- The Old Home Prescription that is pleasant to take and sure to help, is Hale’s Honey Of Horehound and Tar Stops coughs and relieves colds. Contains no opium nor anything injurious. All Druggists, Pike's Toothache Drops Stop it The Reliable Remedy for lumbago, gout and RHEUMATISHM GETS AT THE JOINTS FROM THE INSIDE For sale by all Tuggists Gl Sind) X ETER = Res 8 “* REMEDIE Baz Sing Zo. BALTIMORE, MD, J DROPSY TREATED. usually gives DON remove and sho rt bre a en gives &; 18 to 25 days, EE DR. THOMAS E. GREEN. Successor to Dr. H. H. Green's Sons, Box A, Chatsworth, Ga. For Steadfast Peace. God puts within our reach the pow er of helpfulness, the ministry of pity: he is ever ready to increase his grace in our hearts, that as we live and act among all the sorrows of the world we may learn by slow degrees skill and mystery of know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.” There Is no surer way of steadfast peace in this world than the active exercise of pity; no happier temper of mind and work than the lowly watching to see if we can lessen any misery that is about us: nor i there any better way of growth in faith and love Francis Paget A First Offender. Each of two little Boston girls black-and-tan terrier dog It long before the two dogs required the rate them Each little girl was blame the other's little dog for st ing the trouble, and one of them sq “I don't care, your dog is a sneal ing little anyhow!” “Well, so is your dog was the reply. “And this time it first, too!” 5 CHILD CROSS, FEVERISH, IcK Look, Mother! If rns is coated, give “California Syrup of Figs.” 5 this “fruit laxative” and nothing else cleanses the tender stomach, liver and bowels so nicely A child simply will not stop playing to empty the bowels, and the result is they become tightly clogged with waste, liver gets sluggish, stomach sours, then your little one becomes cross, half-sick, feverish, don't eat. sleep or act naturally, breath is bad, system full of cold, has sore throat, stomach-ache or diarrhoea. Listen, Mother! See if tongue is coated, then give a teaspoonful of California Syrup of Figs,” and in a few hours all tha constipated waste, sour bile and undigested food passes out of the sys- tem, and you have a well child again. Milllons of mothers give “California Syrup of Figs” because it is perfectly harmless; children love it, and it nev- er fails to act on the stomach, liver and bowels, Ask at the store for a 50.cent bottle of “California Syrup of Figs,” has full directions for babies, children has a Was not and it a man to sepa fought, efforts of disposed thing, snonked Children love printed on the bottle. Adv. Not an Original Remark. “Ah, my dearest Angelina!” ex. ciaimed Ferdie, as he slowly settled to his knees at the feet of his adored one, after having imprinted a upon her ruby lips, is Indeed a taste of heaven on earth.’ contracted brow, low, soulful tone of voice: “Bah' Can't you say something original? Forty different young men have got off that same stereotyped remark.” Prosperous Appearance. “That's true, perous look withal, and if he can drape a heavy wateh chain acfoss It the iin sfon is complete.” A Sacrifice Hit She Would you leave your home for me? He—1'd leave a baseball game in the ninth inning with the score a tie. if ped Wind Eyes: ci... junk Bye ’Comiort At Your Druggist 5 50¢ per Bottle Murine Eye Saivein Tubes Sc. For BeokuitheEyefFres. » Drugics or Murioe Eye Remedy Co., Chicago And 1 was nea ‘Cause nothing It makes me Kind of The little take, sorry for Sa ENING OF T MANY YEARS AGD Gallants of High and Low euros; Have Found Pleasure in the Inditing of Love Son- nets. It was at the battle of Agincourt in i415, that Charles, duke grandson of Charles V of France er of Louis XII and uncle of Francis [ was taken after a flerce charge in a vain attempt to retrieve the fortunes of the day-—“dragged wounded from among the dead”—and for twenty-five years thereafter he remained a pris. oner in the Tower of London, until ransomed for 300,000 crowns by Philip the Good of Burgundy lieve the ment the captive duke composed about sixty poems, which, tradition