SI Worth Dakota Solves the Adulter tJon rroblem. North Dakota seems to have found the key to the question, "How shall we protect the people from frauds in manufactured products?" a plan which Is applicable to foods, bever ages, materials used in the arts, etc. A new law has recently gone into ef fect designed to make it impossible to deceive people into buying inferior and adulterated paint under the im ' pression that they are getting real paint, vli.: pure white lead and lin seed oil. The North Dakota lawmakers did not attempt to absolutely prohibit the Inferior pigments, or mixtures of pigments. They adopted the slogan, "Let the label tell," and then left to the people to buy whichever they wished. Under this plan, it any one wishes to buy a mixture of rock-dust, ground quartz and other cheap elements which are found In many paints and so-called "white leads," no one can ybject; for they do it with their eyes Vpen. But if they prefer genuine 'White lead and llrmeed oil, they can be sure of getting it, for none but the genuine article can bear a label Wllch says "pure white lead." I In all other States mixtures are of ten sold as pure white lead which contain little sometimes no real white lead. It would seem that were this same principle apilled to food, beverages and all other prepared articles, where deception Is practiced upon the buy er, the question would be solved. It would leave us free to buy what we pleased, but would protect us from unwittingly buying what we did not want. Suicide of Abused Mule. .. . There Is reported from the Morel district of Switzerland a case of mule suicide. The beast had received rough usage and was being driven dally with a heavy load back and forth from BInn valley to Morel. The other evening, as- the muleteer had added, as usual, his own weight to the tired mule's already heavy load, the beast plunged and reared so violently that the man was thrown with violence, breaking his arm, while the pack was also flung off. Bolting then along the torrent Bide, yhe mule was nearing the brldgo of Sohert at full gallop, when a party of men barred the way. fleeing escape thus blocked and re capture inevitable, with a return to the old unbearable cruelty, the animal stopped, turned to the torrent flowing at a great depth below, and with a side leap plunged headlong Into the abyss. New York Tribune. Kills Off Mosquitoes. One good thing seems to have come out of the marine hospital service ex perience. It is the discovery and an nouncement that the burning of a dis tillation ,of pine wood called pyro florae will effectively free houses and single rooms of mosquitoes. It is more deadly than sulphur and Is not injurious to paints, metals or clothes. The fumes of this pine tar kill mos quitoes Instantly, but do not harm human beings. But while this may be an excellent discovery and handy to use about the house, it In no way approaches in value the drainage system of mosquito destruction. While pyrofume kills the few mosquitoes in a house, the system which destroyfi their breeding places alms to kill the great bulk of the whole noxious, stinging, pestiferous brood, and In some places has already accomplish ed this" desired result' Value of Our Railroads. The 220,000 miles of main track of the railways of the United States represent property to the extent of $16,000,000,000, or as much as the to tal value of all the property in the country In 1800, the year of Lincoln's election. Their Income of over $2, 000,000 a year is very nearly four times the annual revenue of the revenue of the United States govern ment. The number of men on their rolls is 1,500,000, an army as great as the combined forces that Oyama and Llnevltch had in Manchuria" at the time of the peace of Portsmouth. The railroads are a vast Interest Any thing which would hamper them in their legitimate activities would deal a hard blow to every important in dustry in the country. Leslie's Weekly. GOOD AND IIARD Results' of Excessive Coffee Drinking. ft It remarkable what suffering ome persons put up with Just to sat isfy an appetite for something. A Mich, woman rays: "I had been using coffee since I was old enough to have a cup of my own at the table, and from it I have suffered agony hundreds of times in the years past. "My trouble first began In the form of bilious colic, coming on every few weeks and almost ending my life. At every attack for 8 years I suf fered in this way. I used to pray for death to relieve me from my suffer ing. I had also attacks of sick head ache, and began to suffer from ca tarrh of the stomach, and of course awful dyspepsia. "For about a year I lived on crack art and water. Believing that coffee was the causa of all this suffering, I finally quit It and began to use Postum Food Coffee. It agreed with my stomach, my troubles havs left me and I am fast gaining my health under Ha use.- "No wonder I condemn coffee and tea. No on could be In a much more critical condition than X was from the us of coffee. Some doctors pro nounced It cancer, others ulceration, but none gara ma any relief. But since I stopped coffee and began Pos tum I am getting well so fast I can heartily recommend It for all who suffer as I did." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the littla book, "The Road to WatM!,". ..'Thajfj'i a rfao.tt,- Build a Silo. With the general use of the silo the productiveness of our farms would be so increased, both in quantity and quality of our grain crops, In the cash income, In the quality of stock kept, and in almost every other way that the problem of keeping our boys on the farm would be solved. Convince them that they con make more money on the farm than In the city and 'you can't got them away. Build a silo. Spray For Berries. 1. In fall or winter remove all canes infested with cane borers, orange rust and crown gall and burn. 2. In spring, before the buds swell, cut off and burn all canes badly spot ted with disease and spray the rest with Bordeaux mixture, repeating the spraying when the young shoots are about six inches high, and again in ten to fourteen days. Aim to cover the young shoots with spray. This treatment is for anthrac nose, cane blight and leaf spot diseases. Artichokes. Artichokes are regarded as a fine health preserving and appetizing food for hogs. They are comparatively little trouble to raise and are quite productive. Every hog feeder should have an artichoke patch, if not more than half an acre. Plant just as you would potatoes, and as soon as the ground Is warm. In the late sum mer and fall you will find you have made a good Investment. They serve as a kind of tonic for the hogs, keep ing them healthy and sharpening their appetite for corn. Cutworms. Hardly any pest tries the patience of the gardenpr more than cut worms. They were Celia Thaxter's bete nolr; they drove her from the bed at mid night and in the small hours of the morning to Bee If her sweet peas were still safe. One effective remedy Is handpicklng, with the aid of lantern by night or digging them out from around the roots of infested plants by day. But this treatment requires considerable zeal and devotion. The best method for dealing with cut worms is to prepare poison bait for them. Bunches of clover or pigweed, pepper grass and mullein, even when thoroughly poisoned, are attractive to cut worms. Such bait should be applied two or three days before any plants have come up or before the garden is set out. At his time, if the ground has been well prepared, the worms will have been hungry for several days and will seize the first morsel without examination. This 13 their undoing. The Gape Worm. The dreaded gape worm has been conspicuous by Its absence this sea son, to judge by the letters received. The absence of damp and rainy weather has had much to do with this unwelcome parasite In chicken cul ture. The festive gape worm revels in a foul, damp atmosphere, and is seldom In evidence where dry sani tary conditions prevail. It Is true we hear of chicken raisers who speak of "gaps" whenever a chicken opens Us jaws and breathes a trifle suspi ciously, but on close examination no trace of the gape-worm is found. Where doubt exists, hold the chick en's throat exposed to the sunlight and open the mouth and look down the wind-pipe. If a small, thin red dish looking string of about an inch In length is attached to the mem brane, "his gapeshlp" is busy and must be removed. A twisted horse hair or silver wire will extract the appendage. A small primary feather stripped to the quill, except a small end of about a quarter of an inch wide and half an inch long dipped in coal oil will answer the same pur pose. Some use turpentine, but it needs very careful handling when ap plied internally. A local application of turpentine to the outside of the throat is often effective in destroying the gape-worm in the early stages. Placing the afflicted chickens in a barrel or box and dusting with air slaked lime is another remedy that is fairly successful. Plowing the foul ground in the fall and dressing with fresh lime is the best preventa tive of gapes. American Fancier. High Grade Fertilizers. The annual report of the Connecti cut Experiment station at New Hav en gives some Interesting facts about fertilizers sold in that state. There are at present legally sold more than 227 brands of fertilizers, costing from $25 to $43 per ton, for which farmers pay annually not far from a million dollars. The question of their value is therefore a live one. The report gives one or more anal yses of every brand In market, with some discussion of the relative value of these brands. Most of them agree well In composition with the manu facturers' guarantees. Occasionally, however, an article is condemned as very Inferior, if not fraudulent, by its chemical analysis or the results of microscopic examination. The prices charged for low-grade brands of goods are shown to be out of all proportion to the actual quantities of plant food In them, and as is usually the case, the high-priced goods are more econ omical to buy than the low-priced "cheap" goods. For Instance, on the average, there can be bought for a given amount of money nearly twice as much actual plant food In fertiliz ers costing $7 per ton less. "It is amazing that any one can find any body to buy fertilizers having for composition such as Is guaranteed for some of those who analyses are here given," says the report. "There Is no fraud In the matter. The compo sition of the low-grade fertilizers cor responds fairly well with the guaran tee's, and if purchasers can be found who will pay for a, ton of plant food as much as would suffice to purchase three or four tons, the seller is not breaking the law In taking advantage of their obtusenes8." Albany Coun try Gentleman. To Break and Train a Colt. The breaking and training of a colt