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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-06

meeting of the present year of suc- cessful work.
 The hostess and her two charming little girls, Ella Frances and Mildred, then invited the ladies into the dining room, where red and white decorations prevailed, and a delicious lunch served.
 SKETCH OF NO NAME CLUB.
 This Is one of the leading and most prominent clubs In the State. It is the first club organized in the city, found- ed by Mrs. John D. Roquemore in 1893. It is often spoken of as The Mother Club. It's purpose was for social and mental culture and the early years served as lights to pilot the club into a wider harbor of the city and States philanthropy. Its motto is "The heart to dare. the will to do"
 The club entered the Alabama State Federation in 1895, entered the General Federation of Womens' Clubs In 1898. and re-entered the General Federation with the Alabama State Federation in 1907. The President of the State Fed eration last year. Mrs. w. A. Gayle' who attended the General Federation in Boston, was a representative or the No Name. This club inaugurated the movement for "A City Beautiful" The first President of the club was Mrs. Sterling Wood. With Mrs. George B. Eager, Vice-President. Through the vista of years only one charter mem Der answers roll call Its membership Is twenty-five The club has closed its years work-studies in Victorian Ht- terature. with Current Topics.
 The new year opens in November with the newly elected president, Mrs. A. F. Flowers, and the Vice-President. Mrs. Harvey Jones. The years study will be the breath of the finer spirits of all knowledge-Poetry- the English Romantic Poets of the Early Ninefeenth CenturY.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-06
rNTER-sE DANCE.
sELLrRs-KEARLEl

sEELERS-KEAHLER
 MT. and Mrs. T. J. Kearler cs Frank lin, Ala. announce the engagement of their daughter. Miss Ida May, and Mir.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-06

Misses Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, Flor ence Davidson and Virginia Abercrom- bic and Messrs. Pearce Ledyard, John Doe and Troy Halls are spending the week end with Mir. Lawrence Pierce at his home at Coosada.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-06

Mir. and Mrs. J. F. Henley announce the engagement of their daughter Kate. to Mfr. Wade Hampton Barnes date.
The Press., 1909-02-24
Women and New Money.

The cashier, as usual, paid the loom boss in new money-crisp, sweet smell Ing bank notes that it was pleasant to handle.
 "But why is it, George" he asked, that you insist upon new money al- ways? I know you hand every cent of 1t to your wife,"
 The loom boss chuckled.
 ''It'S easy to see you ain't married man, Will" said he. Otherwise you'd know woman's nature better and wouldn't need to be told the advan- tage of taking home new money to the wife. The explanation is, Will. that women are so fond of new money that they hate to part with 1t. It makes them economical. They bar. gain for this, they deny themselves that, and the upshot is that at the end of each week they have a tidy little sum, all brand new, put by in stock ing or a teapot. It pays, Will, to give the wife new money. It pays some thing like 20 per cent. Bulletin
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MONA.
REMOVES STOMACH MISERY AL.
 MOST IMMEDIATELY.

If the food you ate at your last meal did not digest, but laid for a long time like lead on your stom ach then you have indigestion aud must act quickly.
 of course there are many other symptoms of indigestion, such as belchinR up of sour food, heartburn, dizziness, shortness of breath and foul breath, and if you have any of them your stomach is out of order and should be corrected
 Mi.o.na tablets have cured thous. ands of cases of indigestion and stom ach trouble. If you have any stomach distress, Mi-o-na will relieve instant. ly.
 But Mi-o-na, unlike most SC. called dyspepsia remedies, does more than relieve; it permanently cures dyspeptia or any stomach trouble by putting energy and strength into the walls of the stomach.
 A large box of Mi.o.na tablets costs but 50 cents at Anders Jacobsen s, and are guaranteed to cure or money back. When others fail, Mi-o na cures. It is 8 producer of flesh when the body is thin; it cleanses the stomach and bowels; purifies the blood and makes rich red blood.
The Press., 1909-02-24
THE GERMAN CENSOR.
Ho Was a Terror to the Dramatist a
 Hundred Years Ago.

