DANGEROUS NEGLECT
Iff to
Vr T
Its tho neglect of
backache sldeaclie pain
in the hips or loins that
finally prostrates the
strongest body Tho
kidney warnings are
serious they tell you
that they are unable to
filter the bodys waste
and poison from tho
blood the sewers aro
clogged and impurities
are running wild to im
pregnate ncrvc3 heart
brain and every organ
of the body with dis
ease elements Doans
Kidney Pills are quick to soothe and
strengthen sick kidneys and help them
free the system from poison Read
jow valuable they are even in cases
of long standing
L C Lovell of 415 North First St
Spoicane Wash says I have had
trouble from my kidneys for the past
ten years It was caused by a strain
to which I paid little attention But
as I neglected the trouble it became
worse and worse until any strain or a
slight cold was sure to be followed
by severe pain across my back Then
tho action of the kidney secretions be
came deranged and I was caused much
annoyance besides loss of sleep
Doans Kidney Pills were brought to
my notice and after taking them a
short time their good effect was ap
parent All the pain was removed
from my back and the kidney secre
tions became normal Doans Kidney
Pills do all that is claimed for them
A FREE TRIAL of this great rem
edy which cured Mr Lovell will be
mailed on application to any part of
the United States Address Foster
Milburn Co Buffalo N Y For sale
by all druggists price 50 cents per
box
It is a mighty fortunate love whose
ebb tide reveals no mud flats It
isnt necessary to label a gentleman
Mother Grays Sweet Powders for Children
Successfully used by Mother Gray nurso
in the Childrens Home in New York cure
Constipation Feverishness Bad Stomach
Teething Disorders move and regulate tho
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FREE Address A S Olmsted Le RoyNY
There is considerable of the tyrant
about the woman Avho is engaged
I am sure Pisos Cure for Consumption saved
my life three years ago Mrs nos Rouiuss
ilaplc Street Norwich N Y Feb 17 1900
The consumption specialist fills his
coffers at the expense of his coughers
When Your Grocer Says
he doki not havo Defiance Starch you may
be euro he is afraid to keep it until hia
stock of 12 oz packages aro sold Defiance
Starch is not only better than any other
Cold Water Starch but contains 16 oz to
tho packagonnd sells for same money as 13
oz brands
When a man places reliance on a
womans judgment he is apt to go to
a man to have it confirmed
Many who formerly smoked 10c cigars
now smoke Lewis Single Binder straight
Be Lewis Factory Peoria 111
It is a wise hen that gets in the
smart set
Tolstois Outdoor Life
Still vigorous at the age of 75
years Count Leo Tolstoi nearly ev
ery day either takes a ride on his
favorite horse goes for a walk under
the linden trees with his daughter
Alexandra or in company with his
great wolfhound tramps over the
broad acres of the famous estate of
Ysnaya Polyana Tolstoi has long
been an ardent out-of-doors man in
early life a hurdle rider of no mean
accomplishment a hunter and an ath
lete in later years a pedestrian to
whom twelve miles a day was an av
erage walk and to whom a day in
the saddle was as nothing
Description of Japanese
Miss Bird in her book entitled
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan publish
ed nearly twenty five years ago de
scribed the men she saw as small
ugly kindly looking shriveled banty
legged round shouldered concave
chested pin looking beings while
the women are as a rule small
and very small Russians however
who have had occasion to see the
Japanese do not agree with Mies
Bird
That Acid Trouble
Colusa Cal April 18th Much has
been said and written recently about
Uric Acid in the system what causes
it and how to get rid of it It is
known to be the first cause of Rheu
matism and many other diseases and
has therefore received a great deal
of attention from medical men
Mr L F Moulton of this place
claims that he has solved the prob
lem of how toget this acid out of the
system He says
I had this acid trouble myself for
years At times the Kidney secre
tions would be very profuse and at
other times scant but the acid was
always my greatest trouble Medicine
failed to cure me till at last I heard
of a remedy called Dodds Kidney
Pills and after taking a box I seemed
to be entirely cured However it
came back on me and this time I took
several boxes with the result that I
was completely and permanently
cured This was three years ago and
I have not had a single symptom of
the acid trouble since I am 75 years
of age and I am well as ever I was
No woman with a grain of sense
ever lets a man gather from hCV re
marks that his character offers anj
intricacies to her comprehension
mm the worlds
ESI WMTE
