MOTHERHOOD 1 if The first requisite of a pood K mother is pood health, and the ex- ' perience of maternity should not be approached without careful physical preparation, as a woman who is in pood physical condition transmits to her children the blessinps of a pood constitution. \ Preparation for healthy mater nity is accomplished by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vepetable Compound, which is made from native roots and / herbs, more successfully than by any fn other medicine because it pives tone Jc and strenpth to the entire feminine d] orpanism. curinp displacements, ul ceration and inflammation, and the ! result is less suffering and more children healthy at birth. For more than thirty years | Lydia E. Pinkham’sVegetable Compound ; has been the standby of American mothers in preparing for childbirth. NotewhatMrs.JamesChester,of427 W. 35th St., New York says in this letter:—Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-“I wish every expectant mother knew about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. A neighbor who had learned of its great value at this trying period of a woman’s life urged me to try it and I did so, and I cannot say enough in regard to the good it did me. I recovered quickly and am in the best of health now.” Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is certainly a successful remedy for the peculiar weaknesses and ailments of women. ! It has cured almost every form of Female Complaints, Dragging Sensa tions, Weak Back, Falling and Displacements, Inflammation, Ulcera tions and Organic Diseases of Women and is invaluable in preparing for Childbirth and during the Change of Life. Mrs. Pinkham’s Standing Invitation to Women Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to write Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free. A Positive CURE FOR CATARRH Ely’s Cream Balm Is quickly absorbed. Gives Relief at Once. It cleanses, soothes, heals and protects the diseased membrane. It cures Catarrh and drives away a Cold in the Head quickly. 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Cuttcura Booklet. 48 pages. rrtiftnirwmTiTMrTrrnrinrrriiHir Jii TOILET ANTISEPTIC cleanses and heals mucous membrane affections such ■ as nasal and pelvic catarrh, sore throat, canker sores, inflamed eyes, and is a per fect dentifrice and mouth wash. Paxtine makes an economical medi cinal wash of extraordinary cleansing r.nd germicidal power, warm direct applications of which are soothing, healing and remarkably curative. At druggists or by mail, 50c. Sample free. The R. Paxton Company, Boston, Mass. Atchison Globe Sights. The only thing people always have ready Is an excuse. Almost anyone can be induced to lie if you ask enough questions. The better you behave the better you get along. It's old but its true. Money you find looks a good deal big ger than an equal amount earned. There is such a thing as being too orig inal; people might call you crazy. A thoroughly competent agent is one who can sell mining stock to a miner. In poetry “Thy sentinel am I,” means a woman. Too many men imagine they can’t have a good time without getting Into trouble. A husband’s conscience never bothers him much until his wife begins to find out. When some men make a palpable mis take, how quickly they invent a ridiculous excuse! We don’t believe we could fall in love with a school teacher. School teachers are too matter-of-fact to be good lovers. The main street of a small town on a half holiday can make the saddest funeral procession iook like a gala affair when it comes to cheerfulness. It is a hard matter for a man who be lieves as you do to carry his ideas to the extreme where you will call him a fana tic. When a letter Jumps from the first to the fourth page and then back to the sec ond, It never says anything very im portant. Some people are so stubborn and so contrary, that you can only convinces them they are wrong by agreeing with them. Organ to Save Woodpile. From the Boston Herald. A number of years ago a village in the eastern part of the town of Middleboro was very much wrought up over the in troduction of a musical instrument in their church service. At the final meet ing, when the matter was to be settled, excitement ran high. One man, whose reputation for honest dealings was not always above suspicion, made a fiery speech in opposition. A neighbor whose back yard joined the speaker’s could hardly wait for the close of the remarks. Then jumping to his feet without waiting to address the chairman, he said: “Gosh, sir, if I had known the gentleman was so afraid of an organ I should have had one hung on my woodpile years ago.’’ MAY BE COFFEE That Cannes All the Trouble. When the house Is afire, it’s like a holly when disease begins to show, it's no time to talk but time to act—delay is dangerous—remove the cause of the trouble at once. “For a number of years,” says a Kan sas lady, "I felt sure that coffee was hurting me, and yet, I was so fond of it, 1 could not give it up. I paltered with my appetite and of course yielded to the temptation to drink more. At last 1 got so bad that I made up iny mind I must either quit the use of cof fee or die. “Everything I ate distressed me, and I suffered severely almost all the time with palpitation of the heart. I fre quently woke up in the night with the feeling that 1 was almost gone,—my heart seemed so smothered and weak in its action that I feared it would stop heating. My breatli grew short and the least exertion set me to panting. 1 slept but little and suffered from rheu matism. "Two years ago I stopped using the old kind of coffee and began to uss Postum Food Coffee, and from the very first I began to improve. It worked a miracle 1 Now I can eat anything and digest it without trouble. I sleep like a baby, and my heart heats full, strong and easily. My breathing has become steady and normal, and my rheumatism has left me. I feel like another |>er son, and it is all due to quitting cof fee and using Postum Food Coffee, lor 1 haven’t used any medicine and none would have done any good as long as 1 kept drugging with coffee.” Name giv en by Postum Gj„ Battle Creek, Mich. "There’s a Reason.” Read the little book, “The Road to WellviUe,” in pkga All grocers. DAIRY NOTES. Professor Frazer makes soma very strong statements about the quality of cows kept by Illinois dairymen. He says many a good cow is worth twenty or more poor cows in the same herd in pctual profits to the farmer. Illinois dairymen are keeping thousands of cows that barely pay their board, or at best, return so small a profit that It would take 250 to 400 to show *1,000 clear money per year. The worst thing js. that nearly every dairy herd has cows of this stamp. Mr. J. A. Phillips, one of the most successful dairymen In Wisconsin, Bays, be careful in selecting the dairy sire, for on his quality depends the Im provement of your herd. Feed us far as possible the feed grown on the farm, tf you require bran or oil meal buy it and mix it with your other feeds your self. Keep all your money at home, liaise your stock as well as you can, and market as good a product as you can. Did you ever notice a good milch cow stroll over the pastures as leisurely as ff she had no thought of anything ex cept turning her feed into milk? A cow never hurries or becomes excited, un less forced to it, and the quiet, slow moving cow' is the one that does the business at the milk pail. Take the hint. Keep the cows quiet, don't dog them or chase them, or swear at them. February and March are hard months on the milch cows. The winds C-re piercing, and often snow or sleet catches the cows out in the llelds. Exposure of this kind always tells in the flow of milk. The best way to handle the cows is to let them out say for two or three hours, during the sunny part of the day. Dairying now is too big a business to be turned over to the women folks. One or two cows won’t make a dairy. It will make a start, but enough cows should be kept to get up some interest. We like to crowd things nowadays. So with dairying. Go into it, as if it was your whole business. Study and de velop. Then it will pay. Cement floors, steel stalls and like Improvements are alright in the dairy, if you have money to burn. What is more essential, the cow barns or sheds should be kept clean, the food wholesome, and the cows kept sensi bly. There are a whole lot of things to learn, before "fancy" improvements are necessary. The quality of butter is not affected by the time it takes to churn it. If there is trouble, it comes from some other cause—from adding fresh ekimmed cream to well ripened cream, or perhaps the trouble is with the cows themselves. The cream of some cows churns quicker and better than others. Another good thing about the dairy is that you can keep good hands the year round, and afford to pay them good wages. On grain farms, when men are hired for only six or seven months, it is almost impossible to get good reliable men. No good man can afford to loaf five or six months. One of the best buttermakers in the country says dairymen do not pay enough attention to cleanliness. Every thing should be kept as clean as clean can be. Cream that is not kept in nice condition right up to the time it is de livered at the factory, cannot be made into good butter. Try to keep the temperature of the cow stables uniform, and do not throw doors and windows wide open, when the cows are in their stalls. A dairy man reports that a difference of 11 de grees, in the temperature of his barns, made a shrinkage of 3% per cent. In the milk. There is such a thing as a good and poor ration. It is best to feed as much as possible of our home grown stuff, but one should know how best to com bine these to give a well balanced ra tion. In fact the year's profits will depend largely upon how well the