hi mS^m KEEPING CELLARS DRY. An Eirrllrnl and F.aaily Applied Ar raneriiiriil to i'rrtrnl All I)u n - ter (ruiu Flooding. In draining the cellar of a dwelling bouse, barn or other farm building in low places, some means will often need to be made use of to prevent flooding. An excellent arrangement for this pur pose, which is adapted to either tile drain or ordinary stone ditch, is shown In the sectional illustration. Make a wooden box (a) of about same dimen sions as drain or tile, and two r three feet in length. Saw oft one et'J so as to leave it somewhat beveled. Take a piece of not too stiff leather and cut square so as to be just a li.~!e smaller than outside of box on beveled end Nail this on a square piece of board (c), just enough smaller than leather, t<j leave one inch of the leather project ing on all four sides. Tack one of the projecting edges to the top, or short est bevel, side of box, making the com pleted valve and valve seat. Over the beveled end of the box having attached to it the valve, slip another box (b), large enough for the purpose, and about one foot long, to protect the working parts of the device. Dig down at the point it is to be placed in drain, and removing enough tile, if they are used, for the purpose, Gi the valve boxes tightly in place, the * c. Pi flrfpp CELLAR DRAIN TRAP. longest box toward cellar. All sudden high water backing up will close the valve and be prevented from entering the cellar. As soon as the outside wa ter subsides, the valve will open and allow water in cellar to escape. If the valve is applied in box just right, it will work perfectly. If it is desired to have trap arranged so that access may be had to the valve at any time for removal of rubbish, etc., make it as described in every re spect, but with the larger horizontal box on outside of valve seat. Instead of a horizontal box, make a vertical box (c) extending up to the ground level. This may have a hinged lid (d), or be otherwise covered. The illus trations show how the trap will look when so arrranged.—J. G. Allshouse, in Farm and Home. DEPENDS ON THE MAN. IVothinir Enable* n Dairy Fnrnifr t« Create a Private Batter Market llut Attention to DetnilN. The farmer who wishes to make butter at home must pick up a route and retail his own butter, as he will find that the stores don't want it anc won t handle it. They can get cream ery butter that is reasonably uni form, and will give them less trouble than trying to handle butter made by Tom, Dick and Harry. Even the care ful private dairyman is at a disad vantage unless he has regular private customers. To-day one farmer told ■us: "I am using a separator and take great care to have everything neat and clean, and do make first-class butter, but I can't sell it at any of the stores. The creamery near us only averages 36 cents per pound for but ter fat, and we can't make anything a't that price, but their butter always sells and ours won't. We dropped out because we got discouraged trying to give them clean good cream, while Ihere were lots of patrons who took no care of their milk and were very dirty." This man acted discouraged and wanted to sell some of his cows. His only hope is to work up a private trade. On; man from a neighboring town recently brought in a lot of his own butter, and canvassed the stores, but couldn't sell a pound, 01 hardly get an offer. He was discour aged, but he has a reputation for not being neat. A near neighbor of the latter brings in weekly what 30 good cows make, and has a steady trade at 25 cents in summer and ,10 cents in winter. He also sells chickens, eggs, apples and beef. He makes good but ter, is neat, and I believe is prosper ing. It all depends on the man.— Rural New Yorker. [ World Will Never Starve. The department of agriculture at Washington, after careful investiga tion, announces that the world is in no danger of starving to death for centuries to come, even if present line of food products should become wholly exhausted. It has been dis covered that the nut trees of the world alone could feed a population three time' as great as the present number of inhabitants. Besides the nut products, there are a hundred vegetables, palatable and nutritious, which are practically unknown to the ciVili/.t (1 chef. A single tribe of west ern Indians has a menu of 41 kinds of fruits and vegetables of which the Caucasian housekeeper has never dreamed in her domestic philosophy. The dairy farmer should own the best land, milk the best cows, hire the best hands and make the best profit IOWA FARMER'S IDEA. More Juot Method of Taxation IVonU Aid lioad Impruicmenl More Thau An; thins Klxe. ITow shall we improve highways? Not