m m , The Ox Warble Fly. The warble or swelling on the back of cattle Is caused by the larva of a fly which attaches Its eggs to the hair ou the legs, flanks and neck of the ani mal. These hatch and the larvae estab lish themselves under the skin, usually on either side of the backbone. Here they feed upon the animal Juices until ready to pupate, causing the swelling or warble. When growth Is completed the grab leaves the warble, drops to the ground, crawls under the most con venient shelter, such as a piece of board, log, etc., and there transforms Into the fly or adult staga There Is a difference of opinion as to how the grub gets under the skin. Some ento SECTION OP WARBLE. mologists claim that the eggs are taken into the stomach by the animals lick lug themselves, hatch there, adhering to the walls, then the grubs gradually work their way toward the surface, where they remain until fully grown. Others hold that the eggs hatch where they are laid and the young larvae bury themselves at once under the skin. Whatever method is employed the results are the same. The best way to get rid of the pest Is to kill the maggot This may be done by squeezing them out Place the thumbs near the base of the swelling and press firmly until the grub Is forc ed out. To prevent the attacks of the fly in summer, a mixture of four PIFKEBRNT STAGES OF PCPA. AHTJLT FLY ounces of flowers of sulphur, one gill of spirits of tar with a quart of train oil rubbed along the spine, loins and ribs Is useful. Train oil can be used alone. As the fly does not move about from place to place freely, Its eradica tion on individual farms depends al most completely upon the owner. Orange Judd Farmer. To Destroy Weeds. The easiest and best way to destroy all kinds of weeds Is when they are Just beginning to appear above ground, as even a slight stirring of the soil will theu seriously cripple them In growth or destroy them. If weeds are permit ted to grow, however, they make excel lent green material for plowing under, but while they may nearly reach ma turity before thus utilized, under no circumstances must they be permitted To produce seed. If no weeds are al lowed to scatter seeds It will be but a few years before the farm will be en tirely clear of them. It will pay the farmer, however, to keep weeds down by stirring the top soil when the weeds are young. To Make a Good Roller, Cast-off mowing machine wheels may be utilized very readily for mak ing a laud roller. Use narrow strips of plank with slightly beveled edges, put ting them around the wheels in the manner shown in the cut, making slots In the planks to fit the cogs on the rim of the wheels. These strips are hold MTBSTANTIAt, LAND HOLLEB. firmly In place by "shrinking on" two iron hoops at the ends, as shown. The frame Is attached In the .usual man ner. American Agriculturist. Corn Planting. Before planting the corn crop be care ful to have the land worked as fine as possible. Many farmers are satisfied to plow the corn land, harrow It and plant the seed, trusting to the corn rots to spread and increase, as the corn Is a gross feeder, but while corn may thrive under such conditions yet an In creased yield over the average can only be obtained when the ground is maae as fine as that of a garden, as then the feeding capacity of therootsis increased and a larger available supply of plant food can be obtained. Potato Experiment, T. B. Terry, of Ohio, made an inter esting experiment with a potato last year. This potato he cut Into seventy four pieces, each piece having one sixth of an eye. The pieces were plant ed in seventy-four hills 33 inches apart each way. The land was clover sod, the planting being done late, after a crop of clover had been cut, and the crop suffered from the lack of molt- 7 "21 rt nrtrirt v ture, but by the time the potatoes hnd matured the vines covered the ground, and from an exact square rod the yield was over five pecks of large tubers, at the rate of 200 bushels per acre. Mr. Terry does not recommend the use of one-sixth of an eye in planting, but he thinks that one eye to a hill is suf ficient; his experiment ought to prove this. He SaVS OUlv notjltnrs nf Rtrrirnj vitality would be capable of making such a yield as this potato made. Ru ral Canadian. Thing that Don't Pay. Keeping too many fowl In too small quarters. Keeping two or more breeds when you are only posted on one. To send out Inferior stock. Better use the hatchet freely and not kill your reputation. To dose or doctor fowl In health to keep thon healthy. "What fools these mortals be." To fall to advertise. The man who keeps his name before the public year in and year out gets there. To visit the shows and tell the people you had better ones at home, and that you can beat the prize winners, etc. If you really think so, just trot them out and let the Judges settle the matter. To breed from pullets where healthy, strong chicks are wanted, or from old cocks with old hens one Just as bad as the other. Better mate