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CGOLEY'S New Jewelery Store Second Street, East of Broadway Filled with complete line of Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, Cut Cla, . Clocks and Jewelry for Christmas Presents Wedding and Birthday Gifts You are Invited to call and ee us in our New glegant Location. HONEST GOODS , LOWEST PRICES Watch and Clock Repairing a Specialty Satisfaction G-xaxariteecl W. L, COOLEY, the Jeweler Second Street, East of Abilene National Bank. f That the W. H. Eicholtz Co. carries the largest and the best line of Picture France Moulding in the city. They also carry a full and complete line of FRAMED PICTURES and OVAL FRAMES. Work and Prices Right t3Don't forget to ask to see the Hammered Brass Picture Moulding, W, rvn ( yXJSEWING THE MACHINE OF KNOWN VALUE. KEEDIES, BELTS, OIL, AND ALL SEWING MACHINE SUPPLIES. SHOCKEY & LANDES ABILENE, KANSAS. GEORGE SNYDER Shoer of Track and Heavy Horses IKTEBFERING STOPPED OR HELPED GIVE ME A CALL Phone :6j Brlrkrflliop, Buckeye Ave., Between Third aad Fourth Streets, Ahilcne, Kansas. CHICHESTER S PILLS SV TIIK D1AUCAD ItUAKeL . Fill, ia Ur4 W-U z.rtiiUV Ikvfm, tea,t4 !( hnt Hil-, V Tti o smlW. a-r -f row UlAJ0 JRRA fc II PII.l-4.furM ran a nun m Bt.Sft. Alm RdMf SOLD il 'UStOCISTS EVtmULtt ftsn a jiiT'f any ermltl" at ULrta uW ant b.fttfl by w uenMiooal s RTP-atr Ttni!. i aU ? 1'faf rM. Th FtTAJM to anttnary occv-l bunllf ssUk m ails. wmtAia-avraDl a- latest thing out. - H. EICHOLTZ CO. ) n,TU IHAUHINL Bay yanr SewJas; Haehiue from authorised dealer, from the one mho maaee ibe sale aa4 care of Hewing H chine his exclusive business, one who is la close touch with the manufactu rer. Too will then have if liable man to call oa la ease of an accident to your machine. He always baa accessories and duplicate parts oa hand to meet aay emergency The NEW HOME Is leas liable to get out of order than any oth er, la made better, and all part are Interchangeable, A careful examination of thia machine before yon purchase any other will pay yon. The quicker a cold is gotten rid of the less the danger from pneumonia and other ssrioui diseases. . Mr. B. W, L. Hall of Waverly, Va., says: "1 firmly believe Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to be absolutely the best preparation on the market for colds. I have recommended it to my friends t-ai they all agree with me." For ale by all dealers. Feel languid, weak, run-down? Headache? Stomach "off"? Just a plain rase of lazy liver. Burdock Blood Bitters tones liver and stom ach, promote digestion, purifies the blood. II -""' Ouppr Weiffhts and Measures il " - II N Inspector John Klelnhans was in the city looking after the business of the atate board of health, division of weights and measures. He has made a number of visits to this city within two years and says that as a rule the merchants have met him In a spirit of fairness and have showed a desire to Bbide by the law. Inspector Klelnhans says that the ways of the cheat, both manufacturer and retailer, are devious and hard to. BEARINGS ON WAGON SCAUg - Ymv 3HARP JTFSL EDGE FUZCROM BEARING. EDGE COMPLETELY RUSTED AND WORN AWT MAKING ACCURATE! WETGXNG IMPOSSIBLE trace. The man who is not on to me tricks is like a man that Is color blind looklne for a white horse he would never see any, but the man who knows the arts of manufacturing ana me ways of .wholesale and retail busi ness has no trouble to locate viola tions of the food and drug and the weights and measure law. The department Is working In all parts of the state, and is making a vigorous campaign for honest weights and pure food. Secretary Crumbine and his inspectors are not working on the theory that wrong weighing and wrong measuring is a willful, malic ious practice, but Is more the result of ignorance. Where it Is a willful oractice. competition Is generally given as the reason and the honest merchant suffers at the hands of the dishonest merchant and the dishonest miller has a distinct advantage over the miller who Is square. Take flour as an illustration. It is 48 IB H.01TR. WEIGHT WHICH HAS BEEN DRIHEDI1AK1NG SCALE GIVE LB. SHORT ON SACK OF FLOUR. sold mainly in 24-pound, 4S-pound and 98-pound sacks. The