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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14
AN EGYPTIAN BANQUET.

By Thomas Wentworth Higginson. A crowded life. where joy perennial starts; The boys pulse beating mid experience
 sage Wild thirst for action time could ne CT
 assuage; ..ountless sad secrets learned from weary
 hearts; New thresholds gained as each full hour
 departs; Long years read sngly each an opened
 page: Loves blssful dreams and friendships
 priceless gage; A name grown famous through the streets
 and marts Knowledge advancing; thoughts that
 climb and climb Aims that expand: new pinions that un-
 furl; Age that outstrips all promise of its
 prime: Hopes which their prayers at utmost
 heaven hurl- Till in an instant. in a point of time, Death. the Egyptian, melts and drinks tha uaarl t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14
The Iron Market.

The iron market is high and excited. All the large consumers have covered for 1906, but many small meters are in the market to buy and are finding it difficult to obtain foundry metal even at such fancy prices as $l9 and s20.
 For 1907 delivery the market is strong at $16 on a No. basis. Little or no iron has been sold for the third quarter, but from present appearances the price will be high.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14
Bia and Plump.
From, the c

From the Chicago Daily News.
 Farmer Ryetop-The skeeters don't bother me, young yellow. They must be attached to you?
 City Bosrder-Attached? We'll, l should say sol The one that was stuck on the back of my neck this morning l used as "a collar button.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From tho New York Press.
 It worries a woman terribly not to have anything to worry over.
 Children would insist on stealing castor oil to take If you locked 1t in the pantry.
 Even if girl hugged a man while he was doing it she could get indignant at his kissing her
 One of the worst habits man can have is to have headaches on account of his bad habits.
 If there was an internal revenue tax cn milk, men would order it in barrooms just to he able to kick about the way the government robs the public.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14
Room for the Inscription? 1?
, Pail Mall Gazette

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
 King Edward presented the Kaiser s baby grandson with a four-handled cup, engraved with the British and Prussian royal arms, The cup rests upon an ebony pedestal and bears the following inscrip- ton in English: ITO Prince Wilhelm Friedrich Franz-Josef Christian Olaf of Prussia from his godfather and great great-uncle Edward I. R.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14
Will Return,

II. H. Sinnige, formerly of Birmingham but now of St. Louis, was in the city yesterday He has host of friends here who will be glad to learn that he will take up his residence here again within the near future He is prosperous in St. Louis and he likes that city very much, but he likes Birmingham better
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14
The Quick and the Dead.

From tIle IdpIet,
 This time 1t Is the Sunday school from which emanates the quick and the dead" Yes, miss says the young hopeful, ''the quick Is them as gets out O the way O motor cars, and the dead is them that doesn't'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14
Cant. Frank p. o,Brien.

Capt. Frank P. Brien asks that it be stated he is not the f. P. o'Brien who took part In the Higdon meeting on Mon day night last. Captain o'Brien is .lined up' with the regular democracy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

President Samuel Gompers is giving the republican bosses many hours of uneasiness, and they do not know how to meet his attacks upon their pluto cratic and autocratic methods.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

The scientists are endeayoring to ascertain how long ice will remain pure and clee in cold storage. Some think ice ten years old lacks purity. So no doubt it would in Pittsburg.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

There is s105 on deposit in the Kansas banks for every man, woman and child in the state, but it does not stand on the books in an even man. npr.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

Funston's trip to Cuba was notably quiet, and they do say that the Cubans remembered unpleasantly his with drawal from Garcias army.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

, Blocks of five have appeared again. The Russian bureaucrats are execut- ing their opponents five at time
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

A Chicago girl advertises herself for sale to the highest bidder because she is tired of being a stenographer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

The Czar is trying to elect duma of his own-one that will Gee and Flaw when he speaks the words in Russianoffsk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

It takes a lot of money for King Edward to stand comfortably in that fierce light that beats upon a throne.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

The Moran-Hearst supporters con slider William Jennings Bryan fine fellow who was born with old-fash- toned ideas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

Peonage is prevalent in the wild dis tricts of the everglades in Florida, and Uncle Sam is looking into the matter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

Atlantas rioters are now up against the courts, where they must at least explain their conduct.
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Navigation on the big lakes is think. ing of winding up another season with a commotion in both air and Wa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

