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WORTH MOUNTAINS Gi3 GOLD During Change oi Life, says Mrs. Chas. Barclay 1 Graniteville, Vt. ? " I was passing through the Change of Life and suffered from nervousness and other annoying symptoms, and 1 can truly say that LydlaE.Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has proved worth mountains of gold to me, as it restored my health and strength. I ^ never forget to tell my friends what LvdiaE. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done for me during this trying period. Complete restoration to health means so much % me that for the sake of other suffering women I am willing to make my trouble public so you may publisn this letter."?Mrs. Chas. Barclay, m\D.,Graniteville, Vt. No other medicine for woman's ills fkAM nii>h m<l. ? qualified endorsement, o other medicine we know of has such a record ?f cores of female ills as has Lydia ?. Finkham's Vegetable Compound. 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No. 3, writes:?"Your ls Liniment Is the best that I have ever used. 1 had a mare with an abscess on her neck and one 50c. bottle of | sj Sloan's Liniment entirely cured hor. 6 I keep it around all the time for galls and small swellings and for everything about the stock." Dr. Sloan will send his Treatise on ; the Horse free to any horseman. Ad- | drevs Dr. Earl S. Sloan, Boston, Mass., 01 Station A. 111 I fi There are times when it is better to fret a move on youself than to 11 "aland pat," i - I P A Dead Shot on Rmcr Wn?m? I , a .. w...... I K Wysaeklng. N. C.. June 2. 1908. I Mr. J. T. Shuptrlne, Savannah, Ga. I Dear Sir:?Enclosed you will find 11.00 01 for which please send me at once Tot- I m terine. It la a dead ahot on ring worms. Yours truly. W. S. Dudley. i ,, Totterlnc cures Eczema. Tetter. King ' 11 Worm. Ground Itch. Itching Piles. In- ai fant's Sore Head. Pimples. Rolls. Rough Scaly Patches on the Face. Old ItcVng L' Sores. Dandrtiff. Cankered Sculp, -tun- ct Ions. Corns. Chilblains and every form of f Skin ulsease. Tetterlne 50c; Tetterlns ! l' Soap 26c. Your drucTlst. or by mail from st the manufacturer, The Shuptrlne Co., Savannah, Ga. 1I; I ni There may be nothing new tinder | the sun in the ordinary acceptance of the term, but there are a lot of fresh hi people. So. 15-'0f? ai If You Have t)i,OUO too can jolii a syndicate of touud and solid st busloe-s men to continue the development j oj of a mining property showing remarkable possibilities Ote of big velae now in sight, and com- 1,1 pletlon means an independent fortune for ! rc each member. Full information at personal i: Interview or by letter. W. N. Niwiu, 17 East 19th St. New York, N. Y. You can reach the parent by adver- ^ tising to the child. jjj Ked, Weak, Weary, Watery Eyea oi Relieved by Murine Eye Remedy. oi rnmnminHf^ hp ltVnariavs-.sMi ? Conform* to Pure p'ond and Drug Law*. 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P*co Ointment u guaranteed te ear* mmf , cane of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 0 to 14 day* or money refunded. BOe. F The average man has more friends Jn and fewer enemies than he thinks he has. ti Itch cured in 30 minute* by Woo!ford** 111 rotary Lotion Never fail*. At drugffMg. 0< . in Witty Sayings. It takes two to make a quarrel, but ni it takes three to make a divorce. rt The hog has to stand for a good P< many cmparisons he doesn't deserve. Watching the other man's patch U will not keep the weeds out of your own. P It sometimes happens that a fellow 1* gets a reputation as a genius because he is too lazy to work. 9100 Reward. 9100. The readers of this paper will bepleaeedto ' learn that there ? at laiaef oae dreaded die- t aaee that science has been able to care in ali Its ?tagea. and that ieCaturrh. Hall' Catarrh '' Cure la the only poeitive care now known to t the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con- . atitutional disease. requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Core u taken inter- ' nally,acting directly upon the blood and me- j coua aurfaccs of the aystem, thereby destroy- ( tag the toundation of the disease, and fivthf the patient etrength \.y building up the torn- 1 etitution and aaaiating nature m dona its < work. The proprietors have eo much faith In ita curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollara for any ceoe that it fails to ? sere. Hand for liat of toethnonials. Addraaa I r. J. Ciismrr * Co.. Toledo. O. Bold bv Onaeetata. Tie. Take "sB'e Family File ?sv >1 j WASHINGTON NOTES Use Stamped Envelopes. A special effort is being made by he Postofhce Department to increase he use of stamped envelopes instead f those which have to hnvo a stamp ffixed. In furtherance of this endeavor A. j. Lawshe, Third Assistant Postmaser General, has issued a highly orate circular describing and