KNOCKED RAM S HORN BLASTS. OCT. It knocks out all calculation» of attend­ ing to business in the right way for a day WilA l’E\ Elt w hen we wake up ill the morning sore ami the heart does stiff. The disappointment lies in going to > bed all right and waking up all wrong. done well. There is a short and sure way out of it. Go allure is the to bed after a good rub with St. Jacobs Oil i that often and you wake up all right; soreness ami is us to suc- stiffness all gone. So sure is this, that men much exposed in changeful weather keep 8. a hottie of it on the mantel for use at night o t h I n g can to make sure of going to work in good ux. Warning Notew Callinc the Wicked to Ki-pentunce, out-of-door stock early, and hill It In so as to be able to fill orders from the South during the winter season. This is really much better than taking stock from nursery roes. When the trees are hilled in and properly protected from frost their roots will begin to start be­ fore winter is over, ami they can be planted much more safely than stock recently dug. Corn on One Acre. Homemade lliriue«. One frequently needs a great number of small hinges in making chicken and other coops. The two sketches given herewith show homemade hinges that are better than leather and cheaper than the hardware dealer’s steel butts. The one shown first is made of screw eyes. Inserted with a round rod of wood SCREW EYE HINGE. How much corn will an acre of land produce? The Illinois State Board of Agriculture offered prizes for the larg­ est crop on one acre, and twelve per­ 1 sons succeeded in raising over one hun­ dred bushels each. The first prize was won by Mr. John Powers, with a yield of 166 bushels per acre. Mr. E. S. Eurs- ntan coming second witli UM) bushels. The next ten persons produced, respec­ tively, 150, 144. 143. 142, 11«, 110. M 103, and two others 100 bushels each, tlie average of the twelve being 128% bushels per acre The best fertilizer for corn was conceded to be a previous crop of clover, depending upon deep and early plowing, tine seed bed and shal- low but thorough cultivation. or wire running through them. Screw Experiments with Fertilizers. eyes come in all sizes so that almost The New York experiment station any strength of hinge can thus be made. made some experiments in the use of The two eyes can be placed close to­ fertilizers on potatoes, twenty-two plots gether ami wired with tine wire if de­ i being tested, on which fertilizer was sired. Occasionally a bit of hard wood I applied at tlie rate of from 1,000 to and a few screws will make a very ser­ 2,000 pounds per acre, two plots receiv- viceable hinge, attached as shown in the second picture, which tells its own I iug 1,500 pounds per acre and one plot received no fertilizer at all. The 1,000- story. Have the wood stout enough so pound application increased the yield over the unfertilized plot 48.4 bushels j per acre the first year and 39.6 bushels the next season. The 2.000-pouud ap­ plication increased the yield only 4.4 bushels over the 1,000 application of the first year and 14.1 bushels the next. Tlie tests demonstrated that the use of over 1,000 pounds of fertilizer per acre would be at a loss. Take tlie Cow on Trial. STRAP HINGE. that tlie screws will not split it, and nse round-headed screws for the pivot K possible.—New England Homestead. Apple Pomace us Feed. When purchasing a cow always en- i deavor to take her on trial. No one can judge of the capacity or characteristics I of a cow by appearances. I’ure bred stock, however, is more uniform than scrubs. A cow may be a hard milker, a kicker and her milk may be deficient in solids or fat. No one sells a good cow unless compelled, and the pur­ chaser takes risk in buying. Every I cow brought on a farm should be known to the purchaser, as she may hare dis­ ease or some other fault. There is considerable nutriment in pomace as it comes from the mill. Stock will eat it quite readily if fed before it begins to ferment. This, however, it does very soon if exposed to the air. Consequently it is best to place the pomace In air-tight barrels or hogsheads, so as to keep air from it, Protector for Shrubs. and cover the pomace with something A convenient method for protecting Hint will hold down the carbonic acid rose bushes and many small shrubs is ga« and prevent its escape as it forms. shown herewith. This Is really ensilaging it. The pom­ All barrels that ace itself has not nutritive value to have lost both matte this worth while. Its chief value heads are saved Is Its succulency, and it should be fed and used for this with grain, hay or