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most of bls back lot. There are more of the latter than of the former whose liens number up iuto the hundred*, and who make a careful study of poul try production. Tills ought not to be so. Fifty or seventy-five henqtower poultry plants are quite common on farms, but 3G0 or 500 lieu-power farms are few and fur between. They should be common, and 1,000, 2,000, and even 3,000 liens might be kept on muny farms by those who will carefully study the business. Do I know what I am talking about? Yes, I think 1 do, I know of 3,000 hen egg farms that have been successfully ruu for many years. They are not, however, conducted after the fanciers’ methods or by closely fol lowing the directions laid down in the poultry books and papers.—Samuel Cushman, in Rural World. Experience And Not Experiments Should be your guide in buying medicine. I.et others experiment; you should be guided by experience. Experiments are uncertain In result; experience is sure. Experiments may do you harm; experi ence proves that Hood’s Sarsaparilla will do you wonderful good. You may rely i the experience of those who have cured by this medicine. Fulfills a Duty. ”1 feel it my duty to let jteople know how much good Hood's Sarsaparilla did for me. My health was poor amt I had doctored and taken medicine buY found no relief, so I thought I would try Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Alter taking two' hotties I felt better and I kept on taking it and now I am well. I think it is the best blood medicine in the world.”—C. W. C arey , Prineville, Or. Vulue of the Cream Separator. ITot Water Ilrooder. The cut shows a simple form of bot- water brooder to be used without a parllla lamp, the galvanized iron tank being Is America's Greatest M(,*dicine. 3oM by all filled with hot water night and inorn- druggists. |1; six for Get only Hood’s. I Ing. The second cut shows the posi tion of the tank behind the front board, Hood ’ s Pill« ftre gettile, mil l, * ,UUU » I His tivt, All drU’.:gists, the bottom having attached to it a Hood’s The World*» Hard Wood Market. London is the hardwood market of the world. American buyers of Mex ican woods go to London to make their purchases instead of Mexico. The woods are shipped to London and then back to the United States, for the reason that London is the exchange of the world. AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS. We are asserting in the courts our right to the exclusive use of the word “CASTORIA,” and “ PITCHER'S CASTORIA,” as our Trade Mark. 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. FI.ETCHER on every wrapper. This is the original “ PITCHER’S J^.. CASTORIA ” which has been used in the homes of the mothers of America for over thinly years. Look Carefully at the wrapper 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 Chas. II. Fletcher is President. ' March 8, 1897. SAMUEL PITCHER, M.D. The amount of liquid refreshments taken by a man of 70 years would equal 70,700 pints, and to hold this a pail 12 feet high and more than 2,500 times as large as an ordinary pail would be required. • 1OO REWARD S1OO. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional dis ease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the founda tion of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The pro prietors have so much faith in its curative {>owers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars or any case that it fails to cure. Send for li»t of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists. 75c. Hall’s Family Pilis are the best. An ingenious hatter of Paris con structed a house of felt made out of ^.44,000 old hats. This house consisted ’of a parlor, dining room and bed-room; also a kitchen. FITS t'ermanentty Cured. So tltsur norvousr.es ■ 11» after flrst day’s use of Dr. Kllnei Great Nerve Restorer. Send for FRIG tar.oo trial bottle anil treatise. DR. R. H. Kt.KJ K, Ltd., 930 Arult street, PhUadelpUla, Pa. A sleigh made by Colonel David Moseley in 1776 has been in the family service ever since. It is now owned by Edward Moseley, of Westfield, Mass., a great-grandson. Stop! Women, T And consider that in addressing Mrs. Pinkham you are confiding your private ills to a woman—a woman whose ex perience in treating woman's diseases is greater than that of any living phy sician, male or female. You can talk freely to a woman when it is revolting to relate your private troubles to a man; besides, a man does not understand, simply because he is a man. MRS. PINKHAM’S STANDING INVITATION. Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to promptly communicate with Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. All letters are re ceived, opened, read, and answered by women only. A woman can freely talk of her private Illness to a woman. Thus has been established the eternal confidence between Mrs. Pinkham and the women of America which has never been broken. Out of the vast volume of experience which she has to draw from, it is more than possible that she has gained the very knowledge that will help your case. She asks nothing in return except your good will, and her advice has relievttd thousands. Surely any woman, rich or poor, is very foolish if she does not take advantage of thia generous offer of assistance. ■ ■■■■■■■* Make money by «uccesful lllUI n I speculation in <'nliKKii. Ue VW H I U I bu> ami tell iii.enl ou mar- ■ V llbil I Kins. Fortunes have been made on a small beginning by trading in fu tures. Write for full particulars. Best of ret- erence given. Several years’ experience on the Chicago Board of Trade, and a thorongh know ledge of the businest. Send for our tree refer ence book. DOWNING, HOPKINS A Co., Chicago Board of Trade Brokers. Offices in Portland, Oregon and Seattle. Wash. JOUR LIVER ^■fir—■"* **-------- * “ Is it Wrong? Get it Right. Keep it Right, „oore's Revealed Remedy will do It. Three doses will make you feel better. Get it from yonr druevist or any wholesale drug bouse, or trom Stewart A Holmes Drug Co., Seattle. The story is told of an Iowa dairy man who skimmed his milk at borne by hand, and satisfied himself that there was not enough butter fat left In It to give even a smell of butter. A separ ator man challenged him to bring a sample of bls skim-milk for analysis. The challenge was accepted, and the test showed that 2 ix*r cent, of butter fat had been left In the milk. In other words, nearly one-half of the butter In that milk bad been fed to calves and pigs. This is pretty expensive pig feed ing, even at the present low prices for butter. It was certainly an eye-opener for that dairyman. The human hand is superior to many machines, but when it comes to skimming milk no band-skimmer can beat the separator for getting the butter fat out of a given weight of every-day milk.—Indi ana Farmer. double row of slashed woolen cloth, under tyl^ich the chicks can run. The tank is seen to set back from tills board, giving a chance for a packing Canada Thistle. of sawdust, or bran, over and all Some farmers will allow Canada this around the tank. The chicks huddle : beneath the tank, and If they find it tles to remain rather than to undertake too warm, they poke their heads out the task of their destruction- No one through the cloth, or come wholly out should expect to get rid of them in a year, but the land can be cleared of them if the work Is properly done and persisted in. Plow the land and plant to potatoes. In addition to the culti vator use the hoe, and always cut the thistles two or three inches under ground. The next year grow cabbages or some other crop requiring the hoc fig . 2. (even corn will answer), and the this into the outer, or scratching, room. tles will become less numerous every Keep the tank hot enough so the chicks year. Then sow to Hungarian grass will not crowd together under it, but and mow it as frequently as possible. will be inclined to put their heads out Sprnyinn for Ver tn in. through the cloth. Place the brooder The spraying machines bought to under an open shed, and the chicks can j run out of doors on sunny days.— spray trees with fungicide for blight are good for other uses also. Where American Agriculturist. farm stock are afilicted with lice, the Improving a Pasture Spring. sprayer tilled with a kerosene or other The average pasture spring is apt to oil emulsion, and directed against the be a mud hole because not protected animal’s neck, sides and all the hairy from the cattle's feet. Where a spring parts of the body, will distribute this Is to furnish the sole supply of water much faster and more perfectly than j for a pasture year after year, it Is can lx- done by hand. Of course, no poi worth while to make the most of it. If son should lx* used, as animals will lick there 1 b an old iron kettle with a break themselves wherever they can reach, in the bottom, it can be utilized after and thus ¡>olson themselves. No Injury the fashion shown in the cut, provided comes from a weak emulsion of kero the source of the spring is a little high sene oil. er than the point where It issues from Gra.e Seed ill Drill*. the ground. With rough stones and ce- Whenever grass seed is to be sown after grain put in with the grain drill, the surface should be first smoothed with a smoothing harrow, so that the grass and clover seeds shall not fall in the same line with the grain. If the grass seed is sown in the drill marks most of it will fall Into or be washed Into the drill marks while the ridges between will remain unseeded. If a very heavy rain comes after the seed ing, it will wash down so much soil that the grass seed will be covered too deeply. If it has already sprouted the covering will destroy most of It. IMI’ROVKD PASTURE Sl'Kl.MI. Yield* of Corn. ment build a water-tight wall about Extraordinary yields of corn on the spring, setting the rocks well down j Into the ground. Set the kettle with small plots are not indicative of what | the opening In the bottom so that the may l»e the result ou a large field, as I water will rise to its top. A pure sup- soils vary. Trials of corn are usually i ply will thus always be at hand for the made on rich bottom plots, or ou spe ; stock and a permanent improvement cially prepared ground, but there Is no made to the pasture.