The inventor of barbed wire, now dead, revolutionized. war without ill., tending to do it.
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The anvil chorus is noticeably large in New York state, where William Randolph Hearst is running for gov. ernor.
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Jim Hill can sit in an armchair and take a census of the future quicker than any living man. e
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Jungle Sinclair has another book on the stocks.
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Chicago is trying to convince her self that one snowstorm does not make a winter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

Chicago cries aloud for another weather man The present one stands wholly discredited
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

It begins to look as if Theodore Roosevelt will have to fight for that senatorship with William Richmond Hearst.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

A mile minute by locomotives and automobiles is becoming trite and commonplace.
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Guatemala may want to be annexed but Uncle Sam does not want any more wards.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

The pleasant task of hanging terror ists continues in Russia
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The frost Is on the pumpkin and everything else outdoors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

a N
 w Page, or more charming story than Inc Edinburg's Drowning'?' asks the Tuscaloosa Times-Gazette. giving vent to burst of enthusiasm which wells Up in the heart of every one under the spell of the man who wrote Mars Chan and dozens of other stories that steal away the bitterness of life. But there is another story equal to Mars Chan" and that is 1.-TWO Gentlemen of Old Ken lucky" by James Lane Allen. It was written in moment of rare inspiration. and is marked by a genius that is ad- mirable. Such story is productive of more good than a hundred sermons. a thousand moral precepts and a life of hidebound austerity It creates a great humanity love and sheds ray of the purest light into those corners of a mans heart where lurk the shapes of envy, hatred and malice. The world owes a debt it can never pay to good women and good books.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

If the weather man will be good next week, the success of the state fair is assured
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

The Standard Oil is on trial, and it has the nerve to plead that 1t Is not a trust.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

Sir Thomas Lipton is not harboring q cup-lifting bee this year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

lize into fact. He needs in his big navy business something more plausi- ble, feasible and probable
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

Secretary Taft is the boss settler all right
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

The Arctic wave caught the Chicago pennant winners unawares and unpre- pared
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14
A CINCH.

A CINCH. He always wore a pleasant smile, His heart was light and merry. The people had to cross the stream He owned the only ferry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

CONSOLATION. Lift up your eyes Don't cast them down, And if you do Not win renown, Content yourself With such thought: T always paid For what I bought, '1 did my best And never shirked, No mortal man More gladly worked. Altho I failed, This much I know. The crowds with me, And while I'm low Down in the scale of those who try, I'll just plod on Until I die. A man don't have To be so great To pass right through The pearly gate,''
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

Chicago was hot after the COW kicked over the lamp but it is not hot now
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

The Soo canal is 21 feet deep and it's business increases yearly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

There Is no telling to what limits the eNuberance of a sophomore will go.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

THE COLD SNAP FAMILY Mothers shaking out the blankets Putting cover on each bed Baby's chewing on a mothball By her little brother fed Bridgets in the kitchen loafing. Feet upon the stove, you know, Fathers in the celar-swears he Cannot make the furnace go. Will the oil trust please be carefulr Ida M. Butts is making threats in Ohio, and there's Ida M Tarbell, you know If the Hon. John l.. Sullivan tours Mississippi long enough he Is sure to see a lynching bee. beside which prizefghting is parlor affair
 FOOT YOUR HORN. Do something in this world, my friends, To add unto it's joys. You'll never gain attention if You fail to make a noise The poets would have the deuce of a time if they couldn't say "burgeon when they mean bloom.
 TO BE SURE.
 This much know
 Is very true,
 That I am me
 And you are you. What is the matter with Baileyq" asks contemporary. That is what Texas wants to Epou-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

Some batters ere achieving great. ness in Chicago in a single stab,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

It is not always the good spelling ste- nographers who marry rich, but usually they are good-looking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

Every Chieagoan has taken his overcoat out of it's moth-hall bath.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

Mexican bank presidents peculate too.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

Talladega Reporter; Snow storms at the north. Who told those martins to drill early this year2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

There is no telling how many office boys have lost their jobs on account of the baseball championship series in Chi- eago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

If you are afraid of boracic acid. eat the country cured kind
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

Gadsden Times-News: Cubas bloody revolution begins to assume the appear anoe of pink tea function
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14
ALABAMA PRESS

Gadsden Journali The sunny side of the street is getting it's inning now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

