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to me, Say, you're aces wit me, Mr..
Henry, and I'll grab dat wire foist II
ever de little goil goes out, or spoil
me map. see!"
With a wild yell of delight spuds
danced off in the direction of the
training quarters, and just then Tacks
rushed breathlessly around the corner.
See that KID" Tacks gasped; Il
saw him yesterday down the road
about two miles on the finest little
horse you ever see, and the crazy
man that was here the other day was
with him, but wasn't frightened"
Then your friend, Murf, really has
a horse" Clara j, said, slowly and
with signs Of gathering storm.
He has" I answered "but did It
for old times sake. It cost me only
a few dollars to rent the horse from
a livery stable, and you can't imagine
how 1t soothes and comforts poor old
Murf!"
Forgive me, joint" Clara ]. said,
almost tearfully, and again she kissed
me.
Il I felt that was beginning to show
the first faint symptoms of being a
liar!
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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-02-25

stranger advised. What do you
t'ink / ana wax works? My nut
| amt no empty shell; see! I've got a
| bunch of machinery behind my map
for to steer me straight, and I amt
making no bum starts! Put me wise
to de real captain, wil1'e?"
Have you something to sell?,'
Uncle Peter asked, suddenly struck
with the idea that the stranger might
be peddler.
Jaw. say, Foxy Gran, ring de
tinker on yourself!" he answered,
scornfully; 4 amt out doing no
lecture for living. Me t'roat is too
busy to talk to you-pass my name
up to de Main Squash, wilpe?''
What is your manner" Uncle Peter
inquired.
"Spuds!" came the answer.
Bless my soul" Uncle Peter cried,
in establishment; what a remarkable
name; did you say Spuds?"
said Spuds, didn't II" was the
somewhat sharp rejoinder. What do
you want to call me, Percival?"
don't want to call you anything,
you impairment young rascal" Uncle
Peter said, holly. I'll call the dog
presently
Don't You call no bow-wow on me
or I'll bite him." the irrepressible
Spuds retorted. Say! what is dis, a
chin-chin to show down? Can't
youse bow yourself out and chase de
Boss Carpenter to me"
/ Clara j., attracted by the loud tones,
strolled over from the garden to see
what was doing, and as for me, was
enjoying the affair too much to break
it UP by butting it.
GU wish to see somebody?" Clara
J. asked, sweetly.
Yes, lady the youth answered,
dragging a reluctant lid from his top
piece and shutting nervously from one
foot to another. 81 was trying to
cook up a chance to hand a line of
talk to de Main Stake, but old Santa.
Claus gave me de ice"
Clara J. looked at Uncle Peter in
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-02-25
STRANGE ANGLE OF SIGHT
Happy but Perplexed Father Thought
Himself the Possessor of
Twins.

There's nothing like temperance
said Mayor Shank at temperance
dinner in Indianapolis. Take the
case of John Humphreys.
Humphreys, at a supper, drank
more than was good for him, and ar
rived home at 2 a. m. in rather I'M
fortunate state.
THE family physician met him at
the front door
Humphreys, he said, Z congratu-
late you. You are a father again
And the physician led Humphreys
upstairs to the nursery, where the
nurse proudly exhibited fine infant.
But Humphreys, instead of mani
Testing Rooseveltian JOY, froWned,
sWore and left the room.
The next morning, when he again
saw the newborn child, he showed
amazement and perplexity.
But, nurse he said, where is the
other one?
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sent him up to me for final look
over. Clara ]. must not be permitted
to suspect-What no!
go back to Mr.. Murf," said
quickly to spuds, "and tell him he's
on"
Spuds let one yel out of him and
started to do a series of joyous cart
wheels all over the lawn.
What in the world does 1t ell
mean?" Clara ]. asked.
"The ticket" I explained: didn't
you hear him say ticket? Poor old
Murf is tired of the east and wants to
go home For dear Uncle Owens
sake / must buy Murf's railroad
ticket; don't you think so?"
Good, generous joint" she an
swered, kissing me, and I felt as man-
ly as a chair with one leg off.
Hasn't that annoying person gone
yet?' demanded Uncle Peter, ap-
pearing in the doorway suddenly.
Jaw, choke up! choke up, Bill
Bailey, and de coy corner for yours"
the young scoundrel got back; then
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-02-25
and the Orphan Skates
GEORGE v. HOBART

