HOUSEHOLD FRIEND. Peruna is a household friend in more This is Peruna has become than a million homes. number increasing every day. a household word all over the English speaking world. Itis an old tried remedy for all catarrhal diseases of the head, throat, lungs, stomach, kidneys, bladder and female organs. Aslc Your Druggist for Free Peruna Almanac for 1907. 3,000,000 native Chris Africa has tians. FITS, St. Vitus'Dance: Nervous Diseases per- mane ntly cur ed by Dr. Kline's Gréat Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free. Dr. H. R. Kline, Ld.,931 Arch St., Phila., Pa. United States Stamps. The government of the United States has decided to give up printing its postage stamps. The Bureau of Engraving ‘and Printing in Washing ton has done the work since 1894 at a loss which has amounted to consid- erable each ycar and has-been made up by deficiency appropriations by Congress. The American Bank Note Co. has now secured the contract, and its work will be done in the same manner as that which this company turned out before 1894. The main feature of the new printing will be the engraving upon the stamps them: selves of the names of 26 postofiices in the United States which do largest business. = There are smaller offices, and the stamps of these will have the names printed up on them. This is done in order to prevent postoflice robberies, as it will be impossible to dispose of any large number of stamps with the name of the office printed upon them after a robbery has been committed. An interesting field for coliection is opened by this action on the part of our government: The © attempt to gather a collection, of stamps issued from every different postoffice in 2 state or in the United States may be made, and in many cases will - un- doubtedly be successfully accomp- lished. This form of stamp collect- ing will naturally take the place of postmark collecting, and in many ways is likely to be more interesting and instructive, as it will be the stepping _ stone to the general collection of the ~ stamps of the world.—St. Nicholas. G,0060 WHITE BREAD Makes Trouble For People With Weal Intestinal Digestion. A lady in a Wis. town employed a physician, eat white bread for two vears. She tells the details of her sickness, and she certainly was a sick woman.- “In the year 1887 I gave out from over work, and until 1901 I remained an invalid in bed a great part of the time. Had different doctors, but nothing seemed to help. I suffered from cerebro-spinal -congestion, fe- male trouble and serious stomach and bowel trouble. My husband called a new doctor, and after having gone without any food for 10. days the doctor ordered Grape-Nuts for me. I could eat the new food from the very first mouthful. The doctor kept me on Grape-Nuts, and the only medicine was ¢ little glycerine to heal the alimentary canal. “When I was up again doctor told me to eat Grape-Nuts twice a day and no white bread for two years. I got well in good time, and have gained in strength so I can do my own work again. “My brain has been helped so much, and" I krow that the Grape- Nuts food did this, too. I found I had been meade ill because I was not fed right, that is, I éid not properly digest white bread and some other foed I tried to live on. “I have never been without Grape- Nuts food since and eat it every day. You may publish this letter if you like, so it will help some one else.” Name given by Postum €o., Battle Creek, Mich. Get the little bool, “Tae Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. the who instructed her not to. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. A 19-year-old Indiana woman gave a corn-husking exhibition recently. public been At Dresden, bathing house opened. a has Germany, for dogs Shackles, of Summerfield, 16 years old and weighs 488 Carl Ohio, is pounds. The Kansas farmers complain that the ears of corn are too large for the shellers. Cooking stoves are little used in Scotland, where the cooking is usu- ally done over an open-grate fire. licenses in colonies $600 a Commercial travellers’ the British South African and protectorates amount to year. a good deal of talk of electing an Indian States Senator from t Lc in as hat There is Oklahoma first. United State. led = in its drawn by horse cars ca street other New York has just street car on Grand a horse. :There are yet in use there. Illinois ranks next to Pennsylvania as a coal state, and Missouri, which has coal deposits in forty counties, is climbing oe iy in the list. A debating club within the Young Men's Christian Association of Cleve- land has decided 10 to 7 that a mil- lionaire cannot -be an honest man. King John of Abyssinia has decreed that the nose of any one of his sub- jeets found taking snuff shall be cut off, while smoking and chewing to- bacco forfeits life. > The attendance at the schools of New York : City is greater than it has been at any previous time, break- ing all records of the schocl year in September—583,589. The supposed suicide of an actress in a Chicago hotel proves to have been a murder by a one-legged man, who stole her jewels and hid them in a sceret pocket in his artificial limb. A Mexican newspaper laments the excessive number of holidays to which the Mexican workingman and peasant think themselves entitled. Out of the 365 days of the year 131 are devoted to obligatory and tradi- tional idleness, as follows: Sundays, 02; saint Mondays, 52; solemn fast days, 15; holy days, 3; national feasts, 3; family feasts, 6. Truly Rural. The seventeen-year-old daughter of a certain Wall Street man recently visited for the first time the fine farm in Duchess County for the past year owned by her father. The little girl immediately became greatly interested in the prize cattle that are the special pride of her parent and .asked many questions relative to their breeding, etc. > One evening just at dusk as the girl was standing on the veranda of the farmhouse talking to the manager, there came the low, mournful note ot a cow. “Just listen to that poor cow,” the little girl to the manager, ‘“mew- ing for her colt.”