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AN IRON SKYSCRAPER1 Marvelous Method In Rearing the Towering Structure. MAGIC OF ITS MECHANISM. The Building of it Is Akin to the Put ting Together of a Modern American Watch--Simply a Matter of Assen bling the Various "Members." On the twentieth floor of a towering office building in lower New York a young mau sat at a roll top desk talk ing into a telephone. He was a clean shaven, clean collared young man. with gray eyes and a cool, dry, -21-ev voice. It was a sunny office. with an admira ble rug on its oaken floor, and from its windows you could see over into New Jersey. The young man at the desk was the general superintendent of a company which builds "skyscrapers," and he was performing the functions of his office. "-What report on those I beams" he was asking. There was some reply. "How many men have you'!" he in quired and then presently remarked: "-W-ll, make it 010." Then he turned to the reporter who had come to ask him how big buildings are erected. But the telephone claimed him again, and again he asked: "What report?" and to the reply an nounced: "The masons must catch up by Wednesday. This is final. Goodby." ie ti rned again to the reporter, and -asked: -'i - do you put up a skyscraper?' The cool. clean faced superintendent looked across to New Jersey for a sec ond and said: "The building of an iron constructed skyse-aper is a huge counterpart of the build~ng of a modern American watch. It is simply a matter of assembling the parts-the 'members.' we call them. The i:,ct is that little of the real work is doae on the site of the building at all, as in the old days of stone con struction. Broadly speaking. the dig ong f the cellar and the sinking of a is in order to lay a bed for the -: comprise most of the engi e on the spot. The rest we . :re.". . is the advantage of iron con strut on. aside from its having made he skyscraper possible? Is it stron ger?" "No: it's cheaper." "Brt you have to use stone anyway. One would think that the added ex pense of the ironwork. say, on a com Inrn rely small building would 14 -rial that costs - it's : putting up an iron : on building everybody can wor'l. at once-excavators. draftsmen, rolli:: mills. ironworkers, masons, pliu: ers. finishers and all. Sfippose 7%1 -e here and tell us you want to . "~A.'.0 on a building to take ... ztone hotel. To as and dimensions of -ourse easy. This done, dia-ram over' to Lan arei teet. He does the aesthetic part of the -work, and we don't bother much with him after we get his ground and side elevations, though of cor-se we keep in close practical touch with him. -V row, as soon as we close the -i<th you-not a week afterward, but . e very next day-we are tearing down the old building, the architect is roughing out his floor plans, and we are figuring, with your assistance, how much weight each floor will have to ~carry. And all the while this is being done our superintendents are arranging for caisson men, ironworkers, masons and all the rest of the labor. At the same time our foundrymen and quarry --men are planning to be in readiness to ship material when it is needed. In fact, everything moves forward simul taneously." "What is the first step of actual con struction?"' "To get the architect's finished ground plan away from him. He dear ly loves continually to make changes in that end of the work. As soon as we have the ground plan we can tell by the shape of the future building just where the uprights are to go and so where we shall hai-e to sink our cais * sons. Meantime we have found what 'load' each upright will have to carry and thus know the sort of foundation and structure each wvill require. By the time we get the final ground plan the excavation is so well under way that caisson work may begin, and we can also set our draftsmen to making detail sketches for the guidance of the rolling mill man. This is what I meant by saying that the real construction of a modern big building is done in the office. We make a drawing of every beam, girder and upright to be used, with every dimension calculated to the sixteenth of an inch and every rivet hole indidated as to place and. size to a nicety. There is a separate drawing for each one of these 'members,' and each is numbered. The drawings are sent to the rolling mill and there repro duced in steel. When a member is shipped from the rolling mill it is num bered to correspond with the drawing. "For irgtance, we want a beam with a cross section like the Roman letter I twelve feet long and thirty inches wide. It is to be three and a half inch es thick. and the flanges are to be sev en-eighths of an inch thick and eight inches wide. It is to have a transverse brace supported by L shaped brackets three inches each way, and the rivet - holes are to be in the places indicated