My Uncle Owen of Kentucky had
died and left me seven horses and a
heap Of trouble. Murf Higgenbottom
his old trainer. had brought the skates
to me, and ! was getting ready to
race them without letting on to the
family. Gee, but I was having a hard
time of It'll
During the following week / spent
most OF my time at the training quar-
tiers. and it wasn't long before the
colts would nose around my pockets
for the Jumps of sugar / brought
them
The ponies soon tumbled to the fact
that was their meal ticket.
The things Murf knew about horse
flesh were scandalous. He had the ra-
cling business tied up in a knot in his
handkerchief. Murf was one of those
gamey little men that wouldn't take
dare from any nag that ever chewed
a halter
THAT there little light bay FLY
with the TO white feet for minep he
observed sententiously, after the seven
had been tried out thoroughly.
Make mine the same, Murf,' / an
swered; she's all the goods, for
sure
Whoa, little girl, steady Yo'
Uncle Owen would delight in that par
Gel of hossfesh, sub; have you ali
procu'd a name?" he asked.
Call her Peaches answered
quickly.
"Peaches!" Murf repeated
Sure as You live" said; wen
name her for the best girl that ever
took a hurdle like me for a husband.
Here's to Peaches! may she always
have place at the table when For
tune passes the cream!
Il drink to yo health, sub, and to
Peaches!' Murf said, drawing a flask
OF his beloved Bourbon from his peck
ct and tipping it slightly; this here
youngsters promises well, and no Kahn
lucky boss evan yet broke a promise
to me, subj"
gave all the money possessed to
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Always Worrying.

The late John r. Barker OF Mich
igan City, who left a fortune OF over
$30,000,000 to his 14-year-oId daughter,
was strongly opposed to speculation.
Do not speculate" Mr.. Barker once
said in an address to young men.
Spectators stand on shaky ground.
They know no peace Z
Mr.. Barker smiled.
In fact" he said, "a Spectator Is
always worrying about the money
market, while his wife is always Wor-
rying about the market Money"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-02-25
Has an Old Relic OF Washington.

One Of the most interesting relics of
George Washington is owned by the
city of Salem. 1t is medallion in
wood, carved after sketch from life.
The same artist executed both
sketch and carving, which gives the
relic added value. He was Samuel Nc
Intire, native genius with a gift for
portraiture. He studied Washington
when the father OF his country visited
Salem on his tour of the east, and
made the medallion shortly afterward,
to adorn the arch over the west en-
trance of Washington square, Salem.
Here the sefHgy remained from 1907
until 1850, when the arch was taken
down to give place to an iron fence.
still in use.
This Washington relic is kept in the
fireproof room at the Essex institute,
Salem, where it is frequently studied
by artists and others as an odd and
striking likeness of the great Ameri-
can whom no two artists pictured
alike.--Boston Globe.
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lMurf and told him to go ahead and
lace the thing through to a finish.
You have full authority, Muir"
I said, and all the money ] can raise
without resorting to the use Of dizzy
drops If you win out, the glory will
be yours"
.'Yo' Uncle Owen considered yo'
all big Casino on the eastern tracks,
sub; it is my duty to prove it, seeing
that it amt possible now to convince
yo' Uncle Owen othahWise," he an
swered. slowly, and that settled it.
.I've been watching that black one
yonder, Murf!" I said, pointing to
little sad-eyes, the LATEST looking
skate in the string.
tngly.
II christen that one Shoemaker
said.
Shoemaker" Murf echoed
Shoemaker, continued, because
he'll be near the last all his life
/ didn't get a smile from Murf, SO
I got mad and went home.
The next morning while in the sit
ting room reading the papers ! heard
an argument started on the veranda,
and looking out beheld weakened
face kid, not much larger than Tacks,
holding a. free-for-an with Uncle
Peter.
Does Mr.. John Henry live here?"
the visitor asked.
HE does" Uncle Peter replied,
somewhat shortly; what do you
want with him?'
IT want him to gi'me de gael" the
youth answered.
no give you What?" Uncle Peter
asked.
de look-over, see! I'm for him
if he warns to me on the peep!"
Uncle Peter was too mystif1ed to
speak.
TO tell the honest, ! was a bit to
the daze myself. I'm considered a
fairly wise guy on the figure of speech
proposition, but that kid had me
Wlaimpering.
EIaren't you made mistake In the
s1ousef" the old gentleman finally in
CURED.
Aw, choke Up. choke np the
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-02-25
CURED HER BABY or ECZEMA

