SION ch Gun- e killed xplosion hip Cou- es. 2 a num- ving in- illimetre lew out. in a des- was due powder, e battle- ited and ‘es were t at the however, ated, ow- h it was ABER ; Caused res” were housands William th in the children ed by a received storm in- $100,000 xty ‘per’ ; 1 to have orn flat- o struck 1d build- 0. One vind and tative of Re- ned All e United cived ad- recalling [is recall rprise to changed to leave he says, 1 of Tur- yppointed ding the rom Tuyr- \CK ~ Emigra- Ameri- 3 are en- of emi- also try- . men who secutions gathered or Amer- ans since kish Con- intage ..of return to NDERED | a Crew 1ants’ ex- rom Syd- 1e British from this via Apia en heard an Fran- ly made | by Cap- 1 crew of z to pass n, a large >ming in- Thousand "itania, a plies be- otte, was unk in 10 enty fer- rown into ued. : ¥ ansfield. ng of the commit- d as the e date of campaign. ti, nomi- er Gover- Hamilton, ntion for E be the - FS. : men are Ss the re- on at the vorth R. 1gression- m 1864 to ant libra- blderness, was $84 n at Gil t Master- ployed at ‘owned in \N c Daily, nore Sun, paper of foremost outh, has 't of Taft Sun an- 0 it sup- ocd fight “ _ them. , Is Pe-ru-na Useful for Catarrh? - Should a list of the ingredients of Pe- runa be submitted to any medical ex- pert, of whatever school or nationality, he would be obliged to admit without reserve that the medicinal herbs com- posing Peruna are of two kinds. First, standard and well-tried catarrh reme- dies. Second, well-known and gener- ally acknowledged toniz remedies, That in one or the other of these uses they have stood the test of many years’ experience by physicians of different schools. There can be nodispute about this, whatever. Peruna is composed of some of the most efficacious-and uni versally used herbal remedies for ca- tarrhal diseases, and for such conditions of the human system as require a tonic. Each one of the principal ingredients of Péruna has a reputation .of its own in the cure of some phase of catarrh or as a tonic medicine. Sn The fact is, chronic catarrh is a dis- ease which is very prevalent. Many thousand people know they have chronic catarrh. They have visited doc- tors over and over again, and been told that their case is one of chronic catarrh. It may be of the nose, throat, lungs, stomach or some other internal organ.’ There is no doubt as-to the nature of . the disease. The only. trouble is thie remedy. This doctor has tried to cure That doctor has tried to pre- scribe for them. No other household remedy so uni- versally advertised carries upon the label the principal active constituents, showing that Peruna invites the full inspection of the critics. All dealers, Booklet, Sample and Parlor Card Game “WHIZ,” 10c. PATH COAST BORAX CO., New York. Local agents wanted. Write for money making plan. Food Products Peerless Dried Beef Unlike the ordinary dried beef—that sold in bulk— Libby’s Peerless Dried Beef comes in a sealed glass jar in which it is packed the moment it is sliced into those delicious thin wafers. - None of the rich natural flavor or goodness escapes or dries out. It reaches you fresh and with all the nutri- ment retained. Libby’s Pecrless Dried Beef is only one of a Great number of high-grade, ready to serve, pure food products that are prepared in Libby's Great White Kitchen. Just try a package of any of these, such as Ox Tongue, Vienna Sausage, Pickles, Olives, etc., and see how delightfully dif- ferent they are from others you haveeat®n. Libby, McNeill & Libby, Chicago me—in dining room, ZHERMEYELYKULER sion 2 and you will nev- e_ without SSE Shen If not kept by dealers. iid repaid for 149 BeKalb Lehigh ins 2 Ya WAROLD 50 M ERS, P. NU 34 EVERY MAN HIS OWN DOCTOR By J. HAMILTON AYERS A, M., M.D. This is a most Valuable Book for the Household, teaching as it does the easily-distinguished Symp- toms of different Diseases, the Causes and Means ot Preventing such Diseases, and the. Simplest Rem- edies which will alleviate or cure. 598 Pages Profusely Illustrated. GUc. pos pipuid. Sen ostal notes or postage stamps. BOOK PUB. JHAOUSE, 134 Leonard St... New er 1900, 3 ‘difference in hardness between Tos - pa Tops of Fenceposts. The tops of fenceposts-should be cut slanting; preferably with an ax, 80 that rainwater will not remain on thém. When they are cut with a saw the pitch should be greater, especially in posts in which there is a marked the spring wood and the summer woodd.