A TRAINED NURSE ... .. After Years of Experience, Advises Women in Regard to Their Health. T.Irs. Martha Polilman of 5 5 Chester Avenue, < Newark, N. J., who is a ’ graduate Nurse from the Blockley Training School, at Philadelphia, and for six years Chief Clinic Nurse at the Philadelphia Hospital, writes the letter printed below. She has the advantage of personal experience, besides her professional education, and what she has to say may be absolutely relied upon. Many other women are afflicted as she was. They can regain health in the same way. It is prudent to lieed such advice from such a source. Mrs, •ohlman writes: 1 ‘11 am firmly persuaded, after eight yea-'s of experience with Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, that it is the safest and best medicine for any suffering woman to use. “immediately alter my marriage I found that my health began to fail me. I be came weak and pale, with se vere bearing-down pains, fear ful backaches and frequent dizzy spells. The doctors pro scribed for me, yet I did not improve. 1 would bloat after eating and frequently become nauseated. 1 had an acrid discharge and mins down through my limbs so I could hardly walk. It was as bad a case of female trouble as I have ever known. Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound, however, cured me within four months. Since that time I have had occasion to recommend it to a number of patients suffering from all forms of female difficulties, and I find that while it is considered unprofessional to rec ommend a patent medicine, I can honestly recommend Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, for I have found that it cures female ills, where all other medicine fails. It is a grand medicine for sick women.” Money cannot buy such testimony as this—merit alone can produce such re sults, and the ablest specialists now agree that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound is the most univer sally successful remedy for all female diseases known to medicine. When women are troubled with ir regular, suppressed or painful men struation, weakness, leucorrhoea, dis placement or ulceration of the womb, that bearing-down feeling, inflamma tion of the ovaries, backache, bloat ingt(or flatulence), general debility, in digestion. and nervous prostration, or are beset with such symptoms as dizzi ness, faintness, lassitude, excitability, irritability, nervousness, sleepless ness, melancholy, “all-gone,’’ and “ want-to-be-left-alone’’ feelings, blues and hopelessness, they should remem ber there is one tried and true remedy. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound at once removes such troubles. No other female medicine in the world has received such widespread and unqualified endorsement. No other medicine has such a record of cures of female troubles. The needless suffering of women from diseases peculiar to their sex is terrible to see. The money which they pay to doctors who do not help them is an enormous waste. The pain is cured and the money is saved by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Ex perience has proved this. It is well for women who are ill to write Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. In her great experience, which covers many years, she has probably had to deal with dozens of cases just like yours. Her advice is free and confi dential. iuyoia ti pinknanrs yeaetame compound succeeds Where Others Fail. MIXED FARMING Wheat Raising Ranching Three Great Pursuits have again shown wonderful results on the FREE HOMESTEAD LANDS OF WESTERN CANADA M«crDificeatcl1inabs—farmers plowing in their shirt* slwoves in the middle of November. “All are bound to be more tlmu pleased with* the final results of the past season's harvests ”—Extract. Goal, Wood, Water, Hay in abundance, schools, churches, markets convenient. Apply for inform tion to Superintendent of Immigra tion, Ottawa, Canada, or to E. T. Holmes, 816 .Jackson St.. St. Paul, Minn.; J. M. MacLachlan, Box 116 Water town. South Dakota, and W. 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Mother Grny’n Sweet Powders for Children, used bv Mother Gray, a nurse in Children’s Home, New Vork, Break up Colds in 24 hours, cure Con* siipation, Feverishness, Headache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the bowels and Destroy Worms. Sold bv all druggists or by mail, 25c. Sample mailed FkER Address Allen S. Olmsted. Le Roy, N, Y. What Ailed Dad. Mother—Tommy, stop asking your fath er so many questions. Don’t you see it annoys him?" Tommy—Why, mother, it’s not the questions that make him angry. It’s be cause he can’t answer them. SKIN-TORTURED BABIES. Instant Relief in Warm Bathe witt Cnticura Soap and Gentle Anointings with Cuticura Ointment. The suffering which Cuticura Reme dies have alleviated among the young, and the comfort they have afforded worn-out and worried parents, have led to their adoption in countless homes as priceless curatives for the skin and blood. Infantile and birth humors, milk crust, sealled head, ec zema, rashes, and every form of itch ing, scaly, pimply skin, and scalp hu mors, with loss of hair, of infancy and childhood, as speedily, permanently and economically cured when all oth er remedies suitable for children, aud even the best physicians, fail. Distressing. San Antonio Express: Mrs. Hetty Green, the noted financier, was talking about the vicissitudes of housekeep ing. "Accidents occur in housekeeping,” she said, "as distressing and horrible as aaiy that occur in the world of fi nance. "A woman of Bellows Falls gave a party last year. Pie was served at the party, apple pie with the crust prettily ornamented. “The woman called the cook into the dining room. “ 'Mary,' she said, ‘this o'rust looks nice. How did you scallop it so beauti fully?’ “ ‘With your false teeth, mum,' the cook answered.” CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the srf' Signature of C/utfyX/•&&&&£ L WATERPROOF 4 OILED CLOTHING] DECEIVED THE I HIGHEST POSSIBLE AWARD I AT THE ST. LOUIS WORLD'S PAIR, j Send us the names of dealers in ■ your town who do not sell our I goods, and we will send you a I collection of pictures, in colors, of 9 famous towers of,the world, at *■ I A. J TOWER CO. ESTABLISHED IMS. I keiroN. - mm (Mu _ chicaoo. . ■ nmcMuwuawwjMoiiTocMil PROTECTING YOUNG CHICKS. If every one who raises young chicks could realize how susceptible they are to colds more care would be taken to protect them. A fertile source of trouble is in the moist ground or the wetter grass early in the morning. It will cost but little to ar range some coops like that shown in the illustration which will keep the chicks dry until the sun has absorbed the moisture on the grass. Make the slatted run In the icgulation manner and then cover the top and the far end and the sides with cloth, letting it run down the end and the sides half way to the ground and holding it in place with a few tacks. After the chicks . — JtX ■ ; u. wx&z, ; *• -*-* - “ - ...» have huddled under the wings of the old hen at night, place a board along each side and one at the end of the coop bo that the chicks cannot get out; leave a little space between the board and the cloth for air. After the grass has dried these boards may be removed and the chicks have access to the grass between the slats. The roof of cloth will prevent the rain or dew from wetting the ground floor of the coop so that their feet will be kept dry at all times. The cost of such an arrangement is very small and it certainly ■will save the lives of many of the chicks. Unbleached muslin Is an excellent mate rial to use for this purpose and is better than the oiled muslin unless a section is liable to heavy rains. USING CULL POTATOES. A week ago the writer visited one of the most famous potato growing farms in the east and was astonished to see over a hun dred barrels of seed potatoes being un loaded preparatory to planting. The own ers of this farm claim that it pays them to buy seed potatoes of their favorite varie ties at least every third year, using their own products the alternating years. They pay the highest price for selected tubers, throwing out specimens that we would use for seed without hesitancy. These men grow' potatoes largely for the hotel and restaurant trade of a neighboring city and must have the very best. Noticing that the stock were being fed some very fair looking tubers we asked why those were not sold if they did not consider them suitable for seed. The reply was that they w'ould not suit their trade and that they had no Inclination to find a general market for them, and, again, under no circum stances would they be guilty of selling them for seed for they knew they were running out and not fit for seed. If po tato growers generally would work on this same plan, in a modified degree perhaps, thev would get results which could not fail *o be profitable. There is nothing, with the possible exception of wheat, where poor seeds cause such serious loss as in potatoes, and it is fair to say that about one-half of the tubers used for seed potatoes are culls and should be fed to stock where they will accomplish much more in the way of money-making than by planting for a crop. WHERE STRAWBERRIES ARE PROFITABLE. While it is probebiy safe to say that full three-quarters of the varieties of strawberries on the market are valuable it does not follow that they are equally valuable everywhere; Indeed, some of them are total failures on certain soils and under certain conditions. This being the case it pays to have- an experiment plot and test new sorts on it. A friend of the writer who had been a successful farmer of many years standing concluded to re duce his area and go into strawberry growing. Here was the way he went at it. One acre of ground was fitted up for strawberries. It was first class soil for the purpose and properly prepared. Then he bought the requisite number of plants of six different varieties, each of early, medium and late sorts. They were prop erly set and cared for and allowed to fruit for two years, careful records being taken at intervals so that the behavior of the sort was known for corresponding dates during the two years. At the end of that period our friend was in a position to be reasonably sure just what he might ex pect from the sorts he chose for extending plantings from among the lot. One may say that was too bad to lose all this time, but he has demonstrated that it paid. The plan is well worth trying if one is not al ready sure what certain sorts will do on the soil one has to give them. OVER-FERTILIZING THE FARM. Possibly it is not fair to say that many farms are