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Heavy Brass Beds for $17.5O

We feature the value in our styles at $3.50. They
are built for wear having the extra heavy Pinch
tinuous posts, with 1inch filters closeyset The lac
quer finish, in bright satin, velvet is absolutely
guaranteed against furnishing
We can show you good Brass Bed that sells for
So 1t has heavy Pinch post and is fuyguaranteed as
to finish Our line also contains many beautiful pat
terms, priced up to $100
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Her Intere.t Arou.ed.

Jack-How did you come to get interest
ed In that novel you are reading? Marie
liked the way it ended.-Boston Tran
script.
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EDUCATIONAL.
ACCoUNTANCY.

Fundamentals Of Account1ncy,
ness Administration, Professional C. P.
A Course, Cost Accounting, Law for
Business Men offered / to 2h year
SSQFseS ,,c,,,6H Free scSdP%g 2ScPags oe Ruhsti1: IN
COUNTANCY. 7. n. c. A. 17Ss q
EfrAef N W
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Oak Dining Table for $3.50

We promise you an extra value in solid oak
Dining Tables at $3.50. These have highly polished
42inch top, heavy pedestal carved claw feet and
tend full 6 feet. Finer styles up to S65
For $3.50 we can give you 6foot oak extension
table, substantially built and nicely finished.
We have good Kitchen Tables, with drawer, for
s125, and at 81 give you heavy drop-leaf table
with top So by 40 inches of oak American quartered on
hard wood
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The Actual Cost of Carpets

Wherever you may buy carpet its entire cost is
not reached until it has been laid your floor This
is probably the only store in Washington where you
may know exactly what this entire cost will be at the
time you buy.
Here you will find the price per yard marked in
plain figures and that price covers every penny of
COST
Our service covers the making the furnishing Of
Innings and the laying absolutely free. Your floors
are measured and you are charged for only what is
actually necessary to cover them. Whatever may be
wasted in cutting to match figures is not charged to
you.
In this department you will find all styles, grades
and sizes of Rugs. We buy these with the same
giyen to the selection of carpets and
you of qualities that will show the greatest amount of
value your money possibly buy.
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GROcANS
s17 to s2s Seventh ST. N. W., Bet. H and Eye st,.
GRoGANs
Hits Your Pocket Hard


in
the nation f
more
ou1dbepu rhaseh he o
aomakeo theme
find wHnbe
o
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Dinner Sets for $3.50

This is the full dinner set of 100 pieces in white
American China with gold decorations.
One of our best values is the 100pece set of very
fine grade of American porcelain with dainty Havland
decoration in floral sprays The price is S1450 and
the line includes variety of beautiful decorations We
carry sets priced as high $75.
Our Apiece Japanese Tea Sets are priced from
S6 up. Chocolate Sets as low as S1.50.
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WALTER I. HOLT,

School of Mandolin. Guitar and BSn3o
ES1bl3ahsd lBSL
Weekly practiee with the Eordica CuhA
TelepAons Connectio1A
Eaois Bldg-. Cor. nth and @ stA n-UL
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A Comfortable Rocker for So

These are large and roomy with fancy pressed
panel backs and heavy, carved spindles There are
styles in both oak and mahogany finish
You'll find any kind of easy chair rocker any
upholstery you wish in the large line are display
ing. There's style at almost any price up to $50.
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Extra Mattress Value for $40

For $40 we feature an unusually fine value in
ayerfelt mattress weighing 55 bs of two parts
This will give you years of satisfactory service The
best hair-stuffed styles range up to $25
At low prices we have well made soft-top mat
ress of good weight for &c. and better qualities of the
same style at So and $780,
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Three-Piece Library Suite for SIS

This is handsome set for any living room The
frames are of solid oak in Early English finish with
wide, heavy panel and Stats for back comfort, and
broad arms.
The seats are upholstered in ssrviceable quality
Of Chases leather The whole effect is rich and per-
feet construction makes this an unusual value
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An Effective Coal Heater at 81

