SUFFERED 25 YEARS With Catarrh of the Stomach — Pe-ru-na Cured. In a recent letter to Dr. liartinan Con gressman Botkin saya: "My Dear Doctor—lt givea mo pleasure to certify to tbe excellcit curative Quali ties of your medicines—Peruna and Mana lin. I nave been afflicted more or leea for a quarter of a century with catarrh of the stomach and constipation. A residence in Washington has increased these troubles. A few Lotties of your medicine have given me almost complete relief, and i am sure that a continuation of them will effect a permanent cure."—J. D. Botkin. Mr. L. F. Verder.v, a prominent real es tate agent, of Augusta, Ca., writes: 44 1 ha ve been a greo t stiff ( rev from catarrhal dyspepsia. I tried many physicians, visited a good many springs, but I belter.j i'cruna has done more /or me than all of the above put together. 1 /eel like a new person, "—L. Verde ry. The most common for:n of summer ca tarrh is catarrh of the stomach. This is generally known as d.< qiepsia. Peruna cures these coses like ma;: c. If you do not derive ..rompt and satis factory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. II irtman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Ilartman. President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Co.unibus. (3. A HISTORIC FLAG. The One Made and Carried by Gil rr.ore's Little Party. A unique relic of Lieutenant Gll more's captivity and rescue in the Philippines was shown by General Eu gene Griffin at the recent dinner of the officers of the First regiment of volunteer engineers, Spanish War vet erans. This was the American flag which was made by the sailor's iD Lieutenant Gilmore's party out of patches and strips of their clothing. The rescue party, commanded by Colonel Hare, made a brillinat march, lasting over five weeks and surmount ed the most difficult obstacles in their progress. They found Lieutenant Gilmore and his men abandoned, with out food or arms by the Insurgents in the wildest part of Luzon among f the headhunters. where their fate I would have ueen only a matter of a few hofirs If the rescue party had not arrived so opportunely. In spite of the fact that all of them were half naked, they had sacrified enough clothing to make up a fair substitute for the regular Stars and Stripes. I Feel So Tired. How often do we hear this and similar expressions from tired, overworked women and weary men, who do not know where to find relief. For that intense weariness, so common and so discouraging, we earnestly recommend Vogeler's Curative Compound. It is not a stimulant but a true blood purifier and strength restoring tonic, safe and sure, which will gradually build up all the weak organs in such away as to be a lasting benefit. A fair trial of a free sample bottle which St. Jacobs Oil, Ltd., of Baltimore, Md , will send you for tho asking, will con .'vine© anyone of its wonderful medicinal value. It will drive all impurities from the blood, give nerve, mental and bodily strength and vigour and mako the sufferer wholly a new being. It creates an appetite, makes one sleep and makes the weak strong. Do not forget that Vogeler's Curative Compound i 9 made from the formula of a London physician, who has given years of study to 6ame. Sample bottle free from St. Jacobs Oil, Ltd., Baltimore. MRS. SOAN, " The Royal Standard," Frknlej Road, Friml-y, write* : " 1 was a gTeat sufferer froia sciatica for many years. I tried all sorts of liniinenti and embrocations which had no good effect: 1 used St. Jacobs Oil, and the pain left me instantly.'' §S@i ALABASTINE Tho Only Durable Wall Coating Wall Paper i 9 unsanitary. Kal sotnincs arc temporary, rot, rub off aid scale. ALABASTINE is a pure, permanent and artistic wall coating, ready for the brush by mixing in cold water. For gale by patnt dealers everywhere. Buy In packages and beware of worthless imitations. ft ALABASTINE COMPANY. Grand Rapids, Mich. HOHUMBW V r i BAMtfVM. falrftaM, !*■* j AGRICOLTML. I (^? ee€e6€®€6€€€ee€e^' A Hoy's Strawberry Bed. Every spring the small boy on the farm has a longing for his otvn little plot of ground, that he may raise something—he is not at all particular about the crop. A good way to untilize this bit of ground is in putting out a strawberry bed. It will not bring very quick results, as there will be little or no fruit until the following summer, but It will pay in the end. Certainly it is worth trying, If the farmer lacks this important small fruit. The farmer may not care to put out a strawberry bed himself, but he will plow up the plot of ground for his son, and instruct him how to go about the work. After the boy has his ground prepared, he can secure thrifty plants from some neighbor who will suggest best varieties for certain localities, and will also give advice about the setting out of the plants aud their subsequent care. A little work and a good deal of patient waiting, but the next season will bring good res If the bed is large enough and the boy has done his work well, he may not only supply his own family with strawberries, but may have some for market as well. Suppose the boys, who every summer walk miles in search of a wild strawberry bed, will try raising their own berries.