CATARRH OF LUNGS.
A Prominent Chicago Lady Cured
by Pe-ru-na.
Mina Maggie Welch, Secretary of the
Betsey Koss Educational and Benevolent
Society, writes from 328 North State street,
Chicago, 111., the following glowing wordi
concerning Peruna:
"Last fall I caught the most severe cold
I ever had in my life. I coughed night and
day, and my lungs and throat became so
▼ that I Wftf in All cough
Miss Maggie Welch.
> remedies nauseated me, and nothing af
forded rae relief until my doctor said
x rather in a joke, 'I guess Peruna is the
only medicine that will cure you.'
"I told him that I woula certainly try
it, and immediately sent for a bottle. I
found that relief came the first day, and as
I kept taking it faithfully the cough grad
ually diminished and the soreness left me.
It is fine."—Maggie Welch.
Address the Peruna Medicine Co., Co
lumbu*.Ohio, for free literature on catarrh.
The Regulation of Clocks.
The remarkable pendulum experi
ment In the Pantheon at Paris to
prove the rotation of the earth, strik
ingly illustrates the majestic uses of
the familiar clock-maker's device It
soems almost impossible of belief, fn
an age of well-regulated watches,
that the clocks of Galileo's time
could not be kept going at a uniform
speed. Clocks went by means of a
dragging weight, but the pendulum
4 had not been thought of as a regu
lator. It occurred to Galileo to make
a clock with the pendulum only, but
of course, the work of tunning the
wheels stopped It. It was left to
Huygens, in 1656, 14 (years after the
great astronomer's death, to com
bine the pendulum with the dragging
weight and thus solve the problem
of reckoning astronomical time with
exactitude.
It is proposed to cut a railway tun
nel through the mountain known as
the Faucille, in the Jura Alps, and
so shorten the journey between Paris
and Switzerland by two and a half
hours.
The Gorman government has ap
propriated $50,000 to provide motor
cars for use in the coming army
maneuvers.
Dr. August Koenig's Hamburg Drops. as
a blood purifier, strength and health restor
f er and a specific for all atomaoh, liver and
kidney troubles leads all other similar med
icines in its wonderful sales and marvelous
confidence of the people, especially our
vast German population. It is not a new
and* untried product, but was made and
•old more than sixty years ago.
The Bmall boy who makes fun of his sis
ter and her beau ought to be punished for
contempt of court.
Thore is more Catarrh in this seotlon of the
country than ali other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to
be inonrablo. For a groat many years doctors
lironounced it a local disease and proscribed
ocal remedies, and by constantly failing to
euro with local treatment, pronouncod it in
curable. Science has proven Catarrh to be a
constitutional disease and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F. J. Choncy k Co.,
Toledo, 0., istho only constitutional cure on
the market. It Is taken Internally in doses
from JO drops to a teaspoonful. It acts direot
ly on the blood and mucous surfaoes of the
system. They offer one hundred dollars for
any case it fails to cure. Bend for circulars
ANI testimonials. Address F. J. CU.LNEX A
Co., Toledo, O.
j Bold by Druggists, 750.
Hall's Family Tills are the best.
Every man has his price, and it's goner*
ally a good deal less than he marks it up.
FlT3oermnuently euro I.No fits or nervous*
nasaf tor first day's use of Dr. Kline's Groat
Narveßestorer. Atrial bottle and treatlsofret
Dr.lt. H. KLINE, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Piiila., Pa.
The girl with the big hat seems to be all
head until you begin to talk with her.
Mrs.Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teetliing,soften the guins, roduoea inflamma
tion,allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle
The Czar of Russia has established •
|eu-hour working day.
All creameries use butter color. Why
not do as they do use JUNE TINT BUT
fSR Color.
The anthracite field is limited to a space
Of 8300 square miles.
Z'lao't Cure Is the best modiclne we ever used
for all affections of throat and lungs.—Wm.
O. ENDSLET. Vanburen. Ind.. Fob. 10, 1000.
) Gen. Joubert's silver-fitted jaunt-
Ing car, which wns captured in South
[ ' Africa, is now at Woolwich arsenal.
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Keeping rotntoea.
A little air-slaked lime, dusted over
the potatoes as they are put in bins,
barrels, boxes or In heaps on the cellar
floor, will prevent decay. The lime
has a purifying effect, absorbing the
moisture, and keeping them sweet, dry
and fresh. Five cents' worth of lime
will be sufficient for twenty bushels.
Simple Winter Feeding.
To feed mash to ehlekens requires
a great amount of time, and leaving
this important item out of the question
I can get more eggs with dry gralu.
