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The Evolution of
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Household Remedies,
' The modorn patent medicine busi
mess is the natural outgrowth of the
old-time houschold remedies, -
In the early history of thie country,
EVERY FAMILY HAD ITS HOKE
MADE IIEDICINES. Herb teas,
bitters, laxatives and tonics, were to be
found in clmost every house, compound
ed by the housewife, sometimes assisted
by the apothecary oithe family dostor.
Such remedies ag picra, which wos
aloes and quaesie, dissclved in apple
brandy. Bometimes a hop tonic, made
of whiskey, hops and bitter barks, A
soore or more of pepular, hcme-made
remedies wcre thus eompounded, the
formulee for which were passed zlong
from house to house, sometimes writton,
sometimes vorbadly eommunicatod,
The patent medieine business iz a
natural outgrowth from this wiolo
some, old-time custem. In the begin
ning, some onbemprising doctor, im
pressed by the ueefuluess of one of
these home-made remedios, would take
it up, improve it in mexny ways, manu
facture it on a lazge soals, advertisc it
maiuly through almanacs for the home,
and thus it would become used ovor a
largearca. LATTRRLY THE HOUSE
HOLD BEMEDY BUBINESS TOOK
A MORE EXACT AND SBCIENTIFIC
FORM
. Peruna was originally one of these
old-time remedies. It was used by the
Mennonites, of Pemnsylvania, before it
was offered to the publie for sale, Dr.
Hartman, THE ORIGINAL COM
POUNDER OF PERUNA, is of Men
monite origin, First, he prescribed it
for his neighbors and his patients.
The sale of it inoreascd, and at last he
established a manufactory and fur
nished it to tho general drug trade.
Peruna is useful in a great many
elimatic ailments, such as coughs, colds,
sore throat, bronchitis, and catarrhal
diseases generally. THOUBANDS OF
FAMILIES HAVE LEARNED THE
USE OF PEBUNA and its value inthe
‘treatment of these ailments. They
have learned to srust and believe in
Dr. Hartmen's judgment, and to rely
on his remedy, Peruna,
Wy Wile's Long Suffaring e Neuralei
Cured By Minard's Liniment
I am pleased to say that Minard's Liniment is a great relics
for neuralgia. My wife has suffered a Ion‘? time with neuralgia,
: and I have tried everything I knew or hear about, and could not
get anything that would cure her, and the doctors had given her up;
they could not do any more for her. About three weeks she had
, not been able to do her own work and had to have her head tied
" up, and her neck was 50 bad that she could not turn her head with- :
out turning her whole body. When your agent came along 1 got
three sample bottles of Minard's Liniment. She used one, and in
twenty-five minutes she was able to go all around the house without
her head being bandaged, and could do her own work and has ever
since. - Therefore 1 can truly say that Minard’s Liniment is a
sure cure for neuralgia, and that it will do just as it is recommended
to do, and as long as God spares me, I shall never be without it
Yours respectfully,
\ J. B. PHAIR
4 Babcock St., Gouverneur, N, Y.. Jan. 15, 1907.
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i Wrentling,
In the twelve years that wrestling
bhas forged to the front In America,
'fom' champions have developed, and
all of them have been defeated. The
'qmu'tet ecomprises Jenking, Mcleod,
]Beell and Gotch, Only two of them,
| Goteh and Jenkins, are really entitl
|ed to the crown, as Beell and MclLeod
iscored victories which in the light of
|later bouts proved that the defeats
jof Gotch and Jenkins were flukes,
“Farmer” Burns, regarded as one of
the cleverest mat men in America,
|&spired to the ehampionship, but gave
way when his young pupil, Gotch, ad
vanced to the front. Dan McLeod
tried repeatedly to wrench the title
from Jenkins, and finally caught big
Tom out of form and was given the
decision in Worcester Mcl.eod real
1y had no meritorjous claim to a con
'quest, ag each man had a fall and
Jenkins complained of ailment in his
leg and left the mat in a helpless
condition. However, Jenkins regain
ed his crown at Buffalo a few months
afier, throwing the French Canadian
in two straight falls. Gotch then de
seated Jenking after a seesaw series
of bouts, Gotch’s defeat by Beell at
'New Orleans was a shock to wrest
| ling followers, but the hig Humboldt
lad quickly retrieved himself by floor
ing his lighter opponent in two
straight falls in Kansas City recently.
