POULTRY AND GAME
Cm eet you fancy prices for Wild Ducks
and other game in season. Write na for
cash oiler on all kindi of poultry, pork, etc
Pearson-Page Co., Portland
HOWARD B. BtJETOH '- Awerer sea Chemlrt,
iLeadriJIe, tolorMO. opecimen pri
Silver. Lead, O. Gold, Silver, 15os Gold. sum Sine
"Copper, li. M'n8r?iPi,i?
Second-Rand Machin
ery bought, (old and
boilers, aawmillg. etc The J. E. Martin Co., 83 1st
Et. Portland. Bend for Stock List and prices. ;
Machinery
Ship os your VEAL, PORK, POULTRY, HIDES
We guarantee top price and CHECK BY RETURN
MaJlI Tarn. prle, coopn. free. We ill send for
one year m request to all who make hlpmenui dprina
Jiiaaarr one year's subscription to either Northwest
Foaltrr Journal. Pftelflo Homestead. Poultry Lire,
Korthweat Paolflo Farmer. Pleaae tell four neigh
bor! about our liberal offer. Ship to
F. H. SCHMALZ & CO.
Pilt-a) Ofdal 10,000. 141-143 Fra St PORTLAND, ORE.
RAW FURS
WANTED
Highest Market Price
wt. H.UEBES&
P. Ptaqemann, Mgr.
MANUFACTURING FURRIERS
ISSRarrlMaSt Urbdtl
Ik FW Nail Biak. ftriasi.
7ml
mm
Ore, -Wtittt
SAVE MIDDLEMAN'S PROFIT
of $100 or more by buying your
Piano or Player Piano . direct
from factory store.
BUSH & LANE PIANO COMPANY
355 Washington St., Portland, Or.
LIME FERTILIZER
Alao Land Plaster, Lime. Cement, Wall Plas
ter and Shingles. Write for pricea.
NOTTINGHAM & CO.
103 Front Street PORTLAND, OR.
BANDMEN: SS?
IIOLTON and BUESCIIER
band Instruments. The most complete stock
of Musical Merchandise in the Northwest.
Writ for Catalogues.
SEIBERLING-LUCAS MUSIC CO.
134 Second Street. Portland, Oregon
HUNTERS! TRAPPERS!
Peal direct with manufac
turer, We pay the highest
prices for Raw Furs. Write
lor tree price list and shipping
tags,
N. M. UNGAR CO.. FURRIERS
Wlr 191 Semith Street PORTLAND, ORE.
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BAD ROADS WASTEFUL
Antiquated Methods in Illinois
Cause Big Loss.
Courage.
" As courage Is pre-eminently the vtr
tue of men, so It is the virtue which
moat powerfully challenge! the re
spect and emulation of men. And It
deaerrea this pre-emlnenoe, for it ia
lao the virtue which gives security
to all the other virtue.. LoweiL
Pretty Sure.
Whenever a man ia threatened by
the deep sea he Is pretty sure to find
me aevii on the other aide of him.
WILLOW RIVER
British Columbia.
The first registered townalte on the Grand
Trunk Pacific Hallway. '
The heart of a country larger than Oregon
rich In natural resources, ;
On the Frasor river with Over 1000 miles of
navigable waterways.
The terminus of the Pacific A Hudson Bay Rail.
Way to the Peace Iliver country.
Several other railroads laying plans to build Into
the townBlte,
Standing timber In large Quantities In all direc
tions. Agricultural lands In abundance, that can be
pre-empted or purchased direct from the govern,
merit. -
Gold In the sands of Willow River for placer
mining and tho mining camp, Barkerville, only
110 miles away.
Coal is estimated to be sufficient to last all Can
ada fur a century; located in the Bear River dis
trict, only IS miles distant.
With these natural resources and tha railroads
spending millions building into that great unde
veloped empire. Isn't that enough to Insure a
City of Importance?" What mora would you
askt
Lota are priced low. Terms are easy. Advance
of Bloe per lot on January 18,'01S,
When the Grand Trunk Paciflo trains art run
ning into town next summer from Winnipeg and
the East your lota will be worth several times
What they are today.
