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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1907)
| Use ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE A powder to be shaken into the shoos. Your feet feel swollen, I nervous, hot and get tired easily. If you have aching, smarting feet, try Allen’s Foot-Ease. It rests the feet and makes new or tight shoes easy; always use it to Break in Now Shoes. It cures swollen, hot, sweating feet, blisters, ingrowing nails and callous spots. Believes corns and bunions of all pain and gives Best and Comfort. It euros while you walk. We have over thirty thousand testimonials. Try it to-day. Sold by all Druggists everywhere 25 cents. Don’t accept any substitute for Allen's Foot-Ease. Trial package FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. European Branch Office, Peterborough, England. * Success brings imitations. Scores of W» • worthless imitations are sometimes offered for sale. Insist upon having Allen’s Foot-Ease. The Original powder for the feet. Twelve years before the public. Animal sales over two million packages. Do not accept spurious substitutes claimed to be “just as good.” Imitations ^I’jfjS'Vr'pay the dealer a larger profit otherwise you would never be offered a substitute for Allen’s Foot-Ease. A»k for Allen’s Foot-Ease, and insist upon having it. Remember, Allen’sFoot-Ease is sold only in 25 cent packages bearing yellow label with our trade mark and facsimile signature „ “«■•p,n«h- „ Use Allen $ Foot-Ease.” Bold by all Druggists everywhere for 25 cents. For FREE Trial paokage, also Free Sample of the ^ FOOT-EASE DOES ALLEN’S ! FOOT-EASE COOL THE BLOOD? Some doctors hav« said so and many In dividuals have said, that this daluty, an tiseptic powder, shak en dally Into the Shoes Is Cooling to the entire System. Scores of nerves cen ter In the soles of the fact und Allen’s Foot Ease soothes and quiets these nerves, lise every means to keep cool and avoid lieat Proitra tlon. Try this simple, pop ular remedy yourself and see If It lg not instantly Cooling and Refreshing. Sold by all Druggists, 25c. I W. L. DOUGLAS $3.00 & $3.50 SHOES Th|SWORLD SHOES FOR EVERY MEMBER OFxogjcj THE FAMILY. AT ALL PRICES. *“** B9B 1 To any ono who can prove W. L. <9a9yl/vv lDouglas doom not make & sell Doiuanrf )moro Men's $3 A S3.BO shoes rlBWarH (than any other manufacturer. THE REASON W. L, Douglas shoes are worn by more people In all walks of life than any other make, Is because of their excellent style, easy-fitting, and superior wearing qualities. The selection of the leathers and other materials for each part of the shoe, and evory detail of the making is looked after by the most com pie te organization of superintendents, foremen and skilled shoemakers, who receive the highest wages paid In the shoe industry, and whose workmanship cannot be excelled. If I could take you into my large factories at Brockton.Mass., and show you lio'w carefully \V. L. Douglas shoes are made, you would then understand why they bold their shape, fit better, r used wear longer and are of greater value than any other make. - . exclusively My $4 Gilt Edge and $6 Gold Bond Shoes cannot bg equalled at any mrlce. CAUTION! The gcinrtmS have W. T,. Douglas name and price stamped on bottom, 'lake No Substitute. Ask your dealer for W. L. Douglas shoes. If he cannot supply you, send direct to factory. Shoes sent everywhere by mail. Catalog free. WX-Dougla., Brockton, Mm The Most Useful Tree. From the Dundee Advertiser. Probably the most useful tree In the ■world is the cocoanut palm, every por tion of which is put to good use. The trunk Is used for building houses, for making furniture and farm Implements and countless other articles; hollowed Dut it makes a canoe. It^Jeaves are . used for thatching, the leaWstalks for paddles and fishing lines. The blossom In bud makes preserves and pickles, besides serving as a staple vegetable. From the pith of the trunk Is derived a kind of sago, and from the flowers sugar, vinegar and toddy, which, af ter fermentation, becomes arrack. The ripe cocoanut is a valuable articles of diet. The white kernel produces a de licious cream, a good substitute for cow's milk, while the oil Is used as a lubricant, for soap and candle making. It Is also applied to counteract the stings of scorpions. The refuse of the oil, or oil cake. Is valuable as food for f animals and poultry, and as manure for the soil. From the shell drinking cups, spoons, lamps, bottles, firewood, and