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8 BILLION BUSHELS OF CORN
About 723,000,0 600 Of Wheat, Ac-
cording to Government Report.
Winter Wheat Yield About 1876
Bushels Per Acre-Corn Condi-
ditions Off Five Points.

Washington, D. C.-The Departs
ment of Agriculture issued it's month";
ly crop report, showing the condition
of the crops on August / last as fol-
lows:
Corn S4.4, as against 1913 July 1
last, S2.5 August /, 1908, and 1928
August i, 1907.
Winter wheat 90.3, against COL
August 1 last year.
Spring wheat 91.6, against 92.7
July / last, S0.7 August i, 1908, and
1914 August 1, 1907.
Oats 85.5, against $50 a month
ago, 1873 August /, 1908, and 75.6
August /, 1907.
According to the 'old method Of
figuring, the report indicates a winter
wheat yield of 1872, 100000 bushels, in
comparison with 437,908, 600 at har-
vest last year. The spring wheat fig.
ures suggest a yield of 2~90,377,O0O
bushels, compared with 294,256,000
bushels last month and 226,694,00
bushels at harvest last year. The in
dicated corn crop is 5000, 900, 900
bushels, against 3,205, 10000 0 bush
els last month and 2,66S,651,00O
bushels final last year. A yield of
1,O27,700,0 900 bushels, oats is ex-
pected, compared with 5000, 900
a month ago and 807,156,00O at har-
vest in 1908. The farm reserve of
oats on August 1 was 2~6,323,O00
bushels, against $4,000 900 last year.
New York City.-A crop of over
q nm mn mn I,c1oyz -
723,000, 900 bushels of wheat was
indicated in the Government report,
for which grain markets all over the
world and Wall Street especially,
have been expectant for the last week.
The condition of corn was S4.4,
against 1913 in July. This reduction
of five points was greater than had
been anticipated, and it showed how
much damage had been done by the
combined forces of heat and drought
in some States and floods in others.
However, the prospect is for a corn
yield of 3,030,000,000 bushels. Last
month the experts were figuring on a
production of 1905, 0O0, 900, which
would have been much in excess Of
any crop ever raised. The indicated
yield of to-day is about of bumper
proportions. Corn prices went up a
little on the report.
In wheat there was another story
to tell. The farmers of the North
west have never had a better season
then this. For weeks the weather
las been ideal, so that the crop rip
ened early and harvesting is now in
progress all through Minnesota and
in the DakOtas.
A month ago the condition of
spring wheat was OPT, which was ex-
tremely high. On August 1, it was
91.6, ten points above a ten-year av-
erage for that date. The estimated
spring wheat crop is 29O.000.O 900
bushels, which compares with an ac-
tual yield last year of 296,000,000
bushels. The winter wheat has prac-
tically all been harvested and is now
moving to market, so the only interest
in this report was of the total harvest,
Which was 432,920,000 bushels, or
about 100000 short of the 1908
crop.
Wheat prices broke on the showing
made by the Government.
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HOW TO WIN ONES SONS.
Boys Like to Discover That Father
Understands Sports.

I remember two brothers who
played on our college baseball team,
says Charles Francis Read in The
D%elineator. The father was a retired
Presbyterian minister, with a grave
face that looked very much as If he
might be repeating to himself the
longer Cateehism, but every game
found him right out in front of the
widest crowd of rooters, and he
stayed there, standing up the great
er part of the time, with his eyes
glued to every play until the last
man was out. l can't remember that
his expression changed ~perceptibly
when Bob struck out, or Ed hit it
out for two bases, but he was right
there all the time, and the boys
knew that his eye was on them every
minute, and the knowledge lifted
them along to the end of the game.
Afterwards they heard the other fell
lows call him a good old sport, and
that again lifted them along still
more. There is nothing that tickles
the boy more than to feel that the
old man has sporting blood in him.
II we are not already possessed of
1t we would do well to acquire it, or
at least to pretend to it.
And herein lies a secret, also; let
me whisper it softly-it is good for
us; it keeps us young, keeps our
hair and teeth from falling out and
makes US better looking. 1t gives us
an interest in life aside from money
grubbing, makes us more critical of
the set of a coat and the color of a
tie.
This in turn gives us a certain
charm in the eyes of Elizabeth and
Maryland they are a trife critical,
you know, when they have turned
fifteen.
l have always thought that into
this relationship CT a mar with his
daughter there must enter an ele-
ment of courtship-a bit of the fine,
etheralized sentiment of lovers. We
must take care to foster Elizabeth's
girlish admiration for what there is
Of the gallant about us. 1 love that
beautiful old word "gallantry"-it
savors so of the days of chivalry,
when men were given an opportunity
to prove themselves brave and ten
der and true.
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STOPS TEACHERS LovE-MAK1NG.
Father Sues Ont IN Injunction to Pro-
tect Son, Who is Only Seventeen.