This little stove will thoroughly heat room of
medium size in the codest weather.
Our self-feeders at $12 have extra large maya
zines and long tests have proved them the most
nomica coal burners you buy. Their bright nick
eled trimmings make them very attractive. Larger
styles priced up to $25.
We sell the Perfection Oil Heater for $2.75, with
other styles up to 81.
Cooking ranges are priced from $40 to $50, but
we call special attention to the big value in six
hole range now marked 1880
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Handsome Parlor Suite for $3.50

Tor an exceptional value at moderate price we'll
show you a suite at $3.50 This has highly polished
frames of carved birch mahogany with loose cushions
Of green plush Nothing in our lines has greater
worth for its price. We can show you many styles,
of both three and five pieces, ranging up to $3.50.
If you wish something at very low price we have
a good looking suite with substantial frames in ma
hogany finish, the seats upholstered in green plush
for $18
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CHAPTER XIX.
Night.

Night.
A quicker breeze was stirring as
John Valiant went back along the Red
Road. He had waited in the garden
at Rosewood till Shirley, aided by
Emmaline and with Ranston's anxious
face lowering in the background. hay
ing performed those gentle offices
which woman's fainting spell re-
Quires had come to reassure him and
to say good night.
AS he threw off his coat in the
bedroom he had chosen for his own,
he felt the hard corner of the Lucille"
in the pocket, and drawing it out laid
It on the table by the bedside. He
seemed TO feel again the tingle of
his cheek where curling strand Of
her coppery hair had sprung against it
when her head had bent beside his
own to read the marked lines.
, When he had undressed he sat an
hour in the candle-blaze, a dressing
gown thrown over his shoulders, striv-
ing vainly to recreate that evening
call, to remember her every word and
look and movement. For a breath
her face would flush suddenly before
him, like live thing; then it would
mysterlously fade and elude him,
though he clenched his hands on the
arms Of his chair in the fierce mental
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"And to think" he continued, whim.
sically releasing him, that | might
have gone on, one OF the little-neck-
clam crowd I've always trained with,
at the same old pace, till the Yer
Observation-Disclosures career got
a double Nelson on me and the umpire
counted me out At this moment
wouldn't swap this old house and land,
and the sunshine and that 'gyarden'
and Unc' Jefferson and Aunt Daph
and the chickens and the birds and
all the rest of It, for mile Of Mil
liOnaires' Row."
He went into the house and to the
library. The breeze through the wide
flung bow-window was futtering the
papers on the desk and the map on
the wall was Tapping sidewise. He
went to straighten it, and then saw
what he had not noticed before-that
it covered something that had been let
into the plaster. He swung it aside
and made an exclamation.
(TO be Continued.)
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The Way That Cures
bite any person.