even tooth powder are obtained. The husk supplies fibre for mattresses and cushions, brushes and mats, ropes, cables, nets and even the harness for bullocks. The webb sustaining the foot stalks is made Into strainers and torch es. The tree acts as a conductor In protecting houses from lightning. White Powder on Nutmegs. From the Providence Journal. "Brush that white powder off the nutmegs before you begin to grate ’em,” Ssald the bartender sternly to the young % apprentice. "But thafis the bloom, ain’t It?” re monstrated the lad. “Bloom!” sneered the bartender. “No, sir; it is oyster shell powder. The na tives as soon as they gather the nut meg roll it in a powder of ground oyster shells and that protects it, on Its long voyage to market, from the weevils. The weevils, otherwise, would eat it up. "But the powder has served its turn now, so brush it off.” C ASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Having taken your wonderful “Cfsonrets” for three mouths and. Dei ug; entirely euredof stomach catarrh and dyspepsia, I think a word of praise la duo to" CascaretaVfcr their wonderful co in position. 1 have takoiftnutaoro'ifs -other so-called remedies but without tvailand 1 find that CastsfrcU relive wore in u day-thaa all the others JL have taken would in a year " James McGune, 108 Mercer St., Jersey City, 27. J. Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Do Good, Never Sicken* NVosaen or Gripe, lfie, 2Tm;,50c. Never sold in bulk. Tin genuine tablet stamped C O C. Guaranteed to curb or yoUr money buck; Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or N.Y. 59a ANNUAL SALE, TEH MILLION BOXES To convince any I woman that rax tlue Antiseptic will improve her health 7. a oil do all wo claim * -- for it. We will send her .absolutely free a la'rgo trial box of Paxttne with book of Instruc tions and genuine testimonials. Send your name and address on a postal card. PAXT! rii ■.. “ ■ ■ brane af fections, such as nasal catarrh, pelvic catarrh ana inflammation caused by femi nine Ills; sore eyes, sore tiiroat ana mouth, by direct local treatment. Its cm- 1 ative power over tlicso troubles Is extra ordinary and gives immediate relief. Thousands of \vomen aro using nnrt rec ommending it every day. c> ci nts at druggists or by mail. RememBcr, however IT COSTS Y< MI NOT iI! S <I TO Til Y IT. THB K. PAXTON CO., llo.tou, 5tas». 8IOUX CITY P’T’G CO. t.203—.S8> 1:07 ’ SIKEST0I3 BFSTi . land a for t*le i" liar.i ii * , •aana and Ihk>» ! ‘ ’* *• n».i. . i» , Mixed Voices. From Lippincott's Magazine. Alice had been to Sunday school for the first time and had come home filled with information. She was overheard to say to her 6-year-old sister, as she laid a wee hand over her neart, “When you hear something wite here, you know it is con science w'ispering to you.” No such thing,” responded 6-year-old; "it’s just wind in your tummy.” Guns, Traps, Decoys, etc. Lowest prices. Write for free catalog No. 1. N. W. Hide & Fur Co., Minneapolis, Minn. More Thar\ Bigc-;ry. A prisoner was brought before a police magistrate. The latter looked around and discovered that his clerk was absent. "Officer,” he said, “what’s this man charged with?" “Bigotry, your honor. He’s got three wives.” The magistrate looked at the officer as though astounded at his ignorance. “Why, officer,” he said, “that's not big otry; that’s trigonometry.” nfra. Win glow's noqTHiwo btbup tot Children teething; softens the gums, reduces uidaramauoa Vejs pain. cares wind oalio. 3b cent , a bottle AMERICAN LAWNS. In every human production there is a touch of individuality peculiar to the worker and so it is with the American garden. The smooth lawns with only a few gorgeous flowers beds or borders and well-kept trees axe the universal and prac tically only style of garden in America, it,; bmh bmh bmh bmh bmh bmh bmh A Japanese newcomer to this country writes that seeing these plain green front grounds for the first time, she was under the impression that the real garden ex isted in the rear. Now, knowing that this is not the case, the striking display of na tional characteristic appeals to her, and she expresses herself thus; “The exposure of a private garden to the public enjoy ment-cultivating it In front of the house, along the street, with no barriers to se clude il—seems to reveal a spirit of co operation and open-heartedness. What a boundless benefit it is for the public to have the roadside thus brightened and beautified with various