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HIS TIME TO GUFFAW.
"Well, bld Si Perkins, the feller
Who wunst bought a gold brick, has
been the laughin’-stock of this coun
try fer twenty years, but his turn has
come at last."
‘‘How’s that?”
“He’s about the only man in the
township that hain’t got a life-insu
rance policy.”—Louisville Courier
Journal.
ITS REDEEMING QUALITY.
Mrs. Simkins —How do you like
your new boarding house?
Mr. Jobkins. —Oh, the rooms are
fair, the table is only tolerable —but
the gossip is excellent. —Hotel Life.
AN EVERY-DAY STRUGGLE,
n ard Women of Every Occupation Snf«
fer Miiertis From Kidney Complaint.
J. C. Lightner, 703 So. Cedar St., :
Abilene, Kansas, is cine of the thou
sands who suffer from kidney troubles
WOP 7
brought a strain on the back. I had j
frequent attacks of gravel and the :
Srine was passed too often and with
rin. Wh'en I used Doan’s Kidney ;
Hs, however, all traces of the trouble I
disappeared and have not returned. 1
ftm certainly grateful.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. I
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.
Lots of people imagine that they
are not talked about simply because
they don’t hear it.
How’s This 7
offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Mail’s Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0.
We, the undersigned, have known F. j.
Cheney for the last 16 years, and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business transac
tions and financially able to carry out any
obligations made by their firm.
Wist <t Tbuax, Wholesale Druggists, To
ledo, O.
Wamuno, Kinnan & M abyin, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, O,
Hall’s CatarriiCureistakeniaternally.aot-
Ingdireotlyupon the Wood and inucuoussur
laees of the system. Testimonials sent free.
?rioe, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists, j
Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation. I
„ Probably no famous bird has a smaller
Sabit'at than the bird of paradise.
RUNNING SORES ON LIMBS.
Zdtue SKa’a .tfc Cnee cf Fct—na-
Mother S*y«; ’“Cntleura Hemedie.
a Xotißehold Standby.”
/ "Last year, after having my little girl
treated by a very prominent physician for
aa obstinate case of eczema, I resorted to
the Cuticura Remedies, and was so well
B leased with the almost, instantaneous re
ef afforded that we discarded the physi
cian’s prescription and relied entirely on
the Cuticura Soap, Cuticura Ointment and
Cuticura Pills. When we commenced with
the Cuticura Remedies her feet and limbs
were covered with punning sores. In
about six weeks we had her completely
•well, and there haa been no recurrence of
the ’trouble. We find that the Cuticura
Remedies are a valuable household stand
by, living as we do twelve miles from a
doctor, and where ft costa from twenty io
twenty-five dollars to come up on the
fountain. Mrs. Lizzie Vincent Thomas,
Fairmount, Walden’s Ridge, Tenn., Oct.
U, 1905."
A naturalist has been making observa
tions on the toilets of certain ants.
A Strands Story.
Mra. Isaac W. Austill of Chestnut
Ridge, N. C.. tells a strange story of
great suffering. “I was in bad condi
tion for months,” she writes, “under
treatment of doctors, but got no relief.
My periods had stopped, all but the
pain. After taking part of a bottle of
Wine of Cardui, nature worked properly
and without pain. I advise all suffering
women to use Oardui.” A pure speci
fic remedy for women’s ills, SI,OO, at
druggists.
The boy who wants to marry his
school teacher lives only in Sunday
school library novels.
IKLEOfoIsCOKSTMTEO
An inclination to ba constipated is a common symptom of the American people.
There is no question but that this is due in a great measure to indigestion, and that
indigestion comes from indiscretion of diet. Let foods be daily eaten like
DR. PRICE'S
WHEAT FLAKE CELERY
FOOD
and there would be no constipation—no sour stomach—no formation of gas— as it 11
made from the whole wheat-berry— baked at a high temperature—all indigestible . I
matter removed.
