Ligonier Banner., Volume 32, Number 40, Ligonier, Noble County, 6 January 1898 — Page 7

- iy < . = i Hood’s Sarsaparilla ‘Absolutely cures scrofula, - - Salt rtheum, Y - Dyspepsia, rheumatism, : ~ : . | - Catarrh and all diseases Originating in or promoted By impure blood. Itis The great nerve tonic, . Stomach regulator and .» - Strength builder. : | ~SINGLENESS OF PURPOSE. Why It Is Necessary to Success in; A Anything. S b A young man, anxious to become a lawyer, made application for a position in the office of a barrister, whereupon the following unconvéntional dialogue ensued: - “Well, young man, and so ’you’d like to be a lawyer?” : ~ “Yes, sir; I think I would like to be one.” " “Where’s your gun, my boy? I want to See your gun, my young gentleman. Fond of ‘S{)ortmg, eh?” o “T have no gun, sir; don’t know whether I’d like gunning.” : " “No gun. ~Well, you keep a boat, then? Like boating?” : ’fp | “I do not own a boeyf,/sir; do not know how to use one.” “You wear a watch, or keep a dog?”’ | “I am too poor to wear a watch, and I have no dog.” | _ ' “You’ll do, my'lad, if you persevere in the course you have begun: The law is a jealous mistress, and cannot be won except by undivided attention. -Remember this, my lad, and I will insure your success. You may rely on any assistance I can render you.” e The young man entered the office, and in time became a famous lawyer.—N.:O. Picayune.: 4 . o 2 _— e HELD AN ACCIDENT POLICY. A Cyclist’s Disgust at Not Being Hurt in a Collision. ; . Thisis the story of a somewhat unusual accident. It happened on the Conduit road one evening ear{y in the fall, and the man who told me about it was an eyewitness. It is sin%;l]ar]y appropriate, by- the way, that he should be an eyewitness, for he is an oculist by profession. A man on a bicycle was scorching cheerily along on tife way to town, when suddenly there loomed-up out-of the darkness in front of him a heavy wagon and a team headed straight for him. There was no time to turn out. The wheel crashed into the wagon pole, and the rider swas thrown coinpletely over the horses, falling' between them and the wagon. The oculist ran to the rescwe, expecting to see a limp mass of bleeding and unconscious humanity. Instead, he saw -a kicking and swearing person who was apparently uninJjured. The bicycle wasa Chinese puzzle of twisted wire. - - . -“Are you hurt?”’ asked the oculist. : The swearing person fii(fked himself up and stopped swearing. e gazed at what had once'been a fair young bicycle. - | “Hurt!” he said in a tone of deepest dis” gust. “Hurt? Me? Of course I-ain’t hurt. %;ve got an accident policy.”—Washington ost. : : ! . J

- ‘Farmer’s Handy Feed Cooker. * We desire to call our readers’ attention to the Farmers’ Handy Feed Cooker, which is sold at the -low®price of $12.50 for 80 gallon capacity. - ; % ALU T ; 8 ey e e T e e 1 A W RPN 11, e e T REROR v N :.:‘:%fARME’EHANDYFE{bE(}k{)k T ’g%“%éifijfi;“ \ 3 TR e ST st )I R CEL e E**%AM,.» LA e s e 1 %Aifi‘. : = = \\;/) - : -By feeding poultry and stock with cooked: food during the winter months, at least onethitd of the food is saved; also having stock -in ‘a healthy -condition, preventing hog cholera among your hogs, and insuring the hens laying freely during the winter ‘months when eggs are always wanted at high prices. This Cooker will pay for itself in one week’s time and is without doubt the <best and cheapest on the market—just svhat its name' implies, a: Farmer’s Handy Feed Cooker. Upon. application to the Empire Manufacturing Co., 613 H St., Quiney, 111.,a catalogue, giving a full description, may be obtained. They are made in all sizes. _— " Van Noodle—‘D’yer know, Miss Tungbit, that old duffer, Chapwith, called me a muff -the other night.” Miss Tungbit—‘‘lndeed! - Why, I think you more closely resemble a . boa.”—Harlem Life.- 3 - = ——t - Intuition—What some people! claim to bave when they suceeed in making a good guess.—Chicago News. g -_;f_’—— Of course the cold cash we, hear so much about comes from the K]ondike.—At’chison Globe. : : 2 iy ; * Everyone’s favorite adjeetive, which he secretly enjoys when applied to himself, is “‘prominent.”—Atchison Globe. f - No man ever had as many suspenders as he wanted.—Washington Democrat. - Blacker the spot, surer the cure, Use St Jacobs Qil for bruises. - e : . 5 If you must tell your troubles, tell them to a reporter.—Atchison Globe.

