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. . --. - - - : r. - f 1 f ' e(BPsVi eome I Farm Notes pitu. CATECHISM FOR CORN QROWERS Pertinent Questions That Every Farmer Ought to Study. Goin' to plant any corn this spring? Test every ear ; that's no great job. What does the seed for one acre cost? About 2S cents at f 2 per bushel. Now is the time to sprout kernels from the seed corn you intend to use. "Is it worthwhile?" It's worth $100 to (1000 when you figure the balance sheet for the year. How much difference does it make? That's a lone story ; some hints of the answer are civen below. How do you know? There is only one sure way, and that is to test the germinating power of the corn. The value of every day's work done daring the season is affected by the time intelligently spent in selecting the seed. How much of your seed corn will grow? Only as much as will germinate and perhaps little more than will ger minate vigorously. What's the use? It's the use of sev eral hundred dollars ; you don't have to grow more than 100 acres of corn for it to be the use of ?400 or $500. What disadvantage is there in secur ing fine seed corn and making sure it is of high germinating strength? It makes the hnsking -a bigger job. How many bushels of the crop will one bushel of seed influence? Any where from 200 to 700 bushels; at fifty bushels per acre it influences 350 bushel. The best seed corn at f 2 or fa a bushel is several times cheaper than poor or uncertain corn as a gift. There are more elements than cfhe in economy. Will your seed corn grow if given a chance? Yes, if the germ is alive and healthy; no, if the germ is dead ; maybe so and maybe not, if the germ is weak. If less than 90 Jper cent, grows the risk of reduced stand is too great ; high authority has said that no corn should be planted that tests less than 95. There is p'enty of time now to attend to this, and to get good seed if yours proves too low in vitality. Will it be attended to? After awhile it will be too late. This is very eiinplejand easy to do, and it gives a definite measure of the vi tality of the corn. It's better than all guesses and estimates. You can't af ford to be uncertain about it. Whether you plant last fall's corn or corn of the previous year, your own com or that bought from a seed dealer, be sure that it will grow by planting some of it now and seeing whether it does grow. What wages can I make by giving a week's time to selecting corn and ad justing the planter? The biggest wages of any week in the year. Five dollars or $ 10 a day "isn't in it" with the wages of this work. Does it make any difference what kind of sed I plant? Yes, it may make the difference between a common crop and a bigger crop ; the difference be tween a small crop and a large crop ; the difference between success and failure. Oh, I don't want to bother with these college ideas; I've'been selecting seed corn for years and years. All right ; one economy paves the way for another, and the chances are you won't have to bother with handling so much com next fall. Should I lend my influence to these fellers who are selling Euch high priced seed corn? Not unless you want ; select your seed from your own or your neigh bor's corn, but the point is to get the best seed, no matter where you get it or how much it costs. The time and money and labor and sweat and weather and soil are going to be the same in raising a crop of corn, whether the seed is good or poor, but the single item of seed selection may change the results or the returns from all these elements in making the crop. How .many days of toil in preparing the ground, cultivating and harvesting the crop are influenced by the few days or hours spent in selecting the seed? It isn't hard to figure; just add up the number of days' work you and your hands spent during the year on the corn crop and compare it with the time you spent in selecting the seed. What is the relation between the in vestment and the returns in the pro duce from a bushel of seed corn? The value of the crop,is from 40 to 140 times the value of the seed, and may easily be seventy times. In quantity the crop is 200 to 700 times that of the seed with the chances easy for its being 350 times. The above is from the Bloomington Fantagrapb, which is published where they know something about corn grow ing. Poultry Notes of Interest. Have you whitewashed that hen bouse this month? If not, you should do so. Bemember the early bird gets the worm. It is also that the early bird gets the best chance at