enim —————— FRUIT LAIATE FOR SICK CHILD “California Syrup of Figs” can't harm tender stomach, liver and bowels. Every mother realizes, after giving her children “California Syrup of Figs” that this is their ideal laxative, because they love its pleasant Maste and it thoroughly cleanses the gender little stomach, liver and bowels with. out griping. When cross, irritable, feverish, or breath is bad, stomach sour, look at the tongue, mother! teaspoonful of this harmless “fruit laxative,” and i= a few @ rs all the foul, constipated waste, sour bile and undigested food passes out of the bow- els, and you have a well, playtul child again. When its litfle system is full of cold, throat sore, has stomach-ache, diarrhoea, indigestion, colic—remem- ber, a good “inside cleaning’’ should always be the first treatment given. Millions of mothers keep “California 8yrup of Figs" handy; they know a teaspoonful today saves a sick child tomorrow. Ask at the store for a 50- cent bottle of ‘California Syrup of children of all ages printed on the bottle. Adv. Decision Deferred. “How are you going new neighbors?” “Can't tell. I happened to be out when their furniture was moved in." — Judge to like PREPAREDNESS! Grip is prevalent should be taken, 3 ine with other ingredients, $ as a Tonic and LAXATIVE Laxative a n to w There is or E. W. GROVE'S Bature oa box. mse. Would Do Her Part. { YO nd Fate. 10U ci : A8 AN utter stranger A Stranger. Tomorrow will he the firs of the vear. and | miencs the ch ently ‘You'd calmly rejoined “What for?" “You may need you."—Judg propose ’ roiling YY Eoing to Gibbs, rever new year irch,” arnouncod Mr. with better take me Mrs you,” Gibbs somebody to id Birds Increase During War. Wild birds which were formerly shot as game have been increasing rapidly the war in France, Sel gin untries, according to T r of the National So Cietios “For ment said, "an sued Ean narily of nat ly in the 'k of senting many millions ‘Belgium in thaoe of the greatest bird catching ex in En More than t kylarks, as well as hundreds of ands of other birds, were annually trapped and exported frown that coun try for Our have found that there was less ing in all parts of Eurvpe than merly.” since and other c« . Gilbert Pearson, secr Association of Audubon has stopped all 1 he war has 18 sale of tolerated. Lative Ord} thar one tone are sold annual repre birds ne untries an order would more thousand killed game ive France Sale was IOP housand thou correspondents hunt for food. FOOD FACTS What an M. D. Learned. A prominent physician down Georgia went through a food experi ence which he makes public: led me to advocate Grape-Nuts food: and I also know fromm having pre. scribed it to convalescents and other weak patients that this fosd is a won. and brain tissue, as well as muscle, It improves the digestion and patients Bain, just as I did In strength and weight, very rapidly. “I was in such a low state that I had to give up my work entirely and 80 to the mountains, but two months there did not improve me; in fact | was not quite as well as when 1 left home. My food did not sustain me and it became plain that I must change, “I began to use Grape-Nuts and in two weeks [ could walk a mile, and in five weeks returned tn my home and practice, taking up hard work again, Since that time I have felt as well and strong as 1 ever did in my life. “As a physician who seeks to help all sufferers I consider it a duty to make these facts public.” Trial 10 days on Grape-Nuts when the regular food does not seem to sus. tain the body will work wonders. “There's a Reason.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich, Ever read the above letter? A mew one appears from time to time, They a8 genuine, true, and full of human + il $. BA b 3 coe Lt LA ng AE A a) ne a . ee ROM his 56th K:birthday on February 12 un- til the night of his assassination the “Great Eman- cipator’” seemed happier than he had been in five years. Was there premonition? £3 omc OO mar In American his tory has carried burdens as heavy as those which Abraham Lincoln bore on his great, patient shoulders reputation as a humoron keen persons and bore the outward appearance Of utmost dignity and funereal solemnity a meian of tories and lation of the martyred president was Indiana and central [llinois father was a sort of ne'erdo-weli ¥ illness Wher fell in lo who . A161 8 i ard and t} planned to marry-—though he ¢ rately poor ture at she went Jacksonviile, Presen wa i academy that she was dead. This Ane ed to his early grief awkwagd coun president with ivil st along unde