i Duty -VAsen Owe Themselves.
"Good actions Ppeat louder than words,
to too, dots the testimony of many thou
sands ot women dunns
third of a century speak,
louder than mere claims
not backed by a guarantee
of some kind, c That is
the reason why the pro
.pnetors of Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Frescrip
tion are willing to
oiler 5oo reward
for women who can
not be cured. Such
! a remarkable offer
.is founded on the
lone record of cures
of the diseases and
'weaknesses pecu
liar to women. If
there is an invalid
woman, suffering from female weakness,
prolapsus, or falling- of womb, or from leu
corrhea who has used Dr. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription without complete success, the
proprietors of that medicine would like to
hear from such person and it will be to
her advantage to write them as they offer,
in perfect good faith, a reward of $500
for any case of the above maladies which
they cannot cure. No other medicine for
woman's ills is possessed of the unparal
leled curative properties that would war
rant its makers in making such an offer.
The Sisters of the Good Shepherd, at their
convent, "Our Lady of the Woods," Carthage,
Ohio, use a great deal of Dr. Pierce's medicines;
they say. iti a recent letter to Dr. Pierce: "We
iug to "assure you of the great benefit these
medicines give our ailing ones. We canuot
sufficiently recommend their excellence."
When the druggist says he has some
thing that is as good as Dr. Tierce's Favor
ite Prescription, just tell him, "There's
nothing just as good." He says so because
he hopes to make a better profit but his
own mixtures have not stood the test of
long experience and success that Doctor
Pierce's medicines have. Then, too, many
patent medicines advertised as tonics, con
tain large quantities of alcohol. Dr. Pierce
guarantees that his "Prescription" does
not contain a particle of alcohol.
Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Ad
visersent on receipt of 21 one-cent stamps
for a copy in paper; 31 stamps in cloth bind
ing. Address Dr. R.V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
It is a good thing to keep Dr. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets in the house. One Pellet
Is a laxative, two a mild cathartic.
Slieep I'revi'iil forest f ire.
'The way to prevent forest lires
is to turn sli'jep into the woods in
the Bummer time," said C. A. Rhea,
a well known stock man and bank
er of Morrow county, recently to
the Portland Telegram. "We
havu't had a destructive fire in the
Blue mountain forests for forty
years, or since sheep began sum
mering in them. The eastern
slopH of the Cascades where sheep
pasture regularly have also been
singularly free from fires, while the
forests of Western Oregon and
Wellington blaze regularly every
-unnner, causing the atmosphere
of the entire Northwest as far as
Montana to be filled with smoke
until the fall rains appear.
Sheep eat off the grass and keep
the uuderbruh trimmed so that
tire cannot spread. Dry grass is
what carries fire in the mountains
and where sheep range the grass
plo's are strewn with trails and
thus every fire that gets out is
stopped before going any distance.
"The government has already
found out that shepp k(vp fire.
down in the mountains of Oregon
raid so the forest rangers bi-p
friendly toward the pasturing of
sheep on the reserves. Sheep also
keep the soil enriched and grass
grows all the more abundantly in
those portions of the mountains
w here they are permitted to run.
The prejudice against sheep on the
part of government so-called 'ex
perts' is rapidly giving way to a
more rational sentiment on the
subject of sheep pasture.
'Ji'it sheep cannot be turned into
the mountains of Western Oregon
very well without heavy expense
in transporting them to and from
their winter ranges. The sheep
ranches of the Northwest are most
ly situated east of the mountains,
and so much ferrying and long dis
tance driving would be necessary
in reaching the dense woods of the
Coast range.
"Still if these woods had been
traversed by bands of sheep for the
past forty years burned districts
would now be unknown, and mil
lions of dollars worth of fine tim
ber would be still standing where
we have great stretches of black
ened stumps. The tangles of tall
fern that carry flame across long
stretches would have disappeared,
and where fires are now kept down
at heavy expense to the timber
land owners the woods could be as
secure from fires as those of the
Blue mountains or Coeur d'Alenes.
The timber of these latter regions
is more pitchy and therefore more
combustible than that west of the
Cascades, and the danger of fiie is
thus greater were it not for the
pasturing of sheep in the forests
every summer.'
HE PROVED HIS WORTH.
Yonner Man Showed tha Old Man That
He Waa th Hltfht Sort fur a
Roa-la-Iavr,
flour old Problem.
fi!
I You know the medicine that
makes pure, rich blood
Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Your
mother, grandmother, all your
folks, used it. They trusted
Sarsaparilla
it. Their doctors trusted it.
Your doctor trusts it. Then
trust it yourself. There is
health and strength in it.
1 unfffrert WHhly from Indication and
thin bionii. I found 110 irlief until I took
Ayer's arapanll. four bottle perma
nently Cured nif."
Mks. i". K. Hart. Mt. Kisro. . T.
fl.no bottle.
A 11 dme's.
for
J. c.
Low
ITER m.,
HI.