meal, so as to give purpose. Two tHie proper proportion of nutrition. small stakes are When put up in air-tight barrels and driven down, and kept slightly below freezing tempera­ a string attached, ture there will be no more fermenta­ as shown in the tion in tlie pomace than there is in the sketch, to keep the silo, and it can be used till late In the wind from blow­ winter. ing them over, i Windbreak for the Driver. Straw is then put Drivers In winter often suffer severe­ inside about the bush, making very ly and unnecessarily from the cold warm and wind-tight winter quarters. winds. Returning home without a load A board, or a piece of burlap, can be the wind has a chance to blow upon tacked over the top to support the them unhindered. Have two small weight of the snow. If desired. stakes and four holders for them, as shown in the sketch. Provide a stout Cottonseed Meal for Fertilizer. piece of duck and sew rings to it as sug­ It is told in the New England Home­ gested. A small glass with its wooden stead that a New Hampshire farmer frame can be inserted, and two small has proved beyond doubt that cotton- openings made for the reins. If fhe ; seed meal is superior to phosphate as wind is in front, at either side or at the i a fertilizer on light, warm soil. He driver's back, he has simply to change uses less of the meal than of phosphate the stakes and his sheet of duck to es­ in a drill, and has raised from 200 to cape its fury. When not in use the 300 bushels of ]s>tatoes to the acre and ■facet can be folded, with the glass in- the heaviest crop of silo corn ever grown in ills locality. Mixed with hen manure and ashes, the meal has proved excellent when seeding dowi. at us like our selfishness, u cannot give man a gd a r a c t er: he st make it himself. Can any good come out of Chicago? Just as much as is put into it. Honor your wife mid your honey­ moon will last a life time. Put out a fool's eyes and he will say that the world Is blind. Heaven is not altogether like society; fewer people want to get into it. What a world this will lie when all the children are as well eared for as the cattle and pigs. The devil likes to hear the man talk In church who treats his mule better than he does his wife. Were the Golden Rule enforced by some competent authority what a wave of commotion would rock the world. “All things work together for good to them that love God." Even the devil had to work with all his might to help double Job’s riches. INTERPRETED LAW. when grass is abundant, the market | being regulated by the supply. The Ix'st dairymen grow crops f.r Mt> on the farm in winter, preferring to feed their produce at the barn and convert it Into milk and butter in winter, when higher prices rule. THE LAST Cement. If you have a cement floor with breaks that must be mended, don't ex­ pect to get the new cement to adhere to the old without chipping out all loose parts of the old. cleaning it all out carefully and soaking It well with wat­ son Life. er. Then the new work will be good The forms of sea life in the upper per- 1 Ordering Nursery Stock. To make sure that an order can be and stay good in connection with the tion of the ocean waters may descend _______ to a depth of 1,200 feet or so from th« filled It should be sent In at as early a old. surface: but there then succeeds a bar­ Potatoes to Be Higher. date as possible. It Is best to order for The average per acre of potatoes for ren zone, which continues to within spring delivery in the early winter. The order will be fiited. and the rule in all 1807 la leas than seventy bushels, and 3»’4) to 300 feet feet from the bottom, | nurseries is first come first served. In prices will be much higher tbaa for where the deep sea animal« begin to appear. the North all nurserymen take up their several years. baking What is the missing word?—not SAFE, although Schilling's powder and tea are safe. MkN ON EARTH Get Schilling's Best baking powder or tea at your grocers’; take out th. ticket (brown ticket in every package of baking powder; yellow ticket in th. tea); send a ticket with each word to address below before December 31st. Until October 151I1 two words allowed for every ticket ; after that only on. word for every ticket. If only one person finds the word, that person gets $200000; if several find it, $2000.00 will be equally divided among them. Every one sending a brown or yellow ticket will receive a set of cardboard An even enbio foot of average soil creeping babies at the end of the conte- T hose sending three or more in one ■ was weighed and analyzed at Cornell I envelope will receive an 1898 pocket < alendar—no advertising on it. These University. It was found that the soil creeping babies and pocket calendars will be diilcrent fiom the ones offered in in one acre one foot deep weighed the last contest. 