Household Remedy Taken In the Spring for Years. Ralph Rust, Willis, Mich., writes: '"Hood's Sarsaparilla has been a house hold remedy in our home as long as I can remember. I have taken it in the spring for several years. It has no equal for cleansing the blood and ex pelling the humors that accumulate dur ig the winter. Being a fanner and ex posed to bad weather, my system is often affected, and I often take Hood's Sarsa parilla with good results." Hood's Sarsaparilla is Peculiar to Itself. 1bero is no "just as good." Get it today in usual liquid form or shocolated tablets called Sareatabs. Constipation Vanishes Forever Prompt Relief--Pwemaent Care CARTER'S LITTLE VER PILLSeve but y nQRTEDS bt ser, eITTLK Stopr. IVER all....PhI S. distre-_ awe indi. n--do improve the complexion-'te 4oeyes. Small Pill, Small Dese,5swall ic'el Genuine musbaz Signature Who so neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and Is dead for tho future.-Eurpidos. Consti pation catuses and aggravates niany rious diseases. it iN thoroughly cured by r. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. 'I'ie favor family laxative. If you move to another lait this spring you will have to get used to a Lew set of noises and neighbors. gror 11EEADAC(111E--111lls CAPUDINEC whethet' fro CotisIq, IHent. Stomnnieh or tiervouin'rotibles, ('apcitIe wiln relieve yoti. It' h 14 it Idt --pi n 1 t t) ta eI - - l~tI 1inta1i-tu - otely. Try it. W0c., 25c., atid 5O ceits ut drug 4.toren. Justified. \Wacge-Why did Hlenpeck leave tho church? Jag--Somnebody told him mar rlages were mI-ado in heaven.--Jtdge. -Open-AIr Schools Increasing. 'Sw January 1, 1907, sixty-fIvo open-air schools for children aillicted 'vIith or predisposed to tuberc.ilosis tiiavo been established In twenty-eight %cities, accorlding to anl announcement iade by tho National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tubercu iosis. The first. open-air school in the United States was established on Jan tiary 1, 1907, by the board of educa tion of Providenco, R. I., at the in 'Ctanco of Dr. Eillen A. Stone. The T.ext school was established in 4Iay -of the same year at Pittsburg, and the third at Boston in July, 1908. Ac cording to tho reports received by the National Association, the result of the open-air class-work has been to re store Inost of the children to normal bealth and oefilciency. One of these opeinl-ir schools or classes should be - established for each 25,000 p)oputla tiVon, especially In cities. .THESE MONEY BURNERS. MP.iss Blondsen Stocks (at Monte Car ko)-What lu".k yesterday? Miss Billyuns--I won twenty thou nd or lost twventy thousand, I forget ~hich. _______ DAME NATURE HINTS 'When the Food Ia Not SuIted. T When Nature gives her signal that -something is wrong it is generally with the food; the old D~amo is always taithful and one should act at once. To put off the chango is to risk that 'which miay bo irreparable. An Arn .gona ma-n says: "For years I could not safely eat *ny breakfast. I *.ried all kinds of breakfast foods, but they were all -soft, starchy messes, which gavo me -distressing headaches. I dr-ank strong - coffee, too, which ap~pea~red t~o benefit ane at the time, but added to the head achos afterwards, Toast and Coffee ?were no better, for I found the toast eory constipaung. "A friend persuaded me to quit cof tee and the starchy breakfast foods, annd use Postum and Grape-Nuts in -stead. I shall never regret taking his advice. "The change they have worked it igne is wonderful. I now have no mort 'tat the distressing sensations in my 'stomach after eating, aind I never havi any' headaches. I have gained 1i pounds in weight and feel better it every way, Grape-Nuts make a do ticilous as well as a nutritious dish and I find that Postum Is easily di gested and never produces dyspopsis symptoms." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creeks, Mich. Get the little book, "The Road t< :lW'ellile," in pkgs. "There's inbeason." Ever' read thAe atmve letter? A new .s,,se appeas from time to etie. Thel s* genauiae, true, -ad full of hum.. ter-est. Inthel By EFFIE (Copyright, 911. by Ass: I0; could never bring my self to marry a coward. I've inade up my mind to that, Jim. Father says you are one, and the worst of it is 1-I can't deny it." There was a note of sor rowful regret in Jessie Leighton's voice as she uttered this decision. "I know I am a coward," Jim Bar low acknowledged humbly, as he sauntered along the country lane be side her. "I've been afraid of things aver since I was frightened so in that horrible railroad accident when I was a little chap. Try as I may I can't seem to help it." "Aunt Martha says a man that's half a man should be able to protect a woman from every danger," Jessie continued, as if she had not heard her companion. "And a coward never could do that. Why, Jim, in battle you'd run away the first minute you sighted the enemy, before even a sin glo gun was fired, you know you would." .Jim lBarlow's handsome, bronzed ftace lushed with anger. "Your Aunt Martha hasn't ever needed any man to protect her," he jerked out. "What does an old maid know about what a man should or should not do, anyway? And there isn't any war, nor likelihood of it, that I know of, so I don't think you need fret about whether I could face the enemy or not." "Now, don't get cross, Jim," Jessie begged. "I didn't mean to be unkind. I suppose you can't hell) not being brave. llut when a girl trusts her wholo future to a man's keoping she wants him to be brave---she wants to bo able to look u1) to him and respect him." "I'(d make you a goo(d husband, Jes sie." .li pleaded earnestly. "I'm not a half bad follow, and I've a fairly good ed11ucation. I'm not afraid to work, either; and to my thinking that counts for more in these days than "Now, Don't Get Cross, Jim." mere phlysical bravery. I own one of the best farms around here, and I have something in the bank besides. I can give you as comfortable a home as a gir'l could wvish. I hate to see you go on drudging at school teach ing, year after year. when I know you detest it. If you didn't care for me, it wvould be bad enough, but I could bear it like a man, and not say a wvord more. It's the knowledge that it's only my cowardice that's keep lng us ap~art that nearly (drives me crazy. If I could only (10 something to prove to you that I could be br'avo - -that I could protect you from every danger- but I can't, I can't." Jim's tones had become tragic, and his face showed the anguish he felt, though Jessie could not see that in the fast gatheing dlarkness. Ills words smote ho)' hear't, how ever, and the tears fillled her blue ''Please don't take it so hard, Jim,"' she besought him self-reproachfully. "I'd do as you want me to in a mlin utte if I 'ouldI. Perhaps some time you'll do something that is really bravo and then---" YHere her voice ifaltered and (lied out. Jim plunged forward in gloomy si lance, lie knewv his own limitations too weoll. Ilesides, her unfinished sen tence showe'd him that her hope of bravery on his part w'as small. As Jessie quickened her Bteps to keelp pace wvith those of her silent companion, she heartily wished that she had not permitted Jim to see her home. She might have kbown what would happen! This made tho third time Jim had proposedl to her, and it was very hard for her to keep on refusin1g. The two young people were so ab, sorbed by their own unhappy thoughts that they failed to notice the fast gathering clouds, which made it much darker than the hour warrant ed, until .Jessie whis brought to a sud den realization of her surroundings by a big drop of rain on her face. "Oh, Jim, I do believe it's going to rain," she cried, in dismay. "That's so," said Jim, arousing him self, and scanning the sky. "L~ookm as if we might have quite a down pour." "Oh, what shall we do?" gasped Josale. "We are half a mile front asture STEVENS K clated Literary Press.) home, around by the road, and there isn't a house near. My best hat will be spoiled. "We'll have to run for it, I guess," Jim declared. "Couldn't we make a short cut through Farmer Gifford's pasture?" Jessie suggested. "His creatures are all in the other pasture now, you know." "The very thing," Jim agreed. He let down the rickety bars, and the two started across the field. When they reached the middle of the pasture Jessie came to a full stop, clutching her companion's arm frantically, and