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POULTRY and Dairy Produce . of sjl kinds wanted. ' Writ for our r CASH OFFER Pearson-Page Co. S , G. EARLE HENTON, M. D. IPKCTALIBT DISEASKS OF ETB GLASSES FITHD 411 Morgan Bids- Portland, Orall SECOND-HAND MACHINERY Bought, Bold ond erehentedl engines, boiler sawmills, ete. Send for Stock List and prices. THE J. E. MARTIN CO., tS lat St.. Portland. Or. 'SEE!? MACHINERY Steam. Oaiollna. Holstinr and Loa-me- inline.. Elsotrle Motora or Llahtms Plants. Concrete Mix er.. Derrlrks, Hollers, Pump., Sawa, Etc. Standard Machinery Co., 46 2d St.. Portland, Or. BE YOUR OWN MASTER Stop wag slavery I Formula and instructiona for manufacturinK Six Ilia Sellers, and 100 buai neas opportunities. ant for 10c. Paclfls Ooaat NoTsltCoUlberalanUdmJs Andea.J.al. INDIAN RELICS WANTED GOOD CASH PRICES PAID. Arrow Heads, Sinkers, Plummets, Ornaments, Beads, Shell Wampum; Articles that are found on old camp grounds also old Bows and Pipes that have been used, P. M. GILHAM Highland Springs, Lake Co., California. LOSSES SURELY PREVENTED br Getter's Blaekles Pllli. Low- pried, fresh, reliable; preferred bj tar.u.n fnobmpn hVAIIM tkeV Of.' t e. tMt wher. other vaaclnei fall, Write for booklet and testimonial,. I H I ea I0 d (kg.. Buckles PUIS 11.00 1 ' " 10-dou ek. Blackleg Pills 4.00 ' lies any Injector, but Cutter's beet. The superiority of Cstur rrunucta Is dm to orer 19 rears of ep.clajlr.lns In raeelnee and serums enly. Insist an Cutter's. Tf unohtalnahle, order direct. THE CUTTER LABORATORY, Berkeley, Csilterola. BLACK Damaged Goods. , Mr. Cooke had occasion td stop tn a small town at the luncheon hour and went Into a restaurant to eat. He ordered steak and valiantly tried to purtake of it with the Implements at his command, but neither knife nor fork had any apparent effect on it. Finally he called the waiter to his side. "You'll have to take this steak back and bring me another piece," said Mr. Cooke. The waiter eyed the steak narrowly and then shook his head. "I can't do that, sir," he replied, "I can't take It back for you've bent it." ARE YOU CON8TIPATED7 'Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills have proved their worth for 75 years. Tent tlieiu yourself now. Semi for sample to 8711 Pearl Bt., New York. Adv. ' Couldn't Find the Place. ' - A very small man not only small as to stature, but lacking also In width of beamsat is a etreet car until he became tightly wedged in from both sides. Then there entered the car a large, handsome woman, up holstered to the minute". She took the strap in front of the small man and was hanging to it In discomfort when the small man arose with a flourish of politeness and touched her on the arm. "Take my seat, madam," he said, with a bow and a smile. "Oh, thank you very much," she re plied and turned toward the seat. Then, smiling genially, she asked: "Where did you get. up Worn?" Chicago News. ,. "-.s: One Lucky Man. , - "It is costing me three times as much to live as it did five years ago. I tell you it isn't right. Our whole economic system is wrong," ' said one man to another. "Perhaps you have more expensive tastes than you had five years ago." "Not at all. ' We, are being robbed, that's the long and short of it. Prices keep going up right along, and they try to make us believe that it Is noth ing but our own extravagance that makes it so hard for us to get ahead. Take your own case. Don't you find that it is costing yon a lot more to live than it did five years ago?" "No. It isn't costing me as much." "For heaven's sake explain yourself. Tell me how you manage It." . "It's very simple. One of the wom en to whom I was paying alimony got married again about three years ago.'' Chicago Record-Herald, , Rala.m'a ftunrri.. "Here sir," said the antique dealer. disp.aying a huge sword to a clerical- looking collector, "ever see anything more interesting than that? Thats Balaam's sword. "But, my good man, that can not be," said the. dominie. "Balaam never had a sword. He only wished for me." "Quite right, .sir," snid the dealer, this is the one he wished for." Chi cago News. Free to Our Iteadere Write Murine Eyo Remedy Co., Chicago, foe f8-pai;fl Illustrated Eye book Free. Write all about Your Kye Trouble aud they wUl advise at to the Proper Application of the Murine Kye Remedies in Your Bpec-lal Case. Your Druggist will tell you that Murine Relieves Bore Byes, Strengthens Weak Eyes, Doesn't Bmart, Soothes Kye Pain, and sells fur 60c. Try It In Your Kyea and In Baby's Eyes for Scaly Kyellue and Granulation. ' "CardsAre-Out"" Jack (lolling with magazine) It says here that there's enough phos phorus in a man's body to make 40,000 matches. Ethel (nibbling a chocolate )-rAnd not sand enough to make one. Bob ton Transcript. HIS WIFE WAS SOME TALKER Safe Policy. 