and are to be three-quarters of an inch in diameter. When shipped to us the beam Is to be marked M 4, 114." "That shows were It goes in the building, of course," ventured the re porter-, with a gleam of intelligence. "Exactly. We work by floors. For each floor we make a ground plan showing the position of every bit of Ironwork, with each bit numbered. Now, when that beam comes to us numbered M 4, 114. we look at the 31 ground pla-n, find mnember 114, and that's where the beam goes." "And 'M'--how about MY" "That shows the floor. We number the members and letter the floors, so that M1 means the thirteenth floor." The reporter wvas about to comment frivolously on the regrettably small numibe.r of letters in the, alphabjet and its erect on tihe future of tall build ings, but the superintendent continued: '-So far the system seems perhaps comparatively simple, buLt it is when we come to consider the aesthetic va garies in the way of outside stonework which the arc-hitects sensitive soul demands that many complex problems have to be solved. It is when we are confronted with turrets. towers, bal conies and bow windows and gargoyles and ponderous copings and cornices that dlelicate figuring must come into play. While it is easy enough to cal the uniform blocks or stone between stories-the carved stones formingar nate projections must be considered individu:ally. so that each will rest up on ironwork of proper strength to sus tain it and of proper construction to hold it in place, and this, too, must en ter into the computation of the load to be carried on its particular floor. In this way many iron members will en ter into the support of a single stone whose.only use is to satisfy the artistic cravings of the architect." "Why is it that one often sees the stonework going forward on. say, the fourth story, while the floors below show only the iron skeleton?" "There are various reasons for that. Nearly always there are huge boilers, engines, pumps and the like which must be put in before the gr6und floor stonework begins. Sometimes there is delay in the delivery, so we start the stonemasons in at some story above. This is easy enough, as all the loads have been computed long before. Then, again, the floor beams of one story may reach us sooner than those of an other, so we put the masons on that story, or perhaps there is much carv ing to be done on a third story stone coping and little on the second. So as not to delay this we jump the stone masons from the first to the third story. "You see," pursued the expert, "the plan, idealized, is to keep the stonema sons. housesmiths and plumbers one floor behind the ironworkers, the car penters one floor behind these, the plasterers one floor behind the car penters. and so on till the top story Is finished:" -Would it be possible to erect a twenty-four story building in the old way of brick and stone construction?" asked the reporter. -Possible, yes. but it would take so long that in these days of quick for tune building the proposition would be commercially absurd. You cant as semble a stone or a brick -building. You've got to start at your foundations and raise your walls to your first floor before you can put in your girders and beams. and so on to the top. Now, lay ing stone is a slow process, and by the old method everything had to wait for the masons and bricklayers. Today we don't have to wait for anything after the caissons are sunk. We can keep all hands busy, no matter how slowly an individual part of the work may be forced to progress. We can put on a stone tower before we touch the stone work of the sidewalk floor." "Is an iron construction building safer than one of stone" "No, simply cheaper, but just as safe. Another thing, too, saves time in mod ern building, and that is the abundance of available labor. An ironworker who is capable of helping to rivet a big bat tleship together or assisting in tunnel or subway or bridge construction is quite as much in his element when he takes part in the assembling of a great building. This fact of inter changeable labor makes it possible to work at the very top limit of speed when occasion requires. At the pres ent time we have one building under way on which we employ 1,00 men simultaneously. "As I said before, putting up a build ing today is just like making a mod ern watch. The various parts are made separately, but to fit into each other to a hairs breadth. These are turned over to the skilled mechanic, who sim ply puts them together - assembles them."