Detroit. Mich.-Ernest D. Shove, a
Brownstone township farmer, has OBJ
tanned an injunction from the Circuit
Court restraining Lilly" Burden, thir-
ty-three years old, and a school teach.
er at Flat Rock last year, from max.
ing love to his son, who is seventeen
years old.
In his petition the parent says the
teacher had last year told him his son
was dull. He believes now it was a
subterfuge to gain access to his COM
pany, for in order to assist him in his
school work the instructor taught the
boy after hours. 1t is alleged she
made progress in gaining his affec-
lions.
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Missing Islands.

1t Is reported that the Nimrod. the
stout little ship that carried Lieuten-
ant S~nackleton and his men to Antar-
tica, a accepted a commission that
VIII lengthen her homeward yoyage
by a few weeks. She is going to
search Tor some missing islands. They
are on the map, but whether they are
actually in existence is very doubtful.
a group bearing her own name-the
Nimrods-was searched for in 1851
and could not be found. Another.
the Emerald-not our Hibernian sis
ter-has not been seen since 1841.
when 1t was described as possessing
lofty, high peaked mountains
"Dougherty Island" has not been
sighted for half a century. Possibly
the convivial mariners of a bygone
generation, surveying the horizon
through capacious tumblers. occasion
ally fancied they saw islands as well
as sea serpents.--London Chronicle.
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Rye and Alfalfa.

Doors for fowls to go into yards
should be so placed that a good yard,
sown to rye or alfalfa, is available
for each pen. Where ground for
yards and raising grain is limited, the
same yards may be planted in late
corn, then sown in rye; it should be
sown very thick, to allow the fowls
to have the run of it while it is still
small. and yet not destroy It. Corn
can be planted early in July, after
Matching season is over and all fowls
thrown into one yard. If not out on
free range.
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ON FOOD
The Right Foundation of Health.

Proper food is the foundation OF
health. People can eat improper
food for a time until there is a sud
den collapse of the digestive organs.
Their all kinds of trouble follow.
The proper way out of the difficult
ty is to shift to the pure, scientific
food, Grape-Nuts, for it rebuilds
from the foundation up. A New
Hampshire woman says:
Last summer l was suddenly TAX
en- with indigestion and severe stom-
ach trouble and could not eat food
n great pain. my stomach was
SO sore | could hardly move about.
This kept up until l was SO miserable
life was not worth living.
3Then a friend fiaally, after much
argument, induced me to quit NV
former diet and try Grape-Nuts.
Although I had but little faith I
commenced to use it, and great was
my surprise to find that 1 could eat 1t
without the usual pain and distress
In my stomach.
80 Kept on using Grape-Nuts,
n soon a marked improvement was
shown, for my stomach was perform
Ing it's regular work in a normal wav
without pain or distress.
Very soon the yellow coating dis
appeared from my tongue, the dull.
heavy feeling in my head disappeared
and my mind felt light and clear; the
languid. tired feeling left, and alto
gether ] felt as if l had been rebuilt.
Strength and weight came back rap
idly. and / went back to my work
with renewed ambition.
@To-day / am a new woman in
mind as well as body, and I owe it all
to this natural food, Grape-Nuts..
3There's a Reason"
Look in pkgs. for the famous little
book, THE Road to MELVILLE"
Eyer read the above letter? Anew
d appears from time to time. They
: erssuine, true, and full Of human
interest.
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TIGHT LID FOR ALABAMA.

Governor Signs Bill Forbidding Lock-
er Clubs-Other Bills to Follow.
Montgomery, Ala.-Goyernor Com
er signed the Carmichael Prohibition
bill in the presence of Mrs. J. B. Nell,
President of the Alabama Division of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, and other m
Under the act 1t is unlawful to sell
or to store any liquids containing
more than one-half of one per cent.
alcohol. Locker clubs are illegal.
The Fuller bill and the Ballard bill
were still pending In the House.
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MEMOIRS OF DAN RICE" THE
CLOWN OF OUR DADDIES.
Dan Rice In His memoirs Tells In
side Mysteries of Show Life.

