The
General Demand
of the Weil-Informed of the World has
always been for a simple, pleasant and
efficient liquid laxative reraedy of known
value; a laxative which physicians could
sanction for family use because its com
ponent parts are known to them to be
■wholesome and truly beneficial in effect,
acceptable to the system and gentle, yet
prompt, in action.
In supplying that demand with its ex
cellent combination of Syrup of Figs and
Elixir of Senna, the California Fig Syrup
Co. proceeds along ethical lines and relies
on the merits of the laxative for its remark
able success.
1 hat is one of many reasons why
Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is given
the preference by the Well-Informed.
To get its beneficial effects always buy
the genuine—manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale
by all leading druggists. Price fifty cents
per bottle.
Arithmetically the Same.
From the Argonaut.
Gladstone, a Jarnaclan negro, was as
•istant to a district physician in the
canal zone, and, being rather poor In
his Entin, the bottles had been num
bered for his benefit. One day a Span
ish laborer came in for medicine, and
the doctor told him to give him two
pills out of number six. After he had
gone the doctor asked: "Gladstone, did
you give the man a dose of number
six?" "Oh, no. sah, doctor; numbah
six was finished, so I just give him one
pill out of numbah foah and one out
of numbah two.”
Training the Audience.
From Everybody's Magailne.
The enterprising manager of a little
lyric theater in northern Pennsylvania
believes In profiting by the misfortunes ,
of others. One day he displayed the i
following sign in his house:
DO NOT SMOKE :
REMEMBER THE IROQUOIS :
FIRE. :
So great was the efficacy of this that
before the end of the week he put up
another.
DO NOT SPIT
: REMEMBER THE JOHNSTOWN :
: FLOOD. :
I> a Plneh, Use Alien’s Fool-Ease.
A powder to shake Into your shoes. It rests
the feet. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen,
Sore. Hot. Callous. Aching. Sweating feet
and Ingrowing Nails. Allen's Foot-Base
makes new or tight shoe* easy. Sold by all
Druggists and Shoe Stores. 25c. Sample
mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted,
Le Roy. N. Y.
Botany to the Rescue of the Ship
wrecked.
From the New Orleans Ttmes-Democrat.
“There is no reason, save ignorance,
why shipwrecked sailors die in their
open boats of starvation.’’ The speaker
was a botanist. "Let the shipwrecked
include a light net in their luggage,”
he said, “and let them trail this net
behind them as they sail or row upon
the sea’s surface. Every few hours they
can haul in and take from It a meal
of small shellfish or other tiny sea
fruit. Everywhere the sea's surface
teems with animal and vegetable mat
ter capable of sustaining life."
Lightning Hair Cut.
A hairdresser in the west end of Sunder
land gives such of his patrons as may de
sire it a genuine “lightning hair cut."
The operation comb has stretched along
the upper portion of its teeth a wire con
nected with a storage battery, which ren
ders it red hoc as soon as the current is
switched on. The comb is parsed through
the hair, and regulated so that the hair
is singed off to the requisite length.
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MORE RIGID MEAT INSPECTION
From the Live Stock World.
All meats handled by the big packers is
rnder the supervision of the government
ind not a pound of it is sold that has not
»een closely scrutinized and stamped an
g;ood. This federal inspection only ap
plies to slaughter houses engaged in in
terstate commerce, so that the little fry
that kill only for local consumption are
not under this inspection. They are un
ier city inspection, however, but that be
ing of a political nature has always been
suspected as being loose and Incompetent.
An ordinance passed by the council this :
week is a good step in the right direction,
for it means that only meat that is
stamped as good will be allowed to be
sold.
The object of the ordinance is to make
the municipal Inspection of the output of
the smaller houses as complete and ef
fective as Is the government inspection.
Then, with a close supervision of the re
tail markets, to make sure that meat
which may have spoiled after inspection
Is not offered for sale, the meat consum
ers of Chicago Will have complete pro
tection.
The old ordinance was defective. It au
thorized the inspectors to condemn all the
bad meat they found, but did not require
them to stamp the meat they declared
pood, as government inspectors have to.
