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The Penn's Grove record., 1912-03-08
LAND OF RUBBER
Valley of the Amazon Produces
Best In the World.
Industry, Now Ono of the Greatest,
Practically Dates Back to 1923,
Though Product First Came
Here In 1900.

The best rubber in the world comes
from the valley of the Amazon, and is
known as Para, so called after the city
which is the principal gateway of ex-
port This region is densely forested
and tntersected by a myriad of rivers.
It has a soil Of incompatible richness.
is watered by never-failing rains and
warmed by the equatorial sun. The
first cost Of crude rubber is about rs
cents a pound. By the time 1t reaches
the worlds markets 1t is worth about
$3.50 a pound. In Brazil 1t is called
BLACK gold" Then there are the low
er grades of rubber. That which
comes from the far east costs on the
average about rs cents a pound and
sells for $1.75 a pound. Of late years
a great deal Of this low grade rubber
has come from the guayule plant, a
shrub which grows in the desert up
lands Of Mexico. Its thick bark o
tains about 10 per cent. Of rubber.
Certain German $ and Americans aft
er many experiments, have perfected
machinery to extract this rubber gum,
and have succeeded in adding about
100000 pounds to the worlds prod
uct Of crude rubber.
There are ten rubber trusts" in the
world. Five of them are in the United
States, three in Germany, one in Rus
sia and n in Italy. They represent
amalgamations of some fifty Of the.
rubber factories of the world. There
are still about $50 that are not ANAL
gamated
India rubber first came to the Unit
ed States in 1900, but although a pat
emit is recorded as early as 1913 for
making an elastic varnish out of the
strange new product, nothing seems to
have come Of it until 1928, when a
Boston sea captain brought back with
him from South America a pair of
Enthusiastically gilded rubber boots. On
his next voyage he returned with
more, which he sold at S. a pair. 1t
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SUCH A POOR INHERITANCE
Tears Of a Rival Attorney Were Ex-
planned, Not In Too Friendly
a Fashion

At the trial Of Horne Tooke, Lord
Eldon, speaking Of his own reputa.
ton, said:
ut is the little inheritance I have
to leave my children, and, by Gods
help, I will leave it unimpaired."
Here he shed tears, and to the as
constituent Of those present, Milford
the attorney general, began to weep
Gust look at Milford" said a by
stander to Horne Tooke, what Oh
earth is he crying for?"
Tooke replied:
He is crying to think what a small
inheritance Eldon's children are like
to get"
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Puzzle Of LIVING.

Religionists chided about their ina
bility to agree On points of faith might
point out that they differ only In Incl
dentals and not essentials, whereas
the scientists differ on everything.
Take the science of living. A week
ago you would have died If you drank
water with your meals" Now they
say it doesn't do any harm at all. One
variety says: Eat meat, lots of it, to
build good, rich blood" Another says
meat is poison; that vegetables are
the only food. A third declares meat
and vegetables both increase debility,
and that you will live twice as long
on raw fruits and nuts. Some say
Talk with your meals, laugh; it
makes the food digest" Others insist
silence is never SO golden as at the
table.
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and earned a living as a tanner. Pas
teur has written Of his parents:
"Ohi father and mother! My below
ed departed, who lived SO modestly in
this little house, it is to you that
owe everything! Your enthusiasm,
my brave mother, you Impressed upon
me-. If I have ever and always asso-
ciated the greatness of science with
the greatness of my country 1t is be-
cause l was impregnated with senti-
ments inspired by you. And you, dear
father, whose life was as hard as your
own hard occupation, you showed me
what patience in long efforts can
achieve. 1t is to you l owe my tenac-
ity in daily work"
The subscription toward the pur-
chase of the house has not been closed.
Mr.. Rockefeller's suggestion that it
should remain open having been acted
upon, several foreign universities and
many communes and villages have
sent subscriptions to the mayor of
Dole.
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Wolves Startle Tomn

