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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1904)
f H T iiiiiiiiTrttwiijiiiiTgiiLiiMuaBaairaiiWMiiBwrf v - Jl uL BHBfll i Two severe cases of Ovarian Trouble and two terrible operations avoided Mrs Emmons and Mrs Coleman each tell how they were saved by the use of Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound 1 f11 1 am so pIeasetl with the results obtained frftm Lydia E lmk mms Vegetable Compound that I feel it a duty and a privilege to mite you about it I suffered for more than five years with ovarian troubles caus ing an unpleasant discharge a great Aveakness and at times a faintness would come over mo which no amount of medicine diet or exercise seemed to correct lour Vegetable Compound found the weak spot however within a few weeks and saved me from an operation all my roubles had disappeared and I found myself once more healthy and well V ords fail to describe the real true grateful feeling that is W hart and1 want to tell every sick and suffering sister Donc dally with medicines you know nothing about but take Lydia E Pink ifiin s e etftble ComiMMiml and take my word for it you will be a different woman in a thorfc time Mrs Laura Emmons Walker vlle Ont Another Case of Ovarian Trouble Cored Without an Operation k 5 l Ei Dear Mrs Pixkham For several years I was troubled with ovarian trouble and a painful ami miiamea condition wnien Kept me m bed part Of tile time I flit SO ClTRiul n H1irmrnl nnoroHnn I tried different remedies hoping to get better but nothing seemed to bring relief until a friend who had been cured of ovarian trouble through the U3e of your compound induced me to try it I took it faithfully for three months and at the end of that time was glad to find that I was a well woman Health is natures best triffc in wnmnn and if you lose it and can have it restored through Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Com pound I feel that all suffering women should know of this Mrs Laura Belle Cole man Commercial Hotel Nashville Tenn It IS WCll to rfTKMrifmlwr citrTi lnftni c ta K to nn i i to get you to buy something- which he says is just as good That is impos Kiuleas no other medicine has such a record of cures as Lydia E Pink liam s egetable Comiound accept no other and you will be glad Ionfc hesitate to write to Mrs Pinkliam if there is anything about your sickness you do not understand She will treat you with kindness and her advice is free Nb woman ever regretted writing her and she has helped thousands Address Lynn Mass 5000 FORFEIT wo cannot forthwith produce the orfelnal letters and signatures of abovtj testimonials which will prove their absolute Renuineneiw Lydia E Plnkbam Medlclno Co Lynn Maaa Lany men take delight in calling attention to the good there is in them SeeK now the opportunity t Vhy it Is the Best is because made by an entirely different process Defiance Starch is unlike any other bettor and ona third more lor 10 centa Girls who make fools of men usually make lasting impressions Discretion is the aftermath of fool ishness that has cost too dear Worlds Fair ST LOUIS THE CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT of the age Its buildings are larpcr costlier and houd jomer than IhOM of any previous Kxposition To sec it as it will be cet a Katy Album containing views of all tirincfnnl buildines renrodiu ed in colors in highest type of lithographic art Leaves Itho detachable aud suitable for framing Send 25 cents to KATY Box 644 STJ0UIS MO sussiea LANDS OF EBRBJ Western i arBffl UflHuBo Are the STAR ATTRACTIONS for 1904 Millions of acres of magnificent Grain andGraz inc lands to bo had asafiec cift or by purchase froai Railway Companies Land Corporations etc THE GREAT ATTRACTIONS Good Crops delightful climate splendid school system perfect social conditions exceptional railway advantages aud wealth aud nliluence acquired easily The population of Western Canada increased 124000 by immicration during the past year over 50000 beins Americans Write to nearest authorized Canadian Goverment Acent for Canadian Atlas and other information or address Snpt of ImmitrationOttawa Canada W V Bennett 801 New York Life Buildin Omaha Neb BEGGS BLOOD PURIFIER CURES catarrh of the stomach When the flying machine is perfect ed we can visit our castles in the air SO Ba Macaroni Wheat Per A Introduced by the TJ S Dept of Affr It is a tremendous cropper yielding in good land 80 bu per acre and on dry arid lands such as are found in Mont Idaho the Dakotas Colo etc it will yield from 40 to 60 bu This Wheatand Spelts and Hanna Barley and Bromus Inermis and Billion Dollar Grass makes it possible to grow and fatten hogs and cattle wherever soil is found TOST SEND IOC ASH THIS NOTICE to the John A Salzer Seed Co La Crosse Wis arid they will send you free a sample of this Wheat and other farm seeds together with their great catalog alone worth 10000 to any wide awake farmer W N TJ Most men think they are quite as shrewd as most other men 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 hefore 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 ana money and the annoyance of the iron sticking Defiance never sticks When a man has been married a few years he loses his sporty air Mrs iVinslows Soololng Syrap For children teething softens the guraa roduces In Qmmatloa allays pain cures wind colic 25ca bottle Every woman feels she knows how to fill a place in the social world Mutual Insurance is the most popu lar Ten years ago there was about 10000000 in the state Now over 160000000 one half of all the Fire Insurance in the state is in Mutual Companies It is also