AGRICULTURAL. Devoted to the lutereste of Farmers and S’ockiren. The Caetu». H t n B O e l I ini portant requisites given, a booby might till the place just as well as any one else. So some folks used to think, but’ what say you, working farmer boy-? Do you not place a higher esti- ma e upon your skill, anil upon the value of your services? Look up, then, an I vindicate yourselves. You are getting health anil strength from the wholesome exercises of the fields, and that you may have the necessary in­ telligence to combine with this strength for the proper prosecution of your calling, apply yourselves dili­ gently to acquiring knowledge when­ ever respite from labor shall give you the opportunity. Colorado continues in ti e first rank as the largest producer of precious metals in the United Hiatts the value of its pro- ducts of gold ami silver having be4 n over $¿0.« h 0,0 Odurj'ig the last year. Califor­ nia yields the second place to Montana.M | Women farmers at Argenta, Ark , have , organized an assembly of the Knights or | Labor. __________ _ __________ j DECLINE OF MAN. | Mental or organic weakness, nervous debility and kindred delicate diseases, however induced, speedily and perms- THE EFFECTS OF MENTAL IXHAUSTI0N. nently cured. For 'arge illustrated book Many diseases, especially those of the ner­ of particulars enclose 10 cents in stamps vous system, are the pruducti of daily renewed and address. World’s Dispensary Medical mental exhaustion. Business avocations often Association. 663 Main Street, Bufialo,N.Y. involve an amount of mental wear and tear very prejudicial to physical health, and the Of all the virtues gratitude has the professions, if arduously pursued, are no less shortest memory. destructive to brain and nerve tissue. It is one oi the most important attributes of Hostetter's ¡Stomach Bitters, ihat it compensates for this undue loss of tissue, and that it imparts new energy to the brain and nerves. The rapidity with which it renews weakened mental energy and physical vitality is remarkable, und show’s that its invigorating properties are of the When Baby was sick we gave her Caetorla, highest order. Besides increasing vital stamina, When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, and counteracting the effects of mental exhaus When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, tion, this potential medicine cures and prevents fever and ague, rheumatism, chronic dyspepsia When she had Children.she gave them Castoria. and constipation, kidney und uterine weakness and other complaints. Physicians also com­ mend it as a medicated stimulant and remedy. Those who have not seen it on its native toil cannot imagine what a tVRl.h AI.I, “cactus grove" looks like. It requires from n common EBlot
  • l<.i,,t M I® The question often arises, Who owns some writers tiiat the thorns of a cac DiseiliS'ii. or the »nine amount 8 on Scrofulous Affections. u llic tus multiply when imbeded in the the fruit of a tree standing near the ‘•Tin: III.ODD is THE II.. flesh of anything living. This st itc- boundary line between two proprietors? Thoroughly c .eiuise it by m-init Ur pi 11 Golden Medlenl Disco,««’’A*'1 nient is not true. But there is no It is generally «upjxised that the fruit dlgCHliou, a lair »kin, l.uoVaudi on the limbs overhanging one ’ s land wound more painful than that made, it», und vital strength, win be, A voung woman runs the elevator in a READ THIS CAREFULLY. by a cactus thorn. O.i the high sage­ belongs to him ; but this is an entire big Chicago building. CONSUMPTION Every man and woman young or old, on this Coast, brush covered hills of Southern Cali­ mistake. If a tree stands wholly on that is afflicted with any disease, uo matter what, that which Is Scrofula ot tho Inn«« ’ IT IS A 1 ACT their family physician does not understand, or cannot fornia the cactus grows luxuriantly, your land, although some of the roots rested und cured by H uh remedy ir M ’ well established that consumption, if at­ cure, should write a full description of their trouble