TEN YEARS OF PAIN. Unable to Do Even Housework Be cause of Kidney Troubles. Mrs. Margaret Emmerich, of Clin ton St., isapoleon, 0., says:"For fifteen years I was a great sufferer u - from kidney trou \ bles. My back pained fifT'i ,ij. \\ me terribly. Every ■ * urn or move caused k ayh sharp, shooting f ia s ns - My eyesight was l )00r ' dark spots ' ' appeared before me, ' and 1 liacl dizzy spells. For ten years I could not do housework, and for two years did not get out of the house. The kidney secretions were irregular, and doctors were not helping me. Doan's Kidney Pills brought me quick relief, and finally cured me. They saved my life." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Rule of Cornish Chapels. In Cornish (Eng.) chapels the in variable rule is for the men to sit | on one side of the building and the i women on the other. A visitor and his fiancee, who are 1 staying in the district, went to chapel, j and just before the service began the j young man was greatly astonished when the chapel steward, observing ] that the couple were seated in the j same pew, came over to him and, in an audible voice, said: "Come on out of that, me son; we den't 'avo no sweethcartin' 'e;c." The Three Milkmeil. A man in a small western town bought a quart of milk and on arriv ing home found it was adulterated •with water. The next day he posted bills in different sections of the town reading: "I bought a quart of milk yesterday which I found to be adulterated. If the scoundrel will bring me another quart I'll not denounce him." The next day he found three quart cans on his doorstep. There were three dairymen in the town.—Judge's Library. Fresh Fuel. The scrap between the married cou ple had died down to a few listless mutterings, and the canary bird in the cage was beginning to think about singing again, when she remarked, as a sort of afterthought: "At any rate, everybody in my fam ily thinks I am very intelligent." "Yes, by the side of them you are," he replied with a bitter snort. After this the scrap was renewed Jubilantly. The Crack in His Armor. "It's a good thing for a man to be a little bald," said the girl as they walked along in the rear of one be neath whose hat showed a small bare half moon. "It takes the conceit out of them. Now there's John. He has a bald spot that he has spent about a hundred dollars onto no effect. When he gets too smart all I have to do is to glance carelessly toward that vulner able spot and he subsides immedi ately." Old Bell Still Tolls Curfew. In the belfry of the old parish church at Bury, England, the curfew that tolled the knell of the parting day 300 years ago is still in place, and is rung every night at sunset. Man does what he can, and bears what he must, and the name by which he calls the result is left to each to decide; a clever man calls it happi ness.—Goethe. I FOOD FACTS I [ | | Grape-Nuts [ FOOD A Body Balance People hesitate at the statement that the famous food, Grape-Nuts, yields as much mAjrishment from one pound as can be absorbed by the system from ten pounds of meat, bread, wheat or oats. Ten pounds of meat might con tain more nourishment than one pound of Grape-Nuts, but not in shape that the system will absorb as large a pro portion of, as the body can take up from one pound of Grape-Nuts. This food contains the selected parts of wheat and 'tjarley whi«fi are pre pared and by 'atural means predi gested, transform yl into a form of sugar, ready for ir -mediate assimila tion. People in all of the world testify to the value of Grape-Nuts. A Mo. man says:"l have gained ten pounds on Grape-Nuts food. I can truly recommend it to thin people." He had been eating meat, bfead, etc., right along, but there was lfo ten pounds of added llesli until Grape-Nuts food wa3 used. One curious feature regarding true health food is that its use will reduce the weight of a corpulent person with unhealthy fiosh, and will add to tho weight of a thin person not properly nourished. There is abundance of evidence to prove this. Grape-Nuts balances the body in a condition of true health. Scientific se lection of food elements makes Grape- Nuts good and valuable. Its delicious flavor and powerful nourishing prop erties have made friends that, in turn have made Grape-Nuts famous. "There's a Reason." Read "The Road to Wellville," ,'n pkgs. HORTICULTURE BUDDING. The Operations Which Are Necessary to Success. Budding consists in taking a bud from one tree and inserting it under the bark of another tree. It is used to take the place of grafting, and is practiced in a commercial