BIG SOUTHPAW IS PRIZE SLUMBERER.
Bill
wa Bsru tW fc*r»er HTast.£cton
twirls wbe was rtrn'ly pur* based
nw-ittatf b» ths PhUadelx^ita
V«f1—1». at'-er Iwt roit tailed u> land
kirn. it } rakalUr ths athlete
•B® eier h«M dotva a berth ta the bis
J*as-»* l -11 has all others barfctd oC
tb* boards «L#c It castes te taking
**#•- and he ftp: it lbs least par
**cv.ar . . i.; ths t.ate te picks oat for
It *u Isius of tli* that Barts
• as put under *uf ot by Clarks
(sr.S-* aa4 later sold to the Phillies.
tmr.tr * ree*»t salts at Boston the
fU".ass:l tafrler it tbs bo* srss tot
*o £* cook aa4 starts •** sent for to
•art. up Hs pitched three or four
kali* t* a at her atd tksa »stit to
tbs clatkoaas and fell asleep At
Brook! »t hs was set’ out to **rm up
for Caspar. and rrpea*ed the perfortn
at-s falUtc asleep ot the clubhouse
S*sp»
Even during a game In which he Is !
•> orktng. and where every other play- j
er is on edge because of the closeness
A the combat. Burns does not change
. Lis tactics.
I Hiring his career w-lth Washington
he pitched a game In Chicago in which
the score stood 1 to 0 for the Nation
' a Is in the eighth inning. The players
were on a tension watching every
move, but while the Washington play
ers were on the bench in the ninth
Bums fell asleep and actually had to
be aroused to pitch the final Inning.
Then he was so sleepy that the White
Sox pounded him for two runs and
won the game.
Many Players "Beared."
"To bean or not to bean, that is the
cuefTi >n" among most of the American
league pitchers at present. Hardly a j
box S' are is passed that at least one j
batter Is not hit.
BENDER'S PUN WAS UPSET
C'sc* At* etit P tc*er Telia How
Ws**t Be H* P tc^ea Won for
Mew V or* HiynUrten.
TV*.* orl* *or» to ohow how a little
Uiaf trill mart. the starch out o'
bate-hall j tDt*g».« commented
Clir! !t«dr» talking about a game
*t. t t» loot tfuut Rut tell Ford la
V« Tor*
"Tom know lotgooc tad a tin*
bagger *nd It looked as If »* would
ba i.l< *a get fei* there I figured oa
nalEag 6%e*sw» and Ford oa atrike*.
tire* ;*•> r.f Walter sad getting Dan
-is list would bate left the Sr.ede
•tickleg or tiled
1 got tbe two strikes all rlgbi. oa
Eddie Tut I gave tia a ball that
dropped doara and oat It was at rot
tea a ba. aa joe rocld Cad. almost ,
bntiag -U cround aa It broke I
thought te Tz.ig.ti awing at It and
miaa it or else :*»> 1*. along, and then
I retll t' * a fast oae scrota and
get Ua
*Tc*>td of that Pt«Mj opperrut
tbe W aad smithed It on ’.be fir to
Iras*? Slur; tj It vat a sacrifice,
all right. and Jobnaea caste orer It
•aa a > .h'i u get tbe neat men That
la what 1 swan 1 doc t aa> that we
• ooM bare won tne game, as •«
Cnm* Brnscf
-wald*'* til Hum Ford Bui tb* game
U«t Ma 68rrnt if Eddie
*•«*•*> hadn't posed at tb* worst
tall 1 tree all da} That's baseball
ter yea It is always a case of you
Barer cma 1*11."
Ctasiy Voaegsters in Bushes
Bill Martny. 'be free lance scout
for Ptusberg ears there is not much
of a yield its the hushes this year.
-Thar# are plenty of good voua.- fej
laws to loot ar«r." says the veteran
dlarorerer of baseball stars. “t“:t
what • the usaT They have to be
wanders to ted room on a oae. two.
three team tike Pittsburg.' but the dis
coverer of Harry Laris. Fred Parent,
Mike two las. George Gibson. Eddie
Grant. Ear; Moore and a dosen other
light* does not deny that be already
has ren'-red up a clever pair lor early
It looks as If Tenney has a pitcher
In McTigue
"Can Mike Dcr.lin come back?” Is a
base-ball bromide.