2,082 1j tuns. AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS. We are assertin'* in the courts our right to the exclusive use of the word “CASTOR1A,” and “ PITCHER’S CASTOR1A,” as our Trade Mark. Better cut these rules out. Address: MONEY-BACK, SAN FRANCISCO. I, Dr. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of “ PITCHER'S CASTORIA,” the same that has borne and does now bear the fac simile signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on every wrapper. This is the original “ PITCHER’S i CASTOR IA ” which has been used in the homes of the mothers of America for over thirty years. Look Carefully at the wraoper and see that it is the kind you have always bought, and has the signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on the wrapper. No one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company of which j Chas. H. Fletcher is President. March S, 1S97. SAMUEL PITCHRM, M.Dl periority of the masculine mind, re­ futed to deem it a personal matter. The Sunflower. Schilling s Best baking powder and tea are ____________ because they are money-back. To recklessly experiment upon himself with hope oi relief is tlie dyspeptic. Yet tlie nos­ trums for this malady tire as tlie samls of the sea, and, presumably^ about as etflaeious. In- Jiseation, that obstinate malady, even if of I long perpetuity, is eventually overcome with Hostetter’s stomach Hitters, an appetizing tonic ami alterative, which cures constipation, fever ami ague, bilious remittent, rheumatism, kidney complaint and feebleness The use of the words "I hereby as­ sign the within note” is held in Markey vs. Corey (Jlich.t. 36 L. 11. A. 117, in­ sufficient to prevent one who signs his name to such a statement on the back of a promissory note from being held liable as an indorser. On the other hand, it is held, in Spen­ cer vs. llalpern (Ark.). 3« L. R. A. 120, Lightning rods may be valuable if that one is not liable as an indorser large enough and insulated sufficiently where he places over his signature the to carrya.vay a bolt of lightning. The words "1 hereby transfer my interest common lightning rod is not of much in the within note." With these cases ; use. are collected the other authorities on the liability of tlie assignee of a prom­ HOME PltODllCTS AND PUKE FOOD. issory note as an indorser. All Eastern Syrup, so-called, usually very The fact that a train was running at light colored and of heavy body, is made from glucose. “Tea Garden Drip*” is made from high speed in violation of law and in Sugar (?ane and it strictly pure. It is for sale breach of the promise of the engineer by firM-cia** grocers, in cans only. Manufac­ by the P acific C oast S yrup C o . All gen­ made to a boy who intended to jump off tured uine “Tea Gai'ien Driiir” have the manufac­ is held, in Howell vs. Illinois Central turer’s name lithographed on every can. I Railroad Company (Miss.), 36 L. II. A. In a recent lecture Professor Berg­ 545, Insufficient to render the railroad company liable for injury to the boy, mann, 01 Berlin, stated that in 50 when he attempted to get off, knowing cases of perforating tlie skull for epi­ lepsy, he knew of only one permanent j the danger. i cure. Negligence in pointing a gun at an­ •‘King Solomon's Treasure,” only Aphrodlslacal other and pulling the trigger is held. In Tome known. (.See Dictionary.) 1’i.uO a box, 3 weeks ’ treatment. Mason Chemical Co., P. O. Box Babel vs. Manning (Mich.). 36 L. It. A. i 747, Philadelphia, Pa. 523, to be unaffected by the fact that Firelighters are made in Germany tlie person doing It had used the ordi­ nary means himself of unloading the by twisting wood into a rope, cutting gun amf satisfied himself that it was ' it into short lengths, and dipping the unloaded. But the fact that the person ends of the pieces into melted resin. —--------------------- Injured failed to protest or get out of I believe inv prompt use of I’isb’s Cure the way when he saw that the gun was prevented quick consumption.