Henceforth all meat will be stamped, and
when any which is not is found In a meat
market there will be something for the
proprietor to explain. The new ordinance
makes adequate provision for the punish
ment of dealers who sell bad meat. If
there shall be any offenders they should
be given the full measure of the law.
There should be no tenderness In handling
men who sell poison and call it food.
OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME.
A Home and a Permanent Income.
This association has an option on 600,000
acres of land. Two rivers, 100,000 acres of
valuable timber. Fertile soil, delightful
climate. Railroad now building. Under
our plan you will have a home and a
farm of your own and an equal interest
In the entire enterprise. Easy payments.
Write for literature today. La Prosper
idad Colony association. I>ept. H., 536
Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Los Angeles,
Cal. __
Methods of handling the alfalfa crop
from the time of seeding until it is in the
barn in the form of well cured hay are
jiven by the Wisconsin station bulletin,
[n brief it is as follows: The best soil for
ilfalfa Is a rich clay loam over a gravelly
subsoil. It is best on w'ell cultivated soils,
[f the nitrogen forming bacteria are not
n the soil the soil should be Inoculated.
Spring sowing is the best. Where ground
s inclined to be weedy use a nurse crop,
parley sown at the rate of three pecks
x> the acre being the best. Thin seeding
)f the nurse crop is preferable. Twenty
rounds of alfalfa seed per acre is rec
pmmended. The year following the seed
ng three good crops of hay can be ex
pected. Cut when about one-tenth of
plants are in bloom and on a morning
ifter the dew has disappeared on a day
hat promises fair weather Cut stubble
it least an inch high. In the afternoon
)f the day cut, rake and put Into small
:ocks. These cocks can be covered writh
ight cotton duck caps and left until the
lay is thoroughly cured.—Chicago Drov
*rs’ Journal.
TWO CUBES OF ECZEMA.
Baby Had Severe Attack—Grand
father Suffered Torments with It
—Owe Recovery to Caticnra.
“In 1884 my grandson, a babe, had
in attack of eczema, and after trying
:he doctors to the extent of heavy bills
ind an increase of the disease and suf
fering, I recommended Cuticura and
n a few weeks the child was well. He
s to-day a strong man and absolutely
free from the disease. A few years
igo I contracted eczema and became
in intense sufferer. A whole winter
>assed without once having on shoes,
learly from the knees to the foes be
ng covered with virulent sores. I tried
nany doctors to no purpose. Then I
jrocured the Cuticura Remedies and
'ound immediate improvement and
inal cure. M. W. La Rue, 845 Seventh St,
Louisville, Ky., Apr. 23 and May 14, ’07."
INEQUALITY IN DEMAND.
From Chicago Live Stock World.
As long as conditions are such that
he people will not buy high priced
neat without grumbling, and as long
.s there is a disposition to economize
.s much as possible, packers will make
. strenuous effort to buy live stock as
ow as they can in order that they may
ie better able to find an outlet for the
iroduct. The smash in the cattle mar
:et this week showed plainly the atti
ude of buyers and what they will do
vhen they get the slightest advan
age. The spread in cattle prices now
s so wide that there is plenty of
ihance to put a lot of cheap meat on
he market, but packers say the trou
ile is that most people want the good
ruts. The American public has not
teen educated yet to properly use the
heaper parts of a beef. Most house
vives have a limited knowledge of
neats, and invariably aBk for sirloin or
>orterhouse, and it is possible that
ome of them don’t know that the car
ass cuts up anything else. At any
ate, there is very little call for any
ither kind of beef outside of roasts,
ind consequently the less desirable
larts have to be sold at a great dis
ount. The butcher has to even up
nd so charges extravagant prices for
he most popular parts.
Agents and canvassers who are looking
'xcluslve for up to date fastest selling
iuto specialty should write Immediately to
ros. M. Inderhltzin, 1440 Valencia st., San
Francisco, Cal.
The Better Part.
From the New York Press.
Van Bibber, fresh from the wedding,
at over a cool and hissing drink in the
ilub window.
"She rejected you once, didn’t she,
ild inan?” De Peyster asked.
