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Show PE-RU-N- 1ToSe A GOOD STANDARD IN THOUGHT SHE WOULD DIE. BOOK FARMING." Notable Increase Made In Production of Crops. John R. Spears shows now by book farming' the earth is being compelled to yield its increase. He For says: h crop of potatoes, in 1901, according to an article printed in that year, 150 bushels oer acre was considered y to the farmer, which at 75 cents a bushel amounts to 1112 50 an acre. there are yet Unfortunately, many farmers who consider 150 bushels satisfactory, but the best growers now produce 300, and there are men who obtain more than that yield year after year. It can be shown that even 400 bushels of potatoes Is not the limit that can be obtained From the reports of various agricultural experiment stations, it appears that the Canadian experimental farms, near a, hold the record in potato production. There the yield on small plots, carefully managed, rose as high ns 772 bushels an acre. In turnips, which wa9 another crop considered, the jield was said to be 400 bushels usually for each acre in 1901. With present-dacultivation a crop of from 500 to 00 bushels is gathered. Where mangles produced 600 bushels, modern methods have turned out more than fifty tons, or 1 say 800 bushels. In field beans the development has been relatively very small, but as cultivated now there are few crops that pay truck growers higher sums for the ground occupied than string or snap beans. For it is a poor variety that will not give a quart of salable pods for each foot length of drill, and drills may be made two feet apart. At 5 cents a quart a common price fhe return should be at the rate of $1,000 an acre, or more. satis-factoi- Mrs. S. W. Marine of Colorado Springs Began to Fear the Worst Doans Kidney Pills Saved Her. Mrs. Sarah Marine, of 428 SL Grain street, Colorado Springs, Colo., President ot the Glen Eyrie Club, writes: 1 suffered for three years with severe UNCLE SAM A High Standard is Required of Catarrh Any Remedy That Has Been Endorsed by so Many Trustworthy and Prominent People. Conviction Follows Trial When buying loose coffee or anything your grocer happens to have in his bm, how do you know what you are ? Some queer stones about coffee that is sold in bulk, getting could be told, it the people who handle it (grocers), cared to speak out Could any amount of mere talk have persuaded millions of housekeepers to use Lion Coffee, all the leader o! package coffees for over a quarter of a century, if they had not found it superior to all other brands in Purity, Strength, Flavor and Uniformity? This popular success of LION COFFEE merit. There eusobe due only to Inherent Is stronger proof of merit than continued and increasing popularity. U the verdict of MILLIONS OF HOUSEKEEPERS does not convince yon of the merits of LION COFFEE, it costs yon but a trifle to buy a package. U is the easiest way to convince yourself, and to make yon a PERMANENT PURCHASER. LION COFFEB is sold only in 1 lb. sealed package,, and reaches 70a as pure ana clean aa when it left our factory. Lion-hea- d Save theae on every package. Llon-baafor valnabla premium. a Most Accomplished Needlewoman. Needlework always was popular among old fashioned women In England and Canada, but it has fallen sadly Into desuetude here, says the New York Press There is a chance, however, that all Americans who set their watches by the clock of St. James' will find renewed Interest .n the bit of steel when they learn the princess of Wales is one of the most accomplished needlewomen In either hemisphere. What her royal highness doesnt know about fancy stitches doesnt amount to much, and when it comes to plain sewing she is far superior to the best seamstresses in the royal household. Most of the fine linen In her town house has been embroidered by ber own hands and it is said she marks all her husband's garments with his crest and monogram. Moreover the princess is proficient with knitting needles. It is whispered In court circles she makes most of the princes stockings by hand, and that she betrays pointed chagrin if he forgets to wear those she turns out for him. Even a royal dame must have occupation and, in spite of the many demands on her time, the princess is fonder of simple household pastimes than of the bridge and baccarat enjoyed so tremendously by her royal Here are a few simple rules by which a man may determine