ASSORTING PLUMS. If Is Eauy Work Provided Von Make • Table I.lke Ihe One Here lieMcribed. In most cases experience has proven that plums, if shipped to mar ket in ten-pound grape baskets, pro ■vided with handles "and put up in ueat, presentable shape, will bring ■l-he producer a greater percentage of "profit than if shipped in half-bushel or bushel crates or packages. A care rful picker can fill the basket direct the tree, but the usual plan is K.o piek into large receptacles, then, carefully sorting the plums, place in packages ready for market. This fre quent handling removes a great deal «rf bloom from the fruit, which re ■m ' j -3: t - TABLE FOR ASSORTING PLUMS. anoval should be avoided as much a« possible. By the use of a single table, as illus trated, plums and other similar fruits «re easily assorted. The top of the "table should not be over 3x2 1-2 feet. The sides and back (r, r. r) may be eight inches wide at- the back, taper ing to three inches in front; the front puards (c, c) should be less than "three inches high, leaving a six-ineh *<pac'e between the inner ends:; the planting board (g) is six inches wide. To operate it. place the fruit careful ly upon the table, the assorter occu pying a chair in front, of the table, •with a basket on his lap. Both bands can then be used in remov ing the leaves, limbs, damaged or im perfect fruit, throwing the refuse tinto baskets (n. n) on the f\oor. The perfect fruit, or that intended for shipping, is rolled in front and passes over the incline (g) into the Ibasket. This table need cost but lit tle, and may be made in as crude or elaborate a form as wished. In work ing, the elbows can rest upon the guards (c, c), which will make the op eration much easier. An ordinary ta kle can be fitted with these simple ap pliances and quickly removed after Ihe shipping season is passed.—L. S. "Yates, in Farm and Home. LOCATING THE HOME. Bow the SII r run n «!i ntr* of a Fnrm* House Can ll#* Made Health!'ix I and Attractive. In laying out country homes one o1 the most important points to be we!! guarded against is the direction froze the house of the stables, pig pens cattle lots and other necessary but 'bad-smelling accompaniments of the farm. However neatly they may bs kept, there will be more or less ol unwholesome effluvia arising from them in hot weather. As the prevail ing winds of the summer are from 'the south and west, the proper place ifor such things is to the northeast or east of the dwelling. This will carry the odors away from instead of (toward the house. A south or east front for the premises gives a better chance for nuch arrangement than any other. In planting trees, shrub bery, flower beds, and planning ■walks and drives follow the natural etyle rather than stiff, straight or formal lines, placing the trees and ehrubs in groups and irregular lines, rather than in straight or geometri cal lines of any kind, putting the larger ones upon the border of the bouse yard, with the smaller ones in front of them. This will make a back ground for the shrubbery and flowers, giving a natural and graceful look. Lay the roads and walks in gentle curves from point to point, placing groups of trees or shrubs on the in side of the curves, that the devia tions from straight lines may seem natural and fitting. Make no gates directly in front of the main entrance to me uweiung, uui rather R'iignnj to one side, from which the road or ■walk should gently sweep to the de sired entrance. Plant no large-grow ing trees, so as to eventually shade and shut out the view. A few that will make good shade, such as the elm end maple, may be set in groups or elone where they will be out of the way, and yet sufficiently near the bouse to make convenient shade. Plant the native trees of the forest or •which may be bought at little expense rather than those which are costly, tender and unsatisfactory.—H. E. Van Dernan, at New York Institute. I.oentlon of lierrj' Patched. Western horticulturists are advising *0 locals raspberry and' blackberry patches on northwest, east or south east, as the prevailing winds are mostly from the other directions, The evident reason for this advice is that the winds will thus blow over the patch rather than through it. The advantages are twofold. The cati"K are not broken by the gales, and during the hot weather the air does not so rapidly draw the moisture out of the soil. Por the same reason a wind-break is an advantage —Farmers' lie view. OUR CHEESE INDUSTRY. To Make It ltripeclfd In Forciffß Countrici Kcquirc** Sensible l«n- KrcKhiumil l.cgislHliuii. A