Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 164, 23 April 1919 — Page 13

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM .

WEDNESDAY, APR. 23, 1919.

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GRAIN QUOTATIONS E. W. WAGNER & CO.'S REVIEW CHICAGO. April 23. All deliveries of corn sold at new high records today, the market absorbing an immense load in the way of long stuff and short selling, but recovered in a manner very pleasing to the bulls. A sustaining influence seems to be the fact that the longs have been accepting profits pretty regularly which have precluded the accumulation of an unwieldy long interest. September oats are gaining friends mainly on the short crop, as they are regarded as cheap. The high mark in trade history was reached. today at the yards when hogs sold at $21.10. The situation continues strong in appearance. CHICAOO GRAIN RANGE Furnished by E. W. WAGNER A. CO., 212 Union National Bank Building. Phone 1720. CHICAGO. April 23. Following is the range of futures on Chicago Board of Trade today: Open High Corn May ...... 165 V 168U July 158 162V4 Sept. 155 15914 Oats 3May '71 72 July 70 71 Pork Low Close 1654 158 155 71U 70 168 162 159 71 71 63.15 30.87 28.70 May 62.80 Lard 30.90 Ribs May May ...28.77., CHICAGO, April 23. Corn No. 3 yellow, $1.66; No. 4 yellow, $1.64 1.65; No. 5. yellow, nominal. OatsNo. 3 white. 7172; Standard, 7273. Pork, nominal; ribs, $27.50 28.50; lard, $30.77. TOLEDO, April 23. Cloverseed Prime cash. $30.00; April, $26.75; Oct., $17.90. Alsike Prime cash, $26.00. Timothy Prime cash, old. $5.05; new and April, $5.15; May, $5.10; October, $5.45; September; $5.65. CINCINNATI. O., April 23. Wheat No. 1 red $2.712.72; No. 2 red. $2.702.71; No. 3 red $2.672.69; lower grades as to quality. $2.602.67. Corn No. 2 white $1.6701.68; No. 3 white $1.6501.67; No. 4 white $1.61 1.63; No. 2 yellow $1.6701.68; No. 8 yellow $1.6501.67; No. 4 yellow. $1.6101.63; No. 2 mixed, $1.6601.67. LIVE STOCK PRICES INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., April 23. Hogs Receipts 8,500, lower. Cattle Receipts 1.700, steady. Calves Receipts 600, lower. Sheep Receipts 50, steady. HOGS ! Good to choice, 160 to 200 lbs., $20.65 020.70; good to choice. 200 to 225 pourda. $20.70020.75; mixed and medium. 160 to 200 pounds, $20.65020.75; -Tat hogs. $20.25020.50; feeding pigs, under 130 lbs., $19.50 down; sows, according to quality, $15.00019.80; good to prime. $20.75020.85; bulk of sows, $18.50018.75; poor to best stags. 80 lbs., dock, $15.00018.00; boars, thin sows and skips, no definite prices. CATTLE Killing Steers Extra good. 1.300 lbs. and upward. $17.00013.00; good to choice. 