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SIOUX PIPESTONES.
*“Courage and Strength
TES i In making the bed, which was three { size and capable of being fattened eas. i
FARM AND GARDEN NO of feet wide and twelve feet tong: ily, wo that when her days of useful |
i
{ How to Save Laber in
tng.
Spring Clean.
Spring cleaning Is no longer the labor it
was in the days of oar grandmothers,
Women understand how to save themselves
by the use of modern conveniences, When
beginning the work everything should be
in readiness — tacks, haminers, brooms,
with un supply of Ivory Soap (which is the
best for all cleaning purposes), lime, am-
mounia, and carbolic PT Good weather
should be selected, and only one or two
rooms cleaned st a time; alr and sunshine
should be freely admitted,
Eriza BR. Paukesn,
in Times of Danger.”’
Read the warning between
the lines. What is that warn-
ing? It is of the danger from
accumulation of badness in
the blood, caused by the
usual heavy living of the
Winter months. Spring is
the clearing, cleansing time
of the year; the forerunner of
the brightness and beauty of
glorious Summer.
Follow the principle that Nature lay:
down, Start in at once and purify your
blood with that great speeifle, Hood's Bax
saparilia. I never disappoints,
Tumors- "A tumor as big as a large mar
ble pame under my tougue, and instead of
letting my physician operate on it, | used my
favorite spring tonic, Hood's Sarsapmrilla
The bunch soon disappeared.” Mns. MH. M.
COBURN, 519 Mer'k 8t., Lowell, Mass,
Rhaumatism "1 had rheumatism for
five years and ean consfientiously say tha!
Hood's Sarsaparillas has given me entire re.
i As a pa purifier it hax helped my
Cows With Spectacles.
For more than six months of the year
the Russian steppes are covered with
snow, Cows subsists on the tofts of grass
which erop above the snow, and the rays
of the sun on the snow are so duzzling 1
to blindness To obviate this
calamity, it occurred to an kind-hearted
man to protect the cows’ eyes in the same
Cause
way as those of human beings, and he
manufactured af@pke-colored spectacles
which could be safely worn by cattle.
These spectacles we yo :
aud are now worn hy upwards of forty
thousand head of cattle, who fo longer
suffer from the snow.blindness which
once caused such untold sufiering nmongst
them. ;
0 great success
sR ———s
Stone Boot Soles
An inventor has hit upon a method of
putting stone soles on boots and shoes,
He mises a water-proof glue with a suit.
able quantity of clean quartz sund and
spreads it over the leather sole used as o
foundation.
to be very flexible and p ancticully inde.
stiuctible.
wife and myself have been
{ “Hoth my
using CASCARETS and oy are the best
i medicine we have ever had in the house. Last
| weak my wife was frantic with hesdache for
i two days, she tried some of your CASCARETS,
| and they relieved the pain fn ber bead almost
! immediately. We both recommend Cascarets.”
i CHAR STEDEFORD,
Pittsburg Safe & Deposit Co, Pittsburg, Pa.
Hel,
children wonderfully,” Mas 5. A, Bacan,
8 Franklin Avenue, Passaic, N,
Hoods Sarsaparill
REET
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Hood's Fills cure liver {lis the non-irritating and
the only cathartic to mie with Hood's Sarsapariiia
These quartz soles are said
rah
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girl is helping the chain
TRADE MART REGISTERED
The Chainless wheal
the b sre excellent
Pleasant
Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Do
Good :
Never Sleson. Wesken. or Gripe, lie, 2. 0
CURE CONSTIPATION. ...
fterling Nemody Company, (hiesps, Hastregl, Sow York, 17
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nder the extra
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ally minting at all time gists sv £0 OW Tabane Tab
vasy
New 1898 Models: Chainless,
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veoeties, oc),
THE
Spalding
OFFICIAL
League
Ball
6 fron af
POPE MFG. CO., Hartiord, Cona.
. i . genuine
e all
f 1u ae
Thrifty Indians,
Not long age
ay
O SEBSTITITES,
vt palding’'s athie
w and adds
of = LE
arey MN
SESE FLGI an
OGY
A. C. SPALDING & BROS,
were | i New York. Denver. Chicas
2rd ted said ole
brass ba:
About Paper
Tr
taislitl
FROG
for every
dale nt
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freshing
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PAINFUL PERIODS NO MORE
RS. GEORGE OSMUN, of Belvidere, Warren Co., N. ]., writes:
‘Suffering ss I had from weakness, irregularities and backache
for several years, n release from this suffering was a blessing. Ohl
how I wish more suffering women would accept your kind offer and be relieved.