—Orange Judd denying the fact that the yields of corn on large areas may lx* greatly Increased Farmer. by proper preparation of the soil and Making a Lawn. Lawns are desirable on farms and the use of a liberal amount of manure suburban lots, but it frequently liai>- or fertilizer. No farmer should be sat peus that the grass dies off it* a dry isfied with his yield, but should aim to. summer comes. If the lawn is small increase it every year if it is possible I water can lie supplied two or three to do so. ; times a week, but on large grass plots Mos* in l'u.tiire. I this cannot always be done. There are Wherever moss creeps into pasture, ft two modes of making a lawn. One is is a sure sign that the soil has either to cut sod and turf the plot, in which lx*eu exhausted of some of its valuable case water must lie used until the grass mineral fertility, or that the soil has starts. The other is to plow or spade been so poisoned by stagnant water the plot, apply plenty of well-rotted that humic acid lias developed. The manure and seed to mixed lawn grass. cheai>est experiment Is to run over the* This should be done in August, but if surface with the harrow, loosening or rains are plentiful seed sown in the tearing up some of the moss, and sow spring will make a lawn before the ing grass seed. If you can afford potash summer Is over. The most important and phosphate, give a dressing of these. point Is to use the lawn mower at prop This will make grass grow In place of er times. If the grass is kept very moss. close it will not thrive, especially the Feedinu Animal*. first year. It may be mowed two or The common mode of feeding ani three times during the year, so as to mals Is to give the grain in a separate thicken the growth, but to keep the trough from the bay or fodder, and at lawn ‘‘shaved" at all times will injure different times. Such method Is pre the grass, as It must be given time to ferred lieeause it saves lalior. but the become well established. The best fer best results are obtained by mixing the tilizer for a lawn of one acre Is a mlx- ground grain with coarse food that has | ture of 50 pounds nitrate of soda. 75 Itevn [Kissed through the feed cutter. pounds muriate of potash and 50 Less food will then lie required to ob pounds l>one meal, which is not a heavy tain results, because the mixed foixl application, however. Mulch the lawn will be better digested anil assimi late in the fall with fine manure that lated than when the substances are tsVree from litter. given separately. The Weeder. Profit from Sheep. For destroying the young weeds as soon as they Itegin to peep out of the ground there is an Implement known as the weeder. It is a very simple affair, and one using it need only go over a row cnce. as such work can lie done quickly. It stirs the ground only to the depth of an inch or two. but breaks the top soil sufficiently to couserve the moisture below. I>o not use a cultiva tor where the weeder will answer. Reports of the Agricultural Depart ment for 1S97 show that the valuation of sheep has increased over 28 per cent. This Is due to the fact that farm ers are giving more attention to sheep that produce mutton rather than to de pend on wool. Another profit from sheep which is Increasing every year is the production of choice early lambs. Farmer* Not Improving Opportnnitiea Farmers are not Improving their op portunities for poultry production as j they might. Comparatively few keep j as many hens as the village mechanic or the town fancier who makes the Corn Fodder. Use only one heap ing teaspoonful of Schilling s Best Bak ing Powder to a quart of flour. CARNAGE IN NAVAL BATTLE. What an Engagement with Modern FtKhtinu Machine* Mean«. Iti the Century Claude II. Wetmore, a well-known St. Louis newspaper man. has an article ou “A Famous Sea Fight.” describing the engagement be tween Chilian and Peruvian Ironclads off the coast of Bolivia in 18711. Mr. Wetmore says: “From the beginning of the battle the encouraging voice of Grau had come to tin- men in the turret through the speaking tube from the conning tower, but when the Blanco crowded Into the thick of It and great shot struck the Iluascar's sides as regularly as blows of a lettering ram, the orders of the commander