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AN OLD TIME TREAT lampreys Once a Fairly Coveted Dish-in New England. PRIZED BY GENERAL STARK. i j The Old Hero Even Refused One Year to Give Up One of His sixteen Bar- ! rels to an Eel Hungry Neighbor.; Their Former Fame Sung In Verse. I was recently carried back to my i boyhood days by a dinner of lampreys,! locally kntfwn in the olden time as lam 1 per eels because of their superficial re semblance to the true eel. The struc- i tore of the lamprey places it low down! in the ranks of the fishes. In fact a strict classification excludes it from j them. The lamorev is a vertebrate without' a bene. Its spine is but cartilage, and ; there are no other tissues that are even j as hard as cartilage. It has a sucking mouth and seven gi-i openings on each side of the body back of the head. It is the mouth and its peculiar use that are described in its scientific name, Petromyzon marinus, meaning ocean stone sucker. The color of the sea lamprey (to distinguish it from the little lampreys of the rivers) is brown mottled with black. Its maximum length is about three feet. In the early days of New Hampshire lampreys came up the Merrimac and other rivers by myriad thousands and were <^ught by the settlers and salted down for the year's supply of meat as "were salmon, shad and alewives that came up from the ocean at the same time e^rly summer and for the same purpose, the depositing of their spawn In the fresh waters of the rivers and lakes. Most of the fish were caught with seines and dipnets. The lampreys were caught by hand in the shallower water of the brooks. The fishermen waded in where the water was shallow and the current swift and watched for the "eels," as the lampreys were invariably called. In a rapid current lampreys progress by darting for a short distance and then clinging by the sucking mouth to a stone while resting for another plunge. It was then that the men seized them j ?nd threw them to the shore, where belpers put them into recept-aeles. So important was the catching of fish in those days in the town of Derry field, now Manchester, that all work vras suspended when they arrived. There is a story that lacks verification to the effect that the mau appointed to watch for the advent of the fish spied the vanguard on a Sunday morning. He hastened to the meeting bouse, where most of the town was as ; sembled, and interrupted the sermon j "with the cry: "The fish .have come-j The fish have come!" The preacher! stop|ied, pronounced the benediction, and the men all went fishing. There is auother story that General Stark, who had settled down on his ?ai*ra after the Revolution, was asked ; t>y a neighbor for the loan of a barrel | of "eels" for the winter. The general J replied that he couldn't spare any. for! lie had but sixteen barrels to last him j till spring. However much or little truth there may be in these stories, it is a fact: that lampreys formed an important tho frtAil nf cottlprs nt Man- ' ? v* vut ?.y ? ?-"v -- cKester. In 1S53 at the centennial eel-1 b?ration of the incorporation of the; town a poem was read by William Stark in which he- thus referred to the I lamprey^: Our fathers treasured the slimy prize. They loved the eel as their very eyes, j And of one 'tis said with a slander rife For a string of eels he sold his wife. , From %the eels they formed their food in | chief. And eels were called the Derryfield beef. ) And the marks of eels were so plain to | trace \ That the children looked like eels in the ; face. And before they walked it is well con- j firmed That the children never crept, but | squirmed. Such a mighty power did the squirmers wield Cer the goodly men of old Derryfield It was often said that their only care, Their only wish and their only prayer j For the present world and the world to J come V I "Was a string of eels and a jug of rum. My father's boyhood was passed in - - " * i ?. the days or tne "eeis, ana iuu? auei the dams in the Merrimac stopped the ascent of the fish be bought lampreys whenever they could be obtained from fishermen farther downstream. Thus I learned to eat and like them. It was many years since I had tasted them when recently I was delighted by the present of a fine mess of them. They carried me back a generation. Lampreys are fond in the north Atlantic as far south as Virginia, besides being landlocked in some or tne lanes in western and northern New York. While they are not abundant enough