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SOPHIA
HEALTH VERY POOR
RESTORED BY PE-RU-NA.
Catarrh Twenty-five Years
Had a Bad Cough.
Mini Sophia Kittlescn, Evanston, 111.,
Writ en:
"1 have been troubled with catarrh for
early twenty-live years and have tried
many cures for it, but obtained very little
kelp.
"Then my brother advised me to try
Penina, ana 1 did.
My health vnt very poor at the time
I began taking l'eruna. My throat was
Very sore and I had a bad cough.
"Peru n a hasr it red me. Thechrontc
catarrh in qone and my health isvery
much improved.
"I recommend Penina to all my friends
who are troubled as 1 was."
PERUNA TABLETS :-Some people pre
fer tablets, rather than medicine in a fluid
ibrm. Such people can obtain l'eruna tab
lets, which represent the medicinal ingre
dients of Peruna. Each tablet equals one
vernge dose of Penina.
Man-a-lln the Ideal Laxative.
Ask your Druggist fop a Free IV
runn Almnnne for 1I00.
Chew Your Whisky.
A new and novel cure for drunken
ness Is proposed by the now famous
Mr. Fletcher, who took a hint from
die wise old cud-chewing cow, and In
Tented perpetual mastication. Mr.
Fletcher has applied to Inebriates his
discoveries relative to mastication,
and asserts that his method has made
prohibitionists of a large number of
hard drinkers. The remedy is sim
ple. Instead of gulping down the
Bsunl "three fingers" In the old, famil
iar way, letting It irradiate its sun
shine in one internal mechanism as
ttrescribed in the ancient Bacchic rites,
the whisky is taken in sips by the pa
tient or victim, who proceeds to chew
It stolidly for fifteen or twenty min
utes, gurgling It around In his mouth
until it is thoroughly Insalivated. This,
Fletcher says, creates a physical in
tolerance of excess, and it is not long
before the victim is taking his "nips"
with a medicine dropper. Chew your
whisky; that's the secret of temper
ance. Washington Post
43
Rewards of Authorslp.
An addition to the list of phraseo
logical coincidences has just been
made by a speaker at the religious
congress now assembled in the Ox
ford schools. For a competent stu
dent of any great subject there was,
aid Prof. Rhys David, no better way
of clarifying and increasing knowl
edge than writing a book about it
Something like the same sentiment
was expressed a little more cynically
by the late Bishop Creighton at a
Dictionary of National Biography din
ner. "Whenever," he declared, "1
have found myself especially ignorant
of any subjnet I have always tried to
get a commission for an article on it,
and in this way I have picked up a
good deal of useful Information."
Westminster Gazette.
MYING ADVERTISEMENT.
Glow of Health Speaks For Postum.
It requires no scientific training to
discover whether coffee disagrees or
not
Bimply stop it for a time and use
Postum in place of It, then note the
beneficial effects. The truth will ap
pear. "Six years ago 1 was in a very had
condition," writes a Tenn. lady, "I
offered from indigestion, nervous
ness and insomnia.
"I was then an inveterate coffee
drinker, but it was long before I could
be persuaded that It was coffee that
hurt me. Finally I decided to leave
It off a few days and find out the
truth.
"The first morning I left off coffee
I had a raging headache, so I decided
must have something to take the
place of coffee." (The headache was
e&used by the reaction of the coffee
drug caffeine).
"Having heard of Postum through
a friend who used it, I bought a pack
age and tried it. I did not like it at
first, but after I learned how to make
It right, according to directions on
pig., I would not change back to cof
fee for anything.
"When I began to use Postum J
weighed only 117 lbs. Now I weigh
170, and as I have not taken any
tonic in that time I can only attribute
my recovery of good health to the use
of Postum in place of coffee.
"My husband says I am a living ad
Tertlsement for Postum. I am glad
to be the means of inducing my many
friends to use Postum, too."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Greek, Mich. Read "The Road to
Wellvllle," In pkgs. "There's a Rea
On." Ever read the above letter? A
new one appears from time to time.
Xher are genuine, true and full of hu
man Interest.
Facts About Goats.
Goats do not eat grass as long as
there are weeds and brush.
An Angora is a prolific breeder
and a productive shearer until twelve
or thirteen years old.
An ordinary fence is generally ef
fectual to confine goats. Their tend
ency, as a rule, is rather to go
through a fence than to Jump over.
Weekly Witness.
Add Humus,
When growing green crops to plow
under to add humus it will be found
more economical to turn down
legumes and thus add nitrogen.
When this Is done it will not be nec
essary to use a fertilizer rich in ni
trogen. Nitrogen is the most expen
sive element of fertility, and the air
is a much cheaper source to obtain
it from than the fertilizer works.
