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And, Of course, indigestion II neg
Iected long enough, brings on seri-
Gus diseases in which Kodol cannot
benefit you. Some OF these there
IL no help for at all.
There are, In fact, very few all
menta which cannot be traced d.
rectly to impure blood. And I'M
pure blood is always due to dis
ordered stomach.
Use Kodol and prevent Nervous
Dyspepsia. $3.50.
Kodol will effectually assist Ma
turs to secure a complete restora-
ton of good digestion. 1t does
this by at once digesting all food
in the stomach and keeping 1t d.
gested, until the stomach is rested
and can resume its own work. Ko-
dol removes the cause-and the
effect quickly removes itself.
When it is recalled that Apo
plexy, Heart Disease, Cancer-and
even Consumption-are due to
poor digestion and poisons thus
transmitted to the blood, and
throughout the systematic impor-
lance of maintaining good diges
ton II at once realized.
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Our Guarantee

Go 10 your druggist today and get dol
lar bottle. Then after you have used the
entire contents OF the bottle If you can
honestly say, that Il has not done you any
good, return the, bottle % the druggist and
he will refund Your money without ques-
ton or delay. We will then pay the drug
gist for tae bottle, Don't hesitate, all
druggists know that our guarantee is good.
This offer applies to the large bottle only
and to but one in a family. The large bot
sle contains 21a times as much as the fifty
cent bottle.
Kodol is prepared at the labora-
tories of &. C. Dewitt & Co., Chicago.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-01-21

My little boy, Leon, had whoop-
ing cough and after getting over it,
he still had a very bad cough" said
Mrs. L. E. Jackson of Cliftondale, re-
Gently. Every night after supper,
he would have a bad coughing spell,
accompanied by nausea, and would
cough continually all night A friend
told me about Father Johns Medi-
cine gave it to him, and before
he had taken half a small-sized bot
tie the nausea stopped. He is on
his second bottle now, and does not
cough hardly at all" (Signed) Mrs
E. g. Jackson, 10 Jackson ST., Clifton
dale, Mass.
Father Johns Medicine prevents
pneumonia and consumption-builds
you up because it is all pure nourish-
ment Not patent medicine.
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We knew what Kodol would do
before ever the first bottle was
sold. II we did not know just what
It viii do, we would not guarantee
1t the way We do.
II is easy for you to prove Kodol
the next Tor the irsD time you
have an attack of Indigestion. And
yoa will certainly be surprised at
the results. 1t is perfectly harm
less.
There can be no harm in trying
something that may do you great
deal of good-~when it costs you
nothing If it doesn't.
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The Irony of Fate.

An old Jewish woman on the East
side of New York was bewailing the
plight of her daughter, who had Just
been left a PiJ.w with large fam.
lily, with no one to depend upon for
support but her own parents.
"Oi, OF, OIL" bewailed the old WON.
an. THAT my daughters husband
should die and leafe her with seven
girls, and their granfader in the boys
cloding pisuness!"
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FRANK 2 HOVE pailor sue PubGshs

Caledonia county court convened
Monday afternoon after its recess
from December is TO accommodate
Harland b. Howe, who is in the legis-
lature.-News dispatch to the St. Al
bans Messenger
The lawyers certainly have things
in the world accommodatingly ar
ranged. They secure most OF the Of
fees and then the courts suspend
business so that they can hold the
Jobs down.
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Mrs. Winslow,s Soothing Syrup

aas been used for over sIxTY-F1vE YEARS By NH
LIONS Of MOTHERS for theft CHILDREN WILL
rkErtiN0, with PERFECT SUCCEsn IL sOOTliEs
M CHILD, sOFrENs the GUNS, ALLAYB all PAIN
CURES WIND collie, and 10 the besi remedy for DIAR
RIluA. Sold by Druggsa Ia every per Of the world
BE and ask for Afs. WlAsous Soothing nyrup,"
anetd under the Food and Druga Act Jane h, 1904 Serial
Number iopg AN OLD AND WELL TRIED RrAEDT.
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Surprising,
What Kodol Will Do

For you, when you need it But the longer you neg
lect Indigestion the you will suffer before KOdOl
can restore Good Digestion.
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TO CURE A COLD IN one DAY

rake LAXATIVE BRoMo Outline
Tablets. Druggists refund money II
1t fails to cure. r. w. GROVES 80.
natu-a In on each boa 1ko.
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COULDN'T GET 81 TO ENTHUsE
Hired Mans Remarks Could Hardly
Be Said to Be In Nature Of
Of Compliment.