to make much impression on the pres" cnt cost of living, a knowledge of their food value and the time and manner of catching them, minus prejudice, "would do a little toward solving a modern problem.?W. H. Huse in 'Rural 3Sew Yorker. Consistent. "Professor, I have made some money, suid I want to do something for my old college. I don't remember what stud " ".J 14 ?? xes l exeeiieu iu, n aii.v. "In my classes you slept most of the timp" wUm! Well, I'll endow a dormitory." ?Chicago Journal. There is iio cutting of the Gordian lnots of life. Each must be smilingly unraveled.?Robert Louis Stevenson. : FORGETFUL LESCHETIZKY. the Great Pianist Was One of the Most Abs?ntminded of Men. That famous pianist and stili more famous teacher of musk*. Theodore j Leschetizky. was mif of the most absentminded of uieu. One day. h iving; experienced a slight symptom lie though; he would visit his J doctor and provide against a repeti' tion. Tlie day was ( loudy. and he | started forth uiulucKa in hand. Before reaching the nearest avenue it began to sprinkle, and he hailed a pass ing street car. Settled comt'oriably in a corner, he sank into meditation and was lost to material cii'cums.unces im! til the conductor aimounce.1: "End of route. Passengers will please descend." " ! Obediently rlie musician descended. He bad passed the doctor's bouse long ago, besides, be bad forgotten wbere be was going. A friend wbo happened r to pass a few moments later, found I bim standing on the curbstone?his umbrella up. although it was no .longer raining?glowering intently at the ! brimming gutter as he tried to remember bis errana. Explanations followed, ami fripnri lan?rhin<rlv advised him to return home. "Also, you will have my company all the way," he added genially. "That is to say, if you do not mini stopping a moment at Dr. So-and-so's, where I i have promised to call for a prescription for my wife." "Not at all; not at all!" cried Leschetizky, beaming., "My dea?.fellow, you have told me my desination. I, too. was tfoinsr to Dr. So-and-so for a | prescription." The friends proceeded to the doctor's and obtained the two prescriptions. They left together, and on the top step ?the sun was now shining brilliantly? the musician paused absentmindedly once more to put up his umbrella. "But, my good friend, you do not need your umbrella," remonstrated his friend. "The rain ceased an hour ago." * * * ^ 1* 1 ii-L At tnat momeoi rne spring wnu which Le~jhetizky had been fumbling yielded, and the umbrella sprang open. His friend broke into a shout of laughter. "True, the umbrella you have is more suitable to the weather than,your own. but I am afraid the doctor's little daughter might not be satisfied with I au ? f fAnttra mncf rrA pi* LUC CAL'UaugC. I leal nc uiuav jjv uuvu< Leschetizky, for there will be trouble." Leschetizky lowered the supposed umbrella and looked at it It was a blue parasol of dimunitive size, much beruffled and gayly strewn with bro' caded pink roses. "Yes," he agreed, "We must go back I and exchange umbrellas. Besides, I I must get my prescription. . I put it | into my purse, but I do not feel any I purse in my pocket. I think I must | have left it on the doctor's table." "Leschetizky," inquired his friend, I "are you quite sure you did not leave j yourself behind ia the car and that I am not walking with your twin?"? Youth's Companion. More Soap and Less Water. I Because they use too much water and too little soap women do not get the same dazzling whiteness in .their washed clothes as do the United States marines, a sergeant 01 me uiamc j corps told a party of society women I visiting a battleship. "The eye paining brilliancy of eur white clothes is due to tbe fact that we Wash with our heads as well as our hands, and we let soap do^ts proper share of the work. "Just enough water to thoroughly j wet the wash is sufficient," the sergeant ! continued, "and the less water and ! more soap one uses the whiter the ! washing: will turn out" 1 The visitors seemed greatly impressj ed with the lesson given them in an | art that is dear to every woman's f heart.?Philadelphia Record. Making Hominy a Lost Art. That the making of hominy is a lost art Is the conclusion come to by the editor of the Guide to Xature and quoted by the Literary Digest. He has spent several years and many post j age stamps in a vain etrorr to uiscuver somewhere in the United States a mill that can grind corn into the hominy that was known by our grandparent*. Some