flowers and greens, which man adores by nature. A wretched beggar may enjoy the smile of spring as much as the owner of a garden; poor tene ment house children may be as familiar with nature as any favorites of fortune. Here continental magnanimity Is exhibit ed, in decided contrast to our self-seeking seclusion, natural to all islandexs. But i have a slight discontent in this full decoration of front grounds, for, be sides its lack of artistic design, I see in it —perhaps because of prejudice—the same motive displayed as in making an array of dishes on dining room walls, or in hav ing all of one’s beautiful pictures in sight at one time, the exhibition of all one’s choicest possessions, which does not ac cord with the Japanese idea of liking to use silk lining for cotton clothes." But she must and does adnadt that none but such a form of garden could keep har mony with the commanding American houses and their practical inhabitants. If one were to settle miniature rock moun tains and artificial ponds, with log bridges and antique stone lanterns upon the sunny open grounds before enormous colored buildings, the result would be Incongruous, not to say ridiculous. No more w’ould an up to date American woman prove to be a fitting figure in the quiet colored shady scenes of a Japanese garden. The imaginative gardens of Japan, to gether with their lowly thatched cottages, may furnish some pleasure-ground sug gestions for this country while it Is like ly that the practical gardens of America wfill be more frequently adopted by the Japanese. He Wanted the Other. £>.r Thomas Upton, whose grocery shops, “Lipton’s Limited," are as thick in Lon don as the fog, was talking to a New York reporter on his last visit about pure food laws. “And that reminds me," said Sir Thom as, "of my youth, when I. was running my first grocery and sleeping under the coun ter. "A rival In the next street was selling notoriously bad goods and I hoard a story about him with delight. "It seems that a customer entered his shop and asked for a pound of butter. “ ‘Yes, sir,’ said my rival. ‘The real or the Imitation, sir?' “ ‘What was it you sold me yesterday?’ inquired the customer. •• That was the real, sir.’ •• ‘Then give rne the imitation.’ ’’ The ; \ rage weight of a pair of ele phant rut. s is ISC pounds, but a single s'; L:cil kr.OV.il to weigh J00 A Genuine Fisherman. From London Answers. If ever there was an inthusiastic fisher man It was old Jones. He was quite con tent to sit for hours on the bank of tho stream, hoping for a bite, and if he didn’t get one, his mind thrilled at the thought of what splendid sport he had two years ago. Thus he wras found by a fellow angler. Fished long in this stream?” he asked pleasantly. “Twenty-three years,” was the laconic response. “Then this stream must be worth fish ing in,” went on the stranger. “You must get a lot of bites.” N Gazing intently at his rod, Jones replied with zest: “Two years ago in this very spot I had as fine a bite as anyone need wish for. Aid I shall get another yet.” NO RELIEF FROM ECZEMA For Over Two Year.—Potent Modi cinea, Quack Corea out! Dootora Foil—Cuticura Succeeds. “I was very badly afflicted with ecze ma for more than two years. XW parts affected were my limbs below* tbe knees. I tried all tbe physician* In the town and some In the surround lug towns, and I also tried all tbe pat* ent remedies that I beard of, besides all the cures advised by old women and quacks, and found no relief whatever until I commenced using tbe Cuticura Soap. Cuticura Ointment, and Cuticura Resolvent. In tbe Cuticura Remedies I found Immediate relief, and was »oo« sound and well. C. V. Beltz, Tipp© canoe, Ind., Nov. 15. 1905.” The Drum and the Sticks, It Is mighty hard for most people to re sist temptation to Joke. Last night a band played In the lobby of the Albany hotel In honor of the delegates to the laundrymen'i convention. After the music was over the band was told to return at 9 and play some more. The snare drummer asked the cigar girl if he might leave his drum with hei until he returned. She took the drum and put It on a shelf behind her and then her' troubles began. The first man who step ped up to the stand to buy a cigar smiled and said: "Trying to drum up a Utle business, ara you?" The girl laughed, but did not reply to the Joke. The man bought hJs cigar and moved away, very well pleased with him self. Next came one of the visiting laun drymen. Ho saw the drum. “I may need the