HaVitugt Constipation May to permanency ovmomcby propflr personal efforts jvitKtKe oss'istcajce of the one Truly ijenccial laxative remedy, Syrup of tigs and t,Uxr of Semj .which enables one to form regular habits dail s daily that assistance to tia nay be gradually clispen&dViWt noloncr needed a$tKebestf lure ma when tw upon proper tiourisrim ent, fmpereffortsmti. right livinggentralt. loetit benecial effects, always Ouy tKe genuine California Fig Syrup Co . oniy SOU) BrML LEADING ORUGCISTS on ae only, regular price 60f p Bott U Constituents of Soli. One acre of Boil of medium fertility taken to depth of nine Inches, would weight about" 3,000,000 pounds, . and contain nitrogen, 2,000 pounds; potash, 6,000 pounds. There Is enough nitro gen to provide for ten crops of corn, 60 bushels to the acre, while the phosphoric acid and potash would last much longer. There are fourteen elements necessary to plant life, and of these carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, sulphur, chlorine, silicon, calcium, iron, magnesium, po tassium and sodium are derived from the soil, though several are also In part derived from the air. THE TIME TEST. That Is What rrovci Trnc Merit. Doan's Kidney Pills bring lh quickest of relief from backache and kidney trouDies. it that relief lasting? Let Mrs. James M. I Long, of 113 N. Au gusta St., Staunton, Va., tell you. On January 31st, 1903, Mrs. Long wrote: "Doan's Kidney P11U have eured me" (of nain In the back. urinary troubles, bearing down sen satlons, etc.) On June 20th, 1907, four and one-half years later, she said: "1 haven't had kidney trouble since. 1 repeat my testimony." Sold by all dealers. 60 cents a box. Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Gas Made Heavy. Gas so dense as to sink in a liquid was a singular result of a late exper iment by Dr. Kammerliugh Onncs. A mixture of hydrogen and helium In a capillary tube plunged Into liquid hydrogen was compressed beyond 49 atmospheres, when the hydrogen be came almost entirely liquefied and a bubble o'f helium was seen to descend into it. As the pressure was releas ed, the helium rose again and floated on the surface of the liquid. Wicker-work Boats. The novel lifeboat of C. J. F. de Vos of Rotterdam hns a hull made en tirely of cane or wickerwork, and Is claimed to possess numerous advant ages. It is practically unbreakable, and unsinkable. It is not liable to leakage," requires no protective painting. Is cheaper thair-other boats lighter than ordinary wooden boats and has more than the usual room for storing provisions and water. Tliis woman says that after months of suffering: Lydla E, Plnkham's Vegetable Compound made hews well as ever. ' Maude E. Forgie, of Leesburg,Va, writes to Mrs. Knkham : "1 want other suffering women to know what Lydia E. I'inkham's Vepe table Compound has done for me. i'oi months I suffered from feminine ilia bo that I thought I could not live. I wrote von, and after taking Lydia E, Finkham's Vegetable Compound, and using1 the treatment yon prescribed I felt like a new woman. I am now strong, and well as ever, and thank yon for the good yon nave none me." FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. Vnr fhlic venxo T.vrHn. Tf.. PinV. ham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female Ills, and has positively cured thousands of women" who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulcera tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bearing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges tion, dizziness or nervous prostration. Why don't you try it ? Mrs; Pinkham Invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. If mirtedTKnmnpn with weak I I remedies, when required, are 10 assist nature an 1 not to ftuntolant tlte nature 1 ulti. How the Weather is Foretold An Elaborate System Whose Reports Grow More and More Accurate. Few topics-In hot days have been discussed more freelythan the weath er. Few on taking up their morning papers who do not first glance at the forecast to note the predictions for the day. These have now come to be so consistently accurate that there is no longer any surprise in the diurnal discovery that the Weather Bureau Is right about the weather. Which should make interesting the follow ing dissertation on the quiet, unos tentatious, but certain way In which this bureau does its work a work far more important and far reaching than would be imagined by any one not conversant with the subject. The establishment of the bureau was entirely gratuitous activity on the part of the General Government. It was entirely beyond the contempla tion of the founders of the Constitu tion, and was legalized only by the general welfare clause of the. Consti tution. Begun in 1870, in conse quence of the growing interest in matters relating to meteorology and for the purpose of giving storm warn ings to vessels, it was at first under the direction of the army. This ano maly between ships and soldiers may be explained by the fact that upon the Signal Corps in those days de volved the duty of maintaining tele graphic