Dan Rice In His "Memoirs" Tells In
side Mysteries of Show Life.
Any bookseller will tell you that
the constant quest of his customers
is for "a book which will make Me
laugh" The bookman is compelled
to reply that the race OF American
humorists has run out and comic lit
erature is scarcer than funny plays.
A wide sale is therefore predicted for
the Memoirs of Dan Rice" the
Clown of Our Daddies. written by
Maria Ward Brown, a book guar
anteed to make you roar with laugh
ter. The author presents to the pub
lie a volume of the great TESTERS
most pungent jokes. comic narangues.
caustic hits upon men n manners.
lectures, anecdotes. sketches OF ad-
venture, original songs and poetical
illusions: wise and witty serious.
satirical, and sentimental sayings OF
the sawdust arena OF other days.
Old Dan Rice. as proprietor OF the
famous Zone Horse Show" was more
Of a national character than Artemus
Ward. and this volume contains the
humor which made the nation laugh
even while the great Civil War ragged.
This fascinating book Of 500 pages,
beautifully illustrated. VIII be sent
POSTPAID 10 Won for $3.50. Address
Book Publishing House. lSs Leonard
street. New York CITY.
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"She Who Dreams

A Maori's idea of a woman is ex-
pressed in the phrase "she who
Dreams" which means that her
thoughts are on a higher plane than
his.
He allows her absolute freedom OF
speech and manner, for he is sure
that if there is anything to be said
or done a woman's refinement and
sincerity will exceed his own.-La-
dies Field.
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GRAND ARMY IN SALT LAKE CITY
10000 Veterans and Visitors Arrive
For the Encampment.

Salt Lake City, Utah.-The forty
third national encampment- of the
Grand Army of the Republic brought
10000 VETERANS and visitors to Salt
Lake City, with the prospect of hav-
ing the number increased to so, 200.
OF the fourteen past commanders
ln-chief now living five are in attend
ance. They are Generals S. Burdett,
Of Washington; Eli Torrance, of Min
neapolis; John r. King, of Balti-
more; Corporal James Tanner, of
Washington, and General Charles G..
Burton, of Nevada, Mo.
A reception in honor of Command
er-in-Chief Nevius and staff was
given by the Woman's Relief Corps
in the night. Three thousand guests
were present.
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branch of the family, and like them.
they are ideal fowls for family or
market. They are large and are good
layers, and always find a ready sale.
Their eggs are large and have dark
shells, and always attract attention.
Altogether White Plymouth Rocks
have enough merit to keep them in
the front ranks Of Americas best
breed of poultry.
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MAN AND WIFE IN PISTOL DUEL.
Woman is Dead and Husband Fatally
Wounded.

Chicago, HIN a fight with revol.
vers between a man and his wife Mrs.
Philip Stitzena was killed and her
husband fatally wounded.
The woman's body and the dying
man were rushed to the Peoples Hos
pital in the same ambulance.
The man was shot twice through
the head with bullets of large calibre.
The woman's body had been pierced
with bullets that seemed of lighter
calibre.
According to the best information
the woman fired the first shot and
several shots were exchanged. Two
children, a girl of three and another
OF two years of age. were cuddled to-
gether terror-stricken in a crib in the
next room.
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MUNYON'S EMINENT DOCTORS Ar
YOUR SERVICE FREE.
Not a Penny to Pay For the Fullest

Not q Penny to Pay For the Fullest
Medical Examination.
II you are in doubt as to the u
OF your disease mail us a postal re-
questing a medical examination blank,
which you will fill out and return to
US. Our doctors will carefully dag
nose your case, and If you can be
cured you will be told so; If Won cam
not be cured you will be told so. YOU
are lot obligated to us in any way. for
this advice is absolutely free, YOU are
at liberty to take our advice Or no az
you see fit. Send to-day for a medi-
cal examination blank, fill out and
return to us as promptly as possible.
and our eminent doctors will diagnose
your case thoroughly absolutely free.
Munyon's, SD and Jefferson SITS.
Philadelphia, Pa.
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lameness, weakness and stiffness
caused by d~isordered kidneys. 1 suf-
fered awful pains and also had urin-
airy arrangement. After using
Doan's Kidney Pills a short time |
discarded the crutches and now l am
well and strong again, being COM
pletely cured"
Remember the name-Doan's. Sold
by all dealers. SO cents a box. Fos-
ter-Milburn Co., Buffalo. N. Y.
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Nesting in a Beehive.

A wagtail has built it's nest in a
beehive at West Ashby, near Horn
castle, and is sitting on ten eggs, de-
spite the bees being busy at work be-
low.
The bird enters by the roof of the
hive through a small hole; it has car
ried quite a heap of hay and other
material bit by bit through this hole.
The bees are by no means disturbed
by their lodger.-London Evening
Standard. 8
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Tno apIed Piuer.-

A New York FORMAL school exam
ination had among its questions:
what is the educational value of
The Pied Piper of Hamelin?'" A
wouldlbe teacher answered: "a Pied
Piper teaches children to be kind to
animals. especially rats" -
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Snake Opposed to Plowman.

