An Excellent Combination. The pleasant method and beneficial effects of the well known remedy, Syrup of Flos, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., illustrate the value of obtaining' the liquid laxa tive principles of plants known to be medicinally laxative and presenting them in the form most refreshing 1 to the taste and acceptable to the system. It is the one perfect strengthening laxa tive, cleansing the system effectually, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers gently yet promptly and enabling ona to overcome habitual constipation per manently. Its perfect freedom from every objectionable quality and sub stance, and its acting on the kidneys, liver and bowels, without weakening or irritating them, make it the ideal laxative. In the process of manufacturing figs are used, as they are pleasant to the taste, but the medicinal qualities of the remedy are obtained from senna and other aromatic plants, by a method known to the California Fig Syrup Co. only. In order to get its beneficial effects and to avoid imitations, please remember the full name of the Company printed on the front of every package. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. BAN FRANCISCO. CAL. LOUISVILLE. KY. NEW YORK. N. Y. For sale by all liruggistß.—Price 50c. per bottle. A MISSING WORD. Bat the Worthy Preacher lilt I'poa Une That Was Just u» FUll n«r. A North Carolina preacher, in one of our western counties, whose memory some times fails him at the critical point, waa recently preaching a sermon before a Sun day school convention. His subject was "The Resurrection." The thought toward which he was driving with all physical earnestness was that the doctrine of the resurrection was the very essence of the Gospel. The word "essence" he had care fully calculated to use in a epitome of his whole thought. Rising on tiptoe he shouted: "In a nutshell, my brethren, the doctrine of the resurrection u» the very—is the very—" Alas! his chosen word "essence" was fone. He paused a second and then strode orward, and shouted in thunder tones: "The doctrine of the resurrection is the very—is the very—" The recalcitrant waa •gain nowhere in sight. Pausing once more, end mustering his physical weapons for a final desperate endeavor he lowered his voice, but with intense earnestness, as if ungTy with poor absent "essence," he again let drive: "Brethren, the thought I have tried to impress upon you is that the doctrine of the resurrection is the very — is the very—is the very soup of the Gospel!" —Hamilton Review. A IJRA Y E COLON EL " Recommends Pe-ru-na as a Fam ily Medicine. A Scientific Spring Medicine. Colonel Arthur L. Hamilton, of the Seventh Ohio Volunteers, 259 Goodale street,Columbus,Ohio, writes: "Besides havirg the merits of Pe-ru-na so fulljr Colonel Hamilton, of Columbus, O. demonstrated in mv family, I have a number of friends who have taken it for catarrh and stomach trouble, and all unite in praising it. As a remedy for catarrh I can fully recommend it." Mrs. Hamilton, wife of the gallant Colonel, is an ardent friend of Pe-ru-na also. In a letter on the subject she writes: "I have been taking Pe-ru-na for some time, and I arn enjoying better health now than 1 have for years. I attribute the change in my health to Pe-ru-na, and recom mend this excellent catarrh remedy to every woman, believing it to be espe cially beneficial to them." The spring-time is the most favorable time of the year to treat catarrh. There in so much less liability to take fresh tcold that the treat ment is unimped ed. All old cases of chronic catarrh should begin im mediately a course of Pe-ru-na as di man's books on this disease. There are so many differ ent phases and s t a g e s of catarrh that one hardly Mrs. Col. Hamilton. k n 0 w s when h " e has it. A great many people think they •re suffering from something else and have tried many medicines in vain, when if they could realize that it is catarrh and take Pe-ru-na for it they would improve promptly and soon re cover entirely. There are no substi tutes. Let no one persuade you there •re other catarrh remedies just as good. "Winter Catarrh" is a book written by Dr. Ilartman, Columbu*, Ohio. Sent tree to any address. IMPROVED HIGHWAYS. fc Reform Thul Should Be Agitated iu Every fountj in Every Stale of the tuion Here is a subject for the farmers to agitate in their clubs and institutes during the winter. There is no <;lass that has so deep an interest in good roads as the farmers, says Farmers' Tribune. Over the common roads he j has to haul his produce to the nearest j market, and he and his family have to attend church and flu their trading and seek their amusements in the towns and citiest, This is very pleasant when j the roads are dry and smooth. But | when wet weather sets in and the com | mun roads become beds of mire, or when they freeze up and become like I stones dumped edgeways, pleasure rid ing is out of the question. .Vow, the ! query is. how can we secure better roads? First, we must secure perfect ! drainage. This, is obtained by the use | cf the improved road grader that rounds j up the center of the road and fills all holes and a smooth surface. This grader should not be left on the roadside to rust till the convenience of the roadmaster can find leisure to use It. Immediately after a rain, as soon as the mud will crumble, the road | grader