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NIGHT SWEATS, NO APPETITE, USED PE-RU NA. tyis. JuzieIohf^ Mrs. lizzie lohr, n.v> w. isth St.. Chicago, 111., writes: “I take pleasure in writing you these few lines, thinking there may lie other women suffering the same as i did. “1 had my complaints for over a year, night sweats a'.l winter and noappetite. I was run-down so far that I had to sit down to do my cooking, I was so weak. "I tried many different medicines and doctors also. Nothing seemed to do me any good. The doctors wanted to oper ate on me. “At last I wrote to Dr. Hartman. I lold him just exactly bow I was. and he told me u hat ailed me and how I should take Pernna. “1 did as he told me for four months, and now I am all cured. “No one can tell how thankful I am ^ to him, as 1 had given up all hopes of m ever getting well again. “I am a widow and the mother -* 5s small children who depend on my su > port. 1 work all day and seldom get tired. “I took five bottles of Pernna in all. “Any woman wishing to know more about niv case may write to me and I will gladly tell all about it. “1 thank Dr. Hartman for what he has done f >r me.” SICK HEADACHE CARTERS tseL,,t,ePlln I They also relieve Dis | iTTi r tress l-om Dyspepsia. In digestion and Too Hearty I P^K Facing. A perfect rem -- —* edy lor Dizziness, Nau sea, Drowsiness, Bad Taste in t he Month, Coat ed Tongue, Pain in the _ Side, TORPID LIVER. They regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable. SMALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE. padtcdc! Genuine Must Bear tjAftl E.rtuj Fac-Simile Signature REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. MEAN FLINGS AT EDITORS. Tributes by Lafcadio Hearn to Class of Workers He Disliked. “Lafcadio Hearn, that wonderfu. writer, worked on newspapers in his youth." said a publisher, “and the ruthless way his studies were changed, cut and butchered was a gieat woe to his heart. “In after years Hearn took a mali cious joy in collecting stories about editors—editors and their superior and omniscient way with manuscript. “One of his stories was of an editor to whom a subscriber said: “T enjoyed that poem on the three ages of man in to-day's paper, Mr. Sheers: I enjoyed it immensely. Do you know, though, I thought it was originally written the seven ages of man?’ "'So it was, sir: so it was,’ said Editor Sheers, pompously. 'Yes. the extract was originally written the seven ages of man, but I had to cut it down for the lack of space.’ “Another story concerned a weather report. A reporter, discussing the weather, wrote that winter still lin gered in the lap of spring. "The editor, as he read over the article, called the reporter to his desk and told him that he would cut out that sentence about winter lingering in spring's lap. He said the idea w-as good enough, and all that sort of thing, but it would not do to publish because the high moral tone of the paper had to be maintained in a town full of school girls.” Training Lion for Exhibition. It takes four years to train a lion for exhibition work, but only one animal in four is available for training. A few accomplishments increases the animal’s value five fold. BEGAN YOUNG. jjHad “Coffee Nerves” from Youth. “When very young I began using coffee and continued up to the past six months.” writes a Texas girl. "1 had been exceedingly nervous, thin and very sallow. After quitting coffee and drinking Postum Food Cof fee about a month my nervousness disappeared and has never returned. This is the more remarkable as I am a Primary teacher and have kept right on with my work. “My complexion now is clear and . rosy, my skin soft and smooth. As a good complexion was something 1 had greatly desired, I feel amply repaid even tho this were the only benefit derived from drinking Postum. 'Before beginning its use I had suffered greatly from iudigestion and headache; these trouWes are now un known. “Best of all, I changed from coffee to Postum without the slightest incon venience, did not even have a head ache. Have known coffee drinkers who were visiting me, to use Postum a week without being aware that they were not drinking coffee. • “I have known several to begin the use of Postum and drop it because they did not boil ijt properly. After explaining how it Should be prepared j they have tried it again and pro ^ nounced it delicious.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek. Mich. Read the booklet. “The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. “There's a Reason.” A NEW METHOD OF CLIPPING BIRDS’ WINGS It Is Effective in Preventing Flight, But Does Not Disfigure Bird—By Alfred Priest. Everyone has seen pet birds kept captive in a garden, park or menag erie, and many of us while watching an interesting bird have ventured the remark: "Why doesn't it fly away? I suppose its wings must be cut?" though it is quite obvious that this is the case even when the wings are closed. Sometimes a bird will stand bolt upright, open its wings and com mence to flap them a dozen times or so, then, lowering itself to its normal walking position, it will close them and shuffle them into comfort among the feathers of its breast and back, concluding the whole performance by a short but energetic wagging of the tail. When the wings are thus ex Dotted Lines Indicate Portions Cut Away. panded one notices at once the cut ting of the flight feathers to prevent the bird's escape, and will probably have noticed also that during the flap ping process just referred to the bird turned round and round on its legs as on a pivot. This turning round, of course, is due to no desire on the part of the gird to do so: it really is trying to exert its flying muscles for some reason, probably a cramped feeling re sulting from disuse. It is owing to the manner in which its wings have been clipped. Almost invariably one wing only is clipped, and in a hasty and clumsy manner, too, which causes an unequal-sided resistance to the air on each beat of the wings, resulting in the poor bird being spun round, willy nilly, like