— Weekly Witness. Cementing a Cellar, Several years ago I dug a cellar, put in drain tile extending it across the bottom of the cellar, then laid thin flat rock for a floor, cementing over the top with' Portland cement and sand; but for some reason it never set well. Recently I put concrete by tamping -about one-inch sand then one and one- .half inch one-sixth concrete well tamp-- ed down, then I reinforced this’ with one-half sand and concrete mixed to the consistency cf thin putty and spread over the top about one ineh thick and troweled down to make it level. Now the floor is as hard as a rock. Many old cellars might be ren- ovated: in this way.—E. F. Isley, in the Epitomist. To Cuie White Scour. When white scour makes its appear- ance it will be found advisable to take the affected calf cff milk at once, and, after giving it one or two doses of cas- tor oil or salts mixed with a little warm, sweetened gruel, for thoroughly clearing the stomach, follow on with a mixture of beaten up eggs and port wine, made by beating up two eggs thoroughly shells and all, and mixing them with a glass of port wine and giving it to the calf about three times a day. This will be found to sustain the calf and counteract the acidity in the stomach and will generally effect a cure in two or three days. The calf should not be allowed to have any milk until all the symptoms of scour have disappeared.—Weekly Witness, A Great Combination, To the poultry yard let us add the orchard. mony. They supplement each other perfectly, and the orchard gan be planned to be the main thing in the future or permitted to remain always in second place, according to one’s pre- dilections. Poultry, besides being money makers, are to the orchardist money savers. They are of great value inasmuch as they destroy myriads of insect enemies, many before they are born into their fruit destroying stage of development. ‘they are death on borers; hence are time savers, for borers let go for man only by strong persuasion. They furnish much fertil- izingt material and keep down weed growth. They eat fruit falling from insect attack and destrey the pests. Therefore frcm every point of view fruit and poultry is a great combina- tion.—H, B. Fullérton, in the Weekly Witness. Cut Out the Drones. There is much talk about the cow that doesn’t earn her board—how about the hen? No one can make a mistake in culling out the fowls which have passed their prime; oid hens do not lay so well nor old roosters insure so good fertility as younger ones. The fewer drones that are kept in a flock the more profitable it is. Right now is the time to get busy and weed them out. Sell all the old*hens that are more than three years of age unless they are especially valuable for some reason or other. Keep no more of the old male birds than necessary and get the others out of the way as soon as possible. Dispose of the young cock- erels as fast as they attain a market- able size; more money in them at that age than later; don’t keep more than just a few of the best fof your own use as breeders. : Old hens that are thin in flesh should be cooped and fed heavily (principally on corn) for a week or ten days and they will bring enough more money to make your labor and feed expénded profitable. Keep the best of your pul- lets, especially those that were early- hatched, and you can well afford to weed out the old ones, as the pullets will be better winter layers.—Epitom- ist. ; A Word for ths Hog. If hogs are to thrive in pasture shade should be provided. Some farmers cut away every vistage of shade. The hog loves a cool damp shade where he can lie and snooze during the heat of the day. If left in a pasture with ng shade hé will suffer. Experience of prom- inent breeders shows, however, that a mud wallow is by no means necessary. If the hog cannot have a clean bath, no bath is preferable, but as she is a child of the soil she should have cool moist ground to lie upon. It should be added that pure water is as essential for the hog as it is for any other animal, if he is to be kept in good health. More of swine disease has been traced to impure water than to any other cause. A reader of the Indiana writes that he had sows that would persist in eating their pigs till he be- gan occasionally giving hn a piece of fat salt pork, and after giving them that a few times their appetite seem- ed {o be cured, and they gave him no more trouble. He says that for Soyo! years past just afte: farrowing Farmer They work in perfect har- | | he | gives them a piece of salty side meat for two or three days, and this ends the matter. : ; Another