Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 25, Petersburg, Pike County, 27 October 1899 — Page 3

HANDY CIDER PRESS. T* Make Requires Neither Mach Money Nor aa Abandonee of Ingennlty. To make a cider press take a plank 1 by 12 inches by 12 feet; soft wood will do, but hard is better. Saw two pieces four feet long; and two pieces two feet; cut again in each of the long pieces, four inches from the end and one-hall inch deep and as wide as the thickness of the short pieces; Then spike the four together as illustrated. Get a carpenter’s iron bench screw at a cost of about ti dollar, which does for the screw. For he cheese crib, get two hoops made of

SIMPLE CIDER PRESS. heavy hoop iron. Punch holes about V/z inches apart and fill with staves about 2 feet long and inches wide and with small nails or screws fasten the staves inside the hoops, leaving them one-fourth inch apart. There should be a false bottom to catch and conduct the cider. For a grinder take a clean salt or flour barrel and saw into it at the bilge. Then take a board and saw out a false head a little smaller than the barrel head, and tack it on the outside of the tub head. This is to support the tub bottom. Then take a piece of 3 by 4 inch by 3 foot scantling and chop off about half the wood from one end so as to taper, smooth and round off the end. A block of hard wood with a hole bored one-half inch deep for the screw to work in must be made to keep from bending. Such a press can be made for $3 or $4. Bushels of apples go to waste on many farms which could be utilized by making into cider or vinegar.—A. C. McPherson, in Farm and Home. HOGS ARE CLEANLY. If Farmers Would Bear Tttls Fact Constantly In Mind There Would Be No Cholera. The health of hogs does not depend” in any measure on the promiscuous feeding of drugs. If proper attention were given to all the hogs in the country the makers of cholera cures would have no demand for their medicines. When it is said they live off the ignorance of the public it is but to tell the truth, and is not saying anything against them or their remedies. These men who have studied hog cholera in all its phases are the first to say that the disease first gets its foothold in filthy pens and yards and from drinking stagnant water. From this start herds that are properly cared for become infected, and, if the season is favorable for the development of the germs of disease an epidemic of hog cholera follows that sweeps hogs worth untold thousands, says the Swineherd. It cannot be said too many times that hogs are cleanly by nature. They are the only domestic animals that will habitually have a certain place in which to deposit their jjroppings, keeping the remainder of the range clean if they are allowed to do so. Give pure water and plenty of green feed during the period of development, and hog cholera, if it comes at all, will come from an outside source. Once it has arrived prompt measures to check its ravages should be resorted to and persisted in until the disease is checked.

HORTICULTURAL NOTES. Whenever trees are received from the nursery they should be heeled in by the roots until they are wanted for planting. How large the small-fruit plat should be depends upon the size of the family. For a full supply an acre will not be too much. A good dressing of wood ashes can be applied to strawberries at this time with benefit. They may be applied on the surface. Lice on trees may be killed by dissolving a pound of potash in a gallon of water and applying on the affected parts with a brush. One pint of linseed oil, four pounds of rosin and one pound of beeswax, melted well together, make a good grafting wax. When weeds or grass are allowed to grow with the vines they rob them of the plant food that rightfully belong^ to the plants. ; \ Plaxri raspberries in rows five feet apart lad three feet apart in the row; blackberries in rows eight feet apart and three feet apart in the row.—St Louis Republic. Lime, Salt mmd Plaster. The principal materials used as atimv dant fertilizers are lime, salt and plaster. The real object in liming soils it to correct some physical condition. If land is too heavy, a dose of about 4C bushels per acre of slacked lime will lighten it. If too light, a similar application tends to make it more compact If sour, as a result of turning under green crops, or from other causes, the action of the air slacked lime will be to sweeten the soil. A dose of lime about once in every five or six yean will ha sufficient.—Farmers’ Review.

.. .■-——- MASSACHUSETTS ROADS. Tltr Are C«Mtrmtc4 Under the 8apmi»lo> of Trained Eagtaeen aid WeU Kept Ip. Massachu setts spends annually about (50,000 on her state roads, and has now completed some 222 miles of permanent highways. The work is under the charge of a state commission of three persons, with offices in Boston, and a large corps of engineers. The commission meets, on the average, oftener than once a week,.at headquarters,and holds a meeting during the year in each county in the state. It also calls all the engineers together at the end of the season to discuss the year’s work in detail. Massachusetts was one of the first states to undertake systematically to improve her highways, and also about the earliest to provide instruction in I road building. Complete courses of in- | struction are given in the Institute of | Technology and the Lawrence Scientific I school, Harvard university, photo- I graphs, models and drawings being i used in the lecture rooms, and visits being made to works in process of construction. This work is admirable, bqt it requires time to educate road en- | gineers, and in the meantime many j miles of highway must be maintained and new roads constructed.

