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Weak And unhealthy kidneys are responsible for more
sickness an suffering- than any other disease therefore when
through neglect or other causes kidney trouble is permitted to
continue fatal results are sure to follow
Your other organs may need attention but your kidneys most
because they do most and need attention first
If you are sick or feel badly begin taking Or Kilmers
Swamp Itoot the great kidney liver and bladder remedy because
as soon as your kidneys begin to get better they will help all the
other organs to health A trial will convince anyone
The mild and immediate effect of Dr
Kilmers Swamp Root the great kidney
and bladder remedy is soon realized It
ctands the highest for its wonderful cures
of the most distressing cases Swamp
Root will set your whole system right and
the best proof of this is a trial
V S3 Cottage St Melrose Mass
Dear Sir Jan 11th 1904
Ever since I was in the Army I had more or
less kidney trouble and within the pat ear it be
came so severe and complicated that I suffered
cverythinc and was much alarmed my stieneth
and power was fast leaving nie I saw an adver
tisement of Swamp Root and wrote asking for ad
vice I becan the use of the medicine and noted a
decided improvement after taking Swamp Root
only n short time
I continued its use and am thankful to say that I
am entirely cured and strong In order to be very
sure about this I had a doctor examine some of
my water to day and he pronounced it all neat and
in splendid condition
I know that jour Swamp Root is purely vegeta
ble and docs not contain any harmful drugs
Thanking you for my complete recovery and rec
ommending Swamp Root to all sufferers I bin
Very truly yours
I C RICHARDSON
You may have a sample bottle of this
famous kidney remedy Swamp Root sent
free by mail postpaid by which you may
test its virtues for such disorders as kidney
bladder and uric acid diseases poor diges
tion being obliged to pass your water
EDITORIAL- NOTICE If you
have the slightest symptoms of kidney or
bladder trouble or if there is a trace of it
n your family history send at once to Dr
Kilmer Co Binghamton N Y who will
gladly send you by mail immediately with
out cost to you a sample bottle of Swamp
Root and a book containing many of the
thousands upon thousands of testimonial
letters received from men and women cured
In writing be sure to say that you read
this generous offer in this paper
Tree to Twenty Five Ladies
The Defiance Starch Co will give
25 ladies a round trip ticket to the
St Louis Exposition to five ladies
in each of the following states Illi
nois Iowa Nebraska Kansas and
Missouri who will send in the largest
number of trade marks cut from a ten
cent lG ounce package of Defiance
cold water laundry starch This
means from your own home any
where In the above named states
These trade marks must be mailed to
and received by the Defiance Starch
Co Omaha Nebr before September
1st 1904 October and November
will be the best months to visit the
t Exposition Remember that Defiance
is the only starcn put up 1G 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 the iron
The tickets to the Exposition will be
sent by registered mall September
5th Starch tor sale by all dealers
The man who looks too far ahead
Is apt to miss some good things of the
pYesent
Hundreds of dealers say the extra
quantity and superior quality of De
fiance Starch Is fast taking place of
all other brands Others say they
cannot sell any other starch
It may seem strange but a head
strong man never makes much head
way
Economy in Threshing
A great deal of grain is wasted by using
old stylo Threshing Machines This wast
age can be entirely eliminated if you use
the new and improved machino made by
Nichols Shepard Co Battle Creek Mich
Some men lose their hair by but
ting in at the wrong time
Sensible Housekeepers
will have Defiance Starch not alona
because they get one third more for
the same money but also because of
superior quality
The disagreeable man wonders why
people are disposed to avoid him
Mrs fFinsiowS Soothing yrap
For children teething tot tens the guras reduces to
flftmmaUonallayapaui cures wind colic- 25c a bottle
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A happy home life is to a man the
acme of satisfaction
frequently night and day smarting or
irritation in passing brickdust or sediment
in the urine headache backache lame
back dizziness sleeplessness nervousness
heart disturbance due to bad kidney trou
ble skin eruptions from bad blood neural
gia rheumatism diabetes bloating irritabil
ity wornout feeling lackof ambiton loss of
fleshsallowcomplexionor Brights disease
If your water when allowed to remain
undisturbed in a glass or bottle for twenty
four hours forms a sediment or settling or
has a cloudy appearance it is evidence
that your kidneys and bladder need imme
diate attention
Swamp Root is the great discovery of
Dr Kilmef the eminent kidney and blad
der specialist Hospitals use it with won
derful success in both slight and severe
cases Doctors recommend it to their
patients and use it in their own families
because they recognize in Swamp Root the
greatest and most successful remedy
Swamp Root is pleasant to take and is
for sale at drug stores the world over in
bottles of two sizes and two prices fifty
cents and one dollar Remember the
name Szuamp Root Dr Kilmers
Swamp Root and the address liing
