MEAT-SMOKING DEVICE. Hew Jlelhml \\ hleli An-xurea Even CurlnK and Uueii Away with All Danger of Fire. Jlecent illustrated articles on thi» aubject generally provide for locating the fire directly under the meat in the amoke house. The accompanying sketch ill ust rates a fur better method, a? the smoke is cooled before reaching the f1 1 r ylll SMOKINO MEAT. meat. The illustration explains itself. All that is required is a few joints ol stove-pipe and an elbow, a barrel with a loose cover into which the pipe is fitted and connected with the smoke house as shown. A few inches of ashes in the bottom of the barrel, hollowed out to receive the fire, and the outfit is complete. It is almost impossible to smoke meat with the fire directly un der it without heating it more or less, and these partial cookings and sweat ings impart an unsavory taste. An other advantage in this method is that all danger of fire is avoided.—E. P. Snyder, in Ohio Farmer. A DESTRUCTIVE PEST. Ijipenraare of the Weevil Stopped Pen-Growl ii ir in a Certain Section of the Country. Many years ago I used to grow acres of white field peas for hogs. That was what tliey were called then, but since we have to get seed of the same from Canada, where weevils seem not to bother, the name seems to have been changed to "Canada peas." I raked the peas in bunches with a horserake when ripe, the rake tearing them out by the roots. When dry 1 stacked them along side the hog yard like hay, and forked them into the yard as hogs needed. Only enough were stored in the barn to be threshed for seed and for young pigs the next summer. When warm weather came the next June the grain room had not been opened for two or three weeks, when I went to get peas to soak for some pigs just before wean ing, and the sight 1 beheld was pho tographed on my mind indelibly. A portion of the substance of iny peas was running all over the floor and walls and bins of wheat, corn, oats and bar ley. The eggs of the pea weevil had hatched in every pea, consuming about one-fourth of each grain, and then em> j*)*:ig in the form of dirty gray beetles, and I suppose they were on their travels looking for sunlight and chance for further development. My pea-growing for pigs ceased then, as it did with all my neighbors, and prob ably never to be renewed in this sec tion of the country. —(ialen Wilson, in Practical Farmer. FACTS FOR FARMERS. It pays to prepare the ground well for the crop. A low-wheel wagon on the farm is very handy. Having the orchard well trimmed up will keep the trees bearing well. Do not try to plant until the soil will work readily inio good condition. It helps the looks of premises great ly to whitewash the fences and the out buildings. Add a pinch of soda to the water in which cut flowers are placed. It will help preserve them. The advice often given, directly oi indirectly, to use horses without shoe ing, is arrant nonsense. If we learn to run an incubator, it will always be ready, and sometimes is available when setting hens are not. The orchard should have just as good attention as any other crop. When the tree is planted, the land should be thor oughly prepared. I'otatoes cut to one or two eyes have always given satisfactory results and we take no stock in the theory of plant ing whole potatoes. Twelve bushels of cooked corn will aiake as much pork as 1»7 of raw corn. Fed with slops the result should be 200 pounds increase in the weight of a P'P- Haul out the manure and spread it on the land wherever you can. Do not handle it but once if you can help it. It has been decided that it is the bette-r way to spread it on the surface as soon as possible.—Western Plowman. C'lovc»r himl Timothy llay. Clover unless cut before it reaches the blossoming stage will have when dried from seven to ten per cent, of a! buminoids, which makes it a very nu tritious ration. Timothy, when in its best estate, which is a little before it has blossomed, has only four to five per cent, of albuminoids. If it stands until dead ripe most of these are changed to woody fiber, which is very hard to di gest. The second growth of clover is much richer than the first. It is hard to cure it without discoloring from ex cessive fermentation. If secured in good order it should be saved for young Stock and for poultry, to be fed to eatfh lu small amounts with other feed. | PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. On rainy days Gov. Roosevelt still dons the old sombrero which he wore at Santiago and San Juan. Senator Fairbanks lias been present ed with a Spanish sword, the gift of a soldier admirer, who captured it at San Juan. A tradesman died at Peterborough, aged 9ii. Fifty-three years ago he met with an accident, and his arm was am