Willow River will certainly be another Edmon
ton, Calgary or Prince Rupert.
8end for plat today that you may get good
election before tho advance of prices.
V. PAGE HARRIS, Agt for Oregon,
tOO Henry Illdg., Portland. Or.
This Weather
Causes Sickness
Grippe, Colds and Pneumonia
Come From Run Down
Condition.
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TUB CHINESE DOCTOR
This wanderful man has made a life study of the
properties and action of roots, herbs, buds and
berks on the human system. Many of the rem,
dies which this man uses are scarcely known to
the scientists of this country, and In Chinese fam
ilies are banded down front father to eon and kept
a profound secret. Must of thexe remedies are
Imported from far-off Asia to bis large laboratory
at 16a First street.
It seems almost a miracle to many patients who
have called on this famous man and in such short
time become well by hit treatment.
If yoa live elsewhere than in Portland and wUh
to procure bis medicines, send 4 cents in stamps
and a symptom blank and circular will be for
warded to you. This you will fill out and proper
remedies will then be sent te you.
Open evening and Sundays.
The C Gee Wo
Chinese Medicine Co.
1621 First St, Cor. Morrison
PORTLAND, OR. ;
P. N. U.
No. l-ua.
VHBN writing to advertlsera. nlsaaa
" (ion this paper. "
Conference Held at Peoria Approve
Program for "Pulling Illinois Out
of Mud" .Recommend State
Prisoners to Be Uaed.
Bankers, farmers, automobillsts,
educators, labor and business men
from all over Illinois met at Peoria
the other day and approved unani-
mously a general program for "null
ing Illinois out of the mud."
After three rouBing meetings they
prepared a resolution to the next state
legislature setting out the lines on
which they think state legislation
should be based.
The Illinois highway improvement
commission, which called the meeting,
declared $55,000,000 will be wasted in
Illinois during the next twenty years
unless the present antiquated meth
ods are changed.
To prevent this waste the confer
ence urges the creation of a small
state railway commission to replace
the present army of local commission
ers, more active assistance by the
state for the trunk lines, and more
active Insistence by tho public on
good roads..
It is proposed that prisoners in the
state penitentiaries be used not only
for the preparation of road building
materials, as at present, but, it possi
ble, tor actual construction work
through the state.
It is proposed to follow the Colora
do method, using the honor system,
and sending the gangs . out with
guards.
The legislation recommended by
the conference would provide:
State and county co-operation in
the construction and maintenance of
main highways and brldegs.
A non-political state highway com
mission of at least three competent
members, who shall devote their en
tire time to their duties.
Improvement in such counties as
elect to come under the provisions of
the law, of main, continuous lnter
county highways connecting county
seats and other important cities, prin
cipally at the expense of the state and
county; such roads to be selected and
Improved by county authorities, sub
ject to the approval of the state high
way commission and after improve
ment to be turned over to the state
for perpetual maintenance.
Improvement, maintenance, and con
trol of remaining road's (about 80 per
cent, of the whole) under supervision
of county and township authorities.
Effective measures to guarantee
maintenance after roads are once con
structed. .
Use of the state automobiles tax,
together with such other funds as the
legislature may appropriate in the im
provement of highways.
Use of state prisoners under state
direction on an honor system, in ac
tual road work when practicable.
Payment of all road taxes in cash.
Compulsory dragging of all earth
roads.
Proper construction and guarding
of crossings at railroads and inter
section of street and highways.
The "platform" of the conference
Includes resolutions in favor of fed
eral aid for postroads and national
highways, and calls attention of Illi
nois congressmen to this position.
Jesse Taylor of Jamestown, O., told
the convention the difference between
hauling oost in Belgium and America,
13 cents a mile,, meant a waste of
1127,500,000 in this year's farm crops
alone.
Had Kept Her Bargain, ...