food Is handled. A Minnesota farmer says during the year 1905 he sold his whole milk to the creamery. Milking the same cows dur ing 1906, he separated his milk at home, using a hand machine, selling only the cream. His receipts for 1906 were near ly one-third more than the year pre vious. A successful calf raiser says do two things and you will have no trouble with your calves—be careful about overfeeding and teach the calf to eat whole oats as soon as possible. That's good. Keep them in light, dry quarters, and the job will be still easier. Many dairy farms are operated under leases, or landlords furnish land and cows, and division of profits Is made. Put these leases in writing. Don't take chances on a verbal agreement. Have the lease signed In duplicate, so that each party may have a copy. Look out for the pails used for feed ing the calves. Gems galore lurk in them, and a trifle sometimes upsets the calf. If these calves are not doing well, examine the feed pails. Tin pails are the best, and they should be washed and scalded every day. Don't allow the ''barn" flavor to get into your milk. This can be avoided by keeping the stable clean, and keep ing the dirt out of the milk. No amount of straining or separation will rid the I milk of this flavor. The only thing to do is to keep it out. Sometimes accidents will happen In the dairy. I have known of such a | thing as a cow sticking her foot into a i pall of tnllk. Don't try to strain out 1 dirt from the milk. If it gets in, bet ter feed the milk to the pigs, wash out the pail, and go ahead. Dairy form is ull right, but the best "form” is the one that fills the pall. The cow that will show a profit of $100 a year over the cost of her feed is worth a whole herd that just about play even. The cow that performs is the one we want. FARM FACTS. There Is no "best” breed of hogs. In my Judgment, but there are "best” In dividuals among every breed. Every observing feeder has found out long ago that one animal Is not oe good ae another, and his profits are measured by his Judgment In picking out the reul good animals. Some feeders al ways have nice, even bunches of fat tening stock, and they seldom lose on their operations. Others will pick up most anything and try, by heavy feed ing, to tubn them Into fat animals. They are apt to lose out. There Is this difference In animals, some will fatten easily, some will make big, raw frames, but never get fat. Every man who raises his own feeding stock should study these characteristics and select breeding stock which will likely pro duce the easy feeding, well proportioned animal. Farrowing time will soon be nlong now, and a little forethought In getting the sows accustomed to having some one near them may save a nice litter of pigs. One should know pretty near the time when each sow will farrow. She should be separated for at least two weeks and put Into a quiet roomy pen, or in a small field with a roomy Individual house. When sows are kept in adjacent pens, they are apt to be nervous, and If this plan must be fol lowed, handle the sows gently and get them on good terms. A nervous, Ill tempered sow never makes a good mother. Many farmers grow special crops for seed purposes. There Is considerable profit In the work, providing the details are looked after. In the first place one should establish a reputation for fair dealing and honest representation of his goods. One should send out nothing for seed, but really first class stuff. Many farmers sell their entire crops for seed purposes, but they grow new varieties, and guarantee the quality of their seeds. It never pays to send out' poor stuff and make excuses for the poor quality. A handy arrangement on all farms may be made from three two by sixes or poles about sixteen feet long rigged like a well digger’s tripod and windlass, or a pulley, or pair of them may be used to do the hoisting. This may be used for butchering and for many other Jobs. A rops and pair of pulleys are very convenient farm tools and those1 having them would not do without. We cannot have all the handy things we would like, some of us, but there Is such a thing as doing with too few. A recent experiment In Wisconsin Is Interesting In showdng the value of dif ferent grains fed to young sows. Six' youn gsows were fed on equal pnrts of wheat middlings and ground barley, mixed with skim milk. They made a total gain of 643 pounds in fifteen' weeks. An equal number of sows fed on wheat middlings, skim milk and' corn meal gained 730 pounds. The' amount of food consumed by each lot was practically the same. Did you take an Invoice of your stock on hand at the first of the year? If not do you think the merchant that1 would manage his business without such a record would succeed? Then why should the farmer? The man who does not know what he has will not likely know what he buys or sells and the chances are that he will not know whether he is ahead