a strong yearl ing cock on 2-year-old hens. This mating pays best Kansas Farmer. Varieties of Corn. Every year new varieties of seed corn are offered which are claimed will give extraordinary yields. Farmers should hesitate before Investing In new seed corn, except with a small quantity for experimental purposes. Corn produces only when the climatic conditions arts favorable, and varieties that flourish south of this section may fall wheu brought North. Frequently, when the frost has appeared late in spring, and delayed planting, an early maturing vit- rlety may be required, as an early frost In the fall of the year may destroy a variety that requires plenty of time for maturing Its seed. Do not abandon the old and tried varieties until experiment demonstrates that newer kinds are much better. Which Ku- Are Fertile? The statement Is often made that eggs from old hens nre best for hatch ing. Recent experiments at the Utah station Indicate the contrary, so far, at least as concerns the per cent of fertile eggs. The comparative size and strength of the chicks is not stated. The percentage of fertility was highest with the early hatched pullets and low est with the old hens, though the re sults are not conclusive. The fertility of eggs averaging five days old was 300 per cent higher than of eggs aver aging twenty-two days old. Holding Up the Wagon Pole. Where two horses are driven the weight of the wagon pole Is often a very considerable factor In making the tenm tired or fretful. Help the horses all that is possible. Put a light pulley on the pole, as shown In the 11 lustration, and carry a small piece of rope so as to attach to the load In the way suggested whenever It'r possible to do so. The best farmers are most thoughtful of the comfort of their anl- mals. Farm Furrow. Like seed, like crop. I)ou't ask the farmer, ask the farm. Thrift Is better than a bequest from your old uncle. The farm is no mint hut it is a mine of manly health. Before you begin work think where the pay Is coming from. Weeds are the farmer's faithful over seers; they make him stir the soil. When the bugs get a mortgage on your orchard, pay Interest and princl pal with a spray pump. Orange Judd Farmer. Point in - praying. When to spray apple trees depends on the purposes desired. Use Bordeaux mixture when the buds are swelling, and if canker worms are abundant spray also when the blossoms are about to open. After the blossoms fall spray again with Bordeaux mixture and also paris green, repeating both applications a week or ten days later. In about ten days or two weeks another .application may be made of Bordeaux mixture. These remedies or preventives are for scab, bud moth, codling moth, tent caterpillar, curcullo and canker worm, Karlr Plants. Reeds for early plants may be sown in boxes of rich earth and kept In a win dow of the house where the warmth of the sun will reach them. Flower pots, old fruit cans, small fruit boxes or egg shells are also excellent. For a garden supply nearly all of the early plants can De grown in tue winaows. Peaches Withont Fuzz. A Maryland fruit grower has suc ceeded In raising a crop of peaches with skins as devoid of the annoying fuzz as la an apple. Next year be proposes to raise peaches with a skin that can be removed like that of an orange. Farmer's Voice, M'KIIMLEY'S OFFICIAL FLAG. It Is Made of Scarlet Banting, Is Thir teen Feet Lous, and Eight lioUt. The President now has a field flag. He has always had a naval flag of blue silk, but never one for use as the head of the army. Recently, by order of the Secretary of War, a flag .of scarlet bunting was made thirteen feet long and eight feet hoist .In each of the corners Is a five-pointed white star and in the center a large white star. In- president's official ft.ag. side of this is another, separated by a band of white three inches wide. This inner star is a blue field, on which the coat of arms of the United States is in scribed. There are other stars scat tered over the flag, one for every State in the Union, Presidential colors have also been provided of scarlet silk, six and one-hnlf feet fly and four feet on the pike, which is ten feet long. This Is surmounted by a globe and an American eagle four Inches high. HEAD OF THE SPANISH NAVY. BenorVil1o.mil, Commander of Torpedo Fleet, a Great Naval Strategist. Senor Villamil, the commander of the Spanish torpedo fleet Is one of the great naval strategists of Europe. He is a man of ripe experience, having been In engagements off the coast of SESOB VILLAMIL. Chili and In the Phlllipine Islands, This man Is 52 years old. He la of commanding presence, with a' deep, sonorous voice and a thunderous ac cent that can be distinctly heard through the din of battle. He person ally commands, and Is the only Span- lard who leaves nothing to his lieuten ants. INSPIRED THE SIX HUNDRED, Bugle that Sounded the Charge "Into the Jaws of Death." Here Is the bugle that sounded the "gallop" and the "charge" that sent heroes to death