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INDIGESTION
Busy Public Official Says Thed.
fOrd's Black Draught Helps Him
Keep Physically Fit.

Clay City, KY have been in
business here for twenty-one years;
am also coroner, riding the Kentucky
hills and hollows in all kinds of
weather and under all kinds of con.
'ditlons," says Mr.. Sam T. Carr, of this
place. ITO be able to do SO, | must
keep physically fit, and Thedford's
Black-Draught Is my standby
These trips used to five me head
aches, and that, | found, came from
hurried meals or from constipation.
l was convinced that Black Draugbt
was good, so now | use 1t, and it gives
perfect satisfaction. 1t acts on the
liver, relieves indigestion, and certain.
ly is splendid. am never without it,
When you have feeling of discom
fort after meals, causing a bloatine
sensation, headache, bad breath. and
similar common symptoms, try taking
pinch of Black-Draught after meals
pinch of the dry powder, washed
down with swallow Of water. This
has been found to assist the stomach
and liver to carry on their normal
work, and helps prevent, or relieve.
constipation.
Your druggist can supply you with
this well-known, purely-vegetable liver
medicine. Insist upon Thedford's, the
original and tonly1 genuine Black.
Draught liver medicine. NC-137a
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"Is it the fact that in these pro-
ceedings the deceased woman is
named as correspondent
look here
You keep asking me to look
here, sir, but you tell me nothing. |
ask you plain questions. Have you
rothing better than, cook here?' is
it the fact that these papers were
served on you at Brigton on the
occasion of your flight?'
Flight-flight- Look here
Is it the fact?'
Yes. Brighton, yes. But, look
here-flight! flight! Holiday, l tell
you. Holiday
Holiday cries Humpo. | thank
you for that word. We will examine
it in moment. Let me ask you to
carry back your mind to the summer
of 1915 and he takes the unhappy
man through all the stuff he had got
put of old Bright-Sabre's apparent
ly uncalled for interest in the girl
first getting her from her fathers
house to the neighborhood of his
own, then under his own roof, anC
all the rest of the unholy chain of it
Then he has a chat with Twyning
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yourself. Worked off the police evil
dence and the doctor, d'you see?
Then-'Mr. Brightp Old man comes
up into the box. Stands there mas
sive, bowed with brief, chest heaving,
voice coming out of it like an organ
in the Dead March. Stands there like
the father of Virginia thinking of
! Appius Claudius.
Like this, his evidence went: Was
| father of the deceased woman las
they called herr Was employed as
foreman at Fortuen, East and Sa-
bre's. Had seen the body and identi-
fled it. So on, soon.
"Then humpo gets on to him. Was
his daughter the sort of girl to medi-
tate taking her life?-'Never! New
er! Great rending cry that went
down to your marrow.
Was any particular individual in
istrumental in obtaining for her work
which took her from beneath his
roof ?-'There! 1heren Clenched fist
and half his body over the box to-
wards Sabre.
Look herew bursts out old
Sabre. Look here-r
They shut him up.
" Answer the question, please, Mr..
Bright. Mr.. Sabre led to her first
going from me- Mr.. Sabrep
Was the situation thus obtained
for the girl nearer her fathers house
or nearer Mr.. 's?-'Not a quar-
ter of an hour, nor ten minutes, from
Mr.. Sabre's house.
Had the witness any knowledge
as to whether this man Sabre was a
frequent visitor at the place of the
girls situation?-'Constantly con-
stantly, night after night he was
| therep
Was he, indeed?' says Humpo,
nightly interested. WAS he. in
deed? There were perhaps great
friends of his own standing there,
one or two men chums, no doubt?'-
No one! No-onep cries the old man.
No one but an old invalid lady, night
bedridden, past seventy, and my
daughter, my daughter, my Effie.'
Had the witness recently been
shown a diary kept by Mr.. Twyning
at that period?-Yes! Yesr
And it contained frequent refer
ence to Sabre's mention in the office
OF these visits? -Yes! Yesn
Did one entry reveal the fact that
on one occasion this Sabre spent an
entire night there?
1 Look here bursts out old Sa-
bre. Look here
Cant get any farther. Yes,
groans old Bright out of hi sheaving
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She cooked my meals for me.
We went through it together. Eve
known her for years. I've liked her
for years. And now she's dead and
you turn around and tell me to call
her deceased. Effie. Effiel Lo you
hear?-Effiep
''They couldn't stop him. He was
like a sick wolf then, cornered, and
Buddha like big, wary boarhound
going in at him and jumping up on
the wall out of the way when he
made his dashes and then coming
down and going in at him again.
What date did the deceased leave
your wife's employment
In March Look here
'Did she leave of her own wish
or was she dismissed?'
E" Look here
Answer the question, SIR
Look here
" Very well, sir. Answer me this
question then. Is it a fact that you1
wife has Instituted divorce proceed
ings against your
Look here
Court surging with sensation al
this dramatic disclosure. Humpc
mopping his face, keeping the great
forefinger going.
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@Io1i A&HHuTcE1NSON