An Ingenious trick was recently
played on some women of MauikJanJ,
Madras, India. They handed sums of
mon7 to a woman who said that she
possessed the power of doubling the
contents. The victims had their
packets returned to them after seven
days, when the silver coins they had
contained were found to have been
changed into copper ones. ' j J..
(t Cures Whifo VonW.ik
.A".6."'" Fo,?t"Eaj! ' certain cure for hot.
substitute. Trial package free aSrt?,i
Allen b, Olmsted, Le Koy, N. y.
Accomplishing. 1
. It Is very important that the young
man select his life work early and
bend every energy toward accom
plishing something. One of the most
common causes of failure In this life
lies in the fact that men do not see
the Importance of being thorough un
til it is too late. Florence Vidette. '
Egg Material.
The laying mash has become gen
erally recognized as the most conve
nient as well as economical method
of providing a hen with egg material.
The following Is a good formula:
Coarse wheat bran, coarse middlings,
ground corn and oats, alfalfa meal,
meat scraps, each 100 pounds, linseed
meal forty pounds, fine table salt ten
pounds. This 550 pounds of feed, cost
ing around $10, should be enough to
last a flock of 100 hens one month
and should produce during that time,
at December and January prices, from
$50 to $60 worth of eggs. There is
not another animal on the ranch that
will show this profit from the same
amount of feed given in addition to
the regular rations.
Plant Food.
When plants run to vines and tops
it is a sure indication that the soil
Is full of nitrogen and lacking in pot
ash and phosphoric acid. This fre
quently comes from the ubo of large
quantities of stable manure. A fer
tiliser low in nitrogen and rich in
potash and phosphorto acid will bal
ance up the plant food ration.
Difficulty With Guineas.
One difficulty about raising guineas
is that the young birds are very easily
killed by mites and lice.
Grit
Grit and shells are comparatively
cheap, but the cheapest of all ways is
to haul a load of sand and gravel and
dump it In the poultry yard. Sand
and gravel from some Btreams contain
a large percentage of broken shells,
which the hens will soon devour with
a relish. It will be surprising to see
how soon an average aUed flock will
maks away with a box of grit
Cull Out Poor Layers.
Cull out all the poor layers a&d give
the good nans a chaaca,
English Stump 8peech. "
A' correspondent, "Old Brlney,"
Bends us the following specimen of
frenzied stump oratory: "Feller
blokes! Thanks ter th' guv'ment, yer
get yer d'mlnlshln' wage, and yer lit
tle loaf, an' all that. , Wotcher got
ter do now is ter go fer devil-ootion
and local anatomy, an' go It blind!"
(ITid cheers.) London Globe.
Be thrifty on little things like bluing. Don't ae.
cept water for bluing. Ask for RedT Cross Ball
Blue, the extra good value blue.
By Installments.
The "epoch-making advice" of a
bookmaker to a colleague In iHstre
is related in Vanity Fair. The col
league had been nald 2S nn n hot
by a certain captain, who, in a fit of
absent-mindedness, paid him the same
amount again next day. "What shall
I do about it?" asked the hnnh-maW
of his friend; and prompt came the
answer: "Ask him for It again."
Steel Stays Stopped Bullet
Steel stays have
an s life. Not long ago Mary Henessy
was taken to Bellevue hospital with
a flesh-wound In th i,ia rw
w-w, UUU AJl .
Drury discovered that had it not been
iur a meet stay wnich deflected the
bullet the wound would have been
fatal, for the slug had boon trnvoii
toward a vital orjtan. ,
Clogged Sewing Machine.
When a sewing machine will not
work, stand it near the fire so that
the oil may melt, and then clean with
pure paraffin. mUtin It into everv
oil hole. Work tho machine well, and
then wine every riart with a p.lfinn
cloth. Whon perfectly clean, lubri
cate with machine oil.
As a Man Thinks.
Jennie "He must have a soft spot
in his heart for me." Wennle "Why
so?" Jennie "He says he is always
thinklntr of me." Wennle "But vou
know,, a man doesn't think with his
heart The soft place must be In his
head. London Telegraph.