Moulton Advertiser: Now the good peo- pie of Texas are after Bailey's scalp. an l they ought to get it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

New Decatur Advertiser: w. J. Bryan says good word for King Edward. Now let us see what Edward has to say about Bryan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

0A NN AS there ever a sweeter writ WY CT than Thomas Nelson
 Page, Or a more charming
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala post. office as second-elass matter under act of Congress March 8, 1873,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

What is the matser with Bailey?'' asks a contemporary. That is what Texas wants to know.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

Daily and Sunday ge-Herald. =. $500 Daily and Sunday, per month";. ID Sunday Age-Herald, per annum 2.oo Weekly Age Herald, per annum. l.oo
 Subscriptions payable in advance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

1o o'clock in the morning. and the rest of the day will take care of itself" but he Is way of The bores don't begin to drop in until after 10 o'clock.
 A SLOW SUITOR.
 I'd like to sing to you, love,
 A tender sort of lay.
 Avowing I'm so blue, love.
 Because you're far away. But, surely, you will say, love,
 That l am not to blame? l don't know where you stay love And can't recall your name
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14

Greensboro Watehman: There will be wo full moons this month. One on the d and the other on the Slst. We wish the noon had a patent on getting full.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-12-08
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CONTINUED from Page One.)

extension from the present limit Of the
life If copyright from A.: years 10 the
life of the author, and 10 years there
after. ] think that ought 10 satisfy any
rca> Enable author, because 1t will take
care .! Ills chiIdrcn--lct the grand
children take care Of themselves. ID
will satisfy mo because it will enable
mo 10 take care OF my daughters. AZ
a.. t'at | don't care. | haze long been
cut Of the struggle, Independent Of N
ana Indifferent 10 it,.
II is not Objectionable to me" Ic
continued, that al the trades ana i'll
dustrics nf the United States ;trc in tH"
bill ana protected ~ it. / should like
10 Rave the oyster culture added, ANA
anything else that Hii%ht HccI pre-
lection. / have no i'll feelings. | think
it !; just ana right measure and Should
like " SIX it passed
Mr.. Clemens argu' q that there MS
rc;Gly ~ legitimate reason for making
any limitation to til" lie OF Il cory
wright "But" 10 added. II under
stand il must have a limit because inst
IL required ny the constitution Of III"
CnitcI States, which sets aside tI@;
prinr constitution We call the dc-l-
ipEu=. The docninGuc SAYS Won @tal!
not take away from any man h.t prpD-
arty-l will not use mat h&rahCr word.
tut the laws of England and Amcri-
81 10 take away the property from the
2uthOr. They all take handsomely Oi
The literature Of thu land. then tncy
turn around to crush ANA \. in ii vi.
pf existence
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-12-08
FIRE AT ltOLTOKE.
Business Blocks Destroyed ard Scores
CT Tenanto Burned Out.

Itnl"n,ic, Mass dee. two large
business blocks. in tn" Center Of the
Iinlyokr busints: district We're de
=tr"rod hy fir today, causing 4 loss "f
s-0o,oCG. al Of which IL covered by i'll
sara, ncr. III" buildings Wrr" owned W
A!cAullin {: WHkclin ana Mrs. Sarah
y. Wulrott. McAulin 4 Wakclin dry
goods. dealers. occupied III" ground
floors Of both buildings ana tn" upper
floors were rented rs Offices and more
than score of tenants were burned
Out.
The fire broke out in the basement
Of t!~ Nc.tuilil K Waktln building. on
High street and nuichly communicated
To- th,. building owned hy Mrs. W"lcntt.
mo entire city fire department was
oiled out to tight the flames, hut for i
ti,Ec ;tr efforts were unIvaiing and the
h1rSi.!rsS center was 50 seriously threat :
cncd that Springfield WAS appealed to
fer help and %n engine and Il company
VI tiGc:lcn was sent from that city to
Issist the local department. For four
hours the fircmcn fought The flames
before they succeeded in gaining con-
trol Of the situate, n. The police depart
| m",c assisted the firemcn ana 60. j.
III tlo state Militia, WAS called out to
/ a. patrol duty.
Mrs. Frank G. Washburn. who owned
| ll:ir dressing parl0rs i'll the Nol@ntt
| building arrived ct the scene shortly
! after tie fire broke out. she rushed in
! to The turning building fer the rurpo%'
| Of saving some valuable papers. while
! searching for the papers she Was over
| como IN smoke ana VAS carried from
! her offices in an unconscious condition.
| As soon as she revived Mrs. WaShburn
:ig1in rushed into the building. Again
! size WAS rendered unconscious and the
fit. men had some difficulty in carry
| III" ncr to safety.
The firm of McAufin & WaEclin was
| III" heaviest loser by the fire. Their
| stock was valued ut $4,000 ana I'll"
damage t. the building was nearly
equal t" that amount. Mrs. Wnc"tt'-
! building was valued 1T 5000. Fay &
! SnumWay, shoe dealers, lost @i2,0o@
| worth Of stock.
| Several fratcrnal lodges lawyers.
| architects ana contractors We're among
| the ether losers.
A 100000 Fire in Frisco.
! san Francisco, Dec. THE plant
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CAPITAL lettings.

