Lincoln County leader., February 14, 1908, Image 2

RHEUMATISM RECIPE
PREPARE THIS SIMPLE HOME-MADE
MIXTURE YOURSELF.
Buy the Ingredients from Any Druggist
in Your Town and Shake Them
in m Bottle to Mix This.
A well known authority on Rheuma
tism gives the readers of a large New
York daily paper the following valua
ble, yet simple and harmless prescrip
tion, which any one can easily prepare
at home:
Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half
ounce; compound Kargon one onn e;
Compound Syiup Sarsaparilla, three
ounces. '
Mix by shaking well in a bttle, and
take a teaspoonful after each meal and
at bedtime.
He states that the ingredient can be
obtained from any good prescription
pharmacy at small cost, and, teing a
vegetable extraction, are harmless t
take.
' This pleasant mixture, if taken regu
larly for a few (Jays, is said to overcomt
a I nine I any rase of Rheumatism. The
pain and swelling, if any, dirainishe
with each dose, until permanent result
aru obtained, and without injuring the
stomach. While thtre are many so
called Rheumatism remedies, patent
medicines, etc., some of which do give
relief, few really give permanent re
sults, aiiJ the above- wi!!, no doubt, be
greatly appreciated Dy many sufferers
here at this time.
Inquiry at the drug stores of even the
small town elicits the information that
these drags are harmless and can be
bought separately, or the druggitts will
mix the prescription if asked to.
Hader Ike New Baling.
His Lawyer The trouble is that
they've got half a dozen witnesses who
saw you whipping your wife. It will be
hard to establish an alibi in the We of
that.
Prisoner Gosh I I don't need any
alibi. All you've got to do is to prove by
me that I was drunk.
That Terrible D07,
Mrs. Kerruthers (making a call) Teh,
Indeed, Mrs. Kajones, I put in nearly the
whole blessed day In the dentist's chair.
Mrs. Kajones I can sympathize with
you. I know how it hurts.
Mrs. Kerruthers My dentist hardly
ever hurts me, though. He's so careful
and gentle that I don't mind it at all. I
declare I slept half the time while he wai
at work.
Johnny Kajones That dentist wouldn't
never do for maw. When she goes to
sleep she snores like a thrashin' machine
Flower of the Family,
"Uncle 'Rastus, how old are you?"
"Pas' seventy-nine, boss. I'll soon be
a octogeranium." Chicago Tribune.
Wayelde Conimanloffi,
Adam Zawfox Ever ride on a street
'thout pay in' T
Job Sturky -Wudst. The jigger on the
front end o" the car picked me up an'
kerrled me mighty near a block 'fore the
conductor found it out.
Looking- la (he Wrong- Place.
Carrie; What a sweet, happy dispo
sition Mabel has. She can see beauty
In everything.
Ethel (Jealous) She can't see It In
her mirror. Boston Transcript
Playing- "nrlda-e."
"Do you remember before the wed
ding you used to call your wife a
'poem?" said the bachelor caller.
"Yes." sighed the domestic man, as
he twirled an alarm clock to amuse the
baby, "and I still call her a "poem."'
"You doT What kind of a 'poem' Is
she now a 'poem of beauty1 or a
loeni of love?' "
"Neither I She Is a 'poem of travel.'
Always on the go and never at home."
8 el f-Procectlon.
"You say your wife Is a poor cook?"
"The worst ever."
"And yet you say that you eat all of
everything that she prepares for the
table. How can you do that If she
can't cook?"
"Great earth, man! If I don't she J
will use up the scraps In some of those
now-to-utllize-left-overs dishes, and that
will be my finish." Judge.
What tha Clolh Got la Boatoa.
If you go to San Francisco and tneei
friend be will ask you to stay a week
with him. In Omaha be will take you
borne overnight In Chicago he will
take you out to dinner, In New York
he will hurry you off to lunch, In New
Haven he will hand you a good clpir
and in Boston be will give you an up
pie. Congregatlonnllst
Devotlea tm tha Ideal.
The hero of the play bad just died U
llow, tremulous, wabbling music, but the
audience insisted on bis coming before tht
curtain and kept up the applause for tht
apace of five minutes.