should begin at an early age. Three things are to be accomplished: First, we desire to teach the eolt to submit to man's control, and In doing this we must first overcome Its fear. This can most easily be accomplished when our pupil is quite young, not over one or two months old (the younger the better), by handling and petting it when in the stable with Its dam. At this time a strong man can catch and hold it securely until It gives in and ceases to show fear. At this age also it should be broke to the halter and taught to stand tied and also to be led. Colts should ajjvays be left in the stable when the mother is taken out to work, then when weaning time comes you will have but little trouble to manage them. During the summer season I prefer to have it run with its dam In a good pasture during the night, as this will develop its muscle as well as a good frame and constitu tion to fit it for future usefulness. The second year of the colt's life Is usually spent in the pasture, and the training is usually neglected, but it would be better if they were occasion ally led to the stable to keep them under control. During the third year we should try and accomplish our sec ond object in its training, that of teaching It to perform the various kinds of labor, which we expect to fit it for, whether for draft or lighter employment. If we have properly handled our pupil during Its first two years there will be no breaking to do now, simply training. For its first lesson I prefer to hitch It with a good, trusty horse to a stout wagon, and if time Is not too precious I would drive It each day, for two or three ' days, without a load, and then if it has learned to walk up straight you can begin to load, lightly at first, and gradually increase. Do not be in a hurry at this stage of the game, as haste may spoil the job. After a few days' training I hitch to a plow, har row, corn plow, or whatever work is on hand at the time, and give my pupil a lesson in the different kinds of work that It will be expected to per form In the future, always being care ful not to overdo or discourage It, but aiming to give continuous training from day to day. There is so much required of a good farm horse nowa days, that it will take some time to teach it all about the running of the various farm machines, and great care is necessary until it becomes ac customed to this kind of work. But a well-trained horse Is a valuable thing on the farm, and will well re pay us for the time spent and the pa tience and care exercised in bringing his coltship to this desired attain ment Our third object is to avoid the acquiring of any bad habits by our pupil during this time of training. We should be sure to have good, sub stantial harness and other accoutre ments, when working with colts, so that we may not be placed at a dis advantage by the breaking of the same at some critical period. The great object is to teach the colt that man is its master, and to prevent It from acquiring that nervous habit of becoming frightened at every strange noise or object that it encounters. Never whip a colt when It Is fright ened, but keep cool, and it will soon learn to overcome this spirit of fear. A great help in teaching a colt this desirable trait of fearlessness is a quiet, fearless mate to work it with during this training period. This is especially desirable in this age of the world, when we are likely to meet trolley cars, automobiles and other frightful things at any time. There is such a difference In the disposition of colts that the stage of its training at which I would teach it to work single would vary with dif ferent subjects. Some are much eas ier taught than others. We will, by. the time our pupil has become used to team work, have learned its dis position so that we will know how to manage this part of its training. In diana Farmer. The city council of Buenos Ayres has adopted a regulation banishing itinerant musicians from the streets of the city. WORN TO A SKELETON. A Wonderful Restoration That Caused Sensation In a Pennsylvania Town. Mrs. Chaples M. Preston, of Elk land, Pa., says: "Three years ago I found that my housework was be coming a burden. I tired easily, had no ambition and was failing fast. My com plexion got yellow, and I lost over 50 'pounds. My thirst was terrible, and there was sugar In the kidney secretions. My doctor kept me on a strict diet, but as his medicine was cot helping me I began using Doan's Kidney Pills. They helped me at once, and soon all traces of sugar disappeared. I have regained my former weight and am perfectly well." Sold by all dealers. 60 cents a box. Foster-MUburn Co., Buffalo, N. T. 6elden Waited Long. Twenty-five years ago, writes Leroy Scott in "Technical World" magazine for September, a young man with a scheme for a carriage to be run by a gasoline motor called upon a large manufacturer of vehicles and farm implements. The young man bad Bpent years upon, his patent Its suc cess meant fortune to him, and also triumph over the men who had laugh ed at him. So he used his best elo quence to induce the manufacturer to put his automobile on the market. But the manufacturer shook his head, "You've been wasting your time on that scheme," he said. "And If I went Into it, I'd be wasting my money. No, sir even If It worked nobody'd ever care to ride In your 'explosion buggy." The young man was George B. Selden, and what this manufacturer said