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The man who stands idly by and
sees the life fading out OF his wife's
face, sees her health going, sees her
b coming old and faded and wrink-
led when she should still be in the
perfect enjoyment Of vigorous, use
full health, is either less than man
or else does not know of the one
remedy which will bring her back to
health and strength. Perhaps her
husband cannot persuade her to GO
to her doctor, because she naturally
breads the inevitable examinations
and .slocal treatments He can
persuade her, if she needs PERSIA
sion, to take DR.. Plerce's Favorite
Prescription. This truly wonderful
medicine has cured hundreds of wo,
men after the best physicians have
failed. 1t has been in constant use
and tested every day for thirty
years. 1t isn't an experiment, there
are no chances about it. It is a
certain cure for all arrangements,
weaknesses, Irregularities and dis
placements of internal organs pecul-
lar to women.
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SECONDHAND SHOES.
Collected and Sold to Dealers, Who Fix
Them Up to Sell Again.

ooi'ee'eu anu soiu " neaie' VIM Tx
op 70 sen 1Asain'
New shoes were never SO cheap as they
are now, put there are SOLD nevertheless In
this city many secondhand shoes, for there
are many people who want to pay even
less Tor shoes than the lowest price OF new
ones. There are many places where Sec
ondhand shoes are sold. They are found
on the east side and on the west side OF
town, usually pretty well over toward tho
rivers.
Secondhand shoes are collected by ped
dlers. and others, who sell them to dealers.
Occasionally a man who has q pair OF
shoes that don't suit him or that he has
worn as much as he wants to takes them
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Winter Excursion Tickets ON
the Pennsylvania Railroad.

On November 1st the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company will place
on sale at its principal ticket offices
excursion tickets to all prominent
Winter resorts in New Jersey, Vir-
GINA, North and South Carolinar
Georgia, Florida and Cuba. The
tickets will be sold at the usual low
rates, with the usual liberal return
limits.
The magnificent facilities of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, with its
many connections, make this the
favorite line for winter travel.
An illustrated book, descriptive
of winter resorts, and giving routes
of travel and rates for tickets, will
be furnished free on application to
ticket agents.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-11-27

Don't bolt your food, it irritates
your stomach. Choose digestible
food and chew it. Indigestion is
dangerous sickness. Proper care
prevents it. Shaker Digestive Cor
dial cures it. That is the long and
short of indigestion. Now, the ques-
is: Have you got indigestion ?
Yes, if you have pain or discomfort
after eating, headache, dizziness,
nausea, offensive breath, heartburn,
langour, weakness, fever jaundice,
fatulence, loss of appetite, irritable
itv, constipation, etc. Yes, you have
indigestion. To cure it, take Shaker
Digestive Cordial. The medicinal
herbs and plants of which Shaker
Digestive Cordial is composed, help
to digest the food in your stomach |;
help to strengthen your stomach.
When your stomach is strong, care
will keep it SO. Shaker Digestive
Cordial is for sale by druggists,
price 10 cents to sl.O0 per bottle.
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War Prices In 1914.

Mr.. Julian Brewer of Annapolis, as ex-
ecutor of his brother, the late ex-senator
Nicholas Brewer, has fallen into possess
sion of a bill from William Kitty, debtor, to
William Alexander, under date of 1914.
Among the articles mentioned were 9
pounds of sugar, price So 2 pounds of
Hyson tea, So; loaf sugar, 374 cents a
pound; brown sugar, % cents q pound;
pepper, 70 cents a pound; currants, 37H
cents pound; raisins, same price; 8
quarts of peach brandy, silly; mold can
dies, 37H cents pound; 2A gallons Of
vinegar $1.03; half an ounce of mace, 30
cents; 8 quarts of whisky, 81 cents; half
an ounce of nutmeg, 25 cents; 1 ounce
of cloves 1s13 cents; flask of sweet oil,
62% cents The war with England was
the cause of the war prices. Baltimore
American
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couRTsHlP IN zuNiLAND.
Women Do the LoyemaisIng and Pop Che
All Important Question.