drum when the con vention's over," he said. "Is it for sale?" “No,” replied the girl. "But why do you think you may need It?" "Oh, I may have to beat my way home." said the laundryman. He also went away delighted with himself. Next came a dudish young fellow who wanted a package of clgarets. He noticed the drumsticks. "Well,” he said, In a loud voice, "a per son who works with a drum near by nat urally sticks to his business. The girl didn't crack a smile. But a traveling man standing near by did. The wife whose husband gives her all the money she wants and no show of devotlon with it, gets no sympathy | from any woman over 30. - ■ ■ ——. Bad Symptoms. The woman who has periodical head aches, backache, sees imaginary dark spots or specks floating or dancing before her eyes, na&gnawing distress or heavy full feeling in.stomach, faint spells, drag gtng-downA^eling In lower abdominal or pelvic region, easily startled or excited, Irreguldror painful periods, with or with out ifdvie catarrh, is suffering from weaknwses an&flerangements that should, have e.Wy attention. Not all of above i symptoiis ape likely to be present In any, case at qne/ime. Neglected or badly treated and such cases/Often run Into maladies which de mand Jfe surgeon’s knife If they do not residj^atally. No medicine extant has fttich a long 1 apd nuinf rous record'jnf ctirps in aue^ as Ur. Fiercer_ h'fLvorlie Fwamp tlon_No medicine lias such a Strait professional iCTrfa-meut ei earn nr™ i- yltents—Wurth mere Than a nv nu nliaarv tiofi-.nrelfisnlnndiJHr tj_[&_ The very best Ingredients known to medical science for the cure of ; woman’s peculiar ailments enter Info Its composition. No alcohol, harmful, or habit-forining drug is to bo found iu the list of its Ingredients printed on each bottle-wrapper and attested under oath. In any condition of the femalo system. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription can do : oily good—never harm. Its Whole effect 1 is to strengthen, invigorate and regulate the whole femalo system and especially the pelvic organs. When these are de ranged in function or affected by disease, the stomach and other organs of digestion become sympathetically deranged, the nerves are weakened, and a long list of bad, unpleasant symptoms follow. Too much must not bo expected of this * Fa vorite Prescription.” It will not perfo*n miracles: will not euro tumors—no med icine will. Itteill often prei’ent them, If taken in time, and thus the operating table and the surgeon’s knifo may bo avoided. Women suffering from diseases of long standing, are invited to consult Doctor Pierce by letter, free. All correspondence is held as strictly private and samaaily confidential. Address Dr. R. V. lflerce, : Buffalo, N. Y. Dr. Pierco’s Medical Adviser(1000pages) is sant free on receipt of SI one-cent stamps for paper-covered, or 31 stamps for cloth-bound copy. Address as above. THE TURKEY CROP. Last fall when I was traveling through Missouri I noticed a great many Hocks of turkeys on farms. Often one would see a bunch of from fifty to 100, big, bronze fellows that would weigh from fifteen to twenty-five pounds and when these would sell from $1.60 to $2.50 each. It will he seen that the business Is very profit able. The expense of raising them Is very small, as turkeys are great for agers and they pick up their living about the farm where bugs and grass hoppers are plentiful. Those who are very successful tell me that turkeys are very hard to raise up to five or six weeks, us they are very puny and liable to all sorts of complaints. But, hav ing passed that period, they are no more trouble and grow very fast. Tur keys cannot stand confinement as well as chickens, and It Is best to allow them to follow their own Inclination and roost In the trees or on the sheds, Instead of on low perches. There Is nothing better than corn for fattening, and they must be given all they will | eat for three or four weeks Just before marketing. THE CLOVER SEED CROP. There Is sura to be a very heavy demand this season for clover seed, and current high prices are bound to fetch on to the market a great deal of poor seed. Thei;e seems to be no way to effectively debar the inferior seed from the market, for as one dealer puts It, eight farmers out of ten will buy the seed cheapest In price. There Is need of more than ordinary caution this season, because of the urgency of the situation. There Is no economy In buying seed, 40 per cent, contamina tion, at $8 