II can't tell in words how happy the
word 'Cuticura' sounds to me, for it
cured my baby of itching, torturing
eczema. It first came when she was
between three and four weeks old,
appearing on her head I used every
thing imaginable and had one doc
tors bill after another, but nothing
cured it. Then the eczema broke out
so badly behind her ear that I really
thought her ear would come off, For
months doctored 1t but to no avail
Then it began at her nose and her
eyes were nothing but sores. I had to
keep her in dark room for two
weeks. The doctor did no good, SO ]
stopped him coming
For about two weeks I had used
Cuticura Soap for her every day,
then got a box of Cuticura Ointment
and began to use that. In week
there was a marked Improvement In
all used two cakes of Cuticura Soap
and one box of Cuticura Ointment and
my baby was cured Of the sores. This
was last November: now her hair is
growing out nicely and she has not a
scar on her. can not praise Cuti-
cura enough, / can take my child any
where and people are amazed to see
her without a sore. From the time
she was four weeks old until she was
three years she was never without the
terrible eruption, but now, thanks to
Cutieura, I have a well child" (Sign-
ed Mrs. II. 2. Householder, 2004 Will
helm St, Baltimore, Md, May 10, 1910.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-02-25
The Chief Need.

A pale, Observation-Disclosures chap,
wearing eyeglasses and unshorn hair,
visited Tom Volk, the athletic in
structor not long ago and asked ques-
tons until the diplomatic athlete fin
ally became weary.
II I take boxing and wrestling les
sons from you, will it require any par
ticular application" he asked.
NO." answered Vok, "but a little
arnica will come In handy" -Cleve-
land Leader.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-02-25
Simplicity of Expression.

"A story was told on Martin Lomas-
ney at the Cape Cod commercial trav-
elers' dinner by representative Pope
Of Leominster. Last season Tomas
ney was seen talking to some one IN
one of the corridors, and as I passed
I heard these words: Shall write
him.? No. said Lemasney; never
write thing when gou can talk, and
never talk when you can nod your
head. boston Record.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-02-25
ROOFING

Galvanized Iron Corrugated and Crfmp
of best quality for barns, sheds, chicken
houses and residences, Fire and water
proof, needs no paint, takes care Of itself,
lengths, 8 to u feet Full weight goods.
Send this ad with order. PIDGEON-
THOMAS IRON CO., 1.-THE Roofing
Folks" "a. 96 N. I'd ST., Memphis. Tenn.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-02-25
Letter to
Dr.. kiImer s. Co.
Binghamton, n. Y.
Prove What Swamp-Root viii Do For You

Send to DR.. Klmer & CO., Bingham
ton, N. Y, for sample bottle. It will
convince anyone. You will also receive
a booklet of valuable information, telling
all about the kidneys and bladder. When
writing, be sure and mention this paper.
For sale at all drug stores. Price fifty
cents and one-dolIar.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-02-25
no DRIVE OUT MAIARIA

10 DRIVE OUT MALARIA
AND BUILD UP THE SYSTEM
Tahe the Old Standard GRoVES TAsTELEs5
CHILL TONIC You know. what you are taking
The formula is plainly printed on every bottle
showing it is simply Quinine and Iron in a taste
less form. The Quinine drives out the malaria
and the Iron builds up the system. Sold by nu
dealers for 80 years. Price 50 cents
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-02-25

Many people have receding gums. Rub
Hamlins Wizard Oil on gums and stop the
decay; chase the disease germs with a
mouth wash of few drops to spoonful
Of water.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-02-25

In the fulfllment Of duty We have a
sense of blessedness, even in hours Of
WEAKNESS and simple endurance.
Taylor.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-02-25

Let US make the best Of our friends
while we have them, for how long we
shall keep them is uncertain Seneca.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-02-25

Perhaps Mohammed went to the
mountain because 1t was cheaper than
spending his vacation at the seashore.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-02-25

Many men enjoy a dry smoke Why
not dry drink?
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-02-25

Garfield Tea purifes the blood and eradi-
Gates rheumatism. It is made of Herbs.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-02-25

itch Cnred In so Minutes by WooIford'a
ganifaryLotion.N fails. At druggists
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-02-25

Drink Garfield Tea at night! 1t insures
normal action Of liver, kidneys and bowels.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-02-25
IMMEDIATE EFFECT OF GREAT KID
NEY REMEDY is SOON REALIZED

