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The
Generat Demand
of the Well-Informed of the World
always been for a .simple, pleasant
efficient liquid laxative remedy of
value; a laxative which physicians
sanction for family use because its
ponent parts aro known to them to
wholesome and truly beneficial in
acceptable to the system and gentle,
prompt, in action.
In supplying that demand with its
cellent combination of Syrup of Figs
Elixir of Senna, the California Fig
Co. proceeds along ethical lings and
on the merits of the laxative for its
able success. m "*■
That is one of many reasons why
Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is given
the preference by the Well-Informed.
To get its beneficial effects always buy
the genuine—manufactured by the Cali¬
fornia Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale
by all leading druggists. Price fifty cents
per bottle.
strange that conditions are s
best for fishing just at the time
a fellow cannot get away from his
•business.
$100 Reward, $100.
The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded dis¬
ease that science has been able to cure in all
its stages,and thatisCatarrh. Hall’sCatarrh
Cure is the nnlv positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con¬
stitutional disease, requires a constitutional
treatment. Hall’s Ca uinh Cure is taken inter¬
nally, acting direct ly upon the blood and mu¬
cous surfaces of the system, thereby destroy¬
ing the foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the con¬
stitution and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so much faith
in its curative powers that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to
cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address
Sold F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
hv Dmcraiats. 75c
Take Hall's Family Pills tor constipation.
AN EARLY BIRD.
The gildt d youth had entered his
father's bank to learn the business.
"Son,” said the gratified banker.
“I’m glad to see that you get here
promptly at 9.”
“I could get, here even earlier, dad.
Our dab, you |now, closes at 5.”—
Washington Herald.
CUKES - ALT. ITCHING EUUrTIONS.
Glencoe, Mil., Nov. 21st, 1907: “I have hacl
eczema ou my hands for 12 years, and have
tried everything. days and I have the results been using tet
TisuiNK 4 fire great.
Signed, Mrs. .>1. Harvey. Tettekine is the
surest, safest, speediest cure for eczema
utid all o4her skfci diseases. Hold by drug¬
gists or sunt by mail for 5(£. by J. T. Slice*
think, Dept. A, Savannah, Ga.
If at last you don’t succeed it may
be due to the fact that you didn’t try,
try again quite often enough.
Hicks’ Cupudine Cures Headache,
Whether from Cold, Heat, Stomach, oi
Mental Strain. No Acetanilid or dangerous
drugH. iUc., lt’« Liquid. Effects immediately.
25c., and 50c., at drug stores
One year’s work of a man’s brain
may be ruined by his tongue in a
few seconds.
J THREE CURES OF ECZEMA.
Woman Tells of Her Brother’s Terri¬
ble Suffering—Her Grandchild and
j. Another Cutlcura Baby Proved also Invaluable. Cured—
«« fMy brother had eczema three different
(Summers, Each summer it came out be¬
tween his shoulders and down his back,
and ho said his suffering was terrible.
When it came on the third summer, he
bought a box of Culjcura Ointment and
gave it a faithful trial. Soqjq he began to
feel better and bo cured himself entirely
■of eczema with Cuticura. A lady in In¬
diana heard oi how my daughter, Airs.
Miller, had cured her little son of terrible
eczema by the Cuticura Remedies, This
lady's little one had the eczema so badly
that they thought they would lose it. She
used Cuticura Remedies and they cured her
child entirely, and the disease never came
back. Mrs. Sarah E. Lusk, Coldwater,
Mich., t\ug. 15 and Sept. 2, 1997.”
COULDN’T GET ALONG'.'
She has sued him for divorce. »*
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On what grounds?”
“Incompatibility of income, I under¬
stand.”—Washington Herald.
A TEXAS CLERGYMAN
Speaks Out For the Benefit of Suffer*
ing Thousands.
Rev. G. M. Gray, Baptist clergy¬
man, of Whltesboro, Tex., says:
“Four years ago l
suffered misery with
lumbago. E v ery
movement was one
of pain. Doan’s Kid
ney Pills removed
the whole diflicblty
aftef only a short
mn Otiine. Although 1 do
% P * i ■' not like to have my
1 1 name used publicly,
1 make an exception
m this case, so that other sufferers
from kidney trouble may profit by my
experience. ”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The most active years of railwaj
construction in the United States
were in 1882, when 11.5G9 miles were
added to the operated railroads, and
in 1SS7, when the increase was 12,
S67.
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Southern Agricultural Topics.
Modern Method* That Are Helpful to
Farmer, Fruit Grower and Stockman.
A Scheme For Testing Seeds.
