Mother
"My mother wai troubled with
consumption for many years. At
last she was liven up to die. Then
she tried Ayer's Cherry Pectoral,
and was speedily cured."
D. P. Jolly, Avoca, N. Y.
No matter how hard
your cough or how long
you have had it, Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral is the
best thing you can take.
It's too risky to wait
until you have consump
tion. If you are coughing
today, get a bottle of
Cherry Pectoral at once.
Three sites: 25c., 50c., sl. All draiflsls.
Consult your doctor. If lie says take It,
then do as he says. If he tells you not
to take It, then don't tako it. He knows.
Leare it with him. Wo are willing.
J. O. AYER PP.. Lowell, Mass.
Liver Pills
That's what you need; some
thing to cure your bilious
ness. You need Ayer's Pills.
Want your moustache or beard a
beautiful brown or rich black T Use
Buckingham's Dye
'socts of druggists or R P. Halt & Co., Nsshus N H
OSCAR A DEMOCRATIC KINO.
Ruler of Sweden and Norway Occa.
aionally Relaxes Dignity.
In these days, when the camera
misses nothing, it may seem hardly
credible that there is only one king
in the world who has been photo
graphed wearing his crown. Yet it is
so. King Oscar is the exception. No
more democratic king sits on a throne
than he, and his memoirs, which he
is writing for posthumous publication,
will probably bo more appreciated by
ordinary folk than the memoirs of
royalty usually are. They will tell,
perhaps, on the authority of the king
himself of his meeting with M. Gas
ton Bonnier, tne famous botanist,
whom the king met botanizing near
Stockholm when out himself on a sim
ilar occupation. Their mutual Inter
est led to conversation and M. Bon
nier, not recognizing the king, sug
gested a lunch at an Inn. "No, come
home with me," said King Oscar, and
as they reached the palace gate the
famous botanist, realizing the identity
y of his friend, begged a thousand par
dons and became reluctant to enter.
"I'm sorry," said his majesty, "but I
happen to be the king of this country
and this is the only place I've got to
entertain anybody In." M. Bonnier
was at his ease and the two went In
and talked botany for the rest of the
afternoon.
TO LADIES.
From the Treasurer of the
Young People's Christian Tem
perance Association, Elizabeth
i Caine, Fond du Lac, Wis.
i
"Dear Mrs. Pinkiiam:— I want to
tell you and all the y.oung ladies of the
country, how grateful I am to you for
all the benefits I have received from
ualng Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege
table Compound. 1 suffered for
ISS KI IZABETH CAI
eight months from suppressed men
struation, and it effected my entire
system until I became weak and debil
itated, and at times felt that I had a
hundred aches in as many places. I
oifly used the Compound for a few
weeks, but it wrought a change in mo
which I felt from the very beginning.
I have been very regular since, have no
pains, and find that my entire body is
as if it was renewed. I gladly recom
mend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege
table Compound to everybody."—
Miss Elizabeth Caine, 69 W. Division
St., Fond du Lac, Wis.— $5000 forfeit If
aboue testimonial Is not genuine.
At such a time the greatest aid to
nature is Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound. It prepares
the young Bystcm for the coming
change, and is the surest reliance for
woman's ills of every nature.
Mrs. Plnkham Invites all
young women who are 111 to
write her for free advice. Ad
dress Lynn, Mass.
Beat Cough rup. Tiwtcn (lood. Use IM
In timo. Sold by druggist*. |Kfl
BEBBnaQSHzegi
DR OPSYffSE.^
cams- Boolt of testimonial* and 1 0 days' treatment
Vrea. Or. H. H. QfcJUN'BOHg. Box B, Atlanta, U*.
weak' eyes, use Thompson's EysWatar
AGRICULTURAL, j
Handy Woodbox.
The box is filled from the kitchen
side, and If the boxes are kept closed
when not in use. cooking odors will not
penetrate the dining room. The box
is made into the partition of the rooms,
It projects into the dining-room one
foot and the same into the kitchen.
v /•
WOODBOX IN PARTITION.
Including the width of the partition,
the woodbox is about two feet four
inches wide. There is a fall of six
Inches from the top or back of the box
to the outer edge where the cover is
hinged. This makes the cover of the
box, when opened, drop down against
the box and thereby snve defacing
the wall of the room.—Mrs. T. C. Ty,
Fayette, Minn.
Sheep Food.