In a self-feeding feed box I keep n
constant supply of wheat, oats and
whole corn in about equal parts, in
cold weather, leaving out corn In
warm weather. Buckwheat and bar
ley may be added to advantage if not
too expensive. Keep on hand a con
stant supply of oyster shells, grit and
fresh water, also one or more cab
bages, suspended with a string from
ceiling just within reach. Some form
of meat must be provided in moderate
quantities two or three times a week.
Clover, if of good quality, might he
substituted for the cabbage. A liberal
supply of dust In a large flat box is
Important for biddy's health, also a
good clean litter to scratch in.—Fred
It. Trask, In American Agriculturist.
Coop For lien, and Chicks.
For several years I lost many young
chicks from drowning during heavy
showers, and the absence of good coops
was to blame for It. The coop here il
lustrated is In my estimation almost
perfect. It is sixteen feet long, thirty
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PROTECTION FROM RAIN AND SUN.
Inches wide, thirty inches high in front
and eighteen inches in rear. It is pan
titioned so as to accommodate ten hens.
Each coop Is accessible from a round
hole cut in the back and closed by a
cover. On the same s)de near the bot
tom is a removable board for cleaning
the coop. The front has a hinged cover
eighteen Inches wide to close down at
night and during rainy weather. The
whole rests on five two by fours.—H.
Pfaender, in New England Homestead.
Grado For Irrigation Dltcliea.
A good rule is to get as much grade
as possible consistent with preserva
tion of the ditches. In no ease must
the velocity be sufficient to cause de
structive erosion. Some soils being te
nacious Will withstand much more
water pressure than others. This must
ho carefully considered when the
amount of water needed for a special
tract of land is being figured on. Dif
ferent forms of ditches and varying
grades adapted to the various soils are
possible. For example, two and a half
cubic feet of water a second is deliv
ered by a ditch three feet wide on top.
two at bottom, one foot deep, with a
grade of four feet to the mile. The
same amount Is carried by n diteli
four and a half feet wide at top, three
at bottom, one and a half feet deep
and with a grade of six Inches to the
mile. In a soil which washes easily
the latter is the kind to build.
Paroling! tig; Dairy Com.
It is safe to say that no farmer can
buy a cow without risk of loss, as she
may be of spiteful disposition, may
bring disease on the farm, may yield
hilt little or give inferior milk and
may prove unprofitable from several
causes. To sell her may lie but to get
another no better. The presence of
two or throe inferior cows in a herd
affects the average profit of the whole.
No dairyman can buy a cow and know
what she Is worth until lie Ims tested
her. It is impossible for him to know
liow long she will keep up her flow
of milk, even If she is apparently a
good animal. Such cows will fall off
before tliey are eight months in milk
ing, and when one becomes dry an
other must he procured In her place.
When a heifer is raised and her sire
and dam are known, the dairyman
can depend upon It. If she is from good
stock, that she will prove better than
the best unknown cow that can he
purchased, as it is seldom that the
best cows are offered for sale. Suc
cess in the dairying can only lie guar
anteed when the dairyman pays some
attention to breeds.
time and Plaster.
Dime dissolves best in cold water.
It should be on t lie ground when the
winter snows melt and at the time of
the spring rains. If spread in winter
it interferes with other farm work
liut little. Lime does the most good
on moist, clayey land. It is a substi
tute to some extent for draining, for
its action on wet, spongy pastures that
incline to mass Is to make the surface
lighter and more porous. It benefits
most soils, hut the action of lime on
sand is less apparent. As clover is a
lime plant, it is applied with grcnt
profit to land just before seeding down.
It Is doubtful whether more thau fifty
bushels to the acre Is distinctly bene
ficial, though many farmers apply one
hundred. Plaster is as useful as lime,
hut it acts in a different way and witli
less regularity. A top-dressing of pias
ter on clover in the spring when it Is
three or four Inches high has on thou
sands of farms been found a great
help. The use and profit of sowing
plaster Is a question that each farmer
must settle for himself by trial.—E. M.
llcss, lu The Epitomist.
If we could see ourselves as others
see us, some of us might wish wc were
blind.
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Oregon's Vigorous Old Man.
A well-known citizen of 77 years,
who had been out in the country, and
had a large paper sack of mushrooms
in his hand, which he had gathered
himself, was standing at the corner
of Fifth and Morrison streets-, Satur
day afternoon, waiting for a car. An
other old-timo citizen, who will be 80
in a few months, came to the same cor
ner to wait for the same car. The man
with the mushrooms exhibited them
proudly, and said that they were to
be put up in glass, adding that
he had bought about 100 pounds
In tho market, which was al
ready put up, but it was dlfll
cut to find really fresh ones. He then
asked his friend of 79%: "Where
have you been lately? I haven't seen
you for a week or so." "I have been
busy for a week," was the answer.
