America's Medi­ Greatest Medicine Is the cine for You. Do not experiment with untried prepa­ rations. Be satisfied only with the great­ est and best. Hood's Sarsaparilla. It has cured multitudes of people and is kept on handin thousands of homes as the only safe and reliable family medicine. It wifi defend you from the dangers of summer. Hood’s Sarsaparilla X Is America's Greatest Medicine, fl; six for |.i. Hood’s Pills rure all liver ills. 23 cents. Folding Megaphone. The megaphone has come into almost universal use at athletic and aquatic races and contests because it enables the judges and other officers to make announcements that can be heard all over the field. Its adoption has been somewhat hampered by the size of the instrument, which is too bulky to be conveniently transported, but this has been overcome by making them collaps­ ible like the drinking cup made for travelers and picnickers. The folding megaphone is made in sections, one fit­ ting in the other, and when not in use the horn collapses into a package about the size of a hat box. WllAT WILL BMOMI OF CHINA. None cun foresee the outcome of the quarrel between foreign powers over tl.e division ol China. It Is interesting to watch the going to pieces of this ancient but rm progressive rui’e. Many people in America are al-o going to pieces because of dyspepsia, constipation, blood, liver and stomach dl-earu-s. We arc living too last, but strength, vigor and good health can be retained if we keep off and dure I the above diseases with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters.____________________ Naples is to be connected with Mount Vesuvius by a direct railroad line, which will conncet with the cable line running to the top of the volcano. TRY ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE. — A powder to be shaken into the shoes. At this season your feet feel swollen, ner­ vous. and hot. and get tired easily. If you have smarting feet or tight shoes, 'try Alien’s Foot-Ease. It cools the feet and makes walking easy. Cures swollen and sweating feet, blisters and callous spots. Believes corns and bullions of all pain and gives rest and comfort Ten thousand tes- timonials of cures. Try it todat*. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores for 25c. Sent by mail for 25c in stamps. Trial package FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Boy, New York. ! ! . j I I there weie “robin-roosts” as well as “pigeon-roosts.” Onlv within the last few vears was the fact brought out that a bird more familiarly known than the passenger pigeon followed this mode of spending the night, although it adopted spring instead of fail for massing by hundreds in a high, shel­ tered wood for a night’s protection from cold, or because it is the period before pairing time, or for some other reason at present beyond man's ken. With what stealth must this well- known and much-observed bird have found its way in such numlters to the same patch of timber night after night in the early months of the year, accord­ ing to locality, coming from all direc­ tions so swiftly that a secreted ob­ server could not count, keeping up a chatter that could be heard for a long distance, until the last bird, somewhat belated, perhaps, found shelter in the darkening grove, when all became si­ Hay Rack for ’keen. lent as thousands of wings were folded The Breeder’s Gazette gives a de­ to rest.—Lippincott's Magazine. scription of this sheep feeding rack. The animals cannot rub the wool off Is It Possible? their necks trying to get at the feed; That the barn roof leaks? neither will the seed, dust and rubbish That tools were left where last used? fall Into the wool, and they cannot pull That fences are never repaired until the hay down and mess it over so they stock gets out? will not eat It afterward. The rack is That there are no shade trees in the easily made. With It you can have pasture field? lambs running about the feed lot with­ That sheep and cockle burrs are al­ out tlielr getting on top of the hay, lowed in the same field? which ordinarily cannot be done. That all grain bags are not marked Make the frame out of 2 by 6's edge­ with your initials In ink? wise. For block at bottom saw 2 by G's That the supply of fuel for winter Is diagonally. Nail a 12-ineh board along not being hauled, while the roads are the bottom lengthwise; then take three good ? 10-lneh boards and nail up the front. That slioats are allowed the privilege Set liottom 10-lnch board level with the of a ten-acre field without rings? 