shrinking close to his side. "Oh, Jim, look!" she breathed. The dim outline of a member of the bovine family loomed up huge and startling, in front of them. "It's that dreadful animal of Henry Potter's," Jessie shuddered. "Oh, what shall we do?" Jim's face blanched beneath Its tan. A shudder of fear swept through him. He cowered back a step or two. Terror was on the point of over mastering him. Then a thought flashed Into his mind. He remem bered having seen a couple of men at work in this very lot that after noon. Courage filled his heart. Here was the very chance he had longed for--well, not exactly that, but one that would answer as a make shift, he reasoned-to show , Jessie that he could be brave on occasion. A look of grim determination settled upon his face as he smothered a slight feeling of shame for what he was about to do. Then lie called out, "Run for the fence, Jessie. I won't let him hurt you." "Oh, .iin, I can't go and leave you," Jessie faltered. "Run." Jim commanded in a tone that she could not refuse to obey. She ran as she had never run be fore, stumbling over hummocks with out heeding them, and sobbing aloud 111e a child, fron sheer excitement. "How cruel I have been," she thought. "And to think he, in spite of his fear. was ready to risk his life for me! Oh. how ashamed I am!" Jim did not move from the stand he had taken before the huge, gloom shrouded figure. until Jessie had reached the fence in safety, and had climbed over it. Then he did a curious thing. He deliberately turned his back upon his adversary, which, by the way, had apparently not moved a muscle since Jessie had first spied it, and ran. The great form still stood like a graven image where he had left it. With a bound Jim vaulted lightly over the fence. "Oh. you are brave," Jessie sobbed. clinging to him. I'll never forgive myself for calling you a coward. You wvere splendid. Oh, Jim. I take every. thing back-everything. I do love you." Again Jim smothered a feeling akin to shame, as ho stooped and kissedl the sweet, tear-wet face, up raised to his. On his way home, a little later Jin stoppledl in at Farmer Gifford's. "There's an animal in your south pasture I'd like to buy," he sah'. with assumed carelessness. "Why, there ain't any animal there excep~t that cow sign-board Potter's men put up there this afternoon." twelve-year-oldl Willie Gifford burst out wonderingly. "You shut up, bub," his father com manded sternly. Then ho gave Jim an understand ing wink. "Saw you and your girl going through there awhile back," he re mar-kedl. "I guess nothing serious would happen if the thing disap peared r-ighut now. Potter didn't even ask leave for putting it there. Only dlon't leave any kindlings lying ar-ound." Just as the towvn clock struclk 12 long dIrawn-out strokes a supreme ly happy man climbed the fence ol Farmer- Giffor-d's south pasture, and soon, by the light of a lantern, an ax wvas singing to the tune of "All's Fair in Love and WVar." Bunt the man would have been con siderably surp~risedl could ho have heard a blushing faced girl whisper lng to herself, in the seclusion of her own room: "Oh I hope Jim will never find out that I saw llenry Petter's meni putting that sign-board up. HIe would never forgive me for know ingly playing him such a trick. Bunt I couldn't help It. I had to have an excuse for accepting him." During the Trial. "When I got through with my re marks," saidl one lawvyer-, "the jury wvas in tear's." "Yes," replied the other; "they prob ably r'ealized then that y-our poo01 client hasn't a chance in the wvorld." The Amateur Plumber. "So far as I know, Twobble has ab solutely no crotchets." "On the contrary, Twobble rides ene of the miost expensive hobbies imag inable." "You surprise mec." "Hd has an idea that he cas men4 a brak in a water pipe." WAVE OF GRIME SWEEPS RUSSIA Criminals of Every Class and Sex Run Amuck in 'Empire. CITY PRISONS ALL ARE FILLED Nobles, Officials, Students, Outlaws, Police, All Are Carried Along In the Vicious Flood Which Is Spreading Through the Country. St. Petersburg.