the shows next fall. Give your little chicks plenty of wheat and email grains. Too mnch corn is very injurious to them. Have you tried an incubator yet? If not, it will pay you to get a small size and learn the trade. You can increase your flock much more rapidly. Care is what it takes in raising young cnicks; so don't Ietjthem out on wet days and not too early in the morning as the damp grass is injurious to them. Do not give one hen too many chicks to care for. Ten to fifteen is a sufficient amount for one hen to care for. A few guineas aro very profitable and are of a little trouble or cost to a farmer. They will keep off hawks and crows, which are very injurious to a farmers flock of chicks. It will pay you to send to some good breeder and get a setting of eggs this spring to build up your flock next year When setting one or more hens in the same nest, at different times, always clean the nest out thoroughly. White wash and place in some new chaff or hay and burn the old Jittery as there may be lire in it. It is a very goyd plan to sprinkle your setting hens once or twice a week with good 1U8 powder, Don't lot them get lousy. The Farmers' Advocate Eayat "The goose no longer has the distinction of being the only fowl that can lay a golden oo - that pastime these days." A light, sandy or gravelly soil is best for a poultry farm. Land that has good natural drainage towards the south. it ir tne nen uiai ia cukhkcu iu People who desire to obtain decent in comes from poultry farms must be sure that the hen cannot be depended upon to do the hatching. The hen is all very well for a family affair, but not for busi ness. Quantity calls for the incubator. The old hen is unprofitable. Do not keep laying stock much over the second year. This item will be dispute.! by people who believe they know some thing about the business, whereas they only think they know. A writer in the Canadian Poultry News says that few fanners realize that the cost of a setting of pure blood eggs is very often no more than the selling price of three or four scrub chickens, and the surplus males of a single setting of pure bred stcck, even if sold to the poultry buyer, will usually bring sev eral times the original cost of eggs. Still better returns can be gained by letting your neighbors have extra males at a small advance on market prices. The Western Poultry World says that it will not cost-more than one-half a much to properly house a pair pigeons of as a pair of hens. A barn loft, gable, or, in fact, auy out-of-the-way place where you cannot keep anything else, will make a home for Mr. Pigeon and his wife, with which they fall in love and from which they will never wander except to find their feed. They will be at homo every day of the year; Mr. Pigeon may go out after feed morning and evening, but he will take care of the young and sit on the eggs during the day anil let his wife get a little fresh air. Apples as a Moral Influence. "Scarcely too much can the apple be extolled Eince it bas been almost entire ly the creation of man. Starting with the crab apple of Europe, man has pro duced a fruit that has no comparison with its original. Nature could only furnish the germinal, and is not given to making improvments. When Supt. Stimson the pomology department of the World's Fair says: "There is "no doubt tnat apples are a cure for the drink habit, the tobacco habit, the 'In dian' habit and many others that may be called objectionable" we appreciate deeply what the apple ha-j done for man and still more deeply what man has done for the apple. Prof. Stimson adds: "Apples elevate the morals of persons who eat them and if the United States were a greater apple-eating country we should liave less crime and fewer woes. When you want to smoke, eat an apple and vou will find the deaire in a meas ure satisfied. Do the same if you want a drink." It will be seen that the apple is the enemy of the saloon and of the vice of smoking. The moral effect of apples has been too much neglected. We have tried to reform entirely with the Gos pels and moral suasion. Had we gone into the haunts and hotbeds of vice and crime with an apple in onj hand and the Bible in the other we might have had better success. Mr. Stimson says that apples are good for the "Indian" habit. This is- some thing that has never been tried in all the efforts to reform St. Louis politics. The "Indians" have not had apples enough. Barrels have been opened in plenty, but not apple barrels. Clayton conventions would be impossible on a diet of