—Harper’s Weekly. The Granary of South America. The Argentine Republic is best of ‘all the South American countries because it produces cereals and beef, mutton, wecol and hides in competition with the United States, Canada, and European countries; yet-it is difficult to keep pace with the enormous growth of Argentine agriculture dur- ing the last few years, just as very many persons are still unable to grasp the fact that instead of being a little country somewhere down in South America, it is twenty-eight time the size of Ohio, and that while in the Northern regions it produces sugar and other tropical products, yet as a whole it is to be viewed as another Mississippi Valley. The Argentine Minister of Agriculture estimates the wheat crop for the current year at 3,882,000 tons, the area under cultiva- tion being 14,028,000 acres. The foreign commerce in 1906 exceeded $550,000,000.—America n Cultivator. said A Solar Incubator. if the poultry-raisers can- not afford the double-acting, steam- heated chicken-hatchers they may make use of anything which is handy in place of the crdinary setting hen. In Ohio -¥t has remained for Henry Decker, a old farmer living near Rome, in the Buckeye State, to use Dbee-hives for this purpose, says The Technical World. Mr. Decker happened to have two or three empty hives, and, as his hens ‘“‘went on strike” and refused to sit on their mests, he decided to raise his chickens without their help. So he took a piece of cotton cloth, laid the eggs in it; then covered them over with a thick chair cushion, placed the eggs in the hive and awaited results. In a short time 18 out of the 20 eggs were turned into chirping chicks. Since then Mr. Decker swears by the bee-hive, and all he asks of the hens is to do the laying and he will do the rest. ‘Sad Result. Highmus—*Your wagon? automobile Horrors! irs. ran over a baby What happened?” Mrs. Showfer—“Just what always happens whenever I do that. Broke the bottle and cut the tire. “rChicago Tri- bune. FINANGE AND TRADE DUN’'S WEEKLY SUMMARY Snow Biockades Make Traffic Situa- tion Worse Than Ever, Trade Suffers. R. G, Duns & Co.'s view of Trade’ says: “Trade in winter as the weather became more season- able, but reports for the week are most irregular on account of varying tmperature. Improvement in the traffic situation was checked by snow blockades, and the best railway au- thorities state that &panding heed of the Nation can oniy be met by a much greater expenditure for the new track and rolling stock than has yet been contemplated, although pric f stocks have declined sharply since the announcement of proposed new : is: sues of securities ' for these pur- poses. “Clearance progress, and new delivery is coming to wholesale houses in while ccllections ment, although lines. “Manufacturing returns. could not well be more favorable, contracts in many cases covering deliveries into 1908, while at some stecl and cotton mills orders are not accepted for ship- ment during the first, half of 1907. “Available supplies of coke do not increase, although production is above all records, and prices for remot shipment are higher than recent spot figures. ; “figh prices will prevail in primary markets for cotton goods, yet the ele- ment of speculation not conspicu- ous, many lines being in a position where. no severe -reaction is to be feared. ®Thus far few cancellations have occurred and manufacturers are strengthening the situation by conser- vatively declining orders that appear to be largely of a speculative nature. There is also a disposition to distri- bute rates among numerous buyers, so. that the risk—-with any single customer may be minimized. “Footwear buyers in Boston are ex- amining full samples and placing mod- erate supplementary orders for spring goods, but case contracts for fall styles come out slowly and the mar- ket is less active than indicated by its animation. MARKETS. “Weekly Re- fabrics improved made good for have business sales Sp ine jobbers. a large volume some improve: slow in many show still is PITTSBURG. Wheat—No. 2 red Corn—No 2 allow. ear.. No. 2 yellow, shelled. Mixed ear No Flour—Winter patent.... Fancy straight winte Hay—No. 1 Jimothy Clover No. Feed—No. Fon te mid. ton. Brown miadlings : Bran, bulk.. Straw—Wheat. Dairy Products. Butter—Elgin creamery Ohio creamery Fancy country roli Cheese—Ohio, new. New York, new Poultry, Etc. Hens—per 1b Chickens—dressed Fags—Pa. and Ohio, fresh.. + Fruits and Vegetables. Potatoos—Fancy white per bu. Cabbage—per ten . Oniens—per barrel BALTIMORE. Flour—Winter Patent Wheat—No. 2 red Corn zed, Eeg NE ee Onic creamery PHILADELPHIA. Flour—Winter Patent Wheat—No. 2 rod Corn—No. 2 mixed Qais No, 2 white. NEW YCRK. Flour—Patonts.........cc heise $ Wheat—No.2red..... . Corn—No. 2 Oats—No. 2 white... Butter -Creamery Eggs—State and Pennsylvania.. LIVE STOCK. Union Stock Yards, Cattle. Extra, 1.450 to: 1,600:1bs. .....5. ... Prime, 1.300 to 1.40%) 1bs Goed, 1,200 to 1.300 1bs...... Tidy, 4,050 to 1,150 Ibs... Common, 700 to 91) Ibs. Prime heavy Prime icedium weight . Best heavy Yorkers... Good light Yorkers... Pigs Stags Prime wethers................-.... $! Good mixe | 3 . Fair mixed ewes and wethers..... Calves. Veal calves... 0 naan Heavy and thin calves More than 90,000,000 ties werce bought by railroads in the United States last year, involving 3,000,000,- 000 to 4,000,000,000 feet of sound timber. Popularity doesn’t seem to follow any rule, says the New York Times. It is like a freak of nature. A book may be popular for many different reasons. Most often, perhaps, it is because it is a love rcmance that pro- duces a thrill, or it is a tale of adven- tare that is intensely exciting, or it is a story that ciepicts life abs