The young lawyer, having been
nominated for the Office of county at
torney, thought to surprise an eccen-
trio genius by the name of 81 who
was working as hired man on the
young lawyers fathers farm.
well. 81, what do you think?" the
young man began.
Sometimes one thing. Lonny, an
sometimes mother"
"But, ST, they have nominated me
for county attorney"
"They might "a done worse. Lon
ny. Howsomever, don't boiler till
you're out of the woods
The young attorney was duly
elected, and ON his next visit to the
farm announced the fact unctuously
to ST, who was at the woodpile, saw
In hand.
"Well, ST, l am elected by large
majority. What do you think of
that?"
well, Lonny, down in our parts
where l was raised. when we wanted
stopper n hadn't any cork. we
generally took corn ob."-Youth's
Companion.
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He Bit.

The city man was jogging on to-
ward the summer clearinghouse In
a rickety old wagon. The driver was
glum and far from entertaining, and
the city man felt rather lonely.
Fine field over there" he ventured,
after long silence.
Fine" grunted the driver.
"Who owns it?"
'Old man Bit"
"Old man Bit. Ell? Who are those
children stacking up hay?"
"Old man Bits boys"
And what is his idea In having
them out there in the field such q hot
day."
oval, / reckon he thinks every lit
tie Bit helps. stranger. Anything
else you want to know? Get up here,
hosses."
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FILPPOCRA TES--- The Man Who
Made Health

the world-old yoke Of superstition.
But the Father of Medicine" per
formed other services to humanity
even greater than these. He discov-
cred, after many experiments. just
what foods were beneficial or hurtful
to the system, and laid down the first
rules of diet ever formulated. II is. in
the main, the same theory of diet that
is in use today. The fact that regu-
lating their daily fare could keep
them in health more effectively than
could any priest-blest charm, amulets
or incantations came as a shock OF
surprise to the ancients.
Next Hippocrates took up the sub
ject of public health. Sanitation. as
we understand it, was unknown. There
was no board of health, nor did civic
hygiene exist In consequence epi-
denies of the most fatal and fast
Organized First ware If n,t;fu,,y
Health Depart were 81 emf pi'''u rs.
ment. c,rranoa I;rnoo
rates framed the first actual code OF
sanitary laws and measures for check
ing epidemics, and was influential
enough to have them put into effect.
To him we owe the first movement
that led to the modern health depart
ment.
Nor are diet, sanitation and the dis
coyery of medicine all for which we
are in the old Greeks debt. He de-
vised association" (the science
whereby the condition of heart, lungs.
ETC., is determined by sound, and is
credited with being the first to prac-
tice trephining.
In Greece all of mankind who did
not happen to be Greeks were re-
garded as barbarians. 1t was not
thought necessary to treat them as
human. Persia was Greece's heredi-
tary foe. When a terrible epidemic
ravaged Persia. the emperor, Artaxer-
xes, sent presents to Hippocrates.
begging him 70 come and put down
the scourge. The doctor Is SID to
have sent back N insulting refusal,
declaring his art was too precious to
waste on his country's barbaric en-
envy. And the Greek world applauded
his decision.
This is, perhaps, the one blot on
the character OF. a man to whom
progress and civilization owe more.
from a physical standpoint. than to
all the rest of mankind. Every doc
tor to-day acknowledges that debt.
and, on entering on the practice Of
medicine. he takes what is still known
as the "Hippocratic Oath"
(CopyriKhted-l
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IF you made a slave dress and live
sneered rich Athenian. And the
man he addressed was one of the first
and greatest of Progress Makers-Soc-
rates.
This sage, who revolutionized re-
ligion, thought and education, looked
more like a comic-paper hobo than
genius.
Socrates was the son of a statue
seller and learned his fathers
trade. The Greeks of his time
(471-399 B. c. worshiped colony of
gods who were supposed to inhabit
Mount Olympus. who led scandalous
lives and who blessed or cursed man.
kind according to the within of the
moment To these gods the Athen-
ians erected affairs, made sacrifices
and supported a body of priests.
The actions attributed to our gods"
said Socrates, would disgrace the
yilest of human beings. Ii is impos-
sible that the world can be governed
by such dieties."
Yet he saw that some ruling force
controlled human destiny, and he be-
gan to preach the existence of a SUI
preme Being. an all-wise and benefi-
.. -. cent Creator of
.1u the vast universe
TOT ooPe's1o"' To this he added
the belief that mans spirit is inn
mortal and not the mere sport of
some man-made dweller of Olympus,
and that a guardian angel Tor con-
science) dictates all mortal impulses.
He argued that men should labor and
pray to become better and wiser in
stead Of making sacrifices of sheep
and cattle on the affairs of the Olym-
plan gods in hopes of being favored
with luck in war and business.
This doctrine of higher ideals and
the discovery of conscience's existence
raised howl from the hosts of priests.
But Socrates did not stop there. He
attacked the narrow, stupid system of
education in vogue In Athens and
sought to rebuild it on broader. more
modern lines, adapting the vague. abb
stract facts to practical value and
teaching youths to think for them
selves. He was, in way, the founder
of modern education. He also assailed
municipal graft and incompetence
and tried to show his fellow Athen.
ians their duty toward the state. 1t was
largely due to his opposition that the
tyrannical council of thirty, who ruled
with the iron hand of injustice. was
deposed and democracy formed. AS
an example in patriotism he served
for three years as a private soldier,
winning fame for his courage and en-
durance.
But he refused to accept promotion
in rank or public. Office of any kind.
He furthermore lived in abject pow
erty that he might teach others to
think more of the mind and soul than
of the body. Rousing peoples DOR
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THE OBJECT HE HAD. IN VIEW
Farmer Had Not Much Expectation
of Turkeys, But He Was Not
Losing Anything.

