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HEALTH FOR THE CHILD.
The careful mother, watching close
ly the physical peculiarities of her
children, soon learns that heaitn is in
a great measure dependent upon not
mal, healthy, regular bowel action.
When the bowels are Inactive, loss of
appetite, restlessness'during sleep, ir
ritability and a dozen and one similar
evidences of physical disorder are soon
apparent.
Keep the bowels free and clear and
good health is assured. At the first
sign of constipation give the child a
teaspoonful of Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup
Pepsin at bed-time and repeat the
dose the following night, if necessary.
You will find the child will quickly re
cover its accustomed good spirits, and
eat and sleep normally.
Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin is far
preferable to salts, cathartics and
purgative waters which are harsh in
their action. Syrup Pepsin acts on
the bowels easily and naturally, yet
positively, and causes no griping or
discomfort. Its tonic properties build
up the stomach, liver and bowels, re
storing their normal condition.
Druggists everywhere sell Dr. Cald
well’s Syrup Pepsin in 50c and SI.OO
bottles. If you have never tried this
remedy, send for a sample to Dr. W.
B. Caldwell, 201 Washington St., Mon
ticello, 111. He will gladly send a
trial bottle without any expense to
you whatever.
Equivocal.
“What’s in that report about private
still in the mountains near your
place ?"
“Oh, that’s all moonshine.”
His Advantage.
“A beauty doctor has one advantage
over other men in something of his
line."
“What is that?”
“He can lawfully conduct a skin
game.”
Looking Forward.
The husband and wife were making
a call on friends one evening. The
wife was talking.
“I think we shall have Marian take
a domestic science course along with
iher music and regular studies when
! at college.”
“Ah," said a man present, who had
'been a stranger until that evening,
“you look rather young to have a
daughter ready for college.”
“O!” said the mother, naively, “she
isn't old enough now; she is just eight
months old, but I do so like to look
iforward!” —Indianapolis News.
His Veracity.
Jim Slocum of Mongomery county,
iavers the Kansas City Journal, was
called as a witness to impeach the tes
timony of a man in that county. Jim
was asked if he was acquainted with
the reputation of the witness for truth
and veracity. Jim said that he guessed
maybe he was.
“Is it good or bad?”
' “Well,' said Jim, “I don’t went to
'do the man an injustice, but I will
say that If. his neighbors were to see
him looking as if he was dead they
would want some corrobatin’ evi
dence before they would be willing to
bury him.”
Jewels in a Flower-Bed.
The recovery of a quantity of stolen
jewelry from a flower-bed was de
scribed at Kingston-on-Thames police
court the other day, when a general
servant was charged with theft from
her mistress, a resident of Ivydeane,
Southborough ?road, Surbiton. London.
The lady had missed a pearl pin and
a pearl and diamond, ring. Thinking
she mjght have lost the jewels in the
street, she issued printed notices of
fering a reward for their recovery.
When she lost a number of other
things she placed the matter in the
hands of the police. The detective
said that from what the prisoner told
him he searched the garden, and in
one of the flower-beds found some of
the jewelry. The rest he found in
the prisoner’s bedroom.
When the
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Appetite Lags
A bowl of
Post
Toasties
with cream
" hits the right spot
“Toasties” are thin bits
of com; fully cooked, then
toasted to a crisp, golden
brown.
This food makes a fine
change for spring appe
j tites.
Sold by Grocers, and
ready to serve from pack
age instantly with cream and
sugar.
" The Memory Lingers ’ ’
Made by
Postum Cereal Company, Ltd.
Pure Food Factories
Battle Creek. Mich.
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ANIMALS FOUND EFFICIENT
FOR ALL-ROUND FARM WORK
Some Farmers Prefer Mule on Account of Hardiness,, Less
Fastidiousness in Appetite and Its Value in Garden
Work—Man of Moderate Means Should
Keep the Horse.
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Team of Prize Winning Mules.
The following letters have been re
ceived from farmers located in various
sections of the country on the merits
and demerits of the mule and the
horse.