were no longer heard. The officer In charge of the tur ret called to his superior. There was no answer, and when Commander Ellas Aguerre rau up the narrow little ladder that led to the tower he stumbled over the dead body of his admiral. A shell had struck tlie conning tower and had taken off Grau’s head as neatly as if the decapitation had lxx-n by the guillo tine. This shell also killed Lieutenant Ferre, the admiral's aid. There was only time to push the* cori>ses aside, and the uetv commanding officer pulled back the tube flap to give Ills direc tions, but as he did so the Huasear staggered, keeled over, then shook In every plate, while a concussion more terrible than any so far told that a shell hud entered the turret and had burst there. When the fumes had cleared away so that a person could speak, a midshipman called out that one of the 'great guns had been dismounted and twenty men killed. The survivors tum bled the bodies through the hutch tiuit oiH-ned iuto the deck below, thus re leasing the clogged machinery, and, as The corpses ratled down, other men rushed up, throwing off their clothing as they jumped into the pools of blood to seize hold of the gear and swing the remaining gun Into position, that it might train upon one of the ships— they could no longer make out which, nor did they care—and It was discharg ed, hauled in. loaded and discharged again. “Once more all was silent In the con ning tower. Lieutenant Palacols hast ened there, but before he could enter he was compelled to push three bodies out of the way. lie had barely given his first command when a bullet from the well-aimed rifle of a marine in an enemy’s top lodged between his eyes. Then the fourth to command the Iluas- car that day, Lieutenant Pedro Gare- zon, took the place, and as he did so be called through an aperture, telling the quartermaster to put the helm to port. for he had determined to ram one of the adversaries and sink with her if necessary. Over and over spun the wheel, but the Iluascar’s head still pointed between the Chilians. “‘Port! Port, I say!’ screamed the commander. “ ‘She won’t answer,’ came back the sullen reply from the only one of four quartermasters alive; the bodies of the others were lying upon the grating at his feet. " ‘A shot has carried away the star board steering gear, sir,’ reported an ensign; and he dropped dead as the words left Ills mouth. “The Huasear now lay drifting in a hell of shot and flame, but all the while the red, white and red fluttered from the peak. One l>y one. In twos and threes, the men In the turret dropped at their posts; and at last the remain ing great gun was silent, its tackle lit erally choked with dead. The turret could not be turned for the same rea son. Corpses hung over the military top; corpses clogged the conning tower. “With coats and waistcoats off. the surgeons hail lx*en laboring in the, wardroom ui>on the wounded, who, shrieking In their agony, had been tumbled down the companionway like so many butchered beef; for there is no time to use stretchers or to carry a stricken comrade to a doctor’s care. Steam and smoke filtered through the doorway», and the apartment became stilling. While they were sawing, am putating and bandaging a shell tore into the wardroom, burst, and frag ments wounded the assistant surgeons, the chief of the medical staff having been killed earlier In the conflict. Those unfortunates who were stretched upon the table awaiting their turn under the knife, and those who lay upon the flisir suffered no more pain; they were killed ns they lay groaning. This shell tore away wardroom and stern cabin, and hardly a trace was left of the | bulkhead. After that what little sur gery was done was performed In the coal bunkers. “Huddled in a pasageway near the engine-room were a score or more of I non-combatants—stewards, pantrymen and stokers. They were in a place that was lighted only as flashes came from the guns; ft was filled with powder smoke, and clouds of steam that drift ed from below told that the Huasear had been struck In a vital spot—her ma chinery. Suddenly they heard a crash, followed by the rending of the deck, and the little ironclad swayed as if she had struck a reef. Someone passed the word that the maintopmast had been shot away. As It came down It brought living men to lx* dashed to death, also corpses that had lx*en hang ing over the sld<*s of the military top.” You must use ftw teaspoonfuls of other baking powder. There is an immense garden in China | —that embraces an area of 50,000! square miles. It is all meadow land, i and is filled with lakes, ponds and canals. _________________ COTTAGE COLORS In French trails, a mixture of ten parts of air and one part of acetylene lias proven suitable for ordinary gas engines, giving three times the energy of ordinary illuminating gas. PURE P INT READY MIXED Best Reputation. Best Paint for Dealer or Consumer. BILLS or FARE IN FASHIONABLE REsrar rants . Color Cards Sent Free. The question has been mooted over and over airslu whether the engrafting of French and German dishes upon the bills of fare of the better clam of American restaurants is or Is not an Improvement. Many pretend that be fore their Introduction ourcooklng was coarse, barbaric. This Is un open question, but no bill of fare presents attractions to the dyspeptic, but they, like the bilious, malarious .