illustrat]g the different sizes and colors of be envelopes the government has n sale. This has been distributed y the letter carriers who, forgetting or the moment the length of their outcs and the weight of their sacks [ mail, nave for the most part, enjred into enthusiastic details as to he cheapness and convenience and ltcgether desirableness of this class f postoffice wares. "Everyone who uses government lamped envelopes is aiding the Postffice Department in improving the srvice," is what Lawshe's circular ?ys, and, in addition, it enumerates evcral advantages which are to he btaincd from their use. For instance, it points out that tamps may be easily lost, misapproriated, or may become useless by ticking together. Also a stamp may rop off in the mail, and then there the time consumed in affixing the lamp as an item of consideration. .11 of these dfficulties, the circular iys, are overcome by using the lamped envelopes. Then when a purchaser is willing ? buy as many as 500 stamped enelopes at a time, the government ill print his name and address in le upper left hand corner without uy extra charge. The advantage of lis is that such envelopes do not nd their way to the dead Utter ofc-e. If the addre?? cannot be found le letter is returned without extra tu me seiiacr. mien enve>pes, if misdirected, are redeemable t the Postoflfiee from original purliasers only at full stamp value, his is not true of adhesive stamps. The Postoffice Department sells le envelopes in various sizes, colors, nd qualities, but the most usual size ?n be obtained for about eight for a ?nt, stamp value extra. Thus eight vo-cent envelopes would cost about sventeen cents. One can get them i white, amber, blue, buff or maila. Officials of the internal revenue areau of the Treasury Department re of the opinion that the temperice movement, which has taken ich a strong hold of certain sections I the country, particularly in the outh, has resulted in increasing the imber of violations of the internal venue laws in the distillation of il?it whiskey. Recent reports indicate that in any Southern States, especially in labama, Georgia and North Oaroia there has been greater activity i the paid of the lawless mountain cment, who always have been oublesome to the revenue agents, an iri many years. These three ates now have laws prohibiting stilleries from operating within eir borders. In Alabama the law ?nf into effect on July 1. IffOS; in poririn on .InrrmiPu T 1 flflQ . -".5 I ? :>rtli Carolina January 1, 1909. Many legitimate distilleries hove ovcd to F^ridn and other States here the inhibition does not exist. Iiiskey being more difficult to obin in a legitimate way has greatly creased the profits of illicit distillg, with the result that the activi's of the infernal revenue bureau this time is largely directed toirds the mountain sections of these ree States. Eleven members were in their ats Saturday when the House of spresentatives met to further eonrler the Payne tariff hill. It was e smallest attendance of the special ssion and demonstrated the fact at interest in the debate had pracKally disappeared. Mr. Sparkman (Democratic), -if lorida, opened the discussion by akinir an earnest ilea for a restoraon of the Dingley rate on lumber ill the imposition of a duty of 5 mts a pound on all cotton imported to the United States. The Philippine Islands were again ;ard from when Mr. Benita Legardo isident commissioner, spoke in opusition to the proposed free trade stween that possession and the [ nited States. Ilia views were praccally along the lines of those exressed Friday by his colleague, Mr. ablo Ocampo de Leon. In view of the diminishing supply f pulp-making woods and the conseucnt increase in the cost of puper, he serious problem which awaits soution is, whence will come our fuure paper supply? Interest in the natter lies in the fact that everyM)dy uses paper and it is presented n its serious aspect when one considers that the destruction of our pulpnaking woods goes on at a termenious rate. Experts declare that there are not rnough spruce forests standing in tho United States to furnish a future constant supply of wood pulp for making paper under the present # methods of forest conservatism and waste. The experiments thus far have had to do principally with such plants as ** corn stalks, cotton stalks, flax, sugar, bagasse, tule, rice, straw, okra and several other things. While these ex- m peri men tB have not progressed far ^ enough to warrant definite conclu- p sions as to whether any of them can be manufactured on a paying com- H mercial scale, it is asserted that com (n stalks offer the most promising out- 0, look. A very much finer paper can be made from com stalks than from the wood pulp. W> Woman Blackmailer Peppered With or Shot. Washington, Ind., Special.?A wo- . man was shot Tuesday night as she * picked up a decoy prepared after W Banker N. O. Read had received a st letter demanding that he deposit $30.