1,300 lbs., and upward. $17.60 018.00; common to medium. 1,300 lbs. and upward, $16.00017.00; good to choice, 1.200 to 1.300 lbs., $17,500 $18X0; common to medium, 1,200 to 1,300 lbs.. $15f16.00: good to choice, 1.000 to 1,150 lbs., $14.50016.00; common to medium. 1.000 to 1.150 lbs., $13.50014.50; poor to good, under 1.000 lba., $12.00014.00; good to best yearlings, $14.00015.00. Heifers Oood to best, under 800 lbs., $14014.50; common to medium, 800 lbs. up, $10.00012.00; good to best, under S00 lbs.. $14.00015.00; common to medium, under 800 lba., $10013. Cows Good to best, 1,050 lbs. upward. $12.50014.50; common to medium. 1.050 lbs. upwards, $H12; good to best, unaer i.vou idb., tiLw $13.00; common to medium, under 1,050 lbs., $9.00010.50; canners and cutters. $5.00 0 7.60; fair to choice milkers. $90.000140. Bulls Common to best. 1.300 lbs. upward. $10.00011.50; good to choice, under 1,300 lbs., sn.uucff n.ow; " " medium, under 1,300 lbs.. $11012.00, common to good bolognas. $8.60 0 10 00. Calves Good to choice veals, under 200 lbs., $13.00014.50; common to medium veals, under 200 lbs., $9.00 12.60; good to choice heavy calyes, $9.50011.00; common to medium heavy calves, $7.0009.00. ( Stoekera and Feeding Cattle Good "Vo choice steers. 800 lbs., and up, $13 00014.00; common to fair steers, 800 lbs., and up. $12.00013.00; good to choice steers under 800 lbs., $12 50 013 50; common to medium, under 800 lbs, $10.50012.50; medium to .good heifers, $9.00010.50; medium to good cows, $8.0009.50; springers; $9.00 $11.00; stock calves, 250 to 450 lbs., $3.50011.00. SHEEP AND LAMBS. Good to choice sheep, $10.00011.00; common to medium sheep. $7.00 9 00; good to choice light lambs, $17.50 40 18.00; common to medium lambs. $12017; western fed lambs, $18.50 down; western fed wethers, $11 down: bucks, per 100 pounds. $7.00 07.50; clipped stock, eelllng $2 to $3 per 100 lbs. lower than above quotations. Corrected by McLean & Company, Dayton, Ohio. Bell Phone East 28; Home. 81235. DAYTON. O.. April 23. Hogs Remarket 15c to 25c high; choice heavies $20.25020.60; select packers and butchers, $20,000 ?i2ft! heavy Yorkers. $19.00020.00; light Yorkers, $18.00019.00; pigs, $10 017.50; stags. $13.00015.00; fat sows. $18.50019.00; common ana iair bows, $17.50018.50. rattle Receipts, seven cars; marua atpnrtv; fair to Rood shippers, $14 015; good to choice butchers, $13 14.50; fair to medium butchers. $12 ' $14; good to choice heifers, $10013; 7tMr to good heifers, $9 11; choice fat cows. $10012; fair to good fat cows. $8010; bologna cows, $5,000 7; butcher bulls, $10012; bologna iLulls, $8011; calves, $10014. Sheep Receipts, light; market, strong. Sheep. $8010. Lambs, $10 . 15.00.