While Elmer Schoenly. of Timer
Hanover, was blowing on the James
Erdman farm, near East Greenville,
n1s horses suddenly stopped, snorted
and reared and after an investigation
Schoenly found that a blacksnake
measuring e seven feet was stand.
Ing almost upright in the furrow lust
ahead of the animals.
After a fierce fight the reptile was
killed. 1t is supposed that the mon
ster had h~ibernated in the field
Pittsburg Dispatch.
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Not Unusual.

Mr.. Richey was being married for
the fourth time and everything
seemed to be passing off beautifully
when a woman in the rear of the
church gave way to loud and pitiful
grief.
The audience seemed much con-
cerned until Mabel, a junior member
of Mr. Rfchey's family, remarked:
Its Nora, our cook; she always blub-
bers when father gets married.
Philadelphia Record.
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Straw Hats From Mexico.

Consul Clarence A. Miller, of Mat
amoros, states that large quantities
of Mexican straw hats are exported
from Mexico to the United States
through San Antonio. One recent
shipment contained 500 gross, or
$4,000 separate hats. The Ameri-
can statistics of importation show
that in the fiscal year 1908 straw
hats and bonnets were imported from
Mexico to the extent of s267,038.
This trade has been steadily growing,
having been only s142,878 In 1905.
Daily Consular Reports.
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GIRL PREVENTS JAIL DELIVERY.
Cows Negro Mnrderers With Revolver
When They Attack Father.

When They Attack Father.
Denison, Iowa.-Lillie. Cummings,
seventeen ear old, the daughter of
Sheriff Cummings, with a revolver
prevented a gail delivery in this town
and at the same time probably saved
her fathers life. Two negro MUIR
derers, who are in Jail here, inveigled
Sheriff Cummings into the cell corri-
dor and made an attack upon him.
He was overcome and was being
choked to death when his daughter.
who had heard the scufle, appeared
at the barred door with her fathers
revolver, and covering the negroes
drove them back to their cells, where
she forced them to remain until the
sheriff was sufficiently recovered to
lock them in. Except for the girls
action the sheriff would have been
killed and all prisoners released by
the two murderers.
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To the Discouraged.

Those who become discouraged by
mistakes are not very progressive.
Instead of being stumbling blocks.
mistakes are object lessons that
rouse one to a sense of closer obser-
walton and point out facts. However.
the mar who makes the same mistake
twice is not a very observing per-
son.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-08-13
Origin of "Tommy Atkins

The British soldier was given the
nickname Tommy Atkins" in this
manner: The British War Office sent
out blank forms to be used; with
them were forms filed out as sam
pies. The latter in the first place
where the soldiers name was to APP
pear contained the name of imaginary
Atkins, Thomas, private" simply be-
cause the list was to be alphabetical.
An English comic paper took it up
and made it famous and the private
soldier "Tommy Atkins. "1Philadel-
phia Press.
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Indian View of II.

Speaking Of insanity, it is said that
there were never more than ten cases
of identified insanity among the In
dams on the North American CONT
nent; and they were regarded as pos
sessed of a heavenly spirit.-Colum-
bus Press-Post.
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KILLED by His Locomotiye.

MortalIy injured by his own loco
motive, John Conklin, of New York
City, engineer of the American Ex-
press Special of the New York Cen
trail, died in the hospital at Peekskill,
N. Y, after both his legs were ampu-
tated.
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robert Scott.

Robert Scott, Former Actor, Dead.
Robert Scott, divorced husband of
Patti Rosa, a singer, and prominent
years ago as an actor, died in Homo
lulu. Scott vas recently employed
as an inspector of the Honolulu Board
of Health.
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ALABAMA FOR INCOME TAX.

Senate Approves Amendment Follow
ing House-Governor Will Sign.
Montgomery, A1a.-The Senate
voted unanimously to approve the in
come tax amendment to the Consti-
tuition of the United States, recently
submitted to the States by Congress.
The Alabama House having ap-
proved the measure, also by unan-
imous vote, all that is now needed
to make Alabama's approval of the
income tax complete is Governor
promised.
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CHILD HAD SIXTY BoILs
And Suffered Annually With a Red
Scald-Like Hulnor on Her Head
Troubles Cured by Cuticura.