A Rhode Island farmer set ban
tam hen on IA turkey eggs, and great
was the scandal thereof throughout
the neighborhood. Friends from far
and near dropped in for to see and
for to admire the freakish feat.
"Sa-ay, Silas," asked envious Hiram
Haggers, 'haow many turkeys d. yew
caIlate ter git outer them aigs?"
"Oh, shucks." Silas answered. Il
amt cal'latin' t git many turkeys.
Jest admire t see that pesky little
critter a-spreadin' herself. "-Harper's
Weekly
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Romances Of Progress
By Albert Payson Terhune
S0CRATES-The Man Who First Taught People to Think tor
Ihnmcn
Themselves.

mant minds, teaching them to think
for themselves, fearlessly rebuking
public Injustice and superstition, he
gathered about him so many disciples
and admirers that the government be-
came seriously alarmed. Prosecutions
and i'll treatment became his reward.
Not the least of these came upon him
at home. He was married to shrew
named Xantippe, who could not in the
very least appreciate him and who by
her seedlings and beatings made his
life daily burden. He bore all this
with the patience of true philoso-
pher. But worse was in store for him.
The tyrannous council of thirty
whom he had so often assailed had
not molested him. 1t remained for the
popular democratic government (Which
he had helped to restore) to arrest
him and bring him to trial for his life.
He was accused by the authorities with
denying the gods. preaching the exis-
tence of a new God and of corrupting
the young by his teachings. Socrates
replied in effect
g" that he had mere
cea'n ly subs tit u ted
Judges. truth for suner.
stition, and that his only 'corrupting"
of the young had consisted in making
them better educated than their ia
Tiers. For doing all this, he claimed,
the city should honor and pension
him.
This speech naturally did not serve
to pacify his judges, who next tried
to brighten him with threats of death.
Socrates answered them that what.
ever world lay beyond the grave II
could not be much worse than Athens
under its present rule. and that the
change could not be otherwise than a
benefit. The judges, in a rage, con-
demned him to die. He was led back
to prison. His friends thronged his
cell One Of them secretly offered him
a means of escape. He refused, pre-
ferring to abide by the courts yer.
dict. In the presence of his disciples
he drained cup of hemlock poison
Xantippe rent the air with cries o;
grief. He asked his friends to remove
her from the cell so that in his last
moments he might enjoy in dying the
tranquility she had always denied him
in life. Then, while the poison crep'
through his veins, he preached q
powerful sermon on the immortality
of the soul, exhorting his followers to
remember his teachings and to profit
by them. He ceased only when death
at last overlook him in the midst OF
his sermon
Thus died Socrates. first and great
est of the whole mighty army Of phil
osophers; the man who, as reward
for leading his fellowmen from dark
ness into the light of knowledge. was
officially murdered. But the spark he
had lighted was destined to illumine
the world for all time.
(Copyrighted)
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In olden times when a man was i'll,
instead of dieting or taking medicine,
he sacrificed sheep or an OK to his
favorite god. If this treatment did
not improve the condition of his liver
or digestion, he took 1t as a sign that
the deity was angry, and resigned
himself to his fate. When towing to