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IT PRESENTS ITS PLAN. ’ £ 5 i Main Points in the Rebport of the ; Monetary Commission. Presents What It Considers to #ic Uefects in Our Present Currency System, and Suggests How It 2 May Be Reformed. ' Washington, Jan. '3.—The following is an Zb;tract of the report of the monetary commission appointed under authority of the convention of business men held in Indianapolis last January which has just been made public: "It retains practically unchanged the existing metallic! money.. The existing gold standard on which business has been done since’ 1879 is, of course, maintained, on the ground that industrial interests demand certainty as to what the standard shall be. For the steady. employment' of labor, fac;tories and minés must be constantly op‘erated; and constant.operation,.in the judg‘ment of business mer, is impossible so long as there is uncertainty as to the standard on which prices| of goods and.orders are based. And to this end, it is urged that .the United States should remove all un‘certainty as to the meaning of ‘‘coin’ in its obligations, thereby. saving the taxpayer by the ability to borrow at a lower rate of interest. ik Place for Silver. i

No attempt ils made to remove the existing silver dollars, nor to change: their legal-tender quality; on the contrary, a place is provided for them in the circulation by forbidding the issue of any paper money other than silver certificates in denominations below.ten dollars. ~The silver currency, which will be in the hands of the people, must be kept on a parity with gold, as is now provided by law, and this should be done by requiring the treasury to give gold for a silver dollar on demand. Consequently, when it is known that a silver dollar can be exchanged for gold it will ¢irculate -freely (in the form of certificates), and our metallic money, without bei diminished, will be unified on a certain ligsis. And, as all this silver.curréncy will be needed ‘to meet the demands for large change (when other paper below ten dollars is retired), it will not be presented for redemption at the treasury, and it will create no strain on the gold reserves. But no more silver dollars should be-coined. Reserve Too Slender.

The commission contend that the ten different kinds pf money now in use create an anomalous and confusing situation. Moreover, the whole fabric rests on too slender a reserve of gold. It dis urged that the demand obligations. of the government should not be used as money, because they may: be, and have been, presented for.gold to the injury of the nation’s credit. -This causes grave doubts as to the standard on which the business operations of the country rest. Everything which, by experience, creates uncertainty . and hurts trade, hinders prosperity and should be removed. Hence the fiscal affdirs of the treasury relating to the receipt and disbursement of public revenues should be entirely . separated from the monetary functions dealing with the exchange and redemption of the currency. By establishing a separate division of issue and redemption in the treasury, it will be impossible to take away funds set apart for the protection of our monetary system and use them for current expenditures. - : . Fraught with Danger. '

Above all, it is regarded as dangerous to maintain the present practice of using government demand dbligations as money. Our fathers never made anything full legaltender money except gold and silver; but in the stress of civil war, confusing the fiscal and monetary functions of the state, forms pf debt due on demand were .used as money not as the result of deliberation but of emergency conditions. They were issued : exactly because there were no resources in the treasury; .and-so they depreciated, drove out gold, furnished a fluctuating standard, increased the national debt enormously, caused a change in prices-whenever the credit of the paper standard fluctuated, reduced the purchasing power of wages,.and by causing unr expectéd changes in theg level of prices gave rise to extraordinary speculation, increaséd the severity of commercial crises, and placed the small producer at a disadvantage with the large operator. -For 17 years (1862-1879) the government paper was' a falsified promise, and our standard was based on this lie. Trade and industry became speculative. Men of large wealth can take care of themselves; but men-of small means should be protected from the evils arising from such uncertainty of the standard. :

If the demand obligations of the government are used as money, reserves must always be kept on hand to redeem them. They are not therefore a loan without interest; and the expense of keeping up these reserves has made the paper money a very great burden to the taxpayer by an increase of the public debt. These gold reserves are necessary, unless the govg;'nment permits its notes to go to prost. The mere crédit of the United States behind its notes is too vague a thing, its power to tax is too remote, to provide cash on hand for instant use. So far as expense fs concerned, this debt could--have been more easily borne by changing it into low interest-bearing bonds.

