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Show i II. I ' -- - : The tinsel and red, General Demand of the of the World h&i Well-Inform- always been Io,r a simple, pleasant and efficient liquid laxative remedy of known 'value; a Laxative which physicians could sanction for, family use because its component parts arOnown to them to he wholesome and truly beneficial in effect, acceptable to the system and gentle, yet prompt, in action. In supplying that demand with its excellent combination of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, the California Fig Syrup Co. proceeds along ethical lines and relies on the merits of the laxative for its remarkable success. That is one of many reasons why Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is given the preference by the To get its beneficial effects always buy the genuine manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all leading druggists. Price fifty cents per bottle. TIME I The Fourth on Poci. Blaaton's setter pup and off a bunch of firecracker in it. We hated Doc Blaaton and had even less, regard for his setter pup, because he wouldn't Chase a We were sorry afterJack "rabbit. wards we did it, for that premature Celebration as Described can "spoiled a whole lot of fun next the Smell Boy. day. Every dog in BOomvltye decamped that night; even the cats roosted in the trees for days. A boom that rattled the window e frames awakened me before day next OOMVILLE Will the Nation's morning. With no hat and only one Smith and auspender over my shoulder I scurried I stood with our down to I'ncle Billy's blacksmith shop. hands in our pockets Uncle Billy was out in front shooting off the anvil. He had a whole quart tal Day." and read the notice In flaming red let- can of powder. Carefully the square ters as "Cy Smith unrolled the poster hole In the anvil was filled with powpreparatory to tacking It on "'Doc" der and a hardwood plyg whittled to Blaaton's shoe shop. We didn't under- fit lt-- A gorove In one side of the plug stand wh&t that was left for the fuse. Uncle Billy "natal day" busi- scratched the match down the leg of ness meant, but his overalls, touched the fuse and then "celebrate that hurried behind the shop doer. The could only mean aged blacksmith was slightly deaf and 6ne thing this sea- liked a noisy Fourth. Thirteen times the powder was poured in and touched son of the year. in Boomville Kid Gee whli, but er feller feels lonesome In de spring If he ain't got e goil! Suicides In Natal. The abnormal suicide wave which Is passing over this country has been made the subject of very serious thought, and It Is well that It should be so. In Natal within the paat four weeks there have been three suicides of Europeans, which, on the basis of population. Is four times greater than the suicide rate in England add Wales, a deplorable state of affairs indeed. In Durban a few weeks ago it was stated that suicides were taking place at the fate of one a day. Natal Wit' ness. In a Morocco Harem. Every woman In the harem h bet face decorated in the most curious manner. The practice Is to elongate the eyebrows to the ears and to embellish the chin with little points of black paint In contrast with the men, their complexions are very fair, as they are shut within walls and art never exposed to tho sun. " a Plneh, Use ALLEN'S FOOT-EAS- E. A powder. It cures painful, smart Ing, nervous feet and ingrowing nails It's the greatest comfort discovery ol the age. Makes new shoes easy. A certain cure for sweating feet Sold by all Druggists, 25c. Accept no sub stltute. Trial' package, FREE. Ad dress A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. T. Not Incurablt. That man is a poet Too bad. Yes. How did you discover, ltf I didnt; ho told mo. "Then perhaps he may get over -- Nashville American. It to Mother e. Important Examine carefully every bottle ol CASTOR1A a safe and aure remedy toi infanta and children, and tea that It Beara the Signature of In Use For Over 30 Yeara. The Kind Yon Have Always Bought A Simple Remedy. I tell you we cannot pass a law to keep dogs from barking and disturbing people. "Won't the ordinary law against barkere apply T Try Murlns Eys Rsmsdy Tor Red, Weak, West?, Watery Murine Doesn't bmsrt Soothes Lye Psm All Druggists Sell Murine st 50cU. The Page Book n each Pkg. is worth Dollars in prery home. Ak your Druggirt. Munhe Eye Remedy Co., Chicago, "'Riches do not delight ud so much wtth their possession, as torment us with their loss. Gregory. Pane- - and Karroos Dltnasnt KlmF'i (limt Nsrrs KFUtorM. rnrw) hy SmhI for KBRB fc 00 trial bottle and tfnsllsa. 1L H. Kline, Ld, lei Arch Street. Philadelphia, l a. FITS. at. Vitos if 1. Birthdays, holidays and weddings are what keep the average man poor. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teeth tnc, softens the (runs, redneee Aammeuoe. allays pain, cares wind oollu. Kc a bottle. People waste a lot of valuable time in foolish arguments. - Qiiijii (30GJ)dtf L W. N. U, 8a It Lake City, ; f to Cele--brat- y Whoopee! HUSTLE. No. 27, 190& BDY IS WHERE BHE HAD ATTACKED Boom! Cracky !" and Sammy and 1 shied a tin can at "Doc Blaaton's setter pup and dug down the alley as fast as four brown legs could carry us. "Hey! Stub, It's to be; theyre puttin the bill up now. Stub dropped the bait can half full of worms and joined the proclaimed of the glad tidings. Two minutes later we ended up in front of the bill to read further. 1 call that a mighty neat Job of printin, said the editor of the Weekly Banner, who had happened along. We broke the claws holdln the arrows off our eagle wood cut two years ago and blamed if we could find the piece this year. The old bird jooked mighty squatty until we hit upon havin' him sit on that log from the Mink Lumber Company's ad.' Looks like that old turkey buzzard that roosts on the rotten log in. Den-eoShulfecorn's pasture, sniffed old Prof. Kraln. Kraln had started a paper In opposition to the Banner three years before, but it had fizzled out after Intermittent Issues for six months. But there" wasn't anything Squatty about the birds of freedom, as far as we kids could see. Besides, we were busy reading down further what waa going to happen. Fine shade, grand music, magnlfl cent parade, most eloquent speakers In the state. Races! Races! Races! Ball games, climbing the greased pole, catching the greased pig. a grand spectacular exhibition of tlght-rop- e walking by CapL McMaln. "The grand finale, 195.50 worth of fireworks, let off from a stand In These front of the city calaboose. were a few of the features that would mar the usual lethargy of' Boomville on July 4. Shorn goln to have $95 worth o f fireworks; there'll be pin wheels, giant fire crackers and skyrockets, till yon I can't rest," said Sid Glrkens. know, cause dad waa at the meetin' the night they voted to have 'em. It had been five years since Boomville had had a celebration. For 12 years before that time the eagle had screamed in fashvociferous ion as regular as Independence day came around. That was when the boom was on the town. In thoss days Jeff Dascom gave $150 te buy fireworks. Jeff borrows his chewing tobacco now. The bubble had bunted, the lean days had come and patriotism had waned In Boomville. The celebration this year was due to young Leon Talbert who had bought out old Shoebucklers general merchandise store.' He had offered- to give $25 as the first contribution. His -- rival In business, old "Dan Turner, across the street, growled and katd he did It Just for advertisement A mans business was the last thing attended to In Boomville during the next three weeks. Floats had to be built for the Goddess of Liberty and her attendants to ride on. Boomville had no trees that would do as a shade, for the drought three years before had killed even the trees In the city park. Where the young cottonwooda, 20 feet tall, used to grow, was an oat field Bealde the oat field waa a stretch of ground that once bore the appellaJoe tion of Dascom boulevard." Skinner said hed have the best crop of potatoes on that ground this year ever raised In Boomville, If the bugs didnt hit 'em or the hot winds. blow "I reckon they ought to be better than ordinary, bein' raised on that high-flutiground, he used to fling at Joe Dascom. who helped him hoe ' them. A thin line of cottonwoods and "few scragged elms on Cowskln creek five miles -- away, were the nearest trees to Boomville now. Jim McGood solved the shade problem. He would build au arbor, himself, if they would give him the sole privilege of selling lemoviade and Ice cream near hy. Jimi offer was accepted. On July I Sammy Smith and I were prvtty busy. W kept the road warm between the place where Jim McGood waa putting leafy branches of cotton wood, brought from the Cowskln grove, over a frame work of plank, and the hick part of the 11 very-stab- le where the floats were being decked la off. The events of that day crowded upon each other fast and furious. The parade Started half an hour late because the Goddess couldn't get her brown hair waving to the best effect After the parade things dragged a little until the speaking began. We wouldn't have stayed around near the speaking except we sometimes got a dish of ics cream for turning a freezer for Jim "The Hon. Tim Todhunter othy gave - the oration and Deacon Heffis-towe- r read the Declaration of In dependence. That is he started to read it He had Tw Ve0u M taken a copy of Very dec)aratlon th from his hip pocket and started to read when Sammy Smith touched a cannon cracker off behind the speakers' stand. The deacon was naturally very excitable. He tried, to proceed but hla bands Jerked spasmodically. Suddenly the declaration parted in the middle where tt had "been folded In the deacons pocket They sent' after new declaration, but the crowd had left before It arrived, The greased pig had been catight and the