At last a supe came out and stepped
forward.
"Ladies and gentlemen," he announced
In a high-keyed voice, "he says he'll hart
the curtain raised and you can look again
en his cold corpse if yon want to, bat be'U
be d d if he's going to vi'Iate the pro
prieties sad degrade bis art by coming tt
life again before to-morrow evening
Thanking yoo again, ladies and gentleman,
I will hi retire."
GRAIN CROPS SHORT,
BUT WORTH FAR MORE
flovernment Final Estimate Shows
Great Decline in Cereal
Production.
'BICES MAKE FARMERS HAPPY.
They Will Get Half a Billion of
Dollars More This Ysax
than Last.
The government report shows a
shortage of 7S5.D87.000 bushels In total
crops as compared with the crops of
1000, which were the largest ever rnised
In this country, and a shortage of 377,
287,000 bushels as compared with the
yields of 1905, which were also very
large.
The chief shortage la In the corn
crop, with 335,000,000 bushels, oata
with 211,000,000 bushels and wheat
with 101,000,000 bushels.
There Is something of an offset to the
big losses In the feeding grains In the
Increase of 0,431,000 tons of hay as
compared to that of 19()fl, and of
3,045,3S8 tons as com oared to th m
of 1905.
Prominent features of the final revis
ion Of Its CTOD estimate for th ..
by the Department of Agriculture were
rne increases made In the reports of
area seeded to spring wheat, corn and
oats. In each of these particulars as
well as In the estimated wehrht of
spring wheat and oats the official re-
CROPS OP TJHITED STATES FOR THREE YEARS.
tvi u .
" mt wheat
Spring wheat
Total wheat
Corn
Oata
rIT
Buckwheat
Ftoweed '
Potatoes
Total r.
Hay, tons
IKrts ran more or less counter to the
general impressions of speculators. In
a few Instances, such as the weight of
oats, the figures given were at variance
with all the experiences of the trade
for the year to date.
F Ik urea of tha Report.
The report gave final estimates of
acreage, production and value of farm
crops, showing winter wheat acreage
to be 28,132,000, production 409,442,000
bushels and value per bushel 88.2 cents.
Spring wheat acreage was 17,079,000,
production 224,045,000 bushels and val
ue 80 centa.
Corn acreage was 00.031,000, produc
tion 2,592,320,000 buahels and value
51.7 cents.
Oata acreage was 31,837,000, produc
tion 754,443,000 bushels and value 44.3
cents.
It was announced that the total val
ue of the farm crops for 1907 was $3,
404,000.000, an Increase of $428,000,000
for 1900.
The farm vahie on Dec. 1 of the four
crops already mentioned follows: Corn,
$1,340,440,000; winter Wheat $301,217,
000; spring wheat ?193,220,000; oata,
$334,508,0007
The comparative prices for the grain
crops for the post three years follow :
1907. 1900. 1905. 1904.
Wheat ....81.7 60.7 74.8 02.4
Corn 51.7 39.9 41.2 44.1
Oats 44.3 81.7 29.1 81.5
Rye 73.1 C8. 60.7 08.8
Barley ....44.3 41.5 40.8 42.0
Buckwheat 09.8 59.0 58.7 62.2
Flax 95.0 101.8 93.0 W.3
Potatoes ...01.7 01.1 61.7 45.3
May ....$11.03 $10.37 $8.52 $8.72
INTER ESTINQ NEWS ITEMS.
A monument to Bunaen is to be erect
ed at Heidelberg.
French mints coined $S94,000 of Swiss
coins during 1906.
The Persians have a different name for
every day in the month.
It will require $31,641,323 to run the
public schools of New York City for the
year just beginning.
A blight of the tea plants censed by
the bite of mosquitoes is causing much
alarm among the planters In India.
President B. F. Winchell of the Rock
Island at Guthrie, Okla, said his road
would accept the 2-cent fare provision of
the Oklahoma constitution.
Gov. Vardaman of Mississippi was pre
vailed upon to take a ride in Baldwin's
atrshlp at Jackson. Miss. Ten feet aboie
the ground was the limit and the trip
vaa very short.