Il h VI 4
According to my experience I do not
consider there is anything to equal DR..
Kiiner's Swamp-Root for kidney afec-
ton. Twice it relieved me when I was
completely helpless.
The last time was travelling in Texas,
when my kidneys became affected, and
for ten days I suffered excruciating pain,
accompanied with severe chills. Several
years previous, having been relieved of a
similar attack, I naturally sought relief
as before, from swamp-Root.
After using four of the large size bot
ties, I was completely restored and went
on my way rejoicing and praising DR..
Kilmer's swamp-Root. This was three
years ago, and I have had no indication Of
the return of the affection.
Yours very truly,
J. G. SMITH, Jr.
Jackson, Tenn.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-02-25

Don't worry about your complexion-
take Garfield Tea, the blood purifier
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-02-25

Angelfood cakes seldom make boys
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-02-25
eefos more goods brighter and faster colofs than
say garment without eipDins aD5Tt Write tor free

The brotherhood Of man does mean
better wages, but It also means bet
ter work.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-02-25

Constipation is an avoidable nisery-take
Garfield Tea, Natures Herb laxative.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-02-25
State of Tennessee

State OF Iennesse6
County of Madison
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
18th day Of July, 1909.
P. C. sTovALL,
Iettsrto Notary Public.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-02-25

These women are only a few {
the power Of Lydia E. Pinkham's
diseases. Not one of these Wome1
form for the use of their names i
ing that we should refer to the
do other suffering women to
Vegetable Comp 11nd is a reliable
statements made Id our advertise.
truth and nothing but the truth.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-30
Coming Events

Dec. 2-Knox Pomona, South Warren:
Dec. 5-Waldo Pomona, Ctr Montville.
Dec. 5-7-Bangor Poultry Show.
Dec. 5-7-Maine Dairymen's Association.
Norway
Dec 5-Oxford Pomona, South Paris.
Dec. 6-Androscoggin Pomona, Lisbon
Falls.
Dec 6-No. Waldo Pomona, Monroe.
Dec. &c. Somerset Pomona, Palmyra.
Dec. 7-Piscataquls Pomona. Abbot.
Dec. 7-Cumberland and Oxford Pomo-
ma, Hiram.
Dec. York Pomona. Springvale.
Dec. S-Somerset County Veterans and
Ladies Auxiliary, Madison.
Dec 9-Hancock Pomona, Castine.
Dec. 12-14-Topsham Grange Fair.
Dec 12-15-Maine State Poultry and Pet
stock, Portland.
Dec. 13-New Century Pomona, Canton.
Dec. 13-Kennebec Pomona, Oakland.
81, pee H-Meeting of Governor and Coun-
Dec. 14-Excelsior Pomona, Temple.
Zee. lf-No. Franklin Pomona, Madrid.
to- lee; 4-15-Maine Live Stock Associa-
,s Dec. 1s-2S-Maine state Grange in Lew
=, Dec, 2o-somerset and Penobscot Union.
t,d Dec ss-se-Freeport Poultry Associa-
San san. "a. 1s12-western Maine Poultry
feb. 6-12-Food Fair Ranpor
at Lewiston i0tuoulst So'lei eh'o
se mareh 21IEast. Maine Methodist Con-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-30
WHY TRAVEL MAKES TRAVEL.
Why TroIeys and Autos Increase
Steam Railway Travel.