apples. Hereafter the sturdy farmer should go to his convention with a dozen apples in one pocket and a well oiled .44 in the other. Sartorial Art ami Rotundity. There Is trouble in store for the ro tnnd gentleman who cherishes the ldia that he can enjoy the pleasures of comfort In dress and remain In the fashion that is. If the decrees of the London tailors count for much In this "land of the free and home of the brave." These tailors, whom we have been wont to regard as the sartorial dictators not only of the "tight little Island," but of a good part of the rest of the civilized world, have Issued an edict setting forth that a man to be In fashion must wear padded hips and bare a small waist Lest any one may delude himself with the hope that the small waist is only comparative the exact decree Is: "No man can hope to be stylishly dressed If bis waist does not taper, triangle fashion, from the shoulders." This would almost seem to he. a di rect affront. to -his royal majesty King Courage Is a Matter of the Blood. Without food red blood a man has a weak heart and poor nerves. Anemia means thin oess of blood. It is common in men and younp women and all those who work indoors. who do not get enough outdoor air and good oxygen in their lungs. There are too many white blood corpuscles in such cases, and there is often a peculiar sound in the heart, called a murmur, in cases of anemia. This heart murmur is caused by thinness of the blood passing through the heart. The murmur of anemia disappears .when the blood regains its natural consistency and richness. It is not heart disease. Sometimts people suffer intense pain over the heart, which i i not heart disease, but caused by the stomach. It is the occasion of much anxiety, alarm and suffering, for which its victim is dependent upon reflex disturbances from the stomach caused by indigestion. In the same way many bad coughs are dependent upon these reflex disturbances of what is called the pneumo pstric nerve. To enrich the blood and increase the red blood corpuscles thereby feeding the nerves on rich red blood and doing away with nervous irritability, take Dr. Pierce'n Golden Medical Discovery, which promotes digestion and assimilation of food so that the blood gets its proper supply of nourishment from the stoiuach. Get as near to nature's way as you can. A medicine made entirely of botanical ex tracts and which does not contain alcohol is the safest Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery contains no alcohol or narcctics. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the best livsr pills. 'M'vvavwwvcAi turn PRICE OF A woman usually passes through sev eral stages on her way to that condition of serai-invalidism which limits the ac tivities of so many of her sex. For a time she suffers in silence and ignor ance, not able to relate her sufferings to their proper cause womanly disease. When, presently, she makes the discov ery that her general health is related to the local womanly health, she casts about for help. She dislikes to see the physician, she shrinks from talking to a stranger of the intimate matters of her woman's life, and when at last misery drives her to the doctor, her modesty is np in arms at the faintest hint of exam ination, and she finds excuse to put the matter off and goes home to endure another period of suffering. It would seem a strange thing if the sacrifice of modesty were necessary to the restoration of yomanly health. Such a sacrifice is not necessary. Wom en suffering from womanly ailments in almost all stages have found a perfect and permanent cure by the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. A FREE OFFER. To those women who suffer from dis ease in chronic form. Dr. Pierce offers the privilege of free consultation by let ter, thus avoiding the unpleasant ques tionings, indelicate examinations and obnoxious local treatments deemed nec essary by some local physicians. All correspondence held as strictly private and sacredly confidential. Address D R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. This offer of free consultation bv letter should not be confused with offers of "free medical advice" which are made by persons without medical knowledge or experience, and who are barred, legally and professionally, from the practice of medicine. Though these people cannot oractice medicine, because the law would be prompt to punish them, they can of fer " free medical advice." Anybody can give advice without incurring the pen alty of the law. It is well to