A RURAL MAIL BOX. One of tlie Mont Serviceable of the Many Noiv lleliiK Introduced Into the Service. I The accompanying drawing shows one of the newer mail boxes invented for use in the rural districts, where the same box is employed both for mail matter that is being delivered to tlie resident and for matter de posited by the latter for the carrier to take away. This particular box is made rather long, so as to admit periodicals without folding them. Many persons object to having their magazines needlessly creased. The opening above the door is so arranged that the carrier can drop RURAL MAIL EOX. mail in there without unlocking the door, and thus save time. Then, like some other mail boxes, this one has a signal to attract the carrier's atten tion, in case mail for him to take away is inside. The signal projects below the lower edge of the box, and is adjusted when the main door is open. It can be set, therefore, only by a person having a key to the box. Of course, when the carrier stops and opens the box he shoves the signal tip out of sight, where it remains un til one of the family pulls it down again. When a carrier has nothing to deliver and sees no signal set for him to collect mail, he saves time by passing right along.—N. Y. Trib une. WINDMILL SCARECROW. It "Will Interrupt flio Work of Croivi Even \\ here Tliey llnve IICKIIII Tlieir Depreciation!*. The only effectual scarecrow I over found is a windmill. I formerly made them to jingle a bell as they turned, but later founti that their motion alone is just as effective. I take two pieces of pine two inelie" square and about two feet long. These are first balanced on a knife-edge to get tlieir center of gravity. Make a side mor tise in each, cutting half through, tack them together at right angles, and we have the four arms. Bore a hole for the axis anil insert an iron box, or else tack a washer on each tide to prevent wear. The oats are the sides-of quart tomato cans, un soldered in the fire, rolled out flat and tacked to the arms, which have previously been beveled by taking ofE corresponding corners. Another strip of two-inch stuff about three feet long is required, a piece of tin or a shingle is tacked to one end for a vane, a hole is bored longitudinally in the other end to receive a bolt, which is tnen driven in with the •wheel upon it. After being thus mounted the center of gravity is found, a hole bored through the stick nt this point, aiyl the whole mounted upon a stout pole set in the ground, using a bolt for a spindle to allow the vane to turn in the wind. Such a contrivance has never failed with me to prevent, or to interrupt the work of crows even where they have com menced their depredations.—Kural Xew Y'orker. CinoNc Fnrmlnß In EiiKlnnd. Goose farming and goose fattening have fallen off greatly in England. From old accounts we read that it was not uncommon for a man to keep a flock of J.''oo each of which might be expected to rear on an average seven goslings. The flocks were reg ularly taken to graze and water, the same as sheep, and the man who herded them was called a goose-herd or gozzanl. Tlie birds were plucked five times in the year, and in the au tumn flocks were driven to London or other markets. They traveled at the rate of about a mile an hour, and would get over nearly ten miles a clay. When eeese are to be traveled a distance in Europe, they are driven through warm tar, and then through sand, which "boots" them for the journey. j Biji Victory In I'eniiHylvnnla. After a desperate struggle the farmers of Pennsylvania ha»e won a victory in the passage through the state legislature of a strong anti-oleo bill, it was a hard and long bat tle, in which the state grange and other organizations took part. The oleo interests were strong and well organized, and they fought desperate ly for their fraudulent profits. The farmers did not have much money, but they made a brave showing when they organized for business. Why do we keep on talking about organizing and "getting together?" Because that is the only way to turn the wrongs of the farmer into rights.