hamton N K on every bottle
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Please write or fill in this coupon with your
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Great Kidney Remedy
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State
Mention this paper
She Was Kissed
The bride and groom sat side by
side Dearest he said looking up
into her eyes for he was smaller so
that he really and truly looked up and
into her eyes
Yes love she responded in soft
frightened mouse tones
If I had known that tunnel was
that long I would have kissed you
Didnt you kiss me she asked
with much surprise
No he replied
Well somebody did Cleveland
Leader
Storekeepers report that the extra
quantity together with the superior
quality of Defiance Starch makes it
next to impossible to sell any other
brand
There is nothing that so increases a
mans desire to work in the garden
as the discovery that his wife has
misplaced the rake
WiggleStick laundky biue
Wont spill break freeze nor spot clothes
Costs 10 cents and equals 20 cents worth of
any other bluing If your goeer does not
keep it send 10c for samnlo to The Laundry
Dlue Co 14 Michigan Street Chicago
The woman who carries her age
well shows the pride she has in it
If you want creamery prices do as
the creameries do use JUNE TINT
BUTTER COLOR
Many a girls popularity with the
sterner sex is due to a rumor that
she has money
Dealers say that as soon as a cus
tomer trie3 Defiance Starch it Is im
possible to sell them any other cold
water starch It can be used cold
or boiled
A man deliberately lies while a
woman merely suppresses the truth
Lewis Sincrle Binder straight 5c
cigar made of extra quality tobacco You 1
Factorr Peoria 111
The man who tells you life isnt
worth living generally loses ho time
in sending for the doctor if he has the
slightest pain
Pure Water for Washing Butter
Butter makers have long since ar
rived at the conclusion that the water
in which butter is washed has much
to do not only with the keeping quali
ty of the butter but often with its
flavor Wo have seen farm wejls so
foul that the water could hardly be
used except for cooking purposes but
that same water was used in the
washing of butter and in the cleans
ing of vessels that were to hold milk
In one case the writer saw a well the
water of which had become almost
unusable The owners had the well
cleaned out and a great mass of dead
angle worms was found in the bottom
It was these angle worms that had
tainted the water In the same way
it is preferable to use soft water in
stead of hard as sometimes the hard
ness in the water comes from the
presence in it of decayed vegetable
matter At some of the colleges
where butter making is taught this
matter of soft and hard water and of
filtered and unflltered water has been
looked into always with the results
that the purer water and the soft
water gave the best flavored butter
Reports from New Zealand say that
some of the off flavors in the butter
that had been sent from that country
to Europe were found to come from
the water in which the butter was
washed So we caution our readers
to make sure that the high priced
butter fat that is to be made up into
a form to go on the table of the dis
criminating buyer be washed in water
so pure that there will be no question
of its contaminating the butter
Windows in Dairy Barn
More light is needed in rcost of out
dairy barns Last week the writer
visited a dairy stable in which nine
cows are kept It was the smallest
stable for that number of cows he
ever saw and the wonder was that
the cows could have lived through
the winter just past when the cold
was so great and continuous that the
stable must have been kept chut up
for days at a time 7J was not more
than ten feet in height so far as avail
able space for air was concerned ind
the cows were packed as closely to
gether as it was possible for them
to stand with a feeding floor only
six feet wide in front There was a
single window in the west Yec from
this stable went out milk to supply
the neighboring villagers Conditions
were almost at that point where a
board of health could be justified in
stepping in Yet the owner had tried
to be up-to-date and had laid cement
floors both in front of and behind the
cows Over the cement were laid
planks to make the cows more com
fortable JThis showed enterprise yet
the great lack was light In the
building of a new stable the addition
of the proper windows is not a hard
matter and in the case of stables al
ready in use this should not be neg
lected Pew of our cow keepers fully
appreciate the health giving powers
of light
Producing Good Milk
The whole secret of producing good
milk can be generalized in a few
words Health j clean and well fed
cows having a clean comfortable
stable healthy clean and quiet milk
ers having a disposition to treat the
cows at least fairly sound clean and
sterilized utensils prompt cooling and
protection of the milk This is the
secret that is blunging success to some
dairymen while their neighbors fail
These conditions could be introduced
easily cheaply and profitably into
thousands of dairies Too many dairy
men make the mistake of thinking
that a large outlay of money is neces
sary before high grade milk can be
produced They are scared off by a
phantom 1 The fact is many dairies
could be changed to a sanitary from
an unsanitary condition without the
expenditure of a single dollar in cash