MnffcaM w(1f lf- wt.1nHj. a
Syrup ti e beat remedy to usofortheUrubildMa
Happiest Home. .
But the happiest home : is built
when the twain together meet the
trials and catastrophes that corns
from the outside world with the good
health, the common sense, the humor,
the patience and courage that will
rout them. It should not be necessary
for these qualities to be used by the
one to combat the faults of the other.
Barbara Boyd.
Learning by Love Letter. .
"Love letters between young men
and women are an excellent method
of teaching literature," says Dr. Ar
thur Holmes. But it must be done
tactfully. We have known a young
lady who broke off an engagement
because her fiance returned her love
letters with the spelling errors neatly
corrected in red Ink.
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAT
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinina Tablet.
GROVJi'S signature ta on each box. 26c.
Scientific Fact Established.
A number of rabbits upon whom
coffee was tried to determine the effect
of the caffeine it contained died, prov
ing beyond a doubt that coffee never
was intended as food for rabbits.
Louisville Cour! Journal.
Not All Owing to Wife.
"Biggins says he owes everything
to his wife." "That isn't true," replied
Biggins' father-in-law. "His wife quit
lending him anything years ago and
then he started in owing me." Wash
ington Star.
Not Inconvenienced,
"Did the dissolution of your gigantlo
corporation cause you inconvenience t"
"Not the slightest," replied Mr. DuBtin
Stax. "I needed an enlarged and im
proved system of branch offices, any
how." .
Wanted to Live In History.
Some men's idea of fame is cer
tainly a distorted one. A murderer
in South Carolina pleaded for the
privilege of being the first man to be
electrocuted when that new mode of
execution was introduced into the
No Use for Boys Any More.
Somebody has invented an electric
devioe that will split kindling wood.
Gradually we are getting it so ar
ranged that the world will have ab
solutely no use for small boys.
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ii'l SeMOtsth Synia. Twtaa Uoud. I te I J
f-4 ta time. M4 DnurUM. l i
WASTING OF ROAD MATERIAL
Estimated That $9 Out of Every $10
equanaered Annually
In State of Corn Belt
ItWOUld be difflnillt in rrt
v w ()IIU lu Vi-
tual figures the amount of money that
tuuiuany wasted in road Work In
the states of the flnrn Isolf TV now
$9 out of every $io is uselessly squan-
"c,cu "'a e putting It too strongly
ior some communitiea
. , " V TV UUiU
not be wide of the mark In others,
says the Ioa Homestead. Strange
r " Beem, tnose.very localities
having the worst roads are stanchest
in their support of the old-fashioned
system whereby the highways are in
charge of those who
nothing about the scientific construc
tion oi roads.
We are not asHiimiTiir t
vice on how to build roads, because
ruau mamng is not our profession,
but It is sometimes In
out how not to build them. While
u-aveiing recently on a highway that
has almost a nation-wide reputation
for its excellent condition due to drag
ging, we found at one place twenty or
thirty teams applying gravel. Al
ready several miles hat
7 vuvu feACwT-
eied, application being made to a
nunace tnat was In many places at
least thirty feet vM rttirt.,
slightest attempt having been made
to maite a grade. For a distance of
many rods in rjlacos thn
the highway was considerably lower
man at eitner side and yet these faith
ful "gravelers" were dnmninK thai.
loads in the very middle of what
mignt te called the "saucer" grade.
No attempt whatever was made to
pack down the loose itravel. so that
all traffic was being diverted to the
siaeB. Heavy traffic following wet
Bpells had resulted in cuttlna- thn an.
tire surface into well-nigh impassa-
Die ruts,, the situation therefore pre
senting the pleasing DrosDect of hv.
lng the ground freeze up this fall
witn tne surface In frightful condition.
