Sn ; ? r n IMwlnrertnnt.
In many purls of Knrope It is
foinnry ntnon tin * people , ospeci
the poorer classes , * to burn sugar
sick rooms as a means of purifying
air. Physicians , however , have 1
that this \vu < 5 simply an Innocent
perslitlou , declaring that It was ncil
beneficial or harmful.
Prof. Trllbcrt of the Pasteur IT
tute at Paris , however , 'ins rece ;
demonstrated that burning sugar
velops formic acotylone-hydrogen ,
of the most powerful antiseptic g :
kuovv i to medical sclencp. In his
periment seventy-seven grains of su
\vero burned under a glass bell of
quarts capacity. After the vapor
cooled bacilli of typhus. U'bercuk
cholera , smallpox , etc. . were placet
the bell in open glass tubes , and Avil
half an hour all the microbes v
dead.
If sugar is burned in a closed ve
containing jmtrifiwl meat , or the <
tents of rotten e gs. the offensive c
disappears at one1.
Hi * Crude liluit.
Foreigner Why do you call it a '
mary" flection ?
Native We call it tl.at , mister , '
that's the way we get primed fur a
election.
During Change of Life ,
says Mrs. Chas. Barcla
Graniteville , Yt. "I was pass
through the Change of Life andsuffe
from nervousr
and other annoy
symptoms , anc
can truly say t
I LydiaE.Pinkha ;
Vegetable C <
pound has pro-
worth rnounta
of gold to me , a
restored my hea
and strength ,
never forget to 1
my friends wl
LydiaE.Knkhai
regetable Compound has done for
Juring this trying period. Compl
restoration to health moans so mite
to mo that for the sake of other sufl
ing women I am milling to make
trouble public so you may ptibl
this letter. " MRS. CIIAS. 13-AJRCH ;
H.P.D.Graniteville , Yt.
aSTo other medicine for woman's :
has received such wide-spread and i
ciualified endorsement. N"o other m
icine.we know of has such a rec (
of cures of female ills as has Lydia
Pinkham's Yegetable Compound.
For more than 30 years it has be
curing female complaints such
inflammation , ulceration , local we :
nesses , fibroid tumors , irregulariti
periodic pains , backache , indigesti
and nervoiis prostration , and it
unequalled for carrying women safi
through the period of change of li
It costs but little to try Lydia
Pinkham's Yegetable Compound , ai
asMrs.BarcUysays.it is "worth moi
tains of gold " to suffering women.
WESTESW
THE PENNSNT WINME
66 Tfee
West ,
The Government of Canada now jri ves to ei
Actual Settler 16O acres ol wheat-grow
land free and an additional ,1W > acres at $
an acre.
The 300,003 contented American Sett
jnakinirtheir homes in Western Canada is
best evidence of the superiority ol that coun
They arc becoming rich , crrowinsr from 25 t
bushels wheat to the a ere ; CO to 110 bushels c
and 45 to CO bushels barley , besides havinjr sp
did herds of cattle raised on the prairia er
Dairying1 is an important industry.
The crop of 1903 still keeps Western Canad
the lead. The world will soon look to it as
tood-producer.
" The thinsr which mo t impressed us
was the magnitude of the country that is
available for agricultural purposes. "
National Editorial Correspondence , 1908.
Low Railway Rates treed schools and churcl
narkets convenient , Prices the Highest , dim
perfect. "
Lands are for sale by Railway and Land C
panics. Descriptive pamphlctsan 1 maps sent f
For Rail w ay Rates and other information appl ;
\V. D. Scott , Superintendent of Immigrati
Ottawa , Canada , or E. T. Holmes , 315 Jack
St. , St. Paul , Minn , and J. M. MacLacFilau , I
116Vaterton , bo. Dakota Authorized Gou
tncnt .Agents.
Please say wliera you saw this advertisement.
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It is an absolut
guarantee of pur
ity and quality
For your owi
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CASCARETS IDC a box for a week' *
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Give the breeding mare exei
tvery day.
Alfalfa or clover hay is good for
brood sow. Give her all she will
up clean.
liens do not like to scratch in
that everything is
Jitter. See
as a bone and snug as you
make it.