When my little Vivian was about six
months old her head broke out in boils.
She had about sixty in all and l used Cuti-
cura Soap and Cuticura Ointment which
cured her entirely. Sometime later a
humor broke out behind her ears and
spread up on to her head until it was near
ly half covered. The humor looked like a
scald, very red with a sticky, clear fluid
coming from it. This occurred every
spring. | always used Cuticura Soap and
Ointment which never failed to heal it up.
The last time it broke out it became SO bad
that ! was discouraged. But / continued
the use of Cuticura Soap, Ointment and
Resolvent until she was well and has never
been troubled in the last two years. Mrs.
N. A. Schwerin, 674 Spring Wells Ave-,
Detroit, Mich, Feb. "a, $685."
Potter Drug L Chem. Corp, Sole Props.
of Cuticura Remedies. Boston. Mass.
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or Bright's disease.
The cure is easy.
Treat the cause.-the
kidneys with
Doan's Kidney Pills.
John Corey, consta-
BILE, Attica, N. Y,
says: For months |
hobbled around on
crutchac OWING fo
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A Coincidence.

On the notice board of a church
near Manchester the other day the
following announcements appeared
together: A potato pie supper will
be held on Saturday evening. Sub
ject for Sunday evening: "a Night
Of Agony."-Manchester Guardian.
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White Plymouth Rocks.

White fowls, because of their strik-
Ing appearance and the ease with
which they are bred to a high state OF
perfection, have become very popular
during the past few years.
The White Rocks and White wy.
andottes especially are the favor
ties of those who fancy a solid coll
ored fowl. White Rocks, except in
color, are counterparts Of the Barred
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"oUR BEST EDUCATORS"
Professor Burton Praises Newspapers
Maintaining Highest Functions.

Maintaining Highest Functions.
Chautauqua, N. Y. = Professor
Richard Burton, of the University of
Michigan, scored the magazines and
certain classes of newspapers in an
address here.
This is a scrapbook age" said
Professor Burton. 1.-THE country is
flooded with a lot of cheap literature
unfit for reading. Newspapers are
our best educators if they live up to
their highest functions.
1.-THE time is coming when women
will take a larger part in our public
affairs and enjoy a franchise, and
when this time comes there will be a
change in regard to the literature
that comes into our homes"
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YOUNG WIFE A SUICIDE.


Keystone, w. Va.-Mrs. Genevieve
Ramsey, twenty-three years old, wife
of X. L. Ramsey, said to be a million
sire coal operator at Williamson, w.
Va, committed suicide in the parlors
Of the Keystone Inn here by firing a
bullet through her temple.
Mrs. Ramsey and William Hughes,
a ball player of Bristol, Va, arrived
at the same time. Mr.. Ramsey ar
rived later, and a stormy scene be-
tween the husband and wife followed.
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Ella Gingles Starts For Ireland.

Ella Gingles, recently acquitted of
a charge of larceny after an
trial in Chicago, left for her home in
Larne, Ireland. She was accompa-
MED by Mrs. Grace Van Dusen Cook,
one OF the clubwomen who assisted
Miss Gingles during her trial. She
took $500, the gift of sympathizers.
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A Social Obligation.

Brooke-Cheeplee doesn't think its
proper to wear a watch with a dress
suit.
Lynne-He never has both at the
same time.-Lippincott's.
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A railway through the mountains
north of the Adriatic Sea, constructed
by the Austrian Government, to build
up the trade Of Trieste, though only
1870 miles long. has $40 bridges and
yiaducts. It also runs through AZ
tunnels.
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Ecuador Celebrates Independence.
The Tooth anniversary of the first
movement on the part Of the people
Of Ecuador to secure their ~fndepend-
ence from Spain was observed
throughout the republic with much
enthusiasm.
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The Genuine Gentleman.

After all, it isn't clothes or de-
pertinent, or money, OF doing as you'd
be done by that makes a gentleman
You've got to be all right and then
forget it.-Irving Bachelor.
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Pinkham's Vege
table Compound
Eleven years ago ]
was a walking
shadow. Ihad been
under the doctors
carebutgotnoreli
My husband per
suaded me to try
Lydia : Pinkham's
Vegetable Com
pound a~nditworked
like a charm. 1t re-
lieved al my pains
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Nearly all of the fifteen thousand
inhabitants of Marchneukirchen,
Saxony, are engaged in violin max
Ing. N.Y.-SS
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The River Polk flows into a ave in
the side of a mountain and complete
ly disappears at Adelsberg, near
Trieste. -
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Gold Discoyerer a Pauner.

Robert Womack, who discovered
gold at Cripple Creek, died in pow
erty.