reader says that he feeds his hogs sows and all, as near a bal- anced ration as he can, such as cut clover, or alfalfa, or some linseed oil meal, along with their corn and he has never had this pig-eating trouble in his herd. There is no doubt that there is something lacking in the feed that causes the desire, and a balanced ra- tion would meet the demand, as it would keep them in good healthy con- dition. { Shallow Cultivation. Well informed men tell us it takes a great amount of moisture to produce a corn crop, much greater than would be imagined. The greater portion of ‘the corn-growing era, is dependent up- on the rainfall for this moisture; there- fore, we must find some other means of retaining it in the soil, within reach of the growing crop. Sunshine and wind scon cause the moisture to pass from the soil directly into the atmos- phere, so we must find some method of lessening this rapid evaporation. As the moisture near the surface evapor- ates, it is replaced by moisture drawn from greater depths by capillary attrac- tion. By thoroughly pulverizing the sur- face soil the soil particles are -disar- ‘ranged and the capillary tubes are not continuous, ‘therefore the surface soil becomes quite dry and acts as a mulch, checking the evaporation and holding the moisture beneath, within reach of the plant roots. . During the ‘first cultivation” and while the corn is very small, we use narrow shovels, and fenders, and us- ually plow deep, loosening the soil to a good depth. Our idea in plowing deep at the “first cultivation” is to get a good loose soil mulch for retaining moisture. There are very few ocga- sions when deep plowing is preferable after the “first cultivation,” but if ex- cessive rains have packed the soil deep cultivation will help dry it—amd when packed very tight, we sometimes find it necessary to piow deep, in or- der to get a perfect soil mulch. After a perfect soil mulch has been produced frequent cultivation is not necessary, unless rain should crust the ground, and in that case the crust should be broken and the soil mulch restored, in order to hold the moisture beneath, where it is used by the “feeding roots” of the young plants. Of course it is necessary to cultivate often enough to keep down the weeds, even though the ground does not need stirring. If the ground is allowed to become hard and baked, after a rain, the cul- tivator will break up great clods, which will allow the air to penetrate the ground to a greater depth, causing rap- id evdporation; taking the moisture from the “feeding roots’’ of the grow- ing plants.—W. S. Chansler in the In- diana Farmer. Notes of the Farm. It is all right to have all the eggs in one basket if it is a good basket and you have the strength and skill to handle it. Grease tools and implements, to stop their rusting. It will save money and make them easier to work with when they are needed again. Have pure air in the dairy buildings and plenty of it. The blood of the cow is purified in the lungs and it takes good dir to do that well. The turf formed by a pasture land of native grasses makes an ideal grass for all kinds of poultry, old and young. See that they have shade in summer time. Orchards will not make happy own- ers if the trees stand in poorly drained soil. The old saying that “fruit trees cannot stand wet feet” tells the whole story. Do not neglect to plow the garden during the winter to Kill undesirable worms that may be in the soil and to make the plant food more available for the next crop. Produce and use wisely as much barnyard manure as practical, and then use green manures as necessary. Get the soil so rich that little work will make a big harvest. Hens that are overfed, confined, or} .. do not get sufficient exercise, are apt to get in the habit of pulling feathers or eating eggs. These habits are hard to cure, but easy to prevent if com- mon sense niethods of management are employed. Longevity and Blindness. Blindness, though counted among he most pitiable of human afflictions is evidently conducive to longevity. According to a report by Oscar Kuestermann, superintendent of the Wisconsin Workshop“ for the Blind, four out of 250 persons received at the shops during the last year are more than 100 years old; fifteen men and four women are mgre than 90 years old; ferty-two persons have at- tained an age between 80 and 99 years. Every one of these aged blind per- sons is earning his own living and is entirely self-supporting. Those more than 100 years of age are in full pos- session of their faculties and are daily turning out baskets and other forms of willowware.