dealer buys it In barrel lots. It Isn't much of a trick to keep a quarter-pound of flour out of a 24-pound sack of a pound out of a 48-pound sack and no trick to keep four pounds out of a barrel supposed to contain 196 pounds, if a flour mill has a capacity of 300 barrels daily and a barrel Is short weighed four pounds, the miller gains 1200 pounds, or bIi barrels a day by short weights. That short weight gives the Idshonest miller a profit of 'from $20 to $35 dally over the miller who gives full weight. SCALE CHEATING ATTACHMENTS POUND BY JOHN A KLEINHANS STATE FOOD INSPECTOR ARROW .5HCW5 DEVICE. Many unusual and surprising con- than forty years ago. From Iowa ditions and things have been brought Point they drifted to another Kansas tie light by the weight end measure town. Their loss In weight is simply Inspector, but, the greatest, surprise the result of time and usage. They of all was the finding of a cbeatlne; show they were never tampered with, device so cleverly made and attached , A real plan of cheating is to bore to an even arm balance scale-, as to out the weights like the acconipany appear to be a part of the scale and Ing cut. When you see such weights rts mechantum. The board upon ! In use you have a reason for being which is attached the "pushing up" j suspicious. device forms a handsome base upon An Atchison man a few weeks ago which the scale stands, and Do one drove out Into the country and bought would suspect thst It did not belong I five bushels of apple which were to the scale. By a glance at the cut1 measured np wMh an old-fashioned of the scale cheating attachment j half-bushel basket. He got tea bas sbown In eonnectlon with this artl- kets. When he got home and carried cle you will notice that the weighted them Into the cellar la the common lever pushes 'of) against th arm of "chip" market basket, which Is sup- the scale containing the weights aud thus the other arm of the scale con talnlng product being weighed will the more readily go down, for the goods pulling down on the one side and the device pushing np on the other, something Is going to happen before a perfect balance !s establish ed, on what Is an otherwise perfectly balanced scale and absolutely cor rect weights. The device pictured in the cut made a short-weiglit Si o.ince eJSIW" on each pound weighed. During last June, State Inspector John Kleinhans Inspected 143 wagon scales In the ten largest cities of the state and found 49, or 35 per cent of them "off" from ten pounds to 176 pounds to the ton. The owncrB of these scales did not know that their scales were weighing wrong. In some Instances the scales under weighed but those instances were very rare. Low corners caused 80 per cent of the condemned scales iO weigh inaccurately, while 20 per cen( of the bad ones were worn out. The only way to find out whether scales are accurateor not is to try them wftli tested weights. If you ever loafed around a Btore you may have noticed the proprietor or a clerk using a scale weight in place of a hammer, and you may have sixr MOUNT OOKCCS 2 0Z-1. IMPERFECT KK-.j WEIGHTS . I TAKEN 1Mb ioz7shokt WEIGHTS BEEN IN ACTUAL USE F08 -40 YRS. noticed that occasionally a piece of the weight was chipped off. if that same weight was often used for a hammer It Is easy to see why Its ac curacy would he destroyed, The ac companying cut shows a stack of weights picked up in stores oviir the state which were short for the reason already given. The 14-pound and 7-pound weights have a history. Ever seen 14 and 7 pound weights? They were brought from St. Louis to Iowa Point more ON (P-fcZZ&T I. STOKE ... l-sr ZZZJ?