1.-THE powers freely extended to the wo1n-
en- of Zuni are many, boing particularly
favorable to them In domestic matters, and
In everything pertaining to the homo,
writes Edward Page CASTOR in The
Woman's Home Companion. These Pc
culiar liberties are manifest before mar
riage as well as after, for the alleged priv
ileges Of leap year hold rule continuously
In Zuniland. When ono of the daughters
Of the tribe takes an amored liking for q
young man, she very frankly confesses it,
and her parents are informed Of her choice
of prospective husband. If they approve,
the interesting information is impaired in
due time to his family, and, if the as yet
perhaps unsuspecting subject of the selec-
ton is suited, in turn he makes through
the mutual parents an engagement to visit
his admirer at her home. He is received
somewhat formally by the maiden and her
family, when something like the following
laconic conversation ensues between the
young people, while the father and mother
with the other members of the household,
sit apart amiably pretending not to listen:
Thou CONTEST, she says.
Yes. How be We these many days?'
he answers.
Happy. Gather and sit, and she mo-
tions him to seat near her.
AS never failing hospitality on the
part of a hostess, when visitor enters a
Zuni homo she places food before him and
bids him loosen his belt and lessen his
hunger. But he appears preoccupied and
partakes quite sparingly, ts give the polite
impression that he is a light eater-an
Important point in the favor of prospect
i've husband.
Thanks. / am satisfied be says,
after dining off little more than birds
rations.
Eat enough. You must have come
thinking of something What have you
to sayY she asks encouragingly.
Il don't know
oh, yes, you do. Tell me, she coyly
persists
I'm thinking of you, in whisper.
Indeedl You must be mistaken.
"'No.
"'Then do you love mes
Il love your
"'Truly?'
"sTruly.'
Possibly we shall see What think
you, fatherS' as she turns in apparent per-
plexity to the family group.
AS you wish, my child, her parent re-
plies
She then appears to ponder the matter
for the first time, and after due considera-
ton of the momentous question consents
to become his yi-lu-kia ni-ha, or his to
be, and from that time on they are as de-
voted to each other as are lovers in any
cline. "
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HOW OREGON WAS SAVED.
1t Would Rave Been British Possessio
lut For n NTuIe's Iuatinct


1t Would Rave Been British Possession
but For Mules Instinct.
DR.. Marcus Whitman's horseback ride
of more than 1000 miles from Oregon on
his way to Washington to insist upon our
government taking possession of Oregon,
to prevent it from falling into British
hands, is graphically described in The La
dies Home Journal by George Ludington
Weed
'Niore than once, indeed frequently,
during that journey in the winter of 1923,
q winter of unusual severity" writes Mr..
Weed, "Dr. Whitman leads the way
through rivers whose waters are frozen on
either side. Buffeting the waves of foam
ing currents, he plunges with his horse
completely under water. Blinded by storm
in every direction, he is compelled to re-
main ten days in gorge. Hope dies even
in his courageous heart One thing seems
inevitable-the snow must be his dying
bed and winding sheet and the moaning
winds his dirge. Believing that his life's
journey is ended, with that toward Wash
ington unfinished, he dismounts and kneel-
ing in the snow he prays for Oregon and
for her who in loneliness is praying for
him, unconscious of this special danger.
!" Mans extremity is Gods opportu-
nifty. So runneth the proyerb which Dr.
Whitman was not repeating when it was
verified in a way suggestive of sudden
transition from the solemn to the almost
ludicrous A mule, with stubbornness
stiffened by the cold, yet with instinct pre-
served, pointed with his long ears in one
direction, then another, as if seeking the
way, and at last, blowing through the
snow, became unique guide where the
human had failed, leading the despairing
company through drift and canyon to the
camp of the previous night. That mule
also saved Oregon to the United States -
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Some years ago an eastern farmer, in
trying TO repeat Webster's dying words, 81
still live" gave an amusing rendering of
the spirit If nos she exact letter of the
phrase. A gentleman had remarked to
him, Life is very uncertain"
"Ah, yes" replied the farmer, CHATS
true, every word of it, and, by the way,
captain, that makes me think of what one
of your big Massachusetts men said when
he died spell ago."
Who was itr' inquired the captain.
HWell, don't jist call his name now,
but at any rate he was big politicianer
and lived near Boston somewhere My
newspaper said that when he died the Bos-
ton folks put his image in their windows
and had funeral for whole day"
Perhaps it was Webster suggested
the captain.
Yes, that's his name Webster, Gen.
eral Webster. Strange I could not think
on it afore, but he got off good thing
just before he died. He riz up in bed and
says be, amt dead yetr n--Green Bag.
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A Mute Receivers speech.

