1 r- TCV ; Jr ' ,; LADIESSS BANDOF OREGON WHOSE PLAYING IS FAMOUS 1 yijj. must be nailed on so as to keep the ens" j I , UM c J CSaT J"U- ,' f i Dosts from belnz twisted. yffl i Hiast reset before a fence can e A SENSATION. Feeding; Fen for Hogs. Where hogs are fed near the house or ham, the fowls are apt to go among them and eat a large portion of the feed. An Indiana farmer has solved she problem by constructing a feeding pen so that the hogs and pigs could go ta and out at pleasure, but fowls of all kinds were excluded. In the Orange Judd Farmer he tells how It Is made. Build a feeding floor several Inches above the surface of the ground and Inclose with a tight board fence sur Moaated with pickets a foot or more long. Make one or more openings near the ground for the hogs and hang a door, a, from the top so that It will swing pretty freely either way. Lentil- Milk as Food on the Farm. T every city resident one of the ad vantages of living In the country is that those living there can easily secure fresh and pure milk directly from the cow. It is a most valuable fowl pro- duet, whether used directly as milk or cooked in custards and cakes, In the various ways that milk and cream can be used. Probably most housewives who have lived in the country find when they remove to the city that the absence of the best milk and cream which they used to have in abundance was a stronger handicap to successful eooking than anything else. At the wholesale prices that are all that milk producers can get for milk it is a muib cheaper food than any other that comas on their tables. If farmers ate more of their milk product they would be better off physically as well as financially. What they then sold would probably bring as much as does the larger por tion that they sell now. ' OWL-PKOOK FEHDINGPUN. straps or hinges that work easily wfll answer. The hogs will soon learn to g back and forth, but fowls will ot eater. If there are two sixes of hoes, make a partition and in it con struct a small swinging door just large manga to admit the smaller pigs. A Good Old Rotation. Tha six-year rotation so long followed tn tbte section, the Shenandoah Valley, has some strong points in its favor. The crops during the six years are in hi srder: Corn, followed by wheat, the ground being harrowed and the wlteat drilled in. Immediately after She wheat Is cut the next year, the grormd Is plowed thoroughly, prepared hy harrow and roller, and sowed again wheat, this time accompanied with about a bushel of timothy to six acres and the same quantity of clover In the party spring. Then three crops of hay are Mowed, making the six years. Yery fte four crops of hay are made. I have not couuted the second crop f lover usually cut and hulled for seed ke first season. Since Western seed generally can be bougut at low prices, many think It better to pasture, or cut Mils second clover for cows. It will be noticed that this rotation, running six years, calls for plowing only twice dur ing that time, and gives three crops of i.ay. which we think pays better than ther crops. Farmers who follow this Id-time way are not getting rich, but hey are probably holding their own about as well as others who follow newer and shorter plans. Try all and hold fast to that which Is good. Is not a bits motto. American Agricultsrlst. Heppner, Oregon, has a unique musical novelty in the character of a ladies brass band, made up of the maids and matrons of the most prominent families in the town, whose social standing is pitched with the bon-ton. The band was or ganized a year ar, and was to be a self-supporting organization entirely. As soon is organization was perfected ways and means were canvassed by which funds could be ransed for uniforms and instruments. It was decided to give a concert, which proved a grand s.iccess financially, at which the band made its first appearance in public. The Audience mildly enthused over their playingit was so much better than was expected. The Ladies' Band was a success. Then when the pres idential campaign opened they were at once in demand. The Ladies' Band became the fashion, and no candidate ever thought of making a speech in their neigh borhood without first having secured their services as an attraction. Their popu larity led them li.to church socials, picnics, etc., until now they are famous throughout the entire Northwest. That the world is coming to an end sud denly at a given time is not what is re ferred to. There are different kinds of sen sations, as very many people know who feel shavp twinges of pain in the big nerve of the tbigh. Sciatica is a very painful se-isntion, and the torment of it makes one think something is come to an end. But just at the iirst sensation or twinge is the best time to use 8t. Jacobs Oil. The less nain the. more easily it is cured, and the Oil prevents its development by soothing tne nerve. At any singe, it win cure. Sanitary Reform of Bombay. The Indian government has formnlat ed an important scheme tor the sanitary reformation of Bombay