-—Mrs. Lucy about to lie snapped ami had time to do , Wallace, Marquette, Kans , Dee. 12, 1895. so was held to constitute such contribu­ tory negligence as would preclude his Try Schilling's Best tea and baking powder. recovery of damages from the other. The oyster is one of the strongest An aged woman riding In a funeral creatures on earth. The force required procession in a carriage driven by her to open an oyster is more than 900 daughter-in-law, when it was struck i times its weight. by a streot car nt a crossing, Is held, Awful Warning. in Johnson vs. St. Paul City Railway A Spanish woman kissed her pug Company (Minn.), 36 L. II. A. 586, to bo not chargeable with negligence, al­ dog and died of hydrophobia last week. though she did not look or listen for The retributions of Providence for approaching ears, but relied entirely lack of sense are often mysterious and severe.—Pomona Progress. upon the driver. A conveyance to a railroad company, releasing all damages sustained or MRS. PINKHAM’S VICTORY which shall be sustained by reason of Mi3. Sidney Hamlet. the “construction, building or use" of the railroad Is held, in Fremont, E. & M. V. Ry. Co. vs. Harlin (Neb.), 3« L. Cored by Lydia E. Pinkham', Vegetable Compound. II. A. 417. Insufficient to preclude the grantor from recovering damages for R et > TIoraE, V a .—To Mrs. Pinkham: the negligent maintenance and opera­ tion of the road: but the release is treat­ “My heart goes out rn sympathy to all ed as equivalent in this respect to a who are suffering with troubles pecul­ iar to the female sex. judgment of condemnation. Oily farmers should give attention ko the possibilities of the sunflower. A man in Brooklyn who owned a sub­ urban tract planted It in sunflowers and obtained 100 bushels of seed to the acre. He expects to get from each bushel two and one-half gallons of oil. worth $1.25 a gallon, or over $300 an acre. The pressed seeds and fiber also have a value. The $2oon.oo missing-word contest closes December 31st. Result will be announced about January 15th. I.ong Distance Signallug. The Greenwich observatory has been put into telegraph communication with that of the McGill college, Montreal, and the signals can be flashed between the two places, a distance of 3,300 miles, in three-quarters of a second. “I would like to express my gratitude for what your Vegetable Compound has An Ugly Missile. Lord Salisbury still keeps ns a sou­ done for me. 1 have been a sufferer venir In a cabinet at Hatfield an ugly­ since girlhood; did not then know the looking stone of over a pound In cause of dreadful sick headaches and weight, with which the window of a other troubles. I could not take long carriage in which he was seated with walks, liftor carry anything heavy, and his two daughters was smashed at was very nervous. “ Last summer I was almost an Dumfries on the evening of Oct. 21, 1884. His lordship had been delivering invalid; could not walk across my A Hen's Egg Production. About 150 eggs per year is estimated a series of political speeches in Scot­ room without pain. I sent for our as the production of a hen. if the flock land. and in the streets there was an physician, lie pronounced my case a is small and well cared for, but with attempt at rioting. The occupants of bad one of ‘Prolapsus Uteri,’ conges­ large flocks an average of 100 eggs per the carriage were, fortunately, unhurt, tion and ulceration of the womb, and hen for one year is about correct, as dis­ but the ladies took the missile homo said I was to lie sited. I was so dis­ tressed to find myself so helpless and ease. lice and mismanagement cause with them. useless to my family; I saw your Com­ loss. The fowls on farms give larger j Wouldn't Be Insulted. pound advertised and thought I would profits In proportion to capital repre­ “That Is a curious custom they have try it. I took several bottles, and used sented than larger stock, but are more niUVER’s WINDBREAK OX SL.KD. in some of the South bea Islands,” said the Sanative Wash and Pills as directed, neglected, and. therefore, do not give Ride, and placed in the box used as a as large profits as could be derived from Mr. Wallace, “of marrying a girl to a and now I am as strong as I ever was, tree or some Inanimate object, which and do all my own housework. I can seat. Such a contrivance will save them. Is supposed to act as a sort of scapegoat walk more than a mile without any much suffering and can be had at a for the shortcomings of the real, live inconvenience. Ohl I am truly grate- Preparation for Winter. very slight cost.—Orange Judd Farmer, j Summer farming is but a preparation husband." fuL I cannot write the good you have Why Fattening ‘■tock Eat Straw. for winter. Food is ehea[>e^in summer, i "It I h not absolutely unique," said done me. Words are inadequate to Domestic animals like varie.ty in feed but prices are lower. While the j^s Mrs. Wallace, “for a woman In this express it. May God bless you for the as much as does man himself Possi- i ture is a valuable aid to the dairyman. country to be married to a stick.” good you are doing."