"That chap! When he was in the
full cry and ecsasy Of his hunt after
Sabre, the perspiration stre&med
down his face like running oil, and
he'd flap his great red tongue around
his jaws and mop his streaming face
and chuck away his streaming name
and all the time he'd be STOPPING
down to Twyning, and while he was
STOPPING and Twyning prompting him
with the venom pricking and bursting
in the corners of his mouth, all the
time he was STOPPING this chap would
leave the treat forefinger waggling
away at Sabre, and Sabre clutching
the box, and his face in a knot, and
his throat in a lump and checking
out Look here. Look hoe
Il tell you
81 was standing right across the
court at right angles to him. l was
wedged tight. Scarcely breathe, let
alone move. | wrote on bit of pa
per to Sabre that ! was here and let
him get up and ask for me. Sabre
snatched the thing as if he was mad
at it, sand read it, and buAzed it on
the floor and ground his heel on it.
Just to show me, suppose. Nice!
Poor devil, my gooseberry eyes went
up about ten degrees. But later |
had another shot. well, I'll come
to that in a minute"
II
"They pushed off the case with the
obvious witnesses - police, doctor,
and so on. Then the thing hardened
down Then Sabre saw what was
coming at him-say it at clap and
never had remotely dreamt of it;
saw it like a tiger coming down the
street, 20 devour him; saw it like the
lid Of hell slowly slipping away before
his eyes. Saw it! | was watching
him. He saw it; and things-age,
grayness, lasting and immovable
calamity don't know what -
frightful things-came down on his
face like the dust of ashes settling
on polished surface.
You see, what this Humpo fiend
was lying out for was, first that
Sabre was the father of the girls
child, second that he'd deliberately
lut the poison in her way, and bru-
tally told her was done with her,
and gone off and left her so that she
should DO what she had done and he
be rid Of heC Yes. Yes, old man.
And he'd got a case! By the living
lingo, he'd got such a case as a
Crown prosecutor only dreams about
after a god dinner and three parts
of bottle of port.
Listen. Just listen and see for
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chest. yes. A night there,