was also said by dozens of others. To-day there are In use In the United States, about 70,000 "explosion buggies," and about 70 per cent of all gasoline automobiles made In this country or Imported Into It are licensed under the Selden pat ent the royalties paid during the last three years amounting to $814, 183. The Skirt Under a Ban, ' The most injurious garment, put ting the corset out of the question for a time, Is undoubtedly the skirt. This universally worn skirt Impedes a woman's movemeut; scavenges the streets; drags round her feet, and so produces unnecssary fatigue; requires carrying, so as to add an intolerable burden to women with parcels, um brellas, end babies; causes falls in going upbtalrs or getting In or out of omnibuses or trains; frequently causes death by fire, and, above all, Is detrimental to health when worn for cycling or any other outdoor pur suits. Rational Dress Gazette. TERRIBLE SCALY ECZEMA. Eruptions Appeared on Calient, nml Face and Neck Were All ltrokon Out Cured by Cuticura. "I had n eruption appear on my chest and body and extend upwards and down wards, to that my neck and face were all, broken out; also my arms and the lower limbs aa tar aa the knees. I at first thought it waa priukly heat. But coon acalea or crusts formed where the break ing out was. Instead of going to a. phy sician I purchased a complete treatment of the Cuticura Kcmedies, in which I had greai faith, and all was satisfactory. A year or two later the eruption appeared again, cmy a little lower, but before it had time to spread I procured another supply of the Cuticura Kennedies, and con tinued their use until the cure waa com plete. I'; iz now live years since the last attack, and have not seen any signs of a return. I have more faith in Cuticura Remedies for akin discuses than anything I know of. tmma K. Wilson, Liacomb, lows, Oct. J, 1905." Lawmakers of America. The British empire has 68 legisla tive bodies. In 1903 they passed about 1,!)00 acts and ordinances. The state legislatures of the United States In that year enacted more than 14,000 laws and resolutions, of which more than 5,400 were general and the remainder were local or private. In America 'it is not always the most popiuous state that needs, or seems to need, the most legislation. In 1903 North Carolina led with 1,200 en actments. Philadelphia Ledger. Too Many Rabbits. A writer describes a plague of rab bits In Australia: "A farmer barri cades himself in with miles upon miles of wire fencing solely to keep out the rabbits. They eat their way up to the barriers and In the fight for the green land within the wire they die in myriads. All round the en closed land they He In heaps of In credible size. Swarm after swarm fol lows on, and at last the heaps of dead are so high that the late comers make their way over the fence and the farm is ruined." French Prize for Poets. A Prix de Rome for poets, similar to that which is accorded to painters and sculptors, has been decided upon by the French academy. A yearly prize of 3,000 francs is to be awarded the poet of either sex whose poem will be declared by a jury of distin guished literary men to be the best. The first Prix de Rome for poetry has just been awarded to a young man of 22 for a poem called "Lea Famlliers," which was chosen out of 300 M9S. submitted. Lament of the Gourmand, Nothing new to eat has been dis covered for several centuries past The monotony is not confined to breakfast; it Is equally, if not more so, felt at lunch and at dinner. There are disgracefully few animals fit to eat, as A the okapl, which seemed to solve the difficulty, Is a bitter disap pointment, because there are only j three speclments of him known to exist, and two of those are stuffed. Tfce Sketch. Hotel Kleptomania. It Is the fashion In our modern hotels to write off $10,000 a year as tho loss for silverware and china taken by guests In the course of 12 months. Many persons will have sou venirs of their visits to New York and take spoons, knives, forks and any sort of small ware which they can slip In their pockets. The craze has grown so thnt the big hotel men now purchase cheap hardware for the use of transient guests, but the figures of loss run up In three of the city hotels to the $20,000 mark. The women are blamed for this sort of theft and the proof seems to be against them. It Is not regarded as theft, but aa a smart fad, and I have yet to hear of one woman denouncing the prac tice. On the ocean steamships this souvenir business has grown out of bounds. On one trip of a New York liner to this side one-half the butter plates and one-third of the spoons were out of services before Sandy Hook was reached. New York Press. To Measure Molecules. An apparatus for measuring the seventy-millionth part of an Inch has been made by Dr. P. Shaw, of Not tingham university, England, says "Technical World Magazine for September. It works upon the prin ciple of electric touch, and consists of a fine micrometer screw and six levers. The apparatus is so sensattve and delicate that It Is impossible to manipulate It before an audience. It Is hung by rubber bands, covered with thick felt, and must be worked nt dead of night, when there is no traffic or factory working. The smallest distance that this mechanism measures Is about the distance be tween a solid and a liquid molecule. Dr. Shaw's invention was first made in 1900, but its great Improvement of