—Kural New York. Until the calf you are raising on skim milk is six or eight months old it is not a bod idea to feed a small quant it j of grain ©nee a day at least. PITY THE POOR BOY. When Ho Trie* to Traoh the Cull t• Drink from u I'nil Johnny Una Trouble* of liiM Own. The time of year recalls the dear, dead days beyond recall when the farmer's boy taught the calf to drink from a pail. The Britt (la.) Tribune refers feelingly to these strenuous moments in the life of our agricultural youth—moments that teach patience and kindly dealing with the dumb ani mals. For the weaned calf is full of the infinite and eternal energy. It de sires its sustenance mightily, but it desires it in the way nature lias taught it to obtain sustenance. The sight of the pail seems to fill the calf's mind with forebodings. The calf de sires to look up when it drinks. The farmer's son desires it to look down ward into the pail. The farmer's child must hold the pail between his feet with his hands, using two other hands to hold firmly the cow's child to its milk. When the calf humps its buck and tries to jump, it is necessary tc hold it down with two more hands. When it breathes hard into the pail and blows the milk all out you must twist its tail with two more hands. Just before a calf bunts it wiggles its tail. At the premonitory wiggle the tail must be held also, meantime keep ing the calf's head directed Into the pail. The Hritt Tribune says: "Don't get excited; stand perfectly still, inspiring the calf to confidence by your coolness and sang froid. There is nothing equal to sang froid in the initial lesson, and without this attribute the pedagogue is sadly ham pered. There are other requisites, one of the chief ones being that the teacher must know more to begin with than the calf. By following these di rections closely a calf can be induced to fill itself with invigorating, life prolonging milk in a very few lessons, so that it will run its nose clear to the bottom of the pail the first bunt." AMien you feed a calf it is better to be alone. Especially is it necessary not to allow the women of the home stead to be present. The proceeding sometimes looks like cruelty, and they have other methods of calf feeding that seem more feasible to them, and they do not hesitate to voice them at critical moments, thus shaking your confidence in yourself and incidentally shaking the calf's already small stock of confidence in you. It is an art—that of calf feeding—that has not been sufficiently treated in the bulletins of the agricultural department.—Min neapolis Tribune. CALVES IN ORCHARDS. Where Voting A N IIIIMIM of Any Kind Are Hitelictl to Trees tlie I,ut ter Muitt lie Protected. A calf may be hitched to the trees in an orchard, if a crate, like that shown in the cut. is used. It. is hinged at one corner and opens at the other. The !/,"•/» '/.'lll I M J PROTECTION FOR TREES. bottom of each side is rounded, so it will slip over the ground easily and revolve when the rope becomes wound about it. In this way the calf will not become "wound up" to the tree, as is often the case when the rope is tied di rectly to the tree. This protector can be made of four boards if the trees are not large.—X. Y. Tribune. The Mule Ilreedlne IIIIHI ll eM*. We areof opinion that mulebreeding has been too much neglected in the south and perhaps elsewhere. The mule is really the most useful draft animal on the farm and by far the most economical. For real rough farm work mules are better than horses. They are not quite so speedy as horses, but there is much plowing on every farm that cannot be done both rapidly and well, and for steady pulling at a uniform speed the inulo has no equal. They are hardier and more easily kept and more cheaply fed than horses, and when grown for mar ket they are always ready sale at higher prices than farm horses. Largo mares and well bred jacks are needed to produce mules that will bring S2OO at two years old. —Farm and Kanch. A I'nlr of Old Apple Tret'*, Seymour Iveyser, of Manlieim, county, X. Y., has two old apple trees on his farm that are record-break ers. One of them is 12 feet in cir cumference. It is a Holland pippin and was brought from Holland in the latter part of the seventeenth cen tury. The tree is stilj bearing fruit. Another tree fell to the ground over half a century ago; the body and 11* original roots have long been de cayed. The to]> of this tree has taken root and receives its nourishment from the lower end of the top of the original tree. The apples are of the rustyeoat variety. This tree was also bro jght from Holland at the same time as the first mentioned, and is also bearing iruit.