The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, February 11, 1916 Page: 3 of 8
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GOOD REASON FOR STOPPING
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this direction, that the farmers and
-Take CAPUDINE—-
For Aches, Patna and Nervousness.
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light would shine upon it. he scrutin-
ized it an instant, and said
Yes’"
Then he passe on without another
word
in the new process of manufacture, intense heat expands the
interior moisture, raising little pearl-like “puffs” on each flake—a
distinguishing feature of the
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intended, for Uncle Sam has a lot of sight of the valentine, explaining to
sentiment, so sometimes by the post the nurse that it was the first he had
You’ll know why when you taste the new delicious flavour—along
with a body and tender crispness that don’t mush down in cream.
Many a Token of Affection Finds
Its Way to the Dead
Letter Office.
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are carefully looked, over, sorted out.
put in packages and by the help of a
list furnished by municipal officers,
sent around to the various charitable
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IF HAIR IS TURNING
GRAY, USE SAGE TEA
All the Difference.
A motorist who was touring in ire-
gift is a bit late, It is enjoyea just as
much, as was illustrated, jn the case of
Youthful Angler Not Out of Patience
But of Something That Was
Quite as Important.
ehill Tonic is equally
eral Tonic because it
Every Year Thousand of Valentines
Fall to Reach Their Destination
Because of Carelessness on
the Part of Those Who
Send Them.
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I knelt beside it, silent; and opened it with care;
I felt as if some girl-soul were standing by me there;
For dainty garments whispered, and perfumed laces sung
Of morning and of springtime, when all the world was young.
an old sailor in one of the hospitals,
who was moved to tears of ioy at the
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I WANDERED to an attic where lacy cobwebs swayed,
| Where sunbeams, dusty golden, were dancing as they
I strayed;
And as I crossed the threshold with footsteps soft and
slow,
I felt the hidden presence of ghosts of long ago.
German Sailors Quick in Recognition
of Gallant Deed Performed by
Enemy of Nation.
Make the Liver
Do its Duty
Nine times in ten when the liver ii
right the stomach and bowels are right
CARTER’S LITTLE A
•IVER PILLS
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take Grove’s
The Old Standard Grove’s Tasteless
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When It reaches the morgue, if it i
। bears a writtep message. every means
is resorted to to find for whom it was
-Muery
Pictufe
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Headache, Jefe.
•nd Distresa After Eating.
SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE.
Genuine must bear Signature "
.Carters
■ ITTLE
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Don’t Lose a Day’s Work! If Your Liver Is Sluggish or Bowels
Constipated Take “Dodson’s Liver Tone.”—It’s Fine!
You’re bilious! Your liver is slug-1 sluggish liver better than a dose of
I saw a wooden chest there with rusty lock and key,
And when I knelt before It my dreaming eyes could see
initials twined together and carving almost hid
By scratches, deeply graven upon the polished lid.
“None for You, Teddy!”
"I‘m afraid not.
you ran
drowning She’s a magnificent swim-
| mer, you know ”
ROMANCES END IN
/CUPID’S MORGUE”
The Earlier Opportunity.
"Do you think our friend's peace
gish! You feel lazy, dizzy and all
Anybody smart I knocked out. Your head is dull. your
The stranger paused. removed his
right glove, unbuttoned his coat from
top to bottom, unbuttoned his under
coat, and finally pulled out his watch,
while the cold wind beat against his
unprotected chest
a
Stranger Possibly Resented Fact That
He Had Been Caused Some Incon-
venience to Ascertain Time.
distance. and remarked to himself:
I ll ask this gentleman the hour of
the night, and so save myself the
trouble of unbuttoning my COM
He perceived that the stranger was
buttoned up just as he was When he
came up, the man who wanted to know
the time touched his hat politely and
said:
Sir. do fou know what time it is?"
HEAT FLASHES,
DIZZY, NERVOUS
Mrs. Wynn Tells How Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound Helped Her
During Change of Life.
Richmond, Va. — "After taking
seven bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham’s
... Vegetable Com-
gently butfirmly com
Pel a lazy liver to A
do its duty. A
Cures Con-
’ patoin, In-A2
digeation, 4
Sick V
through my back A
were so severe I /2
couldn't do myC4
housework. My TT
kldneys were in bad il
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health was all run {
down, in fact t was, ka- Kua
A wreck Finally. -7?*
I umed Doan’s Kid "I ("N 1
ney fills and theykk K L
cured me LhaveQ \ j.
never had any need V **
of a kidney medicine since."
