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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 18, 1906)
GIVING MEDICINE TO FOWLS. , As a rule we do not believe In much losing and doctoring of fowls especially as & flock. Where medicine Is put In the mash or drink the well fowls hav Ing the best appetites get the medicine while the ailing ones which most need It stand aside and get little or none. Of the two ways of giving medicine or tonics perhaps the drinking water is the more preferable as fowls are not 'mo greedy for It and their Is more Chance for each to get their share. Hut It Is best never to put drugs In the drinking water when fowls are exces sively thirsty or some may get more than Is good for them. A piece of Iron In the drinking water will supply iron for tonic and If kept there continually will be all that Is necessary In that line. Clean It occasionally or It will get slimy as well ns the drinking ves sel. A groat many farms where well water Is used the Iron is not needed at all fts plenty is found in the water, the same may he said of lime. Salts may be given individually In small Capsules and this is the best way of doctoring any disease. Catch and treat each fowl separately. Blindly dosing all the flock because one or two specimens are affected should be condemned. Unless you are satisfied that a wrong method of feed ing or housing has put the entire flock out of condition, confine the doctoring to those visibly affected. Oftentimes a part of the flock becomes subjected to conditions due to roosting quarters or their choice of range that the remain der are not, hence their wants are dif ferent. A Successful Expedient, From Harper’s Weekly. A certain prominent minister was compelled not long ago to give strict orders that, while he was engaged In the preparation of his sermons, his young son must bo kept reasonably quiet. In spite of this, however, there arose one morning a most astonishing noise of banging and hammering, which seemed to Indicate that the steam heating pipes were being knocked to pieces. Hurrying out of his study, the minister encountered his wife. "My dear, what In the world Is Bobby dolns?" he asked. "Why, he Is only beating on the ra diator downstairs," was the somewhat surprised reply. "Well, he must stop It,” the minister said decidedly. "I don't think he will harm It, dear," his wife answered soothingly; "and It Is the only thing that will keep him> quiet.” INTERESTING CONTEST. fleavy Coat of Unpaid Poatasre. One of the most curious contests •ver before the public was conducted by many thousand persons under the offer of the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., of Battle Creek, Mich., for prises of 31 boxes of gold and 300 greenbacks to those making the most words out of the letters Y-I-O-Grape-Nuts. The contest was started In February, 1908, and it was arranged to have the prises awarded on April 30, 1900. When the public announcement ap peared mauy persons begau to form the words from these letters, some times the whole family being occupied •venlngs, a combination of amusement .and education. After awhile the lists began to come *tn to the Postum Office and before long the volume grew until It required wag ons to carry the mall. Many of the contestants were thoughtless enough to send their lists with Insufficient postage and for a period it cost the Company from twenty-live to flfty elglit and sixty dollars a day to pay the unpaid postage. voting Indies, generally those tvno, i bnd graduated from the high school, were employed to examine these lists end count the correct words. Webster's dictionary was the standard and each silst was very cnrefnlly corrected ex cept those which fell below 8,000, for • It soon became clear that nothing be i low that could win. Some of the lists rrequired the work of a young lady for a solid week on each Individual list. The work was done very carefully and accurately, but the Company had no iIdea, at the time the offer was made, rthat the people would respond so gen •erally and they were compelled to All ■every available space In the oAiees with these young lady examiners, and notwithstanding they worked steadily, It was Impossible to complete the ex amination until Sept. 29, over six months after the prizes should havo been awarded. This delay caused a great many in quiries and naturally created some dis satisfaction. It has been thought best to make this report in practically all of the newspapers In the United States and many of the magazines In order to make clear to the people the condi tions of the contest. Many lists contained enormous num bers of words, which, under the rules, bad to be eliminated “Pegger” would count “Peggers” would not. Some lists contained over 50,000 words, the great majority of which were cut out. The largest lists were checked over two and In some eases three times to insure accuracy. The $100.00 gold prize was won by I,. R. Ileese, 1227 15th St., Denver, Colo., with 9011 correct words. The highest $10.00 gold prize went to S. K. Fraser, Lincoln, Pa., with 9921 correct words. A complete list of the 331 winners with their home addresses will he sent to any contestant enquiring on a iiostnl card. Be sure and give name and address clearly. This contest has cost the Co. many thousand dollars, and probably has not been a profitable advertisement, never theless perhaps some who had never before tried Grape-Nuts food have ibeon interested in the contest, and from trial of the food have been shown Its wonderful rebuilding powers. it tenches In a practical manner that scientifically gathered food elements can be selected from the field grains, which nature will use for rebuilding the nerve centers and brain In a way that is unmistakable to users of Grape Kilts. “There's a reason.” iPosuiio Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle Creek, Ulch. T5he Deluge .ZZ BY DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS l _ I "That's all right,” said I; "bring her along. We'll go to the Havarin." And 1 locked Ills arm In mine and started toward the brougham. He was turning all kinds of colors, and was acting in a way that puzzled me—then. Despite all my years In New York 1 was ignorant of the elaborate social distinctions that had grown up In Its Fifth avenue quarter. X knew, of course, that there was a fashionable society and that some of the most conspicuous of those In It seemed un able to get used to the Idea of being rich and were In a state of great agi tation over their own Importance. Im portant they might he, hut not to mo. I knew nothing of their careful grada tions of snobbism—the people to know socially, the people to know in a busi ness way, the people to know in ways religious and philanthropic, the people to know for the fun to ho got out of them, the people to pride oneself on not knowing at all; the nervousness, Lho hysteria about preserving these disgusting gradations. All this, I say, , was an undreamed-of mystery to me who gave and took liking in the sensi I nle, self-respecting American fashion. 1 Ho I didn't understand why Sam, as I almost dragged him along, was stam mering: "Thank you—but—I—she— the fact is, wo really must get uptown." lly this time I was where I could look into tiio brougham. A glance—I ran see much at a glance, as can any man who spends every day of every year in an all-day fight for ills purse and his life, with the blows coming from all sides. 1 can see much at a glance; I often have seen much; I nev er saw more than Just then. Instant ly, I made up my mind that the El lerslys would lunch with me. "You've got to eat somewhere,” said I. in a tono tHat put an end to his attempts to manufacture excuses. "I'll bo de lighted to have you. Don’t niuko up any more yarns.” He slowly opened the door. "Anita.” said he, "Mr. lilacklock. He's invited us to lunch. i nicea my hat, and bowed. I kept my eyes straight upon hers. And It gave me more pleasure to look Into them than I had ever before got out of looking into anybody's. I am passion ately fond of flowers, and of children; and her face reminded me of both. Or, rather, it seemed to me that what I had seen, w ith delight and longing, in complete in their freshness and beauty and charm, was now before me in the fullness. I felt like saying to her, "I have heard of you often. The children and the flowers have told me you were coming." Perhaps my eyes did say it. At any rate, she looked as straight at me as I at her, and I noticed that she paled a little and shrank—yet con tinued to look, as if I were compelling her. But her voice, beautifully clear, and lingering In the ears like the resonance of the violin after the bow has swept Its strings and lifted, was perfectly self possessed, as she said to her brother: “That will he delightful—If you think we have time.” I saw that she, uncertain whether he wished to accept, was giving him a chance to take either course. “Ho has time—nothing but time,” said I. "His engagements are always with people who want to get something out of him. And they can wait." I pretended to think he was expecting me to enter the trap; I got in, seated myself beside her, said to Sam: "I've saved the little seat for you. Tell your man to take us to the Kquitable building—Nassau street entrance." i talked a pood deal durlnp the first half of the nearly two hours we were together—partly because both Sam and his sister