Fairly good work may be done i
poor tolls , but how much easier
better work could be done with j
tools. The best are none too good
the farm.
Many a horse has been permane
Injured by slipping on the frozen i
because smooth shod. See that
shoes are changed to correspond
the season.
Men will have to do some thinl
on the quack-grass problem this con
season In some parts of the coun
With strong measures it can be e
Inated from the soil. Quack metl
are useless.
Foot-rot in cattle should be tres
with water three parts and sulph
acid one part , after the affected ]
lias been thoroughly cleansed , 01
should be smeared -with pine tar
i bandage tied between the claws
about the pastern to keep out the d
Have a manure shed -where you
Iceep the manure spreader stand
Bare it handy to the barn so that
manure can be clumped into the spri
2r when the barn is cleaned
morning. Then when the wagon is
haul to the field and put on the 1
it once.
The up-to-date man whether far
or merchant Is generally well paid ,
case comes to notice where a fan
by extensively advertising his f :
sale , brought out the community
and near , and realized large net reti
*
for his progressiveness. He who
use talk skillfully in his business
a. great advantage.
Make the farm and the home so
: hing besides just a place for worl
rou would tie the boys and the
to it. The farmer who thinks (
) f the work he Is going to get oul
iis children and who thinks more
the farm and the stock than he c
3f his boys and girls need not be i
? rlsed that they are anxious to br
iway from the farm when they
) ld enough to choose for themselves
Every man ought to be kind to di
inimals without having his atteni
jailed to it. A farmer in an adjoir
Bounty kicked at a neighbor's dog
morning when the ground was soft
iis boots loaded with nice , rich c
He missed the dog and the gi
cveight on his boot resulted in carr3
lilm over a fence into an old cist
that had been left open. The mora
this tale is to be kind to all anlm
Here's a hard one : An automo
Tightened a jack rabbit ; the rabbii
jetting through a woven wire fe
scared a flock of sheep : the sheep t
; o their heels and caused a team to
iway ; the team went crashing int
"acmyard gate just at milking time
wautiful girl had just finished mill ;
jight cow3 ; the herd stampeded and
> ut one pail of milk was upset ;
) ld Brindle even stepped in that <
: hough it wasn't overturned. Now j
s to blame for the loss of all t
nilk ?
Carefully conducted experimc
show that the manure produced
thousand pounds of live weight of
following classes of farm animals
ralued at from $23 to $60 per head
rear. The valuations given are as
, ows : For cows , $29 ; horses , §
sheep , $20 ; calves , $24 ; pigs , $ GO. 1
raluation takes into consideration c
the actual amounts of nitrogen , pi
ohorus and potassium contained In
manure from these animals , valued
iccordance'with the present prices
: hese constituents in the form of c <
nercial manures or fertilizers. It d
lot take into consideration the va
) f the manure as a human builder i
: o its large organic matter cent <
From this it should be plain to any
: hat the economical handling of fc
nanure is one of the very import
'actors in maintaining the fertility
) ur soils.
Ingenious ESJ ? Tester.
An ingenious instrument has been
ented for testing the relative fre
tess of eggs , says the London Glc
't is well known that when a fr
'gg ' is placed in water it sinks , wl
L stale one floats , but the new inst
nent registers accurately degrees
reshness. By means of it eggs n
ie classified with precision into n <
aid , fresh , cooking , etc. The appa
us consists of an aluminum air chs
> er with a graduated stem above. ;
DW are spring wire loops to hold i
gg. When the egg is fixed in this a
ilaced In the water Its quality can
read off on the graduated stem. 1
sinks down to the Mark XX the
is new laid ; 0 niaans still quite fi
while 4 marks the limit of the In-
fast ejr . The mark S means still j
for cooking , while 12 is bad. It w <
be well if dealers in uew-lsiid eggs \
required fo have this apparatus
to satisfy their customers by oc
demonstration that they are XX.
TIse lo\\er of Hoots.