the horribly insanitary conditions Of
the age) a city or community was
smitten by plague or epidemic, votive
offerings were made to all the gods on
the list and an army of priests was
kept husr sacrificing and praying. In
fact. there was a special class of con-
secrated officials known as priest
physicians. They dealt in charms.
omens and amulets. In other words,
they had the same functions as have
the North American Indian medicine
men" of to-day.
But in $50 B. c. was born man
(son of a priest-physician) who In a
single generation changed all this bar
barous custom, to whom we owe our
present knowledge of physic. diet and
sanitary law He was Hippocrates,
the father of medicine He made
health science and paved the way
for every doctor who has since lived.
Like most progress-makers, Hippoc-
rates owed his greatness to the fact
that ne was disconnected with the
customs of his day, and sought log
zeal reason for things which others
were satisfied to take for granted. He
could not see how the offering of sac
rifices and the belief that the gods
held all health or illness at their dis
posal would cure sick man. He
would have made very poor sort of
Christian Scientist.
BY a series OF careful experiments
Hippocrates discovered that certain
herbs and foods had direct effect on
the human body. Instead of exhorting
Tries Effects of n,sS. 49,. 49,
Medicine on ings 70 the oods
~ he dosed them
with powerful physics. Luckily the
human system in, those days was ro-
bust, and the medicines. strong as
they were, proved of vast benefit.
Moreover, there were always slaves
on whom to practice in order to ind
out how much OF any certain kind Of
medicine or drug the system could
comfortably stand
These marked reforms sent his
fame broadcast all over the civilized
world. He was hailed as a miracle
worker. Yet IN reality he had merely
applied logic and common sense to
the treatment of disease. and had
freed the practice Of medicine from
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"a cheap skate

Joel Chandler Harris" said an At
lantan, used to write comic newspa-
per editorials. Sometimes he made
fun of other editors in them. too.
Simon Simpson. rival editor in
Mobile, having been made fun Of,
wrote angrily in his rage:
"'Joel Harris has been getting of
some cheap wit at our expense
Joel, on reading this. grabbed his
pen and dashed of, quick as flash,
for next days issue:
at must have been cheap. Simon,
to be ut your expense"
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SKIN ERUPTION CURED.
Was So Sore, Irritating and Painful
That Little Sufferer Could Not Sleep
Scratched Constantly.
cutieura's Efficacy Clearly Proven

SobiCoTa8 6utCaCy Cied1y eTOveus
When about two and a half years
old my daughter broke out on her hips
and the upper parts of her legs with
very irritating and painful eruption. It
began in October; the first noticed
was little red surface and constant
desire on her part to scratch her limbs.
She could not sleep and the eruptions
got sore, and yellow water came out
Of them. I had two doctors treat her.
but she grew worse under their treat
ment. Then / bought the Cuticura
Remedies and only used them two
weeks when she was entirely well.
This was in February. She has never
had another rough place on her skin.
and she is now fourteen years old.
Mrs. R. r. Whitaker, Winchester.
Tenn, Sept %, 1905"
Potter Drug b Chem Corp. Sole Props. Boston.
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His Preference.