—M. Calmer Sweet, in The Epitomist. Homemade Pole Drag. For many uses I have found a pole drag a very serviceable Implement; better than a roller because it will level and pulverize without packing the soil. The one I use is shown in the accompanying illustration. It is made of three hardwood poles six inches in diameter and seven and one-half feet long. The poles are fastened together about one foot apart by means of short pieces of chains. For a seat bolt a piece of board to the middle of the Qrst pole aud allow it to extend slight - "fV •■'.?! THE rOLE DRAO. ly beyond the last one. On this fasten an old mowing machine seat; This arrangement win hold the seat In place and allow the poles to work inde pendently. The seat can be easily re moved, making it much easier to store the drag when not in use. The drag may be drawn by a short chain at tached to the centre of the first pole or the doubletree may be connected with chains from each end of the first pole. —John Jackson, in New England Homestead. Concerning Chickens. The spring and summer eggs ore always the cheapest and easiest to get, and in a great many cases they hardly pay for the cost of wintering the lay ers. Eggs sell for two or three times as much in the late full aud winter as they do from the first of April to the first of October. Two or three dozen eggs in tbe former season are consequently worth from six to nine dozen laid in the spring and summer. Our profits consequently must largely come from the eggs laid out of season. I would not give much for the owner of a poultry flock who could not get plenty -of eggs in the spring and sum mer, but I have great respect for those who can get two eggs in the fall and winter where another manages to get one or one aud a half. This may not be tbe time of tbe year to consider fall and winter laying, but if you will stop to think a moment you will find that it is just tbe right time to begin laying plans for the fall months. It Is only by carefully rearing and select ing a flock of birds which will lay in tbe fall and winter season that we make a success of It. If any one thinks it is an easy matter to let hens go ahead and lay right along, and then when fall comc3 expect them to Jceep It up, he is bound to disappointment. The first essential for next fall and winter laying is to select our flock ol' birds this spring. The best layers last winter and fall should now be selected for next year's work. They should form the breeding stock to rear new layers for tho cold season. They should be selected carefully, aud then he kept in pens or yards by them selves, crossing them with" the best males on the farm. Half the battle is fought out by selecting from known good layers. Some chickens show a tendency to lay in tbe cold weather, and others cannot be induced to do it under any circumstances. It is pos sible by carrying this method of selec tion and careful breedlug for several years to obtain a flock of winter lay ers which will nearly double the ordi nary number of eggs. All tbe feeding methods in tbe world will fall short unless we have the right birds to be gin with, and this summer is the time to select them.—Annie 0. Webster, in American Cultivator. To Grade IHtcliee and Drain*. A device for assisting in getting the grade while digging drains is described by H. W. Smith. I took a piece of board a, a, eight feet long seven inches wide, and nailed on two three-cornered pieces, b, b, cutting out the section of the board between them, as shown in the illustration. Then I nailed a piece of lath across the tops of the three cornered pieces. A piece of clapboard, d, three feet long, was sharpened near ly to a point on the thin side and nailed diagonally to the side of the eight-foot board, thin edge down, so that the point of the clapboard would be about twenty Inches above the cen tre of the lath. A plumb line and bob is suspended from the point above tho centre of the lath. If the lower edge of the board is straight and placed in a level posi tion, the line will hang at right angles with it Have the edge of the lath planed. Take a sharp pencil and mark each side of the line and cut a notch on the lath. To Illustrate the use of the device, when the board Is level, if a two-Inch block is put under one end and a notch cut behind the line, the plumb line will indicate the grade and the operator will get a two-Inch 1 * vfTC'-it" J ' •-tier APPARATUS FOR PROPEK OBADB. fall for every eight feet, eight feet being the length of the board.—Ameri can Agriculturalist. A Pica For the Plastered Silo. I am afraid that the zeal of the pro fessional silo builder has been allowed to befog the issue as tp the claims of the plastered silo, and this, with a failure or two that have beeu accepted as the rule of conduct of this structure, has caused its geueral rejection. Still, I am sure that there is merit in it, even if it cannot be sold on the market ready made. On the old farm where my boyhood was spent, there is one of the first silos that was built In that neighbor hood. The barn had been moved and set Into the hillside, so that the stables had been given room in the basement, and the size of the ham was much increased. This gave a chance for an inside silo through what had been the horse stable, and in those primitive days of dairy farming when the merits and structure of the silo were not well understood, tho plastered form was chosen. I shall have to admit that this Is the only one of its kind that I know of directly, but I have no doubt that it is due to "professionalism" that it is so generally rejected. It has done its work well. This last filling has been its seventh, and it is as sound and air-tight as it ever was, keeping the ensilage as few others will, for plaster is surely