Get Rid
of Scrofula
McKinley Day.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
E
receive ill return their big catalog aud lots of
farm seed samples. (P. c. L.J
His Best Word.
EACH COLOR TO ITSELF.
“Now that we’re all through, dear,”
said Mrs. Newliwed, “I want to tell
Did It Tickle His Fingers?
IIow the Cherokee Nation Gets Over
the Race Problem.
” Ping—How did that old deaf mute you a little secret. I prepared this
dinner
all
myself!
What
do
you
think
injure his knuckles so?
The race problem In the Cherokee
of
it?
”
I Pong—Why, he tried to crack one of
"Well, love,’’ replied the great nation is solved to the general satis
Chauncey’s latest jokes.—Columbia
brute,
“the watermelon was very fair.” faction of the three races concerned
Jester.
aud the Intermediary mixed bloods,
—Philadelphia Press.
lu the location of homes the Cherokee
Chinese Firemen.
fullbloods and uegroes are mostly lu
Inheritance.
Chinese firemen seem to be immune
The relations of a lady who had died settlements. The Intermarried whites
to the fierce heat of the fireroom on
ocean steamers and can stand up to leaving an inheritance to a favorite largely are in the towns and terri
temperatures that would speedily pros donkey in order to secure its comfort, tory contiguous to each other. The
trate white men. There are over six recently came into court and asked for Cherokee speaking citizens much pre
lines of European steamers trading with a decision as to who was to enjoy the fer to associate together.
Iu the nation there are thirty
the far oust. Out of this large number legacy after the donkey’s demise.
only three have European firemen and “The next of kin,” was the judge’s ver schools attended by fullblood Cherokee
children and seventeen by negro chil
these have coolies to assist them.
dict.—Punch.
dren. The negro blood schools are not
so by legal requirement, but as a corol
lary of their preference to live near
each other. The Cherokee and uegro
do not Intermarry or socially mingle.
Two seminaries and an orphan asylum
are attended by fullbloods and mixed
bloods only, the colored high school
by negroes only.
In the Incorporated school districts
whites and Indians attend the same
schools, aud race prejudice and undue
The best evidence of a bad condition of the blood and unhealthy state of feeling on either side are being lost
the system, is an old festering sore, running ulcer, or abscess. They show iu fellowship and friendship cultivated
the bodily impurities are not passing out through the proper channels, but in the class room and on the play
are left in the system to clog aud poison the blood. So thoroughly does ground. Both aides are better satisfied
the poison permeate the system that every little scratch, cut or bruise tn the combined schools than when
inflames and (esters. i. Everything about an old sore or ulcer suggests disease, they were kept separate. Fullbloods
eral health, tney
They affect the general
seem to mingle as freely with white
require constant attention, aud are a FBOM OAXr OF THE LEG TO INKLU renters aud their families of good
A SOLID BORE.
source of anxiety and trouble ali the
character as they do with mixed
time, and in somecascshighlyoffen-
New Castle, Fa., July 29, 1903.
bloods.
Three years ago a common boil ap
•ive. There is danger, too, of these
Of the 38.500 citizens of the Chero-
on the calf of my limb. Not yield
places becoming cancerous if not peared
in gr to simple home romedles,I consulted kee nation the best statistical informa
treated promptly and in the right a physician, who proscribed a poultice, tion gives about 8.500 fullbloods, 3.200
way. Washes, salves and ointments flax seed, supposedly. By some fearful intermarried whites. 22,800 mixed
mistake I was given corrosive subli
are good for external use, but they mate,
end af’er having it on for a few bloods aud 4,000 freedmen.— Kansas
can't stop the discharge or change minutes I could enduro the pain no City Journal.
SURE INDICATIONS
OF BAD BLOOD
OLD SORES, ULCERS, ABSCESSES
the condition of the blood, and for longer, so took off the application and
this reason the sore never heals per found that my limb from the calf to the
ankle was in an awful condition. I im
manently.
mediately sent for another physician,
Not until the blood is purged of who told me I had been poisoned. My
impurities and the system cleansed limb from the calf to the ankle was one
inflamed sore. I was advised to
of all harmful substances should the solid
begin B. 8. 8., and improved rapidly
ulcer heal, or the effect upon the sys under its use, but about this time I had
tem might prove disastrous. 8. S. S. an attack of typhoid fever, and this set
in the original sore. This, of course,
goes into the circulation and searches tled
caused a back set, but having confidence
out and removes the cause of the in the ability of 8. 8. 8., I began it again
old sore and invigorates and builds as soon as I was over the fever, and to
a long story short, was completely
up the polluted, sluggish blood make
and permanently cured. Two years have
again, and as the poisonous matter elapsed, aud Xliave nover had a return of
MBH. x. A. DUFFY,
is driven from the system the sore the trouble.
