s r nMHMrrmi wnm nrwihh urnar iutrwtt r r r Vrf WASH BLUE Costs io cents and equals 20 cents worth of any other kind of bluing Wont Freeze Spill Break i Nor Spot Clothes DIREPTI0H3 FOR USES around in the Water AS aQ wise Grocers JP Value of Pure Air Cultivate air hunger We should learu to be as hungry for fresh air as we are naturally thirsty for pure wa ter The old fa3hioned ideas concern ing stuffy living or bed rooms are now fortunately out of date and should never be revived Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications as tbey cannot reach the dis eased portion of tlio car There Is only one way io cure deafness and that Is by constitutional remedies Deafness Is caused by an Inflamed condition of the mucous llnlni of the Eustachian Tube When this tube Is Intluined you have a rumbling sound or Im perfect hearing and when It Is entirely closed Deaf iicns Is the result and unless the Inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to Its normal condi tion hearing will be destroyed forever nine cases out of ten are caused by atarrh which Is nothing but an Inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness cauped by catarrh thnt cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure Send for circulars free F J CHENEY CO Toledo 0 Sold by nrupRt7ric Take Halls Family Tills for constipation Attributes of Beautiful Woman A beautiful woman is a practical poem planting tenderness hope and eloquence in all whom she ap proaches Emerson Dr Dnvlil Kennedys Fnvorlt Remedy cured me of Brljlitsllease and Gravel Able physicians CaUud Mrs K 1 llluier lturghlll O J OO a bottle The Largest Colladium The largest colladium known is in Beavertown Pa Some of the leaves are four and one half feet long and forty inches wide while the circum ference of the stalk is forty nine feet Ask Your Druggist for Allens Foot Ease - 1 tried ALLENS FOOT EASE recent ly and have just bought another supply It has cured my corns and the hot burning and itching sensation in my feet which was almost unbearable and I would not be with out it now Mrs V J Walker Camctea ft J Sold by all Druggists a Endurance is the crowning quality and patience all the passion of great hearts Lowell Ptsos Cure cannot be too highly spoken of a3 a cousa cure J W OErien 322 Third Ave N Minneapolis Minn Jan G 1900 Even a plain parasol can lay a pret ty girl in the shade Village Without Government In the village of Altenburg on whose borders three countries meet there are no soldiers no police no taxes and its people are ruled by no monarch The inhabitants speak a queer jargon of French and German combined and spend their time cul tivating the hind or working the valu able calamine mine which is the boast of the village Roused Her Enthusiasm J A tiny girl riding in a car became deeply interested in a baby held by a woman seated beside her frequently calling to her mother to join in her enthusiasm culminating with And see its dear little hands and its fin gers and its cute little nails and oh mother isnt this too cunning theres dirt in them Money Money that talks does little else Money that whispers re echoes where least expected Money that acts might save many a hroken heart from a sui cides grave Mrs Jones I suppose Sarah feels pretty bad over the loss of her hus band Mfs Brown Naturally for she thought the world of him But then you know she is awfully fond of crape Boston Transcript Money makes many a man go a wooing BY PROXY What the Baby Needed I suffered from nervousness and headache until one day about a year ago it suddenly occurred to me what a great coffee drinker I was and I thought may be this might have some thing to do with my trouble go I shifted to tea for awhile but was not better if anything worse At that time I had a baby four months old that we had to feed on a bottle until an old lady friend told me to try Postum Food Coffee Three months ago I commenced using Pos tum leaving off the tea and coffee and not only have my headaches and nervoUs troubles entirely disappeared but since then I have been giving plenty of nurse for my baby and have a large healthy child now I have no desire to drink anything but Postum and know it has benefited my children and I hope all who have children will try Postum and find out ior themselves what a really wonder ful food drink it is Name given L Postum Co Battle Creek Mich Both tea and coffee contain quanti ties of a poisonous drug called Caf feine that directly affects the heart kidneys stomach and nerves Postum is made from cereals only scientifi cally blended to get the coffee flavor a en days trial of Postum in place of tea or coffee will show a health secret worth more than a gold mine Theres a reason Get the book The Road to Well ville In each pkg hqptjcuw Fruit Shippers Association W H Owen president of a co-operative fruit shippers association in Ohio in a talk to Ontario fruit men said Peach shipping associations have been operated with more or less success throughout the peach belt of Michigan and Ohio but in