whether or not his attentions to a girl are in vain. If she asks him for the fan which he has been carrying home from the theater, she Isnt in love with him. If she were, she would forget the fan and give film a chance to call and re- KING OF ALL LINIMENTS CURES RHEUMATISM AND ALL PAIN. rsav, ooww, auaioss, Princess of Wales Does She Care for Him? SPICE CO., Toledo, Ohio. A IMiBA I - DCD OF HER NEEDLE. papa-in-la- SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE WOOLSON FOND turn HURAIOII, IMIIR.eUTI.IIIII9tMOMMtAli old toast, omen in naok. naokaomk, lumbago? It. If she fondleS the flowers he gives her, she is Interested. If shd lets them wither In the box, his case is hopeless. If she often pleads a headache and cant see him, he would better call elsewhere. When she yawns and says she cant think of anything to say, it is time for him to go away, and stay away. When she forgets to ask him to come again, and says and neglects to when he says good-by- , make up an excuse for him when he jams bis umbrella through her fathers hat, there is no hope for him. itirr JOINTS, contnaotid iiuieiii, sfraimi ANKCLS. 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And they said It was a big Easter egg. Francis straightened up and looked very wisev and exclaimed: Well, it must have been a Big! National Big! Gobbler that laid' It. Magazine. an old note yesterday for $105 from & party in Port- land, Oregon, for a. client in Nebraska. SEND IN YOUR CLAIMS. SCIENTIFIC COLLECTORS OF OP FLOOR COMMERCIAL CIS C. LVKE. N. U.. Salt Lake-N- o. RATIONAL BANK SALT LAKE CITY. Sou.. People Don't Like Gcn.ral Manner. IS. 1905. bad DEBT8. BL06., Vs. RELIABLEGoldASSAYS end Sliver rr. 11 76 00 Gold Silver. Copper . 1.60 Placer Gold. Retorta end Rich Or BougbL 76 Ooden Assail 1775 Arapahoa Srreet GO. Dnvr, lolormdn. When Answering Advertisement. Kindly Mention Thi. Paper. Delights of Equality. Almost every man Is a loser by being elevated above the sphere to which he is habituated, said the late Senator Morrill in discussing the subject of equality. The word equal is used very freely In America, but Us real meaning Is little understood. As a condition of cold fact, an equal Is that which a man of talent will self dom find among his superiors. When the Duke of Orleans proposed to make Fontenelle perpetual president of the Academy of Sciences his reply was: Take not from me, my Lord, the delight of living with my equals. doc- kidneys were affected and prescribed m e d for me, but 1 found that it was only a waste of time and money to take them, and began to tear that 1 would never get well. A friend advised me to try Doan3 Kidney Pills Within a week after I began using them I was so much better that 1 decided to keep up the treatment, and when I had used a little over two boxes 1 was entirely well. I have now enjoyed the best of health for rnora than four months, and words can but poorly express my gratitude. For sale by all dealers. Price 50 Co , Buffalo, N.Y. cents. Foster-Milbur- n Sunday In Heligoland. Sunday in Heligoland begins at 6 p. m. on Saturday, when the church bell is tolled, and ends on Sunday at the same hour. In former years no vessel could leave port between these hours. TEA We consume a great deal of tea, but do we enjoy it? More coffee; but do we enjoy it? ri MODERN SURGEONS DO. B oak, A ft Brother Dickeys Philosophy. Ef I kin des keep ten yards ahead said er de devil in de new year, Brother Dickey, on a free en fair road, whar Trouble cant trip me. Ill be satisfied!" Atlanta Constitution. Blankets. Washing MINGLING NO Make It Possible for Man to Live With a Hole in Hia Heart. Members of the medical profession hat a had their attention drawn to the peculiar case of a marine engineer, says the New Yo-Heralds Paris edittou, who lived one montn with a in the nails of the heart. At ihe inquest at Penge it was stat ed that he fell off an omnibus with weight on to his arms. He received internal injuries, and the postmortem examination showed that a slit in the heart, probablv due to the accident, had been gradually extended ty the hearts action The wonderful skill of modern surgeons has prot ed that it Is possible for a man to live with a hole in his heait Some time ago, it will be remembered a remarkable operation was performed upon a male patient in the Ixindon hospital, who had been stabbed to the heart in a street brawl. The case was taken In hand the