n i Mrs. Weisslitz, president of the Ger-fl man Womans’ Club of Buffalo, N. Y., after doctoring for two years, was finally cured of her kidney trouble by the use of Lydia E* Pinkbam's Vegetable Compound* Of *11 the diseases known with which the female organism is afflicted, kidney disease is the most fatal. In fact, unless prompt and correct treatment Is applied, tho weary patient seldom survives. Being fully aware of this, Mrs. Pinkham, early in her career, gave careful study to the subject, and in producing her great remedy for woman’s ills — Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound —made sure that it con tained the correct combination of herbs which was certain to control that dreaded disease, woman’s kidney troubles. The Vegetable Compound acts in harmony with the laws that govern the entire female system, and while there are many so called remedies for kidney troubles, Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound is the only one especially pr re ared for women. Read What Mrs. Weisslitz Says. “Dear Mrs, Pinkham:—For two years my life was simply a bur den, I suffered so with female troubles, and pains across my back and loins. The doctor told mo that I had kidney troubles and prescribed for me. For three months I took his medicines, but grow steadily worse. My husband then advised me to try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, and brought home a bottle. It is the greatest blessing ever brought to our home. Within three months I was a changed woman. My pain had disappeared, my complexion became clear, my eyes bright, and my entire system in good shape.”—Mrs. Paula Weisslitz, 176 Seneca St., Buffalo, N. Y. Proof that lidney Trouble can b« Cured by Lydia G. Finliham’s Testable Compound. “Dear Mrs. Pinkham:—I feel very thankful to you for the good your medicine has done me. I had doctored for years and was steadily growing worse. I had trouble with my kidneys, and two doctors told me I had Bright’s disease; also had falling of tho womb, and could not walk a block at a time. My back and head ached all the time, and I was so nervous I could not sleep; had hysteria and fainting spells, was tired all the time, had such a pain in my left side that I could hardly stand at times without putting my foot on something. “I doctored with several good doctors, but they did not help me any. I took, In alL twelve bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound, five boxes of Liver Pills, and used three packages of Sanative Wash, and feel like a new woman, can eat and sleep well, do all my own work, and can walk two miles without feeling over tired. The doctors tell mo-that my kidneys are all right now. I am so happy to be well, and I feel that I owe it all to your medicine.”—Mrs. Ofal Stbono, Dalton, Mass. Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address Lynn, Mass. FORFEIT If w». e.nnot forthwith ftrodae* tho ortgU.l letter* and *1(n*tar**al ahov* tMtlmoulnlt, whlok will pror* th*ir abaolut* g*nnia«n*u. Lfdl* K. PUkhui Madluin* Co. Ljnn, Hu* Why Chang*? Chicago Record-Herald: "Do you think ..women ought to have the right to propose?” "No. Women generally manage to get the fdlWs they want as It Is. bo why not let the men go on Innocently thinking they're the ones who ore to blame?'* Tosminninm ntnonttinmiiiiuu - WAMM. *fnvtsfi MR MDUcawnr •JtsgffiSKaHretaitsJiB! CORN CRII S ee*, 400 to 1000 bu. Chea and bandy. Gan bn act u fa tea reiuutea. We ait manufacture Steel Grai Bin*, Wire Field as Lawn Fence, etc. Tke Deaniai Peace Wart CEDAR RAMOS, tDWA MEXICAN Mustang Liniment is a positive cure for Piles. _V___ CCCI I file M t Nlt'-IVBMrbedy Mod dim# for i! lu.tr al rCCLIlUl took tot, “Uv-B Music Cures, ** Wonderful, »r *leei. mv»)u*tle VU rechurd Co., Ml* Case Are., bl Louie. BECCS’ CHERRY COUCH SYRU cure* coughs and colds. i ' ^ ' TO KEEP OFF MOSQUITOES. Pyrethrum Powder Burned on Livo Coal Is Effective. Popular Science Monthly: Anyone who Is til with malaria or yellow fever should be carefully protected from mosquitoes, for, should a person be bit ten by an anopheles, the mlarlal mosquito, or stegoinlya fasclata, the yellow fever mosquito, at this time, there would be great danger that tha Insects might fly away and bit* some one else and thus spread the disease. Screens for both doors and windows form the best protection against, mos quitoes at all times; but It often hap pens that the Insects get Into our houses, even though they are thorough ly screened, generally through some door or win 'ow that has been left open by mistake, or they may gain an en trance by coming down an unused chlipney If the flue