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The Jar of Coughing Hammer blows, steadily ap plied, break the hardest rock. Coughing, day after day, jars and tear.s the throat and lungs until the' healthy tissues give way. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral stops the coughing, and heals the tarn membranes. "I always tcnen Ayr' Chorrv rectornl In tlie hnusii. It lv iwrfnr.t ridlef whenever any of iin have hhikIih or lutril colds. I have imncl It fur a urml many mnrs and to know all about It." Mkb. Maiiv oiikhtkan, Varyt burn, N.y. Mad by J. 0. Ayr Co. Lowell, Maw. Also manuittoiurera or 9 SARSAPARILLA. yers PILLS. ha:r viqor. Biliousness, constipation retard re covery. Cure these with Ayer's Pills. THE SPENCER SEEDLESS APPLE An Expert Investigates It and Makes Flattering Report. There has been much adverse criti cinin of tlie Spencer Seedless Apple, notably in the Rural Jew Yorker and Bunio of its satellites. The opinion of a recognized horticulturist, who has made a thorough examination of the apple, being allowed free range in the orchard where they are grown, should be valuable to those who are thinking of planting these trees, as well as to those who by reason of the criticisms have been deterred from purchasing. A company was recently organized yi Canada to handle the Spencer Seedless Apple trees, but the adverse criticisms alarmed the organizers, and they re fused to proceed further with the nego tiations until they could have the prop osition thoroughly examined by an ex perienced horticulturist of reputation of their own selection. This was readily assented, to, and as a result the Hon. John Dryden, who for more than twen ty years was minister of agriculture for the province of Ontario, was selected to examine and report on this apple. The Hon John Dryden's name is a household word in Canada and Great Britain, and his reputation is such as will carry great weight wherever he Is known. His report is most flattering and an unqualilied endorsement of the apple. A copy of it is sent free upon application to the Spencer Seedless Apple Company, Everett, Washington. Fall of the Mlsrhtr. "Thls Is the time of year," triumph antly declared the flat dweller, "when the iceman gets Just about what's com , lug to Elm. He no longer rings an Irate bell,' ejaculates 'Ice!' In conquering tones, stands on the threshold . with the splendid air of a reigning mon arch, and deals out a 2 cent piece of Ice for 10 eeHts. "On the contrary, softly rings an apologetic bell, and outside stands a meek-faced man Imploring patronage; not only imploring patronage, but gen erously, handing out 5 cent pieces of Ice for 10 cents."' Vnljfijr Fraction. Everything that Bobby learned at school he endeavored to apply In his dally life and walk. When his mother asked him If one of his new friends was an only child, Bobby looked wise and- triumphant "He's got Just one sister," said Bob by. "He tried to catch me when he told me he had two half-sisters, but I guess I know enough fractions for that!" Hli Specialty. Young Foley looked so downcast that the marketnian asked why be carried such a long face. ' i "Fired," returned Foley, concisely. "Fired?" repeated the tnarketman. "Give you any reason for doing It?" t "Yep," Foley said, with the air of a martyr. "The boss said he was losing money on the things I was making." "Is that so? What were you mak ing?" "Mistakes." WORKS IN THE GARDEN. Eighty-Seven Year Old, but Hat a Sound Back. Robert Scollan, 87 years old, of 55 Garden Street, Seneca Falls, N. Y., a fine sturdy old gentleman, who works in his own garden, gives thanks to Doan's Kidney Fills for his sound back and kidneys; Mrs. Goetchious, his daughter, says: "Father had a se vere attack of kid ney trouble and lumbago, which caused him much suffering. He began taking , Doan's Kidney Pills and was soon cured. We always keep them on hand. My husband was cured of bad pains in the back by taking only part of a box." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y. tfgHS!pft Ilroad-Culer. A simple bread-cutter Is equally a useful to the housewife as the ef!g beater. When the bread Is unevenly cut, growling at the thinness of this piece or the thickness of that is usually the re sult. To assure evenness In the cutting a Michigan man hns Invented a bread-cutter that Is the acme 'of sim plicity. As shown kou cutting Iikkad. In the Illustration, It consists of a bread board for holding the bread, guldcways being placed at one end for the knife. The guldewnys are uprights of parallel pieces of wire. A short distance In front of the board Is a spring arm, one end of which con nects with a small roljer. This spring arm regulates the thickness of the slice of bread to be cut. As the knife de scends through the bread the roller forces the spring arm down, the slice thus falling onto the table. When the knife Is withdrawn the spring arm ascends and Is ready to measure oH the next slice. Pot Ilonut of Ileef. Select four pounds of solid beef from the