America's MP the Greatest Medicine Is cine for You Do not experiment with untried prepa rations. - Be satisfied only with the great "est and best, Hood's SarsapurilVa. It has cured multitudes of people and ia kept on hand in thousands of homes as the onlv safe and reliable family medicine. It wifl defend you from the dangers of summer. Hood's Sarsaparilia Is America's Greatest Medicine. SI; six lor $5. Hood's Pills cure air liver ills. 23 cents. Folding Megnphone,- The megaphone has ooine into almost umveisal use at athletic and aquatic races and contests because it enables the judges and. other officers to make announcements that can -be heard all over the field. Its adoption has been somewhat hampered by the size of the instrument which is too bulky to be conveniently transported, but this has been overcome by making them collaps ible like the drinking cup made for travelers and picnickers. The folding megaphone is made in sections, one fit ting in the other, and when not in use the horn collapses into a package about the size of a hat box. WHAT WILL BECOME OF CHINA. None enn foresee the outcome of the ijuarrel between foreign powers over the division of China. It is interesting to watch the going to pieces of this ancient but unproftressive raoe. , Slimy people In America are also golnirto pieces because of dyspepsia, constii'Htion, blood, liver and stomach diseases., We are living too lust, but strength, vigor and pood health can be retained If we keep off and cure the above diseases with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, , , Naples is to be connected with Mount Vesuvius by a direct .railroad line, which will conncet with the cable line running to the top of the volcano. TRY ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE. Hay Rack for Fhee'p. The Breeder's Gazette, gives a de scription of 'this sheep feeding rack. The-animals cannot . rub the wool off their necks trying to get at. the feed; neither Will the seed, dust nnd rubbish fall Into the wool, and they cannot pull the fray down and mess it over so they will not' eat it afterward, i The rack is easily made. With It ypu can nave lambs j-unuing about the feed Jot with out , their getting on top of the hay, which ordinarily cannot be done, Hake the frame out of 2 by p's edge wise,..; ; For block at bottom saw.2 by :G's diagonally. Nail n 12-Inch board along the bottom lengthwise; then take three 10-lneh boards and nail up the front. Set bottom 10-inch board level with the 12-Inch or about one inch higher. Make the rack with a frame about every four feet, omitting crosspleee except at the there were "rototn-roosts" as . well aa "pigeon-roosts." Onlv within the last few rears was the fact brought out that a bird more familiarly known than the passenger pigeon followed, this mode of spending the night, although It adopted spring instead of fall for massing by hundreds in a high, shel tered wood for a night's protection from cold, or because it Is the period before pairing time, or for some other reason at present beyond man's ken. With what stealth must tls weii known'antl much-observed bird have found its way In such numbers to the same patch of timber night after night In the early months of the year, accord ing to locality, coming from all direc tions so swiftly that a secreted ob server could not count, keeping up a chatter that could be heard for a long distance, until the last bird, somewhat belated, perhaps, found shelter in the darkening grove, when all became si lent as thousands of wings were folded to rest. Llpplncott's Magazine. ITEMS OF INTEREST. A powder to be shaken into the Bhoes. At this season your feet feel swollen, ner vous, and hot, and get tired easily. . If you have smarting feet or tihc shoes, 'try Allen's Foot-Ease. It cools the feet and makes walking easy. Cures swollen and sweating feet, blisters and, callous spots. Relieves corns and bunions' of all pain and gives rest and comfort Ten thousand tes timonials of cures. Try it todav. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores for 25c. Sent bv mail for 25c in stamps. Trial package FREE.