chest. Yes. A night there
and on the very next day, the
very next day, did this man Sabre
rush off and enlist?-'Yes. Yes
Viewed in the light of the suisse
quent events, did that sudden burst
Of patriotism bear any particular in
terpretation-'Running away from
it., heayes the old man. Running
away from it,
Look here from Sabre again.
Look here Same result.
So this Humpo chap went on, pill
ing it up from old Bright like that,
old man; and all the time getting
deeper and getting worse, of course
Sabre getting the girl into his own
house after the old lady's death re-
moves the girl from the neighbor-
hood; curious suddenness of the girls
dismissal during Sabre's leave; girl
going straight to Sabre Immediately
able to walk after birth of child, and
so on. Blacker and blacker, worse
and worse.
And then Humpo ends, "A final
question, Mr.. Bright, and | can re-
lease you from the painful, the pitt
able ordeal it has been my sad duty
to infiict upon you. A final ques-
ton: Have you in your own mind
suspicious of the identity of this I'M
happy woman's betrayer?' Old man
cannot speak for emotion. Only
mods, hands at his breast like a
prophet about to tear his raiment
Only mods.
" Do you see him in this court?
"Old man hurls out his arms to-
wards Sabre. Shouts, There! There!'
Warm-hearted and excellent Is
CARROT leaps up and leads him tot
tering from the box; court seethes
! and groans with emotion; Humpo
wipes his streaming face, Sabre STAN
mers out, Look here-Look here
Case goes on"
Someone bawls, Next witness.
Mark Sabre
Court draws an enormous breath
and gets itself read for butchery
to make a Tidborough holiday"
CHAPTER VI
Hapgood went on:
He was distraught. He was
speeches.. He was clean crazed.
AT the very beginning, with the
coroner, he wouldn't use the word
the deceased Insisted on keeping
calling her Effie. Coroner kept pull
ing HIM up over it, and about the
twentieth time pulled him up hard
Poor chap threw out his arms
like he was throwing the word away
and then hammered on the ledge. Il
won't say deceased. l won't call her
The deceased. Vile word. Horrible
word. Obscene, beastly, hateful,
word, won't call her it. Why should
| call her the deceased?'
Control yourself, says Buddha.
Control yourself
He only waved and thumped
again. I won't, | won't. | knew
the girl. l was fond of the
girl. She was my friend. She was
fond of me. did more for her than
anyone in this court-her father or
anyone. When she was in trouble
she came to me and l succored her
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then mops himself dry, and then
hurls in again.
Now, sir, this holiday. lid you
make any preparations for t, any
little purchaser
NO. Purchases? No. Look here
Never mind about Look here, +"
sir. No purchases? What about the
oxalic acid? For what purpose?'
Continued in Our Next Issue.)
Copyright, 1929
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breath directly into the congested. In
famed air passages.
Invented by
Southern druggist
Some years ago. Lunsford Richardson.
a druggist of Greensboro, n. c.. was
seeking better way to treat cold troubles.
He found how to combine the best of
natures remedies for colds into salve
form.
Camphor, Menthol, Eucalyptus.
Thyme, Turpentine and other volatile
ingredients are so mixed in this salve that
their vapors are imprisoned until appli-
cation brings contact with the natural
heat of the body.
Then these ingredients are released
in the form Of vapors. given of evenly
steadily and thoroughly for hours after
application.
Thus. Vicks is really vapor lamp In
salye form.
Ingredients of
great antiquity
Some OF Vicks ingredients have been
tested BY use for many generations past.
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And Just as good for cold troubles of
rown-ups-bronchitis, catarrh. asthma,
laryngitis. pharyngitis.
Doubly
direct action
Vicks works Immediately and directly
in affections of the air passages.
Like liniment, it is absorbed thru
and stimulates the skin. This relieves
soreness, loosens phlegm and eases diff
cult breathing.
Like vapor lamp, the application
over the throat and chest sends up healing
Yapors, which are inhaled with each
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For instance, Menthol is q derivative
Of the Oil of Peppermint, which was
produced in Egypt 5000 years ago, and
is mentioned in the Icelandic Lledica'
books of the Thirteenth Century.
Several of the ingredients of ICES
-Camphor, Menthol, Eucalyptus, ly~t
Oil of Turpentine-are given ,dis
the United States Dispensatory. OF hi4 L.
est authority on drugs and their actions
for the very effects that are most desirot
in all kinds of cold troubles.
How Vicks should
be used
For Spasmodic Group, Children
Colds-Rub Vicks over the throat and chess
until theditficult breathing is relieved, thet
spread on thicl1y and cover with a hot
flannel cloth. One application at bed
time usually prevents o night attack Of
Group.
For Deep Chest Colds, Sore Throat,
Tonsilitis, Bronchitis, Coughs-Vicls
should be applied over the throat and
chest-if necessary. first using hot, wet
cloths to open the pores Of the skin then
rubbed in well until the skin is red spread
on thickly and covered with one or two
thickneSSeS of hot flannel cloths. If the
cough is annoying. small piece the size
of pea can be swallowed every f5a
hours.
For Head Colds, Asthma, Catarrh,
| Hay Fever-Vicks should be melted in g
spoon and the vapors inhaled, or litrie
can be applied up the nostrils and snulfsd
| up the head.
Vapors
important
Remember that half the effect OF Vicks
| is in the inhalation of its vapors. So
when applied over throat and chest leave
| bed-coveringS and night clothing loose
at the neck so that these vapors can be
| freely inhaled.
Three Sizes-35c, Use, $1.50
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CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY.

CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY.
Arrive IeavA
1855 pm Columbus-Ch $40 am
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2:37 am Chgo, St. L. Alta 2:58 am
1853 am Chit and Atlanta :58 am
% Daily; CD Sunday.
SEABOARD AIR LINE
Arrives Le.vs.
6:15 pm Richland-Cols 1000 am
$40 pm c rdele-Savh. 1925 pm
1881 Um Richl2nd-Mopt9'y B:1O pm
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Some Of Vieks ingredients have been
tested By use for many generations past.
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HESTANDARD
SPECIAL FOR WEDNESDAY AND
THURSDAY


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At soc. New Imported White DIM
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CATARRHAL DEAFNESS

is often caused by an inhamed condition
of the mucous lining of the Eustachian
Tube. When this tube is infiamed you
have a rumbling sound or imperfect
hearing Unless the Inflammation can
be reduced, your hearing may be de-
stroyed forever.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE will
do what we claim for it-rid your system
of Catarrh or Deafness caused by
Catarrh. HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE
has been successful in the treatment Of
Catarrh for over Forty Years.
Sold by all druggists.
F. ]. Cheney & Co., Toledo. O.
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Riddles do take cold so easilyl
A change OF weather-or just getting the
ievt wet-frequently starts them shifting.
Some little ones go from one cold to
lotlier-never have . chance to build
~ any strength.
A mistake TO keep
them indoors
And so, the fear OF recurring colds
heads many mothers to keep their children
TOO much indoors.
This is a mistake Children kept too
warm are most apt to take cold.
There is nothing like fresh air play to
harden little folk. so that they do nOG take
cold SO easily.
The mothers
problem
1t is best. therefore. to let children
run outside In all weathers.
or course, some colds will result.
The problem has been how to treat
these colds without constant internal
dosing-so disturbing to their delicate
stOmachs.
Vicks answers
this need
vlcks VapoRub. the invention Of q
North Carolina druggist. offers the solu-
ton.
Applied externally it can be used as
freely and as often as desired, without
any harmful effect.
And use of Vicks at night does not re-
ptire shutting the windows. Just leave
tho bed-coverings loose about the child S
neck and the rising vapors viii be inhaled
oil night.
Often averts
spasmodic Group
One application of Vicks at bedtime
often serves to prevent threatened at
tack of spasmodic Group.
And when an attack comes on without
warning, in the night. use of Vicks as
directed frequently brings relief IN Is
minutes.
A family
standby
For ether.cold troubles Of children. such
as sore throat. chest colds. head colds anC
tonsllitis, Vicks gives equally quick action
For surface innammations it is usefu
every day cuts. burns, bruises. scalds
boiis. itching skin troubles. chappec
akin and chilblains.
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Little Stomachss Rebel
Against Dosing

Anxious mothers are too apt
to dose their children con.
tinually.
This upsets their delicate
stomachs-lays the founda-
ton for indigestion and Ill
health in later life.
Fresh air and exercise are the
best medicines for the little ones.
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Rub Away
Ch;Idren;s Colds
Let them breathe in
healing vaPors all night

4 "vapor lamp in salve FORM" Vicks is the
DIRECT treatment for all cold troubles.
Absorbed, like liniment, and at the same
time, Inhaled as a vapor, the medication
reaches Immediately the congested air pas.
sages.
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RAILROAD SCHEDULES