In summer sheep prefer short blue
grass, or clover pasture, but for a
change of diet often eat ruuny kinds
of weeds and briars. One must feed
only sound, wholesome food, but It
must be of the right kind, if it is ex
pected to clip a heavy fleece. A sheep
can be fatted on food abounding in
starcli and sugar, but wool cannot be
made of these alone. Its fibre is made
largely of flesh-forming elements. The
blue grass, or clover, of the summer
pasture yields this sufßeieutly, but in
the winter oats, wheat, middlings and
bran should be fed with corn, if that
grain is preferred. Sheep can be kept
fat all winter on turnips, etc., but it
will be at the expense of the fibre of
the wool. Abundance of rich food will
increase not only the length but also
the grossness or coarseness of the
fibre, thereby making it more suitable
for combing and less adapted to the
making of cloth.
Preparations For Swarming.
Hives should be in readiness and at
least two should be complete and on
the stand with cinders or sand. Have
some extra combs If possible to put iu
as starters.
Have bandy your ladder, saw and
swarming box, if you use one. As to
time of swarming there is much truth
in the old adage, "a swarm in May is
worth a load of hay, in Juno a silver
spoon, in July not worth a fly." Some
swarms early iu July are very good if
you are in a buckwheat section where
a crop of buckwheat lioncy Is much
depended on for surplus. Still much
depends on strength of swarm, also
care and the amount of comb that is
placed under them to work on at the
start. Bees can make comb slowly.
Symptoms of swarming can be seen
and sometimes a little experience and
forethought in this direction may save
much time. An almost certain sign
is when the bees go In the hive after
having clustered outside around the
entrance during the morning. Some
times swarms may issue when the
front of hive is covered with boos
hanging out and as soon as the swarm
ing hum starts up they join the ranks,
but such colonies are or have habitual
loafers that do not and will not work.
Uneasiness on the part of bees near
the entrance is a good indication of
swarming.—George H. Towuscud.
Potato Variety Tent*.
The little value of a comparative test
of the yield per acre of different va
rieties of potatoes is shown by a bulle
tin issued by the Experiment Station
in Ohio, where they have 011 record
the average yield of fifty-five varieties
for three years and niueteen varieties
for five years, rejecting from the longer
tests some which did not make a good
showing In the early tests and substi
tuting others. Among the ten varie
ties that were most prolific, Mondi's
Early Thoroughbred was third best
last year, second best on nu average
for three years, and eighth in the five
years' average. Early ltose was nintli
best last year, and ninth 011 three
years average. Early Rose was ninth
best last year, and third best on aver
age for three years, while Plugree was
sixth best last year, and tenth best
in three years' average. Uncle Sam
stood eighth in three years' test, and
fourth in average for five years. No
others appear twice In the -three lists
among the ten most prolific varieties.
They recommended Enrlv Trumbull,
Bovce, Mondi's Early Thoroughbred,
Early Ohio and Early Harvest among
early varieties, and Wliiton's White
Mammoth, Livingston, Sir Walter Ra
leigh and Carmen No. 3 for kite crops.
For home use or table varieties they
recommend especially Early Trumbull,
Early Harvest, Livingston, Pat's
Choice and Uncle Sam. Superphos
phate at the rate of one hundred
pounds per acre has given increase at
the rate of nine cents a bushel, as an
average of eight years' test, and larger
amounts of fertilizer have cost from
thirteen cents to forty-seven cents for
each bushel of increase. But as soil
in the Eastern States differs from
that in Ohio, the same results might
not be obtained here.
Plant Food For Sweet Corn.
In growing sweet corn for market it
proper fertilisation is an important
matter. The most profitable crops as
a rule are those that are grown early.
Hence the fertilization should be such
as to encourage a very rapid early
growth. That Is, corn should be ready
for market from a month to six week
earlier than is the case where planted
at the usual time, and grown nnder or
dinary conditions. It is necessary,
therefore, that the plant should have
an abundance, not only of all food con
stituents, but that they shall be of a
highly nvaliable character.
The mineral elements may be de
rived from the same source as thee*
recommended for field and forage corn.
The nitrogen should be obtained from
quick-acting materials, and preferably
in organic forms, though part may be
obtained from nitrate of soda. An ap
plication of 500 to 800 pounds per acre
of a mixture showing nitrogen four
per cent., phosphoric acid (available)
six per cent, and potash eight per cent.,
would furnish on most soils suitable
for the crop a sufficient abundance of
the constituents.