the oldest In surance in the world and is cheapest safest and best and no company bet ter than the STATE PARMERS MU TUAL INSURANCE CO of South Omaha Nebr B Stouffer Secre tary yys - 17 llV 1 Disposing of Apples At the last meeting of the Illinois State Horticultural Society a good deal of attention was paid to the ques tion of disposing of the apples that fall below number one grade It was suggested that they should be made into cider or sent to the evaporating plant or fed to the hogs anything rather than have them go on to the market to keep down the price of number one apples One grower said that if Je could have his way a num ber two apple would never come into thei market The idea prevalent was that if only number one apples were marketed there would be such a scarcity of apples that the people would have to pay a big price for them and that the growers would get a good deal of money out of a small amount of fruit as there would be a great saving on packing transporta tion and the like This seems just a little heartless The number two apples and even poorer aro fairly good apples Some of them lack color some are small in size and some have a worm hole here and there But they are in reach of the common people in price and if the markets carried only num ber one apples the great mass of the American people would taste apples but seldom The best apples on the Chicago market now retail at 5 cents apiece or at 55 cents per dozen If there were no other apples in the market but number ones the apples in our market might bring as fancy prices as do those in Paris and some of the other European capitals A few days ago the writer priced the apples in some of the fruit stores in Chicago He found small Jonathans selling at three-for-ten or 40 cents a dozen He found large fine Jona thans from Colorado selling at 55 cents a dozen Grimes Golden and like apples sold at little less price In the same store oranges were selling at a less price than apples A dozen of the finest bananas obtainable could be bought for 25 cents and good ones at 20 cents How much higher Avould some of our apple raisers like to have apples Fancy apples sell for a big price now and the men that know enough to produce them are making fortunes out of them The best way to dispose of the lower grades of marketable apples is to ar range to sell them to the people of moderate means that want them There are multitudes of people in the cities that will be delighted to pur chase these apples if they can only get them In fact they are purchas ing them now The peddlers hawk them about the streets and they pro vide the only means some of the poor er people ever have of eating apples If all of the lower grades of apples are driven out of the market the common people will be compelled to eat bananas instead Every man should have at heart the interest of the whole people No man should desire to curtail the food supply of a people for a little temporary gain It is a great thing for apple growers to realize good returns for their prod uct It is a greater thing to be able to supply a whole nation with apples at a moderate cost It is this latter thought that stimulates the formation of horticultural societies the members of which unselfishly give to the world all they know on the science of plant fruit and flower production Farmers Review Covering Strawberries I believe that strawberry plants make a considerable growth during winter that is unless the ground is covered so deeply with snow that it does not freeze Another thing that most horticulturists have noticed is that if an Injury is done to the foliage cf a plant the whole plant is injured That is apparent when the strawberry foliage is struck by the frost in the spring I think that one essential condition that favors the winter growth of strawberry foliage is the perfect condition of the foliage when it goes into winter Therefore we should get the cover on before the foliage is injured by the frost but I do not mean that the cover should be so deep as to prevent freezing of the ground Some plants grow at a very low temperature You can hardly sow rye in the fall so late that it will not come up before the snow is off in the spring The strawberry plant is one of those that grow at a very low tem perature I have no means of know ing whether it will grow at as low a temperature as rye but I am certain the temperature at which it will grow is very low In the fall J cover as soon as we begin to have hard frosts and that is just as soon as I stop cultivating the strawberries It is before the ground is frozen We have been taught in the past that we should not cover till the ground is frozen solid so hard in fact that the ground can be driven over When the ground begins to show a little crust in the mornings I begin to cover For cover I use any kind of coarse material available Marsh hay is a good substance to use Straw would be good were it not for the weed seeds This year I used corn fodder growing a supply for the purpose When I mowed the old bed I plowed it under and sowed corn in drills at the rate of four or five bushels to the acre When I had put in the corn I went over the land with a harrow and covered the corn in that way Then How Feed Affects Bone It is desirable to have strong bones in pigs to make it possible for them to escape accidents that include brok en bones The feed has very much to do with the quality of the bones At one of our stations tests were made to ascertain to how great an ex tent the bones were affected by the feed One lot was fed on corn and beef meal and the thigh bones broke under a pressure of 1200 pounds or about eight times the