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Show THAT j AWFUL PRODUCTIVE QUALITIES OF FOUR OF A STANDARD-BRE- KIND I CHICKENS D j Farmer Is Concerned Chiefly With Table and From Dunghill Capability of Poultry Get Away Idea and Fancy Breeds. Ess-Layin- g BACKACHE Cured by Lydia E. Pinknam's Vegetable Compound Morton's Gap, Kentucky. "I suf- fered two years with female diHorders, Jmy health was very bad and I had a jcontltiual backacho which was simply lawful. 1 could not j stand on my feet jlongenouerh to cook ia meal's victuals (without my back nearly killing mo, and I would havo such dragging 1 could T linrdlv hear it laid- soreness in each side, could not stand tight clothing, and was irregular. 1 was completely run down. On advice I took Lytlia E. I'inkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Tills and am enjoying good health. It is now more than two years and I have not had an ache or pain since I do all my own work, washing and everything, find never have the backache any more. 1 think your medicine is grand and I raise It to all my neighbors. If you fhink my testimony will help others you may publish it." Mrs. Ollie iVoodall, Morton's Gap, Kentucky. Darkache Is a symptom of organlo weakness or derangement. Jf yon have backache don't neglect it. To pet permanent relielf you must reach the root of the trouble. Nothing we know of will do this so surely as Lydia L l'iukhain's Compound. "Write to Sirs. IMnltliam, at J.ynn, Mass., for especial ad rice. I I mm sen-satio- When Illram Klsell, widower, farmer, good man and flfty-fou- r years of age, made up his mind to take another wife there was a fruitful vineyard at hand. There were four widows within a radius of six miles of him, any one of whom would seemingly make a good wife. One day he wrote down their names and attractions on a bit of board In the barn: Widow Johnson; about forty; farm of 80 acres In good shape; building's all right; cellar under the barn; six cows If not seven; only one child. Widow's great specialty Is hot for breakfast. I could sell or rent this farm and move there. "2 Widow Taylor; said to be thirty-eighno children; 90 acres tip-toland; new barn; four cows and twelve hogs. when last heard from; made 40 yards rag carpet last year; great on raspberry Jam and soft soap; said to have remarked that she would marry again if the right sort of a man came "1 bis-cult- t; p along." "3 Widow Penrose; about years old, but ' not sot in her ways; two children to' call me father or get licked If they don't; farm of about a hundred acres; land might be better for wheat; good barn; house needs reshlngling; said to have $743.80 in the bank; hair a little gray, but can be dyed at her own expense; has forty-thre- e no poor relations. "4 Widow Shafter; widow of a German, but talks good English and her pumpkin pies cannot be beat; three children, but all workers; widow herself can load hay on a pinch; age uncertain, but along in the forties; temper said to be serene; live stock In' good condition; wouldn't Your letter will lo absolutely probably need much courting." confidential, and the advice free. One afternoon when he dropped in ort the first widow on his list there was a smile of welcome for him and a great deal of wondering what had TMC NAM! brought him there. He was noted as Or TMC BIST B MCDICINI a man. He spoke plainly COLDS COUGHS on this occasion. After a few minWANTED TO BE AGREEABLE utes' talk he said: "Widow Johnson, do you hold that it is right for a widow or widower to Farrrer's Rather Humorous Explanamarry again?" tion for Telling Exceedingly she slowly replied as her "Tall" Story. cheeks reddened. "So do I. I am In the market for a Irving JtuU heller once told a story second wife. My first was a hummer. of a farmer on the Connecticut hills. I hope to get another as good." "Pretty steep land for planting. Isn't It was the widow's duty to say she It?" a visitor asked the tiller of the hoped so, too, and she said it, but oil. she was looking at tbe cat instead of "Pretty steep," the farmer assented. him. "I supiiose It's quite difficult to Mr. Klsell hadn't popped the ques plant your corn?" tion. He hadn't popped anything. He "Quite difficult." came the echo. was perfectly safe from a The visitor was Interested, and suit and yet he had given the would not be put off with abort re- widow to understand a certain thing. plies. He drove from Mrs. Johnson's to Mrs "Kh how do you manage to plant Taylor's. He was received the same on tlila hill?" he persisted. there. He talked about oats and barThe farmer gated at him pityingly. ley for ten minutes and then "We hate to shoot It all Into the what he had said to the