Is allowed to re main open i urlng the summer time. A house op a room may be cleared of mosquitoes by burning pyrethrum powder and allowing the smoko, which Is not at all offensive to most people, to thoroughly fill the room that Is under . treatment. This smoke kills or so stupefies the insects that they will not I bite. Pyrethrum powder is a preparation of the plant pyrethrum roseum, and Is 0 sometimes sold as Persian insect pow 0 der or Dalmatton powder; It can be ? bought at any drug store for about 35 J cents a pound. It Is a very fine, light powder, and an ounce of It will go a long way making a large volume ol * smoke. A pyrethrum smudge or smoke may . be started by covering a live coal, taker from the kitchen stove, with the pow der, first placing the coal upon a small shovel, so that It may be moved about conveniently without danger of setting anything on Are. The pyrethrum wll quickly begin to smolder and give ofl a dense smoke. All that Is now nec essary to add from time to time i pinch of the powder as occasion re quires, merely keeping the smolderlni ashes covered so that the smoke wll _ continue. *1 *- Equal Term*. Detroit Free Press: Mrs. Breezy ~ Isn’t my dressmaker lovely? I’ve Jus P received her bill and she has thrown h my bathing suit. Her Husband—O, well, that's nothing Philadelphia Public Ledger: Hlcks II do try to be polite, but I seem to b forever forgetting my manners. Wicks—What's the matter now? Hicks—I Just gave a woman my sea I In the street car and forgot to than! * her for taking It. FOOLS AND SOOTHSAYERS. Fortune-Teller* Who Swindle the Very Poor Should be Punished. London Spectator: When fortune teller* swindle the poor and Ignorant ' we would make them suffer smartly for rlt. Certainly the Ingenuity of a profes sional fortune-teller Is In Itself edu cative. The craft with which she 'throws out veiled hints, the subtlety with which site pounces upon any lucky shot and the diplomacy which she uses to extort confessions are often magnifi cent. Observe the rapt, far-away look with which she asks you abruptly: “Who 1* Ethel?" There Is a possibility that you know some one of that name, in ! which case the odds are that you will ! afford her sons* clew for Intelligent i anticipations. If. however, you lndig 1 nantly deny any such acquaintance she can always fall back upon the very safe statement that the npme will be familiar to you later on. Such procedure reminds us of the famous dodge of Disraeli, who. when ever he met a man whom he did not know, but Vlt he ought to know. In quired suavely, "How is the old com plaint?” Playing this little comedy one day in Pall Mall he was met with the discon certing reply, "Complaint! I never had an ache or a pain in my life,” whereupon he put his head on one side and said with a sympatheic sigh. “Ah, I meant the wife.” The secret of the success of most charlatans is that, if they go on making a sufficient number of shots, come of them are bound eventually to hit the mark. We remember the case of a clairvoy ant who told a fair client that two good spirits Were watching over her and that their names were Juliet and Jane. The visitor declared that there were no such persons. But when she came home and told her mother of the episode she was reminded to her amazement, that those were Indeed the names of two sisters who had died In Infancy. Fortune-telling, we should say, Is a harmless pastime so long as it is not taken seriously. But what about edu cated and most respectable folk who take It very seriously? We are accus tomed to pity Dr. Johnson because he could not pass a lampost without touching It, but what shall we say of people who forego Important enter prises on days which they Imagine to be unlucky, who deliberately make them selves the sport of chance or resign their reason to designing adventures. We would not lly in the face of anci ent beliefs, the origin of which may have been forgotten, nor do we forget that the founders of Thirteen clubs have often perished miserably. But the person who really cares about omens, unlucky days, upsetting salt and all the rest should know that he Is a fool, ! •m i Of Course. Assistant Cashier—Why do you still keep those notes of Cheatem's? You've had 'em five years. Cashier—I know, but they are as good ns ever they were. ffTn.7 " ,lin1 ' 1 _ 1 11 i The Idea. She—My, but Mr. Flaxyman Is stingy. He—I should say so. Why, he wouldn't laugh at a joke unless it was at somebody else's expense. Porto Rico—which pays for neither army or navy—is the most lightly 1 taxed country on earth. It has no debt. Chestnuts Cure for Liquor Habit. Philadelphia Record: “There should be less drunkenness nt this season of the year than at any other time,” said a specialist in nervous disorders who has a private sanitarium for the treat- : ment of wealthy dipsomaniacs. "It is not generally known—in fact, I claim the honor of the discovery—that roust ed chestnuts are a good antidote for liquor. The average man who drinks under high nervous pressure, not for the sake of sociability, but because the alcohol stimulates him to a greater ef fort. is the one whose nervous system is most quickly undermined. He may never get drunk, but there is a con stant demand for over-stimulation that works damage In the end. No sooner does the effect of one drink wear off than there Is a craving for another. Now, if that man would eat a few roasted chestnuts Instead of taking an other drink when the feeling comes on him. he would rind that the substance ■ of tho nuts, having quickly absorbed the liquor already In the system, had ] appreciably decreased his longing for 1 more alcoholic stimulant. It Isn't a theory. I know it to be true." Drowning It. . Chicago News: Rodrlck—“Did you t ever hear Grafton eat soup?” i Van Albert—"Never! Does he make a noise?" Rodrlck—“I should say so. The man in the lunch room has to start the i phonograph every time Grafton be j gins.” _ _ The fastest train in Europe Is run be 1 tween Leeds. England, and Edinburgh. ‘ Scotland. The distance is 2S0 miles and 1 is covered tn 4 hours 19 minutes—an ; average of nearly a mile a minute. Home Made Farm Cart. While most farmers have a wheelbar row In which to trundle odds and ends a hand cart would be better and cost less. New material need not be used If one has a lot of odds and ends In lumber; even boxes may be utilized to make such a cart as described, while the box of the cart may be made any desired shape It should be deep nnd somewhat flaring at ends and sides. Low wheels should be used If possible, but If the wheels one has are not quite low enough, this may be remedied by having the blacksmith bend the axle so that the body of the box may be as low as dcsjrpd. ,As a Fiite TTts best”to Tifive this hand cart made of strong lumber even though It be a bit old, for many times consid erable weight will have to be carried in it. The illustration shows a cart made after the manner suggested and from the cut one can readily work out the details although the shape may be changed if wished. Help From Farmers’ Institutes. As evidence that farmers are becom ing better informed on their work, many men who had earned consider able money as institute workers have been obliged to drop the work because, as one of them frankly said, "the farm ers know more than we do.” It is not charged that speakers at farmers' in stitutes are not well informed, for they are, as a rule. The time was. however, when a man with a glib tongue and a superficial knowledge of farming or kindred industries could readily take up institute work; but of late years, as farmers became more familiar with the technical part of farming, the insti tue speaker must needs be nob only a good talker, but know what ho is talking about and keep ahead of the farmer in knowledge. These farmers’ institutes are productive of immense benefit and there should be one in ev ery farming district. The writer has done institute work for many years and knows that his best success has come, not from his prepared speech or paper, but from the discussion which resulted from the asking of questions by think ing farmers. Here is a point for the farmer wrho seeks for knowledge. Ask the institute worker questions. Most of these speakers are sincere and hon est and If they cannot answer your question they will say so frankly and seek to obtain the Information for you j from some fellow wmrker or from some farmer in the room. You in turn may be able to give from your experience Just the help some fellow farmer neers. Learn not only to listen, but to talk and in this way help yourself and I others. Shall We Silo Frosted Corn? TJie early frosts this year caught many farmers asleep and much corn was frosted. Numerous questions as to the advisability of using this frosted corn in the silo come to this depart ment and there seems to be but one answer: In the light of the experi ence of many farmers, the frosted corn can be made to give Its fullest value only when placed in the silo. Remem ber that some of its food value Is lost and that making silage of It will not bring It back, but It will prevent any further deterioration. The longer the corn remains In the field after being frosted, the more water will need to be put in the silo with it. How