over-fertilized, but it Is certaixi that many of them are fertilized unwisely, especially In the older states where de pendence has long been placed on commer cial fertilizers. The trouble Is not that the farms have too much fertilizer, but that they have too much in (he way of mineral fertilizer and not sufficient of vegetable fertilizer. Here is where the farmer who raises stock and utilizes the stable manure In connection with commercial fertilizers has the advantage of him who depends wholly upon commercial fertilizers. Por a long series of years southern cotton fields were cropped without much in the way of fertilizers; then, when the soil be gan to run clown, commercial fertilizers were used. For a time the results were satisfactory and again the soil began to run down and it was plainly seen that humus, or vegetable matter, was needed. Some stock was raised and the want sup plied, but by far the majority of farmers used cow peas and obtained nitrogen and humus at the same time. Valuable as commercial fertilizers are we must not lose sight of the fact that humus in the soil is essential and either the soil must have stable manure or It must be green manured by turning under some vegetable growth. It Is hard to beat the combina tion of stable manure dropped by properly fed animals and commercial fertilizers in telligently used. One has only to study the needs of his particular soil to grow the crops he desires and grow them with a fair profit. STABLE MANURE AND POTATO CROP. Slowly but surely we are learning to suc cessfully light the potato rot and one of the things we have learned is that a soil well filled with humus gives us trouble when we attempt to grow potatoes, par ticularly if it Is a soil inclined to be heavy. To get around this it has been found an excellent plan to use commercial fertiliz ers' entirely on the potatoes anti never to f use the same ground for potatoes two years in succession. We plow under clov er. follow' it with a corn crop and the third year with potatoes. By this time the humus supplied by the olpver crop has been largely used by the corn crop and only what the soil actually needs is left by the time the potatoes come along. Sometimes, if the plowed-under clover crop was a heavy one we find It necessary to spray for rot once and sometimes twice more than would ordinarily be the case, but it pays to do this. We cultivate thor oughly whether the season be wet or dry and usually find that four, five and often six sprayings are necessary for proper re sults. Do not be feurful of over-doing the spraying. SIMPLE PLANTS FOR THE BORDER If the purse is lean this spring and most of the money must go for necessities, at ! least squeeze out a dime and Invest it in I seeds of mfacd dwarf nasturtiums. Plant I these seeds now in a box containing about two inches of good garden soil. W’ater them and keep them in the window of the kitchen or in a warm corner on the ver anda. Set the seeds an inch apart and when the plants are about two inches high take them up with a little bunch of earth with the roots and set in good soil around the base of the veranda or anywhere you wish w’here the plants can have con siderable sun and yet a fair amount of shade. The dime’s worth of seeds should give one thirty or more plants apd all of them will live and thrive with only ordinary care and furnish one with a mass of pretty blossoms until late in the fall. If one has a little more than a dime to spend on seeds, say 25 cents, then buy five named sorts, one package of each, so as to be sure of a greater varie ty in the shades of colors. These nastur tiums are excellent for the children who have little experience in flower raising because they are almost certain to grow. FEEDING MILLET TO STOCK. Many complaints are made concerning the bad effects coming from feeding mil let to stock generally but, we think, in vestigation will prove that no serious in jury results from feeding millet to any stock but horses. When eatei! generally by horses it creates a trouble closely allied to rheumatism but fed to cows it has no bad effects w hen it does not comprise more than one-half the roughage. We find it best to mix it with corn stover when feed ing to cows but frequently vary this by feeding it alone not ‘more than twice a week. The millet seed is particularly good for poultry and adds one more grain with which to form the desired variety. Feed ing it in mixtures of about one-third millet to two-thirds of the other grain whether corn, wheat, buckwheat or rye. it gives I better results than when fed alone. It is an Ideal grain to use in the scratching shed and we use more of it in this way than in any other. HOW OFTEN TO FEED THE COW There Is considerable controversy going on in the agricultural press as to how many meals a day the cow .should have. Most dairymen have settled this for them selves by feeding grain with or without roughage at morning and night and giv ing a fair allowance of roughage at noon more to keep the cows busy than for any great amount of value to be found in the food. Oftentimes individual cows are found who do much better on three meals a day than on two, and when suehC'eows ire in the. herd great care must be used to ascertain beyond a doubt if she pays for the third meal of grain. She may be used to ascertain beyond a doubt