- ? 000 at a designated spot. A man who accompanied the woman escaped unhurt, and the police are looking for him. The woman was peppered with rr birdshot. The woman, besmeared with blood, was taken to jail, where n< she was identified as Miss Zella Clark, se She has been employed as a domestic, ec te Dr. Jones Slain by Hill Men. ,c Manilla, Special, ? A telegram : from the constabulary at Echague re- in ports that the body of Dr. Wm. Jones, the noted anthropologist of jo the Columbian Musium at Chicago, y who was murdered by tribesmen, was m taken to that place by friendly Hon- Jn gots. The murder was committed Y; about fifty miles south of Echague, flc where Dr. Jones was engaged in lo studying the wild hill tribes, liring fo among *iiem for the puipose of pre- di pari;-g an exhaustive report of their jg customs r.nd traditions. pr ? th Snuff For a Billion Sneezes. oc Providence, R. I., Special.?Witl J one of the most unusual charter?- ii T1 local coastwise history, the three j masted schooner Denna Brings sail. th for Philadelphia. The schooner fo: I la the next six months will carry snuf | lai between Norfolk and Philadelphia tithe charter calling for 200 tons 01 wi each trip. Tobacconists estimat' dh that each pound of snulT is pood fo ha 2,GIG sneezes, and that on every trij pi' the Briggs will have between lie decks more than one billion sneezes sti in pii ONE RESULT OF BEING KIND. Bi &ll It wa3 a bright sunny morning as j j Madeline Johnson was walking along ^ the beach of a small lake when she ^ saw a man rise aa it seemed sud- . denly out of the sand. A large, lovely shepherd dog followed him. Madeline was rather poor herself but she thought she had never been so poor as this man looked to be. The dog, like his master, looked hun- ^ gry. The man looked to be about thirty-five years of age; he had black ^ eyes and hair, and wore a light felt w? hat, a coat that was worn and shah- so by and shoes that were worn in j)j many places. He came close to Madeline and f|i dropping to his knees he poured out fj( his story in words unknown to her, <?Ji en fn the Italian part of the citv. Now, Madeline's next door neighbor bn was an Italian, and quick as a flash pi caime the thought. "Perhaps Mrs. vii Gillespie will be able to understand him, and we may help him." Sh-? turned toward home and beckoned to him to follow her. He hesitated a of moment, hut her pleasant smile en- ' Yl eouraged hfm, and he followed her. W The dog still waited, his master see- Fi Ing him, caHed. "Jack." The poor tis ddg who was almost starved, whin- hi ed, and, wagging his tail ran after th his master. The three then turned Hi ^ toward Madeline's home, which was in] a small cottage on the beach. She de took the man to Mrs. Gillespie after pli giving him a hearty meal of which ed he partook eagerly, it being (as she sit afterwards learned) his fW*3t nreaT for ti< two days. After a long conversation with the man he to!d her his I story which was very sad. He was looking for his brother, whom Made- 0| line with Mrs. Gillespie's help found for him. .Tack's master, whom his ^ brother had given up for lost was heartily weleomod to his brother's Pr home. After being asked how he ev- th er found the right place, Antonio, for that was his name, told the other about Madelinp, whom he ever after regarded as an angel. How she th had helped and all about her kindness. You may be sure that she was fullv rewarded by the brother who had prospered during the few years he ^ had lived in America.?Susie Smith , in the Weekly Witness. W) fii MANY ARE OBLOXO. fr The decision has been arrived at rpj among certain makers of hlgh^cjass ready-to-wear suits and dresses Viat Wl "the oblong woman" is to continue, tr 1anil inpiesB uress iorms win ue me so feature of future wearing apparel of re | this class. Among individual makers, m I however, practically nothing but the princess dress obtains; but it is so varied that each one seems to be in ] a class by itself. Some are so severely simple that they really take , the place of the tailored suit. Many are "oblong," but many, too, are fit- Cl ted to the figure quite to the hip line, se 1 have seen one or two which were bfitted to and cut off at this line, the skirt below (being added there under Qj I flat stitching. Bometimes the body ^ portion is made with plaits, stitched l flat to the hips, after which they fall ^ free.?Harper's Bazar. it.tjjyV* ' i iff. Jk i ?