REMEDY SALES CORPORATION,
Charlotte, North Carolina
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homes, at 6 o'clock. DR.. Coker took
us 10 the observatory in the new
science building, where we looked
through the telescope and saw the
new moon, Saturn, Mars and Jupiter.
we went To the college for supper.
Alter supper Prof. Weeks took us up
town To the moving pictures, show
ing the growing OF plants, insects and
western scenes. After the picture
snow we went to the drug store and
got delicious cream. We then return
cd home. At 40 o'clock. the next
morning we left Rock Hill. ON our
way back we stopped in Columbia. and
visited olympia Cotton Mills. the
largest in the world under one roof
We then went to the University of
South Carolina and saw the library
and pictures of the early govern
ment of South Carolina. Afterwards
we went to Trinity Church, where we
saw Wade Hampton's and Timrod's
graves and the monument erected by
the ID. a. r. to Sumter, Marion and
Pickens. AT O'Clock We left Colum-
bia and reached home at 7.2O o'clock.
Wednesday night.
To the bank directors of Sumter
County, I wish to express my Sincerest
thanks for making these trips possible.
Eugenia Moore,
OSuaoo g =
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Columbia, April 6.-The Carolina
Atlantic aud Western Railway is the
name of the consolidated North and
South Carolina Railway Company,
Charleston Northern Railway, the
South Carolina Western Extension
Railway. The capital is $2,525,O
and w. r. Bonsal of Hamlet is the
president.
This road will run from Charles
ton to Hamlet, y. c., and gives the
Sea Board entrance into Charleston.
Articles of consolidation were filed
with Secretary of State today.
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sheer edge OF the turf She swayed
toward him and he caught her, feel
ing for sharp instant the adorable
nearness OF her body. 1t ridged all his
skin with q creeping delight. She re-
covered her footing with an exclama.
tion, and turned back somewhat abb
ruptly TO the porch where she seated
herself on the step, drawing her filmy
skirt aside to make a place for him.
There was a moment OF silence which
he broke.
That exquisite serenade you were
playing! You know the words. OF
course"
They are more lovely, If possible,
than the score. Do you care for
poetry?"
i've always loved it," he said. 1--WE
been reading some lately--a little old
fashioned book l found at Damory
Court It's Lucille Do you know it? ?"
Yes It's my mothers favorite."
He drew it from his pocket. See,
I've got it here. It's marked, too"
He opened it, to close il instantly
not, however, before she had put out
her hand and laid it, palm down, on
the page. THAT rose! Oh, let me
have it,"
'Never!" he protested. look here.
When / put it between the leaves, I
did so at random. l didn't see till
now that had opened 1t at marked
passage"
OF ,,c roaI che coi1
He leaned and held the leaf to tho
light from the doorway and the two
heads bent together over the text.
A sound fell behind them and b. III
turned A slight figure, in o. soft gray
gown : til old lace at the throat. stood
In the doorway behind them. John
Valiant sprang to his feet.
"Ah, Shirley, I thought heard
voices. Is that you, Chilly?"
Its not Mr.. Lusk, mother" said
Shirley. Its our new neighbor, Mr..
Valiant"
AS he bent over the frail hand, muir
muring the conventional words that
presentations are believed to require,
Mrs. cambridge sank into a deep
cushioned chair. Wont you sit
DOWN." she said. He noticed that she
did not look directly at him, and that
her face was as pallid as her hair.
THANK you,' said John Valiant, and
resumed his place on the lower step.
Shirley, who had again seated her.
self, suddenly laughed, and pointed to
the book which lay between them.
Imagine what we are doing, dearest!
We were reading Lucille together"
She saw the other vince, and the
deep dark eyes lifted, as If VI II COM
pulsion. from the book-cover to Vail.
ants face. He was startled by Shir-
ley's cry and the sudden limp uncon-
scious settling-back into the cushions
OF the fragile form.
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effort to recall it. Only the intense