moment the patient entered the hospital, and a metal plate was placed over the heart after it had been sewn up The man recovered, and Is now- and well, with the metal plate sull over his heart He was recently arrested for burglary and is serving a term of imprisonment The success of this ease was attended to almost immediately after the wound was inflicted. Modern surgeons hae learned their share of the lesons of the South African war. Patients were receited in the hospitals with the most extraordinary wounds. A soldier entered one of the London hospitals with a wound on his upper lip and another at the bottom of the left shoulder. He said a bullet had entered Ills mouth when he was ljing down and had passed clean through his body, injuring some of the arteries near the heart. The only aftereffect he suffers from is a pain in the left arm. WITH RUSSIANS. OPERATION AVOIDED Foies Hold hemselves Rigidly Aloof EXPERIEHCEOFMISS MERKLEY From Their Conquerera. on Russia Hugo Ganz in his book She Was Told That an Operation Waft writes as follows of the relations exInevitable How She Escaped It isting between the Russian officials and the Poles: They remain separWhen a physician tells a womu sufate. like oil and water. The Rus- fering villi ovarian or womb trouble sian, even though he is the master, that an operation is necessary, the very Is of no consequence heie. It Is only thought of the knife and the operating table strikes terror to her heart, and necessary to observe for the space of our hospitals are ftill of women coming an hour from some corner of the elefor ovanan or womb operations. behotel the the of room gant dining havior of the Polish society and the complete isolation of the Russian of fleers or officials, It Is only necessary to be able to distinguish the groups from one another the Baltic nobil ity with their almost bourgeois fam ilies, merchants from all the principal countries, Russian functionaries end Polish socletj and it will at once become clear who is at home here firmly rooted to the soil, so that all others become strangers and intrud eis; It is the Poles and the Poles alone. e A Secret. very deniable to know how to seal a loiter so that It cannot be opened without bctrailng the fact Steam or hot water will open envelopes closed with mucilage and even a wafer. A hot iron or a spirit lamp dissolves sealing wax, an impression in plaster having been taken of the seal. By the combined use of water and sealing wax, however, all attempts to open the letter otherwise than by All that is force can be frustrated. necessary is to close the letter first with a small moist wafer and to pierce the latter with a coarse needle (the same applies to mucilage), whereupon sealing wax may be used in the usual manner. This seal can neither be opened by dry heat nor by moisture. aie It Is often There are cases where an operation is the only resource, but when one considers the great number of cases of ovarian and womb trouble cured by Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable E. Com- pound after physicians have advised operations, no woman should submit ta one without first trying the Vegetable Compound and writing Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass , for advice, which la free. Miss Margret ITerkley of 275 Third Street, Milwaukee, Wia., writes; Dear Mrs. Pinkham Lobs of strength, extreme nervootnem shooting twins through the pelvic organs, and cramp compelled bearing down pains"vice. The doctor, after me to aeek medical a No Chance for a Girl. making an examination, said I had ovarian trouble and ulceration and advised an operaThe accepted masculine attitude tion. To this I strongly objected and decided was well expressed by the small boy to trv Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Comwho overheard the conversation of a pound. The ulceration quickly healed, all the bad symptoms disappeared and I am caller. He was one of four brothers once more strong, vigorous and well." SANG IN OPEN STREETS. for mar Kaoetedfs Stagfc Celebrities Test Public's Judgment of Music. A merry quartette of performers made an interesting experiment in the streets of Vienna, sajs the New- Orleans Times Democrat, in order to see with their own eyes how the general public would appreciate the highest artistic talent if it were exhibited In the open street, unannounced and Vienna and the visitor remarked, What a pity one of your