PERUNA PRAISED. a: t'Tf 41,. " i t " ? MRS. ESTHER M. MiLNER. Box 321, Detlraff, Ohio. Or. 8. B. "artman, Columbus, Ohio. Dear Sir: 1 u a terrible sufferer from ftlvio weakness and had headache conttnxtounly. I was not able to do my housework tor myself and husband. 1 wrote, you and described my condition as nearly as possible. You recommended 1'eruna. 1 took four bottles of it and was completely cured. I think 1'eruna a wonderj'ul medicine and have recom mended it to my friends, with the very best of results. Esther M. Milner. Very few of the great multitude of wom en who have been relieved of some pelvic disease or weakness by 1'eruna ever con cent to give a testimonial to be read by the public. There are, however, a few couraneous, elf-sacrificing women who will for the sake of their suffering sisters allow their cures to bo publishoi! Vn. Milner is one of these. In her fratitiide for her restoration to health she is wining mat me nip 1 A GRATEFUL women of the whole LETTER TO world should know DR.HARTM AN it. A chronic inva- 1 im Drougni Dacs to health is no small matter. W ords are in tdeqiiate to express complete gratitude. Constitution for China. China's emperor has announced that It has been decided that the Interests of the empire demand the granting of many reforms and eventually a constitution, the latter to be formulat ed when the people have ben suflW'i ently educated. The question of re forms and of a constitution Is being studied by Chinese commissioners who have been visiting Europe and America, and the emperors announce ment Is the result of their observa tions and reports. The granting of a constitution to China may not be very remote. The fact that Japan lias been working under one for some years and has achieved most valuable results cannot fail to have a great effect up on her neighbor. Qjfnensions of Sea Waves. A recent article by Dr. Vanghan Cornish, In the London Geographical Journal, furnishes some extremely interesting data respecting deep sea waves. From many hundreds of ob servations made during 40 years by independent observers, ho shows that on the average the height of a wave in feet (measured from crest to trough) is In round numbers one-half of the wind's velocity in statute miles per hour. By this rule, which does not express a dynamical law, the height of a wave raised In the deep, open sea by a wind of full hurricane force i. e.,' having a velocity of 90 statute miles per hour would be 43 feet. To Save Cotton Waste. It Is estimated that at least 2,000, 000 bales of cotton are lost through out the South every year because of the fropt and scattered cotton left In the field by the pickers. According to a correspondent of the Manufac turers' Itecord of Baltimore, a ma chine lias been invented which will save nearly all this loss. THE WAY OUT Change of Food Brought Success and Happiness, An ambitious but delicate girl, after falling to go through school on account of nervousness and hysteria, found in Grape-Nuts the only thing that seemed to build her up and fur nish her the peace of health. . "From infancy," she says, "I have tot been strong. Being ambitious to learn at any cost I finally got to the High School, but "-n had to aban don aiy studies or. account of nervous prostration and hysteria. "My food did not agree with me, I grew thin and despondent. I could not enjoy the simplest social affair tor I suffered constantly from nerv ousness in spite of all sorts of medi cines. "This wr''chel condition contin ued until I was twenty-five, when I became interested in the letters of those -who had cases like mine and who were being cured by eating Grape-Nuts. "I had iitUe faith but procured a box and after the first di3h I ex perienced a peculiar satisfied feeling that I had never gained from an) ordinary food. I slept and restet better that night and in a few days began to grow stronger. "I had a new feeling of peace and restfulness. In a few weeks, to my great Joy, the headaches and nerv ousness left me and life became bright and hopeful. I resumed my studies and later taught ten months with ease of course using Grape Nuts every day. It is now four years aince I began to use Grape-Nuts, I am the mistress of a happy home and the old weakness has never re turned." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich., "There's a reason." Read the lit tle book, "The Road to Wellville.' 