For the central and eastern condi
tions of climate one-third at least of
the nitrogen may be in the form of ni
trate of soda or sulphate of ammonia,
the remainder in organic forms, as
dried blood, dried fish, cottonseed meal,
etc. For south, all of the nitrogen may
be derived from cottonseed meal,
though where this material is the en
tire source of nitrogen a larger appli
cation should be made. Sweet corn
may bo regarded as a crop possessing
a high commercial value, and therefore
much larger applications can be af
forded than in the case of field corn.—
E. B. Voorhees, in American Agricul
turist.
Good Dairy Prospects
There Is going to be a better demand
lor a good quality of farm dairy butter
from this time forward, oleo or no
oleo. The legitimate dairy business,
under the supervision and management
of skilled and well trained labor, of
fers excellent advantage for good, sub
stantial remuneration for the labor
put into the work. The limit of the
profit will depend more on how skill
fully and economically the business is
conducted than upon oleo legislation
or local influences in high prices or low
prices of the product. It is a perma
nency, a fixture in the food products
of the country. # lts changes will come
by improvements in the methods of
manufacture and handling, but not in
substitutes which will displace it in
consumptive demand.
Now is the time to look well after
the dairy cows, because it pays to have
the veiy best machines at work manu
facturing this high-priced butter. The
sliart milker and low quality cow
should be replaced at once by a good
one. There is now a large prospective
crop growing. It may mature into all
that could be desired, yet it will not
furnish cheap feed when compared
with old-time prices. The corn crop,
no matter how abundant the yield
throughout the entire corn belt, will
not be the cheap feed it used to be.
It will require a big yield to fill up
the empty cribs, the empty elevators,
the depleted stocks throughout the
markets of the world, and then have
sufficient for the feeding industries
that will revive with the influences of
a big corn crop.
The silo has been revived under the
influence of high-priced feeds during
the last year. Silo crops are being
raised and silos will be built in view
of better and cheaper dairy cow feed.
This is tlie time for the dairyman to be
exerting his efforts for a profitable
year in the dairy business.
A Solar Wax Extractor.
Every person who has one or more ,
colonies of bees will have use for a
wax extractor of some kind. There
is more or less danger connected with
rendering wax on the kitchen stove,
so why not let old Sol do it for us
without risk or expense. Make a box
twelve by eighteen inches and six or
eight Inches deep, with a glass cover
to fit tight all around. Have two legs
on the back end fastened with a screw
so as to raise or lower the extractor in
order to receive the direct rays of the
sun. Bore a row of small holes in the
bottom at the front end, to let the
honey drip through into the bowl.
Take a sheet of tin and bend into a
semi-circle and place into the box,
the top edges gf the tin to rest on two
strips of wood about one inch from
the top of the box, and the middle of
the tin not to go lower than two-thirds
of the way down. Fasten to the tin
a piece of wire netting for a strainer.
The tin should not be nailed into the
box. as it must be occasionally re
moved to be cleaned of the refuse
which will accumulate.
If one has chunk honey which he
wishes to separate from the comb,
this is a novel way. Just fill the ex
tractor and it wiH remain in the box
under the tin, and the honey will run
through into the bowl. For increased
heat put on the south side of build
ing. The illustration shows the man
ner of construction.—F. G. Herman,
New Jersey.
In matrimony, when harmony flies
out the door, alimony steps in.
| RICH CREEK NEGROES.
Live in Indian Territory and Are Deacen*
I <1 ants of Slaves.
The richest community of negroes ID
the United States live in Indian Terri
tory. There are 7000 of them, and they
are worth on an average of S3OOO each,
i The wealth oC the more industrious
| foot up even higher, certain Individuals
being the owners of from SIO,OOO to
$15,000 worth of land each.
These negroes arc the descendants of
slaves of the Creek tribe of Indians,
and are known as Creek negroes. They
arc entitled to n share in the division
of Creek Indian lands, also a part of
the trust funds. Together the 7000
negroes own 22,000,000 acres of land.
And yet their education is far from
complete. Their social environments
are crude In the extreme, and progress
goes slowly amid their huts and fields.