The tremendous power of a pus ;
root is a subject for marvel. It
lift tons by the swelling of its slei
trunk or rend rocks with the po
of dynamite , but silently anil invisi
The pertinacity and force of plant
occasionally shown in the great ci
in this wise : Some old residences 1
viues many years old climbing up t
weather-beaten brown fronts. T
roots are deep in the tiny front g.'u
plot , and their tendrils were at
trained up slender cords to the
balconies on the first floor. Tl
slender green things twined in and
of the iron railing of the balcony
little serpents till they reached
vertical wall , wr > h , nothing daun
they began to climb.
Little by little the tender green st
hard woody tissues wl
to
< * kmged ,
swelled into flat plaits to accommoc
itself to the bars of the iron rai
through which it had woven itself ,
the accommodation was only fen
for , swelling steadily , the vine tru
appear to-day to have become as If
as a man's arm , and the iron r
which were its earliest support 1
been broken in twain by their ungr
ful dependents.
Another singular example of the
tinacity of the roots is the followi
A drain pipe seemed to be choked ,
vestigation showed that a thread-
shoot of a tree had penetrated om
the minute pores of the city pipe ; c
inside the drain the tendril found s
luxurious nourishment that it grew
divided into branches , which wo
themselves in coil on coil , until fin
passage in the drain was comple
choked up. It is said that bucket
of tangled filaments were taken
which measured only e
of this pipe ,
inches in diameter , while the ski
originated in a single threadlike
ment , back through which coursed
abundant nourishment to push on
growth of the maple tree above grot
Draft Horses.
The draft horse is getting bigger
bigger. lu the late 'SO's if one weig
over 1GOO pounds and came fj
Prance , it was an event and the h (
papers talked about him , with pictu
To-day the draft importer will to
nothing under l.SOO pounds and 3-yi
old colts often run up to a ton.
The favorite draft breed in Amei
six to one is the Percheron
France. It comes from Le Pen
southwest of Paris , and nowhere c
The horse breeders in that district h
banded themselves into a guild
union , anddecreed that no horse fi
outside the borders of their dist
? an ever be recorded as a Percheroi
the studbook of the breed. A colt t
DC ! just across the line out of a in
ind by a sire correctly registered c
tiot himself be registered.
The foundation blood of the Pen
L-on is , or is said to be , Arab. '
OYenchman will tell you that a Pen
con is an Arab made heavy by
Miniate. But whether Arabian exti
tion or not , it is sure that the br
las been made heavy by the climate
iiuman selection during the past 1
: entury.
When George Sand was writing
Percheron was famous as a road he
a traveler , a ground coverer. 1
leroes used to drive hither and thit
jehind four splendid distance eat
Percherons. No modern Frenchn
> vould dream of driving up to his
ictte's door behind four Percherom
The Perche peasants , within the 11
: ations of their material , most w
lerfully fashion into being their equ
maginings. It is much easier and s
) ler to carve a horse of the shape :
vant on the Parthenon frieze than
n a Lucerne pasture in the Euro
Doir district. Dazed by their artist
: ho French minister of agrcult
gravely reports , "These men of
? erche are incredible. Command fr
hem a horse , they will build you <
: o your specifications. "
From the current report of
Trench horse breeding bureau is lea
; d that during the fiscal year 161-
nares were bred to stallions belong
: o the state , 1,207 to approved si
ions , 9,4G7 to authorized stallio
Clris Is bureaucratic , isn't it , that
: ountry should be able to report
hing like that ? And in the archi
> f the French government Is the na
nd description of each mare in Fran
ogether with date about the horse w
vhich she was bred.
The French never dream of breed !
o stallions of mixed or unkno
lood. But the American farmer
red his mare to a Percheron for
leavy colt usually changes his mine
ouple ot years later , puts what he i
rom the first cross to a coach hoer
or styltt , this proeluct to a trotter :
peed , and the grand result to a Jc
r mule. As a horse breeder he lo <
at the outside of the sire ( a
pparently not so careful at that ) , a
ares little what kind of blood la n
ing Inside.
THE CPcACKIITU OF PAINT.
Properly OTJUTS Can Snvu
Learning tbe Cmine.
