The Important
Problem
confronting anyone in need of a laxa-
tive is not a question of a single ac-
, tion only, but of permanently bene-
ficial effects, which will follow proper
efforts to live in a healthful way, with
the assistance of Syrup of Figs and
Elixir of Senna, whenever it is re-
quired, as it cleanses the system
gently yet promptly, without irritation
and will therefore always have the
preference of all who wish the best of
family laxatives. :
The combination has the approval
of physicians because it is known to
be truly beneficial, and because it has
given satisfaction to the millions of
well-informed families who have used
it for many years past.
To get its beneficial effects, always
buy the genuine manufactured by the
California Fig Syrup Co. only.
The Vanderbilt Tenements.
-‘Oneof the greatest drawbacks to the
ultimate cure of tuberculosis among
poor families in large cities, lies in
the unsanitary condition of home life.
A patient .may be discharged from a
sanatorium well on the road of health
and then suffer a relapse because of
lack of proper home surroundings. In
New York city, through the wise phil-
anthropy of Mrs. William K. Vander-
bilt, the tuberculosis problem‘ is being
attacked in the home through the me-
dium of model tenements, with ample
courts for air and light, through which
access will be had from passage-ways
extending from street to street, similar,
to the model tenements of German and
Austrian cities. :
Dr. Henry L. Shively, writing in the
“Survey,” says the Vanderbilt tene-
ments, aside from their advantageous
hygienic conditions, will be. made more
healthy by the vigilant supervision of
physicians and nurses. They will en-
courage c.eanliness, good morals, tem-
perance, thrift, good housekeeping and
all the social virtues which make for
a higher plane of living.
His Hands Cracked Open.
“I am a man seventy years old. My
hands were very. sore and. cracked
open on the insides for over a year
with large sores. They would crack
open and bleed, itch, burn and ache
so that I could not sleep and could do
but little work. They were so bad
that I could not dress myself in the
morning. They would bleed and the
blood dropped on the floor. . I called
on two doctors, but they did me no
good. I could get nothing to do any
good till I got the Cuticura Soap and
Cuticura Ointment. About a year ago
my daughter got a cake of Cuticura
Soap and one box of Cuticura Oint-
ment and in one week from the time
I began to use them my hands were
all healed up and they have not been
a mite sore since. I would not be
without the Cuticura Remedies.
“They also cured a bad sore on the
hand of one of my neighbor's chil-
dren, and they think very highly of
the Cuticura Remedies. John W.
Hasty, So. Effingham, N. H., Mar. §
and Apr. 11, 1909.” |
Also a Spellbinder.
Professor D. Jones, the world’s
champion speller, is somewhat of a
spellbinder. He addressed a curious
crowd in Kirksville, saying: “Good
pecple, my. name is Jones, the school
teacher; Tm the greatest speller not
only in Missouri but in the whole
world. What's the harm in telling
this if it’s the truth? In 1870 while
teaching school at Olathe I challenged
the world to outspell me. The chan-
cellor of the university went against
me and 1 beat him,
all aspivants to the championship
since then.”—Kansas City Star.
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Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets regulate and |
invigorate stomach, liver and bowels.
Sugar-coated, tiny granules, easy to take
as candy.
~ Stage Dancing.
The dance has never played so im-
porfant a part in stage entertainment
as it does at the present time, and the
novelties in that line seem to be in-
exhaustible. The old ballet, as por-
trayed by Grisi and Ellsler, has been
revived, and, in addition, we have all
sorts of dances, from the stately’ min-
uet to the grotesque cake-walk. New
artists, each one with a specialty,
make their appearance at short inter-
vals. They all claim the public atten-
tion until they melt away before the
rays of a new star.—Paris Figaro.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma-
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25¢c a bottle.
No Art for Police Station.
A will was contested not long ago
in New York because the testatrix had
bequeathed a grand piano, several oil
paintings and five pieces of Japanese
pottery to a police station. The pro-
testing legatee won out and there was
a reversion of those art treasures to
the regular heirs.