otherrepeated widow. earth with shotguns, stranger," be as- Jubt an announcement that's all. sured his guest. Next day he finished the other half Of The visitor gasped. "Really V he his route. He had made acquaintejaculated. "Really nowt Is that ac- ance with the four; be had notified tually true?" them that he was in the market Ills The farmer sighed and turned upon attitude was serene and complacent. look a scorn. of withering bis guest Some days later Farmer Klsell re"No, that Isu't true." be answered. newed bis calls on the four, lie had "I'm trying to make conversation." no preference. Each widow had her farm and her specialty. In time he Violation of Rules. make a decision, but there was might "They have expelled my favorite no hurry about It. Cnder certain conwaiter from his brotherhood," said ditions courting ' Is a very pleasant ne hotel patron. gstne to play st He always arrived "Ten," replied the other, "he acci- at the. house of one or the other of dentally smiled and said Thank you,' the quartet at supper time and the a dollar's worth for a tip." meal set before him was a feast. Widow Taylor, the first to be called ' CHILDREN AFFECTED on, and who felt that she ought to be By Mother's Food and Drink. tbe first one proposed to. that set the Many tables have been launched ball rowing. She made a quilting bee Into life with constitutions weakened and Invited the three other widows and none others. It was hinted that by disease taken In with their moth- there would be a talking bee as well. caretoo ers' milk. Mothers rannot be ful as to tbe food they use while nurs- In fact, when It csme off It was alt talk. Why shouldn't one widow he . . ing their balKS. plain spoken with another? .. No reaa Kansas of The experience City son at !1. Mrs. Taylor didn't rise to mother Is a raxe In point: "I was a great coffee drinker from a the occasion, but sitting In her rockshe saldr child, and thought I could not do with- ing chair Parmer Klsell has 'made "Ladies, doI waa out It l!ut found at lost It known lo each of ua that he Is looking me harm. For years I bad been troubled with dizziness, spots before ing for a second wire. He has visited us all alike, but has not proposed to my ryes and pain In my heart, to which was added, two years later, a any of us, ss far as I know. There are three loo many and Mr. Klsell chronic sour stomach. decide, tf be can't, then we all "The baby wa horn 7 months ago, can't Ia It plain to all of you?" lose hint. and almost from the beginning. It. too, plain, accompanied by Perfectly euffered from sour stomach. Fhe wm sighs. It me? from taking "We must agree that three of us "In my distress I consulted a friend of more experience and she told me shall refuse him If proposed to. That o quit coffee, that coffee did not will leave him only one." "Hut suppose thst he does not promake good milk. I have since ascerto the one?" w as suggested wiih pose milk. It the tained that really drba up shivers. and "Ko, I quit coffee and tried tea' we stand or fall by each at lat cocoa. Hut they did not sgree "Then,Can any lady present think of with me. Thn I turned to Postum other. with tbe hftppieftt results. It proved a better way of deciding this affair to draw straws? Remember, If to he the very thing I needed. It not than Is not drawing straws to see who shall and with baby agreed perfectly only a husband, but who shall refuse myseU. lut It Increased tbe flow of hsve one. Three of us win make a noble my milk. In the cause of widowhood." "My behind then Qiilt coffee and sacrifice Widow Penrose drew the prize, and used For turn and epjlekly grit well of 1th wfclrb he bad been ss she blushed and giggled the other the tront.led. .1 ro tenter suffer from the three congratulated her in the most manner. Within fen minutes pain In my sincere dlszlncm, were planning her wedding outfit they tfmtiach. cr heart tour. "Now ve all drink Postum from my and the bridal later Mr, Klaell started Ten huptsnd to my seven months' old out withdays bis list, and in the course cf baby. If la proved to te tbe het the day three widows bad snswrred We u?ed. ever we hrve hot dr'nk him ray and one yea, and there was wrou'd not give up Posfnm for the lest a and If wn just as happy coffeu we evr dsnk." Name given andmarriee, romantic as If four Cupids Instinc1 Mich. Co , Creek, Povftim Pstf'e by of four widows had managed every. book. "The Road to Ot the 11!V .Ing. Wellvllle." In There's s fnw') " horines People who lire In g'a K-a w .bonM rr4 ! r!se hothouse grapea Instead a. aaaeara lm. T "f frcnb'e. and at tbe same time help the farmer to increase his profits, it seems to me that that is the way to begin. Tbe