Palmyra, Mo,-Armed men and snap
ping dogs pursued a large gray wolf
through the streets the other day. Aft
or a long chase the animal was shot
and killed by Louis Nelson. depntv
game warden, where it stood at bay in
front of a hedge row.
The wolf was captured when it was
a cub with six others, in the Salt riv-
er hills of Rails county. County AS
SCISSOR Milton Phillips took it home.
When it grew older it killed all the
cats on Phillips farm. He then turn
ed it over to a Palmyra resident.
Yesterday the wolf broke it's chain
and al out IN the street. It was MIR.
sued to the open country.
Nelson claimed the S. bounty paid
by the state for pelts.
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known composers and musicians, who
have a truly hard time Of it in pres
ent conditions. I will have a tiny or
chessra Of selected musicians which
will give the works of men and wom-
en- who are at present appreciated
only by the intellectual. With the
profits 1 am sure l will make / will
build a Maison des Artistes, similar
to institutions to be found in almost
erary celebrations will be held there
There great artists Of every kind,
when they visit Paris, the worlds EN-
ter Of arts, can be feted and entertain
ed in a proper way. Musical and lit
erary celebrations will be eheld there
and 1t will serve as a meeting place
Tor all who are interested in the arts"
Guilbert is still a wonderfully young
looking woman. She is one of the east
est Of French celebrities to reach and
certainly n of the pleasantest to in
terview.
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A WOMAN DOCTOR
Was Quick to See That Coffee Poison
Was Doing the Mischief,

A lady tells Of a bad case Of coffee
poisoning, and tells it in a way so sim.
pie and straightforward that literary
skill could not improve it.
Il had neuralgia headaches for II
years." she says, land have suffered
untold agony. When 1 first began to
have them 1 weighed 40 pounds, but
they brought me down to 10.
Il went to many doctors and they
gave me only temporary relief. So ]
suffered on, till one day, a woman
doctor advised me to drink Postum
She said I looked like l was coffee
poisoned.
$50 I began to drink Postum, and
gained Is pounds in the first few
weeks and am still gaining, but not Sc
fast as at first. My headaches began
to leave me after I had used Postum
about two weeks-long enough. I ex
pect, to get the coffee poison out OF
my system.
Now that a few months have pass
ed since ] began to use Postum, / can
gladly say that l never know what q
neuralgia headache is like any more
and it was nothing but Postum that
relieved me.
Before I used Postum 1 never
went out alone; I would get bewilder
ed and would not know which way tc
turn. Now I go alone and my head
is as clear as a bell. My brain and
nerves are stronger than they have
been for years" Name given By
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason" and it is explain
ed In the little book. 1.-The Road tc
Wellville," In pkgs.
Ever read the above letter. A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true. and full Of hunaas
interest.
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COLD COMFORT FOR MOTHER
Comment of Boston Belle on Young
Mans Conduct Was Icy In the
Extreme.

General T. D. Grant, at q Washing
toms birthday dinner in New York
some years ago, told a story about a
young Boston Tory.
This Tory" he said, fought dur
ing the Revolution neither on one
side nor on the other. He took a
pleasure trip on the Continent, and he
didn't come back home again until
the war was over.
He was treated very coldly by So
ciety on his return, and this grieved
his good old mother to the heart.
'The dear old lady tried to explain
the matter one afternoon to a Boston
belle.
Naturally, as the head of the fam
fly she said, my son could not take
part in the war. To him fell the duty,
perhaps the more arduous duty, of
protecting his mother and sisters and
looking after the interests Of the es-
tate
40, madam said the belle, with
an Icy smile, you need not explain. l
assure you, I'd have done exactly as
your son did-Tm such a coward!'"
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was not until Charles Goodyear dis
covered how to vulcanize rubber that
the rubber industry amounted to any
thing.
The impression that a visitor to a
rubber goods factory carries away
with him Is one of a lot of rollers that
seem to be doing nothing but tearing
to pieces and rolling up into shape,
over and over again, the rubber as it
develops from it's crude to its final
composition. Some rollers are cold,
some are hot; some are wet, some
are dry; some fitted with calenders
that impress a pattern on the finished
sheets, and others seem little more
than laundry machines. Crude rub
Der has to be cleaned. It is softened
in boiling water for an hour or so
and then run between two rolls, n
OF which revolves a little faster than
the other. Over both Of these there
plays a steady stream of water.
The rubber comes out in long fiat
sheets and is carried into driving
rooms, where the air is kept in con
slant motion by fans. Every bit of
moisture must be removed, and this
takes sometimes as much as two
weeks. When ~throughly dried the
rough sheets go TO other machines
from which they emerge soft and
smooth. After having been thoroughly
rolled the rubber is compounded with
various ingredients, litharge and whit
ing being the two commonest. Then
1t is sent under still other rollers and
kneaded and worked together into a
homogeneous mass. If the rubber is
combined with a textile fabric the rub-
Der and cotton cloth go through an
otner series of rollers, entering separ-
ately, but coming out as one.
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NHlNO WUUIu UUISL.
7 was in a terrible state and not
having a moments peace. l came as
near dying as l ever will and live. |
started using Doan's Kidney Pills and
kept it up until cured. l have had no
return of the trouble, although that
was four years ago.
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Revised Version.