-v. J FIRE AT NEWBERN onflagraticn Destroys $4,000 Worth of Property. Newborn, Special.?Fire Saturday orning at 2:30 threatened for a time e block on the corner of Middle and Dllock streets, and gutted the 1 ughes Building, a double story brick lilding, occupied by the Delmonico afe and the George B. Waters oigar 6 id stationery store. Soon after the emen reached the fire an explosion ok place in the Waters store and le of the colored helpers in the Are r ipartment was badly cut by flying ass. The loss is about $4,000 with .,200 insurance. Mr. Waters, it is ated, had $1,300 insurance and a ock of about $2,500. Probing Deforestation. Winston-Salem, Special. ? Reid Thitford, of the United States engilering department, has been in this ction several days to ascertain by msultation with* well informed citins, as well as by personal inveetiitions and examinations, the approxlate amount of deforestation which is taken place in Wilkes and adining counties during the last 20 1 ;ars; this is with the view of deter- ^ ining how this clearing of land has j flueneed the water levels in the ? ad kin river, causing disastrous i; >c Js, and at other times unusual and a ng periods of low water; or, if de- h Testation has not caused these con- ^ tions, to find out what has. The 1 vernment seeks by some mean* to u event such disastrous overflows of c e Yadkin as are now almost yearly u curring. ii P le New Building at the University, * The site for the new building of j, e university for which the legis- b ture donated the necessary sum st session was decided on by the e ustees at their last meeting and 11 be the corner of Bull and Pen- * eton streets" facing towards the p mdsome building just being com- t, eted. , a j. nis is a most suiiame place, it is 11 ated, as the new class room build- * g which is about completed occu- ? es the opposite site on the corner of u ill and Green streets. This will n so bo in keeping: with the plans ( id out for the gradual enlargement 3 the university and the science * tilding will be a fitting: structure P stand on this corner. ^ Dr. Smith Has Accepted. F Chapel Hill, Special.?Dr. Charles II phonso Smith, of the department of n lglish, has accepted the call to the B liversitv of Virginia. The chair is * at of English, not Teutonic lang^i- ^ ges. Negotiations have been under tl ly for a year. Dr. James A. Harri- n n having1 urged the appointment of al . Smith as soon as the former a onght of retiring. "I have given e matter most careful considera- c, in," said Dr. Smith. "Nothing can o ange my love for the University of 7 [>rth Carolina or my naiive State, o :t the call to the University of Vir- ^ ilia is a call to a wider field of ser- ^ ce. n Si Eridgc Falls; Killing Elder. G Winston-Salem, Special.?One span o the approach to the bridge over the a idkin river at the east end of North ilkesboro fell in while Elder J. g ank Hufrhenson, a Primitive Bap- tl rt preacher, was crossing, dropping tl m, his buggy and two mules into a e river twenty feet below. Elder utcfrenson was fatally injured, livg only thirty minntes, the buggy j! moli'shed and the mules badly criped. The bridge had been condemfiand closed rrp, but the public in- h rterf on tearing down the ebetrue- ' P )n and nsing it. 'resident Taft to Visit Charlotte. * A committee of prominent citizens c ' Charlotte and Mocklepburg counf N. Cm waited on President Taft c st Wednesday and secured his omise to attend the celebration of t] e Declaration of Independence in n iiarlotte on the 20th of May, 1909. b< mrnlarly enough, however, the -A resident says he never heard of d at historic event before. n h $18,000 Fire at Salisbury. * Salisbury, Special.?With a loss of ? le Kinoaid Veneer Plant in this city w e Kincaid Veneir Plant in this city ^ is destroyed Saturday morning by ti e, which is said to have originated " ftm a spark from a passing train, i he blaze was discovered by a night g atchman but had gotten beyond con- ? ol. The plant had been idle for f me months and was in the hands of * ceivers ,advertised for sale in April, j] he receivers held $ty>00 insurance. " a >arham Boy Sent to Reformatory. Durham, Special.?Hobson Martin, le son of a very good father in this tl ty, was Saturday morning ordered a' (nt to the Jackson Training Sohool y the recorder on-account of the f, left of a purse and a small amount f money. The young fellow has not * een regarded as an incorrigible but e as borne a rather good reputation or a kid. He ia the first to go from 4 iiis place to the seformatory. * V fjh? I fc ^ai^^5??c!7ooT J INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM- @ MK.NTS FOR APRIL 11. g abject: Peter Delivered From Prl- I on, Acts 12:1-11?Golden Text,. I Psalm 34:7?Exposition of ths^f Lesson and Lesson Comments. sSX TIME.?A. D. 44. PLACE Jo- ?3 usalem. "* EXPOSITION Peter in Prison T / id the Church Praying Unto God \T~' for Him, 1-fi. The lull lu the perse- | utlon was but temporary, ft. began I gain with great fierceness. James ras killed and Peter arrested, put in irison and about to be killed. Peter V eemed to be In a very perilous postion ? securely locked in a Roman ' * [ irison, bound with two chains be- . 