Should Be Withdrawn.

. For these and other reasons the’ commission strongly urge the government to withdraw its demand obligations now uséd r as money, decline to provide gold for exporters, and put the burden and expense of maintaining a redeemable paper circulation upon the banks. In order to meet the }demand obligations, the present reserves of gold in the treasury furnish a beginning to be set aside in the division of issue and “redemption; ‘and to meet possible contingencies the secretary of the treasury is authorized to sell bonds whenever the reserves need replenishment. .In this way, ‘ or from surplus revenue, the demand obligations (that is, United States notes and treasury notes of 1§90) can be gradually removed, and the cgst to the country can be reduced, while this process will also give ' the inestimable advantage of ceasing to use demand debts as money, of simplifying our currency, and of adding to confidence -in ‘the certainty:of our standard. By the plan of the commission, government paper is withdrawn n the first five years only as fast as the banking currency expands, so that contraction cannot possibly take place; if United States notes are canceled their place will be taken by the gold paid out for them, or by the expansion of ‘bank notes (under the new system proposed); and in the following five years all the remaining United States notes are to be retired., . ; 5 Bank Note Is Lnuded. 4

The demand obligations of the United States were put fdrth solely because there: were no funds in the treasury to redeem fthem. The notes were only evidence that ‘property had been received and used up for Fervices or supplies or public buildings (no ldnger available assets). The governmen%%by ‘the nature of the operation did not !retain, as the notes went out, any property immediately convertible into coin with which to redeem its demand issues. They were not a money based on property: they were only a debt. On the other hand, a bank .note is never issued. (fraud, of pgourse, excluded) except for a consideration !n negotiable property of equal or greater value., The bank note comes forth as the sequel of a business- transaction, and Is based on the active property of the country which is passing between producers and -consumers. .This property ‘is always negotiable and always equal to the duty of: meeting the note liability. Bank notes are as sound as the business transactions of the country. The currency of the country, moreover, should increase as the transactions of the country increase; hence the rigid unchanging issues of the government make them an inelastic part of the circulation, while by the yery process of their issue bank notes alone can be automatically adjusted to the changing transactions of the business community, * The Commissioners’ Plan. In view of the scarcity of United States bonds they cannot long be regarded as basis for circwlation. Moreover, any bong, security of a higher character ylelds a low, rate of interest; and in time of stringency, when borrowers need loans and the market rate of interest {s high, there is no inducement to buy these bonds to increase circulation. Hence, under the pregent system, when notes would be most needed, it iz least profitable to.{ssue them. While providing for a partial use of bonds for securing notes (25 per cent. of the capital) ~%‘f;epmalu:on proposed that notes.be_yond this should ‘be issued on all, Instead of & part of, the resources of a bank: and after -ten years that no special bond security

should be required. Banks may isste.notes up to 60 per cent. of their capital without restraint; for issues beyond 60 per cent. and up to 80 per cent. they pay a tax of two per cent.; for those beyond 80 per cent. and up to 100 per cent. they pay a tax of six per cent. These :notes would be a prior lien upon all 'the ‘resources of the bank, and, in addition, upon the stockholders’ liability. Moreover, all banks issuing notes contribute five per ¢ent. of their circulation as a permanent guaranty fund. For daily redemptions, banks should keep a five per cent. redemption fund in the hands of the comptroller of the currency. Banks of $25,000 capital may be established in places of 4,000 inhabitants; andbranches of banks are also permitted. - Safe and Uniform Currency.

It is apparent that the security to the noteholder under .the proposed plan is greater than usually supposed. If notes should be issued by all national banks to the amount of 80 per cent. of their present capital, the security in the form of total assets (omitting consideration of stockholders’ liability or a guaranty fund) is more than seven dollars to one dollar. In the 3,276 banks outside the reserve cities, the protection would be $6.10 to one ‘dollar of notes. Thé greatest number of failures of banks occurred in 1893; and yet the notes of these failed banks which did not realize at least 80 per cent. of their capital out of their resources formed only one-eighth of one per cent. of the proposed circulation. Had 80 per cent. of the capital of all national banks been issued in notes upon the proposed plan, since the beginning of the national banking system in 1863, an asasessment upon the banks annually of only one-fortieth of one per cent. would have been necessary. Moreover, instead of a tax on circulation, a tax of one-eighth of one per cent. on capital and surplus is proposed to cover the expenses of the system. Such a plan in general would furnish a safe, elastic,’uniform and expanding currency based on a fixed and certain standard. § 4

Child’s Prayer to Satan.