putated. The limb was carefully pre served, and at the desire of the deceased was buried with the body. People who desire mortuary fame will be interested in the disposition of a North Carolina editor, who publicly announces his eagerness to "give space to obituaries of former subscribers at the rate of six laying hens a column." Miss Lucile Faure, daughter of the late president of the French republTe, intended to take the veil after her fa ther's death, it is said, but friends dis suaded her and now she proposes to continue her work as a lay sister of charitable institutions and in addition will do some literary work. Through an error in the bill providing a code of laws for Alaska Albert 1). El liott, clerk of the district court _of Alaska, whose salary is fixed at $2.5U0, will receive in fees sufficient to make his total remuneration between $20,000 and $25,000 a year. This will make the office the best paid of any in the United States government, with the exception of that of the president. At the age of 57 Francis I!. Thurber, of New York, has been admitted to the | bar. It took him four years of hard : study to prepare for the necessary ex- I animations"; He was formerly at the J head of a great grocery house, which ! went out of business several years ago. ' At one time he was, prominent as an ; anti-monopolist and took an active in terest in advocacy of the interstate j commerce act. though he now stoutly I favors railway pooling. A herculean locksmith, who was out of work, obtained 1 temporary employ ment as a laborer on one of cur large railways. He was set to work with an "old hand" to shovel cinders into a ' wagon. When the foreman went to see [ how they were progressing he observed j that the "old hand" was shoveling twice j : to the big locksmith's once, and he rc ! marked to the latter: "Look here, my I man, Jack is throwing two shovelfuls ; into the wagon to your one." "Well, master," replied the locksmith, "I've | told the fool about it." DRUG STORE FRAUD. In Vlnny of Tin*m PreneripHoiiM Arc Filled with < !ie!i|> mul Ilnußcr ohm Imitation**. "A life for a dime!" should be the trade-mark of some of the drug stores | in this city, for thai is the principle on j which they are doing business. The j attention of the board of health has ! been called by physicians to the many J cases where pre.-eriptions are dishon j estly put up. ( heap drugs and medical ! preparations are substituted for more j expensive ones*. Adulterated drugs are 1 to some extent used. Physicians are wronged and patient- injured, and all to add to the profits of the drug stores. The poor, as usual, are the chief suf ; ferers. It is the small stores on ihe east and west sides and in the suburbs j | which are the worst offenders. .Many j of these stores are struggling hard to live. The competition in the drugbusi- j I ress is terrific. The expenses are high. ! The men who control tlie manufacture i of proprietary remedies have drawn i the margin of profit narrower and nar | rower. There are trusts in drugs, too. j The war taxes have been used as clubs | to hit the heads of the retailers. The j temptation to swell profits is tremen i dous, but. at what an awful cost! The doctors say that human lives i have unquestiona I ' v been made to pay ; the penalty of substitute drugs used in | prescriptions. "A life for a dime!" i Did ever human greed descend to more ! merciless depths? Health Commissioner William T. Jen kins has taken the matter up. He has ; ordered the inspectors of the board of health to take prompt steps to check | the growing evil. It was checked on 'e when f)r. Cyrus j Edson took hold of the evil with an iron hand and started an investigation which led to the arrest and prosecution of hundreds of cases. A similar cru sade has been begun. "What we need," said Dr. Jenkins, "is more stringent laws. At present a conviction carries nothing more puni tive than a fine of SSO for each offense. Why. it costs more to be convicted of selling watered milk., and that crime is not to be compared with this most foul and murderous one." The recent epidemic of grippe has brought a great temptation for substi tution. Phenacetine is frequently pre scribed for it. It costs 85 cents per ounce. Many drug clerks use acotanilid instead. This is a cheap but very pow erTiil substitute. One grain is as pow erful as 40 of phenacetine. Tn many case-- -übstitution means death. Chemists of the board of health have found many samples of adulterated phenacetine. some of them poisonous. The drug itself is one to be used with the greatest care, and to fool with it.is a crime of vast proportions. Physicians have taken the matter up. Some have had private analysis made. Arrests, cunvietions. publicity—these seem to be the only remedies.