way in propagating peaches, plums, cherries, roses and certain varieties of orna mental trees and shrubs. It is essen tial that the bud and stock unite free ly. To have this occur the cells of tho cambium layer of the stock must be in a state of active division, indicated Budding Operations Illustrated. by the ready separation of the bark from the wood. The union of the two, the bud and the stock, takes place at the edges of the bark of the inserted bud; for this reason the bud should be inserted as soon as it is cut from the twig so as to avoid dry ing out. In climates having severe winters budding is most satisfactory when performed near the end of the growing season. The buds should be plump and mature when taken from the shoots of the current year's growth. The "bud stocks" should be cut the day the buds are to be in serted. trimmed and wrapped at once in a damp cloth to prevent drying on. Trimming consists in cutting off the leaves, saving a bit of the stem to use as a handle in inserting. In cut ting the buds, use sharp knives; in sert blade of knife one-fourth inch be low bud, cut upward just behind bud, removing but • little of wood, coming out about one-fourth of an inch above bud. (See fig. a.) To insert bud, make T-shaped in cision in stock about two inches above ground . (See Fig. b.) With the spatula or budding knifo loosen tho lips of bark in angle of the T cut and slip in the bud. (See Fig. b.) The bud must be helfl firmly in place by a bandage wound above and below, be ing careful to leave the eye of the bud uncovered. Raffia fibre (wet), bast, candle wick or waxed cloth may be used for tying. Raffia is usually employed. If the bud "takes," Re move fhe bandage in about ten days by cutting locs© on back side of stock to prevent the hindering of growth of bud. In three or four weeks cut off the stock just above bud to stimulate the growth of new bud. Peaches are budded in the same year that the pits are planted. As soon as the seedlings are large enough to hold a bud they are ready for budding. After budding, examine the stock frequently and remove any suckers that may start at base of seedling. Water Pumped Through Plants. Few realize how continually the plants that grow on the earth are pumping water from the soil into the air. Every normal plant is engaged in this work, and the surface of the earth is covered with them except in the regions of eterr.al frost and tho great deserts. Experiments made in Utah showed that through June, July and August of one year each foot of soil lost by evaporation of moisture through plants over nine pounds of water. When this is multiplied by tho number of feet in an acre it gives over 190 tons of water for a single acre. When this is extended to tho plant-covered surface of the world it indicates the fact that a good-sized ocean of water is by the plants pumped up into the air each year and that for each day a good-sized sea is so returned back to the element from which it came—the air. Chance £o Increase Income. Selling prepared fruit and garden stuff, such as mustard, canned kraut, canned tomatoes, horse radish, canned fruit, preserves and the like, will be tho source of a great deal of Income to the farmer. In !he case of fruit, especially, it will furnish a profitable market for a great deal that would otherwise goto waUe. It is a very small town and a pnor market indeed that will not consume .all the stuff that can be sold from the farm in this way. Pinching Back. Pinching back the new growth is another way of saving a great deal of sap for the formation of fruit. About The time the peaches or other stone fruits are haif formed, take a sharp pair of shears and clip off abou' half of this year's • -owth of wood on all parts of the tree. This retards the growth of shoot and leaf and the sap Is savod for the development of fruit. CAMERGN COUNTY PRESS, THURSOAY, AUGUST 29, 1907. ARE PHYSICIANS' PRESCRIPTIONS NOSTRUMS? To one no* qualified, and few lay men are, to discriminate intelligently between physicians' prescriptions, pro prietary medicines and nostrums, it may seem little short of a crime to hint even that physician:?' prescrip tions are in any manner related to nostrums; nevertheless, an impartial examination of all the facts in the case leads irresistibly to the conclu sion that every medicinal preparation compounded and dispensed by a physi cian is, in the strict sense of the word, a nostrum, and that the average, ready-prepared proprietary remedy is superior to the average specially-pre pared physicians' prescription. What is a nostrum? According