blue OF her eyes, the tawny sweep or
her hair--these and the touch of her,
tho consciousness Of her warm and
vivid fragrance, remained to wrap all
his senses in a mist woven of gold
and fire
Shirley, meanwhile, had sat some
time beside her mothers bed. leaning
from a white Chintz-coycrcd chair. her
anxiety only partially allayod by reas-
surances. now and then STOPPING 10 lay
her young cheek against the delicate
arm in it's lacy sleeve or to pass her
hand lovingly up and down it's outline.
noting with roCurrent passion Of ten
dcuess the Transparency Of the skin
with it's violet yeining and tho shad.
OWs beneath the closed ewes Emma.
liuc. mo,ing on soft Worsted shod feet
about the dim room. al length had
whispered.
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FN III -
Ing brows. the cameo-dellcacy of pro.
ME. the magnolia skin and hair like
brown-gold cloud across the sun.
He stepped down to the graveled
drive and followed 1t TO the gate, then.
bareheaded, took the Red Road.
Along this highway he had ratified in
Uncle Jefferson's crazy hack--with
her red rose in his hand. The musky
scent OF the pressed leaves in the book
In his pocket seemed to be all about
him.
The odor OF living roses, in fact, was
In the air. IL came on the scarce
felt breeze. heavy calling perfume.
He walked on, keeping the road by the
misty infiltrating simmer of the
stars, with sensation rather OF glid-
ing than of walking. 1t occurred to
him that II, as scientists say, colors
emit soundtones, scents also should
possess music Of their own: the
honeysuckle fragrance, maybe-soft
mellow fluting as Of dlninutive wind
instruments; the far.faint siclily odor
OF ltlies-the upper register OF faery
vioiins; this spicy breath OF roses
blending. thrcbbing chords like elfn
echoes of an italian harp. The fancy
pleased him; he could imagine the
perfume now In the air carried with
II an under-music, like a ghostly harp.
ing.
10 came to him at the same instan.
that this was no mere fancy. Some.
where In the languorous night harm
was being played. lie paused and lis
tened intontly. then went on toward
the sound. The rose scent had grown
stronger; q was almost in that heavy
air, as II he were breasting an etherial
sea or altar He felt as II he were
tTeading on a path OF rose.leaves,
down which the increasing melody
flowed crimsonly TO him. calling. call.
ing
Ho stopped stock-stlll. He had been
skirting close.cropped hedge OF box.
This had ended abruptly and he was
looking straight up a bar OF green.
yellow radiance from a double door.
way. The latter opened on o porch
and the llght, flung across this,
drenched an 0rbor OF climbing roses,
making II stand out a mass Of woven
rubles set In emerald.
Ho drew long sigh OF more than
delight. for framed i'm the doorway he
saw figure in misty white. leaning TO
the gilded upright OF Il harp. He
know at oncc that II was Shirley.
Holding his breath. he came closer. his
feet muffled in the thick grass. Ho
stood In the dense obscurity. one
hand gripping the gnarled limb OF
q cetalpa. his ewes following the
shapcly arms from wrist to shoulder
the fingers straying across the strings
the bending check caressing tho
carved wood. She was playing tha
melody OF Shclley's Indian Serenado"
touching tho chords softly and ton.
derly-and his lips moved molding
themselves sOundlessly 20 the words.
Tho sercnade died In a single long
note. As n i'm answer 10 f. there rose
food OF bird-music from beyond tho
arbOr-jets OF song that swcl!cd and
r,ppicd Co a soaring melody Shc
heard A. too. FOR the gracilc Gugers
fu'l from The strings She listened a
moment. with head held to- one side.
thcn sprnng zap and came through tho
door and down the steps.
tie hCsitated moment then n sim
glo stride took him from tho shadow.
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"A mad dog in the western part of
ment Sunday morning. The dog bit
a number of other dogs and then left,
going out toward Second Mill, where
it. So far as known the dog did not
bite any person.
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Rives
Qfra Post whoe,ex,
mrstrsfed b. ieursa sssus