Ho Was a Terror to the Dramatist a Hundred Years Ago.
 The way the censor worried the Ger man dramatists of a century or so ago is strikingly illustrated by a book on the censorship in Germany published by Dr. Robert Heindl at Munich. The | German theater used to be terribly moral. In 1795 the Viennese censor laid it down that an engaged couple ought not to quit the stage separately, but that they should be accompanied by an official who should be under stood to be about to make immediate arrangements for their marriage. Even in 1948 misalliances were prohibited on the Viennese stage, for, as the cen- sor sagely observed, these misfortunes will occur in real life, but they should not be allowed in the theater.
 At Stuttgart the ''Iphigenia in Tau ris" of Goethe was nearly prohibited because the Greek dress allowed the actors bare legs to be seen. There was long dispute over this point, but at last the censor permitted the play on condition that the actors wore yell low tights.
 Few would have imagined that the Viennese censor was so careful of the morals of the population a hundred years ago, but pr. Heindl shows that not merely political allusions were cen- sored, but that the strfctest decorum of word and of thought was insisted uDOn
The Press., 1909-02-24
WOODCRAFT.
Methods of Canadian lndians In Tray.
 ersing Forests.

ersing Forests.
 A Canadian Indian, states a contem- porary, never loses his way in the woods, being always able to find his road over a route once followed by him and also to penetrate forests that he has never seen if only another In- dian shows him the general course in a rough draft on piece of bark.
 Indians display marked ability in communicating with one another in the woods. They telegraph by means of smoke, and 1t is astonishing how far or they can scent it-always a long time before they can see it or could hear sound from its vicinity. If they expect to be followed by another party they stick piece of wood in the ground on portage, slanting it in the direction in which they are travelling. Those who find it will know by the de gree of inclination whether they who planted it are travelling hurriedly or not.
 If it be in summer, small bough or piece of a shrub is fastened to the stake, and by the extent to which it has become withered those who find it will know when it was placed there. If hunter, as very often happens, has to make a detour or to remain behind his squaw in search of game, she will occasionally indicate the route she has taken by sticks placed in the ground, to which she has attached small DOT ton of her skirt.
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THIRTY YEARS AGO.
[Items of local interest taken from the columns
 of The Press, thirty years ago.l
February 27. 1873.


 Lyman Colburn died February 18th at Staffordville, at the age of a6 years.
 Landlord Wood of the Springs House is recovering from an illncss of some weeks duration
 One of the prized flood relics of the Congregational church is the marble top of the old communion table, which was picked up down she stream, un. broken.
 Changes This week J M Leach, manager of Bruner & Sonn's clothing store in this village, removes to the east store in Dr. Eaton's (late John Brown's) block. E. A Bucks hand. ware stle is to be removed April lst to tine two north stores in Bakers new block, and W. Q. Heald's drug stcre and 1hampson & Whitona grocery store are to be rem we'd 10 the same block Milton Wilson, now With l.. W. Crane. will take the store vacated by Thompson & Whiton, and put in 2 stock of groceries.
 Born.-In Stafford, 27th, a daush, ter to J. N Benjamin.
 In Stafford, 2Gtn, a daughter tC Miner R. KnUwlton.
 In Wilmington. 2llh, a daughter tc George Knight
 In Staff lrdyill 10th, son tC Stephen Ford.
 In Manson. l7th, a daughter tC John Brock bank.
The Press., 1909-02-24
ALL TIRED OUT.
Hundreds More in Stafford Springs
 in the Same Plight.

Tired all the time;
 Weary and worn out night and day
 Back aches; s.de acl es,
 All on account of the kidneys.
 Must help them at their work
 A Stafford Springs citizen show S you how:
 Michael Mullins, living on Hicks avenue, Stafford Springs, Ccnn says My wife had been in poor health for some time, and I now think her trouble was caused by weakened and disordered kidneys She complained great deal of backache and pains in her sides She was very nervous and subject to sick headaches and dizzy spells. I I ad often heard of the merits of Dsan's Kidney Pills, and finally procured a box of this remedy at EaJon's drug store. My wife began it's use and I am glad to say that this preparation did her worlds of good, and she is now in better health tI.an she was in long time consider Doan's Kidney Pills most effective and reliable kidney remedy. '
 For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster Milburn Go Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States.
 Remember the Doan's-and take no other.
The Press., 1909-02-24
Than Aa Suhsicled.