Ty Cobb believes that his brother j
Paul Till make good.
Mike Mowrey Is developing Into a !
murderer at the bat.
Old Cy Young takes It as a joke that
they have asked waivers on him.
Walter Johnson Is beginning to
get back to bis last year's speed.
Bill Dahlen manages to draw fines,
although he does not play any more.
"Ebbets after players,” reads a
newspaper headline Brooklyn needs
them.
Young is playing a better third base
for tb«. Boston team than many old
timera. *
Stuffy Mclnnes of the Athletics has
a brother pitching in the New Eng
land league.
Ty Cobb seems to be going after
whatever the manufacturers have to
offer this year.
President Charles Somers of the
Nape denies be is interested in the
New Orleans club.
Hal Chase expects Jim Vaughn to
be as effective as ever, now that he
is in condition again.
Jerry Downs has been regarded as a
failure on first base for Columbus and
is shifted back to second.
Jocko Halligan. the former Eastern
league star, has ben appointed scout
for the Buffalo team.
Hugh Xicol, director of athletics at
Purdue university, has been engaged
to scout for the Cincinnati Reds.
Christy Mathewson appears to be
making pretty good, although he is
said to hate cut down his speed.
Davy Jones of the Detroit Tigers
has been beaned once and sent to first
base three other times by being hit.
Most baseball trades remind one of
the magnate who traded his star for
a yellow dog and then shot the dog.
The campaign for earlier finishes
brought a 00-minute advance In start
ing time for the St. Louis fans at
Cardinals' park.
Inside baseball: To take a pitcher
who has hit for two safeties out of
the game to make room for a pinch
hitter who fans out
Hughle Duffy is keeping an eagle
eye on the doings of the Providence
club because he still owns a third
interest in it.
Joe Jackson is to become a high
brow player If the Cleveland manage
ment can assist him to that. He is
going to college this winter.
Gus Dundon. now utility men and
pinch hitter for the Lincoln club of
the Western league, but formerly of
the Sox infield, is hitting around the
.400 mark.
Tom Jones, the veteran first base
man Detroit sold to Milwaukee last
spring, is playing such good ball some
major league club may be tempted to
draft him again.
BASEBALL CURE FOR INSANE
Treatment Is Not Altogether New—
Expert Says- It Quickens Sluggish
Brains and Wits.
Baseball dope, the batting averages,
league standings, vital statistics and
the rest of the assorted, first-aid-to
the-curious information, is now- being
put to practical use in curing back
ward minds and incorrigible students
in the Newton Technical high school,
Boston.
However, the use of baseball for the
treatment of ailing minds is not alto
gether new, for Dr. VV. O. Krolin, for
mer professor of psychology at the
1 niversity of Illinois, and head phy
sician at the Kankakee asylum, as- i
serts that baseball was usod most ben
eficially while he was at the state in- 1
stitution and he had as an asistant
Frank Pfeffer, who pitched for the
Cubs last year and this year is with
the Boston Nationals.
Dr. Krohn is a firm believer in the
use of baseball as%i treatment fer the
insane, but says that it is especially
valuable in quickening dull wits and
speeding the sluggish brain into ac
tivity.
"loa might say without departing
f-cm the literal truth that baseball
makes the insane sane and the sane
insane." said the doctor. “At least
'he sane often give manifestations of !
violent insanity while the insane seem !
rational while under the influence of
baseball."
The new curative baseball scheme
became effective when it was found
that baseball was something which. If
properly applied, instilled a new In
terest into the fading intellects of the
unfortunates. It made smiles of in
telligence come on their faces Their
l.stless eyes brightened for a moment,
apathy was dispelled, the half-open
mouths closed—all at the mention of
Hans Wagner's batting average and
its comparison to Lajoie's cunning.
Dr. Krohn is an all-around heavy
weight expert In the psychological
lore, and talks Interestingly of his ex
perience with the inmates of the state
institution.
“In Kankakee there are men lu
natics who sit from day to day and
don't move a muscle or think a I
thought," said the doctor. “They don't!
live; they merely endure like a piece :
of furniture. Come up behind a group j
of them and whisper to them. 'How j
about a little game of ball.’ and you'll ;
see a change that is surprising."
