. ¡flM&ì ■n W ' r t 00 Schilling s B est baking powder goes a hird farther than any other; gets to work jicker; makes sweeter cake. Schillings Best tea makes good cake ste better. Schillings B e s t b a k in g p o n a d e r andUa -------------- because they are money-hack S rand Ä tea Ä SAFE' Corn F o d d e r B a r r o w , Get Schilling's Best baking powder or tea at The National Stockman describes your grocers’ ; take out the how to make a barrow for bauliug coru- I (brown ticket in every package o f baking powder- yellow ticket i m the fodder. t * nd « ,ickel wlth fach word *° address below before December xrst I T lie two side pieces A are 6 feet long and 1% inches by 3 Inches. The up­ ^ a“° We<1 ^ ‘ icket; after 'hat only one rights R are 2 feet long and 2 inches by If only one person finds the word, that person gets |aooo.oo; if several find H i inches. The crosspieces C are 2 tooo.oo wilI be equally divided among them. feet long and 2 feet apart and 3 Inches wide by 1^, Inches. The straps D are Every one sending a brown or yellow ticket will receive a set of cardboard pieces of old carriage tire bent as - babies at the end o f the contest. Those sending three or more in one shown. The legs are fastened on with will receive an .898 pocket calendar-no advertising on it These a single Itolt and the uprights by a log ¡bab.es and pocket calendars will be diluent from the ones offered in screw. The braces for the uprights are blast contest. notched in and nailed. When it is de­ sired to use the barrow for grass, put in a floor of half inch white pine, also 2061 nail half Inch hoards from B 1 to B 2 Address: M O N E Y -B A C K , SAN FRANCISCO. and tit in sideboards from B 2 to B 2 Better cut these rules out. Tourist Tr»H lc til Ir e la n d , A n o t h e r Use fo r t h e H a y . blaml is now being opened more bever for visitors. Its attractions jinjt more prominently placed be- btourists, and increased facilities I been provided for v ie w in g its (natural beauties. The presence r»lty cannot fail to g iv e a stim u­ li tourist traffic. In France, by means of the Roentgen rays, the sex of the silkworms is now determined while they are in the co­ coon. This deterimnation has in the past been earired on uncertainly, usually by weight, the female cocoons usually being slightly heavier. IRSERY STOCK t Catalogne. I Lsmberson, rtland, Oregon. and from B 1 to B 1. W hite pine or cypress will be strong enough for the iaiMocureUn&tnd lift*oft T o r i e s in connection with-the ______ *q/moifiai*!*' utimonials, “ I Address. F. J. CHENEY, TAYLOR STS.. PORTLANO. OR. Aganta for O regon , ton and Id a h o . W a s h in g - Get tour »tipptle* of ns at cat rates. Larjte stock anM»t ta advertisers, lia d H B «¡sc AN OPEN LETTER C h ick en s in H ot W e a t h e r . SlOO It ilV A R D , StOO. The readers of this paper will be pleased to A rP L E S am that there is at least on.- dreaded disease PE AR S that «ten ce lias .seen able tocure in all iisstaaes PEACH ES and that is catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh ( lire is the P M MS i only positive cure now known to the medical In ro a d » o f G erm an Trade. growing. In arid climates air. as well MOTI Frsytce imported $ 6 . 000,000 worth of as soil, must be kept moist to develop the best fruit. For many years Cali­ jew elry from Germany last year. This Y on r daughter: fornia fruit was dry and iioor In q ti'i- fact has caused consternation among Ity. though tine looking. Now Califor­ the large jew elry manufacturers in the clous legacy poosit The responsibility nia air in the dry season is less arid former country. The German articles than it used to be, and its fruit is bet­ are nearly *11 of a cheap variety, and a future ia largely with The mysterionscha, large proportion o f the jewels which ter. they contain are imitation. It is rath­ the thoughtful wo Chestnut Trees Profitable. er striking to see the Germane cutting thoughtless girl, Those who have a chestnut grove and into a branch of trade in which the the watch day and night. keep it free from depredators may tiud French have always been ea sily first. As you oaj-e for their pi it a source o f profit. W e know one or French exports o f jew elry and watches being, so will the woman two such groves which yield returns continue to be very important. In the be, and ao w ill her child­ with no labor except for gath­ Far East — China and In d ia — the ren be also. Lydia El ering the nuts bettor than could French have almost entire control of he got for usual- farm crops. But the watch and jew elry trade. to secure profitable returns the TH B BLUBS. public must in* excluded. Men aud boys who club the trees while the nuts Thl. 1» a synonym fer that gloomy, harrasaefi are green to bring them down w ill dis­ I’omlfliou of the mind which has its origin in figure and injure the Trees, so that after dyspepsia. Ail the ugly spirits that, uuder the name of ths •’blues," "binedevils,” "megrims’’ a few years the trees w ill yield little anil 'iiiulligrub‘"torments the dyspeptic almost or nothing. Chestnut trees, if ttie fruit ceaselessly, vanish when attacked with Hos­ tetler's Stomach Hitters, that, moreover, anni­ is o f good quality are valuable proper­ hilate* biliousness, constipation, chilis and ty, and their fruit should be protected. fever, kidney complaints, and nervousness. There are several Improved varieties An American acientist has recently o f chestnut, some of which w ill begin hearing wlteu three years old. These discovered a new microbe which is par­ should be chosen if new plantations o f ticularly destructive to the tissues of < Pink ham’s “ Vegetable Compound * te chestnuts are to be made, or scions of the human bodv, and the moet striking the sure reliance In this hour of trial. the new varieties should be grafted lu- peculiarity of the creature is that it is ; Thousands have found it the never-tail- nearly all mouth. to native stock.