Do you know v.hat Is wrong v
paint peels , or cracks , or other
necessitates premature reiinting ; :
Well , .sometimes it hasn't been j :
erly applied 'the surface being d
or there being too much turpentln
too much drier. '
But. nine times out of ten. the t
blc is caused by adulterated white 1
To avoid all such trouble , e
houseowner should know in a gen
way , when a surface is in proper
ilition to receive paint , what kinc
primer and finishing coats different
faces require , and how to avoid : i
teration in materials.
A complete painting guide , inrltu
EI book of color schemes , specificat
for all kinds of painting worn , am
instrument for detecting adultera
in painting materials , with direct
for using it , can be had free by v
ing National Lead Company , 11 > 02 ' 1
ity Bid ; : . . New York , and asking
Ilouseowner's Painting Outfit No. 4
This company , the largest maker
pure white lead , invite tests , by UK
of the blowpipe ( included hi outer
or in any other way. of the purit ;
the white lead sold' under their fan
"Dutch Boy Painter' ' trademark. 'J
trademark on a keg of white lea <
in itself an absolute guarantee of
! ty and quality.
AVlmt Conld She Do ?
The Young Man I wish to th
you , sir , for giving me your assist ?
in persuading your daughter to mi
me.
me.The Old Man Sir , I was vlole
opposed to the match.
The Young Man I kuow it 1
land Leader.
$ ! 00 Reward , $100.
The readers of this paper will be pie
to learn that there is at least one dre
disease that science has heen able to
In all Its stages , and 'that Is Catarrh , n
Catarrh Cure Is the only positive cure
known to the medical frateinlty. Cat
being a constitutional disease , requln
constitutional treatment. Hall's Cat
Cure is taken internally , acting din
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of
system , thereby destroying the foundatlo
the diseased and giving the patient strei
by building up the constitution and as
Ing nature in doing its work. The pro ;
tors have so much faith in its curative ]
ers that they offer One Hundred Dollar ?
any case that it falls to cure. Send for
of testimonials.
Address F. J. CHENEY & CO. , Toledt
Sold by all Drugsibts , 73c.
Take Hall's Family Pl'ls for constipa
i tie iin-t.
The p r.-tmg Reporter I sup
it's hard to get the descriptions of
emeu's gows correct ?
Tl\2 Society Htj orter No ; the b
os * . thins : is to write the descript
so that every person ' - ! ! 1 consider
self tluto t ' "i'T -1 woman preser
Don't e Misled.
Many a life has been cut short b
x > ugh that was not believed to be
ious. Many a backache and sidea
'ollows a coughing spell. Many a ni
s * passed in restlessness caused
roughing. Many a cough "cure" t
icver cures is tried. Do not be mis
If you cough , take the old relir
vemp's Balsam , the best cough ci
U druggists' and dealers' , 23c.
Ijr Hie dive ti Gloom.
Correspondent Do you know , S <
or. that the crack in the liberty bell
; itended several inches lately ?
Pessimistic Statesman No , I ha
leard that. But I know there's a ' .
n the constitution bis enough to d
in elephant through. Chicago Tribun
fn n rincli , Use Allen's Foof-Ei
i. powder to shake into your shoes. It r
he feet Cures Corns , Bunions , Swo
ore , Hot , Callous , Aching , Sweating
nd Ingrowing Nails. Allen's Foot-I
aakes new or tight shoes easy. Sold by
Iruggists ai < l Shoe Stoics , 25c. Sail
oailoi FREE. Address Allen S. Olnib
ueRoy , N. Y.
Practical.
Walking leisurely around the Egyp
Sphinx , the traveler from America
rioted it from all points of view.
"Ifa s. g arne. " be exclaimed , "to h
: he thing in that shape. If I had it
n Chicago I could clap a good cen
lose of that face so quick it would n
ts head swim ! "
Pettit's Eye Salve First Sold In li
> ver 100 years ago , sales increase- yea
vonderful remedy ; cured millions TV
yes. All druggists or Howard Bi
Buffalo , N. Y.
JMMijipoiiitment.
Happy Bride ( on wading tour ) '
> ay we are coming to a tunnel , Harry
t a long one ?
