Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 31, Petersburg, Pike County, 7 December 1900 — Page 7

T OLDEST MAJHN AMERICA fells How He Escaped the Terrors of Many Winters by Using: Peruna.

Mr. Isaac Brock,'the Oldest Man In the United States. Mr. Isaac Brock, of McLennan county, Tex., has attained the great age of 111 years, having been born in 1788^ He is an ardent friend to Feruna and speaks of it in the following terms: “During my long life I have known a great many remedies for coughs, colds, catarrh and diarrhoea. I had always supposed these affections to be different diseases, but I have learned from Dr. Hartman’s books that these affections are the same and are properly called catarrh. “As for Dr. Hartman’s remedy, Peruna, I have found it to be the best, if not the only reliable remedy for these affections. “ Peruna haa been my at and-by for 2any yean, and I attribute my good talth and my extreme age to thla remedy. H exactly meets all my requirement a. “I have come to rely upon it almost entirely for the many little things for which I need medicine. I believe it to be especially, valuable to old people.” Issac Brock. Catarrh is the greatest enemy of old gge. A person entirely free from catarrh is sure to live to a hale and hearty old age. A free book on catarrh sent by The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, 0. Time to po South. For the present winter season the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company has improved its already nearly perfect through service of Pullman Vestibuled SieepingCars and elegant day coaches from Cincinnati, LouLsvihe, St. Louis and Chicago, to Mobile^ New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, Thomasviiie, Ga., Pensacola, (Jacksonville, Tampa, Palm Beach and- other points in Florida. Perfect connections made with steamer lines for Cuba,'Porto Rico, Nassau, West Indian and Central American Ports. Tourist and Home Seekers’ excursion tickets on tale at low rates. Write C. L. Stone, Gen- - eral Passenger • Agent, Louisville, Ky., for particulars.

For the Looks of the'Thins* Seeker—Is there really any literary advantage in the possession of a de luxe edition of any author's works? Sageman—Not that I am aware of. “Then why is it that so many people are willing to pay an extravagant price for one?" “Just'for de luxe of the thing, I suppose.” —Boston Courier. HORSES NEED HAIRRENEWER Uncle Reuben Thoushfe/There Waan’t Much to Bras About In the Show, “City folks is easily pleased," remarked Uncle Reuben, who has a farm down in Egypt, relates the Chicago Chronicle. “I went in to see that there horse show, and there wasn’t a single critter there that had more than a stump of a tail. What they need* is a hair renewer for those prize animals. A stiff young man that kept looking at nothing and holding his arms out as if he das’n’t let his coat sleeves touch his coat says tome when I asked him about those poor tailless, stuck-up looking animals that they were that way on purpose because it’s the fashion. Queer what will come in for style. I looked round and most of the big men they said was millionaires didn’t have any hair on their heads. The bald spots was about as numerous as the bob-tailed hosses. The young dudes that I see promenading about with big flowers in their buttonholes didn’t one of them have a sign of mustache or even a prospect of any whiskers. It was queer— horses without hardly any tails, men without any hair on their heads, and boys without any mustaches. It do beat all." ^___;_

NEARLY A BREAK DOWN. Hn. Olbere, a Prominent Minnesota Lady, Tells a Remarkable Story. Albert Lea, Minn., Dec. 3, 1900 (Spedal).—There are few men and women in this1 state or indeed in the whole northwest, who have not heard, or do not know personally Mrs. Henriette C. Olberg of this city. Mrs. Olberg was Judge of Linen and Linen Fabrics at the World’s Fair, at Chicago, and Superintendent of Flax Exhibit at the International Exposition at Omaha, Nebraska, in 1898. Mrs. Olberg is Secretary of the National Flax, Hemp and Ramie Association, and Assistant Editor of the “Distaff.” He? official duties are naturally very onerous, and involve a great deal of traveling and living away from home. She says: “During the World’s Fair in Chicago, f my official duties- so taxed my strength, that I thought 1 would have to give them up. Through the continual change of food rand irregular meal hours, and a poor quality of water, I lost my appetite, and became wikeful and nervous in the extreme. My Kidneys refused to perform their usual dutiesi One of my assistants advised me to try Dodd’s Kidney Pills, and sent for a box. I am pleased to say that I derived immediate and permanent benefit. I used three boxes, and feel ten years younger. “I have great confidence in the efficacy of Dodd's Kidney Pills, and am always glad to speak a good word imtheir favor. “Dodd's Kidney Pills are weak women’s best friend.” All Dealers, 50 cents a box.

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"■ " 4 . TALK ABOUT GRAFTING. It Re«ttlrca Lnu Skill Than Mack ti tbe Onmmon Work Usually Done on the Farm. There seems to be a tendency among tie so-called professional graftehs to convey the impression that grafting ia an art requiring a large amount of skill and practice. While to become an expert may require much practice, and a fair amount of mechanical ability, to become a good grafter requires less practice than much of the common work done on the farm, such as digging | potatoes, etc. These are many reasons I why farmers and fruit growers should i learn to do their own grafting, and es- , pecially the young people. A profes- ! sional grafter often cuts his scions in large quantities, and I have known | them to cut many hundreds from trees whose variety I was sure they did not know, often relying on their own overestimated ability to judge of the variety by the looks of the tree. If the owner does the work himself he is apt to take more interest in the future care and if the tree is large the entire top should not be changed at once.