'I have made it a rule through life,'' he said at the table the other day to a man at his left, never to meddle with another mans business.''
 '"That's right-perfectly right" was the reply.
 ''But I see you have a new confiden- tial clerk"
 ''Yes, sir, yes"
 "He's a hard looking case. I have seen him intoxicated a dozen times, and wouldn't trust him out of my sight with a sixpence. Took him out of charity, eh?"
 "Well, not altogether, you know. He happens to be my eldest son."-Lon- don Mail.
 The Gingerbread Tree.
 There is a species of palm, growing to height of from twenty-five to thir- ty feet, in Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia and Nubia which produces its fruit in long clusters, each containing from 100 to POO. These fruits are of an irregular form, of a rich yellowish brown color and are beautifully pol ished. In upper Egypt they form part of the food of the poorer classes of in- habitants. the part eaten being the fibrous. mealy husk, which tastes al- most exactly like gingerbread, whence the popular name of gingerbread tree in Egypt. Hyphoene thebaica is the botanical name of this palm.
The Press., 1909-02-24
keeninn un 4ha Limit.

In J. Comyns Carr's "reminiscences Is a characteristic anecdote of Burne- Jones, who had consulted his doctor about certain symptoms which seemed alarming.
 "How many cigars do you smoke fin a day?" the doctor inquired of his pa tient, to which Burne-JoneS had care lessly replied. 'Oh. I think about six" "Well," replied his adviser, "for the present you had better limit yourself to three" And in detailing the incl dent to me afterward Burne-Jones add ed, with a chuckle. "You know, my dear Carr, I never did smoke more than three"
The Press., 1909-02-24
Value of the Architect.

The members of country club, the building and decoration of whose club house had been placed entirely in the hands of the architect even to the mi nutest furnishings. found themselves in need of new window shades and a few other small household necessities Instead of buying the things them selves. they sent for the architect to come out and look things over and order appropriate fittings.
 That is not at all an unusual case" said the architect "I can show you houses that planned more than twen- ty-five years ago that have never been furnished with so much as a new chair without my being consulted first Having deferred entirely to my judg- ment in the first place. those confding patrons are afraid to trust their own taste in the smallest matter. and they will probably continue to ask my ad- vice in every little detail of decoration Ss long as they occupy the house. New York Globe. za-t
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Counting Postal Cards.

Of the many interesting machines employed by the government in it's daily work there may be mentioned those used for counting and tying postal cards into small bundles. These machines are capable of counting 5OO,- 900 cards in ten hours and wrapping and tying them in packages of twen- ty-five each. In this operation the pa- per is pulled off a drum by two long fingers which emerge from below, and another finger dips in vat of mu- cilage and applies itself to the wrap ping paper in precisely the right spot. Other parts of the machine twine the paper round the pack of cards, and then a thumb presses over the spot whereon the mucilage has been ap- piled, whereupon the package is thrown on q carrying belt ready for delivery y.-Minneapolis Journal
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front. It won't do for another person to pack against that crowd" 1 The back stairway was long and nar- row and at the foot the door was shut and locked.
 Cunningham wrenched at the lock, but it held. Then the strong young cadet tried it, and then the old admiral exerted all his force, but still the lock held. and all the time the smoke was growing denser, and they knew that at the head of the stairway the fire was raging, cutting off retreat.
 Virginia, overtaken by panic, scream ed. but Mrs. Frellnghuysen, stanch even in that moment of great danger, said: They'll get us out, my dear. Don't worry"
 But though Cunningham and the callow cadet and the strong old ad- miral hurled themselves against the door 1t held.
 There's a window up there" said the cadet, i've men could climb''- Cunningham shook his head.
 "'But the women couldn't" he said, | and turned this way and that rest lessly. Then suddenly, like a flash. he flew back up the stairway and dis appeared into the smoke.
 "Oh, coward, coward" Virgtnia's s thoughts condemned, and, as if in an- swer of her doubt of him, she saw him coming back. In his hand was a shining weapon-the hatchet that had been laid at the foot of the little cher ry tree on the table.
 Stand backy' he shouted, and she heard the old admiral say. '"Thank ! GodY' She was conscious of the splintering of wood, a rush of outside air, a babel of voices, and then she tainted. When she came to herself she was in a carraige. and Cunning ham was bending over her.
 "I got you out of that crowd as soon as I could" he said as she open cd her eyes. There were dozens of carriages, and simply took one."
 Virginia chung to him. sobbing, "Oh, Bob, Bob, are you hurtY'
 ''Nothing that bandage or two won't help" he said, but his face was drawn with pain. "We'N go back to
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given me, and am recommending 1t to all my friends. Mrs. w. $. FORD, 1888 Lansdowne St, Baltimore. Md.
 The most successful remedy in this country for the cure of all forms of female complaints is Lydia B. Pink hams Vegetable Compound. It has stood the test of years and to-day is more widely and successfully used than any other female remedy. It has cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflam- nation, alteration, fbroid tumors, ir- regularities, periodic pains, backache, that bearing-doNn feeling, tiatulency, indigestion, and nervous prostratlon, after all other means had failed.
 If you are suffering from any of these ailments, don't give up hope until you have given Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege- table Compound q trial.
 If you would like special advice write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass, for it. She has guided thousands to health, free of charge.
The Press., 1909-02-24


