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BED-BOUND FOR MONTHS.
Hope Abandoned After Physicians’
Consultation.
Mrs. Enos Shearer, Yew and Wash-
ington Sts., Centralia, Wash., says:
“For years I was
weak and run down,
could not sleep, my
limbs swelled and
the secretions were
troublesome; pains
were intense. I was
fast in bed for four
months. Three doc-
#8". tors said there was
no cure for me and I was given up to
die. Being urged, I used Doan’s Kid-
ney Pills. Soon I was better and ina
few weeks was about the house, well
and strong again.”
Sold by all dealers. 50cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Unburnable Wood.
' Asbestos wood, which seems to be
attracting attention as a new strue-
tural material, is made chiefly from
asbestos fiber, and is stated to be
about two-thirds as strong as ordi-
nary wood, and to take a higher pol-
ish. It is as easily worked as oak
and maple, while nails hold in it
better. The material is now usually
made in sheets three by four feet in
size, and is adapted for roofing and
walls, but it can be paneled for
wainscoting or doors, or molded into
ornamental trimmings.
Ask Your Dealer For Allen’s Foot-Ease.
A powder. It rests the feet. Cures Corns,
Bunions, Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching
Bweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. Allen’s
Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. At
all Druggists and Shoe stores, 25 cents. Ac-
cept no substitute. Sample mailed FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y.
Private Punished.
The London Express mentions a
case of a private who for failing to
recognize and salute his officer was
condemned to march past and salute
a. barrack pump for two hours each
day for a week
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’ Burn the Rubbish.
Old rubbish is more valuable in
the form of ashes to the gardener
than any other way. Wood ashes
make excellent garden {fertilizer if
applied properly.
Kerosene Emulsion.
One-half pound soap, one gallon
water, two gallons kerosene. Dis-
solve the soap in water over fire.
Remove from fire and add kerosene.
Stir violently. Use one part of emul-
sion to fifteen parts water.
Name the Farm.
Name the stock farm is the advice
given by an exchange and we think
it is good advice. Nothing looks
beiter in print or sounds better when
mentioned than “John Smith, pro-
prietor of the Maplewood farm.”
Have your printer print your letter
heads ith the name of your farm
thereon. Some few back numbers
‘may laugh at you, but remember that
this is the twentieth century and peo-
ple who laugh are always back num-
bers:
Dry Picked Capons.
Capons are always dry picked be-
cause it would be impossible to scald
them and leave part of the feathers
in. They are killed by the braining
process. Feathers are left on the
neck, legs, wings, rump and tail.
If dressed as ordinary fowls they will
not bring any higher price than other
fowls. The larger the birds the more
they will bring per pound. They are
in most demand from December to
April. Many of them are dressed
as soft roasters and sold as such.
Their flesh is more tender and de-
licious than the ordinary fowl.—
Warmers’ Hom& Journal.
Early Cultivation of Corn.
This has been a season when the
ordinary steel tooth harrow has done
good work on the corn ground.
improvement the breeder knows what
to expect and will not find more than
the due proportion of culls from his
hatches. ;
pssst
The Shape of the Wyandotte.
There has been a tendency among
breeders to confuse Wyandotte and
Plymouth Rock form—both by breed-
ing the Wyandottes too long of body
and more especially by breeding the
cocks too blocky.
The Wyandotte, as the Standard
expresses it, is a bird of curves. The
back is short and broad, the body is
deep and round. Its shape gives the
peculiar attraction of the breed and
should be carefully preserved in all
the varieties.
The cocks should weigh about eight
and one-half pounds. The comb is
rose, lying close to the head, corru-
at rear, curving back over the head.
‘The head itself is short and broad
with a short, well-curved beak.
The cocks should weigh about eight
and one-half pounds and the hens
six and one-half, while cokerels and
pullets are a pound lighter respect-
ively.—B. M. I., in the Southern Cul-
tivator.
Why Cultivate an Orchard?
For the same reason that we cultl-
vate a hill of corn. We plant apple
trees thirty feet apart, while we plant
corn three and a half feet apart, for
the reason that the foliage of an ap-
ple tree bears the same relation to
thirty feet that the foliage of a hill of
corn bears to three and a half feet.