Frank will do weli to keep his riva's
Idown in future. Of course, aceideuts
'simnar to the one Gotch is said to
have received will lay the best of
(them out, but wrestling students
know that Gotva at present has no
peer in America, and when he is beat
en the affair 15 bound (o create sus
| picion. His defeat by Beell was ia
(stantdly fellowed by cries of “Fake!”
[“lt’s Goteh’s turn next!” and other
yelps which are sure to knock the
good old winter sport down and out
it allowed to circulate.~Washington
| Post.
; Steepest Railway.
A wonderful mountain railway is
being constructed in the Tyrolese Alps
by a Swiss engineer named Strubb, of
Clarens, near Montreaux. When com
. pleted this line will achieve the Eu
iropean record, which hag been held
by the Strauserborn Railway, for
traverging the steepest mountain slope
|in the world.—~Washington Post.
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the hands of the undertaker.
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LANGUID AND WEAK,
A Condition Common With Kidney
Trouble and Backache.
~ Mrs. Marie Sipfle, 416 Miller St.,
Helena, Mont.,, says: “Threge years
, : H ago my back grew
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R o I could not stoop
f—ebe @Y Without a sharp
" T 9 pain, It was just as
: \‘?‘;" bad when I tried to
{ LR get. up from a chair.
SR T E | was languid and
DR AR listless and had
oL much pain and irou
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was my state when I began with
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from the first and four boxes made a
complete, lasting cure.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
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- Save Good Breeders.
There are many more old sows he
ing sent to market this year than
last. This indicates that farmers are
selling off their big, heavy sows and
keeping young ones for coming breed
ers, or are reducing their breeding
herds. Whatever else you do, save
a good bunch of breeders, It is 2 mis
take to sell too close, because of
high prices.—Progressive Farmer.,
Seamless Milk Cans.
The best milk vessels are those!
that have no seams in them, since!
dirt and old cakes of milk will get
down in the seams and develop bad
germs in spite of anything reason
able that can be done to prevent it,
If vessels must be used with seams in
them, the seams should be as smooih.
as possible, to reduce the space where
dirt can lodge. - Solder can be used
to fill the scams smoothly.—Progres
sive Farmer,
Pure Bred Poultry.
To start with pure bred poultry it
Is not necessary to invest a small for
tune, as many believe. If vou have
a mixed flock and do not wish to dis
pose of them at once and start with
pure bred poultry, hut want to im
prove the laying qualities of vyour
mixed stock, get a pure bred cock
bird from some fancier who has a
.Bood laying strain. Mate him with
your mixed hens and the next genera
tion will be better layers. Remem
ber the male bird is half vour flock.
You can get a pure bred male bird
that is not good enough in color per
haps to reproduce his own breed, but
is in other respects a good bird and
just what you need to introduce new
blood into your mixed flock.—Farm
ers’ Home Journal, :
Separate Roosts,
When housing birds for winter it
should be taken into consideration
that the young birds require a little
more atiention than the old ones, and
that the same conveniences do not
suit all ages. Old stock will get
aloug well on almost any, kind of a
roost, but it is not so with young
birds. Their bones are composed
mostly of animal matter and are eas
ily bent and thus easily deformed.
If a chick is forced to sit all night
on a little, narrow pole it will cause
him to bend almost double in order
to remain there and be comfortable,j
and he will soon become ecrooked
backed, have leg weakness, or have a‘
crooked breast. Have separate roosts |
for the young and old stock. The
young birds will choose the flat, wider
pieces of board, and the old stoek
will naturally take the higher ones
and better results will follow.—
‘Farmers' Home Journal.
Equip the Farm.