shipping in carload lots although complying with rigid rules laid down by the associa tion there was an objectionable feat ure lo the trade and that was the lack of uniformity of grades and pack ing To be more explicit on this point you have all probably visited some of the various markets during the peach season and have noticed the very great difference prevailing in grades of different packs That is some pack ers B or XX grades were just as good as some other packers A or XXX grade Therefore the grade marks of the general run of consigned fruit where not put up by one set of hands as a rule are not of very great as sistance to the purchaser and he still is obliged to resort to his own judg ment and eyesight in his selections Now for a shipper to make up a car load of this indiscriminate packing of fruit where it is packed by many growers each contributor having a different way and idea of how peach es should be packed and the kind of packages used conceding that they areoall honestly packed how is the shipper going to bill that indiscrim inate lot of fruit and can he warrant the packing This serious objection of lack of uniformity confronted the Michigan fruit growers and has re sulted in the adoption of the central packing house system by their prin cipal association This system was originated and established in the peach industry at Catawba Island Ohio in 1891 and it has resulted in untold savings and benefits to the peach grower wherever the system has been adopted The mere ship ping association where each grower prepares his own fruit and delivers it to the association by which it is shipped with other packs and pack ages either in carload or local ship ments is a step in advance over the old or individual method of shipment but the central packing house system is a much greater step in advance over the mere shipping association The old adage of In union there is strength is most aptly exemplified through the many advantages that may be attained through an organiza tion of fruit growers organized for the purpose of bettering their condi tions in shipping and marketing their fruit The many discouraging prob lems that confront the grower in the satisfactory marketing of his product I believe are satisfactorily solved through the adoption of the central packing house system At least such has been my observation through the management of such a company for the past twelve years Michigan Fruit Belt Prof L R Taft of Michigan in an address said The expression Mich igan fruit belt or Michigan peach belt is often heard but many per sons have an incorrect idea if they think that the only place in the state in which peaches can be grown suc cessfully is in the tract to which the above terms are commonly applied which is a strip from five to twenty miles in width extending along the east shore of Lake Michigan nearly to Mackinaw Scattered ah through the southern portion of Michigan there are thousands of orchards many of them of considerable size which are nearly if not quite as productive as in the famed peach belt The dif ference is that away from the influ ence of the lake the peach can only be successfully grown upon ridges where good air drainage can be se cured while in the counties along Lake Michigan little attention need be paid to the elevation provided the soil is not wet and hence in the peach belt a large proportion of the land is given up to peaches The prevailing cold winds are from the west and as they pass over the broad and deep waters of Lake Michi gan which never freeze they ae tempered so that if forty degrees be low zero in Wisconsin it is seldom more than ten degrees below zero In Michigan within five miles of the lake Even in that section it has been thought that only the more elevated portions should be used for peach or chards but less attention is now given to the matter of elevation as thousands of acres of comparatively low land and level land have during the last ten years been set to peach es and the trees have been fully as productive as upon the higher land In the interior counties of the state the mercury occasionally drops to twenty degrees below zero and in se lecting a site for a peach orchard the first thing to be considered is its ele vation above the surrounding country Good results are obtained in all ex posures but especially towards the northern limit for peach culture a northern slope is preferred While there are objections to both eastern and western slopes they are less seri ous than those against a southern ex posure In selecting a peach tree to plant the experienced qrchardist selects one not over five feet tall and with a di ameter of less than an inch Some even select whips three feet tall The amateur wants a big tree not know ing that it will not make the growth of he younger tree JWVAsKSft I vsrJ jtfw tBnrBfflI Cultivation of New Land Franklin Williams in a bulletin of the United States Department of Agri culture relative to the cultivation of new land says The quantity of roots remaining