HIP ter Re- tee on e gave treaty id near- epublics republic: another claimin lic’ on zaly’ oul een the 1 former, + the + in-" ny logal Baker &. or before le admit- c of such h action ; the New % Glover, , evaded n being da n. instance Secretary rs of ‘his’ a single National rritory to ation for tenant in ie limita- se of all ‘my. ENTS. step for- act a law A special has been , to Dass, fin idation of f the Dis- iam Loeb, Roosevelt, z ated preop- 2d the en- tory tene- nth street, nic among ling. One plosion. ong of the that the 3 have re- 3 also stat- e declining ing for yet Hours. ment was locomotivef run on an hour basis. will affect rere EI A ps——— oq ¢ Cs or — yrup of Fios F lixiesf Senne Cleanses th stem Effect- alee em eet aclies due to Constipation; : Acts naturally, acts ul as aliaxative. Best forMenWomen and Child- ven-VYound an . et ite ficial Eifeets RR pt - "> CALIFORNIA ic Srrup Co. by whom i mpuaiueed > printed on the SOLD BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS. one size only, regular price 50¢ per botile. * Mining Made Hazardous. uh The deaths from mine disasters in the United States for 1907 were 3,086. The number of seriously injured was 2,721. Over onefourth of this slaugh- ter was accomplished last month. This should serve to fix the attention of assembling legislatures in the mining States upon the necessity of more thorough supervision. Comparison with the loss of life in other countries shows that mining in this country is made extra hazardous by reason of gross neglect of suitable precaution.— Philadelphia Record. REASON FORWOMEN'S “NERVES. In Very Many Cases Tt is Weakened Kidneys. “. Mrs. Frank Roseboom, 512 South Washington St., Moscow, Idaho, says: “Inherited kid- ney: trouble grew steadily worse with me until so nervous I could not. sleep at night. 1 was dizzy and spots floated be- re fore my eyes. My eg ey ONE ™~ back and hips ached - a A and every cold set- tled on my kidneys and made me worse. I have used.many different medicines and was discouraged when I began with Decan’'s Kidney Pills, but now the symptoms that alarmed me are gone.” ... Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box, Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For the Housewife. ... Some active women who pride them- selves in housekeeping seém to forget that the object of keeping house is that human beings may be accommo- dated in it. Their sole idea seems to be this: That the house may be kept in a certain form and order; and to ' the performance of the form and or- der they sacrifice the comfort the house was established to secure. . Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days. ~ Pazo Ointment is guaranteed to cure any caseof Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days or money refunded. 50c, ~. An old. Dutch Bible, found in the | . Humansdorp district of Cape Colony, has a frontispiece depicting -Cain shooting Abel with a blunderbuss.— London Globe. 3 Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children teething, softens thegums, reducesinflamma- tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25¢a bottle Massachusetts is the most de sely populated State of the Union, having about 350 inhabitants per square miic. Itch cured in 3) minutes by Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. "At druggists. A British scientist has spoken against children praying about dying while they are asleep. It is a great mis- take, he said, to let children think of sudden death. WIN CHES a a ANT IRIN ~ FS IHRE SAR AT RIS Say STAs LA 3 io PAS TRAE © - Hunting Rif! From the ten different Winchester repeaters you can surely select a rifle adapted for hunting your favorite game, be it squirrels or grizzly bears. No matter which model you select you can count on its being well made, ac- curate and reliable. 3 SHOOT WINCHISTER CARTRIDGES IN WINCHESTER GUNS wv Xeep a Few Sheep, Professor F. B. Mumford, of Mis- souri experiment station, shows that tests have proved that sheep produce more meat from a pound of grain than any other farm animal. It was shown that a pound of mutton can be produced from about half as much grain as a pound of beef. Even the mortgage lifting hog requires more grain to produce a pound of human food than the sheep. With the com- bination of corn and clover hay for food and a dry shed for shelter sheep will always give good account of’ themselves and respond readily to the care given them.