—Country Gentle man. The farmer who has a inilk check coming in every month will you that it is a great aid in producing sound and natural sleep, for it re lieves the worry of how to meet the current expense bills for the house hold. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, rgoi. SAYS THERE'S SNOW ON MOON. Prof. W. 11. I'lckerlni: lirlurna from Jnmulru tvllli ICraiillm of Krvcrul Tloiulm' OhHcrviillunii. Prof. W. H. Pickering, of the Harvard observatory, who has been making astronomical observations in Jamaica, West Indies, for several months, has brought a series of photographs of the moon, which ap pear to establish the interesting fact that there is snow on the moon. To secure the necessary details the surface of the moon was arbi trarily divided into 10 parts, and there are live pictures of each of the lti parts. Arranged in series then all the prominence and depressions on the moon's surface appear lighted under five different angles of sun light, and the astronomer may fol low any chosen object of observation under as many conditions of light and shade. What the snow is can as yet be only a matter of inference. It is most probably the snow of water. It appears that the presence of an at mosphere on the moon is accepted now among astronomers. Mrs. DeStyle—-"Of course, this new fur niture you've bought is quite pretty, but it's so distressingly new. It lacks the fash ionable marks of ape and antiquity. - ' Mr. DeStyle "Never mind, it'll be all light after the children have operated on it for a couple of weeks."—Philadelphia Press. C obwigger—"The railroads are up to «Y l T y M '"euic to attract traffic." Merritt Its a wonder Home of them don't offer prizes to the person who can fold up a time table as it was originally folded."— town lopies. P red \Y hy are you wearing your sweat er inside out ?" Bob—"Because lam wear ing the outside in." —Chaparral. Where the l.iixt Utile I,out. A Memphis traveler who has just re turned from.l Mississippi tour says he heard two farmers discussing the merits and demerits of the square and round bale gins as he was waiting for a. train in a little village of the Bayou state. "I likes the square hale best," said the lankest specimen of the two, "but they tell me that one bale has to push the other out like the way a hay press works, and I don't think I want to carry my cotton to a gin of that kind long toward the end of the sea son." 1 '■" Why not?" queried the second. "Well, if I happen to be the last man my bale of cotton would have to stay in that consarned press till the next crop came on a*d the ftirst load was ginned, so it could push my bale out of the contraption."— Memphis Scimitar. Proper Itnte of Payment, "I would like," said the writer, "to pre pare you a series of articles on 'How to Live on Ten Cents a Day." "For a consideration, of course?" sug gested the editor. "Oh, certainly." "You make your living by writing, 1 suppose." "Yes." "And if you can make a living out of one series of articles so that anything else you sold would be clear profit, you would feel that you were doing pretty well, wouldn't you?" "Naturally." "Well, in those circumstances I might take the articles at your own valuation." "My own valuation?" "Yes—the cost of a living, which you put at ten cents a day."—Chicago Post. "Th-s thing of bearing a title has some decided advantages." "In what way?" "Here's a newspaper report that an Eng lish duke has to pretend to be on good terms with hiw wife."—lndianapolis News. Overestimating Ilim.—"Paw." said little Willie Gettit, "give me ten cents to buy a story book with." "Ten cents!" s'—ieked the old gentleman. "Do you think lam Andv Carneir.e?"