weight of the body These pigs weighed on an aver age 152 pounds The next lot was fed on corn and shorts and weighed on an average 192 pounds when killed Their bones broke at a weight of S35 pounds or 43 times the average weight of the body It will be noticed that these bones were larger than those of the pigs in the first group but broke un der a smaller weight Hereford Association Reorganized The American Hereford Cattle Breeders Association held a meeting in Chicago last week and voted to re organize This they did by surren dering the Illinois charter and adopt ing one taken out in Arizona The as sociation will not henceforth be a beneficiary one doing business with out profit but will be on a commercial basis The assets of the old associa tion are estimated at 60000 These weie surrendered to the new associa tion The capital stock of the new or ganization is to be 100000 divided into 10000 shares of 10 each The headquarters of the association are to ba In Kansas City I scattered manure in tho furrows in a day or two I went over it with the harrow again If we had had a rain at that time I should have dragged it just as soon as I could get onto the land On that land I raiseJ enough corn fodder to cover an equal area of strawberry bed I covered the plants just deep enough to hide them I should say about an inch deep only deep enough to keep the sun off the plants A little later I put straw between the rows so the ground would not freeze so deep as it otherwise would and so it would thaw out early in the spring In the spring I do not remove the stalks from the plants but the latter grow up through the plants If in any spot the stalks are so thick that the plants cant get up through them I have to remove a part of them We do not cultivate in the spring The first cultivation begins after the crop has been picked We may go through the patch and pull up a few weeds but that is all Franklin Johnson Sauk County Wisconsin We publish this letter at this time to call our readers attention to the matter It would be well to watch the beds at the opening of spring and note what their condition is as compared to what it was last fall at the time of going into winter quar ters Farmers Review The Surprise Plum The best native plum I grow is the Surprise taking all things into con sideration The tree itself is a very fine grower and makes a very nice shade tree It makes fairly rapid growth though there are others that grow a little faster I have been grow ing this variety for four years and the tree was two years old when set That will make it six years old I have taken two crops of plums from it Perhaps I favor this tree because it is the best shade tree Unlike most of the Americanas it does not overbear but it bears all the plums a tree should bear The fruit is of good size and does not rot I do not know of a poor quality possessed by either tree or fruit In addition to my own experience is that of others who recommend it highly All the plum experts that I know that have tried this plum put it ahead of the others of the same group At my place it is growing on clay land but land that is well drained The land was naturally well drained but before planting the trees I put in tile Then before setting out the trees I manured the ground very highly The same ground hau borne corn and potatoes in the preceding two years It was virtually new land This matter of the condition of the land must be taken into consideration whenever we pass on any fruit H T Thompson McHenry County Illinois Regrowth of Pine The writer of the article entitled Scientific Supervision of Forests in the Jan 14th number of Farmers Re view makes the statement that in certain parts of Wisconsin the pine is largely gone and can never be re placed I see no reason why it cannot be replaced and would like to have the writer explain that point Phil S Darlington The point is well taken for while the pine has been cut off it is possible that it might be replaced by expert planting and after care It is improb able however that success would at tend these efforts and they have not thus far been largely made Settlers cut off every tree and shrub then farm and graze their land Fires are so much dreaded that tree planting on a large scale is not undertaken and does not appeal to settlers as a profit able business for them to engage in Replanting would have tc be done at state expense and new forests would have to he safe guarded afterward This may come in time but the time is not yet In Sandy districts orig inal pine removed is followed by Jack pine and white pine has sel dom succeeded where replanted Ed F R WHERE BEARS ARE PLENTIFUL Hunters Can Secure Famous Spot Up In Alaska Senator Foster of Washington state has received a Macedonian cry for help from the ravages of the big bears in Alaska says the Washington Post If President Roosevelt ever again wants a glorious hunt for bruin Mr Foster is willing to pilot him to the grounds where great game is plentiful The Alaska variety of bear is said tc weigh from 1500 to 1800 pounds A recent letter in Mr Fosters mail from Seattle tells the story We shipped 300 head of cattle and 910C breeding ewes to Kodiac Alaska last spring writes a ilrm of packers from that city The bears have been get ting into the bunch and have killed 503 to date During the mix up about twelve bears were slain About thir ty days ago two bears got rhto the sheep and after killing twenty one sheep and tearing the coat off one man the bears were killed The United States marshal on hearing of this had all our men arrested for kill ing the bears Five of our men were compelled to stand trial at consider able expense