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EAST BUFFALO, N. Y., April 23. Cattle Receipts 100; steady; calves, receipts 400, active, 25 cents lower. $6 16.60. Hogs Receipts 1.000. active. 25 to 40 cents higher; heavy, mixed and Yorkers $21.60031.65; light Yorkers. $20.60 0 20.78; pigs. $20.25 20.60; roughs $18.75 0 19.00: stags $12015. Sheep and Lambs Receipts 800; active; lambs 10 cents higher; wooled lambs $17 0 20.50; clipped lambs $10 $17.60; yearlings $10016.60; wethers, $1350014.00; ewes $5 13; mixed sheep $13013.25. CHICAGO, Auril 23. Hogs Re ceipts. 17.000; strong, fully 10 cents higher than yesterday's average; top. $21.10, a new high record; bulk of sales, $20.8021.00;heavy weight. $20.95021.10; medium weight. $20.70 21.06: llcht weight. J2O.2502l.oo; light lights, $19.00020.60; sows, $18.85 020.35; pigs, $17.00019.25. Cattle Receipts, 8,000; slow, bidding general lower; calves steady; feeders weak." Heavy beef steers, $11.75020.40: light beef steers, $10.50 18.60; butcher cows and heifers, $8.00015.75; canners and cutters, $6.40010.50; veal calves, $13,000 14.50; stocker and feeder steers, $8.75 16.00. Sheep Receipts, 15,000; market slow: first sales of lambs, 15c lower; choice handy wooled Colorados, $19.50; lambs, 84 pounds or less, $17.75 19.50; 85 pounds or better, $17.50 19.50; culls and common. $13.50 $17.50; ewes, medium and good $11.75 15.50; culls and common $6011.75; spring lambs, good to choice. $18.50 $21.00. CINCINNATI. O., April 23. Receipts Cattle, 900; hogs, 6,500; sheep 100. Cattle Market, slow and steady; shippers, $13.50016.25; butchers steers, extra, $14.50 0 16.50; good to choice, $12.50014.; common to fair, $7011.50. Heifers Extra, $13014.25; good to choice, $11.50013; common to fair $7010.50. Cows Extra, $11.50 12.50; good to choice, $8.50011.00; common to fair, $608; canners, $506; etockers and feeders, $7.50013.50. Bulls Steady; extra, $11.2511.50; fat bulls, $11.50013; bologna, $10011. Milch cows Steady. Calves Good to steady; extra. $14.50; medium and common, weak and lower; fair to good. $12014.25; common and large. $7011. Hogs Steady; market, 25c lower; selected heavy shippers, $20.75; good to choice packers and butchers, $20.75; medium, $2020.75; stags, $10013.25; common to choice fat sows, $14019; light shippers, $18.50019.25; pigs, 110 lbs. and less, $12017. Sheep Steady; extra, $12013; good to choice, $110 $12; common to fair, $610; sheared, $4010. Lambs Steady; extra, $17.50 018; good to choice, $16017.50; common to fair, $13015. PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 23. Hogs Receipts 1,600; market higher; heavieB $20.75020.90; heavy Yoricers, $20.75020.90; light Yorkers, $19.75 $20.00; pigs $19.50019.75. Sheep and Lambs Receipts 300; market steady; top sheep $13.25; top lambs $17.00. Calves Receipts 150; market steady; top $16.50. PRODUCE MARKET CHICAGO, April 23. Butter Market Unsettled; creamery firsts 65061. Eggs Receipts 31,239 cases; market unsettled; firsts 39041; lowest, 39 cents. Live Poultry Market unchanged. Potatoes Unsettled; receipts 70 cars. Northern sacked and bulk white, $2.1002.20 per cwt. in car" lots; new etock jobbing Rose $10011 a barrel. NEW YORK STOCK LIST NEW YORK, April 23. The closing quotations on the stock exchange were: American Can, 58 4-8. American Locomotive, 71. American Beet Sugar, 76 1-4. American Smelter, 73. Anaconda, 62 1-8. Atchison, 92 7-8. Bethlehem Steel, bid, 75 3-4. Canadian Pacific, 160. Chesapeake & Ohio, 60 5-8. Great Northern, pfd.. 91 1-4. - New York Central, 75. No. Pacific, 91 7-8. So. Pacific, 106. Pennsylvania, 44. U. S. Steel, com, 101. LIBERT BONDS NEW YORK, April 23. Final prices on Liberty bonds today were: 3 1-2 98.70 First 4 95.74 Second 4 93.14 First 4 1-4 95.80 Second 4 1-4 ..93.28 Third 4 1-4 95.04 Fourth 4 1-4 93.24 BUTTER FAT QUOTATION Butter fat, delivered In Richmond, is bringing 65 cents this week. LOCAL QUOTATIONS Buying Corn, $1.70; oats, 67c; rye, $1.25; straw, per ton, $8.00. Selling Cottonseed meal, per ton, $7.00; per cwt., $3.50; tankage, 50 per cent, per ton, $93.00; per cwt. $4.75; 60 per cent, $108 per ton; $5.50 per cwt.; Quaker dairy feed, per ton, $50, per cwt., $2.65; linseed oil meal, per ton, $73; per cwt., $3.75; solt, per bbl., $2.75; wheat bran, per ton, $50; bran and shorts mixed, per ton, $53; white wheat middlings, per ton, $58, $3 per cwt.; white rye middlings, per ton, $57. The "first American woman soldier" is said to be Sergeant Ruth Farnam, of the Royal Serbian Army. She is now in this country on a lecture tour. WIHiams'Kidney and Liver Pflli Bar 70a overworked yonrnerrero 7teiilA nd caused trouble with your kidneys nd lirerf Hbt you pain la loLos, side nd back? Hare yon a flabby appearance of the face and under the eyes? If so, use WILLIAMS' KIDNEY AND LIVER PILLS. For sale by all druggists. Price fiO cents. WILLIAMS MFG. CO, Props, Clsvaland, Ohit For Sale by Conkey Drug Ca