For the ordinary planter the
known “dinner plate” tester,
with two soup or dinner plates and
one or more moist strips of
cotton goods, preferably cotton
nel, will be found to answer all
poses. The cotton strips are
lized in boiling water to
spores of molds and other fungi
ent, folded twice upon
and placed in one of the plates.
seeds are now laid between the
For testing several varieties at once,
of cloth so as not to touch each other,
and the second plate is inverted over
the first, this forming a moist, aerat¬
ed and more or less sterile chamber.
The cotton strips must be kept well
moistened, but not saturated, prefer¬
ably with water that has been steri¬
lized by boiling, and allowed to cool
before using. Two or three lota of
seeds may be tested in the generator
at one time, but each should he con¬
tinued in a separate cotton strip and
numbered to avoid error.
When, however, it is desirable to
make several germinating tests at one
time or when many varieties are to
be tested, instead of duplicating the
plate germinators already described
the writer found the following ger
minator, suggested by Dr. Volney
Spaulding, formerly of the Univer¬
sity of Michigan, to be superior; A
deep granite bread pan six or eight
inches wide was obtained in which
was kept about one-fourth inch of
water. Cotton flannel strips of any
convenient length, two or three yards,
and of the width of the pan, were
tucked crosswise at intervals of five
inches. Short galvanized wires
about an inch longer than the width
of the pan were inserted through
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Fan Germinator.
these tucks and gathered together,
thus forming the cotton strips into
numerous folds or loops which were
suspended in the pan above the water
by means of the supporting wires.
The ends of the strips being left
sufficiently long to touch the water
in the pan, the entire piece of cloth
composing the loops, in which the
seeds are placed, is kept uniformly
moist.
The cloth should be moistened be¬
fore beginning the experiment and,
it is needless to add, sterilized.
A definite number of seeds taken
as they come from an average sample
are counted out for each germination.
For seeds iu rather small' lots, as
garden seeds, fifty to a hundred will
answer, while for the cereals, grasses,
clover and others used in exten¬
sive cultural operations about 200
should be used and the tests dupli¬
cated when any doubt exists about
the results. The tests should be ex¬
amined from day to day and the
sprouted ones removed and counted,
the number being recorded on a
sheet of paper.
The length of time required for
germination is dependent upon sev¬
eral factors, chief of which are mois¬
ture, , temperature, vitality and vari¬
etal differences, six to ten days being
sufficient for most kinds. When tests
are made during the winter or early
sprihg months, at which time it is
usually most convenient, the germi¬
nation should be Conducted in a mod
erately warm room so that the tem¬
perature will not fall below fifty de¬
grees F. at night and remain between
seventy and eighty degrees F. dur¬
ing the day. Il the case of alfalfa
and certain other of the clover fam¬
ily a small percentage of the seeds
will remain apparently sound at the
close of the germination test. Allow¬
ance is usuallly made for these, one
third being counted as viable— i. e.,
capable of growth. Cauliflower, cab¬
bage, turnip and beet seeds of poor
stock—i. e., run out—are just as
viable as those of good stock. The
only means of remedying this defect
is to use selected home grown seeds
or to buy the best stock of reliable
seed houses.—J. J. Thornber, in New
York Witness.
To Keep Disease Out of Brood.
Barring accident, or destruction by
force, nature intended every little
chicken hatched to live and grow.
There is no reason why we should as¬
sume that a certain per cent, of each
brood shall sicken and die. It would
not be so, if we knew nature’s way,
and managed them altogether natur¬
ally. It is not so with the young of
the wild birds or the wild fowl; they
live in ninety-nine cases out of a
hundred; and yet, they are more ex¬
posed to the elements than any brood
of yoyng chickens. They are as na-
ture placed them, and thence, with a
natural mother, and natural food,
they thrive.
And now, with these thoughts in
mind, and in looking back over the
past, and gathering together the data
—whether of success or failure, we
can see in such a review, that our
best luck, as it is termed, or, our
greater success, has been attained
when we kept most in line with na¬
ture in the feeding and the care of
our young chickens. And, in this
vista of the past, we see standing out
like mile posts to our ignorant man¬
agement, the long series of broods,
and the hundreds and hundreds of
little down innocents that were sac¬
rificed to warm, soft, sloppy mixed
foods. We can recall the dysentery
and the other forms of bowel trouble
that carried them off, until from a
brod of ten to fifteen, we would raise
only two or three.
This was killing chickens with
kindness, coupled with inexperience.
We cooked for them, and we made
hot mashes, and we succeeded in
making some of them sick, and the
disease spread and we lost them by
the tens and scores—and nature out¬
raged. And then we tried another
way, and it was a more natural way.
