A QUICK RECOVERY.
A Prominent Officer of the Order of
Rebeccas writes to Thank Doan’s
Kidney Pills for it.
Mrs. C. E. Bumgardner, a local offi
cer of the Rebeccas, of Topeka, Kans.,
Room 10, 812 Kansas
Aye., writes: I usea
Doan’s Kidney Pills
during the past year,
for kidney trouble
and kindred ailments.
1 was suffering from
pains in the back and
headaches, but found
after the use of ore
box of the remedy
that the troubles
gradually disappeared
so that before I had
finished a secord
package I was well.
I, therefore, reartily
endorse your reme
dy.” (Signed) Mrs.
C. E. Bumgardner.
A FREE TRIAL—Address Foster
Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale
by all dealers. Price, ZO cts.
The consumer is the individual who
is out the most on the strike.
Insist on Getting It.
Some grocers say they don’t keep
Defiance Starch. This is because they
have a stock on hand of other brands
containing only 12 oz. in a package,
whichth ey won’t be able to sell first,
because Defiance contains 16 oa. for
the same money.
Do you want 16 oz. instead of 12 oz.
for same money? Then buy Defiance
Starch. Requires no cooking.
A temperature life is slow, but it’s
pretty sure.
BEST BY TEST
*'! have tried all kindj of waterproof
clothing and have never found anything
at any price to compare with your Fish
Brand for protection from all kinds of
weather."
(The name and address of the
writer of this unsolicited letter
may be had upon application.)
A. J. TOWER CO. The Sign of the Fish
Boston. U S A.
TOWER CANADIAN
CO.. LIMITED - • ~ ~
Toronto. Canada IRM®
Maker* of Warranted Wet Weather Clothing
Ml_
|! A striking contrast I
|f between Defiance Starch
■ and any other brand will
be found by comparison. * .
|§ Defiance Starch stiffens, |®|
p| whitens, beautifies with* B
fi out rotting.
f It gives clothes back H
flj their newness.
■ It Is absolutely pure. '
H It will not injure the
■ most delicate fabrics. p,
■ For fine things and all * ■
p: things use the best there f
I® is. Defiance Starch jf|
to cents for rf> ounces.
H Other brands 10 cents for
■ la ounces. ^ *
§| A striking contrast. Wy
H THE DEFIANCE STARCH CO.,
||| Omaha. Neb.
Thompson’* Eyo Wator
Babies Carried in Boots.
Gypsies carry their babies in old
shawls slung over their shoulders and
tied about the waist. North Ameri
can Indians carry their babies on the
backs of squaws—cradle and all. But
the Eskimo women of Labrador carry
their babies in their boots. These
boots come up to the knee and are
wide at the top, with a flap in front.
In these the little brown babies live
and are happy.
Cats With Knotted Tails.
There is a breed of cats in Malacca
which has this peculiarity. At first,
travelers are under the impression
that somo cruel person has tied a
knot in pussy’s tail “for fun,’ b%t this
is not so. The kittens are born with
this peculiarity, and it continues
throughout their life.
Philanthropies!.
It should be a compensating thought
to a man who dies and leaves insur
ance money that he is benefiting his
own sex, for some other man will
come a>ong and get it—Atchison
Globe. ______
Many Children Are Sickly.
Mother Gray 's Sweet Powders for Children,
used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children’s
Home, New York, cure Summer Complaint,
Feverishness, Headache,Stomach Troubles,
Teething Disorders and Destroy Worms. At
all Druggists’, 25c. Sample mai'ed FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted. Le Roy. N. Y.
That Was Mr. Micawber’s Scheme.
The art in life is to sit still and ta
let things come toward £ou, not to gc
after them or even to think that they
are in flight. How often I have chased
some divine shadow through a whole
day till evening, when, going home
tired, I have found the visitor just
turning away from my closed door.—
Arthur Symons in Saturday Review.
Must Purchase Their Wives.
The Bakalai of equatorial Africa are
excellent hunters, and as soon as they
have gathered enough elephants’ tusks
they exchange them for European
merchandise, with which to buy wives.