bojs wasn't a girl. Dropping his game and thrusting hands tn pockets he exclaimed: "Well, Id like to know whod a ben'er. I wouldnt a ben'er, Joe wouldnt 'a ben'er, Ed wouldnt a bener, and I'd like to know who'd a bener. - unadorned. Miss Gerda Walde, prima donna of the Vienna stage; Louis Treumann, the popular comedian of the Carl theater; Edward Eysler, the composer, and Alfred Deutsch-Germathe playwright, arrayed in the garb of ordinary street musicians, made a tour through the principal streets of the city. The ONE OF LIFES PERPLEXITIES. composer, Eysler, performed the duw bile the others ties of Why People Admire Something Pro- sung a repertoire which included ducer Thinks Little Of. such well known songs as "Geh, Mach He had two lectures. One was dig- Dein Fenster Auf (Go, Open Your Kussen 1st Keine Sund to Window), nified, noble, grand, himself. The other was common, sim- (Kissing Is No Sin) and "Jetzt ple, earnest, popular, but thought lit- Spielt8 Uns an Tanz (Now They Play tle of by himself. One of the perplex- and Dance for Us). The incognito of the celebrated band ities of his life was this: Why should the people admire something that he remained undiscovered and the days thought little of, and think little of takings aggregated a paltry 68 something which he thought so much kreutzers (about 1 shilling 2 pence), of? Some thoughts and sermons are which they laughingly divided among for those who create them, and should themselves. Their previous doubts as he kept in a sealed case In the ow- to the ability ot the public to judge ners private laboratory. Earl M. Pratt of the value of art unassisted by theatrical effect have now given way to la Short Talks. settled conviction. But, nevertheless. Plsoa Cure for Consumption is an infallible It would have been interesting to find medicine for coughs and colds. N. W. Samuel, out what the days takings would have Ocean Grove. N. J.. Feb. 17. 1900. amounted to had the quartette openly announced themselves as the leading Musical Elevator. A millionaire brewer of Munich pos- lights of the Austrian musical world. sesses a "musical elevator, wblcb Doubtless the man in the street, even plays popular melodies to the visitors In Vienna, does not look for talent whom It conveys to his reception In the streets. rooms. The opening of the door for Profit in Making Rag Dolls. the guest to leave the lift automaticalTwo women, one having business ly stops the music. Ovarian and womb troubles are steadily on the increase among women. If the monthly periods are very painful, or too frequent and excessive if yon have pain or swelling low down in the left side, bearing down pains, leuoor rhoea, dont neglect yourself : try Lydia B. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound. Have ready three tubs of moderately warm water; for the first water make a strong suds by using plenty of Ivory Soap. In this put a pair of blankets and stir with the clothes stick until clean; then rinse through the other two waters, putting a little soap in each. Wring by hand and stretch carefully on ELEANOR B. PARKER. the line. organ-grinde- ability, and the other artistic talent, started out some little time ago to earn their living. They chose the manufacture of rag dolls. They took Fresh Water Fish In Germany. a room on a business street, and beIn many districts of Germany, where gan to supply the dolls by the wholesea fish Is still a luxury comparatively sale, to firms who would sell them seldom seen, the coarse fish of Inland at retail. waters are an important article of food The artistic woman painted the In North Germany a carp with sauce faces, and the companion did the more of white wine or beer Is popular and practical part of forming the bodies highly esteemed as a Christmas dish. and making the costumes of the dolls. It has been estimated that In Berlin The business grew. ThS price of the alone 3,000 tons of carp were sold dolls rose in proportion to the elabolast December for the Christmas day rate makeup of the doll, till some cf dinner. them brought $8 to $10. The young women no longer could do all the work themselves. They beHow much money do wo gan to give out the little garments, caps and socks to be made by the return to dissatisfied people? dozen. This business has progressed until now two floors In a building on a All that our grocers get public street are utilized. Quite a staff of helpers is employed. The