4ft pfcgfc GARDEN, FARM and CROPS SUGGESTIONS FOR THE UP-TO-DATE AGRICULTURIST Hard-Mouthed Horses. Here is something of rcul practical value to any one driving a horse that pulls on the bit: Fasten a small ring to each side of the bridle and as near the browband as possible. Pass lines through bit-rings and snap them Into rings at browband. This, with a com mon jointed bit, will enable a child to hold a "puller" or hard-mouthed horse with ese under almost all cir cumstances. It can he used on a fast horse in double team, or on both, as desired. It is cheap and easily ap plied, and it won't make the mouth sore. It is better than any patent bit. The Epltomlst. Rations of Live Stock. The desire to have some fixed rules for feeding live stock has Introduced many experiments in various ways. If the exact amount of feed necessary for the support of an animal could bo estimated, the farmer would be ena bled to avoid many mistakes. Long ago the Germans Invented a table to be used In the feeding of animals In proportion to the live weight of each. It must be admitted that "system is half the battle," and It Is applicable to feeding stock. There Is much to he gained by measuring and weighing the feed, and such a system should he practised wherever stock Is fed. It Is a waste to give it too much and it is an injury to give it too little. Animals have their characteristics in feeding as well as Individuals, and are given to loss of appetite, daintiness, Bnd gorging. Some cows, when In full flow of milk, require certain rations, variable in quality, as the regulation of tho milk flow Is affected thereby. Horses, whpn performing hard work, as all know, require more nourishing food than when at rest. Judicious farmers, when feeding, by measuring and weighing, adapt not only the qual ity, by mixture, but also the quantity, according to the purpose subserved by each animal. AVith all classes of ani mals, the Individuality of each member of a herd or flock must be consid ered. The Epltomlst. Harvesting Potatoes. More or less Judgment Is required In doing any kind of work and the dig ging of potatoes Is no exception to the rule. In the first place, so many should not be dug out at one time that they cannot be handled readily. A good way is to dig during tho fore part of each half day, and then gather the tubers before quitting. As soon as dry they should always be picked up and if the weather is reasonably dry the length of time necessary for drying dependB almost entirely upon tho nature of the soil. If sandy, an hour may be long enough, but If a moist clay It may take several hours. Potatoes, once dug, should certainly not be left out on tho ground over night. If they are, tho frost has every chance to get at them, and only a lit tle freezing is required to spoil a good many bushels for market. It Is poor practice, too, to pick up potatoes with out any regard to grading. Two class as, anyway, should be made of them; all those of good marketable size should bo gathered first, and the un dersized ones left till later. It also pays to have crates or bushel measures In which to pick them up. Easy to distribute about the field these, after being filled, can readily be placed on a wagon and drawn off. Furthermore, they prevent the tubers from being Jammed and marred. Thirty or forty of them, or even a less number, may profitably be owned by every farmer who makes a business of raising po tatoes and similar crops. Fred O. Blbley, Mllford, N. Y. Sifting a Dairy Herd. The dairy herds of Illinois have been quite thoroughly looked over by the experiment station workers of that state. Interesting results were ob-talnedl-from eighteen average herds lo-, cated in the southern part of the state. Of the 221 cows included, the aver age production per cow was 5,617 pounds of milk and 227 pounds of but ter fat, with an average milk test of 4.03 percent. The best herd averaged 850 pounds, the poorest 142 pound-) butter fat per cow. The butter fat produced by the best cow was worth $119. while that of the poorest was worth only $19.58, showing an excel lent profit for the good cow and much less than nothing to pay pay her board for the poor cow. It was found that at least one-third of the cows were un profitable reckoning the food they con sumed in market price. An interesting example was a pro cess of weeding out a herd by the use of the Babcock test. Five cows were taken out, and the average profit of the herd wrts increased by $7.62 per head. A study of the feeding system used in that section led to the conclu sion that those who fail to provide silage were making a serious mistake, and that they