'I believe in calling a spade a spade," declared the stranger. It is dangerous to call one a -card of another suit, if you sit in a game around here," warned the. native. Buffalo Express. To Break In New Shoes. Always shako In Allen's Font-jase, a powder, It eun-almt, sweating, aching, swollen ieul, Cures corns, lnrolii natlr and bunions. At All druggists and shoe stores, otc. Dout accent tiyeu Intitule. narnnlt'inallcdFREU, Addreat Allen n. Olmsted, Leltor.N.Y. Thoughtful. Grannie Why should I take anoth er chair, Gerald? Don't you think I'm comfortable here? Gerald Ves, Grnn'mn; but I'm afraid my little kitten Isn't she's there, too. Loudon Opinion. In one of the cities captured by the Servians in the Balkan war the elec tric lighting system had not been completed and the tnsk has been fin ished by the conquering army's engineers. IF YOUR SKIN ITCHES, JUST USE RESINOL The moment that Reslnol Olntmont touches Itching skin, tho Itching stops and healing begins. That is why doc tors have prescribed It successfully for more than eighteen years In even the severest cases of eczema, tetter, ringworm, rashes and other torment ing, unsightly skin eruptions. Aided by warm baths with Hoslnol Soap, lttis Inol Ointment restores the skin to per fect health and comfort, quickly, easily and at little cost. You neod never hesitate to use Hosl nol. It contains absolutely nothing that could injure the tenderest skin even of a tiny baby. All druggists sell Keslnol Ointment (50c and $1.00), and Heslnoi Soap (!!5c). Adv. Putnam Fadeless Dyes make no muss. A Case of Lese Majeste. ., Not long ago DeWolt Hopper, the actor, was selecting a hat in a well known Fifth avenue shop. His own hat removed, he stood holding two others, trying to decide which to buy At this moment a young man :of tho overdressed, would-be swagger type entered the store and mistaking Mr, Hopper for a salesman drawled at him In an affected and peculiarly irritating tone : . "My hat doesn't fit, my good man." ' Before replying Mr. Hopper quits deliberately inspected the Speaker from head to toe. Then, turning away,; ne soia sweeny: "Neither does your coat, my boy.' Everybody's Magazine. - Worms expelled promptly from the bmnan system with Dr. Peery'a Vermifuge "Dead Shot." Adv. Lower Education. Of a certain bishop the following anecdote Is told: i While presiding over a conference a speaker began a tirade against the universities and education, expressing thankfulness that ho had never been corrupted by contact with a college. After proceeding for a few minutes the bishop interrupted with the ques tion: "Do I understand that Mr. X Is thankful for his ignorance?" "Well, yes," was the answer; "you can put it that way if you like." "Well, all I have to say," said the prelate, in sweet and musical tones, "nil I have to say Is thnt Mr. X has much to be thunk,ful for." Chi cago News. TTae Roman Kye Bulnnm for nealding Ben- em Ion in eyes und lutlummatluu uf eyea or eyelids. Adv. Hadn't Noticed It 'Mandy, what did your husband say about the scenery of New, York City nnd its environs?" 'Nothing; all he talked about was the awfulnesB of the styles of dress the womon wore." Chicago Tribune. A group of English capitalists is organizing a large cattle farming con cern in western Siberia, with a view to exporting Its products to England, Tho Baptist Union of Euglnnd la welting p raise a sustenutlon fund ol si,duu,uuu to guarantee n minimum wage to every Baptist minister. In Nuremberg 800 workers are em ployed In making lead soldiers nnd lend toys. They turn out about 100, 000 lead soldiers a-day, In France tho teachers are hoavlly assessed to keep their pension system going.. Gets Right Twist On Rheumatism Makes Short Work of Ctaaning M Your Entire SystemAches and Pains Go Fast. Married Man Coolly Informs Better , ,: Half She Could Heap Niagara If She Stopped Talking. They were talking about the conver sational power of the fair sex at a re