leading cheese exporter who is quoted in the Boston Transcript states lhat the tolal production of cheese in this country at the present time is fig ured at about 265,000,000 pounds an nually and that we export about 70,- OOJ.OOO pounds of this amount. He fig ures that the home consumption is about 200,0(10,000 pounds, including' about 12,000,000 pounds of foreign cheese that is imported. If these fig ures are correct our exports of cheese are very much larger than they were last year, which are given by the treas ury bureau of statistics at 38,198.753 pounds for the fiscal year of 1899. .Most likely the Boston exporters' figures are exaggerated, but it is probable that \%e shall show a considerable gain in our exports for this year. Since the cru sade that has been made against "filled" cheese, our cheese has recov ered some of the reputation that it lost. There is a demand for further legislation to prevent the counterfeit ing of well-known brandsof cheese, in order to restore the prestige of these different makes. Congress is being urged to give our cheese-makers' the benefit of laws that will enable them to compete with Canadian dairymen, who have developed a large export trade in recent years at our expense. It is believed that with laws that guar antee the genuineness of our cheese products we might recover the former high position they enjoyed in foreign markets. It. is pointed out that Amer ican cheese is in some cases bought by Canadians and shipped to Great Brit ain as a Canadian product, finding a ready market. Our dairymen, make as good cheese as can be found in the world and should have a considerable t«hare of the foreign trade. What they need in order to occupy a more promi nent position is legislation that will convince the foreign consumer that he i» not being deceived but is buying cheese that is exactly what it is repre sented to be. —Farmers' Voice. THE FARMER'S WIFE. Thla Wrllcr THINK* MM- MI 011 1 d Mure it (jreul Dcnl I.CMN Work, and More Reward. The life of the average woman on the farm is by no means one continual round of pleasure. Her duties are mul tifarious, beginning with the early dawn and ending—well, they never seem to end. There are so many things for the busy woman to do in the daily routine on the farm. Outside of the regular household duties which fall to the lot of the city wife, there are chickens, turkeys, ducks, etc.. in the poultry line to attend to, churning and often the milking to do, fruits in sea son to pick and care for, and hundreds of little things that are calculated to keep an ambitious woman busy. Her earnings usually consist of what, she can make out of butter, eggs and poul try. It is a comparatively rare thing that the woman on the farm has to draw* on the resources that come from the sale of general crops or live stock to buy her necessities. She is expected not only to maintain herself, but buy many useful articles for the house out of the products of her own individual labors. Let us hope that the old adage "Man's work is ft-om sun to sun, but woman's work is never done." may some day be modified so that the "bet ter half" may have less work and more reward.—Chicago Sun. QUICKLY MADE CRATES. How to Make Shoe IIOXPN Available for the ftapld Handling of l-'rult* mid I'utntoen. Shoe boxes are the right shape and s.ze for crates, just as they come empty from theshoestores. Cut out two strips CRATE FOR GARDEN TRUCK. on each side and put a cross partition in the middle, and the crate is complete. This will prove very useful in handling the fruit crop, or for potatoes - , etc. A short strip of wood with the under sur face cut out for the fingers, nailed 10 each end, will prove convenient when handJing the crates.—Orange Judil Farmer, Keeping OI'I Com in Milk. I Milk cattle, receiving indifferent ' care, age a great deal more rapidly ! than others, says George E. Noweil | in the American Cultivator. A cow's age, as regards milk yielding value, j should be measured not so much by I years as by care and feed. A nat j u rail j' gooil cow, if she has had rough ! tisage, will be played out in a lacteal sense when she is eight or nine years old. But. if she has a fair showing from her owner in the pasture and stable, the should remain a profitable milker for 12 years, and sometimes longer. AY heel Koe for Garden Work. The wheel hoe will save much labor in the garden. I'sually such an imple ment is a combination affair, compris ing seed drill, cultivator teeth, mark ers. rakes and knives, each being de tachable. On heavy soils the wheel n.ust necessarily require more power for its operation than when used> on light, sandiy soils, but as it is the cheap eat implement made, in proportion to Its various uses, no one will make a take who procures one, us it is a won* | ttrful labor saver. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1900. When a preparation has an advertised rep utation that is world-wide, it means that preparation is meritorious. If you go into t store to buy an article that has achieved universal popularity like Cascarets Candy Cathartic for example, you feel it has the fndorsement of the world. The judgment of the people is infallible because it is im personal. The retailer who wants to sell you "something else'' in place of the article you ask for, has an ax to grind. Don't it stand to reason? He's trying to sell something that is not what he represents it to be. Why? Because he expects to derive an extra profit our of your credulity. Don't you see through his little game? The man who will try to sell you a substitute for Cascarets is a fraud. Beware of him! He is trying to steal the honestly earned benefits of a repu tation which another business man has paid for, and if his conscience will allow him to go so far, he will go farther. If he cheats his customer in one way, he will in another and it is not safe to do business with him. Beware of the Cascaret substitutor! Remember Cascarets are never sold in bulk but in metal boxes with the long tailed "C" on every box and each tablet stamped c. c. c, lit- Wouldn't Tell. The argument by analogy or hypothetical case is often dangerous. A very stately and dignilied clergyman used to tell a story illustrative of the risk of this method. One of his parishioners was much addicted to drink and one night the vicar met him coming home in such a condition that he remonstrated with him on the spot, and by way of clinching his argument, asked: "What would you say if you were to see me reeling down the street in a state of hopeless intoxication?" The offender ap peared to be deeply impressed and an swered. fervently: "I wouldn't tell a soul, sir."—San Francisco Argonaut. Wonderful Cures are effected by Palmer's Lotion. Thomns Nash, of Pittsfield, Ills., wrote to us as fol lows: "Your Lotion has cured nie of Ring worm of four years' standing, after having been treated in vain by the M. D.'s." It will also cure Tetter, Eczema, Erysipelas, Barber's Itch and every kind of virulent cutaneous disease, l'ahner's Lotion .Soap possesses all the medicinal properties of this Lotion and should always be used in connection with it in preference to any other soap, ll your druggist does not keep it send his name to Solon Palmer, 374 Pearl St., New York, and receive free pamphlet of testimonials and sample of Lotion or Soap. Those Loving Girl*. Maude—lf I only had my iife to live over again— Clara (interrupting)— Why* I thought that's what you were doing. "What do you mean?" "1 heard you tell the census man you would be 22 your next birthday."—Chicago Evening News. Do Your Feet Aelie and Burn? Sl..ike into your shoes, Allen's Foot K.ise, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Siioes Feel Easy. Cures Corns, Itching, Swollen, Hot, Callous, Smarting, Sore arid Sweating Feet. All Druggists and Shoe Stores sell it. 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad dress, A"" n S. Olmsted, L" finv. N. V. Horrors of War. The hardworked humorist sat at his desk, and without the slightest apparent effort he dashed this of!: "Why do you Peking here?" asked Tsi Ann of the Russian general, who was recon noitring in the imperial neighborhood. "Because I am going to Taku," was the re fierce reply. Yet such things as this were not men tioned among the horrors of war discussed at The Hague conference. Baltimore Amer ican. Lane'a Family Medicine. Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick head ache. Price 25 and 50c. Love does not usually laugh at a parrot which says: "Now, George, you stop!" al though to our mind this is much funnier than the average locksmith. —Detroit Journal. Each package of PUTNAM'S FADELESS DYES colors more goods than any other dye and colors them better too. Sold bv aU druggists. The oldest of a crowd of girls, though she may be only 18. is always made to feel as if she is a wiinkled spinster.—Atchison Globe. A dyspeptic is never on good terms with himself. Something is always wrong. Get it right by chewing Beeman's Pepsin (ium. Max O'Rell says Paris is so fast that they use quicksand in the hour glasses! Max is a dizzy joker, but time flies ail the same. I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—Mrs. Thos. Robbing, Mapie Street, Norwich, N. Y., i'e b 17, 1900. When one woman out of a hundred has nothing to -ay the other !l!i are asking what is the matter with her. —Chicago Daily News. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. A1 druggists refund money if it fails to cure- 25c. If a man is industrious and frugal, he tan acquire a good deal of money without mowing much else. —Atchison Globe. Hall's Catnrrh Cure Is taken Internally. Price 75c. Don't try to condense the milk of human kindness.—Chicago Demo< r at. A perfect stranger is not necessarily per fect in any other way. —Indianapolis News. The Cornfed Philosopher.—"lt is hard for me to ac knowledge that 1 do not know it all," said the Cornfed Philosopher, "but I confess I cannot see why the rock-the boat idiot is allowed to live until he's strong enough to tip it over." lndianapolis Press. Mrs. Gabble —"Mrs. Phoxy seems to ex ercise a peculiar influence over her hus band." Mis. Noah Tall —"She does. She has preserved an 1 alleged poem he wrote when he was a young man, and whenever he gets obstreperous she threatens to read it to him."—Philadelphia Press. Deacon .Tones—"This Custom of making wagers is becoming lamentably common, besides being absurd. What would you think of me, now, if I should say I'll bet ten dollars 1 will get a letter to-day, instead of simply saying 1 expect to get one?" Frank Mann -"I should say you had a dead open and-shut."—Boston Transcript. Robert—"What's the matter between Fred and Fannie? They are not seen to gether of late?" Richard -"lt'sall Fannie's fault. She made Fred ridiculous in public and 1 don't blame hiin for getting mad." Robert "What did she do?" Richard— "Something awful. She asked him to open a car window for her—of course knowing that the thing was impossible."—Boston Transcript. 1 used to know a nervous man, who feared that he'd be robbed. Immense precautions did he use, yet with that terror throbbed. He thought thieves might take anything— his folks, his goods, his life—so when lie went away from home he always wired his wife. He pursed his lips to keep them safe, he used to hide his son; he always kept his books well bound; he liked tied games alone. Of course he'd lashes on his eyes, and, as it sometimes rains, he took in all the shows each night. His arguments had chains. He wouldn t buy a chainless wheel, although the neighbors laughed; and when he died he left a wish they'd sink liis marble shaft.— Yale Record. Family Tie* EihnuMrd, At one of the great department stores the other day a young man was indulging in airy persiflage with the pretty stop girl I behind the counter while waiting for nis j change. "What a wonderful place you have here! ' he said. "What do you sell?" | "Everything," was the reply. "Every- i thing? ' was the incredulous comment. "What do you mean by everything?" "Just j what 1 say," responded the girl. "Anything ! you want we c-an supply you with here." ! "Oh, you can, eh?" commented the preten- i tious Alexander. "Well, let me look at | some family ties." Without remark, but j with denture countenance, the girl went ! away, but in a moment returned .nd said: i "1 am sorry, but the manager' >is me that | we are just out of family ti< , owing to the j great demand. Perhaps '..u'd like to look i at some family jars?" 'Lne young man de- | cided, however, that ihe latter was an un- I desirable commodity, and he would have j none of it. —N. Y. Tribune. "Have your summer vacation plans ma- { tureel yet, Billy?" "Oh, yes; but they had to be side-tracked o* account of some [ summer notes that also matured."—ln- i dianapolis Journal. Remember that other people's business i isn't any of yours.—Chicago Daily Democrat. Lydia E. Pinkham's < Vegetable Compound cures the Ills peculiar to women. It tones up their general health, eases down overwrought nerves, cures those awful backaches and reg ulates menstruation. It does this because it acts directly on the fe male organism and makes it healthy, relieving and curing all inflammation and displacements• Nodhing else is Just as good and many things that may be suggested are dangerous. This great medicine has a constant record of cure• Thou sands of women testify to it. Read their letters con stantly appearing in this paper• READERS OF THIS PAPER * DESIRING TO BUY ANYTHING ADVHRTISBD IN ITS COLUMNS SHOULD INSIST UPON HAVING WHAT THKY ASK FOR. REFUSING ALL SUBSTITUTES OR IMITATIONS. ROOFINfiSS I™. ■■H WM gq. ft and nails iaclndfid. Snbetitatefl for plaster. Sample frea. aEßHmnpppgJh