William E. Shlebler, the telegraph op
erator who received the first message over
the Atlantic cable sent to President Bu
chanan by Queen Victoria died in Brook
lyn, N. Y. He also received the message
frooa the front announcing the fall of
BWimoad at tha dose of the Civil War.
ITNCLE SAM A CAPITALIST.
As a Shipbuilder Outranks Al
Others in the United States.
The United States government main
tains niue navy yards, representing a
capitalization of more than fGO.000,000
and employing nearly 15,000 men, In
cluding officers. The total wages paid
In the navy yards of the government is
approximately $10,000,000 annually,
the cost of materials used oeing about
$7,000,000 annually and the value of
the products, depending upon the num
ber of vessels built, runs well up Into
the millions every year. In 1905 the
output of the government yards was
over $17,000,000.
As a shipbuilder the government out
ranks all other ship owners in the
United States. In 1904 the government
launched 170,000 tons of battle ships
of more than 1,000 tons burden each.
While only 3.7 per cent of all vessels
launched that year were tha property
of the nation, these vessels constituted
27.7 per cent of the total tonnage
launched , that year. These same ves
sels represented also more than half
the value of all vessels over five tons
launched, the contract value of the
government ships being $39,513,000.
Despite Its own facilities for building
and repairing warships, only one gov
ernment yard has been used In recent
years for turning out a modern up-to
date battle ship.
All told, the government owns fit
teen dry docks where vessels of the
navy undergo mwt of their repairs.
All but two of these are located on the
Atlantic coast. Another dock Is being
completed on Puget sound, giving three
on the Pacific coast In addition to
the naval dry docks there are thirty
eight in the United States owned by
private corporations or individuals. In
time of war the navy should And no
trouble in taking care of Its smaller
vessels, but the big battle ships would
lao7 ba-
400 tin
1900, bu.
'492,888.004
242,372,906
1905, bu.
42S,402,8.-M
201,510,053
224,64o000
G34,OS7,000
735,200,970 692,079,489
2.592,320,000 227,410,091
754,443.000 904,904.522
2,707,993,540
953.210.177
27,016, U5
130,051,020
. 14,535.082
28,477,753
200,741,204
31,56(5,000
153,317,000
14,290,000
25,851,000
297.942,000
33,374,833
178,910,484
14,0414)37
23,570,140
, 30S,038,3S2
5,137,903,000 5,923,890,235 5,515,189,889
63,577,000 57,145,959 60,531,012
have long distances to travel on either
coast, In event of Injury, before finding
adequate docking facilities.
The Universaliat general convention a.
Philadelphia listened with approval to
the plea for closer fellowship between
their denomination and the Unitarian,
made by Rev. Lewis G. Wilson, secretary
of the American Unitarian Association.
Rev. H. Allen Tupper of thefifteenth
Street Baptist church In Brooklyn an
nounced to his congregation last Sunday
that henceforth, with the help of God, he
would never preach the gospel for com
pensation in money. The church hat
prospered under his charge and he has a
comfortable private income. Hia salary
will be added to the new church fund.
Bishop William Paret of the diocese 01
Maryland has announced that a Protest
ant Episcopal cathedral is to be erected
at Baltimore. He says that while there
Is still uncertainty as to the details, the
cathedral itself Is a certainty. He thinks
It will take from 100 to 200 years to
build, so that those who start the move
ment need not expect to see ts consum
mation. Under the direction of Rev. Hugh Birk
head and his associates of St George's
Episcopal church, New York, a club has
been started on lines similar to that main
tained by Emmanuel church, Boston, and
Christ Presbyterian church of New York,
namely, Its membership made up entirely
of persons having incipient tuberculosis.
Each member promises to care for his
health, to give up all work, stop worry
ing, live an outdoor life and obey all the
rules of the club. All are supplied with
a tent attachment to be fastened to the
window sills so that they may sleep with
their heads in the open air. Weekly
meetings are held, when all tell of their
progress.