PalatableHWfous—Ess¥ d Oigssta and Ready to Eal
Dr. Price, the creator ot Dr. Price's Cream Bakins Powder and Delicious Fiavorlns Eztraots ;
IO CENTS A PACKAGE *3 mosh nourishment as three leaves of bread
brought on by daily
work. “I first noticed
it eight or ten years
ago,” said Mr. Light
ner. “The dull pain
in the back fairly
made me sick. It
was hard to get up
or down, hard to
straighten, hard to !
do any work that
Bull Fighting Statistics.
“I am off to Spain,” said a photog
rapher. “The bull fighting season op
ens in April, and I must be there for
the first performance.
’ “The season,” he said, “lasts seven
months, from April to November.
Eash season there are on an averag©
500 fights and in each fight three bulls
are killed, ten horses and a twenty
fifth of a man. The aggregate sea
son’s slaughter in the ring, that is
to say, is 1,500 bulls, 5,000 horses
and 20 men.
“The chief matadors number twen
ty-five. They each earn about $9,000
a season. The ordinary helpers earn
in a season only $500.”
The White Paint of the White Hoiiip,
The White House at Washington,
which has been the “King's Palace”
of the American People since it was
first occupied by President Madison in
1809, has recently undergone a thor
ough course of remodelling, renovation
and repair. Every American citizen is
owner of an undivided eighty or
eighty-five milli-outh part of the White
House, as well as’ of the other Public
Buildings and Monuments in the Cap
itol City. An item in the renovation
of the remodeled White House was
repainting. Every visitor in Washing
ton knows why the White House is so
called—because :: is literally a “white
house.” The exterior paint must there
fore be white. Now while the pure
wjjite surfaces and simple lines of the
White House, set in the midst of green
lawns and beautiful trees, produce
a very satisfying effect of dignified
simplicity, white paint from a practical
point of view, is about the most un
satisfactory hind of paint that could
have been selected by the original de
signers. First, because any white
paint is easily discolored by smoke and
dust, and, second, because ordinary
white paint itself gradually turns gray
or brownish yellow from exposure.
But white the White House is, and
white it must remain or it would no
longer be the “White House.” So the
renovators, making the best of a dis
couraging situation, sought for the best
kind of white paint procurable. The
average citizen if asked to guess what
kind of paint they finally decided on
would probably answer—“white lead
and oil,” but he would guess wrongly.
The paint selected ns the best obtain
able, was ; ready-mixed paint, such as
can be bought in any well-furnished
village store, such as is used by more
than haif of the eighty or eighty-five
million owners of the White House oa
their own homes. That one brand of
mixed paint was used instead of an
other is a mere accidental detail—
there are fifty or a hundred brands on
the market uiat might have oeen se
lected in other circumstances, and, in
fact, a different brand was >sed in
painting the Capitol.
Every property owner, therefore,
who paints his house with a high
grade ready-mixed paint is following
the example set by the Government
Authorities at Washington, ‘who used
ready-mixed paint, because they could
find nothing else as good.
DEFINED.
Teacher—What is the difference be
tween lightning and electricity?
Bright Pupil—Lightning is free and
electricity costs money.—Translated
from Tales from Monos.
Cures Rheumatism and Catarrh-Medicine
Sent Free.
Send no money—simply write and try
Botanic Blood Balm at our expense. Bo
tanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) kills or de
stroys the poison in the blood which causes
the awful aches in back and shoulder
blades, shifting pains, difficulty in moving
fingers, toes or legs, bone pains, swollen
muscles and joints of rheumatism, or the
foul breath, hawking, spitting, droppings in
throat, bad hearing, specks flying be
fore the eyes, all played out feeling of ca
tarrh. Botanic Blood Balm has cured hun
dreds of oases of 30 or 40 years’ standing
after doctors, hot springs and patent medi
cines had all failed. Most of these cured
patients had taken Blood Halm as a last re
sort. It Is especially advised for chronlo,
deep-seated cases. Impossible for any one
to suffer the agonies or symptoms of rheu
matism or catarrh while or after taking
Blood Balm. It makes the blood pure and
rich, thereby giving a healthy blood supply.
Cures are permanent and not a patching up.
Drug stores, •$! per large bottle. Sample of
Blood Balm sent free and prepaid, also spec
ial medical advice by describing your trou
ble and writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta,
Ga.
The most wicked looking of all
creatures is a painted and blondined
mother.