should also use more clover and alfalfa hay, which would replace the expensive, concentrated foods to an extent and reduce the cost of milk production. ' Buttermilk may be built up along a vegetable route, a feature which Is generally neglected by truck men. These products sell at about half the price of fresh milk. A great deal of poultry may also Ik, sold If the pedler knows how to dress fowls neatly and thoroughly, so as to make a good ap pearance and save further work oa the part of the cook. Whatever Is grown should be the best of its kind. If obliged ;to sell second quality stuff, sell It as such and charge a corresponding price. Study your customers and learn their likes and dislikes, then build up a trade that cannot be taken away. Boston Cultivator. Clover Silage. The filling of silos with clover Is still an unsolved problem. In the lat est bulletin of the Michigan Agricul tural Station the summary of this question, which for some time there, ban been In the experimental stage, was about this: Make the clover Into hay, and feed with corn silage as part of the protein ration. The facts as they presented themselves to Director Smith were that making clover silage was slow and expensive work and in volved drawing too much water to th silo. Clover Is hard to rake up, to load, and to get Into the silo, and It Is uncertain In tho siloing part; so it seems the better way to cure it Into hay and feed as the dry part of the ration, except In years where there Is a great amount of rain and curing is about impossible. So far as I know, cattle eat good clover silage with much relish, hut the question Is this, "floes It pay to draw a crop to the silo that will dry out. In the field 65 pounds of water to the 100 pounds?" The director thought not, when he needed some dry hay to go with his corn silage. The real trouble with clover seems to be In its high protein content, causing It to take on a greater heat in the silo than corn, and so it throws off too much mois ture and Is liable to burn. Some ex periments were made where clover was closely pressed Into huge casks and headed up air tight, so that no moisture could escape, and excessive heating could not take place, owing to the exclusion of further supplies of ox ygen, and the keeping was about per fect. This Is a point in which the hen men might, find profit by filling small barrels with clover and heading it In, for hen silage in the winter. Some have succeeded well with si loing clover by cutting it, as they do corn, and wetting down with fair addi tions of water, making tho mass de cidedly wet, and adding weight to the cover to promote more absolute set tling and exclusion of air. All agree upon this: that the clover should be cut. when coming into blossom and be got Into the silo without wilting, and there be spread uniformly, and the more closely packed the better. I have not answered Mr. D. to do or not to do. It's a matter he must decide upon, and then do some experimental work for himself. Those who seek out new ways and methods are said to be favored by the gods. Tribune Far mer. Farm Notes. If there are ticks on tho sheep, dip them and the lamps when the shear ing Is done. Besides the profitableness of grow ing the better animals, there is th advantage In that there Is always a demand for such stock. Regulate the amount of grain accord ing to the amount of work done. Do not feed too much grain on idle days. Serious results sometimes follow. In selecting a setting hen, where there Is a choice in the matter, only the tame, less nervous and fidgety ones should he used as brooders and nurses. For farm work the farmer wants good sized horses, yet there are some fmall horses which will stay with any of them. There Is a great deal of dif ference In the way horses are built. If you want the horses to do th most work feed them on the proper feed, so that they may develop strength and be able to do the required work. Try some oats instead of so much corn. Good healthy fowls, properly killed and cooled, ought to keep in any or dinarily cool place at a temperature of forty or fifty degrees, for a week at least, and be all tho better for being kept. Fifty breeding ducks, if property cared for, should keep three 220-egg Incubators going and turn out between 2000 and 3000 ducklings during the season. This would keep one man quite busy. In feeding fowls, always keep in view the fact that the excess of food met and above that required for warmth ol body and egg production will be con verted into