“AS NECESSARY
AS BREAD"
*
Mrs. Sk&han’s Opinion of
Pinkham’s Compound
Baugua Centre, Mass.—“T hav»
taken 10 bottles of Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable
Compound and
would no more
be without a bob
tie in the house
than I would be
without bread. It
lias made a new
woman of me. I
used to be so
cross with my
husband when I
was suffering
that I don’t know
how he stood me. Now I am cheerful
and strong and feel younger than I
did ten years ago when my troubles
began.*’—Mrs. John Skahan, 20
Emory St., Saugus Centre, Mass.
Old Timepiece Still
Record Passing Houn
Six thousand eight hundred and
ninety years of ticking! That’s the
record established by the contents of
four drawers in the wardrobe depart
ment of the Paramount studios at
Hollywood.
These drawers1 are given over to
ancient watches which are used in the
making of pictures. They have been
gathered from all parts of the nation
during the past 15 years.
There are 121 of these antiques and
all are in perfect working order.
Of men’s watches there are 43 sil
ver and 20 gold ones. These are aug
menieu Dy 9- silver ana 10 gom
watches for women. The men’s col
lection contains one one hundred fifty
years old, six one hundred years old,
17 made more than seventy-five years
ago, 21 which are sixty years old and
18 used for forty-five years or more.
The two one-hundred-fifty-year-old
watches are the prizes of the collec
tion. One is a Swiss chatelaine watch
worn at the belt.
Cotton Statistics
The Department of Commerce,
which has been investigating the pos
sibility of finding new uses for cot
ton, has discovered that there are al
ready 1,090 uses for the 135 base fab
rics mude wholly.jor in part from ttie
staple. Some 150 different articles
made of cotton are used on farms, 100
in households, 43 by railroads and 20
in industry, yet per capita consump
tion has gained only slightly in the
last decade.
No Place for Him
A negro was offered a job feeding
sharks.
“Nah, Sail, boss, me and sharks
ain’t friends."
“Why, boy, sharks don’t eat black
meat."
“Ah know, but it’s just mah luck
to meet wid one dat’s blind."
The Real Thing
“Something mannish in a hat
please.’’
“Here’s the very thing!”
“But it isn’t mannish enough.”
“But that’s a man’s hat, madam.”—
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Many Springfields
According to the postal guide there
are 24 cities in the United States
named Springfield.
Kissing is like salt. Too much spoils
any situation.
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BY LOUIS N. ( RILL,
Secretary of Agriculture.
Traveling 456 miles on the Mis
souri river in South Dakota, one
gets some new impressions of the
advantages along this great system.
The immense timber growth along
the shores in that distance is sur
prising. J. Maughs Brown, state
engineer, who was keeping close
tab on these resources, estimated
that there are 60 square sections of
timber land on the Missouri bot
tom lands, between the North Da
kota state line and Yankton.
The prevailing species is cotton
wood. with elm and oak in good
quantities in many places There
are also many pines on the hill
sides. There are thousands of acres
of willows on the newly made sand
bars—enough to make all the wil
low-ware the country could use and
this resource opens up nev/ possi
bilities for manufacture.
At this season of the year, the
beauty of the wild roses growing on
the banks of the stream is beyond
description—miles and miles of
Grand, Cheyenne, Moreau, Teton,
White and Niobrara rivers, where
they join the Missouri, are beautiful
sights.
Hundreds of wooded ravines and
creek valleys add more splendor to
the scene.
Then miles and miles of chalk
cliffs, in their variegated colors,
fringed with pine trees at many
maces from Chamberlain to Yank
*on. make this valley one of the
scenic spots of the world.
Wild fruits also are in abundance.
Thousands and thousands of bush
els of wild grapes grow in tnc tim
bered sections along the stream
more prolific than at any other
place known.
Patches of wild plums and choke
cherries are seen in profusion in
valley and on hill side.
Wild cucumbers and hops, both
commercially valuable, make a vine
clad network and entanglements of
gorgeous beauty in many places.
