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There * many a »llp 'twtxt the ax and the chip. Mr*. Wtoatow'e Soothing Byrtip for Children teething, eoflena the (rum*, reduce* lnll»inm»- tloa,tUtn MiDi cur** wind colic. Be • bottle. Mr. Cheerfulness is alto an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the fair weather of the heart — Smiles. To prevent Malaria it far better than to cure it. In malarial countries take a done of OXIDTNK regularly one each week and nave youraelf from Chill* and Fever and other malarial troublei. Adv. How It Happened. The confusion of tongues had Just fallen on Babel. "We are describing a ball game," they explained. Burduoo Liver Powder. Nature's remedy for biliousness, constipation. Indigestion and all stom ach diseases. A vegetable prepara tion, better than calomel and will not salivate. In screw top cans at 250 each. Burwell & Dunn Co., Mfrs., Charlotte, N. C. Adv. When the Egg Is Laid. Patience —The hen never counta her chickens before they are hatched. Patrice —But you must remember she does a whole lot of cackling. Ai a nummer tonle there la no medicine that nuite compare* with OXI DINK. It not only ouilda up the «v»tem, but taken reg ularly. prevents Malaria. Regular or Taste less formula at Druggist*. Adv. Berllners Are Spenders. The people of Berlin are becoming freer spenders and less saving, ac cording to figures Just published. ThQ number of depositors in city savings banks'has decreased 8,080 in the last year. The amount of Increase In de posits for the year, which is now $95,- 000, Is only one-third the amount paid In Interest. Comparatively Eaay. "Snlpps says that managing a sail boat In a high wind is a simple matter to him." "3se average man wouldn't And It so." "Perhaps not, but the average man has probably never tried to manage a woman like Snlpps' wife." Costs. The Justice of the peace scratched his head reflectively. "There seems to be some dispute as to the facts In this here case," he said. "The law Imposes a fine of $25 for exceedln' the speed limit, but I don't want to be arb'trary about it, and if ye'll pay the costs I'll remit the fine." „ . "That's satisfactory to me," said Dawkins, taking out his wallet. "All right," said the Justice. "There's $5 fer the sheriff, $5 fer the pros'cutln' attorney, |5 fer the court stenogra pher, $5 for the use o' the courtroom, an' my reg'lar fee' o' $lO per case. Thutty dollars, please."—Harper's Weekly. JOYS OF SUMMER. GeeD Wifey—All flesh Is grass. Hubby—l suppose that's what the lawn mower thought when it cut my foot. CAREFUL DOCTOR Prescribed Change of Food Instead of Drugs. It takes considerable courage for a doctor to deliberately prescribe only food for a despairing patient, Instead of resorting to the usual list of medi cines. There are some truly scientific phy- j slclaaa among the present generation j who recognize and treat conditions as they are and should be treated, re gardless of the value to their pockets, 1 Here's an instance: "Four years ago I was taken with severe gastritis and nothing would stay on my stomach, so that I was on the verge of starvation. "I heard of a doctor who had a sum mer cottage near me—a specialist from N. Y.—end as a last hope, sent for him. " . , "After be examined me carefully he advised me to try a small quantity of Grape-Nuts at first, then as my atomach became stronger to eat more. "I kept at It and gradually got so I could eat and digest three teaspoon fuls. Then I began to have color in my face, memory became clear, where before everything seemed a blank. My limbs got stronger and I could walk. 80 I steadily recovered. "Now after a year on Grape-Nuts I weigh IKS lbs. My people were sur prised at the way I grew fleshy and atrong on thla food." Name given by Poatom Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book, "The Road to Welt Tille," in pkga. There'* a reason." .. Im mi tl* eb*r* Ivttert ▲ »ew mm Mint* trm 41m «? tlw JAMES WHITCOMB 'RILE BIDDEN away between two busy thoroughfares in In dianapolis Is Lockerbie • street. Scarce two blocks in length it resembles noth ing so much as a country lane. Great elm trees line the sides and meet to form a bower of shade. It Is unpaved, for its 'leading resident" does not like paving, and when, several years ago, the city council insisted that it should be converted into a conven tional city street with a paving of brick, he voiced his protest in a poem beginning: Buch a dear little street it te, neatled away. From the noise of the city and heat of the day, In cool ehady coverts of whispering trees, With their leavea llfffed up to ahake hand* with