A KENTUCKY WOMAN
How She Gained Fifteen Pounds In
VAdghtand BacameWell byTaking
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills.
Women at forty, or thereabouts, have
their future in their own hands. There
will he a change for tho better or worse,
for the better if the system is purified by
such a tonic as Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills.
Mrs. D. C. Wedding, of Hartford, Ky.,
writes as follows concerning the diffi
culties which afflicted her:
“ I was seriously ill and was confined
to my bed for six or eight mouths in all,
during two years. X had chills, fever,
rheumatism. My stomach seemed al
ways too full, my kidneys did not act
freely, any liver was inactive, my heart
beat was very weak and I had dizziness
or swimming in my head and nervous
troubles.
“Iwas under the treatment of several
different physicians but they all failed
to dome any good. After suffering for
two years 1 learned from an Arkansas
friend, about the merits of Dr.Williams’
Pinlc Pills and I decided that I would
try them. The very first box I took
made me feel better and when I had
tnkonfoujrbuxesmorel was.entire.ly well,
weighed fifteen pounds more than when
I began, resumed my household duties,
ami intve since continued in the best of
health. I have recommended Dr. Wil
liams’ Pink Pills to man* people on ac
count, of what they did for me, and I feel
that I cannot pause them too strongly.”
Dr. williams’Pink Pills restored Mrs.
Wedding to health because they actually
make new blood ami when the blood is
in full vigor every function of tho body
is restored, because t he blood carries to
every organ, every muscle, every nerve,
the necessary nourishment. Any woman
who is interested in thecureof Mrs. Wed
ding trill want our book, “Plain Talks to
Women,” which is free on request.
All druggists sell Dr. Williams’ Pink
Pills, or they will be sent by mail post
paid, on receipt of price, 00 cents per box,
six boxes-for $2.50, hv the Dr. Williams
Medicine Co., Schenectady, N.Y.
S CURES S1EK-HE4DACHE \
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the tonic-laxative, cures sick-head- W
ache, not merely stops it for an £
hour or two. It removes the cause ^
of headache and keeps it away. i
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Teaching a City’s Poor.
From Everybody's jylagazine.
In the city of New Orleans are ap
proximately 100,000 white men and
boys. Of these, 1,500—three out of
every 200 you meet on the street—are
dependent for their education this year,
tor the opportunity to learn to read
and to write and so to advance their
station in life—for all this absolutely
dependent on one woman. This wom
an, whose impontance to the city is so
great that if by any sad chance her
activity were to cease, 1% per cent, of
Its White male population would find
itself deprived of hope, is not rich, but
poor. She is so poor that before she
can give an hour and a dollar for the
helpless ones who need her, she must
give another hour to pay her own ex
penses for the day. She is so poor that
Blie has even earned her own education
as site has given it out, studying some
times but a day ahead of her pupils.
She is frail, crippled, very weak; she
goes about in a steel harness and on
crutches. Though she is still under
middle age, her hair is white as snow,
from days and nights of unrelievable
suffering. From morning till mid-aft
ernoon she teaches in a private school
to earn money for her charities. From
mid-afternoon until evening, if able to
work, she devotes herself to the needs
of those poorer than she. From sup
per time till 9, till 10, till midnight it
need be, she faces the multitude of
men and boys—boys of 9 and men of
E0— who have come to her for help.
Sometimes two in a seat, sometimes on
boards between the seats, sometimes
on the edges bf platforms and the
treads of staiiways and against the
walls of the hallways, they crowd her
school house, while she and her assist
ants are everywhere among them, hear
ing recitations, giving aid and counsel,
explaining, arguing, laughing, eneour
Rgirfg—stirring the solid, sodden mass
of the c&y's poor with tiie leaven of
hope and possibility.
Experiments are being made in Nor
way vylth fish as food for poultry. If
successful a new and profitable indus
try will be established.
RIGHT HOME.
Doctor Recommends Poxtum from
Personal Test.