Farmer's Home Journal.
Repair Farm Tools.
The man who Is handy with tools
can save many a trip to the black
smith shop during the busy season,
says Drovors' Journal. Every farm
should be equipped with a repair shop
and every farmer should learn how to
use tools. Save all the nuts, screws,
hinges, bolts and any other pieces
that might be of use, and when a
machine breaks down you may have
Just the piece to fix It. A box in the
tool shed makes a good place to throw
such odds and ends.
rroflts on Foultry.
The profits to be derived from a
flock of fowls depend largely very
largely upon their housing and
keeping. It is unreasonable to ex
pect hens kept in a cold, damp, filthy
house to produce eggs, and they sim
ply will not do it. It is much easier
to fix the house up now than it will
be after the weather gets cold; in
fact, the chances are ten to one that
If the repairs are not made before
cold weather sets in, they will not be
made at all, and the result will be a
lot of roupy, sniveling, profitless hens
and a disappointed owner. Farmer's
Home Journal.
Hugs That Eat Hugs.
The Department of Agriculture cul
tivates insects that destroy any and
all crop parasites. The polygnqtus
hlemalis can whip any Hessian fly
ever born; the tysphlebus trlctl is
death on the green bug. The green
bug eats the other, which promptly
lays its eggs inside its devourer. The
young eat their way to the open air,
thus killing the green bug, says Van
Nordan's Magazine.
To one lady bug is due the destruc
tion of the San Jose scale, which did
millions of dollars' damage to the
fruit trees of California. When the
pest had become a positive menace
the department heard of a species
of bug in North China which was
fatal to the scale. A large number
of the bugs were procured, but all
were dead except one when they
reached this country. The one insect
was taken to Washington and became
a ward of the Government. She
rewarded her keepers by laying about
6000 eggs. In an incredibly short
space of time she had a flourishing
family of seven billions and the reign
of the scale was over.
Cracked Corn For Hens.
In a recent experiment the Maine
Agricultural Station made a compari
son of whole corn and cracked corn
for laying hens. Certain poultrymen
reason that cracked corn is more de
sirable when thrown in the litter, be
cause laying hens, which tend to grow
too fat upon the whole corn, are
forced to take more exercise in se
curing the smaller pieces. In Octo
ber 1000 April hatched pullets were
put into ten like pens. Besides the
other food, the pullets in one-half
of the pens received whole corn, and
In the other half an equal weight of
cracked corn. The records of each
pen from November to April show
that the average number of eggs per
bird receiving the whole corn was,
for the various pens, eighty-four,
seventy-eight, seventy-three, seventy
seven and seventy-six, and for those
receiving the cracked corn seventy
nine, seventy-five, seventy-seven, Bev-enty-flve
and seventy-four. From this
experiment it- appears that there is
nothing in the results that leads to
the conclusion that it is necessary
or advisable to crack the corn fed
to hens kept for laying purposes.
Building a Herd For Beef.
In building up a herd for beef pro
duction, select cows with a broad,
deep and square body, cows with a
good coating of flesh, for these, if
bred to4the right kind of bull, will
produce calves that will prove profita
ble feeders.
Now for the bull. The bull Is half
the herd. He Btamps his qualities
on all the ealves, not simply on one
calf a year, as with the cow. Get a
registered bull of the breed you want,
even it you have only grcJe cows, as
then you are sure you are getting a
beef breed from beef ancestors. Se
lect a bull that is of good size, with
a proud masculine bearing, a good,
intelligent head, broad and, full be
tween the eyes, yet with a quiet ex
pression, as a nervous, excitable ani
mal will never fatten to good advan
tage. He should be broad and
straight across the back, with smooth,
even hips. He should have well
spring ribs, heavily covered with
flesh.
Spring la the natural season for
cows to drop Ihelr calves, and the
cows should be bred so as to drop
their calves in the early spring, and
then when the cows are turned to
pasture in the spring the calveB are
old enough to go with them and thus
have advantages for making rapid
growth and require very little atten
tion during the busy summer months,
When the calves are a few weeks
old they should be castrated and the
wound washed with some good germ
killer, so it heals rapidly. In the fall
the calves should be weaned and fed
on good, nutritious food. This should
consist of silage and roots, clover or
alfalfa hay, oats and bran equal
parts with dally allowance of some
reliable stock food to aid digestion
and promote a quick growth.
The age at which steers should
he marketed depends largely on the
market prices, but as a rule well fed
steers sell best at fourteen to sixteen
months old. Dr. David Roberts,
Wisconsin State Veterinarian.