A Brixton clergyman vouches for the following incident, which, he thinks, isa touching instance of youthfulorthodoxy. He writes: *“A little girl, about nine years of age, wasobliged, for some time, to endure the nagging annoyances of a maiden aunt. The child puzzled her little mind as to the best means of getting rid of her tormentor, and at last hit upon a plau which, she thought, would have the desired result. She spent the whole of one morning writing a letter, and having finished it she. disappeared in the garden. . In the course of the aftermoon her mother asked 'the gardener what Alice had been doing, and was surprised to learn that she had dug a deep holé¢, and put a letter in it. A search was made, and the following epistle was discovered, addressed to the potentate of the nether regions at his official residence: ‘Dear Mr. Satan—Will you kindly come and take away Aunt Jane. She is a very fussy person, and does worry me so.—¢ Alice.” Who will say, after this, that" children are not orthodox?”—London Telegraph. ; 1

Keeping Out the Dark.

Sunnylocks used to have an insatiable desire to look at choo-choo cars, and whenever his papa could do so he would take the little boy down to the track to see the trains rush past. One-day a naughty firemlan shoveled a lot of coal into the furnace of a passing locomotive, and the wind blew-a 'big, black cloud of smoke over toward Sunnylocks, and some of it got tnto his eyes. After that he would press his face against his papa’s cheek whenever an engipe rushed along, because he didn’t like the black smoke. But as yet Sunnylocks doesn't seem to have a very thorough understanding of the nature and composition of smoke. The other night, when he was being carried up: stairs to bed, he pressed kis face against his papa’s cheek, as he did whenever he saw an engine. “Why are you doing that?"” he was asked. “I must keep my eyes shut so de dark won’t get in them,” said Sunnylocks.— Cleveland Leader.

Saving Sixpence.

Patrick, a thrifty tradesman in the meighborhood of the Dublin docks, was, as the story goes, a man who never spent a penny more than he needed to spend; but he was, nevertheless, as good a man at the making of an Irish bull as any that lived betwéen Bantry and Ballycastle. ‘s Having one day urgent occasion to send a letter toGlasnevin, Patrick called a messenger and asked him his price for going such a distance. “It’ll be a shillin’,” said the man.” “Twoice two much!” said Patrick. “Let ut be sixpence.” ’

“Nivver,” answered the messenger. “The way is that lonely that I°d never go it under a shillin’.” .

. “Lonely, is it 2’ said Patrick, scratching his head. “Faith, an’ ye're roight. Now, man, I’ll tell ye what we’ll do; make it ‘sixpence, an’ I'll go wid ye to kape ye company!”—Youth’s Companion. .

A ¥Hatful of Pearls.

Jenny Lind reached London in April, 1847, and began'® rehearsals at the Queen’s theater. When her voice was first heard in that spacious edifice no one was so enchanted as Leblasche, the celebrated basso. “Every note,” he exclaimed, *“is like a pear],” The singer was pleased with the simile, and wihen they had become better acquainted, she reminded him of the compliment in a very charming way. She went to him one morning at rehearsal and said: “Will you do me the favor, Sig. Lablasche, to lend me your hat ” Much surprised, he handed her his hat, which she took with a deep courtesy, and tripping away, began to sing an air into it. She soon brought it back to Labiasehe and, commanding that portly personage to kneel, returned it with the remark: *“I have made you a rich man, signor, for I have given you a hatful cf pearls!”—Detroit Free Press.

The Clerk’s Notice.

In a small village in Gloucestershire the clergyman was out visiting, but was expected back to preach on the Sunday, Karly on Sunday motrning, however, the parish clerk received a message from the clergyman to say he would not be able to preach, as he was going to “ofliciate” for another clergyman. As the service titne drew near the clerk rang the bell, and when the time was up and the people were assembled, he went into the pulpit and addressed = them thus: “This is to-give notice that the parson will not be able to preach here to-day, as he is gone ‘a-fishing along with another parson.”—London Spare Moments.

Grandpa’s Face the Longer.

f flrandpa—Oh, pshaw, Johnny! 1 wouldn’t look so awfully woebegone just, because mamma didn’t° take you out with her. Lock at grandpa. He don’t wear any such long face as you've got. i i : Johnny (looking up at baldheaded grandpa)—Don’t, eh? Why, your face runs way up over the top of your head. ~—Richmond Dispatch, ok

THE FARMING WORLD.