--New York Herald. Given Up to Die. 13 Spiegel, 1204 N. Virginia St. Evansville. Ind., wr-ites: "For over flee years I was troubled with kidney .nd 'bladder affections which caused me much pain and worry. I lost flesh and was all run down, and a year ago had to abandon work entirely. I had three of the best physicians who did me no rood and I was practically given, up to die. Foley's Kidney Cure was recommended and the first bottle gav-e me great relief. and after taking the second bottle I was entirely cured. Why not let-it help yon? The Arant Co. Drug Store. "Man With the Branded Hand." The person who became famous in the annals of America as "The Man With the Branded Hand" was a Cap tain Jonathan Walker. He was born at Harwick, Mass., in 1799 and died at Lake Harbor. Mich., on April 20, 1878. On June.23, 1S44. he attenmpted to steal seven slaves from the coast of Florida, the intention being to take them to Nssau, in the British island of New Providence. When only a short dis tance out, he was overtaken and cap tured by the sloop Catherine and taken back to Key West. At that place he was kept in jail until he could be re moved to Pensacola, where a new trial was given. He was sentenced to prison and chained by a chain and ring bolt. He was kept for some time imprisoned in that manner, or until the time ar rived to carry out a further sentence, which read as -follows: "One hour .in the pillory, peJted with unmerchanta ble eggs; one year in prison for each slave stolen: $600 in money for each slave and all costs and to be branded upon the right hand with the letters 'S. S.' (slave stealer) by a redhot brand ng iron." That he lived through all this is attested by the fact that it was in 1878 that he died. Worked Like a Charm. ~Mr. D. N. Walker, editor of that spicy journal, the Enterprise, Louisa, Va., say's: "I ran a nail in my foot last week and at once applied Bucklen's Arnica Salv-e. No information followed:' the salve simply healed the wound." Heals every sore. burn and skin disease Gnaianteed at The Arant Co. Drug Store. 25c. Largest Family on Record. In the i'arlein manuscript. Nos. 78 and OSO. in thie library of' the British museum mention is made of the most extraordinary family that has ever been known in the world's history. The parties were a Scotch weaver and his wife (not w-ives) who wecre the fa ther and mother of sixty-two children. The majority of the offspring of this prolific pair wvere boys (exactly how many of each sex is not known), for the record mentions the fact that for ty-sr of the male children lived to reach manhood's estate and only four of the daughters lived to be grownup women- Thirty-nine of the sons were still living in the year 1030, the major-; ity of them then residing in and about Newastle-on-Tyne. It is recorded in one of the old histories of Newcastle that "a certyne gentleman of large es-' taytes" rode ''thirty and three miles beyond the Tvne to p)rove this wonder ful story." It is further related that Sir J. Bowers adopted ten of the sons, and three othe' "landed gentlemen" took ten eachi. The remaining miem bers of tis~ extraordinary family were brouahit uy 1-y the Isarents. THE MODEST CLOVER,! Quaint and Interesting Legends of the Lowly Little Plant. CALVARY CLOVER ODDITIES. The Common Red Clover Was Once a Favorite Charm Against Witch Spells-The Belief In Luck That Clings About the Four Leaved Plant. The most probable origin of the name clover is that which derives it from the Latin clava-clubs-as the clover leaf slightly resembles the three prong ed club of Hercules. It is said, too, that the clubs of our playing cards are in imitation of the same leaf. There are many varieties of this common but favorite plant, and, notwithstanding its practical uses in agriculture, about it superstition has woven many quaint and interesting legends. The common red clover was once re puted to be baneful to witches, and people of high and low degree wore the leaf, considering it a powerful charm against their spells. It is sup posed to have been introduced into England .from the Netherlands during' the reign of Queen Elizabetii. The thorny clover (Medicago eclumis) is called Calvary clover on account of some of its peculiarities. In the first place, it must be sowed in the spring, and some say on Good Friday. As the leaves appear above ground they have a deep red spot, resembling fresh spilled blood, on each of their three divisions, which will remain for some time before dying away. The three leaflets stand erect during the day with arms Cx tended. but at sunset the arms are brought together. and the upper leaflet Is bowed over them as if in prayer. After a time a small''yellow flower appears and later a spiral pod covered with sharp thorns. These thorns inter lace with one another as they ripen i and form a globular head, which when fully matured may be removed from its spiral coils, and the striking re semblance to a crown of thorns is plainly seen. Thus its blood stained leaves, its extended arms and bowed head and the day when 4the seed was first planted to await its resurrection have caused It to be christened Cal vary