—Miiwaukee Sentinel. FINANCE AND TRADE REVIEW DUN’'S WEEKLY SUMMARY General Trade Is Fair, Although Col- lections Are Still Reported as Backward. New York.—R. G. Dun & Company’s “Weekly Review of Trade” says: “Reports of trade continue irregular, with pronounced gains in some sec- tions and no improvement in others, the net result being encouraging, however, and sentiment regarding the future ‘grows mere - confident each week. “Steel demand is steadily broaden- ing, each. week bringing a larger per- centage -of active: capacity; and the improvement is especially gratifying in. view of the few orders from the railways.” Export contracts are re- corded in every department of tie in: dustry, from pig iron to steel rails. “Sales of pig iron are made for de- livery during the first half of next year, and some coke ovens have also received orders covering the same period, while there is a larger move- ment of ore down the lakes. The lighter lines of steel continue most actively engaged, notabiy wire. pro- ducts, pipe and plates. “Textile markets have been dom- inated this week by the second big auction sale, buyers either devoting attention to seeking bargains there or awaiting the effect on the general market. Reports from visiting job- bers indicate low stocks of goods, but abundant supplies in other lines. which makes the outlook uncertain. Prices are almost nominal in conse- quence, except on cash transactions for current needs, which are necessar- ily limited. Many cotton mills will be idle next week pending a more definfte tendency in the market. As to woolen goods, the market for men’s wear is now fully opened, the feature of the past week being the offering of fancy worsteds. “For the first time this year, ship- ments of boots and shoes from Bos- ton were almost as large as in the corresponding week of 1907.” MARKETS. PITTSBURG. ye No.2 2 red.. « [os ot < Corn—No. 2 No. 2 yellow, shelle . 8 86 Mixed ear.......... EH 73 Oats—No. 2 whi . Of 63 No.3 white......... . 65 §i Flour—Winter patent........ 380. 590 Fancy gLraigns winters oh : Hay—No. 1 Timothy....... .. 1800 15 5» Clover-No.1............ «-1250. - 13 00 Feed—No. 1 white mid. ton . 2800 2850 Brown middlin . x50) 2550 Bran, bulk . 2600 2650 Straw—Whea 13. 75 t ves 025 7 50 Dairy Products. Butter—Elgin creamery 22 23 Ohio creamery......... bes 20 21 Fancy country roll.... - 17 18 Cheese—Ohio, neW......... we 15 17 Now York, new..............e.s 16 17 Poultry, Etc. Hens—per ID......ccoeenuinenannnee 17 ih ees eas 12 13 Eggs—Pa. and Ohio, fresh. 17 19 Fruits and Vegetables. Potatoes—Fanc¢y white per bu.... 9 10 Cabbage—per ton. . 150 1.7 Onions—per barrel. . . 530°'6u0 > BALTIMORE. Flour Wine Tater ceseiue 3700 3 93 Wheat— 2 red.. 102 Corn—ixed servo 7t 7 Begs. ....oii i kn. oy . 17 13 Butter—Ohio CreAMOrY.cecesreses . 23 24 PHILADELPHIA. Flour—Winter Pasent Svenska ry 360 573 Wheat—No.2 red..........euu. 10 Corn—No. 2 fp reeves 85 86 Jats—No. 2 white.... 64 65 Butter--Creamery........... 24 23 Eggs—Pennsylvania firsts 17 18 NEW YCRK. FIOUT—PatentE.. os cierssn vases ie od $ 58° 59 Wheat—No. 2red.. 100 i Corn—No. 2........... 84 85 Oats—No. 2 Tole. 59 61 Butter--Cream erg... “2 <2 Eggs—State and ennsylvania.. 17 is LIVE STOCK. Unlon Stock Yards, Pittsburg CATTLE Extra, 1459 to 1600 poundS.......... 635 @06 50 Prime, 1300 to 14)0 pounds.......... 600 @ 62> Good, 1200 to 1300 pounds. .....ec... 5 0 @600 Tidy, 105) to 1150 pounds........... 445 @ 535 Fair, 90) to 116) pounds :........... 400 @475 Common, a to 800 pounds. 300 @ 400 Bulls 300 @45H) ceive 150 @ 400 Prime. heavy... -.....0h. vivo iis Prime, medium weight. . Best heavy Yorkers ..... 1ight Yorkers........... Pigs Prime wethers Good mixed. . Fair mixed ew Culls and on veeie oe Spring lambs Veal calves ‘* SWINGING VASES ARE PRETTY. Bowl! and baskets to hang from the center chandelier or from cranes fas. tened to the window ‘or decor frames and intended to hold small flowers break up the stiff effect so often pro- duced by a series of vases standing ¢n the tables and mantels. Such a bowl above the center of the dining table has some advantages over the ordinary vase. Flowers and vines can be arranged with a more graceful and natural appearance than in a bowl placed ch the table. When the bowl is not tea small then growing bulbs and plants can be set in a bit of rich earth and allcwed to grow in their swinginz home. The bowls come in round and oblong shapes. They are suppcrted by small gilt chains or by silken cords which are attached tc tiny handles on either side of the bowl or boat. There should be very little decoration on the bowl.