More light more fresh air better ar
rangements for bringing the feed and
for removing manure a -little time
each day to clean the stable and the
cows a coat of fresh whitewash once
or twice a year to cover and- kill the
nacteria on the walls and partitions
these things are not expensive and
perhaps a new ceiling or floor above
the cows to exclude dust from the
hay mow R A Pearson
The Stanchion Should Go
In spite of all that has been said
against the stanchion it still persists
on our farms That it should be dis
carded is the verdict of about every
man that does anjr thinking along this
line The rigid stanchion may be easy
to build and easy to understand the
construction of by the ordinary farm
carpenter that has built no other kind
in all his life but that does not make
it a humane arrangement It does not
permit the cow to place her head in
sleeping as nature intended she
should It does not permit a cow to
lick her haunches as cows do now
and then if they are to be comfort
able The cow in the rigid stanchion
is very much of a prisoner with little
chance to move her body for any pur
pose There are numerous stabling
arrangements now on the market and
many ideas in addition have been ex
pressed in the public press that are
not controlled by patent rights There
re probably few localities where some
ort of humane arrangement Is not
n sight and cannot be inspected by
the cow owner that wants to make
his animals comfortable
Cut the trunk the branches fall of
themselves Ivan Panin
Manure Does Benefit Land
A good deal of comment has been
caused by the publication by the de
partment of agriculture of the United
States of bulletin 22 in which the
authors claimed that poor soils were
as good crop yielders as good soils
provided both were in the same me
chanical condition This was regard
ed everywhere as a most astonishing
statement as It was equivalent to
saying that all kinds of manure bene
fit soil only by improving it mechan
ically A few people however al
ways ready to follow any new doc
trine at once took up with this new
idea
But our best agriculturists have
been all the time certain that fertil
izers do add to the amount of avail
able plant food in the soil It was the
contention of the authors of the bul
letin in question that natural agen
cies are all the time at work in the
soil liberating new quantities of plant
food and that the amount of plant
food so liberated is as great in poor
soil as in good They claimed to have
found this out by actual analyses of
the plant food available in different
soils
It is evident that something is
wrong with their soil analyses One
of the greatest soil physicists in the
United States is Professor F H King
During 1903 Professor King carried on
some experiments to determine the
points at issue in the bulletin He
carried on the same tests on three
types of soil of lowproductive capac
ity and three types of soil of high
productive capacity He determined
the plant food soluble in water once
each week during the entire season
in soil from each fiela He also grew
crops on each of the six fields The
amo of available plant food in the
good soils was found to be about two
and a half times as great in the good
soils as ii the poor soils on the
average of all tests throughout the
season
The crops grown responded in like
measure The good soils yielded
crops tvi and a half times larger
than did the poor soils When these
crops were analyzed they were found
to contain about two and a half times
as mch plant food as did the crops
grown on the poor soils
It will thus be seen that there is
a difference in the amount of plant
rood in different soils and that the
most productive soils are those- well
manured and containing much avail
able plant food It is not true that
there is as much available plant food
in solution in the water of on soil
as of another
Irrigation in Humid Climates
We have usually considered till
very recent years that li paid to irri
gate land only in those countries in
which the rainfall was insufficient to
supply the crops with the needed
moisture But it is being learned that
irrigation pays even in lands where
the rainfall is sufficient in most years
Illinois has an annual precipitation of
about 35 inches and Italy an annual
precipitation of about 40 inches Few
farmers in Illinois would think it
profitable to irrigate yet in Italy
many thousands of farmers are irri
gating and consider it money well
spent as a crop insurance The lead
ing crops in the irrigated regions are
corn wheat and oats Mulberry trees
are also irrigated and the irrigation
increases the yield of the mulberry
leaves about one third The farmers
there declare that irrigation enables
them to grow a crop of corn after
the wheat and to increase the yield
of alfalfa and clover 100 per cent
Most of the irrigation work there
is organized on the co operative basis
The largest of these co operative as
sociations has 14000 members and
controls the irrigation of 123500 acres
of land The system under the con
trol of this association comprises 7000
mijes of canals and ditches The
main society is divided into 40 sub
ordinate societies each of which
elects a member to a general assem
bly which directs the policy of the
association The farmers there pay
about G per year for the watering of
each acre Under such a condition
a crop failure is impossible
Grass
Grass is the great fundamental crop
Without the aid of man and pre