Bridegroom ( momentarily depressed
STos ; entirely too long. The condu
.ells me they light up the cars before
: ering it.
Only One "BROMO
Chat ts LAXATIVE BROM.O QUININE. I
for the signature of E.V : GROVE. Used
World over to Cure a Cold In One Day.
Decided Improvement.
Scribbles I understand young Rh ;
Y Is doing much better than form <
n the poetry line.
Dribbles Why , he told me he hac
vritten a line for six months.
Scribbles Yes , he told me the sc
hing.
For Colds nnd Grip.
Lane's Pleasant Tablets ( laxative ) <
olds in an hour and are the best tr
nent for grip. Do not wait a minute w
on feel a cold coming on , but get a
f these tablets and save suffering and
iense. They are sold by druggists
ealers at 25 cents a box. Orator F.V (
ard , Le Roy , N. Y. Sample free.
Crushing Sarcasm.
Mr. Hewligus Fourteen dollars , :
am , is an outrageous price to pay feat
at !
Mrs. Hewlijns If I should Buy
lanet Saturn for a hat you'd thinl
ushtn't to pay more than 39 cents foi
Try Murlne Eye Remedy
or Red , Weak , Weary , Watery Eyes ,
ompounded by Experienced Physicians ,
onforms to the Pure Food and Drugs LJ
.urine Doesn't Smart. Soothe * Eye Pi
r-MarlD for Your Eyes. You Will Lik
Power at
Farmers are well acquainted with
the fact that the roots of trees will dis
rupt ; irtd sometimes overturn a stonewall
wall/ but the lifting power of tender
vegetables is equally surprising.
The ow result which has perhaps
attracted the greatest attention is the
discovery that a weight of two and a
half tons can be lifted by the common
pumpkin In the course of its develop
ment.
Dr. Carpenter relates the story of a
paving stdiie weighing eighty-three
pounds that was raised from its bed
( when- joined by others on all four ]
sides ) by such a soft piece of fungi as
the common mushroom. And still an
other and more remarkable story is
uddcd to the above.
A man had a cask of sweet wine
my p'aceil it in an empty cellar to ma
ture. When examined several years
later it had risen from the floor of the
cellar to the ceiling , having been borne
upward upon the tender shoots of a
vine fungus with wliich the cellar was
r , * - . f
CURED IW ONE DAY
Mucyon's Cold Remedy Relieves tfcf
lead , throat and lungs almost Immediate
y. Checks Fevers , stops Discharge * ff
he nose , takes away all aches and palaft
Caused by colds. It cures Grip and o
itinate Coughs and prevents Pneuxnoal * .
? rlce 25c.
Have you stiff or swollen joints , no maft-
er how chronic ? Ask your druggist w
Junyon's Rheumatism Remedy and
low quickly jou will be cured.
If you have any kidney or bladder tr
> le get Munyon's Kidney Remedy.
Munyon's Vltallzer makes went
trong nud restores lost powera.
For Infants and Children.
You Have
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Exact Copy of Wrappc THC ccNTAun COUPAHV. new YORK crrr.
For DISTEMPER , CATARRH
FEVER , AND ALL flOI
AND THROAT D1SEAS3
Cures the sick and acts as a i > re\enuve for others. Liquid given on
tongue. Safe for brood mares and all others. Best kidney remedy. &
a bottle , 55.00 the dozen. 81 00 aid S10 CO the dozen. Sold by all
and turf goods houses , or sent , express paid , b > the manufacturers.
MEDICAL COMPANY , Chemisls , Goshen ,
Sloan's Liniment is the best remedy for sprains
and bruises.
It quiets the pain at once , and can be applied to the
tenderest part without hurting because it doesn't need
to be rubbed all you have to do is to lay it on
lightly. It is a powerful preparation and penetrates
instantly relieves any inflammation and congestion ,
and reduces the swelling.
is an excellent antiseptic and gem&
killer heals cuts , burns , wounds and
contusions , and will draw the poison-
from sting of poisonous insects.
Price , 25c. , 50c. , and $1.00.
Dr. Earl S. Sloan , Boston , Mass. , ILS.A.
Sloan's book on horaeg , cattle , sheep and poultry ient