“I have had thirty years’ experience
in working horses and mules on a to
bacco, wheat and corn farm, and I
prefer the mules. Their feet are
smaller and they injure very little of
the tobacco and corn; they are less
liable to disease, less fastidious in ap
petite, will endure greater hardships,
are longer-lived, and worry the plow
man less, as they are more steady.
Not one horse is used for farm work
to ten mules, in this section of the
country.”—W. E. E., Kentucky.
“On large farms where there is
steady work and lots of it, I have
found the mules the most profitable.
They can do a certain amount of work
at a less expense for feed, are tougher,
and, in proportion to weight, stronger
than horses. While they stand neglect
and ill-treatment better than horses,
they appreciate kindness just as well.
Mules are ready for work six days of
the week and fifty-,two weeks in the
year, and are all the better for it.
There is a prejudice against mules
Typical Belgian Horse.
here which I consider unjust. Their
use on large farms in Ohio would be
found profitable, I am sure.” —W. E.
0., Ohio.
“In this climate a mule stands the
heat better, works vyith less feed, and
stands the treatment he is sure to get
from the negro hands, better than a
horse. A mule lives longer, too. I
have seen mules doing service at 25
years of age. As a farm animal he is
unexcelled in the south.” —W. H. G.,
Georgia.
"The mule has a number of im
portant advantages over the horse in
farm work. A good mule is a treasure
GIVECHicKENS^
BEST OF CARE
Birds of AH Ages Should Be Ex
amined During the Hot
Months for Little
Mites and Lice.
(By M. B. BERNARD.)
All the old birds, and young,, too,
hould be examined frequently during
the hot months because then it is
that the lice and mites thrive.
If cut bone or chopped meat is fed
during the summer extra precautions
must be taken to have it perfectly
fresh.
Many birds die from eating bone
and meat scraps which have been al
lowed to lie around exposed to the
heat and the flies.
In feeding chickens, always remem
ber that they are provided for to pro
duce fresh eggs for human feed and
therefore their own' feed should be
just as pure as that we eat ourselves.
The hot sun will cause young gos
lings and ducklings as well to topple
over and die. Provide shade for them
until they are strong on their pegs.
Care of Stallions.
A stallion shut up in a dark stall
without the companionship of other
horses often becomes moody and sav
age. Some English stallioners ride a
pony while leading their horses for
exercise, and the horses become so at
tached to the ponies that they become
fretful and uneasy when they are not
near. At night the ponies are given a
stall next to the horses. Os course,
some horses are too savage in nature
to permit their being led in company
of a pony, but if broken to this treat
ment when young stallions can be
handled in this way.
on the farm. He is tougher, stands
the heat and hard work better; he is
not so susceptible to disease as a
horse. I know mules which, in plow
ing in a garden will step over hills
of potatoes or other vegetables with
as much care as the gardener would
ask. I never saw a horse that would
try to avoid stepping on a hill, and
in some instances they seem to make
a point of trampling down everything
in reach of their big feet.” —L. W. C.,
Tennessee.
“Our experience with mules leads
us to believe they are hardier than
horses; they are seldom sick, their
shoulders hardly ever become sore and
they are more easily taught what is
expected of them. We have never yet
known of a mule being Injured in any
respect from over-feeding. They
know when to quit eating. For steady
work and hard knocks we prefer the
mule every time. The farmers of the
west are beginning to appreciate them
at their true value, as the number of
mule teams now in use, compared to
what there was a few years ago, fully
attests.” —H. C. S., Kansas.
“Forty years’ experience with mules
has satisfied me that they will not
compare, in a flhancial way, with
horses, not being adapted to saddle or
carriage, nor will they bring any in
crease, as a horse does. They are mis
chievous, breachy and will often kill
young stock if turned in with them on
pasture. A farmer of moderate means
should keep horses every time.” —H.
M., Illinois. .
