■ ISS GENEVIVE MAY.
Miss Genevive May, 1317 S. Meridian
St.. Indianapolis. Ind.. Member Second
High School Alumni Ass’n, writes:
* • Peruna is the finest regulator of a
disordered stomach / have ever found.
It certainly deserves high praise, for it
is skillfully prepared.
“I was in a terrible condition from a
neglected case of catarrh of the
stomach. My food had long ceased to
be of any good and only distressed me
after eating. I was nauseated, had
heartburn and headaches, and felt run
down completely. Hut in two weeks
after I took Peruna I was a changed
person. A few bottles of the medicine
made a great change, and in three
months my stomach was cleared of
ratarrh, and my entire system in a
better condition'”—Genevive May.
Write Dr. Hartman. President of The
Hartman Sanitarium. Columbus. Ohio,
for free medical advice. All corres
pondence held strictly confidential.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Cupid never gives a guarantee.
The hand of fate is often a bobtail
flush.
Virtue usually wears last year’s
clothes.
Wait for your worries; but not for
{ your work.
It is easy to be rigorous without
| being righteous.
Faith never had any need to dream
about the future.
The self-satisfied people are gener
ally the happiest.
A fool can attract quite as much
attention as a wise man.
A necessary evil must be the kind
j that money is the root of.
Conscience isn t in it with the hu
miliation of being found out.
In matters of opinion the beaten
track is most likely to lead astray.
In marriage a man takes the fatal
plunge; a woman simply puts her
foot in it.
When a man makes a fool of him
; self he generally does it to please
some woman.
Perhaps truth is stranger than fic
| tion because we don't get so well ac
quainted with it.
Men believe in the power of Christ
because he believes in the possibilities
of men.—Henry F. Cope in Chicago
Tribune.
When a bachelor wants to jolly a
married woman he tells her he is
sorry he didn’t meet her before it was
too late.
When we see all the foolish things
in show windows we are tempted tc
grow sarcastic until we reflect that
men make those things.
FLORIDA SUNSHINE.
A man can give himself away with
'out meaning to be generous.
Those who look down on their
neighbors seldom have far to look.
People who "get in on the ground
door” are apt to slam the door behind
them.
If we could see into the future
blindness would soon be considered
a blessing.
The less a woman has in her purse
the more determined she is to carry
it in her hand.
It’s curious, but the average man
; feels silly when he hears himself re
fered to as "good.”
Storekeepers, Hotel-men
and all householders will be interested
in Acetylene Apparatus Mfg. Co. an
nouncement ?t» 'hie rar<=r.
Why the average man thinks it nec
essary to show his wife more courte
sies abroad than at home?
Try me just once and I am sure to
come again. Defiance Starch.
This Is What
Catches Me!
16ox.^”One«THircl More Starch.
FULL
POUND
'* lOc
No premiums, but one*third
more starch than you get of
other brands• Try it now, for
hot or cold starching it has no
equal and will not stick to the iron*
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Mueller Pianos
Are Sent Free
to responsible people on trial. If you
don't sav they are $100.00 better than
any piano you have seen, box it up,
I send it back at our expense.
i Our Prices Are Way Down
because we have no agents or travelers.
Our terms are cash, or $20.00 down and
$5.00 monthly. Write today for cata
log and prices.
Address the makers,
SCNM0LUR& MUELLER
Established. lfC.0. OMAHA, XEB.
■Kipgin
- OUR FAMILY **
Will fit twit foot !b yonr family, and the price will please yon as well. They are made of
best leather for long: wear; hare style and snap. Ask yonr dealer to show yon the "FamilY’'
line. It be does not handle it write to ns direct and we will see that yon are supplied.
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The Occidental Building & Loan Association
of Omaha, Nebraska,'
will furnish money to help to build homes, which can be
repaid in monthly payments. Anyone desiring a home
should write for information as to our plan of loaning
money. Address* 1523 Douglas St* Omaha* Nebraska.
Muck Lands.
Millions of acres of muck land still
make up the aggregate of our farming
lands, and in most cases the muck
lands are not being utilized. In some
swamps the muck graduates slowly
into peat, and of course the peat is
of little value except for burning.
Some of the peat bogs of the United
States comprise thousands of acres
each. The states known to contain
the largest aggregate of muck lands
are Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michi
gan, Minnesota. Iowa and Florida. It;
these states the aggregate of muck
lands runs from 1,000 to 5,000 square
miles. Even in the state where the
aggregate is only 1,000 square miles
the acreage is thus 640,000. This will
give some conception of the magni
tude of the factor comprised in the
term “muck land.”