fat which will decrease the production of eggs. Look for brains as well as feet, limbs' or body when buying a horse. An animal that is sound in every mem ber but has not a level head is never a pleasant horse and seldom a valua ble one. Horse Breeder. Eggs will hatch best near the ground, The good old housewifely way is to make a coop of lath, four by t x feet, place a box without a bottom in one end of the coop, on the ground. In this the nest Is placed. Feed and water the hen In the other end of the coop. This arrangement does not allow thi ether hens to disturb the nest. SHAD BECOMING EXTINCT. Comm'"--liner of Fisheries Says Run for Spawning Has Been Wiped Out. Yl; at there U grave danger that tho shad will become extinct Is pointed out by United States Commissioner of Fisheries George M. Bowers. Ex plaining how the toothfomo fish may follow the way of the bison and the wild pigeon, he says In his annual re port : "Under the conditions which have been becoming more and more pro nounced the run of fish for spawning purposes has been practically wiped out In many of the most Important streams, nnd unless the Slate prompt ly take some action by which a fair percentage of the shad may reach their spawning grounds, the future for this fish Is gloomy." The Passing of the Frog. Owing to the fact that he bus como to be steemed as an article of diet to no less (legree than his European cousin, tho American bullfrog (Rami catesblana) has been bunted so close ly that his loud voice Is seldom heard on our rivers or the many small lakes adjacent to this city. The edible frog of the south of Europe (Rnna esculcri ta) Is inferior in size and flavor to our own bullfrog and Is raised for the market exactly as American farmers raise chickens or vdueks. Canadians have started in the business of frog ralslng during the last 10 years In the endeavor to supply the growing mar ket. Ten years ago the Chentnngo river, even within the limits of Blng hamton, was a favorite lurking place for frogs. Noyes's raceway, the small pools in and around the Island Just above the railroad bridges and the upper reaches of the Chenango river then were never silent during the summer nights. The Susquehanna river for miles In either direction also harbored hosts of large frogs. But today the familiar booming calls of othfr years flannel lures nnd small caliber rifle haave done their work. Rlnghnmpton Tress. Barbers In Early Days. The origin of the custom of shaving the face Is lost in antiquity. The Creeks nnd Romans had public shav ing places In connection with their baths. In the fourteenth century tho barber's craft was recognized as a profession, being allied to surgery. The barbers were confined, as to sur gery to the letting of blood and leeching, nnd extracting of teeth, but the surgeons were prohibited from shaving the face. The barber's sign was a striped pole as far back as 1050 the stripes nromid the polo being symbols of the bandages used In wrapping the arm or part from which the blood was to be let. New Tork Herald. Leprosy Increasing. Leprosy is increasing in both North nnd South America. Columbia, where there were only 400 lepers 40 years ago, Is said to have 40,000 now, and many find their way Into the United Slates. Such a medical authority as Dr. Athmead. who was formerly chief medical adviser to the Govern ment of Japan, says tho increase is alarming. When leprosy is brought Into a new country it takes 50 years for the seeds to take root and It be comes epidemic after some 200 years. It has been shown that, mosquitos are active in transferring leprosy bacilli. Bricks of Sand and Lime. The first factory for making bricks of sand and lime was built in the United States in 1001. Now about 110 plants are in operation In various parts of the country, and their yearly output is about 400.000,000 bricks. It is a striking Illustration of the results of scientific use of old and familiar materials, is new combinations or forms. Race Track Trick. Albert Corman, a London book maker, Is charged with attempting to obtain money by a trick from Harry Cavanaugb, another bookmaker. He handed Cavanaugh a paper with in structions to back certain horses for forthcoming races, and by means of chemical Ink the original Inscription vanished nnd another appeared, back ing horses for races already won. Practical Evidence of Ruin. A few years ago Russia was annu ally exporting more than $200,000,000 worth of grain. Now she Is import ing indication of the ruin which the revolutionary