214 W. Washington BL
begins to heal, new flesh forms and
the place is soon covered over with
fresh skin aud the sore is gone for all time. Where the constitution it
debiliUted from the effects of chronic sores, ulcers, abscesses, carbuncles,
boils or other severe akin eruptions. S. S. S.
will build it up again and stimulate and
strengthen all parts of the system. S. S. S.
contains no Strong minerals, but is guaran
teed entirely vegetable. It is unequaled as
■ Blood Purifier and invigorating tonic.
Do not depend upon local remedies alone.
Get your blood right, and as it forces out
the poisonI the sore must heal, because nothing is left in the system for
it to feed upon. Write us should you desire medical advice, which is gives
Without cUrje.
THK9WIFTGrtGIHC GO., ATtAMTAa GAa
ELECTRICITY IN
RAM'S HORN BLASTS.
“The Carnation Ietgueof America,’*
Calling tb. Wicked to
instituted us an annual memorial to the Warning Note.
Repentance.
late President William McKinely and
WO-THIRDS of
Bunches, eruption», Inflammations, sore dedicated to national patriotism, is u
the average pas
fixed
institution
and
insures
a
perennial
ness of the eyelid» and ear», disease» of th.
tor's time Is spent
bone», rickets, dyspepsia, catarrh, wasting, ' observance of Januury 29th, the anni
□ hi "coddling” the
versary
of
his
birth,
as
“
McKinley
are only some of the trouble» It causes.
saints Instead of
It Is a very active evil, making havoc of Day.” To wear the late presidnet’s
going after the
favorite flower, the carnation, in the
the whole system.
sinners.
lapel of the coat, in the hair, or at the
Honors do Dot
throat, in silent memory of a departed
create honor.
public servant, is what is contemplated
You cannot am-
i
Eradicates It, cures all Its manifestations, by this movement, in which the young
ble to heaven.
and builds up the whole system.
and old of both sexes cau have a part.
Works of love
Accept no substitute.
The custom was first observed on Jan
are words of life,
uary 29th, 1903, with the greatest
nuanimity throughout the country, and i
Empty vessels never know enough to
Walt for the Bill
Mrs. Prattles (suddenly sitting up in by Americans all over the world. It : be silent-
bed)—Hark! The bell tolls! What is a simple, inexpensive act and full of
A hypothetical religion Is apt to be
patriotic sentiment. All through Mr. hypocritical.
does that mean?
Mr. Prattles (drowsily)—Bell tolls? McKinley’s life, both public and pri
The Gospel of another life gives new
Must mean telephone rates. Better go vate, there ran a distinct vein of senti life to this one.
ment, and a memorial of this sort is,
to sleep and quit worrying.
Sinners blame the law for the fruits
therefore, peculiarly appropriate to
of their lusts.
For bronchia! troubles try Piso’s Cure bint.
for Consumption. It is a good cough
The custom will undoubtedly be ob
We are all liable to be tripped up by
medicine. At druggists, price 25 cents.
served the coming 29th day of January our triumphs.
more universally, if that is possible,
Value af Wild Animals.
Tomorrow's burden prevents to-
The lion is worth to the animal deal than on the initial day, a year ago. day's blessing.
Interest
in
the
memorial
has
increased
er (1 ,500, the lioness (500, the leopard
No one praises a bad man even for
(300, the panther (250, bears (50 to wonderfully during the past year, and his good works.
(500, elk (200, the camel (300, and Mr. Lewis G. Reynolds, of Dayton,
The calm of complaisance is not the
Ohio, who suggested the idea, has re
the elephant (500.
ceived letters of the most unqualified peace of pardon.
'ft Permanently euren, wo fits or nervousness approval from Americans everywhere.
Selfishness in our worship puts sul
U after first clay’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve
No expectation is bad of giving the phur ou the altar.
lover. Bend for Free 82 trial bottle and treatise.