—Indi 2lis News. Edwin A lished in icle, I article pub- the first ten i 169,518,829,100 000.000. 544,0600,000,000 wasn’t for the things beyond ‘Substitutes for Water Found PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Dreams are froth.—German. The worst clothed go to the wind- ward.—French. The foundation of every noble char- acter is sincerity.—Anon. The office which seeks the man in these times has a good chance to get lost in the crowd.—Puck. Life wouldn’t be worth lving if it our reach.—New York Times. Take heed thou bless that day on which Love took possession of thee, for thou oughtest so to do. —Dante. E Try t to make an instantdnedus act of conformity to God’s will, at everything which vexes you.—Edward B. Pusey. A flirt is a rose from which ‘every lover plucks a’ leaf—the thorns being reServed for her husband.—Manchester Usion. If you tell the truth, you have in- finite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite: power against you.— Charles George Gordon. There is hardly anything that a wo- man enjoys more than doing some- thing for charity that it wouldn’t be right .to do for anything else.—New York Press. ’ The sins by which God’s spirit is or- dinarily grieved are the sins of small things—laxities in keeping the temper, slight neglects of duty, sharpness of dealing.—Horace Bushnell. You feel in some families as if you were living between the glasses of a microscope. Manner, aspect, expres- sion, all that goes to make up your “personality,” all that you do or leave undene is commented upon and found fault with.—H. Bowman. The labor of the baking was the hardest part of the sacrifice of her hos- pitality. To many it is easy to give what they have, but the offering of weariness and pain is never easy. They are, indeed, a true salt to salt sacrifices, withal.—George Macdonald. QUEER THIRST SATISFIERS. in the Desert. All devices for alluying the discom- fort arising from the dryness of the mu- cous membrances, such as carrying bullets or pebbles in the mouth, chewing grass or a p:ece of rubber, are 4 wholly futile in meeting the serious thirst problem, says The Outing Mag- azine. The relative humidity often falls to 5 percent in the Southwestern deserts, and in a temperature of over 100 degrees, the evaporation from.a ves- sel of water standing in the open may be as much as an inch a day. The amount thrown off by the skin is cor- respondingly great, and if the loss is not made good thirst ensues, and 10 hours’ lack of water may thicken the tongue so that speech is impossible. The Indian and the desert traveler often seek relief in the juices of plants when water fails. The fruits of some of the prickly pears are slightly juicy; the fronds of the same plant, or the great trunks of the saguaro, contain much sap, but for the most part it is bitter, and, while it would save life in extremity, yet it is very unpleasant to use. The barrel cactus, or bisnago (Echino-cactus), however, contains within its spiny cylinders a fair ‘sub- stitute for good water. To get at this juice one must be armed with a stout knife, or an ax, with which to de- capitate the plant, which is done by cutting away a section from the top. Next a green stake is obtained from some shrub or tree that is free from bitter substances, and with this or with the ax the white pitch of the in- terior is pounded to a pulp and a cav- ity that would hold two gallons is formed. Squeezing the pulp between the hands into the cavity will give from three to six pints of a drinkable liquid that is far from unpleasant, and is generally a few .degrees cooler than the air. Scouting Indians have long used the bisnaga to save carrying a heavy supply of water, and a drink may be obtained in this manner by a skilled operator in flve to ten min- utes. Fuel Oil in Italy. The Italian state government, or at least the powers in charge of the Ital- ian state railways, must have some confidence in the comparative perman- ence of the fuel oil supply. It is stated that during the fiscal year of 1906-1907 the cost of coal on the Ital- ian railways was so excessive as to attract special attention and amount- ed to 17 cents per train mile, as against a cost in France for a similar distance of 10 cents. The Italian gov- ernment has granted a special reduc- tion on duties on mineral oils for the use of the state railways and the railway management has now decided to use fuel oil at least on some of the mountain lines with long tun- nels where the cost of the fuel oil hitherto has seemingly made such use prchibitive. The concession in duties now made will lead to the gradual adoption of fuel oil and it is thought that when the oil can be impbrted into the country in tank steamers, its use, at least for railway purposes will become far more general.