It requires no expert knowledge of
roaa maKing to conclude at once that
labor expended in this way is prac
tically wasted. Instead of first get
ting rid of the water, which has al
ways been the fundamental principle
of road making, and then aDDlvine the
gravel, those in charge of this, road
simply oecause the cash was avail
able for putting so much labor on the
surface began at the wrong end and
it may safely be predicted that not
two years will ' elapse befofe this
gravel has disappeared into a bot
tomless bog. Here was an expendi
ture of $500 a mile that was In our
opinion worse than wasted because
this loose unpacked gravel by its di
version of traffic to the sides sim
ply means that where formerly some
good could be accomplished with a
arag, now this benefit cannot be ex
pected because dragging the soil to
the center will only the more quick
ly bury the surface material the
gravel.
While we have given but one in
stance we believe that similar cases
could be found in a great many coun
ties of the corn belt where gravel is
available and If this is true It is high
time that some system is developed
whereby every dollar that is spent on
a highway must be for labor that is
superintended by someone who is
schooled in a practical wav on the
scientific principles of road making.
BETTER ROADS ARE COMING
Recent Convention Held at Peoria
Gave Powerful Impetus ' to the
Movement In Illinois.
The recent good roads convention
at Peoria gave a powerful impetus to
the good roads movement in Illinois.
Prospects are that some sort of road
legislation will be passed by the leg
islature this coming winter.
Opposition to the hard road move
ment will eome mainly from two
sources. The first Is that class of peo
ple who do ndv trust the state to spend
money wisely and economically. They
believe that the township or county
can use the road money more effec
tively. The second and largest source
of opposition is from the northern part
of the state, where the main roads are
now pretty thoroughly graveled or
macadamized. The people there say
with some Justice that after having
taxed themselves to build their own
roads, they should not be compelled
to help build roads for the rest of
the state.
This should not block the progress
of the good roads movement, however.
It should be easily possible to devise
a law to provide for an equitable dis
tribution of the state road money. In
the sections which already have mac
adamized roads, the money could be
spent for concrete pavement on the
roads where traffic Is heaviest
As for the first objection, the state,
with a force of trained road makers,
ought to be able to put in permanent
roads much better and at less cost
than the township or county. Expe
rience does not show that misuse of
funds is any more likely to occur un
der state than under county adminis
tration. It ia important that the good roads
question be thoroughly threshed out
this fall and winter. We should like
to hear from our readers on this sub
ject and will be glad to give space
In the paper to as many letters as pos
sible. Prairie Farmer.
Kicking Habit of Mule.
If a mule IS properly trained he will
not develop the kicking habit any
more than a horse will. Mules have
a bad name on this score simply be
cause they are not as well broken as
horses are.
Disposition of Cripples,
The cripple and the malformed
chicken should be put to death im
mediately after hatching. Such little
unfortunates will bring nothing but
disappointment They will give you
more care than ten well and whole
ones. They will make you sick of the
chicken business and give your en
tire flock a black eye from the first
Kill 'em the Instant they are born.
. Creen Feed Necessary,
A hen should have all the trees.
tad sh will eat every day of bar Ufa
and
Tin in
Horticulture
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GRAPES FOR USE IN WINTER
Placed In Department of House Cellar
Without Any Artificial Heat
Some Keep Well.
j What a pity it is that grapes will
inot keep longer. Every autumn I
.place in a department of my house
cellar, where there is no artificial heat,
ibaskets of various varieties of grapes,
isays a writer in Green's Fruit Grower.
1 1 do not "expect the Worden, Concord,
Delaware and Niagara to keep long,
!therefore I consume them first After
(these I consume the Brighton, which
:1s a fairly good keeper, but which
'shrivels up considerably. Barry has
ikept well with me this season. Gaert
ner, a red grape, has kept perfectly
up to Thanksgiving.
Mills, a black grape with very large
.compact cluster, is the best keeper oi
all that I have tested, being in per
feet condition on Thanksgiving day.
I hear of many methods of keeping
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"Father,
I'm Glad
You Smoke
Duke's Mixture"
Before we tell you about the boy and his air rifle, we
want you to hear about Liggett ifyert Duke's Mixture
the tobacco that thousands of men find .' just right" fo
a pipe the tobacco that makes "rolling" popular.
I'ift " -iZ i wit.