think they have it. but it always turns out to be nothing but hulled corn I or the so called hominy grits, neither j of which would have made the classic | "bowl of samp and milk" sung by I Whittier. She Was Right. "How effusively sweet that Mrs. Blondey is to you. Jonesey." said Withered "What's up? Any tender little romance there?" ; "No. indeed. Why. that woman hates 1 me," said Joneaey. "She doesn't show it," said Wetherell. "Xo. but she knowg that I know how old she is. We were both born on the same day." said Jonesey. "and she's I afraid I'll tell somebody." Feminine Perceptions. j "What shall 1 do at the meeting when I want to make a speech and some others try to head me off?" "Why, get the chairman to recognize you." "Oh, that is easy enough. I was inj troduced to her last week at Mrs. Pinkie's tea."?Baltimore American. Silent Barbers. Barbers in the early days of the i Christian era were not permitted to I talk while shaving a patron. Indeed. I silence was so much appreciated by 1 persons while under the barber's hands I that mutes were preferred for this service. "Like quills upon the fretful porcupine" does not always apply. Cuba hoc. a nnfil-lpsQ norpnnine. uuo u r r I | RUSSIA'S GREAT RAILWAY, f' i I j It Runs From Moscow to Vladivostok, a Distance of 6,000 Miles. If was Alexander III. who first real- j ized the possibility of making a rail- i i way across the whole length of the j < continent, and in the year 1802 his son. j | Czar Nicholas II., laid the first stone at >' i Vladivostok. This was done in order ! , to guard the newly .acquired territories ! , j of the valleys of the Amur and Ussuri! j from the inroads of other nations; the i , ! railways would thus facilitate the I ! transport of troops if necessary. It ( j covers a distance or u.wu mues from ! j Moscow to Vladivostok. The Russian 1 I government voted ?40.000.000 for its j . i construction, and it was completed in i ^ i eleven years. It takes three days to reach Zlatoust, in the Ural mountains. There is to be seen the famous "stone of parting.'* j Could it speak, what a number of j heartrending tales it could tell. When i J criminals and political prisoners were ( sent to Siberia that "great lone iand" ; 1 of the east, their friends usually bade j ( them goodby in the presence of the i 1 -i < i cold stone. ] From Zlatoust the main line proceeds! to Omsk, whence it reaches the shores! ' of Lake Baikal, one of the largest | 1 fresh water lakes in the world. Some-, 1 times the Russians term it "the holy i < sea," because an island in the lake ] '< was believed to be the abode of an I evil spirit, who continually had to be | appeased with sacrifices. Seals and t beautiful sponges abound in the lake. < Previous to 1905 the whole train was I transferred by means of a wonderful ; movable platform, where it rested 011 j i rails, on to the steamer on Lake Bai-! ] kal. This steamer was built at New- j j castle, and was fitted with powerful j 1 screws, which could be driven through j ice four feet thick. Now the railway ! , Is continued round the south of Lake j , j Baikal.?Pearson's Weekly. ROMANCE AND THE SADDLE. < i i Clatter of Hoofs and Jingle of Spur* Fire the Imagination. Romance likes to come on horseback. The jingling spurs and bridle irons chant a happy paean in his ears, and from the saddle, as from the throne, he looks out over the workaday world. Romance always has been linked with riding. In the playroom, mounted on a , gallant rocking chair, youth rides into a land of golden aeeas; later ne swings j In long gallops on the faithful hobbyhorse into spicy and fugitive adventure. To the page on a prancing palfrey and to the cavalryman in khaki the lure of romance is the; same.- T&e rhythm of galloping hoofs thuds always in the imagination, the lady's favor on the lance and the quivering scarlet guidon flutter alike a mysterious and eternal challenge to the spirit of youth. "To horse and away," and all the world's , before one. v ... . . Stevenson always wanted to write 9 story about a man galloping up to an inu at night, and the very suggestion brings a tingle to the imagination. By on the highway, low and loud. By at the gallop goes he. ( He heard him in the sleepless mid nights of his childhood, and. indeed, the sound of thudding hoofs always makes the heart beat faster. The so ciable clattering of a single footer g;j asphalt, the crackling of twigs and leaves on the quiet autumn trails, the | muffled rhythm of a canter on the turf i its resonance on a unuge?an mesc : . ! make music in the ears and bring the very smell of adventure. To him who rides there is always "something lost behind the ranges"?and his heart yearns for it.?Scribner's Magazine. Made the Cannon Balls Fit. The first battle of the war of 1811' was fought at Sacketts Harbor, July 9. ( 1812, and consisted of an attack made upon the village. T.he inhabitants had but one gun, of sufficient size and inflint A ) m > era a thipfr.tWd | OllCU^lu iv luuivi uumu^v,, ?