Wooded islands—a hundred of
them—add a picturesqueness to the
landscape.
oucn scenic Deauues ca»i»
along this great stream were not
meant to be hidden from the view
of human kind.
As soon as our main highways are
completed, steps should be taken to
build a river road from Sioux City
to the North Dakota state line,
skirting the valley, winding around
hills agid cliffs, climbing to heights
of landscape beauty, passing close
by natural parks, crossing bridges
of architectural beauty, making it
for future generations one of the
scenic routes of the world, as well
as a road of great commercial value
to large strips of territory now
without adequate highway accom
modations.
I am also convinced that a type
of boat for passenger and freight
traffic will be invented that will
make travel on this stream safe and
practicable.
It would seem with the perfec
tion aluready obtained for the cater
pillar tractor principle of motor
power that a lixe attachment for
boats coming in contact with the
sandbars would solve the difficul
ties so often experienced in navi
gating that stream.
A week’s trip en the Missouri river
yn a beat equipped to offer splen
did accommodations for those seek
ing a vacation period, would, no
doubt, become very popular.
Another asset of the Missouri riv
er is its supply of catfish. Many
fishermen, fish boats and fish traps
were seen along the shores on this
trip.
The “Old Muddy” is the catfish
paradise. “Millions of them,” as
one of the boat crew said. “And if
you could catch them all and sell
them at the market price, doubtless
there tvould be enough to pay off
the rural credit shortage.”
Fanning Still Attractive.
From Omaha World-Heruld.
Tire deflation of agriculture and
the subsequent long period of de
pression complicate the process of
adjustment and stabilization follow
ing the disappearance of an arable
public domain open to settlement
There is no more fertile land to be
had for little more than the effort
of clearing it and putting it under
the plow. What is left is too rough,
too sterile or too arid for cultiva
tion. New areas may be opened by
Irrigation, but their extent will be
negligible compared with the whole
farming area of the country.
Not only is tne iree ianc gone,
but the pioneer, the original home
steader, has nearly disappeared.
This changed condition has been
accompanied bv certain definite
phenomena. The urban population
has been rapidly overtaking the ru
ral, farms have been passing into
the hands of absentee landlords and
tenantry has been increasing. The
acquirement of land by the previ
ously landless entails the neces
sity cf heavy financing and the pil
ing up of an enormous mortgage
debt.
These phenomena are not suffi
cient of themselves to be alarming.
So long as the tenant can look for
ward to ultimate ownership and so
long as the farm can earn a money
return adequate to carry the financ
ing required for changing owner
ship. American agriculture will at
tract and hold a type worthy of the
traditions of the pioneer ancestors.
There never was a time when
fanning, aside from its economic
aspect, appeared more attractive.
Science and invention havp given
the farmer machinery which takes
much of the load from his back,
they have brought him into closer
I touch with town and his neighbors
and they have made it possible for
him to possess many of the com
forts and conveniences of the ur
ban dweller. The land wants only
an economic stabilisation compar
able to that of mechanical Industry
to save it from reversion to peas
antry.
And the Garden?
Prom Passing Show.
Husband (who. during hours
cleaning time has to shift lor him
•elf)—I say. dear, where the drucs
can I find a knife and fork?
Wife--Don't be silly. Harold. You
know they are krpt In the side
board.
Hu-band—I It tow, but where U
th* 'tdeboard*
Wile—Oh. it's In th* gardes.
q Ha* the name of Germany
arm changed? E. 8 _
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1 Use Oent.au Republic
Out Our Way ’_
By Williams
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In Nicaragua.
Prom United States Daily.
Plans completed by the marine
:orps provide for sending an addi
tional force of 958 men and 28 of
ficers to Nicaragua to assist in su
pervising of Nicaraguan elections in
Dciober, it was announced orally
June 14 at marine corps headquar
ters.
The reinforcements will relieve
come of the fighting line from duty
so that they may study Spanish and
familiarize themselves with Nicara
guan customs in preparation for
Election work. A school for this tui
tion has been set up at Leon, Nic
aragua.