should be out and kept at work j till the roads are in good order. Now ! this constant work on the roads can ! be very much relieved by covering the I surface of the road with broken stone (macadam) or gravel. Gravel is the j best for the following reasons: It is | more abundant and combines with the | roadbed and for this reason is better j ' 5 r I ji? I4 > *% t* 4 1,-; d: .... A NEW ENGLAND PICTURE. | (Road Over the Berkshire Hills in Western Massachusetts.) j for filling holes. Gravel deposits are I more general than supposed, and the ' farmers can use their teams during the idle spells in handling it on the roads. Now. this is a radical change in our present road system. The changing of I one roadmaster that has put iu his ! year for another as green as when he J was elected is not good for our road im | provements. There should be a county i supervisor, and a good, practical engi | neer, whose duty should be to prepare J every road in the country and instruct the local roadmaster as to the best points to improve. In short, we want a radical change in our road laws. This the farmers can secure if united. The railroads in the state have been liber ally supported by the farmersi and should give liberal aid to improve our common roads. Naw, there is no better test of the progressive character of a community than the state of the public roads. Here is a point in which all can unite irrespective of political ties. Agi tate this reform in every county in the state and thus secure good roads. CurriintM on (lie Farm. There is no kind of small fruit that is so sure a crop if kept from the worm as the currant. It also generally sella at a good price, with the advantage to the grower that the currants will re main on the bushes two or three weeks, not only without injury, but each day growing better after they are colored. This may not altftjrether prevent a j glut in the market, but it at least gives J the currant grower more time in which to market his fruit. The only draw back to currant growing is the currant worm, but this is so easily killed by timely applications of hellebore pow der that it is really an advantage to the grower who uses it in time, as it de stroys the currants of so many others who would otherwise be his competi tors. There is nothing usually to be Biade in what everybody can produce very easily. Keeping; Apple* in Pit*. It is rather surprising that more, farmers do not winter their apples un derground in pits, stuch as. they use for storing potatoes aed roots. These pits are much better tlian keeping the fruit in cellars under the house where temperature, often changes very rap idly and is usually most of the time too warm. But the pit for fruit should not be just the same «is for potatoes or roots. These grow ing underground are not injured by contact with soil even in winter. Any kind of fruit would t>e spoiled by such contact. It should be inclosed in paper or straw or in a box, so that there will be no chance for soil to touch it. Nor should the fruit be placed w here water leading through the soil can readily reach it. as that will spoil it as would the soil itself. An Old Sni In* Rxplnlned. "The stone which the builders re jected, the same m#v become the head of the corner"—if properly crushed and rolled. And They Sjienk Well, Too. Roads smooth and hard and high and good j Speak volumes for a neighborhood. | —A. W. Bulletin. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1899. FOR SEEDING MELONS. \ simple Homemade I>e\l«*e Tlmt DOCK lie Iter Work Tim 11 <llll lie Hone by Hand. For the part two years. I have used a homemade melon seeder that does away with the backache, and does bet ter and faster work than can be done by hand. The implement is shown in the sketch. It has two wheels about seven inches in diameter, connected with a reach on either wide, so that one wheel follows in the track oft he other. Between the wheels is an upright tin tube about three feet long. The top of this tube is rfx or eight inches in diameter, and the bottom tapers to one a.nd one-fourth inches. At its lower end the tube opens, into a plow-shaped hollow shoe, which isailjustable to any desired depth. Two little sheet iron ¥ MELON SEEDER. wings follow the tube to cover the seed. At, opposite points in one side of the front wheel are two pins. At every half revolution of the wheel one of these pins strikes the end of a spring and presses it forward, and then releases it. The spring makes a snapping noise to show when a seed must be dropped. As the seeder i« pushed slowly aloijg, a boy stands erect and drops the seed into the large end of the tube. There is a steady, distinct "tick, tick, tick," that tells how fast to drop the seed. It takes two to run the seeder, but it both drops and covers. Any small boy can do the dropping; and it matters not if the wind blows; the seed goea into exactly the right place. With a seven-inch wheel and two pins insert ed, the seeds are dropped about tl inches apart. With three pins the dis tance would be a fraction over seven inches. The two wheels may be of dif ferent size, and both of them be pro vided with places for one, two or three pins, and. then a variety of distances may be at the user's disposal. In mak ing mine. 1 had an old seeder to begin with, so I had only the tube to make and the pins to fix on the wheels with the spring snapper. I have used this seeder for lima beans and some other large seedls which the garden seeder would not drop.