12-inch or about one Inch higher. Make That the same variety of wheat has the rack with a frame about every four been on the farm for fifteen years? feet, omitting crosspiece except at the That an abundance of small fruit for family use is not raised on the farm? That noxious weeds, such as ox-eye daisy, white top, etc., are allowed to go to seed? That stock is turned out where there is barbed-wire fence, without first lead- . Ing up to It? That many farmers got rid of their sheep a year or so ago. and have none on the premises to-day? That farmers do not realize that we have heretofore had periods of depres­ SHEEP HAY BACK. sion, and that better times are coming. center, and this Is not necessary unless you are going to move them about. For —Stockman and Farmer. The Russian pood, a measure oi ca- [ rack to feed only one side make 18 pacitv in handling grain, is equal to inches between studs. You can make the sides separate and set them against 86.1 pounds. FITS Permanently Cured. No fitnor nervousnes light posts. Do not nail, but wire so • 11» after llrut .luv’s use ol Dr. Kime's Great you can raise them. Nerve Restorer. Sen.l lor Fltr.hr Si.oo trial bottle and treatise. DR. R. IL, KiANs: .Ltd., jau I Arch street, Philadelphia, Pa. The waters of the Grand Fall of Lab- I rador have excavated a chasm 30 miles long. Try Schilling's Best tea and baking powder It is asserted that plate glass will make a more durable monument than the hardest granite. Piso’s Cure for Consumption is the best 1 of all cough cures.—George W. Lotz, | Fabuclier, La., August 26, 1895. It is announced that Italian ex­ periments on vegetable life with Roent­ gen rays have shown that the effect is identical with that of sunlight. For t-lie Summer Girl. A love in soft white straw is just made for the summer girl. It has an airy, fairy fold of white taffeta round it, and two quills curve back from the knot in front. White violets coquet with Miss 8. G.’s tresses in the back. It is ideal summer hatgear, all white and inexpessibly dainty. In the town of Chile most shops are open till midnight, and during the hot afternoons, when everybody takes a siesta, they are locked up. REGAINED HEALTH. Gratifying Letters to Mrs. Pirk' ham From Happy Women. "I Owe You My Lifo.* Mrs. E. WooLmsF.R. Mills, Neb., writes: "D ear M rs . P inkham :—I owe my life to your Vegetable Compound. The doctors said I had consumption and nothing could be done for me. My menstruation had stopped and they said my blood was turning to water. I had several doctors. They all said I could not live. I lregan the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and it helped me right away; menses returned and I have gained in weight. I have better health than I have had for years. It is wonderful what your Com­ pound has done for me.” Destruction of Weeds. A few hours' work in spraying or dusting plants in order to destroy in­ sects or disease may not only save crops this year, but also greatly lessen the work of next season. But such la­ bor must be applied at the right time. The same with weeds, which produce millions of seeds. When they are al­ lowed to grow until nearly matured be­ fore they are destroyed they take from the land tlie plant food that should sus­ tain the crops grown thereon. If the destruction of weeds is done when they are small, they are then out of Hie way before they can harm the crops and the soil. When the farmer postpones his attack on weeds he incurs the risk of not being able to eradicate them at some critical period of their existence, and the pests will then have done dam­ age by depriving the crop of moisture and plant food when the season is most propitious for growth. It is the lessen­ ing of the work next year that should always be kept In view, Profit on the farm is not made in a year, but in a series of years. Work done at a loss to-day may bring a fair profit during the next season. The most profitable work Is spraying to destroy insects and the keeping down of weeds and grass. —Philadelphia Record. A Grain Room. On many farms not a little grain is fed to the stock. Where no room is set apart in the stable for a grain, or feed, room a good deal of inconvenience, and much extra work, is experienced. In most barns it is not convenient to pro­ vide a feed room from the present ac­ commodations. In such a case a small room can well be added to the stable Taking Inventory on the Form. It is doubtful if there is a merchant in the entire United States, doing a thousand dollars' worth of business In a year, who does not begin immediate­ ly after the first of January to rake an account of stock, and by an account of stock on hand, his sales, his bills payable, and his bills receivable, he is able to determine whether the business has been done during the last year at a profit or at a loss. He then proceeds to lay the plans for the conduct of his business in the year to come. The mer­ chant who does not do tills, and is known not to do this, will speedily lose credit among the bankers and business men with whom he deals, and would be considered in imminent danger of bankruptcy, for only In this way can he find out where he stands financially. We doubt if there is one farmer who at the first of January or at any other period of the year regularly takes stock, casts up his accounts, and finds out the amount of profit or loss.