remember, that the " medical " ad vice of an unquali fied person, man or woman, is worse thn worthless; it is absolutely danger ous. As chief consulting physician to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y., Dr. Pierce, assisted by his staff of nearly a score of physicians, has, in a little more than thirty years, treated and cured hundreds of thousands pf weak and sick women. Write, there fore, to Dr. Pierce, and get the opinion of a specialist upon your disease. "About two years ago my health be came very poor," writes Mrs. Winnjp Hamilton, of Akron, Plymouth County, Iowa. "I suffered with pain and sore ness in left side of abdomen and such bearing-down pains across me. Could scsrcelv walk at times, and would have to po to bed until I felt better. I was told by a physician that my complaint Edward YIL, who Is a rather rotund gentleman himself, and. while he is perhaps somewhat less obese than In former years, his figure must be dis carded as the mold of correct form un der the specifications therewith sub mitted. As for Americans of generous phys ical proportions, they will have none of this padded hip, wasp waist triangu lar side and straight front fashion. Let the tailors of bond and Tooley streets remember what happened to the oppressive edicts of one George IIL and beware lest they Invoke a new dec laration of Independence. The quite generally prevailing notion that surgery cannot relieve" a lacerated and bleeding heart Is apparently dis proved In the case of a New York woman who bad six stitches taken for a stab wound In hers. We may soon bear of mending broken hearts and making them Just as good as new. TRICKS WITH A MAGNET. Tbe Tight Rope Performers and the Trapeze S winners. If you hold a needle on a plate In an erect position and a magnet just above It you can let tbe needle go, and It will stand erect with a trembling mo tion. You can easily make use of tills knowledge to amuse your little friends at your home of an evening by present ing a tight rope and trapeze perform ance as follows: Cut the front and back of a small stage from a piece of cardboard and unite both parts with the help of corks and pins. The front has a square opening (sec illustration). On the back of the front piece a small horseshoe magnet Is secretly fastened, and un derneath It a piece of -wire Is strung In a horizontal direction. The height of the wire depends on the strength of the magnet and has to be arranged In such a way that the needle will not THE TIGHT BOFE FEBFOBHEBS. be pulled up to the magnet, but will stand in an erect position on the wire. Cut a small paper figure for In stance, it tight rope walker or n danc ing girl standing on ono leg and of the exact height of the needle. Fasten tbe figure to the necdl with the help of wax, aB shown In the illustration. Place, the figure below the magnet on the wire, npd you will see it dance like a real tight rope walker. Or you can make a trapeze of a match and two pieces of thread, on which you can place two figures, and they will not fall off when you set the trapeze In swinging motion. New York Tribune. LAW POINTS. Previous notice Is held in Bagley versus Ueno Oil company (I'u.), GO U It A. 184, to be Indispensable to ren der valid a change atji regular annual & uletrttioil .6. the ulw&, but I &d nWLbintt for .lt l the tithe, but as I ttrad uaFy grew worse t began td see that 1 must do something, and liaVing read a great ueal about Dr. Pierce's remedies, I Tesolved lo consult him in regard to my complaint. I did so, and received an answer advising me to try his medicinei 1 Favorite Prescription ' and ' Golden Medical Discovery I procured the medicines as soon as I could and began the use of them. I have taken four bot tles of Favorite Prescription and two of 4 Golden Medical Discovery,' and used also the local treatment advised by Dr. Pierce. I experienced relief almost from the first, as it almost immediately re lieved the bearing-down pains, and in about two months' time I felt that my health was wonderfully improved. I can most heartily recommend Doctor Pierce's remedies to anyone suffering from any similar complaint, and feel sure that if they will consult Dr. Pierce, they need suffer no longer." Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription makes weak women strong and sick women well. It estab lishes regularity, dries disagreeable and un healthy drains, heals in flammation and ulcera tion, and cures female weakness. It is the best preparative for materni ty, idving mental cheer fulness and physical strength and making the baby's advent practically painless. As a tonic fot weak, worn-out, run down women and nurs ing mothers, "Favorite Prescription " is unsur passed. It is a pure vet etable' preparation and cannot disagree wih the most delicate constitu tion. don't pot it off. Do not delay the use of " Favorite Pre scription " if you have any symptoms of womanly disease. Why drag around for veare. endunnc useless suit en nr. when a remedy that has cured hundreds of thousands of weak and sick women is right within your reach ? Get Pavorite Prescription," take it, and be welt "When I first commenced using Dr. 1'ierce's meilicines," writes airs. Geo. A. Strong, of Gansevoort, Saratoga County. N. Y., "I was suffering from female weakness, a disagreeable drata bearing - down pains, weak and tired feeling all the time. I dragged around in that way tor two years, and then becan takintr your medicine. After taking the first bottle I began to feel better. I took four bottles of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, two of 'Golden Medical Discovery.' and one vial of the 'Pleasant Pellets,' also used one bottle ol Dr. Saee's Catarrh Remedy. Now I feel like a new person. I can't thank yon enough for vour kind advice and the goal your medicine has done me. "I have a sister who is taking yota medicine, and it Is helping her." whenever a laxative medicine ts re quired, use Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets with "Favorite Prescription,'' as they assist the action ot that remedy. Sometimes a dealer, tempted by the little more profit paid on the sale of less meritorious preparations, win oner substitute for " Favorite Prescription " " iust as uood." Judeed by its reconls of cures of womanly ills, there is no other medicine iust as gooa as " i-avonie Prescription." QUESTIONS AjreWEREO. The questions which many a woman lontrs to ask are answered fully and freely in Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser. This great boot, pon; taininp more than a thousand largi mi. Is full of wisdom for women, both single and married. It U sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense ol mailing only. Send 31 one-cent stamp for the cloth-bound volume, or only 21 stamps for the book in paper covers. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. corporate meeting In the hylaws of Che corporation increasing the number of directors. A tenant for life In possession of real estate la held In Ilnnua versus Palmer (III.). SG L. It A. 113, not to be able to obtain an absolute title to the property, either directly or Indirectly, by suffering It to be sold for taxes and then acquiring a tax title. A prosecution, maliciously and with out probable cause, of a civil action In which there has been no restraint of tbe person or seizure of property Is held In McCormlck Harvesting Ma chine coniiwny versus Willan (Neb.), LG U It. A. 338. to entitle tbe defend ant therein to damages. TALES OF CITIES. The new city directory of Chllllcotbe, Ma, gives that town a population over 8,000. The two American cities In which the number of colored inhabitants Increasing most largely are Washing ton and Philadelphia. fliancuester. England, Is an excep tionally noisy city. It has no smooth roadways, no asphalt or wood blocks. and rubber tired vehicles are unusual The per capita debt of Boston Is $30 more than that of New York city. Aft er New lork. with a per capita debt of ?115. come Cincinnati with $82, Bal tlinore with $78. Pittsburg with $08, Buffalo with $45, Philadelphia with $-18, Cleveland with $31, St Louis with $33 and Chicago with $10. COLLEGE AND SCHOOL. Pembroke college. Cambridge, docs not believe In young presidents. It has elected as Its master Sir George Ga brlcl Stokes, the great mathematician. who Is eighty-three years of age. Dr. Simon Ncwcomb, professor emer itus of mathematics and astronomy In Johns Hopkins university, bas just had the honorary degree of doctor of philosophy conferred uponhIm by the unrlsunnla university. A one hundred and fifty thousand dollar structure, to be known as the woman's building of the University of Texas, Is now under construction. The cornerstone was laid recently by the wife of Governor Saycrs. An Ontario hunter mistook two- men for doer and ohot both. Apparently hunting is no longer a question marksmanship. It Is n question wheth er the hunter will defer shooting until after he can tell If It is a man or game that ho Is to shoot Best Cough Medicine for Children When you buy a cough medicine small children you want ono in which you can pi aro implicit confidence. You want ono that not only relieves but cures. You want ono that is unques tionable harmh'Bi. You want 0110 that is plti.mant to take. Chamberlain Cough Remedy meets all of theso con ditions. Thero is nothing so good for coiii:! 