TREATMENT OF COwsSs.

How 'io Secure. Satisfactory Results

in ‘F!'fxv'nn Daiiyingi

From an article written by George Sampson, of the Sharon (Wis.) Reporter, we take the following:, .

“The functions of the cow are to take your coarse fodder and grain and manufacture them into milk. Providing she is so fed that-she can sustain her body and in addition produce milk at a profit, she is a good cow. You know there are any number of cows that do not pay for their keeping, but in this age of progress we can ascertain beyond a shadow of doubt whether or not & cow is a profitable dairy cow. There are three things you must consider: 1, the quantity of milk given); 2, the quality—Dby the Babcock test; 3, the length of the period of lactation. : “After having succeeded in establishing a herd of good dairy cows comes the important part of taking proper care of them. Milch cows must have a variety of feed, as no one kind of feed contains all the different elements which both sustain the body and produce the milk. We will see later what silk is composed of, and you will understand why she must have a variety of feed. : A

“Do not feed your cows before milking. So many do this in order that the cow shall stand better during the process of milking. You will ask why? Most of the milk is secreted during the process of milking and the cow must use her blood ih the udder.. If she is eating, this blood rushes to her stomach in order to carry, the nutriment to the different parts of the body, and the consequence is that there is a'lack of blood in the udder to produce the best results. Extreme care must be taken not to feed anything that will flavor milk just before milking, as it will then pass into the milk, but feed directly after milking.” - : . 4”

MARKETING BUTTER.

Best Time to Sell Is as Soon as the

i Product Is Ready. Lo The question often arises with dafiry farmers who make and market their own butter, shall I sell or hold for higher prices? Butter depreciates from the moment it is made till it is consumed, under ordinary farm conditions; and is always liable to fluctuations in price, which are as often against the holder as in his favor, and he is always losing the interest on its value as long as he holds it. Holding for a higher price is one form of speculation—a business farmers have no occasion to indulge in. It is true a rise in property may sometimes be foreseen, making it pretty safe t 6 hold for a time, but when a dairyman would not think it wise or safe to buy butter or cheese to hold for a better price, he had better not hold his own. The fact that it turns out that he might havé done better by holding than by selling, when his goods are first ready for market, is not a sufficient reason for his holding at another time, for the chances will as often be against him, and whichever way it is; he must always endure the losses from injury, shrinkage, depreciation, waste and use of capital. Therefore, as a rule, we say it is most prudent to sell always when produects are ready for market, and most especially so with butter, which is always suffering from depreciation in quality.—Rural World.

Woodpeckers Are Helpful.

There is no longer the prejudice which used to exist against the woodpecker as the:destroyer of valuable trees, which itused to be believed he pecked so as to start the sap to flowing.. The work he does is almost always on dead wood, and he only pecks holes in that to find the insect that has deadened the wood and if allowed to live would ultimately destroy the tree. There is no more valuable insect destroyer than the woodpecker. It is one of the few birds that stay with us all winter, and its cheerful pecking can be heard in almost any woeodland at this season. The only complaint we ever heard against the woodpecker is that he destroys early cherries. But he has earned his part of the cherries by previously destroying the insect enemies that would have killed the tree. —American Cultivator.

Monument to the Potato.

A curious monument has just beéen discovered in the dense undergrowth of the so-called Brandhai, in the Upper Hartz. Itisa granite block about seven feet high, resting on a stone pedestal, and on an iron tablet attached to it is the following inscription: “Here, in the year 1747, the first trials were made with the cultivation of the potato.” The German peasant at the time did not take kindly to the potato plant on its introduction to the country. It had, however, a great friend in ‘the king, Frederick 11., who was convinced of its value, but who was obliged to use forcible measures to get the people of Pomerania and Silesia to plant it. The action of the Hartzers in voluntarily adopting. the plant was evidently. thought worthy of a memorial, says the Sunday Companion. ,

Cream for the Churn.

| Have your eream for churning all in -one vessel; when two or more are used the cream will not ripen evenly, and | the churning will not be satisfactory, as the butter will not come all alike. The day before churning have all your cream in the vat, and place your vat in l a box two or three inches larger, which: will hold water. In the evening (if the weather is cold) put a starter in your ! cream, and warm it by putting warm water in the box; be careful not to have the water too hot, or the cream will cook on the sides of the vat. Stir frequently, and warm up to 70; the water may be 90. In the morning your cream will be just right for the churn, by the time the “gude mon” is through with his milking.