The text of the recent syllabus pro
mulgated recently by Pope Plus, which
has now reached America and been pub
lished in the Catholic papers, defines as
heresies sixty-five doctrines, mainly those
held by liberal men within the church
in Europe. The Literary Digest says that
among the American Catholic journals
acquiescence Is general. Its reception
in France and Germany Is far less cor
dial, though there Is no open revolt
among the clergy. One Important French
weekly, the Lyons Demain, has suspend
ed rather than take the responsibility of
attacking the decree. Its editors say
that the task of reconciling religion and
science within the church has been made
impossible by these prohibitions against
all the rationalistic methods of the higher
criticism.
8Ew Cliuccncglj
W.LL ADD TO MISERY
IF A HARD WINTER,
European Labor Leaders Alarmed
Over Increase in Homecoming
i Contingent.
STEAMSHIPS ARE LOADED DOWN
Hundreds of Destitute Aliens Wan
dering Streets of Paris on
Verge of Destitution.
The Increasing contingents of home
fouilng Italians, Lithuanians and other
Mediterranean steeruge passengers are
disconcerting not only to the steamship
companies, who have inadequate facili
ties for dealing with such a sudden and
unexpected traffic, but to the labor
leaders of Europe, who deny that these
newcomers have sufficient money to
pass the winter without working, and
declare that they will thus add to the
misery of what Is sure to be a hard win
ter among the European working
classes.
The figures given by the French la
bor bureau as to the returning emi
grants are corroWatc-J by Nicholas
Martin, agent of the American line,
who says that all the steerage capacity
of every vessel has been taken until
Feb. 1, while thousands more will be
unable to return to Europe before
spring. If this keeps up, a Paris corre
spotdent says, some special measures
must be taken to repatriate the hordes
of disappointed adventurers, for the
ordinary means are Insufficient
"To my knowledge several hundred
of more or less destitute aliens are wan
dering In the streets of Paris on the
verge of starvation, and the prefecture
police books will probably multiply this
figure by three," suid one of the officials
at the ministry of works to the corre
spondent "The best we can do Is to
expedite their return to their native
countries. Something like half of them
have no more money than Is barely
sufficient to pay their fare."
Never since the first ship sailed out
of New York harbor has there been any
thing like the present exodus of emi
grants from that port Day by day the
crowds clamoring for transportation
abroad grow greater, with no prospect
of their reduction' In numbers.
WORK 0F IRRIGATION.
New Flans Adopted Contemplate
Many Improvements.
In the Irrigation division of the Ag
ricultural Department the three main
lines of work will be, ns heretofore, dis
semination of practical information,
scientific and technical Investigations,
and reporting on Irrigation conditions
in certain districts. In view of the fact
that probably about 5,000,000 acres of
land provided with wnter for Irriga
tion will be available for settlement at
the close of 1908, it is believed that in
no other way can more good be -done
than in supplying practical Information
through publications and expert ad
vice to the new settlers on this land,
and It Is therefore deemed advisnble
to broaden Hhe scope of this work so
as to make It valuable to every class
of farmers dependent upon Irrigation
and to every project, whether public or
private.
The scientific and technical Investiga
tions will be a continuation and exten
sion of what has already been done.
I Prominent features of the work will be
to determine wnar Deconies or the large
juantlty of water which Is annually
pread over cropped soils. Involving a
study of evaporation, seepage and dis
tribution of losses, with a view to se
miring higher economy In the use of
water; the relation of Irrigation wnter
to quantity and quality of crop and the
idaptation of methods to different soils
md crops, and a study of the more
technical features of the nien'uireiiient,
nveyance, storage and distribution of
water on farms, and the various de
vices used for pumping.
In the study of Irrigation conditions
n different localities emphasis Is to be
aid especially on possible improve
nents of present methods which will
ead to a more economical use of wnter.
Can Copper Be Made'
That the recent experiments of Sir
William Ramsay, the English chemiNt, are
lot likely to result In the artificial man
lfacture of copper is the conclusion of
President Ira Remsen, who recently made
tn address on the subject before the Sol
mtiflc Association of the Johns Hopkins
lnrversity at Baltimore. Dr. itemson
aid that the experiments in question
ndioated that the substance we call cop
er, and which we have hitherto regarded
is a stable elementary form of matter Is
apeble of undergoing a very alight de
nmposition, but while it is possible that
1 minute quantity of the element lithium
an be obtained from copper by the sc
ion of radium emanation, the change is
rery slight and It does not seem proha
le that. any method can be devised by
rtrtch It can be markedly increased.