sucasked for. cess of the firm has come from the practical way In which the members went to work, their reliability and the A linin, Bai. excellence of the article supplied Knodrt Fmrortto Remedy, the Dr. DftTfd Great Kidney nd Liver Cure World Yamoui. Wrltelfr keonedjr'ft bon. Kondout, N. Y- for free sample bottlA. TEA Ta,mriMniwiar(aMs Air Affects Watches. A watch taken to the top of Mont Blanc will gain thirty six seconds in twenty-fou- hours. r TEA Horace Seymour Keller. Gobblers Big Egg. My little grandchildren are mixed on the subject of eggs. While I was walking with them one spring morn- WE CAN COLLECT SOME FOR YOU..... We collected Never Age. The women. God bless them! They ie never at rest, Ah' resting brings rust to corrode and moltst. They re aivtajs caiessmg, or pressing, or dressing, Pursuing their sewing or doing Their best. The women, good cheer to Their restless delight! the day They shop all And they dance all the night. They aiwavs are tripping, or snipping, or clipping, Pursuing their fadding and gadding. But bnght. The women. God keep them! The're truerinthan gold, the winter, re warm They summer In they re cold. And that is the reason, and it Isn t treason. To say why they never, ah! never back-ach- tors told me my Ot-ta- y WHAT easy to brew a good pot of tea. There are two ways: one is to do it; the It is other Is not to. Sckllll.i'i Bwl T 1 he Uh T, Make G4 Iw ksU and Clark exposition, Portland, Ore., will he one of fascinating interest to Eastern people visiting the fair. The exhibit will show the methods used In hatching salmon, the chief fishing resource of Oregon, and there will be many specimens of the lordly ihe king of fresh water fishes. Some of the largest fish of the spring or ninety catch, weighing eighty-fivpounds, and measuring five and one-hato six feet long, will be preserved In formaldehyde In Inverted glass Jars made especially for the purpose. The exhibit will be the finest of Us kind ever displayed at an exposition. Reo rCation. An Irresistible Conclusion. He was a critic. o he saiJ, He wrote his wav to fame. till his head, If nonsense charced tosame He wrote it just the His essays were made up of queer Opinonated kinks And people trembled at the sneer Of Jingle Buinem Jinks. He showed where Shakespeare sometimes failed Although his work was fair. At Swift he arrogantly railed. He patronized Voltaire The life work of the world s great men He d crush In fortv winks And very few escaped the pen Of Jingle Bumem Jinks But those who follow ed him at length Grew very sad indeed They cried. "Pray show us. in your strength What is there left to read' Upon what author mav we lean As one who reallv thinks He answered with an air serene, "Why, Jingle Burnem Jinks. Washington Star. chi-noo- e lf Divide Dance Into Sections. In Russia It Is not considered proper for a girl to dance a whole waltz or polka with one partner. Three or four men dance a round or two each with the same lady, returning her to her original partner at the end of the dance. TEA The cost of tea is all in the tea ; the cost of coffee is by no means all in the coffee. - Yaw grm How Salmon Are Hatched. The Oregon State fisheries exhibit, which will be located In the north end of the forestry building at the Lewis - - Ainma Bat. Seals Wail Like Women. 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Rebecca Harding Davis writes of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes; Physically, he was a very small man, holding himself erect his face insignificant as his figure, except for a long obstinate upper lip (left to me, he said one day, by some and eyes full of a wonderful fire and sympathy. No one on whom Dr. Holmes had once looked with interest ever forgot the look or him. He attracted all kinds of people as a brilliant, excitable child would attract them. But nobody, I suspect, ever succeeded in being familiar with him. I remember one evening that he quoted one of his poems, and I was forced stupidly to acknowledge that I did not know 1L He fairly jumped to the bookcase, took out the volume and read the verses, standing In the middle of the room, his voice trembling, his whole body thrilling with their meaning. There! he cried at the end, his eyes flashing, could anybody have said that better? Ah-h- ! with a long breath of delight as he put the book hack. A large 6 ceuts. 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