Dr. B. 11. Kline, Ltd-. Bl J Arch St. Philadelphia, Ha
movement the importance of local or-1 Only the grateful heart grows in
ganizations or annual meetings and time of goodness.
K Fruitless Quest.
conventions, but in a quite, unobtrus-1
“Could you do something for a poor ive way it can be made to wield an in-' This life may be for our passage, but
old sailor?” asked a wanderer at the fluence for good almost incalculable ! . It is not our port.
rear door of a Germantown house one and to foster a spirit of true patriotism | 1 Better be handicapped by God than
morning this week. “Poor old sailor?” worthy of our country and of the man paced by the devil.
echoed the housewife, who had opened whose memory it is proud to honor.
They who love the world find It hard
the dopr. “Yes’m, I followed the
to leave the world.
water for twenty years.” “Well,”
Then He Got Foolish.
They who obey God blindly often
said the lady, as she slammed the door
“No,” said the new arrival at the
in the face of her visitor, “all I’ve got temperance hotel, “I can’t understand ’ see Him most clearly.
Our petitions cannot go up if our
to say is you certainly don't look as why all those sensible men take that
though you had ever caught it.”
foolish tramp every Sunday morning to practice is going down.
Sighing Christians see tbelr sorrows
see the hermit.”
Mother« will find Mrs. Winslow’s flootblng
“You’d understand if you went without seeing their Savior.
ivrup the best remedy to use for their children
the teething season.
■Mong,” said the wise guest, with a
Of course charity is born at home;
wink. “The hermit is bartender.”— but it cannot grow up there.
Grave Opened by Tree.
Chicago
News.
Tile guide book to bell Is not a
In the Gartenkirclihof, Hanover, is
primer ou the way to heaven.
a grave covered by a mighty stone, on
Woman’s Way.
which an inscription appears to the
The meu for public trust are the men
She—Now that I have openly con
effect that the grave should never be fessed my one indiscretion to you, what who cau be trusted in private.
opened by human bands. The Beed of do you say?
When serpents’ eggs batch out doves
a birch fell through a crack in the
He—That you have committed a sec the saloon will benefit society.
stone, and, developing to a large tree, ond.—Brooklyn Life.
Obscurity Is to be preferred to lm-
opened the grave in its upward growth.
mortality through immortality.
The tree has now withered and de
She Couldn’t Speak.
cayed. When it is removed the grave
When the heurt is God's abiding
Tess—Miss Passay has such an un
will again be closed.
fortunate disposition; so disputatious place His peace is always there.
You cannot lay up treasure In heaven
and so sensitive about her age.
• 100 REWARD 8100.
Jess—Yes, she was in "perfect agony by leaving out charity ou earth.
The readers of this paper will be pleased to the other day when Maj. Bragg was
Meu who have to condescend to wor
JBarn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all Its telling some reminiscences. She knew ship will never climb to heaven.
Stage.«, and that is catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh (lure he was wrong, but it was something
Praise on the tombstone does not
is the only positive cure known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional dis that happened thirty years ago.—Phila scratch out liarsh words in the life.
ease, requires a constituí ional treatment. delphia Press.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
The cynic finds the world empty be
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces
A Position of Trust.
cause lie Is too little to look iuto it.
of the system, thereby destroying the founda
tion of the disease, and giving the patient
“You say your son has risen to a po
Spiritual things are all mystery
Strength by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work. The pro sition of great trust in the com where the Spirit has not the mastery.
prietors have so much faith in its curative munity?”
It Is poor policy to try to avoid your
bowers, that they offer Ono Hundred Dollars
“That’s what he has,” answered premiums with the heavenly company.
lor any caso that it fails to cure. Bend for list
of testimoniáis. Address
Farmer Corntossel. “The folks say
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo O.
No man has ever led this world up
they’ve made him custodian of their
Bold by druggists. 75c.
Ha!”s Family Pills are the beat.
most precious treasures. He drives an ward without some of the light of God.
You cannot build a pious memory
ice wagon in summer and a coal cart
He Had Deen Helped Once.
out of what is stolen from the poor
in winter.”—Wash in t gon Star.
■Two lurks were at a French banquet.
man.
Toward the end of the feast a French
Picture Hats In Theaters.