There is no need for women to suffer. Mrs. Plakham's advice and Lydia BE.
st rt rst, Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound will relieve
: them.”
Mgrs. Ina Peters, Milan, Tenn., writes:
“Dear Mus, Pisgusv-~When 1 wrote to you
the first time asking your advice I was a great
sufferer. Menstruations were irregular, Some-
times a week too soon and then a week or two
late, and when they appeared were very profuse
great pain and tenderness in the bowels, pain in
back and limbs, lencorrheea all the time. I
was weak and nervous and had no appetite,
F Burning and choking sensation in my throat.
I received your reply and followed all your
instructions and now | am cured. | owe my
recovery all to Mrs. Pinkham's advice and her
wonderful remedies.” .
Evra E. Brexwxer, East Rochester,
1. Ohio, writes:
: “I have been thankful a thousand times
since I wrote to you for what your Vegeta
ble Compound has done for me. I followed
your advice carefully and now I feel like a
different person. My troubles were back
anche, headache, nervous tired feeling, pain.
ful meunstraation and leucorrhoa. 1 took
four bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
ble Compound, one box of Pills, one package
of S8anative Wash and am now well.”
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‘B Mus. Macoie P. Sting, New Berlin,
:
9 Pa., writes: ‘
“I have suffered with terrible backache
in the small of my back for about seven
years, and could never get anything to help
me, 1 tried several physicians, but found
‘no help. 1 have now taken three bottles
of Lydia KE. Pinkham's Vegetable Com-
nd, snd feel like a different woman.”
Owosso, Mich., writes: !
“ Nearly three years ago I wrete to you asking advice in regard tomy health,
1 was so miserable; suffered from painful menstruation and backache, was
nervous, dizzy and faint. I received such a kind letter from you, telling me
ust what to do. I followed your advice and I now am mmending Lydis B
Pinkhaw's Vegetable Compound. 1 thank God for this pain
* Murs. H. A., 124 S. Cedar Street,
mn
NOTES OF INTEREST ON AGRICULTURAL
TOPICS,
Cattle Bloat==-Simple Butter Making--Bee
yond the Chemist, Efc., Etc.
Rolling Down Stubble Land.
The bulk of snow the past winter has
been everywhere enough to
break down lnst year's grain stubble,
go that it will not be in the way when
mowing the clover next June. But
there ix still the necessity of rolling
the surface 10 down
loose stones, which are worse than clo
This should be
gront
HO IN [ress the
ver in mowing fields,
done while the ground is still moist,
that the may pressed level
with the surface. This rolling has au
excellent effect clover, com
pacting the soll around
making it grow much better. It should
be done early
to ns rolling
growing crushes tig leaves and injures
“0
slones a
on young
the roots and
before the clover starts
FrOW, clover while it is
the whole after growth
To Prevent Cattle Bloal
At a farmer's meeting held in
zona a gentleman
he had
cows and kK
be
from bloat
stan
sald that for
$41
Rein
opt
for 1
fifteen
fat
fever
£41 $ 143
Years Prom
thirty them
to i
they ought
lost
i Cow remedy
Hk
iis
the cows ad with their
front feet a little higher than their hind
and he
bloating
mended all the
would ent before
falfa, if
when the
to make
believes this kept them
Anot
ary
turning ti
ones,
from Her
ferend
turned
is upon
still dango
hut pips
dow aul
hungry, there is
Simple Butter Making,
In the small dairy the
tH
production must ©
possible figure
sna llest
sult in a first-class
and
churn
inextien
i=
:
ga tiniad
granules
A pound of
fo thir
will not.
worth from
much as a pound of ensilage, bul put a
mess of corn cobs before one cow and
two
There 18 no reflection upon the work
of the chemist in this, There undoubi
edly is from two to three thines as wineh
feed value in a pound of corn cobs as
there Is in a pound of ensilage. only it
j= pot in such a form as is best sulted
to the cow. Now this gn extreme
case, But ik It not fair to suppose
that in the commoner stuffs there are
certain feeds or certain combinations
of feed that have the same chemical
value, yet the one is better for feeding
than the other? Since we cannot take
the stand that a pound of protein is a
pound of protein wherever found,
sould it not be advisable to find ont
just what pounds of protein are most
valuable? Linseed meal for an exam
ple has in addition to ita feeding value
a value as a medicine in Keeping the
powels in good condition. Now may it
not be true that some feeds, hy reason
of their action upon the digedive or
i
feeding value?