Van Bibber sneered at the memories
if the June bride which his friend’s
[uestion evoked.
"She only partially returned my af
ection,” he murmured.
•'Only partially returned your affec
lon? What do you mean?”
“I mean what I say," Van Bibber
iltterly answered. “She returned all
he love letters, but kept all the jew
lry.” _ _
BVIDOWS’un<1,,r N EW LAW Obtained
by JOHN W. MORRIS,
PENSIONS Washington, D. 0.
The Test of an Egg.
From St. Nicholas.
Some folks who were going on a
ionic got one raw egg mixed up with
he cold boiled ones and did not know
low to detect it without breaking them
.11. A visitor was equal to the erner
:ency. He took an egg between his
mgers and his thumb, he twirled it on
he table, and it spun like a top. "That
gg,” said he, "has been boiled.” An
ther was tried with the same result,
nd then he found one that he could
,ot make spin. “That,” said he, "is
he raw egg.” And so the puzzle was
olved.
Every Time
“A man must have a head to do busi
iess with me."
"What is your business?”
"I’m a phrenologist.”
WHAT 13 A GOOD BULL WORTHT
From Hoard’s Dairyman.
Professor Fraser, who hits been doing
such good work in Illinois in trying to
arouse the thought and judgment bf
dairy farmers of that state concerning
the losses they are sustaining becausO
of the poor quality of their cows, asks
the question very frequently: "What is
a good bull worth?" He shows by facta
and figures that a farmer can well af
ford to pay $150 for a good bull to use
on a herd of common cows and then
make a large profit by the investment.
The figures are correct, because the
facts are all about us in confirmation,
but the great mass of farmers are still
unconvinced.
There is not a farmer in the country
that will wink even at paying $150 for a
good horse simply for the work there
is in him. Teams are selling in this
section for from $300 to $500.
It is a strange Judgment of values
that will hesitate at paying that price
for an animal that will put more sell
ing value and more milk production
into a herd for years to come. But we
see it every day in other things. That
blind worship of cheapness, what a
curse it is to the farmer. How It clouds
his vision, puts shackles on his feet
and manacles on his hands. Many
farmers are afraid of the ridicule of
their neighbors if they should pay the
price a good bull is worth. But as
Professor Fraser says, “there stand the
facts.”
Hundreds of farmers have broken
through this hedge of humbug notion
by buying first-class bulls; have Im
proved their herds wonderfully in milk
producing capacity; have added from
25 to 50 per cent, to the selling value
of every cow and heifer and stand
ready to testify to the wisdom of this
course. The demand for well bred
dairy bulls is increasing. An Animal
that contains the right breeding power
is cheapness personified at $150. No
horse on earth ever began to earn in
net money ns much for his expenses
as will a good bull.
Over $500,000 a year is coming into
this, Jefferson county, steadily because
the farmers saw the point, purchased
registered bulls and went to grading up
their herds. Carload after carload of
grade Holstein and Guernsey cows and
heifers go out as a testimony to the
soundness of our statement. Sure
enough, what is a good bull worth?
Oregon. Willamette valley lands. Write
for descriptive matter. Olmsted Land Co.,
Salem, Ore.
Chinese Athletics.
From the Shanghai Mercury.
The Chinese have always had athletic
exercises of a sort, in which they have
rather prided themselves, though none
ever seem to have taken such a hold on
the nation as ours have on us during the
last century or so. They have plenty of
stories of strong men capable of wielding
extraordinary weapons, of bending won
drous bows, or of lifting heavy weights,
etc. Even within the last few years feats
of archery were done before an army of
ficer could get his commission in the
army and in almost any village there Is
a bamboo with a pierced stone at either
end to test the strength of the rising gen
eration in lifting. But there was nothing
of regular athletic training, except for a
few wrestlers, perhaps, before foreigners
came.
Invest $5 monthly in Oklahoma farm
lands. Agents wanted. Write for particu
lars. C. W. Deming Inv. Co., Tulsa, Okla.
His Accomplishment.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Sammy, a little boy from the slums
of New York, was invited with about
20 others to a charity dinner given at
the house of a lady in fashionable so
ciety. When the dinner was over the
lady asked the little ones to sing or
recite in turn.