"I had 12 cords of wood to put in, and
it was so hard to find anyone to do it,
I concluded to put it in myself." "Did
you wheel it in in a wheelbarrow?"
asked 77. "No, indeed; I had to carry
it up a flight of 11 steps, two or three
sticks at a time. I got in six cords in
three days and finished tho other six
this afternoon, and so had the after
noon to come down town." As they
boarded the car which came up a
stranger, who had owerheard their
conversation, remarked; "By Jingo!
they raise pretty husky old men here
In Oregon."
Japanese Ingenuity.
Here is a good instance of Japan
ese ingenuity: diolcs-a was epi,
demic at Fuknoka, and a well was
suspected of spreading infection. A
little boiler was constructed, the
necessary tubes sunk, and all the
water drawn for drinking purposes is
now being boiled, thus checking the
further spread of the disease.
Haule, o! Edgerton, Wis., tells
how she was cured of irregulari
ties and uterine trouble, terrible
pains and backache by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
41 A while ago my health began to
fail because of female troubles. The
doctor did not help mc. I remembered
that my mother had used Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
on many occasions for irregularities
and uterine troubles, and I felt sure
that it could not harm me at any rate
to give it a trial.
41 1 was certainly glad to find that
within a week I felt much better, the
terrible pains in my back and side
were beginning to cease, and at the
time of menstruation I did not have
nearly as serious a time a6 hereto
fore, so I continued its use for two
months, and at the end of that time I
was like a new woman. I really have
never felt better in my life, have not
had a sick headache since, and weigh
20 pounds more than I ever did, so I
unhesitatingly recommend Vegetable
Compound." MRS. MAY HAULS. Ed-
Serton, Wis., President Household
Iconomics Club. SSOOO forfeit If original of
mbove letter irovl./g genuineness cannot be produced.
Women should remember there
is one tried nnd true remedy for
till female Ills, Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound. Re
fuse to buy any other medicine,
you need the best.
The Original Carlbs.
Very mysterious Is the origin of the
fierce savage, now almost extinct, who
were in possession of the Caribs, the
smaller West Indian islands, when the
white man discovered them. They
showed a distinct Mongolian character
and it would be hard to distinguish a
Carlb Infant from a Chinese child.
Twenty years ago a Chinaman who had
drifted to Dominica declared the Carlbs
to bo his own people and married a
pure-bred Carlb woman. The resultant
child Bhowed no deviation from the
native type. The Caribs have dropped
their man-eating ways; but in the
sixteenth century they scoured the
Spanish main In search of human food
and from Porto Rico alone are said
to have taken more than 5,000 men to
be eaten. Though Spaniards, French
men, Dutchmen, negroes or Arrowalts
were all meat to them, the Caribs
seem to have shown an Interesting
preference for certain nationalities.
Davis says in his "History of the Ca
ribby Isands," that "the Carlbbeans
have tasted of all the nations that fre
quented them, and affirm that the
French are the most delicate and the
Spaniards are hardest of digestion."
Laborde in one of his jaunts in St. Vin
cent overtook on the road a communi
cative Carlb who was beguiling the
tedium of his journey by gnawing at
tho remains of a boiled human foot.
This man ate Arrowaks only. "Chris
tians," he said, "gave him indiges
tion."
Traveling Libraries In Ohio.
Ohio clubwomen, already famous for
traveling libraries, are congratulating
themselves that SIO,OOO has been ap
propriated for tho furtherance of work
the coming year. This encouraging re
port will be made at the state conven
tion at Cleveland this month, in addi
tion to the announcement that no less
than 900 traveling libraries are now in
circulation. This splendid record is
largely due to tho first chairman of
the library extension committee of the
Ohio Federation, Mrs. Edward L.
Duchwalter, of Springfield. Through
the activities of this committee the
state library commission was organ
ized, tho two co-operating at every
step. Two-thirds of the resulting 900
traveling libraries are used in the
women's clubs throughout Ohio. These
books a club may keep for one year,
if it wishes, and In several instances
the commission has consulted individ
ual clubs as to the new books which
will best serve their purposes. Now
that clubwomen's interests are so care
fully consulted, and the appropriation
has been increased, through their de
mands to the present magnificent sum.
the Ohio clubwomen have another as
piration. It is to push the traveling
library into the country districts, and
to this end they would have opened
on Sunday every Bchoolhouse, with its
rows of books. In ths way the lttle
traveling library might develop into a
large and permanent library at the
crossroads.
In the Stone Age.