Grafting is one of the things that should be taught in our rural schools, and if projierly done the children always take a lively interest. It also makes an interesting subject for institute work, and I always like to take a small tree and do the different methods of grafting, especially whip and sidegrafting, showing just how to hold the knife and scion and how to use the other tools, which cannot be shown on paper. Whip-grafting can often be used on large trees by inserting in a small limb that starts out of the large one near where it should be grafted, and not cutting the large one until the scion has made a start. A beginner will often make as large a per cent, live as a person with more experience, as he is apt to be more careful in setting the scion and do the waxing more thoroughly, although it may, look more bungling. If the scions have been carefully saved and the work properly done 93 per cent, of plums, pears and apples should live. While one cent per scion at time of setting and two cents to insure is the old price, the work can be done much cheaper on all but very large trees, and on these it is better ta do the work by^the hour. These remarks refer to grafting with scion, as budding requires more skill, and, in my opinion, should generally be left to the nurseryman, as very few farmers make a success of raising their own trees.— Rural New Yorker. __ ' .» >. .

USEFUL WINTER WORK, Important Cold Weather Task* That Sh*>n*^JB*araffe the Attention of Thrifty Orchardlsts. Diseases sometimes almost imperceptibly spread in winter. No matter bow careful the grower may be he will frequently leave fallen fruit, dead grass, leaves or other refuse materials around the trees in winter. They are the vehicles of germs, and as the winds scatter light substances <-to other locations the failure to clean away the refuse from a single infectease ovqr^ the entire orchard. It is useless to cut away dead limbs and burn them if the spores of' fungus diseases can be scattered broadcast by materials that could easily be cleared up and in a short time. Work during the winter can be done to good advantage in destroying the borers, and the eggs of the millers which produce worms can be cleared from the trees; in fact, every tree will be benefited by scraping and washing with a strong solution of lye, while painting the trees with crude petroluem is claimed to be a remedy for the scale insect. The trees of an orchard usually show the effects of good treatment. The peach, which sometimes appears to succumb from no cause, will respond to severe pruning and take on new life. Many trees, especially those in old orchards, are just as they were when first set out, never having been trimmed. They can be improved by pruning, but it should be done judiciously, and not by going into the orchard with an ax and saw to cut away the trees indiscriminately. Orchards that have never paid a dollar can be made to give good profits if the same labor is given them as is bestowed on grain crops.—Troy (N. Y.) Times. HANDY COMBINATION. ' ' Inexpensive Addition to House •» Barn for Barly Chick* or Barly Garden Plants. Build against the south side of some building the addition shown in the cut, making the sloping portion of green* cause the spread of dis

COMBINATION CHICKEN HOUSE AND HOTBED. house sash. Cut a door through thi side of the building for admittance Build it this winter for next spring's use, In it you can raise early chicks or make a hotbed of it for early vege tables. The sides may be of matched boarding, lined with heavy building pa per. The sides can be banked witl hay to advantage.—N. Y. Tribune.

DON’TS FOR CHRISTMAS. Don’t sendyour gentleman adorer a food toothpick. He may have false teeth. Don’t send your pastor embroidered slippers. To travel the straight and narrow path requires hobnailed shoes. Don’t buy your da\ighter a piano and your wife a washtub. If you teverse the order, you will do justice tc both. Don’t place your expectations of1 a Christmas gift too high. You may have to put your foot in your stocking to find anything in it. Don’t make your friend a present and be disappointed because he doesn’t give something. Perhaps you have surprised him. Don’t give, presents to people not quite so prosperous as yourself and tell them not to reciprocate because they can’t afford to make presents. Be just before you are generous. ’Pay your debts before you buy, presents. Your creditors may consider that they have received an unexpected gift. Don’t give your boy a drum and forbid Kim beating it, nor your daughter a horse and order her not to take it out of the stable without your permission. —Philadelphia Call.

RANDOM ART NOTES. A collection of ancient Greek ornaments which cost him $200,000 has been given by J. Pierpont Morgan to the Metropolitan museum of art, New York cityGood photographs of living wild mammals and birds are so rare as to command high prices in the market, and the magazines are usually glad to buy them. There is a photographer in New York who has adopted as a specialty that phase of his business which most pic-ture-makers detest—the making of babies’ pictures. He takes no pictures of grown people. The colossal memorial to King Alfred the Great, now in course of preparation, which is to be erected in Winchester, England, will probably be one of the most remarkable pieces of sculpture in the kingdom. ■ One of Mr. Whistler’s art students at the schools in Paris the other day ask|d the master very seriously if he thought that she might paint Nature exactly as she saw her. Mr. Whistler very promptly replied: “There is no earthly reason why you should not paint Nature exactly as you see her, so long, my dear, as you do not see Nature exactly as you paint her!” COATS NAMED FOR MEN. The best known of all is the Prince Albert, named-i^fter the present prince of Wales, and which has been held in favor for many y£ars. A topcoat -was named for the earl of Chesterfield, who died in 17T3, and was the most distinguished courtier and politician of his time. The Cardigan warm, close-fitting, knitted, woolen jacket, or waistcoat, was named after the earl of Cardigan. He was born in 1797, and died in 1868, being a British general. Lord Raglan, who lost his right arm at the battle of Waterloo, and was commander in chief of the British forces in the Crimean war, gave the name to this loose overcoat with cape sleeves, which has been worn more or less since 1855.