18 ni'd colds incident to childhood It ib also n certain preventive nnu euro for croup, and thero is no danger what ever from whorpiug cough when it given. It has boon nut) I 111 many epi domics ol that dlnm.se with ptTieof, fiic- rrea For sail bv A. 0. Marcter & Co Sodallu County. Cc rive Jit I an. Notice la hereby givetl that there 111 Ml held in Ihe county courthouse, Jfl the city of iioseblirg, on Saturday, tlio 23d day of April; lUt4, beginning at the hour 10 o clock in the morning a mass tonvention of the socialist party, for the purpose of placing in nomination candi dates for the various county officers, to be voted for at the general election in une, 1904. All socialists aro requested to attend. Wo would especially urge those from distancoTtb make an effort to have leir precincts represented. Done by order of the Co. Committe, It. C. Buown, Chairman. Caul Hoffman, Secretary. 22-Cwks Nothing Equal to Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Ri medy for Bowel Com plaints In Children. We have used Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy in our family for years," says Mrs. J. B. Cooke of Nederland, Texas. "Wo have given it to our children. We have used other medicines for the Fame purpoee, but never found anything to equal Cham berlain's. If you will 'ute it as directed it will alwavs cure." For sale by A. C. Mnrtor tV. Co Society (Aeecingtt. A A. M. Ijiurrl Lodge No. 13. Iljld rtiitnlitr meetings on smcuih: and f nrth wM)nemlaya ol .! J. T. Bainou. W . M month. N. T. JnwkTT, Kecrniarjr. r. O. ELKS. Koaeburx Lodge No 3J0. Holds rt-irnlar cummnnicit lions lit I O. O. F. Hull on ftecom nd fourth Thnrtdaye ol each month All mfintvrs requested to attend regu larly and a!l visum brothers are cordl- slly invited to attend. . b. AiTK, I;. II Ror McClallkn, Secretary. f'O.lD, 1st SEPARATE BATTALUON ,O.N. H , meets at Aimurj Halt every Thnnilar uiuni n.i ul K n I rj V- F. b! H.uiuh, Capl I.' O. o F PhllUrian Lodne No. Mr- 1 in Odd FeIloV TV tuple, o-r nt-r Jackson and Vau fiirfti. m i)sturi1 evening ol each wex 11cm bers ol the order in good emndine ar invited to attend. J. C. TwiraiBix N H N.T. JicwkiT, st-creUry. k: ol P. Alpha Ixjdge No. 47. Meet eynry Wednesday, in I. O. O. F Hall s7:30n. m. Mrmt-rn Ir good Bt ending are invited to attend. ttEu. W. Kimball, C. C. Kluek Wiuherly, K. of K. A S. I IX. A U UIKULE. No. 19, Women ol I Woodcraft. Meets on 2nd and -IU; - Fn.lays of each month at the O. O. t. Hall. biting members In food standing are invited to attend. Minnie Jones, Guardian Neighbor. Bell Morinn, Secretary. Second and Fourth Thursdays. 0.1 E. . 8. Rooeburg Chapter No. Holds their reznlar meeting on th hrst and third Thuradcya in eacl nnmn lulling members in gooc tianamg are respKtmiiT invlteO to at :end. Maude Bast, W. M Regina Rast, Secretary. w OODMEN OF THE WORLD. Oak Cmn No. 125. Meets t the Odd Fellows Hall, in Rotebnrg. everr drst and third Monday evening. Visit- ng neighbors always welcome. N. T. Jewctt. C. C. J. A. BrCHAXAS. Clerk. Professional Cards. Q.KORGE M. BROWN, Attorney-at-Law, Court Hons Down suits. ROSEBURG.ORK O V FISHER, M. D Physician, Surgeon. Office over P. O. Roskbcbu, 'Phone Main 591. Obbgox. JJR. J. R. CHAPMAN Dentist Abrahsm Llk ove Post Office Roseburg, Ore, QR.GEO. K. HOUCK, Physcian & Surgeon. Odee Rerlew ula. Fhoa-. MstiiSl KtMEBnan OREIlON w i vyw DENTIST, Renew Hullillnr, Telephone So. 4. KCHKtU'KU. OKKIiON M. CBAwronn a J. O. Watson Attorneys at Law, KoomslAJ, Bank BulIJi?.. ttOdKBDKU, OB AcTBuliiefti before the D a LsndOBcesad ulnlnt carer a specialty. JOHN H. SHUPE, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, ROSKBUKQ, ObKQOS, BnilncsK botoro U.S. Land Office and PrnhaU buf Idcu a opcclalty. Office Abraham Balldlns. J C. FULLERTON Attorney-at-Law. WtP practice In all the State and Federal Court Office ID Maris nia., tiowounc. urvnou. P W. BENSON, Attorney-at-Law. Hank Building KOdKBCRQ, OREGON J A. BUCHANAN, NoUry Public. lAttorncy-at-I,aw. Collections a Specialty. Room f Maritw BiliMlliK. JJR. II. Lr.STUDl.EY, Osteopathic Physician AihiiRli'kK inotlioti or licft lne All il!.-acf r'0:M to tho truHiineul ConstiUatlnn tn-o. Offlroovi" tboJW Olllre. Thnne No. 1011 It mr.