I sour and bowels constipated But don't
take salivating calomel. It makes you
sick, you may lose a day's work
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver
which causes necrosis of the bones
Calomel crashes into sour bile like
dynamite, breaking it up That’s when
you feel that awful nausea and cramp-
| ing
If you want to enjoy the nicest, gen-
tlest liver and bowel cleansing you
ever experienced just take a spoonful
of harmless Dodson's Liver Tone. Your
. druggist or dealer sells you a 50-cent
bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone under
my personal money-back guarantee
that each spoonful will clean your
up the Whole System SO cents
sent to a "Nixie post office.” which institutions and hospitals. On reach
place to thousands of post cards, while
books, candy, flowers. fruit and other
articles requiring careful wrapping
come by special delivery or in the
parcel post.
There is no live stock of any de-
scription carried by parcel post except
by accident, though there is under dis-
cussion at this time a plan looking to-
country people generally may have the
benefit of sending their live poultry,
and perhaps game. to customers di-
rect.
However, on last Valentine day a
country swain not being up in parcel
post regulations and wishing to send
the admired one a suggestive, live,
homey valentine, sent her a pair
of bantam chickens by the parcel post
The postmaster at the country post
office. not having read carefully his
instructions, or perhaps having a fel-
low" feeling, allowed the tiny cock and
hen to come to Washington, and they
were so cute and the cock crowed so
lustily on his, arrival that the parcel
post man delivered the pair to the
The old man was an enthusiastic j
fisherman. To him there was no sport 1
like sitting dangling a bit of string at
the end of a pole. He set off in pur
in broken English. said to him
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Naturally.
Noah tjust before the storm)—Ai)
the animals on board?
Shorn All but the leopards, but I’ll
soon spot them
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ward an extension of'the service in suit of this hobby one afternoon, and.
-- a____— ..... - -_____ । [ just before reaching the river, met a
simple mixture can be depended upon
to restore natural color and beauty
to the hair and is splendid for dan-
dryf, dry, itchy scalp and falling hair.
A well-known druggist says every-!
body uses Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur,
because it darkens so naturally and
evenly that nobody can tell it has been
! applied—it’s so easy to use, too. You
simply dampen a comb or soft brush
and draw it through your hair, taking
one strand at a time. By morning
, brownies, pixies and fairies by small
children, but is In reality just a flag
station on the railroad, and not a post
office at all. In this case it is left at
the nearest post office, and if the ad-
dressee fails to claim it the valentine
then reaches "Cupid's morgue" at
some one of the sixteen division head-
quarters of the railway mall service.
known tonic properties ot QUININE and
IRON It acts on the Liver, Drives out
Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds
Might Be Different.
"Our romance began in a most ro-
mantic way. My wife saved me from
lad coming back, his fishing-rod hang
ing limply over his shoulder
"What's this, sonny?" exlain.ed the
man. In good-natured reproof Surely
you are not giving up so soon? The
fishing will be better still in an hour
or two."
I know,” replied the lad, sorrow
Grandmother kept her hair beauti-
fully darkened, glossy and abundant
with a brew of Sage Tea and Sulphur.
Whenever her hair fell out or took on
that dull, faded or streaked appear-
ance, this simple mixture was applied
with wonderful effect. By asking at
any drug store for ‘Wyeth's Sage and
Sulphur Hair Remedy,” you will get a
large bottle of this old-time recipe,
ready to use, for about 50 cents This
lG.
_I—-—"■■J in better health
than I ever was and recommend your
remedies to all my friends. Mrs. Lena
Wynn, 2812 E. O Street, Richmond, V*.
While Change of Life is a most crit-
ical period of a woman’s existence, the
annoying symptoms which accompany
it may be controlled, and normal health
restored by the timely use of Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.
Such warning symptoms are a sense
ef suffocation, hot flashes, headaches,
backaches, dread of impending evil, I
timidity, sounds in the ears, palpitation
of the heart, sparks before the eyes,
irregularities, constipation, variable ap-
petite, weakness and inquietude, and
dizziness. I
For these abnormal conditions do not
fail to take Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege-
table Compound.
lent lacked intuition. Thousands of
these votaries of St. Valentine lose
cut every fourteenth day of February
and wonder why. little thinking it
was only the'slip of the pen in ad-
dressing the valentine to the chosen
one that caused it to go astray and
finally reach "Cupid's morgue,” as it
is called at the dead letter office at
Washington
Or it may be the lost valentine was
•wu•
I saw a folded paper, all yellow with the years.