country wants eggs and poultry, and we cannot get these by building on a foundation of feathers or fancy points. Let the foundation be of eggs and poultry meat. We can then build a superstructure with feather trimmings. x If we wact eggs let us first get a hen that lays, no matter what her color or shape. Let us study ber external characters, and when we find that certain characters or points Indicate the good layer, let us breed for those characters regardless of everything else. Then, after we have developed an egg type and have got a sufficiently large flock we may, it we wish, give some attention to feathers; but let us adhere strictly to the egg type and breed for eggs. We will make slow Improvement in breeding without an egg record for each hen in the flock. This record can be obtained only by the use of the trap nest, which is about the best thing we have yet discovered in the duction (By JAMES DRYDKN.) Poultry breeders have been telling us for years that the pure-brepoultry are the best layers, and this is echoed and every day in the year by the poultry papers, and most of us have come to believe it. But has any one ever been able to demonstrate by careful experiments are betor tests that the purs-bred- s or the ter layers than the cross-bredordinary farmyard fowl? We are apt to tell the farmers every day that they know nothing about poultry; that they ought to study up. We tell about this system and that system, and special poultry farms, and tell them to go and do likewise. But be goes on In his own Ignorance and produces $600,000,000 worth of poultry and eggs a year while a certain egg farm produces $G,000 and a certain "system" pro duces $1,500 in one year on a vacant lot. The best poultry keeper in the country 1b the farmer or the farmer's wife. I have been ashamed a tra d s ex plain-spoke- "V-e-s- 60-ce- Rr laeree. e tm eftt 4 K-2- J. "I saw a pianist last night who can play with bis toes." "Umph! I've got a kid 18 months old can do that!" A WOMAN'S KIDNEYS. Are Often for Untold Responsible! Suffering. 'It can't talk at all.' 'Talk' tbe dealMrs. "W. II. Kaiser, Whitney, Nebr., er exclaimed. 'Come to think of It, I times during the night says: know It can't, but It's a devil to I was "Many to arise because of too obliged think.' frequent passages of kidney secre tions. Again tbey beCOULD NOT STAND SUFFERING came scanty, were FROM SKIN ERUPTION very tbick and attended, by burning and scalding. Soon a drop- "I have been using Cutlcura Soap and Cutlcura Ointment for tbe past "'VvSVyX 'cal condition manifest and I three months and I am glad to say began to worry. My that they cured tue of a most annoying skin eruption. It began by my no- feet and ankles were bloated and I ticing red blotcbea appearing on my was In a bad way when I began with I used four face and scalp. Although they were Doan's Kidney rills. rsthcr disfiguring, I did not think any- boxes and was entirely cured." Remember the name Doan's. thing of them until they began to get For sale by all dealers. 60 cents a scaly and dry and to Itch and burn until I could not stand the suffering. box. Co., Buffalo, N. T. Then I began to use a different soap, It Is possible to have too much of a thinking that my old kind might be good thing. The dog with the shortest hurting me, but that didn't seem to do tall runs the least danger of having any good. I went to two different doc- tin rsns tied to It. tors but neither seemed to relieve me Hr. Pierce's ileassnt Telle! regulsls sny. I lost many nights' sleep In continual scratching, sometimes scratch- snd invigorate stomach, liver and tobowels. take. coated, granules, easy Sugsr tiny, ing till I drew tbe blood on my fare Do not gripe. and head. Then I started In to use Dwellers In glass bouses should tbe Cutlcura Remedies and In two months I was entirely relieved of that keep out of politics. awful pest I am so delighted over my cure by Cutlcura Remedies that I shall be glad to tell anybody about be-ca- e i. Columbian Wyandotte dred limes In my thicken career that we who were "educating the farmers' were raising sickly, constitutionally weak chickens, and then to go on to a farm and see running around tbe barnyard, without apparent attention or care, thrifty, robust, lively chickens. The farmer Is the best poultry-maIn the country. We are tbe slav-- s of the dogma of the feather and the standard, and tbe farmer produces tbe eggs. Tbe way to develop the poultry InIs to stop advocatdustryone way standard-brefowla ing purebred or for tbe farmer. The way for the farmer to Increase bis profits Is lo get sway from the dunghill Idea and to avoid fancy bred fowla. He should decide on the type of