TsT CURES WHIHE ALL USt FAILS.fiT brf Best Cough flyrup. Tastes OotxL L'fte LxJ In time. Bold by druggists. I*l ft The summer's awful heat will kill those U|> not fit to resist it—those whose bodies are full rHjp of poison because they have neglected their The victims of sunstroke, or of any of the nTyn other terrible dangers of summer—diarrhoea, Ijjp- dysentery, cholera morbus—are always those who have been careless about keeping clean in side, and as a result have their blood full of rotten filth breeding disease germs and their bodies ready with weakness to succumb to the hot spell. Dizziness, heat headaches, sick stomachs, sticky oozing ill-smelling sweats, \ restless nights, terrible pains, gripes and cramps V in the bowels, sudden death on the street, all result from this neglect. \ Keep yourself clean, pure and healthy in- V side, disinfected as it were, with CASCARETS CANDY CATHARTIC, the greatest antiseptic bowel tonic ever discovered and you will find that every form of summer disease will be PRE ;>ENTEP ; DRUGGISTS CASCARETS are absolutely harmless, a purely vegetable compound. Ho mercurial or other mineral pill-poison in CASCARETS. CAS CARETS promptly, effectively and peimanentlv cure every disorder of the Stomach, Liver and Intestines. Tbey not only cure constipation, but correct any and every form of irregularity of the bowels, including diarrhasa and dysentry. Pleasant, palatable, potent. Taste good, do good. Never sicken, weaken or gripe. Write lor booklet and free sample. Address STERLING REMEDY CO., CHICAGO or HEW YORK. 430 SERVED HIM RIGHT. lie Adtlitcd Olliem Hut Did \ot Fol low Out Ills One Sag* KP>I ion H. The rrowe! began to gather as soon as the man fell down. One e>f the thoughtful on. 9 ran to a drug store aand rane up an ambu lance, and in a few moments a gieat clang ing and clattering was heard down the street. Then the ambulance drew alongside the curb, the natty young physician dis mounted from the rear step, and the crowd standing around the man who had fallen formed a lane for him to pass through. It required only a glance for the natty young physician to see what ailed the man, says the Washington Post. "Prostrated by the heat," he said, coolly, to the crowd. "Anybody here if now hirn'r" There was no reply, but just as the ambu lance men were about to pic k up his pros trate man a stout man pushed his way through the crowd, glanced at the limp form of the victim of the neat, and said: "Here, vou can just fetch him up to my house. He lives with my family. He's the man who writes the "Hints on How to Keep Cool in Hot Weather' for the papers." Jus: about seven-eighths of the people should cut out that part about forgiving one's enemies before they repeat the Lord'." prayer.—Atchison Globe. VVALTHAM WATCHES Before 1854 there were no Waltham Watches nor any American Watches. To-day the tradition that one must go abroad for a good watch has been exploded by the American Waltham Watch Company. " The Perfected American Watch an illustrated bonk of interesting information about nuatches, nvill be sent free upon request. American Waltham Watch Company, Waltham, Mass. • •S6l«H«g? m The man who smokes ' 1 Old Virginia Cheroots 1 2 has a satisfied, "glad I have got it" 2 • expression on his face from the time • Jhe lights one. He knows he will J ■ not be disappointed. No matter ■ • where he buys one—Maine or Texas, J Q Florida or California—he knows they q ■ will be just the same as those he gets ■ ■ at home—clean—well made—burn B • even—taste good—satisfying J • Three hundred million Old Virginia Cheroots smoked this 5J £H year. Ask your own dealer. Price, 3 (or 5 cents. 0| CMtttt»IIUM Double Oail» \ / Dodgeand C'oun oil Hiiiffs. iinllct- library-smoking cars. sleeping cars, free reclining chair cars, dlningcars. Send to the undersigned for a lice copy of Pictures and Note* En-Route illustrat ing this new line as seen from the car window. Tickets, oi agents of I. C. It. It.and connecting lines. A. 11. JIANSON, G. i'. A.. Chicago. Two Delicious IJpiKprN for price of one. The Grocers oi' this city are giving a package of Burnham's I 'ream Custard to «;:ch purchaser of a package of Burnham's Hasty Jellycon. Both make delicious desserts, without cooking or bak ing. Dissolve the Cream Custard in hot milk; lla.stj Jellycon in hot water. Order I to-day. ! A. N. K.-C 3HZZZ 1824 nuri IMATfSM SSio^^r. mm Hk3 B I t r»«* only positive nnre. i'asi ex ; mm ■ BBi B B porience speaks rur itself- I1»«a i Ell Ik TttF Ave., Cbicintu. 7
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