Dr. Krohn told of the successful
teams that had been organized from j
the material feund in the asylum.
“They'll take their positions in the
field when the game is called. A man !
who is in for believing himself to be
the missing link is pitcher. Another I
whose ailment results from imagining !
himself a complete Egyptian dynasty j
j is catcher. The first baseman Is the i
same sad fool you will see at other j
times, walking around with his head
thrown back. He is balancing his
nose for fear it might fall off his face
if he didn’t. And so with the test of
them. Crazier than a quilt.
“And the fans. They’re still crazy,
only in a conventional way for the
time being.
“The first ball Is thrown. It's hit.
The batter runs to first base. His
mind is as clear as a looking glass.
“The whole thing is only a case of
making the person occupy himself
with something that is interesting to
him and baseball is one of the very
few things that can interest the in
sane. *
"With the same idea in mind, fac
ulties of schools for backward and in
corrigible students have stimulated the
feeble minded by making them employ
their time working at something they
liked, and the faculties learned that
there was nothing as generally popu
lar as baseball dope.”
JIMMY COLLINS IS RELEASED
Jakey Atz, Second Baseman, Appoint
ed Manager of Providence East
ern League Team.
Jimmy Collins, manager of the
Providence Eastern league team and
formerly with the Boston Americans,
has received his unconditional release
from President Crowlpy. Jake Atz, the !
Jakey Atz.
veteran second baseman of the Grays,
was appointed to succeed Collins.
Dissatisfaction with the way the
team has been directed is understood
to have caused the owners to make
the change. President Crowley said
that every effort would be made to
strengthen the team.
Cubs Get Big Money.
The highest salaried big league
team is Frank Chance's Chicago Na
tional league club. There isn't a
doubt of this in spite of the fancy
price paid to Mathewson at New York
and Cobb. Crawford and MulPu of the
Tigers.
The three Cub outfielders, Schulte,
Sheckard and Hofman, draw down a
total of $12,000 a year, Hofman get
ting more than either of the other
two. Evers and Kllng are close to the
$5,000 mark, Mordecai Brown is over
it and Tinker gets in the neighbor
hood of $4,000. Chance himself pulls
out $10,000 straight salary and also
shares in the dividends of the club.
Neur Neura
of
IklL?
Jiy
Garland Vindication Unused
Attorney General Prepared Statement
Defending His Connection With
Telephone Co., but Cleveland
Did Not Give It Out.
The greatest embarrassment and
the chief annoyance to which Mr.
I Cleveland was compelled to submit
after he became president in 1SS5
were due to the very vigorous and ap
parently plausible attempt to involve
his attorney general, Augustus H.
Garland of Arkansas, in some kind of
pecuniary scandal in connection with
an attempt to organize an independent
telephone company based upon de
■ vices said to have been invented by
another than Prof. Alexander Graham
BelL
There was no man in the cabinet
for whose integrity and ability Mr.
Cleveland had a higher regard. There
were three men whom Cleveland took
from the United States senate to
serve in his first cabinet—Thomas F.
Bayard, as secretary of state; L. Q.
; C. Lamar as secretary of the interior,
and Senator Garland, as attorney gen
eral. Like Senator Vest of Missouri.
Senator Garland had served in the
Confederate upper house before he
was elected to the United States sen
ate. Mr. Cleveland was very fond of
listening to certain of Mr. Garland's
recollections of the days when he was
a member of the Confederate senate.
He did not know Mr. Garland socially
at the time he asked him to enter his
cabinet, yet. within a few weeks after
they first met at the cabinet table,
the president gave to his attorney
general aE large a measure of his con
fidence as he ever gave to any man.
with perhaps one or two exceptions.
Then of a sudden was exploded the
scandal—so-called—of the telephone
company, involving, apparently, the
attorney general. Mr. Cleveland was
greatly distressed. His confidence in
Senator Garland was not shaken, but
he felt as if there ought to be a com
plete denial and one which could not
be questioned, since it was essential
that his administration should begin
without a taint of any scandal.
