I FRESH AIR FOR CONSUMPTIVES?
I Most Effective Weapon Available for Conflict 1
^ With Dreaded “White Plague" y
The following abstracts from an ar
ticle by J. E. Stubbert, M. D., in the'
Medical Record, should feceive wide
and careful attention. No doubt if
these ideas could be carried out. the
“white piigne” would be robbed of
much of its terror:
In ut:c;cnt times it was highly im
proper to expose a tuberculous pa
tient, especially one beyond the first
stage, to a breath of fresh air except
on the mildest days in summer, while
the night air was dreaded and avoided
as the plague. Then the more observ
ant and thoughtful men noticed thr.t
those who lived more in the open air
did not die as quickly as the hot-house
patients, and they began to urge an
outdoor life and moderate exercise
as a prophylactic as well as a cure
for those in the early stages of con
sumption. Those in the more advanc
ed stages were allowed frerh air only
when it was at summer temperature,
but even this was better than being
kept indoors in warm, ill ventilated
rooms the whole year.
There are several plans by which
the victim of tuberculosis may con
tinuously breathe pure, fresh air by
nignt as well as by day. Sleeping out
in the open air is not harmful to a
large majority of tuberculous people.
Millet, of Brockton. Mass., reports
the cases of five patients whom he
recommended to sleep out of doors at
night. They were allowed no roof
over their heads except in rainy
weather. They wore soft felt hats
and cotton nightshirts, sleeping under
ordinary bedclothes in beds arranged
on the roofs of their houses. Im
provement was noted in two weeks.
Coughs disappeared, temperatures be
came normal, respirations were easier
and weight increased rapidly. No at
tention was paid to dampness and
drafts, and heavy dews were regarded
as inconvenient simply because of the
necessity of drying the bedclothes.
Sleeping in a small room with an
open window does not appear to be
nearly so beneficial to the patient as
when the nights are passed on a ver
anda or in a tent where there is a
free circulation of air on all sides. If
a patient were fortunate enough to
have a large room with a southern ex
posure and containing one or two
open fireplaces, in addition to large
windows on three sides, which might
be opened at night, he might derive
approximately the benefit incident to
tent life.
McGraham. of South Carolina, pre
fers the circular to the army tent, and
thinks it better to place it on a plat
form two feet from the ground, and
to do without carpets and draperies.
Draperies are not necessary, but rugs
add greatly to the comfort and con
venience of those in ill health, and
their use can be made perfectly safe
by exposing them to the sunlight for
a few hours daily.
Special Hospitals for Consumptives.
A hundred years ago the city of
Naples. Italy, erected a lar^e hospital
for consumptives, and required the
isolation of all persons suffering from
this disease. It is only recently, how
ever, that the authorities of modern
cities have become awakened to the
importance of this sanitary measure.
Recently a number of cities have
taken steps for the establishment of
hospitals especially for the treatmem
of cases of consumption by the so
caked “open-air method.” Excellent
results are reported from this method
of treatment.
The German government has a
large central committee numbering
more than thirteen hundred persons,
organized for the purpose cf erecting
hospitals for the treatment of tuber
culosis. This committee has under its
supervision seventy-four such hospi
tals, and last year treated over thirty
thousand patients, of whom eighty per
cent were returned to their homes
practically cured after remaining in
the hospitals on an average of a little
less than three months.
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An Extra Good Appetite.
A good appetite is a symptom of
good health. An extra good appetite
is sometimes a symptom of constitu
tional disturbance somewhere. A sam
ple letter sent to the “Questions and
Answers” column of a prominent
health journal was something like
this:
“I am troubled with pimples, not to
a great extent, but still very annoying.
They appear principally on (he fore
head, but occasionally on other places.
I often feel languid, and tire easily,
and cannot gain flesh, although 1 have
an extra good appetite. Still I am
not sick, and have not been iu bed for
a day in my life. Age, nineteen years.
Will you kindly advise me what you
think would remove these pimples?”
There is little doubt but that the
“extra good appetite” alluded to af
fords the key to the situation. The di
gestive organs have more than they
can take care of, and consequently do
not properly take care of anything fur
nished. There will be frequent head
aches, skin disorders and alternate con
stipation and diarrhea with such per
sons. Pimples are a natural result of
such depraved blood conditions.