Arrival and Departure of Passenger
Trains, Americas, Ga.
The following schedule figures
published as information and not
guaranteed:
The National leader., 1922-04-17

facts but broke the
perverted appetite for white bread They will eat
bread made from the whole grain.
Whoewheat flour practically expensive
as white flour and bread due to the fact that mills equipped
chiefly to make soad fine grades of
big demand for whoew flour it could produced
great saving under the price of white -four and the living
lowered for the The farmer should interested
move milling costs cut down the farmer well the
will benefit for the farmer then
products without raising costs the The
costs and profits added to farm product before it reaches
the closer the farmer to that
deal the farmer get in dairy products instance
What true OF flour true of ocaed breakfast
foods especially of the widest advertised brands
OF breakfast food prepared in fancy and sold
fancy package the rate of $40 buhe
wheat much the profit and graft of the manufacturer who
holds the patent secret formula But whole buhel
Of breakfast foods worth food couple hand
fus of whole wheat out of the farmers bin There
wholesome and those who have their
The National leader., 1922-04-17

should Since then the high prices Of the first again
been reached and chances that wheat will
lower than present quotations.
OF the price had stayed highest point reach
when the gamblers started their bull operations
@ haHe brought arr cost Of The farmers will
them July still long off and the gamblers gueses reflected
the July future quotation that that
price when the winter begin reach the
even even haye guess at what the price will be
what they will get next fall they get credit and help this
spring Only price stablization legislation will give that
But lot OF soaed farmers
OF the farm bloc have swallowed the gamblers bait
Meanwhile the department agriculture reports
ters OF the 1921 grain shipped off the hands of mills
and who the chief and almost only beneciare
THIS pr1ce boost at the
benefit less this from the tail boost than they usually
90 when the gamblers this situation mddleen
averages show 10 of previous
the farms March This at that time only 16
on the farms M the other hand March 1921 saw 26 per cent
of the wheat still in the hands of the farmers s. So -
The National leader., 1922-04-17

ideas which sanctioned for the being by church
state and its official aessnes Eveybods respect
weakened War leaders high places who famed hysera and
treated the and statutes must stand
their share of the responsibility for weakening
Official public morale and for the coplacency with which
o,11os.,oa. the present crime is accepted.
oooileeo Until official aWbreakers brought
Condened justice and steps taken make
possible in the future, hardly expect people
generally to accept the law and the Constitution value
A. Mitchell Palmer chief official offender He went
peached but subcommittee of the senate Walsh of Montana
chairman has just brought report officially sustaining the
charges against him recommended to of
of being by the highest
Senator Walsh Democrat, and is Palmer Politics.
therefore do the committees The
finds that the attorney general in his his handling Of
Aliens his enforcement the espionage his expenditure
public for propaganda against radicals and pacs
alike the law the Constitution and the decisions Of the
Twelve by National
The National leader., 1922-04-17

lar Government league had previously brought in
Palmers Indictment, which is fully confirmed by
the report of the senate subcommittee.
The report is before the senate judiciary commit
tee There are Republicans and Democrats who would
hush it up. But the matter must not be dropped.
Respect for law must be re-established and nothing
could go further toward reestabshng it than fear
less and adequate action by the senate this report
regarding the worst official lawbreaker of all his
tory nation.
osI at the time It seemed 4 certain t that congress
prices, the price of grain made to soar on the
~ grain exchanges. The March Leader reported
$l.sssb for July. The newspapers had reported a
majority on the senate agricultural committee as
ready to report out the SincairLadd stabilization
mttee suddenly lost interest in price sabilizaon and
nothing has been done since. The trick of the gam
blers to head off stabilization worked. The press
The National leader., 1922-04-17
Figures
Show Where
the Grain Is

wards-after congress lost it's
interest in the stabilization
proposition = grain slumped
again. May and July futures
went down 10 to Is cents from
the high point which was so
widely advertised and which
fooled our Statesmen" = just
as the gamblers intended it