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7 a f or Ti RC rj REG1STERgp -4.t -. F. S. ROYS' PLAYING CARDS. Peouliarities of Those Used by the Different Nations. "One of the most interesting collec tions of foreign loot that I've seen recently," said a man ordinarily too busy to make the trip over the seas himself, "is an assortment of playing cards from various parts of She world. "In every country the owner of the collection visited-and he went to a good many-picked up cards of local manufacture and so represen.tative r1 the nation. "The Russian cards are perhaps the most elaborate. The faces of the kings and queens are different in each suit, indicating the racial elements that go to compose the empire. "On the Greek cards clrssicul heroes -(and heroines are represented. Nestor, for example, Is the king of hearts and Or*-stes the knave. Agamemunon is the king of clubs, Hercules the jack of splades and Minos and Danae the king and queen of diamonids.-' 'The Greek l)ack is rather a clhqi one and scarce ly does honor 'to fhe celebr.ities por trayed.( "Cadiz is -a ce ter for card maunufac turing. Thue of the Spa.nish card maker se9p9g' to be to get as much color Wi qt'coards as possible. The royal robes are of unusual magnificence. :The clubs are big bludgeons In green and red, and the knave of clubs, gayly csparisoned on a prancin;g horse, re mids you instantly of Jack the Giani Killer. The spades are ugly little dag. gers, and for hearts and diamiomb there aire disks and dice cups. Th< cards in some of the Spanish packs art very thin and have a capital spring. "The Madeira cards come from Lis ha 1. The figures are more convention d l e.sign than on the Spanish. Th ace cards are adorned with typica P'ortuguese scenes. "A peculiarity of the palck bought ir Constantinople is that the ace cards i atklition to the single spade, dia or heart in the center o1 -*..,'e uimilnutive dices at the up per~ left hiand and lower right hand "The Italian face cards portray qe cidedily gloomy personages. Each onW of the faco cards, by the way, carriet in saillnt thefname and address of the maker. There are tiny packs, ai Inch and a quarter by an inch ni -three-quarters in size, which can be bioughit on the streets of Naples for soldo. These resemble the Spanisi S curds to some extent, although thn royalties are more dignified. "Cairo is a great card emporium, ani Mlousky. street offers rich returns t<n the card hunter. FIortunie tolling cardi must be in demand there, to judgn from the samples I saw In the collec tion. The Cairo playing cards comn . ,mostly from Germany. They are bril llant In their coloring. The aces carrj scones from lands both west and east. "The gem .of all the packs comeu from Switserland. The cards are rnall, one and three-quarters by tw<n and h half inches In size, and the bacl design is the edeiweiss. The kings queens and janks are delightful studiem in Swiss costume, arid the purchasei certainly gets his money's worth, foi each face card has two half figurem quite unlike. On the aces are Swism scenes and objects of Interest, also tw< to a caird, the subjects including thn atle of Chilion, the' Matterhorn, th< bridge at Lucerne and the Lion of Lu cerne -Inadianapolis Stat. Siiv.ring Mirrors,. Mirrors arenallyi) silvered, by coat ing the glass vith amalgam. tFor this purpdse a larUo perfectly flat stone is yrvdi.and tlp~ t. is evenly spread A b 0 . ~ ti o fthout crack or ~ COM~41to the depth of renty-one 1yster rtilizei have been the because they ar from honest m See that the tra< is on every bag. genuine without 'EIR GUANO CO., Nc cury. 'The plate of glass, perfectly A cleaned from all grease and impurity, is floated on to the mercury by sliding, so as to exclude all air bubbles. It is then pressed down by loading it with weights in order to press out all the mercury which remains fluid. This is received in a gutter around the stone. After about twenty-four hours it Is gently raised upon its edge, and in a few weeks it is ready to frame. His Perseverance. Henry Arthur Jones, the noted Eng lish playwright, was giving the stu dents of Yale an address on the drama. "Your American vernacular Is pictur esque," he said, "and it should help your playwrights to build strong, racy plays. But neither vernacular nor any thing else is of moment if persever ance Is lacking. No playwright can succeed who is like a man I know. I said to this man one New Year's (lay, 'D'o you keep a diary, Philip?' 'Yes,' he answered. 'I've kept one for the first two weeks in January for the last seven years.' " H is Good News. "I have," said a lawyer as lhe entered his condlemnedI client's cell, "good news at last." "A reprieve ?" eagerly exclaimed the prisoner. "No, not a reprieve, but your uncle has left you ?500, and now you can meet your fate with the satisfying feeling that the noble efforts of your lawyer in your behalf will not-go unre warded."