to fore the ln»t Hinges of the din-oa’( L , , and there its properties are known. extend into the soil of your neighbor tended Dr. Fordeu, or get on the train and visit him. He is pro­ to iw its first stages, can be cured. vided From It» innrvelouH power over il ls t'- with every instrument of surgery, and the best and derive support and nourishment Absolutely Pure. It is not a useless plant by any means, fatal disense, when first nip ring Tii re is. however, no true and rational medicines to be hail for money. Consultations free. cetobrnted remedy to the public t), p„l opinions given ; reasonable charges All corres­ but it does not invite a close study by from his soil, he has no right to any way to cure this disease, which is reallj Honest strictly confidential. Enclose stamp. Address thought seriously ot calling il l,»'.., the stranger. Many hillsides are cov­ of the fruit which hangs over the line scrofulous ulceration of the lung“, except pondence W. B FoRDEN, M D; offices, «, 9 ami 12, First Na­ sumption Cure.” bm „1™,, through purifying the blood. Keep the tional Bank, Portland. Oregon. 4. c-dia ao Vi* “ d nuinc uh too litnlted for n i,„-di, i™ ered with cactus groves. 'The plants (11 Conn. 177; 38 Vt. 105 ; 25 X. Y. liver in pe feet order and pure blood will 'Lowith Hw multtude oi tow from Its wonderful combinati..n < f Permanently Cured. j& OT ptowhOo poviim S.ii en.y U often reach a height of from ten to 126); and if he attempts by force to be i he result. Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medi­ No Rupture stn-ngtliening, nltcrutivc, or l.haxtekm«, «urgery Work every (lay Cures guaranteed Ao .'an SXxxias ïs»a» Uo- lui Wall simt H. .Ï unti-bllious, pectoral, und nutritive r'Jm fifteen feet, and are so closely jammed prevent you from picking it he is cal Discovery,” a purely vegetable com Address Drs. FOKDKN X LUTHER. otHces 8, 9and 12, tie», la unmpmled, not onlv in n ,,' does all this and more; while it First National Bank, Portland, Oregon. together that they make a solid wall liable for an assault and battery (46 pound, consumption, but for ull thronie h purifies the blood it ab.o builds up the cases of the “ of thorns that will succtssfully resist Barb. 337; 48 N. Y. 201). system, strengthening it against future In one instance a lady, while stand­ attacks of disease. Ask for Dr. Pierce’s the assaults of man. 'The blossoms of the cactus are generally a rich yellow, ing on the fence picking cherries ‘‘Golden Medical Discovery.” Take no If you feel dull, drowse. d.-MIdubdl but are often red and purple. They wtiich hung over the line, was forbid­ other. Of druggists. sallow color of skin, or y< llowlsh-brinu',, are pretty flowers, and grow from the den to do so by the adjoining owner, I Nebraska pay* annually $’5,0C0,000 as on face or body, treqnent headai-!.,-n. ji ness. bad taste In mouth, internal '■ apex of the fruit, often called “ prickly who was at work in his garden, and in interest on farm mortgages. Paying double price for family supplies; it will ruin chills, iilteriiiitlng with hot tlusla-s I,,»'.,., you - that is, you are working for somebody else as and gloomy forebodings, Irngutar ai,ni pears.” This fruit is about the size of the scuffle to prevent her she received •ong as jou do it. What you want is to get up in the and coated tongue, you are sulb'iiai ta Pay no PreiglitN. Palmer & Rey a large egg, shaped like a tig, and is some bruises on her arm, for which he manufacture EWorld, and feel that you are master of the situation. indigestion, Dyspepsia, and f„rF own type, and having By | aying cash just now you get the best Soap at Liver, or '• itlliousiie»«.» in covered with many little bunches of had the pleasure of paying the neat no freights to their Bladder, Urinary and Liver Diseases, Dropsy, pav they will not advance IS.TBto$4.60 per 100 lbs.,/uff icei'jht. Rice at >4 SO cases only part of these symptom, ore cr minute thorns, which, if taken into little sum of $1000. If your fruit falls their prices. Gravel, and Diabetes, are eured by to ^5.00 ¡»er 100 lbs. Tea, fair, 20c.; good, 25c.; choice rlenocd. As a remedy for all Fl-( a brands, 35c. Coffee is higher and sugar probably Dr. Pierce’s t.olden Mcdieiil n the mouth, immediately sticks into into your neighbor’s lot, you have, 1 A REMEDY FOR CHILLS AND FEVER. will lie at present the latter is 5c. for brown and flc. co very iH unsurpassed. the tongue, throat and palate, and think, an implied license in law to go for white. Canned pie fruit, assorted kinds, is from For Weak lai ng«, Rpittint R ochester , N. Y., Dec. 16, 1885. il.10 to $1.25 per iloz. Table fruit is from $1.25 ft'or lllood, SIiorlncMM >( llrcaih, Bio often resist all efforts to dislodge them and pick it up, doing him no unavoid­ finest Grapes) to $2.00 and $2.25 for some varieties; chitin, Aftlhma, Severe Couglu without medical assistance. When able damage (113 Mass. 376; 12 Vt. Four years ago I contracted a hard cold THE BEST KIDNEY but it is on the little articles where you save from kindred nffoctions, it is un eflident reined that settled on my lungs, I had a severe 100 to 150 per cent, by buying at S mith ’« C ash S toke , S old by D ruggirts , nt $l.oo, or s ripe the fruit is of a deep purple cob r, 273). chill, followed by high fever, AND LIVER MEDICINE. 115 and 117 Ciay Street, S F., Cal. Send fortheir BOTT 1»EH for $5.00. raging If, however, a fruit tree stands di­ and the tine fuzzy thorns become full list; it will be sent to you free of cost — and de ­ Send t< n (‘cuts in stamps for Dr. Plei headache, pain on my left side over pend on what we say, if you go on buying on credit book on Consumption. Address, loose and may be rubb d oft’. The rectly in the division line, and is what the lung, and every time a tit of couching Worhl ’» Dispensary Medical A» it will destroy your energy, keep you poor, and rob inside of a prickly pear is not unlike is called a “ line tree,” both parties came ou, which was every few minutes, you and your family almost as bad as a " Main Street, B uffalo ,.N. that of a fig. It is a mass of minute own the tree and fruit in common, it was terrible to hear the pain. I thought seeds set in a clear, red jelly and has and neither can cut down the tree or it meant an attack of pneumonia, as 1 cures Bright’s Disease, Retention or Non-Reten­ went through a two month seige of that a very sweet taste. It is also exceed seriously injure it wilhout being re­ disease, $500 REWAt tion of Urine, Pains in the Back, Loins, or Side. and it came on just the same way ingly juicy. It is this juiciness which sponsible the other (12 N. H. 454 ; 34 As it was night I thought 1 would wait la offered by the proprid of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Item until mor ing before sending for a doctor. makes the prickly pear so valuable to Barb. 547; 25 N. Y. 123,. lor a case of catarrh wh Sometimes persons are tempted to Fortunately, a half-box of A i . lcok ’ s P or ­ man. Growing, as it does, in dry, ari I they cannot cure. If j ous P lasters was found in the possess­ have a discharge from 1 wastes, where there is no water to be poison or secretly kill a neighbor’s tree ion of a friend, who boarded with us. One WILLIAM BECK & SON, i nose, offensive or otherwise, partial loss obtained, it furnishes a very pleasant of some kind, which stands near the of these was put on my throat two on my cures Intemperance, Nervous Diseases, General I smell, taste, or hearing, "veak eyes, dulln Wholesale and Retail Dealers in i or oreasuro in head, you Rive Catarrh. Tiu fence, anil caste a baneful shade on chest, and one on my ba k over the left Debility, Female Weakness, and Excesses. beverage for the traveler. Guns and Sporting Coods. I sands of cases terininaU- in consumption. blade. I then had a hot foot 'The method of preparing the fruit their gatden-plet; but this is danger shoulder Dr. Sage's C atarrh R emedy cutes the vr bath. After again getting into bed, it , cases of Catarrh, “Cold in the lleai for eating is purtly native, and, as the ous business, and the parly doing so seemed but a few minutes when all my and Catarrhal Headache. 