The Evolution of Household Remedies. i The modern patent medicine busi ness is the natural outgrowth of the old-time household remedies. In the early history of this country, EVERY FAMILY HAD ITS HOME MADE MEDICINES. Herb teas, bitters, laxatives and tonics, were to be found every house, compound ed by the housewife, sometimes assisted by the apothecary or the family doctor. Such remedies as picra, which was aloes and quassia, dissolved in apple brandy. Sometimes a hop tonic, made of whiskey, hops and bitter barks. A •core or more of popular, home-made remedies were thus compounded, the formulae for which were passed along from house to house, sometimes written, •ometimes verbally communicated. The patent medicine business i 9 a natural outgrowth from this whole some, old-time custom. In the begin ning, some enterprising doctor, im pressed by the usefulness of one of these home-made remedies, would take It up, improve it in many ways, manu facture it on a large scale, advertise it mainly through almanacs for the home, and thus it would become used over a Urge area. LATTERLY THE HOUSE HOLD BUSINESS TOOK A MORE EXACT AND SCIENTIFIC FORM. Peruna was originally one of these old-time remedies. It was used by the Meanorutes, cf Pennsylvania, before it was offered to the ptiblic for sale. Dr. Hartman, THE ORIGINAL COM POUNDER OF PERUITA, is of Men nonite origin. First, he prescribed it for his neighbors and his patients. The sale of it and at last he established a manufactory and fur nished it to the general drug trade. Peruna is useful in a great many climatic ailments, such as coughs, colds, sore throat, bronchitis, and catarrhal diseases generally. THOUSANDS OF FAMILIES HAVE LEARNED THE USE OF PERUNA and its value in the treatment of these ailments. They hava learned to trust and believe in Dr. Hartman'a judgment, and to rely on his remedy, Peruna. HOW CLASSIC WAS WRITTEN. Bret Hartc's Great Poem Result of sn Inspiration. The war correspondent, Frederic Villiers, has recorded a talk with Bret Harte apropos of tho poem, "Dickens in Camp:" "We all felt his loss most keenly in the States," said Harte: "On hearing of his death (I) sat down about three in the afternoon to "write an editorial on the great au thor. I wrote one and then tore It up. Then another, alter much pains, was written. This did not please me, BO I tore it up. I wrote yet another and threw it into the waste paper basket; it would not do. It was get ting late, and I was now keeping the paper waiting for press. I was drum ming on my desk, absolutely without another thought in my head; I had run dry. Suddenly I mechanically to write and the result was the thing you seem to like so much. Well, Mr. Villiers, you are not far out. I like it, too." GONE FOREVER. Ten years ago a farmer put his ini tials on a dollar bill. The next day he •went to the nearest town and spent it with a merchant. Before the year was out hegot the dollar back. Four times in six yeass the dollar came back to hiin for produce and three times he heard of it in the pocket of his neigh bors. The la"', time he got it back four years ago. He sent it to a mail order house. He never has seen that dollar 6ince, and never will. That dollar bill will never pay any more school or road tax for him, will never build or brighten any of the homes of the com munity. Ho sent it entirely out of the circle of usefulness to himself and his neighbors. Patronize your local merchant who helps you to pay your taxes, support your schools and churches, and lends a helping liana in times of sickness and trouble. Great Stunt by Geronimo. In a single day Geronimo, when In his prime, ran 40 miles on foot, rode 600 miles on one stretch, as fifet as he could change horses, ard so com pletely wore out the cslumn which finally captured him that three sets of officers were needed to finish the chase, and not more than one-third of the troopers who started were in at the finish, says a writer in Outing. Wrinkled and crafty and cruel is his swarthy face to-day, but tho fire of his infernal energy has died and he is no more than a relic of the Geronimo of whom Gen. Miles said after their first meeting: "He rode into our camp and dis mounted, a prisoner. He was one of the brightest, most resolute, deter mined men I ever met, with the sharpest, clearest dark eye. Every movement showed power and en •rgy." Bishop Potter's Answer. A young clergyman in a remote country district wrote last Easter time to Ilishop Potter, saying that lie was about to take a wife, and ask ing \ if, to save some other clergy mnn a long and weary journey, be could not marry himself. The bishop's reply was marvelous ly concise. It said: "Could you bury yourself?" tzir —i J[-V Cf A SWINE STORY. One Farmer's Hogs That Made a 1 Great Profit. The Irish cottager who says that j the pig "pays the rint" tells a no more j patent truth than is contained in the j statements made by Theo. Louis, i John Cownie, and other great hog j growers, that hog growing is one of , the most surely profitable of all I branches of farming. Many people i seem to think, however, that hogs pay ; well only in the "corn belt." This I i know to be a mistake, writes a cor respondent of Farming. My farm is not in the corn belt: on the contrary it is in one of the old states, and we never make any great surplus of corn. Nevertheless, I can make hogs pay rr~\- |i The Shelter That Housed 36 Hogs. well even when prices are down to four or five cents. When up to six cents, profits are a 100 per cent, or more. Corn is great feed for hogs; for fat tening there is nothing better, but it is not wise to depend on corn, except where it makes big yields every year. I cannot do this and here is my meth od of making cheap pork, and getting good profits: I have three fields well fenced, adjoining each other. They have from eight to ten acres in each, and in each there is a good supply of running water. My hogs, in the lati tude of Washington city, spend ten months of the year in these fields. At this writing there is in No. 1 a crop of late cowpcas on half and clover and orchard grass on the rest; in No. 2 there were oats and Canada field peas which have been eaten off; in No. 3 there are only early cowpeas. The hogs ran in No. 1 in spring and early summer, then in No. 2 till they ate the oats and peas, and now they are in No. 3 and will remain till the peas are gone. Then they will spend a large part of the winter in No. 1 on the late cowpeas. There is no kind of forage better adapted to making pork than these. Last fall I bought among a lot of liogs some half-bred Jersey and "razor-back" sows that had together 36 pigs. I fed the pigs two tons of tankage at a cost of $76, and S2O worth of corn, and let them run in good weather in a potato field that had been dug. They rooted up and ate all the potatoes that had been left. As soon as the clover and grass got up enough in the spring in pasture No. 1, 1 turned in the pigs. They stayed there till they were six months old and weighed 200 pounds each and the market price was $6.10. This made them average a little more than sl2 a head. The money cost of these pigs when sold had been only $4.75 each, showing a gain of $7.00 a head. ! FINE HOLSTEIN RECORD. What a Nebraska Cow Has Done in Twelve-Month Test. A three-year-old cow owned by the Nebraska Agricultural college was given a 12 months' official test with the result below. Every pound of milk was weighed and tested for butter fat. j The cow was milked three times a day | for the first six months of lactation ! and all the feed given her was j weighed. The results obtained were ' especial?y interesting. In 365 days this cow produced 18.57S j pounds of milk of an average test of I 3.34 per cent, butter fat. This amount- j ed to 620 pounds of butter fat for the j year, which estimated as butter i amounts to 734 pounds. At 25 cents ' per pound this butter would be worth i SISI, making a total value of products ! $228. The value of the milk solids, I not fats, at 3 cents per pound would be $47. The whole cost of the feed for this cow was s7l. If the 0,000 quarts of ; milk had been sold for 4 cents per j quart, the income would have been ' $360, or a net profit over tho cost of feed of nearly $290, but as the milk 1 was actually sold for 6 cents per quart, : the net profit over the cost of feed j was nearly $l7O. For net profit, this ! cow stands close to the record, in fact, ' above any cows that we have ever j heard of. Can there be any better ar- ; gument for quality in a dairy cow? What Might Be. H. A. Hopper of the Illinois College ! of Agriculture has been testing the cows o; that state for tho last two I years. He makes tho statement that ■ if all tho cows in the state were as ! good as the best herd he has tested, ' they would add to the revenue of the farmers of Illinois over $60,000,000 annually. All this loss traces back to tho mistaken judgment of the Illi nois farmer concerning cows. If he would commence to make a study of cows, their breeds and types, be could correct that judgment. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1907. DON'T GRUMBLE AT TRIFLES. Tv.tnty-five Bushels Wheat and Forty five Bushels Oats Per Acre Are in Western Canada. Saltcoats, Sask., Bth December, 1906. To the Editor. Dear Sir, I willingly give you the result of my four and a half years' experience in ! the District of Saltcoats. Previous to coming here I farmed in I Baldwin, St. Croix County, Wisconsin, ; and as I have heard a great deal, about | the Canadian North-West, I decided | to take a trip there and see the coun ! try for myself. I was so impressed ' with the ricl'.ness of the soil that I bought half a section of land about i five miles from the town of Saltcoats, i I moved onto the land the following June and that year broke 90 acres, , which I cropped in 1904, and had 39 bushels wheat per acre, in 1903, with an acreage of 160 acres, 1 had 24 bush els wheat and 35 bushels of oats per acre. In 1906, with 175 acres under crop, I had 25 bushels wheat and 45 bushels of oats per acre, j From the above mentioned yields you can readily understand that I am i very well pleased with the Canadian West. Of course, I have had to work ! hard, but I don't mind that when I get such a good return for my labor. ] To anyone thinking about coming to this country I can truthfully say that if they are prepared to work and not grumble at trifles, they are bound to get on. Some things I would like dif- I ferent, but take the country all round, I don't know where togo to get a bet ter. Your 3 truly, (Signed) O. H. OLSON. Write to any Canadian Government Agent for literature and full particu lars. AGE TOLD BY THE PULSE. From Birth to Death the Beats Have a Steady Decrease. How old are you? Ask your pulse. The human pulse has a wide range, even in perfectly healthy persons. The female pulse always beats fast er than the male, and from birth to death the pulse beats steadily de crease. It has been said by great authorities that the age and sex of a person could be ascertained by the rate of the pulse alone. Babies at birth have a pulse beat of 160 times a minute in case of a girl and 150 in the case of boys. At the age of four or five the pulse beats will have fall en respectively to 110 and 100. Maid ens' and youths' pulses average 95 and 90. Mature men and women av erage SO and 75. Elderly men and women have an average of 60 and 50. An old woman's pulse rarely, if ever, sinks below 50, but among men a pulse beat below 50 is quite common. There are, however, great variations consistent with health. Napoleon's pulse is said to have beaten only 44 times a minute. French Sailors Use Drugs. The extent to which the narcotio habit prevails in the French navy was Illustrated a few days ago by the pro ceedings of a court-martial at Brest. The defendants were half a dozen seamen of ordinary rating, who were charged with a considerable number of robberies. All the men were vic tims of opium or the the ether habit, or both combined, and were in the habit of bemuddling themselves daily with these drugs and the robberitfli had been committed to gratify their passion. Severe sentences wer« passed. World's Cheapest Gas. According to the Gas World, pride of place as the suppliers of the cheap ; est gas in the world Is now shared j with the Widnes corporation by the Sheffield Gas company of England, who have just announced a reduction i of one penny per thousand cubic feet in the price, making the new scale Is. 4d., Is. 2d., and Is., according to con sumption, and Is. for gas used in gas engines. The Widnes scale is Is. Id. and Is. 3d., with lid. for gas used for 1 power purposes. APPENDICITIS. Not at All Necessary to Operate In Many Cases. Automobiles and Appendicitis scare J come people before they are hit. Appendicitis ia often caused by too ; much starch in the bowels. Starch is | hard to digest and clogs up the diges | tive machinery—also tends to form cakes in the cecum. (That's the blind I pouch at entrance to the appendix.) j AN. H. girl had appendicitis, but I lived on milk for awhile—then Grape- Nuts and got well without an opera tion. j She says: "Five years ago while at school, I suffered terribly with consti pation and indigestion." (Too much starch, white bread, potatoes, etc., I which she did not digest.) "Soon after I left school I had an at | tack of appendicitis and for thirteen weeks lived on milk and water. When : I recovered enough to eat solid food I there was nothing that would agree' | with me, until a friend recommended | Grape-Nuts. j "When I began to eat Grape-Nuta I ■weighed 98 lbs., but I soon grew to 115 lbs. The distress after eating left me i entirely and now I am like a new per | son." (A little Grape-Nuts dissolved in hot water or milk would have been much better for this case than milk alone, for the starchy part of the wheat and barley is changed into a form of di gestable sugar in making Grape-Nuts.) Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a Reason Old Sofas, Backs of Chairs, etc., can be dyed with PUTNAM FADELESS Di ES, fast, bright, durable colors. It's usually the man who has some thing to say who doesn't say it. Mrs. "Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, nafrenti the gums, reduces in flammation, allays pain, cures wind collu. 'OK. a bottle. A woman invariably tells a small boy to hurry back when she sends him on an errand —but what's the use? Pure! Pleasant! Potent! Three inter esting facts about Garfield Tea, the Nat ural laxative. It is made of Herbs and is guaranteed under the I'ure Food and Drug Law. Australians Will Go Back. Australia has arranged for the re patriation of 1,000 discouraged Aus tralians now in South Africa. It Cures While You Walk. Allen's Foot-Ease is a certain cure for hot, sweating, callous, and swollen, aching feet. Sold by all druggists. Price 25c. Don't aceeptany substitute. Trial package FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted. Le Roy, N. Y. Unique Souvenir. A souvenir issued by a western cork manufacturing concern consists of a picture of the company's plant printed on a sheet of cork one flve hundredths of an inch in thickness. Famous Book Free. Every reader of this paper can get free of charge one of Dr. Coffee's famous books which tells of a new method by which persons afflicted with Deafness, Head Noises, Sore Eyes, Failing Sight from any cause, can cure themselves at home at small expense. Write a letter immediately to Dr. W. O. Coffee, 360 Century Bldg., Des Moines, la. An Animal-Lover'a Ambition. To be a genuine lover of anlma!», end to be able to effect an improve ment in the breed of those which ap peal most to one's fancy, is to add a fresh and lasting source of enjoyment to life. —Country Life. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local application!, as thej cannot reach the dis eased portion of the ear. There Is only one way to cure deaf nuss, and that Is by constitutional rornedles. Deafness Is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is Inflamed you havo a rumbling sound or im perfect hearing, and when It Is entirely closed, Deaf ness Is the result, aud unless the Inflammation can he taken out and this tube restored M In normal condi tion, hearing will be destroyed forever; nlno cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an Inflamed c.oadltlou of the mucous surface*. We will give Ouo Hundred Dollars fur any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh euro. Send for circulars, free. K „.,. , I'} J. CIIENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold hy Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family I'llls for constipation. Telephone Invadss Slam. The Siamese minister of public works has received the sanction of the king to the proposal to acquire and install an entirely up-to-date tele phone system in Bangkok. The sys tem decided on is the one known as the central battery system. The in stallation will goto public tender. Phya Sukhum is now engaged in ar ranging for a new cable from Koh- Si-Chang to Sirachi with connection to Bangkok. THE CHANGE OF LIFE Sensible Advice to Women from firs. Henry Lee, rirs. Fred Certia and firs. Pinkham. LEE MRS. FRED CERTIA Owing to modern methods of living 1 not one woman in a thousand ap proaches this perfectly natural change without experiencing - a train of very annoying and sometimes painful symptoms. This is the most critical period of her whole existence and. every woman who neglects the care of her health at this time invites disease and pain. When her system is in a deranged condition or she is predisposed to apoplexy or congestion of any organ, the tendency is at this period likely to become active and with a hostof nervous irritations make life a burden. At this time also cancers and tumors are more liable to form and begin their destructive work. Such warning symptoms as sense of suffocation, hot flashes, headaches, backaches, melancholia, dread of im pending evil, palpitation of the heart, irregularities, constipation and dizzi ness are promptly heeded by intel ligent women who a-re approaching the period of life when this great change may be expected. Mrs. FredCcrtia, 1014 So. Lafayette Street, So. Bend, Ind., writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— "Lydia E. 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