-A fresh wave of crime and violenco is sweeping over the Russian empire; in its flood are carried aristocrats, officials, students, desperadoes-all alike. The prisons overflow with political and other pris oners; in almost every university, col lege and high school collisions be tween the students and police con stantly occur. Daily revelation is imade of bribery and theft by the high est officials, some of whom have been the czar's favorites. Of ill this not a word is published by the press, but the news spreads-h-avels under ground among the revolutionaries; travels over the heads of the people to those in the court circle. Gen. Benebott, chief of police of Moscow, a friend of the czar, was ac cused of forgery and of protecting dis reputable houses. An investigation by Senator Neidhart proved that the police functionary had been taking bribes and committing other crimes. The czar has permitted his friend to resign. Ten million dollars has disappeared from the coffers of the Siberian rail way. Several railway olicials are under suspicion, and an investigating committee is trying to learn what has become of the money. Princess Lebanoff-ltostovsky has been placed under technical arrest and her imansion has been searched. The grand duchesses and grand dukes have been guests of the princess, even the czar has visited her. The kins woman of a former influential cabinet minister, Princess Lebanoff-Rostovsky Train Hold-Up In Russia. has played a great role as grande dame, and~ has managed the affairs of the fled Cross society and handled its money, It remains a mystery whether her disgrace is caused by a political intrigue or by the dIsappearance o1 Red( Cross funds. More than 100 students have beet1 arr-ested in St. Petersburg during the last week. Simultaneously the stu dents have been in conflict with the police in Kieff, Kazan, Moscow Tomsk and Odessa. It was almosta pitched battle in Odessa; six persom~ were killed and 50 wounded. Four men, masked andl armed seIzed, bound and gagged the agent at the liablanitza railway station Polen, at midnight. They robbed thi isafe of $3,000 in cash and destroyed all the tickets and documents in the o!lice. Twelve desperadoes, armec( with the best repeating rifles, haltet a train near' Tchieliabinsk in broat daylight, bound the engineer' ami postatl agent, stole $7,500 from the pos tal car safe andl escaped. SEA'S WINTER DEATH TOLl One Hundred Vessels Wrecked anc 125 Lives Lost on North AtlantIc In Severe Storms. Boston .-F:lly 125 persons per inhed in accIdents which befell Nov flnglalnd, Canadian and Newfoundlam~ vessels, or other craft which met dis aster in western upper North Atlani tic waters during the fall and wvin ter- season now ended. It is impos sible to announce the exact numbe of lives lost as a missing Glouceste schooner, the Ella M. Goodwin, wvitl her- crow of ten men may yet be afloa in northern ice fields, and as statis tics of lest Newfoundland fishermer are incomplete. In all 100 vessels wer~e ashore sunk, abandoned, burned or in co] lision during the last sIx months. 0 the number 7~5 were schooners seven steamers, seven barges, three barkentines, two barks, two brigan tines, two tugs, one a $25,000) auxil lary steam yacht and one a p)owe boatt. Sixty-five of the 100 were tota wrecks, the majority halling fronr New' England ports. The loss of lit oi stranded vessels was greatest or the Massachusetts and Newfoundlani asts. - AN INVI We cordially invit . all ginne proved ginning machinery to visi in May and see the wonderful machinery under actual ginning number of fine ball games and ot Company will endeavor to make of the time. This is an importa all interested parties will come. trip will have their expenses refu will come so we can provide LUMMUS COTTON GIN CO] WITH THE PJ China cuts off her queue ,and the rest of the world-claiming to be more civilized-curls it and puffs it and wear it. Queer freak of fashion. -Memphis Commercial-Appeal. A consignment of the new Paris skirt has reached New York. It is really somewhat bifurcated, it must be admitted, but please do not call it or them trousers, plead the dress makers. A Frenchman has proposed a law taxing all the cats ,in Paris. We would like to know, however how he proposes to collect the tax from those that appear only after midnight? -Dayton News. If the Baltimore papers are right, a lady pickpocket is doing business in that city. They should encourage her to marry the gentlemanly burglar and begin life anew.