at Balaklava. After the famous battle or sacrifice the regiment wanted to present to the trumpeter a silver duplicate of his: I1U01.E AND NOTES. trumpet out he preferred the old one. On It was inscribed: "Presented by the Colonel of the Seventeenth Lancers to Trumpet Major Joy, on which the Balaklava charge was souuded, Oct 23, 1854." Joy died In 1803, and now the fa mous bugle Is to be sold at auction In London. Origin of the Bedbng. Doubtless there are many miserable people In the world who have asked themselves, as well as others where that little torment the bedbug, comes from. Long ago this insect was known to come from wood, but why it should confine Itself to the wooden parts of beds and the framework of old houses was somewhat of a mystery. One day a scientist found a bedbug in the stom ach of a woodiecker, which he was engaged In dissecting. Pursuing his Investigations further be found that bedbugs are plentiful on pine trees. Pine cones are often infested with them, and it Is now the accepted belief that It is from the pine tree that the bedbug gets Its origin. It should in terest a good many people to know this, though it will not make close acquaint ance with the parasite any more agree able. Better than Chewing Gum. Mr. Lea, of Worcestershire sauce fame, left an estate of $5,350,000; bis partner, Perrin, left nearly as much. They began life as druggists In a small way in an English country town, mEM til That-5--::;-::" rasa Tired Feeling What does it mean? As tired in the morning as at night, cant get rested, nerv ous, sleepless, dull, languid. It means that the blood is poor. Mus cles cannot be elastic and strong, nerves cannot be steady, energy and vigor can not be felt when the blood is impure, im poverished, without nourishing power. Hood's Sarsaparilla imparts to the Wood the qualities it lacks wheti that tired feel ing troubles you. It makes the blood rich, pure, full of vitality. " It cures spring languor and eradicates all foul taints from the blood, thus guarding against future danger from fevers, malaria, and other Berious illness. Be sure to get HOOd'S Saparma America's Greatest Medicine. R: six for f5. Prepared only by C. 1. 1100D& Co.,LoweU, Mass. Hnnrl'o Pillc eure Liver Illa' casy t0 livsuu a rlUS take, easv to operate. 25c This Great Country. We make onr own Cuban cigars. We manufacture better news from foreign lands than is to be found there. We raise our own European wines and mineral waters. The finest French sardines in the world come from Maine. The choicest ami most expensive of Dresden china is grown in New Jersey. e declare war in more plaoes in a minute than some other countries oan declare in three bonis and a halt We don't want the earth. We are it. Hunahl Truth. In tropioal regions when the moon is at its full objects are distinctly visible several miies away. By starlight only, print can be read with ease. : Directions in every package of Schil lings Best tea. .Follow them no matter what tea you use. 627 Blunt .Wear a Brass Collar.. They had an excellent way of check ing excessive drinking In Manitoba. When a man had been twice or thrice convicted of drunkenness he wea sen tenced to wear a brass collar, which marked him out among his fellows as a person to whom no publioan could with impunity serve liquor. The drastic measure often proved a cure. On the authorities being satisfied that the branded individual had served a sufficiently long term of probation he was uncollared and endowed with the liberty of drinks. London Telegraph. AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS. We are assorting In the courts our right to the exclusive use of tlie word " CASTORIA," and " JTITHlSRii CASTORIA," an our Trade Maris. I, Dr. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was tlieorigiuator of " PITCHER'S CASTORIA," the same that has borne and dots now bear the fac-simile signature of CHAS. II. FLETCHER on every 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 the kind you have always bought, and has the signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER ou the wrapper. Mo one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President. Match S, 1S97. SAMUEL PITCHSR, M.Q, A Paris florist after many experi merits is able to grow chrysanthemums with the odor of the rose, sunflowers with the perfume of the jnsamine, and oalla lilies with the scent of the violet IUV ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE. A Dowder to be shaken into the shoes. At tins season your feet feel swollen, ner vous, and hot, and get tired easily. If you have smarting leet or titrnt shoes, try Allen's Foot-base. It cools the feet and makes walking easy. Cures swollen and sweating feet, blisters and callous spots. Believes corns and bunions of ail pain and gives rest and comfort Ten thousand tes timonials of cures. Try it torfn i. Sold by all drutspists and shoe stores for Vic. Sent bv mail tor x: lu stamps. Irml package F'KEK. Address Allen 8. Olmsted, Le Koy, isew