clover. It is fitting, too. that Palestine should be claimed as its na tive land. Legend says that the three leaved clover, generally regarded as an em blem of the Trinity, was first used by St. Patrick to illustrate how three sep arate objects, such as leaves, could yet form one. Those deeply versed in leg endary lore, however, claim that St. Patrick borrowed rather than origi nated the sanctity of the shamrock (Medicago lupulina). held in the hand of Hope among the Greeks. when he thus illustrated the Trinity in its three or found the cross in its four leaves. In the east also the trefoil is sacred, as the holy books of Persia and Arabia tell, and the legend of St. Patrick driv ing the'-snakes out of Ireland has a more ancient root, for the Latins be lieved that snakes were never seen near the trefoil. So if St. Patrick wore it he was invested with additional power to banish these invaders. Dr. Prior says that this plant is regarded in Ireland as the true shamrock. It has' been asserted that it was a still more ancient religious symbol and expressed among the ancient Teutonic race the three grades of druids, bards and neo phytes. The druids held the clover in great honor as a charm. Hope was de picted by the ancients as a child stand ing on tiptoe and holding a plover bloom in its hand.I But it is in connection with the four leaved clover that manifold myths have been developed. Owing to its scarcity, it has generally been believed that it would bring luck to the finder. This superstition is referred to in this, old stanza: When sitting in the grass we see A little four leaved clover. 'Tis luck for thee and luck for me And luck for any iover. If a lover can find two four leaved clovers and induce the object of his love to eat one while he swallows the other mutual love is sure to result. The four leaved clover brings mys terious powers with it if it is found on St. John's eve, they say in the Tyrol. Like fern seed, it can render the wear er invisible at will and gives especial good fortune in gambling. If a clover is concealed in a gift it will enhance its value. A German proverb says of a lucky man, "Er hat ein vierblaet triges Kleeblatt gefunden" ("He has found a four leaved clover"). The fact that its four leaves are ar ranged in the form of a cross gives it its significance. One who wears a bit of it can detect the presence of evil spirits. While the four leaved clover Is said by tradition to possess a weird magic influence, the three leaved is looked upon more in the light of a religious symbol. Shakespeare's Rosalind asks, "Can one desire too much of a good thing?" and may be answered, "Yes, in respect to clover leaves," for, notwith standing the wonderful virtues every where ascribed to the four leaved clo ver, the finder of the five leaved will have bad luck. Even the two leaved clover is not unregarded, but has Its legend, and the lucky maid who secures one is by its influence enabled to see her future lover. The lowliest blossoms have always called forth the poet's praises, and eve'n Shakespeare alludes to the clover as' "honey stalks"-a fittig namie, as the bees revel in Its sweetness. Orino Lak'ative Fruit Svrup is a new remedy, an improvement on the laxa tives of former years, as it does not; ripe or nauseate and is pleasant toi take. It is guaranteed. The ArantI o. Drug Store. A Fooi Question. A. witness from the country had been sworn and taken the witness stand. and the prosecuting attorney, settling down for the examination, asked as aj starter:I "What is your name, sir?" The old man instantly became angry. Leaning far forwvard, he exclaimed: "Now, see here, you can't run any oft this monkey husiness in~ on me. II heerd you tell the clerk to call my name. and so I know ye know it all right, blame ye. anyhow!"-Florida imes-Union. A severe cold that may develop into mneumonia over night, can be cure~d juickly by taking Foley's Honey and Th'. it (vill cure the most obstinate 'aeking cough and stregtnen your un9s. The genuine is in a yellow Potash is the connect ing link between the soil and heavy crops. The most important plant food for vegetable growth is POTSH I Trlack Farming" is a val uable pamphlet written by eminent mn scientific - -0; training and national repu tation. We m-il it free to farmers who write for it. GERMAN KALI WORKS New York-93 Nassau Street. or Atlanta, Ga.