary. It might be suspected that this peculiar combina ; tion of functions had its origin in a satirical view of the art of healing; but in the records we have quoted we can trace nothing of the kind. Per haps the executioner drove a trade in human fat and other things supposed to possess marvelous healing proper ties; he may thus have come to be credited with skill ia healing, though the association surely represents the lowest degree to winch the surgeon hag ever fallen ln public esteem and social position. Choosing a Vocation. It is very certain that no man is fit for everything; but it is almost cer tain, too, that there is scarcely any one man who is :ot. fit for something, which something nature plainly points out to him by giving him tendency and propensity to it. 1 look upon com mon sense to be to the mind what conscience is to the heart the faith ful and constant monitor of what is right or wrong. And I am convinced that no man commits either a crime or a folly but against the manifest and sensible representations of the one or the other. Every man finds in himself, either from nature or education for they are hard to distinguish a pe culiar bent and disposition to some particular character; and his strug gling against it is the fruitless and endless labor of Sisyphus. Let him follow and cultivate that vocation; he will succeed in it, and be considerable in one way at least; whereas, if he departs from it, he will, at best, be in considerable, probably ridiculous. Lord Chesterfield. Remarkable Educated Horse. The remarkable sagacitj" of Trixie. the educated horse that was killed in a railroad wreck recently, is vouched for by Mrs. Louise Culp, of Cleveland, O., who saw the animal while it was on exhibition at the Jamestown fair. "Spell the lady's name." said Trixie's owner to the horse. "Her name is Louise" dividing, the syllables and pronouncing them "Lo-es." The horse promptly spelled the name and spelled it phonetically "I.o-es." About two months later, when he had become acquainted with the name, he also conformed to the spell er and picked it out properly, L o-iid-s-e. What puzzles the. students of natural history is bow the horse learned to spell at all. Should Genuine Heroes Be Dead? Real heroes iirc like Sherman's def inition of "good Indians;" they are all dead. They commit suicide as he roes by appealing in the music halls, bv ciualii'yins. as professional athletes, by giving cut tco many newspaper in terviews, by yielding too readily to the camera, by succumbing to kissing jePS by becoming too strong to work in one method or another by seek ing to capitalize the admiration of Ihe moment, into permanent maintenance and support. If thej- escape suicide they ai-e asphyxiated by the adulation of mankind or extinguished in its speedy orgctfulness. New York Mail. Relicbl; Weather. "So you are soS to the north pole next year?" "Yes," answered the arctic explorer. "You must like the climate." "No. But there is some satisfaction In knowing that when a cold wave is predicted you won't make any mis take in starting a fire and putting on jour heavy clothes." Postprandial "Sticker." "What sort of an after-dinner speak er is Bliesins?" "One of the kind who starts in by saying they didn't expect to bo called on, ana men proceed io demonstrate that they can't be called off." A man has time to do anything if he has the inclination. ; , u DEVOTION TO RULER KOREANS SHOW HIGH DEGREE OF PATRIOTISM. Had Decided Freely to Give Their Lives to Warn Emperor of What They Considered Grave Danger. Out of Korea comes a story of the fanatical devotion shown to the shad ow emperor of the land by those of his subjects who still resent the rule of the Japanese and view each move of their virtual masters with deep suspicion. In this instance several pa triots were willing to let themselves be run over by a railroad train if only his majesty might be warned by their death that he was flying into the trap set for his feet by Prince Ito. A month ago the emperor announced that he was going to leave- Seoul and take a trip to Fusan, the most easterly city of the peninsula and wholly a