Alphonce Hemphling, of Summit
township, Butler County, Penn,
made an affidavit that bis twelve
year-old son, who had had st. Vitus'
Dance for twelve years, lost his
speech, was completely cured after
using three bottle of DR.. Miles Re-
storatiYe Nervine, and also recovered
his speech. Thousands testify to its
wonderful cure of nervous diseases.
dyspepsia, nervous debility, dullness,
confusion of mind, headache, etc.
Four doses of this Nervine cured
Mrs. ". E. Burns, South Bend, Ind,
who had been suffering with con-
slant headache for three months.
Triad bottle and elegant book free at
A III. Gilbert's.
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prloes Paid to Modern Authors.

Rudyard Kipling commands the highest
price of any living author, according to
The Pail Mall Gazette, which says that it
paid $3.50 for each of his "Barrack Room
Ballads" and that "The Seven Seas"
brought him 81, 00o He has received so
cents word for 10, 600 word story. An
thony Hope charges $3.50 for magazine
story, reserving the copyright. Mr.. Glad
stones price for review is 81, 900. Conan
Doyle received $50, 900 for Rodney
Stone" Mrs. Humphry Ward $4,000 for
"Robert Elsmere, $50, 900 each for "Da-
vid Grieve' and "Marcella,' $4,000 for
"Sir George Tressady" and $4,000 for
"Bessie Costrell. " Ian Maclaren has made
S35, 600 out of 1.-THE Bonnie Brier Bush"
and "Auld Lang Syne." Rider Haggard
still asks from SIS to 800 column of
1900 words and will not write for less
than S10,0 900.
The highest price ever paid for novel
is 5000, 600, which, The Pail Mall Gazette
says, was handed over to Alphonse Daudet
for his "Sapho" Zolas first IA books
Melted him $500, 900, and in 20 years he
has made at least 1915, 900. Ruskin's GA
books bring him $4,000 year. Swim
burne, who writes very little, makes So,
900 a year by his poems. Browning in
his later years drew 500 year from
the sale of his works, and Tennyson is said
to have received $50, 900 year from the
Macmillans during the last years of his
life. Mr. Moody is believed to have beaten
all others, as more than $780, 600 has
been paid in royalties for his hymns.
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SHAKESPEARE in LONDON.
spenscr's Compliment and Meres' Tribute
TO the Honey Tongued Author.