-1224 Can~dler Bldg. WHALES THAT FENCE. ' The IMlale Narwhi Uses Its Eight Foot Tooth as a Sword. Who ever heard of whales fencing with one another-just for amusement apparently? This may seem very strange, but it is nevertheless true. There are whales that not only fence w'ith one another. but use their teeth for swords. Some whales have no teeth, but instead of teeth have great sheets of whalebone hanging from the roof of the mouth, others have their great jaws filled with terrible teeth, while one kind. the narwhal. has but two teeth. One of the teeth of the male narwhal grows throngh the upper lip and looks like a spear projecting in front of the animal. Sometimes both teeth grow out in this way, hut that is not often the case. This tooth is frequently eight feet in length, and it is with this powerful tooth or spear that the nar whal does his fencing. No one seems to know of what us, such a big tooth is to the narwhbl Some say it is used for - digging the mud in the bottom of the ocean to scare out the fish that may be lurking there. Others think it is used in spear ing the fish or for breaking holes through the ice in the northern seae in winter, for whales have to come to the surface occasionally to breath'e. But, for whatever use it is intended, it is certain the whale deriveg amusement from his tooth, for when he wants to play he finds anonher narwhal In the same playful moo. and away they go clashing swords-or teeth-together. Besides being very frolicsome, they are very active for such big animals, and sailors have watched them cross ing swords, thrusting and parrying, rolling, turning and darting with much agility. In traversing the ocean they form-in ranks like soldiers. and with similar undulations of the body and sweeps of the tail they swim by the thousand to gether. The narwhal is light gray in color and covered with black spots. The Greenlanders value it highly for many reasons. Its oil is of a very fine qual ity, its flesh is used for food. and the skin is made into a jelly called mattak. considered too much of a dainty for or dinary occasions.-St. Louis Post Dis tonteh. Found at Last. .1. A. 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But the victory was his, for no one, according to Pal grave, was ever afterward compelled to kneel at the bar. Oldtield, however, records the following among later in stances: An election for the city of Westminste:' tookc place in 1751, when Lord Tfrenthami was returne'd against Sir George Vandeport. Seri ous out rages having been committed by the mob, one of the ringleaders, MIr. Crowle, an attorney, was summoned before the commons. The delinquent was commanded to kneel and was duly reprimanded by the speaker. On ris ing he wiped his knees and said he had never been in so dirty a house be fore.-Pahl M1all Gazette. Saved Her Son's Life. The happiest, mother in the little town of Ava. 31o.. i- 31rs. Ruppee. She~ writes: "One year ago my son was own with such serious lung trouble that our physician was unable to help him: when, by one drnegist's advice I began giving him Dr. Kings.Newv Dis oery. and T soon noticed improve ment. I kept this treatment up) for a few weeks when he was p~erfectly well. He has worked steadily since at ear penter work. Dr. Kings New Discov rr saved his life. Guaranteed best ough and cold cury by The Arant Co. Drug Stor'e. 50e. and $1. Trial botule free. The Subtle Difference. An earnest defender of things Irish asserts that the traditional bull of Ire land is not, as is commonly supposed. the expression of a blundering intelli gence, but, on the contrary, shows the exquisite feeling of the Irish for fine shades of meaning. The tronhle lies in the ears that hear it. "If ye were to be killed crossing a fene ye'd be all right." said a looker on to a fox hunter whose horse had turned head over heels in the middle of a level pasture, "but if ye were killed on the flat o' the field ye'd never hold up your head again!'' For Infants and Children. he Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the COFFIN WUUU 0 MINES. The Chinarman Digs For Wood Prized For Burial Caskets. There cxist: no objec't which the av erage Chuian11 exhibits more regard for than the narrow box which is des tined to 'ontain all that is mortal of him. He is never happ.' until it is in his possession. It occipies a conspicu ous position in his house, and the rich er he is the more lie expends on its ac quisition nd adornment. The coffins most esteemed by the Ce lestials are manufactured from a pe culiar resinous wood. possessing quite extraordinary preservative properties and found only in one small district in Tonquin. buried in the earth. no living specimens of the tree now being in ex istence. The natives search for it quite as eagerly as elsewhere gold and precious stones are run after, and, indeed, the deposits, for such they are, are to all intents and purposes mines of wood, the origin of which has never been sat isfactorily explained. Local legends have it that in a far distant past vast numbers of these trees existed in the dense forests with which the whole region was. covered and that as a result of some tremen dous cataclysm they were uprooted and precipitated into the ravines. Wheth er this account is true or not, the buried trees are today a source of quite considerable wealth to the lucky per son who finds them. For a coffin made of this special wood a Chinaman does not consider ?50 or f60 at all too high a price to pay.