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