seemed under some sort of strain, chiefly because I was deter mined to make a good Impression. I told her about myself, my horses, my house In the country, my yacht. I tried to show her I wasn’t an ignoramus as to books and art, even if I hadn’t been to college. She listened, while Sam sat embarrassed. "You must bring your sister down to visit me,” I said finally. "I'll see that you both have the time of your lives. Make up a party of your friends, Sam, and come down—when shall we say? Next Sunday? You know you were coming anyhow. I can change the rest of the party.” Sam grew as red as if he were going into apoplexy. I thought then he was afraid I’d blurt out something about who were In the party I was proposing to change. I was soon to know better. "Thank you, Mr. Rlacklock,” said his sister. "But I have an engagement next Sunday. I have a great many engagements just now. Without look ing at my book I couldn't say when I can go." This easily and naturally. In her set they certainly do learn thor oughly that branch of tact which plain people call lying. Sam gavo her a grateful look, which he thought I didn't see, and which I didn't rightly Interpret—then. "We'll tlx It up later, Blacklock," said he. “All right,” said I. And from that minute I was almost silent. It was something in her tone and manner that silenced me. I suddenly realized that I wasn't making as good an impression as I had been flattering myself. When a man has money and is will ing to spend it he can readily fool him self Into imagining he gets on grandly with women. But I lmd better grounds than that for thinking myself not un attractive to them, as a rule. Women had liked me when 1 had nothing; women had liked me when they didn't know who I was. I felt that this wom an did not like me. And yet, by the way she loked at me in spite of her efforts not to do so. I could tell that I had some sort of unusual Interest for her. Why didn’t she like me? She | made me feel the reason. I didn't be long to her world. My ways and my 1 looks offended her. She disliked me a good deal; she feared me a little. She would have felt safer it she had been gratifying her curiosity, gazing In at me through the bars of a cage. Where I had been feeling and show ing my usual assurance, I now became l 111 at ease. I longed for them to be gone; at the same time I hated to let her go—for. when and how would I see her again, would I get the chance 1 So remove her bad Impression? It ir ritated me thus to be concerned about j the sister of a man into my liking for i whom there was mixed much pity and some contempt. But I am of the dispo- | sltion that, whenever I see an obstacle j of whatever kind, I cannot restrain myself from trying to jump it. Here was an obstacle—a dislike. To clear It : was of the smallest Importance In the world, was a silly waste of time. Yet j I felt I could not maintain with my- ; self my boast that there were no ob- ! stacles I couldn’t get over, if I turned aside from this. Sam—not without hesitation, as I re called afterward—left me with her, when I sent him to hring her broug ham up to the Broadway entrance. As J she and I were standing there alone, ! waiting in silence. I turned, on her sud- | denly, and blurted out, "You don't like j me." She reddened a little, smiled slightly, j “What a quaint remark!” said she. I looked straight at her. "But you I •hall." [ [ Our eyes met. Her chin came out a little, her eyebrows lifted. Then, In scorn of herself as well as of me, she locked herself In behind a frozen haughtiness that ignored me. "Ah, here is the carriage," she said. I followed her to the curb; she Just touched my hand, just nodded her fascinating little head. “See you Saturday, old man,” called her brother frlendlly. My lowering face had alarmed him. "That party Is off.” said I curtly. And I lifted my hat and strode away. As I had formed the habit of dis missing the disagreeable. I soon put her out of my mind. But she took with her my Joy in the taste of things. I couldn’t get back my former keen satisfaction in all I had done and was doing. The luxury, the tangible evidences of my achievement, no longer gave me pleas ure; they seemed to add to my irrita tion. That’s the way It Is In life. We load ourselves down with toys like so many greedy children; then we see another toy and drop everything to be free to seize It; and if we cannot we’re wretched. I worked myself up, or rather, down, to such a mood that when my office boy told me Mr. Bangdon would like me to come to his office as soon as It was convenient, I snapped out: "The hell he does! Tell Mr. Bangdon I'll be glad to see him here whenever he calls.” That was stupidity, a premature asser tion of my right