per bushel, when clean, high-grade seed may be had at frefm $10 to $12. Low grade seeds are slow to germinate, and a large per cent, of even the pure seeds will fall to germi nate at all. If there is anything whtfch It will pay to buy, because of cheap ness, It Is not seeds of any kind. FARM FACTS. There Is a great deal of carelesB work about stacking. hay. It Is us ually a hurry job and not enough pains are taken to straighten out the fork fuls, Where the unk iding is done by slings several hundred pounds are dumped on the stack at one time. Un less the stacker straightens out these rolls with the fork, the stack is bound to take water whenever It rains. Farmers who grow clover for seed should encourage some one to run a clover huller. Seed threshed out by the ordinary huller is worth a $1 a bushel more than seed threshed by the ordinary machine. Too often country school teachers are city bred young men or young women, who have no thought or lik ing for agriculture. They are not the teachers who can show pupils the ad vantages of farm life. A recent case of scours among a bunch of neighbor's calves shows the Importance of giving careful attention to the feeding palls. These palls had been used for over a month, and dur ing all of that time had not been thoroughly scalded. The only attempt at cleaning was rinsing with cold wa ter. A short time ago one of the calves was taken with a bad case of scours and died. Three others of the bunch now look as If they would not pull through. Pioneer days may have past In the central west, but the pioneer practice of throwing the manure out of the horse stables and allowing It to lie there for months, has not passed by a long ways. Frequently one sees the accumulation of six months or more heaped up against the sides of the stables. Every ton of that manure which was thrown out last winter has now lost at least BO per cent, of Its value. The fall Is the ideal time to scat ter manuie. Why not make one Job of it and scatter the manure thinly now, instead of putting it in piles and then go over and scatter with a fork next spring. It Is economy to make the manure go as far us you can, and then go over the Helds more fre quently. Many orchards have been hurt this season with sun scald. The way to pre vent such Injury is to head trees Jow, so that the trunk is shaded. Where trees have been headed high the only thing to do is to protect the trunks with building paper, boards or anything that will break the sun. Timothy hay Is the kind In greatest demand fop horse feeding In cities. Hera hay sells upon its quality. One may think he can fool his own stock with poor hay; but let him send a load ol over-rjpe, badly colored hay to mar ket. The returns will show that city hay buyers are up to snuff. Sometimes hogs will not thrive, al- i though they have an abundance of pas- ! turo auct grain. There Is such a thing as keeping hogs too long on clover and the system demands something else. Cut down the rations for a while and feed some charcoal, salt and copperas. This frequently will start a hog on the upgrade. If the garden has been a failure this yettr start right this fall for better re sults next spring. Pile on well rotted manure and turn up the ground this' fall for a thorough freezing. And then ’ don't try to grow vegetables and weeds ' on the same piece of ground. An experiment station states that the : value ol' the manure made on a farm i where twenty cows, four horses, fifty sheep and ter. pigs are kept, Is around I $600. and that about one-half of It is in the liquid manure. There does not seem to be any Imme diate danger of the American hen or cow clogging the market. It seems that the appetite of American people for dairy and poultry goods Is growing faster than the output. Just think, the poultry and eggs of this country are worth more every year than our corn, i oats and hay crop combined. Keeping sheep Is profitable, providing i one can keep clear of ailments and pests. When stomach or tape worms get hedd of the lambs they soon play havoc. These tilings must be handled promptly and handled right. i KEEPING MILK AND CREAM. During the warm weather tt la dift. cult to keep cream or milk In the beat condition without Ice. The greatest trouble that creamery managers have to contend with now la this lack ot condition, as It Is Impossible to maka good butter out ot poor cream. There are two things essential In keeping milk or cream, proper care o£ every utensil that touches the