Japanese settlement. This was an unprecedented thing for the emperor to do, since for countless gen erations Korean kings and emperors had been content to sit in the hall of congratulations in the Mulberry palace at Seoul and let subjects from other j parts of the land come to them to pay homage. Despite the protests of tin I patriots Prince Ito, who was engineer ing the trip, ruled and the emperor se! out over the Seoul-Fusan railway to visit the seaport at the other terminal. It became known by the Koreans along the route that the Japanese bat tleship Azuma was to anchor in the harbor of Fusan and that a part of the welcoming ceremonies that were to occur in Fusan was to be a luncheon to the emperor on board the ship. Immediately the rumor grew to the conviction that as soon as Prince Ito had the emperor safely on the Aznma's deck anchor would be hoisted and the last of the line of Korean rulers would be whisked off to Japan, there to die in a dungeon. Perhaps the simple Koreans had some justification for believing that the crafty resident -general would like to execute a coup like that; certainly the hand of the Japanese had made such startling moves on the imperial chess board at Seoul that even a du plication of the murder that was done in the Mulberry palace some years ago at the instance of a Japanese minister would not seem improbable to the Ko reans. At any rate the emperor had his luncheon on board the battleship in Fusan harbor and was put safely back on his own territory again. During the course of the luncheon Prince Ito made conversation by telling the pup pet ruler that he had learned that at Taiku, one of the large towns on the line of the railway, a party of pa t riots, convinced that the emperor was going to his doom, had determined to lay themselves on the rails as his train approached the station. They believed that by this act of sacrifice their monarch might be made to see that, he was approaching immediate danger. The patriots had been dissuaded by a very material Japanese policeman. In Memory of Old New England graveyards arc not tho only ones which contain cu rious epitaphs. Th old-time dweller of Maine who "t'.ied of a falling tree." as his headstone asserts, had a fellow in misfortune in far-off Australia, as is shown by W. A. RaiUie-Grohman's "The Tyrol and the Tyrolese." A wooden slab, painted with the rep resentation of a prostrate tree under which lies a man in spread-eagle atti tude, bears testimony to the violent death of "Johann Lemberger, aged 524 years. This upright and virtu ous youth was squashed by a failing tree." The record of Michael Gerstner is even more succinct and convincing, lie "Climbed up. fell down, and was dead." Youth's Companion. Defense of Canned Prcducts. That foods crly canned do not deterioraie with age was a statement made at a dinner o' canners in Chica go v. fe- d-jys a?o. "Suppose a custom er den'rod a ran of corn on February 22, 1J2," s.iid one of the speakers, "and was given corn canned in 1909. It would be rejected with a demand for 'something fresher,' and, although the 11X19 article would be found as fresh as that of 1920 it would be lost. At a recent banquet in London canned fruit taken from the ruins of Pompeii was found to be fresh and fine. There should be a law to compel the canning of all products in such a manner that they would keep for ages." Telegraph Letters. A novelty in correspondence, re cently inaugurated by the French post office department, has met with such success that it might be tried all over the world. . This is the telegraphic letter. The hours between 9 p. m. and 4 a. m. are not busy ones for the French telegraphic lines. So the postal ided lo turn these hours authorities dec to some use. Therefore, if one misses the post for a p:oineiai town ;n France to-day one can at the rate of 100 words for 20 cents have the letter telegraphed and delivered by the ftrpt post next morning. Tho scheme is very simple and is working admirably in Paris. Quantity. "Don't you admire the big hats thai women are wearing?" "Weil," answered Mr. Meekton, "I must say they look more like the money's worth." He'who foresees calamities suffers them twice over. Porteou. 