service to complete gaps in private lines this to the end that the Government might have commu nication throughout all the States and Territories. Although originally designed for the benefit of navigation alone, an ever-broadening recognition of the practical utility of such a service has necessitated its continued extension In the interest of both agriculture and commerce. During the first twenty years of its development the work was conducted by the Signal Corps of the army, under the direction and control of the War Department, but the demand for a strictly scientific bureau, unhampered by regulations of a military character, resulted in a reorganization of the service in 1891 and the establishment of the present Weather Bureau as a branch of the United States Department of Agricu! lure. How Forecasts Are Made. To the general public the Weather Bureau is probably best known through the medium of its dally fore casts and weather maps. These fore casts are based upon simultaneous observations of local weather condi tions taken daily at 8 a. m. and 8 p m., seventy-fifth meridian time, at about 200 regular observing stations scattered throughout the United States and the West Indies. Each of these stations is operated by one or more trained observers, and is equipped with mercurial barometers, thermometers, wind vanes, rain and snow gauges and anemometers, and many of them with sunshine record ers, barographs, thermographs and other devices which register auto matically a continuous record of the local weather conditions and changes as they occur. The results of the twice dally ob servations are immediately tele graphed to the Central Office at Washington, D. C, where they are charted for study and interpretation by experts trained to forecast the weather conditions which may be ex pected to prevail during the follow ing thirty-six to forty-eight hours. A complete telegraphic report in cludes the following data: Temperature pressure, precipita tion, direction of , wind, state of weather, current wind velocity, maxi mum or minimum temperature since last observation, and kind and amount of clouds, with the direction of their movement. From these data the forecaster, by comparison with preceding reports, is able to trace the paths of storm areas from the tine of their appearance to the moment of observation, and approximately de termine and forecast their subsequent courses and the occurrence of other weather conditions. Weather services similar to that of the United States are maintained by the Canadian and Mexican govern ments, and by a system of inter change daily reports are received from a number of stations in these countries. Daily observations are also received from Honolulu, the British Isles, Germany, France, Por tugal and the Azores, so that the field represented by the daily reports ex tends over the greater portion of the North American continent having tel egraphic communication, the North Atlantic Ocean and the west coast of Europe. Covering the Country. & The sygtem for the -ollectlon and distribution of telegraphic reports of observations is so arranged that all of the principal stations in the Uni ted States receive 8 a. m. reports from a sufficient number of other sta tions to represent the general weath er conditions over a considerable por tion of the country. 'Within two hours after the morn ing observations have been taken the forecasts are telegraphed from tbx forecast -centres to more than 2100 principal distributing points, whence they are further disseminated by tel egraph, telephone and mail. The forecasts reach nearly 160,000 ad dresses daily by mail, the greater part being delivered early in the day, and none later, as a rule, than 6 p m. of the day of issue, and more than a million telephone subscribers, main ly in the rural districts, receive the forecasts by telephone within an hour of the time to prediction is made. This system of forecast distribu tion is wholly under the supervision and at the expense of the Govern ment, and is in addition to and dis tinct from the distribution effected through the press associations and tho dally newspapers. The rural free mail delivery system and rural telephone lines afford means of bringing within the benefits of this system a large number of farming communities which before it was im practicable to reach with the dally forecasts. The independent rural telephone lines are being utilized to their fullest extent, and this plan of distribution has been enlarged to cover the entire telephone service of many States. Of the many warnings sent out by the Weather Bureau those of storms and hurricanes, issued for the benefit of marine interests, are the most im portant and pecuniarily valuable. Storm warning are displayed at near ly 300 points along the Atlantic, Pa cific and Gulf coasts, and the shores of the great lakes, including every port and harbor of any considerable Importance, and so nearly perfect has this service become that scarcely a storm of marked danger to maritime interests has occurred for years for which ample warnings have not