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CHILDREN'S COLUMN.
johnny whippen's New Watch.

Jonnny NC" ""'S
Johnny Whippen wanted watch on hif
| birthday and wanted everybody to know
he wanted it. For weeks In advance a.
breakfast, lunch and dinner he told his
father, mother, sisters and brothers how
he yearned for the timepiece.
His persistent harping on the matte,
finally became unbearable to the other
members of the family. When Johnny
| mentioned the word watch" they be-
came severely silent. But Johnny kept
right u.
One evening he was sitting in the draw
Ing room with his father and concluded It
was a good opportunity to do q little lob
bying for himself.
"Say, pa"
Spa" laid down his paper on the table
and looked sternly at the boy over his
~spectacles.
"Now, Johnny, I am going to put my
foot down on any more of this watcl TX.
You are making life o burden fort rest
of us. So, If you were intending to a. K
me about the watch, You had better not
say anything further. Don't let me hear
the word again"
Johnny was repulsed, but not defeated.
It was the custom in the Whippen family
for zach member to quote a verse Of Scrip
ture at family worship each morning.
The day following Mr.. Whippen's ulti-
matum the family met for worship. It
was Johnny's turn to quote a verse. he
waited until he was sure all present were
attentive, and then he slowly repeated
with great emphasis the following verse:
"What I say unto you I say unto all,
Watch"
Johnny wears it in his top vest pocket.
Buffalo News.
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Cutting It Short

A barber's shop is sometimes a trying
place for men who dislike to hear other
people gossip. The barber, especially il
be has q little shop and is alone, must
talk to his customers. Here Is a scene
in a country barber's shop, a full beard
ed and rather sour looking gentleman
being in the chair.
"Hair cut" says the customer.
"All right, sir. How'll you have II
eut?"
"Short."
"H'm-purty short, or only mid
dlin?"
every short"
"H'm-Iwouldn't If I was you, sir. "
"Why notT"
II don't think very short hair would
suit you at all well, sir"
"oh, yes, it would. 1t would suit me
exactly"
"H'm-what makes you think 80,
sir?"
because I shouldn't have to come
here for q long time"
"Ohl" The barber cuts away in 81
lence and very short. -London Tit-Bits.
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During the past few months we have
been publishing what some of Our good
friends have called "heart-to-heart talks"
on patent medicines.
That name suits us all right-"heart-
to-heart talks" is just what we have
intended. There can't be anything more
serious to a sick man or sick woman
than his ailment and the remedies he or
she takes to cure it.
Our talks have been "heart-to-heart."
Every word we have printed has been
written in absolute earnestness and sim
cerity, and judging from what our GUS
toners tell us, we have not been talking
in vain. We are convinced that O
frankness has been appreciated, and that
Our suggestions have been welcomed
which naturally encourages us to con-
tinue.
To-day, and perhaps for some time to
come, we want to talk about that big
class of remedies known generally as
"catarrh cures"
Broadly speaking these are the patent
medicines that have been the chief tar
gets for the attacks of the Ladies'
Home Journal" "Collier's Weekly" and
other magazines which are waging such
a lively warfare against patent medicine
abuses.
. AS we have pointed out in previous
talks, it is not our business to pass judg-
+ ment on the crusade of these well
known, highly-respected publications:
The public alone must be the judge and
Jury. Our business, as we see it, is to
carry in stock a complete line Of patent
medicines, and to sell those medicines at
the lowest possible price.
we sell hundreds-yes, thousands OF
Bottles of so-called "catarrh cures" and
know nothing Of their ingredients. The
manufacturers advertise them, the public
demands them; we order them from the
manufacturers, and sell them at the low-
est price. That is absolutely as far as
our knowledge goes. The manufacturer
Keeps his formula a secret. 1t may be
good, or it may Motive don't Know ana
we have no means Of finding out:
Naturally, we would rather sell a REM
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CONTRASTS o. SEWING WOMEN.
vanta Of the Factory Girl In thu
Country I've Her Sister In tho City.