Culling is Beneficial.
Culling the flock Improves it and
makes it better every year, as a high
er standard is constantly being
evolved. By an observation of the
individuals much can be learned. In
stead of running indiscriminately
with culls, one becomes acquainted
with the good hens and perhaps
makes pets of them and pride in their
Individual excellence is entertained
by the owner. All of which is very
desirable. Then, too, the young flock
will be hatched only from the best
producers and the choicest specimens,
instead of from eggs taken indiscrim
inately from the egg basket and large
ly from poor specimens, says Eplto-
mist.
Even with good pure-bred stock
the matter of selection should not be
overlooked. There is no likelihood
of there being such extremely poor
specimens in a pure-bred flock as in
a flock of mongrels, but at the same
time In every flock there are some
that are better than others. The ob
ject of this, then, is to impress upon
poultrymen and farmers the impor
tance of a close scrutiny of the stock,
and to teach the fact by careful se
lection a profitable flock may often
be built up from what may at first
seem to be very unpromising mate
rial. rure-Brcd Horses.
Next week will end the county fairs
in Ohio. I have attended county fairs
and the Ohio and Indiana State Fairs
this year. Becoming the owner of a
coach stallion last spring, my interest
centered la the horse displays at
these fairs. I shall not dwell upon
the displays at any of them, but I
wish to say a few words through your
paper of the result of my own ex
perience and that of many horse own
ers to whom I talked.
In Ohio we have no stallion law;
that is, anybody who owns a stallion,
no matter how many blemishes or
other imperfections he may have or
how mongrelly bred he may be, he is
for service to any who apply. At
county fairs the so-called grade horse
was there, but I am happy to say he
was overshadowed by the magnificent
specimens of the pure-bred horse.
But the mongrel is like a cancer; he
keeps on in business by the cheap
price he offers for service, and th?
only way to drive him out is to pasn
stringent laws allowing no mongrel
bred stallion to stand for service.
When a company or a person pays
from $1500 to $3000 for a horse they
should be protected. Under our pres
ent no-law-at-all, it is only a matter
of four years when a horse of pure
blood has Btood in a' locality, that
there will be as many grade stallions
as you have fingers in as many miles
in every direction. This Is not true
in all localities, but this stattment
will hit more localities than it misses.
Thirty-five years ago I can remem
ber that almost one-fourth of the
horses were blind. We have better
horses than in that day; we are be
coming more educated, but like the
liquor question, it takes more than
education to correct the evil. Strin
gent laws of all kinds have been en
acted to curb the liquor traffic, but it
Btill exists. If the eradication of the
mongrel bred horse is to be done by
education it will be a long way off.
That there should be a law of some
kind there is no doubt, hut who is
going to take the first step? If the
Legislature of Indiana would move
in the matter, all owners of pure-bred
stallions should get busy. In Ohio we
have to wait a year yet, as the Legis
lature only meets every two years,
and this la the off year. In an article
in a week or two I will outline a law,
which I believe would be efficient, and
the working of such a law prove a
boon to the horse business for genera
tions to come. C. C. Neal, in the
Indiana Farmer.
Many Vines on a K juII Flot.
A fine sample of what can be done
on a small plot of southern California
land has been furnished by W. S.
Palmer, of Third street On the two
city lots east of his house, a space
less than one-third of an acre, Mr.
Palmer last spring set out 30,000
grape cuttings.
The cuttings were heeled in dur
ing February and March and set out
April 1 in double rows four inches
apart. Two boys were able to take
entire care of them during the sum
mer, and at the present time all the
vines are in flourishing condition
representing at the lowest nursery
valuation $3000. -Claremont Corre
spondence Los Angeles Times,
SEEMED WORSE EVERT DAT.
A Dangerous Cane of Kidney Trouble
and How It Was Checked.
Mrs. Lucy Quebeck, Mechanic St.,
Hope Valley, R. I., says: "Eight
years ago I contract
ed severe kidney
trouble and my back
began to ache con
tinually. Every day
it seemed worse.
The least pressure
on my back tortured
me, and I could not
Stoop without a bad
twinge. The kidney
secretions passed irregularly with
pain, and I bloated badly. My head
swam and spots flitted before my
eyes. One doctor said I was Incurable.
However, I found prompt relief when
I started using Doan's Kidney Pills,
and the troubles I have related grad
ually disappeared."
Sold by all dealers. 50c. a box.
Fostor-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Chinese Female Doctor.