To-day about 30 of the experiment
stations in this country are devoting
more or less attention to the manage
ment of muck lands. Muck lands have
been formed by the partial decay of
water plants, but these same plants
have been prevented from completely
decaying by the water that has cov
ered them. Had the air had a chance
to get at them it would long ago
have completed the decay, and the
manurial elements contained in the
plants would have helped to feed new
plants. When drainage has been ap
plied to all our muck lands the decay
processes of nature will be facilitated,
and it is possible that the time will
come when muck lands and peat lands
will be unknown.—Adolphus Perry,
Black Hawk Co., Ia., in Farmers' Re
view.
Early Blight of Potatoes.
This is a disease that is widely prev
alent. It is confined to the leaves
and the green stems and begins to ap
pear at about the time the tutors be
gin to form. It may be suspected
earlier if the plants seem to be grow
ing slowly. It is first noticed on the
leaves by the formation of grayish
brown spots, which soon become hard
and brittle. The disease progresses
slowly, the spots gradually becoming
larger, especially along the edges of
the leaflets. At the end of ten days
or two weeks half of the leaf surface
may be brown, withered and brittle,
while the rest is of a yellowish green
color. The tubers Etop growing al
most as soon as the leaves are at
tacked.
Spray with Bordeaux mixture as
soon as the first signs of the disease
are seen. This is made by dissolving
4 pounds of copper sulphate and 4
pounds of fresh lime in 50 gallons of
water. The addition of 8 ounces of
Paris green will destroy the potato
bugs at the same time.
. Battle with Weeds.
I have always considered the battle
with weeds the principal one for the
farmer to fight on his arable land.
The more he fights weeds the more
is the ground kept stirred and the soil
water saved for the crop. In the cul
tivation necessary for the destruction
of weeds he is at the same time gain
ing a double advantage over the con
ditions that would grow worthless
plants in the place of valuable ones.
An old farmer looked over my fence 1
one day and said to me, "I regard you
as a pretty good farmer, but I have
noticed that there is one crop that
you never seem to be able to grow
successfully.” I asked him what it
was, and he replied, "the weed crop.”
I was glad to find out that I had won
the reputation of being unable to
grow a weed crop. I really believe
it is easier to keep down all weeds
than to keep down most of them. If
all of them are kept down there is a
feeling that the crop of whatever is
being grown has ail the possible ad
vantage that can be given to it.—
Amos Dibble, Clinton Co., 111.
Tapping a Swiss Lake.
Swiss engineers are figuring out
the process by which Lake
Sils is to. be tapped, and
the water used for driving machinery.
It is planned to have the lake idle
during the summer season, so that it
can fill with water; but in the fall it
will be allowed to send its waters
down the chute with 50,000 horse
power.
The Coming Dry Time.
The dry time in summer
may be made one of the
most useful times of the year.
Then is when the fields may be ex
amined to find out where are the
springy places. When the whole land
is wet one is likely to be deceived as
to what are the wettest places, but
not in the dry time of summer. This
is the time of digging ditches for
drains, and for this yrork there is no
other suitable time except the dry
time of summer.
A milk buyer Inclined to be sar
castic says, "We don’t see much sun
shine in some of the cow stables, be
cause the owners are afraid they will
see how dirty the stables are and so
want to keep dark about it.”
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Plant More Sugar Trees.
We believe that our readers should
be looking around them and seeing if
they cannot put in a few sugar
maples. Here is a case where the
shade tree may be made useful. The
number of sugar groves is decreasing,
according to reports from Washington,
and the national department of agri
culture is taking steps to encourage
the planting of more sugar maples.
The task of stimulating public inter
est in this matter has been turned
over to the department of forestry.
In Illinois, Indiana and Michigan,
maple trees have been extensively cut
for timber, and this has reduced great
ly the number that can every spring
be tapped for sap. In the meantime
the farmers have been planting about
their residences other than maple
trees, and have nothing to fall back
upon for the production of maple
sugar. There are, however, notable
exceptions, and the writer can tell of
places where the country homes have
near them great rows of sugar maples
that are every spring tapped to fur
nish syrup and sugar for home use,
as well as for sale.
The farmer that has a few maple
trees, enough even to supply his own
needs for syrup, will in the future
think himself happy. It is exceedingly
difficult to-day to get pure maple
syrup, on account of the general prac
tice of adulteration. A report by the
Government says that while the
amount of maple syrup produced is on
the decrease the amount being sold is
on the increase. This tells the story,
which is one of wide-spread adultera
tion. The farmer that makes his own
syrup has at least th£ satisfaction of
knowing that it is pure.