ADVANTAGES Of the Factory Girl In thu
Country Over Her Sister In the City.
You may see in any one Of perhaps q
hundred shops in this city colorless, sad
syed, dinghy clad women bending over
sewing machines amid squalid sur
roundings, with no outlooksave through
4 window opening upon a sordid street.
You may see in at least a score Of coun-
try villages 80 miles from any great
sity a crowd of neatly clad, happy look
ing girls and women busted with like
tasks, but amid clean and pleasant sur
roundings, with glimpses of a smiling
landscape through every window.
The New York women, released from
their toll, hasten home to gloomy tene-
ment lodgings and unwholesome fare.
The village girls troop from the factory
to modest but clean and pleasant homes,
where food is fresh and abundant. The
New York sewing machine woman ia
an insignificant unit in a great COM
munity. She feels daily the pressure OF
her fellows that are ready to take her
place and her earnings. She hears from
embittered men and women talk Of the
rights of labor and the greed Of wealth.
She knows that her earnings would not
keep some of her rich sisters in cut flow
ers. Whenever she stirs out Of her own
dingy quarter, 1t is to gee at every step
evidence of the luxury in which some
live and Of the contrast between her
lot and theirs.
The village factory girl has hardly
heard that there is a labor problem. Her
5000 or $3.50 year, earned at the sewing
machine, clothes her we'll, procures for
her small luxuries and helps to keep the
family above want. She makes little
pleasure trips hither and yon when work
is slack and looks forward with conf
dence to marriage and a home Of her
own, clean, sweet and comfortable. She
never sees among her fellow townsfolk
one who has any essential comfort that
she lacks, and nine women out Of ten
in the village have less to spend on
dress than she has. She never sees a
hungry or ragged person, unless it be
an occasional tramp, and she hardly
grasps the meaning Of what she now
and then hears about the lives Of the
poor in great cities.
The New York slave to the sewing
machine lives half an hour from the
heart Of the western world and may, II
she will, on any night see Broadway
and it's throngs by electric light. The
village factory girl believes that she
would be happy to give up all her COM
forts for the others privilege Of seeing
at will the splendors Of the great city.
The New York sewing woman would
not, if she could, change places with
the village factory girl-New York
Sun.
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To-day we want to talk to
YOU about "Catarrh cures"

edy that we know is right-that we can
back up with all Our reputation for hon.
esty and square-dealing.
And wouldn't you rather buy that kind
of a remedy? Wouldn't you rather hold
us responsible than to hold no n
responsible? We are right here, right
where you can get at us every day in the
week, right where one false move on Our
part will bring upon us your condem-
nation, the loss Of your friendship, your
patronage, your influence. Can we afford
to tell you anything that you will learn
later is not absolutely true?
Are you not safer in taking Dur word
for the merits Of an article, than you are
to rely on the printed statement Of a pa
tent medicine manufacturer, whom you
never even saw and probably never will?
Common sense most emphatically tells
you that we cannot afford to depart one
hairs breadth from the rigid truth.
None of us can deny that there is such
a disease known as "catarrh." Those
who have it, or who have had it, know
that it is one of the hardest diseases to
cure.
Perhaps the worst thing about catarrh
is it's prevalence. Almost everyone
especially in a climate like ours-has
catarrh in some form or another. That IS
what has made the "catarrh cure" busl-
ness so profitable. There are so many
thousands of cases Of the disease and it is
so hard to cure, that the patent medicine
manufacturers have reaped a harvest in
preparing remedies that appeal to this
large class Of sufferers.
One of the most serious things about
catarrh is that it breaks down the sys-
tenn, so that the sufferer becomes a prey
to other diseases. This fact has led the
proprietors Of so many "catarrh cure"
to advertise their remedies as a specihc
for almost every disease under the sun.
We have ONE catarrh cure that we
are willing to say to you; we know
this is all right. Take it home and use it
with the full assurance that if it does not
cure you, you can bring it back to us
and we will promptly refund your
money" That catarrh cure is
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One Spoon Enough.

A Boston man travelling through the
soath was obliged to stop over in a
small town where there was but one
hotel, at which the accommodations
were hardly to be called elaborate When
the colored waiter brought hih dinner,
the Boston man found that he was to
have roast beef, stewed tomatoes, corn,
peas, potatoes and coffee, the vegetables
served in the usual stone china canoes.
Presently he said to the waiter, "Dick,
pass the spoons" The waiter rolled his
eyes in genuine amazement. "Spoons,
sahl What yo' want with the spoonsi
There's yo'- spoon in 70 corn "-Sas
Francisco Argonaut
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A Strange Pet.