—M rs . 81DHKT bly they are more partial to variety It is sure to cheapen price« at times But Mr. Wallace, with the calm su­ II amlet , Red House, Va. than are men and women, liecause the taste of animals is less vitiated. A fat- tening steer or sheep which is fed highly nitrogenous food will eat a good deal of bright grain straw, so as to sup­ ply the proper proportion of carbona­ ceous nutrition. When animals are fed corn, less straw will be eaten, as the corn la itself chiefly starch, which is only another form of carbon. For sheep that are fed beans and bean straw, the straw of wheat or oats will be eaten almost as readily as hay. 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In this contrivance any sort of food may be quickly cooked, the result being a stew or boil if the steam is retainer], or if allowed to escape it is a bake. The heat with this device may be aug­ mented indefinitely by increasing the diameter of the box. DKAFNESS CANNOT BE This Is an appliance which is known all over the world lor its wonderful tonic, influence upon the waning vitality of men and women. Its touch is the touch of life. Warmth and ener- die health follow its application within 10 days. A permanent cure of all weakness­ restoration of new life is assured iu the long­ est Nt ami i ng cases within 90 «lays. "Three Classes of Men." Dr. Sanden will send you a b ><»k npon this subject, with valuable information, free. If possible, < all and see his famous Kelt. Try it and regain your strength. Lite has a new charm to those who w»ar it. Call or address SANDEN ELECTRIC BELT CO. 3A3 U eat W asl$ hig toil St.. I*orl land. Or. Pleune inr.nium thm Patter CORED By local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is bv constitu­ tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in­ fl ened condition of the mucous lining <>f tin» Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed votFhave a rumbling Found or imperfect hear­ ing, and when it is entirely closed, deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine eases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any rase of deafness, (caused by catarrh) thatcannot be cured by Hail’s < atarrh Cure. Send for cir­ culars; free. F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, O. ’told by druggists. 75c. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. grow paying crops because they’re fresh and always the best. For sale everywhere. Refuse substitutes. Stick to Ferry’s Seeds and prosper. 1898 Meed Annual free. Write for IL 0. M. FERRY A CO., Detroit. Mich. Kodaks $4 FROM Only one |>orson in IB Ims perfect ■yes, theflarger portion of defectives m W oodard , prevailing among fair-haired ¡reopie. C larke & Co. P ortland . O r . ('Htnlogiie Free. Germany and China, The foreign office at Pekin pays that when the bandits killed the two mis- aonaries it ordered the governor of Sbangtung * to arrest the culprit,, and the capture of four of them was effect­ ed, but meanwhile, indeed only one day before, the Germans landed troops and occupied the forts. The Germans still occtipy Kiao Chan, a place of great strategic and com­ mercial importance, and show no dis­ position to abandon it, but, on the con­ trary, appear to have seized upon the murder of the missionaries as a pretext for obtaining and permanently occupy­ ing a very desirable )>osition upon the Chinese coast, and so clear is this de­ termination that China basap|>ealed to Russia to interfere in her behalf against Germany. Germany reinforced her squadron in the Chinese waters on the heels of this seizure of Kiao Chau bay, and it is reported that as long ago as 1895 one of our warships on the Chinese coast was applied to by a German ves­ sel for charts of these waters, “and par­ ticularly requested detailed charts of the harbor of Kiao Chan.” The Ger­ mans verified these charts, and made more extended surveys of th. place, I and when "the German naval officers at that time discussed the probability of their occupying that port,the murder of Garman missionaries was not men­ I . tioned.” I YOUR LIVER Is it Wrong? Get it Kight Keep it Kight. Moore'« Itevralcil Itemedy willdoit. Three doses will make you feel better. Get it from your druggist or any wholesale drug house, of from Stew art A Holmes Drug Co., Seattle. Milke money by riicceaful speculation in Chicago. VVe buy ami meII wheal on mar- giiiH. Fortunes have been made on a sinaL , JI V'-gmnitig by tradingin fu- turea. 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