a top. A fair notion of the inconvenience which a bird thus clipped suffers can be easily tested by anyone in the following way; Stand upright, feet together, extend both arms to the full, then put the left hand on the left shoulder, and in this position try to flap like a bird, moving the arms in a horizontal plane. In this way one will quite appreciate how awkward the poor bird must feel. Then, still standing in the same posi tion, repeat the movement with both arms extended to the full, and the comparative satisfaction and comfort of the two styles will at once be seen. After having tried this experi ment I think it will be self-evident that the main object of the bird—to exercise its wing muscles— is almost entirely defeated. Only one wing re sists the air, and its efforts are ex pended—or throwh away—in turning the bird round, instead of counter balancing the thrust of the other wing. Thus the wings cannot properly exer cise themselves; and this may be Wings Closed; Clipping Not Discern ible. detrimental to the bird s health, as it certainly is to its comfort. In one or two instances I have observed the flight feathers cut so closely to the fleshy part of the wing that the bird must have suffered great pain during and after the operation—such pain, probably, as we experience when we cut our finger nails, to the quick. Now, besides the inconvenience—cruelty. 1 consider it—thus caused, there is an other thing very much against this general clumsy method of clipping the wings, viz., the unsightliness of the bird, both when its wings are ex tended and closed. When closed, the uncut wing appears as nature in tended. resting lightly upon the back and tail feathers, while the other wing shows none of its long feathers at all. This gives an irritating lop-sided ap pearance to the bird. I would like now to make a sugges tion which I believe to be entirely new and which will practically do away with this disfigurement and at the same time reduce the air-resisting surface of the wing to about the same extent as does the usual method of 1 clipping. Moreover, it will allow the bird to exercise its wings with sat isfaction and comfort. The illustra tions show the method of wing clip ping 1 would suggest. The first de picts a wing extended fully. The white line (3—4) across it indicates approxi mately the usual clipping line of the feathers, which emails disfigurement when the wing is closed. 1 have fre quently observed, chiefiv in pigeons, that dealers ana fanciers do not cut away the first two feathers fl and 2», but, even so. in my opinion, the good looks of the birds are ruined and their comfort interfered with. The small dotted lines in the first picture repre sent the part of each feather which has been cut away after the more humane methcd, both wings being sim ilarly cut. Observe the great diminu tion of air-resisting area, caused by the feathers being half cut away. The second illustration shows the appear ance of the wing clipped in this way when both are closed. From this it will be seen that there is practically no external difference whatever, and that- birds thus clipped would lose none of their natural symmetry and grace when the wings are at rest. Fre quently my friends have asked me why i do not cut the wings of my pet birds, and I have replied that they are cut, but not in the nsual manner. Now. 1 think that all who possess a tame bird will agree that this method is at least worth a trial. It has every thing in its favor, with one exception, viz., that the operation takes about ten minutes, as contrasted with ten seconds for the common method. 1 dare say some will think the effect produced is not worth the extra time required to clip the wings, but in my opinion no one who is a real lover of birds will think so; he will rather be willing to try any reasonable experi nient which may add however little to the health, happiness and good appear ance of his pets. One thing more I must add: I have often observed that birds which flap their wings rapidly, such as finches and small birds gen erally. are not incapacitated by this new method to the same extent as are the slower-flapping birds of the size of a crow or a pigeon. A sparrow can barely lift itself from the ground, aided very largely though it be by starting with the jump with which all birds "take off" before they bring their wings into play. And. by the way. this jump of a bii-d is far more helpful than is generally supposed. 1 have seen a magpie repeatedly reach a shelf nearly three feet from the ground, though it had no feathers whatever in its wings. A sparrow with its wings cut as I suggest can keep a horizontal course for a good distance if it starts from a height; a magpie describes an arc in its descent, while a crow comes down almost ver tically. And in every case where I have made this experiment, 1 have found that even a short flight has so exhausted the bird that it was power less to raise itself from the ground for some time after, so that any attempt to escape beyond a very short distance is quite frustrated. This last fact— that the new method of clipping the wings is more effective in the case of the larger birds, such as herons, storks, swans, geese, etc., speaks still further in favor of its adoption, since it is only such birds that require to be treated in this way; small birds are invariably kept in cages, and therefore never need be clipped at all. I may l add that the most expeditious mode of ' procedure is for one person—with gloves on if it be a powerful beaked or clawed bird—to hold the bird down, , with its breast on a cushion, with one ; hand, while the other is used to keep I the wing which is to be operated on ! extended. — The Lamb in Winter.—The lamb j. that comes in winter requires a good ! deal of attention for a few days, to make sure that it is not chilled. Many sheep sheds on American farms are not adapted to the coming of lambs out of season. If the sheds are close and warm and the ewe owns her lamb, the little one will usually get on well after the first few days. A shepherd says that if the ewe refused to lap her lamb dry, the shepherd should take a whisk of hay and do the work the mother should have done. An old piece of dry flannel Is best for this purpose. He should be put to the teat as soon as possible, and if he does not take hold readily the milk should be started for him. Deformed Breast Bones.