It was less troublesome and more
expeditious. We stopped feeding soft
mashes, and resorted to cracked
grain, small seeds, and coarse dry
meal, and we put this sort of food
where the chickens had to work to
get it out. Now, this is an old story
—this “scratching for a living"—it is
almost threadbare, you know, and yet
it is really the basis for keeping the
chicks healthy—of keeping disease
out of the brood. For, the little
chick that has nothing but dry food
to eat, and has to scratch it out of
litter, or trash—the chick that has to
wander about and pry in here and
there for the stray insect or worm—
this is the healthy chicken. The hen
that scratches with her chickens—
that dusts and wallows with them, is
the healthy hen, and the hen with the
healthy brood. That’s the key to the
thought. We need to keep close to
nature in raising the chickens, to
have good success.
Practically, and to a definite plan
—put each hen in a small run, with
a coop to herself, so as to individual¬
ize her and her particular little fam¬
ily. Then feed her and her chicks
dry food only; small seeds, cracked
grain, oat meal, a little rye, corn
meal, and let them work it out of a
litter which has a sandy, gravelly
base. This is a natural combination,
and it will not be taken up at a gulp,
but the mixture will be worked out
gradually and in different parts at
different times. This will take the
greater part of the day and it will be
all the better for it. It will result in
keen-eyed, alert, active and fast¬
growing chicks, and a healthy, active
mother. It will keep off disease, and
it will lead to a greater per cent, of
matured chickens per brood than any
other system. It’s a good plan to
have and to follow early in the season,
and it is equally practicable and
available for best results all summer
and far into the fall. In fact, by
keeping the hot mashes from our
little chicks, and in working them as
suggested, we may raise from thirty
to fifty per cent, more than under
the old system of coddling, and stuf¬
fing with mixtures that are more or
less injurious in their effects.—By H.
B. Geer.
A Word to the Wise.
With the cotton crop 2,000,000
bales short of the previous year, cot¬
ton is selling at only nine cents.
Suppose the crop had been a full
one 13,000,000 bales instead of 11-,
000,000 would not cotton to-day be
seven cents?
Suppose, moreover, we raise an¬
other bumper crop this year—where
will prices go next fall?
And what is going to become of the
all-cotton farmer who has his smoke¬
house and corn-crib iD the West if the
crash comes?
Centuries ago a wise man said:
“The prudent man foreseeth the evil
and hideth himself, but the simple
pass ou and are punished.”
Will you play the part of the pru¬
dent man or the simpleton?—Pro¬
gressive Farmer.
Fertilizer For Peanuts.
Peanuts, like cowpeas, can get ni¬
trogen from the air, and do not need
much, if any, nitrogen. But it will
be well to give a little nitrate of soda
for a start. Then for peanuts I would
make the ton 1500 pounds of acid
phosphate, 100 pounds of nitrate of
soda and 400 pounds of sulphate of
potash. In the 1500 pounds of acid
phosphate you will get about 600
pounds of plaster, which many pea¬
nut growers think essential to the
crop. Of this ton I would use 500
pounds per acre for peanuts.—W. F.
Massey.
A SIMPLE SAFEGUARD IN BUY¬
ING PAINT. t
Everybody should know how simple
and easy it is to avoid all uncertainty
in buying paint materials. There are
many so-called white leads on the
market, which contain chalk; zinc,
barytes, and other cheap adulterants.
Unless the property owner takes ad¬
vantage of the simple means of pro¬
tection afforded him by reliable white
lead manufacturers, he runs great
risk of getting an Inferior and adul¬
terated white lead.
It is to protect the paint-buyer
against fraud and adulteration that
National Lead Company, the largest
makers of genuine Pure White Lead,
place thoir famous “Dutch Boy Paint¬
er" trademark on every keg of their
product, an absolute guarantee of its
purity and quality. Anyone who wants
to make a practical test of white lead,
and who wants a valuable free book
about painting, should address Na¬
tional Lead Company. Woodbridge
Bldg., New York, and ask for test
equipment.
It was a friend of the mosquito who
Invented low cut shoes and drop
stitch hosiery.
John B. Dickey’s old reliable eye water
cures sore eyes or granulated lids. Don’t
hurt, feels good; got the genuine in red box.
CONVINCING HIMSELF.
Only fools are certain, Tommy;
wise nun hesitate.”
“Are you sure, uncle?”
“Yes, my boy; certain of it.”—Ths
Tatler.
To Drive Out Malaria and Build U B
the System
Take the Old Standard Grove’s Taste
less Chill Tonic. You know what you
are taking. The formulsi is plainly printed
on every bottle, showing it is simply qiui
nine and Iron iu a tasteless form, and the
most effectual form. For grown people
and children. 50c.
There might be more sinners in the
world -if it were more thickly popu¬
lated.
Hicks’ CapuCtine Cures Women’s
Monthly Headache. Pains, Backache, Nervousness,
fine It’s Liquid. Effects imme¬
diately. Prescribed by physicians with be?it
results. 10c.. 25c.. and 50c.. at drug stores.
THE COMING HOUSE.
A Specimen Already Completed Cut
In Illinois.