much water must be used is hard to say and we can only try to furnish what we think has been lost by the plant In be ing frosted. The water should be thrown over the corn as evenly as pos sible while it is being cut preparatory to placing in the silo. If there is no silo then one must make the best of what he 1 as and be prepared to lose much of the feeding value of the corn and fry another year to get it cut be fore the frost catches it. Possibilities in Poultry Raising, One of the troubles with the men who fail in poultry raising results from their desire to raise fancy stock. They argue that they see no reason why they should sell eggs from poultry hatched from egsrs they paid from 30 to 50 cents each, In the open market at from 26 to 40 cents a dozen. "If Smith sells me eggs for $5 for 13, why cannot I sell Jones eggs from my fowls at the same price? They forget that Smith has spent the best part of his life in learn ing to breed fowls of high degree. If one is going into the breeding of fancy poultry with an idea of show room exhibits, they should be prepared to have a good bank account to stand the drain until they turn the corner. The demand of the public is not for eggs from high bred fowls at from $2 to $5 a sitting, but for fresh laid eggs from well and properly fed fowls at from 26 cents to 40 cents a dozen, according to the season and the qual ity of the eggs. Just figure out the re turns on the investment and see if you can find anything else which will meet them. Supposing you buy ten laying pullets at $2 each a total cost of $20. You feed these pullets a year at a cost of $20 or more. If they lay as well as they should for the price paid for them, each of them will give you 12 dozens of eggs in the year or 120 dozens from the ten birds. Now supposing you use 240 of these eggs in the year and from them hatch 140 pullets, selling the re mainder 1,400 eggs at two cents each. You now have 140 pullets to feed for , six months, largely on the range, at a cost of 30 cents each or $42. Your cash Investment is therefore $82 and at the end of a year you have the original twenty pullets, now eighteen months old and worth at leant all you paid for them, but we will say worth only $16. Your 140 pullets raised, are worth what you paid for their mothers, or $2 each, S2S0; and you have sold $28 worth of eggs. A total expenditure of $82 and a total valuation of $308. Isn’t this a good Interest on the money Invested? Properly Feeding Heifers. While it is generally understood that the intelligent farmer will give his pregnant cows the best of care, the fact remains that few farmers give the helf I era who are about to calve for the first time, the care they should have. They forget that the coming ordeal is a new one for the animal and that she will need all the strength possible to get through in good shape, particularly if quite young. Care must be taken, of course, that the heifer is not over fed and her food should be in considerable variety and always of the kind that will give her strength rather than fat. A good ration to start the heifer on now, is equal parts of ground oats, corn meal and wheat middlings, giving her six quarts a day. Then let her have plenty of clean roughage, some roots and lots of clean, fresh water with the chill taken off. Try her on this ration for a time and watch results, increas ing or decreasing the grain ration, as seems advisable. Bear in mind that not only must the heifer bear the calf, but she must be put in good shape to make her a valuable milker for a num ber of years. If the heifer was worth raising to the breeding period, she is worth taking care of. Not only should her food be along the lines suggested, but she should have a comfortable sta ble, a clean bed and a chance to exer cise out doors in some place where she will be protected from the storm.' Try the plan and see how satisfactory the results will be. Pumpkins for Cows. In feeding pumpkins to cows the seeds should not be given as they are injurious to cows giving milk. As a matter of fact there is very little food value in pumpkin, their chief use being to vary the ration and to act pleasantly on the digestive organs. This is the main value of most root crops and any thing in the nature of green fruit or vegetables given to animals, but the value is sufficiently great in this respect to warrant feeding them. In feeding pumpkins the vegetable should not be cut in pieces too small, or the animal is likely to choke on them. Let the pieces be larere enough so that they will nave to be bitten at least once before being swallowed. All food of this na ture should