Records of Famous Cows.

The records of soine cows are almost marvelous. Paulihe Paul, a Holstein, has a record of 31 pounds and 13; ounces for one day. Paul DeKoe produced over 1,153 pounds in one year. Other cows of that breed have also excellent records, Mechtchilde producing 39 pounds 10 ounces in one week; Genesta, 23 pounds .5 ounces; Jewel 2d, 27 pounds 13 ounces, and quite a nuniber have exceeded 20 pounds in a week. Of Jerseys Lanseer's Fanhcy is credited with 936 pounds and 143 ounces in a vear, with Oxford, Kate, Ida.of St. Lambert. and others exceeding 20 pounds in one week, o 7 4

SHED. FOR MACHINERY.

An Investment Which Pays More Than Ordinary Interest.

Select a site convenient to the lanes leading to the- various fields and at a proper distance from the other buildings, to. insure safety in case of fire. I find 20x40 feet a conVenient size on an average farm. Divide into three spaces, two of 13 feet each and one of 14 feet. Inclose these spaces on three sides and on the fourth fit double doors. Windows can be plé#ced where .desired. Common luniber will answer, using good shingles for. roofing and pine

T e s s _— T e S ST iarad -, ELEVATION OF MACHINERY SHED. lumber for doors. Make good joints to prevent the entrance of fowls and sparrows, which are extremely fond of roosting on the implements. The floor should be 12 inches above the surface of the ground. The approaches to the doors can be made of earth or gravel. Put the binder in the 14-foot space, and with it the remainder of the harvesting implements. In the next space put the tillage implements, and in the last the vehicles.

It is very important to have a place for every article and keep every article in its place. When the implements are placed in the shed apply a coating of kerosene oil to the bright parts of castings and where liable to be injured by rust. Do this twice a year. Also get

" s aESSS = I 13'%20 | ,3'-20' 4c20% ! :‘ s | anoer ; [- | | | s RO eeß T S B R : "GROUND PLAN OF SHED. half a gallon of boiled linseed oil and apply to woodwork, especially where the paint has worn off. Repeat this operation once in five years. Use good machine oil on all bearings. Run the binder and other harvesting ‘machines into the shed every day as soon as the day’s work is over. Allow no implement to remain in the fields for any lengthy period. It is thus ready to be taken out on the shortest notice and in good working order. Before using an implement tighten all loose bolts. Keep all knives, colters, skimmers, etc., sharp and in good repair. The work will be more satisfaar tory and the draft lighter. A work bench, with a vise and a few tools for repairing, would be a good investment. —“Orange Judd Farmer.

GARDEN -AND ORCHARD.

Do not use coal tar on wounds caused by pruning. Use wax or paint. Never plant too many summer apples. Winter apples are what you want. . " It 'is profitable to buy canned fruit if vou have none, Iltisa health promoter. Keep the squash in a dry room where the temperature never goes below freezing. - . ) . s

Onions rot so easily that when grown for the market should bfe soldas soon as possible. . =

Uncultivated orchards suffer more from drought than do those that are cultivated. ) ® ;

~ Cider'is yuite as dangerous a beverage as can be given the young. Itisan appetite breeder. ; Mulching of the strawberry bed, grape vine, roses, etc., should be done as'soon as the ground freezes.

It is of no use fo expect to make a success of house plants if the temperature varies from freezing to 70 degrees. ~ Blighted leaves or branches on the fruit trees should be cut. off at once and burhed to prevent the disease spreading. ' .- ; Every farm should have an acre of crchard, 40 apple trees, and 60 divided between pears, peaches, plums ' and cherries, says a horticulturist. 4

.The apple eater, the. man who always has an apple in his pocket to offer you, is usualy a good fellow and much safer than a man who has ten cents to buy a drink for you.—Western Plowman.

Apples Cannot Be Cooked.

A peculiar feature of the- apples grown in this section the last season is that they will not cook properly. Many a housewife has been surprised that the best varieties of cooking apples cannot be-cooked as usual.” They are tough and stringy and when sliced for cooking retain their shape, no mat‘ter how long they may be kept on the stove, instead of “cooking to pieces,” as they should. 'Grocers and applemen have been flooded with complaints about the apples they sell. The unusual condition of the fruit, explained an old apple grower and handler the. other day, is due to the dry weather that came Jjust when the fruit was filling and maturing.—Kansas City Journal.