Look about the place for good loca
tions for trees and leave at least fifty
feet on either side of any maple tree
that is planted, and 75 feet would be
better. The more space the more
rapidly will the tree grew.—Farmers'
Review.
Prepare for the Apple Crop.
Farmers that expect to have a good
many apples to sell this fall and who
intend to do their own packing will
do well to look after their apple
packages very early. Every year now
the growers of fruit have had to face
& large shortage of barrels when the
time came to pick their fruit. In some
cases they have had to pay exorbi
tant prices for their barrels, in others
they have not been able to get the
barrels at any price. The result has
been, in some instances at least, that
the apples were not packed as soon
as they should have been. The fac
tories that make the barrels are gen
erally overcrowded with work in mid
summer and early fall, and this is in
part due to the fact that more orders
are not received earlier in the season.
Whether barrels or boxes are to be
used or both, the orders for them
should be put in at the earliest possi
ble moment. Perhaps if the fruit
growers will send in their orders
earlier they will have less trouble in
getting their barrels. There is one
thing that the farmer that grows fruit
should remember, and that is that, as
he is likely to use only a few barrels,
he will receive less attention than the
big users, and this is the more reason
why he should be looking after his
fruit packages at an early date. If the
rush in the fall is so great that any
one has to be left out it will be the
man that wants the fewest barrels.
Apply Hellebore.
Now is the time to watch
the currant bushes for the
green worms that are already due to
appear. Do not stop to pick them off,
but purchase a few ounces of white
hellebore, mix it with water at the
rate of one ounce to two gallons of
water, and spray on the bushes. It is
surprising how effective the remedy
is. The applications may have to be
repeated later on account of new
worms hatching out. No fear need be
entertained about poisoning the fruit,
as the rains wash off the poison from
the fruit.
Coal Ashes in the Currant Bushes.
Coal ashes should always be used
as a mulch or to lighten up heavy
soil. When it is applied thickly be
tween the rows of currant bushes it
acts as a mulch and at the same time
keeps down weeds. Capillary action
does not readily take place in loose
ashes, and so the soil moisture be
low is saved for the currant bushes.
An inch of rainfall means about 113
tons of water to the acre. Unculti
vated ground does not require many
days to evaporate this amount of
water during the hottest part of the
summer.
If the garden soil is well drained
and well enriched and has an abund
ance of humus, it is in the best condi
tion t9 withstand drouth.
Score Card for Dairies.
Professor R. A. Person of
Cornell University has been
one of the most active dairy
scientists for years. In addition to
the usual work of the dairy professor
he has recently invented or studied
out a score card for dairies. Some of
the farmers’ clubs in the state of New
York have declared it of great value
to the dairy interest in its stimulating
effect. The five chief heads of this
score card are: (1). Health of the
herd and its protection. (2) Cleanli
ness of the cows and their surround
ings. (3) Utensils. (4) Attendants.
(5) Handling the milk. Twenty points
are counted for each division, the ag
gregate being 100.
An Artificial Egg.
A Paris chemist has pro
duced a “colorable imitation’
of the ordinary egg of commerce. The
shell is made with a blowpipe from a
moist combination of lime and bis
muth. The white of the egg is made
of sulphur carbon and beef fat and
the yolk is composed of a mixture of
beef blood and magnesia, colored with
i chrome yellow.—St James Gazette
FROM THE PENCIL'S POINT.
At a man thinketh before breakfast,
so is be.
Reverence is the foundation of last
ing love.
Life loves best those of her children
who laugh.
Righteousness is a lot mor* than re
spectability.
A smooth tongue has caused many a
man to slip.
Killing time is a sure way of spoil
ing character.
The sense of duty is a sign of the
divine in man.
The sense of duty is a sign of the
divine in man.
Ke wa3 a cynic until one da? he
met a little child.
Hatred often comes from only know
mg half of a man.
Hatred often comes from only know
ing half of a man.
No words of faith have force until
they become flesh
Ardent lovers don't always make
amiable husbands.
It is hard for the leek to see why
people prefer the lily.
The only sure thing about a lie is
that it will never die.
If you have horse sense you should
tnow when to say neigh.
Women should take their cues—
from Cupid—and be blind.
Whoever heard of a man being sor
ry for what he didn’t tell?
There is nothing prouder than ignor
ance or more ignorant than pride.
Christ’s yoke is built for two. and
so becomes a bond for him and you.
When his goods are his chief good
a man is likely to find little lasting
good.