No one Is better able to realize the
Injurious action of caffeine—the drug
In coffee—on the heart, than the doc
tor.
When the doctor himself has been
relieved by simply leaving off coffee
end using I’ostuiii, he can refer with
full conviction to his own case.
A Missouri physician prescribes Pos
tum for many of his patients because
lie as benefited by It. lie says:
"1 wish to add my testimony in re
gal'd to that excellent preparation—
l’ostum. I have had functional or
nervous heart trouble for over 15
years, and part of the time was un
able to attend to my business.
"1 was a moderate user of coffee
and did not think drinking it hurt me.
But on stopping it and using I’ostum
instead, my heart lias got all right,
and i ascribe it to the change from
coffee to I’ostum.
"I mu prescribing it now In cases of
sickness, especially when coffee dues
not agree, or affects the heart, nerves
or stomach.
“When made tight it has a much
better flavor than coffee and Is a vi
tal sustaiuer of ttie system I si-rfTl
continue to recommend It to our peo
ple. and I have my own ease to refer
to." Name given by I’ostum Co., Hat
tie Creek. Mich Head the little book,
"The Hoad to Weilville,” in pkgs.
"There's a reason.”
AN EXCELLENT HOUSE PLANT.
Those who have successfully grown the
rubber plant, one of the easiest of the or
namental plants to grow indoors during
the winter, will be Interested In the Gold
Dust Dradaena because It Is quite as easy
to grow as the rubber plant and is so dif
ferent In form that It will make a decided
acquisition to the plant collection. Not
only Is it distinct from the rubber plant
but It Is different In form from the other
■varieties of the same family; it Is more
compact In habit developes from the base
hence makes a pretty plant even when
very young. The leaves are abundant,
broad and rich dark green In color sprln
kled liberally with sijocs of rich j-tllow from
which peculiarity the plant gets its popu
lar name. As the plant gets older these
spots gradually change to a creamy white
thus adding to the peculiarity and beauty |
of the plant. The plants are not expensive
and may be obtained from any florist. If
potted in fairly rich soil with sufficient
drainage in the bottom of the pot the
variety will succeed in the hands of any
one who grows the ordinary house plants
with success.
ABOUT THE SMALL FARM.
So much is being printed concerning the
desirability of the small farm over the
large one, we have often urged It in this
department, there is abundance opportun
ity for one to get a wrong conception of
the situation and make costly and almost
fatal mistakes. With some readers the
Impression seems to prevail that the ad
vice is to turn to gardening on a few acres
and let the rest of the farm shift for it
self. This might be profitably done in
some cases and in some sections but in
the majority of cases it would be suicidal.
There are many farms in the country on |
which corn is the main crop. A man may |
have fifty to 100 acres in corn and make a
crop of thirty or forty bushels per acre
while if he had twenty acres in corn he
could readily increase his yield and, per
haps, put the balance into meadow and
make much more actual profit with much
less work than he did on the larger area.
Here is an instance of where he would
gain by the change. On the other hand
he might turn one-half of the fifty acres
Into truck garden stuff and by reason of
the added expense for help and fertilizers
and his distance from market make less
money and do more work than he did on
the fifty acres in corn even with the low
crop average. The mater of a reduction of
the cultivated area must needs be looked
at very closely and, if the change Is made,
do it on the lines which will increase the
profit and reduce the labor and expense
else It is not a profitable move.
FEEDING GREEN EONE.
There is some misconception regarding
the use of bone for poultry. Much dry
ground bone is used which is of little value
to tlie poultry. On the other hand the
green cut bone, which Is readily broken
into pieces suitable for the poultry to con
Rurae, by the use of the bone mill, sup- I
plies ...e fowls witli considerable nitrogen
ous food in addition to furnishing the al
bumen for the eggs and tho lime for the
shells so that, in winter, when the fowls
cannot get the necessary materials for
these purposes on the range, the green
bone is absolutely necessary to them for
best results if one is looking for eggs. In
addition, the cost is very small for bones
can be had from the local butcher, as a
rule, at little or no cost so that the ex
pense is the cost of the mill and the la
bor of operating it. Be sure the green
bone Is fed in your hennery this winter if
you would get proper egg returns.
