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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-02-20
is MIXED OFTEN
Druggists Hear Much Praise for
this Simple yet Remark
able Remedy.
Lots OF Men and Women Here Had
the Simple Homemade Mix
ture Prepared, Says
Druggists.

Some remarkable stories are being
told about town.and among the coun-
try people coming in of this simple
home-madesmixture curing Rheuma-
tism and Kidney trouble. Here Is the
recipe and directions,for taking: Mix
by shaking well In a bottle one.half
ounce Fluid Extract Dandelion, one
ounce Compound!Kargon, three ounces
Compound Syrup,sSarsaparilla. Take
as dose one teaspoonful after meals
and at bedtime.
No change need be made in your
regular diet, but drink plenty of good
water.
This mixture, writes one authority
in leading Philadelphia newspaper,
has a peculiar tonic effect upon the
Kidneys; cleansing the clogged.up
pores of the eliminative tissues, fore
ing the kidneys to sift and strain
from the blood the uric acid and other
poison Jus waste matter, overcoming
Rheumatism, Bladder and Urinary
troubles in a short while.
A New York druggists who bas had
hundreds of calls for these ingredients
since the first announcement in the
newspapers LAST October stated that
the people who once try it "sSear by
it," especially those who have Urinary
and Kidney trouble and suffer with
Rheumatism.
The druggis ts in this neighborhood
say they can supply the ingredients,
which are easily mixed at home
There is said to be no better blood
cleansing agent or tonic known, and
certainly none more harmless or sim
pie to use.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-02-20
FORT HILL.

Feb II, '08.
Austle Rhoads, of Sinking Springs,
visited at the home of I. A. Hook
man Satur lay.
Daniel Williams, of Hillsboro, was
a business visitor In this vicinity
Thursday.
Miss Edith Mace spent Wednesday
night with her schoolmate, Miss
Blanche Havehs.
VIM. Staley left Monday to visit
friends in Indiana.
j. l. Butler delivered a nice bunch
of hogs to Hillsboro Thursday.
Tom Williamson, of Elmville, was
the guest of his sister, Mrs. Frank
Redick and family, a few days last
week.
Willie Murren and Wilbur Easton,
of Cliff Range, we're calling on friends
In this vicinity Sunday afternoon.
Ed White and wife spent Tuesday
with the formers father, II. G. White
and wife, near Cliff Range.
Tom Thompson, of Beech Flats, was
the guest of his grandmother, Mrs
Permelia Kissling, Sunday.
Greg Eubanks and wife, of Green
field, we're guests of their parents,
Fillmore Eubanks, Saturday and Sun
day.
Quite number in our vicinity at
tended the medicine show at jackson
school house Wednesday night and
reported a good time.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-02-20
Do you use an atomizer in treat

Do you use an atOmizer in treat
ing Nasal Catarrh If so you will
appreciate Ely's Liquid Cream Balm,
the quickest and surest remedy for
this disease. In all curative proper
ties it is identical with the solid
Cream Balm, which is so famous and
so successful in overcoming Catarrh,
Hay Fever and Cold in the head
There is relief in the first dash of
spray upon the heated sensitive air
passages. All druggists 75c., includ.
ing spraying tube or mailed by Ely
Bros, SO Warren St., New York.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-02-20

Redd-Is that fact that you have
given your automobile a new name ?
Green-Yes, named 1t after my wife.
Because it is unm lnageable ?"
mo; because it is always running
people down. Yonkers Statesman.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-02-20

Toxic advices are to the effect that
the next grand maneuvers of the
Japanese army will take place In the
district about so miles north of Toxic
and will exceed in Importance all pre-.
vious maneuvers that have hitherto
been heldlin Japan.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-02-20
Here is Relief for Women.