The marine reinforcements will be
mobilized from detachments afloat.
Detachments from the battleships
New Mexico, Pennsylvania and
tdaho already have left from Puget
Sound, Washington, on the am
munition ship Nitro. The detach
ments from the Texas was dropped
at Corinto, June 13.
Other detachments will be taken
out of San Pedro, Cal., by some ves
sels of the tattle fleet, starting
probably July 5. Detachments mak
ing up the force are as follows:
United States fleet, battleship
Texas, 95; battle fleet, battleship
California. 95; battleship division,
West Virginia 79, Pennsylvania 69,
New York 77, Arizona 74. New
Mexico 67. Idaho 71, Mississippi 72,
Colorado 69. Maryland 82. Tennes
see 74 and tender snip Protyon 34
Three officers each will go from
the detachments from the Penn
sylvania, West Virginia and Cali
fornia, one from the Procyon, and
two each for the remainder of the
craft.
To Kill Dandelions.
L. H. Pammel, Des Moines.
Most people like a green lawn,
and do net care to have it inter
spersed wiih dandelions. Therefore,
the dandelion is a most troublesome
weed. What can be done to ex
terminate it? In the lawns in the
cities of Colorado, it is not infre
quent to see parts ploughed and
cultivated, then freshly sown with
blue grass in order to exterminate
the dandelion. Irrigation rapidly
makes a good lawn again. This is
not practical in Iowa. One may
also destroy the dandelion by the
use of a spud or a knife, cutting
out the roots a few inches below
_ . .« . ___j rru i n
lilt SUUttLC SJi. liiC fiuuuu.
method is laborious. The dandelion
does not produce new buds from
very far underneath the surface of
the ground.
The cheapest way in Iowa is to
spray with iron sulphate. The writ
er and Miss Charlotte M. King in
1907 and 1908 carried on an ex
tensive series of experiments in the
extermination of the dandelion and
other weeds by the use of iron sul
phate and other chemicals, and
since then other experiments have
been made by us showing conclu
sively that Iron sulphate will ex
terminate the weed. Young seed
ing plants can be killed in a single
spraying, and now is the time to
spray for these. The solution used
in our experiments was 108 pounds
of iron sulphate to a barrel of wa
ter. Even half-strength solution de
stroyed completely the dandelion.
We found, for instance, that the
young dandelions may be killed by a
single spray but older plants cannot
be destroyed unless five or six ap
plications of the spray are made
and these applications should be
made in the afternoon.
The Ontario agricultural college
experiment station states in a re
cent report that, after three years
of experimental work, they found
as we did that soon after the appli
cation of the solution the leaves of
the dandelions were blackened and
burned. They found it necessary
to spray six times before the dande
lions were completely killed Ac
cording to their figures over 90 per
cent, of the dandelions were de
stroyed by spraying six times with
ilrokerV Loan*.
Chicago Journal of Commerce
Whatever warrant there may have
been for alarm over the Increase
In the amount of brokers' loans
ought to be quieted by the substan
tial decrease In the amount during
the last fortnight
The diversion of the country'* li
quid capital Into stock speculation
ha* bn-n lessened by forte* arising
out ol this very speculation on
June d broker* loan* reached a rec
ord total 34* Wo On June
13 the amount had decreased to M *
4J7.091JJW, and on June 30-1 ur
Gist of Democratic Platform on
Problem of Agricultural Equity
in tliat part of the democratic platform devoted to the
agricultural problem, there is extended discussion of the
causes leading up to the existing inequalities, properly
enough, and reference to "broken promises" by the repub
lican party. These phases are quite legitimate, but the^ real
interest in the middlewest applies to constructive suggestions
for establishing and maintaining economic equity. Note the
positive pledge for action. What may be termed the heart
of the democratic position on agriculture, therefore, is con
tained in the following extract from the platform adopted at
Houston:
Farm relief must rest on the basis of an economic equality of
agriculture with other industries. To give this equality a remedy must
be found which will include among other things:
(a) Credit aid by loans to co-operatives on at least as favorable
a basis as the government aid to the merchant marine.