ception In Washington a few weeks ago, when Congressman Augustus Stanley of Kentucky cited a case that left no doubt as to mother's ability to win the first prize. - Some time back, according to the congressman, a friend of his visited Niagara Falls, taking with him his wife and his wife's sister. Immediate ly on arriving and securing hotel quar ters, the party set out to see the won derful sight, wifey and wlfey's Bister talking as they walked along on a mil lion Interesting subjects. "Say, John," said wifey, tnmlng to the old man after they bad gone quite a distance, I'iren't we getting near the fails r "Yes," was the prompt reply of Holm. "If you wUl (top talking a min ute you will bear the thunder of the Water quite plainly." Philadelphia Telegraph. Apportionment. The architect approached the owner Of the new hotel. "Everything Is finished except the kitchen and the tango room," he re ported, "and there is just $18,107 left to spend on them." "Go ahead and do the best you can with the money," said the owner. "If necessary, spend all of $107 on the kitchen." Celestial Brightness. American You Chinamen are very foolish to put rice and chicken on your -countryman's grave. Do you think he comes out of the ground and eats them?" Chinaman When Melican man puts flowers on friend's grave, does he think dead man come out and smell 'em?" PREPARING FOR THE RACE. New Indian Animal Stories How the Wildcat Got a Square Meal tOOtOOOtO I By JOHN M. OSKISON t5rOTOTOTOTOTOTOOTTOTOTOTOTOTTOTOTOTOTO i : : " "" Children, Color the Above Sketch to Suit Yourself. Save All the Sketches and Make a Book of Them. Hiram Watcher sunning' fer, JoBiah? Joslah Waal, I expect to run fer office this year an' I sorter wanter git my wind lno shape fer speakin'. Punctilious. "DIs aln' de same umbrella I lent you," said Uncle Rasberry. "Cohse It aln'," replied Mr. Erastus Plnkley. "Wlf all dem good umbrellas to pick Turn, you didn' s'pose I were glneter bring you back yah same -ol' cotton rain-roof, did you? When I bor rows, I pays Interest" A Natural Inclination-. "The Chinese are ancestor worship ers." "Well," replied Senator Sorghum, we're not altogether free from that tendency. We can't help having a cer tain especial regard for a man who Wears his whiskers so as to make him look like Abraham Lincoln." Exchange of Duties. "You think that women ought to be allowed to do men's work?" "Yes," replied Miss Cayenne, "If they want to; although I can't see why a wife should wont to put In the aft ernoons In a shop or an office while the husband le out dancing the tango." Fowl Language. Little Lester U , traveling on the continent with his mother, grew tired nf hearing nothing but French and German, etc., spoken. One morning, hearing a rooster's cock-a-doodle-do, he exclaimed: "Thank goodness! There's something that speaks Eng lish, anyway." Higher Education. Grandmother What are you study ing, Sally? Sally "The House of Seven Ga bles." Grandmother How silly of these new teachers. What good will tbe study of architecture ever do a girl? Danger of Misunderstanding. , "Will you call on father and ask him for my hand?" asked Gwendolyn. "I'm afraid I'd never get a chance to tell him why I called," replied the young man. "You see, I'm employed as a bill collector by people to whom he owes money." In S. S. S. You Get a Twist on Rheumatism That Settles It, Many a rheumatic sufferer has been to the drug store for a bottle of B. B. 8. und been handed something claimed to be "Just as good." Truly, to ask for bread and be given a atone la still In practice. It you are troubled with rheumatism In any form be aura to use 8. B. B. and note tie wonderful Influence. 8. S. B. has the peculiar action of soak ir.f throufk the intestines directly Into tue blood. In five minutes Its Intluence la t.t work In every artory, vela and tiny capillary. Every membrane, every organ ct the body, every emunctory becomes In effect a filter to strain the bloed of Im purities. The stlmulat.nt: properties of H. 8. 8. compel the akin, liver, bowels, kid neys, bladder to all work to the one end of casting out every Irritating, every pain Inflicting atom of poisons It dislodges by Irrigation all accumulations In the joint. suae acid accniUons to diaolve, taudarai them neutral and scatters those peculiar formations In the nerve eentera that cause such mystifying and often baffling ruoumallo paiua. And beat of all this remarkable remedy ls welcume to the weakest etomach. If you have drugged yourself until your stomach is nearly paralyzed, you will be) astonished to find that 8. 