The scarcity of help on farms will
ultimately drive land owners to
greater economy and to a more gen
eral use of devices and conveniences
which lighten the work. It is sur
prising how many try to get along
by muscle power alone, never trying
out any other method, which might
save half their work. An old farmer
says that his neighbors called him
lazy when he first brought a hay
loader onto his farm, and when he
rigged up a cable ‘and used a ‘trip
hay fork to unload his hay he had a
good bunch of farmers around him,
‘‘just to see how it worked.” The
close figuring farmer counts all of
these labor savers just that much of
his equipment, and it is only by us
ing them that he is enabled to meet
present conditions. The walking
stirring plow and walking cultivators
are back numbers. Now the sulky
or-gang plow is used, and three big,
lusty horses will turn over three or
four acres a day. A manufacturer
has now gotten out a rotary harrow,
which is attached to the plow, and
the land is turned and harrowed at
one operation. 1 believe that if any
man is justified in borrowing maney
it is when he invests it in up-to-date
tools and implements for more rapid
and better work on the Zarm.—ln
diana Farmer,
Lambs Dying From Weol-Ball.
In cases of lambs dying from this
trouble, it is well to remember that
this may and does arise from two
separate causes.
Firstly, when grass is scarce and
ewes are short of milk, in the case of‘
twin lambs, it is usually the bigger;
and stronger of the twins that dies.
This may appear strange, but it is'
casily explainable. When the milk is
short, the stronger lamb drives off
the wealker one from the dam, and
by its persistent tugging at the empty
udder for the sustenance it fails to
obtain, it takes into its stomach por
tions of wool from about the udder of
its dam, which forms:into a ball in
the stomach and causes death. In
such cases the shepherd should jose
no time in going over the flock and
cutting away the wool frem the vicin
ity of the udders.
Secondly, when the ewes are af
fected with sheep ticks, the lambs by
the upstroke of the heads in seeking
for the teats dislodge the ticks and
these fall into the coats of the lambs.
They are not accustomed to such
visitors and seek to rid themselves
by biting the ticks and in so doing
take into _heir stomachs portions of
their own wool, death resulting.
Thus in post mortems to elucida‘e
~causes of death it is necessary to note
whether the wool-ball is composed of
‘ewe or lamb ‘wool, hefore effective
measures of precaution and preven
tion can be taken.—W. R. Gllbert, in
: To Cleanse Ponds, !
Many ponds, small lakes, streams
and brooks and even the natural
bagins which serve to catch the winter
rains to be utilized during the rain
less season for stock water frequently
hecome clogged with a vegetable
growth which renders- the water
nauscous in taste and repulsive in
smell, In almost every case these
cofditions are produced by a small
plant whose origin is unknown to the
farmer and the effect of whieh is
gserious. To drain the water off will
not cause the destruction of the
growth, for as soon as the water is
returned the plants begin to grow
again. A simple way and an inexpen
sive one, is to draw a small bag filled
.with sulphate of copper (blue vitrol),
back and forth through the water.
If the pond is small, or the growth is
in a siream, the sulphate can be tied
to the end of a pole. If the pond
is large the bag may be trolled be
’hind a boat. It frequently occurs
that a viscid growth resembling moss
in strings appears in water tanks
and troughs at the wind mill or where
a stream falls from a spring. The
growth may be effectually killed by
using copper sulpbate as described.
Let it be borne in mind that copper
sitlphate is poison and should be used
with care. A dollar’s worth will clear
several acres of a pond and a penny’s
worth a tank or water trough. Ice
ponds may be cleared of theohjection
able moss ir this way.—C. M. Gine
ther, in The Epitomist.
A Study of Plant Food.
The principal foods of plants are
| nitrogen, phosphoxic acid and potash,
' and it is these substances in the man
ure upon which plants prinecipally
feed. When fertilizers ave applied
the farmer gives his crops identically
ithe same principal foods that he sup
plies from barnyards, with the differ
ence that in the use of fertilizers he
knows just how many pounds of ni
trogen (or ammonia),phosphoric acid
and potash he applies per acre, while
the proportions of these substances in
the manure are unknown and much
"depends upon the kinds of foods from
which the manure is produced and
the manner it has been cared for.