Inte has made It the wonder of physicists throughout the world. FITS,9t.Vltus'Dance:Nervon Diseases per manentlycnred by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. S3 triiil bottle and treatise free. Dr. H. R. Kline, Ld.,!t31 Arch St., Phila., Pa. Germany 'Is now making 1,800,000 tons of beet sugar yearly, and export ing more than a million tons. Mrs. Winslow'a Soothing Syrup for Children allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c a bottle An Old Phrase. The phrase headed boy," in Ireland. It "his mothers white is as old as the hills appears in many of the Irish fairy stor lies of the last century. Irish mothers always kept "white-hen fled Gerald Griffin, who knew good fairies the secret for the boy" of the family. In one of his best short stories, years as one he had Celtic book. ago used the phrase borrowed from an old Big Wheat Yield In Manitoba. It Is esllmated by the Premier of Manitoba that 100.ono.noo bushels of wheat will he available for export from the northwestern provinces of Canada, at the close of the harvest and he states that It will take the railways a year to carry this quan tity to the coast. T-onrtnn Express. You Cannot all inflamed, ulcerated and catarrhal con ditions of the mucous membrane such as nasal catarrh, uterine catarrh caused by feminine ills, sore throat, sore mouth or inflamed eyes by simply dosing the stomach. But you surely can cure these stubborn affections by local treatment with Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic which destroys the disease germs.checks discharges, stops pain, and heals the Inflammation and soreness. Paxtine represents the most successful local treatment for feminine ills ever produced. Thousands of women testify to this fact. 50 cents at druggists. Send for Free Trial Box THE R. PAXTON CO.. Boston, Maw. When you buy WFT WEATHER you want complete protection &nd long service. Thau Anil mstftv other good points are combined in TOWER'S riSH BRAND OILED CLOTHING You can afford to buy any other AJTTJWH CO OtT9ut TQWlft COiN CO (.. 1 hi 1 mi ii j 1 Chickens Earn , Money ! If You Know How to Handle Them Properly. Whether you raise Chickens for fun or profit, you want to do it intelligently and get the best results. The way to do this is to profit by the experience of others. We offer a book telling all you need to know on the subject a book written by a man who made hit living for 25 years in raising DahHm, .nd In that tlmjk ncaril WixA 20C I to experiment and spent la the best way to conduct the business for the small sum of 25 cents in postage stamps. Stamina It tells you how to how to Feed for Eggs, and also for Market, which Fowls to Sare for Breeding Purposes and indred about everything you must know on the subject to make a success. SEHT POSTPAID OH RECEIPT OF 25 CENTS III STAMPS. BOOK PUBLISHING HOUSE, 134 Leonard St H. Y. City. sSHssi?satlsiliMsVBWaWsniBWS A HEALTHYOLD AGE OFTENTHE BEST PART OF LIFE Help for Women Passing- Through Cbanfe of Ufa Providence has allotted us each at least seventy years in which to fulfill our mission in life, and it Is generally our own fault If we die prematurely. Nervous exhaustion Invites disease. This statement ia the positive truth. When everything becomes a burden and yon cannot walk a few blocks with out excessive fatigue, and you break out into perspiration easily, and your face flushes, and you grow excited and shaky at the least provocation, and yon cannot bear to be crossed in any thing, you are in danger; your nerves have given out t you need building up at onoe I To build up woman's nerv ous system and during the period of change of life we know of no better medicine than Lydia E, Pinkham's Veg etable Compound. Here U an illus tration. Mrs, Mary L. Koehne, 871 Garfield Avenue, Chicago, 111., writes: " I have used Lydia B. Pinkham'sVegetable Compound for years in my family and ft never disappoints; so when I felt that I was Bearing thecbarjge of life I commenced treat ment with ft. I took in all about six boMle ana It dlS rasa great deal of good. It stopped my diny spells, pains in my bark and the headaches with which I had suffered for months beftr taking the Compound. I feel that if It had not been for this great medicine for women that I should not have been alive to-day. Itiiiptendid for women.old or young, and wfl sorely cure all female disorder!." Mrs. Pinkham, daughter-in-law of Lydia E. Pinkhnm, of Lynn, Mass., In vites all sick and ailing women to write her for advice. Her great experience is at their service, free of cost. mippq college' UUl F g PITTSBURG, PA. A niph GnulB Cnmrnftrr.nl nnrt Bhoriliand Training School, qtmllfrlnK young man nd women for positions nt trust and responsibility dpniandpU In this groat financial and manu facturing enntor. Positions secured for graduates. 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Douglas shoes and insist upon hiving them. fast Color Eyelets used; then will not mar braiiy. Write for Illustrated Catalog of Fall Styles. k W. U DOUULAS, Dept. It, Brockton, Mass. WINTER Whetit 10 Bnb' pot .vm. ('ataiomiA and tamnlet FHKE.SiilzprHfedCo.. Ho a A. J.f Ia Crosse, Wia. PATENTS 48 p. book free. Highest refs. Long experience, f'ttngersld aOo.Dapt.6i Warning lun.D.O P. N. U. 86. 1906. f f afflicted -s Thompson's Eye Water rita area. much money to learn Detect and Cure Disease, H MuAfoyfo ill
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