The price of a wife among the Fans
of Africa is high and a young man
must work a long time in order to ac*
cumulate the necessary 6um.
Phonograph Watch.
A new Swiss watch contains a tiny
hard rubber phonograph plate which
calls out the hours loud enough to be
heard twenty feet away. Sentiment
can be added by having the words re
corded on the plate in the tones of a
dear friend—as those of a man’s wife
or children.
Home Visitors’ Excursion Tickets to
Indiana and Ohio.
Via The Northwestern Line,
will be sold at very low rates on four
Tuesdays, Sept. 13th, 20th and 27th, j
and Oct. 11th, limited to return within :
30 days from date of sale.
For particulars as to territory to
which excursion tickets may be sold,
etc., apply
City Offices, 1401-1403 Farnam St.,
Omaha, Neb.
The only way some of us can be
made to look up at all is by being
dropped to the bottom of some deep
pit of trouble and left there awhile.—
Chicago Tribune.
Very Low Rates to St. Paul-Minne
apolis
Via The Northwestern Line.
Excursion tickets will be sold _at
one fare plus 50 cents on Sept 28th,
29th and 30th, with favorable return
limits, on account of Gideons’ conven
tion.
City Offices, 1401-1403 Farnam St.,
Omaha, Neb.
It sometimes happens that when a
man offers to stake his reputation on
a thing ho would win by losing.—Chi
cago News.
Why It Is the Best
isbecause made by an entirely differ
ent process. Defiance Starch Is un
like any other, better and one-third
more for 10 cents.
Many a man fails to get there be
cause he has dizzy feet.
Mr*. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
for children teething, softens the gums, redness fa
fiaimuftUon, allays pain, cures wind ooilu. 25c u bottle.
Some men lead double lives because
they are driven to it.
AVegetable PreparationforAs- 9
! similating the Food andBegula- Jg
ling die Stomachs and Bowels of ||f
^ )].: 1
Promotes Digeslion.CheerfuI- i
ness and Best.Contains neither ^
l Opiiun.Morphine nor Mineral. m
Not Nar c otic . I
I A perfect Remedy for Constipa
i Ron, Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea ip
Worms .Convulsions .Feverish
ness and Loss OF SLEEP.
Ffcc Simile Signature of
NEW YORK. 1|
EXACT COPV Of WRAPPER. ^
--
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have
Always Bough!
Thirty Years
OASTOBIA
BEGGS' BLOOD PURIFIER
CURBS catarrh cf the stomach.
\
When Answering Advertisements
Kindly Mention This Paper. j
CSS^JCf
r €VQd
iNVBNrn^L
Size of an Atom.
How large is an atom? “Perhaps
the simplest though not the most ex
act way of arriving at a rough esti
mate of the size of atoms is by meas
uring the thickness of a soap-bubble
film, where it is as thin as possible
just before it bursts,” says a writer.
“Such a film, if composed of atoms,
must be something like a pebble wall.
Now, a pebble wall would not stand
if it were not several pebbles thick,
and if we had reason to suppose that
it was about a dozen pebbles thick
we could easily make an estimate of
the size of a pebble by measuring the
thickness of the wall. That is the case
with the thinnest region of a soap
film. It is found to have a very defi
nite and uniform thickness. It is the
thinnest thing known, and by refined
optical means its thickness can be
accurately measured. It must contain
not less than something like a dozen
atoms in its thickness, and yet it is
only about the twenty-millionth cf an
inch in thickness by direct measure
ment; so that the diameter of an
atom comes out between one two-hun
dred-millionth and one three-hundred
millionth of an inch. In other words,
from about 200,000,000 to 300,000,000
of atoms can lie edge to edge in a
linear inch.”
Automatic Compass.
M. Heit, a French inventor, has de
vised a new type of compass, which
is of an automatic nature. The di
rection of the compass by this ar
rangement is automatically registered
minute by minute, so that by consult
ing the chart the ship’s officers can
ascertain the route traversed at any
time during the passage. The com
pass card, instead of having at its
center an agate resting on a fixed
steel point, is fixed on a steel pivot
which rests on a fixed agate. The
latter is immersed in a drop of mer
cury, which serves to conduct the cur
rent of electricity that makes the
registering of the movements of the
apparatus possible.
A Useful Toaster.
Every woman who has to do the
cooking has at different times re
ceived burns by coming in contact
either with the fire or from the heat
of the utensil she is using. Very often
these burns are serious and leave
scars which can never be effaced; but
the pain caused is the main consider
ation. Especially in toasters and broil
ers is the danger of a burn the great
est, and a woman who is not very
careful is sure to get them.
To make the toasting of bread and
hther similar articles easy and less
’dangerous, a Wisconsin man has in
vented the toaster shown in the illus
Toasts Both Sides.
tration. It has many advantages and
is a very simple and convenient uten
sil. The toaster proper is similar to
those now in use and is pivotally at
tached to two parallel bars. These
bars are again pivotally fastened to
the handle. A small projection in the
handle prevents the bars from swing
ing too far "forward, but tends to hold
the grate always in the position here
shown.
The patentee is Eli Shupe, of Ra
cine, Wis.
Feeding Habits of Salmon.
“Why do salmon take a fly?” asks
Horace G. Hutchison in his new book
on fishing. “This is a question often
asked, the more so as scientists tell
us that salmon do not feed in fresh
water—a statement which, however,
cannot be accepted by anglers. This
is not a scientific treatise on the sub
ject, but we may fairly ask scientists
when we see salmon caught with
worm, prawn or minnow (which they
often take into their gullets as a
trout will do), what they are doing
with them there? That salmon are
rarely caught with anything in their
stomachs is quite true, but it may be
that it is only the hungry fish which
take a fly or a bait, and those whose
stomachs are empty. Or it may be
that the salmon’s power of ejecting
food is so great in the struggle to free
himself that he ejects everything in
his stomach. Well, then, why does he
take a fly? Is it from curiosity? The
fact of catching him with natural bait,
which he is attempting to swallow, is
conclusive evidence that he does feed
in fresh water.”
Sawdust Ships. '
Sawdust lends itself to many uses,
not least of which seems to be the
making of the new petrolignite, or
stone wood, which is interesting ship
builders in England, France and Ger
many. This material is a mixture of
sawdust with certain minerals,
formed into slabs under hydraulic
pressure, and its special claims are
noninflammability and freedom from
slipperiness when wet. It makes
decks safe to walk upon and parti
tions that do not burn. The product
is very close in texture, does not
crack, is impervious to dry rot, can
be given any color and can be worked
with tools like any hard wood.—Kan
sas City Star.
Makes Water Unusable.
In India polluted water in wells,
tanks, canals, and other receptacles
used by the natives Is dosed with ker
osene oil or chemicals in order to ren
der it urpalatable so the natives will
not incur disease by using it for drink
ing purposes.
Wireles Telegraphy.
The Navy department lias decided to
issume control of all wireless tele
graph stations on the > oast and to
jrohibit the operation of such stations
5y private persons or coi porations.
TO HOtlSiu FIFTY HENS.
Plan for Sanitary and Comfortable
Domicile for Fowls.
P. W. M.—What should be the di
mensions of a house for fifty hens?
Would this be too many for one com
partment?
Fifty hens in one compartment
would certainly be too many. Divide
into two flocks of twenty-five birds
each. There is no cast iron rule as
to the construction of a poultry house.
Allow no less than six square feet of
floor room to each fowl, and build your
house on the scratching house plan,
as shown in the accompanying illus
tration, which may serve as a guide.
The house referred to is 12x60, di
vided into four pens, each having a
roosting and laying house 7x12 and
scratching shed 8x12. The roosting
room is built of double boards and bat
tens outside, then paper and matched
sheeting on the inside. The sheeting
ar.d all studs are of hemlock, the out
side boards pine and sills of cedar set
on cedar posts, 6 feet apart. The hem
lock sheeting was used because it was
cheaper than pine, and rats do not go
through it as much as they do pine.
There are no floors, but the earth on
the bottom of the pens is raised three
feet higher than the ground outside.
In damp localities a board floor is pre
ferable.
Poultry as Insect Destroyers.
There is one valuable advantage of
keeping poultry on the farm that is
the vast number of insects destroyed
by them.
If every insect caught by a hen in
a day were counted and an estimate
made of the number of insects eaten
by a flock of twenty-five hens, it
should show that hens are more use
ful in that respect than may be sup
posed.
When busily at work scratching, the
hen secures many grubs and worms
while the larvae of insects also assist
in providing them with food.
A flock of turkeys will search ever>
cook and corner of a field for insects,
and as a turkey can consume a large
amount of food it will make away with
a vast number of them each day.
The active guinea is ever on the
search over the fields for insects. It
does not scratch, but every blade of
grass is looked over, and it rarely
comes up to the barnyard to seek food.
Its industry prompts it to secure its
own food, and in so doing hundreds
of insects are destroyed.—Poultry Ad
vocate.
Ducks Act Peculiarly and Die.
S. C. M.—Raven ducks appear well,
but walk sidewise, then fall, roll over,
lie or. their backs, twist their heads
half way round and stiffen out Seme
die suddenly, but others recover.
They have a swamp to run in and
have wet corn meal to eat.
In the absence of particulars as tc
age of the ducks and manner in which
they are kept, it is not easy to exact
ly determine what is the cause ol
mortality in this case. It may be due
to the birds being too much exposed
to the hot midsummer sun. George
H. Pollard, one of the most experi
enced breeders of ducks, says: “Ex
posure to the hot sun annually kills
more birds than any other cause.” Ii
the ducks are young it is not advis
able to constantly feed them on corn
meal. Try a change and it would not
be amiss to mix a small quantity of
garlic in the soft food. There is a
worm which sometimes affects ducks,
more particularly young ducks.
ROUP IN FOWLS.
Roup in fowls, which causes much
serious loss in this country, is a very
common and troublesome complaint
in Ireland, where it has received very
careful study. An authority writing
upon it in the Farmers’ Gazette ol
Dublin, has the following to say:
Roup attacks the head and throat,
and is generally the result of draughty
roosts, dirty quarters, .tainted water
for drinking, and sour, badly-kept
food. If you find a fowl iwith a
wheeze in the throat and sneezing
then you should start in with a cure,
for a cold i3 the forerunner of roup.
Five drops of tincture of aconite to
a quart of drinking water for a few
days will generally cure cold if the
cause la removed. If not, it turns to
roup, when the face and head swrell,
and there is a discharge from the
nostrils and round the eyes. The
disease is very contagious and if you
don’t take away a bird affected you
will soon have them all “smitten.”
If the bird attacked is valuable you
can try to cure it, but if it is not
worth a good deal of expense and'
trouble, wring its neck and burn the
carcass. Some people will never
breed from a fowl which has had the
roup.
Facts In the Case.
“But wasn’t you brought up to
work?” asked the kind lady who had
staked the tramp to a,handout.
“Dat’s wot I wuz, lady,” replied the
hcbo. “De las’ time I wuz brought up
de judge put me ter work ter ten
days.”
Willow-ware Center.
In ten years Maryland has jumped
from fifth to third place in the willow
ware Industry In the Lnited States,
ranking now next to New York and
Pennsylvania. Baltimore Is one of the
three willow-ware centers which only
have shown any actual growth in the
business. In Maryland the center of
the willow district lies in Howard
county. In the neighborhood of Elk
ridge alone the output of willow ex
ceeds $5,000 per annum, while Anne
Arundel county contributes £2,500.
Defiance Starch
should be In every household, none so
good, besides 4 oz. more for 10 cents
than any other brand of cold water
ctarch. ^_
Growth of European Population.
Few persons have any Idea of the
extraordinary manner in which the
population of Europe has increased
during the last century. According
to statisticians this population has
more than doubled itself from 1880
to 1900. To this increase the Latin
nations of the west and southwest
contributed the least and the greatest
growth was in the east, where the
people have not yet become thorough
ly saturated with the ideas of mod
ern civilization.
Piso's Cure Is the best medicine we ever used
for all affections of the throat and lungs.—Wjl.
D. Enuslit. Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900.
Civilization and Railroads.
Nothing is more significant of the
sudden development of Japan than the
history of her railways. The first rail
ways, eighteen miles In length, was
completed in 1872. At the present
time there are 1,344 miles of state and
3,150 miles of private railways in op
eration, and there are 852 miles under
construction. For the most part they
pay well, the larger yielding dividend}
from 10 to 12 per cent.
Smokers find Lewis’ “Single Binder”
straight 5c cigar better quality than most
10c brands, lewis’ Factory, Peoria, 111.
Chinese Most Spoken Language.
There are 382,000,000 Chinese speak
ing the same language, making Chi
nese the most spoken language. There
are many dialects, however, which
seem scarcely to belong to the same
tongue. The Inhabitants of Mongolia
and Tibet can barely understand the
dialect of the people in Pekin. Other
widely spoken languages are as fol
lows, In millions: English, 120; Ger
man, 70; Russian, 68; Spanish, 44;
Portuguese, 32.
“Dt. David Kennedy’s Favorite Remedy
Erve me prompt and complete relief from dyspepsia end
yer derangement. ' B. T. Trowbridge, Harlem K U, N.Y.
Reading With a Purpose.
Reading without purpose is saunter
ing, not exercise. More Is got from
one book on which the thought set
tles for a definite end in knowledge,
than from libraries skimmed ever by
a wandering eye. A cottage flower
gives honey to the bee, a king’s gar
den none to the butterfly.—Lord Lyt
ton. __
The Murine Eye Kennedy Co.. Chicago, send Horae
Eye JUoclt lree. Write them about your eyes
Praises the “Razorback."
Some of our state exchanged are la
menting the survival of the genuine
"razorback.” But he carries a fortune
under that ornery hide of his—some
day when the quality becomes more
than the quantity the sweetness of his
meat will be appreciated at its proper
i value, and his hams will rival ihose
of Smlthfield In market value, as they
do in all the qualities appreciated by
the epicure.—Florida Times-Union.
All Up-to-Date Housekeepers
use Defiance Cold Water Starch, be
cause it is better, and 4 oz. more of it
for same money.
Many Uses for Rhubarb.
Many uses for rhubarb are known,
but champagne rhubarb, mentioned in
a report of an English lawsuit, is new
to most people. The case grew irom
a charge that a Devonshire firm used
rhubarb for the making of cider. This
was denied, but a witness volunteered
Information that the fruit wa3 used for
various wines and cordials.
■
To Grow Tea in California.
Some of the farmers near Sant-a
Rosa, Cal., are experimenting with
tea growing and their efforts seem to
be meeting with success. It Is safid
that there is no reason why tea should
not be grown in some sections of this
country, though the earlier South Car
olina experiment is not known to bo
making great headway.
Emerson’s Sage Advice.
Finish every day and be done with
It. You have done what you could;
some blunders and absurdities no
doubt creep in; forget them as soon
as you can. To-morrow is a new day;
you shall begin it well and serenely
and with too high a spirit to be cum
bered with your old nonsense.—Emer.
son. __
Every housekeeper should know
that if they will buy Defiance Cold
Water Starch for laundry use they
will save not only time, because it
never sticks to the iron, but because
each package contains 16 oz.—one full
pound—while all other Cold Water
Starches are put up In %-pound pack
ages, and the price Is the same, 10
cents. Then again because Defiance
Starch is free from all injurious chem
icals. If your grocer tries to sell you
a 12-oz. package it is because he has
a stock on hand which he wishes to
dispose of before he puts In Defiance.
He knows that Defiance Starch has
printed on every package in large let
ters and figures “16 ozs.” Demand
Defiance and save much time and
money and the annoyance of the iron
sticking. Defiance never sticks.
Man Is the only animal that uses a
handkerchief. Women’s handkerchiefs
are merely for show.
Try to make two virtues look like j
ten, and they will get so thin you
won’t know them.
Girls waste kisses on each other be
cause they know where to get plenty
more.
In accord with the eternal fitness of
things a book of love-poems should be
bound in calf.
A man’s place in heaven may be
quite different from his pew down
here.
Miss Gannon, Sec y Detroit Amateur
Art Association, tells young women what to
do to avoid pain and suffering caused by
female troubles.
“Dear Mrs. Phthham:—I can conscientiously recommend Lydia BL
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound to those of my sisters suifering with
female weakness and the troubles which so often befall women. I suf
fered for months with general weakness, and felt so weary that I had
hard work to keep up. I had shooting pains, and was utterly miserable.
In my distress I was advised to use Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound, and it was a red letter day to me when I took the lirst dose
for at that time my restoration began. In six weeks I was a changed
woman, perfectly well in every respect, I felt so elated and happy that
I want all women who suffer to get well as I did.”—Miss Guila Ga!nxom,
359 Jones St., Detroit, Mich., Secretary Amateur Art Association.
It is clearly shown in this young lady’s letter that Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound will certainly euro the sufferings
of women; and when one considers that Miss Gannon’s letter is
only one of the countless hundreds which we are continually
publishing in the newspapers of this country, the great virtue of Mrs. Pink
ham's medicine must be admitted by all ; and for the absolute cure of all kinds
of female ills no substitute can possibly take its place. Women should hear
this important fact in mind when they go into a drug store, and be sure not
to accept anything that is claimed to be “ just as good” as Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound, for no other medicine for female ilia has
made so many actual cures.
How Another Sufferer Was Cured.
Dear Mrs. Pinkham : — I cannot praise your wonderful remedies
enough, for they have done me more good than all the doctors 1 havo
had. For the last eight years ancl more 1 suffered with female troubles,
was very -weak, could not do my housework, also had nervous pros
tration. Some days I would remain unconscious for a whole day and
night. My neighbors thought I could never recover, but, thanks to
your medicine, I now feel like a different woman.
“I feel very grateful to you and will recommend Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound to all. It has now been four years sine*
I had the last spell of nervous prostration. I only weighed ninety
eight pounds at that time ; now I weigh one hundred and twenty-three.
“I consider your Vegetable Compound the finest remedy ma/W
Thanking you many times for the benefit I received from your medicine
I remain, Yours truly, Mrs. J. II. Farmer, 2809 Elliott Ave., St. Louis, Mot"
Remember Mrs. Pinkham’s advice is free and all sick women
are foolish if they do not ask for. it. She speaks from the widest
experience, and has helped multitudes of women.
SeAAA FORFEIT U we cannot forthwith produce the original letters and signature* of
\nl|lll| above teatixnoniaU, which will prove their absolute genuineness.
UUUUU LjrcUa K. Finkham Co., Lynn,
. .- ____ ___ V
PUTNAM FADELESS YES
Putnam Fadeless Dyes are cleanly, as they neither stain the hands nor spot the kettle. One 10c Dackasre colors either tnir _
equally well, and is guaranteed to give perfect results. Putnam Fadeless Dyes aro for sjUe by a!f cood^u^ists ever^^1 ®r
direct at 10c a package. Write to-day lor free booklet—How to Bleach, Dye or Mix Colors. ° ^NROE DRVG^^nlo^^S
HANDY BLUEING BOOK.
(n sheets of PURE ANILINE SLUE. No bottles. No paddles. No waste. Gives the same
unount of blueing water each wasb-day. Ask your grocer for It or send 10c for a book of 25 leaves.
The Kandy Blueing Book Go., 87 E. Lako SI., Chicago, III.
W. N. U., Omaha.No. 39—1904