“Where farming operations are car
ried on, on a large scale, and animals
are kept solely for farm work, and
not for alternate work and driving to
buggy, I prefer the mule to horses.
Mules endure a warm climate better
than horses, largely because they do
not over-feed or over-exert themselves
in hot weather. No animal can take
the place of the mule in the south.
The. mule is very valuable in garden
work, from his close-stepping habits,
which make it. easy to work small
■ plants in narrow rows without dam
age. As to feeding, while a mule will
keep at work on coarser food than a
, horse, I have never found that a hard
: worked mule team would keep in fine
1 condition on less than a similar team
: of horses. Never buy a long-legged
, mule. A big, “gangling,” long-legged
mule is the meanest “critter” on earth.
■ Whether heavy or light, see to it that
i he is compactly built,” —W. F. M.,
> North Carolina.
COVERING WALLS
WITHWISTARIA
Common Purple Variety Is Best
Adapted to Hide Great
Vacant Spaces —
Needs Pruning.
(By WALTER B. LEUTZ.)
We seldom see great wall spaces
covered with wistaria, yet it is to
our eye the most beautiful flower for
that purpose that grows.
The Japanese wistaria is not so
well adapted to this purpose as the
common royal purple flower of Amer
ica. To get the best results the vine
must be constantly pruned and kept
back for two or three years, else it
will run in long streamers and the
flowers will hang straight down. The
vines must be trained to run in all
directions.
We can never forget the wall of a
large old house in Richmond, Va., that
is covered witih this beautiful flower.
The wall is about seventy feet high
and is one soft mass of ravishing
beauty. In this climate the vine needs
no attention after it has once been
well started, and blooms early and
late.
What Nitrate of Soda Will Do.
It is estimated by experts who have
. conducted experiments with nitrate of
soda that under ordinary conditions
■ 100 pounds per acre, applied to crops
i named below, will produce yields as
; follows:
Barley, 400; corn, 280; oats, 400;
, rye, 300; wheat, 300; potatoes, 3,000;
s hay, 1,000; cotton, 500; cabbage
■ 5,000; onions, 18,000; strawberries, 200
■ quarts; asparagus, 100 bunches; cel
i ery, 30 per cent.; sugar beets, 4,000;
beets, 4,000^ sweet potatoes, 900.
ELKHRICAL
aiWORLDA.
SAND SCREENED BY A MOTOR
Labor-Saving Machine Will Do as
Much Work In One Hour as
Two Men Can In Ten.
The tedious method of riddling sand
by hand has been superseded by the
electrical method at the foundry of 4
Cleveland manufacturing concern.
The electric riddle oscillator is a
small, compact machine weighing but
175 pounds. There Is no dead center,
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so the motor is not subjected to
shocks nor overload and will run from
the ordinary lamp socket.
The machine will riddle as much
Banff In an hour as two men will in
ten hours. It accommodates the or
dinary 18-inch foundry riddle and
when In motion it is Interesting to
watch it, as it operates with the same
graceful and effective motion of the
molder riddling sand by hand, but
with the steady and untiring energy of
a half horse-power motor.
ALARM FOR THE JEWEL BOX
Pendulum, Hanging Perpendicular,
Closes Electric Circuit, Giving
Warning to Owner.
A jewel box provided with an elec
tric alarm has recently been patented
and has already been placed on the
market In Paris. In the bottom of
the box is a dry battery, a magnet,
and a system of levers, the whole
forming a device not unlike a tele
graph instrument in appearance. In
the center of the bottom of the box is
a small opening in which a pendulum
is suspended. As long as the box is
stationary this pendulum hangs per
pendicular, and does not close the elec
tric circuit, but the slightest movt
ment of the box causes it to close the
circuit and sound the alarm. Once the
pendulum drops down the alarm can
not be silenced except by opening the
lid of the box and shifting a lever.
LIGHT FOR THE BLACKSMITH
Accompanying Illustration Shows How
an Enterprising Man Provides
Illumination for Shop.