—Farmer’s Guide. Cost of Making Milk. ‘A Canadian milk producer figures the cost of production &s follows: Taking fifteen cows as a unit that one man is capable of taking care of, as well as the product therefrom, and assuming that the man is worth $1.50 a day, we must charge up ten cents a day against each cow for labor. Assuming that each cow averages five thousand pounds of ‘milk a year, which is about six quarts a day, such cow should re- ceive one pound of grain for each three pounds of milk she gives, which would be about five pounds of grain a day. The cost of the grain would be six and one-quarter cents a day. Adding to this the cost before men- tioned of producing a specially cost of its production on the farm. To this should be added the cost of shipping to the city, which is an additional burden to.the farmer.— American Cultivator. Fattening ¥ogs. In the experience gained at the Missouri Experiment Station Pro- fessor Forbes says that corn supple- mented with wheat middlings and oil meal makes the best and cheapest ration for fattening hogs. He says: “For dry lot or pen feeding of hogs the cheapest feed is corn supplement- ed by wheat middlings or oil meal. At the Missouri station we have made 100 pounds of pork from five parts of thirtv-cent corn and one part of $24 oil meal at a cost of $2.75 per hundred weight. At the same time we made 100 pounds of pork from two parts of corn and one part of $15 wheat middlings at a cost of $2.88. In the same experi- ment corn alone made pork at a cost of $3.63 per hundred weight.” _ When pasture can be provided, pork can be made the most economic- ally on it. The same authority above mentioned writes: ‘Experiments at the Missouri Experimental College show that with corn at thirty cents per bushel, it costs $2.79 to ake one hundred pounds of pork where blue grass is fed with the corn, with rape and corn the cost is $2.50 per hundred weight, and with alfalfa and corn the cost of 100 pounds of pork Is but $2.13.” / Rye Chatfl. I can buy from a local hay press rye chaff at $1 per ton. Will it pay to cart this two and one-half miles and pat in the barnyard for manure? I have only two cows. Quantity would probably be 100 tons a year, dry ma- terial. How can I best turn this chaff to turn hogs on it? Farmers who cart rye to the press are over- run with wild radish. Should I be running a great risk from this foul seed? Would the heating of the chaff prevent the germination of the radish seed? Farmers who previous- ly bought this chaff say that they have had no trouble with the wild radish on their farms. R. M. D. The rye chaff would contain 'in a ton something like fifteen pounds of ni- trogen and nearly the same amount phosphoric acid, with perhaps seven or eight pounds of potash. When decayed, the phosphoric acid and potash will be there, while part of the nitrogen will have disappeared {nto the air. Rye chaff is very poor, if not dangerous, feed for cows, be- cause of the probable presence of ergot, a poison to all kinds of live stock. There would also be no small danger from these weed seeds. - Cru- ciferous plants produce seeds which are unduly hardy and can withstand hardships. It is true that the neigh- Bors have not reported introduction of radish by reason of the chaff, but there is still aanger. If the chaff is bought, it ought to be well rotted be- fore spreading on the fields. At the price: mentioned, it would not seem an attractive bargain.—Country Gen- tleman. 2 Siri}. — Gapes in Chickens. What is true of all disease is true of gapes. It is better to prevent it if possible, and then there will be no need to cure it. When the cause of gapes is known, and also the means by which it is likely to be spread, it becomes easy to take measures for prevention. The most important measure of all is to keep the houses, yards, troughs and everything con- nected with the poultry yard sirictly clean. It is probable that the drink- ing water is the medium through which the gapeworm most often comes, and, therefore, the greatest care must be taken to keep the foun- tains clean, when conditions are specially favorable to the propagation of the gapeworm. The water supplied should be pure and fresh. It is strongly advised tkat house, floors, perches, coops avd hatching-boxes should be thor- pure, clean milk, we have a total of at least seven cents a quart, as the oughly cleansed with boiling water, and then limewashed; that food should never be thrown on the ground; that access to polluted water should be prevented; that the rearing ground should be disinfected during the winter season if it is to be used the following year; and that the bodies of all chickens that die of gapes should be burned. It is also advisable that affected chickens should be removed from the healthy birds as soon as the symptoms of gapes can be observed; but this is hardly practicable where chickens are reared by hens alone, as chicks of tender age, if removed from their mother, would not survive for want of care and brooding. Where incu- bators and brooders are used, there is, however, no difficulty, as one of the brooders can: be temporarily turned inté a hospital for the affected chicks.”