8. 8. gives no aenaatlon but (oea right to work. This la because It la a pure vegetable infusion, ta taken naturally Into your blood just a pure air laf inhaled naturally Into your lungs. Get a bottle of 8. B. S. today, and ask for 8. 8. 8. Tou may depend upon It that the store that sells you wat you aak for la a good pjauw iv eru. nine tu 10. ctwut tuolflo Co., not Swift Iildg., Atlanta, tia, lur Uialr llouk on. KtiaumatUta. The Truth. "Does he ever try to flatter you?" "Indeed he doesn't. He always tells me the plain, unvarnished truth." "Why, I heard him tell you you were bowildoringiy beautiful.:'. . "Didn't I tell you. so!' Victimized. "Did you come back on an all-steel .'train?" : ''' "When the waiters and porters fin ished plucking me, I felt sure It waa." i Birmingham Age-Herald. Dark Suspicion. "Gerald baa Quarreled with me." "Why?" "Fatlier says it was to make an 'opportunity to send back that Christ mas necktie." . - The Retort Courteous. He Minerva seemed to be about the only goddess who didn't want to got married. - She No wonder. Minerva waa the goddess ot wisdom (Copyright, 1914, by the McClure News paper syndicate.) Long time ago wild turkeys used to strut and gobble through the woods close by the camps of the Indians. At dusk tbe old gobblers sent the Bounds of their quarreling to the ears of the sleepy Indian children, and the chil dren rubbed their heavy eyes and asked the old people to tell about the time the rabbit got away from tbe wildcat by getting for him a feast of wild turkey meat And the old people would tell this story: One day the rabbit stayed out play ing until It was very late. The sun was down and the darkness had Sited up every crack In tbe big woods, and still the rabbit stayed out to play. In stead of getttlng home as fast as be could and going to, sleep In his hollow stump home. , All at once, as the rabbit made a jump over a log, a wildcat dropped from the limb of a tree just over the rabbit's path and grabbed him. "Now," said the wildcat, "I shall have a supper to make me dream good dreams!" "What!" said the rabbit, "are you going to eat me?" "Yea, I am." said tie vrilcicat, "have you anything to say?" "Well." said the rafcMt "'all le got to say Is that you cast be vary tamgry If you'd rather eat me than lie good feast I know about So you know about a better sup per?" asked the wildcat And be sat down to listen to what the rabbit bad to n;y. Come with me," said tbe rabbit "and 1 will show you where you can get a fine feast of wild turkeys. When I tell you to stop, then you He down and make out you're dead. Then I'll bring tbe turkeys right up to you. I'll tell them you're dead, and I'll lead a dance around you. You mustn't wake up until I give the word, and don't mind even If somebody kicks RURAL SCHOOLS OF COUNTRY Movement to Stimulate Interest Among Children In the Work of the Boys' and Girls' Clubs. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment or Agriculture.) The rural schools of the country have Instituted agricultural etudles relating to the Boys' Corn club and the Girls' Canning club work under tbe direction of the department of agriculture. The movement 1b to stimulate Interest among the Bchool children In the work of the depart ment's juvenile clubs. As planned by the department there Is a course of ten studies In agricul ture covering a period of ten weeks. Teachers are urged by the officials to teach agriculture along the lines sug gested by the department at least twice a month, and to encourage the scholars to take up active agricultural lessons. The following Instructions to teachers have been issued by the de partment: First week Use this period for the purpose of organizing the corn club and enrolling the boys who are Inter ested. Call the girls of the sixth and seventh grades together, organizing them Into a canning club. Urge all the girls In the community to be pres ent and become members. Second week Instruct the boys how to select their land and teach them the kind and character of soil. Teach the girls about the different, kinds of soils that are best for tomato growing. Third week Study the careful preparation of the seed bed. Study with tbe