the breese, Which In all Its wide wanderings never may meet ■ With a resting-place fairer than Locker bie street I That poem has long been famous and Lockerbie street remains as It always was, "nestled away from the noise of the city and heat of the day." Its "leading resident" Is no less a personage than James Whltcomb Ri ley, recognized as the greatest of liv ing American poets and whose name Is one the best known literary critics of the world treat with a profound re spect. Here in Lockerbie street he lives, quietly, unostentatiously, In a large brick house that breathes the very spirit of comfort, but which makes no pretentions to elegance. And to this spot countless friends will wend their way on Monday, October 7, to extend their congratulations and felicitations, the occasion being the poet's birthday. This will begin what is to bo known throughout literary circles as "Riley week," and which will mark the great est ovation ever tendered an Ameri can writer. This celebration will not be confined to Indianapolis either, for n»arly every city in the United Htates has enthusiastically taken up the Idea and arranged exerciseß to be held during this week in honor of James Whltcomb Riley. Every one seems anxious to pay tribute to the man who has brought sunshine Into thousands of lives. Only a few months ago there was sadness in many hearts, for the word had gone forth that Mr. Riley had been stricken with an Illness from which he could never recover. Rut today that sadness Is changed to Joy, for Mr. Riley has been spared to cele brate another birthday. He Is not only alive, but practically as well as ever he was. He Is always happy, and although he no longer strolls through the Indianapolis streets as oace he did, he Is still a familiar figure, and every day he takes long rides In his big touring car. He is au enthusiastic motorist and one of his principal delights Is to take his friends for a spin around the city or through the country in the vicinity of Indianapolis. In 1853, In the little country village of Oreenfleld —scarcely even a village In those days—there was born James Whltcomb Riley, the son of Reuben Riley, a lawyer and a man known for his fearlessness and unconventionally. The boy's mother —a Marine —was a gentle and naturally poetic woman, and It was from her that Riley In herited his ability as a rhymester. The young lad's life, in his earlier years, was not marked by any unus ual event. His was the life common to boys lii small towns. Beyond this, nothing much is known —there is nothing else to know. He attended school Irregularly, more often than not a truant—as he himself has pic tured —barefoot, browned by summer suns, happy and care-free, listening to a voice no other boy could hear, keeping his heart open and his soul free—a heart and soul that have never grown old. "1 did not go to school very much," Automatic Savings Device The Nuremberg City Savings Bank 20 squares, to which these stamps \ (§tadtische Bparkasse Nuernberg) a are. to be attached. When the card municipal Institution, haa installed is filled up, it represents the value of three automatic devices for the en- S marks (47.6 cents), and upon pre- - coutagement of saving among school eentation at the bank, the depositor's children. These automata, upon the account la credited with that amount, deposit of a 10-pfennig piece (I.SB One of these automata has been placed cents) in the slot, deliver a gummed ,Jbl the corridor of the bank olloe at the 10-pfennig savings stamp. The bank City hall and the other two in the oor furnishes without charge a savings ridors of hlgh-echool buildings. These card. ft laches square, marked ot into stamp automats cost about |l9O sac*. ' * »■ \> 4X r » \ -**' A. ,•'* •. .. . - I I BBWEttf • ' nJH IK jf/ln lAflOSKHftv'» iI I 'flj ■nßi 1 «| jmwfijfjinP&M •J I j-Mf '- '' |j '' h dii^^n be once told an interviewer, "and when I did I was a failure in every thing except reading, maybe. I liked to read. We had McOuftey's readers. But I always ran away when ws were to read 'Little Nell.' I knew I couldn't read It without crying and, if I cried, the other boys would laugh at me." To another visitor Mr, Riley said that he never had much schooling, and, continuing, be remarked: "What tittle I had never did me much good, I believe. I never could master math ematics, and history was a dull and Juiceless thing to me. But I was al ways fond of reading In a random, desultory way, and took naturally to anything theatrical. I cannot remem ber when I was not a declaimer, and I began to rhyme almost as soon ns I could talk. The first verse I aver