—H. D. C., in Farmers’ Ga- zette, I —— Slag and Saltpetre. The cheapest way to supply lime to the soil is to use basic slag as a source of phosphoric acid for the fer- tilizers. Slag carries from thirty to fifty per cent. of lime, and the value of the phosphoric acid it carries will cover its whole cost. In regard to nitrate of potash (salt- petre) which cost me abou: $90 per ton, $4.50 per hundred pounds, the exceeding richness of the chemical makes it the cheapest source for pot- ash and nitrogen that I know. Each one hundred pounds carries forty- four pounds of potash, in which form it cost me this ‘season, delivered, about 5.20 cents per pound. This forty-four pounds at 5.20 cents comes to $2.28, which taken from $4.60 leaves $2.22 for the value of the four- teen pounds of nitrcien contained in one hundred pounds of nitrate of potash, or 15 6-7 cents per pound for the nitrogen which Professor Coessman assured me is equally valu- able with the nitrogen derived from nitrate of soda which costs me de- livered this season $58 per fon, or $2.90 per one hundred pounds; one hundred pounds of nitrate of soda contains about fifteen and one-half pounds of nitrogen, making the cost of one pound of nitrogen in nitrate of soda sulphate of potash.—Monroe Morse, in the American. Cultivator; The Future and Sheep. All who keep up with the trend of the live stock industry agree that the demand for sheep will go on increas- ing for many years. In referring to the matter the Shepherd's Criterion has this to say: Farmers as a class do not yet un- derstand sheep well enough to pro; duce them successfully, though the majority of them raise other things that require more care and effort and produce ‘poorer results. While it is true that many are going into sheep for the first time, and hundreds have been converted to the right way of thinking, still, relatively speaking, comparatively few of the small farm- ers carry sheep. It will take a long time to educate some that sheep are the best live stock they can raise— best for the land and for the bank account. In the meantime mutton consumption will continue to grow very rapidly, and in our opinion tha time will be far distant when the sup- ply will again overtake the demand. The great grazing areas of the West are practically filled to the limit, and so there cannot be much expansicn in that direction. The chief increace must be cn the Eastern farms. Here the dog and the stomach worm have to be contended with, and there are at the present time very serious handicaps to the small farmer. If a man, can raise enough sheep to war- rant his special and constant and special attention, then the dog nuis- ance can be effectually eliminated, but the stomach worm is an enemy in the dark that cannot be easily con- quered. All things considered, it is by no means likely that sheep hus- bandry will advance fast enough to make the business unprofitable for the next twenty years. As long as there is a sensible protective tariff on wool sheepmen will have strong encourage.aent, but even if they had to depend on mutton quality almost entirely, they are now well enough fortified to go ahead on a profitable basis. It is estimated that fifty per cent. more mutton is consumed in this country than twenty years ago. The annual receipts at Chicago are more than a million’ more than in 1897, while there has been a corre- sponding increase at most of the other Western markets. If under these circumstances mutton can be sold at a record price, then it follows that it has a strong grip on the Amer- ican appetite, which is bound to en- dure. The slaughter of sheep and lambs, particularly lambs, is going on so rapidly that producers are now much behind the requirements, and that is why prices are so high. Chi- cago for the first nine months this year falls 400,000 head short of last year, in spite of the fact that more people have gone into the sheep busi- ness. A supply of 50,000,000 sheep is not large enough for a country with over 80,000,000 people, with a million foreigners landed every year. England!s Old People. In England and Wales there are about 1,600,000 persons over sixty- five years of age, and in the course of a year more than a fourth of that number are compelled to accept poor relief.