vious to his intervention it covers
the habitable earth everywhere with
its mantle of green and fills the sou
with a thick fibrous growth of roots
and not only protects the land from
the ravages of wind and water but
becomes also the primary source of
food for a large part of the animaJ
creation says A M Ten Eyck Ac
cording to the government reports
corn holds the first place as the great
est wealth producing crop of this coun
try while grass takes second rank
It is safe to say however that the re
verse is the actual fact The reports
fail to take into account the great
wealth produced from grass as a pas
ture and its great value as a soil-protector
and a soil renewer and Its pow
er to increase the yield of other crops
when used in rotation Although the
native grasses grow without the aid
of man yet it is only when certain do
mesticated species are cultivated that
the greatest production of hay and
pasture is secured
Wheat is a good feed for hens but
it Is often cheaper to buy clear wheat
at a fair price than wheat screenings
at a low price
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A LITTLE TOO MUCH
alwnrf
Shrewd Traveler Got Neatly Out of
a Situation
She had a small child with her
and there was no vacant seat in the
car
Well have to stand dearie she
said
Now a woman standing alone Is
bad enough but when she has to
steady a child it is Infinitely worse
In this case two men started to offer
a seat but one being a little quicker
than the other the latter settled back
comfortably
Here is a seat madam said the
one who had risen
Thank you she said and stoop
ing she lifted the child into the va
cant seat Then she looked hard at
the other man
Why dont you sit down mum
mie asked the child
I have no seat she repled and
again she looked at the man who had
started to get up
The other passengers Iiegan to
taks notice The man who had
given up his seat had expected she
would take the child in her lap but it
was evident that she wanted two
seats Would she get them Some
how he felt a little provoked but he
could still enjoy tho dilemma of the
other man The latter had been equal
ly ready to give up his seat when it
seemed to be necessary but now he
seemed to descry an imposition
Cant you get a seat mummy
persisted the child
No dearie the woman replied
Mamma will have to stand
But her eyes were on the man So
were the eyes of others in the car
They were curious to note the result
and they noted it The man reached
over picked up the child set it on
his knee and remarked pleasantly
Theres a seat for you madam
The womans face grew very red
but she took the seat and the child
And she knew the other passengers
were laughing Brooklyn Eagle
DO YOU KNOW THIS TEXT
Colored Man Slightly Mixed Up on
the Gospel
Col John S Cunningham a well
known North Carolinian who was in
Washington the other day is an in
teresting Southern type He loves
the good things of life but on occa
sion is capable of fervid religious ex
hortation Members of the North
Carolina delegation are relating this
story of him
A few months ago Col Cunningham
by invitation addressed a large as
sembly of negroes in his native coun
ty He had just returned from a
trip to Philadelphia and had visited
Girad college He gave his audience
a yivid description of that institution
and brought tears to the eyes of the
colored people as he dwelt upon the
philanthropy that had inspired the
appropriation of money for such a
great refuge for the orphan He then
in another strain with equal realism
painted the horrors of the hereafter
awaiting bad negroes His supersti
tious hearers groaned with terror
Shortly afterward a friend of the
colonels met an old time darkey in
the big road I never knowed Mars
John wuz a preacher said the old
fellow but hes the powerfulest ex
horter I ever seen Us colored folios
never heerd the like of the way he
preached down at the Springs tother
day
What was his text Uncle
The old negro scratched his head
several times before he replied
Well sah I doesnt zactly remem
ber but it wuz somethin about hell
lire and Philadelphy and I think its
in the book of Sodom
A Good Secret to Know
A man went to a nose and throat
specialist the other day to have his
cold cured As he was paying a not
small sum for the first treatment he
said How long does it take you to
cure a cold
Three weeks said the specialist
And how long would it take me to
get well if I didnt come to you
asked the alarmed patient
Twenty one clays said the special
1st
And it wasnt until the patient was
half way home that he suddenly stop
ped and pondered whether he ought
to laugh or get angry He finally de
cided that perhaps the secret he had
learned was worth the price he had
paid for it Its a good secret to
know Saturday Evening Post
Empress Alix
The Empress Alix of Russia recent
ly had her portrait painted by Fritz
von Kaulbach She retains her love
for her old German home at Darm
stadt and loves to spend a few weeks
there whenever she can She dis
likes politics and public ceremonies
and is of a decidedly domestic dispo
sition
Gets Honor from King
King Carlos of Portugal has con
ferred the degree of knight cf the Or
der of St Jacques upon Emile A
Bruguiere a San Francisco composer
The Waiting City
A city throned upon the height behold
Wherein no foot of man as yet has trod
The city of mans life fultilled in God
Bathed all in light with open gates of
gold
Perfect the city is in tower and street
And there a palace for each mortal
waits
Complete and perfect at whose outer
gates
An angel stands its occupant to greet
Still shine O patient city on the height
The while our race in hut and hovel
dwells
It hears the music of thy heavenly bells
And its dull soul is haunted by thy light
Lo once the Son of Man hath heard thy
call
And the dear Christ hath claimed thee
for us all
Phillias Crooks
How to Keep House
With all the luxuries and pleasures
nf this life its big enjoyments and its
Waller comforts there is an offset or
Shesis which we have to conte 1
wUh in the forni of aches and pains
and by some means
to some way
in
hem
touch of
one ha a
every
some form at some time Trifling as
the risk is
be
some of them may
thnt thev will grow to something
Jaterand rick fhe system with cc m
g there
nothing
stant torture There is
fore of this kind that we have a
right to trifle with Taken in time
the worst forms of pains and aches
are easily subdued and cured by the
free use of St Jacobs 6ll No well
regulated household ought to be win
out a bottle of this great remedy for
pain It is the specific virtue of pene
tration in St Jacobs Oil that carries
it right to the pain spot and effects a
prompt cure even in the most painful
cases of Rheumatism Neuralgia Lum
bago Sciatica You want it also in
the house at ail times for hurts cuts
and wounds and the house that al
ways has it keeps up a sort of Insur
ance against pain
A married mans idea of heaven is
a place where he wont be compelled
to dig up the price of an Easter bon
net
Mother Grays Sweet Powders for Children
Successfully used by Mother Gray nurso
in the Children Home in New York cure
Constipation Feverishness Bad Stomach
Teething Disorders move and regulate tho
Bowels and Destroy Worms Over 30000
testimonials At all druggists 25c Samplo
FREE Address A SOlmsted Le RoyNY
Honesty is undoubtedly the best
policy but a good many people some
how fail to keep their premiums paid
up
Plsos Curo Is tho best meaiclno o ever used
for all affections of the thvoat and lungs Wit
O Vanbu rcn Ind Feb 10 MOO
He Was Still Mad
One day during a lecture a Har
vard professor with a peppery dispo
sition grew furious bccatise of somo
interruption and slamming down his
book with an exclamation of rage
rushed from the room The boys
were very much distressed by his
action but did not know what to do
In a few minutes however the pro
fessor apparently came to the con
clusion that he had done a foolish
thing for he returned and resumed
his lecture without a word Anxious
to show their good will and to atone
if possible for their rudeness the boys
took advantage of a good point in the
lecture to applaud tumiiltuously No
no no exclaimed the professor
holding up his hand with a gesture of
protest I want you to understand
that Im as mad as h I yet
Representative Clarence D Van
Duzer says that a miner once told him
of the red mans greed for whisky
I was riding over the plains once
he said with a pint bottle sticking
out of my breast pocket when an
Indian met me and seeing the whis
ky wanted to buy it And do you
know what that Indian offered me
Well sir he offered me his buckskin
breeches his shirt his saddle his
blanket and his pony all for a pint
of whisky What do you think of
that And you did sell asked Van
Duzer No said the miner I didnt
it was my last pint
Black Teeth
Emigrants from southern Italy are
many of them disfigured by what is
known as black teeth The teeth
of these persons are affected during
the period of growth by some gaseous
constituent of drinking water proba
bly from impregnation with volcanic
vapors The effect gives a sinister
look to an otherwise indsome face
but fortunately does not it seems
affect the strength or durability of
the teeth
The man who wastes his money
should not expect to have all of his
wants supplied by prayer
A fare exchange may be no robber-
but the trolley companies aro
making a lot of serious charges
SOAKED IN COFFEE
Until Too Stiff to Bend Over
When I drank coffee I often had
sick headaches nervousness and bil
iousness much of the time but about
2 years ago I went to visit a friend
and got in the habit of drinking Pos
tum
I have never touched coffee since
and the result has been that I have
been entirely cured of all my stomach
and nervous trouble
My mother was just the same way
we all drink Postum now and have
never had any ot her coffee in the
house for two years and we are all
well
A neighbor of mine a great coffee
drinker was troubled with pains in
her side for years and was an invalid
She was not able to do her work and
could not even mend clothes or do
anything at alL where she would have
to bend foward If she tried to do
a little hard work she would get such
pains that she would have to lie down
for the rest of the day
I persuaded her at last to stop
drinking coffee and try Postum Food
Coffee and she did so and she has
used Postum ever since the result
has been that she can now do her
work can sit for a whole day and
mend and can sew on the machine and
she never feels the least bit of pain in
her side in fact she has got well and
it shows coffee
was the cause of the
whole trouble
I could also tell you about several
other neighbors who have been cured
by quitting coffee and using Postum
in its place Name given by Postum
Co Battle Creek Mich
Ivook in each pkg for the famous
little book The Road to Wellvllle
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