in the ground after it has been cleared is always surprising No matter what clearing method has been pursued or how carefully it has been done the plow will discover an aggravatingly large number of roots When rtumps are pulled out by machinery many more roots are removed than by any other method But even in machinery-cleared land the ground will still be full of roots mostly small it is true In plowing new land a good steady strong span of horses is of the first importance Horses that are fast or fractious will not answer They will tret the plowman break the plow and bruise their shoulders With a spirited team even though nothing is broken or injured it is hard to do good work If the plow is drawn rap mly it is quite impossible to guide it closely and avoid stumps and roots After the winter season of compara tive idleness horses should not ue put to plowing new land Their shoulders have grown tender from disuse and should be first gradually toughened in old land moreover some ot their ac cumulated energy should thus be worked off Oxen preferable to horses For plowing new ground oxen are prefer able to horses They are steadier and stionger Formerly in breaking new land it was a common occurrence to see several yoke of oxen attached to one strong plow and they did yoe man service Now in this age of hurry and rush the slow plodding ox has been forced to give way to the faster horse and when new ground is to be plowed unfortunately the ox is seldom at hand There are several patterns of plows made especially for new ground work These grub plows however while strong and handy are not essential Any standard plow with a good cutter properly and securely adjusted will do good work Cut roots that stop the plow When plowing new land always have a mat tock conveniently fastened to the plow handles and cut all roots that do not break When the plow becomes hung in roots it is better to cut it loose than to back and pull out The root that stops the plow will inter fere with cultivation and the same root unless severed will occasion this annoyance for several successive sea sons In plowing new land it is well to make haste slowly Leave no skips Turn a continuous furrow The time saved in cultivating the crop together with the increased harvest will more than pay for the pains taken The second season the plow furrows should be run at right angles to those of the first If these two plowings are thoroughly done the ground will be completely broken and subdued If the land is very stumpy it will be quite difficult to level down for plant ing purposes When the stumps are too thick for the old fashioned A har row to be used a heavy brush or culti vator run opposite to the way the land was plowed will answer fairly well When the land is not too stumpy or the stumps are cut very low the spring tooth harrow will do excellent work The teeth will bound over stumps and roots that are fast and comb out a great many that are loose or hroken If the roots are plen tiful and they usually are many of them will have to be removed With an improved adjustable spring tooth harrow many of the loose roots may be combed out and windrowed and then burned or hauled off In bringing new land under cultiva tion cultivate for several successive seasons or until all roots are thorough ly broken and all foul vegetation com pletely destroyed If cultivated for only one year and then seeded down or left idle any number of roots and small bushes will revive and start into renewed life Soy Beans Glycine hispida The name Soy bean is used more commonly than Soja bean although either is correct The Soy bean came originally from Japan in the early part of the last century but has received no particular attention in this coun try until within the past dozen years It has however a more extended reign in the northern states than the cow pea being a little more hardy and ripening its seeds in a shorter season The Soy bean grows in an upright branching stalk from one to three feet high The growth of leaves is quite luxuriant They are irreg ular in shape and drop off when the plants become ripe The numerous pods are flat brown and fuzzy con taining from two to four seeds The beans are flattened round about the shape though smaller than the navy bean and vary in color according to the variety There are a great many varieties of this plant from the dwarf which grows short stalks bearing great quantities of small seeds to the long branching sorts having a tenden cy to climb and which do not produce their seeds in northern latitudes The Soy bean will grow well on any of our Michigan soils although it responds to good soil moisture and favorable conditions for growth On light sandy soil it develops an immense growth of root tubercles and will make a growth far in advance of any non leguminous plant If given a good supply of moisture during the first six weeks of its growth it will withstand and continue to grow vigorously dur ing the severe summer drought It like the cow peas should be sown after the