- —C. L. Hill, in Farm and llome. MIXING INSECTICIDES. A Cheap Substitute for I'nrU iareen Recommended l»y tlie Oliio ■Experiment Station. Objections to Paris Green.—Paris green is a good insecticide, but ia somewhat troublesome to use in liquid form as it does not dissolve readily, and needs constant agitation to keep it from settling. If allowed to settle at all the distribution is not uniform, and injury is likely to result to the foliage of some plants', while the in sects on other plants escape. More over, it is unduly expensive, whether used dry or in the form of a spray. White arsenic, in a soluble form, costs about one-third as much as Pari»green and gives no trouble in the way of set tling. How to Prepare the Arsenite ol Soda. —Dissolve two pounds of com mercial white arsenic and four pounds of carbonate of soda (washing soda) in two gallons of water and use one and one-half pints to a barrel of Bor deaux mixture (50 gallons'). The easi est way to make the solution is to put both the white arsenic and carbonate of soda in a gallon of boiling water and keep boiling about 15 minutes, or until a clear liquid is formed, and then dilute to two gallons. How Much to Use.—One and one half pints of this solution to each bar rel of Bordeaux mixture is sufficient to use when spraying for potato blight and potato bugs, for apple scab and apple worms, or fftr any other purpose where a combination mixture for fungi and insects i& required. Merits of the Combination Mixture. —This combination hasibeen fully test ed at the Ohio experiment station and found to be quite as effective as the Paris green and Bordeaux mixture combination, and for the reasons'given above is much to be preferred. This arsenic and soda solution, or arsenite of soda, is more safely used in combi nation with Bordeaux mixture than alone, as when in combination it will not injure the foiliage, but alone it ia liable to burn the leaves. The same objection holds good, however, with reference to Paris green and London purple. It is better, however, in al most every ease, to use the combina tion. mixture as fungi are nearly al ways- present and unlet® they are kept in check there is but little use for fight ing insects.—Bulletin Uhio Experiment Station. Itunner* of Siranheprlm. Whether early or late runners on strawberry plants urs to be used for the succeeding crop is a question worthy of consideration. E. A. Jtiehl says that the early runners should be allowed to grow, anO then there will be few if any late one® to cut off. Some varieties of sTrawherries have the habit of bearing the next year's crop only on the early runners, asd if these early tinners are not allowed to grow there will in eucli cases be a total failure of the second year. There are other va rieties tiiat will bear fruit no mutter hew late runners are uacd. MISSING VACANCIES. Tk»r» Won ■ no* of Them and They Were Held by the Agent for ( hnriri. A short time since quite a discussion arose among the officials of one of our prominent southern railroads as to the reason of the many vexatious delays and troubles in the transmission of local freight. It was claimed by some of the parties interested that it was caused almost entirely by the stupidity or inefficiency of the local agents, and as there was some difference of opinion on this point, it was decided that the matter should be tested. To this end a tracer was prepared indue and formal shape, calling for the where abouts of "One Box of Post-holes," which it alleged was missing from a prior shipment. This was sent out in the regular order of business, with nothing except its "internal nothingness" to draw attention to its un usual character, and passed agent after agent without eliciting comment or informa tion save the stereotyped indorsement: "Not here." Some 15 or 18 local agents were actuallv passed in this way, until the tracer fell into the hands of a bright young fellow who was accustomed to looking into the business passing through his hands, and who speedily came to the conclusion that the tracer had gone far enough. At any rate the document went speedily back to the general office with the following in j dorsement: "Box of Post-holes, as per in closed, held at this station for local charges to amount of $2.50. Will be forwarded on receipt of same." Under this indorsement was written: "X. B. —The price of beer at this station is $2.50 per keg." It is said that the charges went forward.—Harper's Mag azine. Days of the Horse Cambered. The greatest electrician in the world de clares that the days of the horse are num bered, and that in a short time electricity will completely supplant man's most useful animal. In 20 years, he asserts, the horse will be a curiosity. Diseases of thestomath, liver, kidneys and blood would also be a curiosity if all sufferers would take Hostet ter's Stomach Bitters. There would then be practically no dyspepsia, nervousness, sleep lessness, indigestion, constipation, malarial fever or ague. A Scentiems Flower. She loves Chris, yet her love for him ia dumb; She can't afford to marry a-d repent. She says he should be called Chris-anthe mum; He's splendid—but he hasn't got a 'cent. —Brooklyn Life. Hevrare of Ointment* for Catarrh Tli tit Contain Heronry, as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole sys tem when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do ia often ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0., contains no mercury, and is taken inter nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the gen uine. It is taken internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney &. Co. Testi monials free. Sold by Druggists, price 75c per bottle. Ha'i's Family Pills are the best. HnalneM. Highwayman—Your money or your life. Lawyer—Here's all I have. "All right. Now get out!" (Taking him by the buttonhole) —"Wait a minute, friend. Don't you want to en gage counsel to defend you in case you should be arrested for this affair?" —Boston Journal, Give the Children a Drink jailed Grain-O. It is a delicious, appetizing, ■ourishing food drink to take the place of coffee. Sold by all grocers and liked by all who have used it, because when properly prepared it tastes like the finest coffee but is free from all its injurious properties. Grain-0 aids digestion and strengthens the nerves. It is not a stimulant but a health builder, and children, as well as adults, can drink it with great benefit Costs about iaa much as coffee. 15 and 25c. Peril* of the Arctic. The Sweet Young Thing—l love to read of those dear, daring explorers in the Arctic, but I should think scaling icebergs all the time would become monotonous. The Savage Bachelor —Part of the time they were scaling fish- —Indianapolis Jour nal. You Can Get Allen's toot-Ease I K EE. Write to-daii to Allen S. Olmsted, Lo Koy, N. Y., for a FREE sample of Allen's Foot- Ease, a powder to shake into your shoes. It cures chilblains, sweating, damp, swollen, aching feet. It makes tight shoes easy. Cures Corns, Bunions and Ingrowing Nails. Alldruggistsand shoe stores sell it. 'i"> cents. Some men are so mean their best friends don't like them very well.—Atchison Globe. Conichlns Leads to Consumption. Kemp's Balsam will stop the Cough at once. Goto your druggist to-day and get a sample bottle free. Large bottles 25 and 50 cents. Go at once; delays are dangerous. There is money in many sports, but base ball has diamonds in it. —L. A. W. Bulletin. Ever thus—heirs to aches and pains. St. Jacobs Oil's the doctor. It is usually easy to rob a busy man.— Atchison Globe. Many a young man who is called fast by his friends is considered slow by his tailor.— Daily News. The landlord thinks of the rent in his pocket, but forgets the hole in the roof.— Chicago Daily News. A Future Possibility.—ln a recent dam age case the defendant, a railroad corpora tion, asks a new trial because the fair plain tiff flirted with the jury. If this sort of thing keeps on there will have to be 12 blind men in the jury box. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mr. Dukane—"Stryker is a heavy-weight pugilist." Mr. Gaswell—"What do you mean by that?" Mr. Dukane —"He uses words of live syllables in the preliminary debate."—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. Short and Simple.—"l don't want no rub bish—no fine sentiment—if you please," said the widow, who was asked what kind of an epitaph she desired for her latest husband's tombstone. "Let it be short and simple— something like this: 'William Johnson, aged 75 years. The good die young.' " Ohio State Journal. Politics.—"You are quoted here—" said the reporter. "But that was yesterday," in terrupted the politician. "Then I may say in mv paper that you deny and repudiate— ' "Ah!" again interrupted the politician; "but that will be to-morrow."—Philadel phia North American. Questioning a lad of 12 years about his studies and school life, the other day, a friend said: "No corporeal punishment there, I suppose. Jack?" "No 'inn," re plied the boy. "Moral suasion. They just jaw us."—N. Y. Herald. Customer —"Look here! The first time 1 vised this cheap umbrella I bought of you the black dye soaked out and dripped all over me." Ilealer- "Mein friendt, ciat vo; von new batent detective umprel. You set it ish von zelf-ded'ector. If anyone ilakt hitns you can dell him py his clodinga."— Ohio State .ToucnaL Public opinion is never far wrong You can cheat it for a time, but only for a time. The average life of a patent medicine is less than two years. They are pretty well advertised, some of them, but it isn't what is said of them, but what they are able to do which carries them through the years. AYERS Sarsaparilla (which made Sarsaparilla famous) has never recommended itself to do what it knew of itself it could not do. It has never been known as a cure-all in order to catch all. For half a century it has been the one true, safe blood purifier, made in the best way out of the best ingredients. Thousands of families are using it where their fathers and grandfathers used it before, and its record is equaled by no other medicine. Is the best any too good for you? The Rocker w *ritan rf:i» jTCfU for wnahboard . no wear on KJM^'K'EIVW'VSMk^'C ÜBE Liberal inducements to lire agent# Best Couch Byrup. TiMtoa Qood. Cm Wm In lime. Sold by druffglpta. pSPf THE OVERLAND MONTHLY ■ [Established 18fi8, by Brut Hurt? ) Contains every month three or four complete storlee several descriptive articles, half a dozen poems, and twenty pages of book reviews, current topics and interesting chit-chat. profusely Illustrated. Price onl vlO cent;-, or li u vcar. postpaid. 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