CAN'T HELP TELLING.
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JJo city so large.
From the Atlantic to the Padfio.
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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,
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best friends.
All, all sorrows and sufferings of
the past. The famed "Vegetable Com
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Chicago, vie buy and
se II wheat there on mar.
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beginning bv trailltu in futures. Write for
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eral vears' experience on the Chicago Hoard of
Trade, and a thorough knowledge of the busi
ness. Iiownllig, Hopkins A Co., Chicago Board
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Thus. Van Beov, V. I)., Unlerlty Park, Or.
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