The Massachusetts highway commis- ( sion has always endeavored to dissent* j inate information and give as much in* j struction as possible. The work done during the last five years has been located in nearly one-half the 353 munic- ; ipalities of the state, while some 50 more have built modern roads; so a very large number of towns and cities have had experience in building good | roads. \ The first chance to take the contracts ( to construct state roads within their ! own territory is given to the towns, ! and many have availed themselves of it; so it has come about that hundreds of j men throughout the state have had I practical experience in building high* j class roads, and competent foremen can j now be readily secured where a few j years ago it was almost impossible to find them. Town officials, too, have j learned scientific methods and the * value of modern road machinery in a : most practical way, as they could not ! learn it if modern roads were not being constructed before their owp doors. There are about 60 resident engineers employed by the commission, and one of them is stationed wherever a state road is built, to instruct the contractor and enforce proper methods, and he remains in charge until the road is completed. Above these are five divisional engineer and a chief engineer. In this way the work is thoroughly systematized, theory and practice are brought into play and large numbers of persons become acquainted with the principles of constructing modern good roads.—Country Gentleman. NEW CATTLE CRIB. f la Old Burns That Are Crowded tot Room This Device 'Will Be Foand x Yery Advantageous. The cut shows a small device foi economizing room in the cattle crib, while still giving all the room needed. The stanchions are brought almost to the..edge pf the feeding floor (giving more. width in the tie-up, which is

NOVEL CATTLE CRIB. greatly needed in many cases), ■while ' the partition in front is hinged at the bottom and falls out to give space for hay, ensilage, etc., which is fed to the stock. If feed boxes are required, they can be made of a shape to set handily in the space before the cattle. At night the partition is shut up, forcing the cattle to step back to the rear of their platform, which insures a clean bed for them for the night. In many old barns that are; crowded for room this device will be found very advantageous, a narrow “tie-up” being a source of. great inconvenience in doing the work, and a serious impediment as well to a cleanly carrying on of dairy operations, as with the narrow tie-up it is very difficult to keep the cows clean.—N. Y. Tribune. Wood Aikea for Apple Trees. In some recent tests it was found that the foliage was greatly improved in sections of orchards treated with wood ashes, and that the trees were ! freer from disease. The color of the fruit was also improved in some sea"'bobs and with some varieties, but dur- : ing the seasons which favored the per- i feet development of the fruit the coloi I was not heightened. Apparently the use of ashes has a tendency to hasten the perfect development of the fruit. Some seasons this ripening process was carried so far where ashes were used that the apples did not keep as well as on portions untreated. — Prairie Farmer. s Roptneaa and Its Caaie. This peculiar condition of milk ox cream is due to a number of micro organisms which often come onto a dairy farm quite suddenly. We can assign no plausible cause for their appearance, and while ropy, stringy or slimy milk impresses us by its unwholesome appearance, it is perfectly harmless.—Dr. F. E. Engelhard L

k MAGNIFICENT WOMAN Holds Up Peruua as tbe Ideal Remedy For Female Catan lt.

Mrs. Clara Makemer. Mrs. Clara Makemer, housekeeper for the Florence Crittenden Anchorage Mission, of Chicago, writes the following letter from 302 Chestnut street, Chicago: “Peruna is the best tonic I have ever known for general debility, a sure cure for liver complaint, and a never falling adjuster in cases of dyspepsia. “I have used it in cases of female irregularities and weak nerves common to the sex, and have found it most satisfactory.” From early girlhood to the end of the child-bearing period few women are entirely free from some degree of catarrh of the pelvic organs. With Peruna the thousand and one ailments dependent upon catarrh of the pelvic organs can be wholly averted. “Health and Beauty” sent free to women only, by The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio. AGENTS WANTED for the latest ImproTed anj bMie&tOUNI I.A MR on the market. Merchants buy it; housekeepers used it; agents protected t» territory. Missouri Lamp de Mf*. Co. St. Louis. Met CITC Permanently Cured. Nofltsornerrri I 0< - - . — — ousness after first day's use of Or. Kline's Great Nerre Restorer. £• trial bottle and treatise tree. Or.R. H. KLINE. Ltd.. 931 Arch8t..Phiia.. Pa. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That Contain Mercnry, as mercury will surely destroy the <rnse of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the* mucous surfaces. Such articles should nevJf1 be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is often ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall’s Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. Sold bv Druggists, price 75c per bottle. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. Juat 'Wrath. “Fine lot of guys they are,” said the alderman, “to be calling me dishonest. I never took a cent of pay from anyone that I didn’t rendep value received.”—Indianapolis Journal. Many People Cannot Drink toffee at night. It spoils their sleep. You can drink Grain-0 when you please and sleep like a top. For Grain-0 does not stimulate; it nourishes, cheers and feeds. Yet it looks and tastes like the best coffee. For nervous persons, young people and children Grain-0 is the perfect arink. Made from pure grains. Get a package from your grocer to-day. Try it in place of coffee. 15 and 25c.