Tolerating the debaucliers of our
man selected a toothpick from the tray
It is announced that further attempts
near him and politely passed the tray are to be made to cope with the hat men is but training the devil for our
on to his neighbor, who, however, per nuisance at matinees by providing cloak boys.
It may be that all our weeping has
emptorily declined the offer, exclaim rooms free of charge. Something also
ing: “No, thank you; I have already might be done by improving the quality its part in the oratorio of the uni
eaten two of the accursed tilings.”
of the plays presented. There is a good verse.
The materialist fills his eyes with
deal
in the retort of the lady with the
Teoslnte and B'lllon Dollar Orass.
mud and then says that there is noth
picture
hat,
who,
on
being
told
that
The two greatest fodder plants on earth, one
good for I I tons hay ami the other SO tons green those behind her could not see, said ing else.
fodder |*’r acre. Grows everywhere, so d es that they were not missing much.—
Death may mark the difference be
Victoria ItajH*, yielding flo.txxi lbs. sheep and
London Punch.
swine food per acre.
tween the walking and the winging of
JUST HKN11 life, IN HTAMI'H TO THE
the soul.
John A. Salzer Seed Co., I.a t'ro-se, W is., and
Big Task to Sweep Floor.
It Is enough to blister one's hands
Just to contemplate the Job that con-
fronted the men who swept the floor
of the mammoth palace of agriculture
at the St. Ixtuls world's fair. When
the contractors finished their work all
that remained to lie done was to
sweep the floor. It never dawned on
anyone how great the task was. Cald
well A Drake, the contractors, ordered
a dozen brooms aud set twelve men to
work. When night came their Inroads
on the tWenty-three acres of door
space were scarcely noticeable, They
increased the force next day to forty
men anil ordered 1(0 brooms. The e
forty men worked ten days before th-
big floor was thoroughly swept.
One Better.
Stubb—That strange man walk d o t
with Dudley's umbrella.
Penn—Why, Dudley h id his nam
It.
Stubb—Y.l, but the o.b r fellow h
his hand on It.
WARFARE.
Hair Splits
An interesting Instance of the rapid
extension of the use of electricity is
furnished by the fortifications distrib
“I have used Aye’’s Hair Vigor
uted along our coast. A few years
for thirty years, h is elegant for
ago the electric light ‘was Introduced,
a hair dressing and 'or keeping the
to add to the comfort of the garrisons
hair from splitting at the ends.”—
and to provide better illumination of
J. A. Gruenenfeider, Grantfork, 111.
, the works. Once a generating plant
had been Installed there was at hand
a supply of power In a convenient
Hair-splitting
and easily controllable form, and this
friendships. If the
to its use for purposes which were
splitting is done on your j led
not contemplated at the time the plant
own head, it loses friends
was Installed. Electric fans have been
for you, for every hair of ■ put In to make the living quarters
more comfortable In hot weather, and
your head is a friend.
electric motors have been adopted for
Ayer’s Hair Vigor in i training ibe guns, a ciass of work for
advance will prevent the I which they are particularly well adapt
Motors are used to drive the am
splitting. If the splitting ed.
munition hoists and to do other work
has begun, it will stop it.
which before had either been done by
$1.00 a bottle. All driixfists.
hand or some less satisfactory power.
Searchlights have been Installed,
If your druggist cannot supply you,
abling a fortification to sweep the
•end us ona dollar and «e will express
you a bottle. Be sure and give the name
at night. The various posts of
of your nearest express ortn e. Address,
fortress are connected together by
J. C. AYER CO., Lowell, Mass.
ephone, so that the commandant is in
- -
1 -R rw^ rn a.'»!—■ Jusr co i n —wanwm
touch at all times with the entire gar
rison, and can Instantly transmit or
dual B.lure tile fecrap.
ders to any point. The various fortifi
Wife—I wonder how they make those cations along the coast are tied to
parlor matches?
gether by telephone and telegraph, so
Husband—The process is very sim that on the appearance of the enemy
ple. I once made one.
at any point all the fortifications
r-,VVife—Indeed! llow did you man would be Informed of It. Submarine
age it?
mines are controlled electrically, and
Husband—By first making a fool of even the guns may be fired by this
myself in your mother’s parlor during means by an officer at some distant
our courtship.—Chicago News.