—Field , and Farm. Cultivation in Dry Weather, Whenever there seems danger that corn or potatoes will suffer from drought all tile cultivation should be near the surface. That will provide a slight mulch of dry soil, and will keep the soil all the molster below it. as the mulch prevents surface evapora­ tion. If there are light rains, as there will sometimes be even in dry times, follow witli the cultivator, turning down all the soil moistened by the rain, and turning to the surface some of the dry soil below. When on going through the field after a rain you seem to leave the soil dryer than before ft was culti­ vated you may know that you are do­ ing a good work. The water is put down where the corn or i>otato roots will quickly find it. instead of being left on the surface to evaporate. Care of th*- Lawn. A GRAIN ROOM. in the manner shown in the cut—mak­ ing the addition where It can be con­ Mrs. G eo . L each , veniently reached from the Interior. 1609 Belle St., Alton, Ill., writes: The door is seen to be placed high up “ Before I began to take your Vege­ In this addition, and opening upon a table Compound I was a great sufferer small platform-. A load of grain can from womb trouble. Menses would ap­ thus be backed up to the door and very pear two and three times in a month, easily unloaded, no lifting being re­ causing me to l>e so weak I could not quired. Such an added room would stand. I could neither sleep nor eat. and be of small cost, and would save many looked so badly my friends hardly ■steps and much valuable time In dally bunging feed from a distant building. knew me. ** I took doctor's medicine but did not —American Agriculturist. derive much benefit from it. My drug­ Hens in ’nmmer. gist gave me one of your little books, The cheai>est way to keep a flock of and after reading it I decided to try hens in summer is to turn them on a Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com­ range and let them pick up all the food pound. I feel like a new person. I required, as they will fill their crops would not give your Compound for all several times a day with bugs, grass, the doctors’ medicine in the world. I seeds, worms, etc. When fed grain can not praise it enough.” during warm weather the fowls are liable to become too fat. in which con­ dition the bens do not lay and are also Plain or with ( utter. Th? beat needle In th? mar­ more liable to disease. Eggs may not ket i ^e<1 by all nark «ewer«. Fur sale by all gen­ be high in summer, but they can be eral merchandise stores, or by produced at a very small cost at that WILL & FINCK CO., season If the hens are made to seek *50 Market Street. Man Franciem. Cal. their food. " PISO S CURE FOR rj Robin-Roosts ■ ' iwi **1CTr.'in"—i I For many years naturalists like Au­ dubon and Wilson studied and wrote of thia bird before it was known that Be careful in mowiDg the lawn dur­ ing very dry weather. If the grass plot is kept too close the grass may die out should there be a lack of sufficient moisture. The cutting of grass weak­ ens the plant at first, as every succes­ sive growth is in the direction of pro­ ducing seed. Any plant can be de­ stroyed if kept cut close to the ground. It may make new growth several times, but sooner or later becomes exhausted. When moisture Is abundant, however, the plant has better opportunities to renew its growth. -I Feel Like a New Fenoo.- Garden Seed«. Where several varieties of plants of the same kind are grown together, it1 will not he proper to save seed there­ from. The different kinds of melons, pens, sweet corn or other crops have their pollen distributed by the winds or by insects, and seed saved under such circumstances will prevent uni­ formity next year. The greatest care should be observed to avoid mixing when saving seed is the object. Hog Fee tins. Experiments to determine the value of corn and wheat for producing pork show that to produce one pound of live pork with shelled corn costs 1.1» cents, and to produce one jsiund of pork from dry wheat the cost is 4.57 cents. The cost varies, owing to the difference in the prices of the foods. Pork from a mixture of equal parts of corn and wheat costs 2.97 cents. Corn is there­ fore much the cheaper grain for pro* ducing pork. fnmbatlng Sern. Tire coins were made about the middle of the eleventh cen­ tury. Porous glass is one of the latest nov­ elties. Tire holes are so small tiiat neither duet nor draught follows its use, and yet the ventilation is said to be excellent. Great differences exist between the Arctic and Antarctic regions, and while there is a polar sea at tire north, it is believed that a continent exists at the South Pole. Seven Chinese war vessels are at pre­ sent being built in Germany. Among them are four torpedo boat destroyers winch will have a speed of 32 knots an hour. The Peruvian Central railroad cover­ ing a distance of 10 miles is at an eleva­ tion only about 2,000 feet lower tiian the summit of the highest mountain in Switzerland. colored tea. It undermines health, and the coloring hides defects. Schilling’s