Senator Bankhead, discussing an
eloquent speech that had been rather
poorly reported, said:
"The report spoiled the speech. 1t
was like old Hiram Earwig's account
Of Daniel Webster's last words. Web
ster, you know, as he lay dying, ut
tered the profound and significant
sentence. I still live Well, Hiram
Earwig Of Skeeter Beach said to a
visitor from the city:
"TYawp, life's onsartin. Wo WI it
that that New Englander said-Web-
ster, I think? Yawp, 1t wuz General
Dan Webster. He got OF a good
thing just afore he died. He riz up in
bed an says, says he:
ct amt dead yitl'"-Baltimore
Sun.
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YVETTE GUILBERT'S NEW POSE
successful Singer Asserts She VIII
Build Theater to Help the
Struggling Musician.

Undiscovered genius is no longer to
sit and eat its heart out in some poo
garrett of the Latin Quarter. Yvette
Guilbert, she of the long gloves, the
Iltian locks and the big heart, is to
build a theater for his especial bene.
III. For many years she has taken
an interest in the long-haired genius
of several professions and she now
hopes to give the great Enacted and
unheard a chance to exhibit their
stunts before an appreciative public
without the interference Of a coldly
commercial manager.
I am going to have a little hall all
my own" she said to me. "I am con-
cerned most of all for the poor un-
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BIRTHPLACE OF GREAT MAN
House in Which Pasteur Was Born Is
to Be Preserved az a
Memorial.

Mr.. Rockefeller's subscription Of
$1,000 to the fund which is being
raised to purchase and maintain the
little house at Dole, in the Jura depar.
ment where Pasteur was born, has
aroused a feeling of humiliation in
France, which is thus placed in the
position of allowing a foreigner to sup
ply the money necessary to honor one
Of her great
Pasteur's father was a soldier in the
army of the Great Napoleon and was
25 when he retired to his native coun-
try after the collapse Of the empire,
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A Beautiful Decline,

Ollie James, the gigantic and genial
congressman and senatorelect from
Kentucky, was In conversation the
other day with a Washingtonian when
the latter made certain inquiries with
reference to a mutual friend whom he
had not een for a number Of years.
"And how does Col. Prescott spend
his declining years?" he asked.
Beautifully, sir; beautifully" an
swered James. HE has a fine farm,
sir. A string Of trotters, sir. And a
barrel Of whisky 16 years old-and q
wife Of the same age, sirl"
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Work Beoets Work.

George W. Perkins, the New York
fnancier, was talking about the scar
city of the $4,000 a year mantle
man actually worth a $4,000 salary.
1.-THE advantage Of the $4,000 a
year man." he said, as not alone that
he works splendidly-it is also that
under him everybody else works splen-
didly, There's a Chinese ~proverb," he
said, that expresses exactly what l
mean:
"Tf a farmer is dillgent the soil
will not be lazy"
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-03-08
Browns Bronchial Troches

Unexeelled for relieving Throat Troubles. No piates
Sample free. JOHN 1. BROWN & Son Boston Mass.
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REAL ESTATE

W. N. u NEW YORK, NO. io-19i2.
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prompt relief from the aching and
lameness and by the time I had taken
three boxes l was cured. Right after
wards l made a statement of my cure
and am glad now that several years
have passed to repeat the story and
to say that the results were perma-
nent."
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Mayor Gaynor Of New York was de-
Tending his anti-suffrage views:
Woman has her place and man has
his" he said, land when I think of
the confusion that would come from
intermingling their places, l am re-
minded Of an anecdote about Lady
Lord John Russell: Why hasn't Lord
Holland got a post in the cabinet?'
Well, If you must know Lord John
answered, it is because nobody would
work in a cabinet with a man whose
wife opens all his letters"
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Baltimore, Md.-Eggs looked bigger
and more valuable than silver and
jewels to James Frisby, a negro, when
he entered the home of John B.
Brown, 300 North Sticker street.
Patrolman Daily. seeing a window bro
ken at the Brown home, made an in.
vestigation and saw the negro with a
quantity of eggs. Realizing the high
price Of the commodity, he instantly
drew a revolver on the man and ar.
rested him.
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Positively Brilliant.