girls the importance and ne cessity ot careful preparation ot the oil tor successful tomato crops. Fourth week Devote time to lesson tn winter cover crops. Show the girls the necessity of keeping careful rec ords of every step In the growing of tbe tomato crop so that they can make full reports at the end ot the year. Fifth week Make a careful study of seed corn. Spend some time study ing diseases, insects and remedies that work on the tomato plant Sixth week Study report blanks and Imprest upon the boys the Im portance ot' keeping full and accurate data so that reporf tan be made at the end of tbe 1saeon. Study hot bed and M4rtn nd' . teach tbe girls how toHYtentutexokto seed In , ot li too; . .if! jtiirt ".-. '. you just keep on pretending you're dead." So the wildcat said he'd do as tho rabbit told bim to, and they went close to where the turkeys were resting hud dled on the ground. Then the rabbit skipped over to the turkeys and said to them: 'Come with me and see what I have found the wildcat, our enemy, is dead. Come with me and we will have a dance around his dead body." And the turkeys went strutting and peering after the rabbit until they came to the place where the wildcat was lying and pretending to he dead. "Now for the dance!" said the rab bit "I'll get a stick and beat time while I sing, and you will all dance around the wildcat." And so the rabbit began to beat with his stick and sing: "Ga laglna hasuyak; Ga laglna hasuyak!" That means, "Pick out the gobbler, pick out the gobbler!" And the turkeys asked the rabbit why he sang that song. "Oh," said the rabbit "it's a song the wildcat used to like to sing now well sing it to him. Everybody dance fast now, and dance closer and closer to the dead wildcat" So they all danced in closer and closer. "Now hit the wildcat as we do in the war "dance." said the rabbit And as they danced the turkeys hit the wildcat, but be did not move. Finally, the biggest gobbler kicked the wild cat and just then the rabbit struck the ground hard with his stick and shouted out as loud as he could: "Pick out the biggest gobbler!" And then the wildcat jumped up quick and grabbed the biggest gobbler and ran off to the best supper he had ever had. And ever since, when night comes, the wild turkeys have gone to sleep up In the trees at night .where the rabbits can't find them. Ever since, too, good rabbits have always come home before It gets quite dark an example to little children. boxes, keeping them In warm windows so as to get early plants. Seventh week Urge the boys to clean up about the barn lot and teach them how to save the product and make compost. Teach the girls the value of well rotted manure and en riching the soil where tomatoes are to be grown; also how to make com post and its value. Eighth week Visit merchants, bank ers and public spirited people in the community for the purpose ot secur ing prizes to be offered the boys for the best acres of corn and the girls for the best resulla In tomato grow ing. Ninth week Test samples of the seed corn for the corn club boys and the farmers of the community. De vote this time to canning outfits for home and other canning supplies. Tenth week Devote this week to the study of farm fertilizers. Study recipes for canning, preserving and making jellies. Invite girls to bring to the school copies of several recipes to Btudy. ' -' The Handy Boy. In Germany it is the custom tor every father who can afford It to sun ply his boy with a few tools after be has passed the age of ten and en courage him to use them about the house. He will have a hammer, Baw, plane, pincers, chisels, bits, screw driver and so forth, and though he may never take up the trade of car penter or machinist he will become a bandy boy. It is seldom that a German house holder has to send tor a carpenter or plumber, and be does his own paper hanging and painting. Many ot them can fix a lock or clean a clock. A handy boy will become a handy man and save himself many a dollar every year. Painfully Aware of It "Willie," sadly said a father to his young son, "I did not know till today that last week you were whipped by your teacher for bad behavior." . "Didn't you. father?" Willie an swered, cheerfully. "Why, I knew it all the time." Woman' Home Companion. One Smelt A man bought two fishes, but on taking them home found be had three; bow was that? - He- bad two and one smelt SOME TIMELY GARDEN NOTES Hotbeds Should Be Watched Cloaely and Manure Carefully Prepared inapect All Implements. (By LB ROY CADY. Assistant Horticul turist, University Farm, St. Paul, Minn.) Watch the hotbeds closely. Ventilate hotbeds on the side away from the wind if possible. 