Rich Blood
On the Snake river, which di
vides Oregon from Idaho, a dozen
r more dredgers have been erect
ed at various times to save the
fine flour gold from the bars of
that turbulent stream. These
plants were at first of the suction
pattern, but of late have been of
the ladder and bucket chain type,
and except in the matter of saving
appliances are largely like the
New Zealand dredger. Sluices
were originally fitted with Cariboo
and Hungarian riffles, which were
ater supplemented by a burlap
system of sluices for the finer
gold. Values in the gravel of the
Snake are exceedingly fine, the
average running about 1000 colors
to the inch, and the gold grain is
flaky with ragged edges. Associ
ated with this gold is a cubical
grained black sand, which has as
great 'or greater specific gravity
for the surface area, and separa
tion is very difficult. Sluicing on
the principle of concentrating ta
bles, saving the gold and black
sand together, with the purpose of
shipping both to the smelter, was
a late experiment which promised
success, as the smelters were
ready to purchase this product at
its assay content of gold f. o. b.
the cars nearest the dredger. All
work seems to have been unavail
ing up to the present, as there is
not a dredger on this part of the
Snake river operating continuous
ly. Despite temporary defeats,
capital prosecutes the experiment
al work with energy, and still an
other boat is being erected near
Weiser to test the efficiency of a
new principle in saving the abund
ant gold known to lie in the Snake
river sands.
Along the Pacific coast, both
north and south of the Rogue's
mouth, is found large areas with
gold in paving quantities if it
it could be saved. A larce num-
ber of experiments have been made
i to this end, but like the elusive
1 7
values of the Snake the fine beach
gold has triumphed also and re
mains a constant temptation to
man's tireless patieuce hmI inex
haustible ingenuity which some
day will develop an extensive and
! profitable industry in these two
sections of the state.
Ayer's Pills are gently laxative.
Tuty yrealiy aid the Sarsaparilla.
What Is Life?
Ia the ltst analysis nobody knows, bnt
we do know that it ia under strict law.
Abuse tbat law even slightly pain re
sults. Irregular living meaoB derange
ment of the organs, resulting in consti
pation, headache or 1 ver trouble. Dr.
KiDg's New Life Pills qaickly readjusl
this. Gentle yet thorough. Only 25c
at Sloo m'i drug etore.
Independent and reliable The Oreron-
"A young1 man of somewhat ex
uberant disposition, " said an old
gentlemen of hitfh standing in the
community the other day, relates the
Chicago Chronicle, "had been hang
ing around my fc-irl for some time
and I saw that inJes something
was done before long he would soon
become a member of the family. I
had frowned upou the matter right
from the start, as 1 didn't think he
was good enough for my daughter.
But from the beginning I simply
constiuted a hopeless minority, as
my wife thought he was a perfect
paragon. I thought I knew better
and when one Sunday I saw him at
a ball gtime I was sure of it.
"I am a great lover of the Ameri
can game and Sunday is the only
day that I hare thin? to attend. I
hare always been very careful to
keep from my wife the fact that I
ever attended a game of ball on Sun
day, as she is a very strict church
member and views with horror any
one who seeks pleasure on the Sab
bath. So when I saw the young man
there at the game T thought I had
found a way to bring her over tn my
side, knowing full well that if I did
his chances of becoming- a member
of the family were mighty slim. I
hadn't the slightest id or. that he
had seen me there and 1 thought I
could startle an admission from him
that would show him up in his true
colors and withmit danger to myself.
So when he called the other night I
said suddenly:
"Young man, where were you last
Sunday?"
"Oh, I just sat two rows ahead of
you," he answered, easily.
"That threw explanations back on
me and left me gasping for breath.
"Fine sermon, wasn't it?" he add
ed a moment later, coming to my
rescue like the trump he is.
" 'Oh, you dear fellow, did you go
to church and say nothing to me
about it,' cried my wife. How
lovely! What was the text?'
"I was simply incapable of an
swering and again that young man
filled the breach.
" 'Ninety and nine,' said he.
"The score wasn't quite as bad a
that almost, though. Say, he's th
finest young man that ever drew
breath and he can have anything
that belongs to me." :
Rarely, if ever, hag there been such
a superabundance of fruit as now
abounds in the New England orchards'.
The limbs of the apple and pear trees
hang heavy under the weight of their
enormous yield, and 1 lie ground be
neath the trees is covered with the de
caying droppings. In some localities
fine apples may be had for the picking,
and an offer of lialf a dollar a barrel
for the fruit on the tree is eagerly ac
cepted in the rural districts. Thou
sands of bushels are being- fed to the
cattle and pigs and the cider mills are
glutted with raw material for the
presses. It set'ins a pity to see such
a large quantity of fine fruit going to
waste. It is almost superfluous to of
fer suggestion in the line of thought
ful philanthropy to Dr. Hale, but the
glutted condition of the orchards sug
gests that it might be a g-ood idea to
renew his fanners' fruit off'crimr
scheme, which furnished such a liberal
supply of free fruit to the poor people
of IJoston when it was originally un
dertaken. Undoubtedly a great many
bushels of apples can now be had for
the asking.
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