danger of spring frosts and will probably give the best returns when sown in drills with the seods dropped singly about three inches apart the rows being from two to two and a half feet apart Mr Edward E Evans of West Branch Mich who has been growing Soy beans for green manure forage and seed writes regarding their cul ture as follows On rich soils cow peas and true peas run to vines producing very lit tle seed On such soil the Soy pro duces a proportionately larger crop of both plant and seed In growing Soys the same general rules that ap ply to white field beans should be fol lowed It must be borne in mind however that Soys form their first pods about four or five inches from the point at which the seed was plant ed For this reason they should be covered only deep enough to Insure germination They can be planted with a corn or bean planter or grain drill Michigan Station The Growing of Sugar Beets The sugar beet is not very particu lar as to the soil in which it grows and has a wider range of service in this regard than have the grains The best soil is one that is rich and loamy but as a general thing any kind of soil that will produce grains will pro duce beets Soils that have in them so much alkali that they will not pro duce good crops of grain may yet pro duce good crops of beets Plowing may be done either spring or fall but the better plan is to plow in the fall On some of the lighter soils subsoiling to a depth of eighteen inches is practiced When the plow ing is done in the spring it should be just before planting that the soil may be fresh and moist for the re ception of the best seed Subsoiling is in vogue in some parts of the coun try but has not seemed to give very satisfactory results in others At the Colorado experiment station subsoil ing increased the yield eighteen per cent The time to plant is as early as the land can be well fitted and the dan ger of heavy frost is passed It is generally conceded that early planting gives the largest crops When the soil is in good condition the seed may be planted to a depth of from one inch to an inch and a half It is not advisable to plant any deeper than this If the soil is very wet the seed should he planted still nearer the sur face of the ground There are two ways of planting beets one in single rows and one in double rows The single rows should be about 18 to 20 inches apart Ii double rows are used the usual prac tice is to have the two rows of the double row about 11 or 12 inches apart and have the double rows them selves from two feet to 27 inches apart This is chiefly advantageous where the beets are to be irrigated One of the difficult things in beet growing is to get a good stand oi beets Experienced planters sow as high as eighteen and twenty pounds of beet seed to the acre though here and there good crops have been ob tained by sowing as low as five pounds of seed The larger quantity is however safest Beets are not permitted to dry oui after being dug as this decreases the amount of sugar in them Also beets should not be stored in a place where they can sprout as this process about ruins them for sugar making Quit Burning Straw The old wasteful habit of burning all the straw on the farm is still fol lowed on those farms that do not have a good deal of stock Even where il is possible to utilize the straw b hauling it to the barnyard it is still turned because the owner does not figure out that the fertility in the straw is worth hauling the straw tc the barnyard for He says that any way the ash is left and there is some fertility in that Taking all in all he is under the impression that he is get ting about as much out of his straw b burning it as in any other way un less he can sell it or feed it to stock But all investigations go to show that humus plays a much larger pari in the matter of soil value than we thought Every pound of straw should be brought back onto the land in some form A number of cattle wih trample up a good deal of it if it is thrown into the barnyard from time to time This would be especially the case with some barnyards we have seen and it would at the same time greatly improve the condition of the barnyards Got the straw and the manure mixed together in the shortest possible time When the straw is mixed with the ma nure it is surprising how quickly il will go to pieces One farmer has a barnyard that does not cover more than half an acre yet into that every year he puts the cornstalks from forty acres of land The stalks become quickly pulverized under the feet ol the farm animals and in the course ol months one fails to recognize in the manure any cornstalks Of course this means work but II means also the keeping up of the pro ducing capacity of the land It alsc means the keeping up of the ability of the land to resist drouth Get the straw into the manure and then gel the manure into the field as quickly as possible after it is fit to go there It is difficult to keep corn that is gathered before it is mature In at tempting to dry such corn in a warm