re member writing was a four line val entine. I was so small that I could hardly reach the top of the table, and I was painting a comic sketch on a piece of paper. I had a natural facul ty for drawing as well aa for rhyming, and should probably have made a fa!r artist if I had kept at It. Well, be low the sketch I was making I wrote four comic lines, and these were prob ably my first poetic effort." Perhaps the child Riley studied both the picture he had drawn and the lines he had written and decided then and there that the lines were so much better than the picture that he would devote his efforts thereafter to writ ing In any evenL he became a poet According to his own autobiographical Bketch he was born "so long ago that he persists In never referring to the date. Citizens of his native town of Greenfield, Ind., whjle warmly wel coming his event were no less demon strative some years since to the parting guest.' It seems, in fact, that aB they came to know him better the more resigned were they to give him up. He was ill-starred from the very cradle. It appears. One day, while but a toddler, he climbed unseen to an open window where some potted plants were ranged, and while leaning far out to catch some dainty glided but terfly, perchance, he lost his footing, and, with a piercing shriek, fell to the sidewalk below; and when, an In stant later, the affrighted parents picked him up. he was—he was a poet!" At the age of fifteen Riley ceased to attend school, and at the wish of his father began to study law. As may readily be understood, In view of his career, the law had no attrac tion for the young poet. So, after being advised by the family physi cian to travel, Riley seized the first opportunity that offered and, putting aside his Rlackstone, fled one after noon between twilight and sunset to return to his native town no more for a year. Riley, as he afterward said, had no money with which to defray the ex penses of a trip, and, when a patent medicine "doctor" made his advent In Greenfield Riley allied himself with the traveling caravan and de parted when the cavalcade pushed on to the next town. "I was with this man about a year." he said a few months ago. "His home was In Lima, Ohio, and he was a kindly old fel low. I did a good many things while In his employ—painted signs, beat the baas drum a bit and, maybe, I recited. My experience put an Idea in my head —a business Idea for a wonder —and the next year I went ,lnto partnership with a young man. We organised an advertising com pany; we called It The Oraphlc com pany.' There were five or six young fellows—all musicians as well as handy painters. We used to capture the towns with our music, then con tract with some merchants and deco rate the fences along the country roads with their signs." Riley and his associates continued in this occupation three or four yeara. All the while the young poet WM gaining a reputation here and there as a rhymester, a teller of good sto ries and a companionable, Interesting, lovable young man. Ha wrote a great deal, and much that was submitted to eastern peri odicals. Their editors, however, re turned these contributions as regular ly as they were received. It was dis couraging, especially so in the eyes of the young poet, who believed and doubtless was Justified In believing—• that his products were as good as those the magaslnes accepted and published. He did not have a name —and lack of reputation In those days was a serious handicap. Riley never ceased to contend whan with his friends that this fact and this alone held him back. To prove it, he wrote the famous "Leonalnie," and. with the connivance of the editor of a Koko mo (Ind.) paper, presented It to the world as an unpublished poem by Bd gar Allen Poe. An elaborate Btory was devised, In which It was said that j the poem; bearing the Initials E. A. P., had been found on the fly leaf of a book. The verse was In Poe's well known style, and its publication aroused much Interest. In the end the hoax was discovered, but not un til many critics' 1 had accepted the poem as "one of the best Poe had written." For a time, he said In later life, he was hopelessly despondent. It wils In this frame of mind that a letter found him and summoned him to In- ; dlanapolls. The note was from the editor of the Indianapolis Journal.j and It urged Riley to accept a posi tion on the Journal Btafr At the ! same time a tendor, encouraging note | came from Henry Wadsworth Long- i fellow. These two communications revived Riley's drooping spirits, and, leaving Anderson and Greenfield, he went to the state capital. Indlanapo- | Us