-Grand Magazine. This is Worth Rememn.iiag. Whenever you a *.c . M d just remember tja Huutrv a d Tar will cure it. Du not risk yPur health by taking ,uy but the genuine It is in a yeJ low package. The .Arant Co. Drug Store. A Temperance Story. "A Melbourne husband," said a lec turer, "stayed out till about 3 a. m. This man, when he got home, thought that he would go boldly to the bath room and take a bath. That would re move from his wife's mind any suspi clon as to his condition. It would show her, in a word, that he was all right. So he undressed, filled the tub and plunged in. Hot and enfevered as he was, he enjoyed the bath. As he splashed and scrubbed and puffed he heard a slight noise and, looking up, saw his wife in the doorway. His wife was regarding him with an expression of unspeakable contempt. He was rather amazed at that, but he said nothing. He lowered his head and went on scrubbing. 'Well, what are you doing?' she asked. 'Can't you see what I'm doing?' he answered. He rubbed up some more lather. TI'm tak ing a bath.' She sniffed and said as she turned to go, 'Why don't you take off -our underclothes then?'" Mary-Dark circles under the eyes indicate a sluggish circulation, torpid liver and kidneys, Exercise and Hol lister's Rocky Mcuntain Tea will make you well.and beautiful. 33 cents, Tea or Tablets. Dr. W. E. Brown & Co. Trees by thI Roadside. The Ge:-man province of Hanover owns 1,907 mn~es of highways, on which there are 175,794 fruit trees pear, cherry, plum and apple -suffi cient If set out eighty to an acre to form an orchard of more than 300 square miles. The fruit raised on these trees is a source of income for the province, which sometimes makes $40, 000 a year by selling the products of this elongated orchard. The province maintains a nursery of 403 acres to supply young trees for roadside use and for promoting the in terests of fruit culture. The profit of a tree is very small, but the Hanover people do not worry about that Shade is afforded in summer, the roadbed is free from dust, the presence of treec retards the washing out of the soil from the banks into the roadside ditches, and the attractive appearance of the roadside stimulates an interest in tree culture and benefits the prov ince in many other ways. They find it worth while.-St Louis Post-Dispatch. 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I make a specialtyof WEDDINd aid OLIDAYP3ESENTS anti always carry a handsome line of Silverware, Hand-Painted China, Glassware and numerous other articles suitable for Gifts of all kind. (CME AND SEE "rHEM. Ai Watch. Clock and Jeielry RepaIrmg done- promptly and guaranteed. (In ii Hn f1nj~ Levi BmocI otIM1NO 0 HI llos., -MANNING. S. ALCOLU RAILROD. DAILY EXCEPT sUNDAYS Effective May 1st, 1906. - - NORTHEAST.-READ DOWN. 'SOUTHWEST.-READU. ixed. Mixed Mied. STATIONs. ie.Mie.Mxd A. M. P. M1 . - -P - - 2 00 7 45 O..............L............Alcolu ...........Ar 25 800...... 205 750...... 2 ...........McLeod*......-..-- .23 7, .,:5::::.. ..... . 5dli............1Sarinia............. 1 255 8 40 .....1 ....--New Zion*......... . 11 7001. 3 00 8S45 ....15 .......eard*............. 10. 6551. 3 15 9 00 ... 17 .......-.......Se0c.*...... ....... 8 6 401. - 4 00 9453.... 21 .............Hudso*...:.-......... 4 815o. 4 30 10 15 .... 25 Ar..........Beuah...........Lv ., 6 001. P. M. P. M.. " . -PM * l stations except Beulah and Alcolu are gag stations for all trains. TuesdayssNo.2. Strdays No2. and No. 3. -- Wednesdays. No. 2 and No. 3. Thursdays, No. 2. R. P. ALDERMAN, Tr.lic Manager. - BRING YOUR OCJB WORKD~> TO THE TIMES QFFICE. 1T~E QUGHFA1pon i5{ L 0R THAJND-SOUTH Florida-Cuba. A passenger service unexcelled for luxury and comfort, equipped with the latest Pullman Dining, Sleeping and Thoroughfare Cars. For rates, schedule, maps or any informa Stioni, write to WM. J. CRAIG, -- General Passenger Agent, I Wilmington, N. C. Tiaise DiPlmhing'rr-!o a I Ol~~ AN CURE THE LUNCS - Hae ou t i n Uin g done by an expe B'utan thr llr(U:. sizes of pipe and am" ah-y ready to do the right thig ;~icvr I m..ke 1::elntof doing~ al kinds 0r .'ts-" in. sucht as coffee pots, ke t- IOSMTO rc tc-' . L . paS, sace pans, dish pans, f~ LGSan 0 10 m..i pans or~ anytiig that needs re- 'LSFreTil paring. I w'i1! (do ut in a workmanlike urtadQuce uefoa. STOVES.-I repair, put upl and buy TRA n UGTOB y ourZ old stoVes. I have had the best:LS rOIE AK expeience with hardware men and - If you (lamp11 is out Of order let me ~ ~ I'' 'New tDisco!veryV Sbuui ~ ~ ~ FOR oues..d1,'ssai. I Detsw t yo as.o CrestlCos and icks Cole fo ~a~es h~ays nd lader LgBSt , s ortem EY BACovngte.bwes