Dr. Ida Kahn, a Chinese woman
physician, who took her degree sev
eral years ago from the University of
Michigan, has returned to this coun
try to take a post-graduate course In
Johns Hopkins. Miss Kahn is a mis
sionary for the Methodist Episcopal
church, and opened the city of Nan
chang to missionaries after It had
been forbidden ground for some time.
She accomplished this by curing the
wife of Tastai Taeo, the viceroy.
The Greedy New York Waiter.
Diners in New York restaurants
are noticing a growing presumption
among waiters In the matter of tips.
It a bill given In payment comes at
all near the amount due, the waiter
presumes that the change belongs to
him and acts accordingly. This pro
cedure has been the cause of many
customers demanding their change
and giving the waiter nothing. New
York Herald.
M rs. Winslow's Soothing Fyjjup forChildren
teething, softens the gums, reiiucea inflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c a bottle.
Merchants in South America com
plain that manufacturers In the United
States are too often inclined to "un
load" undesirable goods on them.
itch cured in 30 minutes by Woolford's
Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. At druggists.
Toys of Glass,
So far have we gone in the hygiene
of the nursery thnt we will now pre
sent children with toys of glass in
stead of painted wood. The glass Is
so thick that it is barely possible that
a child could break It. They are In
vented to keep a child from sucking
the paint off wooden toys, but they
are not inexpensive. ,
PUTNAM
Color more proodn brlffhtor and faster colors than any
can dye any garment without ripping apatf. Write
A Navy for Profit.
The $50,000,000 spent by the North
German Lloyd on new passenger
steamers within 15 years is calculated
to excite the envy of. war lords and
advocates of a big navy. The sug
gestion may yet be made of armored
ocean liners, complete with gundecUs
and fighting-tops for instant transfor
mation into battleships. New York
World.
$100 Reward, $100.
The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded dis
ease that science has been able to cure in all
it stages, and thatisC'atarrh. llall'sCatarrh
(Nire is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con
stitutional disease, requires a constitutional
treatment. Hall'sCatarrh Cure is taken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood and mu
cous surfaces of the system, thereby destroy
ing the foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the con
stitution and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so much faith
in its curative powers that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to
cure. Bend for list of testimonials. Address
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
fold hv Pruptzists, 75e.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Lost Appetite.
A plant was found in India, a spec
ies of "veratrumi," a small portion oi
which was taken medicinally by a vic
tim of dyspepsia. He could neither
eat nor drink without the greatest
agony, yet he had to ride 30 miles
a day in his avocation. After the
second dose his stomach was renew
ed and his appetite returned. The
plant is called "Indian's root." Let
us have a bit of It There are 7,000,
000 adults in America who have no
stomachs. They approach ihe break
fast table in fear and trembling, cry
ing: "Oh, my God; have I got to
eat again!" New York Press.
W. I. DoncliiS miikfti and sella more
mrn'i Jltf.oo find fttt.OO aline than any
other inannfttttirr in the world, be
cauae I hoy hold their almne, lit better,
and wear longer than any other make.
6hMi at All Price-, for Evtrv Member of the
Family, Men, Boya, Women, Mi is A Children
WX.DoBjilu $4.00 and $0.00 GMltBslfn Ihoei cannot
be MOsUle-d t any prlc. W. L. DougUa $2.00 ana
$2.00 fthoM the Utt la Uu world
TH Color JffntW lrwi Xxeturivlv.
BTTiike No riuh.iltiiU;. W. Duuglne
name am prt- le etamixMi on bottom. Sold
ererywliera. Hhoea niaik-d from factory to auy
pari of Die rorlrL C:italou free.
W. L. DOUGLAS, 1ST Spar St., Brockton, Maae.
I I CouArupTT'aitae OoodT f
f 1 U n time, Soli by druete, f 1
Ki CTOVtOi
INDIA WIVES WON BY LOT
Marriage a Real Lottery In Hill
Country, but Works Well,
They 8ay.
Every year in the Rumnl country,
in India, a marriage lottery is held,
usually in October. The names of
all the marriageable girls and of
young men desirous of matrimony
are written on slips of paper and
thrown into earthen pots. One of
each kind is drawn out at a. time by
a wise man. The youth whose name
is drawn out obtains a letter of In
troduction to the young woman whose
name accompanies his, and then all
that remains for him to du is to start
his love making at once. The ma
jority of these fortuitous courtships
turn put admirably in every way.
Liverpool Daily Post
Night Work In Italy.
Under the revised law governing
the employment of women and chil
dren In Italy, night work is forbidden
for all females and for all males of
less than 15 years.
HAD BAD ITCHING HUMOR.
Limbs Below the Knees Were Baw-
Fcrt Swollen -Sleep Broken
Cared In 2 Days by Cutlcura.