 RATCHET" man would heSi- tate to do thing like that when a lot of women were in danger. especially the one that he loves better than his life"
 Virginia looked at him wistfully. "Do you really love me" she asked. "after was so-so-hateful this after noon?"
 His answer was so satisfactory that she was all rosy with bushes when she asked her next question.
 '"Tell me just how you opened the door"
 His eyes twinkled, and then he gave his answer in one immortal sentence: ''I cannot tell lie, Virginia. did 1t with my little hatchet!''
The Press., 1909-02-24
As the Twig Is Bent.

''I hope you were a good little boy while at you aunt's and didn't tell any stories," said his mother.
 "Only the one you put me up to, ma," replied her young hopeful.
 ''Why, what do you mean, child?'
 "When she asked me if I'd like to have second piece of cake I said, No, thank you; I've had enough.'"-
 Stops earache in two minutes i; tooth ache or pain of burn or sca!d in five min utes; hoarseness, one hour musceache, two hours. sore throat, twelve hours - Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil, monarch over pain.
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your house, and in an hour we'N never know the difference"
 "Yes, we win know the differ ence. :" Virginia sat up and wiped her eyes. "Oh. how brave you ~are, Bob. and how unjust I was"-
 "Oh, ut it out" he said slangily. " N o
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STATE OF OHIO. c1,Y OF ToLEDo,( SC

Frank J Cheney makes oath that he is seniol partner of the firm of F.J. Cheney & Co. doing business in the City of Toledo County and State aforesaid. and that said firm will pay the sum Oi ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case nf atalrh that cannot be cured ny the use of Halls Cat arrh Cure, FRANK J CHENEY. sworn to before me and subscrib in my presence, this 9th day Of December, A. D. 1986 n A. w. GLEAS N, NoEALj NOTARY PUBLIC Halls 'atarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for test 1mOnials free.
 F.J. CHENEY E CO, Toledo, Q. Sold by all druggists, 75c.
 Take Halls Family Pills for Constipation.
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Economy.