hut the memory evoked no thrill.
Instead. the thought OF her palely-cold.
passionless beauty called up another
mobile thoroughbred face instinct with
quick Hastings OF mirth and hauteur.
Again he feit the fierce clutch of small
fingers. as they fought with his ia that
struggle for his life. Each liae OF
that face stood before him-the arch.
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CHAPTER XVIII.
seyond THO aon hlndne

As no greeted her hl5 gazc plunged
dCop iuts hers. Sbe had rccoii.I .
step. stor'al. % rcco,U.zc him al.
most instantly. io uo,ri thc shrink.
ius and thought it duo to s,abblns
memory or that forcgthorror. Ills nrst
words were prOsaic enough.
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cLABDY MUST QUIT BOOZE
on SERVE THREE YEARS

Los snscl-s. cal. Narvh s,s-res
hsvins beaten Charles I.suran.r. q
policeman. in = street fight January
.s Last. Jimmy CIah,.y. pfisr fighter.
and Arthur Mcqueen. a trainer. -err
sentenced tn thr-- y-ar. il jail and
to a 'ias .s $500 zach b, Jpds-
White In police eoatss
Sentences ~rr- suspended. In con.
.ii~ra,ion of the fact that Ctshbr
agreed to pay i.aufaa.r ei.oo" DAM
as.-. but tho fighter and McQu~ca
~.r- ptar-d on probation for three
years During this time neither man
shall drink. -asaxr In controversy
or visi, any place where he may be
exposed to temptation Another eoa-
.i,tson i. that neither stay out all
ntEht during thi. probationary
period 1V
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The uusr nj Manchester 10 one ~
the nas' ardent af fans lie rafsif
.ui..-. sans- ., tho rnia ssoan.is
.hsn he ia in S.r York.
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John isoii- Williams. tho Tisrf.'
Hawaiian pitcher. a.srf had . Tsir
G. SHOES on hi. s--A Until be ~ss is
y~ars old.
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RoADY NOT 4
CANDIDATE FOR
ANY STATE OFFICE

Denver, Colo. March 5o.-"AYs
you = candidate for any office this
sail." Mas asked OF State Auditor
K-n.hsn.
Indeed aud l am not. replied the
auditor.
Thought you We're" said the
qu-.rion.r rather inauisineiy,
Well. 10 tell the truth said Mr..
K.n-han. "tAe expense is simply too
much for m- To Try IL, doht mind
the regular campaign expense. but
when I, comes 10 the primary also
IL is too mach. simply can not
stand for !I"
The primary campaign costs more
than the regular Campaign, In the
regular campaign there is jus, one
headquarters and everybody chips in,
In the primary campaign there i. .
headquarters for every candidate aud
IL is . eui,hsoa, affair With each psr-
son ,Fyias his b-s, to cut the ihfo4,
OF bis opponent,
Then I take il you are not s-sy
s,fanx for the primary"
Well replied the auditor. ''ths
primary 10 all right for those sho
have moh-y and want 'o throw IL at
,h- birds. ba, sh-n the poor man has
To .ish, through the assembly. the
primary zna then the .i-.,iuh be is
simply no, in IL. b~isas Ia the
poor nan class and 7 guess ~aa',
be in t. No, that don't like pub
i!r o,fIs.-t da-bu, I Just can; az.
ford IL. ! -iii have g. shes hossrs
all ,h- '.s, os my life To set stuar-
.ish the sosid aos -
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BRINGS GOSPEL OF
Law AND ORDER

Tai. .,os, is = ii,ii. bit iffes~frh'.
90; iassnsueh as u ~s. told 10 me
by M father. .ha, good old rs-srha
-r. knov u shosIsn'i a.frnd tbs
eats as th- fnos, i-iisair'y piSiss
Thi. ,s~E.on ss whom ! aiiais bad
b--a rather -ay-ars chap iisr
.as,- o, the s..s of IA. lie hsa 'os'
so,,.n his sa,.ehi.m and ;h. prayers
be learned q, his mother. fa-r ani
many .sh@r Of the early in.aissiIaas
shish too many of us h..- wandered
asay tfuta. but -h.n be sat friIsipr
a- GO, !, all over. and the morning
sts.r-sh- morning after the ErIiaH
i.a I mran=i.i' that he ought to
pray before b. sat down To hE-as-
fast. 80 he toll hi. wife to give him
the Hibi-. from which he rad .
chapter. and then proceeded TO pray.
- invoked the divine blessing uros
his family and TO his aoishbuf and
ais n-tshbor'. family. hi. community
aud the state aad The nation aud so
on sna So on. until time vas 'unnias
Into eternity apparently. and the
meat vas burning on the s'o,. aaa
the cake. ~-sc smelling. Finally
his wife. Mary. said TO him. John.
John. don't you think you have
prayed long enough Well. he
says. II know have but ! don't
Know how to wind the darn 'h'ns
M" tAprlau.~l.
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That Made Milwaukee Famous

tn. United s,si-s department ut jus.
,ic- declined to take action as,ins,
>. e. Nss,on q: Lone Island city. y.
Y.
Mas'on 11s arrested on CON.
plain, Of .s-y-ar.oii stcnosraphcr
who ssid that Msston took her With
him to Kansas City and kept her
there four days.
Il have taken no action inasmueh
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fE EARNINGS
LARGE IN MARCH