All went well until It came Sammy’s
turn, when he made no sign of start
ing until the lady said: “Come,
Sammy, let me hear you sing."
After a moment’s pause the young
guest answered, “I can’t sing, lady.”
“What!” said the lady. “You can
not slng? Then what can you do?”
“Well,” said Sammy, "I ain’t used
ter singin’, but I’ll fight any of the
other kids in the room!”
About 130,000,000 pounds of tallow
are used every year in the manufac
ture of candles in the United States.
rauur run xwu uxiaxa.
If Yon Sailer with Yoar Kidneys
and Back Write to This Man,
G. W. Winney. Medina, N. Y., In
i''w kidney sufferers to write to him.
To all who enclose
postage he will reply,
telling how Doan's
/; Kidney Pills cured
him alter he had doe
8w tored and had been
n /.& « In two different hospi
tals for eighteen
months, suffering in
tense pain In the
back, lameness, twin
ges when stooping or
lifting, languor, dizzy
spells and rheuma
tism. "Before I used
Doan’s Kidney Pills,” says Mr. Win
ney, “I weighed 143. After taking 10
or 12 boxes I weighed 162 and was
completely cured.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Mi I burn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.
When the Poles Were Warm.
Among the most Interesting discoveries
made by the Swedish antarctic expedition,
which has spent two years In the south
polar regions, is that of the fossil bones
of many vertebrate animals. Including
some of great size, together with abund
ant remains of plants. These show that,
as in the case of the north polar regions,
a mild climate once existed where now
everything Is In the grip of perpetual frost.
The explorers found evidence that great
forests had once flourished on the borders
of the antarctic continent, and the animal
remains Indicated that vast expanse of
herbage must have existed ,here to serve
as feeding grounds. Strange birds prob
ably were also among the Inhabitants of
this Ice burled land.
A Common Role.
Senator Gilchrist, discussing In Al
bany his Insurance bill, said of specu
lation:
“Speculative features, uncertainties,
ought to be removed from our life as
much as possible.
"When I think of speculation, I think
of a man I know.
“This man, a conservative, sudden
ly took to stock gambling. At the end
of a flurry I met him one afternoon
and asked:
" ‘Well, were you a bull or a bear
today?’
“ ’Neither,’ he answered, giving me a
sour smile. ’I was an ass.' ”
Very Quiet.
“Are your new neighbors quiet?”
“Very. The boy Is tongue-tied and
the daughter Injured her hand and
won’t be able to play the piano for sev
eral months. ”
A toad Is said to lay 11,500 eggs in
me year, but only about one egg in
1,000 develops into a toad.
THE MISTAKE OF
A BANK TELLER
The Misplacing of Cash Is by
No Means Uncommon in
Banking Houses.
Beware of the man who professes
never to make mistakes. The caution
Is general, hut Is particularly applica
ble to banking men. A national bank
exnmlnor, who was conversing with a
reporter for the Pittsburg Dispatch,
says that us a rule errors are of dally
occurrence In every large bank. Most
of them are at once corrected, of
course, but now and then a really seri
ous error seems for a time to be utter
ly Inexplicable. Upon this point the
examiner recalled an Interesting ease,
which happened under his own eye.
A curios error was discovered somq
years ago In one of the banks of this
city, let us call it the Sixth National
while under examination. Dwas weigh
ing the gold In the vault with the teller,
and found a bag marked $6,000, which
weighed about 24 troy ounces less
than It should have done. I opened the
bag and counted $4,500 only.
A search was made lasting far Into
the night for the missing $500. The
teller's cash-book showed no "overs''
or “shorts" of any large amounts re
cently, and his character for honesty
and Integrity was unquestionable. In
my report to the comptroller I spoke
of it as one of those errors which will
sometimes occur, but which for tlmq
being are Inexplicable, and added that
as the teller was heavily bonded, nq
loss could occur to the bank.
I pass over the mental sufferings of
the teller and of the officials also, whq
feared there might be a thief In the
hank, but could not tell whom to sus
pect.