Unlike the other Indians of the rich
five civilized tribes, the Creeks insisted
upon freeing their slaves to give them
an equal share in their lands and
money. At that time there were few
slaves, but the number grew through
descendants, until now fully 7000 have
laid successful elnim to a "head right"
jn the Creek rolls of citizenship. They
nave their own representatives in the
Creek Indian Legislature, their own
icliools and their own churches. Every
thing bids fair to make them the model
mmmunity of negroes in the United
States when Indian Territory is recov
ered from the tangled wilderness of
.•econstructlon, its laws made uniform
ind itself a State of the Union.
There is little culture among the
Creek negroes. They have a social set
ill their own. to which not even the
indians are invited. Their character
istics are in a great measure different
from the negro of the South or tlio
Vorth. It is a mixture of both, with
idditional peculiarities.
Like the Indians, these negroes have
their dances in the open, which have
;ome to be a sort of religion with
them. And, following in the footsteps
3f the Southern negro, they have bar
becues, 'possum hunts and the like.
As a Northern type of the negro they
ire more industrious and independent
>f the whites, know how to work hard
ind save their money, and, like the
type from the city, arc well dressed—
gaudily, but at the same time wearing
jxpensive clothes.
These 7000 Creek negroes live in a
tract of rich land called the Canadian
River bottoms, and Okmulgee is their
town and trading point. Okmulgee is
the capital of the Creek Indian nation,
and has been for years a negro town.
Recently, however, white people
Hocked in and have taken possession.
The negroes are starting their own
[owns along the branch of the 'Frisco
railroad.
Notwithstanding that many of these
Creek negroes are industrious, there
are some among them who rent out
their estates and lounge in idleness
about the railway stations. It is a
common sight to see a 500-ncre tract
of rich land in the Canadian bottoms
being tilled by a white man. Invari
ably, upon inquiry as to his landlord,
lie will refer to tlio negro owner in no
complimentary terms. Meanwhile one
ivill find the owner shooting eraps or
enjoying himself eating turkey and
possum in a neighboring village.
When the Creeks freed their negroes
In 1804 the two fraternized for a time,
and even intermarried, but that has all
passed now. In accordance with the
terms granting their freedom the Creek
negroes are allowed a voice in the
tribal government, and so they have
their own members in the council, have
their own schools and all that; but the
Creek Indian feels above the Creek
negro and refuses to associate with
blm.—New York Tribune.
Jftxerclslng Horses.
An English army officer, writing on
the care of horses, says: "Regularity
of exercise is an important element in
the development of the highest powers
of tile horse. The horse in regular
work will suffer less in his legs than
another, for he becomes gradually and
thoroughly accustomed to what is re
quired of him. The whole living ma
chine accommodates itself to the regu
lar demands on it, the body becomes
active and well conditioned, without
superflous fat, and the muscles and
tendons gradually develop. Ilorses
regularly worked are also nearly ex
empt from the many accidents which
arise from overfreshnoss.
"As n proof of the value of regular
exercise we need only refer to the
stage coach horses of former days.
Many of these animals, though by no
means of the best physical frame,
would trot with a heavy load behind
them for eight hours, at the rate of *en
miles an hour without turning a hair,
nnd this work they would continue to
do for years without being sick or
sorry. Few gentlemen can say as
much for their carriage horses. No
horses, in fact, were in harder condi
tion.
"On the other hand, if exercise be
neglected,' even for a few days tn a
horse in high condition, he will put on
fat. Ho has been making daily the
large amount of material needed to
sustain the consumption caused by his
work. If that work ceases suddenly
nature will, notwithstanding, continue
to supply the new material; and fat,
followed by plethora and frequently
by disease, will be the speedy conse
qucncc."
A Prize For Virtue.
A "Prize of Virtue" has been con
ferred by the French Academy on Mile.
Uouuefois, who has devoted her life
to the education of the children who
live In booths and caravans. She goes
the rounds of all the great fairs and
sets up her tent school among the
shows and circuses, doing an immense
amount of good. She is very popular
among her rough clients, young and
old.
PRESBYTERIAN PASTOR
PRAISES PE=RU-NA.
,IBi.
X-=^afc£ _—. _
First Presbyterian Church of Greensboro, Ga., and Its Pastor aud Elder*
THE day was when men of prominence
hesitated to give their testimonials
to proprietary medicines for publication.
This remains true to-day of most proprie
tary medicines. But Peruna ban become
so justly famous, its merits are known to
so many people of high and low stations,
that no one hesitates to see his name in
print recommending Peruna.