50 cents. “greasers” are the only ones who make may possibly find himself inside the symptoms were relieved; the skin became use of the fruit to any extent, the county jail for twelve mouths, where quickly moist: I coughed only at intervals, cures Biliousness, Headache, Jaundice, Sour The BUYERS’ GlIDI and then with very little effort, and in issued Sept, and Man mod«« operandi is here gi vt n. A aiiiirph the rooms are apt to be small and not about Stomach, Dyspepsia, Constipation and Piles. an hour I was in a sound sleep, each year, 312 pagi ponttd stick is thrust into the fruit always very clean. The safer way in from which I did not awake until morn 8>^ x 11% incite«,withov and it is then clipped off with a knife such cases is to cut off the limbs which ing. I resumed business in t"o days. 3,600 II lustration« - 11. F. F letcher . Fine Fishing Tackle, It is then rubbed into the sand until hang over your side, or dig down and vahole Picture Gallti Foot Balls, Boxing Gloves, GIVES Wholesale Pri cut off the roots, which undoubtedly the little thorns are removed, when it Indian Clubs, Masks, Foils. tinier Hie l’roviHiotiH'of the In­ ACTS AT ONCE on tho Kidneys, Liver, direct to consumers ou may be peeled, split open and eaten or you have a right to do: but it would terstate bill Palmer & Iley can sell you personal or family use. Telia how the juice pressed out and caught in a not be safe to use the limbs for fire­ type, presses and printing material lower and Bowels, restoring them to a healthy order, and gives exact coat of evei action, and CURES when all other medicines vessel. A very strong intoxicant can wood oi otherwise convert them to than any other house. thing you use, cat, drink, wrar, have fun with. These INVALLAS fail. Hundreds have been saved who have been be made with this juice, but in the your own use, lest you have to pay Base Ball Goods. BOOKS contain information gltahc can take out spots from wash goods “land of grapes” it is not needed. their value, more or less.— fieiuielt'.i by You given up to die by friends and physicians. Bicyles, Veloci pedes, from the markets of the world, h rubbing them with the yolk of eggs be­ Tricycles. will mall a copy FREE to any ar Many travelers have b en puzzled to Farm Law. fore washing. Send for pamphlet to 105 A 107 Hecond St., Portland. Or. dress upon receipt of 10 cts. to drfti account for the existence of large The I,argent Farm In the World. m BAANCH STORES: expense of mailing. as heat fro SOME FOLKS HUNT’S REMEDY CO., docks of quails and other birds, alwav s Riverside A t 2 Bpokane Kails, W T 94 Sta*«' St..Salem,Or you. Respectfully, In the extreme southwest corner of have much difficulty in swa lowing the including the road-runner, which live Louisiana One Agent (Merchant only) wanted in every town for Providence, R. the largest producing huge, old-fashioned pill, but anyone can MONTGOMERY WARD A Cl and thrive in the midst of sandy farm in the lies t ke Dr. Pierce’s ‘‘Pleasant Purgative 22^ dL- 220 Wabash A venue. Chlcafa I SOLD BY ALE DRUGGISTS. world. It runs 100 miles deserts where there is not a drop of I north and south, and many miles east Pellets,” which are composed of • ighly concentrated vegetable extracts. For dis water or anything green besides the west, and is owned and operated cases of the liver and stomach, sick and During the last year you furnished me with The Van Moncisc citrus plants. Bill the explanation is I | and | bilious headache, etc., they have no equal. .