been issued from twelve to twenty-four hours in advance. The reports from the West Indies are especially valu able in this connection, as they en able the bureau to forecast with great accuracy the approach of those de structive hurricanes which, during the period from July to October, are liable to sweep the Gulf and Atlantic coasts. The sailings of the immense number of vessels engaged in our ocean and lake traffic are largely de termined by these warnings, and those displayed for a single hurrlcano are known to have detained in port on our Atlantic coast vessels valued, with their cargoes, at over $30,000,' 000. An essential feature of the service is the collection by wireless telegra phy of meteorological observations from vessels at sea. and the dispatch by the same means to vessels at sea of weather forecasts and storm warn ings based upon the observations thus collected. The warnings of those sudden and destructive temperature changes known as cold waves are probably of next importance. These warnings, which are issued from twenty-four to thirty-six hours in advance, are dls seminated throughout the threatened regions by means of flags displayed at regular Weather Bureau and sub- display stations, by telegraph, tele phone and mall service to all places receiving the dally forecasts, and to a large number of special addresses in addition. - Railroads regulate the size and movement of their freight trains, ico men prepare for harvesting, and many plans of business and pleasure are made on the expectation of the conditions forecast. The warnings issued in January, 1896, for a single cold wave of exceptional severity and extent resulted in the saving of over $3,500,000 in the protection of prop erty from injury or destruction. The commerce of our rivers is greatly aided and lives and property in regions subject to overflow are protected by the publication of the river -stages and the issue of river and flood forecasts based on reports received from about 5 00 special river and rainfall stations. On the occa sion or the flood of 1897 in the Lower Mississippi Valley, live stock and other movable property to the est! mated value of about J15.000.000 were removed from the inundated re gions prior to the. flood as a result of the warnings by the bureau a week in advance of the occurrence. Benefit to Travelers. From the information as to cli matic conditionsmadeknown through the reports, Invalids land tourists are enabled to select the localities best suited to their health and pleasure, and manufacturers and agriculturists the regions best adapted for the car rying on of their' particular indus tries. By the recent extension of trie system ' of snowfall observations throughout the mountain regions ad jacent to the great plains, it has been made' possible to forecast the prob able flow in the rivers of the arid re gions, a factor of great importance in irrigation. The records of the bureau are of frequent use as evidence in courts of law, for which purpose they have been decided competent by the Su preme Court of the United States. The conduct of the regular stations of observation outside of Washington requires the constant service of about 530 and the business of the Central Office at Washington of about 185 employes. New. York Times. The So-Called Frost Flower. The phenomena called "frost flow ers"' was discussed before the Bio logical Society in Washington recent ly by Dr. Walters. The so-called flow ers are composed of Ice that forms on frosty mornings In autumn and early winter on certain plants. The peculiar thing to bo explained is that frost flowers do not form on all plants, but only on about twenty-six species, as far as yet known. Among these are frostweed, dittany, marsh fleabanes and cultivated heliotrope, The phenomena is apparently due to capillary movement of water In the plant, but a wholly satisfactory expla nation is lacking. Reelpo for a Political Campaign. Take the roots of several ripe ques tions and cover them welllth equal parts tit fudge and dead beets. Add one modicum of sense and a number of great scoops of nonsense. Some of tho more fastidious often add a pinch of progress, but -this Is not abso lutely necessary. Stir In some care fully selected verbiage strained through a rhetorical colander. Beat vigorously until the enthusiasm rises to the top, and then drop in a hand ful of candy-dates. It Is then ready fr the griddle, which is best made in the shape of a platform constructed from well-worn planks. Now let the whole thing boll and bubble for several months. If it should not rise well, add newspapers. When it is at white heat, garnish liberally with long green. Now let the steam oft and set aside to cool. Preserve In alcohol for future use. A nolltlcal campaign should be served in gum shoes, anlHshould also be taken with a grain of 6alt. Suc cess Magazine. BABY CRIED AND SCRATCHED All Hie Time Was Covered with Tor turlng Eczema Doctor Bald Bores Would J-mst for Years Per fect Cure by Cutlcnra. "Mv bbv niece was suffering from thiil terrible torture, eczema. It w nil ocer her