-Cleveland Plain lealer. The St. Louis Times has discovered the first violator of tile pure food law -"Yankee Doodle," who stuck a feather in his cap and "called it mac aroni." Perhaps a violator of tile ga:nu law also. What kind of a feather was it?-Los Angeles Herald. Pearson llobson will give us a story for boys. Certainly his speeches were largely fiction, but the old boys would not read and he may now pass them down.-Albuquerque Journal. According to tho census, there is to every square mile in Nevada only seven-tentlis of a muan. To find the rest of 111111 you uilst just step over into the next Square miile.-Memphis News-Scinitar. The report that 100,000 tobacco growers will raise no tobacco this year will, we presume, have no ef fect on the cigarette industry.-St. Louis Timos. To enliven the libretto of The Girl of the Golden West, its peri'rmeirs should interpolate that great Italio American classic, My Greata Biga Brother Sylvest.-ChIcago Journal. Tile "jinswinger," which has been designated the official dress coat of Oklahoma, is described by the gover nor of that state as "any old thing whose tails will flap in the breeze." This seems to promise a new lease of life for tile old-fashioned night shirt.-Cleveland Leader. "Helen pink" is a now shade nam ed for tile daughter of tile president, Miss Helen 'Taft. We know somo1 girls wvho are real fetching in other colors, but who look like Helen p11nk. -Tampa Tr'ibune. A young mnan in Wyoming seated himself over a hundredweight of dyna mite and then exploded it. And the energetic cor'oners of four Wyoming counties, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer, held separate inquests with tile usual fees.-Albuquerque Journal If the good die young, must we suppose the bad become oldest in habitants and lie about their ages, theO weathler and sundry other things? -Hlavana Post. The statement of a New York soci ologist that with forty feet of ground and a g-oat lhe could easily keep tihe w"olf from tihe door' indicates thlat the wolf has a discriminating sense of Ismell.-Louisville Courieer-Journal. Two wvaiters of twenty years ago inl tile Congress hlotel at Chicago now ownI a contrlOlin~g interest in this val uable proper'ty. Perhaps this is an other~ exemplifieatin of thle force of thle adlage that ever'yting comles to thlose w~ho walt. But you've got to kee'p hustling whlile you're waiting. To1peka1 Journal. T1he~ 1)0or womhen have been handed another~ lemlon. The laundr'ymen re liuse to (do the 1)eek-a-boo waists by t IChe pound.-Penclahl Journal. P'ear'y has given Is medals to tile nation, but the removal of tihe duty Ion hides probably prevents Doctor Cook from doing likewisc.-Yor-k Dis patch. Half of Chicago's Sunday mail is said to consist of love letters. Theo customary holding hands Saturday nighlt seems to leave an unsatisfied lon~ging.-<1iinesville Sun. All accomplished contr'ibutor to the World's Work discusses the cost rof living unsder tile hleadinlg, Making Bo11th Ends Meet. But only a miracle Iworker could make one end meet Iwithlout the othler.--Louisville Cor-ier Journal. 'The excitement concerning what is called the new "hiar'm" skirt seonms to 1)0 unwarranted, It is nothing more -than the divided skirt whichl a few sensible American women hlave been wvearing for nearly twenty years in order to enable them to r'ide safely and comfortably in the saddle.-Ro chlester (N. Y.) H~erald. "It has leaked out that King Man. nel was playing br'dge when lhe lost his crown and kIngdom," says tile itichmond Tlmes-Nispatch. Not a few bridge players fare even worse than thlat and lose their heads.-Danville TATION rs and others interested in im t'Columbus, Ga. the first week L,unmus Air Blast and Brush conditions. There will be a her sources of pleasure, and this their visitors enjoy every minute it demonstration and we hope A'hose who purchase on this aded. Write us at once if you accommodation. WPANY, COLUMBUS, GA. RAGRAPHERS This is the season when the "Black Hand' is conspicuous in the South. It is extended, however, not with re volver or dirk in Italian fashion, but for "Crismus gif'."