THEY KEPT THE FAITH
There have been published in The
Weekly Inter ucean a hundred or
more letters from men who cast their
first votes for Fremont or Lincoln
Most of the first voters for Lincoln
served in the Union army and a ma
jortiy of them became home makers
in the newer West after the war A11
of them are telling stories of the kind
that illuminate history
For example one man severely
wounded at Cold Harbor in 1SG4 and
who saw in Gen McCIellan his ideal
soldier went to the polls on crutches
and voted for Abraham Lincoln be
cause he thought Lincolns platform
was right and McClellans wrong
Another man who with ten thou
sand other Union soldiers was a pris
oner at Florence Ala voted a black
bean for Lincoln The Confederate
authorities desiring to ascertain the
sentiment of the Union prisoners es
tablished a polling place and decreed
tho prisoners should vote white or
black beans white beans for McCIel
lan and black beans for Lincoln The
emanciated and despondent men
marched up to the polls and voted
black beans for Lincoln many of
them saying All hell cannot make
us vote white beans
In other cases first votes for Lin
coln were cast in rebel stockades in
others again on the eve of battle or
on long marches or after battles Of
those who voted for Lincoln in I860
some came from the old Whig party
some from the Democratic and not a
few from the Free Soil party
Letters have been received froni
men who voted for Harrison in 1840
Clay in 1844 John P Hale in 1852
Fremont in 1856 and Lincoln in 18C0
The spirit that runs through all
these letters is that of devotion to
principle pride in leadership like that
of Lincoln and exultation in having
started right in the career of citizen
ship
The story of a man who rode fifty
miles to vote for Lincoln or who
walked ten miles to vote for Grant or
who wounded was carried to the polls
clutching a ticket for Lincoln in his
hand may seem extravagant in this
day but they have the pathos of hero
ism and they show what stuff the
fighting American of forty and forty-
four years ago had in him
When men come forward by the
score to testify to their pride in the
fact that they voted for Lincoln in
troublous times there is afforded to
the younger and indifferent voters of
this later day a lesson in political con
science and political conviction The
first voters for Lincoln were men who
stood fast when danger threatened
who fought and won through their
devotion to principle and who to day
rejoice in the memory of duty done
and faith kept Chicago Inter Ocean
THE TERROR OF POVERTY
Talk as we may about sentimental
sorrows there are few miseries so
real and terrible as existence without
the actual necessaries of life the food
the shelter the warmth and the com
fort which not only make it enjoyable
but even possible The banking houses
which have recently refused to em
ploy married men whose incomes are
less than 1000 a year are in the right
of it and are merely practicing the
duty of self protection Love is the
strongest passion known to humanity
and the man who has always stood up
right may perhaps lean under the
weight of another dearer than him
self
I had not loved thee dear so much
Loved I not honor more
is a beautiful sentiment and one well
worthy to be lived up to but as love
makes heroes of cowards so also it
sometimes makes cowards of heroes
There are things in life which are
worse than death and among these
are privation and suffering for those
for whose good we Avould gladly lay
cown our lives A wife and children
are povertys teeth says Victor Hugo
and they bite hard Helen Oldfield
in Chicago Tribune
THE EVIL OF WORRY
Doubtless there has been more or
less worry since Adam hid in the
bushes but it is a curious physiologi
calindeed it may be a psychological
fact that real worry the worry that
has a definite cause is not so wear
ing as the imaginary worries that we
persist in taking to bed with us We
cannot rest and be busy at the same
time and it is not hard to guess what
will happen to the brain that insists
on fretting and worrying when it
should be enjoying the serenity of re
pose There are doctors who can ex
amine your eyes and tell you whether
you have kidney disease but how
much better it would be if some
specialist could arise who can locate
worry and pluck it out as it were by
the roots t It is a baleful source of
poison at best and at its worst it is
ruinous Happy the man who is able
to take the measure of his worries
and troubles and value them for what
they are Happy thrice happy is
the man who can present to their at
tacks the impenetrable armor of se
renity His years shall be long and
full of charity His head shall be in
the sunshine and there shall be no
shadow about his feet Old men will
follow him and little children shall
be his companions Atlanta Constitu
tion
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IlliSSsn
SELF COMMAND
HEi
It goes without saying that what
ever positive moral element there is
in courage comes not from the
sence of fear but from its presence
and the self command exerted to over
come its effects The normally con
stituted man except in moments of ir
responsible excitement is frightened
by any danger that confronts him
This does not necessarily mean that
he is panic stricken but only that he
is conscious of the gravity of the sit
uation in which he finds himself It is
then the part of manhood for him to
take himself in hand and repress any
demonstration of his fear which might
react in a demoralizing way upon him
self The courageous man makes up
his mind that no matter what comes
and no matter what threatens he will
keep cool and do the best he can He
knows when he thinks it over calmly
that his only hope rests in never let
ting go of himself but being constant
ly in such a state of mind that he can
take advantage of any opening that
offers The frequent exertion of this
self control results in gradual harden
ing or seasoning so that although he
never overcomes his fears it is pro
gressiva easier for him to avoid being
overcome by them
The actually fearless man if Ave can
imagine one is not likely to be very
highly organized for a fine organism
means emotional susceptibility and
substantially all savages are brave He
may be a worthy enough person but
more or less wooden He must be
classified in an exclusive category
since he possesses a trait of distinct
value to himself and his fellows but
devoid of any high moral quality As
the ancient philosopher explained why
the gods wished for nothing by noting
the fact that they had already every
thing that heart could desire so wo
may say that the fearless man de
serves no special credit for his goou
conduct in the face of peril because
he is under no temptation to behave
badly Washington Post
BEAUTIFY THE EARTH
The zeal for gardening that of late
years has animated urban breasts
has been looked upon by many as a
fad but it has been proved to have
deeper roots than belong to the genus
fad and to have been more steady and
more sturdy in its growth It is more
than a fad to the business man who
may be seen emerging from a seed
store with his arms filled with bare
graceless sticks that are to bear June
roses it is more to the school boy who
thinks a plant in the ground is worth
two in the botany and it is infinitely
more to the slum inhabitant to whom
a chance for a richer life has come
in the form of garden opportunities
Down with the billboards and up with
the gardens is to be the cry in vacant
lots It is to be hoped that the time
is not far distant when all the bare
places the unsightly rubbish heaps
and the bleak schoolyards may be
transformed into beauty spots Chi-
cago Tribune
OUT OF THE HARNESS AT 60
The death of Mark Hanna at a time
when waning physical strength had
several times warned him that it Avas
time to quit suggests an argument
in the Bankers Magazine in favor of
the early retirement of business men
Avho haAre accumulated enough to se
cure them against Avart
Notwithstanding repeated arguments
and admonitions in this direction the
list of those distinguished for their
successful attainment of Avealth and
fame Avho have continued their stren
uous activities long after diminution
of strength has warned them of the
approaching end continues to be a
very long one American business
men prefer to die in the harness
Public opinion has not been tolerant
of those Avho give up the strenuous
struggle before their strength has
wasted away Indeed the man who
lays off the harness at GO to devote
the remainder of his years to follow
ing personal tastes and proclivities is
very apt to be regarded as eccentric
Moreover men like Russell Sage cling
to the daily grind of business because
it is their life To give it up is to
acknoAvledge that the end is approach
ing that the span of life is about
completed From this acknowledg
ment the sturdy captain of some great
industry shrinks Chicago Record
Herald
THE KISSING HABIT
Ethnologists tell us that among the
primitive races Kissing was unknoAvn
The Lapps and Maoris to day simply
rub noses EA en the average native
of Japan still knows nothing about
kissing
The French and the Germans are
the great kissing races The learned
Erasmus Avho visited England in Tu
dod times says that the mucco
cutaneous investment was universal
and that everybody kissed so that he
felt that he was being kissed tc
death Avhile there
But science is now making a severe
war on this too preAalent habit The
New York Medical Journal says that
it is the efficient cause of much insidi
ous bacterial infection Even the em
perofof Germany has been forced to
modify the osculatory habit Boston
Globe
POULTRY
iVsT to wiMt
Egg Shell Material
It is comparatively easy to supply
material for the shell of the egg Old
mortar pounded oyster and clam
shells ground up and bones cut up
quite fine and ground all serve the
needed purpose It is far easier to
keep the hen supplied with egg shell
material than it is to keep her sup
plied with grit About one tenth of
the weight of the egg is the shell In
100 pounds of eggs there are ten
pounds and over of lime in the form
of the shell When eggs sell for twen
ty cents per pound this means that
200 has been taken in for lime in
the shell a material that cost nothing
as a feed The better the supply of
this material tho stronger will be the
shell Weak shells are never desir
able When the supply of lime is cut
off the shells are poorly formed and
are sometimes so thin that they break
too easily This is a great annoyance
to the buyers it prevents their ready
transportation and it is the cause of
frequent accidents with the eggs in
the home pantry and kitchen We
have seen eggs with shells so thin
that they broke under the pressure of
the thumb and fingers when they were
being handled with the usual amount
of care The worst feature is how
ever that the eggs break in the nests
and start the hens into the habit of
egg eating
Andalusians
The Andalusian is one of the pret
tiest fowls of the feathered race be
ing of a beautiful light and dark blue
plumage It is called the Blue Anda
lusian and is the only variety of its
class It is not as popular in this
country as it should be owing to the
wnhNHRM
BLUE ANDALUSIAN HEN
sentiment against white skin and blue
shanks English and French poultry
men prefer these qualities in a bird
and with them it is very popular
They are nonsitters and splendid lay
ers of large white eggs averaging in
size those of the Minorca Specimens
of their eggs have been seen in com
petition and the award of merit be
stowed for size and weight The
chicks are hardy mature early and
pullets begin laying when five or six
months old
Feed for Chicks
It must be remembered that the
little chick has absolutely no need
for food for the first tAventy four to
forty eight hours after coming out of
the shell Nature has arranged a food
for it and this is already in process
of being digested- So the fear that
the little thing will die for lack of
nourishment is unfounded The little
piece of sharp bone on the beak at
this time can be loft on as it will
fall off soon enough for the good of
the chick If it be picked off and the
chick fed within a few hours after
birth so much the Avorse for the
chick When the chicken gets the
scale off its beak and really Avants
food it will show it with plainness
It will begin to peck at everything
around The first food given should
be soft food as that would be the food
that would naturally come to th6
chick in a state of nature It has no
grit in its crop at this time and con
sequently cannot readily use things
that have to be ground In its wild
state it would have picked up small
bugs and worms Feed it soft food
One of the best that can be given con
sists of stale bread dipped In milk
This should not be wet so much that
it will not crumble Bread newly
baked and that is soft and mushy can
hardly be recommended for chicks at
this age A little later ground grain
of almost any kind may be mixed with
milk and feed One way to improve
this is to permit it to soak in the
milk for some hours before using
This renders it soft SAveet milk is best
to give at this period while sour milk
and curd may be used later
Inside Wall of the Dairy Barn
A good many of our readers will be
building neAV barns and stables this
season While they are planning for
that work one feature should not be
forgotten and that is the sheathing
with matched and smooth lumber in
side Unless this is done it will be
exceedingly difficult to prevent the
accumulation of dust and sittings from
the hay especially where it is stored
above the cows on scaffolds Under
the ordinary arrangement of our sta
bles it is very difficult to either keep
the inside of the stables clean or to
whitewash them effectively Ta leave
the lumber rough even if it is
matched is to do the work but half
It is better to make a complete job
of it and have a barn that will be in
years to come a satisfaction in every
way
til U I l A M kT
Planting in Blocks
It Is not advisable to plant any one
variety of apples pears or plums in
blocks even of a hundred unless
there are other varieties on all sides
of the block Within comparatively
recent years it has been discovered
that many of our varieties of the
above mentioned fruit are largely in
fertile to their own pollen some more
so than others This kind of plant
ing has caused many a good orchard
to be infertile without the owner even
suspecting the true cause
It was first found that plums re
quired to be cross pollenized to in
sure a harvest Then some one dis
covered that the Keifer pear was a
very uncertain quantity without some
other varieties near it The investi
gation was continued with the result
that several other varieties of pears
were found to be in need of cross
fertilization At last the scientists
made some elaborate experiments to
determine to what extent the apple
came under the same laws as to pol
lination To the surnrise nf almost
every one it was proved that very few
of our varieties of apples do as well
fertilized by their own pollen as by
the pollen of another variety and
some of the varieties are found to be
almost sterile when fertilized by the
pollen of that variety It is there
fore best to so set out apple plum
and pear trees that the pollen of one
variety may be used on another va
riety This will greatly increase the
probability of a crop
Retopping Apple Trees
This is the time of year when much
of the grafting work is done There
are a good many trees in the orchard
that may be made valuable by being
entirely top Avorked The trees that
proved not true to name and are bear
ing inferior apples in place of the
good ones they Avere supposed to bear
can be made to bear the good kind
in a very small number of years It
I is surprising how many trees of an
unsatisfactory nature are alloAved to
go on year after year producing fruit
that is only fit for the hogs or for
cider
A whole new top can be started on
a tree in three years cutting off one
third of it each year and inserting
scions of the desired variety If the
Avhole top Avere cut off the first year
it Avould generally result in killing
the tree By cuttinir off onlv nnp
third each year the circulation of
sap is kept up and the scions of the
first year start a good groAVth On
the second year Avhen the second
third of the tree top is cut off the
first year scions have developed into
fairly gcod sized branches and by
the third year the new growth of
wood made by the scions previously
set is enough to keep up the circula
tion of sap in the body of the tree
which Avould be the part of tho tree
to first fail in its function if all the
limbs Avere cut off and the stumps
grafted in one year
Soil for Apple Growing
Frpp tn Twentv Five Ladies
Starch Co will glvj
Tho Defiance
the
round trip ticket to
05 ladles a
lad i
to five
St Louis Exposition Illi
fn states
each of the following
and
Kansas
nois Iowa Nebraska
SltsouTwho will send in the largest
number of trade marks cut from i ten
of Deaanco
cent 16 ounce package
starch ihia
cold water laundry
own home i anywhere
means from your
where in the above named states
These trade marks must be mailed to
and received by tho Dofianco Starch
Co Omaha Nebr before September
1st 1904 October and November
will be the best months to visit tho
Exposition Remember that Defiance
is the only starcn put up 16 oz a
full pound to the package You get
one third more starcn for the same
money than of any other kind and
Defiance never sticks to tho iron
The tickets to the Exposition will be
sent by registered mail September
5th Starch tor sale by all dealers
Fortune never disappoints the man
who knows he will fail
Ask Yonr Dealer For Allens Toot Eaao
A powder It rests the feet Cures Corns
Bunions Swollen Sore Hot Callous Aching
Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails Allens
Foot Ease makes new or tight shoes easy At
all Druggists and Shoe stores 25 cents Ac
cept no substitute Sample mailed Free
Address Allen S Olmsted Le Roy NY
It is Interesting to know in con
nection Avith Mr Jeromes legal and
legislative campaign against gambling
that Monte Carlo is not only doing a
business the annual profits from
which are about 5000000 but it is
keeping abreast of the times by add
ing bridge baccarat and poker to the
attractions which help to separate
players at the resort from their mon
ey HoAvever Monte Carlo has no
lid and no Jeromes
Those Who Have Tried It
will uso no othor Dofianco Cold Water
Starch has no eqtml in Quantity or Qual
ity 16 oz for 10 cents Other brands con
tain only 12 oz
Miss Bird in her book entitled Un
beaten Tracks in Japan published
nearly twenty five years ago described
the men she saAv as small ugly kind
ly looking shriveled Lanty legged
round shouldered concave chested pin
looking beings Avhile tho Avomen are
as a rule small and very email Rus
sians hoAvever who have had occa
sion to see the Japanese Co not agree
Avith Miss Bird
Deputy Sheriff David Dcnn of Taun
ton Mass has a pair of handcuffs
Avith a history They Aven presented
to him by Major Jones in 1S73 Avhen
the latter was at the head of the
state police Since that time the sher
iff says they have been on the Avrists
of every man on trial for murder or
manslaughter in Plymouth county
The postmaster at Nails Ind has
resigned because he found it next to
impossible to live Avithin his salary
Avhich is 19 a year Which all goes
to prove that the cost of living is in
creasing
Kansas is loyal if nothing else A
Sunday school teacher at Kansas City
asked her class Avhere Christ Avas
born and about half the children re
plied in chorus In Kansas
Rllfc TiiTprl unnn nomofc fity rn tm
good fertile soil porous loamv ti f JL
AAith plenty of humus potash and touchable
lime so as to give fair to good crops
of grain or grass is the most to be
desired Avhile the nearest approach
to these requirements would be my
next choice a soil that dries out
quickly so that it can be plowed soon
after a rain one that works easily
so as to get the best results Avith the
least labor a soil that Avill give a
good crop of corn while we are grow
ing the trees a soil that Avill not bake
too easily is the one that is always
desirable Now comes a rockv or
gravelly soil Avhich is nearly always
good the only drawback being that
it takes more work to get results
These soils are found in abundance in
aii our mountain districts and nearly
always they are good fruit soils L
A Goodman
Cherry Growing n lewa
IoAva is making steady progress as
a iruit growing state The census of
1S90 reported C1405SS apple trees
growing within her borders In 1900
the number had reached G8G95SS In
1895 there Avere 707506 plum trees in
the state m 1900 1302217 In cherry
trees the increase is even more strik
ing there being 200000 trees in 1890
against S00000 in 1900 While the
climate of the northern part of the
state is no doubt too severe for suc
cessful cherry growing Avith
any ex
cept the hardiest A arieties this de
licious fruit can easily be grown in the
central and southern parts The tree
is handsome and ornamental and is
appropriate for lawn and garden
Dairying in Colorado
Some of the figures recently pub
lished on Colorado dairying follow
000 cows supply milk to Denver and
fjOOO daily supply milk to the rest
of the state It takes 25000 cows to
supply the cream used About 45000
coavs are supplying milk to cream
eries and 7000 are supplying milk to
cheese factories It is estimated that
12000 cows are supplying butter to
the ranches The annual milk con
sumption for the entire state is put
at S9425000 quarts and the number
of quarts of cream used is reported
at 5475000 The Aalue of all cows
in the state is giA en as 5119500 and
the wholesale value of the milk Is
placed at
As long as the gown isnt too small
z woman can build herself up to fit it
pilloAVs to a couch are not
among the sins of the bachelor girl
The uncluttered house is hers
The Man of SorroAvs was not much
of a man for sighs
CAME FROM COFFEE
A Cass Where the Taking cf Morphine
Began With Coffee
For 15 years says a young Ohio
woman I Avas a great sufferer from
stomach heart and iiAer trouble For
the last 10 years the suffering Avas
terrible it would be impossible to
describe it During the last throo
years I had convulsions from which
the only relief Avas the lue of mor
phine
I had several physicians nearly
all of whom advised me to stop drink
ing tea and coffee but as I could take
only liquid foods I felt I could aot
live Avithout coffee I eom inued drink
ing it until I becamo almost insane
my mind Avas affected Avhile my whole
nerA ous system Avas a completo
Avreck I suffered day and night from
thirst and as Avater Avould only makt
me sick I kept on trying different
drinks until a friend asked me to try
Postum Food Coffee
I did so but it Avas some time be
fore I was benefited by the change
my system was so filled with coffef
poison It Avas not long however be
fore I could eat ail kinds of foods anO
drink all the cold Avater I wanted anr
Avhich my system demands It is noA
8 years I have drank nothing but Pos
tum for breakfast and supper and the
result has been that in place of beinf
an invalid with my mind affected I am
now strong sturdy happy and
healthy
I have a very delicate daughter
who has been greatly benefited by
drinking Postum also a strong boy
who Avould rather go without food for
his breakfast than his Postum So
much depends on the proper cooking
of Postum for unless it is boiled tho
proper length of time people will be
disappointed in it Those in the habit
of drinking strong coffee should make
the Postum very strong at first in
order to get a strong coffee taste
Kame given by Postum Co Battle
Creek Mich
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