Perhaps the print of kisses, perhaps the mark of tears
Had touched it once—for, fastened with bow of faded blue.
It whispered through the ages a message, "I love you!”
ovou•
I laid it gently from me and closed th* chest with care.
And breathing through the stillness I Ma rd behind me there
A murmur—half a love word, and half, perhaps a sigh—
The phantom of a heart-beat of many years gone by.
—From the Christian Herald.
Rest Those Worn Nerves
Don’t give up When you feel
all unstrung, when family cares
seem too hard to bear, and back-
ache,, dizzy headaches and irregu-
lar kidney action mystify you. re-
member that such troubles often
come from weak kidweys and it
may be that you only need Doan's
Kidney Pills to make you well.
Don’t delay. Profit by other peo-
ple's experiences.
A Texas Case
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the dimTeret
I suppose that is why his face tween your turnout and mine
Cause’ and Effect
"What lantern laws Iones has
Given quick relief—Try it.—Adv.
the gray hair disappears; after an-
other application or two. It is re-
stored to its natural color and looks
glossy, soft and abundant.—Adv.
mark and a wonderful astuteness in ,
unravelling the secret intentions of
people which characterizes the clerks
In the dead letter office through whose
hands it passes, the fair one or gallant
is reached. As real valentines are
never signed—for that is their myster-
ious charm—it takes a kindred feeling
and the cleverest sort of detective
work to unravel the mystery of their
destination. In the event of failure,
he who thinks these messengers of
sentiment and love are ruthlessly de
stroyed or sold at auction in one of
the several dead 'letter sales which
take place each year is mistaken, for
in the case of valentines, with some
exceptions, what is one's loss is an
other's gain, and while a trifle belated
reach a happy destination where they
are thoroughly appreciated.
On the 14 of FebruRYy all over the
country the mail* Increase about ten
per cent, and while this is not as
large an increase as at Christmas and
Easter. It is very noticeable, requiring
a longer time to sort and deliver the
valentine matter. The special deliv
ery and parcel post service help to
facilitate getting out the malls on this
day, and the latter 1* particularly in
teresting in the variety and unique
ness of the articles it carries as sou-
venirs of the celebration.
’ With each year styles change, and
the old-tashioned, large, lace paper val-
entines in the embossed envelopes of
the last century, and the fancy card*
in pasteboard boxes which used to be
went and were such a trial in the
^sniping machine, have now given
form, and as addresses are often de- i now
feetive; and there are no return marks, I • No. I don’t know if she would save Grat riches as hard
me again iod name I st at ■ a
in the dead letter office, where they 1
nld’lnfine
Margaret E. Sangster Jr.
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Don’t Look Old! Try. Grandmother’s
Recipe to Darken and Beautify
Gray, Faded, Lifeless Hair.
i nasty calomel and that it won't make
you sick
Dodson's Lifer Tone is real liver
medicine. You’ll know it next morn-
ing because you will wake up feeling
fine, your liver will be working, your
headache and dizziness gone. your
I stomach will be sweet and your bowel*
regular You will feel like working,
you'll be cheerful; full of vigor and
ambition.
Dodson’* Liver Tone is entirely
vegetable, therefore harmless and can-
not salivate. Give it to your children*
Millions of people are using Dodson's
Liver Tone instead of dangerous cal-
omel now Your druggist will tell you
that the sale of calomel is almost
stopped entirely here
pound I feel like a
new woman. I al-
ways had a headache
during the Change 1
of Life and was also
troubled with other
bad feelings com-
mon at that time-
dizzy spells, nervous
feelings and heat
flashes. Now I am
intended one Besides these, a pair
of rabbits came through in the same
way.
Since the rage for picture postcards
began valentines largely take.....that
Cat Dow*, at Any Store. SOe a Be*
DOAN’S “pDM‛
FOSTERMILBURN CO.. BUFFALO, N. Y.
cause you didn’t stop, but I wiir not
do so for your brave act in saving the
, little dog.
The captain swam back to the boat
with the dog resting on his shoulder.