Commander Maxwell of the navy
enjoys telling of an unique complaint
preferred by recruit.
On every man-of-war the bar OF
justice is aft in front Of the stick"
or mast. The recruit had gone to the
stick 70 state" his grievance. We'll.
what do you want?" asked the.
executive officer.
Please. sir, want to complain Of
the breakfast this morning"
what did you have?"
"Burgoo, crack-hash. hard tack and
coffee, sir"
What did you expect?"
please. sir. l always like to start
my breakfast with a nice steak and a
pair of eggs" - illustrated Sunday
Magazine.
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Regulations.

THE Autocrat," remarked the Re
condite Person. made a remark the
import of which escaped me until the
other day. He said: Many a man
has reputation because of the repu-
tation he expects to have some day. !"
That's not half bad remark" sug-
gested the Practical Person, but my
son-just out from college, you know,
and in the habit of thinking hump
backed thoughts, as 1t were-said
something only this morning that APP
pealed to me: Some men. he said,
get reputation and keep it.; other
men get reputation and make it
keep them"
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Privilege Of English Husband.

A wife who complained at the
Marylebone police court in London the
other day that her husband used
abusive language to her was Informed
by Mr.. Plowden that this was one Of
a husbands privileges.
You must put up with it." the mag
istrate told her. Better an abusive
husband than no husband at ALL"
But / have had so many years of
this kind of thing" she protested.
Il cannot give you any redress"
Mr.. Plowden replied. You must ex-
pect certain amount of abuse in this
world"
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Law of Attraction.

The attractions of men to women
and women to men are full of the most
perplexing Inconsistencies and contra
dictions imaginable. 1t is. for instance.
a physical law that magnetism is not
simple attraction of one thing for an
other, but the difference of two oppos-
ing forces of attraction and repulsion,
of which the former is the greater.
The same law holds in relation to the
attraction of men and women for each
other. in which. as a rule, the mascu-
line is the superior force.-T. P.'s
Weekly, London.
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A RasebaIL Preacher.

1t was just at the beginning of the
baseball season when an Episcopal
clergyman. who Is an ardent and en-
thusiastic lover Of the great American
game. inadvertently remarked at the
end of the portion of Scriptures which
he read:
Here endeth the first innings"
Then he woke up.
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The Thrifty Scot.

A Scotsman and his wife were COM
ing from Leith to London by boat.
When off the Yorkshire coast a great
storm arose and the vessel had sew
eral narrow escapes from laundering.
"Oh, Sandy" moaned his wife. I'm
ma afeard o. DEEM. but / dinna care
to dee at sea-"
"Dinna think o. deein' yet," an
swered Sandy; but when We do. ye'd
better be drooned at sea than any
where else"
AN why. Sandy?" asked his wife.
"Why?" exclaimed Sandy. Because
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VERY ABRUPT.

Spring Poet-Yes, sir; can write
about anything, sir.
Irate Editor-Well. then, suppose
you just rightabout face and head for
the door.
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Well. Not Very Often.

The little daughter of Republican
candidate for local Office down in
Philadelphia. when told that her ia
Their had received the nomination,
looked serious for a moment, then her
wee voice trembled bit as she ex-
claimed:
ooh. mamma. do they often die of
it?"
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Questionable.

your tickets were complimentary.
were they not?"
WELL" replied the man who had
seen a painfully amateur entertain
ment, Il thought they were until
saw the show"
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/ How much better it is that he
should speak Ill of me to all the world
than that all the world should speak
Ill of me to him.-Torquato Tasso.
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Some men never think of earning
an honest living until they accident
ally get a good, hard jolt in the right
spot.
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Nature has equipped every man for
happiness. but he gets strenuous &C.
casionally and slips cog.
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Il is a mothers duty to keep constantly
ON hand some reliable remedy for use in
children. Hamlins Wizard Oil can be
depended upon for just such emergencies.
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For Headache Try HieI<s' capudlns.
Nervous troubles. the aches are speedily
relieved by Capudine. It's Liquid-pleas-
ant to take-Enects Immediately. 10, Is
and 60c at Drug Stores.
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It's no use talking about the peace
of God II your life IL provocation
to your neighbors.
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The Real Friction.

Actors Wife = Do you know. my
dear, this massage treatment is dread.
fully expensive
Actor ttragically)-Ay. there's the
rub!
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When a fellow begins to feel that
he couldn't live without certain girl.
he ought to marry her and see.