to the Standard Dictionary a nostrum is "a medicine the composition of which is kept a secret." Now, when a physi cian compounds and dispenses with his own hands a remedy for the treat ment of a disease —and it is authorita tively stated that probably 00 per cent, of all physicians* prescriptions in this country are so dispensed—the names and quantities of the ingre dients which constitute the remedy are not made known to the patient. Hence, since its composition is kept a secret by the physician, the remedy or prescription is unquestionably, in the true meaning of the word, a Simon pure nostrum. Furthermore, the pre scription compounded by the average physician is more than likely to be a perfect jumble- -replete with thera peutic, physiologic and chemical in compatibilities and bearing all the ear marks of pharmaceutical incompe tency; for it is now generally admitted that unless a physician has made a special study of pharmacy and passed some time in a drug store for the pur pose of gaining a practical knowledge of modern pharmaceutical methods, he is not fitted to compound remedies for his patients. Moreover, a physi cian who compounds his own prescrip tions not only deprives the pharmacist of his just emoluments, but he endan gers the lives of patients; for it is only by the detection and elimination of errors in prescriptions by clever, competent prescrlptionists that the safety of the public can be effectually shielded from the criminal blunders of ignorant physicians. Nor can it be said that the average physician is any more competent to formulate a prescription than he is to | compound it. When memorized or di rectly copied from a book of "favorite prescriptions by famous physicians," or from some text-book or medical journal, the prescription may be all that it should be. It is only when the physician is required to originate a formula on the spur of the moment j that his incompetency is distinctly evi ; dent. Seemingly, however, the physi cians of the United States are little I worse than the average British physi- I cian; for we find Dr. James Burnett, lecturer on Practical Materia Medica ; and Pharmacy, Edinburgh, lamenting ! in the Medical Magazine the passing of the prescription and bemoaning the | fact that seldom does he find a "final man" able to devise a prescription even in "good contracted Latin." And what, it may be asked, is the | status of the written prescription—the prescription that is compounded and j dispensed by the pharmacist—is it, j too, a nostrum? It may be contended j that the patient, with the written j formula in his possession, may learn | the character of the remedy pre* J scribed. So, possibly, he might if he I understood Latin and were a physician j or a pharmacist, but as he usually pos ! sesses no professional training and | cannot read Latin, the prescription is | practically a dead secret to him. Furthermore, the average prescription is so badly written and so greatly | abbreviated that even the pharmacist, ! skilled as ho usually is in deciphering | medical hieroglyphs, is constantly obliged to interview prescribers to find out what actually has been pre scribed. It may also be contended, that inasmuch as the formula is to both physician and pharmacist the prescription cannot therefore be a se cret. But with equal truth it might be contended that the formula of any so called nostrum is not a secret since it is known to both proprietor and manu facturer; for it must not be forgotten that, according to reliable authority, 95 per cent, of the proprietors of so called patent medicines prepared in this country have their remedies made for them by large, reputable manufac turing pharmacists. But even should a patient be able to recognize the names of the ingredients mentioned in a formula he would only know half the story. It is seldom, for instance, that alcohol is specifically mentioned in a prescription, for it is usually masked in the form of tinctures and fluid extracts, as <aro a great many other substances. It is evident, there fore, that the ordinary formulated pre scription is, to the average patient, lit tle less than a secret remedy or nos trum. On the other hand, the formulae of nearly all the proprietary medicines that are exploited exclusively to the medical profession as well as those of a large percentage of the proprie tary remedies that are advertised to the public (the so-called patent medi cines) aro published in full. Under the Food and Drugs Act, every medi cinal preparation entering interstate commerce is now required to have the proportion