-.nd per sons with weak kidneys, can be cured by Hos ier's Stomach Hitters. Cleveland Oil 1 Paint Mfg. Co., PORTLAND, OREGON. Good Health Shakespeare*. Songs tn Music. Shakesjteare’B songs put in music and sung by single and collected voices was the entertainment furnished the members of the Chicago Woman’s Club at Handel hall the other evening. THY ALLEN’S In the working capital of humanity. He who loses that is wrecked indeed. Is your health failing you, your am bition, vigor, vitality wasting away ? When others fuil con sult FOOT-EASE. DOCTOR A powder to be shaken into the shoe?. At this season your feet feel swollen, ner vous. und hot, and get tired easily. If you have smarting feet or tight slices, try Alien's Foot-Ease. It cools the feet and makes walking easy. Cures swollen am’ sweating feet, blisters and callous .»pot. Relieves corns and bunions of all pain and gives rest and comfort Ten thousand tes timonials of cures. Try it todar. Sold by all druggists ami shoe stores for 25c. Sent bv mail for 25c in stumps. Trial package FREE. Address Allen 8. Olmsted, Le Roy, New York. RATCLIFFE, For the speedy, safe and permanent cure of all Nervous, Chronic and Special diseases, even ” their most aggravated forms. There is no in a a •he world who has effected so many permanent -ce !n both Men and Women of troubles which ..aer physicans of acknowledged ability had given up as hopeless as this eminent specialist.* NERVOUS DEBILITY and all ltaattending ailments, of YOUNG, MIDDLE-AGED and OLD MEN. The awful effects of neglected or Improp erly treated owes, causing drains, weakness of body and brain, disr.lness, tailing memory, lack of energy and confidence, pains in hack, loins and kidneys, ana many other distressing symptoms, unfitting one for si udy, business or enjoyment of life. Dr Ratcliffecau cure you, uo matter who or what has fulled. WEAK MEN. He restores lost vigor and vi tality to weak men. Orguns of the body which have been weakened through disease, overwork, excesses or Indiscretions are remored to full power, strength and vigor through his own successful sys tem of treatment VAllICOCELE, hydrocele, swelling and ten derness of the glands t reated with unfailing success, SPECIAL DISEASES, inflammation, dis charges, etc., which, If neglected or improperly treated, break down the system, ouuse kidney and bladder disease», etc. DISEASES OF WOMEN. Promntandea- pecial attention given to all their many ailments. WRITE If yon are aware of any trouble. DO NOT DELAY. Call on Dr. Ratcliffe today. Ifyou cannot call, write him. Ills valuable book free to ail Huflbrers, CONSULTATION FREE and confi dent'll ut office or by tetter. It is said that a Scotchman planted the first thistle in Australia out of love for his native hind, and now millions of that plant afflict the land. HOME PRODUCTS AND PURE FOOD. All Eastern Syrup, so-called, usually very fight colored ami of heavy body, Is made from glucose. ••Teo G'onien Drlpri' w made from Sugar Cane and is strictly pure It ia tor >am by tlrst-cia-ss grocers, in cans only. Manilla»- tiired by the P acific C oast Sravr Co. AU gen uine ••Ten Gorden brivr" have the manufac turer'! name lithographed on every can. For lung and chest diseases Fino's Cure is the best medicine we have used.—Mrs. J. L. Northcutt. Windsor, Ont., Cunodu. E. M. RATCLIFFE, 113fMIn.Kim. nil For Bicycle Rider*. Dinner pails are being fitted with bails which will permit their attach ment to the top bar of a bicycle frame, the bail having a circular spring formed on either side close to the pail, with spring braces extending to the cover to prevent a sudden jar or swing. P ê THE THROUGH CAR LINE. 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I have sinned in my life the most with my mouth, in eating, drink ing and talking.”—London Daily News. Shredded fodder is excellent, but try a piece of fodder corn for shredding. Popular airs may be catching, but it Grow It In the same manner as for en silage. cure it properly and keep It un takes a good tire to hold them. der shelter. The curing of the corn and The woman who falls to say “be preserving It are the secrete of success cause” has some other excuse. with fodder of all kinds. CLEVELAND Hemin Special (2H actual borsepovsr) Price, only UM. 4 4 Hercules Gas Engine Works Bay St., San Francisco, Cal.