WINTER FEEDING OF SWINE. !
Some people feel that it makes no dif
ference where or how the hogs are fed
provided they have enough feed. This is
not logical reasoning for unless the swir.e
are fed in a manner and in a place so that
they can eat comfortably the food does
not benefit them as it would under other
conditions. When cool weather begins we
arrange our troughs under cover and place
them on one side of a platform raised sev
eral inches from the floor care being taken
not to get them too high or the hogs will
slip in getting up particularly as they get
heavy. The idea of the platform is that
after they have finished feeding they will
get down on the lower level where the
bedding is and where there is more room.
In this way there is little opporiunity to
soil ..ie troughs, we place them a little
high so that the heavy hog would be some
what troubled to get its feet in the trough,
and nothing to tempt them to stay on the
platform after they have finished eating.
Troughs placed in the manner described
also give one an opportunity to keep them
much cleaner than would he possible in
any otlxer way. The plan is worth looking
into and few hog houses are so arranged
that they cannot he planned to provide
for this manner of feeding.
MAN AND WOMAN FARM COM
FORTS. 1
Tt must be confessed that on many farms
throughout the country the man plans .
things as far as possible so that his work
can be conveniently done and with as
little labor as possible. This is very prop
er and it is commendable if he will also
plan the house so that his wife will have
convenience as well. A man does not
dream of the number of steps a woman
takes in a day in caring for her house.
From dining room to kitchen and back
perhaps fifty times a day; to the garden
to the well, to the outbuildings, uR,„»taiis
and down cellar over and^vef"again. It
is as hanl or hardgj^timin plowing all day
and yet lejy .o-f us men think so. Ofton
Tittle rearrangement of the rooms,
and at small expense, would solve the
whole problem. Here are a few small, in
the sense that they eost little either in
time or money, improvements which will
save the wife steps. Place range, sink and
work table as close to each other as pos
sible without rtek of bumping into one or
the oth*r. Hare the entrance to the cel
*
I lar from the kitchen and the well Just out- j
' side the kitchen door or, better still, sd
arrange that the pump can be In the kit
chen; If one can have a driven well this!
is easily managed. Arrange tables when
It Is light and have one or more permane.nl
tables low so that the wife can sit dowrt
and do some of the work. If you want oth
er suggestions for her comfort ask youi
wife, she’ll supply them with alacrity and
with considerable pleasure.
SOW WHEAT AS LATE AS POSSI
BLE.
There has always been a question in th«
minds of wheat raisers whether it is bettei
to prepare the soil thoroughly fur wheat |
independent uf any previous crop or to
sow it on ground that has jnst raised a
crop of corn. While experience must large,
ly guide one in this matter, it seems logical
to suppose that the prepared soil will give
the best returns although, after all, it i« I
largely a question of fertilizers or of tht
natural strength of the soil. Our experi
ence has been that when thesoil is properly
prepared early, disked and harrowed and
harrowed again and a liberal supply ol
fertilizer applied we get a little better re
sults than when we simply doill the wheat
In the corn stubble after harvest early tr.
October doubling the quantity of seed and
largely increasing the quantity of fertiliz
er. The amount saved represents the dif
ference In the cost of the fertilizer. Eithei
way we find it most profitable to do the j
seeding as late as October 1, although we
sometimes sow as early as the IlOth of Sep
tember. Try both plans on a small plot j
and see how they work out.
USE THE DRIVEN WELL.