I,cp. SouthWicl; of New York intro
dIroi Il bill Friday Increasing the sal
.rics Of all civil service employees 10
| Pc" cent.
Effort; Frinay % tax" up the bill coit-
| fcIr;n& citizenship ur"N the citizens OF
Porto I,.co. reported from the Commute !.
on insular am1irs If the House, wcr,
defeated ~ objections II the Democrats.
Mr.. Cooper If Wisconsin. the chairman
| of the committee. after cXh9UstinT every
parliamentary procedure. finally save IN
tho fight, after the transfer "f the hi,i
to the House calendar.
.hc, nrJinG 10 Il statement issued w
the bureau of statistics of the dcpal;-
mont Of co"ntrtr and labor more han
$2lp. 600 900 worth Of meat ana dairy
products viii have passed out VI tt=
United States into the markets Of 9TH
or parts of the world in the year ending
with tn" present month. NJ feature of
thc export t.:tdr i'll agricultural p"n-
ducts has shown Il more steady III. !
rapid growth than that of meat and
,;airY products. of which there was an
Inc rcasr IF about 60 per cent. during The
past decade.
TFy final session of tile National
Eiv,r# ana liarhuIs convention was
I,:HHl:''' Friday by til" unanimous adop-
ti,n Il Il resolution asking Congress To
appropriate not loss than $5o,oo0,o0o
Iannu"lly fir III" Improvement uf the
rivers, harbors ana Waterways Of til,
country commencing with the present
session. \ committees of IS delegates
was appointed with I.X-Gnv. David r.
!'tgHci&. uf Missouri. III chairman, a.
vat uIon til" President. the Senate
HId !Inlls'" ami present the resolution.
'.'Ec Delegates were received by tht.
President ut TIM White House in the
afternoon.
I'll" resolution Of Senator Pcnrnso
passed Thursday calling on the preSi-
dent ior all the facts regarding the dis
chang "f the negro troops belonging
to the .1tll Inf. was received at tie
Whit" House Friday. and at once
turned over by the President To- Score
tary Taft who Will furnish the infnr-
nation desired. Two members Of tn
25tn Infantry, Who We're dischar,r,
without honor as the result Of the
Brow nSVille incident. have appeared
| at TIL" war department and applied to
Sec Taft for Reinstatement ana vii!
be given q hearing within 4 day "r
two. They are First Scrgt. Mingo san
| derS. who has had 2G years service, and
Private Elmer Brown. both of Go. T..
| The Isthmian canal committee Friday
! night announced that the dat" Of thu
! opening bids for the completion Of III"
! construction of tn" Panama canal has
/ been postponed from Dec. T. to l. n'clocl;
| noon Jan. i next. The commission in
| 4 statement explains that the postpone
| ment is on account of certain changes
made ut the instance OF 4 number Of con
L tractors on the invitation and form Of
1 contract required to be executed ~ tho
II successful bidder under the invitation foi
II the completion OF the construction of thf
II canal issued by the commission Oct.
II last Tho invitation and form of con
tract. with the changes made. will "
held III the Office Of the Isthmian cana
1 commission at Washington subject to in
spcct:On by all contractors or others in
III t.rcsteu until Dec IL.
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New EnoIand's Cold Wave.

