. ¡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, <fc Co., Toledo, O. care of milk. Sold by druggists, 75c. Place cans in cold water immediately Hall’s Family Pills are the best. Porf/tt/r Ï//J/M I Portland, O regon • ■ . Dr. Max Sehlier, of Berlin, has clem- onstrated that hv the use of Roentgen rays one can see how sounds arepro- dllCed by the Voice ill Singing, limsTRONo, LL.B.,Prin. j. a . w esc o ,Sec’y [BUSY W O R L D O F B U S I N E S S le employ ment tn hundreds o f oar gradn&Les, and lull u thousands more. Rend for our catalogue. Learn what aud how we teach. HOM E PRODUCTS A ND P U K E FOOD. Verily, I* BUSINESS EDUCATION PAYS ____ IGOR MEN of i , Quickly, BARROW FOR CORN FODDER. 1RUNE8&0. I fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional d i s - i f heavier wood is 1 ease, requiresacongtitntional treatment. Hall’s dimensions given, I t atarrh ( nre is taken imernallv.acmiK directlv used, use smaller size. upon the blood and mucous surface» of the sys tem, thereby destroying the foundation of the ^■ease. and giving the patient strength by Th e Cure o f M ilk . I building up ihe constitution and assisting The following is a compilation of <11- nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so „ much in its curative ,------ powers, that they , rections given by some of the Western _ faith „ . ------------ ............ I ni names for ! A ll Eastern Syrup, ...-called, usually very light colored and of heavy body, is made from j glucose. " Tea Garden Drip*" is made from | Sugar Cane and is strictly pure. It is for sale by first-class vrocers. in cans only. Manufac- I tured by the P acific C oast Hvat'P Co. All gen- I nine "Tea Garden Ih-ip*” have the manufac turer's name lithographed on every can. P erm an e n tly Restored A boy who reecntlydied at the age of ness, Nervousness, D e b ility , j 13, in Indiana, from excessive smok and all the train of evils ing, had consumed in the past five years from early errors or luter excesses ; the results of ; 50,000 cigarettes. overwork, sickness, wor- , rYt «tc. Full strength, I know that my life was saved by Piso’s k development and tone 1 given to every o rg a n ('ore for Consumption.—John A. Miller, land portion of the body. j Au. Sable, Michigan. April 21. 1805. I Simple, natural methods. ’ Immediate improvement Tlfe Ylalue of house property of Lon- seen. Failure impossible. 2,000 references. Book, ! don is '$3,365,000,000; that of Paris, explanation and proofs mailed (sealed) free. $1,430,000,000; that of New York, $1,- NIAOARA ST. : KEOICAL CO.. 65 BUFFALO, N. Y. ÇMER3 i- l:— , I You« ( « IB C imino ,tT a 1 3 5 5 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 . _________ Try Schilling s Best tea and baking powder. Most Populous Nation». op The revised returns of the Russian census give the total population of that country as 129,000,000. This makes Russia third in rank among nations China coming first with an estimated population of 400,000,000, and the Ftritisli Empire next with 298,000,000. us w UN /Jsrrib FALU There are no courts in the Klondike region, but perhaps they are not neces sary where everyone observes the golden IRK’S RIGHT-LAP flaw and Seeder C o m b in ed . Jiiy works the Soil to a depth of 5 to k Bo Plow Crust. Jibe seed it to t inches down, thoroughly light, loose soil. T firmer that has used It RECOM- ■ It. rule. We want an each and c ity , also to work the eounlrv homes, selling our H oliday B ooks suitable for children. Only one in eich place will be appointed, either lady or gentUmsn: experience no. n ece.»ry. Com mission. Reliable house. Write todaj. Address, 300 Foat Street. S»n F n f.c l.e o . Cal. AGENTS PUBLISHER, D e n tis ts .... r»*> 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 an<l low prices. Goods guaranteed. Woodard-Clarte i Co., Cental Depot, Portland. 1 nn YOU W ANT wm w NERVOUS * W T t o r n « ahould have one. g * sufferer in an aggravated Z*'hows it on his face—a haggard "^•looking man. The same with piiwii Rut what o f the man who “®wst all vital and manly power, i ¡¡"fet looks like a physical giant? ‘ c * * just the question to which Dr. stn has devoted twenty years of [ «¡¡Jr " i* true that men who look lltu f weak in this respect. I r .°*iden has found the cause and o* it in his little work, (Classes o f M en,’’ i he sends free by mail sealed ^Observation, or can be, had at Ur**- I ' gives full information (to Write tor prices -D IE T IN G , w a s h - jntt the stomach. pepein; you may have tried all these l/ IV I "T T T Itltd r e l i e f from Iodises remedies and onD stoma, h In irvin* DV"- |1 / On recedo! n e .r e .t «x p r — a CU RB Trice, deliver It to ynar ^ < K chaIy,.. Aleut, Portland'Hotel Sixth and Morrison strew, USE Bill 6MDS “ POATLARB. OR Special Rates ■ TO C L U B *. .'^TmoleteTine of Gvmnnai nm tn’s Electric Belt. W I L L * r i N C K C O ., I*!*ht be worth rour time to read ■“ '• ,i* ,, ' ^ ' “ ¡ay n book. Get it, or call and • is - s .4 wonderful Belt. n g r t n u q f l g a r L i l t s M.vsnxiK EH E L E C T R IC BELT CO. • Washington St.. F a r tla a d . Or. mention tiic Paper. 1 U . 