point By means of wireless telegra-
phy a fortification can be kept in touch
with the scouting vessels, and would
be Informed of the approach of the
enemy long before he Is visible from
The INTERNAL REMEDY
the coast. The telautograph may be
No Case Exists it Will Not Cure
brought Into service for transmitting
orders, and electric signaling lights
are replacing the older types. Electric
lights are used for rangefinder cross
hairs, for lighting the rangefinder sta
tion, and electric clock circuits fur
nish accurate time to all parts of the
fortification. To Insure the continuity
these manifold services accumula
BIG CROPS! PAYING CROPS! of
tors are now Installed, so there will
Are always reported when Portland
at all times be a constant and reliable
Seed Co.'s “Diamond Biand” Seeds
are planted. Why ? Bet ause we sell
supply of power. Thus, from being
you the kind that grow the best on
at first a small auxiliary, the electrical
this coast. Our 100 page Seed Book
No. 156 tells all. Sent free.
equipment has extended until It Is
PORTLAND SEED CO., Portland, Oregon
now probably the most Important part
Headquarters for Bee and Poultry Supplies
of the entire equipment of the fortress.
X— ____ ______________ —•
! —Scientific American.
Perrin’s Pile Specific
BELL AND DRAGON.
Aud Why the Bell Io So Often Adopted
as a Sign tn London.
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'VOWEp’j.
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WATERPROOF
C!i,£P CLOTHING
The bwt moterii.'! □killed workmen and
i«b--------------------
fcncus the world over They are mje in
b!ack or jclloiv for ell kinds of wet work
"¿.«eíSjmentbesrinjtheJIGNOf
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!
If 1« Widely Used In the F«rtifleationa
Along the Coast.
A J.TOWaco.ïMOil.MA55..U5A '
TOWH CANAJdAN CO. Umitd.TWMTO. (AN
| Mrs. L. C. Glover, Vice Pres. Milwaukee,
Wis., Business Woman’s Association, is
another one of the million women who
have been restored to health by using
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
“ D ear M rs . P inkiiam : I was married for several years and no children
blessed my home. The doctor said I had a complication of female trouble»
and I could not have any children unless I could be cured, lie tried to cure
tnc, but after experimenting for several months, my husband became dis
gusted, and one night when we noticed a testimonial of a woman who had
been cured of similar trouble through the use of I.ytlin IL Pinkliltin’»
Vegetable Compound, he went out and bought a bottle for me. I used
your medicine for three and one half months, improving steadily in health,
and in twenty-two months a child came. I cannot fully express the joy and
thankfulness that is in my heart Our home is a different place now, as wo
have something to live for, and all the credit is due to Lydia K. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound. Yours very sincerely, M bs . L. C. G lover , 614 Grovo
St, Milwaukee, Wis.” Vice President, Milwaukee Business Woman’s Ass'n.
Women should not fail to profit by the experience of these two
women ; just as surely as they were cured of the troubles enume
rated in their letters, just so certainly will Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound cure others who suffer from womb troubles,
inflammation of the ovaries, kidney troubles, nervous excitability,
and nervous prostration; remember that it is Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound that is curing women, aud don’t allow
any druggist to sell you anything else in its place.
A.n Indiana Lady Tells of a Wonderful Cure: —
The English are a music-loving na
“ D ear M rs . P inkham : It is a pleasure
tion, and they love to hear music even
for me to write and tell what your wonderful
| when going about their daily occupa-
medicine has done for me. I was sick for
three years with change of life, and my
' tions, and so it is that the spires and
physician thought a cancerous condition of
! towers of her mighty cathedrals are
the womb. During these three years I
hung full of glorious bells. So fond of
suffered untold agony.
bell-ringing Is “Merrie England” that
“I cannot find words in which to ex
Handel once said the bell Is her na-
press ray bad feelings. I did not expect to
tioral instrument. It is not strange,
ever see another well day. I read some of the
;
i therefore, that we find this lnstru-
testimonials recomending your medicine and
decided to write to you and give your treat
’ mint frequently adopted as a public
ment a trial.
I ! feign. From early In the seventeenth
“ Before I had taken half a bottle of
I century Bell Inns were numerous in
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
London. In Knightrider street there
pound, I began to sleep. 1 have taken now
was au old inn the walls of which
six bottles and am so well I can do all kinds
were rrefaced with a giant bell carvel
of work.”—M rs . L izzie H inkle , Salem, Ind.