—London Lloyd's Weekly News. | FINANGE AND TRADE REVIEW COLLECTIONS ARE BETTER fron and Steel Traders Resume; Out- put Is Still, However, Less Than Hazif Capacity. R. G. Dun & Company's “Weekly Review of Trade” says: Business quoted at the conclusion of holiday sales, as is customary, and time was devoted to stock taking, while manufacturing plants were overhauled and repaired. This curtailment is general in the iron and steel industry and at New England cotton mills. Clothing man- ufacturers have recently received nu- merous cancellations, and in some lines buyers have asked glelay in shipments of spring goods until the situation 1s more fully developed. + There is a better feeling as to mer- cantile collections since the closing days of December brought no special pressure in the money 'market. Many iron furnaces and steel mills have resumed and others are to open next week, but the curtailment of production has been so general that not over 50 per cent of the capacity wil] then be in operation, according to estimates by some of the best au- thorities in the trade. The statisti- cal position is strong, and predictions of a sweeping cut in prices have not materialized. . A few changes in galvanized sheets and tin plates were more directly due to the cheapness of the minor metals than conditions in the steel industry. As to pig iron, quotations have grad- vally receded until declines of from $4 to $8 per ton are shown in com- parison with the same date last year. Coke production has fallen to about one-fourth of the capacity of ovens in the Connellsville region, and prices are weak. Extreme declines characterized the primary markets for textiles during the past week. Ncminally' quotations are unchanged. Although current trade in footwear is seasomably quiet, the outlook is more promising for an early resump- tion of mormal business. Boot and ghoe factories are beginning to re- sume active production. MARKETS. PITTS]RURG. Wheat—No. 2 red....... cconnenennn $ 9» 92 Rye—No.2............ .s 7+ ii Corn—No .2 yellow, ear.. A ii 78 No. 2 yellow, shelled 69 7) Mixed ear. it 67 Oats—No. 2 wh 51 Ad No. 3 white... 5) 52 Flour—Winter patent... 49) 50) Fancy straight winters 46) 475 Hay—No. 1 Timothy....... 125) 183) Clover No.1..........:. 17 50 18 9p 2900 8000 2600 27 00 255) 26 5) 95) 10 0) Sse ee 930 1000 Cairy Products. Butter—Elgin creamery........... 2) 30 Ohio creamery....... 22 24 Fancy country roll.. 18 29 Cheese—Ohio, new....... ve 16 17 New York. new................. 16 17 Poultry, Etc. Hens—per 1b........... iP 18 Chickens—dressed 5 R» 13 Eggs—Pa. and Ohio, fresh.. es 33 Fruits ar®” Vegetables. Potatoes—Faney white per bu.... 170 75 Cabbage—per ton............ .4 1500 18 09 Onions—per barrol.......ioi0 .. Td) 2 2 BALTIMORE. Flour—Winter Patent 3 5 8) Wheat—No. 2 red.. 98 Corn—Mizxed...... 74 76 BEB use sedans asians 30 32 Butter—Ohio creamery............ 35 4 PHILADELPHIA. Flour—Winter Patent........... $50 57% Wheat—No.2 red..... 93 Corn—No. 2 mixed.. 7 5 Oats—No. 2 white............. 44 4 Butter—Creamery............ . 31 33 Eggs—Pennsylvania firsts. ....... 33 42 NEW YCRK. Flour—Palents.......uoeesersiansss $ 460 17D) Wheat—No. 2 red. 103 Corn—No. 2.......... 66 67 Oats—No. 2 white : 5: Hi Butter -Creamery ..........cu..vane 4: 33 Eggs—State and Pennsylvania... 88 4) LIVE STOCK. Union Stock Yards, Pittsburg. Cattle. Extra, 1,450 t0 1,60) 1b3............ $55 5%5 Frime, 1,500 to. 140) Ibs... ..... 5" 5 85 5 5) Good, 1,200 to 1,300 lbs... 50) b 25 Tidy, 4,050 to 1,150 lbs. 450 49 Conumon, 700 to 9J) lbs 40) + 10 Oxen, : 3 00 4 00 Bulls. 30) 4 20 Lows... i... 0 0 15) 3 00 Helfors, 700to L100..............-: 25) 1 65 Fresh Cows and Springers........ 139) 6) Hogs. Primeheavy..... .. L...... 0. 4 80 Prime medinm wéight 4 50 Best heavy Yorkers .,............. 4 8) Good light Yorkers 420 Pigs. a ie 42) 4 20 Stags .. 4 40 Prime wethers. clipped. ........... $500 52 Good mixed... TTA owe 4 50 4 80 Fair mixed ewes and 32 375 Culls and common...... ... 2 00 23 62 59) 500 A Rich Shortcake Crust.—Sift to- gether 1 1-2 cups of pastry flour, 1-2 cup cornstarch, 1-2 teaspoon salt, 1 level tablespoon sugar, 4 level or 2 rounding teaspoons baking powder. Cut into this with a knife 1-4 cup butter, add white of 1 egg Fkeaten stiff, then add graduaily about 1 cup of milk, making a soft dough similar to pie crust, in that it is flasky and not too soft. Fold and knead light- ly; divide into two cakes, pat into rounds or squares and bake in cake tins in moderately quick oven 15 or 20 minutes. RENEW STRAW MATTING. If the straw matting in the cham- bers has become stained or faded it may be restored by washing in a strong solution of soda water. Use ordinary baking soda. Wash thor- oughly, ing soap, and