City. The control of government and municipal lands will be vested in a nominated body, which will be empowered to lay new streets through crowded localities and to erect dwellings at low rents for the poor. The scheme involves an ad dition to the municipal rates of not more than 2 per cent. SLAIN BY POISON. UNCLE SAM'S FISH COMMISSION Hew Destroyer of Fruit. Re-enforcements to the seventeen year locusts, the gypsy moth, the hrowntall moth and all the rest of the busy array of fruit destroyers are to be found In vast 1 Quantities i i the "San Jose scales. The San Jose scale takes Its name, not hb sah Joss scale from the locality to which It confines Its depredations, nt to the one in which It first ap peared. Since It made Its debut In Cali fornia it has shown an Impartial fond ness for every part of the Union. Flor ida has not been too warm for It and Massachusetts has pleased. New Jer soy has not escaped and the Pacific oast as far as British Columbia has appealed to It. The scale, though ap pearing only recently, has evidently went several decades In preparing to descend upon the world. It Is a micro scopic Insect, which pierces the green bark of the tree with Its proboscis and sucks the sap. It has, doubtless with an eve to this age of germicide solu Hons, rendered spraying an Infested tree useless, because It has a scaly cov wing which remains on the bark of the tree or the skin of the rrun ana wuicu acts as an armor against such weapons as washes. Fruit Infested by the scale Is unmarketable. Turnips Among: Corn. There Is no crop grown so easily and with so Mttlo cost as late-sown turnips In a field of well cultivated corn. The shade of the corn will keep the turnips from growing much until the corn !s est. Possibly also their growth will be checked by the demand of the corn roots for plant food. But in the Indian summer that follows the first frost the turnips will make rapid growth, as tfcey will then have all the land for their own use. The turnip will endure a pretty heavy frost, and grow again If warm weather follows It. But in onr slimate turnips cannot be left hi the ground all winter as they are In En gland. A Milk Strainer. One correspondent of the American Agriculturist seems to think that a wire screen In a milk strainer is not de sirable, while an other asserts that If rightly placed It will lie found en tirely satisfactory. In the illustration is shown a strain' er, with a wire screen in the fun nel at a, just as in an ordinury strain er. The bottom should be four Inches In diameter. Place a piece of muslin over the neck at c and slip the collar b over It, A perfect strainer Is formed. The cloth must be kept perfectly clean. Each time the strainer is used remove the cloth and wash It thoroughly, scalding in boiling water. Renew frequently, for It Is less ex pensive to get new cloths thnn to run the risk of tainted milk. Also scald the wire screen at each washing and care fully scrub the tin portion. .1 1 ' ', i- i Important Branch of the Government of Which the Fnbl'c Knows Little. The work of the I'nited States Fish Commission is perhaps as little under stood by the people of the country gen erally as any branch if the govern ment While It Is not adlvlsion of any one of the nine great departments, it is created by the President if the United States, its officers are appointed by him, and the work It Is accomplishing Is of great Importance to seeral Indus tries of the country. In order to supply the demand for food, fish culture must be resorted to In every thickly-populated country, for with the utmost protection the demand Is always greater than the sujply un less nature Is aided In Its production of fish. Benjamin Franklin and other prominent Americans were strog ad vocates of fish culture and practiced the transplanting of fish In the closing years of the last century, but It was not until the early 50s that mucl) at tention was given to the matter it the United States. At about this time the scientific men of the country began to investigate the American streams, aid they were not long In discovering that they were being rapidly cleared out. They expressed grave fears that the coast waters might alRo become deci mated of their finny Inhabitants. Steps were very soon taken by the different1 States to prevent such a catastrophe; In 1805 Massachnsetss appointed the first fish commission; In 18U8 New York appropriated $1,000 for the same pur pose. Gradually the other States have followed suit until now almost every one has its fish commission, and since its first appropriation New York has spent over $350,000 for this object. In 1870 Frof. Balrd, then of the Smith- sonian Institution, fitted up a station at Woods' Holl, on the southern coast of Massachusetts, at his own expense, and maintained it for two years, mak ing many valuable demonstrations of what could be done with a hatchery. The ponds for fish culture at Wash ington are not far from the Washing ton monument on the mall, and they are one of its most attractive features. Rare