by running l in debt, and issuing bonds which will remain a mortgage on our farms until paid by increased taxation. Sueh measures would drive more people to the towns, and make our boys and girls less willing to re main on the farms and follow the oc cupation of tillers of the soil. Vet we want and must have better roads. The demand for rural free mail delivery is Urgent, and pressing the general gov ernment from every quarter. Thisde mand cannot be met without roads suitable for light vehicles at all sea sons of the year, under all conditions pf the weather. How shall we make the ro. ds better? We must make thein, fir the most part, of the soil on and near by where the road is lo cated. Ihe alluvial soil of the* great er portion of Towa, Illinois and a con siderable portion of other adjoining states is rich in humus and all the constituents that are needed to en able it to produce bountiful crops. Hut these materials are not the best for ma kins' a solid roadbed impervious to water, and free from mud and wa ter in rainy weather. But roads of this material may be made possible eten in wet weather, if properly drained and the grade maintained in an oval form so that the water which falls thereon shall find its way quick ly to the ditches beside llie road and onto the sea. A very large number of good and sufficient grades have been built by the townships and counties of lowa and other states, which for want of proper care are quagmires and al most, if not altogether, impassable in a rainy season, or in the annual break up of the spring time. To put these in order and keep them so we must have some man or mrn who can do it when the ground isincondition for such work, and the farmers are busy in their fields planting and sowing. The road supervisor must not be a farmer, and here in lowa he should work un der the direction of the township trustees. We have machines in almost every township for gradinpr and ditch ing, which, if properly handled, will take the earth from tiie edges of the road and draw it into the center, and place the roadbed in the proper form for conveying the water to the ditches and building a solid foundation for the wheels. This work cannot be well done when the ground is wet or verv hard and dry. Hence the necessity ofhav ing a man for this work who makes it his business, and will give it timely at tention. Ail taxes for the highways must, be paid in money. We have a law in lowa that permits the placing of a township in a supervisor district, and, if the trustees so eleet, of making all the taxes payable in money. Town ship trustees have in some instances made the township a single district under one supervisor, but have rarely. If ever, required the entire road tax to be paid in money. It might be better to give the care and the expenditure of the highway funds to the county board of supervisors, permitting them to expend in the several townships all the taxes raised in the township by contract for new grades, and the main taining in good order all grades al ready made, contracting for graveling the grades wherever that is available. Old methods of making and caring for the roads have followed us from promitive times in the older eastern states, and must be relegated to the dead past before we can hope for very much better highways. A more just method of taxation whereby the property of all the people, bondhol<4- ers and railroads, telegraph, tele phone, and all other public utilities, ire made to pay their just proportion of the taxes by an assessment of their properties according to their cash or selling value, the same as a farm nr the merchant's stock of goods, or the capital of a bank, will aid mate rially in equalizing the burdens of making and maintaining better roads. —H. 11. Fitch, in Prairie Farmer. SMOOTHING HARROW A Homcmnde Implement TVhfeh la Without an E<|nnl for the Leveling; of Land. Take a log the length of harrow, split in two and attach each end of SMOOTHING IIA It HOW IMPLEMENT. A to a harrow, as portrayed, by means jf a stout wire about six feet long placing the oval side of log down. Such in implement works well in smooth ng the surface after the harrow.—E Dickenson, in Farm and Home. RentiriK Ver«n« Hiring Out. Thert * are renters who make money 1 in renting, and there are those who 3o not. Where a good farmer and a |-'oor renter are combined in the same personage, it would pay a land- | lord, provided he is a good business man, to hire the man instead of let ting him the farm. The business part of the fanning can be run on a paying basis, the farm improve ments kept up, the soil's fertility maintained and the farm built up in stead of degenerated as the seasons go by. And the hired man will not get rich perhaps, but, he will live in n better house, wear better clothed and live better, and his family will be better cared for than when knock ing about from pillar to post on rent* t?d farms. -J, L. Irwin, in Country Uentleman. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1901. There In a Class of People Who are injured by the use of coffee. Re cently there has been placed in all the gro cery stores a new preparation called GRAIN-O, made of pure grains, that tikes the place of coffee. The most delicate stom ach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over J as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15 cts. and 25 cts. per pack age. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O. "She is the most uninteresting girl I ever met." "In what way?" "She never does anything that one can criticise." Town Topics. CouKlilnK I>ead* to Connumptlon. Kemp's Balsam will stop the Cough at onee. Goto your druggist to-day and get a sample bottle free. Large bottles 25 and 50 cents. Go at once: delays are dangerous. "Then what is your reason for marrrying her?" "I have no reason. I'm in love."— Philadelphia Times. Throw physic to the dogs—if you don't want the dogs—but if you want good diges tion chew Beeman's Pepsin Gum. | The greatest liar is he who talks most of J ninisell.—Chicago Daily News. Cnre nnd Prevent I'nemnonla With Hoxsie's Croup Cure. Infallible. 50cts. Never judge a man's character by one good or bad action.—Chicago Daily News. I'iso's Cure cannot be too highlv spoken of »/ a cough cure.—J. W. O'Brien, 322 Third Ave.. N.. Minneapolis, Minn., lan. 6. lflOO. It's mostly lem what hain't sartiti sure uv theirsclves what's like ter want tcr go gallivantia' 'round.—N. V. Herald. VVorklnK on Ilis Pride. A pcdler who was in the habit of vtsit ing the various offices in a large down-town building at regular intervals with a patent shoe-polish was mailing his rounds one day as usual, when an occupant of one of the rooms said to him: "Say, you've been coming here for about six years. Twice a year I buy a box of your polish, and never any oftener. Six weeks ago you sold me one. and it will last ine nearly five months yet; and still you drop. in regularly every week to ask me if I don't want another box. Vou know I dou't. What do you do it for?" "I thought maybe you'd git sort o', 'shamed of usin' so little shoe-polish after' awhile, and 'd buy a box now an' then as a matter o' pride," answered the pedler, taking the precaution to edge toward the door as he spoke. lint he sold that man another box of polish there and then.—Youth's Compan ion. All'd Well That Riiild Well. "Ah, Gwendolynne." exclaimed the im passioned but somewhat obscure author, 'marry me! 1 cannot live without you. Vou are the well from which I draw all my inspiration." The maiden thought long before she framed her replv. "No. Harold,' she said, "I cannot marry you and be your well, but l will always be a cistern to you." Kansas City Star. A Tabloid Proposal. "Blinks has a perfect mania for conden sing everything. Did you hear how he pro posed?" No. "He held up an engagement ring before the girl's eyes and said 'Kb?' " "And what did she say?" "She just nodded." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Sa vngerf. "And do these Indian girls never evince a tendency to relapse into their form of savagery?* Tears sprang to the eyes of the mission worker. "Ah, yes!" sighed she. "Only last evening they set the table without putting doylies under the finger bowls.' —Detroit Journal. For Infants y ears # The Kind You Have Always Bought THt c **TAUW COMPAHt, Tf M'VRNAT ITRJIT, NEW YORK CfTt. immnmmniinmnwimimmnmmminmninmmmmmifnmnmmiiininm'nmmnmmmmmmmmmmninjK Liver Don't Act? 1 SEE -xz 8= You know very well how you feel when your liver don't act. Bile collects in the blood, bowels become =3 g constipated and your whole system is poisoned. A lazy liver is an invitation for a thousand pains and aches to 3: rlcp a *D dwe " WUh yOU ' Y ° Ur Hfe becomes one lon ß measure of irritability and despondency and bad 112 ling 3 CASCARETS act directly, and in a peculiarly happy manner on the liver and bowels, cles ising purii -ins 3 t= revitalizing every portion of the liver, driving all the bile from the blood, as is soon shown by ir reased appetite 3 g for food, power to digest it, and strength to throw off the waste. Beware of imita 'ons! 3 * sw ' mn " n '-"—Washington Su.r. ™ T "I have been troubled a pre at deal mail t for with a torpid liver, which produces coastipa- That TT* : JMSW lSl|» h n t,on - 1 found CASCARETS to be all you , MOW Xt<eSsßK , claim for them, and secured such relief tho "aP JMfIMBw sSfSv HH first trial that I purchased another supply I "ill® '■ ir MBBW EBr w aSPJsS tb<- ? ™ a f completely cured X shall only be ~J ZZ& JHV too plad to recommend Case a rets whenever tne Z-.