place it frequently sprouts and unless the circulation of air is very good il quickly molds STOMACH 01 FIRE ONLY A SKELETON OROUOHIffG BY A STOVE EIrs IJohcrty lias an Extraordinary Ex perience and Underjroea uMarvclom Change Mrs E Doherty of No 115 Coatcs street Moberly Mo is today a picture of robust health and yet five years ago she barely escaped death from progressive emaciation To a reporter she told tho following story Inl89GI began to have distressing attacks of indigestion that continued for two years My stomach was coustautly sore and burned as if it was ou fire It became finally so delicate that it would not retain even plain water My inability to take food reduced my weight toninety eight pounds and faiutness and dizziness kept me iu bed most of the time I was really starving to death nnd besides I was extremely nervous The doctor was perplexed He gave me tonics which did me no good and prescribed exercise which I was too weak to attempt One day when I was so faint and chilled that I could do nothing but crouch down on the floor by the fire my father brought me a box of Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pule People I found on trial that they would stay on my stomach un like everything else I really felt better after three doses and I kept on using them Food began to taste well and to stay down The pain and the burning in the pit of my stomach lessened and at last went away altogether My weight began to increase until it reached 1G5 pounds and my neighbors who were convinced that I was wasting to death before were astonished at the change I resumed my housework and have hardly had occasion to call a doctor since I have recommended Dr Wil liams Pink Pills to severaLfriends and I say to the pale thin ones particularly If you want to get strong nnd well take DrWilliamsPiuk Pills for Pale People These pills cure stomach trouble by their tonic action building up the di gestive organs and enabling them to do the work that nature intended them to do They are sold by all dealers or will be sent postpaid on receipt of price fifty cents a box or six boxes for two dollars and a half by addressing Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady N Y A diet book giving useful information will be sent free on request A Country Breakfast Room A bright and cheery breakfast room in a country cottage has broad low windows of leaded glass pale amber and green The wall paper is a soft clear green which is cool and repose ful in effect and harmonious with the weathered oak furniture The frieze above the green paper has large pop pies in shades of deep tan with nat ural green foliage on a ground of the same tone as the paper Marriage a Matter of Business The average Japanese girl rarely knows that her hand has ever been sought until all the arrangements have been made btween her father and her suitor The latter however does not manage this in person but leaves all the arrangements to some trusty emissary generally an intimate friend Demand for Small Farms In England the best remedy for farm depopulation is held to be small farm holdings It is stated that when ever a large farm is divided into small holdings the demand for the land usu ally far exceeds the supply Women are fond of gold but not of golden silence Cured Her Rheumatism Deep Valley Pa Oct 31 Spe cial There is deep interest in Green county- over the cure of the little daughter of I N Whipkey of Rheu matism She was a great sufferer for five or six years and nothing seemed to do her any gcod till she tried Dodds Kidney Pills She began to improve almost at once and now she is cured and can run and play as other chil dren do Mr Whipkey says I am indeed thankful for what Dcdds Kidney Pills have done for my daughter they saved her from being a cripple perhaps for life Dodds Kidney Pills have proved that Rheumatism is one of the results of diseased Kidneys Rheumatism is caused by Uric Acid in the blood If the Kidneys are right there can be no Uric Acid in the blood and conse quently no Rheumatism Dodds Kid ney Pills make the Kidneys right False Windpipe for Heaves There is a cab horse which can be seen on one of the stands along Broadway which has breathed for years through a false windpipe The animal had the heaves and not only made as much noise as a locomotive but his speed was reduced nearly half because of this difficulty A veterina rian inserted a tube and the horse breathes as well as ever The only part of the apparatus which is visible is a small metal disk through which the air enters Our thoughts about others are of less importance than our thoughtful ness for others Condemn Army Step The congress of naturalists and physicians which recently met in Breslau strongly condemned the goose step as practiced in tho Ger man and some other armies Dr Thal witzer read a paper on the subject in which he showed that the adoption of this ridiculous step accounts for nu merous knee and foot complaints among the troops Sixty per cent of the sores on the feet of the men are