milk, and the milk or cream must be cooled as quickly aa possible and kept cool. A dirty milk pail sets bacteria to work before the milk Is strained. Milk setting about the stables becomes contaminated and trouble begins. To keep milk, first see that the cows do not drink muddy or foul water; get the milk out of the stables as quickly as possible, and then cool the milk, and don't mix milkings. Whut the dairyman most needs Is a good, cool milk house. Ice Is by far the easiest and cheapest refrigeration, but not all' dairymen are situated so that they can put up Ice, and many who ate suitably situated will not do IL Where Ice is not used then one must resort to cold water, or to the old-faahloned outdoor cave. Hut In order to keep milk and raise the maximum amount <rf cream, or to keep cream In lit con dition, until It Is delivered to the creamery, one must have eome ar^ rangement for cooling, or the work will be done under miuiy disadvantages. DAIRY NOTES. Don't get too busy to give the cows proper attention. Irregular feeding or milking now will tend to lessen the milk flow, and no amount of coaxing or feeding will get It back this season. Milk palls should always be cleaned as soon as they are emptied. If they are filled with cold water before the film from the milk forms, they will not be hard to clean. Rinse with cold water, then scald and sun. If I were going to move, even several hundred miles, I should certainly tako two or three of the best cows along, and also two or three promising heifer calves. The freight may he nearly aa much as the animals are worth, but in a new country real good cows are scarce. Here Is one thing that will stilt stand harping upon: Clean the cream sepa rator. A good dairy authority states that In Missouri there are 25,000 cream separators owned by farmers, and of these at least 20,000 are In the hands of farmers who do not know the first thing about handling cream. The success of dairying In any tocad Ity will depend upon the pains each farmer takes with Ids cream. The only fair way to sell cream Is by the test, and It Is the test that usually kicks up a row. If you cream Is test ing low go to the bottom of the matter und find out where the trouble Is. Milk fever Is liable to occur with the heaviest milkers, and cows which have had It once are liable to have It again. Such cows must have plenty of exer cise and laxative foods, just before calving. The trouble Is not so fre quent during the full. Threshing time will soon be along now. Save the straw for bedding, ma nure made without plenty of straw to take up the liquid, has lost half of Its value. Then plenty of straw used as bedding keeps the cows dean and com fortable. Save the straw, and then use It. One of our readers writes us that scours In calves Is caused by feeding inllk too cold and too much at a time. The trouble, nine eases out of ten. comes from dirty palls and dirty sur roundings. I have never seen a cow that would not break over Into the cornfield. If sho had half a chance. The way to head her off Is to lix up the fences, before she discovers the weak places. Don’t throw away any silage that may be lefi over. This will come In very nice In feeding now and will save Just that much of the pastures. But by all means clean out the silo every] year. There Is sure to be some mouldy1 silage left and the fresh silage should' not be put in on top of It. This Is hard weather on the cows, Be sure that they have plenty of good water when they want It. Don’t ex-1 peet the cows to keep up If they are put into a dry and shadeless posture. An Illinois dairyman recently weat up Into Wisconsin to pick up some! dairy cows. He paid on an average oft $100 each for them, and was glaid to get them. These cows were the get of pure-bred Holst.-In bulls, and above the average. This price shows that It pays to use good bulls. Don’t sell off the good cows, even If you are offered twice what they are! worth. Keep the good ones for your-, self. In fact they are the only kind' worth keeping. Pedigree Is a good thing to look In-, to, .when buying the dairy sire. But' when buying cows I would rather look' Into the milk pail. I would not give; much for a cow that gives less than, four gallons a day. When milk cans are used for carry ing skim milk from the factory back! home, be sure that they are cleaned well every day. This neglect is the source of much trouble. Some dairy sections are finding ft profitable to send out Instructors show-' lug how