Perhaps the strangest pet even kept bya
man was q wasp which Sir John Lubbock
caught in the Pyrences and resolved to
tame. He began by teaching 1t to take its
meals on his hand, and in a very short
space of time it grew to expect to be fed In
that way. Sir John preserved this Pet
with the greatest care. True, it stung him
w but then 1t had every excuse for do
ing 30. Sir John was examining it while
on q railway journey, and, the door being
opened by a ticket collector, he uncere-
moniously stuffed it into q bottle, and the
outraged Spaniard, not feeling quite at
home during the process, gave him q gen.
tie reminder as to the proper way to treat
q guest.
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ATurfman'r Tale.

A New Jerseyman told me a good
story the other day on n of our fore.
most turfmen, a man whose name Is
perhaps printed oftener than that OF
any other connected with racing in
America. A good many years ago this
turfman, who was not then deep in the
racing business, arrived in Jersey City
with a trainload Of mustangs from the
plains of Texas. He knew nothing Of
the laws Of the state nor Of the ordi'
nances Of the city. He knew that he
wanted to sell his mustangs and thought
the best way to do it was to sell them
at auction. Being somewhat gifted in
speech, he determined that he would be
his own auctioneer. The sale started out
we'll. Fair prices were realized. Sud.
denly it was interrupted by policemen,
who demanded a view Of our friends
license.
"License2" he said amazed. "What
license? I haven't any license of any
kind"
swell, you can't sell horses In this
city without q license. You'll have to
come along. No monkey business with
u.s."
OF course he went along, but he was
lucky enough to find at court a friend IA
lawyer), who went bail for him in the
sum of $50. Then the lawyer said:
"a license costs $3.50. You are under
bonds. Go ahead and finish your sale,
collect your money and skip out. Give
me $50 to settle the forfeited bond, and
you are 5000 ahead Of the game"
1t was done accordingly. The turf
man and his friend met in the st. James
hotel lately and laughed over the joke.
New York Press.
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A Great Hearted Little Man.

There is an s-year-old boy in Emporia
with q heart in him as big as q mans,
says q Kansas exchange. Observing for
successive days another boy 8 years old
carrying big bundles Of clothes, which his
mother washed in order to earn q support
for him and her, al idea struck him that
q nice little red wagon would tighten his
burden. So he went among his friends
and collected SLIGO in nickels, and with
this he bought the little wagon and gave
it to the washerwoman's boy for q Christ
mas gift.
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Good for Everybody.

Mr.. Norman p. Coulter, a promi-
nent architect, in the Delbert Build
ing, San Francisco, says: II fully IN
dorse all that has been said of Electric
Bitters as a tonic medicine. 1t is good
for everybody. 1t corrects stomach,
liver and kidney disorders in a prompt
and efficient mannerand builds up the
system." Electric Bitters is the best
spring medicine ever sold over a drug
gist's counter ; as a blood purifier it is
unequalled. soc. at Speeds drug store
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c.. A. MILFORD, Druggist
=, The 1exa@ Store

A severe cold that may develop Into rp y Sv
monia over night, can De cured qu HiTl cure
he most obstinate racking cough ana
Strengthen your lungs. The genuine is IN q
yellow package. F. B. Speed.
Talk abont prescriptions. We have the pest
iIa anartpent which means q lot to you
and YOUR family. Phone lG7. G. A. Milford
Co..
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Cherry juice c,ush syrup the best on earth
at Milford's drug store.
Huyler's food for the angels At Mliforos
drug store
The largest ap.d beat selected str rck OF drugs.
stationery, boob 8. paints. oils an d glass, can
be seen at G.. A.. Milford & Co.'s store man any
other retail store in South Carolina.
Huylef's candy fresh every week at MIL
ford's up-tOdate drug store.
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Best Healer I'm the World.