loric. Black rot, the dangerous enemy of grapes, has been treated successfully by sprinkling the green grapes with calcium oarbide. M. Q. Kodier, a Frenchman, is the disooverer of this remedy. UOMB PRODUCTS ANI PL' KB FOOD, Alif Eastern Byrup, so-called, usually very light colored aud oi heavy body, is made from glucose. "7f iiHTtltn Itrivt" ll mnde from Buitar Cane and is strictly pure. It is for taie br nrMt-ciaxM grocers, in cans utily. Manuiac tured by the PidKic Coast Sykup Co. Ai gen uine "7a Gnnirn Itriv" have tiie manufac turer's name Utbograuhed on every can. The tobacco raised in Belooohistan is exceedingly strong and cannot be smoked by any but the most vigorous white man. From the 140 pounds of gas tar ex tracted in coking a ton of coal, over 2,000 distinct shades of aniline dye are made, FITS '""aanptitly Cured. So fltnor norvousnwi ma aftt-r nrai day's use of hr. Kline's urt-at Nerve Heotori-r. Beii'1 for FKKK aw.oo trial bottle and treatise. 1)K. R. U. H MN fr, UA.. Wu Aica street, 1-huadelpUia, fth If we moved our legs proportionately as fast as an ant, it is claimed we could travel nearly 800 miles an hour. Piso's Cure for Consumption has been a family medicine with us since 1WV J. It. Madison, 2WJ 42d Ave., Chicago, 111. Just as a letter was being read in a Farmington, Me., household from a daughter in California announcing her good health and woll being, a tele? gram came announcing her death.' 23H Ui i H,'if ill FlU AII&. i Best Couch Bjrup. fuu (iood. pie tii iiuiq. rv.itj nf ijrufKi"i- . . " No Longer an Experiment. .The order for 100 steel cars recently given by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Schoen Pressed Steel Company of Pittsburg is a good illus tration of the fact that the steel car is no longer an experiment but an accept ed type of railway rolling stock, says the Engineering News. It is a noticea ble fact, however, that a large propor tion of the steel cars constructed are designed to carry heavier loads than cars of timber oonstructipn. The new Pennsylvania cars, for example, are to carry 110,000 pounds of ore, or 104,000 pounds of coal. Their dead weight will be 37,000 pounds and their length will be 83 feet The competition of the steel car with the wooden cars of ordi nary capaoity will not be apparent probadly for some time, but that it will come eventually the increasing cost of timber and the decreasing cost of steel construction makes very certain. Deserters Return A curious war item comes from Port Logan, Cola On the morning of April 20 a number of deserters from the Seventh infantry appeared at the fort and surrendered. They said they had heard the rumors of war and were anxious to participate. Col. Benham ordered them to the guardhouse, but it is understood that the stern old warrior will be lenient and give the prodigals an opportunity to fight. A boy six years old in Iowa swal lowed several lemon , seeds. They sprouted in his stomach and nearly killed him before they were removed. In the towns of Chile most shops ore open till midnight, and during the hot afternoons, when everybody takes a siesta they are looked up. Certain butterflies have very trans parent wings, and these are thought by flaase to be even more effootual for protection than conspicuous warning" stripes or other markings. THE DEATH BATE. While It Is quite true that the proportion of deaths from malaria as an immecllate cause is proportionally small as cited in annual mortu ary statistics, yet physicians are thoroughly convinced that it causes maladies of a lata! character, and begets dangerous nervous pros tration. This malady is eradicated and pro vented by Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which also cures bi I iousues, constipation, rheumatism and dyspepsia. . . . t For Children's Pictures. An Englishman has designed a neat mounting for children's piotures con sisting .oL.a.. cardboard frame which supports a swing, in which the picture is placed, the latter being cut from the print and mounted on zinc, which is then dressed to represent the child. 100 REWARD 100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to (earn that there is at least one droaded disease ttiat scieuee has been able to eure in all lis stages, and that la catarrh. Ilall'sCatarrh Cure la the only positive eure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional dis ease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the founda tion of the disease, aad giving the pationt strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The pro prietors have so much faith in its curntive powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollari lor any case that It fall to cure. Send lor list of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY St CO., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, 760, Hall's Family Pills are the best The quaint little chimney sweeps add to the pioturesqueness of Charles ton, N. O., where they ate Rt i 1 in con stant demand to olean chimneys of