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CAN'T HELP TELLING. No Tillage so small. ' JJo city so large. From the Atlantic to the Padfio. Itamea known for all that is truthful, all that U reliable, are attached to the most thankful letters. They come to Mrs. IMnkham, at Lynn, Mats., and tell the one story of physical salvation (rained through the aid of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The horrors born of displacement or ulceration of the womb : Backache, bearing-down, dizziness, fear of coming calamity, distrust of best friends. All, all sorrows and sufferings of the past. The famed "Vegetable Com pound" bearing the illustrious name Pinkham, has brought them out of the alley of suffering to that of happiness and usefulness. In one advertisement alone we re cently published thirty testimonials from women in one small town who bad regained health through its use. IT SAVES YOU MONEY At Well at Restoring Your Strength and Giving You Health to Enjoy Life. The regulator on iS. Of all Cures-real Pr. Handen's Elec. and so-called- trio Kelt makes ItJjYa none ia no certain the moit conveni-ii " In lie effect an Dr. ent twit in tliejjfj tip Randen'a JSlectria world lo use. wiJSZ? Belt. WHEN YOIT IIAVE SQUANDERED YOPR money feeding the quacks who live upon such as ynu, it is hard to make you believe that an advertised remedy la good. Some men have a p-ejiidice against anything advertised. But surely the cures shown to have been per formed by Dr. Handen's Electric Belt must com mend it to every sufferer. They prove that it cures after all else fails. It would be better to try this very simple and highly recommended remedy before spending time and money with drum, because a fair trial of it will make it un necessary to use any other remedy. Dr. San den's Electric Belt costs no more than one month's doctor bill, ", $10 or 1n, according to the power, and hundreds in this city say it ia worth ten limes as much. Call and see It, or end for the book. "Three Classes ot Men." It lsaent closely sealed by mall, free. SANDEN ELECTRIC BELT CO. 163 West Washington St., Portland, Or. Plean mention (Ail Paper. State Agricultural College.., OF OREGON SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT THE BEST IN THE STATE. Military training by United States officer. Twenty-two Instructors. Surroundings healthful and moral. Free tuition I No Incidental feesl Expenses, Including board, room, clothing, washing, bonks, etc., about 1130 per school year. Pall Term Opens September 80. For catalogue or other Information address THOMAS M. GATCH, Pres., Corvallis, Oregon. Portland, Oregon A. P. Armstrong, ll.b., Prin. J, A.Wesco, Sec'y THC BUSY WORLD OF BUSINESS fire, proflublt employment to hundred, of oar grftduttei, &4 will to thousand, mora. Bead tor ourcaUiogat. Letra whtl tad how wettuta. Ytrilj, A BUSINESS EDUCATION PAYS 81SE BALL GOODS We carry the most complete line of Gymnasium and Athletic (ioods on the Coast. ,, SUITS All) UNIFORMS MADE TO ORDER. Send for Our Athletic Catalogue. WILL & FINCK CO., 818-820 Market St., San Francisoo, Cal. TAPE WORM expelled in from 17 minutes to two hours with head, requiring no previous or after treatment, such as fasting, starving, dieting, and the taking of nauseous and poisonous drugs, causing no pair, sick ness, discomfort or had after effects. No loss of time, meals, or detention from business. HLOCI'M'S TAPE WOK.H Speclnc has never failed. Cure guaranteed. Over6.lH) cases successfully treated since 1KK3. rite for free Information and question blank. Address Nlorum Specific Co., Auditorium building, Fpokane, Washington. VIGOR F MEN Easily, Quickly, Permanently Restored Weakness, Nervousness, Debility, and all the train or evili from early errors or )atr xcmh ; the rwmlt of orerwork, nickse. wor- ry, etc. rail atreDfta, development and tone given to every or nan and portion of the body. Simple, natural methods. Immediate improvement een. Failure unDoanible. 000 reference. Book. explanation and proof mailed ifeaiedj free. ERIE MEDICAL CO., SBiSoWfe AIM cn be tared wf h out their know led r by ANTI JA6, the mMTrfrmi euro for the drink bahlt. All dmKitta, or wrte tt Cttr. FREE. FULL IstruHMAIION GLADLY MAILED DRU iPyrCllr I m o'd y,"""-, ' Km "" . i&-BarJir- .