to us The bears are very numerous on the island concludes this letter and since they have tasted sheep the sheep are badly scared and are continually piling up Unless something is done with the bears they will put us out of business Senator Foster is puzzled as to just how he can help his constituents in their plight They assert that a bounty of at least 5 a head should be placed on bears for a year or two in order to clean them out THE OLD MAID OF INDIA Regarded as a Holy Being and Held in High Honor No institution of Inaia has been so exaggerated as that of the widow says Edmund Russell in Everybodys Magazine She really occupies a place analogous to our antique old maid now so fast disappearing in the girl bachelor The aged widow who has remained true to her principles is regarded as a holy being who has withstood a thousand temptations and persecutions and commands the re spect of a saint from all persons She is the mother of all the children in the neighborhood the helpmate of all the neighbors At evening they flock round to hear her repeat the ancient legends the stories of Sita and Saiv tri Draupdia cr sing the songs of Mira Bai She is in great demand when cooking is needed for a sacred feast She teaches the little ones their firSt hymns and prayers She nurses the sick comforts the dying She believes herself to be bound to her husband for everlasting time through all births and deaths The momentary separation here is but one shade of her marriage an unknowable mystery of destiny it breaks no tie I Pain Wnrilrl I inno Vof A little while my lifo is almost set1 T fain would pauso along the down ward way Musing an hour in this sad sunset rav While Sweet our eyes with tender tears aro wet A little hour I fain would linger yet A little while I fain would linger vet All for loves sake for love that can not tire Though lervid youth he dead with youths desire And hope has faded to a vague regret A little while I fain would linger yet A little while I fain would linger here Behold who knows what strange mys terious bars Twixt souls that love may rise in other stars Xor can love deem the face of death is fair A little while I still would linger here A little while I yearn to hold thee fast Hand locked in hand and loyal heart to heart O pitying Christ those woeful words We part So ere the darkness fall the light be past A little while 1 fain would hold thee fast A little while when light and twilight meet Behind our broken years before the deep Weird wonder of the last unfatlmmed sleep A little while I still would clasp thee Swept A little while when night and twilight meet A litf J while T fain would linger here Behead who knows what sou di4dipg bars Karth faithful loves mav part in other stars Xor can love deem the face of death is fair A little while I still would linger here Paul Hamilton ITayne Elephant Drive in Siam A royol elephant drive in Siam in which trained elephants are used to capture wild ones is the subject of an article in Harpers Magazine by Allan H Burgoyne Mr Burgoyne was in vited to 1ie drive by the crown prince of Siam whom he knew at Ox ford and therefore had every advap tage in seeing the amazing and even horrifying spectacle The drive lasted three days in the course of which sev eral men were killed by the fury of the wild elephants In addition to the tragic incidents there were many amusing ones as well The finest ele phant corps in the world is possessed by the Siamese army and these drives were instituted in order to cap ture the best of the wild herds and keep this crack corps of trained ele phants up to the mark Claim Ocean Record The friends of the famous old ship Glory of the Seas make strenuous ob jection to the German ship Optima being credited with having broken the record of the passage from San Fran cisco to Newcastle Australia The Optima recently made the trip in days The Glory of the Seas made the run in 1S71 in thirty five days The American ship Swallow the American bark Elwood Cooper and the British ship Alahabad each made the run in thirty nine days The pace set in 1871 by the Glory of the Seas has never been equaled The Germ- ship Optima holds second place 3tffv3 Mfcsgra the 10c to day fork baa no terrors ror h mnn who wears fiiUVFflS lEXGELSSOR BRAND Slickers II nr it Writer Prooi I SAWYERS niiari Clothing ssfflfu Soetl unrrrsrtietY u Wsae52ssJs tbem wmo i I II 31 A Solo iiiriw Etut Cambridge JJ Corii T l1fjw IKj wrM f A Tim duca a more prollfls oarly tit enrol corn variety tlun Solzera Home Itullder o ntmed bo cinio M acres of this flne ccrn yielded io heaTilr ln JW IhailU net proercd built a beautiful horn for tnu lucay jxwJor See catalog Hers are not of ilio jleldi our cuttomera bail of tula corn in 1903 157 bu pcrncre Bj John Klagel La 1orto Co Ind 100 bu pcrncre Hj O K Michael Mont Co O 100 bu per acre By 2chard Spaeth Iako Co Ind 103 bu per acre By J I Walker Uamblem Co Tenn 820 lu per nere Br Lawrence cbclitcl Ugcmiir Co Midi US5 bu per acre By J Mawey Crockett Co Tenn Bay Stearns Itausonx K D aari liipencd W 1 J daya Yielded 0t bu per acre hcxt year I will grow 03 bu peracra from it National Otis Knormouily prolific Doej irell eTerynhcre It woit let your acre produce Icsj than Kbu Try It Billion Dollar Grass Most talked of irraj J In America Would be ahamed of icf if It yielded leu than 11 toua cf uplendld hay per acre For 10c In Stomps and tbe came of thlj piper W3 will gladly aend you a It of fenn eccd lamples well vcr i flOOCto gt a Hart with toel rr TfltU our mammoth 140 pas llluntrntcd entclop dcacribln ttch ttei as Aria ianu jari acaroui WbeatTffo Foot 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