at the end of the year. Start now to know your bus iness. Some swine raisers find It profitable to sell their pigs when about six weeks old. Feeders are willing to pay $3 to $4 each for these thrifty pigs, and sows which will raise six or eight good pigs are surely good Investments. One big advantage of this system Is the risk of disease is practically nothing, for dis ease seldom develops while pigs are suckling. Now is the time to test the seed corn Most any of the methods of testing will be all right, if seed is in fair condition. But if a low percentage is obtained or the germination is weak, better make sure and test every ear to be used for' seed. Corn that Is dry now, and will test 9a per cent, or above, may safely be planted, If properly cared for till planting time. Feeders are Selling high. One day last week an Ohio farmer paid $4.75 per hundred weight, for a load of 1,100 pound shorthorns. These will be sjiort fed and sent back to market in March. On account of prevailing high prices many are coming into the feeder mar ket the second time this season. Six cent, cattle and 35 cent corn looks good. A LaSalle county, Illinois, farmer says he Is getting from sixty to seventy bushels of corn, while his neighbors get about forty bushels per acre. There is no profit in growing forty bushels per acre; that just about pays for growing the crop. There is more profit in growing one ucre of seventy bushels than ten of forty bushels each. Rotation of crops without some thought as to the condition in which each crop leaves the ground, and the requirements of the crop which Is to follow, is all guess work, and you are just as liable to guess wrong as right. Each crop should supplement the one following, the entire rotation tending to build up the soil. One who knows says never allow the calf to suck. The sooner you can teach it that It must drink or starve, the better it will be for both yourself and calf. A hot headed man or boy has no business teaching calves. The calf ! Is about the stubbornest thing you ever tried to make look into a pail; don't force it, coax it. The sappy corn this season is making lots of trouble In feed lots. Many cattle feeders report more trouble this season than ever before, and the unsound con dition of corn is given as the cause. Hog cholera is rampant in many coun ties In northern Iowa, largely due, no doubt, to excessive feeding of sour corn. If you want to start the hens laying feed some green cut bone. During the summer season when hens do their best work, they have the range, and can pick up bugs and insects to their j nearts' content. Do your best to pro- | vide some food to take the place of the bugs. | King Edward’* Hat. When Hall Caine was In Philadelphia lome time ago he told the following story: At a garden party near London where royalty attended Mr. Caine was presented :o the king. A photographer made a snap ihot of the assembly. As Is well known, it these open air functions the malo Hirsts always remove their hals when In :he presence of the king while his ma lesty continues to wear hla headgear. When the photographic plato was develop ?d It was found that beside the king only ono other guest wore a hat. This was the very young son of the novelist, who was remonstrated with by hla father for a grave breach of decorum. "But,’’ asked the bov. “Isn’t his ma jesty a polite man?-»»... *e be guilty of a rude act?” "He la a very polite man," he was told, ' and he would not bo guilty of a rude act." "Then," triumphantly replied thla young republican, ”1 was as polite as he, for I only followed hla example.” Caution. Imitations havo been placed upon the market so closely resembling AMcock’s Plasters In general appearance as to be well calculated to deceive. It la, how ever, in general appearance only that they compare with Allrock’s, for they are not only lacking in tbe best elements which have made Allcock’s so efficient, but *r# often harmful In their effects. Remember that Allcock's are the original and only genuine porous piasters—the best exter nal remedy known—and when purchasing plasters the only safe way is to always insist upon having Allcock's. Kept a Diary Sevan Yeare. Henry Arthur Jones, the noted Eng lish playwright, was giving the stu dents of Yale an address on the drama. "Your American vernacular in pic turesque." he said, "and It should help your playwrights to build strong, racy plays. But neither vernacular or any thing else Is of moment if perseverance is lacking. "No playwright can succeed who Is like a man I know. "I suld to this man one New Year's day: " ‘Do you keep a diary, Philip?’ “ ’Yes,’ he answered. ‘I’ve kept one for the first two weeks In January for the last seven years.’ ” TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take LAXATIVE BItOMO Quinine Tablet" Druggists refund money If It falls to cure E. W.GROVE'S signature la on each box. 2Sr Contagious. From Success. An Irish lad on the east side was ob lged recently to seek treatment at a dis pensary. On his return home from the Irst treatment ho was met by this In quiry from hla mother: "An’ what did Ihe docthor man say was tlio mattre wld your eye?" "Ho suld there was some furrln sub stance In It." "Shure!" exclaimed the old woman, with »n I-told-you-so air, "now, maybe, yo'll «ape awuy from thlm Eyetallon boys!" How to Trap Wild Animal*. 40-page trap book illustrated, picture 415 | wild animals in natural colors, also liar- j Dineter& calendar, also gun & trap catalog, j also prices on raw furs. All sent post paid for 10c stamps or silver. FREE to those who *hinto, or buy of us. Address Fur Dept, ! N. Yf. Hide & Fur Co., Minneapolis, Minn. Accomplished the Purpose. From Smith’s Weekly. "Popk'.ns is a clever fellow." "What has he done now?" "He’s put a spring-gun in his back yard, •i burglar-alarm at every window, an elec tric mat at each door, and bulldog In the Kitchen. It cost money, but he accom plished the purpose he aimed at." "What was that?” "He’s got the servant so badly fright ened that she’s afraid to stay out late at night." Urs. Winslow’s poothixo strop for CJhllflre* teething; softens the puma, reduces indtniauiuoa, *r •eye pain, cures wind nolle, ft cent' a bottle He Knew. The Old Man—Gracious! If you beat your poor horse that way you will never reach heaven! The Driver—If I don't beat him. I’ll never reach town. .. - ' . 3 A Most Valuable Agent. • Tho glycerlno employed In Dr. PI ere*** medicines greatly enhances tho medicinal properties which it extracts from natlv* medicinal roots and holds In solution much better than alcohol would. It ale* possesses medicinal properties ol Its own being a valuablo demulcent, nutritive antiseptic and antiferment. It add* greatly to theofllcacy of tho Black Cherry bark, Bloodroot, Golden Seal root, Ston* root and Queen’s root, contained Id "Golden Medical Discovery ” In subduing chronic, or lingering coughs, bronchia^ throat and lung affections, for all of which these agents aro recommended by stand* ard medical authorities. In all cases whero there Is a wasting away of flesh, loss of appotltc, with weak stomafTi, as in tho early stages of cop* sumjftinn, there can be no doubt that gly. cerinofacts as a valuable nutritive and aids Mte Golden Seal root. Stone root, Quecfcs roht and Black Cherrybark fa* Rromtlinp digestion and building up tb* esh anVjstrength, controlling the cough and brlnifog about a healthy condtUoa of the wfi4lo system. Of course, it musk not be emocted to work miracles. It wilt not curefawnsumption except in its earlier stages. It will cure very severe. ohstl mile, hang-tm elTome coughs, bronchial ftmrllirvn'ieai tronnles-and chronic sop* tl larseness. In acutecougn* It [snot so effective. TTls In tho lingering hang-on coughs, or those of long standings oven when accompanied by bleeding from lungs, that It has performed its mo*t marvelous cures. Prof. Finley Filing wood, M. D., of Ben nett Med. Collogo, Chicago, soys of gly cerine: " 1 n d yspepsla it serves an excellent purposes Iloldliig a fixed quantity of the peroxide of hydrogen In solution. It Is one of the best manufactured products of the present time tat its action upon enfeebled, disordered stom achs, especially If there Is ulceration or ca tarrhal gastritis (catarrhal Inflammation ot stomach). It Is a most efficient preparation. Glycerlno will relievo many cases of pyTou* (heartburn) and excessive gastric (stomachy acidity." “Golden Medical Discovery ” enriches ana purifies tho blood curing blotches, pimple*, eruptions, scrofulous swellings and old sorak or ulcers. Semi to Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo. N. Y. for free booklet telling all about tho natlv* medicinal roots composing this wonderful medicine. There Is no alcohol in It. Peckham's Thought. From the Philadelphia Press. “Well,” the Peckham, rousing himself from a brown study, “Eve was appro priately named, wasn't she?’’ “Eve?” replied Clubberley. “Oh! you mean Adam's mate. Why?” “Because Adam’s beBt duy was don* when she arrived.” Oats—Head* 2 Feet Lon*. The John A. Saizer Seed Coi, 1st Crosse, Wis., are bringing out a new oat* this yenr with heads 2 feet long! That’* a wonder. Their catalog tells 1 Spetz—the greatest cereal hay food America ever saw! Catalog tells I — .. . ■ ■ a FREE Our mammoth 148-page Seed and Tool Catalog is mailed free to all intending buyers, or send ($c In stnmps and receieo free samples of new Two Foot Long Oats and other cereals and big catalog free. John A. Salzer Seed Co., Box C, La Crosse, Wis. You won’t get popular by saying smart things, but by laughing at them when somebody else says them. Gad-u-sel!! Useful, ornamental; Interests every body. Send 10c for convincing: sample Kansas City Stamping Co., Argyie Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. 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