-4 A Fnmmer Mllkhonae. In the summer time a mllkhouse built like the oue In the lllust m tlon Is very eonveuleut. It Is adapted to sit uations where there Is no natural spring; but where the water must foe pumped around the milk. A ninn who has tried a small house of this kind says of the one he built: It is 0 feet square and 0 feet high at the eaves, which Is large enough for the milk of two or three cows. The house Is built tinder a large grape arbor, about 20 feet from my kitchen pump. The milk tank, which la 12 inches deep and 14 Inches wide at the top, extends along the north side. It has a screen cover, which may be covered with cloth In SUMMER MILKIIOl'SK. ' very hot or dusty weather. A table with a shelf underneath occupies the southeast corner. A space Just above the level of the tiink, 2 feet wide and exteudlng on all sides of the bouse, is covered with wire screen. Shelves above the screen and Mow the tank give sufficient room for milk and butter dishes. The milk is set In palls. A gal vanized iron pipe leads from a small tank at the side of the pump down 18 Inches below the surface of the ground, across the 20 foot space and up again to the levef of the'tnllk tank. An over flow pipe at the other end of the tank carries off the wafer after It has reach ed the proper height In the tank. An other pipe, at the bottom of the tank, is used for emptying it when desired. Handling- a Hnlkr Fodler rron, In cutting ensilage or fodder, a lit tle work transferred from hand to horse power often goes a great way to lessen expense. In the illustration, which Is taken from Farm and Home, a simple method Is shown of unloading fodder or hay. Two ropes about 50 feet long, depending on the length of the rack and height of load to . be drawn, are used, one end of each being fastened to the htud axle of the wagon. They are then passed back and over the top of the rack between the two outer boards on either side. While loading, the ropes may lie brought back under the outside of the rack and fastened almost any place on the rear part. When the load is completed, the ropes are drawn over the fodder and tied to the back of the rack, acting In the capacity of a binding pole. To uu- U.NtOADING FODDER MADE EASY. load, fasten the ropes to a beam, and with the team draw the wagon slowly out from under the load. The flr6t few times may not always prove success ful, but with a little practice the wagon may be unloaded In a few minutes, t Injury from Over Prntilnr. , Most of our American varieties of grapes are very strong growers, and will not bear the severe pruning to which German and French vlneyard Ists subject their vines. We plant our vines further apart than do European vintners, and must leave proportion ally more wood. As the vines grow older It Is generally found necessary to take out alternate vines so as to let each vine occupy twice the trellis space originally allotted to It. Vines thus treated are much less liable to mildew. At the same time some root pruning is advisable by cultivating more deep ly, and keeping the roots of the vines where they will be less affected by sudden changes of temperature that usually precede attacks of mildew and grape rot. Pruning In Important. Tne urgiect of pruning for a single year Is never less than a serious Injury to any fruit tree. Without proper vigi lance dozens of shoots will spring out and grow, to the Injury of the tree, not only for that season, but for a consid erable time after. "Thumbnail" prun ing Is always the best, because it leaves no wound that will not cover Itself the same season. Every olwerver can see that this Is true; but many orchards show a neglect to apply the truth. Profit in Bran FHlnr. Every time a farmer buys bran for feeding bis stock be also buys fertiliz ers. Bran and cotton-seed meal are rich In all the elernu reo,uid In tba oil, and the cost Is repaid by the tn crease In weight of the Bill Minis. If tlio farmer can make the gain from the animals pay for the feed there will lie a fair profit left In the immure heap. But this prollt Is valuable Recording to the manner In which the fertilizing elements are preserved while In the heap. It Is In the management of the manure that the profit is retained and future crops increased. Ptrnla-hten the Ftrnm. It does not matter much how crook ed the Utile stream may be thnt mean ders through pasture lauds. Hut If the Held Is to be cut for hay, or especially If It Is desired to use the hind for plow ing, It Is .Important to have the brook straightened, so its to tuke as little room as possible. In many places a straight, deep ditch, cut to lead off a stream that only runs In the spring, may be profitably turned Into nn under drain. A space a foot square each way, with an even fall, will carry off an Im mense amouut of water. If large, fiat stones can be got for covering and heavy stone for siding such a drain Is not expensive. The convenience of plowing over It and the land saved will make It pay. How Plants Get Water. The fact that In wet weather the soil dries slowly even when covered with plants thnt ordiunrily drain the soil rapidly, leads some to think thnt when wet the leaves absorb moisture on them. But the fact can be equally well accounted for by the knowledge that water on the leaves