If you have pains in the back, Uri-
nary, Bladder or Kidney trouble, and
want certain, pleasant herb cure
for woman's ills, try Mother Gray's
Australian.Leaf. 1t is a safe and
never-failing regulator. At druggists
or by mail so cts. Sample package
FREE. Address, The Mother Gray
Co., Leroy, N. Y.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-02-20

Shell polishing is an extensive and
profitable business on the coast of
Southern California, where are found
many shells which are capable of a
high degree of polish, and show
wonderful irldescent shades after
their rough outside covering has been
rubbed off on an emery wheel.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-02-20

1--WE men are very considerate of
the'gentler sex, remarked Mr.. Stubb.
"Why, we can't bear to see a woman
standing up in street car
81 suppose that is why you always
hide your face with a newspaper,
responded Mrs. Stubb, with a sly
wink at the parrot,-Chicago News.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-02-20

"In a battle of tongues between
man and wife, l fud that a woman
can generally hold her own"
"Yes, know, but she never does. "
st. Louis Times.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-02-20

"Now," said the physician, "you will
have to eat plain food and not stay
out late at night"
"Yes," replied the patient, "that is
what have been thinking ever since
you sent in your bill."-The Catholic
News.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-02-20

"Ah, once bohemian, always a
bohemian" exclaimed the unscissored
poet; "a bohemian never changes"
mo, not even his collar" replied
the practical man, who had met a
few bohemians, s,-ChicaPo News.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-02-20

Despite constant heavy rains, Pres.
ton, England, is threatened with
water famine, a species of fine moss
having found its way into the water
mains and blocked the supplies.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-02-20

On tract of about 800 acres near
Murfreesboro, in Pike county, south.
western Arkansas, some 100 miles
from the city of Little Rock, more
than 1870 diamonds have been found
within the last year
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-02-20

A cork carried to a depth of 200
feet below the surface of the sea will
not rise again,Iowing to the pressure
of water.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-02-20

Dyer-What do you call your ma
chine, an automobile or motor car ?
Hartley Call It either when it
runs, When 1t doesn't call it other
things -Somervile Journal.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-02-20

"The key to success, my friend -"
began the gentleman la black.
Hang the key to success !" cried
the irritable man; "wdat I'm looking
for is the keyhOle Boston Tran
script
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-02-20

"Old man, your face looks worn"
"No doubt. I've been travelling on
1t since Christmas. ."-Louisvill Cour-
ier-Journal.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-02-20

Yankee-I'll have you know, strang.
er, that l belong to Chicago.
Sandy-'Oeed, an wha'd haze thocht
it? Frae the way we've been speak.
ing l thocht Chicago belonged to you
Home Magazine.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-02-20

A careful estimate shows that the
buildings and land on Manhattan
Island from the Battery to Central
Park are worth $4,000 ,OOO,O 900.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-02-20

The negro population of New York
City is estimated at $4,000, one-tenth
Of the nnmber being West Indians.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-02-20

French doctors are prohibited from
receiving money bequeathed to them
by patients.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-02-20

The bone frame of the average
whale weighs about As tons.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-02-20
A MeSatherium Fight.

Oh no, I haven't quit pressing
the point of concentration. But
[ suppose you would like to hear
some of the latest news from the
land of the missing link. The
Daring Ones fathers eye got we'll
in surprisingly short time, and
he csrralled one of old Wahoo's
daughters. l won't tell how he
persuaded her to beohis little tootsy
wootsy, because that isn't the i'm.
portant part of this story.
The excitement commenced
when, during q severe thunder
storm, q particularly bold man of
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-02-20
The Tinlid Man.

Here is a picture of a timid man.
He is chock full of good ideas. He
is pretty sure they are good, too
not really sure, but almost He
wants to be somebody. He would
like to be a leader. 1t isn't any
lack of brains that troubles him.
He can think things out as we'll as
anybody and better than most men
He has some capital ideas up his
sleave, and they will make money
and success for him one of these
days that Is, they will if be ever
finds the courage to make use Of
them.
OF course, they are not going to
do him any igood as long as he
keeps them back there in his head.
He might as we'll never have
thought of them at all. Sometimes
he believes he will venture little.
He thinks perhaps he wouldn't fall
moi far, anyway. II he could
make suggestion or two, or use
that idea that came to him last
week, or even launch out into some
business or undertaking in which
be feels OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES there
are great things awaiting him
but no; he hesitates. He can't
quite make up his mind. The
boss might misunderstood. The
suggestion might not be taken in
the proper spirit, or it might not
prove as fruitful as it seemed il
would. 1t is true enough that
this new business looks inviting
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-02-20
Made by a Convict.