GROWER HAS RIGHT

FAIR PRICE FOR By WILLIAM R. SANBORN. 1 CINCINNATI, O.. April 23 To those who claim that cigar leaf, and for that matter, all leaf tobacco, is too high, we wish to relate a little story. The man who told what follows is a past master In the Burley leaf business and is also one of the oldest and largest tobacco warehouse men in this city. Now "Uncle Billy," as he is affectionately known to many Kentucky Burley planters, often motors out through the tobacco country and a summer or two ago, he took dinner with his friend "Jeff." On being asked as to business conditions and prices Jeff said he was suited right down to the ground. And for these good and tangible reasons. Everybody had money to spend and were spending it. L Tobacco was bringing a good price which suited and was enriching the whole country side. And, waxing elo auent. he stated that a few days earlier he had, for the first time in his life sold a veal calf for the amazing sum ol $25. "Pretty good price for a calf you would have sold for a song a few years ago," said his visitor. "You bet you," said Jeff, "why less than two years ago I sold Just such a calf for $12.50." "What did you buy with that $25. Jeff?" asked the warehouse man, who had 4 moral to adorn his tale. "Well sir," was the reply. "I bought me two barrels of flour with that $25; yes sir, two whole barrels of flour for that measley little calf; what 'do you know about that?" "Now let's get back to the first calf, the $12.50 chap; what did you buy with the $12.50, Jeff?" Jeff looked thoughtful lor a moment then laughed: "Why. blast it," he said, "Danged if I didn't buy two barrels of flour with that calf money too." and then he whistled. And there you are Mr. Tobacco buyer and Mr. Tobacco ' Grower. How much more was the second calf worth than the first; how much as applied to the cost of living? What Is Tobacco Worth? That is the all important question to the grower first of all. In simpler language what can you buy with or 1 trade for one Dound of tobacco? Can you buy with the proceeds or trade a pound of cigar leaf for a dozen eggs? Not If the grocer or huckster Is watching. How about a pound of creamery butter at 75 cents, or ol ham or bacon? How many pounds of your leaf will have to be sold to raise the cash to pay for a barrel of flour to feed a hungry brood? Having determined all this you will be the better prepared to state what is a fair price for cigar leaf now, as compared with your past experience and the former relation of price of leaf In various years and the cost of the necessaries in tobacco culture, from food to labor and fertilizer; then and now. A poet whose name graces a million church hymn books wrote: "New times, new seasons and new joys. Doth a new song require." And in the recent new and piping days of feverishly high prices for all that we eat, wear and use. It isn't fair to Judge tobacco leaf to be an exception, nor to insist on its producEntertainment Planned For Center Service Men CENTERVILLE, Ind., April 23. AV Center townshiD boys who have re turned from the world war will be entertalred at the Town Hall in Centerville, Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. A supper given by the War Mothers of the township, music, speaking and other features, will be part of the program, and a general invitation 13 extended to all returned Center township soldiers to meet before the Town Hall at 8 o'clock Saturday evening, to march in a body on the "eats." FRUIT & VEGETABLES (Corrected Dally by Eggemeyefa) SELLING PRICE VEGETABLES New cabbage, 15c lb., green beans, 35c lb., cucumbers, 25c; egg plant, 30c lb.; new spring carrots, 15c bunch; j spring beets, 15c lb. Asparagus, 15c bunch; rhubarb, 5c bunch. Cauliflower, small, 20c lb.; large cauliflower, 15c lb.; leaf lettuce, 25c per lb.; head lettuce, trimmed, 35c per lb.; leak, 10c a bunch. Bermuda onions, 16c per pound; parsley, 5c a bunch; mangoes, 5 and 8c each; tomatoes, hot house grown, 30 cents lb. Sweet potatoes, 12 cents per lb.; turnips, 5c lb.; old, 5c lb; potatoes, old, $1.75 bu; young onions, 3 bunches 10c; Shallots, 10c bunch; breakfast radishes, 5c bunch. Button mushrooms, $1 pound; parsnips, 5c pound. New green peas, per pouni, 35c. Miscellaneous. Eggs, 45 cents; creamery butter, 74 cents; country butter, 5o cents a pound. Produce (Buying). Country butter, 45c lb.; eggs, 38c dozen; old chickens, 30c pound; fry chickens, 35c pound. Fruits. Grape fruit, 12c and 15c; Winesap3 12c lb. straight; Greenings. 10c lb.; yellow onion sets, 6c lb. Bananas, 10c lb.; lemons, 40c dozen, oranges, 60 cents per dozen; Florida oranges. 60 cents dozen; strawberries, 40c quart; celery, California, 25c bunch; cocoanuts, 20c each. The thousands of women and girls employed in the War Department, Washington, are to be instructed in military and "setting up" drills for health conservation by Miss Susanna Cocroft, of Chicago. Dr. Vinton's VINTO-LAX "Purple Pill for Liver Ills" .CONSTIS'ATIOM 10sBd25axa INOiOESTIOM Alsii Druggist HCAOACHK Conkey's and other leading Druggists