prevents them from evaporating the moisture brought from the soil by roots. This soil con tains some mineral elements which unite with carbonic acid gas from the air In forming plant tissue. While the leaves are wet they cannot absorb car bonic acid gas. This with the effect of Stopping evaporation, makes the sapy growth which many. Jumping oo quickly at conclusions, think must be caused by the direct absorption of wa ter through the leaves. For Porting Hoga. A sorting pen Is most . convenient when a herd of hogs Is to be divided. Mine, says a correspondent of the Or ange Judd Farmer, is built alongside a partition fence; a and b represent the two compartmenns. The hogs are driven from the pasture through the gates at b and d into b. To sort them, one man stands at d and operates the gates d c dnd f "eT AifothW bian gets Into the pens and drives the hogs out. one at a time. The man At the gate p in I'KN FOIf 8UKT1NU BUUS. turns them Into the pasture, g, or Into the pen, a, as desired. If the bogs are coming In a string three feet apart, they can be put where wan,ted by sim ply swinging the. gates. Recently we started In with a bunch of about 100 and sorted out 55 in 15 minutes with out a mistake. Fancy Farmer. "Fancy farmers," or the owners of "fancy" stock, are frequently ridiculed, but It is due to their willingness to Im prove stock and their persistency In ad hering to their belief in something bet ter than scrubs that the farmer Is bene fited. The man of capital goes on with his Improvement of stock, and tuny suf fer loss at first, but after a while he begins to make profits, the farmers be ing lifted up with hltn, as the farm on which Improved breeds are specialties becomes a fountain source from which superior animals are distributed in all directions. Farm No tee.. In all breeding defective points are more easy of reproduction than desir able products. One great help In killing out weeds is not to allow any to mature seeds. Look after this now. The triple Income from a flock of sheep, wool, lambs and mutton come In at different seasons. System In feediug and breeding to and for correct standard Is essential In the management of all stock. Allowing weeds to grow Is robbing the soil of needed plant food and moist ure. Keep the weeds down. A hog Is not necessarily a filthy ani mal, and If he Is to make meat for food it Is essential that he should be cleanly raised. Keep the young pigs growing during the summer while on good pasturage, and it will be much easier to fatten them in the full. When wheat Is to follow corn It will lessen the work of seeding very ma terially If the cultivation of the corn has been clean and thorough. Cut wheat when the grain begins to harden well, and shock up as fast as cut. Wheat requires but little curing and should be stacked soon after cut ting. The sprouts which grow up around the base of a tree from the roots should be cut out as fast as they appear, as they appropriate plant food that should nourish the tree. They are also un sightly and destroy the appearance of an orchard. Growers who raise cucumbers for market say the first crop from a par ticular field Is better than any subse quent one. The soil becomes filled with enemies of the crop and a change Is necessary. Some growers find It ad visable to take new soil every year. HAD A VERY QUICK EYE. A Man Sarprlaet Another Man Who Writes a Lett-r. The typewriter was clicking away at a great rate, and a man was sitting near watching the (lying fingers of the operator, lie was waiting to see the attorney who was the employer of the operator, and when the attorney flunk ly eutered the visitor did not observe his approach, "Hello," exclaimed the proprietor of the office, "what are you looking at my typewriter so absorbingly for? Have you been dreaming thnt he was a lovely maldeu in disguise, or sotno other fairy story like tliatV" "No," replied the visitor. "I was Just trying to realize how difficult a feat I saw a man perform yesterday, down at one of the hotels, where there Is one of the fastest operators In town." "What did he do? Jump a board bill?" "Xo, that's easy. What he did was different. A man who was with him bad some sort of trade on, I don't know what, but Just before they proceeded to conclude It, the other man said he wanted to write a letter to hlB partner In Chicago. He had It already draft ed In pencil, and he took It over to the far side of the writing room and hand ed It to the operator, saying to be care ful, as It was very Important, and to get It done at 'once. Then he Joined the other man, but In-fore they began talking a third party called the first man aside for a short talk. Aa these two talked, the operator at the machine clicked at the letter, and the man who was waiting for some reason, wntched the operator very closely as her fingers flew over the keys. "The letter was finished at least three minutes before the talk was, and when that was done the operator handed the man the letter In an envelope duly addressed and went back to her ma chine. The man put the letter In his pocket Just as It was handed to him. " '1 hope you will pardon me, he said, turning to the waiting man, 'for so much delay, but It was unavoidable. However, I'm ready now to close with you at the prices named.' " 'And I'd see you hanged before I'd ell .'to-you at any price,' said the other man In a suppressed tone, greatly to the surprise of the man with the letter In his pocket. 