Best needs no coloring; it is good enough s The Trnns-M I bv I mii I ppi Stamps. Short Pencil. Spllçed. Of the Transtuisiiiesippi Exhibition stamps, tiie 50-cent stamp, which is dark green in color, is fium a drawing by Frederic Remingtou of a "Western Alining Prospector,” showing a pros­ pector in the mountains with iris pack mules. The (1 stump is in black ami white, from J. MacWhirter’s ‘‘Western Cattle in Storm.” Tiie |2 stamp is brown, showing an engraving of "The Mississippi River Bridge’’ at St. Louis. Short pencils cun liespliced by meant of a new device oonsisting of a short tulw internally threaded and haviDg bell shaped erxls for the introduction of the pencils and interior transverse grooves to form cutting dies for the threads. T<» Chalk tiie Cue* Billiard players will appreciate a new chalk-liotdor, which consists of a metal plate to be screwed on the wall to support a piece of chalk, which is Gun powder Motor. I Explosive jxjwiler is used to oj>erate hollowed out in the ceuter to receive a new motor, a small quantity of the tiie tiff of the cue. powder being fed into tbe cylinder and ignited by an electric sjmrk to drive tire piston rod, the expanded gas escap-' * ‘4 Perfect Type of the Highest Order of ing through a valve as tiie piston j Excellence in Manufacture/* returns. Celluloid Balloon. In an improved balloon the basket is carried by four air cells adjustably I mounted on a railing around the basket, I making it jiossible for the remaining ceils to support the aeronaut if one cell should collapse. Breakfast Wheel Nut. With Handl»«. fôcoa An improved nut for wagons and other machinery where the nut would soil the hands if touched lias a project­ ing knob on one side which fits in a hole drilled in one jaw of the wrench to prevent the nut from slipping out. WAGONS Absolutely Pure, Delicious, Nutritious. IMI’KOVED. < < < The new improved Stoughton wagons stand the racket. Three mole car loads are on the wav it pays to have the liest. Write for free catalogue. JOHN 1’001,E, ... sole agent, foot of Morrison sireet, Port­ < land, Or. Be sure that you get the Genuine Article, < nude at DORCHE8TER, MASS, by Costs Less THan OHE GEHT a Cap A microbe that lives and multiplies in strong alcohol has been diseoveied by Veley. < < WALTER BAKER & CO. Ltd. E stablished 1780. The attention of the publio is called * ■v<**v to the professional work of Dr. T. H. White, No. 271 1^ Morrison street, ifb Bishop Scott lcadeny j A EottrdiiiK and Day School for boys. Portland, Or. His electrical appli­ Military dwtuipliue hi charge of U. 8. ances are the most modem, and bis Army offVier. Primary, preparatory and iMAihmle deimrtnwnts. Manual crown and bridge work is of such artis­ Training nr Sloytl haa recently been In­ stalled. Beys of aU ages received, tic form and finialt, that bis patients speelid tiiatruction in nxuaic, modern “1 bad a strong appetite for liquor are delighted not only with the looks, langtiHges, stenography. Through col­ lege preparation a specialty. Catalogus which was tire beginning of the break­ but with the comfort they receive from on app)ic4UJ(Hi to the principal, J. W. JI I LU M. D , P. O. Drawer 17, Port­ ing rrkrwn of my health. 1 was also a the use of such artificial work. All land, Or. Blave to tea and coffee drinking. I took operations are painless under bis meth­ the gold cure, but it did not help me.” od». See that your teeth are projierly BUY THE GENUINE This is a portion of an interview cared for and that by a skillful dentist. clip|>eii from the Daily Herald, of Clin­ There is no need to suffer the discom­ ton, Iowa. It might well be taken for forts of broken-down ami stained teeth the subject of a temperance lecture but when they can be made useful anu .. MANUFACTURED BY ... that is not otir object in publishing it. pleasant to look upon without pain. CALIFORNIA FIO SYRUP CO. It is to show how' a system run down rr-N«xrE the name . by drink and disease, may lie restored. We cannot do better than quote further 11 Vs |{ ■ "I" Make money by auccesful Ifif 111 UL I sjtecuiaiioH in Chicago. W« from the same : nW Hr U I buy and sell wheat on inar- ‘‘For years I was II liarfl I gins. Fortuneshave been Moore's Revealed Itemedy willdoit. Three made on a small beginning by trading in fu­ unable to do niv tures. Write for full particulars. Best of re*- doses will make you feel better. Get it from work. I could not erenue given. Several years’ experience on th« your druggist or any wholesale drug house, or Chicago Board of Trade, and a thorough know­ sleep nights or rest Viom Stewart & Holmes Drug Co., Seattle. ledge of the business. Send for our iree refer­ days on account of ence book DOWNING, noPKlNs dt Co., Chien ;o H-.»ard of Trade Broker*. Offices in continuous pains in Portland, Oregon and Seattle. Wash. CURE YOURSELF! my stomach and i lit- I’sri Big W for unnatural (iisihargcs, nitiam mat ions, io 1 to S d»va. HOIII’IÍINI back. 1 was unable C uarttutKd irritations or ul