LII the gardens attached to the
houses of Parliament, Melbourne,
there is an deliberately sculptured
fountain, embellished with human
figures, birds, flowers and various
other ornamental work in stone.
This fountsin has "a remarkable
historysg 1t WAS constructed en-
tirely by convict named William
Stanford, within the walls of the
Melbourne Jail. When young
man Of twentl,one, Stanford, in a
weak moment, Joined a band of
bushranging desperadoes, was
captured and sentenced to terms of
imprisonment amounting in the
aggregate to twenty-five years.
One day Colonel Champ, the gov
ernor of Melbourne Jail, was as
tonished to linda beautiful angelic
Inquire which Stanford had carved
out of meat bone. He showed
it to the leading sculptor of Mel
bourne, who declared that the
young man was a natural genius.
The sculptor visited the Jail and
gave Stanford some lessons in the
art. A petition for pardon was
inhuentially signed, and Stanford
was released. He became one of
the most successful sculptors in
Melbourne, and completely lived
down his Juvenile criminal esca-
pade.-Dundee Advertiser.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-02-20

but suppose it ,shonld 'twof outf
/ So he almost does ANY Anaaber
Of things aud never quite does do
lanything..
The tilnid man is as much of a
failure in his way as the planger
is in his. Maybe the tilnid man
is more of a failure. Tie plinger
never stops to think; the timid
man thinks SO long that he never
does any thing else. Nobody ever
finds out how valuable he is. He
never finds out himself how valu-
able he Is. The impulsive man
jumps right in, with big splash;
bat he manages to win out once'in
awhile anyway. He makes costly
mistakes, bat he pays for them,
and there is always the chance Of
doing better next time. But
the timid man never gets further
than the bank, where he stands
and looks at the water, and
wonders how cold it is aud whether
it's rs deep as they say it is. and
whether he could swim if he should
get in. So he keeps still, and
watches the man with half his in
tellect and quarter of his ability
get away with all the prizes.
Poor, timid man, never to be
sure about anything He keeps
balancing this way and that way
all his life. If somebody thun-
dered at him that his soul WAS not
his own, he would start to argue
that he knew it was-and then he'd
come to the conclusion that maybe
it wasn't after all. You'll find
these men everywhere. They are
life's ciphers on the wrong side of
the decimal points,. Paul Daily
News.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-02-20


before the frat round, came dowr
90 all ionrs and charged. l thought
There would be head-on collision
but rs they both txied to do the
same thing simultaneously, they
managed to miss each other about
a rod. But Que Of them struck q
tree which cams down with alcrash
and helped him to stop and take a
betteraim. This time they mixed. :
Talk about the gods of old, hnrl-
ing mountains at one another!
They weren't in it! One meg.
happened TO get his snout (they
have snout like tapir) into the
others mouth. | guess the other
fellow took advantage of his op-
portunity and closed his jaws, as
it looked 'ssome" shorter when l
saw it next.
They clawed each other and
rolled over and over bowling over
trees as SO many ninepins; their
roars were deafening; the lightning
flashed and the thunderclaps fol-
lowed one another in quick sue
cession. The rain came down iu
torrents aud still they fought and
roared and shrieked and rolled
over in. the mud.
Once they separated moment,
and [ saw one of them strike the
other such blow with his enor-
nous front paw-which was over
three feet hong and a foot broad,
and armed with powerful claws
we'll, l won't describe the bloody
part of it. I was SO engrossed in
watching the fight that 1 was
somewhat surprised when | re-
ceived a smart swat on the side of
the head and heard the Daring
One give a growl which meant
you're a dandy to let him get by
like that"
Yes, they had overtaken the lad
who purloined Redeye's wife. He
had let her 60 to save himself.
He would have made good his
had not those two noun
tains Of muscle and bone struck al
tree that he had just jumped for.
He fell exactly between the two of
them and guess hegot "squoze."
Since the abductor took fy-
ing leap for the Happy Hunting |
Grounds, there was nothing "on"
hat was more important than the
fight; but. their roars
IF rage and pain were so terrific
md the peals Of thunder so rever-
oerant that 1 woke up, to discover
mat the cause, of this horrid night.
mare was the snoring of my next
loor neighbor. ., he does GER
ainly saw wood! DICK.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-02-20
"Bircb Bark'' Series OF Essays.
Brck" romernyi
author phIanthropist