Now, Shahespeare's London, says DR..
Fiske in The Atlantic was small city Of
from 100, 600 to 200, 600 souls, or about the
size of Providence or Minneapolis at tho
present time. In cities OF such size every
body Of the slightest eminence is known
all over town, and such persons are sure
to be more or less acquainted with one
another. 1t Is very rare exception when
1t is not so. Before his thirtioth year
Shakespeare was well known in London
as an actor, writer of plays and the man.
ager of prominent theater In that year
Sponsor. In his 'sColin Clout's Come Home
Again. abiding to Shakespeare under
the name of Action, or '.eaglelike,n paid
him this compliment:
And there, though last, not least, Is Action
A gentler shepherd may nowhere be found
Whose muse, full of high thoughts invention.
Doth. like himself, heroically sound.
-Four years after this, in 1885, Francis
Meres published his book, entitled "Pal-
Lads Tanlia, very interesting contribu-
ton to literary history. The author, who
had been an instructor in rhetoric in the
University Of Oxford, was then living in
London, near the Globe theater In this
book Meres tells his readers that 1.-THE
sweet witty soul Of Ovid lives in mellifu-
GUS and honey tongued Shakespeare Wit
ness his Venus and Adonis, /" his "Lu-
creee, s" his sugared sonnets among his
private friends etc.
To suppose that such man as this in a
town the size of Minneapolis connected
with a principal theater, writer of the
most popular plays of the day, a poet
whom men were already coupling with
Homer and Pindar-to suppose that such
man was not known to all the educated
people In the town is simply absurd. There
We're probably very few men, women or
children in London between 1895 and 1910
who did not know who Shakespeare was
when he passed them in the street, and as
for such wits as drank ale and suck at the
Mermaid, as for Raleigh and Bacon and
Selden and the rest, to suppose that Shakes
peare did not know them well-nay, to
suppose that he was not the leading spirit
and brightest wit of those ambrosial nights
lis about as sensible as to suppose that
he never saw q maypole. John Fiske in
Atlantic
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A Commissioned omoer's Punishment.

A court martial was recently held ON
the Mediterranean station upon q first lieu
tenant who was charged with a most bru-
tai assault upon a chief petty officer. The
fact seems to have been that the victim Of
the assault was on duty as quartermaster.
was taken i'll and fell down insensible
The first lieutenant came on board, and
finding him there endeavored to rouse
him by kicking him about the body and
head and beating him numerically with
q heavy riding whip. Even If the man
had leen drunk his condition would OBJ
yiously have been no excuse whatever for
this abominable assault which was of such
violence that pool of blood was found
where the man had been lying and he
had to be afterward placed on the sick list,
having about IA serious wounds about
him.
The occurrence seems to have been
hushed up at the time The lieutenant
privately apologized to the quartermaster
and practically threw himself ON his
mercy. But somehow or other the captain
heard of the affair, and, much to his cred
it, made a report Of it to the admiralty.
Hence the court martial Now what was
the sentence in this caso2 The officer was
severely reprimanded and dismissed his
ship. There was no question in this case
Of aogging, Imprisonment and subsequent
dismissal from the service but venture
to say that many a seaman has suffered all
these punishments for infinitely less seri-
osls crimes -London Truth
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Will take charge Of funerals and at
tend To all arrannamenfa Atc. af
Guaranteed Cure.

We authorize our advertised drug
gist to sell DR.. Kings New Diseov-
cry for Consumption, Coughs and
Colds, upon this condition. e you
are afflicted with Cough. Gold or
Lung, Throat or Chest trouble, or
viii use this remedy as directed, Civ
ing it fair trial, and experience and
benefit, you may return the bottle
and have your money refunded. We
could not make this offer did we not
know that DR.. Kings New Discovery
could be relied on. 1t never disap-
points. Trial bottles free at l.. G.
Matthsei's Drug Store Large size
Soc. and 81.
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The peasant folk in central and eastern
Switzerland date their weather presages
for the coming winter in large degree
from the character of "Gallus-T Tag THE
festival of their Scottish Cor shall we say
Irish) apostle, St. Gall His festival oc-
ours on Sept 16. "If it rains on Gallus-
Tag" say the folk of modern ST. Gallen,
sit will rain until Christmas tAs 1t is
on ST. Calls day, SO it will be through the
winter" at is ST. Gall who makes the
snow to fall. +" Before ST. Gall comes
take your garden plants indoors. :" "a dry
Gallus-Tag foretells a dry summer next
year n-Westminster Gazette.
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sYou gave the boys liberal educa-
tions, suppose, Squire 7"
Liberal? Why, it cost me jes'
all could rake an scrape TO pay
fer cyclometers an such things the
boys he'd to have in their college
studies. I couldn't hey done any
more without mortgagin' the
farm!
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"This," remarked the victim, with
great presence of mind, as the dyna-
mite exploded, "puts me quite out
out of countenance r 1t was evil
dent at the funeral that il he had
waited till he landed tie wouldn't
have had the face to say it.-Ncw
York Press.
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"But We cannot live on papa"
protested the savage's bride .to-be.
@He is dreadfully poor"
1--WE can wait until he is fatter ~
exclaimed the youth, sfor love is
brave. Detroit journal.
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"Why do you insist upon taking
your wife out for such long walks in
this rough weather 7"
1.-THE doctor has told her that sic
must be very careful not to talk
when she is out in the cold air.'
"Say, who's your doctor ~
Cleveland Leader.
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Revenge Is Sweet.