fowl to breed and forget the names of tbe breeds. Let him decide, bearing lo mind the conditions of his markets, whether he wants an egg type or a small fowl; a meat type, a large fowl; or a general-purposor medium-sizefowl, and then purchase purebred males of tbe proper type and of good vigor, and grade up bis flock. Tbe way for the farmer to start In the poultry business Is to buy a few cross-bre- d fowls, or eggs from cross bred fowla from his neighbor, and then use purebred males to grade up his (lock. Feather Is. all right, pure bred fowls are all fight, but tbe question Is, shall the farmer make feathers and fancy points of primary or .econdary Importance. It Is no use talking to the farmer about fancy points, or about standard or perfection, unless we can show him that there Is some connection between the i and productive qualities. He Is not concerned about such things. He Is concerned about supplying the market with poultry and eggs. If we want to Increase isoiiltry pron e - Foster-Mllbur- Pullet. poultry bualness. It has opened our eys and pointed out . clear line of distinction between the standard-brepoultry and practical poultry. Locating Henhousts. Farmers who locate their poultry houses with the front toward the sunny aide, who keep tbe fowla wel supplied with extra scratch food, grit and balanced rations and protects them at all tlmea from dampness and chills at night, will have no trouble to get a full egg basket, says a writer In an exchange. Tbe soil should be of a tight type, so the poultry can easily scratch and dust themselves In order to get rid of tbe mites and lice. It Is necessary to drain off any water that may settle In hollows and later be come foul. The henhouse should be protected from the north wind by the barn. I prefer tbe management of a hennery by making winter and Ita sur roundtngs as nearly like summer ss possible. Make the Liver 110. Cutlcura Soap (25c) and Cutlcura Ointment (50c) are sold throughout the world. Send to Potter Drug lc Cbera. Corp.. sole props., 135 Columbus Ave, Boston, for free book on skin sod scalp diseases and tbelr treatment Feeding Meat Bones. If you have a lot of meat bones on hand and have no bone r.lil to grind then, put them In the stove and bum t art A A.f.f flTTH Indiges tion, Sick Headache, and Diatrasi aftae Eating. IsaaO PilL SoaJI Daaa, ftsaafl Prise Genuine smw Signature rnoT-F- At-i.tK- f K l ehokea lain the Mttoepttr b -ow4r l wr fwl f r9 f 4 It In t. r44 ) a h a walking Sne. prtr lr Irlal eTj irlxrr. a! A'w,A,r oi,t or FOOD dy. Ceres Cesv There are Just as good fish the sea , HfelU But you have to have a pull thm lo Ury pel 6o Klla In e.mi-fnb- ih V. IVe master of your own time. L'ae a ICVCrWTf THK WORM? OVt M PACKER'S j a CV . I f 7 HAIR BALSAM A IT haw " l k ' r rwf av Thompson's . The strongest symptom of wisdom In mutt Is his being sensible of his own foi;ie. Rochefoucauld. Eye Water lt)M,ailh4 IF YOU HAVE A SICKLY flutter) YOUNGSTER TRY THIS FREE T irmarS n . will fmm-dlale- lg rt.lMeeaj 1mt t fr"'ty wlfb In 1 Imut-trow mil Wtittrrut l o It I it unl eur fv t f.a thnt nt t' hnw eliniil krtt-a- l wiiat ef Mra. N. H M!i1 ,f eptn'mj t-fi tiil.e efrre-i- v 1i f 1i aa t tot u n-- '! A a MM wiih a M .f Mr, i. 11. WMHni rf i' ff If in .it in Ihe.. reajTliv diriiit, , It In chtMr Wle., wii rl ae anr Slnemt he rMM It berfcif It t .,M In fifty e-e trrtrrt troat.ie, et1 artl et" J'inf at erery r htll If yml wtTt t!J It la .T, It a p fl or i tin r.e In V tw !t en1 ynwr Is aM frmlr an rT.te. a I yieg h"e iklii rsr. ihf irOOfrOWL The Illustration the clone connection befen the of food and of the body. Mineral matter or a?h Is ronfsfred in the brsft of wheat and goe to make np bone and shel. protein Is frsr sforme.l largely Into lean tr.eat rr tbe white of the egg. Carbohydrates aad fa s supply best and fit to the anitual body. the cot fntlja bat trwly hrac them till they can be broken easily Hrmpatby sometime means sitting with a hatchet and feed to the bene. They will be delighted with them and In a car and parsing out soft words to they will do In place of meat as well lame folk. as being very healthy and take tbe "wsiowo Qriwiwic- place of charcoal. W.I ! I IAMT f B'.M'I IMKK. Iw trt . ' 'V jl ar tfce WwfiS lfe amtf 91 a W IWklllflMIIUMUf. St. Charcoal Is Va'uable. And many a man never reallr.ee the Charcoal Is valuable In the poultry value of hit home until he has occaIn small yard, broken pieces and sion to collect the fire Insurance. have placed where He fowla r ready acrexs to It, or pulverised and CaffeM Te pnrifie the hloo-1- . clean mted with soft food. tHe irm, clears the complexion, ersdi-t- e and fimrootes HiukX