asserts, were the first valentines ever penned. And the gentle duke has bad inny- merable imitators of high and low de gree and of varying standards, from of Orleans fath TINE'S DAY Oft have I heard both youths and virging say Birds choose thelr mates, and couple, too, this day. When I shall couple with my valentine, The rose is red, the violet blue, As time passed and the demand for tender and otherwise, there appeared annually quaint chapbooks and chaser to express his inmost heart in The title page of one Writer for the Present Year, Containing All the Very Newest Valentines, Ele- gant and Original, with Appropriate An- swers, Adapted for Ladies and Gentlee men in Every Station of Life. Ye Belies and Beaux who own young Cu- pid's sway, Who hail with rapture day, Of Valentines you here a store will find, All tastes to suit, or be kind. A most confident and self-agsertive encyclopedia of valintines was pub lHshed in 1784 under the title of “The New English Valentine Writer, or the High Road to Love, for both Sexes, Contuining a Compleat Set of Valen tines Proper for Almost Every Trade in Town or Country, swers, Likewise a Variety of Pleas tng Verses Calculated to Crown with this auspicious i Mirth and Good Humor the Happy Day ‘alled St. Valentine, which Sexes may read and those of Riper Pleasure and Enter. both without Blushing, Years find much ainment.” Here follows a taste f this highly respectabls of the quality compilation: THE F Ay barns are Finé = heep in And cocks an ne, Are clucking round my For puddings Prov chief, And Sweet Valentine, If you'll You'll never be mistaken, be mine ANEWEER OF —— TO THE Your plow and Have won my heat: Pray, who could better wish? With corn in store, Fowlins at the door, And milk, a well-filled dish FARMER cart Let othars’ fate Be high and great, A farmer's wife be mine. I'd milk the cows, And mind the house, And feed the grunting swine In summer's day "lI help make hay While hot the sun does shine. Then come to me And let's agree About It, Valentine There! That's a complete pastoral | and should surely be a prelude to @ | happy marriage A somewhat later chap book entitled “Cupid's Delight; or, Instructions for Lovers,” contains this appeal from THRE COACHMAN TO THE LAUNDRY MAID, Early this morning at the tub 1" saw you often Roop and strub: * The rising suds were seen to flow As white a2 any driven snow: I smack’d my whip and drove away, Yel gave na bisssing to the day; The day which shone so vety fine And made my Sue my Valentine Can it be necessary to add that the laundry maid's reply is altogether fav orable to the gallant coachman? Some of the satirical verses in “Hy men’s Revenge Against Old Maids, Old Bachelors and Impertinent Coxcotnbs” are nearly as scathing as those of the comie valentines displayed in the win dow of the little stationery store ‘round the corner, while “The Beauties of Hymen,” on the other hand, con tains appeals as moving as any to be found imprinted with the greatess elaborations ct lace paper, tinsel gild ing and silk, yet never has valentine writer, amateur or professional, sur passed the ronest fervor of that an Can Pen or Ink or Paper show My fixed and pure affection? Ne! [ | 1 i i SICKNESS Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Bridgeton, N.J. J.=“] want to thank you county, Kentucky. tucky. town, Kentucky. 1820-—Lincoin family moved to illinois, setting in Macon county. 1834 A surveyor, 1837-—Licensed to practice law; 1838—Third election to the legislature. ture. ence at Springfield. Fourth election to the legisla. 1846-—Elected to congress. ncoln, March 10. 