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tion at a loss, as compared. The grower has as much right to determine what is a fair and honest price for his product as have the packer or manufacturer. This can not in all fairness be denied. OnCe sold the farmer is done; be has" made or lost money for good and all. The manufac turer is differently situated. He can and does arbitrarily set a price on his j wares which will insure a profit and j the consumer pays the price, and, as a matter of fact, as all retailers admit, he pays uncomplainingly. He does of course, and we all know It. We can all recall the time when the cigar stamp tax was reduced to $3.00 per 1,000 cigars, for ALL American made brands. Look at present revenue stamp costs under the latest Federal law: On all cigars retailing up to 5 cents, $4 per 1,000; at 6 cents to 8 cents, $6 ner 1.000: at 9 cents to 15 cents, $9 per 1,000; at 16 cents to 20 cents, $12 per 1,000, and all cigars retailing at over 20 cents each are now taxed $15 per thousand, as shown by stamps affixed to the boxes.. On top. of this revenue stamp cost comes all the government restrictions and taxes incident to the conduct of the cigar manufacturing industry. It is true, too, that the same rule applies as to manufactured tobacco in all its forms. Have you heard anyone "kick"; you have not all consumers are patriotically and cheerfully paying the freight for they realize that Uncle Sam needs the money. Leaf Growers Need the Money And unless times and conditions also change materially the tobacco grower is going to continue to need the money. If he does not consider that he is getting what rightfully be longs to him as his share as the basic producer upon which the entire industry rests, he will automatically de crease his acreage and still further diversify his crops. This is inevitable. The reduced acreage actually promis ed for 1919, and the discontent in so many cigar leaf sections, as Is proved by the constant growth of tobacco growers' associations and the increase in membership of co-operative organ! zations, all point the way to what is coming quickly, if prices are cut to the quick. Time will then come when the far mer will pack and store and market, and many are going to do this with the 1918 crop, regardless. Unless all signs fail many more will do this in the disposal of the 1919 and of future tobacco crops, this being thfc trend, as our observation confirms. The Packers' Viewpoint It may as well be frankly stated that the majority of packers think it is time they had an inning. They claim that the tobacco farmers have had three years of increasingly high prices and that the packers, many of them, have been unable to realize on the speculative prices paid to growers, especially as to those who paid the top on the 1917 crop; and frequently "In the field" at that. Some of these "have it in" for the growers as one may readily discover in a five minute talk. There can be no doubt whatever, as to this truth, and many so state. Back of this again stands the manufacturer whose own buyers are in the field, competing with the leaf packer and speculator. So long as the manufacturer is fairly well supplied with suitably aged leaf and knows where a supply can be secured for later storage and ageing, he can patiently wait for a break in the ranks, not only as to the farmers, but also as to the packers of the leaf he needs. "But there will come a time some day," gentlemen, when the manufacturer must buy or go out of business, and he must buy the leaf that nearest meets his requirements, both as to age and quality. In many instances that time is close at hand; In others it is still in the distance, depending on the demand for cigars and increase of consumption to normal We were informed during this trip that one leaf concern stood to lose about $60,000 to $75,000 on 5,000 cases of 1917 cigar leaf, bought on the "bulge," mostly. If this be true, and our informant ought to be able to make a pretty close guess, it is littlo wonder that so many packers, east and west, haven't put up a pound of the 1918 crop of Ohio or Pennsylvania 1 leaf. To lose $12 to flo per case on that size lot means a whole lot, even to a large concern. Quality of Ohio Crop While it seemed to be the "right thine" in Pennsylvania to cast refleo tions on the quality of the 1918 Ohio crop, I do not find that to be true of Cincinnati cigar manufacturers, so far talked with. One large buyer for his own cigar plant said today that he was satisfied that Ohio had raised a whole lot of good tobacco last year, regardless of the early cut to avoid frost, and of all other 'detrimental effects in curing and handling. (To Be Continued) An Overburdened Mother If the steps a mother takes and the work she does could only be measured by figures.' what an array they would make. Through girlhood, wifehood and motherhood woman toils on, often suffering from backache, pain in side, headache, nervousness and sleeplessness, symptoms of more serious ailments peculiar to her sex. Thousands of such women, however, have found relief from suffering by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, as is evidenced by the letters of recommendation continually being published in this paper. Adv. EGG ANTHRACITE We are now taking orders for Egg Anthracite Coal for deliveries from car within ten days. Price $11.75. The Independent Ice & Fuel Co. NPhone 3465. FURNACES Holland Furnaces make warm friends, Ask any lucky owner. H. L. Householder, Local Representative, 319 Randolph Street Phone 3163