Also, that the roots of the tree oc-
cupy the entire thirty feet of space as
well as the roots of cor noccupy the
three and a half feet of space. Cul-
tivation is as absolutely necessary
for the one as for the other. Culti-
vation will give thrift to either and
unthrift without it. To produce a
good chop of corn, break the ground
eight inches deep and pulverize a fine
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METHODS OF GRAFTAGE.
Other implements have been tried
in cleanicg up the fields and keeping
the top soil nice and mellow. But
the harrow beats all of them. Good
farmers have learned to slant the
teeth backward, so that they will
not catch hold of trash or an old stai:
and tear up the hills of corn. Those
who commenced by using the harrow
this spring just as the weeds were
starting, and then kept on using it
until the corn was big encugh to cul-
tivate, have clean fields and mellow
fields. This has been with the re-
sult that those who have neglected
their fields now find them almost as
hard as a public road. After seeing
several fine fields of corn this week
where the harrow was used two and
three times over, I say stick to the
smoothing harrow, and you will have
to “show me” before I will believe
there is - anything Dbetter.—L. C.
Brown, in Tribune Farmer.
The Wyandottes.
Taking the country over, the two
breeds most largely represented at
the shows are the Plymouth Rocks
and the Wpyandottes. There are no
shows in which they are not repre-
sented and the classes are usually
large and good. This prominence of
the two breeds is not without reason.
They combine the utility and fancy
points to as great an extent as any
breed, they have prestige and have
been bred long enough to a definite
standard to give the greatest play
to the talent of the fancier.
Like the Plymouth Rocks the Wy-
andottes are a made breed, but the
making is now- an accomplished fact
| and while there is always room for
seed bed. In cultivating the orchard
we break three inches deep only on
account of roots, and make tLe same
finely pulverized surface.
This bed contains moisture to the
very surface in a dry season. By
this kind of preparation and a fine,
level cultivation, we retain moisture
to the tree-tops during a drouth, and
consequently thrift of trees and large,
smooth apples, fit, indeed, for any
market. A hiil of corn half culti-
vated produces small ears of corn.
An apple tree uncdltivated, set in
pasture, for the same reason, pro-
duces fruit hardly fit for worms. The
downfall of thousands of orchards
commences when their foolish owners
sow them to grass and turn their
stock in, and if possible tramp them
still harder than they were before.
A belt of grass around a tree is about
as fatal as a rope around a ecrimi-
nal’s neck, especially if it be Timo-
i thy, the great robber of moisture.
ree comet ate see eet
Durable Wood.
The most durable wood of which
we have evidence is that of which
the wooden tombs discovered in
Egypt were built and which Profes-
sor Petrie estimates to date from
4777 B. C. They were most prob-
ably constructed from timber yielded
by a species of palm.
Oak wood when once it has passed
a certain age becomes practically
everlasting. - Evidence of this is
found in the roofs of Westminster
Hall and of the cathedral at Kirk-
wall, which have lasted almost a
thousand years.
gated or indented with small spikes:
FINANGE AND TRADE REVIEW
BUSINESS SENTIMENT IMPROVES
Agreement Without Struggle on Low-
er Wage Scale Is Considered
Hopeful Sign.
New York.—R. G. Dun & Company's
“Weekly Review of Trade” says:
Improvement is slow, but there is
definite evidence of progress in the
right direction. One of the best
signs is the agreement upon lower
wage scales without a struggle, assur-
ing resumption of much idle machin-
ery that would have been impossible
without adjustment to altered condi-
tions.
Current retail trade is of fairly
good dimensions for the season and
inventories indicate that recovery is
not menaced by heavy stocks. Prepa-
ration for fall and winter trade is most
active in the West, but there is a
growing feeling of confidence ih the
future that is stimulated by good
progress on the farms. .
More business is coming to the
steel mills, although operations are
still along conservative lines. Senti-
ment ig improving more rapidly than
actual conditions, are shown by the
rapid rise in prices of securities of
this industry, the common stocks of
the largest producer attaining the
highest quotations of 1908 thus far.
An interesting interview on the sub-
ject of advances in freight rates was
given out by James J. Hill, in which
the opinion was strongly expressed
that charges for freight transportation
should be raised in order that the
business of the country, which is
largely dependent on railroad efficien-
cy and on the ability of the railroads
to make purchases of supplies,
should not suffer. He expressed him-
self as 'opposed to a reduction in
wages, intimating that the railrcads
have already effected a saving through
the better ‘service rendered by by
their employes.