(b) Creation of a federal farm board to assist the farmer and
stock raiser in the marketing of their products as the federal reserve
board has done for the banker and business man. When our archaic
banking and currency system was revised after its record of disaster,
and panic under republican administration, it was a democratic con
gress in the administration of a democratic president that accomplished
its stabilization through the federal reserve act, creating the federal
reserve board with powers adequate to its purpose. Now, in the hour
of agriculture’s need, the democratic party pledges the establishment
of a new agricultural policy fitted to present conditions, under the
direction of a farm board vested with all the powers necessary to
accomplish for agriculture what the federal reserve board has been
able to accomplish for finance, in full recognition cf the fact that the
banks of the country, through voluntary co-operation, were never able
to stabilize the financial system of the country until government pow
ers were invoked to help them.
(c) Reduction through proper government agencies of .the spread
between what the farmer and stock raiser gets and the ultimate con
sumer pays with consequent benelits to both.
(d) Consideration of the condition of agriculture in the formula
tion of government financial and tax measures.
We pledge the party to foster and develop co-operative marketing
associations through appropriate government aid.
We recognize that experience has demonstrated that members of
such associations alone cannot successfully assume the full responsi
bility for a program that benefits all producers alike. Wc pledge the
party to an earnest endeavor to solve this problem cf the distribution
of the cost of dealing with crop surpluses over the marketed units of
the crop whose producers are benefited by such assistance. The solu
tion of this problem would avoid government subsfdy to which the
democratic party has always been opposed. The solution of this prob
lem will be a prime and immediate concern of a democratic adminis
tration.
a 20 per cent, solution of iron sul
phate. The material used is known
as sugar sulphate of iron. If used
for large areas, 100 pounds can be
emptied into a barrel of water, thor
oughly mixed and then applied with
a spraying machine. The spraying
should be done under pressure. For
smaller areas, two pounds of sul
phate of iron to a gallon of water
will be sufficient for a lawn 20 by
25 feet; or five gallons for a lawn
25 by 100 feet for a single applica
tion. The plants will turn blark the
next day. the grass will be slightly
brown. The processes should be re
peated in a week and five or six
sprayings should be made for the
season. Please remember consid
erable force should be used to apply
the iron sulphate on the plants and
do not spray on bright, clear, sun
shiny days because we found in our
experiments that we had better suc
cess when a dew followed the spray
and when sprayed In the afternoon.
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Money Jugglery.
The unrest in France is the same
sort of unrest we had when we had
the same problem. The holders of
money and of securities payable in
money were hoping against hope
that the franc might be brought
nearer to parity. They have stout
ly resisted recognizing the franc at
the 4 cent value. That is why
j Poincare has waited so long and
which a report has just been made
•—the amount had dropped to M -
289 590.000 This is a decline of
nearly $390 000 000 In two weeks.
It Is fortunate that the decrease
In the amount of money which tlw
i banks have loaned on call vhculd
! occur at just this time, became the
July 1 settlement is the mo*t impor
i tsnt settlement day of the year A
j huge amount will be paid out in
: Interest, dividends and other settle
' menu, and for this purpose an un
! usual total of bank credit U neces
The decline in brokers* loans Is
1 not due in any Important extent to
[ the calling of loans. It la due at
why he feels his way ,«iO cautiously.
There are plenty of economists
who believe the United States would
have acted more justly with its peo
ple if after inflation we had faced
things as they were and stabilized
our money at the inflated level. De
flation did not right the wrong done
by inflation, it merely added an
other wrong. If deflation had come
to those who benefited by infla
tion, one hand might have washed
the other. But deflation did not
hit those who had profited out ol
Inflation It hit a wholly new group
One has to only go to any of our
thriving county seats in the de
flated farm area to see what deflai
tion has done to a generation ol
bankers and land owners.
We are now getting readjusted
here in the Mississippi valley.
Q. Was long hair ever a sign
of rank? A. C. R.