A Good Keeping Variety.
grapes through the winter, but I hav
never succeeded in doing so in mj
ordinary fruit room. The grapes must
not be placed In piles in baskets oi
boxes With me they do the best in
single layers. If one layer is piled on
top of another they are inclined to rot
Some people cut off portions of the
vine with clusters on It and place the
ends of the vine In a bottle of water
and report good results in keeping the
grapes plump and fresh. Others in
sert one end of each stem of grapes
in a bottle of water, but when the
water evaporates it must have atten
tion, therefore this is rather an ex
pensive method. The Catawba has
the reputation of being the best keep
er of the hardy nothern grapes. The
Catawba and even the Delaware are
kept, as I assume in cold storage, and
put on the market in western New
York all through the winter, but I ob
serve there is difficulty in keeping
even the Catawba in prime condition
for the holidays.
INSULATOR FOR THE TREES
Wood Used Should Be Thoroughly
Waterproofed to Prevent Branches
From Forming.
Part of the telephone lineman's
work consists in keeping the wires
clear of trees and their branches,
whieh often afford a good ground. The
Morse tree insulator here shown is
simple and quickly placed on the wire,
This favorite tobacco is fine old Virginia and North
Carolina bright leaf that has been thoroughly aged,
stemmed and then granulated. It has the true tobacco
taste, for the very simple reason that it is pure tobacco.
Pay what you will it is impossible to get a purer or moro
likeable smoke than Duke's Mixture. It ia now Liggett $Mym
leader, and is unsurpassed in quality. '
; In every fic sack there is one and a half ounces of splendid
tobacco and with each sack you get a book of cigarette papers
FREE.
How the Boy Got His Air Rifle
In every sack of the JAggttt $ Myert Duke's Mixture we now
pack a free Present Coupon. These Coupons are good for all
kinds of useful articles something to please every member of.
the family. There are skates, sleds, balls and bats, cameras, um
brellas, watches, fountain pens, pipes,
. . -
opera glasses, etc., etc.
As a special offer, during Jan
uary and February only, we
will send you our new illus
trated catalogue of presents,
FREE. Just send us your name
and address on a postal.
Coufont from Duke't Mixture may bt
assorted with tags from HORSESHOE,
J. T., TINSLEY'S NATURAL LEAF,
GRANGER TWIST, coupons from
fUUK kusu uuc-ttn atmoie coupms.
una
Kirv di i tp. airT DicrtM
a iv-irv a wa a ave m
CIGARETTES, CUX CIGARETTES,
and other tags or coupons issued by us.
Premium Dept
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' ' . Hindu Charm.
"The God-given Almighty Power Is
moving within me to give health, suc
cess and happiness. I shall be shown
the way to help bring about all these
conditions. Love, Light and Kindness
.wait upon me. I shall be shown the
way."' ' ' -.
Tree Insulator.
says the Popular Electricity. It is a
rectangular piece of wood that may
be placed on a wire by means of two
crosswise grooves deep enough to
meet a shallow groove on the face.
The wire passes from one crosswise
groove along the 4ace groove and out
by way of the second groove, the mid
dle of the insulator thus held by the
wire bearing against the limb or tree
without the use of nails or other fas
teners. The wood for the insulator is
thoroughly waterproofed.
Quantities of Water. V
Consider the kind of plant you are
watering. ; Soft-stemmed kinds, espe
cially those with large leaves, will
require much more water than hard
wooded, slow-growing kinds. .While
the former, easily recover from drouth,
the hard-wooded suffer permanently
from extremes.
The seasons and time of day should
also be watched. Plants not in active
growth should be watered sparingly
until they have regained their foliage.
Watering in the evening Just before
dark greatly aids fungous diseases,
as the foliage remains wet through
the night
Figure the Cost
The orchardlet must figure the value
of the land per year on which the ap
ples are grown, the cost of pruning,
spraying, cultivating, picking and
packing, the cost of the barrel and
the cost of delivering the barrel in fall
wagon loads at the nearest railroad
station. V
Cool the Ashes.