-Colunibia State. The proportion of unmarried women in America is growing larger each year. Is It because the men are too diffident or the girls too discriminat ing?-Los Angeles Herald. That wvoman who married a burglar who had robbed her probably figured it back by going through his pockets while he was asloop.-WVshito. Post. . The Richmond papers are complain. ing of "the Ninth street swamp" in that city. It they had that swamp in Norfolk or Charleston they would be calling it a harbor.-Bristol (Tenn.) Herald-Courier. "Give tho wicked Bernhardt a wide berth " demands a Boston divine. What for? There are enough fat peo pie to fill the wide berths.-Brockton Times. A young man in Indiana killed him self because lie could not understand Poe's poetry. What would he 'have done if he had been reading Brown ing?-Washington Herald. Again It is reported that the hoop skirt is coming back. Not If the wear ers have to pass tho 'Williamson build Ing in Cleveland and the Flatiron building in New York. - Cleveland Leader. "Music hath charims," remarks the New Orleans Picayune. Leaving aside the fact that this can scarcely be called a 'scoop," we hope the Pie ayuno didn't have in mind an electric piano.-Austin Statesman. It doosn't require nmuch provocation to have one-self arrested, nowadays. An American in London has been pinched because he had 2,000 $1 bills in his possession. And it was only the other day that Explorer Peary es caped a like fate by pawning his over coat with the waiter to pay Mrr his dinner. What the safe mona is follow can say with certaiwy.-Roch ester Her.d .. ..-,.c/ Time ,lone can tell whether that carload of motherless and fatherless habies shipped from New York to Texas went from bad to .worse.-Des Moines Tribune. The rumor that Kansas has develop ed a popuilr movement dliscrediting whiskers sounds like a charge of - po litical backsliding--Washingtoni Star. Chantecler is a queer thing to be staged in this .skeptical age, and to orginate in hardheaded France, and to have Maude Adams, petite as she is, for the masterful title r-ole. Can she really crow?-Buffalo News. According to Trho News and Courier a Charleston girl recceived fifteen proposals in one week. But it is not recor-ded that she accepted either Montgomer-y (Ala.) Advertiser. If these tearful scenes bectween (log' loving and childless wvomen and clerks continue to be enacted in our hotel corridors because of irefusal to allowv the pups to be taken into the guest rooms, some kindhearted Iloniface will be justified in erecting a canine hon telry in the capital. city'.-ltichmiondl (Va.) Verginian. Folks who have lived long with the continual bark of the wolf just outside their door wvill get a little snicker out of the firm name of Urf, Uff & Uff, Kansas City, .\o.--Buiffalo News. Harry K. Thawv can pay ono-fifth of his debts. This announcememt sur.' pr-ises those peole whlo thought that the lawyers had got all of Th'law's mioney.--Pensacola News. , A stocking stiletto is the latest weapon to be usedl by wVomen, and this handy wveapon of dlefenmso is said to be attached to the garterm. T1hie light against long hatpins is no doubt the cause of women adopting a newv weap On In place of the time-lhoneored hat. ipin.-Pensacola Jour-nal. P'eary, It applear-s, walked fifty-flve miles in fifteen 'hours. Pooh! Cook must have done twvice as well, at least. Otherwise lie would never have reached the pole. - Cleveland Plain Dealer. American Industries has a special ar-ticle on How an i'mnergoncy Cur'ron. cy Works: The liaragraphoirs' union knows how emorigency currency works. Usually it purchiasos br-eak. fast.--Aiustin Statesman. Woman has invented the term hus. bandette to denote the man Whose wife is wiser- and stronger than 'ie Is. Huhi! Why not cmravenotto? By the way, sonme now word( is wanted to do scrib~e some1 iroughnockcs in womani's gna-b doing carttail orator-y nmdeu- the yellow flng at saloonid d110(oors do mandinug votes.-Nowv Yor'k Toelogranm. "Medical recor'ds ,show," says a nor-ve specialist, "that Per-soins who are not loqual~cious have always been remar-kedh for- their good health," Let himi explain that to his wiie.--Cloe-o lnd Tader.