In bold relief; the keystone had tho
if tiicrc la
¿iiiug iu jvur case about which you would like
»•utiais "Ai.
’31. JL.
a. A.,
a ., and the ante I6IM.
special advice, write freely to Mrs. Pinkham. Slie can surely help
This fine specimen is now in Guild
you, for no person in America can speak from a wider experience
hall. But a little step away, In Carter
in treating female ills. Address is Lynn, Mass.; her advice is free
Lane, there was another Bell Inn,
and always helpful.
which lias the proud distinction of be
FORFEIT
cannot forthwith produce the original letters and signatures at
above testimonials, which will prove their absolute genuineness.
ing the hostelry from which Richard
Lydia £1. i'iukhaiu Med. Co., Lynn, Mass«
Quyney wrote, in 1598, to his “loving
good ffrend and countryman, Mr.
Wood Saws, Drag Saws run ny steam or gaso
Willm Shakespeare,” the only letter
line engines, also the latest in saw mill ma
addressed to the Bard of Avon now
chinery, stump pullers, well drilling niachiu-
erv, etc., etc.
known to exist. The letter is pre
served lu Stratford, the home of the That’s what you need; some Write for your needs.
REIERSON MACHINERY CO.
world's greatest poet. Not far away,
again, there Is a modern Bell Tavern, thing to cure your biliousness,' Portland Foot of Morrison Street Oregon
a place where it 1» said that Dickens and regulate your bowels. You
loved to go when making notes for need Ayer’s Pills. Vegetable; I
I
"David Copperfield.”
Catt'g, Shaap,
One of the most ancient and reputa gently laxative.
Haga, Oalvaa,
also dressed beef,
ble wholesale druggists In the city,
Want your moustache or beard
hindquarters and
while rebuilding on his old site, dug
loins of beef. Ifea/, Pork and Poul
out of the foundations of the ancient a beautiful brown or rich black? Use
try. We fill country orders,
j
SMITH BROS.
house an old sign of “The Bell and
Wholesale Butchers
PORTLAND, OR.
Dragon.” It had lain there for more
a. a. a. a. a.
than two hundred years, having been
used on a prior building before the
@©@@@ ®@®<S>®«K* G
disasters of the Great Fire, and had
m
Block'ng Him.
OREGON
PORTLAND S
fallen through Into the general ruins.
‘‘My boss has promised to raise my
St. Helen’s Hull
;
The peculiarity of the situation Is that salary on the first of next month,” said
Home and day school for eirls. Meat ©
(•)
the firm had adopted "The Bell and Slyman.
location. Spacious building. Modern ©
Dragon” as their trade mark before
equipment. Academic, College Prepar- ©
“Sorry, old man,” said Newitt, “but
atlon and special courses. Music, r.lo- ©
the discovery of this fire-touched relic. I’ve had to borrow some money myself
cution. Art in charge of specialists.
©
This splendid old stone bas-relief is this week.”
Illustrated catalogue. Easter term ©
opens February 1. 1904.
©
jealously preserved, and occupies a
ELEANOR TEBBETTS, Principal.
S
Unsble to Say for Sure.
prominent place in the entrance of the
Holborn branch of the firm.—St Nich
Milkman — You’re up early this ®®®®®®®® ®®®®®®®O •. ®@®® s®®®9
olas.
morning,
___________________ sir. Out for a little fresh
air?
Curious Properties of Radium.
Popley—Can’t tell whether it’s a
The properties of radium are ex fresh heir or heiress yet; just been for
tremely curious. This body emits with the doctor.—Philadelphia Press.
great Intensity all of the different rays
that are produced In a vacuum-tube.
Typhoid Fever.
The radiation, measured by means of
The average mortality from typhoid
an electroscope. Is at least a million fever is three times as great in Ameri
times more powerful than that from an can as in European cities. The cities
NEEDS
equal quantity of uranium. A charged in the United States which suffer most
Experience has established it as
electroscope placed at a distance of sev from the disease are Washington, Chi BQ
IS a fact. Sold by all dealers. You
eral metres can be discharged by a few cago, Boston, Philadelphia and Provi ■i sow —they grow. 1904 Seed
Annuel postpaid free to all ap-
centigrams of a radium salt One can dence, in that order.
plicantB.
also discharge an electroscope through
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DETROIT, MICH.
a screen of glass or lead five or six
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placed In the vicinity of radium are al-1
Sere
most Instantly affected If no screen In Is rather fast, they say.”