SOUTHERN •> fiOTES.
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TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANTER, STOCKMAN ANO TRUCK GROWER,
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Secret of Good Plowing.
A great many farmers are more par
ticular about the looks of a piece of
land after it is plowed than they are
as to its physical condition. A plow
■ that seems to be of light draft will be
' a favorite regardless of the real eon
| dition of the soil after it is plowed.
| The Southern Farm Magazine sets
: forth these facts and expresses an
i opinion very vigorously as follows:
It is not always the beet looking
! plow fallow that is the best broken
I land. Ap ow constructed like a gouge,
that slides under the turf and inverts
it without breaking it. looks well, but
for the production of a crop it pre
pares the land badly. Many of the
plows now' on the market are con
structed so as to bring the least
draught upon the team, and this by
many is considered the perfection of
the plow—the least draught for a given
| depth. But may we not be laboring
I under a mistake in this? The object
j jn plowing is to invert and pulverize
' the soil and prepare it for a crop,
j Plowing may be so performed as to in
i vert the soil without breaking it, except
■ in the line of the furrow slice. It is
? evident that if a crop be planted upon
I land so turned, the roots of the plant
j will have to contend with the large, un
broken blocks of soil, so hard, indeed,
in many instances that the roots can
not penetrate them. A case was
| brought to the attention of the writer
which occurred on a farm in Southern
| Kentucky. The land plowed was de-
I signed for corn. One plow made of
I chilled iron'with a gouge-shaped mold
' board was started on one side of the
I field and a steel plow with an abrupt
mold-board was started on the other.
The first turned over the land beauti
; fully, but. did not pulverize the soil.
I The' draught was light and two horses
i carried it with ease. The second pulled
■ much harder, owing to the abruptness
' of the mold-board, and the perpendic
! ular resistance which it made to the
■ furrow slice- But it pulverized the soil
: thoroughly. Com was planted at the
i same time on the land broken by both
; plows. When that planted on the land
I broken with the chilled plow was eigh
teen inches high, that upon the land
broken by the steel plow with an ab
rupt mold-board was thirty inches
high. The first was yellow and stunted:
the second- was a picture of luxuriant
and abundant vitality. It is estimated
that the portion of the field broken
with the steel’ plow would make at
least a third more corn than that
broken with the chilled plow, though
the crop on the latter had two more
plowings. Tlie introduction of the disc
' plow has been of great advantage in
the pulverization of the soils. It not
only turns over the soil completely, but
it thoroughly hides all the weeds and
bushes and trash on the surface. Os
all the plows yet introduced for the
breaking of land the disc plow is by
| far the most efficient, but it cannot be
; used well upon rocky hillsides.
The question presented in the mat-
■ ter of breaking land needs to be thor
i oughly investigated by our Southern
; farmers. Plowing without pulveriza-
I tion does not put the land in good con
dition for the growth of any crop. It
I may be that In seeking to decrease the
draught the farmers may increase the
| work necessary to grow a good crop.
Sowing Grain.
If any Southern farmer fails to sow
a large crop of wheat and oats, he
simply neglects his opportunities and
fails to do his duty; he fails to read
“God’s handwriting upon the fields,”
for the early and short crop of cotton
will give us plenty of time both to sow
a larger area than usual, and to give
it better preparation. And the short
cotton crop, being interpreted rightly,
certainly means to make up your loss
as best you can by intelligent efforts
in other crops that can be grown be
fore another cotton crop comes in. Ac
cording to past experience next year
will be a good grain year, since this
was a poor one. We generally have
one poor and then a good year. By
leaving the yield of grain out of consid
eration, it will pay us well, if we will
only prepare our land right, in this
work upon our soil and having some
thing growing upon it in the winter
time to prevent washing and leaching
and to add vegetable matter or humus
to our soil, in which it is so deficient.
However, we can raise grain in the
South, if we only go at it right. We
know men who are making money
raising both wheat and oats every
year. Os course their yield is not al
ways so large, but when you take good
' land to start with and plow it deep,
! harrow it well, and manure it well,
then you can always count on a re
munerative crop. With oats we have
not failed to make a good crop in ten
years. ,We make it a rule to sow
half our crop in the fall, and half as
, early after Christmas as we can get
them in the gound, generally in Feb
i ruary, but have sown as late as the
! 4th of April and made fair oats. If you
will sow them in the “open furrow,”
you will never have them killed out.