body, but the worst was on her face and hands. She cried nnd scratched all the time and could not sleep night or day from the scratching. I had her under the doc tor's care for a year and a half and he seemed to do her no good. I took her to the best doctor in the city and he said that she would havo the sores nntil she was six years old. But if I had depended on the doctor my baby would have lost her mind and died from the want of am. uui i usea Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment nnd the was cured in three months. Alice L. Dowell, 4769 Knstnn Ave., St. Louis, Mo., May 2 and 20, 1007." Busy Missouri Acre. One acre In Missouri well fertil ized, has produced GOO to 800 bushels of onions In a season. Onions al ways are In demand and at good prices. Tomatoes are a favorite specialty with men engaged in truck gardening near Kansas City, because of the high price they bring In the early spring. The Brus farm, on Blue Ridse boulevard, 10 miles east of iho city, sends tomatoes to tho hotels at $3.50 and $4 a bushel. These are grown from hot bed plants. As soon as one crop Is picked another Is ready. At the lower rate of $3.50 a bushel one acre of tomatoes would give an Income of $1,050 a year. Take off enough ground to grow the varied vegetables needed for Jhe family and enough will remain to give the inten sive grower of tomatoes $900 or $1,000 in a year. If he made only half that much It would be more than he could save in the city. Herkomer and His Father. A beautiful story Is told somewhere of Sir Hubert Herkomer, the great painter. His father was a poor man, and the professor brought him from his native land of Germany to live with him In his beautiful home near London. The old man used to mold In clap in his early life, and now that he had leisure he -took to it again in his old age. But his hands trembled and the work showed signs of Imper fection. It w3 his one sorrow. At night he went to bed early, and when he had gone his son would go into the studio, take his father's poor work and make It as beautiful as possible. When tho old man came down in the morning he would look at -the work and rub his hand3 and eay, "Ha! I can do as well as ever I did." Scholars' Own. Time, Not Eternity, On one occasion when in Congress General Benjamin Butler arose In his place and Intimated that the member who occupied tho floor was transgress ing the limits of debate. "Why, General," said tho member reproach fully, "you divided your time with me." - "I know I did," rejoined But ler, grimly, "but I didn't divide eterni ty with you." RKLF DELUSION Many People Deceived by Coffee. We like to defend our indulgenclei and habits even though wo may be convinced of their actual harmful ness. A man can convince himself that whisky is good for him on a cold morning, of beer on a hot summer day when be wants the whisky or beer. It's the same with coffee. Thou sands of people suffer headache and nervousness year after year but try to persuade themselves the cause is not coffee because they like coffee. "While yet a child I commenced using coffee and continued it,"wrltes a Wis. man, "until I was a regular coffee fiend. I drank It every morn ing and In consequence had a blinding headache nearly every afternoon. "My folks thought It was coffee that ailed me, but I liked It and would not admit It was the cause of my trouble, so I stuck to coffee and the headaches stuck to me. "Finally, the folks stopped buying coffee and brought borne soma Pos tnm. They made it right (directions on pkg.) and told me to see what difference It. wonld make with my bead, and during that first week on Postum my-old' affliction did not bother me once. From that day to this we have used nothing but Postum In place of coffee headaches are a thing of the past and the whole fam ily is in fine health. "Postum looks good,1 smells good, tastes good, Is good, and does good to the whole body." "There's a Rea son." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read, "The Road to Wellvllle," In pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They arm genuine, trme, and full of human interest. .op-' INTEREST SHEEP NOTES. Every flock need3 new blood each year. Clover hay and turnips form the baBls of feed. Deep troughs in which to feed grain should be placed in the lots. Attend to the rait supply and see that the water is pure and abundant. A SURE SIGN. When a milk farmer begins to pick himself up and grow ambitious, one of the surest signs is better stock better fed. When a truck farmer be gins to really hustle, he commences by using more manure. Did you ever know a really , successful practical farmer who didn't feed well both his cows and his crops? Boston Culti vator. VALUE OF SHEEP. In one sense sheep might be con sidered valuable on every farm as much as poultry is. They are not in the way, it costs little to keep them, they are great weed cleaners, they benefit the soil more than any other stock and they practically pay for themselves each year. Many of our side hill pastures that are now almost barren or are simply big weed patches could