entries were Just In for. the slippery pole climbing" exhibltlda when my recollection came to a vivid close. That night about nine oclock t waked up with a bandaged eye, a .swollen Jaw and one arm in a sllng. They told me Sammy Smith had climbed er aa I went to Bleep happy. - THE-BULG- - I E. Ttleehone Girls Great Opportunity to . . Get fijoriouely Even. j You know that red headed cashier had the nervejto complain of me to the. boss the other day " said the girl at the telephone desk, to a New set- : -- er white and blue bunting. We never had any real fun until late In the afternoon, when we tied a can - ! i ys j "Well, I got even with him. all right. He aint married, but he's got a best girl. His father, ;6IRI0U8 INJURY. owns a shoe factory over In Jersey, Well, she called him and rich my afternoon at 'her usual other the up SIGHT AS "RESULT time MAY la Mr. Smith there? she asks, In her most romantickist voice. 'Yea,' I answerfh-Jnet-- ee honeylike ns she. Youth $4 Thrown to tho Ground, Bird It's his wife wants him. Isn't It? With Thee Deals Sledge-Hamme- r that Miss Girl hung up with such a Jerk my ear hurt. Smith goes around Blew Gate Keeper Comes' t wondering why she does not call him to the Roocuo. up. Every time be dares he says to Attacked by s male me: Has any one called me on the CincRmtl swan ln Spring Grove cemetery, 'phone, Miss Limit?' And 1 look as inJoseph! Gwd, Jr., aged seven, was nocent ss a kid and shake my head thrown lo the ground and oo severely 'No.' I tell you, us telephone glrla beaten but the bead and face by the can turn Joy to the Bride Into Nothbirds xligs and bill that he is now in Doin any time we' please. Me confinsi to hla bed and physicians for Us. fear hi nay lose the sight of his left 8UFFERED TWENTY-FIVYEARS. eye, 1$B Indeed the sight of both. Yougg Good lives near the cemeWith Eczema Her Limb Peeled and tery, gsd went to the grounds to play. Foot Waa Raw Thought AmputaHe was attracted to the lakes in tion Was Necessary Believes , which! tin swans live, and stood on Life Saved by Cutlcura. the bpk admiring the graceful papa and annua swan as they floated" soft"I have been treated by doctors for ly on tbt surface of the water. twenty-flV- e years for s bad case of WhK fur the boy did anything to ecsema on my leg. They did their beat, dlstuft Be swans or excite their an- but failed to cure It. My doctor had ger if ntt known, but at any rate the advised me to have my leg cut off. At first jtbhg the boy knew the male this time my leg was peeled from the made tt him In a atyle which waa knee, my foot was like a piece of raw hostile. flesh, and 1 had to walk on crutches. Ths lid Instinctively started to run, I bought a set of Cutlcura Remedies. but tk swan was too quick for him, After the first two treatments the and Waring savagely and flapping its swelling went down, and in two months my leg was cured and the new powarfd wings did Its best to overakin came on. The doctor waa surtake 1h boy; Tcgetier boy and a wan raced across prised and said that he would use the kwi Immediately surrounding the Cutlcura for his own patlenta. Lhave lake. After they had gone 50 yards now been cured over seven yerirs, and or mort the swan, rising upon Its legs but for the Cutlcura Remedies I and ha! flying, half running, overtook might have lost my life. Mrs. J. B. Renaud, 277 Men tan a 8L, Montreal, the so? thoroughly frightened boy. Ai tie birds body struck that of the Que., Feb. 20. 1907." chili k Its flight the latter waa al' AN EARLY VICTIM. most tirown to the ground. The bird, instinctively seeing its- advantage, contmared to attack him at the same tlm kith bill and wings. The wings of a swan are very power fI, is those who have been the swan's attack can well testify. He bird in question is a 'Very strsni one, and the blows which It raised upon the lads head and breast were timost heayy enough to beat the brssUout of him, it ia said. Thebird satis fled itself at flrat with bestlig and pounding Its victim and TDHiSEB LAD, AND WITH WINGS AND BILL INFflCTB York Times writer, FOWL m Her Explanation; Otto E. Schaar, president of thw Waiteis' Club w York, In a rw said to hie- on argument tipping, cepi re- Your reply opppnent. sharply In a minds me of womans reply Gorman court. This woman was ao cused of poisonibgher husband. The prosecuting attorney said to ,her: You have heard the evidence. The body contained enough arsenic to kill ten persons. What have you to say? the woman answered! My .husband, was a big eater. Fee the No other medicine hag been so successful in relieving tho suffering of women or received so many gen. nine testimonials as has Lydia E. Finkham's Vegetable Compound. In every community you trill find women who have been restored to health by Lydia E. Hfithams Vegetable Compound. Almost every one you, meet has either been benefited by it, or has friends who have. In the Pinkham Laboratory at Lynn,Masa, any woman any day may see the files containing over one mil-lio- n one hundred thousand letters from women seeking health, and here are the letters m which they, openly state over their own signatures that they were cured by Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound. Lydia E. iHnUiams Vegetable1 Compound has saved many women from surgical operations. ' - (a "Whst la the matter. 