N. author, lecturer, and phianthropist."
than it takes goose to hatch ,
family. A poor hand among goot
ones is worse off than the fiftl
Ecalf. For the sake of a years time
do not lose the entire future
When learning trade, my boy
don't move like rusty watch. Act
as If your interest and the interest,"
of your employer were the same.
Employers will not willingly lose
good employees. Be honest aud
faithful. There is the secret OF
success, my boy, and that is the
great thing lacking with too many
And, Waiter, my boy, never get
above your business, nor take OH
style too thick.
Never leave the table hungry il
there is enough to eat. 1t spolls
the day for labor. Never leave a
girl half spanked. Some amateur
will commence where you left off,
and away goes your sweetness on
the deserted heir. Never chop a
a stick Of wood half into and then
leave it-never draw a bucket of
water half-out of we'll and then
letit back-never half learn trade.
All such transactions are labor
lost, and show very thin brains.
If you play, play for keeps" in
such matters. 1, you are aiming
to be man, be one, or quit. If
you are learning a trade or pro-
fession, learn the whole of it..
When you commence being man,
it is time you left off being a boy,
to certain extent, but never lose
your boyish heart. 1t looks bad
to pick the raislns out Of pies aud
leave the rest, but that is not so
indicative Of n. platter-head as to
see one of these half-hatched me.
chanics or p, ofessors, not able to.
do job of work without an in
Good mechanics are the props
Of society. They are those who,
stuck to their trades until they
learned them. Poor ones are liv-
ing nuisances-and they are the
ones who quit in boyhood from
over-smartness. Go slow aud sure,
my boy-that is the ouly safe way.
People always speak we'll of a boy
who minds his ,own business-who
is willing to work, and who seems
disposed to be somebody in time.
This is a queer world-many
people are watching us, my boy,
and help often comes when and
from where we least expect it.
Confidence is the safe in which
men often deposit rich treasures,
md, my boy, as we prove worthy,
so will we be rewarded. And, Val
er, since the day God looked upon
he work of His six days, and said
He was we'll pleased, man has mad
The fullest liberty to exult over his
success. God used those words
:or sonic purpose, and if He felt q
pleasure in saying what He had
lone. how much it promises for all
who build a monument, be it high
Or low, and from its SUBMITS them
selves behold the crowd following
IN the path they have carved out,
Or climbing the steps they have
erected! There is a rich
reward in success, which none but
those who strive can ever enjoy.
MnHn%h nnsu,~n D:xhk
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-02-20

1t is just as easy to say some-
thing pleasant abbut your neigh
Dor as it is to say something disa-
greeable; but the good in sman
seems to hide under bushel while
the bad is paraded with blare Of
trnmpets.-Elk River (Minn.)
tar-News.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-02-20

Bob Evans has discovered that
in traversing the straits of Magel-
Ian q naval officer has to be con-
tinually on the lookout for crooks.
@Straits,' says Bob, sis mis-
nomer. Princeton (Minn.) On
ion.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-02-20

Thoughtful reformers and soci-
ologists are confronted now with
the question: How much profanity
is necessary in putting out FIRE.
LIE Sueur (Minn. } News.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-02-20

Strike from mankind the primer.
pie OF faith and men would have,
no more history than . hock Of
sheep. -Lytton,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-02-20
IN WHICH BOYS AND APP
PRENTICES ARE SPOKEN
OF AND TO.