—X. V. World. Ilfintf rkn !»li» Home for Sralx. In northeastern Labrador Mr. A. P. Low has found a fresh-water lake, SAO feet above sea level and 100 miles from salt water, which is inhabited by seals. TTe thinks the ancestors of these seals were imprisoned in a bay when the general surface <-f Labrador rose after the glacial epoch. Being thus cut- off from the sea, the water gradually lw>- camt fresh, while its inhabitants accus tomed themselves to their new condi tions of life.—Youth's Companion. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1899 A SENSIBLE LETTER. | Western Canadian Settler Write* to an Illinois Friend. In writing to Mr. T. Ilawkyard, of Rockford, 111., Mr. G. Sinipkiiis, of Lc duc, Alberta, Western Canada, (and to which pointsespecially low rates are be ing quoted over all lines of railway). Bays: Dear Sir —Rec'd your letter the 14th Inst. We have had no snow till after Christmas, and the cattle have been able to live out, and are all in good con dition. It is snowing now. That is what we want—have about 6 inches now. The old settlers say when we have lots of snow it means a good crop the coming season. It never drifts here. The weather is calm and bright. W 7 e i do not have to dress any heavier than in j Illinois, and the horses never shiver ! with the cold when we take them from J the warm stable, as they do in Illinois. | It has not frozen in the stable this I winter. The most of the stock runs out, but j there is no need of it, for timber is plen tiful and there is no expense to build i good stables and houses. We have good log houses and they are very warm. Two men can put up a house 10x24 in | two days. There are good rails for ! fences. We live ten miles from the coal : district, the price being 50 cents up to $2.00. The land is a very rich, loamy soil, | from 6 inches to several feet in depth; ! the hills have the deepest. It is a roll ing country, and excellent for stock of all kinds. Slieep do well, and there are plenty of small lakes where the cattle can get good water. The cattle got out of grass last year, about the middle of April, and run at large; un less in charge of a herdsman, we have to fence against them. Wheat goes from 35 to 60 bushels per acre, oats 80 and 90, very of ten a hundred. As to pota toes, a neighbor planted 7 bushels and dug 22G bushels, and no bugs. Boots of all kinds do well. There are lots of strawberries and lots of red raspberries, black and red currants, and gooseber ries, where the fire has not burnt them. Cattle are scarce. I have been trying to buy some for 8 months and have got only three two-year-old, and paid S3O each. Hogs are scarce, but can be got. They sell for G cents dressed, and cost more forstockers. Wheat,so cents per bushel; oats, 25 cents; eggs, 30 cents a dozen; butter, 15 and 20 cents; poultry was 10 and 11 cents dressed. Sheep are scarce. \ If you come, bring your farm tools, j but bring no seeders; we use drills. J ring cows, but do not bring horses less you are an experienced hand I in shipping them, for so many of ! them are hurt in shipping. There will be plenty of work for a binder. Two good horses will break, but three lighter are better. The horses you get here can work without grain, but are better with it. It will be hard to tell what prices horses will be, for the Immigration will be very large the coming spring. They could not be hail last spring at onetime. They claim the best time to break is June, but my experience is to break in tht spring and work it. You can break till the middle of July. A Test. The woman did not believe in the occult. "Now, I propose to test tins clairvoy ant," she was saying. "I shall send her a lock of my hair. as she directs, with some question which nobody but myself can pos sibly answer. Let me see, what can I ask her?" j The man laughed hoarsely. "Ask her what is the real color of the hair!" he urged.—Detroit Journal. How's Tills? | We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward ! for any case of Catarrh that can not be ! cured bv Hall's Catarrh Cure. V. J. Cheiuiy & Co., Props., Toledo, O. | We, the undersigned, have known F. J. | Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe ; him perfectly honorable''in all business transactions and financially able to carry ; out any obligations made by their Arm. \\ est & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To ledo. O. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale! Druggists, Toledo. Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, ( acting directly upon the blood and mucoui surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per hot tie. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonial free. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Judicious Flattery. The Chinese call their dowager empress the most beautiful woman in the world They know better thar not to.—Memphis Commercial Anneal. Seeing how much better it looks, we wonder why every merchant doesn't keep his store neat.—Washington (la.) Demo- j crat. A Terrible ltevenge.—First Bootblack— I "You had a row with Nibsey, Billy?" Sec ond Bootblack—"Yes, and I'm goin' ter J have my revenge, too." First Bootblack— j "Goin' to fight him?" Second Bootblack— j j "Naw, I'm goin' to stand aside of him when ! he's a-shinin' a gent, and when he's finished j I'm goin' to say: 'Shine, sir?' " —Pearson's ! Weekly. "Your majesty," said the prime minister, I "this is the page who has been remiss in his j duty." "Alia!" exclaimed the king, "we'll j have to bring him to book!" "He! lie!" I laughed the page; "a noble jest, I'll be | bound." Thereupon the king's heart soft- j ened, for he marveled that a man so young j could make so old a joke.—Catholic Stand- | ard and Times. The Danger Point.—Goodale—"Bludgood's loss through the (ire was twice as much as Hoodwink g." ltawson—"Why,l didn't know j "ie was burned out." Goodale —"He wasn't. But his place is next door to the fire, you j know."—Philadelphia North American. j "And you are busy, are you?" interro gated the customer as he paid his check to the restaurant proprietor. "Busy! Why, I'm so rushed I don't get a chance togo out to get a bite to eat!" was the unguarded reply.—Yonkers Statesman. First Klmiran—"How's your hoy Zeke gettin' along down in Noo York?" Second Klmiran—"Wa al, I hain't heard from him for a long time, but 1 guess he's gone into the noospaper business, 'coz 1 read in the paper that he was correspondent in a big lawsuit down there." —Birmingham Times. "Johnny, Johnny, didn't I ask you once to stop whistling at the table?" "Yes'm." "Well, do you want me to ask you again?" "No'm. I don't want you to make no bad breaks." "Bad breaks! What do you mean, Johnny?" "Well'm, you said it wat very impolite to ask for things twice at the I table."—Pittsburgh Bulletin. Ton Can Oat Allan's FRIC. Write to-day to Allen Olmsted, Le Hoy, N. Y , for a FREE sample of Allen's Foot- Ease, a powder to shake into your »boe». It cure* chilblains, sweating, damp, swollen, aching feet. It makes tight shoes easy. Cures Corus, Bunions and Ingrowing Nails. Alldruggistsantl sbnestores sell It. '"> cents. Many a girl's heart has been melted by ice-cream.—X. A. Bulletin. Fortify Feeble Lungs Against Winter little's Honey of Horehound and Tar. I'ike'n Toothache Drops Cure in one imnute. The only thing gome people do is to grow »lder.—Atchison Globe. He struck it. St. Jacobs Oil struck his R>>piiTn;.t;«m ft w:ib Btrirkcn out.. in THE pleasant method and beneficial effects of the well-known remedy, SYRUP OF FIGS, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Company, illustrate the value of obtaining the liquid laxative principles of plants known to be medicinally laxative and presenting them in the form most refreshing to the taste and acceptable to the system. It is the one perfect strengthening laxative, CLEANSING THE SYSTEM EFFECTUALLY, DISPELLING COLDS AND HEADACHES, PREVENTING FEVERS, OVERCOMING HABITUAL CONSTIPATION PERMANENTLY. Its perfect freedom from every objectionable quality and substance, and its acting on the kidneys, liver and bowels, gently yet promptly, without weakening or irritating them, make it tiie ideal laxative. In the process of manufacturing figs are used, as they are pleasant to the taste, but THE MEDICINAL QUALITIES ARE OBTAINED FROM SENNA AND OTHER AROMATIC PLANTS, by a method known to the California Fig Syrup Company 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. Consumers of the choicest products of modern commerce purchase at about the same price that others pay for cheap and worthless imitations. To come into universal demand and to be everywhere considered the best of its class, an article must be capable of satisfying the wants and tastes of the best informed purchasers. The California Fig Syrup Company having met with the highest success in the manufacture and sale of its excellent liquid laxative remedy, SYRUP OK FIGS, it has become important to all to have a knowledge of the Company and its product. The California Fig Syrup Company was organized more than filteen years ago, for the special purpose of manufacturing and selling a laxative remedy which would be more pleasant to the taste and more beneficial in effect than any other known. The great value of the remedy, as a medicinal agent and of the Company's efforts, is attested by the sale of millions of bottles annually, and by the high approval of most eminent physicians. As the true and genuine remedy named SYRUP OF FIGS is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Company only, the knowledge of that fact will assist in avoiding the worthless imitations manufactured by other parties. (AUr^RNIAfTC^YRVFg e^ F cAb CASc o yoßK,^*' For vSale by All Druggishs , Price 50$ Per Bottle. /CureaColda Oeofha, Bo»e Threat, Croujh Influ *»aa. Whoopinf Oeujfh, Bronchitis and Asthma. A oar tain cur« far Conaumptioa in first stages, and a sure relief in advanced atagea. Use at once. You will aee the excellent effect after taking tbs grat dose. Sold K j driers everywhere. Price, M amd 60 cants per bottla. 