~ S J37F£2r the opportunity is presented" J. A SMITH hat A. g"~ Pa " £r h,.rt < l,^!h A hZi K Ki?„T o '."KKollbowH Ini'iN;;, !MM>omllcltl., blllou.nPM, . OI'ARA \T EI'D TO rrnF.: Five ye»r« a*o the flr.t boiorCAS- "2 5~ 1i.V..1,.,h' ? '■ Ind on the •tum»rh, lilnuird liuivrln, r«nl munth, CARETS w» Hold. Now It i« over nix million lioin a soar, Kreat<r than any m- - ill.-*»«.i ..'nil Vi 11 Si?. ' paln« ttftir eiitlngt liver troahkt imllow co»- almllar medicine In the w arid. This IN nbaolutc proof tr; jrreul merit, and —— .'...''"r ~ .V.'! y« nr bowel* dmi T t ir.ovc rt-vrularly yon are our best tcxttmunlnl. Wi- have fnllh, und nlll irli (AKI'ARETN abxilulrly —•» y— [i | H r.»r VK- K n ■'ill" more i»eoi»le Iban all «..lier dlaeiuei toc«tlier. Kuaranteed to car*' or money refunded. Oo l»ny today, two boxen, give SZ! an er u «r!l ■ %I. m!. i T..1 112 ailment* and !<»«»* y<-ur*^«»l««>£<*■; In ie that core them a fiatr, honeat trial. a# per atmple direct In «a, and If you are not aatlalled Jm Ji W 11 " y V. u * »". l V. rt Vr fnu < A#( ARKTfI toddty, for after nalujr owe fiOc b f . return the unuaed SOr bo* and the empty box to rlirht l alle «IIP Hil?ilL. .??«#. 1!i L r?r w ,, . n '! 1 *©u pat your boweU ■■ by mall, or the di uu„Ut from wliom yon piu-chaaed i(, aad get your money *• ■ iiuupun iA! '. i "tarl with <AM AULIN today, under an abwlulo back for both l»oxea. Take our advlee- no matter what nila voii-Nturl today. « Kuarantee to < ure or money ■ efuuded. Health will qnlekly follow and you w 111 bleaa the day von flrat started the uae "r* 4IXJ ofCAMCAKCTN. Ilook free by mall. Add: BTKKLI.NU UKBKDV CO., New York or Chicago. T~S To California Cheaply and Comfort -11 bly. Tourist sleeping cur leaves Kansas City 9:05 p. m. every Tuesday via Missouri, Kan j sasi I e\as Railway; runs through without change to San Francisco, via Ft. Worth, I iNin Antonio and Los Angeles. Sleeper rate, $•1.00. ficket rate Tuesdays in March ana April, from Kansas City, $25.00. Forgot not that it runs I uesday, being date of sale of the low rate tickets. bertha—"Nettie was surprised when I told her I was going to be married." Hes ; ler -"Naturally, anyone would be, you know."—Boston Transcript. Hratneai Cannot Be Cared by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There iB only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mu cous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling Boui.a or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is t.;e result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal con dition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine eases of of ten ate caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition 1 of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any ease of Deafness (caused by catarrh that j cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. ~ y Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold_ by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. She—"Don't let the people know we are on our honeymoon, dearest." He —"Very well. Vou carry the portmanteau."—Bos ton Gazette. Aft er Man)' Year*. So many are willing to put off doing to day work that seem: to them unimportant, that the habit extends itself to everything connected with their daily life and they neglect the necessary precaution to pre serve their natural faculties. When Mr. C. 11. Gleason was living at West 'ilouces ter, Rhode Island, he wrote: "Your Lo tion has cured me of Inflamed Eyelids after many years of suffering from which 1 had not been able to get relief." This is one of the many testimonials of the value of Palmer's Lotion which, during the half century that it has been before the public, has never failed to give quick relief when ever applied. II your druggist hasn't it, send to Solon Palmer, 37-1 Pearl Street, New York, for samples of Palmer's Lotion and Lotion Soap. If thou wouldst know thy friend; if thou wouldst know his true inwardness, get him into thy progressive eueher club.— Indianapolis News. Remember the Date—.July <! to 10. The above is the time of the annual meet ing of the United Society of Christian En deavor, at Cincinnati, Ohio. The Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway has issued a handsome souvenir map and guide to Cin cinnati which will be ol much interest and value to all who contemplate a visit to the Queen City on the occasion mentioned. The map shows the principal churches, suburbs, resorts, railroads, street car lines, etc. This souvenir may be obtained from agents of the B. & O. S.