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 ;
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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.
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