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A little singing was to be Indulged in by some of the members, and about half-wadown the program the name of Miss Molemy-Brow- a figured. Alas, however, when the time came for her to appear a messenger arrived to say that the lady was suffering from a cold, and, therefore, the chairman had to excuse her to the audience. Ladles and gentlemen, he said, have to announce that Miss Brown will be unable to sing, as announced, and, therefore, Mr. Green will give ua A Bong of Thanksgiving. "Stray Stories. Bsbls. 1 want to get some fireworks y The Swan Attacked Him with Beak and Wings. . ties started to pick him about the hand and face with Its bill. -- The lad, as soon as a) was thrown te the ground rolled over on bis face ssd buried his head under his arms to vard off the blows. The swan, was so persistent In Its attack ttat the boy was finally compelled to .. $aoge his position, 'As he attempted to rise to his feet with tM swan rushed at him and r blows from each of Its rings struck him full In the face. Monotony of Homo Lift. tThe Injuries sustained during thU So many wives complain of the moattack almost put out the boy's pyes, notony of marriage. They envy womand, screaming with pain, blood rush-fa- g en who write, paint or act, because from his wounds and frightened to they Imagine all these callings spell tie point of becoming hysterical, Infinite variety. But any life can beJoung Good screamed for help, come monotonous if f At' his cries the" swan renewed its to be ad. Wives who grumble at the attack, again beating him about the dreary sameness of home, routine forkead and face with Us heavy wings, get- that their husbands have to face sad then pecked him In the head with the same tiresome monotony at the Tbe only way to get outef the office Is bill. A 1rut for wife or bachelor maid alike Fortunately for the boy GatekeepIs to cultivate interests and hobbles. er Thompson heard bis cries, and, ap for those yreciAting the fact that the child's Marriage Is monotonous only who make It so. Rfe probably depended upon quick raced acrosa the grounds to ' share the swan was still beating and COFFEE- -victim. Hs pecking of The world is r Unwilling to. fight both Thompson sn4 the boy, the swan slowly withdrew: anonymous coffee: Java Thompson picked the boy up in his anas and ran with him to bis parents and Mocha. how-ever- , Sdge-hamme- Tom not 1o honot ojr .4 ifte Jolv. Id c6ncidev He. honored tl knd Utfd 'nffASonlvvfr ton gr .lorfttiy iWiKng T$, ae-flo- t, 'thvol full saswsfc A Blt of Advice. Tte the thumb on little WUlle As he wander forth to play. It may look a trifle tUy, Rut hell need tho thumb om H may chafe at tho restriction And protest asalnst tha plan. But youll have hla benediction Whoa beggeta to bo a man. oe. day Where to Draw the Line. We hear a good deal about a sant Fourth, but what' Is really needed Is the ability to draw the line betweer harmless noise and a combination at train wreck, dynamite explosion and war with the Improved Implements oi modern warfare. . 4 doctor was called and bandaged ths boys wounds. His left eye was badly swollen. The young patient la gill confined to. hla bed and It Is hoeyea may lered that the alght of both ' be destroyed. f ' The swans stuck 1 believed to have been due to the fact that its mate Rat a number of young swans in a seat hidden somewhere In the grass surrounding the lake. It is supposed that the male thought the lad came to the lake to Injure the awanleta, and proceeded to chastise him. Vs(f 4r Ths Flvot" Age. When Is a man old? Is it a matter of looks, or feeling, or age, or professional custom? ' Walters, for Inat 50. stance, are held to be "old But at that period of life statesmen, barristers, actors, bishops and Judges are accounted young. Athletes of all kinds are deemed old after 40 or thereabouts. The board of trade regulations say that railway men and others are old for their work at 60. Old age pension scheme makers consider 65 as the pivot age on which to bang their pains. The point Is certainly a very debatable one. Hearts of Oak Journal.' Who ri returns your money if you em? j - -- dont o - sickueadaciTe Foaitl vI jr csrtd by? Ibaa LlUla Fill. The? ala 1 &oth . E Cause for ThanksT , It was at a social gathering of one ' 4 rUv Tov H d rij Kalin. A perfeet raw Maw tor tdj , PiMlara, Drowsta, Bag TaU ia tb Moatb, Ooat td Toa, Fala la U Tby ragaiat U Bid, TORPID Bowala. LIVKH. YtaU. Partly S If ALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. 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