-London Tfit-Bits. Hon.at. Boarder (on leaving) - Madam, you are one of the most honest persons I have ever met. Landlady--I aim glad to hear you say that, sir. Boarder Yes; your honesty is consj"uous on the very front of your establishment. Your sIgn says, "Boarders taken inl" Ifwe fail to conquer smaller diffleut snultedi by greater?aT'jhomas a Kemn BI(G CARNATIONS. They Were Cultivated in England in Shiii:espeoare's Time. A frst xays that we& iride ourselives nowadays on tihe size of our carna tiouns, but tIne uiorists ot 300) years ago grew enrnations three to four inches across, as large as any that we see. and1( thought nothing of it. "All through Spain, southern France a nd Italy the carnation is the favorite f lower and &as been for hundreds of 1years, b)ut along the Mediterranean there are fewv glass houses, for In pro tected situations and on southern slopes of hills even delicate flowers - grow outdoors all winter long and bloom11 as freely at Christmas as in July. "'T.he big earnations, however, were not grown in SpaIn or Italy, but in E0ngland outdoors during the summer time and before glass houses were known. They may have grown just Ias large carnation flowers in Spain as in England a~t that time, but in Eng land there was record made of the fact and also of the size, while in Spall there was not. Shakespeare mentions carnations and gillyllowers, or July flowers, together as blquning at the same season, which sh w\s th at the carnation was then a summer flower, whereas in our greenhouses it is now a wilnter bloomer. Ilow the florIsts of those days treated the plants to ot' tain blooms of such size nobody knows, for old time florists grow flowers in stead of writing book~s about then. So all we know is,that they had very large carnations In Queen Elizabeth's time without knowing how th~ey were gurown,"-0t. Isul Goe.amaam fears ;tandard e made iterials. le mark None it. rfolk, Va. 0 Certain (.use for Ornup Ut-d to- Te C] Y Teara W\ Ithout a Fat)ur. j \1r. W. ll. Bott, a 5tair City, Ind. hur< ware merchant, is onthusiastio in ii praise of Ch1inherlainl's Cough Remedy His children have all hi en subject t< eroup and lie his usel this remnedy foi rhe piet ten years, a nd tl'ugh the' -1uch fvaru i the era'up, his wife aaid h. Iwaays fmt safe Ufonl re ring.' when it ".ottil of lainb riait's Connb R,.n edy w%ra i thi' 110use. lis olest, child wat, -;ubject to severe attacaks of oroup, but this remedy never failed to efrtot i. speedy cure. He has recominelided it to friends and neighbors and ill who have used it say that it is unequnled foa oroup and whooping cough. For saha by Pickens Drug Co. : A cold Iis nuch mioroi ..aily cure w%hen th bowels arc opened. Kennedy'. Ljuxativu Honey and Tar opens the bow ols rand drives the cold out of tihe .ystem ma yong or old. Sold by Pickens Drug Co. NOTICE. The annitor will ta:ke all returns in ,finCe this yealr excep)1t those taken by no0 taries or mazgistrattes. The people will take notice, no returns :to be taiken by~ paIrties areO signed~c by pai'ties themselesa. Theo time expires Februatry 2() 1907, af terwhlichi time a penalty of 50 per* cent will be a .l'ed ona eaich and every one. So come on and1( imake(( your returns t. avoid penalty. E. F'. Keith, Ex. Aud1. Sore Nipples and Chapped Hands Are quickly- cured by applying Chnambei, a Salve. Try It; it is a success. Price 25 cenits. FOLEYMIOmTAR tEr chaadren: acafe. aure. .Ao opiateS "M A K ES nR H EIMACID althe germs and I spots In the body Niature's way. Pur most powerful ot time regulates the up the entire systi that cures rheumai MOST POWERP CURES DISEA RHEUMACIDI other remedies an Percelle, of Salem, dreds of dollars for by half a dozen b 2120 Ramsay stret man." Mrs. S.A. C It cleansed her blo .After Noted Doctors PeJ Cris a caseeugd by RH E writes from Atkins Va. "Four bottles of RI4EUMJ have entirely cured me of standing case of rheuamati ' areatly improved my e ner r ant or twerty'year s era I weeks and ml ch ecok? THE EDIFYING SOLDIER Sketch' of One of the Great Geri Toy Warehouses. The Troedel market is on a littlE land in the heart of the old towi Nuremberg. Along the north bra of the river is an old, low eaved he with a little darkling doorway. W you have got so far you are )net i little old nan-a rusty little man - looks as though he were made of m -who leads you into the great mys ous warehouse of toys. Round all the walls they are ran -guns, cannons, motors, st6amsl trumpets, sabers, and everywhere soldiers. How many millions of mi :oldiers have marched away froth Troedel market not even the 'usty lnan could tell you-mighty articlei pewter and tin. Hundreds of regiments, of battali of dlivisions, are' dirawn upl on shelves, waiting for the day when I shall be sent out into battle. with a kind of pride the rusty old r says, "They are edifying soldiers." That Is the German way of putt it. What it means is that each a1 illustrates a battle or a camipal-, the war of Troy, the camiaigus Alexander, the exploits of Coeur Lion, the war of thirty years, siege of Orleans, the victories of poleon, the battles of 1870 and i one I liked best) that desperate bit in which a tiny tin hero with gle lug teeth rough rode It up San J bill. In a word, the edifyin; sold] teach history, geography, strateg Vance Thompson in Everybody's. EATING IN PUBLIC. The Varied Sorrows of the Crit Man Who Dines Out. What chance has the diner out being completely happy? The to actions of eating and drinking are i ther pretty nor conducive to show: people at their best. It Is really most uncouth sight to see a man o woman stoking food. The necess of being polite at the same time mai it uncomfortable as well. No soo have you got into conversation witl pleasant woman than the soup in y< mustache stops all inspiration. I despises you for your play with y( napkin. and your mustache is out shape. And who can feel that evening is going to be what he ho when he realizes that his shirt fron smirched with some relic of the mt( Indeed, dinner parties are really struggle between eating and talkin struggle which does not always e as do most things, in the survival the fittest. 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