Watts-You say you are sure you know
who robbed your house, and yet you re-
fuse to take any steps to have him pun
ished. You are too tender hearted
Potts-That amt the reason. l want
to get even by letting him go free to rob
somebody else -Indianapolis Journal.
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Reals-Is Bagley bead over heels
in debt!
Beals-Yes, hear SO. He sign
ed contract with his tailor to pay
So night for the hire of dress
suit till be retuaned it. After the
second night it was stolen i-Phila-
delphia Press.
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wonan,s Portion.

In marriage" said the old bachelor,
as he mentally figured on the cost of u
wedding present, "a woman gets every
thing"
Yes" admitted the old maid. "She
even gets the worst of it. - Chicago Post.
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Now is the time to purify your
blood, and Hoods Sarsaparilla is
the best medicine for the purpose.
Thousands of great cures prove that
it is the One True Blood Purifier.
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Cyclopean Building.

The best examples Of cyclopean building
are at Baalbcc There are stones in the
Baalboc walls 30 feet above the level sew
eral of which are go feet long, "a feet thick
and 16 broad each stone weighing over
$500 tons, all cut, dressed and brought
from distant quarries.
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Thousands suffer from Catarrh or
Cold in Head and have never tried
the popular remedy. There is no
longer any excuse, as 10 cent trial
size of Ely's Cream Balm can be
had of your druggist or we mail it
for 10 cents. Full size so cents.
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ka0OD's Sarsaparilla has over and
over again proved by its cures,
when all other preparations failed, that
It is the One True BLOOD Purifier.
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What is

Castcria d. Samuel Pitchers prescription for Inf
and Children 1t contains neither Opium, Mornisa
other substance e is harmless substitute
Paregorc, Drops Soothing syrups, and Castor Oil
IG is Pleasant Its guarantee is thirty years. By
Millions of Mothers Castoria destroys Worms and aays
feverishness Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd
cures Diarrhoa and Wind Collie. Castoria relieves
teetng troubles, constipation and fatulency.
assinates the food, regulates the stomach
and bowels, giving healthy and natural Sleep Cas-.
tora is Children's Panacea- Mothers Friend.
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ELY BROTHERS.
56 Warren St., New York City

5b Warren 81, New York City.
A friend advised me to try Ely's
Cream Balm and after using it six
weeks believe myself cured of ca
tarrh. 1t is most valuable REM
edy.-Joseph Stewart, 624 Grand
Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.
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Walker-Why do you call your horse
Favor?
Ryder-Beeause he needs so much curry
ing. Chicago Record.
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Economy consists in knowing
how TO get others 10 supply your
wants.
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Of the leading dialects, 937 are spoken
in Asia, 5s7 in Europe, 276 in Africa and
1924 in America.
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Blood-pov y is want of red cor
psscles in blood, duo to defective
nourishr II of the blood, brought
about b imperfect or bad digestion.
a positive cure for this ailment Is Dr..
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Accept only Dr.. John w. Bulls Pills.
For sale by NJ. A. snodgrass, 70 n. Queer
street.
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Teacher-Bobby, give an example of the
double negative.
Bobby don know none. Cincinnati
Enquirer.
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many Persons are broke.
Sewn from overwork or household cares.
Browns Iron Bittors Rebu;ids the
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end csases malaria Get the genuina
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Pan Tina, the great remedy for
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