round. Put Into a pot about a half pound of minced fat salt pork and fry until brown, then lay in the beef, sprinkle with chopped onions and lay oil It a sliced carrot and turnip. Pour In enough water to coine a quarter of the wny up to the side of the beef, cover closely and simmer for one hour, turn the beef and simmer for another hour. Transfer the beef to a hot plat ter nnd keep It warm while you add to the strained gravy from the pan a cupful of tomato liquor and thicken with browned flour. Senson to taste and pour over and around the beef. Nut and Potato Salad. Boll four good-sized potatoes and slice while they are hot. Cook one cup of English walnut meats with a blade of mace, a slice of onion, a on or nay leaf and a snltspoon of salt for tea minutes In water to cover. Drain and rub off the skins. Mix with the pota toes and pour on a dressing made after the usual rule for French dressing, adding half a teaspoon of onion Juice. Serve on water cress or lettuce hearts. The salad should be well chilled before serving. Snow Cake. One and one-half teacups of butter, one teacup of sugar, one and one-half teacups of flour, one-half teacuo of sweet milk, whites of four.eggsi, one teaspoonful of baking powder, one tea spoonful of lemon extract. Cream but ter and sugar, sift the baking powder with the flour, and add It, nfter stir ring Into the butter and sugar the whites of the eggs beaten Into the milk. Last of all, add flavoring. Peannt Candy. For every cup shelled and blanched peanuts allow one cupful each molasses and sugar. Boll these together until the mixture Is brittle when dropped In cold water. Add a cup of prepared peanuts and take from the fire. Pour into buttered pans and mark Into squares before It cools. Hickory nuts. English walnuts or almonds may be used In place of the peanuts. ' Prnne Souffle. Soak eighteen prunes over Bight. Drain and 'cover with warm water and stew until soft. Remove the pits and chop the pulp fine. Beat the whites of eight eggs very stiff wrth seven table spoonfuls of powdered sugar and whip the prune pulp Into this meringue. Turn Into a buttered pudding dish and bake for about forty minutes. Serve Immediately with whipped cream. Caramel. One-half cup of granulated sugar. Put Into a saucepan and stjr over the Are until the sugar softens, melts and finally becomes liquid. Cook until It burns. Have ready a half cup of boll Ing water, remove the pan from the fire, throw In the water and boll unfll you have a sirup. Bottle and put away for future use. This aaiount Is suffi cient for three cakes.. Baked Liver. Wash and wipe the liver dry ; cut a dozen match-like strips of salt pri and Insert In gashes cut in the liver, or use a larding peedle. Dredge the liver with flour, sprinkle on a llttlo salt, and bake half an hour in a hot oven. Steamed Pudding. One cup cold water, one-half cup mo lasses, one cup chopped raisins, two cups flour, one teaspoonful soda, one tablespoonful , of butter, little salt, spices of all kinds. Steam three hours; eat with sauce. . How Animal Doctor Themselves. Man might often take from the low er animals a' lesson as to the care cf himself when 111, All sorts of animals suffering from fever eat little, lie quiet In dark, .airy paces and drink quanti ties of water. When a dog loses his appetite he knows where to find dog grass, which acts as a purgative and emetic. Sheep and cows, when 111, seek certain herbs, Any animal suffering from chronic rheumatism keeps as far as possible In the sun. If a champan zee be wounded ho lias been seen to stop the bleeding by a plaster of chew-ed-up leaves and grass. Mothers will find Mrs. Winnow"! Soothing Syrup the belt remedy to uxo for their chlldrea during tho tee thing periud, A Done of IIU Otvn Medicine. "Who is this Brandnr Matthews?" ask ed the new proofreader. "He's the father of the simplified spell ing," answered the niiin at the other desk. "Huh ! He doesn't seem to have got around his own name yet." ' Thereupon, without the slightest com punction, he marked out the super fluous "t." CITO Vitus' Dunce Rnd all Nervous Dtsases II I 0 permanently cured by Dr. Kline's Ureal Nnrve ltcsiorer. Kend for KRIfK atrial bottle and treatise. Dr. it. JI.Klln.,Ld.,U31 Arch B t., l'lilla., ta. The total commerce of Abyssinia is about $9,500,000 a year. PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS. PAZO OIN'TMKN'T Is guarentced to cure any cane of Iching, blind, bleeding or protruding piles In 6 to 14 days or money ref unded.SUc. Japanese-and Germans have the same average brain weight. CASTOR I A Por Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature V.a.1. na.ttilrd nf .Tia 3U1 C Itants of Cleveland, Ohio, were born in ! Europe. I I'J; M 'JI.l HliaHMHiliil-UIJliliM HOLD UP! ana consider II KE AU WATERPROOF CLOTHING. Is made of the best mltriiib. in blackor yellow fuly ftarantrtd.anil sold rrlidtjr dealers wtwhtre. UT STICK TO THE SIGN OF THE FISH I' TCfWtft CANADIAN CO-UIIITIsV A J TOWER CO. i UKUfll u, CAN. BOSTON. n ,UkA & iba mi w . -mis v r BBBBI m mm X xmiammT t -mmm mm mmW. w nol . v The Spencer Seedless Apple Co. MAIN OFFICE 41 4 American National Bank Bldg., Everett, Washington. -- OA- Hood's Sarsaparilla Hah surpassed all other medicines, In merit, sales and cures. Its success, (treat as It has been, has ap parently only just begun. It has received by actual count more than 40,000 testimonials in two years. It purifies the blood, cures all blood dis eases, all humors and all eruptions. It strensrthens the stomach, creates an appetite and builds up the whole system. It cures that tired feeling and makes the weak strong. In usual liquid form or In chocolated tablets known as Sarsatabs. 