Health, CONSTITUENTS OF GOOD WHLJT GRAIN CARTER'S LITTLE UVER PILLS te Pull Them In. Have t uwnerd! Kiaetises ta tea wbea the fcrer is rigal d etosaaih aad bawds an right. lo land them. ' n (Signed) O. M. Macfarland, 221 If Do its Duty West lUtb St., New York City. Oct. 6, ilier dyrrl rre. 1 Ellen Terry's Joke. When Ellen Terry was presented with a Founders' gold medal at the New theater. New York, recently an honor conferred In recognition of her great services to dramatic art she was called upon to make a speech ot It bo happened that tbe acceptance. actress was exceedingly hoarse and she was therefore forced to cut ber remarks short. So she told this story: "A friend of mine once bought a parrot and gave much money for It with the understanding that it could speak fluently, but when be reached home with It he found to bis dismay that the bird was dumb. So be took It back. 'This parrot cannot say a word,' he said Indignantly to tbe bird fancier. n breach-of-promis- - N. CD.' H5 0 PRAIRIE DOGS. RECIPE CURES write our own ada.. but $3.50 will let a user of "Rough on Rats" for WEAK KIDNEYS, FREE extermination of Prairie Dogs write this one. Mr. H. B. Moely, a ranchman, un folder date ot Feb. 4th, 1W11, writes as lows from Hill Ton, Douglas Co., Col- RELIEVES URINARY AND KIDNEY orado: Ha savs: "1 hsve read your adTROUBLES, BACKACHE, STRAIN- vertisement of 'Rough on Kats; it not ING, SWELLING, ETC. only reads good but it is good. I have been troubled twenty years with Prairie exterused have Dogs; many minators to no purpose. Not long since Stops Pain In the Bladder, Kidney 1 used a poisoned wheat, prepared by an and Back. expert who had made it a study for years, but it did no good for me; they ate it, but Wouldn't it be nice within a week or so chirped for more. The 'Dogs' were eating up a field or corn for me; I was at my to begin to say goodbye forever to the wit'a end what to do; I could only get scalding, dribbling, stralnlntf, or too frethe small 15c. size here of 'Rough on quent passage of urine; the forehead and Rats.' 1 mixed it with corn and applied; the aches; the atltches many of them chirped no more; 1 then and pains In the back; the growing musmixed it with corn meal and placed it on clays not windy, near their holes. cle weakness; spots before the eyes; yelKougn on Kttta. is by fur the best thing low skin; sluggish bowels; swollen eyeI have tried, but I fancy I am uhiiik it lids or ankles; leg cramps; unnatural unnecessarily strong, or you mny suggest abort breath; sleeplessness and the dea better way than f know to mix or uxe it. spondency? I wixh our druggixts would keep the largI have a recipe for these troubles that est (75c.) size; could you send me' the 75c. size? It clears them out in great shape; you can depend on, and If you want to to make a QUICK RECOVERY, you ought you should make it better knowu to write and get a copy of It. Many a Ranchmen." Iib above are facta ss stated bv Mr. doctor would charge yu $3.60 Juat for Monely. "Rough on Rata" ia equally writing this prescription, but I have It Rough on I'rairio Dogs, quirrela, Chip- and will be glad to send It to you entiremunks, tinphers. Rabbits, Mice, RatH free. Just drop me a line like this: varmints of every and all kinds. Roaches, ly Dr. A. E. Robinson, Luck Building, Klies, Ants, and Red Rugs. Read the diDetroit, Mich., and I will send It by rerections how to ue it safely in outbuild ings and for the different kinds of pexts. turn mall In a plain envelope. As you will For Prairie 1obs I would advise soaking see when you get It, tills recipe contalna roarxe cracked corn in a mixture of, say only pure, harmless remedies, but It has one 25e. box of "Rough on Rata" to five great healing and power. gallons of water; let it stand a week. It will quickly show lta power once you I linking frequently; you can use the same use see ao what I better think had It, you mixture over snd over amain for cracked I will send you a rorn; or mix "Rough on Rats," thoroughly It la without delay. and instantly, say, one part to twenty of copy free you can use It and cure your-ae- lf at home. hot corn meal muxh; when it cools, divide in pieces and place about their holes. 15c., 25o. and 75c.; wooden boxes NOT UNUSUAL. only. E. 8. Wells, Chemist, Jersey City, vYo usually cor'iiins v'!'jr It.r. r of a .! rtainlne - I?'.'Wr rtf l.e tr-- l f t rrWiig!i'r r!"iti''r lr tnttinai r:!n t'e Itt a tat trwhf-i- , T' f t: tmr1 tr il'nJfJ, ft' fur-t- n. aud rr ! eT r '!Vir ic ef mmttfcUinniT:g r1 ; fr. 1 i J.r t,tta t"t tfere If. rM.; nni free if S';rr'y fr- - tbe rH' the oilo, lrrt. Kn. M. 1 . 1. 2,1 he etr. Tr ir rrp Kr Caldwell wwadifig. will for. W ! n aiK |