Penalties of Fatherhood. Occasionally you will meet in this dreary world the father of a family of girls who wears a new overcoat, but you will never some up with such a father who can afford lo have his teeth filled.—Atchison Globe. Lane’s Family Medicine. Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures side head* ache. Price 25 and 50c. * "It was very brave of you, captain, to rescue that girl from drowning.” “Think jo? Don't you see—if the sea had been a little more boy-ant, I need not have been so gal-iant. Eh?” «-Ally Sloper* THE MARKETS. New York, Oct. 23. CATTLE—Native Steers....? 4 25 6 00 COTTON—Middling . FLOUR—Winter Wheat.... 3 40 WHEAT—No. 2 Red. CORN—No. 2. OATS—NO. 2.. PORK—New Mess. 9 25 ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling - 7 BEEVES—Steers. 4 85 Cows and Heifers. 2 25 CALVES—(per 100). 4 00 HOGS—Fair to Choice. 4 10 SHEEP—Fair to Choice.... 3 55 FL OUR—Patents (new). 3 50 Other Grades. 2 00 WHEAT-No. 2 Red Winter 71 CORN—No. 2. OATS—No. 2... RYE—No. 2. TOBACCO—Lugs . 3 80 Leaf Burley.... 4 50 HAY—Clear Timothy (new) 9 00 BUTTER—Choice Dairy.... 16 EGGS—Fresh . «... PORK—StandardMess(new) .... BACON—Clear Rib. LARD—Prime Steam. 5V CHICAGO. CATTLE—Native Steers.... 4 75 HOGS-Fair to Choice...... 3 85 SHEEP—Fair to Choice.... 3 85 FLOUR—Winter Patents... 3 Spring Patents... 3 WHEAT-No. 2 Spring. No. 2 Red. CORN-No. 2..... OATS--No. 2. PORK-Mess (new), 7 85 i (new).,..,,,,. 7 KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Native Steers.... 415 HOGS-All Grades. 4 12V WHEAT—No. 2 Red. 67 OATS-No. 2 White. CORN—No. 2. NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grade. 8 50 CORN—No. 2.... OATS—Western HAY—Choice ..1550 PORK—Standard Mess. 9 50 BACON—Short Rib Sides... COTTON—Middling . 6* LOUISVILLE. £ WHEAT—No. 2 Red. 72 CORN—No. 2.*. 34 OATS-No. 2 Mixed. 25^i PORK—New Mess.... 9 25 BACON—Clear Ribs. 6ft COTTON—Middling . 7 26*4 950 a

SHE STOOD HIGH. ■•v Name Had Appeared ta the Society Column and She Was Arrogant. A family living in a North aide flat lately welcomed a new housemaid. The girl had just come from Michigan and her appearance was prepossessing. Soon after her advent it was discovered that she was inclined to treat the family with a patronizing air. “Mary, you must do better, or I shall have to find some one to take your place," the mistress remarked the other morning. “I don’t allow anyone to speak to me that way,” replied Mary, with a tow of her head. “I'm just as good as you are, and I want you to know it.” Mary flounced out of the room and returned in two minutes with the weekly pa-' per from her town. Among the social items was the following: “Miss Mary Hansen ha- cone to Chicago to spend the winter. Miss Hansen is an acknowledged belle in the leading circles of Sawdust Creek.” Mary waited until her employer had had time to read the “personal,’ and then sht said, with withering scorn: “As I have always been accustomed to going with the very Best in my town, and as I don’t believe you ever have your name on the Society page of the Sunday papers, I guess I can’t afford to stay with you.” The North side woman declared, the domestic incident **losed. — Chicago Inter Ocean. QUALITY AND NEWS