Two or three weeks afterward I was
weighing the gold In another bank
then under examination—let us call II
the Seventh National—and found a bag
marked $5,000, which weighed $6,600,
The seal showed that It had come from
the Sixth National, and ha«i been re
ceived by the Seventh In payment ol
clearing house exchanges. I explained
to the cashier Ihe error discovered In
the Sixth, and ho promptly sent for the
teller and restored him his money.
The mistake had been made in the
simplest manner possible, as you may
suppose. The teller of the Sixth had
two open bags of gold on his counter;
one contained $5,000, as he knew, and
khe other $4,500. At the close of the
day's business he put $500 Into the
wrong bag, tied and sealed up both
without first weighing them, labeled
each $5,000 a»d put them Into his safe,
It Is not necessary to say that no such
carelessness on his part ever occurred
again.
Carpets.
Carpets were used In the east from
early time'.. They are known to have
been made In China as early as B. C.
2100 and In India B. C. 1100. They are
represented on the Egyptian monu
ments at a date not later than B. C,
8000. In Rome and Athens they were
used on state occasions as luxuries.
They were first made In France In 1589.
During the time of Henry VIII, and
even as late as the days of Elizabeth,
the most common carpet In the rooms
of the English middle classes was a
lawyer of straw In winter and o<
mown grass In summer. One of the
charges made against Cardinal Wol
rey was that In his state apartments
he had fresh supplies of grass or straw
every day In the year, renewed at con
siderable cost. These primitive car
pets In the dining rooms of the Eng
lish soon became very filthy, as the
bones and fragments of food were
thrown Into the straw, which was also
used as a sleeping place by the family
dogs.
Suspected of Early Frivolty.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
A young Harvard man, through fam
ily Influence, obtained a position as con
fidential clerk in the office of a well
known railroad president. The first
morning he got down to the office at 9
o'clock. He found the president hard
at work.
On the second morning he presented
himself at 8:30 o’clock. Again he found
his chief there ahead of him, working
diligently. The third day he managed
to make the office at 8 o'clock. There
was the president, already burled in
business.
That night on his way home the
young man took counsel with himself
and determined to be ahead of his boss
at any cost. Accordingly he set his
alarm clock for 6:30, and by great exer
cise of will power managed to show up
at the office before 7:30 o'clock. But
there was his chief working away as If
'he had not left his desk at all.
' As the clerk entered t,he prer'dent
looked up at him with a quizzical air.
"Young man,” said he, "what use do
you make of your forenoons?"
Fickle Georgia.
From the New Bedford Standard.
After less than four months of prohibi
tion, Georgia finds under full headway a
formidable movement to amend the law
bo as to allow the ,sale of beer and light
wines. The Savannah chamber of com
merce appears as leader In the movement,
and it has the Indorsement of Governor
Hoke Smith, though the governor was
one of the most enthusiastic prohibition
ists In the state only a few months ago.
Considering the eagerness with which the
people of Georgia went Into prohibition,
and the eagerness with which some of
these same people are trying to get out,
It looks as if they did not quite know
their own minds. For appearance’s sake
they ought to stick to their decision at
’H3»8S ®H» uO
•Cholly said this morning that you
were a swell looker.”
"The silly fool."
"That’s what I called him."
How many American women in
lonely homes to-day long for this
blessing to come into their liras, and
to be able to utter these words, bub
because of some organic derange
ment this happiness is denied them
Every woman interested In this
subject should know that prepara
tion for healthy maternity is
accomplished by the on of
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Mrs. Maggie Gilmer, of West
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Mrs. Josephine Hall,of Bardstown,
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female troubles, and my physician failed
to help me. Lydia E. Pinkhamk Vege
table Compound not only restored me
to perfect health, but 1 am now a proud
mother.”
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Why don’t you try it?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
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She has guided thousands to
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Artist—Among my dearest treasure®
Is the watch which my father carried
when he was a young man.
Bright—Would you mind letting roe
see It?
Artist—Certainly not; hut It I® tem
porarily In the possession of my-er-fa
ther’s brother.
Many a man willing to steal doesn’t:
get a chance.
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