- Address Allen 8. Olmsted, L Koy, New York. - The Russian pood, a measure ol ca pacity in handling grain, is equal to 86.1 pounds. . . ?! o fits or nervousne 3 Of Ttr. k'lliip'n tir..t Nerve Restorer. Send for Fit tit tfs.ou trial bottle and treatise, DR. B. H, IiUiiii, Ltd., UJU Area street, Philadelphia, Pa, , i tlT Permanently Cured. fll alter first day's use of Dr. The waters of the Grand Fall of Lab rador have excavated a chasm 30 miles long. Try Schilling's Best tea and baking powder 4 SnKKP HAV RACK center, and this Is not necessary unless you are going to move them about. For rack to feed only one side make 18 Inches between studs. You can make the sides separate and set them against light posts. Do not nail, but wire so you can raise them. I It Possible? That the barn roof leaks? That tools were left where last used? That fences are never repaired until stock gets out? That, there are no shade trees In the pasture field? , That sheep and cockle burrs are al lowed In the same field? That all grain bags are not marked with your Initials lu ink? That the supply of fuel for winter is not being hauled, while the roads are good? That shoats are allowed the privilege of a ten-acre field without rings? That the same variety of wheat has been on the farm for fifteen years? That an abundance of small fruit for family use is not raised on the farm? That noxious weeds, such as ox-eye daisy, white top, etc., are allowed to go to seed? That stock Is turned out where there is barbed-wire fence, without first lead ing up to It? , That many farmers got rid of their sheep a year or so ago, and have none on the premises to-day? That farmers do not realize that we have heretofore bad periods of depres sion, and that better times are coming. -Stockman and Farmer. 1 ; ' , , It is asserted that make a more durable the hardest granite. plate glass will monument than Piso's Cnre for Consumption is the best of all cough cures. ieorge W. Lotz, Fabucher, La., August 20, lSilo. It is announced that Italian ex periments on vegetable life with Roent gen rays have shown that the efloct is identical with that of sunliiilit. For the Summer Girl. A love in soft.,, white, straw is just made for the summer gill. It has an airy, fairy fold of white taffeta round it, and two quills curve back from the knot in front. . White violets coquet witli Miss S. Q.'s tresses in the hac k. It is ideal snuihiet hatgear, all white and inexpeesibly dainty, .. In the town of Chile most ehops are open till midnight, and during the hot afternoons, when everybody takes a siesta, they are locked np, ' ; REGAINED HEALTH. ! ? I v. I ; . . T. i Gratifying Letters to Mrs. Pin!i ham From Happy Women. Destruction of Weeds. A few hours' work In spraying or dusting plants In order to destroy in sects or disease may not only save crops this year, but also greatly lessen the work of next season. But such la bor must be applied at the right time. The same with weeds, Which produce millions of seeds.- When they are al lowed to grow untU nearly matured be fore they are destroyed they take from the land the plant food that should sus tain the crops grown thereon. If the destruction of weeds Is done when they are small, they are then out of the way before they can harm the crops and the soil. When the farmer postpones his attack on weeds he Incurs the risk of not being able to eradicate them at some critical period of their existence, and the pests will then have done dam age by depriving the crop of moisture and plant food when the season Is most propitious for growth. It Is the lessen ing of the work next year that should always be kept In view. Profit on the farm Is not made In a year, but In a series of years. Work done at a loss to-day may bring a fair profit during the next season. The most profitable work Is spraying to destroy Insects and the keeping down of weeds and grass. Philadelphia Record. I Own Too My Ufa. Mrs. E. Woolhiskb, .' Mills, Neb., writes: "Deab Mbs. PiKKrtAM ; I . owe my life to your Vegetable Compound. The doctors said I had consumption and nothing1 could be done forj me. My menstruation had stopped and they t aid my blood was turning to water. I had several ;doctors, .They all said I could not live. I began the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's, Vegetable Compound, and it helped me right awav; menses returned and I have gained in weight. 