* v w .r v I pounder, for which they had no shot i This difficulty was overcome by the i patriotism of the housewives, who tore up carpets from 'the floors and with strips wound the small balls to fit the cannon. The Orange In Spain. It' is considered a very healthful thing to eat an orange before breakfast But who can eat an orange well? One must go to Spain to see that done. The senorita cuts off the rind with herjsilver knife; then, putting her fork into the peeled fruit, she detaches every morsel with her pearly teeth and continues to eat the orange without losing a drop of the juice and lays down the core with the fork still in it Eyes Out. Two ladies were hurrying down the street in the rain, carrying their umbrellas low for protection. In turning a-corner sharply the point of one umbrella struck a passerby in the forehead. J ? J <-V? ? n*Am o r? 4*T111 "IjrOCHJntSS. mtr ?uuiau. jl H keep an eye out in the future." "Begorra!" exclaimed the man. "Ye nearly had one out in the prisint!"? London Answers. Chemical Misnomers. "Copperas" is a conspicuous example of chemical misnomers, being sulphate of iron, not copper. Another is "salt of lemon," which has nothing whatever to do with the fruit of the lemon K,if ic. r?r?fQccinm hinftYfllfltft or I ! U. err, uut jlo pviuo>j*u^ ^ ?? -??- ? ? potash treated with oxalic acid. Early Rising. "You say you owe your success in business almost entirely to early rising?' "Yes. I'm a manufacturer of alarm clocks."?Washington Star. Hjfa r\ io nroq Hftn'a trinsferniece. But iuail AO VJL VW w ? - who says so? Man.?Gavarni. ~ GROWING PEANUTS. How They Are Planted, Harvested and Prepared For Market. TV culture of tlie peanut is not attended with much difficulty. Land suited to the raising of corn or melons Is generally st'ierreu. unu care is wucu i that there is nothing in the soil that would stain the shells. Planting be- i ?ins when the danger from frost has passed. The ground is plowed five or six inches deep and then harrowed. The nuts are taken from the pod with^nf breaking their skins and are plant- i ?d two or three together in rows about three feet apart and twenty inches from hill to hill, being covered with two inches of earth. In October, when the nuts are ripe, i the farmer loosens the earth and pulls up the vines, to which, the nuts adhere.! md turns them over to dry. He per- j forms this task only in pleasant weath-1 ?r and when the ground is dry. When j the vines have lain in the sun for a i lay, which is sufficient time for them ! :o dry, the grower stacks them around ; i stake about,five feet high. The vines remain in stack from three; to five weeks, after which the nuts nrel [ricked off, placed in sacks and shipped . :o market. A vine under favorable con- ' iitions often bears more than 100 nuts,1 I and the yield per acre exceeds forty bushels. To polish the peanuts and to remove no pfh orwl ctoma fho nllta n To SPOllT* L Lie caiiu Ci i.i Li oivuio luv ~| ?d in large metal cylinders, from which j they pass through blast fans, in which \ a strong current of air separates the I fully developed nuts having sound kernels frOm those imperfectly filled and j from empty pods. The sound nuts fall j through the fan upon sorting tables, i where those that are discolored are; taKen out ana tne ungut uues are passed 011 into sacks that will each hold about 100 pounds of nuts. Each sack Is .marked with the brand that indi-i cates the grade of its contents.'