to be treated as an equal. I had always gone to Bangdon, and to any other of the rulers of finance, whenever I had got a sum mons. For. while I was rich and pow erful, I held both wealth and power, in a sense, on sufferance; I knew that, so long as I had no absolute control of any great department of industry, these rulers could destroy me should they de cide that they needed my holdings or were not satisfied with my use of my power. There were a good many peo ple who did not realize that property rights had ceased to exist, that prop erty had become a revocable grant from the "plutocrats." I was not of those misguided ones who had failed to dis cover the new fact concealed in the old form. So I used to go -when I was sum moned. I5ui not max nay. nuwtver, no soon er was my boy gone than I repented the Imprudence. "But what of it?” said I to myself. "No matter how the thing turns out, I shall be able to get some advantage.” For it was part of my philosophy that a proper boat with proper sails and a proper steersman can gain in any wind. I was surprised when Langdon appeared in my office a few minutes later. He was a tallish, slim man, carefully dressed, with a bored, weary look and a slow, bored way of talking. I had al ways said that if I had not been myself I should have wished to be Langdon. Men liked and admired him; women loved and ran after him. Yet he ex erted not the slightest effort to please anyone; on the contrary, he made it distinct and clear that he didn’t care a rap what anyone thought of him or, for that matter, of anybody or any thing. He knew how to get, without sweat or snatching, all the good there was in whatever fate threw in his way —and he was one of those men into whose way fate seems to strive to put everything wrorth having. His business judgment was shrewd, but he cared nothing for the big game he was play ing except as a game. Like myself, he was simply a sportsman—and, I think, that is why we liked each other. He could have trusted almost anyone that came into contact with him; but he trusted nobody, and frankly warned everyone not to trust him—a safe frankness, for his charm caused it to bo forgotten or ignored. He would do anything to gain an object, however trivial, which chanced to attract him; once it was his, he would throw it aside as carelessly as an ill-fitting collar. His expression, as he came into my office, was one of cynical amusement, as if he were saying to himself: “Our friend Blacklock has caught the swollen head at last.” Not a suggestion of ill humor, or resentment at my imperti nence—for, in the circumstances, I had been guilty of an impertinence. Just languid, amused patience with the frailty of a friend. "I see,” said he, “that you have got Textile up to eighty-five.” He was the head of the Textile trust which had been built by his brother in-law and had fallen to him in the confusion following his brother-in law’s death. As he was just then need ing some money for his share in the National Coal undertaking, he had di rected me to push Textile up toward par and unload him of two or three hundred thousand shares—he, of course, to repurchase the shares after he had taken profits and Textile had dropped back to its normal fifty. “I’ll have it up to ninety-eight by the middle of next month," said X. “And there I think we’d better stop." “Stop at about ninety,” said he. "That will give me all I find I’ll need for this Coal business. I don’t want to be bothered with hunting up an Invest ment." "I shook my head. “I must put it up to within a point or two of par," I de clared. “In my public letter I’ve been saying it would go above ninety-five, and l never deceive my public.” Ho smiled—my notion of honesty al ways amused him. "As you please,” he said with a shrug. Then I saw a serious look—Just a fleeting flash of warning—behind his smiling mask; and he added carelessly: "Be careful about your own personal play. I doubt if Textile can be put any higher." It must have been my mood that pre vented those words from making the impression on me they should have made. Instead of appreciating at once and at its full value this characteristic and amazingly friendly signal of cau tion, I showed how stupidly inattentive l was by saying: "Something doing? Something new?” But he had already gone further than his notion of friendship warranted. So he replied: “Oh, no. Simply that everything's uncertain nowadays.” My mind had been all this time on those Manasquale mining properties. I now said: “Has Roebuck told you that I had to buy those mines on my own account?” “Yes,” he said. He hesitated, and again he gave me a look whose mean ing came to me only when it was too late. "I think, Blacklock, you’d