5. astf GRA.PES, from their most tiealth ful properties, give ROYAL its ' iiCUVS A&solatelfrPiiiv It is economy to use Royal Baking Powder. It saves labor, health and money. Where the best food is required no other baking powder or leavening agent can take the place or do ihe work of Royal Baking Powder. fed TOO AFFECTIONATE FOR MAYOR. Dignified Official Dislikes Hugged in the Dark by Bruin When cloning time came in the city hall the other afternoon Mayor Charles II. French coughed impres sively, indicating a proper degree of satisfaction with the dignified prog ress of his administration, closed his roll-top desk with a hang, permitted '.he messenger to adjust his overcoat and present his hat, and then trod forth to meet his fellow townsmen, says a ConcoM (N. J.) dispatch t;i the New York M.-rald: Instead of going out the j front door of the city hall, however. Mayor French took a short cut thai j led through a dark hallway past the: back entrance of a theater. v mie uie major in me u.y imi. u . I. 3 il., .....a throwing off the shackles of official care a wrestling bear in ibe theater was busy throwing off the shackles of j a more material nature, and as the j mayor put on his overcoat the bear j shed its leather collar. So it came about that as the mayor entered the dark hallway at one end. the bear en-. tered it at another. The mayor has ! a great respect for bears, but this bear had no respect at all for mayors. ln the darkness the mayor felt a powerful detaining force laid upon his arm. "Sir," he said, in chilly tones, "if you have business with me, you may call at my office in the morning." "Ur-g-r-r," was the unpleasantly harsh response. "My man " began the major, but he stopped right there, for a furry arm was t hiov.n about his neck, and a rough tongue made a demonstration. which. i it was intended for a kindly salute, failed utterly of Its purpose' with the mayor. j "Le" go!" commanded the mayor, but his companion showed no disposition 1 to yield to harsh commands. The major ' nau otner resources, tie Biructc out so 'fit-Bit? savagely with his free hand, and with j ' such painful precision, that the bear,: Jion't I( t tlio hahy still'r from ca smitten on the nose, loosed its hold ' J(,( soVS (. .,v itching of tlie si-in. and fell back a step. D.-an's Ointmeot gives instant relief, Content with this temporary victory. .vl.V!l ,.,si, klv. Perfectly safe for cb.il- the mayor sped agilely back over tne route ne naa just traversed, snouting: "Bear! Bear!" at every jump. In cor roboration of his alarm, the bear gal loped along behind, bound not to be de serted by his new friend. The mayor was the first to reach an open door, through which he sped just in time to be able to close it in the face of his pursuer. The bear was led back into captiv ity by the theater employes. All About a Pie. Goff, the famous London barrister, has a humor peculiarly his own. He looks at the world in a half-amused, half-indulgent manner sometimes very annoying to his friends. One day, when in town, he dropped into a res taurant for lunch. It was a tidy, al though not a pretentious establish ment. After a good meal he called to the waitress and inquired what kind of pie she had. " Applepiemincepieraisinpieblueberry piecustardpiepeachpieandstra wbe r r y shortcake," the young woman repeated glibly. "Will you please say that again?" he asked, leaning a trifle forward. The girl went through the list at lightning rate. "Andstrawberryshort cake," she concluded, with emphasis. "Would you mind doing it once more" he asked. The waitress looked her disgust, and started in a third time, pronouncing the words in a defiantly clear tone. "Thank you," he remarked, when she had finished. "For the life of me I can't see how you do it. But I like to hear it. It's very interesting very. Give me apple pie, please, and thank you very much." Tit-Bits. Telegraphers' Cramp. An Interesting feature of telegraph ers' cramp is that certain letters are nearly always the stumbling block. The most frequent are "C" and "Y" that is. the code signals used