Fame and Excellence Are Determine ins Factors In Successful Develop-ment-One of the Important Functions of High-Class Newspapers. In presenting interesting phases of scientific and economic problems, highclass newspapers frequently* give information of as great value in their advertising columns as in those devoted to the publication of the principal events of the day; and when the fame of a product is extended beyond its natural limits into foreign lands, and a large demand created throughout Great Britain and her Colonies and the principal seaports and cities of Europe, Asia and Africa, it becomes a pleasant duty to note the fact and to tell of the points of excellence on which so great a success is based. We refer to the now worldfamed laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs, the product of the California Fig Syrup Company. The merits of this wellknown excellent laxative were first made known to the world through the medical journals and newspapers of the United States; and is one of the distinct achievements of the press. It is now well known that Syrup of Figs is an ethical proprietary remedy, approved by the most eminent physicians everywhere, because it is simple and effective, yet pleasant to the taste and acceptable to the system, and not only prompt in its beneficial effects, but also wholly free from any unpleasant aftereffects. It’ is frequently referred to as the remedy of the healthy, because it is used by people who enjoy good health and who live well and feel well and are well informed on all subjects generally, including laxatives. In order to get its beneficial effects, it is necessary to get the genuine Syrup of Figs, which is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only. Dewey Had No Grievance. "Where do you take command of the fleet?” a lady friend asked Dewey just before he left for Manila. „ “ At Hong-Kong,” he replied. Af ter a silence the lady said: “Aren't you aggrieved, in view of our possible trouble with Spain, over being ordered to the remote Asiatic station, which can hardly be in the picture in case of war?" “Sailor 8 luck!" replied Dewey. “Moreover, I haven't entertained grievances for years.-" And then he added, evidently as an afterthought: “Besides, you know, Spain owns the Philippines."—Ladies' Home Journal. Railroad Eaterpriae. The constantly increasing business of the Baltimore & Ohio railrohd has necessitated very material additions to the telegraph service. During the past year nearly 2,000 miles of copper wire, 166 pounds to the mile, have been strung. New lines have been flaced in service between Baltimore and 'ittsburg, Baltimore and Parkersburg, Newark, O., to Chicago, Philadelphia to Newark, Philadelphia to Cumberland and Cumberland to Grafton. During the summer several of these wires were quadruplexed between Baltimore and Cumberland and duplexed west. Like all new Baltimore & Ohio work, the lines are constructed in the best possible manner. Short of Conscience. Dr. Parkhurst says that man is merely a gorilla with a conscience. If there is any semblance of truth in his theory, then there are a lot of men who are just plain gorillas. —Topeka Capital. The Beat Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of Grove’s Tasteless Chill Toxic. Itis simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. Nocure-no pay. Price,5(k,v She—“You never see my husband laugh at his own jokes.” He—“No; but you can’t blame him for that.”—'Yonkers Statesman. To Cora a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 95o. It is an awful shock to find that we have been polite to people who were not worth it. Piso’s Cure is a wonderful Cough medicine.—Mrs. W. Pickert, Van Siclen and Blake Aves., Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 26, ’94. The wonder is not that people ere afraid to tell the truth, but that they are not afraid to tell a lie.—Atchison Globe.

EVERY-DAY TALKS WITH WOMEN

troubles of her sex* xjy, ' Mrs. Anna B. Hall, of Mittdale, Conn., was all nm down in health and had completely lost control of her nerves. She wrote to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass., for advice. Now she writes: - '* I wish to thank von for what

your Vegetable Compound has done for me, more than anything else. I suffered for vousness, pains in back and limbs and also had neuralgia in my

thing must be done, for< I was nearly frantic with pain. Having read of: the wonderful cures Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound had performed, I determined § ^ to try it I have taken tU£fi it and am happy to say I °°00< am cured. I recommend it to all my friends and nevfcr tire of telling the benefit ‘ I have derived from its use. I have you alone to thank for my recovery.” Mrs. Ellen Flanagan, 1810 Mountain St, Philadelphia, Pa., writes: 8 #Dear Mrs. Pinkham § —Three years ago I was - a sufferer from chronic dyspepsia, was irritable and cross, and can say that after taking seven g , bottles of Lydia E. Pink

ham s Vegetable Compound was entirely pleasure in writing this to you and interviewed by any one who complaint. I am very grateful to you.”

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THIS ELEGANT GUITAR FOR $2.65 No more, no lew, than 5,000 at them, probably the largew contract In guitars ever made *n Instrameat that positively sells from $3.50 to $7.00. When this lot is exhausted w& cannot duplicate this offer. Quantity talks. Only-fey opersting on such s big scale, together with onr well-known small profit policy,could such an offering bd possible. Another reason for dispensing such a bargain broadcast is the confidence we feel that every goiter sold wfirwin for os a per* manent patron and a friend whose recommendation w* can count upon. We will forward the guitar to any address C. O. D., subject to examination, upon receipt of 50e. We, however, advise that cash in rail be sent, at that saves return charges for money aud we stand per* fectly ready to refund money if tbs guitar is not ail and more than we claim for it. Remember cur nA gams special price on 5,000 of fl$K

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