Mme. Curie of Paris, who with her
husband discovered radium; was elect-
ed an honorary associate member of
the American Chemical Society at the
recent meeting in Boston. j
way to affect the worms.
“I have defeated
Gray : Pearl,
Sheep Worms and Tobacco.
We feed tobacco to sheep to keep
them clean from worms; tobacco
seems to be especially good to keep
tape-worms out of sheep. We have
tried here several ways of feeding
tobacco. One was to mix it with the
salt; but we found that the sheep
wouldn’t eat enough tobacco in this
Now we
put the ground tobacco beside the
salt, and when the sheep come up
for salt they eat what tobacco they
need. In this way the sheep them-
selves regulate how much they should
eat.
the sheep and think it does a good
bit of good.—Wallace’s Farmer.
Charcoal For Pigs.
A box of charcoal is ag valuable an
adjunct to the hog yard as it is to
the poultry pen. An easy way to
secure a quantity of charcoal is to
dig a pit in the ground and start a
fire in it. As the fire progresses
throw in cobs and wood until the pit
is full. When the fire is well started,
cover the whole with a piece of sheet
iron. The mass will be thoroughly
charred in a day or two and can be
taken out and stored for future use.
It adds to the beneficial effect of
the charcoal to sprinkle over it be-
fore feeding a solution of twelve
pounds of salt and two pounds of
copperas dissolved in a pail of water,
letting the charcoal become well sat-
urated.—Farmers’ Home Journal,
. More Draft Horses Needed.
One of the features of the breeding
industry is horses are now command-
ing good prices and there doesn’t
seem to be any condition in sight that
will make any change in the market
values. It means, therefore, a profit-
able business to those who will breed
and raise the kind that meets the de-
mand of the public. There is at pres-
ent a scarcity of such horses with no
immediate prospect of an increase
in number. It does seem, therefore,
that the breeder has before him the
promise of years of success and profit
if he will raise the kind of horses
needed and for which there is a
demand. He only needs to look into
the market and ascertain the kind
that demands the best prices.—Indi-
ana Farmer.
The Neglected Farm Horse.
Some farmers think it a waste of
time to groom working horses in
order to make them look sleek and
shiny and would rather leave them in
their natural state.
It should be remembered that in
the domectic horse more is demanded
than in the wild animal, and conse-
quently he requires a little more
fostering to supply the wear of this
extra demand.
And grooming does not mean mere-
ly cultivating a ‘“‘sleeky’” appearance,
although I do not mean to depreciate
the virtue of those who take a pride
in keeping their horses in fine coat
and condition.
It means a stimulating of the res-
piratory system and consequently in-
creased vigor to the health: of the
horse.
Secretions are continually going on
in the glands of the skin, which are
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given over in the form of perspira-
tion, and this secretive action in-
creases more rapidly the animal is
fed or the harder he is worked, so
that by perspiring freely nature comes
to the assistance in preventing the
pores of the skin being choked.
But the fatty fluid which comes
from the glands in the form of sweat
is apt to consolidate again at the roots
of the hair and forms a covering of
dandruff which clogs the circulating
action through the pores of the skin.
When a horse is doing no work
and grazing in the open this is of no
harm, as it helps to keep out the cold
and, consequently grooming is not
needed; but, on the other hand, the
working animal requires to be kept
in better vigor, and besides the labor
and more nitrogenous food usually
given induces more excessive per-
spiration.
When he comes into the stable
either wet or perspiring he should be
well rubbed down at once!
After he is dry a thorough groom-
ing will well repay the labor, and in
those districts where the care of the
horse is a feature of the farm I have
often heard it said that a good groom.
We always keep tobacco before
side.
ing twice a day was worth a feed of
oats —W. R. Gilbert.
Platforms For Chicken Coops.