when it is dry it ‘be found all the color and tt! ts will be entirely re- 7 York World. INTO UNKNOWN LANDS. Expeditions To Be Sent by Field Mu- seum of Natural History. A series of expeditions constituting one cf the most comprehensive ex- plorations of unknown lands ever at- tempted by any institution was an- mounced yesterday by the Field Mu- seum of Natural History. George A. Dersey, curator of the museum’s de- partment of anthropology, will first circle the globe, visiting many prac- ticaily unknown pecples and mapping out the lines of inquiry to be under- taken. He will sail on the Lusitania on January 11. The museum has also set out to give to the world of science the first comprehensive exposition of the char- acteristics and customs of the peoples of Thibet, the forbidden land. For this work Dr. Bertholdt Laufer, a dis- tinguished Chinese scholar, recently of the faculty of Columbia University, has been engaged. He will sail on January 7 for a stay of three years in the country of the Lamas. FITS, St. Vitus’ Dance: Nervous Diseases per manently cured by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial hott and treatise free. Dr. H. R. Kline, Ld.,531 Arch St., Phila., Pa. New Pacer Material. Africa may help to save our forests from being demolished for wood pulp. There is a grass, known as alfa, which can be grown in the desert region to an unlimited extent. It is cut and harvested like hay. A London daily has for some years been printed on paper made of this material. TWO CURES OF ECZEMA. Baby Xad Severe Attack—Grande father Suifea:d Torments with the Disease—Owe Recovery to Cuticura. “In 1884 my grandson, a babe, had an attack of eczema, and after trying the doc- tors to the extent of heavy bills and an in- crease of the disease and suffering, I rec- ommended Cuticura and in a few weeks the child was well. He is to-day a strong man and absolutely free from the disease. A few, years ago 1 contracted eczema, and became an intense sufferer. A whole win- ter passed without once having on shoes, nearly from the knees to the toes being covered with virulent sores. I tried many doctors to no purpose. Then I procured the Cuticura Remedies and found immedi- ate improvement and final cure. M. W, LaRue, 845 Seventh St., Louisville, Ky., April 23 and May 14, 1907.” Paper Money Stock. Paper for government use in print- ing money is made at several mills in. New England and is of a kind made especially for the government. Old bills are redeemed by the Treas- ury Department, after which they are destroyed by grinding into pulp. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Whole- sale Druggists, 1'oledo, O. Hall’s Catarrh Cure istaken internally, act- ingdirectly upon the blood and mucuoussur- faces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price, 75¢. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation. STILL THE OLD SONGS. For all the deluge of song writing’ of recent years the bands at Old Point Comfort found nothing to play off the fleet with that could take the place of “The Girl I Left Behind Me” and “Auld Lang Syne.”—Providence Jour- nal. Pe-ru-na Almanac in8,000,000 Homes The Peruna Lucky Day Almanac has become a fixture in over eight million bomes. It can be obtained from all drug- ists free. Be sure to inquire early. The 908 Almanac is already published, and the supply will soon be exhausted. Do not put it off. Speak for one to-day. The late King Oscar stopped at the Swedish embassay when he was in London and didn’t cost King Edward a penny. Cnly One “Bromo Quinine’ That is Laxative Bromo Quinine. Look for the signature of E. W. Grove. Used the World over to Cure a Cold in One Day. 25c. ee Books are maintained at Russian railroad ‘stations for the registry of complaints of passengers. NATURE AND A WOMAN'S WORK Nature and a woman’s work com- ‘bined have produced the grandest remedy for woman’s ills that the world has ever known. In the good old-fashioned days of - our grandmothers they relied upon the roots and herbs of the field to cure disease and mitigate suffering. The Indians on our Western Plains to-day can produce roots and herbs for every ailment, and gure diseases that baffle the most skille¢ physicians who have spent years in the study of drugs. From the roots and herbs of the field Lydia ‘E. Pinkham more than thirty years ago gave to the women of the world a remedy for their pe- culiar ills, more potent and effica- cious than any combination of drugs, Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is now recognized as the standard remedy for woman’s ills. Mrs. Bertha Muff, of 515 N.C. 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