The matter was discussed at sev
j eral cabinet meetings, Mr. Garland in
sisting that his connection With the
company, such as it was, was abso
lutely defensible, that there was no
taint attached to it.
“But.” said the president, "there
should be some statement coming
from you which may put an end to
these scandals. Will you prepare a
statement of that kind?"
”1 shall be very glad to do it.” Mr
Garland replied.
In some way it leaked out that the
attorney general was to prepare ar.d
make public a statement completely
vindicating himself. The days passed
and there appeared no statement from
Mr. Garland. Splendid silence was
maintained, and many persons won
dered if Mr. Garland was unable to
make a reply. The scandal was a
matter of public discussion for some
months, but at last it died out.
“Now, 1 am able to tell you what
the climax, or the sequel, of that mat
ter was," Mr. George F. Parker, Mr.
Cleveland’s intimate friend and bio
grapher, told me recently. “After Mr.
Cleveland's first term was ended, he
had all of his documents and papers
sent to a house he had taken in New
York. The 'rubbish,' as he called it,
was deposited in an unused upper
room. There it lay for several years.
Then, as Mr. Cleveland was to move
into another house, it seemed to him
best that this mass of documents
should be sorted and most of them
burned or sold for waste paper after
having been torn up. We shut our
selves up in that room for nearly a
week, only leaving it to get our meals
and seek our beds. Mr. Cleveland
ruthlessly destroyed a lot of docu
ments that I was sure had historic
value, but he thought not.
"At last ne discovered in a large
envelope some manuscript. Taking it
therefrom, he told me that here was
the statement prepared by Attorney
General Garland in vindication of him
self in the scandal matter, and an
other statement on the case which
Mr. Cleveland himself had prepared.
He looked curiously and retrospective
ly at these manuscripts. He said that
he had not liked the statement Mr.
Garland had prepared, or rather the
manner in which he had prepared it,
so he himself took the statement,
analyzed it. saw that It contained a
perfect vindication and then spent the
greater part of the night writing out
a statement of his own. There were
18 foolscap pages of manuscript in
these statements.
“‘Tear them up,’ said Mr. Cleve
land. ’they were never published and
there is no reason for keeping them.'
“ ‘But.’ said I. they have very great
historic value.'
*“N'o; silence and public opinion
perfectly vindicated the attorney gen
eral. It was the wiser part not to
publish these statements. If they are
destroyed, that ends the incident.'
"And with reluctance 1 tore the
manuscript into bits.”
(Copyright. 1911. by E. J. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved.)
Put Friend
on His Feet Again
7^___'
Voorhees. When Member of the Upper
House, Obtained Position for Ac
quaintance That Literally Made
Him Put on Harness.
When Daniel W. Voorhees. the "Tall
Sycamore of the Wabash." entered the
federal senate in 1S77 as the successor
of Oliver P. Morton, the great war gov
ernor of Indiana, he was probably the
most widely known Democrat in Indi
ana. and certainly the most popular
member of his party in that state.
He was especially familiar in Wash
ington, for he had already served 12
years as member of the lower house
of congress. He was one of the con- !
spicuous figures in the senate from i
the day he took his seat there until j
Was Ordered to “Sign Thar’
Robert J. Wynne’s Little Experience
With Official Documents on the
Day When He Became Post
master General.
MaJ. Charles De Lano Hine of Vir
ginia. organization expert, a graduate
of West Point, an officer in one of the
regiments serving in the Spanish war,
and later prominently associated with
Vice-President Julius Kruttschnitt of
the Union Pacific Railroad system,
was called to Washington some months
ago to work out a plan for the reor
ganization of the various departments
upon a symmetrical and economic
basis. Major Hine was assigned a
room in the White House and after a
thorough study of the matter he pre
pared his report, which has not yet
been acted upon.
One of the evils in the departments
of Washington Is the custom of long
standing and far reaching practice
which permits chief clerks, or even
subordinate clerks, to sign documents
or communications purporting to have
been read and approved by superior
officers, even cabinet members. It
was Major Hine's purpose completely
to eliminate this method and to per
fect an organization which would
make it possible, or, in fact, inevitable,
that every superior officer should
know the contents of any paper re
quiring his approval and should sign
his own name to it.