disturbances have brought upon her. New York Tri bune. BABY'S TORTURING HUMOR. Ear Looked aa If They Would Drop Off Fare Mhh of Sores Cured by Cutl cun In Two Weeks For 75c. "I fcel'it my duty to parents of other poor Buffering babies to tell you what Cuticura has done for my little daughter. She broke out all over her body with a humor, and we used everything recom mended, but without results. I called in three doctors. They all claimed they could help her, but she continued to grow worse. ' Her body was a mass of sores, and her little face was being eaten away; her ears looked as if they would drop off. Neighbors advised me to get Cuticura Soap and Ointment, and before I had used half of the cake of Soup and box of Ointment the sores had all healed, and my little one's face and body were as clear as a new-born babe's. I would not be without it again if it cost five dollars, instead of seventy-five cents. Mrs. George J. Steese, "Ul Coburn St., Akron, Ohio." Movements of Electricity. Tests made In London show that tho electrical traction lines of that city set in motion earth currents of electricity which can be distinctly recorded by delicate instruments in the Kew observatory, six miles dis tant from the lines of the electric railroads. The marl j made upon a sensitive surface are so plain that they form a virtual time table ol the electric traction lines. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES Lmorerbrlsnter aaraater ctilorithao any other rte. One n. r colon all flbera. They dT In nolo water better thu aa. aaar dra. (nana aav caroMBS oiummu riapuyj nwrfc Welt lot ra two.l.t-How Ul;a tueaca aad Mia Coiora, lMtOK LatlU toTt al.aaTil W.dT tked, Nezvous Motheis Mahe Unhappy Homes Their Condition Irritates Both Husband and Children How Thousand of Mothers Have Been Saved From Nervous Prostration and Made Strong and Well. 1 li ' Mrs. CAester Curry j A nervous, irritable mother, often on the verge of hysterics, Is unfit to care for children ; it ruins a ehild's disposi tion and reacts upon herself. The trouble between children end tbeir mothers too often is due to the fact that the mother has some femnle weak ness, and she is entirely unfit to bear the strain upon her nerves that govern ing children involves; it is impossible for her to do anything calmly. The ills of women act like a firebrand upon the nerves, consequently Bine tenths of the nervous prostration, ner vous despondency, " the blues." sleep lessness, and nervous irritability of women arise from some derangement of the female organism. Ho you enperience fits of depression with restlessness, alternating with extreme irritability? Are your spirits easily affected, so that one minute you ltiugh, and the next minute you feel like orying ? Ho you feel something like a, V.all rising-in your throat and threatening to choke vou ; all the senses perverted, morbidly sensitive to light and sound ; pain in the abdominal region, and between the shoulders; oearing-down pains; nervous dyspepsia and almost continually cross and snappy? If so, your nerves f re in a shattered condition, snd you are threatened with nervous prostration. Proof is monumental that nothing in the world is bettor for nervous prostra tion than Lydin E. l'inlchain's Vege table Compound ; thousands and thou sands of women can testify to this fact. Ask Mrs. Pinkham's Advlce-A Woman Best Understands a Woman's Ills. The Coming- Bath. "The bath of the next century," says T. Baron Russell in his book, "A Hundred Years Hence," "will lave the body speedily with oxygen ated water delivered with a force that will render rubbing unnecessary, and beside it will stand the drying cup board, lined with some quickly mov ing arrangement of soft brushes, and fed with a highly disircated air, from which, almost in a moment, the bath er will emerge dried, and with a skin gently stimulated, and perhaps elec trified, to clothe himse'f quickly and pass down the lift to his breakfast, which he will cat to the accompani ment, of a summary of the morning's news rrad nut for the benefit of the family, or whispered Into his ears by a talking machine." FITR,St.VitusTnnre:Xprvons DiRea'cp per manentlycuted by Dr. Kline's Hrent Nerve Restorer, i'i trial brittle nnd treatise free. Dr. H. R. Kline. Ld,.Wl Arch St.. Phila., i'a. The tonnage of Japanese vessels at the Chinese port of Hongkong has doubled since 18!'S. Mrs. Winnlow's Seething Syrup for Children allays pain.cures wind colic, ale a bottle New Light on the Race Problem. Robert Bennett