Barnyard manure, while it pos
sesses just what may be needed, con
tains some substances in greater pro
portion than of others. Thus clover
is a plant 'that prefers lime in some
form and requires very little ammo
nia, “while wheat does not require as
much lime as the clover. The barn
yvard manure is expected to furnish
hoth substances to each crop, and vet
there might be a waste of ammonia
from the manure applied to the clo
ver.
The custom has been to haul out
the manuve and spread it for corn,
with hopeful results and from the
same heap the farmers would spread
the same kind of manure on the
ground prepared for wheat. All this
was proper enough in its way, for no
one can deny the fact that barnyard
manure possesses nearly all the re
quirements of plants-—of every kind
—but why should there be applied
that which would be wasted because
of not being put to proper use?
Improvement is taking place in the
domain of agriculture, marching
along sieadily and swiftly, cutting
down in its path -ithe follies of the
past and adding more knowledge and
experience to the farmers, and to
nothing has more thoughtful atten
tion been given than to the enrich
ment of the soil—supplying plants
with the best available foods, accord
ing to their individual requirements.
Not one kind of fertilyzerfor all kinds
of plants, but special fertilizer of the
plant that needs it.—The Epitomist.
Taking Care of the Harness.
“There is nothing like leather.”
But there is nothing like knowing
how to keep your leather goods in
fine condition, too. Leather is com
posed of a mass of fine tendrils, inti
mately interlocked and entwined.
‘When in good, pliable condition, each
tendril is capable of much stretching.
If allowed to become dry and'hard,
when the leather is subjecteda to a
severe pull, the tendrils break instead
of stretching,. But this does ndt
mean that leather boots or harness
should be kept soaked with oil or
dressing. Elbo@ grease applied in
quantity is better. “All dressings
should be applied sparingly,” is the
sound advice of a big saddlery con
cern. Black oil should always be
used on black harness and not neats
foot oil, as the latter oil, if it is used,
will draw out the black dye and leave
the harness brown. The black har
ness fats now on the market make ex
cellent farm harness dressing. They
contain the “nourishment” necessary
for keeping the harness in good order.
But first, all dirt should be washed
off with lukewarm water and or
dinary soap. The black fat should
then be applied with a cloth, given
ia short time to penetrate the ieather,
and then rubbed dry with another
cloth. Some make the mistake of oil
ing without unbuckling thec harness.
The parts that need nourishment the
most are under the buckles, where
the metal causes hardness and brittle
ness. If people would vary the holes
of the harness occasionally it would
last much longer. ;
An objection to neatsfoot oil is
that it inclines to wash off the bees
wax from the. stilches, leaving the
bare thread, which then soon breaks
—American Cultivator.
The best cheese made in Switzer
land is usually exported, and is sel
dom to be had even in the famous ho
*gla of that country.
AN INTERESTING
CHEMICAL EXPERIMENT
Any Child Can Do it---The Result is
Almost Like Magic---Useful Tco.
| Anything in the nature of a chem
fecal experiment is always interesting
~and usually educative. Here is a
simple experiment which any child
can perform and whish is instructive
in a very practical way: Get a bit of
White Lead about the size of 4 pea, a
piece of charcoal, a common candle
in a candlestick, and a blow-pipe.
Scoop out a little hollow in the char
coal to hold the White Lead, then
light the candle, take the charcoal
and lead in one hand and the blow
pipe in the other, with the large end
of the blow-pipe between the lips;
blow the flame of the candle steadily
against the bit of White Lead on the
charcoal and if the White Lead is
pure it will presently resolve itself
into little shining globules of metallic
lead, under the intense heat of the
blow-pipe, leaving no residue.
If, however, the White Lead is
adulterated in the slightest degree, it
will not wholly change into lead.