With many people the habit of
hearty eating is continued when the
warm spring days come. Food which
was appropriate when the thermomet
er was at zero is continued in the
same quality and quantity when the
thermometer rises to ninety degrees
in the sun, and averages above sixty
all day and night. The person who
loses his appetite under such a condi
tion is on safe ground. The person
with an extra good appetite will have
to exercise self-control or be placed
on the retired list to learn wisdom by
experience.
How to Earn Sound Sleep.
All doctors are not so careful of
the welfare of their patients as they
might be. Here is a story of one who
went to the limit. He is the proprie
tor of a famous health resort not far
from-. When he receives a pa
tient for treatment he says:
“Now, I want it understood that un
less you do exactly as I say, there is
no use of your staying.”
This rule sometimes requires him to
be very harsh, but he never hesitates.
He acts on the theory that he can bet
ter afford to offend a single patient
and lose him that to have that pa
tient go back home and tell his friends
Dr. So-and-So had done him no good,
reiates the Washington Star.
Not long ago a well-known clergy
man went to this resort for treatment.
The doctor looked him over upon his
arrival and said:
“While you are here you must take
long walks every day.”
“But I can’t take walks,” replied
the parson. "I haven't done any walk
ing for years. My heart won't stand
It ”
They argued the question quite
warmly. As the clergyman and doc
tor were good friends, the latter was
more lenient than usual. However,
he bided his time. The next after
noon the physician said to the clergy
man:
“It’s a nice day. I would like you
to go horseback riding with me.”
Riding they went. When they were
about eight miles from the sanitarium
the physician said: “Oh, doctor, won’t
you get me that flower by the road
side? I don’t like to leave this
hcrse."
As soon as the clergyman was on
the ground the doctor galloped off
with both horses, and the clergyman
was compelled to walk back to the
sanitarium. Upon his arrivel he was
very’ angry, and was for packing up
and leaving at once. There was no
train that night, so he was forced to
stay a few hours longer. The next
morning he came down radiant aud
good natured.
“Doctor,” said he, “I was pretty
sore at you last night, but I lorgive
everything. I have had the first good
sleep I have enjoyed in months. Here
after I’ll obey your order implicitly.”
TIMELY VEGETARIAN RECIPES.
Cream of Celery Soup—Ingredients:
Celery tops, 1 quart cream or rich
milk.
Method—Put tops in saucepan, cover
with water, simmer one hour. Drain,
return water to pan, add milk and
stalks, simmer one-half hour longer,
season to taste, remove celery', thick
en to consistency of cream. Serve
hot.
Chili Sauce—Ingredients: One
quart strained tomato, 4 tablespoon
fuls minced celery, 3 tablespoonfuls
minced onion, sugar.
Method—Put all together in sauce
pan, let come to boil, set on back of
range and simmer two hours. A
small piece of lemon peel and a cup
of chopped tart apples will greatly
improve the flavor. Cook till apples
are done, remove lemon peel, cool,
serve.
Sweet Potato Cutlets—Pare pota
toes, cover with boiling w'ater, boil
twenty minutes, drain off half the
water, and cook till soft. They should
be almost dry when done. Mash or
put through ricer. Form in shape of
chops, sprinkle with powdered sugar,
and brown in medium oven. Serve
with sugar peas.
Porkless Baked Beans—Wash beans,
place in heavy pot and boil five min
utes. Salt to taste. Bake twenty
four hours in slow oven, keeping bare
ly covered with water. When done,
the beans should be of a uniform
dark brown. Longer cooking will im
prove.
Potatoes Lyonnaise—Chop cold boil
ed or baked potatoes. Season with
salt while chopping. Stir in onions
and parsley minced. If too stiff, thin
with nut cream to consistency desir
ed. Turn into oiled baking pan,
smooth, brush with cream, brown
Serve in squares.
A Maze for the Stranger.
“London,” said an Englishman
proudly, “is the hardest city in the
world to get about in. London has
streets more crooked than those of
any other city. She has more streets
of the same name than any other city.
Why, London has 151 Church streets.
“London,” he went on, “has 129
Union streets, 119 John streets. 116
New streets, 109 George streets, 99
Queen streets, 95 King streets. 91
Charles streets, 88 William streets,
87 James streets, 78 Princes streets
and 57 Elizabeth streets.
“When you tell a London cabby to
drive you to Elizabeth street ne asks,
with a smile:
“ ‘Which of the fifty-seven varieties,
sir?”