if she pays for the third meal of grain. She may j be quite willing to take it but only the Babcock test and the scales will deter mine whether it is profitable to feed such quantities. This is a question concerning which no general rules may be laid down, each feeder must work out*Jjfc proposition for himself, according to the requirements of his herd. SORE TEATS IN COWS. While there are a number of causes for sore teats in cows, it is safe to say that in nine cases out of ten the trouble is due to dirt on the hands of the milker coming in contact with a scratch on the teat of the cow which may be easily gotten in the pasture. It Is also safe to say that nine tenths of the troubles with the udder and teats might be avoided with proper atten tion to cleanliness; cleanliness in groom ing the cow- and keeping her bag and teats from soil, and cleanliness on the part of the milker, hands clean and warm instead of rough, cold and dirty. It takes but a few- minutes to wipe the udder and teats dry with a soft cloth after gently washing them if badly soiled during the night. This handling of the udder, especially if it is full, will relieve the strain and the cow will give down the milk more readily in consequence. COMBINATION RACK FOR SHEEP For feeding sheep out of doors a com bination rack made in the following man ner will be found not only a great con venience but will save feed. The rack may be made any height desired but it should ba only about C inches wide at the bot tom and 18 inches or more wide at the top with the slats just far enough apart so that the sheep may readily get at the hay. This rack Is arranged so that the lower part may be constructed into a trough by building the trough out in front, making it with a slanting front board, and also extending It behind so that the grain may be poured Into the trough from be hind. An Inch board Is arranged so as to slide over the trough and under the lower part of the rack while the sheep are eating the hay. When they are to use the trough this board ts removed. The , illustration plainly shows the plan of this combination rack and with the description any one handy with tools can readily make this convenience. A JUDGE'S WIFEqgjS, Mrs. Carrie King, Darlington, Mo., writes: “I have suffered for years with biliimgness, and kidney and liver trouble. ••It I caught a little cold, the pains were Increased and backache and headache were of frequent occurrence. “However, I’erunn cured me—twelve bottles made me n healthy woman.” Quickly Cured by a Short Course of Pe-ru-na. MRS. MINNIE E. Me A LEISTER, wife of Judge McAllister, write* from TJ17 West 33nl street, Minne apolis, Minn., as follows: “I suffered for years with a pain in the small of my back and right side. It interfered often with my domestic and social duties and I never supfiosed that I would be cured, as the doctor’s med icine did not seem to help me any. ‘‘Fortunately a member of our Orde* advised me to try Peruna and gave if such high praise that I decided to try i it. Although I stnited in with littl* faith, I felt so much better in a week that I felt encouraged. "I took it faithfully for seven week* ami am happy indeed to be able to say that I am entirely cured. *« Words fail to express my gratitude. Perfect health once more is the best thing 1 could wish for, and thanks to Peruna, I enjoy that now. ” Pain in the back, or on the right sid* Hew often u physician hears this complaint! Over and over we hear women sayr “I have it pain in the small of my back. I have a pain in my right side, just bo low the ribs." These symptoms indicate pelvic oi abdominal catarrh. They indicate that the bowels are not acting properly—that the liver is out ol order—that the pelvic organs are con gested. , . Pelvic catarrh—that is the name for it. Peruna cures pelvic catarrh, when all of these symptoms disappear. The catarrh may be all in the ab dominal orgn us, when it would b* properly called abdominal catarrh. \t any rate, it is one of those cases of internal catarrh which can lie reached only by a course of treatment with Peruna. We have oil file thousands of testi monials similar to the above. It is im possible here to give our readers more than one or two specimens of the num ber of grateful and commendatory let ters L)r. llnrtmnn is constantly receiv ing in behalf of his famous catarrh remedy, Peruna. The Secret of Good Coffee , ■ Even the best housekeepers cannot make a good cup of coffee without good material. Dirty, adulterated and queerlj blended coffee such as unscrupulous dealers shovel over their counters won't do. But take the pure, clean, natural flavored LION COFFEE, the eader of all package coffees— II the coffee that for over a quarter of a century has been daily | welcomed in millions of homes—and you will make a drink fit for a Icing in this way: _ HOW TO MAKE GOOD COFFEE. Use LION COFFEE, becmiit to get best result* you must n*e the best coffee. Grind your I.ION COFFEE rather flue. Use "a tablespoonfu! to each cup, and one S extra for tllo pot.” Kind mix it with a little cold water, enough to make a thick paste, aud add white of an egg ireSS«?SSfc 9Successfully Prosecutes Claim*. Late Principal Examiner U S. Pension BorM% 3 vra tu civil war. 15 adiutUcatiuu claim a. atiY PLEASE MENTION THIS PAPER. SIOUX CITY P’T’G CO., 1,085—19. 1905