Near Marlow, England, has been
discovered a quarry whence men of the
stone age got flints to make their
knives and weapons. In it was found,
among other relics of the old workers,
a pick of stag's antlers, used liy the
prehistoric miner in making his gal
lery. The site was called locally
"Grimes's graves," and consisted of a
number of holes or pits sunk in the
ground. It was found that theso
Norfolk pits were made by miners in
search of clear and large flints, the
ready-made material for cutlery chip
ped from stone. These ancient workers
had quite as keen an instinct for find
ing the best bed of flint as a modern
prospector has for a bed of gold-bear
ing- quartz. and somehow found
out that about thirty feet below the
surface there was a bed of the largest
sillclous pebbles in England. They
therefore sunk tho "gravos" and ran
galleries from them. In these galler
ies were found not only tho flints they
had dug but rough lamps, cut in chalk,
for them to see by and the picks which
they had used to work with. The imple
ments were all made of deer's horn,
and it was noted that these old antler
tools are exactly the same shape as
the picks of wood and iron used in the
flint quarries of England to-day.
The expenses of the city of New
York for the first three months or
this year amounted t<? $11,99(1,253.
POLICE DOGS IN GHENT.
Trained Collies Supplant Officers and
Chase Burglars.
The distinction of the bloodhound of
the Southern and Western states as
being the ony dog policemen in tho
world is gone. The city of Ghent has
recently supplemented its regular po
lice force in the suburbs by a corps of
trained collies, whose duty it is to run
down burglars and other evil-doers
who might prove too swift for capture
by the human custodians of the peace.
The step has been taken by the Ghent
commissioners of police as the result
of an alarming increase in burglary,
robbery, with violence, and other
crimes committed by night in the su
burbs. The vigilance of the police
proved unequal to cope with the evil,
although their numbers were consider
ably augmented. The police dogs are
of the breed of Swiss-Belgian sheep
dogs, and are trained most carefully.
They accompany the policemen on
their nightly rounds, and not only pro
tect them from being attacked by sur
prise, but by the quickness of their
instinet in scenting the presence of
men they make it impossible for any
evil-doer to lurk in tire darkest corner
undetected. Great precaution, how
ever, is taken that the dogs may do as
little harm as possible, and to this end
their management and diet is cnrefully
regulated. They are kept in kennels
which are cleaned daily and disinfected
weekly, and they are frequently ex
amined by a veterinary surgeon. That
tho pangs of hunger may not tempt
them to take a slice out of any of
their victims, they are given two good
meals a day, one at 12:30 and the other
at 7 o'clock, each consisting of bread,
rice and meat, and at midnight they
are given a biscuit for supper. When
on duty each dog is armed with a
spiked collar, and bears a medal with
a number to show its identity.
The sheets of steel for pen-making
are, in their original condition, eight
feet long and three feet wide. From
these strips are cut wide enough to
permit of tho cutting of three or
four pens.
Asthma
Will I I I II ■ 111 111 II ■■
"One of my daughters had a
terrible case of asthma. We tried
almost everything, but without re
lief. We then tried Ayer's Cherry
Pectoral and three and one-half j
bottles cured her."—Emma Jane 9
Entsminger, Langsville, O. y
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral I
certainlycuresmanycases I
of asthma. 1
And it cures bronchitis,
hoarseness, weak lungs,
whooping-cough, croup,
winter coughs, night
; coughs, and hard colds.
! Thrco sizes: enough for sn ordinary
cold; for bronchitis. hearse- j
lor chronic cases nnd to heep on hand. I
J. C. AYIaR CO., Lowell, Mass. ' I
iwrr. l T.". i • 1 "" -: fmhXCSXHBtV—
Genuine stamped CCC. Never sold In bulk.
Beware of the dealer who tries to sell
"something just as good."
Portabl® [Sa^rJAills
The city of Philadelphia has in its
treasury more than $75,000 belong
ing to persons -who never called for
it when their bonds, registered and
non-registered, matured and became
payable, or who left uncollected cou
pons on their bonds.
Near Leeds, England, is a summer
house made wholly of buttons of
every imaginable kind, and in the
same county is a room, the walls of
which are adorned entirely by the
ribbons of cigars, nearly 20,000 of
these being represented.
The shoe manufacturers have made
and sold for the first half of this
year 175,000 cases more than last.
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In competing with ST. JACOBS OIL. Its virtues 1 •
have been proclaimed by millions of restored ' •
sufferers, who have been cured of RHEUMA- 1 1
TISM, NEURALGIA. SCIATICA and many ' *
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From Its use despair gives way to Joy. It heals ' '
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For four years I had been
troubled with constipation,
which brought on piles. I
was induced to try Ripans
Tabules. The results were
better than I expected. As
a regulator of the bowels I
believe Ripans are without
an equal, and I am never
without them now.
At druggists.
The Five-Cent packet is enough for an
ordinary occasion. The family bottle,
60 cents, contains a -uipnlv tor a vpar.
Capsicum Vaseline
PliT IP IN COLLAPSIBLE TUBES.
A Substitute for and Superior to Mustard can*
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