It Quiets
the Couah
This Is one reason why Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral is so valua
ble in consumption. It stops
the wear and tear of useless
coughing. But it does more
it controls the inflammation,
quiets the fever, soothes, and
heals. Sold for 60 years.
" Arer'a Cherry Pectoral nan been a regular
life preserver to me. It brought me through
a eerore attack of pneumonia, iinil 1 feel
that I owe ray life to He wonderful cnnttWe
jropertiei." William H. Tkuitt, Wawa,
A Hade
br J. O. Ayer Co., Lowell,
lao maouteotarera ef
9 SARSAPABILLA.
1I01Q PILLS.
ClWO HAIR VIGOR.
M
Hasten recovery by keeping the
bowels regular with Ayer's Pills.
New Method.
Do you wish to choose a wife?
Vlip a win.
Or select your lot in life?
Flip a coin.
Of two evils make no choice.
Save your time, and strength, and voice.
There's a better way t Rejoice I
Flip a coin.
Peat briquettes are now being made at
Norfolk, Mass., with a machine. The
peat is cut up by revolving knives like
a meat chopper and then pressed through
a die in a continuous bar, which is sliced
into briquettes by a knife operated auto
matically. Ferry's Free Seed Book.
For ball a century thousands and
thousands of. farmers snd gardeners
have regarded "Ferry's Seed Annual"
as the beet guide not only for the buy
ing of seeds, but for their planting and
care. Daily reference to its text and
illustrations proves it to bo the actual
beginning of a successful season. The
new edition foi 1908 is now ready for
free mailing to all who write to the
publishers for a copy.
It is a high tribute to the bouse of
D. M. ferry A Co. that two genera
tions have planted Ferry's Seeds, each
succeeding year adding to the confi
dence that "seed trouble" will never
arise when Ferry's seeds are planted as
"Ferry's Seed Annual" eaya they
should be. '
Another remarkable feature devel
oped by the house of Ferry is the meth
od of distributing seeds to dealers
throughout the country bo that the
planters everywhere can secure at their
home store exactly what they want
when they want it, with the absolute
assurance that it is fresh and fertile.
Everyone should send at once to D. M.
Ferry & Co., Detroit. Mich., for the.
1908 edition of "Ferry's Seed Annual."
Speed.
"It takes you a long time to pass a
given point," said the minute hand, en
passant.
"I may be slow," answered the hour
hand -, "but it takes you all of sixty-si
minutes to catch up with me."
Bleat Ie He.
There Is no nobler monument
Than rises from a life well spent;
And blest is he of whom they tell
"He did his work and did it well !"
Cleveland Plain Denier.
PILES CURED tN 6 TO 14 DAYS.
PA7.0 OINTMENT It gna.enteed to cure anv
ease of Itching, Blind. Jleeillng or Protruding
Piles in 6 to 14 days or niouey refunded. 50c.
The Poor Cat.
A young wife called her husband on
the telephone to tell him a tale of woe.
In tenr-choked accents she said : "Thai
you, dearie? Well, you know that love
ly chicken pie I made you that horrid
old cat came in and ate it up before I
could stop It?"
He answered: "Never mind, dar
ling ; I'll get you another cat"
The
General Demand
of the Well-informed of the World haa
always been for a simple, pleasant
and efficient liquid laxative remedy of
known value; a laxative which physl
clans could sanction for family use
because Its component parts . are
known to them to be wholesome and
truly beneficial la effect, acceptable
to the system and gentle, yet prompt,
n action.
In supplying that demand with its
excellent combination of Syrup of
Figs and Elixir of Senna, the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co. proceeds along
ethical lines and relies on the merits
of the laxative for its remarkable
Miccess.
That Is one of many reasons why
Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is
given the preference by the Well
informed. To get Its beneficial effects
always buy the genuine manufac
tured by the California Fig Syrup Co.,
only, and for sale by all leading
druggists. Pries fifty cents per bottle.