'in another minute there would have been a fight on, but I rushed In, as did another party, and In the excitement the man with the letter got away and disappeared. In response to our iu qulries as to 'what It was all about, the man told us that he had made a study of training the eye to quickness, and that he practiced It whenever he sow a typewriter at work. He had so per. fected himself In it that he could fol low the fingers of the faRtest operntor, and he could read whatever he might happen to be writing. In this case he had done the same without thought, because the man with whom he had the trade on was engaged for the mo ment. Before he had read five lines of the letter, however, he discovered that the man was making .arrangements with his partner In Chicago to swindle him out of $5,01b. It was a cold-blooded case of steal, and the wonder to. him was that he hadn't hit thfr scoundrel first and told him why afterward. "Thnt was all there was to It," con cluded the visitor, "except that we tested him and found he could do what he said, and now, If you don't think It Is a difficult feat, you watch your op erator as she files along some time at sixty words a minute, and see' If you can read the letters her fingers dance among." Washington Star. I "Sure Cures" for Hiccough. For the common afflictions, such as co'.ds, everybody kuows a "sure cure." When It was announced Hint a' New Jersey farmer was dying of hiccoughs, which had lasted a forthnlght, though the doctors tried fifty different medi cines, two or three scores of persons wrote, to volunteer ndvlce. He was told to Inhale nitrate of amyl; to drink the Juice of canned huckleberries; to rely on the "faith cure;" and other odd remedies were offered, for example: Lie down, stretch your head back as far as possible, open your mouth wide ly, then hold two fingers above the head so high that you have to strain the eyes to see them. Gaze Intently upon them, and take long, full breaths. Drink vinegar, or warm pit of stom ach. Eat a raw onion while drinking a bottie of old stock ale. I suggest that you do something to make yourself sneeze. Draw air Into the stomach through the throat. Good drink of fresh, warm milk, drink with breath at intervals. Brandy and laudanum at frequent In tervals, or very strong calamus tea. Swallow a few lumps of butter slow ly. Fortunately, the sufferer did not have to take everything that the well-meaning public proposed. He was cured by eating a small dish of ice-cream. Statistical Item from Trim. It ks eMtiinatcU Hint H!4,('00 babies have xfii born In Texas so far thin year. If all the colic they hnve Biifferetl couW be gathered together In one pain tea ear loads of soothing sirup would not be sufficient to relieve It. Estimat ing that each baby ling been wallunl twenty miles. It appears that the com bined distance walked has been 2.4SO. (XX) miles. If one parent had been com pelled to do the walking for this In fantile crop of 18D7 It would have been necemary for Wm to average twenty miles a day for 339 years eight months and twenty-five days, and the distance would have equaled ten time the cir cumference of the earth. OaJveston Newa. Snow at the Equator. At the eqnator the limit of perpetual now la 14,700 feet. Morphine Fiends In America. A Parisian work on the morphine habit says it is most prevalent in Ger many, France and the United States, and, strange to say, that the medical profession furnishes the larcgst number of morphinists, 40 per cent. Men of leisure come next with 15 per cent, then merchants, 8 per cent. Of 1,000 fiends 650 were men and of the female victims women of means furnished 43 per cent and wives of medical men 10 per cent." NEXT TO AN AI'PltOVINO CON SCIENCE, A vleorom ntnmach la the Rrcatot of mundane hli'Minx. H011111I dltiKKtiiiii la a guaranty ol quiet tiiTven. iiiuacular elantlclty, a in-arty ap Ktlteand rt-Ktilar lialilt of biHly. Thouiih not alwavi a natural endowment, It may be acquir ed t'i'roliKh the mnry ol Hontrtter't Stomach HIlti'M, one of the nicwt effective lnvlKoratita and blood fertlllnera in exlmence. Thin line tonic