—Baltimore American B KNOWLEDGE IS POWER. IS | BOOK OF HEALTH. W ■i NUVT lltKI; ov w R ... ''HinfUl uf inforiiiHtiiiii rrfnriiiiiK cliFca<*cff of the I,lvor itnil KIIIMPYM K gH J niiirrliu-ii. llliciiiiitillHiu. HI'IKIH'm ItUi-tiw. \ (T ||>||» IMMirimiii' fl JS t.llklrlliK. < linxliiiillion auii ntlur ltlx<'stlt<- lllMiirdcrx. I'" I Mf 1 'j"j"j *'■* *** *** "vi Kl ''» h *'n* t** s °j m CINCINNATI 0 OHIO. U.S.A. 0 Back U P a sewer, and you poison the whole neighborhood. Clog up liver and bov/els, and your stomach is full of undigested food, which ® § sours and ferments. like garbage in a swill-barrel. That's the first step to untold misery—indigestion, foul gases, headache, furred tongue, bad breath, yellow skin, mental fears, everything that is horrible and nauseating. CASCARETS quietly, positively stop fermentation in the stomach, make the liver lively, tone up the bowels, set the whole machinery going and keep it in order. Don't hesitate J Take CASCAROTS to-day and be saved from suffering! ® ... JC "A<lor I wai tndarcd to try CASCA- {'ff' , EtETS, I will never be without tfcem in the v-ir house. My liver was in a very bad shape, obv" jUtmz&r mSSBn iS'Srtik id and my head ached and 1 had stomach trou- t i. HmSKeW • l Now, since taking Cascarcts, I foci flno. Lllt^ DRUGGISTS § tf .....1 f T.\3.I?. A ? T . E .! : . D T° all bowel tro,it>l«-n, nopendlcUU, t>lUoci«n< »>, OITAKAJITEED TO CURE: Five yriri :ifro the flr«t l>ox of CAN- r &. i.\ ..1 Y k . « i " Wood, wind on the Htomnch, bloated iion i'h, «'<»•• I munfli, fAKKTb wan nold. \on r It liiovcr nix million boxe« n ycur t greater than uit3 r (©)j HI l !I I 1 B^H11 » imlniftltrr euf Inct liver trouble, unllou com* ftlmllnr medicine in the world. Thin IN abnolute proof of irreat merit, ami >' our boweU don't move reixularly yon are our be»t tentlmonlul* We havefaUh, un<l will m'll aHholislcly Q b# « -# 5 * more peoide than all of her diN«'Mfte« together. er«»*i*anl e«'«i lo on re or money refnnded. <lO buy today, two /»Oc boxen, Bflve *%• chronic allmeatK nml Ioi)£ yearn of miller inn that come them a fair, bonent trial, an per simple dlrectlonu, and If you are not untlMtlcd Snn wh, *t « , l» y« u » "tttrt takfiiK OASCAK I'TM lodny, for after IIHIUIC one f»Oe bus, return the ununed "»Oc box and the empty box to O Ii J!.« V'nb "V V'V 1 /, 1 ! I/W IvlL'- nIH yo " |M,t bowel* «« hy mxli, or lha drugglM Crom whom you porehuNed !t, and set your money zis « our advlee; ft tartwith ( A»f AK 1., 1 S today, under uu übMolute back for both boxen. Tukc our ailvlre-no mutter what all* you— start loday. fi®)) Kuaraatec to cure or money refunded. Hi, Health will oulekly follow and von will blea« the dav rou lirit ntarfed tho awe V®' ofCASCAKETN. Hook free by'mall. Adds HTBRLIXU'RBSSDY CO., New York ort'hleago. HUNKS OF SOLID FACT. ~~ Cryolite is a mineral found ia Greenland. Egypt was the first country to have a military organization. Skating was a sport of the North i men In prehistoric times. In ancient times blacK inks wero made of soot and ivory black. I mbrellas were in use in America before they were in England. Lettuce was introduced into Kng land from Flanders about 1520. The invention of the organ is at tributed to Archimedes, about 220 ; B. C. The Phoenicians and the Greeks j were the first to place much depeu : deuce on naval warfare. 1 he mace was a weapon anciently j used by cavalry of most nations. It was originally a spiked club, usually of metal, hung at the saddle-bow. In the Brook fie Id (Mo.) white schools the sexes are represented by I exactly the same number. There are I just 099 each of the boys and girls. The judges of the New York su preme court have resolved among themselves hereafter to permit no person called for jury duty to be excused upon the request of a third party, lie must appear auu make his excuses in person. Now Fa»t Train to Colorado via Mlmtourl Pacific Hallway. The Missouri Pacific Railway is now oper ating double daily service from St. Louis and Kansns City to points in Colorado. Utah and the Pacific Coast. Trains leave St. Louis 9 a. m.and 10:10 p. in.; Kansas City 6 p. m.and 10 a. in., carrying through sleep ing cars between St. Louis and San Frau cisco without change. Excursion tickets now on sale. For farther information ad dress company's agents. H. C. TOWNSKND, Uen. Pass, and Ticket Agent, St. Loois, Mo. No Kye for Home Comfort*. Mrs. Muggins—My husband is the most unreasonable man alive. Mrs. liuggins—What has he done now? "I've been at him for six months to buy some new furniture for the parlor, and he has just paid SIO,OOO for an old seat in the stock exchange."