Hint for Potato Grower-.: As the potatols so largely wgger it might be supposed that it is not at all exhaustive.’' But the potato crop is always sold frome the land instead of being fed on it. The only thing that the potato takes from the soil is potash, and this is largely found in its leaves and stems, The tubers also contain some potash, and it is this which blackens the knives and hands of those who peel and cut potatoes. A large crop of potatoes, it is estimated, will take 100' pounds of potash‘an acre from the soil. The best potato growers practice a system of rotating grain and potatoes, and in this way keep up the fertility without much difficulty.—Dakota Field and Farm. .

Replacing Worn-Out Trees.

When there are vacancies in old orchards to be filled with young frees, take a wagon to the spot where the tree has died and shovel out a load of dirt, removing all of the old roots, and then fill the place with good, fresh surface dirt from anpther field and set out the young trees. This is the quickst and cheapest method of replacing. It takes many years for the roots of a dead apple tree to decay, and the acid to leave the earth sufficient to warrant the growth of the second cutting, and a young tree planted in the same soil where an old one has fallen will not generally amount to anything.~Dakota Field am\t Farm. e

& A TAIK WITH MRS. PINKHAM ) : § i ) .; ‘§ . %\3 - /About the Cause of Anemia. : o ~V\;:-t =’! - Everybody comes into this world with a pre- " ! : ‘3{%’? %"f‘%% disposition to disease of some particulartissues ] / K \%7 ti2¥ in other words, everybody has a weak spot. ¢/ . : P s};‘ g~ In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the .(‘ s %3:‘ '7':\_,7.‘ weak spot in women is somewhere in the uter--9 e }s}\, ine system. The uterine organs have less re- : e_ $ o )\ sistance to disease than the vital organs: that's s APy 2 why they give out the soonest. Not more than:one woman iz a hundred—nay, igffive hundred—has perfectly healthy organs of generation. This points to the stern necessity of helping one's self just as soon as the life powers seem to be on the wane. : ) 7 Excessive menstruation’ is a sign_of physical weakness and want of tone in the uterine organs. Itsaps the strength away and produces anemia (blood turns to water). ‘ : » ) If you become anemic, there is no knowing what will happen. If your gums and the inside of your lips and inside your eyelids look pale in color, you are in a dangerous way and must stop that drain on your powers. . Why not build up on a generous, uplifting tonie, like Lydia E.+Pinkham’s - Vegetable Compound? : A Mgzs. Epwin Enrre, 413 Church St., Bethlehem, Pa., Sy ‘ says: I feel it my duty to write and tell you that : / L7k, I am better than I have been for four jyears. - A I used Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- J L pound, one package of Sanative Wash, one box of 4 “‘g ' Liver Pills, and can say that I am perfectly cured. e “Doctorsdid nothelpme any. Ishould have been .. ,—,;’ A in my grave by this time if it had not been for your N mhedicine. It was a godsend to me. I wastroubled with > = excessive menstruation, which caused womb trouble, fF AN and I was obliged to remain in bed for six weeks. -Mrs. \ - Pinkham’s medicine was recommended to:- me, and, ' 5 after using it a short time, was troubled no more with flooding. I'alsohad severe pain in my kidneys. This, also, I havenomore. Ishallalways recommend the Compound, for it has cured me, and it will cure others. I would like to have you publish this letter.” (Insuch casesthe dry form of Compound should be used.f

Making Up Her Mind.

“Why, Ethel, what are you doing with that big medical work in your lap?” ' r“\Vefi, Arabella, you’d never guess, T am quite sure.” : “You are not going to make a physician of vourself, are you?”’ s “Not7at'all. Tam trying to find out which of my two suitors I love enough to marry. What do you think of that?” . “H9w can a cyclopaedia of medicine help you?’ B o “Well, it’s this way. - Mr. Spondulicks is 57 years of age. "He is worth $400,000 and has consumption. Mr.Dukkats is 65 years old. He is worth $500,000 and has incipient Bright’-s ‘disease. I thought perhaps this medical book would help me to make up my mind. I have about decided that I love Mr. Dukkats the better. 'Which would you love?’—N. Y. World. =