“A house of cement, a house with¬
out a chimney, a house with plenty
of artificial light and heat and yet
without a bit of fire, a house with¬
out coal, without ashes, without dan¬
gerous gases.”
The pleasing picture is the way
Frank N. Bauskett describes in the
Technical World his idea of the house
of tomorrow. But it is not altogeth¬
er a house of tomorrow, fior the real¬
ity already exists in Carrollton, III.
This model twentieth century home
of Carrollton is thirty-four by thirty
feet, two stories high, with attic and
basement, and has eight rooms on
the two main floors.
The foundation and walls are of
concrete blocks. These blocks were
moulded right on the ground as they
were required, so there was no waste
of material.
The floors are of hardwood and the
interior is finished in plaster and
oak. Such a house requires but lit¬
tle wood in its construction, The
style of architecture is of plain, sub¬
stantial mission type, this idea be¬
ing carried out throughout the in¬
terior.
The house is fronted with a large
porch, and the whole construction, or
rather the entire cost, was less than
$3,500.
aaii CHILI)
Both Fully Nourished on Grape-Nuts.
The value of this famous food is
shown in many ways, in addition to
what might be expected from its
chemical analysis.
Grape-Nuts food is made of whole
wheat and barley, is thoroughly
baked for many hours and contains
all the wholesome ingredients in
these cereals.
It contains also the phosphate of
potash grown in the grains, which
Nature uses to build up brain and
nerve cells.
Young children require proportion¬
ately more of this element because
the brain and nervous system of the
child grows so rapidly.
A Va. mother found the value of
Grape-Nuts in not only building up
her own strength but In nourishing
her baby at the same time, She
writes:
“After my baby came 1 did not re
cover health and strength, and the
doctor said 1 could not nurse the baby
as I did not have nourishment for
her, besides I was too weak.
“He said 1 might try a change of
diet and see what that would do, and
recommended Grape-Nuts food. I
bought a pkg, and used it regularly.
A marked change came over both
baby and I.
“My baby is now four months old,
is in fine condition, I am nursing her
and doing all my work and never felt
better in my life.” “There’s a Rea
son.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to
Wellville, ” in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.
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Thousands of American women
' hemes daily
in our are sacrificing
their lives to duty, 6
In order to keep the home neat
•and pretty, the children well dressed
and tidy, women overdo. A female
weakness or displacement is often
drifting brought on and they suffer in silence
knowing along from bad to worse’
well that they ought to
have help to overcome the pains and
aches which daily make life a burden.
It is to these faithful women that
LYDIA E,P!BOT»S
VEGETABLE C0MP3UXD
comes as a boon and a blessing
as it did to Mrs. F. Ellsworth, of
Boyd,of Mayville, 1ST. Y., and to Mrs. W P
Beaver Falls, Pa.,who say:
a I was not able to do work,
owing to the female my own
trouble from which
X suffered. Lydia E. Pinkham’s \’err tr¬
iable and I Compound am well helped that I me wonderfully, do big
so can as a
day’s • rk as I ever did. I wish every
sick woman would try it.
FACTS FOR SICK W05VIEN.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, tion, fibroid inflammation, ulcera¬
periodic pains, tumors, backache, irregularities, that bear¬
ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges¬
tion,dizziness,or Why nervous prostration.
don’t you try it ?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her tor advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
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TOBOGGANING IN SUMMER.
New Sport in Austria—Other Uses
for the Mountain Sleigh.
Summer visitors at the Semmering
and other mountain resorts near
Vienna are this season enjoying to¬
bogganing—a sport hitherto confined
to the winter months.
The new summer toboggan has a
body shaped very much like the or¬
dinary' winter article, and mounted
on four low wheels. Equipped with
a strong and reliable brake, as well
as steering apparatus, it affords a
pleasant and speedy means of de
scending mountain and hill paths, and
has already become very popular
among tourists.
It is expected that the new tobog¬
gan will have other uses besides sport
and amusement, for it offers a swiff
and ready vehicle for carrying a mes
senger from the mountain hotels 15
the towns and villages below or in
summoning medical aid in case of ac¬
cidents. Experimental trips on tbe
Semmering range and also on the
hills near Vienna with the new- sleigh
have proved entirely satisfactory.—
Vienna correspondence Pall Mall Ga
zette.
She Overtook Him.
Intently the judge listened to the
man’s story, The man was the pla:.’>
tiff and had charged his wife with
cruel and abusive treatment, He
was a small man and his wife— we!.,
it was at least evident that the
rested cn a basis of possibili¬
ty. After the plaintiff had finished k =
testimony the judge decided to ask
question. “Mr. Frouh’e,” said ne,
“where did you meet your wife, who
treated you this way?" “Well,
judge,” returned the man. somewtm
“you it’s this way. T
see, kinJ
did meet her. She just
overtook me.”