Views of an Authority.
Cousin Freddy—Ma said there was
a lot of measles and whoon’og cough
around, but I didn’t get fnem.
Cousin Gracie—Aren’t you glad you
didn’t?
Cousin Freddy—Yes, because bro
ther Tom says it's better not to get
them until you en tn school
Twenty Tons of Klondike Gold.
Twenty tons of gold have been pro
duced by the Klondike proper, the dis
trict within a radius of fifty miles oi
Dawson, since January 1 of this year.
In other words, the output of the
Klondike since the first of this yeaT
is $9,200,000. The royalty collected on
the gold by the Canadian government
for the year is $220,2.0. The banner
year in the camp was in 1900. when
the output was placed at $20,000,000.
Since that the cream of the richest
claims has been taken and lower
grade areas are being worked.—De
troit Tribute.
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Truthful James.
In a certain Iowa corn center Fred
Meek, manager of the “Wizard of Oz”
company, was obliged to thrust back
a sophisticated youth whom his moth
er was trying to squeeze in without
a tu-Ket. “That boy is over age.
Must have a ticket.”
“He ain’t seven yet.”
“He's fourteen if he’s a day.”
Whereupon tha sophisticated youth
spoke up: “You’re both liars. I’m
thirteen.”
Experimental Plots.
I must acknowledge that I have
been slow in taking advantage of my
opportunities. I farmed the old place
for many years without attempting to
find out what it needed in the way of
fertilizer. In fact, I robbed a part of
the farm and kept up another part
and did not know wliat I wras * <iug.
I used to haul out the manure every
spring and put it all onto the fields
in which I grow potatoes and corn.
That was very good for those parti
cular fields, but was a little hard on
the land that did not get any of the
manure. I put it on the same fields
every year because I believed that
every year the corn and potatoes
took out all I put on. I am now satis
fied that there was a residue left that
was not really needed on those fields
and w'ould have been paying me bet
ter interest had it been put on some
of the fields that have never had any
barnyard manure.
In attending a farmers’ institute I
heard the matter of experimental plots
discussed and thought I would try
one on some of the poorest parts of
my farm. I measured off two acres
and put no fertilizer on one and var
ious kinds of fertilizers on the other
in strips. I left the first acre for a
check. I put on the other acre about
1,000 pounds of lime and some phos
phates. and a strip on that acre was
treated with nitrogen and another
with both phosphorus and nitrogen in
a commercial form.
The results were remarkable, and I
have since been wondering why I did
not do it before. I found that the
phosphorus and nitrogen wTere both
deficient. I made an application per
acre of about 150 pounds of bone meal
on a forty-acre field and put on some
barnyard manure, enough to give a
little more nitrogen and humus to
each acre.
It is astonishing how we will run
along in the same rut for many years
and never think of what is and what
might be, till we have an object les
son that brings the truth home to us.
I am but just beginning to teach my
self by the help of experimental plots
and I intend to continue the good
work.
Adams Co., 111. Augustus Mihill.
Seed Corn in the Ear.
A circular letter sent out from the
Ottawa, Canada, station, says:
The cost of the small quantity of
seed corn that is required to plant an
acre, in comparison with the cost for
labor in cultivating and handling and
the ultimate value per acre of a good
crop, would seem to make it clear
that the best available seed of the
most satisfactory type and variety
should be obtained at any reasonable
cost. It would be much better for
Canadian farmers if they were able to
obtain their supplies of seed corn in
the ear; they would then nave a fair
idea of what they were getting. While
in the ear, the danger of injury to
the vitality of the seed from damp
and its after effects is reduced to a
Minimum. Corn that is shelled by a
machine and left in sacks for six
weeks or more will seldom germinate
more than 75 per cent, unless the
conditions for storage have been ex
ceptionally good. The average vital
ity of seed corn, tested in the seed
laboratory last year, were, for corn
received in the ear, 95 per cent, and
for shelled corn 68 per cent. It is
much to be recommended then that,
wherever possible, farmers obtain
tueir supplies of ueed corn in the ear
only. To meet the demand for seed
corn in this condition growers would
do well to adopt the style of shipping
crate that is used for this purpose in
the states of Iowa and Illinois. This
crate is two feet nine inches long, one
foot wide, and one foot deep, and is
made of half inch lumber three inches
in width. Its capacity is one bushel,
or between one hundred and one Hun
dred and twenty ears. If the corn
can be planted in hills, this crate will
hold sufficient seed for five a:res.
While it is true that there may be
some additional cost for freight, on
account of the weight of the cob ana
of the crate, and that extra work is
required in shelling the corn, these
become insignificant when the differ
ence in value between an acre of
good matured corn and an acre of un
satisfactory corn is considered
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Common White Beans.
It is rather surprising that more
attention is not given to the growing
of the common white beans. I think
that we can greatly improve on the
quality of our beans. Why is it that
the white bean or the West is not the
equal of the white bean of the New
England states? I have spent a good
deal of time in New England, and
there they have what thev call the
yellow-eyed white bean, and most
farmers in the northern part of that
section of country are growing them.
They are nearly twice as large as the
white beans we have here. I no
ticed that the farmers there planted
them on very ordinary ground and
after all the other field crops were in.
As to manuring, one of them said to
me that he used very little manure.
When he got around to planting the
beans the manure had been all taken
out of the barnyard except some of
the fine stuff scattered about the
yard. This was hoed up for use on
the bean field, and with the hoeing a
good deal of soil was mixed with the
manure. Then a hired man went to
work with the soil around the chop
ping block and raked up a large pile
of partly-decayed wood dust, saw dust
and the like. This was mixed with
the scrapings from the barnyard re
ferred to and was the only manure
put on the ground in which beans
were to be planted. The manure was
not mixed with the soil but scattered
thinly in the furrows, tramped down,
and the beans drilled upon it. The
crop obtained was always good. It
is my belief that we often manure too
heavily for the best result with white
beans.
Ashland Co., O. Walter Bisby.
The farm boy and the farm girl
should each own a flock of fowls.
THE HEN.
The hen is not an animal.
Nor fish, and doesn’t sing:
It’s just a feathered sort of bird
And yells like everything.
Whene’er it chances for to lay
An egg in any place.
Just cackles round and up and down
And never cracks its face.
And when it wants a family
It doubles up its legs
And sets on anything in reach.
Woodpiles, or stones, or eggs.
One time a hen set on an axe.
Her pride!—no hen could match it!
But finally her poor heart broke
Because she couldn't hatchet.
All children should be good to hens,
Till goodness is a habit,
No other thing lays eggs for them
Except the Easter rabbit:
A rooster is a man hen, but—
This between me and you—
The hen climbs on a roost to sleep,
So it's a rooster, too.
—J. M. Lewis in Houston Post.
Johnny’s Saving Bank.
Our son Johnny has taken a great
fancy to poultry, and he calls his lit
tie flock his savings bank. He bought
a hen and rooster with the pennies
he saved and since that purchase,
two years ago, he has been investing
about all of his extra pennies in more
hens. Hens have been selling at
thirty-five cents in the vicinity foi
years, and every time he gets that
amount of money a new hen comes
to the farm. Incidentally I might
mention that Johnny has an uncle
whom he has interested in his sav
ings bank, and from him he succeeds
in getting many a dime for errands
run. I have a strong suspicion that
the said uncle has more errands tc
do than he really need have, as he
has a strong leaning towards Johnny
The surprising thing is that
Johnny’s flock has now grown to be
bigger than the family flock. Johnny
is only twelve years old, but he has
an aptitude toward handicraft, and he
has built his own hen house and hen
yard. He wouldn’t be dependent od
his father, so he purchased his lum
her from a neighbor for a small sum
of money. That neighbor got tired
of having board fences and bought
wire for fences of that material. That
threw on the local market (which wa?
Johnny) a considerable amount of
lumber in the form of boards, and the
owner sold them at just what they
would have been worth for fire wood
The house that Johnny built has
only an earth floor and two good
windows on the south side, some
roosts, nest boxes, and plenty of straw
but the hens are contented in it, and
all the hens seem to take an especial
pride in making their chicks live
and develop into mature biddies. The
owmer is a hard dealer and will nol
sell his fowls or eggs under price
Already he has “turned over” his
money several times.
His father told him he might have
all the land he needed for his flock
and that the hens could run and pick
all the grass and gather all the scat
tered grain without charge for same
Now the “old man” is beginning tc
worry lest Johnny take possession of
the whole farm in a few years on the
said agreement. The “bank stock''
now totals about $30 and is paying
four hundred per cent.
J. H. Watkins.
La Salle Co.. 111.
One Dollar a Year Per Hen.
The above is the popular estimate
of the cost of feeding a hen a year.
At twenty-four cents a dozen, fifty
eggs should pay for the cost of keep
Ing her and the balance of the eggs
should be an offset against the ex
pense of sheltering and caring for
her. That some flocks do not pay a
profit is due to careless management
by the owner, for whether on the
farm or in an establishment devoted
to the raising of poultry it should not
cost more than the sum mentioned to
supply the food the hen consumes
annually.
In the light of this, the reason why
some flocks do not pay is that they
are so badly taken care of that the
losses from diseases, rats, mites, and
preying animals and birds is very
great. We say that it costs only a
dollar to feed a hen a year. On that
estimate it costs a man to feed 100
hens half a year $50, and the fowls
do not begin to lay before that time
In most cases. Now on many farms
the farmer has lost half of his fowls
by fall and thus the food that was
put into them has been wasted. This
runs up rapidly into money, and the
rest of the hens have to pay abnor
mal profits to make a good showing
for the flock.
If we but take an account of the
situation we find that the mortality
among the poultry is something enor
mous. What would we think if half
of our calves died off before they
were six months old, or if we should
habitually have steers drop down
and die or perish from the numerous
causes that cause losses In the feath
ered flocks?
It has been said that we can make
a profit of $1 a hen easily, and so we
can on the hens that live. But the
unfortunate fact is that we make less
than nothing on the hens that die be
fore having laid the eggs they are
supposed to lay in a year.
I think this is the source of much
of the discouragement in poultry rais
ing. However it may be said that
most of the mortality among the
fowls comes from things that can be
prevented by a little care and fore
thought.
Allen Co., Ind. Sophia Belknap.
Protect the fowls at night. Do not
trust the birds to take care of them
selves. There are almost no situations
where prowling animals of some kind
are not likely to work havoc at night.
Do not permit the fowls to roost
over a mass of droppings; on warm
winter nights these send up large
quantities ofNammonla, which is very
harmful to the health of the fowls.
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Husband’* Kheumatidm, a Daughter'*
Nervous Prostration.
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Gossett, “ because I have seen such good
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family. There are three of us who have
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need to take anybody’s word on the sub
ject for our own experience has taught us
how well they deserve praise.
“ It was just about teu years ago that
I first read about Dr. Williams’ Pink
Pills, and bought my first box. I was at
that time all run clown, weak, nervous
and without ambitiou. I had been doc
toring all summer for malaria and
stomach trouble. Everybody thought I
was going into consumption, as iny
mother bad died of that disease.
“ Thanks to Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills,
I am now alive and hearty. I began to
improve as soon as I began to take them,
and when I bad taken three boxes I was a
well woman. Everyone wonders how I
keep so well and am able to care for my
home and six children without help.
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills explain it.
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when she was about fourteen. She was
nervous, complained of sharp pains in
her head, would get deathly sick and
have to leave the school room to get fresh
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She took only a few boxes, but they cured
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using them, and that is why we recom
mend them to others.”
Mrs. Minnie B. Gossett lives at
Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas Co., Ohio, and
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teen years. Her story shows that a
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Thevhave cured anaemia, and all forms
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They are indispensable for growing girls.
“Bell of St. Patrick’s Will.”
At Belfast is still treasured the
“bell of St. Patrick’s will,” which
bears the fearsome name, “Clog ar I
eadhachta Phatraic,” and has in- j
scribed on it the dates 1901 and 1105. j
and which thus cannot he less than
eight centuries old.
EFFECTS OF PROSPERITY.
In the six years of the country's
greatest prosperity, from 1897 to 1903,
average prices of breadstuffs advanced
65 per cent., meats 23.1 per cent, dairy
and garden products 50.1 per cent,
and clothing 24.1. All these were prod
ucts of the farmer and stockman who
profited more than any other class of
the community by these advances.
The miner benefited 42.1 per cent by
that advance in the average price of
metals. The only decrease in the
average prices of commodities in that
period was in railway freight rates
which decreased from .798 per ton
mile in 1897 to .763 in 1903, a loss
of 4.4 per cent. The report of the In
terstate Commerce Commission shows
that the average increase in the pay
of railroad employes in the period was
a trifle above 8.5 per cent.
One out of every four persons who
die in Ixmdon dies “on public charity.”
Important to Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA,
a safe and sure remedy for infants and children,
and see that it
Bears the
Signature of __
la Use For Over 30 Years.
The Kind You llave Always Bought,
Self-reliance.
There is a time in every man's edu
cation when he arrives at the con
viction that envy is ignorance; that ;
imitation is suicide; that he must
take himself for better, for worse as
his portion; that though the wide uni
verse is full of good, no kerne! of
nourishing corn can come tq hint hut
through bis toil bestowed on that plot
of ground which is given to him to
till.—Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Indian Matrimonial “Ad.”
Babu matrimonial advertisement:
“Wanted—A match for an independ
ent. beautiful young widower of 36
years, of respectable and very rich
family. Possesses handsome amount
of thousands and numerous golden or
naments of his previous wife.”—Ija
hore Tribune.
Major’s Keen Comment.
"Next time you’re in the armory,”
said the captain of Company G. proud
ly, “take a look at our room. We've
had it repainted and refurnished
throughout.” “I saw it,” replied the
major, “and really, sir, your room is
better than your company.”—Phila
delphia Ledger.
Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children.
Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse
in the Children's Home in New York, cure
Constipation, Feverishness, Bad Stomach,
Teething Disorders, move and regulate the
Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 30,000
testimonials. At all druggists, 25c. Sample
FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y.
The Effect of Fried Eels.
A teacher in the primary depart
ment of a city school one morning re
cently asked the children what made
them so restless. One little fellow
raised his hand and said: “We had
fried eels for breakfast at my house
this morning.”
Write Eugene Moore. 210 Odd Fellows’
Bldg.. St. Louis, Mo., for full information
of 288,000 acre plantation. Stock for sale.
Easiest paymeuts. 8$ dividends guaran
teed. Active Manners and A (rents wanted.
Beer in the United States.
The production of beer is now more
than half a barrel for every man, wo
man and child in the United States.
There is something wrong with the
religion that cannot stand transplant
ing from the Cathedral to the kitchen, i
—Henry F. Cope in Chicago Tribune, j i
Chain Curved From Wood.
Alnong the curiosities recently pre
sented to the Maritzburg museum in
South Africa is a chain 23 feet 6
inches long, carved from the trunk
of a tree by “Knobnose” natives, a
tribe in the Zoutspanberg district,
Transvaal. The chain is continuous,
requiring phenomenal patience and
skill in carving.
Phonograph Attached to Cradle.
A recent Barcelona law case re
vealed the existence of a phonograph
cradle which sang lullabies to an in
fant inside. The rich manufacturer
who gave the order sued for the re
turned of his money on. the ground
that the phonograph went out of or
der aad seldom sang the desired
tune.
Good Natural Tonics.
For general use are a brisk walk or
a bicycle ride. They rouse the whole'
system, aid all the processes of life. I
and eliminate the waste products of I
the body. Stay-at-home, st>deDtary
people are robbing themselves of med
incine which Nature dispenses gratis.
Two Exceptions.
“They say that all the world loves '
a lover,” said the rejected suitor as;
he ate his dinner from the mantel
piece. “But there are generally two
exceptions to the rule—the girl you
want to be your wife and the man
you want to be your father-in-law.”
Life’s Stepping Stones.
You think that an opportunity must
necessarily be something great and
unusual; but the fact is, the stepping
stone to the place above you is in the
very thing you are doing, in the way
you do it; it does not matter what it
is.—Success Magazine.
But Did Joseph Know?
Joseph T. Buckingham of Bo'-ton.
one of the best writers and grammari
ans of his time, said that “not one
scholar in a thousand ever received
the least benefit from studying the
rules of grammar before the age of
15 years."—Lynn Item.
Mythical Ancient History.
Four days after his birth Apollo
seized a lyre and astonished even
Zeus with his playing. “He has Vog
ner frayed clean to rags!" exclaimed
his mother, Cleto. proudly. “Surely
so,” answered Hera. “He’s doing rag
time!”
Pays Dearly for Stamp.
For using on envelopes two stamps
which had already been through the
post, an Irish schoolmaster has just
been fined £100. Some of women’s
little daily economics often prove in
the end expensive.—London Globe.
New Machinery.
We have edited the Mineral Belt
Gazette for forty weeks without a pair
of scissors. We have today added
this piece of machinery to our well
equipped plant.—Mineral Belt Gazette.
Art of Long Ago.
Perhaps the first American woman
pictured in art is a Maya priestess,
bearing a huge Moan bird. It was
found in an ancient codex, something
like the Egyptian papyrus scrolls.
Breakable Coins.
Until the reign of Edward I. of Eng
land pennies were struck with a cross,
so deeply indented that it might be
easily parted into two for halfpence,
and into four for farthings.
Thackeray's Beautiful Idea.
Thackeray’s idea of motherhood
was as pretty and acceptable as any.
“Mother is the name of God on the
lips of little children.” he said.
Ambiguous.
“Johnson wants to borrow some
money of me. Do you know anything
about him?” I know him as well as I
do you. I wouldn't let him have a!
dollar.—New Yorker.
Stamps costing $19,500 were recent
ly required for an agreement between
two London railway companies.
•I>r. l>avl«l Kennedy's Favorite Remedy,
Romlmit. \. Y., cured ni v *er!ous kldnev trouble, i gained
fti pound*.'* 8. W ardell, burun lllc, N. J. bottles fl.(Ml
Good cheer is often better than cold
cash.
THE STRAIN OF WORK.
Best of Backs Give Out Under tha
Burden of Dally Toil.
Lieutenant George G. Warren, of
No. 3 Chemical, Washington, D. C.,
savs • "It’s an honest fact that Doan's
Kidney Fills dm
me a great lot of
good, and If It
were not true I
would not recom
mend them. It was
the strain ef lift
ing that brought
on kidney trouble
and weakened my
back, but since us
tng Doan’s Kidney Pills I have liueo
COO pounds and felt no bad effects. I
have not felt the trouble come back
since, although 1 had suffered for five
or six years, and other remedies h&u
not helped me at all.”
For sale by all dealers. Price oQ
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
A straight party man frequently
leaves a crooked trail.
BABY ONE SOLID SORE.
Could Not Shut Eye# to Sleep—Spent
$100 on Doctor*—Baby Grew
Worse—Cured by Cuticura
for $5.
“A scab formed on my baby's face,
spreading until it completely covered
her from head to foot, followed by
boils, having forty on her head at one
time, and more on her body. Then
her skin started to dry up and it be
came so bad she could not shut her
eyes to sleep. One month's treatment
with Cuticura Soap and Ointment
made a complete cure. Doctors and
medicines had cost over $100, with
baby growing worse. Then we spent
less than $5 for Cuticura and cured
her. (Signed) Mrs. G. H. Tucker. Jr..
335 Greenfield Ave., Milwaukee. Wis.”
Russia’s Export Profits.
More than half of Russias profits
from exports come from the sale of
grain.
lewis’ “Single Binder" straight 5c cigar.
Price to dealers *36.00 per M. They cost
some more than other brands, but no more
than a good 5c dear should cost. Lewis'
Factory, Peoria, ill.
Insurance on Ships.
The ships of- the world are insured
for a total of £950,000,000.
the next morning t feel bright and new
AND MV COMPLEXION IS BETTER.
. “TS.'t act* gently on the atomach. liver
■n“ k‘dne78 *n<i la a plaaeant laxative. This drink it
ma<*e from herb*, ana i* prepared for ute as easily u
taa. It it called “l.anr’H Tea” or
LANE'S FAMILY MEDICINE
i-DHHY'-""!
earn Hr▼ • fn «rri©r to be heMrhy thin ta
d h easary. Add re*.. O. V. Woodward? L?Roy? NY.
XM the Trail m I followed the ]
..—■■■»■ trail from Texas
■with a Fish Brand ^“h'brVnd
Pommel Slicker Skj£*Xt&
. cold, a wind coat
when windy, a rain coat when it rained,
and for a cover at night if we got to bed,
and I will say that I have gotten more
comfort out of your slicker than any other
One article that 1 ever owned."
(The name and addreaa of the writer of this
unftolii-itetl letter may be had on application.)
Wet Weather Garments for Riding, Walk.
ing, Working or Sporting.
HIGHEST AWARD WORLD S FAIR. 1904.
A. J. TOWER CO.
BOSTON, D.S.A.
TOWER CANADIAN
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TORONTO. CANADA ijgff
SPINAL CURVATURE Csn be Cured
ALSO OTHER DEFORMITIES.
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inept statesmen, and physicians Con
sult your Family Doctor. No braces or
appliances used. Treated successful!.
SiL'U?1—-.?1 Vears‘ experience.
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BAD STOMACH
Attended with tainted, offensive, or fou
breath, bitter taste, especially in th«
morning, furred tongue, sick or bilious
headaches, poor or irregular appetite
sour stomach, “water brash,” constipa
tion with strong tendency to “the blues,’
or despondency, are all relieved and rad
ically cured by the faithful use of I>r.
Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. Nc
man can be stronger than his stomach;
when it gets out of order he becomes bil
ious, dyspeptic, hypochondriacal, peevish
and “out of sorts”; he feels languid,
tired and “all fagged out.”
Nothing will more speedily or perma
nently invigorate and tone into action,
liver and bowels than Dr. Pierce’s Golden
Medical Discovery. It is compounded
from the active medicinal principles ex
tracted from nutive medicinal plants,
without the use of alcohol, not a drop of
which enters into its composition. The
benefit felt from its use is not therefore,
due to alcoholic exhiliration, and conse
quently of short duration, but is endur
ing and permanent.
The great majority of diseases have
their inception in a bad stomach, indi
gestion, biliousness and impure blood.
Among these diseases are deadly con
sumption, nerve-racking, brain-wrecking
nervous prostration and exhaustion,
body-torturing rheumatism, insanity
breeding neuralgia, emaciating malaria
and alt manner of disfiguring blood and
skin diseases. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Med
ical Discovery is a cure for all these dis
eases, if taken in anything like reasona
ble time. It is not a cure-all. but cures
the diseases mentioned for the reason
that they are caused and aggravated by
the same disorders. It makes the appe
tite keen, the digestion perfect, the liver
active, the blood pure and builds firm
flesh and healthy nerve fiber. Don’t bo
wheedled by a penny-grabbing dealer into
taking something else said to be "Just as
good. ’ only that he may make a greater
profit. There’s nothing “just as good ”
as “Golden Medical Discovery,” with its
record of cures extending over a third of
a century.
A Great Sufferer Cured.
Dr. R. V. Piwrok. Buffalo. N. V. •
Dror Sfr-My health Is better now than It
has been iiefore for many years, ard I owe to
Dr. Pierce's Golden M-li.-ni IMsI-m-ery^delu
ofgratitude. I was. for several years, troubled
' rJh*1 8eywe stomach trouble, sick bead
,T,he and nervousness. Could not eat any
thing without experiencing the most agonlt
lng pain. Had little appetite and was fre
quently nauseated. My sick headache* JIL
5*** rtt>lent and I could not rest night or
daj. I became emanated and thoroughly
despondent, and no medicine that I cou d
take seemed to help me at all It
f*ther "ho suggested that I try your medi
cine and I am grateful to sav thoih.rfK
■ xsr^stsss ;S3
cua aow 1
— Aster A venue.11 Arlln‘rUj»- Ne" Jemey.
Cures When everything Else Falls.
D"* R- v. PiKRca Buffalo. N Y ■
Dear Mr- I am happy to tAv'th.i t *
found Dr. Pierce s GoPtPen MedhaVniJ h,T®
: ootdm ffSiSSSi
satisfactory that I hough?*«r«* I uruv**d *>
ties of the medicine ami us^t o* “*>[» bot
entlrely well. That was £ ) Un,u 1 "M
V ou may count on me f< >r«V»U.t ,ol*r months.
“Golden Med leaf “Lover v-U'Th frtend 10
j Sanitarium, which I know hi80 lo /our
best in the country * *° 1)6 on« of th«
“ «“•»«™*-A8‘M wiffiKK-N T
Dr. Pierce’s 1%3fir'SSr
! *• Potato” shouicP^i^'^v-coutA
! ‘ Discovery.” One or ful^n 10 a*d the
two to touyr ferTcai,«S'“r'S'»x»u“
have been known to cure
of stomach trouhle HpOI had cases
IWtlon. ThS°S onPSGfa,.*,>d ‘*H
regulate the bowels p„ e Hv«r and
vials, corked, therefore™! iUp n R,ass
and re- n, w,erpfore always fresh
"*bl* Pleasant Pellets
FARMS l“or Stole
BEGGS’ BLOOD PURIFIER
^URES catarrh of the stomach, i