gained a poet, and a few months later, In 1883, Riley's first book of verse was Issued. It was a simple little affair, bound | In paper, bearing the title, "The Old Bwlmmln'—llolf and 'Leven More | Poems," Riley, as may be Imagined, did not long remain In the Journal's regular employ One after another his bound volumes began to make their ap pearance, Then came the poet's as sociation with Nye on the lecture platform, followed, when that asso ciation was severed, by more poems, public readings and then many years of leisurely writing in his home In quiet little Lockerbie street. For tune has smiled on hlra and hit wealth has Increased and his fame has grown. But he Is still the same gentle. lovable man who won friends In Oreenfleld and Anderson and Ko komo. He has made thousands of friends during his lecture tours. Yes, Mr. Riley's birthday Is to be a glorious event, and the tributes which will be paid him during "Riley Week" are Indeed well deserved. They are Installed In the hope that they may Induce children to save their 10-pfennlg pieces rather than spend them for candy, Ice cream, or other temptations, enough of which are al ways in evidence. If results are sat isfactory, mors of these automats will be Installed at suitable places.—U. S. Consular Report Wasted Effort. The heart that must be reached through the stomach tsri*t worth reaching. FKA •'* •* - VV' '!AO- 't . • % ' 1 i . , i SOLD OUT FOR A SON 6 PRIVILEGE OF EVKRY KIND ON BARGAIN COUNTER. Cost of Living Rises but License to Prey on th« People Is Becom ing Dirt Cheap. In an era of high prices how dirt cheap some things are! The cost of living rises, but the price-marks on privilege of every kind are low and the tendency Is downward. We read of sums that eeem large paid annually to the police system of New York for licensing and protecting vice and crime. Yet what a beggarly valuation is >2,000,000 or 110,000,000 for the right to prey upon a city of 5,000,000 people, containing property assessed at eight thousand millions! We read of Mark Hanna campaign funds of J6.000.000 or $8,000,000 used to cajole or corrupt voters and carry elections. Yet what bagatelles are these when compared with the things that they bought, such as the passage of laws and the suspension of laws in a nation of 90,000,000! We shall never know how cheaply we have been told by the police sya tem and the extortionate tariff system until we apply the rules of merchan dizing and put prices and commodities Into contrast. We are not only sold out and betrayed municipally and na tionally, but we are also shamed In the knowledge that our llb«rtles and estates have been bargained away for a song. It has recently appeared that Stand ard Oil contributed $126,000 to the Republican campaign fund In 1904 on the understanding that the money would be "gratefully received" and "appreciated." It was asked for an other donation of $150,000, which was refused. Here we have Standard Oil's Id oa of the market value of the favor of the United States government When Standard Oil declined to pay more. It is now admitted that the Steel Trust made good the deficiency. Both of these great combinations owe their lawless lives and most of the hun dreds of millions that they have rolled up In a tariff-cornered to the favor of the United States govern ment. Daniel C. Roper, chief clerk of the ways and means committee of the house of representatives, estimates that the tariff tax averages fl2o a year for every family. Of this sum only sl6 goes into the treasury. The remaining $lO4 Is absorbed by the protected Interests. He believes that an honest tariff levied only for pnblic purposes would save the people nearly a year. With this colossal plunder In mind, what Js to he said of Btandard Oil haggling over the price that it was to pay for the lion's share of the graft? What of Steel's willingness to make good the deficiency? What of the contemptible 16.000,000 or $8,000,000 raUed by the system to continue in power the party that gave the United States government into its control? If the privilege of taxing the people $2,000,000,000 In the interest of a class were put up at auction we believe that even Standard Oil would Increase Its bid. If the privilege of suspending the anti-trust law so that It might absorb ! Its rival, Tennessee Coal and Iron, 1 were put up at auction wo believe that the Steel Trust would show even great er liberality. Thanks to the Mark Hanna system, the prices of everything that we eat, wear and use are rising. It Is only the things that should be priceless, such as right, liberty and justice, that are on the bargain counter or hawked j about the streets.