specimens of fish are brought and careful experiments are made to accli mate them, and here, too, are hatched vast quantities of the eggs of the fish of commerce, which are sent to the various stations all over the country. Duck Farming 'In Virginia. . ; One of the largest and decidedly the best equipped duck farms in the United States Is located at Rlverton, Warren County, on the Southern Railway. John W. Morgan four years ago com menced raising ducks at Rlverton on a small scale, and his business has grown until the output this year Is about 5,000 ducks, and he Is enlarging his plant and expects next year's output to ba about 15,000 ducks. , Mr. Morgan's plant occupies two acres of ground, and this area he will Increase. The plant consists of an incubator house, a feed room, a brooder house, home for em ployes, a wareroom, yards with shelter for the ducks and water supply outfit, Including bath ponds, with running water for the fowls. The proprietor Is now adding to this plant. In the busy season there are fed to this farm 125 3V&-gallon buckets of mixed feed each dny. This farm marketed many thou sands of ducklings the past season, a large number weighing 7 to 8 pounds per pair at seven weeks of age. Alex andria Gazette. oft the Hipie Journal, and of Ctrl Who Shams Religion. RuthAshmore, writing of the "Shams Modern Girl," In the Ladles' the sham that Is Vorse than all others the religious Bbai," says: "She Is the one who Is most conspicuous In speech and some times In work; but In her heart her re ligion Is simply a means to a very earthly end. She is prominent In the Sunday school, because she thinks she can in that way become acquainted WHY SO MANY KEGTJLAE PHYSICIANS FAIL To Cure Female DIG Soma Trua Reasons Why Mrs. Pinkham is More Successful Than the Family Doctors. PO ministers in the drink, the food, or some other guise, but the poison of malaria shortens the Uvea of in riiios. Therein a safe and certain 'anticline. Hosteller's Stomach Bittern, which not only fortifies, the sysioin against malaria, but roots out its seeds when they have germin ated. Dyspepsia, constipation, rheumatic, liver and k.dney trouble are conquered by the Hitters. A Minneapolis genealogist reckons up four billions of persons oetween William the Conqueror mid one of his desoendants now living. 200022 Economy: save io cents on a package of "cheap" baking powder and eat the cake. You couldn't do better for your doctor. i Schilling's Best money-back powder is at your A woman is sic!c 6orao disease pecu liar to her sex is fast developing In her system. Sho goes to her family physi cian and tells him a story, but not the whole story. She holds somothinir back, loses her head, becomes agitated, forgets what she wants to say, and finally conceals what she ought to have told, and thus completely mystifies the doctor. . Is it any wonder, therefore, that the doctor fails to cure the disease? Still, we cannot blame tho woman, for it is very embarrassing to detail some of tho symptoms of her suffering, even to her family physician. It was for this reason that years ago Mrs. I'inkham, at Lynn, Mass., determined to step in and help her sex. Ilaving had considerable ex perience in treating female ills with her Vegetable Compound, sho encour aged the women of America to write to her for advice in regard to their complaints, and, being a woman, it was easy for her ailing sisters to pour into her ears every detail of their suf-. fering. Over one hundred thousand women were successfully treated by Mrs. Pinkham last year. Such are th grand results of her experience. There are 71,000 more woman than men in the state of Massachusetts, and this excess is all in persons over 14. HOW'S THIS? baking grocer's. . A SchiuW & Company I San Francisco soot A daguerrotype of Louis Philippe, taken in 1840 by Daguerre himself, has been presented to the Oamavalet mu seum in Paris. ' Government Seed Shop. Last spring the Department of Agri culture distributed, at a cost of $130, 00, enough seeds of all kinds to plant an area of 355 square miles, or 227,200 acres. Now, If there were some way of finding out just how many acres were actually planted with these seeds, and how much the crop produced therefrom Is worth In cash, we would probably ava a better argument than we can produce now In favor of knocking the Government seed business on the head, Many a musty old humbug has been suffered to exist simply because it was hnposeIble to corral It with figures. Orchard and Garden. Fruit trees or plants will not take care of themselves. Grapes thrive best In well-cultivated and well-drained land. Having the orchard trimmed oy keeps the trees bearing well. Cherry trees must be grafted early If good results are expected. Choose young, thrifty trees, with good roots and straight, clean tops. Annual pruning largely avoids the necessity for removing large limbs. No fruit repays judicious pruning and trimming better than the pear. Make quality rather than quantity the principal aim. All trees that have roots