better turn them over to me.” “I can’t,” I answered. “I gave my word.” “As you please,” said he. Apparently the flatter didn’t inter est him. He began’ to talk of the per formances of my little 2-year-old, Beachcomber; and after twenty min utes or so, he drifted away. “I envy you your enthusiasm,” he said, paus ing in my doorway. “Wherever 1 am. I wish 1 were somewhere else. What ever I’m doing. I wish I were doing something else. Where do you get all this joy of the fight? What the devil are you lighting for?” He didn't wait for a reply. I thought over my situation steadily for several days. I went down to my country place. I looked everywhere among all my belongings, searching, searching, restless, impatient. At last I knew what ailed me—what the lack was that yawned so gloomily from everything I had once thought beauti ful, had once found sufficient. I waa In the midst of the splendid, terraced i pansy beds my gardeners had just set ! out; I stopped short and slapped my thigh. “A woman!” I exclaimed “That’s what I need. A woman—the right sort of woman—a wife!" IV. A CANDIDATE FOR “RESPECTA BILITY.” To handle this new business proper ly I must put myself in position to look the whole field over. I must gel In line and in touch with "respecta bility.” When Sam Ellersly came in for his "rations,” I said; “Sam, I want you to put me up at the Traveleri club.” “The Travelers!" echoed he, with 3 blank look. “The Travelers,” said I. “It’s abou) the best of the big clubs, isn’t it? And it has as members most of the men 1 do business with and most of those ) want to get into touch with.” He laughed. “It can’t be done.” “Why not?” I asked. “Oh—I don’t know. You see—the fact is—well, they’re a lot of old fogiei up there. You don’t want to bothei with that push, Matt. Tako my ad vice. Do business with them, but avoid them socially.” "I want to go in there," I insisted. “) j have my own reasons. You put m« I up.” i ten you, u a De no use, ne re plied, in a tone that Implied he wished to hear no more of the matter. “You put me up,” I repeated. “AnS if you do your best, I’ll get in all right I’ve got lots of friends there. And you’ve got three relatives in the com mittee on membership.” At this he gave me a queer, sharp glance—a little fright in it. I laughed. "You see, I’ve been look ing into it, Sam. I never take a Jumi till I've measured it.” “You’d better wait a few years, un til—” he began, then stopped and turned red. “Until what?” said I. “I want you to speak frankly.” “Well, you’ve got a lot of enemies— ! a lot of fellows who’ve lost money it deals you’ve engineered. And they’ll , say all sorts of things.” "I'll take care of that,” said I, quite ' easy In mind. "Mowbray Langdon’s president, isn’t he? Well, he’s my cloq est friend." I spoke quite honestly, it shows how simple-minded I was in cer tain ways that I had never once noted the important circumstance that this “closest friend" had never invited ms to his house, or anywhere where I’<? meet his up-town associates at intro- , ducing distance. Sam looked surprised. "Oh, In thai case,” he said, “I’ll see what can b& | done." But his tone was not quite cor- , dial enough to satisfy me. To stimulate him and give him an earnest of what I intended to do foi him, when our little social deal had been put through, I showed him how he could win ten thousand dollars it the next three days. “And you needn’i bother about putting up margins,” said I, as I often had before. “I’ll take earl of that.” He stammered a refusal and went out; but he came back within an hour, and ,In a strained sort of way, ac cepted my tip and offer. "That’s sensible,” said I. “When will you attend to the matter at the Trav elers? I want to be warned so I car pull my own set of wires in concert.’1 "I'll let you know,” he answered, hanging his head. I didn’t understand his queer actloni then. Though I am an expert in finance I hadn’t yet made a study of that oth er game—the game of “gentleman.’1 And I didn’t know how seriously th« fraatds and fakirs who play it take it and themselves. I attributed his con fusion to a ridiculous mock modesty he had about accepting favors; 11 strnck me as being particularly silly or this occasion, because for once he wai to give as well as to take. He didn't call for his profits, but wrote asking me to mail him the checl for them. I did so. putting in the en velope with it a little jog to his mem ory on the club matter. I didn’t sei him again for nearly a month; and though I searched and sent I eouldn'* get his trail. On opening day at Morris park, I was going along the passagi behind the boxes in the grandstand, or my way to the naddock. I wanted tc see my hofse that was about to ruj for the Salmagundi sweepstakes, ant to tell my Jockey that I would giv< him fifteen thousand Instead of tel thousand, if he won—for I had quite l bunch down. I was a figure at thi tracks in those days. I went into rac ing on my customary generous scale I liked horses, just as I liked every thing that belonged out under the big sky; also I liked the advertising mj string of thoroughbreds gave me. .’ was rich enough to be beyond the stag* at which a man excites suspicion by frequenting race tracks and gambllnj, houses; I was at the height where prodigalities begin to be taken as evi dences of abounding superlluity, not o} a dangerous profligacy. Jim Harka way, who failed at playing the sam» game I played and won, said to mi with a sneer one day: "You certainly do know how to get a dollar’s worth ol notoriety out of a dollar’s worth ol advertising." (Continued Next Week.) Gambling at Sea. From London Truth. A friend of mine recently returned from a trip to the United States verj full of the mischief done by profes sional gamblers and card sharpers ori the Atlantic liners, and strongly of the opinion that the shipping companiei are responsible for the existence of tiiii evil. It is pretty certain. I believe, that th« blackleg business is organized like nnj other industry, and that the gangs \vhc frequent the Atlantic liners are regulal employes of an individual or firm. Ii is at any rate certain that the mem bers ot the gangs are known to thi ships' officers, and my friend tells me that the names of seven of them were pointed out to him on the passengei list of the White Star lin£r on which hi returned and the individuals Identified as they sat at table. It is interestin', to note that among them was a woniar and a youth of innocent appearance. j It is one of the worst features of the evil that many of them are youngster.’ going out to America or Canada, witl most of their worldly wealth In theii pockets. My friend learned that thi j gang on his ship got £160 from cer tain pussengers at one sitting, and that on a recent voyage of the saint ship they had fleeced a young passen ger to the tune of £600. He therefor* urges that as the companies know ttie individuals they should absolutely re fuse to carry them, and stand thi racket of legal proceedings for so do ing. __ _ Definitions. Little Bub (at dinner)—Pop, whal does "faith, hope, trust," mean? Pop—Tour ma bought ihis pie at thi I baker's on “trust.” Can you understand I that? Little Bub—Tes. indeed. Pop—1 hope there'll be enough to g, ' round. Understand that? Little Bub—Oh. yes. Pop—Well, we’ll need faith *r. • it. It's mince. THINGS WOrTh' KNOWING ABOUT MUSHROOMS. In the dark shade of lofty pine trees and under spreading oaks in more open woods a mushroom is found so remark able in color and graceful in form that its beauty has excited admiration for i hundreds of years. The color of its , bright orange cap and its chalk white stem and gills is heightened by the sur rounding darkness of the woods and presents a contrast as singular as it is i beautiful. But beneath the pleasing exterior of this brilliant fungus a poison lurks so fatal to the lives of men and cattle that it is called the deadly amanita, and in different countries mothers caution their children to beware of its charms. Amanita muscaria, the deadly, or fly, amanita, is completely encased in a fleece-like covering during the early stages of its growth, which makes it decidedly egg-shaped in form. As the stem lengthens this covering either ad heres in loose patches to the top of the cap or it slips away and forms a sheathing to the cup at the base of the stem. Another inner covering breaks away in its turn from the cap as the mush room expands and forms a conspicuous collar about the upper part of the stem. The bulbous base of the stem and these ruptured, fleecy coverings are pro nounced characteristics which are most helpful in distinguishing this dangerous fungus from the other varieties of mushrooms. It is strong, free from pests and grows to a height from fourteen to six teen inches. In color the cap is some times bright scarlet, again orange or yellow or reddish in tne center and light yellow toward the edges, and it has noticeable wartlike patches spread over the top. On old plants the color fades out, and late in the season par ticularly forms of the deadly amanita are found which are almost white. The stem is easily separated from the cup at its base. mis musnroom is more generally known than any of the other poisonous species. It has long been used as a ily poison in Europe, and it takes its name, muscaria, from the Latin word for a fly. Its poisonous effect upon hu man beings begins a few hours after it has been