be returned to profita ble grass in a short time if sheep were placed on them. Farmers' Home Journal. PIO NOTES. Don't allow hogs to sleep in dusty beds. In summer give pigs the run of the grass. Farmers with scant pasturage for their hogs should keep the piggeries neat and clean and give the pigs ac cess to shade and water. The most profitable hog is the one that is farrowed in the spring, kept six or seven months and made to weigh about 200 pounds in that time. It is rarely profitable to keep a hog over winter, unless unusually good quarters are furnished for it. POULTRY DOTS. Be sure that the growing chicks are not crowded in their coops. Clean the hen house floor and put in three Inches of clean sand. Sweep the walls and ceiling and cover both with a coat of whitewash. Dispose of all the cockerels that will go to market this season before the end of October. The longer you keep them the less profit you will make. As the supply of bugs and worms grows less, feed more beef scraps and cut fresh bone. Chicks and fowls must have meat food. Save a good supply of dry leaves for use as scratching material in the poultry house during the winter. It is the cheapest material for the pur pose that you can get. Feed plenty of corn when you fat ten the cockerels; it will assist to give their shanks and skin the yellow color desired by most customers. Look under the roosts where they rest upon their supports and see If you can find any little red mites. If you find thein, paint roosts, supports and the adjoining woodwork Vlth one of the brands of liquid lies killers sold by dealers in "poultry keepers' supplies. SOUTHPORT GLOBE ONIONS. Connecticut's famous Southport Globe onions stand unsurpassed among popular Amerlccan varieties of the onion. They are in high favor in some of the finest commercial onion growing districts of Ohio and New York and during a few years past have made a steady advance in standing everywhere as a highly bred, perfect onion. Eastern onion growers use the red and white Southport Globes to produce the exceptionally large, solid, beautifully lormed bulbs that bring top prices in New York City markets. Besides the two varieties named, there is a yellow Southport Globe that resembles the others in shape and general character, but is of a rich yellow color. i Southport White Globe. . The white is one of those beauti fully white, perfectly globe shaped onions that take the eye and bring highest price In any market. Its skin is thin and paper like, the flesh fine grained, crisp and mild flavored. Add to this that it Is a tremendous crop per, and it represents almost an ideal product In Its line. Weekly Witness. Is Peruna Useful for Catarrh? (Should a list of the ingredients of Pe runa bo submitted to any medical ex pert, of whatever school or nationality, ho would be obliged to admit without reserve that the medicinal herbs com posing Pcruna are of two kinds. First, standard and well-tried catarrh reme dies. Second, well-known and gouor ally acknowledged tonlj remedies. That in ono or tho other of those uses they havo stood tho tost of many years' experience by physicians of different schools. Thore can bo no dispute about this, whatever. Peruna is composed of some of the most efficacious and uni versally used herbal romedicj for ca tarrhal diseases, and for such conditions of the tinman system as require a tonlo. Each one of the principal ingredients of Peruna has a reputation of its own in the cure of somo phase of catarrh or as a tonlo medicine. The fact is, chronic catarrh is a dis ease which is very prevalent. Many thousand people know they have chronie 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 tho nose, throat, lungs, stomach or some other internal organ. There is no doubt as to the nature of the disease. The only trouble is the remedy. This doctor has tried to cure them. That doctor has tried to pro scribe for them. No other household remedy so uni versally advertised, carries upon tho label the principal active constituents, showing that Peruna invites the full inspection of the critics. - mm All dealer. Booklet. Sample and Parlor OuJ Game "WHIZ," 10c. FAOIFIO COAST BORAX CO., Hew TOTK Ucal stents wtatti Write far awner making alas. Food 1 Products Peerless Dried Beef Unlike trie 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 vafers. 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 Peerless 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 While 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 have eaten. Libby.McNeilU Libby, Chicago a THE DAISY FLY KILLER or-.nam AM Uw tux ttrd comfort to mry boo M) dinmff rovsn. 3 ud ail pi ftjjvr asytfttaaiE, Trj Ml Toa will mtr tr to with tbna. lfmki toy dvalfMhal astif aretntd rura ttaJML MMIBI, lte aria) ., imaija, a f. II O. II, IMS, EVERY MAN HIS OWN D0GTG3 If 1 MAMITON ATOM ,.... Tfcle Is meet Valuable Book for the Hooeakeaf, teashlnt as It ion th eal!j-dluniilhd tms tome or different DlmM, toe Cum and Meaaa et tri OUftK, 114 LoarJ 0U Rw rfc vnalavra I M MM & J
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