'Manure may be spread on the gar den and plowed in this spring. . -Be sure the manure Is heating even ly before It is put In the frame. m i hotbed manure does not heat readily, put on a few buckets of hot water. Bank hotbeds with manure that Is not heating. Dry manure will not be so likely to freeze and take heat from the frame. When pruning, have a reason for every cut made and close to the limb or trunk. Leave no stubs. Prunlng may be done late in March. Cover all wounds over one-holt inch in diameter with white lead or grafting wax. Seed for most early plants may be sown at this time. Transplant when large enough and keep growing nicely till they are read to set in the field. Inspect all garden tools, sharpen and put them Into the best condition. Per haps there ore some new ones that should be purchased. Now is a good time. Look them up. Grafting wax is made by melting to gether four pounds of resin, two pounds of beeswax and one pound of unsalted tallow. Heat this about fif teen or twenty minutes, then throw into cold water and pull in the same manner as molasses candy. COMMON SENSE IN HOG LOT Houses Used Should Be Isolated and Whenever Possible Portable Struc- tures Employed.' It Is a wise man who will give his hogs plenty of sunlight. It is not easy to do this in a large building, partlcu- A Berkshire Sow and Her Litter. larly if It 1b made a part of any other building. Hog houses ought to be Isolated, and better still, portable houses should be used whenever possible. Portable houses, mounted on run ners, can be moved from ono small clover or rape field to another, giving the pigs fresh pasturage 1 and clean quarters. Of course such pens 'are only for shelter and nesting purposes. The portable farrowing pen should have a place on every farm where two or more sows are kept These are easily built by any farmer handy with tools, and should not cost over three dollars. - ; PROPER FEED FOR TURKEYS When the Hen Begins to Set She Should Be Provided With Corn and and Wheat and Fresh Water. (By C."m. SHUITZ.) When the turkey hen begins to sit she should be provided with a dish of whole corn and wheat, given access to fresh water twice a day, and then must be left absolutely undisturbed. In order to get the beBt results,- each turkey hen should have an individual pen where Bhe can sit and eat and drink without being compelled to go out into the yard with the other birds, or be disturbed in any way. , If she is to be disturbed at all, it is only to give her a thorough dusting with Insect powder two or three times during tbe sitting period, which cov ers from 27 to 30 days. During this time the turkey hen sits very quietly, sometimes refusing to leave the nest for 36 hours at a time to get food or water. She should never be urged to leave the nest for this purpose or any other, but food and water should al ways be within her reach at all times. She knows best what she wants, and when she wants It. CULLING THE POULTRY FLOCK Hens Over Two or Three Years of Age, Badly Shaped Birds and Poor Layers Are Unprofitable. (By PROF. J. Q. HALP1N, Wuioonalr. College of Agriculture.) The poultry flock should be culled during early summer, so as to take advantage of tbe comparatively good prices that prevail- then. Hens over two or three years old, the Email hens, the badly shaped ones with crow heads or crooked breasts, over fat hens, and. hens known to be poor layers, should be sold. Not only will the price be lower later in tho season, but the presence of these undesirable bens will reduce the efficiency of the entire flock. Then, after the flock has been culled, all the remaining hens should be given leg bands or other wise marked so that they may later ve distinguished from the pullets. i Control of Black Knot Black knot a fungus disease of cherries and plums, Is controlled by cutting put and burning all evidences of the knot several times a year, and using bordeaux mixture onco late In winter, again when buds begin to swell, and two or tiireo applications at intervals of ten days. The best time .to find disease bunchoa ta when 'he foliage is gone. When'TJeefulnea Cease. A lien's egg laying nower decrease rapidly, as a rclo, after the second year. For this reason hens should then be marketed and younger onaa substituted for tha-ux. Pays for llsslf. The fanning mill viil cam its com and keep eTorj year oa any good faros. 