- I&OZ3H0KI posed, to hold a halt bushel he had ore thirteen baskets.1 The farmer either cheated himself when he meas- Pr TAKES FIVE I run riueu. vf THESE Ptcrw TO MAKE, ONE BU. ured up the apples or It was again proven that the common market bas ket is a professional robber. Last summer an inspector stopped a number of hucksters wno were crossing the bridge from Kansas City, Mo., to Kansas City, Kas. Seventeen of them were found to be using short peck measures, which must be filled five times to get an honest bushel. Naturully they were filling it hut four times. The poor people are the ones who buy fruits and vegetables in small quantities and, because of their poverty, are entitled to honest meas ure. Recently in Topeka a car load of milk bottleB were received and many of them sold to milk men, which were 2 'A ounces short of the standard quart. The pure food department Is hunting them up and destroying them as fast as they cun find them. It B Z'iCZ. SHORT or STANDARD QUART SHORT MEASURE QUART BOTTLE STANDARD SIZE QUART BOTTLE SHOWING SHORTAGE FOUND N MILK BUTlLLo snld the bottles are bo constructed that it Is almost impossiuie lo ueircv hv sleht that they are Bhort. But the glass has a peculiar color wnicn betrays them when alongside honest milk bottles. State Inspector Klelnhans soys that his visits over the Btate are not looKca upon with suspicion any more by merchants. They know that a care ful Inspection and square weights and measures in all' business institu tions will give the honest man an equal show. And the dishonest mer chant is vastly In the minority these days. Spring scales ore unreliable. Long 10 lb. TEST WKICHT JFRING SCALES MAY BE IN BALANCE BUT BY LpNfyEJTOME WEAK AND IT TAKES THE TEST WEIGHT TO TELL THEIR 3TORY- usage weakens the spring and then they are bound to over-weigh. That Is the rrason why the Ire man Is f si ' Briar and Meerschaum Pipes in Town. Smoking and Chewing Tobacco. Cigars, best ih the market. By the box a . specialty. Give Me a Call ALBERT LE1NZE ROOtS Barks Herbs That have great medicinal powef, are raised to thvir highest efficiency, tor purifying and enriching the blood, as they are combined in Hood's Sarsa parllln. . 40,366 testimonials received by actual count In two year. B sure to take Hood's Sarsaparilla Get It today In usual liquid form or chocolated tubleta called Sareatabs. liable to get Into trouble with his scaleB. Usage and moisture weakens the spring. SANTA FE TAKES APPEAL. Object to Payment of Judgment Given lly Justice Quinn. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, through its attorneys, Hurd & Hurd, has appealed from the Judg ment rendered in, Justice Quinn s court Nov. 19, granting Mrs. A. L. Kleopfer $66.65 damages and $10 attorney's fees, the amount of loss claimed by the plaintiff as resulting from the delay in the shipment of a mixed car of cattle and hogs. The aDDcal was filed with District Clerk Howe today. C. S. Crawford is Mrs. Kleopfer's attorney. OOVXCIfi MET LAST NIGHT, Minor Uuslness Matters Are Disposed of at Adjourned Session. (From Friday's Daily The city council met In adjourned session last night, Councllmen Illff, Coulson, Robson, HeeB and Olelssner being present. Minor business mat ters were disposed of, and adjourn ment was taken at an early hour. The Reflector Publishing Co. was given permission to put in an area way on the east side of its building on Third and Spruce streets. A petition for sidewalks on East Fniirth Kiraet between Olive and Campbell was granted and another for Sloewaias on jubi v,uims n.cu wa8 referred to the street and alley committee Some discussion was had over the pool room ordinance recently passed, but no action was taken, CATAIIHH GOES. so Does Sore Throat, Bronchitis, Croup and Axtlima. You raneaslly tell by reading the symptoms below, whether you hav catarrh or not: Offensive breath, frequent sneez ing, discharge from the nose, stop page or I he nose, husklness of the voice, tickling in throat, droppings In throat, a cough, pa'.n in chest, loss of strength, variable appetite, spasms of coughing, low spirited at times, rising of, mucous, difficulty in breathing, loss of vital force. .1. M. Olelssner has n sensible rem edy (money hack If II falls) for ca tarrh, called HYOMR1 (pronounced Hlgh-o-mc) which Is a voporlied air. so antiseptic that when It Is breathed over the Inflamed and germ-Infested membrane, It kills all germ life, gives relief In two minutes, and cures catarrh. The price, Including hard rubber pocket Inhaler, is only $1.00. The Inhaler will laat a lifetime, so that should you need a aeepnd bottle of HYOME1 you can get It for 60 Vents. Ask J. M. Olelssner. Ilox Social. An entertainment and box Boclal ni hA held at the Bonaecord school on Friday night, December 23rd. lowsi- For Holiday ' Trade We have the Best Line of