?Washington Star. TORE UP THE CONTRACT. And It Called For a Salary of a Million Dollars a Year. /v? 1 2 ?' ATTAt* f Al?n Uiuy uue mau iu iuc nui iu oci iuit up a $1,000,000 a year salary contract. When the SteeL corporation took over the Carnegie company it acquired as one of its liabilities?it really was an asset?a contract to pay Charles M. Schwab that unheard of sum annually. J. P. Morgan didn't knpw what to do about it The highest salary on record was $100,000. He was in a quandary. Finally-he summoned Schwab, showed him the contract and hesitatingly asked what could be done about it. . "This," said Schwab. He tore it up. That contract had netted Schwab Sl.300.000 the previous year. "I .didn't care what salary they paid j me. I was not animated by money j motives. I believed in what I was trying to doi and I wanted to see It brought about. I canceled that con-! tract without a moment's hesitation." I Thus did Mr. Schwab explain his ac-J tion to me. . . i There was a sequel. Morgan later j told Carnegie how magnanimously Schwab had acted. Carnegie remarkti, "Charlie is the only man I know who would have done that." And he promptly sent Schwab in bonds the full amount of the contract Carnegie declared publicly, "I owe my fortune chiefly to two men. Bill Jones and Charlie Schwab." Schwab, let me add. for years picked all the Carnegie partners. Corey was a laborer when the eagle eyed Schwab first spotted and promoted him. The only man to whom the canny Scot ever gave carte blanche was Schwab,?B. C. Forbes in Leslie's Weekly. Two War Songs. Carlyle said that "Scots Wha Hae" was the finest war song ever penned! by man. It was composed on horse- i back while Robert Burns was crossing a wild moor in a thunderstorm. But it has never become a real war song like the "Marseillaise," which bas had power 'to fire the French to a white heat of patriotism for more than a century and* which still retains its hold upon the nation.?London Answers. Chinese Music. The notes of Chinese music read, like, the written characters, from right toi left, and the intervals of the scale are' different from those of the scale adopt- j ed by the nations of the west. The music is not very harmonious and' o/Minrlc. monnincrloss flnri ianSTlinST tO ! OV/IAUHO v. v. J 0 0 western ears, but it has a pretty musical cadence that make* it attractive and interesting in spite of its frequent discords. Lame Ducks. "What is a 4lame duck,' anyhow?" ( asked the man from back home. "A 'lame duck,' " responded Congress-1 man Hammfatt, "is a statesman who has been urged by his constituents to take his feet out of the trcugh."?| Richmand Times-Dispatch. Mn^u Ro+tor Scheme. "Darling. I love you so muck I would gladly die for you." J "That's very nice of you, George, but it wouldn't do me any good. I'd so much rather you'd make a good living for me than a glad dying."?Baltimore American. j I Mean Cat! ! "Algernon called on me yesterday afternoon." "Yes; he told me he had some tune to kill."?Kansas City Journal. Not a Soft Answer. She (during the spat)?You should have married some stupid, credulous girl. He?Well, my dfear, I did the best I could.?Boston Transcript. \ I REPORT OF COUNTY SUPERVISOR j FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST, 191(5 ST2. W. H. Tison, Com. Tax..$13.12 1 I \ SI'S. J. S. Fowler, Com. Tax.. 4.00 ' S74. J. E. Floyd, Com. Tax 20.27 j 875. G. F. Shealy, Com. Tax... 8.00 S<t>. J. i. uniiam, v.0111. iax.. -i.uu : 877. C. T. Cromer, Com. Tax.. 22.50 578. J. W. Ivominick, Com. Tax 4.9)! 579. D. S. Satterwhite, Com. Tax 2.50 8S0. H. F. Counts, Com. Tax.. 4.50 881. M. W. Long, Com. Tax... 3.50 8S2. J. S. Smith, Chaingang (Com. Tax) 35.00 8S3. J. G. Miller, Chaingang ('Com. Tax) 40.00 j 834. T. H. Teague, Chaingang (Cora. Tax) 40.00' S8"?, i.V. J. Miller, Chaingang Tax 40.00 SS6. T. R. Campbell, Chain ~ - v oo z?r> I gang (uom. iax; oo.uu 887. Elbert Gallman, Com. Tax 15.00 88S. W. W. Wicker, Com- Tax 5.00 889. J. A. Krelle, Com. Tax... 2.00 S90. . W. W. Wicker, Com. Tax. 9.50 891. Jim Jones, Com. Tax 3.00 ' Statement sh>wng exact financial year 1916 as it appeared at the end of Items. 1. For salaries county officers 2. For Cril-arie3 magistrates^ constabl 3. For county home, paupers, pensio 4. Fcr roads, bridges, ferries 5. For chaingang 6. For repairs public buildings 7. For books, stationery, printing . 8. For contingent expenses and sup for buildings and county officers. 9. For county physicians 10. For county "board of education ... 11. For court expenses 12. For beard of assessors, etc 13. For sheriff-dieting and incidentals 14. For post mortems, lunatics 15. For insurance 16. For interest on loans 17. For contingent and miscellaneous. IS. For commutation tax H. . Holloway, Clerk, etc. Appoved: J. B. Halfacre, County Auditor. KINDERGARTEN?Mrs. H. 0. Fellers open the Kindergarten at heT residence, 1321 Wheeler street, September 18. In order to have th? proper equipment and suj plies on on hand she will be glad to confer a' ">nce with any one thinking of sonding children. 