A. Homer speaks of long haired
Greeks by way of honorable dis
tinction. The Gauls considered
long hair a mark of honor for
which reason Julius Caesar obliged
them to cut off their hair as a tok
en of submission, for all slaves were
.•horn The Ooths considered long
hair a mark of honor and shorn
hair a sign of thraldom. For man*
centurle* long hair In France wa*
the distinctive mark of kings and
nobles and in the time of Charles
II the cavaliers gloried in long hair
most entirely to an Inevitable liqui
dation in the stock market. The
decline in the value of stock* has
resulted in less margin being re
quired by customer*. Also, the de
cline In the value of stocks has
compelled or persuaded numerous
customers to get out of tlie market
And the decline In the value of
stocks was the inevitable result of a
realisation that stork had been
pushed too high by speculation
The increase in brokers' loans was
an accompanying factor in over
speculation. The nverspeeulalton
ultimately reached its peak .md was
followed bv liquidation, which in*
votved a decrease in broken* loans.
, I Cute in a Baby
'Awful at Three
-and it’s Dangerous
fey Ruth Brittain
Thumb sucking does look sweet In •
huby, but It Is disgusting In the threw
year-old and sometimes it hangs o*s
until fifteen or sixteen! The habit
may cause an ill-formed moutb or to
rture adenoids; and It always Inter
feres with digestion. Pinning the
pleeve over the hand; attaching mit
tens, or putting on cardboard cuffs,
which prevent bending the arms at the
elbows, are some of the ways to stop
the habit
Another bad habit—Irregularity to
bowel action—Is responsible for weak
bowels and constipation In bnhiceL
Give the tiny bowels an opportunity te
act at regular periods each day. 11
they don't act nt first, a little Fletch
er’s Cantoria will soon regulate them.
Every mother should keep a bottle ol
It handy to use In case of colic, choL
era, dlunhen, gas on stomach an^
bowels, constipation, loss of sleep, or
when bnby is cross and feverish. Its
gentle Influence over baby’s system
enables him to get full nourishment
from his food, helps bltn gain,
strengthens his bowels.
Castorla Is purely vegetable and
harmless—the recipe Is on the wrap
per. Physicians have prescribed It for
over 30 year?. With each package,
you get a valuable book on Mother*
hood. Look for Chas. H. Fletcher’*
signature on the wrapper so you'll ge*
the genuine.
Woman Howe Admires
I am specially admiring another
woman. She married a half worth
less sort of fellow, and not much war
expected of her, as she caine from m
shiftless family and shiftless neigh
borhood. But she Is surprising every
one. Her new kin, at first suspicloua,
are acclaiming her. Her half worth
less husband not only loves her, but
site is making a man of him. She la
tlie reigning sensation in the littia
town where she lives, stie is so ador
able, sensible, womanly and worthy.
Her name Is Lizzy. I have heard bo
much about her tHat 1 should rather
see Lizzy than Ethel Barrymore.—
K. W. Howe's Monthly.
Fire Ball Caused Panic
When a fire ball fell in a held at
Murtle, near Aberdeen, Scotland,
where a picnic was being held, many
children and adults were thrown pro*
trate, und panic ensued. One boy wan
temporarily blinded. Another bore the
imprint of a fern on his thigh. On u
woman’s arm was n mark resembling
twisted wire. Some of the children
were so terrified that they injured
themselves by rushing heedlessly
nguinst barbed-wire fences.
A Career
“I hear Briefless is going to marry
a millionaire's daughter.”
“Will lie give up the law business?**
"Oh, yes, lie's going Into the son
in-law business Instead.”—Montreal
Star.
Pleasing Belief
One of the most valuable qualities
which the average man possesses la
the belief that lie Is above the aver
age.—Ottawa Citizen.
In the good old days there w»»
always something horrid, if you re
member.
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those tains that Bayer Aipsrin can
end in a hurry I Physicians prescribe
it, and approve its free use, for it
does not affect the heart. Every drug
gist lias it, but don't fail to ask the
drug gift for Bayer. And don’t take
any but the box that says Bayer, with
the word genuine printed in red;
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