It’s easier for a girl to raise a row
than it is for a youth to raise a mus
tache.
Keep your promises even though
the doing so causes you inconveni
ence.
A man may have more money than
brains without having an overplus of
either.
The saddest people are the only
ones who are always fleeing from
sorrow.
The happiness that comes from ig
norance of the sorrows of this world
may be sin.
Why it is impossible for any barber
to work on any man's face without
working on his own?
There never was an angel who
wouldn’t take off her wings to cook
for the man she loved.
Most single women say they would
not marry the best man in the world,
and most married women know they
didn’t.
When Love takes up the harp of
life the neighbors still complain be
cause the airs are all sentimental.—
New Orleans Picayune.
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 DeSance
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 De
fiance and save much time and money
and the annoyance of the iron stick
ing. Defiance never sticks.
The great thing is not so much to
get people into the church as to get
Christ into the people.
Farmers' Wives
should read advertisement of Acety
lene Apparatus Mfg. Co. in another
column of this paper.
Never hit a man when he is down.
Hit him when his friends are down.
Mr*. Winslow's Soothing SjTnp.
For children teething, softens the gums, reduces to>
fiammstion, sliayspsln, cores wind colic. 25cshould
The shoplifter is careful how he
got s in a store an i takes a notion.
No man has enough of this world’s
goods till he has more than he needs.
Make Your Own Gas]
i
Any country home, store, hotel,
church or building can be as brilliantly
and conveniently lighted as a city
house.
Acetylene Gas is cheaper than
kerosene, brighter than electricity,
safer than either.
PILOT |
Automatic Generators;
require, little care, do the work i
perfectly and can be operated by any- I
one—anywhere. ;
Complete plant costs no more than !
a hot air furnace. I
Send for booklet, "After Sun- 1
set." It gives full information re- I
garding this wonderful light, and is
sent free to anyone. J
Acetylene Apparatus Mfg. Co., :
157 Michigan Avo„ Chicago. 111.
More Converts
Every Year
Every day in every year
that comes, more housewives
are giving up their exhorbitant
priced Baking Powders and
turning to K C, the honest and
reliable, which has stood so well
the test of years. They are find
ing out that
Kf\ BAKING
V POWDER
costs one-third the price of
powder anywhere near K C
quality, and makes better, purer, more
healthful baking. 25 ounces for 25c.
Send posta! for “ Book of Presents.”
JAQUES MFG. CO.
Chicago, Hi.
Truths that Strike Home
Your grocer is honest and—if he cares to do so—can tell
you that he knows very little about the bulk coffee he
Bells you. How can he know, where it originally came from,
how it was blended—or With What
—-or when roasted? If you buy your
coffee loose by the pound, how can
you expect purity and uniform quality ?
DON COFFEE, the LEADER OF
ALL PACKAGE COFFEES, Is o«
necessity uniform In quality*
strength and flavor. For OVH A
QIAKTEK OF A CEXTUBY, LION COFFEE
has been the standard colfee in
millions ol homes.
LION COFFEE 1® carefully packed
at our factories, aad until opened In
your home, has no chance of being adul
terated. or of coming In contact with dust,
dirt, germs, or unclean hands.
In each package of LION COFFEE you get on6 full
Sound of Pure Coffee. Insist upon getting the genuine,
hon head on every package.)
("Save the Lion-heads for valuable premiums.)
SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE
■VTOOLSON SPICE CO , Toledo, Ohio.
$100 Weekly Easily Made
wTitlng bea'.th and accident Insurance-.experience un
necessary. Wri te Ban ker*' Acci4en t Co.. Des Momea. la.
MOLES dim WARES REMOVED
Without pain ami without leavinjr mark or Bear;
GrAHAVrEtD Permanent. Il.uu per bottie by
mail.—Miller Manufacturing1 Co.. Lincoln.Neb.
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Promoles Digestion.Cheerfuf
ness and Rest.Conlains neither j
Opium.Morphine nor Mineral. v
Kot Narcotic .
J*ape of Old n-SAiail PITCHER
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Mx. Smum * 1
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Aperfecl Remedy forConslipa- C
Ron, Sour StQmach,Diarrhoea B
Worms .Convulsions .Feverish- F
ness and Loss OF SLEEP.
Facsimile Signature of
XEW YORK. §
EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER.
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which haa been. «
in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of
- and has been made under his per
fjPL sonal supervision since its infancy.
Allow no one to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and ‘‘ Just-as-good’* are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of ^
Infanta and Children—Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Dowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
The Kind Tod Hare Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Year&