The highest men in our nation have
given Peruna a strong indorsement. Men
representing all classes and stations are
equally represented.
A dignified representative of the Pres
byterian church in the person of Rev. E.
G. Smith docs not iiesitate to state pub
licly that he has used Peruna in his family
and found it cured when other remedies
failed. In this statement the Kcv. Smith
is supported by an elder in his church.
Rev. E. G. Smith, pastor of the Presby
terian church of Greensboro, Ga., writes:
"Haying used Peruna in my family for
some time it gives me pleasure to testify to
its true worth.
"My little boy, seven years of age, had
been suffering for some time with catarrh
of the lower bowels. Other remedies had
failed, but after taking two bottles of Pe
runa the trouble almost entirely disap
peared. For this special malady 1 con
cider it well nigh a specific.
A skeleton dug up in Texas has an
eight-inch jaw.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0., Props, of
Hall's Catarrh Cure, offer #IOO reward for
any case of catarrh that caunot be cured by
taking Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for testi
monials, free. Hold by Druggists, 75c.
About ninety-nine per cent, of the starch
made in the United States is made from
FITS permanently cured.No fits or nervous
ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
Nerveßestorer. t2trlal bottle and tre&tlaefree
Dr. R.H. KLINE, Ltd.. 981 Archßt.,Phila.,Pa.
The average duration of life in towns is
calculated at thirty-eight years; in the
country fifty-five years.
Mrs. Winslo w's Sc othlng Syrup for children
teething, soften the gums, reduces inflamma
tion, allays pain,cures wind cotic. 25c. abottle
One of the greatest rivers of the world,
the Orinoco, is also one of the least known
to Europeans.
lam sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved
my life three years ago.—MRS. THOMAS ROB
BINS, Maple St., Norwiob, N. Y., Feb. 17,1900.
British Columbia loggers are preparing
to export cedar in large quantities to all
parts of the world.
Genuine stamped CC C. Never sold In fculk.
Beware of the dealer who tries to sell
"something just as good."
I HAMLIN'S WIZARD OIL H
I "DIPHTHERIA. CROUP H
BALu^ORUG(WSTS^vaeLL_|T£H
WOMAN'S
EYE
The Sanative, Antisep
tic, Cleansing, Purifying,
Beautifying Properties of
CUTICURA SOAP render
it of Priceless Value to
Women.
W-Mnch that every woman should know Is told In the circuU*
wrapped about the Soap.
"As a tonic for weak and worn out
people it han a few or no equals.**—
Hev. E. O. Smith.
Mr. M. J. Kossman, a prominent mer
chant of Greensboro, Ga., and an elder in
the Presbyterian church of that place, has
used Peruna, and in a recent letter to The
Peruna Medicine Co., of Columbus, Ohio,
writes as follows:
"For a long time I was troubled with ca
tarrh of the kidneys, and tried many rem
edies, all of which gave me no relief. Pe
runa was recommended to me by several
friends, and after using a few bottles I
am pleased to say that the long looked for
relief was found and
better health than 1 have for years,,
and can heartily recommend Peru -
na to all similarly afflicted. It is
certainly a grand medicine. l *' M.J.
Rossman.
Catarrh is essentially the same wherever
located. Peruna cures catarrh wherever
located.
If you do not derive prompt and satis
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your case and he will be
pleased to give you his valuable advice
gratis.
Address Dr. Hartman, President of The
Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio.
SLICKER LlKttt
Forty years ago and after maw years
of use on the eastern coast. Tower 's
Waterproof Oiled Coats were introduced
m the West and were called Slickers by
Vie pioneers and cowboys. This graphic
•time has come into such general use that
It is frequently though wrongfully applied
to maqy substitutes. You want the genuine
fLook for the Sign of the Fish, and
the name Tower on the buttons.
MADE IN BLACK AND YULOW AND
SOLD DY REPRESENTATIVE TRADE
THE WORLD OVER.
A. J. TOWIR CO.. BOSTON. MASS.
ESTABLISHED 103a. M
RiRAftS
If more sales of Ripans Tubules
| are made dally than of any other
medicine, the reason may be found
in the fact that there is scarcely any
condition of ill health that is not
benefited by the occasional use of a
Ripans Tabule, and a package, con
taining ten, Is obtainable from any
druggist for five cents.
At druggists.
J The Five-Cent packet is enough for an
ordinary occasion. The family bottle,
60 cents, contains a supply for a year.