Boston, Dee. "a gyvcrr cola Wav,
reached Now Eu=laud tonight. s.@J
in@ tir 1hCImom' t'r down - tho Vi.
entity q th" zero mark. ! "o-m:I" nrrtl
-aI~ ti"I w. shipping To- SOM" extent
und created heavy seas i'll Til" nay.
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WIN. T. WHITEHOTSE.
| l.. s.
STATE OF MAINE.

* ENNEBEC, IS. Superior Court, in va
cation, Augusta. November Eth, 1906.
MARY LABILIE Lih't. vs.. LEVI LA
BELLE.
Upon the annexed Writ and Libel, it is
drrcd ty M. the undersigned. Justico
OF sa.d Court. that notice til, renf b..
gwen 70 tie L.hncc by publishing an at
tested copy of the -an:n. or N abstract
thereof. together with this order III, r,'an,
thrc" weeks successfully in the Daily
Kcnuchcc Journal. 4 newspaper printed
in AuGusta. III SAID County OF kein, bee
the last publication to he thirty laws IN
least before the next term rf said Court
to be holden 1t Aueu,tl. withia and foI
said County ri kcnn"E"r. gu the scconl
Tuesday Of January n"Xt. that h" may
then and there Hpn"ar in said Court and
answer thereto if no fit.
Attest: OLIVER G.. HALL.
Justice Superior Court
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Government receipts Friday: From in
torndI revenue, S:';3r@,7; customs. %9,>.>l>;
miscellaneous. $Ga la?. Expenditures ST.
G-a. o1e
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SEVEN LIVES ARE LOST.
Continued from Page orle-)
THE LYNN DISASTER

II. W. Nichols, are in the ruins, the total
humHer of deaths j. seven.
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Physician to the Pope Dies
on Friday at Rome.
Cancer Of Stomach, Followed BY
Pneumonia Gauss Of Death.
Very Popular in Rome, Both Among
CIerica.s and Aati.cIericals.

Rome, Dec. 1.-Dr. Lapponi, physician
to the Pope. died at O'Clock This ni"I'l-
ing. lie had been seriously i'll for som"
time Of cancer Of the stomach ard
pneumonia setting in, hc could not in
lis wc;tkt ned condition, withstand ~
ravaSc%.
Whrn DE-, I.appnni was was sinking
the Pul;" sent him the apostolic hrnr-
Giction ANA when The news If ia"
death Of the doctor reached the Pnntitf
he Was exceedingly grievod. II is re-
rortcG lh;,t before losing consciousness
Dr. L"!.rJni, referring 10 the Pope,
said:
"ilc Il j. Il strong constitution. an |,
having studied him carefully, 1 thin,
he viii live longer than Pou@ Mil"
The dead physician WAS very popular
il Rome a.nuns the cirrirulS ;4 Well
as The anli-cl,ricaly.
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The ACME MILLING Co., INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.

ACGTSTA-Wcbber Il Heyreft, George ID.
Haskell, y NJ i:rowns H W. Faiffieid.
Eds0n Locke. W. +. Turner. GARDINER
r. VI. Noye>.J. r. Cunningham, Chamber
lain y Lndd. A.. 2. B:ann. HALLoWELL-
Charles II. Clary, 4. G.. Harrington. SOUTH
I'll RuP-'Jack>On TowIe. Ma NCHESrER
a. VI. Bowman d Go. WATERVILLEE
l.. l.. Cove, Whitcomb ~ Cannon. WINS
Low, Hen * PnlIard- RICHMOND.
pITT~TDS 8. r. Il u. W. Scott. NORTH
ttSSALEOiSO- r.. :. Goodwin, w. "a. Mar.
r:ner. BENTON STA.-Fr"I scott. SHAW
1lIT-A. :. Burke. KoNsHLGAN-;. 4.
Bennett, L rnold 4 Curiier.
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MAKES LUNGS WELL!

You don't want sore lungs, diseased
lungs. pneumonia, and any Of the nii'sd
u!aia,iiCs That you DO want BAL-
it INTERNALLY according to directions; APP
rly it externally; you'n find il VII re-
iirvc ard cure your lung ailments n SUI
drriggisi TO-DAY for BALLARrs Won,
der(uI GOLDEN OIL Sold in &c. ana
doc. bottles. BALLARD GOLDEN Ok
co, Old Town, Me.