be given either at noon or just after the grain food, else the ani mal is apt to eat so greedily of it that she will not eat the requisite amount of grain. Making a Cabbage Pit. When on has a large crop of cab bages that are being held for later market or for feeding, they should be stored in some place where they will keep in the best possible condition. A place prepared in fhe open ground is undoubtedly better than one entirely under cover and a good way to make such a place is after the following method: A rather dry place should be selected and one where there will be no possible danger from surface water. If the location is on a slight rise of ground, an excavation may be made to a depth of a foot or more and with stout boards a box two feet high and six feet wide of the desired length, should be built, ' The corner posts should be driven firmly in the ground. A box ventilator, which any farmer can make, should be set in the center of this pit. Have an opening In one end, the roof on a slant with the lower ends of the board, projecting as far as posible so that the water from the roof will not flow back into the pit. Place the cabbages In the pit in neat layers, bank up around with soil and straw, adding more as the weather gets cold er, but being careful not to get the pit too warm so as to cause decay of the cabbages. Such a pit, if well made, will keep the cabbages for months. Strawberries on Sod Land. Several correspondents writing about the growing of small fruits, say that they have nice sod land which they propose plowing under in the spring and setting to strawberry plants. Don’t do it, for no end of trouble will be had with the white grub so numerous in sod land. If the sod land one has seems suited to strawberries, it should be plowed and used for a hoed crop for two years. Put in corn the first year, follow with potatoes and the third sea son the ground will be in ideal shape for strawberries, particularly, if it has been well fertilized for the corn and po tatoes. If the soil is sandy loam, it is possible by thoroughly breaking it up and cultivating the corn thoroughly, it may be used for strawberries the fol- ] lowing season. We wish it were possible to induce farmers to go more into the growing of strawberries: not extensively, if con ditions do not seem to warrant it, but at least sufficient to have a full home supply to be used fresh and for canning later in the season. A small bed will furnish this and enough besides to trade with your neighbor for some deli cacy he has. Plant two or three of the well tested varieties and enjoy this lus cious fruit, which is so easily grown. A Piano Eox Poultry House. It is quite often possible to find in large towns dealers in pianos who have upright piano boxes which they will sell for a small sum. Two such boxes, i properly Joined will make a first class small poultry house. An excellent way to construct such a house is to remove the backs, these are generally screwed on as the instrument goes in this way, : . 1 \/ then place the openings close together and join well. The material In the backs may be used to make a slant roof, filling in the endn at the peaks with the smaller waste boards. Cover the cracks on the roof with laths or, better, cover the entire roof with build ing paper. Cut windows where desired, line Inside with building paper or old newspapers and one has a neat, cosy and Inexpensive poultry house In which fowls will thrive even in very cold weather. The illustration shows a plan of the piano box clearly. That We May Escape. O! wad some pow’r (we sing with Burns) * The giftie gie us B To always see our creditors \ Before they see us. A* Honest Opinion* Mineral, Idaho, Nov. 14.—(Special.) ‘—That a sure cure has been discovered for those sciatic pains that make so many lives miserable, is the firm opin ion of Mr. I). S. Colson, a well-known resident of this place, and he does not hesitate to say that cure is Dodd’s Kid ney Pills. The reason Mr. Colson Is so firm in his opinion is that he had those terrible pains and is cured. Speaking of the matter, he says: "I am only too happy to say Dodd’s Kidney Pills have clone me lots of good. I had awful pains In my hip so I could hardly walk. Dodd's Kidney Pills stopped it entirely. 1 think they are a grand medicine.” All Sciatic and Rheumatic pains are caused by Uric Acid In the blood. Dodd's Kidney Pills make healthy kid neys and healthy kidneys strain all the Uric Acid out of the blood. With the cause removed there can be no Rheu matism or Sciatica. His Little Joke. "If I'd known what I know now about that preacher,” said the cannibal chief, “ instead of eating him I would have put him at the head of my cab inet. He was fitted for it.” "Why so, your majesty?” inquired the visiting monarch. “Because,” replied the chief smack ing his lips, "he was a prime minister." flow'* Thl.l We offer One Hundred Dollar. Reward ior any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh (Jure. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Props., Tolede. O We the undersigned have known F. J..Cheney for the last 15 years, and belleva him perfectly honorable in ail business transactions and flnnn daily able to carry out any obligation made by their firm. West ATkuax. Wholesale Druggists,Toledo, O. Wai.iuno. Kinnan Si Marvin, Wholesal* Druggists. Toledo. O. Hall’s Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonial* free. Uall’e Family Pills are the best. Where Women Are Ruled. Chicago Evening Post: "Are there clubs for women in this town?” asked the suffragist from the east. "Certainly not," replied the. gallant westener. "We handle women with out clubs.” A Bit of the History of American Steel Making. From the Iron and Steel Nujnber of the Scientific American: Upon a certain sum i mer's day in the year 1756, there might have been witnessed the advance of a : small detachment of British and colonial ! troops, not much over a thousand strong, j through the dense forests that lined the banks of the Monongahela river a few | miles above the point where It merges | with the Allegheny. The objective point I of the expedition was a small fort at the j confluence of these rivers, which formed j one of the most Important links In that chain of military posts and trading sta tions, which the restless and far seeing energy of the French colonial govern ment had strung out between the mouths of the St. Lawrence and the Mississippi, by way of the great lakes, the Ohio, and the Mississippi valley. In the van of this little army, bearing himself with a con fidence born of much successful warfare in other lands under less difficult condi tions, and heedless of the warnings of his young colonial aide de camp George Washington, who had command of the rear guard, was General Braddock. Ad vancing in a close formation, which wae better suited to fhe open spaces of con tinental battle grounds than to the all '* but impenetrable forests of the American frontier, the devoted band marched right Into an ambush of the French regulars and their Indian allies, and was quickly cut to pieces. Braddock was killed, and Colonel Washington, his military coat pierced more than once by the bullets of the French sharpshooters, barely suc ceeded in carrying the shattered rem nants of the force back over the Alle ghenies Into colonial territory. The po litical and military considerations that prompted that disastrous expedition wers worthy of a better fate: and, Indeed, sub sequent history has proved that In en deavoring to capture Fort Du Quesne and break the bounds which the French wers endeavoring to set to the westward de velopment of the British colonies, our forefathers had taken a Just view of the situation. Today the objective point of the expedition forms the site of Pittsburg, one of the greatest centers of Industrial activity in the world; while hidden among the back streets of the city, and rescued from destruction and preserved through the care and munificence of a local his torical society, may still be found Fort du Quesne, or rather its Immediate suc cessor, Fort Pitt. A few miles up the river, at the town -f Braddock and on the identical spot where the battle oc curred, Is to be found one of the great est steel works in the world; while for many a mne along those very banks of Monongahela where Braddock laboriously cut his way through the woods, la to be found the most wendeful aggregation of coking ovens, blast furnaces, and rolling mille in the world. Although Just now we are concerned merely with the history of the development of these Industries, we may be pardoned a reference to the fact that in St. Louis, 500 miles to the west ward of the Braddock battlefield, the great republic which has sprung from that strip of colonies that fringed the At lantic seaboard In 1755, la Just now pre paring to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its acquisition from France of the vast territories from which that country sought to bar the early colonials out. 0 A Marvel of Relief S St. Jacobs Oil f a Safa and sara for a 1 Lumbago | O Si | Sciatica | 5 It is the specific virtue of penetration in,this 0) ft remedy that carries it right to the paiav»pot 0{ D and effects a prompt care 0' L!™™ '“Thompson's EyeWatar I