8-21-tf. TRAITS OF THE MONKEY. The Most Prominent Are Affection, Curiosity and Sympathy. Mob keys have excellent memories and keen observation and are able to recognize their friends in a crowd even after long absence. They are exceed ingly sensitive and sympathetic in their natures. Sympathy and curiosity, the two most prominent traits in the mon r>Qcr>hnl^r>*u sifrnifiPHntIv the I ^ ?o * two most important facts in the psy choldgy of man. Monkeys are the most affectionate ol all animals, excepting dogs and men This affectiou reaches its culmination, as' among men, in the love of the mother for her child. The mother -monkey's little one is the object of her constant care and affection. She nurses and bathes it. licks it and cleans its coat and folds it in her arms and rocks it as if to lull it to sleep, just as human * ^ * *? 1 -* ? l.U^ mammas ao. sue uiviues ever.y un?. with her little one, bat does not hesi-! tate to chastise it with slaps and j pinches when it is rude. The monkey! child is generally very obedient. The affection of monkeys is not con- ( fined to the love of the mother for her i child, but exists among the different; members of the same tribe and extends j even to human beings, espeecially to i those who make any pretensions to do! to them as they would themselves be done by.?Exchange. ? j WT/v awa nyana t*? V C one pi Vj^/ui v well and rapidly, all the patronage give us. We ha1 ties at the market the market price i Southern Col L. W. FLOY ooZ. cannon jucneieoerger Com. Tax 75 893. Dr. Roy J. Jolinson, Com. Tax 1.20 894. R. T. Abrams, Com..Tax... 18.00 595. L. T. Adams, Com. Tax... 5.79 596. Thos. P. Adams, Com. Tax 2.55 897. W. F. C'iaPPe11' Chaingang (Com. Tax) 5.25 S9S. J. 0. Johnson, Com. Tax. 475 S99. J. A. C. Kibler, Com. Tax. 1M 900.,J. J. Kibler, Com. Tax 50 901. G. D. Boland,. Com. Tax.. 2.50 902. P. B. Oiell, 'Com. Tax ... 14.56 903. Orville Suber, Com. Tax.. 80.25 904. Albert Xance, Com. Tax. 5.23 905. B. H. Wilson, Com. Tax.. 6.37 906. B. L. Bishop, Com. Tax.. 2.5? 907. J. H. Koon, Com. Tax 2.00 nno a ti* fov A SA puo. o. ry . l/ci i an, vjviu. iqa. 909. Jno. B. Bedenbaugh, ^m. Tax 4.75 910. E. C. Cromer. Com. Tax. 2.03 911. B. W. Oxner, Com. Tz '.. 2.5# 912. J. C. Sample, Co. Sap. 15.52 J. C. Sample, H. C. Hollo way, Ob. Supervisor. Clerk, etc. conditions of approoriations for the the month of Au. c, 1916. Appropriated. Paid. Balance. $8665.-00 $64^1.04 $2223. % es, fees 2500.00 1415.TO 1084.74 ' ners .. 3000.00 1961.2? 103&.74 ........ lOOOO.iOO 6673.^6 3326.24 ....... 75-00.00 6&02.77 597.23 ' 750.00 114.85 635.15 750.00 653.82 116.18 piles.. 2000.00 1428.34 571.66 200.00 34.00 166.00 45.00 43.00 3.00 2H0O-GO 1298.20 1201.&0 450.00 337,60 112.44 ....... 1800.00 1452.41 347.59 400.00 410.96 450.$0 189.25 260.7S 2000.00 1184.76 815.24 2500.00 827.85 1672.15 2604.00 N: 1417.62 1186.38 J. .C Sample, VJOULILJ OU'i?s ?iovi. "Miss Petticoats." "I want to make a beautiful picture," said one of our directors, a picture that will appeal to the heart in a very tender way?carrying along with its theme, finer moments in which we can think with gentlene#3 of past failures, and with joy of achievements to corn^e; a picture that makes us want to feel we have preserved a.certain relish for the rich of all thought, and a pleasure ; in innocence; a visualization of some ( message that will Inake seren<$-our present voyaging and gi7e'us/fteen eyes to discern the coast-lighis "of the future." >>Ue started him on "Miss Petticoats." When the picture was finished he came back smiling." I fLave it . done?a most lovable story?'Miss Petticoats.'" To tell you the story would be like taking away from childhood th-* joys of "Alice in . Wonderland" an<I from middle-age, "The Rosary," and able sweetheart of the screen, who besidesi Miss Alice Brady, the adarstars in this extraordinary ' sweet story, should be sufficient proof of it3 high merit. Opera House, Tusday S^eptember 12th. Price 10 and $ cents. Whenever Yoa Need a General Tools Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a n??orai Tnnv* hecanse it contains the well known tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives o*ut Malaria, Enriches the Blood ana Bnilds uo the W* .ole Svsff *n . 5C< centaTHE HERALD AND NEWS ONE YEAR FOR GNLY $1.50. f V I ling! :d to gin cotton Will appreciate the public will | ve bagging and price. Will pay For cotton seed. ton Oil Co. D, Manager