mourner. Then sunshine end a ray of came The president sg pianned bind a North and South he Nearing an peace ahead, fie io ons wounds He nat alike became happier--rather, was expanding But nce again the glittering lance fate aown for out. Thi the vi it haif ary A of malignant shot it brought played with Laicoin! The many the works of mercy was sent by Abraham Lincoin from the White House on his last birthday alive, It typities the it of the man in the last days of his following telegram, of one instances of his ap took, not only towards individuals but were opposed in arms to the Unlon. ‘Major General Hooker, Cincinnati, ‘Is it Lieut. Samuel D. Davis whose sentence is commuted, If is there not a: associate of his also in trouble? Please answer, A. LINCOLN.” The military rigors of the closing days of the war compelled harsh meas ures, not only in dealing with the ene my but in dealing with those within the forces of the North who were gull ty of desertion, neglect or treachery. and the columns of the dally papers of the time were replete with para graphs headed, as a rule, "Execution of the Conspirators,” “The Spies Shot” or “Execution of «www Doserters.” A perusal of his papers during the weeks preceding and following his not Arn, CONDENSATIONS Admiral Jellico entered the British navy as a cadet before he was thir teen years of age, and now has been in the service for 43 years. A great system of windmills ia be- Ing experimented with in Kansas to pump the wnderground water to the surface for the purpose of irrigation. Concrete aréhes resting on bed rock have been bullt in a New Hampshire coemotery to support gravestones in land too soft to support them itself, { | SAAD QF LLC 1865, show attention wonth of Feb tele cxXecu least or delaying reports of en he i ramination held 1 others he i that had the deer was his han he al to con the Was Was slow ble of and itaedf had is Hn 1865. ot outside his would be a small per # y besct by BOTTOW birthday the vortex wmnize the iimeelf was 5 known, however, that rihday season saw the president ful, more hopeful i the other should save War recently met « government on a Roads and al interview had led noth ident felt that the dissen between the commission South meant a speedy the conflict iampton to dl Hay, writing of general feeling in Febra i interview with doubtless his former convictions lion was waning in en resources, and that the must triumph at no dis tant day in his renewal of four years nal leadership and hopefully inspirited by every sign of the war, his shorten by generou conciliation period of dreadful His temper was not one of exultation, but of broad, patriotic char ity and of keen, personal ympathy for the whole country and all its people, South as well as North. conversation with Stephens, Hun | ter and Campbell had probably re vealed to him glimpses of the under current of their anxiety that fraternal bloodshed and the destructive ravages of war might somchow come an end.’ Jt before the president's birthday the house of representatives passed » resolution requesting the president to communicate to it such Information as he might deem compatible with the concerning hia inter with the Confederate commis stoners The president sent to the house a message sammarizing the transactions on board the steamer, which actually amounted to nothing ay His COmmIissioners thusiasm { Union cau ure POTS ictory in only to the early v | thought was sensitive Hi to view nn, ~ PAPI, The Hohenzollern fortune, which to taled $5,000000 when the great grand father of the present kaiser died, is now estimated at seven times that figure. Eighteen months ago the kals. er paid a military tax of $065,000, There are many earlier records of human affairs, but the first historian now recognized as such was Hero dotus, the great Greek, who wrote in the fifth century B. C. The Old Test ament andy the Book of Kings are also, of course, among the most an. clent of historical works. ixary at all This mes received Sage was 10 and a short discussion oc the house, According to Hay February urred Nicolay in and ordinary Crats party who presi while of the tice with hope was quickened hened by eons nated.” This feeling throughout the country congress was boc Wi On nis he evident wiay, ming fast birt! the president mmented on it It showed hind . Wirted to the cementing #0 much so that friends t Flew ti 3 aiid id and that he completion the Union. ivisers 3 his would of Almost in the nature of birthdays to been thimt iat President Lincoln elected president tates irth fon ships Shes into The atured