100 doses $1. HOWARD E. KrJRTON.-AMayer err. Chemlnt. leadvllle, Coloruuo. Specimen prices: Gold, Hllvvr, J."ad, l i (lold, Silver, 7:; Oold, 60a s Zliicor Copper, 81. Cyanldo t-8ts. Mulling envelopes and full price list Bent on application. Control and Urn- filre work solicited. Inference! Carbonate iw loual iiaok. CROPS NEVER FAIL In the IJitnrr Snake Valley, Idaho, when) 2A,0oo MlHutHHlppl Valley liomeHeekera an air. ady located. COU.U0U acr-s umleielop. d, irrlab e land ml 1 1 await ill- setller. I.lcli M b d hmt wa ered valley In the world. Fined c (mate: cho cent fruit; Immense crons of uruln, nltall'a su ar becui. 4,0JO, 000 Invested m uinr factories. New It. It. exteii d!on to Yellowstone purK op, us country of vast re sourco. Anliton sinned Jan. 1, 1900, a record breaker. Write for part cularn. C. C. MOOliK KKAI, KSTATK COMPANY St. Anthony and Axliton, Idaho. UNITED STATES HEALTH & ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY Of Saginaw, Michigan. WRITE TODAY $300,000 Capital Stock. 1200,000 deposited with Ins. Dept. of Michigan asking about our popular one dollar a month plan that pays accidental death and accident and sick indemnity. Give age and occupation. All business on the Pacific Coast paid through the First National Bank of Portland. rT.L. ALDRICH, Kgr. Western Office 209-210 Marquam Bldg. Portland, Oregon Many Afflicted Country People are coming to us for treatment and returning home cured. We perma nently and promptly cure Indiges- ' tion, KheiimatiHin, all Private and Wasting Diseases, Nervous Disor ders, Diseases of Women and Child ren, Eczema, Blood, Skin and , Chronic U.seases. No matter what your trouble may be, come to see us. . Free Cmsultation and Examination. New York Surgical and Medical Institute Permanently Located at Corner of Sixth and (llili) Washington Sts., Portland, Or. Harvesting Dollars is possible if the seed be judiciously planted. Southern Alberta, Canada, has demonstrated beyond a doubt that it is the greatest cereal growing country on the co itinent, and "Alberta Red Wheat" grown there took both the Gold and Bronze medals at the Portland Exposition. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company has 3,000,000 acres of the best of land, irrigable and non-irrigable, just east of Cal gary, Alberta, which they are selling at from $12 to $15 per acre for non-irrigable and $18 to $25 per acre for irrigable. Lands sold by them three months ago at these prices are now now being held by the purchasers at $50 per acre and upwards. The harvesting of dollars invested in these lands is just as certain as the harvesting of cereals. If you are interested drop a card to the 'address below for literature fully describing the opportunity o: the age. '. The Canadian Pacific Irrigation Colonization Company,, Ltd. 54 Ninth Avenue West, Calgary, Alberta, Canada-; ' SALES DEPARTMENT, CANADIAN PACIfIC RAILWAY, IRRIGATE W4.ANDS ' Be sure to mention this paper when writing. EVERY FARMER SHOULD READ THIS The Spencer Seedless Apple is the greatest discovery since the seedless orange, ...It 'is "'a"-;'' :j marvel in apple culture. No seeds, no core, no waste ; rich red color ; commercial size ; good shipper; excellent flavor; splendid keeper; a market leader; no bloom, frost proof. WRITE TODAY For free booklet and particulars. Splendid in ducements to agents. FRUIT TREES, VINES, PLANTS BERKSHIRE SWINE, (Registered) SHORTHORN CATTLE, (Registered) BARRED AND WHITE ROCKS PACIPIC NURSERY CO. Catalogue free. Tangent, Oregon AUSTIN WELL DRILLS Made In all s vies and a I sizes. Uet water and oil anywhere. Best .Drilling Tools made. Get caia 10148 i no prices. BEALL & CO. 321 Hawthorne Ave. Portland, Or. have stood the test for over so years. and are still in the lead. Their absolute certainty of erowth. their uncommonly large yields of delicious vegetables and beautiful Uowers, make them the most reliable and the most popular every. where, bold by all dealers. 1907 Seed Annual free on request. D. M. FERRY & CO.. Detroit, Mich. muieTeam BORAX FOR WASHING WINDOWS Use hot water and 20 Mule Team Borax wipe dry and polish with old newspaper. All dealers. Sample. Souvenir Picture in 10 colors and booklet Sc. and dealers name. Ad dress PACIFIC COAST BORAX CO., Oakland, Cal P. N. U No. 7-07 WHEN writing to advertisers please mention this paper. v um