butter milk may be produced. The w hole thing lies’in knowing how to take proper care of the cow and the milk. Farmers wives find some trouble in ’ packing butter during the summer and keeping it In good condition until win ter. There is no trouble, of course, if you have ice, but not many farmers put up ice. Pack the butter in glazed jars to within two Inches of thd top. Cover with cloth and over this fill in salt even with the top of the Jar. Keep the Jars in the cellar or some cool place. df you can’t find any better place, turn the cans and pails up-side down over the fence posts. The best way tu air and sun these things Is on a shelf or bench on the south side of the milk house. HEALTH NOTES FOR? AUGUST. August k the mouth of Internal catarrh. The aaucoua mem branes, especially of the bowels, urn very liable to congestion, causing summer complaint, and catarrh of the buwela and other Internal organs^Pe-ru-na la an ALANG OF NEW GUINEA. Gran That Makes Fierce Warfare err All Other Kinds of Vegetation. From tne New York Sun. Dr. Poch, the Austrian, anthropologist, wtui k«» spent a long time in New Guinea studying Its native* and Its geography, tells of a remarkable variety of gras* that stakes fierce warfare upon other kinds of vegetation so that practically nothing else, grows where It gets a foothold. The natives call It alang. It has a tatr, thick and touch auuk, but Its greatest peculiarity la Its roots, which spread out through every particle of earth they reach ■ad give It a matted texture something like frit. There la really no room left tor the roots of any other kind of vegeta tion. FfeMa of alang cannot exist In forests because the plant does not thrive In Un its adc. Neither can any kind of tree make headway In a patch of alang. The two kinds of vegetation are antagon kaDo. One will not grow where the other 11 Is la Largs patches of aleng are found surrounded by timber and remain there? like Islands, for no tress will grow In them Between the alang and the forest Is a sor. of neutral xone, for the shade of the hlg!. trees prevents ths davalopment of the grass. The New Guinea natives help to extend the area cowered by this grass. Each year they raaka a new deartng In the forest for their little plantations. As soon as these are abandoned the alang takes firm lodgment there. It has won Just so much territory from ths forest and It yields to > va comers. A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. (tow m Veteran Wm Saved tbe A m patatlam ef a Limb. B. Prank Doremus, veteran, of Roosevelt avenue, Indianapolis, I ml., says: “I bad been, showing symptoms of kidney trouble from tbe time I was mus tered out of the ar my, but In all my Life I never suffered as In. 1897. Headaches, diz ziness and sleepless ness, ttrst, and then dropsy. I was weak and helpless, having ran down from 180 to 125 pounds. I was having terrible pain In the kid neys; and the secretions passed almost to voluntarily. My left leg swelled un til It was 34 Inches around, and the doctor tapped It night and morning un til ( could no longer stand It, and then die advised amputation. I refused, and began using Doan’s Kidney Pills. The swelling subsided gradually, the urine became natural and all my pains and aches disappeared. I have been well now for nine years since using Doan’n Kidney Pills.” Pot sale by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Footer-MiHram Co., Buffalo, N. Y. I ne way it nua. From Kvery body's. The editor of a little western paper was In the habit of cheering up his subscribers dally with a column of short pertinent comments on their town, their habits, and themselves. The department on account of Its Intimate personal flavor was the most popular thing in the paper. The editor, as he saw It growing in favor, gradually allowed himself a wider latitude In his remarks, until the town passed much of its town conjec turing “what he’d das’t to say next.” On a hot day, when the simoon whistled gaily up the streets of the -town, depositing everywhere its burden of sand, the editor brough forth this gem of thought: "All the windows along Main street, need washing badly.” The next morning he was waited on by a platoon of Indignant citizens who confronted him with the paragraph in. question fresh from the hands of the compositor and Informed him fiercely, that he had gone too far. After a hasly artd horrified glance he admitted that he had. It now read: "All the widows along Main street need washing badly ”