Rev. F. Starbiru, of East Raymond,
Maine, says: II have used Bucklen's
Arnica Salve for several years, on my
old army wound, and other obstinate
sores, and find it the best healer in the
world. I use it too with great success
in my veterinary business" Price Csc
at Speeds drug store.
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The Lucky Quarter

Is the one you pay out for a box Of DR.
Kings New Life Pills, They bring
you the health that's more precious
than jewels. Try them for headache,
biliousness, constipation and malaria.
If they disappoint you the price will
be cheerfully refunded at Speeds drug
store,
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Patient Patient.

Flossie's doll was a very patient Httls
thing. It never cried or screamed OF
made any trouble. It was just as content
with a bed on the floor as in the crib. One
day Flossie thought Dollie was sick, and
Of course she felt very badly about 1t, and
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The Robins Red Breast.

To robin redbreast Is ascribed q legend
that most Of US are familiar with. He II
said to have plucked a thorn from the
crown that our Lord wore on the cross, and
the blood, running down, stained biz
broact rod
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hardly knew what to do. A happy thought
came to her. She dressed hastily and took
Dollie to get some medicine. She found
DR.. Guy in his Office, but all ready to ride
out. he gave her some medicine and
promised to call and1see her. Flossie wa
very glad for his cheering words and the
medicine. Dollie was soon better and has
not needed any medicine since.-Our Lit
tie Folks Magazine.
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A-written guarantee given with
every half dozen pair Everwear
hosiery. The Rosenberg Mercan-
tile Go.
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You dom have to walt for your drugs II you
phone Milford's drug store. Those boys DO
business right now Phone lO7.
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The Snowflake Ball,

Frost on the window stormy weather.
The winds and the truant leaves at play,
And, dancing across the day together,
The dainty snowf1akes fit away.
Light they are as an elder feather,
White they are as an Easter lily
Elves escaped from a misty tether,
Romping away to a reyel chilly.
Fiddle-de-dee! The gray trees fiddle
A woodland tune to a gay quadrille.
Across the sides and up the middle
The snow elves dance with a happy WIN
Ohio, for the snow and wintry pleasurei
Bright Is the sun In its robes Of gray!
Come, join In the snow elves dancing
measure
The romping tune Of a stormy day!
Chicago Record.
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OF Course He Couldn't.

Angry Father Ito little Willie)-Why
are your clothes soiled 80 frightfullyf
Little Willie (whimpering)-I fell In
the gutter.
"And with your new pants onf"
eyes, pa. I didn't have time TO GONE
home and change them"
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DEATH OF MRS. sALLIE B. NELSON.

Mrs. Sal, lie B. Nelson, after a few weeks "
ness Of grippe died at her home at Hlst
Sorings Florida last Thursday February Z'ti
1903. She was con valescing from the grippe
when heart failure set in from which sh'
died suddenly and unexpectedly to thpl lam
ily. Mrs. Nelson with her two sous ana one
daughter moved 70 her FiOrida home las'
fall. and now leaves the three all alone.
The deceased WAS Il sis or OF NJ sssrs DaVld
and James Gillian, and has many friend'
who learn OF her unexpected deaf" Win sur
prise aud sorrow: and extend sincere ny nipa
thy 10 the oereaved family. Interment wal
made at High Springs. Florida.
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MUCU-TONE

There Is no guess work with US on Rexan
Mucu-Toue. we know zvhat it is made OF.
Not only do we know. but we will give YOU O
copy of the formula.
There is no secret about any Rexall remedy
we make hem-one thousand of us leading
druggists all over America-in our great CO.
operative laboratories at Boston, Mass. We
own the laboratories, and everything in them, and
we operate them just as skIlfully as our COM
bined brains and money will let US, and just as
honestly as honest men know how.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-04-13

this point to Lewiston, where she will
be engaged in the work of erecting
dam or dyke at the Slaughter House
rapids. Captain WinsloW, the master
of the boat has sent to Colonel ROes-
sler t. s. engineers. who has charge of
The river and harbor work in the north
west for the federal government,
chart of the improvements to be made
at the rapids. This chart was sent in
response to a request from COlonel
Roesslcr 1t had been planned to lay
up the WalloWa here for a period but
few days ago the Lewiston Commercial
Iclub sent a request to Colonel Roessler,
through the Open River association at
Portland. that the WallOWa be sent to
1.-THE Slaughter House rapids to do the
work there this spring. The decision
to have the work done has resulted.
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BLAZING FILMS
STARTLE CONv|CTS
TO MOVING PICTURE
APPARATUS AT PRISON YES
TERDAY WAS EXCITING.