The accompanying illustration
shows how an enterprising blacksmith
provides illumination in his shop so
that the light will fall where most
needed, says the Popular Electricity.
Recesses In the wall contain each an
incandescent lamp. The wires for these
are run in conduit laid in the wall.
It was necessary to place a wire net-
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Arrangement of Light.
ting over the wall recess to keep the
horses from biting and breaking the
lamps.
Determine Longitude.
Several determinations of longitude
have of late been made by means of
wireless messages, but the most am
bitious attempt of this nature has just
taken place between Paris and Tunis
wireless signals connecting two clocks,
one at the Eiffel Tower and the other
at Bizerta, Tunis, the comparison of
which decided the longitude. The sig
nals traveled the whole distance in
.007 second, which works out at nearly
200,000 miles a second.
New Task for Electricity.
Every day electricity is set some
new task. Now it is asked to mag
netize a great steel disk to be used
In conveying a cargo of nails from
the bottom of the Mississippi; or it
must supply power to dredge the
Alaskan sands for gold, or to drive the
, huge mechanical shovels to dig a new
, and better canal across the Empire
, state.
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। Wireless Intelligence Tower.
An agreement has been reached by
the Italian government and one of the
largest Italian wireless companies for
the erection of a large and powerful
। station in the suburbs of the city of
Rome for the transmission of Intelli
gence. It will have si*'™ ws, two ot
them being 240 feet Ift,
GREAT IS WIRELESS SYSTEM
Conversation Successfully Carried on
Between San Francisco and Island
of Hokushu, Japan.
Marconi rejoiced when, in 1897, he
succeeded in sending a wireless mes
sage a distance of three miles. By 1907
he had established regular wireless
communication across the Atlantic.
Since then vessels have been “picked
up" at sea from shore stations at dis
tances of from 2,000 to 4,000 miles.
In November last Marconi sent a mes
sage from the Coltano station, in Italy,
to the Glace Bay station, In Nova Sco
tia, 4,000 miles. The San Francisco
operator, a month earlier, conversed
for a period of 15 minutes with the
Japanese station on the island of
Hokushu, a distance Os 6,000 miles.
Wireless communication, it is ex
pected, will be opened up between
Italy and Argentina, says the Amer
ican Review, with the completion of
the new station at Buenos Aires. The
air-line distance between these sta
tions will be 7,000 miles, The installa
tion of wireless apparatus on ships Is
being gradually extended. Until re
cently-few vessels outside of warships
and steamers of the liner class have
been so equipped. Now various coun
tries are, by legislation, compelling
many smaller passenger-carrying craft
to install such apparatus. Great Brit
ain is reported to be planning the es
tablishment of a chain of wireless sta
tions to encircle the globe. There is
to be a subsidized system under the
control of the postofflce department.
Such a chain of stations would give
England wireless connections with her
colonial possessions in various parts
of the world, making her independent
of cables, which are liable to be cut in
time of war. —Exchange.
SMALL BATTERY RUNS LAMP
Vest Pocket Arrangement Has Just
Seen Placed on Market in
France—Actuates Toys.
What the inventor claims is the
smallest practical storage battery in.
the world has just been placed on the
market in France in connection with a
vest-pocket electric light. The battery
which actuates the light weights 1%
Vest Pocket Lamp.
ounces, is but two-thirds of an inch
thick, two inches high and 2% inches
wide, and has current sufficient to
provide light for six hours continu
ously and for a much longer time, if
used intermittently, says the Popu
lar Mechanics. The battery and light
are placed in a receptacle that is not
much larger than an ordinary watch
and can be carried in the vest pocket.
The battery can be used to actuate
small mechanical toys as well as to
light the pocket flashlamp.
elbctoical
Over 50 lightships are stationed
around the English shores.
Forty thousand wireless telegrams
reached the coast of Great Britain last
year.
Ball bearings for. every movable
part feature a new electric automo
bile.
Weather reports are sent from
Gibraltar to London daily by wireless
telegraphy.