for these letters. When a sender begins to he "conscious" about so common a letter as "C," his case soon becomes a hope less one. Another form of cramp at tacks the receiver of the message. It takes the form of Inability to write fast enough to take down a message quickly transmitted. This is easily nn- i derstood when it is remembered that a ! receiver often has to write continuously to code dictation, so to speak, for hours at a time. The strain Is enor ous, and leads fairly commonly to what is practically a form of nervous break down. No matter how well mother may feel she is continually on the mend. &UU principal uigreuicm Reunited Aftsr Many Years. ; Report says ilia' Gen. Sickles. vet Being ! eran of the civil war. and his wife are reunited after 27 years of separation. The story is thin Mrs. Sickle.-' mother, who was an Invalid, wished her to re turn to Spain after her marriage and reside with her. Mrs. Sickles thought she should return to her mother i.nd remain with Iter till sh did. Mr. Sickles did not a-.M-ee with her and I ic! :i:;e;i !o r' M.vi: ". Sp;.ia lo live. '!'!: couple sepai.iti il. tl.i wh'e ret nr.iin: her mother, who lias recently d Now ln th'-ir ld age the couple reunited. x t ;!. ate Ti e Phcnocivph in China. American phonograph companies d,i t!g b;!r'' e". i i China. The mtit a dn.-sv l-:r.id-: and p;i!aee sin , , T,ltM are brought from a'; p:ui of the cm ; pire to th" I'i!-"- record-making o n- (f.r;! Peking. Sh;iii-.biil and llongkoiirj. i Here Ihe app.-i :i".'s for making tin nias'ev records i.' : t "'id the re-cor-J.in:; ib1!"'- ui:'er '1" t'i ection of an exi-e-.;. A record popular in tin north of China seldom i popular In i lie south. ei!t! llt'.le Kully UiTS the hot 'mow i pili-i th- best pil! made, and are easy ! l;Le ;inl act gently ami are certain. We ell aid recommend them. T. Wl.i'e- 1k nil Co. Mr. Miblo'v if, ?uni'rt,)ler) Ah, it idves ma a nuwi'tsi turn, 'Encry when I went in the bai n an' saw poor Swilks handing there. I turned ! and ran for the police lil e lightnin. . ftnrv Uut didn't y n cut him down first? Mr. M. Course I didn't. Henry Why not. Mr. M. 'Cos he wjjtn't dead. i(jjVI! dm-uist -ell it. Jir.ks Have you selected a trade or profession for your boy. Winks I shall make a plumber of him. Jinks Has he a bent that way? Winks He's born for it. Tell him to do a thing immediately and he won't think of it again for a week. Tit-Bit?. Every Woman Hill Be Interested. There has recent lv been discovered ui aromatic, pleasant herb cure for woman ills, eaneu runner iu Autra!iin-Loaf. It is the only cei- i i tan; regulator. Cures icmaie weak nesses and Uaekaelie. Kidney, Biaddcr and Urinary Troubles. At nil drupists or bv mail ". Sample fice. Anlre-s, The .Mother (iray Co., l.oK-y, N. 1 . "But," queried the dear girl's fa ther, "do you earn enough to sup port, two?" "Two!" echoed the woulcXe son-in-law in surprise. "Say, I only asked for your daugh ter. Are you going to try ana rinn her mother in on nie, too: -Chicago News. Children esecial!y like Kennedy'. Laxative Coti-di Syrup, as it taMcs nearly as pood as maple sugar. It not only heals irritation and allays inllani ma'tion, thereby stopping the couv.li, but it also moves the bowel gently and in that way drives the cold froi 1 the system. It contain n opiate. Sold by K. T. Whitehead " "Mamma, may I play with John nie Cross?" "No, George. He's a bad bov. Let hitn play with the oth er bad boys." "Weil.that's all right, mamma. His mother says I'm the worst boy on the street." Cleve land Plain Dealer. Swept fiver Niagara. This t r.ible calamity often hupp n becaie-e a ci.n le-s boatman i;jii.res the liver'.- waininvs grcwing ripple and faster current. Nature warnings nr' kind. That dull pain or ache in the back warn- jmi the kidney need at tention it you woiiM o-capo taiai inaia-die.-- Diop.-y. Pi.ihetr.- or Rright' dis ease. Take i'.lifiiie Hitters at once aid sec backache fly an I all your lst feel ings return. "A Iter long stid'ering licni weak kidney and lame back, one $1 . bottle wholly cured me," write .1 . It. Rlankenxbip, of Hoik, Teim. Only.".iK: atK. T. Wl.ib In ad Co, ,1