Let us ail unite and sow so much
grain that the lulls of our Southland
will be covered with a coat of green
next winter and early spring such as
they have never had before. It need
not cut your cotton or corn area one
acre; you can make good corn, or cot
ton either, after this grain, if you
will only manure highly; and this is
what we want you to do. Spread on
the manure and enrich your land.
Make two crops “where one grew be
fore,” and let us fulfill our boast, “that
we have soil and climate in which we
can grow almost any crop.”—Southern
Cultivator.
Stick to Strawberries.
The editor of the Tampa (Fla.) Times
takes a text from an item in an ex
change and preaches from it an ex
cellent sermon. It begins about straw
berries, but applies equally well to any
form of market gardening or truck
farming.
The Plant City Courier tells of a
man in that vicinity who has already
this season shipped $2300 worth of
strawberries from two and a half acres
of land, and has yet enough left to
carry the receipts up to a round thou
sand dollars an acre.
Instances like these come every now
and then to remind us that men in
this section ought to stick to a thing
even when it occasionally goes into
eclipse. Strawberries are splendidly
paying crops three seasons out of four;,
and yet there are men so blind that
when they have met a loss in their
cultivation, or failed of the great re
ward they expected. quit their cultiva
tion in disgust. This has been a very
favorable season, and if a man has lost
three previous crops—which, by the
way, he has never done, he would have
made handsome money in the long run.
Lack of systematically sticking to
an intelligent policy in farming is the
bane of operations in South Florida.
Following a remarkably good season
like this, many men will go into ber
ries. Next season may be only an
average, and a large portion of the men.
in the business will be possibly disap
pointed in their returns. They will
quit in disgust, whether the reason be
the season or their own fault, and will
proclaim berry raising to be a fraud.
It is tolerably certain hat in any busi
ness life a man must follow it, steadily
and study it all the time, and be per
petually increasing his knowledge and
improving his methods.. But somehow
there seems to be an impression abroad
that anybody can raise strawberries,
that it requires neither knowledge nor
experience—nothing but plants placed
in the ground. No wonder -any peo
ple fail.
The experienced berry grower will
tell you that there is no business
which requires more knowledge, work,
attention and skill than his pursuit.
The man who applies these things will
win big money, and the man who tries
any other method, or fails in the appli
cation of all these, will make a miser
able failure.
Country Homes.
What is said in this article and oth
ers which may follow on the same
subject is prompted by the kindest in
tentions. Expressions in the nature of
criticism of apparent neglect of coun
try homes we hope may not be taken
as fault finding or meddling with af
fairs not our own. In calling attention
to apparent derelictions in the matter
of making country homes what they
should be we are actuated only by the
desire to be of service to the rural
population, which of all classes have
our greatest admiration and respect.
It is evident to all who travel much
in the country that too little attention
is given to making homes comfortable
and attractive by farmers and others
who live in the country. Undoubtedly
much of the discontent felt especially
by young people in the country arises
from this condition. Their homes com
pare unfavorably in appearance with
homes they see in town. In town they
see painted houses, painted yard
fences, grass lawns, with ornamental
and shade trees, shrubs and vines and
flowers. These evidences of self-es
teem may just as well be enjoyed by
farmers’ wives and children as by
town folks. They cost but little money
and cost less in the country than in
town.’ If systematically done the
work of beautifying the home does not
take much time. It is mainly a mat
ter of getting started at it. Once fairly
started the work becomes fascinating.
This season is a good time to start.—
Southern Fruit Grower.
Dairying’s Advantages.
Dairying teaches habits of punctual
ity, industry, cleanliness and thrift and
gives constant and regular employment
of a light character to every member
of a farmer’s family.
Better Than Any Speech.
Among the anecdotes told in J. H.
Settle’s book concerning election
humors Is the following about Lord
Rosebery:
His lordship was in the east end of
London at an election time, and
while inspecting a great establishment
several of the employes, whose knowl
edge of the distinguished guest chiefly
centered in him as the owner of a
good horse, communicated to one of
the company their wish that Lord
Rosebery would do them a favor.