Mr. T. G. Pearse, of Agricola, Alberta, Canada, passed throxifh Chicago recently en route to England. He paints -in é]aowing colors the advantages of Western Canada, and says that a large number of tenant farm‘ers from the old country are making their homes there, and those who, during the Past few years, have gone to that district rom the United States are doing remarkabg' well. They find the climate delightful, and, although In very poor circumstances when they. arrived thefy are mostly doing well and have excellent arms, some of them b]eing able to loan money to the new settlers. : e As an example of what has been done by colonists -this year, he says Hufih “Irvine, who has been in the country five years, threshed 3,200 bushels of wheat and received 72 cents per bushel for it. James Fitzgerald raised 3,000 bushels in the fourth year of his settlement, while James Atkinson had a croY of 3,500 bushels. These men started without any capital, and were induced to so through the representations of the Canadian Government A%{ents. The development of the Edmonton-Klondike route has' created a home cash market. Hundreds of square miles of magnificent farming country yet remain for cultivation in the Saskatche: wan Valley and is sold at low prices. .

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Fifteen Years of Suffering.

“I thought I should surely die.”

When the stomach begins to fail in its duties, other organs sYgedily become affected in sympathy, and life is simply a burden almost unbearables/ Indigestion and dyspepsia are so common that only the sufferer from these diseases knows the possibilities of misery that inhere in them. A typical example of thesufferings of the victim of indigestion is furnished in the case of John C. Pritchard. He went on for fifteen years, from bad to worse. In spite of doctors he grew constantly weaker, and thought he would die. He got well, however, and thus relates his experience: - ‘‘ For fifteen years I was a great sufferet from indigestior in its worst forms. ‘I tested the skill of many doctors, but grew worse and worse, until T became so weak I could not wal?fty yardswithout having to sit down and’rest. Mg stomach, liver, and heart became affected, and I thought I would surely die.: I tried Dr. }II C. Ayer’s Pills and they helped me right away. I continued their use and am now entirely well. I don’t know of anything that will -80 quickly relieve and cure the terrible sufferings of ,dyspepsia. as Dr. Ayer’s Pills.”—JoHN C. PRITCHARD, Brodie, Warren Co., N. C. : } This case is not extraordinary, either in

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. —_— e - Iromical ifs. Ifi a man has no dust, his name is usually mud. _ : . ; - If a-man has horse sense he should know when to say neigh. -~ =N If the cat scratches you it is always the sxfin of the Maltese cross. - ' f a man would follow the advice he gives to others he would soon be perfect. ' If the mercury goes higher than wusuak nelet summer blame itf ondthtg Dingley bill. If women were as fond of appearing im print as in 'silk there would be morenrfidy writers. - L. ;

- If canes were to go out of fashion, some young men would have no visible means of support.—Chicago News, - ' How t:i\’ork It. Cholly—What do you do when your father won’t let you hkave any moz new clothes? - Chappie—l get a new’ tailor—N. Yo World. - S : —_—— ; Sudden weather changes bring Theumatism. St. Jacobs Oil makes prompt cure. . _— e ——— ‘lt is always hard on a man when love or the measles attacks him late m life—Chi cago News, - ) While “asleep, .cured soreness, stifiness? All right, St. Jacobs Oil did it. B S Love is thin when faults are thick.—Farm Journal. TR

the severity of the disease or the prompt and perfect cure performed by Dr. Ayers Pills. Similar results occur in every case where Dr. Ayer’s Pills are used. “*They helped me right away” is' the commor expression of those who have. used them. Here is another testimony to the truth o this statement: = - _ o . ; ‘I formerly suffered from indigestiom and weakness-of the stomach, but since ¥ began_the use of Dr. J. C. Ayer’s Pills, ‘I have the appetite of the fm’s bog ¥ am 46 years of age, and mend all who wish to be free from dyspegsia te take one of Dr.Ayer’s Pills after dipnec, till' their digestive organs are in good order.”—WM. STEINKE, Grant, Neb. Dr. Ayer’s Pills offer the surest and swiftest relief from constipation and ali its attendant ills. They cure dizziness, nausea, heartburn, palpitation, bad breath, coated tongue, nervousness, sleeplessuess, biliousness, and a score of other affections that are, after all, only the signs of 2 more deep rooted disease. You can find more information about Dr. Ayer’s Pills, and the diseases they have cured, in Ayer’s Cure book, a story of cures told by the cured This book of 100 pagés is sent free, ox request, by the J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass.