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Trouble in Our Midst
Not since we eat a lot of moth balls
Cor peppermint lozengers have we
made sich a mistake as we done
wheu we were lo Memphis the other
day Wa drunk a small bottle of
Tsrklers Anti skeptic thinking it was
rream de mint We are now under
treatment for a restoration of our
thirst Ilardraan Tenn Free Press
Indian Girls Marry Young
The custom of manying girls when
thpy are mere children of nine or ten
yars is increasing rather than de
rnasin in Bengal aud other parts oC
tuiia The resulting racial degenera
tion is becoming so obvious that laws
have been passed in several regions
forbidding the marriage of girls under
fourteen
Japanese Dressing for Wounds
At a cost of 25 cents Japanese doc
tors can dress the wounds of 500
cq ii They use a finely powered char
coal obtained by the slow combustion
of 3traw in closed furnaces Sachets
filled with it are applied to the
wounds and its antiseptic and absor
bent qualities generally effect a rapid
cure
Better Than Oil for Roads
A writer in an English automobile
piper claims that roads could be kept
permanently damp by the application
of strong solutions of calcium chlor
ide or magnesium chloride and that
this would be cheaper than oils and
without their objectionable odors
Bees Love Bright Colors
The bee is an artistic upholstprer
Ct lines its nest with the leaves of
flowers always choosing such as have
bright colors They are invariably rut
in circles so exact that no compass
would make them more true
Tribute to Her Vanity
After a woman reaches a certain
age she may regard it as a compli
ment for a man to attempt to flirt
with her even if she does not wish to
engage in the game Atchison Globe
Latest Fad in Furnishing
Tho very latest thing in furnishing
In to have the walls of rooms cover
ed with n coarse dead black canvas
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English Was Good Enough
An English tourist was being driv
en on a jaunting car through the Don
egal highlands and after a time the
results of his observation came to the
surface in the following query
Driver I notice that when you speak
to your friends whom you meet on the
road you invariably do so in Irish
but when you address your horse you
do so in English How is this To
which came the retort Alusha now
thin Isnt English good enough for
him The Spectator
Uncle Eben
Some men gets a heap o educa
tion said Uncle Eben de same as
some people get a fine collection o
bait wifout catchin any fish Wash
ington Star
Glass Bricks for Building
Glass houses of a- very substantial
kind can be built now Silesian glass
makers are turning out glass bricks
for all sorts of building purposes
Her Time Will Come
Young man beware of the girl who
lets you do all the talking during
courtship shes playing a waiting
game Chicago News
Boatswain Buried Captain
Quite recently the boatswain of a
British buried the captain
at sea reading the burial service bim
self
Chinese Outside the Empire
The number of Chinese outside of
China is estimated at over 7040000
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 tho hot burning
and itching sensation in my feet which was
almost unbearable and would not be with
out it now Mrs W 1 Walker Caindea
W J Sold by all Druggists Joe
Before marriage a man swear to
love after marriage he loves to
swear
Openings sometimes come to men
and oysteis when least expected
Men are like chickens they always
want to get on the highest roost
Prosperity in Small Farms
We have become quite familiar
with the term agricultural depres
sion in England It has been a com
mon text for writers and speakers on
both sides of the water The ques
tion has been why should an agricul
tural depression exist in England
when it did not exist in France and
other Europan countries Along with
agricultural depression has come ag
ricultural depopulation the people in
the rural districts finding it impos
sible to make a good living have
moved to the cities and there de
pended on days work to give thera
enough to subsist on Mr Joseph G
Stephens United States consul at
Plymouth England reports to the
United States government that small
farm holdings are now considered the
best remedy for agricultural depopu
lation Many papers still argue how
ever that it is a delusion and will
not work in practice Where it has
been tried it has been successful and
it is strange that so few estates
should he cut up When a large farm
is divided into small holdings the de
mand for the land usually far exceeds
the supply This has been the experi
ence in Dorset Wilts Suffolk Norfolk
Lincoln and Surrey counties Men
are willing to remain in the country
if they have the satisfaction of work
ing on land which is their own oi
ls held on a secure tenure Tliis is
at present far from the case and thou
sands of acres go out of cultivation
and multitudes hurry off to foreign
ands to obtain the opportunity denied
them in their own
The small farm is everywhere the
salvation of the country where the
agricultural conditions are such as
to make the small farm possible On
great areas of poor land or on rich
lands that have a very insignificant
rainfall of course extensiVe opera
tions have to be carried on But most
of the land in countries with rich
ooil and abundant rainfall is of a
character that makes the small farm
easily possible Americans should
ake a lesson from England and
ohould do all in their power to encour
age the breaKing up of large farms
The man that adds farm to farm for
his own glory and that he may dwell
alone in the midst of the land is not
i public benefactor
Our land is never intensively farmed
under extensive operations The man
with tens of thousands of acres de
fends on doing work on an immense
and almost always the ground is
ot made to yield the returns it
hould No man will work as hard fyrr
mother as he will work for himself
and when the laud is filled with men
Aorking for themselves the land
jrings forth larger crops than it does
t any other time
The more small farms there are the
more independent farmers we will
nave and the more they will be in
erested in the -welfare of the rural
nhabitants Big farms employ hired
nen and these never feel themselves
o be fixtures even if they are re
gained on the same farm for many
years Their independence of action
is destroyed They cannot take hold
of public affairs as they would do if
they owned their own farms and were
not under the dictation of other men
When Banks Cavs In
A Inrge number of farmers have
trouble with the parts of their farms
hat border on rivers Whenever there
ire heavy rains the banks along the
ivers and large streams cave in and
on some farms the area of the most
valuable fields is being constantly re
stricted by this process JTke schemes
tried for preventing this are numer
ous and quite cenerally unsuccessful
Where stones are thrown in they soon
disappear in the mud if it is of the
nature of soft clay Grass seed sown
on the sleep banks fails to take root
If it be quack grass it may gain a
oothold but it thence spreads over
the farm and becomes a nuisance
Brush when thrown in may iheck the
washing away if there be enough of it
but it is difficult to haul in a sufficient
quantity to be effective
Growing willows seems to be the
most effective method of checking the
wasting of the land No matter how
steep the land me willow can be
made to grow The mere sLcking in
of the willow twigs is not enough
They may be swamped in the mud
that falls from the disintegrating
bank The willow rods must be long
enough and numerous enough to be
made into a sort of great shield by
the use of barbed wire
The willow is admirably adapted lo
this work as it so readily reproduces
itself by means of cuttings sprouts
and suckers as well as seeds Where
the bank is steep willow poles should
be cut not less than twenty feet in
length These can he laid up and
down the bank and fence wire stapled
to them If neressary some wire may
be run up over the top of the bank
and fastened to stakes driven in -he
ground back too far to be affected by
the cave ins If there are any further
breakings away of the earth thev will
bat make soil about the joints of the
willows and will become rooting
places for the new growths The wil
low poles will be held together by the
wire till the willow trees have become
ell started when tney will be no
longer needed
The rows of willows are far more
sightly than are the ragged banks
Besides in a dozen years or so the
wood from these growths will have
become -valuable
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Starting the Cherry Orchard
Mr A D Earnes in an address
said Do not make the mistake oi
having cherry trees grow from sprouts
on their own roots Often the Morello
sprouts so that the grower will give
them away for the digging Better
pay a fair price and get good stock
I find that cherries will bear more
fruit if planted close in quite a large
patch or plantation I believe there
is as much profit and pleasure in
cherries as there is in any fruit that
can be grown I have trees planted
fifteen years and at least ninety per
cent are still there in good condition
and that speaks well for the cherry
I would by all means plant the cherry
very early in the spring it is even
well to prepare the holes in the fall
so as to get them in early I believe
in planting quite a quantity of them
so one will fertilize the other While
I think they are all stamlnate blos
soms I think they will yield a better
crop if planted in that way and it is
also a protection against storms and
you will not feed so many to the birds
if you have two hundred trees instead
of one hundred If you plant a good
many trees you will have enough
cherries for yourself and some lor
the boys
Pick Off the Bag Worms
The trees are beginning to get bare
and it will soon be easy to pick off
the bag worms The cocoons will be
found on many kinds of fruit and
shade trees They vary in length
from one to two inches and are sus
pended by one corner to the smaller
branches of the trees Each of the
larger cocoons contains during the
winter a large number of eggs If
these cocoons remain on the trees
till spring a multitude of worms will
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hatch out and at once proceed to
strip the trees of their leaves To
kill them at that time is very difficult
as they are scattered in their work
of denuding the trees The cocoons
taken from the trees should not be
thrown on the ground They should
be burned or in some other way en
tirely destroyed If there are cedar
trees in the neighborhood they should
be also searched for the bag worms
Thp cflfinr n favorite tree with
tnese msecrs ami sometimes tney mul
tiply greatly in trees of this kind
before they are discovered
Root Rot of Apple Trees
In some of the Western states root
rot is becoming a great source of an
noyance to the orchardists It is found
auite generally in orchards over five
years of age and even in some
younger ones The disease is how
ever of more frequent occurrence in
new land than in old The disease is
most to he met with on poorly drained
land though it is found more or less
on any hind of land The disease is
not a product of the apple orchards
but exists in our native forests
Thence it spreads to the apple
orchards This is a very important
reason for not setting apple orchards
on recently cleared land That the
disease is highly contagious is shown
by the fact that it will attack an
apple tree and spread from it in all
directions killing every tree it
touches The best remedy is to re
move and burn infected trees not put
ting other trees where the old ones
have been It takes at least three
years lor the disease germs to die out
New Diseases Develop
We have a development among
fruits and vegetables and we regard
as quite remarkable the changes we
are able to make in certain things
That there is a development in the
character and form of the fungi that
form the bases of our diseases seems
quite certain This is a point we have
not generally considered and seem un
alle to guard against There qre
numerous fungi that are known to be
harmless Last year a form of fungus
caused rot among apples in Western
New Yorlc This fungus had always
been considered harmless A report
was made to the experiment stations
on the disastrous effect of this fun
gous disease Whether it will spread
to other parts of the country we can
not be sure At present the danger
of this does not seem to be great
Clean op the Melon Field
Where melon fields have been at
tacked by melon lice or other insects
all the -vines and rubbish in the field
should be burned this fall A thor
ough cleaning up is imperative This
should include the cutting and burn
ing of any weeds that may bt found
about the place We can do a great
deal to prevent such attacks by des
troying the harboring places of the
insects
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Portable Poultry Houses
At the Illinois State Fair there was
one exhibit that was very suggestive
It was of a portable poultry house
large enough to bo used for camping
out in If its uz2 for a poultry house
should be at any time discontinued
Adjustable and portable poultry
houses have long been advertised by
English agricultural papers and it
has been a wonder why the industry
did not manifest itself on this side of
the water Any man can make an
adjustable poultry house of his own
It is only necessary that each part he
complete by itself and that it be per
fectly fitted to the adjoining parts
The fault with some such construc
tions is that they are rickety This is
a fault that can be easily cured The
joints should be perfect and the parts
should overlap enough to prevent
drafts in winter time We can con
ceive of a portable house being so
badly made that the poultry would be
exposed to dratts constantly through
out the winter
The advantages of portable poultry
houses are many especially for ten
ants There are many people that
wish to keep poultry hut they do net
care to construct a poultry house to
be lift on the place when they move
The portable poultry house can be
quickiy taken to pieces and it makes
the least possible bulk when placed on
a wagon Whoever builds such a
house should make himself patterns
beforehand that he may avoid mis
takes in the construction
Improving the Breeds
The breeds that now exist must
be improved largely by the common
farmer if they are to be improved at
all They are now out of the hands
of the fanciers and they can therefore
receive no more development from
them except so far as the fanciers
can induce the general public to pur
chase the high quality birds they are
producing for breeders Every breed
was brought to its present perfection
by selection and this process should
be kept up that the breeds may not
deteriorate but may continue to im
prove There is room for improve
ment in every breed If left to them
selves all breeds tend to deteriorate
because inferior birds are being con
stantly produced and if used as
breeders they will help the work of
reversion It must be remembered
that all that is good in the breeds is
artificial It would take a long time
for some of our breeds to go back to
the primeval form if they were left
alone and kept pure but it would
take less time if they were allowed
to mingle freely with all other kinds
of poultry In the barnyards of most
of our farmers there is little effort
made to keep the fowls from mixing
The result is that from year to year
the standard becomes less reliable
and the type more and more indistinct
When a farmer has pure bred birds
he should keep them pure and select
from them- every year the birds that
are nearest the required type
Eggs in Winter
Some writer has said that if eggs
could always be produced as abund
antly in winter as in summer poultry
would always be profitable It is hard
to agree with the statement If eggs
were naturally as abundant in win
ter as in summer there would be no
reason for high prices in winter The
reason why eggs are high is because
they are scarce But for the good
of the poultry industry and of the gen
eral public eggs should be produced
about equally in all the months of the
year The average price might be a
little higher but the buyer would have
a compensation in the fact that his
eggs would always be fresh Doubt
less the time will come when fowls
will produce eggs abundantly in the
winter but it will be after a multitude
of men learn how to take care of
fowls properly As it is fowls are so
generally neglected that Nature takes
her course Most fowls no matter
how neglected will produce eggs in
the summer time but cannot be de
pended on to do the same in the win
ter time This proves that it is a
matter of care only and management
For the present the man or woman
that will so care for their poultry and
so manage them that the hulk of the
eggs will be produced during the time
when eggs are high in price will be
making a large profit for themselves
Stock Judging at Ames
The Iowa Agricultural College will
have another two weeks judging
course this winter It will begin on
January 2 and continue till January
14 This course is intended for the
farmer and his son and all who are
interested in the breeding feeding
and management of improved horses
cattle sheep and swine Three days
will be devoted to each class of stock
There will be two classes one for be
ginners in which will be studied the
different market classes and grades
and another for those who have at
tended a previous course in which
will be taken up the characteristics
of the pure breeds of our domestic
animals On Wednesday January li
in connection with this work there
will be a block demonstration in
which beef animals of different types
will be judged on foot slaughtered
and then cut up to show the different J
market cuts and the value of the
same to the producer and the con
sumer The classes in this course
will alternate with those in corn and
grain judging so that all students
may take all the work in botl
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TERRBLLSUFFERING
THIS YOUNG WOMAU APPEALED ET
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When ITopo had Almost Settled Into Utter
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Unexxectcd Source
Mrs Emma Heidobreder of No 1323
Joy street Burlingtou Iowawhose hus
band is an employee of the Band Lumber
Co tells a story of pitiable suffering
For about live years she says I
had a host of physical ills that kopfcmo ail
invalid and puzzled tho doctors Some
of them thought I was going into con
sumption At times I was so weak that
I could not comb my hair or even wash
my face Then excruciating pains ran
suddenly up my thigh and I hud to be
carried to bed screaming in my agony
I could no longer do my work aud the
drain upou my husbands purse waa
very heavy I craved food but what I
ato only gave me discomfort My liver
was torpid aud of con I had to bo carried
to tho door for air to save me from suf
focating
The worst was the pain which seemed
as if my thigh were being pushed out of
my body The host doctors could do was
to deaden it by narcotics Onco they
thought I could not live for more than
two days In one of my worst attacks
a friend said Why dont you try Dr
Williams Pink Pills They nro the
only thing that ever helped my rheuma
tism
I took his advice After using one
box I felt better nud I continued to use
the pills for three or four months with
steady improvement until I was well
For four years I have been able to do all
my household work and no longer have
to take medicine for any serions trouble
I gave one box of Dr Williams Pink
Pills to a man on cratches because of
rheumatism and advised my market
woman to buy a box when she was com
plaining of the same tiouble I heard that
he was soon able to throw his crutchei
away and the told me she had got rid of
the rheumatism by tho use of one box
and could not thank mo too much
Testimony multiplies as to the mag
nificent curative powers of Dr Williams
Pink Pills for Palo People in cases of
rheumatism neuralgia nervous head
ache palpitation of tho heart and all
forms of weakness in either male or
feinnle They are sold by all druggista
tluougbout the world
Small Farms in Japan
Only 14995272 acres or 157 per
cent of the whole area of Japan ex
lusive of Formosa consists of arable
land and 55 per cent of the agricul
tural families cultivate less than two
acres each 30 per cent cultivate two
acres or more up to one and one half
cho or a little less than three and
three quarter acres leaving 15 per
cent of the farmers who cultivate
farms of three and three quarter acres
or more London Engineer
Between Wind and Water
Not only will all the inhabitants of
Chicago be crazy in 70 years but in
somewhat more than 3000 years ac
cording to a geological expert the
3ite of the present western -metropolis
will be covered with water Let the
Windy City begin now to prepare for
its watery grave Boston Transcript
Gorgeous Tibebtan Pheasants
Two of the most prized denizens of
our aviares comes from Tibet These
are the gorgeous golden and Amherst
pheasants The latter it is suggested
could profitably be introduced into
our coverts
An Honest Opinion
Mineral Idaho Nov 14th Spe
cial That a sure cure has been
discovered for those sciatic pains that
make sc many lives miserable is the
firm opinion of Mr D S Colson a
well known resident of this place
and he does not hesitate to say that
cure is Dodds Kidney Pills The
reason Mr Colson is so firm in hi3
opinion is that he had those terrible
pains and is cured Speaking of the
matter he says
I am only too happy to say Dodds
Kidney Pills have done me lots of
good I had awful pains in my hip
so I could hardly walk Dodds Kid
ney Pills stopped it entirely 1 think
they are a grand medicine
All sciatic and Rheumatic pains are
caused by Uric Acid in the blood
Dodds Kidney Pills make healthy
Kidneys and healthy Kidneys strain
all the Uric Acid out of the blood
With the cause removed there can be
no Rheumatism or Sciatica
Since the discovery of America tho
amount of gold produced in the world
has been less than eleven billion dol
lars
Mother Crays Sweet Dowders for Children
Successfully used by Mother Gray nursa
in tho Childrens Home in New York cure
Constipation Feverishness Bad Stomach
Teething Disorders move and regulate tha
Bowels and Destroy Worms Over 80000 te
tunomals At all Drugsists 25c SampU
FREE Address A SOlmsted LeRoyN Y
Football to Harden Soldiers
All the soldiers in the army of Ar
gentina are forced to play football It
is said to train thera to bear the hard
ships of battle
Dealers say that as soon as a cus
tomer tries Detlance Starch It is im
possible to sell them any olher cold
water starch It can be used cold ot
boiled
Many a man thinks he Is getting a
corner lot in glory when he puts a
dime in the collection that he couldnt
pass on the street car Chicago Tri
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Some men have a delicate sense o4
humor and the humor of othera If
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