110 Lai a The Winner In order to do things to succeed you must have health, and this means taking care of the digestion, the liver and the bowels. For this particular work HOSTETTER'S Stomach Bitters is well adapted. It soothes and tones the tired stomach and pro motes bowel regularity. Try it iQllD Let Uncle Try for Another. The little Bratenahl boy visited his uncle, who lives away out In the coun try. Uncle is a devout man; a pillar of the church and a breeder ot fine horses. And upon a certain pretty colt did our little friend cast his eye with admiration and covetousness. "Uncle Samuel," he said, "will you please give me that colt?" "Why, no, Harold," answered the uncle. "I can't give you that colt Do you want a colt very badly?" "I'd rather have a colt than any thing In the world." r "Well, if you want a colt that much you ought to pray for It. When I want a thing very badly I pray for It and It comes to me." "Honest, Uncle? Well, I'll tell you you give me this colt and then you pray for another one." Cleveland Plain Dealer. JUDGE CURED, HEART TROUBLE. I took about 6 boxes of Dodds Kid ney Pills for Heart Trouble from which I had suffered for 6 years. I had dizzy spells, my eyes "puffed. my breath was short and I had chills and back ache. I took the pills about a year ago and have bad no return of the palpitations. Am now 63 years old, able to do lots of manual labor, am well and hearty and weigh about 200 pounds. I feel very grateful that I found Dodds Kidney Pills and you may publish this letter if you wish. I am serving my third term as Probate Judge of Gray Co.- Yours truly, PHILIP MILLER, Cimarron, Kan. Correspond with Judge Miller about this wonderful remedy. Jodds Kidney Pills, 60c per box at your dealer or Dodds Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y. . Write for Household Hints, also music of National Anthem (English and German words) and re cipes for dainty dishes. All 8 sent free. Adv. Judge Miller. Cows in Belgium wear earrings. The law requires that when a cow has at tained the age of 3 months It shall have In its ear a ring to which is at tached a numbered metal tag for tax ation purposes. Not Eau de Vie. Tippler The doctor says I must drink lots of water. His Wife Very well. But he doesn't mean fire water, remember. Chicago will have this year 1382 voting places because of expected large vote of women. The area of Alaska is nearly 600,000 square miles, almost equal to that of the entire eastern half of tbe United States. - The largest steel ingot ever cast was recently produced in England. Jt ' weighed 150 tons, was 23 feet long " and 80 Inches wide. - V- FEELS LIKE A NEW WOMAN At Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegtn table Compound Dispelled Backache, Headache and Dizziness. Piqua, Ohio. "I would be very tin. .. grateful if I failed to give Lydia E. . rtnkham'g Vegeta ble Compound the prai s e it deserves, for I have taken it at different timet and it always re, lieved me wher other medicines failed, and when I hear a woman com plain I always rec ommend it Last win ter I was attacked with a severe case of organic weakness. I had backache, pains in my hips and over my kidneys, headache, dizziness, lassitude, had no enercrv. limbs acherl and I was always tired I was hardly able to do my housework. -' ' I had taken Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound on one other occasion, and it had helped me so I took it again and it has built me op, until now I feel like a new woman. You have my hearty consent tn nan fnv nams and toof.mnn i ul tn a,. way and I hope it will benefit suffering . women." Mrs. Orpha Turner, tax St Wayne St, Piqua, Ohio. Women who are suffering from those distressing ills peculiar to their sex ahould not doubt the ability of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to re store their health. If yon -want special advice write to Lydia E. Piukham Med fclne Co, (confidential) Lynn, Mass. Tour letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman and held in strict confidence. P. N U. No. IS, ,4 WHEN writing se tioa this paper- E