When Robert J. Wynne of Pennsyl
vania was postmaster general, in
President Roosevelt’s first administra
tion, he had an experience of which he
was very forcibly reminded when he
heard what Major Hine's intentions
were. For many years Mr. Wynne
was a newspaper correspondent at
Washington. He knew Washington
life, political and public, as thorough
ly as it is possible for any man to
know it He gained a very high repu
tation for integrity and for soundness
of judgment. These were the qualifi
cations which justified his appoint
ment as private secretary to Charles
Foster, secretary of the treasury in
Harrison's administration, and later
as postmaster general.
"Towards the close of office hours
of the day after I qualified for and re
ceived my commission as postmaster
general.” said Mr. Wynne, .“a .clerk
came into my office with a mass of
documents about a foot thick. 1 should
think, and put them upon the desk
before me. I took up the first paper,
ran my eye over it, put it to one side
and said I would look it over later
in the day, or some time the next
day. Then I took up the second
document and did the same thing
with it.
"At last it struck me that here was
an appalling mass of documents each
one of which 1 was expected to exam
ine and then sign. I realized that it
would take me practically an entire
business day—perhaps longer—to do
that one thing, and I also realized
that there was something wrong with
the system that made this necessary.
“As I sat pondering the matter
over, wondering what I should do
about it, the clerk advanced to the
desk, took a pen, dipped it into the
ink, and then, having unfolded the
first document and so arranged it that
the last page was before me. he hand
ed me the pen, at the same time put
ting his finger upon a blank space at
the bottom of the document Then he
looked at me sternly, as one having
j authority, and ejaculated:
“ 'Sign thar!’
"Mechanically I signed Thar." and
then he unfolded another document
went through the same motions, looked
at me again with authority and said
once more:
"•Sign thar!’
“I did so; and in that automatic
manner I. the new postmaster general,
signed thar' my name to thirty or
forty documents of the contents of
which I had not the slightest idea.
"Later 1 was able to improvise a
method by which I had an abstract of
the documents I was expected to sign
placed before me, so that I could get
some idea of what the documents con
tained.”
(Copyright, 1911, by E. J. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved.)
the last day of his third and last term.
Voorhees was a man of massive fig
ure, very broad-shouldered, the tallest
member of the senate, with a very
large head set firmly.
In the senate. Voorhees was care
ful not to indulge in humor of any
hind. He could be sarcastic, but
never humorous; he always resented,
although not publicly, the statement
that his full name was Daniel Webster
\ oorhees, whereas his middle name
was Woolsey. However, in private
conversation with friends, and often
with his Republican associates in the
senate, he frequently indulged in hu
mor that had more or less biting sar
casm in it
Of such humor was an Incident
which occurred in the treasury de
partment. There lived in Indianapolis
at the time Voorhees was United
States district attorney of Indiana, in
the Buchanan administration, a lawyer
who was thought by many persons to
give promise of a very brilliant ca
reer. He was a friend of Voorhees.
Voorhees used to say of him. however,
that he was one of the men whc
strike twelve the first time and then
run down. When he was completely
on his uppers, as the term is, he
sought Voorhees, who was a man of
very tender heart, saying;
“Dan, I wish you would get me a
position in Washington. I am flat od
my back. I haven't a penny In the
world, and no prospects ”
“Well," replied the senator, “I will
do what 1 can on one condition, and
that is that you put yourself into har
ness at last. The trouble with you has
been that you were never willing to
put on the harness. Every man who
gets along in the world has to do that
I mean, put yourself under discipline.
Quit being happy-go-lucky. Put an end
to your philosophy of letting the mor
row take care of itself.”
The friend did not take this advice
in bad part, but promised to put on
harness, and Senator Voorhees got
him a place in the treasury depart
ment that carried a salary of $1,400 a
year.
Some months after the friend went
to work Voorhees visited the depart
ment upon some business one day.
and while wandering through the low
er corridor be saw a man drawing a
little truck, upon which were loaded
canvass bags, evidently containing
specie. To aid the employe in this
work, a series of straps that went
over the neck like a horse's collar
3nd that had traces encircled the
shoulders and body of the man. As
Voorhees passed by aisd glanced, casu
ally at the human beast of burden, he
discovered that the man was none
other than the friend for whom he
had got an appointment In the treas
ury department and. Voorhees
stopped a moment and. after greeting
his friend, said:
“Well. I 6ee that you have obeyed
the letter of my injunction—you have
actually put on the harness. Now, If
you will harness your mind equally
well, you can get back on your feet.”