or tops bruised or mangled should be discard ed. In, setting out a tree, snve some of the top soil, especially to put around the roots. It Is not a bad plan to plant trees along the roadside the whole length of the farm. Nectarines and apricots can be grown anywnere itiai me pcacu or prune will thrive well. Mulching prevents the enrly flow of inn bv preventing the ground from warming up too soon. Aurlcoltural Note. Keep the wagon well greased. fim in feeding of cows lu summer helps the fertility of the soil. Itemember that you were once a boy yourself, unless you are a woman. Fresh top-dressing of pastures Is an iusult to stock If It Is turned on tbem A new variety not suitable to your soil and climate Is worse than an old, Inferior variety that Is. "Mary had a little lamb," and her father sold It, but the money he got for it did not pay for the InjusUce he did AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS. We ere asserting In the courts our right to the exclusive use of the word "CASTOK1A," and " PITCHER'S CASTOR1A," our Trade Mark. I, Dr. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of " PITCHER'S C ASTORIA," the same that has borne and does now bear the fac simile signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on every wrapper. This is the original " PITCHER'S CASTORIA " which has been used In the homes of the mothers qf America fur over thirty years. Look Carefully at the wrapper and see that it la tkt kini yo have altvays bought, and has the signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on the wrapper. No one has authority from me to ase my name except The Ceutaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President. March t, t$97- SAMUEL PITCHER, M.D. A St. Louis paper is marvelling over the ease of a septuagenarian whose white hair turned blaok in a fingl night recently. HOME PRODUCTS AND fVUK FOOD We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for nr case of Catarrh tnat cannot be cured by Hall's taiarrn uure. F. J. CHENEY i:o., loiedo, o, We. the undersigned, have known K. J. 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Fall Bet Pot - ' It Is not generally considered a good fc m to set posts In- the fall. ' No mat etr bow well' the soil ' la comparted iV'tind them, rains will sink down In The matter of a national fltjh commis sion was brought to the attention of Congress and the President many times before anything was done about It, but in February, 1871, Congress passed a Joint resolution which authorized the appointment of a commission of fish and fisheries. Prof. Balrd was ap pointed and entered at once upon his duties, and his efficient service won for himself the title of the "first nsh cultur- lBt in the world," and placed the Amer ican fisheries In the front qf nil others. At the present time there are stations located all over the country. The headquarters of the commission Is at Washington; It occupies the old ante-bellum arsenal In that part of the mall which is designated as Armony square and Is a plain tall brick build ing without a suggestion of exterior or namentation. The basement Hoor Is filled with aquaria In which Is running water and growing plants and Inhab ited with all kinds of fishes; the west part of this floor Is finished like a deep grotto and the hanging vinos anti mosses over the glass cases, In which the fishes are swimming, make the Illu sion perfect. It often happens that the fars In which fishes for propagation are sent to the stations over the country re standing on the side tracks near the building and when this Is so It Is very Interesting to see the manner in which the fishes are carried from place to place. The government owns two steamers, the Albatross and the Fish IiawK, which are fitted up magnificently for the purpose, and which are used ex clusively or deep sec explorations. the child. They are manned with men or Known "Got cheated In a farm machine that scientific attainments who have aaaea I boneht of a farmer's supply house," Immensely to tne store or me w says a farmer. Buy of a reliable hom knowledge of the Inhabitants dealer next time. Read our ads. I -priny oeep. with some people She would like to know. She Is ever rendy to get up and express her creed at the prayer-meeting, because she thinks that her ability will be recognized. , She rustles Into her pew, kneels for a long time, and then settles herself coinfortably-to look at the congregation, She consid ers It respectable to go to church. Be yond that she gives no thought. She forgets that, unless religion is of the heart. It Is of no value. She has never understood that It Is not the loud prayer, nor the wordy prayer which makes an Impression on Jod, but that It Is the slucere cry from the soul a- peaung to mm to which He listens. The religious shar.i can usually give you a description ef all the costume worn by 'her sot' :u church. She can tell you of the amount of money put In by each member as the plate u pissed along. 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