"Some two months ago I had a humor
break out on my limbs below my knees.
They came to look like raw beefsteak, all
red, and no one knows how they itched
and burned. They were so swollen that I
could not. get my shoes on for a week or
more. I used .five or six different remedies
and got no help, only when applying them
the burning was worse and the itching less.
For two or three weeks the suffering was
intense and during that time I did not
sleep an hour at a time. Then one morn
ing I tried a bit of Cutlcura. From the
moment it touohed me the itching was
gone and I have not felt a bit of it since.
The swelling went down and In two days I
had my shoes on and was about as usual.
George B, Farley, 60 South Stats St., Con
cgrd, N. II., May U, 1007."
Excitement in Prospect.
If New York should send Roosevelt
(o the Senate and Nebraska send
Bryan they would make Borne of those
Bolemn and prehistoric statesmen sit
up and take notice.
In London more fires occur on Sat
urday than on any other day of the
week, and more in August and De
cember than in any other months.
ivki: imi.es nv absorption
IjlKEK RED CHOPS PILE A FISTULA CUKE
1 and Iwok by mall prepaid.
UEA CO.. Deut. U-4, Minneapolis, Minn.
11 R fl P Q V NE w DISCOVERT I
W I ri'M !' "ll.f u4 nni
want ?. Hol r (..ttmonLli snd I O Dr' trMlMnt
Vnw. Dr. H. U. lilltl.VK SOI8, Boi B, AlluU, ,
FADELESS DYES
other dye. Ono inc. packago colors all Star. They dye In cold water hotter than an y other dye. YoS)
tur free booklet How to Hi a, Uleuo.li and sill Colors. MOMtllK UIIUU CO., (Julucr, Ullta.
For
Sprains
Sloan's Liniment is the best remedy for sprains
and bruises.
It quiets the pain at once, and can be applied to the
tenderest part without hurting because it doesn't need
to be rubbed all you have to do is to lay it on
lightly. It is a powerful preparation and penetrates
instantly relieves any inflammation and congestion,
and reduces the swelling.
Sloan's
Liniment
Sloant book on
IIILMWI.li.l
fiSMIISiil Many
in an attempt
Don't chokayour
' fit yoor feet
find tb ese shoes readily,
for directions how to secure
1 ft 1
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FRED. Y. FIELD CO, Brcktoa, Man
This woman says tliat sick
women should not fail to try
Lydia E. Pinkliniii's Vegetable)
Compound as she did.
Mrs. A Gregory, of 23C5 Lawrence
St., Denver, CoL, writes to Mm
rinkham:
" I was practically an Invalid for six
years, on account of female trouble,
I underwent an operation by the
doctor's advice, but in a few months I
was worse than before. A friend ad
vised Lydia E. l'inklmm's Vegetable
Compound and it restored me to perfect
health, such as I have not enjoyed la
many years. Any woman suffering' aa
I did with backache, bearing-down
pains, and periodic pains.should not fail
to use Lydia E. 1'iukham's Vegetable
Compound."
FACTS FOR SICK WOMfcN.
For thirty years Lydia K Pink
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. Plnklmm invites all sick
women to write her for advice,
Hlie lias pt tided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
HELP Insist on Having;
"or Dr. MAHTEL'S Freparatloi
IVflMFN TboHlniulnr.l Itemedr.
IUIIICI1 at tiRuanisn.
Kend lor book, "Kellel lor tVomea."
FRENCH DRUG CO, 30 W. 32d SU, N. T. City.
P. N. U. 49, 10(18.
By I. HAM11T0N AVERS A M M. D.
This Is a moat Valuable linok fnr the BrmaM(
taaoblng as It dnn the eailly-llillnffulHbM Sjmp.
torn of different Dlxraws, the Cauftpa and Meona oft
1'reventltift aurh lseiKi, and the Simplest bam?
tillefl which will alleviate or euro. AltH Fajres.
rruiuirij I iinei roira. (M.r. po.i pnia. wa
postal nnlel or imslaire Htninpa. HOOK PUA.
llOl RE, 134 Leonard HI.. New York.
1'rofuarly Illnalrntrri. HOC Boalpnld. Bona
is an excellent antiseptic and germ
killer heals cuts, burns, wounds and
contusions, and will draw the poison
from sting of poisonous insects.
Price, 25c, GOc, and $1.00.
Dr. Earl S. Sloan, Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
hones, cattle, sheep and poultry sent free.
FOR MEN
people crowd their feet into shoes
to make th:ir feet fit the ahoes.
feet in that way i wear SKREEMEBS.
Look for the Ai3l, and, if you don't
write the makers
AS
them.
MAM T