Bursting into a blaze. the ceIIuIoid
lllms Used in depicting the Passion
Play at the penitentiary yesterday at
ternoon. nearly caused a panic among
the goo Convicts who were watching the
moving pictures. While only Is feet
burned, that was sufficient to startle
the prisoners and but for the quick
work of Archie Siebert, who was run
ming the machine there would probably
have been severe panic.
| Manager Morrie Streeter of the
Streeter-B Bryan company yesterday
took his moving picture apparatus and
the films of the Passion Play" which
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POLICE ARREST
ALLEN RIDGE
WANTED IN PENpLETON FOR
HORSESTEALING OFFICER
Rolf MAKES CAPTURE.

Allen Ridge, wanted i'm Pendleton on
a charge Of hOrsestealing was arrested
on South Fourth rect shopl y after
> o'clock this afternoon on a descrip-
ton furnished the police department
by the Pendleton au ho-ities. Ridse
was located by Patrolman Rolf who
Immediately arrested him and locked
him up in the city Jail. The Pendleton
officers were notified and Sheriff Tay-
Tor is expected to arrive i'm the city to-
morrow and take Ridge back to Pen
dleton.
According 70 the story wired the
Walla Walla officers, Ridge stole y
horse at PendletOn yesterday and. rode
it to Athena where he disposed of IL.
He then boarded a train for Walla.
Walla arriving here this afternoon.
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Kansas Freight Rates.

TOPEKA. Kan, April 13.-In the
United States circuit court here to-
morrow argument will be heard on the
temporary order of Judge Pollock, en-
joining the state board of railroad com
missioners from putting into effects the
new schedule of freight rates. the
schedule was to have been effective on
April / It is alleged by the railroads
that the rates are contiscatOry.
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NORTHWEST CROP
WAS 4 BUMPER
STATISTICS SHOW IDAHO, ORE.
CON AND WASHINGTON SHIP
PED 100000 BUSHELS.

PORTLAND, April 13.-With the
shipping season practically over, sta
tistics show that the s. ates of Oregon
Washington and Idaho shipped the
out of POr land and Sound ports in
their history, totaling about 100000
bushels.
The entire crop of wheat was S.
100000 bushels in the three states;
barley 100000 bushels and GA, s -
100000.
April engagements of -four will reach
la total of 100000 bushels and May
and Jrne will probably require $3.50,
600 bushels
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DEsPERADOEs
ARE SURROUNDED

SEATTLE, April 13.-FOrty men
composing the ShF'if's posse are clos
ing about the desperadoes who are inn
plicated in the shooting of Marshall
Miller at Kent Thursday night.
The posse has formed hollow
square between Snoqcalmie Pass and
North Bend. 1t is believed by late this
AleGice, who admits he was one Of
The party who killed KILLER was brought
to the hospital today for treatment
for Il bullet wound in his leg Miller <
fune-al occurred today.
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Labor Meeting In Texas.

FORTH WORTH, Texas. April 10
Many delegates arrived in Forth Worth
today to attend the joint convention
it is expected that by tomorrow morn
ing visitors will be numbered by the
thousands Governor Campbell will de-
liver an address tomorrow, the first day
of the convention, and a great barbe-
cue will be held in Hermann park.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-04-13
DREDGE WALLOWA
LAUNCHED AGAIN
REPAIRS MADE, BOAT WILL
CLEAR OUT CHANNELS NEAR
LEWISTON.

RIPARIA. April 13.-The United
States drcdge boat. WalloWa which
has been undergoing repairs on the
drydock here for the past two weeks.
is again in the water She was taken off
the ways Saturday and will go from
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-04-13

In the case of Minnie \. Wolfe YER
sus Edwin Masterson. wherein his
wages as ce-president of the First
National Life Assurance company We're,
garnisheed, an answer was filed this
afternoon stating that the company
owed him nothing but that he was in
debt to the company some $3.50. 50.
Wherefore he company asks that the
suit be dismissed.