1856 Assisted in formation of Repub ssnate. Defeated for the United States {864 Re-elected to the Presidency. interred at Springfield, Iii, GREAT MAN'S DEATH :- members Lincoln's Work With Gratitude. . TWENTY minutes past o'clock Friday evening, April 14, Abraham Lincoln was shot by At 22 minutes past There have been many and vast changes since that fateful day, and the answered in a way that would have re- jolced his great heart. Not an anni to his memory, and so it will be to the end of time among generous Ameri cans, wherever their residence or in- herfted sentiments; may have been misjudged in the con- fusion and stress of antagonistic opin- fon, there is none now who does not praise him for his courage and his faithfulness to his honest convictions. He was born in Kentucky February 12, 1809, and died in Washington April 15, 1865, in his fiftyseventh year at the very senith of his.powers. The books are full of the story of his life and work, but there are still many in- teresting facts connected that have not yet been noted, notwith- standing the industry of those who have collected great masses of every: thing they could find in any way con- pected with his life and death, Mr. Lincoln, as everyone knows, was shot by Booth while he was at- Ford's theater in Washington. “Our American Cousin” held the boards that night and Laura Keene was playing the part of Florence Trenchard for the last time. She had already per formed the same part for a thousand tights. Five yoars before she had einyed the role at MeVicker's theater Died April 15. Remains AAA PANN PN Pr Chicago the night of the day er sich Mr. Lincoln presi dent by the nated for conven of toe terrible tragedy, she plaved with incommon cleverness, and the theater was r inging with laughte: the crack of the president's bos country {0 mourn «hile yet ¢ the irom ihe il shot that plunged the After Mr. Lincoln had been shot he was removed across the street frow the theater to the residence of Wil liam Petersen, a highly respected mer chant tallor, who lived directly oppo site the playhouse, at 516 Tenth street This house is still standing, as is alsc owned by the government. There have | been few changes in the Petersen house. For 40 years Osborn H., Oldroyd | collection, in which are included more than three thousand relics, which con- stitute, as Elizabeth Porter Gould has sald, “one of the most interesting and a human being.” The collection con tains 250 funeral sermons, about sev busts and medals, photographs of Booth, pictures of the assassin, the family cradle in "which the Lincoln children were rocked, an original black locust rall split by the young man, then never dreaming of the place he was to fill in the history of the world; the family Rible from which Lincoln's mother read to him when he was a boy, and literally thousands of other things in some sort associated with the murdered president. ts “The First American” As Lowell sald of him, Lincoln was the first American. Whitman calls him “the sweetest, wisest soul of all my days and lands” And today he, loved and revered by the South as by | the North. Some of the noblest trib utes ever pald to him have been those paid by the Southerners. tle belongs | to the whole nation. and he 8 the only men since Washington of whom that can bo sald good Lydia E. Pink. ham’'s Vegetable Compound has done or me. 1 suffered le trouble. [I bearing dova toains, was irreguier and at times could thardly walk across the room. 1 was le to do oy ni Wo my baby yl wes inkham’s « or femal alth of thousands of women who ha en troudd with such ail- ments as displacemer inflammation, ulceration, tumors, irregularities, ate. If you want special advico write to Lydia E. Pinkham Med- icine Co. {confidential ) Lyun, Mass. Your letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman and held in strict confidence. y For . Rare SPRAIN SWE EXY. WO NDS, ROTA Fr CUTS TILLIPS, Ivy Depot. Va. writes vu i iment & great belp in the hormew. Cen recommend {1 as mont valuable for Hraises, Swelling Soreness, $c for either man or beast, * LARGE BOTTLE, 250. at Dealers GILBERT BROS. & CO, inc. Bmtimore Mi NTR 3 yw. NIE ORLD'S Lig [SP Te te | Renews Your Youthful Appearance Vanishes Forever Prompt Relief—Permanent Cure CARTER'S LITTLE | ble — act surely but gently on the liver. Stop after dinner dis- indigestion, improve the complexion, righten heeres SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE. Genuine must bear Signature ) [) ULLS CoughSyrup, EAL LTE dela FIFTY YEARS AC NEVER & Con AE Tra nar ® obit uy W. N. U, EALTIMORE, NO. 7-1016,
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