41. ’OT. >M»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 hM Some of this remains In the chaff. There are besides some light grains that are usually blown out with the chaff in cleaning. The sudden dying o f young chicks In hot weather is almost always caused by lice. I.cok around the head and neck, aud a few big fellows may he seen which torment the chicken so that it cannot tie thrifty. Rub some grease o f any kind about the head and neck and under the wings. This Is sure death to the pests and does the chicks no harm. It is well to use It as a preventive, for if lice get on the chicks in hot weather, many chicks w ill die before the remedy can be ap plied. B u r n in g W eeds. It is far hotter to rot the weeds by burying them under the soil while green after milking. Place the milk In cool w ater soon a f than to rely on burning them after they have ripened their seeds. It is com ter milking is done. Place cans in cold water at once. Cool monly supposed that when a weed is burned, its seefi also iierishes. Only if quickly. piled on brush, which will make coals Practice cleanliness with a big C. Milk pails, strainers, and coolers o f fire at the bottom of the heap, is should be washed aDd scalded at each this the case. The weed seed drops as the pod which encloses It shrivels with milking. Rinse cans in warm water, scald with heat, and as carbonic Held gas settles hot water, ami air as much as possible. to the bottom o f the heap, the noxious Have cans washed aud scalded thor seed is preserved from burning. oughly ami well aired. Corn on O u tsid e R ow s. Stir the milk at least tw o or three In cutting corn we always used to times while cooling. notice that the outside rows where the When the milk is cooling, cover the horse turned in cultivation hud general cans with cheese-cloth. ly larger aud better filled ears than did Do not put covers on the cans over the corn farther in the Held. This in night, but use a thin cloth. dicates that corn is ttsunlly planted too Always leave covers off the milk un closely and does uot get sunlight til the animal heat has disappeared. enough. The outside row is not gener Never mix morning's milk with ally richer than the soli fartuer In the night's milk until both are thoroughly field, and certainly the tramp'.ing o f the cold. ground by the horses’ feet is no ad I f warm milk Is added to cold, it pro vantage to the crop. duces a taint at once. it rouses. The best kind of-glasses to sow upon P osts as F o u n d a tio n s. Cedar posts are often used to support a marsh subject to overflow, according buildings ami doubtless would be more to some o f the best authorities, are four frequently used if the frost did not pounds red top, two of fow l meadow work upon build grass, fou r of timothy aud one or two ings thus support o f alslke clover | h t acre. In many ed liftin g them out cases low lands can be easily drained of position and or partially; freed o f w'ater by the dig racking them. It ging o f oue’.or two ditches. I f thi- can does this when be done, it vurely should be practiced, the posts extend for low lands, are Hie richest aud best below • the frost for grasses. \ line gince the Farm Ai U n d e r G la s s . ground freezes to the sides o f the posts It 1 » prophesied that the farmer o f the and thus raises them. Fut a square future w ill grow )hls crops under glass. box about the posts as shown in the Hot-house fruits\and vegetables may cut. The frost w ill then lift the box. then be raised for\ the poor and needy hut cannot disturb the posts.—Orange on u very cheap sUale. Vast sections Judd Farmer. o f land may be rodfed over Ith glass, R ip e n in g Toniatoea U n d e r C over. It Is the habit o f many tomato gro w ers as the danger o f frost becomes im minent to pull up a number o f tomato vines with a little earth attached, and throw them with their unripe fruit Into some building where the unripe toma toes will gradually turn, and the small er ones will increase in size and finally ripen also. In this way it is possible to have tomatoes fresh from the vine until near the Christmas holidays. T o matoes fully grown will color if picked and laid on the shelf. But they are not nearly as good as fruit that is ripened on the vine, which apparently it* roots i — — have been pulled from g r o u n d . ______ __ the To MOTHERS. WK ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO T H * EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD ” CASTORIA ’’ AND "PITCH ER'S CASTORLA,” AS OUR TRADE ’ m a r k . I , DR. SAM UEL PITCHER, o f Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the origin a tor o f “ PITCHER'S CASTORIA,” the same that has borne and does now y / r > . 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 an<l trees and vine« flourish as in the tropics. B o ile d $>iI. 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<v kept with the milking herd that they W ay get accustomed to the sounds and »xcitem ent o f domesti cation. T h eir product w ill vary leaa by and by at the pail. A P e r t in e n t y n e r j . “1 don't believe lit anything I can't see,” said the young man who alma ta be considered a skeptic. The middle-aged man with overalls on looked at him p e t u 't d f for a mo ment and then Inquired “Young feller, did you ever ketch bold o t n Tectrtc w l r e f - W i PROFIT Power that will save you modey sod suke you money. Hercules ^ofiaea are the cheapest power kaowp Baro Gasoline or Distillate Oil; d «stoke, ire, or dirt fo r pumping,' fkpalsg dairy or tun ■feckiaery, tkcwBave ao cqaaL Automatic 1 « actioo, ^perfectly Mie sad reliable. / V head for Illustrateti aitali. V. -- ▼* Hercules Engine V »ay it. »aa Praociaco, Cal. . 3 :