—Louisiana Planter. Ought to Be Big. Jack: “But do you think that ham- mock will hold both of us this sum- mer?’ Eva: “It ought to dear. It is called the ‘Taft.’ ”—Chicago News. Same Old Story. Gerald: “You are the only girl I have ever loved.” Geraldine: “Do yor me to marry a phonograph? York Press. Habitual Cons lipalion May be permanendly or fics ef ors pike es e one Truly benefici ¥ Vt igs wir enables one lo bot i : ite daily sot "oe, ure may be gradually IY : when no longer needed asthe i vemedics, when vequired, are lo assis nature anid nol to i funclions, which must de wately upon proper nouri: and vipht livin penerly epee Fema) effoctas heya buy e genuine i Sy "Elixir Sena + manufacin red by the LL LEADING DRY SIE: one DEY only, regular price 50¢ von Constituents of Soil. One acre of soil of medium fertil¥p taken to depth of nine inches, wosSi weight about 3,000,000 pounds, Amd contain nitrogen, 2,000 pounds; potzsiy, 6,000 pounds. There is enough nits gen to provide for ten crops of coem, 60 bushels to the acre, while fhe phosphoric acid and potash would xs much longer. There are fourteem elements necessary to plant life, ami of these carbon, hydrogen, nitrogem, oxygen, phosphorus, sulphur, chiorimss, silicon, calcium, iron, magnesium, gms tassium and sodium are derived fromm the soil, though several are also @& part derived from the aftr. THE TIME TEST. That is What Proves True Merit. Doan’s Kidney Pills bring the quickest of relief from backache ami kidney trcubles. @& that rel’ef lasting® |, Let Mrs. James ML 8 Long, of 113 N. sm gusta St., Stauntes, - Va., tell you. Cm January 31st, 18€R, Mrs. Long wretsr: BR. ‘‘Doan’s Kidney Pils BES have cured me’ ¢(@f pain in the baci urinary troabioe bearing dowa sem sations, etc.) On June 20th, 199%, four and one-half years later, she said: ‘I haven’t had kidney trout since. | repeat my testimony.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a be. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. ¥. Gas Made Heavy. Gas so dense as to sink in a lige was a singular result of a late expe iment by Dr. Kammerliugh Onmes. A mixture of hydrogen and helium fm a capillary tube plunged into legs hydrogen was compressed bevong £8 atmospheres, when the hydrogem Se came almost entirely liquefied and = bubble of helium was seen to descesmd! l» into it. As the pressure was reiess- ed, the hellum rose again and floadadl on the surface of the liquid. Wickerwork Boats. The novel lifeboat of C. J. F. d® Vos of Rotterdam has a hull made ew tirely of cane or wickerwork, and & claimed to possess numerous advamg&- ages. It is practically unbreakaidiie;, and unsinkable. It 1s not Laks to leakage, requires no proteciEm® painting, is cheaper than other brats, lighter "than ordinary wooden bosiso and has more than the usual voces for storing provisions and water. This woman says that affes months of suffering Lydia FE. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compo made her as well as ever. Maude E. Forgie, of Leesburg ¥&., writes to Mrs. Pinkham: “] want other suffering wome=m fw know what Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegps- table Compound has done for me. Ra months I suffered from feminine di so that I thought I could not live. E wrote you, and after taking Lydia 2 Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, asi using the treatment you prescribed E felt like a new woman. I am maw strong, and well asever, and thank pes: for the good you have done me.” FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Fislic ham’s Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been ise standard remedy for female and has positively cured thousands women who have been troubled wifi displacements, inflammation, ulseze- tion, fibroid tumors, irregnlarifes, periodic pains, backae he, that hes ing-down feeling, flatulency, indigrs— tion, dizziness or nervous prostates, ‘Why don’t you try it ? Mrs. Pinkham invites all siefc women to write her for advises. She has guided thousands & health. Address, Lynn, Mass. swe Thompson's Eye Walss i —— eo /