“What is it you want —a speech.”
asked the gentleman.
“A spe’ :>h! No! Speech be hang
ed!” was the reply. “We want a tip
for the Liverpool cup!”
A DOUBTING THOMAS.
She —Did you let father know you
owned a lot of house property?
He —I hinted at it.
She—What did he say?
He—He said, "Deeds speak lous
er than words.” —Tit-Bits.
New Uss for Electricity.
A simple electrical means of puri
fying water for home use has been
devised by a French engineer. The
apparatus takes up very little space.
It consists of a small closed box,
which contains an ozone developer,
an interrupter, and a tin tube. Con
nection is made with an ordinary
lighting circuit iby fitting a plug in
to an Incandescent socket, and when
current is turned on ozone is generat
ed. This passes through the tube in
to a cotton stopper, to free it from
the dust and germs contained in the
air, and is then conducted into the
water and mixed with it. The “mix
er” is a most important feature of
the apparatus. Sixty gallons of wa
ter can thus be purified in an hour,
at the cost of ordinary lighting.
t. * M.t r,. St M.t T,„ St M.»
Buy L. & M. Paint and get a full gallon.
Wears 10 to 15 years, because L. &. M.
Zine hardens L. & M. White Lead and
makes 1.. & M. Paint wear like iron.
4 gallons of L. & M. mixed with 3 gallons
oil will paint a moderate sized house.
C. 3. Andrews, Ex-Mayor, Danbury, Conn.,
writes: “Painted my house 19 rears ago
with L. &M. Looks well to-day."
PAINT YOL'R HOUSE.
15 per cent, commission allowed to any
resident where we have no agent, on sale
of L. & M. to property-owners, at our re
tail price.
Apply to LONGMAN & MARTINEZ.
Paint Makers, New York.
A Coin's Strange Story.
"Some strange things happen in
this world,” said Richard Murphy, as
he leaned over Parker’s- cigar coun
ter.
“For instance,
■j .. _• :q; wh’-TT'l -r- W
boy in a machine shop
Georgia, I cut my initials and uhR
date on a nickle and not long ago
that coin was shoved across the
counter to me in payment for a ci
gar. For twenty years that nickle
traveled and perhaps paid a hundred
thousand dollars of obligations—
more or less —and then fell back in
to my hands. But it has traveled
for the last time, and in future will
he kept and cherished for the good
it has done.”
Another strange feature of the
matter is that marked coins have
been under the ban of the law for
years and this nickle would not have
been accepted 'by a street car conduc
tor or any one else in a like service
and would have been thrown out at
the bank. And yet it went its way
and did its work unmolested for
twenty years.”—-Birmingham, Ala.-,
Herald.
ANSWERED.
'Mistress (severely)—How did it
happen that I saw a policeman with
you in the kitchen last night?
Maid —I suppose, madam, you must
have looked through the keyhole.—
Translated for Tales from Strekoza.
REPAIRING BRAIN.
A Certain War By Food.
Every minister, lawyer, journalist,
physician, author or business man is
forced under pressure of modern con
ditions to the active and sometimes
over-active use of the brain.
Analysis of the excreta thrown out
by the pores shows that brain work
breaks down the phosphate of potash,
separating it from its heavier compan
ion, albumen, and plain common sense
teaches that this elemental principle
must be introduced into the body anew
each day, if we would replace the loss
and rebuild the brain tissue.
We know that the phosphate of pot
ash, as presented in certain field
grains, has an affinity for albumen and
that is the only way gray matter in
the brain can be built. It will not an
swer to take the crude phosphate of
potash of the drug shop, for nature re
jects it. The elemental mineral must
be presented through food directly from
Nature’s laboratory.
These facts have been made use of
in the manufacture of Grape-Nuts, and
any brain worker can prove the value
of the proper selection of food by mak
ing free use of Grape-Nuts for ten
days or two weeks. Sold by grocers
everywhere (and in immense quanti
ties). Manufactured by the BosliinJ
Co.. Battle Creek, Mich.