or quantity of alcohol, opium, cocain and other liabit-form ing or harmful ingredients which it may contain plainly printed on the label. As physicians' prescriptions seldom or never enter interstate com merce they are practically exempt un der the law. And if it be necessary for the public to know the composi tion of proprietary remedies, as is contended by those who through ig- noranee or for mercenary reasons ar® opposing the sale of all household remedies, ichy is it not equally neces sary for patients to know the compo sition of the remedy prescribed by a physicianT Does any sane person be lieve that the opium in a physician's prescription is less potent or less like ly to create a drug habit than the opi um In a proprietary medicine? As a matter of fact. more opium-addicts and cocain-fiends have been made through the criminal carelessness of ignorant physicians than by any other means. Unquestionably, there are a number of proprietary remedies on the market the sales of which should be prohibit ed, and no doubt they will be when the requirements of the Food and Drugs Act are rigidly enforced; many are frauds, pure and simple, and some are decidedly harmful. Of the aver age proprietary remedy, however, it may truthfully be said that it is dis tinctly better than the average physi cians' prescription; for not only is its composition less secret, but it is pre pared for the proprietor by reputable manufacturing pharmacists in magnifi cently equipped laboratories and un der the supervision and advice of able chemists, competent physicians and skillful pharmacists. It should not be considered strange, therefore, that so many physicians prefer to prescribe these ready-prepared proprietary rem edies rather than trust those of their own devising. JUST THE SAME A3 CURRENCY. Third Son Felt He Had Nothing to Reproach Himseif with. William Knoepfel. of St. Louis, has invented and hopes to patent a secret plowing method for the cure of bald ness. "A genuine cure for baldness," said Mr. Knoepfel the other day, should make a man very rich. Why, men grow rich on fake cures. It is amazing, it really is, what fakes some of these cures are. Yet there's money in them." Mr. Knoepfel gave a loud, scornful laugh. "In their crookedness they remind me," he said, "of the third son of the old eccentric. Per haps you have heard the story? Well, an old eccentric died and left his for tune equally to his three sons. But the will contained a strange proviso. Each heir was to place SIOO in the coffin immediately before the inter ment. A few days after the interment the three young men met and discuss ed the queer proviso and its execu tion. 'Well,' said the oldest son, 'my conscience is clear. I put my hundred in the coflin in clean, new notes.' 'My conscience is clear, too,' said tho sec ond son. I putin my hundred in gold.' 'I, too, have nothing to reproach my self with,' said the third son. 'I had no cash at the time, though; so I wrote out a check for S3OO in poor, dear father's name, placed it in the coffin and took in change the S2OO in currency that I found there.'" PUSHED THE BEAR ASIDE. Surveyor Tells of Experience He Does Not Care to Repeat. To walk right up to a monster bear and try to shove it out of the way and then escape without so much as a scratch is an experience of a lifetime. Harry I Engelbright found it so a few days ago in Diamond canyon, abova Washington, says a Nevada City cor* respondent of the Sacramento Hee. The young man, son of Congressman Engelbright, has just returned from the upper country, where he has been doing some surveying, and relates his thrilling experience. It was coming on dusk, at the close of the day's work. In the brush-lined trail he saw pro truding what he thought were the hind quarters of some stray bovine. He walked up and gave the brute a shove. It came to its haunches with a snort that made his hair rise and caused him to beat a hasty retreat. The big brute looked around and then shuffied off into the woods. It was either asleep or else so busy eating ants from an old log that it failed to hear the young surveyor, whose foot steps were deadened by the thick car pet of pine needles. Later it was learned that the same bear, a monster cinnamon, had lrilled a dog earlier in the day. The dog ventured too close and with one blow of its paw the big beast sent it hurtling yards away, dead as a doornail. Magnifying Choir Leader's Voice. , In the old village of Braybrook in Northamptonshire, England, is a mon ster trumpet, five six inches in length, and having a bell-shaped end two feet one inch in diameter. The trumpet is made up of ten rings, which in turn are made up of smaller parts. The use of this trumpet—only four of the kind are known to exist at the present day—was to magnify the voice of the leader in the choir and summon the people to the church service. At the present time neither the choir nor the service is in need of this extraor dinary "musical instrument," but the vicar of the church takes care of the ancient relic and is fond of showing it to all visitors. Painfully Exact. A New England man tells of a pros perous Connecticut farmer, painfully exact in money matters, who married a widow of Greenwich possessing in her own right the sum of SIO,OOO. Shortly after the wedding a friend met the farmer, to whom he offered con gratulations, at tho same time observ ing: "It's a good thing for you, Malachl, a marriage that means $lO,- 000 to you." "Not. quite that, Bill," said the farmer, "not quite that." "Why," exclaimed the friend, "I under stood there was every cent of SIO,OOO in it for you!" "I had to pay $2 for a marriage license," said Malachl. LEFT IT TO THE OLD HENS. Amateur Fancier Thought His Re sponsibility Had Ended. An Indiana man tells of the efforts of an author belonging to the Hoosier school of historical novelists to put In his leisure time as a "hen farm er" in that state. The literary per son's venture afforded his agricultural neighbors no end of amusement. During the first year the amateur farmer discovered that all his little chickens, which were confined in coops, were languishing at the point of death. The novelist went over his "hen literature" to locate the cause of the trouble, but to no avail. Finally he called upon an old chap named Rawlins, to whom he put the question: "What do you suppose is the mat ter with those chickens?" "Well, I dunno," said Rawlins. "What do you feed "em?" "Feed them!" exclaimed the novel ist-farmer. "Why, I don't feed thera anything!" "Then, how'd you suppose they was a-goin' to live?" "I presumed," replied the literary person, "that the old hens had milk enough for them now."—Llppincott's Magazine. Used Ink for Bluing. "One can never be too careful about apparently harmless articles setting about the house," said a housewife the other day. "Net long ago my husband brought homo one of those big tall bot tles of ink from the office. It had got to be such a nuisance buying one of the small five-cent bottles every time we ran out of ink, that he said ho would bring home a supply. "About a week after that I got a new maid, and when she did the wash ing she took the big bottle of ink for bluing. Of course every stitch of our white clothes in the washing was ruined." Architects and Closets. An architect, says a writer, com plains that women have a mania for closets and that when a woman is al lowed any liberty in the matter she changes his whole architectural plan in order to make room for them. This, he says, makes him a laughing stock among his fellow architects. This is very interesting, but why do architects make plans if not to make every effort themselves to secure conveniences? A house may be architecturally perfect and yet not fit to live in, and it certain ly is not if there is not closet room enough. Cunning Chap. "Yes," confessed the blushing girl with the white parasol. "1 thought it rather odd that Jack should keep on asking about our college yell. Finally, to get rid of him, I told him it was three yells in quick succession." "What then?" asked her chum. "What then? Why, the goose kissed me three times before I could re monstrate and when I gave a yell for each kiss mamma thought I was giv ing the class yell." Her Secret Sorrow. "That woman over there has some hidden sorrow," declared the sym pathetic one, as she came in and took her seat at a table not far away/ "I have often noticed her. See. Her companion orders everything she could possibly want, and yet she sits there silent with a face like a mask. I am awfully sorry for her." "Don't you worry," advised her pes simistic friend. "That's her husband with her. She's bored, that's all." Foreign Waterways. Since we began the neglect and abandonment of canals, France has quadrupled her waterways. Accord ing to figures furnished by commer cial associations, the British isles have 8,000 miles of canal and It does not all antedate the railroad. The Reason Why. "How did you come here?" said one Mexican bull to an old acquaintance, as they met in the arena. "How?" replied the other, with a glance around. "I may say I was roped in." A life in continual need is half-death. —German. m CONSIDER WI T*y\\ I First, that almosteveryoperation W- 112 \ B I in our hospitals, performed upon RTSSZO 'WC"~ / 1 P I women, becomes necessary because / Iff I of neglect of such symptoms as a t\. I c Backache, Irregularities, Displace- % \ X, / B ments. Pain in the Side, Dragging \ 1 B B Sensations, Dizziness and Sleepless- \ \ Vff ' Second, that Lydia E. Pinkham's H Vegetable Compound, made from ■ M native roots and herbs, has cured ■ more cases of female ills than any | other one medicine known. It reg- Ej nlates, strengthens and restores women's health and is invaluable in II preparing l women for child-birth and during the period of Change g of Life. Third, the great volume of unsolicited and grateful testimonials on H file at the Pinkham Laboratory at Lynn, Mass.. many of which are from H time to time being 1 published by special permission, give absolute evi pj dence of the value of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Mrs. H Pinkham's advice. I LydiaE. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound | For more than 30 years has been curing Female Complaints, such as Ej Dragging Sensation 3, Weak liack, Falling and Displacements, In- U flammation and Ulceration, and Organic Diseases, and it dissolves Hand expels Tumors at an early stage. | Mrs. Pinkham's Standing Invitation to Women I Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to | write Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn. Mass. foradvice. She is the Mrs. Pinkham who ■ has been advising sick women free of charge for more tlinn twenty I years, and before that she assisted her mother-in-law, Lydia E. Pink- E ham in advising. Thus she is especially well qualified to guide sick fcj women back to health. Write today, don't wait until too late. AFFLICTED ONLY AT TIMES. Good Reason for Capt. Bascomb's In termittent Hearing. When Capt. Bascomb had left hla old friend, Capt. Somers, and the new school teacher sitting on the south porch, and had disappeared down the road, the young woman spoke of him with some curiosity. "I understand from Mrs. Bascomb that her husband was very deaf, 'al most stone-deaf,' she told me, I'm sure," said the school teacher. "But he seemed to hear all we said with perfect ease." Capt. Somers leaned toward her and spoke in a low, cautious tone, al though there was no eavesdropper to hear him. "Don't let Mis' Bascomb know it," he said, hurriedly. "He does seem to hear pretty well when she ain't round, but none of us folks ever let onto her. She's a good woman as ever lived, but a most tremendous bosser and an everlastin' talker. An' we all think that Gersh Bascomb be gun to realize ten years ago that if he didn't want to be harried right off'n the face o' the earth, the thing for him to do was to grow deef, gradual, but steady—an' he's done it, to all intents an' purposes, ma'am!" Youth's Companion. CAME PRETTY FAST FOR PAT. At That, He Had Had Only Whnt the Doctor Ordered. A Philadelphia physician says that not long ago he was called to see an Irishman, and among other directions told him to take an ounce of whisky three times a day. A day or so later he made another visit and found tha man, while not so sick, undeniably drunk. "How did this happen?" the physi cian demanded of Pat's wife, who waa hovering about solicitously. "Sure, dochter, an' 'tis just what you ordered, an' no more, that he had," she protested. "I said one ounce of whisky three times a day; that could not make him drunk," the physician said. "He has had much more than that." "Divil a drop more, dochter, dear," she declared. "Sure an' oi didn't know just how much an ounce was so oi wint to the drug store an' asked, an' the lad —he's a broth of a boy, too —told me that an ounce was 16 drams and Pat has had thim regular, an' no more!" —Harper's Weekly. A Country Marvel. The little fresh air boy was com fortably quartered in a farm house near the salt water for his summer's outing. The first day he strolled down the road to the marshes and he stared in astonishment at the cat-tails grow ing there. Then turning around to a native of the place who was accom panying him he said: "Gosh; I didn't know that sausages grow orf sticks." Pronounce These Rapidly. Tbe vicar of Dwygyfylchi-cum-Pen maenmaur told the royal commission of the church in Wales recently that he had been at Pistylecum-Carnguwch, Llangefu!-cum-Tregaian, Llandyfuan cum-Llanfair and Arleechwedd. ALCARHNE M 1 IMMEDIATELY CURES Headaches and Indigestion Trial botlle 10c A< drut storoi 7
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