eaten. The symptoms are nausea and faintness, with cold per spiration and stupor, followed in se vere cases by death from a gradual weakening of the heart. A strong emetic should be given at once, and in all cases a physician should be called. Sulphate of atropln Is the only known chemical antidote for this poison, and to save the patient It must be promptly administered by hypodermic injections. The poison may also be absorbed through the pores of the skin, and bad cases of poisoning have been produced by simply holding an amanita in the closed hand or breathing its exhala tions in a warm room. If poisonous mushrooms are packed in the same box with edible ones the virus from the poisonous fungi is ab sorbed by the harmless mushrooms, and they become as dangerous to eat as the original offenders. In certain countries the deadly ama nita seems to lose some of its virulen cy, and in the north of Russia and parts of northeastern Asia it is used in the same manner as wine for its Intoxicating effects. The mushrooms are gathered in hot weather and are hung up in the air to dry, or they are sometimes picked fresh and put into soup or sauoes. A small amount swal lowed whole Is enough to produce a day’s intoxication. Another fatally dangerous member of the amanita family is the death cup (Amanita phalloides), a beautiful mushroom which also grows in the Woods, especially in pine forests. It is not so highly colored as the deadly amanita, and, unlike that mushroom, it has a smooth, satiny cap. It is usually white or straw colored, but specimens are found which are light brown, green, yellow and spotted. The stem is white and nearly smooth, and the cup at the base of the stem is in variably present. The death cup Is even more poison ous than the deadly ainanita and stands first among all noxious fungi for its poisonous qualities. It grows In the eastern and middle states and In par ticularly large quantities near the city of Washington. Another amanita (Amanita vernus), found in the woods in spring, is also very poisonous and may be told by its color, which is a creamy white throughout. The boleti, for instance, have sev eral varieties which are nonedible, al though many kinds, on the other hand, make delicious food. The boleti are distinguished by a spongelike surface of pores instead of gills beneath the cap. The harmful varieties are bitter, as a rule, and change color to blue or red when cut or broken. The edible varieties remain white.—Annie Oakes Huntington In Youth's Companion. A Positive CURE FOR ffCj/AM8AlW\ mkRMMMW Ely's Cream Balm is qoiddy absorbed. Gives Rofiel at Once. "j ojp5?£.% It cleanses, soothes, heals and protects the diseased membrane. 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Mandrake root and Queen’s root—all or which are highly praised as remedies for ail the abovo mentioned affections by such eminent medical writers and teachers as Prof. Bartholow, ofJJefferson Med. Col lege: Prof. Har<veT the Univ. of Pa.; Prof. Finler-fiHfngwood, M. D„ of Ben nett Med. College, Chicago; Prof. John King, M. If. of Cincinnati; Prof. John M. ScuddcirvM. B., of Cincinnati; Prof. Edwin M-JIDjlh, M. D., of Hahnemann Med. Cpflegd, Chicago, and scores of others/b*aally eminent in their several schqgjjs'of practice. .The "Golden Medical Discovery ” is tho iffiiggiKts tpr like purposes, tha f i>;ir~a~ny more than anxAamhsE5LjortlimtrvTest7 taonnus. open publicity ol its formula is the Dost possible guaranty of its merits. A glance at this published formula will show that "Golden Medical Discovery” contains no poisonous, harmful or habit formingdrugs and no alcohol—chemically pure, triple-refined glycerino being used instead. Glycerino is entirely unobjec tionable and besides is a most useful agent in tho cure of all stomach as well as bron chial, throat and lung affections. There is tho highest medical authority for its use in all such cases. Tho " Discovery ” is a concentrated glyceric extract of native, medicinal roots and Is safe and reliable. A booklet of extracts from eminent, medical authorities, endorsing its ingre dients mailed free on request. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y._ CORES CONSTIPATION It is just about impossible to be sick when the bowels are right and not posssible to be well when they are wremg. Through its action on the bowels. Lane’s Family Medicine cleans the body inside and leaves no lodging placefor disease. If for once you wish to know how it feels to be thoroughly well, give this famous laxative tea a trial. Sold by all dealers at 25c. and 50c. When you buy WET WEATHER CLOTHING you want complete protection and long service. 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