000, 112 UNSQLICITED TESTIMONIALSSAV j 'ermanent ly cure* all Itching, Burning. Scaley {"alp and Skin iJlseaßes such as Salt Rheum Kc jf »»• Scald Head. Chilblains. Piles. Burns. Baby i'lmors, Dandruff. Itching Scalp. Falling Hair I i lilekanlng and making it Soft. Silky, and Luxurl j mt). All Fa«'« Kruptlous (producing a Soft. Clear. autiful Skin and (Complexion). It containa no | .i- ad. Sulphur. Cantharides or anything inlurious. * " *r«at Keller Lady canvassers make SI I ■*> WJI a day. Druggiats or mall /iltc. Capillaris Manufacturing Co.. N. Y Address T. Hi 1,1, MAXBFIELP, Agt.. ULK\ KIDUC, M. J. As Black a 5 gao| mao m A— vourJß Your Whiskers A Natural Black with Buckingham's Dye. SO SU. of druggist* or R.P.Hall it C«.,Nuhui,N.H. Nickname Bared Rim. *TTis name is Percy Algernon," said the girl in the Seventh street car to her chum. "'Pretty, ain't it? But, Uien, it's kind o' •oft-like, too, don't you think?" "Kind o', said the other girl. "I like Bill, or Jim, or something like that, my self. Never knew a Bill or Jim yet that wasn't reliable. I hope Percy Algernon'll prove to be nice, but I think his name's awf'ly against him, honest I do, Min." Then the other girl looked thoughtful for a couple of blocks. "Oh, but he told me," she said, sudden ly, then, "that the men down at the store call him 'Spud.' " "Then you needn't worry," was the con solatory reply. "He's all right," and thus it was settled that Percy Algernon would do. —Washington Post. $ "THRIFT IS A GOOD REVENUE." & GREAT SAVING RESULTS FROM 2 I CLEANLINESS AND £ # lOon't Rent ESTABLISH A HOME OF YOUR OWN Read "The Corn Belt," a bandiome monthly paper, beautifully illustrated, containing exact and truthful informa tion about farm lands in the West. Send 25 cents in postage stamps for a year's subscription to THK CORN BELT, 209 Adams St., Chicago. EXCURSIONS F,le taTfand OFWESTERN CANADA. Rrl'lijCilON I idons will leave 01 "ami I (ff'lll rl'j I Michigan points fur West- I KVI CI I ern Canada on Monday of tJSvSA * l '* ,< ' l " k ' |k,,e »™panied I I»nliyuuentsor the (ioTcrn i> merit arid special car* \ "ill be provided for the 1 ~ through 1 rip. For partlc- ! ulars at* to how to obtain ICO acres of land free. I and railway ralrs fur settlers. apply to SupPrin- ; tondent of Immigration, Ottawa. Canada, or to M V. MCINN'IEK. NO 1 Merrl II Block. Detroit. Mich. ma>ODCV NEVV DISC° v ERY;gITes f\ ■ ii# I quick relief anil cures worst cases. Hook of testimonial* and IO days' treut ■sat rrca. UK. a, u. «HUl>'fc bunt, v«i c, Atiaata, as. I Foafklif l.rndt <• Consumption I Kemp's Balsam -will stop the Cough at J once. (Jo to your druggist to-day and get a I sample bottle free. Large bottles 25 and 94 cents. Go at once; delays are dangerous. A Good Sign, When the queen regent completed th« ratification of the treaty it wat* a good 9igA for Spain.—Cleveland Leader. ■ nnr's Family Medicine. Moves the bowels each day. In order to jbe healthy this is necessary Acts gently ou | the liver and kidneys. Cures sick head* j ache. Price 25 and 50c. It is funny how little it takes to make i some men do mean things.—Washington (la.) Democrat. GUOO BICYCLES &16. Shopworn A *« ( y EMRMm BTCYCLM •ft ■•d«)g. W# J|, # ~„ El4«r A(|«| la Mib u» D frprc lico' <fiw r i«wkMl u . DiT«duc« Uta. Writ* It mm* ftr o«7|ftiiY«lS P. A jHEAD & PRFNTISS, Chicago, 111. "MAINE" STEEU U. S. GOVERNMENT CERTIFICATE. ®Th in Dewey disc of actual ButtlwtiJnp Maine *teel in small made hi v cr%iHi o «rt mnxiimun ''of* for Booklet c J(»\ks Ihk Jfwici fr, ZPCICARTER'S INK we do we don't knovhowto. We J s ([ ie fr es t t | ia j can j,e can make poorer , ~ and cheaper ink, ma CC. It Costs J'OU no but we won't. more than the poorest. Funny booklet 41 ] low to Make Ink Pictures "free. CARTER'S INK CO.. Boston, Mass. A. N. K.-C 1756 WANTFfI '* P °P'® 10 learn telegraphy; operators In ?! mi Ilu demand. Learners' pocket instrument, requiring no buttery, with hook full Instructions, by Mali ftOc. Morse Novell/ (Jo., Bo* N, Cleveland. <£. 7
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