did you hear young Founders play
ing on the piano Just now?"
Yes. I consider him a remarkable
performer"
How is that?"
HE can hit more wrong keys in
less time than any other person l ever
saw"
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Evidence,

What makes you think our great
public men don't work as hard as
they used tor"
by the photographs" replied
Farmer Corntossel. when I was a
young Teller the big men in politics
didn't take near as much time to git
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Owe Lives 20 Pet Dor.

Awakened early n morning, re-
Gently, by the frantic barking Of his
collie dog, a resident of Maxwellton,
Dumfriesshire, Scotland, discovered
that the house was filled with gas. The
frightened man was just In time to res
cue the members of his family, who
were almost overcome by the gas.
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Protection for Filth Avenu.

New York.-Police protection on
fashionable Fifth avenue being made
quate, the Fifth Avenue association
now has a nice little uniformed police
force all it's W to guard the thor.
oughfare.
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The Paxton Toilet Co. Of Boston,
Mass, will send a large trial box Of
Paxtine Antiseptic. a delightful cleans
ing and germicidal toilet preparation,
to any woman, free, upon request.
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ELEGANT

"A poet speaks Of himself as a
blind voyager across the bitter
SEAS"
Perhaps an overindulgence in fancy
food has given him an acute sensa-
tion of NAL de mer."
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Manifest smindIe

First City Man-"How are you COM
ing along with your poultry venture?'
Second Ditto-"Pve been swindled.
bought three i%ncubators of different
makes and not one Of them has laid
an egg yet!"-Lippincotts Magazine.
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Must Stay Home at Nlaht

Philadelphia. Before Mrs. Mary
Pope, 60, married twice and expert.
enced, would sign her name to an ap-
plication for a license to marry Rob.
ert Asphalt, 70, she made him prom
Use to stay home at night.
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The splrea of Life.

Many men build as cathedrals we're
built-the part nearest the ground
finished. but that part which scars
toward heaven. the turrets and the
spires, forever incomplete.-Henry
Ward Beecher.
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Hard TO Find.

There are some verses entitled,
The Road to Already"
"Pshawi Almost any post can tell
the way to Already, but none Of them
ever gets there"
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When Your Ewes Need Care

Try Murine Eye Remedy. No sm~arting-Feels
Ffne-Acts Quickly. Try it for Red, Weak,
Watery Eyes and Granulated Eyelids. Illus
trated Book In each Package. Murine is
compounded by our Oculists-not a Patent Med
icine"-b but used In successful Physicians Pre-
tice for many years. Now dedicated to the Pub
lie and sold By Druggists at Csc and Soc per Bottle.
Murine Eye Salve in Aseptic Tubes, $50 and SOC.
Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago
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Mother Grayis Sweet Powders for Children Break
up Colds in "a hours, relieve FeVeushness, Head
ache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorder, move
and regulate the bowels and Destroy Worms. They
are SO pleasant to take children like them. Used BY
mothers for 20 years. At all druggists, 2c. 6ampis
mailed FREE. Address, A. g. Olmsted, Leroy, NY.
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A Bad Beginning.

Whenever Jiggers starts to tell
anything he prefaces his remarks by
saying, Believe me-"
That's why / never do"
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Fairy Story.

They married and lived happily
ever after"
you forget that you are talking
about two people on the stage"
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Dane"

Mr.. Naggitt-It was a good thing for
Jonah that you weren't his wife.
Mrs. Naggitt-Why SO?
Mr.. Naggitt-You would never have
accepted that whole story as an excuse
for staying away from home for three
days and nights.
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deaths door many
days with kidney
trouble. My back
was painful all the
time, the secre-
tons from the kid
e discolored
and contained a
sediment, and oft
en- large Jumps
would form on the
kidneys and some
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-03-08

ONLY ONE "BROMO OUININE.S
That is LAXATIVE BROMO QUININM. Look for
the signature of b. W. GROVE Used the World
over 10 Cure a Cold in One Day. 25o.
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DIscord.