1 ween two soldiers, guarded by six- * Vj een soldiers, keepers before the door ;uardlng the prison. Peter's enemies eemed to have taken every pmcau- 1 ion, but they made one fatal rai^ ake, they left God out of their catenations. There Is "nothing too hard or the Lord," nor for the church hat links Itself on to God by prayer, lod often withholds His deliverance nd answers prayer at the last moaent. What should the church do?, '.here Is but one thing to do?pray, 'hey appealed the case from "Herod be king" to God, the King of kings. 'eter seemed to have faith that he rould be delivered, for he was calmIr and very soundly sleeping. Just s soon as he was thoroughly awake e said: "Now I know of a truth that he Lord did send forth His angel just as I have been asking Him to)| nd delivered me." Verse 5 teaches is just how to pray. (1) "Unto rod." Much so-called prayer is not nto God. There is no real coming ato the presence of God and actually, resenting our petition to Him. There re volumes in these two short words, unto God." (2) "Without ceasag." The R. V. gives the thought, ut not the full thought. The Greek rord means, literally, "stretched-outd-ly." It is a vivid pictorial word bat represents the soul on a stretch rith Intensity of desire (cf. Jer. 2 9:i V\ If lo fho ? <1W??-* ? rayer in the garden, when in the insnBity of His prayer His sweat was s it were great drops of blood fallig down to the ground (Luke 22:i 4; cf. Rom. 15:30; Col. 4.12, 13, t. V.). (3) "Of the church." There ? power in the prayer of the individal, but there is added power, yes, lultip.ied power, in united prayer Matt. 18:19, 20; Acts 1:14; 4:24. 1). (4) ""For him." They did not rander all over the world in their rayers that night; they concentrated beir prayer on Peter and on getting lm out of prison. II. Prayer Answered and Peter 'ree, 6-11. God's angels are most kely to appear in times of greatest eed. A heavenly light shined in the loomy cell. A prison cell is a dark nd dismal place, but no place lore luminous than a prison cell 'hen the angel of the Lord stands aere. God's angels are very uncerelonious. "He smote Peter on the ide and awoke him." Sharp blows re often more loving than gentle lllabys. It is frequently necessary a rudely awaken a man before he an be delivered from his peril. God's rders demand prompt obedience (v. ). Peter could not take his chains ff from himself, but he could gird imse.f and bind on his sandals rhen the efcalns were ofT (v. 8). yhat Peter could do for himself he lust himself do. Peter had gotten a much Into the habit of obeying od that he did it even in bis sleep, r at least when he was only half wake and thought he was asleep, t Peter had been like many of us he 'ould have stopped long before they ot to the iron gate and debated with bo angel bow they were to get brough it. But he had more sense nd did just as he was told and left be "how" with God. When he got a the gate It "opened ot Its own acord," but not until they got to It. f we just obey God difficulties will isappear when we get to them. III. Believing Rhoda and the Unelieving Church, 12-17. The contany had come together to pray for 'eter's deliverance. God, as might e expected, heard their prayer and ent the answer around to the meetig (cf. Is. 65:24). But they were ompletely bewildered by the answer rhen it came. They were sure that ; could not be Peter. Rhoda must be razy. If Rhoda Is not crazy, then It lust be his ghost and not Peter imself (r. 15). Perhaps they bought he had been executed In the ight. But Rhoda had faith, ahe eems to have been expecting Peter. ls soon as there was a rap at the oor she was on her feet and at the oor listening:. The moment she eard Peter's voice she knew It was e, it was just what she expected. !ven though they told her she was razy, she stuck to it still. She was nly a "maid" (R. V.), but she is the nly one in that praying company rLose name the Hoiy Spirit has bought worthy to put on record, 'here were presumably church dtgnlarfes there, but none of them are .o I- ? a icuuuucu. uuuua aiuuo is uailieu. he had fafth and she alone counted, 'hat "Rose" (Rboda) had sweet frarance with God. The- unbelief of be rest seems all the more unac- ? ountable when we remember h<tw ' 'eter had once before this been ml.t- <*? culously delivered from prison (dfci" : 19). Peter kept right on knock ag. That Is the bent way to treat inbellef ? just kenp hammering way HARD TO GET AT. It taken a small boy to express a ling with unconventional force and ccuracy. "The water in this spring is awful j ood, mother," said a little boarder ' cm the city. "Is 1*?" answered his mother. Then I'll take some. Where is the up?" "There isn't any. You have to lie own sad drink ttphiU"-~Hoxne Her* Id. I ' / . ' - -..U