^DÏA 97,000 ■•TansiH’s Punch.' This month you have by a syndicate of Northern eaptalists. DYSPENSARY, very simple. The birds know that I Their generi 1 manager, J. B. Watkins, Their operation is attended with no dis­ sold me 21,000, almost all of which have been sold. from one to five to each person. You will PORTLAND, I there is juice in the cactus fruit and comfort wha’ever. They are sugar-coated please ship 5000 every Saturdev until further they pick holes in the thick rind and gives an interesting account of this and put up in glass vials. Young, middlej^ed i PINKHAM ’ S notice. C. S. P rowitt , Drugf st, Denver, Col. gigantic plantation, which throws the old, single or tnurmdi devour the jelly-like substance. Address. R.W.TAXSl LL A v Chicago. and all who suffer with great Dalrymple farm in Dakota into A new kind of writing paper is made VEGETABLE LOST MANfli/1 The fruit is not the only part of the from Seaweed. O hat taken the lead In shade completely. Nervous Debility, S b the sales of that class of cactus which is of use to man. The the “The torrbea, Seminal L remedies and has given Cure« in l,500,(WM) acres of our tract, ” Fine .lot, und .Hew, Inka, the Sexual Decay,Failinfl aim-st universal satxsUc- thick, pulpy leaves contain a glue-like Mr. Watkins said, “was purchased in 1 to 5 days . COMPOUND, tiuU, ory, Weak Eye«, La uaranteedl not io only complete stock, will be found at MURPHY BROS« Energy, also Blood substance which is used in whitewash. 1883 from l) e State of Louisiana and Palmer & Rey’s Portland house. cause Stricture. Pans, Tex Skin Dise.uee, 8n Isa Positive Cur© The leaves are chopped fine, placed-in Ghnswon the favor of Mf <1 only by the Eruptions, Hair Fl the United S ates Government. At the public and now ranks Bone Pains, 8 we- For ALL of those Painful a tub and covered with water. After nos Chemical Co. 'I 'lie only Mock of type, presses and ’¿mong the leading Medi­ Rora Throat, View, time it was a vast grazing land printing cine» . Pure Frienaa^_,2<,J°,^ adapted to rice, sugar, corn and cotton. plant for thread, and the butcher bird f3Tlr IS A BLESSING TO OVTHWOttKED WOXT.N. IT KEMOVFS uses it as a skewer upon which to im­ All cur cultivating, ditching, etc., is 3 months’ treatment for 50c. Piso’s FAIXTNESS, FLATVIENCT, ALL CRAVING TOR STPIVLANTS, done by steam power. We take a tract, AND RLIJKVEB WEAKNESS OF TUB STOMACH. CURTS LEU- Remedy for Catarrh. Sold bv druggists. pale his victims. The cottentail rab C orbhce x. M enstrual periods passed u ithout pain . bit finds a safe refuge beneath its say half a mile wide, for instance, and T ry G erme a for breakfast.. by Druggist». Price 91. per bottle. canopy, and the “inanrcot” or “snake­ place an engine on each side. The The Grandest Display of Choicest Woolens ever shown in the engines are portable, and operate a vine” seems to grow more plentifully English, French, Scotch and German Fabrics in endlens variety for Suita to measure, Cures all Humors cable attached to four plows, and under near it. of the Scalp and pre­ c, . ,^ne Thousand Different Patterns t*» select from. r this arrangement we are able to plow Cuticura vents Hair falling out; SAMPLES, WITH INSTRUCTIONS FOR SELF-MEASUREMENT SENT FRI The ugly, dangerous cactus, with its thirty acres a day with only the labor NO LADIK8’ TOILET IS pale, sickly green leaves and unlovely a P ositive C ure COMPLETE WITHOUT IT, of three men. Our planting, harrow­ as it cures OandrnfY Fine All-Wool Suits to Order from - ■ $20. shape, is a Very useful plant. for foriq of and Soft«* ii s Dry and ing and other cultivation is done in a Wiry Hair; is excel­ A Talk to Farm Ho, a. like manner; in fact there is not a Skin and Blood ■ - ■ ’ ■ lent tor the Face and Fine All-Wool Pants to Order Farmer boy», you need not envy the single draft horse on the entire place. Chapped llanda; is Dis^asQ s- perfectly harmlewM and ham no equal young men who stand behind the We have,of course, horses for the herd­ Only White Labor an■ diseases of the si., Xew Huven, Conn. against the codliu moth: Burlap fail. whose idleness invites to temptations Sold everywhere. Priee.CuTicVRA,.T0c.: S oap . if nervous headache, was telling me which so often lure to mental and bands about six inches wide, fa-tened 25c.; R esolvent , fl. Prepared by the P otter recently that he bail discovered the LYMAN'S o and C hemical C o .. B oston . M ash bodily ruin. Your clothes may not h< with a tack h I hivc , drawing the band B ri « Send for "How to Cure Skin DiseaMps.” SHOT wrs M(,HT SIEINWAY , tenbleV’ Roeoish cause of his trouble to be the use of det Ornane, band instrumenta so finely spun and made as the citv close to the tree, leaving it loose at the P1M* l»»n „’ J’jf »<■>"!» r circular .nd new cat. boys, but you are the peers of them all, low r edge. These bands should not I Ull prevented by CUTICURf Aft dicated Soap. tea. Since he had stopped drinking it, Eastern prices. JOB Poet street, a.