So, it will be seen, that this experi
ment is not only an entertaining
chemical demonstration, but also of
practical use in the home. White
Lead is the most important ingre
dient of paint. It should be bought
pure and unadulterated and mixed
with pure linseed oil. That is the
best paint. The above easy experi
ment enables any o2e to know wheth
er the paint is the kind which will
wear or not.
The National Lead Company guar
antee that white lead taken from a
package bearing their “Dutch Boy
Painter” trade-mark will prove abso
lutely pure under the blow-pipe test;
and to encourage people to make the
test and prove the purity of paint be
fore using it, they will send free a
blow-pipe and a valuable booklet on
paint to any one writing them asking
for Test Equipment. Address Na
tional Lead Company, Woodbridge
Building, New York City. £
THE’ RATS OR 17
A Curious and Still Unexplained Ex
perience With Some Flower
Pots.
A year ago last March I planted
various seeds in several flower pots
filled with earth, and placed them in
the sunny windows of my laboratory
and of the house in which I keep my
pets. The next day, to my great an
noyance, I found the pots nearly half
empty, and the earth scattered about
the tables and the floor. I at once
suspected the general disorder and
littering to be the work of rats, far
there are many of these animals in
the building (in spite of the con
tinued use of traps), being attracted
there, I suppose, by the grain kept as
food for the pets. I placed some of
the traps between the pots, put back
all the earth and planted more seeds.
One rat was caught that night, but
still the earth was thrown out as
before. I persisted—and so did they.
I noted that some of the larger and
more conspicious seeds were not tak
en, but supposing that the small ones,
which 1 failed to find, had been eaten,
I planted more every time I returned
the earth. I did this perhaps half a
dozen times, till other matters claiin
ed my attention and the project was
abandoned for that spring. :
Early in this last season I deter
mined to try again, and I intended
to get the best of the rats by cover
ing the pets with wire netting. One
pleasant day I filled them, but not
having time then to make the frame
for the netting I did not plant the
geeds. Other engagements then pre
vented my entering the building for
two or three days, when, to my as
tonishment, the earth was again out
of the pets and general disorder
reigned as it had reigned the year
before. Thinking it might possibly
be the work of some person, I re
filled the pots. The next day I found
the earth out ag before. On the morn
ing of the third day, as I entered the
building I actually saw a rat jump out
of one of the pots where there was
every indication to show that he ha~
been scratching the earth. Now the
question arises: Was I mistaken dur
ing the first spring in thinking that
the rats were hunting for seeds? Were
they seeking and perhaps getting
something else? Or, in the second
yvear, had some old rats rememberel
that seeds are often to be found in
earth in flower pots, and had instinct
or memory led them astray? Whe
was fooled? Thig is the question tha*
I ask you as the title to this record
of my experience with flower pota
and rats—‘‘the rats or I?"—From “Na
ture ang Science,” in St. Nicholas.
President Roosevelt’'s Wedding.
Although Americans who come to
this country are well aware of the
fact, and always make a visit to the
Church, the averavze Englishman does
not know that President Roosevelt
was married at St. George's, Hanover
Square. There the entry runs: “Thec
dore Roosevelt, twenty-eight, widow
er, ranchman,” and Edith Kermit Ca
row. It was some years ago that an
American “discoverced” the entry, and
now there is mueh curiosity on the
part of his countrymen to see -the
church where their strenuous presi
dent wasg married.—London Globe.
THE RYLEY-MURPHY TETE-A
--) TETE,
Mr. Ryley—" Why are wve:r decorat
in', Mrs. Murphy. :
Mrs. Murphy—Me b’y Denny is com
in’ home the day.
Mr. Ryley—ll t'ought it wuz for foive
years he wuz sint up?
Mrs. Murphy—He wuz, but he got
a year off for good behayvure.
Mr. Ryley—An’ sure, it must be a
great comfort for ye to have a good
b’y like that.—London Tit-Bits,
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| "Rural Delivery's Demands.
But the large crops and high price
of all farm products for the past few
years, together with the general pros
perity of the whele country, tend to
increase the desire for the good
things of this world, and affords
more leisure to enjoy what we have.