The records of railroad traffic show
i'll passenger miles q mile an increase
| since 1901 of 54 per cent, as COM
pared with AZ per cent. in freight ton
miles a mile; and even during the
panic period, 1sO7-0S. they increased
about per cent, while freight bust
ness decreased nearly per cent.
Hard times in business admittedly
hit the freight business first. particu
| larly that branch of ii that covers fac
| tory products; passenger traffic is af-
fected later and often only after a
considerable interval. Yet on the
| theory that business travel should go
with business itself one would think
that the upward and downward curves
of freight and passenger traffic should
correspond pretty closely.
The seeming anomaly of disparity
between the two is deepened by the
| fact that during the last decade there
have been some special and familiar
forces operating adversely to passen-
| ger traffic. During that period the
| long distance telephone has come in
more and more as commercial and
| industrial coefficient 1t has reduced
what but for it would obviously have
been large volume of railway travel.
To it is to be added the automobile,
| likewise affecting wealthy group of
habitual travellers. and finally there
has been the extension of competing
street railways using the term to in
elude cross country and long distance
lines
! The long distance telephone has had
hardly a perceptibe qualifying fea-
ture. Now and then it may enable
Brown to notify Smith to make a rail-
way journey, but in the vast majority
| of cases it is a preventive. Not SO,
however. with the parallel street rail-
way. At first an active and serious
rival of the steam lire, it has now. ap-
parently taking the country as a
whole, become. in it's secondary stage.
a feeder. A small rival still between
near together stations of the steam
| line, it has grown raore and more to be
a feeder from further points. Its
rivalry has been sunk in its character
as subsidiary. saying nothing of the
larger values of the electric line as a
direct lateral and It's facilities for TO-
cussing travel at the urban station.
The automobile has the same duplex
character of feeder and rival. 1t COM
petes with the steam line at many
points and often on long distances,
but it also brings the home, the shop
and the store in closer touch with the
station. The rural home of wealth.
formerly remote. is now hardly, by
figure of speech, by automobile, across
the street from the steam railway
1.-THE maxim that travel makes travef
may prove as true in the relations OF
the automobile to the steam roads as
lin the case of the trolley.-Railway
Age Gazette.
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ALEXANDER THE GREATS
TOMB.

In the imperial Ottoman museum at
Constantinople the Turks take great pride
in what they have believed to be the sar
cophagus of Alexander the Great OBJ
tained near Sidon II Is exquisitely sculp-
tured. One of the panels bears what has
been thought by some to be the great
warriors fayorite dogs. This evidence
though interesting and suggestive. to-
gether with a tradition of his burial at
Sidon, is altogether too little to identity
fully the monument.
Alas for the pride of the Turks. re-
cent elaborate study of all the known
facts and traditions concerning the burial
place of Alexander the Great reaches the
confident conclusion that his body was
embalmed at Memphis In Egypt. and first
given a resting-place there, and after
ward removed to Alexandria and there
entombed Muhammeud made a saint of
Alexander, transferred his name to an
other site in Alexandria, and gave his
old resting place TO the name and fame
of the prophet Daniel, and built a
mosque there to that prophet. The Mo-
hammedan authorities today sturdily re-
fuse TO allow any examination of the
tomb under the mosque Nebi Daniel,
but it is not at all improbable that the
glass coffin containing the greatest of
all military geniuses still rests in its
tomb underneath.
So we may yet be able to look upon the
face of Alexander the Great. of all the
kings of the ancient world none bulks
larger in history than he, and none occu-
pies a more important place in the his
tory with which the Word of God is
linked. though this latter fact is often
times overlooked. He, more than any
other, brought about that transformation
| that was wrought in the period between
| the Old Testament and the New. 1t was
he who led the Greek phalanx on to the
worlds battlefields, and brought in his
| train literature and art, and set upon the
stage of the world that Greek civilization
into which the New Testament introduces
us, which had displaced the thoroughly
Semitic civilization of the close OF the
Old Testament
| Alexander with his sword carved out
the way for the new civilization that was
to help make up the "fulness OF the
tines for the Savior of the world. and
the saving of the. world. In Gods strange
providence this ambitious world ruler is
the great colossus of oriental history
He stands astride the gap between the
old world of narrow orientalism to which
the old dispensation belongs and the new
world of western ambition and worldwide
hopes to which the Christ of the New
Testament babe the world lift UP its eyes
Sunday School Times.
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Thanksgiving Greetings.

on this glad Thanksgiving morn the
its more than $4,000 readers a genuine
realization and appreciation of the full
meaning of the occasion. May one and
all feel in their hearts that they have
something for which to be thankful.
It may be little; we hope it is much.
but if we are starting forward with
new hope and new promise we should
be thankful. If our loved ones are
spared to us we should be thankful; If
they have gone beyond, let us glory in
the confidence that they have reached
a goal for which we must struggle
bravely on.
If, this morning, we are inclined to
feel that our measure of returns is not
of the size to be thankful for, let us be
glad that it is no worse. Not one of
us can truthfully say that worse con-
ditions could not have come upon us.
Perhaps we have had hard luck, and
sickness and death have cast their
shadows over us, but are there not 9TH
ers that might have been taken from
us, who are spared?
Let us each resolve to be thankful
for that which we have, and resolve to
win more for which to be thankful an
other year.