For two days he feared that, owing to
Progressive Dampness, the exposure, the little dog would not
fully, "but Im going home for all Young Twobble first decided that recover but it did get well at last
that • he wanted to be a lawyer The National Canine Defense league
You’re quickly tired,” scoffed the Yp* has awarded a medal to Captain Rob-
older angler "Next time you come "But he thought the law was too inson for his humane actioti:
out, bring more patience with you "dry, 80 he decided to become a doc-
" "Tain t that. mister. the lad an- . tor
swered. ”I brought plenty o patience. , "But evan that was too dry so he
but not enough baft. ' opened a drug store in a dry town, and
Mrs J R. Young,
505 W. Grand Ave , ,
Marshail, Texas, 1
says: “T h e pains
PI A CM LOSSES SURELY PREVENTEL
III E, by Cutter’a Blaokieg Fill# Low-
•A4AAA priced, fresh, rellable; preferred by
Western stockmen because they pro-
T wre aa teot where other vaceines fall.
I L W Write for booklet and testimonfals
i, r ■ e 00-ose pkge. Blaekieg PlIIs si.oo
“eed“- S0-dose pkge. Blaokleg Pills 4.00
. a any Injector, but Cutter’s best
The superlorlty of Cutter products b due to over 11
specializing in vaoines and serume only.
pIpolst.onutter'a, Ir unobtainable, order direct
TME CUTTR LABORATORY. Berkeley, California
CALOMEL IS MERCURY; IT SICKENS!
m STOP USING SALIVATING DRUG
sounds like a place for only mysteri- ing this final destination they are dis-
ous letters which are sent to little I tributed among the inmates and pa-
tients in the ward*, of course the !
children coming first.
| received in years. The last one
i reached him in a foreign port, he.ex-
plained. and since then there had been
silence.
Flowers and fruit are distributed in
a similar way after being kept, for a
reasonable length of time in the large
ice box which was installed in October
in the new city post office for that
purpose, all perishable goods being
put in this if delivery is belated.
Dire Threat.
No. Lena,” said the mistress, “i
cannot give you a recommendation
. You are lazy, incompetent and sloven
ly and It wouldn't be right for me t<
give others the impression that yot
are a good servant.” •
' Listen hare, Mrs. Yones," cried
Lena shaking her fist in the lady’s
far e- if you ain’t bane giving me das
recommendation Ay bane stay here til
you do.” ’ ■
-She got it.
This is a wise and cheerful’ disposi
tion of them that Uncle Sam has 1
thought out, as they bring sunshine to
many a little child Any, older person
too. who may have beeh overlooked on
St. Valentine’s day. And, though the
Horseshoe* that are attached by
bolts instead of nails have been pat
' ented by an Englishman.
‘at be-
find in a day’s walk.
On one of the recent stormy nights
a man was hastening horn*' with his
overcoat buttoned up to his neck. He
was rather anxious to know what time
it was, but he was too lazy 'to unbut
ton his coat in order to get at his
watch
.lust thin he saw a man of well-
dressed appearance coming in the
r | ^HE failure to dot an "l" or
I cross a “t" helps to fill "Cupid's
] morgue” and often places In
jeopardy the real romance of
many a man and maid who go through
life thinking that the anonymous out-
pourings of their hearts were not ap-
preciated, or that the intended recip-
ityawfimumsshm
land, one day met a native who was
driving- a donkey and cart
Thinking he would like to have *
little fun at the man’s expense he be-
gan
■ Oh notareat dale 1 mpt;
plied Pat Shure, the donkey s in
the sTarisir the wau and in the sate
in the other"
An interesting war story - that im
current in England is told by the
New York Sun The Caucasian, an
English merchantman, was chased by
a German submarine The steering
gear of the vessel was destroyed by a
shot from the submarine, and she had
to stop Captain Robinson, her skip-
per gave a little Pomeranian dog.
seven months old, to his second officer
to put into th« boat, but in passing the
dog down, one of the men let it fall
into the water.
When the captain entered the boat
he saw the dog swimming toward the
submarine Without hesitation he
jumped overboard and swam almost a
quarter of a mile before he could over-
take his little pet On reaching him.
he placed him on his shoulders and
as the submarine had by this time
drawn up to him. he laid hold of her
in order to regain his breath
The commantler of the submarine.
Holding up the watch so that the • was about to blow up your ship be-
"I notice you don t go out very far 1 lights up so when he talks
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Ladd, A. L. The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, February 11, 1916, newspaper, February 11, 1916; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1494616/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Virgil and Josephine Gordon Memorial Library.