the soot from the soft pine wood so largely in use. OKT$ UNJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and llowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of ite kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to tho Btomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 60 cent bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAM FH4D0IS00, CtL LoumtuE. xr. ftv rose. A apienfliii book ewmrsed by The sire ftiio Ketail price. Jl-75- bent to IK per day easily . not necessary; most 61 tlJl V 21 i5 ff Chicago, A dull, throbbing pain, accompanied by a sense of tenderness and heat low down in the side, with an occasional shooting pain, indicates inflammation. The region of pain shows some swell ing. This is the first sture of ovaritis, inflammation of the ovary. If the roof of you r house leaks, my sister, you hava It fixed at once; why not pay the same respect to your own body ? Write - to Mrs. Plnlcham, Lynn, Mass., and tell her all your symptoms. Her experi-. ence In treating female ills is greater than any other living person. The fol lowing from Mrs. Annie Cubtis, Ticon deroga, N. Y., is proof of what we say: " For nine yeurs I suffered with fe malo weakness in its worst form. I was in bed nearly a year with conges tion of the ovaries. I also suffered with falling of the womb, was very weak, tired all the time, had such head aches as to make me almost wild. Was also troubled with leucorrhoea, and was bloated so badly that some thought I had dropsy. I have taken several bot tles of Lydla E. Plnkham's Vegetable Compound, and several of her Blood Purifier, and am completely cured. It is a wonder to all that I got welL" The soil of Hawaii is of a dark choco late or reddish brown, and the darker is best adapted to growing coffee. The Romans used a circular fan on occasions of state and the Greeks made fans of the flat leaves of the lotus. Nearly 70,000 tons of cork are con sumed by the bottlers of aerated wa ters, beers, eto., in England every year. A Boston woman sued a Eoxbury hotel keeper bocause, she alleged, she caught pneumonia owing to lack of heating, and reoovered $1,000. CLEVELAND COTTAGE COLORS PURE PMHT REftDY ' MIXED Best Reputation. Best Paint for Dealer or Consumer Color Cards Sent Free. Cleveland Gil I Paint fiilj. Co., PORTLAND, OREGON. Good Health Is the working capital of humanity. He who loses that is wrecked indeed. Is your health fulling you, your am bition, vigor, vitality wasting away t When others full con sult DOCTOR RATCLIFFE, For th upopdy, safo and pfermnnent ciir of nil IServou, Dhronlo mul Special iliseiisHn, even In their moat aKravati;il ion us. Tht're 1h no man Id the wurUl who Imn ef Touted bo niuiiy pmimnenl euros In borti Men and Women of trouble which other physlcAn of unknuwlelgpd ability hud given up iin noptiiwn an mm ennneni BpeciHimi. N Kit VOL' ft DFItll ITV and all ltd attondlnc hnifUtBjOf YOUJSU, M11)I)I E-A(HCD and OLD Alh.N. The aw nil effects of neglected or Improp erly treated emea, oiiURliiff drums, weakness of body and hraln, dlxsdiifms. mlllng memory, lack of energy and confidence, pains In back. loins and kidneys, and many other dUtressliiK symptoms, unfitting one for study, lulneNS or enjoyment or life. In Iturrtlfle can cure you, no maUer vbo or what bus fulled. W E A K M KN. He restores lost vlaor and vi tality to weak men. Orguns of the body which have been weakened through dlneiute, overwork, excels or lmliHcretlons are restored to full power strength and vigor through hlsowu successful sys tem of treatment. VAKICOCKLK, hydrocele, swelling and ten demean of the gland treated with nn tall Ing suocess, HI'KCIAL DIHKAHKH, Intlammatlon, dis charges, etc.. which. If neglected or Improperly treated, break down the system, cause kidney aud bladder dleufies, etc. DISK ASKS OP WOMEN. PromntandeW peclul attention given to all their many allmeuts. W1UTK If you are aware of aoy tnmbls- DO NOTDKLAY. Call on Dr. Katclllle today. IfyoU (vmni call, write him, lit valuable book free to all sufferers. CONHlJ LTATlUN FHEK and confi dential at office or by letter. E. M. RATCLIFFE, 7U M In- KITTLE. MSI WHEAT Mane money by succesful simulation in Chicago. W buy ami mil wheat on mar kins. Fortunes hav hn n.suo ou a small uugiunins; by trading In tu tu res. Writ lor lull particulars. Iji-ni of ref erence given. Beveral years' experience on th. Chicago Board oi Trade, aud a thorough know, ledge o( the business. Bend for our free refer ence book. DOWNING, HOi'KINS 4 Co.. Chicago Board of Trede Brokers. Ofllues la Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Wash. YOUR LIVER Is It Wrong? Get It Richt. Keep it Right Moore's Kevestled Remedy will do It. Three. loses will make you leel better. Get It from rour druggist or any wholesale drug house, or trom btewart it Holmes Drug Co., Seattle. WILLUIEl CO.'S BAONEQEDtYE,S.?.,' Plain or with Cutter. The best needle In thf mar set. I'ard by all sack sewers. 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