more impervious to air than wood. We used to be told so positively that the acid developed in the ensilage would eat up the plas ter that we had to believe it, aud so the cheapest, aud at least ia many eases the best, of all the siloes, was driven out. There is plaster and plas ter of course, and it may be a fact that such as is generally used for house building, made of sand and lime, will yield to the ensilage acid. But this silo was plastered with a mortal- made of half-and-half Portland cement aud sand, and if there is any liquid that attacks it, such liquid is certainly not lit for an animal's stomach. Of course this silo is an inside one, which takes up room that cannot al ways be spared, hut when it can it is a very convenient arrangement. Let us reflect ou the ease of building one of this sort. A basement adds to the height so much that it will nil go into a Warn nicely, and the hoisting of the ensilage is then a minor matter. Choosing a corner of the barn, if pos sible, only two sides have to be laid out; the work is all quite possible to anyone who can lay plaster, and even that can he undertaken safely by a novice. The corners can be rounded out easily by a wood backing or they can be left square, as In the case of this silo. There Is no complaint from that source. The base of this silo is right at one side of the feeding floor, and everything Is as handy as possible. Add to this arrangement n chute or two from mows above, aud the ques tion of concentration Is settled. I And that the hill country farmer In New York state. Is becoming more and more convinced that his best profit comes from the dulry cow and the silo, but I am somewhat surprised to find that in some cases improvement of the land does not seem to follow this style of farming. It Is found that in such sections the land Is not always naturally adapted to the rais ing of corn, and practically all the manure made has to be used to perfect that crop. This unfavorable feature is now one of the problems of the poor er parts of the Stute. it Is complained that the old crops of oats, for In stance, which used to be a feature with us, cannot bo raised now as they used to be, which means that artificial fertilization has not been sufficient to make good the exhaustion from crop ping the land so long. I suspect that one cause of this dif ficulty is a lack of a rotation of crops, such as the soil demands. Oats and then grass arc sure to use up the fer tility in time, and neither furnishes much humus. lam sure that we owe to the sowing of shallow roofed grasses and grains much of the extra dry, hard soil that prevails In these later days. The clovers and root crops are expert crops to a considerable extent; so we cling to shallow farming.— John Chamberlain, la The Country Gentleman. How Buenos Ayres Qets War News. It Is not quite clear why the city of Buenos Ayres should take a keener Interest In the Boer war than any other places not Immediately con cerned. This Is evidently tho case, since the leading journal, the Prensa, has seen fit to make special arrange ments by means of which the public is Informed at a moment's notice of any notable event In the fortunes of the armies. A high tower Is part of the edifice in which the Prensa 13 printed and published, and the top of the tower Is used as a lighthouse, whence events are flashed upon the world by means of colored fires. Thus a British victory Is at once pro claimed by the appearance of a yel low light, and a Boer success may be read In a brilliant green flame. Pneumatic postal tubes will be put in service again July 1 in New York, Brooklyn, Boston and Philadelphia. Their construction is authorized in six other cities. Ak Tour Dealer For Allen's Foot-Haas, A powder. It rests the feet. 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For eight years I was in frequent pain and misery, and then Lydia E. Piiikham's Vegetable Compound came to me, the greatest boon I have known, for it brought new life and health to me. I used several bottles of Compound and your Sanative Wash. My improvement was slow, but from the first bottle I felt that I was better, and so I kept up courage and continued the treatment. None of my friends ever dreamed that I would be well again, but I have now enjoyed life to its fullest extent for three years." MRS. MAMIE HERBERT. SSOOO FORFEIT IF THE ABOVE LETTER 19 NOT GENUINE. 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Millions of Women use CUTICUIIA SOAP in the form of baths for annoying irritations, inflamma tions, and excoriations, for too free or offensive perspiration, in the form of washes for ulcerative weaknesses, and for many sanative, antiseptic purposoa which readily suggest themselves to women, especially mothers. CUTICURA SOAP combines In ONE BOAP at ONE PRICE, the REST ■kin and complexion soap and the BEFCT toilet and buby soap in the world. Complete External and Intornal Treatment for Every Humour, aay • 9 Consisting of CUTICURA SOAP (25c.). to cleanse the skin of crnsts and JTw w scales, and soften the thickened cuticlo; CUTICURA OINTMENT (50C.), ■IdBII xl R ■ sHS initantly ulluv itching. Inflammation, and Irritation, anil soothe and tij heal; und CUTICURA IIKBOI VF.NT I'IT.LS (25C.), to cool and cleanse the ___ blood. A BINOLF. BET in often sufficient to cure the most torturing, THE SET Sl* and humiliating skin, scalp, and blood humours, with loss of hair, when nil else fails. 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