Economy is always admirable A Cheyenne halter, though, was disgust ed the other day with the economical spirit of visitor to his shop. The visitor, tall man with gray hair, entered with a soft felt hat, wrapped in paper. in his hand
 ''HoW much will it cost" he said, ito dye this hat gray to match my hair?"
 About dollar" the natter an- swered.
 The tall man wrapped the hat up again.
 T won't pay it" he said. T can get my hair dyed to match the hat for quarter. Household Journal.
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6CL OlC OL LuOSS fellows with good blood in him and in times of peace he'll act as if 1t was an Rxertfon to cross the room. but let war come and he's the one that does the big things"
 Virginia began to wonder if she had been nasty in her condemnation of Bob. She wished that she had let him come with her. She wished.-and, as If the fairies had heard, she saw Gun ningham's fair head in the doorway.
 He came straight toward her. and even as she watched him Virginia was aware of strange commotion in the room. Women were rising from the seats and men were shouting; then chairs crashed as their occupants moved them back in haste and made for the stairway, and over and above all wavered a thin blue banner of smoke.
 Mrs. Frelinghuysen," said Cunning ham as he came up, "the building is on fire. I have turned in an alarm, but we must get out at once"
 The old officer and the young cadet, each trained to act quickly, sprang to their feet.
 ''You look out for the other women" Cunningham directed. ''I'n take care of Miss Cary"
 As they hurried toward the doors a man came running to meet them. "Go to the back stairway" he panted. There's a perfect stamDeda on the
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VeyoQ n1IQ WILL 4ALh 4O A1s eringly. And your great-grandfather was almost frozen at Valley Forge for this."
 The young man smiled. "Well, not exactly" he said. "but what's the use, Virginia? Stay here and talk to me and let the world go by.' Her eyes flashed, and at her sharp look Cunningham flushed little.
 Please telephone for my cab," was her command, and then, as he rose to do her bidding, she came back at him with the announcement: You can sit by the fire and dream, if you wish. I don't want you to go with me-"
 He turned and looked at her. Do you really mean that, Virginia?"
 "Yes," she said, "I really mean it."
 He telephoned and came back, then in silence they sat, one on each side of the fireplace, waiting.
 When at last the cab drove up, he helped her into her fur lined wrap and knelt to put on her carriage boots. When he rose to his feet he asked, Shall come for you?" "No," she informed him. Mrs. Ere hnghuysen will let me come home with her. I need not trouble you to leave the fire'
 He laughed a little. "Oh, don't rub it in," he said as he preceded her to the cab
 He stood bareheaded in the snow as the cab drove away, and Virginia's g heart gave a little throb of admira- l tion. How very good looking he was, and how lazy! He needed lesson.
 Later she thought of him when the devoted D. A. R.'s, having read pa pers and sung songs expressive of to perpetuate the name and fame of their heroic forbears, listened to the speaker of the evening. Dinner followed, and in a glitter of gorgeousness the daughters trailed up stairs to the dining room. Flags dec | orated the long hall, rosettes of buff and blue were everywhere, and in the | center of the huge table was cherry tree, at the foot of which lay shining hatchet tied with red ribbons. Virginia, with Mrs. Frelinghuysen opposite, and with a famous old ad- miral on one side and a callow cadet on the other, was bored to extinction.
 Her thoughts crept back somewhat Iongingly to Cunningham, to the bright fire on the hearth and to the big brown leather chair, which since their | engagement had come to be called ''Bob's own" Her own low wicker one sat close to it.
 Mrs. Frelinghuysen and the admiral argued.
 Did you agree with the speaker" :" asked the stately dame, "that there are few men now like the ones of Wash 1 ington's time?''
 "No," he said somewhat gruh1y. There's nothing to bring 1t out now, nothing to bring it out. But let the
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waeh;noton Was a Dandy

There can be little doubt that he was in early life good deal of dan- dy," writes the author of "The True George Washington" and he adds that this liking for fine feathers never quite left the great man. Washington's dia- rles fairly bristle with notes about the fine clothes he frequently ordered.
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a,aaaf and ln,.,

A young man named Sweet engaged to marry a young woman named Lowe, A few Sundays previous to the we'd ding the happy couple attended church together, and as they walked along the aisle the choir began singing the song Sweet and Low" entirely unconscious of the musical pun that was being per petrated.
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Hot Stuff.

The great editor looked up impa- tiently.
 Boy" he said. what is that rus tling in the wastebasket-a mouse?'
 The boy after examining the basket answered.
 ''No, sir: it's one O them poems O passion throbbin'."
 'Well. pour some water on 1t and then drop it out of the window" said the editor '"The building isn't in sured. ."---Kansas Independent.
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i from 1rregular1-
 ties, terrible drag ging sensations,
 extreme nervous
 ness, and that all gone feeling in my stomach. I had given up hope of ever being we'll
 when 1 began to
 take Lydia E. Pink hams Vegetable
 Compound. Then
 I felt as though new life had been
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Thrifty

"Well, parson. is your flock libral in their 'nevolences?'
 Liberal? We'll. should say dey is not that. Why. when asted them to sing Ole Hundred dey done sung "rhp Ninety and Nine "-Harper's.
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Mashinnton No Orator

He was not speaker. which was per haps due to actual humility and shyness. On one occasion he attempt ed to read a short speech, but failed, whereupon he remarked. "I have grown blind as well as gray in the service of my country"
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rhe csII of companionship.

You often hear lonesome child say. "I want some one to play with!' Elderly people often become lonesome ":.d want some one to play with but
 "a afraid to say so.--Atchis0n Globe
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Itching piles provoke profanity, but profanity won't cure them. Doan'e Oint ment cures itching, b eeding or protruding piles after years of suffe' ing, At any drug store.
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everyday affair, but a Continen- tal dinner to eel ebrate the birth day of the Fa- ther of HI S Country is q diff ferent thing" "Certainly,' her fance a gre e d. but it ism t worth going out in all h i S storm"
 Virginia sur yeyed him with