Another interview which attracted
a good deal of attention in Wall
street was that given out by the pres-
ident of the steel corporation, in
which the prediction was made that
by next January the business of the
country again would be normal and
the assertion that the piants of the
steel corporation are now running be-
tween 55 to 60 per cent of normal.
MARKETS.
PITTSBURG.
85 90
80 82
79 8)
© Pes 73
Oats—No, 2 white... 57 53
No. 3 white........ 56 57
Flour—Winter patent.... 500 505
Fancy straight winters.
Hay—No. 1 Timothy....... 1300 13 59
Cloyer No.1........... 1050 1150
Feed—No. 1 white mid. ton. 2600 2650
Brown middlings..... 2359 24 00
Bran, bulk..... .... 2250 2300
Straw—Wheat..... s 73 7 50
3 IR nti Re rE RR 725 7 50
Dairy Products.
Butter—Elgin creamery § 25 26
Ohio creamery... . 20 21
Fancy country r 17 18
Cheese—Ohio, new.. 15 17
New York, new 16 17
Poultry, Etc. E
Heons—per ID... 5 vu. ieiareconsnss 7 13
Chickens—dressed.........
Eggs—Pa. and Ohio, fresh 17 19
Fruits and Vegetables.
Potatoes—Fancy white per bu.... 125 125
Cabbage—per ton. 100 1
Onions—per barre 55 600
BALTIMORE.
Flour—Winter Patent
Wheat—No. 2 red
Corn—Mizxed.....
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Butter—Ohio creamery. 25 26
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour—Winter Patent............. $3) 30
Wheat—No. 2 red. 100
Corn—No. 2 mixed 80 82
Jats—No. 2 white. 54 55
Butter—Creamery. 24 25
Eggs—Pennsylvan 17 18
NEW YCRK.
FloUr-—PatOntB.ce a stocetarassanss 5 70
Wheat—No. 2 red
Corn—No. 2......... 67
Oats—No. 2 white. . of
Butter--Creamery 5 23
Eggs—State and Pennsylvania... 17 18
LIVE STOCK.
Unlon Stock Yards, Pittsburg.
Cattle.
Extra, 1,450 to 1,600 lbs. . $68 700
Prime, 1,300 to 1,400 1bs 0 40 67
Good, 1,200 to 1,300 lbs 5% 6 52
Tidy, 1,050 to 1,150 Ibs. b 25 6 1
Common, 700 to 900 lbs.. 4 00 50)
Oxon, ..... Lila al 0 .. 5300 » 40
Bulls... 3 0 4 50
OWS... vd td Ld en 150 1 25
Hetfers, 700to L100... i... 2 00 5 05
Fresh Cows and Springers........ is 00 55 00
Hogs.
15
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700
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5 20
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Prime weothers, clipped. ...........3 4 AO 475
Sood mized............, 10 4 25 4 50
Fair mixed ewes and wethers. .... 3560 400
Culls and common................ 2 0 3 50
Lambs swears ess eastinnsnnarase oT OO 13 OF
Calves.
795
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But reforestation is needed for oth-
er reasons than mitigation of floods,
contends the Pittsburg Dispatch.
There is need to provide for a future
timber supply. here is need for
woodlands for their modifying infiu-
ence upon climate. If our corre-
spondent is at all familiar with the
practice of horticulturists in plant-
ing wind breaks, and with the results
attained by such practice, he will
understand the direct value to
culture of wooded areas,
agri-
FOR HOUSEFLIES.
Take 4-2 teaspoonful powdered
black pepper, 1 teaspoonful brown su-
gar and 1 tak poonful of cream; mix
them wel] together and place this
mixture in the room where the flies
are I troublesome, and they will }
soon disappear.—Boston Post.
GIVES CREDIT TO BETSY.
Secretary Adams Says First Flag Was
Made in Her Home.
John Quincy Adams, Secretary of
the American Flag House and Betsy
Ross Memorial Association, author-
izes an emphatic denial of the story
that Betsy Ross was not the maker
of the first American flag.