The farmer Is not the man to deter
mine these questions, for hie has
neither the time nor the means at hand,
would well repay the time of some of
our experiment stations. 1 B, Crosby
in Farm, Field and Fireside,
The Fochsia as a Bedding Plant.
The fuschia, although of tropical orl
gin, will not stand the intense heat’ of
our summer sun, consequently is very
seldom used ax a bedding plant for
fawn purposes, However, my most at.
tractive flower bed for years has been
one of fuchsing., Every building has a
north aide fo it and it is in sich a
place that | constructed my fuchsia
bed. This bed was shaded from the sun
during the entire day With the excep
tion of three hours in the morning, yet
profusion. :
removed, as it was largely composed of
The bed was then filled with a
of thoroughly
manure and leaf
Pot plants were
amposition
marsh muck,
equal parts,
get in
to color, The best
wis produced by planting four rows
lengthiways of the bed, setting plants
one foot apart in the row
for mmediate effect. The border row
was composed of Speciosa, a very free.
blooming next
Black Prince single, third row Storm
Ising and the last row
Phenomenal, The contrast
by this arrangemoent is very
and pleasing,
With a little management a
ean easily be carried over in
ree enough to plant a bed
In the fall after
plants can
or closer,
single sort, the row
cotuposed of
procure
effective
stork of
entioned.
killin frost the
fo the
soil and placed in
314
1113 i 5
ut back stumps. heeled
of the
collar for the next summer, when they
With the exe
this
no other of
di be reset, eption of an
bred
require ing the
and in a few weeks from
will
HOSROINS
ocoasional watering flower
ur
ine
od be coy
i and ns tue
will becom tractive
Ww. J.
txt
more n
Mayle in The Ameri
ienitur
(irasses for the Pasture.
grass is
ina nent pasture
re has always
fier Jeet pesiiits
inl grasses al
fies Kind referre
i § fs ¥
oevasionally in ww
ding £33
5
bead
land alionid we eoRric
with top dressings of
cropping should never
Cattle for the General Farm.
What kind of cattle shall the general
farmer The general farm
the man that follows diversified farm
ing. corn, wheat, barley, hay, oats and
horses, cattle, sheep and ile
neither devotes all of his Innd to rais
ing oue kind of grain, nor feeds all of
ite dive
rise? in
hogs,
his crops to one kind of stock,
hig income, ns does the specialist,
Stock are kept in order to feed the
crops ralsed on the farm to the great
est advantage and to preserve ag much
of the fertilizer constituents of the
crops raised as possible. Bat there are
obstneles to specialized farming that at
present seem insurmountable. Cattle
to produce meat,
products are prigarily for the use of
the farmer's tantly, and the surplus
ix usually sold in the open market. The
calves are raived by band on skim milk,
two or three years old and then sold to
local butchers or to shilppers, The
heifers are kept to replace thelr moth
It is
very evident that the special dairy cow
is not suited to this class of farmers
wer ealves would be worthless for
feeding purposes, On the other hand
the special beef cow cannot All the bili,
because she cannot yield enough milk
to supply the family wants and raise
her calf. Neither can the farmer af
ford to keep both classes, ote to supply
milk and butter and the other fo sup:
ply feeding cattle,
But the kind of eattle demanded
must be a combination of both the
beef and dairy anlimal, or as Professor
Shaw has christened them, the dual
good guantity of fairly rich milk and
thelr calves must make good
: The cow herself must be of
Al
midway between dairy and beef cattle,
they do pot result from the first ew
more than the hackney resulis
from a cross between a hepvy draft
and a trotting But they
form distivet breads and the breeding
of dual purpose eattie
and if any difference, more skill than
the breeding of special purpose cattie,
The dalry quality mimst not be devel
aped at the expense of the beef quality
fior the expense
dairy
Fs,
horse horse,
beef fie of the
tooth qualities must be advane-
eid together, and i takes shill and expe
rience in breeding to do it
Probably po one breed nx
dual purpose cattle, but the Shorthorn,
ted Polled Devon
proach most ne it
is ideal
the fap
is from
biroeds
t look for bh of dual pur
aitle, The breeders
these
Hs supply
[Hane « of these
should recognize the ortanee of de
veloping both the beef |
ties, amd all tender
gle or sp
H. BE. Pri
inated
Farmer.