„ some months ago, his general health San Frsnri* fr»" __ with your bronzed faces and horny be more than a foot from the ground, » M. la max , Miaaicfiel.l.ci had much improved, and theie had hand», however pretention« their eni and the bark on the trunk must be HALL’S been no symptoms din ing that time of ploy ments. Your business is one which smooth and clean. In large trees i return of the old dis. son h r. Knowing antedates every other vocation in the place rags in the cr< tches. The ground that one man’s food is another ■ world. The farmer was plowing and must he perfectly smooth, especially »owing and reaping hi« harvest long around the tree ; no rubbish or boards Cures all Diseases originating from a man’s poison, I conci nd od that before a merchant, or lawyer or doctor to be allowed in the orehatd, as the ilsordered state of the BLOOD or what my friend fourni hnitfii1 aas known; and he still stands f r - I larva will hide in them. These meas­ LIVER. Rheumatism, Neuralgia. was still a blessing to the remainder most nt the gates whence issue to the I ures, in addition to the picking off of Boils, Blotches, Pimples. Scrofhla. of mankind, but yesti r-lay I met an­ other acquaintance who told me the millions of the world the steady,never- infested fruit, have proved a great pro­ failing streams of plenteousness ard j tection in comparatively isolated Tumors, Salt Rheum aid,Mercurial same «tory of himself. X,> reformed places whenever the rules have been Pains readily yield to its purifying life. A generation or so ago tl e drunkard is more zealous in urging brightest boys of the farmer’s family j followed out strictly. In addition, the properties. It leaves the Blood pure, his comrades to abandon the cup than were assigned to the professions. The spraying with Paris green an I London the Liver and Kidneys healthy and the is this gentleman in depicting to his Complexion bright and clear dull fellows were »ent to the fields ' purple is recommended for tri d. friends the misery and pain that are for Infants and Children J. R. CATES A CO., Proprietor« Nowadays a different order of things I A gloomy feeling pervadi 8 the hop caused by China’s enervating beverage, i 417 Sansome St., San Francii»cu. prevails. Once the idea was popular ! districts of Central New York. Two rhe physical and mental inferiority of “Cwtvrta it » wen adapted tech to children I e-.-**- ildrrn that that I Castori» enres Cotte. Conri> that only muscular « rewgth waa nec- I years ago growers' hardly realized the Chinese to European races is en­ recommend it aa superior to any prescription I Stomach, Dlarrhcea, ‘ P iro ’ s Remedy for Catarrh i« the essary on a farm —the strength to i enough from their hops to p.iy the cost to me. - h . v „ n I Kliis W orms, gives sleep, tirely owing, lie urges, to their immod­ Beet, Easieet to Use, and Cheapest. ----- - H. 1. Aacan, M. D„ guide a plow, to wield an ax, a hoe or i <>f raising. I Last year the crop was W So. Oxi ord St, Brooklyn, H. T. I Without injurious medicare«- erate us.- of tea, and if the Caucasians a .eythe—the endurance to go through almost a total failure, The uniform are to maintain their present suprem­ T hb C bntacb C ompany , 132 Fulton with the sweltering tasks of summer , report by hop farmers is that a third acy in the world they will have to I smash or the exposing duties of winter. These i had year is before them. the tea-net - C/ucaao Journal. POWDER t KIDNEY Stop Liver, Blood, and Lum HUNT’S REMEDY HUNT’S REMEDY HUNTS REMEDY HUNT’S REMEDY HUNT’S REMEDY O GRAND OPENING NIOOLLTHETAILO Moore’s Hair Invigorator. « NICOLL THE TAILO SARSAPARILLA ■ all goods i