in consequence of persistent adher ence to this antiquated step New Serial In McClures Ill the November McClures Stewart Edward White begins a new serial which reveals new power and breadth in hi3 uniformly splendid work Out northern forests of Tho of the great Blazed Trail and the snowy waste3 of The Silent Places he has moved his scene of action to the boundless plains and painted deserts of Arizona He sees and feels the beauty and the awe of the desert as he does of the forest and is able to make his reader share this insight and pleasure with him The story he tell3 here is the desert vivified flaming with its color poignant with the sense of Its Immen sity In this strange weird and stu pendous setting he lays his plot and imr0no n toi Mmnl1 and deer It i5 the story of the coming together of tne Big Man ot tue wilderness and the Little Woman of the Town how the desert picturesque and romantic to him terrible and repellent to her affects their lives and fate Bowdoinham Eels Mulberry Patriage that veteran all round fisherman of Bowdoinham has commenced his usual shipment of eels to the New York markets A great delicacy eels command a high price in the cities Fine grained as smelts they are far superior to mackeral said a Bowdoinham eplcture concern ing this famous dish Fried brown with plenty of salt pork they are food fit for the gods Lewiston Me Journal Literary Note There are four up-to-date articles in the September Success that should at tract considerable attention through out the country They indicate the growing interest among magazine readers for authoritative matter about the great men and the great questions of the day In this liie of work Suc cess is rapidly taking a front place among the monthlies The first is an article by Judge Al ton Brooks Parker entitled Edu cated Men In Politics The whole country has been waiting to hear Judge Parker say something and in Success he has given his views on a matter of very great importance He holds that the men who take only a general interest in politics are respon sible for the condition that brings dis grace to the country and rounds them up sharply for their timidity She was a very new widow and on the way back from her husbands fu neral she called with a few sympa thetic friends at a house of refresh ment Gin was fixed upon as a bever age suitable to the occasion Any wa ter with yours Em inquired one of the ladies of the bereaved as she held out the jug Water shrieked the lonely one Water Lor lumme Aint I got trouble enough as it is i Mr Howells in England The first fruit of Mr Howells visit to England where he still is is a charming and buoyant article entitled In Folkestone Out of Season which opens the November number of Har pers Magazine Appreciative as Mr Howells is of the beauties of the place he intimates that the ville performance in the pavilion on the pier is somewhat mild that the Folkestone ice cream was a sort of sweetened and extract flavored snow which was hardly colder than the air outside but that the tea and bread and butter which appeared with magi cal promptness upon his arrival were beyond reproach Caesars Camp the Holy Well where the Canterbury pil grims drank and other historic site3 Mr Howells describes with his custo mary skill Thorverton church Devon England was recently used as storehouse for whisky which had been taken from the village inn during a fire In the November Century The first public entertainment ever given by Japanese women for charity was a recent garden party with tableaux given at the Naval club Tokio by graduates of the Peeresses School Authority on Japan says that it is impossible for the Western mind to conceive how great a revolution is marked by this event The voluntary renouncement by the Japanese nobles of their fiefs in 1868 was hardly more remarkable It means a tremendous change in the life of Japanese women The November Century will have re productions from photographs of these interesting and unique tableaux which pictured famous female character in the history of ancient medieval and eighteenth century Japan Mr Chatsworth Did you enjoy tin matinee dear Mrs Chatsworth Oh very much I sat next to Mrs Gaddie whom I have not seen for years and we did have a nico long chat Phila delphia Ledger Every housekeeper snould Know hj Jf that if they will buy Defiance Cold Y Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time because il never sticks to the iron but becauBQ each package contains 16 oz one full pound while all other Cold Watei Starches aro put up In -pound pack ages and the price is the same l cents Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chem Icals If your grocer tries to sell yon a 12 os package it is because he haj a stock on hand which he wishes te dispose of before ho puts in Defiance He knows that Defiance Starch hai printed on every package In large let ters and figures 16 ozs Demand DeHanco and save much time an money and tho annoyance of the iroi sticking Defiance never sticks c J fj fV U fl r J H t v