The inecreasad number of people who
ride over the country for either
pleasure or business, to say nothing
of the driving required by the great
system of rural delivery which has
so recently been inaugurated, have
created a pressing demand from one
end of the country to the other for
a better grade of highways than have
heretofore been dreamed of. Some
roads will be built by the national
government and others by the States,
but the counties will always be the
greatest promoters and builders of
good roads.
Some States are already spending
millions on their highways. Massa
chusetts appropriated $25,000,000 a
few years ago for that purpose and
now has many miles of beautiful
roads as smooth as asphalt paving.
All Europe abounds in fine roads;
but they have been at it for centu
-lies and have learned the art to per
fection. It may take generations to
put all our reads in as good condition
as they are abroad, but we have
made the beginning, and each year
will doubtless show much progress as
@ whole. Even California is fdrther
‘advanced in road building than we
are in Ohio.
Here is what George W. Lattimer,
chairman of the Joint €ood Roads
Committee of the Ohio Board of
Commerce and the Ghio State Grange,
has to say on the subject of good
roads in his recent report:
‘“The farther one studies and in
vestigates this subject, the more he
is convinced that it is one of the
greatest problems of the United
States. It touches the welfare and
interest of more individuals than any
other one question that is before the
American public to-day. There is
not a man, woman or child in the
country or city, that is not obliged to
use the roads.
“Owing to the exiremely bad
roads of the present time, the farmer,
who is the producer, is obliged to
haul his product torthe nearest mar
ket at such time during the year as
the roads are passable. This occurs
within two or three months in the
fall, after harvest. This glut and
over-siipply makes the very lowest
prices of the year for the producer,
and the consumer in the cities and
centres of population is obliged to
pay the very highest prices during
the months of the had weather. Good
roads will eliminate such conditions
so that the farmer can haul his pro
duct to the market at any time dur
ing the year, whenever the demand
calls for it, and the consumer can
buy whenever the goods are wanted.
Thus the producer will be able to
secure a better price for his produect
and the consumer pays lower prices
for his necessities.
‘“For years the United States and
State governments have been appro
priating money for waterways, steam
railroads and other means of com
munication, all of which are good,
but these questions become insignifi
cant of what good roads will bring
to the inhabitants of this country.
Everybody should be interested in
this question, and should urge Fed
eral, State and county aid for im
provements which at this time are all
vital to the welfare of our country.”
¢«The subject is being agitated
everywhere.
New York's Problem. ;
In 1905 the State adopted a Consti
tutional amendment authorizing the
issue of bonds to the amount of $50,-
000,000 for highway improvement.
The Higbie-Armstrong act, which re
lates to the improvement of main
highways of the State only, as amend
ed, provides that upon the request of
counties and towns the State Engi
neer may prepare plans for highway
improvement, and, when approved by
the local authorities, these improve
ments may be carried out, the State
paying the larger portion of the cost
and the counties and towns their
fractional portion of the remainder.
There are in the State of New York
about 77,000 miles of highways. Mr.
W. Pierrepont White, Superintendent
of Highways for Oneida County, has
pointed out that less than ten per
cent. of this mileage, say, 7000 miles
of State roads, properly improved,
“would so permeate from one part
of the State to the other that we
should have a network of highways
leading not only from the centres of
population and connecting the cities
of New York, Buffalo, Syracuse, El
mira, Watertown, Binghamton, Utica,
Oswego and Albany, but it would
reach the remote parts of the State.
* * * Such a system of highways
would develop the State so that no
farm would be further away than
five miles from an improved high
way, and all' farms would be accessis
ble to their local towns.
He Knew, ;
*ls the master of tine nouse in?”
inquired the smooth tongued book
agent of the little boy who had an
swered his ring. 3
*‘Nope,” said the boy.
“Little boys should not tell false
hoods,” said the book agent. *'lsn't
tha't your father reading the newspa
per there by the window?'"
“Yep,” was the answer, “that’s pa
all right, but ma is out.” '
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