The Musician-Hang It, Blink, don't
you realize that one Of your shoes
squeaks in B fiat and the other in G
major?-Lifa.
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The keynote.

Knicker-I thought simplicity was
to be the keynote of your gowns.
Mrs. Knicker-It is; l have simply
got to have them.
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Braos ConeIderahlv-

Has Biffels any favorite fiction?"
Eyes. And it's mostly about him
self"
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For liver and kidney troubles, nothing Is
quite so mild, pleasant and effective as
Garfield Tea.
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Many a man has bumped into
while trying to dodge his duty.
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Every man has a future before him,
but too often his past behind him acts
as a handicap.
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Garfield Tea, taken regularly. WIN correct
both liver and kidney disorders.
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Some men don't know very much,
but they don't know it.
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Mrs. wfnsiow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inhamlna.
ton, sllays pain, cures wind collie, 25c q bottle
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Two heads are better than one-in
a cabbage patch
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PILES CURED IN 8 TO IL DAYS
Your druggist will refund money II PAZO ONT
MENT fails to cure any. case of Itching, Blind,
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where DOCTORS
FAILED TO HELP
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
bic Compound Restored
Mrs. Green's Health
Her Own Statement.
C~ovington, Mo.-"Your medicine has
done me more good than all the doc

medicines. At
everymonthly period
I had to stay in bed
days because Of
.hemorrhages, and
my back was 81 weak
I could hardly walk.
I have been taking
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Com
pound and now I can
up and do my
I think it Is
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A Hint From shakespears.

When a man does things he hasn't
much time to talk about them.
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How Mrs. Cline Avoided
Operation

Operation.
Brownsville, Ind.-"I can say that
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
has done me more good than anything
else. One doctor said I must be opera
ted upon for a serious female trouble
and that nothing could help me but an
operation ,
az had hemorrhages and at times
could not get any medicine to stop them.
Igoti in such weak condition that / would
have died if ! had not got relief soon.
"Several women who had taken your
Compound, told me to try it and / did
and found it to be the right medicine to
build up the system and overcome
female troubles.
az am now in great deal better health
than I ever expected to be, &C I think /
ought to thank you for it Mrs. o. M.
CLINE, S. Main St, Brownsville, Ind.
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Garfield Tea will keep the whole system in
perfect condition.
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The Remedy that revolutionizes and re-
generates the victim of constipation is
Garfield Tea. a herb combination.
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An oculist can do nothing for a man
who Is blind to his own interests.
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A man feels as i'll at ease in a dry
goods store as a woman does in a to-
bacco shop.
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Many a girl repents at leisure be-
cause she didn't marry in haste.
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A Hint From Shakespeare.
why do you call your dog Ham
lett"
Cant you see why7 He's 6 Great
Dane"
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important to Mothars

Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
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Bessie-Yes, he claimed his wife
pinched him severely whenever she
asked him for money.
Bert-Well, he needn't fiatter him
self that he is the only man who has
been pinched for money.
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acid. My back
was lame and
ached if l over
eXerted at all. l
often felt languid
n depressed
and the kidney
s~ecretions W e T g
a~nnoyingly irreg-
ular.
"Doan's Kidney
~
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save the baby from the ravages of Group, whooping
Gough or pneumonia, with Hoxsfe's Crou6
Remedy. Guaranteed by A. P. Hoxsie. SO cents,
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MRS. JOHN EPPLEY,
A Resident of Ashland, Pa.

Cured OF a Very Severe Case, With
Some Dangerous Features.
Mrs. John Eppley, 916 Walnut ST.,
Ashland, Pa, says: Il was near
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Leveliness of character is nothing
but steady love OF good and steady
scorn of eyil.-Froude.
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VIM. A. FRANKLIN,
OF the w. A. Franklin Chemical Co..
Rochester, NJ. Y.

Cured of Backache and Kidney
Trouble with Uric Poisoning.
Some years ago." said Mr.. Frank
lin on March l, 1911, 81 found that 1
was suffering through the failure Of
the kidney to rid the system Of uric
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Occasionally we meet a mar whose
train of thought reminds US Of a row
of fat cars.
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We a do more good by being good
than in any other way.-Burton.
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Always hold fast to love; we win
by tenderness and conquer by for
giveness-F. w. Robertson.