Secretary Adams says that an ex-
haustive search of the records and
traditions of Philadelphia, made by. a
score of patriotic societies has ‘never
shaken the truth of the statement
that the first flag was made at 239
Arch street, the home of Betsy Ross.”
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manently cured by Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve
Restorer. trial bottle and treatise free.
Dr.H.R. Kline, Id.,931 Arch 8t., Phila, Pa.
Swamp Angel.
“The Swamp Angel’ was the name
given by the Federal soldiers to an
eight-inch Parrott gun which was
mounted on a battery built on piles
driven into a swamp outside of Char-
Itston, S. C., and used during the
siege of that city. It burst August
22, 1863.
ITCHING HUMOR ON BOY.
His Hands were a Solid Mass, and
Disease Spread All Over Body—
Cured in 4 Days by Cuticura.
“One day we noticed that our little boy
was all broken out with itching sores. We
first noticed it on his little hands. His
hands were not as bad then, and we didn’t
think anything serious would result. But
the next day we heard of the Cuticura
Remedies being so good-for itching sores.
By this time the disease had spread all
over his body, and his hands were nothing
but a solid mass of this itching disease. I
purchased a box of Cuticura Soap and .one
box of Cuticura Ointment, and that night
I took the Cuticura Soap and lukewarm
water and washed him well. Then I dried
him and took the Cuticura Ointment and
anointed him with it. I did this every
evening and in four nights he was entirely
cured. Mrs. Frank Donahue, 208 Fremont
St., Kokomo, Ind., Sept.-16. 1907.”
A hardness
A novel device for
hardness of
Meter.
measuring the
metals is called the
scleroscope by Albert F. Shore and
Dr. Paul Herould, its inventors. A
steel ball weighing forty grains, made
extremely hard by a special process,
is enclosed in a glass tube, and the
hardness is indicated by the rebound
as the ball is dropped on the metal
under test. A scale measures the
height of rebound. On this scale 100
is the average hardness for carbon
steel, and proves to be the safety
limit for steel tools after reheating
and tempering. The instrament is
valuable in making tools of standard
hardness.
That Brave Belief.
A brave belief in life is indeed an
enviable state of mind, but, as far as
I can discern, an unusual one.
know few Christians so convinced of
the splendor of the rooms in their
Father’s house, as to be happier when
their ‘friends are called to those man-
sions, than they would have been if
the queen had sent for them to live at
court; nor has the church’s most ar-
dent “desire to depart, and be with
Christ,” ever cured it of the singular
habit of putting on mourning for
every person summoned to such de-
parture.—Ruskin.
High Price for Whisky.
A bottle of whisky was recently sold
for $30 at Ohakune, New Zealand,
which is 40 miles from the nearest
saloon. One man bought two large
“nips’’ for $5 each, and the remain-
ing contents of the bottle were put
up for auction and knocked down for
ZU.
A New Move in Greece.
The Grecian Chamber of Deputies
has just voted a law by which, for
the first time in modern Greece
women are admitted in the public
service. In accordance with this law
Director of Posts and Telegraphs is
authorized to employ 50 women to be
used mainly in the telephone service.
One of tHe
Essentials
of the happy homes of to-day is a vast
fund of information as to the best methods
of promoting health and happiness and
right living and knowledge of the world’s
best products.
Products of actual excellence and
reasonable claims truthfully presented
and which have attained to world-wide
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the happy faculty of selecting and obtain-
ing the best the world affords.
One of the products of that class, of
mown component parts, an Ethical
remedy, approved by physicians and com-
j mended by the Well-Informed of the
World as a valuable and wholesome family
laxative is the well-known Syrup of Figs
and Elixir of Senna. To get its beneficial
effects always buy the genuine, manu-
factured by the California Fig Syrup Co.,
only, and for sale by all leading druggists.
; They fit your feet.
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p In an attempt to make thir feet fit the shoes.
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Look for the.asc], and,
find these shoes readily, write the makers
for directions how to secure them.
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FOUR GIRLS
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New me of backache, side
Cel ache, and established]
LLIN M. OLSON my periods, after the
best local doctors h
failed to help me.”
FACTS FOR SICK WOME
For thirty years Lydia E. Pink-
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‘Why don’t you try it ? 3
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
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Local agents wanted.
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