IVA with ng great the newly day ol i On the day the man had sent from Savenng Ney very first of the cot York and Newport, R. | ewspapers of February 13 f« announcing the arr of the vessels and commenting t from ris of the South cotton & were also filled with dis ling the i's campaign against to formulate it that Appomattox should end the had compieted None the with greater gratifi and it was of this period of his on him that he wrote address, which sympathy, so character the progres Lee, which £0 aelf war, Sherman march to the sea viewed approach of peace than did with the spirit last birthday ug his second inaugural is fraught with human axpressive of the man. The dent's Lincoln, of sad story of the great prest death is familiar to all That it was to follow so closely on his inst birthday, lightened by hope and gratitude for the success of the Union ause, none could foresee, unless, as some writers declare, president himself had forebodings of it In all events, it is pleasant to con temuplate that the closing months Abraham Lincoin's life were gifted with a feeling of peace which for long "OO the paragraph of his second inaugural ad dross: "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.” Evening Up. “Excuse me, suh,” said Mr. Erastus Pinkley, “but did you know dat de quarter you done persented me wif was counterfeit?” “Certainly not. Let me see {t.” “1 ain’ got it no mo’. What 1 de sired to say is dat if you's got any mo’ of ‘em to pass out f'um time to time I would be mos’ appreciative to bs remembered. De men 1 shoots erap wif bas been so lucky dar ain’ no sense 0’ me stayin’ in de game unless dav carries some handican.” KEYSTONE STATE LatestNews Happenings Gather- ed From Here and There. The | Board waz | of policies State Workmen's informed that written by the to 8,000 Insurance the number was close state Dairy rought suit against adelphia for the sale of Lo State standards conversing with her home Reading, Mra id, fell in Yenn, LY vear 0 irt fallure 1 Coal & announced a wage in ¥ for its de thal Workinen's er sii Le three round: forced oper escape be the office r explosions the alarm the Sint« nal Education says ration in Pennsyl continuation school classes classes in 104 =chool die 1 in order to accommodate the has necessary to pro class rooms and untion school teach tatement issued by Yocatl be Op an of hat there inia 415 are in are beon ¢ to employ 218 coniiy Chocolate Company dis- among its employes a bonus per cent. on salaries or wages of those continuously in its em ploy for the six months preceding Jan uary 1. Of the whole force, § per cent. received the bonus, The amount distributed was over $100,000. All gm. ployes, from office boys {0 exceutives, participate, and there are about as many females as males. The Hershes of twenty According to the report of Aaron Raker, Shamokin, Northumberland County Controller, $592,280.65 was re ceived from all sources during the fiscal year just ended, and $53R667.07 apent, leaving a balance of $53,632.48, Central Dauphin county farmers at Halifax, in annual institute, were told it was their business to be good sell ers, as well as producers, Advice was given as to how to make the soll yield nore, and conservation, rotation and the sales end of farming were dis cussed. | QUIT MEAT IF KIDNEYS BOTHER AND USE SALTS Take a Glass of Salts Before Break fast If Your Back Is Hurting or Bladder Is Irritated. It you must have your meat every day, eat it, but flush your kidneys with salts occasionally, says a noted author ity who tells us that meat forms uric acld which almost paralyzes the kid neys in their efforts to expel it from the bicod. They weaken, then misery in the kidney pains in the back or @ dizziness, your stomac) is coated and when have urine gets clouds channels often obliging three times during To neutralize these the urine become sluggish and you sufler with dull kar; dache tongue ner is bad rheumatic The get sore and eK relief the night frritat to cleanse the body's ounces of Jad 8: macy here; take a tables glass of water before break few days and your kidneys This famous s: from the acids of grape: Juice, combined with been used for generat stimulate glugg ; neutralize the act longer irritates, weakness Jad JR Sal kidneys and ana Backache hott pains Gis ir a ‘ - age when tre : Ts “YAGER'S LINIMENT is a safe and sure remedy “The Relief Was Instant” ¥r.ioa ¥ Baum aw wr bes ered With ron ee At ot Sesiors. Ra cigh! ounce bultie for 28. Prepared Wy Gilbert Bros. & Co. loc. Baltimore, Md. 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