QUEER OCCUPATIONS.
What Some London and Paris Women Do
for a Liviag.
tester” is
The “dinner
ample of the “ultra”
refinemet fan palate
¢
know, th
Od pleasure
upon ue emiplovinent
, says the New York .
ae £ w 4 +
» “dinner tastier
Destructibility of Houmas Bosex
Totind
s eanals and re
usa nds
uch
considerable dopth
y rescued land
through
must | had ap ag
exhumed from first to last, Some
two wrecked vessels alone
the antiquaries, who watched the op
erations with the hope of a rich har
vest. Here, nk in cavern deposits and
| alone furnished evidence of the exist
{once of man, even though no part of
| hundred years old, gs the lake was
{ formed by an inundation toward the
lend of the sixteenth century.
| York Times,
T ¢ Ruby Mines of Ceylon.
Ceylon’s great ruby mines are world
famous. For a substantial considers.
tion the obliging Singalese merchant
will take a ripe European out to his
precious sand heaps and dig up super
The foreigner is always deeply ime
pressed and is delighted with his cost
iy purchase until hie finds out about
thie man in Birmingham, England, who
rane a precious stone factory in con:
i nection with his glass plant. This
man makes bushels of rubies of col
Cored glass and ships them to Ceylon,
There the clever natives bury them in
the fabled sand mines, to be dug out
under the eyes of the first foreign sim:
pleton who comes along. Truly, there
are tricks in all trades,
An Undelivered Letter,
publishers received a few days
letter from
INDIANS LOATH TO LOSE THEIR FA-
MOUS RED CLAY
There is No Other Deposit on Earth Like
li=Legendary Love Conmecied with the
Stone The Yriditional Emblem of Peace.
The Indian Department at Wash.
ington ix now treating with the SBloux
Indians for the cession of their title
to the famous red pipestone reserva
tion. The reservation is only one mile
gqunre, but if ik known to the Indians
beg tine
of the wonderful ved pipeclay which
is found here and for the legendary
lore connected with this stone. This
the bed of Pipestone
sontthwestern cornet of
bank of
d by a granite cliff
while thie oppo-
sione jes in
the
which
ROC
Siate finnesota,
of aie
i Burmounts
#gixty
site bank is formed by a gradual slope
granite
Fremont and
explorer
gran-
pros
the sa
This
f
to the prairie
cliff that
in 1x08
Jean i
Nicolett
their
that today
the reach
carved names on a slab of
stands ont as
orisd
articular spot, at the
Bi
pat
Secretary of the Tweens
surrounded by an fron fend
{ection against the vapdalism relic
hunters
To
gecnstonmed
heen
for
» traditional
pipeciay.
Rocky
the
Mexiro
+ that
the
make
this spot
to
ies In search of
HINA Ees
cent
of peace,
They have jour:
Mountains of rom
southern boundary
thie shores of
the Ind
Thess
robbed of the
fi reservation.
to be
when thie reverse is
io Presery
Department
1
¥
RL
MARNE
blood of
by
tribes
or the
wn tond
might en
their
aft
{és both
i 9 : 3 ‘ .
from the #po
There
4 3
none a2
like § 3 i
the Mis Ja
Rainy Lake. there
ix a similar deposit of i= Known
bat
ae the stone of tlw
this is jet black siightly harder
than the red pipestone., The Chippe
was make pipes of thi
coverad Jig! Across {148
boundary, north of
what
{ bippew an
*
and
black stone.
iE AR
But the black stone is not prized by
the Indians for the resson that there
is no legend attached to it, nor Is it
supposed to possess that charm which
is claimed for the owners of red pipes.
Through the countless vizitations in
geareh of the “hlond of their fathers™
of red stone unt] now there is very
little of it exposed, and it Is necessary
the rock. No one knows the extent of
the depokit.—New York Sun.
Sweet Selicitade.
Mra. Youngwife- Thank goodness,
Mrs. Naybor-—-What! All by your
Mrs, Youngwife-Mm. Xo. 1 got
Mrs. Narbor-Oh! Then he staid
Mrs, Youngwife—Yes, He sald he
felt so bad and be looked so wretched
when he got up this morning that 1
Just wouldn't let him go to the office. —
Philadelphia Catholic Standard sod
Times, {
Romance of a Russian
A Russian Countess, Wyranoff by
name, aud conspicuous at court by rea.
footman. It is a touching romance.
The footman never told his love exes