Anyone who expects to raise little
chickens in the spring must meet the
question of how to keep them warm,
dry and clean and safe from the rats,
It is of no use to try to raise chickens
unless you have a suitable place to
keep them, and it is better to get this
ready before they are hatched than
to wait until they are ready to take
out of the nest, and then begin to
look around for a coop.
The coops should be tight and have
good roofs and substantial platforms
under them to keep the chickens out
of the water. Every spring there are
hard rains when the ground is thor-
oughly soaked with water, and it is
impossible to keep the chickens dry
if the coops are on the wet ground.
It is no.pleasure to go out during or
after a hard rain and gather up half
drowned chickens, and take them in-
to the house to dry; but this is what
one will be compelled to do if he does
not want the chickens to drown.
If rats are bad it is almost impos-
sible to raise little chickens with the
coops on the ground for they will dig
under them and kill all that happen
to be in the coop. Another advan-
tage about having the coops on plat-
forms is that they can easily be kept
clean. The coop can be lifted off, the
platform scrubbed and left until af-
ternoon to dry and air, and the coop
replaced: before time for the chickens
to go into it for the night.
These are all little things, but they
have much to do with the success of
the person who expects to go into the
chicken business.—Margaret Whit-
ney, in the Indiana Farmer.
To Make Rubber Cheap.
‘It is believed that “plantation” rub-
ber will mature sufficiently in the
next five years to not only meet the
world’s demand, but to make rubber
disastrously cheap. Rubber is one
of those products that promises fa-
vorably for synthetic chemical con-
struction. Japan lost millions of in-
come through the invention of mak-
ing synthetic camphor from oil of
turpentine. This artificial camphor is
chemically identically the same as the
Jap camphor, made by steaming cam-
phor tree wood or shavings and con-
densing the steam and camphor in’
cold water tanks. The same thing
happened to indigo. Millions of dol-
lars’ worth were imported from India
every year. Two years after the in-
vention of synthetic indigo the im-
ports of real indigo fell to $200,000,
and have been steadily falling until
natural indige at its normal high
price is a drug on the market, for the
new stuff, the “imitation,” is the same
thing, chemically. and practically.
European chemists are working to
make synthetic rubber, and some are
pretty apt to strike it.—New York
Press.
Clubless Police.
Is human nature so different in To-
ledo and in Detroit from what it is
elsewhere that policemen’s clubs are
superfluous in those cities? = Or are
‘they superfluous everywhere, and is
| the English custom of controlling
crowds or prisoners with the hands
alone the right one? As a matter of
fact, the emergencies in which a po-
liceman really needs a. club are coms=
paratively rare, for in the vast major-
ity of cases firmness, decision, strength
of character, courage, supplemented
by a strong right arm, are sufficient
to enable him to overcome even heavy
odds when he has the right on his
And the right is generally on
hig side. Furthermore, the right sort
of policeman will never draw his club
except in cases of urgent need. If
he can’t use it without abusing it,
then he’s not the right sort of person
to be on the force.—Boston Globe.
Radium and Cancer.
“Up to the present,” said Sir Will-
iam Ramsay in a recent lecture, ‘it
has been said radium cures cancer. I
do not think it by any means certain;
I think it exceedingly doubtful, but
it has not been rightly tried, and all
we can say is that there have been
things done which are favorable to
that suggestion. But, although we
may postpone decision with regard
to cancer, there can be no postpone-
ment as to rodent ulcer. It is a cer-
tain cure for that. There has not
been a single case of failure, except
when the disease had spread to an
awful extent before treatment was
begun.”’—London Letter to the New
York Medical Record. !
No Check Book For Spinsters.
.In France a spinster is not allowed
to put money in the bank or have
a check book. However, once mar-
ried or a widow she can do business
with bankers as far as her means and
mind go.—New York Press.
‘the. meat
. neglected.