with desire at some future
day to be a man. That, my boy,
is good target t. shoot at, but
somehow or other thousands of
boys miss by shooting too quick.
Much good powder is wasted by
such foolishness-much game is
fiushed and flown by over eagerness.
You have just started out on the
road of life. 1t is hard one to
travel. You and us, my boy, have
both passed by several annual
mile-stones-we have passed by
the most-have seen the most Joy
and sadness-the most success and
failure as yet, my hoy.
You are learning a trade. That
is good thing-it is better than
gold-brings larger premium.
Bat to bring a premiam, the trade
must be perfeot-no plated.silver
affair. When you go to learn a
trade, do so with a determination
to win, to be at the head of the
line, 10 depend on yourself for a
position and holding it. Make up
your mind what you will be, and
belt. Do not white around, but
hold your upper lip close down,
and labor for the flu ure. Deter
mine in your mind to be a good
workman. or let the job out. A
botch is not only Il disgrace to his
profession, but he is disgrace to
himself and mighty poor adver-
tisement for his father.
1t is but easy to succeed if you
but will it. Have pluck and pa
thence. Look out for the interests
OF your employer-thus you will
learn 10 look out for your own
when you are an employer. He
who cares not fully and consci-
entiously for the best Interests of
his employer will never find en-.
ployees to care for him. Keep an
eye out, and do not wait to be told |
everything. Remember. That is
a big word, my boy, in the diction.
airy Of success. Act as tho you
wished to learn, and some one-no
matter who, will show you how.
Learning trade is different from
eating mnsh and milk. Mechanical
education does not slip down with
out chewing. If you have an er-
rand to do, do not move as if you
are training sloth, but start off
like boy with some life. Acquire
the habit of activity, if you have
it not. Look about you. See how
the best workman in the shop does
copy from him. Consider moth
ing i'll the shop as yours-lest you
become thief.
And, Walter, my boy; learn to
do things we'll. Meyer slight your
work-never. Every job you do
is sign. Poor signs are useless
for good. If you have completed
a job in ten minutes, try and see
if you cannot do tile next one in
nine. But, my boy, never be In
too great haste. Too many boys
spoil a lifetime, by not having
patience. They work at trade
until they see about one half of it's
mysteries, then strike for higher
wages. Such workmen are botches
and slouches.
A slouch, my boy, is the me-
chanic who half learned his trade,
and then works at half regular
wages. Such folks ale poor eggs.
We see them every day-men who
are TO their professions what a
wart is on the hand-a three-leg-
ged chair at a prayer-meeting-a
lame horse iu an. elopement. If
you undertake to learn, do it,
p
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-02-20

the woods made raid on on
camp and carried off Rrdeye'
(the Daring Ones father) newt.
acquired wife. Now you can i'm
agine that such an occurrencl
would not improve ones temper
especially while enduring tie dis
comforts Of tropical thunde
storm. We all sympathized Will
Redeye; and as soon as we conlt
overcome our confusion at the sud
denness of the attack, We started
in pursuit of the-I don't know
whether to call him kidnaper ol
abdpcter, since might is right in
that country and KIDNAPPING and
abduction are crimes in this
! Under ordinary conditions it would
have been an easy matter to over
take our quarry, burdened as he
was. But with the darkness and
noise Of the storm in his favor, he
was out of sight and hearing before
we. realized what had happened.
I followed Redeye, and the Wahoo
boys and their father spread out
on either side, while the women
brought up the rear. We we're
travelling towards the lake. No we
were not travelling on foot, neither
did we have automobiles. We
were travelling by hand. That is,
we used our hands to propel our
selves from one tree to another;
and it was because | attempted to
land in q tree, the limbs of which
were dancing jig to the tune Of
the storm, that-weli it happened
SO unexpectedly and was over SO
quickly that was unable to tell
whether the ground came up and
hit me, or whether | just dropped.
OF course I was out of the race,
but not for long, as I noticed that
l was on the neck of peninsula.
/ had just decided to wait until
my comrades should come back,
when saw a. large megatherium
ieisurely strolling along only a.
short distance from me. This was
a new experience to me. | had
seen these animals on several pre-.
vious occasions; but never before
had | seen Que walking. The
storm did not seem to bother him.
A megatherium doesn't know
enough to come in out OF the rain,
anyway. Imagine an OK with al
head the size of a sheep, and you
have fair example of the relative
proportions Of brains and Drawn
in the megatherium.
AS I watched the monster, I OBJ
served that he would pass another
one Of his kind that was excavating
earth in search of edible roots.
As meg. number, one was about to
pass. meg. number two started to
back out Of the hole he was dig
ging and managed to put his tail
in the place where meg. number
ones foot came down about a
secoud later. With a roar. that |
drowned the sound of the thunder,
he jerked his tail from under the
foot of meg. number one, causing
him to fall to the grOundi and
then used that same offended men,
ber-which WAS no less than two
feet in diameter-to administer a
blow across the ribs of meg. num-
Der one, that resounded thru the
forest like the report of a small
Now meg. one didn't holler
''sufiiciency,' bat he squealed like
a fog horn until he got his several
tons of avoirdupois under control
again, he reared up on his launches,