"I am going to." said the friend.
And he did.
(Copyright. 1911. by E. J. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved.)
Something Overlooked.
He was a man traveling for a hand
fire extinguisher concern and so it
was natural that one of the group talk
ing with him should advert to the fire
that destroyed : portion of the New
York state capitoL
"Yes. a bad fire," replied the agent
“And the stub of a cigar did it"
“So I have read."
“And when the flames were first dis
covered a quart of water would have
quenched them."
“Yes.”
“But there was no quart of water "
“No."
“Wasn’t it singular that they didn’t
have extinguishers on hand?”
“Yes. in a war."
"How do you mean in a way?”
“Why. by providing $ 25,000 worth of
extinguishers some one could have
made $12,000 in graft, and why this op
portunity was overlooked will always
remain a great mystery to me."
i
Value of Good Maxima
Good maxims are germs of all good;
firmly impressed on the memory, they
nourish the will.—Joubcrt.
Birds as Pest Destroyers
Fanners Convinced That Pheasants
Will Prove Valuable as Grass
hopper Exterminators.
Roland C. Voddard is in Boise, after
a trip through the southern part of
the state, where he has been placing
orders for hundreds of pheasants
among the fanners, who have been
persuaded that the birds will prove
valuable as grasshopper extermina
tors.
•1 have placed these birds in Wyo
ming and Utah,” Mr. Voddard said,
“and everywhere I have been most
successful. The birds apparently have
an unlimited capacity tor grasshop
pers. The old-fashioned idea of using
Paris green and other poisons to rid
any country of the pests is rapidly
giving away. The experiment has been
Wed successfully in Utah and other
western states. If turkeys are al
lowed to run in the fields the benefits
are great, for the big birds can live
for a long time on diet of grasshop
pera. The amount of the pests which
the pheasant will consume will be
nearly twice as much.
“The idea of placing pheasants on
i farming tracts for the purpose of do
ing away with the grasshoppers was
started years ago in Kansas, when
farmers of that state ran out of paris
green and had to find some new
scheme of ridding their country of
grasshoppers."
Some Landmark, Believe Us.
“Iowa, I understand." said the pas
senger with the translucent beard
“has a generally level surface, with
no distinguishing features in its land
scape.”
“From which 1 Infer." the pasenger
with the skull cap observed, “that you
never have heard of the Grand Kenyon
of the Des Moines."
And when love speaks, the voice
of all the gods makes heaven drowsy
with the harmony.—Shakespeare,
A Friend's Advice Saves Life
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For sale at all drug stores. Price fifty
cents and one-dollar.
Snakes in Prohibition Maine.
Snakes emptied two saloons in Port
land of the crowds of customers a few
evenings ago. A non-resident ordered
a box of snakes sent to him from the
south for the purpose of cleaning out
a vast number of rats from his place.
The snakes were given a chance to
demonstrate their rat killing ability
and the large snake destroyed 15 in
a few minutes. The snakes were then
taken to two different saloons and in
a few minutes cleared them of the
crowd—Kennebec Journal.
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Would Try Another.
There was going to be a picnic that
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fine day. And when he looked out of
the window at the peep of dawn, it
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"where do they sell idols? I want to
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Feminine Reasoning.
Stella—Her gown is just like yours.
Bella—I don't care if hers is a dupli
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duplicate of hers.—Puck.
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The Humorous Hat.
"Has she any sense of humor?”
“I don’t think so. She can look at
her hat without laughing.”—Lippin
cott’s.
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Romance is not altogether dead.
Even the most hardened old bachelor
has a withered flower somewhere in
his possession.
Mrs. Wmslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma
tion. allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle.
Beauty is seldom completely satis
fying. The birds that sing are not the
ones that are good to eat.
Lewis’ Single Binder gives a man what
he wants, a rich, mellow-tasting cigar.
If we really wish to be, we can be
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