-W. Ry., or direct from O. I'. Mc- Cart.v, (i. P. A., Cincinnati. All the world invites us to drink, yet all the world hates a drunkard.—Town Top ics. I.nne'H Family Medicine, Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick bead ache. Price 25 and 50c. A woman doesn't like to lie interrupted when she is talking, or a man when he's eating.—Detroit Journal. To Cnre a Cold In One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails toeure. 25c. BISHOP HANDY SAYS " I Cheerfully Recommend Peruna to All Who Want a Good Tonic and a Safe Cure For Catarrh." Prominent members of the clergy are giving Peruna tlieir unqualified en dorsement. These men find Peruna especially adapted to preserve them from, catarrh of the vocal organs which has always been the bane of public speakers,, and general catarrhal debility incident to the sedentary life of the clergyman. Among the recent utterances of noted clergymen on the curative virtues oi' Peruna is the following one from Bishop .lames A. Handy, I>. D., of Baltimore: " I take great pleasure in acknowledging the curative effects of Peruna. At the solicitation of a friend / used your remedy and cheerfully recommend your Peruna to all who want a good tonic and a safe cure for catarrh.James A. Handy. OTHER NOTABLE CURES. A Husband Escaped the Pangs of Catarrh of the Lungs. Most Cases of Incipient Consump tion are Catarrh. Kiiward Stevens. Mrs. Edward Stevens, of Carthage, X. Y., writes as follows: "1 now take pleasure in notifying you that my husband has entirely re covered from catarrh, lie is a well man to-day, thanks to you and Peruna. He took six bottles of your medicine as directed, and it proved to be just the thing for him. Ilis appetite is good and every thing he eats seems to agree with hitn. His cough has left him and he is gaining in flesh, and seems to be well every way. I hope others will try your medicine and re ceive t he benefits that we have."—Mrs. Kdward Stevens. When the catarrh reaches the throat it is called tonsilitis, or laryngitis. Catarrh of the bronchial tubes is called bronchitis; catarrh of the lungs, consumption. Any internal remedy j If Your Stoma makes life miserable, its your own fault. Dr. Greene, the discoverer of Dr. Greene's j Nsrvura, will tell you why this is so, and $ Just exactly how to cure the whole trouble, 112 This information and advice will cost you | nothing. Write to Dr. Greene, 35 West 14th { St., New York City. It is shocking the amount of unncces- . Even if he lias nothing, every man hkcs Fary talking t hat is done. —Washington (ia.) to say he has made his own way in lb© Ijemocrat. : world. —Washington (la.) Democrat. that will cnri! catarrh in one location > will cure it in any other location. This is why Peruna has become so justly famous in the cure of catarrhal dis > eases. It cures catarrh wherever lo cated. Its cures remain. Perunadoe* not palliate; it cures. Mrs. Frederick Williams, President • of the South Side Ladies' Aid Society of Chicago, 111., writes the following words of praise for Peruna front i * •J73 Cuvlcr ave-I nue, Chicago, 111.: | * "My home is* hT *tn| ? neve r without * BJ* "SJJ" Mi J Peruna, for if yj jSf i have found dur-i {X if,,,, 5 ing the past six? JAMjh) £ years that tlu re fI is no remedy that iJTfTi' will at once al-| v : 1 fjfs fjy- | leviate suffering and actually cure, Mrs. Fred. Williams, as Peruna does. Four bottles com pletely cured me of catarrh of the head of several years' standing, and I if my husband feels badly, <>r either | of us catch cold, we at once take Pe ; runa, and in a day or t wo i 1 has thrown the sickness out of the system."—Mra_ Frederick Williams. Mrs. W. A. Allison, of 7. r ,fl Sheffield! avenue, Chicago, 111., is the Assistant Matron of the t«iiiwi)iiiww»iMiKMiiHnu about Peruna: ! S "I have had fre- § 112 | quent opportuni- £ mS | j; ties to observe 112 'BL "?TJ 5 the wonderful | curative effects of Peruna espe cially on persons | suflering with a congested condi- Mrs. W- A. Allison, tion of the head, lungs, and stomach, generally called catarrh. Jt alleviates pain and soreness, increases the appt— tite and so tones up the entire sys tem that the patient quickly regain* strength and health."—Mrs. W. A. Alli son. If you do not derive prompt and sat isfactory results from the use of Pe runa, write at once to Dr. Ilartraao,. giving 112 full statement of vour case and he will be pleased to give you hia valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of | The Ilart man Sanitarium.Colutnbus,o. 7
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