1 I have better health than I have had for years. It is wonderful what your Com pound has done for me." "I reel Like a New Person. Mrs. Geo. Leach, : 1600 Belle St., Alton, 111., writest ' " Before I began to take your Vege table Compound I was a great sufferer from womb trouble. Menses would ap pear two and three times in a month, causing me to be soweak I could not stand. I could neither sleep nor eat, and looked so badly my friends hardly knew me. '; la " I took doctor's medicine but did not derive much benefit from it. My drug gist gave me one of your little books, and after reading it I decided to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound. I feel like a new person. I would not give your Compound for all the doctors' medicine in the world. X can not praise it enough." WLL4 riKCK CtLS iSgs.?.' " Plain or with Cotter. The best needle In the mar ket. I'aed by all pack ewer. fur sale by all gen eral merchandise store, or by WILL & FIXCK CO., tx Market Street, Kan Francisco. Cul. 1 A Grain Room. On many farms not a little grain is fed to the stock. Where no room Is set opart in the stable for a grain, or feed, room a good deal of Inconvenience, and much extra work,' is experienced. In most barns it is not convenient to pro vide a feed room from the present ac commodations. In such a case a small room can well be added to the stable Taking Inventory on the Farm. It is doubtful if there Is a merchant In the entire United States, doing a thousand dollars' worth of business In a year, who does not begin Immediate ly after the first of January to take an account of stock, and by an account of stock on hand, his sales, his bills . payable, and his bills receivable, he Is able to determine whether the business has been done during the last year at a profit or at a loss. He then proceeds to lay the plans for the conduct of his business in the year to come. The mer chant who does not do this, and Is known not to do this, will speedily lose credit among the bankers and business men with whom he deals, and would be considered in Imminent danger ' of bankruptcy, for only In this way can he find out where he stands financially. We doubt If there is one farmer who at the first of January or at any other period of the year regularly takes stock, casts up his accounts, and finds out the amount of profit or loss. Field and Farm. , Cnltivatton in Dry Wenther. Whenever there seems danger that corn or potatoes vnu suner irom drought all the cultivation should be near the surface. That will provide a slight mnlch of dry soil, and will keep the soil all the molster below It, as the mulch prevents surface evapora tion. If there are light rains, as there will sometimes be even In dry times, follow with the cultivator, turning down all the soil moistened by the rain, and turning to the surface some of the dry soli below. When on going through the field after a rain you seem to leave the soil dryer than before It was cult! vated you may know that you are do ing a good work. The water is put down whero the corn or potato roots will quickly find it, Instead of being left on the surface to evaporate. The highest waterfall in the world is Cholock oaoade, at Yosemite, Cil., which is 3,635 feet high, or just half a mile. . Not within living memory has there been known so abnormally snowless a winter in European Russia as the past 6688011. .i::. -. '. . . A medical correspondent at Paris writes that Dr. Mosso has established the fact that the blood ot eels is poi sonous. A curious fact has been noted by Arctic travelers snow when at a very low temperature absorbs moisture and dries garments. Gun cotton is cotton wool, washed then soaked in nitric aoid and three parts ' of sulphuric acid, washed in water, pulped and dried. ; It has been found in Switzerland that in building a railway, laborers could work one-third as long at a height of 10,000 leet as a mile lower. The Rhind manuscript now in the British museum is the oldest intelligi ble mathematical work extant that has ever been deciphered. ; 1 - The largest theater in the world is the Grand opera house of Puiis. It covers more than three acres of ground, and cost 63,000,000 francs. . The creatines known as ooean hydras have no heart, no lungs, no liver, no brains, no nervous system, nor organs save mouth and skin. Glaciors vary in length from yeai to year, and apparently in oyoles of years also, those of the Alps having shown a general diniunition sinco 1850. ' ' The king of Siam has a bodyguard of female watriois i. e., 400 girls chosen from among the: strongest and most handsome of all the women in the land. A recent landslide in China revealed a pile of money equaling in value 7, 000,000 coppers. The coins were made about the middle of the eleventh cen tury. ,'!;': Porous glass is one of the latest nov elties. The holes are so small that neither dnst nor draught follows its use, and yet the ventilation is said to be excellent - - - Great differences exist between the Arctic and Antarotic regions, and while there is a polar sea at the north, it is believed that a continent exists at the South Pole, , , Seven Chinese war vessels are at pre sent being built in Germany. Among them are four torpedo boat destroyers which will have a speed of S3 knots an hour. ' The Peruvian Central railroad cover ing a distance of 10 miles is at an eleva tion only about 2,000 feet lower than the summit of the highest mountain in Switzerland. i . . , You cannot afford to drink colored tea. It undermines health, and the f ;i '"- i- coloring hides defects. Schilling's Best needs no coloring; it is good enough. u The Tran-MIllppl Stamp.. Of the TranemissiBsippi Exhibition stamps, the 50-cent stamp, which is dark green in color,. is from a drawing by Frederic Remington of a "Western Mining Prospector," showing a pros pector in the mountains with his pack mules. The $1 stamp is in black and white, from J. MacWhirter's "Western Cattle in Storm." The $3 stamp is brown, showing an engraving of "The Mississippi River Bridge" at St. Louis. Gunpowder Motor. 1 Explosive powder is used to operate a new motor, a small quantity of the powder being fed into the oylinder and ignited by an electric spark to drive the piston rod, the expanded gas escap ing through a valve as the piston returns. ' Celluloid Balloon. In an improved balloon the basket is carried by four air cells adjustably mounted on a railing around the basket, making it possible for the remaining cells to support the aeronaut if one cell should collapse. Wheel Nut. With Handle.. An improved nut for wagons and other machinery where the nut would soil the hands if touched has a project ing knob on one Bide whioh tits in a' hole drilled in one jaw of the wrench to prevent the nut from slipping out Short Ponoll Spliced. Sitort pencils can be spliced by meant of a new devioe consisting Of a short ' tube internally threaded and having bell shaped ends for the Introduction of the pencils and, interior transverse1, grooves to form outting dies for the threads. To Chalk the Cue. Billiard players ' will appreciate a new ohalk-holder, which consists of a metal plate to be screwed on the wall to support a pieoe of chalk, whioh is ' hollowed out in the center , to receive ' the tip of the cue. - ;im 51 5 A GRAIN ROOM. fyyfTJ-rl CJ--MCJ ink!-. nJLfcJ jB LUUt.t WHlHf 111 (ISf (A'LS. Beat touch Syrup. Tutus Goud. Vt tn lime. o!(3 ft anjBiriMi. In the manner showu In the cut mak ing the addition where it can be con veniently reached from the Interior. The door is seen to be placed high up In this addition, and opening upon a small platform. A load of grain can thus be backed up to the door and very easily unloaded, no lifting being re quired. Such an added room would be of small cost, and would save many steps and much valuable time In daily bringing feed from a distant building. American Agriculturist v -' Care of the Lawn. Be careful in mowing the lawn dur ing very dry weather. If the grass plot Is kept too close the grass may die out should there be a lack of sufficient moisture. The cutting of grass weak ens the plant at first, as every succes sive growth Is in the direction of pro ducing seed. Any plant can be de stroyed If kept cut close to the ground. It may make new growth several times, but sooner or later becomes exhausted. Whqn moisture is abundant, however, the plant has better opportunities to renew Its growth. Garden Peed. Where several varieties of plants of the same kind are grown together, it will not be proper to save seed there from. The different kinds of melons, peas, sweet corn or other crops hav their pollen distributed by the winds or by insects, ana seea savea unaer such circumstances will prevent uni formity next year. The greatest care should be observed to avoid mixing when saving seed is the object. "A Perfect Tpe of the Highest Order af Excellence in Manufacture. " WatterBaRBT&Go:s WAGONS IMPROVED. The new improved Stounhton wagons ' stand the racket. Three more car loads are on the wav. - It pavs to have the best. Write for free catalogue. JOHN POOLE, sole agent, foot of Morrison street, Port land, Or. " 1 A microbe that lives and multiplies in strong alcohol has been disuoveied by Veley. .. ' , ' Gained Forty-Eight Pounds. "i had a strong. appetite for liquor which was the beginning of the break ing down of my health. 1 was also a slave to tea and ooffee drinking. I took the gold cure, but it did not help me This is a portion of an interview clipped from the Daily Herald, of Clin ton, Iowa. It might well be taken for the subject of a temperance lecture but that is not our object in publishing it. It is to show how a system run down bv drink and disease, may be restored. We cannot do better than quote further from the same : ("For years I was unable to do my work. I could not sleep nights or rest days on account of continuous pains in my stomiioii and back. 1 was unable to digest my food. Headaches and painful urination were frequent, Hnd my heart's . action became increased. I left my farm and retired to eity life, 10' 1 was a con firmed invalid, and the doctor said I cttyuje. would never be well again. , "Soon after I happened to use four boxes of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People and since theu I have been free from all pain, headache and dys pepsia. I eat heartily and have no ap petite for strong drink or tea or ooffee, and feel twenty years younger. "My weight has increased 48 pounds. I cannot say too much for Dr. Wil liams' Pills and claim that thoy have cured me. JOHN 13. COOK." : Subscribed and sworn to befoie me this sixteenth day of February, 1897. A. P. Barker, Notary Public. To people run down in health from whatever cause drink or d-isease -the above interview will be of interest The truth of it is undoubted, as the statement is swornto, and we reproduce the oath here. For any further facts concerning this medicine wiitetoDr. Williams' Medicine Company, Scheneo tady, N. Y. The name and address of -he subject of above inteiview is John B. Cook, of 208 South 5th street, Lyon, Iowa The attention of the publio is called to the professional work of Dr. T. H. White, No. 271 Morrison Btreet, Portland, Or. . His electrical appli-' anoes are the most modem, and his crown and bridge work is of such artis tic form and finish, that his patients are delighted not only with the looks, but with the comfort they reoeivd from the use of such artificial work. All operations are painless under his meth ods. . See that your teeth are properly cared for and that by a skillful dentist. There is no need to suffer the discom forts of broken-down and stained teeth when they can be made useful and pleasant to look upon without pain, 0V Breakfast coa jUisohitely Pure, r Delicious, ' Nutritions.' ' ' v ..Costs Less TfianPflE gemt a Cop.. , Be tun that you get th Genuine Article '' made at DORCHESTER, MASS. by' 1 ' WALTER BAKER & CO. Ltd. Established wflr YOUR LIVER Hen. In Summer. The cheapest way to keep a flock of hens In summer Is to turn them on a range and let them pick up all the food required, as they will nil their crops several times a day with bugs, grass, seeds, worms, ete. When fed grain during warm weather the fowls are liable to become too fat, in which con dition the bens do not lay and are also more liable to disease. Eggs may not be high la summer, but they can be produced at a very small cost at that season if the hens are made to seek their food. Hnbln-Ronnte. For many years naturalists like Au dubon and Wilson studied and wrote of this bird before it was known that Hob Feeding. Experiments to determine the value of corn and wheat for producing pork show that to produce one pound of live pork with shelled corn costs 1.49 cents, and to produce one pound of pork from dry wheat the cost Is 4.57 cents. The cost varies, owing to the difference in the prices of the foods. Pork from a mixture of equal parts of corn and wheat costs 2.07 cents. Corn Is there fore much the cheaper grain for pro ducing pork. Combating Bqna.h Bnga. Tedious as it appears, the destruction of the egg clusters and hand-picking of the matured Insects is the surest meth od of combating the odious squash bo An historic! landmark of the town of Hadley, Mass., the old Hooker house, which stood for almost two centuries, was burned recently. It was in this house that General Joe Hooker was born in 1814. BOW'S TUI8T We offer One Hundred Dollnre R.w.rd lor ny cut of C.urrb that van not bo cured by Hull'e (J.tarrh (Jure. v . i ' n p v 1 V J. r-"I tM-.. TnlnHn rl We tho underlined, In ve known K.J. Cheney for ttia pant IS yean, and beliere him perfectly honorable. In ail bu.lnen trannitctloni and fln- auclal W able to carry out any obligation made dj lueir aria. Wsrr A TSFiX, Whoieal JjrunKliiU, Toledo, O. Waldino. Kinnan A Marvin. Wholesale DruirKlate. Toledo. O, lull ' Catarrh Cure It taken intornallj . actlm Alrer.tlv on the hliiod and mncou. eurfoi'e. 0 their item. Price 75c per bottle, f old bf all amgrmte. leetlmonlali tree. Hall i Family nilt -,ro the beat. ol Is it Wronu? Get it RiKkt. Keep it Riclit. Moore' , llevealed Koraedy will do It. Three dotni will make you feel better. Get It from your driiL'irist or any wholesale drug house, or teem Stewart ik Holmes iirug Co., -Seattle. hi'i-to-jtviyi Mif J OiwidimJ Tl M ejbW sot u Slr S3 CURE YOURSELF! Bishop ScQUIcidemf0 A Koardlinc and Day School for boy. Military iliwlpllne luchirire of V. 8, Army orftwr. 1'rimary, preratory and acttrierntc denanuienU. Manual, Trulntog or Hlovd low recently been IB- :( United. Ikiya of all , g9 received. 7 Special liiHtruultmi lit muxlc, modern latutuHiiee. au-nograiitiy. Tlirouxh eol- letfe prejHirttllon a specialty, 4JaiaiOfT :( on ooplkwtlon to (lie principal,. J. w, HILUM. D, P. O. Drawer It, Port- ) lani. Or. , , BUY THE GENUINE SYBUP OFFIGS ... HANTJTACTtntED BY ... CALIFORNIA FIQ 3YRUP CO. IW XOTE THE NAME. . Make money by euoceifttl -tlculatluu lu Chicago. We buy ami tell wheat on mar- , tins. Fortune have been ado on a small bfigiuniug by trading In fa- tmes. Vt rite for full particular, llegt ot r.. erence given. Several years' experience on the Cliicnuo Board of Trade, and a thorough know ledge "f the business. Bend for our free refer ence book. DOWNING, HOPKINS A Co., Chicago Hoard of Trade Broker. Office In Portland, Oregon and Seattle. Waah. WHEAT lHH Itil, .1 fl.r lll,l,a,l,,.a1 dtpchara-et, Ji, flu in iiiailons. trritationii ur iik-trutioua laiur.. t mueoiii membrane. Ii'ravtou eonttlloo. I'ftitileHR, and Uut Ultrju THeEvN8 0h!M'CiC), ml or poiaouoai. Sola by Urarel.ta, ' ot lent In plalo wrapper, br exprem, rHr.mil, for moiiphinb: COV.-UNK I. UIMNrnC Stormed atonoe ! Dr. J.C. HorrMAK,4S4UaliellaHldg,Chtcago,lll. OPIUM! K. F. K. t. -No. Il.io. ur 2 Umlei, u.7S. WHEN circular aetit ou requeit. ; IT vrrltlna to inentiou thl. ap.r, 81, '. artverti.er plea A Beautiful Present . In order to further introduce ELASTIC STARCH (Flat Iron Brand), the manufacturers, I. C. Hubinger Bros. Co., of Keokuk, Iowa, have decided to GIVE AWAY a beautiful present with each package of starch sold. These presents are in the form oi ,. :-r j . v Beautiful Pastel Pictures ,nwi I l.i ii. i.e.! 'ii jii ... -. ,it :i i. .iU iinnmjj u..;i ' , ! ' I ' - .i.l.O' .'lit'!- h -. ; .;- ifhiy are 13x19 inches in site; and are entitled ai follows: ' Lilacs and Pansles. Pansles and Marguerite. owwiw iwwMwwiij.io ry I Wild American Poppies, v , Lilacs and 'Jris..-.'. Hon J ''., -, t" -J ' These rare pictures, four in number, by the renowned pastel artist, R. LeRoy, of New York, have been chosen from the very choicest subject! in his studio and are now offered for the first time to the public. , The pictures are accurately reproduced In all the colors used in the orig in a Is, and are pronounced by competent critics, works of art. ., Pastel pictures are the correct thing for the home, nothing surpassing tnem in Deauiy, ricnness 01 coior ana artistic merit, One ol these pictures will be piven away with each nackace of purchased of your grocer. It is the best laundry starch on the market, and. is sold lor 10 cents a pacgage. ask your grocer ior- wis ttarcn ana get a beautiful picture. ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' " ILL GROCERS KEEP EUSTIO STARCH. ACCEPT KO SUXSTITUTE 1 01 coior ana artistic merit. ,. . Elastic Starch