—Philadelphia Record. Yellowstone Park. Extended tour, leisurely itinerary with long stops in the Park. Private coaches for exclusive use on the drive. Pullman sleep ing and dining cars. Established limit to number going. Escort of the American Tourist Association, Reau Campbell, Gen eral Manager, 1423 Marquette Building, Chicago. Colorado and Alaska tours also. Tickets include all Expenses Everywhere. Train leaves Chicago via Chicago, Milwau kee &. St. Paul R'y, Tuesday, July 9, 10:00 p. m. Yielded Itendily for Ilim. First Physician—Did old Coupon's case yield to your treatment? Second Physician—lt did. I treated it for six months, and it yielded something like SfSOO.—Stray Stories. Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infalli ble medicine for coughs and colds. —N. W. Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. .1., Feb. 17, I'JOO. A Urond Hint. Mr. Sta.vlate — Aw Miss Dimples, you have such dn-amv eyes, doncher know. Miss Dimples- \o. I'm just sleepy; that's all. —Ohio Stale Journal. Cure and Prevent Pneninonln. With lloxsie's Croup Cure, Infallible. 50c. Mjulery. A woman enjoys nothing better than to read a letter in the presence of other wom en and smile occasionally '-— N. V. World. Motherhood] How shall a mother who is weak and sick with sonio 1 female trouble bear healthy children ? Ilow anxious women ought to be to give their children if tho blessing of a good constitution ! Many women long for a child to bless their home, but be- § cause of some debility or displacement of the female organs, | they are barren. Preparation for healthy maternity is accomplished by B Lydia E. Pinkliam's Vegetable Compound moro sue- 8 cessfully than by any other medicine, because it gives tone I and strength to the parts, curing all displacements and in- I flammation. Actual sterility in women is very rare. If any woman I thinks she is sterile, let her write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, R Mass., whose advice is given free to all expectant or would- | be mothers. Mrs. A. D. Jarret, Belmont, Ohio, writes: "DEAR MRS. PINK DAM : —I must write and tell you what your Vege- ' table Compound has done for me. Before taking your medicine I was unahic to carry babe to maturity, having lost two—one at six months and one at » seven The doctor said next time I would die, but thanks to Lydia K. | Pinkliam's Vegetable Compound, I did not die. but am the proud 1 mother of a six months old girl baby. She weighs nineteen pounds and P has never seen a sick day in her life. She is the delight of our home." Mrs. Whitney's Gratitude. "DP.AR Mas. PINKHAM : —From the time I was sixteen years old till I was twenty-three I was troubled with weakness of the kidneys and terrible pains when my monthly periods came on. I made up my mind to try your Ic-j..... | . Vegetable Compound, and was soon relieved. The doctor said I never would be able togo my full time and have a living child, as I was con- CFFCU'"*' ' stitutionaily weak. I had lost a baby at seven months and half. The next time I continued 'SrfSy' o'rY V to take your Compound: and I said then, if I Pv* > X J 1>- went my full time and my baby lived to be 8 g; ® ®r* three months old, I should send a letter to you. S jpSsSi JPi &§ My baby is now seven months old. and is as I \ Wealthy and hearty as any one could wish. I I sm ''' cannot express my gratitute to you. I was so I —ar' bad that I did not dare togo away from home ft iV) ? \Vjfejy ' j to stay any length of time. Praise God for K i (■ f\> 4S I<ydia E. Pinkliam's Vegetable Com- g MRS.L.Z.WHITNEYo^BABY pound; and may others who are suffering | . do as I did and find relief. Wishing you sue- 1 cess in trie future as in the past, and mav many homes be brightened aa B mine has been."—MßS. L. Z. WHITNEY, 4 Flint St., Somerville, Mass." The medicine that cures the ills of women is £jrs£s& Eo Pinkham 9 s Vegetable Gzumposismi* I KEADERS OF THIS PAPER DKSIUING TO M V ANYTHING ADVKRTISEI) IN ITS COLI MNS SHOULD INSIST UPON HAVING WHAT THEY ASK FOB. REFUSING ALi> SUBSTITUTES Oil IMITATIONS. I nlin RMATiSM nr Faß 1 U the only positive euro. rastcx- V\i ■ ■la I I perienec speaks for Itself- Depot &BB| BM M h: * California Ave., Chlcafttt. A. N. K.-C IB7Q FOR F Valuable U. S. and I oreiqn P.llents ' Or*i_L for Car <'<>upi<*r, new and cheap. Chanillee & ChancJlee, I'at. Atiys, Washington, D-C. 7
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