Electric cables with hemp cores to
take up the strain more evenly are
.a Swedish invention. a
An all-rubber automobile wheel
has been patented, rigid at the centre |
and with the hardness lessening grad-.
ually until the circumference is
reached. ! ; :
Between the present method of get-
ting food from the field and the ideal
method of getting it from a test-tube
in a factory there are various ex-
panses of middle ground: Victor
Meyer, a celebrated German chemist,”
has said: “We may reasonably hope
that chemistry will teach us, in the
near future, how to make the fiber of
wood the source of human food.”
Besides Halley’s Comet, two other
comets may be expected in 1910. The
first of these is Tempel’s, discovered
July 3d, 1873, at Milan. It has a
period of 5,75 years. It was observed
in 1878, 1894, 1899, and 1904. It
last passed perihelion in November.
The second of the expected comets is
that of Arrest, discovered in 1851,
and the return of which is expected in
the summer of this year. It was ob-
served in 1857, 1870, 1877, 1890 and
1907. It was unfortunately: placed
in 1903 and, therefore, could not be
observed.—Scientific. American.
During the night between October
7th and 8th, 1909, a meteoric stone
fell to earth on the farm of W. -P.
Nickerson, .of Norwood, Mass. The
meteorite is a ham-shaped mass of
very hard gray stony material, much
corrugated on the surface, about two
and one-half feet long in its greatest
dimension, one: foot to. nearly one’
and one-half. feet broad, and varying:
from one foot to one-half foot in the
third dimension. Its volume was
estimated as about 1.75 cubic feet, its.
weight as perhaps 275 pounds, and its
density as not much over 2.5.—Sci-
entific American. :
Mysteries of the Dining Car,
~The kitchen of a dining car is a
most exaggerated example of the
economy of space. Every inch is
used. Water tanksare suspended from
the ceiling. One wall is lined with
the big range and heating ovens, re-
ceptacles for pans, pots: and. other
utensils, and a row of cupboards up
under the ceiling. At one end, bes
tween the kitchen and the dining car
proper, is a little pantry, which serves
as a sort of vestibule.
the waiters place their orders and
receive dishes.
Every separate article of food and
equipment has its place. Every cor-
ner and nook in the car has a particu-
lar function. The silver is in one
place, the milk and cheese in another,
in another, and so on
through the list. Everything perish-
able is kept in a refrigerator.
While the car is “in action’ the
conductor from his position: between
dining reom and kitchen, keeps: his
eyes upon the ten tables, and endeav-
ors to see that none of the diners is
For all the supplies on
the car he is held to strict account.
On his ‘trip sheet,” as it is called, is
put a list of everything taken on the
car when it starts out.
A record of all articles sold is en-
tered upon the sheet, and when the
car comes ‘home’ again all that has
not been sold must be on hand.
The equipment of a dining car con-
forms to standards just as do loco-
motives, trucks, rails and ties. Dishes
are made according to established
patterns, each piece of china having
the company’s monogram upon it.
The same is true of the linen, silver,
menu holders—everything. Thus a
‘loss can be easily traced. The wait-
ers are allowed. $20 a month for
breakage.
that, though, they have to pay for,
and the cost is divided among them
equally.—Woman’s Home Compan-
ion. :
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; “Pumpernickel.”
Now that no political or party sig-
nificance attaches to the subject, you
may be interested to know the origin,
as told me by a German officer, of the
name ‘pumpernickel,” given to the
black bread which, cut in thin slices,
is the invaridble accompaniment of
the hors d’oeuvres at German dinner
parties, and is regarded as, such a
delicacy. The story is that in the
Napoleonic invasions of Germany a
century ago a mounted French officer
put up at a wayside inn, and the pro-
prietor, wishing to give him of the
best, placed before him some of this
black bread. The French officer,
however, thrust it from him, exclaim-
ing:
mais c¢’est bon pour Nicol,” that being
the name of his horse. Hence in the
course of time arose the appellation
“pumpernickel’”’ applied to this bread.
—Lendon Spectator.
Canada was‘formally ceded to Eng-
land by the treaty of:iParis, signed on
February 10, 1763, :
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