If it is not possible to have wind mill
power on the farm and one must depend
upon the well by all means have a driven
well rather than a dug well. Thene is no
reason why this cannot be done for the
1 expense is but a little more than for the
dug well, you can have it as deep as neces
sary to get a good and unfailing supply
of water and, best of all, can have It
placed where you will. We have a driven
: well which was put in by taking up a por
tion of the kitchen floor, there Is no cel
| lar under the kitchen, it is really a cov
ered addition to the kitchen and gets suf
ficient heat from the latter so that pipes
do not freeze. There is no opening through
which vermin can fall and no well to bo
cleaned out periodically. Moreover, we
had the pipes driven deep enough so that
we get very much better water than our
neighbors who have dug wells, and there
Is never danger of water famine. This fall
we are having a similar well driven in a
portion of the barn and will have no more
trouble on the water question. It’s worth
double the cost of a dug well.
WHEN ALFALFA FAILS.
! In ninety-nine cases out of mie hundred
when there has been a failure with alfalfa
it is due to two things: a sour soil and In
sufficient inocculation with the alfalfa
bacteria. There is nothing to do but tc
sweeten the soil and if a partial stand of
alfalfa has ben obtained it is likely that I
from 600 to 1,000 pounds of lime per acre '
will be all that is needed to accomplish thin
purpose. Inocculation, however, Is abso
lutely necessary If one would grow a good
crop of alfalfa and the best way to in- i
oeulate is to obtain soil from a field In
which alfalfa has been successfully
grown for a considerable period. As we
have said In this department before the
cheapest way of accomplishing this is to
look up the nearest man who has done the
trick and buy some of his soil. A few
bushels sown broadcast just before sowing
the seeds of alfalfa will be suffleinet. Look
I Into the matter carefully; better still, trav
I el a hundred miles, if necessary, in order
to have a talk with some good alfalfa
grower and get the points from him nec
essary to set you straight. One can hardly
go to too much trouble to learn how tc
grow alfalfa with success.
THE BARN WINDOWS.
Many of the discomforts of the horses
and the cows during the winter are due tc
the poorly constructed barn windows and
now is a good time to put them in shape,
If one can do nothing else they can con
struct a window on ei’ther the inside oi
outside of the building so arranged that
it will close over the window now in
place. An excellent window of this kind ia
easily made by covering a home-made
frame with building paper and hinging
it on the inside so that it may be closed
over the window of glass on very cold
nights. Then look out for the cracks in
the barn directly behind the animals. If
you cannot cover them with strips of
board or lath you can at least stuff the
cracks full of bits or strips of newspaper
and in that way add materially to the
warmth of the barn. Remember every
thing done in this way for the protection
of the stock reduces your bill for food
which is worth considering.
THE DOUBLE HOUSE AND SHED.
The writer is responsible for nearly all
of the articles which have appeared In this
department for several years in favor of
the scratching shed and solely becausu
he believes that the majority of those who
keep poultry do not thoroughly apprelcate
all the advantages of this plan. Even those
who find fault with the scratching shed
admit that it is necessary to give poultry
a place, during the winter, where they
may have light and as much sun as pos
sible without exposing them to the cold
and wind. If this is good argument then
the question is, is there anything that will
supply this light and sun in connection
with protection any better than the
scratching shed? The plan here proposed
furnishes a maxi mm#* •'of light and sun, 1
when it shineg.,.-wffh a minimum of ex
pense in ji&tfjr'.ng it and also reduces the
cost by'*furn!shlng the shed for two flocks
from separate houses with no expense ex
cept the divison of (ho shed w.th wire net
ting. The plan is simply to build two regu
lar houses and place a scratching shed
between them and divide this shed in the
middle with wire netting. Make an exit
from each house to the shed and the o> e
curtain In front suffices for both division
this curtain to be let down when the wi >d
blows. If th** bottom board of th s dicis'on
Is made high enough, eighteen inches will
do, there s not likely to he any trouble
or quarreling between the flocks. The it- 1
lustration snows the plan clearly.
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Tho Hind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
in use for over 30 years, has home the signature of
_and has been made under his per
/'T* , sonal supervision since its infancy.
Allow no one to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and «Just-as-good” are but
Experiments that trifle with end endanger the health of
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment.
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