A Woman's Business By Zoe Beckley

LUCY HASKALL AND SIX YEARS Millions of people . chuckled and bought copies of a certain great Action weekly because of a picture on Its front cover, "The Raid." Two youngsters, an overalled chubby cub of six and his small sister, had evidently raided their mother's doughnut Jar and were disposing of their booty in the crotch of an old apple tree, just out of reach Of their mother, who, gingham aproned, was shaking a threatening rolling pin at the young robbers. The boy, his pockets stuffed with reserve doughnuts, and his mouth storing away another, was generously offering mother one of the doughnuts. There seemed reason, however, to doubt his sincerity, for he was holding the doughnut just out of mother's reach. The small sister was calmly showering apple blossom petals on her mother's upturned and apparently stern face. But the outraged parent, flushed either with wrath, sunlight, cooking, health or all of these, did not impress the public with her wrath, as the corner of her mouth away from the youngsters, but visible to the public held what looked auspiciously like the dimpled vestige of a smile. Among those who were attracted to the cover were Walt and Janet Stedman. Janet was the first to exclaim: "Why, that's Lucy Haskall and her youngsters! Yes, sir; there is her name signed to the sketch! Walt, I must see that picture In real life with my own eyes. I'm willing to go all the way to Lucy's home to do it!" Her face shone with eagerness for the ad venture. "I'm with you," Walt replied heart ily. "It's six years since I've seen her." One of the effects of the magazine cover, therefore, was the arrival a week later of Walt and Janet in their big touring car at a substantial looking, comfortable farmhouse in the west whfch combined all the wholesome charm of the old-fashioned country homestead with evidence of being tenated by a modern, well-to-do family of taste and culture. - From the house a sunburned, buxom woman ran down the cobbled walk to meet the Stedmans. From the midst of a trimmed box hedge two small beads, almost replicas of the hostess, were peering round-eyed at the visitors. "You king and queen of the earth.