alo tortllle thone who 110 It anainl ma laria, and remediea billoutnem, conatliation and rheumatism. A magnetic well of great power has been struck at Bowersville, five miles south of Jamestown, Ohio. The well was drilled 140 feet deep, and at this dep h the drill became so magnetized that particles of iron clung to it. DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED by local application", a they cannot reach the dlneased portion ol the ear. There Is only one way to cure deafnesa, and that la by constitu tional reineclli'. IH-aliieKK in caiincd by an In flamed condition of the inucou" lining; of the Ktiatavhlan tube. When thi tube i't inflam ed you hare a rumbling found or impertee t hearing", and when it ia entirely closed dealnesa lathe result, and unless the Inflammation can be taken out and tit ia lube restored to its mutual condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which ia nothing but an Inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars lor any case of deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Bend for cir culars, free. F. 3. CHENEY tt CO., Toledo, 0. Sold by druggists, 7c. Hall's Family I'lUs are the best. Wo ATpnan nnr selfishness 1)V assum ing onr greater need. Tiso's Cure for Consumption is onr only medicine for coughs and colds. Mrs. t. Meltz, 4S9 8th ave., Denver, Col., riov. 8, '05. John Pratt wore at his ft!ral in Holdon. Me., the other day, a fine pair of calfskin boots made (or him in 1863 and worn every Sunday since.' AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE UsE OP THE WORD "CASTORIA," AND "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," AS OUR TRADE MARK. I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was tli originator of "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," the same that has borne and does now ST f , on fcry bear the facsimile signature of (Zaj f-CcZcJUM wrapper. This is the original "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," which has been used in the homes of the mothers of America for over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is tlie kind you have always bought ?. on and has the signature of4&&Y,S'&4c4M wrap per. No one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company of which Chas.y II. Fletcher is President. s-i j ' March 8, 1897. Q&UU. &M4-H,p, Do Not Be Deceived. Do not endanger the life of your child .by accepting a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you (because he makes a few more pennies on it), the ingredients of which The Kind You Have Always Bought" BfcAKa THE rAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE OF Insist on Having Kind That Never Failed You. The i&&& 8 "A perfect tye of the tltheit order ef excellence In mannfactnre." Walter BREAKFAST COCOA B sure that you get the genuine article, made at WALTER Established O i7o. X) r 3 Hercules Special (2 actual horsepower) Price, only $185. tttxtmuxmtt August 31st is the last day of the $1000 J missing word contest' Schillings Best tea b wonderfully fresh and fine. Rules of contest published in large advertisement abot the first and middle of each month. ajS Nicola Tesla, the electrician, sayt that he has practioally perfected an ap paratus by which telegraph messages mny be sent without wire". lie pro poses to give a demonstration of his mastery of the eloctrio currents. Paris harbors a widow, Mme. Jules. Lebandy, who inherited from her hus band $35,000,000. As she disapproves of the way in which he made his for tune, she refuses to use it contenting herself with an inootue of 6,000 francs. WHEAT Make money by suc cess, u I speculation In Chicago, vie buy and se II wheat there on mar. gins. Fortunes nave nrun mane on a small beginning bv trailltu in futures. Write for (till particulars. Best of reference given. Sev eral vears' experience on the Chicago Hoard of Trade, and a thorough knowledge of the busi ness. Iiownllig, Hopkins A Co., Chicago Board ol Trade Brokers, unices in Portland, Oregon, Spokane and Seattle, Wash. LITERARY, normal, busk iillLIUIIII nest, mus ca . art, theological and preparatory courses. Htata dlplomaa tor normal course. Twenty-eight in. struetors, .f.7 students. Location beautiful, sightlv, in the suburbs, with all the advantages of a great city and none of Its dissdvantagea. Free from saloons and immoral places. Board ing halls connected with school. Uovernment mild but tlrm. Krneiuet for year from lli0 to fjuo. School opens September 21, 1887. Cata logue sent free. Address, Thus. Van Beov, V. I)., Unlerlty Park, Or. -1 irk "CSIi,vsBa iisimss,, t used for children Iwlhlna It no.it Hie rhlld.Mft- cits the gums. gums, altars sit rain, enres wind enllcand Is remMf fordlarrbffla. 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