Wean, M. D., be lieves that scientific investigation has proved an absolute and structural dif ference in the brain of the white man nnd the negro, a difference which must be considered In any rational ad justment of the relations between the two races. lie has prepared for the September Century the first full authoritative discussion, adequately illustrated, of the matter to be pub lished, a discussion which cannot fail to throw Interesting and valuable light upon the race problem in Amer ica and other countries. . The Great American Hen. Someone has figured that the Amer ican hen each year e:rns enough to buy all the silver and gold dug out of tho mines, all the sheep In the country and their wool, and leave a balance equal to the entire year's crop of rye, barley, buckwheat ami potatoes. Or. as a lien enthusiast writes, " she pays the interest on all tho farm .mortgages, payg the entire state and country taxes of the whole Union, and then leaves a balance large enough to give every man, woman and child in the United States a dollar." Farming Magazine. Stations Away from Town. It is a peculiarity of Russian rail ways that their stations are generally two miles distant from the smaller towns and .villages which they serve. This is said to be on account of the danger of fire, the houses In small places generally being thatched with straw. Successfully Prosecutes Claims. Lata PrliiutuM E Dinnr V S :,uaion Hureau. 3jrriQ mil mm-. UU MhrBUuarlAiiuH.artr niuo. I'. N. r. an. num. n P O P Q Y HEW BISCOVZBT ; S 1 W I rt.M rtif ua nroa MM Hi. ImI af I..IImI.U aaa f Daya' ImlaHl fra. Sr. H. H. taflva aiUS, x a, atlaau, Sa. - j Mrs.Chas.T?Srown Mrs. Chester Curry, Leader of tha Ladies' Symphony Orchestra, 42 Sara toga Street, East Boston, Mass., writes: Dear Mrs. Plnkhurn: " For eight years I was troubled with treme narvoimness and hysteria, brought on by irregularities. I could neither enjoy life nor sleep nights: I was very irritable, uorvous and dsKpondent. " Lyilia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was recommended snd proved to bs the only remedy that bi'rt me. 1 have daily im proved In health until 1 am now strong an well, and all nervousness has disappear!. " Mrs. Charles F. Brown, Vice-President of the Mothers' Club, 81 Cedar Terrace, Hot 8prings, Ark., writes: Dear Mrs. Finkfaam: " I dragged through nine years of miser able existence, worn out with pain and ner vousness, until it seemed as though I should fly. I then noticed a statement of a woman trnublwl as I was, and the wonderful results she derived from I.vdia E. Pinkham's Vegs tnble Compound. 1 decided to trv it. I did so, and at the end of three months 1 was a differ ejit woman. My nervousness was all gone, I was no longer Irritable, and my huiband fell In love with me all over again." Women Ehould remember that Lydla E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is the medicine that holds the record for the greatest number of actual cures of female ills, and take no substitute. Free Advice to Women. Mrs. Pinkham, daughter in-law ol Lydia E. Pinkham. Lynn. Mass., invites all aick women to write to her for advice. Mrs Pinkham's vast experience with female troubles enables her to ad vise you wisely, and she will charge you nothing for her advice. There is no satisfaction keener than being dry xnn romrnrtAh n. .. when out In the hardest storm YOU ARE SURE OF THIS IF YOU WEAR WATERPROOf vrr irT-v CLOTHING J On sale everywhere ' W. L. DOUGLAS $3.50&$3.00Shoes BEST IN THE WORLD W.L.Douglas $4 Gilt Edge line . : cannotDeequalledatanrprice W. I.. Douglas' .Tob !!': 1 !!!? in Hie most cmui-le!1 in tliin country SHOES FOR EVERYBODY AT ALL PRICES. Men's Sboes. Sa to Si. 60. Boys' Shoes, S3 fn 31.25. Women's Bftoes. S4.QU to 31. ou. Mies-e'St Children's 8hoe, S3-3B to Sl.OO. Try IV. I.. Dnnglna Women's, Miaaes a.n4 Cliilflrcn's ahiies; for style, fit and wear they esrel other makes. If I could take you Into my largo factories at Brockton, Mass., and show you how carefully W.L. Douglas shoe are made, you would then understand why they hold their shape, fit better, wear longer, and are cf greater value than any other make. Wherever you live, you can obtain W. L. Douglas shoes. Hl name and prica U stamped on the bottom, which protects youagalost high prices ond Inferior shoes. Takm no aubstit lute Ask your dealer for W. L. Doug-las shoes nd lnsir.t upon having- them. Anil Color e ,rlet met); thei) mill rmt war irasaf. 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