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Please read, then figure, then if you don't buy, you will have no one to blame for the high prices that you will be obliged to pay for feed. You know of the high prices that meat is bringing and so that you can realize these high prices you must produce meat the quickest way possible and the only way to do it is to FEED. It is true that pasture will soon be here, but grass will not produce meat in a very short time. Today We Arc Paying

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you!" Lucy Haskall exclaimed, hugging Walt and Janet In one ample embrace. "How dear and lovely of you to come. Tom, children, come ana greet your uncle and aunt! From the house a big man in cor duroy and great leather shoes laced over his trouser legs stepped out ana joined bis wife at the gate. "I've declared half holiday at the dam we're building to celebrate your arrival." Tom Haskall grinned, grip ping Waifs and Jaet's bands in a bear-size, kind-looking hand. "Welcome!" "And I've drethed up Thneethe " began Tom Haskall, Jr., emerging from the box hedge and dragging at a stubbornly braced bull pup. "Sneeze," translated hi3 mother, wiping an ' earthly smudge from her eon's countenance. Then, as she turned to the boy, "Why, you young Jesse James, you've used my opera bae for your pup's millinery!" ehe cried. "I told him he shouldn't have done it," declared the other chubby kiddie still in the midst of the box hedge. "I wanted to dress up Felicia in it. But Tommy wouldn't let me, and Felicia is busy wif her kittens. You'll excuse that, own't you, Aunt Janet and Uncle Walt?" Small Lucy was shocked to find how badly "Aunt Janet" took Felicia's nonappearance In holiday dress. For tears actually sprang to her "aunt's" eyes as she caught up the little lady to her breast. But Lucy's mother seemed to make amends for her little daughter's apparent neglect by patting "Aunt Janet's" hands and saying in a low voice: "Hope, dearest, hope!" her words reaching Janet's ears only. "When I think of what life's done for me in six brief years " A smile broke through the momentary tears in Janet's eyes. "It makes me almost as happy to see them as though they were my own," she said softly. (To be continued.) CLASSES TO DINE. The English I classes of the High school will have a spread in the High school gymnasium Thursday evening. Miss Pansy Newby will chaperon the party. Ibiuio for

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VERA CRUZ, Mexico, April 23 - Gen Francisco Alvarez of the antigovernment forces was executed at 11:30 o'clock this morning. He met death at the hands of a firing squad with the utmost bravery. AFTER INFLUENZA . .. WINTER COLDSBAD BLOOD Yd3 fir? pale, thin, weak with" little" vitality. Your liver is sluggish and the . bad blood cause your stomach muscles to lose their elasticity and become flabby and weak then indigestion. 7 i.'- - Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, nude from wild roots and barks, and free from alcohol or narcotics, is the great and powerful blood purifier of to-day. Ingredients printed on wrapper. This tonic, in liquid or tablet form, is just what you need to give yon rim, vigor and vitality. Take it as directed and it will search out impure and poisonous matter throughout the system and eliminate it through the natural channels. J..-:. You can procure a .rial package bf sending 10 cents to Dr, Pierce's Invalids. Hotel, Buffalo, N, Y. SUun Point, Wit. "Etst sines I eaa inwabsri wben I was a child at boms. Dr. Piers' rosdirinr hsre bea our family medic! d. About two jmn ago I was very much ma-dowa. I aoSarad ba of appetit. my blood was bad aad X bad bo aabitioa to do anything; I mlifitili I got ao bad X had to tsks to my bad. I started taking Dr. Pierce's Golden Msdical Disoovery. I sooabegaa to feel better and three bottle of thia dirt no wis sll I hsd to use to put me do fto cooditiaa. I had a good appetite, my treagth earn bask, 4 I once mors felt that Hfe was worth living. Tbara u do better medicine I do heartily latinmarad it. I shall be glad to answer fmy eommaaieatioa in regard to this median if stamped envelop is enclosed." ii r. A. W. Howls. Jtstst 3. RICHMOND, TUESDAY, MAY 6 Afternoon and Night. So. 23 and A Sts. Uptown seat sale at Conkeys Drug Store Circus Day." 111 (Coipol 1

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