—American Cultivator. \ ing power to correct all irregalaritiee A magnetic, well o f great power has ! and start the woman on the saaof life Value o f Grain Chaff. When threshing grain framers should been struck at Bowersville, five miles with that physical health all ahould have. appreciate the necessity o f separating south of Jamestown, Ohio. T h * w ell Womb difficulties, displacements end the grain chaff from the straw for win­ was drilled 140 feet deep, and at this ter feeding. I f the straw is to be sold depth the d rill beoaroe so magnetized the horrors cannot exist in company with Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable for bedding or used for bedding at that particles of iron clung to it. Compound. home It will go farther If free from The Ganls, to make handles for their chuff. The latter Is much the best part o f the straw to feed. When uature stone axes, cleft the branch o f a tree, makes the grain, all the valuable nutri­ placed the stone in it and left it till the ► used fo r children teething. It aoothee the « ----- ____ __ h en« the gum«, alleys ell pain, cures wind colie.and 1» 4 tion is concentrated in or near the head. wound in the wood had been com­ a the beet remedy fo r dierrheea. Twenty lire oeata a f Z bottle. It 1« the beet o f ell. M pletely healed. h < e e A k e .e e a ga..ak.odkdk.AO>«kehd« . n ^ on every bear the fa c-s im ile signature o f Pcc&zJ&feC wrapper. This is the orig in a l PITCHER'S CASTORIA,” which has been used in the homes o f the mothers o f A m erica fo r over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the kind you have always bought S lj? / / f 7 7 T “ on the and has th e s i g n a t u r e o f wrap­ per . Jno one has a u th ority fro m me to use my name except The Centaur Company o f " which " Chas. II. Fletcher is President. M arch 8, 1897. D o N o t B e D e c e iv e d . Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you (because he makes a few more pennies on it), the ingredients of which even he does not know. “ T h e Kind Y o u H a v e A lw a y s B o u g h t** R a in vs. I r r ig a t i o n . It Is sometimes said that the farm er who depends wholly om Irrigation la really better off than those who farm where rainfall la usually sufficient. The man who Irrigates baa the control M moisture snpply 1 » »is ow a bawls, g o t this doe. aot wholly apply to fruit ill BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE OF Insist on H a v in g T h e Kind T h a t N e v e r F ailed Y o u . ^ & ± & ± ± .± ± ± ± ± ± ± ± & ± ± & ± ± ± ± & ± t± » and a perpetual smiamer climate will make the plants aniI. A gallon o f h olies oil well soaked in will furnish a projecting cover for all the farm wagons. 1 plow handles, horse rakes, etc., on l'«e farm, keeping the weather from th< til and thus sav­ ing the cost a dozety times. It should be put on hot. i? A partect t y x tf ths klgksst order of sxcsUsacs In ■apafoAtWi." J Walter Baker & Co.’s ] BREAKFAST COCOA s Absolutely Pure— Delicious— Nutritious. Costs L ess than O ne Cent a Cup. «.M T. that yse getts. ; Establishes 17*0 Ti i D O R CH ESTER , M A SS . | m m I m article, mmt» at _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .„.By.... A L T E R BAKER B A K E R * A CO*. LO . Ltd. ALTER y ----- BUY YOUR----- FUR GARMENTS Direct from the manufacturer and .arc mtddlcman'a profit, at w . undersell them alt. Our garmentaare custom made and not Ilka thooe thrown together In New York sweat-anof«. where filth and disease reign Oar garments are guarantee* guaranteed *» to fiuraMl- Our irifr Hy and stria. Onr prices on fur Capas rang* from aa upwants; pp. ( on i l l sr u i t > u n « i « t v c a . i i u u i w < » u p w oat saw , c t . at m m , ' , i (rom i w i u 7V > P Eur Collarettes, from « 5 upwards: tv Keek Boa.-*, words; genuine Alaska Seilskin (torments made Irntn « i n o Bp- wards. Write (or information and catalogue S. Silverfleld, ili h g l ’» r MshHAuptimri 143 T h ird Bt.. r h r t l i n » / ) Q u in « 4 ITedwrs. In the English colonies o f Africa hedges are comtoonly made o f quince- I H ► trees The brunches, lieing planted and in terw oven lb y hand, form an Im­ penetrable barr/er to cattle, and they annually bear nfn Immense crop o f large lOWER T h r e s h in g D a m p G r a in . It is never good economy to thresh er„in while the straw is damp. Ko long fl» «rain is In B* chaff, that otec,s It from heating either .III ¡now or stack. So long as threshing was done by hand there was no temptation to thresh it until frost had dried it out. > «w that steam power for threshing has replaced the horse power. It does not seem so mneb waste , t o thresh damp «rain. Yet many straw stacks will be green with grain wasted be- mnae even the steam threshing ma­ chine cannot get It out Besides, after threshing, the damp gralB te much more liable to Injury by beating than It was b e fo r e ._________ 1 O b je ct Ini ...FOR..*rS to b a te H a r i n g . The late ed hey. even if secured v ithout rain, il has lost much o f Its nutli has also impaired the ( L e vaine, jit ha t ^ L r o f the I root, so that next year's l,e lighter than if the ha* crop w ill be grass this ye:Ar had lini l**en cut early. M a k i n g Them F a m ilia r . H eifers thatjare to he in milk by and by onght to b