UNDER THE CZAR’S RULE Russia purposes to increase the number of its troops on the German and Austrian boundaries to 300,000 meh.' St. Petersburg is to have a publishing house, to be run by women chiefly, which will make a specialty of bringing out Jaooks by women. The area of Russia in Europe, including Poland and Finland, is 2,095,504 square miles, while the area of the Ruasian empire is 8.660.2S2 sonare miles.

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Dcrttfneaa Cannot Be Cnr«4 by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is tuily one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine eases of of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition •f the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused bv catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F.J. Cheney ft Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c* Hall s FamilyPills are the best. Woman’* Resoarcefnlnesa. Among the funny things which women do is to spread an old red shawl over the sofa and put a candle with a red shade on a table near by, and call it an oriental corner.—Atchison Globe. The Census of 1900. A booklet giving the population of all cities of the United States of 25,000 and over according to the census of 1900, has }U9t been issued by the passenger department of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway t and a copy of it may be obtained by sending your address, with two-cOnt stamp to pay postage, to the General Passenger Agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul Kailway, Chicago, HI. The person who doesn’t know much, but knows enough not to let others know that he doesn’t know, knows more than seme of the knewiag ones know.—Philadelphia Bulletin.

Beat lor the Bowels. No matter what ails you, headache to & cancer, you will never get well, until your bowels are put right. Cascar^ts help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. Cascarets Candy Cathartic^ the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. -C. stamped on it. Beware of imitations. 4 ”Yer no thrue ah* pathriotic Amurican!” "No more are you!” “Thot Oi am! I got me papers jest befure iliction an’ voted loike a raon.”—Indianapolis News. Does Coffee Agree with You? If not, drink Grain-0—made from pure grains. A lady writes: "The first time I made Grain-0 I did not like it, but after using it one week nothing would induce me to go hack to coffee. ” It nourishes and feeds the system. Children can drink it freely with great benefit. It is the strengthening substance of pure grains. Get a package to-day ; from your grocer, follow directions in mak,nK> *nd you will haveadeliciousand healthful tablebeverageforoldandyoung. 15cand 25c. Art and Nature. "Was the country lovely,-Marie?” "Oh, just lovely; it looked for all the world like a landscape painted by somebody.”—Indianapolis Journal. The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle or GnovE’s Tasteless Chill Tonic. It is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. Nocure—nopay. Price, 50c. Poet (to colleague)—"So you are going to have your beard shaved off?” Colleague —“Yes; it couldn’t be reproduced in marble.”—Fliegende Blaetter. ^ Jell-O, The New Dessert, pleases the family. Four flavors:—Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry. At »ur grocers. 10 cts. Try it to-day. A Real Patriotr^-Friend—“Do you love vour country?” Politician—"You bet I do. I’ve held a government job for 12 years.”— Syracuse Herald. To Care » Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. I always judge a man by the cigars he smokes.” "I judge him by the cigars he Sves others to smoke.” -— Philadelphia orth America. Uso’s Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure.—J. W. O’Brien, 322 Third Ave., N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6,1900. Citicus—“Has Daub made a success as an artist?” Cynicus—"Yes, indeed. He belongs to five clubs.”—Town Topics.

Throw physic to the dogs—if you don't want the dogs—but if you want good digestion chew Beeman’s Pepsin Gum. Wiggles—“Can you speak French ?” Waggles—“A little. That is. I can shrug my shoulders.”—Somerville Journal. Thirty minutes is all the time required to Ie with Putnam Fadeless Dtes. Sold by druggists. The only safe bet on record—the alphabet. —Chicago News. .

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The ordinary every-day life of most of our women is a ceaseless treadmill of work. How much hardertae daily tasks become when some derangement of the female organs makes every movement painful and keeps the nervous system all unstrung! One day she is wretched and utterly miserable : in a day or two she is better and laughs at her fears, thinking there is nothing much the matter after all; but before night the deadly backache reappears, the limbs tremble, the lips twitch —it seems as though all the imps of Satan were clutching her vitals; she goes to pieces and is flat on her back. No woman ought to arrive at this terrible state of misery, because these symptoms are a sure forerunner of womb troubles. She mi st remember that Lydia E, Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is almost an infallible cure for all female ills, such at irregularity of periods, which cause weak'stomach, sick headache, etc., displacements and inflammation of the womb, or any of the multitudes of illnesses which beset the female organism. Mrs. Gooden wrote to Mrs.PInkham when she was tn groat trouble, Her tetter tells the result, “ Dear Mrs. Pdtkham:—1 am very grateful to you for your kindness and the interest you have take: 1 in me, and truly believe that your medicines

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