- H to .2 A. 2 to 5 I. M. ltL-bh'u It 1 J 1 1 j I. ll:iu Ko. The Timber and Homestead Dill. Aapricial dispatch Irom Washington ast Thursday said : The Houso committee on public lands to hold an executive eession Friday to take action on the Senate bill repeal- ng the timber nnd stone act and au thorizing the salo of public timber to the best bidders. It lias been annarent uring the course of hearings that has been given on litis bill that the Houso committee is overwhelmingly opposed to repealing tho timber and stone act, nnd an advereo renort is looked for Inch will mean 110 remedial land legis lation this session. A month ago thero was a possibility tliat tho House committee might rerort this bill, nlthdugh a deal had been made between the Senate committee and the leading members of the House commit- eo to quash tho measure and prevent it getting before the House. At that time, It is said a majority of the mem bers of the House committee favored tho bill and stood ready to report it, if given an opportunity. Thero has been great reversal of senti ment, however, duo to tho admifsions made by George H. Maxwell, president of the National Irrigation Association. During the hearing on the bill he told the committee thai transcontinental railroads and large holders of scrip had oeen contributing foO.000 annually to maiuiain his association, and that thee eontriuu'ois looked to the organization to exert itself to secure the repeal of the timber and stone, desert land and home stead commutation laws. This admnion has been generally lateen by members ol the House to mean that lliwe scripholderii have been making systematic attempts to secure legislation which would compel person? seeking timberlands and large holdings of others to buy from the railroads or purchase blocks ol scrip. Iu other words, members generally believe that the agitation for land reform is instigat ed entirely by the railroads and scrip- holders with a view to increasing the value of their lands and provid ing a ready market for them. So strong has become tli'fi belief that all chance of passing the Fenate bill through the House, even if it could be reported, has been destroyed. Chairman Lacey, KfprewntativeMon- dell and other prominent and influen tial members of the IIoiim; committee arc determined that the Stmate bill fOial! not lie reported, and their influence is such as toprevent action at litis session even though adverse eeutlmenl hail not grown up as a rertilt of Maxwell's ad missions. Mohair Wanted. It will pay von to ?e us before vou fell your mohair. all Kruse i NewUod. Notice for Publication. U. 3. Lnd Oaoe. B!or. r re.. Mrch V, lSOt. Nolle u hrbj rlTtn tfcit lo complUne wllh. lh rrorUloni of lt tct of Con tnn ot Jone J. IT tnUtled "An let for the u!e of Uatr Uadt In the 5!autof CUI!oni:,Ore;os h'Tidi jaJ S uhtnon Territory." uexuntl d lo all Ik public Itad iuui tT act of Aarart Nor Kohlhtttn ot Rolmrj;.oouatvot IkkikIu, ute of Ore con, t)M IbliiUr Blfl In lb offlre her tvnra fUtemrnt NoOH-i for the purchw of the Jou X, . northeiwt quitter of loc Southwest nuartet of (cctlon IS, t)wnMr35 louth, rmnee . wrt and will offer proof to ihow ttx the Usd toarht U mora TUutbl for IU Unter or nose than for trrt cultural purport, and to eiaUUh cu claim before the BegUter and Kclrtr ol ihla afUca ot BoMburf, Oregon, on TuesJar. the JUl dr of May, IMI. She natne j vltnesuu; Edornnl H Lrnox. Gcorce BaiMnecr.of Broekway. Oretron. m Any ana auperaonaeuiinlnc adversely tbr above deacrtbed land, are rwiueateU to file. their elalcu In thU oCce on or before aald list I dayofMayiW. J.T. Butwra, Btsistcr. 50.Q00.00 Gash Given Away io Users of LION We are going to be more liberal than ever in 1904 to users of Lion Coffee. Not only will tbe Lion-Heads, cut from the packages, be good, as heretofore, for the valuable premiums we have always given our customers, but In Addition to the Regular Free Premiums the same Lion-Heads will entitle you to estimates la onr $50,000.00 Grand Prise Contests, which will make some of our patrons rich men and women. You can send In as many estimates as desired. There will be TWO GREAT CONTESTS The first contest will be on the Jnly 4th attendance at the St. ions World'sTalrj the second relates to Totnl Vote For President to be cast Nov. 8, 1904. &a 0,000. 00 will be distributed in each of these contests, making f 40,000.00 on the two, and, to make it still more interestinir. in addition to this amount, we will enre a Brand First Prize Five Lion-Heads cut from Lion Coffee Packages and a a cent stamp entitle you (in addition to the reg ular free premiums) to one vote in either contest: WORLD'S FAIR CONTEST What wDl bo the total Jnly 4th attendance at the St Louis World'! Fair? At Chicago. July 4. 1833. tbe attendance xras CXCOT. For nearest correct estimates received In Woolson Spice Com pany's offlce. Toledo, Ohio, on or before Jnno 30th. 1904. wc will trive first prise for the noarest correct estimate, second priic to uio next nearest, etc., etc., at follows: 1 Ftrit Prtie S2.GOO.OO 1 Second Prise 1 ,000.00 a nun iduu.uu saca n'PrUes 200.00 IO Prises 100.00 SO Prises 50.00 BO Prises ao.OO 250 Prises 10.00 1600 Prises O.OO 3139 PHIZES, 4279 PRIZES 4279 Distributed tt the Publie-aggregating $45,000.00-111 aHltlM ts whUh'we shall givs$i,IN ta 8r cars' darks (see particulars In LION COFFEE cases) waking a graai titaUt $SI,tft.M. COMPLETE DETAILED PARTICULARS IN LION COFFEE WOOLSON SPICE CO., If you want to buy a farm if vou want furnished rooms If you want to buy a house If you want to rent a house If you want to build a house If you want to move a house If ynu don't know PAT F F. pa 011 on or ddr. ... 5. K. SYKES, Aent For DOUGLAS ANDCOOS COUNTIES ENBMIO GRANDE 1,11 Iwrj THe-mii Ho! for St. Louis and t:ro World's Fair WILL YOU See Natnre'n Art tiallery .r trai-tions at t. Louis. retnrmug via the 'aCENli l.I.v U NRIVALED SCENIC AT NEQUALLED DININ3 NSURPASSED IN EFFXcTj TJ I'lEASE. Write for illustrated booklet of Colorado's famous sight and reaorta W. C. HcBRIDE, General Agent, i24Tliird Street PORTLAND. OREGON "I have u.'od Chamberlain's Stomach Hall Catarrh Cure ia taken internal and Liver Tablets writh most tatigfactory '5t acting direeUy upon the blood and results,'' fays Mrs. F. L. Phelps, Hons-. mucotu eurtices of the system. Teti ton, Texas. For indigestion, billions- '.monials sent free. Price 75 cents Der nets and constipation then; tablets are most excellent. Sold by A. C. Marsters & Co. Mohair Wanted. It will pay you to see us before you sell yoar mohair, a II Kruse & Xewland. Mow's This? We offer One Hnndered Dollars Re ward for any case of Catarrh that canno , j be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. I F.J. Ciienky & Co., Toledo, O. We, the undersized, liave known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and be lieve him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially 1 able to carry out any obligations made bv his firm - uls nrnl- ALOIXO, K IXXA.V A M A8VXX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. of $5,000, to the one contests, opportunities COFFEE PRESIDENTIAL VOTE CONTEST What trill be the total Popular Tola cast tor Frviidest (votes for alt candidate combined) at the election Norember 8, 19847 la 1X) election. 13.SS9.6S3 people voted tor President. For nearest cor rect cstrraatei received In Woolson Spice Cc't, otflc. Toledo, on or before Xov.3.1904. m wfllctveirstprtxe for tho nearest cor rect estimate, second prize to the next nearest, ttiu, etc as follows: 1 First Prtxa ta.f50O.OO 1 Second Prlss . i7vvno i.uuu.uu ..l.OOO.OO B Prises uoo.no ..1,000.00 ..l.OOO.OO ..l.OOO.OO a,5oo.oo .0,000.00 IO Prises 100.00 ao Prises 60.00 QO Prises ao.oo aoo Prises lO.OO 180Q Prists 6.00 3139 POIZES, TOTAL, S20.000.00 (CONTEST DEP'T.) itePOD, Contractor aid Builder BeeebnriC Oregon. IP ITS A WHITE ITS ALL RIGHT THE WHITE IS KlrtG White family And Tailor ing Rotory Sewing Mach ines. Machines with Rotary Lift : I- THI-!J ? IV !:.. us,- j -I hi;-i to the at- . i- .Um bv going or ! THE WORLD." "A iene:i3 C.Li jSAI ZI bottle. Sold bv all drnreista- Take Hall's Family Pills for constipa tion. - For Sale Cheap. 245 acres stock or dairy ranch 3J miles southeast of llyrtle Point, Oregon Fine new house, good oat buildings Will sell with or without stock and fnr nitnre. Have, good object for selling. For particulars address Carl W. Pressly Myrtle Point, Ore. a f A C-tnyonillve Item. I'.- nrvt-vs, commencing March 10, w :i. .. t COST, for cash, furai- i t"-i. Inn!- re, tinware and granite in-4re i t.na early to secure Jgood - bsx S'ins, f..r t i offer will hold good only I Utr tlir Ifii; i IM-ti. L tn of time aforestated. Jonx E. Lone. who and is nearest correct oh both thus yoar estimates h&ve two of winning a big cash prise. Printed blanks to vote on found in every Lion Coffee Pack age. The 2 cent stamp covers the expense of our acknowledgment to you that, your es ti mate is recorded. a Prises $600.00 each l.OOO.OO 1 .000.00 1 ,000.00 i .000.00 1.000.00 3.BOO.OO u,oooo TOTAL. taO.OOOXX) EVERY PACKAGE OF TOLEDO, OHIO.