Topeka. Nan. Mafrh 5e.-An IN.
crease in The March -asniass of the
A'ehisoa. Topeka & Santa f- Rail-
way. Indicating that the e.sh'rT ia
slowly awakening after the iaa< .!a-
ter business afo~sia-s~ brinx hope
To the hearts Of the hani ir-d. Of
skorr.rn and dependant int-f-sis IL
Topeka today The gain in Traffic
this nos'h Ia far fson the marx eel
bs March Of iss; y-aE. to h- sure. bat
the Losses afe apiaiIinz baisa the
aIsa 1isaia;ins decrease Of January
aaa February. and railway ,gsiti
men 10 Topeka OF both the Santa -
and Reet Island iia.s ate ieakiu-
forward To the distant terminal Of
re.Fc.ehn-., and s;Tinsrn, finance.
Incidentally. and With vast i'nro'-
'sn.s to Topeka. the brighter show
irs Of sauta Fs finances siIi bEins
about better times in this city.
With :.sco Santa F- shopacn in To-
peka working only forty hoars
~.ss tn. payroll this winter hs. fall
On si;h a srippiinx effect upon ba.i-
a.sss The sign. us Increased traffic.
bringing about gain in Csrnins.. is
of vital importance to Topeka.
The Santa fc suffered \ danger
OH. decrease in traffic in jauuas,
and February. Unsettled conditions
in the country in general. Increased
operating expenses. floods in Caii'or-
not and depression caused by lcxis-
ia;ivr and national control. weak.
en-d the returns o: the road. IA a
Jcsui, a General shop and office re-
trcnchm-nt va. ordered over the s,s-
ten. The Topeka shops ~er. limit
cd TO forty hours week and scores
o; employees were ic, out at the gem
craI Offices.
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a. there 10 no element Of commercial
ism evident In the ease said Mr..
nru:f "MAssoa certainly meant no
GOOD to the girl bu: apparently sh.
did not object ss the time and .hc
~a. old enough to know what she
"a. doing
Musieiral Judge uplhcr issued a
-arEan, for abduction against Mas
ion
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WOVEN NAY BE STRONG

and eaioy life ~hc'hs. in the home
or business world I; they can Keep a;
bas those asimcni. peculiar to their
scs. II every woman realized how
Lydia y. rinkham's Vegetable Com.
Touni. that simple remedy made
from roots and herbs. goes to the
root OF the 'roublc and o,crccmes
such SYMPTOMS as hackachc. head
aches. nervousness and irritahi,ity.
they would he healthier. happier aud
stronger. n you suffer frun anr
form %. female III. why don't YOU
;ry IL: II will pay you tn do "a.
Most anything IN printing neaiiy
executed and at reasonable priees.
at the Chron,ci.Ncws Job rooms.
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RECOMMENDS CHANBERLAlM's
COUGH REMEDY

~ take pleasure IN recommending
Chamberlain. c Cough Remedy to my
customers because I have confidence
in IL. I find that they are pIcarcd
with II and call for II when again In
need Of such a medicine writes j.
". sexson. Montcva,io. Mo. For sale
by all dealers.
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INV PHASE ADDED
!. TO WHITE SLAVE Law

a Chicago. March io.-indira,ioa q,
Dc attitude Of federal officials h.E.
O~ard violation. o. the Mann &C; in
Which the whit. slave motive does
Qs appear vac given saturday when
1ames l.. Brufs. superintendent of
s1c local bureau of Investigation Of
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BEST TREATMENT FOR c0NsTl.
PATTON

"My asnEh,-F used Chamberlain. {.
Tablets tss constipation With GOOD
r-sais. aud I can recommend ssars
hishiY." writes Paul II. fiasih. tisush'
~. Ia. for sale by all dealers