Ashes for fertilizing the grape vino
should be cooled before applying them
and then they should be so placed that
they will not come la contact with
the vine Itself but rather enter the
ground and f fertilize the roots.
Sprsy Apple Orchards.
Apple orchards ought to be sprayed
three times a year, and when it comes
to taking ear of 50u to L000 trees It
Till readily be stea that it Is mo small
uadirUkla.
TURNOVER!
NEW LEAF
Start the new year right.
Take care of the Stomach,
Liver and Bowels, and they
will serve you welL Make the
appetite keen, digestion per
fect and Liver active by the
daily use of
HOSTETTER'S
STOMACH BITTERS
It promotes and maintains
health, strength and vigor.
Try it today.
I
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Air Flight for Consumption.
If you have incipient consumption
take a flight lit- an airship.. Doctor
Flemming, an eminent authority on
tuberculosis- lecturing before the
Berlin Aeronautical . association, de
scribed tho benefits of high altitudes
upon those afflicted, and asserted that
fifteen mint9 exposure to the sun's
rays during an airship flight at high
altitude was certain death to the
bacilli of tuberculosis. .
We Are a Nation of Frog-Eaters, v
Frogs legs, at which people turned
up their noses in disgust only a few
years ago, have now become so popu
lar an article of diet that no fewer
than 6,000,000 frogs a year are killed
In Minnesota alone to supply the de
mand.. The northwestern frogs are
the most delicate, but the biggest are
the southern bullfroes. The latter are
not so sweet or tender as the former.
Emphatic Comment
It was held by the duke of Welling
ton that tho true story of the battle
of Waterloo had' never been written.
A contemporary relates how he onca
sat In a carriage with the duke and
"watched him read a ponderous quar
to recital of the battle of Waterloo.
Against paragraph after paragraph ha
traced the letters 'L. or 'D. L.' with a
great muni enoea pencil, l venturoa
to ask what these mystlo letter
meant Tho pithy reply was: "Lia"
and "Damned He," to be sure.' "
Red Cross Ball Blue rives double value for yoa
money, goes twice as far as any other. Ask your
srocer.
Willing to Please. '
"During an anti-fly campaign,"
writes E. K. O. to the Cleveland Plain
Dealer, "one of the teachers in our
public schools urged the children to
bring in all the flies they could cap
ture. The reward was to be ten
cents a pint On the following day
the schoolmarm was astonished to get
this question from one of her small
charges: "'Teacher, we ain't got ho
flies at out house. Will bedbugs do
lest as welir"
Many Deadly Weapons.
Some persons attribute all trim
to the pistol, forgetting that history
tells us that more crimes were com
mitted in the world before there wera
pistols. What is to prevent a person
murderously inclined from obtaining
and using a carving knife, an ice pick,
an ax, or hatchet a razor or baseball
batt These all make deadly weap
QUICK RELIEF
EYE TROUBLES
Desire for Long Life.
There appears to exist a greater
desire to live long than to live well!
Measure by man's desires, he cannot
live long; enough; measure by his
good deeds, and ha has not lived lone
enough;, measure by his evil deeds,
and he has lived too long.
. Fault Finding. : ' ' V
If we had no faults, we should not
take so much pleasure in noticing
the faults of other people. La Rochefoucauld.
PILES CURED IS TO 14 DATS
Yonr dnurarist wiU refund money if PAZO OINT
MENT fails to cure any ease of Iu-hina. Blind.
Bleeding or Protrudina FUee in S to 14 days. &j&
Too Good to Lose.
Jack "Now that your engagement
is broken, are you going to make
Blanche send back your letters?"
Harry "You bet I am. I worked hard
thinking out those letters; they're
worth using again
New Idea In Fruit Growing.
An electric motor to vibrate gently
a fruit tree so that the sap Sows to
tho buds and blossoms and enables
them to resist frost has been patented
by a Colorado orchardlst -
Greek Fir to Bo Used Again.
To stop following hostile vessels or
oven tor purposes of attack when tho
oonditkms are right a Gorman naval
eSoer bas invented a Greek fire that
rU fesra while oatlag oa vata&
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