Through telephone service between
New York and Los Angeles is prom
ised by November.
London has 200,000 telephones and
the daily number of calls averages
one and a quarter million.
An electrically driven machine that
weighs less than 50 pounds has been
invented to scrub floors.
Austria-Hungary has the least tele
phone service, in proportion to popu
lation, of any European country.
Electric lighting has been vastly
improved. New lamps have been pro
duced and old processes improved.
More than 11,000 of the 50,000 pas
senger cars in use on the railroads of
the United States are now electrically
lighted.
The government of New Zealand is
replacing its wooden telegraph poles
and letter box posts with reinforced
concrete ones.
The electric zone of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford railroad Is
to be extended, indicating that its
operation has been successful.
No task is too little or too large
for electricity and no man can truth
fully say what it will yet perform
when we have learned it better.
Wireless telegraphy has been de
' veloped until messages are being re
ceived between San Francisco and
■ Japan, or across the Pacific ocean.
A bill has been introduced In the
New York legislature to provide for
co-operation between New York and
- Ontario in the matter of illuminating
s Niagara Falls.
Acetylene automobile headlights
I have been provided with an attach
-1 ment with which the gas may be
- lighted by short circuiting the spark
t ing system with a switch from ths
driver’s seat.
WOMAN SICK »
TWELVE YEARS
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Wants Other Women to Know
How She Was Finally
Restored to Health.
Louisiana, Mo.:-“I think a woman
naturally dislikes to make her troubles
known to the public,
but complete restor
ation tohealth means
so much to me that
I cannot keep from
telling mine for the
sake of other suffer
ing women. £
“I had been sick
about twelve years,
and had eleven doc
tors. I had drag-i
■ '" 1 1 ging down pains, f
pains at monthly periods, bilious spells, |
and was getting worse all the time.
would hardly get over one spell when I a
would be sick again. No tongue can tell ’
what I suffered from cramps, and at ,
times I could hardly walk. The doctors 5
said I might die at one of those times, |
but I took Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta- \
ble Compound and got better right away. |
Your valuable medicine is worth more 5
than mountains of gold to suffering wo
men.”—Mrs. Bertha Muff, 503 N. 4th
Street, Louisiana, Mo.
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and herbs,
contains no narcotic or harmful drugs,
i and to-day holds the record of being the
most successful remedy for female ills we
know of, and thousands of voluntary
testimonials on file in the Pinkham
laboratory at Lynn,Mass., seem to prove
1 this fact.
Ts you want special advice write to
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confi
dential) Lynn, Mass. Tour letter will
be opened, read and answered by a
woman and held in strict confidence-
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You can’t afford to trifle
with catarrh or rheumatism;
or with any complaint due to
impure blood.
Such troubles are bad enough in
themselves; and they lead to some
thing worse.
Go to your druggist this very day
and ask him for a trial bottle of
“8.8.8.”— 0ur famous Botanic
Blood Balm.
This powerful tonic is a thorough
scientific blood-cleanser and puri
fier. It has relieved and cured
many seemingly hopeless cases
due to impure blood. And it is
bound to help you. If not we will
refund you the full price you pay.
Could there be any stronger guarantee?
How can you afford to delay another day?
If your druggist can’t supply you write to
us. We will have you supplied. Act now.
Seek relief today. t
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TEETHING CHILDREN
are a source of great
anxietytotheirparents.
■jiCuejQ It is heartrending to
them to see the little
ones suffer. We wish
every mother knew, as
we know, of the won-
AFI ^^“*derful efficacy of
I OLD DR. BIGGER’S
Huckleberry Cordial
in all cases of teething, when accompanied by
colic, diarrhoea, dysentery or any kind of bowel
trouble. A bottle would then be in every house for
emergencies. Ask your druggist. Serial No. 2576.
Price ascand 50c per bottle. Send for Confederate
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IHi thin ^^ ere are none -
We make the famous
Double Muzzle Wire Fish Basket
Greatly improved this year. Write
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