—Small and smooth perches are a prolific cause of deformed breast bones, for the fowls cannot cling to them without undue strain as to posture and to certain important muscles of the body. ---- Run on Cash Basis.—Every dairy* ! man should run his business on a cash basis—sell for cash, buy for cash and get cash discounts instead of making bills. SfcigKs* * : r- jir- v -*£' * it.if .,’5S..yV;;' • £_*!’ -irSL'V-iiH SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. INDICTED. Charged with Using Mails to De fraud and in Misrepresenting Articles Sold. Dps Moines, la.—(Special)—Sears, Roebuck & Co. of Chicago have been charged with using the mails to de fraud. The indictment is on three counts. It is alleged that the com pany misrepresented articles in its catalogues sent through the mails. The first count charges that on June 13, 1907. the company devised a scheme to obtain money by false pre tenses from Dr. C. F. Spring of Des Mcines by selling him white lead that Sears-Roebuck claim to have made. The indictment alleges it was made by others. A second fount is on a ring bought by R. H. Miles, and the third count is the sending of an other ring, alleged to have been mis represented, through the mails. A Frank Advertiser. The new commercial morality has spread to Ceylon. From one of the newspapers, of that balmy island we take the following: ‘‘CH. A. HORSE—Rising seven, fine mouth and paces, about 13 hands; fine Lady’s Hack; shows a lot of breed ing; Reason for selling, bad with mo tors: won't go in harness; jibs when leaving stables: catches rider by seat of breeches when mounting; but a darling pet. Apply, £c."—London Daily Mail. A Fascinating Game. A precocious little girl living on one of the crowded business thorough fares of the city was in the habit of gazing out of the window at the busy street below for hours at a time. "What is it. Gladys, that you find so constantly interesting in the street?" asked her mother one day. "Oh," came the wise rejoinder, “just watching the ears go pro and con."—Harper's Weekly. How’s This? We offer One Hu mired Dollars Rer-ard for any case of Catarrl that cannot be cured by llaii's Catarrh Cure. F. .1. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. O. We. the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney *or ihe last 15 year*, and believe hitn perfectly hon orable n ail business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligation* made by hi* firm. T'ai.disg. Rinnan & Marvin. Wholesale Druggist*. Toledo. O. flail's Catarrh Cure i* taken internally, a< ting directly upon the biood aud mucou* surfaces or the sysiem. Testimoi lals sent free. Price75 ceute pel bottle. Sold by al DrucglPt*. l ake Hail s Fain ly Pills for constipation. The Saturday half holiday originated in England in the eleventh century PRODUCTIVE POWER OF WESTERN CODA SOIL I \ Winnipeg Correspondence. There has never been any who have doubted the productiveness of the soil of Western Canada, but there are sometimes found those whft question the fact of its superiority. During the past season it has been shown that in grain raising qualities' It possessed the very best. The late spring pre vented grain being sown in many cases before the middle of May. Yet, a large percentage of that sown at that time produced excellent yields. Had it not been for the frost early in August, which visited most of the north half of the continent, there would have been a magnificent yield in every dis trict in Western Canada. Throughout the Southern Alberta district where about 100,000 acres was sown to win ter wheat the yield will be enormously I large. There are vast tracts of valu able grain growing land in Western Canada that are available for home steads, the Canadian Government giv | ing 160 acres free, and entry may be . * made by proxy, by any near relative, thus saving considerable cost to the American who may have entry made in this way. Any Canadian Govern ment Agent will give you the partic ulars. Your correspondent has just re ceived the following letter from Craik, Saskatchewan, which bears out the statement made in the first part of this letter. -Craik. Sask., Aug. 1907. “May 24th we planted a Dahlia root, which we brought with us from Min neapolis. Aug. 12th. 80 days later, it ; was in bloom. The plant is now 4!£ i feet high and covered with blossoms. We never got half as many flowers on it in Minneapolis, even during Septem ber and October, although we had more time to attend to it there.” I mention this only as an example of the great productive power of the soil here in Saskatchewan, Canada. World's Gold Production. 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Don’t delay. You are missing much. JAQUES MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Chicago. There is not a man In the world but something improves in his soul from the moment he loves—and that though his love be vulgar.—Maeter linck. Smokers appreciate the quality value of Lewis’ Single Binder cigar. Your dealer : >r Lewis’ Factory, Peoria, 111. There' were female matchmakers thousands of jeers before matches were invented. TILES CURED IX • TO 14 DATS. r,A^.9?*rt3?.KyrJ.■>*?*»"»"'to core any raw Blin<*' B>«*5in« ProtroSiag Pflw in 5 to 14 day s or money refunded. aOc. * The statesman leads the masses, i The masses lead the politician. To be happy, hopeful, buoyant from the depths of the heart; pure In word and thought and deed, and moderate In all methods of life, this is the true art of noble living.—Young. The Reason of It. “Why has that particular actress more clappers than any other in the play?” “Because she is a society belle.” OM.T ONE “BFOMO OCIN1NE” Ttat is LAXATIVE BROMu OCIRINK. 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