—St. I>ouls Republic. LOOKING AHEAD i . t "Reserve s Lower Berth to Wsshlngt . on on November 6th." I , No More Mske-Belleve. , We must speak, not to catch votes, , but to satisfy the thought and con . science of a people deeply stirred by f the conviction that they have come to a critical turning point in their moral and political development We ' stand in the presence of an awakened ' nation. Impatient of partisan make r believe. —Governor Wilson. » He Stands Alone, t Gov. Wilson, alone among the can r dldates, offers a sane, workable pro- I gram for reducing the high coat of t living. . Gov. Wilson, alone among the candi - dates. Is pledged to uncompromising 1 warfare on those tariff grafts and **Jo- L kers" which gather the earnings of the many into the bloated fortunes of the few. Gov. Wilson, alone among the candi dates, 1s trying to and the regime of 1 government privilege, Instead of try -1 lac to "regulate" and Deoetuate It DlfT•rant- Albert J. Beveridge nU in Chiracs of * corrupt bou: "He's t«7 virtuous—oh, very virtu ous. "A millionaire once went to him and ■aid: "'I want to get in the senate. Will you aell me your support V " 'No, sir!' the boss answered, strik ing himself- upon the chest. 'No, ilr! I'm a free-born American cltlsen and I'll sell my support to no man.' " 'But,' said the millionaire, blandly, aa he drew out his checkbook and fountain pen. 'but, if you won't sell me your support, perhaps you'll rent It to me for the term of this campaign?' " 'Now you're talking,' said the boas, in a mollified tone." A Household Remedy. Which works from outside. CHEB - (Chest Ointment) will relieve quiokly croup, ooughs, colds, pneu monia and all affections of chest and throat Use freely and RUB! RUBI RUBI Now sold by all medicine deal ers. Should be in every home. Rurwell * Dunn Co.. Mfrs., Charlotte, N. C. Adv. Trial Msrrisges Favored.- Mrs. Hoyle—What is your husband's platform? Mrs. Doyle—l think he favors the recall of marriage certificates. Regular practicing physician* recommend and prescribe OXIDInB for Malaria, be cause it ia a proven remedy by years of ex perience. Keep a bottle in the medicine cheet and administer at firat sign of Chill* *nd Fever. Adv. Defined. "What's a 'moral victory,' pa?" "Any fight you win where the loaer gets all the money."—Judge. Fsr SUMMER HEADACHES Hicks* CAPUDINE Is the best remedy no mattsr what causes them—whether from the heat, sitting In draughts, fever ish condition, etc. 10c.. Xc and 60c par bottle at medicine stores. Adv. Pat's Hint. "How did the drink go. Pat?" "Foin, sorr; but faith It do be callla' for company." % Aa a summer tonie thera ia no medicine that quite compares with OXIDINE. It not only builds up tha system, but taken reg ularly. prevents Malaria. Regular or Tast* lea* formula at Druggists. Adv. Every man haa a secret hope that refuses Ao come out. ■ , ' _ SUFFERED EVERYTHING For Fourteen Years. Restored To Health by Lydia E. Pink* ham's Vegetable Compound. Elgin, III.—" After fourteen yarn of suffering everything from female com -0 plaints, I am at last restored to health. best doctors and even went to the hospital for treat ment and was told there was no help for me. But while tak ing Lydia EL Pink* ham's Vegetable Compound I began to improve and I continued its Otoe until I was made well." ; —Mrs. HBNRY Lkiszbsro, 743 Adams St. Kearneysville, W. Va.—"l feel it my dutv to write and say what E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done for me. I suffered from female weakness and at timee felt so miserable 1 could hardly endure being on my feet. "After taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and following your | special directions, my trouble is gone. , Words fall to express my thankfulness. I I recommend your medicine to all my friends."-Mrs. G. B. Whtttington. The above are only two of the thou sand* of grateful letters which are con stantly being received by the Pinkham Medicine Company of Lynn,Mass.,which •how clearly what great things Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound does for those who suffer from woman's ills. I .If you want special advice write to Lydia B. Pinkham Medicine Co. (coal* deatlal) Lynn, Mass. Tour letter will ' be opened, read and answered by a ; woman and held ia strict ooafldeace. The Wretchedness of .Constipation Can quickly be overcome by CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. • Purely vegetable —act surely and gently on the I PIULsI ache, nesa, and Indigestion. They do their duty, SMALL PILL. 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