P. N. U.
No. 4-1904.
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tion Is slower, but It still takes place Won’t let him get away.”
mention this paper.
—Baltimore Press.
through very thick ones If the ex
posure Is sufficiently long. Radium can
therefore be nsed In the production of
radiographs.—Century,
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Mr. Farmer
If Mr. Balter, whose lifetime has
been spent in improving ana ia-
creMlng the yields of farm crops,
can prove to your entire satisfac
tion, that where you now grow 40
bit. of Oats, Balzer’s sorts will give
you 100; where ycu take off 50 bu.
of Corn, Balzer's sorts will make it
12‘), and on Barley doubles, on
Wheat triples your yield, and on
Potatoes gives 736 bu, per acre,
«found below, would you then try
Balzer's Seeds T Well, Sir, we can
firove and convince you positively
t you will read Balzer's catalog.
Liver Pills
WEWILLBUÏI
Saber’s New National Oak,
Greatest Oats of the esntury.
Balzer's Oats has tho endorsement
of the U. 8. Dept, of Agriculture
as the very best out of ©ver 400
sorts tried by them. Every ether
sort must teke the back sent.
187 S3u. per Aera.
R. Hyde, Ashland Co.,0., says:
“Your National Oats yielded for
me at the rate of 187 bu. per acre.'*
231 Bu, per Aero.
L. Behiestel, Osceola Co., Mich.,
eave: “I never saw anything like
Balzer’s National Oats. It yielded
forme 231 bu. per acre.’’
255 Bu. per Aera.
H. K. Nye, Kt. Louie Co., Mo.
“Your National Oats was a sight
Worth seeing—4 ft. tall, a solid stiff
mass, not a stem lodjed. yielded
•ver 255 bu. per acre for me I”
310 Du- par A ora.
M. E. Ursner. Ransom Co., N. D.
“Balzer’s National Oats la great.
It made the astonUhlv.g yield af
>10 bu. per acre t”
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Now Mr. Farmer
Your land is Just as good, and
Sou are surely Just as good a
usner. will you not beat this Oat
record in 1VQ4T___
Spel'z or tmmer,
80 Bu. par Aera.
Wonderful Ppelts, marvelodb
Bpeltz, profitable Spelts, the farm
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Was named because 50 acres in
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Be© Ralzer'a catalog. It la the blg-
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Yellow Dent Corn we know.
H
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Billion Dollar Crass
and Teoslnte.
A noble pair. Billion Dollar
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earth, makes 14 tims of fin© hay
per acre, while Teoelnte astonishes
and startles you with 80 tons cf
greon f >od per acre, rich tn sugar
and milk and food values.
Potatoes—736 Bn. per Acre.
The Editor of the Rural New
Yorker proclaims to the world that
Balzer** Early Wisconsin Potato
yielded fbr him 73ti bu. per acre,
and we have several aorta that
will beat that record.
Farmer, Attention f Fall of 1801
Potatoes may b© worth 60c a bu.,
then 10 acre« at 738 bu. per acre
would mean f 1,416.00 and you can
pocket that m ney. if you plant
Balxsr's Potato«a.
For 10 c.nt. In Stimps
and the name of thia paper, wa will
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including some of the above, fully
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with our mammoth 140 page illus
trated catalog, well worth >100.00
to ©ach and ©very wf«l© awake
ganfener and former. Allthtswe
eend fbr but 10c in vestag©stamp«
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SEED CO.
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dear? And have you the padded hel
met ?”
"Yes, dearest; and I’ve got my shot
gun and three revolvers. The spiked
chib is at my belt and I'll carry a
Knife In tuy mouth. I have a Maxim
mounted in the l>aby carriage.”
“I’ll unbar the armored door, then,
dear, and let you start for the office.
Don't forget to 'phone me that you’re
all right every five minutes, and at
the slightest disturbance lock yourself
in the safe.”—Portland Oregonian.
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The old surety, through its penetrating
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Price, 25c. ând 50c.
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Aunt Jane—Hannah, the girls have
a book that I don't believe is Just the
thing for them.
Hannah—Why not, Jane?
Aunt Jane—You ought to see bow
they are enjoying It. I'm sure it can't
be a proper book.—Poston Transcript.
rvrllanU. Or., Coast Agent..